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DIAZ, THE BAPTIST MISSIONARY, WHAT Hfc HAS ACCOMPLISHED IN ( IHA. Shot at In His Pulpit, Arrested and Jailed?Ho Has Organized Churches and Sunday SclioolA and Started Cemeteries. New York Bun. Alborto J. Diaz, the Baptist mis sionary, has been driven into the soa hy Spanish troopH, put in jail for preaching the gospel, his clothing torn from him by a mob and has beon shot at in tbo pulpit. Ho has con verted .'1,000 pcoplo in 10 yours. His history is a remarkable story of mis sionary work. lie was born near Habana 44 years ago and was one of 24 children, his mother having married at tho ago of 12. His father was a Habana apotho eury of some means, and $10,000 was spout on Alberto's education. Ho was graduated from the University of Habana in both literary and medical departments and bogan life as a physi cian. Shortly after ho was graduated tho " Ton Years' War " broko out and Diaz wont into the camp of the rebels, and was mado a captain of cavalry. Ono afternoon ho was sent ahead of bis command to find a camping place for the night. The Spanish troops cut tho two mon olf from their com panions and drove Diaz and his com panion to ^ point of land that mado out into the soa. When darkness came on, tbo two robots drove their horses into a thicket, dismounted and lashing tholr beasts, sent them ahead, hoping the Spanish troops would persuo the ridor less hor.-es in tho dark. But the Spanish troops halted at tho thicket for tho night, knowiug that thoy had tho two mon on tho point of land and could capture them at daylight. Diaz know that capturo moant death, and during the night he and his compuniou dragged a log out of tbo woods and pushed out to sea upon it. Thoy calculated that a current would curry them down tho coast out of harm's way, but at sunrise they found themselves at soa out of sight of land. They drifted about without food or drink until Diaz's companion became unconscious, fell into tbo soa and was drowned. Thon Diaz became unconscious from exhaustion, and while in this condition bo was pickod up by a fishing vessel and transferred to another craft bound for New York. Ho arrived horo penniless and friend loss. Ho found support as a reader in a cigar factory employing Cubans. Ho hoarded in Brooklyn, was strickon with pbnoumonia, and it was thought ho would die. Miss Aiico Tucker, a Christian worker, bouding in tho same house with Diaz, left a Now Testament in his room, which resulted, so he says, in his conversion, and impelled him to missionary work. Upon his recovery Diaz was bap tized in Gethsemane Baptist church, Willoughoy avenue, Brooklyn, and was sent by the congregation?the robollion having ended?as a colpor teur to Cuba. Later ho was aided by the foinalo Biblo socioty of Philadel phia) aftor which the llomj Mission board of tho !: mthern Baptist conven tion supported him. He left Hubana with a box of Bibles for a missionary tour in tho country. On the train a Spanish official arrested him, suspect ing that as Diaz had been a robtl, the box contained dynamite and not Bibles. Diu/ was taken to tho nearest prison and placed in one cell, whllo the box of Bibles was carefully deposited in another. Notwithstanding contrary orders from tho jail keepers, he preached, prayed and sang loud enough for all tho other Inmates to hear him. Ho protested that ho was an American citizen, having been naturalized while in the United States; ho sent word to tho American consul of Habana, and in three days Secre tary James G, Blainc olToctod his re lease. Afterwards tho captured Bibles sold at a premium, one having beon bought by tho mayor who had con victed Diaz, and Diaz later had tho satisfaction of converting the mayor and tho jailer. % On another occasion Diaz and two of his assissants. Godinez and Horrera, went to Guanabacoa to hold an open air meeting, when tho throe were arrested and taken boforo the mayor on tho charge that they had not given notlco of the meeting, as tho Spanish law requires. Thoy wore followed by a throng of sympathizers, infuriated and ready to mob thoptllcors in charge. The crowd surrounded the prison, and Diaz was obliged to appear on tho jail balcony and deliver an address dissuading his adhorents from an at tempt at rescuo. A day after, tho re quired notico of tho meeting was lound in tho mayor's olllco, where it had been mislaid. One day whilo Diaz was preaching, bo he states, a shot from behind and above was lirod. Tho ball, passing close to tho intended victim, struck a boy in front of him. The screams of the wounded boy aroused cries of ''Kill tho l'roteetants!'' "Shoot tho horetic!" Diaz and his broth' r was mobbed, their clothiug was torn off, and bruised and bleeding, they wore carriod before the mayor. Ho ordered his police to see them safely on tho cars for Hahana. Lator a priest was convicted of firing the shot, into tho mooting and sent to Spain for punishment. On a holiday as Diaz was passing along tho seashore noar Uabana, ho met two men tisblng. - He began talking of Christ to them. A party of merrymakers stopped to listen. Others joined the party and soon peo ple came from a distance Diaz warm ed to his subject and the crowd bo camo still larger. While he was Bpeak ing two policemen stopped up to his 6tand. Encouraged by their prosonce and thinking they wore there to protect hin , Diaz waxed eloquent. When he had finished bo was placed under arrest, charged with preaching in tho open air, and he spent several days in jail. xio ilit-, organized in Cuba .10 churches and stations and 20 Sunday schools. He has 2T? assisting clergymen. Seven of his churches havo a mcmborship of 7,000. Ho has Over :i,000 teachers and pupils, and annually ho baptizes 300 o/ ?100 poi sons. Tho Southern Baptist church bought for Diaz a thoatio in Habana at a cost of $60,000. It seats 3,000 persons. In this building ho convertod his mothor, and ho says that so ovorcomo was he with joy that ho forgot tho usual coro tnony and could only say: " Lord Jesus, this is my mother," and ho im morsed her. When Diaz first wont to tho island tho members of his congregation were refused burial in the consecrated cemo torlos, then the only burial grounds in Cuba. Diaz overoame this by starting rival cemeteries. Tho throe cemeteries of tho Baptists in Cuba now contain over 7,000 bodies. Diaz was in New York a fow weeks Ago raising money for his missions by lecturing on Cuba and he was arrested as a suspect immediately after arriv ing in, Cuba from New York. The phurohos, school buildings and come terles In Cuba bolong to tbo Ameri can Baptists. Diaz baa frequently spoken in all tbo largo American ottios. Confederate Veterans are Defended, CONGUK8SMAN TALBERT 8PKAK8 IN i ll Jl li BEHALF. Tho Confederate Survivora arc Loyal to Fach Other and to the Cause for Which They Fought. The Pickler pension bill, which pro posed to give pensions to deserters from the Confederate ranks, was vigorously fought by Congrossmun Talbort, of this State, and tbo follow ing is his linal protest against it. Ills defense of Confederate veterans from unjust slurs and1 sneers is most admir ablo in ovory respect, and as be was riersonally named by several speakers n connection with tho Southern solder, ho folt it a, duty to respond in behalf of his nativo State: Mr. Chairman, whilo I am opposed to this bill and shall vote agairst every section of it, if tho bill must pass I think the atnendmont offered by the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Hepburn) is a very good ono. It puts all appli cants for pension upon tho common ovidoncc that is received in all courts of justice. Tho whole bill is vicious and deceptivo from beginning to end. And, Mr. Chuirman, the discussion of this bill has taken a very wide scope, ombrueing all manner of partisanship as well as tho merits and demerits of the Democratic and Republican parties, which is possibly somewhat of a legi timate range of argument: but, sir, when the subject of the reunions of Confederate veterans has been lugged into this dobate by tho gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Hardy), I think tho propor limits of propriety havo been transcended, as that is a matter entirely irrelevant and disconnected from this hill. Tho gentleman alluded more parti cularly to a reunion lately held in Charleston, S. C, a gathering of as true, loyal, and bravo mon as ovor as sembled upon this or any other con tinent. Tho Soutborn soldiers, after following Leo and Jackson, Johnston, and other leaders through four yoars of winter's snow and summer's heat, often half naked and hungry, after ac complishing all that human onduranco and bravery could accomplish, after showing tho world how half-nakod and half-starved troops could put to (light an army better equipped and three times more in number, yio.dod to fato only when our flag wont down upon the now historic Hold of Appo mattox, they accepted tho situation and surrendered when the Immortal Loo said they should fight no more. Tho war with them was ended, thoy acceptod their paroles, shook tho hands of their comrados in silonco as thoy looked for tho last time ovor tho hills of Virginia, clotted with tho graves of tho slain of both armies, and returned to their homos. But what did thov find thoro 9 In many parts of tho sunny South thoy found thoir houses burned, their proporty gODe, and all over the land was heard tho cry like that of Rachel weeping for her children because they wore not. Yot, amid all this destruc tion and devastation by the cruel hand of war, which had swept over the land with the crushing foot of u giant, thoy commenced life anew, and tho field that run rod with blood in April were green with the harvest in June, and the horeos that sniffed the battle in tho spring under tho saber (bo it said to the honor of that grand and noble soldier, Uenoral Grant, for ho magnani mously gave back to tho boys their horses) wero proudly walking before the plow in summer. Thon, as tho yea rs roll by, It is proper, it is natural, it is right, yea, it is more than right, that these old soldiers should ruoet together in thoir reunions to grasp oach other again by tho hand, to celebrate thoir trials, and live over again for tho moment tho lifo of tho soldior. And it is unkind, it is unfortunate, it is improper on the ih tor of tho Houso in tho discussion of a measure with which thoy have no connection except to pay their part of tho burdens it may impose. Be this as it may. Mr. Chair .nan, I wish to say that while those men of tho South are as true and as loyal to the flag to day as thoso of the North, and as ready to fight for its defense, at tho tamo time thoy will continue to have these reunions as long as time itself shall last. Yes, sir ; as long as the sun shines by day and tho moon ?Ivos her light by night, as long as the stars twinkle in the hcavons, as long as tho Potomac and tho Shenandoah continuo to How, as long as tho dewdrops fall upon tho resting places of our dead and the Blue llidgo sontinols their graves, just so long will the men of the South meet togothor In rounions to commemorate the heroic deeds of hor immortal scldiory in song and In story. (Applause.) Hut let me say to this Houso that this is not done in any spirit of dis loyalty to the Union ,to-day. It is not dono in any spirit of prejudice to tho gallant and bravo soldiers who fought on tho othor side, for I ooliovo I voice tho sentiment of every truo Southern soldior when I say that with thorn tho contllctof arms is over, tho result ac cepted in good faith, and that now tho soldiers of the South stand ready at all times to take by tho hand tho soldiors of tho North, whom onco thoy mot In tho red bla/.o of battle, now mooting ovor tho chasm of sectional Ism, roady and willing to bury forovor tho bloody spirit, and to plant upon Its gravo the white rose oi peace, with the prayer that It may bloom perpetu ally, bringing forth fruit for the up building and prosperity of this groat nation of ours, with but one ambition, that wo may forovor remain a reunit ed, fraternal, and happy people. (Ap plauso.) Thon it Booms to mo to bo unohari tablo in anyono to criticise the Con fcdorato soldier foi his love for the lost cause, for while ho stood by the Southern cross, with more than filial aiTection, until it wont down, ho be lieved ho was right, and that his quar rel was mado upon a principal quar ried from the mine of everlasting i ruth ; and so ho loves it still and will cotlnuo to love it till death. Whilo the flag under whioh ho fought is furl, d and put away forever, and whil *. we are all reunited under tho Star Spangled Banner, wo feel that if wo are to rospoot that flag and fight for it, . 'hic.h wo aro willing to do if I necessary, Its folds should wave gontly over tho g raves of our dead and the forms of out living. That is Southern sentiment at I now understand it, and what is sentiment but patriotism it self? What h' sentiment but princlplo refined? Wha* is it to-day that con trols the universe ? Sir, from the tine that Joseph car ried tho embalmed body of his father back from Kgypt to Canaan to bury it in a*cave in tho field of Machpelan sontlment has ruled i*he world. What was jthut dlvino sentiment that led Jofopb, tho honorable counselor, to go to Pilate to beg the body of his Lord that ho might wrap it in lino linon and bury it in nis own tomb whore never laid any othor body?new, nice, and clean ? It was sentiment. What was it but a similar sentiment that lead the devoted woman to break the alabaster box of ointment and anoint the hoad of her Lord ? And when It was suggested by somo ono In the crowd of a mercenary turn of mind (possibly like the fellow who Injected this subject into this debato) that It might have been sold and given to tho poor, He said, " Let her alone ; she has dr>uo what she could ; and when ever; and whorover In all lands and countries My gospel is preached let this bo told as a memorial of bor." What was it that led those devoted womon to be last at tbo cross and Qrst at the sepulohoi ? It was sontimont. Then do not impugn tho motives of our people for their devotion to thoir own sunny South and their devotion still to tho lost cause. What is it that fosters your fondest memories around the place of your birth ? The old sohoolhouse, the old oaken buckot, even, that hung in the well, and even the old garden gate. Sentiment mukes us respect the living and leads us on In our pilgrimage, to give decent bu rial to the dead, to strew flowers up on their graves, and to mark their resting places with monuments as enduring as marble and as lasting as brass. Now, Mr. Chairman, let me say, in conclusion, that no amount of diver sion can divest this bill of its vioious tendencies or reliovo it from tho ap pcaranco of humbuggery. it is a de lusion and a snaro, with no merit at all In It, and I hopo It will be over whelmingly voted down. (Applause on tho Democratic side.) CHAKGBf; WITH CONTEMPT. Five Charleston Lawyers in Danger or Being Disbarred. Tho contempt proceedings issued by Judge Honet last week against live promint lawyers in Charleston havo attracted much attention, und tho case is causing muuh Interest in conse quence of its unusual character and tUo prominence of tho men against whom tho order was issued. It will bo rememberod that certain security holders applied for a receiver for the Palmetto brewery. The order to show causo was issued on December 31st, 1895, and while the return to it was still ponding the majority security holders went before the United States Court and had a receiver appointed. Subsequently Judge Bonot issued an order against those security holders, domanding that they show cause why they should not be ruled for contempt. The case was heard, argument was made and the decision was reserved. It had never been delivered, but on the 24th ult. tho judge tiled another order requiring the attorneys in tho case, among whom aro H. A. M. Smith, Julian Mitchell, J. N. Nathans, IJugor Sinklor, and James Simons, some of tho leading members of tho Charleston bar, to show cause why they shall not be disbarred, temporarily, or other wise punished for contempt, inasmuch as all of thorn had knowledge of tho action pending in tho Stato court when they took their case into tho United States Court. Tho tenor of the order is such as would indicate that Judgo Boaet is disposed to con sider the action of the attorneys con tempt. Tho Charleston Sun gives the fol lowing statomont of the case. The rule Is made returnable on tho 4th of May : Certain stockholders of tho Palmetto brewery company, dissatisfied with tho condition of its affairs and with tho manner in waioh thoy were adminis tered by President Doscher, applied to the Stato court for injunction and the appointment of a receiver. Tho injunction was issued by Judge Benet and the jurisdiction of the court thrown around tho property In dispute between tho stockholders, but the nomi nation of a receiver, for some, reason, was deforred. Ponding this suspense the De La Vergne refrigerating com pany, a foreign corporation and credi tor of tho Palmetto brewing company, through Its solicitor, Mr. J. N. Nathans, tiled a bill in the United States circuit court for injunction and tho appoint ment of a receiver by that court In the interest of his clients. Mr. Nathans, as a director in a defendant bank which was a party to tho proceeding in tho State court, is evidently deemed by tho presiding judge of that court to havo been stopped as an attorney of tho court from disregarding the court's restraining order and initiating now proceedings in anothor court to sot asido tho authority of tho court and oust it of its jurisdiction. Whether this view of professional etiquotto presented itsolf to Mr. Nathans or not, we, of course, do not know. It has become so common of recent years to appeal to tho Federal jurisdiction to nullify or overrule tho uuthority of the State court, and tho lines of domarkation between tho jurisdiction of theso co-ordiuato courts have boon so confused by the rapid strides of encroachment of tho cen tralized power on tho sovereignty of tho States, that a lawyer intont on tho interest, of his clients rather than on maintaining intact tho fundamental principles of our confederated govern ment might well lose sight of these nice distinctions of professional duty and observance. Tho belief which, wo aro awaro, ob tains among some familiar with tho circumstances, and which may have gained some crodonce with the presid ing judge of tho Charleston district, that tho petition for injunction and rccolvor was presented to and aotcd on by Judge Simonton of the United States circuit court without notlco to him of tho jurisdiction already taken of tho matter by the Stato court may havo had its influonco in irapolling Judge Bonot to tho strong courso pursued by him in this matter. PLIES.?When vlsttlnp: a friend last summor he called my attention to a curious plan for preventing tho plague of fllos in his house. Tho upper sash of ono of tho windows in his sitting room being open for ventilation, there was susponded outside a ploco of com mon fishing-net. My friond told me that not a fly would venture to pass through it. He has watched for an hour at a time, and seen swarms fly to within a few inches of tho not. and thon, after buzzing about for a little, depart. Ho told me the flies would pass through the not if there was a little light?that is another window in tho opposite wall. Though the day was very warm, I did not see a slnglo fly in tho room during my visit, though elsewhere in the town they were seon in abundance. I supposo they imagine tho not to bo a spider's web, or some other trap intended for their destruc tion. ' ?A dea'or says there is more stool used in tho manufacture of pens than in all the sword and gun faotorlos in SCRAPS OP UNWRITTEN HISTORY, THE LAST CABINET OFFICER OF THE CONFEDERACY Narrates Some Interesting Incidents Never Before Published. Hon. John H. Reagan, the only sur viving membor of tho Confederate cabinet, recently mado an address of unusual interest, in which he gave points of history not generally known and heretofore unpublished. His remarks and illustrations concerning the Ufo und character of Jefferson Davis are of espeeial value, as ho brlt.^8 into prominence somb notuble incidents in his career as loador of tho Confederacy, from which we quoto the following : No man known to history more richly dosorves a monument to his memory than tho president of the late Confederacy. The wisdom and cour age with which he conducted tho attain: f the Confederacy ; tho extra ordim 'ortitudo and constancy with which j endurod a long and cruel imprisonment after the fall of tho Con federacy ; the ability and fidelity which he displayed afterwards In writing the history of "The Rise and Fall of tho Confederacy " aro generally known. Hut thero are some things in which a portion at least of tho public have all the timo misunderstood Mr. Davis. And there aro somo other things, which illustrate his character, which havo not been mado known to the general public, and to which I think it proper now to call attention, mattor about which I shall speak from my constant association with him dur ing the war, and from porsonal knowl edge. Many persons havo been mado to believe that ho was self-willed and arbitrary In his action. NothiDg could bo farther from tho roal truth. Hut it may bo said with truth that ho had two characters: or rather that his conduct in private life and in social circles was different from his action in tho discharge of public duties. In private life and in tho family and so cial circles he was of tho most gonial and pleasant men I over know. As gentle and as tender as a woman, ho possessed an enlarged knowledge of the physical sciences which always made him instructive. And his stato pa pers wero characterized by an erudi tion raroly, if ever, surpassed by Eng lish-speaking scholars. In his official capacity he was guided by a strong sense of duty, and had but littlo toler ation for that class of men who wore givon to much talk and had no roal information to communicate. It is likely that such is the class who as sumed that ho was harsh and self willed. You will understand that iu his position his wholo time was nec essarily occupied with great duties and caros, and that ho could not afford to spend his time in unprofitablo talk. In relation to suggestions which have been mado that ho was self-willed and did not consult others on public meas ures, I know this to bo incorrect. When a question of importance camo up for consideration, his habit was to exhaust all available sources of infor mation, wbethor from persons or docu ments, and when this had been done and a decision reached, that was an end of tbo question with him. And it is probable that persons who, under such circumstances, still insisted on further discussion, without realizing the pres sure on his timo, thought him self willed, You will understand that one in his position, who had constantly to bo deciding tho course to bo pursuod on groat questions, must bavo acted as he did in order to get through with tho public business. I said there wero some things illus trative of tbo character of Mr. Davis not generally known to the public. When General Grant was moving his army down the Mississippi below Vlcksburg, Mr. Davis was notilicd that his liria'rlield plantation and largo property would fall into Federal hands, ana was advised to send and have the movable property carried out of dan ger. To this suggestion ho ropliod that tho president of tho Confederacy could not afford to employ men to take care of his private property. And when the F?deral army was moving on Jackson, Miss., ho was ac vised that his hill home in Hinds County and his valuable, library and other property there would fall into Federal hands, and that ho ought to have It removed to a place of safety, he made tho Bamo reply, that the probidont of tho Con federacy could not afford to uso mon for tho security of his private property. Ani all movable property at both places, including liis negroes, wore lost to him. I muko thoso statements because I was present at each of those conversations, and I have not seen them in print. I may also rofor to another incident illustrative of both his charactor and his conservatism. Colonel Dahlgrcen mado a raid on Richmond, tho thon capital of tho Confederacy, the object of which was to liberate somo 22,0U0 prisonors, to kill tho president and tho mombors of his cabinet, and to burn tho city. Richmond and our people were saved from these calamities by tho merest accident. Wo had no troops in or near tho city at that timo for its defense. But a regiment of clorke and officers in tho dopartmont and citizens had been organized, and a battalion of workmen at tho Tredegar works, where, our cannon and small arms were made, who on occasions of danger woro called out for tho dofonso of the city. Col. Dahlgroen's plan was to cross James river oomo distanco above tho c>ty auil pass down Iho south sido of the rivor to Belle lslo, whoro the prlsonors were, reloaso tho prison ors and then commence tho work of destruction and death in the city. But on reaching tho rivor he found it swollen too much to bo forded, and turned down tho north sido of the river towards the city. In the mean time notlco of his approach had boon given, and the Tredegar battalion and the leglmont of olorks and othors had boon callod to arms and sont up tho river to mcot him, the Trodegar bat talion in advance of tho regiment. A short dlstanco abovo the city, at a bend in the road, this battalion was saddonly met by Dahlgreen's com mand, and was dispersed, and some of the men oapturod. A countryman some distance from them saw what had happened and galloped his horse towards the olty to give tho alarm. Just at the edge of the city he mot tho regiment which was commanded by Colonel MoAnery and informed him of the disaster to tho battalion, and that Dahlgreen's command was coming dowh the road. It was then getting dusf in the evening. MoAnery formed bis line of battle aoross the road. By thoh it had becomo dark. Ue directed Ins men to lie down and sent his sklr mlshors forward, with dlreotion as tho enemy approached, to fall back slowly on the lino of battle, but1 in ordeV, and to keep up tho tiro, soAs to doll no tho advanoo and position flfthe 1 enomy. Thlij duty wae well porfofftpod I TT ,% V- ' as mauy of those meu were trained Boldiors who bad boon crippled in bat tle and appointed to places in the de partments. It was a dark night, and when Dahlgreen's men approached near onough the Confederates opened a destructive Are on thorn, killed a number of men and horses and stamp eded the F?deral*. They rotreated north across the Chickabominy, and after passing the Pomunky river were ambushed by some furloughed soldiers who happened to bo in tho vicinity, and learning of Dahlgreen's movoments prepared to meot him. They killed Col. Dahlgreen and a number of his men, and made prisoners of more than 400 of them. Those were brought to Richmond, and with thorn was brought tho papers and orders showing tho purposes of tho raid as above stated, and also tho turpentine balls and com bustiblo matter to bo used in llrlng tho city. If ho bad succeedod 22,000 prisoners would have been turnod loose to plunder and burn the city ; tons of thousands of women and children would have been made homeless, the president and bis cabinet would have been killed, and the imagination may picture such other horrors as might havo been perpetrated. When tho prisoners wero brought to the city and tho papers and ordors disclosing the purpose of this raid wero turned over to the Confederate authorities, together with tho com bustible matter to be used in burning the city, all folt that the whole alTair, If it had been carried out, would have been a barbarous violation of the laws and usages of civilized warfare, aud that It would have shocked tho civil ized world by Its cruel barbarity. Tho Federal authorities had on sevoral previous occasions violated tho laws of war as between civilized nations, and President Davis had notiflod President Lincoln of his purpose, if such prac tices wero continued, to retaliate. Whon the foregoing facts camo to the knowledgo of tho government every member of Mr. Davis' cabinot united in calling on him to have these prison ers draw lots and every tonth man shot, and that ho then notify President Lincoln what bad been dono and why it was dono. Mr. Davis suggested that if ho had known of tho orders under which these men wore noting, it would have been right to shoot them down whilo they hud guns iu their hands, but that no did not think wo should have unarmed prisoners shot. The mombors of his cabinet callod atten tion to previous violations of tho laws of war and Presidont Davis' threat of retaliation. And thoy insisted that retaliation alono could arrest such practices, and that the purpose of this raid, which tho papers showed was understood by the whole command, and that the men had volunteered for the purpose contemplated, mado it proper that wo should make an example by having every tenth man shot. Aftor the matter had been earnestly discuss ed, Mr. Davis ended tbo discussion by declaraing, in opposition to the views of tho cabinet, that ho would not have unarmed prisoners shot. But fow, if any, would ,havo agreed with him then. But now since tho passions of war have died away, wo shall perhaps all say that ho did right. ?Thomas Estrada Palma, the Cuban delegate, has returned to Washington, and speaking of tho elTorts of Presi dent Cleveland to scouro concessions from the Spanish government for the f>ooplo of Cuba he said : " Mr. Clevo and is wasting his time. Tho patriots In Cuba uro fighting for indopcndcncc and not for reform. Nothing but inde pendence or annexation will satisfy thorn. They will not lay down thoir arms until they havo accomplished their freedom. The only homo rulo they will accept is that administered by magistrates of their own choico, elected after tho withdrawal of tho Spanish army and all of the oflicors of the Spanish government from the island. President Cleveland is doing no one a sorvico when he tries to pro mote what they call reforms in Cuba. And unless ho is willing to go farther than that wo shall appeal from him to tho American people. When a person is losing flesh und wasting away there is cause for alarm. Nothing so worries u physician. Con sumptives would never die if they could rogain their usual weight. In fact thoro would hn no consumption if there was no wasting of tho system. The causo of this loss of flesh is a fail uro to properly digest tho food eaten. Nino-tenths of all our diseases date back to some derangement of tho stom ach. Tho Shaker Digestivo Cordial wil". stop this wasting of tho body. It acts by causing tho food wo oat to be di gested so as to do good, for undigested food does more harm than good. The Cordial contains food already digested and a is digoster of foods as well. Every mother hates to make her children tuko Castor Oil. i.uxol is sweet Castor Oil. ?An old maid onco owned a parrot, which gave hor a groat doal of trouble, owing to its profanity and disagreea ble remarks. She decided to ask hor minister for j the loan of his parrot, which orrod in boing almost too religi ously disposed in its conversation. Tho minister consantod, so Polly tho good wont to visit Polly tho had. Somo days lator, upon entering tho room whero tho parrots woro, tho maiden lady wus greotod with tho re mark, " I do hopo tho old woman may die!" while tho clergyman's parrot added, " Wo bosocch theo to hear us, good Lord. Skepticism.-?"This weather," said the oldest inhabitant, "rominds mo of my boyhood days." " But they say It Is the hottest April over known." M Who savs so?" 14 Tho weather officials." " Woll, mobbo 'tis, mobbo 'tis," ho grumbled. " But if thoy don't show that thoy know any moro about tho weather wo usod to havo than they do about tho weather wo'ro going to havo, I'm blest If I wouldn't rather dopond on my own recollection." ?Tho highostof luxurious traveling has boon achieved by tho Czarina of Russia. The Empress's private car is entiroly upholstered in roso-colorod satin, and la lighted throughout by oleotrioity. The wheels of the ten long compartments are covered with India-rubber tires. Tho train Is in charge of sevoral officers of the royal household, who havo strict injunctions to cd mit no ono?not oven Russian officials. ?A woman horse thiof was arrested by the sheriff of Noz Porces County, Idaho, a few days ago. She was found to bo ono of a gang which had boon operating in that region for about a year. Four male members of the gang woro caught with tho woman. She is reported to bo good looking, 22years old and of a flory disposition. She was dressed in men's olothea and rods her horso astride with great skill. MORALSIDE OF THE NEWSPAPER. AN INTERESTING PAl'KR FIIOM A PREACHER AND EDITOR. Some Reaaoiis Controlling Newspa pers the WronK Way?Tho Power and ltCHpontdbllty of the Pres*. Tho following address on " The Moral Sido of tho Newspaper" was de livered beforo the annual meeting of the State Press Association by P?ov. W. P. Jacobs, of Clinton : Every paper has a moral side. Some unfortunately an immoral sido always. Occasionally it is the patent outside that is immoral in news notes and ads, and 6omotimes tho not so patent inside. Tho writer on ono occasion advertised a horse race in his patent outside and apologized for it on his inside. But, after all, tho question of the morality or immorality of a paper cir culates about tho personality of its editors. All editors are not pious men. Somo few (very few) got drunk after the paper has gono to press, and then Invoke all the adjcctivcness of their dictionaries, vorsus drinkicg, in thoir next isMue. Wo know an editor, who wrote, "1 was on a jag last week. I'm sorry. The public will ploaso excuso the Imperfection of our make up that week, us we woro quite locked up," so he was. As a rule editors are tho host inform ed people in the community. Unfor tunately no man can know everything. That accounts for the terrible mis takes made in writing up church do ings. Preachers laugh at these things, but tho editor can't see tho joke. Still tho editor might bo a splendid "eccle siastical reporter,'' and yet not run a mora1 paper. A preacher sometimes fills a lino pulpit, and had bettor not be there. "If tho "moral man" of the newspa per is always its editor, tho moral sulo of a newspaper must necessarily be tho view the editor takes of all tho higher Interests of tho community in which ho lives. Now, his views on moral subjects arc vory apt to ho warped by several con siderations. l?t. His own lack oi a clear-cut in ception of moral duty. A man that lies will lie in priut. A slanderer takes pleasure in "sharp, keen, Inci sive vituperation." A wild, reckless editor may write hightoned discourses occasionally, aping tho goodness ho ho has not, but tho rule will bo tho other way. 2. Pecuniary considerations are often all powerful. Vilo ads are printed becauso they pay. Tho bulk of any community is disposed to sensational Ism, and honee vile things aro often reported in full. How can a man take cloar-cut ecclesiastical views, for instanco, as to Sunday editions of his paper, if tho Sunday edition is the best paying one of tho week. 3d. Fear often has a great deal to do with an editor's work. He does not wish to lose subscribers at any time, and hence oven tho mad fury of a lynching bee may be condoned, or at least not very severely dealt with, so many patrons having a quasi connec tion with it?not indeed that editors aro alono in this. They perhaps but rellect tho tono of tho community. 4th. Politics largely affect the views an editor takes on many moral ques tions, notably that of prohibition or its correlative, tho dispensary. Party lash is a powerful iucentivo to an edi tor to koop tho " straight and narrow oath " of political duty. We recently heard Judge Cothrau remark that ho never knew a minister who became a lawyer to honor his profes sion, but per contra, a lawyer who entered the ministry was always an ornament to it. However that may be, we can say that a religious paper that enters the political arena is always unreliable, but that a political paper with strong moral and religious prin ciples is a roliab'o and honorable power in the community. Other forces, of course, oporato on the editor, as muny winds on the sail, to trim it this way and that. Hut a few considerations deserve thought just hero. 1. A newspaper is the most powerful agent In any community for good or ill. Tho preacher only roaches the church-going, and tho teacher the young. Tho editors reach everybody. Moreoevor there is a certain latent force in "cold type'" with multitudes, especially of tho half-learned, that nothing olso has. Who has not heard tho vulgarism, I seen it in tho pa per," as an end of all argument. The editor's tripod is the grandest pulpit in the universe. Crowned heads have found It needful to how before tho re porter's pen. Think of one great news paper sending forth a half million issues daily?its editorials read prob ably by twice that number of persons. So great is this power that wo venture the assertion that wore all tho papers of this country to agree to plunge, this country into a war with Europe, and to persist in it within a week tho thing could ho accomplished. 2. Power always entails responsi bility. Newspapers, therefore, ought to have highly developed consciences. Instead of being weathercocks, instead ovon of being leaders, thoy should have always at heart tho supreniest good of the community, and should prcsorvo It, regard less of money con siderations, political Influence or sel fish schemes, independency in politics or religion may bo an error, but the man who declares himself independent of his own sellishness and persists in a courso of right, as straight as an ar row, will bo always tho trusted and honored leader. In tho present State of South Caro lina social order, there arc many points dosorving caroful study in tho sanc tum as to tho course to bo pursued. Wo think thut wo can point with a just pride to tho columns of our State pruss, and challenge comparison with others, as to their generally high moral tone. Tho greater crimes are duly chastised. Our editor*, almost to a man, hato' meanness and lovo fair, open dealing. While a few offend against tho lawB of courtesy, the. great majority of our editors are gen*', men as woll in print as out of il Kvon political antagonists are given < how of fairness. Tho church work of every i community Is fully and duly reported, and that not in itsscnsationul features, j but in Its rogular routlno. Wo soo a groat many of tho papors published in this State, nndexeopt in their dealings with tho liquor and tho Sunday ques tions, we have found an lmprosslvo amount of zeal for all that is good and noblo. In tho publication of sermons, especially thoso of Dr. Tal mage, our nowspapors bavo dono great good for evangelical roligion. Wo have known one man, in our own pastoral expe rience, who traced his conversion to an article in a secular nowspapor. I would not leave, the impression that wo aro all living editorially lu tho goldon ago. As in Israel's old-timo oxporienco, "thero is yet much land to be posB088cd." Tho foo of sensation alism has very great power over tho average newspaper man. Tho oloar public like pepper in thpir hie h, and tho editor is too maj^io give it to them. Yet I do contend that tho press of this State is nshiir its mighty power for good. With their generous aid not only are railroads, cotton mills, and now enterprises of ull sorts, for the commercial prosperity of the commun ity, boomed into success, but I can say from porsonal experience thatchuron es, colleges and orpbanagos have, through the k'.ndly fostering care of the editorial fratornity, boon nursed into a vigorous life by being granted that publicity needful for success. For my part I am not only a news paper man by practice, 1 am ono also in faith. I believe in the press, and whether in ono lino or anotbor with rarest excoptious, I havo found the grandest ally of the church for tho re demption of mankind from ignorance and error to bo tho newspaper, bo it either tho great and far-roaching daily or the humblo country-born and bred patent outsider. BILL. AIU?*S l?HIIiOSOI?HY. Mo Has a Controversy With Mrs. Arp and Meets With IIin Usual Defeat. Tho peafowls stirred up a small garter snake down in tho grovo and they raised such a rumpus as to attract my wife's attention. The reptile eamo slipping along through tho grass to ward tho house and she screamed for me, of courso. It camo in tho front yard and 1 killed it by tho stone step, but my wifo never* believes a snako is dead as long as its tail wiggles. 1 had to keep on killing it to satisfy her, and then hang it up in a tree to make it rain. It is awful dry up hore, but now I reckon it will just pour down some timo. This in the snmnri dnnk? that. bus over been seen here, but me wifo says she knows that the plaee is just haunted with them. They always go in pairs, she says. " Moses mentions only one," said 1, "and dident mention any uutil after Kvo was ereated. l'robably Adam lived and worked in that garden alone for many years and ho got as sick of it as did Robinson Crusoe. Then Eve was created for Adam's express company, and they got along very well until the serpent be guiled her." "Yes, and tho poor wo man has to bear all the blame of our sin and misery," said my wife. " Ad dam said 'The woman Thou gavest mo did give unto me and I did eat.' Why dident Eve say the man Thou didst make mo for did not protect me from the wiles of that smooth-tongued serpent. He let me eat lirst and take all the risk of tho danger. Tho old autocrat. No telling how long he hud been acquainted with the serpent for be knew all the animals and had mingled with them and had dominion over them and had given them all names long before Eve was created." " No doubt of it,"said f, " for Josephus says that the serpent lived in tho house with Adam and was very handsome and very smart and could talk. Perhaps they played marbles together and went in a-washinf." " Yes,"' said Airs. Arp, " and the Lord gave the command to Adam about the forbidden fruit long before Eve was born." " She wasent born," said I. " l'ity she was not," said she. "Then she would have bad a mother who would have protected her from tho serpent and from Adam, too. The poor women never even had choice uf lovers nor a courtship nor a wedding." " Nor a trousseau nor her picture in the papers,"said I, "and she dressed remarkably thin considering that the climate the.*e is about like ours. I reckon that Adam's family expenses woro very light about those times. But later on he caught it, for Josephus says he had twenty-three daughters, and, of course, somebody put up a dry goods store in tho neighborhood and sold finery. Fig leaves played out early." " I should like to know where they got any dry goods and tinery or any money to pay for it," said she. " The Bible says the Lord inado them gar ments of skins." "Yes," .-aid I, "made them for Adam and Eve, but two or tl. ie hun dred years after that they made orna ments of gold and had prooloUS stones and made money, too, for Moses says in the second chapter of Genesis that one of the four rivers Rowed through a land where the gold was good and there, too, was bdullium and the onyx stone. Oil, they caught on to new fash ions mighty fast, and cut up scandalous, and Josephus says the sons of God were fallen angels and they saw that the daughters of men were fair to look upon and they mated with the in and raised aucrop of giants, and everybody got demoralized except Noah and bis family. " Moses tells how that 1 wise-hearted women spun with their hands, and made beautiful ornaments for the tabernacle.' Some of the necklaces taken from the mummies areas tineas are ever seen at Tiffany's. The ancients were not behind US in tine fabrics and ornamen tal arts. We read of an ancient Hindoo princess who came into court on a state occasion and her father said ' go back, my daughter?go hack and dress yourself.' And she replied, ' Father, 1 have on seven suits.' hut they were of muslin, so delicately line the king could set; through them." '? Well, that will do now,'" said my wife, " The baby is waking up. Bring her to me, ploaso. The poor little thing can't sleep long while she is cutting that other tooth. She is the ? best and sweetest child i.i the world. 1 wi-h she would cry and bo cross a little sometimes. Somehow I am afraid 1 she is too precious to stay here long. I Tum here to your dan-ma, darling." And little Caroline puts out her arms and smiles and coos, and tier dan-ma feels hor forehead and says I'm afraid she has a little fever and lias taken a eold. When you walk out with her you will not put on her bonnet. When a child is teething you can't bo too careful with them. The other day my wife was lookiii!' all around the room for her spectacle When suddenly she discovered that she hud them on and she exclaimed, " Well, I do reckon I'm the biggest fool in tho world I" " No you ain't grandma," said another grandchild. " You are the bessost fool in tho world." Her spectacles have got too young for her, and I must get another pair. What a pity it is that theso old crrandmothers bavo to wear out and pass away ! Mother Eve didn't. Good gracious! what a time she had with her posterity, JoaephUB says siio had bixty chihlren. and if they had sixty apieco and soon down tho lino and she lived as long as Adam did, there wore olfrht generations in sight, and that would make millions of people. It would make a hundred millions if each generation had only ton apieco. Hut I must stop ruminating about those speculation:!, for I hear Mrs. Arp calling again on the piazza. " Is it tho other snake?" said [. "No; but the baby is fretting and wants you to take her and walk in the garden. Ho euro and keep her bonnet on. Sho Is running at the rtoso ' now, and she. sneezed awhllo ago\" " Snoozing is a good s'gn," said I. " It Is a sign the colli is getting bettor," but I don't make my wife boliovo lt. I ? don't bo Hove ehe klows as much about L ?- 1 raising grandchildren as she did her own children. Certain it is that she worries more about them. When Caro line's mother goes visiting my wife is afraid something will happen to tho child beforo sho gets back. Oh, my country?it makes mo so tired. WEEKLY CROl? BULLETIN. Tho Reports aro Better than. Kxpooted ?Unusual Heut in April. Tho following bulletin covers the weather and crop conditions for tho week ending Saturday, April 2?th, and in its preparation were used reports from ouo or inoro correspondents in each county of tho State ? Hot weather continued tho entire week, but with a gradual tendency to wards lower temperature. Thoro v?st$ more cloudiness, also, that tonded to make the heat more tolerable than du/" ing tho previous week. The oxeess inj tomperuture averaged ten degrees n|fl day over the normal, ranging U oJjLm on tho coast to .12 in tho wostorrjfl .... tions of tho State. The boat wafl| evenly distributed; thirty-two stations^ reporting mean tomperuturo, did not dilfer inoro thun - degrees for the week. A maximum temporaturo of 98 was recorded at Cillisonville on tho 20th, and tho week's minimum of 57 was recorded at Greenville on the 21st, and at Society Hill on the 25th. Tho dry weather was greatly roliov ed in places by rains that covered the entiro State during tho afteruoon and night of Friday, tho 21th, with tho ex ceptions of purts of Palrfleld Couaty, where no rain foil. Bill Aup. Tho north uontral counties, includ ing Richland, Fairtield, Union, New berry, York, Lancaster and Sumtor, hud least rain with amounts in no place exceeding 0.50 of an inch and gener ally less than 0.25 of an inch ; in the extreme western counties the rain was somowhat heavier, and also in tho Sa vannah Valley, while in tho eastern portions of tho State the rainfall avoraged from 0.50 of an inch to 1.80 inches. More rain is needed and no crop has hud enough. Tho beneficial effects of the rain wero increased by tho generally cloudy weather during tho latter portion of the week. The first of tho week was almost cloudless. Tho sunshine aver-m aged about 74 per cent of tho possible. Tho thunder storms of Friday eve ning (24th) were accompanied in many places by vivid lightniug and high winds, the latter having reached al most tornadic forco in Aikon County, with considerable damage to fencing, forests and to buildings, but crops wero too small to havo sull'cred injury. High winds wore quite general on that day, but tho resulting damage, if any, was slight. There is little change to record In the general condition of crops, except where the rainfall was most copious, all vegetation was freshened and vi talized, but over the greater portion o" tho State the need of rain has not been materially lessened by tho a."24)!>nt8 that fell, which in many places gave only surface wetting. The northeas tern counties fared best in tho mattorof rainfall, and thcro all crops and vego tation wore looking woll at the close of tho week. Ravages by insects aro this week re ported from various portions of tho State : Colorado'beotles in York, Jbar leston and Beaufort counties ; a small beetle has attacked tho.tobacco plant, cut worms are destructivei in the fields and gardens in Lexington County, ,and other reports of less spccilic nature in dicate tho prevalence of insect pests over a largo portion of the State. Tho majority of correspondents re port corn in line condition, with good stands, healthy color, and growing oil well, in view of tho dry weather. Bot tom lands aro yet to plant largoly, but more rain is needed to soften the ground before it can be prepared. Early planted corn is in some instancos receiving its second working. Lator planting coming up slowly but satis factory ones, while later planting time is in a very fine, premising condition over the entire State. Cotton planting has progressed fairly weil, having been resumed sineo tho ruins, and is nearly finished ; different sections report from 10 to 25 per cent, yet to plant. That of earliest planting is up to pretty good stands, but hardly satisfactory ones, while later planting is coming up very slowly, but will bo helped by the rains where heavy enough. The cotton crop has generally made satisfactory advance over the p cv'ious week, and has, whoro up, u good, heulthy color, and is receiving its lirst plowing. Some tobacco has been transplanted In the northeastern counties whoro the rains made the ground wctonough, but more and heavy rains are needed to make transplanting safe, and so this work was not pushed during tho week. Reports from Korshaw County stato that many beds failed, that in conse quence of the scarcity of plants lands that wero fertilized and prepared for tobacco will be planted to other cropst^ principally cotton. Generally tobacco plants are looking line. Wheat Is heading low, but retains a good color. Fall oats arc heading verv,. low ; were greatly helped by the rainfT but need more rain. Spr ing oats con tinue to fail, and any amounts of rain would scarcely bring It into a condition to make a crop. Kico, sugar-suno, melons and tho usual minor crops are being largoly planted, and where up are growing well, i ut with these, as all other seed, germinal''.)n-^Cv>PV slow. lu places sweet potato si insure ready for setting. Fruits look promising generally, and apples particularly so, in tho western counties. Wild black-, berries are blooming linely and promise to bo plentiful. Farm work is well advanced and La up with the needs of the crops. Up land pastures aro failing for want of rain. Tho advantago in crop conditions now rests with the eastern portions of tho State, while on the previous week it was with tbe west* in portion, tho rains having caused tho difference. J. W. BaUBU, Director. ?Among tho packages of money re ceived at tho treasury redemption bureau last week from the sub-treas ury at Chicago for redemption was a counterfeit note ol tho denomination of $100. it was an old note, of thesorles I of 1872, very ragged and very dirty. The note had been in circulation for mnny years and performed all tho offices of monoy without its genuine/ ness being suspected, and was final/y accepted at tho *ub-trea*ury at Chica go as good. And yet, according to tho clerk who instantly picked it out of a roll of other notes, It was but a v. > y poorly executed counterfeit. The clerk in tho sub-treasury who passed it in counting will havo to make up the amount put of his own pocket. ?'.stau :i-'Jj^BttflrtMM? v"'^rr