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* - - - titiets na~RI .THE EOPLE'S JUNL VOL. --NO. -o. VO,7.--N.o PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL ,89.NEDLA AYAR * Ninety and Nine.") How Mr. Sankey Composed a Hymn that Has Boon Sung the World Over, IT WAS DONE BY INSPIRATION. Its Original Name Was The Lost Sheep, But Mr. Moody Ohangedt It.. The story of the " Ninety and NJno" illustrates aptly how great an effect may grow out of a small cause, and what surprising uowor may be exerted in the world by oven so trilling a thing as a hymn tune. The other day, jus t before his departure for California, Mr. Sankey talked to me for an hour or more about the " Ninety and Nine," and could have gone on, no doubt, for hours longer without exhausting his memories and anecdotes connected with this most rzomarkable revival f song. The " Ninety and N ino " is al - ready of man's age, for it came into the world In the fall of 1873, a few monthe 11 after Mr. Moody and Mr. San.<ey began t their first revival campaign in Eng land. For three months they had been laboring in Scotland and were a just leaving Glasgow for Edinburgh t when a trilling incident occurred which resulted in the birth of this famous hymn. t As the two evangelists were waiting i for their train at the Glasgow station 9 Mr. Sankey purchased a copy of The a Christian Age and Light, a penny re ligious paper, which he bad never heard of, but thought he would glance over on the journey. This paper he a laid carelessly on the seat of the rail- t way carriage, paying no further heed d to it till they were some distance on t the way, when want of occupation I made him take it ip and begin turning e it'. pages. Mr. Moody meantime was 1) busy in his corner of the carriago with his correspondence. As Mr. Sankey read he came upon some little verses tucked away at the e bottom of a column and published anonymously. It is doubtful if he b would have noticed the verses at all, t had not the first two lines caught his t eye, but they had strength in them, c and so he readon: "There were ninety and nine that t safely 1.ay In the shelter of the fold." So It began, and M r. Sankey followed t down the lines, while the express for o Edinburg-rushed on at sixty miles per y hour. " Hurrah !" cried Mr. Sankey, bring- o lug his hand down on his knee in his A characteristic enthusiasm . " I've t found the hymn I've been looking for 8 for years." " Yes ?" said Mr. Moody, absently ; r " what is it ?" "It's about a sheep." S " A sheep ?" "Yes; a sheep that was lost on the c mountains and carried home by the " shepherd." a " H'm, Win," said Mr. Moods, not I paying much attention ; " read it." d Mr. Sankoy did read it, and he put feeling, into his words, for the beauty h of the verses impressed him, but when v he looked up he saw that Mr. Moody v had heard nothing of the reading, v being lost in his letters. f " All right," said Mr. Sankey to r himself; "he'll hear that hymn later 8 on ;" and cutting out the verses from t the paper, he put them away carefully : for future use. I A few days after this they held a C great revival meeting at Edinburgh at ' the Free Assembly hall, which was I crowded with the best p~eople of the city. Mr. Moody spoke most eloquent- ~ ly on the good shepherd, and then followed a fine address by Dr. Horatius * Bonar, the author of 4 1 Heard the t Voice of Jesus Say Come Unto Me and I Rest." As Dr. Uanar finished theret came over the meeting that stillness I and solemnity which indicates deep spiritual feeling. Those are golden moms~ts in the evangelist's work. Bending down from his pulpit toward E Mr. San key, who sat at his right b~y the little melodeon. Mi'. Moody said: " Mr. Sankey, have you anything to sing on this subject as ab solo ?" Mr. Sankey hesitated. Hie could think of nothing directly -m the sub- I ject excep~t the twenty-third Psalm, which bad already been sung threei times that, (lay by the congregation. They must have something else. Like a flash it came to him: "Sing the i song you found on the train." But his 1 secondithought was : "hlow can 1 sing1 a song without a tune ?" Meanwhile the audience was waiting in silence. "Sing the hymn you found on the train," came the thought again, this time impeiratively. I wonder how many men would have dared such a thing as this at such a moment. M r.. B3ankoy opened his little scr'apbook of solos, found the newspaper slip) whichI he had cut firom the paper, laid it before him on the rack of the melo deon, and then, after' a moment of silent supplication, struck a full choird and began to sing. What notes he sang ho did not know, nor what chords ho played; he took no hoed of harmony nor of the laws of musical progression. Ho was not thinking of such things. H~e was thinking of that poor', torn sheep on the bleak mountain side, and of the good shepheird who searched for it through the night and brought it borne. And what he sang was the joy that swelled in his soul, the hope that wvas born, the love for those who sugfered and needed hellp. And some how ho got through the first stanza. And then as he paused and played some chords on the melodeon, waiting to begin the second stanza, he know that every heart in that vast audience was with him ; that every breath was held in expectation, and the thought Scame to him : " Can I sing the second stanza as I did the first ; can I remem ber the notes ?" and ho concentrated his mind once more on the egfort and began to sing agaIn. And so he went through the five stanzas, and the audience sat still as death until he finished with the last glad shout: " And the angels echoed round the throne, Rejoice I for the Lord brings back his own I" When it was all over Mr. Moo( came down from the pulpit. and, ret Ing a hand on Mr. Sankey'i shoulde looked with wonder at the newspap clipping. " My dear friend," he sa with emotion, " where did you g that song ? I never heard anythh like it." " That," said Mr. Sankey, "1 Is tL hymn I read you on the train-the or you didn't hear." And thus the tune of the " Ninol and Nine" was born Into the world, tune which has gone literally aroun the world. And as it was sung thi day in Edinburgh by inspiration, so has been written down in the hym books, and so it has been sung in th many languages, and no note or chor Df it has ever been changed, nor woul Mr. Sankey consent to the slightes change, not to please all the musica -ritics in the world. "The critics say they can see nothin, in the tune of the " Ninety and Nino, aid Mr. Sankey, smiling. " The; an't account for its success ; that i iecause critics, with their rules an ;heories, make no allowance for ir 1piration of the soul." It is interesting to note that in th rcat gathering which thrilled at thi irst singing of the " Ninety and Nine was a woman, back in one of the gal Dries, who was made very happy b; Le singing of the3C words since sh, ecognized in them the very verse ritter, threc years before by he ister, who was now dead. And afte he service she tried to speak to Mr lankey and thank him for what h( ad done, but the crush of people wa 3o great, and it was only on receiving i Atter from th'is lady that the evan elist came to know of this inciden nd learned the name of the author o be hymn. That name is Elizabeth C le phazine. After the first success of the "Ninet3 nd Nine ' there came many requesti > publish the hymn, but Mr. Sanke; id not consent to this for a long time hinking to get better results by keel) )g it exclusively for their meetings specially as they were going into a art of Scotland where the word. 'ould bo particularly appreciated Lnd many a time during subsequen ionths he had the satisfaction o cuing in the great open-air gathering ihich- they held grizzled, weather eaten shepherds, men of the moun &ins, who had come from long die .mces with their staves and rougl lothes, standing there with tear traaming down their bronzed check s they listened to the song story o he stepherd and the lostshcep. Tha ppealed to then) as nothing else could Oddly enough the name by whicl he hymn is now known is not the onl riginatlly given it by Mr. Sankey rho preferred t, call it "The Los heep." But for some reason th pening words were the ones that tool ir. Moody's fancy, and, in giving ou ho hymn, he woull always say: "Mr ankey will now sing the Ninety an( line.'" Several times Mr. Sanke eminded Mr. Moody that the soul ras about the lot sheep, and no bout the ninety and nine that wer afo in the fold, but Mr. Moody woulc nly smile and say : "Never mind Iho Ninety and Nine' i3 a good name, nd so at last Mr. Sankey had to chang be name and it became what It Is tc ay. To tell of the wonderful effect this ymn has had upon men and womei rould be to multiply Instances to fill a olume. A single one may be giver rhich is doubly interesti' g from thi tet that it occurred during the firs evival meeting held by Moody an< ankey in the United States after thei wo years' sojourn in England. Thf ieeting was at Northfield, Mass., Mr loody's home, and such an immens( rowd had gathered that the churci ould hold but a small part of ii 'armers wvith their families had comn n from all directions, and the street ear the church were blocked wit! ;agons and vehicles. Mr. Moody man ged to make his way into the churc hrough a back door, and, cumini orward on1 the piatform announced t he congregation that, as they we!' ar less numerous than those who wcer v'aiting outside, the serv ice would l acid in the open alir in front of th hurch. Then there was a gree crainble to get out with much chagri mong those who had come early fc rood seats. Aftcr a splendid service of prayc ,nd exhortation Mr. Moody turned t dr'. Sankey and asked him to sing ft ho first time in America the hymn w'hich had been so wonderfully blesso n 10ngland, the " Ninety and Nine. \nd, seated on a narr'ow platform ront of the church, with his lir,tl nelodeon before him, where it ha >een carried from within, Mr. Sanke egan to sing the familiar wards. I evas an Impressive moment: the peopl sto)od with heads bared illling the wid ;trcet before him and stretching awa m either side aLs far as he could se< still under the spell of Moody's powel Lhbey listened as the evangelist, of son lifted up his voice. It was a beautift summer's afternoon, those late sti hours when evening is coming on an naitur'e Is so beautiful. Mr'. Sankoy san as perhaps lhe had never sung b~efor' and the music of his voice swept acre the valley on the calm evening ai: sounding over the Connecticut rive flowing at thoir feet, and was heat on the hills opposite a mile away, ati there In a cottage on one of these hil sat a man who was in a state of tang' toward his followmen, out of .ior with everything, lie was a wcll-knou character In the vicinity ; ho did tn believe nmuch In churchgoing, at believed, least of all, in Moody am Sankoy, whom he regarded as area humbugs, chiefly because ho had grov up with Mr. Moody and years befo had worked side by side with him< the farm. And the Idea that sensih p~eoplo, his neighbors and the nmembo of own family should waste an afte noon going to hear' this man proa< was too tuch for lisa serenity. Thi were fools, and Moody was a fool; th was the man's attitude of mind as I sat on his verada. And then a strange thing happent Suddenly this man heard distinct the words of the "Ninety and Nint comning to him from across the river, " And althoughi the road be rotagh a steep, I go to the desert to fin] my sheep. I go to the desert to. fln'I my shool Those words he heard and all t others un to " Rejoice, for the Lm ly brings back His own." And altbougl t- iho tried to drive these words out ol r, I his head they kopt ringing there all 3r that night and the next day and for Id days to come. And then, somehow, ft they got into his heart and began g making troub:e there. And do w hat he would he could not forget them. to The outcome was that two weeks later to this hard-headed reprobate (so he was generally regarded) went to a prayer y meeting in the very church whence a these words bad come to him, and a arising to his feet told the people what t had happened and asIced them to pray .t for him. And from that day he be n came a zealous member of Mr. Moody's 3 congregation, and could not do enough I to show his gratitude for the change I that had been wrought in him. For t eight or nine years he served Mr. 1 Moody as his powers best permitted, carrying trunks back and forth be tween the station and the seminary, attending to the mails and making himself useful ir other ways. And i whenever Mr. Sankey would come to I Northfield this man would come for - ward and grip his hand and ask him to please sing the " Ninety and Nine." 3 One day he lay on his deathbed, It , was again a Sunday afternoon, and it happened that this day was the one - appointed for the laying of the corner stone of the new Congregational 3 church. And again Mr. Moody was i conducting a great open-air meeting, but this time Mr. Sankey took no part, being merely seated in the congrega tion. At the close of his address Mr. Moody, acting on one of his character a istic impulses, called to Mr. Sankey 6 and asked him to sing the "Ninety - and Nine" while the congregation bowed their heads in prayer. And as I Mr. Sankey camo forward, somewhat disconcerted, for he had no melodeon to accompany him, Mr. Moody said : "Never mind the muelodeon, get up on the corner stone and sing the " Ninety and Nine.'" Mr. Sankey did so. And at this moment the sick man across the river turned uneasily on his L bed and said to his wife : "I hear the I singing, open the window." His wife thought his mind was wan dering and tried to quiet him. "No, no," he persisted, "I am right, i I hear singing. open the window." Then she did open the window and - the dying man heard once more and for the last time the words of the hyimn he had loved so much, the hymn that had meant so much to him : " RIejoice, for the Lord brings back Ills own." ALL SORTS OF PAlAGIAPHS. Gatherings fromi Our Exchanges on Various Topies -A Mississippi man is at work on a flying machine which, he says, will settle the mystery of the North L p)ole. --Florida alligator stories are fre I quent ,but the latest and best is that of a saurian that entered a garden ani attacked a woman who was hanging L clothes on a line. Her husband came - to the rescue and settled matters with I a shotgun. -The German agricultural papers make the remarkable statement that 3 the imports of American apples into - the German empire last year were more than twenty times as large as in any previous season, the shipments in 1890 having amounted to no less than 6,000.000 double centners-the centner being equal to a. hundred weight. -it is said that Governor Johnsion, of Alabama, will appoint twenty dele gates frotm that State to attend a Southern insurance convention to be held at Southern Pines, N. C., on April 28th and 29th. The object of the convention ic to boycott the various Northern and foreign comip inies who are taking money away from the South, -Ex-Senator D)avidl B. Hi'l says of Preside~nt McKinl.sy :" He is amstrong - man, of force and clear ideas, Hie is a a strong palrtisan, and I sce that some peoplehave bemn criticising him for it. > That is foolish. IHe has always been e, aggressive and no one can expect him a to change now. HeI is a man of ripe e experience, and his knowledge of mn e and atfairs will stand him in good steadh i, now. n -Near liuther-fordt-m, N. CI., Mat r Dav'is and a manar name'd Matthews met. andl were d ispiuting the depth of the r. river. To satisfy themselves, they ) igndressed and v-emnt in, but still could r not agree, whereupon they got, out n their knives and wvent, at it hot. Mat d thews was pretty badly cut up in the " face and on the head, D~avis r'eceivingj e several ugly gashes. Matthews was e carried home and is not expected tc dj live. Davis has not been seen since. y -There is more rain from Septem t boer to March than from March tc e September, because the temperatuire e of the air Is then constrant ly decreasing, y and there is, therefore, a greater con . densation of the vapor into wvat r , which falls as rain. Between Marcl and September, on the contrary, th( .1 temnperatur'e of the air is constantly in LI creasing, and, wvith this Increase, its d power to hold vapor'. Ilence, there is ioss precipitation during that sea. s -Tho ~enylai prison repori has omeinteresting statistics reiat *ing' to the condition of the convicts ir d the penal institutions of that State d In 18961 there were received in th<~ s penitentiary 623 convicts, of whom 419: r haid attendedC the public schools and 3: ts had been pupils in private schools. O n~ the total, only 9i1, or less than 15 pm cent. were illiterate, while four-fifth: d of the entire numnbe-rr had recelvem dsome honelit from the pubhlc educa 10 tional system. Clearly whatever ma' nbe said of eduication as a preventive o 3 erime it does not appear that illiterm ni is a necessary adjunct of crime, at) I as Ic In Pennsylvania. i-The New York Evening Post, says The faculty of the U~nion Theologiea iSeminary, this city, awarded th ~'second~ place in the graduating class ( it1897 to Miss Emilie Gi ace Blriggs. Mue B0 riggs Is the (laughter of Pr'aof. C2harle d A. Briiggs, and she is the lirst woma lvwho has ever been graduated from ~,Presbyterian theoloL'ical semi nary. I speaking of her graduation Dra. Thomi S. Ibustings, the president of the Unic rid Theological Sominar-y, said lie coi bidered thlat Miss Blriggs' success marl ed an epoch in the history of the Pro -byterian Church of the United Stati he and in the history of the advanceme: i'd -of woman. Another Shocking Tragedy in Edgefield. A SOLICITOR'S DEADLY BULLET. ills Victim Died Almost Instantly After Being Shot-A Single Wit ness to the iDeplorable Affair. A sad and unfortunate homicide oc curred in E1dgetleld at 0 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. SollitorJ. W. Thurmond shot and killed W. G. Hiar ris, a drummer for The Murray Drug Co., of Columbia, S. C. Mr. Harris Is a nephew of Collector of Internal Revenue Townes, and a son of W. G. Harris, a prominent citizen of Edge fled County. The trouble, it seeme, arose oit of the fact that while Mr. rhurmond was a member of the State Legislature he recommended that Governor Evans appoint a gentleman named Glovur as magistrate instead of Harris, the old incumbent and father of the deceased. Since Mr. Thurmond has been solic itor he has had nothing whatever to do with recommending applicants for po sitions of magistrate, but under Gov ernor Ellerbe's administration Nir. Harris, senior, was again an applicant, but. Clover, who wne I. 1 0 r Evans, was r ap;. . by ki.,e. Mr. W. G. I.hrris, deceased, seemed to think that, S;olicitor Thurmond was In Rtrumental in having it done and about it he accosted Solicitor Thurmond this afternoon at about 5 o'clock in the drug store of W. E. Lynch. Mr. Harr's, it is said, had been drink Ing and used very hot language. Thur mond, to avoid difliculty, left the Lynch store and went to his ollce. [1( was there ongaged at work when Mr. Har ris passed by on the way to his hotel, in company with Capt. Dul3oso, the proprietor. On reaching b, 3 doorway to Thurmond's oflico Harris stopped. Captain DuBose walked on a few steps. The subject of former discussion was again brought up by Harris, the latter finally saying to Thurmond that he (Thurmond) had acted like a "G-d d-d dog and scoundrel,"and threw his hand to his pocket as if to draw his pistol and placed his foot on Thurmond's doorstep. Thereupon Thurmond fired from where he was sitting. Harris stag gered backwards and fell upon the side walk. le got up and walked a few paces, when he fell dead. The ball entered from the front just below the shirt stad and passod into the cavity of the heart. A jury of inquest was summoned, and, after viewing the body, adjourned until to-morrow. Groat regret is felt here over the occurrence. Solicitor Thurmond was never known to have had any trouble before and is regar" -d by everybody as a peaceful and law abiding citizen. He surrendered him self and is now in jail. He is complete ly overcome by his misfortune. He has retained l essrs. Croft and Tillman and N. G. Evans to defend him. The Columbiia State says: The first news of the tragedy in Edgefield was received here in a dispatch to Dr. W. J. Murray, saying simply: "Your Mr. Harris was shot and killed here this afternoon." Dr. Murray was very much shocked at the Intelligence and dozens of Mr. Harris's friends expressed sincere regret. Mr. Harris had only left this city at 8 a. m. He had spent the day preceding in Columbia and had been up to the government building to See his uncle. He was in fine opirits and it was hard to imagine the cause of the trouble which led up to his death. He had given no one here any reason to think that he was anticipat ing trouble of any kind. Mr. Harris has been in the employ of the Murray Drug Company for several years. He was well known in the city both socially and othmerw ise. He was on the road the most of the time and had friends all over the Stato. [his home was with his father-, eight miles from Augusta, on the South Car olina side. He was unmarried. Will Harris wvas not oif a quarrelsome or combative disposition and his friends here never heard of his having a quan - rel with any one; neither have the:, ever heard of his carr'ying a pitst.0l ab~out his persOn. Solicitor Tphurmtiond was to have beeni hero week after next, at which time the court of sessin convenes in spring session. There are three mnurder' eases on tlie docket. What will be dono ab~out a prosecuting (,ilicer at the com lng term, remains to lbe seen. Till;E)10 U~iSTItiitUTiON. GAovernment. Competition Disastrous to Private EinterpIrises4 and De strmuctivye ol' Seed Improvecent. P'ractical lFarmer. T1he failure of ex-IPresident Cleve land to sign the agricultural appropri ation bill In the closing hours of the last, Congress, brlngs before the new Congress the free seed qluestion, as th tmfoi t'd annual seed distribu tion was containedl in that hill. In the bill, which failed to become a law. the Item for freec seeds was in a miore ob jectionable form than any pireceding provision of this kind, showing thc steady growth of this evil. Should thc distribution be carried on andl extend e d during the next few years as it has been during the precedilng three o1 four years, it is not dillicult to see thc total obliteration of the legitimnatt seed trade of the country. At, firsi thouyoht, the average farmeor who seen the p)rosp~ects of free seeds supp)1l or de .nandl by his mem'er of Congress. - P.ndi iri sullcient quantities for hhn needs, may not look at it as much o - an evil: in fact,may regard It as rathce of an advantage. But we ar'e eon tvinced that the sober second though of the intoll~igpnt farmer, will ha against the whln.e system, and espe 1 cily so if the eifoct is to be the olimn 0 Ination of seedsmcn as a factor in th< f supplying of seeds. And for this rca s son : No observing farmer who ha s watched the development'of the sect n trade during tic last twenty-five o a more years, atnd its elfect upon the imi n p~rovemnent of varieties of grains an is vegetables, can biut admit that th n soedmaun, alive to the necessities c i-,I his p'3sition, and the keen and increal - Ilag competition of his business ass< s- elates, has been a most pot nt factoi 'a the main fastor, in the Introduction < it I new varieties and the improvement the old. This process of selectit and improvement has extended into every variety of grain and vegetable grown by the farmers and gardener. Not only that; he has maintained the purity of old varieties and kept thom vigorous and productive by the system of pedigree seed growing, which Is now followed by all the leading seeds uen of this country. How has it been with the seed dis tribution as undertaken by the gov ernment? Up to two years ago, whon contracts were made with leading and well-known seodsmen, the seeds sent out by the government, and purchased in many instances from irresponsible parties, were inferior to those sold by the seedsmen. It was a necessary con sequence of the manner in which the seeds were procured, and points very significantly to what they will be in a few years, as the result of the present wholesalo expansion of the free seed distribution. With the execution of the legitimate seed business, as is most certain to follow the governmental com pe tition at its present rate of growth, will pass away tio present businoss in terest in the preservation of the prosent types of seco, both in purity and vigor, and the search for improvement and for now types. The governmental buying and distribution of seeds would b as barren of good results in the0 luture as it was in the past, when it depended on private contracts to Irro sponsible persons for its supply of seeds. We do not now recall tho in troduction of a single new variety or the improvenent of anl old one, as a result of the government free seed distribution. All these improvemonts have come through private enterprise developed in the seed business. Do stroy this business, as the present governmental Competition will if per sisiud iu and extended as threatened, and you destroy the means by which 1 improvement has and can only come, plrivatu enterprise intelligently di rected on business principles. The sup:ervision which has directed thu growth of seeds and developed it into a science, will he gone, and without the con petition which required and de manded the best art of tho professional seed grower, it, will becomo a lost art. We say nothing here of the deioral izing elfcet which this fro sced busi ness has on the farmer himself, or the attitide in which it places hin as a pensioner on the bounty of the govern ment, which no other industry asks or to which it would be granted. We have spoken of it before, and it is so self-evident that it needs no comment. The effects on the art of improving strains of seed and developing new types, so essential to our agricultural interests, would he so disastrous, and so little has been said on that phase of the matter, that we deem it vitally important to call attention to it. OP3POSiCD) TO CIVIL SERVICE. The Senators Will Consider the Pro priety of Repealing the Civil Ser vice Law--Shall Senators bo Elect ed by Popular Vote ? The United States Senate indulged a few days ago in an almost one-sided denunc!ation of the civil service law and its administration. The matter came up in the shape of a resolution offered by Senator Allen directing le committee on civil service to inquire into the dismissal of some half dozen employees (microscopists) of the bureau of animal industry in South Omaha, Nebraska. His assertion was that the dismissals were for political rcasons. Senator Gallinger, Republican, of New Hampshire, did not favor the proposed investigation, because It would bring out 50 many huniidred( other like grievances ; and Senator [boar objeted to it on the same gr-ounds-saying that such a herculean task should not be thrown on any comn mnittee at this special session. The civil service law, as administer-ed, was characterized by Senator Gallin ger- as " a monumental humbug." tUe favor-ed blotting out the law and re turning to a condition of things that would "give to every man and woman an equnal right to hold ollice with every other man and woman." Thtis declar-ation of princi ple was ap plauded by the galler-ics, and the gal leries were appropiately lectured by the Vice P'resident on that breach (of propriety. Inustancs of absurdity in civil service exainations were fur nished by Senators-Senator Gall inger mentioning the requir-ement of woulId be comp11ositor-s in the government priinting ollice that they should hop twelve times on one foot; Senator Wil son saying that civil service examina tions had been~ ordered ini his State for a cook in the penitentiary, and a saw yer' on an indian reservation; and even Senator Hawley, wvho had been a member of the lhouse committee which reported the law originally, admfittinig that the law had fallen into a state of "'conspicuous incompetency," and giving as an illustration the fact that when an ar-my engineer in charge of a public work on Long Island Soundl had se!ceted a competent insp~ector ini the pterson of a steamboat captain, whoIn knew every rock and sand bar in the neighibor-hood, the comm tission sent to hiim "' a schoolmaster from Rhode Island." TVhe only Senator- whmo de fended the law and its adminIstration wvas Senator Lodge. Tile upshot of it, all was that Sena tor- Alleni's motion was agreed to with (lit a dlivision, but amendled so as to instruct the commiittee on civil service andi rettrenehmfenlt to inquire and' re port wvhether- the civil service law shlI be cor ti nued, amended or re f pea~ld Senator- Trioi, Democorat, of In diana, miade an argu menmt in favor- of a Sconstitutional amendment, to make iUnited States Senators elective by a - opular vote insteadl of by State Legis - laturcs. lie summed up his ai-gument i In these words: rThe pending amend - ment Is in strict accordance with the a great precedent of progress and ad i vancement mset forth in the preambl< r to the constitution. Our purpose is tt - form a more perfect union by bringinf I the national legislature in complete o accordance with the legislative assomf if blies or the States ; to establish b; ;- granting to the voters of the Stato -ithat equality of suffrage which thi ipresent system denies ; to perpetuat fIthe blessings of liberty to ourselvc >fI and our posterity by a further an in nohble ecnnnettin of dntiena nnd righi ATTES "Too Good I H EREl10 IT IS. We propose (or as soon thereafter as t give to the successful cust< arue having livo thousand ticke are all given out we will give greatest nuIhor)C of tickets, I trado to the amount of oi dol aro entitled to a ticket. 1tshi as tho cheapest. Underbuy and undersell sha our Dry Goods and Notions De Visit us and got our prices, true. Yours to save New York R usy, S. C., i'March I, 18 '. nherent in all citizens ; so that the m1pronacy of the people, never gain aid, so often with lips confessed, with Ahe tonguo asserted and maintained, ihall at last be and hocome i vital force, a living presence, a fact accom plished in tho government of the 1e public. This will give to our past Its l ruln meaning, to the future hop yet more abounding, and for the present it f would place a fixed star in the galaxy of pirogress. visiblO in all the latitudes of liberty throughout the world. ------ o ~-m - 11 1'AKING CAI 01' OLD SOI)BIgtS. A Suggestioi That Edahe County Establish a Special Rome for Con reiderate Veterans. The Columbia correspondent of bthe News and Courier gives the following information, which embodies a new idea for providing shelter and raiment for aged and indigent veterans: From time to time suggestions are made for a Confederate home, and on several occasions bills have been offered in the General Assembly look ing to the establishment of such an In stitution in Columbia for the State at large. Two years ago the general appro priation for Confedorato soldiers was raised to $100,000, and by doing this, perhaps, the 1dea of starting of a general Confederate home, of which the expenses were to be defrayed by the State, was abandoned. The im pression is that the State will not undertake to expend more than $100, 000 for the Confederato soldiers who are Indigent, as whether this be suf ficient or not it Is all the members think the State can stand at this time. It is left to the old soldiers themselves how they wish this money expended, and the opinion among thefm Is that they would rather have the money sent directly to the pensioners than to have any considerable portion of it spent for the support of a Confederate home. This feeling is augmented b~y thbe idea that many of those who really need help would( not entor a Con fed crate home, from that keen feeling of pridle wh;ich now makes many of the 0(Sold odie hesitate to acepit as sistance. Capt. R. S. D~esportes hasB now comoi forward with an ideal that each county undertake the work on a small scale, andl on this line has adldressed1 the following letter to a nmember of the board of county commissioners of this county: COLUMIIA, S. 0., March 17. Mr. Lewis 'r. Wilds, Columbia, S. C. -My Dear Sir : I wouldeliko to enlist your interest in a matter which I have no doubt already has your sympathy, and this may be the opportune timne, as I observe you areO, in your oflicial capaclity, prmospecting for a change for the improvement of the condlition of those of our follow citizens who fill Ito the necessity of Lasking DIubIlic aid to sustain life during the last remaining years of their existence. You miighi not be permitted, tLechn~iially and legally speaking, to provide for a class of persons, but those things could b~e, arrangedl, andc no) One would1 have the heart to object, I refer to somel special andI separate provisionI for old1 andl helpless IEx-Con federate soldiers. The time is near at, hand, if noit hiere alI ready, when somne few maimed and impecunious heroes of many fields will ask for shelter and bread. It has 00 curred to me that in making the change for the said impr'ovement of the condition of the poor of the county you might, provide for the erection of a long narrow building, with La firephce in each room, and a long 1iiazza I front, and set, It apart for those 01(1 sol diers who served their Stateo and coun ty in the bloom of youth arnd young manhood, and who for the next few years will sull'er for the bare neces sities upon which to subsist. You will say, no doubt, that thIs is La poor return for valor, but It is the, only thing that it seems canf be done, if this can b3. It would 1)0 a home for the ex-soldiers of the county at the ox pense0 of the county in the absenco of a general home for the soldiers of the State at the expense of the State. Should Richland County lead off in this high and patriotic matter it might, be that other counties in the State would follow, and the obligation of the comnmonwealth would be discharged in detail. If you conclude not to remove th< o leemosynary buildings now occupied -maybe you could erect a building La d'tescribed above on the same lot for thi purpose. Yours very truly, R.S. DsPOWIres. d -Washington city contains in it s 8tents and squarns ovne '70,000 trees. rTION. 'o Be True." in the first day of Septembor, lie tickets are taken up) to )mor i $75.00 SURitY. Wo t; struck ofY and when they Lo the customer holding the 3he Surry. 1Evory time you lar in any department, you ill be our aim to sell as cheap 11 be our Motto, especially in partment. Lind know that what wo say is you money, acket Store. CLY)IE & NALLY, Props. WAYSIDiE GATHIERINGS. lits ot Humor anI Nuggets of Truth for (he Mtuititudo. -alsohood may ha-ve its hour, but L has no future. -Tea Is gathered from the plant uur times a year. -Dancing is taught in many of the mblic schools In Scotland. -A Jersey man married flvo wives, ,nd they wore all redheaded. -'hc party who won't forgive Is the mo who is always in the wrong. -A man longing for oflico always ancies himself Invited to be a candi late. -3rass can be kept beautifully belght by occasionally rubbing with vinOgar. -Porty-three popes reigned durinu the building of St. Peter's cathedra Rome. -South Africa hnas about 750,000 IEuropean and 3,000,000 colored inhab itants. -Only God can tell how much wrong doing Is prevented by one man doing right. -If we see nothing good in others, they will not be likely to see much good in us. -If Overy man was as big as lie feels there wouldn't be standing room in this country. -God never works a miracle to re lieve us from our obligation to use LommMn sons-'. -Josh Billings says that the bost af us owe more to chance than we are willing to admit. -Rumors are like a swarm of bees. The more you light them the less you get rid of them. --ini matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of pru donce last thoughts are best. -It is not safe to infer that every manI is unsoundi in his creed who fails to proniounce your shibboleth. --It, takes but a small sin to make a man~ inca~pable of soeing the dlilference botween an~ excuse and ai reason. -In 0110 day the human body gon erates enough heat to molt 40 pounds of Ice and raise it to boiling heat. -One reason why the world gains knowledge so slowly is that every child must find out for itself that fire is hot. -I t is time enough to think of to morrow's opportunities when we have' done our best with the opportunlities of today. -The man who really believes that the world owes him a living is will ing to (10 somel work to earn what Is duo hium. -A man is no sooner lis own master in th(e world than he immodiately en 8ilavos himself by becoming the master of others. -California has paid out over $18, 000,000 for roads since her creation as IL State. it, costs her *2,000,000 per an num now. -lersonal matters should never be introduced aLt a chanco meeting if the third party is not conversant with the facts. -Cultivate the habit of always seeing the bost in people, and mocre thian thaIt of drawing fort-h whatever is the best in them. -Tihe entire population of the world could be providedl for in the United States, allowing each person one and a half acres in land. -It has boon proven by instanta neous photography thaIt IL horse at full trot sometimes has its four feet off the grounda all at once. -Some one called Richard Steele the vilest of mankind. He retorted, with proud humility, -" It would be a glorious world if I were." -For inflammatory rheumatism, dis solve into a pint of sweet oil, one ounce of pulverized saltpetre, and thoroughly rub the parts affected. -A law has been passed in Wal deck, Germany, forbidding the grant ing of a marriage license to a person addicted to the liquor habit. -The name of Maine was given to that state descriptively since in the origIral charter it was considered "the Mayne land of New England." ---The largest boll in the world, the famous "U iant of Gian ts " at Moscow has aL circumicrengo of 08 feet, is 21 Sfeet high, and weighs 443,172 pounds. -T'h roe men' in France competed to see who could drink the most water. One swallowed 12 quarts, the second ,a 9, and the third 7. All three died front the effects.