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Rosesa and Rue. I sit in the shadow alone, sweetheart, Your roses are scenting the air, And I dream of the time when you oromised, Down in the garden there. Marigolds. hollyhocks, prine's feather. Bent their heads in the dimt. sweet light, As under the willow tree-don't you remember? I kissed you, and aiad goo night. Ah. sweetheart. mine, with half' sad We hfave lii our measure of rue: The skie., wer' dark and the skies were But 1 knew you forever were true: And now. as I sit in the dark alone. I would give the world to know The way through the wood to the far off tield Where the simples for the heartache grow. Love fades. they say, when the pulse is old, And I am three score and ten. But tonight. with its hitter surge of loss. Lies far heyond their ken: For tomorrow they hide you away. sweetheart. In the garden. out of my sight, So I lift up the roses-God s roses a round vou: And kiss you. anl say good night: A HORIBLE STORY. The Terrible Experience of a French Scientitic Expedition. A Paris paper published on Mon day a letter received frum its corres pondent. M. Iouver. a survivor of the massacre of a French scientific mis sion, by cannibals at, Sileraka, New Guinea, January 1. M. Rouyer re lates that the yacht Salvatti with mis sion board had anchored off the coast of New Guinea and that several of the explorers landed. After an apparently friendly reception from the natives the later treacherously attacked them during the night, murdering 25 of the party. including Baron Villars, Count de St Remy and Mms. Hagenbock and Vries, and wounding 33. including the writer of the letter. 31. Rouyer, the chief of the mission, and another Frenchman named Remier. 31. Rouyer writes" We were all sleeping peacefully when there was a great uproar and we were attacked by hundreds of natives carrying torches. Several of us were felled to the ground with clubs, hatch ets and spears. Others were over powered. carried away and bound to trees. Iwas among this number. I received a blow on the head and faint ed. When I recovered consciousness at 5 o'clock in the morning I found myself tied hand and foot and surroun ded by savages, who believing me to be dead, were keeping me for them selves. 'I saw the body of Baron Vil lars near me bound to a tree. His body was naked, his head had been split open, his eyes had been gouged out and his groin was horribly muti lated. The Count De Saint Remy had been decapitated and his head stuck on the end of a spear as a tro phy. M. Hagenbock was spitted on a bamboo and was being roasted over a fire. The savages were about to cut him up. I waited my fate. I was afraid to move. My, head hurt me dreadfully. All around me the ground was strewn with corpses. Suddenly a great clamor arose, followed by a fusi lade. I opened my eyes and saw Dr. Foriter and the remainder of the mis sion from the yacht tiring on the cani bals. I shouted and the rescuers ran to me and cut the bonds which bound me to the tree. The cannibals fled, leaving thirty-two dead. The clothes of 31. Vries were found, but his body was missing. He had evidently been devoured by the savages during the night." MINERS VTIAGE CRUSHED. Seventy-Five Men Possibly Killed by the Snow-Slide. The most terrible snow slide ever known in Colorado caused the deaths of from 35 to 75 men at the Liberty Bell mines on Smuggler mountain Friday. Although the scene of the -disaster is scarcely two miles from Telluride information is difficult to obtain on account of the precipitous character of the roads and the vast amount of snow. Nearly all the buildings of the Lib erty Bell mine were carried down by the slide, all the books which show the number and names of the men employed being lost, so that the death list can hardly be known for :nany hours, possibly not until the rescuers -* shall have removed the immense quan tity at snow, rocks and logs from the canyon where the victimslie buried. It seems that two slides occurred practically in the same place, the sec ond burying those who were trying to rescue the victims of the first. Build ings were carried down the mountain side a distance of 2,009 feet and crush ed by tons of snow. It was 10 o'clock before news of the disaster reached Telluride. At once a number of men started for the scene. Meantime the surviving employes of the Liberty Bell began the work of rescuing the victims of the slide. Several were taken out alive and a dozen or more bodies were removed from the snow which lay piled 25 feet deep in the bottom of the canyon. A little after noon a second slide, start ing a short distance above the first andi practically following its track, swept down the mountain side. burying many of the rescuers. A third slide came down at 3 o'clock about a mile below the Liberty Bell mines and Gus von Tintel, John Powell and Paul Dalpra, who were on their return from the scene of the catastrophe Friday morning, were swept away. Harry Chase lost his life at the Liberty Bell, while assisting in the rescue of the unfortunates. A merchant may wait for people to find out that he has good things, and has them cheap, but in the meantime he is apt to find out that the people have been to somebody else while he was waiting for them. The moral is that you should advertise in the pa per that people read and then pick up and look over and over again and pass round the home circle, if you want trade. Given a Medal. Col. William H. Knauss of Colum bus. 0.. has been presented with a handsome gold medal by Confederate 'veterans. for his care of the graves of Confederate dead at Camp Chase and Johnson's Island, in Ohio. Under the new jury law the w ork of preparing the list of jurors for the year is taken from county commission ers and devolved upon the jury com missioners, consisting of the clerk of court. the county auditor and the conty treaurer. A GREAT SERMON A Beautiful Word Picture Painted by That Master Artist DOCTOR T. DeWITT TALMAGE. Every Man and Womai Has a Lion to Fight in the Shape of Some Besettior Sin. T uis discurse f 1D r. Tali:Lge is full of inspiring thoughts for those who iind life a struggle and shows that we have many celestial sympathizers: texts. Ilehrews xii. 1. "Seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses:" I Corinthians xv, 32. "1 have fought with beasts at Ephesus." Crossing the Alps by the Mont Cenis pass or through the Mont Cenis tun nel, you are in a few hours set down at Verona. Italy. and in a few min utes begin examining one of the grandest of the world. the Amphi theater. The whole building sweeps around you in a circle. You stand in the arena where the combat was once fought or the race run, and on all sides the seats rise, tier above tier, until you count forty elevations, or galleries, as I shall see fit to call them, in which sat the senators, the kings and the 25,000 excited spectators. At the sides of the arena and under the galleries are the cages in which the lions and tigers aie kept without food until. frenzied with hunger and thirst, they are let out upon some poor vic tim, who, with his sword and alone, is condemned to meet them. I think that Paul himself once stood in such a place and that it was not only tigura tively. but literally. that he had "fought with beasts at Ephesus." The gala day has come. From all the world the people are pouring into Verona. Men, women and children, orators and senators, great men and smalr, thousands upon thousands come until the first gallery is full, and the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth -all the way up to the twentieth, all the way up to the thirtieth; all the way up to the fortieth. Every place is filled. Immensity of audience sweeping the great circle. Silence. The time for the contest has come. A Roman official leads forth the vio tim into the arena. Let him get his sword with firm grip into his right hand. The 25,000 sit breathlessly watching. I hear the door at the side of the arena creak open. Out plunges the half starved lion, his tongue athirst for blood, and with a roar that brings all the galleries to their feet he rushes against the sword of the com batant. Do you know how strong a stroke a man will strike when his life depends upon the first thrust of his blade? The wild beast, lame and bleeding, slinks back toward the side of the arena; then rallying his wasted strength he comes up with fiercer eye and more terrible roar than ever, only to be driven back with a fatal wound, while the combatant comes in with stroke after stroke until the monster is dead at his feet, and the 25,000 clap their hands and utter a shout that makes the city tremble. Sometimes the audience came to see a race; sometimes to see gladiators fight each other, until the people, com passionate for the fallen, turned their thumbs up as an appeal that the van quished be spared, and sometimes the combat was with wild beasts. To one of the Roman amphitheatri cal audiences of 100,000 people Paul refers when he says, 'We are com passed about with so great a cloud of witnesses." The direct reference in the last passage is made to a race: but elsewhere having discussed that, I take now Paul's favorite idea of Chris tian life as a combat. The fact is that every Christian man has a lion to fight. Yours is a bad temper. The gates of the arena have been opened, and this tiger has come out to destroy your soul. It has lacerated you with many a wound. You have been thrown by it time and aain, but in the strength of God you have arisen to drive It back. I verily believe you will conquer. I think that the temptation is getting weaker and weaker. You have given it so many wounds that the prospect is that it will die, and you shall be victor. through Christ. Courage, brother: Do not let the sands of the arena drink the blood of your soul: Your lion is the passion for strong drink. You may have contended against it for twenty years: but it is strong of body and thirsty of tongue. You have tried to fight it back with broken bottle or empty wine flask. Nay, that is not the weapon. With ne horrible roar he will seize thee by the throat and rend thee limb from imb. Take this weapon, sharp and keen-reach up and get it from God's armory-the sword of the Spirit. With that thou mayest drive him back and conquer: But why specify when every man and woman has a lion to fight? If there be one here who has no beset ting sin, let him speak out, for him have I offended. If you have not fougnt the lion, it Is because you have let the lion eat you up. This very moment the contest goes on. The Trajan celebration, where 10,000 gladi ators fought and 11,000 gladiators fought and 11,000 wild beasts were slain, was not so terrific a struggle as that which at this moment goes on In many a soul. The combat was for the ife of the body: this is for the life of the soul. That was with wild beasts from the jungle; this is with the roaring lion of hell. Men think when they contend against an evil habit that they have to fight it all alone. No: The stand n the center of an immense circle of sympathy. Paul had been reciting the names of A bel, Enoch, Noah. Ab raham. Sarah. Isaac. Joseph, Gideon and Barak and then says, "Being com passed about with so great a cloud of witnesses. ' Before I get through I will show you that you fight in an arena, around which circle, in galleries above each other, all the kindling eyes and all the sympathetic hearts of the ages and at every victory gained there comes down the thundering applause of a great multitude that no man can n amber. "Being compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses." On the first elevation of the ancient amphitheater. on the day of a celebra tion, sat Tiberius or Augustus or the reigning king. So In the great arena of spectators that watch our struggles aid in the first divine gallery, as I shall call it. sits our king, one Jesus. On bis head are many crowns. The Roman emperor got his place by cold blode co.musts but our Kingr hath come to his place by the broken hearts healed and the tears wiped away and the souls redeemed. The Roman em peror sat. with folded arms, indiffer ent as to whether the swordsman or the lion beat. but our KIng's sympa thies are all with us-nay, unheard of condescension: I see him come down from the gallery into the arena to help us in the light. shouting until all up and down his voice is heard: "Fear not: I will help thee: I will strength en thee by the right hand of my pow They gave to the men in the arena in the olden time food to thicken their blood. so that it w~uld flow slowly and that for a longer time the people might gloat over the scene. But our King has no pleasure in our wounds, for we are bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh. blood of his blood. In all the anguish of our heart The Man of borrows bore a part. Once in the ancient amphitheater a lion with one paw caught the combat ant's sword and with his other paw -caught his shield. The man took his knife from his girdle and slew the beast. The king, sitting in the gal lery. said: "That was not fair. The lion must beslain by a sword." Other lions were turned out, and the poor victim fell. You cry, "Shame! shame!" at such meanness. Iut the King in this case Is our brother, and he will see that we have fair play. le will forbid the rushing out of more lions than we can meet. le will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able. Thank God! The King is in the gallery: His eye are on us. His heart is with us. His hand will deliver us. "Blessed are they who put their trust in him." I look again, and I see the angelic gallery. There they are-the angel that swung the sword at the gate of Eden, the same that Ezekiel saw up holding the throne of God, and from which I look away, for the splendor is insufferable. Here are the guardian angels. That one watched a patri arch: this one protected a child; that one has been pulling a soul out of temptation: All these are messengers of 'ight! Those drove the Spanish armada on the rocks. This turned Sennacherib's living host Into a heap of 185,000 corpses, Those yonder chanted the Christmas carol over Bethlehem until the chant awoke the shepherds. These at creation stood in the balcony of heaven and serenaded the newborn world wrapped in swad dling clothes of light. And there, holier and mightier than all, is Mich ael, the archangel. To command an earthly host gives dignity, but this one is leader of the 20,000 chariots of God and of- the ten thousand times ten thousand angels. I think God gives command to the archangel, and tWe archangel to the seraphim, and the seraphim to the cherubim, until all the lower orders of heaven hear the command and go forth on the high be hest. Now, bring on your lions: Who can fear? All the spectators in the angelic gallery are our friends. "He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands lest thou dash thy foot against a stone. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under foot." Though the arena be crowded with temptations, we shall, with the ange lic help. strike them down in the name of our God and leap on their fallen carcasses! 0 bending throng of bright angelic faces and swift wings and lightning foot, I hail you today from the dust and struggle of the arena! I look again, and I see the gallery of the prophets and apostles. Who are those mighty ones up yonder? Hosea and Jeremiah and Daniel and Isaiah and Paul and Peter and John and James. There sits Noah, waiting for all the world to come Into the ark, and Moses, waiting till the last Red sea shall divide, and Jeremiah, wait ing for the Jews to return, and John of the apocalypse, waiting for the swearing of the angel that time shall be no longer. Glorious spirits: Ye were howled, at, ye were stoned, ye were spit upon: They have been In this fight themselves, and they are all with us. Daniel knows all about lions. Paul fought with beasts at Ephesus. In the ancient amphitheater the people got so excited that they would shout from the galleries to men in the arena: "At it again:" "Forward:" "One more stroke:" "Look out!" "Fall back!" "Huzza! Huzza!" So in that gallery, prophetic and aposto lic, they cannot keep their peace. Daniel cries out, "Thy God will de liver thee from the mouth of the lions!" David exclaims, "He will not suffer thy foot to be moved!" Isaiah calls out: "Fear not! I am with thee! Be not dismayed !" Paul exclaims, "Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!" That throng of prophets and apostles cannot keep still. They make the welkin ring with shouting and halleluiahs. I look again, and I see the gallery of thmrtyrs. Who Is that? Hugh Latimer, sure enough! He would not apologize for the truth he preached. and so he died, the night before swinging from the bedpost in perfect gUe at the thought of emancipation. Who is that army of 6,666? They are the Theban legion who died for the faith. Here is a larger host in magniicent array, 884,000, who perished for Christ in the persecutions of Diocletian. Yonder Is a family group, Felicitas of Rome and her children. While they were dying for the faith she stood encouraging them. One son was whipped to death by thorns; another was flung from a rock; another was beheaded. At last the mother became a martyr. There they are together, a family group in heaven! Yonder is John Bradford, who said in the fire, "We shall have a merry sup per with the Lord tonight!" Yonder is Henry Voes, who exclaimed as he died, "If I had ten heads, they should all fall off for Christ!" The great throng of the martyrs! They had hot lead poured down their throats; horses were fastened to their hands and other horses to their feet, and thus they were pulled a.part; they had their tongues pulled out by redhot pinchers: they were sewed up in the skins of animals and then thrown to the dogs; they were daubed with com bustibles and set on fire! If all the martyrs' stakes that have been kindled could be set at proper distances, they would make the midnight all the world over bright as noonday! And now they sit yonder in the martyrs' gallery. For them the fires of per secution have gone out; the swords are sheathed and the mob hushed. Now they watch us with an all observ ing sympathy. They know all the Ipain, all the hardship, all the anguish, all t .e injustice, all the privation. T hey cannot keep still. They cry: "Courage! The fire will not consume; the floods cannot drown: the lions cannot devour. Courage down there What? Are they all looking? This hour we answer back the salutation they give and cry, "Hall, sons and daughters of the fire:" I look again, and I see another gal lerv-that of eminent Christians. INat srikes me strangly is the mix ing in companionship of those who Ion earth could not agree. There is Albert Barnes and around him the presbytery who tried him for hetero doxy: Yonder are Lyman Beecher and the church court that denounced bim: Stranger than all. there are John Calvin and James Arminiuls: Who would have thought that they sit so lovingly together? There are George Whitelield and the ministers who would not let him come to their pulpits because they thought him a fanatic. There are the sweet singers Toplady, Montgomery, Charles Wes ley, Isaac Watts and Mrs. Sigourney. If heaven had had no music before they went up, they would have start ed the singing. And there the band of missionaries-David Abeel, talking of China redeemed; and John Scudder, of India saved: and David Brainerd, of the aborigines evangelized: and Mrs. Adoniram Judson. whose prayers for Burma took heaven by violence: All these Christians are looking into the arena. Our struggle is nothing to theirs! Do we in Christ's cause suffer from the cold? They walked Greenland's icy mountains. Do we suffer from the heat? They swelter ed in tropics. Do we get fatigued? They fainted, with. none to care for them but cannibals. Are we persecut ed? They were anathematized. And as they look from their gallery and see us falter in the presence of the lions I seem to hear Isaac Watts ad dressing us in his old hymn, only a little changed: Must you be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease While others fought to win the prize Or sailed through bloody seas? Toylady shouts in his old hymn: Your harps, ye trembling saints. Down from the willows take: Loud to the praise of love divine Bid every string awake. While Charles Wesley, the Method Ist, breaks forth in words a little va ried: A chare to keep you have, A Gdto glorify A never dyIng souI to save And fit it for the sky! I look again, and I see the gallery of our departed. Many of those in the other galleries we have heard of, but those we knew, Oh, how familiar their faces! They sat at our tables and we walked to the house of God in com pany. Have they forgotten us? Those fathers and mothers started us on the road of life. Are they careless as to what becomes of us? And those chil dren--do they look with stolid indif ference as to whether we win or lose this battle of life? They remember the day they left us. They remember the agony of the last farewell. Through years In heaven, they know our fazes. They remember our sor rows. They speak our names. They watch this fight for heaven. Nay, I see them rise up and lean over and wave before us their recognition and encouragement. That gallery is not full. They are keeping places for us. After we have slain the lion they ex pect the King to call us, saying. "Come up higher!" Between the hot struggles in the arena I wipe the sweat from my b:row and stand on tiptoe, reaching up my right hand to clasp theirs in rapturous handshaking, while their voices come ringing down from the gallery, crying, "Be thou faithful unto death, and you shall have a crown!" But here I pause, overwhelmed with the majesty and the joy of the scene! Gallery of the King! Gallery of an gels! Gallery of prophets and apostles! Gallery of martyrs: Gallery of saints! Gallery of friends and kindred! 0 majestic circles of light and love! Throngs, throngs, throngs! How shall we stand the gaze of the uni verse? Myriads of eyes beaming on us! Myriads of hearts beating in sympathy for us! How shall we ever dare to sin again? How shall we ever become discouraged again? How shall we ever feel lonely again? With God for us and angels for us and prophets and apostles for us and the great souls of the ages for us and our glorified kindred for us-shall we give ui, the fight and die? No, Son of God, who didst die to save us: No, ye angels, whose wings are spread forth to shel ter us! No, ye prophets and apostles, whose warnings startle us! No, ye loved ones, whose arms are outstretch ed to receive us: No we will never surrender! Sure I must fight i f I would reign, Be :'athful to my Lord, Aud bear the cross, endure the pain, Supported by the word. They saints in all this glorious war Shall conquer though they die; They see the triumph from afar And seize it with their eyes. Whe7that illustrious day shall rise And all thine arnies shine In robe of victory through the sk ies, The glory shall be thine. My hearers, shall we die in the arena or rise to join our friends in the gal lery? Through Christ we may come off more than conquerors. A soldier dying in the hospital rose up in bed the last moment and cried. "Here, here!" His attendants put him back on his pillow and asked him why he shouted "Here!" 'Oh, I heard the roll call of heaven, and I was only an swering to my aame!" I wonder whether after this battle of this life is over our names will be called in the muster roll of the p)ardoned and glori ti ed and, with the joy of heavert break ing upon our souls, shall cry, Here, here!" Both Legs Cut off. The Spartanburg Herald says about two o'clock Wednesday morning, while Omcers Dodd, Cooksey and Bobo were at the Southern depot looking for tramps that might be beating their way from Charlotte to Atlanta. a seri "us accident occurred to an unknown negro "hobo." Officer Cooksey found a party riding on the "blind baggage" and grabbed three. Another jumped and ran by Offcer Dood who threw his arm out to grab him, but failed. The negro then ran under the coach. though the train was slowly moving. His legs were caught under the wheels and It is thought that the amputation of both will be necessary. Dr. Blake was summoned to attend the wounded man, The only mystery connected with the matter is as to why any man would undertake to run under a mov ing train. A Singular Mistake. Postmaster T. L. Carter of Orange Court House, Va., was one of Mosby's men who was reported to have been killed at Fort Royal during the civil war, and his name appears on the monument at that place in honor of TREMENDOUS RAINS. Alabama and Georgia Were Flooded on Last Thursday. SERIOUS RESULTS IN GEORGIA. The Bridge Over the Chattahoochee at Columbus Washed Away, Breaking Water Mains and Electric Light Wires. Some parts of South Carolina were visited by heavy rains on Thursday, but the Southeastern Gulf States were deluged. The precipitation was very heavy and at Columbus, Ga., a bridge was swept away. The rainfall there was almost a cloudburst, the Chatta hoochee rising at the rate of two feet an hour. Several washouts were re ported on a number of roads and trains out of Columbus were annulled. There has been no loss of life. The Columbus bridge broke into about a hundred feet from the Georgia shore and went sweeping down stream at a frightful pace, and just four and a half blocks below It is the other bridge which crosses to Girard, Ala., and it also would have been carried away had not the fall over the Eagle ar.d Phenix dam demolished the float ing bridge befoze it reached it. The electric lights and telephone wires running over the Phenix City and Girard went across on the bridge and they were snapped like threads. The water pipes which supplied the city with water were also on this bridge and they too were broken like sticks and carried away, leaving the city without water for a time. The water company. has an old submerged main across the river and this was placed into commission Thurday night, sav ing the city from a water famine. The rain had been falling in tor rents all day. No trains except the Central of Georgia from Macon have reached Columbus since noon. A wash out near Seale, Ala., holds the Mobile and Girard passenger train due Thurs day morning and the departing train on that road was annuled. There are several washouts on the Seaboard Air Line between here and Albnay which stops traffic on that line. Several washouts are reported on the South ern between here and Shiloh. There Is a large washout on the Southern in Columbus city limits. All trains since Thoursday morning have been annull ed and there is little hope -of any Friday. Thursday night The Asso ciated Press wire is the only one in operation toward the north. After an intermittent rain of 20 days Birmingham was deluged early Thursday morning. The rain flooded the streets and many awnings and street signs were torn away. Flooded tracks are Interfering seriously with street railway traffic and Thursday night the rainfall had not ceased. All streams are swollen and rapidly ris ing. The total rainfall in Montgom ery, Ala., to 7 p. in., was 4.50 inches and a heavy downpour Is reported In other parts of Alabama. The barome ter recorded 29.23, the lowest reading on record in that cIty. The excessive rainfall has caused a rapid rise in the Coosa and Alabama rivers. The direc tor ot the weatiher bureau has Issued warnings for points below-Wetumpka and advised that stock be removed from lands subject to overflow at a 35 foot stage. At West Point, Ga., the merchants are busy removing goods from stores to places of safety. The unprecedent ed rainfall there has rendered the re cent improvements along the river utterly useless. Fancy prices are being paid for all kinds of labcr. A patrol for all night duty along the river was established here at 9 p. m. - In Atlanta rain fell in torrents all day. The wind damaged ventilators in the dome of the capitol and blew in several panes of glass. The water damaged many of the offices and the plastering fell in several of them. -The telegraph companies were seri ously handicapped by the rain and lightning wblch was at times inces s~nt. The rainfall up to 8 o'clock Thursday night was 3.36. The ba rometer was the lowest ever recorded. The Atlanta weather bureau Thurs day night sent flood warnings to- all points in Alabama and Georgia reach ed by the Chattahoochee and Alabama rivers. In the southwestern section of this State rain and wind storm al most attained proportions of a cyclone and it is feared considerable damage will result. In Americus trees and fences have been blown down by the gale. FOUR KILLED IN A WASHOUT. Not in many years has the south eastern Gulf States experienced dam age so widespread by a storm as that which Thursday spread over a section of country embracing Georgia, Ala bama, Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. As far as known seven lives were lost and several persons injured. The damage is enormous, the railroads be ing particularly heavy sufferers. Four lives were lost in a wreck near Griffin, Ga., which was caused by a washout. The other dead were negroes whose cabins were blown away by the storm. The rains raised the water to flood height in the Chattachoochee, Ala bama, Ccmulgee, Savannah and Oco nees, but late Friday night the stage in all of them was stationery except at Columbus, Ga., where the Chatt a hoochee was rising slowly. Columbus suffered severely. One bridge was washed away and another is expected to go at any moment. The city's water supply is shut off and many of its manufacturing plants were forced to close. IN TOTAL DARKNEss. The city of Athens, Ga., was In to tal darkness Friday night with two rivers send~ng volumes of water through some parts of the town. The north and middle Oconee rivers passed the high mark there early Friday norning, but Friday night were sta tionery. The power plant of the Athens Electric Street Railway com pany was submerged to a depth of six feet. At tile Princeton factory the river rushed through the building, do [ng great damage to the machinery. The waterworks plant was inundated and the machinery ruined. The wat er supply of the city was shut off. Both gas and electric light plants were :ompelled to close down. All the bridges-city, county and railroad re in danger, but none have been car ried away. No train has passed there >n the Seaboard from the north for Atlanta in 24 hours. Washouts are reported on all railroads going into Atlanta excepting two. The loss to he railroads is enormous and they are randling their passenger traffic only with the greatest difficulty. No train >n the Seaboard A ir Line reached this ,;i;my sine hurda morning until 5.15 Friday afternoon. All trains on this road are turned back at Ashens, Ga., using the Southern's tracks into At lanta. SCHLEY AND HOBSON Were Guests of the Ladies in Char. leston Thursday. The Charleston correspondent of the Columbia State says Thursday was a great day for the Daughters of thc American Revolution at the exposition and ancestor worship was drowned foi the nonce in the overwhelming plau dits which greetea Admiral Schley and Capt. Hobson. the chief speakers at the auditorium. Both naval heroes are the special guests of the D. A. R. The services at the auditorium were long but Inspiring, the main features being the address of Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, president general of the national organization, on "The Inspi ration of Revolutionary Memories,' and the addresses of Admiral Schley and Capt. Hobson. The enthusiasm knew no bounds when the hero of Santiago rose to speak. His address was a brief but graceful tribute to the D. A. R. and "those sweet grand mothers and great grandmothers who lived In the times of plainer living and higher thinking." Historic Charles ton and its exposition were warmly praised. Capt. Hobson's theme was 'The Ever Victorious Navy," and the applause of the listening thousands was as prolonged as that which greet ed Schley. Especially when he re ferred to the admiral's services at San tiago as "but the crowning incident in his splendid career in the American navy." He said the character of the navy was typified by Dewey in the east and Sampson and Schley in the west when they set a new standard for naval warfare in effecting the total destruction of the enemy's fleets with out any loss to their own." The war between the States he characterized as a "sociological necessity." He paid warm tributes to the Confederate ad mirals, Buchanan and Semmes, and said that the attack of Dixon arid the torpedo men in Charleston harbor was "the most gallant feat in the history of naval warfare." Admiral Schley and Capt. Hobson were each given an enthusiastic ovation upon their en trance in the auditorium and when they spoke. All references to the dis tinguished visitors were opened with an address of welcome by corporation counsel Legare. Bishop Capers de livered the opening prayer. President General Mrs. Fairbanks presided. Among the speakers were Mrs. H. W. Richardson of Columbia. The exer cises were rather long but neverthe less Interesting. Admiral Schley was received with an admiral's salute by the Lafayette Artillery this morn ing. He came over the Southern rail way while Capt. Hobson came over the Atlantic Coast Line. Both officers are stopping at private resi dences and are being charmingly en tertained. A reception was tendered to the distinguished visitors, including the prominent "Daughters" tonight, which proved a brilliant social fune tion. _________ Dispensary Changes. We learn from The State that there has been made a number of changes in the clerical force oif the State dispen sary. All will sincerely regreat to know that Capt. B. C. Webb. the effi cient clerk of the State board for sev eral years, has been force to resign on account of continued ill-health. Capt. Webb has been at his home in Char leston for some month past, sick. H~e is one the most expert bookkeepers in the state and has scores of friends all over the state. He has been succeeded by Mr. G. A. Charles, who has been assistant bookkeeper for sevesal years. Mr. Charles is thoroughly familiar with the duties of the clerk, and though a young man, is probably bet ter qualified for the place than any other man in the state. Mr. Charles is to be succeeded by Mr. A. Z. Stroman of Orangeburg, a former member of the general assem bly. Mr. D. A. Hawkins, of Newberry, has been appointed to succeed Mr. Watts as revenue -bookkeeper. Mr. Hawkins has been stenographer to Commissioner Crum for some time. Mr. W. N. Elder, of York, has been appointed to succeed Mr. J. A. Moody as town and county bookkeeper. Mr. Elder has been In the legislature for several terms. Mr. Z. A. Searson, of Hampton, has been selected to succeed Mr. Boykin as one of the inspectors, Mr. Boykin hav ing resigned. Capt. E. B. Chase, who has been an inspector, it is announced is soon te be succeeded by another man. About Potates If you wish to make a fine crop of Irish potatoes follow this plan unless you have a better one. Dreak the land thoroughly 8 to 14 inches deep. Pulverize it until it is in fine condi tion. If you plant in rows run them off 30 to 36 inches wide with a large shovel. Put in the furrow a liberal quantity of finely pulverizd, manure. Run another furrow in this to mix the manure with the soil. Plant your potatoes about 12 to 15 inc hes apart and cover with two furrows making a ridge on them and leaving a ridge in the middle. Just before they come up knock the top from this ridge with a rake or pronged hoe. When six inches high use plow or heel sweep cul tivating shallow. When the bugs ap pear use paris green frnely. Two or three aplications will keep them away. If your lot is very rich and well pre pared you can plant in every furrow or better every other furrow so that the potatoes will be about a foot apart every way when they come up. They will have to be cultivated with a pronged hoe. It is easy to apply the paris green when they are plant ed after this style. Boilers Blew Up. The steamboat T. II. Bacon is a total wreck in the Tennessee river seven miles below London. Wvendesday the boiler exploded, killing Estill Ilurgins, assistant engineer and perhaps fatally Injuring Robert Bird, a passenger, who was en route from the Phillip pines, and Albert Clairborne, engineer, and C. Smith, a deck hand. The boil er shot through the rear of the boat after first exploding. and when it struck the water a second explosion occurred. TUHE name of JohnC M ilburn of Buf falo is being prominently mentioned in connection with the democratic nomination for governor of New York. Mr. Milburn. it will be recalled. is the gentleman who wa~s the host of Presi dent McKindley during his fateful trip to the exposition and at whose house the president died. THE Canadian government seems to know how to curtail the reach of the octopus. As a result of an inquiry in to the combine of the paper mnanufac turers it was decided to reduce the customs duties on paper from 25 to 15 er cent advalorem A NOBLE WOMAN Who Gave up Her Cruel Husband to Another Woman. A WIFE OF A RARE KIND. Following in the Footsteps of Johu Ruskin. the Philosopier. Gave Up the Man She Loved. A young invalid wife folloiwing in the steps of John Ruskin, the philosop her, and giving up her husband that he might secure a divorce and marry another woman, caused a sensation with something of melodrama in its romance in the police court of Justice Sabath at the Maxwell street in Chica go on Wednesday: The spectators gasped as they heard the strange plea. The magistrate,-listening day after day to the clamor of the seltish and tales of ci imesat amazed. George Mar cier. thehusband. a con ressed bigai is *. bowed his head in slience. The father of the wife. who was thus willing to sacrifice her happiness read her writterinmessage. "She is now a helpless invalid at my home," said tWe father. "She loved her husband and she has the only legal right to him, but she has learned that the defandant really loves the woman he married illegally and that this woman. who was Innocent. loves him. So rather than sacrifice the innocent woman's happiness, if he will promise to remarry her, my daughter will secure a divorce," Deserted four months after her marriage to Marcier, sick and help less, the frail little woman thus gave up her right lost months ago all that promised her happiness in life. She returned to the home of her father, John Cassanova. The young woman was quiet and unobtrusive. Her rela tive were not prominent or well known except among a few people. She had little influence to bring about the righting of her wrongs. Her heart broke in silence. But today her story was told and it was so marked by the spirit of nobility that the magistrate arose in court and in a speech called her a heroine. The recent husband was allowed to go free. He will be expected to be true to his second wife and remarry her as soon as his legal wife secures a divine. "Your daughter is a noble woman," said Justice Sabath, addressing the father. "She should be commanded for her noble sacrifice. She has shown that she thought not for herself but for the future happiness of the woman whom Marcier married while still her husband. Marcier does not deserve to go from this court room free and unpunished, but it may probably be for the best." Marcier married Miss A. Cassanova June 27, 1900. On January 4 of this year, it is said, Marcier married An nie Welch and took her to the home of his mother. 23$ West Taylor street. Detectives Rafferty and O'Donnell of the Maxwell street station invaded the house and arrested Marcier on a charge of bigamy. The prisoner admitted that he was a bigamist, but pleaded that he believ ed his wife dead. "A friend told me that she had died," explained the prisoner, "and I wrote to her father, hut he threatened me with bodily harm if I dared to go near the house." Justice Sabath, however, replied that the excuse given by the defendant was not sufficient, and Marcier was in dan ger of being sent to jail when Mr. Cassanova, the farther of wife No. 1, informed the court of the position taken by his daughter. THE GREAT VELVET BEAN. Mr. Kline O'Varn Says. They are the Poor Man's Fertilizer. Mr. Kline O'Varn, of Fort Meade, Fla.. in a recent issue of the Columbia State give his views of the velvet bean. He says: Last spring I called the attention or southern farmers to the value of the velvet bean as a stock feed and sil enricher through the columns of the agricultural papers. That my brother farmers might see for them selves what the beans would do I dis tributed several hundred packages of seed in different States. It was late in the season when most of the seed were sent out and many failed to ma ture the seed before frost, but the enormous growth of the vines and the avidity with which stock ate them attracted great attention wherever grown. Those who planted early ma tured the seed in most instances. I will grive a plan later on whereby the seed may be matured in the most northern latitudes, and once the seed are matured there they will ripen much earlier than the Florida grown seed. owing to our long summers. I have received so many letters re cently asking for more information about the beans and to save correspon dence and for the benefit of all who are interested I have decided to write a general description of them for your columns. For several years I have made a close study of the best means of enriching our farms without the use of so much costly commercial fer tilizer and for a long time thought the stock pea was the thing, but experiment has proven the velvet bean to be 50 per cent better both as a stock feed and soil improver, and once its value is learned the south will e benefited millions of aollars in the saving of fertilizers. They have been tested in a limited manner from M~ary land to Texas and as far north as Michigan with such results that I have yet to hear of a farmer giving them up after once learning their value. Their effect in building up worn out soils is truly remarkable and they have been aptly called the 'poor man's fertilizer." The experimnent stations that have tested them are united in their praise. The Louisiania station found that an acre of ordinary beans contained 191 pounds of nitro gen, 243 pounds of potash, and 41 pounds of phosphoric acid, which. when turned under, had a fertilizing value of $40 per acre. The Alabama station took an old worn out hillside field and planted a plot inPeans which were turned under in ,'the fall and, planted in oats. On 'an adjoi'uing plot, the crab grass 'and ordinary growth that had sprting up in the year' was turned unde~ and planted in the same manner in eats. When thef rop was harvested ,in the following~ spring the yield was 32.6 bushels fol lowing the beans and only 8.4 bushels follwing tiholuhmteer rnwth. The straw from the bean plot weighed just five times as much as fr<m the other plot. Another plot was planted in corn following the bcans and gave re sults equally startling. A crop of the beans can be made andi ttirned under for 84 an acre. and iii these experi nents is an object lc:sn every farmer in the south will do well to study. for there is big money in it. My own ex perience extending over a period of six years has been so satisfactory that I have constantly increased my acre age and this year I am planting 400 acres. The enormous grovtl of vines and vield rf beans is truly an eye open-Jr. I have known them to make nine tons of hay per acre and 75 husilels of shelled beans on land that would ne.t make 2o bushels of corn. Taie bean is very ric't in protein and equal to cotton seed meal in feeding va;ue. The vines contain large amounts of carbo>-nydrates and supply the rough age, making a complete feed that is the most- economical grown. Last fall the Florida experiment station took a grade steer and feed on velvet beans and pods in the green stage for 60 days and a gain of 214 pounds was made in weight in that time. We generally turn the steers in the beans wiin they lirt begin to mature and ar acre fattens three to tive head, increasing their s--ilng v'l.ue an aver age of $7 pec hel. i: stubble is plowed under *Ci folijwing spring and pianitn in (c'n ti tlne crop is generally -,; p-: eat be:.ter. The vines nk..t Ai 1 i-nest feed for miik cows I ever saw and ar2 e-nally good fUr sheep, 1iurses aoJ VLaiur stock, but the beans are not suitable for human food. To make them, prepare the land in the same manner as for corn. Plant when danger of frost is over in rows four feet apart, 18 to 24 inches in the drill, two to a hill. Cultivate once or twice according to growth an lay by. They grow at a tremendous rate and soon cover the ground with a mass of vines waist deep. The old leaves drop off and new ones keep coming-on and I have seen the ground six inches deep in leaves and none could be missed from the vines. The vines keep green until killed by the frost, but they rot very quickly and can be turned under in a short time. The beans grow in clusters similar to cow.peas, ripening rapidly, and can be picked twice as fast as cow peas. They grow in a thick hull and -will hang on the vines three months after ripening before rotting, - a big advantage over cow peas, - and can be grazed on all winter by stock. The vines make a very nutritious hay and can be mowed two or three times. They withstand the severest drought or wettest weather, thrive anywhere and rarely ever make a failure. I am perfectly satisfied they are going to prove one of the most valuable crops introduced in recent years and more farmers will plant this year than ever before. I may be called a velvet bean "crank," but it has proven so profit able in building up a poor worn out farm, and is so cheaply grown, when I think of the thousands of farmers who are barely making a living on their poor land, I consider itmy duty to call their attention to whati the bean will do and help them get-start ed. I have at my own expense sent out a large lot of small packages, but a dozen or so of seed are not enough to make a fair test or to get a start, however, and as the seed are worth $2 per bushel here I cannot afford to fur nish the seed-and pay the postage too. Now, t& help the work along, I will send to leading farmers a large bag of the seed with full direction for plant ing and maturing the seed in the cold er climate of the northern states, provided they' will forward 25 cents for postage. Or for $1 I will forward enough seed for an acre, as long as they last, if the grower will agree to distribute a portion of his first crop among his neighbors and get them started. I am not in the seed bussiness, have none to sell; and make this offer because I feel that I am helping my brother farmers to get a start of a crop that has doubled the value of my farm in productiveness. PRETTY THIN~GS TO WEAR, Fresh Finery for Feminine Fanelers of the Latest in Dreus. Large rhinestone buttons are now to be seen on somIe of the- d1:ner dresses made witli the Louis XV. vests. For this purpose a set of six is required, three on each side of the bcdice, and in some ins~tances three are fastened to each sleeve. Buttons of all descrip tions to meet the wearer's fancy are also used to trim such costumes, says the New York Tribune. Plain rich silks are now becoming fashionable. These are said to be espe cially well adapted to the prevailing styles of costumes, and thofe in touch with the spring styles claim that while the material used will be new the styles in the cut of costumes will re main almost the same. Never before have velvet, corduroy and velveteen dresses been so fashion able for afternoon functions and even ing use. New York dressmakers state that these materials will soon be the favorites for street and general wear throughout the country. Mfany long boas are zlow made of marahou instead of fur. They are in a long s:rahTh band, having ends fin ished with imitation tails of the same material. The y can -be dyed to match any costume. The latest designs in fancy under skirts f~are more than ever at the low er edge, while the upper part fits as closely as possibie. Accortion plaiting is much used to ohbtain the flare. Thi finest of these skirts are fastened w&ith bttns, but :he majority are finished. with (raw strings. The latest imported robes are of fered for sale ready for the lining to be put in. and the designrare so care fully set tha t th'- shapinsr of skirts and rim mingts has be en donte for the buy er. In these r' bes the r.ovei effects in eue ine. emboid*(eries and spangles.. In the most ela borate are jeweled ef fects in litule sprays of berries formed of turquoises, rubies or pearls. A Modernist. "I don't believe," said the very thoughtful person. "that the states men of the present day aire as far seeing as ::' V. ti ge neIration ago." "YXou are mnakinir a zravet. but comf mon mi-take." ana, red Senator Sor ghumf. "ii wrrong to as-oume that the mdern in! i;ei i~e-rior. Those oldtimers .......make good speeches, but as I rcaI' hsory. 1 enn see lots of chanees to et rc that they over Miscounstrued. Doctor (who has a large idea of his own skill)-Int> &. I have nev*er heard a comup:aint frotm ite of my patients. Hostess-I don't dout- it. doctor. The errors o'f phfyusiciarts are generally buried with their ~patients--Harlem Lie