The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, October 23, 1901, Image 4

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EYJM OF THE KIGIIT Dr. Talmage Points a Warning to the Unwary. The Welt-Known Preacher Describes Some of the Scen1es Tant May He Witnessed After Darl -Time of Great Temptation. [Copyright. 1901. by Louis Klopsch. N. Y In this discourse Dr. Talmage de scribes some of the scenzes to be wit nessed late at night in the geat ies and warns the unwary u nany perils; text, Isaiah 21, 11: "\\a *chuala what of the night?" When night came down or: Nineveh and Jerusalei the i u careful watching,; ote!-e diary's torch i h e into the very hear. I -h e tr0 splendor, or ee s the hills, igh he forced the gaes. All night long, on top of Ie was and in fron; of the gtes, might be neard the measured step of the w-atchman on his solitary bea. Silence hung in air, save as some passerby ralsed the ques tion: "Watchman, what of the night?" It is to me a deeply suggestive an. solemn thing to see a man standing guard by night. It thrilled through me as at the gate of an arsenal in Charleston the question once smote me: "Who comes there?" followed by the sharp command: "Advance and give the countersign." Every moral teacher stands on picket or patrols the wall as watchman. His work is to sound the alarm, and, whether it be in the Arst watch, the second watch, in Ahe third watch or in the fourth watch, to be vigilaFt until the daybreak flings its "morning glories" of blooming cloud across the trellis of the day. The ancients divided their night into four parts-the first watch, from 6 to 9; the second, from 9 to 12; the third, from 12 to 3, and the fourth, from 3 to 6. I speak now of the city in the third watch, from 12 to 3 o'clock. I never weary of looking upon the life of the city in the first watch. That is the hour when the stores are clos ing. The laboring men, having quitted the scaffolding and the shop, are on their way home. It rejoices me to give them my seat in the city car. They have stood and hammered away all day. Their feet are weary. They are exhausted with the tug of work. They are mostly cheerful. With appetites sharpened on the swift turner's wheel and the carpentes whetstone they seek the evening meal. The clerks, too, have broken away from the coun ter and with brain weary of the long line of figures and the whims of those who go a-shopping, seek the face of another or wife or child. The streets are thronged with young men setting out from the great centers of bargain making. Let idlers clear the street and give right of way to the besweated artisans and merchants! They have earned their bread and are now on, their way to get it. The lights in full jet hang over 10,000 evening repasts the parents at either end of the table, the children between. Thank God, "who setteth the solitary in families." A few hours later and all the places of amusement, good and bad, are in full tide. Levers of art, catalogue in hand, stroll through the galleries and diseuss the piotures. The ballroom is resplendent with the rich apparel of those who, on either side of the white, glistening boards, await the signal from the orchestra. Concert halls are lift ed into enchantment with the warble of one songstress or swept out on a sea of tumultuous feeling by the blast of brazen instruments. Drawing rooms are filled with all the graceful ness of apparel, 'with all sweetness of sound, with all splendor of manner; mirrors are catching up and multi plying the scene, until it seems as if in infinite corridors there were gar landed troops advancing and retreat ing. The outd oor air rings with laugh ter and with the moving to and fro of thousands on the great promenades. The dashing span, adrip with the foam of the long country ride, rushes past as .you halt at the curbstone. Mirth, revelry, beauty, fashion, magnificence, sningle in the great metropolitan pio ture until the thinking man goes home to think more seriously, and the pray ing man to pray more earnestly. A beautiful and overwheling thing is .the city in the irst and second watches of the night. - But the clock strikes 12, and the third watch has begun. The thunder of the eity has roiled out of the air. The slightest sounds cut the night with such distinctness as to attract your at tention. The tinkling of the bell of the street oar in the distance and the baying of the dog. The stamop of a horse in thenext street. The slamming of a saloon door. The hiccough of the drunkard. The shrieks of the steam srhistle five miles away. Oh, how stug gestive, my friends, the third watch of the night! ,There are honest men passing up and down the street. Here is a city missionary who has been carrying a scuttle of coal to that poor family in that dark place. Here is an under taker going up the steps of a building from which there comes a bitter cry, which indicates that the destroying angel has smitten the first-born. Here is a minister of religion who has been giving the sacrament to a dying Chris tian. Here Is a physician passing along in great haste. Nearly all the lights have gone out in the dwellings, for it is the third watch of the night. That light in the wind ow is the light of the watcher, for the medicines must be administered, and the fever muss be :watched, and the restless tossing off of the coverlid must be resisted, and the Ice must be kept on the hot tem ples, and the perpetual prayer must go up from hearts soon to be broken. Oh, the third watch of the night! What a stupendous thought-a whole city at rest1 Weary arm preparing tor A Brigand Captured. The notorious brgu Nussoino Italy, has been estured after a fee resistcnoe at Urbito Po had long terrorized Calsbria nd is c--'dit.ed with having ecmmittcd 25 rutde:F. Oing to the sympathy sh~o.n L~i by' il-e peasantvy he htad alays ae'ie- cap ture, despite the imnrnn5 re ne government effkrtd for his arre .. His career as an un ut impria nment. HIe vowed to kill ie 15 wi ~s who were resporsible ftr his conv'ction, and he in said to have sotualiy die patched 12. Amtbushe d. Pete T. Colga:, psyunsster of the Virginia Iron turag'c'es t l'ia'k bero.c Ky., was sailud, shot and "obbed 00 $2,000 ahout midway he~ween this town and the frmrraees Thu-ty. Cole had drawn the money som the brLs and was taking it to the till' to pat the hands. Th rah a v a elam of trees, shol Ce-, en d At . ee sad ran. A pereee ruroed asra hers, but they cre to .hz 2'on taies. In tbeir firet they dropped to-morrow S ton. Hot 'brain belag cooled oil. Rigid muscles relaxed. Ex cited :2erves soothed. The white hair of the octogenarian in thin drifts acrvz the pillow, fresh fall of flakes on snow already fallen. Childhrod, with its dimpled hands thrown ov t on the pillow, and with every breatl tak ing in a new store of fun and .r,.ic. Third watch of the night! God's slum berless eye will look. Let one great save of refreshing slumber rol. over the heart of the great town, submerg ing care and anxiety and worriment and pain. Let the city sleep. lBut. my friends, be not deceived. There w be to-night thousands who wIV not sieep at all. Go up that dark rev. a:d be cautious where you tre lt you fall over the pros t:-rae fort1 of a drunkard lying on his can doorstep. Look about you, lest you feel the garroter's hug. Look through the broken window pane, and ste what you can see. You say: "Nothing." Then listen. What is it? "God help us!" No footlights, but tragedy ghastlier and mightier than Ristori or Edwin Booth ever en acted. No light, no fire, no bread, no hope. Shivering in the cold, they have had no food for 24 hours. You say: "Why don't they beg?" They do, but they get nothing. You say: "Why don't they deliver themselves over to the almshouse?" Ah, you would not ask that if you ever heard t'he bitter cry of a man or child when told he must go to the almshousei I "Oh," you say, "they are vicious poor, and therefore they do not deserve our sympathy." Are they vicious? So much more they need your pity. The Christian poor, God helps them. Through their night there twinkles the round, merry star of hope and through the broken window they sea the crystals of Heaven, but the vicious poor, they are more to be pitied. Their last light has gone out. You excuse yourself from helping them by saying they are so bad they brought this trouble on themselves. I I reply: Where I give ten prayers for the innocent who are suffering I will give 20 for the guilty who are suffering. Pass on through the alley. Open the door. "Oh," you say, "it is locked." No, It is not locked. It has never been locked. No burglar would be tempted to go In there to steal anything. The door is never locked. Only a broken chair stands against the door. Shove it baak. Go In. Strike a match. Now, look. BeAstli ness and rags. See those glaring eyeballs. Be careful now what you say. Do not utter any insult, do not utter any suspicion, if you value your life. What is that red mark on the wall? It is the mark of a murderer's hand! Look at those two eyes rising up out of the darkness and out from the straw in the corner, coming to ward you, and as they come near you your lights go out. Strike another match. Ah, this is a babe, not like those beautiful children presented in baptism. This little one never smiled; it never will smile. A :Rower fung on an awfully barren beach. o Heavenly Shepherd, fold that little one in thy arms! Strike another match. Ah, is It possible that the scarred and bruised face of that young woman was ever looked into by maternal tenderness? Utter no scorn. Utter no harsh word. No ray of hope has. dawned on that brow for mary a year. No ray of hope ever will dawn on that brow. But the light has gone out. Do not strike another light. It would be a mockery to kindle another light In such a place as that. Pass out andI pass down the street. Our cities are full of such homes, and the worst time the third watch of the night. Do you..know it is in this third watch of the night that criminals do their worst work? It is the crimi nals' watch. At half-past eight o'clock you will find them In the drinking saloon, but toward 12 o'clock they go to their garrets, they get out their tools, then they start on the street. Watching on either side for the police, they go to their work of darkness. This is a burglar, and the false key will soon touch the store lock. This is an incendiary, and before morning there will be a light on the sky and a cry of "Fire, re!" This is an assassin, and to morrow morning there will be a dead body in one of the vacant lots. Dur ing the daytime these villains In our cities lounge about, some asleep and some awake, but when the third watch of the night arrives their eye Is keen, their brain cool, their arm strong, their foot fleet to fly or pur sue, they are ready. Many of these poor creatures were brought up that way. They were born in a thieves' garret. Their chilish toy was a bur glar's dark lantern. The first thing they remember was their mother bandaging the brow of their father, struck by the police club. They be gan by robbing boys' pockets, and now they have come to dig the un derground passage to the cellar of the bank and are preparing-to blast the gold vault. Just so long as there are neglected children of the street, just so long we will have these des peradoes. Some one, wishing to make a good Christian point and to quote a passage of Scripture, expecting to get a Scriptu'al passage in answer, said to one of these poor lads, cast out and wretched: "When your fa ther and mother forsake you, who will take you up?" and the boy said: "The perlice!" My friends, you see all around about you the need that something radical be done. You do not see the worst. In the mianight meetinga in London a great multitude has been saved. We want a few hundred Christian men and women to come down from the highest circles of society to toil amid these wandering and destitute one~s and kin die up a light in the dark alley, even the gladnes, of Heaven. Do not go wrapped in your fine furs and fremn A Pitiful Case. The State says Wednesday morning small woman who bore upon her face the traces of poverty, acaompanied by x litte children, called at the execu t ivofice and asked to see the gover oo. It was the devoted wife of Louis Bara white convict at the peniten. tnrv. Her husband had been convict 'd 12 roimbs ago of assault and batter'v and ha~d been given a sentence of 18 coes in the State prison. Byars wae a mll operative ard got into trouble wie in an intoxicated conditions. A ptitin had been sent up for his par dn, but it was slow in getting consid 'ation. In the meantime the little mote had been struggling with pover ty for a year, her only means of sup p~rt being the wages of her two eldest yhlde in the cotton mill. Wearied iah th~e struggl she resolved to take er little fmily and come to see the vernr in peon, and make her ap rch A9 scoon is her Ead story was tc2 Gcv. McSweeney. he reached fori a .nrflica in the blar.k places and' e hepardon, handing it to her to your ww tables with th iea that pious talk is going to stop the gnawing of an empty stomach or tb warm stockinglema feet. 'Take bread, take raiment, take medicine, as well as take prayer. There is a great deal of common sense in what the poor wom an said to the city missionary when he was telling her how she ought to love God and serve Him. "Oh," she said, "if you were as poor and cold as I am and as hungry you could think of noth ing else." I could give you the history in a min ute of one of the best friends I ever had. Outside of my own family Inever had a better friend. He welcomed me to my home at the west. He was of splendid personal appearance. but he had an ardor of soul and a warmth of affection that made me love him like a brother. I saw nien coming out of the saloons and gam'ing hells, and they surrounded my friend, and they took him at the weak point-his social 5nature-and I saw him going down, and I had a fair talk with him. for 1 niever yet Eaw a man you could not talk with on the subject of his habits if you talked with him in the right way. I said to him: "Why don't you give up your bad habits and become a Christian?" I remember now just how he looked, leaning over his coun ter, as he replied: "I wish I could. Oh, sir, I should like to be a Christian, but I have gone so far astray I can't get back!" So the time went on. After awhile the day of sickness came. I was summoned to his sickbed. I has tened. It took but a few moments to get there. I was surprised as I went in. I saw him in his ordinary dress, fully dressed, lying on top of the bed. I gave him my hand, and he seized it convulsively, and said: "Oh, how glid I am to see you! Sit down there." I sat down, and he said: "Mr. Talmage, just where you sit now my mother sat last night. She has been dead 20 years. Now, I don't want you to think I am out of my mind or that I am supersti tious; but, sir, she sat there last night, and she said: 'Roswell, I wish you would do better-I wish you would do better. . 'I said: 'Mother, I wish I could do betetr; I try to dc, better, but I can't. Mother, you used to help me. Why can't you help me nov-?' And, sir, I got out of bed, for It was a reality, and I went to her and threw my arms around her neck. and I sa-d: 'Mother, I will do better, but you must help. I can't do this alone.'" 7 knelt and praye? That night his saul went to the Load who made it. Arrangements were made for the obsequies. The question was raised whether they shculd bring him to the church. Somebody said: "You cannot bring such a dissolute man as that Into the church." I said: "Yoi will bring him in church; he stood by me when he was alive, and I will stand by him when he Is dead. Bring him." As I stood in the pulpit and saw them car rying the body up the aisle I felt as if I could weep tears of blood. On one side of the pulpit sat his little child of eight years, a sweet, beautiful little girl, that I had seen him hug convul sively in his better moments. He put on her all jewels and gave her all pic tures and toys, and then he would go away, as if hounded by an evil spirit, to his cups and the house of iniquity a fool to the correction of the stocks. She looked up wonderingly. She knew not what is meant. She was not old enough to understand the sorrow of an orphan. On the other side sat the men who had ruined him; they were the men who had poured the worm wood into the orphan's cup; they were the men who had bound him hand and foot. I knew them. How did they seem to feel? Did they weep? No. Did they say: "What a pity tha-: so generous a man should be destroyed?" No. Did they sigh repentingly over what they had done? No. They sat there, looking as vultures look at the carcass of a lamb whose heart they have ripped out. So they ~sat and looked at the coffin lid, and I told them the judgment of God upon those wh had destroyed their fellow. Did they reform? I was told they were in the places of iniquity that night after my friend was laid in Oakwood cemetery, and they blasphemed and they drank. Oh, how merciless men are, especially after they have destroyed you! Do not look to men for oomfort or help. But there Is a man who will not re form. He says: "I won't reform." Well, then, how many acts are there in a tragedy? I believe there are five acts in a tragedy. Act the first of the tragedy: A young man starting off from home; parents and sisters' weeping to have im go; wagon rising over the hill; farewell kiss fiu'ng back. King the bell, and let the curtain fall. Act the secoond: The marriage altar; full organ; bright lights; long white veil trailing through the aisle; prayer nd congratulations and exclamation of "How well she looks!" Act the third: A woman waiting for staggering steps; old garments stuck into the broken window pane; marks of hardship on the faoe; the biting of the nails of bloodless fingers; negect and cruelty and despair. Ring the bell, and let the curtaIn drop. Act the fourth: Three graves in a dark place-grave of the child that died for lack of medicine, grave of the wife that dIed of a broken heart, grave of the man that died of dissipation. Oh, what a blasted heath with three graves! Plenty of weeds, but no flow er. Ring the bell, and let the curtain drop. Act the fifth: A destroyed soul's eternity; no light, no music; blackness of darkness forever. But .1 cannot ook any longer. Woe, woe! I close my eyes to this last act of the trag edy. Quick, quick: Ring the bell, and let the curtain drop. "Itejoice. 0 young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart re oice in the days of thy youth. but now thou that for all these thinys God will brIng you intojudgmert." "There Is a way that seemeth right to a man, ut the end thereof is death." A Bank Robberl. The vault -> the Fmerf and Citi es' Bank a Tiro, Oho was wrecktd early Wcdteday morning by six rob bers, who secured the conver's and es aed. It is said the vauk contained 40,000. Tre crach~men used nitro iierine. The do 'rs of th vault were blown complP eel off at di the build ing partilly demciished. The tetrinocex plosion aweke th'e ueople c-f th3 ton.. All who apprnohed tro obak, 1owcver. were driven away' by the ro-bbtr3, who were atmed wit i fl. Maycr Mec Jonnel attemoted to ento the bank, but was fired upon by ihe obbers and em pelled to retrost. Hsv rg ceoured bheir booty the crackmen went to a ivry stable, where ;hey bound and zagged the owner. Thiey then took ~everl rigs and drovo rap'd'y away. A oe and bloedhouds are en the trail )f the rob;s. Lous Hc.vt Holmes, of Springfield, 1., has refu'nd to~ c~sng his namei or a brouestof $6000 Heears h- C as born a Holmes and no smount oft noney can make him anything else., ROMANCE OF TWO ARMi1. A Sword Returned to Its Owner Af ter Many Years. On a battlefield near Kinston, N C., in 1865 a Yankee captaia became the prisoner of a youth who commanded a company of the 67th North Cirolina. Tie anion soldier begged to keep his sword. The rcquest was courteously refused as he was a yrisoner of war and could not keep arms or weapon3 upon his person. The Confederate officer pledged himself to return t!e sword if both survived the war. That i ledge was kept Friday. Ij Epeaking of the matter The S:ate says: Capt. J. K.P. Nrathrcy Lf biS cty, was tee Conhd.ra'e officer who gave the pledge and after 36 years he has found the man to whom the blade be longed, -Capt. Reuben Waterman <f Mleii:en, Corn After the war Capt Neatherry maie itquiry of every men from Connecticut -hem he met, but he could bear noth ng of Capt. Waerman. Last winter M1r. Amos H O.borne of Waterberry, Conn , a watch manufacturer, stopped in CoIum ia on his way to Floridia. &ing a prominent Odd Fellow he was at the neeting of the Palmetto Lodge. Capt. Neatherr3 who is the grand mas ar for South Carolina, told Mi. 01 bLrne of tOe incident of the battlcfield iand Mr. Osborne promistd to try to find Capt. W aterman or hisrelatives. Yesterday Capt. Neatherry received a lattt r from Mr. O:borne statirg that Capt. Waterman is alive and well, and oveyj ,yed at the prospect of the return of his battle blade. Capt. Waterman is a member of Ner r-am post No. 8 of the G. A R. at Meriden, Cone. Albert A. May, the ccmmander of that post, ia writing to 1r. 0 .borne said: * It has been ibtught advisable by Eome of the mim -ers of the post, if agreeable to you, to have Capt. Waterman receive the aword in a public manner. Prhaps we can arrat g) a meetir g in cur hall where, surrounded by his friends, he can again receive that which was given to him carly in the War of the Rebel ioa." (Capt. Natherry wiaced at th.atwoid) "'he captain as been in formed of the finding of the sword ar.d is more thin delightid to think that he can again Lave it. Trusting that a very pleaset occasion may be had of this matter, I am,' etc. 'fi ietter is atteesed by Charles Brewer, the adjatant d the camp. In his letter trantmitting this, Mr. Osborne writes Capt Neatherry to come up and jNin in the festivities. aHowever, if Capt. Neatherry could not gc, Mr. Osborne would attend for h-m Tne G A R. post wantedaphotograpa of Capt. Neatherry. In looking for one of his best looking likenesses, Capt. Nether:y came across one in the uni im of a Confederate soldier. Tzat rcund, merry face of a youth of 16 borc little resemblance to the tall, bearde: tnan cf 56-or thereaboute, (,he captam . too nice a man to take advantaga ol by telling his exact age.) '-I would hrke to send that," said Capt Neather ry, "tnut I a~n afraid Capt. Waterman might feel badly to think that he had aurende red to iuch a youth." (apt. J. K. P. Neathery is the last of his rname, and so far as he knows the last of his ricz. He is a nativa f east cra N..rth Carolina. Wheaa nLd bte was impressed because of the John Seown raids and other cuirges againt th south. At the outbre ak of a.tsiiies he was at the University of N ;rth Cnroiira as a companion to an eider bro:.her, afterward5 a m:jor in the Confideratea-my. Laching seve a mornhs of being 16 yeari c';d, scarcely able to ift a Sharps's rifi , the lad jint d the Eighth Nort~h Carolina, comn manded by Col. Shaw, and a part of tt'e brigsade of the immortal Gtn. homas L Clingman. In 1863 Neath rr.> was transferred to an i. d penaent OattnlioD, which snbsequently became the six y-ev. nth North Carolhna. Here ne was a lheutenani, and was signed to ri e command of Company D. Though never commissioned a cap tain he commanded the company until tne clo4e of the war. At the bloudy battle of Wise's Fork ear Kinston, in March, 1865, the Six y Seventh North Carolina was pitted against the FKfteenth Conrnecticut, and apt. Waterman became the prisoner of Liert. Neatherry. Waterman begg.Ad to ketp hie sword. Neatherry replied tat he would be pleased to let him .eep the sword, but as a priscner Wat rman would be bereft of it sooner or later, and it would be better for Neath erry to keep it and return it, as he then p;edged himself to do. They were bos then, far past the prime of life now, ad the return of the blade after many years is a remarkable incident. But Capt. Neatherry is such an ardent ex Confederate that he could not let him self be carried away by even such a romantic aff ir and he surrenders the sword without becoming a captive to the rnew sentimernt which is forgetting the traditions of the old south in the gush over the reunited country. in his letter transmitting the sword there is no fulsome specch, but a sincere ex pression of personal regard. Be says: Ca t. Reuben Waterman, Meriaen, Conn. Sri: I take great pleasure in fulfill ig a pr omisle mnade you on the battle de.d in 1865, that if I survived the war sa cu d fiad you I would return tne 0word captured with you. nhe blade h. s never been dishonored -tca tng ti you were right, I knew I *as. So e.der einher flag it did hon ornie service. I now entrust it to y ou s the fi:st owner, trustinir you wdl never have cecasion to deem it a duty to nguin arawn It against the soue-; ba1 a sure iou t hat e.uuld such be the ase I will meet 3au w.th one as good. With best wi:hes for a long and h appy life, I am~ y.. nrs, J. K. P. Neatherry, Lte Ccmman~der Co. D)., 67Lh N. C. Vols., C. S. A. he sword i excellent condi'ion. Japt. Nea,.hry ruroed it up for use Icth Spaisnzn war-nt for uiaefdf, iover, as they v. onudd-'t let huim co in agray usuiior m. He wore it aiter is fell .nl.o 1Li a ids. for his own seazbard -sas bhl a% a, in tha. battle. It is morer lige the fiercd cffisers' blede of ator reguistris thin i:se the straight ageo of tne sofanc.y. On a plate on h scanoara is ta1s inscription: Presened to L:un.. Reulen Waterman, Co. E, 15,.h, Rigt. C. V., By his fr:etdsic M!eriden, May 23, 1862. Needs Looking After. D:. Charizs Jraeobs, a nerve special st said to be a member of the New hieans Yacht club, declarcs that sui ide is an incurable disease. He has ouht te establi, in Chicago, suicide t.:adqtr:er3, 'wht re membuse of sui de cliubs, and others deciring to end heir existence, can do no painiessly rih neatness and dispatch. Dr. Jacobs THE WHIITIE CAPS Peison Fruilt on Trees and Cause a ReIgn of Terror AVIONO OHIO FARMERS. Unknown Miscreants Attack Farmers on ths Highway and at Their Homes. A Bad State of Affairs. To 6ay that the exploits of whitecaps have eiused a reign of terror in High landtown, a little village of about six miles southwest of 'East Liverpool, Ohio, is putting it mildly. All that section of the couatry is so exited by the latest developments that little else is thought of or talked about. Sumner McPherson, the young man who was poisoned by an app;.e into which the white caps had puhi paris green, has gone through a terrible siege of sick ness, but is now ou of danger. The nervous strain upon his mother has been so great that it is feared her mind will give way. The whole family is in suah mortal terror leat there should be poison in the food they eat or the water they drink that they live in constant mental torture. John H. McPhersn, the father, is a man who says little as a rule, but he is understood to have taken counsel with his friends about selling his farm and quitting the neighbcrhood. The anxi ety of the McPhersons is shared by the whole neighborhood. Citizens of Highlandi oRfn fear fcr their lives. They are afraid to make a move against their unknown adversaries lest they bring the wrath that has been threatened upon their he ads. Since the McPherson poisoning epi sede more anonymous letters, threa.en ing arsoD, murder and torture have come to lighit. John Stroudoff and John C. Ciager, neighbors of the McPher sons, have found such letters on their premises. The white cap notices are sometimes dropped in the roads or in the fields, and sometimes tacked to outbuildings and fences. They~ are written in a disguised hand, but evi dently by a person of good education. No one in a communi.y where every body is well acqusinted with every body else recognizes the handwriting. The Mclhersons have their suspi cions, but they are keeping them to them selves. It now transpires that every apple that could be reached on certain tre. s in McPherson's o, ciard had been treat ed or sprinkled with paris green, and the trees on which the mifcreants had put in their work were those containing choice eating apples. McPherson de rived a good it.come from his orchard, out now he dares not eat apples from it, and he wouid not think of seliing them. He also fears that his cows may De poisoned and the milk rendered deadly. Not a vegetable or any food protan3% is now used in the f amily until it is su'ej 3eted to the closest scrutiny. The waitecap activity has bean mani fested at inteivals i2 Highlandtown for the paat two years. Whitecap no ticas served upon the McPaerson and Ctager fami~ier, at first attreaczed no attention, it being thought they were the werk of practical jokers. But when their crops, fences, tools, wagons and~ other property bagan to be destroy ed they became convn~ced that enemies were at work. Soms weeks ago shots were fired at Sumner McPherson as he was watchin~g a lonely road at rig at in the hopes of seeing a whitseapper. His vigil was re wardea, fur h1 a aw a horse man come down the road and deposit a whitecap notice. But the intruder saw him and blas ed away. Four shots were fired. Mc Puerson got a ballet through his hat, but escaped in jury. A day or two later, he had H owara Kelly, son of a preacher, who is a neighbor, arrested. Kelly proved that he was at home at the time of the encounter, and the mystery of the shooting remained unsolved. Two theories are current. One is that in sane persons are responsible for the mischief and the muiderous plot. The other is that parties who want to get McPherson's faim cheap are persecut in-g him systematically, and occasional iy annoying other neighbors to divert attention. Anyone who can find tne author of the recent poisoning can claim John MePherson's $100. A Negroe's Tribute. President W. H. Council of the Ne gro Agricultural and Mechanical Col lege of Alabama, was the orator of the day on '"Negro Day" at the Texas Beate Fair last week. His speech seemed to delight the members of his own race and was vigorously applauded by his white listeners. In his address Presi dent Concil said: "if 1 were to scale the gamut of history and pluck from the diadem of the world's honor its brightest gem of virtue, I could present to you no higher example of womanly integrity than is fournd in the white woman of the South today. She ex ites the admiration of all lovers of tn~h and honor. Were it not for her, Southern society would be confusion worse confounded. It would be pan demonium in riot. She is loyal to her race. She admi s to her emuraces no other Stands like a rock in a weary land,' maintaining the purity of both res in the South as far as blhe can. "I am gratefal to hei. You must be proud of her. I am alao glad tha-; the eu::ated element of my race as no desire for what is known as Eo al equity. The educa~ed negro ueires the continued identity of nis wn race and seeka to adorn, dignify~ and exalt his own social circles, to se omodate his most extravagant social amilon. It is ine ignornnt rnegro who els ti~at the soinuion of the raoo pro >hm menans tq-gaity of the races. Ihe oinetei n:gro is .tushed wath te .qdaai\o of virtue and a cast c: to be a, aan in his own spriere, after his own L iue, as tih creator orirained." Catarrh Cannot ba Cured with LOCAL APPLICA.ION\S, as tep canlut. reach ene seat of tae dis ae. Cmarth is a blood or can-titu j onal dienie, and in order to cure it -u must take internal reme::ies. Hall's' f atar Cure is tak.,n internal-y, and a ets dtreotly on the bl-eod and mucous uraces Hall's Catarrh Cure is noti aquack med~cinie. Ii was prescribed y one of the best physicians in this d ountry for years, and is a regular pre cription. ii is composed of the test oncs known, combined with the best e, lod purifiers, acting directly on the uous surfaces. The perfect combi- t ation of the two ingredients is what ,y roduces such wonderful results in cure og Catarrh. S.and for testimonials ree. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0-. THall's Family Pillsae the best. Final Preparations for Columbia's Uor nival at Her State Capital. COLUMBIA, Oct. 19.-Special: As the days p:ss rapidly by and the time before the State fair grows shorter the general activity amoog those in charge of the various features of the greatest of all weeks in the capital city increases. On every hand preparations for the fair ire in progess and it is expected to be one of the most successful in point of attendance in the history of the socie ty. Many are coming to hear the grand concerts of the famr'us United States army's First ArIl!ery band under Leader Koittch; others are comirg to see the stock and cattle; others to at tend the State ball; others to witness the football games; others to witness the horse raceE, and still others to Eee evcrything that is to be seen and have in all round good time. Secretsry Holloway is now regularly at his c dice in the Southern Railway building, where he and his assistant are hard at work writing out entry tags and doing other neecesary work. The outlook is qaite gratifying in the matter of live stock; in fact in all ex hibits except in field crops, and in this lepartment Col. Holloway fears ther-, will not be the usual displays. This might naturally be expected owing to the almost total failure of the corn nrop. And in this coanection Col. Hol oTay d.esires to beg the farmers of the 3tate to get up a display of the cereals. The secretary further announces that exhibitors to the State fair cn reship their exhibits to Charleston Lo be shown it the exposition, and when thcre the icveral conoties can claim such exhibits to ba placed in each county display :ompeting as an ch. Col. Frost, who is the superintendent )f the racing, is qaite jabilant over the great number of stables of horses making their way to the meet in Co tmbia. With the low railroad rates and the teps being taken by the people of Co lumbia to.prov:de homes for visitors, the usual large attendance at the fair is confiiently expected. It is quite desirable that appliction be made at orice for premium lists and antry sheets and that entries be turned in to the secretary. President E -ans and Secretary Love re now in the city and all matters per tamining to spaces, privileges, etc., can be atterded to as already stated in this sorrespondonce, their will be a week of fist class plays at the loumbia thea tre. Messrs. Smi-hdeal & Br.ne have been at erpecial pains in making their %irangements for fair week, and the lovers ef-tae drama in its moat popular o.ms may be ascured of a genuine 6reat. A MURDER NE R CHARLESTON. & Storekeeper's Clerk XKlled by Un. known Burglars. C. H. Mappus, white, aged 39 yeare, grgle, was murdered in the store of 'hecdore Mappus, his cousin, at Ash ey Junction Widnesday night. There .s no clue as to who comnitted the 3rime, nor is it known at what hour the ied was commit~ed. It is thiought, owever, that he was killed some ume tfter midnishL. while he was in bed The crime is one of the most horrible nd cold blooded ever c-ommitteo in 3harleston county. After committing he ceed the party or parties robbed ~he money till, but just howv mucti oney was taken Mr. Theodore Mappus a not in a position to sta:e, s he has o account of the sum that was left in ~he till t1~a: night. The dead body of Mr. Mappus was icovered this morning by Mr. Theo ore Mappns. Wnen he entered the leeping room, whica is in the rear o ~he store, to learn why the store had 20 been opened, thinking probaoly ~hat his nephew was sick, a horribie ight met his guze. Clad in night iothes the body of the dead man was .ing across the bed, his skull crushed md the bed clothes washed in blood. )a the fbor near the bed was a box >f chewing tobacco all stained with >lood, showing clearly that it was the epon used in taking the life of M~rr. Rappus. Tne~ murdered man was no doubt track several blows, for the bed sohing was disarranged, indicating hat there had been a struggle, whicn o doubt folowed after the first blos as struck. The murder and robbery were report d to the city detectives and to Saeriff lartin immediately anier being discov red. Chief Detective Miller and his orce of detectives went at once to the eene of the tragedy. Sixeriff Martin ispatohed Deputy Sheriff E.uon to the tore of Mr. Mfappus, and he will as ist in endeavoring to ferret out the rime. Up to a late hour tois af.er oon no clue had been ob.aiaed that vouid lead up to the arrest of any one. verythinzg possible is being done to Lnearth the purpetrator of the crime. Tne murderer or murderes, it is be jeved, hia in the store early last night, efore the store was closed, and after he clerk, Mr. Mappus, retired for the ight, and being bausaded that be Was sieep, the murierer or murderers se ured a large oax of tohsen, stealtaily tered the sleeping room of Mr. Map us and straer xii.nain the head ee ral times, ending his life. Witn their hai~ds stained with the loed of a human tbeing t~hey pian.de:eii bout the aror isln ior Lhe mnefy 1, rafld it and tfle2 mnde their e., ape. an exit vas e.ftered by remov og the bar from the door on Lno in iad.~f the store. Trae door was coe eind Lh..m. Meg-st. ato Manigault visited the cne ol the enime ms miornius~ and or an;z:a jdry. Tue toly of :.tc cead ia wa-.iszvied ay tane jry, and the qat w..:i be held on u.dy .t'c decea&a wa i ?Mean aresiton, itls ety being his hom.e L h?as a 'eumbier c~t raav. hvin~g i te cuy.-U r.suon h A Sensation. A dirpatch fem in m - o T S a:e -men Hn J. D) , He de !s !aelan, f.:.mer c~u " auli:or, for netve effie -oevieg an a en ~fici..c; of $3 179 30.t rae ent is b--sed upa a oidr - Y. Br.hea, 1' q ,cseroM iry to VCdil ae the- :r"Dwan o-s de t~'o e flie:s. M:. B che, .a ramerly the cauvty ar-it r andJ a v-ry ion i>er difIleiur *.due t the cn -~in fl some of-- 0 *..n-s ai to : comply wtht a :qvst to i .aa pies of the and .: bemnt: .h-s iaM A iS AD. Does Not Like the Presidents Sou thern Policy. EMBARRASSES THE BOSS. A Sensational R-p-rz That H Will Realgn the Chairman ship and Denrunce the Presid:s Policy. A Sensational turn has been given to the fazt that Sinator Hanna does not share P.esid est R-osevelt's views as te the way to di.,tribute fderal efi-_a i . the Suth, culmir:neg in 'hc s v- - ment rtat the Sbnator is a3ouc to is,as a formal prociams-tion denounciog the Rooseveitian theary and then resign his dffie as chairman of the Besub.i can national commitice That Mr Hanna may resign his chair manship is, and has for sometzme bsea, among t-tq possibilitics. He was anx ious 6 quit the arduous daties of th: place in the c-.pign of 1900, but yielded to thi earne3t p;easof President McKin'ey, ad remained at the head of the committee. It was understood that he would have -sought release after elec tion but was persuaded cut of the idea by some of his old associates, who wish ed to restore the old party mashine and control the actio ;f the convention of 1904. ThAy had no specifia candidate in mind, but wished to have their hands so on the lever that they could throw the nomination in whichever di rection they desired when the time came. The trend of the patronage pal icy of the administration in the Sjuth has served notice, cf course upon a large group of machine managers there that their day has come. It wes in the Soth that the hand o Mr. Hanna did most iDjary. At the couvenion of 1896 when aelegates came to Sr. L uis from Southern States, pledged to vote for asy one he migh name (but had to be pledged over again and a; an c qal c iss , to vote for tht exiaiing gola stardard, which was no-. included in the original compa#t,) the public gained a glinipse of the rotten nes; of the party michinery in L) utsi ans, South Carolina, Araoama, Texas, and elsehere. As Pliladelphis las. year this characteristic wie not so muc in evidence, as the renomination ct McKinley was a 1cregone csnclusion, and te South.ern faction hid not so much to hope from trra ing their Icc? fights into tne national arena: Mr. R-orevoit has long entertainea decided opi-non3 as to the right of the South-ra p:oAe to as much coasidera tion un'er a F&pu&ai ca as under a Deuzoerat admtm itra ion, and cou'o not tike the 1:me view as Mr. ilman of the righeousaess or pauiotism (J kreiijg m:e mschtas g-iing ia Ssaten where. their pary conisted of no.hing cise. E ha , ;.mfora, snrrgue te ad vice of the Oemt men at this, irrespiL ive of the parry or ra ce, on his Souters appoicnments, instead of oaling upmn Mr. Hauns to tell him what to do, and then comns is at d hob~ng Hanas re sponsibl~e for the usult. N s ur~lly, :hia nas been embsrrassing for the henator akthough it has not came uponf him withoult abu~danii and nnt:.ie.y c.-u't ous notice. [t pac-.s him izu th pia-> of netag unabire -o carry out som2 df the plans which he had forecanm to his . followers in the South, aan on the strength of which he had held their alLegiance. A Cabinet Rumor. Is was stated in the newspapers sev eral days ago that Senator McLsurin was slated fozr a positron in the Presi dent's crabinei, oma it was given as a mere remnr in Washington. A special aispetch to the Ausnca' Journal says that the statement seems to have more than rumor to it, and that "P'resident Roostv~It is very much impressed with Mr. Ma Laurin's independence, - and seems to believe that his appointment to the cabinet would help to strengthen Republiicanism in the South." Sena tor Ainwunzn has gechined to talk on thre suoj set, but it is known that he has an engagement with the President ou imp r.auit business Saturday which may mean the prospective ten der of a cabinet portfolio, as there are no vacnzeigs to be filled at the present tms. Who Is Murray? The f ollowing special fromn Hampton, Va , tu one or sne Viuginia papers, will donatiess be of some interes.; so far as can be ascertained the man referred to is not kaown a 4ju 1mbis: ' Ira j Murray, a yeu maia who came to Vrgmua seyeraI oas aago to en ,age in the insurance business, and wire says his home is in Columbia, S. C., was arrested Friday niguis on a warrant harging him with the larceny of a pocketb.,ek containing $32 from Peter Baueiranp, an Indian tu-ient at the ampton Narna and &gricultural in s3:io.''-UoAumbia State. Bread Riots. '-Ihe Lamberg morning papers re pot breAd nois at ga:askova, eastern luss'a," sin- the Vknna correspond cu of t'oe D.i.:i Mail. "in Samaria, Le ava p-as .n~s stormed the mu :decpal baud~ngs and the residence Of roit perons, setting some on fice. rop were summzoned andi 14 peasants c-r-: Kiilea. '&imilr riota, in whiich cvrrld persons were kailld, uciurre~d at incer~v:n.a, where twn laadkrds had een murbecI, and do: a: iPestra ska a~d eis.ew~here in trhe same district. Swvapped Wives T wice. Thir y-hev gemso Johno and E !ith a .d G- -.rge me L-zzie Danner, igir, .in K uay. Fve cearsago~ biue and sri-', '1ivorce et ch man1 . 0i o- 3t' rer'eoae. R-j .'-y 'uy im of the second u-o or ed one fo te rt, n-d iast week 'ere carded to thei' orinial wives. it ec:::i avre hx-va.n been secied. x~o b-'en ;gre~.b> ai .t to~ all Lou. ) a. HE WAS INSPiRE~D -Al (dttor has jni.-iro3~, afz'- louoki g over his 'ist if d-irquent uobser.bers to campos-' - e fo.-ow-: '-&w dear to our hearts s ahe sivr do!!ar, when noze kind u - or pets it to view; the jjter h'ead without unektic or collat td :d-i -Ya era thinn~ wxhich to uis 9Iem~s so nes: th-, ride spreadirg eajl. he mr:n below i , the stars and te erds with the s-rane hion~ they tel1;; he e&oi of ur fai~hvr, te are gin ths we kaos i fr -om timo or o:hor' teil cme in riht Wli: the spread agle dollar, the star- spangled dollar. the oid slver dnliae .d alo ve so well." A~beVILLANY. How Fido Supplied the Three Missing Rolls. Orchestra gives an imitation of ax earthquake dancing rag-time in a tin shop. Enter the man with the green whiskers and the man with the bald wig and blue face, and the following conversation ensues: "Know that little dog of "The one that looks like your sis. ter?" "Yes; the one-no, he doesn't look like my sister! Well, every morning I send him to the baker-" "And have him baked." "-And have him baked-no I don't have him baked! I send him to the baker to get a dozen rolls for break fast. Well, day before yesterday I 1 sent him, and when he came back three rolls were gone. So I beat him." "To the rolls." "I beat him to the rolls-no, I didn't beat him to the rolls! I beat him with a bedslat. So I thought I would give him another trial. I thought since his licking I could trust him." "Though the baker wouldn't" "Though the baker wouldn't-of course the baker would trust him! And when he got home yesterday morning three rolls were missing again. I reached for the bedslat again-" "And the bed broke down and cried." "And the bed broke down-no, the bed didn't break down! What do you think that dog did?" "I give it up." "He laid down and rolled over three times."-Indianapolis Press. As Others See Him. She-Mr. Murkleton always agrees to everything his wife says. I hate a man like that. Why doesn't he show some spirit and try to have a mind of his own sometimes? I don't believe the man knows beans. He-You wrong him. By adhering to his system, as he does, he some times makes it impossible for her to think of anything else to try to argue about-Chicago Times-Herald. The Small-Minded Man. "Well," said the Small-Minded Man, "I have found out another woman's age." "Ho* did you do it?" asked the lis tener. "Why, I asked her suddenly how many years It was since 1873. "But how did you find out her age." "She figured it, up by subtracting five from thirty-two before she thought."'-Indianapolis Press. Which Make it.Best. Beanwear-The British may be h Ing the best of it just now, but I no. tice the Boers captured 200 wagons Just the same. Brittan-True, and I'll bet that's part of Roberts's strategy. Wouldn't - be surprised if those wagons refull of bicycles, of different makes, which - the Boers were allowed to capture so as to create dissensions in their .ranks.-Philadelphia Press. Mispiaced. The girl in the golf cape ,turned partly around to scrutinize the attire of the girl in the fur jacket, and in consequence she slipped and fell on the muddy crossing. Meanwhile the girl in the for jacket passed on. "That wouldn't have happene4, if she'd had a little more rubber on her heels and a little less In her neek" she said.-Chicago Tribune. A Limit. "But." we assured him solemnly, "to receive proper consideration, youn do not owe enough." "I owe," he retorted, "all that any of my friends can afford." We saw that there was Inevitable limits even to popularity, and, with- : drawing, wept copiously.-New York Press. Growing Cordiality. Mesheck-You must come up to my place some evening and try one of my cigars. Yawner-Thanks, but I don't smoke. "Well, come up on Thursday and have a glass of wine with me." "Thanks, I never drink." "Himmel! Then come up and see me every evening."-Life. Again the Worm Turns. "I suppose," said Mfrs. Vick-Senn, her voice rising to a shrill falsetto, "you would justify the use of the dum dum bullets In that war' down there in Africa. It would be just like you!" "I'd as lief be dumdumbed to death:' replied her long-suffering hus band, "as to be talk-talked to death." --Chicago Tribune. Likely to be an Acquisition,. 'Who are these new people that are moving into the house next doer?" "I don't know, but I am sure we shall get along splendidly with them. They have just unloaded a wheelban row and a lawn mower.-Chicagp Tri bune. On a Large Scale. - First Foreigner-To get in with the. Americans one has merely to join a church. Second Foreigner-Did you do that? "Did I? Why, I belonged to a dos An Unknown Tongue. The Optimist-A pure woman's heart Is like an open book. The Old One--Yes. I've often won dered what the language is it is writ ten in-New York Pas. How Lithuanians PJay Dice. A peculiar dice game is indulged in by the gambling element of Lithu asians in Baltimore. Gathering about the dice tables in the saloons keps by .their fellow countrymen, they quickly lose all Interest in every thing outside of that which is trans piring upon the 'loth before them. &s they sit or s * I about the tables the careworn 1ta~tures of old mLen contrast strongly with the ruddy faces of the youths. The eagerness with which the players seek the num hers upon the faliling pieces is wolf- . Ish in all Its intensity. Comparative ly small sums are placed upon the game, and side bets run from five cents to a dollar. Although resem bling in the manner in which it isa op erated the high dice game, as played by the Anglo-Salon races, the dice of the Lithuanians, Instead of num bering from one to six, run from one to ten, the numbering of the sit sides being 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 10. The game In played with four pieces, and a possible 40 is the poInt striven foE instead of 24, which is high mark in the similar American game.-Blti"e more Sun.