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TALMAGS SERNUN. In Which He Shows the Tendency to Bxcuse Brilliant Faults. In this discourse Dr. Talmage shows that there is a tendency to excuse bril liant faults because they are brilliant, when the same law of right and wrong ought to be applied to high places and low; text, Daniel iv, 33, 'The same hour was the thing fulfilkd upon Nebu chadnezz r, and he was driven from men and did eat grass as ;xen." Here is the mightiest of the Bhbylon ish kings. Look at him. He did more for the grandeur of the capital than did all his predecessors or suec e;sor3. Hang ing gardens, reservoirs, aqueducts, pa! sies, all of his own 1annirg. The bricks that are brought up today from the ru'ne of Babylon have his naue on them, "NebuchadnEZZ r, son of Nabo polassor, king of Bab;ion." lie was a great conqueror. He stretched forth his spear toward a nation, and it surrender ed. But he plundered the temple of the true God. He lifted an idol, Bel Mercdach, and compelled the people to bow down before it, and if they re fused they must go through the redhot furnace cr be crunched by lion or lion ess. So God pulkd him down. He was smitten with what physicians call lycanthropy am-d fancied that he was a wild beast, and he went out and pas tured amid the cattle. God did not ex cuse him because he had committed the sin in high places or because the trans gression was wide resounding. Hemeas ured Nebuchadnezzar in high places jost as he would measure the humblest cap tive. . But in our time, you know as well as I, that there is a disposition to put a halo around iniguity if it is committed in 3onspieuous place and if it is wide re sounding and of large proportions. Ever and rnon there has been an epidemic of crime in high places, and there is not a state or city and hardly a village which has not been called to look upon as tounding forgery or an absconding bank cashier or president or the wasting of trust fund or swindling mortgages. I propose in carrying out the sugges tion of my text, as far as I can, to seat ter the fascinations around iniquity and show you that sin is sin and wrong is wrong whether in high place or low place and that it will be dealt with by that God who dealt with impalaced Nebuchadnezzar. All who preach feel that two kinds of sermons are necoessary, the one on the faith of the gospel, the other en the morality of the gospel. and the one is just as important as the other, for you know that in this land today there are hundreds of men hiding behind the com munion tables and in churches of Jesus Christ who have no business to be there as professors of religion. They expect to be all right with God, although they are all wrong with man. And, while I want you to understand that by the deeds of the law no flesh living can be jastified and a-mere honest life cannot enter us into heaven. I want you as plainly to understand that unless the life is right the heart is not right. Grace in the heart and grace in the life;so we must preach sometimes the faith of the gospel and sometimes the morality of the gospel. It seems to me there has not been a time in the last 50 years when this lat ter truth needed more thoroughly to be presented in the Amistican churches. It needs to be preeented today. A missionary in the islands of the Pa cific preached one Sabbath om honesty and dishonesty, and on Monday he found his yard full of all styles of goods which the natives had brought. He could not understand it until a native told him. ' Our gods permit us to pur loin goods but the God you toldus about yesterday, the God of heaven and earth, it seema, is against these pran' ices, and so we brought all the goods that do not belong to us, and they are lying in the yard and we want you to help us to dis tribute them among their rightful owner And if in all the pulpits of the United States today rousing sermons could be preaehed on honesty and the evils of dishonesty and the sermons were blessed of God and arrangements could be made by which all the gocds which have been improperly taken from one man and ap propriated by another should be put in the city halls of the country there is not a city hall in the United States that would not be crowded from cellar to on pola. Faith of the gespel; that we must preach and we do preaeh. Morality of the gospel we must just as certainly pro claim. Now, look abroad and see the fasci nations that are thrown around differ ent styles of crime. The question that byery man and woman has been asked has bee,-Should crime be excusel be cause it is on a large scale? Is imiquity guilty and to be pursued of the law in proportion as it is on a small scale? Shall we have the penitentiary for the man who stealsan overcoat from a hat rack and all Canada for a man to range in if he have robbed the public of mil lions? . Look upon all the fascinations thrown around fraud in this country. You know for years men have been made neroes of and pictorialized and in various ways presented to the public as though some times they were worthy'of admiration if they have scattered the funds of banks or swallowed great estates that did not beo to them. Our young men have been aed with this quick accumula tion. They have said: "That's the way to do it. What's the use of our plodding on with small wages or insig nificant salary when we may go into business life and with some stratagem achieve such a fortune as that man has achieved?" A different measure has been applied to the crime of Wall street from that which has been applied to the spoils which the man carries up Rat alley. So a peddler came down from New England many years ago, took hold of the money market of New York, flaunt ed his abominations in the sight of all the people, defied public morals every day of his life. Young men looked up and said: "He was a peddler in one decade, and in the next decade he is one of the monarchs of the stock mar ket. That's the way to do it." To this day the evil influence of that profligate has been felt, and within the past few weeks he has had conspicuous imita tors. There has been an irresistible im pression going abroad among young men that the poorest way to get money is to earn it. The young man of flaunting cravat says to the young man of humble apparel: "What, you only get $1,800 a year? Why, that wouldn't keep me in pin money. I spend $7>,000 a year." "'Where do you get it?" asks the plain young man. "Oh, stocks, enterprises -all that sort of thing, you know." The plain young man has hardly enough money to pay his board and has to wear clothes af ter they are out of fashion and deny himself all luxuries. After awhile he gets tired of his plodding, and he gs es to the man who has achiev ed suddenly large estate, and he says. "Just show me how it is done." And e is show. He soon learns how, and. although he is slmost all the tins idle now and has resigned his position in the bank cr the factory or the store, he has more money than he ever had, trades off hie old silver watch for a gold one with a flashing chain, sets his hat a little farth r over on the side of his head than he ever diid, smokes better eigars and more of them. He has his hand in! Now, if be can escape the penitentiary for three or four years he will get into political circ'.es, ani he will get political jobs and will have something to do with harb >rs and pave ments and docks Now he has got so far along he is safe for perdition. It is quite a long road sometimes for a man to trsvel before he gets into the romance of crime. Those are caught who are only in the prosaic stage of it. If the sheriff and contabies would only leave them alone a little while, they would steal as well as anybody. They might not be able to steal a whole rail road, but they could master a load of pig iron. Now, I always thank God when I find an estate like that go to smash. It is plague struck, and it blasts the na tion. I thank God when it goes into such a wreck it can never be gathered up again. I want it to become so loathsome and such an insufferable sterch that honest young men will take warning. If God should put into money or its representative the capaci ty to go to its lawful owner, there would not be a bank or a safety deposit in the United States whose walls would not be blown out and mortgages would rip and parcbments would rend and gold would shoot and beggars would get on horseback and steck gamblers would go to the almshouse. So there has been a great deal of fas cination thrown around libertinism. Sceiety is very severe upon the impuri ty that lurks around the alleys and low haunts of the town. The law pursues it, smites it, incarcerates it tries to de stroy it. You know as well as I that soc'ety becomes lenient in proportion as impurity becomes affi lent or is in elevat d circles, and fi sally society is silent or disposed to palliate. Where is the judge, the jary, the police officer that dare arraign the wealthy libertine? He walks the streets, he rides the parks. he flaunts his iniquity in the eyes (f the pure. The hag of unlean ness looks out of the tapestried window. Where is the law that dares take the brazen wretches and put their faces in an iron frame of a state priEon window? Sometimes it seems tome as if scole ty were going back to the state of morals of Herculaneam, when it sculp tured its vileness on pillars and temple wall and nothing but the lava of a burning mountain could hide the im mensity of crime. At what time Gol will rise up and extirpate these evils upon society I know not, nor whether he will do it by fire or hurricane or earthquake; but a holy God I do not think will stand it much longer. I be lieve the thu-iderbolts are hissing hot and that when God comes to chastise the c )mmunity for these sins, against which he has uttered himself more bit terly than against any other. the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah will be toler able as. compared with the fate of our modern society, which knew better, but did worse. We want about 10.000 pulpits in Americs to thunder, "All adulterers and whoremongera shall have their place in the hell that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death." It is hell on ea-eth and hell forever. We have got to undeed" that iniquity on Co-"- - or Fih 'venue or JB2. mil is as damn able in the b;ght of God as it is in the slums. Whetiier it has canopied couch of eider down or dwells amid the put ridity of a low tenement house. God is after it in his vengeance. Yet the pulpit of the Christian church has been so cowed down on this subj set that it hardly dares speak, and men are al most apologetic when they read the Ten Commandments. Then look at the fascinations thrown around assassinations, There are in all communities men who have taken the lives of others unlawfully, not as exe ctioners of the law, and they go scot free. You say they had their provoca tions. God gave life, and he alone has a right to take it, and he may take it by visitation of providence or by an ex ectioner of the law, who is his mes senger. But when a man assumes that divine prerogative he touches the low est depth of crime. Society is alerz for certain kinds of murder. If a citizen going along the road at night is waylaid and slain by a robber, we all want the villain arrested and executed. For all garroting, for all beating out of life by a club or an ax or a slung-shot, the law has quick spring and heavy stroke, but you krnow that when men get affluent and high position and they avenge their wrongs by taking the lives of others, great sympathy is excited, lawers plead, ladies weep, judge halts, jury is bribed and the man goes free. If the verdict happen to be against him, a new trial is called on through some technicality, and they adjourn for witnesses that never come, and adjourn and adjourn until the com munity has forgotten all about it, and then the prison door opens and the mur derer goes free. Now, if capital punishment be right, I say let the life of the polished mur derer go with the life of the vulgar as sassin. Let us have no partiality of gallows, no aristocracy of electrocution chair. Do not let us float back to oar barism, when every man was his own judge, jury and executioner, and that man had the supremacy who had the strongest arm and the quickest step and the stealthiest revenge. He who will fully and in hatred takes the life of another is a murderer, I care not what the provocation or the circumstances. He may be cleared by an enthusiastic courtroom, he may be sent by the gov ernment of the United States as minis ter to some foreign court, or modern literature may polish the crime until it looks like heroism; but in the sight of God murder is murder, and the judg ment day will so reveal it. There are hundrads of young men who have good blood. Shall I ask three or four plain questions? Are your habits as good as when you left your father's house? Have you a pool ticket in your pocket? Have you a fraudu lea document? Have you been ex perimenting to see how accurate an imi tation you could make of your em ployer's signature? Oh, you have good blod. Remember your father's prayer3. Remember your mother's example. Turn not in an evil way. Have you been going astray? Come back. Have you ventured out too far? As I stand in pulpits looking over audienes sometimes my heart fails me. There are so many tragt dies present, so many who have sacrificed their integ rty, so many far away from God. Why, my brother, there have been two -many prayers offered for you to have you go overboard. And there are those ven turing down into sin, and my heart aches to call them back. At Brighton Beach or Long Branch you have seen men go down into the surf to bathe, and they waded out farther and farther, and you got anxious they can swim?" And you then stood it shouted: "Come back! Come bacs! You will b drowned!" They waved their haud back, saying, "No langer." They kept on wading deeper I iown and farther out from shore, until ifter awhile a groat wave with a strong rndrtow took them out, their corpses he next day washed on the beach. 8. [ see men wading down into sin farther mad farther. 2d I call to them: "Come back! Come back! You will be lost! You will b3 lost! ' They wave their band back, saying, "No danger; no langer." Deeper down and deep--r lown, until after awhile a wave sweeps hem out and sweeps them off forever. Di, come bacl! The one farthest away may come. "Oh," you sty, "You don't know where I come from; you don't know what my history has been; you don't know what iniq iiy I have plotted. 1 E have gone through the whole catalogue f hin." My brother, I do not know the sto:y, but I tell you thi+-:he door of mercy is wide (pen. "Though yo ur Z tins be as scarlet, they shall be as ,now, I they shall ba as wool." rhonh you ] bad been pollated with the worst of 4 rimes, though you have been smi:ten with the worst of leprosies, though you E bave been fired with all evil passions, E this momect on your brow, hot with E iniquitcui indulgence, may be set the ] a sniog coronet of a Saviour's forgive nesS. Pleased with the news, the saints below In songs their tongues employ; Beyond the sky the tidings go, and heaven is filed with joy. N)r angels can their joy contain, Bat kindle with new fire; The sinner lost is found they sing, And strike the sounding lyre. THE WE&THER AND CROPS. ] The Weekly Bulletin of General Crop Condition. The following is the weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and rops issued last week by Director Bh uer of the South Carolina section of the climate and crop service of the United States weather bureau: The average temperature for the week ending 8 a. m., Mond sy, July 2.1, f was 80 degrees, or practically normal, with a maximum of 97 at Batesburg, i.nd a minimum of 66 at Greenville. The average sunshine was below nor anal, and more sunshine would have been beneficial in the north border counties. High winds broke down much corn in a few counties, on the 14sh. The rainfall ranged from less than half an inch to over five inches, the former in the central portions of the State, and central Savannah valley. The larger amount fell in Marlboro and Newberry counties, while over the eastern, northeastern, northern, and extreme western counties the rainfall I was generally excessive, the damaging 1 to crops by floding bottoms and low lands, and by preventing much cultiva Lion. A few points had insufficient rainfall, and there crops are suffering 1 and did not improve, but over the larger pordion of the State the weather was 4 avorable on growing crops, causing a general and in places a marked im provement in their condition. Cotton improved throughout the I Sate, and, while still very small so growiog fast and i-' a trnit" ~ . - .,. In a few sec. .uus it is heavily fruited, while some 4 young cotten hs not begun to bloom. T he outlook for this crop is decidely < better than heretofore, although some fields remain grassy, and all of it needs more cuitivation, but over the eastern,< northeastern, and portions of the 4 northern counties the ground was too I wet for oulttvation. Sea islands con tinues to blight in spots.1 jibrly corn is a failure in many a places, and, although somewhat im < proved, is very poor generally. It is maturing rapidly in the eastern por tions of the State. Young corn, espe-4 cially that planted on stubble lands,4 tooks quite promising. O2 river bot Loms, where usually the lnest oorn isi raised, the crop will amount to prac-4 ticaly nothing. Tobacco shared in the general im provement, and in places nas startedi new growth that will delay cutting, but cutting and curing Isade fair pro gress, and some has been marketed. f Sweet potatoes look promising, some I slips still being; set out, while in Char I eston county some fisids are ready toC dig and to market. Rice is excellent, but caterpiliars are destroying uplandi rice in Hampton couaty. Pdas came < cp to good stands: some sections re port more than the usual acreage sown I to peas, others less. Sugar cane and 1 pastures are got d. Melons are gener sily poor. Tnerc is widespread com t plant of peaches and grapes rotting. The Month of August. The following data, coverng a periodr f 14 years, have been compiled fromC he weather bureau records at Colum ia for the month of August: Mean or nor nal temperature 80 de- 1 rees. I The warmest month was that of 1900, with an average of 85 degrees. 3 The coldest month was that of 1899, with an average of 76 ddgrees. The highest temperature was 106 de ~ress on August 20th, 1900.t The lowest temperature was 56 de ;rees on August 30th, 1896. 1 Average date on which first "killing" c rost orcared in autumn, November 5 f Average date on which first "killing" I rost occured in spring, March 23. ] Average for the month, 6 85 inebes.1 Average number of days with .01 of r n inch or more, 12. The greatest monthly precipitation t was 9.85 inches in 1898 The least monthly precipitation was C ).61 inches in 1900. 1 Tue greatest amount of precipitation ~ ecorded in any 24 consecutive hours I was 4 30 inches on August 27th and a 8th, 1893. Average number of clear days, 11; t partly cloudy days, 12; cloudy days, 8. The prevailing winds have been from he southwest. A Foxy Skipper. A tug boat, while cruising off Sandy Eook Monday, fell in with the Bar entine Mannie S wane from San JuanC Puerto Rico, with about 1,200 tons of 1 ug.r on board. The tug hailed the wann, which declined to be towed into port. Capt. Higgins explained that be would stand "oc and off" this port antil Friday, when he will enter with is vessel. He said that in remaining utside he would save the consignees of ois cargo many thousands of dollars be-c 3ause tomorrow President McKinley's prolamation declaring the establish nent civil government in the territory >f Pareto Rico goes into fefiet and this nanuifesto will institute tree trade be seen the Island and the United ' states A little five year old boy was killed d y lightning in Chester last Saturday. ~ rho bolt came in the open window, a Ead the window been closed down there ~ would ha been no danger.b WORTH KNOWING. 3w thaBites of R ittksnbkis ar d Mad Dogs May BE RENDERED HARMLESS rhe Rev. Hugh F. Oliver Tells of a P~arfect Antidote, Cans:st ing of Sal', Onions and Tob -cco. To the Eiitor of .The Sandny News: .bout five years ago the Atlanta Con titution published a letter from an daeated Indian residing in Indian [erritory, which was inspir:d by the hilanthropie desire to mate generally amiliar the Indians' immemorial emedy for the bite of a snake or mad og. The claim wai maie that a perfect antidote exists in the combination of alt, onions and tobacco beaten together ni applied to the wound. [f us--d im nediately atd renewed every half hour to swelling would ensue and recovery rould be rapid ard complete. He stated hat this history of treatment had been niformly true, the observation and ecollection of no Indian being to the ontrarv. According to this Indian tradition, oing back to remote generations, in hese homely simples a perfect remedy s provided against death in two of the ost awful forms that can distress and Lestroy us. Not all the places of hu an habitation are marked by the trail i serpents, but the bark of the dog is oterminous with the voice of man and pis ever possible is an ever-present hreat of an unspeakable calamity to very human heing. It is peculiarly fortunate that the in ;redients of this infallible cure are al ost alway. close to the hand of even he poorest among us. Every humble ;itchen may thus become a Pasteur in titute and the most unoultured can eadily be a staff of skilful and success ul practitioners. Since we are scientifi ,ally sure that he poisonous, death-dealing secretions rhien infest the animal bitten are trongly acid in their nature we have uggested immediately the free use ooaly and internally of strong alkalis loda, salt, borax, ammonia, sweet and live oils have been used with marked uccess in oases of snake bite. Nor hould we forget the cmmon people's ,bsolute faith in alcoholic liquors and obacoo as remedies for snake bite. Dr. James Erans informs the writer, rho records it as a curious fact which Pill doubtlesely interestmany, that the oison of our rattlesnakes has been ound to be the efficient and most reli ,ble antidote to the poi-on of the cobra. or the bits of the rattlesnake in loeali ies naturally infested, there grows a lant vulgarly named rattlesnake master. ,hich inidi sates the purpose of its Exist noe by a flewer bearing the shape of a attlesnake's opened mouth, with fangs eady to strike. A tea is made of the ntire plant and given freely to the un ortunate sufferer. * - ~ .L Vr a.1dWPUoBIA, Biut this prolonged prologue must ome to ar. end that we may give earn it heed .to a proposed plan, a suggested >ossibility, of a world- wide preventive f hy d:oghobia. Dout tlessiy some eader is ready to surmise the repetition f the ree.)mmendation to cut off every og's tail immediately behind the dog's ars. Not~ so, for the writer recogn z es hat that recominendation is as im ractible r~s it is supremely wise. If >eople will not have laws to limit the xIansion of dogdom and so enlarge the lomains of the harmless and helpful heep, which touch directly the pocket erve, it is vain to hope that decrees of xtermination against the dogs will ver issue from any law-making body of en for the protectien of the bipeds of hom, in these strange, faithless days, very new bor, biped's father and nother with true cynical Malthusian en husiasm, is ready to say that the world s even now too full. The subjeoct mataer of the proposed >reventive will prove to be an exempli tation, but of the most extraordinary :ind, of the often quoted, but of tener orgot and seldom practiced maxim: An unce of prevention is worth a pound of ure. Not toc delay longer, in plain ords it is credibly declared that a dog an be sterilized by an easy and almost ainless surgical operation, so that ever a germ of hpdrophobia will be ed in his boly. Should this allega ion be proven then the imagination of he greatest poet or painter could not roperly portray, with brush or pen, he relief from anxiety of the most dis resing kind that would be given to the ace of man. Were it made only by egraded savages, even then the most minently leartied should vie with one nother in ascertaining even a possi. ile medicum of. truth therein con ained. But it is made on the basis of n-Iubitable preofs by some of the most )ec table peo ple in South Carolina. Ahese are the Langstons, whose fami y has lived for a century and a half our miles from Elim Church, which is hree miles west of Effingham on the fortheastern Railway, and is the hal owe:i spot where Luther Rice, the omjanion of Adoniram Judson and ounder of Columbian University, reached his last sermon. Erwin iangston, a me nber of this church, rhen he died in Deember, 1898, had eached the great age of 86 years and 3 nonths. His mind was unclouded to he last and his remarkable memory ad never been known to lose its grip n a fact. The respect of all who new him grew with acquaintance to eneration, which became eventually lended with the tenderness of devoted fletion. A few moraths before his death he old his pastor, the writer of this and ti the pastor of his children and randchildren and great-grandchildren, hat he regarded it a crima too great to e described or denominated that hu ian beings should be exposed to the anger of hydrophobia when every dog ould be easily rendered perfectly harm ess in that regard. Having worn, as id Prices Albert, through his long rat of years, "the white flower of a lameless life," and being known to ossess rare powers of observation and sollection, he could make no state ient as to facts coming within his per onal knowledge that would rnot comn and the attention and curt the faith any ',ho knew him. This testimony :ceorporated within itself that of his reat-grandfather, his grandfather, his ther, and through the family tradi ions ev-en that of remoter ancestors, as ell as that of every one of his sons. ns-in law and many of his neighbore, the effect that an operation upon a og's tcngue, when properly performed, rould protect the dog himself against 11 otiher dogs, and all other animals ginsti him, in the matte of hydropho THE MODUS Oi'EBANDI 'Is has always boen the custom of our family and their connections," said the venerable man with great emphasis upon the note of time, "to operate on every dog we had, and when a young fellow got permission to marry one of our girls he was told at the same time that he must learn how not to have any mad dogs around before the houiekeep ing started. And when a made dcg came along our way we just set our dogs after him and they didn't take long to make a g o 1, safa dog out of him." "Bat some of them must lave got bit whale they were killing him." "Didn't amount to a row of pins. We ] just put tar and grease on the bit spol5 s when they came back home and gat e them an extra fine dinner that day be sides."1 ' Bit were y' u not afraid of them aft rward. ?" "Why, no! for we knew that every blessed, sweet mouthed son of a bitch had had the worm taken out from un der his tongue." . Then he described the operation with the greatest minuteness and it is great ly to be regretted that his words were not written down immediately after. A stake is made firm in the ground. The dog is grasped by the back of the neck and by the hind leg?, and thrown on his side. hlis mouth is then pressed open and kept open by means of the stake. The tongue is lifted by the operator and "at the bottom," near the root, and in the centre he finds a "a I ridge," which he "slits" lengthwise with a sharp knife. This slitting dis- 1 closes what is called "the worm," wh ch closely resembles a yellow hammer's tongue. Under one end of this he runs a shoemaker's awl, seizes the loos. ened end and deftly jerks out "the worm,' the head and front of all the dog's possible offences in the matter of hydrophobia Unlike the serpent's poison sack this "worm" never returns. 4 Erwin Langston's testimony, tradi tional and experimental, covers at least two hun red years. His sons, Spencer, Ban and Joe, live at and around the old homestead, and the experience, which I is by no means limited and embraces an average of forty years, corroborates and confirms in every particular the testimony of their honored father. They are not much accustomed to the use of the pen, preferring to "hitch up 1 and pay a visit" rather than write a letter, bat they wo-ald cheerfully an swer, for the sake of humanity, any questions in reason that may be asked them. Their postoffieis Etim. S. 0. Hush F. Oliver, Florence, S. C. A MURDEROUS MNDMAN. He Killa One Man and Wounds Five Others Michael Kelley, an insane man, Wednesday at the office of the Robert Garrett Lumber company, in the busi ness district, of Leavenworth, Kansas, shot six people, killing one, probably fatally wounding another, and more or less seriously wounding four others. He was himseR finally killed by officers who tried to over power him. The vie time: John R. Garrett, aged 40, junior member of thg firm of Robert Garrett IT-'' ..,sjay, diied at hospital. Dr. Mc~rnee, aged 30, shot in back and probably fatally wounded. Police Sergeant Win. Dodge, shot in1 neck, wound serious. Michael McDonald, detective, shot in leg; slight. Jos. Falthager, policeman, shot in hand; wound slight. Ike Healt y, a laborer, shot in the hand. Kelley had lived in Leavenworth for years and at different times had en gaged in minor business enterprisee.] He was arrested and adjudged insane, (.arrett and four others testifying1 against him. After a year in - the To peka asylum Kelly was released. He had been acting queerly again and had declared that he would kill the five men who sent him to the asylum, For two weeks past he has been practicing shooting with a revolver daily at the Fort Leavenworth range. Wednesday night he drank heavily.] Soon after 12 o'clock Wednesday he appeared at Garret's office and without warning shot Garrett as he sat at his desk. Garrett fell to the floor and Kel~y deliberately fired four more shots into the prostrate form. L~aving his victim for dead, Kelly ran to the rear of the company's lumber yard and be gan reloading his revolver. P~rsently he returned to the offie to fiad Dr. Mb~ee, who had been attracted by the shooting, -bending over Garrett. L:vel ing his revolver, Kelly took aim at the physician and fired. The bullet struck Mc~ee in the spine and he toppled over near where Garrett lay. Tnena follo wed an exciting street fight between the mad man and officers who came upon the scene. Kelley, flouribh-] ing his revolver, dashed through thc lumber yard. He met Ike Resley, a laborer, and shot him in the hand. A few yards further on he encountered Sergeant Dodge. The two exohansgec. s' ots as they ran. One bullet from Kelley's revolver struck Dodge in the ..eek, but not before that <fficar had shot him in the shoulder. Kelley kept running and was. soon confronted by Dateotive McDonald and Officar Fal thager. McDonald dropped Kelley with a bullet in the neck. Dodge raised his revolver but it failed to work and catching up with the murderer, he crushed his skull with the weapon. Kelly was carried to the station in an unconscious condition. He died soon after his arrival there. Garrett did not regain consciousness and died an hour' after being taken to the hospital. Dr. McGee is still suffer ing. seriously and it is believed he can not recover Dodge's wonnd is not con sidered fatal, while the wounds of the others are slight. Euchred. "Eliphalet," said she, reproachfully, t "I do not approve of such extrava gance. Now, when Alfonso calls, he is sensible, and does not come loaded . down vtith ex'pensive flowers." "Henrietta," s;aid he, calmly, "it is generally understood that a knave can't win a queen unless he is one of f the bowers." ( "You are both knaves," she mur niured, coyly, "but you are the right bower and he-is left," and with these words she melted into his arms. Town Topics.t rn the Children's Playground. t Muriel Mulligan-Rlupert Rafferty .5 wanted me ter elope wit' him yestiddy i afternoon. Fifi Flannigan-Why didn't yer? Muriel Mulligan-I wuz afraid I ~ wouldn't git back in time fer supper. Town TopIcs. In Kentuckey. The Colonel-*It's amazin' how the children growl It seems like yester- " day when that boy of yours was a baby. The Major-That's so! I can hardly 3 realize tha't he's carryin' his own cork- r An Important Ruling Rural mail carries must at tend strictly to business. They will not be allowed to have any side line as has sometimes been the case. They must carry mail and nothing else. The post master general has made the order in regard to the traffic car ried on by carries in the rural ree delivery service more dras ic than was at first supposed. Every form of outside work, with one single exception, is prohibited. Carriers will be per nitted to take subscriptions for 7ewspapers and periodicals, and f any commission is allowed for his they may enjoy it. A strenu >us effort has been made by publishing houses that enjoy he pound rates of postage to nave their circulars and adver ising mather also classed as an exception, but the department ias ruled against this on the round that to permit the car ies to distribute such circulars n the hope of getting some com >ensation for themselves is working directly against the re venues of the postoffice depart neut. The department officials hink that if the publishing iouses want to distribute adver ising matter they better do so hrough the mails in the regular and legitmate way. The reports oming to the department from nspectors detailed to look up special cases of excessive activ ty in outside work by carriers .n the rural free delivery show Ilso another flagrant violation )f the policy of the department. [t was found that many carriers iad made an arrangement with xpress companies and had small igns nailed on their mail wagons, such as "Adams Ex )ress Company," "United States Express Company," etc. lhe arrangement in such cases vas to make the carriers feeders ,he express companies and they were allowed usually a commis sion of 15 per cent. for all busi 1ess originating along their outes through their agency. this, again, works directly igainst the interests of the de partment, patrons often sending articles by express which might )therwise go by mail. So every ;,ass of business has been ruled )ut, with the single exception of subscription for periodicals. this is justified on the ground that the postal service is intend d to disseminate knowledge. We Feed the World. The failure, or even the seri >us cutting off of any staple crop >f this country is a calamity not ~o our own people alone but to bhe world. Other nations are de pendent upon the United States on a large part of their food supply and are becoming more o0 every year. Agricultural >roduction in this country is so ~ar in excess of our domestic 1eeds that many million of for signers look to it for their sup lies. No other nation ever had such a great surplus of food pro lucts every year. Twelve coun bies each bought over $10,000, )00. worth of our farm products ast year. The United Kingdom alone ook of them to the value of $408.000,000 and Germany $134, 300).000~ worth. The amount of >ur sales of .agricultural pro lucts to other nations was as fol ows: .France, $4,000,000; Bel ~ium, $31,000,000; Italy,$24,000, )00; Canada, $21,000,000; Ja pan, $15,000,000; Denmark, $15, )00,000; Spain,$10,600,000; Cuba, $14,000,000; British Africa,,$10, ~00,000. Europe is by far the argest purchaser of our agri sultural products having pur ~hased last year $739,000,000 worth. The importance of American igriculture to the outside world s impressively illustrated this rear. We have the greatest yield >f wheat ever known in any ~ountry. Our combined crops f spring and winter wheat will ~xceed 700,000000 bushels vastly nore than we can consume and ~urope will have to import more wheat than ever before. The wheat crop of France is nearly 00,000,000 bushels short. Ger nany has an even greater rela ive shortage. The crops in Rus ia and the Balkan countries 1ave also suffered severely. ~urope will pay us an immense mount of money for wheat and >ther agricultural products this rear probably more than we aver received from her before >n that account. Bryan's Position In view of the persistent de laration that Mr Bryan is back ng the Ohio Democrats who >ropose holding another con rention and putting up a bolt ng State ticket we quote his own vords as printed in the current iumber of The Commoner: "Mr. Cilbourne, the nominee for gov rnor, is an excellent inan, a ife-long Democrat and an ac ive supporter of the national icket in both 1896 and 1900. He s better than his ulatform. He eserves an should receive the "ote of every Democrat in Ohio. f any of the Ohio Democrats eel aggrieved because the re ~rganizing element of the arty triumphed at the conven ion let them not visit their dis ppointment upon the State icket but rather see to the nomi aation of senators and represen atives who will select a turst orthy senator. Let them see to t also that the State platform s made the primaries next time ather than at the convention, f the voters at the primaries had astructed their delegates to. in ist upon the reaffirmation of the Eansas City platform the result vould have been different." his shows where Mr. Bryan tands, and should silence those ho have so presistently mis epresented his position in re rene to the Ohio election. If ITHE FOUNT OF YOUTH. he fount of youth has oft been sought Since days of long ago, And oft in fancy men have seen Its living waters flow. Through desert, swamp and wilderness The search has been pursued, In hope that by the magic fount Youth's charms might be renewed. But men have turned from that vain quest, Their hopes forever crushed; For though they searched through all the world No magic fountain gushed. And men resigned themselves to age That robbed them of their grace, That sapped their strength and thickly spread Time's wrinkles on the face. In later years men's thoughts have turned To plans for longer- life, And in elixirs~ they have sought New strength for daily strife. - And oft 'tis heralded abroad That scientist or sage Has finally evolved a plan To stay the blight of age. But men grow old, and women, too, As in the days of yore, - For no elixirs they have tried Their youthful charms restore. And as they can't deceive themselves Some seek to hide the truth, And dye and bleach their hair and paint On cheeks the hues of youth. The fount of youth is in each heart, And those who keep it pure Will longer hold the charms of youth And length of life secure. And when at last that fountain fails, And old age on them steals, They'll bear it well because no man Is older thin he feels. -Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Brooks No. 3013 By Jessie Llewellyn. (copyright, 3y0s, by Authors Syndicate.) F OR eight years I had occupied the position of resident physician at the state penitentiary at S-, and for the first time my position meant much to me. This was owing to a romance which had begun to blossom for me within the austere prison walls. She was the warden's niece, beautiful and frail, who had but recently taken up her abode among us, acting as secre tary to her uncle. The interest was mutual, for Pauline did not frown upon my suit, and I was on my way to the warden to ask his sanction of our union when I met him in the corridor crumpling a telegram in his hand. Per emptorily detaining me, he explained that he was leaving the city immediate ly on urgent business, and that as the deputy was ill I would be compelled to act in his place. Accordingly I started on. my rounds of inspection at once with no word of the subject nearest my heart. I went first to the brush shop, where a re-v man was overseeing the work, and was detained there some time by the ap parent unrest and disorder. Thoughts of this place had, at the warden's first instructions, caused me misgivings which grew to positive ap prehensions when Brown, the new man, called me aside and reported a convict by the name of Brooks for rank in subordination. This Brooks was a life man and a particularly bad one. He had given us no end of trouble during the ten months he had been in. He was a. mulatto and seemed to have all the bad blood of both races in his veins. All my qualms were confirmed that evening when, just as Pauline and I were leaving the building for a quiet stroll about the campus, a "trusty" in formed me of Brooks' escape. He had removed one of the great flags in the floor of the solitary and had slipped underneath. Pauline was pale and trembling when I left her to begin the search for this black monst er. -Fearing he would fire the building before we could discover him, I hastily summoned to my' aid two faithful trusties whom we had dubbed "Hanks" and "Blondie." I decided to go under the floor by a trap door in the farthest end of the west wing and to .search every foot of the ground as far as the new celihouse; from there we would have to proceed more carefully, as that part of the foundation was cut up by many stone cross walls. There was so little room between ground and rafters that we could not crawl on hands and knees, but for the most part. had to wriggle along on our chests and elbows. Hanks carried a lantern on my right and Blondie carried one on my left, while I covered the rough middle ground between. It was not an easy place to search, for the great steam mains, which ran from engine-room to kitchens and radiators, were eve~'y where overhead. Then there were two cross wails through which holes had been drilled barely large enough to pass a man. At last we reached the thick wall which separates the new from the old building. This wall was nearly two feet thick, but had the usual opening into the new cellhouse.. Pushing Hlanks' lantern before me, I attempted to set it upon solid ground on the other side of the wall, but found to my surprise that the excavation was at least 18 inches lower than the ground where we lay. As I reached far out I kn ew I had misse d my calculation and felt the lantern slip from my fin gers. I could not regrasp it. Of course it. did not stay right side up. I hastily started' to squeeze myself through the ole, in order to set it upright, but the opening was too small to pass my shoul ders, and soon the little blue and yel low flames were shooting back into the kerosene. yust above this . flame was the oil soaked floor of the new cellhouse. It 1 was about noon, and 250 men were J probably eating in their cells on the second and third floors; there were 00 more in the old building. Would ) the guards discover the fire in time to get out the men? Who would let i them out? Would there not be a panic < and men running like sheep over the fields? Worst of all, what would be e was a resident of Ohio he would vote the Dmocratic ticket traight. ,Domestie Joyu. Meeks-My wife prefers coffee for breakfast and I prefer tea. Weeks-Then I suppose you have both? "Oh, no; we compromise." "In what way?" "We compromise on coffee."-Chica go Daily News. Very Streaky. "Say, Pebbles, dis is fortune, sure. [ leaned up agin a house an' got a streak of paint on me old coat. Den e lady come out an' gimme one of er husband's good coats.''" "Dat must have been a streak of uck, Cinders."-Chicago Daily News. Heavy Branches of Manufacture. We have more than 40 branches of nanufacture in the United States vhich each turn out annually more han $50,000,000 worth of products, ad of the .*0 five turn out over $500,3 00000 nnach,-...ndustrial Journal. tie fate of Pauline a1ibng these de peradoes? I closed my eyes, tryi to shut out the mental picture. The I calculated the cost of rewards to paid for escaped convicts, andlastly th probable cost of property destroyed and all this through my carelessness. But I would not live to witness the awul consequences. I resolved to stay, there until the fire was out, or to per ish in my struggle against it. In the flickering light of our single lantern, the two anxious faces of the silenced men stood out strangely against the background of murky gloom. "Blondie," my voice sounded strange and muffled, "get out of here as fast as you can. Go around through the new cellhouse; have Shafter let you through the east trap door; then you two crawl through on the other side as fast as you can; you may be in time to put out the lantern!" "Now, Hanks, you go to the turn key;. tell him to get all the men out of their cells. I'll stay here to watch the fire; besides, I must wait to di rect Blondie." The men quickly disappeared in the darkness, and I was alone. Y think I prayed a little, for this fire light was the last light I ever expected to see. Then, as in answer to my prayer, an idea shot into consciousness-throw my heavy sweater over the lantern. and smother the fame. -o Holding the sweater before me, I thrust my arms into the hole-one, two, it swung and landed squarely; my aim was true; this would hold the fire till help came, or possibly ex tinguish it. The ease with which I got into the hole this time made me believe that without coat and sweater I could crawl through. Holding my arms close to my sides, I started to work my shoulders into the hole. It was much easier than"_ before, and in a minute or two my" head projected beyond. Now I stopped for a moment's rest, and to: ook around me. I could see but a3 short distance into the gloom, -&3d then everything blended into black. The lantern was completely covered by the sweater and emitted only-s very faint light. h t Suddenly my heart gave a great throb, for over to my right I thought I saw a shadow move. It could not be a friend, or he would have sp ., surely then it must. be that blaek devil. For a moment I could not stir but riveted my eyes upon the silent, retreating figure. Then searcely knowing what I did, or why, I-was possessed with the spirit of panic-r I struggled frantically to escape from my perilous position; but while more sane and orderly efforWi might have been successful, thi many twists and turns caught my shoulders under a pipe fixture, and I was wedged fast. Even that faint, fading- light nust have shown my face as a picture of struggling terror, for I saw that form again emerge from the other shadows and plunge toward me on hands and knees. It was hei I heard his inhn chuckle; the whites of his eyes rolled and gleamed hideously. Then, slow ly, with a malevolent glance toward me and a ghastly laugh, he drew'the sweater along from off the lanterni. Freed from its smothering cover, .the fames leaped out, lighting every cor nr of the little compartment, and outlining the savage figure of the~-~ egro. Undoubtedly he knew of an escape for himself when the heat - grew unbearable. I longed for ashot atthisflimal but my -arms were pinned close; I could only move my ingers aim lessly. With a look of savage triumph, lie eautiously liftedl the blazing mass by means of the sweater and allowed the fames to play around the rafters. [ saw the cobwebs sputter, the little splinters on the rafters caught and burned like tiny matches. In imagination I could smell my singed hair and my burning flesh. The fiend had squatted cross-legge4d on the ground safely beyond the fire and was gloating over my gasping misery. I saw him draw a shining razor from his belt. He began rub bing it back and forth across his - striped legs, and with each fash of the steel he laughed aloud. "The lire will do its work Xfrst, thank God!" I murmured, drowsily, and my head fell forward througy7: sheer exhaustion. Yes, I was dying This numbness was the beginning of - the end. Why did he not come or. with his murderous blade? What~ id the delay mean? Voices sang ini Eny ears. Pauline was speaking. Oh, the music of that voice! "Pauline," I whispered. With des erate energy of the death struggle, [raised my head and stared before "Work or you die!" The words, ;he voice, the dramatic scene are pho ographed on my brain. Brooks was vorking like mad before the fast uccumbing flames. Every muscle of iis giant frame was strained to the ;ask. - "Work, I say, faster, or-" There vas a sharp click. The sound eman ted from a crouching white figure n whose hand gleamed the barrel >f a pistol. Just then another light, [immered through the gloom, and ank's cheery voice rang out: "Keep him covered, Miss Pauline; 'e're comin' with the bracelets; e've got the men calmed down a it"-he kept up a' stream of talk is he approached-"Me and Blondie -no thanks to Brown-" The sentence was finished by snap ing the handcuffs on the negro's vrists, for Brooks had extinguished he fire and was waiting strangely [ocile. Pauline, hearing of my danger fro. 3ondie. had risked her life for mine.. Taking No Chances. Practical Father-Has that young nan who wants to marry you any nny? Romantic Miss-Money! He gave ne a cluster diamond ring studded with pearls. "Yes, I know. Has he any money eft?"-St. Louis Republic. Canadas Wild BuffalO. Canada still has a herd of wild buf al. Traces of the existence of the ~nimals were found in the woods at he west of Slave river. It was ascer ained that the buffalo was being nercilessly hunted and destroyed by he Indians.-Indianapolis News. P4uliar Tendencies. "Do you feel nervous after you have Lad your dinner?"' No; but I'm sometimes nervous intil I know where my dinner is to oe from."-Chicago Record-Herald. - .Iudging by the Others. The Wife-The new cook is very tall, sn't she? -I The Husband--Yes; but it isn't like y she'll stay long.--Town Topics.