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K?ft?? - CHA?AtffM ( * Folly of Allowing Forebodings of ; . Evil to Influence Action? t . I)r. Tnlmnnre In III? Sermon Declaren tito Lifo of IQvcvy Mun, AVoinun mid Child t<> Do Closely } Uuder Divino Cnro. I _ [Copyright, 1901, by Louis Ktopsch, N. Y.] Washington, Sept. 8. I In this dlscourso 3->r. Tallunga olio wu tho folly of allowing forebod ings to influonco us and how expec tation of evil weakens and destroys. Text, Matthew 6:31: .'SillUoiont unto the day is tlio evil thereof." Tho lifo of overy man, woman nnd child IR US closely under Divine eure as though such person were, tho only man, woman or child. Thero arc no accidents. As thero is u law of storms in tho natural world, so thoro is a law of trouble, a law of disaster, a law of misfortune; but tho majority of tho troubles of lifo aro imaginary, and tho most of thoso anticipated never come. At any rate, thero is no cause of domplaint against God. Seo how much Ho has done to mako you happy, lils sunshine filling tho earth with glory, making rainbow for tho storm and halo for tho mountain, greenness for tho moss, saffron for the oloud and crystal for th? billow and procession of bannered llamo through tho opening gutos of tho morning, chaffinches to sing, rivers to glitter, seas to chant and springs to blossom, and overpowering all other sound? with its song ?nd over arching all other splondov with its triumph, covering up all other beauty with Its garlands and out flashing all thrones with Its dominion-deliver ance for a lost world through tho Groat Itcdccmor. I discourso of the sin of borrow ing trouble. First, such a habit of mind and heart) is wrong, because it puts one Into a despondency that ill fits htm for duty. I planted two rosebushes tn my garden; thc one thrived beau tifully, tho other perished. I found the dead ono on tho shady side of tho house. Our dispositions, like our plants, need sunshine. Expectancy of repulso is tho cause of many sec ular and religious failures. Fear of ?lander and abuso has often invited all the long-bcaksd vultures of scorn and backbiting. Many of tho misfor tunes of lifo, like hyenas, lico if you courageously meet thom. How poorly preparod for religious fluty la a man who sits down under the gloom of expectod misfcrtunol If ho prays, he says: "I do not think I shall bo answered." If ho gives, ho nays: "I oxpect they will steal tho money." Holen Chalmers told mo that her father, Thomas Chalmers, in tho darkest hour of tho history of tho Ifreo church of Scotland and when the woes of the land seemed to weigh upon his heart, said to his children: "Come, lot us go out and play ball or fly kite," and tho only difficulty In tho play was that tho children oould not keep up with their father. Tho , MoChoynoo and tho Summerfields of the church whip did tho most good toiled in tho "sunlight. Away with tho horrors! They distill poison; they dig grave?;, and if they could climb so high th?y would drown tho re joicings off Heaven with sobs and WSlHirg.-k \\ You will have nothing but misfor tune in tho ^future if you sedulously watch for it. How shall ft man catch the right kind of fish If ho arranges his line ttnd hook and bait to cntoh lizards and water serpents? Hunt for bats and hawks, and bats and hawks you will find. Hunt for robin red breasts, and you will find robin" red breasts. Ono ni^ht an eagle and an owl got into fleroe battle. Tho eagle, unused to the night, was no matoh for tho owl, which is most at home In the darkness, and tho king of tho air fell helpless. But tho morning rose, and with it rose tho eagle, and tho owl? and the nighthawks and tho bats came a second time to the com bat. Now, tho eaglo in tho sunlight, With a stroke of his talons and a great cry, oloarod tho nir, and his cn omios, with torn feathers and splashed with blood, tumbled Into the thickets. Yo are tho children of light. ' In the night of despondency you will have no chance age lust your enemies that flock up from beneath; but, trusting in God and st Hiding in the ounshino of the promises, you shall "renew your youth Uko. the eagle." Again, tho habit of borrowing .trouble ls wrong because it has ti tendenoy to mako us overlook pres ent blessing. To slake man's thirst tho rook is cloft and cool waters leap Into his brimming cup. To feed his hunger the fields bow down with bending wheat, and the cattlo como from the clover pastures to give him milk, and tho orchards yellow and ripen, oasting their juicy fruits into bis lap. Alas, that amid such exuber ance of blessing mon should growl as though he were a soldier on half rations or a sailor on short allow ance; that a man should stand neck deep In harvests looking forward to famine; that ono .should feel tho Strong pulses of health nutrching with regular tread through all tho avenue of lifo and yet tremble at tho ex.peot.ort assault of sickness; that a man should sit in his pleasant home, fearful that ruthless want will some day rattle thc broken window sash with tempest and sweep the coals frotn tho hearth and pour hunger Into tho broad tray; that a man fed by Him who owns oil the harvests should expect to starve; that one whom God loves and surrounds with Jjcnedlotiou and attends willi angelic People Who Mako Sunshine. Thoro is a sooioty that has for its motto thoso word:s "If you havo a kindnoss shown you paso it on." Thoro is a sermon in a fow words. Thoro aro thousands of pooplo who soo muoh of tho dark sido of lifo. Thoy aro poor, miserably poor. Their livos aro pinoh od. Thoy hardly know what kind noss moano. Sieknoss to thom means tho hospital and oharity. Bo tho Sunshino Sooioty was organized, and it grow and broadonod. Thoro woro noblo women bohind it. Tboir hearts throbbod with good feeling. Thoy road to thc siok in tho hospitals. Thoy ostablishod froo library sootions in tonomont districts, and bright faood girls gave up after noons to instructing and amusing ohil dron who neodod just that kind of hoi p. In addition, work was found for young girls rooovoring from illnoss and too woak to resume thoir regular positions. Now ton now roading and amusomont sections aro to be oponed, and sun ehino, as warm and bright as good im pulses can mako it, will enter tho lives of many pooplo. It is a noblo philan thropy. lt ia praetioal, and it is found to, havo an olovatibg and onoouraging ??cot? ano* hovcv? 6Ve? with taor? than motherly fondnosa should ?e. looking for a horltago of toara! Has Ood boen hard with thoo that thou shouldst ho- foreboding? lias Ko stinted thy board? lins Ho covered tlico with rugs? Itas Ho nprcad traps for thy foot, and galled thy cup, and rasped thy soul, and wrecked theo with storm, and thun dered upon thee with a lifo full of calamity? If your father or brother come Into your bunk where gold and silver aro lying about, you do not watch them, for you know they aro honest, but if un entire stranger como by tho safe you koop your eye on him, for you do not know his designs. So somo men trent God; not as a father, but n stranger, luid act suspiciously to ward Him. lt is high time you begatt io thank God for present blessing. Thank Him for your ohildron, happy, buoyant and bounding. Pr a iso Him for your home, with its fountain of song and laughter. Adoro Him for morning light and evening shadow. Praise Him for fresh, cool water bub bling' from the rock, loaping in tho cascade, soaring- in tho mist, falling in tho shower, dashing1 against tho rock and clapping its hands in tho tempest. Love Him for tho grass that cushions tho enrth and tho cloudH that curtain thc shy and the foliago that waves in tho forest. Thank Him for a liiblo to rend nnd a Saviour to deliver. Many Christians think it a bad sign to be jubilant, and thoir work of self examination is a hewing down of their brighter experiences. Like a boy with a new jackknife, hacking everything ho comes'across, so their sci f-oxamina tion is a religious cutting to pieces of the greenest things they can lay their hands on. They imagine they arc do ing God's service when they aro going about borrowing trouble, and borrow ing it at 30 per cent., which Is always a sure precursor of bankruptcy. Again, tho habit of borrowing trou ble is wrong bcoause the present is suf ilclcntly taxed with trial. God Bees that wo all need a certain amount of trouble, and so he apportions fit for nil the days ?md year? of our ltfe; Also for the policj' of gathering it all up for tone day or ycart Cruel thing to put upon tire back of one camel all the cargo intended for the entire caravan. I never look at my memorandum book to see what engagements and dutioi are far ahead; Let every week bear ita own burdens. Tho shadows of to-day ore thick enough. Why invpiore thc presence of 'Other shadows? Tho cup is already distasteful. Why halloo to disaetors far distant to oome and wring out more gall in tho bitterness? Aro wc suoh champions that, having won the belt in former encounters, we can go forth to challenge all the fu ture? Hero aro business men just able to manage affairs as they now are. They can pay their rent and meet thoir notes and ruanago affairs as they now aro, but how if a panic should como and my investments should foil? Go to morrow and write on your daybook or on 3'our ledger, on your money safo: "Sufficient unto tho day is tho evil thereof." Do not worry about notes that' are far from due. Do not pije up on your counting desk tho flnanoial anxieties of tho next 20 years. The God who hos taken caro of your world ly occupation, guarding your store from tho torch of the inoondlary and the key of thc burglar, will be as faith ful in 1010 ns in 1001. God's hand is might.Iw .than tho machinations of stock gamblers or thc plots of polltioal demagogues or the right arm of revo lution, and the darkness will fly and the storm fall dead at his feet. So there are persons in feeble health, " and they are worried about the fu ture. They niako out very well now, but they aro bothering themselves about future pleurisies and rheuma tisms and neuralgias and fevers. Their eyesight Is feeble, and they aro wor ried unless they entirely lose it. Their hearing is indlstinot, and they nro alarmed lest they beoomo entirely deaf. They feel chilly to-day and ar? expecting nn attack of typhoid. Thoy have been troubled for wacks with some perplexing malady and dread be coming lifelong Invalids. Tako care of your health now nnd trust God for thc future. Be not guilty of the blas phemy of asking Him to take caro of you While you sleep with your windows tight down or eat chicken salad at ll o'clock at night or sit down on a cake of loo to cool off. lio prudent, and then be oonfldent. Samo of the slckost pooplo have boon tho most useful. Ifc was so with Payson, who died deaths daily; and Robert Hall, who used to stop in the midst of Ms sermon ?nd Ho down on the pulpit sofa to rest and then go on again. Theodora Fre llnghuysen had a great horror of dying UH the time came and then went peace fully. Take care of the present, and let the future lookout for itself. "Suf ficient unto the (lay is the evil there of." Again, the habit of borrowing mis fortune Is wrong beoausa it unfits us for it when it actually does come. We cannot always have smooth soiling, Life's path will sometimes tumble among declivities and mount a eteop and bo thorn pierced. Judos will kier our cheek and then sell us for 30 pieces of silver. Human scorn will try to crucify us between two thieves-. We will hear the iron goto of thc sepulcher creak and grind ns it shuts in our kindred. But we cannot gotroady for these things by fovbodlngs. They who light imaginary foes will com? out of breath into oonilictwith the armed dis asters of the future. Their ammuni tion will have been wasted long beforo they come tinder the guns of real mis fortune. Boys in attempting to jump a wall sometimes go so far back in or der to get impetus that when they oomo up they ar? exhausted, nnd these long races In order to get spring enough to vault trouble bring us up at I effoot on thoso pooplo who only look opportunity to hooomo ornamonts to sooioty. Don't forgot the Sunshino motto: "If you have a kindnoss shown you, pass it on." City Takos a Hand. Tho oity oounoil c? Charleston at ita rogular monthly mooting Friday ratified tho rcoont ordinaoo and whioh rondors tho salo of liquor in any form in Ohar loston, othor than as it is propared for in tho dispensary law, a misdomoanor. Mayor Saytho will glvo tho Polioo Dopartmont instuotions to rigidly en force tho ordinanoo, and from now on all tho alleged blind tigors in Charles ton will havo to look woll to them selves. Thin ordinanoo, it will bo ro momborod, was adoptod at tho sugges tion of tho otato authorities of South Carolina, About So. As Parkor. tho Georgia oolorod man whooaught Ozologoea, said: "A man might have boon able to shoot tho pres ident in tho south, but ho would never havo gotten to tho jail." ?ft?! l? ti* ?md/tti reality 1vitn Atrengtk gone. Finally, the habit of borrowing .troublo is wrong because it ls unbelief. God ?has promised to take caro of us. The Bible blooms with assurances. Your hunger will bo fed} your sickness Will be alleviated} your sorrows will be healed. God will sandal your feet hud f mooth your path, and along by frowning orng and opening grave Bound tho voices of vlotory and good cheer. The summer cloudis that aeem thunder charged really carry in their bosom harvests of wheat und-?hocks of corn and vineyards purpling for the .winepress. The wrathful wave will kiss the foot of thc great Storm Walk' er. Our great Joshua will command, and above your soul the sun of pros perity will stand still. Bleak and wavo ?truck I'ntmos shall have apocalyptic vision, and yon shall bear the cry of elders and the sweep of wings and trumpets of salvation and tho voice ol halleluiah unto God forever. Your way may wind along dian ger ou? bridle paths ?nd amid wolf's howland the scream of Hie vulture, but the way still winds upward till angels guard it, end trees of life overarch lt, ?ne thrones lino it, and crystalline foun tains leap on it, and the pathway ends at gate? that ore pearl and streets that arc gold and temples that ere alway* open andi hills that quake with per petual song and a city mingling for over Sabbath and jubilee und triumph and coronation. Lot pleasure chant her siren sons; 'Tis not tho son* (or me. To weeping- it will turn ero I on fr. For this ls I?eavon's decree. But thora ls a BOHR thc ransomed sins; To Jesus, tholr exulted Kim;, "With Joyful honi't and tongue. Oh, that's the song- for mot Courage, my brother! The father father doe? not glvo to his ?on at school ?uough monoy to last kim B*T eral years, but, ns the biUs for lui fi on and board and clothing and books oouao In, pays them. So GouwiU not give you grace ?11 at once for tho futuro, but will meet all your exigencies as they come. Through earnest prayer trust Him. People ascribe the success of o certain Uno of steamers to business skill and know ivpt thc (act that when that liiis cf steamers started th? wifo of the proprietor passed the whole of ea/ch day when ? steamer ?tarted in prayer to God for it? safety and the success of the linc. Put every thing in God's hands and leave It there. Large interest money to pay will soon eat up a farm, a store, an estate, and the in terest on borrowed troubles will swamp anybody. "Sufflolont unto the day ls tho ?vii thereof." HOW MEN MAKE LOVE. Some Do Et in n Grandiloquent Mnn nor rind fc'nil to Make an Imnraiilon, All sorts of men in all kinda ai conditions have mado love to mo. While I won't say that I loved thom all in return, they-that ls those who, sent mo fruits and flowers and bonbons, not diamonds and gems, succeeded best with me. Stage wom en don't want big things; lt Is the trifles that touch their hearts, says Mario Drcsslor, in St. Louis Post DJ spatch. . Handsome men have never succeed ed with me. They are generally too overbearing and mako you feel as if thoy did you a favor by making love to you. Tho little gentlemanly things a man does win a woman's heart. - I like et man who takes his hat off In iny presonco and tho elgar out of. kio mouth tho moment I como near him; who risos from tho tablo and remains standing while I am being seated. I like tho man who divines when I feel a draft and gets up to shut the window even if it is in a garden. Tho man who wants. to win say heart mustn't do thone things only for a few weeks, While I ara getting interested In him, but keep right on doing' them. The straightest way to a woman's heart is by small and gentlemanly courtesies. It never falls. The man who showers diamonds and costly presents upon a woman is usually very ostentatious about it. The iel? low who comes along with a bunch of flowers or a bonbon box makes you fool as if you did him an honor to acoopt hts present. llo'll win where the other will get tho cokl shoulder. Love-making is an art which wom en understand much hotter than men. -Marie Dressier, in St. Louis Post* Dispatch. i'vits?r?tiiK? Yellow Fever, If the ship enters the mouth ol the Mississippi with a clean bili of health and no sickness on board she is ab lowed to prooeed to quarantine. There tho quarantine officer and his assistant physician go aboard. The reports of the master and physician are received first. Then the crew is mustered, tho roll is called, and, ?ts each man's name is reached, he stops out of line and extends his arm to tho physician, who feels his pulse, and If the slightest abnormality ia detected indicativo of fever tho dbi* leal thermometer is used nfc onoo to got the degree of fover.-Earl Mays? in Leslie's Monthly. lim lal Stopped l>y He*)?. While tho body of a child was being lowered into a grave at Salem, Ind., a swarm of bees attacked the mourners and drove them away. It was only after dark that tho sexton and his) attendants wert able to re turn.to com plete the burial, the bees remaining at the grave until the gloom of night caused them to depart. Slow. "We call our little southern branch railway the G. O. P." "What's that for?" "Get out and push."-Chicago Bee prd-Herald. A Fatal Mistake. Oornolia Wideinan, a young oelorod women, residing in Suuimorvillo tem porarily, diod Thruaday nigh at tho homo of a relativo in Elizabthtown-a negro sottlemontr-northwest of tho ar senal. Tho woman was from iOdgofiold, and was boro to havohoroyos treatod. Sho had sovoral paokagos of powdors which she was taking, and it scorns, from whatoan bo loarnod, that sho, whilo in a partially blind condition, took tho wrong powdor a posion, ana took a largo docs of it. Sho grow doathly siok, a nd, in a vory short timo, diod. Thoro was no inquets hold, but it was thought for a whilo that that teoro would bo one-Augusta Horald._ The "average Amorioan," says Dr. Henry Gannott in Everybody's Maga zine, is in A measure a slave to tobaooo. Ho consumos twenty pounds of tho nar* eotio wood a year, or ono ounoo por day, and although ho has used it frooiy cinco ho was grown, as did his fathor and grandfather before him, it does not appoar that ho has buffored any montai or physical dotoioration in consequence offluoh indulgonoo, mm (Copyright, 1W1, ty Author? Bywdtei?.) TIT ELL, glv]?, put on your, war Y Y piUut," unid Cousin Fred, as ho throw hiuiBOlf into u eh?iuWi'tke veranda; "your opportunity has ar rived-or is about to. A Gorman count, real tbiug, you kn?V% fnin ily castle and ancestral x>brtrait8 and estates and orders, and a name longer than a trolley line. Coining to morrow, so brush up on Gordian and the history o? tho Von Sohimmielheiin er family, and plan the most fetching ot costumes." In au Instant Cousin Fred-was tho center of six excltod girls, ?ud was plied with so many questions! thut the very atmosphere seemed ono'groat in terrogation x>olnt. "How do I know? A little bird told me. Besides, Fra nie Laoy showed mo a letter from tho count's secretary; Frank knew him nt the university. He hoB to leave tor the west, and wanta me to do tho honors lu his place. Yes, the count is unmarried, young and eligible; probably hunting for a girl with a bowel of money. That gives Fannie aud Hello rather the inside track. Although I Imagine Aunt Marga ret would make some sacrifices to glvo Pora ond Helen a show to bo a count ess. I guess, Lona, you will havo to Bit on the fence and Bee him go by. Of course Mary will 'sass' h i ni and bo sarcastic with all concerned." ''That's whore your head's level," re sponded Mary. "1 haven't money or ex pcctatlons enough to buy a dry goods clerk, and if I had a million, and had to buy a husband, I don't know but thc dry goods clerk would be thc best Investment," "I confess that I wouldn'* objeot to wearing- a coronet," remarked Fannie "Good," responded Cousin Fred "Ono entry for the prtae. Do I hear another bid?" "I hope he's handsome," remarked Dora, ag tho six cousins started for their rooms to dress for dinner . The next day the count arrived with his secretary, who apparently -.ras also his companion. In the evening tho two were presented to the girls by Cousin l?Ycd. They wcro intelligent gentlo mon of 28 or 80. After the Introductions there fol lowed nu immediate appropriation of the count by Fannie and Dora, with n languid effort on tho part of Hello to Interest the titled person, and inef fectual attempts by Helen and Lona to maintain their parts. Marj- soon found herself in conversa tion with tho private secretary, who was slightly taller than the count. Soon thoy were joking, away with tho utmost freedom. VYhdn Fannie took tho count's arm and swept out on tho broad veranda for a promenade, giving the other gitl&.a glance of tri umph; Mary could .not resist saying sweetly to Mr. Schwartz: . "Your European aristocracy novor jnake a mistake in picking out the girl with money." "I beg your .pardon 1" replied her companion, surprised. ."Oh, yea, he has Instantly discovered tho richest one of tho party." l^hen noting thc astonishment on his face, she continued: "You mustn't bo surprised nt any thing I do. No one is, after they know me. I am 'tho incorrigible' of tho fam ily." .K. ' ? ?? - M.'jPhen--Mi88-'^uyt<1N?i;iS vJi-y wealthy-?" "Yes, indeed'. Money'on both sides of tho house-nothing lacking but a count or a duke or something of that sort." "Then.the count'is esteemed a great catch?" "Hy those who want that sort ol thing and can afford to x>ay for it," she replied. He laughed with rather moro mirth than the ocoaslon seemed to. demand, and offered his arm for a promenade. BDuring tho days that followed the two Germans becamo moro and moro intimate with the Curtin party? which intiuiaoy was duly approved of by the mammas. Fanny retained lier lead with the count, although ho took Helen riding and alway? danced moro with Helle, but she was by all odds the best dancer, while the prlvato secretary and Mary found themselves thrown to gether a great dasi. Ho liked hor sharp tougub aud Unconventional comments. The mammas of tho party were reconciled (Mary's mamma wa? dead), and they even commented that "lt would bo just Uko Mary to marry some seorotary or somebody who had neither money nor position-but dear knows, they had done all they could, and she'was auch a headstrong piece that it yr&B beyond guessing what she would do next-perhopg become a school-teacher, and any marriage were better than that," The stoy of the ftfroignors, whloh had been set for ono week, lengthened to two, ond then to three; and here it was tho fourth w?ek, ?nd the sea ion nearly over. It was evident that matters wore appronohing a crlsl? be tween Fannie and the count. It also bo came evident ono day that there wa? a breach between tho two Germans. Cousin Fred rushed out of the billiard room into the midst of tho girls on the veranda. "Great Orresar's ghost, but that pri vate secretary, Schwartz, han been lay ing down the law to tho countt Hoth are madder than blazes, and I believe the trouble is over Fannie The" first wo know there will be a melodrama right here on the vovanda. I'll bot a dollar that lt's a tempest in a teapot, and Schwartz simply proposes to tell Fannie tl/at the count hasn't a red cent, and ls courting her for her money. Here comes Schwartz now. I'm off. Can't catch mo in a scone.** ' Sure enough out marched Schwort?, flushed of face and stiff of manner. "Mise Curtin," he began, formally addressing Fannie. "I owe it to you to make you informed regarding a matter upon which I have remained silent too long already. I-" "Is it with regard to Count von Sohimmielhcimer?" sho interrupted, nie. "It is," replied Schwartz. "Then you must excuse me. I pre? for not to hear it," and Fannie ?wept into the hotel like au insulted p ri nco JUL That afternoon Rohwartar / asked Mary to ride, and when they . had reached a blt of quiet road ho'turned #o her and saidi . -a ?nea to maico a conieflsioK w your cousin th!? afternoon, 8ho re fused to listen. I now desire to wake the samo confession to yon, Ddt foy a different purpose. Will you listen?" "I don't eeo how I can stop it," oho replied. "I cannot riso and sweep into tho house.** "First I want to te'd that T love you and would make you my. .wife, I would epeuk to your f athor i and make known to him that I oki a proper person t? one fox* your hand, but I do not dQBiro to do so \h\tll J know if your feelings towhrd mc ave such a? to make it of URO, X had not necessary for mo to explain to?day." She lind grown pal?.' She knew that ?ho hud become very fond of tu? liiiiiu?Oi?O ??ui?tuiy, bul wm J mu scarcely thought of marriage. "Should t not hear tho confession first?" she asked. "No, beliovo me, you should not,** be replied, with an air so masterful that she looked nt bim with surprise. "I ask no promise; only ti hint that you think enough of me to let me .talk to your fattier. May I, may 1, fraulein? Will you trust me?" "1 will," she whispered, and be raised ber blind to his lips with nil the courtesy of n prince of thc blood. "My confession Is this," he Bald, "I inn ail Impostor. I am not Mr. Schwurt/.. I nm Count von Sohim mielheimer and my friend ls Mr. Schwartz. Your cousin, Air. Curtin, got us mixed In tho Introduction and wc decided to lot lt go ns h joke. My secretary ls not neting honorably with your cousin and is tabing advantage of the mistake to attempt a inn rr i age to secure her fortune. There is thought of an elopement to-night.'* When Mary recovered from her sur prise she set her keen senses to work ?nd the elopement was prevented, al though Fannie's humiliation could not be saved. Hinnoror William'* Indolent TnlInmrtll The emperor of Germany is always meeting with accidents, although on tho middle linger of his left hand he wears a famous talisman which for centuries lins been credited with a supernatural power to protect the wearer from evil rind injury of nil kinds. It is n dark-colored, square shaped stone, sot, in ti massive gold ring, and originally belonged to Sa ladin, from whom it was captured by a Gerthnn knight under the walls of Jerusalem during tho crusades. It afterward came into' the possession of Ulrich, thc mnrgrnvc of Nurem Imi'g, who was thc founder of thc Hohenzollern family. This ring has been passed down from generation to generation, one of the most highly prized nnd interesting heirlooms of tho dynasty, but the kings of Prus sia of lute generations have, seldom worn lt until lt- yves inherited by the present kaiser. It ls a matter of dis cussion whether he wears it from superstition or ordinary Interest. It has never left his finger since he came to the throne, although by this time he must hnve lost eon fide ncc In tho protective power of tho jewel. Chicano Record. MRS. BUOHfiS GOME With $2,000 and o Man s Buit of Clothes She Deoampi. Thoro is a defendant missing at crim inal court in Greenville this week. Tho oolebratod Mattie Hughes oneo was to come up but tho dofondant is not there and she is mot hore, whoro hor bomo has boen for moro than a yoar past. Sho has boon running a restaurant and it is gouoraliy conceded has mado a groat doal of money and troublo. Mattie A. Hughes lt fi this town last wook in tho attire of a man. Sba sold her restaurant businoss and for a day or so was soon about town sovoral times with a man's olothing on, It hae boon hinted by somo who pr ot ord to know that sho bas either gono to Charleston or Charlotte. It ia not boliovod sho io in this city. Thia woman has boon tho oiuao of a groat deal of troublo. Njarly threo yoaia ago she killod hor husband Geo. W, Hughes, at Greers and.throo timos sho was put on trial, but in oftoh case a mistrial rosultod. Judge Townsend heard tho oaso first and it is his timo at' Greenville again. A fow liquor oases aro ponding against her thoro. In Spartanburg hor oourao did not improvo and oomplaint resulted from her establishment at tho depot. Fights booamo frcquont and tho polioo woro in demand A oaso for kooping a disor derly houao waa made by tho grand jury. It is understood oho has threat oned tho ohiof of polioo. Sovoral oases for liquor soiling aro ponding against her. Mrs. Hughes ia undoubtedly away. She drcBBod up in a $15 suit, took 12,000. it is said, and wont out to seo tho world.-Spartanburg Journal. South Carolina's Population. Tho oon8us bureau Thursday ia rifni a bullotin on tho 6ohool, militia at d voting populations of South Caro lina. It fchows that 500,773 are of aohool ago, inoluding 354 foroign born. Of the aggregato 218,323 aro white and 342,450 aro eolorcd, all but 49 of tho last named hoing negroes. Thoro are 279,646 malos of Behool ago, of whom 279,368 aro nativo born and 110,775 are whito. Tho total nativo whito maloa of Bohcol ago ia 110,598, of whom all but 1,848 are of native paronts. Fe- ] malos of f ohool ago number 281,227, all but 176 heir.g native born and 107, 548 boing whito. Malos of militia ago aggregate 236,767, of whom all but 1,506 ero nativo born and tho total whito number 106.406 Of tho 104, 983 nativo whito all but 2,685, aro of nativo psrontago and ot tho 130,361 olia*ificd aa colored all but 78 aro no groes Males of voting ago aggregato 283 325, all but 3.104 boing nativo born and tho total whito number 130,375. Of tho 127.396 nativo whito all but 2,979 aro of nativo i aronts and all but 90 of tho 152.950 olassifiod ai colorod aro cegroos. State House Grounds. Tho work of making a park of the state capitol grounds is being prono outed by Mr. M. li. Ooopor, tho soore taryof state. His assistant, Mr. Josto T. Gantt, ia also taking a great amount of int? rost in thia work, and has some woll defined p'anB. This ornoo will ro que st tho legislature to appropriato $25,000 for tho purpoao of building granito retaining walls around tho ter raoos which surrouud tho oapitol build ing. It is also tho purpose of tho sec retary of state to have the walks bord ered with granito ourbing. The monu ments and statues in tho oapitol grounds are in nood of bottor mounting and tho ?ooretary of stato will try to h two tho banoo mado for theso monumonts. STATU OF OHIO, CIT* OY TO?.BDO, I LUCAS COUNTY. J BO' KHAN IC J. CHENEY makos oath that ho ia senior partnor of tho firm of F. J. CHENEY & Co., doing business in tho City of Toledo, Oouaty and Stato'aforo said, at; cl that said firm will pay tho sum of ONS HUNDRED DOLLARS for eaoh and ovory oaso of CATA nun that oannot bo ourod tho uso of HALL'S CATA nun Cuan \ i FRANK J. OHENEY. Sworn to befare mc and subscribed in my preenoo, this 6th day or Deoom bor, A, D. 1886. ?HPAr I A* w? GLE?80N, [BBALJ Notary Pabilo. Hall's Catarrh Curo is taken inter nally, and Rots dirootly on tho blood and muoono surfROOS of tho ny it to m. Sond for testimonials, freo? F, J. OHBNEY & CO., Toledo,0. Bold by Druggists, .75 cont H. HRU'O Family Pill? aro the host. A GREAT NATION MCHlK?m [oontinuod from pigo one. j On n jr y finn they ""'.?Cl?dcd thc nt?-??'.V*V -Sooretary Hoot, Beorotary Hitohoook and Attornoy Gonorsi Knox. Secre tary Wilson wa? also thoro, but hold baok, not wishing to soo tho prosi dont in his Inst ago.iy. Thoro was only a momentary st*y of tkooabinot offiocis at tho throBhhold of tho death pham bor. Then thoy withdrew, tho tears stroamiug down their faoos, sud words of intonso grief choking thoir thorats. CALLED HIS DEVOTED WIPE. After tbov loft tbo oiok room, the physioians rallied him to oonsoiousnoBS, sud tho president ?skid almost imme diately that his wifo bo brought to him. Tho doctors fell baok into tho shadows of tho room as Mrs. MoKinloy oamo through tho doorway. Tho strong fnoo of tho dying man lightod up with a faint em do ns tboir bands woro ol**pod. Sho sat bosido him and hold his hand. Dcspuo hor physioal woaknoss, sho boro up bravoly undor tho ordoal. Tho prosidont, in his last poriod of oonsoi ousnoss, whioh endod obout 7:40 v. m., olinu ted tho words of tho hymn, "Nearer My Qod to Theo," and his last audi ble ooneoious words, as takon down by Dr. Mann at tho bedside, wore: "GOD'S WILL UE DONS 1 * "Good-bye all, good bye; it is God's way; His will bo dono." Thon hi? mind bogan to wander, and soon after ward he oomplotoly lost consciousness. His lifo was prolonged for hours by tho administration of oxygon, and tho pnsi dent finally oxproseed a dosir? to bo Al lowed to dio. About 8 30, tho adman toling of oxygon ocascd, and tho pul?o grow fainter and fainter. Ho was silk ing gt ?dually, liko a ohi'd, into tho otornal i lumber. By 10 o'olook tho pulso oould no longor bo folt in his ex tremities, and thoy grow oold. Hi low st s ii? ibo griof-striokon gathering waited sadly for tho end. A 2.15 tho ond oamo, and tho good man paseod to hisroward. A Pat ho tic 6 cono. "Tho i resident is dying, isn't ho I Mr. (Jertly ou, said Mrs. Mi Kinley a* I sho met tho soorotary in the nail. I ??He is very ill." '"I know it," Mrs. MoKinloy sobbed. "Tue doctor said I must not go into tho room when I wont thoro this morning." "You may go into tho room to soe tho president now, Mrs. MoKinloy,' said Seor ? tar jr Oortelyou, lator. "How io he? How s?d you lojk. Oh. ? seel Tho president is low-tho pros idont is very low. My God-is tho president dying? I know it." In tho room, tho propidant, under stimulants, was oonsoious. Ho rtoig nizod bis wifo. Me smilod-or tried to. "My dear-. Then tho wifo bowod bor hoad to tho bod oovor. Sho rooovored hersolf. Sho smoothed tho patient's brow. Ho looked at hor-looked his thanks. There was lovo in tho glano J. Tho wifo took tho husband's hand, holding it in hors. Ho consoled Lor. Ho bade hor good bye. This was shortly after 7 o'olock. Still she was bravo. Her fortitudo was mi raoulous. Mrs. MoKinloy last saw hor hu maud botwoon ll and 12. At that timo sho sal by tbo, bodsido holding his hand. The mcmbors of tho oabinot wore ad milted to tho siok room singly at that limo. Where the President Sled, A dispatch from Buffalo to tho Now York Tribuno says tho ?arno of John Goorgo Mu,burn, in who.so beautiful homo Prosidont McKinley died, has bebo mo known to ovory quartor if tho globo. It is something that Mr. Mil burn wou'd not havo sought or desired under ordinary oireumstanoos, for ho baB always disliked everything that approaohed parado and notoriety, and has ne vor put himself in tho way of public applauso. For Iwonty yearn or moro John G. Milburn has boon know as ono of tho ablest IK wy era in tho wostorn part of tho state. In Buffalo he has belonged to that olass of men who do not intrudo thomsolves into publio matters, but whoso opinions, when givon, oount for muoh-tho sort nf man whom tho nowspapor roportors fly to when tho soundest jandgmont up on tho Ravest sffairs is to bo had. When tho business mon of Buffalo dooided to build tho Pan-Amorioan exposition it was this sort of man thoy wantod at tho head of tho great undertaking, and thoy ooloo tr. d John G. Milburn boouaflo ho was n giant intellectually, a gentleman always, and honest beyond the BUBpi I oion of any man's douot. By birth ho is au Englishman, and in Politicos a Domoorat. A Stormy Career, l'huma Goldman, from whom CzjlgoiK says ho reoeivod .tho impulso to murdor tho Prosidont, is about 35 yoars old, tho daughtor of a Russian tailor. Without eduoation, sho was brought up in a hotbed of anarchy, near Koona, llussia. Sho eaino to this country soventoen yoars ago and marri ed a man bv tho namo of Gruenobaum, with whom she lived in Roohostor. Sho doBorted him aftor a year and a half and followed Louis Bornstoin, an An archist, to this oily, Siooo thou sho has had many partners, disregard of tho marriage tio being part of hor doctrino. Assuming tho namo of Goldman, she joined Anarchistic group known as tho Pioneors of Liberty. Hor languago was so violont that thoy ox coiled hor. Sho astooiatod horeolf lator with tho Gor man Anarchists and wroto signod articles for Dio Froihtit, John Moat's papor. She quarrolled with Most and on Doocmbot 18, 1892, lashed him with wi,ip as ho was about to spea'r in Old Fellows' Hall. Alexandor B?rxmann, with whom oho lived, shot Hoary C. Priok at tho Uarnegio works. Both sho and Borkman then joined tho oxtromo wing of tho Anarchists. Sho mado hor living by speaking. Sho was ar rested for iuoiting to riot in 1893 and sorvod a year's torm on Blaokwoll's le land, Whilo thoro sho began to study mediolno and took a dogroo aftor hor roloaso. Sho loft this city sovoral months ago. Sho speaks sovoral lan guages, but her tirados aro moroly de nunciations of capital and tho laws of sooiotv, without logio or argument. Now York Horald. Not a Bad Idea. At thc old-fashioned inns and restau rants ie Swodon it is oustomary to ohargo loss for women than for mon, on tho thoory that thoy do not oat eo muoh. At some bot?lo in 8wedon a man and wife aro ohargod as ono and ono-half f oraons if thoy ooouuy the samo room. A husband and wiro may travo! as ono and ono half poisons by railway, and also by tho post routes, furnishing thoir own oarriage. Five Mon Killed" Throo explosions oooured in tho works of tho Amorioan-Sohultizj Pow der oompany-in Oakland, N. J., today. Fivo mon wero killed, Tho fleet ex plosion was that of tho boiler. Follow ing immodiatoly there wore two explo sions, ono in tho magasine, tho othor in tho mixing house. Tho latter is supposed to have boon oauflod hy a rpark, For all foran of fovor toko JOHNSON' timon botter Hum quinine and doon in tl clo Jin 10 days, lt'u splendid ouroa aro lu mada by quinine :. ,,v COSTS 50 CENTS 1851 ITURMAN Ul GREENVIl.l A, P. Montague, Ph, D..1.L.D., Two courses aro odored leading to tho de MASTKROF AUTO (M. \.) Library and Hoadh oal Laboratories. JUDBON-ALUMNI HALL, C jual completed and furnished at a oost of i DOHM ITO KY ExpouBCB reduced to a minim ciroularsof information on request. For roess apply to Prof. H. T. Cook, Greonvlllo. 8. 0. Diiclicnn' Trouble. The duchess of Fifo is ono of the most quiet and retiring pf all tho king- of England's daughters. She tukes tho greatest interest in the bringing up of her little daughters. Somo years sinco socioty was very much disturbed by tho enso of a lit tle child of high birth, who was ac cidentally found to bo covered with bruises inflicted by a brutal nurse. Tho duchess of Fifo said to n lady who was visiting her: "No nurse would bo nblc to systematically brulso my children's bodies, for not ninny days go by that I do not bathe them myself." The Indy misunder stood and remarked: "Do you trou ble to stay in thc nursery to watch their toilets?" "I did not sny I watch," said the duchess, emphatic ally. "I snid I batho them myself." Chicago Tlmes-llcrnld. nnotlrounlal Stnt<\ Election?, Kansas thia year will try for a law making all state elections come every four years._ Swi <>tbrcnds -with Farmoann Ohocic, Two tablespoonfuls butter, one'pair sweetbreads, cooked and chopped, three tablespoonfuls Parmesan cheese, three egg yolks, salt, oay onne, one tablespoonful buttor. Melt butter, add sweetbreads nnd chcezo. cook until cheese is melted, add eggs slightly beaten, and seasonings; just before serving add butter. - Good Housekeeping. Oroya tn Porto Rico. Oranges and bannnna reach a deli cious perfection In Porto Rico, and frosts are unknown. Tho cultivation of various crops has Increased enormously sinco 1806, averaging fully 50 per cont, all around. Tho cultiva tion of cano has incrensod 26 por cont.; of coffee, 25 por cont., and of tobacco, 300 per cent.-Chicago Iutor Ocean. An Informal Invite. Mrs. Goodart-Poor mani Come to my house, aorosa tho way there, this evening, and you shall have a good dinner. ,s Harvard Hasben-Some of your guests disnpx>oint you? That's rather short notice; Pm afraid I can't got my full dress suit out o' tho laundry tn time.-Philadelphia Proas. Soanivi Senmpered. A scamp was originally only a trav eler, but in the early middle ages most of the scampering was done for some good oauso, und tho man who scamp ered was in virtuo of that fact ad judged to be a person of bad character. -Albany Journal. .rno licnl Thiner. Hotel Guest-Cnn you got ino nn.n'Vr | abridged dictionary anywhere in tho houso? Bell Boy-I'm afraid not, sir, but thoro's a. lady from Boston on tho sec ond floor.-Sommerville Journal. HeTvnro of Them. Beware of folks who have so many friends living a\ a distance.-Wash ington (la.) Dcm erat. Ghosts Use Telephone. A nun ber of Spiritualists aro inter on tod in ghostly voiocs ovor tho tolc phono to Mrs. Mary F. Bringman, a medium who keops a boarding howe at Springfield, Ohio. The myatoii ous telephone is on tho Will of a largo room, and had been thoro for some timo boforo tho manifestations wero noticed. Ono ovoning a visitor was startled by hearing tho voiocs, and finally tho story was spread through town. A v/oll known spiritualists has said that ho had no doubt that tho voices were from friends in tho othor world "I havo talkod through tho telephone in Mr.-?. Bringham's," ho said. "Thoro oan bo no mistake in this matter, and it is not a subject to bo treated flippantly." "I raftered ?lie tortures of Ute damned V? Itu protruding piles brought on by constipa tion with whioh I was afflicted for twenty years. I ran across your OASOARRTS In the town of No .roll, Is., and never found anything to oqual thom. To-day I sm entirely free from plies and fool like a new mon." O. H. KciTZ, 1411 Jones St., Sioux City, Ia. Pleasant, Palatable. Potent, Taste Good. Do 0ood, Noter Biokon. Weaken, or Gripe, Wo,36o, Wo. ... OURK CONSTIPATION. ... BUrllal Rt?tdx Ccmpioj, ChlC?I?, Mont r??l, Ho? Tcrfc. tl* KA.TA.RAA Split and ?narantoefl by allCrug nUMU'DHV slits to ClJKETobaoco Habit. m m The_ World's Greatest Cure for Malaria. 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