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i Afterglow - After the sun's last ray Has left the mountain ctest. Taking the golden day To lands of the waiting West; After the darkness falls 8wifl on the parting hour After the night enthralls Vine-laoed lane and tower; Like Hushes of early dawn With roee Lots permeate, Up from the glory gone, Springs glory re-create, Over the realms of cloud, Over the earth below, And night kolds back her shroud, In the splendor of afterglow. After the light of lore Fades in hopeless night, A glery from above Fills the heart with after light nun iiucii ? nit' a origin ray Leavcth ila loved iu woe, The hearts it loved Slu usr In its beautiful afterglr w. TALMAGES SERMONDr Talmage's Discourse on God s Way of Doing. Iu this discourse Dr. Talmage raises bigh expectations of the day when that whioh is now only dimly seen will be fully revealed text. Job xxvi, 14: "Lo, these are parts ol his ways. But how lit'le a portion is heard of him? But the thunder of his power who can understand?" The least understood being in tho universe is God. Blasphemous would bo any attempt by painting or sculpture to repre sent him Egyptian hieroglyphics tried to suggest biui by putting the tigure of nu eye upon a sword, implying that God sees and rules, but how imperfect the suggestion! When we speak of him, it is almost always in language figurative. Ho is "l.ight" or "Dayspricg From on High," or he is a "High Tower" or the "Fountaiu of Living Waters " His splendor is so great that no man can see him alive. Wheu the group of great theologians assembled in Westminster abbey for the purpose of making a system of religious belief, they first of all wanted an answer to the question, "Who is God?' No one desired to undertake the answering of that overmastering question. They finally concluded to give the task to the youngest man in the assembly, who happened to be Rev George Gillespie. Ho consented to undertake it on the oondition tnat they would first unite with liim in prayer for divi 10 direction. Ho began his prayer by saying, "0 God, thou art a spirit, infinite eternal and unchangeable in thy being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth." That first sentence of Gillespie's prayer was unanimously adopted by the assembly as the best definition of God. Bi , after all, it was only a partial success, and after everything that language can do when put to tho utmosl strain and all we can see of God in tho natural . world and realize of God in the providential world we are forced to cry out with Job iu no text: "1.0, these are parte of hia ways. Bui how little a portion is heard of him'.' Bui the thunder of his power who can under stand?" Archbishop Tillotson and Dr. Dick ami Timothy Dwight and Jonathan Edwards ol the pwstand the mightiest theologians ofthu young century have discoursed upon the power of God, the attribute of omnipotence And we have all seen demonstrations of God i almightiness. It might have been far out at sea when in an equinoctial gale God showcc what he could do with the waters. It mighl have been in an August thunderstorm in th< mountains when God showed what he coulii do with the lightnings. It might have been in South America when God showed what la oould do with the earthquakes. It mighl h we been among the Alps when God showed what he could do with the avalanches. Oui - ^ cheek was blanched, our breath stopped " ^ our pulses fluttered, our whole be ing was terrorized, but we had seen only an com pared ^PV^thnt the power that s wings the earth through all the centuries and for 0,000 years an 1 in a formative and incomplete shape for hundreds of thousands of years'.' What is that power that sustains our world compared with the power which rolls through immensity the entire solar system and all the constellations and galaxies and tho universe? The mightiest intellect of man would give way if for a moment there came upou it the full appreciation of what omnipotence is. What you and 1 see and hear of divine strength are only "parts of his ways. But how little a portion is heard of him! But the thund r of his power who can understand We try to satisfy ourselves with saying, "It is natural law that controls thing*, gravitation is at work, centripetal aud centrifugal foroes respond to each other." But what is natural law? It is only God's way of doing % things. At every point in the universe it is God's direct and continuous power that controls and harinonizs and susiains. That power withdrawn one instant would make the planetary system and all the worlds which astronomy reveals one universal wreck, bereft hemispheres, dismantled suu sets, dead constellations, debris of worlds. What power it must be that keeps the internal fires of our world imprisoned?only here and there spurting from a Cotopaxi, or a Btromboli, or from a Vesuvius, pulling I'oropeti and llerculaneum into sepulclier, but for the most part the internal tires chained in their cages of roek, and century a tier century unable to break the chain or burst open the door! What power to keep the component parts of the air in right proportion, so that all around the wor.d the nations may breathe in health, the frosts and the heats hindered from working universal demolition! Bower, as Isaiah says, --to take up the isles as a very little tfcing," Ceylon and Borneo aud Hawaii as though they were pebbles; power to weigh the "mountains in scales" and the hills in balances"?Tencrife and the Cordilleias. TO move a rock we must have lever and screw and great machinery, but God moves the world with nothing but a word; power to create worlds and power to destroy them, as from the observatories again and again they have been seen red with tlame, then pale with ashes and then scattered. What is that power to us? a?ks some one. It is everything to us. With him on our side, the reconciled God, the sympathetic God, tho omnipotent God, wc may defy all h i man and satanio antagonisms. And when we ore shut in by obstacles wc can say as did one of Frobisher'B men when iho - 1 -l nan m:ourn?ing how their ehip was surrounded by icebergs in Arctic sea, "The ice was strong, but God was stronger than the ice," and whatever opposition we may have our Uod is iuighter than the opposition. All right with God we may have the csurage of the general dying on the battlefield, lie asked to be turned, and when they said, "Which way shall we turn you?" he said, "Turn my faco toward the enemy." What a challenge that was uttered by the old missionary hero. "If God be for us, who can be against us?" God is the only being in the universe who has power to do as pleases. All human and angelic forces have environments. There are things they cannot do; heights they cannot scale; depths they cannot fathom. Whatever their might aul velocities they are servants of omnipotence, which lias no limitation, no hindcrmcnt and no insurmountable obstacle. Martin Luther asked a Saxon peasant to recite the creed, and the peasant began, "1 believe in God, the Father, Almighty." "Stop," said Luther. "What is Almighty?" "1 do not know," replied the peasant. Then Luther said. "You arc right, my dear fellow. Neither 1 nor all the learned men can tell what is omnipotence." Human power, however great, tires nnd must rest, but omnipotence never wearies, and a quadrillion of years from now will be as fresh as at this moment. We get some little idea of the divine power whan we see how it buries the proudest cities and nations. Ancient Memphis it has ground up until many of its ruins are no larger than your thumb nail and you can hardly find a souvenir large enough to remind you of your visit. Thjciiy ot Tyre is under the sea which washes the shore, on whioh arc only a few orunibling pillars left Sodom and Gomorrah are covered by w iters so deathful that not a fish can live in them. Babylon and Nineveh are so blotted out of ? existence that not one uninjured shaf. of their ancient sp'endor remains. Nothing but omnipotence oould hare put them down and put them under. Thy antediluvian world was able to send to the postdiluvian world only one <h?p with a very small passenger list. Omnipotence tirst rollei the seas over tholand, and then told them to go baok to their usual ohanncls as rivers and lakes and oceans At omnipotent command the waters pouncing upon their prey, and at omnipotent command slinking baok into their appropriate places. By suoh rehearsal we try to arouse our appreciation of what omnipotence is, and our reverence is excited, and our adoration is intensified, but after <%ll TTl liuu UUI 3Vm'3 ttl HID IUUI VI ? U1UUU tain we canaot olitub, boveriug over a depth we can no I fathom, at the rim of a clrcumferenco we cannot compass, and we feel like first going dov n on our knees and then falling tl tt upon our face? as we exclaim: "Lo, these are parts of hia ways, but how little a portion in heard of him? But the thunder of hia power who can understand? 80 all those who have put together sys tenia of theology have diecourad also nhout the wisdom of Qod. Think of a wisdom which can .now the end from the beginning, that knows the thirtieth century aa well as the lirst o-ntury Wo can guess what will happen, but it is only a guess. Think of a mind that can hold all the past and all the present and all the future! We can contrive and invent on a small scale, but think of a wisdom that uould contrive a universe! Think of a wisdom that can learn nothing new. a wisdom that nothing can surprise, all the facts, scenes and occurrences of all time to come as plainly before it as though they had already transpired! He cou d have built all tbc material universe into one world and swung it aglorious mass through immensity, but behold his wisdom in divid ing up the graudeurs into innumerable worlds, rolling splendors on all sides, diversity am pillule, majesty, infinity! Horlds! Worlds! Moving in complete order, shilling with complete radiance. Mightiest telescope on cue hand aud most powerful microscope on the other, discovering in the plan of God not one imperfection What but di vine wisdom could have planned a human ruce aud before it started build tor it a world like this; pouring waters to slake human 1 thirst and giving soils capacity to proJuce such food and lilting such a canopy of clouds embroidered with such sun ight and surrounding the world with such won lers that all the scientists of the ages have only bogun to unroll them? Wisdom in magnitude nod in atom, in archangel and in inollusk. Think of a wisdom that was able to form without any suggestion or any model to work by the eye, the ear, the hand, the foot, the vocal organs! No wonder that Galen, the most c-lebrated of medical authors among the ancients, fell on his knees at the over1 whelming wisdom of God in the constitution of the human frame. Our libraries are filied with the wisdom of the great thinkers ' of all time. Have you considered the far superior wisdom which fashioned the hrain for all those thoughts of the Infinite Mind ' that built those intellects? But it is only ' the millionth part of that wisdom that has ' come to mortal appreciation. Close next to ^ every discovery is a wonder that has not been discovered We see only one specimen among 10,000 specimens. What we know is overwhelmed by what wc do not know. ^ What the botanist knows about the tlower is not more wonderful than the things he does not know about the flower. What the geologI ist knows about the rocks is not mote arnazr ing than the things which he does not know , about them. The worlds that have been , counted are only a small regiment of the armies of light, the hosts of heaven, vhich , have never passed in review before mortal vision. What a God we have! [ We have all been painfully reminded in L our own experiences that we c>nnot be in 5 two places ai the same time, and yet here I conies the thought that God can be in a'l , places at the same time. Madler, the a?5 tronomcr, went on with his explorations until he concluded that the star Alcyone, one [ of the Pleiades, was the center of the uuiVAIflA ami it ttaa a fiwnii ?nvlii ? ?<! oil tI?o oilier worlds revolved around that world, and some think that that world is heaven and God's throne ia there, and there reside the of the blest. But he ia not no more there cuau no u utu . uc?.? -, bna been found to be in motion, and it also ia revolving around aome great center. But no place has jet been found where God ia not present by tusfaining power. Omnipres . end! Who fully apprecia'ea it? Not I. Not you. Sometimes we hear him in a whisper. Scmetimes we hear him in the voice of the atorin that.jars the Adirondacka. But we cannot awitn across thit ocean. The finite c vnuot measure the infinite. We feel as Job did after finding God in the gold mines and the silver mines of Asia, aajing, "There is a vein for the silver and a place for the gold where they fine it." And aft< r exploritiz the he wens as an astronomer and finding God in distaut worlds and becoming acquainted with Orion and Mazxvroth and Arcturus and noticing the tides of the scathe inspired poet expresses his incapacity to understand such evidences of wisdom and says: "Lo, these are parts of his ways. But how little a portion is heard of him? But the thunder of his power who can understand?" fo everj system cf theology has attempted to desctibo and de tine the uiyine attribute of love. Kixy enough is it to define fatherly love, motherly lo/e, conjugal love, fraternal love and love of country, but the love of God defies all vocabulary. For many hundreds of years pacts li kve tried to sing it and paiuters have tried to sketch it and ministers of the gospel to preach it and martyrs in the fire and I hristinna 011 their deathbeds have extolled it, aud we can tell what it is like, but 110 ote hat yet fully told what it is. Men speak of the love of God as though it were first felt between the pointing of the Bethlehem star and the pounding of the crucifixion hammer. But 110! Long before that existed the love of God the nature of God never changes, and from all eternity that holy passion glowed in the Infinite,aud I think he was throwing out worlds into epice and inhabiting them and more worlds for the application of that love, lie nmj not have to'd the ether worids what he did for this world, us be has not told us what ho did for them I think the love of God was demonstrated in mightier | Worlds before our little v. >rld w.is fitted up* fur human residence Will a man owaing 'lOJItMt acres of land put all the cultivation on a half acre? Will God make a million worlds and put his chief affection 011 one small Ii'.allel. \re Ihn . itwif - 1 larger wo Ida standing vacant uninhabited, while this li'tlc world is crowded with inhabitant!'.' No, it ( men a universe of wrWds to express t ie love of tied, \nd there are other ransoms and other rescues and other redemptions, us there may be other niillenniiituB and otber resurrcctiou mornings and judgment days than those of our world. Hut in the space of six feet by five was comprised the mightiest evidence of (lad's love that any w rid ever saw or ever will see. Compressed on two planks joined t rgethcr as a cross. There wasenoug't agony there concentered, if distributed, to put whole nations into torture. That dod allowed the assassination of his own Hon for the rescue of our w irld is all the evidence needed tint he loved the world, do ahead, o church of Clod! do ahead, O i world, and te 1 as well as you can what tho love of dod is, but know beforehand that l'aul was r ght when he said, "It passeth knowledge." Let other ptets take up tho slooy ofdod'slove where Wiltiam Cowper and Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley and Horatius Hor.ar left it and let other painters improve Upon tt.O "Sistiim \ladnnnn " on.t the Adoration of the Magi," and the ' Crucifixion" us Raphael and Titian and Claude and t'orreggio presented them Let the German pulpit orator take up the theme of God's love whore Frederick Tholuck left it; let Italian pulpit lake it up where Gavazzi left i ; let French pulpit orator take up the theme where Uourdcloue left it; let the Swiss pulpit oratortake up the theme where Merle d'Aahigne left it; let the Hnglish pulpit take it up where George Whitefietd left it; let the Scotch pulpit take it up where Dr. Candlish left it let the Welsh pulpit take it up where Christmas Fvans left it, and let American pulpit take it up where Archibald Alexander and Dr. Kirk and Matthew Simpson left it. But the world will never appreciate fully the love of G id until they hear from his own lips the outburst of his Infinite and everlasting affection. Only glimpses of God have we in this world, hut what an hour it will he when we first see him, and we will havo no more fright than 1 feel whoa I now see you. It will not ho with mortal eye that we will behold him, hut with the vision of a cleansed, forgiven and perfected spirit. Of all I the quintillioa ages of eternity to u* the most thrilling hour will bs the first hours when we meet him as he is. This rniy account for something you hare all secu anJ may not haro under?tood Have you not noticed how that aftir death the old Christian looks young agsia or the features resume the look of 20 or 30 years before? The weariness is gono out of the face; there is something strikingly restful and placid; there is a pleased look where beforo there was a disturbed look. What has wrought the change? I think the dying Christian saw God. At the moment the soul left the body what the soul saw left its impression on the countenance. 1 think that is what gave that old Christian face after death the ladiant and triumphant look. The bestormed spirit has reached the harbor; the hard battle of life is ended in viototy. The body took that look the mouteul heaven began, andthc curtain was completely lifted and the gloties of Jehovah's presence rushed upon the soul. The departing spirit left on the old man's face a glad goodny, aud that first look gave the pleased curve to the dying lip aud smoothed out the wrinkles and touched all the liueaments with an indescribable raiiauoo. As uo one else explains that improved and gladdened post mortem look, I try to explain it, saying: "He saw God!" "Shesaw Goi! ' List summer we journeyed thousands of miles to see the midniirvt sim from North Cape, Norway. We stood on dtck inthoarclio seas, our watches in our hands, and it was oieyeu o'clock at uight, but light as an ordinary noonday. '1 hen it was half past eleven o'clock at night, then it was 15 minutes of 12, but a long wide, thick cloud hung over the suu Are we to be disappointed asthrusnudx have been and the journey here a failure'.' Teu iniuutee of 12, aud the nun is Mill hidden. But about five minutes of 12the cloud lifted, and the mid night tuu, the most rondrou* spectacle of all the earth, appcare 1, pouring forth a re'ul g* nee that turned the arctic sea into 2(1 miles of pearls and tubiesaud diamonds and emeralds and verpowering us with a glory that loft us with body a'l a-treinOle, aid a mind full of all ecstasy, and a soul full of all worship. Thank Cod wo saw it?the midnight sue. Sj with that departing Chiistiau soul; the voyage of life has been ongaod roug.li and tempestuous; chilling sorrow* have again and egain snowed down upon him, and it is an arctio sea. Many clouds have tilled the sky. It is approaching 12 o'clock, and the close of life's day. Friends stand around utid count the parting moment*. The olook strikes 12, and (lod breaks through the clouds and shines upon the features of the departing saint until they are transfigured with the glories of the Sun of Righteousness. That is whit has so changed (he features of the old man. It is the shining of the Mid light Sun. FOURTEEN PEOPLE KILLEDBy an Explosion of Fire Works at Patterson, N. J. Fourteen people arc believed to have been killed and a number injured Friday as a result of the firo following an ex plot kn among a quantity of tireworkB in tbc store of Abraham M. Kittcnburg, at Patterson, N. J. Tho storo was on tho ground floor of a tenement building. The cause of tho explosion is not known and the propeitv loss will not exceed $35,000. The <xplosion oceurcd ehortly after noon and many of tho oceapants of the building were out at dinner. The building in which tho explosion occur red was a frame tenement, four stories high with stores on tho ground floor. Tho middle store was ocoupicd by Rittenburg Ton families occupied tho flats in the building. So great was tho forco of tho explosion that a boy playing in tho strcat half a block away was lifted from his foot and hurlod against au iron fenoj. OuJ of his legs was broken. A trolley o*r ??*.* dirrttolv in front of tho building wncn the explosion occurrcu. ine buret of flamo blown out into the strret scorched tho sides of tho oar and singed thG hair of tho passengers. A number ot thoso who were on tho upper 11 jors ol' tho building when tho explosion took place wcro either stunn ed and burned to death or found eseapo out otf and were euffooatcd. After the first explosion there wero a scries of smaller ones and then came a second big explosion which was mulllcd and deadouod and probably occurred m the cellar. Every window seemed to bo emitting Hum within a minute after the first explosion. A woman, with her clothing on lire leaped out cf one of tho windows aad fell to the yard bolow. Her dead body was dragged out of reaoh of the iUmog, but the flesh was roasted and dropping from the bones. Sio later proved 10 be Mrs. Williams. Mrs. Williams' husband was a cripple. His w.fo is supposed to have remained longer tha.i she oouid with satcty m au effort to nave him. Ho was found burcud to a crisp on his bod. S me of the occupants of tho rooms drop] ed lrom tho wiudows and w-ro biu'.sec, others hung from the windows until trio firemen cam?, aid 2(1 persons were taken down ia this w.*y through the firo ar.d smoke by the firemen, while dropped into life nets. Han oi Dooley, who was in the yard when tho explo ion took place, s?w the two Kittenburg children in the rear room and lushed into tho llunes lor th< in. He got ouo of th-.ui auu carried it out an 1 tncu lego iacn ljr (he 01 bet L?i the room >-?ae ti u one mass ol tiro and he was 100 la<o. 11 wu tadly bcoroiuu iu rosuuir-g ih j fi;sio; t.d VS Inlc tuo rescues wcr.; goiog on the firemen wore liguing tho ilimcs. Cap:. Aden led *uh ihe host line in an effort to keep the fire fn iu the upper tloois, whtr i it was said many wore piuuod in. The men had haidly taken their positions and begun ou tho Hidcwal* to thr >w water into the upper fl sors, when, without any warning, iho whole upper part of the building above thcui sagged outward and it'll, i hecap kin and two of his ukn were buried under tho blaz ing debris. One of tho men is badly hurl. Tho buildtog iu which tho explosion oecuirtd was entire.y destroyed Kittenburg will probably be arrested pending an investigation. In the debris was found tho head of a man or a woman. The hair is burned t tf and tho features are unrto jgoiziblo. 'iho remainder of the body has not been found. Tho bodies taken out thus far aro almost ucreoogmzablo and are burned and torn by the tire and the oollapso of tho timbers of tho building. He Fooled ller. A woman in Chicago tucd for a divorce because hor husband fooled her by claiming that ho had a sprained aukio when ho had a wooden leg. She had tho profoundust sjmpathy with tho sprainod ankle aid during tho courtship at his request would sit on tho olhor nido away from tho sprained ankle, but she has a nauseating contempt for tho wooden log and desires to cut looso from suoh an imposition. Three Men Killed. Three men lost their lives and a dozon more were badly hurt by tho oollapso of a railroad hridgo and wrecking of a train on tho Dry Fork railroad, ne?r Hcrdicks, W. \ a. Thursday morning. The dead aro Win. Bunker, mastor moohanio aged 50; W. C. Crawl, firoman, and a laborer named Morrison. _ RESTORING CAPTURED FLAG. Dramatic Incident at the Southern Industrial Convention. Ad impreesivo featuro of the Southera Industrial Convention, held last week in Philadelphia, was tho restoration of a captured flaj by a Federal tffioor to tho ohiof oity of South Caroling from whonoo it was taken in tho la-lor days of tho Confederacy, and whioh has boon carefully kept as a relic of tho latn up pleasantness. Tho officer is Gen. VV. W. II Davis, of Dojlostowo, Pa , who was formerly in command of tho Fjf'oral forums on M.-rris Island, and whilo there in 18til ono of tho signal finis of tho Conlererato raui "Cbioora" full into his hand*, lie took advantago of the opportunity at Philadelphia to signalize tho ooea s'oo by returning the flag to rs rightful owaors, and it was graciously aocspted on the part of Charleston by ono of its delegates, Dr. Kollock, whoso response ovokol great anplauso and was worthy of thooooasion. In presenting tho flag which ho hasohenshed as ono of his most p-icloss roliot of his war experience, Oon. Davis said: " Tho duty devolving on mo, in oon neotion with the evening function, is of tho most pleasing oharaoter, and tho pleasuro isnhanccd by discharging it in this prcscuoo. L am hero :o euirnt to our Southern guest i a relic of tho war between tho Statos and to depute cno of tho their in. ui jcrs to return it to tho City of Charleston, S. C , where it properly bolougs. When Charleston fell i ito tho haals of the Federal fortes on February 18, 18U5, among the spoils of war was tuo signti Hat of tho Confcdcra o raui Jhicora. It was taken from tho looker of the vessel by Lout. Wm 11 K.liott, formerly of my c j mm and, and subsequently presort.d to mo. la tho montimo 1 determined to return it to the rightful owner if ho could bo found, but it was never dono. Mr Eiliott suggested wo take alvaa (ago of the meeting of tho Southern Industrial Convontion in this oity io discharge this duty. This w>t my views and I am here to-night for that purpose. To you, Dr. Kollook, I com mit this symbol of the nation's quarrel, aod a-k you to givo to tho Mayor of Charleston to rnaso such disposition as may eeem proper, aud I hope tho flag may bo cared for in a manner com mensuralc with tho oourago that defended it in tho strife of battle. Happily and wonderfully for both sides that war has pasted into history, and our bruised arms are hung up for moou mcnts and the oourago and forboaraueo, and fortitude, the suffering and tho tears that marked its progress have crystallized the nation into a rnoro perfect Union. The Union bassed on af faction, respect aud mutual good will, and the Southern Industrial Convention assembled hero gives evideaocthat Dotn tne iNorth and the South fully realize that 'peaoo hath horviottiies no less renowned than war.' If rnort wcro wanting, lot us cno and all in this City of lirothcrly Lovo, founded in deeds of peaoc bv William l'cnn, wherein tho immortal Declaration of Independence was made and promulgated and the C institution adopted, swear to retain our allegiance to the Union." In accepting tho tl*g for Charleston Dr. Kollock said: "It would soem more titling that somo battle-scarred veteran, somo man who had borne it proudly to victory or defended it in retreat, somo oco who had hoard the booming of cannon and bursting of shell oOiliU uOti will) "u-u olibU Ills l l'.)Ud lli defecoo of the csu-e for which so many gave their lives, ehould roooivo this most precious relic from its generous and ohivalrous captor, lint then theso men aro rapidly marching away never to roturn, and already many have crossed over tho river and are resting in the Bhade of the trees. Upoo us, their sons, devolves tho duty to proserve these relics of a cause they hold so dear and to keep bright in our memories and those of our children their glorious deeds. Aye, gontlemcn, ol tho North and South, it is such deeds as theso that tend to soften tho feelings of the past and help to cement again tho aifcotions of these brothers who differed, quarreled and fought?as only tho bravo tight?to the bitter ond. What memories this Hag calls up from the past, and what has become of the bravo hands that bore it 'mid shot and shell to viotory or defeat? M thinks 1 can see through smoke and tire these bravo men in gr< y crouching behind their works of sand and logs, while troui the fiont in continuous str< am come the shot and shell frcm the K.?i oral fleet, and again they land, the boja in the blue, charge bravely across the sands only to be mowed down by the ruthless tiro of the besieged, aad thus the battle wages. Now Jor the grey and now for the blue, until liko the mist btforc the rising sun the groy lino fades gradually a*ay nnd is seen no moro. Thank (Jt_d, gentlemen, thai these days arc past, aud let us pray that novi.r again shall these brothers raise the r hands in aogcr a ainst one another, but that year by year and uay by day ihcy shah meet as ihej dj to day, tor the best intciots of thi- great country and its j eoplo. Fire at Greenville. Firo was disc vored i i Deal's bakery, located iu one of M C. Fhersons tl.r estory buildings, on Ma'.u gtrec, 'Jrccnvillo, 3. (J. ai 12.15o'clock Wednesday morning. It spread rapidly to M. C. Fhcraons' two adjoining three story buildings, and at ft o'clock the fumes threatened tho onuro c ty. The IGattlo building, a largo thrccstory structure on the corner of Main and Washington streets, the iargest, most modern structuro in the oity, next caught, and was a total loss This building was oooupiod on tho first floor by three business houses, second floor oflicos, third floor hall. It was valued at $20,000, inuuranoo $15,000 The three adjoining stores hrst mentioned woro valued at $3 000, insurance $1,000 Thn f*! PA toao -a ...? nao urunj av 10U o'clock Tuesday morning. Tho following is a list of losers: Smith & Bristo* $8,000, in?uranco $0,000. Avery 1'atton $5 000. W. K. Ilala $8,000, no insuranoo. J. S. Deal, baker, $500 J. F. Bruns, Jcwoler, $'20,000, insurance $0,000. Reynolds & Karic, drjggists, $4,000, insuranco $14,000. I'ayno s beer dispensary $800. Bowmann's restaurant $500, fully insured. Killed by Lightning. A very sad aooident oeourrcd five miles from Anderson Thursday. During tho heavy thunderstorm that was raging that afternoon Mr. John llall, Jr., whilo returning on horsoback to his homo, waH struok and instantly killed by ligtning. Both horso and ridor woro killed. Mr. llall wa9 25 yean of ago, a member of a prominent family in tho F.at Rook neighborhood. Ho leaves n wifo and two littlo ohildrcn. I ATTEMPTS HIS LIFE Escaped Convict Captared Who is Wanted io Alabama for Rape A special to tho State from Spartan burg taya: On Sunday a negro named John WilBon, alias John Brown, an cs oapod convict sent up from sessions oourt in this county i bout one year ago, and who escaped from the authorities at tho S'ate penitentiary, was oapturod at Wcllford and lodged in the county jail. Ilo ?ai sont up from here on tho ohargo of assault with intent to rape, lie tnado himself notoriously obnoxiou i in tho oity prior to his first arrcBt and wat a dangerous menace to eooicty. Ilo served about a month in tho penitentiary ad made bis os^apo. Since then tho au boritios have bo.u on tho lookout for him. Ou or about May 7, at Springville, Ala , a Ii.tin white g rl uaojod Delia Garret, about 1J years of age, who.-o people a o highiy respected in that town was ficudishly anil criminally aoaultcd while ou hor way from school. Sho waj dragged sovoral hundred yards from the pubi c highway and into a deep woodland, whero tbobrutc accomplished his purpose tin c and again. This crime aroused tho pooplo o: Springville to great excitement and indignU:on, and every possible measure and step wss taken to secure tho villian, who made good his escape. A reward of $"i00 was offered. It so happened that at the time of this occurrence in Sprngville, Ala., John Wilson, under the a?suttrd namo of Brown, was working ?hcr3, hid iegfrom tho officers of the law in this State. It was known that tho little girl's assailant was a negro, and the do senption sent out everywhere of him answered to a dot to Wi'sou, even to two Bears on his face, lie had also written to his wife from Springvibo to Wellford, where sho live*. A plan was laid for the capture of Wilson by Mr. Mooro of Tucapau Mills, and it worked successfully. He was lodged in j ail Sunday, and as ho bore out so minu.c ly tho description of tho rapist in Springville, Ala., tho authorities thcro wcro notified to come and get tho eooundiel and pay tho reward, which would go to Messrs. Moore and a Mr. Roberts of Wcli ord. Tuesday John Wihon wa9 informed of tho faot that ho was to be carried to Sprincviilc, Ala., where ho was badly wanted Ho had littlo oommont to make, but his general bearing was that of a guilty man if appearances count for aight. Last Diglit at midnight iLputy Sheriff White was in tho juiwhen tho prisoners wcro confined and siw Wilson in his call. Ho was in good spiiits. This mormng ho was discovered lying on his cot, bleeding profusely from an ugly wound in tho throat. lie had broken a half pint whiskey bottle which had been left in the cell by some prison or to drink water out of, had mado a crude weapon and attempted to tako his own life. In this ho was very nearly successful, as his wound extends four inches and his wiud pips is badly gashed. In the oell two letters were found, one addressed to his wife at Wellford and another to his father iu the coun try. In each letter ho stated that he would rather die than go hack to Springville, Ala. He bitterly upbraided his wife aoouBing her of infidelity and s'.ating that she was tho oanse of his bc| ing captured. In theso icttcrs ho did not acknowledge his guilt. Tho Springville authorities have been notified, ani arc locked for to oomo alter Wilson. WSIATBIB Attn CROP RF.PORT Director Bauer's Summary for the Past Week Bclo* is given tho wotkly bulletin of the condition of thewoather and oropa issued Tuesday by Director Bauer of tbc South Carolina section of the climate and crop service of tho United States weather bureau: Tr.e weekuuding Monday, .Juno 17th, averaged only slightly cooler than usual, with a maximum of 1)1 at Batosburg on the 11th, and a minimum of t>l at Greenville and Spartanburg on tho 10th. Tnere was a decided and harm ful dcficinoy in bunshine. General and heavy rains prevailed from tho KJ.h to tho cloto of the week, with amounts varying from iwo to over six inches, and averaging Ik40 for the State, which is nearly equal to the nor mal Juno precipitation. Bottoms were flooded, hilbiies washed, bridgoscirried away, and land, generally hate tcoonic buggy, ai.d wt re unfit for cultivation except from two to three dajs caily in ll.c week. All ti ed crops have been injured by this t xcessive moisture, want of pre per cultivation and lack of sunshine, and fields havo leojmc foul with glass and weeds over tho entiro St&'e. All cotton has rot been obopped ou', and itiitij fluids aro lousy, and l'^ui w.th grass, so that there are numerous reports of abandoning them, while in a few localities tome already have bet n plcu.h-d under and planted to com. Ihj plants c.'Riinun small, and arc yellowing In Marl oro county, and in i c b< a i-.ia-d a s riots, thcro is some mij r v moot noted; eUewuere, general I tie i r i-.r* Kin I 1 . I--.. . . . -- - - ....vr... V J -rtUUJ 1.1UU3 III'J plants ato d}iug o some ex.cut from W 0 IblUSi Com has made plow grow:h, hut on tho Ui lands of the w. stern half of the rftato retains its healthy color. Bottom laud corn was washed atsay, and wilt have to bo roplanted, sonic for the fourth time, lu tho eastern sections, corn look* yellow, and is tassclling low, and has received pormauent injury, whilo over the fcfuto it is in need ol woik and sunshine. Tho heavy rains, aud worms, in places, havo damaged tobacco; and in Marlboro county only is any improvement noted. Caterpillars havo mado their appearance on rioe in Colleton. In tho Georgetown distriols tho freshets are only now subsiding leaving tho lands in poor condition for either cultivation or planting. In tho lower districts, and on uplands, rioo is excellent. Wheal aud oats arc nearly harvested, oxcjpt in tho extreme western portions, where wheat is ovor ripo and falling to tho ground, rains preventing harvesting. Muoh grain was damaged in tho thock by tho heavy rains. Vorylitilo has been housed or thrashod. Marly poaches aro rottning; apples arc dropping, grapes very promising; truck and gardons arc tine; motions poor and backward. Tho crop prospoots aro dcoidodly unfavorable a: this time. Not Allowed in Town. Deputy United States Marshal Sisson wan oaleld to Glonooo on tho Kastern Oklahoma railroad Thursday afternoon by a raco ditBoulty at that piaoo. Tho United Statea marshals were notified Thursday morning by tho Santa Fo Kuthoritica that tho oitizona of Cilonroo had throatoucd to nao foroo to run out a gang of forty oolorod men cmployod to raiao tho grado at that point. Tho citizjna of Ulonooo havo aa a rule allowed no oolorod man to visit or livo in that village. ( . COULDN'T HAPPEN IN THIS STATE A Louisiana Bridegroom Forgot the ] Marriage License "I was one of 1 500 person) who witnessed what wo all thought was a wedding in a fashionable ohuroh a few weeks ago," remaakod a gentleman Tuesday, and it wa9 evident from the way lie started out that be had a story to toll. "It was ono of the prinoipal cVrjh weddings of May, and nearly all society was gathered in that ohuroh. Tbo brido had been very popVT n. 1 s - * - uiar iu now Wtll'MQB secieiy, aO'l illO I I grocm wis ooo of tho lust known of | 1 iho Huooesbful younger business men in < tho city. There was a rnatrOQ of i honor, several bridesmaids, fliwor < bearers, groomsmen and ushers, musio | and all that sort of thing, and many < pooplo went to the church simply to ' sec tho frills that were to be put to i the old oercmooy of giving and taking 1 in marriago. Tho groom's brother was i his beet man, and he was as proud as was his priooipa!?until after tho ' wedding. No. ho did not forget to < pa-s the ring to the bridgcroom. "After the final vows were exohang I cd and tho minister had pronounced I the young oouplo man and wife, wo in 1 the front, scats noliocd the minister | whispering to tho bridegroom, and the ' look of worry and annoyance that ' came over tho face of the man who 1 should have been to happy. Wo won 1 dered whit tire mysterious whispering < meant, but wo wcro not enlightened. 1 As the n.iDistcr turned away the groom i gave his arm to tho bride, the organ i pealed cut Mendelsfohu's joyful wed- 1 aing march, but tho groom did not i seem very joyous, and a .few of us later discovered why and tho roason for tho whispered conversation between the minister and the bridegroom in the chauoel. "After pronouncing them man and wife, tho minister whispered to the man that in reality lie and his btide were not married; that no liconBo had been obtained, and that tho reason 1 why the minister had followed tho ritual was ttat no scandal might be created. The best man bad been intrusted with all tho commissions appertaining to tho wedding, and ho had forgotten the most important item of all, the marriage license. The minister knew that at that time of night there would be no chance to obtain tho license without long delay, and ho knew that the best way to smooth over the maucr was to go on witn his part of the programme and then tell the bride groom thai ho was no bridegroom, but only a bridegroom to be. Tho man in tho case had made all his arrangements for a wedding tour Wost, and had bought tho staicroom in tho 6lcepor of tho night train and bought his tickote. U. ...1 1. I..'. - , 1 tiu ncut tu uis uuiiio mat n'gni, KLQ the bride remained at hers. "Early the next morning the iioense o marry was obtained from the board of health, and the genuine marriage ceremony was then performed at the homo of the bride's parents and with uo witnesses save the members of her family. Tho bridegroom, after considerable trouble, got the dates of his railroad tickets ohanged, but ho lost tho (18 he had paid when he reserved the stateroom in the sleeper from New Orleans to Chicago. The story only got out to a fow per-:oas who wtrc at the church for what they thought was the wedding, and noticed in tho paporn later tho dato of tho marriage license."?New Orleans Times Democrat WON A REBEL GIRLHe is f.orn New Jersey and She is a South Carolina Belle The following published in tho Atiant'o lieviow, Atlantic Jity, N. J., will bo read with interest. A rorcanco that will appeal to even [ the most unromantio will roach its t climax in tho Episcopal church at Ah < bevillc, South Carolina, at high noon < on .June 27, when Licutenaut Colonel 1 Lewis T Bryant, of tho New Jersey ' NtiiOL.il Guiru, at.d also tho well- J known commandant of tho Morris t Giiuds, will be united in wedlock to 1 Miss Mary S. L c, a charming yourg lady of most distinguished linoagc. llud it not been lor the fait that the c United States and Sp*in were at war c and that Colonel Bryant while serving 0 as a major in the Fourth New Jersey 1 Volunteers, was eeat to Gruouvilte. 8 c C., iu iho tail of l&'JS an a part of the 1 overwhelming army that assembled in the S^uth for the purpose of showing v Si ain how va.n wou.d be her further r resistance, Cjlonel Dry ant wouii doubt- 0 less ncvi r have mot the cultur-.d young 1 woman who will b oomo his bri to ou 1 .he -7:h. S.o war then v; iting in (J:cclv.1 o, aud toe;r meeting ripened e into friendship and then into that L higuer utf.etion Aa engagement was ^ mo uatuial result and the nupualo will 1 cu tu'uaio a most romantic courtship. Mtsd Lre's family is cue of the m.st distinguished iu tin Southland, lu I AuOevi.io, wi crj sho lives, tLo first 1 secession t tieou wuj deliver.d and the D lii'.lo o.ty was a.tO the ooeue ef ine last v meeting o. Jcllorsou Davie, cabinet. 1 Llcr fauu r, who is now dead, was for * many years a celebrated lawyer. Many 0 of her relatives fought for mo South, J, but the f?ir daughter will bccjiue the . brido of an offio <r in tho military fo.cca ' of one of the m ;st prosperous States in r a united land. f Miss I.jo is of tall and graceful oar- 11 riagi and of ths brunotto typo of boau- 9 ty. Sho is cultured and highly ao- ? oompiiahod?a typical daughter of the " Sjuth. A number of Captain itryant's friends will attond tho wedding. Tho groom to-bo in arranging to lcaso his rosidenoc of North Carolina avoouo, w south, and to spend the summer iu 11 travel, llo will bring his brido to At- 0l lantio City in tho fall and occupy his v( handsome coUage. , fi Wanted a Job. A K \nsas school board reocived the following letter t'no othcrday from ooeof p the teachers: "I would like to have the 01 refusal of the school an long as you aro b< willing to hold it for ms, though I oan't tl say positively that 1 will not teach, nor tl positively that I will. If I am married, tl as 1 think 1 will be, of oourso I will not a want tho sohool. Hut you know tho old at story about many a slip, and I would C hato to bo out of a job as well as tho ly other."?Kichango. ol Orangos might bo grown in Tennos- tl soo, but hardly at a profit. So oan any c( Florida, <>oorgia or Alabama farmer in raiso cotton, but whon tho condition m of toil, ou\, aro taken into oonsidcra- tl tion as oompared wi.h tho Mississippi ci valley, can ho oomploto with thorn at a ol profit? If not, t^on why not tarn his attention to food orops and stook to T< oousumo them, in whioh thcro is a suro pre tit. THE GEO WHO CROPS Full Review of the Situation Throughout the Cotton Belt The peat week wee e favorable one id cotton ezoept in the (Jarolinar, Georgia and Florida, where raina were nooasivo and largely prevented onlti- t ration, of whioh the plants stand in irgoni Doea. However, sinoe the re ports summarised below were reoeivei I noro favorabla weather has prevailed, ibat will, do {doubt, tend toward a betcrmont in the condition of ootton. In portions of Louisiana and TezaB taild drought oonditions prevail, but nit sufficient to threaten the o^ntral and western portions of the belt, the plants iro fcrmiog squares, and blooms are reported, while in oxlreme southwest- 1 em Texas tho "first bale" has been ! ginned. This is claimed to be the ! earliest on record. With the txoep- 1 Lion of tho Atlantic States where gras 1 jy fields are the rule, and where some will be ploughed under, ootton fields ' ire oloan and well cultivated, and the 1 srop's general oondition is promising 1 although of somewhat later growth ' than usual. Iu North rarolina rains began on 1 tho 13th which were quite beneficial at ' Eitst, especially on uplands, but the largo amounts on the 14th, and the J generally cloudy, damp weather during the last portion of tho week were vciy 1 unfavorable Farm work was oomplete!y interrupted, and cannot be returned ! For somo time, a6 the ground has be- ' conio very wet. In woll cultivated 1 fields cotton and corn have made Borne growth, and while very small at least show good color; but generally the ojn- 1 dition of both crops oontinue poor. 1 cotton has not all been ohopped, and [ many fields are being abandoned or plowed up for oorn. In South Carolina all cotton has not been ohopped out, and many fields aro lousy, and foul with grasB, bo that there ' aro numerous reports of abandoning them, while in a few localities somo already havo been ploughed under and : plantod to oorn. The plants oontinue small, and are yellowing. Iq Marlboro oounty and in the sea island distriots, \ there is some improvement noted; else wl o o, general deterioration. On Bandy lands tho plants aro dying to Borne extent from wetness. In Georgia excessive rains again occurred during the week in many boo tions of the State. In some counties, particularly in tho eastern part, the rainfall exoeoded 5 inohes. 'J here has been no opportunity for cultivation, fur which all orops ore suffering. Grata and weeds have obtained tho lead and ore growing rapidly. The reports of correspondents contain much information of a discouraging oharactJr, and little hope of improvement is expressed. Labor seems to be a soaroe commodity, and with eo much cultivation, that is neoossary, this becomes a serious factor in the bituation. In Alabama general favorable oondi lions prevailed. Practically all cotton has boon ohopped, while it is of irregular siao, varying from a few inches to knee high, it is moro promising than at any time this season, though its condition is not yet satisfactory: grass is still troublesome in many fields, though being oleancd out rapidly; squares are forming quite generally, hut no blooms are reported as yet. in Mississippi the weather during the week was fine for the cultivation and and growth of all field crops. On low lands in the northern portion of the Statu there is still some oomplaintof grassy fields, while over southern portion, rain is generally in the extreme southwestern oounties wheat orops are suffering on account of continued dry weather, in the delta, northern and middle counties much cotton is being worked the seoond time, and in the southern division it is being hilled. In Louisiana, in the localities that havo been so long without rain, orops have, of ocurse, made but little or no progress or aro deteriorating. Considering the State as a whole, however, ail staple crops have mado good growth and show marked improvement, but all would now be benefited by more rain. Jotlon, in its various stages of rd- , rancement?from the small acreage roplanted after the first plant had been I iestroyed by hail, wuiohisjust ooming 1 lp, to that beginning to bloom?is 1 naking rapid growth and in moat fields ] ooks promising. In Tennessee tho weather was mediately warm, and while the pcroentage ?t bright sunshine was rather low, the 1 londitions were generally favorablo to ] irops. A few correspondents report ( hat orops are getting woodv onaooount . if the rainy conditions, but farm work s generally pretty woll in hand. In Arkansas deoidedly warmer 1 vcalhcr [uovaile l during ihc week The ainfall was very scattered, in some lo lalitics good showers occurred, while n others no rain fell. Corn and ootton tavo been greatly benefitted by the wami lays a-ii nights. Cotton is being workid out and tne stand is not so good ia uauy localities. Squares are be;iuuingto form on ootton iu some seotons. la Texas the weather during tho wook las been higuly favorablo for harvestng aad threshing wheat aac oats, aud or niuoti needed farm work. Crops, lol&biy cotton ard corn that were reedy, have received attention, and at no oioso of tho week are clean and reu cultivated, itoporis on cotton from very sic ion of ttio State indicate that he general outlook for thia orop is avorable. It is forming squares and ruuing in most ioca itiea. A general ] ain would benefit the cotton crop, but here aro only a few looalities where it ) badly needed. The boll weevils are J lowly being destroyed and oomplaints f damage by these pests are becoming ;ss frequent. In Oklahoma and Indian Territory he conditions were especially favorable v or tho progress of all kinds of farm rork, and as a result all orops were oulivatcd and oleanod up, and placed in F ondition. Cotton chopping is woll adanoed, and it is beginning to 6quare; ho plant has mado a fair growth, and is airly woll cultivated. 8100 Reward 7 $100 Tho readers of this papor will be leased to learn that there is at least no dreaded disease that soienoe has son able to euro in all its stages and lat is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is 10 only positivo oure now known to 10 medical fraternity. Catarrh being constitutional disease, requires a oonitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh uro is taken internally, aoting direot ' upon tho blood and mucous surfaces ' the system, thoreby destroying the >undations of the diseaso, and giving 10 patient strength by buildin* un th? A institution and assisting nature in do- M ig its work. The proprietors have so ^ uoh faith in its curative powers, that loy offer ono Hundred Dollars for any iso that it fails to cure. Send for list ' testimonials. Address. F. J. CHENEY &CO., oledo, O. Sold by druggists, 76o. Hall s Family Dills are the best. " |k HE WAS A HERO How Bravo Baggageman Want BacK to Flag Down Fraight A BAD RAILROAD WASHOUT Naarly Every Passenger on tha Atlanta Spacial Was Irjurad br tha Trastia's Collapse. LiatJMonday night about 10 o'olock, northbound 3rabo?rl Air Line Atlanta ipeoial turned broadsido off a trestle into a pnnd, about a uiilo north of llookinghanj, N. (1. There were on board ibout 25 or 30 passenger*, all of whom were more or It hi injured, several very seriously, and two, a white man and a noorA nrnkaUl m L uvgivj ww?wi/ * 1 / l uvro w0t0 ibreo ladies and 9jnji children aboard, none of whom woro sarioudy hare. The engine and two aiail oara paused aver in safety but the combination baggage and second, fir-t and two Pullman's turnod over. O i aaaount of the rains tho piers of the tr.<st!es gave way on the left 6id<-. A* tho fi*s' crash all lights went out and water rushed in waist deep throush the windows. Bagtagemaster 8m th, though tericudy hurt himsel , at ones thought of tie freight following c'oso beh ni. He crawled out, and so z og a lantern, bob!led down the tract and flagged the freight, ther-b/ preventing a second oatstrophe. VVften the freight stopped he was lying 00 the ground unable to raise, but still waving his lantern. He fell ti no and acatn before he enooeeded in getting fir enough back to fl ig the train. He had lobe oatricd back on a stretcher. The newsboy also did heroio work, orawling through tho oars helping the almost drowned passengers to csoapo through tho transoms over a door. A ralief train camo from Hamlet with doctors, and another from Kookingham. The hotel here is boing used as a temporary hospital. The?ayor and City Council of Philadelphia refused to accept $2,500,000 from .John Wanamaker for certain street railway and other franchise s and after wards gave them away to their favorites for nothing. There must have been a lot of greasing done on the part of the fellows who scooped the franchises The colored man and brother must be careful how he deports himself when he gets North of Mason and Dixon's line. Recently citizensof New York objected so earnestly to a shirt waisted negro that he barely escaped with his skin after losing the shirt waist. Saw Mills, Corn Mills, Cane Mills, Rice Hullers, Pea Hullers, 1 Engines, jooners, Planers and Matchers, Swing Saws, Rip Saws, and all other kinds of wood working machinery. My Serjeant Log Beam Saw mill is the heaviest, strongest, and most efficient mill for the money on the market, quick, accurate. State Agent for ?L B. Smith Machine Company wood working machinery, For high grade engiues, plain slide valve?Automatic, and Corliss, write me: Atlas, VVatertown, and Strnthers md Wells. V. C. BADHAM, 1326 Main St., Columbia. 8. C K I hv f | L \ ~ h? { ) E-pfl , , .1 I ~ ?j. , i a a a I ' ? If Plenty of Places \re Open to graduates of the Columbia Rminess College,and every graduate is thoroughly qualified to fill a responsible position in this business world. ?e fit young men and women for business careers, a jd assist them to secure good positions. por special suuraer ra'es, and catalogues giving full information, send at onoe to Columbia Business College, rni it tinn a n vvu? jiui rx, o. \j W. H. NEWBERRY, Presidentf?y "HI KILLS .UOED BuGS,nOAeH^ANT6 CfiOTONDUGS. -~jl SwoERfii Fues. Fleas. ' f J AN? ALL INSECT LIFE. 5' Mic-jiitiStOptOPts ? li if 4^ Death to Insects l"3ht.^g?ad 10 <vnd as cents ' & ? e&?l "*A1.L DEALER6S? Mil PSThc(' wot 11 o \ Cntwcti Ca frf 6AU/MQQ& AfP. ? If Death Duet is not for sale by your ealer, we will upon receipt of 25 cents nd you the large package by mail poetaid. Aprll-16. Rt yZfmvctSe^. y<mmtciao iddreaa, B. W. Gxtsino**, Box 106, Spartanburg, 8. 0.