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AT TI1E TABEKS'ACLI DR. TALMAGE ON THE LESSON OF PHARISEE AND THE PUBUCAN. True Ki-penlaoce Is ft Godl^titorrow Fijt Sin? Bf the De?<i? of the Law No Pleah Can Be and So the Self issrtiafted are <v 1 CMMaMO. Brooklyn, July 2. ? Rev. Dr. Tal mage had selected as his subject for today a picture of contrast, "Arro gance and Humility," the text being Luie xviii, 13, "God be mercifol to . me, a sinner!" No mountain ever had a more bril liant coronet than Mount Horiah. The glories of the ancient temple Mazed there. The mountain top was not originally iarge enough to hold the temple, and so a wall 600 ieet high was erected, and the mountain was built out into that wall. It was at that point that satan met Christ and tried to persuade him to cast himself down the 600 feet. The nine gates of the temple flashed the lighfcof silver and gold und Corinthian brass, which Co rinthian brass was mere precious stones melted and mixed and crystal lized. The temple itself was not so very large a structure, but the courts and the adjuncts of the architecture made it half a mile in circumference. We stand and look off upon that s wondrous structure. What's the mat ter? What strange appearance in the j in the temple? Is it fire? Why, it seems as if it were a mansion all kin dled into tiame. What's the matter? Why, it's the hour of morning sacri fice, aud the smoke on the altar rises and bursts out of the crevices and out , of the door and wreathes the moun tain top with folds of smoke, through which glitter preciou3 stones gathered and burnished by royal munificence. I see two men mounting the steps of the building. They go side by side; they are very unlike; no sympathy be . tween them ? the one the pharisee, proud, arrogant, pompous, he goes up the steps of the building. He seems by his manner to 3ay: "Clear the track! Never before came up these steps such goodness and consecration." THE REPENTANT 8INNER. Beside him ww the publican, bowed down seemingly with a load on his heart They reach the inclosure for worship in the midst of the temple. The pharisee goes close np to the gate of the holy of hol ies. He feels he is -worthy to Stand there. He says prac . i ea i \jz "I am so holy I want to go in to the holy of holies. O Lord, I am a very good maft. I'm a remarkably good man. Why, two days in the week I eat absolutely nothing. I'm so good. I'm very generous ?in my conduct toward the poor. I have no sympathy with the common rabble; especially have I none with this poori miserable, commonplace, wretched publican who happened to come up the stairs beside me." * _ Jfte^peblican went to the other side of the inclosure, as far away from the ijate of the holy of holies as he could get, for he felt unworthy to stan A near the sacred place. And the Bible savs he stood afar off. Standing on the op posite side of this iucloeure he bows his head, and as orientals when they have any trouble beat their breasts, so he begins to pound his breast as he cries, uGod be merciful to me, a sin ner!" ^ ! ??iijliiHilSrriiiere evsr a ?reaUr con* that wafted that morning from the priest's censer was not so sweet as the publican's prfcver floating into the opening heavens, wfcile the prayer of the pharisee died on\his contemptuous lips and rolled down. "in to his arrogant heart Wor"'" there they join each other and by side down the steps, the, " cross, wretched, acrid, saturnine; the publican with his face shining with the very joys of heaven, for "I tell you that this man went down to his house justified rather than the other." ^tow, I put this publican's prayer under analysis, and I discover in the first place that he was persuaded of his sinfulness. He was an honest man, he was a taxgatherer he was an officer of the government The publicans were taxgatherers, and Cicero says they were the adornment of the state. Of course they were somewhat unpop ular, because people then did not like to pay their taxes any better than people now like to pay their taxes, and there were many who disliked them. Still, I suppose this publican, this taxgatherer, was an honorable raan. He had an office of trust There were many hard things said about him, and yet standing there in that in closure of the temple amid the demon strations of God's holiness and power, he cries out from the very depths of his stricken soul, "God be merciful to me, a sinner!" By what process shall I prove that I am a sinner? By what process shall I prove that you are a sinner? Shall I ask you to weigh your motives, to scan your actions, to it estimate your behavior? I will do aothing the kind. I will draw my ? argument rather from the plan of the work that God has achieved for your salvation. THE IMPERILED 30UL. ,Y?U go down in a storm to the beach, and yQu see wreckers put on their rough jackete and launch the lifeboat and then shoot the rockets to show that help is coming out into the breakers, and you immediately* cry "A shipwieck^ And when I Ze the Christ putting aside robe *mt*5rown and launch out on the toss ing sea of human suffering and Satan ic hate, going out into the thundering surge of death, I cry, "A shipwreck!" I know that our souls are dreadfully lost by the work that God has done to save them. Are you a sinner? Suppose you had a commericial agent in Charleston or San Francisco or Chicago, and you were paying him promptly his salary, and you found out, after awhile, that notwithstanding lie had drawn the salary he had given nine-tenths of all the time to some Sther commercial establishment. Wig, your indignation would know nojpbunds. And yet that is just the . wa? we have treated the Lord. He sent us out into this world to serve him. He has taken good care cf ua ? he ha* clothed us, he h?i sheltered as, and he has surrounded us with 10,000 benefactions, and yet many of us have given nine-tenths of our lives to the service of the world, the flesh and the devil, Why, my friend, the Bible is foil of confession, and I do not find anybody is pardoned until he has confessed. What did David say? "I will con fess my transgressions unto the Lord/' What did Isaiah say? "Woe is me, because I am a man of unclean lips." What did Ezra say? "Our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up into heaven." And among the millions before the throne of God tonight not one got there until he confessed. The coast of eternal sorrow is strewn with the wreck of those who, not taking the warning, drove with the cargo of immortal hope into the white tangled foam of the breakers. / Repent! the voice eelestial cries, No longer dare ielay; The wretch that scons the mac date dies And meets the fiery day. But I analyze the publican's prayer a step further, nftd I find that he expected no relief! except through God's mercy. W hy did not he say, I am an an onorable man. When I get $10 taxes, I pay them right over to the government I give foil permis sion to anybody ta audit my accounts. I appeal to thy justice, O God! He made no such pleiL He threw himself flat on God's mer?y, NO HOPE IN 8JEL F RIGHTEOU8NE8S. Have you any idea that a man by breaking off the scales of the leprosy can change the di jeaee? Have you any idea that yen can by changing, your life change your ieart, that you can purchase your way to heaven? Come, bring all the bread you ever gave to the hungry, all the medicine you ever gave to the sick, all the kind words you have ever uttered, all the kind deeds that have ever distinguished you. Add them all up into the tremendous aggregate of good words and works, and then you will see Paul sharpen his knii^ as he cuts that spirit of self satisfaction, as he cries, "By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified." " \. . - , ? Well, say a thousand men in this audience, if I am not to get anything in the way of peace from God in good works, hfcw am I to be saved? By mercy. Here I aland to tell the story mercy, mercy, long suffering mercy sovereign mercy, infinite mercy, omnipotent mercy, everlasting mercy. Why, it seeing in tl>e Bible as if all language were exhausted, as if it were stretched until it broke, as if all expres sion were struck deid at the feet of prophet and apostle and evangelist when it tries to descibe God's mercy. Oh, aay8 some one, that is only adding to my crime if I come and confess before God jjjd seek his mercy. No, no! The muixlerer has come, and whije he was washing the blood of his victim from his hands looked into the kce of God and cried for mercy, and his soul has been white in God's pardoning love! And the soul that has wondered off in the streets and down to the very gates of hell bas come back to hor father's house, throwing her arms around his neck| and been saved b y the mercy that saved Mary Magdaen. THE DOOR8 JF MERCY. But, says some one, you are throw ing open that door c ? mercy too wide. No, I will throw it open wider. I will take the respond bility of saying that if all this audience, instead of be ing gathered iff a semicircle, were placed side by aide in on? long line they could all march right through that wide open gate of mercy. "Who soever," " whoso ver.,: Oh, this mercy o. ( iod. There is no line long enough to ikthom it; there- is no ladder long i enough to scafe it; there is no arithme tic facile enough 76o calculate it; no angel's wing can fly across it Heavenly harpere, aided by choirs with feet like the sat, cannot compass that harmony of mercy, mercy. It ! sounds in the rumblhg of the celestial gate. I hear it in tiie chiming of the celestial towers. I see it flashing in the uplifted and downcast cdfonets ot tiie saved. I hear it in the thunder ing tread of the bannered host round about the throne, &nd then it comes from the harps aid crowns and thrones and processions to sit down, unexpressed, on a throne overtopping all heaven ? the throne of mercy. How I was affected when some one told me in regard to uhat accident on Long Island sound, when one poor woman came and got her hand on a raft as she tried to sa.ve herself, but those who were on the raft thought there was no room for her, and one man came and mGSt cruelly beat and bruised her hands until she fell off. Oh, I bless God thfit this lifeboat of the gospel has room enough for the sixteen hundred millions of the race room for one, roonc for all, and yet there is room! I push this analysis of the publican's I prayer a s*ep further ind find that he I did not expect any mercy except by pleading for it He did not fold his ! hands together as somas do, saying, "If ! I'm to be saved, I'll be saved; if I'm to be lost, IH be l*t, aad there is nothing for me *1$ do." He knew what was worth hiring was worth asking for'; hence this earnest cry of the text, uGod be mejcifulio me, a sinner!" \ ? It was an earnest prayer, and it is characteristic of all Bible prayers that were answered. The blind man, "Lord, that I may re<eive my sight;" the leper, "Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean;" sinking Petlr, "Lord save me;" the publican, "God be merciful to me, a sinner!" But if; you come up with the tip, of your finger and tap at the jjate of mercy it will not open. You have got to have the earnestness ot the warrior who, defeated and pursued, liismpunts from his lathered steed and irith gauntleted fists pounds at the palace gate. You have got to h*?3 the earnest ness of the man who at midnight in the fourth story has a sense of suffoca tion with the house in flames, goes to the window and shouts to the firemen, ?'Help!" Oh, unforgmn soul, if you were in full earnest I might have to command silence in tibe auditory, tor your prayersjrould drown the voice of the speaker, and we would have to pause in the great aemrice! It is be cause you do not -realjze jour sin be lore God that you aie not this mo aaeat crying mercy, mejty, mercy. j HE WAS TRULY REPENTANT. Thia prayer of the publican was also an bumble prayer. The pharisee looked up, the publican looked down, i ou cannot be saved as a metaphysi cian or as a rhetorician; you-cannt be saved as a scholar; you cannot be sav ed as an. artist; you cannot be saved as an official. ^ If you are ever saved at all, it will be as a sinner. "God be merciful to me, a sinner!',' Another characteristic of the prayer of the publican was, it had a ring of confidence. It was not a cry of des pair. He knew he was going to get what he asked for. He wanted mercy. He asked for it, expecting it And do you tell me, O man, that God has provided this salvation and is not go ing to let you have it? If a man builds a bridge across a river, will he not let people go over it? If a physician gives a prescription to a sick man, will he not let him take it? If an architect puts up a building, will he not let people in it? If God provides salvation, will he not Vet you have it? Oh, if there be a pharisee here, a man who says: I am all right My past life has been right I don't want the pardon of the gospel, for I have no sin to pardon, let me say that while that man is in that mood there is no peace for him, there is no pardon, no salvation, and the probability is he will go down and spend eternity with the lost pharisee of the text But if there be here one who says, I want to be better; I want to quit my sins; my life hasbeen a very imperfect life; how many things have I said that I should not have said; how many things I have done I should not have done; I want to change my life; I want to began now; let me aay to such a soul, God is wait ing, God is ready, and you are near the^kingdom, or rather you have entered it, for no man says, I am determined to serve God and surrender the sins of my life; here, now, I con secrate myself to the Lord Jesus Christ who died to redeem me ? no man from the depth of his soul says that but he is already a Christian. A REPENTANT NEGRO. My uncle, the Rev. Samuel K. Tal mage 6f Augusta, Ga., was passing aloDg the streets of Augusta one day, and be saw a man, a black man, step from the sidewalk out "into the street, take his hat off and bow very lowly. : My uncle was not a man who de manded obsequiousness, and he said, "What do you do that lor?" "Oh," says the man, ' massa, the other night I was going along the street, and I had a burden on my Shoulder, and I was sick, and I came to the door of your church, and you were preaching about 'God be merciful to me, a sinner!' and I stood there at the door long enough to hear you say that iiiMDaan could utter that prayer from the depths of his soul God would par don him and finally take him to heav en. Then I put my burden on my shoulder, and I started home. I got to my home, and I sat down, and I said, 'God be merciful to me, a sinner!' but it got darker and darker, and then, massa, I got down on my knees, and f uaid. 'God be merciful to me, a sinaer!' and the burden got heavier, and it rot darker and darker. I knew not what to do. Then I got down on, my facje, and I cried' 'God be merciful to meAa sinner!' and away off I saw a lignt coming, and it came nearer and nearer until all was bright in my heart, and I arose. I am happy now? the bur den is all gone ? and I said to myself if ever I met you in the street I would get clear off the sidewalk, and I would bow down and take my hat off before*] you. I feel that I owe more to you than to any other man. That is the reason I bow before you." Oh, are there not many now who can utter this prayer, the prayer of the black man, the prayer of the pub lican, "God be njerciful to me, a sin ner!" 'while I halt in the sermon, will you not all utte/it? I do not say au dibly, but utter It down in the depths of your souls' conciousness. Yes, the sigh goes all through the galleries, it goes all through the pews, it goes all through these aisles, sigh after sigh ? God be merciful to me, a sinner! Have you all uttered it? No, there i is one soul that has not uttered it ? too prond to utter it, too hard to utter it O Holy Spirit, decend upon that j one heart! Yes' he begins to breath it now. No bowing of the head yet, but the prayer is beginning ? it is born. God be merciful to me, a sin ner! Have all uttered it? Then I utter it myself, for no one in all the house need3 to utter it more than my own Soul ? God be merciful to me, a 3inner! A MYSTERIOUS MURDER. A Young Man Found Dead In the Road. His Sweetheart Arretted. Wheeling, W Va.,June 28. ? A sen sational murder mystery is just now exciting Bellaire, Ohio, opposite this city. Neil McCabe, a prominent young man, was found dead by the roadside and an investigation showed that he had been murdered. His sweetheart, Mies Tilly Cutshaw, who was last seen with him, and who tells a peculiar story, is now in jail, charged with complicity in the murder. The girl says she was walking with ; McCabe, and that he took sudden- j ly ill aad lay down on the ground, j She says she then covered him up Jwkh his coat and left him, supposing that he would soon be all right When she next heard of him he was dead. \ The impression is that the young lady knows more of the murder than she has told and that McCabe was killed by a rival for her hand in her presence and that she is trying to shield the murderer. . The Cowboy Race Ended. t Chicago, June 27. ? John Berry, riding his celebrated chestnut horse Poison, is the winner of the cowboy race Chadron, Neh^ to this city. He reached his destination, Buffalo Bill's wild West show at the World's Fair grounds, ahead of all competitors, at 9:20 this morning. He covered the ast 150 miles of the distance in twenty four hours. The next arrival was two boon behind Berry. > ~ . - I Let the Rich Bear Their Share of Borde^. [BT a G. HAYGOOD, Mf "IHDKPJWDBnr."] One of the occasions of discontent among the mawes of working people in the United States today, M say nothing of Earopean countries, is the firm conviction poor people have ttat the very rich do not bear thjpir share of the burdens of government. The General Government derives its income from a tariff on importfd goods and the tax, collected by the internal revenue department, from certain domestic products, chiefly to bacco and liquore. What proportion of the money the tariff laws collect is paid by the laboring class, is more than this writer knows ? he suspects they pay most of it; there are so many poor people. Experts could give a rational estimation if they took the pains. That the labor ing people pay most of the internal revenue cannot be questioned; and this is no honor to them. If the la boring people really knew how muph they pay in both forms of taxation they would at first be stunned; then they would explode. When they do, it will be no small matter for discus sion at dinner tables ? between courses. When it comes to State, eouuty au>i municipal taxes, workingmen believe sincerely and profoundly that they pay more than their share. Wiiile they believe this their discontent abides; while they believe it every other occasion for misunderstanding and conflict between capital and labor is exaggerated, and every strife is ex asperated. At such a time as this he is silly who is content to leave unre moved any removable occasion of an tagonism between labor and capital. When a very rich man dies and his will shows his disposition of many mil lions, while the tax lists only show that he paid taxes on a hundred thou sand or so, the people caunot 4)e per suaded that he bore his part ol^ public burdens. Does any rational man be lieve that he did? We are told that the very rich, as a rule, have their mouey iuvested in corporations, and that the head mana gers return the property of the stock holders and that the tax is paid by the' company's treasurer. Doubtless there is truth in this statement. But, right or wrong, the masses of the people do not believe that the great corporations, representing millions on millions, do actually pay into the pub lic treasury their proportion of the taxes. Does anybody believe it? Do the great corporations believe it them selves? If they do pay their share the men who compose these corpora tions, of all men in the world, have reason to make it so plain that the people may see it and be sure of it. For tbe people do not believe it. They ar i firmly persuaded that by the arts of bookkeeping and other diplomatic and influential methods the big rich and the great corporations pay a great deal less than their proportion of the taxes necessary to maintain govern ment and protection for the wealthy as well as the poor; and that by bear ing less than their share of public ! burdens they increase the load of the ?common people" and of the poor, who already have more than they can bear with comfort, who only know how to make honest returns ot taxable property and pay the amount that comes to them. We are told that many hundred millions are in nontaxable Govern ment bonds. Nobody who knows what he is talking about proposes to tax the bonds issued for the national defense; but the statement does not make life's burden less; to the poor. AVI these things are against the ^|>eace we long to see in the social or der. They add impuh?e to the move ment that organizes labor against cap ital. They are fuel to the red-hot fire that threatens social conflagration. As long as the masses believe that the system of government and busi ness under which we live "makes," by its natural operation, "the rich richer and poor poorer," there will be no peace; only a misleading truce now and then, as the convenience or neces sities of those in conflict may make desirable. It is not in human nature that there should be peace as long as this formula of discontented labor is true, or as long as the people believe it is true. If it be true there ought to be no peace till the wrong is righted. When a man goes out of this world owning many millions of dollars up till his last gasp, and the people do not see how and where he pays his proportion of the taxes, so long will discontented men, so long will just and good men, raise questions that turn thesearch-lights upon the whole sys tem under which we "do groan, being burdened." We may recognize the genius that develops vast industries and wisely handles great properties, and under stand full well that such careers add, in an indirect way, to the general wel fare, without so blinding our moral vision as to "call evil good and good evil" ? against which bad custom ("the fatal Imposture and Force of Words," Robert South names it) an ancient prophet thundered as, a wrong to mankind and an offense to Heaven. I jet every man protected by Gov ernment pay his share of the expense of government If A is worth $1,000, and pays one per cent, to government, his tax receipt shows that he paid $10; if B is worth 810,000,000, let his* re ceipt show ?100,000. There should be no difficulty about this. A full statement of what B does pay would be interesting and instructive reading. Whether it would be of a pacifying sort would depend upon the" text. This discussion does not come with in the diameter of the earth's orbit of the Gospel principle tfcat the rich ought to bear a larger proportion of the cost of civjjization than the poor. For some mysterious reason law-q?k- | era seem to believe that government cannot lay one per cent upon a cot tage and two per cent upon a palace. The principle of ad valorem seems to be considered as a sort of sacred "ark of the covenant" But no matter what law-makers believe, or political economists teach, the Gospel law? and this is tbe law of liie, pre-eminently civilized life? is plain enough; people should pay in proportion to jSieir ability to pay. ^ \\ ! ] - '? " ,v ? 4-' 1 The Gospel law lays th&burden of the percentage of giving on conscience, and gnagee liberality, not by what is given, bat by what is left. The poor man, with a $1,000- home and rarely more than $1,000 income, paid $10 tax and had $990 left, pinch ing all round to live at all, and not a dollar for increase. And nearly al ways this poor man has a houseful of children; generally this very rich; man very few. Let au illustration from an actual case end this paper, i In a Western State is a great landoinjer? his name could be given if it secyed any useful end ? who pays taxes on a hundred thousand acres of land. It is within a tew miles o?.a growing aud already populousir^y* He is allowed ? under the prevailing iniquities and rascali ties ? to "give this land in" at $10 per acre; his selling price for it is $150 per acre; he is actually selling twenty acre lots at this rate. When the buyer puts a cabin ? costing from $100 to $300 ? upon his little twenty acre home, he is taxed according to the worth of his property! When the great land-baron does not actually name the value of his land for taxation, he is practically al lowed to dictate "the figure" to the assessor. Why? Because he is rich. This sort of injustice makes "wise men mad." It one of these poor men took the big man's pla9e and the rich man his, clamors abou(injustice would rend the skies. \ , St Paul teaches niastera>> give to their servants that whicnis "just aud equal." Government should not do less. The inequality of public burdens is at the bottom of the movement to ward a "graduated income tax." Oxford, Ga. SOUNDS LIKE FICTION. The J onager Rodgera Boy CoufesaeH. Won derful Tale ot Youthful Crime. Much has already been said about the two young white boys, giving their names as Charlie and Eddie Rodgers, who were arrested some months ago for breaking into and robbing the union depot ticket office in this city, and are to be tried foi that offense to day in the Court ot General session?. Neither of the boys is ovei sixteen years of age. They were sized up at the last trial as a pair of "slick" h*ds, but it re mained for the younger boy, about ten or twelve years of age, to break down during his confinement and reveal a tale to the sheriff and tellow prisoners m jail which shows a most remarkable case of youthful depravity. OJder criminals, who take pride in records of wrong doing, will be made to blush at these boys story. The little fellow says his brother's real name lsGusSwanson, while his is Oscar Swanson, and their fkther is ' S1T?n' who Iives on Lincoln a venue, [Chicago. He says his brother seemed to be a born thief. He was several times arrested in Chicago, and their father was trying to catch him to put him jn a reformatory when he came to the younger brother, then at tending school, and persuaded him to ?rT a77 ^ith hinK Th*y left Chicago last December and went to Jroit, Mich., where they robbed sev eral stores and tapped tills while the jacks i of clerks were turned. Then they fled to Cincinnati and robbed several stores there. Thence they went to St Louis, and, robbing a man of his money, fled to Little Rock. In Little Rock they robbed several stores and proceeded to Memphis. Here they were caught in a robbery and tried, but got clear. Then they went to Cairo, III., and, robbing some stores ?kT*^ Orleans. Here they had robbed only one store when it got too warm and they fled to Columbus, Ifa, frhere they were detected in a robbery and being convicted were incarcerated for three months. Upon their release they went to Atlanta where they robbed several stores, being assisted by a pro fessional thief named Stuart. Leavine Atlanta chey went to Augusta where they Stole six pocket hooks. Then they went U> Charleston and robbed the railroad ticket office in a room at a.lnmt'ia From 'here they came to In regard to the robbery here, the little fellow says that his brother broke m the window with his elbow, and forced him to go inside and open the door and get the money. Such is the story as obtained at the prison house. ? State, June oO. A FACT ABOUT FLIES. Th. B,*t War ,? of Them , Starve Them. 'I?0, tha^k y?u' dear; I do not ant any fly papers or fly traps about y house. I learned a great manv ZZT ^ the m?re thin^ we have to <*11 flies the more will come. In the neighborhood where flies were simply a nuisance I liv<*l ?im^ ^mpij br t^arr, almost unmolested y them because I never permitted ^uttVpimrses^ * accumulat? f? of ?Ration, and I never kept anv ay that every '<" of can think at all-tW th thmk~lf r ^ to L?zr\z:tt; *>?' % preventive *a> starvation. ?Chicago Timas. Terrific Electrical Stonn. Wheeling, W. Va., June 28. ? A terrific electrical storm passed, over this section of the country, beginning at 8 o'clock and continuing for fully two hours. Rain and hail fell in tor rents, flooding everything. Lightning struck in several places, but so far as learned no were lost. In the city two hundred telephones were burned out and the telegraphic service was interfered with. \ At the county infirmary lightning- struck a tree twenty-five feet from the building and everyone of the fifty inmates were prostrated by the shock. Some of them had Dot recovered at 11 o'clock. CLEMSON'S OPENING. The Farmers' institution Tt rows Opt-n It? Doors Today. Clemson College will be opened this week. Although there has been much trouble aud delay in getting this institution ready to begin the ed ucationof the boys and young men who are farmers' sous, the trustees have overcome all the obstacles and the col lege will be ready to receive its 450 students today, which is the day ap pointed tor the opening. Persons who have recently j?id aWisit to the in stitution say that the buildings are as tine as those possessed by any college oi the kind in the country. Almost all the work on them has been complet ed and judgiug from the photographs taken last week of the college build ings and groumls, they make a hand some show. The college is j>erhaps the richest agricultural college in this country. Iq. addition to the original endow ment, it has the Hatch and Mofrell funds from the United States Qpveru ment, the State s iucouie from the privilege fertilizer tax, etc. All this is to be used in the equipment aud runuing of the college. The State had to provide the buildings, and that was what gave the trouble. The future should be plain sailing as far as the funds are concerned. Governor Tillman will be preseut at the opening, as will the other members of the board from this section. It is expected that the college will o|>eu with at least 400 students on hand. ? State. NEW YORK STOCK MARKET Lowtr JUtra lor Money Caiwe* a Better Feeling. New York, July jj. ? Affairs at the Stock exchange to-day were extreme ly dull, transactions reaching the pal try total ot 77,000 shares, of which 8,000 were unlisted. The absence of leading operators on the etreet, as twual on the eve of a national holiday, inducer! traders, who were bearishly inclined, to hammer the list at the opening, and especially as early quo tations from London showed consider able decline from Saturday night's final figures. As the day advanced the market as sumed a firmer tone and prices im proved A to H }>er cent, on comjmra- 1 tively light offerings. The trading throughout, however, was so small that no s]>ecial significance could l>e attached to the fluctuations at any time. The improvement during the after noon was largely due to the let up in the stringency in money, round amounts having been ottered at from 3 to per cent, as against 13a2f> per cent, during the morning. July disbursements are beginning to have their effect, but it is not ex pected that the rates of interest will settle down to a j>ermanently low basis for some days to come at least. The market closed firm in tone. Marion Evan* Charge,! with l'oUoninK HI* < Wife. I ^ Green villk, 8. O, July 8.? The J Coroner's jury in the case of Rose Anna Evans, who died under sus picious circumstances at her home six miles below here on June 19, niet here again to-day, and after hearing the evidence of a uumber of witnesses returned a verdict that Rose Anna Evans camek her death on the l!?th day of June, 1893, from the effects of a drug or poison wilfully and mal iciously jul ministered to her by her husband, Marion Evans, on June 16 1893. ' When Mrs. Evans died her husband stated that she had l>een feeling badly and had taken three sample pills left at the house by a friend. Shortly after Airs. Evans's death suspicion was aroused, aud the Coroner had her body disinterred and the stomach analyzed with the above result. A warrant was immediately issued for the arrest of Evans. He is said to be out with a threshing machine in the country. The Cotton Seed Indnntry. The Engnieniuf] Neios. says; "(Jot ton seed, which thirty years ago was thrown away as a waste product in the Southern States or used as a fuel, is now the basis of an industry valued at over $27, 000, 000 perannum. loday the cotton seed oil pn, duction is worrh $16,000,000 i>er year, the oil cake brings in nearly $8 000,000 more, and the lint and hulls produces SI ,000,000. Only one third of the seed is used as yet, the balance awaiting a wider market. 1 he oil product is used in adulter ating lard and olive oil, ami the cake, lint and hull* in feeding stock and a* fertilizers It in sai.I that ,>a|*r can be made from the stalks/' I I>e*? motive Cyclone in ArkHn?a>. Memphis, Tenn., July 1?A cyclone swept across the Eastern portion of Arkansas last night, leaving destruc tion in its path. All the telegraph wires -West of Memphis are down. Details are meagre, but it is known that the loss to proj>erty is enormous. A bulletin was received by the si<mal service observer at Memphis from Lit tle hock last night by way of Calves ton and New Orleans, saying that the wind was blowing at the rate of seventy miles per hour and that a lar^e ' amount of pro|>erty had been des- I troyed No further particulars were obtained. ^ Thirty Honr? on u Hicyele. Berlin, June 30. ? Joseph Fischer, a bicyclist of Munich, arrived at the j end of the course at 107 o'clock this E[~-, from Floridorf at b.10 o clock yesterday morning.and was thus thirty hours and thirty -seven minutes on the road. The distance traveled pass about,370 miles, making ' the average pace for the actual elapsed I time arlittle less than twelve miles an I hoi^f. Even better time would have I been made had it not been that the ! weather was stormy and the wind 1 against him. for Infants and Children. millions ofjwrioDi, p<M-mit n? to ? P*11^ of it^wttkeet (no??in^J^| It fa mawttawMr tho W-P?"d7Jjgi?f"t*-"a^^gl th. world ho. ...r W It ?? hor*t1o??; ? Cliildrqp Ut. It jfl cItoo th.m hoolth. It will M >SM -r-.<!.i-?_-l.l,l. I. .W.tolT ??*- ? 1 pr?oti??lly porfoot ?. ^ child's medicine. C*?torU destroy Worm*. Castoria alitor* FeTerWuieM. Castoria prevents vomiting Soar Card* J C Astoria cures Piarrhosa and Wind Colic. Castoria relieves Teething Tronbles. . ? Castoria pures Constipation and Flatulency. Castoria nentraliaes the ejects of carbonio Acid gas or poisonone^, Castoria does not contain morphine, ^plnni,orotikerjiarcotic Castoria a?*1miTfttes the food, regulates 4he_?tonmch and bowal*, giving healthy and natnral sleep. Castoriai. put np in one-disc bottles only^It is notsoldinbulh. Don't allow any one to sell you anything else on the pleaor promiee that it is u just as good " and ** will answer every purpose." See that yon get C*A-S*T?0*R*I-A. The fac-?imile Slj? tr<UL<>T<tt7 . signature of Uut/^YJ^OC^S^ * ' j| ^ t ;?}? Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria* A M FOUND DEAD IN A WELL. Mrs. T. K. MauUl. of Charlotte, M?'ets with a s?il Fat*. Charlottk, N. C., June 29. ? Mrs Elizabeth Ann Magill, wife of Mr T. K. Magill, was found dead in the well on Mr Magill's lot, on East Fifth Street, early this morning. When the cook reached the house to prepare breakfast, she did not find Mrs Magill in her room, but supposing that she was somewhere about the house weut on with her duties. A few minutes later, Hiram, the porter at Magill's store, who also does early morning chorea about the house, appeared and weut to the well to draw water. Then it was that the melancholy discovery was made. Assistance was at onfce se cured from the neighbors and M rs. Ma gill's body was drawn from the well. She was fully clothed, in a dark drens. Her 8k ul I was crushed in. It is l>e lieved that Mrs Magill had got up during the night and had gone to the well for a drink of water, and that while in the act of leaning over and lowering the bucket she was struck by the windlass ami knocked into the well. That. apj>ears to be the most reasonable explanation in view of the fact that for some time past she had been in unusually good health and spirits. Mrs Magill was born on October 1 1, 1833, in the Waxhaw section of South Carolina, and came to Charlotte with her husband about twenty-five years ago. RipansTaMes. Ripans Tahules are com pounded from a prescription widely used by the best medi cal authorities and are pre sented in a form that is be coming the fashion every where. Ripans Tabules act gently but promptly upon the liver, stomach and intestines; cure dyspepsia, habitual constipa tion, offensive breath and head ache. One Uibule taken at the first symptom of indigestion, biliousness, dizziness, distress after eating, or depression of spirits, will surely and quickly remove the whuie difficulty. RipansTabules may be od tained of nearest druggist. Ripans Tabules are easy to take, quick to act, and, save many a doc-^ tor's bill. CENTRAL CYCLE MFG. CO. IHDIANAPOUS. IfiD. M \ K K l{ ?? < i J." 8EN-HUR f fj PNEUMATIC TIRE, ? - $100.00 CUSHION TfflE, ? - ? 75.00 ; Ar.ENTS \V A NTKO, j L ? - OUB TSIV 1893 7L0WSS HIS 0JT1 L USB? FLOWER SEEDS Varieties A?r ???r*HeI*40Ceel OU'EtttklUM u ' kbit PaklhUai I TBI L?t>rt?' Wobi.o to p4f?, Mflmluiuu illnacn ?in* fur UJWa a?<l tha ta ll ? deToM to *?#!?, pove*. le<W thmej wort, arttaUc Dwdtowwfc. fcon* 4*c?rattoa. hnuartaaptag, fathtooa, jn*?nlU mMIm, ?U^u^O, ?<?. To kitrotoa Ua ?b*rrotn|[ laJW pafwr into loo .Ml boexa vmti tUul alrMJy Ukrs, w? mm ? mtk? Um followtn* of it: Upum *+? Xt Cfto n ?Jw or *? ?.??. will t**d Tkt W?rU /?? 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