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Open the Door of Your Heart, Open the door of your heart, my lad, To the angels of love and truth, When the world is full of unnumbered joys In the beautiful dawn of youth. Casting aside all things that mar, Saying to wrong, Depart' To the voices of hope that are calling you Open the door of your hear-. Open t.he doorlof yoir heart. my lass, To the thinrs that shall abide, To the holy thoughts that lift your soul Like the stars at eventide. Ali of thbe fadeless ilowers that bloom In the realms of song and art Are yours if you'll only give them room. Open the door of your heart. Open the door of your heart, my friend. Heedless of cross or creed. When you hear the cry of a brother's . voice, The sob of a child in need. To the shining heaven that o'er you bends You need no map or chart. But only the love ,he Master gave. Open the door of your heart. TALMAGE'S SERMON. Wanderers From God Invited to Come Under the Sheltering Wing. A familiar illustration from the barnyard is employed in this discourse by Dr. Talmage to show the comfort and protection that affords to all trust ing souls. The text is Matthew xxiii, 37. "Even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not." Jerusalem was in- sight as Christ came to the crest of Mount Olivet, a height of 700 feet. The splendors of the religious capital of the whole earth irradiated the landscape. There is the temple. Yonder is the king's palace. Spread out before his eyes are the pomp, the wealth, tlie wickedness and the coming destruction of Jerusa lem, and he bursts into tears at the thought of the obduracy of a place that he would gladly have saved and apostrophizes, saying, "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens un der her wings, and ye would not'" Why did Christ select hen and chick ens as a-simile? Next to the opposite ness of the comparison, I think it was to help all public teachers in the mat ter of illustration to get down off their stilts and use comparisons that all can understand. The plainest bird on earth is the barnyard fowl. Its only adornments are the red comb in its headdress and the wattles under the throat. It has no grandeur of gene alogy. All we know is that its ances tors came from India, some of them from a height of 4,000 feet on the sides of the Himalayas. It has no pretension of nest like the eagle's eyrie. It has no luster of plumage like the goldfinch. Possessing anato my that allows flight, yet about the last thing it wants to do is to fly, and in retreat uses foot almost as much as wing. Musicians have written out in musical scale the song of lark and robin redbreast and nightingale, yet the hen of my text hath nothing that could be taken for a song, but only cluck and cackle. Yet Christ in the text uttered while looking upon doomed Jerusalem declares that what he had wished for that city was like what the hen does for her chickens. One day in the country we saw sud den consternation in the behavior of old Dominick. Why the hen should be so disturbed we could npt under stand. We looked about to see if a neighbor's dog were invading the farm. We looked up to see if a storm cloud were hovering. We could see nothing on the ground that could ter rorize, and we could see nothing in the air to ruffe the feathers of the hen, but the loud, wild, aff righted cluck which brought all her brood at full run under her feathers made us look again around and above us, when we saw that high up and far away there was a rapacious bird wheeling round and round and down and down, and, not seeing us as we stood in the shad ow, it came nearer and lower until we saw its beak was curved from base to tip and it had two flames of fire for eyes and it was a hawk. But all the chickens were under old Dominick's wings, and either the bird of prey caught a glimpse of us or not able to find the brood huddled under wing, darted back into the clouds. So Christ calls with great earnestness to all the young. Why, what is the matter? It is bright sunlight, and there can be no danger. Health is theirs. A good home is theirs. Plen ty of food is theirs. Prospect of long life is theirs. But Christ continues to call, calls with more emphasis and urges haste and says not a second ought to be lost. Oh, do tell us what is the matter. Ah, now I see; there are hawks of temptation in the air, there are vultures wheeling for their prey, there are beaks of death ready to plunge, there are claws of allure ment ready to clutch. Now I see the peril Now I understand the urgency. Now I see the only safety. Would that Christ might this day take our sons and daughters into his shelter "as a hen gathereth her chickens un der her wing." The fact is that the most of them will never mind the shelter unless while they are chickens. It is a sim ple matter of inexorable statistics that most of those who do not come to Christ in youth never come at all. 'What chance is there for the young without divine protection? There are the grogshops, there are the gamb ling hells, there are the intidelities and immoralities of spiritualism, there are the bad books, there are the im purities, there are the business ras calities, and so numerous are these as sailants that it is a wonder that hon esty and virtue are not lost arts. The birds of prey, dirurnal and nocturnal, of the natural world are ever on the, alert. They are the assassins of the sky; they have varieties of taste. The eagle prefers the flesh of the living animal; the vulture prefers the car cass; the falcon kills with one stroke, while other styles of beak give prolon gation of torture. -And so the temp tations of this life are various. Fathers, mothers, older brothers and sisters and Sabbath school teachers, be quick and earnest and prayerful and importunate and get the chickens un der wing. May the Sabbath schools of America and Great Britain within the next three months sweep all their scholars into the kingdom. Whom they have now under charge is uncer tain. Concerning that serawny, puny child that lay in the cradle many years ago, the father dead, many remarked, "What a mercy if the Lord would take the child:" And the mother really thought so too. But what a good thing that God spared that child, for It became world renowned in Chris tian literature and one of God's most illustrious servants-John Todd. Re member. your chilren will remain children only a little while. What you do for them as children you must do quickly or never do at all. "Why have you never written a book?" said some one to a talented woman. She replied: "I am writting two and have been engaged on one work ten vears and on the other five years-my two children. They are my life work." When the house of John Wesley's father burned and they got the eight children out, John Wesley the last he fore the roof fell in. the father said: "Let us kneel down and thank God. The children are all saved. Let the rest of the place go.- My hearers, if we secure the present and everlasting welfare of our children. most other things belonging to us are of but lit tie comparative importance. Alexan der the Great allowed his soldiers to take their families with them to war, and he accounted for the bravery of his men by the act that many of them were born in camp and were used to warlike scenes from the start. Would God that all the children of our day might be born into the army of the Lord: The wings of my text suggest warmth, and that is what most folks want. The fact is that this is a cold world whether you take it literally or figuratively. We have a big fireplace called the sun, and it has a very hot fire, and the stokers keep the coals well stirred up, but much of the year we cannot get near enough to his fire place to get warmed. The world's extremities are cold all the time. For get not that it is colder at the south pole than at the north pole and that the arctic is not so destructive as the antarctic. Once in awhile the arctic will let explorers come back, but the antarctic hardly ever. When at the south pole a ship sails in, the door of ice is almost sure to be shut against its return. So life to many millions of people at the southT and many mil lions of people at the north is a pro longed shiver. But when I say that this is a cold world I chiefly mean figuratively. If you want to know what is the meaning of the ordinary term of receiving the "cold shoulder," get out of money and try to borrow. The conversation may have been al most tropical for luxuriance of thought and speech, but suggest your necessi ties and see the thermometer drop 50 degrees below zero, and in that which till a moment before had been a warm room. Take what is an unpopular position on some public question and see your friends fly as chaff before a windmill. As far as myself is con cerned, I have no word of complaint, but I look off day by day and see com munities freezing out men and women of whom the world is not worthy. Now it takes after one and now after an other. It becomes popular to depre ciate and defame and execrate and lie about some people. This is the best world I ever got Into, but it is the meanest world tha, some people ever got into.' The worst thing that ever happened to them was their cradle, and the best thing, that will ever hap pen to them will be their grave. What people want is warmth. Many years ago a man was floating down on the ice of the Merrimac, and great ef forts were made to rescue him. Twice he got hold of a plank thrown to him and twice he slipped away from it, be cause that end of the plank was cover led with ice, and he cried out, "For God's sake, give me the wooden end of the plank this time:" and, this done, he was hauled to shore. The trouble is that in our efforts to save the soul there are too much coldness and icy formality, and so the imperiled one slips off and floats down. Give it the other end of the plank: warmth of sympathy, warmth of kindly associa tion, warmth of genial surroundings. The world declines to give it and in many cases has no power to give it, and here is where Christ comes in, and as on a cold day, the rain beating and the atmosphere full of sleet, the hen clucks her chickens under her wing, and the warmth cf her own breast puts warmth into the wet feathers and the chilled feet of the infant group of the barnyard, so Christ says to those sick and frosted and disgusted and frozen of the world: "Come in out of the March winds of the world's crit icism, come In out of the sleet of the world's assault, come in out of a world that does not understanid you and does not want to understand you. I will comfort, and I will soothe, and I will be your warmth, 'as a hen gath ereth her chickens under her wing.'" Oh, the warm heart of God is ready for all those to whom the world has given the cold shoulder. But notice that some one must take the storm for the chickens. Ah, the hen takes the storm. I have watched her under the pelting rain. I have seen her in the pinching frosts. Almost frozen to death or almost strangled in the waters, and what a fight she makes for the young under wing if a dog or a hawk or a man come too near: And so the brooding Christ takes the storm for us. What flood of anguish arnd tears that did not dash upon his holy soul? What break of torture did not pierce his vitals? What barking Cer berus of hell was not let out upon him from the kennels? Yes, the hen takes the storm for the chickens, and Christ takes the storm for us. Once the tem pest rose so suddenly the hen could not get with her young back from the new ground to the barn, and there she is under the fence half dead. And now the rain turns to snow, and it is an awful night, and in the morning the whiteness about the gills and the beak down in the mud show that the mother is dead, and the young ones come out and cannot understand why the mother does not scratch for them something to eat, and they walk over her wings and call with their tiny voices, but there is no answering cluck. She took the storm for others and perish ed. Poor thing: Self sacrificing even unto death: And does it not make you think of him who eudured all for us? So the wings under which we come for spirital safety are blood spattered wings, are night shadowed wings, are tempest torn wings. In the Isle of Wight I saw the grave of Princess Elizabeth, who died while a prisoner at Carisbrook castle, her fin ger on an open Bible and pointing to the words. "Come unto me ail ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Oh, come under the wings: My text has Its strongest applIca tion for people who were born in the country, wherever you may now live, and that is the majority of you. You cannot hear my text without having all the rustic scenes of the old farm house come back to you. Good old days they were. You knew nothing much of the world, for you'had not seen the world. By law of association you cannot recall the brooding hen and her chickens without seeing also the barn and the haymow and the wagon shed and the house and the room where you played and the fire side with the big blacklog before which you sat and the neighbors and, the burial and the wedding and thtl bell called you to worship and seeing the horses which, after pulling you to church. stood around the old clap boarded meeting house and those who sat at either end of the church pew and, indeed, all the scenes of your first fourteen years. and you think of what you were then and of what, you are now. and all these thoughts are arous ed by the sight of the old hencoop. Some of you had better go back and start again. In thought return to that place and hear the cluck and see the out spread feathers and come un der the wing and make the Lord your portion and shelter and warmth, pre paring for everything that may come and so avoid being classed among those described by the closing words of my text, "as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not." Ah, that throws the re sponsibility upon us. "Ye would not." Alas, for the "would nots." If the wandering broods of the farm heed not their mother's call and risk the hawk and dare the freshet and expose themselves to the frost and storm. surely their calamities are not the mother's fault. "Ye would not" God would, but how many would not? When a good man asked a young woman who had abandoned her home and who was deploring her wretched ness why she did not return, the reply was: "I dare not go home. My father is so provoked he would not re ceive me home." "Then.", said the Christian man, "I will test this." And so be wrote to the father, and the reply came back, and in a letter marked outside "Immediate" and in side saying, "Let her come at once; all is forgiven." So God's invitation for you is marked "Immediate" on the outeside, and inside it is written, "He will abundantly pardon." Oh, ye wanderers from God and happiness and home and heaven. come under the sheltering wigrg. A vessel in the Bristol channel was nearing the rocks called the Steep Holmes. Under the tempest the vessel was unmanageable, and the only hope was that the tide would change before she struck the rocks and went down, and so the cap tain stood on the deck, watch in hand Captain and crew and passengers were pallid with terror. Taking another look at his watch and another look at the sea, he shouted: "Thank God, we are saved! The tide turned! One minute more and we would have struck the rocks!" Some of you have been a long while drifting in the tem pest of sin and sorrow and have been making for the breakers. Thank God, the tide has turned, Do you not feel the lift of the billow? The grace of God that bringeth' salvation has ap peared to your soul, and, in the words of Boaz to Ruth, I commend you to "the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou hast come to trust." A NEW LAW. The Dispensary Profits to be Given to the Schools. The State Superintendent of Educa tion more than a year ago directed attention to the fact that the dispen sary authorities had invested in liquor a lot of money belonging to the public schools of the State. There was no way for the funds to be gotten for the schools, and the dispensary authorities claimed that the funds were needed as assets upon which to conduct' the enormous business of the dispensary over two millions of dollars a year. At the last session of the legislature there was some talk that the dispen sary keeps too large a stock on hand, and an investigation was suggested by some, but the matter went up in smoke. However, the legislature passed an act reducing to $400,000 the amount of school funds to be used as assets by the State board. The act also provides a more specific mode for apportioning and declaring the profits. The new act says: That the directors of the State dis pensary shall pay over to the State treasurer by Jan. 1st, 1904, in equal semi-annual payments all of the school fund reported by them in excess of $400,000 for the benefit.of the Com mon schools of the State, to be appor tioned by and paid out on the warrant of the comptroller general as is now provided by law for the apportion ment and payment of dispensaryprofits for the benetit of said schools, provid ed that the first payment shall be made on the 30th day of June, 1902. Section 2. That from and after the~ approval of this act, the directors of the State dispensary shall make~ a quarterly statement for the purpose of ascertaining the net profits accruing to the State from the sales made from the State dispensary and shall pay over the profits so ascertained to the State treasurer within ten days there after for the benefit of the common schools of the State, to be apportioned by and paid out on the warrant of the comptroller general as is now provided by law for the apportionment and pay ment of dispensary profits for said, schools. The first settlement made under this act shall be on the 31st day of March, 1902. Section 3. That the county treasur ers of the several counties of this State shall not pay to the authorities of the several cities and towns entitled to dispensary profits, their share of such profits except upon the warrants of the county board of control and coun ty auditor issued to the authorities of said cities and towns, when settle ments are made by them as required by law. The said county board of control and county auditor shall at the same time also certify in writing to the county supervisor of the1 county entitled to share the dispen sary profits the amount thereof to which the county is entitled. Section 4. All profits from county dispensaries subject to distribution among the counties, cities and towns of the State which have accrued since the fourth Monday of December, 1901, and which may hereafter accrue, shall be distributed monthly among the counties cities and towns entitled thereto in the proportion fixed by law, and that the settlements to ascertain the same shall be made on the fourth Monday in each month, instead of juarterly as heretofore provided by The act has been approved by the governor. Nagged Them On. The Manchester Union says "un doubtedly Senator Spooner, in the course of debate, nagged Tillman into the row with McLaurin; but it is a rather slim excuse for Tillman. Sena tors, it ought not to be necessary to remark, should be above the ]evel of street urchins who fall to fighting be ause somebody "sets them on." The Illinois Central road intends o plant several rows of catalpa trees long its track from Chicago to New rleans to furnish crossties in the' 0ming years. The distance is 900 BILL ARP ON THE FIGHT. He Is Not Disgusted With Tillman for Scrapping in the Senate. I was ruminating about the fight. It is common property and everybody has the right to talk about it. Till man did wrong in jumping over three desks to strike McLaurin. About one desk was the limit of propriety. Three desks gives a man time to cool and that makes it against the law to tight. As to the time and place, that is of no consequence now. There was a time in the days of Webster and Calhoun and Tom Benton and Henry Clay when the United States Senate was as sacred almost as a church, but now a large majority of its members get their places by conduct infinitely more disgraceful than fighting. Brib ery and corruption have got so com mon that a man can't get there with out using a big pile of mcney and mak ing a lot of promises. Of course, I do not include our southern senators, for they haven't got the imoney. If we had some millionaires in Georgia, Clay and Bacon wculd have to step down and out. And I am not so disgusted with Tillman for fighting in the sen ate chamber. He had reason to be lieve that his partner had received promises, and I reckon he had. He certainly had great expectations or he would not have flopped over to the Republicans so suddenly. Politicians have tb be paid for their votes. Till man is a true man, but he is not a great and good man. I admire him for some traits in his character. He 'cannot be bribed or intimidated. He dares to say what he beieves and he uses his pitchfork with impunity. He Is impetuous and combative, but he is sincere and everybody admires a sin cere man. Sincere is one of the strongest and best words in our lan guage. It literally means unsealed without wax-for in the olden times letters were sealed with wax, bu.t if it contained no secrets it was not sealed at all, for wax cost money. Tillman is a bold, defiant, stubborn man, but he is not great. A great man like Webster or Calhoun would have said to Mc Laurin: "Well, sir, If I am a liar I deserve the epithet. If I am not, then you deserve it, but I shall not stoop to give it." I wish we were all that great. This thing of resenting the charge of lying with a blow is a strange perversion of propriety. A man may gain his ends by cheating, swindling, over-reaching hypocrisy, bribery or concealing the truth, but you must not call him a liar. He may break all the cormand ments, but don't call him a liar, though that is not in the Decalogue. All that I regret about the fight is that Spooner did not call Tillman a liar and get mauled for it before Mc Laurin came In. I want somebody to whip Spooner. He was the teaser that brought on the fight and was delight ed that it occurred between the two Carolina senators. With his party it is no crime to shoot down ten thous and Filipinos, who refuse to give up their country, but it shocks them aw fully to have a little fracas in the sen ate chamber. Well, there are some great men and there are intany good men, but great ness and goodness are rarely combined. Addison says it takes both to make a man complete. Such, for example, as Washington and Robert E. Lee. Job says great men are not always wise and he might have added most of them are mean, selfis1h, heartless and ambitious. Lord Bacon, for instance, who took bri bes while on the bench, and Cromwell and Napoleon. Web ster was a very great man and long has been my ideal of greatness. Hie was called the Godlike, sometimes his human nature overcame him. And so with Henry Clay and Bob Toombs. The great weakness of the people is idol atry. Partisan or sectional or religious idolatry. E'very man who climbs up wnere the people can see him is either a saint or a sinner, according to our politics, our section, our creed. One idolizes the character of Lincoln or of Grant, another holds both of them in contempt. I suppose that three fourths of the northern people pay homage to the memory of old John Brown for what they call his good in tentions, and every northern history and encyclopedia apologizes for him, and even so good a man as McKinley excused himself for not attending the reinterment of his bones, on the ground that the pressure of official duties would not permit him to leave Washington. Most northern men still denounce John C. Calhoun as the author of secession and justify Sher man in burning Columbia. Here in Georgia this idolatry is already taking shape in our silly hurrahs for our can didate. for governor. But, as usual, the loudest shouters have axes to grind and are diligently engaged in setting traps to catch the people. But this is the shadowy side of politics and I won't ruminate any further about it. BILL ARP, In Atlanta Constitution. The South's Soldiers In Various Wars. Here is the percentage as shown by the figures in the Revolutionary, Mexi can and Spanish wars as to population and as to quota of troops furnished. War of Revolution-Out of a total population in all the States of the Un ion, of say 3,929,214, that of the South was 1,792,710, contributing 7 64 per cent of the troops, as against a popula tion in all the States of the Union other than the South of say 2,136,504, which latter, in all contributed only 11.22 per cent. War with Mexico-Of the whole population of the United States, of say 23,191,876 that of the South was 9, 521,425, contributing 5 per cent of the troops as against a population in all the States other than the South of say 13670,439. which latter contributed on 4. 72 per cent. Spanish-American War-Out of a total population in all the States, of say 76,303,548, contributing :'.27 per cent, as against a population in all the States other than the South of 50, 885,839, which latter contributed only 3.19 per cent. War of Revolution--Southern States contributed 36.35 per cent of troops. War with Mexico-Southern States contributed 42.47 per cent of troops. War with Spain-Southern States cotributed 26.29 per cent of troops. The Potato Crop. Prepare for a large sweet potato crop. They make cheap hog food. They are good to have in the family about eight mnonths in the year. Any variety of the yellow kind is good for table use. Fo; hogs and cattle the large red kind, are more prolific. Land should be pulverized 3 to 12 Inches deep. Plant In two-foot rows. If you use commercial fertilizer and the land is thin mix 500 pounds acid phos phate. 300 kainlt and 200 pounds cot tnn cserd meal for two acres A NORTHERN VIEW. What A Leading Paper of New Eng land Says About THE MCLAURIN-TILLMAN ROW. Says Everybody Knows What the Facts Are and That There is no Need of an In vestigation. The presiden: could not well do anything else, under the circum statices, than cancel the invitation to the State dinner in honor of Prince Henry. which ha* been sent to Sen ator Tillman as the ranking minority member of the Senate naval commit tee. The South Corolina's presence at such a function, when his Senate brawl is so fresh in everybody's mind, would. of course, be most unpleasant for all present, and his refusal to withdraw an acceptance left the Presi dent no other course to pursue. Meantime, it is to be noted, the other party to Saturday's fracas de mands an investigation of the truth of Tillman's charges, and a resolution has been introduced to this effect. But what were the charges? Tillman had first said that improper influences were used to gain votes for the Philip pine annexation treaty when it was before the Senate. "Name the man;" shouted Spooner. of Wisconsin, add ing that "a man who will impeach a brother Senator without naming him is a coward." And thus baited on by the desiring Wisconsin Senator Till man declared that he knew that "the patronage of a State has been parcell ed out to a Senator for his vote." And when further pressed by Spooner he mentioned South Carolina, referring to McLaurin. SNow it is proposed to Investigation the truth of that charge, but the truth is that there Is nothing to in vestigate. Everybody knows what the facts are and everybody according ly knows that the charge made by Tillman is substantially true. These undisputed facts are thus stated by the Philadelphia Record which, by the way, has been a supporter of the Re publican policy involved in that treaty of annexatio. "It is a fact, as aseertedby Senator Tillman, that Senator McLaurin was opposed to the Paris treaty, and that when a vote was badly needed by the Administration he was suddenly and mysteriously converted in its favor. It is also a fact that immediately after this miraculous conversion Senator Mc Laurin became the dispenser of Government patronage in South Caro lina. He had the run of the depart ments and postoffices and revenue col lectorships in the State were at his exclusive disposal. It is not yet for gotton how he undertook, as one of his first experiments, to seduce the venerable Wade Hampton with the Columbia, S. C., postoffice, and how his base attempt was repulsed. This did not seriously discourage him, as It would have discouraged any man pos sessed of a lingering sense of political decency. McLaurin is still making his proffers of Federal office and spoil to every Democrat in South Carolina whom he can thus convert into a tool of his own and of the Administration. With all this he still keeps up the impudent pretence of being a Demo crat, while supporting by speech and vote every measure of the party in power.' And when It is added that Mc Laurin in all this has particularly sought out Tillman's personal enemies in South Carolina for the places and power at his disposal it will help ex plain, while never excusing, the in sane fury of Tillmnan. But was a deliberate bargain struck betweena McLaurin and the Adminis tration before the ratification of the treaty? This is another question and one an investigating committee can probably dispose of with proof. Mc Laurin suddenly turned on himself and voted with the Administration, for reasons good or bad. If for rea sons honorable then he smirched him self with the dishonor when he accept ed pay for what he had done and when he continues to accept pay in office patronage from Mr. McKinley's suc cessor. His case thus becomes as bad for himself as if there had been a previous bargain. Spooner knows all this and knew it when he baited on the fiery Tillman to his undoing. Every Senator in the chamber knew it. South Carolina knows it and the country knows it. The charge of Tillman Is notoriously true In every essential feature and the only thing left for an Investigat ing committee to determine is whether MLaurin changed his coat in the hope of gaining what he has without a previous promise or in response to a previous promise, and if the latter supposition is true how many and what Administration Senators, if any, were responsible for the bargain. This is one of those scandals connected with the Phillippine treaty which no amount of up)roar over Tillman's brawling conduct can hide from pres ent view or history. Farmers Will Rejoice. The Carolina Spartan says never hav-e the farmers of the county been in a more perple~xing condition. Food for man and beast Is scarce. Wheat the poorest lool:ing stuff ever seen the first week in March. No oats of any conseuence. No preparation for the next crop and no chance to do any general plowing this week. But there is a way out of all this. The farmers will yet rejoice before 1903." We hope the prediction of the the Spartan will come true, as our farmers have certainly been having a rough time for some years._______ The Watzers Called Her. "The waters are calling me," says Miss Alice M. Colie, who Is believed to have committed suicide at Niagara Fals, in her farewell message to her carents and her lover. Miss Colie is considered to have been perfectly sane and she bought a return ticket when she went to the Falls. Hence It is in ferred that she had no previous inten tion of suicide, and simply yielded to the terrible fascination of that rush ing torrent, an Impulse which has been, for the moment, experienced by many when standing upon Niagara's brink.__ _ _ _ Caught in Virginia. Gov. A. J. Montague of Virginia wired Gov. M]cSweeney Wednesday that the she-:iff of Williamsburg county, Va., had captured one John Henry Floyd, colored, who is wanted for the murder -> John Nance, colored, in Laurens county on the 20th of last October. The proper requisition papers have been forwarded. Floyd has confessed. Harvey Floyd, his brother, is also implicated in the af fir. SOUTH CAROLINA DAY. Some Reasons Why Everybody Should Attend. Some reasons why the people of the state should visit the Exposition on that day, Thursday, March, 20 are: First-It is a South Carolina Ex position in which the state and the people are vitally interested, as it presents to the people of the coun try at large for the first time the great possibilities of South Carolina, both as a manufacturing and agricul tural state. Second-The state has a building at the Exposition, in which are ex hibited the industries and resourecs of South Carolina. Many of the peo ple do not realize the magnitude of the possibilities within our borders. Go then and see them you will profit by the trip in many ways. Third-In the Cotton Palace, Com merce, Minerals and Forestry, Ma chinery and Electricity and West In dian Buildings will be seen many ex hibits that will justify the trip. Fourth-To those who have never: seen the Exposition exhibits of the United States government, seeing them alone is worth more than the cost of the trip. Fifth-The exhibits in the Wom an's Building will be of interest to every woman in South Carolina. The display is far superior to the woman's work at any other exposition. Sixth-When you have seer all the exhibits of interest, the Midway of fers its attractions, where you can spend as much time in pleasure as you desire. Seventh-The people of Charleston desire you to see the Exposition to see from your own observation that -they projected the Exposition in your in terest as well as theirs and that we should be again united as one people. Eighth-The railroad rates are very low, and accommodation for all can be secured in Charieston at reasonable rates. Those desiring to engage rooms or board in advance will communicate with Mrs. A. H. Olancy. Mannager Exposition Information Bureau, 216 Meeting street, Charleston, S. C., may have the same engaged in ad vance without any charge for ser vices. INTERESTING ITEMS Gathered from Various Sources and Condensed for Busy Readers. Norfolk, Va., is in the throes of a big strike on the street car lines. England is still sending 13,000 horses a month to South Africa for her army there. Several of the leaders in the late riots in Barcelona, Spain, have been condemned and shot Six lives were lost in Patterson, N. J., on Sunday night by the washing away of a bridge. Two large buildings were wrecked and three persons were killed by an explosion in Reading, Pa., on Sunday night. A widow and a widower of Laurin burg, N. C., ran away from their re spective children the first instant and got married. James Walsh, 112 years old, a na tive of County Roscommon, Ireland, died suddenly in Cumberland, Md., on Sunday night. Frank W. Cotle, defaulting cashier of the State bank at Elkhart, Ill., committed suicide on Wednesday by blowing out his brains with a pistol. The British had 632 men killed and wounded and captured at Klerksdorp, South Africa, a week ago. In addi tion the Boers captured two guns. The postoffice at Westerville, Ohio, was dynamited Tuesday night and $1,200 in stamps and several hundred dollars in money were carried off. Win. Cox shot and killed his wife at Evansville, Ind., on Tuesday and then killed himself. The deed was commit ted in the presence of their little daughter. Frank P. Jacobs, aged 25, shot and killed his wife, aged 18, at Lynchburg, Texas, on Monday and then cut his own throat with a razor. They had been married a year. Misss Ellen Stone, the missionary captured by Bulgarian brigands and lately released for a ransom of $72,000, will lecture this summer for the Chautauqua societies in this coat, try. Harvey Nesmith of Pelham, Ga., shot and killed his wife on Satuirday night and then killed himself. Both were members of good families, but Nesmith had been drinking hard. Mr. Mullen, who celebrated his reappointment as postmaster at Charlotte, N. C., by getting on a jam boree, and whose appointment was held up on that account, has iseen given the grand bounce and H. K. Pope has been appointed in his stead. The country authorities of Birming ham, Ala., have a very disagreeable problem to deal with and have called on the governor for assistance. The bodies of ten dead babies have been found near the city within two months._________ Extra Cheap Rates. It will be no fault of the railroad lines if "South Carolina Day" at the Charleston exposition March 20, is not a great success. The railroad lines have, as predicted, announced re markably low rates. The tickets are to be sold on March 19 and 20 good to return on any train within three days from the date of sale. Here are the round trip rates from some of the principal points: Columbia.................$ 2.7~5 Abbeville.......... .... .... 4.50 Blacksburg.................. 4.75 Greenville............... ... 4.75 Camden................... 2.75 Greenwood................ 4.15 Newberry.................. 3.35 Orangeburg ...... ........... 2.00 Prosperity................. 3.25 Rock Hill................. 4.00 Spartanburg................. 4.50 Sumter.................... 2.00 Tickets will be sold at above rates by both the Southern and Atlantic Coast Line Systems. These rates are within the reach of all, and will en ble all who wish to do so to visit the exposition, which is certainly worth seeing. So go by all means, and if possible take along the wife and chil :ren. The Beauties of Divorce. The following is the closing para graph of a late news dispmdh: "Two years ago New York society was sur prised to learn that Richard H. Hunt, the architect, asked his wife to get a ivoce and thus allow him to marry Mrs. Waiter Watrous. Last year she went to Dakota to secure the divorce and there fell in love with Dr. Hiar-! gens. He then divorced his wife, and hls maariage to Mrs. Hunt followed." ow perfectly lovely and romantic: What a convenient thing is the di -A FRIGHTFUL WRECK. Fifteen Persons Killed and Twenty eight Persons Wounded. LEFT TRACK ON A CURVE. Going at Such Speed, Engine Jumped Seventy-Five Feet. Coaches Piled Up in Heap and Burned. A broken rail caused a frightful wreck on the Southern Pacific railroad near Maxon station. 25 miles west of Sanderson, Texas, at 3 o'clock Friday morning. From the latest accoimts fifteen people were killed outright and twenty-eight persons were more or less injured. The dead: Three children of Mart Riddle of Chetopa, Kas. Estavon Contraras, Del Rio. Tex. Andrew C. Shelly, wife and child, Loiror. Tex. Child of D. E. Housen, Racine, Wis. Mr. ana Mrs. White, Manitowoc, Wis. Al Mast engineder, Fl Paso, Tex. W. W. Price, engineer, San A nto nio. H. Bertscholtz, fireman, El Paso, Tex. Chris Keel, contractor, San Anto nio. L. A. Boone, news agent, Doyline, La. Injured: Mrs. Mary Koehler, San Francisco, internal injuries. ,A. S. Turner, Blackhawk, Miss., hand crushed. Mrs. M. E. Sheppard, Glenn Mills, Pa., hand hurt. J. Fuller, Washington, D. C., leg and foot crushed. Antonio El Rio, DelRio, Tex., inter nal injuries. George Ellenburg, Lexington, Ky., hand crushed. - E. C. Baker, Angleton, Tex., bruised. Charles S. Hoy, San Antonio, Tex., both feet scalded. A. E. Massey, Wilby, Tex., scalp wound. J. I. Taylor, Mulberry, Kas., head injured. Mrs. Mitchell, Philadelphia, Pa., internally. W. P. Adams, express messenger, internal injuries and badly scalded. Craig Battleman, North Dakota, head and back hurt. Biscoe Rodgriguez, Del Rio, Tex., bruised. Lulons Merales, Del Rio, slightly bruised. Antonio Donuel, Del Rio, bruised. M. Lobert, residence unknown, head hurt. D. P. Havens, El Paso, bruised. A. E. McKenzie, Safford, Ariz., slightly injured. R. J. Todd, Frankfort, Ky., bruised. Thomas 0. Crowder, Houston, bruised. Win. Josephs, San Jose, Cal, back injured. J. H. Taylor, Birmingham, Ala., slightly hurt. Hugh Mills, Chetopa, Kas., slightly injured. Dr. G. C. Martin, Pecos City, Tex., slightly injured. C. W. B3. Bennett, St. Paul, Kas., bruised. W. S. Glenn, Blackhaw, Miss., leg broken. Mrs. Annie Wortherst, San Fran cisco, leg and hand crushed. The ill-fated train left San Antonio at noon Thursday, two and a half hours late and at the time of the acci dent was runining at a high rate of speed in order to make up time. The road at the point where the wreck oc curred is in a rough country, the curves being sharp and the grades heavy. It was when rounding a curve that the train left the track, it is said on account of a broken rail. The hour was 3 a. in., 15 hours af ter the train had left San Antonio, showing that it was still behind time. All the passengers were asleep and the shock that followed was the first inti mation they had of the danger. The train was going at such a rate of speed that the tender and engine landed 75 feet from where they left the rails. The cars behind piled up against engine causing a fire and all were consumed except the sleepers. A private car, owned by Thomas Ryan of New York, with his family aboard, was attched to the rear of the train, but it was pulled away before the fire reached it and no one on it was injured. The wrecked train was the Galves ton, Harrisburg and San Antonio westbound passenger, and consisted of an engine, mail car, baggage car, one coach, one chair car, three tourists sleepers, one Pullman sleeper, and one private car. The mail car, the baggage car and the coaches were piled together against the engine and were ablaze in a few seconds. It was impossible to move any of the coaches or the tourist cars, as they were all off the rails and were soon consumed by the flames. So soon as it was possible to get in communication with the division headquarters relief trains with sur geons aud physicians were started from El Paso, Del Rio and Sanderson. pick ing up along the line all the surgeons that could be found. All the injured who were in a con dition to be moved were sent to El Paso where they are receiving careful attention. The Price of a Foot. Mr. James C. Schumpert, of New berry, lost a foot by an accident on the southern Railway at Belton on the 19th of February, 1901, while he was an engineer on that system. He brought suit for $50,000. The trial came ott recently in Newberry, and the jury gave a verdict in his favor for 12.500. A motion for a new trial was refused with the understanding that the verdict be reduced to $10,000. Ten dyas time was given to accept the reduction or a new trial will be granted. The Coldest Month. The Carolina Spartan says February was the coldest month of the winter. It gave us the deepest snow ever measured here by any one living. The ground was frozen hard nearly every morning in the month until the Last few days. Vegetation was mak ing no show at all the first day of March. The amount of rain and elted snow was 8.49 inches, about louble the normal amount for the nonth. There were ten days on DO GHOSTS EXIST? Dr. Savage Certain 'That They Do. An Incident in Proof. "The history of the world is full of reported apparitions or ghosts.' Do such things as ghosts exist' I am perfectly certain that they do. This does not mean that I feel that I am ready to explain their origin or nature. 1 simply recognize the fact. Whether they are purely subjective or whether they represent some objective reality -that is a question to be settled in each particular case. I have many instances in my notes, but they must be omitted for the present. "There is one case. however, which is of a very extraordinary kind. It occurred about a couple of years ago here in the immediate vicinity of New York. There was a certain yoang man who had been studying abroad. He had been at been-at Heidelberg University. He was of anything but an imaginative temperament. Tall and stalwart in build, he had a repu tation *as an athlete. His favorite studies were mathematical, physical and electrical. . He-had returned-home from abroad and, so far as anybody knew, was in perfect health. He was at the summer home of his mother. It was his habit after dinner to go outr on the piazza and waik up and' down while smoking his pipe. One evening he came quieLly in and, without talk ing with'anybody, went up to bed. The next Dgorning he went into his mother's room before she was up.and laid his hand on her cheek in order to. awaken her quietly. Then he said, Mother, I have something very sad to tell you. You must brace yourself and be strong to bear it.' Of course, she was startled and asked him what he was talking about. He said,' 'Mother, I thean just what I am say ing. I am going to die, and very soon., "When his mother, startled and troubled, pressed him for an eqplana tion, he said: 'Last night, when I was walking up and down the piaz smoking, a spirit appeared and walked - up and down my side. I have received my calland am going to die.' The mother,' of course, was seriously troubled, and wondered whether any thing mightbe the matter with .him. She therefore sent for the doctor-and told him the. story. The doctor made a careful examination, said there was nothingi the matter, treated the whole thing as a bad ream or an h'allucina tion, told them to pay no attention to' it, and said that within a few days they would be laughing at themselves for letting such a thing wofry them. The next morning the young man did not seem quite as well as usual and the doctor was sent for a second time. Again he said there was nothing the matter and tried to laugh them out of their fears. The third morning the young man appeared in still poorer condition and the third time the phy sician was summoned. -He now dis covered a case of appendicitis. The young man was operated on and died in a couple of days. From the time of the vision until his death not more than five days'had gonby. Some time after this experience mother visited a psychic here in New York. She made no previous appointment, but went as a perfect stranger and waited her turn. The son claimed at once to be present and told his mother a whole series of very reakable things, which by no possibility could the psychic ever have known. Then. in answer to the questio. 'Who was it that you saw that night?' (theques tion being purposely so framed as not to seem to' refer to anybody out of the body,) he at once replied: 'It was my father.' The father had been dead for some years and the mother had been married again." Must Be Protected. Tife' Daughters of the Confederacy last year conferred upon a number of gallant ex-Confederate soldiers a deco ration known as the Cross of Honor. Certain requirements were exacted of those who received these badges- of honor-fashioned in the shape of the southern cross and made of the metal which once composed the cannons be hind which the Confederates fought. It has since come to light that un worthy persons have in a few cases received these crosses of honor. It is evident that they musthave obtain ed the decoration by falsifying the records, so the legislature has passed an act to prohibit unworthy persons from wearing these badges. A well known member of Camp Hampton was asked recently what would be the effect of this act. He replied that the veterans' camps might be forced to inquire into the records of the parties suspected of having obtain ed the award through misrepresenta tions. He stated furthter that, while it is an unpleasant duty, the veterans' organization will go at -the matter boldly. The act of 1902 declares that: -- "Any person wearing in public the Southern Cross of Honor adopted and conferred by the United Daugh ters of the Confederacy, or any coun terfeit or likeness thereof, unless the same has been conferred, bestowed, or authorized to be bestowed, , upon such person by some chapter of the said United Daughters of the Confederacy, shall be fined no more that $25 upon conviction thereof, in any court of competent jurisdiction."' A Bride's Trouzsseau for $75. In the March Ladies's Home Jour nal .Mrs. Ralston tells how a bride may buy a complete trousseau, ready made, for $75. Here is the list: Tailor suit........... .... ..$15.00 Walking-skirt ......... ..... .3.50 Dress of challie. .... .... .. ..12.00 Silk waist..................~00 Flannel shirt-waist.. .... .... ..1.25 Two wash waists at $1.00 each. 2.00 Wrapper.................. 2.00 Corset .... .. .............. .1.50 Two nightgowns at 85c each... 1.70 Two nightgowns at $1.25 each. 2.50 Two chemises at 50 cents.. .. ..1.00 Two chemises at $1.00 each.. .. 2.00 Two underwaists at 75c each... 1.50 Two underwaists at $1.00 each. 2.00 Two pair drawers at 50c each.. 1.00 Two pair drawers at 85c each.. 1.70 ne sateen petticoat.... .... .1.00 ne muslin petticoat.... .... .1.00 ne muslin petticoat ... .. .. ...50 [at........... ............ 5.00 loves, two pairs.. ...... .... ..2.50 Stockings, half-dozen pairs..1.50 Shoes..................... 3.50 andkerchiefs. one dozen.. .. ..1.50 Sundries.................. 2.85 Total..................75.00 The governor has o1fered a reward f $100 for the apprehension and con iction of' the party or parties who >urglarized the St. Matthews Savings ank recently. So far as known no race of the burglars has yet been senurld