The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, November 27, 1901, Image 4

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TALMAGES SERMON In Which He Int1den Hops :Le Invalid and Erring ones. In this dise >urse Dr. Talm g woYM lift people out.'of despndeCn3Y and bring something of future jay into earth ly depression. The tex-. is Hlbrews vi, 19, "Which hope. There is an Atlantie ocean of aerth and fullness in the vrse from which my text-is taken, an-i I only wade into the wave at the beach and take two words. We all have fsvorite wcrds Ex pressive of delight or s'-'horrene, wo%1 that easily find their way from brau to lip;,-word3jthat have ic the.- mora ings and midnights, laughtor and ears. thunderbolts and dowaroPS. In a the lexicons and vccabuis:ies tlre Sr few words that.have Fo: mnC the a.trs.o tions of ILe last wor.: of my to X "Which hope." There hive in the ecu-se cf OaEr 1fC been many anges ci God that have looked cver our shouldes, or mct us on the road, or chanted the d arkness away, or lifted the curtains oi the great in ture, or pulled us back from the prai pices, or rolled down upon as the rap turous music of the Invens, there is one of these angels oas done 'o much for us that we wish throughcut all time and all ctruity to celebrate it -the angel of icpe. S: Pa nsk: it the cente- of a grcup of threc sar-s "Now abideth faith. hope, nacity. And, though he says that charity is the greatest of the three, he does not take one plume from tae wing, or one ray of luster from the brow, or one aurora from the cheek, or one melody from the voice of the angel of my tex:, "Which hope." That was a great night for our world when in a Bethlehem caravansary the Infant Royal was born, and- that w] be a great night in the darkness of your soul when Christian hope is born. There will be elanting ia the skies a- d a star pointing to the Nivity. I wili not bother you wilh the husk oi a de finition and tell you what hope is. When we s't down hungry at a we do not want an analytical disocurse as to what bread is. &nd it on; Pss it round; give us a slice of it. John speaks of hopo as a "pure hope." Peter calls it a "lively hope." Paul styl s it a "good hope," a "sure hope," a "re joicing hope." All up and down the Bible it is spoken of as an anchor, as a harbor, as a helmet, as a door. When we draw a check on a bank, we must have reference to the amount of money we have deposited, but Hope makes a draft on a bank in which for her benefit all heavenhas'been deposit ed. Hope! May it light up every dungeon, stand by every sickbed, leni a helping hand to every orphanage, loosen every chain, caress every forlors soul and turn the unpictured room ci the almshouse into the vestibule of heaven! How euggestive that my tho. logy declares that when all other dei ties fled the earth the goddess Hope re mained! It was hone that r.vived John Knox when on shipboard near the coast 01 Scotland he was fearfully ill, and h~ was requested to lock s~oreward av c asked if he knew the village near tnc coast, and he answered, "I know il well, for I sse the steeple of that plact where God first opened my mouth iu public to his glory, and I am falty per suaded how weak that ever I now ap pear I shall not depart this life till ma tongue shall glorify his holy name: the same place." His hope was. re warded, and for twenty-five more year he preached. That is the hope whici sustained M~r. Morrell of Norwich whey departing this life at twenty four year of age he declartd, "I should like ti understand the Eecrets of eternity be fore tomorrow morning." That wa the kind of hope that the corporal ha< in the battle when, after several stand ard bearers had fallen, he seiz sd th< flag and turned to a lieutenant colone and Esid, "IfIi fall, tell my dear wift that I die with a good hope in Christ and that I am glad to give my life fo: my country." That was the good hopt that Dr. Goodwin had in is last hiou: when he said: "Ah, is this death? Hos have I dreaded as an enemy this emil ing friend!' Many have full assurance that all is right with the soul. They are as sur of heaven as if they had paasra tht pearly ;anels of the gate, as thcu~1 they were already eateu in the templE of God unrolling the libretto of the heavenly chorister. I congratulate aL such. I wish I had it, too-luli assur ance-but with me it is hope. "~Whicl hope." Sinful, it expecets forgivenes; troubled, it expects relief; bereit, i expects reunion; clear down, it ex pects wings to hitt; shipwreckt d, it ex pects lifeboat; bankrupt, it cxpecu eternal riches; a prodigal, it .x9ects the wide open door of the frather's fa m house. It does not wear itself out by . looking backward; it always looks f or ward. What is the use of giving sc much time to the rehearsal of the pasti Your mistakes are not corrected by a review. Your losses cannot, by brood ing over them, be turned into gains. It is the future that has the most fox us, and hope cheers us on. We have all committed blunders, but does the calling of the roll ti them make them any the less blunders? Look ahead in all matters of usefulness. However much you may have accomplished for Gcd and the world's betterment, yomr greatest usefulness is to o:me. "o says some one, "my health is gone,." "No," says some cne, '-my morney is gone." "No," esys some one, '"the most of my years are gone and there fore my usefulness." Why, you talk like an inftdel. Do you suppose that all your capacity to do good is fenced in by th':s life? Are you going to be a lounger and a do nothing after you have q ut - this world? It is my business to tel you that your faculties are to be en larged and intenaiined and your qai cations for usefulness multiplied ten fold, a hundredfold, a thousandfold. Is your health gone? 'Ihen that is a sign that you are to en joy a eelestia! health comf ared with wiche the moet jocund and hilarious vitaliry of earth is invalidism. Are ;our fortunes spent? Remember you are to bo kirngs and queens unto God atnd how smuet more wealth you will have when you reign forever and ever. I w ant to sec you when you get your heavenly work dress on. This little bit of a speek o& a world we call the earth is caly the place where we get ready to work. Wc are only journeymen here, but will be master workmen there. Heav'en wii have no loafers hanging around. the book says of the inhabitants, "T.ht rest not day nor night." Why rest when they work without fatigne" Why seek a pillow when there is no night there? I want to see you after the pedestrianism of erarth has been en changed for power of flight and veloei ties infinite and enterprises interstellar, interworld. I suspeet that the telesoope o'f that observatory brings in sight coastella tions that may comprise ruirned words which need looking after and need help asalya missionry. There may be worlds that, like ours, have sinied and ned to bereECaed, perhapssavedby Our r r by some plan that God hs for other worlds as wis3, as tnt, s lovely, as the atoncment is or our world. The laziness which ha *"ursed us in this world will not gain aa land of eternal activities-so wa'b tinc 'n the air, so much insiration ia the society, so mue' achievemnlt a ter we get the shackles of the flsh for ever i Di rot dwell so nuch on op po~rruniies past, but put your emph-isi on opn:Ctunities to Come. D.) MO, count ti.e batths lost, but scour 5ou! a-ket ezr victories to come Am not rigt in saying that eter nrzy can do a;e:e for us than can tim1 What wiii we not be ale to do wher our powers ff locomotion shall b( q i .-'&ed into the immortal spirit': Leeecy Why should a bird have a 7i Lnjt s of wing when it is of no im pcnrtace ?ow long it shall take to m -kt i acrial way from forest to forest and w., iho have So muih more importani <r:sa' in the world, get on so Elowly V r'e roebck outruns u, the hound: Are ccr in the chase, but wait umti God sets us loose from all limitation! aadhiderments. Tten we will fiir]; beein. The starting post will be th< tombstone. Leaving the world will be zadraazin dsy before the chief work ol cur mtntal aaa spiritual cireer R-p3 sees the do rs openirg, the victor's fooi in stirrup for the mountiag. The da3 brcsks-Erit fias' of the horizn. The mi- sion of hope will be an everlastini :&ssiou, as much o; it in the heavin: h.rer.Ur s in the earthly row. Sual we have gained all as soon as we ente realms celestial-nr thing more to learn to other hieghts to climb, no new an themi to raise, a monotony of exister o , the same thing over and over again roi endless year?? No! More progress it tiat wcrld than we Ever made in this Hope will sta ad on the hills of heavez and lock for ever brightening land seases, other transfigu-a-ions of color -e v glries rollivg over tze Ecane, nei ecebrations of victoriesin other worlds heaven rising into grander heavens seas of glass mingled with fire, becem i =g a mare brAliant glass mingling witi a more fh1ming fire. "Which hope." N., let me introduce this feeling into the L.ves of som: who are at timei hope!ess. There is a family whose rot has g ine wrong. Father rnd mothei have anou; given him up, he seems s( headleng, so ungrateful, so dissipated and the old folks do not know half th story of mora prccipitation. Ha ha ceased wrihing home, bu. they hear o him through people who lika to carr3 Wad news, and every tims the report i more deplorable. Ha swears, he g m bles, he drinks, he goes into ai th shambles o' sin. His former employe says there is no hope for him, and al outside the family agree in thinking h willneverrefo:m The father and mothe have not quite gven him up, and thes words a:e to strerg-hen their hove I That boy is going to co me back. Yoi have a hold on bin that you must no relax. Through prayer fou may wit the eternal God fo: your side of th< struggle. You must enlist all the hea venly dominions, cherubim and serap him and archangel, in the mavemsant t< save your son. Some day or som< righthe will call a halt to his infam ous preotices. Something will happer to him, as happened in a New Yorl hotel to a eon of one of the most dis tingrishod clergymen of Saotland an< one of the queen's chaplains. "Wht: can I see you'?" said a distinguishe< looking young man at close of one o my services in Brooklyn tabernacle. said, "You can see ne now.' Hesaid "No; I want a private conversatiox Iwith' yeu at your own house. Whel can I ceme?" I said "romorrow night. "Your name?-' I asked. He gave m his name, the exact name of his fat'her whose name was knowa and is knowi through the Christian world, thong) years ago he d ,parted this life, Return ing home, I took up a book of whio! his father was the author, and in th< picture at the opening of the book found that the young man hal mans markedly his fathere fea~uees. So 1 wa sure there was no deception. Ona the fo'.lowing evening he came He said that he was the black sheep o the family flick. He had wandere< the world over and been in all kindi of wickedness, but a few nights before after reading a letter from his mothe: in Scotland, he had retired for sleep but in the adjoining room he hear< some young men in such horrible con vreation he colud not sleep. He was shocked as he had never before been ha the talk of bad men. He arose, strucl a light, took out the letter from hi~ mother and knelt down by his bedsid' and said, "0 L..rd, God of my mother 'ave notecy on me!'' He said that sine that prayer he wras entirely changet and loved what he before hated and hated wat he before loved and askei what I thought it all meant. I repli ed, "You have become a Christian.' He said he might be called at any tim te leave the city. 1 never saw hin again, but it seeme d to me that he hai trned his back upon his wicked pasi and had setd in the right direction And it may be so with your boy. Writi him often. Teil him how you are al thinking of him at home, and, it may be, your letter in hand, he may call up on his mother's God to help and savi him. Hope, you of the gray hairs and wrikes! Heaven has its thousandi of sonls who were once as thoroughly wrong as y our boy is. They repented, and they are with the old folks in the healthy air of the eternal hills, whern they may become young again. Hope on, and, though you may never hear of your son's reformation and others ma: think he has left this life hopeless, wh< knows but that in the last moment, af ter he has ceased to speak ant before his soul launches aw~sy, your praye: may havo been answered and he be one of the first to meet you at the shininl gate. The prodigal in the parable got ome and sat down at the feast, while the elder brother who never left the old place, stood pouting at the back doo. and did not go in at ali. T'o another class of persons I ihtro duce the angtl of Hope, and they are the invalids. Perhays after long watch ing or overwork or towering grief you: nervous system is ruined. Perhaps you have a hidden disorder that the world knows nothing about an I whiei you cannct with any delicacy speak of. Perhaps it may be a rheumatism that distorts and inflames or a neuralgii wic'a runs its sharp knife along the temples of your forehead. Perhaps it is an indigestion causing food which is a reenpzration to others to becomea torture to you. Perhaps it is an in ,somnia which keeps you as wide awake Iat 12 -o'clock at night as at 12 o'clock at noon. and hour after hour, like one Iin the Bible times, you cry, "Wculd God it were morning.' Those pessimists do not realize that wo iniventions of our times are going tc make i:nosible under God to bring this Iwhol!e world into salvable and millennial condition within a few weeks after those t o inventions shall be turned into the ser vice of God and rightousness, as they will be. I refer to the telegraph and the telenhone. If you think that God 1-aeths tw, o nve-ntion tob made merely to get rapid informatn concerning the price cf raUriad stooky or to cll up a friend &nd make witL him a bu3iess engagemet. you have a very d-bbreviated idea of what etn be done and wjll be done wiih t.se two instruments. Th'e intelligence of the world iq to be espnded, and civiliz . tion will overcome barbarisM, and illit erAcy wil be extitpated. Sad the prom iso will be literally fulfilled, "A nation born in a day." Lit Hope ssy to the forcboding: Da all you can withb *Vit~h Bible ar.-. p.,i ing book and philts~phic appjaratus, bit toil rith the sunlight in your faaes or your df rts will be a fajire 'Tha kmllar in tb- ukv is n,. on.toer phz.e Lf the night, but the fi:. sign of ap proaching day, which is as ire t> came as toLight will bD followed with to ,orrow.. Tin as ar n)t going to ruin. The Lord's hosts are no; going to be drowned in the RL d Sea of trouble Miriam's timb.-e ill p ay en the high banks -Irael DJAvmrrd." diah hope for t', H-se! :iigh hoee for the ehurcL! Iigh hope for .he I introdnos the angl of Hqoe to thoe who have througdb dece% o It Christian friends. "BRx c.'uld I fLd them," says a bereft sou. "ui there in the land o- the mult I nou:?" You may find them b7 iLu tiry, by ea;eaiy eoot-rt acd by afLidiLg memory of the guard at the gate. "And he caricd me away in the spirit to . great and high mountain and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, de scending out of -eaven from God, hav I ing the glory of G ,d and her light was like unto . Stone most precious, cvjn like ajspe: EtentE, clear ai cr)a!a, an Lad a wall grea& and high and had twelve gates and at the gates twelva angels." So, you see, ther. will be an angel guarding es, o gate. As you go in ask the armed guard. He saw your loved one pass thrclugh a- d will k ov the direction to take and by whatfoun tain or i1 what sureet Lf gold ip the mansioa prepared. The hL red C.riat knows where Your departed lo;ved one is, and he will tell yeu if no one else will. F.fty wnas of finding cut the whcreabouts of your ascende! one. "But widl I surely know him when I get therc, for he will be so cbanged? Yes, for you iil be just as much changed, and the old affinity will assert itseif. The soul be s easily dietin guished there as on earth the body is' distinguished by the body. O,'en that closed irstra-ent of music in your parlor that has not been played on since the hand of the departed player forgot its cunning. Pat up before you on the music board the notes of the hymn of Issac Watts and sing 'There Is a L nd of Pare Delight ' or James 1Montgomerl's hymn, 'Who Are fhe-e in Bright Array?" or Film .re Bennett's "Sleet Bye and Be" or "Jerusalem the Golden." Take some tune in the major key-"Ariel' or "Mount Pis gah.' While vcu play and sing the angel of Hope will stand by you and turn the leaves and jia in the raptu rous rendering. ReunioR with the loved and lost! Everlasting reunion! No farewell at the coor of any mansion! No goodby at any of the twelve gateb! No more daik apparel of mourning, but white robe of exhaltation! Hope now is on its knees, with f sce uplifted, but Hope there will be on ti2,toe or beck oning you to follow, saying: "Come and bear the choirs sing! Com3 and see the procession mar'! Come and 1see the river cf life roll! Come with me over the hilis thast rise ioto ever lasting heights.'' Celestial Alps and Himalayas hoisted into other Alp3 and Himalayaa! Frem this hour eu' tivate hope. Do so by readng all the Scriptural pr.,m ises of the world's comm, Ederam tion and doubt if you dare the varasity of the Almighty when ho says ihe will make the desert roseate, and the leap Sard and the kid will lie down in tae samne pasture field, and the lIon, ceasing to be carnivorous, will be come gramin ivorous, estaLg "'straw iute an or," and reptilian venomn shall cha age into haim leseness, so that the 'weaned chAd shall put his hand on the co.:katries's den, and there shall be nothing to hurt or destroy in all God's holy mo-intain, ffor the earth shall be full of the know ledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea " So much for the world at large. SThen cultivate hope in regard to your own health, your owvn fiaancial pros perity, your own rorgevity, by seeing niow in o:ner people God mcreifally reverses things and brings to pa .s thie unexpected, remextbaring that Weash ington lost more battles than he gaited, but triumphed at the last, and, f arther, by making sure of your eternal saf ty through Cnrist Jesus, underetand tha. yet' -te on the way to palac~s and thro..es. This life a span lo:,g, endias in duration of blis3 that neither banrao nor archangelic faculties can measure or estimate-redolence of a springtime that never ends and fountains toxi'g in the light of a sun that never se. May God thrill us with anticipstion oi this immortal glee! "'Which tore" I said in the openaiog of this sut bets that my text Fas only the wave on the beach, white the whole verse frjm which it is taken is an ocean. Bat the ocean tides are caming in, and the ses is getting so deep I must fall back, wading out as I waded in, for what mortal can stand before the mighty surges of the fall tilie of eternal glad. ness? "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard; neenher hath entered into tha hears of man the things which Qad h ath prepared f or them that love him." The Liberty Bell. The building erected by Philadel phiaon the grounds ot the douth Caro lina Interatate and West Indian exposi tion has been completed. It cost more than $:2),000. The arrangements for L berty Baiel, which is to be one of he princ.pal attraotions of the Pa dlphia batiding, to Carleston have not yet boon decided upon bpon by the conilmanic committee. It w'a; the or iginal intcntion of the cam.znittse to take the historic relic to taa: -city in time to have it in place when the exposisilon opened, but this idea has been abandon ed anc the bell will not be removed until after the beginning of 1902. It will be acc-mpanied on the trip by all the members of the special co.rmittee and perhaps by other members of both branches of council. A program will also be arranged for s'aort siops at the principal cities and towns between Philadelphia and Cha:rston so as to enable resident, of these places to see the liberty bell.1 Archives Lost. IReport is mad iin P'itst-n, Pa , that many papers of the greatest importance to the city government are miissing and ji are believed to be in the pocket of I Michael Langar'. whose body, with 57 miners, are er tombed in the ill-fated twin shaft. At the time of the disas ter, in 1896, Langan was acting Marr of the city, and a fewv hours before he entered the mines had received valu able papers. There is no hope of ever penetrating the fhslien rook and recov E AX[X3 FOR TIM GIRL IN LOVE. isae Conclusions That Have Been Born of Experienca. You love for yourself, and if ycu nery, You seal the destiny, happy or tretohEd, of your own life. There cr , never mair for others. Marry :r -n'u sae. -L,1 n. human being, iowtver detar to you, have a right to nLClate the true instmt cf your heart, ir put a conseraint on your love. OWly be carafu'; d3 not imagine that ou are in love before you hava triei 34 10 e tests which may convire, you bat you really are. Yoa may be only co lisbl to mistake a caprice, a faney, romantic day dream for tiue love. First love is seldom true l.ve. A rhole series of light fancies which have >een mistaken for love have oftEn been olowed by the earnest pasiion of a ifo The credulity of women on the sub 3at of bei:g loved is very great. They fa n mistake a little admiration f r a ,ariicular regard, and on this founda ion build up a castlo in the air and il it with all the trearures of their )rigbtest hopes It is oa'er to be very k.:ptieal on the sub j't of being loved; )ut it you make the mistake, take all .he blhsni on yourself and save your lignity by s!orecy, if you cannot keep our heart f:om loving. Men will always be polite, attentive -mplimintary and paying yon all sorts f little fltteries, both of wcrds and iotions. Acaert thtm quietly and saimly, as your right, out never seem ;o give more weight than in nine casis .u of ten they have. Hurry no courtship into an ergago ent, and never make an engagement rom which you cannot honorably with Iraw. When you feel perfictly Eurs that 'ou love a man, tbere are manj sabde vays for you to let him know it. I lave always failed to uaderstard why oman should not choose their hus banda and why only unmarricd reigning iutens can do so 1 do not see why 1ey shou d not tropo3e. 0 couTse, :hey should do eo in a manner qaite ifferent from that in which men pro pole. Bat very often a girl can make her 3hoice from a circle of admirers, giving he necaeded encouragement to the one he prefers, and deciding for herself ier life's destiry. There are men, and very <ften the est, too, who are Phy and ne6d en oragement, inasmuch as it should be emembered that the men who declare heir love in soms beautiful language ra those who love least truly. The real lover is a stammer~r. if he woman whom he loves should re urn his affection, she should give him ll the discreet encouragement she can. Better marry a man of this sort than a Thomis Carlyle, who spent his life writing sweet love letters to his wife nd never suczeedEd in saying a pleas tnt thing to her and in making her appy when in hsr presence. It ever you rcoeivo from a man a love letter worded in most exquisite style, r''l of poetry and p fcssions of deep attachment, take it ier ;;-aated that omn has had a long expenet c> in such etter writing. There is not a single man, really and truly in love who woula not be asham ed to read, especially to have read aloud a let tr he has written to the object of his affection. Never tell any one that you have re isoted the advances of such and such a man. The man who boasts of hi3 cmnquests a cad: the man who basts of those he has not not made is a cur and a scound rel. The woman who boass of the af fers . she has refaesed is a womsn that laks refinement and tact, After all. there is very little diff r ence between the qualities of a perfet gentleman and those of a perfecs lady. Advocating Good Roads. Gen. M. C. Butler is interesting himself actively in the good roads movement in South Carolina. __ Recognizing the great importance of this progressive movement, he has thrtwn the weight of his personality and influence in its behalf. He is not simply lending it the moral support of his approval, but is actively at work in the cause. He proposes to advocate the adoption by the next session of the legisature of a bill to make the S.ate railroad commissioners also o minis sionere of public highway. He says the public roadways are scarcely seecnd n importanca to the State's railroads, and the commissioners might well have supervision of bnah. Their time is rot fully occupied wi';h the railroads, nd they might greatly improvo the public roadways of Carolina by sye emtizing the county work and estab ishin-g a general plan that will encour ae permanent icupravements, the use f the best materia!, and the wisest rethode of road construction. The agusta Chronicle very rightly says .ht is certainly an important enter prise, and one worthy the best efforts >f Carolina's best men. Robbed and Murdered. A story of murder and robbery comes from Van Wyck, a few uwiles beloff R ct Hill on the Georgia, Carolina and 4orthern railroad. The body of Pojlly KeKinney, a well-to do colored woman, as found in the rairyad cut three iarters of a mile from her home. The nk and left side of the skull was rokn and the neck was broken also. Ie wounds were evadently from a stik, as bloody splinters were found 2earby. By the side of the body two urtere of fr'shly slaughtered beef ere found, The bosom of the dead cmn's dress was open. Two sets of ~racks led from the body and keeping ~ogeher to the creek about one-fourth .a distant. After going up the stream or a short distance they separated and ent in opposite directions. The body as foutd about sunrise this morning y two colore d section hands on their ny to work. Their rnames are Jake pricas and Cy M .ssey. When found he bcdy was stid warm. Stenographers Wanted. A Washington paper reports: "Any nale stenograpli. r of fair ability can eure a position in the Philippines at saary of $1,200 a ye-,r to start on. Phe civil service comnmi- n is unable o upply the demand for stenographers rnd typewriters for the insular service, very eligible one who has been oh sined up to this time having been sent fi to Manila with an appointment. pecial exaination: wcre held .roghout the country recently to get nen for these positions, and only 34 :adidates qualified. Every man who sculd accept a position irn the Philip-I ines was appointed at one." Women are ruled out because they are "not antd in the East." The candidates nuet be between the ages ofil6 and 40, ,nd the saltry of $1,200 is raised to 1,400 if the probationary period of six A FATAL WRICK A Scene of Indescribable Confussion and Horror A fatal wrceck occurred on the Santa Fe R iiriad, oae m le west of Fran conia, Arizmn. a switch station 20 miles eas of Nacd.es, Cal., eany Wed resday. S&ven trainmen were killed, tree passengers and 14 trainmen 'njar (a. Limited trains, bonad castward and westward, crushed together whi'e running at full sgeed. The eastbound train was drawn by engins, while the wesibound train had bat one loiornotive. The trains were ornmh d and blown to pieces hi an ex plosi-D w;.i3h followed the collision. Bath tra'ns were made up of vastibale orei of the heaviest kind, and while i they t to id the terrifia shock well and prott csed the passengers to a great ex tent, Ef veral of cars took fire a- un'e and burred up. The dining cars, one on cach train, one Pullman and two i conp ,'i;e cars were destroyed. Tte collia-on is said to have been due to adisragard of orders by the crew of the wcet be..ted tra.in, though full p.rticu-ars 6n this point srs as yet lacking. F:om all accounts, however, i ja gathered that the est bound train hid orders to take the siding at Fran conia antd await the passing of the west bound fiyer, which was running two hours lace, and tryin I to make up time. The east b urd train failed to reach the siaiog, and, as the west boucd train did not wait for i., she two trains came tog-ther withou; warning and with an awful crash. The boiler of the west btu id engire is said to have exploded immediately after the crash, scalding to death those of the engine crew who had not been killed outright. A Ecene of awful e3nfusion followed. Toe nasive engines piled up i2 an in deseribabla mass of broken and t xited steel, while the scalding s.eam hung in a dense, suffocating clould over the debris, from which the agonis ng cries of the inj ared. and dying engineer could be heara. The heavy Pallmans and composite ears jammed the dining and baggage oars upon the beated pile of debris, carrying death to the dining car crews and setting the cars 6fire. From the meagre details of the scenes gathered from the passengers, it is learned that the sleeping cars, with one or two exceptions, suffered slightly, and as a reult the pasiengers were af forded comparative immunity from in j 2ry. Si far as learned, only three passengers, all from California, suffer ed injuries of a severe character, the terrible results of the wreck being con fined almost entirely to the train crews and the employes of the dining car service. The west bound limited carried a full passenger list from eastern ctics, tut it appears none were ij ared. Bridal Superstitions. Relativa merits of the various months with regard to mscrimony are set forth in the old rhyme which runs: "Marry when the year is new, Always loving, kind and true; When February birds do mate You may wed nor dread your fate. If you wed when March winds blow, Joy and sorrow both you'lt know. Marry in April when yen can, Joy for maiden and f or man; Marry in the mon'h of May, You will surely rue the day; Marry when June roses blow, Over land and sea you'll go. They who in July do wed, Must labor always for their bread. Whoever wed in August he, Mauy a chance are sure to see. Marry in Semptember's shine, Your living will be rich and ine. If in October you do marry, Love will come, but riches tarry; If you wed in bleak November, Only joy will come, remember; When December's snows fall fagt, Marry, ar.d true love will last." 0! the days in the week, Wednesday is the best and Saturday the worst on which to get married. The old rhyme runs: "Morday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday the best day of all, Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, Saturday no luck at all." If we are to believe superstition, a bride's happiness depends not a little on what she wears. "Something old and something new, something bor rowed and -somethiug blue," is invari ably regarded by brides. According to an old rhyme: "Married in white, You have chosen all right. Married in gray, You will go far away. Married in black, You will wish yourself back. Married in rt d You had better be dead. Married in green, Ashamed to be seen. Married in blue, You'll always be true. Married in pearl, You'll live in a whirl. Married in yellow, Ashamed of the fellow, Married in brown, Youll live out of town. Married in pink, Yuur sjpirit will sink." Gold and Silver in 1900 The report of the director of the United States mint shows that although the war in South African has reduced the pro duction of gold in that section from $73,000,000 in 1899 to $9, 000,000 in 1900 this loss has been in part offset by a gain of $14, 000,000 in this country and in Canada, and the world's product still aggregates the handsome total of $257,000,000, or double the aggregate ten years ago. As the industrial uses of gold are thought to call for barely $125, 000,000 a year, there remains as much more to expand the cur rency of the gold using coun tries. This expansion is equi valent to an increase of about 2 per cent a year upon the presentr supply. In regard to silver the < director of the mint reports thatr the total production, measured 1 by ounces, was a trifle greater than ever before, though its commercial value was of course less than a decade ago. During the last year, however, says the report, the price of silver ad vanced from 59 cents an ounce to G0 cents, the cause of the in crease being England's pur chase of $30,000,000 worth of silver bullion for coinage into rupees. These purchases, it is a remarked,. "seem to restore 0 India to somewhere near her t old position as a customer for 'I ivr.E OVERCOME IN AMINE And B I avid to Hava Died fi m Fee Dimp. INVESTIGA7IND D SASfER. rho Mine Ir. p cicr ci West Vir g-rii Am ;ng ihe Per y Be Ii v,,d to Hava P r sh -0 in the Mine. A dispatc'a from B'ufield, W. Va, lays at eleven cock on Friday morn rg Superintendent Walter 0 Milley, of he Po5ahont&s colleries company, long with Stata Mina Inspector Wi: iam D.iest. A. S. Hurst, chief coal nepector for the Castner, Curran & 3allitt company, of Philadelphia, Ron rt St. Clair, chief coal insect.>r, Mor.. is St. Clair and William O.dhr.n, fub oal inspectors, Frezier G. B-11, Mm ng Engineer Cardwell, manager of the shamokin Coal and Coke company of 1avbary, W. Va., composing a iarty >f eight, entered the west main of .he ?outhwest Virginia Improvement oim ,any's colleries for te purpose of ex imining the true situsion in regard to :he recent explosion and fi:e in th Baby mine, and up to this hour (12 ndaigh') hava not neen heard from It was bupposed that the BAby m'ne proper had been cut if fr.:m thi west nine for the purpose of operating the iest m ne. The large f %n in the west nine had been started at an ear y hour his morning and at 11 o'cloca todav it v45 thnugh. that sli gase. origina-tiac r).m fle in the Baoy mine had be n orced from the main p rioo a d it aii o0sidered sak to enter. A 6 p. m a party consisting or (xperienceu miners ed by Assistant Saperiatendent King nterid the mine to recue the lost par y of eight, bua a. 6.45 they re'urced, baving encounteredtuoa quantities o black aamp as to make it inip)sei)e t , mnter awy distance iato the anina. up.. King was cmpletely OVarom b.: ce zas encountered and is now in a cria .aW crdition. A coniutatoa is cog' being held in the c-mra ty's < ffie at Pocahorts of the different mining ex perts from the Flat Top field. these ex perts hiving been rathed to Pocabontaq by special train ihis af.erro.n All efforts are being u v d to recevar Lhe bodies of the insp ctiog party, ru no opes are entertained that any of ahem will be recovered aive. The steretary a.:d treaturer of the Southwest Virginia c'>mpany is direcly in cbarge of au movements at the mines. The fi e that originaly started in the B.by mine last Ttursday morn ing and whih was supposed to hava been under con:iol is now bathit g fua riousli. Al1 memie-s of the ]o.-t party are prm nr.et in the c al fi ds end th: cx ci en-nt nw pr ailing at Po-a iouzas i4 i ite, bu-irass navieg be en p'rieu. oly suspended. All nme c~btra of the. party are mnarried, sonme havrog large AS8H RTC00rTON CROP Over Haif Million Balia L'ss T'he Last Y ear. The Gulf Port Trading camprus bas e.. cut a compilation of &'a!1istis A k girg to give8acerrret <btimatei~ fth ettenl cro)p of 1901 2 We haIv.3 no way of j idgiog of the accouracy of the--e flure~, yet they are prrsente d and thos.e inerested may make their own dedne tioe. Thbe report, which shows that t~e crop this season will be short of the crop of 1900-1901, say~s in part: "At the request of a r-urber of our friends amng the mill man to submuit to him the result of cur circular i rq tiry of November 2, with regar i tO o " vieli of the cotton crop of 19)1 1902, we hreith submit our estims:e The ame is based on information rectived 'etween the 4 h inst , sndi this date from 203 oil mills all over the coi'on belt. We add at the same time the yield of last year soas to show clear'y :he inease or decres e cfi-he dtff r -nt States.' No Bales N> B des laat this S a'on Season. Alabms..... ..1 000,000 1 100 000 Geria ... .....1295 000 1 430,t000 Louisiana ..... .719 000 790,0u0 Missssisppi. .. 950.000 1,400 000 Tennessee......30 000 3 i0,000 Arkanss. .. . 7632000 625 000 Florida.. ....... 45 000 37 000 N-rh Carolina.. 542,000 492,000 Suthr Carolmra.. 911,000 850,000 rexas . .......3809 000 2.700.000 -10.383.000 9.764 00-J Iecre-ase. DesIrease. Alabama........ 100,000 Gecgia.... .... 125 000 LoDiera... ... 71 000 M1issisapi...... 450,000 Tennesse........ ...... Akanas........ .......137,000 Florida.................8 000 North Carolina... ........5,000 South Carolina... .... ....i 000 Texas........... ...... 1,109,U00 746,000 1,365.000 "hins shows that tflx pr.scUt crop will ha 619,000 bales st ors of the c:og' of last seato2. "A great number cf the mills report tat owing to the exceptionativ tine weather in October, and eriy Nov be-r, the crop has been harvested so far comparatively much faster, ar~d ass als> been mirketed on a much :ore liberal e cale than in past yasr . rhe reports make mention of the fact hat the crop is very light, and that 'rost has occu-red in the last days f October and early this month r-ret y generally all over the cotton bele, with the exception of south Texas." Killed the Steward. The British bark Brrnan Wood, from lio Janeiro, in charge of Mate P-,e, ar ied at Mobile Faiday and reptr a that >n Nv. 18.h the captain, Eamed Mof is, killed tbe vesel's eteward. The >ody was buried at sea. The captain :ept his cabin, pacirng up a-.d down. Vhen informed that Sand Island light as sighted Nov. 23, he gave the mare he course, picked up a sea lead, jamp d overboard and was drowned Made a Haul. Announcement was made Friday that he Bank of Liverpool had been vie im'z od by a trasted bookkeeper to a arge amount. An ci:ial statement ,su~d by the bank ays that through he dishonesty and betting transactioes f a bookkeeper they may lose ? 170, 00. The Bamk of Liverpool's shares all l on the stock ex-mhange today. he d nf.u' ha not yet been arrtV4 ART OF SNA . CHARVIING. 'eats Which Are Nothing But Tricks of the Trade. A few days ago there appeared In one of the daily papers a wonderful story of a snake which was charmed by t1:a strains of a jews-harp. The story was to the effect that a countryman meet tng a dangerous reptile in the road, was horrified at seeing the creature prepare to attack him. Being an en thusiastic performer on the jew's harp he immediately struck up the tune. "St. Patrick's Day in the Morn Ing," which either paralyzed the ser pent or sent series of sentimental chills down its undulating vertebrae. At any rate it discarded all hostile inten tions and became motionless, when the countryman mercilessly ground its head in the dust. i This is an example of the many "snake stories" which appear constant ly before the eyes of credulous human Ity. It originates, like all of its kind. from superstitious sources. Snakes are utterly devoid of any sense of ap precation of music. They have' no ears, and although they may distin guish vibration of heavy sounds upon their heavy scales, a voracious, hungry serpent is entirely ignorant of the presence of the chirping bird, provid ing it does not see or scent its prey. The familiar exhibitions of the East Indian fakirs, during which the deadly cobra is made to "dance" to the music of a flute, have led many to be lieve that these creatures are extreme ly sensitive to the sound of music. But exhibitions of this character are only tricks practiced by the clever Hindoo. and the cobra, instead of being in a quiescent, charmed condition es it waves its body to and fro, is really in a fit of intense anger. Not long ago a large cobra was in the possession of Dr. Joseph C. Thomp son, of the United States navy. This reptile was purchased by Dr. Thomp son in South Africa. It was then in possession of some professional snake charmers. After it had left their hands it was made to go through a lively performance without the accompani ment of the wierd music of the fakir. The operation of making the cobra dance is very simple. The reptile has the characteristic habit of elevating the forward -part of the body from the ground when annoyed, spreading Its neck or hood and glaring fiercely at the object of its anger. When in this po sition it keen eyes watch eagerly for a chance to deliver a deadly blow, ob serving every movement of the object or person in front of it. If one mov es, no matter how slightly, there is a corresponding nervous movement on the part of the snake. Here the entire secret of the snake dance is explained. When the Hindoo opens the snake bas ket the cobra rises ominously to their peculiar position of defense. He now commands the snakes to dance, at the same time beginning a lively tune up on his flute, and swaying lis body from side to side In time to the music. The nervous cobras follow the motion of the supposed charmer. They are not dancing to the music, but, intensely an gered, are seeking to revenge them selves upon their human captor. The snake charming act of the be spangled female with the giant boas and python- at the circus, Is even more simple, says the New York Times. The large snakes used in these exhibitions are in the first place of a harmless nature. Secondly, they are most in offensive in their habits. The lazy boa will lie for hours or days motion less in its cage, when suddenly awak ened from a long nap Is utterly Indif ferent to what is going on around it. After a. few weeks in captivity these huge reptiles become very tame, and seem to enjoy beIng handled with one familiar with their movements. The chief requisites of a "snake chamber" are great deliberation and sufficient nerve to handle a 10-foot boa, or ana conda without the slightest hesita tion. A nervous movement Is apt to annoy the snake and cause It to 'bite, while if treted gently and handlg. with movements corresponding to ' sluggist habits, it evinces the utmost good nature. Accounts have been published of large snakes coilIng themselves around the object of their annoyance a~nd dem onstrating in an excepdingly ugeom fortable, if not dangereus mann~r the power of their scaly bodies. This characteristic Is popularly supposed to be commonly resorted to by the "boa constrictor," .but the Idea is purely er roneous and originates from an aver sion to the serpent race from which have sprung innumerable fallacies and superstitions. Dog-Tight Gates. According to a recent decision of a Prussian court, the railroasls in that country must have dog-tight crossing gates, or stand liable -for any canine injuries resulting from a failure to. do so. Some time ago, while the gates were closed at a railroad crossing in Munster, an aristocratic hunting-dog, in the active pursuit of his vocation, eluded the obstacle and struck the track at that point simultaneously with an express train. The train passed on unscathed says Law Notes, but the dog had to be picked up with a sponge. In a suit by t.he owner to recover $50 damages for the taking off of 'his blue blooded pet, the railroad company claimed that It had performed Its whole duty in shutting the gates, and that if the dog wan so ill-mannered as to climb over or crawl under in the face of such a- manifest desire to exclude him, then the -blame was with his 'master. The Court, howeve-r, held that it wan the duty of the railroad to keep the dog off Its tracks, and appointed experts to determine whether the barriers provid ed were,reasonably calculated to pre vent the passage of unwary dogs. They reported adversely to the defendant, and, after a further reference to ex prts in canine pedigree to determine the value of the deceased, the plain tiff was awarded $60, with interest from the date of the catastrophe. "Why, darling," exclaimed the pret ty bride of three weeks as she rushed to embrace her husband, "how good it was of you to skip baseball once and come home early! You're just too sweet." And he accepted it all without say ing a word about there being no game. Detroit Free Press. Miss Chase-That sportig widow who got the brush to-day has been in at the death a good many times. Miss Hunt-Yes, and each of them left her a fortune.-Brooklyn Life. Charleston G3reat shiow. The Atlanta Journal ver9 truly says the South Carolina and West Indian exposition is a big name and represents a big thing, It is the designation of what will be one of the largest and most interesting expositions ever held in the south. The people of Charleston have supported this enterprise with a liber ality, enthusiasm ard unanimity that does them honor atd insuras suocess. The expotition is heartily ersdorsed slso by South (isrolina generally and the surrounding states feel a genuine in terest in it, The preparations are al ready so near completion as to insure a very handsome show from the start. We are reliably informed that exhibits for the exposition are a-riving at the rate of fifty oar Icads a day. They come from every part of the country and re present all the leading industries. The collective exhibits will form a fleee study and will have a very stimulatin g effects toward the developmenat of South aro'ina and the sonth generstly. Chareton is making ample prepsrs tions for the hest of visitors whom she is reasonably expecting. TChera are few more beautiful cities and the his toric metropolis of South Carolina will be at its best throughout the entire neriod f the exposition. '3 Wi-Y HE WINKED. The Misapprehension Under Which a Drug Clerk Labored. The well-groomed, middle-aged man with the plug hat walked into a down town drug-store on Sunday afternoonV: 1 st :nd winked his left eye violently. The young pharmacist standing be-, hind the toilet articles show case smiled wanly. "Sorry," he said, "but It can't be. done. They're mighty particular In this man's town about that sort of business; and-" "But I-" the plug-hattcd man start ed to say, still winkIng his left eye Industriously. "I know, maybe you do need it pretty bad and all that," said the cheerful young pharmacist, "but If give it to you and got nailed, why we'd have to go out of busineiss in a usb,, and--". "But isn't it queer that-" "Yes, it's darned queer, sIr; of course, but this is a pretty blue-lawish sort of a burg, you understand, and a man can't even get a shave here "Ic on Sunday, no matter whether he's got a hobo's growth of beard.on his face or not. I'd like to sell you a good, big hooter-s'pose you were out with the bunch last night and need a. good eye-opener in your business--& but I wouldn't dare take-a chmae and '*l give It to you. The boss 'ud--' The well-groomed man, stilwink Ing, and blinking his left eye as if he were doing It for wages, cut In right there with empbasis. "Look here," said he, "are -you wound up for 24 hours or what the dickens as you?- There's a lump of gravel In MY left eye and I came In here to see if I couldn't get some conversationIess clerk to blow o drown it out for me." Then the abashed apothecary dug' the rock out of the man's eye and, forced himself to the conclusion that' all winkers are not necessaryfly booze grafters.-Washington Post. - Knew What She Liked. The grocery man on the corner e, lates that a couple of days ago a little girl entered his empor.am and timidly laying down a dime asked for'101ents' worth of candy. "It's for papa," she said. "I want to 'sprise him when he comes home. The grocery man proceeded to dig out some of his stock, when the lttle :girl interposed. "Don't give me that kind. Give me caramels. I just love caramels "But I thought they were for-papa the grocery man remarked. "I know," explained the little gr "but when I give them to papa e' rust kiss me and say that 'a Ise I n such a generous-little girl hefl give them all back to me. So you'd better give me caramels."-Memphis Scim Itar. Bungling Marksmanship. The surgeon examined the injury, laid aside his instruments and caled for some bandages. "It is only a slight flesh wound," he said. "If the bullet had gone an inch to the left it would have severed an artery, in which event I could have used my new appliances for the tak Ing up of lacerated blood vessels. It would have been a beautln-case,"-h added, with asigh of mild disappoint- -~I ment.-Chicago Tribune. ScandaL The British, you understand, aways - advanced with thie sword in one hand 4 and the Bible in the other. Hence the scandal in the WarO flee, when It is discovered that the ~" troops at the front are being supplied with an archaic edition of the Scrip tures. . The country clamors ominously an~ a parliamentary inquiry impenda. Puck. /The Reason Why. - SheI wonder why young Saphedde wears a monocle? He-To prevent him seeing more2 than he can comprehend, I suppose. Afterthought. - - "But," pleaded the more or less elderly lover, "if we werw wed, I am sure you could learn to love me! Or I could learn to unlove you, at the least," he continued, after a moment's ause.-Indianapolis Press. Not Necessarily Hoard. "Of coarse, you have heard 'Lohen But what a question is this to- ask a woman who moves in tbg best so ciety and subscribes for a box at the ~ Metropolitan Opera each season!--~ Fuck. Swindler Arrested. John B. Bertholf, manager of the Eastern divisi'n of the Western Union elegraph Conipany. at the Jersey City, was arrested Thursday on the charge that he was earrsing on a "green oods" busine4w The eimplaint was ade by Chief Police Murphy. The police have in their rassessionl several ciralars sent to thn Soutb and West, and they ola'im that they can shOW that the rekgraphio replii' from the pros ective victims went direct to Bertho':f. W on't Run for Congress Gay. McSweeney when asked Friday y a State reporter the ulain questiorn a to whether he 'would be in the race for congress in the Second district next ummer, in sco~rdance with the stones going the rounds of the prees of the State. empatically deelsred that ho would not. He said: '-Pkase say that am not and will not 'be a candidate for congress from the Seeand cor-gres Have you paid for your paper? If you have not, don't you thinkyon ought to The nin~er needs Ms money.