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DEATH ISA SUNRISE. DR. TAS.MAGE PICTURES THE FELSC1 j TIES OF FUTURE LIFE. How m|d Go Through Gtxl'j* Thrashing M? chiae-i-The Krnita of Trial an?l Tribula tion* re Eternal Joy an?S Pe ace In ?\ the Blissful Hereafter. Brooklyn, Jane IK ? Rev. Dr. Tat mage chose as the subject for his sermon today "The Thrashing Ma chine," the text being from Isaiah xxvjii, 27, 2*, "For the fitches are not thrashed. with a thrashing instru ment, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin, but the fitch es are beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod. Bread corn is bru&d because he will not ever be thrashing it" There are three kinds of seed men- j lioned ? fitches, cummin and corn. Of the last we all know. But it may be well to state that the fitches and the cummin were small seeds, like the carraway or the chiekpea. When these grains or herbs were to be | thrashed, they were thrown on the Hoor, and the workmen would come around with staff or rod or Hail and beat them until the seed would be sep arated, but when the corn was to be thrashed that was thrown on the^oor, and the men would fasten horses -or oxen to a cart with iron deuted. wheels. That cart would be drawu around the thrashing floor, and m> the work would be accomplished. I>fffereat kinds of thrashing for different products "The fitches are not thrashed with a thrash ing instrument, neither is a cart whetsl turned about upon the cummin, but the fitcbes are beaten out with a staff' and the cummin with a rod. Bread corn is bruised because he will not ever be thrashing it." The great thought that the text presses upon our souls is that we all go. through some kind of thrashing process. The fact that you may be devoting your life to honorable and i noble purposes will not win you any escape. Wilbtrforce, the Christian emancipator, was in his day derisively called "Dr. CantweU." Thomas Babington Macrulay, the advocate of ?U that was good long before he be came the m<?t conspicuous historian of his day, was caricatured in one of the quarterly reviews as "Babble tongue Macau lay. ' Norraon McLeod, the great friend of the Scotch poor, was industriously maligned in all garters, although on the day when : he was carried oat to his burial a workman stood and looked ,at the fjineral procession " and said, "I ? he had done nothing for anybody m<^b than he has done for me, he should shine as the stars forever and ever." All the small wits of London had their fling at John Wesley, the father of Methodism. If such men could not escape the maligning of the world, neither can you expect to get rid of the sharp, keen stroke of the tribulum. All who will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution. Besides that there are the sicknesses, and the bank ruptcies, and the irritations, and the disappointments which are ever <.pij^ ting a cup of aloes to your lip. Those wrinkles on your face are hiero glyphics which,* if deciphered, would make out a thrilling story of trouble. The footstep of the rabbit is seen the next morning on the snow, and on the ^?hite hairs of the aged are the foot prints showing where swift trouble alighted ^ cloCds with sunshine. Everramid the joys and _hilari ties vflJi sometimes break in.~ As when the people weTe assem bled io the. Charlestown theater dur ing the Revolutionary wac_and while Ahey were witnessing a taree and the audience was in great gratuktion the gun* of an advancing army-"" were heard and the audience broke up in wild panic and ran ior their lives, so o/ttimes whale jtoy^jare seated amid tlie joys and festivities of this world you hear the cannonade of some great disaster. All the fitches, and the cummin, ana the corn must come downj>n the thrashing floor and be pounded. My subject, in the fir*t place, teaches us that it is no compliment to us if we escape great triaL The fitches and the cummin on the thrash ing floor might look over to the corn on another thrashing floor and say: "Look a? that poor, miserable, bruised corn! We have only been a little pounded, b'nt that has been almost destroyed." Well, the corn, if it had lip?, would answer and say: "Do you know the reason you have not been as much poundeJ as*- I have? It is because you are not of so much worth as I am. It you were, you would be as severely run over." Yet there are men who suppose they are the J-ord's favorites sfmply because their barns are lull, and their ban): account is flush, and there are nqpfunerals ia the house. It may be . beeausa they ace fitches ami cummin, while* down at the end j/ the lane the poor inflow may be the Lord's corn. "Tb? are but little pounded because yon are but Jktle worth, ancf she bruised aad groond because she is the beat part of the harvest The .heft of the thrashing machine ia seeded ing tb the value of the grain. If yo? have aoC been much, thrashed in liifei perhaps there is not much to thrasib! If yoo hav* not been much shakes of ?ou^e, -perhaps it is be causejyaere h be a very small yiekt^1- ^ vHiea^there are plenty ol btfcckbegrfes, the gatherers go out with laggfrflaaketg. but when the drought Bffalmost consumed the fruit then a quart measure will do as well. It took, the venomous snake on Paul's hand, abd^ie pounding of him with stones until he was taken up for dead , and the jamming against him of prison gates, and the Ephesian vocif eration* and the skinned ankles of the painful stocks, and the foundering of the Alexandrian corn ship, and the beheading stroke of the Roman sheriff to bring Paul to his proper develop ment. It was not because Robert Moffat and Lady Rachel Russell and Freder ick Oberim were worse than other that they had to suffer. It ifcey were better, and to make them best. By of the thrashing yon may always conclude the value of the grain. ? j HOT) TEMPERS OUB TKIAIJ5. Next my text teaches us that God proportions our trials to what we can bear. The staff for the fitches. The j rod for the cummin. The iron wheel for the^ corn. Sometimes people in great trouble say, "Oh, I can't bear it!" But you did bear it God would not have sent it upon you if he did not know that you could bear it. You trembled, and you swooned, but you got through. God will not take from your eyes one tear too many, nor from your lungs one sigh too deep, nor from your teaples one throb too sharp. The perplexities of your earthly business have not in them one | tangle too intricate. | You sometimes feel as if our world ! were full of bluf%eons living haphaz ard. Oh, no! They are thrashing instruments that God just suits to your ca*e. There is not a dollar of bad debts (jd your ledger, or a disappoint ment about gtjods that you expected to go up, b?t that have gone uown, or a swindle of your business partner, or a trick on the part of those who are in the same kind of business that you are, but God intended to overrule for your immortal help. 'lOh," you say, "there j is no need talking that way to me. I ! <ion t like to be cheated and outraged." j Neither does the corn like the corn [ thrasher , but after it has been thrash ed and winnowed it has a great deal better opinion of winnowing mills and com thrashers. V\ ell, you hay, "if I could choose my troubles, I wouid be willing to be troubled." Ah, ^ny brother, then it it would not be tfouble; Yon would choose something that would not hurt, and unless it hurts it does not get sanctified. \our trial perhaps may be childlessness. You are fond of chil dren. You say, "Why does God send j children to that other household where they are unwelcome and are beaten and banged about, when I would have taken them in the arms of my affec toons?" You say, "Any other trial out this. Your trial perhaps may be a disfigured countenance or a face that is easily caricatured, and you say, '*)h, I could endure anything if only I was good looking." And your trial perhaps is a violent temper, "and you have to drive it like six unbroken horses amid the gunpowder explosions of a great holiday, and ever aud anon t it runs away with you. Your trial is : the asthma. You Bay, "Oh, if it were rheumatism or neuralgia or erysipelas, but it is this asthmfc, and it is'such an' exhausting thing to breathe" . Your trouble is a husband,; short, sharp, snappy and cross about the house and rising a small riot because a button 58 off! How could you know the but ton is off? i trial is a wife ever in contest with the servants, and she is a sloven. Though she was ;very careful about her appearance in Jour presence once, now she is careless because she said her fortune is made! Your trial is a hard 3chool lesson you cannot learn, and you have bitten your finger nails until they were a sight to behold, .bvery body has some vexation or an noyance or trial, and he or she thinks it is the one least adapted. "Anv butThk" thi*'" ^ ***' "An7thing / * FAULT FINDERS REBUKED. *; Oh, my hearer, are you not ashamed to be complaining all this time against God'? Who manages the affairs of this world anyhow? , Is it an infinite Modoc, or a Sitting Bull savage, or an omnipotent Nana Sahib? No; it is the moat mercifal } and glorious and wise Being in all the universe. You cannot teach ^Omnipotence anything. You have fretted and worried almost enough. Do you not think so? S<^e^ of you are making yourselves rid 1- ^ culous inHhe right of the angels Here is a naval architect, and he draws out the plan of a ship of many thousand tons. Many workmen are en gaged on it for a long while. The ship is done, and some day with the flags up and the air gorgeous with bunting that vessel is launched for Southampton. At that time a lad 6 years of age comes running down the dock with a toy boat which he had made with his own jacknile, and he says: "Here, my boat is better than yours. Just look at this jjbboom and ^ese weather cross jack braces." And he drops his little boat beside the great ship, and there is a roar of laughter on the docks. Ah, ray friends, that great ship is *s your life as God planned it ? vnst, million tonned, ocean (testified, eternity. That littW boat is your lite as you are trying tp hew it out and fashion it and launcbjt Ah, do not try to be a rival of the great Jehovah. God is always right, ana in nine cases out ot ten you are wrong. He sends just the hardships, just the bank ruptcies, just the- cross, that it is best for you to have. He knows what kind of grain you are, and he sends the right kind of thrashing machine. It will be a rod or a staff or iron wheel just according as you are fitches or cummin or corn. Again, my subject teaches us that God keeps trial on us until we let go. The farmer shouts "whoa!" to his horses as soon as the grain has drop ped from the stalk. The farmer comes with Ibis fork and toese%up the straw, and he 9ees that the straw has let go the grain and the grain is thoroughly thrashed. So God. Smiting rod and j turning wheel both cease as soon as we let go. We hold on to this world \ with its pleasures and riches and ; emoluments, and our knuckles are so firmly set that it seems as if we hold could on forever. God comes along with J some thrashing trouble and beats us i loose. We started under the delusion that this was a great world. We learned out of our geography that it was so many thousand miles in diameter and so many thousand miles in circumference, and we said , "Oh, j my. what a world!" Troubles came in after life, and this trouble sliced off | one part of the world and that trouble sliced off another part of the world, and it has got to be a smaller world 1 and in some of your estimations a very insignificant world, and it is i depreciating all the time as a spiritual property. Ten per cent off, 50 per cent off, andthere are those here who would not give 10 cents for this world for the entire world -as a soul possession. FRIENDSHIP. We thought that that friendship was a grand thing. In school we used to write compositions about friendship, and perhaps we made our graduating jBpeech. on commencement day on friendship. Oh, it was a charmed thing, but does it mean as much to you as it used to.' You have gone on in life, and one friend has betrayed you, and another friend hag misinter preted youK and another friend ha3 neglected you, and friendship comes now sometimes U> mean to you merely another ax to^gricd. So with money. We thought if a man had a competency he was safe for all the futaoe, but we have learned that a mortgage may be defeated by an unknown previous incumbrance; that signing your name on the back of a note may be your business death warrant; that a new tariff may change the current of trade; that a man may be rich today and poor tomorrow. And God, by ail these misfortunes, is try ing to loosen our grip, but still we hold on. God smites us with a staff', but we hold ou. And he strikes us with a rod, but we hold on. And he sends over us the iron wheel of misfortune, but we hold on. There are n>en who keep their grip on this world until the last moment who suggest to me the condition and conduct of the poor Indian in the lx>at in the Niagara rapids coming on to ward the fall. freeing that he could not escape, a moment or two before he got to the verge of the plunge he lifted a wine bottle and drank it of!" and then tossed the bottle into the air. Ho there are men who clutch the world, and they go down through the rapids of temptation and sin, and they hold on to the very last moment of life, drinking to their eternal damuation as they go over and go down. Ob, let go! Ijet go! The l>est for tuues are iu heaven. There are no absconding cashiers from that bank, no failing in promises to pay. Set your affections onjJbjngs above, not on things on the earth. "Let go! De pend upon it that G'>d will keep upon you the staff, or the rod, or the iron wheel until you do let go. Another thing my text teaches us is that Christian sorrow is going to have a sure terminus. JV?yk text s?ys, "Bread corn is bruised because he will not be ever thrashing it." Blessed be God for that! Pound away;jP ffail! Turn/ oil,' O wheel! You^Wbrk will so??n be done. ' He will not be ever thrashing it." .Now the, Christian has almost as much use in the organ for the stop tremulant as he has for the trumpet. But after awhile he will put the last dirge into the portfolio forever. So mnch of ns as is wheat will be separated from so much as is chaff, and there will be no -more need of pounding. NO TEARS IN IIEAVEN. They never cry in heaven because they have nothing to cry about. There are no tears of bereavemeut, for you shall have your friends all around about you. There are no tears of proverty because each one sits at the king's table and has his own chariot of salvation and free access to the wardrobe where princes get their array. No tears of sickueae, for there are no pneumonias on the air, and no malarial exhalations from the rolling river of life, and no crutch for the lame limb, and no splint for the broken arm, but the pulses throbbing with the health of the eternal God in a climate like our June before the blossoms fall, or our gorgeous October J before the leaves scatter. In that land the souls will talk over the different modes of thrashing- Oh, the story of the staff that struck fitches, and the rod- that beat the cummin, and the irou wheel that went over the corn! Daniel will describe" the lions, and Jonah leviathans, and Paul the elmwood whips with which he was scourged, and Eve will tell how aromatic Eden was the day she left it, and John Rogers will tell of the smart of the flame, and Elijah of the fiery team that wheeled him up the iky steeps, and Christ of the numbness and paroxysm and hemorrhages of the awful crucifixion. There they are be?*re the throne of"Gi>d. On one elevation all th?>se who were struck of the staff'. On a higher elevation all those who were struck of the rod. < >n a highest elevation and amid the/ highest altitudes of heaven all those who were under the wheel. He wilt not ever be t hi ashing it. Uhrmy hearers, is there not enough ; salve in this text to make a plaster i large enough to heal your wounds? . When a child is hurt, the mother is very apt to say to it, "Now, it will soon feel better." And that is what God says when he unbosoms all the trouble in the hush of this great promise, "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." You may leave your pocket baud kerchief sopping wet with tears on your death pillow, but you will go up absolutely sorrowless They will wear black; you will wear white. Cypresses for them; palms for you. You will say: "It is possible that I am here? Is this heaven? Am I so pure now I will' never do anything wrong? Am I so well that I will never again be sick? x\re these companionships so firm that they wWl never again be broken? Is that | Mary? Is that John? Is that my iove iDue I put away into darkness? I Can it t*e that these are the faces of j those who lay so wan and emaciated in the back room on that awful night | dying? Oh. how radiant they are! Look at them! How radiant they I are! NOT A SUNSET. "Why, how unlike this place is from what I thought when I left the world below. Ministers drew pictures of this land, but how tame compared ^yith the reality! They told me on earth that death was 3unset No no! It is sunrise! Glorious sunrise! I see the light now purpling the hiis, aud the clouds tiame with the coming day!"; Then the gates of heaven * will be opened, and the entranced soul, with the acuteness and power of the ; celestial vision, will look ten thousands of miles down upon the bannered j procession ? a river of shimmering i splendor ? and will cry out, "Who are ' they?" And the angel of God stand- ! ing close by will say, "Don't you I know who they are?" "No," says the ; entranced soul, "I cannot guess who they are/' The angel will say: "I ; will tell you, then, who they" are. These are they who came out of great tribulation or thrash iug and had their robs washed and made white iu the blood of the Lamb." Oh,^hat I could administer some of theseSjrops of celestial anodyne to those nervous and excited souls. If you would take enough of it, would cure all your pangs. The thought that you are going to get through with this after awhile, all this sorrow and all this trouble! We shall have & i great many grand days in heaven, but I will tell you which will be the grandest day of all the million ages of heaveu. You say, "Are yotf sure you can tell me? Yes, I can. It will be the .lay we get there. Some say heaven is growing more glorious. 1 suppose it is, but I do not care much j about that. Heaven now is ir,**! euough fi>r me. History has no more gratulatory scene than the breaking in ?f the Loglish army upon Lucknow, A few weeks before a massacre had I 0CCJur^(l1Iat ( aw?pore, ami 2<R) women and children had been put in H room. , Ihen five professional butchers went in and sjfiaiihfin,. Then the belies I of the slam were takeu out and thrown I into a well. As the Koglisjy^mv came mv> Ca^n^re they.ivenl into [ tiie room, ami oh, whatiyWrid scene' | Wd strokes on the /all near the floor, showing that tM poor things bad crouched when fhey died, and they saw also that the [floor was aukle deep in blood. The ^oldiers walked on their heels across itllest their shoes be submerged of the carnage. And on that floor of blo^d there were dreads ^ haU* ^ fra8meate ot DEfiPAIR TURNED TO TRIUMPH. Out 10 Luck now they"had heard of ihe massacre, and the women were waiting for the same awful death waiting amid anguish untold; waiting I m pain and starvation, but waiting | heroically, when one day Havelock land O'ltram and Norman and Sir David l.aird #l ,| Pec], the heroes of | the English army? huzza for them!? | broke in on that horrid scene, and J /f the g,,l;8 were funding, and while cheers were issuing from the starving, dying people ou the one aide, and from the travel worn and powder blackened soldiers on the other ?right there in front of the king's I palace there was such a scene .of handshaking and embracing and bois tennis joy as would utterly confound the pen of the poet and the pencil of the painter. And do wonder, when these emacia led women, who had suffered so hero ically for Christ's sake, marched out from their incarcerations one wounded English soldier got up in his fatigue and wounds and leaned against the wall and threw his cap up and shout I f' n,ree cheers, my bovs, for the brave women. Oh, that was an eiciting scene, a gladder and more triumphant ?c?ne wi11 11 he when you come up | into heaven from the conflicts and in lacerations of this world streaming with the wounds of battle and- wau with hunger, and while the h<?te of God are cheering their great hosan I na you will strike hands of congrat ulation aud eternal deliverance in the presence ?f the throne. On that night there will be bonfires on every hill of heaven, and there will be illumination in every place, and there will be a candle in every window? ah, no; I forget, I forget. They will have no need^f the <and!e or of the sun, for the?L?rd God giveth them light, and re,ga f'"Vrer a,l<l ever. \BUri. hail! sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty. S!X DARfNG R08BERS HOLD <JP A BANK. They Compel the Cashier to Give Up All the Money? Bloody Fight With Citizen* ? The Robbers K*c?pe. Louisville, Ky., June 6. ? A special from Rodgers, Ark., says: This town was thrown into the wildest ex citement about 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon by a band of six robbers rushing in and with drawn Winches ters robbing the People's Bank of all the gold and currency, amounting to _abqut 810,000. They came into town by a~bw;k alley and left one of their number (to hold their horses, while three them went into the bank and at the points of their guns compelled the cashier to give tbem all the cash in the vault, and two of their number stood guard at the floor and fired into the streets at every man who showed his head. The citizens, however, as soon 5 as possible, got what arms they could, and begau firing at the robbers, final ly wound i'tg two of. 1 hem, but to what extent is not known. Three cit'fcens were wounded in the tight: George J. Jackson, a slight wound in the h*ad; Tom Baker, slightly wounded in the I chiu; Taylor Stone, shot in the groin,. j the hall coming out at the hip; he is dangerously wounded and may die. j When the robbers left the bank they compel led some of the bank officials to go before and behind them in order to protect them from the citizens. The sheriff, with |M>sses, started in pursuit immediately, and at the -last accounts were only a quarter of a hiile behind tbem. It is thought that they will oe captured, but it is not prob able that they will give up without a hard fight. It is supposed --that they are making for the Indian Territory, j as they are traveling in that direc- j tion. Another special from Rogers says a j skirmish between the sheriffs posse and the robbers took place about four miles west of Bentonville, but gives | no particulars. Harry Dill In Jai> i? Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga.. June 6. ? Harry Hill, against whom there are several 1 indictments for forgery, and who was j arrested in Chicago, was brought back to Atlanta today and is now confined in the city prison. The grand jury has found additional bills agams*. him, all charging him with fofgiDg the name of Mrs. .1. H. Porter to I commercial paper. He persists in j his statement that Mrs. Porter signed ! some of the notes, and that he had full authority to sign the others. This the fady denies in toto. Ii WEATHER CROP BULLETIN. I Showitc the Condition of the Crops tn South Carolina. The following is the weekly bulle tin of Director Harmon of the State weather service issued Tuesday: 'lhe heavy rains over the State die paj>t seven days have retarded farm Work considerably, washed out cotton and corn and allowed grass to make rapid headway. With dry weather this can be taken in time and much trouble averted. Labor is abundant and progressive farmers will soon dis count any evil efUx-ts of the grass. fcjome hail and high winds did con siderable danm^r^uit and lodged grjAiu ba'ily, whnrn, for the most part, w/ll rise again. \\ hiie too wet and qbld for cotton, other crops have been greatly benefitted and made rapid growth. PI KI > MO N'T RfcXUON. \Y heat, fall oata, corn, sorghum, gardens and fruits are reported in good condition with cotton fair. Ap ples are short, but peaches plenty. Cotton looks better than last week, but small. The ravages of cut worms still continue in some localities. The replanted com on lowlands is not more than a half stand. I^and has been l>adly washed in some places bv the heavy rains and some corn drown ed out. Oats have improved greatly, as has also wheat and rye. Some rust is reported on the blades. A tornado in Atfiitferson county damaged crops and stocks. iu the line of its path; outside however, crops are doing well. \ Hail injured cotton, corn ami fruit in some counties. Many farmers were unable to plow more than two days of the seven owing to excessive rains and all farm work is \tow at a stand. Grass has made rapid head way, hut as the farmers are well up wif.h theh^rfork, its progress can be easily checked. MIDDLE BELT. flie outlook is very encouraging for crops in this section, if warm weather with plenty of suushine fol lows the rain. While hail has damaged fruit on the trees, grapes have sustained hut slight, injury. Cotton, corn and melons suttt-red some, but the greatest damage has l*en done by the washing of the lands on the slopes, and the rapid overflows from creeks and rivers. Much coru ou the low lands will have to be replauted. Harvest ing has been delayed, but as it had uot fairly begun slight damage re sulted. The land is too wet. for work and grass is gaining ground in places that were entirely free last week. Much of the cotton recently chopped to a stand has been beaten flat. The plant looks well, but still continues small; it is about three weeks late. Oats continue to improve and cutting of fall will begin iu a few days. Melons and gardens look fine. Peaches are ripening, but also rot ting; lice are kilting apple trees. COAST RHUION. Cotton and corn already show the beneficial effects of the much needed rains. Work has been retarded and grass made decided progress, but gen erally everything is advancing with rapid strides. Heavy shipments of vegetables still continue from Charleston to the Northern markets. Cotton is thriving and corn is ijr excellent condition. Pluiug a i> re ported as never more abundant than at present, but^ierries are poor. Oats and wheat are *beiug harvested; fall oats very go<xl, spring o&U almost a failure. - Late planted cotton is com ing up well. Note ? Piedmont region comprises the counties of Oconee, Pickens, Anderson, Greenville, Spartauburg, Union, York, Chester, Abl>eville, Laurens and Newberry. Middle belt comprises Edgtfield, Aiken, Barnwell, Lexington, Orange burg, Fairfield, Rich laud, Kershaw, Lancaster, Chesterfield, Marlboro, Darlington, Sumter, Clarendon, Florence and Marion. Coast region comprises Hampton, Beaufort, Celleton, Berkeley, Char leston, WilRamsburg, Georgetown and Horry. SERVED HIM RIGHT. An Insulting Drum?n*r Whaled With u Buggy Whip. Kinard's, S. C., June 9. ? Frank S. Baldwin, a shoe drummer, from the j North, had received his just deserts j here. He came to this place to sell : Mr. J. A. Dominick a bill of goods. I His polished manner, apparently, | caused Mr. Dominick U invite him to \ remain at his house over night so as i to examine hts samples. The next morning he left the table 1 before the balance of the family, and I [ on pretense of telling Mrs. Dominick I I goodbye attempted to kiss her. j She informed her husband of the in- I ; suit. He promptly ordered the traitor j from his premises and would have shot I him had not cooler heads advised Mr. I Dominick not to kill him, but tb cow- \ hide him severely. Baldwin was i ordered, at the mouth of a double I barrel shotgun, to lie down over the railroad track. He did so very nicely, j when Mr. J. A. Dominick cowhided i him with a buggy whip without mercy. I He was then told to leave and never I come to these parts again. ? Augusta ; Evening News. The Twifctnian Murderer Convicted. Charleston, Jiwe 9. ? In the Berkeley court of sessions today Oscar | Johnson, the Augusta negro charged | with the murder of Mr and Mrs Tweitman at Lincoln ville, was coulj victed of murder in the lirst degree and was remanded for sentence of death. Johnson kept up the stolid and indiflerent demeanor that he had put on immediately after bis arrest. He will be sentenced to dt-ath next week. Ready to Form Camp*. Col. S. S. Crittenden, brigadier gen . eral of the order of United Confederate Veterans for South Carolina, has re- ! ceived copies of the revised constitution. He is now ready to furnish these to persons desiring to form camps and will proceed with the organization as j rapidly as possible. A Nbvel l'hilwuthropie Idea-Tbe llelpiu* Hand Via tors' Club. tk0h! how I wish I could get out of the hot city for a little rest ami change this summer! I can't afford to pay cash tor my board; but, indeed! 1 d be very glad to sew or do any kiud of work about the house tor it," exclaim ed a bright young woman to a sympa thetic customer with philanthropic inclinations, whom she was serving. "No; I've no one I could visit," she continued, in reply to the natural suggestion that she might visit a friend. A few days later the customer was calling at a charming little home in a pleasant suburb, when her hostess, &prop< >8 of some pressing duties, said: "If 1 knew of some nice young wo man who would like to spend a week or two in the country, and who would come and stay here and help me a little with my work each day, I would board her without charge, aud lie glad of the chauce! It would really be a mutual l*uietit: she would have an in expensive outing, ? a genuine outing, too, for I ' could easily arrange mat ters so that she might have a good portion of each day for recreation aud to enjoy this bracing air and picturesque scenery, ? and 1 could get "caught up" in aome of my sewing, and have some rest, too; and each would be giving a full equivalent for value received. You're always study ing up s?>me plan to help people who try to help themselves, can't you sug gest something for my case?'' She of the philanthropic inclina tions immediately l)ethougbt herself of the bright young woman in the stifling city shop. Thev talked the matter over, and in less than a week the city girl was enjoying the longed-for coun try surroundings, while her hostess was equally happy in the prospect of gelling '"caught up" in her work and | having some rest. The exjieriment j proved a perfect success; ami thus was j sown the germ which has grown into i the Helping Hand Visitors' Club, a unique organization, formed on the j plan curritd out in the first experi ment, through which those who have J homes in the country and who would j like to receive a Helping Hand ! Visitor fur a sojourn of any specified length can l>e put. into communication with resectable self supporting wo men in citiex, ? clerks, seamstresses, milliners, etc., ? who, though anxious to spend a short vacation in the coun try, con not afford the necessary ex penditure for board. Undoubtedly, there are many who would be glad to receive these young women into their homes on the condi tion that in return for boarftand lodging they would render some service in sewing or housework, leav ing themselves, of course, sufficient time during the dav to enjoy the pleasures of walks, drives, or other recreations. A (Central Bureau has been estab lished in New York for furthering the purposes of the club, aud extending its development in all directions. Philanthropic women interested in forming local branches for carrying out this great work, housekee|>ers wishing to receive Helping Hand Visitors, or young women desiring to S|>end their vacation under such condi tions, are invited to address the Secre tary of ^ the Helping Hand Visitors' Club, 15 East Fourteenth Street, New York, enclosing a stamped envelope for reply. > 1 J THE SHERMAN LAW MUST GO. Congressional Sentiment f.n.rj;?-ly in Favor <?m? K?-]>hh1. Nkw York, June S. ? The world interviewed nearly *11 the members of Congress by telegraph on the following questions: 1. I)o you, with your present in formation, favor the rej>eal of the Sherman silver law? 2. Do you favor an income tax? o. Do you Tavor the re{>eul of the State hank tax? The World, in reporting their answer*, says: Many of the answers deviate so far Irom plain "yes" or 'no," .and involve so many qualifications, that no tabular statement would fair j ly represent the opinions they express, j The ini[>ortant facts shown art* that to i the first question, "Do you, w ith your present information, favor the re{>eal of the Sherman ?i!ver law?" there are eighty-six representatives who practically, "yes,4"' while only eighteen say "no," Ottherot. many <jnality their answer so stronirl\ that they can not fairly he placed in the allirmative columnf nut show plainly that th?-ir inclinations are in favor of a i e | h-.i I . The sentiment of the loner house on that question seems to he overwhelm ing' The Woild has already polled the fSenate on the silver hill, and on March (Jth last printed a tahle show ing that the body st? m ?? i : For rejH al. j o(J; against rej>eal, ?*'.*: non-committal. ' It), It will he noticed that several | who were mm comniittal then are now j in favor of the rej>eal. There seems to he no doubt that nearly two-third> \ of the Senate will vote that way. Oil the newer question ofan income j tax develops an interesting situation, i Men who speak freely as to the Slier- j mau'hill evade or ignore litis question. : but forty tive say squarely they favor it. Forty two say they do not. South ern and Western Congressmen are the I most nutneeous advocates of such a j tax. On the .State bank tax question the opinion is almost one sided as in re gard to the Sherman bill. Many dodge it entirely, but sixtv say jxt.si tively against repealing the tax, w hile only 'thirty favor a repeal. Georgia Banker* for Ki p*-*). Savannah, Cia., .June *. ? The' Georgia Bankers' Association's second annual meeting was held here today, j On motion of T. B. Neal, representing J the clearing house of Atlanta, ami K. ! F. Burdell, representing the clearing house of Savannah, resolutions were adopted urging ( Georgia's Senators and Representatives to use all efforts in their power to secure the repeal of the Sherman law. and also declaring that the association was opposed to the tree coinage of silver unless 1 00 cents worth of silver was coined in the dol lar. for Infants and Children. HIRTY yoaiV obset-vatiion of Castoria with the patronage of J million!* of persons, permit n? to wpeak o^tt without guessing. It 1* unquestionably th*? Ttcst romody for Infanti and Children the world has cvo-* H-*xn. It i? harmless. Children like it. It gives them health. It will nave t hoirlive*. lit it Mothers hav? : something which wbsolotely ?afe and practically perfect a? a ( child's medicine. CaHtoriajJehtjpoys Worm*. i Castoria allay* Feverishne*s. Castoriajprevents vomiting Sour Curd. Castoria caret* Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. C as tori a relieves Teething Trouble*. Castoriajmres Constipation and Flatulency. ? Castoria neutralises the effect? of carbonio acid gas or poisonous air. Castoria does not contain morphine, opium, or other narcotic jproporty. Castorla assimilates the food, tegnlatoi the staomac h and bywpls, giving healthy and natural slepp. Castoria is put up in one-size bottles only. It Is not sold in bulh. Don t allow any one to s?ll you anything eUe on the plea or promise that it is " jn*t a? good " and " will answer every purpose." See that you ret C-A-S-T-O-R-I-A. The fac -simile sjj? i?onev*ry signature of wrapper. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorla. Cheap Cotton According to a number of reports ! juf?t published by the Texap Agricul- j tn ml Experiment Station, the average j of rau<ing cotton in the "Loiio Stir i State" is considerably le.su than six i cents a |?ound. The cost in CIeorg:a. . which is :i representative Southern -Mate, is 7.(M> cents. It is abundantly shown in the exj>erirueut8 of the Messrs. (.'lark, of Bell County, #that cotton can l>e grown at less than five cents a j>ouud. Mr W. A. ( lark's crop was raised ii]k>ii land that had already produced a crop of j>eas, the profits of which are not given. Mr Wellborn, of Bowie (bounty, hy the aid of a cotton harvester, grew the: staple at 21 2 cents a pound. In his letter accompanying his detailed statement Mr Wellborn says: "This is ou Red river bottom ? without over flow. The hill lauds make alxtut half as much as the bottoms and will cost about one-third more |>er acre. I in clude wear and tear of machinery in my estimate." The New Orleans Times-Democrat says this is the best it has ever heard of in the matter of cotton production, but the following figures from farmers scattered through the Siate show that Texas can ruise tue staple cheaply: ,W. A. Clark. Bell County, 4.09 ceuts; Homer Clark, Bell County, 4. 62 cents; J. M. McCray, Comanche County, 0.47 cents; .J. F. Myers, Williamson County, o cents; W. G. Johnson. Falls County, MM cents; Texas Ag ricultural Station, Brazos County, 5.42 cents. These re jx ?rts are to Ik? consolidated and printed for use as an immigration document. RipansTabules. Ripans Tahulcs arc com pounded from a prescription widely used by the best medi cal authorities and are pre sented in a form lh.it is be coming the fashion every where. Ripnns robules net gently but promptiv upon the liver, stomiuh and i;i.t?'s!ines; cure dvspepsia, hnb^unl constipa ti? >n. offensive brea'.h and head .k lie. une tabuie taken at the lirsi svmptom c-t indigestion, j;:sn! dizziness," distress aih-r eating. or depression of spirits, will surelv and quickly remove the whole difficulty. RipansTabules mav beoD tained of nearest druggist. Ripans Tab tiles are c.isv 10 take, quick lo net, and save ! 1 1 . : 1 1 y a doc tor's bill. viulc. i'flrb. C'U.f,; HID. i > ' lui'i ??: M -,:k< <?k JBEN-HUR . | I^RiCjr?Lis| -i. KftLUC!* i !LS iii\t3 $103.00 CUSHSDV T!'-c, ? - - 7S.CD COS KXW 1893 1X07X2 SUT 0I7XX. ttBS FLOWER SEEDS Vanetiw.FREE ? A*r?Mr*Uelr40r*r br M OI4-f>t?blVk<4 i?4 Kfil able I'abtUM** ????*! T?? Ur,cr "w un?for I ^>-1 tU furilv ? lui*. ll u devotrii to pMMk fumy work, artJKU ???4U?ork. h.m* bnu?kr?M?. fMkKxw, byKMM, mJiM, rttourtte. rlf. 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