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r{URTh UIIAliACTMI{ Folly of Allowing Forebodings of Evil to Influence Action. Dr. Talmage in IIIs Sermon Declares the Life of E.vcry Man, IWOmUan and Child to Ue CloselY Under Divine Care. [Copyr!gbt, tO, by Lctus K'cpsch, N. Y.3 NWashi:gtor., Sept.. & In this discourse Dr. Talinge shows the folly of allowing forebud ings to influence us and how cxpee tation of evil weakens and destroys. Text, Matthew 6:3i: "Suilcielt IUnto the day is the evil thereo:." The life of every =-an, wonian and child is as closely under ivi::e carc as though such pers o were the 011% man, woman or chiki. Therc :ure no accidents. As there ;s a law o' storms in the natural world, so there is a law of trouble, a law of disaster, a law of misfortune; but the majority of the troubles of life are imaginary, and the most of those anticipated never come. At any rate, there is no caUse of dmplaint against God. See how much He has dotne to make you happy, His sunshine filling the earth with glory, inal!g rainbow for the storm and halo for the mountain, greenness for the moss, sairron for the cloud and crystal for the billow and procession of bannered flame through the opening gutes of the morhing, chaftinches to simg, rivers to glitter, seas to chant and springs to blossom, and overpowering all other sounds with its song and over arching all other splendor with its triumph, covering up all other beauty with its garlands and outfiashing all thrones with its dominion-deliver ance for a lost world through the .Great Redeemer. I discourse of the sin of borrow ing trouble. First, such a 'habit of .mind and heart is wrong, because it puts one Into a despondency that ill fits him for duty. I planted two rosebushes in my garden; the one thrived beau tifully, the other perished. I found the dead one on the shady side of the house. Our dispositions. like our plants, need sunshine. Expectancy of repulse is the cause of many sec ular and religious failures. Fear of slander and abuse has often invited all the long-beaLad vultures of scorn and baekbiting. Many of the misfor tunes of life, like hyenas, flee if you courageously meet them. How poorly prepared for religious duty is a man who sits down under the gloom of expected misfortune! If he prays, he says: "I do not think I shall bi answered." If he gives, he says: "I expect they will steal the money." Helen Chalmers told me that her father, Thomas Chalmers, in the darkest hour of the history of the Free church of Scotland and when the woes of the land seemed to weigh upon his heart, said to his children: "Come, let us go out and play ball or fly kite," and the only dificulty in the play was that the children could not keep up with their father. The McCheynes and the Summernields of the church who did the most good toiled in the sunlight. Away wvith the horrors! They distill poison; they dig graves, and if they could climb so high they would drown the re joicings of Heaven with sobs and wailing. You will have nothing but mnisfor tune in the future if you sednibously watch for it. How shall a man catch the right kind of fish if he arranges his line and hook and bait to catch lizards and water serpents? Hunt for bats and hawks, and bata and hawks you will find. Hunt for robin red breasts, and you will find robin red breasts. One night an eagle and an owl got into fierce battle. The eagle, nused, to the night, was no match for the owl, which !s most at home in the darkness, and the king of the air fell helpless. But the morning rose, and with it rose the eagle, and the owls and the nighthawks and the bats came a second time to the com bat. Now, the eagle in the sunlight, with a stroke of his talons and a great cry, cleared the air, and his en emies, with torn feathers and splashed with blood, tumbled into the ticokets. Ye are the children of light. In the night of despondency you will have no chance against your enemies that flock up from beneath; but, trusting in God and standing in the sunshine of the promises, you shall "renew your youth like the eagle." :Again, the habit of borrowing trouble is wrong because it has a tendeney to make us overlook pres ent blessing- To slake man's thirst the rock Is cleft and cool waters leap into his brimming cup. To feed his hunger the fields bow down with bending wheat, and the cattle come from the clover pastures to give him milk, and the orchards yellow and ripen, casting their juicy fruits into his lap. Alas, that amid such exuber ance of blessing man should growl as though he were a soldier on half rations or a sailor on short allowv ance; that a man should stand neck deep in harvests looking forward to famine; that one should feel the strong pulses of health marching with regular tread through all the avenus of life and yet tremble at the expected assault of sickness; that a anan should sit in his pleasant home, fearful that ruthless wvant will some day rattle the broken window sash with tempest and sweep the coals frm the hearth and pour hunger into the bread tray; that a man fed by Him who owns a1l the harvests should expect tco starve; that one whom God loves andi surrounds with benediction and attends with angelio People Who Make Sunshine. There is a society that has for its motto these word:s "If you, have a kindness shown you pass it on." There is a sermon in a few words. There are thousands of people who sec much of the dark side of life. They are poor, miserably poor. Their lives are pinch ed. They hardly know what kit'! ness means. Sickness to them mrans thc hospital and charity. So the Surshine Society was organized, and it grew and broadened. There were noble women behind it. Their hearts throbbed with good feeling. Th'ey read to the sick in the hospitals. They established free library section - in tenement districts. and bright faced girls gave up after noons to instructing and amusing chil dren who needed just thai kind of help. In addition, work was found for young girls recovering froni illness atd too weak to resume their regular p.ositions. Now ten new reading and ersemer t sections are to be evened, vd sn' shine, as warm and brikht -.s cod' pulses can make it, vwili eter :tn rd of many people. It is a tel. h thropy. [t is prsctical, ead it is ~u escort ana noverS over ith m oO than motherly fondness should be looking for a heritage of tears! Has Cod been hard with thee that thou slho :.ist be foreboding? Has Ie stinted thy board? hIas le covered thee with ra H? Has le spread traps for thy feet, and galled thy cup, and rasped thy soul, and wrecked thee with storm, and thun dered upon thee with a life full of calamitv? If your father or brother come into vour bank where gold and silver are lying about, you do not watch them. for vou know they are honest, but if an entire strangwr come by the safe you keep your eye on him, for you 'do not know his designs. So some non -reat God: not as a father, but a siran-er. aid act suspiciously to ward 1 Ui. It is high time you began to thank God for present blessing. ihauk 11im for your children, happy, buoyant and bounding. Praise Him for your home, with its fountain of song and laughter. Adore Him for morning light and evening shadow. Praise Ilim for fresh, cool water bub biing from the rock, leaping in the cascade, soaring in the mist, falling in the shower, dashing agains: the rock and clapping its hands in the tempest. Love Him for the grass that cushi.ons the earth and the clouds that eurtain the sky and the foliage that waves in the forest. Thank Him for a Bible to read and a Saviour to deliver. Many Christians think it a bad sign to be jubilant, and their work of self examination is a hewing down of thei: brighter experiences. Like a boy with a new jackknife, hacking everythi:ag he comes a cross, so their self-examir.a tion is a religious cutting to pieces of the greenest things they can lay their hands on. They imagine they are do ing God's service when they are going about borrowing trouble, and borrow Ing it Qt 30 per cent., which !s always a sure precursor of bankruptcy. Again, the habit of borrowing trou ble is wrong because the present is suf ficiently taxed with trial. God sees that we all need a certain amount of trouble, and so he apportions ft for all the days and years of our life. Also for the policy of gathering it all up for One day or year! Cruel thing to put upon the back of one camel all the cargo intended for the entire caravan. I never look at my memorandum book to see what engagements and dutiet are farahead. Let every week bear its own burdens. The shadows of to-day are thick enough. Why implore the presence of other shadows? The cup is already distasteful. Why halloo to dsasters far distant to come and wring out more gall in the bitterness-? Are we such champions that, having won the belt in former encounters, we can go forth to challenge all the fu ture? Here are business men just able to manage affairs as they now are. They can pay their rent and meet their notes and manage affairs as they now are, but how if a panic should come and my Investments should fail? Go to morrow and write on your daybook or on your ledger, on your money safe: "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Do not worry about notes that are far from due. Do not pile up on your counting desk the financial anxieties of the next 20 years. The God who has taken care of your world ly occupation, guarding your store from the torch of the incendiary and the key of the burglar, will be as faith ful in 1910 as in 1901. God's hand is mightiezr than the machinations of stock gamblers or the plots of political demagogues or the right arm of revo lution, and the darkness will fly and the storm fall dead at his feet. So there are persons in feeble health, and they are worried about the fu ture. They make out very well now, but they are bothering themselves about future pleurisies and rhenma tisms and neuralgias and ievers. Their eyesight is feeble, and they are wor red unless they entirely lose it. Their hearing is indistinct, and they are alarmed lest they beoome entirely deaf. They feel chilly to-day and are expecting an attack of typhoid. They have been troubled for weeks with some perplexing malady and dread be coming lifelong invalids. Take care of your health now and trust God for the future. Be not guilty of the bias phemy of asking Him to take care of you while you sleep with your windows tight down or eat chicken salad at 11 o'clock at night or sit down on a cake of ice to cool off. Be prudent, and then be confident. Same of the sickest people have been the most useful. IR was so with Payson, who died deaths daily; and Robert Hall, who used to stop in the midst of his semn and lie down on the pulpit sofa to rest and then go on again. Theodore Fre linghuysen had a great horror of dying till the tine came and then went peace fully. Take care of the present, and let the future look out for itself. "Suf ficient unto the day is the evil there of." Again, the habit of borrowing mis fortune is wrong because it unfits us for it when it actually does come. We cannot always have smooth sailing. Life's path will sometimes tumble among declivities and mount a. ateep and be thorn pierced. Judas will kiss our cheek an d then sell us for 30 pieces of silver. Human scorn will try to crucify us between two thieves, We will hear the iron gate of the sepulcher creak and grind as it shut-s in our kindre d. But we cannot get ready for these things by forbodings. They wvho fght imaginary foes Will come out of breath into conflict with the armed dis asters of the future. Their ammuni ton will have been wasted long beferre they come under the guns of real mis fortune. .3oys in attempting to jump a wall sometimes go so far back in or der to ge- impetus that when they come up they are exhausted, and these long races in order to get spring enough to vault trouble bring us up a.t effect on those people who only lack opportunity to become ornaments to society. Don't forget the Sunshine motto: "If you have a kindness shown you, pass it on." City Takes a Hand. The city council of Charleston at its regular monthly meeting Friday ratified the recent ordinace and which renders the sale of liquor in any form in Char leston, other than as it is prepared for in the dispensary law, a misdemeanor. Mayor Szythe will give the Police Department instuctions to rigidly en force the ordinance, and from now on al the alleged blind tigers in Charles ton will have to lock well to them seves. This ordinance, it ,will be re membeed, was adopted at the sugges tion of the state authorities of South Carolina. About So. As Parker, the Georgia colored man who caug7ht Cz;!ogosz, said: "A man n :.have been able to shoot the pres iao in the south, but he would never East to the dreadfui reayt wts r strength gone. Finally, the habit of borrovlng trouble is wrong because it is unbelief. God has promised to take care of s. The Bible blooms with assurances. Your hurazer will be fed; your sickness will be alleviated; your sorrows will be healed. (od will sandal your feet and smooth your path, and along by frowning crag and opening grave sound tha voices of victory and good cheer. The summer cloudes that seem thunCer charged really carry in their boso.n harvests of wheat and shocks of carn and vineyards 'purpling for the winepress. The wrathful wave will kiss the feet of the great Storm Walk er. Our great Joshua wil command, and above your soul the sun of pros perity will stand still. fleak and wave s-truck Patmos shall have apocalyptic vision, and von shall hear the cry of elders and the sweep of wings and trumpets of -salvation and the voice of haUeluiah unto God forever. Your way may wind along dangeroue bridle paths and amid wolf's howl and the scream of the vulture, but the way still winds upward till angels guard It. and trees of life overarch it, ani thrones line it, and crystalline foun talus leap on It, and the pathway ends at gates that are pearl and streets that are gold and temples that- are always open and hUls that quake with per petual song and a city mingling for ever Sabbath and jubilee and triumpb and coronation. Let pleasure chant her siren song; 'Tis not the song for me. To weeping it will turn ere long, For this is Heaven's decree. But there Is a song the ransomed sing To Jesus. their exalted Kir.g, With joyful heart and tongue. Oh, that's the song for me! Courage, my brotherl The father father does not give to his son at school enough money to last him setv eral years, but, as the bills for tuition a.nd board ard clothinf a.nd books come in, pays them. So Got will not give you grace all at once for the future, but will meet all your exigencies as they come. Through earnes-t prayer trust Him. People ascribe the success of a certain line of steamers to businesp skill and know r,ot the fact That when that line of steamers started the wife of the proprietor passed the whole of each day when a s teamer started in prayer to God for it-s safety and the success of the line. Put everything in God's hands and leave it there. Large interest money to pay will soon eat up a farm, a store, an estate, and the in terest on borrowed troubles will swamp anybody. "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." HOW MEN MAKE LOVE. Some Do It in a Grandiloquent Man. ner and Fail to Make an Impression. All sorts of men in all kinds of conditions have made love to me. While I won't say that I loved them all in return, they-that is those who sent me fruits and flowers and bonbons, not diamonds and gems, succeeded best with me. Stage wom en don't want b1g things; it is the trifles that touch their hearts, says Marie Dressler, in St. Louis Post Dispatch. Handsome men have never succeed ed with me. They arc generally too overbearing and make you feel as if they did you a fav'or by making love to you. The little gentlemanly things a man does win a woman's heart. I like a man who take's his hat off in my presence and the cigar out of his mouth the moment I come neai him; who rises from the table and .remains standing while I am being seated. I like the man who divines when I feel a draft and gets up to shut the window even If it is in a garden. The man who wants to win my heart mustnt do these things only for a few weeks, while I am getting interested in him, but keep right on doing them. The straightest way to a woman's heart is by small and gentlemanly courtesies. It never fails. The man who showers diamonds acd costly presents upon a woman is usually very ostentatious about it. The fel low who comes along with a bunch of flowers or a bonbon box makes you feel as if you did him an honor to accept his present. He'll win where the other will get the cold shoulder. Love-making is an art which wom en understand much better than men. -Marie Dressler, in St. Louis Post, Dispatch. _______ Fighting Yellow Fever. If th, ship enters the mouth. of the Mississppi with a clean bill of health nd no sickness on board she is al lowed to proceed to quarantine. There the quarantine offcer and his ssistant physician go aboard. The reports of the master and physiaian are received 'first. Then the crew is mustered, the roll is called, and, as each man's name is reached, h~e steps out of line and extends his arm to the physician, who feels his pulse, nd if the slightest abnormality i ietected indicative of fever the clin ical thermometer is used at onco to get the degree of fever.-Earl Mays, in Leslie's Monthly. Burial Stopped by Bees. While the body of a child was being lowered into a grave at Salem, Ind., a swarm of bees attacked the mourners and drove them away. It was only after dark that the sexton and hIs attendants were able to return tocom-. pete the burial, the bees remaining at the grave until the gloom of night caused them to depart. "We allourSlow. "We allourlittle southern branch railway the G. 0. P." "What's that for?" "Get out and push."-Chicago Rec' ord-erald. A Fatal Mistake. Cornelia Wideman, a young colored women, residing in Summerville temn porarily, died Thrusday nigh at the home of a relative in Elizab-thtown-a negro settlement--northwest of the ar enal. The woman was from Edgefield, and was here to have her eyes treated. She had several packages of powders which she was taking, and it seems, from what can be learned, that she, while in a partially blind condition, ook the wrong powder a posion, and Look a large does of it. She grew leathly sick, a nd, in a very short ime, died. There was no inquets held, but it was thought for a while :hat that taere would be one-Augusta [Ierald. The "average American," says Dr. enry Gannett in Everybody's Maga ;e, is in a measure a slave to tobacco. -e consumes twenty pounds of the nar otic weed a year, or one ounce per ay, and although he has used it freely inoo he was grown, as did his father d grandfather befare him, it does not ppear that he has suffered any mental *r physical deteioration in consequence She Capifred a Coit ' By D. A. Chauncey. (Copyright, 1901. by Avthors Syndicate.) W ELL, girls, put on your war paint," said Cousin Fred, as he threw himself into a chair on the veranda; -your opportunity has ar rived--or is about to. A German count, real thing, you know, fam ily castle and ancestral portraits and estates and orders, and a name longer than a trolley line. Coming to morrow, so brush up on German and the history of the Von Schimmielheim er family, and plan the most fetching of costumes." In an instant Cousin Fred was the center of six excited girls, and was plied with so many questions that the very atmosphere seemed one great in terrogation point. "How do I know? A little bird told me. Besides, Frank Lacy showed me a letter from the count's secretary; Frank knew him at the university. He has to leave f<or the west, and wants me to do the honors in his place. Yes, the count is unmarried, young and eligible; probably runting for a girl with a baiwel of money. That gives Fannie and Belle rather the inside track. Although I imagine Aunt Marga ret would make some sacrifices to give Dora and Helen a show to be a count ess. I guess, Lona, you will have to sit on the fence and see him go by. Of course Mary will 'sass' him and be sarcastic with all concerned." "'rhat's where your head's level," re sponded Mary. "I haven't money or ex pectations enough to buy a dry goods clerk, and if I had a million, and had to buy a husband, I don't know but the dry goods clerk would be the best investment." "I confess that I wouldn't object to wearing a coronet," remarked Fannie. "Good," resporded Cousin Fred. "One entry for the prize. Do I hear another bid?" "I hope he's handsome," remarked Dora, as the six cousins started for their rooms to dress for dinner . The next day the count arrived with his secretary, who apparently was also his companion. In the evening the two were presented to the girls by Cousin F-ed. They were intelligent gentle men of 28 or 30. After the introductions there fol lowed an immediate appropriation of the count by Fannie and Dora, with a languid effort on the part of Belle to interest the titled person, and inef fectual attempts by Helen and Lona to maintain their parts. Mary soon found herself In conversa tion with the private secretary, who was slightly taller than the count. Soon tiey were joking away with the utmost freedom. When Fannie took the count's arm and swept out on the broad veranda for a promenade, giving the other girls a. glance of tri umph, Mary could not resist saying sweetly to Mr. Schwartz: "Your European aristocracy never .bake a mistake in picking out the girl with money." "I beg your pardon!" replied her companion, surprised. "Oh, yes, he has instantly discovered the richest one of the party." -Then noting the astonishment on his face, she continued: "You mustn't be surprised at a-.:y thing I do. No one is, after they know me. I am 'the incorrigible' of the famn il." "Then Miss Curtin is very wealthy?" "Yes, indeed. Mfoney on both sides of the house-nothing lacking but ao count or a duke or something of that sort." "Then the count is esteemed a great catch ?" "By- those who want that sort of thing and can afford to pay for it,' she replied. He laughed with rather more mirth than the occasion seemed to demand, and offered his arm for a promenade. During the days that followed the two Germans became more and more intimate with the Curtin party, which intimacy was duly approved of by the mammas. Fanny retained her lead with the count, although he took Helen riding and always danced more with Belle, but she was by all odds the best dancer. while the private secretary strd Mary found themselves thrown to gether a great deal. He liked her sharp tongue and unconventional cmments. The mammnas of the party were reconciled (Mary's mamma was dead), and they even commented that "it would be just like Mary to marry some secretary or somebody who had neither money nor position-but dear knows, they had done all they could, and she was such a headstrong piece that it wa beyond guessing what she. would do next-perhaps become a school-teacher, and any marriage were better than that." The stay of the foregners, whioh ad been set for one week, lengthened t-o two, and then to three; and here it was the fourth week, and the sea son nearly over. It was evident that matters were approaching a crisis be sween Fannie and the count. It also be came evident one day that there was a breach between the two Germans Cousin Fred rushed out of the billiard room into the midst of the girls on the veranda. "Great Ctresar's ghost, but that pri vate secretary, Schwartz, has been lay ing down the law to the count! Both are madder than blazes, and I believe the trouble is over Fannie. The first we know there will be a melodrama right here on the veranda. I'll bet a dollar that it's a tempest in a teapot, and Schwartz simply proposes to teil Fannie that the count hasn't a red cent, and Is courting her for her money. Here comes Schwartz now. I'm off. Can't catch me in a scene." Sure enough out marched Schwartz, flushed of face and stiff of manner. "Miss Curtin," he began, formally addressing Fannie. "I owe it to you to make you informed regarding a matter upon which I have remained silent too long already. I--" "Is it with regard to Count von Schimmieleimer?" she interrupted. nie. "It is," replied Schwvartz. "Then you must excuse me. I pre fer not to hear it," and Fannie swept into the hotel like an insulted prncess. That afternoon Schwartz asked Mary to ride, and when they had reached a bit of quiet road he turned to her and said a -; ea to mnKOe a conredsrom your cousin this afternoon. She re used to listen. I now desire to make the same confession to you, but for a different purpose. Will ycu listen?" "I don't see how 1 can stop it," she replied. "I cannot rise and sweep into the house." "First I want to tell that I love you and would make you my wife. E would speak to your father and make known to him that I am a proper person to sue for your band, but I do not desire to do so until [know if your feelings toward me are rtnaea to Ue so norupt, but i 23 necessary for me to explain to-day." She had grow.Nn pale. She knew that she had become very fond of the handsome secretary, but she had scarcely thought of marriage. "Should I not hear the confession first?" she aske!. "N.o believe mue, you should not," he replied, with an air so masterful that she looked at him with surprise. "I ask no promise; only a hint tbat you think enough of me to let me talk to your father. 'May T. may I, fraulein? Will you trust me?" "I wi.1." she whispered. and he raised her ltni to his lips with 1!! the (ourtesv of a prince of the lold. "iy confession is this," he said. "I am an impostor. I am not. Mr. Sehwvartz. I am Count von Selim mielheiimer and mv friend is Mir. Scliwvartz. Your cousin. Mr. Curtin. got us mixed in the introduction and we decirled to let it go as a joke. My secretary is not acting honorably with ymr cousin and is taking advantage of the mistake to attempt a marriage to secure her fortune. There is thought of an elopement to-night." Wien 'Mary recovered from her sur prise she set her keen senses to work and the elepement was prevented. al though Farnie's humiliation could not be saved. Emperor Willinm'inlolentTnilsman The emperor of Germany is always meeting with accidents, although on the middle tintrer of his left hand he wears a famous talisman which for centuries has been credited with a supernatural power to protect the wearer from evil and injury of all kinds. It is a dark-colored, square shaped stone, set in a massive gold ring, and riginally belonged to Sa ladin, from whom it was captured by a German knight under the walls of Jerusalem during the crusades. It afterward came into the possession of Ulrich, the margrave of Nurem burg. who was the founder of the Hohenzollern family. This ring has been passed down from generation to generation, one of the most highly prized and interesting heirlooms of the dynasty, but the kings of Prus sia of late generations have seldom worn it until it was inherited by the present kaiser. It is a matter of dis cussion whether he wears it from superstition or ordinary interest. It has never left his finger since he came to the throne, although by this time he must have lost confidence in the protective power of the jewel. ChIcago Record. MRS. BUGHIS GONE With $2,000 and 9 Man's Suit of Clothes She Decamps. There is a iefendant missing at crim inal cowt in Greenville this week. The celerated Mattie Hughes case was to come up but the defendant is not there and she is not here, where her home has been for more than a year past. She has been running a restaurant ai d it is generally conceded has made a great deal of money and trouble. Mattie A Hughes lif this town last week in the attire of a man. She sold her restaurant business and for a day or so was seen about town several imes with a man's clothing on. It has been hited by some who pretend to know that she L as either gone to Charleston or Charlotte. It is not believed she is in this city. This woman has been the cause of a great deal of trouble. Nearly three yeas ago she killed her husband Geo. W. Hughes, at Greers and three timet she was put on trial, but in each case a mistrial resulted. Judge Townsend heard the csse first and it is his time at Greenville again. A few liqucr cases are pending against her there. In Spartanburg her course did not improve and complaint resulted from her establishment at the depot. Fights became frequent and the police were in demand A case for keeping a disor derly house wasn made by the grand Jury. It is understood she has threat ened the chief of police. Several cases for liquor selling are pending against her. Mrs. Hughes is und-ubtedly away. She dressed up in a $15 suit, took $2,000, it is said, and went out to see the world.-Spar' ai burg Jouroal. South Carolina's Population. The census 'bureau Thursday is sued a tulletin on the rehool, militia and voting populations of South Caro lina. It shows that 560 773 are of school age, including 354 foreign born. Of the aggregate 218,323 are white and 342,450 are colored, all but 49 of the last nam< d being negroes. There are 279,546 males of school age, of whom 279368 are native born and 110,775 are white The total Dative white males of echcol age is 110,598, of wtom all but 1,848 are of native parents. Fe males of s chool age number 281,227, all but 176 being native born and 107,. 548 being white. Males of militia age aggregate 236,767, of whom all but 1,506 are native born and the total wtite Dumber 106,406 Or the 104, 983 native white all but 2,685, are of native parentage and of the 130,361 clasified as colored all but 78 are ne groes Males of voting age aggregate 283 325, all but 3,104 being native born and the total whit'e number 130,375. Of the 127 396 native white all but 2,979 are of native i arents and all but 90 of the 152.950 classified s colored are regroes. State House Grounds. The work of making a park of the state capitol grounds is being prose cuted by Mr. M. R. Cooper, the secre tary of state. His assistant, Mr Jesse T. Gantt, is also taking a great amount of inte rest in this work, and has some well defined plans. Thin cifico will re quest the legislature to appropriate $25,000 for the purpose of building granite retaining walls around the ter races which surround the capitol build ing. It is also the purpose of the sec retary of state to have the walks bord ered with granite curbing. The monu ments and statues in the capitol grounds are in need of better mounting and the secretary of state will try to have the bases made for these monuments. Ghosts Use Telephone. A nun ber of Spiritualists are inter ested in ghostly voices over the tele phone to Mrs. Mary F. Bringman, a medium who keeps a boarding house at Springfield, Ohio. The mysteri us telephone is on the wall of a large room, and had been there for some time before the manifestations were noticed. One evening a visitor was startled by hearing the voices, andI finally the story was spread through town. A well-known spiritualists has said that he had no doubt that the voices were from friends in the other world "I have talked through the telephone in Mrs. Bringham's," he said. "There can be no mistake in this natter, and it is not a subject to be A GREAT NATION MOURNS. - -ontinued from psge one.] One 'ty one they ascended the stairwav -Secretary Root, Secretxry Hitchcock and Attorney Generil Knox. Secre tary Wihon was also there, but held back, Lot wishing to see the presi dent in his last agony. Tbere wss only a momentaty stay of the cabinett ffises at the tbresbhold of the death chan. ber. Then they withdrew, tbe tears streaming down their faces, and words of intenie grief oboking tbeir thorats. CALLED HIS DEVOTED WIFE AFter they Jeft the tiax room, the ph.sicians rallied him to cor sciou-nees, and the president asked almost imme diately that his wile be brought t him. The dcctors fell back irto tie shad'ws of the room as Mrs. McKinley cemi throuzh the dorrway. The strong face of the dying man lighted up with a faint smile as their hands were clasp ad. She Eat beside him and held his hand. DeEp.te her physical weakness, she bore up bravely under the ordeal. The president, in his last period of consai ousness, which ended obout 7:40 D. m., chanted the words of the hymn, "Nearer My God to Thee," and his last audi ble conscious words, as taken down by Dr. Mann at the bedside, were: "GOD'S WILL BE DONE I' "Good-bye all, good-bye; it is God's way; His will be done." Then his mind began to warder, and soon after ward he cc1mpletely lost consciousneps His life was prolonged for hours by the ad minist ration of ox-gen, and the pri si dent finally ex;reseed a cekire to be al 1Lwed to die. About 8 30, the tdmiii tering of exigen ceased, and tle pulse grsw fairter and fainter. He was si k ing gradually, like a chi d, iuto the eternal klumter. By 10 o'clock the pulse could no longer be felt in his x tremitics, and they grew cold. B-Ilw stai:s the grief-stricken gathering waited saly for the end. A 2.15 the end came, and the good man passed to his reward. A Pathetic F cane. "The ires~dent is dying. isn't he Mr. Cortlsou, said Mrs. M. Knley ai bhe met the secretary in the tall. "He is very ill." '- knew it," Mrs. MLKinley sobbed. "The doctor said I must not go into the room when I went there this morning " "You may go into the room to sae the president now, Mrs. McKinley,' sa-d Secrtars Cortelyou, later. "How is he? How s Ld you Io ik. Oh I sce! The president is low-the ;-res ident is very low. My God-is the president dying? I know it." In the room, the presidant, under stimulants,. was conscious. He rec~g nized his wife. He smiled-or tried to. "My dear-. Then the wife bowed her head to the bed cover. She recovered herself. She smoothed the patient's brow. He looked at her-looked his thanks. There was love in the glanc. The wife tcok the husband's hand, holding it in hers. H 3 consoled ler. He bade her gozd bye. This was shortly after 7 o'clock. Still she was brave. Her fortitude was mi raculous. Mrs. McKinley last saw her hu:band between 11 and 12. At that time she sat by the bedside holding his hand. The members of the cabinet were ad mitted to the sick room singly at that time. Where the President Died. A dispatch from Buffalo to the New York Tributne says the name of John: George Miu burn, in whose beautiful home President McKinley died, has become known to every quarter t~f the globa. It is s~mething that Mr. Mil burn wculd not have sought or desired under ordinary circumstances, for he has always disliked everything that approached parade and notoriety, and has never put himself in the way of public applause. For twenty years or more John G. Milburn has been know as one of the ablest lawyers in the western part of the state. In Buffalo he has belonged to that class of mer. who do not intrude themselves into public matters, but whose opinions, when given, count for much-the sort of man whom the newspaper reporters fi; to when the soundest j undgmen t up on the gavest affairs is to be had. When the business men of Buffalo decided to build the Pasn- American exposition it was this sort of man they wanted at the head of the great undertaking, and they selected John G. Milburn becuase he was a giant intellectually, a gentleman aways, and honest beyond the suspi cion of any man's dou->. By birth he is an Englishman, and in Politices a Demcrat. A Stormy Career. Emma Goldman, from whom Czlgot z says he received the impulse to murder the President, is about 35 years old, the daughter of a Russian tailor. Without education, she was brcught up in a hotbed of anarchy, near Koona, Russia. She came to this country seventeen years ago and marr! ed a man by the name of Gruenebaum, with whom she lived in Rochester. She deserted him after a year and a half and followed Louis Bernstein, an An archist, to this city, Since then she has had many partners, disregard of the marriage tie being part of her doctrine. Assuming the name of Goldman, she joined Anarchistic group known as the Pioneers of Liberty. Her language was so violent that they expelled her. She associated herself later with the Gsr man Anarchists and wrote signed articles for Die Freiheit, John Most's paper. She quarrelled with Most and on December 18, 1892, lashed him with wip as he was about to speak in Old Fellows' Hall. Alexander Barkmann, with whom she lived, shot Henry C. Frick at the Carnegie works. Both she and Berkman then joined the extreme wing of the Anarchists. She made her living by speaking. She was ar rested for inciting to riot in 1893 and served a year's term on Blackwell's Is land. Whire there she be gan to study medicine and took a degree after her release. She left this city several months ago. She speaks several lan guages, but her tirades are merely de nunciations of capital and the laws of society, without logic or argument. New York Herald. Not a Bad Idea. At the old-fashioned inns and restau ants in Sweden it is customary to harge less for women than for men, n the theory that they do not eat so much. At some hotels in Sweden a man and wife are charged as one and ne-half persons if they occupy the same room. A husband and wife may ravel as one and one half persons by railway, and also by the post routes, urnishing their own carriage. Five Men Killed. Three explosions occured in the works of the American-Schultiza Pow er company in Oakland, N. J., today. ive men were killed. The first ex losion was that of she boiler. Follo v ng immediately there were two explo ions, one in the magazine, the otherI n the mixing house. The latter is pposed to have been caused by a Xa ior and tie boe. There is no truer friendship than that of the boy and the dog. There are no happier days to which the grown man may look back with a tender regret for their passing than the days spent in the old home fields with the faithful four-footed com panion of youth. Confidence between boy and dog was perfect. -The dog perhaps was not a thoroughbred, and had come into the world minus a pedigree, but the boy accepted him for what he was, and in the blessed ingenuousness of youth may even have found an occasion of added pride in the dog in some characteristic which he now knows was highly to the ani mal's discredit as determined by the bench show standards. And as for the dog, on his part, too, he took the boy for what he was, asking of him no more than that he should conde scer.d to make of himself a demigod for unstinted confidence, affection and worship. If the scientists would devise a way to represent the care free happiness of boyhood days in some equivalent of foot-pounds, the amount of it justly accredited to the companionship of boy and dog would be expressed in many tons.-Forest and Stream. Fashions in Horns. If the question were asked: Why do the rhinoceri grow their horns upon the nose, instead of on the head, like other animals? the answer would probably be that they require them for root digging and such like pur poses as well as for war, and the nasal position renders them more general ly useful than if they were fixed on the top of the skull. At present the rhinoceros is the only quadruped which has a horn of this kind, but a study of fossil mammals shows that he is the sole survivor of a vast num ber of creatures whose natural weap ons were built on the same general plan. In fact, in the days of the rhi noceros' early forefathers horns of this kind were probably much more common than those such as we see on the heads of oxen, antelopes and sheep. In the course ol ages the fash ion in wearing horns has undergone a radical change, but' the rhinoceros, who is essentially a conservative beast, has stuck to the older method. -Pearson's Magazine. They Met Their Match. At an evening party the other night one of the guests made a novel bet. He placed three jugs in a row. Tying a piece of stout string to the handle of the first one, he threaded it through the handle of the second jug, and tied it again to the handle of the third jug. Then he offered to bet the other guests that he would free the middle jug without untying or cutting the string. Many took up the challenge and wQgered he could not do it. When all was agreed the man who had made the bet calmly lit a match and burnt the string through and took the bet. London Ans' ,rs. A Strange Punishment. In Guiana, if a child is slow in its movements the parents apply an ant to the child instead of a whip, to make it move faster. This little ant bites more cruelly than a mosquito, and its bite is apt to be troublesome after ward. As you can imagine, the treat ment does not make the child kind to others, and the children of Guiana are said to be particularly cruel to ani mals. The little boys of Guiana do not reckon their age by years, but by their ability to endure pain. Until he gets to the point where he can let the Hucu ant bite him without wincing, he is considered merely a baby.-Detroit Free Press. The Diameter of Veru . Prof. See has !ately measures. the di ameter of the planet Venus and finds the vaine 16.80. This is in agreement with the value 16.82 found by Prof. Auwers from heliomneter measures taken at the transits of 1874 and 1882. If these are reduced to miles (taking the suiatr parallax as 8.S0), the result ing diameter of Venus is 12.181 kilo meters. or 7.564 miles.-Science. Suspicious. First Bookkeeper-Dobson has been chuckling to himself over his work all da. H~e must see something very amusing in the figures he's working with. Second Bookkeeper-That so? Well, let's watch out and get away the nin ute -losing-up time comes. His three year-old boy has been saying some thing cute again.-Judge. 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? "My love is as genuine as the blush "iUnther the love! I miean the rmng." -Chicago Daily News. Plague of Flies in Paris, l'aris has been suffering for months rom a great plague of fies. and other lsect5. Naturalists trace this to the wleieale slaughter of birds for womn en'. lhar. and the ministry of agricul ture as issued a circular ordering a stricter observance of the laws enacted for the nrotection of birds.-N. Y. Run. Sweetbreads with Partnesan Cheese. Two tablespoonfuls butter, one pair weetbreads, oooked and chopped, hree tablespoonfuls Parmesan heese, three egg yolks, salt, eay ne, one tablespoonful butter. Melt utter, add sweetbreads and cheers,* sook until cheese is melted, add eggs tlightly beaten, and seasonings; just efore serving add butter. - Good Eousekeeping. Crops in Porto Rico. Oranges and bananas reach a deli ious perfection in Porto Rico, and rosts are unknown. The cultivation >f various crops has increased enormously since 1898, averaging fully 10 per cent. all around. 'The cultiva :ion of cane has increased 25 per cent.; f coffee, 25 per cent., and of tobacco, 00 per cent.-Chicago Inter Ocean. An Informal invite. Mrs. Goodart-Poor manl Come to ny house, across the way there, this ~vening, and you shall have a good :linner. Harvard Hasben-Some of your -uests disappoint you? That's rather hort notice; I'm afraid I can't get :n-y full dress suit out o' the laundry in time.-Philadelphia Press. Scamps Scampered. A scamp was originally only a trav eler, but in the early middle ages most f the scampering was done for some rood cattse, and the man who scamp -red was in virtue of that fact ad udged to be a person of bad character. -Albany Journal. The Real Thing. Hotel Guest-Can you get me an un Lbridged dictionary anywhere in the Louse? Bell Boy-I'm afraid not, sir-, but here's a lady from Boston on the see The machinery of two steamers, the Inchdune and Inchmario, has proved remarkably economical. The engines are a modification of the quadruple-expansion five-crank type, advocated by the late Mr. Mudd. The working pressure has been increased 267 pounds per square inch, and the steam is superheated to a tempera ture approaching 500 degrees Fahren heit. The general result is that on an extended trial from Hartlepool to Dover the coal consumption was at the unprecedentedly small rate of .97 pound per indicated horse power. If we increase this to one pound, it works out to 151/ tons per day for a ship carrying 6,170 tons at 9% knots, or to 1314 tons at 9 knots. In other words, one ton is carriedl one nautical mile on an expenditure of about one-third of an ounce of coal. Taking coal at 15 shillings a ton, one ton of cargo is carried over 550 miles for an expenditure of one penny for fuel.-London Engineer ing. A Stunner. One of those drummers who does a good deal of driving about the coun try delights in telling about an old time boniface who runs a country hotel within a day's drive of Detroit. "Sharp as a tack," declares the drummer. "Always as smooth as oil until some one tries to make a run on him, and then he can get back harder, faster and in fewer words than any man I ever heard talk. "I saw a man come in there one day from the city. He is all right at home, but was feeling his oats that day and opened up on the old land lord by saying: 'Hello, grandad, get your frame into circulation. Don't set around like a bump on a log. I want accoinmodation for man and beast.' "'Where's the man?' asked the old chap,. in a flash."-Detroit Free Press. Roagh on the Bride. At a small country church a newly married couple were just receiving some -advice from the elderly vicar as to how they were to conduct them selves and so always live happily. "You must never both get cross at once; it is the husband's duty to pro tect his wife whenever an occasion arises, and a wife must love, honor and obey her husband, and follow him wherever he goes." "But, sir-" pleaded the young bride. "I haven't yet finished," remarked the clergyman, annoyed at the inter ruption. "She must-" "But, please, sir" (in desperation), "ean't you alter that last part? My husband is going to be a postman." -The King. Safety of Conveyances. Railways, automobiles and bicycles are safer conveyances than vehicles drawn by horses, according to statis ties just issued by the French gov., ernment. In a single month 967 ac cidents occurred for which horses' were responsible, and in these 82 per sons were killed and 885 injured. There were 145 railway accidents, causing eight deaths and injuries to 137 persons. Thirty-eight automobiles came to grief, and two deaths and 36 injured resulted. Bicyclists had 119 bad accidents, six died and 113 were wounded.-Cincinnati Enquirer. Familiar Phenomeno. The "bloody rain" reported in Italy is a phenomenon familiar to natural ists. The micrnscope has demon strated that the redness of the Eed sea, of rare snow and occasional rain is due to living organisms transported by abnormal atmospheric conditions. Sometimes lurid ashes and scoriae. from active volcanoes produce the same effects. The "fata morgana" is a mirage of the Straits of Messina and is not rare.--Chicato Chronicle. Duchess' Trouble. The duchess of Fife is one of the most quiet and retiring of all the king of England's daughters. She takes the greatest interest in the bringing up of her little danghiters. Some years since society was very much disturbed by the case of a lit tle child of high birth,. who was ao cidentally found to be covered with bruises inflicted by a brutal nurse. The duchess of Fife said. to a lady who was visiting her: "No nurse would be able to systematically bruise my children's bodies, for not many days go by that I do not bath. them myself." The lady misunder-. atood and remarked: "Do you, trou ble to stay In the nursery to watch their toilets?" "I did not say I watch," said the duchess, emphatic ally. "I said I bathe them myself." Cn. ago Times-Herald. 4uadrennial State Elections. Kansas this year will try for a law making all state elections come every four years. Not a Bad ArgumnenK. "If a wife is a good thing to have," remarked the Observer of Eyents and Things, "why not get one weighin'g300 pounds? You know one can't have too much of a good thing."-Yonkers Statesman. Apprehension. "Did you say you foresaw great dan ger in this new trust?" "I did," answered. Senator Sorghum. "I was afraid for a little while that I would not be able to buy any stock in it."-Washington Star. Downright Hard Work. "I may as well tell you, doctor, that I am engaged, and I have been sitting up late nights." "That ought not to affect you. It's leasure, isn't It?" "No, sir; businets."-Town Topics. One of Tnem. "Do you suppose," asked the fair Eulalla McGillicuddy, "that the lower creatures ever have any amuse ments?" "Well," replied Jason P. Simpson, "I have heard of a fish ball."-Detroit Free Press. They Don't speak Now. Ida--I want to have some pictures taken. Can you recommend a photog rapher? Ada-Flashem! I've heard that he has a way of making the homeliest people look absolutely handsome. Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Gone Wrong. It was reported in Columbia Wednes day that something had gone wrong with the post dfies at Newberry. A dispatch to the Associated Press from Chattanooga stated that Mr. William F. Fair, the postmaster, had been ar rested for embczzlement. The matter was denlored by all who know Mr. Fair. He is of a highly respected family and a brother-in Jaw of Hon. Y. J. Pope, senior associate justice of the State supreme court. Mr. Fair has been postmaster for over three years and is aligned with the Republican party, although of late it has been stated he has an inclination toward "Comimercial