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A Christmas of Lorg Ago I am tbinking Lonight in sadnes: Of a Christmas of lor-go. When the air was filled with Iadn. And the earth was wrappei in enow. When thestarslike dismond' glie'seeL And the nig'at was crier 2d d As I eagerly watched aud For the Santa C a:s of '.. The forest was rcbMcJ of its tre-.Sures. The houze was a mass f gneu, And I reveled in Christas p'asres, At the dawn of Aurora's shee:; Some talked of ihe avier's missi But lof my pre'y toyT: Some knelt in devout petio I romped and played with the boys. We went to the pond for skating, To the stable to take a ride, And we found new joys awa'tirg To whatever spot be hied; Bat the climax of my story Was that evening's firewtort sho". Went out in ablaze oftgiery That Christmas o! bLng ago Bat in sadness I think of that Christmas, For many then happy and Have gone to the realm of siletc And sleet> in their bedi of clay: Thehands that filled kindly r.y S ccing3 I shall grasp in this world no mrre. But when at Heaven's portals I'm ' knocking They'll open the beatiful door. They will lead me in teaderness clinging, And place me before the throne, Where the choirs angeic are singing And the heavenly gifts are strewn And there in the realm of glcry, With my loved ones at my side, I'll repeat the old Bethlehem story And join in that Chriztmas tide. TALMAGE'S S M ON. In this Bible Econe of Christmas Night God Honored Childhood. This discourse of Dr. Talmage is full of the nativity and ap;cpriate for the holidays; text, Luke ii 16, "And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in a man ger." The black window shutters of a Da cember night were thrown open and some of the best singers of a world where they all sing stcod there, and putting back the drapery of cloud chanted a peace anthem until all the echoes of hill and valley applauded and encored the halleluish chorus, Come, let us go into that Christmas scene as though we had never before worshiped at the manger. Here is a Madonna worth looking at. I wonder not that the most frequent name in all lands and in all Christian c-nturies is Mary. And there are Marys in palaces and Marys in cabins, ani, tbcuth Gorman and French and Italian and Spanish ana English pronounce it differently, they are all namesakes of the one whom we find on a bed of straw, with her pale face against the soft cheek of Christ in the night of the navity. All the great painters have tried, on canvas, to present Mary and her child and the in cidents of that most famous night of the world's history. Raphael, in three different masterpieces, celebrated them. Tintoretto and Ohiriandajo surpassed themselves in the adoration of the magi. Oorreggio needed to do rno more than his Madonna to become immortal. The "Madonna of the Lily," by Leon ardo da Vinci, will kindle the admira tion of all ages. But all the galleries of Dresden are ft.rgotten when I think of the small room of that gallery con taining the "Bistine Madonna."' Yet all of them were copies of St. Mat thew's Madonna and Luke's Madonna, the inspired Madonna of the old book, which we had put into ou~r hands when we were infants and that we hope to have under our heads when we die. Behold, in the first place, that on the night of Christ's life God honored the brute creation. You cannot get into that Bethelem barn without going past the camels, the mule3, the dogs, the oxen. The brutes of that stable heard the first cry of the infant Lord. Some of the old painters represent the oxen and osmels kneeling that night before the newborn babe. And well might they kneel! Have you ever thought that Christ came, among other things, to allevinate the eufferings of the brute creation? Was it not appropriate that he should, during the first few days and nights of his lite on earth, be sur rounded by the dumb beasts, whose moan and plaint and bellowing have for ages been a prayer to God for the arresting of their tortures and the righting of their wrcngs? Not a kennel in all the centuries, not a bird's nest, not a wornout horse en towpath, not a herd frec zing in the poorly built cow pen, not a freight car in summer time bringing the breeves to market 'without water through a thousand miles of agony, not a surgeon's room witnessing the struggles of fox or pigeon or fog in the horrors of vivisection, but has an interest in the fact that Christ was born in a stable surrounded by brutes. Standing then, as I imagine now I do, in that Bethlehem night with at in fant Christ on one side and the speech less creatures of God cn the other, I cry; Look out how you strike the rowel into that horse's side; take off that curbed bit from that bleeding mouth; remove that saddle from that raw bacd,; shoot not for fun that bird that is too Email for food; forget not to put water into the cage of that canary; throw ou. some crumbs to those birds caught too far north in the winter's inclemency: arrest that man who is making that one horse draw a load heavy enough for three: rush in upon that scene where boys are torturing a cat or transfizingI butterfly and grasshopper; drive not cff that old robin, for her nest is a moth er's cradle and under her wing there may be three or four musicians of the sky in training- In your famlies and in your shools teach the coming gen eration more mercy than the presentI geneiation has ever shown and in this marvelous Bible picture of the nativity, while you point out to them the angel,j show them also the camei, and whixle they hear the celestial chant let theZm also hear the cow's moan. Behold also in this Bie scene how on that Christmas nig~ht God isouo:ed childhood. Childhood was to be hen ored by that event. He must have child's light limbs and a chil d'sd dipl ed hand and a child's beaming eye a:,d a child's flaxen hair, ar d babyhood was to be honored for all time to come, a::d a cradle was tomean more than a grave. Mighty God, may the reflect:ou of that one child's face be seen in all infantile faces!I Enough have all those faihers and mothers on hand if they hore a child in the house. A throne, -. crown, a sepr ter, a kingdom, under cha ge. Be are ful how you strike him acro s te head. jarring the brain. Wha 'voca sa~y to him will be centen"al and millenid, and a hundred years~ and a thusm years will not stop the ocho and re echo. Do not ay, It it only a hi Rather say, "It is only an imor tal." It is only a materpiece of Jeho vah. It is only a being that saat cut live sun and moon and star and ages quadrionnial. God has irjinite resouir 0s5, and he can give presents of greyt value, but when he ;;ants to give ito ri.estpossiea gift to a homsehold he s~n. ai te wrld an lti universe and then gives a child. Yoa, ai Eis d has hcnorcd childhood. -aes almost every picture a fnil u~'re e there be a child either plxv i on the floor or looking through the vindow or sestecd on the lap gsz:ng itro the *ace of the mother. It was a child in Naaman's kitchen that told the great Syrian wasrior where he might go and get eurei of the lepro sy, which at his seventh plunge in the Jordan wts leit at the bottor of the riv:r. i was to the ersdlo of leaves in ca cd wa- laid, reakEd by :Ie Nie, that V~d caiei the attention of h:st It was a siak child that evok ed Christ' curative svmpathies. It wa a child that Cbrist set in the midst of the qabbling disciples to teach the i.. A child decided Waterloo, showing the army of BIoh cr h-w th.y could take a short cut tlrcuzlh the fields when if the o'd road had ben followed the Prussian general would have come up too late to save the destinies of Europe. It was a child tlat d-eided Gettysburg, he having overhcard two Confederate generals ia conversation in which they were to :rch for Gettysburg instead of Hawris burg, snd, this reported to Governor Curtir, the Federa forces started to mCeE their opponerts at Gettysburg. .-d today the child is to decide all the meat hates, make Sl1 the laws, settle il the destinies and usher in the world's alvaion or destruction. Men, women, nations, all earth and all haven, be -odthe ch-ild! Natice ;:so that in this Bible night scene God honored scienee. Who s.re the three wise mn kneeling before the Divine In'snt? Not boor, not ig noramuses, Dut Caspar, Balthasar and elehoir. men who knew all th3t was to be known. They were the Isaac Ne wtons and Hersche!s and Faradays of their time. Their alchemy was the forerurnner of our sublime chemistry, their astrology the mother of our meg nifiecnt astronomy. And when I see these scientists bowing befcre the beau tiful babe Isee the propheoy of tde time whcn all the telesaopes and microscopes and all the Liyden jars and all the elec trie batteries and all the observatories and all ths universities shall bow to Jesus. ft is much that way already. Where is the college that dces not have mcrninz prayers, thus bowing at the manger? Who have been the greatest physians? Omitting the names of the living lest we should be invidious. have we not had among them Christian men liko James Y. Simpson and Rush and Valentine Mott and Aberorembie and Abernethy? Who have been our great est scientists? Joseph Henry, who lived and died in the faith of the gos pole, and Aggassiz, who, standizg with his students among the hills, took off his hat rnd said, "Young gentlemen, before we study these roiks let us pray for wisdom to the God who msde the rock." All geology will yet bow before the Rock of Ages. All botany will yet worship the Rose of Sharon. All astronomy will yet recognize the Star of Bethlehem. Behold also in that f:si Christmas night that God honored the fields. Came in, shepherd boys, to Bethleheni and see the child. "N2," they say; "we are not dressed good enough to come'i. "Yes, you are. Come in." Sure enough the storma and the night dew and the brambles have made rough work with their apparel, but none has a better right to come in. They were the first to hear the music of that Christmas night. The first announcement of a Saviour's birth was made to those men in the fiald:. Theres were wiseacres that night in Bethlehem and Jerusalem soring in drop sleep, and thcrs were salaried officers of government who, hearirg of it afterward, may have thought that they onght to have had the frst ners of such a great event, some one dismounting from a swift camel at their door and kneeling till at some sentinels qnestion, "Who comes there?'' the great ones of the palace might have been told of the celestial arrival. No; the shepherds heard the drt two bars of the music, the first in the major key and the last in the sub dued minor, "Glory to God in the high est and on earth peace, good will to men." Ah, yes, the fislds were hon ored. The od shepherds, with plaid and rook, have for the most part vanished, cut we have gazing on our U sited States pasture field! and prairie about 42,000, 200 stieep, and all their keepers ought o ioiow the shepherds of my text ar.d all Liose who toil in the fields-all vine iressers, all orchardiwts, all husband men. aNot only that Christmas night, but all up and down the world's histors, Sed has been honoring the fielda. arly all the messiahs of reform and iterature and elcg ience and law and bet~evolence hrove come from the fields. Washington from the fields. Jeff erson from he fieds. The presidential mar tyrs, Garfield, Lincoln and MicKinley, from the fields. Henry Clay from the felds. DJaniel Webster from the fields. Before this world is right the overflow ing populations of our crowded cities will have to take to the fields. Instead of ten merchants in rivalry as to who shall soil that one apple we want at least eight of them to go out and raise ples. Instead of t.e merchants de sir'ing to sell that one bushel of wheat we want at least eight of them to go out and raise wheat. The world wants now more hard hands, more bror zad cheeks, more musculrar arms. To the field! Gd honored them when he woke up the shepherds by the midnight anthem, and he will while the world lasts con tinue to honor the fields. When the shepher's creeh was that famous night stood gainst the wall of the Bethlehem khan, it was a prophecy of the time wen thrssher's flail and farmer's pieow and woodman's ax and ox's yoke and sheaf binder's rake shall surrender to the God who mode the country as m:.n mae the town. Behoid a' o that on that Christmas night God honored motherhood. Tivo angels on thei:r wings might haveI brouht :.2 inet Saviour to Bethle hem without alary's beiag there at all.I Wnen the villagers on the morning of Dee. 26 awake, by divine arrangement and in someunciplained way the child Jesus might have been found in somei comfortable cradle of the village. But no, no! Moerhood for all time was to'o conceorated, and one of the ten derest relations was to be the maternal relation and one of the sweetest words "mother." In all ages G ad has honored good motherhood. John Wesley had a good mother. St. Bernard had a good mother. Samuel Badgett a good mother, Doddridge~ a good mocther, Wal ter Scott agood nso her, Benjamin West a good mother. In a great audi ence, s of whom were Christians, I asked ti~at all those who had been ble.:edcof Christian mothers arise, and lmost the erntire assembly stood u:p D. you not see how important it is thsat all otherhood bo constecrated? Why did Titian, the It211an artitt, when he sketched the Madonna mk it an Italian facJ? Why did Rubens, th Geo sr;is:, in his Maldona mke it a German face? Why did Joshua Reynolds, the Eeglish artist, in bis Madonna make it an English face.? nis Msdonna mpa'c i a Spanush ?aca I tver heard, 'c I think 'hey took I their ow~n motheri as "be 7Pe of K-.ry, tho 'Othe-r of i4 Vt Wh:n u hear some, ene 5n svn o . e ak in the aberset ofa .elf ithu. hou est rcothrr, ou-r eyes dl' up tears, while you ry to yourslf, "Tnat waq mv mother." The tr2n wrd a childuttra : e pt to be "Mother! a-d :he old m in his dying dream calls, "Mother, mother!" It matter2 not whether she was brouzht up ii the surroundings of a citT and in di4;nt home and was dr sicd appre p:iately with reference to the demands Cf mcdern life or whether she wore the old time cap and great round sp:c tacles and anron of her owr m:ke and knit your soeks with her own needles sestd. by the broad firepl eZ, with erzat backlog ,b!z2, on a winiLr's night; it I matters nt how many w'i&_khs orossed and recroses-d her fae or how mouh her sho- d-r' strevrd wit' the burd en of a I - C arg life, it yu rin a Madonna hers would '-a te faea3. What a gen tle hand she had wh en wo nere siek ' and wha s vice to soothe pA1in and was there any or.3 who Could s. fill u:. a room with pe.ee and purity .:d ight And whast a aid day that was when we ce hom3 acd bhe ccui'l greEt ut not, for her lips W-r f e-till. 0 .) M a baek, mother, ih itek Chrim 1s times and take vo-r ILd plaoe and as ten cr twenty or fifty Y;enrs ago coxe and cpan the old Bible as you used to, -%ad and kneel in the sa'n: plaae where .-o. used to pray and look up)- us as of old when you wished us a merry Christmas or a happy New Year. Bat no! That would not 1e fair to call you back. You had troubles enough and aches enou;b and t bereav.ents enough while you were here. Tarry by the throne, mother, till we join you there, your prayers all answered. and in the eternal homestead t of our God we shall again keep Christ mas jnbilee togedher. But speak from your thrones, all you girified mothers, and say to all the:-, your eons and daughters, words of love, w-xrds of warning. words of cheer. Toey need your voioe, for they have traveled far and t mary a heartbreak since you left them, sad you do well to ca.ll from the heights of heaven to the valleys o earth. Hail, euthrored ancestri! We are comir.g. Keep a placo rig eside you at the barquet. Slow footed years: More swiftly run Into the gold of that unsetting sun. Homesick we are for thee, Calm land beyond the tea. Pointed Paragrarhs. If a woman has a min to love she has no use for a ct. Faith in your own ability is to thirds of the battle. When a zman is beaton he aimits it but it's diderent with a won-2. If you Eau it imp'ssible to tell twins apart, tell them togethor. When a clock is wound up it goes; when a business is wound up it stops. Every spinster knows at least a doz en men who might have married her LI ii- t A man always feels contemptible when he lets a girl kiss hima against her will. As soon as a girl gets married she be gins to acquire a supplementary educa tion. It is human nature to desire to be equal to your superiors and superior to your equals. The man who wants to p-rove every thing he sa:.s adverties the hec tas: his word isn't to be credi:e d. Some men e.ho have hlire lack gense. What they neel is ca.. immense room e imreet Love may net 1e b'i"d :uesar, but it is never abl t s,:e its finia. Few men h'ave enog~h sel. coeence takes. When two women ar bim~eren .uie a there is always Nfi Lm'-, a. theO bottom f it. Lots of woer sad tr eau s b'r.,u'hi n by advie-s ha is supose W re ent it. Sometimes it is a man's dine er that disagres with him and sometimes it's his wife. I Lts of people are about half-way between what yuua think they are and what they pretene. to be. The clam has a larger month in pr> portion to his siza than a man, yet the clam never talks about his neigh bors. After Many Years. With a enowstorm fiercely reging on hristmas Eve, 1857, Pait took his I sweetheart to a p:rty. Seeo had ec ated a plzdge from him before consent ing to become his wife that he would f not touch liquor. The bitter cold was ~ oo maeh for him, however, and t houghtlessig~ he took a drink to warnm imself. His sweerheart instantly de tcted it, the two qarreied, and as a f esult the, engagemmt was broken. Af- r er tho quarrel the girl married. So E id Petit, who moved to Syracuse, ~ ngaged in the coal businees and be- ~ ame wealthy. A laundress who was smployed by Mrs. Eill one day men- ~ ioned having worked for the Petit family and told the death of Mrs. Petit C ast January. Mrs. Hill had become a e widow five years before. L-ast Jane ~ Mr. Polit went to Brageport, Conn. and oslied on his early swe-theart. Talking over old times he declared he had never e:.ased to love he.r.H sad that he had never tomaecd adrap of iquo: eince the fsteful Chrima Ev-2 and vptn this declarat aen Ms. iti t gave he?r promise to marr him. Bh .~ ride and gro:-m hsve several gron V e'idren ar~d all rr hese for th wed. ing ccremory. A Tall Building. I A Boston ian propse, it is sad, to rect. a o- st.ory buidirg on Broadway, d~ Ne York. T ha ,wll 1ean dine'00 eetiuhhh. wr"en is eq"si 'o the co-a- s, aie tiht or the Mahnst Life In- e urance .:;2 Park R~ow buidigs now :e highes.: in h world. Ie plan l b o erest 35 sto--c se na huilding anda ou top of is another ~ stories. 2h - cheme has been ;'roueuneed~ feaile by the eogineers and there appcra toc be no reason why it shonid not be c-a- c. :ed cut loe~ the promocter issidt ave the neesssaory flnaaeixi hacking.I That suchn a plnan shoul& eni:n be seri usly co1sieredO dmoastrates e rowth of New York and the great value oZ ground spa::e incident to th-e - rowdir.g of the. ..ty.E Charleston ExpositioL. The ezhibit of liv:: stock the ei f position in Char: -on will be u-o !ar- a est held in the touh. ht vil es on I an. 6 and will cystions utii Jsan. 2G. Aread-; 1,0 enreshv be "iae I: adin the'c".p. -on man. of.he cil b r"r'sent- i Tn entries so a. ar made e ime from 17 '.13 a k s now on depsi at the Be of Char est'n. will be pa. t -o th scesul p. ntsants. G,:orge F. Weston of tI Vanderbilt's Bsmor stock farm is in ti PRTTY ROMA NCE, . Sr -har ard S'ser Me-t Af er a Lorg Seprail n ;r THE CHARLESTON SHON. Thy *Wtr Stok-n in Ch!idhood by A-ab Slay Tradfrs anI Sold to Different PecpM. No one vould imsSine to look at the aces of All M-sont Ben Mohommed ad his -iter, Baefa Madon., that their rers hd. been merked by opisodes tho most thrilling oature. Thcv ae still y oug, Baefs having jort passed er 30th milestene, -while IMosont will e 27 in Septembrr. Tragdies, rominCo .Ld dCed3 of hO oim are ever oczurring in the Orient, u the wcrld rarely hears of them A ao cof myrtery hang: over the followers I Mnhormmd aud -vhen an castional rtce appesra touching on the religion, araiics or home life of these opyle it i- retd with intercst by the rihrtian world. Moson Ben Moh:mmed and Baefa Iadon were the only children of an trabian Nomad. Being nearly of the sme age they played together and be %mo inseparable; where Btea was here you would find Mosont also, and s Baefa was the older her motherly in tincts promoted her to restrain the oy's natural desire to wander far from he tent of their parents. Slave deal re were constantly passing over the esert withia sight of their door an-d e mos. unscrupulous among them omctimes pieked Up children who bad rayed too far from home and sold Lem in a distant rlave market. Thus aeis e-refully wiltobhed over her broth r, and so faithful was she that her par nt intrusted her with the full care of he boy. When Mosont was 5 year3 old his ther decided to move his family to liro, where the children could obtain uch instructions as the town afforded. t was a long journey, but he ad csmets, and they were as co6 for the purpose as a freight -in. Now it is not much of an under .king for an Arab to move; he ha. no rio-a-brac to worry with, no piano or Irlor lamp to handlo with care or .ichon stove t.. drive him insane. iis household goods are few ard sim il-a tent, scme skins and rugs and a mill assortment of cooking utensils re the sum of an Arab's domestic pos essions. Of course his indirpansable un ana. othor wespons are not slUpposed o belong to the housekeeping category. So when Monsont's father broke up is camp two camels easily carried all he freight,'while the children rode the hird and the parents head3d the asra an on the fourth camel. Everything ent well on the janrney until the hird day, when the little party en ountered a eevere sand storm just as ight was coming on. The childroni ere terrified and their camel became umanageable and soon broke away rom the others. How they ever sur ivd the storm they are unsble io teil, ut it ms ms as the storm increa'sed the emel got down on its haunches and, ortictively, the children slid off and roched behind the animal. All ha the long and terrible night they ing to each other and a~s the day was -einiing to break in the east they fell sieep from exhaustion. Tee next thing they remember was ..ring strange voices speaking in an ono en tongue and Baefa, who awoke rt, saw several ferocious looking men aking excitedly together not ten feet way. Then she cried from fright and re her brother. Thn atrangers, hear og her c-y, looked tewar d the children adosc of them advanced and addres d Baefa in her native ianguage. He poke roughly and tell her that she and er brother must go with them on a ang journey. Then the man called to is companions and withou; further oer mny, the children were taken to a long aravan which had been hidden from iew on the other side of thoir camel. here they were s~psri:d and Baefa as loaded on a camne ncar the front of he- lineO and Moscai was thrust on a orse behind a savage locking Turk. For days and days they travelled and t last arrived at a great city, where hey were taken to the slave market and old. Basfa was bought by a wealthy urk and Mosont by a Syrian merchant rcm whom he escaped twelve years iter and fournd his way back to his na ive land, where be searched in vain for tis parents and sister. Fin:.lly. having tesprnired of ever finding- any of his amily again, he joined a troupe of ac bat. He has followed his profession ver ince z~nd came to Americi last pril with a company Jof Arabs to fill n engazemont for the scason with the rets of Cairo Company at the Mid Baefa was tsaken to Turkey by her wner, who died five years ltater and his strte sold to an Arab S hick, who took r back to her native land, and EC-en fer freed her from bondage. L.. 15 he was married to a silversmith, with -horn she has lived ever since, comning > America in May with her husband, -o alSO ha-i been engaged by the reets of Cairo Company. I- wss aree weeks af ter B iefa arrived in this ,entry before the inother and sister new of each other's existence and the ~cogition happtned in this wise: Mn ont was relating his inistory one morn g to aparty of Arabs, amedg whom 'as Besa and her husband. As he :cceeded with his tale Biefa manifest i an ever izcreasiog interest andI rak in every word v~ih a rapture that "ll-righ setL her hush'~nd beside him f it j'alosy. Taen, whe~n she was rea tha er.3 was no mistke an-i that e' had rer-l~y ionned Ta long lost othcr, she naarly precipted a eng her, ~ u nd bat Bonea izin ?.x laned the situatica as well asi ene :guld etween becr zobs of j :y -News ed ourier. A Great Invention. Marconi's marvelous experimomts, gs the N. Y. Evening P:.s:, naturailb i doubters for it not ol szraina 2:Gih hu: almosi' beff nii the ima~gi ston f layman to beli.::ve that from a a pelo in England tc a kite in N sw "'diud recognisaie sigeals pssed no' 1. 30- miles of coan. That eu~b tas fart, however, there sees 1L & ite oad for doubt . 'l factMr. Msaro:ni's pablishedt eVwson the sabj :ot erly height the ec idne whica is felt in him a man of science. TUhe frank ae oisaemcnt that a signal rather 3 a vzrb eimessage was ehosen b3 use the insuu~monte are still too imn rfet for the more di:5:ult tes..shows le temper of the scientist ra:her than : headlong enthnuai of the mere ~vno . THE UIH2RY TREE SCNDAL. Rev. T Bright After Pocketing $4,500 Said Echeme Was Wrong. J 0 B1ll, writing in the Charlotte Observer, says: I notice in The Observer of the 15th inst., a card from Rev. T. Bright, in which ha states that all employes were promuptly paid as soon as their w::es came due, while he controlled the busi ness of the Amos Owven Cherry Tree company. This statement, to sy least, is m'sleading and I can prove it, as I have in my possession several let ters from ladies, most of them poor girls, who can ill affErd to lose their hard-earned money, which will prove that he receipted fcr their money and yet made no returns 'o them. Their appeals for help in getting back their morey are indeed pitiful. These ladies, anxious to obtainwork, Eet in the req-ired $12 and beg-n wosking for the company from one to two weeks before R v. Bright disposed of his interest, and they assert that they have nevar received a cent for their service, and in a large number of CaseE, actually borrowed the money in order to secur3 employment immedi ately. Most of their letters seem to have been ignored.and returned un answered, except the ones enclosing the cash. Now, while the full mouth's salary might not have been due and payable when Rev. Bright sold out to his successors, still anyone can readily see that he was due them for the fractional part of the month for which hc soems to have made no provision whatever. The order of the day was to control the buiness for a few weeks, pocket all the cast that came in and then turn it loose on some other fel low like it was a red-hot stove. I am reliably informed and can sub stantiate it that he withdrew $4,500 be fore disposing of hi.s interesa. He gave as his reason for selling out that he had been in the goiipei ministery for a number of years and after praying over the matter felt that he could not af ord to allow the world to come be tween him and and his duty. Dr. Frank Bright, hiii son, the found er of this scheme to swindle the unsus pecting, tried to sell out to the writer He stated that he had made $4,500 in less than thirty dayis and at the incep ton of his enterprise did not have a dollar. His reason for selling out was that he had to seek a warmer climate. With not a dollar's investment, does it not seem queer that he was willing to sell out A casiness which he claims is pe.fectly honest and legitimate for a small consideration when it was pay ing such enormous profits? In concluzion will say that I do not believe Rev. T. Bright can persuade an intelligent, reading public into believ ing that he and his son could with draw $9,000 from the business in s> sLort & time and leave its finances in such shape as to meet its honest obli gations, as recent events will prove. The ends of justice will not be met until these men are arrested and com pelled to give up every cent they have wrongfully taken from these unfortu nates throughout the land who in many ases have staked their all to secure what they considered honest, home wo~k, and have lost. Let the odium rest where it belongs. For Good Roads. The good roads convert'on which was recently held in Greenville resoved itself into a permanent organization by the election of the following officers: F. H. Hyatt, Columbia, president; Earle Sloan, of Charleston, secretary; Q. F. Tolley, of Anderson, treasurer. Rsoutions were adopted to rtq-aest the lt gislature at its approachina ses sion to grant to each-county the privi lege to d atermine by election the right of such county to levy a tax not to ex eed two and one half mills on the tax able property of the county for the can struction and maintenance of the pub lie highways. A resolution was also adopted to request the legislature to grant to the counties the right to issue bonds to construct and maintain their public highways if any of the counties should so desire, this question to be de ided by a county election. They also asked that the county supervisors ask that the legislhture require that all convicts who shall be or who have been sertenced by the courts to penal ser visde for a periud of ten years or less to be sentenced to the chain gang to be used in the construction and mainten anee of the public highways. Also that the legislature be requested to enact such laws as will encourage the use of arcad t:ros on the public highways. We agree with the Spartanburg Herald that "this action is sensible and is get ting down to business. The only way we can ever expect to build and have good reads in this State is by contract and by taxation and we have advocated his course for some time. In fact we feel sure that even those of our citizens who are most afraid of taxstion and hcid up their hands in holy horror at the suggestion of an increase in taxa tion would cease all opposition after ing some good roads and would be ome the most ardent a:.d enthusiastic dvocates for road building. We are ertainly much gratuhed to see the in terest which is now being manifest in this subject. Eight-Year-Old Heroinh. Eight year-old Maud Peterson Tues iy night, at the risk of her o-vn lhfe, saved her sister's house from being de stroycd by fire at Sc. Paul, Minn., and probably saved thae lives of her three lit tle niece, aged 6, 4 and 2 years. Mande ;as left at the home of her sister, Mrs. narle3 Hanley, to care for the house wha:o Mra. Hanley went to do her Christmas ohopping. T io slender lines ung with clothing auspended over a ao on tae table caught fire. The fimes mounted to the ening. Maude, with rare p:esence of Emnd, climbed on the tbble, grabbed the burning mars ad ran to tue dear, Fortunately the flmes did not communicate to the lit l h,.rai.'s ciothing. When thc f: - men arrived the lial~e girl had ex:in uished the flames and uas tryirLg to ipel the fears of the little ones. A Good Example. A disp itch from Washington says ighty- seven big turkeys were distribut e to the White House policemen, nesengers, usheis, servants, gasten rs and stab.lemen today with the com lments of the presiden;. Each tur key had on it a card, bearing the sea on's compliments. The distribution was the largest ever made at the White ouse. President McKinley always p5vo tuneCys to the married employee, at the list of recip'ients was nevar so large as that of today. The turkeys rerc distributed by Henry Pinckney, h White House stewaid. Express agens, rmaii carriers and mesrengers cre numerous pac-kagea to the White ouse tod sy, presents to the Roesevdlt amiy from friends and admirers hroughout the country. Many of the acges were lor the children, who il not be allo wed, however, to have hem ntil tomorro. GOOD NEWS FOR FARMER The.r Cotton Eeed Rendered Vastly More Valuable. Mr. H I. T. Heard, a bond and in vestment cxprt and actuary of Wash ington, D. 0., arrived in Charleston one day last week for the puipose c' ac quainting the Southern people with - aiscvcry or invention, just perfected at the National Capital, which, he thinks, pZaiSCs to compl-tely r-volu tion-z 3 the cotton seed oil icdastry. It is unaerstood thst the present process for the turning out of cotton seed oil requires the use of six diff-rent ma chines. The McFarl.ne.Reinohl in vention relating to treating cottou seed, and for which a pstent was applied for ten days ago, according to a statemert made Friday by Mr. Heard to a repor ter for The News and Courier, will do away with these six pieces of macbin ery altogether. The eceds are pl:.ced in a large vat containing a certsin chemical solution, and after a laipse c" twenty minutes the hulls pop open and float on the surface, while the aenuded kernels 0ail to the bottom of the vat. United States Chemist Wriie, of the department of agriculture, h 3 pro nounced this diheovery as among the most wondeful of modern times. He has studied the matter carefully and he sees in it a rpsedy change from the old time metho's of producing cotton seed oil. Cougressman Living3ton, of Grorgia, is interested in the soneme. He has always had the welfare of the Southern farmer at heart and he be. lievea that this invention will result in great benefit to them in more ways than one. By the use of the machine for separating the cotton seed kernels from the hulls and link the small percentage of kernels which adhere to the hulls af ter they have been opened, and the kernels which become entangled in the lint or fibre, are recovered, and the lint partialiy dried and rendered fluffy. The fuliowing machines now required are discarded: Machine for clesning seed of sand, machino for removing bolls, pieces of wood, 6W, magnetic machine for removing iron, nails, etc, delinting machine, huiling machine and a reel for seperating meats from the hulls. In addition to the vat already mentioned a machine is utilized for drying the kernels who they are to be transported a distance to an oil mill, or when the oil is to be extracted imme diately. The seed are taken directly from the qat to the crushing rolls, the mash is heated and the oil extracted in the usual way. It may then be refined or shippea as crude oil. The crushing rolls now in use are ad'apted fcr crush iog the seed. "The prcduct of these processea," said Mr Reard, "namely, dued cotton seed keracle, redaces te weight orie-. half and the bulk two thirde for trans portation tw oil milig, while the cost of denuding the kernels is reduced nearly, if not fully, 50 per cent as compared to the present prevailing practice of treating seed by deiintir-g and hulling the seed by mechanical means. It aiso leaves the hulls an the lint in condition for paper stock of a very high quality. This stock is worth from one to two cents per pound, while the kernels are in condition for reduction to meal for extracting oil. In both these procsses the chemical solution may be used re peatedly by mnaintaining its strength. "Now in regard to extracting oil front totten -eeed, the frst t.coess of treating cotton seed by the ehemical ontion is carried on two steps further, and the oil ( xtracted therefrom in three steps or operations, as aginst ten steps under the present most approved meth ods known to the art, as adticed by D.' A. Tompkins in'Uotton and Cotton Oil, page 206. The oil extracted nxom the kcrnei is impregnated with the chemi cal need for denuding the seed and serves as a factor -a the first step of re inining the oil, thus serviog a twofold function. In extracting the oil .from~ the cake it is freed from the chemioal and is adapted for use as a food product for cattle or as a fertilizer. "T'he cost of produang crade o'l by these methiods is reeucetr 50 per coe. And the oil refine d is equal to ay olive oil on the- market, which seills at 80 cents per quart in sealed cans. The cost of refining is no greater than the pre sent cost of refining cotton seed oil. "Another important point is that in the transportation of co~ton seed treated by the foregoing procrsses only the ker nel or msat of the seed is shiped from the ginnery, thus recucing the weight one half, the hulk to be carried more than t wo-thirds. The hails and the lint (1,000 pr~unas frcm a ton of Eeed) are worth a3 paper m'.tcrial from $20 to $40, at the rate respectively of one anu two cents per pouind, .ini3 mns a net gain oi $9 to $13 cover the pren practices of treati::g oaicon seed wo the step of cocking the mai~ for extracting the oil. Besides this ine ie an ad ditional gain in the savig of the chem icals for refining oii." Messrs McFarlite and Reinohl work ed and studied over chis question for a long time. Only a selv asys ago the v completed all their experiments and made application ca the Government for a patent on their discovery. The fact that they have enlisted the support of many of the !e.adog citizens of Washngton is evicence or tue wr th of the invention. The saving under the prof ess will, it is claimed, permit the payent of about SS a ton more for cotfn seed. .It is aso claimed tha it mn..a a revolu..ic in the business age?'? mann of delrn to the cotton fars or tie Suctl. It is preposed t',c 'iaOiz: an inpcidezt cm cany ant. -o .he farmers azun. iven..i .. te aet lIt te di every w : r hird is tprs.:tieg does ain. etaiicis ,.0 do, a d :-he op pears so oler view to taic-e o the mr.~ tea i haled with j~ sy og.:ou an c-f tiders Ot the soa rntughan Jh deard is one o-f the'/5.o0 r11: s enof Washington ad t eni *a very pleas!2g sdr'Ls. Horse Sense. The PiAsburg Pos t ks ha: if the o rule the souh '" in rectrcting mes, these ststs -o'ld "drift to be arism, barkratc -y an.d 1e.udiition he white people would largely leay h:in, and li :.hat event they would sink s:i!! Icaer .zThc south would be waste. The north woeld foed the iatr, Ti~e whceox 'oinr wotxci ofi:.r. What irnjures a prt' -if cs th nol." T::ere are a -vm~el he north who bave a 31i tm hen discussing the negro a 'esvon i c Ose of the cartoone, idelic-i Es I ints Miles, Schicy and Dewe~y sitli~g at a table and saviog damsz, witth Se~n; c ion, Benthan and PRssay drin king tea s ad asking each other "how do yout The Eutto Fratricide. The recent unfortunate afisir at Nor way has been generally discusasd, %ud there Eeems to be coasiderable differ once in two versions of the ki'litg. We stated last week that th shootirg oC. murred ia the house of Mr. P. W. Hatto, the man whc fired the fatai ehot. This is denied by the frienda of th- dead ran, Mr E. Worth Hutto. They claim that he was shot in his own house by his brother. From what we can learn it seems that the two brothers had becn working together in a blacksmith shop at Norway, E Worth Hutto working fir his brother, P..W. Huit, ar"d liv ing in a house belonging to P. W. Hutto as part of the consideration bet*eeu them. Or the evening of the kiling. the two men had a fallirg ouc, the na ture of which we have not lerned. Tbe roort is that E. W. Hutto went home and P. W. HEatto went to the town marshal and rEqaestcd him to arrest his brother, for wtat cause has not been made public. Tcgether P. W. Hutto and Enry S. Young, the town msz shal, went to the house of E. W. Hutto. The decased met them at the door and, it is said, invited them in. Here the reports seem to conflict and Mr. Young's statement is not available. Some say thAt the marshal refused ;o arrest E. W. Hutto, alleging that he had no grounds for so doing; again it is said that he re fused to be arrested, and that Iie brother and nephew were to assist tre msrshal in his duty. The brothers haa some words and the result was that E. W. Hutte was shot through the staa ach and died from the wound 02 F:i day night. Both of the Hutto brothors were nrmed. E. W. had a double-bar rel shotgan and P. W. had a pistol. Stonewall Hutto, the son of P. W. Hutto, bad a Winchester rifle. Ali parties fired, more or less, while the shooting was in progress. It has been said by sympathiz3s of both sides thrc the other party was in liquor. Both parties mty have been driuking, while the reverso may be the truth. From the conficting reports it ie impossible to state a corciusion on this score. The affair is one of the saddest that ever hsppened in Orangeburg county. neavy ha 1nans. - Exceptionally heavy rainfalls often occur, geraetimes with disastrous ef fects. For periods of Are minutes rain falls hay* occurred at Bismarok, N. D., at the rati of nine Inches per hour, at Jacksonville, Fla., at the rate of seven inches, and at alveston, Tex., at the rate of 6% inche. In periods 'of 60 minutes rain has fallen at these three stations at the rate of over two inches per hour; st Galveston at the rate of e1% inches. One Inch pf rainfzllis equiv alent to 27,154 gallons of 226,000 pounds on tach and every ecre of the wetted area. Rainfall eA the rate of nine inches per hour represents a fall of 33, 9o pounds, or 4,073 gallons, per min ute per acre. In Ave minutes, such a rainfall would cover each area of fotir square mflea with 51,000,000 gallons-a quantity much in excess of the daily consumption of the city of Washing ton.-Washington Star. An Unexpected Result. An amusing episode occurred at a political meeting at Lavendon dur ing the general election. After hear ing the speeches of the candidate and his supporters an aged conservative from Wolverton mounted the plat form and caused some mystery by dra matically holding aloft a walnut, when he proceeded to say: "This is a political walnut. Tho rough shell represents the radicatls; the next, the thin, bitter skin, Is the liberals, and the kernel represents the good conservative." A man in the audience cried out: "Now crack it." The Wolverton tory did so, when, lo and behold! the kernel was rot ten! The admixture of laughter and chagrin that followed may be imag ined.-London Spare Momenta. Chinese Fun. A men asked a friend to stay and have tea. Unfortunately, there was no tea in the house, so a servant was sent to borrow some. Before the latter had returned the water was already boiling, and It became neces sary to pour in more cold water. This happened several times, and at length the boiler was overnowing, but no tea had come. Then the man's wife said to her husband: "As we don't seem likely to get any tea, you had better oft'er your friend a bath!" -Eistory of Chinese Literature. Two Ladies Robbed. A spnecial to The Augusta (Chronice fro Washington, Gs, says: The Mes Battle, two elderly maiden iadies living at Barnett Jarctio~n, on the Georgia railroad, were robbed at sa trly hour Satu:-day morning of $6 000G in gold. When the robbers entered the nouse the women, hearing a noise, investigated, lighting a lamp. The robbers dashed a bucket of cold water -n the one holding the lamp a':d over m'e'd them. An as'arln w-.s raised and wen hel p arrived the robbers had fi:d dCr rifhung a tr'unk containitg tie abve named amount. T.'e womeu Lved alone in the hcuse. Seversi prov ~na attempts have been made to rob haim during the lart fe mor ths. A ew weeks ago au-entrance was m-.dci4 I .n- acu-e and the trunk carrie-d cutin1 he~ yard and rified, the would be thic. ettirg to mone y. T o indies believe ze robr acro white men, having ~ecognized oe of th.em hn say. The Court Was Packed. T!ie Unic <o Uhrootoie, no;.iug the sat th~a 'o cei f Adia Ramsay isI gdinthei pay dep'rtmen of the 'avy, and a son of: Admir~al B~nham is his atacn. osch of thie efiiers "be am- a m~ebe ofteD o court ia bin in & und aoid co:ra'ctd pt a~s tO A.dr:ial D)~e"," the ppr 'a, the cours was nacked easi 4 r N> one wsho has let en 'a can rez w-hat hss been. Q etak enard suesSi-iy Carr.edT u yheP:uck andi erozd~se "f carae i'a eea ur door. It idl deeV3 the zcrco:g.mo: a~ upport of the poop Ia of:h naian at rg; brit more espeelally of th.e pao )de of :he S~ud and more esp.'eisli tai of the people of South GrQ.iun We believo and ho'3e it will 1-:th pport of all the p'-ople, anrd that it ill prove a great mu~ees lChs:ler en would aitis ihe eam-e plle and nterpilse in other li-:es tra:. O a making a sueo~s of this Espt 'sition. he woulH soon be oue of the largesi nd :nyt prosperous cities in the .ETomp"e, of Abbe'ille, La. 'v. t followingrem~dy for weav I a pe Sd ornan To keep.w:vil ou'm ay. The pess are not fir for table .e, a3 they taste of the ::ii. Thcus As of bushels are kept here Lvery DAZZLING LIGHT. liumination of a Car That Has Beer Short-Circuited. Electricity played a queer prank on 2 gorthern Central car the other nigh: ro lookers-on at a safe distance It was erely a remarkable display ,the lilo )f which as never before seen in t. Louis. To those on the car it had man elements of tragedy. One man narrowly escaped death by Ire and others of the passengers ma have been Injured in the panic that foi - owed. Even the officials of the UniteA Railways Compaay have not yet ar rived at he exact extent of the damage done. The cars on the Northern Central line are the oldest in the tervice. Their fus es burn out freuently, but that night's' occurrence was the most serious acci dent of the kind that has yet occurred. At 9:'0 o'clock a car was rounding the Bharp down-grade curve at Thomas street and Leffingwell avenue. It was half filled with passengers. Suddenly there was a grinding noise, which deafened' those in the car anJ awakened residents in the neighbor hood. The car came to a sudden stop. WThat followed is told by an eye-wit ess. who was attracted to his window by the unusual sound. "When I looked out," he said, "the street was lit up for several blocks as If a powerful searchlight had been turnea nto it. The brilliancy all radIa ted from the car, which I at first thought. was on fire. I could see the car distinctly. It seemed a shadowy form, seen through a halo of light. The outer edge of this light was a brilliant, dazzling white, but the inner portion, the nucleus, as it were, nearest the car. was the deep red of a consuming blaze. "With the first play of the names I heard passengers in the car cry out in alarm. Two young men jumped through a window and the other pas sengers rushed for the back door. 7 saw a man leap from the rear platform with his coat smoking. He pulled the garment off as he left the car. "The Illumination could be seen at a. great distance, apparently for people; come flocking from bloeks around to' see the illumiinated car. Most of them walked home. Another car pushed the disabled one .to the sheds." InvestigatLon Saturday mornln showed that the accident was one of a number of electrical freaks caused by the recent damp weather. At the poier house of the Northern Central line it was said that the current had become short-circuited. This meant that the current on coming from the wires, in stead of going through the controller on the front platform operated by the motorman, went through the one on the rear platform. Unable to get. into the motors by that route it passed out again and sought the nearest route to the rails. This was by way of the met al work about the sides and roof of the car. On Its journey around the car a por tion of the current escaped Into the moist aitmosphere, causing the appear ance of a halo. Enough of the current went through the controller and the motors to burn them out, which caused the red light of consuming flames. It was the burning out of the controller that ignited the coat of the man who stood near It on the rear platform. Street railway men agreed that the ac cident was a most unusual. one.-St. Lcuis Post Dispatch. THREE JOINTS. Removed From a Man's Backbone and He Still Lives. Milnus three joints of his backbone, John Kaller, of No. 50 Willoughby street, Brooklyn, N. Y., lies on a 'co in St. John's Hospital, Long Islana City, making a brave fight against death. The missing pieces of his spinal column were removed on Thursday last by five surgeons. It was an opera tion almost unparalleled in surgery, but It was his only chance for life. Kaller has been a' telephone lineman. Recently he was sent to repair wires along the Shore Road, in Astoria. About noon he was working at the. top: of a pole near the Woolsey estate. Just ow it happened neither Kaller nor any one else knows, but suddenly the Hune man found himself in the clutches of an electric current He had grasped a ' live wire, his body was twisted in tor ture and puf!'s of smoke arose from his burning hands.' The man kept his senses. Hanging here, burning and in terrible pain, he alized that to remain in contact with th wire for but a few seconds more meant death to him. Wi th strength born of that -know! edge Ka.Her tore himself free from the live wire on which he had fallen and delibera tely threw himself to the read way. He fell 35 feet and struck upon his head and back. He was taken to t. John's Hospital. and doctors worked over him for eight hours before the dangers from the electric shock were removed. Then they performed the operation. In fallmng Kaller had broken his back. The seventh, elghth and ninth verte brae were badly fractured, and splin ters of the broken bone pressed on the spinal cord. The pressure had produced paralysis, and would have caused death f not removed. Dr. John Francis -Burns was La charge of the operation. Asaisting him were Dr. H. A. MicGronen, Dr. J. JL ulcahey, Dr. Thomas Cassidy and Dr. Yohn F. Farwell. Technically, the doe tors took cut the spinous prosesses and transverse sections of the seventh, eighth and ninth vertebrae. The oper tion was successfuL. "I do not know of an exactly similar ease," said Dr. Burns, last night. "Three vertebrae were badly fractured, nd had to be removed, leaving arches to protect the spinal cord. But Kal er's other injuries make his recovery ioubtful, and at my suggestion his rel Atives have telegraphed to his mother, sking her to come to his bedside. She ives in Illnois." Kaller's condition is very grave. H. as remained conscious from the firste nd has taken a keen Interest in the remarkable operation performed upoan tim. Following closely upon the rumor os :he retirement of John Burns, of Eng and, from all ac..ve participation in :he great movement of organized labor. n Great Britain is the loss of another ~amous leader in the person of Joseph rch, the well-known agricultural la >orer and member of Parliament Mr. Arch confirms the rumor that he wiDl etire from all active work in the la sor field at the nexrt general election. Ducheis' Trouble. The duchess cf Fife is one of thes ost quiet and retiring of all the a~g of Fugzland's daughters. She akes the greatest interest in the >ri::ging up of her little daughters. ime~ yeanrs since society was very nuch disturbed by the case of a lit Ie child of high birth, who was ac idetaly found to be covered with >ruises inflicted by a brutal nurse. r'> duchess of Fife said to a lady > ~a visitin~g her: "No nurse vould be able to systematically ruise my children's bodies, for not, on c.a ,s go by that I d o not bathe hemn myself." -The lady misunder tod arnd remarke:d: "Do you trou !e to stay in the nursery to watch er toileis?" "I did not say I ch, said the duchess, emphatic " I said I bathe them myself." eogo Tims-Herald. (e.adrefn-iaI State Elections. Kassthisyear will try for alaw Ssate elections come every Enler- 'cs has been ordered broad to take the mud baths. Bcer-Why do.esn't he stay at