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STRANGE INFLUENUES We Are Often Affected by Forces We Seldom Recognize. Dr. Talmage Enlar;;e %pon V! n Accountability IL Uiv Sermo: bolae Great sup's Of the New V 4rld. [Copyright, 1W1. by Lculs K'.pschN Y. In this discourse Dr. Tama'-e de onstrates that we are aiYeted b forces that we selcom reccnize and enlarges upon human accoumia the text is Job 3S:31: bind the sweet in.neuees o - ades?" What is the arna -: tion that God yiZ tO all our lives becr most of us i' and power ard ness? A mez: a a of Scripture many th it to bc. But the telescopes were busy a-e after age and astronomical observations kept on questioning the skles until the meaning of my text comes out lustrously. The Ple i&tes is a con stellation of &even surs apcaring to the naked eve, but scient!c lnstru ments reveal nmore than 4C0 properly belonging to the group. Aleycne Is the name of the brightest star of that group called the Fleiades. A Russian astronomer observed that Alcyone is the center of gravitation of our soar system. Hugh Macmillan says that the sun and its planets wheel around that center at the rate of 422,000 miles a day in an orbit which it will take 19,000,000 years to complete. The Plei ades appear in the springtime and are associated with flowers and genial warmth and good weather. The navi gation of the Mediterranean was from May to November-the rising and the setting of the Pleiades. The priests of Belus noticed that rising and set ting 2,000 years before Christ. Now, the glorious meaning of my text is plain as well as radiant. To give Job the beautiful grace of hu mility God asked him: "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades?" Have you any power over the laws of gravitation? Can you modify or change an influence wield ed by a star more than 400,000 miles away? Can you control the winds of the springtime? Can you call out the dowers? How little you know com pared with omniscience! How little you can do compared with Omnipo tencel The probability is that Job had been tempted to arrogance by his vast attainments. He was a metallurgist, a Zoologist, a poet, and shows by his Writings he had knowledge of hunt ing, of music, of husbandry, of medi eine,. of mining, of astronomy, and perhaps was so far ahead of the scholars and scientists of his time that he may have been somewhat pLufned up; hence this interrogation of my text. And there Is nothing that so soon takes down human pride as an Interrogation point rightly thrust. Christ used it mightily. Paul mounted the parapet of his great arguments with such a battery. Men of the world understand it. Demosthenes began his speech on the crown and Cicero his oration against Catilins and Lord Chatham h'is most famous orations with a question. The empire of ignorance is so much vaster than the empire of knowledge that after the most learned and eiaborate dis quisition upon any subject of sociol ogy or theology the plainest man may ask a question that will make the wisest speechless. After the pro-. toundeet assault upon Christianity the humblest. disciple may make an Inquiry that would silence a Voltaire. Called upon, as we all are at times, to defend our holy religion, instead of argument that can always be an swered by argument. let us try the power of Interrogation. We ought to be loaded with at least half a dozen questions and always ready, and when Christianity is assailed and we are told there is nothing in It, and there Is no God, and there never was a amiracle, and that the Scriptures are nreasonable and cruel, and that there never will be a judgment day, take out of your portable armory of Interrogation something like this: What makes the condition of women in Christian lands better than in heathen lands? Do you think It would be ind In God to turn the human. race Into a world without any writ ten revelation to explain and en cour age and elevate and save? And If a revelation was made, which do you prefer, the Zenda-Vesta of the Per sian or the Confucian writIngs of the Chinese or the Horan of Mohammed or our .3lble? If Christ is not a Di ine being, what did He mean when He said: "Before Abram was I am?' If the Bible is a bad book, where are the evil results of reading it? Did yeu see any degrading influence of the book In your father or mother ofr sister, who used to read It? Do *you not think that a judgment day is necessary in order to explain and Ax up things that were never ex plained or axed up? If our religion is illogical and an imposition upon hu man credulity, why were Herschel an d Weahington and Gladstone and Wil 11ama McKinley its advocates? How did It happen that our religion fur nished the theme for the greatest poem ever written, "Paradise Lost," and to the painters their greatest themes in the "Adoration of the Magi," "The Transfiguration," "The East Supper," "The Crucifixion, "T.he Entombment," "The Last Judgment," and that all the schools of painting put forth their utmost genius in pre senting "The Madoinn?" Why was it that William Shakes peare, after amazing the world as he will amaze all centuries with the cplendor and power of "The Me1r ehant of Venice," and "Corioianns," Murdered from Ambush. J. W. McDonald and his wife. Susar', were shot from ambush from the back of the Brazos river, Texss, nesr the Galls county line and both were killd They were fsahing and were near trhei tent whcn some ono fired upon themu. McDonald was about 50 yards from the tent when he was thet tw'o3 ia tie head. The wife was 100 yards anty and the shot was evidently very close, for the woman's cthhicg tcok fire a::d her body was burned to a crisp. Th'e murderer was evidently after money, for it was known that McDonald had some in his tent. Schley's Answer. A stir was crerted in court of er qui rey by Judge Lemley adking in refereace to the movements 'rcund iene . "Had Cevera's S et sprre-re dr the nights you we-a at Ci aes either coming cut orec l r the seaward5, what un vr r: tiene,. wouM yetn hm- de "Kioeed the m C 1 '*' rel. "To folow the f ,te ntuein and~C~~eh," nd -Macbeth," and "Hamlet." wrote with his own hand 1is last wlil and testament, beginning with the words: "In the name of God, amen, I, William Shakespeare, of Stratford-on-Avon, in the county of Warwick, in perfect health and mnei ory, God be praised, do male :nd or dain this my last will and ticta-n'Ilt through the oniy raerits Of Jesus Chris, my Saviour, to i-e made par taker of life ever.a ami 'r. to t ac wero is madc?"' Ihad s:.a:espeare lst i reason when h w h faih in (hrist and the great atonemet? 1' u your antag or:sa so like that. and \h:excush1 himself for nnnt Ile .st meet imme e l start on a retreat -' It '"ch our nort'ern troops mI d fo- 7c r yonrder Lo::n rig after -ie batle of Manassas. A discourse on God's omnipotence and man's lim itations would not have had such an effet upon Job as the interrogation of the text: "Canst thou bind the sweet influence of the Pleiades?" These words also recognize far reaching influene-s. Job probably had no adequate idea of the distance of the worlds mentioned from our world. but he knew them to be far o, and we, who have the advantage of mudera sidereal investigation, ought to be still more impressed than was -Job with the question of the text, as it puts before us the fact that worlds hundreds of thousands of miles distant have a grip on our world. There are sweet influences which hold us from afar. There may have been in our ancestral line per haps 200 years ago some consecrated man. or woman who has held over all the generations since an influence for good which we have no power to realize, and we in turn, by our virtue or vice, may influence those who shall live 200 years from now. Moral gravitation is as powerful as material gravitation, and if, as my text teaches and science confirms, the Pleiades. which are millions of miles from our earth, influence the earth we ought to be impressed with how we may be influenced by others far away back and how we may in fluence others far down the future. That rill away up among the Alle ghantes, so thin you think it will hardly find its way down the rocks, becomes the mighty Ohio rolling into the Mississippi and rolling into the sea. That word you utter, that deed you do, may augment itself as the years go by until rivers cease to roll and the ocean itself shall be dried up in the burning of the world. Paul, who was all the time saying important things, said nothing more startlingly suggestive than when he declared: "None of us liveth or dieth to himself." Words, thoughts, actions,. have an eternity of flight. As Job could not bind the sweet in luences of the Seven Stars, as they were called, so we cannot arrest or turn aside the good projected long ago. Those influences were started centuries before our cradle was rocked and will reign centuries after our graves are dug. Oh, it Is a tre mendous thing to live! God help us Ito live aright. Astronomers can easily locate the Pleiades. They will take you into Itheir observatories on a clear night and aim their revealing instrument toward the part in the heavens where those seven stars have their habi tue, and they will point to the con st-ellaton Taurus, and you can see for yourself. But it is impossible to noint to innluences far back that have affected our character and will ffect our destiny. We know the in fuences near by-paternal, maternal. conjugal-but by the time we have gene back two generations or at most three our investigations falter and fail. Through the modern in teresting habit of searching back to find the ancestral tree we may find a long list of names, but they are only names. The consecration or abandonment of some one 200 years ago was not recorded. It would not be so Important if you and I by our good or bad behavior blessed or blasted only those immediately around us, but our goodness or our badness will reach as far as the strongest rays of Alcyone - yea, across the eternities. Under this consideration what do you think of those who give themselves up to frivolity or idleness and throw away 50 years of their existence as though they were shells or pebbiles or pods insed of embryo eternities? Notice also in my text the Influ ence of other worlds upon this world. We all regard the effect which our continent has upon other continents or one hemisphere upon the other hemisphere. Great harvest or drought affects the other side of our world. A anic in Wail street, New York, ha. Iits echo in Lombard street and the bourse. The nations of the earth cabegrammed together all feel the same thrill of delight or shock of woe. 1But we do not appreciate the influ ence of other worlds upon our world. The author of my text rouses us to the consideration. It takes all the worlds of known and unknown as tronomy to keep our world in its or bit, every world dependent on other worlds. The stellar existence is fell all through the heavens. Every con stellation is a sisterhood. Our planet feels the benediction of Alcyone and all the other stars of the Pleindes. Yea, there are two other worlds that decide the fate of our world, its re Idemption or Its demolition. Those tvo worlds are the headquarters of angelology and demonology. From the one world came Christ, come min istering spirits, come all gracious in flmences. From the other world rise all satanic and diabolic influences, From that world of moral right rose Ithe power that wrecked our poor world 6,000 years ago, and all the good work done since then has not Description of Jim Lowry. Following is a complete desoription of Jim L~wery, the murderer, for the cspture of whom there is a rewardd $700 ofecred: Lowery is about 25 year! od, abcuL 5 feet and 11 inches high, lim, weight 145 pounds, reddish mu Latto, ginge r cste color, has bad teeth, ome may 1- cut. Has brown spot on aide of face, hard to detect except by co icsrection. Has prou inentr cheek bb~ns and slim chin; said to have In dia blood in him. Has sneaking, bly, do'ncst look, and talks very little. H is voice is fine and talks in a very ov tone. He had when he left Shelby daubled case gold plated watch; Ni. b z T'renton movement. No. of case 4u78. No. cof worka 2011194. alsc h h o N). 33, Iver & Johnson pistol. L ery has been living at Simlby fec -. t fv srs. At his former home S - Carolirns he was koon as a nJ eknenof Satve J..zmis. H s.a .cmbi andstas roundi e n. it is sruppon~d tbht tt.is who0 mnurdered the chief of been able to get our world cut of the breakers. But the si7aln of ds tress hava been hos:ed cad the life lines are cut, wd our word' re lease is c.1rtan. The g 11d nfluenCs of the co:.seerted ieco:ein our worl l ibe e upd tij~ by the help fom eea world, and the Di vine power ilj overcome the de moiae. 0 !:1an, 0 woml0tlan, expand vour ida and know the magnitude of a contest in which three worlds are spci ally initersted. 1'rom all the seven worlds which my text cealls the ?1eiades there come no such powerful influences as from the two worlds that I am now mentioning. My only hope for this world is in the reen forcenent that is to come from an other world. lut that is promised, and so I feel as sure of the ratifica tion of all evil as though looking cut of my window to4a.y I saw the parks and the gardens flowering into anoth er paradise and the apocalyptic angel flying through the md.st of Iheaven with the news that the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord. My text called Job and calls us to consider "the swet influences." We put too much emphasis upon the acid ities of life, upon the irritations of life, upon the disappointments of life,. Ammianus Marcellinus said that Chaldea was In olden times overrun with ions, but many of them lost their power because the great swamps produced many gnats that would get into the eyes of the lions, and the lions to free themselves of the gnate would claw their own eyes out and then starve. And in our time many a lion has been overcome by a gnat. The little stinging annoyances of life I keep us from appreciating the sweet influences. Arid how many of these last there are! Sweet influences of home, however plain it nay be! That is the harbor' into which we sail. That is the goal for 'Which we run. That is the place where we rest. There abide all confidence and affec tions. There we lay our plans. there we extend our sympathies. There we talk over our successes. There we unload our griefs. Its four walls shut out a prying and inquisitive world. Thank God for the home in which we were born, the home in which we now live, the home in which we expect to die! Not suffciently do we recognize the sweet influences of the wife. We men are of a rougher mold, aud our voice is loud, and our manners need to be tamed, and ge-rtleness is not as much of a characteristic as i-: ought to be, and we often say things we ought to take back. It is to change this that the good wife comes in. The interests of the twain are Identical. That which from outsiders would be considered criticism and to be resented becomes kindly suggestion, swE et influences that make us better me a than we oth erwise would have been or could have been. The sweet influences of the heavenly world, which many wist men thought for a long while was Aleyone, the cen-' ter of the constellation of the Plei ades, world of our future residence, as we hope; world of chorus and il lumination, world of reunion, world where we shall be everlastingly com plete, world where our old faculties will be intensified and puickened and new faculties implanted, world of high association with Christ, through whose grace we got there at all, and apostles and poets-Hahakkuk and St. John, of Patmos, and E dward Young, his "Night Thoughts" turned into eternal day; and Roratlus Bonar, of modern hymnology; and Hannah More, and Mrs. Hemans and Mrs. Sigourney, who struck their harp~s till nations lis tened; and David, the victor over Go liath with what seemed insufficient weapons; anid Joshua, of the pro longed day in 0-ibeon; and lHavelock, the evangelist hero, and those thou sands of men of the sword who fought on the right side. What company to move in. What guests to entertain! What personges to visit! What choirs to chant! What banquets with lifted chalices filled with "the new wine of the kingdom!" What victories to celebrate! The stories of that world and its holy hilarities come in upon our soul sometimes in song, sometimes in ser mon, sometimes in hours of solitary reflection, and they are, to use the words of my text, sweet inihuences. But there is one star that affects us more with its sweet influenee than th center star, the Alcyone of the Plei ades, and that is what one Bible au thor calls the Star of Jacob and anoth er Bible author calls- the Morning Star. Sweet influences of the Holy Ghost, with all His transforming and corn fortingandemancipatngpowe~r When that power is fully felt, there will be no more sins to pardon and no more wrongs to correct and no more sor rows to comfort and no more bondage to break. But as the old-time ship captains watched the rising of the Pleades for safe navigation and set sail in Mediterranean waters, but were sure to get back into port before the constellation Orion came into sight, the season of cyclone and burri ane,so there is a time to sailhforlHeav en, and that is while the sweet in fluences are upon us and before the storms overtake the delay. Open all your soul to the light and warmth and comfort and inspiration of that Gos pel which has already peopled Heaven with millions of the ransomed and is helping millions to that glorious; desti nation. Do not postpone the things of God and eternity till the storms of lmfe swoop and the agitations of a great future are upon us. Do not dare wait urntil Orion takes the place of the Pleides. Weigh anchor now and with eart unrolled and pilot on board head or the reunions and raptures that await all the souls forgiven.. "And they need no candle, neither light of the sun, for the Lord God give:h themn light, and they shall reign forever and ever." Wireless Telegraphy. Wireless telegraphy has made a great advance in practical utilination by the correspocdence at sea between the Cam pania and Lucania, two Cunardiers bound west and east across the Atlanit e. One incident of it was that by Maronis systemn the Campania tele grahed to her sister ship 170 miks away a disratch for Philadelphia On reaching Qieenstown the Luania'o captain fikd the mneseae at the cible iflice and it reached its destination 24 Ihours before its sender arrived in New York on the Campania. Witim such a start as this there is scope to imagine any achievement of long distance tel egraphy as possible to the wireless tys tem. _________ __ Will Attend. Pesdent Rooscenlt has agreed to open the Chadiesten exposton and to tnd if potsib!o on the occa.ion cf Lnnecn s birtdo. which will be a holi & y, and ebyety:: at tli' esposition. Th presineut recJind ibe committee v;r~ courteously ad czpres&;d himself as bing very much intf rceted in the FINE EXHIBITS To Come frrm the Buffalo Ex hibision to Charleston. THEY ARE WORTH SEE-NO. It is Beccmirg More Evident Ev-0y Cay That the Show at Charkston Will oi Ocod. A dispatch to the New York Tribune from Buffalo gives an encouraging statement of the bequests cf the Pan American expotition to the Charleston exposition. It says: The exhibits from Canada and South American countries in moEt instances will Le kept intact and sent to the Charle t:n exposition. This applies panicurly ;o the displaysi of Brazil, i%,u, Arcntina, Nicaragua, Silvador, Boivin. Honduras, San D.omingo. Ecu ner, Me~xic, J:mai.ca, Puerto Rico aLd 'rts Cf the Cuban a.d C.ilian ex hi.its. Ail tbEe cxhibits as they were shown n h. Pan-American, have been cescribed in The Tribune, Lut it is s-id that at Charleston they Tiil be shrown under better advantageb, be cause more space will be devoted to most of them. Cos-a Rice's exhibit will be sent to Ssn Francisco an it belongs to the chamber of commerce of ths city. It is said to have been badly di-playcd at Buffalo. But another czerptionally fine exhibit will go to Charleston. This is iade by the French colonieE. We quoto the dis atch: At the tir'i this exhibit was install ed The Fribtino told of its attrac'ions But sinLce then it has been tdded to rely, :td only last Thursday one hunired and twenty more caes of ex Libii s from the colonies arrived for transportstirn to Charleston. This ex bibit will eclipse all foreign ( xhibits at the Charleston txposition. and the fact that so much rew material has been added speaka volumes for the success the colories must have obtained at the Pan-American to induce them to in crease the diisplay. "In Charleston we will have from 6 *000 to 7,000 feet of fLor space, a, compared to the 1,000 Equare feet we have had here," said George Litden, who is making arrangements for the Eouthern display. "We will need every bit of the space, tco, for we in tend to make the beat showing of any fr-reign ocuatry at Charleston. The 120 ce ses of additional a.rtic'.es we h:.ve just received contain articles that wili mEake the most comprehensiva scienti fia ,ollection of the kind ever shown ani xhere in the world. Every thing, too, %ill be labeled in a ECientific man ncr, and will b3 the only scientidcally classified exhibit that will be shown. "The syndicate 'De Li Presse Colo niale,' which publi-hed camprehensive scientific catalogucs during tL e Pan Amesican, intends to do even better in Charleston and will iss5us publications showing everything pertaining to the colonies. These catalogues will be in Fret oh and English and will contain the latest informnation regarding the produc~s, the resources and the advan tages of the colonies. Mr. Ps~nl Oeker, c.inmissioner and ger eral delegate of the syndicate, is now making arrazge ments for the publication. "The retults we secured here wsar ranted this, and the French govern ment 1s behind us. A big fete will be held ehordiy in Pari5, when the an nounct ment of the pize awards mado o the French colonies will be annouine ed to the public. Dr. Guitt~ve Nieder ia chief of 1.he scientific department of the Philadelphia ma-eums, is now is Paris and~ will pmrieipate in the ete. He did much of the work for the colonies for both of the expositions. 'In the additional cases we have re ceived there are exhibits of coffee, co coa, fibre and woods, the latter from French Guins. This display of woods will be particularly fine, and comes from the forests which are not half ex plored and whose resources arc un nown. There are some woods that the people of the Ucited States never saw or i:eazd of, sand wHich are knowu only by their native names. Too color-ies wili try to esblieh a market for them here. Some of the woods are beauti fully grained and excacdingly hard, while they admit of a uadeome finiah. All of them will receive comprehensive descriptions in the catalogues, which will have contribations- frem t.selve hundred membhe~s in all parts of the world. The collection from Hayti, which was not shown here at all, will be shown in Charleston, and will con tan some specimens that were collect d by the first governor of Bayri at the ime the island was annexed to France. "One unique exhibit will be decora ive tin work for interior ornimenta tion. It is used in the houses of the Frenob colonics. We also will show some of the transportable convict hous es that wre ihmk may be of interest in the south. "We se will make a book display that we think will astonish American pblihers. The display will include some curies that will attract book lov rs, amorng them being the oldest book evr published in the West Indies. It wan ebished in the sixteenth century, and is a history of the islands, the place of publication being Martinique. Then we have received the manuscript of a work that soon will be published and wusicb gives the true origia cf Eci .press Josephine. It contains facts that havejui: been drawn from old books and documents discovered in the West Indies and compiled by Dr. Piohevin. The manuscript proves that the real nams of the empress was Marie, and not Josephine, and that she was the third, and not the first, daughter of the Tach er de la Pagerie family, who were among the oldest settlers in Martini que." It is becoming more evident every day that there will be a great deal to see at the Charleston exposition. Of course it will not be as large as that now closing at Buffalo nor will it have as great scope, but it will be, as is pro mised in these extracts, better arranged and thus more attractive in many fea tures arnd quite as international in character as the Pan. American fair, af fording to hundreds of thousands of southerners an opportunity never befors enjoyed of seeing the world through its products at a minimum of expense. It gives us pleasure to convey this infor mation to our people. Lost Both Legs. A negro tramp recently lost his feet while stealing a rido on an Atlantic Cast Line train near Charleston. He a riding under one of the passenger ar3 when he was suddenly dislodged from his rposition and hit body fell out side of the ernck, while his feet which fell on the rail were cut off by the mel SUPERTITION ON THE FARXS. Odds Ideas Firmly Believed in by the Prosaic A griculturists "Superstition is more prevalent among the Ameriosn people than is generally supposee," said a book. agent, "and even the hard-headed intelligent farmers are, to a certain extent, afflict ed with, it. "I remember asking a far.m.er 60 years old, a man of more than ordinary intc-lligence, the owner c.f 1 000 acres of fine land, well stocked, and who had several thouand dollar3 in bonds and other aecutiics, yhy he did rot build imself a better house. The one he lived in was old, smal and dilapidated, a relic of the days when he was poor. "'Afraid to,' was the reply. " 'Afraid of whatT I arxed. "'Well, you see, I hive always heard that when in old man huiles a new house he never lives long to use it.' "I lau'ghed, but he was perfectly ser ious, ar d I found that in that neigh borhocd the suqersiion was generally believcd in. "Another Ea~ing 'as comrm n in the localitiy. The man who plants a tree generally lives to ejnny its fruit.' The belief in these sayirgs was shown by the r-umber of poor farmhouses and trio number cf fine orchards in that neigh borhood. " ' Secd corn shelled a- night grows best' is arother Eaying frequently used in the acra belt. A farmer's son sug gested that it was invented by tho old men as an excuse for making the boys wcrk at night. " ' Things planted during the dark of the moon produce the best roots' is so geer1ly accepted as true that vege ables like potatos, turnips, beets, o.r rots, and onions are planted during the light of the moon by few people. Many scientific farmers believe in this super stition. . " 'The farmer who refuses water to a traveller's horse will see his own live tock ;uffer from thirst before the end of the year' is a belief so common in some localities as to insure courteous treatment to all. travellers. "Some farmers will wring the neck of a hen if she crows. They say a crowing hen brings bad luck to the farm, and, as I heard one old farmer remark, 'sets the wimmen folks a bad example.' "' Borrowed -ggs always l-tch, is a Eaying proball; iuvenfai buoma stingy man as an excuse for corrow ing, but it is so generally believed in some neighborhoods that a regu!ar sys tem of borrowing and lending is carried on. "Tnese and hundreds of other super stitions are so generally believed in that they govern the custcma of com munities to a surprising extent." Soldier's Awful. Fate. One of twelve bodies brought to San Francisao from Manila by the transport Meade was that of Corpl. John A. Do lan of the Thirty- seventh Volunteer In fantry, who was captured and starved to death by the Ladrones, of LaTuna province, sixty miles south of Manila. The remains are in a small box, for all that was found of Dolan by his com rades, after they had driven the Fiii ino bands from their sulrongholds in hat neighborhood, months after Do an's capture, was a portion of his body. A ring upon his shrivailed fingers served to icentify him. The body wi'I be kept, awaiting she claim of fiends or relatives of the unfortunate Dojlan. He is said to have come from Tennes see. Little concerning the particulars of Dolan's exp~riences and death was known by any of the passengers return ing on the Meade. Lieut. Hill, of the i'milyfoulrth, had heard the story in .hae Pniiippines, and told how Dolan and a guard had been surprised and aptured by the Ladrones, carried to the mountain fastness and slowly stased to death. As most of the La drones are bloodthirsty and cruel even LO each other, it is believed Dolan suf fered great torture in various ways dur ing the starving process, and was pro~b ably left alive in camp when the La drones, following their usual custom, changed their abode. - He was unabie O travel, and could only await death by slow starvation. The desolate ec~mp had been long abandoned when the Anerican troops came upon it one day ist summer. They gathered all that iemained of the pobr corporal, forward ng the body wo Manila for sznipmens to .hu, country. To Be Taken to Spain. The body of Vice Admiral Villamil1, commandter of the 8panish torpedo floilla, who w as killed at the battle of Santiago, was transferred Tuesday to the Steamer Monts'srrat to be taken to Spain. The c~remony of transfer was in charge of Captain of the Port Young, representing she United State navy. A sate of nmne guns was fired at Morro Caste. Vice Adimiral Villamil was wounded on board the destroyer Platuon, and was taken ashore by Spanish sail or, dying shortly afterward. His body was left seated in a chair in a cave about four miles west of the entrance to Santiago harbor, and it romamned there about eight months before it was discovered, when it was tranferred to the Santiago arsenal. From an inter national point of view, the United States navy was still ic charge of the body, and the Spanish consul requested a formai transfer. The ceremony was attended by the Spanish oolony and the representatives of the military government. Loved His Horses. For stabling his horses in his house and eating and sleeping wih them Eiton Pitts, a teamster, of Vineland, N. J., has been arneated and fined by Justice Miller, under the vice and immorality act. Pitts, who is a jovial character and well known lover of horses, led his equine pets through his house and into his parlor last night to show them the furniture, and then stabled them in the kichen, where he slept with them all night. Pitt. insisted upon eating with his horses in the dining room. His mother complained-to a neighbor. Jut. tie Kennedy, preferred she charge against him. Cost of Our Army. Paymaster General Bates, in his re port, sa s that the pay of the army for the past fiscal year was $53,215,345, an inrese over the previous year of $1, 301,364. He makes several recommen dations relative to the army pay system, the most important being that officers of the pay corps be no longer compelled to furnish bonds. Killed His Father. In the mountains fifteen miles from Spring Pliace, Ga., A. J. McClure was killed by his son Marion. Tha killing grew out of a two daya' feud between the husband and wife, and the son kill ed his father to protect his mother. The second son arrived in time to see his father's throat out. His life was THE CONPEDERATE ROLLS. Jastice to be Done at Last to Our Dead Heroes. The State says miost important ac tion was Thursday takcr by the joint State committee on c:.-,fdment, com posed of tho State committee of Uci'cd Confederate Veterans and the State committee of Sons cf Confederate Veterans appointcd to crry cut the plan of er.rllment of th-3 Confederate Veterans of South Ctrolia by town ship and cnunty, which plan was un animously adopted at the Stat6 conven tien of United Confeicrato Vcterans last Maiy. This plan provides for the enroll meni of Tetoran4 who served the Con f'deracy by county ar'd lownship Eo that the homas.e:d whens the v oran entered the I.onfe :rate military or naval service ()r the ite3 whercoa it stocd, a endurieg as nacure itsel) sbell saggest the nm-) of the VCrn L to b enrollkd. This j int committee composed of rep:eeutativa vtaas and sons o) veterars from various 1art of the State. took nctio2 h;r b; there wiil be a comes in each towiship and county in this 8:stn of vezeraos, Eons of veterans and dan gh ters of veterans to aid in securiog'this caniplete enrolhuent aloog geographi cal lines. Tho procredinrs and discussions wers earnest aod ine-estgrg, and at last South Gerolit-a wiIl doubtless obtain a complete enrollent of her vettraLs of the Confederacy. The present rolls do a gross injutice to the living and the dead in omitting the names of a large percentage of the rank and file. As interested listeners at the die cussions and proceedings of the joint commitee ihere vera present Mrs. 'Thomas Taylor, president of the United Daughters of the Conf'-deracy o' South Carolina, and other I)ugbters of the Confederacy. Gen. Zimmerman Davis, chairman, and Mr. D. H. Means, secretary of the mestirg, will within a few days supply the press with full minutes of the pro ceedings and the plan of the enrollment. When these are published every veteran and son and daughter of veteran and newspaper in the State who love and revere the patriotio devotion of the Confederate soldiers are urged to unite in an earnest effort to accurately enroll the names of "those who power could not corrupt, whom danger could not terrify, whom defeat could not dishonor," because in the langusge of the State convention omisson of the names of many of these heroes from the present rolls may not only cause these names to be forgotten but in future years and to later generations may discredit and cause to be rejected as false any Eurviving tradition of the heroism of those whose names are cmitted. A National Sensation. The Washirgion correspondent of the Atlanta Journal says: Presidenz Roosevelt having begun his series of blunders at the Booer Washington dinner, is apparently becoming more deeply entangled in the meshes of pop ular disfavor, and th.s time with Re publicans. Behind the removal of iThomas W. Chridler, third assistant secretary of state, there is said to lurk a sensation. Although Mr. Cridler has noc yet tendered nis resignation he has5 been asked to do sotnd has scept ed the posimien of E-:tropa.n represen tative i or the St. Louis exposition. He denies that thera Las been any friction between himself and the state depart ment with which he has been connect ed for mo:e thsan 25 years. 8Snator Longe, perhaps the warme~t friend of Lhe preeinent, is credited with having causoe. the rem~ovat to make a place for Pieroe. Mr. taer haiis rrom West Virginia and his friends: thore are in aigant. Senator Sco:.t said today: *St~veral di~ys ago I received by wire an intin.ation that Sens~or Lodge, of Massaehusetts, had a ked the presid ena to appoint a *rienn of his to tae po sition of third as isLant se-cretary of state and that Mr. CnAdier was to be re moved. I nave a so been informed that Mr. Pieree, a Democrat, was to be given the pla::e. "I received later a wire from my eel league, Senor K1kins, asking me to cooperata with him in ?eeping Mr. Crialer from being Cisturbee. limme diatelg' wrote the preid~eut a very strong letter on the subj:,ct, and stat-Ad i was curprised th:.t a civil service re former jike L::Ae, on his first visiL to ane white hou:.e, would ask for the ap pointment of a brother-in-iw and a Danocrat in the piace oX a faithsai offi cial an i a Repubicn. "All I have to say is that the true Repubucans of West Virginia will re sent it. Mr. Cridler i5 ooing removed without causo. Hie was not only an able official out kopt West Virginisus in touch with state department ojen ings, arnd for this reason our people wiii have csuse to regret nis being dis placed." Church and Parsonage Burned. The Methodist church and parson age at Seneca were burned on ?uurs day morning. About 9 o'eiok smoke was discovered comig out of the roof of the paneonage and soon the flsmes bursL out aad the building was in a few moments al! :flbes. Eidently the fire caught with:.n the second story or garret in some unexplainable way and must have been burning some time when discovored. It was a two-story frame bailding. The church, a lsige frame baiineng, was 75 feet vnea of the parAonage. A sumhg east wmnd was olowing and in spte of evenry eifert the church caughs fire. The scsreity of water in that see::ion of town prevented saving the church. All of tae church furniture, pews and many of the sash and blinds were saved. The paster doesn't reside here and the parsonage was occupied by Mr. C. S. Reid, who saved nearly every rhing. The total Loss in the two buildings is about $3,500, wish no insurance, tse policies having expired and by some oversight were not renewed. How's This? We offer One Hlundred Dollhrs Re wardi for any crsse of Catarrh that can not be cured by Hail'a Catarrh Cure. F. J. CBENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the la.>t 15 years, and believe him to be perfectly honorable in all business transactions and finan cially able to carry out any obligutions made by their firm. WEs-r & TRUAX, Whol'isale Dsuguess, ToXido, 0. WALnisa, KrssAN & 11AaviN, Wholesale Diasgists, hioisdo, U. Hall's Catarch Cure is taken :n-er nally, acting ci-eetly upon thes blood and mucous suraeeas of the systm. Price 75e. per bottle.. Sold by al Drg5iLts. Tesi-nonias free. Hail's Family P1as are thre best. St. Peter's Chair. The actual material chair of St. Pe ter is now venerated in his basilica in Rome, and enshrined in the splendid bronze throne supported by colossal figures of four doctors of the church, SS. Ambrose, Augustine, Athanasius and Chrosostom, the whole weighing 219,000 Roman pounds. The actual seat is a simple oak chair, which only in the ninth century was adorned in front with ivory plates. Until the time of Alexander VIII. the position of the relic frequently changed. In tLh old est church of St. Peter, built by Con stantine between 320 and 350, the chair had a place of honor at one of the sides in thl baptismal chapel erected by Pope Darascus. Tn those days the Romaau pontiff., used to seat them selves upon this chair in order to ad mir.ister confirmaustion to the neo phytes just baptised. In the eighth centi;y co;ait:?aj)orary pictures rep reunted the chair as kept in the ora tory of St. Lev. Archaecioists like De Rossi and Marucchi have proved the existence of this venerable relic as far back as the secoud century. Even at that time it was looked upon with the highest veneration as a ma terial proof of the apostolic succes sion. In the sixth century Abbot John is recorded as having carried some of the oil from the lamp ever burning be fore the apostolic throne to the Lom bard Queen Theodolinda.-Tablet. signing of the Sulu Treaty. The sultan of Sulu was persuaded to pign the treaty with this country by means of a phonograph. The sultan and his suite were assembled on the deck of the man of war Charleston, and preliminary negotiations were completed and terms agreed upon, but the sultan would not sign. Every ef fort to put him in good humor had lailed when Gen. Bates had a phono graph set up on deck. When it began to pour forth the words of "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town, To Night," the members of the sultan's suite were variously stricken with fear and delight. The sultan was amazed, and on being permitted to speak into the machine and hear his own voice reproduced, his suspicions of the Americans vanished. He promptly and in great good humor signed the treaty.-Golden Days. neavy naindAUs. Exceptionally heavy rainfalls often occur, sometimes with disastrous ef fects. For periods of five minutes rain falls have occurred at Bismarck,. N. D., at the rate of .ine inches per hour, at Jacksonville, Fla., at the rate of seven inches, and at Galveston, Tex., at the rate of 6% inches. In periods of 60 minutes rain has fallen at these three stations at the rate of over two inches per hour; st Galveston &t the rate of 2% 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 fall of 33, 900 pounds, or 4,073 gallons, per min ute per acre. In five minutes, such a rainfall would cover each area of fou square miles with 51,000,000 gallons-a quantity much in excess of the daily consumption of the city of Washing ton.-Washinigton Star. An Unexpected Result. An amusing episode occurred at a political meeting at Lavendon difr 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 some mystery by dra matically holding aloft a walnut, when he proceeded to say: "This is a political walnut Tho rough shell represents the radicals; the next, the thin, bitter skin, Is the liberals, and the kernel represents the good conservative." A man in the audience crIed out: "N~ow crack It.'" SThe 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 nces 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!" -History of Chinese Literature Cupid's Queer Prank. A most romant:c courtship and mar riege came to light Thursday through the announcement of the marriage of James Rennick, manager of the Kelso Merantile compsny, one of the largest estabishments in Joplin, Mo. Mr. Rennick is one cf Joplin's most popu ar business men. A telegram was res ceivaa announcing that he was married and would return to Joplin with his bide after a visit to the Buffalo expo sition. Two years ago Mr. Rennick found the name of hia bride in a basket of grapes which was exposed for sale aua a corespondence starud ffom that date. Hie left Joplin a icw weeks ago, estnsibly to visit the exposition, and the rnews of his marriage was a comn plete eurprise to his friends. The name of his bride is not known, but it is understood that she is the daughter of tho owner of the vinyard where the grapes were packed. Canteen System Condemned. The temptation it would put in the way of .young men, in the opinion of Liut. Gen. Nelson Miles, is a suffi cient reason why the army canteen should not be reestablished. In his annual report given out Thursday af ternoon the generai devotes a special eksp er in support of the anti canteen egsltion. At the same time the general ga.ve out a statement to supple ment his argument, which is intended to show that he has not changed his mind on the su jtot, as has been charged in some quarteis. Brooklyn Hit Most. Admiral Schley completed his ex aminauion in chief Mo1nday morning, and was chen erass-examined by Judge Advoc:e Lenaiey. This covered, in a ga part, tae Lestimony already given by the admirai. In speaking of the hits n the Spanish squadron~ A ;mtral Schley said: ".lhe recjrdof hits received Dy the enmy showed that 36 per cent saored by the American fleet came from the guns on the Brooklyn.. Tne Brooklyn rceived thirty ?f the forty-two hits from the Spanish fleet, or about 70 per cent." ADMIRAL Sehley's straightforWald statement Thursday and Friday before Lhb board of eagquiry added greatly to .he eiect of the overwheiming testi mony already heard in his behalf. Any thi.g au his complete vinaication would jistly provoke the indiguation Entitled to compensation. Patience-Is that so that your *n gagement Is broken? Patrice-Yes, it is. "And the ring; that's gone too?" "Yes; the mean thing asked me to return it." "Why, you wouldn't want to keep the ring if the engag.:ment was broken, would you?" "Certainly, I would. Why, he wore out four of my waists and nearly fractured my ribs in three weeks. Isn't that worth some compensa tion?"-Yonkers Statesman. Loyalty. "Your wife." observed one of his ,riem$, "says yo u ::7e (::.Icafy in f::vor of arendip:: tne !aws so as to ryve Wonwn equn' ris with men ii voln,. Lo'ding c. a:d Cispos ;I: of properTy." "t my wife svs so." said Mr M"'ker, "it's so. I have always been o! te uradestanding that my mar r: e vow hound mne to love heao1 and 0. K. her in everythiug."-Chi ca so Tribune. Ue Knew the Act. Vaudeville Manager-No, we can not book you to act. You see, we do not !Illow any profanity in our house. Badd (of Wroughten and Badd) Why. .-ir, there is not a profane ex pra.i:on-no.t even any slang-in oiix V en. \larager-I know. But we do not al'ow the audience to swear, either. -tan~mre A er',ean. A C::-,e in Point. . "one."remari-Ked the man who I* g tenio triz e renmarks, "is the root o0. "Ihat's nonsense," answered the coumercial friend. "I have read the histories treating of the subject wit) great care, and I am convinced.thal the snake who made the trouble inthe garden of Eden didn't have a dollas -to is name."-Washingtou. Star. It's Wicked to Lie. "I'm surprised, dear, that .ygom :-iend. Miss Singleton, should encour age wickidness." "Why, Charles, she wouldn't. 33k can you say such a thing?" "Decause she did. She askedmehow old I thought she was, and she loiew I was too much of a gentleman to teE the truth."--Philadelphia Bulletin. Prophecy Fulled. "The late editor's wife is sozsEulz of a humorist." . "Indeed?" "Yes. Took a line from his original salutatory and placed it on his tomb stone." "What was it?" "We are here to stay!"-Atlantu - Constitution. - Slow to Realize. "My dear," said Mr. Bickers to his wife, "I saw in the paper to-day ade--" cision of a Virginia court that the, wife may, in some cases, be the. head of the family." "John Henry," replied Mrs..Bickers "the courts are sometimes very slow about finding out thingsl"-Puck. Money Tight. Drug Clerk-I've been docked a week's salary for making a mistake arnd killir~g a man. ILend me five dol lars, won't you? - Friendly Policeman-Couldn't: pos-. sibly. I've just be upne wee fr kllnganother one.-N. Y. Weekly. A 'Moral Lecture. Miss Upperten-They say thieresa great deal of misery among the joor. Miss Gotrox-Well, it's their fault There is Reggy van Pelt, for instance, with only $10,000, a year, trying to keep a yacht and a stable~ of horsea no wonder he's miserable.-Puck. Then Hie Dodges. Who says I cannot meet my bills? Of libels that's the worst! 'Why. sirs, I meet'them every day Unless I see them first. -Philadelphia Press. - - NOT LIKE MOTNER'S. Mother Hen-You're all right, my dear, but you can't lay eggs like mother used to lay.-Chips. The Exception to the Rule. "When a woman is telling anything she always adds a little to it," re marked the observer of events and things; "except it is her age which she happens to be telling."-Yonmkers Statesman Not Always Necessary. - "I tell you it take. a mighty sat and shrewd man to accumulate a largej fortune these days."I "Oh, I don't know; not while.h ' esses are so easily satisfied-as some of them seem to be."-Chicago Post. Good Cause for Deduction. -Doctor-Why have you deducted a quarter from my bill? Patient-That is for the six cigars you broke when you thumped my chest.-Philadelphia Record. Paradoxical. S"Is love blind?" "So they say." j"Well, how can they say love at first; sight?"-Chicago Daily News. Killed by Negro. H. C. Cox, city marshal of Prescott,. Arz, was shot and killed by (Iharles Levy, c ,iored, this afternoon. Cox at tempted to sr~est Lety on a tiivial charge. Lev~y escaped. Citizens gen erally closed their stores and offies, arming themselves and started in pur suit of the negr,,. The Exposition Postoffice.. The postmaster general issued an ore der establishing r. West Indian postof flee station on the grounds of the South Carolina and West Indian exposition at Charleston, S. C The pos to will open Deo. 2 and will have all the facili ties of a regular postofies. Tax Atlanta Journal says "as the investgationl of the Schley csse draws toward its coactusion i; becomss clearer hat if the board bases ils finding upon the evidsnce it will be compelled to ivc the mast complete vindication to ie man whom the country generally egards as the re:s1victor of the sea light at Sntiage." Thiat is the way it looks