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NEVER DESPAIR Who has not heard or road about London Bridge, that famous thorough, fare of England's busiost centre o1 tialle, of It endless stream of humanity, constantly passing to and fro in their daily pursuits, of innumerablo tales of woe, of lives lost, i)ospent and forlorn, of tragedies, occurring only to be at onco forgotten and followed by more stairtlilig crliImes, the ileVitiabl3 rqauilt and outcomo of everyday life in tihe Eiglish metropolis-the seat of untold wealth and of untold misery-that un rolls before us the depths of human nature, only too often in their most rcvoltoiig form ? It was a dark and foggy evening. The hour w hen the tired toilers seek the ciufort of their fireside when everyhbody goes to his liole-provided he has a hooie-had come and gono. Suddenly two pedebtrianis approach ing from )0opposite directions eamo to a suddeln and iather nIlleasint, coli'sion on tue bridge. One of them, young aid dresied in the height of fashion, had come from the aristoeratic regions of the ' .st - nd, while the other, who had approachedi." from the laboring dis triets of South wark, was much older and wa poorly clad. Their heads had felt the etfect: of t he sudden contact, and both had come to a full stop, aach feeling the injured mueiber with his hands and nursing it, whie the com pliimients they exchaged were any thing hut polite. "Thutter and lightni ng, sitr, ex claimed Uihe youtinger of the ltwo, "your eralni uIm is not exactly bolstered up with spring, I assure you. ZEmnds Why could you not get out of my way. when you saw mie approach ?" Tihe other, evidently a laborer, shrugged his shoulders and threw a longing look across the railing to tie dark waters of the Thames below. " Where were you goini post hastO ? continued the first speaker, noticing the nan'S dejected attitude. " There " came the hoarse answer, pointing down to the river. ' There? Well, lily man, out road is the same. Take ie with you !" The poor labO'er east a Silprisedl look nt. the well-diresse young main. " You " lie said. "You tio go down there " 1mi-olie What has put Isuih a I deilorm tlotiuglht into your.11 head ? Y'ou are surely not so fering from want : you cannot possibly know the m]rrow and the mizery tlait is the )oo1" Luan's 1oltinII ! You look like a ricli man, ytou ilive vouiith besides conston0(.'itly you are happy and to be envid !" Wron i, my frieni, altogethe.r wrong. Weailth is nit always akin to happinss." responlt I the young lnau. "ComeL rous youru-el f. I can see th1 inugs also have gone wrong with you walk with ime a short distance and let me explain." Strange IHere were two persons wi 0 hii not vel known of eacIi othel's existence tive minutes before, but withai. they felt themselves (raliwCu toward ou aniother by that svilpit tlietic l1a-h which so oftei intluences ourt destnies. Peaceably and contentedly they walked side by side, wile the rich llan poeil is hea't out to his poor companion, tehuing him with imlive woids thut hie led anlythling but a hlappy life, although p'osnesstog e'veI , thing that usua1 y -roe..s to make lift wolrch Al Iing He wais a bachelor whi had in heriited A'.,, wealta from his unlcle, lie had dra'~ined the pleasurei' enup oif allI kinds of amutseigenits, hat: kept seivant., hior:,-e and carriages: num111 erless firiends had congprlegattc lat hi s sllen~d idly fill ishedl2( apar itme nta and ini his coun11try residlenees45; lie had Iivi'u like a syharite and~ throwni a way his m~oney ithi both hianas, and niow he wals ti red of li fe, satiated and blast in spite of his youth. Melancholy, r'emiorse, and miisanithropy itrouble him l'eeessantly, and lie cou'ld not hel1 revpeating to imnself that his life hlaL been an iutteirly ueless on~e. Th'lere fore hie had Ii nally comeil to) the del'i b (erate conilusi0ion to end his woritles exikteneu in the water of the Ri1'.e Tlhamnes. Never iln his life had lie Ii itcned t such ia quieer tale. " low ineomprllehenisible '" he e: clained. "My life tells exactly tI Oopoi te story. Iiil am very poor,, hasZ an ailing wife and u-ven chilldreni. ani alas, no food for' thieml ; thus fair I ha' honestly aind tir'elessly tI ied to jsmal the two ends mieet--ini a mlainner' - har'd woirk, but a few day's ag~o i lo my13 phlicol in thie facetoirv (il accunt the (dul1 timelts. I cann'ot iitness th mlisery3 at home any longer', it teat mfy hleart toi look at miy stainlg love one~s; anid though my poor01 butfer'il wife tr'ie, hardi to) console mle anidi give miit cour age, bitddi ng 111 not1 despair', I see no( escaeljL. I halve I hope left and am resolIved ti 14u1t hi clnd to ,my miser'able existence. M ii God~ in ii is inlinite merey have 4pity c my family !" " Poori fellow !" TIhe ichl yoiur man's countiteniance was full (of dei pity, and uid~den tears gathered his eyes. Such a tale he had nev hiear'd, rever dreamt of amid L1 il luence of biis su rronud ings. "'No w I kno1(w that ther'e,ar'e peole this wod'id who~ 14".i a gr'eat deali mco unhiappiy than i con~lsider'ed my~self be, fool that I was," ho reilecte'd. "' lut cheer up, man, there is hi In a ease like yours. Come, lead 1 iway, take mie to your house. I gii I canl end1 youri I tr'oiubles, and as fiar the-the-jumping inito the~ Trimmei concierned, I tin~k there is no spec. hui'ry about it, (1o you ?" A cab soon1 brought tile two forn candidates for self-destruction to 1 dirty narrow lanes of the wor'kii men's quarter' in South wai'k, wvhert stopped ini front of ia tumllble2-do cottage. Pover'ty and want stared themn fr'omi every nook and corner the master of the hioubo anid his you comupamion entered a small but ti and scrupljloulsly cleanl r'o~m. A gro of children of a pronounced blot type had hardly recognized th father' when they ran up to him, s pitifully begged for bread. eor e, red andi swoellen fr'om crying, her b( umaciated from want and sickne the mnother palinfully tried to rise fr her' work, ats soonj as she beheld 1 aristocratIc looking itranger, alt hv her1 seventeen-year-old daugh Mary. The young man was shocked wil he beheld tnis scene of what appeal to oe tinmnerited but- groat misery. I when bie symipathotic and astonish gaae full of pIty h'ad fastened its upon the face aniti figure of the beau jul bfucyed, slender blonde girl. .gave a start of genuine surprise. P 2of generous Impulse and quickly ;t4ed, Ae grabbed the laborrby esup, I s alldb back in e l~a edJ an left befc THE LAW IS SAID TO IORK WEL GOVERNOR EVANS TALKS ABOUT THE METROPOLITA.N POLICE. Columbia itegister. Governor Evans Is usually in a good humor, but ho seemed to be in an un. asually good humor yesterday when a Register reporter entored his room In the State H1ouso near the close of office hours. Whether the smiles which chased across his face were caused by thoughts of an Intention to redoom his matrimonial pledge to the votore of the Stato, or by the reception of important and satisfactory political news, the ro porter did not ascertain. After desultory chat, the conversa tion turned on Charleston, which has hitherto been the Gibraltar of opposi tion to the dispensary law. " How is the metropolitan po ice law working th.ro ?" queried the rporter. '' You ml g lit know it was working well when its operation elicits the commendation o1 such an uneompro mising and Yigorous advocato of pro hibition as Mrs. Sallie F. Chapin, the chief apostlo of that doctrine in this State. Your paper ha; published her praise of Chief Martin and his force and their proiptuoss and cillcioney in enforcing the laws of the State." " But M rs. Chapin is only one citi zon of Charleston," sald the reporter. " Have you any information as to how the people of that city generatl ly regard the metropolitan poc ie?" " Yes," replied Governor Evans: have received reliable in forination that the best elements of Charleoton's citi zonship ai- very Well )leasCd with the motropolitan polico and would not go back to the old system. I havo re ceived a unmoor of letter from minis ters, business men;and other citizens of CUarleston who commend in the highest terms the result of the applica tion of the metropolitan polico law to their city. "'The politicians and the old liquor element in Charleston are unsparing in their condemnatson of the nitropoli tan police, but while they make tho most noise, I do not believo they are more numerous than those who believe 6the new system is an improvement upon the old one. " The polico commissioners are young, active and succossful business men, who have the confidence of the entire community. Chief Martin Is a polico oflicor of sterling merit, who is absolutoly fearless and perfectly im partial in the performance of his duty. While he takes the natural and propor interest of . a wide-awake citizen in political affairb, ,he is never unmiind fui of the requirements of his impor tant office and has never prostituted its powers for the advancement of par tisan interests. "Since the police forco has been made absolutely independent of the ef feet of local political mutations, its elliciency has been wonderfully in creased. Its members can now enforce every law without fear or favor, with out calculating whether their doing of their duty is likely to cost them their position, upon holding which depends their bread and butter. " Thep are not only putting the screws oi ' blind tigers,' but aro con ducting a vigorous crusade against 'policy shops' and other iniquities. The other day Chief Martin broke up a prize Aght which had been axLensive ly adverti.el in the Charleston papers and which the county otticiais had taken noi stop~s to provent. The law abiding citizuns of Charleston were de lighte.d at his prevention of the pro prie.,adl fistic encounter. "All of the jury commissIoners in Chiarleston now are Reformers and a better class of jurors are being drawn men who will not perjure themselves ; men who wvill give verdicts in accord anice w ithi the law and evidence. oven though they do not favor the law and evidence, even though they do not favor the law and would vote for its - repeal. The result of this improve ment of Chaerleston juries has been that several violators at the recent temi of the Court of General Sessions there and violations of the law in that city are on theadecrease in'consequnence. Theoro were seine very good men en gagedl ini illicit liq~uor selling in Char loston, because they believed they were backed up by tihe sentiment of the community. Their. eyes have been openied and they are dropping their illegal business. When such men close up their ' blind tigers,' enforce ment of the law against the renminder will be easier. Sales in tihe Charleston dispensaries are i mpiroving which is a sign that the dispensary law is being botter ob~eyedl there." On the subject of Charleston politics the Governor was rather non-commit tal, that being a delicate matter to touch upon. ile did admit, however, that letters from his friends in Charles ton express~ed conlidence that the Ro foirmors would carry that city in the next election. The addition of a slice of liorkley to Chlarleston has lhrgely added to the country voto of that coun ty and the country vote is almomast sotlid ly Reform. .In the city the ranks of tihe Recforimers are rapidly recruiting and they will go in to the campaign ,with vim mand dash. The new law .which makes it necessary for every vot'or ini a prinmary in Chamleston to . produlco his registration certificate eliminates much of the p)ossibility of fraud tiher aand consequently improves theli chancee of the Reformers carrying that city. Certain is it that the leading Rerformners in the City by tile Sea ar-a cocksure (If their ability to carry it in the next election. Th''le Sbhpkeors have made a discovery which is d es tine' Ito accomplish much , ood. Rl-alizing that three- fourths of o all ouri suffemrings arise from stomach e toubiles, that thme country is literally filled wvith peole who cannot eat and e digest fin'd, w ithioit subsequently suf i. fari g p~ain and (1istress, and that m imaniy are starving. wasting to mere *ske'letons, because thiiir food (10es them 1,) 11( good, they hievy devoted imuch study a mand thought to the subject, and the ro ,n suit is tils discovery, of thou- Ilges n. tivo Curd il. A little ho~h ean be obtained from al druggist that wvill point out the way of to re iel att once. An InvestigatIon will n. ost inothm u and will result in much rio n. C'ihireu all hate to take Castor- 01l, .'o bu not i X(L. whIiebT Is palatable. --a vitat'. ins ha ive bien ii ssued by Ji Igo Ch'arvis 1". I )ay, of New York, -cabIIIing fori a, na tionaul conferebrnco, to be biell in tie city of Washington on Wednme-sdiy and 'fhur-shiy, April 22 i3m2:t 14x prs thegeneral eon-lotion ha permanent system of arbitiration shou'di bo provided for the settlement of dillenit les that may ar-iso between the Unitedi States and Groat Btritain, i't -T~her is no policy liko p)olteness; as *'d a co d imner Is the best thing in .the world, either to get a good name thdir astonishrment over the unexpect ed visitor. All the father was able to do iv reply to the many questions of his wifI and children was to comfort them in s half-hearted manner. The poor man't sufferings had made him skeptical he had lost faith in himself and li others, almust also in God. But h said nothing about his suicidal inten tions or about the strange meeting that had prevented their consuinma tion. Suddenly the door opened once mor<4 to admit the man who was uppermost in their thoughts. Bohind him up peared two servants carrying baskori filled with choice eatables which the3 deposited upon the table and at once withdrew. The young man walked up to th astonished and speechlesm laborer, saying in tremulous tones : 'My friend, to-night you have saved my life. Let me offer you and yours a small token of my gratudo. Do mio the honor to accept what I brought you, also this sum of money. And now, cheer up, for you will have no more worries if L can help it." All shed tears of joy. Again and again they showered blessings and ox prossions of their overwhelming grati Ludo upon their noble benefactor ; but when Mary approached him to kisi his hand for saving the n'other, whose life was fast ebbing away from sheer want and ailment, he drew back, saying: " My friend ! I have moro to tell you. My name is John Graham, and, as I have already informed you, I have inherited great wealth. But I have no peaceful home, my life is not a reg ulated one. When an hour ago I left you I went to the next police station, to find out all I could about you, also to your former employer, and to the clergyman of this district. I have heard nothing but good spoken of you, especially so and in the highost do gree, of your daughter Mary, for, whom Ishould liko to care exclusivol, if you will let me." These words were followed by sileuce, unbroken but for the sobbing of lary's mother, who finally remark od with suppressed tears choking her utterancO, that Mary was her solo do pendenco for the household work, that she alone cared for the little ones whecn their father was away at his work, and she, the mother, sick in her bed, that Mary had vever worked away from home, and was hardly in a fit condition to be employed elsewhiere. "Enployment ? A position ? My dear madam, you have altogether i is construed my meaning. Nothing is further removed from my thoughts than a desire to see your daughter work for others. I want her fori my own, for my wife! I could not pay the debt of gratitulo which I owo the family of the man who preserved my bfi more appropriately than to hence forth keep want and distress from their honue. Aud I ask in return the peirmission that would givo me the right to do so by making your beauti ful daughter my wife, providing she shares my love and is willing to make miie the happiest of inea !" of course, there was no objection, and a few weeks later the marriage took pilace. Two men, tired( of life, were fated to become the preservers of two families who henceforth led a happy and useful existence. The young couple founded an asylum for poor laborers. If you, fair reader. ever go to London, and while "doing' the town should. have a chance to visil this institute, over the mnain 61entranec to which is the motto "'Never D)espir. you will surely have no ditileulty t< recognize the grayhaired superinteni (lent us one of the lheroes of thiis tru tale, ',he old laborer, and by h is sid his now fu!ly recuperated wife. try'inl to (10 all the good in bheir power t those ini peed. WILSON HOLDS HIS OWN. Fre-Eating Bouteloe is Handled Success f y by too Representative of the Fourul U,trict. In the recent debate in Congres upon)1 toe resolution to repeal the las remaining restriction on those wha rserved ini the Confederate army, Mi iloutellec, of Maine, alone o)ppo'sed the~ 'propositioni. I n his remarks ho state< that U nion soldiers were discriminate< .against in South Carolina in the mat o ter' of taxation, which brought it< the skir'mish Ilon. Stanyar'ne 'Wilson a I ler'e is w hat the News- and1 Courier'i (e ?.p(ecti corr'iesp)ondent says of thu waj .I Mr. W\ i Ison acquitted himsel'i: "At that ju ncture Itepresentativt e St anyarone Wi'illson, of South Carol ina Swhoe was a memberhni of the conistit~u . .tionall c'onvenltion, i nter'iu ptced tht if people of the South believed the Wil e. te he (Ioer, andil he didl not car'e to Iigh '8 that bloody war over' again with thet d gentleman from Mhai ne. He Icexpjlainet g that the people of South Carolina fell A) that they h ad a ri ght to pensio~n the o men whIo fough r for Lhat State dur'int. o, the war', and it also had a ri'ght L< n e'xemp1t the same class of men from thb y pay ment of a 1po11 tax. In doing si j1 they were simitply pr'oviing for theii OWnI people, and at the same time they g were contributitng without a murmu'l11i yto the general pension fund for the ex nI Union01 sold iers. "I Mr. Wilson astonished his as e sociates in the Hlouse by h is magn ill centt voice, his coolness in (healing w itl in the oveirheated 130utelle, and he wa 'e proceedinlg to render the latter moi to ridiculous in tho estimation of thos, present~i when Heuteihe resorted to th slly ancient iea of the fellow whoi he getting the 'short end' of a discusslo as by declining to yield to the youn as South CarolInian i'rther'. Mr. W ilso I is won the admiration of the Hlouse, an ial also arlouised the symipathiy and~ sui p)ort of Genl. Grosvenor, of Ohio, wI hor' Is the McKinley champion In ti lhe House. ig- "Gen. Grosvenor is usually at ti ,it head of the partisan band of RepI)C) wn cans In the ilouso when there is at opphortuiIty to fight the war of as again (hehind the walls of the capito nig but to-(fay lhe atssumeid the i'ole of dy patriot, and hIs speech will go dos upi as one of the lbest effoi'ts of his C( de gressional life." ui The Charlotte Ohse'ver's speel nd says : ''In his colloquy with lioute res to-day over the South Carolina et: dy stitutional provision r'eferring to) I es, Confederates and taxation, Stanyar >m Willson acquitted himself well. 1k ho tolle was obliged, in orderCI to sa ed himself, to shut the young Sou ser Carolinian out of the debate. Wils has the linest voice for debate of al en man who has spoken In this Congrosh ed ...r ... .. unt ed A great many people are infiuenos sIt what others do, andl that aeone o t ti. reasons why so many take Simma he Liver R~egulator. "I was sufforii aill greatly f rom Chills arn~d Fever and t re- more quininie I took the worse I to he I was told of Simmons Liver Riegulat by a friend in Ar'kansas, anid I dida an aced to take much of it before V yr ren entirely relievod."--Byron )3ragil LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF UFE BILL ARP-SAYS THERE IS NO COMFORT IN LAMENTATIONS. Outside of revelation, there is surely Pullicient proof of original sin and ni1or al turpitude in human kind. If a man1 could be lifted up in a balloon high enough to see the earth roll under him and could keep his position until it had turned a time or tvyo upon its axis, the sceno that would pass his vision would be proof enough. What a hor rible revelation of war and bloodshed and suffering would pass beneath him in almost every part of the earth ! We boast of modern civilization. but has every advanco to be baptized in blood'. Suppose a man could see at one time all the present misery of the world and all the crine that caused it, could lie endure the awful picture? Would it not paralyze his soul and obliterate hi6 power of vision and make him a mani ac ? Every day we read of these hor rors and shudder, but they are afar olT and we have become almost hardened to them by their daily repotition. If familiarity with danger breeds con tempt, for it so does, a daily recur rence of crime and suffering and grief breeds indifference. Unless we see it with our own eyes we are not greatly affected. The weeping prophet exclaimed: "Oh, that my head were waters and iline eyes a fountain of tears !" but there Is no prophet to weep nowadays. We have no time to weep. The poet says . "Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn," and if we could actually see every bat tle-fleld and all the blood and agony, and into all the prisons and chain gangs, and into every hovel and garret and dark alley where the poor do con gregate, and into the hearts of all the mourners at all the funerals, we would. never smile again. The memory of them would haunt us, and we would be more than willing to quit this horrible world and take our chances in another. But we will lot the preachers talk about this. We must look on the brighter side. Thore is no comfort in pondering and lamenting what Is going on in Turkey and Abyssinia and Cuba, or over the long continued quarrels at Washinaton, or the sheameful broils in Kentucx, or the dadiy crimes and inurders and suicides and lynching,. that fill the newspapers. Now Is tne blessed springtime, when all nature is amiling upon us. When the flowers tre blooming and the grass is spriug ng and the birds are singing. Even ho beasts of the field and the fowls in 1ho yard are happy, and every created .hing saive man seems to rejoice in the ,oodness of the Creator. What is the watter with man, anyhow ? Woman s not so, nor are the little children vho plhy and sport around us. The )oot says. "Every prospect pleases And only man is vile." But after all, there is comfort in Knowing that there are some good men. Yes, lots of them. You can pick them ut in town and city and country, and % great traveler who has been all over the world and mingled with Gentiles and Jews, and Arabs and Hottentots, and the heathen Chinese, says lie found good, kind-hearted people of every tribe and nation and religion on the globe, lie said that a traveler would never be a sectarian cor he intollerant, like many of our so-called Christians are. Last Sunday I wont out in the coun try with a friend to visit an 01(1 lady who is ou tier last bed. She has liveud cighty-thraee years and I reckon never had an evil thought, in her life. She was pleased to see us and the nearness of deathu gave her- no alarm. "Fror the sake of my grandchildren," she said, "'I would like to live a little longer to help them and guide them in the right way." Herm Bible was printed away be fore the war andl lad been patched and pasted and mended until it would hard ly hold together, but she knew a good dleal by heart and told us what ipor tions of it were her gractest comfort. T1hese old- fashioned mo(thers are the best people0 on oar-th and when they have passed thu rough all the perils of motherhood they. seem to outlive the muen. There are thrto~ times as many old wvomnen in this town as old men and they are most all of them widows. 1 had rathor insure the life of a woman of forty-live th'an that of a man of thiir ty'. I would got the premiums longer. T1ho old-fash.ionedl mnn lived longer than they do now. Trhey had simple habits and limited desires. I mean the well-to-do men who lived in comfort. Trho old presidents, leaving out Wash ington, whose death was nat fromD old age, outlived the mnore modern ones. John Adams lived to ninety-one and his son to eighty-one. Jefferson was eighty-three, Madison eigh ty-five, Mon roe seventy-three and Jackson seventy eight. This makes an average of eIgh ty-two years, which is very uncommon. TIhe average of all the prmesidlents is only sixty-eight years. In looking over their recor-ds I was surpr-ied to find that three of them died on the 4th of July and that Adams and Jet~erson ex pressed a desire to dio on that day. Whether Monroe (lid or not the biog rap~hy (Ics not say. I have no doubt that he didi, for that day was very dear to the patriots of that time and their wish was father to their fate. It amounted almost to will power, for the chance for a man to die on that dlay was only one in 3(15--and the chanico for three presIdents out of six to die on that day is almost beyond comp~utation. Could it have been chanee or was it their spirited devotIon to the day and the declara ,ion that gave birth to a gr-eat nation ? Neither F'olk nor Pierce nor HarrI son nor Johnson nor- Grant saw his throoe scor-e and ten. But ever since IKing David made the declaration that the days of ouir years are three score years and ten that has been the alloted ago of man. [t is still the average age ofaprudent man whatever may b)0 his occupation. Man is very much lika a wagon. If it is kept greased and paint ed and undor shelter it will last twice as long as if it be neglected. Of course, the mind has much to do with the health of the body. Trouble will short en life and bring the gray baire sooner to the grave and that is why a farmer's life is the most conducive to longevity. it. i, the most independent of all occu pations. it is subject to less tempta tIon, less hazard, less worr'y, and it is a little closer to God In its daily com munion with nature. The accepted tables give to l aborer~s fortyvfour y oatrs, to mech anices forty.seven, fot)orehants forty.Oight, to professional men fity, two, and to farmere -SIXty-four years. If l'ong life is an index of good health and proSnerity then the farmer is blessed'aboyo allI other people. There is forco and truth in the old maxia that "Qod made the country and man madu the town." B~ut after all the crime and misery that we read of, this age is a great im. provemen~t onl &cOd1g sg Qo9iprab, Abraham could find more than ton good men in any town or city in this country. I believe he could find fifty in Cartersville and a hundred and fifty women. The Lord's pity and consid oration for sinners is very wonderful if Hie will save a whole city full for the sake of ten good mon. Maybe that is why [Re doesn't rain fire and brimstone, on the wicked now. It might do harm to the rightcous. The ungodly ought to give Christians credit for that. If Ghe wicked pooplo of this world were all bunched in one country and not a go.2d man in it how long, I wonder, would the storm stay offl low long would the wicked stay there if they could possibly got out ? It is a redeem ing trait in human nature, however wicked and depraved. to respect v I rtue and good people. There are but few of the ungodly who would abolish the uhurches if they could, or who would roar their children in any but a Chris tian country. BILL ARP. AS ST, PATRICK A BAPTIST ? DR. LANDRUM SAYS HE TAUGHT BAP TIST DOCTRINE AND PRACTICED IMMERSION. Rev. W. W. Landrum, D. D., of Richmond. Va., plecached to a large congreg ration recently on "St. P'atrick as a Baptist," and the following report of his argument is given by the Rich mond Times: Irishmon venerato him as a Roman Catholic and patron saint of Erin ; Englishmuen declare him a Britain, and an Episcopalian ; Scotchmen claim him as a fellow-countryman and Pres byterIan; Methodists say he was the original after which John Wesley patterned; Salvation Army oflicers remember how he assembled around him in the open fields at the beat of a drum a concourse of people where he related to them the story of Christ; Baptists pronounce him one of their early missionaries and a noble expo nent of doctrines and duties they hold dear. Historic material to enable us to re construct Patrick's life is scant and unsatisfactory. Perhaps our only trust worthy information is derived from two Latin tracts left by him. One is entitled "His Confession" and the other his " Epistle to Coroticus," most probably a Welsh prince. The date and place of Patrick's birth are in doubt. He is believed to have flourish od in the early part of the sixt,h cen bury. It seems to be probable that he was born in a part of Scotland which was at that t.ime not Scotland, but Britain. We know from his "Confes sion " the name, oflico, and occupation of his father and the calling of his father and the calling of his grand mother; we know that he was captured at fifteen years of age and carried to Ireland, sold as a slave, and required to guard cattle; that he escaped after six years of servitude, and after a period of wandering, returned to Ireland as a missionary and preached the gospel with marvellous success; that he became, indeed, the father of Irish Christianity and Irish civiliza tion. His birthday and deathday are supposed to come around about March 17th. Rationalists admit St. Patrick was not a myth. Moncure D. Conway, in " The Open Court," March 12, 18911, says . " There seems to be no reason to doubt that a missionary In Ireland who called himself Patrick did in the fifth century write two brief tractates, one entitled his 'Confession' and the second the 'Letter to Coroticus.' TLhe suficient antiquity of these works is unquestionable. They do not contain the faintest intimation of any con nection of Patrick with Rome, or of any papal commission, or of any obser vance by him on the mass." Lives of St. Patrick ahound which teem with marvels. Like Moses, he works wonders wilth a rod ; he dries up a flood, turns an unbelieving district into a marsh, makes a sacred stone, float to bear a loper to Ireland, causes one magician to sink into the earth, another to be struck by lightning, makes a hideous d warf tall and beauti. ful; makes a kettle boil with blocks of ice ; sinks a hostile ship with the sign of the cross ; calls up or appeases tom pests. All, or nearly all, Protestants claim Patrick. They hold that there was no Pope of Rome at the time of Patrick, hence It was quite Impossible for him to have been a Romanist. English churchmen would hardly dispute the statement of Moncure D. Conway, when he says: "Romanism had no au thority in Ireland until the twelfth century, when an English Pope (Break spear) and an English king (Henry II.) forced on them the .Romanism, for which Cromwell punished them. All Protestants, arguing from Patrick's own " Confession," maintain that he was an evangelical Christian. An evangelic'al Christian is one who be lieves in salvation by faith alone, and may be Episcopalian or Presbyterian, BUIptist or Methodist, Lutheran or Congrogationalist. Evangelicalsi know tnat in his writings Patrick makes L~o mention of the Pope, or purgatory, auriicu lar confession, trans-substantia tion, or worship of the virgin. Patrick's doctrines and practices show resemblance to those of modern Baptists. These particulars may be enumerated : is belief wvas the Bible and the Bible alone ; he quotes as au thority on religion not the pope or the church, or the creeds of councils, but only the Bible. Patrick's Christian ex perienco is not due to sacraments, but is a work of grace In the soul, causing repentance for his sins and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Patrick's views of the olilcors of a church is that of the Baptiste. According to him the church has only two sets of oflicers--one calleod prosbyters or elders or bishops, and the other deacons. Patrick's grand father was Potitus, not a~ priest, but a married presbyter. His father was a deacon, who owned and lived on a farm and held the ofilce of docurio, or town councilman. Patrick was a Baptist as to the act and the subject of oap tismo, He did not baptise Infants, but only persons who personally repented and personally believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. The act of baptism in Patrick's day was immersion in watem in the name of the Trinity. Patrick scorns to have understood the IUaptist doctrine of religious liberty. He held that no good citizen should be punished for his Irroligious or Pagan opinions,.andi he sought to win convents to Christianity only by sweet persuasion andl self-sacrificing love. Patrick was a pooerless foreign missionary. Ireland whbn he entered it wasu dist'eted itad cursed wmt petty wsrra, piracy, tyranny, and idolatry. Ireland, when Fatrick died, after half a century of fearless preaching in the name of Jesus, was universally Ohris tlan. Patrick'e doctrines say to use as did the Lord, "041 no man mnastor' ' neither Paul uor Apol los. neither. Peteor nor the Pope, neither Ijb!her nor Calvin, neither Wesley nor' Campbell, for 10 iV webbem "~I He that Vlinst tot him glory in the Lord." God speed the day when tho long divided hosts of >)ur common Lord gathering close Arodud 's cross, shall lay laside tho' legends apd traditions of men and joyously accept the ono Lord, one faith, )uon baptismn, and one God and Father f us all. INMAN'S VIEWS ON COTTON. Sticks to His Early Estimate of the Crop Safe to Buy at Present Prices. leferring to the recent activity and strong advance in cotton, Mr. Join I,. Inutun of Now Yoric nas expi essud his views as follows: On Ocwoer 16th, just five months ago, March cutton sold in this market at 9.50. Froin bat time there ha-s been practicaily a con tinuous decline until March 5th, when contracts sold at 7.20, a decline of 2:'c. My estimate of the crop is the same today as it was live inontlbs ago, when votton sold at 0.50-Lhat Is, 6,000,o0 balos. The above decilno brought our market much below 1European parity and led to large purchases of con tracts in New York against sales to Europe. My experience is, that after a steady decline oi so long a ime an upward movement is inevitable, a movement which will most likely recover half of the 2tc. decline, and therefore carry us back to 81(d8i. beforo the cotton season is over. With the rapidly de clining stocks, and tho fact tuat it is I!vo andt a half umoniths before now cotton, it occurs to me that the persis tent sollers short of August umay got into a very uncomfortable position before the seam.or' Is over. Unless prices advance mat3trially I do not see how New York can avoid having a very small stock by August 1st, say not over 50,000 bales. Trade in Amer ica is very bad, perhaps worse than at any time for thirty years, but agInSt this, trade in Europe is good and Livnrpool and the continent will take a large amount of cotton at the cheapest price they can get it, but will, in my judgment, pay 8lQ@8jc., if necessary. Almost every crossroad followed south Is short of tie crop, and therefore to my mind the ex tensivo preparations and increased acreage and prospects of the new crop aregreatly exaggerated. Ateny rate, it is the season that makes the crop and not the acreage. THE COTTON MOVEMENT. A report of the Department of Agri culture, jusb publisned, shows that between Sept. 1, 1895, and Feb. 1, 181)(3, the actual movement of cotton to ports, northern and western mills and all other destination amounted to 5,235, 722 bales. During this period the pur chases of southern mills amounted to 609,766 bales an(d thOre remained on plantations, in warehouses and at other points not included in tho above enumeration an aggregate of 987,748 bales. This, of course, does not in iuue stocks at ports, as they are in cluded in the previous figlurcs. 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