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A DAY WITH STEPHEN, HWV. DR. TALUAQH 1'HKItKKTi# . FIVK I.IVIKO PK'IM HK* ( NTUI'HHN OAXINU INTO HtOAVMN MTMFHMW LOOKINN AT Oil It 1ST. 7" (t(ei?y?n lu 111* Dyluv I'rayvr ? '*?m A?lee|? A l'U<t urtoMjue Noriuun. ^New* York, Sept. 15.? In IiIh sermon for tdday llev. Dr. Ta Image Iimm ehorton h thoinewiH picturesque ii h it fx npirltual? I iy inspiring. Ho group** Iiih discourse I into "Five Pictures." The (fit selected ! whk, "jtehold ! wo I fie hen Venn opened " | ? Arid vii, I Stephen hn?! been preaching ? roil* j ing seruiou, and the people could not stand It. They resolved to do as men ?ometli)ios would like to do in thin day., If they dared, with mine plain preacher of righteousness? kill him. The only way to slhiico thi# unit wan. to kuock the limit Ii out of him. So they riiHlieil Stephen out of the km t *'? of the city, and w;lth jur*o and whoop and bellow thoy brought him to the cliff, aa wan the euHtom when they mm ted/ to take j ^awayfhfe by stoning. navinuj brought ? him to the edge of the cliff, twy push od him off. After he hiVd fallen they, came and lookod down, and' seeing that he was not yet dead they hegttn to drop stonen upon him, stone a^fter stone. Amid this horrible rain of missiles Stephen clambers up on his kneoa and folds his hands, while the blood drips from his temples, and then*, looking up, he makes . two prayers, one for himself and one for his murdereflfc V'Lord Jesus, receive my spirit," that was for hlmaeif. "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge," that was for his mffrderers. Then, from pain and loss of blood, he swooned away and fell nslcep. I want to. show you today five pict ures?Stephen gazing Into heaven, Steph ? on looking at Ohrlst, Stephen stoned, Stephen. in his dying prayer, Stephen asleep. fltephe* lH?olcln* Into Heaven. First look at Stephen gaidpg '"to toav ou. 'Pefoffe you take a leap you want to ^kuow where you are going to laud. He fore you cUmb ? ladder you want to ' know' to what point the ladder reaches. And It wan right that Stephen, within few momenta of heaven, .ahould ??' gating Into it. We would all do well to he found In'. I he same posture. 1 here 1r enough In heaven to keep ua guv.ing. A man of large wealth may have stntu niy In the hall, and painting* In the Hit ting room. *nd works of art In ull partH of the housed brill ho has tho chief pic tures In the art gallery, and there hour after hour you walk with catalogue and glass and ever Increasing admiration. Well, heaven 1b the gallery where Hod h n h gathered the chief treasures of his realm. The whole universe Ih his pal nee. Tn this lower room where we stop there are many adornments, tessellated floor of amethyst, and on the winding Cloud stairs nre strotched out canvases on whleh commingle a sure and purple and saffron and gold, nut heaven is the gallery in whleh the chief glories art1 gathered. There are the brightest robes . There nre the richest crowns. There are the highest exhilarations. St. John says of it, "The kingH of the earth " bring their honor and glory into It." And 1 sev the procession forming, and In the line come all empires, and the stars spring up Into an arch for the hosts to tnnreh under. They keep step to the sound of earthquake and the pitch of avalanche from the mountains, aitd the flag they bear is the flame of a consuming world, and nil heaven turns out with harps and trumpet* and myriad voiced acclamation ol nngellc dominions to welcome them In, and so the kings of the earth bring their honor and glory into it. Do yon wonder that good peo ple often stand, like Stephen, looking Into heaven? We have many friends there. There is not a man here so Isolated in life but there Is some one in heaven with whom he once shook hands. As a man geta older, the number of hls.ee lestlal acquaintances very rapidly multi plies. We have not had one glimpse of them since the night we kissed them good by and they went away, but still we stand gazing at heaven. As when Home of onr friends go across the ecu we stand on the dock or on the Htcarn tug and watch them, and after awhile the hulk of the vessel disappears, and then there is only a patch of sail on the sky, and soon that is gone, and they are all out of wight, and yet we stand looking in the same direction, so when our friends go away trom ns into the future world vxc Keep looking down through the Narrows an 1 niiztng and gazing as though we expelled that they would come out .hi I Ht .i ti 1 oil s??my cloud and give us one glimpse of their blissful an t tiniihtiguruU faees. While yon long to jMn their compan ionship, ?i>?' the year* and the da.vs fio with audi tedium that they break your heart, and the vipers of pain and sorrow and bereavement keep gnawing nt your vitals, you will stand, like Stephen, gazing into heaven. You won der If they have changed sincc you saw them last. You wonder if they would recognize your face now, so changed has It been with trouble. You wonder If, amid the myriad delights they have, they care as much for you as they use.l to when they gave you a helping hand and put their ahoulders under your bur dens. You wonder if they look any older, and sometimes in the evening tide, when the house is all quiet, you wonder if you should call them by their . (first name if they would ^>t answer. Unil perhaps sometimes you do make the experiment, and when no one but Hod and yourself are there you distinctly eal, their names and listcwand r>it gnsii'g into heav ?n . f;o LnokiitK CltrlM. Pass on now and see Stuphen look ' ing upon Christ. My text rfays he saw, the Son of Man at the right hand of Ood. Just how Christ looked In this j k world, just hew he look* in heaven, w cannot. ??y. The^hinter* of the differ ent ag^a have tried to imagine the fea tures of Christ and put them upon can vns, but we wlfHfcve to wait until with oar' own eyes we see him and with our j own ears we can hear ld*i. And yet there Is a way of seeing nim and hear ing him dow. I have to tell yon thai unless yon see end heer Christ on earth,, yon will never see end hesr him in J kSSTM. \ Look! There he*ls! Behold t% Lamb of God* C?a yon not see him 7 Then pray to Ood to t%ke the scale* off yon r ?roo. LooH thatway-try to look that way. HIh voice comes down to you thin day- -comes down to the blindest, to tho deafest ?oul, saying, "Tx>ok unto me, All ye ei)d? of tho eurth and be ye saved. for 1 am Ood, and there Is eoue else." Proclamation of universal eman cipation for nil slaves. Tell ?ue, ye who know most of the world's history, what other kiiiK ever asked the abaudoned, and the forlorn, aud the wrel*J?vd, and the outcast to come and ait beside him. Oh. wonderful Invitation! You can take it today and stand at the head of the darkest alley In all thla city, and Hay: "Gome! Clothes for your rays, naive for you* sores, a throne for your ctornal reigning." A (Ihrlst that talks like that and acta like that nud pardons ' like that do you wonder that Stephen atood look in# at him? I tuve to spend eternity doing the same thing. I uiust him- him ; I mtiHt look ttpon that face once clouded with my s|n, but now radiant with my pardon. 1 want to touch that hand that knocked off my shackles. I want to hear the voice that pronounced my deliverance. Behold him, little children, for if you live to three score year* and ten you ?#HI see uone ho fair. Ihviold him, ye aged ones, for he only can shine through the dlm ik-kh of your failjng eyesight. Behold liiin, earth. Heboid him, heaven. What a moment when nil the nation* of the .saved shall gather around Ohrist, all faces that way, all thrones that way, gazing o'n Johiis! Ills worth if all the nations knew Mure the whole earth would love him too. Mtone*. 1 pass .on now ii nil look at Stephen stoned Tli<? world ht*s always wanted to get rid of (food men. Their very life Ih an uritin ult upon wickodnesa. Out with Stephen through the gate^of the city. Down with him over the preci pices. Let , every mau come up and drop n stone'upon Iuh head. But these men did not 'so much kill Stephen Us they killed themselves. Every Htone re bounded upon them. While these mur< derei'H are transfixed by the scorn of all good men Stephen liven In the ndmfrA I Ion of nil Christendom . Stephen Htoned, but Stephen alive. So all good men miiHt be pelttfi^ "All who will lire godly in Christ Jesus must Miiffer per* Hocutiou." It Ih no eulogy of a mau to say l lull everybody likes him. Show me liny oi:e who is doing nil It in duty to State or church, and I will ahow you scores of men who utterly abhor him. If all men speak well of you, it In because you are either a laggard or a dolt. "If a Hteamer makes rapid progresn through the waves, the' Water will boil and foam all around it. Bravo soldiers of Jesus Christ will hear the cArblnen click . When I nee a man with a voice and money and Influence all on the right aide, and Nome caricature him, and Home sneer tit tilm, and Home denounce him, and men who pretend to be actuated by right motivcH conspire to cripplo him. to ciiKt him out, to destroy him, I any, "Stephen ntoned." When I Hce a man in some great mor al or religious reform battle agAinat grogshops, exposing wickedness Id high places, by active means trying to purify the church and better the world's estate, and I find that the newspapers anathe matize him, and men, even good men. oppose him and dei>puncc him, becanso, though he does good, he does not do It in their way, I say, "Stephen stoned." But you notice, my friends, that while they a ssaulted Stephen they did not succeed really in killing hha. You may nss.'iil.t a good in?n;-Wtt you cannot kill hint. On the i)ny of his death, Stephen spo?:c I'cfore.A few people in the sanhe drim this Sabbath morning he addresses nil i hristo/ldom . Paul 1 he apostle stood on Ma iv hill addressing a handful of philosophers who knew not so much about science as a modern sohool-girl. Toda,\ he talks to all the millions of Christendom about the wonders of Jus tification and the glories of resurrection. John Wesley was howled down by tho mob to whom he prenched, and they threw In i. Us nt him, and they de nounced him, nnd they jostled him, and they spa i upon him, and yet today, in all lands, he Is admitted to be the great father of Methodism. Booth's bullet vacated the Presidential chair, but from !?Mt s|?ot of eoagnlated Mood on' the fh'oi in the box of Ford's theater .there i- prang up the new life of a na tion. Stephen stoned but Stephen alive. ! A Dyln.it I'myrr. Pa*s on now and see Stephen In his dying prayer. Ills first thought was not how the stones hurt his head nor what would become of his body His first thought was about his spirit. "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." The murderer standing on the trapdoor, the black cap being drawn over bis head before the execution, may grimnce about the future, but you and I have no shame in confessing some anxiety about where we are going to come out. You are not all body . There (h within j'oii m soul. I see it gleam from your eyes today, and I se<j^|( Irradiating your countenance. Sometimes I nm abashed before an audience, not because I come under your physical eyesight, but be cause I realize the truth that I stand before so many immortal spirits. The probability is that your body will at last find a sepiilcher in some of the cemete ries that surround thin city. There is no doubt but that your obsequies will be decent and respectful, nnd yon will be able to pillow your bead under the maple, or the Norway spruce, or the cy pres*. or the blossoming fir. but. thb? spirit about which Stephen prayed, what direction will that take? What guide will escort it? What gate will open to revive It? What cloud will be cleft for 1}* pathway? After It has got beyond The light of our sun wfll there be torches lighted for it the rest of the way? ill the soul have to travel through long deserts before it reaches the good land? If we should lose our pathway, will there be a castle at whose gate we may ask the way to the city? Oh. this mysterious spirit within us! It has two wings, but it is in a rage now. It In locked fast to keep it. but let the door of this cage open the lenut, nnd that soul w* ofT. Eagle's wing could not catch it. The lightnings are not swift enough to come up with if. When the soul leaves the I tody, it takes .V) worlds nt a bound. And have I no anxiety about it? Have you no nnxiefy about It? I do not care what yon do with my | body when my soul is gorte^or whether you believe in cremation or inhnmatlon. I shall sleep junt an well in a wrap ping of kcloth an in riMn liwrit with eagle's down. But my sonl? before If ^clone this discourse I will find ont whtrs JLwiU Th*nk 0rt<l tor the lot!*' ration of my jfext, that when w die Jesus taken nn. That answer* an qtM? tion# for me. What thongfe titer* were apnnive bars between here and the ty of ldfht, Jesun could reaatvre them. WliAt though there were great Sahara* of darkness, Jesus coold Ilium# thein. What though I gat weary on the way. Ohrlst could lift me on hla omnipotent shoulder. What though there were chasms to croas, ' In hand could traus port me. Than lot .Stephen's prayer be my dying litany. "I?rd Jesus, receive my spirit." It may be in that hour we will he too feeble te nay a long prayer. It may be in that hour we wit* not ha able to nay the Lord'* Prayer, for It has Keren petitions./ Perhapa we may be too feeble even to aay the Infant prayer our mother* \{a<!ght im. which John Quiucy Adam*, 70 year* of age, mi) id every night when lie put hi* head u|>oq hi* pillow: y ,-^Now 1 lay me down tf> sleep. I pray the Ix>rd iny *oul to keep. We may be too feeble to employ elthor of these familiar forma, but this prayed of Htcphen I* kq. short, I* ao concise. Is I *o earnest, in bo comprehensive, we sure ly will be able to nay that "Ix>rd Jesus, receive my spirit." Oh, If that prayer I* aiiMwered, how *weet It will be to die! This world is clever enough to us. Per hnps It ban treated us a great deal hot ter than we deserved to be treated, flrtit If on the dying pillow there shall break the light of that better world we shall have rio more regret than abont leavlpg a small, dark, damp house for one large, beautiful and capacious. That dying minister in Philadelphia some years ago beautifully depicted It when In the Inst moment he threw up hi* hands and crlejf?out, "I move Into the light!" Asleep. Pass on now, and I will ahow you one more picture, and that In Stephen naleop. With n pathos and simplicity peculiar to thn Scriptures^ the text says of Stephen, "He fell asteei*.'' "Oh," you sa/, "what ft plnce that wa? to sleep! A^hard rock under him. stones falling down upon him, the blood atreamlug, mob howl ing. What a place It ffna to sleep!** And yet iny text takes# that symbol of ?dumber to describe his departure, so sweet was It, sp contented was It, so peaceful was It. , /Stephen had lived ft vefjr laborious Ute . His chief work had been to care for the poor. How many loaves of bread he had distributed, how mauy biirc feet he had sandaled, how man? cots of sickness and distress he had blessed with ministries of klndnefth and love, I do not know. Vet from ?ho way ho lived, and the way he prenched, and the way he died, I know he was a laborious Christian. But that Is "all over now. He has pressed the cup to the last fainting lip. He has taken the* Inst Insult from his enemies. The last stone to whose crushing weight ho !e susceptible has been hurled. Rtephon is ?lend! The disciples come! They fako him up! They wash away the blood from the wounds. They straighteu out the bruised limbs. They brush buck the tangled half from the brow, and then they psss around to look upon the calm countenance of him who had lived for the poor and died for the truth. Stephen asleep! J have seen the sea driven with t>??; hurricane until the tangled foam cmght in the ringing, and wave rising above wave aeemed as. if about to storm the heavens, and then 1 have seen the teuip fijt tirop, and the waves crouch nud everything become smooth and burniuhe J an though a camping place for the gloiies of heaveu. So I have seen a man, whoae life has been tossed and driven, routing down at in.*t to an infinite culm, in which there waa a hush of heaven's lullaby. Sunken asleep! 1 aaw such a one. He fought all hi* days against poverty and against abuse. They traduced his name. They *-attled at the doorknob while he was dying with duns fq* debts he could not pay; yet l>eace of tied brooded over his pillow aUd while the world fa^d, heaven dawned and the deepening twilight of earth's night was only the openiug twilight of heaven's morn. Not a sigh. Not a tenr. Not a struggle. Hush! Stephen asleep. 1 have not the faculty aa many have to tell the weather. 1 can never tell by the netting sun whether there will be^ a drouth or not. 1 cannot tell by..tlfP blowing of the wind whether it*tirill be fair weather or foul ou the morrow. But I can prophesy, and 1 will* prophesy, what weather it will be when you, the Christian, come to die. You may have It very rough now. It may be this week one annoyance, the next another aunoyam-e. It may be this year one bereavement, the next another bereave ment. But at the last Christ will come in and darkness will go out. And though there may be uo hand' to close your eyes and no breast on which to rest your dying head, and no candle to lift the night, the odora of God's hanging gar den will regale your soul and at your bedside will halt the chariots of the kinfc. No more fonts to pay,' ao more agony because Hour has gone-up, no more strug gle with "the world, the flesh and the devil," but peace ? long, deep, everlaating peace. Stephen asleep! Aaleep In Jeaua, blessed eleep. From which none evor wake to weep; A calm and undiHturbed repose, Uninjured by the last of foes. Aaleep In Jeaus, far from thee Thy kindred and thy graves may be. But there ia atill n Moaned sleep, From which none ever wake to weep. Yon have seen enough for one day. No one can auccesafully examine more than five pictures in a day. Therefore/ we atop, having seen thia cluster of di vine Raphaels ?Stephen gazing into heaven, Stephen looking at Chrlnt, Steph en atoned, Stephen in his dying prayer. Stephen atdeep. Why I.lmft |< To PrnnorT This Hem from The Np w York World Is not limited to France: The Parisian police are active In their attempts to arrest the miscreants' who sent the Infernal machine to Baron de Kothschlld. They have reaeon to he. Ilaron de Rothschild Is the real king of France, and those who make murderous attempts on his Ufe commit the hltftent of high treason. Is not Baron Rothschild king of the United f?r*4ee, the same as France? Is not The WorM one of his subjects? That Is, does not the World tnetet that the financial poller of the United State*, which the Infernal machine Baron mark ed out. must be adhered to or we shall all go to the d >ga; that for' us to use the mlnea which the good God put tn our hills aad which would eq%fele us to double the money of this eeuntry In. a Flv# N?r4?r?r? Rtrspf. By Southern Associated Press.. Raleigh, Sept. 16.? Governor Oarr' is , advised of the escape of live murderers from jsil at Madison and offers reward for their capture. The men are George Hensley, Rodney Shelton, James Shcl too. Nineveh Grfnnell and Neweom Afac Donaldc The jell ia extremely Insecure. The Stahf bad been at considerable ex pense to secure the arrest of Hensley, , who Is a noted criminal. tl GLEANINGS FROM TWO STATES. ?>r ITKMM OK INTKIiJCMT IN UKOIIMIA ANI> noi'l'll ( AHUMVA. rsnsoiAl, m<?i. itioat. and fhomis CtOLH HAPP?!VIN(ili. f The ladies <oiuuiitt?en of Maeou that liuve charge of the exhibit of that ?lt.v' nt thu Atlanta Kxi>ot<ltinii have got to Ketltt-r h fxhihit which i# roai)> i, for MhiiMiu'iit. t'realdciit 11. II. t'ahAiiimi haM or?ler?wt a meeting of tho OrorKla l'ie?<H AHHocia* tion (n tho pailor* of the Hotel Orient <tl for 10 o'clock 0(1 tho morning {of Sep tember l!>, the day aftor the o|>cning ot tho Kx|H>?itiou. Au electric storm caused considerable excitement ut Odurn Saturday eTenlng. The store of Mr. J. B, Clay was *truck by lightning. Several shingle* ami the top of the chlumcy were torn off. Several customer* were In the store at the time, all uf whom felt the shock more or lt*B, hut none were seriously hurt. Among the Confederate relics that will be exhibited at the Atlanta lfcrprfsition will he the camp chest of Hon, Jefferson Davis. This was uot only of service in the civil war. but Mr. 1>avIh carried it with him In all hi" bril liant aervlee in the war with Mexico. It la now In Washington, this Btate, where he loft It In 186&, when he passed through that town, a fugitive. He left it with Ool. John B Wei-ma. and hl? daughter will Exhibit It. The Maryland Trust Company of Bal timore offers at' par and accruod Interest $ 1, 200,000 of the first mortgage 50-yefti gold bonds of the Georgia, Southern nnd Florida Hallway company. 'Vbey liear I intercut at ft per cent, payable January nnd" July in New York or Haftimore, at the option of the holder. Th)>?e bond* are a part of the issue of $4,000,000 first mortgage bond* on the reorganifce.l prop erty. Total amount of mortgage $4. 000.000 of which $300,000/ are rMaiued in the treasury of the corrtjiany 'for fu ture requirements |eavingv^$MjiOO,000 bofi'ds "rmtet^ndln. Macon is preparing for the Young People's Baptist convention, which meets there next week. It is expected that over 500 delegates will be there. This convention has never been organlspd, It having been iwruug at the last seSMou of the Southern Bapttat convention. It will bo remembered that the formation of this society caused much debate at the Southern ltaptist convention (be tween I>r. Hawthorne and other*. The office* of the or v." nidation will be located in Macon. The board of trade of Savannah i* preparing an exhibit for the Atlanta Ex position which will be one of the most attractive features of the ninny that will till the Savannah space. The chief ele ment is to be a large pyramid albout four feet high, representing every grade of rosin. The rosins, nearly all of which arc transparent, will, be placed in gla** frames, maklnir the pyramid. Inside of this pyramid will be a poweVful electrlo *light. The ray* of this light will illumi nate the rosin, bringing out the rich colors of every grade and making it ex ? cocdingl.v attractive. Auditor O. O. Kibliee, of Macon, I* now making up his report on the Spark* ?nse in which W..1T. Sparks nsks fob JU17.000 ns extra eomi>ensation a* re ceiver of the Georgia. Southern and '?'loridn railroad. Judge Kibbee's report fill have to be submitted to Judgf Grigg* liefore the 28d, on which date Judge 'Griggs will pass on the report. Macon is preparing for the.vhlg races ,?to begin there October 1. Judge Ij. S. Hatch, a Rioted dealer with turfmen, who will bP'~}ndge of the races here, ha* gone to liOiiiHville, Kv.. to atteud the selection and whipping of ten car* of fine racers to Macon. In Savannah John Johnston, a negro, was badly cut Friday morning by Han man Hrilisou. another negro, in a rlowi^' Ing and furnishing *tore at the corner of West Broad street and Perry street Inue, Herman ^tartcd after Johnston at the Central railroad depot and ran him iu/lo the *tore. . He (*ut him fite times, once in the back, twice on the leg, once in the hand, and once in tho head. After the cutting Brineon made an effort to escape. He ran out of the. ?tore over to the depot and started down railroad street to the canal. Officer lit*, of the Central railroad force, and others, started after the fleeing negro. He was caught in the Ct^t^afcrailroad yard SOUTH OAH^MNA. The poles are now being ill*trlbnted ami put up preparatory to putting up 1 1 io Hue of telephone wries from Dillon to l>atta and Marion. The citizens of Greenville have taken considerable interest in the Atlanta Ex position and much cnthnslartm has been shown in" the effort to secure irtieles for exhibit. Mr*. Will. Wilkins, Jr., ha* been untiring in looking after the inter est* of the Exposition, having charge of the contributions from thin city. ? Greenville News. A raid was. made yesterday by dis pensary constables on the old Trammel! bar. corner of Main and C-offee atreets. If anything was found it waa^ something like that described in 1'ickwlck, when Sammy Weller stated that when the under shepherd got through with his bottle of pine apple mm, nothing was left in the liottle but the cork nnd tho smell.? Greenville News. - The ' proposed railway between Spar tanburg and Henrietta, N. C., W? being agitated considerably. A business meet ing will I** held within the next few days ami the matter will be fully dls cussod. Thure was an Informal gather ing of h few business men a few days ago in Spartanburg, when t"he road was diacussed to some extent, .-.'<ind all were of the opinion that the lip* could be easily and cheaply built, js the pro|>osed route ia on a very Kffel .ridge. Those who are at the head of the pro ject say that the road will be built withont a doubt. In Orrat Britain on January 1, im, there were M.0C1 persona registered as of unaound mind in the varlooa Insti tution* of Bactand |M\ Wska. Aa compared vrlth.tfca wfwtwed hsaattca on January 1, liM. there la an la crease of t,?tl .* * A GREAT . WATER POWER. ) iV Tin-: dkvkii.uhiuk.\t ok nita dam A'^ I'KliXMK, *. O. NOMT KXTJDNMIVB WORK OK IT* KIND I.N TIIK COimiY, TI?V I Hum Ik IIHI K??t I U I.*' II will iiuil 4ft K*>?l II tub v. The IVlzer dam, which in to develop power rtt l'eliser, ti. (>., on the Saluda Itlver, in nearly completed. Thin dam. v.M.h in htiinx built by Jhr W . A. t'hupman Co,, of I'rovldehce, R. 1.. is oik- ?f the moat extensive works <>f It* kind in tlilK country. It I* calculated, according to engineers' estimate*, to produce for present purposes 5,140 horse power by operation of a aerie* of Vic tor turbine water wheels of 1,(>28 horse power each, among the largest ever i.idlt . The dam is thrown across the river at a pdlnt where the natural form ation of the banks provides for a very !arj<e storage reservoir, so that 'ample water Ut furnished for power purpo?e? at dry season* of the year. The dam is alHiut 7?M> feet In length and forty five feet high at its highest polqt. The base s twenty-six feet in width, and In some places extend*, thirty-five feet below the river bed to reach a solid foundation. The width la continued at twenty-six feet until the dam reaches a height of eleven feet. At tlds point It is narrowed to twenty-three feet, and is Kradually contracted to the top, I which In six feet In width. A roll w a of WM) feet In length at the eastern end Is provided, which is ten feet lower than the rest of the dam. This rollway is designed to throw the current of wa ter from the power-house, which lies on the western part of the dam, In time of high-water. The dam Ib pierced near the power-house by two large flood Kates, with four conduits or plpes'hav in# a combined capacity of eighteen cubic feet, .lust above the floor of. the power-house will be five metal sluees, in which will be *et the turbine plant. The power-house proper Is 110 feet lon? by f>0 feet wide, with a height of t50 feet from the top of the power-house to the~%Bt*oin of the wheclbed. It is floored with bedded atone, covered with concrete to a depth of eighteen inches, with a two-inch foundation of Portland cement. Besides containing the turbine ftlint it will have five electric dynamos. The current from theses will be used t ? (.pi-rate the IVlzer mill now being competed three miles distant from the town of that name. This mill will con taw 5S.OOO spindles, and will be the "TflrKesl single spindle mill In the 8oi*th. The work on this dam was conV united in September, 1SSM, and hfl^ct trfteU-u- much attention from the meib ?/ls employed. It was necessary in Ms construction to use a cableway sup ported by two large towem, which car ried the blocks of stone,, l>y a patent conveyor across the stream at a height of 1<X> feet.. While, us stated before, r?l IO horpe-power will be used for the present, the power can he developed to a much larger degree as it becphjes neccMsary . ? Manufacturers' Record . GOOD THINGS FROM PUCK. jGalcalatlom. Agent? Tho lady would like to rent the house furnished. She has three boys . Owner ? Add the value of the furniture to the rent. Deep Thinking. "Ah! I<et me think & minute!" ex claimed Cholly T add ell*. "put do you Imagine you can keep It up that long?" asked Mies KlttMh anx iously. ?? ProgrcM. - "" Marston? How U your scheme coming on Tor buying a yacht? Post? First-clasa; I've bought a pair of tn.cent white duck trousers. He Would If?ei It. Miw. Skinner ? I'm glad to hear you say you have euch a good appetite. Mr. Newboarder (about to take his first meal and much pleased at the prospect)? landladies generally fear a good appetite. Mrs. Sklnnei^-I don't; when a man has a good appetite, be can eat- almost any-' thing. ' Oolsg Astray. Former Resident?Well, everything In the old town seems the same. But what became of the widow Smith's boys? They always seemed such bright lads. Native (with a slghJ-^They both turned out &d. John has bin sent to tbs re formatory, and Bill's learnln' the prtatln' trade.' * ,i Ssggcatlos. Fond Mama? Well, really, we haven't had time to think of a name for b&by, suoli a time as be has had with bis teeth. Friend of the Family-Why don't you call lilm Roosevelt? Aa IsllslttstsiSl Asout. Medium (In a tone with Ice down Its back)? Madam, the spirit of your dead husband wishes to oonveree with you. The Widow Henoypeck? "Huh! If he hasn't any more spirit now than he had wlien he was alive. It Isn't worth paylug attention to. * Oorerlsg a Grsrer Crlsae. Mrs. Outertown? That Mr. Subbubs shows more consideration for his neigh bors than any man I ever saw. Mr. Outertown. (astounded)? Considera tion! Good heavens! Do you call M con sideration to wheel a lawn mower up and down his grass plot every morning at ? o'clock? Mrs. Outertown?Yes; but he does It i he nelghbot* will not hear his daught er practicing her singing lessons. GATHERING CLANK. Republicans of the Empire Male Con gregsted at SantfttM. Saratoga, N. Y., Sept. 15.? Few of they politicians have done little else today' than stroll about the corridors of their respective hotels and dlecjMlnr the situa tion. Republican headquarters at Con gress Hall had an almost deserted ap pearance tontgifrt, while over at tbs United States Hotel the office had an air of activity that Is refreshing. Hen. T. C. Piatt held court at bis headquarter*. Parlor !?, United States Hotel, aad re viewed the situation wlch bis supporters. That he Is more Interested In tbs Presi dential situation than anything else. Is oonceded. The excise question, which Is commanding mors or >less attention. Is o sort of secondary consideration with him, and. according to report, be Is giving It bwt little thought. The working of tbe convention Is nap ped out aad tbs slats formed will go through wMbout any tronbte. Rspreeso tatlvs Shsrmato, of Utlea, will he tempor ary chairman, and Clarence Uxor, ef Nyack, permanent ebalrmaa. Ike sld Stats officers will bs renominated with the exception of tbe Coprt ef Appeals judge. What little strife there te tn tbs convention will cease orer tbte, nomlaa tlon, but without tmHn Plait's asaa. Judge ftfartla. wfTl ho. tho MoedtfCMT nominee. CAROLINA'S CONSTITUTION. . - rite DiMTt Kition wathnn ok mojk. DAY WftMV CJALM, v. MIT i'llfei KVE.VT WAlr THU TALK OK 'I'll M HOI H. Th?* D?l?vnt?? liUleued (u n Number of Women Su8ra?UU. Uy Southern Associated PreHB. Columbia, *7. ?In the Constitutional Convention today every thing wax UN Hereue and placid ait |ho surface of a lake oil a sultry day. There wan not even a it echo of yesterday's liattle of words. Senator Tillman be ing engaged with his commit teg heuriuK a eonteat was not in the hall duriug the morning session. Of eourwe, the sen sational -events of yesterday has been the subject discussed by every knot of men. The news that lrby had so se verely handled 1i|h ewtwhile bottom friend was a surprise it will take many some time to recover from.. The convention was in session only about half an hour today, owing to the fact that none of the committees were ready to report. A Hood of new ordi nance* and resolutions were reeelvedi and .thfu the convention took a recess until 8 p. m., on motion of Col. Aid rich, to hear speechesHtrom all advocates .of the cause of woiud^s uUfy^gc who wished to address the convention: Col . r Aldrleh stated that they had Ihe right that any cltlsen had to be heard, and to i pre^eut their grievances. The conven tion agreed to It without trouble. During the day, several imi>ortant or dinances were introduced: among them were ordinances to regulato 'the suffrage in various "ways, to engraft tho dispen sary .law's main features m the Consti tution. to make education compulsory, to prevent favoritism in awarding con tracts for public printing, ctc. General Robert Emails. the negro who a member of the re-construction committee, introduced nn onlinahce con taining the article on the suffrage in the present Constitution It. Read, col ored, today an anti-lynching ordinance providing for the summary dismissal of nrtjf officer of the law who allows a prisoner to Buffer any bodily harm while in his custody. v* This evening the galleries were pack ed to their utmost capacity with specta tors, mostly ladles, to hear the -j ?"ec'u;? of the advocates of woman's suffrage . It was one of the largest nudicuces evbr seen in the hall. Addresses were made by Miss Laura?M. Clay, of Kentucky, iliC noted advocate of the cause; Mrs. Virginia D. Young, president of the Equal Rights' 17 Association, and Mrs. Viqla Neblett, vice president of the ns Foeiation. Tfiey were most attentively iutoned to, and seem well pleased with the ntteutlon snown tilCta. by !'>?? con vention. The sueechck were unusually strong. The rearons for woman's suf frage were presented in a forcihlevnriiivt ner. Oov. Kvnns, introducing Miss Clay, took occasion to say that it was sup* potted that they were the sovereign jk>w cr, but flmt was not so; woman was there to speak for herself. He paid a high tribute cfito the great Kentucky statesman. Henry Clay, in introducing his relntive, and said: "Who knows but that this relative of the famed com promiser may be here now to cause his tory to rejieat itfeclf #o far aB our State is concerned." f At the conclusion- of the speeches Mr. McCowan offered a resolution, asking for its^tannediate consideration, that the Coifimlijtee on suffrage be re quested to report flfc-.the convention an article providing for woman's suffrage. Mr, MoCown wa* going to* ?mi, though, nearly three times ten mem bers objected to the Immediate con sideration and it went to the com mittee. KITCHEN HINTS, i v^Be^areful that no cabbage water is I h Hired down the kitchen slut, an the odor of it. a singularly unpleaSant one, in so strong that it will pervade the whole house and produce the suspicion of a bad drain. The water In which any vegetable has been boiled should be thrown out of doors in some remote? cor ner of the garden*. N When vegetables which give out odors are being cooked half a teacupful of vinegar placed In a vessel on the back of the stovo will prevent the /mules from spreading 4>ver the house. V The care of a ktfehen sink is of para.' mount importance. A box of lye should be kept at hand, afcdMt is wise every day to make a solution of .this with hot water niul pour It down the waste pipe and into the sink. It\ cleanses thor oughly and is a valuable disinfectant. " After washing .the kitchen floor, go over rhe surfact with a pall of skimmed milk. This treatment will restore the gloss and brighten the colors, percepti bly. Brass kettles require excellent care or they tarnish very leadily. During the preserving season they are much in nse, and consequently need frequent cleans ing. If the kettle Is much discolored, scour Inside and out with soap and' ashes. '''For dally cleaning nse vinegar ai^d wilt, or scruh. with a cloth wet ,ln vinegar and dipped in ashes J Hot alum water lathe bent inaect do ^troycr known.' Pnt the Alum Into hot ' water and let it .boll until it ia all dia solved; tlfen apply the notation hot with a brnah to alt crack*, ctoaeta and bed ateada or wherever inaeeta are found. Anta. bedbuga, eoekroachee and creep in* thin** may be exterminated by its u*e. There la no danjrer of poiaoninir. and Ita peiwlatent uae will eradicate the peata. d Water boiled In |aWanlt?d iron be cornea poiaonoue, and coki water paaacd through xiac-ltned iro? pipes nhouM never be uaed for cooking or drinking pnrpoaaa. Hot wAter for" cooking- ahooUl never be taken from hot water pipea. . Take from cold water pipea and keep a auppty h?tad for M b kettka, ? t ? i. . ?m. m. ft. tym 9mm 0m?. guimHe. O..Bept 9.? Hon. R. F. JPower, a pdoaatnAt attorney and leader ef tke uO>Brk* tort? to tklfi section, dropped <Sod to his carriers thfa rvm toe whOe mi 111 1 1 1? with Lm wua. Ndstow gaeaa ertatog tm ato imperfect aiwi?a My ke lwtm?< ky the free art tof eappiraa water pwwa dowa the Siieai* ef tUlmlli ?f ttme p?t alwvt tfte katkraima Ml ander toe Mfa llltr toe ?toMpkan ef a Mm. ? v 7 STRAMMrr TALK ABOUT BU5INM8. We have tl ? latest fawned Lbt of rfoori, Saab, E^fndi Ac. Will mall you 9 you will write furstf are inaaufacturc** wc like to tall- yo/ aomethiof ? .a*^ut oUr ffln^la? how .well "tlWy jure bmLwCh'^w carefully tialkbed, and J bow duratyak 1 beae points wll( Interest you if jrou arc going to buy . Write to ua. auqusta LUMBER CO.,/ auqu*ta. OA. ?Bay ?? the risker." CONKBHKNOB ON WAOJBSJ The M?a?(M(urcv? of New Bedford Refuse to Halse (he Scale. - f By Southern Associated Press. New Bedford, Kua., Sept. 16 ? The > manufacturer*, headed by y?m. p. Howland and Andrew Q . Plerop, and , the aplnnerp committee headed by Secretary Rose held, a Conference on the wage question lasting about an hour and a half thia afternoon. The meeting waa harmonious. At ita olose Secretary Boas aatd: "The manufac turers do not think, from the present 1 State of ^the market that they oan make any restoration of wgges at present. TheySgive us to underatand that they are verXL hopeful of an lm- ? provement that will Justify them In making an advance In the .near future*, It Is thought the price of oeUon ha?s nearly reaohed the top notch Pqt the ) present and In that event the adxihdr may now be made." It la ^pt yet known whether the operative# wlU? strike or wait for the prospective a<F vance. The spinners will raetft tomor row night to talk over the subject. Watt. The honeymoon Is rrtew, la now, And al' t?* iilm ta sweet, But wait till wlntiry blasts blow cold, And his back Is (ull of feet. ^ ? Detroit Tribune. At a Bottle. "1 am told that Waxwlng has ? run through "lila entire fortune." "Not' at fall. Wavwing's entire fortune - hae run through him."? -Chicago Tribune. WrentllMr MrtWh. Now Orleans, Sept. $3. j-Prof. L. \V . Garhnrdt, tbe athletic Instructor of th<> ^Southern Athletic Club, and Mike Maesti, of this city, have, signed articles of agreement to wrestle before i the Olympic Club for a purse of $000 and a side bet of |50(> each, on October 16th. * The* mahen will be decided .!??_ the beat two out of three falls at catch weight 1 ?? 'TIS MUSIC IN 9UR BARS. . KIght Cent Cotton and plenty of It. That's Iheprospcct, and It meafts that the Piano or Organ so long desired need not longer be waited for. Jlny it Now and pay when your Cotton Is con verted Into ("ash. 8ee Ludnen A Bates' latest advertisement In this lssue.of their great Mid summer ('leering Sale. Three Hundred Fine Instruments at your own price for 8pot Cash, or a little cash now and balance November 1st, or on smallest monthly payments If preferred. They will suit you as to terms, and alt the world knows that when they advertise bar gains they mean what they say. Writs them at Havannah, Ga? for Midsummer Bargain Lists, and don't delay about it until the beat liargains are gone. No Moire Chills and Fever. A CtMrantM* Cut#, or M???y Alexander's Buck Creek . . . imm\ Chill and Fever Core I It a we cure for Chills and F?wm4 aM I Mabirlal r?tn, \ Much better than quinine. ? It Cure* Quicker. CMIk will not return. As a preventive * arrall do*? night ud morning ?ill effectually prevent Chill*. Keep 4 bottle la the hMi?e. ALKXANDF.R DRI O ? SKF.I) CD., \ .Uiug lMfaiimM|,Mwtt l?, Ot J . R ycttr merchant <io * not h n<Ve thfe re inc. ! y get him to *en<t for It or *e?id yutif order dire t ton*. PIANOS 15 Monthly ORGANS ?2 Monthly iTMIMIf how much pleaaaraand h*ne I I III* "V fltaflM Piano or Parlor Organ will bo to yoor wife uiehlllmi, and bow long itt?/ kare wanted anffwaitad. i n&DPT WAIT TOO LONG. I ^ They wont bo with yon for f eveV, make them happy while yon can. iTHINI^ how TerT ?wl1y you can new 1 * ? ixiy a anpeth Instrument on oar (Installment plana, and p*y for It aimo?twithoat mlaatng the money. ACT -QUICK Write for Midsummer Sale Bargain Sheet" 300 H?MrH Imtrammtn m mmIw<| Imu (vwoAimI t VOUR own Mteti to r CASH. Write tmr p*rtknUn.' Hat QUICK. R*nr?ln? roHtfur aw?< dally. Wmln m |*olMt Mid Wjr MOW., LUODCN A BATES,; SAVAptNAN. Ca. i. ,\ 6XK>