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65534 'tfSt?Stffi ii in iVi'i V irmn.ii.ni EVILS OF THE NIGHT Pr. Talmage Pointe A Warning to i the Unwary. Tho WeU-Known PrenoIi?rUeMorlboa Borne of the Socnea Vii nt May Mo -\Vltue*?od A?tcr Marli-Tin?? of Grent Temv'tntton. tCopyrlght, WI, by Louis Klopsch, N. Y.] * Washington, Oct. 13. , In thl? discouru? Ur. Taluiage dc .oribes ?orno of the scones to bo wit nessed lato at night in tho great eit le? ?nd wams the unwary of many peril?; text. Isaiah 21, ll: "Watchman, what of tho night?" When night came down on Babylon, Nineveh and Jerusalem they needed careful watching; othorwiso the incen diary'? torch might have boen thrust into tho very heart of the metropolitan splendor, or onomies, marching from tho hill?, might have forced the gates. AU night long, on top of tho wall and In front of tho gates, might bc heard tho measured ?top of the watchman on his Bolltary boat. Silcnoo hung in air, ?ave as some passerby rained tho ques tion: "Watchman, what of tho night?" It ia to me a deeply suggestive and solemn thing to sec a man standing | guard by night. It thrilled through gore as at tho gate of au arsenal in Charleston tho question once smote ma: "Who come* thore?" followed by tire ?harp command: "Advance and gire the countersign." Every moral teaoher stands on picket or patrols the wall as watchman. Ills work is to sound tho alarm, and, whether it ba in the first watoh, tho seoond watch, in ithe third watoh or in tho fourth watoh, to be vigilant until the daybreak fllugs its "morning glories" of blooming cloud across tho trellis of the day. Tho ancients divided their night Into four porta-the first watch, from 6 to 0; tho second, from 0 to 12; the third, from 12 to 3, and the fourth, from 3 to 0. I speak now of the city in tho third watch, from 12 to 3 o'clock. I never weary of looking upon the life of tho oity in the first watch. That 4B the hour when the stores aro ?lbs . lng. The laboring men, having quitted the ?caf?olcling aud tho shop, are on their way howe. It rejoices me to give them my scat in tho city oar. They have stood and hammered away all day. Their frat nie weary. They aro exhaustad with tho tug o? work. They aro mostly oheorful. With appetites sharpened on thc swift turner'.. wheel and the carpenter's whetstouo they S seok tho evening meal. Tho clerks, tCo, have broken away from the coun ter and with brain weary of tho long lin? of figures and tho whims of those who go a-shopping, seek tho fnoe of another or wifo or child. Tho streots arc thronged with young men setting out from the groat contera of bargain snaking. Let idlers clear tho street ?nd give right of way to the beswuntod artisans and merchants! They have ?arsed i keir bread ?nd arv now on their way to get it. Tko lights in full Jet hang over 10,000 evening repasts tho parents nt either end of the table, the children betweon. Thank God, ''who settcth the solitary in families." A few hours later and all tho places of amusement, good aud bad, aro in full tide. Lovers of art, catalogue in hand, stroll through tho galleries and disouss tho pictures. The ballroom is resplendent with tho rich apparel of those who, on either sido of tho white, glisteningboards, u wait the signal from the orchestra. Concert li a 11 s aro 11ft .-.^sd into enohantment with the warble . of one songstress or swept out on a Sea of tumultuous feeling by the blast of brazen instruments. Drawing rooms are fiUed with all the graceful ness of apparel, with all sweetness of sound, with all splendor of manner; mirrors are oatching up and multi plying the scene, until it seems as if in Infinite oorrldors there wera gar landed troops advancing and retreat ing. The outdoor air rings with laugh ter and with tho moving to and fro of thousands on the great promenades. The dashing span, adrip with the foam ?f the long country ride, rushes past as you halt at the curbstone. Mirth, revelry, beauty, fashion, magnificence, mingle in the groat metropolitan pic ture until the thinking man goes home to think more seriously, and tho pray ing man to pray moro earnestly. A beautiful and overwhelming thing is the oity in tho first and second watches of tho night. But the clock strikes 12, and the third wnteh has begun. The thunder of the city hns rolled out of tho air. Theslightest sounds out the night with such distinctness as to attract your at tention. Tho tinkling of the bell of tho street car in the distanco and tho baying of the dog. The stamp of a horse in the next street. The slamming .of a saloon door. The hiccough of the drunkard. The shrieks of tba steam (whistle flvo miles away. Oh, how sug / gO?tivo, my friends, the third watch of the nightl . There are honest men passing up and down the street. Here is a oity missionary who has been carrying- a scuttle of coal to that poor family in that dark place. Here is an under taker going up the steps of a building from which there comes a bitter ory, which indicates that the destroying angel has smitten the first-born. Here |s a minister bf religion who has been giving the sacrament to a dying Chris tian. Hore is a physician passing along In great haste. Nearly all the lights have gone out in the dwellings, for it ia the third watch of the night. That V light in the window is the ligia of the watcher, for thc medloincs must bo administered, and tho fever must bo (watched, and the restless tossing off of the coverlid must be resisted, and the ice must bo kept on the hot tem ples, and the perpetual prayer must go up from hearts soon to bo brokon. Oh, the third watoh of tho night! .What a stupendous thought-a wfcolo etty at restl Weary arm preparing for A Brigand Captured. Tho notorious brigand Mussolino Italy, has boon oapturod after a Heron rosistonoo at Urbioo. Ho bad long terrorised Calabria and in credited with having oommittcd 26 mindoro, Owing to tho sympathy shown bim hy tho poasantry ho had always osoapod oap turo, (lospito tho i inmenso reward tho govornmont ottered for his arror.t. His oaroor as an unjust imprisonment. Ho vowod to kill tho lf> Witnossos who woro responsible for hi? oonvio?ion, and ho is said lo have aolually dis patohod 12. Ambushed. Polo T. Colgon, paymaster of the Virginia Iron furnaoos, at Middloboro, Ky., was waylaid, shot and robbed of $2,000 about midway botweon this town and tho furnacos Thursday, Colgan had drawn tho monoy f rom tho bank and was taking it to tho ottico to pay tho bands. Tho robbers hid in a olump of trctfri, shot Colgan, soi'/od tho monoy and,ran. . A possoo pursuod tho rob hors, but thoy osoapod to tho moun tains. In thoir flight thoy dropped $500. Colgan will rooovor. to-moi rOW'B toll. . Ho? brain b?ln* cooled off. Rigid muscle? rolAxed. Ex?, cited nerve? toothed. The wblto hair; i o' 'he oOto^iiisvlrtn in tain ' drlttn. ?eros? tho p'iilovf, frc?h fall of flake? ?n snow already fallen. Childhood, with its dimpled hands thrown ?ut on 1 the pillow, and with every breath tak ing in a now store of fun and frolic. Third watch of the night 1 God's slmu bcrless eye will look. Let ono great rvavo of refreshing slumber roll over the heart of the great town, submerg ing caro and anxiety and worriment and pain. Let tho city sleep. But, my friends, bo not deceived. Thero will bo to-night thousands who will not sleep at all. Qo up that dark nllcy, nnd bo cautious where you tread lest you full over tho pros trate forai of,n drunkard lying on his own doorstep. Look about you, lest you feel thc garroter's hug. Look through the broken window pan?, nnd seo what you oan sec. You say: ...Nothing." Then listen. What is it? "God help UB!" NO footlights, but tragedy ghostlier and mightier than Illstori or Kdwin Booth ever cn ncted. No light, no fire, no bread, no hope. Shivering in tho cold, they havo had no food for 24 hours. You Kay: "Why don't they beg?" Thoy do, but they got nothing. You any: "Why don't they deliver themselves over to the almshouse?" Ah, you would not ask that if you ever heard the bitter cry of a man or child when told he must go to the almshousol "Oh," you say, "they are vicious poor, and theroforo they do not deserve our sjmipathy." Arc they vicious? So much moro they need your pity. Tho Christian poor, God helps them. Through their night thoro twinkles the round, merry stax of hopo and through tho brokon window they seo tho crystals of Heaven, but tho vicious poor, thoy are moro to be pitied. Their last, light has gone out. You excuse yourself from helping them by saying they are so bad they brought this trouble on themselves. I reply: Whero I give ten prayers for thc innocent who aro suffering I will give 20 for tho guilty who aro sull'ering. Tass on through the alley. Open tho door. "Oh," you say, "it is locked." No, lt is not looked. It has never boen locked. No burglar would bo tempted to go in there to steal nuythiug. The door is never looked. Only a broken ohair stauds against tho door. Shove it baok. Go in. Striko a match. Now, look. Beastli ness and rags. Seo those glaring eyeballs. Bu careful now what you say. Do not uttor any insult, do not utter any suspicion, If you raino your life. What is that red mark on the wall? It 1B tho mark of a murdorer's h rind! Look at th oso two oyes rising up out of tho darknoss and out from the straw In the oorner, coming to ward you, and as they como near you your lights go out. Strike another match. Ah, this la a babe, not Uko those beautiful children presented in baptism. This little nun .never smiled; it never will BJDUC. A flower Hung on an awfully barren bonoh. 0 Heavenly Shepherd, fold that littlo ono in thy arms I Strike another match. Ah, is it possible that the scarred and bruised face of that young woman waa ever looked Into by maternal tenderness? Utter no scorn. Utter no harsh word. No ray of hopo has dawned on that brow for many a year. No ray of hope ever will dawn on that brow. But the light has gone out. Do not strike another light. It would be a mockery to kindle another light in such a place as that. Pass out and pass down the street. Our aitles are full of such homes, and the worst time the third watch of the night. Do you know lt is in this third watch of tho night that criminals do their worst work? It ls tho crimi nals' watch. Afc half-past eight o'clock you will find them in tho drinking soloon, but toward 12 1 o'clock they go to their garrets, they j get out their toola, then they start on tho street. Watching on either sido for tho pollco, they go to their work of darkness. This is a burglar, and tho falso key will soon touch the store lock. This is an iuoondiary, nnd before morning thero will be a light on the sky and a cry of "Fire, Uro!" This ls nn assassin, and to morrow morning thoro will be a dead ho?y in one of the variant lots. Dur ing tho daytime these villains in our ol tics lounge about, some asleep and somo awake, but when tho third watch of tho night arrives their oyo Is keen, their brain oool, their arm etrong, their foot fleot to fly or pur sue, they aro ready. Many of theso poor croatures were brought up that way. They were born in a thieves' garret. Their childish toy was a bur glar's dark lantern. Tho first thing thoy remember was their mother bandaging the brow of their father, struck by the pollco club. They be gan by robbing boys' pookots, and now they have como to dig the un derground passage to tho ocllar of. the bank and are preparing to blast tho gold vault. .Just so long as thora aro neglected children of the street, just so long we will have theso des peradoes. Some one, wishing, to mako a good Christian point and to quote a passago of Scripture, expeotlng to get a Soriptural passage in answer, said to one of these poor lads, cast out and Wretched: "Wiien your fa ther and mother forsako you, who will take you up?" and the boy saldi "Tho porlicel" My friends, you see all around about you thc need that something radical be done. You do not see tho worst. In tho midnight meetings in London a great multitude has been saved. Wo want a few hundred Christian men and women to come down from tho highest oli?les of sooiety to toil amid these wandering and destitute ones and kin dle up a light in the dark '.Hey, even the gladness- pf Heaven. Do nofc go wrapped In your fine furs and from A Pitiful Case. Tho Slato naya Wodnoaday morning a small woman who boro upon hor faoo tho tracoa of poverty, accompanied by six little children, called at tho oxoou tive o iii oe and auk od to eoe tho gover nor. It was tho dovotod wife of Louis Byars, a wbito oonviot at tho peniten tiary. Hor husband had boon oonviot od 12 months ago of assault and hatterv and had boon givon a Bontcnoo of 18 months in tho Btato prison. Byers was a mill operativo ard got into troublo while in an intoxicated conditions. A petition had boon sont up for his par don, but it was slow in getting oonsid oration. In tho meantime the littlo mothor had boon struggling with povor ty for a yoar, hor only moans of sup port being tho wages of hor two eldost ohildron in the ootton mill. Woariod with tho strtiRglo sho resolved to tako her littlo family and oomo to soo tho governor in porson, and make hor ap poa!. As soon as hor ead story was told Gov. Mo Sweeney, ho reaohed for a blank, filled in tho blank plaoos and signed the pardon, handing lt to hor to tako to tho prison and got nor husband. yoW wdl-fllkd bwtj wit* th* Won that iUeus talk 1? going io atop th? gnarling of an ?myty etomaoh or to Warm: HtoolttMirinK? ?*'.{-. Tiki br tako raiment, tafto mediohat, ns well as take prayer. There ls a great deal of common itft*? In what the poor wom an ?aid to the city mi/sslouary when he was telling; her how sh? ought to love Ood and serve Him. "Oh," sho said, "if you wero ns poor and cold ss I am and ns hungry you oould think of noth ing else." I could give you the history in a min ute of 'ono of tho best friends I ?ver had. Outside of my own family I no ve r had n better friend. Ho welcomed nae to my homo at tho west. Ho was of splendid personal appearance, but he "* had an ardor of soul and a warmth of affection that mado me lovo him Hice a brother. I sow men coming out of tho saloons and gambling hells, and they surrounded my friend, and they took him ot tho weak point-his social mature-and I saw him going down, and I had a fair talk with him, for 1 never yet saw a man you could not talk with ou tho subject of his habits if you talked with him in tho right way. I said to him: "Why don't you give up your bad habits and become n Christian?" I remember now just how he looked, leaning over his coun ter, as ho replied: "I wish I oould. Oh, ?lr, I should Uko to bc a Christian, but I have gone so far astray I can't get baokl" So tho time went on. After nwhilo the day of slckuess came. I was summoned to his slckbod. I haa toncd. It took but a few moments to get there. I was surprised as I went dn. I saw him in his ordinary dress, fully dressed, lying on top of tho bed. I gave him my hand, and ho adzed it convulsively, and sold: "Oh, how glad I am to soo youl Bli down there." I sat down, and ho sold: "Mr.Talmage, just where you sit now my mothor sat Inst night. She has been dead SO years. Now, 1 don't want you to think I am out of my mind or that I am supersti tious; but, slr, 6hc sat there last night, and tho Raid: 'Roswell, I wish you would do better-I wish you would do better. 'I said: 'Mother, I wish I could do betetr; I try to do bettor, but I can't. Mother, you used to help me. Why ?ntt'i you help me now?' And, sir, I got out of bed, for it was a roallty, and I went to her and threw my arms around her nook, and lsald: '?lother, I will do better, but you must help. I can't do thia alon?.' " I knelt and prayed. That night his soul went to tho Lord who mndo it. Arrangements were mado for the obsequios. Tho question was raised whether they should bring him to th? church. Somebody saki : "You annnot bring such a dissolute man as that into the ohuroh." I said: "Yon will bring him in church; ho stood by me when he was alive, and I will stand by him when ho is dead. Bring him." AB I stood in tho pulpit and saw them car rying tho body up tho nisU I foll as it I oould weep tears of blood. On one sida of tho pulpit sat his little ohild of oight years, a sweet, beautiful little girl, that I had seen him hug convul sively in his bettor moments. Ho put on her all jewels aud gavo her all plo turos and toys, and then ho would go away, as if heunded by an evil spirit, to his cups and tho houso of iniquity o fool to the corrodion of tho stocks. Sha looked up wonderingly. She knew not what it meant. Sho was not old enough to understand tho sorrow of an orphan. On the other side sat tho mon who had ruined him; thoy were the men who had poured tho worm wood into tho orphan's cup; they wore thc men who had bound him hand and foot. I knew them. How did they scorn to feel? Did they weep? No. Did they say: "What a pity that so generous a man should be destroyed?" No. Did they sigh rope ?tingly oTer what they had done? No. Thoy sat there, looking as vultures look nt tho caroass of a Iamb whose houri they have ripped out. ?So they sat and looked at the coflln Hd, and 1 told them, the judgment of God upon those who hnd destroyed their follow. Did they reform? 1 was told they were in the places of iniquity that night after my friend was laid in Oakwood cemetery, and they blasphemed and they drunk. Oh, how merciless men aro, especially after they have destroyed you! Do not look to mon for oomfort or holp. But there ls a man who will not re form. He saj'B: "I won't reform." Well, thon, how mnuy nots aro there in u tragedy? I believe thero aro flvo acts in a tragedy. Act th? first of tho tragedy: A young man starting oft1 from home; parents and sisters weeping to have him go; wagon rising over the hill; farewell kiss flung baok. liing the bell, and let thc curtnin fall. Aot the seoond: The marriage altar; full organ; bright lights; long white Tell tralUng through tho aisle; prayer and congratulations and exolamation of "How well she looks!" Aot tho third: A woman waiting for staggering steps; old gnrmonts stuck into the broken window pane; marks of hardship on the face; the biting of the nails of bloodless fingers; neglect and cruelly and despair. liing the bell, and let tho curtain drop. Act the fourth: Three graves lu A dark plaoe-grave of the child that died for lack of medicine, grave of the wife that died of a broken heart, grave of the man that died of dissipation. Oh, what n blasted heath with three ?rravesl Plenty of weeds, but no How ers. Hing the bell, and let the curtain drop. Act the fifth: A destroyed soul's eternity; no light, no music; blackness of darkness forever. But ? cannot look any longer. Woe. woel I oloso pay eyos to this Inst act of the trag edy. Quick, quick! Ring tho boll, and let the curtain drep. "Rejoice, 0 young man, in thy youth, nnd let thy heart re Jolee in tho days of thy youth, but Know thou thot for all these things Hod will bring you Into judgment." "There ls a way that seemeth right to a muu, but the end thereof ls death." A Bank Robbed. Tho vault o? tho Farmers' and Oiti zons' Bank at Tiro, Ohio, wan wrookod carly Wedroaday morning by pix rob bora, who scoured tho oor.tonto and O?) naped. It is said tho vault oontatned $'10,000, Tho oraokemcn usod nitto glyoorino. Tho doors of tho vault woro blown oompletoly off ard tho building partially domolishcd. Tho torrifio ox plosion awoko tho pooplo of tho town. All who approftohod tho bank, howovor, woro drivon away by tho robbors, who woro armod with rifles. Mayor Mo (Jonnoll attomptod. to onto tho bank, but wao flrod upon by tho obbors and oom pollod to rotroat. Hav ng scoured their booty tho oraoksmcn went toa livory stablo, whoro ?hoy bound and gagged tho ownor. Thoy then took sevorl rigs and droyo.rap'dly away. A posso and bloodhouds aro on the trail of tho robbers, Louis Hoyt Holmos, o? Springfield, Mo., hasrofusod to chango his. namo for a-boquest of $6,000. Ho says he waa born a Holmos and no amount of monoy oan mako him anything elso. itOMANO?? OF TWO ARMIES, > A Sword Returned to Ita Owner Af ter Many Tears, Oe a battlefield noarKinstop.N. 0., in 1865 a Yankoo oaptain booamo tho prisoner of a youth who ooinmandod a company of tho 67th North Carolina. Tho union soldior boggod to koop his sword. Tho request was courteously rofuscd as ho was a prisonor of war and could not koop arms Or woapons upon his porson. Tho Confodorato oflioor plcdgod himsolf to rot urn tho sword if both survived tho war. That pledgo WAB kept Friday. In spooking of tho raattor Tho Stato eayB: Capt. J. K. P. Nnatlurry if ibis city, was tl>o Ovuftdorato officer who gavo tho pledge and after 36 yeais ho has found tho man to whom tho blado bo loDgcd, Capt. Reubon Waterman of MeiiOoD, Conn. After tho war Capt. Noathorry inado inquiry of ovory man from Connecticut whom ho mot, but ho could hear noth ing of Capt. Watorman. Last wintor Mr. Amos Hi C b oreo of W?torborry, I Conn , a watoh mnnufaoturor, stopped in Columbia on his way to Floridia. I3.?ing a promioont Odd bellow ho was at tho mooting ot tho Palmetto Lodge. Capt. Noathorry who is tho grand mat ter for South Carolina, told Mr. Ol boroo of tho inoidont of tho battjofioid and Mr. Odborno promised to try ito find Cap!. Watorman or hisiclativoa. ' Ycslorday Capt. Noathorry repeivod I a latter from Mr. Ojborno stating that Capt. Waterman is nhvo and well, cud overjoyed at thc prospoot of tho return of hrs battle blado. \ Capt. Waterman is a mombor of Mer? I riera post No. 8 of tho C. A. R. at Meriden, Conn. Albort A. May, tho oe mm:MU! or of that post, in writing to Mr. 0thorne caid: "It has boon thought advisably hy como of tho mern ben of tho po9t, if agrcoablo to you, to have Capt. Waterman reooivo tho iwcrd in a publio nuuncr. Perhaps wc can ?rrar go a mcotivg in cur hall where, fcurrouudod by his friends, ho oso again reocivothat whioh was given to him early in tho War of tho Rebel lion." (Capt. Noathorry winced at tl at word ) "Tho oaptain 1 as boon in formed ol' tho finding of tho sword ui.d ia moro than delighted to think that he oan again have it. Trusting that a vory plonsnt oooauion may be bud of thia matter, 1 am," oto. Tb vj letter is attested by Charles Brewer, tho adjutant of tho eamp. In his loller transmitting this, Mr. Osborne writes Capt. Ncnthorry to como up and join in tho festivities. However, ii Capt. Noathorry could not go, Mr. O.sborno would attend lor him. 'Pho G. A. lt. post wanted a photograph of Capt. Noatherry. In looking for ono of his best looking likenesses, Capt. Noathorry eau.o toroso ono in tho uni form of a Confodorato soldier. T/iat round, mei ry face of a youth of 16 boro littlo resembianoo to tho tall, honrdod man of BO-or thereabouts, (the oaptain io too moo a man to take advantago ol by tolling his cxaot agc.) ' I would Uko to scud ttiat," oaid Capt Noathor ry, "but 1 aaa afraid Capt. Watorman might Icol badly to think that he hud sui rendered to tuon a youth." t apt. J. IC? P. Neathory is tho last of his name, and so far as ho knows thc last of his raoo. Ho ia a nativo of onstern North Carolina. When n obi td ho was impressed because of tho John Brown raids and othor outrages against th south. At tho outbreak of iiostihiieo ho was at the University of North Carolina as a companion to an oidor broihor, afterw?.?da a nujor in tho Uonfsdorato army, Lacking eovorj mont IIB ot being 16 years old, 6oareoly ?blo to lift a Sharpe's r j iii, the Ind joiuid rho lOighth North Carolina, com manded by Col. Shaw, and a part of tho br.'p.odo of tho immortal Gm ! homas L Clingman. In 1863 Noath <rry was transferred to ?n i. d ptnucnt battr?lion, whioh fubsequontly beoamo tho six-}- tv. nih Nord? Carolina. Horo ho was n lieutenant and waa assigned to tho command of Company 1). Though novor oommiesiened a cap tain ile commanded tho oompany until ino oloie of tho war. At t ho blot dy battlo of Wino's Fork oear Kiuslon, in Mardi, 1865, tho Six ty Seventh North Carolina was pitted Against tho Fifteenth Connootiout, and Capt. Waterman booamo the priaonor ol Lieut. Noatherry. Watorman bogged to kocp his sword. Noathorry replied that ho would bo ploasod to let him keep tho Bword, but as a prisoner Wat aram would bo bereft of it Boonor or lalor, and it would bo bottor for Neath ul ry to keep it and return it, a i ho tho plcdgod himself to do. They woro boj thou, far pa?t tho primo of lifo now and tho roturn cf tho blado after many yoars is u rcmarkablo inoidont. Hut Capt. Neathoiry is ?uoh an Ardontex Confederate that ho could not lot him 60)f bo oarriod away by ovon Buch rcruanlio aff ir and ho nurronders tho riwoid without becoming a oiptivo to tho new sentiment whioh is lorgotting tho truditions of tho old Routh in th gush over tho reunited country. In h lo?or transmitting tho sword there no lulfiomo bpecoh, but a ?inooro ex pr?t sion of personal regard. Ho says Catt. Reubon Waterman, Meriden Conn. Sit: I tako groat ploasuro ia fulfill ing apioiniHO m*do)ou on tho battlo he d in 1805, that if 1 suivivcd the w ami cou d lind you I would return tao sword captured with you. Tho blado h. a m vor boon dishonored --j OU thought) you Wurvilgiiv, I ki/fert I was. So utidor oithcr fbg it did hon orable mo vice. 1 now mutual it to j ou as tho first ownor, truatiuy you will never havo occasion to deem it a duty lo ?glin drawn it against tho south; butt at sure you that u lu old ouch bo tho oaso I will moot you with ono as good, With best wi.hes for a long and happy lifo, I am y?.uia, J. K. P. Noatherry, Lato Commander Co. H., 67uh N. C. Vols., C. S. A. Tho ?word is in excellent condition. Capt. Neathcrry rubbod it up for uso in ibo Spanish war-not for himfelf, however, aa they wouldn"t let him go in a gray uniform. Ho woro it aftor it foll imo his hands, for his own eoabbard was ?bot away in that battlo. It is moro liko tho hold offioors' nh do of lalor regulations than hko tho straight blado of tho infantry. On a plato on tho soabbard is this in fiori pt ion: Prosontcd to Llout, Roubon Waterman, Co. IO, 15th, Rogt. C.V., By his blonds io Moiidon, May 23, 1862. Nqpds Looking Aftor. Dr. Charles J aoobs, a norvo apooial iflt said to be 6 mombor of tho Now Orleans Yaoht olub. declares that sui? oido is an inourable diioaso. He has sought to establish, In Oblongo, suioido headquarters, where mombots of sui oido olubs, and others doBlring to end their oxlstonoo, oan do so painlessly with noatnoss and dispatoh. Dr. Jaoobs noods looking aftor. THE WHITE CAPS Poison Fruit on Trooa arid Cause a Reign of Terror . AMONG OHIO FARMERS. Unknown Miscreants Attack Farmers on the Highway and at Their Moines. A Bad 8tato of Affairs. To say that tho exploits of whitooapo havo OMisod a roign of torrar ia High landtown, a littlo villago of about feix milos southwest of Edst Liverpool, Ohio, is putting it mildly. All that sootion of tho oouatry is so exoitod by tho latest dovolopmonts that littlo olso is thought of or talked about. Sumner JVloPhorson, tho young man who was poisoned by an applo into whioh tho tvhito caps had put paris greon, h aa gono through a tumble niogo of ?iok noss, but is now out of daugor. Tho norvous strain upon his mother has hoon so groat that it is f o ar od her mind will givo way. Tho wholo family is in Huoh mortal torror lost thoro Bbould bo poison in tho food thoy oat or tho water they drink that thoy livo in onstant mental torture. John H. McPherson, tho father, is a man who says littlo as a rule, but ho is understood to have taken ooUnsol with his frionds about Bolling his farm and quitting tho neighborhood. Tho anxi ety of tho MoPhoraono is nharod by tho wholo neighborhood. Citizens of liighlandtown fear for thoir livos. Thoy are afr,sid to mako a m o vu ngainst their unknown advoraarioa lent they bring tho wrath that Ima boon threatened upon their h> ndn, Sinoo tho MoPhorson poisoning opi Bodo moro anonymous lottora, threaten ing arson, murd or and torturo havo como to li&ht. John Stroudoff and John U. ?/n.f,uj, uuigiiuuio Ul mu wui un sons, havo found ouoh lottors on thoir promises. Tho white oap notice? aro cometimos dropped in tho roads or in tho iields, and oomotimoB taokod to outbuildings and lonooa. Thoy aro writton in a di*guisod hand, hut evi dently by n porooo of good uduoation. No ono in a community whoro every body is well acquainted with ovory body olao reoogmzfs tho handwriting. Tho MoPhorsouB liavo thoir SUB pi oioue, but they aro kooping thom to thom solves. it now transpirca that ovcry applo that oould ho roaohed on certain troc H in McPherson's oro?ard had hoon troat ed or Bprinklod with parin groen, and tho treen on whioh tho mi^otoants had put in their work woro thoBO oontaiuing choice eui i dg applos. Mel'hoi ??on de rived a Rood icooino from hia oTh?rd. but now ho daroo not oat apples from it, and ho would not think of soiling them. Ho also fears that his oows may bo poisoned and tno milk rondorod dosdly. Not a vogotablo or any food protluot is now uaod in tho f iiuily until it ia hubj -:otod to thc closest aorutiny. Tho wnitooapnotivity has boon mani fested at intervals ia Ilighlaudtown 'or tho paH two yoars. Whitecap no tioen Bcrvod upon tho MoPhorson and Clagcr famines, at first attraotcd no attention, it being thought thoy woro tho work of praotical jokers. But whon thoir oropB, fouoos, tools, wagons and othor property bogau to bo dcBtroy cd they booatac eon VJ need that enomias woro at work. Some woolen ago shots woro fired at Sumner MoPhorson as ho was watching a lonely road at night in tho hopoa of seeing a whitconppor. His vigil was rowardod, for hj Baw a horse man oomo down tho road and deposit a whitecap notice But tho intruder saw him and blaz ed away. Four shots woro fired. Mo Pheruon got a bullet through his hat, but oeoapod injury. A day or two later, ho had Howard Kelly, son of a proaohor, who is a noighbor, arrested. Kelly proved that he was at homo at tho timo of the encounter, and tho inyslory of tho shooting remained unsolvod. Two tboorios aro ourront. Oao iff that in aano persons aro rosponsiblo for tho mi?ohief and tho murderous) plot. Tho othor is that parties who want to got MoPhorson ti faim cheap aro pe remit ing him systematically, and occasional ly annoying other neighbors to divert attention. Anyone who oan find tho author of tho rooont poisoning oan olaim John MoPhorson's $100. A Ncgroo's Tributo. Prosidont W. H. (Jounoil of tho Ne gro Agrioultural and Mcohanioal Col logo of Alabama, was tho orator of tho day on 4 'Negro Hay" at tho Texas State Fair last woek. His spoooh Boomed to delight tho mombors of his own raoo and was vigorously applauded by his whito listeners. In his address Prosi dont Counoil said: l'lt' 1 woro to soalo tho gamut of history and pluck from tho diadem of tho world's honor its brightest gom of virtuo, 1 oould prosont to you no highor oxamplo of womanly integrity than is found in tho whito woman of tho South today. Sho ex on cn the admiration of all lovers of tiuih and honor. Woro it not for hoi-, Southern sooicty would bo oonfuatou worse confounded. it would bo pan demonium in riot. Sho ia loyal to her raoo. Sho adini s to hor oin-racoti no other Stands Uko a rook in a weary laud,' maintaining tho purity ot both raooa in tho South a* tar *s aho eau. "1 am gratoful to hot. You must bo proud ot nor. I am ?ho ?iud iha? tho tduoated element ol my raoo has no dosiro ior what is known as . o cial equality. Thu oduca.od nogra dt sires, tho oontinuod ul. m i ty of his own raoo and books io adorn, dignity aud exalt his own sooial cit?les, to HO eommodato hie most extravagant sooial ambition. It is tho ignorant negro who tools that the solutiou of tho race pro bh m moiiauB (quality of tho raoes. Tno educated negro is <miB?od with tho equality of virtuo and aohaLOj to boa mau in his own Bphoro, after his own kind, as tho oreator ordained," Catarrh Cannot bo (Jared with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as thoy oannot roaoh tho soat ot the dis ease. Catarrh is a blood or oonstitu tional dlsoaso, and in ordor to ouro it you must tako intornnl romodios. Hall's Catarrh Curo is taken internally, and aots dirootly on the blood and muoous surfaces. Hall's Catarrh Ouro is not a quaok modioino. It waa prosoribed by ono of tho bost physicians in this oountry for yoars, and is a rogular pro scription, It is oomposod of tho boBt tonlos known, combined with tho boot blood purifiors, a?ting dirootly oa tho muoous surfaoos. Tho porfoot combi nation of tho two ingrodionts is what produoos such wondorful results in oar ing Catarrh. Send for' testimonials froo. ... ' ? F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, O. Hall's Family mils aro tho bost, ALL BEADY FOR THE FAIR. Final Preparations for Columbia's Cor* nival at Her Stato Capital COLUMBIA, Oot. 19.-Bpeoial: .As tho days pas* rapidly by and tho tittie bofoto tho Btato fair grows shorter tho go n o ml aotivity among thoso in ohsrgo ot tho various features of tho qro&tost of all wooks in tho capital oity inoroasoH. On every hand preparations for tho fair aro in progoss and it is oxpootod to bo ono of tho most suooeseful in point of attondanoo in tho history of tho sooio ty. Many aro oom!og to hoar tho grand conoorti of tho famous Unitod StatoB army's First Artillory band uudor Loador Koitsob; others aro Oomiog to soo tho stuok and cattle; othoru to at tend tho Btato bali; otliora to witness tho football gamos; others to wituosu tho horto raeof, end still others to EOO everything thalia to bo sosa and havo an all round good limo. Soorotary Holloway io uow regularly at bis < thoo in tho Southern Railway building, whoro he aud his assistant oro hard at work writing out entry togo and doing othor noocf?sary work. Tho outlook ia quito gratifying in tho mattor of live stock; in foot in all ex hibits exoopt in field crops, and in this departmont Col. Holloway foam thor? will not bo tho usaal displays. Thin might naturally bo expcoled owing to tho almost total fniluro of tho oom orop. And in this oouncotion Col, Hol loway dosiroo to beg tho farmers of tho Btato to got up n du play of (ho ooroals. Tho ecorctnry further annouuoos that exhibitors ,to Ibo 8tale fair can ro3hip their exhib? tit to Charleston vo bo showr. at tho exposition, and whoa tuero Ino sovoral oountiosoon olaimBuoh oxmbita to b? plcsoed in caob oounty display oompoting KB suoh. Col. Front, who is tho superintendent of the racing, is quito jubilant over tho groat numbor of stables of borneo making thoir way to tho moot in Co lambiu. With tho low railroad rates and tho stops being taken by tho people of Co lumbia to pr?vido homos,for visitoroj the uiiu'd large atltutdauan at. tho fi?? is oort fluently expected. lt is quito dooirablo that'application be mado at ouoo for premium lista aud entry shoots and that entries bo turned in to tho secretary. President Evans and Soorotary Love are uow in tho city and all malto'.s per taining to spaoor, privileges, ot^., oiiti bo attondod lo RS already mated in ?:?J corrofipon?enoo, their will bo a week ot first oiusa pit?5s at tho Colombia thea tro. Westra. Smiih'dccl & 13r no havo boen at orpecTai-psius ;n ui?king thor arrangements "for fair wonk, and tho lovorei of tho drama iu its most popular forms may bo assured ol' a gouuiao treat. A MURDER WE&R CHARLESTON. A Storekeeper's Clerk Killed by Un known Burglars. C. II. MBPPU8, wbito, aged 39 ycart*, single, was murdorod in tho storo of Thoodoro Mappus, Lin oousin, at Aoh loy Junotion Wednesday night. Th oro is no oluo ns to who oommitted tho orimo, nor is it kuo'.vn at what hour tho doed was oommittod. lt is thought, however, tbit bo was killed Homo uuio after midnight wbilo ho waa in bcd salcop. Tho orlmo is mo of tho mont horriblo and cold bloodud ovor oommittod iu Oharloston oouuty. Aftor oommittiug tho deed tho r ar ty or parties robbed tho money tili, but just how mitoh nionoy was takou Mr. Thcodoro Mappus is not in a position to state, as bo has no account of tho i.um that was loft in tho till that night. The dead body of Mr. Mappus was disoovorod this morning by Mr. Thoo doro Mappus. Whoo ho ontorod tho slocping room, which is in tho roar of tho otoro, to lo&ru why tho store had not boon oponod, thinking probably that his nophow waa sick, a horrible sight mot bia gaze. Clad in night o'othos tho body of tho dead man waa lying aorosa tho bed, his skull crushed and tho bod olotbos washed in blood. Ga tho floor noar tho bod wau a box of obowing tobaooo all stained with blood, showing oloarly that it waa tho weapon used in taking tho lifo of Mr. Mappuo. Tho murdorod man was no doubt struck several blows, lor . tho bod olotbing was disarranged, ineioating that there had been a strugglo, whiou no doubt followed aftor tho in\tt blow waB etruok. Tho murd or and robbory woro roport od to tho oity dotootivos *nd to Bhorilf Martin immediately aftor boiug discov ered. Chiof Dutootivo Miller and his foroe of detootiveu wont at onoo to tho peono of tho tragedy. Sheriff Martin dispatohod Deputy Bhorilf 10, ?on to tho storo of Mr, Mappus, and ho will h* uk i in endeavoring to ferret out tho orimo, Up to a iota hour tai s af?er noon no elua had boen obiaiucd that would load up to the attest ol any ono. Everything pon&iblo ia boiug dono to uuoartb tho perpetrator of tho orimo. Tho murderer or murdoro?s, it is bu liovtd, bia in tho storo early h.st night, boforo tho Blore wai cloted, and at tar tho clerk, Mr. M.tppus, rctirod foe tht nigiit, and briug i.at.iauod that bo w&s SHbiup, tho murdorer or murderers no ourod a lar^c OJX O? tobaojj, stoaUnily enured tho sleeping room of Mr. Map pu .. an 1 struck him tn tho hoad nov- | eral times, ending his lifo! I With their bauds trained with'the j blood of a human hoing choy pluudeted j about the store looking for tho inunoy till, riflud it and then urdo thoir es oapc. An exit was eff joted by remov ing tho bar from Ibu door uu tho tn todo of tho storo. Tho door was oiosod b?hind them. Magistrate -M minuit visito! the noone of th) orimo thin morning and oe gnxi'?i? a jury. Tho t>qdy ot ibo doad man was reviewed by thc ju/y, and thu inquest will bo hold on Bond ay. Tho dcocftjod wan well kuown iu Oharlcstoo, this oliy b'.ing hw homo Ho has a number of relativos iiviug iu tho oity,-Charleston Post. n MU "My wife- lind pimple* op liorfnce, but ?ho has boon taklnrt CASOAKKTrt amt thoy havo nil disappeared. I had hcoh troubled with constipation for ?orno than, hut niter tak lin: tho first CasearOt I hnvo hint no troublo with this ailment. Wo cannot Bi>catc too high ly of Caiioarots." Fium WAIITMAN, 6708 Qormantown Ave. Philadelphia, Pa. n?i,1?t?ntJ. ^Iftmife l'oton'l TnMo 0/??1. ,Pp Good, Novor BlokSiu -wcnkon.or Orljip, 10o, Ibo,WO. ... Ol?l?E CONSTIPATION. ... ?lorlliit H.mm, CoMyohy', ( l,|?.(r>, Moni M?t, N?w ?trltj 911 Oil ANO ii;Ut) A nigVtonod Ohrlsllan Institution. Oousidorcd by prominent educators Iii o Eduoates along all Hues. ; ,-{;i?? . Devolopslntohoot^and oharaotor.'' OivrB poveonal, individual attention to I Ho? a largo Bludonibody repr?sent? g I linn, Virginia *nd ?oulh Carolina, lias a lor g Hal of pleased patrons. Exponaos- Bowl $7? Tuition $1; Mugi Haudeomo Buildings-good rooms. rWHMHWIlW.I'li) e World's Greate For nil forms of ?ovor t uko JOHNSON' tl ino;! bettor than qui ni no mut ddos liv fi do lu 10 days. lt'H Bplondld euroa mo lu UlUdO by quinine. COSTS 50 CENT* HANNA IS MAD. Do?8 Wot Uko tho Pr?sident? 8c u thtirn Policy. EMBARRASSES THE B03? A Sensational R^prri, That H* Will Rrtsfgn tho Chair man ship ural Done ?moo tho Proatdonts Policy. A Sensational turn has boon given to tho fast that Senator Hanna doon not Bhato Prosidont Roosevelt's viows as to tho ,w?y to diotributo fodoval offiooa in tho South, culminating io. th? atate nn iii that tho Senator ia about to isauo a formal proclamation de nounoing tho llooncvohiau thqory and thon resign hiti o?ioo &<i ohsivmau ol' tho Uopubli i oao national oommuteo. That Mr lUnna may rosign hh ohoir rn.innhip is, and has for Homotiuio beon, among tito poasibiiitioH. Ho waa anx iou*! to quir< tho arduous duties of th 3 placo iu tJio osmpujgu ol' 1900, but yielded to th ) carnet pio \n of President Me Ki ni ey, abd remained at the head of tho oommitrco. lt wait understood that ho would have nought reloaBO af ur oloo lion but was persuaded out of tho idea by i?omo of bia old ansobiatos, who wish ed co rotjloiro tho old party maohino and a .mt toi tho nation of tho oonvontion ot 1904 Thoy had no Bpooilio oaodidato xu wind, but wwhod to hay? their bi 'la 30 on tho lover that thoy could throw tho nomination in wlnohovor di reotiou thoy desired whon tho tiuio oamo. Tho tro nd of tho patronago poi icy ot' tho administration in thu South hn?ftt?y?u nuilee, o? oourso upon a ?argy group of n achine nunagors thoro that thoir dsyhas ootno. It WAS in ibo South that tho hand of Mr. Hanna did most injury. At th? oonveution of 1896 ?hon dologatcs oaree to St. loftia irom Southern Slates, plcdgod to voto for aoy ono ho migh, namo (but htd to bo plodded ovtr again and a?, an (quil ooat, to voto for tho oxisting gobi standard, whiohwasnot included in tho original oompaot,) tho public gained a gliiupso of tho rotto.n U0?J of tho party machinery in Lnuisi ana, South Carolina, Alabama, Texas, nod elfiowhoro. At Philadelphia la?t, your th ic oharaotcristio was not HO muoh lu ovidenco, aa tbo renomination of MoKiitloy was a forogone oonolueion, and tho Southern faction had not So muoh to hopo from o?rryiog thoir leo al fighta into tho national arena. Mr. Iloo3ovolt ima long entortainod .dooided opinions as to tho right of tho Southern pooplo to aa muoh conaidora tion \\udor . ? Itopubltoan AH undor a Domoorat administration, and could not take tho onino viow as Mr. Hann, of tho righteousness or patriotism of k?oping moro m&ohinos going in Statos whore their party oonoiatod of nothing oloo. Ho hav, thoroforo, sought tho ad vice of tho bcBt mon at thia, irrespot ivo of tho party or rueo, on his Southern appointments, instead of oalling upon Mr. Uanna to tell him what to do, and then doing it r.i.d holding Hanna rc sponsiblo tor tho result. Naturally, thia haa boon embarrassing for tho -Senator although it has not como upon him without abundant and ontnoly emvtooua nottoo. lt plaoos him in tho positiou of hoing unablo to oarry out nomo of tho plana wbioh ho had forcease to his followers in the South, and on tito strongth of whioh ho had hold thoir t\l!ogianoo. m ??? r The World's Greatest Cure for Malaria, X For ail forms of Malarial poison ing tako Johneon'a Chill ?nd Fover 'Ionic. A tatnt of Malarial poison ing in your blood mnanamlssry and failure. Bloodmedicino?can't-euro Malarial poisoning, 'rho antidoto for it ia. JOHNOON'8 TONIC. tffl for I>JSJ40HN8< SJ fj Oot a hottlo to-day. Oooto 50 f?nn?a jf \i fi 1.1 mo. Feel Badly? ?FSE Appotlto, Loss of Strength, Laok of Uaergy, &o 7 Take a few doses of i A Goriulne Blood Tonio. TUE .MUrUtAV ??iaj Co. Columbla, 8. 0". ^^ii&r^CHOOL?SH0RTIIAND MKW? Aro you sutTorh g from unnat??ral dis oh argon.. Wo vrill euro you in 8 dayB or ro fund your money. Take Dr Muhloy'e In jootl?i); prioj ??o each, lont anywhere on ro colptofprloo. CUS. A. H???AFgliU, 1000 Cross St, Un'.timoro, Md, M,W 00 IN GOLD OIVliN AWAY to our agents bcildos tlio regular commis sions, for selling our Bplondid line HOLIDAY ?00K8 for 1001. No big prl?e* to a few, bul KVBRY AOBNT ?jots asharo. Fift?on years' bueinoss record baok pf this offer, llandioms satnplo oaao outfit only 86 oent?, dellveir?d. Order outfit and secure chole? of territory alono*. AddroJ? D'. B. LUTHRft ruft. CO, Atlanta, QA, Should attend a ooll?go with an established ropulMlon, A diploma fr6or t;onvsrso Oom morolal Bohoo' muci lt oasy4o aeonre tho best positions. Thorough work; beat equip ment; positions guaranteed. Address Bi W. ?Br81H(|BR,. Bpartaabl?rg, ? O na a n " . . . \ ... beet Co-Kdueatloual College, m Ibo Stftlo. ntudonts. ho ?tates of Coorg?a, Floriaa, North Caro A. H, MlLLfcR, President, Oraogeburg, 8. C. st Fever Medicine. S CHILL AND PBVrm TONIC, lt ls 100 k singlo day whivt slow qui i il no cannot Striking cont) a?it to tho io?.bio euros 5 IP IT CURES. Our ?WUOO'IH grv>utl> iuoioasod,?;e>rid-. to ; build up tho largost business coUego lu tho GREAT SOUTH at once, tro m.iko theso uri hcaTd-of Talo? for a Hhort tiruo. on?jj o\loif ' ahsolutoly fro? poholarsldpsto few; to cthora, TT.? will pay rnl'r :nd faro, furnish t thoo work tor part tuition, nooopt notes, furnish oheap bi>*.id andscou'O ?oattlcns For fun luforntatlon, oond non to tho Columbia Business College, COLUMBIA, 8. 0. lt Will Cost You Only One Cent to lind out about tito "Hex" ' Mattress; the quality, the guarantee, the prices, ^cWt^-p tile sizes. Drop us the: ?bs tal, simply say "Ilex," and sign your name in full, gi^p^ ^ ing address. Dexter Broom &?Mattrcss Co; Pelzer, S. Co FALL 1617 Main Street, From the UP-TO-DATE, Carpet House. STYLES. . Columbia, 8 0 MUTUAL CARPET 00. Writo us for ?amploa of anything in our liuo. Gooda shlppod any whore in tho ?tato free of freight. Wo aro al oise busy. No dull days with OB. Whon in Columbia, como and see us. Any body oan ohow you tho placo. AUGUSTA, OA. . Office AND W0BK8, NOUTII AVQU?TA, 8. 0. DOORS, SASH, BLINDS AND BUILDER'S " II ARD WARE. FLOORING, SIDING, CEILING AND IN SIDE FINISHING LUMBER IN -GEORGIA PINE. All Oopro?poadonoe (5?vou prompt atten lion. July 2-ly (Successors to C. P. ropponhblm.)! -V/holcaalo and RotaU Doalora in-'-. Arms, Ammunition^ A?riciiK tural Implements and of Evory Kind ?nd Description, . tSf'Bondinostnl for i'dcos. Kltig 8t., - . 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