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ySjaiLDRENs mrim I W TAiWAGE ON A TOUR 1M WEST AND PfiEACHING AS HE GOES."] /fcjh! The PttfjUtiic Story ?! *?& Bi^jj Daughter C?atain? Haar Lemon* of Warning to tb? Kaeb and wme S?? - CenCOs* to Fare?U-Tnuupg in CfciWJrfWd. Broouxy5, July 30.-|Kev. Dr. Talmage, who is now on hi? vacation tour in the] west, has chosen for a topic for this morning, "Children's Bights," the text being Judges xv36,"My father, if thou hast opened thy month /uto the Lord, do to me according to Hbat which hath proceeded oat of thy month." * *j[ Jephthah was a freebooter. Eariy turned out froni a home where be ought to have been cared fo*. he con sorted with rough men and went lorth to earn his living as best he could. In those time* it waa considered right fijm :i man to go out on independent mi?~ i&ry expeditions.' Jephthah was a good according to the light of his dark age, bat through a; wander ing and a predatory life he became reckkae and precipitate. aTbe grace of God changes a man's heart, but ?never reverses bis natural tempera ment The Israelites wanted.^ the ^Am monites driven out of their country, ao they sent a delegation to Jephthah,] asking him to become commander in chief of all the forces. He might h*Ve said, ^Yon. drove me out when yon had no use for me, and now you are in itruuble yoji want me back." Bat he did not say that He takes command of the army, sends mes sengers to the Ammonites to tell th^nf to vacate the cojaitry, and getting no favorable response marshals his troops for battle. A RASH MAN'S VOW. fore going out to the war Jeph makes a very solemn vow thac if the LofR will give him the victory then on his return hofcae whatsoever first aojnes out of his doorway he will ' offer nn sacrifice as a burat offering. The Ijatue opens. It was no skirmiah ing .on the edges of danger, no un limiifering of batteries two miles away, * ' the hurling of men on the point ords and spears until the ground no more drink the blood, and horses reared Jo leap over the pile bodies of the slain* In those old opposing forces would fight un til tfifeixgiwords were broken* and then each otiT^miM-tfatbitle bj&loan until ' both fell; teeth to teeth, grip to grip, death stare to death stare; until the pkin was one tumbled ma? of corpses from whicb4be last trace of manhood i had beendashjt out x ] ?t ; \ | , Jephthah wins the day.;- Twenty ei|ie& lay captured at his feet Sound tijS victory all through the mountains of Gileadl let the trumpeters call uj/the sorvivors! * Homeward to your wives and children! - Homeward with your gEttering treasures? Homeward to have, the applaase of a?; admiring nation! u Build ,? triumphal arches! Swinf out Sags all over Mizpeh! Open all your doors to receiv^the captured treasured Through %very hall Spread the banquet! Pi Ie up the viaads! Pill high the tankards! The nation is redeemed, the invaders are routed, And the national honor is vindicated!- |4 , > 'i ; NjephtihtlH l^ocggyOT! s Japhthafi, seated oft a pranmngfsteed, ^^gjvaaces amid acclaiming multitudes, ' but his eye is not on the excited popu lace. r&membering that he had made 'a solemn vow thai; returning from ? victorious battle, whatsoever first came out of the doorway or hjs home, that should be sacrificed as a burnt oifeong, ; h^has his- anxious look agon theaoor. \ I/^fcHder what spotless lamb, what ?race of doves w^ll be thipwn upon the fires of the burnt offering. Oh, ^ horrorsi Paleness of death blanches his ch$ek. Despair seizerhis heart daughter, his only child, rushed oat the doorway to throw hareelf in her fother'ai arms and shower upon 4 him more liases than there weite wounds on his breast or demts on his ! shield. All the triumphal splendor . ? vanishes* Holding ' back this child from his leaving breast and pushing i the locks bade from the fair brow and, lookicgikto the, eyes of inextinguish able aflfection, with choked utterance, i he says: T "Would God I lay stark on the bloody plain! My daughter, my only cjaild, iof of my home, life.?! my life*, thou a^tthe sacrifice!" ^ A B&AVE GIEl/S jRA*E. ~ The wSoie matter was explained to her. This , waa no whining, hollow } c. hearted girl in^whose eyes the father looked. AH the gJory%T sword and shield vanished "in/ the presence of the valor of that IpfL There va$ have been a tremor of the lip*3 a 'tose leaf hies - In the sougn ol the sooth Therai may have been the of- a tear, like anabdrop the anther of a watgr lily, | a self sacrifice that man may and only wonafe's heart can she ^surrenders herself to fire ttk death. She cries dot in tin* ^ text, "My father, if thou mouths iHsfo. theLord, ver hath proceed ed-fiwtt thy mouth.',, She bows to the knife,, aad the blood* so often at the Other's vojee had rnshed to the crimson cheeky smokea in the fires yf the burnt offer ing. ?o one^EBo i^tus ?er name. There i^io asm that we know her ^ garlands thai Mizpeth for Jephthah the warrior had into dust, hot aliages are fcw?w*iC iSw girl's ehaplet ; Jt is well ^ t ha Bottoms*?0 ooe em vest it. They may take the imme of Ddboiah or Abigail - or l^urioa, but t*> one in all tl*e agert?i lave the title ol this di^s^ter of csjurse this offering was not pleas to the Lord, but before yon hurl denunciation? , at Jephthah's ..remember that in oldea times made thought _ti they 'must execute them, perform thens^twheihef! they were wicked- or good. There were two wrong j-Biings abcctjfJephthah^ vow. ^i^* ^ > ou^ht ne^er to have mad^ it Next, having made^t it werej^ter broken thaaltapt Bat do iaoltaiee^w- p^\ W& i^ki ?- ; s . "1 ? V ^ ' 1 '?w . . - z' ""if;-- ^ , ? ;r>" te'atkus airs sod say, "I could not hacve done as Jephthah did/' ii" to- ; j|j?~you were steading on the banks of the Ganges, and yon had been born in India, you might have bees throw ing your children to the crocodiles. It is not because we are naturally bet ter, but because we tare more gospel light. | Now, I make very practical use of this question when I tell you that the sacrifice of Jephthah's daughter was a type of the physical, mental and spiritual sacrifice of 10,900 children in this day. There are parents all unwittingly bringing to bear upon their <*fa?Mren a clan of influences which will as certainly ruin them as knife and torch destroyed JVphthah's daughter. While I speak, the wfe#e nation, without emotion aad without shamev looks upon the stupendous sacrifice. ' ' v I ?- A[ > 8ACRIFICEI'VX^ 8CHOOL. In the first place, I remark that much of the system of education in our days is a astern, of sacrifice. When children spend so: or seven hours a day in school and then must spend two or three hours in preparation fbr school the next day, will yew tell me bow much time they wiU have for sunshine and fresh air and the obtain ing oi that exuberance which is neces sary for the duties of coming life' ? No one can figel more thankful than I do for the advancement of common school aducation. The printing of books appropriate for schools, the multiplication of philosophical ap paratus, the establishment of normal schools,which provide for our children {eachers of largest caliber, are themes on which every philanthropist ought to be congratulated. But this herding of great multitudes of children - in ill I ventilated schoolrooms and poorly equipped halls of i nstruction is mak ing many of the places of knowledge! in this country huge holocausts. '? j Politics is many of tbe<aties gets in to educational affairs, and while the two political parties are scrabbling for the honors Jephthah'a daughter perishes. It is so much so that there are many schools in the country today which are preparing tens of thousands of invalid men and women for *.the future, so that in many places by tie time the child's education is finished the child is finished! In many places in many cities of the country there are large appropriations for everything else, and cheerful appropriations, batj as soon as the appropriation is io be made for the educational or the moffal interest of the city we are struck through with air economy that 5? well nigh, the death of us. 1|: In connection with this I ? roentioia what I might call the cramming bj+ of the common schools and manyl# the academies. ^Children of delicate brain conpelled to tasks that might appall a mature intellect; children goiog dowa $ achool with a strap: of books half as high as themselves. The fact is, in some of the cities parents do not allow their children to graduate, for the ample reagon, they say, "We cannot afford to lllow dar children's health to be destroyed in or&er that they may gather thehouors of an institution" ^ Tens of thousands of children edu cated into imbecility. So connected with many such literary establish ments there jught to *be asylums for the wrecked. It is gush, and crowd and cram and staff and jam until the child's intellect is bewildered, and the^ memory is wrecked, and the health is gone. There are children turned out from the schools who once were foil of romping and laughter and had cheeks crimson with jhealth who are , -now turned out in the afternoon pale freed, irritatfed, asthmatic, old before their time. It is one of the Widest sights on earth-r*n old mannish boy or an old womanish girl. ?; ? i ? i LITTLE BRAI5S OVERDONE. Girls 10 years of ?ge studying algebra! Boys 12 years of age rack ing their brain over trigonometry! Children unacquainted |?wKh their mother tongae crying over their Lafcm, French and German lessons! "All the [ vivacity of their nature beaten out of them by the heairy beetle of a Greek lexicon! And you doctor them for Ongj and you gave them a little medi cine for that, and you winder what is j the matter with them. I will tell you l^whatM the matter with them. They are finishing their education! In my parish in Philadelphia a lit tle child was so pushed at achool that she was thrown into a fev.Br, and in her -dying delirium aH was trying to reeite * table. Jn my boyhood T remember that inSor class at school there was one lad who knew more than all ^tfcef rest of us pat together. If wef were fast in our arithmetic, he extricated us. When we stood up for the spelling class, he was ; almost always the bead iof the class. Vis came to his lathes house, and he almost always brought in as a At 18 years of *ge he was an idiot? He lived 10 yeawwa. idiot and died an idiot, not knowing hwr right hand from his left or da y from night The parents an4 the teachers made him an idiot * j V I You may flatter! yoer pride by forcing your children to know mortlij than any other children, hut you are making a sacrifice of thai child if by the additions to its u?telligence %?u are making a ^subtraction from its futures The child will go away from such maltreatment with no exuberance to fight the battle of life- SucbT?chn dren may get along very well while you take care of them, btft when|$o? j are old or dead alas for them if through the wrong system of education which you adopted they have no swarthioeas or force of character to take care oif themselves. Be careful how you make the dfiSTs head ache lor its heart flutter. I hear a <great deal about black men's rights and Chinamen's rights and Indians' rights and women's rights. Would: God that somebody would rise fopiead. ior children's rights! The Carthaginians used to sacrifice their children by putting them into the am>? o? an idol whidi thrust forth j its hand The child was put into the : arms of the idol, an?$o sooner touched i the arms than it dropped into the fire. But it was the art the mothemjo keep the children amil^? and lauj? icg. until the> i There may be a fascination and a hi larity about tie styles of etUcation wbiehj am speakiag, but it is only laughter at t?ie moment of sacrifice.' Would God there were only one ?gip!C " . >a EXTBEME8 D^PAJtflLSHipVERifltfENT. 4| Again, there are many parents who _ _i_ - *i?* . ? ' - 1 - ?? ?? ?? r - . : . I - great m too great leniency. There chUdretf^ia families who rule tothei in which the in and the rattle the other chi] ....... M. fey. The high fant sits is the |||oepte? ;Up the parliament where and mother hive no Vote. children come to be miscreants. There is bo chance in this worljd for a child that has never learned to mind. Such people become the both eration of the church of &od and the pest of the world. Children that do not jjbarn to obey human authority are unwilling to learaio obey divine authority. Children will jnot respect parents whose authority they do oU respect Whoase these iyoung that swagger through : the street, their thumbs in their vest, talkin aboutiheir father as'nheold man] "the governor,* "the squire," "the o^ chap" or {heir mother as Ithe old w6 man?" They are those who in youti, in childhood, never learned to respect authority. Eli, having heard that his sons had died in their wickedness, fell over backwards and broke hjs neck and died. Well he might. What is life to a fjraer whose sons are debaoche^flk of the val ley is pieasan^r^is taste, and tloie driving rains thai drip through the roof of the sepulcher are sweeter than the wines of Ebiboo. | I There must be harmony between the lather's government and t[ er's government The father will be tempted to too great | rigor. The mother will be tempted to too -great leniency. Her tenderness will over- 1 come her. Her voice is aiittle softer her hand seems better fifrtoj puO out a thorn and soothe a pasj^x Children ( wanting anything from the-'mol.her cry for it They hope to ; dissolve will with tears. But the mother mui not interfere, must not coax off, mi not beg for the child when the comes for the assertion of parentiil supremacy and - the ! subjugation of :a chiW^ temper. f here comes in the history of ev^ijy child in four when it is tested whetfi er (fce parents shall rule or' the child j rule.: ;^hat is the crucial hour J child triumphs in that houav 1H he ytftt some day make you crouch. It is a horrible scene. I have witnessed it? a mother Come to ojd age, shivering with terror; in the pres ea||of a son who cursed her 6am ?ud mocked her wri titled and begrudged her the crust i tban ? sepeni's tooth it is t&u&kleas child! ! *i ?" m if PA K E5TAL TYBANjNY REBUKED. Hut, on the other haiid, too gr rigor must be Avoided. It is a i thing when domestic government conies cold military despotism. Traj> pers on the prairie fighRgre with fire,: but you cannot successful* fight your child's bad temper with U-,J! ' temper! i-We must not io our inspection. Wecannot exj our children to be perfect Wf . not see everything. Since we haj twa or three faults of j our own, wef, ought not to be too roiigh when ^re discover that our children have many. If tradition be thie, when were children we were not alt ~ Samuels, and our parents were riot fearfuileettfcey could not raise us, be U' '?[ i- S? S - 'I'. ? i .'?( * I 'Wf pound ycjurj character, can never ve . .You- cannot scoid children into nobility l&ejjbldom of a child's be sera under a coM aH,| avoid getting am . ?? household. Better than! years of fretting at your children ip one g* ' n Yold-fasHfoned application of _ r! That minister ft the ^ hom we read in the newspapers that he" whipped his child id death be cause he wo^iKaota* will never come to^ftanonization arithmetics eannot calculate thousands of children have been ruined forever either through too great rigor or too great leniency. The heavens and the earth are filled with the groan, of the sacrificed. In this ^mportaai matter, seek -divme direction, O M$er, O i mother. sSome one .asked jhe mother of Lord Chief Justice Mfths* field if she was not proud to hkye three snch eminent sons, and all of thejn So good., uNo," she said, ' it is nothing to He proud of, but something for which to be very grateful." . " , there are many who" are their children to' a spirit of worMJjneS^^Some one asked a mother whose dS^dreft had turned out very well what was^Jbe secret by which She prepared them for usefulness ana for the Christian life, and she-said: "This was the secret: . When in the mojrn ing I washed^ my children I prayed that they might be washed in the foun tain of a Saviour's merfcy. WheM put | on their garments I prayed that j they might be Arrayed in tlie robe of a Saviour's righteousness. When I gav^them food I prayed that they might be fed with manna from beavten. When I started them o? the road j to school I prayed that their ^ath mi?ht be as the shining light; brighter and ' * ;hter to the perfect dayi W* ? them to steep I prayed that infold ectlm Hhe Savi Oh,*? * yon siyj. uthat old fashioned." It was quite ned . But doi you suppose t* under such nurture as that tuwaed oat bad? ?? jn oor day no ;ld eaiinS sii^ dollar. They ; winch bo& ts it can s Piiytt' oa a 10 cent piece and Commandments on a 10 cent m Children are taught to reduce morals and religion, time and eternity to \ul--j gar fractions. It seems to : be their chief attainment that 10 cents make a dime and ten dimes make, a dol ar. How to make money iss only equalled by the other art ? hovto keep it *teil nwi, ye who know*, wn^t chance there is for those who start outin life with such perverted sentiments? The money markot resounds again and i*^1* downfall of soch^eo^J ? - iwiMHl that a out fen mmrn j l yi,. "M j .s pie. If I had a drop of blood on the tip of a pea I would tell you. by* what awful tragedy many of itbe youth of tfais country axe rained; j RUINED BY WORLDLisKSa^ ( Farther on thousands arid tecs of thousaiidsof the daughters of America are sacrificed to worldjiness. They are taught to be in sympathy with all the artificialities of aocietjy. They are inducted into all the hollownees bf j wbat is called fashionable life. Thtey are taught to believe that history is dry, bat that 50 ceotstories of advent urous love are delicious. With ca pacity that might have rivaled a Floreoce Nightingale in heavenly ministries or made the- .father's house giad with filial and sisterly demeanor, their $fe is a waste, their beau*1- - curse, their eternity a demolition. In the siege of Cfaitflsston during the civil war a 1 ieu tenant of the army stood on the floor beside the daughter of the ex-governor of the State of South Carolina. They were the $owb of, marriage. A be v struck the roof, dropped into the group, and nine were woAnded and slain; among the wounded to dejii?hy the bride. While the bridegroom knelt on the carpet trying, to stanch fhe wounds the bride demanded tliat the ceremony be completed that she | might take the voire before her depart- J are, and wben the minister said, " Wilt thou be faithful unto death?" withj her dying lipe- she said, u| will," and in two hours she had departed. That Was the accidental slaughter and the sacrifice of the body, but at thousands of marriage alters there are daughters slain for time and slain for eternity. It is not a marriage; it j is a massacre. Affianced to some one who is only waiting until bis lather jdies so be! can get the property ;1 thee; a little while they awing around in.ihe circles, bril liant circles; then the property is gone, and having'no power to earn a liveb hood the twain sink into some corner of society, the husband an idler aod a sot, the wife a drudge, a slave and a sacrifice, I Ah, spare :ypur denu&^ia Xions from Jephthah's head and. ex >pend them all on this wholesale mod ern martyrdom. ' j J- * I lift up my voice today against the sacrifice of children. ; Ij look out of my window on a Sabbath, aud I see a group of childbed, unwashed, ; un . : : -i ?> 1 rti ' ? uri combed, un-Cbri^tiaaisSci^ Who cares for them? Wboprays fprthem? W ho utters to them one kind word? | When the city missionary parsing along the park in New' York saw a ~ lad. and beard him swealring, to himf i "My: sbn^ stop swear ought to go to the houise of Yon ought Q be good. to be a {JhWtian." i The in ihis face and said: "Ah, it is easy for you to talf, well clothed as you are. and well | fed.^ But iwe, chape hain't got no chanoe.f' Who ?lilts them to the altar : for Jiaptfcm? Who goes forth ~to snitch -them up from crime and death; and woe. Who today will go forth a?4 bring them into schools and churches? / No. Heap them up, "great piles o? rags and wretchedness and . filth. Put under neath them the fires of sacrifice,; stir up the blaze, put on more fagots* Mod while we sit in the ^churches, with folded arms and indifferent, crime and disease and death will gt on withi the agonizing sacrifice. ?i A WFU r. POS8IEI LIT I lis OF BOYHOOD. During the early French revolu tion at Bourges there was a company of boys who used to train every day as youpg toktars, and they carried a and ban on the flag- this in scription, ^Tremble, tyrants, trem ble; we ar^growing ? up.!' Mightily suggestive? TWs iteration is |as sing off, and a mightier generation is coming on. Wili they be ihefoesof tyrany, the fees of sin and the foes of death, or will they be the foes of God? They are coming up! I congratulate all paints _ who are doing theirljest to keep their children away from \tbe altar of sacrifice. Your prayer*3 are going; to be ans#er ed. Yofcr children may wander away from Gf?d, bu: they will coijae jback again. f A voice comes from the throne todaj^lncouraging you, "I will jbe a God to thee, and to thy ;seed after thee." And though when you lay your head in death there may be some -wanderer of the ; fami ly far away from God:, and you imay be 20 years, in heaven, before salvation shall come to his^heart, he Wilt be broughrtsto the kingdom, and /before the throne of God you will rejoice that you were faithful, j Gome at last, although so long postponed his loom ing. Come at last! ! 1 I congratulate all tho9e who are toiling for the outcast and the wander ing. Your work will soon be over, but the influence you are netting in motion will never stop. Long after you have been garnered for the skies your prayers your teachings and your Christian influence will go on and help to people heaven with bright in habitants. Wbicb would you rather see ? which scene would you rather mingle in the last great day ? being able to say: "I added house to house and land to land and manufactory to =m &n ufactory. ^ owned half the city. Whatever my eye saw I had, what ever I wanted I got," or on thai day to have Christ look you fall in the face and say, "1 was hongry and ye fed me. I was naked and ye clothed me. I was sick and in prison and ye visited me. Inasmuch as ye did it<to the least of my brethreo, ye did it to mef ' i i - Oifc. I*""-*.' Traits to Talktn*. Soma cynic has said that a man talks to show how much:he knows, hat & woman delights in telling" what ah# doesn't know. However that may he, there is certainly a different character to the personal confidence oi men an* women. j : j The oatw&iti ? current of a t's life will often flow as I and buried hope* ; vriably reJate^S^-^7"' triumphs, hat the bar heart a^e seldom bridled a and then he takes flicting- his woes upon his friend^ who often find it difficult^ to know how to ooosofe htm, ni>t to mention a fcrutal lade at interest in griefs of any but of the briefest narration. * On the 4hole, perhaps, the ; Woman's is; mora agreeable since her hearers are net pat lo 8Mb severe tests of friendship ? ? PhnadetpWa P^eaa - | ~ " ' - ! : WEATHER CROP BULLETIN Condition Of the OtJpa Throughout the/} state. * r I The drouth which has existed for nearly five weeks over the Midilie and' Western -counties has beeu generally broken by copious showers. These showers have in must cases been in spots, so that reports from any one place in a county is no sufficient index of the whole section. Within a space of twenty miles the rainfall has varied from two to lour inches and although wherever good rains occurred crops have responded quickly, the distribution has been extremely un satisfactory. The showers prior to the 19th ao&?0& lasted but a short . time a anflBWlreibllo wed by such in tense heat as tosfeam the plants and render theif ^-condition even more critical than heretofore. In the Piedmont region everything has be^n much improved by the rains and ' cotton is growing and fruiting nicely- where it was well worked. A good Seail has been badly stunted and can only make a fair crop. Com plaints jure general that the plant is bloom ipg near the top. * Cora i is about ruined in many ?counties]'- The stalk is large and has no ealfc | Late planted corn will do fairly well. Peas, pane and potatoes doing well, melons poor. Gardens burned up. Through the Middle Belt cotton is doing well, and though small, is full of fruit It will depend on future seasons whether the fruit will be shed or not. In some sections the young fruit has already begun to fall. The chadffies ; are against a two-thirds crop, even with the best of seasons. Barn well County reports no improvement in cotton in past week. Fairfield County, however, claims^the plant has responded quickly to the rains and although the yield is a problem tor the next two weeks, with a favorable season they can make a good August crop. - ! Old corn is too far spent to make much; the rains came too late to do it any good. Young corn, however, with plenty of rain bids fair to make an average crop. Gardens are about ruined in aaost counties. Watermelons poor, potatoes excellent, peas look w&l. Fruit scarce. In the coast region cotton has not generally improved. In some places the pl?nt was damaged by heavy rains. Cotton and corn seem to have a yellow color and in some localities cotton has started to throw off its fruit Rice arid gardens need rain along the immediate coast J. H. Harmon, > Director. ! j ? . . >.^^5 *4. SHE HAD A GREAT HEAD. Barglarii Held Up the Tr&fn Rat slie Held Held her Money. , } i - . _ >? | She fcas a charming young widow and she occupied a section on the Pullman sleeper between Denver and San Francisco. The train was crowded and the at tention 1 of the passengers was divided between the winsome widow and the young jbridal couple from the East, who, careless of tHfe comment their .actions excited, ^continued to love each Mother with caressrng words and eyes to their hearts' content The through passengers had become like fricjnds, and the long days during which the train rushed over rolling prairie and desolate alkali waste were made short by peasant converse. It was one night when they were descending the Western slope of the great Rockies that the incident oc curred ihich makes this story. Several card tables had been estab lished, and atone of thsm the bridal couple played as partners against the ^pretty widow and a handsome young man from Jacksonville, Fla., who was on his*wmy to Southern California. ? The game had ended and the young married couple were victorious. They were indulging in a good-humored badinage at the expense of tB&r late opponents and asked if there were any other game t&ey were more familiar with than whist , ^Never mind," said the liHle widow, l4uck won't rtfti your way always." Seemingly in answer to her pro phecy came the stern cammand, "Hands upH' and at each end of the car stood two masked desperadoes with drawn revolvers. The male passengers were taken by surprise and there was nothing to do but obey. ^owly thejobbere went through the car and as., one held the cocked re volver covering his victim the other secured his valuables. When they came to the bridal couple they made a rich haul, the diamonds of the bride and the well filled purse of the groom, aud then they -turned to &e widow, ''Your money," sternly. Demurely she handpd over her purse and an ex mi nation showed the train robbers that it contained only a railroad ticket, $3.50 in cash and Southern Express mo iey orders for S 1,000. The S3 50 they confiscated, but politely handed back the purse and money orders, say ing, <4If all had your forethought our occupation would be gone." The little* widow married her hand 92me young card partner in San Fran cisco, and is now living- in Jackson ville. ? jJacksonville Times Union. CHICAGO BANKS SWINDLED Passes Off Forged Secu rities. ChiCUGO, Ills., July 20. ?It was currently reported this afternoon that the Chicago Trust aud Savings Bank, at 124 Washington street, aud several other banks in the pity had been swin dled to a large extent by forged secu rities. . ft was said that a smooth con fidence m^n has disposed of securities to thto different banks to the amount of $50,1)00 or $60>00 and that the fact that the paper was a clever forgery had just been discovered and the de tective J department of the central police station appealed to and asked to eatchi the forgers. The pol ice refuse to talk at all and the bankers interest- j ed eonfine themselves to the statement tfiat there was a swindle perfected and 1 the matter is in the hands of the j>o- j fee.T} I 1 I Ci1^ " ? TILLMAN'S SPIES AT WORK. ' A NORTH CAROLINIAN ARRESTED FOR DEUVERINC WHISKEY IN THIS STATE. j A Sneaking Trick of "Walk into My Far lor" "Said the Spider to the Fly." Saw Garter Failed off Hid Tobacco Wagon by Chief Constable \ J. C. Ifillliott. Lancaster, Jul/ 24. ? The Evan dispensary mill is beginning to grin i in this County. A North Carolinian, by the name of gam Carter, was brought up by Chief Constable J. Elliott early Sunday morning auu lodged m jail for selling whiskey. It is a case of "walk into my parlor, said the spider to the fly," and the unsus pecting fly did walk. It is said that Carper was driving a one horse wagon, loaded with tobacco for a man named Poindixter, of Cobarrus county, N. C. When at Tradesville, in this county, sometime ago, he received an order from a party for some whiskey. So on this trip with the tobacco he 'brought gallons of whiskey to Tradesville; and delivered it to the party making the order. It being more than he wanted, he undertook to get some one to take a part of the whisky. So accordingly, a third party agreed to take a part As soon as the transaction was com plete, Chief Constable and Sergeant aUArms J. C. Ellott being near by, was notified and swore out a warrant for the man and arrested him. The wagon and horse and three gallons of whiskey were seized aud all turned over to the sheriff. Carter, it is said, has the appear ance of being a harmless sort of fel low. He aaya he did not know of the new law, fctud only brougtit-the whis key to accommodate the man who ordered it. He claims be was loaded . with tobacco and on his , way to Tradesville. and bought the whiskey after he left home. ?. Brunswick in Danger of an Kpiileutic ot -Yellow Fever. Washington,' D. C., July 25. ? In consequeuce of gross carelessness on the part of the local authorities, which nearly caused an epidemic of yellow fever, the Marine Hospital service has assumed control of the quarantine ser vice at Brunswick, Ga. Surgeon Gen eral Wy man's official report to Secre tary Carlisle is as follows : "I have the honor to state that on Jun%,27 I received ihe following dis patch froin the health authorities at Savannah, Ga.: 'The master of a ves sel died ashore on Satilla River of yellow fever. Vessel ordered to Sapelo. No. health organization will co-operate with Carter. Let us have him.' " The sanitary board expects service to act quickly. Acting on this dis patch I directed Siftgeon Carter to proceed to Satilla River and to take all necessary precautions to show con clusively that the quarantine regula tions were not bad and .adopt guch measures as in his judgment shall be necessary to prevent the introduction and spread of such disease, and may detail or appoint officers for the pur pose. I will add that the State of Georgia has no State Board of Health ind that the quarantine at Brunswick is of a local character altogether. I have, therefore, to recommend that Assistant Surgeon John W. Branham of the United States Marine Hospital Service, be detailed immediately by the President to enforce the rules and regulations. Assistant Surgeon Bran ham has already had quarantine ex perience, is a native of Georgia, and is considered well qualified to perform this duty." Dr.Wyman's recommendations were approved by Secretary Carl isle and President Cleveland and he received his letter, with their written endorse ments, tp-day. v Onr NHtional Debt. One of the late arrivals from the Old World is an Englishman who is i after a pension from our government. I He claims to have fought ami bled a_, little for the Union. After the Wfcr | he returned to the land of his fathers, but now that he is old and ]tartiallv blind he naturally insists ujton his share of the provender which our i pension oflice is dealing out. We can imagine no reason why this j Englishman should not have his de- i sires satisfied. The United States art* j not in easy circumstances but it is j their policy to fatten all the old fellows, with occasional exceptions, who fought in hat tie for the Union. This "bloody Hinglishman" should receive his dues. It might Ite setting a dangerous precedent to refuse his demands. At this particular crisis, 1 when Colorado is on the brink ot J secession, it would he madness to do ! anything that would disincline foreign ers to enlist in the Union saving hoMs. This English demand should serve as a hint to the Grand Army of the Republic that there may be other ofreigners who need pensions. It is a majter of record that "all the world and the rest of mankind" had a hand in subduing the South, and why should they not be paid for it? There is not a sjtot on the face of the earth j from Kamchatka to Cape Horn that did not contr|bute its warriors t-? the i Union cause/ Of course they should! all he paid and paid well, and it is the j manifest duty of the G. A. R. to see ? that no veteran is neglected merely because he has returned to his ancient j haunt*. There is also a lesson in this inci ! dent for the [tension agents. Thev shmilil l>e able to understand that ? Great Britain. Germany. Jeru.-Milem. : Bagdad and Pahotni are all rich j iielda for their enterprising operations. As a matter of common gratitude and justice all the nations of the earth \ should l>e graciously welcomed t<> the j great American board bounteously i spread for the feeding of the hired heroes who saved the Union! ? Edi- \ torial, The State. j for Infants andOft'ldren, "S I 1 ' ' THlRTy ywui' ob<grvation of Castoria with the patronagw of niltiona of person*, pennita? to speak of It withont gnemipg. rt-amly for Iafluit* mad ChUdrca the World luu ever hang. It in h<ralo?s CUMrm lib it. It >? It will ?av? their litest J? It Moihmr* < have i* absolutely ?afe .and practically perfect m a gives them health f>om*th Lug which child** medicine. / Castoria destroy* Worms. C aatoria allay Feverishne n. Caatoria prevents vomiting Sonr Curd. Castoria cnrw Piarrhcea and W tad Colic. Caatoria relieves Teething Castoria cure* Constipation Castoria neutralises the irfect? of car' Flatulency. \i r^oid gas of polsonoasal*. Ca?tog&a does not contain morphlne.jgpiqm. or Castoria airimHatw the food.Tegnlate? jhe jttomach and bo j giving healthy and natural sleep. ? . V Castoria is put np inene*sise Bottler only._It is notsoldinjbnlk. Don't allow any one to sell yon anything else on th* or th at it is ** just as good ? and " will answer every pnrpo? See that yon get C?AjS*TmO~R-I"A. / ' * ?ignatura of ?V Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria# THt MEMPHIS LYNCHING Sh?*ri(t' MriLenilon Su?i>en<le<l and I?ifcelv to , J be lmlictrd. 1 ? ? ' Mf.mpuls .Inly 24. ? There is storm of indignatiou against Sheriff Mcl>en don for his exhibition of weakness, Saturday 'night in turning I>ee Wal ker over to a drunken mob of hood lums, railroad switchmen and boys. Half a dozen men could have defend ed the jail and run them into the Mississippi Iiiver. This morning Judge Scruggs suspen ded Me Lend on, pending an investi gation, and placed the coroner in charge of his office. The grand jury will be called tomorrow, and it lookB as if BfcLendon will be indicted. The judge strongly condemns lynching, and says he will bring all the parties to justice. & Harry Frazier, one of the mob leaders, was arrested at noon* and others will be brought in as last as they cau be found. Weeding Out Inefficient -Clerks. Wahhinmjton, July 24. ? Secretary Carlisle intends to weed out the inefficient clerks in the Treasury De partment. He began operations today by dropping six clerks from the rolls. Others will be dropped from time to time as they arc rej>orted by chiefs of j division. These vacancies will l>e filled, of course, through the Civil Service Commission, and in doing so it is the intention of r-ecretary Carlisle, every thing else being equal, to give prefer ence to Democrats. It is stated that less than 10 per cent of the clerks in the Treasury are DemocratsT^A nuin ber of reductions and promotions ^ere also made today in this dep irtment. ? ? ? ?' -,ShV ? ? ? 'w* - . <_-? - . 'CENTRAL CYCLE MFG. CO.! INDIANAPOLIS. IND. . MAKKIiSOl* * 3EN-HUR ? I ?CYCLES I I C* ~ ' ? ? < I FNEUMiTIS TiRE, ? ? $100.00 * ; CUSHION TiRE, - - - 75.00 < I Ripans Tnbulcs ;ire o>m ? pouiuk\l fio-:i ;i j>;\ vripiion ? widely used bvtheiv-l nudi i C.il authorities and ;:ie yi\:~ j sentcd in k>i:i t ! : . 1 1 i< Iv [ coming the 1 tsiiiun every | where. ; Kipnns innuies net c.< :ntlv j but promptiv upon the liver, ; stomach and intestines ; euro : dvv.vp 1 1 . ; I ? i : 5 : . : 1 enstipa i tioi i, olU rjNi\ v; breath and head : ache. 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