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DR TALAGE TALKS. Of the Achievements C Read snd Brain During the Year This discourse of m Ti is natiocal congratUztion rC achievements of brsIn and hand uring the past twelve monhs. Te ts are: I Corin'.hias i, , Z0, 'He that ploweth shou.d plow in Lore;" Isaia xi, 7, "He that smootbezh with the hammer;" Judges v, 14, "They that handle the ptn of the writer." Welcome, 'hank ivir da I Wb t ever we may think of N-w El QP th ology, we ai1like NawEs and Tb~he giving day. What means the I rush to the depots t-d c t! -z ral trains darting theit lc: ' m tracks of th-e Boston r : e>- * Georgia Ccnt th i Western, the .. Pai " - :u a the Southern rt'wa ? Ash t,. group in the New l farm eus. Ask the villagcrs w;;-oe s'g in the morning wll come ovc ' r shire hills. Ask ali - pisntatn o0 1 the southwhich have oped e1 N England c u tm ofc, lo a:1 za- d.ay of thanksg:vinz. C;-. ' i a W of narional fes'ii 7 ye people, a2a u- s-iu. or Through the or Z a c down the thunar 0a a -on'8 -;C ing! Blow the cornet: 'Wav' te pa branches! "On that -ni would prai-e the Lord for his ie(ness and for Lis wonderful works to the children 0f men!" For two years and a half this nation has been celebratirg the triumph of sword and gun and battery. We have sung martial airs and cheered re.trning heroes and sounded the r, eIem for the alain in battie. Mtathias ; will be a healthful change if on this year'. Thanksgiving in church an homcEstead we celebrate the vietcrinn of the plow, the hammer and the pen; for rotLirg was done at Santiago or Maniis that was of more importance than that who'h in the lIst year has been done A farmer's field and mechanie's shop anc i author's btudy by those who never were an epaulet or shot a Spaniard or went a hur deed miles from their own door sill. Come up, farmers and mechanics and literary men, and get your dues as far as I can pay them. Things have marvelously changed. Times was when th6 stern ediet of government forbade religious asesem blages. Those who dared to be so un loyal to their king as to acknowledge loyalty to the Head of the Universe were punished. Churches awfully silent in worship suddeniy heard their doors swung open and down upon the church aisle a score of muskets thumped as the leaders bade them "Ground arms!' This custom of having the fathers. the husbands, the sons and brothers at the entrance of the pew is a custom which came down from olden time, when it was absolutely necesesry that the father or brother should sit at the end of the church pew fully armaed to de fend the helpless portion of tne family. But now, how changed: Severe penal ties are threatened against any one who shall interrupt religious services, and annually, at the command of the high est official in the United States, we gather together for thanksgiving and holy worship. Today I wouid stir your souls to joyful thanksgiving while I speak of the mercies of God and :n n conventional way recount the conquests of the plow, the hammer and the pen. Most of implements of husbandry have been superseded by modern in ventions, but the plow has never lost its reign. It has farrowed its way through all the agos. Its viet ories have been woved by the barley of Palestine, the wheat of Persia, the flax of Ger Umany, the rice stalks of China, the rich grasses of Italy. It has turrned up the mammoth of Siberia, the misstodon of Egypt and the pine groves of Thessaly. Its iron foot hath marched where Moses wrote and Homer sang and Aristotle taught and Alexander mounted his war oharger. It hath wrung its coiter on Norwegian wilds and ripped out the~ stumps of the American forest, pushing its way through the savannas of the Carolinas and trembling in the grasp of the New-Hampshire veomaury. Ameri can civilization hath kept steps with the rattle of its elevises, and on its beam hath ridden thrint and national "plenty. I do not wonder that the Japanese and the Chinese and the Phoenicians so particularly extollcd husbandry or that Cincinnatus wendron: the consul ship to the plow cr that Noath as a farmer before he becamec a shipbuilder or that .Elisha was in the field plowing with twelve yoke of oxen when the mantle fell on him or that the Egyp tians in their pagaaism wcrshiped the ox a tiller of theit landis. Piltheus, the king, fournd e ome rich gold mine in his province, so he turned all the population to digging in the mines. Tillage was neglected, sad there came a great famine. One day the wife of the king invited him to a great banqnet, and he came in ar~d sat down, and there were piees of gold in the shape of bread, ai' y: xs of gold in the shape of biscuits, and pieces c gold in the shape of joints cf mtnt, snd the king was dieguted, aod he said, I cannot eat ibis." "N:idher can the people," said his ,vife most suggestively, and then they went back to the till age. Although most of us have nothing directly to do with the tillago of the soil, yet in all our occupations we feel the effect of successful or blighted in dustry. We must, in all our occupa tions, rejoice over the victories of the plow today. The earth was once curs-, ed for man's sake, and ccesisionaly the soil revenges itself on us by refusing a bountiful harvest. I suppose tha.t but for sin the earth would be producing wheat and corn and sweet fruits as naturally as now it produces mulliein stalks and Canada th~sties. There is hardly a hillock between the forests of Maine arnd the legoons of Florida, be tween the peach crchard s of NewJr sey and the pirnes of Qregr'a thiat ha not sometime shown its natural 5ad to tal depravity. The thorn and thistle seem to have usurped thce soian nothing but the rebellion of the plow can uproot the evil supree: .y ..Jt God is gocd. Now if one of our sea sons partially proveb a failure, the earth seems to repent of i he next summer in mote munificent supply. Praise God for the grest Larmest. that have been resped this last year, Some of them, in jured by drought or insects or freshets, were not as beauti ful as usual, others fir in excess of what have ever before been gathered, while higher prices will help mke up for any decreased suepply. Suro sig'n of agricultural prosperity w-e hav-i the fact that oattle and hior-ssa sheep and swine and all faem snim. have during the-last two n'ars incre ed in value. Twer?.. rmlin io slaughtered this last yer, and etso many hogs lef t. E s crious pai:g aE of farm mortgages has spoiled the old speeches of the calamity howlers. If thi iiEgs before Ctrea, the goa r sna ti'lsge, shall we ne Z7~o:'rCjc in the rresence of the Go vo? Frcm Atlanti3 to et the American nation ce-ic h vic.ories (f the plow. next o steak of the eorquests the American htmmer. Its i:.n a3m -e fought i~s way down from the be gi' ig to ti3 r'sent. Uzder i s swti the ei:v o' E .oeh rosi aid he f%;undry of Tz'ral Csin re:ound ana the art f stcd on the deluge. At it-i el(--2 r pes spread their manieetc ad chario'ts ruled out fit : h be. Its iran fis' smote t a Prs and it ro5e i3 S i r and struck the 1 'a e..n -::es uatil f:on them a .:.: a r.ared w-iter thar % : " e and pure as an argel' ca.. Damascus and Jerurtiem a20 R ene and Venico and P&ris and L >n en 1i Paiielphia ad New York ad . a ihi 1ngton are bu: the lone ro : 1 ch .s of t a hamm-r. U I.er J Lamme. *v r;w e dwellings have er.-e up, croate apa Ixuriou-:. Schlao c s yceuLs o ptals and ajlums re addd cdditio.i glory to the en rZi-a as well as t benei ence c f af mericanu 1eaple. V.St Publi so::hm sn ooastructed, bridges u er rers and tua $' 3 dz udr our mounatains, ard e Trei o o tes boauty have gone .: w'. bAd not where to lay bis ad, .e old theory is exploded -I*bcaase Christ was bora in a man ger we mrust ai'says worship him in a Ia--a, Railroads of fabulous length have b:en completed, over which western Lr .1S rush past the swift footed dser, aking the frightened birds to dart into the jeavens at the cough of the smoke rings : d the s,6vage yell of the steam whistics. In hot haste cur national :nduury advanoes, her breath the air of ten thousud furnaces, her song the voice or u; countd factorie3, her foot ste, the flash of wheets buckets and the tread of the shaft and Lhe stamp of faun3ries, talk about antediluvian lon gevity. I think the average of human f is more now than it ever was. Through mechanical facihtics men work so rAch faster and SesompiisI So much more in a lifetime that a man can atiird to die now at forty as well as one o! old at 900. 1 think the average of human life in point of accomplishment is now t quivalent to about 800 years, as near as I can calculate it. In all cur t. eupations and professions we feel the effect of a crippled or enlarged mechanical enterprise. We all have stock in every house that is burided ard in every public conveyance that is constructed and in every ship that is sailed. When we see the hardworking men of the land living in comfortable abcdes, with luxuies upon their tables that once even kings could not afford, havirg the advantage of thorough educa tion, of aczomplisonUtnt and are, we all ready at this season to unite with them in prai:o to God for his goodness. You shall yet sec American labor ris ing up with a stronger arm and a stout er heart arnd a swarthier frame. New eities will be built. Commerce on the lakes will take new wings. Where now stands unbroken forests great capitals of business and afiluence will rise and streams that have idled away 6,000 years will be harnessed to ponderous :aetinery and conmpelled to toil r~nd sweat like the Chattahoochee and the Mrri.ac. At one of cur drydocks we bali yet build the model ocean steam ship. L wi come together under the chorus of a thousand American ham mers. She shall start amid a great na ional hurrah and move far out at sea as though an island had been unschored with its forests of masts, or as if some cas had said in Scripture phrase unto a mountain, "Be thou cast into the sea." The volcano in her heart will sprinkle on the sea a baptism of fire, and as ehe goes up the etannel of St. George, among the shipyards of the old world and among the wheels of Liver pool and Mancohester shall be announced the skill aad the glory of the Amerlcan hammer. Now I come to speak of the conquests f the pen. This is the symboi of all intelectuality. The painter's pencil and the sculptor's chisel and the phijo. sohers laboratory are all brothers to the pen, and therefore this may be used as a symbot of intellectual advance ment. The:e are those disposed to de ry everythiing Amerilan. Eaving sen Meirose and Giastonbury by moon ight they rever behold among us an ipressive strunture ; or, having strolled trough the picture galleries of the [auvre and the Lnxembourg. they are isgusted with our academies of art. t makes me sick to hear these people wo have been to Europe come home a~iking with a fo:eign accent and aping oreign enf oms and talking of moo2 liht on casties by the sea. I think the blest fcol in the country is the tray ede fool. But, cornsidering the youth of our na tion and the fact that ca)mparatively few persons devote themselves entirely o literature, I think we have great rea son to thank God for the progress of our American litrature. As historians ve we not had in the past such men s Banoroft and Pre scott, as esesyists irvteg and Emmaerson, as jurists Story ad MIarshall and Kient, as theologians dwards and Hodge, as poets Pierre ot and Sprague and Longfellow and ryantc, as seuptors Powers and Craw-I or and Palmer, as painters such men2 s West and Ocle and Inman and Ken ett? And among the living Americans what galaxica of intellectual splendor nd power! Edward Egeston and W'ill~ kulton and Mark Twain and on K'ndrick Bengs and Marion Har land andi Margaret Sangster and Stock ken and Churchill and Hopkinson Smith and Irving Bacheller and Julia Wrd Howe and Amelia Barr and Brader Matthews and Thomas Nel son Page and Elinneth Stuart Phelps d William Dean Howells and a score f others, some of them fixed stars and oe meteors. As the pen has advanced our colleges ad universities and observatories have Eoilowd the waving of its plume. Our 1itrature is of two kinds-that on foot ed that on the wing. By the former I mean the firm and substantial works whih will go down through the centu ics. When, on the other hand, I speak of literature en the wing, I mean the ewspprs of the land. They fly swift ;-nd~ vanish, bat leave permanent ro suiti upon the public mind. They fall olesy as a snomiske, but witn the r gth of an Alpine glacier. This un parallele d multiplication of intelligen ce Will ein er make or break us. Every ~nrning~ and evening our telegraph of i-ts, with huge wire rakes, gather up e news of tha nation and of the whole old, snd men write to some purpose -h theyv make a pen out of a thun LJbot. It needs great energy and teison ad perseverence for a man to e gerant in this country today. It em~' to me that it rtcquires more effore or 'im to kee3p out knowledge than tol eiti.Te mailbags at i.he smallest es- ee di: -org large packages of ntellige'ce for the reople. Academies paistus have been taking the plac3s of those instit-t swh-re thirty or forty years ago you were pato tu torture. Men Sectc.a for . r are intruisted with. t 'e tion or nar youth irester.>' 1. theache-3 w.ho 'f;r 2crly wth a rOver s shout a g.ad cm~pelled. L" younz gen1raons up the hili of ECleace. Happy caildhood! Whs with b rokzn tps and tora kites and Lhe tr.al of losing the best marble and sturjing your foot agains a ,t;;ce and rnm ud i a uMn into you to tee Wheh-r yCu will j -nip med eZ ody, with four or five wise men l.Aking over their spectacio to se if you can p'.Se the first pag) in Y g' ' Niht Th aughts ' nntii vcrbs aLd Crj:. 3iDn sc par;ieigle3 and prepsiin, g:.t ito a grand r..t wor thy of ite F-ur h ward o Lection day ! a a saaoi housi that wa3 in New T :roey, werc some ot is wen! I: as -1ied l 'AHered's sc h:,oo "h o a-o,'' br 0 1 , cf as ne r e-s to th p rcsid-ne of a ma I f t.e na-e (f H':rod, bu it wa du;y tppropriate btu-e Af the mas eausre of c innocents. 12 ihat school htu~e we weic comel.lCed to sit Ipright for E'ght hus. Whit an une rtakinr i And qours wr-re imr then asa now. We had various kiads ci punisment in that snicol too On wu .o strike the b:.y on the bea8, thus stizmaating the braia, a ash-:r was to tsko the culprit over :ie iooiastr's krz:e, so that afosrmatiou 01m. to the bvy from both direCtio rs. How things have nivelonel chaoged! We med to cry because we had to go to school. New children cry is they cannot go. Many of them can inte:ligenly discass p.liiaal topics long befo:e thy have seen a bsl'ot oox or, teased by some poetic muse, can compose articl-s for the newspapers. Philosophy and astronomy aad chemis try bave been Eo improved ihst he mu;, be a genius at dulnhess wno knows noth ing aoout them. Ou one shelf of a poor man's library is more prscticl knowl cdge than in the 100,0C0 volumrs of ar.cenC Alexandria, and education is postible for the most iedigent, and ro legislature or corgress for the last filfty years has assembled whioh has not had in it rail splitters and farmers and drov ers or men wno have been accustomed to toiling wah the hand and the foot The pen which Moses dipped in the light of the first morning and Jeremiah filed with tears and Ezekiel thrust in visions of fire and Matthew touched with the bleed of a cross and St John dipped in the splondors of beatifi3 glo ry-that pen has wrought marvels far all clases of our people. Today your libraries and colleges and schools and publishing houses and churches cele brate the ever growing cor quests of the American pen, and our prospects are all the time brigitening. Who these many years hath turned back from our land the violent plagues which have Pwept with their train of terrors through other countries? Who hath grown in our fields harvests richer ihan Siclian or Rusasian grainfields? Who hath lifted marsh after marsh and built town after town until every gleam on the wave of the lakes is answered 0y the gleam of city towers and the roar of the ocean at one side of the each harbor has been auswered by the din of a great metropolis on the other 150,000 miles of coal running side by side with 160J,000 sguare miks of iron, the iron to pry out the coal, the coal to forte and smelt the iron? Make this calculation for yourselves if you can make it: If .Eegland's coal bed, 32 miles long by 8 mitcs wide, can keep, as it does, 17,600,000O spindles at work in that small island, what may we not expect of our national industries when 160,000 equare miles of coal la-.ds shall unite with 160,000 square miles of iron, both stretching themel~ves up to their full strength and height-two world shaking giants? The grainfields have passed their har vesats above the voto of drought an~d del uge. The freight cars are not large enough to bring down the grain to the seaboard. The canalboats are crowded with breadetoffs. Hark to the rushing of the wheat througn the great Unicago corn elevatorb ! Hark to the rolling of the hogsheads of the Cincinnati pork pankerm! Enough to eat and at low prices. Enough to wear and of home manufacture. If some have and some have not, then may God help those who have to hand over to those wtho have not! Clear tbe track for the rail trains that rush on bringing the wheat anad the cotton and the rice and the barley ared the eats and the hops ar~d the lumber and the leathe:r and everytning for man and ever~y air g for beast. Lift up your eyes, 0 nation cf God's right hand, at the glorious p~ospec:i! Baid larger your barns for the harvests. Dig deeper the vats for the spoil of the vineyards. E alarge the warehtouws for the merchandise. Mnltipiy gallaries of art for the pietures and statues. Ad vance, () nation, of God's right hand. but remember that national wealth, if unsanctified, is sumptuous waste, is moral ruin, is magnificent woe, is splendid rottenness, is gilded death. Woe to us for the wino vats if drunk enness walloas in therm! WVoe to us for the merchandise if avaries swallows i! Woe to as for the cities if misrule walks them! Woe to the land if God defying crime debauches it! Oar only safe:.y is in more Bibles, more churches, more free schouis, more good men a:nd more geod women, more eorseccrated pritir, presscs, movre of thce glorious gospel of the~ S~n ofGod, wihich will yet extirpate all wrongs and introduce a~ll blesectness. But the preachers on Tharnksg.ving morning will not detain with long set nitns their her.ers -froma the home group. The housekeep~ers will he an gry if the guests do not arrive until the vands are cold. Set the chairs to the table-the easy easics fer grandfatter and grandmother if they are still alive, the high chair for the youngest, but not the least. The-n put outyour hand to take the full cup of thaniksgiving. Lift it and b:-ing it toward your lips, your hands trem~bling with emotion, ad if the chsilice shall overfior and trickle a few drops on the white cloth that covers the table do not be dis turbcd. but let it suggest to you the words of the pominist arna lead you to thankfully say, "My: cap runneth ver!I" ________ ___ Washed Into the Sea. Captain Hil!, of~ the nteamer Bolgen land, which reached Pniladelphia from Liverpool Wednesday reports that when the steamship was abreast Nan ucket light Sur day, Mrs. IL MoNeal, wife of Dr. McNeal, of Ann Arbor, ich., was waehbd over board and rowned. There was a heavy sea run ning at the time of the accident. Dr. MNeal., who was on deck watching the storm, went to his smto room and aled his wife to ccmo on deck and view a passing stusmhp. The couple had been standing togester for only a rew minutes when an immnices wave wept over the2 Belgenirnnd, carryin the uufortunate wumaa overboard. Her dy v-as not seen af;.er it had beezn nied away by the wave. hiag whippsing poset as a punishment ror wife beaters br~s been recommended y the superintendent of the District SELF SUSTAINING. That Is What Is Said of the Postal Department, A self-Eustaining service, brought by the yeirly inoease of the postSl rvan.nes resulting: from general exten sion of rural free delivery is the concl3u Eion reached by First Assistant Post master General Wm. Johnson in his annnal report. b the gross postal revenues of the Uw. edi States for the past fiscal year $74 295 391 came from 866 delivery ciUes. Tne remsining 3 600 praid n tidi poscffil-s vielded $16 063.252, while the $72 479 f urth ciass post cffies rr:duced $18,913 519. Mr. Johnson says the fajt that the pos:al kervice in the largest cities is practically pe;fect is the expianation of why the annual percentage of in crzase in the revenue of the free de livery postoffi-es should be three iimes greater than in the smaller cities and five tinien as large as tnat of the fourth class cifi -cs. As rural free delivery reacbes out into the country, givilg equal f:c'iiies withcut regard to locsli ty, he says it increaes the revenues at a rte at least cosal to that maintained in the free delivery cities. where, dur ieg the past five year;, it has averaged 8 per cent. At the end of the present iscal year 8 600 rural routes will be in snucessful operation, 6,000 being in effect by December 2 The latter figure represeutS j ast 50 years ago. The in ex;ble policy is announced of avoiding hereafter maintenance of unnecessary postoffices and superfious star route.s contemporaneously with rural free de ivery routes. On July 1 last the force of 4,301 rural carriers was serv ing 2S40.614 people at a fraction over 75 cents por espita, and on December nex , 4,000,00 of the rural population will be eEj ying free delivery. Every establishnwent of a route, the report says, is followed promptly by a steady increase in the volume cf mail, both delivered and collected. The city free delivery now embraces 866 cities and towns, including four in the new insular possessions, all these employing an army of 16,389 uni formed who colleci and carry the mai!s two or more times each work ing day to 32,000.000 patrons. The totsl cost per annum to the department for this service is 50 cenws er capita. Fighting the Machine. Prcsident Roosevelt, according to the belief of many politicians in Washing ton, is seeking by appointments to build up a Rossevelt machine in the country, which will be powerful to nominate him for president in the next Republican national convention. R M. Moorman in the Atlanta Journat says the president realizas that the real machine of the party is against him, that Senator Hazna is not his political friend, that Senator Piatt forced him upon the ticket as the vice presidential candidate in order to get him out of New York politici, where he was a disturbing factor for the Republin organiz mnon. Therefore, in the matter of appointments it would not be in the nature c f Roosevelt to turn to his ene mies, and he is breaking away from the machine with a rapidity that is at onc s:artiing and ucusual. Tre wishes of four national Republican comirteemen in as many southern states have already been turned down. It is generally the case that a national committeeman re ceives great consideration at the white house but under the Roost velt adminia tration tbua far this has not been the rule. The president is headstro'ng and is going to have his own way about things. His appointments have been in the nature of surprises for somne of the older party leaders and the only way they can figure out the action~s of the ne w president is that he is trying to build up a machine of his own in order to se cure a nomination for the presidency. There is now pending a bitter fight be tween S~cretary Hitchoek and National Committeeman Ke~ens, of Missouri,fer the political mastery in that state. It is stated in the best informed circles that Kerens will be given the worst end of the proposition and if this be true, R tosevelt will have slapped five national committeemen in the face al ret dy. Pacsident Roosevelt has his own.way abeut doing things and he does not hes tate to carry out what he thinks should be done, even though it be against the advice of the wiset politi cians in the Repablican party. Fighting German. Er.Senator Gorman, of Msriland, is generally believed to be harboring an ambition to be president of the United States. In fa:t, it seems to be taken for granted that he is an active candi date for the Democratic nomination in 1904. His assured re-election to the senate by the legislature that was cho sen in Maryland this mronth has given great hope to those who are boosting him for that honor. It has also had the eiftot of drawing the fire of those who do not consider Mr. Gorman the a. oct desirable leader the Democracy could put forward in its next national contest. The Conservative, a weekly newspaper, edited by J. Sterling Mor ton and publishedi at Nebraska City, says: "The re incarnation of Arthur Phe w! Gorman rec-alls the persistency of his adherence to the Republican doe trina cof a protective tariff, when in the nen ate of the United States he led f.,ur oth:-r alleged Democrats in the barbaric miutilation of the revenue bill of the Im:e W. L. Wilson. Gorman converted the origins t bili into a high tariff meas ure." This is a clear case cof kettle calling pot black. Morton did all h3 could to defeat the Democratic ticket in 1896 and 1900, and in the late else tion in his State voted against the ticket of his par ty. If all such men as Morton would go over to the Republi can party, where they ought to be, the Democratic party would be better <ff. The War Revenues. A statem~nt has just been prepared in the internal revenue department whieh shows the total receipts from the war revenue act only from June 13, 1898, to Jane 30, 1901, al-o the four months of the at of March 2, 1901 from Ja'.y 1 to October 31., 1901, with the total receipts from these accounts alone smmunted to $313,633634, as fol lOWS, cents omitted: Proprietary stamps......$ 13,279,855 Documentary stamps.-. .115 352,390 Beer.................. 111,700.0(58 Special taxes..-..-.-..-.-.-. 38 829.56-9 Tobacco...........-....52,087,273 Sauff-..........--...-.. 2 971,188 Cigars.......-..-......9,480515 Cigrettes-.............. 3P07,014 Lgacies...............11,162 802 Excise tax-.............3,053572 Mixed ficur-..-.-...-..-..-. 23,154 Additional taxes on tobacco and beer, $991 208. Will be Tried. The report comes from Leavenworth, Kansas, that every convict in the mu tiny would be tried for- murder at the April term of the United States dis trict court. Dean sayE each one of the 15 prisoners recAptured is guilty of EPWORTH ORPZANGR. A Good Showing in the Annual Re port of the Trustees R v. A, J. Stokes, D D, read the annusl report of the board of manag era o the Eworth orohanage. Under the leadership of the pastor, R3v R S. Truesd'le, a deep religious influence :ervades the institution. The schoo' hai done excelent work-94 pupils enrolled. Th'e ne scbool han).l will be a j )v to conf' recco. The fsr- h~a not been as sace3tfai as herelof.jr3 on as count of adverse seasons. The print ieg office is doiag g)od w.,rk and is giving irstruetion to the boys The marble sard hs proven a protimable ua dertaking Amng the improvnments are three new cottges; r.'neral r4psire to the dormitories bve born made; a five rcem house completed; windmill erect I ed to supply water which is distributed from a large tank. Tho ne.w i-chooi ho.use will be one of the best buildings of the orphanage prnperty. The institution is no longer an ex periment. The income has steadily increasEd each year. The health of the place i: good. Daring the year one of the boys, Charles Stork, was killed by a storm Fourteen children were dismirsod during the year, and eight have been received. There are now 100 inma'es, 52 boys and 48 girls. "We recomme-d the work of our superinteadent, Rev. G. H Waddeli, and our assistant superintendent, Rtv T. C. O'Dell Oa account of declinirg health, we regret to state that Supt Waddell declines reelection. He leaves his post of duty with our highest es teem and commendation. In considers :ion of the reeds of the orphanaze, we are convinced that it is imptrative that the offie of euperintendent and fisan cial agent should be divided In s cordanie with this division, Rev. T. C. O'Dell was electas superinter-dent, but he preferred to return to pastoral work, ard Rev. W. B. Wharton was elected superintendent and Rev. G H. Waddell financial agent. Mrs. Mary A. Lemon of Green's chapel, Henderaonville circuit, Charles ton distries. recently bequeathed the orphanage $1,500; and Mr. J. W. Mo Leod has donated $1,200 as an endow ment fund. VICEIES OF A FAKIR. How Southerners Are Xilked by Con dence Nen in New York. Pickpookets, hotel thieves, dwelling houne robbers, bank embezzlers, "come ons" and bunco steerers of all sorts and degrees of professional skill are making things lively these days, not only in New York, but in other parts of the country. Last week many of them es tablished reputations for sinister social activty. Qa Thursday two Southerner; came to town. They thought they knew somsthing of New York and were on their guard; but of course they couldn't ref use to be friendly to "one of their townsmen" whom they met on Broad way, and why should they hesitate to be friendly, also, toward thbat gentle man's companion. Their amiability cost them just 81.360. On the same day a visitor from the West becrame so thaoroughly convinced of the up'ightnecs and good intentions of a man he met hers and who described himself as a relative of a bank presi dent in the other man's town, that the Westerner permitted his new acquaint ance to escort him to the Park Bank, where he desired to have some drafts cashed. The cleverness of the bank's private detective in recognizing and apprehending the Westerner's comn panion was all that prevented the latter from securing $1,000 in hard cash. An account of all the other robberies aud attempts at robbery which occurred during the week would make a long chapter. Will our good friends from the coun try, who come here once or twice a year, or perhaps once in ten years, ever learn that New York is not the place for them to make chance acquaintances? Will they ever understand that, whether the e fhsble stranger they meet here wears a suik hat or a slouch hat er a derby, whether he is dressed hke a tramp or like a eiergyman, whether he is old, young or middle aged, or is bewhisk ered or smooth shaven, they should give him a wide berth? If he says he's your cousin, don't stop to deny it, but pass on, and if he pretends to be sick at his stomach and to need money for medicine make him show his tongue Withal, let our rural friends remember that in every big city there are scores of crook-s who manage to keep out of jail and maka a comfortable living the year around by imposing uoon ereduli ty and good nature. -New York Sun. Dewey for Schley. Thne Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Pabic Ledger, in commenting upon the possible attitude of the Behley ecurtof inquiry, writes to his paper among other ahings: "A-i. miral Dewey has taken the position firmly that he will not sign a vc~d et that in any way co.nsures Roar Admiral Schley. The other membera of the court-Rear Admiral Bonham and Rear Admiral Ramsay-hav'e not taken this decided position, but, so far as they3 have expressed their conclusions,.it is understood they will no doubt join in the ultimate vindicasion of Sohley. "When thc court adjourned after the completion of the record it was surmised from the 'character of the questions sub mitted by Rear Admiral Benham abat ho had practically reached the belief that Schley was censurable for the re-. trograde movement. If the informa tion as to Admiral Dewey's opinion is true, it would seem that he can see in the circumstanes of that movement no ground for criticism of the comman der in chief of the flying squadron. Those who profess to knov the reasons which actuate Admiral Dewey say that he has been unable to loor at the ao curations made agai nst Behley from any other standpoint than his own feelings when undergoing the fearfully concen trated responsibilties of commanding a squadron in battle. The uncertainties ~ and perplexIties that beset Sahley at ' Cienfugos and Srantiago he has comn pared with his own experiece in sail- t ing into Manila bay, although he did 1 so with a map in his hand betraying ~ the course left free from mines by the ~ Spaniards a! a mecans of exit for thei r own ship." Advertising Pays. - The Chicago Tribune has cloted a contract with a department store in that city for a page advertisement run-1 ning every da, in a year, except Sun day, for which the paper receive. the handsome sum of $120,000, The larg- a cst advertisers cof the country are rapid- a ly coming to the conclusion that Sun- ~ day advertising does not pay. It re- 0 quires too much ammunition to kill the ' same amount of game. t An Object Lesson. The Cbic3go Record Herald, though Republies n entinues t attack the poli e ey of protecting infant irdastries that E have outgrown the need of prote-tion. t R3calling that 300 000 tons of Penn- a sylvania anthracite coal sr to be shiP p.d to Ge-msny, The Renri Herahi asserts that "American pitriotism g blaz -s up at the thvight that the kais3r , is to erjy the pleasant war.nth of E Amfriean cnal this winter." '0 ir a agents in Pnsv.it" it Raya, U will transport il to Pbihlelphis sul, pus it on ship for $3 75 a ton S taz- e hip compar.ies e-ill ciovfy it t-.eneoe to Hlamberg for $1 75 a ton. The Ger- 1 ma-n merachant wiui jet it, ther-eio;reat $5.50 a ton. It i4 4)n'dern! hoR caeso the thing can be dne ard it vuht to cause nationl rfjiiiinr frum the Great Lakes to the Gulf ard from the Arlav - tic to the Pacfic ' At this pcint The , Record Herald prows enreitic, saying: "IncidIntlly we MRty omention, how ever, that we are se;lir.g thie anthra- g cite to ourselves in Cihcigo for $7 a ti ton. Oar good agent.- do-vn in Penn- i sylvania think this is necesy for our health or svmething, and 9s they hive the drop on us we have toyiAld to thpir opinion. Oherv:st we shoul probab'y mix ourselves all up with the m-t rit of our glorious col bu-ine-s. Ve should get to wca.aserirg how it wss that coal which was put on board ship at $3 75 a ton in Philadelphia ha6 te sell for $7 in Chieszo. W e should get 0 to bothering our heads aboit trei hoeul pocus of coaal comranies and railroads owned by coal ? 3paniesb We should bicome dooral z d by the desire for obeap thirgs when t u: heads should be thrilled with dei' tt the growing presti-e of our co'a-. t Should Not Be Done. ti A m st radiucl proposition in tbc way - of legislstion ori t. .e lqir prob!en :s being discassed in Ne.- Yotk city. The idea is to have tho prrsent l'qinr law 3 so et-aoged or med fled tbat ral'ons may keep open during certain hcura of - Sunday. All legislation on this sub ject here ofore bas had ihe contn.ry purpose in view, not only in N-w York but throughout the country. ehat such a proposition has received iho e- t dorsement of e-rtain eminent ministers, advoca'cs of -temp. rance s.:d the ob- 3 servanne of th Saubtth, seem pA-sing strange. For i cstar c', Dr. Pakhurst, 3 Dr. D Pu kr Morgan and Rev. Newell 9 Dwight Hill are inclined to the opinion Y that enm- limited opening on Sunday would involva- less evils than ar. involv e4 under the present syEtem. OUher eminent preachara a-e as yet nona-orn- e mittal, but this fact indinates that they are willing to give the subj-e careful r study. Several iffisers rece tly ele3ted on the fusion or reformed ticket have expressed themselves as decidedly in favor of the proposed chango, and, .h- I ing it all in all, there seems tn be P da cided change ot sentimernt in New York on this vexed question. The Columbia Record says ad states and all n u ici palities have this same problem on hand, but conditions vary ia ali com munities For instance, no one would c be so foolhardy as to propos in this este a law allowing dispaseries to open cn Bunday, fer there is absolutely no demand for such a thing. But New Yerk's population has thoutands of foreigoers in it, and they still maintain or want :h i custo~ c<f th ir father- e lands. It is among this clss that. tha ( sgitrionfor Snoday opening ori.ginated, ad- their sentiments seem pm:ful I enough to enlist the eupport of men s "'ro odlerwise might be oppastd to the I idea Nnthicg cefinite has been done yet, but the retuhs will be satce'oe with a srest. deal of interest thnrounoat thi country.___________1 A Comparison of Cotton CropB. From the-report cf Lathem & Alex ander we deduct the follown g s a n-ents: The total ocp of co-ton ths year cantot well be appr xm: ed by a comIeatison of the movemwent to Noverj ber Lt with any per-iLuar pruvii~us yr; but an average of receipta (a No vember let for the past ten years Tholi represent in some degree the probaome nut-; urn of the crop. The crop was marketed rapidly doriog Ostober, ou racount of favorable conditions for pcking and shipping, and because cot ton was regai:ed for cxport to hit con tracts for Ostober and N svember de liveries and shipments to increase do pleted stocks of spinners. Oa Osto br 3d1 the governmwent's estimete of the condition of the crop was 61 04, ret to the low~est estimate ever recorded. This cstimnate has since been confi:med by the Eubtequent reports of com~nis lion of agricus~ur of the various ect o2 states-ome of them of reent late. It is hardly pro>bsbte that a long - iad disastrous dr~u.; in Texas and the I ouhwestern states should can:ribut.e to increase the crop, or that a noto dously unfavorabie rainy season in tbe Darolinas, Fiorida anad paris of Geor- I1 ia has contributed to the yield. Nei aer is it pro:.able that the hvorable I leather o-f the latter parc of 0 sober ' yould to any ensideraie extent ovar- u omc the great iretry previon~dy sus .ained during the greater pa ei the ~rowing season, esi~eciafll ,whe2 in - any sections oar crmapo:dan's ry ort that the crop had already been argely gathered artd marketed. la riew of the :oreging, ft does nor rees >osible th at cas is to prove the largcet e sotton crop ever grown. In our epi2 on it won'i be impassloe t> proat~ra a re trustwhorthy soures of tthe cot- I on growing counties ot tae Ssatn ic ormaaion tra would watrrant the b2 ef that this year's crap aoroud prove c a large as last year's. It may turn I ~ut far less. T year may nrot be- I2 ~ke that of 1899 1900, when excessiVC stimates me~e itn the autumn eesed d the actia total produetnon by near A Great Sermon. The theat~rs 'Iursday was~ rowdel y o its fullest capr-city, tt~e oceanoon be ng the Thanksgiving sermon by Bish- s ip Galloway. His magLetic appear- a nce coupled with his imipressive man ter, held his audience spell-bound. )f all the speakers Columbians have istoned to in the past few years, none ave so moved a congregaton as Bishop to kiloway. Had the speakieg been any at ther than a religious eznreise, there fta ruld have been cwa continuous cheer or~ oro start to fi aish. Several times the der ones, as the bishop paid glowing ~ ributes to the S ;uth, could be seen ro ovng aroued in their seats, as if they tb ond iite to give vent to their emo- h [ns. The semos commenced prompt- TI V at neon. Among those on the etage m rere Bishop Candier, G~vernr Mi. a weeney, Dfs. Stokes, Hoages, Carlisle, nl lhrietzberg and several others. Av icked qaartette rendor. d that beau ti- th 2 chant, "Praise. 0 Praise the L ord." aT -Dolumbia Rcord.g WILL 'fHEY Do ha?-T'ne Perry * [ome Journat sa~s: "With b:.con at & cznts per pauad, corn an~d meal re- cc ~iing at $1.10 per bushel, wheat at 1.10, oats near that figu-o and cotto H 7 cents, farmers ought not to be at thi loss how to pitch their crops ncxt ason." It does loo-k like the farmers 2ght to learn by this time that it ould pay them better to diversify ~ teir crops, but it seems hard for them Slarn thea lesson. FEAR OF LIGHTNING RISK GREATER IN THE COUNTRY THAN IN TOWN. - f0. Advice to People Who Fear the Eleeo tric Bolt-Danger From Trees and From Buildings-Where It is Not Wise to Stand. In the Century Alexander McCabe gives encouragement and advice to peo ple who have a fear of being struck by lightning-or thunder, as some of them thinsi "TL 1en suffering which many un dergo .rust in advance of or during a thunder-storm is of a dual nature. The sense of impending danger alarms and terrfies, but there is also a depression of spirit which is physical and real, brought about by some as yet unknown relation with the nervous system and corditions of air pressure, humidity and purity. The suffering due to de pression and partial exhaustion re quires. from those who are strong. sympathy rather than ridicule. The suffering due to alarm and fright, how ever, is unnecessary. It is largely the work of the imagination. To the ner vous nature there is something appall Ing in the wicked, spiteful gleam of the lightning and the crn'sh and tumult of the thunder. But iuch a one should remiember that the flash Is almost al rways far distant, ane. the thunder can do no more damage than the low notes of a church organ. Counting all the deaths from all the storms during a year, we find that the chance of being killed by lightning is less than one In a hundred thousand. The risk in the city may be said to be five times less than in the country. Dwellers in city houses may be star tied by peals of thunder, but owing to the great spread of tin roofing and fair ground connections, if buildings are adequately protected, and the momen tum of the flash provided for, the oc cupants many feel secure.. A good conducted, grounded rod is necessaryo In all isolated and exposed buildings. Barns, especially, when lined with green crops, should have a goda light ning conductor. , "The question is often aslied, 'Do trees protect?' The answer is that the degree of protection will vary-with the character of the tree and its aistance from a water course. An oak is more liable to lightning-stroke than a beach. The character of the wood, the area of leafage, the extent and depth *of root, will determine the liabliity to stroke. "Another question which is often asked is whether there is danger. aboard a large steamship during a thunder storm. On the contrary there are few safer places. Sufficieit metal with proper superficial area is inter posed in the path of the lightning, and. Its electric energy converted Into harm less heat and rapidly dissipated. Accl-: dents occur chiefly because the v.ctims Ignorantly place themselves in the line of greatest strain, and-thus.form part, of the path of discharge. For this rea son It Is not wise to stand under trees,' near flag poles or masts, in doorways or porches, close to fireplaces. or near barns. Those who are not exposed In iny of these ways may feel reasonably safe. - "It should be remembered, In the event of accident, that lghtn'ig does not always kill. It more often results in suspended animation than in actual death. Therefore, in case of accident, tfy. to restore animation, keep the body warm and send for a physician with out delay." "'A Novelty for Gentlemen. Some men are as particular about their clothing as the fussiest of women. They object to anything being folded or pressed down by the weight of other clothing. They do notlike to have an. of -their clothing hung in the c'oset -by wire hangers. Such a man recently had a clothes case made to order. His talor furnished the proper measure ments of all his clothing to the cabinet maker who constructed it. This case had to be long enough to contain his winter coat If he should tape a notion to keep it In a sliding secton, and other compartments were no deep drawer-everything was a slid ig shelf, with just enough room for one article and partitioned oft' to fit. The shirt 'slide had three partitions, s that they could not help lying in order. This allowed of the shirts being drawn out one at a time. The slides were an shallow, about three inches deep. There were special places for each article of underwear, cuffs, collars, neckties and hose and jewel boxes and toilet articles compartments. There was a big front board, which opened down like the lid of a desk and formed a shelf, on which things could be laid and sorted out preparatory to being placed in their proper receptacle. A Queer Lamp. A rather remarkable spirit Ismp has reen found in the workshop of a Hin doo watchmaker. It is In the shape of a boar and has the burner on ifs back. The design is not inartIstic nor is It badly executed. but the most striking feature of it all Is that its owner re gards It as a household god. It is sacred to the memory of the wat'hmaker's father, by whom It wa' made, and some hold that there ia A REM.AEEABLE LAMP. suggestion of the transmigration of the souls of men into the animal In the reverence with which this animal is regarded. It Is used, nevertheless, far the purpose for which it was originIL. designed-as a spirit lamp by whic the watchmaker heats metal or solder.) As an Instance of the combination of' buines and piety it is rather Interest The extreme depth of mismerf is g small boy with a new pair of boots ad no puddle Will Be Built. The Seaboard Air Line petitioned the e~ty conno I of Charl sten for :n extension of t'he fr:.nehire which was granted two yean~ ago. The extension w.a granted, conditional on the work of cstrucion ei ihe Chattaneoga, Au gucta and Charleston railway beginning within three mondls. The prospects for the buildine; of the railroad are bright. It is s~id that she decision..to entruct the railroad res'.s with Gen erl Manager Barr. cf the Seaboard Ai Line, who is now considering the advisability of the construction. Fired Upon from Ambush. A special from Winston, N. 0., says: Darirg a raid in the northeru part of Stokea ecuoty, Revenue Offlaers Joseph Petree and Jamesa Preddy were fired upon from air bush by moonshiners. Peree as shot in the right hip and Preddy in the right leg. TIhe injuries of the former are the most sericres. The ef~cars returued the fire but were una ble to locate the men wyho made the as sault upon them. Four stills and se, eral thousand gallons of beer were de Not Dazzled by Youth. "Yes," said a rich Oklohoma farm. r to G. Lowell Miller yesterday, "I m proud of my girls, and would like ) see them comfortably married, and s I have a little money they will not ) to their husbands penniless. There's Eary, twenty-five years, and a real ood girl. I shall give her $5,000 ,hen she Is married. Then comes et, who won't see thirty-five again, nd I shall give her $10,000; and the ian who takes Eliza, who is forty, -ill have $15,000 with her." G. Low !1, reflecting a moment or so, then iquired: "You haven't one about fty, have you?"-Oklahoma State apital. Handy. Maud-Luther is a nice young man. May-Yes; but Harry wears button loes. Maud-What of that? May-How convenient It would be we were married! I would be sure ) misplace my 'button hook and then could just borrow his. If the 4 #6 ,ere misplaced we could both 'se airpins.-Chicago News. * Secure. The Recruit was Raw but 'yp,. "I take no chances," he muttered. nd placed over his heart not only a 'ell-thumbed Bible, but a greasy pack 6 cards as well. He now felt secure against the foe Lan's bullets; but there was the em almed horse meat yet to be reckoned ith.-Detroit Journal. Deep-Laid Scheme. Mrs. Youngwife-Harry suggests iat I give my last summer's gown the servant girl. Mrs. Oldum-Is the girl pretty? Mrs. Youngwife-Yes, rather. Mrs. Oldum-Then don't do it. He's idently hunting for an excuse to iss her in mistake for you.-Phila elphia Press. Not Taking Chances. Neighbor's Boy-Pop sent me over, borrow your lawn mower. Suburbanite-He's early, isn't he? Ve haven't used it ourselves yet. Neighbor's Boy-He said he thought ouse hadn't, and now would be a od time to cut the grass before ouse got it out of order. Oh, Love, Sweet Love. "You have not kissed me," she pout, d, "for fifteen minutes!" "I know It," he said. "I have a very ensitive tooth, which Is liable to ache I do." "What do you mean, sir?" "Why, you are so sweet, you now!"-New York World. Another One. The patrol wagon rattled noisily ver the stony street. "This," grunted the drunk and dis rderly pugilistic celebrity, whom:the olice were taking to the statlonl"is aother haul of fame, Isn't it b'gaeh!" -Chicago Tribune. She Did. "Do you believe in teaching the Ian sages in the schools?" asked Mr. aingstone of Miss Gildersleeve. "Yes, indeed," replied the young Ldy. Every one should be able to peak English and golf."-Detroit 'ree Press. Behindhand. Mrs. 'Von Blumer-What Is the test news? Mrs. Witherby-I don't know. I aven't seen a fashion paper for two ays.-Puck. ' Not Anxious for an Encore. "This role of mine," said the mar -ed actor, who had been up with the >aby every night for a week, "is a itrange mixture of the legitimate and raudeville." "In what particular, dear?" asked dis wife. 'Well, you see, I'm a walking gen leman in continuous performance." -Philadelphia Press. A Little Light as to History. Tommy-Pop, what is profane his ory? Tommy's Pop-Profane history, my on, Is-umn, ah-well, you know when ieorgie Washington cut down his ather's cherry tree?' Tommy-Yes, pop. Tommy's Pop-Well, what his fath r said to Georgie is profane history. -Philadelphia Record. Hard in Winter. Kind Lady-You must have a very ard time in winter. Tramp (between mouthfuls)--Tes, adeed, mum. Sometimes I darsent sk fur a bite fur days, and I 'most tarves, mum. "What do you tear at such times?" 'd be axed to shovel snow, mum." -New York Weekly. A Page From "Macbeth."' I "Talk about murdering sleep!" Macbeth had been wooing the rowsy god for five hours. "Talk about murdering sleept' A uity conscience is a dollar's worth f morphine compared to those cats." And he threw a coat of mail and a air of sheet-steel boots at the feline ogress across the moat.--Baltimore .merican. His Feeiing. Inquiring Tourist-Tell me, what rere your sensations while you were rouching in your cyclone cellar with ie terrible tornado raging just above ou? Kansas Farmer-Wa-al, I reckon It's ate to say I felt sorter under the 'eather-Puck. A Sensible View. O? what benefit to Booker Washing a and his 'work is this empty and duous round of banquets and p erlor nctions? Wherein doesit profit bim. the cause he has at heart that be ures in Hartford or Boston drawiu'g oms arts at luxurious tsbles-even a~ of the President him,elf-and givs a time to w'ost we c.ill "socii ty?" ose peotP really see in him nothing >re than'a caprice. He has become ashbon, a fa-lo, with men who have more c3omprehensiou of his real nec to the cuntry than they have c-f political conditions in Saturn. They merely putting him on ezbhibition, rifying themselves by a patronage of 'who is werth more to humanity and iiition than any'- dozen of them d the end of it c'an be oni the can lation of Booke: Washinghton as a ent factor in the social questions &adl hiC8 ae il1 be the victims of :a ewill strut his little hour the tinse] stage and be cast away en the i4de fancy shall have run