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Away From You.
I spent a day away from you
A pennance in a lonely place:
I said: "I will forget her face,
The mouth's rose -red, the ey es' bold ble:
I will forget a little space '
Ah me! Love grants no holiday:
I sought my lonesome hold, and there
Your happy laughter tilled the air
Your footsteps followed in the way,
The sunlight tangled in your hair.
You whisper thrilled my heart anew:
I saw your eyes-1 watched your smile.
Oh, mockery of mile and mile!
I spent a day away from you
And you were with me all the while.
-Theodosia Garrison in Hlarper's Bazr
THE TALM&GE SERMON.
The Noted Divine Preaches on Stcck
Gambling
In this discourse Dr. falnime arraigns
the spirit of wild speculation and gives some
account of tho 4:;dal ruin of other days:
i-roverbs xxii, 5, "Riches certainly make
themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle
toward heaven."
Money is a golden breasted bird with
silver beat. It alights on the office desk or
on the rarlor center tab'e. Men and women
stand and admire it. They do not notice
that it has wings larger than a raven's, lar
ger than a flamingo's. larger than an eagle's
One wave of the hand of misfortune and it
spreads its beautiful plumage and is gone
"as an eagle toward heaven," my text says,
though sometimes I think it goes in the
other direction.
What a verification we have had of the
flying capacity of riches in Wall street: A id
Wall street is one of the longest streets in
the world. It does -not begin at the foot of
Trinit church, New York, and end at the
East Aver, as many suppose. It reaches
through all our American cities and across
the sea. Encouraged by the revival of trade
and by the fact that Wall street disasters of
other years were so far back as to be forgot.
ten, speculators run up the stozks from point
to point until innocent people on the outside
suppose that the stocks would always con
tinue to ascend. They gather in from all
parts of the country. Large sums of money
are taken into Wall street and small sums of
money. The crash comes, thank God. in
time to warn off a great many who were on
their way thither, for the sadness of the
thing is that a great many of the young men
of our cities who save a little mo>ney for the
purpose of starting themselves in busine-s,
and who have $500 or $1,000 or $2,000 or
$10,000 go into Wall street and lose all.
And if there ever was a time for the pul
pit to speak out in regard to certain kinds of
nefarious enterprises now is the time.
Stocks rose and fell, and now they begin
torise again, and they will fill again until
thousands of young men will be ruined un
less the printing press and the pulpit give
emphatic utterance. My counsel is to coun
trymen, so far as they may hear of this dis
course, if they have surplus to invest it in
first mortgages and in moneyed institutions
which though paying comparatively small
interest, are sound and safe beyond dispute.
and to stand clear of the Wall street vortex,
where so many have been swamped and
swallowed. What a compliment it is to
the healthy condition of our country that
these recent disasters have in nowise de
pressed trade! I thank God that Wall street's
capacity to blast this country has gone for
ever.
Across the island of New York in 1685 a
wall made of stone and earth and cannon
mounted was built to keep off the savages.
Along by that wall a street was laid out, and
as the street followed the line of the wall it
was appropriately called Wall street. It is
narrow, is unarchitectural, and yet its his
tory is ue. Excepting Lombard street,
London, it is the mightiest street on this
planet. There the government of the United
States was born. There Washington hel l
his levees. There Mrs. Adams and Mrs
Caldwell and Mrs. Knox and other brilliant
women of the Bevolution displa~ ed their
charms. There Witherspoon and Jonathan
Edwards and George Whitefield sometimes
preached. There Dr. Mason chided Alexan
der Hamilton for writing the constitution of
the United States without any God in it
There negroes were sold in th'e slave mart.
There criminals were harnessed to wheel
barrows and, like beasts of burden, com
pelled to draw or were lashed through the
street behind carts to which they were fas
tened. There fortunes have come to cor:na
tion or burial since the day when reckless
speculators in powdered hair and silver shoe
buckles dodged Dugan, the go rernor general
of his majesty, clear down to yesterday at 3
o'clock. The history of Wall street is to a
certain extent the financial, commercial,
agricultural, mining. literary, artistic,
moral and religious history of this country.
They are the best men in this country and
there are the worst. Everything from un
swerving integrity to tiptop scoundrelism
everything from heaven born charity to bkcod
less Shylockism. I want to put the plow in
at the curbstone of Trinity and drive it clear
through to Wall street ferry. And so it shall
go if the horses are strong enough to draw
the plow.
First of all, Wall street stands as a type in
this country for tried integrity and the most
outrageous villainy. Farmers who have
only a few hundred dollars' worth of pro'
due to put on the market have but little to
test their character, but put a man into the
seyen times heated furnace of Wall street
excitement and he either comes out a Shad
rach, with hair unsinged, or he is burned
into a black moral cinder. No half way
work about it. If I wanted to find integrity
bombproof, I would go among the bankers
and merchants of Wall street, yet because
there have been such villainies enacted there
at different times some men have supposed
that it is a great financial debauchery, and
they hardly dare go near the street or valk
up or down it unless they have buttone d up
their last pocket and had their lives insured
or religiously crossed themselves. Yet if
you start at either end of the street and read
the business signs you will find the rnames
of more men of integrity and Christian be
nevolence than you can find in the same
space in any street of any of our cities.
When the Christian commission and the
sanitary commission wanted money to send
medicine and bandages to the wounded,
when breadstuffs were wanted for famish
ing Ireland, when colleges were to be en
dowed and churches were to be supported
and missionary societies were to be equipped
for their work of sending the gospel all
around the world, the first street to respond
has been Wall street, and the largest re
sponses in all the land have come from Wall
street.
But while that street is a type of tried
integrity on one hand it is also a type of un
bounded swindle on the other. There are
the spiders that walt for innocent flies.
There are the crocodiles that crawl up
through the slime to cranch the calf. There
are the anacondas, with lifted loop, ready to
crush the unwary. There are financial wreck
ers, who stand on the beach praying for a
Caribbean whirlwind to sweep over our com
mercial interests.
Let me say it is no place for a man to go
into business unless his moral principle is
thoroughly settled. That is no place for a
man to go into business who does not know
when he is overpaid $5 by mistake whether
ne had better take it back again or not.
"'hat is no place for a man to go who has
large funds in trust and who is all the time
tempted to speculate with themn. That is no
place for aman to go who does not quite
know whether the laws of the state forbid
usury or patronize it. Oh..how; many men
have risked themselves in the vortex and
gone down for the simple reason their integri
sy had not been thoroughly established. Re
member poor Ketcham. How soon the fly
ing hoofs of his iron grays clattered with him
to his destruction! .Remember poor Gay. at
80 years of age astonishing the world with
his fortunes and his fcageries. Remember
that famous man whose steamboats and
whose opera houses could not atone fr his
adulterous rides through Central park in t . e
face of decent New York and whose behavior
on Wall street by its examp'e has blasted
tens of thousands of young men of this gen
eration.
I hold up the polluted memory to warn
young men whose moral principles are not
thoroughly settled to keep out of Wall street.
It is no place for a man wh shivers under the
who are o*n!egiima-e b~ones, on that or
simi arstrectQ of whi'h thatis atype to stsad
tirm in Christian priuciple. You are in a
great eoaniercai battlefield. Be courageous.
Thcre is such a thing as a hero of the bank
and a bero of the Stock Exchange. You be
that hero I have not so much admiration
for the Freneh empress who stood in her bal
oony in Pris and addressed an excitel mob
and quelled it as I have a imiration for t hat
venerable banker on Wall street who in 1864
s:ood on the stcps of hii moneyed insitution
and quieted the fears of depositors and bade
rpaice to the angry wave of commnercial ex
ciement. Go.L did not allow the lions to
hurt Daniel, and he wil not allow the
"bears" ti huri you. Remember, my friend
that all ti ete scetes of bu-ines will s 00
have passed away, and by the law of God's
eternal right all theaIVirs of ycur husines
life will be aju.lIatet. Honesty pays best
for beth worlId.
Again I have to rem-trk that Wall street is
a type threughiut the country of !egitimate
speculation on the one hand and of ruinous
gambling cn tie other Almost every mer
chant is to some extent a speculator. IHe de
pends not only upon the dtlftr'ence between
the wholesale price at which he gets the
goods ani the retail at which he dispo-es of
them, but also upon the fluc-uation of the
markets If the markets greatly rise, he
greatly gains. If the iarke s greatly sink,
he greatly loses. It is as honest to deal in
s'ocks as to deal in iron or coat or hardware
or dry goods. He who condemns all stck
dealings as though they were iniquitous simp
ly showshisown ignorance. SLopalllegiti
mate speculation in this country andy yu stop
all banks, you stop all factories, you stop all
storeh uses, you stop all the great financial
prosperities of this country. A stock dealer
is only a commission merchant under another
name. He gets his commission on one style
of goods. You, the grocer, get your commis
sion on another style of goods. The dollar
t oat he makes is just as bright and fair and
honest a dollar as the dollar earcel by the
day laborer. But here we must draw the
line betweenlegitimate speculation and ruia
ous gambling. You, a stock operator with
out any property behind you, fi3ancially.
irrespansible. sell $10) o2 noth ng :and get
paid for it. Ycu sell 100 shares at $10.000 a
30 ds If at the ead' of 30 days you can get
the scrip for $9,;00, you have made a thous
and If at the end of 30 day" you have to
pay $11,000, thea you have lost a thousand
Now that is trafficking in fition; that is bet
ting on chances; that involves the spirit of
gambling as much as anything that ever goes
on ia the lowest gambling hell.
At certain times almost every prosperous
merchant wakes up, awl he says: "Now, I
have been succesefil in my lice of trade, a'id
I have a tolerable income. I think I shall
go down to Wall street and treble it in three
weeks. There's my neighbor. He was in
the sam- line of business. He has his $300,
000 or$400.000 from the simple fact that he
went into Wall street. I think I shall go
too " Here they come, retired merchants
who want to get a little excitement in their
lethrrgic veins. Here they come, the trus
tees of great property, to fool everythin;
away. Here they come, men celebrated for
prudence, to trifle with the livelihoods of
widows and orphans. Do you wonder that
sometimes they become insane? It is in
sanity. Do you known there are hundreds
of young men who are perishing under the
passion for stock gambling? Do you know
that in all Christian lands this is one of the
greatest cursee?
It is not peculiar to mercurial Americans.
Oh, no! Almost every nation has indulged
in it. The Hollanders, the most phlegmatic
people in the world, had their gambling
seizure in 16S3. It was called the tulip
mania. It was a speculation in tulips.
Properties worth $500,000 turned into tulips.
All the Hollan I nation either buying or sell
ing tulips One tulip root sld for $200,
another for $2,000. Excitement rolling on
and rolling on until history tells us that one
Amsterdam tulip which was supposed to be
the only one of the kind in alt tore world
actually brought in the markets $l,S1,000:
That is a matter of history. Of course, the
crash came, and all Holland wvent down un
der it.
But France must have its gam'ling ex
pe'di ion, and that was in 1713. J ;hn Law's
Mississippi scheme, it wae called The
French had heard that this American con
tinnent was buit out of solid g>ll. and the
project was to take it acrrss the ocean and
dvop it in France. Excitement beyond any -
thing that had yet been seen in the world.
Three hundred thousand applicants for
shares. Excitement so great that sometimes
the mounted military had to disperse the
crowds that had come to buy the stock. Five
hundred temporarr tents built to accom
modate the people until they c )ul I have o2
bortunity of interviewing John Law. A lady
of great 'ashion had her coachman upset her
near the place where John Law was passing
in order that she might have an intereiew
with that benevolent and sympathetic gentle
man. titocks went up to 2,050 per cent, un
til one day suspicion gt into the market,
and down it all went-John Law's Missis
sippi scheme-burying its projector and some
of thes e latest financiers is all France and
was almost as bad as a French revolution.
Sedate England took its chance in 1720.
That was the south tea bubble. .They pro
posed to transfer all the gold of Peru and
Mexico and the islands of the sea to E ag
land Five millions' worh of shares were
put on the market at ?300 a share. Th e
books open, in a few days it is al.- taken and
twice the amount subsco-ibed.
There was a large company formed with
great capital for providing funerals for all
parts of the land. Another company with
large capital--45,000,0 .0 of capital-to
develop a wheel in perpetual motion
Another company with a capital of ?4,000,
000 to insure people against loss by servants
Another company with S2.&00,000 capital to
transplant walnut trees from Virginia to
England. Then, to cap the climax, a com
pany was formed for 'a great undertaking,
nobody to know what it is.'' And, lo, ?600.
000 in shares were cffered at 2100 a share.
Books were opened at 9 o'clock in the morn
inag and closed at .3 o'clock in the afternoon,
and the first day it was all subscribed. "A
great u'idertaking. rnoboby to know what
it is."
But it was left for our own county to sur
pass all, about 37 s ears ago. We have the
highest mountains and the greatest oata
racts and the longest rivers, and of course,
we had to have the largest swindle One
would have thonght that the nation had seen
enough in that direc-ion during the morus
mlttcaulis excitement, when almost every
man had a bunch of crawling silkworms in
his house, out of which he expected to make
a fortune. But all thie excitement was as
nothing compared with what took place in
18S4 when a man near Titusville, Pa. dig
ging for a well struck oil. Twelve hundred
oil companies call for a billion of stock.
Prominent members of churches, as soon as
a certain amount of stock was assigned them,
saw it was their privilege to become presi
dnts or secretaries or members of the board
of direction. Some of these compainies never
had a foot of ground, never expected to have.
Their entire equipment was a map of a region
where oil might be and two via a of grease,
crude andi clarified. People rushed down
from all parts of the country by the fitst
train and put their hard earnings in the gulf.
A young man came down from the oil region
of Pennsylvania utterly demented, having
sold his farm at a fabulous price because it
was supposed there might be oil there-coin
ing to a hotel in Philadelphia at the time I
was living there throwing down a $5,000
check to pay for his noonday meal and say
ing he did rnot care anything about the
change! Then he stepped back to the gas
burner to light his cigar with a $1 000 note.
Utterly insane.
The good Christian people said, "This
company must be all right, because Elder
So-and-so is president of it, and Elder So-and
so is secretary of it, and then there are three
or four highly respected professing Chris
tians in the board of directors " They did
not know that when a professed Christian
goes into st ock gambling he lies like sin. But
alas for the country: it became a tragedy,
and a thousand million dollars were swamp
ed. There are families today sitting in the
sh tdow of destitution who but for that great
national outrage would have had their cot
tages and their home~teads. I hold up be
fore the young men i ese four great stock
gambling schemes that they may see to what
legh mien will go smitten of this passion,
ad I want to show them how all the best
interests of society are against it, andi God is
agait at it and will condemn it for time and
cniein it for eterni'y. 1 do not delt upon
the frenzied speculations in Wall street last
moth. You all have enough remembrance
know that it w is in a proession of mono
tary fren zies, i ome of which have I a'se I and
others are to come
0 men of Wall street and of all stre ts,
stand back frm neftrious entcrprises, j:ia
that great company of Christian men who
are maintaining their integ.-ity, notwitl
standing all the pressur- of te nptation. In
the morning. when you open business in the
broker's oiie or in the banking house, ask
God's h:essing. and when you close it pro
nounce a benediction upon it. A kind of
business that men cannot eng-age in without
prayer is u) business for yoa I w'sh tbat
the words of George Peabody, uttered in the
hearing of the people of his native town
Danvers M1tss.-l wish tha- those words
could be uttered in the hearing of all the
yourg men thrcughout the land. He slid:
"Though Provilence has granted me un
vane t and universal sucte-s in the pursuit
of fortune in other lnds I am still in heart
the humble boy who left y inder unpretend-I
ing dweling. Tnere is not a y:uth witbiu
the soun-1 of my voice whose early opportu
nities and eiv ntages a-e not much greater
than were my owa, an i I h .ve since acuieved
nothing that is impossib'e to the most hum
ble boy amort gyou." Ger agePeibody'siuc
cets in busints was not more remarkable
than his integrity sud his great hea-ted
benevolnce. I pray upon yoa God's pro
tecting and pr'spering blessing. I hope
you may all make fortunes for time and
fortunes for eternity.
Some day when you come out of your place
of business and you go to the clearing house
or the place of custom or the bank or your
own home-as you come out of your place of
business juet look up at the c'ock in the
tower and see by the movement of the hands
how your life is rapidly going away and be
reminded o.f the fact that before God's
throne of inexorable ja 'gment you must yet
give acc)unt for what you have done since
the day you sold the first yard of cloth or the
first pound of sugar. I pray f.,r you all
prosperity. Stand close by Curist, ani
Christ will stand close by you Tue greater
the temptation the more mn.gnific nt tue re
ward. But, a'as, for the stock gamber
what will he d> in the judgmeat? That day
will settle everything. Taat to the stock
gambler will be a "break" at the "first call"
No smugg'ing into heaven. No ' collaterals"
(n which to traie your way in. Go in
throngi Christ the Lord or you will forever
stay out. God forbid that after you have
done your last day's work on earth and the
hushed assembly s ands around with bowed
heads at your obsequies-Vod forbid that
the most appropriate text for your funeral
oration should be. "As a partridge sitteth
on eggs and hatcheth them not, so he that
getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave
them in the midst of his days, and at the end
he shall be a fool," or that the most appro
rarite funeral psalm should be the words of
the poet:
Price of many a crime untold
Gold, gold, gold, gold.
PESSIMISTIC BUT TRUE.
ar Bauer's Summary of Crop Condi
tions fir Week Jast Ended.
Mr. J. W. Bauer, the weather bureau
man, is persona1y very clever, but be
certainly is pessimistic in his official
capacity. But if there should be good
weather and flurishing crops all the
time, there would be no need for a
weather bureau In his regular weekly
crop bulletin Mr. Bauer says: The
week ending Monday, June 10, was
somewhat warmer than the preceding
one, but the average temperature con
tinued below the normal. There was a
maimum of 93 at Yemassee on the
5:h, and a mininum of 55 at Grenville
on the 4 h. Over the western aod
northerg counties, the nights were
much too cool for cotton, and there
was a general deficiency of sunshine.
General showers occured on the 31,
and again on the 6 h, and 7.h, light
over the greater portion of the S rate,
but heavy in the midde and lower Si
vanah valley, the southeasern, a'nd
portions of the west central c unties,
where the ground were kept too wet for
general cultivation, and wherc only
from two to three day's ploughieg was
practicable. Over the western, central,
nrthnern and nersheastern counties,
tae weather onmditions were favorable
"or farm work, and cultiv~tion made
fair progress.
Cotton is unsually small, lacks cul
tivation, and somewhat lousy in places
whsite grassy field are the rule. It has
s'at all baen ohoppied to stands. In the
t'ae eastern and southeastern sections
its growth is at a standstill, and the
plants are turning red or' yellow, show
ing an unhealthy condition, but over
the remaindor of the State it is grow.
ioig and improving slowly and has a
healthy color. Sea islands looks bet
ter, but blight is still prevalent.
Corn h'as begun to tassel and is being
laid by in the southmtern sections,
where its condi'ion is, however, very
poor, owirg to Ia-k of cultivation and
an ea.ess of moisture. I'n other sec
tions upland corn has improved and
looks healthy, btt bottoms are still too
wet to replant. But worms and crows
are damaging bottom land corn in the
extreme st.
Late wheat has rusted badly, while
early is being harvested with the aver
age result only fair, and not up to ex
pectations. Oats harvest is well ad
va'nced, but the rains have damaged
some in the shock. Yields are variable,
but averaged fairly good.
Tobace) is extremely poor, and dy
ing from lack of proper cultivation and
excessive moisture in Williamsburg
county and vicinity, while in the other
tobacco districts, it has improved
slightly, but is still poor. Worms are
numerous in places.
Upland rice is fine, and some river
rice also, but in the Georgetown dis
tricts freshets have done much damage
and prevented a full acreage of June
sowing.
Melons are a failure in plaoes, and
por generally. Phaches are drorping,
and early varieties are rottin;;. Pas
tures and gardens have improved.
Truck is growing and yielding well.
Many c orrespondents report a scarcity
of farn' laborers.
Heavy on Carolina.
Oil Inspector E. B. Hook, of
Augusta, Ga., sezeda car of defective
oil in that city a few days ago, and sent
a sample of it to the State Oil Inspec
tor at Atlnta. After testing the oil
the State Oil Inspector wrote the fol
lowing letter to Mr. Hook:
"State of Georgia, Department of
Oils, Atlanta, Ga, Juane 3, 1901.-Mr.
E B. Hook, Augusta, Ga-Daar Sir
The sample oil arrived and was tested
by Dr. McCandless in the presence of a
respesentative of the Standard Oil
Company. You were correct in reject
ing it and not allowing them to unload
it. They have agreed to transfer this
tank to Carolina.
"'Glascock Barrett,
"'State Oil Inspector.'
Souith Carolina being less particnlar
about the quality of oil farnished her
:iiz sus this defselive oil was prompt
ly shipped into this State.
They Come High.
The present expense ir. salaries for
he judiciary is as follows in New York
ity: Supreme court, Ne w I ork count
y8192.000;eut rogate'3 cour t, $1l4;000o;
city court $ll1'0t0; city magistrates,
:327, 000; special sessionI., 123.000t;
~eneral sesion's, $18:Z 000t musnip'aI,
urts, $:330,000;: supremon cour .,' ' m.i
oun y, $159,000; .urrogatc' s ourt,
i60000; Qicens county courts, $:'N,t000~,
and Ricamond county c2'urts, $14t000,
a tota of $1T-0a n0a
THE OLD VETER&NS.
Bill Arp Writes of the Great Gather
ing of Brave Men
Forty years have passed sncee thes
soldier boys first shouldered arms snd
hurried to the front, No such arra:
of patriots were ever seen, for ther
was not n tory among them nor i
foreign hireling, and even the N rth
ern-born e.tiz~ns of the South vo'un
teered with one ac-crl and cast thei:
lives and property in the common peri
of their adopted State. To that clasi
we owe all the ! ore honor for it was i
great heart stru:gle to sever the bond
that bound cm to their kindrcd an(
the place , . their birth Forty yoar
have not, ffse d nor dimmed the me
mory of those four long years fro-n t<
minds of the vterans who gathered a
the Memphis reunion. As time roli
on they seem the more cager to con
gregate and communc together; and
happily, there are nons nen to moles1
or make them afraid.
Happily the soldiers of the blue ani
the gray are becoming every yev
the more considerate of the feeling!
and p-inciples of each other. The sil
diers, I say-those who fought against
us-for the bravest are the tenderest. 1
is the politicians who saw the battle
from afar, who still refuse to give u
back our flags' and are still worriin 1
over the rebel brigaliers whom we have
seat to Congres;. But time is a good
doctor, and soft words take awa3
wrath.
Thai was a grand convocation thai
paraded the stTeets of Memphis.
Hearts b at rapidly and eyes wert
moist with tearE
' While memory lingered o'er the sad revies
Of joys that laded like th; morning dew
That was a beautiful prayer sent ul
to heaven by our beloved grand chap
lain. Rev. J. William Jones, and faith
ful bulwark of Confederate history. I
know that the blue and the gray claspei
hands and hearts as he invck d a bless
ing upon Mr. at d Mrs McK'oley anc
asked for ht r rettoration to health. ]
tell you, my bretheren, there is noth
ing Emall or Eelfish or mean in the
hearts of our great leaders 12 wai
and in peace they have been and ar
gentlemen. There was not a Nero or a
Duke of Alva among them nor a heart
less destroyer of the innocent nor i
violator of the laws of kindress to wo
men and children. Oar soldiers foughi
a gocd fight, on patriotic principles,
and it rejaices us that they have kept
the faith and are as true now to the na
tion as they were then to the principlei
for which they fought. Those priaoi
ples are not dead; and we believe thai
if this republican government is pre
served from the domination of imperial.
ism, with which it is threatened, it wil:
be the conservative spirit of the Souti
that will do it. The spir't of constitu
tional liberty is yet alive with us and
will be transmitted to our children.
It is high time that the Nortbert
preachers and teachers and editors wer<
learning a salutary lesson from these
annual reunions of the old Confederates
If I had been a Federal soldier and
lived up there, it seems to me that]
would say, "My brethren, those rebels
must have been tremendously in earnest
There is no let up or abatement in theil
fat. Forty year4 has not humbled
them one iota. We had batter mak'
friends with such a people and divide
honors and pensions, too. They have
caried an awful load fi>r all these years.
Tey have to pay a good part of the
pensions to our soldicr3 and all of the
pensons of their own and a big tax t<
educate their negrocs; and they had t<
endure the rrvages and stealages of the
carpes-baggexs f.or years, but they nevel
complain. Thiey fight back and defend
their honor, but, like the sons of Alne
mot. they never complain. Su-ely they
are a great people. 'They suffer, and art
strong, and when solidiers were wan ted
for Cuba and the Philippines they cami
at the first call. Brethren, let's stoi
all this anti Southern sentiment and
make our preachers and editors stop it.
There is no good in rubbing an told
sore. We don't know what may hap
pen, and we may need those boys tc
save the euntry. The old veterant
are dying cut, but their sons are th<
same old stock. The Sourh -is fasi
comir g to the front, and is destined to
be a great power in the land, and if wt
keep on aggravating them with abuse,
it is possiole they may get fighting mad
some of these days and get up anothei
ivil war and-and-and whip us again,
or come pretty near it." That's whatI
would say if I wasent a fool.
These are alarming times. Wars,
fires, floods. Awful calamities an land
and on the sea, explosions in mines,
wrecks on railroads, mturders, suicides,
robberies, abductions of children, and
worse than all, there seems to be nc
stop to these horrible outrages of brutal
negroes. Then there is the insubor
dination of students in our colleget
and the infamy of hazing is still going
on. It distre~ssed me to see among
those expelled from West Point the
names of two Soutnerners-one from
Alabama and one from Texas. Edu
ation and disciplnie seem to be divore
d. Time was when Mr. Benmar
boasted that he had subdued every big
boy in his school-subdued him by the
rod. Old man Isham did the saine
thing, and so did Dr. Patterson thresh
out the worst boys at our Manual Labor
chool; but now it is the boys who rule
the teachers and ake demands, and
the consequences is our colleges have
no discipline and hazing seems to be ae
popular as ever.
I thought that this hazing business
was a modern invention, but in the
second volume of "Americsa Litera
ure" I find a letter of John L awson,
a Seotchmcan, who lived for years
among the North Carolina Indians. He
is writing to his folks at home 1714
aout the custcoms of those Indians,
and says the way they make warriors
of their young men is to husquedaw
them in early manhood. They are
shut up in a dark log house for six
weeks, and kept half starved and made
to drink a decoction of pellitory bark,
which renders them raving mad. They
nake the most dismal, hellish cries and
iowlings over heard. When given a
ittle meat it is mixed with nas'y,
oathsome, filthy stuff. After sin
weeks they come out as poor and mis
irable as creatures ever become. Some
>f them die under this diabolical treat
nent, and some young men run away
:o avoid it. 'The savages told me that
:his hardens them to the, fatigues of
war and kills cff the weak and infirm
and cowardly who would bring dis
race upon the nation. Husquenawing!i
l'hat's it that's where hazing started
and Wes t Point is where it ma' riculated
and fl urished!
Th'is insubordination of college boys
sems to havo crept into our own South
:rn institutiors, and has wellnigh de
nraliz d Oxford and Tuscaloosa.
What dtoes it mean? Wc had nothir.g
ikc it in our day. We feared our
athrs and wo feared and respecd
he faculty. The Teca boys caught the
niection not long ago; but that don't
anything else be-Mdes play ball, the
newspapers don't publish it. Ball seems
. to be the only textbook in the currieu
lum. Their accomplishments in that
line may bt. satifactory to the boys and
the professors, but the pa'rans an-i
friends of the institution are surfeited,
and would advise arace-ssl Ball play
is another Indian game in whici the
savages excelled. BILL ARP
COTTON IS GRaSSY.
The Stands are Fair But Scmswhat
Iaregular.
Tho condition of the growing cotton
crop is of greit rpcculative interest
a- this tim , and the general impres
s-on prevails that it is in an extremely
peor condition over the entire Cotten
Bit. Mr. J. W. Baucr i. his weekly
seim-ary declares that this is not uri
versally the casc, although the crop as
a whole is proba'ly two to three weeks
late, and in many Iceilities q-iite
grassy, especiaily over the Atlantic
Statts, and portions of the Gulf, and
Mississippi val'ey States.
S ands are fair to good, but some
what irregular, owing to the unusual
amount of planting that was necessar).
Insects are not more numerous and
destrueive than usual, and in Texas
the weevil is not less threatening than
heretofore. At a few points only has
the'plant begun to fruit. A few weeks
of dry and warmer weather in the
Atlantic States, and a continuation of
the prs nt favorable weather to the
westward, would put the growing ct
ton crop into a very promis-ng condi
tion.
The following short statements in
dicate how tie crop is in the principal
cotton raising States:
In North Carolina all reports indi
cate that the past week has been very
favorable both fir farm work and for
growth of craps. Chopping cotton pro
gressed very rapidly, but is not yet
finished. Where fields have been
cleased the crop shows good stand and
better color, but large areas are all
very grassy, and some fields have been
abandoned or will be plowed up for
corn. Cotton seems to be almost the
smallest for the season on record.
In South Carolina cotton is unusually
small, licks cultivation and is home
what lousy in places, while grasy
fields are the rule. In the eastern and
southeastern sections it j growth is at
a stands-ill, and the plants are turning
red or yellow, showing an unhealthy
condition, but over the remainder of
the State it is growing and improving
slow'y, and has a healthy color. Sea
island looks better butablight is still
prevalent.
In Georgia the weekly reports con
tinue to be generally of a dissouraging
character. Crops have suffered from
excessive rains in nearly all c unties;
and are much in need of cultivation.
The condition of cotton is on the whole
poor, and numerous correspondents
consijer the outlook gloomy.
In Alabama cotton has nearly all
been chopped; and, while the general
condition of this staple has improved
very slightly, it is becoming quite
grassy in many fields, and continued
dry weather is needed for its proper
cultivation insects continue damaig
irg in a few locahoties, and some is dy
ing from efiects of previous cold; cot
ton is just beginning to form eqaares
in southern and middle counties.
In Miss sippi over a greater portion
of the State farm work has been con
siderably delayed on account of the
wet condition of the soil. Crops on
lowlands have been damagcd by over
flow and lack of culhivation, while on
uplands all crops are generally grow
iug rapidly and are in a fair state of
cuttivation. Cotton is from two to
thuee weeks late, and in some counties
has been materially injured as a resunt
of the cool weather aluring the last
decade in May; chopping out has not
been completed in many northiern
counties.
in Louisiana reports cone rning the
improvement ~ op conditions and
prospects are almost universally favor
abie and in some cases enthusiastically
encouraging. The c ondition of the cot
ton crop in the State, as a whole, ho~s
greatly improved Hail injured it in
localities in the central and northern
parishes; so badly, in fact that Some
fields have been plowed up and re
pianted, or abandoned, but the acreage
thus destroyed is not large. In some
of the northern parishes, too, the crop
.is becoming foul with grass, because
the griund is too wet to work. Bat,
as stated above, the conditions and
prospects generally have imprcved ma
terially. Cotton in Bienville parish is
reported to be forming sqjuares rapidly.
In Tennessee the past week was
characteriz.-:d by higher and more sea
sonable temperature and timely show
ers -conditions very favorable to the
growth of crops. Cotton made good
progress during the week, and though
the plants are small and stand poor
in many localities, the t~ne of reports
is much more encouraging than for
soveral weeks. There are guita a num
ber of complaints of cut-worms.
In Arkansas fairly well distribut el
rainfall and decidedly warmer weather
have improved crop conditions to a
greater extent. Cotton is fiom 10 to
20 days late, the stands are poor to
fair but rapid growth was made during
the week.
In Texas the past week has been the
most favorable one of the season for
the growth and development of crops.
Sufficient rainfall has occu-red in most
sections for the immediate needs of
crops, and the temperature, especially
during the latter portion of the week,
has been conducive to rapid growth.
In some localities the growth of cot
ton was somewhat retarded by the cold
nights during the first few days of the
week, but the crop generally has made
good progress. The crop is fruiting
over the south portion. The boll weevil
is becoming less numerous, but still
doing considerable damage.
In Oklahoma fair weather with warm
days and moderately cool nights, caused
slightly drouthy canditions until the
7th and 8th, when general rains reliev.
ed and helped the crops. Farm work
progressed rapidly under favorable con
ditions, except over the Chickasaw
Nation and Greer county, where the
ground was too wet to cultivate.
.True Bills Found.
A dispatch from Anderson says the
grand jury returned true bills against
J. S. Fowler in four cases for con spi
racy, false imprisonment and assault
and battery of a high and aggravated
nature. True bills were returned
against W. 0. Hammond in four eases,
on the same charges, and against Wil
lis McGee, George Thomas, James
Cook, Mike Robins, James Martin and
W. M. Bailety, one ease each. The
grand jury has not completed its work.
A local weather prophet says there
will be no drought this summer. We
hope this prediction will prove tru 3,
and that the farmers will make big
Icrops.
A NEGRO SAGE
Who Is Willeg tro Bst His Ox cn
eon T UIman
AGAINST ALL COMER i
Except Rev. Sar Jones, Who He
Says Ran th i "Dsbble"
Out of ths City of
Savannah.
To the Editor of The News and
Courirr: Negro poiticians, once so
plentiful, are becoming scarce in this
part of the State, as I suppose they are
in all other parts of the State. Now
and then, however, you ktumble on one
of the "has beens" and, strange as it
may bs, most of them admire Ben Till
man. Why this is the case it would be
hard to say, unless it be as one has said,
"So much ob de big buckra ne'r like um
ten yare gone."
Old Scipio G.diden came up to the
"willage" a few days since to make some
small purchases from one of the two
stores which old Gillisonville now
boasts.
Seipio is getting old, but is a great
fiddler and politician, and never fails to
Isten attentively to ths reading of a
newspaper-himself not knowing B
from the proverbial bull's foot.
An old "brudder" fift espied Scipio
coming around "Morrison's corner,"
riding on a forlorn looking ox, whose
horns were the thriftiest part to look
upon of hie weather-beaten anatomy.
Behind Scipio's ancient remainder of
a saddle, and across Jerry's emaciated
back, fluttered a half dozan chickcns,
about half grown, whio were te be
"current money" with the merchant in
payment for his small purchases.
T he merchant, knowing S ipio's in
terest in things political read a portion
of the Tillman-McLaurin-McSweeney
embroglio and asked him if ho had
heard it and what he thought of it.
"Yes, sir." said Scipio; "I binner
yerry Mr Petterman read 'bou- dem to
'Coosybatchie,' en one wite man binner
git off de cahr da da, en e bin stand
round wid segah enn a mont wen Mr.
Peterman der read 'bout dem, en o say:
McLaurin sho beit Tillman, e say. Ea
Tillman ner gwine bin een de race, e
say. Ea den Mr Rowel speak up en e
say, e say; 'Do debble ner beat Tillman,
muss lesS Mr L :urin.' But I nor say
nuttin; none tall. I der yerry wuh all
ment say, En Mr Pererman ax dem
how 'bout MoSwiny, en de wite man
pull t segahr out e mout en blow de
smoake en swell up like, en e say, e say:
McSwinny beat Tillman, e say. Den
Mr Rwell speak up gin en e say, e
say: McSwinny beat MeLaurin mebby,
but e ent beat Tillman.' Din Mr.
Peter man read some more en e ax me
wah I der tink? En now you ax me, en
I tell yunner all wuh it is.
"I tink say wadder Mr. Rronel say, e
de Gawd's trute: e ent no man wid two
legs der beat Mr. Tillmnaa wid e one
eye; e ent no nouse talk 'bout beat Mr.
Ben Tillman, 'cause ebble body dun
try en e cut no man kin beat um "
"Scipio, you seem, to be stuck on
Tillman. Why is it you do not like
MlcLaurin and MoSweeney?"
"No, sir, I ner struck on dem, en I
nor say I nor like Mr. MeLauria en
Mr. McSweeney. I ent kaow Mr. Mc
Laurin en I nubber shoum, but I der
yerry e berry nice man. I der iise talk
politic. I ner tink all two boat dun
kin beat Mr. Ben Tillman-dadder
wah I tink, en I bet dat ole Jerry Ox
on wuh I der say."
"Wel11, Scipio, do you think McSwee
ney will beat MoLaurin if he runs
against him nort year?"
'Well, I ent know rightly, sir. Mr.
McSwinny bin try bill e fence berry
high, but e bill wid McLaurin rail en e
bi& wid Tillman rail, en e out lay well
togedder. All two boat dem. En e
haff elimb pun top demon straddle dem
fur mek dem lay still, but e small man
en e leg short, en ent no foot hit de
groun.' En Mr. McLaurin stan' pun
one si-e en Mr. Tillman stan' pun
carrer side. Ea e hab watch boat dem
tur keep dem juckin rail out~ e fence.
But I tink say e binner watch Mr. Till
man de inoest ob do time. E know Mr.
l'illmnan bin de bell ram, on e hab pitch
fork on e head for horn, en won de deb
ble git eon do, e ent no doin' nuttin'
wid dem, none tall. Jiss haff let dein
lone en leh dem but till e butt nuff.
Lawdi e out nobody kin beat Mr. Ben
Tillman. Scep'n e bin Mr Sam Jones,
I yerry say e bin run do debble round
Savannah, en of e bin trute, mebby so,
him kin stan' fore Mr. Tillman, cause
Savannah der bin do debble home, en I
tink say e binner keep e besi pitchfork
eon Savannali."
'Sc Soipio. you would not bet on Till
man if Sam Jones was a Carolinian and
was to run against him?"
"Ha! Hal Hal No, sirr ru, I nor bet
'gainst no man kin run do debble eon
Savannah, no sir ru."
"Well, then, in that case would you
bet on Sam Jones?"
"I ent know rightly 'bout dat, sir. I
ner tink, no, sir. I nor bet cu one, ner
tarrer. I nor bet none tall."
"Then you are willing to bet on Till
man against all corners, except Sam
Jones?"
"Dadder him! Dadder him! En you
kin tell anybody Scipio Gadsden ready
;o bet dat Jerry Ox Mr. Ben Tillman
beat anybody scep'n Mr. Sam Jones."
Lawton Lamar.
Gillisonville, Hampton County, June
10.
He May Change.
The Columbia State says "after all,
it may be a mistake to take President
McKinley's declination of a third term
seriously. The Teller resolution recog
nizing the fact that the people of Cuba
'wore, and of right ought to be, free
and independent,' and pledging the
United States to withdraw its forses from
the island as soon as its pacification
should be accomplished was quite as ex
plicit and comprehensive in its terms
as President McKinley's declaration
that he will not be a candidate for re
election-but Mr. McKinley founa a
way to "get around'' that. We would
not wager two cents on the virtue of
President McKinley, advised and con
trolled as he is, where personal and par
ty interests are involved.
Many Killed.
An explosion in a cartridge factory
situated in the suburb of Los Mouli
neaux Franee has resulted in the loss
of 15 lives and the injuring of about 20
persons. The victims were horribly
mutilated. A majority of those injured
were women.
William J. Samford, Governor of
Alabama, died Wednesday night at
Tuscaloosa, Ala., where he has been ill
for some time. Disease of the heart
A CASUAL '
He came among us one bleak, winter day,
When hands and hearts alike were cold
and stern;
A nameless stranger, passing on his way- (
An aimless way, for aught we could dia
cern. T
Unbidden guest! without the savoir faire
To bring his welcome with him in his
face.
We caught th' reflex of th' repellent air,
And only wish'd to bow him from the ti
place.
But one, whose gentle heart the inward 4
fires i3
Of grief and pain had purg'd and purified, a
Spoke bravely out, rebuking our desires,
And this was what our Heav'n-taught
teacher said:
"Oh, treat him kindly; He's some moth- t]
er's son,
Who holds her hands around him, while I
she may;
And, when his willful feet go wand'ring on,.
She bows her head to weep, perchance to
pray.
'So, for her sake, if not for his, oh, friends!
And, more than either, for the free-giv'n
grace
By which Our Lord His love to us com- s
mends, S
Turn and look kindly on the stranger's
face." 0
#--Author of "Matthew Dale," In Chambers' v
Journal.
SISTER TABITHA
t
By A. H. Holden.
(copyright, 1901, by Authors Syndica)
T HE Shaker meadows were steam
ing. Hot sun and frequent show
ers were makingamends for the tardy
coming of spring. The low, massive
clouds were heavy with rain. As the
first drops fell on John Van Dyne's
canvas he gathered up his artist be
longings and sought shelter.
"Just my luck," muttered he. "I
couldn't have grouped the cattle bet
ter If I had done it myself, and the light
was right until this confounded show
er came up."
He leaped the rail fence, crossed the
road and strode wrathfully up the
street of the quiet Shaker village.
Strains of mild, sweet melody floated
through the open windows of the plain
white church, for this was a Sabbath
day John Van Dyne had chosen to dese
crate.
Thither he hurried, for the rain was
beating down hard and sharp. Depos
Iting his encumbrance in the little yes
tibule, with much needless clatter, he
entered the worship room and took a
seat. The congregation turned to
gaze at the Intruder-the white
capped sisters in a mildly reproachful
way. Sister Tabitha quickly everted
her face, and her voice was silent dur
ing the rest of the musical exercises. .
At the close of the minister's dis
course, in the bustle of the prepara
tion for the dancing which in reality
was lively marching with waving arms,
Sister Tabitha die'tppeared through a
side door.
Surely nature never meant this
woman, with her gorgeous, sensuous I
beauty, for an ascetic. Her beautiful
dark eyes were full of earthly tender
ness and longing. The roses of her
cheeks were of too deep a hue to have
faded out entirely. The calm of herc
expression was that of the apathy of l
despair rather than an evidence of
holy peace and a quiet mind.
The morning dawned cool and bright,<
and Van Dyne, having craved the hos-]
pitality of the community, remained t
until he had finished his study. Sister
Tabith'a pleaded Illness, and remained
In seclusion during his stay. Her dui-c
ties were in the herb garden, in which<
her roommate shared. The latter was
middle aged and deaf, besides beingi
much absorbed In self-communing, and
consequently. was little restraint to 1
Sister Tabitha.1
The herb garden lay at the north of 1
the house of the aged sisters, and be
yond stretched the apple orchard. Sis- f
ter Martha, who had been the elder sis-<
ter when Sister Tabitha first joined I
the community, had- been transferred
to the house of the aged sisters. From f
her window she watched Sister Tabitha
at her labor., and noted with sorrow
that the old restlessness had returned. 1
"It seemed," said Sister Martha to t
the sister who shared her cozy nooki
at the window, "that Sister Tabitha
would never gather, but at last she i
found rest and peace. I can't see t
what has disturbed her. I fear the 1
old longing for the world has come 1
back,"t
"Wasn't there something mysteri
ous about her when she came?" asked I
Sister Sarah.
"Yee," Sister Martha replied, "but I
then there Is more or less mystery
about all who come after they are
grown. We did not question her. She
said she had had trouble and wanted I
a refuge. She i still young and like- a
ly at times feels the attractions of 1
the world, but, then," added Sister a
Martha, "that is something I can't un- a
derstand, for I came here with my z
mother when I was too young to re
member. Before she died she made S
me promise never to leave. More- E
over, I can't see how anyone should I
want to live In the sinful world."
"It must be the heat," said the sis
ters, in commenting on Sister Ta- I
bitha's changed appearance; "it's an il
unommon hot seas""a
One day Sister Tabitha with a few t
of the sisters went up the grass- Z
grown lane to the sheep pasture,
whewe some rare herbs were to be C
found. She drew apart from the rest
ad pursued her quest alone, the bet
ter to indulge In her sad thoughts.iE
In passing around a- clump of bushes
she came face to face with John Van
Dyne. He sprang towards her with C
outstretched arms, scattering canvas
and brushes to the winds.
"Edithl" exclaimed he.
"Yes, 'tis I, John, but don't you
dare to touch me. What evil spirit
guided you here, to wreck. my life ~
H. A Student Killed.
H.S. Bigelow, of Buffalo, N. Y., a
freshman at Harvard, was instantlyE
killed by a chemical engine of the r
Cambridge fire department. A fire was r
found among a pile of boards near the t
Harvard agricultural building by one of 'v
the Harvard professors. An alarm 6
was sent in, bat before the firemen re- o
sponded Prof Hollis and the students t
had put out the fire. The alarm cans- t
ed the under graduates to assemble and t
as the fireman came there was much it
eering. The chemical engine was very h~
late and the crowd hooted the men. z
The accident is described differently,
the firemen claiming that the horses on
the engine became excited at the how
ling crowd and dashed forward, scatter- ~A
ing the crowd. The students claim S
that the driver, Johb Dowdis, delib- u
erstely drove his engine into the crowd n
of students. Blgelow was caught under b
the wheels and other students wereb
knocked down, but only one had an in- w
jury to speak of. As soon as the sta- at
dents realized what had happened they L
make a wild demonstration. But cool ha
heads maiintained control and the fire- It
men were allowed to return to their ai
rain, just as I had found rest -ncl
ace!"
"You must let me explain," and the \
asterful expression came over his
ce that she knew of old.
"No, no, not here," warned Sister
abitha, casting an apprehensive.
ance in the direction of her fellow
orkers.
"Then meet me in the orchard to.
ght, just at the edge, by the herb
Lrden. There is no moon, but I can
gnal you with these," said he, touch
g his case of cigar lighters. With
reluctant assent she left him.
It was easy to evade her room
Late, who always slept soundly, and
ith light footsteps she passed down
ie stairs and out the unlocked door.
"Do not reproach me," implored
an Dyne; "you could not, you would
ot, if you knew how a foolish, boy
;h mistake blighted my young life.
is true that the woman who shat
!red our dream of happiness was my,
twful wife, but I swear I thought
he was dead when I married you.
he was years older than I and scores
f years older in worldly wisdom
,hen I was trapped by her viles.
'hen came the rude awakening. I
ound her cold and calculating and
estitute of refinement. She was de-.
ermined to change my purposes in
fe. She sneered at art and tried
o force me to abandon my ambition
nd shape my course according to,
er ideas. Finally I broke away from
er and went abroad to study. I sent
er all I could possibly spare -of my,
itiful income. Then for some rea
on of her own she caused me to be
ieve that she was dead. I forgive
ter now, for she died in a few weeks.
fter she went to Italy. Since then
have searched for you far and wide.
"Oh, Edith," continued he, "do you
emember that glorious day when we
et? Italy's skies were never so.
ilue. The sea never sang so s*eet
song. Oh, my love, my love, I wil
Lever take your hand in mine until
oU give me permission, but you must
ay you forgive me," and the strong
nan shook with sobs.
She was silent for a moment. "I
ill forgive you, but it is hard for a
roman to forgive a wrong like this,
'eplied she, in a constrained voice.
'How can I ever forget that awful
lay? You did not, you could not,
eny the truth of that woman's asser
ions, and what could I do? I had
out one thought, and that was to go
.way from what had been Paradise
o me the day before. I crossed the
ea and came back to the city where -" _,
had passed a few years.of myebld
iood. You know I was alone In the
vorld. Ill health almost exhansted
ny small inheritance. I remembered
hese good people and came here. I
vas at peace and almost happy until
saw you again. Go, now, John.
)ur lives are in different paths, far,
ar apart."
"You must not leave me so. Say
rou will come again. I shall be here.
o-morrow night. I have so much
nore to say to you."
Sister Tabitha turned and fleetly
>assed through the garden to the
Louse.
There were aged sisters afflicted
ith the sleeplessness of old age who
a~w in the small hours of the night
nysterious signals, the little flashe
>f light and sometimes the Theat
ightning, or the moonlight revealed
;ister Tabitha hastening to meet the
>lack-robed figure whom they do
lared must be an emiary of the
Evil One. This story spread through -
he community. The elder sister be
ran an investigation.
Sister Tabitha's roommate was -
luestioned, who unhesitatingly do
lared that Sister Tabitha had never
dt the chamber in the night, and,
gnoring her own physical infirmity,.
Lelared further that it would have
seen an impossibility without her'
:nowledge. Some of the sisters tee
ified that they had heard strange
ounds and had seen ghostly shadows -
itting through the halls, but had ree
ignized no one. There were some
tighly colored stories that the elder
ister put aside as being merely the
ltion of an excited imagination.
The aged sisters insisted that they
verc not mistaken, and the wraith-.
ike, elusive appearance with which:
hey were now familiar was, without
Loubt, Sister Tabitha.
Brother Israel was detailed to
atch for the appearance of the dis
urber, who was reported to make
is vis'itations almost nightly. This.
rother was growing . old and the
ask was not altogether to his taste.
verything in the way of the super
atural was so familiar to his mind,
not in actual experience; he was
ot sufficiently excited to keep awake.
Lfter comfortably seating himself un
er an apple tree and leaning against
ts huge trunk he fell into a pro
ound fit of meditation, and after,
while lapsed -into a peaceful slum
er, from which he awoke with a
tart, remembering his responsibility
s a watchman, as the intruder was
raling signals with his little lights.
Brother Israel rose slowly withI
auch laborious puffing, and the fig
re, seeing the sentinel, slipped be
.ind a tree.
The. brother reported that a black
obed figure with fiery eyes was visi-.
se for a moment and then vanshed!
to thin air. The mystery deepened!
d more active measures were about
o be taken for its solution, when one.
sorning Sister Tabitha was missing.
The aged sisters shook their heads
minously and gave utterance to their.
elief that Sister Tabitha had been
pirited away by the Prince of the
ower of the air, and many were the
ales they related which they had
een told in their youth of mysteri
us disappearances by that agency;:
ut some of the younger sisters who
.ad not long been in tha c sacred re
reat smiled shyly and strongly,
inted of a power of which they were
tot entirely ignorant-the power of
ve.
Grand Lodge Rescinds.
The grand lodge of Masons of the
ltate of Washington have rescinded the
esolution adopted two sears ago
Boguing negro Masonry. The sc
ion of the lodge at that time was se
erely criticised all over the [United
tates and- as a result she next session
f the grand lodge attempted to return
athe old established principles, but
de resolution wasn so artfully drawn
at sister lodges refased to construe
as an honess expression. The lodge
as now in unmistakable language
nde its position known.
Three Boys Drowned.
Arthur Backmian, 19 years old
.rthur Kalbflesh, 13, and Edward
leets, 13, were taken dead from a
ater hole in Leonard's stone quarry
sar Baltimore, Friday. The three
>ys left home Thursday accompanied
two dogs. When the dogs returned
ithout the boys a search was made
d the boys were traced to the quarry.
onard's qarry is an old one which
is lain unworked for a loag time.
s depths are usually filled with water
d it was a favorite swimming place
tha boys in that locality.