The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, November 06, 1901, Image 4
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