Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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One by One They Vas Awvay. Place him dow n.). entlv comrades: 'Tis a veteran. *worn and gray: Fold his hands across his bosim - One by one they pass away. Smooth his locks out soft lv. mrles Close his eves. now dimn. r ui": Kiss him for the child Lhu-'!- a'n Bid him for that sn soe With vour tender Ihaads de' ,, 4: Place him ge: 'na i Like a soldier leau ilin: ?' -t ll On his arirw. I od Let himtu resT Th hoom ca Ct.-nnon. Nor t hiat sz 1 stein ar Rushing suuadrons nie'er'll disturb him Till the great reunion day' Let him rest: How oft he's answered To the bugles wakening call: "Let him rest:' the capt ain saet One by one the veterans fal Let him rest: The bal te's bluf 11 ade Curling shall noT ('.r 1 1 Take the tatter'd ia ' . Comrades. Le i rest:' onP~e byv one thevy pa -,away. \t~ail. . ...... SPEAKER STEVENSON. His Candidacy jor Attorney General, With a Sketch of his i.it'e. Speaker Stevenson has formially an nounced his candidacy for attorney general. Mr. W. F. Stevenson is 40 years of age. He was born and reared on a farm and worked every year from the time he was 8 until he was 18, when he went to an academy at Taylorsville. N. C., and prepared for college. ie entered Davidson college, N. C.. at the age of 20 and graduated at 23. paying for his own education. Ile then took charge of the academy at Cheraw and began to teach and read law at the same time. This was in October. 18-5. In May. 1887, he was licensed to practice law and began to practice in Chesterfield in July of that year. ur years past his practice has been ad mittedlv the leading one in Chester field county and it is considerable in Darlington county also. Ile has had many cases in the supreme court, his firm having some cases in every volume of reports issued since his practice be gan. In 1885 Mr. Stevenson became a member of the county Democratic executive committee, and has been the leading spirit in it ever since, its chairman since 1896. At present he is a member of the State Democratic executive committee, representing Chesterfield county. le has twice been elected mayor of his town. Che raw, and while mayor was elected to the legislature, in which body he soon became a leader of the judiciary committee. He was a member of the committee of the house and senate appointed in 1897 to investigate the sinking fund commission trouble with the comptroller general and was the author of the statute which has re cast all the law relative to it and un der which the commission has been working smoothly ever since. The legislative service of Mr. Steven son has been distinguished in other directions. lie was the author of the plan whereby the money was obitained to complete the State house without increasing taxation, thus making pos sible the passage of the bill for com pletion, lie also framed the bill to pave the sidewalks from the State house to Gervais street. and thus set the example which Columbia followed in paving her sidewalks. lie was chairman of the committee whicn investigated the penitentiary in 1899 and uncovered a condition that shocked the State and resulted in making public otlicials more strict in the discharge of their trusts. hIs legislative service began in 18S96, and he was reelected in 1898 and again in 1900, on the last occasion receiving all but 175 of the votes cast in his county primary. A year ago he was elected speaker of the house of representatives on the first ballot by a clear majority over two strong men. and his record as speaker is before the people. Mr. Stevenson has represented the State in several important suits and is now associated with the attorney general in the suit for 830,000 back taxes from the Cheraw and Darling ten railroad. lie has been employed both for and against corporations, is not biased in either way and is able, as his associates in the house know. to deal justly with all interests, lie comes of legal stock, being connected by blood with many jurists. Judge A. P. McCormick, United States circuit judge, and Judge W. G. Ewing of Chicago being his cousins, and Judge James H. Bell. formerly chief justice of Texas, was also a cousin: while Judge Edward Harris, who died on the supreme bench of North Carolina, was his uncle. In a business way. Mr. Stevenson has been successful. lie organized and has successfully operated as president the Merchants' and Farmers' Bank of Cheraw, and he is president of the Chesterfield County Oil company. His main ambition. however, is to. be a lawyer of standing, and to his profes sion he gives his best efforts. lie is one of the three members of the ex ecutive committee of the ibar associa tion of South Carolina and has lately been designated by the Chief Justice as special judge to hold Court at New berry. In religion Mr. Stevenson is a Pres byterian and has been an elder in that church for 11 years. lie has of ten been a member of its synods and presbyteries and was a member of the general assembly of the southern church at Ashville in 1890 and in New Orleans in 1898. In the assembly at New Orleans he was called upon to represent the synod of South Carolina in the matter of-the complaint of Dr. W. M. McPheeters adothers against it on questions of c'hurch laws and constitution and won by an almost un animous vote. The synod of South Carolina at its meeting in Florence last year unanimously elected him mode'rator. lie was the first layman ever chosen moderator of the synod. and thus far the only one. In college Mr. Stevenson won the Latin medal, and the dlebater's medat and graduated next to thc highest man in his class. His hardest constitutional fight in the legislature wa~s over the county of Dorchester. which he championed as a representative of the judiciary committee. and carried throughi the house. the supreme couri t subsequent 1ly sustainingr the position held by him in that contest. In May. 199o0 hi was ceected oresi dent of the State lDenmermutice nven: tion, and has often presiv-ii 'jver .th DemocratIe conventlin (f his countyx. The foreg2ning~ record show. ti:at Mr. Stevens'u is a man of' greai indus try and energy and~ of rapid success in every field of his endeavors. Il[is ahili tyea a parliamentarian and as a law ver has een so amply demunstrated his service as as member of the >-ls: ure and as speaker of the house that it needs no attestation. on sekeepers should Know T t should be eaten with nuts i digestion. That milk which stans tIo long makes bitter butt er. T ast ilat-irons should be rubbed over w i beeswax and lard. That i! rests you in seving to chan;e your posit ion frmequently. 'Ilat a lht. strong lonade taken at 1)0 , u, e Will bre-ak up a nard i d Thiat Iougih heer is mole leadeir kr lgini a few~ mm'inte viv-' ar water. That lt sa wll reieve sick headache caU i by indistion. Tlhat a cup of Sj* . .il rmoniive the ordor f on ns frin the br-t!h. That a cup if 11.'t 1 water dn efore meals will ausea and dyspepsia. That k \-vntilated be 1-drooms will prevent coning headache and lassitude. That consumptive night sweats many be arrcsted by sponging the body nightly in sa:t water. That a fever patient can be made corl and comfortable by frequent sponging with soda water. That to beat eggs quickly. add a pinch of salt. Salt cools. and cold eggs froth rapidly. That the hair may be kept irom falling out after an illness by a freucnt aZpplication to the scalp of sage tea. That you can take out spots from wash ;:oods by rubbing them with the yolk of eggs before washing. That white spots upon varnished funriture will disappear if you hold a hot plate over them. He Was Lynched. For attewpting to criminally as sault Miss Blossom Adamson. a Short er college student. Walter Allen, a ne ero. was taken from the jall at Rome, Ga.. about 8 o'ick Wednesday night by a mo), dragged several blocks through the streets and hanged to the cross-bar of an electric light pole, in front of the Central hotel, in the very heart of the city. Nearly all Rome witnessed the lynching, and as the ne ro was strung up to the pole a fusi lade of bullets was tired into his writh ing body. Ile was literally torn into shreds by the storm of bullets. One of the most exciting affairs of the whole crime was the liring at the ne gro by Capt. A. B4. S. Mosely. while the negro was being held in the police station. awaiting further Indentitica tion. As soon as he was partially identified. Captain Moseley. an uncle of Miss Adamson, drew his revolver and tired three shots at the negro, on lv one of the shots doing any damage. owever. The negro broke away from the men who were holding him, sprang through a window, and made for the river, where he concealed himself in the water until he was dragged out and again taken to the prison. The crime for which the negro was lynch ed was attempted in the heart of Rome at 3 o'clock last 3Ionday evening week. The Plant System Sold. The announcement is made by di rect and absolute authority that the Atlantic Coast Line system of rail ways of South Carolina has absorbed the Plant System and that at an ear ly date both the systems will consoli cated under the name and charter of the Atlantic Coast Line system. The general management of the Coast Line will operate the entiire system, all the lines of both systems being merged into one great system of rail roads, aggregating 3,000 miles. For the past month there has been con siderable talk about the consolidatiorl of these two systems. It was reported at one time the Pennsylvania systenr was at the back of the deal and that it would absorb both the Coast Line and the Plant System. Again it was reported that the Southern railway was about to obtain possession of the two systems and there were some wh( gave credence to this report. largely on account of the intimate tr-ati( connections established about a yea1 ago between the Southern and Plan1 System. Starving in Texas A dispatch from Laredo, Texas, saysJudg MeLane and Distric1 A ttorney Hamilton who have return ed from* Carizzo. where they went t< hold a term of the district court fo: Zapata county, are reported to havi declared that the residents of thal county are in a most deplorable condi tion and some relief must be given t< beneit their situation. Judge 3Mc Lane is quoted as having said: "Ther4 is no fodder for the horses and corr was 5 cents a pound (M1exican money.. The stock are nearly all dead anc what is still living are so poor they can scarcely walk. The water holem are nearly all dried up-will last buta few weeks longer and when the watei fails what is left will not live a week. IWe traveled 140 miles." said the judge, "and in that distance, did not see enough grass to till one's hat nothing has been grown in the county tor two years. Those w~ho have a few cattle are unable to even pay theim taxes. The people have planted noth Iing this year and are latterly with out hope." _________ Labor Troubles. The Augusta cotton mills have be gun a determined war upon organized labor. If the threatened strike takes place the mills. by mutual consent. Ihave determined to close down, throw in~ out 10,000 operatives. The fol lowing notice was posted in every mill Thursday morning: "A pril 2. 1902--Owing to demand mde on Jahin P. King Mf. o ad vahce of of 10 per cent. accompanied by notice that if not granted its op ematives would refuse to work aftem Saturay, April 5th, saidl demand hav ing been refused, notice is hereby given by employes of this comnpany that should such a stirike be inaugu rated this mill will close indefinitely on the eve of Tuesday. A pril 8, 1902. This oider is the result of unani mous action taken by the Manufactur ers association to tighit the unions. It means that if the strike is declared at the Kimngs mill, as scheduled, every mil in Augusta, Grantville, Aiken. W arenvi'lle anid Langley will be cd. It is estimated that 10,000 operatives will be alected by this ac Big Crowd Going. Tie State says the mnovement to Charleston which was inaugurated Tluesday was kept up Wednesday, al though there was not such big crowds massing through Columbia. The spe cial feom Greenville passed through abut the middle of the day. carrying over 200 from the mountain, city, en riute to celebrate ; reenville day. Lees yle college sent up a delegation of 50 young ladies and~ young men, and th-e was also quite a c-rowd from up about Chester- and isock 11111. Capt. as'n, who left here with over 400 on the regulamr afternooa traini for Charleston Tuesday. arrived in that ity with 700m abroad. Other conduc t rs n-i) rt a simniliar movement from the ower- part of the State toward AN ADIVSON XYSTERY. Very Unusual Occurrence Take Place at an Old Mill. Do vou believe in ghosts? I' you do nt how can you explain the hap pening-s that ari taking place in an old mill in the city in Anderson. Ac cording to the Daily Mail, of that city. it is haunted by spirits of some kind. When the mill shut down a short time ago two negros by the name of Collins and Davis were employed to clean up the machinery. They were at work on the second floor Thursday about 2 o'clock when, they say, their attention was attracted by steel bolts, nuts, bits of scrap iron, etc., falling about the room. They say they paid no ptrticular attention to it at first. but as the pieces of iron continued to fall about the room they decided some one was playing a joke on them and they commenced a s!arch for the joker. They hunted all over the bnild ing, even opening the sky light and going on the roof, but could find no one. The missiles cortinued to fall about the room, and then they began to get frightened. They reported the matter to Mr. J. 11. Townsend, the president of the mill., and to his son. Mr. G. B. Town send These gentlemen made an in vestigation, and while they were in vestigaIting several iron bolts and pieces of scrap Iron fell about the room. apparently falling from the roof. The Messrs. Townsend were amused at first and then puzzled. Finally they decided that the Collins negro had been trying to frighten the Davis negro. and charged him with it. Collins strenuously denied his guilt, and was corrobrated by Davis, who said he. too. had suspected Collins and had been watching him, but had not seen him throw any of the missels. All '"is happened Thursday after noon. Friday morning the strange proceeding commenced again. Iron bolts, pieces of scrap iron, etc., would fall to the floor in different parts of the room. and there was no account ing for thema, None of the missels weighed more than a quarter of a pound, and all of them had come from a pile of scrap iron in one corner of the mill building, but there was no explanation of why they should be dropping from the roof of the mill. The only possible explanation was that somebody was throwing them, but the utmost vigilance on the part of the Messrs. Townsend failed t6 detect any one in the act or discover any one who could be responsible for it. Finally Mr. G, B. Townsend had an idea. He thought that possibly the electric wires running into the build ing had something to do with it, and Mr. Harry Orr, the electrician of the Water, Light and Power company. was sent for. Mr. Keith Chapman and several others went with him. Mr. Orr couldn't make anything out of the strange procedure. He said that in all his acquaintance and expe rience with electricity he had never witnessed any such strange phenom ena. While he and several others were looking around the building a small piece of iron fell from the ceiling and struck Mr. Keith Prevost on the head. Mr. Prevost was not hurt. A few minutes later a porcelain door knob fell in one corner of the room. Then Mr. Townsend knew there was nothing in the theory of electricity as porcelain is a non-con ductor. It is said that during Thurs day afternoon and Friday morning .more than 100 bolts, nuts, pieces of scrap iron, etc., were thrown about the interior of the mill. No one ex cept Mr. Prevost was hit, and in fact the person or spook throwing the mis siles did not seem to be trying to hit any one. Friday at noon James Col lins was discharged and told to leave the premises. Mr. Townsend couldn't get rid of the idea that this negro was responsible for the miseief that had been going on. About 2 o'clock Friday afternoon a reporter for The Daily M~ail went down to the mill and looked around a bit. Mose Collins was the only per. son in the building. He was emphat ic in his assertion that the missile throwing had been the work of what he called "ha'nts.'' He gave a graphic story of all that had been going on, which was substantially the same as that given above. The r ewspaper man went up on the second floor of the building, where mos3 of the strange occurrences had taken place. Mose accompanied him. While the reporter was looking around, trying to figure out a solution of the mystery, a piece of iron fell with a clank on the opposite side of the room. "Did you hear that?'" inquired Mose excitedly. "'Cose you did. An' you didnt see me throw it either, did you?" The reporter confessed that he didn't see Mose throw anything, and Mose seemed relieved. "It's been gwine on this way ever since Thursday," said Mose, "an' it ain't no folks what's been doin' all dis. It's 'ha'nts." The reporter waited possibly half an hour longer but nothing else fell, and then he came away. Two Tales of Children. A young mother in putting her5 year old son to bed noticed that he clambered under the cover without saying his prayers, says tne New York~ Tribune. " Why, Warren, mother never knew you to forget your prayers before." "Indeed, mother." was the reply. "I didnt forget. Grace and I said them for four nights during the rain yesterday, when we couldn't play. We would have gotten through tihe whole week if nurse had not come to dress us." Representative Lamb, of Virginia. tells a good story about a little girl who lives in Petersburg, and is just 43-years old.-She kneels every night at her mother's knee, and after reciting the Lord'sPrayer, silent ly adds a little prayer of her own. One night her mother, rather curious ask edl her daughter what she had told the Lord. " Mamma," said the youngster, "Ij asked the Lord to please remove that mole on your face,' added tne little one, "I also told the Lord that 1 thought the mole had come to st."~ Atlanta Day. The Staite's Charleston correspond et says tifteen hundred people from Atlanta invaded Charleston Thursday. This was Atlanta Day at the exposl ton an'd for that they came. At their head was Mayor Mims with sever'al aldermen. Chief Joyner of the fire de partment, and other promint citizens and the drum corps, the police ritie squad. four military companies and no end of citizens wearing gray hats. The Atlanta Day parade was pro nounced the finest parade that has been seen during the exposition. The parade formed at the Battery, and marched up Meeting street to, Hlasell, thrugh to King, King to Calhoun, Calhoun to Rntledge avenue and out Rutledge avenue to the exposition and PENSION MONEY. How Much Of It Goes to Each of the States. THE NUMBER OF PENSIONERS In Each State. Pennsylvania Leads, Ohio a Close Second and New York a Good Third. A lively pension debate in the house over some special bill for the re lief of a claimant whose application has been adversely reported upon in regular course will cause the sparks of oratory to fly across the chamber like those from the redhot iron upon the' blacksmith's anvil, and will mix things up among the members from the dif ferent sections of the country as quick ly as a good fistic contest in the roped arena. "The memory of some of the repre sentatives as to the distribution of the annual appropriation for pensions for which they vote is often out of plumb with the record and facts," said a pen sion official to a Star reporter. "In short, this point is one with which not many are familiar, as, for instance, few outside of those In the pension office who have this particular work to do know the amount of money dis bursed in pensions as close at home as the District of Columbia, and the num ber of pensioners residing therein. "The amount of pension money dis tributed in the Dis';rict last year was $1,392,000, among 8.771 former sol diers, while in the state of Maryland it was $1,708,300, distributed among 13,067 pensioners. "The two states leading in the nuim ber of pensioners residing therein, and the total amount they receive, are Pennsylvania, with 104,345 former soldiers, receiving $13,378,371, and: Ohio with 104,301, or only 44 less than the keystone state, and receiving $15. 211,127, or nearly $2,000,000 more in the aggregate amount paid, with icss than fifty difference in the number of beneficiaries. OTHER INTERESTING INSTANCES. "New York follows Ohio, with 88, 794 pensioners, drawing $11,931,376, while Illinois is fourth, with 70,491, receiving $9,757,000. Indiana is fifth, with 66,974 pensioners, receiving $10, 291,876, or over half a million more than Illinois, and with J,507 fewer pensioners; and the fact the pension ers of Indiana, while less in number than those of the state in which Chicago is situated, draw half a mil lion dollars more, ought to 1aake the inhabitants of the windy city feel sad. "In states which were termed the border states during the civil war a large number of pensioners reside, as is the case In the states constituting the Confederacy, as will be shown. In fact, the amount of pension money which goes into the border states and into the south in a year is surprisingly large. An analysis of the facts affords. several interesting instances, and of fers important information which~ ought to be more widely disseminated. "Classing Maryland a~s a border state, with 13,067 pensioners, receiv ing $1,708,000, West Virginia follows next in geographical sequence, with 12,811 pensioners, receiving $1,777, 300. Then comes Tennessee, with 18,274 old soldiers, receiving $2,550, 000, and Kentucky, with 28,740, re ceiving, $4,045,700. Missouri has 53,738 pensioners receiving $7,169,900. Arkansas has 10,947, receiving $1, 389.900, "Now for the totals. These figures show that there is an army corps of federal veterans drawing pensions and living in these border states, number ing 137,557, and that they receive an aggregate of $17,628,300 a year. "Passing next to the states whica constituted the Confederacy, the facts are egnally interesting. A LARGE SUM GOES INTO THlE SOUThf. "Thus, I will begin with Virginia, with 6,455 pensioners, receiving $1. 326,000. In North Carolina there are 4,001 pensioners, receiving $523.200. and in South Carolina there are 1,845, receiving $254,500. In Georgia there are 3,753, receiving $483,075 while in adjoining Alabama there are 3.672, re ceiving $495.925. In Florida there are receiving 3,077 federal ex-soldiers living among the orange graves of thr.t state, and they get $415,680. In Mi.; sissippi there are 4,403 pensioners, re ceiving $649,230, while across the big river in Louisiona there reside 5,963, who receive $885,782. In the great state of Texas there are 8,283, who receive $1,030,500. "From these figures it is apparent that in the states of the former Con federacy there are at present residing 2,020 former federal soldiers who draw and disburse pensions therein to the aggregate sum of $5,033,390 an nually. "Combining these latter figured and amounts with those of the border states we have a total army of 163,577 men who are government beneticiaries to the amount of $22,661,690 annually, in the border and southern states named, or about one-sixth of the amount annually disbursed in the United States in pensions. WESTERN AND P'ACIFIC COAST STATES. Excluding the eastern states above named, the amount disbursed in New England and the middle states is as follows: Maine, 19,858, pensioners, receiving $2,945,660: New Hampshire, 8,971, re ceiving $1,301,800; Vermont, 9,194. receiving $1,414,700; Massachusetts, 39,473, receiving $5,163,400: Con necticut. 11,919, reciving $2.625.800: Rhode Island, 4,775, receiving $566, 000; New Jersey. 20,157 receiving $2, 402,000, and Delaware, 2,743 rece-iving $384,500. In the western and Pacitic coast states not above enumerated. the amounts received by states are as fol lows: "Wyoming, 726, receiving $1 16,900; Wisconsin, 27,817, receiving $4,136, 700: Washington, 6,926, receiving $925125; Utah, 865, receiving $118, I250; South Dakota, 5,120, receiving1 $525,325: Oregon, 5.470, receiving $749,300; Oklahoma, 7.867, receiving $1027700: North Dakota. 1.875. re ceiving $235,850: New Mexico, 1,755, receiving $263,950: Nevada, 282, re ceiving $35,000: Montana, 1.707, re ei ving $520,190; Nebraska, 17,680. re ceiveing $2,414,200: Minnesota, 16,641, receiving $2,297,200; Michigan. 44. 050, receiving $6.653,100: Kansas. 41, ('83, receiving $6,051.000: Iowa. 87, 908, receiving $5.481.000; Indian Ter ritory. 2.925, receiving $364.300. Idaho. 1.598, receiving $216,600: Col orado, 8,134, receiving $944.000: Cali fornia, 19,278. receiving $2,625,800: Arizona, 737, receiving $109,800, and Alaska, 78, receiving $10,500." Wshinton Star. TALMAGE'S SERMON. The Christian view of death as the ntrance to a fuller life is presented in Lhis Easter discourse Dr. Talmage rrcm the text I Cor. xv, 54, "Death is ;wallowed up in victory." About 1,870 Easter mornings have wakened the earth. In France for three centuries the almanacs made the ear begin at Easter until Charles IX, mnade the year begin at Jan. 1. In the rower of London there is a royal pay roll of Edward I. on which there is an entry of IS pence fo:: 400 colored and pictured eggs, with which the people ;ported. In Russia slaves were fed md alms were distributed on Easter. Ecclesiastical councils met in Pontus, in Gaul, in Rome, in Achaia, to decide the particular day and after a contro versy more animated than gracious de -ided it, and nowthroughall Christen Iom in some way the first Sunday af erthe full moon which happens upon )r next after March 21 is tilled with Easter rejoicing. The royal court of the Sabbaths is made up of fifty-two. Fifty-one are princes in the royal household, but Easter is queen. She wears richer jiadem, she sways a more jeweled cepter, and in her smile nations are irradiated. How welcome she is when, after a harsh winter and late spring, he seems to step out of the snowbank rather than the conservatory, to come put of the north instead of the south. ut of the arctic rather than the trop ics dismounting from the icy equinox, but welcome this queenly day, holding high in her right hand the wrenched ff bolt of Christ's sepulcher and hold ing high in her left hand the key to all the cemeteries in Christendom. My text is an ejaculation. It is spun out of halleluiahs. Paul wrote right on in his argument about the resurrection and observed all the laws of logic, but when he came to write the words 01 the text his fingers and his pen and thE parchment on which he wrote took fire and he cried out, "iDeath is swallowed up in victory!" It is an exciting thing to see an army routed and flying. They run each other down. They scatter ev erything valuable in the track. Un wheeled artillery; hoof of horse on breast of wounded and dying man. You have read of the French falling baclk from Sedan, of Napoleon's tract of 90,000 corpses In the snowbanks 01 Russia, of the retreat of our armiei from Manassas or of the five kings tumbling over the rocks of Beth horar with their armies while the hailstorm. of heaven and t"he swords of Joshua's host struck them with their fury. In my text is a worse discomfiture. It seems that'a black giant proposed to conquer the earth. He gathere for his host all the aches and pain. and malarias and cancers and distem pers and epidemics of the ages, H( marched them down, drilling them ir the northwest wind and amid th slush of tempests. He threw up bar ricades of grave mound. He pitchec tent of charnal house. Some of th troops marched with slow tread com, manded by consumptions, some ir double quick commanded by pneumo nias. Some he took by long besiege ment of evil habit and some by ont stroke of the battleax of casualty With bony hand he pounded at th4 door of hospitals and sickrooms an< won all the victories in all the greg battlefields of all the five continents Forward, march' ordered the con querors, and all the generals and corn manders in chief and all presidents and kings and sultans and czars drop ped under the feet of his war charger But one Christmas night his antagon ist was born. As most of the plagues and sickness es and despotisms come out of the eas1 it was appropriate that the new con queror should came out of the sami quarter. Power is given him to awak en all the fallen of all the centuries and of all lands and marshal then against the black giant. Fields havy already been won, but the last day 0 the world's existence will see the de cisive battle. When Christ shall lea< forth his two brigades, the brigade o the risen dead and the brigade of thi celestial host, the black giant will fal back, and the brigade from the rivei sepulchers will take him from beneath and the brigade of descending immor tals will take him from above, an< death shall be swallowed up in vie tory. The old braggart that threatene< the conquest and demolition of th planet has lost his throne, has lost hi scepter, has lost his place, has lost hi prestige, and the one word writtei over all the gates of mausoleum an< catacomb and necropolis, on cenotapi and sarcophagus, on the lonely khai of the arctic explorer, and on the cata falque of great cathedral, written ii capitals of azalia and calla lily,writtei in musical cadence, written in doxo logy of great assemblages. written ot the sculptured door of the family vault, is "Victory.'' Coronal word embannered word, apocalyptic word chief word of triumphal arch unde which conquerors return. Victory! Word shouted at Cullo den and Balaklava and Blenheim, a Megiddo and Solferino, at Marathon where the Athenians drove back thi Medes: at Poitiers, where Charle Martel broke the ranks of the Sara cens; at Salamis, where Themistocle! in the great sea fight confounded thi Persians, and at the door of the east ern cavern of chiseled rock, whern Christ came out through a recess an< throttled the king of terrors and pu1 him back in the niche from which thi celestial Conqueror had just emerged Aha! When the jaws of the eastern mausoleum took down the black giant death was swallowed up in victory.' I proclaim the abolition of death. The old antagonist is driven bacd into mythology with all the lore abou1 Stygian ferry and Charon with oa and boat. Melrose abbey and Kenil worth castle are no more In ruins that is the sepulcher. We shall have n< more to do with death than we have with the cloakroom at a governor's oi a president's levee. We stop at suci cloakroom anid leave in charge of servant our overcoat, our overshoes our outward apparel, that we ma.) not be impeded in the brilliant rount of the drawing room. Well, my friends when we go out of this world we art going to a King's banquet and to a re ception of monarchs, and at the dool of the tomb we leave the cloak of fiesl: and the wrappings with which we meet the storms of this world. At th( close of an earthly reception, unde1 the brush and broom of the porter. the coat or hat may be handed to us bet ter than when we resigned it, and th( loak of humanity will finally be re~ turned to us improven and brightened and purified and glorified. I say to you today, as Paul said tc Agrippa, "Why should It be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?" That far ur loud higher than the hawk flies, high' er than the eagle flies, what is it made of? Drops of water from a river, other rop from a lake stil other drops from a stagnant pool, but now embod ied in a cloud and kindled by the sun. If God can make such a lustrous cloud out of water drops, many of them soil ed and impure and fetched from miles away, can he not transport the frag ments .f a human body from theearth and out of them build a radiant body? Cannot God. who owns all the material out of which bones. muscle and flesh are made, set them up again if they have fallen? yf a manufacturer of tele scopes drops a telescope on the Iloor and it breaks, can he not mend it again so you can see through it' And if God drops the human eye into the dust, the eye which he originally fashioned. can he not restore it? Aye, if the manu facturer of the telescope, by the use of a new glass and a change of material, can make a better instrument than that which originally constructed and actually improve it, do you not think the fashioner of the human eye may improve its sight and multiply the nat ural eye by the thousandfold additional forces of the resurrection eye? "Why should it be thought with you an incredible thing that God should raise the dead?" Things all around us suggest it. Out of what grew all these flowers? Out of the mold and the earth. Resurrected! Resurrected: The radiant butterfly-where did it come from? The loathsome caterpillar. That albatross that smites the tempest with its wings-where did it come from? A senseless shell. Near Bergerace, France, in a celtic tomb under a block, were found flower seeds that had been buried 2,000 years. The explorer took the flower seed and planted it, and it came up. It blooomed in bluebell and heliotrope. Two thousand years ago buried, yet resurrected! A travel er says he found in a mummy pit in Egypt garden peas that had been buried there 3,000 years ago. He brought them out, and on the 4th of June, 1844, he planted them, and in thirty days they sprang up. Buried 3,000 years, yet resurrected: Why should it be thought a thing incredi ble with you that God should raise the dead?" Where did all this silk come from the silk that adorns your persons and your homes? In the hollow of a staff of Greek missionary brought from Chi na to Europe the progenitors of those worms that now supply the silk mar kets of many nations. The pageantry of bannered host and the luxurious articles of commercial emporium blaz ing out from the silkworms. And who shall be surprised if out of this insig nificant earthly body, this insignificant earthly life, our bodies unfold into something worthy of the coming eter nities? Put silver into diluted niter, and it dissolves. Is the silver gone forever? No. Put in some pieces of copper, and the silver reappears. If one force dissolves, another force or ganizes. "Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you that God should raise the dead?" The insects flew and the worms crawled last autumn fee bler and feebler and then stopped. They have taken no food. They want none. They lie dormant and insensi ble, but soon the south wind w-ill blow the resurection trumpet, and the air and the earth will be full of them. Do you not think that God can do as much for our bodies as he does for the wasps and the spiders and the snails? This morning at half past 4 o'clock there was a resurrection. Out of the night the day. In a few weeks there will be a resurrection in all ourgardens. Why not some day a resurrection amid the graves? Ever and anon there are instances of men and women entranced. A trance is death followed by resurrection after a few days: total suspension of mental power and voluntary action. Rev. William Tennent, a great evangelist of the last generation, of whom Dr. Archibald Alexander, a man far from being sentimental, wrote in most eulogistic terms-Rev. William Ten nent seemed to die. His spirit ap parently left the body. People came n day after day and said, "lie is dead. he is dead." But the soul that fled returned, and Will Tennent lived to write what he had seen while his soul was gone. I called at my friend's house one smmer day. I found the yard all piled up with the rubbish of carpen ter's and mason's work. The door was off. The plumbers had torn up the floor. The roof was being lifted in cupola. All the pictures were gone, and the paper hangers doing their work. All the modern improvements were being introduced into that dwell ing. There was not a room in the house fit to live in at that time, al though a month before when I visited that house everything was so beauti ful I could not have suggested an improvement. My friend had gone with his family to the Holy Land, ex pecting to come back at the end of six months, when the building was to be done. And, oh, what was his joy when at the end of six months he re turned and found the old house had been enlarged and improved and glorified. That is your body. It looks well now-all the rooms tilled with health, and we could hardly make a suggestion. But after awhile your soul will go to the Holy Land, and while you are gone the old house of your tabernacle will be entirely reconstructed from cellar to attic, and every nerve, muscal and bone and tis sue and artery must be hauled over, and the old structure will be burnish ed and adorned and raised and cupola ed and enlarged, and all the improve ments of heaven introduced, and you will move into it on resureetion day. "For we know that If our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolv ed we have a building of God, a house not made hads, eternal in the heav ens.'' Oh. what a day when boidy and soul meet again: They are very fond of each other. Did your body ever have a pain and your soul not pity it, or your soul not pity it. or your body have a jo n orsu not re echo it, or, changing the question. did your soul ever have any trouble *and your body not sympathize with it, growing wan and weak under the depressing influence? Or did your soul ever have a gladness but your body celebrated in with kindled eye and cheek and elastic step? Surely God never intended two such good friends to be very long separated. And so when the world's last Easter morning shall come the soul will de Iscend. crying, "Where is my body?' And the body will ascend. saying, "Where is my souly'' And the Lord of the resurrection will bring them to gether, and it will be a perfect soul in a perfect body, introduced by a perfect Christ into a perfect heaven, Victory: Do you wonder that on Easter day we swathe our churches with garlands? Do you wonder we celebrate it with the most consecrated voice of song that we can invite, with the deftest fingers on organ and cornet and wvith doxologies that beat these arches with the billows of sound as the sea smnites the basalt at Giant's Causeway? Only the bad disapprove of the resurrec tion. A cruel heathen warrior heard Mr. Moffatt, the missonary, preach about the resurre::tion, and he said to the missionary. "Will mv father rise In the last day?" 'Yes." said the missonar. 'Will all i b". fdenk 1 in hatLl. i a th.e erii &iena::. "Ys. sad the missiona'y. Then~ said the warrior: "LAt nie t; I, mre au.t the resnurrevtion. There can be no resurrection: there shall be no resurrection. I have slain thous ands in battle. Will they rise?" Ab, there will be more to rise on that day than those whose crimes have never been repented of will want to see! But for all others who allowed Christ to be their pardon and their life and their resurrection it will be a day of vic tory. The thunders of the last day will be the salvo that greets you into bar bor.The lightniings will be only the torches of triumphal procession marching down to escort you home. The burning worlds flashing through immensity will be the rockets celebrat ing your coronation on thrones where you will reign forever and forever and forever. Where is death? What have we to do with death? As your reunited body and soul swing off from the planet on that last day you will see deep gashes all up and down the hills, deep gashes all through the valleys, and they will be the emptied graves, they will be the abandoned sepulchers, with rough ground tossed on each side of them. and slabs will lie uneven on the rent hillocks, and there will be fallen monuments and cenotaphs, and then for the first time you will appre ciate the full exhilaration of the text, "Death is swallowed up in victory." Hail the Lord of earth and heaven! Praise to thee by both be given. Thee we greet triumphant now; Hail the resurrection thou. TO WED ITALIAN SCULPTOR. Engagement Announced of Mrs. Lu cille Blackburn Lane, Daugh ter of Senator Blackburn. The engagement is announced of Chevalier Trentenove, the sculptor, to Mrs. Lucille Blackburn Lane, the youngest daughter of Senator Joseph E. Blackburn, of Kentucky. and widow of Thomas F. Lane, formeriy of New ark, N. J., but more recently of Wash ington. This announcement comes as a great surprise, as the talented Ital ian was said to be engaged to a widow of his own nationality, to whose pat ronage he is supposed to owe much of his success. The social and artistic career of Chevalier Trentenove in Washington covers a period of six years, during which time he has been before the pub lic in many roles. His statue of Pere Marquette, executed for the state of Wisconsin and now standing in stat uary hall in the capitol, was his first and ore of his greatest works in Amer ica. For several years he and Prince Troubetzkoy, the portrait painter, oc cupied a suite of studios in the Cor coran building and made their studio musicales and teas one of the features of the season. More recently he has been prime mover in the Fencing club, which has achieved some little prom inence. Two years ago he took out natural ization papers and shortly after sur prised t~e world by suing for a divorce from a wife in Italy, of whose exist ence his American friends had never heard. Trentenove having been absent from Washington since last June.- and Mrs. Lane being in deep mourning, the an nouncement of the approaching mar riage will come as a surprise to many friends of both parties. Mrs. Lane is young, handsome and possessed of a charming personality and moderate fortune. Her husband committed sui cide at their home on K street little more than a year ago. TOWN OFF IN DATES. Curi ous Tangle in which Sweden, N. Y. Find Itself by Use of Last Year's Almana. Almanacs scattered broadcast in the town of Sweden, N. Y., with the month of November printed from an old plate have badly mixed up the entire pop ulation. Supervisor Sutphin egme to Rochester the other day to attend a meeting of the board of supervisors under the impression that it was Fri day. When convinced that November 21 this year came on Thursday he was dunmfounded. It seems that the whole town is a day ahead. Last Sunday all the stores in Sweden were open under the impression that it was Saturday and the usual Satur day business rush took place. On Mon day the people had attended worship under the impression that it was Sun day. Supervisor Sutphin is author ity for the statement that on Sunday he and the Baptist minister went fish ing. He also states that there were several husking bees, winding up with a big dance on Sunday night. Rochester newspapers received nu merous complaints from Sweden sub scribers on account of the papers be ing a day late. The complaints were incomprehensible until Sweden's su pervisor came to the city the other day and explained the situation. He says it will take several weeks to straighten the calendar out in the town. A Shocking Death. Mrs. Hattie Steedley, wife of Mr. J. P. Steedley. of the Cope section, died a most horrible death on last Saturday afternoon, after suffering untold agonies for several days. On Monday, March 10, Mrs. Steedley was directing a hand on the place how she wanted her garden fence, which had been blown down, fixed. In walking around the old fence as it lay on the ground she accidentally run a small nail through her shoe in her foot. She went in the house and did what she thought was proper to heal up the wound. which was a very small one, and which had bled very little. In fact she did not attach much impor tance to the matter, until her foot be gan to swell very much. After being poulticed the foot resumed its usual size and the wound seemed to be get ting on nicely but such proved not to be the case, as about ten days after the accident she was taken with severe pains in her neck and shoulders. 31r. Steedley called in his family physician at once, but Mrs. Steedley gradually grew worse, and, as above stated, she passed away on last Saturday after noon. Tetanus, caused by the nail wound, had set in, and in a few days it did its awful work, and a young wife and mother was no more. All that medical skill and love could do was done to save her life, but in vain. Hecr sweet spirit took its flight and is now safe on the other side. Mrs. Steedley was about twenty-three years of age. and leaves a husband and one little daughter to mourn her death. She was a member of the Baptist church and her loved ones have tihe sweet consolation of knowing that she is waiting and watching for them on the celestial shore.-Orangeburg SAVED BY A DEE Woman Lost in Adirondacks Kept Alive by Friendly Beast. Prevents Her from Perishing with Cold by Warmth of His Body Only to Be Shot to Death In Morning by a Hunter. Miss Margaret McConnell, of Utica, N. Y., who was lost for more than 50 hours recently in the Adirondack for est. .aude friends with a big deer and was avd from deat.. oy the warmith of the annial. She had wandered about, folluwing one trail and then an other, and inalily waded waist deep into a brook to reach an abandoned "lean-to" or shack built by hunters. Chilled through Miss ri.'onnell crouched in this shack all ngat and crept out, cold and stiff, in the morn ing. She had not dared to sleep for fear that she would never awake, she was so wet and cold. While wander ing about in the morning she heard the screech of a locomotive whistle and tried to find the railroad track, but was unable to do so. "That night," she said, "I could find no other shelter than a large rock leaning over a hollow in the ground. I pulled some boughs into the open ing and covered myself over with them and lay quietly for at least an hour. As I lay there a large buck came near and appeared very tame. I reached out my hand and touched his head or neck. Soon he left me and in a moment returned with a doe and fawn. They were very much afraid of me, but the buck seemed not in the least alarmed. Finally he came and lay down beside me. This is without doubt the one thing that saved my life. "The big deer remained with me all night and in the morning was in sight most of the time. About noon, as 1 suppose, and while I was en gaged in rubbing my feet, I heard a shot, saw the deer bound into the air and fall. I tried to rise, but could not. I shouted and finally saw a man coming my way. My first words were: 'Have you shot my big deer.' "The hunter, whose name I learned was Fred Reber and who lives in Boonville, and his companions carried me to their camp. "1 am going to ask Mr. Reber for the head of the deer which gave its life for me." WHALE LAUGHS AT RIFLEMEN. Leviathan In Montreal Harbor Ducks from the Bullets from Hun. dreds of Guns. Montreal's most recent and distin guished visitor, the whale, which has been disporting himself about the port for the past few days, is still in the harbor, apparently so taken with the harbor commissioner's recent im provements that he is unwilling to leave. This, too, in spite of the fact that invitiation after invitation has been sent after the poor brute in the shape of rifle bullets of all shapes and sizes. From early morning until night the Guard pier is filled with alleged sports men, who wish to get a shot at the whale. So far -the shots appeared to have no great effect beyong making Ihim keep under water for abnormal periods of time. Even Savage rifles with nickel bullets have been experi mented with; probably not less than a thousand pounds have been expended upon him all told. Of course, if he stays about the port long enough, some one will in time land a shot in a vital place, and then it will be all over with' the big visitor from the deep. Mean time he appears to stand it fairly well. sees More Power in AulierIes. M. Jules Siegfried lectured at Paris the other night at the Musee SociaI. on his recent tour in America, repeat 'ing in extended form the opinions .l ready expressed. He' predicted that the present century would see the United States the greatest and most powerful commercial and industrial nation in the world. "If France is wise," hie said, "she will not delay Ito take advantage of America's tradi tional friendship in order to secure the means by a give and take policy to get a fair share of this vast, un limited, and ever increasing field of commercial enterprise beyond tlie At-. lantic." Tall Hats Are wnhealthT. The controversy as to the wearing of the tall silk hat waxes warm. Lord Ronald Sutherland Gewer adds his views in a long article in the Lon don Tattier. "First," he says, "I be lieve that headgear to be unhealthy. It is bad both for the outside and the inside of the head. Baldness, which is so universal in what are called the upper classes, in contrast to the hair covered scalp of the poorer, is main ly due to the tall hat. As to bad effects on the brain, there is the high authority of Dr. Forbes Winslow, who says that the wearing of the tall hat is partly the reason for insanity, which is on the increase." Ameriean Buys Bed of King. It is not every American million aire who can dream of his increas ing wealth while lying in a bed upon which once rested the form of a king. Yet the other day a full bedroom suite of ash and olive wood, once used by Charles X., was sold to a wealthy . American for $500. a low price when the historical associations of the furniture are taken into considera tion. Ingenious Yankee's Opportunity. A New York dispatch says the blue point oyster beds have been ruined. The chance for the man who can make the bogus blue point, says the Chicago Record-Ilerald, has arrived.. P LA NT C o R N.-The Yorkville Enquirer, in speaking of the tempta tion of the present cotton market in ducing the farmers to plant a larger crop of cotton than they otherwise contemplated, impresses upon its readers the fact that while the present advance in cotton may have its'effect, the price of corn is "out of sight," We do not see why the advance in corn should not influence the farmers to plant a larger crop, for a crop of corn can be raised more cheaply than cotton. If the same attention is. given to the corn crop, or as much time devoted to it as is given to cot ton, the farmers would all have corn to spare. Five Millions Lost.. Authentic reports have been receiv ed from every county inmiddle Ten nessee and the damage done to prop ertyv by the late floods Is con servative lv 'estimated at over S5.000,000. 'iwenty-five persons lost their lives la. the thood