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DEFEAT OF OBLIVION Dr. Talmage Cheers DesprU:nell Christian Wcrkers. fn His Sermon ne Shown liow Any one Can 13e widciy and l'orever Recollected-Whby We Should Be Rmembered. [Copyright, 1901, by Louis XIopsch, N. Y.] WsigoSept. :. In this discourse Dr. Talmage shows how anyone can be widely ad for ever recollected and cheers Ces: ent Christian workers; texus. : 20: "He shall be no more r and Psalms 112: 6: "The ri, be in everlasting reucm - Of oblivion a-:.-a iIs eak to-day. There is an cid m: .-. swallowsdown ecying.. erunchts individuals, famL;ies, cormnmuzie, S states, nations, continents, he Mi spheres, worlds. Its diet is made up of years, of centuries, of ages, of cy Cles, of milleniums, of eons. That on ster is called by Noah Webster "Obliv ion." It is a steep d own which every thing rolls. It is a confiagraticn in which everything is consumed. It is a dirge which all orchestras play nn a period at which everything s:ops. It is the cemetery of the human race. It is the domain of forgetfu'ness. Ob livion! At times it throws a shadow over all of us, and I would not pro nounce it to-day if I did not come armed in the stren-th of the eternal God on your behali to attack it, to route it, to demolish it. Why, just look at the way the fam Dies of the earth disappear. For -awhile they are together, inseparable, and then they part, some by marriage going to establish other homes, and some leave this life, and a century is long enough to plant a family, develop it, prosper it and obliterate it. So the generations vanish. Walk up Pebn sylvania avenue, Washington; B-roaz way, New York; State street. Boston; Chestnut street, Philadelphia; the Strand, London; Princeton street. Ed inburgh; Champs EPysee. Paris; Unter -den Linden, Berlin, and you will meet in this year 1901 not one person who walked there in the rear ISO1. What engulfment! All the ordinary eflcrts at perpetuation are dead inilures. ;Walter Scott's "Old Mortali:y" may go round with his chisel to recut the faded epitaphs on tombstones, but Old Ob livion has a quicker chisel with which he can cut out a thousands epitaphs while old Mortality is cutting one epi taph. Whole libraries of biographies devoured of bookworms or unread of the rising, generations. All the signs of the stores and warehouses of great firms have changed, unless the grand sons think that it is an advantage to keep the old sign up because the name of the ancestor was more commenda tory than the name of the descendant. The city of Rome stands to-day, but dig down deep enough, and you come to another Rome, buried, and go dowii still farther, and you will find a third Rome. Jerusalem stands ?o-dany, bu dig down deep enough, and you wii - nd a Jerusalem underneath, and gr. on and deeper down a third Jerusalem. glexandrla, Egypt, on the top of ar. Alexandria, and the second on the top of the third. Many of the ancient cities are buried 30 feet -deep or 50 *feet deep or 100 feet deep. What wais the matter? Any special calamity? No.The winds and waves and sands and eying dust are alI undertakers and gravediggers,.and if the world stands long enough the present Washington and New York and London will have on top of them other Washingtor.s ana New Yorks and Londons, and only aft er digging and boring and blasting swill the archaeologists of far distant eturies come down as far as the highest spires anid domes and tur-rets of our present American and Eiifro pean cities. .Call the roll of the armies of Bald win I. or of Charles Martel or of Mfarlborough or of Mithrida~tes or of Prince Frederick or of Cortes, and nsot one answer will you hear. Stand !them in line and call the roll of thc 1,000,000 men in the army of Thebes. Not one answer. Stand them in line, the 1,700,000 Infantry and 200,000 cav alry of the Assyrian army ur:der Ninus,- and canl the roll. Not one an swer. Stand in line the 1,000,000 men of Sesostris, the 1,200,000 men of Arta zerxes at Cunaxa, the 2,641,000 men under leries at Thermopylae and call the long roll. Not one answer. 'At the opening of our civil war the men of the northern and southern ar *mies were tdld that if -they fell in battle their names would never be * forgotten by their country. Out of the million men who fell in battle or died in military hospitals you cannot call the names of a thousand nor the names of 500 nor the names of 100 nor the names of 50. Oblivion! Are the feet of the dancers who at the ball of the' duchess of Pldchmohd at Brussels the night before Waterloo all still? All still. Are the ears that heard the guns of Buinker Hill alt -deaf? All deaf. Are the eyes that snaw the coronatlion of George III. all closed? All closed. Oblivion! A hundred years from now there will not be a being on this earth that knew we ever lived. In some old family record a de scendant studying up the ancestral line may spell out our name and from the faded ink with great eflort find that some person by our name was born somewhere in the nineteenth leentury, but they will know no more about us than we kncw about the color of a child's eyes born last night Iu a village in Patagonia. TXe>. ae something about your great-grandfa ther. What were his features? What 'did he do? What year was he born? :What year did he die? And your great-grandmother? Will you de Dispensary Claim Rejected. Commissioner Ycrkes of the iral revenue has re jected the tdaie cf State of ECuth Caroliina f or a rf' e the taxes paid by the State sn : wholes~ale and retail liqtor drc ' , amounting to someti~ng tv:: Iow The cammnissioners form.&i ally ::Un: his decision in a feW W0:ds3 W l:. entering into atny a-gt.' at, se case is now be ore ae com' of ti where the der~ar~ment vni tprset i views. The Ciaims of' de S w as that the control of' the linrri was one of theS:,ate -irr'.esa in securing the wj eiref theIco and amsuch it was er m'-:. crm -~s. tion under the cnsru itoa. Many Cousins. A Utica, N. Y., man d'o re'cen' died, left $21,000 to be diviC a his third cousirns, then doened as "children of the-e tno : to me as cousins." Tims- :r e' y "third cousins" I-ave 1)-:r'na i a part of that $21.000 ard 1.hey .ro re-c resented by ny 48 lswves. 0, Ct en in ea I er ?W it M.rch weath, S ove e a y: scsed Zt t chi p of that ;sea i trin~hi:gover -,:-e "arul, aI.d w"at s n at our goxin on all- arun '' ad and th c n ne tsar" :-: : !:":o thc on th utte hot ehise., e1 e :: un and cut w u -,e _,:u,,:face. r people say eC word wi:l Np lOn all scien. you h t has for agc \ y ce is lyr a crust bc'eCweafen - the furnaces inice raz.ng to -t ou. OblIVion: The world itself will roll nito "t as easily ns a school bov's india rubber ball rolls down a hill, and when our workd goes it Is so inter'oe-ckod byTi 4aw o gravitation with otner wvor *-v' -wh will go, too, and so fLar frmb rn o mem (4ty perpe'.e " y 'a onument of Aberdee4n -r t i hs wordte is no % si yt of our strones tceecrone t~tw. be a sure pediment for any s1 of comrm moraton -of t:e fact that we ever lived or died at all. Our earth is s:truk with death. The ioetree of the con.tellations will break and let down the populations of other worlIs. S:lar, lunar, solar, nroritality. Iiion: It can swallow and will swallow whole galaxies of wor:ds as easily as a crocodile takes down a frog. Yet oblivion does not remove or swallow everthing that. had better I not be removed or swallowed. The old monster is welcome to his meal. This world would long ago have been overcrowded if not for the merciful removal of nations and generations. What if a:' the books had lived that were ever writtcn and printed and published? The libraries would by their immensity have obstructed in tellirence and made all research im poss:bie. The fatal epi'mic of books was a rere:ful cpidemic. Many of the state and national libraries to day are onl mrru's, i a which dead books are waiting for some one to come and recoL-rni then-. What if all the people that had be( n born were stl1 alive? We would :re been el bowed by our ancestor; of ten cen turies ago, and people who ought to have said the.r last word 3,000 years I ago would snarl at us, s.vinz: "What are you doing here?" There would have been no room to turn around. Some of the past generations of man kind were no- worth :!emmbering. The first useful thing that many peo I pie did was to die, their cradle a mis, fortune and their grave a boon. This world was hardly a comf::ortable place to live in before the middle of the eighteenth century. So many things have come into the world. that were not fit to stay in we ought to be glad they were put out. The waters of Lethe, the fountain of forgetfulness, are a healthful draugtht. The higory we have of th'e worid in ages past .s ,Iwars one-sided and cannot be de pend'ed on. History is fiction illus tmted by a few straggling facts. We may bui'd this "everlasting re membrance," as my text styles it, into the supernal existence of those to whomn we do kindnesses in this world. You must remember that this infirm and treacherous faculty which we now call me'mory is in the future state to be complete and perfect. "Everlasting remembrance:" Nothing will s:ip the stout grip of that celestial faculty. Did you help a widow pay her rent'. Did you find for that man released from prison a place to get hones: work? Did you pick up a child fallenon the curb stone, and by a stick of candy put in his hand stop the hurt on his shcrateched knee? Did you assure a business man swamped by the stringency of the money market that times would after awhiie be better? Did you lead a Mag dalen of the street into a midnight mission, where the Lord said to her: "Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no more?" Did you tell a man clear discouraged in his waywardness and hopeless and plotting luicide that fot him was near by a layer in which he might wash and a coronet of eternal blessedness he thight' wear? What are epitaphs in graveyards, what are eulo giums in the presene'e of those whose breath is in their nostriis, what arc unread biographies in the alcoves of a city library, compared with the im perishable recofis you have made in the il~umined memories of those to whom you did such kinresses? For get them? They cannot forget them. Notwithstanding all their might and splendo'r there are some things the gori of Heaven cannot do. and this is one cf them. The.y cannot forget an earthly kindness done. They have no~ cutlass to part that cable. Th'ev have no strength to hurl into oblivion that benediction. Haes Paul forgotten the inhabitants of Ma::a who extended the island huopitality when he and others with him had felt, added to a sh ip wreck, the drenching rain and the sharp cold? Has the victim of the highwyman on the read to Jericho forgotten the good Samaritan with a medicament of oil and wine and a free ride to the hostelry? Have. the Eng lish soldiers who w.ent up to God fromn the Crimean b'a'tlenlelds forgott ea Florence Nightinaae? Through all eternity will the nor:hern and south ern so~diers forget the northern anad southern women who ad:nininstered -to the dying boys in blue and gray after he awful fig'hts in Tennressee and Pennsylvania and Virgicia and Geor ea which turned everv house a ndj -arn and shed into a hospital and in carnaditned the Susquehanna arnd the James ani the CIhattahoochee and the Savarnah with brave bloo.? The kindcesses you do to others will stand The' War Goes On. Lodhi-e:e rpn ta . two rs ei 31= hae ben k eV.', a z3 tong iL the apprecla tion of others as the gat:s ot Leavcn wi s!ta:d. as the ae vili stand, ivii will be f:: Ia the ,a:t f ~those whom w , . '- :,: t or .ave. Character as et r:.; . lo Se by a ri;-ht influ eCee we : . l asforming:a badman ;to a good man, a colorous man into a happy nan, a dieheartened man info a courageous ma , every stroke of 'that work done w', be iunrtalized. There may r.tver be so much as one line in a cwspaper regarding it or no nortal tongue may ever whisper it into human ear, but wherever that soul h go your work upon it shall go.. wh:rever that s l* rises your wor: on it w.i: rise, an so long as that SOuE will as: your worl on it w ast. Dc you sIupo-e the re wi' ever come such. he history of that soul IIh., 7 that It shall forget tha1. you inited o ::n :o Christ; that you, by pray-r or Gspel word, turnet Li:. round fromth wr, g i way tc.the right wy v? No Ii. santy % willever smite a heavenly cih:en. It is not half as well on earth krown that Christopher Wren piar.zd and bui:t St. Paul's an it will be known in all11eaven that you were the i::strumentality o: b'uilding: a temple for the sky. We teach Ea Sabbath class or put a Christian tract in the hand of a passerby or testify for Christ in a prayer-meeting or preach a sermon and go home discour. aged, as though nothing had been ac complished, when we had been char acter building with a material that no frost or earthquake or rolling of the centuries can damage or bring down. Oh. this character buildigr! The struture lasting indepen&nt of passing centuries, independent of crumbling mausoleums, independen: of the whole planetary system. Aye, if the material universe, which seems all bound together like one piece of machinery. should some day meet with an acc.dent that should send world!; crashirg into ers:E other like tele scoped railway tans, and all the wheels of consteh:ations and galaxies should stop, and <:own into one chasm of immensity all the suns and moonms and stars should tumble like the mid night express a: Ashtabula, that would rot touch us ard would not hurt God, for God is a spirit, and character and memory are immortal, and over that grave of a wrecked material universe rm-ht truthfu:y be written: "The riZhteous shall be held in everlasting remembrance." 0 Time, we defy thee! O Death, we stamp thee in the dus-t of thine own sepulchers! OEternfty,:oll on till the last s-tar has stoped rotat I and the last sun is extinguished o,. the sapphire pathway and the last moon Las illuminated the last night and as many years have passed as al the scribes that ever took pen could de scribe by as mary fiEures as they coul: vrite in all the centuries of all time,. but thou shalt have no power to effacs from any soul in glory the memory of anything we have done to bring it to God and Heaven. What joy, what honor, can there be comparable to that of being remem bered by the mightiest and most af fectionate being in the uVniverse? Think of it, to hold an everlasting place in the heart ofGod! The heart of God: The most beautiful palace in the universe. Let the archangel build some palace '.s grandas that if he can. Let him crumbie up ell the stars of yesternight aiA to-morrow night and put them togetiher as mosaics for such a palace floor. lt et him take all the sunrises and sunse s of all the days and the auroras of all the nights and hang them up as uphosuy at its win dows. L'et hin take alT the rivers and all the lakes and all the 'a eons and toss them into the fountains of thi. -' ace court. . Let him take all of all the hills and hang it in - dcliers and all the pearls of the se... and all the diamonds of all th'e fields, and with them arch the doorways of that palacp and then invite into all the glories that Esther ever saw at a Persian banquet or Daniel ever walked among in Babylonian castles or Jo seph- ever witnessed in Pharaoh's throneroom and then yourself enter this palace of archangelic construction and see how poor a palace it is com pared with the greater palace thsat some of you have already found in the heart of a loving and pardoning God and int o which all the music and all the prayers and all the sermonic cona siderations of this day are trying 1o 'introduce you through the blood of tk.e slain Lamb. Oh, where is oblivion now? From the clark and overshadowing word ths.t it seemed when I beg;an it has bedomre something which no man or woman er child who loves the Lord need ever fear. Oblivion defeated. Oblivion dead. O' livion sepulchei'ed. But 1 must not be so hard on this devouring monster, for into its grave go all our sins when the Lord for Christ's sake has for ven them. Just blow a resurren tion trumpet over them when once o livion has snapped the.. down. Niit one of them rises. Bhow again. Not a stir amid all the pardoned iniquities of a lifetime. Utlow again. Not er~ of them moves in the deep grave trenches. But to this powerless res urrection trumpet a voice responds, half humen, half Divine, and it must be part man and part God, saying: "Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no mmoe." Thank Cod for this blessed oblivion. So you see I did not i:,vite you down in:o a cellar, btt on a throne: not into the grave ard to which all materialism is des tined, but into a garden al~l a-bloom with everlasting remnembruance. The frown of my first text has become theO kiss of the second text. Aanihilation: has become crnm tior.. The wrmging hands of a great agony have become the elapli:g han 2s of a grea: joy. The reuem with wlhich we bega:: has be come the grand t:nrch with vhiah vwe close. lhe ta; of Sac; I1ss that rolhed own outr cheek has strn:-k the lip en whih sits the laughter of eternal t-i mph. What It Cost. T ha New York Comrareisi, having a mir d tha natui-all runs to statistice, -ead ::,cLltjn ofth amount af oy p.:Ad by tte peado cf 'K Usittd a's for c:ems of ' nnn in ern '.uee of v'he do'th of President Mc E ~: . E eim:.zatha thee wre *. -' m~ a pra, iu 15,000 yards (4 . ',eds- o'' d a s gcis at thiry : a yad amouttting in all to 50, (;t000 r'irds, arnd costing a tolal of Ak Good One. J. S. K:: of Wayerc.s. Ga., 'while cmki:: iog heaad pio e up a hedi nhis pooct forgot all about . Th~e aex: day he dined withi W. B3 I'soa while at the table dropped , ec of'YatO or pickle inio his ve'5t ic EGt : t'eek to be the misuing di t.But isstea C. . l r ae 'me found a terrapi:. e~ e. .en. ne had found had hatch NOW FOR THE FAIR. Ca-olina's Great Annual Gather ir g at Her Capital City. LARGE CROWDS EXPECTED. Preparations of the State Ag-icu! tu al S-ciety and of the Ct z ns of Columoii ft-r the Occ5stor. COLUMBIL, S. C, Oc- 5 -Spec'al: The splenaid success of the last annual fair of the State Agricultural and Mehatiosl , oc etv has enocu'aged the management to ke'ieve that there will be <qually large attendance and equal ly attractive exhibits at the fair which is to commence on the 28 h inst. Toe (flicers of the Peciety have already waken all retessary steps to encourtge cxhibits at d to attract visitors. Tne grourdl and bui'd nas , ave been put in firstrate order, and other arraDge a.ents made which look to the complete f uccess cf the fair itself and alio to the comfort and pleamure cf the thousands <f people who will come to CoIumbia rqresenting every section and every interest of Sou'h Carolins. The premium list 1 as been earefu ly revised and pains have 'been taken to provide rewards for the sUp3 ri.rity in evary department of art or it dartry which shall be represented by exhibits. The prime object cf the fair is to advance the cause cf agriculture io 9 uth Carolina this by rewarding the t ffrts of farmers who lab)r to this end. In iuch an undertaking every far mer ought to feel (as he assuredly ha-) a great interest. The arrangements for the coming lair, already made by those havir.g them in charge, look to makirg up an exhibition which shall properly repay every farmer who ehall take part wtbether as exhibitor or only as visitor. Ard of couree the visitors are as neces tary as the exhibitors or the exhibits. One new feature which promises ex cellent rtsults is the arrangement to keep the grounds open to vsors in the evenings. By a liberal use of eleetr'c lights the buildings and the space around will be brilliantly and attrac tively ilminated, and the comfort of visitors will be assured. Doubtless the numbers attending the night exhibi tions will be so large as to lend enthu sisem to the occasions and make the night ettertainments on the grounds among the most erjoyable of the week. The railrcads will of course give re dued rates, and there will 1e ample accommodations in the city a; very rea sonable rates. This matter of accom modations will be under the erpecial cha3ge of a aommittee of aidzirns, and everY care will be taken for the comfort and c Lvenienee of the visitors. "SOME OF TBE FEATURES" A number of entries, particularly of livestock, have already been made, Ei hty cattle, 48 horse and 22 race stals are aOr.ady assigned. Besids the great number of anmmals that are k Down will be at the fair, the race horse men from ou'side the st ate are teeking informauon as to the racing, as they wish to come south and winter their horses. There need be no fear as to a fine exhibit. The g'neral superinten dent, who has just returned from Brnf falo, says: 'We are~going to have one of the biggest fairs we have ever held, and the midway will be especially fine. The privilege -people are falling over one another to secure spaces." It is known, too, that large herds of .atele outside the Siate will be on hand with their fine show animals. The cach factory at Greenville will have-a fine exhibit -ef their manufac tue ini wagons, and after the fair it will be shipped to Charleston for exhibition. Tra.e citizens of Columbia will da their part also towards making things pleasant fir the visitors by providing outs d1. attractions. The city fair a: sociation nas already had aomeme ings, and its plans have been olthrned. Tns far the particular attractions have not been decided upon, One thing, however, has been definitely ar ranged- the proper illumination of Main street. A contract was closed with the electric light company for seven hand. some a ches, and very likely lights run nir g down tte two sides of the street will also be contracted for. The amuse ment committee is to canv.ss the own ers of vehicles in the city and ascer tain whether the proposed illuminated floral parade which has been such a notable success in other cities can be pr vided. Many other attractions are under diecussion, and whtn the select tons are actually made they aill be of a character to assame much pleasure to all the visitors. It is hcped that there will be an en carnj ment of the State militia-alwayvs one or the greatest attractions. Newman's Famous Hymn. In reprinting below Carliinal New mai'. famous hymn, which is said to have been one of President McKinley's favorites, the Indianapolis Journal has given tbe version used in 'Lyra An gicra," a hymnal of saered poetry pblished by thiAppletons in 1865. The asfer ence is in the- first line only 'Lord, Kindly Light," but it is an important difference, the opening wo3rd adicg a force which the invocation otherwise !acks. It is presumably the for m in which the line c sme from Ne w man's pen, though thre other has been incorporated in the hymnals in com mon usa and is the only one known to most readers, in the 'Lyra Angli ca a" the hymn is called "The True Lg1t" and reads thus: THE TRUE LIGHT. Lrd, kindly L'ght, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark anad I am far fr rm home; Lead Thou me or~l Keep Thou my feet, I do not ask to see te distant way; one steps' enough for I was not ever thus, ncr prayed that Thou, Wouldst lead me on; I loved to see and choose my path, bus now Lead Thou me on! I loved the garish day, and, spite of fepre,. P~ride ruled my will; remember not past yeari. So long Thy power hath kept me, sure it still Will lead me on! O'er moor and fen, o'e r crag and torrent, till The night is gone, And with the morn those angle faces smile Which I have loved long since and lost awhile. SENtATOR Chauncy M. Depew of New York has accepted the invitation to make the chief address at the open THE HUMBLE CHRISTIAN. Dr Carlisle's Commtnts on the Death of President McKinley. At the meeting held in Spartanburg to do honor-to the memory of the late president, Dr. Jas. H. Carlisle spoke as follows: George Washington died late in the evening of Saturday, December 14 It was late in the evening of Tuesday, Di cember 31. when Charleston first heard the words "Washingt on is dead " Wr. McKinley died early on the morning of Saturday, Septen ber 14. On the after noon of that day we read in our even ing paper that William, emperor of Germany, was moved by the sad intelli gence and ordered the German flag to e lowered in mcurning and the Stars and Stripes raised. This was startling. It seems that the world is becoming smaller. The great human family is crowding more closely around a central hearth. kn Italian mourner in wid ow's weeds set de a swift message to one jast initiated into hergreat sorrow: "We are sis:ers in suffering." We ali feel to d ry that it seems improbable, impossible that war will ever stamp his red fco:, and nations feel the shook. Two weeks ago there lived in Chicago a private citiz 3n.known to comparative ly few even in that city. Today his rugged name has been carried into all the langusges of Europe. He is per haps the most conspicuous man in our country to-day. In a few days a great mass of excited people will be gathered in and around the court housa in a large northern city. There will come a moment when, if he is-not present, the machinery of the court will stop until he is brought in. Many will be unable to enter, but he and his escort will be admitted. He will find a comfortable chair in a prominent part of the build ing; all eyes will be turned on him. Why is this? The young man has not displayed any great genius. He has not made a great disocvary to bless mankind. Why then is he so famous? He has committed a greatcrime. He struck a blow at a reptosentative man and the vast machinery of society quiv ers in sympathy to resent it. V hen his name is called. it will not be the McKinley family against the prisoner at the bar. It will be the E mpire State of New York with its seven mil lions of plaintiffs, rather the forty four sister commonwealths will j in with 70,000 000. All English speaking peo pies, the civilized world in some sense may be considered as taking part in the solemn jadicial inquest. Crime may give the most insignificant person great position and Irominenoe. Some thoughtful people love to think of our woi] d a the only one darkened by sin. There may come a ime when intelligence swifier than through our wonderful wires may teach to other worlds our history. The loyil inhabitants cf the universe will look upon the sinful element of our race, the profane element, the ungodly element :1s all good citizens look upon this bloody and deceitful man. The intel ligent human being who persists in triking at the honor, the authority of the Divine Raler of the Universe must have a fearful prominence sometime, somewhere. Bat why does the Omnipotent Ruler allow these things to take plaoe with seeming impunity? He leay a good men so strangely, so utterly to the mar y of bad men. The wicked seem to have the right of way, unchallenged. It might seem that no man is safe any where. There are so many destruc tive agencies and so many lawless men around us. Human life and hunian so cety are so vulnerable!, This is surely a mystery that waits for its solution. Perhaps we can push this mystery one step farther back. Itt is only the prop erty and.the body of the good man at the mercy of the wicked, and lawless. Every man's soul is scure, unless as he consents to evil. The laindish ass asin may send his balls to the vital part of his fellow man, even while holding out his hand in friendly salu tation. He can not throw a spot or stain on his soul, without his consent. No man is absolutely necessary to the world or to his own country. The great current of public and private life will s weetr on as before when the cas ket is laid in Canton cemetery to day. But surely the great wave of feeling that is passing over us should leave some golden sands when it passes away. L-t us take up the burdens of common life again with more vivid connections about some things; the terrible malig nity of the human will, the sad spect acle of a perverted', frerzied, demon iac human soul in its desperation and ruin; the wide harvest of woe that may follow one sinful impulse when admitt ed and brooded over; the pathos of do mestic human love; the blessed minis try of grief as a peemaker strength ening the- ties severed by political and he.tional feelings; the solemnity of the moment when millions are moved by one impulse, and thinking the same thoughts, indulging the same feelings, the mighty streams that overrun oceans, mountain chains and national lines; the fleeling nature of all human glory, the superiority of the man to all the regalia of office; the great inferiori ty of the president in tlie White House with all his patronage and power, to the humble Christian, who when called suddenly and cruelly into the valley of the shadow of death can ask fcr his murderer "Lst no one hurt him," at. d for her dearer than life to him, -'Break it gently to he?," then turning his thoughts away from earth, whisper in meek sub~cissioD, trust and hope, "Nearer, My God, to fhee," "God's will be done." Seventeen Perished. Seventeen men are dead as a result of a fire and explosion in extension mine No. 2 belonging to the Welling ton Colliery company Vectoria, B. U. The flames starsed from a curtain which caught fire from a miner's lamp at the bottm of level No. 3 and was communicated across the slope. In half an hour the whole slope was on fire. Rescuers flocked to the mine and reached the place where the miners had been at work, but the men had. gone. They had run with the fresh air inted of against it in an attempt to get out by :rte accustomed route, thus meeting death half way. While the rescuers were at work several explo sions occurred. When is was reahied that the men could not be saved a strong force started to choke the mine, but their work was undone by a terrifiu explosion which blew down the barri cade. A little later the fan house was burned. James Thomas, a rope rider, hod a thrilling escape. He was riding down the slope, and seeing the fire oming he jumped off the car and ran. George Southcomb and Eugene Griffith, timbermen, called to him to follow them but he ran on up the slope for one thousand feet to its mouth and bare ly escaped with his life. The other men were overtaken by the flames and perished. The fire is still raging, but it is thought it can be extinguished without flooding the mine. THE PEICE OF COTTON Some Reasons Why It Should Go Much Higher. In discussivg the proballo future of cotton prices Theodore H. Price, a New York cotton broker, says were it not that a comparative crop disaster in any great staple is utqueetionably a source of far-reaching disaster to many, the showing made by the agricultural department at Wsehington in its report on the condition df the cotton crop pub lished today would be amusing in some of its aspects. For several months past a group of speculators in the great cotton markets of the world have de luded themselves and a very large por tion of the spinning trade into a belief that the Southern ctton crop this year would be a comparatively large one. They overlooked the real facts of the situation and have proceeded upon the assumption that the financial resources and mercantile intelligence of the South had failed to progress during the past ten years and that whatever the size cf the crop it was practicable through offering to contract for the de livery of oott6n they did not possess to force Southern producers and merchants into a relinquishment of their most valuable product under intimidating predictions of a plethorie supply and an impecurious ownership. The report of the agricultural depart ment; which of late years har attained an accuracy that justifies the utmost confidence in its predictions, makes the condition of the crop on the 1st of 03 tober the lowest, with one ec ption, of the past nineteen years. Tae condi tion, as reported, is 61.4 pir cent. In only one year, namely 1896, was it lower than this, and then only by 7-10 of 1 per cent the differenco being inap preciable. The most sensational fea ture of to day's report, however. is that the condition in the great proudoing States of Texas, Arakansas, Indian Territory and Oklahoma are practically the lowest on record, while the S:ates east of the Mississippi, and especially the State of Mississippi itself, showas tonishing declines. This report .is a practical confirmation in the most un mistakable terms of the predictions of many close obseriers and its announce ment threw the New York market into a complete bear panic, an idvace of 30 points, or $150 a bale, being establish ed within the three hours after its pub lication. This advance was establish ed on comparatively small trading and it is generally believed that an enor mous short interest in contracts is to night unprotected and that the bears who have sold cotton are measurably .at the mercy of the other pa'rties to the contracts. The local speculative situa- on is, in my pinion, however, the least important aspect of the case. The varying fortunes of those who bull or bear the market for purely specuja tive purDoses do not have any very pro found cf ect upon the trade, except as they emphasize the real and undelying facts of the situation, which. are as fo; lows: First. Practically the lowest con dition of the cotton crop on record, when the comparative production of the States whose condition is poorest is taken into consideration. Second. A crop diaster, which will be still further intensified should an ear 'ly frost occur to more sericurly cartail the producing capacity of a plant ex tremely late in its developmenat and unfruitful in its yield. On the basis of the condition of the cotton cror, as published today, it seems to me improbable that the crop can exceed nine and one-half millions bales. I am oonfident that it will not do so, udless we have an exceptionally late autumn. On the other hand, the world's consumption of American cot ton, as recently estimated by Mr. Elli son, the well known English statisti cian, will be eleven -million bales, un less prices advance to a point to cneck it. $tocks of catton at the centre of the world's accumulation are the small est on record since the American war, with the exception of last year. The last weekly figures made up show that the stocks of American cotton in Liver pool and on the Continent and afloat for Earope were only. 454,000 bales, as against 385,000 last year, which was the smallest on record. The stock of cotton in New York for delivery on con tract to-night is only 46.420 bales. The amount of cotton sold for future deliv ery in New York prior to the 31st of January it is impossible to estimate. An extremely conservative guess would be that it is ten or twenty times that of the New York stock. *The price of print cloths in Fall RWv er is three cents a yard and overntives' wages are being advanced. S:cks of manufactured cotton goods ahroughout America are light. It is univer~sally concdsd that the hand-to mouthpdli cy of Eluropean spinners leaves them in a position in whioh they must buy to cover enormous contracta already made for future delivery of goods. Under conditions far less stringent last year's cotton sold at seven pence a pound in Liverpool and eleven cents a pound in Ne w York. These pri'ces resulted fr no the legitimate demand for the ar:.icie and were not created upon a leverage of any such short interest as now exists. It seems, therefore, nat improcable that the cotton trade of the world can only adjust itself to the alarming condi:ions indicated by to day's Government. re port through a conval:,ive and seen tional advance. Tae conditions, t.o~h speculative e~nd legitimate, uivar to vored it and the snert interest~s havo rarely been in suen an unproaLcted po sition. Tne producers ox cotton in ..he South hav'e it witsiin their power to reahze a p:ice for tneir croy which? the conditions jumity, and it th~eir :.uva: tage is not passed too ar itsccm2no; improbable uiat for thae por..ion cf ans crop now unmarktecd none ces a pound at the Sou~hern markets may readily be oinained. Harrowing Details. The latest adviets from tae islsnd of. Samar give barxrwing e-:.s of the slaughter of tac memb,.ra of tCo. U. Ninth United State~s io:try last Satur day at bia i . h oees tas the presidient of tue tow: mifing to b.e frienly,l1-.dcme a--sul. 1 .--ox Oa heara~u of th'- sla'gar Gi L)oD D-rus~sy, ox thab~ ~ &tat if-st':. sared or tescene im:eii i.: a battiation. The bo.y of Capt.- Can nell had been ti,.d atoe'cels, satur.at ed with kerosene and pardy bnroed. Forty-five bodies had been burned in a trench, le:.ving seven unsecoounted for. The che.rred remaics of many were recovered. In numerous in tances the bodies had been badly mu tilated. Tn: preacher who said the shooting of the president was the work of Godi because whiskey selling was not s~op ped in the Philipp;ints, is a gocd partner for the preacher who cl nas that Ge dl pened the door of '.he Pnxiipines a d pushed us into all the trouble wo are having out there for the purpose of con THE LOAVE AND FiSaE . A Lively Ecramble for Them A mong Republicans The Wasl:iogton correspord.nt of the Nws and (6urier says President 11 .osevelt will have ample opportunity to become fam'.iir with samples of the rank and file of the Republican party in Georgia and South Carolina while he hesitates about selecting collectors of internal revenue from those two States. Collector Rucker's term has a' oit cx pired, and the Georgia Republican or gan;zation is urging his reappointment. Tiere are severaL~ther candidates in the field, who claim that a negro has hal the office for four years, and DOW it is time to give a white Ge6rgian Re publican a chance to see what he can do with one of the best Federal offices in the State. Two new candidates were formally ann)unced today. They are W. H. Winn, of Atlanta, and Cas ter Terrell, of Covinglon. Jast prior to the death of Pecsident McKinley the friends of Collector Racker felt confi dent that he would be recommended without serious opposition. -Now it appears-that a strong fight will be made to replace him with a white Republi. can. In 85uth Carolina the scramble for the internal rev..nue collectorship is even more general than in Georgia. Eilery M. Brayton, cf Columbia, bobs to the political surface again 'and shout s, ' (Coat me in !" The other an noucced ceanidates, who hava formal lV fl.ed thteir applicatioas at the tress ury depsrtment, are George H. Hag gins, the preent deputy; F. W. 8,ra ven, of Columbia, who called on the Prefident a few. days ago, and- S. T. Moore, of Simpsonville, E. H. Dias, also a deputy collector, is-aiso playing the "darg horse" game, eni-.iently expecting to succeed his departed lea der. In the meantimes Loomis Bla lock, who has been selected for the place, is patiently waiting to receive his commission at the hands of Presi dent Roosivelt and enter pon his new duties. Another effort was made to induce President R3osevelt to come to the re lief of kostmaster Fair. of Newberry, S.fC., whose removal is recommended by the postal authorities. 0. L. Schumper&, of Newberry, Fair's attor ney, accompanied by Gen. Baler, called at the White House and appeal ed to the President not to remove-Post master *- ir. Without committing himself the President intimated that he was not sufficiently familiar with the case to pass upon it off handed, but promiaed to look into the subject at an early d.te. At the postoffice dspart, mar it is said that the report of the pobtcific inspectors who investigated Lae carges against Posimaster Fairre commended his removal, and the prob abilities are that their rec;mmenda tions will be sufficient to jastify the Prnident in masing a change. The three leading -candidates to sueceel Fair are Mesars. Purcil, Daivis- and Scott, of Newberry. - A Lady Held by Brigands. A Paris newspaper correspondent sends word. to The Figaro, on the staff of which he is employed, that he has j ast returned from a visit to Miss Ellen M. Stone, of the American board of foreign missiorns, who is held by bri gands in a _mountainous region o'f -fur iey. The correipondent wires that he sueceeded in locating fiss Stone in an almost inac zesible mountain defile. Tfhe chief of the ondlaws parmitted the correspondrnt to see Miss Stone and gaik with laer. Mitss Stone told her visi tor that she had neen treated with ex ceeding courtesy ever since her capture. V'vo brigands were detailed to act as her personal servants, providing her with good food and showing her every attention. The brigands had instrue tions to obey ner merest whim, and to show with what degree of consideration she' was treated she told the hewspaper man that having exhausted all of the films for her kodak she had said-that she wished she had mere. The deisire was repeated to the chief . of the brig ands, who at once posted a couriescif to Constantinople to secure a supply for her. This meant a week of stead~y traveling by mule ovxer dangerous and rocky mountain paths. The leader of the brigands told the correspondent that unless a ransom of $150,000. was forthcoming within 30 day Miss stdne would either be put to death or com pelfed to marry one of the bandits. It is believed that the barndit will keep his word. The situation recalls the capture by these same brigands in the same re gion, six years ago, of Mume. Gerarde -ce friracgille, a beauitifal French heirers, who is now a Carmelite nun. Inrough the dishocesty of a Tuirkish cffieu? by whomn the ransom was nego tiated tho money failed to reach the bandits. Tne lovely French girl was theesfore forced to become the wife of a mem~er of the oatlaw gang. She was rescied seven months later in a battle in which her iatner killed her bandit nu~,iazd. Miss Stone is a native of Checse, Mas. It is said the mission boira w:ii act pay tbe ransom asked, but w-ill dagendi on the government to resano her. WILL BE RESCUiBD. Amerinan repres:.ntaa1vss h-.ve se cured evideace proving the complicity of memoers of the Macedci~ian commit tee at Sofia in the kid~rnarpag of the Aoierican miesioi.ary, M1iss Be'len H. Stone, a-.d he-r campsmton, Midrme Tslka, and the assernncesgivent by the B a2i- government r-lativn to the messures to te taken against the ab nu*cehow thatthe gravity of the af arisappreciated at Sons. The de parturo of the United S:ates consul general at Coasteritinope-C. M. Dick inson-for the Bulgarian capital is ex peeked to result in increased activity. "The Uceied States is de to:mined to exac: funi rev. nge upon every one cen ces"m the Costantlicople eorre ' -en-e" o- h Daily alegrapht, "and ir atsy-.hi phep:: to Miss Stone it si Ies ,e'm to ask peimission to bricg afi ar;oug2 the D:andlles to ge s Bnfgnriaa ?yrs on thle Black Sea and lhan fcrce th Boga~rian gov men' to act against the Mace d~nian W\Xomen in the Pulpit. Une Sw c. n la e d iiin to -. .-c Lsa EIJ SL. R. Padg-I han of Syae, who-'im -st -o r med" in dat ci:-', te -dnato m.M i P cgham is a i:h Col iego g'rvinaC. and pt?sued~ hr theo'og a edvle Pa. Daring the summer se dici-.edfr M?iss Jenney, in Des Me~cand while engaged in ministe wea wok there received a call to Perry. Ps. Qh will enter upon her duties at E is aow eiaimeh by a French scien is rhat he a iscilated thte bacteria of atue. and it would seem that the man >i tee -n ura will be able to work him elf to denthi withut ever having that dre feeling which has been so con A BTIL E FOR LIFE. Twelve Hours on the Keel of a Boat in a Gale. A correspondent of the News an! Courier writing from McClellanvile, relates the foliowi ng thrilling 'tale of the sea: The past week has been an eventful one in the history of this little com munity and McClellanville is-proud of being the home of Capt R-abert Rep burnMorrison. Capt Morrison, havet g business calling him to Georgetown last week, engaged another captain to t&7k 3 charge of his boat the-steamer Spray, that makes weekly trips to Charlestoa, She left here at 12 M.on Tuesday with fturteen passengers and sone freight reaching the city at 6.15 P. M.. Wednesday night, at 11 o'clock, s.e left Boyce's wharf with a heavy cargo, and the following passengers: r. Eugene Hughs, Mr M. F. Skipper, Mr Oen Mer:sy and your correspondent, tf this place; Miss Nally Au d of Sam merville, Mr Swan, assistant.- lig at house keep-r on Bull's Island, and several color, d passengers. There were signs of an equinoxial.gale as the Spray crossed the harbor, and-by the time she reached. Bali's [slaod harbor th) gale was on. That msde it impasibte to cross Bali'd Bay,, so the large anobor was east overboard and the Spray wait & for the morning and two other mora ings. Little did the passengers dres a of the battle with the winds and waves that was being fought out.for them om that rough pioes of water, and'hor o-e life was saarificd a.d most anoth.. Capt Morrison, after the steamer be ing two day' overdta, secured -Phinp Williams to aceompany him in a smail sail boat to Itok her up, .fearing Bha 7c had been blown up in the marsh. After an early breakfast on Friday morning he set sail. Rea hing Bali's Bay te si; th4at the waves were rannieg big.-, but thinking his boat.eapabie of moua. ing them dished on. When. "Bird Bank" was reached, the most dangeroui point in the bay, a heavy sea.Unhipp ed the boa-and upset thi boat. Boti men-caught on the keel, Capt Morrisoa recovering one oar as the boat turne.1 over. With this he on the stern of the boas used itin trying to get the boat to drift on to Ball's Island. Sesafter sea would break over them, bu, as hisid,, le would "close his mouth and held a breath, and send a meesage to Him tha held not only him but the very sea he" was battling with in His handl" After struggling for sonks- hours he noticed that Williams, who had only to hold on. was giving out, so he encourag cd him all he could and told him that they would reach the island ssfely. Williams doubted it -aind old the Cap tain to whoop for Capt Svendsen, the keeper - of the light, if they. should ge c near enough. All- this time he con d see the mast of the 'Spray" riding a6 anchor. Williams, seeing -that, 4hey would not touch, bat pass, the pointo the-island, .and so be -cul on thebroad Atlantic, lost.all hope.. capt 'Mr son crawled for Ward an& -aught hit by his right-arm, with his -a arm, and thus held him on.and stil paddled with the oar to beach the boat. OaPhihi' not replying to a questios lie loskid as himnand saw that he was dead, so keree leased his hold- and Williams weg$ down ,'like a bag of shot" -. -1* Having a better cbancs now, he suc ceeded in getting the boat near enougia to desert her and he swam to the shore. Being perfectly -exhausted after. a twelve-hour battle,~he crawl-d up on. sand bank and dug a trench with hi s hand, buried his nude body to 'secure heat, and after some hours started on a seven mile walk to reach Mr. Svend sen, the light house keeper, whickt he sucaeeded in doing by 1. A. if. Saiurday. He said -that the keeper and his 'wif6 did all for. himy that. his own father anda moth er. could. have done. As -soon ae day broke he tottered round tothe back bieach'with Mr. Bvendsen to haiLdee "Spr'y," which they suceededfi do ing just as she waa entering .the bay, The soenes that were enacted on .the steamer reaching her home port cat better be imagined than described. Philip Williams was thetesingrp-in McClellanville, and respected by all - respectable people. His mother . as heartbroken, as this is the sepond son lost in Ball's Bay. If his body should be recov, red it is to be hoped that it will be forwarded to her ift possible. lOW MEN MAKE LOVE. some Do-ft in a Gradieouent Mahem netr-and Fail to -Make a. rmpression. All sorts of men in all kinds of cofiditions have made,love to me. While I won't say that I loved -them all in returzi, they--that is those who sent me fruits and flowers and bonbons, not diamonds and geps succeeded-best with me. Stage womn en don't want big 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 are generally 'too. overbearing and make you feel as if they did you a favor by mnking love -to you. The little gentlemanly th~gs a man does win a woman'aheart. I like a man who takes his -hat of in my presence and the cigar out of his mouth the moment I come near him; who ris'es 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 mustn't do these things only for a few weeks, while I am getting interes ted 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 and costly presents upon a woman Is usually very ostentatious about it. The fel low who comes along with a bunch' of fowers 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 shouder. Love-making is an art which wom en understand much better than men. -Marie Dressler, in St. Louis Post Dispatch. ________ Fighting Yellow Fever. If the ship enters the mouth of the Mississippi with a clean bill of health anc no sickness on board she is al lowed to proceed to qrfarantine. There the quarantine of~cer and his - assistant physician go aboard._ Tha reports of the master and physician are received first. Then the crew Ia mustered, the roll Is called, and, a each man's name is reached, he steps out of line and extends his arm . to the physician, who feels his pulse, and if the slightest abnormality is aetected indicative of fever the clin ical thermometer is used at one to get the degree of fever.-Earl Maya,