Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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mi nil i world. ' : ^ _ i THE LATEST NEWS AKKANGED | i'AUAUKArillCALLY. Happenings Doth Homo and Foreign, As Well as From the North, East and West. Notes From the South. A cyclone passed through the district near '.Sherman, Texas. Very little damage reported. A. J. Sullivan, a prominent South Carolinn architect, died suddenly ut Charleston of apoplexy. A tcrriblo cyclono passed through tho eastern part of Lafayette county. Mississippi, Thursday, demolishing farm houses and uprooting trees of all sizes. At Mnyesville, about twelvo miles from Augusta, CJa., lleury Norvillo shot and killod Dr. Hose in an iin.1 i :n. ..4 .... |MUUI|HU UUt'l Willi NllUl^llllN. 1 (It* shooting was tlie result of u quarrel a 1 few tinvh ago. Tjaht Wednesday's exports from New Orleans, La., to Europe, were the largest ou record, including ('>0,000 bales of cotton, 3J8,0()U bushels of j grain and enough miscellaneous freight | to fill eight largo steamers. A charter has been issued to the | Charleston, South Carolina, Street Railway Co. Tho capital stock is ?200,000, which maybe increased to 81,000,000. They propose to give the city a belt line of electric railroad. Tho University of California is to bo made richer by $1,000,000 by donations from various persons, chief among whom is Mrs. l'hoebo Hearst, widow of the millionairs Senator from California. Judgo .Tames W. Locke, in tlio Suited States Court at Jacksonville, Via., ordered a postponement of tho sale of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West railway until the lirst Monday in March. The sale was to have taken place November 2. ? ? Throughout the North. In New York Kid Lavicue knocked out Jack Evcrhardt in tbo '21th round. Elmer S. Duudv, J ml go for the United States court for Nebraska, died in Oinubn. Mrs. Andre Herube died at Fitchburg, Mush., at the advanced age of 10'J years. At Belmont driving park, Philadelphia, Pu., John It. Gentry, tbo fastest horse in the world, paced a mile in 'J :0'3 \. Burke Cockrnn, of New York, addressed a meeting of sound money Democrats in Norfolk, Va.. IIImunncrcd disorder prevailed. At Athens, Ohio, nil tbe coal minors have returned to work at n to cent rato with tbo expectation that the rate will boon be restored to (>1 cents. Alexander and Edward Day, brothers, living near Cnssvillc, Wis., quar- j relcd over a trivial matter, and Edward shot Alexander. Tbe murderer was arrested. The faculty of the Ohio State Uui- | versity refused to restore E. 11. French I in school because he gave bin whole 1 time to the football teuri as captain. i The faculty said college work must j come iirsi. At Carbon, a mining town, north of | Brazil, Iml., <101111 11 ays was fatally ' stabbed by an unknown Italian in a j political quarrel. The murderer thrust j a stiletto to tbo hilt in Hays' body re- | pcatedly and escaped. - ? Political l>ols* Gens. Palmer uml Bucfecr continued their cumpaiguing up to tbo lust days of tbo election. Threo delegations called upon McKinley Thursday at Canton, O. Tbo usual ceremonies was gone through Both tho Western Union ami Postal Telegraph Companies taken tho election returns in tho library of Mr. Bryan's residence at Lincoln, Nub. Tho official count of tho Georgia election by tho Leginlaturo gives Atkinson 120,827 to Seabon Wright's 85,802. Atkinson's majorty being 22,000. Chairman Cainpau, of tho Democratic National Campaign committco, says Bryan is sure of 280 votes. He says his estimate is based on thirty-two Democratic State chairmen, giving estimates as to how their States would record their votes. Telegrams to tho Atlanta, Ga., Journal from tho various counties of tho Third District show that there will be practically no opposition to tho suggestion, made originally by the Journal, that Charles B. Crisp, youngest ron of tho late ex-Speaker Crisp, be nnmnil in fill mil liiu fntl>oi**u nvwiv. pircd term. ?Foreign. The prico of bread has gouo up half a penny u lonf and tlio increnso is being acutely felt in tho poorer districts of Loudon. id. Challemel-Lacour, recently President of tlio French Senate ami ! formerly AmbaHSftdor of Franco in London ftnd Minister for Foreign Afimrs, is dead. Imagines lliiiisclt'n Monkey. William Koousmnn, near Kokomn, hid. imagines that ho lias turned int.. aa animal. A week ngo la* < :isi (?IT iill his clothing and went about his farm entirely nude under tie belief that his body a mild soon I with .1 growth of hair as a proteetinn a:-nasi the weather. In this condition le* lay.'I on the roof of the hmise several ni.'his to avoid rapture, sitting until" chimin-^ ... .-a nur.lly | lol.reaktho for e ollhoeold, frosty night air. Koonsman was 11 mil I y taken into in. | tody, hut lie successfully resisted every elTort : M to dress him. lie was put in an iron eage ' u in tim jail, wlcro ho eli:i>i>ed and ran ar .und I J t tie hare li'.o a lacul.ey. tl . has L>ooa t.ik *u i to thu iiavJum. | 1 MOWS FROM WASHINGTON. J Tho faction of foreign markets of tho Department of Agriculture bus Issued its cireu- i 1 ir. No. 10. ou the course of wheat production aud exportation in the United Btutus Oiunda. Argentine, Uruguay, ltussiu and j llrttish India from 1880 to 1895. It shows | the annual average product ion of wheat by i quinquennial periods, und the very decided increase in tho wheat productions of tho 1 United States, Canada, Argentine nnd Russia luring tho last ilfteeu years. A simular growth would also be shown for Uruguay were tho statistics available for the eutire period. India alone of the six countries has suffered a decliiie. Tho circular also presents a table containing tho annual average exports of wheat and wheat flour, expressed n bushels of grniu by quinquennial periods, of the same countries, which indicates In i striking manner the marvelous growth which has occurred since 1880 in tho volume of wheat distributed by some of the principal wheat exporting countries. The average yoarly export of wheat and wheat flour from the United States Increased 10 per cent, from 1880 to 1895; Russia made nearly an equal gain; Canada, although rathor unimportant when compared with tho United States aud Russia, shows a growth which is proportionately oven more rapid, tlie average not shipment per annum having tripled since 4881 '85. Rut tho wonderful Kmnth In iivnorlntion is exhibited ill ArL'cn. tin? nnd Uruguay. From the average ot 2.000,000 bushels in tho quinquennium 1831'85, Argentiaiu's shipments increased to an average of nearly 05.000,000 in i881-*95, while in the same period Uruguay's net exports per annum advanced from about 77,000 bushels to more than 1,000,000 bushels. The total quantity of wheat exported from tho six countries during the live year period, 18,31"85, averaged 258,000.000 bushels, nnd of the five years lSOl-'SMi, 052,000,000 per annum, a total gain of 11 1,000,000 bushels. Tables are also given showing tho wheat area, production and exportation of tho six countries i'rotu 1830-'9li in detail. It is stated authoritatively at tho Stat" Department that Consul tienernl Loo's return to this country at this tiino is without any other significance than that tho state of af- ] fairs in Havana M now so satisfactory that his presence there is not urgently required ! and that ho has been able to leave his ofllco in tho hands of Vice Consul Springer. Gen. I.eo has merely seized this opportunity to visit his family as well as to see his son, who is n cadet at West Point, and possibly to take his family back to Cuba with liim next month. Tho President has denied a pardon to Luther A. null, of Georgia, sentenced in January, 1891, to imprisonent for Jlfe in tho Ohio penitentiary tor conspiracy and murder. -ITho Treasury Department has instructed Dr. Senser, commissioner at New York to land 213 Armenians on their giving bond in $100 each. Theso Armeniuus hail been do ..! I ..o III-..I.. >. 111. II.. rthn ...... llllUVVt WO 11 J MVVV.MV VUU.^^, Thistles for Fuel. As tho result of experiments Inst winter, the mill nt Castalia, 8. D., will again use the Russian thistle for fuel in p'ace of conl. The proprietor of tho mill ofTors farmers J1.50 per ton for all tho thirties they can bring in. Thus farmers in that section will rocivo an income from whnt has heretofore bom one of their greatest enemies, the thistles growing in such nrofusion in somo localities that j small grain uas been completed crowded out. CIIAMIE KOB TIIK BETTER. Tho Sultan of Turkey ^Coming to His Senses. Tho latest from Constantinople, Turkey, says that since tho rocout visit of the Russiau Ambassador, M. Do NolidoiT, to the Sultan and the long and important audience that followed, it has been noticeable that another change for tho better has taken place in the attitude of Abdui Ilnmid and his advisers towards tin* Armenians in particular and the reform policy d? general. It is known that 51. Do XeiidolT u.-od very plain language to the Sultan, stud it is apparent that the latter was convinced that tho Russia!) Ambassador was in earnest. This, supplemented by grave reports re-i-ived i y the Sa ltan from the Turk- | isli Embassies at louden and l'aris, pointing out tin! distrust and irritation caused by the attitude of Turkey, lm> brought about eager i rofessions uiioa the nurt ol the Turkish l-?v ernmeni of t > honestly j i .-!s ttio work of reform, ami, as a comae nc< meat, live Christian deputy governors have lo'ii np- j pointed in Armenia, and it is probable that there will bo changes shortly in tho eomposi- j tiou of tho Turkish ministry. DISRKPt TAIILK Ml.MODS. To WhichSpain Has Resorted to Coi:viet Americans. At Jacksonville, Tin.. W. H. ltu Id a'ift* James MeCormiek, alias J. II. Hamilton, an alleged Spanish spy and also said to bo in tin* employ of tho United States S eret Servioe, is hold undor ><1,000 bond, charged witli endeavoring to ineite to eoininit perjury, a oolored man who is alleged to have been employed on the Steamer Dauntless when it mnde its filibustering trip to Cuba from lirnnswiek, C?a., and who gave testimony in tho lihel ease against the hont tit 15rni.:wick reeently. Tho ovideneo in tho ease was taken before a justice of the pence, ami if true it shows the disreputable methods to which the agents of the Spanish government are resorting in their efTorts to convict Americans of sending filibustering expeditions to Cnba. A Clerk's Krror Cost $100,000. Tho San Francisco Dispatch, says: Owing to a clerk's error the Mutual Life Insurance Company, of New York, will have to pay Mrs. Nellie l'hinney a judgment of ?!'8,000, with interest and costs, making a total of more than $100,000. The company refii3ed to pay the life policy of Guy C. l'hinney for $98,000, and suit was brought by the widow and judgment given, but the ease appealed. It. H. Hopkins, clerk of the court at Wash ington, failed to properly endorse the writ o.' error tiled against him, therefore there js no official record showing tliat tho writ was net iiauy 11 lad. Tiio tiino allowed within which another appeal might be filed lias expired, ho the decision is final. >inMncro In Kustcrii Turkey. Advices from llarpoot, Enstnrn Turkey, received at ltoston, Mass., confirms the dispatches to the Associated Preps in regard to the extent and barbarity of the recent massacre .it Ei;ln, Those advices stato that iiiauy of the dead wcro left in tho streets f..r days as the food for dogs, nnd large numbers were thrown into the Euphrater. The bodies wero seen II oat I nit down tho river forty or fifty miles below the city. In some cases whole families were obliterated. Kxact statistics, of course, cannot be Riven now, but it is feared that 2.000 is an tinder-estimate. All the testimony at hand concurs in showing that tlie massi ere was official and that it was Wholly without reason. CI- clunkers on Strike. Bix hundred operatives in Munrnru's cignr notory struck at Tampa, Fin., because their lemands for an incrcaso in wages were not lc i d" <1 to. The eioni makers are all Cubans ind Spaniards. Much i>a<l Idood prevails md serious trouble i* apprehended. Tho iion will not allow other workmen to tako heir piano*. I UPPEKIl mill CREAM OF THE NEWS, CULLED FROM THE DAILY PAPERS. Which Will be of More or Less Inter. est to tho General Reader. An Important mooting of Southorn railroad lines was hold hero for the purpose of arranging winter schedules betwoen New York, Washington, Savannah, Ja< knonville and St. Augustine, Fin. Commencing January 18, 1807, the Southern Hallway will operate a limited l'ullmnn vcstlbulcd train dnily, except Sunday, between Now York and St. Augustiuo, carrying conches, diuing cars, Fullman drawing rooms, sleeping cars and Pull man observation oars, leaving Now York at 12:10 p. m., Washington G:10 p. 111.. arriving ut Jacksonville at 3 30 and St. Augustine at 4:30 tlie following afternoon. The Northbound train will leave St. Augustino at 9:50 a. tn., Jacksonville at 11 o'clock and arrive in Washington at 9:45 the following morning and Now York at 3:53 tho same afternoon. This traiu will bo in addition to tho two regular daily trains carrying Pullman sleeping and dining cars now operated, thus giving throe trnius daily six days in the week between New York, Washington, Jacksonville and St. Augustiuo. These arrangements ot the Southern Hallway will briug tho transportation facilities between the North and South closer than ever before, and make tho trip between these sections one of dispatch and comlort Secretary Herbert announces tnat i!. ? unnamed ships now under construction, will bo named as follows: Jlattleships Alabama, Illinois and Wisconsin; gunboats, Annapolis, Marietta, Newport. Princeton, Vieksburg and Wheeling. The Aabama is the nnmogivuu to the heretofore designated as battle-ship No. j H, building at the Cramp yard. It is a curious coincidence, that the ship yard number ul this vessel is No. 290, whhdi is tho same as that used for the rebel cruises Alabama wheu ! (die was under construction in Euglnud. Tho Alabama is slightly more formidable than the Kearsage. building at Newport News, ind is named tor Secretary Herbert's adopted State. It is believed "that tho selection wa made by tho President in compliment to the Secretary just as tho President was understood to have named tho Hrooklyu for Secretary Traeey's adopted city. Tho gunboat Marietta is named for the Ohio town of that name and not for any other Marietta. The Wheeling is for the West Virginia city, th < Princeton and Vieksburg for battles of those names and the Annapolis and Newport for the naval stations in Murylaud and llbode I'lnu'J. I 11 is stated by ollicials that the (Jutted Mates will havu the eo-oporation and support of both Kussiu and Japan in the approaching issue over establishing adequate protection for the fur seals of (lie Nortti Pafilie ocean. The question is about to bo | brought forward, as two commissioners, one ! American and one British, havu returned aft<-r an investigation of the conditions in pchriug sea. Aside from the information they have secured Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Hamlin has recently made u report, after personal inspection of the seal islands, -dating that if modifications of the Paris 'iward regal .t o :s were not agreed to "'the far seal within one or two seasons will be ommercially extinct." United States Consul General Crittenden at the City of Mexico has informed the Department of State iliat ia order to facilitate t he fruit shipments from Mexico to the United States and reduce tho loss by decay, the Mex lean Central Ibiilmad and tho Atchison, Topeka A Santa Fo Hail road have arranged to an fast through freights trains twice a week 'rout the Cilv of Mexico to Kansas City, Chicago and St. Don is. This train will mako Kansas City w. about six days and a half, a clear saving of forty-eight hours, and will i not only ! r.;:ig into market the oranges in tho | \ icinit. < :' th<- City of Mexico, hut also tlioso ! from l.alfcr.-a ami Gundalajora, whose out at ai 11 oaality tally equal that of any dis,1 id ia Mexico. j - I | 1 l.e President in making three appoint! mci.ts in the eousnlar service last week fol- | | lowed civil service reform principles by j I i emotions from lower grades iu each in-tance. The vacancy at Windsor, Ontnria, I auscd bv the dismissal of Consul Thatcher, ) vho insisted upon residing at Detroit, was "died by tho appointment of Julius G. Lay, i \ ice consul at Ottawa. Samuel M. Simmons, j . i' Texas, vice consul at Piedras Negra, Mex.. nice iss'J is promoted to consul at tlio saino I h-.ee, vice Jesse W. Sparks, deceased, and John F. Vails, of Lt uisiani, who lias been in t lie service for five years, to be consul at Mutuniorns, Mex., vice John 11 Gorman of Georgpi, deceased. Gen. Fitzbugh Lee, Gonsul-Generat at Havana, has Riven up his proposed visit to !n> Homo in Virginia, which ho had expected t > make. Tlis determination to remain at his post is understood to be duo to the reports / urront in tlio United States that ho was dis1-atislled with his instructions and desired to be relieved. As his return might give seemJng approval to the reports, thet'ousul-Genj-ral determined to give up the vacation ho [iad planned, although he is much in need of i clinngo of scene, owing to the hardships I >f the llavaua climate during the last six inontlis. ? I ? I Assistant Postmaster Watson has this tc say concerning tlio letter of Hon. Tom Watsou, which was addressed to Senator Butler: I* All the mail for Senators and topresentativos is sent to either Senate or i House postofhees. As soon as it is received by us it is sent down into the basement of the postollloo where a number of mcu are employed to do nothing else but handle tlio Congressional mail. Had the letter been handled by our carriers it would simply be preposterous to say that it could have been held for eight days, lt could not, that is simply all there is to it." The Republican Congressional committee nas decided that George W. Murray, tlio colored member of the House from the First (South Carolina district, is the nominee for Congress on the Republican ticket in that district. There has been a contest between 'Mr. Cohen and Mr. Murray and the oommitJteo was called upon to designate which oua was the nominee in fact. I ? | ? The Republican congressional campaign committee has sent out tlio lust of the documents which it will distribute in tills campaign and closed the building which Is being . a.i.l ?.. ' > V. .... ......,,,K mill iniwimg purposes. U p'wards of 25,000.000 documents havo been circulated from thnt building during tlio year, t The application for tho pardon nf Charles L. Murphy, sentenced in North Carolina to inn year for embezzling letters, has been denied. Famine Threatened in India. The famine outlook in India is increasing in gloominess. It is not probable now that rain will fall and the prospects are serious in the Northwest and central provinces and in the Punjab, The scarcity Is extending to Hebar. At Hoinbny priee.s have risen heavily. Large imports <>f foreign grain ate expected. Some Other Dr. Tanner. The Itov. Dr. Henry Q. Tanner, wlio was reported to have lost bis life in a flro at i Uron, O.. Is not the Dr. H. S. Tanner of 'listing fame, That Dr. Tanner is now at J tobiuaon, Ills., and bo baa been heard from I fitliiii the past few days. ? I LATEST NEWS. At Norristowu, Pa., C. O. Kaiser killed his wife, bid all tbo valuables : and charged the crime to bandits. In- ' veatigation followed and ho committed ! suicide. j Advices from Constautiuoplo say tho commission appointed by the Sultan to ! investigate tho recent riots in that city ] has submitted its report, which merely ' states tho facts ehcitpd. The commis- . sion estimatcH that the number of Ar- 1 menians massacred is *2,250. W. S. Stratton, the millionaire miuo ' owner of Cripple Creek, Col., a few days ago took a bet of 8100,000 on ! Bryan against $300,000 on Mclvinley. i At Louisville, Ky., CouncilmanOco. I j Weber and James Sowders and Alder- ! , men C. J. Jcnne and Richard V. ! Breuer have beon indicted by the I ' granu jury, tue lonnor ou tno charge ; ( of attempting to bribe Councilman W. j < J. Fuller, and the others frr selling . ' supplies to the city contrary to law. j ' Monday Win. J. Bryan closed his campaign at Omaha, Neb., after delivering a dozen or more speeches in tho different halls of the above city. All of last week, up to Monday previous totho election, Mr. McKinley ; received throngs of enthusiastic gath erings from tho different parts of tho I country. Tho tMul visible supply of cotton for , tho world is 51,051,1154 bales, of which ! 2,747,851 bales are Amerirnu, against 51,2(51,540 bales and 2,'.102,5530 bales respectively last year. A cycloro swept over the city and proviuco of Seville, Spain, last week, wrecking a great many housesaud killing and injuring a number of the inhabitants. It. A. Denmarck, of Savannah, Ga , ' [ has been elected president of the Southern Railway, to succeed President Baxter, deceased. At Cleveland, O., The American i : Wiro Works has started up ou double timo and is running full blast, over 1,300 men now being employed. ItKVIKW OF TRA DE. Approach of flic Kloof Ion Caused a Stampede In Ktisincss. It. O. Dun A Co.'h weekly review of trade for the past week is one that is not often seen. It says businoss was about abolished until after tne election and the main feature of the week was the pressure in the New York money market in spite of the heavy arrivals of gold. Quotations of cr.il Joans at a 100 per cont. or more had no real meaning except that, with practically four holidays to come in succession, there is really no market.Wheat declined sharply but Is rising again. The evidence of great demand abroad grows clearer, nnd wbile Western receipts are heavy, 7.562,927 bushels for the week and 28,750,644 for the past four weeks, against 31,150,264 last year, the enormous milling returns are of cspeclul value, Hhowiug that foreign orders are prepnring a great quantity Hour for export. Cotton holdup remarkably well, in spito of trade estimates that the yield would be close to uine million bales. Tho trade believes such estimates are erroneous and also hopes that tho present prices will not bo found too high, if with such n crop there should bo good business in this and other countries. The mills arc selling staple goods somewhat freely and print cloths are a shade higher, hut there is neither much selling nor much effort to buy goods of other descriptions. Failures for the week have been 270 in the United States, against 27H last year, and 40 lu Canada, against 53 last year. A TALE OF IIAUDSIIIP, Whaling Hark Rot urns After Thirty. One M out lis of Absence. The whaling bark John Winthrop lias returned to San Francisco, Cal., after an absence of thirty-one months during the great- : r portion of which time she has been witbit I t.ii neolin oieola Tlw.ro (o ? l.? t .. j I I Uiu UIV.V1V viiviv? aijvh; *3 uui ?? uurrci OI | oil in her hold, or n pound of whalebone and her logbook shows only hard luck. The | Wiuthrop brings additional particulars ol ' riots last winter among the whalers. When i a (tarty of twolvo left Ilorchcll Island for the I mines last March they stole all of tins Win* throp's dogs, sleds and 11 rearms. A search* | iug party went in pursuit and was mostly made up of officers, tho bark's crew was so mutinous that the officers were obliged to stand two out of three watch and it became necessary to doubly guard tho store-house. Severn1 deserters were captured and brought back: at len9t one froze to death nnd awful hardships were encountered. Captain Simmons says sailing vessels are useless in tho Arctic regions because tho currents are so strong that tho ship is unmanageable in tho galo of wind, BOLD, BAD KOBBKKS. I They Had Things Pretty Much Their Own |W?y in Oklahoma. A special from Guthrie, Okla., says: Tho ! Sac and Fox Indian agency, sixty miles southeast of Kansas City, Mo., was held up and looted by tho same gang of bandits who j ! looted tho town of Carney recently. Sac ! nnd Fox is only thirty-six mile-s from ("a rney. There were four masked robbers mounted and urmed. They llrst rodo to the office of Agent Tbomas, presumably to demand $40,000 in ! greenbacks to bo paid as annuities to the Sec nnd Fox Indians soon. Mr. Thomas was out, and the robbers went to tho store of Mrs. Fannio Whistler and took $480 nnd valuable paper? from the safe. They I then held up J. W. Moffltt's place nud got$5'J j and a gold watch. Chief Keokuk's place wai | robbed of $80 ond $8,000 worth of notes. The boldness of tho robbers frightened the ...i 1 - - . .. .. ... unutun uuu poupiu so uauiy mai m?y worn ' unablo to resiat. The bauriits, on leaviiiK, rushcil through tho grounds of the govern, ment Indian school tiring their guns. Fatal llull Fight. A bull light with fatal result!) occurred at | Nogales, Arizona, last week, and for a short I time caused a j>nuic in the audience. Ouecf tho hulls rushed about the arena goring everything within its reach. A horse was disemboweled. Jose Angola, in an attempt ! to place a thorn in tho sido of the wild ani| inal, was caught on one of its loug horns, which pierced him like a sword. He wn i [ j tossod and fell to tho ground, bleeding and mangled, where tho boast held him between | his homo, nnd hit and pawed him. lie was ! frightfully injured and died a few minutes | later. There was intense excitement in the ' audience, and once it wasou the verge of a I panic, but was quieted by the killing of tho I bull. Mpiiin Ilns tlio Cash. Tho Premier of Spain, Honor Can ova Del J ' Castillo, bos requested the Associated Press i | to announce that tho rcpoits, said to have | j been circulated in tho United Stales that | Spain has not the resources nee to \u- , tinue wur in Cuua, are lUifw-Vid, PAMRY OF THE WOODS. DR. TADIACiK'S SI XIJAYTHK.MK. 'he Leaves W'liicli llave Kelt tinFrost llavc t'liuiigcd in Tint, ami Leaf After Leal* They Fall. Text : "Wo nil do fodo ns n leaf."? Isaiah Ixiv., G. It is so hard for us to understand roligious truth tbfct God constantly rotteratos. As tho schoolmaster takes a blackboard and puts upon It figures nud diagrams, so that the scholar may not only get his lesson through Iho ear, but also through the oyo, so God takes all the truths of His Bible and draws thorn out in diagram on the nntural world, rhampelllon, tho famous Frenchman, went down Into Egypt to study tho hieroglyphtos ou monuments and temples. Alter much labor he deciphered them and announced to the learned world the result of his Investigations. Tho wisdom, goodness and power of God are written in hieroglyphics all ovor tho earth and all over tho heaven. God grant that wo may hnvo understanding enough to decipher them. There are Scriptural pasfage?, like my text, which need to bo studie 1 tn the very presence of tlie natural world. Thoso know but littto of the meaning of the natural world who have looked at It through the eyes of others, and from book or canvas taken their impression. There are tome faces so mobile that photographers cannot tnko them, anil the face of nature has such a flush and sparkle and life that no human description can gather them. No ono knows the pathos ol a bird's voice unless he has sat at summer evening tide at tho edge of a wood and listened to the cry of the whip* pcorwill. There is to-day more glory in one branch of suinac than a pa'nter could put on a whole forest of maples. Ood liath struck into the autumnal leaf a glance that none soo out thoso who come face to face?tho mountain looking upon (ho man. and tho man looking upon the mountain. For several autumns I have made a tour fo the far west, ami one autumn, about tills time, saw that which 1 shall never forget. I have seen the autumnal sketches of Cropscy and oilier skillful pencils, but that week I saw a pageant ?000 miles long. Lot artist stand back when (Jod stretches His canvas! A grander spectacle was never kindled hofore mortal eyes. Along by tho rivers, and up and down the aides of the great hills, and by the banks of tho lakes there whs an iiule\ ,,1, r ,...1.1 .,.,.1 ..... ..-.I crimson nnd saffron, now sobering into drab and maroon, now Aiming into sol fori no and scarlet. Hero and there the trees looked as if just tlioir tips ha l blossomed Into lire. In the morning light the forests seemed as if they had been transfigured, nnd In the evening hour they looked ns if the sunset had burst and dropped upon tlio leaves. In more sequestered spots, where the frosts had been hindered in their work, we saw tho ilrst kindling of tho 11 amos of color in a lowly sprig; then they rushed up from branch to brunch until tho glory of tho Lord submerged tho forest. Hero you would And a treo just making up Its mind to change, and there one looked as if, wounded nt every pore, it stood bathed in carnage. Aloug the banks of Lake Huron there wore hills over which there seemed pouring cataracts of Are, tossod up and down nnd every whither by tho rocks. Through some of tho ravines wo saw occasionally a fonmingstror.ni, as though it was rushing to put out tho conflagration. If at one end of the woods a commanding treo would sot up its crimson banner, tho whole forest prepnred to follow. If God's urn of colors wore not infinite, one swamp that I saw along tho Mautnoe would have exhausted it forever. It seemed ns if tho sea of divine glory had dashed Its surf to the tiptop of the AHeghonles, and then it had como dripping down to lowest leaf and deepest cavern. Most poraone preaching from this text And only in it u vein of sadness. I And that 1 havo two strings to this gospel harp?a string of sadness and a siring of joy influite. "We all do fa.lo as a leaf." First.?Liko tho foliage, \yo fade gradually. Tho leaves which week before last felt tho frost have day by day been changing in tint and will for many days yet cling to the bough waiting for tiio list of tho wind to strike them. Suppose you that the pictured icnf that you hold in your hand took on its color in au hour, or iu a day. or in a week? No; deeper and deeper tho flush, till all tho veins of its life now seem opened and bleeding away. After awhile, leaf after leaf, they fall. Now those on the out* r branehes, then those most hiuden, 1 ntil tiio Inst spark of tho gler.tning forge shall havo lieeu quenched. So gradually we pa*-.- away. From day to day wo hardly set) the change. Hut the 'I'll.. ,.r itnnou is going on. Now a slight cold. Now a seasou of overfatigue. Now a fevw. Now a stitch in the side. Now a neuralgic thrust. Now a rheumatic twinge. Now a fall. Little by little. Pain by pain. Less steady of limb. Sight not so clear. Par not so alert. After awhile wo take a start". Then, ufter much resistance, we come to spectacles. Instead of bounding into the vehicle, we are willing to bo helped in. At last the octogenarian falls. Forty yea is of decaying. No sudden chunge. No fierce cannonading of tho batteries of life, but a fading away slowly?gradually. As tho leaf, as tho leal! Again, liko tho leaf wc fade, to make room for others. Next year's forests will boas grandly foliaged as this. There are othor generations of oak leaves to take the place of those which this autumn perish. Next May tho cradle of tho wind will rock tho young buds. Tho woods will bo all a-hum with tho chorus of lenfy voices. If tlio tree in front of your house, liko Elijah, takes a chariot of tire, its mantle will fall upon Eiisba. If. in the blast of these uutumnnl battortos, so many ranks fall, there are reserve forces to take their places to defend tho fortress of tho hills. The beaters of gold leaf will havo more gold leaf to bent. Tho crown that drops to-day from the head of tho oak will ho picked up and handed down forothcr kingsto wear. Lot theb!a?ts come. They only make room for other life. So, when we go. others take our spheres. We do not grudge the future generations thoir places. Wo will have had our good time. Let ihem come on and have their good time. There is no sighing among th65o leaves to-day becauso othor leaves are to follow thcni. After a lifetime of preaching, doctoring, selling, sewing or digging, lot us cheerfully give way for those who come on to do the preaching, doctoring, soiling, sowing and digging. God grnnt that thoir life may no nngntor man ours nas neon. as wo get older do not lot us bo affroutod if young mou and women erovrd us a littlo. Wc will have bad our day, and wo must lot thom hnvo theirs. When our voices get erackod let us not snarl at those who can wurble. When our knoes are stiffened, lot us have pntieneo with those who go fleet as the deer. Because our leaf is fading do not let us despise the iinfroslod. Autumn must not envy the spring. Old men must he patient with hoys. I)r. Guthrie stood up in Scotland and said: "You need not think I am old because niy hair is while. I never was so young as I am now." I iook back to my childhood days and remember wlion in wluter nights in the sitting room the children played the blithest and the gayest of all the company were lather and jnother. Although reaching fourscore j enrs of age, they never got old. Again, as with the leaves, we fade and fall amid myriads of others. One cannot count the number of plumes which these frosts are plucking from the hills. They will strow all the streams,tlioy will drift into tho cavern". i.a.. ...in ?tw. i.aa.i'. n,.,i 'in the carlo's eyrie. All the aisles of the forest will he covered with their carpet and the steps of the hills glow with a wealth of color and slmpo that will defy the looms of Axminster. What urn could hold the ashes of a'l these dead leaves? Who could count the hosts that burn on this funeral pyre of the mountains? So we die ;n concert. Tito clock that strikes the In or of our jfolny \.il! sound Iho ?olti|f of many thousands. Keeping step witu the f#et of those who carry us out will be the tramp of hundreds doing tho same erraud. Betweon 50 and 70 people every day lie down In Oroenwood. That place has over 200,000 of tho dead. I said to tho man at the gate: "Then, If there are so many here, you must have tho largest cemotery." Ho >aUl there were two Roman Catholic cemeteries in the city, each of which had more than this. Wo are all dying- London and Pckin nro not the great cities of t lie world. The grave is the great elty. It hath mightier population, longer stroots, brighter lights, thicker darknesses. Cn\sar Is there and all his subjects. Nero is there and all his victims. City of kings and paupers! It hns swallowed up in its immigrations Thebes and Tyro and Babylon and will swallow all our cities. Yot city of silence. No voice. No hoof. No wheel. No clash. No smiting of hammer. No clack of flylug loom. No Jar. No whisper, (treat city of silence! Of all its million million hands not one of them is lifted. Of .ill its million million eyes not one of them sparkles. Of all Its million million hearts not on? pulsates. The living are in small minority. Jf, in the movomont of time, some great '/uestion between the living and the dead mould be pat. and God called up nil the dead an.11! n living to decide it, as we lifted our hands, und from all the restiug places of the dead thoy lifted their hands, the dead woula outvote us. Whv, the miiltltutc of the dying and dead are as these autumnal loaves drifting under our feet to-day. We march on toward eternity, not by companies of 100, or regiments of 1000, or brigades of 10,000, hut 1,000,000,000 abreast! Marching on! Marching on! Again, as with variety of appearati<*:> th? leaves depart, so do we. You have noticed that sotno trees sit the llrst touch of the frost lose all their beauty. They stand withered and uncomely ana ragged watting for the northeast storm to drive them into tho mire. The sun .shiuing at noonday gilds thorn with no beauty. Ragged leaves. Dead leaves. No one stands to study tlieni. They are gathered in no vase. Thev are hung on no wall. So death smites many. There Is no beauty in their departure. One sharp frost of sickness or one blast off tho eoltl waters and they are gone. No tingo of hope. No prophecy of heaven. Their spring was all abloom with bright prospects. Their summer thick follagcd with opportunities. Hut October came, and their glory wont out. Frosted! In muni cuiuo ujj wmi jiciioci i^o, nun perfect hand, with perfect fout und with perfect )>ody. All ortr weaknesses loft behind. Wo fall, but wo rise; wo die. but wo live again! Wo moulder nwny. but we come h? highor unfolding! As the loaf! As the leaf! WIVES WANTED. A Chance Tor Many Hundred* of Voting Women to Find Cloud IIunhand* The milling cumps of Trail Creek and Boundary Creek, British Columbia, where there are ten men :o one woman, want wives. Steady work with good pay. with the fuet that British Columbia laws frown severely on gambling and drinkiug, have nuido the miners prosperous. The question of getting wives was raised recently as a joke, but the outcome has been to thoroughly advertise the fact that a large number of marriageable girls can llml good husbands by emigrating to the mining districts of British Columbia. J. G. Devlin, n prominent miner, who went recently to Toronto and Montreal to sell mining proporty, discussed the matter aud got the newspapers lo discussing it. H? told the Canadians that if they would send 1500 nice girls out to itosslaud alone every one would get n good husbaml. Reports show that already tbo girls are taking unthe matter seriously. The miners are willing, anil the llrst lot of would-oo wives will bo arrangod for next spring. OUR GREAT INLAND SEAS. A Majority of Our Vessel* t'l.v on Ilia I iron I I. ike*. A majority of tho large steam vessels of the United States are plying the waters of the lakes. Through the St. .Mary's Falls canal, between Lakes Superior nud Huron, passed last year a total of 17, vessels, as against 3331 through the Suez canal; and tho total tonnage of vessels passing through tlie Sue? canal In the twelve months yf 1H'J5 was hut 8,450,000, in round numbers, ngainst ltJ.sOO.000 passing through tho "Soo" canal iu the eight months of the same year during which it was open for navigation. Cliitil l'lnyn Wil^ Itear Cub*. ITelrnn Oerhli, a flve-yoar-old cirl, wandered awny from her homo in Williamsport, Penn. Later her parents prow alarmoj at her abseneo and a party of neighbors began a search. The child was discovered in a small clearing romping with two bear cubs, eariy aiiiumn 1110 irosis com \ oiu ?i>? n<>i seem to damage vegetation. Tlioy nr?* light frosts. But sumc morning you look out of the window and any, "There wn. a blank frost last night," and you know that from tlint day everything will wither. So men seem to get along without religion amid the aunoyanccs and vexations of life that nip them slightly hero and nip them there. Bat , after awhile death eomos. It is a blank fros: and all is ended. Oh, what withering and scattering death makes among those not prepared to meet it! They leave everything pleasant behind them ?their house, their families, their friends, their books, their pictures, and step out of the sunshine into the shadow. They quit the presence of bird and bloom ami wave t<? go uubockoned and uuwelcomed. The bower in which they stood and sang and wove ohaplets and made themselves nierry has gene down under an awful equlnoctlcal. No bell can toll ono-half the dolefulness of their condition. Frosted! But, thank God. thnt is not the way people always die. Toll mo on what day of all the year tho leaves of the woodbine are as bright as thev aro to-day? So Christian character is never so attractive as in the dying hour. Rucli go into tho grave, not as a dog. with frown and harsh voice, driven into a kennel, but tlioy puss away calmly, brightly, sweetly, grandly. As the leaf! As the leaf! Lastly, as the ".leaves fade anl fall only to rise, so do we. All this goldenshower of tho woods is making tho ground richer, uu 1 in tho juice and snp and life of the tree the loaves will come up again. Next May the south wind will blow tho rosurreetion trumpet, and they will rise. So we fall in the dust only to rise (again. "The hour is coming whon all who are in their graves shall hear His voice aud come forth." It would bo a horrildo consideration to tliiuk (hat our bodies were always to lie in the ground. However beautiful the (towers you plant thorn, we do not want to make our everlasting residence in such a place. I have with these eyes seen so many of the glories of the natural world and the radiant faces of my friends, that I do not want to think that when 1 cioso thorn in tloutli 1 shall never open tln-m again. It is sad onough to havo a hand or foot a nputated. In n hospital, aflor 11 soldier ha I had his hand taken off ho said, "Goodhv, dear old hand, yon had done ino a groat deal of good service," and burst into tears. It is a morn awful thing to think of having the whole body ampntntod from the soul forever. I must havo my body again, to sea with, to hoar with, to walk with. With this hau l I must clasptho hand of my loved ones when I have passed clean over Jordan and with it wave the triumphs of my King. Ann, we shall rise again' We shall rise again! As the leaf! As the leaf! Crossing tho Atlantic the ship may foun Icr and our bodies bo eaten by the sharks, h it God tameth loviaihan, and we shall eotuo again. In awful explosion of factory (toiler our bodies may bo shattered into a huudrnd fragments in the air. but God watches tint disaster, and wo shall come again. He will drag tho deep, und ransack tho tomb, and upturn tho wilderness, and torturotlie mountain, but Ho will find us and|fetch us out and up to judgment and to victory.