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"Making Up." Was it all a misake' Ah. fold yCur ?TM cleser, And press my heaI rearer yer: -a: For my brain has groiva weary with :hink ing and weeping, And my Ead heart'i- lorghez fal !"C Was it all amisknr- ai 0 hand You clssne > nice with quickenin breat' And vowed before God t rat, '-aki all others, You would :ove me and keep me till death? Was it all a mnstahe. Ts there anyone dearer, For whom your rnar's hea-t cries alcud? Is there any sweet ,bope lying dead in your bosom, That your marriage vow hides hte a shroud? Was it all a mistake when I thcugt 'A cc.'a cheer you, And brighten your po-thway :hrc-.tgh ife' Do you dream of a face that is -airer t my fasc' Of a name that is dearer tha- * Was it all a mistake? Are 3 u lonug for freedomra Ab, I pray that re'eae ney be n=r, That Daath's arm may tse re ard bear I to heaven. To await-whit was thai? Not a tear! Ah, my own, ycu are wceping: You're sor ry 3 ou sid it; 'Twas anger that made those words fall. Then take me ycur-t'f, dear, al don' let death have me, For I don't want to die after all. TATA9I.3 SERMEN. Shows How the Evening of Life My be Brightened, While this discourse of Dr. Talmsge rebukes arrogance it encourages hu manity and shows how the evening Of life may be brightened. The text is I Kings xx, 11, "Lst not him that gird eth on his harness boat himself as he that putteth it off." Harness is the obsolete word for ar mor. It means harness for the mar, not harness for the beast; harness for battle, not harness for the plow. The ancient armor cnsisted of helmet for the head, breastplate and shield for the heart, greaves for the feet. The text makes a comparison between a man enlisting for some war and a vet eran returning, the one putting on the armor and the other put;ng it off. .Senhadad, the king of Syria, tnought he could easily overcome the king of Israel. Indeed, the Syrian was so sure of the victory that he spread an ante bellum banquet. With thirty-two kings he was celebrating what they were go ing to do. There were in all thirzy three kings at the carousal, and their condition is described in the Bible, not as convival or stimulated exaltation, but drunk. Theit gilded and bannered pavilions were surrounded by high mettled herees, neighing and clamping and hitched to chariots such as kings rode in. Bsnhadad sends officers over to the king of Israel demsnding the surrender of the city, saying, "Shou shalt deliverme thy slIver ani thy gold and thy wives and thy children," and afterward sends other cfisers, saying that the palsos of the xing -will be searched and everything B~enhadad wants he will take without asking. Then the king of Israel called a conce of war, and word is sent back to Ben haded that his unreasonable demand will be resisted. Then Benhadad sends another message to the kirg of 1srael, a message full of arrogance and brava do, practically saying: "We will de stroy you utterly. I will grind Samasria into the dust, but there will not be dust enough to make a bandful for each one of my troops" Then the king of Israel replied to Benhadad, practically say ing: "Lst me see you do what you say. You royal braggart, you iiht better have postponea your ba::qiec un til after the battle instead of spreading it before the battle. You huzza too soon. 'Let not him that gardeth on his harness boast himself as he that put teth it off." An avalanche of courage and right eousness, the Israelitish army came down on Benhadad and his host. Is was a hand to hand fight, each Israel Ite hewing down a Syrian. Benhaded, on horseback, gets away witri some of the cavalry, but is only saved for a worse defeat, in which 100,000 Syrian Infantry were slaughtered in one day. Now we see the sarcasm and the epi gramnmatic power of the message of my text sent by the king of Iar.el to Benhadad, "Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as ne that putteth it off.' All up and down historv we see such too early boasting. Soult, the marshal of France, was so certain that he would conquer that he had a proclama tion printed announcing himself king of Portugal and had a grand kast pre pared for 4 o'clock that af ternoon, but before that hour he a :d in ignominious defeat, and Wellington of the orquer ing host sat down at 4 o'clock at the very banquet the marshal of France had ordered for himself. Onarles V. invaded France and was so sure of conquest that he requested Paul Ja vius, the historian, to gather together a large amount of paper on which to write the story of his many victories, but disease and famine seized upon his troopers, and he retreated in dis may. So Benhiadad's behavior has been copied in all ages of the world. It will be my object, among other lea sons, to show that he who puts off the armor, having finished the battle, is more to be congratulated than he who begins. First, I find encouragement in this subject for the aged who have got through the work and struggle of earth ly life. My venerable friends, if yon had at twenty-five years of age full ap preciation of what you would have to go through in the thirties and the for ties and-the fif ties of your life-time you would have been appailed. Fortunate ly the bereavements, the temptations, the persecutions, the hardships, were curtained from your sight. With more or less fortitude you passed through the crisis of pain and sadness and disap pointmnent and fatigue and still live to recount the divine nelp that sustained you. At twenty or thirty years of your age at the tap of the drum you put on the harness. Now, at sixty or Eeventy or eighty, you are peacefully putting it off. You would not want to try the battle of live over sgain. So many of just your temperament and with s good a starting and as fine a parentege; and seemingly with as much (qgipoise of ci aracter as y ou had have made complete shipwreck that you wouldI not want again to run the risks.I Thougn you can look back and see many mistakes, the next time you might make worse miskes. Instead of being depressed over the fant that you are being c rnntEd out or omtcd in the great undertnhings of the church and the worid, rejoice that you have a right to hans up your heime: and sheathe y our sword and Irae y our hr'ds from the gantlets and your eet fiom the boots or mail. There ar:e old farmers who~ cannot do one more day's work. What harvetsa they raised in 1S70! They knew the roation of cop as well as they knew the rotation oI the Ssons. Under teat lhaeritg suos they swung the e r d the eradh! Thrcui what deep !now they drew the logs or ent their ws.y to -he foddering of the cattle! I What drcughu., what frestets, whst in seOtile invasions, they remember! To e othe and feed and educate the house hold they went through toils and self esriSozs that the world kpew but iitt;e abcat. Rest, aged man! L the boys do the shove!ing and thrashing and cutting ard swerting. You have rut the hsrn si tff. azd do not try to puL ii on &2 !.1D. There are o'd mchanic; thac can .no -e 'o the plane or pound with the hamm r or bore with the bit or run Up ,he ladder to the ?cr-foiding. Mas t..r :rcLan:c3 they were cr subordin aree who wrought faitbfullv in the work of houe or barn or ship biilding, You have a right to quit. You have finished y-or taek. Be thankiul that your work is d ote. Then there are aged physicians. What .ragedics of pain and aneident the3 have witnessed! How much suff riK they f-ave assuatcd! How many fevere thy ocoleo! How many broken bones they sf! How many parzxyrms they gaietcd! How many arxious days they Lasted when thry knew that bumaq iv-s derended upon their ekill aud idjity ! They drove back d ath from many S cradle. And there are dae old ministers. Once they were foremost in general as Eemblies and couiferences and arsocia tions. They have presched in Pente cets. They have stood by Christian deathbtd3 and seen ILijans go up in filming chari-.ts of glory. The gospel they preached for fity or sixty years illumines their every feature. They have stopped preaching, for their breath is short, or their nerves are a jargle, or they lose their thread of discourse or suffer from confusion of ideas. Cheer up, aged dominies and doctors. The Bible says God forgets our Eins when we repent of them, but Le never forgets faithful services ren eered. He remembers that revival where yra stood watching the souls that came "as clouds and as doves to the windows." He hEs indicated by your physical or mental condition that it is ume for you to stop. . Be cotnt to step. Your helmet bears the mark of many a bauLesx; yeur sword is bent from many a holy struggle; your shieldl is dented wi.h the thrust cf many a spear. Now hang up the armor witn gladness. Do not bCast of your moral strength. One of the most brilliant men of the nineteenth century, having temporarily reformed from inebriacy, stood on the platform of Broadway tabernacle, New York, and said, "Were this great globe ona crystaijite and I were off red the posession of it if I would drink one glass of brandy I would refuse with eorn, and I want no relig:on to help me." But that same man died at Poughkeepsie a drunken pauper. Bet ter underrate than overiate ourselves. My aubj 3et is also a refutation of the famous sentiment that Gtd is on the side of the heaviest artillery. From all I can read about thiE st-ruggle Benhadad apoke the truth when he said, "l'he gods do so unto me and more also if the aust of Samaria shall suffice for hand fuls for all the people that follow me." He was so cr filent that with his su perior numbers ha could defeat the king of Israel and capture Samaria that he left the work for a short afternoon. He is at neon in Wassail with his royal associates. The battle of Wa terloo was not opened until twenty-five minutes of 12 o'cloor at noon, but that was becauso the ground was too wet to mov, the artillery. B.ensadad waits until afternoon because he is overcon fident. Gcod is not on the side of the most swvo: da or the moet war chariots or the most cannon if they be in the the wrong, but on the side of the right. How such a preposterous sentiment as I have mentioned should have gained sway 1 know not when all history pro laims the opposite. Describing the very next battie in which Banhadad fought and was miserably defeated, the Bible says, "The children of Israel pitched before them like two little flcks of kids, but the Syrians filled the coun try." How insignificant were the un armed Israelites, half starved and un crganizsd, compared with Pharaoh's host on foot, on horschack and chariot ed! But the waves of the Red Sea took part in the conflist, part.ing to let the pursued pass, but coming together to destroy the posuers. The fdidian ites and Amalekites were like grass hoppers for muititudes, but 300 men under Gideon came down, their only weapons pitchers and lamps and trum pets, and as they held up the lamps and threw down the pitcaers and blew the trumpcts the flash d the lights and the bare of the instruments and the crash of the crockery made their enemy fall back in wild terror. Notice also that my text takes it for graned that you inns: put on the har ness, else how can you take it ofi? Life is a battle-a thirty years,' a forty years' or a sixty years' war. Helmet on must have, for the battleares of skepticism and agnosticism are aimed at your head. Every possible ffort will be made to make you think wrong The young man who gets his head fiLed with wrong notions about God, about Christ, a.bout the soul, about the reat beyond, is already capturod. Put on the helmet. the latchet well adjusted under the e'in. Think right, and you wil act right. Yes, breasi p'ate for the heart. That is the most important part to be difended. That decides what you loe and what ypon hate, what you hope fr and what you despis>. That ce cids earthly happiness and eternal des tiny. Young man, see that you have on a complete armor. All looks bri6gt now, and it seems as if von couid march right on without opposition or attack, but be not deceived. There are hidden fzs ready to halt you on your way. The same cup that B :nhadad drank out of just before his defeat will be cifered to effect your defeat. His intoxicated brain saw victory wh'en there was nothing but rout andrain. What work Benaad's cup made for Benhadad's army! What shipwrecks on the sea, what disarters on the land, caused by iifming liq aids put npn the tongue to set seething the brai.' How many kings o'f thought and influence, with crowns brighter than the one Benhada i wre, hlave by strong drink been put into flight as base as that in which Bnhadad rode! "Give them to me," says the demon of inebriacy. 'Give thm to me; hand the m down-the brightest legislators of the land. I will thicken their tongue; I will bloat their cheek; I will stagger their step; I will damn their soul. Hand them down to me-the physician out of his labor a tory, the attorney from the courtroom, the minister ot the gospel frcm the al t,,s of Goi. Hand them dovn to ms, the gaeens of the drawing rootm, rand I wi diegeace thcir names sua blnst heir home and throw them down far thr thaca Joabel feil to the dogs that crunhed her carcass." We :.dd our breath in horror as once in snile we herar of some one, either by accident cr suicide, going over Ni ag 11a f alsbu the tides the depths, the awful suirges of intemperans are every hcur of tvery dsy rushbig scOres o'imo:ah as iLn unatho'ud Abyiw. "Su cii,, te ofudred of t'esan ! by ie i B>ware of 'hC cut. o. of whion B a hand drant }xorso a: an-l na.tional demoli -it n! Y.., you mu-t hav fill arocr. There are itcp ati.ts to : impare life ali the tini muitplyirg and intensifyig Read in private and disumd afeir waid by the refined and eitgazt in parlors are bo:k, p-,isont d from lid to lid wiLh impuriie. Lcs chrraoters in the novel s.puied by rhe.orical pens and pr-p -e:ies of life csriatured as prudery aud irfidelity of behav.oz put in a way ts cx iite senep'thy and half Approval. 24; wonder l:3 not that so many go astra, but my wonie r is Lhat tcn times 39 many are riot debauched. There are it fluencos at work w*hicb, if unarrested, will turn cur citi"ies into 8edoml aud Goru&rrabs r.ady for the ha1 atd fire and brimstooe of G i t in dgnation. Oh, yes, yc Uneed the har'ess on ua til Go.d teiis you to take it (fd In od or. tim) it was ioathern armolr or ohain armor er ribbed armor, fashioned in sanci-Lt fcundry, but no oae can n e you the ou'fi: you need ex-.eit G:d, who is 1a';tr of this w &rid and the infernal wtrd, frci aha arceni the mighciest hosalities. Lay hold of God. Nthizg but the arm ot O.mrnipotenc is strong enough for the teimpted. I congratulata -Ji those who are now in the thickests of life'e battlea that the time it coming whcn the strulglo wi;i end and you will put the harasi off, helmet and greaves and breamtplaue haing fulfilled their mission. Yua cannet in one visit to London Tow er see all. You mu;t go aguin and again to that place, wiich is asociatcd with the Ezory of Lidy Jane Grey and Anne B.leyn and Walter Ra1eigh ard Sir Thoma3 More. Y, a wul see the crowns of kings and qxeens, the robe worn by the Blaok Piluce, and siiver bapismat fonts from whica royal infants were ehristened, and the bIok on wi. h L -rd Lovate was bbhaiedd. But no pir% of London Troer will me: interett you tran the armory, in which is killfully and imppessively arranged a e A:eotion of all styles of armor warn between the thir:eEnth and cight-eth c:ntu ries, suggaeting 500 years of cr-filt cuiras and neck guar, and chin piece ad lanae rcst and guntlet ani girdle and mailed apron You Eee fist how from head to heel tho!e old t2ine war riors were defended against Eharp weapons. 0 ye soldier3 of Jesus Christ, wheu the war of life is over and tbe victors rest in the soldiers' home on the hear enly heights perhaps there may be in the city of the san a tower of spiritual armor such as ineased the warriors for Christ in earthly combat! Some day we may be in that armory and har the her'es talk cf how they fought the good fight of faith and ree them with the Ecars of wouds forever healei and look at the- weapons of offense and defense with which they became more than coqnerors. In that tower of heaven as the weapons of the spir itual confihet are examined St. Paul may p ,inlt out to us the arm~or with which he advssed the Ephesians to quip themselves and sai : "That is the shield of faith. That is the helmet of salvation. That is the girdle of rruuh Tnat is the Ercastpiate of righteous ness. Those are the mailed shoes in which they were shod with the prep aration of the gosipel." There and then yon may recount the contrast be tween the cay whnen you oalisted in Chisuian confict -anc the day when you closed it in earshaly farewecll and eavenly salutation, anu the text which has so much meaning for us now, will have more uesning ror us then-"'Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that puteth it off." A DARK PICTURE Rcard of Hangings and Lynchings for i~he Fo.st Year. The Chicabgo Tribune prints "the dark "reco~da of hangings and lynch ings" for tho year thaat has ,iat ended. The former, it says, "shows a gleam of encouragement," 'but the "jatter, in some respects, is distinctly discourag ing." There were 118 legal Exeuions dur ing the year, apiuet 119 in 1900 Of those excened 71 were negroes, !nd 47 whites As compared with 1900 she number of negroes increased 13 an~d the number cf whites decreased 13, the figures for 1900 being negroes 58, whites 60 '!he South had 82 of t'e executions and the North 36; in 1900 the figures were 80 for the South and 30 for the Natn. Tne crimes which led to these execu tins we re: Murder, 107; eriminal as saa t, 9; attempted criminal assaal;, 1; train robflery, 1. There were 5 execu tions for criminal assault in 1900, at~d the increase in 1901 snggests to the lribune that this crime in the Soith "is coming to "be more and more punish ed by the law," though the increase of lnhing for the year makes it difli~ult to determine that fact. The lynchings in 1901 numbered 135, as compared with 115 the year before, an increas of 20, and 17 more rdan tbe lea! exections. Of the 135, about nime-tentnzi, or 121, cceurred in the South and 14 in the N ;rt, as comp tr e d with 107 in the South and 8 in the N,r-h in 1900. The ineresse in the North is oredited to Californis, Idaho, lontana, Kansas and 1ndana. The numneer of nergrocs lyn~hed in 1901 was 117, 'he same numborss in 1900, and 36 more than the numier exeented in 1931 0 .e Thdian and one C.aunaman were al-.c lynched. The principal crimes which lecd to the !nbin:g were almost the same for the to years, being 39 for murder in each year; 19 for crimmnal as.sult- in ^1901 and 18 in 1900. -:\-a The six So::hern States whid hal the largest num'act d~ mlr 1901,- wi the niuber for 'e'a,, were: Missisip7. 16; L~uide na, 15; Alr. bass, 15; scorsta, 14; Tennessee 12; Tx,1. As compared with 1900, Miss s i wed a decrease of 4, L isis.sa of 5, and Gacr ia of 2; ar*d Alaama sn inorme of 7, Te nnesse I of 5, and Texa~s of 7.I South CLarolmna's record is not men tioned in tne generdi review, but it had only one lynonng in 1901. TIhe comlparauive recor2. of iyncings andA hangmg is, of course, uemost notable featuro of LCe eticit. It showsj that moro "crimes o-f violence" are commtted by professedly law cbiding men, in the rame of Mstice, than era punshed by the Coursr in the nme of law. The canaition does no eredit to cur c~iti ei.-N-o ami Courier. Starved to Death. Mrs. Mary Gaidin ens fourda starved to death at her h~m: on Mrle avenu, loisn, 1Th usdioy rsong. A four month's o:d baby wl bard1y slive on her breast. In the corer of thc room were four other c-j:men almost dead I with starvauoi, Inhc husband and father was out of work several months. THE PUBLIC SCHOOL5. The Pi-ifal Salariea That is Paid to the Teachers. State Sucerirtedert <f Eiucation MMclhan is hard at work now upon his annual report His work hvs been much dela7ed by the frilara of county saptrintendents to get in their rcp-rts o - gej them in arranged in proper form. Mr. IMaMh;n Friday rermitted the use of the gener-i Lroductory sum mary which is fanl of interest: STATISTICS The ttaiistical facts for the State, the ccunt:es avd the districis are set forth in dstail in the tcblies in part II of this report. Many of these data are only approximately accirste, but it is probable that the results presented thii year are more ac lurate than any eva3i g-vun before for this Stato. No pains h.ve been spared in endeavoring to hsA: errors corrected and omission3 supplied, the-uih unyielding in sister c. upon completentsi has delayed the printing of the report. Svo p ints should be made and soms lesions orawa bere by refirence to cer tain leaiaog facts for this and other 3 ears. I had wished to make the com pati3ans for ail the preceding years of our public school system, but must abandon this task for the preEeDt at least, since I find in the clder riprts so many omiF3in3 and contradidons that, unlesr great time could be given to studying the details and calculaing the relative facts, comparisons would b3 misieading. I muat, therefore, con fine the statements to tho facts of the last three years: AVERAGE ANNUAL SALARY PAID TEACH ERS 1899 1900 1901. White.. .. .$155 78 $178 36 $18891 Negro . .... 76 03 8068 80 30 These facts althouga they indickte some improvement from year to year, should cause us shame. A more de tailed studay woall indic-.te the im possibility of a teaohing .professioi in some counties. Oaly a few illustra tions will be here citCd: In Chesteifinld the average sysru of the white teohrrs was $110 51; in Horryz $105.20;io Williamsburg $102 55. Yet these salari s are an improvement over previous years TaHig the counties that aecordirg to the report of 1898 paid their white teachers less than an average of $100 a year, we may observe the development as follows: AVERAGE SALARY OF TEACBERS FOR YEAR 1899 1900 1901 Chesterfild White ......$95 69 $ 55 12 $110 64 Neg:o... 5U 80 3564 47.24 Harapton. White... 93 63 12108 141.56 Negro ...... 43 29 4021 6808 Berry. White...... 8047 99 91 10520 Neiro ... 68 58 67.55 7157 L xirg'on. White.. 8806 115.26 17325 Negro ... . 29 57 29.26 51 61 O.'once. White...9584 .... 15340 Negro...41 90 . .. 71 62 P-'kens White.. ..82 96 155 56 150 16 Negro...48 03 65 10 74 23 Weiiisburg. White..... 86 02 94 20 102 55 Negro .. .58 89 67.87 57 76 Bad as thoe figures are, they show some improvement. No county in the 8t~to n-m pays less than $100 a year on an average to white teachers. Bat we must remember that these are merely verag*'s, and that as some teachrrs in each county receive more, some les than the average. Now let us obuerve the best. In 10 ocunties the average salary paid to white tesehers last year was $200 or more. The recerd of these for three years, is therefore, here twerented: 1899 1900 1901 Anderson. White..$161.28 $15938 $28913 Negro.. 73 92 108 00 113 67 ChWarleston. White . .497 97 505 89 504 78 Nro ,..201 87 ]80 17 196 22 Riceiland. White ...28143 300 84 329 56 Negro..158 80 163.00 164 20 Mr. McMahan here also quotes the fgures for the counties of Fairfield, freowood, Laurens, Newberry, Or angburg, Sumter and Beaufort. Charleston bears the palm and R'.ch land comes second. En:dendy to have an effective sys tem of schools througbout the State, we need to spend at leat twies what we now speqd on teachers. Then the av eage salary for the teachers would be a little more for white teachcers and a little less for negroes than in Rieliland at present. The figures would then be p377 82 and $160.60, and would be still ar below the average in Charleston county. From such reflections we should have a larger and more solemn conception of what we need to do in the way cf raising money for education. NUMBER OF PUPILS TO TEACHERS. The work req'ured of the precent crce of teachers is somer~hnt indicated by the statement of average pupils to teachers. I shall summarize here these fgures for the five ecunties that now pay least snd the five counties that novw pay most to white teachers:I 1899 1900 1901 (Jheste:Sieid. Wite............ 41 39 43 Nygro............. 58 55 53 Bampt'n. White...........35 29 31 Na.............41 42 50 Horry. White............40 38 38 No.............45 38 35 Negro Pickens White.......... 35 58 53 .ro.... ....... 34 47 43 Anderson. White......... 3 51 - Negro.... .......51 76 - .B -af ert. Wie........... 36 27 - Negro ....... ..... 75 60 - C harlst on. White. ..... ......71 53 - Negro.......... . - 103 - White......... 27 27 - egro ........... 72 67 - Richland. Wie...........32 33 - g......... 88 88 - LENGTII OF SESSIONS. The length of session is hardly so sig S:fmat as the ealarry of temoher and he number of upils taught by a teach ~r-the most vital facts in the efficacy fa school. - This has probably never been calen td wth abseinte acsy for the en ire Szte, rd whren we know ia we iav raetically no information as to he use that the children have made of he open ac.acoi. Fa have attended he entire time in one year. Still fewer ave attended from year to year long maough to be greatly benefitted. Namber of weeks: 1899. 1900. 1901. Schools for whites...19 24 20 54 21 17 Schools for ncgrces..14 52 15 22 14 12 ENROLLMENT AND AVERAGE ATTEND ANCE. The enrollment represents attendanen of ten days or more. It therefore gives little evidence of the number of chil dren obtaining the bencflt of the schools for the ses:ion. The average attcni anoe on the other hand, if correctly re corded, calculated and reported, would be of great signifiance. Bath ar) here g'ven for the State for the last three years: 1899. Average Enrol- attord ment. ance. White.. ........123,398 86 725 Negro ........ .....146,477 107,693 1900. White............126289 90.438 Negro .............155,602 110,947 1901. White...... ....127230 94,548 Netro ..............157,976 113 566 We have no means of knowing very de~nily what proportion of children are attending school. The legal school age io from 6 to 21, but few of those near eitner limiG of the age will attend. The United States census report for 1900 gives the children of "school age" "'frem 5 to 20 inclusive." Mr. McMahan then quotes the com parative figures from the census re ports. Ailowing for student in colleges and private schools and for all boys and girls over 16 years of age, we still should be alarmed at the number of children who do not attend school. Daubtlesi nearly all attend a short time during their lives, some one year and some another. But this state of aff irs is not to be tolerated. COMPULSORY EDUCTION. The time h-s come for us to con sider the neces ity of enacting a com pulsory ednoation law. The State can not afford to permit children to grow up in ignorance. If parents are not alive to their duty. the intellige:oe and corsience of the State should be equal to the protection of these unfortunate children and of the social whole. A moderate law would yet be a great ad vance. It should require that every child between the agis of 8 and 12 at tend school at least 12 weeks in the year. This law would insure only 36 weeks of sobooling to each child, equal to one session of nine months. In this connection I call attention to the res olution of the State Teachers' associa tion and the very able aldresa of Dr. B. F. Wilson on this sutiet, both of which are published in this volume. THE STATE'S WEALTH. Valuation of All Property in South Carolina. The final figures showing the valua tion of all property in the State fox taxation are interesting: The figureE are as follows for last year: Rbeal estate........103.258,440 Personal........ ...... 59030,424 R ailroad.... .......... 27,044,243 Total .... . ...... ....*19,333,107 The figures for 1900 were as follows: R sal estate .. .... .. ..$102 148,427 P'ersonal............... 52.006.830 Railroad .............. 25.359,272 Total .............*179,514.530 This shows s handsome ir'crease fori this year, it being $9,818 577. BY COUNTIEs The total taxable property by coun tie; is as follows: Abbeville............$ 4.619,089 Aiken .... .......:.. 7,582 222 Anderson.... .......... 8,425,663 Bamberg........ ....... 2351,500 Beaufort............... 3.351,090 Barnwell............... 4,873.700 Berkeley ......... ..... 2 613 790 Charleston............. 21.218,125 Cherokee............... 3,511.218 Chester................ 4,140,664 Obesterfield .... .... ....1.946,270 Clarendon.... .......... 2,770,170 Colleton.............. 3,099,500 Dr~rlington ....... ...... 4,132 27h Dorchester.... ......... 2229 80J8 E-lgefield..............3 35.5.393 Faireld ..... ....... .. 3,737 323 Florence ........ ...... 3,831,072 Georgetoivn............ 2, 8'3. 37 Greenville ........ 7,979. i4S Greenwood............4 4388,740 Hampton............... 2,859 585 Eorry.................1 1684.794 Keranaw......... .....3 3382,43U Lancaster ... .......... 2,169,048 Lanrens..... ..... .... 5,090 548 Lexington .. ........... 3,785 109 Marion.. ... .... .... .. 4 367,605 Marlboro...... ........ 3,2(9.255 Newberry...... .... .... 4957.937 Ooonee.... ............ 2.956 945 0-angeburg....... .... 7,067,015 Pickens .......... ...... 2 120 047 Richland......... .... . 9 779,530 Saluda ................ 2,065,932 Spartanburg............ 11,803,371 Sumter ... ............ 6 269,729 Uoion .......... .... .... 3 963 925 Willisburg.... ....... 2 921,131 York..................56,015,111 Total....... .......$189,333,107 Teaching Respect for old Dogs 12 a certain skirmish an officer got a shight scratch on the leg. The wound as a matter of grctt glory to him, and he nur3C! it through af ter days, gow ing lamer withi every fear that the memory o'f his bre~very might pass out of miad. One da;, late in life, as he at nuroing his leg and pondering the g.orious past, a young man viaiting the famiily for the first time approached, sud sympathetically remarked: "Lame, Colonel?" "Yes, sir." after a pause, and with inexprer~sible solemnity; "I sm lame." "B en riding sir?" ".No"-with rebuking sternness-" I have not been ridong." "A slip down on the pavement?" "No, sir," with actual 9erecity. "Perhaps, then, you have sprained your ankle sir?' With a painful slowness, the old man lifted his pot leg in both hand,, set it csrefully down upon the floor, rose slowlr from his chair, arnd, looking down upon the unfortunate youth withi mirngic pi,y and wrath, bursi forth in the sublimity of rage: "Go and rad th history of your country, you confounded young puppy !" A Foolish Girl. Rather than give up her faith in Christian Solence Mies Mary Koch dd in Cincinnati. She went to take a course in divine reading and was strickan with typhoid fever. A physi cien was calied in, but the gir!, wt~ was 19 years old, was so strong ir, her belief that she refused to take the medicine the dco';or prescribed. Her body was today brought to her pareuts' home and the funeral will take place A COLLOSAL LIAR. An int&iVtw Pubilihed In a Richmond Paptr. DRUNK, CRAZY OR WORSE Oeargq Walters Says Thngst About the Exposition Fn Which There Is N t An lo!a cf Truth. There are a number 3f people in Charleston who are koking for a certain Mr. George Walters, "a travelling man." Should this Walters find it convenient to came 1G Charicston agrin, precuming that he has been here,ce wrhich some people may hare d;ubts, he would, no doubt, find the mer:1- ts tumbling over each other to hive him orders. .And perphaps alko as, in his own words, he sa;s that "the Excosi tion Compnny nec:is a smart lia-," ho might get a j .b with that concern. This, however, is also in doubt, for the fabrications p-blished in a Richmond newEpaper, which are crdited to George Walters, are so c-.am3y ann ridiculous on their f'ac that u id likAy that Mr. Walters is not even as clever an inventor as he thinks he is. Prob ably he has only practiczd by himself in the dirk for a short Lime and exp jri ence might be productive of greas re sulits. Answe-y, Charlcston would be glad to have him come this way, as soon as business demands it, and the newspapera here will raae pleasure in recoaimending him to the merchaats as a diummer vith more lungs than tr ,ins aod who is either engagea in a mauci ous piece of work or else is a fool. There can be to middle grjund in the ma-ter. The etory whwas has beon p inted in one of the Richmond news papers and accre4tted to Mr. Waltera is silly, untrue, and i appears rler strange to the average pirdoU in Char leaton that Bact a reamastabie yarn should have been given space in a re putable paper. The facts in the case are well known to every p:cgressive newspaper in the country au-, tcey are very diffarent from the dotnile cf the Waiters tate. The story is !s follows: "I havn seen sume morgoss .a m; time," said Mr. Gecrgi Wters, a travelling man, who was in Re -mond yesterday, 'but I have Lever seen one which would approach Charlcton jast now. The Exposition there has pos sibly been the most Qa~xtling faiuro of any Exposition the world ever saw. There is nobody there. There is nork ir g at all doing and jast why no )ne reams to be able to toi. Possibly it is because the public has been surfeited with expositione, possibly from a d z n other causes, but at any rare the facts remain. "T1o begin with, the Midwsy has closed and gone. For this Midway privilege the .5ostock people, I under stand, paid something like thirty five thousad doliars an'i I doubt if they took in theirty-five dollars after the first day or so. They finally closed up to save money. In addition to this exhibitors are going and many of the most striking ot the exbibits have been taken out and shippen away. There is nobody there to look at tiiem save the exiiitcra themsalves and it is rather trying on their eyes. "The racing which began a few days ago, and whioh was thougat to be thle strongest feature of thedxois~o.a is a fizzle. A large sum was paid for this privilege and l'd like to gamble that the daily attendance will not average two hundred people and a great msjori ty of these there, on passes. 'The Ex position management doesn't -eeem t.o be able to give away tickets to the Fair and all interest has been lost by the Charlestonians themselves. The Ex position grounds look like a lumrner yard. Only three of the tbutidings have been finished and lumber is pilea every* where. I don't believe the Exposition will last until Fe bruary 1. "Personally .1 think this ghastly fail ure was entirely due to lack of press work. It takes a pretty smart liar at the head of an Eiposition and I e~m atraid Charleston couldn't rise to the occasion." T'o very briefly contradict the state ments made in the article rc p .oduced here it may be said that not one single exhibit lias been taken awry irom Char leston andi that more are arrivng htre ever? day. Tine fact that there are a number of exhinits not yet placed is due to the miscalculation of exaisitors and they are working as hard as they can to get everything in shape. As every boay know3 the Midway is not closed. Neither did Mr. Bosteck buy the Midway privilege for $35.000 or any othor &msunt. The sliiiway con cessions were bought by a dozsn or more people and every loot of space is occupied with first-class ahowvs. Tne Midway has never closed for a d.ay since the very first show was made reay for business. The Exposmain 'Jom pany is not so dull for use who nave time to go up to the grounds. Thec attendance wednesasy was about eight tinousand, and haslt of the number prooaoly atteonded the rsces. ome little exten~or work is beicg done on some of the buiniogs, bu; thaere are seventeen completea, istecad oZ th:ee. as 3.1r. WanLar3 states. The :Sats ouilngs 0f 1lonols and Penne3ylvania are not comitter.d, but this no anic or the Exposliio Comp.-ny and the visitor wno walitseout on tumber piiss msust go and iohk for them. It is hard ly worth while to contradict the general run ot misetatements mane in Mr. W al ters's inteivie~v, bus the foregoing will show that the gentieman was either drunk or cres; w?eun hre and probaoly never wena near the grounds.-News and Courier. Wicked Chorus~ Girls. Mine 8th anznuc Neo York theatre was entirelr detroyed1 f; re est; Fri day morning. 'The "aierry Maidens" Durleegue company had given a long performance and the audienco ied ornly been aismissed afteen minutes when the fire started at 1 o'clock. Many of the chours girls were onily half clothed when they reached the street. Neigh boring building were damaged and th~e theatre was cnrirely consu'ned. The fire 'was under control at d o'clock. The origin is due to the chcrus girls ei;a rettes. Will Let Us Alone. A Washington dispatch seys the pro motors of the proposition to reducec the reprenuation cf th 8utharn Sa in Congress are net very much eo couraged to continue the effsts starten so 'oravely -A the asm;o the to sion. The prospects of n favorale se ion are not regarded as so promising as ANDmuN'S WZMRIST BLOW. The Powar CemntIs Dam at POT Imn Ew p' Away. T" Drorlo o! Ard-rson srt n'.3 tbroirg'1 one of the 2rcstes- calamiius which has ever coc~rten'e th.'m. San day night week, at Clev.n o'Cock. the electric current which hh the ct-re city ceased euddenly to fln aLtd as euddenly dark2ess "reigaed supreme." Informaticn eoon renehed be city that the dam oi de Aderto-a WhUr, Light and Po;wer Co. a Perimaa Shoals had washea away. Thiq icrmcioa Kai cradted by very few at irst, but. when a little later it was effizially cou firmed, it was a terrible shock to the enira citiunship. The terrible calamity, finng a disaster of this nature, can be under stood when it is stated ih2t, in add.tion to lightag tho city, this campsay iur aish.d p.?wer to cetton miiie hcre ex ployf-g a.ont eight.en hundred hands, and distributed 250 horso powtr axong various other irdustries of the city. Hundreds of people are out of work, the street eit nit are in total dark. r.ess, and the privite resideo a a-e but dimly lighted by lamps and candies. P.rtman Snoals, wnere this dam is loc.Led, is situated nine mile: eest of this city, on Seneca River. The e!ec tric plant erected thtr. wninhicc ze machinery, dim, builoige, & '. reore sent an ou-.hy of about $400,000 Thiriy-tltree hundred horse-paver -,as furnished the city. The cam is 840 feet long, 44 feet at hightest point aud 31 feet and tic inchcs at base. The rule for the construition of dami being that the base should be two-tnirds of the heighth, it will be observed =-na, a margin of safety of ten per cent ha been provided for in the consractio~n of this dam. The voiume of water was so great that two hundrd feet oi the center of tmis dam d so-id masocry has been washed away. It was first thoughL that te dim was gone entire!y to the bot torm, but it is now believed that ten feet of tic onre remains; if this be true, the cost of repairs will not be so grea . V:o;oing matttrs in their g!oo.ie; es ptc:. -t is thought thsat the reri n the dam will not exceed $35 000 Almost in a instant witer tha dam .;i swept awsy the power house Was fibcded with thirteen feet of water. rhis house contains all the machinery, aSd zhether tnis machinery Ia% been rdined is problematical. I is thugUt it cin be dried out and replaced at anoi r.al cost; if not, and it is rudied, it en tails an additional less of $56 000, which represents the o3. N> very intelligent estimate of the loss asn now be made, but in any cvent, the dama eel, entire, will be repsizrd at once. Anaerson Intelligencer. A .TOXS ON BILL IRP. Says That He is Not the Father of the Montie-llo Paper Man. -They scem to have a la-ge j: oy j ake on Maj. Charles H. 8.nitn, thes CarLers ville, Ga , philosep ter to well known as Bill Arp. He writes to me (orsti tution about it as followas: Ba'C r. Editor I am still per ple xed. My Christ mas pleaure has bien mar red somewhat by my pity for the poor er:dulous dependent women all cver the leznd who are dapes of tiat .'dti ello man. Every day brir g more let ters from ticsn who have boug sincn sent the $25 to my sen at Mos.ieello, Fia.. and ges nothing back. They say they trusted him because he was my eon. Many of them begge d cr borrowed the $25, for they could not get the eub rc:ihet s and Eo they made up a list of rnames from their acq zaictaress and then they went to work on the endless chain humbug and got other women in to n~nd more money and be duped. Now, Mr. .E-itoz, I beg you to rut it in laige type and print it in red iak that Joel Smith, of Monticello, is no son of mine, nor do I know anything of him or his ptp~sr. I sae a late issue in which he baasts of having 40,000 subscribers which I suppose mens $10,. 000 that these dependent woman .have sant him. He promised them $20 a month to write three hours a dey and ecme of them sold their je relry and other p:eeus things to raise the $25 Mr. E titer, do please lend your c >i umns to stop this fraud upon our poor southern women. And now we see that acother endless chain paper has started in Ather s, Ga. Ths frauds are bringing discredit upon poor we men. I eocloee a sample eincu'ar. Pleae stop it. Kdll it. Crach it. L is worse than the cherry tree swir'dle. Bdl Arp. P 8.-I will give $10 to find cns who startcd that'lie that the Monticello man was my son. I lave received at ler-st fifty letters Eayir g, "Your Eon a' Monticello," etc. 'Jney make me tire d. I had three from Texas this morning. B. A. Value of Corn $talks Corn my be grown for stalks only, scmne day, and not -for the ears. Wculdn't it be funny to be cixperizent ing for an earless coin? Tha is what it is likely to comne to if the uses of the corn s~ajks ket p on developir~g. Just now inis neek and neor &.tween the etsiks and the car a3 to which is the mnore valuable, so the wise farmer is making g-acd mcney eling his c-r i es in.ntead of burrning them The uses for corai stalke are very many. '.ane agricaltural departmsnt h-.s made pub ito a nuLlenia show.rg ta they may be used for these amoing other purgest s: A packing for warahipe, a hzgn grade of writing papern; the baises of a emnote e spoider; and a cattle icost in~de by grinaing it to powder and moxng with eeap nmoJ asses. The new food i. press es u.tO' Akes under a hydrolit tre a enu be shipped a3 easily as bricks or co:k wxcd. for ieeding it is broken -up and mixcd wish water. Ac'.ual tests Lwvrng been made a:-d inpies have been sent o aricultural stnnuorns in E irope. .R3 ports fr.m all bources are vey auc;uuag ;g. fhe icod wdi be pie'.ny van~l o our csyslry inc the trot cc, and the food cakes can be made at inimum coat in Cuba and tho Souh e a States, where thousands of tons of low grape molas3cs go to waite an nually. Cherry Tree M.en Arrested. News comee from North Carolini that M. C. P.:-dgen, of Forest City, Geoge Fais, G.randison .Ramsey. AK rin Biggerstaff and Drury Hiltl, of .iienboro, have been arrested by a Uitd 8tates marshai in -connection with the Amos Owen Cherry Tree corm pray sad bound ove-r to the Chario.te 2 etai. court. Then first name d in $,0 st: m thers $500 bond, Theo oara is fiaduient use of the mil. R J. t-trno2, is a mus:ian W-i non4 here, nas secaredt a picium' of Am.:S Oers and has anoan i to ma~ny pro ie in York Couty SPICER ARCHITXCTS I Plas et the 3ost Dainty House in the World. There are few members of the animal kingdom whose work is more marvel ous than that of the geometric spider and those related to him. Dr. Henry Lney ,of Cumberiand, Md., who does I considerable experimenting along sc enrile lines for a pastime has lately been studying the thelyphonides, a .species of spider. that builds its web over the water along streams and riv ers, with Interesting results. After securing the web, which, In Its natural state, is comparatively invisi ble for photographic purposes, Dr. La ney*prcceeded first tu make it tena clOUs by spraying it with an alcoholie solution of -shellac from a medical ato mizer. Though still comparatively in visible after this treatment the web could be handled with ease, without fear of tearing it. To develop the beautiful work of the spider Dr. Laney with another atomizer sprayed the web with a solution of gallic acid, which made it appear as if frost had settled upon it. The web now seemed to be covered with the morning's dew. To complete the effect Dr. Laney cap tured the spider, put him In the de-th box and then conted him with shellac. Deftly placing the insect in the web in a natural position, he was sprayed with gallic acid. Using black velvet as a background. Dr. Laney succeeded in photographing one of the mgst beautiful and- delicate pictdres found In nature. Dr. Laney says: "The spider displays wonderful intelligence and mechanical skill in making these nets. Its instinct is far above that of the ordinary ani mal: Indeed. It quite borders on reason. When a large spider desires to make a web for himself and he has some distance to stretch it, he -does not swing himself, as most people suppose, and let the wind or his own momen tum take him where it will. He begins his web by starting the first guy very close up to the corner of the angle. He attaches to the other side of the angle making a short guy. Each guy In creases in length, the spider always us ing the !ast guy made to carry the next. o:e over until he attains the position in which he wishes to place his net. The last guy may be ten feet long and the first one only a foiot in length. "When the guys are al fixed to his satisfaction he proceeds to put in the network by -starting from the center, where he attaches his web, then Ivith circular motion traveling from guy to guy, spinning web as he goes and by ts natural moisture sticks it to each guy, carefully carrying the web In his hind feet, to prevent it from touching except at the point desired by him. When be has a small distance of the inside completed he goes to the outside of the net and finishes out any irregid lar part of the net that does not come within the radius oL a circle. After the circle has been attained the same ro tary motion is kept up until the net Is. finisht'd to the center. "Here comes the most comic feature of net building-the test of the durabil ity of the work by the spider himself. As soon as the net is finished, he puts every guy through the severest test, by sharp, brisk jerks. seemingly suffl cient to tear the whole net to pieces. If he finds the net is not taut, he will go to the end of the guy rope, stretch it until the net suits him and reattach the guy. If the net still seems loose from the center, the guy will be es> ried from the center to some conveid ent point, to give the net Its proper shape. "The nets are perched so as to catch mosquitos and small insects. The struggs of the prey generally serious ly da- te the nets. The spider him self ln morning demolishes the rest of the web for the day, with the ex ception of the main guy ropes,..retires to a secluded quarter and again ' ap pears late in the afternoon, about 4:30 Ior '5 o'clock, and renews his net It re quires him about an hour and a half to const-uct the ordinary web. This work is done every day, rain or shine, and both male and female spiders afe ?:tally industrious. The baby spiders are taught industry, beginning net building right after their birth. While building his net the spider takes no. notice of the accumulation of Insect, life in Its meshes, and when his work: of building is finished he pounces up-' on them ravenously, consuming them In toto. You cannot kick or blow these spiders out of 'heir nets, nor can they be taken unawares. When- they fall their own net is attached to them, and they can almost touch the water: and then quickly run back on the silk en string which they spun while fall-. ing. The web is always attached to them. When the main guy of the net, becomes too full of Insect debris. for convenience and comfort, the spider. goes out, consuming all before him, and at the same time spinning a fine. web behind, entirely renewing the guy"-St. Louis "Republic." , An Interesting Dog. IA very Interesting dog, which once belonged to the late General Gordon, of the English army, better known as "Chinese Gordon," is being kept at the Gordon Boys' Orphanage, at Dover, England. It Is the property of Major Sell, of the King's regiment, who says regarding It: "The dog's name is Wang. When General Gordon was re called from China to go to Khartoum, about fourteen years ago, he brought three of the rare black Chow puppies' back with him, and when he arrived at Gibraltar he gave Wang to Sir John Adie's daughter. Sir John was an old friend of General Gordon, and was then commanding at Gibraltar. Wang remained in the possession of this lady until her husband, who is In the royal artillery, got a stafi appointment In London, when he gave the old dog to me. The other two puppies a.re be livdto be dead, so that Wang Is the only remaining .one that General Gor den owned. Very nearly as Interesting as Wang Is the ki!ted boy who acts as his keep er, Pobert Robinson. Three years ago Robert's fa-;her turned the starving lad out of doors at Crewe, .England. The little fellow tramped frcm plac'e to place, living os he could. Returning to Crewe he found that his mother was dead and the home that he had been driven from broken up. Tramping again, be -eventually got ,to London, and there a constable found him, a mere bundle of rags and bones, asleep at the foot of the Gordon statue In Trafalgar square. He was event ually taken to the Gordon Boys' home, and as Wang's keeper Is one of that. ilstitutlonl's most honored Inmates. Thinking of "Faust. IMephisto (to latest arrival in Hades)-Well, what do you think of me? The Arrival (a patron of the opera)' -To tel the truth, you don't come up to my expectations. You ought to see Edouard de Reske In the partI-Pzck. - A Modest Request. eit-My money Is my best friend. Jewett-Well, the h est of friends must part; lend me five, will you? Harper's Bazar. Side Lights on History. "Crossed in lovei" exclaimed _Lean der, as ha looked back at the Helles pont, shook the water from his hair, and made a bce line for Hero.-CM cago Tribune. r Ho Thought Not. ''Our defeats," said the Britofi "vere iargely duo to red tape." "Red tape?" said the Boer prisoner, Innocently. "I don't think we've been