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RELIGION EXALTED. Dr. Talmage Draws a Sermon from the Words of job. Discorse on the Latter's Comparison of Religion and the Benutiful Crystal-Power of the Gospel. [Copyr!ght. 191, by Lou's Klopsch, N. Y.] Washir.gtor., Oct. 6. The charm of an exal:ed rLigion is by Dr. Talmage in this jisc.r.e i. lustrated and commended; texz. Jul). 9s:17: "The crystal e:not cqua. At." Many of the preeiofs stores ot the Bible have come to pro: pt romc n' But for the pm!es ti '. e e valuable crystal. Jo, fu compares saving widom w. : a speci men of topaz. An tie: che::st or mineralogist would pron u::ce the lat ter worth more than the former, but Job makes an intelligent comparison, looks at religion and then looks at the crystal and pronounces the former as of far superor value to the latter, exclaiming, in the words of my text: "The crystal cannot equal it." Now, it is not a par; of my sermonic design to depreciate the crvs tal, whether it be found in Cornish mine or Harz mountain or Iammoth cave or tinkling among the pendants of the chandeliers of a palace. The crystal is the star of the mountain; it is the queen of the cave; it is the eardrop of the bills; it Ends its heaven in the dia mond. Among all the pages of na tural history there is no page more in teresting to me than the page crystal lographic. But I want to show you that Job was right when, taking re ligion in one hand and the crystal in the other, he declared that the former is of far more value a-nd beauty than the latter, recommending it to all the people and to all ages, declaring: "The crystal cannot equal it." In the frst place, I remark that re ligion is superior to the crystal in ex actness. That shapeless mass of crys tal against which you accidentally dashed your foot is laid out with more exactness than any earthly city. There are six styles of crystallization and all of them divinely ordained. Every -vstal has mathematical pre CiSiOL. God's geometry reaches through it, and it is a square, or it is a rectangle, or its a rhombold, or In some way it has a mathematical figure. Now, religion beats that in the simple fact that spiritual accuracy is more beautiful than material accuracy. God's attributes are exact, God's law exact, God's decrees exact, God's man agement of the world exact. Never counting wrong tho-gh he counts the grass blades and the stars and the sands aid the cycles. Ilis Providence mever dealing with us perpendicular ly when those providences ought to be oblique, nor laterly when they ought -to be vertical. Everything in our life arranged without any possibility of mistake. Each life a six-headed prism. Born at the right time; dying at the right time. There are no "happen so's" in our theology. If I though t t his was a. slipshod universe, I would be in de spair. God is not an anarchist. Law, order, symmetry, precision, a perfect square, a perfect rectangle, a perfect rhombold, a perfect circle. The edge of God's robe never frays out. There are no loose screws in the world's ma chinery. It did not just happen that Napoleon was attacked with indiges tion at Borodino so that he became in competent for the day. It did not just happen that John Thomas, the mission ary, on a heathen island, waiting for an outfit and orders for another mis sionary tour, received that outfit and those orders in a box that floated ashore, while the ship and the crew that carried the box were never heard of. I believe in a particular provi dence. I believe God's geometry may be seen in all our life more beautifully than in crystallography. Job was right. "The crystal cannot equal it." Again I remark that religion is supe rior to the crystal in transparency. We know not when or by whom glass aras Erst discovered. Beads of it have been found in the tomb of Alexander Severus. Vases of it are brought up from the ruins of Hercihlaneum. There were female adornments made out of it 3,000 years ago-those adornments found now attached to the mummies of Egypt. A great many commen tators believe that my text means glass. What would we do without the crystal? The crystal in the window to keep out the storm and let in the day; the crystal over the watch, defending its delicate machinery yet allowing us to see the hour; the crystal of the tel escope, by which the astronomer brings distant worlds so near he can in spect them. Oh, the triumphs of the crystals in the celebrated windows of Beuen and Salisbury I But there is nothing~ so transparent in a crystal as in our holy religion. It is a trans parent region. You put it to your eye and you see man-his sin, his soul, his destiny. You look at God and you see something of the grandeur of flis character. It Is a transparent reli gion. Innidels tell us it is opaque. Do you know why they tell us it is opaque ? It is because they are blind. "The natural man receiveth not the things of God, because they are spiritually dis concerned." 'There is no trouble with the crystal. The trouble is with the eyes which try to look through it. We pray for vision. Lord, that our eyes maight be opened! When the eye salve cures eur blindness, then we find .that religalon is transparent. The providence that seemed dark before becomes pellucid. Now you find God is not trying to put you down. Now you understand why you lost that child and why you lost your property. It was to prepare you for eternal treasures. And why sickness same, it being the precursor of im mnortal juvenoacence. And now you SThe Tribute of The Sea. Lloyd's annual return of vessels lost and condemned shows in striking form the prodigious tribute that is olaimed every year by the se;, Th e loss of life is not given, but rno kss than 702vessels of upward of a hunrcre to:3 were reperted last year as sa'cnored, burned, missing, in ccilieicn, wrecked or foundered. To this vanished fleet must be added 1416 vesadis which wce broken up or condemned. The total tonnage lost at sea is u; wa7d ef half a million-the equivalent <f 50J e-aft of a thousand tonsaspiece. No yonder the underwriters are bu::y. Died from Fright. Mrs. Ben. C. Perkirs, tsife ofte jailer at Shelbyville, Ky., is dec the result of sho 'i friets Wednesday mttri g. ec ar taeked the j.2l u d I groes Act rsti ill with a nervi us- - F. Bad, her ,hy c0r a i the raid of the lyc er. isr- p i for the 'anman's deth anderstand way they lied about yo. and tried to drive you hither and thither. It was to put you in the gr:ous company of such men as Ig natius, who, when he went out to be destroved by the lions, said: "I at the wheat, and the teeth of the wiic beasts must fnrst grir.d me before I can become pure bread for Jesur Christ." Or the eompany of sIch mer. as "that ancient Christian martyr who, when standing in tie midst o1 the atphitheater watting for the lions to c:ne cut of their cave and de,:t ru hii and the peope in the gal.eres jecring and shouting: "The liens:" r''!ed: "Let them come on!' a'd : , stoop:: down toward the cave v. x-e the ul beasts were roar -,0 2o(t out, arain cried: "Let co-ne on:" Alh. ycs. it is perse. to put you n glor:ous com pa-, and while tiere are many t-i.s that you w, have to postpone to the future world for explanation 1 teil you that it is the whole tend eney of your religion to unravel and explain dnd interpret and illumine and irradiate. Job was right. It is a glorious transparency. "The crys tal cannot equal it." I remark again that religion sur passes the crystal in its beauty. The lump o crystal is put under the mag nifyng glass of the crystallograph er and he sees in it indescribable ex quisiteness-snowdrift and splinters of hoar frost and corals and wreaths and stars and crowns and constella tions of conspicuous beauty. The fact is that crvstal is so beautiful that I can think of but one thing in all the universe that is as beaut'ful, and that is the religion of the Bible. No wonder this Bible represents that re liion as the daybreak, as the apple blossorns, as the glitter of a king's banquet. It is the joy of the whole earth. People tr'k too much about their cross and not enough about their crowns. Do you know that the BibIe mentions a cross but 27 times, while it mentions a crown So times? Ash that old man what he thinks of re ligion. He has been a close observer. He has been cultivating an esthetic taste. He has seen the sunrises ol half a century. He has been an early riser. He has been an admirer oi cameos and corals and all kinds of beautiful things. Ask him what he thinks of religion, and he will tell you: "It is the most beautiful thing I ever saw. The crystal cannot equal it." Beautiful in its symmetry. Wh:n it presents God's character, it does not I present Him as having love like a great protuberance on one side of His na ture, but makes that love in harmony with His justice-a love that will ac ceDt all those who come to aim, and a justice that will by no means clear the guilty. Beautiful religion in the sentiment it implants! Beautiful re ligion in the hope it kindles! Beautful religion in the fact that it proposes to garland and enthrone and emparadise an immortal spirit. Solomou says it is a lily. Paul says it is a crown. The Apocalypse says it is a fountain kissed by the sun. Ezekiel says it is a foliaged cedar. Christ says it is a bridegroom come to fetch home a bride. While Job in the text takes up a whole vase of precious stones-the topaz and the sapphire and the chrysoprasus-he holds out of this beautiful vase just one crystal and holds it up until it gleams in the warm light of the eastern sky, and he exclaims: "The crystal cannot eoual it." IOh, it is not a stale reigion; it isnot a stupid religion; it is not a toothless hag, as some seem to have represented it; it is not a Meg Merrilies with shriv eled arm come to scare the world; it is the fairest daughter of God, heiress of all His wealth; her cheek the morn ing sky, her voice the music of the south wind, her step the dance of the sea. Come and woo her. The Spirit and the Bride say come, and whosoever will, let him come. Do you agree with Solomon and say it is a lily? Then pluck it and wear it over your heart. Do you agree with Paul and say it is a crown? Then iet this hour be your coronation. Do you agree with the Apocalypse and say it is a springing fountain? Then come and slake the thirst of your soul. Do you believe with Ezekiel and say it is a foliaged cedar? Then come under its shadow. Do you believe with Christ and say it it a bridegroom come to fetch home a bride? Then strike hands with your Lord and King while I pronounce you everlastingly one. Or if you think with Job that it is a jewel, then put it on your hand like a ring, on your neck like a bead, on your forehead like a star, while looking into the mirror of God's word you acknowledge: "The crystal can not equal it." Again, religion is superior to the crystal in its transformations. The diamond is only a crystallization. Car benate of limne rises till it becomes cal cite or aragonite. Red oxide of copper crystallizes into cubes and octahed rons. Those crystals which adorn our persons and our homes and our mu seums have only been resurrected from forms that were far from lustrous. Scientists for ages have been examin.. ing these wonderful transformations. But I tell you in the Gospel of the Son of God there is a more wonderful trans formation. Over souls by reason of sin black as coal and hard as iron God, by His comforting grace, stoops and says: "They shall be mine In the day when I make up my jewels." "What!" say you. "Will God wear jewelry?" If He wanted it, Hie could make the stars of the heaven His belt and have the evening cloud for the sandals of His feet, but He doe. not want that adornment. He will not have that jewelry. When God wants jewelry He comes down and digs it out of the depths and dark ness of sin. These souls are all crys tallizations of mercy. He puts them on, and He wears them in the pres ence of the whole universe, lHe wears them on the hand that was nailed, ever the heart that was pierced, on With this ir.jury, by a thoughtless s'oritman, the bird had fibwn across with he:- rnege, and, true to instinet, the br ha~d delivered her me:nsge. Shortly after the homeccoming the bird A dispa' ch from Miadison, Fis., says W 1 Jones the nero desperado, who klled two people arnd serio~usly wound 'd sevra o~Lhrs Friday, has been seCel removed from this c^;unty to Lt-' co'unty and is now in jil at Tal Inssee He is wounded in neadly s ca:n plac's and isexpected to die. Late last night a :nob of wculd-be lyschers appeared at iail and demsnded the r~egro, but he had been removed o y a Enort whil0 belorc. Another ccc of Joes victims hasi di, A:d-r sr, he whtite mn whio was hunting and. sht down by the outlaw as he neu ateig up on a bird, This mas the iempie:, inat wvere siuig. ,Tsey~ shall be mine," saith the Lord, "in the dy w :n mae up :y jeweb." Wonderful 1r-:nsiformna iioni Where sin about: --aee s.al much more abound. The e bon becomes the sol itaire. "The cry.: a! cannot equal it." Now. I have no liking for those peo pie who are always enlarging in Clhristian nieetings about their carly dissipation. Do not go into the par ticulars, ry brother. Simply say you were sick. but make no display of your ulcers. The chief stock in trade of some ministers and Chris tian workers seems to be their early crimes and issi'pations. The num ber of pockets you picked and the number of chiekens you stole make very poor prayer meeting rhetoric. Besides that, it discourages other Christian people who never got drunk or stole anyti:,. But it is pleasaht to know that those who were far thest down have been brought high est up. Out of infernal serfdom into eternal liberty. Out of darkness into li0ht. From coal to the solitaire. "The crystal cannot equal it." But, my friends, the chief trans forming power of the Gospel will not be seen in this world, and -not until H1eaven breaks upon the soul. When that light falls upon the soul, then you wil see the crystals. What a niagnifcent setting for these jewels of eternity! I sometimes hear people representing I.aven in a way that is far from attractive to me. It seems almost a vulgar Heaven as they represent it, with great blotches of color and bands of music xnaking a deafening racket. John represents Heaven as exquisitely beautiful. Three crystals! In one place he says: "Her light was like a precious stone, clear as crystal." In another place he says: "I saw a pure river from under the throne, clear as crystal." In another place he says: "Before the throne there was a sea of glass clear as crystal." Three crystals! John says crystal atmosphere. That means health. Falm of eternal June. What weather after the world's east wind! No rack of storm::louds. One breath of that air will cure the worst tubercle. Crystal light on all the leaves. Crystal light shimmering on the topaz of the temples. Crystal light tossing in the pilumes of the equestrians of Heaven on white horses. But "the crystal cannot equal it." John says crystal river. That means joy. Deep and ever roll ing. Not one drop of the Potomac or the Hudson or the Ithire to soil it. Not one tear of human sorrow to embitter it. Crystal. the rain out of which it was mad:. Crystal, the bed over which it shall ::-oll and rip ple. C-ystai, its infinite surface. But "the c:-ystal cannot equal it." John says c-:ystal sea. That means multi tudinously vast. Vast in rapture. Rupture vast as the sea, deep as the sea, strong as the sea, ever changing as the sea. Billows of light. Billows of beauty, bluc with skies that were never clouded and green with depths t.hat were never fathomed. Arctics and antarctics and Mediterraneans ar.d Atlantics and Pacifics in crystal line magnificence. Three crystals! Crystal light falling on a crystal river. Crystal river rolling into: a crystal sea. But "the crystal cannot equal it." "Oh," says some one, putting his hand over his eyes, "can it be that I who have been in so much sin and trouble will ever come to those crys tals?" Yes, it may be-it will be. Heaven we must have, 'whatever we hay,: or have not, and wo come here to get it. "How much must I pay for it?" you say. You will pay for it just as much ar the coal uay:: to become the diamcnd. In other words, nothing. The same Aimnighty power that makes the crystal in the mountain will change your heart which is harder than stone, for the premise is: "I will take away your, stony heart, and I will give you a heart of flesh." "Oh," says some one, "it is just the doctrine I want. God is to do every thing, and I am to do nothing." My brother, it is not the doctrine you want. The coal makes no resistance. It hears the resurrection voice in the mountain and it comes to crystalliza tion; but your heart resists. The trouble with you, my brother, is the coal wants to stay coal. I do no; ark you to throw open the door and let Christ in. I only ask that you stop bolting and barring it. My friends, we wi have to get rid of our sins. I will hare to get rid of my sins, and you will have to get rid of your sins. What will we do with our sins among the three crystals? The e-ys tal atmosphere would display our pol lution. The crystal river would be be fouled with our touch. Transforma tion must take place now or no trans formation at all. Give sin full chance in your heart and the transformation will be downward instead of upward. [nstead of crystal it will be a cinder. In the days of Carthage: a Christian irl was condemned to die for her faith. and a boat was bedaubed with tar and itch and filled with combustibles and set on fire, and the Christian girl was placed in the boat, and the wind was off the shore, and the boat floated away with its precious treasure. No one an doubt that boat landed at the shore of H eaven. Sin wa nts to put you in a fiery bcat and shove you off in an opposite direction-off from peace, off from God, off from Heaven, ever lastingly off, and the port toward ehich you would sail would be a port f darkness, and the guns that would greet you would be the guns of despair, and the Aags that wvould wave at your arrival would be the black flags of death. Oh, my brother, you must either kill sin or sin will kill vou: It is no exaggeration when I say that any man or woman that wants to be saved may he saved. Tremendous choice! A thousand people are choosing this mo ment between .saivation and destruc tion, between light arnd darkness. be tween charred ruin and glorious crys aalliza tio n. A Fatal Fight. At Pal'yra, L:d:s ocunty, Ala., D:. Stricktno. a physician in that lo osiity, and T. E. Barnes gaarrelled and Brne5SFLot Strichland t9ice with a inci. Str'ekiard them sccoured a long ec'ling on tie ground neatby arnd be !ore Barnes ould reL cut ot his way hit him over the head, killing him insta.n :y. Strickland is mcorisiav wounded. 3Bth of the men were high:y respcet- d itize~ of their con, munitly and had en clote friends. The cause of the trouble is net known. Its Last Message. "A pathetic meteewe," sys the Ken obc (iie.,) Juurnal, "was received y Dr. GouAd of Rokland recently, fom that lt'rely place ealkcd Matini us D'. Gai- has a sniemu of rige e hh con~vey me.;Cges from there Cne a enc to the~ oi':g left' at 3 o T te Ear -"rv as oh-ve sevn N.1 A GENERAL PLAN Of Systematic Instruction t f Puo lic School Teachers COiNG TO BE ADOP f ED. State Supsrin-endent McMah-an Endorses It and inslruc's au Counties to Do Lik - w s-. State Superintendent of Edncation M:Mahan, who is cver alive to any :hiag that will tend to improve Jhe gcz eral condition of the public ehools of the StaLe, is now endeavo-ing to hav.e the cucty superintendents in augurate in eash county of the State the plan for the training of the teach ers that hss been so Euccessfully been put in c pcraticn in this cunty by S apt. Wallace. Tuesiday M:. McMahan issued the follewirg circular letter which is being stnt to cvery county superintendent of education in the State, and which is pnbl:sh..d in odar that the teachers may the soter get a full expianasi n of what is expected of tLhen: D-.r Sir: In orcer to assist the teachers in pitieg i;o ope:a ivt t ao ccurte of att d9-e-pecially 1 iol: irg the Fugge!n ti8 to ca - a:kA n, prceramie atd pr:m3.ry work. iL w oud I e eli f-ou could pruvide for thr m some tort of S5bLStstic istrunion threugh ibe sabool year on Baui-ays, er.e or twcee a nonth, to b-in at once. This syszem hte t een inangurat (d in several counties, the tu eriiend enta and the.r boards beirg a&xicus to hrir g all te rehools irto a wed (.r ganized sest Er, we I graded, a-d wli 'a1ght. '!heie teachers 1o whon the cvunty seat is accessiblo are met there on one Saturdsy in each men b; other groups of tcachers are instructed at other points ia the county most acee esble. For it star c : In Rchland county, at the iritial meeting in Co iumbia last Szturdsy, thirty five teeh ers were present; next S.vurda Su.t. Wallace and his assittants will m. et the teachers in the lowti part of the counts at Eastover, and tbo fL'owing Saturday they will meet the teachers :n th> upper part of the cuaty at Camp Grrund-three groups for ths acunty. Here the teacters are be:ng i~natructed in srithmetic, Esgli. h and Laadcn's "Teaching anci Ciiss Minag ment." Special attention is givea to the .roblem of grading the sechols. wranAing the daily proramme. a:.d ket ping the smaller children prfi ably occupied. 8.x meetirgp thould be r(qu- ei of each group of teachers betweeni now ani ihe close of the schcol year. Ti: work ehould begin this monh. Tio sw requiies that the rev Lceks be ased as each school novq opens ar:d thc rd1rion be made as pre-crib d in he course cf study ptamph.er bk the 8:ate bosrd. Every school mnu~t con form, and at the end of the e s~ion we are to report to the .iegisia'ure the number of children iui each grade in each county. F~egular teachers' meetirgs U: der t-. suthority of the ecunty board not oniy ?:,sist the teachers in the orgr-ti zatio~n and management of their reho Is s ell as in the Letter raomtery of e'r taint branches o-f study, but bring the m under trno directione of the cunty eup ?rimendent wi ere he can iistrnct tem n the proper keeping of echools :egis ers and renderirng o-f the repert. re quined, so that 1be-after the swideao of :he ccunty v~ii be more accue and the county supredrt can mate ihis anual report with cmtpar3 aive es- e. iie ictcois oi a county trc thus biought into a stem, and the t-jchers fel the helpful siiamulus of centt with co work~rs, all having more definite crnds in view. Another nesefir is that re follow up the in struction of the last summer school and prepare for that cf the next avoid the loss of spasmodic (ffort and budld up tre teacners by c~ntinuoue instrection, -not only theoretical but practical. While I have zro yet anranca of he funds t:> compensa e tLe insuettrs that wil be needed to assitt you, 1 can prt mise to reimburse them for the necessary expontes of travel, et c . am sure that all progrersiva educatiors are so irnterested in this work that in y c r ceunty as elsewhere they will g adly centribute their et ryces. (1) Will 3 our hb ard approve the plan a~d adopt a lule that the tr acters shall attend at the piaces desigrakced by the county superinterndent and shall do the werk as required? (2) It so, would you approve the fol loamng named as yourn azssatante ? (3) Can you obtain their services ui~ou the terrma stated in this loe ? Youx will appreciate the need of ihav irg similar instrnetion giv'n ;o your negro tcaehers. In some cf the ooun ties eom; etent negro insuuotois i-ave teen si cured. Can you not fitad such a negro nLs:!uctor for the negro leach ( ra of your county ? If he only instructs them in keeping the statistics required in the regisers and in making a proper repiort to you, it 'would relieve you of he innumerable annoyances from which, when on ecome to make your repocrt to this effije, you now suffer. African Forage Corn. The Columbia State says tho lbv. A. E. Qaick, pastor of the Westey 31. E. church of that city, brought to The State (ifice Thursday, a novelty in the shape of some ears of African forage corn. These ears very much resemble our Indian corn in appearance, but there is practically no ecb and each of the kernels is covered with a kind of husk which serves the same ends as fod; der. so that in eating the corn a horse gets his roughrness at the same time. Thzis corn has been experimented with in South Carolina during the last four years and has ceen found to do excel lently well. Une point in its favor -is that it not only does not require a very fertile soil, but actually does best on lands of medium richness. 14; is in tended to put some of it on exhibition at the State fair, in the hope that its general introduction into this country may be promoted. As it possesses all the good qualities of our Indian corn and msny others besides, such as hav ing tassels filled with grains of corn and vielding four blades of fodder to each joint, it is at least worthy of a rial by our farmers. Three Persons Drowned. Three persons were drowned Tuesday a. :t1iszuri river, near alufreesbo o-, PEk ceun'y, Ark,, while attempt ng :o cross in a leaky boat. The dead -re: Psal Hudsoa, aged 26 years; Eisie Franks, aged 14 years; Pearl KILLED FOURTEIN. Annihilated Hsr Family, Including Four Husbands Mrs. A. J. Witwer, a widowresiding in Dayton Ohio, has been arrested by the police at the instigation of the coroner and is held a prisoner at central station pending an investigation into very serious charges. Mrs. Witwer, the police say, is suspected of fourteen murdere, the list including four hus bande, five children, one sister and four members of different families in which ebe was employed as housekeeper. The ast suppostd victim was her sister, Mrs. Anna Pugh, who died a week ago under mysteiious circumstances. An autopsy performed at the request of Mrs. Wit wer's mother, who came here from De troit, is said to have disclosed the pre sence of arsenic and copperaa in the stomach. Following closely upon the death of her first husband, Fred Sohwe ger, came accciding to the police da partment data, the death of her ohil aren. The second husband died sud denly several years after the wedding and the children of this marriage died in rapid succession. Her last husband, A. J. Witwer, died last April. In each instance death was somewhat sudden a?,d all vere strangely alike. The prisoner is forty-seven years of age and formerly lived in Middleto va, this state. She has two tons in the Philippines and a sister, it is s-ated, in a ,New York asylum. No conc-iv able modve for the suspected crimes has been disclosed. Drugs which were fourd in the house occupied by Mirs. Wiwtr are in possession of the police and will be examined. The third husband of Mrs. Wit.er was William Stowe, who died at Middle town under suepicious symptom', it is stated, of arsenic poisoning. Mr. Stowe's death at that time created a sensation and. was the suuject of an investigation by the coroner It was shortly after Mr. Stowe's death that Mrs. Witwer came to Daston. She shortly afterward assumea the duties of houtekeeper for Charles F. Keiier, a widower. Keller died sudaenly and the information since gained by the coroner concerning Keller's death is that his ailment was similar to that of a peraon affectt d by poison. She next acted as housekeeper for John A. Werz, an east end druggist. Wenz died in deptcmber one ytar ago. The dectors attribu-ed his death to bloon poisoniug, but now tell the coro acr that they were dissatitfi-d wish their diagn sia at the time. Two mo iths before Mr. Werz's death his four year old son died suddenly. Airs. Sowe next resided with a Mr. and Mrs. Gabler, on Best street, Riverdale. These two p er sons died suddenly, and the coroner row says that their sickness was of the nature of arsenical poisoning. A BEPUBLICAN ROW. D.as Writes a Warm Letter to Sena tor Hanna R. M. Lsrner, the News and Cau rier correspondent from Washington, has a cd deal of interest in his letter to that paper t5s morning. Among other things in the matter of the New berry postoffise. As the president had said that he would like to confer with the Democist'e representatives in the matter of Saathern appointments, Congressmnan L aimer called on the president. He told the president t::st he would bo glaa to make a recommen dation if a democrat wias to be appoited. The p:etioent said that he would ap point a Republican if a good man could b~e found but it no such man could be Ilocated he would appoint a Demorat. IR. 0. Stewart who is said to ne a cousin of the president is spoken of for the posur~on, and is said to ba accept~zbie to M~r. Latirner. While tne white Ra yutiua contingent fromt Sou::1 C.. ili was Eotring ha c~iets and giig to;gether on tue peece basis over the cosie etorsinip Dess tue colored leader f:om Dariington, was loudly denon ing tne action or Soenator Hanna in designating John G-. Caipers to repre sent douth Carolina OnL the Republi oan national committee, vice Webster, deceased. The designattion of Mr. Capers is understood to ::ean that he is to oe the Republican chief in South Ureroiina during the R aeseve~t adminis tration a position to wnich D~eas aspired. So indignant is iDas at Senator dan na's action th at the distinguished chair man o? the Republican national comn mittee will in a few hours recive tne foliooing communication from Deas. W ashington, Ont. 7, 1901. Hon. M. A. fanna, Cieveland, Onio-My dear sir: I have just re ceived your most remarkable letter from Cieveland Onio, under date of October 5. The arbitrary steps which y ou have taken to appoint Mir. James G. Capers to fill the vacancy on the national Rei.ubiican committee for the State of bouth Carolina' occasioned by the death of the Hon. E. A. Webater, has not only surpissed but startled me. I solemuiy protest agaist this unwar rantou interiere:.ce agaire the rights of the republican execati committee of the bas of douth Carolina and iurther, I proposs to resist your ap pointmesni in every legal way poszible. Such a high handed proces drng wiil be resenied by the committee of which I1 am chairman. As a matter oi princi ple I propose to lead in the movenhent. I would like to call your attention to the precedence aireacy established in Massachusett, New Jersey, North Da kota, and also to my personal knowi edge in South Uarouina. TJ.ne loyal re puolicans of the state will consider the apbointment an .utrasge." The Cotton Crop. The convention of Cotton States Cammisonera or A~ griculture recently met at Hot Swings, Ark. A report of the committee on uniform fertihzer, guarantees and laws was the feature of the session. It recommends to the iegislatures of tne cotton States that a law be passed similar io that now in torce in the State of Georgia, whica practically bars the lower grades of iertiizsrs fromn the markets. ine esti mate of the commissioners of the cot ton crop for 1901 is 9,500,000 bales. Tfne estimate is based on government and State reports and the observation of the commissioners. Pursuant to a resoution passed by the asaociation a committee of six was appointed by the. ornair to appear bfore the congressional postal committee and recommend that all printed matter and seeds mailed by the aaricultural cepartmemts of the States of the union go through the mai.s free. In Catawba County, N. C., a family of five perions died soon after heartily eating boiled dinner. On examini ng trhe pot In which the vegetables were cooked it was found that two small green garter snakes had been hiacen in a cabbage, escaping notice, and tnat This Man Says He .Was Trick. ed Into An Insane Asylum. WILD RACE FOR LIBERTY. Through Tennessee Swamps, Cut By Barbed Wire Fences, In a Strange Country. 6tory Told By a Man Who Says He Was Put Out of the Way For His Little Fortune-His Escape From Louisville-The Utmost Limit of Enduran;ce. Moses D. Morris tells a thrilling tale of his escape from the Great Western Insane Asylum, in Bolivar, Tenn., in which he was incarcerated for several weeks, although, he declares, he was perfectly sane. He was tricked int.. the asylum, he says, and the object of those who had him placed there was his little fortune of $35,000. 1r. Morris's favorite among the un fortunate inmates with whon he was locked up was "like" McDermott, who bad been educated for the priesthood, und who was at times entirely rational. The two talked over planb to escape from the asylum, and linaciu consulted with another patient. Dr. B., who had become iane 0rough drink. -To-night," said the Doctor to them one day, "there is a ball In the North Hall. You will file over from here, and on the way will traverse a long narrow corridor. At the left of it and midway there is a winding stair down to the ground foor. At the end of the lower corridor is a door. For an hour every evening it is unlocked, but you must pass the watchman's door. If he sees you all is lost. If you reach the door you may succeed. Try it, and God save you." Mr. Morris and "Mike" decided to adopt the Doctor's suggestion. When night came Mr. Morris put on his even Ing dress suit, even to patent leather shoes, in order not to excite suspicion, though it was storming hard and he knew he ought to have heavier cloth ing if is plan to escape succeeded. "When the warder marched us over to the hall," said Mr Morris, "I was walking as in a dream. Down the long, dimly lighted corridor we snailed like a company of flagellants. I looked ahead with blurring eyes. There was the spiral stairway-my heaven of es cape. I slunk behind the unfortunate in front of me, trying to make myself smaller. I reached the head of the strairway, gave a glance around, and then down it I dashed like a madman in reality-down, down, down, reach ing the ground floor with my head in a whirl. "I looked forward. A flood of light poured through the opening of the watchman's door. How could I ever get by It? My blood froze with the thought of capture now. I tip-toed along, then made a sudden dash through the blaze of light like a spec tre. I reached the door unseen. My brain was on fire. I seized tle great -latch and threw my strength into the last stroke for liberty and home. Thank God, the door yielded. That gust of wndswept rain enveloped me like a thousand angels sent for my deliver ance. Into the darkness I plunged, not knowing, not caring, possessed only with the conviction that I was free, free, free! "On and on I raced. I was hundreds of miles from home, in a strange coun try. The December raIn pelted me In torrents, the mud was almost to my knees. I did not know a single road, but phmnged on and on, with the hope of finding some sort of a path-any. where on earth, so long as it was out of sight of that accursed place. I dared not look back, still breathlessly I paused, and, from a distant hill, I saw the bleak turrets illuminated by the lightning's flash. and then tTey fad ed from my sight forever. "I found that in tearing through a barbed wire fence in my flight I had torn one of my fingers almost from my hand. It bled profusely, but, bind ing It up as best 1 could, I set my face from the scene of my miseries, scan ning the darkness for one evidence of the habitat of civilized man. Knhowing that they would soon bee after me, I dared not lapse Into a walk, but kept up a fierce gait, over ridges, through creeks, surmounting every obstacle, the mud of the Tennessee valleys often Ito my knees, falling into ponds whose thin ice cut me as I plunged." Finally when almost totally exhaust ed, Mr. Morris heazd dogs barking in the distance, and, following up the sound, came to a little cabin. The negro who owned it took him in and cared for him for two days. fle was fourteen miles from the asylum and a hundred miles from home. "Afterward I offered my watch for fare to Nashville, but the young man of the house said, "The lightning ex press stops for water just a half min ute down here about a mile. Conceal yourself nearby and board the blind Tiaggage car. You are safe till you ge: to Louisville.' I thanked him, bade these good people adieu with tears of gratitude, and, with the help of my friend, an hour later boarded the blind bagage car of the mid-night express. 'God bless you all!' I screamed out as I sped away through the darkness toward home and my dear people, pelt ed with cinders, stifled and strangled with smoke, but with my heart beat ing fast with triumph. I arrived at Louisville at daybreak to face my ac cusers, who saw the miracle of my es cape from the prison asylum with con sternation and terror. How I ever sur vived it I do not know, but here I am, safe, sane and sound, proving that where there is a will to break from un just bondage. with right on your side. there is no limit to human endurance.' They gently chid the poet in that he always took the gloomy view of things. "Do you ever write on an empty stomachy'" he asked. The poet glared up at them with glassy eyes. "Often there is no stationary in the house," he moaned, for behad now be came delirious. enme delirious.--Detroit Journal. Cruel Ulri. "Ah, Mirabelle:" he sighed. "May!I not hope that ye~u will be mine for everT' "If you wish to hope that long, Mr. Sohtie," she repiled. "I dont sup pose I could stop you."-Philadelphia Press. A sure Victim. She-A faint heart never won a fair lady, you know. He-N-no, and a faint heart never got away from one either.-Judge. One step Above Beging. Borrowing is but one step abovo begging.-Chicago Daily News. One Mran's Wisdom. She (after the proposai)-Ar3 you in favor of a long or short engage' nent? He-If you can cook I'm in favor of a short one. If you can't we had better make it long enough to enab~s you to learn.-Chicago Daily News. Like YTour shadow, Fase frie~rde are ijke ycur shadow -only with you in. sainshine.-Chica-I Some Interesting Etatistics of South Carolina's P-pulation. It appears .bt thtre were in S lutb Carlir aL h- Liad Uf e "*us (f 1900. 127.396 native vtw e amaes of v -t ing age :d 2,9;9 fumgn whee nuieb of voting sge, a total of 130,375, while there were 152,860 negro males of this age aad 90 other colored, a total of 152, 950. I only 10 of the 40 counties of South Carolina h-.ve the whites a larger pop ulaieon than the negroes. These coun ,es are Anderson, Cherokee, Chebter il1d, Gerenviile, Horry, Lancaster, Lx-nton, Oconce, Pickens and Spar uu g. d' Bat in two other counties, aran York, the negroes are so in excess a to make it certain , their inrger prop-rtion of eal, they would be in a voting mi nQ:i:y even i thre were no restriction on their aufzage. In 1S90 Lhre were 14 incorporated citics sd toins of 2,500 inhabitants aLd more. Of theze six had white mi jorities-Anderson, Fiorencs, Gieen viie,Newoerry, Rsck Hill and Spartan burg, and eight had negro majorities -Beaufort, Camden. Cbarleston, Zhes ter, Columbia, Georgetown, Orange burg and Sumter. In 1900 the Lumber of towns of this siz> had increased to 20, of which 13 had white majorities and 7 ncgro majorities. The 33 were Abbevi!!e, Anderson, Chester, Colum bis, Darlington, Gaffney, Greenville, Greenwood, Lacrens, Newberry, Rock Hill, Sgarrnnburg and Union. The 7 'ere Aikfn, Beaufort, Charleston, Fiorence, Georgctcwn, Orangeburg and Sumter. fhe ik flaence of factories in increas ing the wtite population of municipal ities is well iMustratd here. Eaah of the towns and cities where the whites have a maj-3rity are considerable cot ton manufacturing places, while only one of the seven in which the negroes have majorities had any cotton mills at the time of the cetsas.-Ihe Srate. neavy haanteLL. Exceptionally h.ry rainfalls often. occur, sometimCs with disastrous ef fects. For periods of five minutes rain falls have occurred at Bismarck, N. D., at the rate of nine inches per hour, at Jacksonville, Fla., at the rate of seven inches, and at Galveston, Tex., at the rate of 61/ inches. In periods of 60 minutes rain has fallen at these three stations et the rate of over two inches per hour; at Galveston at the rate of am% inches. One inch of rainfall is equiv alent to 27,154 gallons of 226,000 pounds on tach and every acre of the wetted area.. Rainfall at the rate of nine inches per hour represents a fal of 33, 900 pounds, or 4,073 gallons, per min ute per acre. In five minutes, such a rainfall would cover each area of four square miles with 51,000,000 gallons-a quantity much in excess of the daily consumption of the city of Washing ton.-Washington Star. An Unexpected Result. An amusing episode occurred at a political meeting at Lavendon dur ing the general election. After hear ing the speeches of the candidate and his supporters an aged conservative from Wolverton mounted the plat form and caused so-'me mystery by dra mnatically holding aloft a walnu;, when he proceeded to say: "This is a political walnut. The rough shell represents the radicals; the next, the thin, bitter rkin, is the liberals, and the kernel represents the good conservative." A man in the audience cried out: "Now crack it." The Wolverton tory did so, when, lo and behold! the kernel was rot ten! The admixture of laughter and chagrin that followed may be imag ined.-London Spare Moments. Chinese Fun. A man asked a friend to stay and have tea. Unfortunately, there was no tea in the house, so a servant was sent to borrow some. Before the latter had returned the water was already boiling, and it became neces sary to pour in more cold water This happened several times, and at length the boiler was overflowing, but no tea had come. Then the man's wife said to her husband: "As we don't seem likely to get any tea, you had better offer your friend a bath!'I --History of Chinese Literature- ,/ 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 uip of her little daughters. Some years since society was very much disturbed by the case of a lit-. tie child of high birth, who was ac cidentally found to be covered with bruises inflicted by a brutal nurse. The duchess of Fife said to a lady wi-o was visiting her: "No nurse would be ale to systematically bruise my children's bodies, for not many days go by that I do not bathe them myself." Tfhe lady maisunder tood 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 aly. "I said I bathe them myself." Chicago Times-Herald. Quadrennial State Elections. Kansas this year will try for a law making all state elections come every four years. _____ Familiar Phenomenon. The "bloody rain" reported in Italy Iis a phenomenon familiar to natural ists. The miernscope has demon strated that the redness of the Red 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 mira ge of the Straits of Messina and is n~ot rare.-Chicago Chronicle. One of Them. "Do you suplpose," asked the fair Eulalia Mac illieuddy, "that the lower reatutres ever have any amuse mnts?" "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 raper? Ada-Finshemn! I've heard that he has a way of makirng the homeliest people look absolutely handsome. Phiariphia Evening Bulletin. Apprehension. "Did you say you foresaw great dan ger in tis new trust?" "I1 did." answered Senator Sorghum. "I was airaid for a little while that I would not be able to buy any stock in lt."-Washington St ar. Downright Hard Work. "I may as well tell you, doctor, that I am engaged, and I have been sitting up lat~e nights." "That ought not to affect you. It's pleasure, isn't it?" THE IMPOSSISLE. The Controversy Stopped Because the Other Man Was Speechless. "Just imagine: If you were a fes; you could jump 200 miles at a single jump." "But I am not a flea." "I didn't say you were, I said if you were." "But you Implied that I might be." "Not at all. In estimating the rela tive strength of a fea as compared to man, I said that one of your size could jump 200 miles." "Nothing of the sort, sir. You dis tinctly -poke of me as a flea." "How absurd! I merely inferred that suppose you were a flea." "Do I look like a flea?' "Why, no, sir, certainly not." "Have I the arms, legs, proboscis, anatomy of a flea?" "Who said you did?" "You did, sir!" "I didn't!" "You did!" "Well, sir, I am sorry, I apologize." "You admit, then, that you did refer to me as a flea?" "Why, no, I don't." "But you have just apologized." "Well, well, let it go. I said you were a Bea. I apologize. I am sorry. I was wrong." "Good! You were wise. I am no fes, sir." "Of course not Utterly removed from a flea. You couldn't be one If you tried. Impossible!" "Impossible, sir! For me, sir? How impossible?" "Yes, sir, exactly, sir. How could an ass be a flea, slr."-Life. Evils of Good Advice. "Say," said the man with the wor ried look, "do you remember giving me a lot of advice on how to conduct my love affairs about two months ago?" "Yes," replied the man with the. wise expression. "Told me If I wanted to win thed girl I should make love to her moth er!" "U-huh." "Said If I could get the old lady on my side all I had to do was to tode iround with a ring and say, 'when .: to the girL" The wise man nodded. "Said for me to, compliment the mother on her youthful appearance, coitinued the worried man, "and give hor a jolly about how sad it was that the young ladies of the present da were not to be, compared with those of the past?" "Yes. Yes. You won the girl, I - sup se?" I did-not The old lady has r husband for divorce, and ie fo "Ir:iech of promise."-Baltimore A Hern. 1 H4. R. H. Queen Victoria. Caught. . Widow-Despite our short ac-' beadtefact that my youth has pw'n'you still nake this proposal of inariage to me, doctor? Zbotor-ou have made on my heart an'N~pression'that time can never-. Willow (cQgly)-E-m, and I had al ways beleveyou were able~to live b' ~r practie.-New York World. Civlization. 7"You are scarcely half civilized!" we saId reproachfugl1. The natives burst Into tesrd "Filty our ni'sfortune!" -they cried. our gold mines yield -only lw g~eore!" 'hei they turned their streaming eyes toward the hills, whence a mef# o~~u f Anglo-Saxons were shelging tmeirrfiindoerily.-Detroit ,TenaL Disovered a Prize. F'irst Biusiness Man-I have a gem of an oic4eboy. Second Business Man-Why, I thgyht you said he was so stupid? P'frt Business Man-do he Is, but nw 'that the baseball season has open e4'Ive'discovered thst he has no 11 'relAtives, so he can't ash to get off r'~ funerals.-Philadelphia Record. I The Work Cure. "The healthy brother supported the invalid brother for years and years and feoars, and then the healthy broth en died." "What became of the poor Invalit brether?" "Oh, he had to get well and go to work." Right in Their Line. Hoax-These messenger boys are the lowest creatures on earth. I won der what becomes of them when they grow up. - Joax-Maybe they becm players.-Philadelphia Record. Their Relation. Askington-Do you know Gabbleby? Teller-Well. I hauve a listening ac quaintance with i'ra. Foreign Merchants in Pekin., Prince Ching has written to the min isters of the powers requesting a with drawal from Pekin of the foreign busi nes' establishments. He says that Pe kin is not a treaty port, that foreign business houses have been illegally es tablishe d bere and that all such should. be moved to treaty ports. He desires the ministers to secure their removal. The ministers have arranged a meeting on the request of Dr. Mumm von Shwartzenstein to endeavor to agree pon joint representations in opposi ion to Prince Chirg's demand. A con troversy regarding the payment of oc roi by foreign merobants apuea to have precipitated the issue. One for ign house doing a large business with. he Chinese objeoted to the ootroi tax, aguing that the goods wore for the use f the legations. Pritea Ohing points ut that goods required by the lega ions can be ordered by them from: raty ports and when so ordered are :o dutiab'e. The fcrcign business' ommunity in Pe kin, altnough small, .s important. Ita vresence is essential o the comfort and convenienoe of the egations and its members hope their,