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FLAGS AT HALF MAST. REV. THOMAS DIXON'S SERMON OK WORLD'S .FAIR PROPHECIES. Mutterings of Discontent and Despair In an Age of Progress-The Social Disease. Menaces In Europe and America-The Gulf Between the Classes. Nsw YOKK, Dec 31.-Kev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., preached at Association hall , this morning. the last of the series of ser? mons on ** The Propbeci<?s of the World's Fair.'* The text chosen was from Jere? miah vi, 14: ''Saying, Peace, peace: when lhere is no peace. *' It had been planned that the last day of the great Colombian exposition should be a day of supreme triumph. It was f?t that it should he so. Its man? agement had been a magnificent sac cess. The people of America had join? ed in making it a sac cess. They had opened it in unprecedented splendor. They had given* their hearts' enthusi? asm to it They had gi ven their money. AndMthey: rejoiced in its success. Its magnificent achievement in art and in architecture and in the celebration of the progress of the world was the attain? ment of a victory for which the nation rejoiced with a peculiar national pride.. It was a sad and tragic disappointment which met them on the day of the close. Instead of a day of festivity, of merri? ment, of grand music, of rejoicing, it was a day of gloom, sadness, silence, foreboding. The flags on the buildings were all at half mast. The mayor of the city of Chicago had been stricken down by the hand of an assassin. In? stead of music, there was silence. In? stead cf laughter, there were tears. And the nation felt it. It was as if in the midst of our rejoicing we were brought sharply and suddenly face to face with the fact that there was a skeleton in the closet, a skeleton of grim and terri? ble mien-one that could not he down? ed at the bidding of any man or any power. It is perhaps as well that this grand world's exposition should have closed with the flags at half mast. It would not have been a world's fair had we not in some way celebrated the exposition of oar social disease. No celebration in the closing days of the nineteenth century that shall recite its achieve? ment, its progress, its present position and its promise would be completo with? out these dark lines drawn in the pic? ture; T?E WORLD'S DISEASE. * We are brought tiras face to face with tile fact of a world's disease in the midst of our celebrating a world's tri? umph and progress. Restlessness, an? archy and social disoider are facts of which we would like to remain uncon? scious, were it possible, but it is no longer possible. The mob that surged through Haymarket square and explod? ed their bombs some years ago, the grim monument that marks the spot today, the mob that swayed through the streets of New Orleans and held the city in its grasp until i ts'deeds of murder were wrought, the lynchings that have disgraced the south and the west and the north of late, the noto? rious lawlessness and mob rule and slam government of our cities-all these are - sharp reminders ci the fact, that we, ' too, of late, must enroll our nation among these that suffer from this social disease. In Europe there is not a nation that does not shiver today at the thought of possible social revolution. Anarchy is rampant throughout the civilized world. Spain attempted to crush the wretch that had made an effort io kill one of her great men. What was the result? The result was that in Barcelona, while a great theater was packed with help? less and innocent and unoffending men, women and children, from line top gal? lery a fiend hurled a dynamite bomb into the orchestra.. If both the bombs hurled had exploded, tile entire theater woold have been demolished, and per? haps thousands would have been man? gled to pieces. As it was, the horror was enough. ? Thirty lives were lost, and hrm?reds were wounded; The depth of deviltry and fiendishness to which a man must descend to be capa? ble of audi a crime may be said to open a new chapter in the histor}' of our civ? ilization. France is reminded within the past few weeks of the same great disease. A bomb is exploded in the chamber of deputies, with the evident dramatic in? tention of emphasizing the irrepressi? ble conflict between law and lawless? ness, between anarchy and government. It was only the merest accident that prevented this bomb from doing the terrible work intended'by its thrower. Officials in Germany have recently received mysterious packages which contained explosives sufficient to kill. Russia has been in a condition of chronic anarchy for a generation. England is reminded from day to day of the fact of this disease in her social body. The government of Italy now faces the possibility of a social revolution which threatens to destroy the empire itself. The recent accession of Crispi to power again has done little to allay the feeling of uneasiness and uncertainty. Crispi is the avowed enemy of the Vatican, and yet a nigh ecclesiastic, in commenting on his return to power, ex habited little concern, saving by way of parenthesis that, though Crispi was an open enemy of the Vatican, they would scarcely expect a hostile movement upon his part, when the empire itself was threatened with possible dissolution in a social upheaval. AN AWFUL FACT. The threat of social disorder can no longer be laughed out of court. It can no longer be placed to the overland imagination of a certain classof writers. It is a solemn and an awful fact with which government today stands face to face; with which the conservative forces of society ?land face to face. Crime has become an epidemic. An? archy has become a disease, and the dis? ease mast be declared a -world epidem? ic. The method of infection is through ojir.debauched daily press, and it has spread to the uttermost limits of 1 .world. The criminal who finds hi self in prison nowadays finds that I life is paraded in double leads, ] achievement made the topic of conv sation throughout the world, his mel ods the subject of a thousand illust] ri ons in the sensational press, his da: life transformed from the vulgarity a dread of crime iuto the romance of t world rf adventure. He only regr< that hemd not make a greater crin nal while he was about it. The otl young devils who are in the backgrour waiting for an opportunity, when th read these exploits resolve to outdo tb* when their opportunity comes, and soon comes, and if it does not coi they will make it come. In former days the brutal publici of punishment was a great source criminal contagion. In our time, t sensational newspaper is the most coi mon medium for the transfer of this h silisk of crime. An anarchistic ou break in one nation is sure to produ through this means an outbreak in a other. CRIMINAL INSANITY. ft would be idle to suppose that a archy is itself a separate phenomeno: Anarchy is a criminal insanity. It is ? insanity which is the product of a di ease. Insanity usually comes from tl same organic disturbance of the const tution of the patient. In this case, is produced by organic disturbance. '. we seek to cure anarchy by killing a the anarchists, we have undertaken 1 cure a disease by ministering simply 1 the surface. I do not believe that ai archists should be spared, nor won] any rational man advocate our sparix: them. They should be removed freo society as wild beasts are removed fro] a crowded street, and by the same metl ods that wild beasts are removed. Sue men have no right to exist in a civilize society. But if they should all be r< moved by violence tomorrow the nea day there would be anarchists, and th next year there would be practically i many to deal with as the year befon Anarchy cannot be exterminated by ea terminating anarchists, for the simp] reason that it does, not produce itsel primarily. It is the result of a socia disorder. It is the madness of despai and crime coming from a social di soi der which must be remedied first. It is useless for men to cry, '.'Peace Peace!*' when there is no peace in th social world. It is useless to strengthe the police, strengthen the militia, t strengthen our laws with extradition against crimes of violence. It is child' play to merely hedge in the manttf ac ture of explosives, when the spread o knowledge in chemistry makes it possi ble for any child whieh goes to tb public school to manufacture an au archist's bomb. INDUSTRY OP WAR. What is the leal status of our indus trial world today? As a matter of fact it is arrayed into two grand hostile ar mies. On the one hand are.arrayed cap ital and conservatism in governmen and society. Capital and conservatisn are organized and powerful, and they ar< not only organized, but they are mili tant in their organization. The spirii by which capital is continually being strengthened in its organization is i spirit of deep hostility against tho? who are not within the organization, Business has alain sentiment. Laboi becomes more and more strictly a com? modity, from the point of view of these men. Humanity is relegated to the sphere of sickly sentiments. 4 ' I will nu my business to suit myself, or I will not run it at all," is the motto of the capital king of today. * * I will shut down my business when it snits me, and il does not matter what may become of the . people dependent upon it. If they starve, it is their lookout. I am running my own business." lt is needless to say that th is position is one of war. It is need? less to say that it is tantamount to a declaration of war.4 Upon the other hand, labor is organ? izing in hostile camp some hostile groups. The. farming ek-ment hitherto has been a bulwark of conservatism, but now has become the stronghold of rad? icalism. We have groups of radical la? bor -onions. We have gronps of radical socialists.. And we have groups of mad? men called anarchists. But they are all haunted by a spirit of deep seated hos? tility against the capitalistic and con? servative classes of society. They are extending and perfecting their organi? zation, and they have shown their tre? mendous power in the past 10 years. They have organized strikes that have paralyzed trade, costing millions of dol? lars, precipitating chaos in more than one nation in the business world. In the spirit and mightiness and demands of some of these organizations there is much that is brutal and unreasonable. They refuse to allow a man to earn a living who will not work in their way and through their union. They would force him to starve, and if he attempts to work they would murder him in his attempt It is needless to say that this is an act of war. It is needless to say that the position assumed by the men who lead these forces is tantamount to a declaration of war in society. The weapons they use are the weapons of war. Boycotts and strikes and violence are used to supplement when deemed necessary. IS THE WAR JUSTICIABLE? We need not .ask is this right, either apon the part of the capitalists or upon the part of the radicals. If war is right, it is right. Falsehood and violence and homicide are the elements of war. If war is right, these things are justified. There are some things that are worse than war, we will agree-slavery, stag? nation and despair. The degradation of millions of people leonid certainly be worse than the death of a few thousand. LA our statesmen and philanthropists and teachers see to it. These are the facts cf our social re gime today. The causes that originat- i ed and produced this strife in the past, and originates it, produces it, today, are not far to seek. They are found in the broadening of the gulf that separates the two great classes from one another. Farther and farther apart they are driven each day. They know less of | each other; they desire but tokncwl?ss j of each other. With this alienation nrasf grow, continuons misunderstand? ings, and as the breach grows wider, the clash must become more fatal at the last. The selfishness of human na? ture is of course a strong element in this development. The capitalist looks out for number one. He takes care of his own interests. Labor has said hereto? fore, We will look out for our organiza? tion. If it comes in c ontact with capi? tal, we will fight. If it comes in con? tact with our weaker brethien, we will crush them to death. Ignorance and selfishness have thus crushed the weak and have produced the despair which j gives us a carnival of crime and suffer? ing and want. What is to be gained to either side as at present arrayed? Aft? er victory, what? If capital gain a vic? tory with its present mottoes, and labor be made a slave, what has been accom? plished? Capital has defeated its own end, and in exterminating the soul of labor it has killed the goose that laid the golden egg. And with present fac? tions and factional leaders if labor gains the victory, what has been accom? plished? The imperialism of capitalism has been changed for the imperialism of -torpidity and brutality, ignorance and vulgarity. A PROBLEM FOR SOLUTION*. Let the chnrch of Ghrisfc see to it! These two armies are moving toward a clash, with all the horrors of such a war as the world has never seen. Martial war in the past has been brutal enough, and yet it has its music, its fife, its drums, its flags, its chivalry, its heroism. These are eliminated when the weapons used are the torch, the dagger, the highway? man's revolver and the dynamite bomb It is time the teacher and the preacher and the statesman joined hands to solv? this problem. It is time that nation joined hands with nation to settle it. Destroying Bank of England Notes. With the Bank of England the de? struction of "its notes takes place about ?-once a week, and at 7 p. m. It used to be done in the daytime, but made such a smell that the neighboring stockbrokers petitioned the governors to do it in the evening. The notes are pre? viously canceled by punching a hole through the "amount-in figures-and tearing off the signature of the chief cashier. The notes are burned in a closed furnace, and the only agency employed is shavings and bundles of wood. They used to be burned in a cage, the result of which was that once a week the city was darkened with burned fragments of notes. For future purposes of reference, the notes are left for five years before being burned. The number of notes coming into the Bank of England every day is about 50,000, and 350,000 are destroyed every week, or something like 18,000,000 every year. The stock of paid notes for five years is about 77,745,000 in number, and they fill 13,400 boxes, which, if placed side by side, would reach 2 1-3 miles. If the notes were placed in a pile, they would reach to a height of 5 2-3 miles; or, if joined end to end, would form a ribbon 12,455 miles long.-London Let- j ter. I Over 9600 a Week For a Finger. Zachariah A. Hubley, a prosperous business man of Worcester, Mass., lost a finger by the accidental discharge of his gun while hunting in Nova Scotia on Aug. 4 and now claims an aggre? gate of over $600 a week from various accident insurance companies. It was said that he carried insurance to the amount of over $100,000, but to The World correspondent he said that $60, 000 would cover the amount placed in good companies. He says he will have no trouble in collecting the amount claimed when he recovers. Getting Beady For War. All manner of points bearing upon war are occupying the attention of the government. There was a sharp debate in the chamber on the subject of the corn supply, which brought out the fact that the government is taking pre? cautions in this matter. Work will be? gin at once on a series of new military roads which are to run through the southern districts around the city and will have the effect of making Paris a formidable intrenched camp in case of war.-Paris Letter. Texas Cotton Shipments, j SAN ANTONIO, Tex., January 1.- J Eighteen of the principal cotton markets of South-West Texas* show that thus far this season 101,897 bales of cotton have been shipped being a decrease of 41 per cent, under last season stock. Held in reserve, 6,917 bales, being 30 per cent., under last season. Very little cotton is now held in this section. His Official Debut. Attorney General Buchanan left the city yesterday morning for Charleston, where be goes to argue the Caotini case for the State Mr. Buchanan ex? pects to win the case without much trouble. The suit as is known is the result of a raid on the house of an Italian named Caotini, and the inva? sion of the sick room of Cantini's wife. The State will defend the action of its constables by holding that they were acting under orders of a circuit judge. Mr. Buchanan expects to return to the city to-morrow.-The State, Jan. 3. ia? ?? na* President Grant is on record also for the policy of free raw materials-the policy of the Wilson bill. In 1874 he wrote to Congress and said : "Those articles which enter into our manufac? tures and are not produced at home, it seems to me, should be entered free. * * I will instance fine wools, dyes, etc." And President Grant clinched his testimony in favor of the leading feature of the Wilson bill, which is free raw materials, by declaring that "the introduction, free of duty, of j such wools as we do not produce would j stimulate the manufacturer of goods requiring the use of those we do pro- j dace, and therefore, would be a benefit j to borne production." I Easy Sacrifices. He said it was ea*y for some peo? ple to give up sins which had no fasci natioo for them. "It isn't hard for a one-legged man to give up dancing," he said, "and it requires no effort for a dumb man to stop swearing. A man who bas never had any temptation io driok whiskey can easily put aside the liquor habit I have a niece whose name is Dolly. Sbe was once visiting at the house of her aunt, and after the meal, when it was time for desert, ?he hostess said ; " Well, Dolly, you'll take a piece of pie V " *No ma'am.' said Dolly, "my j mamma doesn't want me to eat pie.' 'Well, how grand we thought it was, I that a little sis year old girl away from j home should do just as her mamma wanted her to do, whether she was there Or not! But the next day, at dessert, we had a different kind of pie. The hostess said : "'I believe you don't take pie, Dolly V M ?Why, yes, ma'am I'll take a piece,' said the girl hesitatingly. " 'Why, Dolly,* said her aunt, I thought your mamma didn't waotyou to eat pie.' " 'Well, I didn't like that kind of pie,' the giri said. 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Charleston Pregnal l's Harleyville Peck's Bolly Hill Connors Eutawville Vanees Merriam St Paul Summerton Silver Packs?i Ile Tindal Sumter Sumter Oswego St. Charles Elliotts Lamar Syracuse Darlington Mont Clare Robbins Neck Mandeville Bennettsville Breeden's Alice Gibson Gbio Hamlet Ar Ar Lv Ar ki Lv M (i ll ll Lv 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 P M BOND BLUFF BRANCH. No 41 leaves Eutawville 9.45 a. m , Belvi? dere 9.55 arrive Ferguson 10.05. No. 42 leaves Ferguson 10 35 a.m , Bel vi. dere 10.45, arrive Eutawville 10.55. HARLIN CITY BRANCH. No. 33 going North leaves Vanees 6 50 p. m., Snells 7 08, Parters 7 17, arrives Harlin City 7 35 p. m. No. 34 going South leaves Harlin City 5 15, Parlers 5 35, Snells 5 48, arrive Vanees 6 10 p. m. No. 31 going North leaves Vanees ll 15 a. m., Snells ll 35, Parlers ll 48, arrive Harlin City 12 10 p. m. No. 32 going South leaves Harlin City 8 30 a. m., Parlers 8 48, Snells 8 57, arrive Vanees 9 15 a. m. Trains32 and 31 connect with No. lat Vanees. Trains 34 and 33 connect with No. 2 at Vanees. No. 41 connects with No. 1 at Eutawville. No. 1 bas connection from S. C., No. ll at Pregoalls, connects with Harlin City Branch Trains 32 and 31 at Vanees and connects with C. C. No. 43 at Hamlet. No. 2 has connection from C. C. No. 36 at Hamlet, connects with Harlin City Branch Trains 34 and 33 at Vanees and connects with S C. No. 12 at Pregnalls. No. 1 connects with C. F. & Y. V. at Ben? nettsville for Fayetteville, connects with Sea? board Air Line at Hamlet for Wilmington, Charlotte, Shelby Rutherfordton; and at Charlotte with R. & D. Vestibule Limited for Washington and New York. Passengers can take sleeper at Charlotte at 8.15 p. m. No. 2 passengers by this train have through Sleepers. New York to Charlotte, connects with S. A. L, at Hamlet from Charlotte and North, and from Wilmington, connetcs with S. C. R. R. at Pregnalls for Charleston. Dinner at Hamlet. C. MILLARD, Superintendent. ' Atlantic Coast Line. NORTH-EASTERN R. R. OF S. C. CONDENSED SCHEPL?E, TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Dated Jan j 111, 1894.1 No |No. 35|No. 61|No. 23|No.53 f501 I * I * I * I * Le Fl'nee ! " Ringst.j Ar Lanes i Le Laoes.; Ar. Ch'n.t 9 42 A. .M. P. M. * 7 05 8 45 P. M TRAINS GOING NORTH. j No. |No. 78|No. 60|No. 14lNo. 52 ! f500 I * I * ? * J * Le. Ch'n Ar Lanes. Le Lanes. "Kiogst Ar Fl'ncf P. M. 8 41 ll 39 M. A. AI. ?3 35 5 30 5 30 5 52 7 10 A. M. P. M. *5 00 7 00 7 05 7 25 8 50 P. M. P. M *3 30 5 29 5 29 5 45 6 45 P. M. A. Al. *7'00 8 35 A. M. * Daily. f New York and Florida Special, carrying only ?rst-class passengers holding Pullman accommodations-Daily except Sunday. No. 52 runs through to Columbia via Central R. R. of S. C. fgTrain Nos. 6u0, 78 and 14 run via Wilson and Fayetteville-Short Line-and make close connection for all points North. J. R. RENLY, J. ?\ DIVINE, Gen'l Manager. Gen'l Sup't. T. AL EA1ERSON, Traffic Manager._ Atlantic Coast Line* WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA R. R. CONDENSED SCHEDULE. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Dated Dec 24. 1893. |N<>. 55|N.?. 58| L've Wilmington. Leave Marion...... Arrive Florence. Leave Florence Ar've Sumter. Leave Sumter.... Ar've Columbia. NV 52 nins through from Charleston via Central R rt. leaving Lane 8:44 A. M., Man nine 9:20. A. M. TRAINS GOING NORTH. No. 511 No. 53 j .Daily, f Daily except Sunday. No. 53 runs through to Charleston, S. C., vii. Central R. R .arriving Alanning 6:15 P. M., Lanes 7:00 P. M., Charleston 8.45 P. Mr. Trains on Manchester ? Augusta R. R. leave Sumter daily except Sunday, 10:50 A. M.. ar? rive Rimini 11.59. Returning len ve Rimini 1:00, P. M., arrive Sumter 2:10 P. M j Trains on Ilartsville R. R. leave Hartsville daily except Sunday at 6.00 a. m.. arriving Fl-yds 6.35 a. m. Returning leave Floyds 8.00 p. m., arriving Ilartsville 3.04 p. m. Trains on Wilmington Chadbourn and Con way railroad, leave Chadbourn 10:10 a. m. arrive at Conway 12.30 p. m., returning leave Conway at 2.00 p. m., arrive Chadbourn 4.50 p. m. Leave Chadbourn 5.15 p. m., arrive at Hub 6.00 p. m. Returning leave Hub at 8.15 a m. arrive at Chadbourn 9.00 a. m Daily ex? cept Sunday. JOHN F. DIVINE, General Sup't. J. R KEN LT, Qen'l Manager. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. "OLD RELIABLE" LINS. South Carolina Railway, PASSENGER DEPARTMENT. In effect December 25, 1893. SCHEDULE. Lr Charleston, 7 15 a m " Summerville, 7 52 a m " Pregnalls, 8 28 a m " Branchville, 9 10 a m " Bamberg, 9 53 a m " Denmark 10 08 a m '< Blackville 10 25 a m " Aiken ll 27 a m Ar Augusta 12 15 p m Lv Augusta 6 30 a m " Aiken 7 14 a m " Blackville 8 10 a m " Desmark 3 25 a m " Bamberg 8 39 a m " Branchville 9 20 a m " Pregnalls 10 05 a m " Summerville 10 45 a m Ar Charleston ll 30 a m 6 45 pm - 7 27 p m 8 08pm 865 p m 9 32 p m 9 46 p m 10 03 p m 11 00 p m ll 45 p m 3 40pm 4 27 p m 5 28 pm 5 44 p m 5 ?8 p m 6 25 p m 7 28 p m 8 05 p m 8 45 p m Lv Charleston " Summerville " Orangebnrg " Ringville Ar Columbia Lv Columbia " Ringville " Orangeburg " Summerville Ar Charleston 7 15am 7 52 a m 9 46 a m 10 32 a m 11 15 a m 4 20 p m 5 05 p m 5 56 p m 8 05 p m 8 45 p m 7 30 p m 8 05 p m 10 00 pm 10 53 p m 11 40 p m ' 5 30 a m 6 16 a m 7 05 a m 8 54 a m 9 30am Lv Columbia Lv Ringville Ar Camden Lv Camden Ar Ringville Ar Columbia 9 30 a m 10 38 a m 12 58 p m 3 25 p m 5 07 p m 5 55 pm j Through sleeper on train leaving Charles? ton 6 45 p m, arrive Atlanta 625 am. 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Per Year : HARPER'S MAGAZINE,.?. $4 00 HARPER'S WEEKLY,......4 00 HARPER'S BAZAR.4 00 HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE,.2 00 Postage Free to all subscribers in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The Volumes of the Weekly begin with the [ first Number for January of each year. When j no time is mentioned, subscriptions will begin with the Number current at time of receipt of order. Bound Volumes of Harper's Weekly, for three years back in neat cloth binding, will be sent by ! mail postage paid, or by express, free of ex . pense (provided the freight does not exceed one ! dollar per volume,) for $7.00 per volume. Cloth Cases for each volume, suitable for binding, will be sent by mail, postpaid, on re? ceipt of $1.00 each. Remittances should be made by Pott Office Money Order or Draft, to avoid chance of less Setcspapers are not to copy this advertisement without the express order of H ARPER A BROTHERS? Address : HARPER A BROTHERS, _ New York. Y. M. C. A. 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