THE SPIRIT OF AMITY Dr. Talmage Commends Good reel ing Among Mankind. Mentions Illustrious Exaniples In III& Sermon-The Grace of Fora;ive Zens - Kindness a Mag nificent Word. [Copyright, 1901, by Louis Klopsch. N. Y.J Washir.gon. Sept. . In this discourse Dr. Talmage com mends the spirit of ansty and good feeling and mentions i austrious exax pies of that spirit; text, Acts. 34:2, "The barbarous people showed us no little kindness." Here we are on the island of :Ma, another name for Melita. This island, which has always been an l:'ym-tant commercial center, belonging a; cif ferent times to Phoen:cia. to Greece, to Rome, toArabla. >t ,to ra nee, Dow belongs to Eagland. The area of the islands is 10o squaro mi.es. It is in the Mediterranean sea and of such clarity of atmosphere that Mount Aetna, 130 miles away, can be distinct ly seen. The islaud is gloriously mem orable because the knights of 'Malta for a long while ruleti there. but most famous because of the apostolic ship wreck. The best ormed vessel on which Paul sailed had "laid to" on the star board tack, and the wind was blowing east-northeast, and, the vessel drifting probably a mile and a half an h-our. She struck at what is now called St. Paul's bay. Practical sailors have tak en up the Bible account and decided be yond- controversy the place of the ship wreck. But the island, which has so rough a coast, is for the most part a garden. Richest fruits and a profu sion of honey characterized it in St. Paul's time as well as now. The finest oranges, figs and olives grew there. When Paul and his comrades crawled up the beach,. saturated and hungry from long abstinence from food and chilled to the bone, the islanders, though called barbarians because they could not speak Greek, opened their doors to the .shipwreoked unfortun ates. Everything had one to the bot tom of the deep, and a barefooted, bareheaded apostle and ship's crew were in a condition to appreciate hos pitality. About 25 suoh men a few years ago I found in the life station near East Hampton, Long Island. They had got ashore in the night from the sea, and not a hat or shoe had they left. They found out, as Paul and his fellow voyagers found out, that the tea is the roughest of all robbers. My text fnds the ship's crew ashore oa Malta and around a het Are drying themselvas and with the beet provision the islanders *an otear them. And they go into gvernmeat arters for three days to recuperate, ?ubius, the ruler, Inviting them, although he had severe sickness in th6 house at the time, his father down with a dangerous l1ness. Yea, for-three meatha they stayed on the island, watehing for a ship and putting the hospitalities of the islanders to a severe test. But it endured the test satisfactorily, and It * recorded for all the ages of time and sternity to read and hear in regard to the inhabitants of Malta: "The bar barous people showed us no little kind sess." Kindness! What a great word that Is! It would take a reed as long as that which the apocalypeie angel used to measure Heaven to tell the length, the breadth, the height of that munifi rent word. It Is a favorite Bible word, and it is early launched in therbookof Senesis, caught up in the boek of IJoshua, embraced in the book of Ruth. sworn by in the boek of Samuel, arowned in the book of Psalms and en throned in many places in the New N~stament. Kindness! A word no more gentle than mighty. I expect it wrill wrestle me down before I get through with it. It is strong enough to throw an asdanagel. Nut It will be well for us to stand arounId It and warm ourselves, by Its glow ae Paul and his fellow voyagers steed around the fire on me Island of Malta, where the Maltae made themselves imr tal in my text by the waj they treated shef- viotims of the sea. "The bar barous people showed us no littd, kind sesa." Kindness! All deinitions of that muiltipotent 'word break down hal way. You say it is clemeney, benign ity, generosity; it is made up of good wishes; it is an expression ef benen. eenee; it Is a centdbution to the hap pinest of others. Seine one else says: 'Wh, I esa give you a deiaition of Idn ess; it is sunssneof the soul; It Is affection perennial; it is a climatic grace; it is &e eombinatien of all graces; it is ooeassiea; It is the per' fection of gentle medinaess and womn anliness." Are you all through? You have made a dead failure in your defi nitlon. It eannot be de~ned,. but we all know what it is, for we have all felt its power. Some of you may have felt It as Paul felt it, an some ceast of rock as the ship went to pieces, but more of us have again and again in some awful stress of life had either from earth or Xeaven hands stretched out which "showed us no little kind There Is kindness of disposition. kindness of word, kindness ef act, and there is Jesus Christ, the impersona tion of all of them. Kindness! You cannot afiset it. You cannot play it as a pert. You cannot enact it. You can not dramatise It. By the-grace of God ro~u must have it inside of you, an ever tigsummer, or, rather, a combina tion of June and October, the geniality of the one and the tonic of the other. It cannot dwell with arrogance or spite or revenge or malevolence. At Its first appearance in the soul all these Amaleladtes and Gergishites and Eittites and Jebusites must quit, and quit former. Kindaeas wishes every body well-every man well, every woman well, every child well, every bird wen~ every horse well, every dog well, every cat well Give this spirit full swing, and you would have no The Pistol Law. There is some doubt among dealers in pistols as to when the new law pass ed by last legislature goes into effect. The law, however, makes July 1, 1902 as the time when no more pistols can ha sold of the usual variety, The act provides that pistols twenty inches long and weighing three pounds may then ce soid to those who want them. Such a weapon could hardly be concealed in the hip pocket of one who brought it, but the law goes even further and pro hibits the carrying of any sort: of fire arms, concealed or oterwise. Watched by Police. A dealer ini thermometers, who is described as a man with a slight foreign accent, has occasioncd the police of the Third precinct of Washington, D. C.. some extra work and hss excited a cen uiderablo 5Brry in the local detective buresan. His only offense, apparently. is that he has twice inquired for Presi dent Roosevelt's private residence, and that both inquiries were made withia half a mile of the house, But the foreign account and the presence of a smell box held in the man's arm are tnas suspicins ciraumstancer, c e ed of societies for ptevention of c %elty to animals, no more need of protective sewiug w-omans associa io, it would dull every sword antil would not cut skinl deep, and unwheel every battery till it could not roll, and make gt:npowiler of no more use in the world except for rock blast iri- Or pyrotechnic celebration. Kind ress is a spirit divinely implanted and in aistr to pravr, inld then to be sedilousiv cultivate(d until it tills all the naturIe nith a ptrfune rich--e a i lore pur-gen than migti te. Ll, as i\ v, put a tu h1 of that a rvomatie beau v !,niid the cloek un the manlk ocrrm-r where nobody can see it, vu timd peoile unik abou. I Vo7 omlauk1ig i %IY Iy ni that, ari \t:1 ak thii: "What are you ir':"amiey a :iwer: "Where is 11 rower?" -o if one- has in his sIu Ss 1Sinfinite sweetness of disPos: tion its perfume wiUl whelm every Let us ait pray for the spirit of kind ness. It will se.le.- a thousand qtues tions. it will change the phase of ev ervthIng. It will mellow through and throuii our entire nature. It will transform a lifetime. It is not a feel I ing got up for ocsiols, bit perennial. Tat is the reason I like pet unias bet ter than morning glories. They look Verv mutach alike, and if I should pitt in your hand a petunia and a morni-ng glory you could hardly tell vhich is the petunia and which the morning glory. But the morning glory blooms only a few hours aid then shuts up for the day, while the petunia is in as widespread a glow at 12 o'clock at noon and six o'clock in the evening as at sunrise. And this grace of kind ness is not spasmodic. it is not inter mittent, is not for a little while, but it irradiates the whole nature all through and clear on till the sunset of our earthly existence. I Kindness' I am resolved to get it. Are you resolved to get it? It does not come by haphazard, but through cul ture under the divine help. Thistles grow without culture. Ilocky moun tain sage grass grows without culture. Mullein stalks grow without culture. But that great red rose in the con servatory, its leaves packed on leavos, I deep dyed as though it had been obliged to fight for its beauty and it were still reeking wih the carnage of the battle, that rcse needed to be cul tured, and through long years its floral ancestors were cultured. 0 God, implant kindness in all our souls and then give us grace to -watch it, to en rich it. to develop it! Still further, I must speak of kind ness of word. When you meet any one, do you say a pleasant thing or an unpleasant? Do you tell him of an agreeable thing you have heard about him or the disagreeable? When he leaves you does he feel better or does he feel worse? Oh, the power of the tongue for the production of happiness or misery! One would think from the way the tongue is caged in we might take the hint that it has a dangerous power. First it is chained to the back part of the mouth by strong muscles. Then it is surrounded by the teeth of the lower jaw, so many ivory bars, and then by the teeth of the upper jaw, mere ivory bars. Then, outside of all, are the two lips, with the power of com pression and arrest. And yet, not withstanding these four imprison ments or limitations, how many take no hint in regard to the dangerous power of the tongue, and the results are laceration, scarification and damnation. Oh, say the cordial thing! Say the ueuful thing. Say the hospitable thing. Say the helpful thing. Say the Christlike thing. Say the kind thing. I admit that it is easier for some temperaments than for others. Some are born pessimists, and some are born optimists, and that demon strates itself all through everything. It is a cloudy morning. You meet a pessimist, and you sayi "What weath er to-day?" He answers: "It's go ing to storm," and umbrella under arm and waterproof coat show that he is honest in that utterance. On the same block, a minute after, you meet an optimist, and you say: "What do you think of the commiercial pros pecs?" and he says: "Glorious. Crops not so good as usual, but for eign demand will make big prices. We are going to have such an autumn and winter of prosperity as we have never seen." C.. your way back to your store you meet a pessimist mer chant: "What do you think of the commercial prospects?" you ask, and he answers: "Well, I don't know. Wheat and corn crop blasted in Kan sas and Missouri, and the grain gamblers will get their fist in, and t.he hay crop is short in some places, and in the southern part of Wiscon sin they had a hailstorm, and our business is as dull as it ever was." You will find the same difference in judgment of character. A man of good reputation is assailed and charged with some evil deed. At the first story the pessimist will believe in guilt. "The papers said so, arid that's enough. Down with him!" The optimist will say: "I don't be lieve a word of it. I doni't think that a man that has been as useful and seemingly honest for 20 years could have got off track like that. There are two sides to this story, and I will wait to hear the other side before I condemn him." My hearer, if you are by nature a pessimist, make a special effort by the grace of God to extirpate the dolorous and the hyper critcal from your disposition. Be lieve nothing against anybody until the wrong is established by at least two witnesses of integrity. And, if guilt be proved, find out the extenuat ing oircumstasnces, if there are any. Eindness! Let us, mening, noon and night, pray for it until we ge; it. When you can speak a good word for some one, speak it. If you can cnscientiously give a'letter of recoin tandation, give it. Watch for oppor tunities for doing good 50 years after Thirteen Perished. News has just been reosived hora of a terrible aiisaster in Pr sidio cour y, near the Rio Grande river, on thte 35:h inst.,;13 men who were prospecting for Cinnibar losing their lives in floods caused by a waterspout or aloud burst. The deed are: William Bolls, George HotoD, Henry Carter, Hernandez Cos tello, Philip Humphrey, Peter Sce'af fer, Alfredo Montez, William Jeff.r son, Thomas Frezzell, Algernon Rhes. Casper Duietschman. George Ainsch and Gabriel Carr. The men were in two parties, camped one mile apart in a dry ravine known as Alaminto creek, in which there had been no water for 15 months on account of the drought. The men were asleep at 9 o'clock when there was a cloud burst several miles up the ravine. A volume of water 20 feet high washed down the chanrel of the ravine and swept over the men in the camps before they were aware of their danger. All were drowned, and up to this time only six bodies have been recovered. The Alaminto empties in to the Rio Grande liver not far from where the fatality occurred and it is yots are dead. All my ife has beer. I aff.cted by the letter of introdution that Re'. D. V, \'rani~en. oi New Bruusniek Teigia enry wrote fo'r m!e. a boy unih-r him, when I ws ,2:2--a seulement in whichi to prtaci the GsIpe. That letter ae m.1 my MV tt pulpit. Dr. Van \raniken has been dead more than 30 years.yet 1 feel the touch of that magnitieent old professor. St range seli-at011 was it when I reciCeived a kind iess. ae from IRev. Tloinas Gzard, of Bal:tore. Thle great Meth o :Istorator, six weeks after his diath! 1By way of the eternal world? Oh, no; by way of this worid. I did not iet t ho friend to wvhom he gave the mies-agen! until a %rV nvo months after Thonas 4:uar ad asended. So you can start a word abiut some one that wili be on its travels and vio ro oing a f t er the funeral palni h.ias becan sugs at your obse quies. Kin'n e-. \NVy. if 50 men all ag'Lw with it should walk through !1he eSt wori imethinks they would almiio-t albolish!- p ierdition. Suppose 1al tis as.semblage and all to whom theis words shall come by prinier's ty.e s.ould resolve to mnake k onduess ana overarchliing, under girding and all prvading principle of their life a! the cary' out the res oit;on. Wl' , in ,ix months the whole earth Nvwid Seel it. People would say: "\iat is the matter? It seens to me that the world is get ting to be a bett.cr place to live in. \ hy, life, after all, is worth living. Why, there is Shylock, my neighbor, -has withdrawn his lawsuit of fore. closure against that man, and be cause lie had so much sickne.;s in hs family he i.; going to have the house for one year rent free. There is an old lawyer in that young lawyer's of fiee, and do You know what he has gone in there for? Why, he is he] ing to ix up a case which is too hig for the young man to hanile, and the white-haired a-ttorney is hunting up previous decisionxs and making out a brief for the boy. Do you know that a strange thing has taken place in the pulpit, and all the old ministers are helping the young ministers, and all the old doctors are helpig the young doctors. 'and the farmers are assist ing each other in gathering the har rest, arid for that farmer who. is sick the neighbors have made a "bee," as they call it, and they have al turned in to help him get his crops into the garner? And they tell me that the older and more skillful reporters who have permanent positions on pa pers are helping the young fellows who are just beginning to try and do not know exactly how to do it. And after a few erasures and interpola tions on the reporter's pad they say: "Now, here is a readable account of that tragedy; hand it In, and I am sure the managing editor will take it." "And I heard this morning of a poor old man whose three ehildren were in ot debate as to who should take care of him in his declining days. The old est son declared that it was his right, because he was the oldest, and the or.ngest said it was his right because he was the youngest, and Mary said it was her right because she better un derstood her father's vertigo and rheumatism and poor spells and knew better how to nurse him, and the only way the difficulty could be settled was by the old man's promise that he would divide the year into three parts and spend a third of his time with each one of them. And neighboring stores in the same line of goods on the same block are acting kindly to each other. -It seem. to me that those words of Isaiah are being fulfilled when he ays: 'The carpenter encouraged the goldsmith and he that smoothed the hammer, him that smote the anvil, saying, it is ready for the soldering.' What is the matter? It seems to me our old world is picking up. Why, the milennium must be coming in. Kind ess has got the victory." My hearers, you know and I know wve are far from that state of things. But why not inaugurate a new dispensa tion of geniality, If we cananot have a mllenniutn on a large seele, let us have it on a small scale and under our own vestments. Kindness! If this world is ever brought to God, that is the thing that will do it. You cannot fret the world up, although you may fret the world down. You cannot scold it into excellence or reforma tion or godliness. And while wve take the matchless kndness from God may it be found that we have uttered our last bitter word, written our last cutting para graph, done our last retaliatory' action, felt our last revengeful heart throb. And it would not be a bad epitaph for any of us if, by the grace of God, from this time forth we lived such benefi ent lives that the tombstone's chisel could appropriately cut upon the plain slab. that marks our grave a sugges tion from the text: "He showed r s no little kindness." But not until the last child of God has got ashore fromr the earthly storms that drove Him on the rocks like Mediterranean Euroely dons, not until all the thrones of Heaven are motnited, and all the con querors crowned, and all the hairps and trumpets and organs of H~eaven are thrummed or blown or sounded and the ransomed of all climes and ages Iare in full chorus under the jub lant swing of angelic baton, and we 'shall fr thousands of years have seeni the river front under the throne rolling it the "sea of glass minglod with fre" and this world we now inhabit Ishall be s~o far in the past that only a stretch of celestial mremory can re call thatt it ever existed at all, not un til nen will we undlerstand what Ne hemish calls "the great kindness.' and David calls "the miarvelous kindness," and isaiah calls "the everlasting kind ness" of God. Mlisappre'hension Correc'ted. Hoax-Has Nerdewell g~nne west to settle? Joax-'-Not he'su gocne west to avoid settling.--CincinnatP Eugaidrer. en bodies have been a wep ito tha~t stream. Thisis a GoodOne. We often hear big fish yarras, but hero is a hunting yarn that lays al most anything we have ever heard in o shade It co-nes from Sabine, Tex s, and is as folows: "Several y'ears ago, when driving the mili and passen ger sage between here sad Galveston, on his return homse one sfiernoon, Joe Marty killed 263 ducks in one of the lakes along the route in two hours and ifteen minutes from the time he began shooting. A. H. Best, who is in the hunting business here, last season killed sixty eight duckt in one hour nd twenty minutes, all being wing hots. Ben F. J ohnson, county com missioner from this precinci, killed a lke number at one discharge of a dou ble-barrel led gun. Henry Townsend ild sixty-three' mallards that he got at the discbarge of a dcuble barrelled gun." If any (i our old stagers can beat this Texas yarn, we would like IHE BREAKS DOWN, Cz)gnsz Yciled in Atj ct Ter rcr frtc m Fr'ght. HE NON REORErs HIS ACer, And Sent a Mesrag* t His Father. The Muder rs R w i N w Quire Full. Czolgosz, President McKinley's mur derer, in the custody of Sheriff Cal well of Erie ooant;, and 21 de u its, arrived in Anhurn at 3:15 a. m , Fri day. The prison is only about 50 yards frcm the depot. Awaiting the arrival of the trail- there was a crowd of about 200 people. Either for fear of the crowd, which was not very do -nontrative, or from sight of the Ii son, Cz rig.' z s jegs gave out and two d( puty eht.r ff? were compelled to przo. ically carry he man int.o the prison. Inside the gate his condition became worse, ad he was drapged up the stairs and into th3 main ball. He was 1. C d -in a sitIng posture 'on tbe betch while the handesffs were being removed, lut he fell over and mcaned an d groanea, evincing the most abjrct terror As soon as the handeoiffs were ur-i c'itd the man was draagd into the princgal kcepei's (fflas. As in the case of sil irisorers the (ffi Ars im mediately jr(c:eded to strip him and put on a new sait of clothes. Dariag this operation Czolgosz cried and yelled, makig the prison oerridore teho with evidence of his terror. 'rho prison physician, Dr. John Gerin, ex amined tne man and order, d his ie moval to the cell in the e ,ndemned row, which he will occupy until he is taken from the cell to the elecoti:r chair, The doctor declared that the man was suffering from fright and ter ror, Dut said that he was shsmming to some extent. The collapse of the murderer was a surprise to every one. En route fr m Buffalo he showed no indication of breakirg dev a. He ato heartily of sandwiches and smoked cigars when not eating. He talked some and ex pressed regret for his crime. He said. "I am very orry for Mrs. McKinley." He reiterated his former statement that he h, d had no accomplices and declared that he had never heard of the man under arrest in St. L uis who claimed to have tied the handkerchief over his hand, concealing the pis'ol with which the president was shot. He tays the handkerchief was not tied. Hs went behind the Temple of Music, arranged the handkerchief so as to hide the .weapon and then took his place in the crowd. By Jailer Mitchell he sent this mes sage to his father: "Tell him I'm so:ry I left such a bad tame for him." Czalgosz was in normal condition Fi iday afterneon and seem to have fully rcoovered form his collapse. There are five cells for condemned men in the prison, and Czolgalz was place d in the only vacant -couI, so all arc now occupied. The keepers are constantly on guard in the room, which is separate from the main prison, but to guard against an attempt on Czolgos z's part to com mit suicide, two more guards have been added and one will constantly s't in front of Czjlgosz's cell atid will have a key so that any attempt at self de struct ion may be easily frustrated. COMXANDER's QUAR1RLS. A Historical Parallel to the Sampson Schley Controversy. It seems that history is repeating it sell in the Sampson-8chley oontroversy. A %riter in the North American calls attention to the fact that the battle of Lake Erie, in the war of 1812, was fol .owed by j ast auch a quarrel, i nd it raged for anirty years. k'erry and El liott, the cflicers concerned, became permanently estranged, and the nation became divided into rank partisans of he two men. In the battle Capt. 0. H. Perry, of Rnode Island, command .d the fleet from the Lhwrernea, while Capt. J esse D). Eiliost of Maryland a as cecond in command on the Niagara. 1'he di~pute grewr out td the tact that Perry a report, w hile givitng Elliot praise for i flicient services with the squadron, was uL~satibfaory to thle officers of Eu hoes's ship. 'fuey claimed thae Perry re garded the action lost when, after his own ship had been put out of action, Ire came aboard of the 4agara and had sn interview with Elliot asserted that thre ihattle w~as not lost, and gave such aireculons witfn respect to the handlhrg 01 the slips and guns that within ten milnutes to~ enemy struck his colors, dubstgQerntly there foiiowed charges and tue counter oharges, and the mat iter was finally carried before a court of inquiiry in 1815. The court made a coiipromise finding, ae~cirding to both tffietrs high praire. But the enmity thlat had been aroused between the partiaans- of the two commanders con inued for many peals. And curiously enough there was later a hietorian in the case, who, like Maclay, came in for a lot of severe criticism. He was J. Fenimere Cooper, and the criisms of his history of the battle of Erie led to several heel suits, one being against te C'mmercial Aavertiser of blew York. -A Mob After Them. The jail at Shelbyville Tenn., is be irg heavily guarded to prevent the IUnohing of Anna Field, a negro wom an, and Jumbo Field ana Clarence Gar nett, negro boys. Wiliazn Liars, a printer, was found dying in a path lead ing to the Field woman's house Satur day night. The two boys have confess ed to tnre murder and all three have been indicted. Monday night forty masked men made an attack on the jail and succeeded in breaking the door and getting into the corridors, but they could not get into the prisoner's cage. The jailer summoned a posse and man aged to beat them off. The threats continue. Closely Allied. The New York Sun has this to say of the new president and the south: In Roosevelt the south has a representa tive in the White House mere closely allied to it by birth than any president since John Tyler. That McKinley, during whose administration the acci dent of war and his own political genius and friendly heart c aused a blessed mollification of sectional prejudice, should be succeeded by a halt southern er cannot pass without comment. In restoring the south to her own in the nation history moves with a gentle but irreitible step. FALL PLOUGBING. A Practical Farmer's Advice Gcod to Farmers. There was a large aereago planted in wheat last year and the fields either sown down in cowpeas or sorghum after the sms.ll grain crops had been harvest ed or the land left to produce a crop of crab grass bay. These fields hav6 giv en a splendid harvest of hay, the mow ers and rakes have been bu'sily employ ed during the past thirty days and Georgia farmers will have more hay and aid cosrse forage to feed their ca-tlo and stock during the coming winter than for mary, many years. This is one of the mn st gratifying signs of the times, ind points unerringly to a day in the ict distant fuure w"n cur peo ple wil. all be b'k to their osa cra crits and smokehcuses. When that day breaks forth in universal real:z tion of the ap-rreciation of our resources tho soith will be literally a land of milk aid honey, irdependenc3, pros perity, peace and happines?. The las. both hay aDd stubble field, will soon be in readiness for tae fall plowing, and it is well at this time to discuss the importance of thorough breaking. DEEP PLOUGHING. Nearly all of our lands have underly ing the top soil a strata of subsoil which for a few inches in depth i3 hird, and has been fittingly termtd the "hard pan," resting between the upper layer 4 f earth and the softer earth, whioh is sound at a depth of from 12 to 1 4 ner es from the top. To break through this haid pan is what we call, knbscil ing, and the efforts and encrgies of every farmer should be directed toward loosening up this hard pan in every field possible on his farm during the next Lbree months. In the fall of the year. before this subsoil beetmas wet with winter rains, is the proper time for deep plowing, and the deeper the bet ter. It makes no difference if the land clods, they will all be thawed by winter rains and freezes before a spring plant ing time comes around the following 5 ear. It is not so much a question of deep turning as deep breaking. I have always doubted the wisdom of turn ing lar deeper than 5 cr6 inches, and yet it is just about at that depth we strike the hard pan of the clay subsoil. My plan has always been to turn a few inches so as to cover the stubble and follow in the same furrow with a long, narrow subsoiling scooter, forcing it downward as deep as the plow will per mit and the mules can easily pull. If we can get the soil broken to a depth of ten to twelve inches in this way that old hard pan or solid compact layer which is so harmful to all growing crops is gotten out of the way and is utilized to a good purpose: Land brok en deep in the fail retains the winter rains, and through such a source re ceives fertilizing ingredients which are seen in rapidly growing crop3 the fol lowing year. If by dep breaking the winter rains are held in the soil the the growing ciops the following year can all the better stand a period of drouth. Deep plowing breaks up the hardness of the soil, renders it easy to pulverize with the harrow, rains and freezes and the natural elemer:.s cf plant food contained in such soils be come available to the growing plant. TLME NEAR AT HAND. The cotton crop is short in many sec tions, is opening rapidly and will be quickly gathered. There will be but tittle or no top crop in most sections; her ce, farmers will have ample time during October and November to keep their plows going. A man with four mules can keep the turn plow in front and the subsoiler just behind.-Where a farmer has oniy two mules he can turn with a Boy Dixie and follow in that furrow with a single subsoiler, It makes no diference whether any spe cial plan can be adopted or not, the main idea is to break the Eoil as deeply as possible. No man can f. am success fully without a good pair of males or' horst 1, it makes no difeorence whether he exptets to cultivate only thirty' acres or not. In the whole siste of Texas, during my recent visit out there, 1 did not find, nor could I hear. of a single one horse farmer in the State. We need good stock on the farm, dcep plow ing, thorough cultivation, fewer acres to the plow and heavier yields jier acre at leass cost of labor. HAjVIE JORDAN in Atlanta Journal. An Honest Confessicn. The Bamberg Herald, in a reenrt is sue, makes this honest confession: "A gentleman writing in last week's issue of the Sumter Watchman and South ron, in advocacy of the proposed new Lee county,-quotes Bamberg as having a tax levy or unly three miils, he seem ing to argue from this tflat saalier counties reduce taxes. We cc o I care to mix up in the new county fipat, but it is enuirely wrong tnat smaller counties mean lower taxes. It is true that Bamberg has a tax lesy of oniy three mills at present, but we are Drtd ly in debt, and nave had to borrowv mon ey every year since thc county was formec. It will take about a six mills levy next year to put our county on a cash basis, and it nas been 1uAy dem onstrated that we cannot iun on - three mills tax. It should be remer. bered, too, that this ccunty nas five dispensaries within its borders, ani the county's share cf the profits ass year was something like $4,000O. In addi tion to this, we have a iarge raiiroad mileage, and this helps us materially in the matter of taxation. The Sea board Air Line, Southern Railway, and Atlandec (oast Line all run tarough this county, and we have as well tae Amein Telephone and Telegraph Company's lines, the Postal Telegraph Company, and the Western Union Tiel egraph Co. With all this propty, our tax levy ought te be iow. It is very well to argue for smaller counties on the matter of convenience, but the lower taxes or even equal taxes propo sition will not do, nor will it hold good :Never Heard of God. When Emma Paul was called ns i witness in a Baltimore court Saturday in a suit brought by her father against her mother, the astonishing facts. were disclosed that, although she is aged 20 years, she did not understand the nature of an oath, had never been to a church or Sunday school, had never heard of God or heaven, and did not know of the prom ise of immortality. It was discovered that the young woman had lived in Baltimore all of her life at d that her home was at No. 1012 Salisbury alley, n the heart of a densely populated section. Judge wickes allowed her to testify, saying that she was an extra ordinary and unsatisfactory witnes. SENATOR Chancy N. Depew of New York has accepted the invitation to make the chief address at the open PREIDENXTYCKINLEY'5 WILL. Gives All of His Property to His Belov ed Wife. Sacretary Cortelycu went to Canton Friday to assist Mrs. McKinley in dis posirg of matters connected with the late president's estate. After meeting Mrs. McKinley, the question of filling the will was taken up. The trying task of rcadirg it iohcrwas undertaken by the faithful secretary. Mrs. McKinley made a hercic (fert to bear up and sueecded in dooig so. although the o:dedi was diffizult for her. All legal feinzlities n;-,css:y for her to sub c:tne to were diEp:sed o?. At 3 ,'clock J._dcg Day r.!- Scretary Cortelyou nent to h. i of tho probMe judge S d Off r.. the Vill