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Royal Absolutely "Pure OWDER Absolutely TPijbe Mokes the food more delicious an\d vholesome RO??l n*K'><0 PO.V0FR CO.. NE* ?ORK. 1 TIIIS KILLING OF ARAD FILES. " And as for trii- man Pile*, wu shall have something to say about him to murrow whloh w l by an eye-opener to the citizens whom h" Is hoodwink ing. Thh was tlio uloiinii BJUtenoe of the editorial, and as M.dco'm penned it the linos about hid lips grow more de termined, and tbt ru wus u light in iiib gray eye? which boded ill for the aforesaid Piles. Tin Hup ibnrg Argus was for reform, aad the young editor had thrown himself, heart aad soal, into the political arena. Hau: berg?that is, the better ole ment, whloh, as is the case In many communities, bad bin ;i lotharglo majority?was slowly awaking. Uor ruptlon was a festering sore upon the body politic ; decent men kept away from the primaries und almost from the polls on ob ctlon (lay. The city was in the hands of a gang who not only robbed taxpayers, but gave noth ing in return. The average property owner will .st.ii d boing robbed In taxes, if ho can only see some return for tho money In public improvements. Finally a few of tho most progres sive business men had joined forces bought OUt tho local paper, and looked about for a young man to run it for them, believing ttie paper to be the enterlug wedge for the lev r which was to overturn tho old rugitne. They Came upon Malcoln, and he, was in stalled at the head of tho A -gas staff. Ar ad Files was :> e political boss ol tho lowest section of the city, lie had been a bar-tender, a real estate agont during the boom, a "contractor" for several public '.'Ivop'rovenu n-.-?" which ! Tor te.i years ho had oat n a leader in tho politics of the. city. Nobody seemed to know much about his ante cedents. His life previous to his ap pearance in ELapsburg was a closed hook. But Malcolm, wh< a bo li "St saw the fellow, felt that Iiis 'uco was familiar. Plles's was a striking countenance : one would not easily forgot tho droop ing yoliow moustache, full, ruddy cheeks, and lue long hair which alracol curled upon his coat collar. He uiwi.ys wore a broad-rlmmoJ hat which Lolght oned the cowioy i llect of his ap pearanco. And when Malcolm com pared him with the co?v-punchers he had seen, ho suddenly discovered me nicho in his memory into which Mr. Arad Files titted. A dozen yours before, Malcolm, thou a inure lad, had visited his unclu's ranch In Montana, and while thero one of the bort amen had killed another. There was some provocation for the deed, hot tho township just then was having * Bpasm of morality, and the coroner's jury brought In a verdict of manslaughter; but the criminal escap ed. It appeared that the murderer hud already served a term in prison somewhere in the ca t, and bore a bad reputation generally. When Malcolm found that Files was one of the hardest lighting opponents of tho now movement for reform, he began to truce his buck record, He sent a photograph of the man to Mon tana, and several witnesses recognized the face, Malcolm waited until he had the affidavits and facts ranged in their proper s< quonce, and then prepared to spring his mice. Tho election of city ollicers was at hand. The party in power was dying , hard, and Arad Piles was making su perhuman efforts to counteract tho ef fect of the articles which appeared day by day in tho "Argus." When Malcolm wroto tho editorial of which the seut.-neo quoted above was tho close, the article dealing with Fills' past record was already in type in readiness for the next afternoon's paper. Coming as it would co npnr election day, tho opposers of tho new reform wave could do nothing to coun teract Iis ctTeot. Malcolm had laid his plans carefully, and as ho left tho " Argus " office that a'tcrnoon, he folt that the success of his party in tho coming election was assured. Lie had to run over to Duquosne that night on business, and, being de layed, wns obliged to wait until morn ing before coming back. Tho first train was a through expresa from Chicago. The coaches were well tilled, but he finally found a seat beside a little, quiet-faced old lady with an ample lunch basket and several bulky packages. Malcolm had been a motherless?al most a homeless-?man for years, but tho kind old face under the gray hair and the old-fashioned bonnet was more attractive to him than a young face would havo been. Ho always envied men their mothers. His boyish fea tures must have attracted her, for she turned to him after tho train had loft Duquosne and asked : " Young man, are you yoing far on this train ? I'm goin' to get olT pretty soon, and I've got enough sandwiches an' doughnuts an' cookies left hero for an army. They're good, too, for I made 'om myself." "I can believe that," r^spondod Mal colm with a smile, "and I wish I was going far enough sir that 1 might en joy them j but I got out tvo or three stations beyond. It has been yoars eineo I had real 'home'cooking." The old lady looked through l.or glasses at him commUorutingly. " 8;> you'vo hud to livo at hot<.!s, too, have you '," she said. " My son says he's awful hungiy for decent vittlos. These hero hotel coi.ks don't know how to eook (it for anybody's stomach. Hut I'm sorry to waste all this food whon it might do some one some good?an' save their going to that dinging car. My son cut me with my ticket a plenty of inom.y to pay f. r iny meals on the train . but, 1 leai nod thoy serve liquors there, 80 I was bound not to I patronize'em, I ?I thought may bo if you was going through you could ilnish my lunch, an' that would save you having to go in. I hato to soo a young man go Into u place whore there's liquor." Hor face llu-hed painfully and her old voice trembled. Malcolm saw that sho was deeply moved by hur own words, or, ratist r, by tho thought which prompted them. Thank you," responded the news paper man, with feeling. " I'm always afraid for young men who don't have any homos and havo to travel about," she sal I. " liquor's a dreadful curse to this country. An' so many poor women's tona get led away him comfortably well-to do, is something of a lawyer. ?ovon wh?a thoy uro at homo Mother-] don't unow what tnoir boya uro doing, nor \ ho thoy go with. I don't believe any' woman ovor watched over hor boy oiure careful than I did ovor mine.; but lie got led off by bad ussoeiutcs and wat a source of great trouble to mo onotY I'm so thankful he's finally turned lout so well. Why, ho tells mo Lo's iXuite prorulnO'it in politics in Iiis tow-A an' they talk of runnln' him foi the Issembly.or eouic thing," and bet eyetlglisloned b. bind tho spectacles. a I don't in 100 tulliE' you. as long as you don't know him wr.u probably will never hear of him afcwav." she pur sued, " that ho madtKa dreadful bad start. His father wa?;oui man, and kind to his family : buBhe drank when I married im, un?Btlw?^ would drink, though not muA 1 never see co harm in it myself a^Krafe. Not till 1 see what BOrt ot ;-oeie^B it was lc:id ing n j boy hit did ? mi I md. His fattier was dotid thciSund 1 didn't know bow to nianiigc a Y-'tat boy like him ; bo was 'most a mun\. ' sho wiped her leyes futVvely and continued. 1 "llowas a spirited boy 4nd liked (jay company. Hfs drir-kiny habits and bis frieuds led bim ^oj tUio gam bliug table. Aud lihon?and ,tl on be forged bis employer's name?not for a large sum, but it w.-m just as wicked We- we saved tho money and p..id tbc note, but of course ho couldn't - t,uy at home any longer ; nobody woo id, trust him. tin lie came West, aud 1 was years before I heard from blm\ lie tiad a bard struggle, but I don't know but 'twas as bard for me, W wotueu do the waiting, an' waiting la bitter b.i' d sometime** ) "Hut it's all over now." She Mulled, though hor cheeks were wet. /"He's domg liuo. Once?two years fcWo?he GUruo home to see me. He's as tjlg and hnn'somo as his father was. Li.it he couldn't Stay in our little town. Thicgs wts too dull and slow ; and tholj, hj wiu; doing so woll out ?uro. 1 couldn't think of breaking up and comlngtwltb bun then. e;thor. Hut he's been so ur gi tit that hero 1 be at last." Sio laughed a happy little lalugb lire a girl's. In truth she was renew ing her you'.'.:, and was Uo hn|ipy as a young bride on her way to the waiting groom. Malcolm envied this man Ills possession of such a mother, aud Ihe w<*.e interested in the boy who luVd gone wrong in his youth, but who had r< formed. '. The conductor came to tho old ludyi, just then. " Tho next stop Is your place, ma'am," he said. "Theporten 'll see to your luggage." \ sho began to gather up her several] packages with nurvous hasto. Mai- \ coin; got out of tho seat that she might havo room, and tho obsequious porter appeared. Tho newspaper man knew by his manner that somebody has paid him well for his attentions to tho old lady. The " boy " she was going to had made tho way plain before her, and Malcolm wondorod who ho wa*. Toe train slowed down at Hapsburg und stopped. The young man was kept back for a moment by more eager passengers. When he reached the plutform he saw his scat-mate stand ing in the midst of her pof&issions looking eagerly ubout at tho hurrying throng. Suddenly sho espied a tall Qguro In tlie crowd ; she uttered a little cry of delight, and dropping her par eels, met him with outntrected arms. 1 My bov I" "Mother I" Malcolm turned away, feeling, nome how, as if he had received a blow in the face. The man was Arad Files. Thn editor of the "Argus'' walked moodily up the street to tho office. LIls assistant. Dahlinger, met him with a bread smile. " You've stirred up tho enemy's camp at last, old man,1 ho said. \ " What's up v" " Files himself was in horo late liast night and hus just ca led again." 1 "What about?" \ " Wants to seo you. Was vcjry anxious to know If you'd bo back be fore tho;papor wont to press this aftC'r uoon. I toll you he's a scared coon." ; Malcolm tapped his pencil rcllectlve ly on the desk. " Bring me the proofs of that Files article," he said. Loft alone with the crumpled slips ho road tho story through. It was n great coup?no doubt of that. Wltli that record boforo the public tho op position would not be loft a leg to stand* on. And thon botweon Mulcobn und the printed lines rose the sweot old faco^ of that mother who had come so fur1 to join her boy. Sho had corao to see his triumph ; sho would behold his do- * feat. Supnoso that black record should 1 roach her oyes? Tho triumph to which Malcolm had looked forward had already turnod to usho-. There was a knock at tho door. " Mr. Files to seo you, sir," said the boy. " Let him come in.'' Files was insldo tho olllco almost Im mediately. * i ? ? stood hesitatingly near tho door in a quite Inexplicable manner. Tho man who was noted for remain ing cool and unrutlljd under all cir cumstance wa? very palpably norvous. Malcolm waved him to a chair. " Wbat cau I do for you," ho asked. " 1 reckon, Mr. Malcolm, you believe you'vo alroady don j for me," said the hig man uneasily. Ilo removed his broad hat and passed his band through his long hair. "You think too highly of my ability," said tho editor, politely. "Without seeing my article, too 1" "O, I know about what's in it," said Files calmly. " An' 1 s'poao you've got it nil there. Ordinarily I wouldn't care a hang what you could say about me, but?or?now I'd give a good deal rathor than havo that story appear." Malcolm's face hardened. " You've como to the wrong shop to buy any fa vors, Mr. Filotj," he said. " 1 didn't have no intention of off ;r ing you money, sir," said Files. " Hut I'll agree to 'bout anything you say <o koep that thing out of thopapir. I'll agree tostopoutof the whole business? I'll throw up ray plaeo as leader of the ward?I'll rofuso tbo nomination ; I'm hum- to got It if my side wins. V I s'pose," ho said, a llttlo sheepish ly, " you're wondering why I'm doing this. Woll, I'll toll you. It won't do no good, of conrso, but I won't look quite so llko a fool. I?I?my mother's come on from tbo Fust," ho blurted out. "Sho don't know rauoh about mo. Qod bless hor I If sho should read some of the things 1 hear you've go., in that story of yours1 'twould break nor heart. J iiute like fury to back cut of a g tod fight, but I?I don't want her to know."' Malcolm raised bis head and looked him straight in the eye. " Will yen agree to get out of politics alt'.igelh or ?'' " ril sign a paper to that elTeot an you can bold it over mo." '? I don't want it," said the editor. " 1 prefer tho hold I've got on yon al ready.'' II j picked up the t peaking tube and whistled up his foreman. Putting his II| s to the mouth piece he said . " TellJlmson to kill Arad K ies. Let him put the street department roast In its place." Files arose and waited a moment to steady his voice before speaking. " You're u good fellow, Malcolm. I'm much obliged," he said, and held out his hand. Tho editor refused to see. the hand. "Not at all," ho said brielly. " Good day." GArAOIltt'd FAITHLESS Wl B. A Great Sorrow In The Life Ol The itriiIhIi General. Tiie war in the Transvaal bus brought to the surface a story which, but for the present prominence of Llout. Gen. William Gataere, of the British army, would probably nave been permitted to sleep whero it Wtt? buried in Ireland several years ago. As the facts are being related in clubs and among scores of Iviglish-horn families in Los Angeles, Santa Monica and elsewhere in Southern California, th<?y have recalled what at one time nearly culminated in a high-life tragedy in Dublin. Some years ago Cn. Gataore, then colonel ol the Connaught Rangers, was stationed with his regiment in Dublin. His wife was a most brilliant and dashing woman. In the Dublin garri son ut the time was a handsome cap tatn, Murphy by name, with an Irish pedigree extending buck several hun dred years, and possessing a fortune which, with other accomplishment-', made him a social ion. ?Apt. Murphy was a typical British guardsman, tall and straight, an athlete and a thorough man of tho world. Ho and the wife id (iiii. Uatacre were thrown much to gether?so oiuch, in fact, that people began to talk. Tho husband was loath to believe that all was not just as it should be until tho evidence became eif such a pronounced character that Col. Gataere finally taxed tils wife for an explanation. The lady is said to have boldly de elared her lovo for Mutphy. Her hus band sent for the handsome captain to whom he laid down one of two alterna tives. l'Mhcr Capt. Murphy must forth with resign his army commission and clear out of the county, taking Mrs. Gataere with him, or he would be killed. Col. Gataore added, in a sort of incidental fashion, that if he ever encountered Cupt. Murphy anywhere in the British empire his iife would not oe worth the snutY of a candle. Capt. Murphy accepted the conditions and sought to 1106 with Catarce's wife as far as possible. The couple went to Southern California. Col. Gataere, because of pride nev: r sought Uivorei , and the facts, as they tare hero related, as such things usually \io, followed Capt. Murphy and the ludy to Los Angeles. Tne couple lived a\t one of the hotels for several months id tried hard to break into the old country people's set. They were Stubbed, however, right and left, and i\\n Capt. Murphy purchased an ir.ge orchard near Duarte. There theVcoupL' lived in solitude and pro sumiably happy, until early last year, wbem the lady cli< d. She was affected svilli some sort of pulmonary com plalltt. llor remains were embalmed and \sert to l?oglacd. Capt. Murphy followed a short time later. word reachled L'is Augeh s lately that Capt. Murpviy lias married and i-cttied de>wn on his', Irish estate. He Still owns the Duartt^ orange orchard, purchased years ago. Ceti. Gataere, as soon as his wife and her lovfcr had loft Ireland, exchanged into a rsjglment for e ilonial service and was senk to ludia. He said ween he left Knud and that never again would he servotany where in the mother coun try. \ ? -? am ? ? ? ?' An Anuwkk to a Question.?He was a tenderfoot and they took him for a greenhorn. ISvery new arrival in camp, Ihey told bun, bad to give tho otherJ ; omo puzz'c qiettion. If ihey coululni.? answer It he was en titled to a tlrlnk, but if he could not answer it Ulmself, ho would have to stand treat all round. After a \brlef silence the youth asked : \ " How la that when a chipmunk makes a holb there is no dirt at the mouth of tho hole?" Tho foreman replied, " Ah, ha, I guess you havo a question that you cannot unswer ? yourself V" " Oh, no," sa\id tho youth, " 1 can an swer it !' i "Well, tho4," said tho foreman, " how is it ?" \ " Why," said tho youth, " tho chip munk begins at\the bottom to dig his hole." i " Begins at the bottom ; how does he get there to Uegin V" said the fore tnan. 1 " That is a question of your own ask ing," said tho youth, >?Gcu Miles haB long been known as oho of the most accomplished horse men in tho army. I^inco he has bcon Stationed In Washington he has kept up hia riding, antl every morning, whatever the wc&tjhor may bo, ho Spond8 an hour or tvta> on horseback. -?-Tho Colorado Springs Gazette tt\g geets that Mr K iclkefellor's recent gift, of $100,0011 to establish a chair of psychology at tho Columbian Univer sity was made with a vl )w to tho Inves tigation of tho question as to whether corporations have soulsi I> > Vou Need An KltVtrio Holt ? For the pnst ten years, i|)r. .1 . Newton Hathaway who is recognized as the great est of all OUr specialists, bah been perfect ing an electric belt, mutable to use in bin practice, one which bo foufid furnish as a jiarto'' Iii* system of treatment and which ho coi'.id eonacientiously guarantee He now announces that he lias perfected such a belt, which ho bo'icves to bo the only perfect belt made. It is lighi, handsome, of great power, antl with new attachments, which makes it suitable for every ras? Ho Is prepared to furnish this belt to all paticntH who need it and who amply to hen for treatment, ata merely nominal charge. Write to Dr. Hathaway to-day, Meiling all aboutycurcase and ho will write) you about the belt, and if you desire tho hielt will ho sent tl. I), D. for Inspection. AVIdrcsH Dr. Hathaway A V,?? Mouth Mndad strset, Atlanta, Ha. BILL A UP ON I/YMAN ABBOTT. I I II K BIBLK IHK ONLY STAN1?AKI>. The Georgia Philosopher on iho Higher Criticism?Moses 11 ml A bun ii,. ii; Resources at tin ml, A groat lawyer whose chief business Wt\o to defend criminals w as asked the secret of his success, and bo replied : " It i.- to deny everything and call for tii proof." Now i?ogland agoostlolsm and higher criticism of the Scriptures seem to have a like maxim. The deeper a man goes into science, the more in c'intd is he to call for tho proof; es peclally if he lias more learning than brains, and has to strain his mind to solve the mysteries of lifo and na ture. 1 was ruminating about this, for I had just read the press dispatches that Ltev. Lyman Abbott, who succeeded Henry Ward Beeoher, had in a public addiess In Boston declared that the Book of Genesis was a myth?a legend written beforo the Hood by some un known prophet?anil that it was impos sible for Moses to have known of the things that transpired 1I.UU? years be fore he was born, and he asks, " What were his resources if they were not le I g< nils and mvths?" 1 know that it does not becotno mo to teaoh theology o>- tho Infallibility of tin-. Scriptures, but it oscurs to me that if Mr. Abbottoan undermine the Hook of Genesis he will overthrow tins whole Btruoturo of Blblfoal authority that has withstood the wear and tear of time for all these centuries. The 11ibio is the standard of the ages?the headlight of the nations, and it must stand as a wboloor fall as a whole. Tho rover end gentleman professes to believe in the now testamont and part of the old, but if bo is reully a Christian he must bolloveas much of the old testament as the Savior and His apostles did. It was Christ who saiil in the parable of Dives and Lazarus, "if they will not believe Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe though one rose from the dead." This is that Moses who pre dicted the coming of the Savior when he was giving tho laws to the children of Krael ? that Misses to whom God intrusted the tables of stone that con tained tho commandments, and who wrote the most beautiful song in the Psalms of D^vid?that Moses who ap peered In glory on the mount while the .Savior was transfigured ? that Mo ses of whom Paul said he was faithful as a testimony of those tilings which were to come alter. K'feiei.ces are too numerous to quote?all showing t a< Moses was tho vice-regent of tho Almighty, and was a prophet inspired hy Him. No, Mr, Abbott oannot uphold the new testamont aud pulldown the old He must sustain or demolish all. It is the sam ? old attack of science upon mlraolcs booauifl thoy cannot be ex plained upon any hy pothesis of human reason ; wbon the truth Is that Mr. Ab bott himself is a stupendous miracle, and cannot tell how he thinks or where the power of thought or tho faculty of memory is located, nor how he can at will raise his bund or close his eye; nor how he took form and shape in his mo therV wom'o. All nature is a miracle ; the leaves of the trees, tho color ol the ll >wers, the (lightof the bird, tbo inlin ite smallness of matter and germs, the inlin tc magnitude and boundless extent of the. heavens and of space, and in all creation there is nothing that has pride, vanity and self-conceit save man ?an agnostic or skeptic or an infidel? "The fool (only) has said in his heart, there is no Clod." Well, now, leaving out the inspira tion that guided Mos s when be wrote the Hook of Genesis, lot us come down to human reason and seo whether Mo ses had resources or uot. Mr. Ah iott is now sixty-live-ycai's old. He is tho son nl L< ;v. Jacob Ah bOtt, who was born in ISO.'!, aud Jacob was tlie sou of a It evolutionary sire. Mr. Lyman Abbott has children and perhaps grandchildren. That would make live generations from his grand slro. This Mr. Abbott lived in com munion with his father forty-four years, ai.d probably was a young man when his grandfather died. Now, if bis grand sire and his siro were good, truthful, Christian men, and no doubt thoy were, bow easy it was for Lyman to got a true account of the Revolutionary war 80 far as relates to all the incidents that his grandfather know of or took part in. And how easy for Lyman to l and it down correctly to his children and grandchildren. No inspiration is needed?nothing but truth and a gcod in irn ry. This ij precisely the case with Moses?only six porsons woro needed to transmit the account of the creation from Adam down to Moses. True there were twenty seven genera tions during that long poriod of years, but they lapped over each other sur prisingly, and it seems to have been a dispensation of providence that they should. The chronology of the Mosaic account is as clear as a bell, and figures do not lio. Adam lapped over into La meoh and lived with him lifty-slx years, and Liunceh was Noah's father. Surely Lamcch told Noah all about the creation! tor ho got it direct from Adam, aud he lived with his son Noah iVJ.r) years?had plonty of timo didn't he V Noah had a son named Shorn, who went into the ark with him, und I reckon during tho long rainfall the old gentleman didn't have much olse to talk about to bis children besides the creation and Cain rind Abel and Seth and Ki.och, and so Shem knew It all about as well as his father. Now, Shem was another I jng-lived patriarch, for ho lived 502 years after the Hood. He lived to f io Arphnxad, Sarah, E icr, Peleg, Kou, berug, Naher, Ter ab, Ab raham, I saue and Jacob?eleven gener ations. Yes, lie lived and commum d with Jacob for tlfty years, and old Noah himself, the preaoher of righteousness, lived until Abraham was sixty year-) old. Woll, of course old Father Noah told Father Abraham everything that Lumech bud told him, und Shem told it, too, and also hud lifty years talk with Jacob about it. Is there any trouble about keeping the account straight this far, and this clears up the Mosaic record for tibjut 2,000 years. Now, Jacob had a son named Lev'., and this s imo Lovl?the father of the priesthood -was tho grandfathor of Amram, who w>ia the fathor of Moses iow easy it was for htevi to tram mit tj Amram, his grandson, all that be learned from Jacob. Then the record would read : Ad HU) told Launch, Li mech told Not.h, Noah told Abraham, Abraham told Jacob (and Shem told him, too), and Jacob told l.ovland L;vi told Amram. Lam * iii, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Lovl and Amrum. Tho twenty-soven generatlcns aro reduced to six men and those six woro all uion f ivored of (lod and in tho lino of descent to 1) ivid and Jctus Christ. Hesbhe these men thoro woro godly womou not a fow. Old Mother F.vo was there, tho last and best part of tho creation, and pro bably lived with Adam until his tha'di. Don't you know sho loved to moot with hor descendants and how sho sat In tho I corner with her knitting and talked to oitl Mother Knoeh und Mother Mclhu saleh und Mother Lumeoh, *'ho was her gg-g-g-g-g-g-k!ian Idaughtcr und how she wept with tuem over that apple business. Kjsourcos indeed'. Could u histo rian have any better or more truthful God-fearing men und women to learn from? Young men, beware how you become infatuated or infeoted with this modern idea of higher criticism. I/or 2 ?00 yoars tho authenticity of the Old Testament has been studied by the most leurned men of the ages, faul says, " Unto the Jews were com mitted the oracles of Cod. What if some Uo not helievo ; shall their unbe lief make the fuith of Cod without ef fect v Cod forbid; yea let Cod be truo, but every man a liar." Two hundred and eighty-live years leforo Christ seventy learned men compiled tho sa cred canon und it has remalucd un changed till this day. liut ever and anon some carping and cynical mit.d strains itself to lind a Haw and calls it higher criticism. Just like Seward and Ciddingsand other fanatics did when they armed John llrown and declared that there was a higher law than the constitution. Young man, stund by the faith of the ages, the faith of your fathers and ar.d bo not wise in your own couceit, for Solomon saith, "There is more bope of a fool than of him." I havo recently visited the good old city of Columbus and received Its hos pitality and benedictions. It is just toy age, and through all these years has moved steadily and surely forward manufacturing with sereni'.y and dig nity the character its cultured men and women gave It in the beginning. How broadly beautiful'It was laid out ; how beautiful is its shade ; how green the grass on its public grounds ; how beautiful the rivor that girdles it. Not lor a single year has there been any re trograde in the manners or morals of its people. Considering its climate, so ciety and prosperity 1 do not know a city that I had rathor llvo in. it is al ready largo enough for moral safety, for Jeff rson spoke a truth when he said that great eitloa were pestilential to gooil health and good morals. Of course, wo favor the increase of on In dustrial population that keep the wheels and spindles turning and the wolf from the door and the beggar from the streets and if every city eared for its operatives in the mills a.i Colum bus does, there would bo no object les SODS of misery to be carried before the legislature. I visited the young men's club rooms of the F..igle and l'henlx mills. Yes, club rooms for factory boys where they can spend their evenings and read and write and bathe and ex exercise Instead of going to the saloons. The beautiful library has 2,000 volumes of standard hooks and the reading lanlos aro furnished with the best news paper and magazine literature, 1 can not enumerate thu pleasant and attrac tive features of these rooms. They are all free or nearly so to the factory boys who become members. Colonel Cunby Jordan Is the big-hearted promoter of this attachment to the mills and the mill owners pay all the i xpensis. Sad but sweet memories came over me as I recalled tho halcyon days when tho Holts, Gouldings. Redds, Howards, Thorntons and Warrens lived here, and 1 went to school and to college with their son-. These boys aro all dead rave two, and I am reminded of my loneliness. 1 recall other leading citi zens who walked the streets and pre served the standard of honor and in tegrity. Such men as Seaborn Jones and Banning and Crawford and Chappel and Betbune and Hozeman and Lomax. Shakespeare says, "Tho evil that men do lives after them ; the good is oft in terred with their bones." I would re verse that expression, for good deeds and their lntluonoo last longer than evil ones anil nowhere has the succes sion of good citizenship proved it more palpably than in Columbus. There is Still wealth without ostentation and hospitality without a strain. Not a shyster among her lawyers nor a quack among her preachera. Not a fancy preacher among her clergy, nor a venal partisan among her editors. For tunate city ; happy people ! Bill akp. Too SHREWD VOR Him.?An old whitewasher stood before tho court as a witness. The lawyer for the defen dant tried to confuse him. " You are Frederick Miller ?" " Yes." " Are you the Frederick Miller who was sentenced under mitigating cir cumstances for robbery ?" " No, 1 am not that Miller." " You aro porhaps tho Miller who was sentonced to two years' imprison ment for theft f ' " No, l am not that Miller either." " Were you ever In prison V" " Yes ?twice." " How long tho lir.-,t timo ?" " A whole afternoon." "An afternoon! And tho second lime? You must muko a truthful statements, for you aro sworn. If you wero in prison for so short a timo, what did you do V" " I only whitewashed a cell ready for a iawyor who had cheated hla clients." Tho lawyer did uot ask any more questions on ?hat subject. ?Tho Stato dispensary has gotten out a complete statement by months showing tho sales of liquors to dispen sers in this Stato. Tho statement Is interesting in showing tho way in which liquor drinking is being "discouraged" by tho dispensary system. Itshowsthat during the year 18U!) there was sold by tho Stato to tho county dispensers $1, ^44,715.82 worth of liquors. This re presents the price "to dispensers" and docs not includo the profits paid to local dispensers by consumers. Tho total supplies furnished tho dispensaries In i l) ;i ember last amount d to $211,103.32 without tho profits. Then the beer dispensaries bold in the seven months I they wero in operation ifcS!) 061.9ft worth of Stuff) making the total for tho year on the basis indicated u.i to tho regular dispensaries $1 5.18,777.77. Tho beer dispensaries' best month's business was July,when they sold $17,083.41 worth of beer. Thoro aro now in tho State 05 reg i ar dispensaries and 26 bcor dis pensaries. ?Tho Hoanoko Nowa prints tho fol lowing fervent prayer which a colored ministor made in behalf of a fellow minister: "O, Lord, gib him tho eyo oh do eaglo dat ho may spy out sin a far oil. Lay his hands on do gospji plow. Tie his tongue, on tho lie i of truth. Nail his oar on de gospel polo. How his head down hotwocn his knees and bis knees way down in som ? lom - somo, dark ard narrow valley where prayer is much wanted to bo made. N lint him with de gcroaono Ho of sal vation and sot him on lire." Bears the Signature <i SOUTII CAROLINA'S MILLS. INDUSTRY GROWS STKADMiY IN AM) AROUND flllBBNVlLJjK, Tin* Owners' Profits Aro Laritc- 1 ho Towns Shows sijjn ol liuproto inent and Prosperity im KvUlent on aii Bides. Special t"'>r. N? .v York Times. Gkbbnville, s. c, Jan. 31.?Pros perity could not have marked for special favor a prettier town in Sout'i Carolina than Greenville. Tue face of uature is fairer here, possibly, than it is at Spart an burg, a few miles east and north, but also a little further away from thu noble Blue Kidgo that walls Greenville to tho north. Crecnvtlie Is more advantageously placed than Spartauburg for Improvement, for its founders chose for a site a plateau that is without some of the hnl dlflloultlotj that will count when Spartauburg begins to raise taxes for street and other municipal improvements that uro bound to come to both theio thriv ing places. Greenville is not less Interesting a* a development of the cotton manufac turing Industry in the South than Columbia und Spartauburg. U lias not us many spindles as are to I Found in Spartauburg County, but Greenville Uounty, of which it is tho Court House town, has inu^u than Columbia, groat as tho array "f spindles is in that buoj town. Tho County of Greenville pos sesses at Pelzer. a strictly mill town sixteen miles below Crconvillc, on the Southern Railway, the largest cotton mill now In operation iu the South. It ij really two mills, a'.' running night and dav with 107,000 spindles and 3,500 looms converting cotton into cloth. Mut Greenville is entitled to claim some Inter st in Pelzer, although it derives no immediate benefit from its operation. Tho rivalries in the State seem to be of localities, but every body, whether hero or there, is ready to claim every thing for South Crrolina when mention is made of North Caro lina or Gojrgia, to which the South Carolina enthusiast is apt to refer as States somewhat behind the times In cotton development. MILLS ABOUND GREENVILLE Right in Greenville, so near that the hum of tho machinery of the estab lishment can be he ird all summer long, is the Qrst of the mills set up here. 11 is the Huguenot, one of four mills opera ting here. Although more than three years old, its managers date its Impor tance from "'?".Jut threo years ago Then it had 2,700 spindles and 185 looms. Now it has ?.200 spindles aud 1128 looms. It weaves colored goods, cotton plaids, ginghams, anil cheviots, tho yarn being dyed on the premises and the patterns designed for the com pany. Very attractive goods arc turn ed out, and tho demand, a good d al of it lor Southern consumption, keeps the mill constantly going and the ware houses empty. The weaves uro more durable in color than prints, and an; seen worn by women in till the mills hereabout. .lust outsido the town, but not far from its business centre, is tho Poo Mill. This Is a brick structure, built in the most substantial manner. It has a settlement about it, und a company store, nenvily stocked. F. VV. Poo pointed out the features of the concern in which he look gnat pride. This is a stet m mill, and it Is equipped through out with electrie lamps, as the force is in two shifts of operators that keep tho machinery employed night and day. In order to give a day of rest to the operatives, the two sets aro so em ployed on Saturday that they finish before midnight. Tho mill is valued at $1.000,000, but it is capitalized at $2,">0,0u0, and tho inference that the plant has been made out of the earn ings of tho mill is not only justitiell but tells a romarknble story ol tho prollts that havo been made in South Caroli na in cotton manufacturing. There are 20,000 spindles and 700 looms In operation in the Poo Mill. Tlie product is one unvarying quality of brown sheeting. The operatives dwell in rows of plain but neat build ings, arranged on a town | lan of their own, with the boundary fence just over against tho Gruenvillo limits. There were no Infants employed among the spindles us was the case in ono of the Columbia mills visited. PROFITS AttE LARGE. The two other mills nearest Green ville an-those of tbo Mills Manufac turing Company, with 20,000 spindled and 700 looms, and the American Spin ning Company, with 25,UU0 spindles and 700 looms. The Monaghan Mill of the same capacity as the American, and the Brayndon Mill with 10,000 spin dles and 400 looms, both of which are to bo increased in capacity, are others that t at up the cotton of Greenville and neighboring counties. Between Greenville and Pelzer is the Pied mont Mill, with 00,000 spindles anil 2,000 looms. More than half the capital iu these mills In homo capital. Originally there was a g.eaer proportion of foreign capital Invested, but much of it was ?ho stock that was taken by Bastcro fim s supplying machinery, and this was bought up as the mills began oper ations and wore able to liquidate their indebtedness. Tho Greenville people have put money into tho business liber ally. This was natural, for they knew of the profits that were being realized. The Poizor, a little kingdom ruled jver by Mr. Smyth, the loading man in the company, made in tho last year, 1 was informed, $500.000, and il prom ises to do hotter. The Piedmont showed to its stockholders a profit up to the 1st of October, for six months, of $2.'id. 000. Twenty per cent, is considered a very moderate liguro to rouliae. I "it has gono all tho way," said a mill owner, who said that he was on deavoring to buy up all outstanding stock ot bis own mill, "from 20 to 00 per cent on tho capital. How long will it last? Wo cannot say. Asking as the demand continues as it is, we can go ou making cotton goods and money." There is no anxiety on the part of tho mill Owners or operators to exploit their dividends. Besides declaring largo dividends on the oupitai of mills, mr.ny of the companies aro putting surplus earnings into their plants, Charles'o'i capital, lacking opportuni ty for advantageous manufacturing in vc.'.mit:' ;*: that cite, has OXprCSSCtl its co ' .cluo iu tbo Piedmont cotton .orprlso by investing largely, no tably In tbo Pelser rallb which, i am told, reprosonts a great deal of Charit s ton capital. Charleston is not far from tho cotton Holds, it is within easy rail transportutlon of coal, and its people aro most impaliont of Its comparative idleness. While the upper part of tho State .s developing magnificently, Charleston has hut one cotton mill, with about live thousand spindles, and has not yet been able, tiying both w bite^-^ajgflfl ami some OthOI1 political economists had dcolnred to no Indispensable to sjo st iil oottou uiuD'ifucluro ??^?\<< be lound there, and it w.ib feared it ould uot bo found in tiii bill country, Tbat dltUeulty wusovorcome, bowevt r, by modem ingenuity. In tl cl'oemiil. li ? ccville, attention was dine ? ii to the humldlDcra suspended from the ceiling over all the spindles The In dispensable moisture would have neon lacking out for these simple coutriv Wlnlo the owners and stockholders are fretting rich, they are conferring peraiuui Wj bicastogs upon u e p op ?. As in other towns where new mills lit? v ? ilom.i'idei' ioercn-ung numbers of operatives, shops have started to sup ply the needs of operatives or those A'bowi to employed in tow Industries, called forth because of the coming of a laborlog population. Stores have bceu obliged to carry largor auJ :e<<:o varied stt elcs. Tnere is more travel ing by rail. It is a matter of daily oc currence that among the passeogcr? who overcrowd the trains of the South crn Hallway there are Inquirers arriv ing at various points to look over the land with the view of settling, either as persons ulroudy concerned in cotton manufacturing ur hoping to 00, or tradesmen seeking a new marke t. Ttie country is beautiful. It i obarmlng to the eye; It is naturullv healthful, und in the towns will be more healthful with a little criticism ami sanltutlon. The summers arc long and the winter.- brief and usually mild. Hut It is not alone in the comingol the trolley, the i xpaoslou uf the shops, tbo paving i f streets in towns, the sanitation id all place? of large popul ation, tiie sensation of earning nun oy with a regularity and certainty never before enj >yed in the section, that oc casion for rejoicing is found in South Carolina. Attention was directed by ii thoughtful and observant Citizen of Greenville to a sociological pbaso ol the industrial development that Is moot satisfactory, and that it seems a pity could not be extended in some way to the siatt- of Kontucky. When Columbia began to build mills, ami the operation of the milts had made a perceptible drain upon the most COnvonieot and willing class of tlx population that was tilted to work in till' m'lls, that drain was fell a little at points more or less remote from Colum bia. Men and women who had yearn ed for opportunity to get money with out digging or hoeing for It, move from liie. foothills into town, tirst into places vacated by the people who moved earliest, and afterward, a- the mills began to rise nearer to the hills, into the manufactories of Spartunburg. Greenville, and elsewhere in the Pied mont. EFFECT i?l-' IMIOSPEIUTY, Most of these people Wore of tin coal hardy mountaineer sort, with the ?lime soft, doll' crate, courteous addrt H tbat is characteristic ol all the moun lalncors in the Virginias,the Carolinas! ?a Tennessee, or Kentucky. Thoy Drought with them stalwart frames, siin.de appetites, and ignorance of let ters as deese as mud. Hut they were not altogether at fault for that. They had not been treated as wards of the Slate. Having been without the means of learning for generations, thoy had acquired the ability to get along with out it. There was a moving-down from the mountain districts iuto a region where there were schools and stores and churches of a pro id but earnest and ambitious multitude that had got ten along without these things simply because all tholr neighbors had done likewise for years. But the pride thai i.ad been satlsth d in the mountains made tbom ambitious to keep up with the order of things, in the region to vhich they had migrated. The child ren must be clothed like other child ren. The wife must not be com pulled to Mve In a sunbonnet. The pub lo Schools we re at once pat ronized by children who might have developed into Ignoramuses like their parents if it hau uot been for the build ing of new cotton mills. New needs demanded money to gratify them. Kven some adults who could not read and write Icaruod those accomplish ments slyly or from their children. The sun of civilization was rising. The t^ste for moonshine whisky, indulged bj only a very small proportion of t'icse mountain people, diminished un der the discipline of the mills. The walking dclegatO, a constant cause of trouble in Northern mills, walked not in South Carolina, and if he had he. would have oncountcrcd a class ol wage earners not yet so accustomed to < aim ing ready mouey that it. y could be easily persuaded to strike in order lo increase their compensation or annoy their employ era. In many respects this is the very best resultof the industrial awakening in South Carolina. The mi.I townd are oound to become centres of Intelligent e. taste, developing appetite fomCCCB .wv and luxurious surroundings, and. with the passing of years and the acotimu a tlon of means, groups of the ow ni d homes Of thousands who i .vine to tin towns penniless rtlul ignorant, and bl VC been by industry and thrift converted into law-abiding, temperate, Indepeu dent, and self respecting A inei rear.- . ? It is an Interesting fact, says the Now York Commercial, that ail the excessively rich men in the United Slates Senate made their money In mines ami mining. S mator Clark, of Montana, by all odds tbo richest man in Congress, worth any whe-o from $100,000,000 to twice that made all his money in mines. Senator Lianna') ?12, 000,000 wore laivi ly dt i Ivod from iron mines.. Senator Jones of N iVuda is worth $10,000,1100 In goo1 ;i id silver mines, and Senator K kins of West Vir ginia is luted at $7,000,000, mostly made in coal and iron mining opera tions. McConnell, from tbo Scran ton | district, is the riohesl man in t ie (loiiso. His wealth, estimated at if 20,? 000 000 was i.'u.,' out of the coal mlnci i of Pennsylvania. Congressman Joseph C. Sibley is also a very rich man, tue source of whose wealth is potroloum. Old Mastor Barth Isabeautiful parent, and the son . he bus endowo.l tho m liberally so nohow havu a strong pre dlleotlon for statecraft. ?s nth Carolina last yonr rnadi more progroffl In cotton mill bil Iding than any ot her State. Thoro r fewer i ntcrpri s th \n in BOmO ff.ati hut tho aggregate . upital was . ? ? ' During the first 35 days of tho prosont 1 year all records baKap-^jen 1''' 1 sl iN iVTOlt MoLiAUltlN'8 I-i;CK. Tho President Will Appoint Him a Member ol ihe Philippine CoroTrnis slim. Ti>" Wushlngh u corespondent of tbo News and Courier says that Seua tor McLaurin n ay resign his neat in the Senate and accept an appointment from Hie President as a member <J/ the reconstructed Philippine commlB sion. The name of the junior Senators, from South Carolina Is known to heua-'* der Berlous consideration at the White House- Senator Sullivan, of Missis slppl, had a long ?'conference with tho President on the subjoct to-day and tho President expressed a desire to select a Southern representative for momber -hip on tho commission. Senator Mc l.aurin's vole Iu favor of the peaeo treaty, and Iiis fr? quuut publicspoeohes favorable to expansion, have Increased his popularity at the White House and in other circles where the expan sion sentiment prevails, bouce his selec tion would bo eminently satisfactory to the friends of expansion. !t is under stood that Senator Sullivan presented the name of Senator McL'turln to the President, baciccd by agenoral endorse ment of Kepublieau and Democratic frlonds Of the South Carolina Senator in Congress. It is said that Senator BloLaurin is entitcly ignorant of the movoment bo Ing made, but those close to him, and nuunilOWOI niS VlOWS On expansion, think it probable. that ho wouldserious ly consldor tho acceptance of such an offer. To accept ho would have to re sign bia seat in the Senate with more than three yt ars to servo His chances of ro olootlon are as good us ho could expect und? r tho circumstances, but it la said bo Is heart and soui a believer in expansh u and thinks that in four or live years the country will !)?? unanim ous In Upholding What hat- been done His friends declare that ho Is so fully convinced of this that he would not Hesitate to resign ;f ho felt that bo i could bo of service to hit* country else where, having his political ambitions to the future. Those who know of the President's high regard tor Senator MoLaurln would not bo surprised at the announcement that ho bus been olYorod a place on the commission. That Iiis name would lenel weight to the commission and would please the New South arc matters which attract the President's attention. Telephon is Giuls.?The physical requirements in girts who are given positions In tho telephone oxohango arc almost as stringent as those In sisted upon In men enlisting in the army, says the Phllade phla Call. To become a "hello" girl tho applicant must not be more than .'Id years old r.or less than live feet nix Inches tall. Her sight must bo good, her hearing i x ccilciit, and her voice soft, her percep tion quick and her temper angelic With all these qualifications a girl may secure a position answering the calls of telephone subscribers, and will be enabled to earn front $1.10 to ^1 50 a day. livery girl's eight und bearlrg is tested and her height is measured before she is hired Tali, Bilm girls, with long arras are preferred for work Ion the switchboards. I'at, short girls occupy too much room and are not able to reach all of the six feet of space allotted to each operator. With re gard to nationality, it is said tl at girls of Irish parentage m;;ko the best operators. ? K'.v. Madison C. Peters, formerly pa-1 ?r of a large Presbyterian church in Philadelphia, but for the past nine years pastor of the liloomingdalo it - formed Church in Now York, bus oc casioned surprise, by announcing his intention of resigning, in order to join the Baptist Church, and, if possible, the Baptist ministry, although ho has now no particular charge in view. He says that ho believes that baptism should bo by immersion only, and that it should be extondod only to adult be lievers, fclo docs not bold to Infant bap tism. With those opinions ho believes it to bo his duty to j ilu the 1J vpt 1st de nomination. Iiis resignation will take effect March 1. He says this is no hasty decision. ? Newspaper correspondents at the national Capitol have noticed that a great change has coma over Senator Tillman in ins tuo thuds of speaking. It w;.s Invariably his habit heretofore ti speak extemporaneously, without notes, but now he has his speeches pre pared aud distributes proofs of them before, no delivers them. It is only when begets away from the printed copy, in the fervor of hi-3 address, ttiat he is like the Tillman who u-cd to rat tio the dead bonea in the Senate. ? Alabama has a history commission, appointed by legislative authority, tho mission of win eh Is to ascertain and report to the Governor all accessible material.--, without as well as within tho State's borders, for a history of the State. WHY HE CURES. Tim GrcatoM H]vo<:iiillnl <>i 11??- Tlmo Given Kvcrj Ciiho Ills I'' is.mat Attention. Doctoi Moni doctor* hnvn a certain nanilior of stock romwliwuliicli ilioy two In tlnthnwiiv's mi ? '' Method i ilni_rti??-.-.I iiml Ilu- t'XIlCt Itloli of tll< llll'iii ili'li-i neu iCllciMI' l.f IliK Tims . '?IimI ? i i'.ir oly ikwl lui'dleliH'si ul linlstorcil \<'.ii-li urn ifi'iiilly i.i<-: .ii'il iiimIit ' i 11ii111 in ij iicrsoiiiu i, . ii i rei ni ???*'<?? NdOvoi' ,'i loan nffoctpe iparl iliirallcpii 'UilliO 111 to :u IllllOr, COIlfUMlllOIlt" , i ? two i.pi" ?Imiitil I"' riMtoil in Iii?) - nil" wrty v.-n for - iiiix c?ii)|iliilnt< i ?r. Iliitlmwiiy In a i|K'Clnl .( Ill till, heut now OI?l Hi" i.r.l li.-ti"<t-M.Ial?ll?; 'ii a -|i"i ial iiianiii'r or ...! . i .. ,t ymr? i -ii whil" in _ .iii.l lio-atitill i>\ icllro iiml I"! Every Case . . , , lu'oii-tantly u; iiv lurlnii Ilm I? ? ? " - ' ?. Specially ;?? tr- (l( ??, Trcntctl. ,, , iu?i'" ii.u^nimirv i>r- n iiluiway'n i'"- >i an.i uniform auc> nnLa U .lllob) Uli? Ii IM 1<I ? 'I *i"' 11.-01 IlL-I.t Exclusive; .., lr| |i,i,|| |i irt 10I Ilm Troatmont ? . . iirivi.r iMintrnr.llatlmvny'itiw-tlio loftn ntinoiit.lii; i..-t,-v.-i llwiiortonllown. liiijwolf Um kjiowloilup It iiliiroiniiiit<M<f<l" '"' Mloow ?! nwnm of llioinl-t pfiiot which in is Iki "Ion" l?y ''?'''1111 "f :l">' iii-nli'iii, nt'Vor inliiil how porfoi'l. Blood and Skin l>r. Ilntlmv ir'Atrcutincntfor nwnncAe !?! oi|?H?oaRi'i InwliiUi-vcrKlllKO i.iniolinn nlmnlo*. *>tc.iiiu<l not only roMoro? ifm -ton nnd w?iill> t<?tlu?lr nnliirnl .ulltlon, hut no iiiiriuofl limhloodHintllw ill?>a?o I* normniu'iitly j??>? t ruin; iiihiiy ilrlvon from ilio nyrtom ami nil thin, without i ''Mu rim1 piilsoiioiiji or (Irtofforoiia ilruuM, VorV- ? ? Ironlini'iit