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Afterglow. After the sun's last ray Has left the mountain crest, Taking the golden day To lands of the waiting West. After the darkness falls Swift on the parting hour After the night enthralls Vine-laced laie and tower: Like flushes of early dawn With rose tints permeate, Up from the glory gone, Springs glory re-create, Over the realms of cloud, Over the earth below, And night holds back her shroud, In the splendor of afterglow. After the light of love Fades in hopeless night, A glory from above Fills the heart with after-light And when a life's bright ray Leaveth its loved in woe, The hearts it loved fiLd day In its beautiful afterglow. TALMAGES SERMON. Dr. Talmage's Discourse on Godt Way of Doing. In this discourse Dr. Talmage raises higi expectations of the day when that which is now only dimly seen will be fully revealed text, Job xxvi, 14: "Lo, these are parts o: his ways. But how little a portion is heard of him? But the thunder of his power who can understand?" The least understood being in the uni verse is God. Blasphemous would be any attempt by painting or sculpture to repre sent him. Egyptian hieroglyphics tried to suggest him by putting the figure of an eye upon a sword, implying that God sees and rules, but how imperfect the suggestion: When we speak of him, it is almost always in language figurative. He is "Light" oi "Dayspring From on High," or he is a "Hgi: Tower" or the "Fountain of Living Waters" His splendor is so great that no man can set him alive. When the group of great theo logians assembled in Westminster abbey for the purpose of making a system of religious belief, they first of all wanted an answer to the question, "Who is God?' No one de sired to undertake the answ'sring of that overmastering question. They finally con cluded to give the task to the yourgest man in the assembly, who happened to be Rev George Gillespie. He consented to under take it on the condition tnat they would first umte with him in prayer for divi ie direc. tion. He began his prayer by eaying, "C God, thou art a spirit, infinite eternal and unchangeable in thy being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth." That first sentence of Gillespie's prayer was unani mously adopted by the assembly as the best definition of God. But, after all, it was only a partial success, and after eveiything that language can do when put to the utmost strain and all we can see of God in the natural world and realize of God in the providential world we are forced to cry out with Job inmy text: "Lo, these are parts of his ways. But how little a portion is heard of him? But the thunder of his power who can under stand?" Archbishop Tillotson and Dr. Dick and Timothy Dwight and Jonathan Edwards of the psst and the mightiest theologians of this young century have discoursed upon the power of God, the attribute of omnipotence And we have ali seen demonstrations of God's almightiness. It might have been far out at sos when in an equisoctial gale God showed what he could do with the waters. It mighi have been in an August thunderstorm in the mountains when God showed what he could do with the lightntings. It might have been in South America when God showed what he could do with the earthquakes. It might have been among the Alps when God showed what he could do 'with the avalanches. Our cheek was blanched, our breath stopped, our pulses flattered, our whole be ing was terrorized, but we had seen only an instance of divine strength. What was the poerer of that storm compared with the power which holds all the oceans? What was the power that shook the hills compagd with the power that s wings the earth through all the centuries and for 6,000 years and in a formative and incomplete shape for hun dreds of thousands of years? What is that power that sustains our world compared with the power which rolls through immensity the entire solar system and all the constell ations and galaxies and the universe? The mightiest intellect of man would give way if for a moment there came upon it the full appreciation of what omnipotence is. What you and I see and hear of divine strength are only "parts of his ways. But how little a portion is heard of him: But the thund z of his power who can understand? ' We try to satisfy ourselves with saying. "It is natural law that controls things, gravi tation is at work, centripetal and centrifugal forces redpond to each other." But what is natural law? It is only God's way of doing things. At every point in the universe it is God's direct and continuous power that con trola and harmonizs and sustains. That power withdrawn one instant would make the planetary system and all the worlds which astronomy reveals one universal wreck, bereft hemispheres, dismantled sun sets, dead constellations, debris of worlds. What power it must be that keeps the inter nal fires of our world imprisoned-only here and there spurting from a Cotopaxi, or a Stromboi, or from a Vesuvius, putting Pomn peti and Herculaneum into sepulcher, but for the most part the internal fires chained in their cages of roek, and century af.er cen tury unable to break the chain or burst open the door! What power to keep the com ponent parts of the air in right proportion, so that all around the 'world the nations may breathe in health, the frosts and the heats hindered from working universal demolition! Power, as Isaiah says, "to take up the isles as a very little thing," Ceylon and Btornee and Hawaii as though they were pebbles; p' - to weigh the "mountains in scales" as-. a~ hills in balances'"-Tenerife and the Cordilleras. To move a rock we must have lever and screw and great machine -y, but God moves the world with nothing but a word; power to create worlds and power to destroy them, as from the observatories aga-n and agair. they have been seen red with flame, then pale with ashes and then scattered. What is that power to us? asks some one. It is everything to us. With him on our side, the reconciled God, the sympathetic God, the omnipotent God, we may defy all himan and satania antagonisms. And when we are shut in by obstacles we can say as did one of Frobisher's men when the sailor was describ ing how their ship was surroinded by ice bergs in Arctic sea, '"The ice was strong, but God was stronger than the ice," and what ever opposition we may have our God is mighter than the opposition. All right with God we may have the osurage of the general dying on the battlefield. He asked to be turned, and when they said, "Which way shall we turn you?" he said, "Turn my face toward the enemy." What a challenge that was uttered by the old missionary hero. "If God be for us, who can be against us?" God is the only being in the universe who has power to do as pleases. All human and angelic forces have environments. There are things they cannot do; heights they can not scale; depths they cannot fathom. Whatever their might and velocities they are servants of omnipotence, which has nc limitation, no hinderment and no insur mountable obstacle. Martin Luther asked s Saxon peasant to recite the creed, and tht peasant began, "I believe in God, the Father Almighty." "Stop," said Luther. "What is Almighty?'' "I do not know," replied tht peasant. Then Luther said-: "You art right, my dear fellow. Neither I nor all tht learned men can tell what is omnipotence.' Human power, however great, tires and must rest, but omnipotence never wearies, and a quadrillion of years from now will be as fresh as at this moment. We get some little idea of the divine powet when we see how it buries the proudest cities and nations. Ancient Memphis it hat ground up until many of its ruins are nc larger than your thumb nail and you can hardly find a souvenir large enough to re mind youof yourvisit. The city of Tyre is under the sea which washes the shore, on which are only a few crumbling pillars left. Bodom and Gomorrah are covered by w ate -t so deathful that not a fish can live in them. Babylon and Nineveh are so blotted out ej existence that net one uninjured shaf- of their ancieut sp'endor remains. Nothing but omnipotence could have put them down and put them under. The antediluvian world was able to send to the postdiluvian world only one -hip with a very small pas senger list. Omnipotence first rollel the seas over the land, and then told them to go back to their usual channels as rivers and lakes ar oceans At omnipotent command the waters pouncing upon their prey, and at omnipotent command slinking back into their appropriate places. By such rehearsal we try to arouse our appreciation of what omnipotence is, and ou-reverence is excited, and our adoration is intensified, but after all we find ourselves at the foot of a moun tain we cannot climb, hovering over a depth we canno; fgth m, at the rim of a circum ference we cannot compass, and we feel like first going down on our knees and then fall ing 1 t upon o.r 'aces as we exclaim: "Lo, these are parts of his ways. But how little a portion is hea of him? But the thunder of his power who can understand? So all these who hive put together sys tems of theology have discoursd also about the wisdom of God. Think of a wisdom which can know the end from the beginning. that knows the thirtieth century as well as the nrst c-ntury We cin guess what will happen, but it is only a guess. Think of a mind that can hold all the past and all the present and all the fature! We can contrive and invent on a small scale, but think of a wisdom that could contrive a universe! Think of a wisdom that can learn nothing new, a wisdom that nothing can surprise, all the facts, scenes and occurrences of all time to come as plainly before it as though they had already transpired! He cou d have built all the material universe into one world and swung it aglorious mass through immensity, but behold his wisdom in divid ing up the grandeurs into innumerable worlds, roliiug splendors on all sides, diver eity amp itude, mjesty, infini-y! Worldz %%orlds: Moving in complete order. shiaing with complete radiance. Mightiest tele scope on one hand and mo3t powerful micro scope on the other, discovering in the pian of Goa not one imperfection What bat di vine wisdem could h.ve planned a htumin race and tefore it started uild for it a -,id like this: pouring waters t, Oak, human thirst ano giving soils capacity to produce such food and liting such a canopy of clouds embroidered with such sun ight and sur rounding the world with such won lers that all the scientists of the ages have only be gun to unroll them? Wisdom in magnitude and in atem, in archangel and in mollusk. Think of a wisdom that was able to form without any suggestion or any model to work by the ej e, the ear, the hand, the foct, the vocal organe: No wonder that Galen. the most c-lebrated of medic il authors aoiong the ancients, fell on bis knees at the over whelming wisdom of God in the constitution of the human frame. Our libraries are filled with the wisdom of the great thinkers of all time. Have you considered the far superior wisdom which fashioned the brain for all those thoughts of the Infinite Mind that built those intellects? Bat it is only the millionth part of that wisdom that has come to mortal appreciation. Close next to every discovery is a wonder that has not been discovered. We see only one specimen among 10,000 specimens. What we know is overwhelmed by what we do not know. What the botanist knows about the flower is not more wonderful than the things he does not know about the flower. What the geolog ist knows about the rocks is not more amaz ing than the things which he does not know about them. The worlds that have been counted are only a small regiment of the armies of light, the hosts of heaven, vhich have nezer passed in review before mortal vision. What a God we have! We have all been painfully reminded in our own experiences that we c,nnot be in two places at the same time, and yet here comes the thought that God can be in a'l places at the same time. Madler, the as tronomer, went on with his explorations un til he concluded that the star Alcyone, one of the Pleiades, was the center of the uni verse, and it was a fixed world, and all the other wor~ds revolved around that world, and some think that that world is heaven and God's throne is there, and there reside the nations of the blest. But he is not no more there than he is here Indeed. Alcyone has been found to be in motion, and it also is revolving around some great center. But no place has yet been found where Gad is not present by susaining power. Omnipres ence: Who fully appreciates it? Not I. Not you. Sometimes we hear him in a whisper. Semetimes we hear him in the voice of the storm thaz jars the Adirondacks. But we cannot swim across thit ocean. The finite cannot measure the infinite. We feel as Job did after ~finding God in the gold mines and the silver mines of Asia, saying, "There is a vein for the silver and a place for the goid where they fine it." Aid after exploring the hea rens as an astronomer and finding God in distant w orlds and becoming acquainted with Orion and Mazzaroth and Arciurns and noticing the tides of the seathe inspired poet expresses his incapacity to un derstand such evidences of wisdom and says: "Lo, these are parts ot his ways. But how little a portion is heard of him? But the thunder of his power who can understand?" So every system of theology has attempted to describe and de fine the divine attribute of love. Easy enough is it to define fatherly love, motherly lo re, conjugal love, fraternal love and love of country, but the love of God defies all vocabulary. For many hundreds of years poets have tried to sing it and pain ters have tried to sketch it and ministers of the gospel to preach it and martyrs in the fire and Christians on their deathbeds have extolled it, and we can tell what it is like, but no oc e has yet fully told what it is. Men speak of the love of God as though it were first felt between the pointing of the .dethle hem star and the pounding of the crucifixion hammer. But no! Long before that ex isted the love of God The nature of God never changes, and from all eternity that holy passion glowed in the Infinite, and 1 think he w as throwing out worlds into spice and inhabiting them and more worlds for the application of that love. tie may not have to:d the other worlds what he did for this world, as he has not told us what ne did for them I think the love of God was demonstrated in mightier worlds defore our liitie world wai fitted an for human residence. Will a man owaing 50,000 acres of land put all the cultiration on a half acre? Will God make a million worlds and put his chief affection on one small planet? Are the other worlds and larger wo Ids etanding vacant, uninhabited, whtle this li~tle world is crowdedl with inisa bitants? No, it taaes a universe of w,.rds to express toe love of God. And there are other ransoms and other rescues and other redemptions, as there may be otoer millen niums and othber resurrection mornings and judgment days than those cf our world. But in the space of six feet by five was c-mprised the mightiest evidence of Gad's love that any world ever- saw or ever will see. Compressed on two planks joined t )gether as a cross. There was enoughi agony there concentered, if dis tributed, to put whole nations into torture. That God allowed the assassination of his own Son for the rescue of our w id is all the evidence needed that he loved the world. Go ahead, 0 charch of Gad! Go ahead, 0 world, and te 1 as well as you can what the love of God is, but know beforehand that Paal was r ght when he said. "It passeth knowledge." Let other psets take up the staoy of God's love where Wiihiam Cow per and Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley and Horatius Bonar left it, and let other painters improve upon tte "Sistine Madonna," and the -A doration of the Magi," and the ' Cru - cifixion'' as Raphael and Titian and Claude and Correggio presented them. Let the Ger man pulpit orator take up the theme of God's love where Frederick Tholuck left it; let Italian pulpit take it up where Gavazzi theme where Bourdelone left it; let the Swiss pulpit orator take up the theme where Merle d'Aubigne left it; let the English pulpit take it up where George Whitefield left it; let the Scotch pulpit take it up where Dr. Gandlish left it; let the Welsh pulpit take it up where Christmas Evans left it, and let American pulpit take it up where Archibald Alexan der and Dr. Kirk and Matthew Simpson left it. But the world will never appreciate fully the love of G )d until they hear from his own lips the outburst of his tofiiaite and everlasting affection. Only glimpses of God have we in this world, but what an hour it will be when we first see him, and we will have no more fright than I feel when I now see you. It will not be with mortal eye that we will behold him, but with the vision of a cleansed, the quintillion age of eternity to u- the moat thrilling hour will be the fit-t honra when we meet him as he is. This mly account for something you have all seen and may not have understood Have you not no ticed how that afttr death the old Christian loot s 3 oung agaia or the features resume the look of 20 or 30 years befvre? The weariness is gone out of the face, there is something strikingly restful and placid; there is a pleated look where before there was a dis turbed look. What has wrought the change? I thiak the dying Christian saw God. At the moment the sou left the body what the soul saw left its impression on the countenance. I think that is what gave that old Christian face after death the i adiant and triumphant look. The bestormed spirit has reached the harbor; ihe hard battle of life is ended in vic toiy. The body took that look the moment beaven began, and the curtain was complete ly lifted aud the glories of Jehovah's presence rus.el upon the soul. The depirting spirit left on the old man's face a glad good->y, and that first look gave tbe pleased curve to the dying lip and smoothed oat the wrinkies and touched all the lineaments with an indescrib able raliaace. As no one else explains that improved and gladdened post mortem look, I try to exp.ain it, saying: "He saw God!" "Shesaw Goa' L ist suinmer we journeyed thousands of miles t) see the midnigat sun from North Cape, Norway. We stood on deck in the arctic seas, our watches in our hands, and it was eleven o'clock at night, but light as an ordinary noonday. Then it was half past eleven o'cloca at night, then it was 15 minutes of 12, but a losng. wide, thick cloud hang over the sun Are we to be disappointed as th 3usands have been and the journey here a failure? Tea minautes of 12, and the sun is still hidden. But about five minutes of 12 the cluud lifted, and the mid Light tun, the most v ondrcus spectacle of all the earth, appeare I, pouring forth a reiul gence that turned the arctic sea into 20 miles of pearls an i ubies and diamonds and em eraids and - verpowering us with a glory that left us with od y a.1 a-tremble, atd a mind fud or d ec-tasy, ad a soul full of all wor ship. Thank God we saw it-the midnight ue. So with that departing COnistian soul; the vyage of life has Deen oug a: d rough and tern mestuous; chilling sarrow, have again and gain enowed dowU Lpon him, and it is an arctis sea. Many clouds havetilled the sky. I. is approacuiog 12 o'c!ock, and the close of afe's day. Friends stand around and count the parting mounents. The clock strikes 12. and God breaks through the clouds and snines upon the features of the departing saint until they are transfigaed with the glories of the Sun of Righteousness. That is wh st has so changed the features of the old man. It is the shiimng of the Mid 2ight Sun. FOURTEEN PEOPLE KILLED. By an Explosion of Fire Works at Patterson, N. J. Fourteen people are believed to have been killed and a number injured Fr: day as a result of thbe fie fo]lowing an explobinn among a quantity of fireworks in the Etore of Abraham M. Rittenburg, at Patterson, N. J. The store was on the ground floor of a tenement building. The ciuse of the explosion is not known and the property loss will not exceed $35,000. The <xplosiou occured shortly after noon and many of the occapants of the building were out at dinner. The building in which the explosion occur red was a frame tent ment, four stories high withi stores on the grour-d floor. The middle store was occupied by Rit tenburg. Ten families occupied the fats in the building. So great was the force of the exp'lo sion that a boy playing in the streat half a block away was lifted from his feet and hurled against an iron fene3. Oae of his legs was broke2. A trolley car was directly in front of the build ing when the explosion occurred. T'he burst of flame blown out into the street scoarched the sides of the car and singed the hair of the passengers. A number of those who were on the upper fi ors of the building when the explosion took place were eith~er stunn ed and burned to death or found escspe out off and were suffocated. After the first explcsion there were a serEs of smaller ones and then cam3 a second big explosion whi oh was muffibd and deadened and probably occurred in the cellar. Every window seemed to be em't ting fismna within a minute after the first explosion. A woman, with her lothing on fire leaped out of one of the windows sad fell to the yard be low. Her dead body was dragged ot of reach of the flhmes, but the fbsh was roasted and dropping from the bones. Sae later proved to be Mrs. Wlliams. Mrs. Williams' husband was a crip ple. His wife is supposed to have re mained longer thaa she could with safety in an effort to save him. He was found buruned to a crisp on his bed. Some of the ocaupants of the rooms dropped from the windows andi were bused; other3 hung from the windows until the firemen came, atd 20 persons were taken down in this way through the ire and smoke by the firemen, while dropped into life nets. Dantel Dooley, who was in the yard whe the exploaion took place, saw the twoRittenburg children in the rearroom and ushed into the flumes for them. He got one of them and cardied it cut and tried to go taoi for tn~e other bu te room was thon one mass of fire and ie was too late. He was badly soorchea in rescuwg ih a first ciid. V4idle tne rescue2s were going on the fireen were tig sing the~ inines. Capt. Alien led with une hou linhe ic aa effort. to keep tie fire from dhe upper flAs, whr. it was'ernid many vtere pintied io. The rmenaad harai; taken their posi throv, water into the upper fb;ors, when, witl out any warning, the wholie upper pan of the building above them sagged out ward and ieli. The captain and t wo of his men were buaried unaer the blaz ing debris. One of the men is badly hurt. The bulidiog in whied the ex plosion occurred was eauorely destroy Rittenburg will ptobably be arrested pending an investigation. In the cebris was fod the head of a mant or a woman. Tee hair is buruoed f4 and the features are unrecagnizable. Th remainder of the body has not been found. The bod ies taken cut thus far are al most uercognmz able and are burned and torr. by the fire and the collapse of the timbers of the building. He Fooled Her. A woman in Chicago sued for a divores because her husband fooled her by claiming that he had a sprained anke when be had a wooden leg. She had the profoundest sympathy with the sprained ankle and during the courtship at his request would sit on the other side away from the sprained ankle, but sh has a nauseating contempt for the wooden leg and desires to cut loose from such an imposition. Three Men Killed. Tr:e men lost their lives and a dozn more were badly hurt by the col lapse of a railroad bridge and wreck ing of a train on the Dry Fork rail road, near Herdicks, W. Va. Thursday morning. The dead are Win. Bunker, master mechanic aged 50; W. C. Crawl, iema,.. a a.aoe na-- med Morrison. RESTORING CAPTUR1D FLAG. Dramatic Incident at the Southern Industrial Convention. An impressive feature of the South ern Industrial Convention, held last week in Piladelphia. was tOe restora ion of a captured flag by a Federal :*fficer to the chief city of Suth Caro ini, from whence it was taken in the atter days of the Confederacy, and which has been carefully kept as a relic of the late unpleasantness. The >fficer is Gon. W. W. H Davis, of Doylestown, Pa , who was formerly in )ommand of the F./eral forces on q.>rris Island, and while there in 1864 yae of the sigaal fligs of tie Confer )rate ram "Cuicora" fell into his hands. Ele took advantage of tie cpportunity It Philadelphia to signalize the occa liorn by returning the flag te i-s right ul owners, and it was graoiously ac. 3epted on the part of Charleston by ne of its delegates, Dr. Kollock, whose response evoked great applause and was worthy of the occasion. In pre ,eating the flg which he has cherished as one of his most priceless ielies of his war experience, Gen. Davis said: "The duty devolving on me, in con aection with the evening functicj, is of the most pleasing character, and the pleasure isnhanced by disEharging it Ln this presence. I am here io ce.trast to our Southern guests a relic cf the war between the States and to depute Dne of the their mt miers to returaL it to the City of Cdarlestov, S. C , waere it properly belongs. When Charleston Fell iito tnio hauls of the Federal forces on February 18, 1865, among the spoi:s of war was the signal fliz of the Confeder-e ram Chicora. L was taken fr.om the looer of tWe vessel by L'ea. Wm R E Liott, formerly of i; e ,mmand, arnd subscquently preserted to me. In the mentime I deter.mined to return it to the rightful owncr if he Douid bi found, bat it was never done. Mr. Eiica suggeized we take aivan :age of the meeting of th3 Sauthern [ndustrial Convention in tnis city to discharge this duty. This met my views and I am her. to-nigh; for that purpose. To you, Dr. Koilock, I com mit this symbol of the natien's quarrel, and ask you to give to the Mayor of Charleston to make such disposition as may seem proper, and I hope the flag may be cared for in a manner com mensurate with the courage that de Fended it in the s:rife of battle. Hap pily and wonderfully for both sides that war has passed into history, and our bruised arms are hung up for monu ments and th( iurage and forboarance, and fortitude, the suffering and the tears that marked its progress have 3rystallized the nation into a more per Feet Union. The Union bassed on af rection, respect and mutual good will, and the Southern Industria I Conven tion assembled here gives evidence that both the North and the S.uth fully realize that 'peace hath her vict ies no less renowned than war.' If morc were wanting, let us one and ali in this City Af Brotherly Love, founded in deeds of peace by William Penn, wherein the immortal Declaration of InsLapendence was made and promulgated an d the Con ititution adopted, swear to retain our allegiance to the Union." In accepting the fibg for Charleston Dr. Kollock said: "It would seem nore fitting that some bat tle-scarred reteran, some man who hal borne it proudly to victory or defended it in retreat, some one who had heard the booming of cannon and bursting of shell some one who had shed his blood in lefence of the cause for whioh so many gave their lives, should receive this unost precious relic from its generous and chivalrous captor. Bat then these nen are rapidly marching a way never to return, and already miany have 3rossed over the river and are resting in the shade of the trees. Upon us, their sons, devolves the duty to pre serve these relics of a cause they hold so dear and to keep bright ir: our mem ries and those of our chi dren theits glorious deeds. Aye. gentlemen, of the North and South, it is ;auch deeds as these that tend to soften the feel ings of the past and help to cement again the affections of the:se brothers who differed, quarreled and fought-as nly the brave fight-to the bitter end. What memories this flag cal:.s up from the past, and what has become of the brave hands that bore it 'mid shot and shell to victory or defeat? Methinks [ can see through smoke and fire these brave men in grey crouching behind their works of sand and logs, while From the front in continuous stream come the shot and shell from the Fed eral fleet, and again as they land, the boys in the blue, charge bravely across ihe sands only to be mowed down by the rathless fire of the besieged, and ~has the battle wages. Now for the ~rey and now for the blue, until like the mist before the rising sun the grey ine fades gradually away and is seen 2o more. Thank God, gentlemen, that ~hese days are past, and let us pray ~hat never again shall these brothers aise their hands in arnger against one auother, but that year by year and uay oy day they shali meet as they do to Ls, for the best inteiests of this great country and its people. Fire at Greenville. Fire was disc overed ai a's bakery, oeated in one of M C. Phersons' thr. ,ty buildings, on Main stree, Green. nile, S. U. at 12.150o'clock We'nsday morning. Is spread rapidly to M. C. lPnerscns' two asijoiniog three story cuildings, and at 3 o'clock th e flames threatened the enmire e ty. Tne B~attle building, a large three story structure on the ceraer of Main and Washington streets, the larges:, nost modern structure in the city, next caught, and was a total loss. This tt ding was occupied on the first flbor by three business houses, second floor >ffices, thirdj floor hall. It was valued at $20,000, insurance $15 000. The threc ad joining stores first mentioned were valued at $S.000, insurance $1, 100 The fire was extinguished at ten o'clock Tuesday morning. The following is a list of losers: Smith & Bristo w $8,000, insurance N.000. Avery Patton $5 000. W. R. Hala $3,000, no insurancee. J. S. Deal, baker, $500 J. F. Bruns, jeweler, $20,000, in uranee $6,000. Reynolds & Earie, draggists, $4,000, nsurance $3,000. Payne's beer dispensary $800. Bowmann's restaurant $500, fully ansured. Killed by Lightning. A very sad accident occurred five miles from Anderson Thursday. During :he heavy thunderstorm that was raging hoat afternoon Mr. John Hall, Jr., while returning on horseback to his iome, was struck and instantly killed >y ligtning. Both horse and rider were tilled. Mr. H all was 25 year3 of age, amember of a promirnent family in the iat Rock neighborhood. He leaves a n and two l;il children. ATTEMPTS HIS LIFE. Escaped Convict Captured Who is Wanted in Alabama for Rape. A special to the State from Spartan burg says: On Sunday a negro named John Wilson, alias John Brown, an es caped convict sent up from sessions court in this county a bout one year ago, and who escaped from the authorities at the State penitentiary, was captured at Wellford and lodged in the county jail. He was sent up from here on the charge of assault with intent to rape. He mad.e himself notoricusly obnoxious in the city prior to his first arrest and was a dangerous menace to society. He served about a month in the peni tentiary a-.d made his eseape. Since then the au:horities have be.-n on the lookout for him. On or about May 7, at Springville, Ala , a little white grl named Della Garret, about 13 years of age, whose people are highly respected in that town was fiendishly and criminally assaulted while on her way from school. She was dragged several hundred yards from the public nighway and into a deep woodland, where the brute accomplished his purpose tia e and again. This crime aroused the people of Springville to great excitement and indignaton, and every possible measure and step was taken to secure the villian, who made good his escape. A reward of $500 was offered. It so happsned that at the time of this occurrence in Springville, Ala., John Wilson, under the assumed name of Brown. was working there, hid ing from the officers of the law in this State. It was known that the little girl's assailant was a negro, and the de seription sect out everywhere of him ans; ercd to a dcit to Wilson, even to two scars en his face. He had also vrrten to his wile fcm Springvil1e to Wellflr1, where she live. A. plan was laid for the capture of Wilson by Mr. Moore of Tucapau Mille, and it worked seceessfully. He was lodged in j.il Saaday, and as he bora out so minue ly the description of the rapist in Springville, Ala., the authorities there were notified to come and get the scoun drel and pay the reward, which would go to Messrs. Moore and a Mr. Roberts of Well ord. Tuesday John WilEon was informed of the f set that he was to be carried to Springville, Ala., where he was badly wanted. He had little comment to make, but his general bearing was that of a guilty man if appearancescount for anght. Last night at midnight Deputy Sher iff White was in the jail wher3 the prisoners were coafined ard ssw Wilson in his cell. He was in good spiiits. This morning he was discovered lying on his cot, bleeding profusely from an ugly wound in. the throat. He had broken a half pint whiskey bottle which had been left in th 3 cell by some prison er to drink water cut of, had made a crude weapon and attempted to take his own lire. In this he was very near ly successful, as his wound extends four inches and his wind pipe is badly gash ed. In the cell two letters were found, one addressed to his wife at Wellford and another to his father in the coun try. In each letter he stated that he would rather die than go back to Spring ville, Ala. He bitterly upbraided his wife accusing her of infidelity and stating that she was the cause of his be ing captured. In these ietters he did not acknniledge his guilt. The Spring ville aut horities h.ve been notified, and are loeked for to come after Wilson. WEATHER AND CROP R EPORT Director Bauer's Summary for the Past Week Below is given the weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and crops issued Tuesday by Dkrector Bauer of the South Carolina section of the cli mate and crop service of the United States weather bureau: The week ending Monday, Jane 17th, averaged only slightly cooler than usual, with a maximum of 94 at Bates burg on the 11th, and a minimum of 61 at Greeaville and Spartanburg on the 10th. Tnere was a decided and harm ful deficincy in sunshine. Genera. and heavy rains prevailed from the 13.h to the close of the week, with amounts varying fro n two to over six inches, and averaging 3 40 for the State, which is nearly equal to the nor mal Junea precipitation. Bottoms were flooded, hilisides washed, bridges c ir ried away, and lands generally have tecome boggy, ar~d were unfit for cul tivation except from two to three day a early in the week. All filed crops have been injured by this excessive moisture, want of proper cultivation and lack of sunshine, and fields have became foul with grass and weeds over the en tire State. All cotton has not been chopped one, and man' dilds are lousy, and foul with grass, so that there are numerous re ports of abandoning them, while in a few localities some already haye been plcughed under and planted to corn. 'fhe plants continue small, and are yeiiowing In Marlboro couaty, and in ttse sea island dis:ricts, there is some improvement noted; elsewhere, general deterioration. On Eandy lands the plants are dy ing 'o same extent from we tness. Crn has made slow growth, but on the u, lads of the mstern half of tthe State re:ains its healthy color. Bxtom land caru was washesd away, and will hav~e to be reijianted, some for the fourth time. In the eastern sections, .corn looks yello y, and is tasselling low, and has received permanent injury, while over the State it is in need of werk and suns nine. The heavy rains, a':d worms, in places, have damaged tobacco; and in Marlboro county only is any improve ment noted. Caterpillars have made their appearance on rice in Colleton. In tha Georgetown distrie~s the freshets are cnly now s:beiding leaving the lands in poor condition for either culti vation or planting. In the lover dis tricts, and on uplands, rice is excellent. Wheat and oats are nearly harvested, except in the extreme western portions, where wheat is over-ripe and falling to the ground, rains preventing harvest ing. Much grain was damaged in the shock by the heavy rains. Very litile has been housed or thrashed. Early peaches are rottning; apples are drop ping; grapes very promising; truck and gardens are fine; mellons poor and back ward1. The crop prospects are dcidedly un favorable at this time. Niot Allowed in Town. Deputy United States Marshal Sisson was caleld to Glenece on the Eastern Oklahoma railroad Thursday afternoon by a race difficulty at that place. The United States marshals were notified Thursday morning by the Santa Fe authorities that the citizens of Glence had threatened to use force to run out a gang of forty colored men employed to raise the grade at that point. The citizens of Glencoe have as a rule al lowed no colored man to visit or live in tamt village. COULDN1 HAPPEN IN THIS STATE A Louisiana Bridegroom Forgot the Marrk.ge License. "I was one of 1,500 persons who wit nessed what we all thought was a wed ding in a fashionable church a few weeks ago," remaaked a gentleman Tuesday, and it was evident from the way he started out that he had a story to tell. "It was one of the principal chl-rah weddings of May, and nearly all society was gathered in that church. The bride had been very pop ular in New Orleans society, and the grocm was one of the best known of the successful younger business men in the city. Ther3 was a matron of honor, scveral bridesmaids, fiswer bearers, groomsmen and ushers, music and all that sort of thing, and many people went to the church simply to see the frills that were to be put to the old ceremony of giving and taking in marriage. The groom's brother was his best man, and he was as proud as was his principal-until after the wedding. No, he did not forget to pass the ring to the bridgeroom. "After the final vows were exchang ed and the minister had pronounced the young couple man and wife, we in the front stats noticed the minister whispering to the bridegroom, and the look of worry and annoyance that e!me over the face of the min who ,hould have been to happy. We won dered what the mysterious whispering meant, but we were not enlightened. As the minister turned away the groom gave his arm to the bride, the organ pealed out Mendelseohn's joyfal wed ding march, but the groom did not seem very joyous, and a few of us later discovered why and the reason for the whispered conversation bet ween the minister and the bridegroom in the chancel. "After pronouncing them man and wife, the minister whispered to the man tstat in reality he and his bride were not married; that no license had been obtained, and that the reason why the minister had followed the ri tual was that no scandal might be created. The best man bad been in trusted with all the commissions ap pertaining to the wedding, and he had forgotten the most impartant item of all, the marriage license. -The minister knew that at that time of night there would be no chance to obtain the li cense without long delay, and he knew that the best way to Emooth over the matter was to go on with his part of the programme and then tell the bride groom that he was no bridegroom, but only a bridegroom to be. The man in the case had made all his arrangements for a wedding tour West, and had bought the stateroom in the sleeper of the night train and bought his tickets. He went to his home that night, and the bride remained at hers. "Early the next morning the license o marry was obtained from the board of health, and the genuine marriage ceremony was then performed at the home of the bride's parents and with no witnesses save the members of her family. The bridegroom, after considerable trouble, got the dates of his railroad tickets changed, but he lost the $18 he had paid when he reserved the state room in the s'eeper from New Orleans to Cbicago. The story only got out to a few perso~is who were at the church for what they thought was the wedding, and noticed in the papers later the date of the marriage license."-Ne w Orleans Limes-Democrat. WON A REBEL GIEL. He is from New Jersey and She is a South Carolina Belle The following published in the At lantic Review, Atlantic Zity, N. J., will be read with interest. A romance that will appeal to evon the most unromantic will reach its climax in the Episcopal church at Ab beville, South Carolina, at htighl noon on June 27, when Lieutenant Colonel Lewis T. Bryant, of the New Jersey National Guard, and also the well known commandant of the Morris Guards, will be united in wedlock to Miss Mary S. L 2e, a charming young lady of most distinguished lineage. Had it not been for the fact that the United States and Spain were at war and that Colonel Bryant while seiving as a major in the iXurth New Jersey Volunteers, was sent to Greenville, S. C., in the tall of 1898 as a part of the overwhelming army that assembled in the South fo:. the purpose of showing Spain how vain would be her further resiance, Colonel Bryant would doubt less never have met the culture d young woman who will become his bride on the 27th. 8:ae was then visiting in Green~v:le, and their meeting ripened into friendship and then into that higuer affection An engagement was the natural result and the nupdials will culminate a m 2t romantic coortship. Mu~s Lee's family is one of the most discinguished in th-i Southland. in Abbeviile, whera she jives, the ?'st secession speech was delivere d and the little city was also the scene of the last meeting of Jefferson Davis, cabinet. Her father, who is now dead, was for maoy years a celebrated lawyer. Many of her relatives fought for tee South, but the fair daughter will bece-ms the oride of an etlicer in the military foices of one of the m st prosperous States in a uniti d land. Mliss Le is of tall anad gracsful car riage ana of the branette type of beau ty. She is 'utured and highly ae complished-a typical daughter of the South. A number of Captain Bryant's friends will attend the wedding. The groom-ro-be is arranging to lease his residence of North Carolina avenue, south, and to spend tihe summer in travel. He will bring his bride to At lantic City in the i ali and occupy his handscmc cottage, Wanted a Job. A Kainsas school board received the following letter the other day from one of the teachers: "1 would like to have the refusal of the school as long as you are willing to hold it for me, though I can't say positively that I will not teach, nor positively that I will. If I am married, as I think I will be, of course I will not want the school. Batvyou know the old story about many a slip, and I would hate to be out of a job as well as the other. "-Exchange. Oranges might be grown in Tennes see, but hardly at a profit. So can any Florida, Georgia or Alabama farmer raise cotton, but when the condition of Eoil, etc., are taken into considera tion as compared with the Mississippi valley, can he complete with them at a profit? If not, then why not turn his attention to feed crops and stock to consume them, in which there is a sure TES GROWING CROPS. Full Review of the Situation Through out the Cotton Belt The past week was a favorable one on cotton except in the Carolinar, Georgia and Florida, where rains were excessive end largely prevented culti. vation, of which the plants stand in urgent need. However, since the re ports summarized below were receive I more favorable weather has prevailed, that will, no :doubt, tend toward a bet terment in the condition of cotton. In portions of Louisiana and Texas mild drought conditions prevail, but n I sufficient to threaten the ec-ntral and western portions of the belt, the plantE are forming squares, and blooms are reported, while in extreme southwest ern Texas the "first bale" has beer ginned. This is claimed to be the earliest on record. With the excep tion of the Atlantic States where gras sy fields are the rule, and where some will be ploughed under, cotton fieldi are clean and well cultivated, and the crop's general condition is promising althongh of somewhat later gr3wth than usual. In North Carolina rains began on the 13th which were quite beneficial at first, especially on uplands, but the large amounts on the 14th, and the generally cloudy, damp weather during the last portion of the week were vera unfavorable. Farm work was complete ly interrupted, and cannot be resumed for some time, as the ground has be come very wet. I well cultivated fields cotton and corn have made some growth, and while very email at least show good color; but generally the can dition of both crops continue poor. cotton has not all been chopped, and many fields are being abandoned o plowed up for corn. In South Carolina all cotton has not been chopped out, and many fields are lousy, and foul with gras, so that there are numerous reports of abandoning them, while in a few localities some al ready have been ploughed under and planted to corn. The plants continue small, and are yellowing. In Marlbore county and in the sea island districts, there is some improvement noted; else wle:e, general deterioration. On sandy lands the plants are dying to some extent from wetness. In Gsorgia excessive rains again oc curred during the week in many see tions of the State. In some counties, particularly in the eastern part, the rainfall exceeded 5 inches. There has been no opportunity for cultivation, for which all crops ore suffering. Grass and weeds have obtained the lead and ar.a growing rapidly. The reports of correspondents contain muci informa tion of a discouraging character, and little hope of improvement is express ed. L %bor seems to be a scarce com modity, and with so much cultivation, that is necessary, this becomes a seri ous factor in the situation. In Alabama general favorable condi tions prevailed. Practically all cotton has been chopped, while it is of irregu lar size, varying from a few inches c knee high, it is more promising that at any time this sesson, -though its con dition is not yet satisfactory: grass it still troublesome in many fields, thougi being cleaned out rapidly; squares are forming qnite generally, but no blooms are reported as yet. In Mississippi the weather during the week was fine for the cultivation and and growth of all field crops. On low lands in the northern portion of tne State there is still same complaint ol grassy fields, while over southern por tion, rain is generally in the extreme southwestern eaunties wheat crops are suffering on account of continued dry weather. [n the delta, northern and middle counties much cotton is being worked the second time, and in the southern division it is being hilled. Ina Louisiana, in the loaalities that have been so long without rain, crop! have, of course, made but little or ne progress or are deteriorating. Consid ering the State as a whole, however, all staple crops have made good groath~ and show marked improvement, but all would now be benefited by more rain. Cotton, in its various stages of ad vancerent-from the small aereage re planted after the first plant had been destroyed by hail, which is just coming up, to that beginning to bloom-is making rapid growth and in mest fields looks promising. In Tennessee the weather was mod erately warm, and while the percentage of bright sunshine was rather low, the conditions were generally favorable to crops. A few correspondents report that crops are getting weedy on account of the rainy conditions, but farm work is generally pretty well in hand. in Arkansas decidedly warmer weather pievailedl dun'"g the week. The rainfall was very scattered, in some lo ealities good showers ocautred, while in others no rain fell. Corn and cottos have been greatly benefitted by the warm lays and nights. Cotton is being work ed out and the stand is not so good is many localities. Squares are be ginning to form on oston in some see Lions. In Lexas the weather during the week has been highly favorable for harvest ing and threshing wheat and oats, sad Efor much needed farm work. Croph, notably cotton ard corn that were weedy, have received attention, and at tue ciose of the week are clean and well cultivated. Reports on cotton from every sec ion of the State indicate that the general outlook for this crop is Eavorable. It is forming squares and fruiting in most loca ities. A general rain would benefit the cotton crop, but there are only a few localities where it is badly needed. The boll weevils are sowly being destroyed and complaints >f damage by these posts are becoming Less frequent. In Orlahoma and Indian Territory the conditions were especially favorable for the progreas of all kinds of farm work, and as a result all crops were cul tivated and cleaned up, and placed in iondition. Cotton chopping is well ad ranced, and it is beginning to square; the plant has mnade a fair growth, and is Eairly well cultivated. iii. Fervent nope. Mrs. Sleepyize-Henry, the alarm clock just went off. Mr. Sleepyize-Thank goodness; I hope th' thing'11 never come back. Columbus (0.) State Journal. A Diurnal Failure. Hewitt-Are you a good judge of women's ages? Jewett-No; I can't guess a wom an's age any nearer tdan she can her self.-Town Topics. Human Limitations. First Tramp-It's hard for a man to live up to his ideals. Second Tramp-D~at's all right! A feller can't git out of sawin' some wood.--Puck. No Chance for Dispute. "You know Will was just crazy to marry me!" said the young bride. "Yes; that's what everybody thinks," replied her jealous rival HE WAS A HERO How Brave Baggageman Went BacK to Flag Down Freight A BAD RAILROAO WASHOUT Nearly Every Passenger on the Atlanta Special Was lrjured by the Trestle's Collapse. Lgstonday night about 10 o'Clock, northbound Seaboari Air Line Atlanta~ special turned broadside off a trestle into a pand, about a mile north of Rock ingham, N. 0. There were on board about 25 or 30 passengers, all of whom were more or lcsi injared, several very seriously, and two, a white man and a negro, probably fatally. There were tbree ladies and some children aboard, none of whom were s3riously huri. The engine and two mil cars passed over in safety but the combination baggage and second, first and two Pdllman's turned over. 0 aceount of the rains the piers of the trAstles gave way on the lefs side. At the first crash all lights went out and water rushed in waist deep through the windows. Bag gagemaster Smith, though seriuusjy hurt himsel', at once thought of the Ireight following ciose tehind. He crawled out, and seiz tag a lantern, hobtled down tae tracc and fag god the freigtat, thereby prestang a eecoad catstropae. Watn tae freight stopped he was lying on she ground unsole to raise, bu stih waving his Jamtera. le jell tine and again Dufore he succeeded in gewong fsr enough baak to flig the tran. He had to be carried back on a stretcher. The newsboy also did heroio work, crawling through the oars holpiag mae almost drownad passengers to escape through the transom. over a door. A ralief train came trom Hamlet with doctors, and another trom Rt-okingham. The harl here is being used as a tem porary hospital. Needed Further Instruetions. Prison Warden-It's just been found out that you didn't cominit that crime you've been in for these years, and so the governor has pardoned you. Innocent Man-Um-I'm pardoned, am I? Prison Warden-Y-e-s, but don't go yet. I'll have to telegraph for further Instructions. Innocent Man-What about? Prison Warden-Seems to me that considerin' you hadn't any business here, you ought to pay the state for your board.-N. Y. Weekly. A Failure. "Did anybody ever try to start a newspaper here?" asked the intellec tual-looking man with glasses. "Yes," answered Broncho Bob. "But it failed. The editor wouldn't 'tend to business." "Was he a dissipated man?" "No. But he insisted on sitting at his desk with his back to the door, when he ought to have been standing with a six-shooter In his hand ad his eye at a knot-hole." - Washington Star. Proof Positive. Nell-Charlie has acted very indif ferently lately. I wonder if he in tends to marry me just for my money. Clara-Oh, I'm sure not, dear. I had a talk with him this evening and/ I am sure he intends nothing of the kind. Nell-But what makes you so sure? Clara-Well, you see, he proposed to me.-llarlem Life. Prompt Punishment. "What is your order?" asked the waiter girl. "Anything you please, dear," re plied the burly policeman. "I'm hungry enough to do the cannibal act to-day." "We don't serve lobsters here, sir," she said, with offended dignity.-Chi cago Tribune. They Oan't Help It.. "It seems to me," said the lovely Mrs. Xafiippe, "that society isn't what it was when I began going out." "No," her gentle friend replied, "I suppose It isn't, but then you must remember that nearly everything else has changed along with society dur ing the past 40 or 50 years."-Chicago Times-Herald. The Real Thing. The Suitor-Here, on my-knees, I place this ring upon your finger. My love goes out to you. The Coquette-But how do I know . It is genuine? The Suitor-My love is as genuine as the otush on your cheek. The Coquette-Bother the love! I mean the ring.-Chicago Daily News. Apprehension. Employer-Yes, I know! They claim that our goods were not as represented. Didn't we write that our salesman would call on them about the matter? Clerk-Yes; but they don't want him to call. They're afraid he'll sell them more goods!-Puck. Not So Far Behind. Aunt Geehaw (of Hay Corners) Jist think of . it Joshuway! them city wimmin git a noo bonnet every Easter! Uncle Geehaw (soothingly) - Wall, M'riah, you git a noo bonnet about every three or four years yoursef Brooklyn Eagle. The Doctor Preseribed Change. Arabella-George, dear, I want some money. George-Why, I gate you a check yesterday. Arabella-Yes, dear, I know, but the doctor said I was to have plenty of change.-ChicagO Inter Ocean. A Correct Guess. "I guess it's time to go." he said. And started. "You've guessed it," she replied. And so They parted. -Detroit Free Press. HE KNEW TO HIS SORROW. "Htow's your father to-day, Tom my?" "He's jest as strong as ever."-Den