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I ' - rv$ ' > i V' V i\ ; ' I 1 || -i ' * fell I : V|j_ ' t * VOL. XLVI. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1890. NO. 49. i MEETING IN HEAVEN. ___ I^WE SHALL RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER / IN THE OTHER WORLDThe Eloquent Discourse of Dr. Talmase 011 j the Recognization of Friends and Relatives in Hear n. Dr. Talmng-.) preached to an enormous outdoor gathering at Wa a, tlio OIlKl/irtf Tiro c I; .11 mil-, uxi ouuuaj. jug nu<^ '"Meeting Our Friends in Heaven." " he eminent clergyman took for his xt 2 Samuel, xii, 23: "I 6hall go to ii.v His sermon was as follows: Tiere is a very sick child in the of David, the king. Disease, ' ^wki^stalks up the dark lane of the poor and puis its smothering hand on the lip and nostril of the wan and wasted, also mounts the palace stairs and. bending over the pillow, blows into the face of a young prince the frosts of pain and death. Tears are wine to the king of terrors. Alas! for David the king. He can neither sleep nor eat, and lies prostrate on his face, weeping and wailing until the palace rings with the outcry of woe. What are courtly attendants, or victorious armies, or conquered provinces, under such circumstances? What to any parent are splendid surroundings when his child is sick? Seven days have passed on. Then in 1 1 ? ^ iwA /WAII/IO OVA 11111.1 grtSlu 11UU5C dnu vjcuuo tuv gently closed, two little hands folded, two little feet quiet, one heart still. The servants come to bear the tidings to the king, but they cannot make up their minds to tell him,and they stand at the door whispering about the matter, and David hears them and he looks up and says to them, "Is the child dead?" "Yes, he is dead/' David rouses himself up, washes himself, puts on new apparel, and sits down to food. What power hushed that tempest? .Thai- strength was it that lifted up that king whom grief had dethroned? Oh, it was the thought that he would come again into the posession of that darling child. No grave digger's spade could hide him. The wintry blasts of death could not put out the bright light I There would be a forge somewhere ; that with silver hammer would weld . the broken links. In a city where : the hoofs of the pale horse never strike the pavement he would clasp : his lost treasure. He wipes away the 1 tears from his eyes, and clears the : ehoking grief irom Jus tnroat, ana i. _ exclaims, "I shall go to Mm." Was David right or wrong? If we : part on earth will we meet again in the next world? "Well," says some ; f one, "that seems to be animpossibili ty. Heaven is so large a place, we 3 never^fould find our kindred there." 5 rw>C?bing into some, city, without having appointed tt fime and place for meet- } ing, you might wander around for : weeks and for months, and perhaps for years, and never see} each other, * and heaven is vaster than all earthly 1 I cities together, and how are you go- ! ing to find your departed friend in J ' ? i a Ti i _ Itnas country.' it is su vast u. jlcohxi. John weno up on one mountain of ! inspiration, and he looked off upon the multitude, and he said, "Thou- ' sands of thousands." Then he came upon a greater altitude of inspiration 1 and looked off upon it again, and he ] said, "Ten thousand times ten thou- 1 sand-"' And then he came on a high- : er mount of inspiration-, and looted " off again, and he said, "A hundred ' and forty and four thousand and I thausands of toousand." And he came on a still greater height of in- J ' J 1- - 1 1.?J otf o ! spirauon, hiiu. nv iws.eu uu. agtuu, ouu exclaimed, "A great multitude that ] no man can number." Now, I ask. , how are you going to find your friends in such a throng as that? Is not this 1 idea we have been entertaining, after : all, a falsity? Is this noctrine of fu- ! ture recognization of friends in heav- 3 en a guess, a myth, a whim, or is it 3 a granitic foundation upon which the 1 soul pierced of all ages may build a glorious hope? Intense question! i Every heart in this audience throbs ' right into it. There is in every soul i here the tomb of at least one dead. Tremendous question! It makes the lin auiver. and the cheek flush, and the entire nature thrill: Shall we know each other there? I get letters almost every month asking me to discuss this subject. I get a letter in a bold, scholary hand, on gilt-edge paper, asking me to discuss this question, and I say, "Ah! that is a curious man, and he wants a curious question solved.'' But I get another letter. It is written with a trembling hand, and on what seems to be a torn-out leaf of a book, and here and there is the mark of a tear: and I say, "Oh, -L -- - 1 1 T-- L J U ? LilUl IS It UrOiveJLL llCJVi li {tliu. IK ncuibs iu be comforted." . '*[ The object of this sermon is to take this theory out of the region of surmise and speculation into the region of positive certainty. People say: "It would be very pleasant if that doctrine were true. I hope it may be true. Perhaps it is true. I wish it were true.'' But I believe that I can bring an accumulation of Koor nnnn ?his matter w mvma w..... ? which will prove the doctrine of future ; recognition as plainly as that there is \ any heaven at all. and that the kiss of reunion at the celestial gate will be as certain as the dying kiss at the door v of the sepulchre. Now, when you are going to build - T? T.nn tVia nf ~ li SJ-Liy JVU Uiaou v -- timber. You lay the keel and make the framework of ihe very best materials, the keelson, stanchions, plankshear, counter timber-knee, transoms, all of solid oak. You may build a ship of lighter material, but wken the cyclone comes on it will go down. Now we may have a great many beautiful theories about the future world, built out of our own fancy, and they thay do very well as long as we have smooth sailing in the world, but when me storms of sorrow come upon us, nn/l fViA Vmrrcane of death, we will be swamped?we will be foundered AY e want a theory built out of the Dlid oak of God's eternal word. The doctrine of future recognition is not so often positively stated in the TV ord of God as implied, J&nd you snow, my friends, that that is, after all, the strongest mode of affirmation, ^our friend travels in foreigP lands. He comes home. He does begin by arguing with you to pi^ve that , 1 there are such places as London and Stockholm and Paris and Dresden and Berlin, but his conversation implies it. And so this Bible does not I so positively state this theory as, all up and down its chapters, it takes it for granted. What does my text imply"? "I shall go to him." What con" * * * * 1 1 T\ soiafcon would it oe to i>?aviu tu yu lu his child if he would not know him. The Bible indicates, over and over again, that the angels know each other; and then the Bible says that we are to be higher than the angels, and if the angels have the power of recognition, shall not we, who are to be higher than the}' in the next realm, have as good eyesight and as good capacity? What did Christ mean, in his conversation with Mary and Martha, when he said, "Thy brother shall rise again?" It was as much A- ''"r\ ? ?u I &S to say, "i/ou u uiy. l/uii t v> cox yourself out with tliis trouble. You will see him again. Thy brother shall rise again." The Bible describes heaven as a great home circle. "Well, now, that would be a very queer home circle where the members did not know each other. The Bible describes death as a sleep. If we know each other before we go to sleep, shall we know each other after we wake up? Oh, yes. We will know each other a great deal better then than now, "for now," says the apostle, "we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face." It will be my purified, enthroned, and glorified body gazing ?n your punned, enthroned, and glorified body. Now, I demand, if you believe the Bible, that you take this theory of future recognition out of the realm of speculation and surmise into the re- < gion of positive certainty, and no more keep saying, '*1 hope it is so; I have an idea it is so; I guess it is so." Be able U say, with all the cencen- < trated energy of body, mind and soul, "I know it is so." There are, in addition to these Bi- ! ble arguments, other reasons why I < accept this theory. In the first ; place, because the rejection of it im- ' plies the entire obliterati?n of our memory. Can it be possible that we ] shall forget forever those with whose i walk, luok, manner we have been so ] Long familiar? Will death come and 1 with a sharp keen blade hew away 3 this faculty of memory? Abraham : saia to iJives, "Son, rememoer. xi the excited and lost remember, will not the enthroned remember?. Again: I accept the doctrine of future recognition because the world's expectancy affirms it. In all lands and ages this theory is received. What form of religion planted it? No form of religion, for it is received under all forms of religion. Then, E argue, a sentiment, a feeling, an ! anticipation, universally planted, < must have been God-implanted, and 1 if God-implanted, it is rightfully im- i planted. Socrates writes: "Who 1 would not part with a great deal to < purchase a meeting with Orpheus and ] Homer? If it be true that this is to be the consequence of death, I could ] even be able to die often." Among ; the Danes, when a master dies his ] ?prv&nt sometimes stabs himself that i tie may serve his master in the future j world. Cicero, living before Christ's : coming, said: "0 glorious day when i [ shall retire from this low and sor- i 3id scene, to associate with the di- vine assemblage of departed spirits, 1 md not only with the one Ihave just 1 aow mentioned, but my dear Cato, 1 Lhe best of sons and most faithful of < men. n 1 seemea to Dear ms ueuiu 1 ivith fortitude, it was by 110 means ! that I did not most sensibly feel the 3 Loss I had sustained. It was because ; C was supported by the consoling re- < lection that we could not long be 1 separated." The Norwegian believes J it The Indian believes it. The j Jreenlander believes it. The Swiss 1 believes it. The Turk believes it. Un- ] ier every sky, by every river, in every ! 1-3 j t zone, tne tneory is aaoptea; ana so x say a principle universally implanted must be God-implanted, and hence a right belief. The argument is irresistible. Again: I adopt this theory because there are features of moral, temperament and features of the 30ul that will distinguish us forever. How do we know each other in this world? Is it merely by the color of 1 the eye, or the length of the hair, or < the facial proportions'? Oh, no. It i is by the disposition as well as by ' natural affinity, using the word in the : very best sense and not in the bad ] sense, and if in the dust our body should perish* and He there forever? and there should be no resurrection? still the soul has enough features and i the disposition has enough features < to make us "distinguishable. I can : understand how in sickness a man will become so delirious that he will notknow hisown friends but will we be blasted with such insufferable idiocy, that, standing beside our friends for all eternity, we will never guess who they are? There is a mother before the throne of God. You say her joy is full. Is it? You say there can be no augmentation of it. Cannot there be? Her son was a wanderer and a vagabond on the earth when that good mother died. He broke her old L 1 ci.. 1 ? -u; +V,o iiearx. exit; UJLUU. IClHiUJj mill JLU liiv wilderness of sin. She is before the throne of God now. Years pass and that son repents of his crimes and gives his heart to God and becomes a useful Christian, and dies and enters the gates of heaven. You tell me that that mothers joy canrot be augmented. Let them confront each other, the son and the mother. ''Oh." "awI or?rrn1o HA/] ^rA-. sue Oil J O W ULW v VV?J A ~ joice "with me! The dead is alive again, and the lost is found. Hallelujah! I never expected to see this lost one come back." The Bible says nations are to be born in a day. "When China comes to God will it not know Dr. Abeel? When India comes will it not know Dr. John Scudder? When the InrJians come to God will thev not know David Brainerd? I see a soul entering heaven at last with covered face at the idea that it has done so little for Christ, and feeling borne down with unworthiness, and it says to itself, "I have no right to be here." A voice from a throne says, "Oh, you forget that Sunday school class you invited to Christ! I was one of them." And another voice says, -'You forget that poor man to whom you ga~e a loaf of bread, and told of the heavenly bread. I was that man." And another says, "You forget that sick one to whom you gave medicine fov the body and the soul. I was that one." And then Christ, from a throne overtopping all the rest, will say, "Inasmuch as ye did it to one of the least of these, you did it to me." And then the seraphs will take their harps j from the side of the throne and cry, "What song shall it be?" And Christ bending over the harpers, shall say, "It Shall be the Harvest Home!" One more reason why I am disposed n/^orvf fVlic rtafirine of till: A: - V.V4. WW MfVVV^V ' ? tnre recognition is that so many in their last hour on earth hare confirmed this theory. I speak not of persons who have been delirious in their last moments and knew not what they were about, but of persons who died in calmness and placidity, and who were not naturally superstitious, often the glories of heaven have struck the dying pillow, and the departing man has said he saw and heard those who had gone away from him. How often it is in the dying moments parents see their departed children and children see their departed parents! I came down to the banks of fcJtie MoHa\v? river, it was evening and I wanted to go over the river, and so I waved my hat and shouted, and after awhile I saw some one waving on the opposite bank, and I heard him shout, and the boat came across, and I got in and was transported. And so I suppose it will be in the evening of oar life. We will come down to the river of death and give a signal to our friends on the other shore, and they will give a signal back to us, and the boat comes, and our departed kindred are Hi/* novomon tViP firPS <"vf S?>f.fcrn<? day tinging the tops of the paddles. Oh, have you never sat by such a deathbed? In that hour you hear the departing soul cry, "Hark! look! You hearkened and you looked. A little child pining away because of the death of its mother, getting weaker and weaker every day, was taken into the room where hung the picture of her mother. She seemed to enjoy of if onrl fhpn fiVip wos taken away, and after awhile died. In the Last moment that wan and wasted little one lifted her hands, while her face lighted up with the glory of the next world, and cried out, "Mother!" You tell me she did not see her mother ? She did. So in my first settlement at Belleville a plain man said to me, "What do you think I heard last night ? I was in the room where one of my neighbors wa3 dying. He was a good man, and he said he heard the angels ot (jod singing Defore the throne. I haven't much poetry about me, but I listened and I heard them too.' Said I, 'I have no doubt of it.' "Why, we are to be taken up to heaven at last by ministering spirits. Who are they to be ? souls that went up from Madras, or Antioch, Dr Jerusalem? Oh, no; our glorified kindred are going to troop around us. Heaven is not a stately, formal place, as I sometimes hear it described, x very frigidity of splendor, where people stand on cold formalities and go round about with heavy crowns of gold on their heads. No, that is not my idea of heaven. My idea of heaven in more like this: You are seated in the evening-tide by the fireplace, your svhole family there, or nearly all of them there. While you are seated fiallri-nof and pnif>vin? the eveninsr hour there is a knock at the door and the loor opens, and there comes in a brother that has been long absent. He has been absent for years, you aave not seen him, and no sooner do you make up your mind that it is certainly he, than you leap up, and the question is who shall give him the first embrace. That is my idea of heaven?a great home circle where they are waiting for us. Oh, will you not know your mother's voice there ? She who always called you by your first name long after others had given you the formal "mister ?" You were aever anything but James, or John, "vi* Georsre. or Thomas, or Mary, or Florence to her. "Will you not know pour child's voice ? She of the bright zye, and the ruddy cheek, and the juiet step, who came in from play rnd flung herself into your lap, a very shower of mirth and beauty ? "Why, the picture is graven in your soul. It cannot wear out. If that little one Bhould stand on the other side of 3ome heavenly hill and call to }*ou, Fou would hear her voice above the burst of heaven's great orchestra. Know it? You could not help but know it. Now I bring you this glorious consolation of future recognition. If you could get this theory into your heart it would lift a great many shadows that are stretching across it. When I was a lad I used to go out to the railroad track and put my ear down on the track, and I could hear the express train rumbling miles away, and coming on; and today, my friends, if we only had faith enough we could put our ear down to the grave of our dead, and listen and hear in the distance the rumblinsr on of the chariots of resurrection victory. 0 lieaven! Sweet heaven! You do not spell heaven as you used to spell it. You used to spell it h-e-a-v-e-n, heaven. But now when you want to spell that word you place side by side the faces of the loved ones who are gone, . and in that irridiation of .light and love, and beauty and joy you spell it out as never before, in songs and hallelujahs. Oh, ye whose hearts are down under the sod of the cemetery, cheer up at the thought of this reunion! Oh! how much you will have to tell them when once you meet them! How much you have been through since you saw them last! . On the shining shore you will talk it all over. The heartaches. The loneliness. The sleepless nights. The weeping until you had no more power to w?ep, because the heart was withered and dried up. Story of vacant chair, and empty cradle, and little shoe only half worn out, never to be worn again, iust the shape of the foot that once pressed it. And dreams -when you thought that the departed had come back again, and the room seemed blight with their faces, and you started up to greet them, and in the f.Vip drpftm broke and tou found yourself standing amid-room in the midnight?alone. Talking it all over and then, hand in hand, walking up and down in the light. No sorrow, no tears, no death. Oh, heaven! beautiful heave^^^^enw^^ oui friends are. Heaven where we expect to be. Oh, how different it is on earth from the way it is in heaven when a Christian dies! AVe say "Close his eyes." In heaven they say, "Give him a palm." On earth we say, "Let iiin-1 /Ir.\VD in flip OTmillfl:' In heav en they say, "Raise him 011 a throne.'? On earth it is, "Farewell, farewell.'' | In heaven it is, '-Welcome, welcome."' And so I see a Christian soul coming down to the river o* death, and he steps into the river, and the water monies to the ankb. fee says, "Lord .j.'sus. is this death?" "No," says Christ, "this is not death." And he ? -I I wades stiii deeper aowu into uie waters until the flood comes to the knee and he says, "Lord Jesus, tell me. tell me. is this death?" And Christ says, No, no, this is not death.'" And he wades still further down until the wave comes to the girdle and the soul says, "Lord Jesus, is this death?" "No," says Christ, "this is not." And deeper in wades the soul till the billow strikes the hp. and the departing one cries, "Lord Jesus, is this death?" "No," says Christ, "this is not." But *~j. i V:ri._J ^ wnen unrist nas mteu uinu suui uu ?, i throne of glory, and the pomp and joy of heaven came surging to its feet, then Christ says: "This, oh transported soul! This is death!'' A WILD ^IDEPassengers on an Express Have a Sensa tlon?An Engineer Locked la a Mad Fire man a Arms-A l nrniin}; "mury wi ? Breadth Eacape from Death. Jaxesville, Wis., July 16.?Tlie passengers on the Chicago and Northwestern express had a wild ride yesterday while a struggle for life and death was going on between the fireman and engineer. On the lioor of the locomotive cab lay Engineer Steve Hobetting, powerless in the grasp cf a maniac. The insane'man, his face blackened by coal dust, his clothing: stripped from his body, in the life and death struggle, brandished a wrench, which he had clutched from the engineers tool box. Both his arms were in the grasp of the despairing man beneath him, but the men on the depot platform at Clyman, one of the towns through which the train passed, could see that he had nearly freed himself, and that in another moment, unless some help should come, the murderous blow of the wretch would fall. The maniac was Fireman C. L. Hastings. Near Watertown he had stepped from the cab to the tender to cool off. He did not return, and Engineer Hotetting reached back from his seat, pulled aside the cab curtain, and looked out. As the curtain moved aside Hastings bounded in from the tender and clutched the engineer about the neck, and threw Viinri frt tlio oTvoTrinfT fnnf board. There the two struggled as the train dashed on at a full rate of speed. The engine left without fresh fuel, was slowly losing steam, but rushed on at a rate that could mean nothing less than a fearful tragedy at the first switch. As the train swept past Clyman without stopping the passengers and train crew realized that something was wrong, and a party hurried forward. Writhing and struggling among the blocks of coal on the tender, they saw the engineer and his maniac assailant. The latter was overpowered and taken to the baggage car. A moment after he fainted. Consciousness did not return until twelve hours had elapsed. The hot weather is given as the cause of his insanity, and there arc fears that he cannot recover. IN BATTLE ARRAYThree Hundred Blacks Armed With Win cheaters Threaten to Clean up the Whites in Revenge for the Recent Trouble...Quiet Restored. Bamberg, July 15.? News from Kearse, a township in Barnwell county, where the race trouble occurred some months ago, is to the effect that there is more trouble between the racGS. A man just in from Kearse states that over 300 negroes, armed with new Winchester rifles, had gathered, and that serious trouble was anticipated. One negro had been killed, and several of both races were injured. At 9 p. m. a white military company left this place for the scene of the trouble, and the whites will be reinforced by those from the surrounding counties. No cause is assigned for the trouble ' eyond the - * - ? t J J1 j Oacl Diooa oetween tne races, causeu by the riot some time ago. Blackyille, S. C., July 16.?.Tlie prompt and determined action of the wliite people of Barnwell county prevented any further trouble at the Kearse settlement. Most of tlie detachment of militia who went to Kearse's at the pleading call from the people, have returned from the scene of the trouble: An Associated Press representative saw the Captain of the relief squad, and from him obtained the latest information from the scene. He said: "I have not the slightest doubt but that there would have been very serious trouble at Kearse's had not our squad arrived promptly on the lielci. The news that aid had been sought and was coming was diffused and the negroes, if they at any time had desperate intentions, abandoned them, for the present at least. The fight and show of determination on the part of the whites of the county it is thought by all, had its effect upon the negroes and no further trouble is inticipated. The negroes have all returned to their work. Eleven negroes ambushed several young white men but they all left and cannot be found. The body of G-antt, the negro who was riddled with bullets, was viewed by many of the negroes. There is no excitement in the neighborhood. The colored women, who are generally the most boisterous, talk quietly about the conflict. If possible the ambushers will be arrested. Several white men were wounded, but ihey are getting along "" Art l-v/\ TTaovan 14& V* CJUL itD l;UCUU UC .jv , is probably fatally wounded. Medical assistance from Charleston has been telegraphed for the wounded.' A MOONSHINE MURDER. APPARENT CLEARINC UP OF THE ASSASSINATION OF. BEN ROSS' little Bill" Howard Makes a Confession? His Cousin the Man Who Fired the Fatal Shot?Ross Killed for Treason to Blockaders. (Gr enville News.) The mystery surrounded the killing of Ben Ross, in February, 1888> has at last been cleared up by the confession of William L. Howard, who was arrested last week charged J_i_ n. _ T ^ wim me muraer ana is now m jau. Ben Ross, the murdered man, was a moonshiner and was a member of one of the strongest and most secret moonshine organizations in the world. It is not known whether a regular organization exists, but it is known that it is next to impossible to convict anyone arrested for reve nue uueuses, iuiu liiul a criminal oaii hide from the officers for years ill the mountain fastnesses. The fate of a traitor is death and this is so well known that not a man dares to communicate with a revenue officer, and if once seen talking to one he is under the ban of suspicion forever. Every stranger entering the county _ J 1, ? ,1 V-ii. is a suspect iuiu lie jiuu wetter quickly prove himself not a revenue officer or a detective. The sheriff and other county officers are received with hospitality and the people have often assisted Sheriff Gilreath in making arrests for offenses against State law. On the most serious charges the man wanted has been known to c?me to the sheriff and surrender, and if there were others implicated, the arrested man would go out and bring them in. A revenue officer is most bitterly hated, and the people consider that the making and selling of whiskey is a privilege that the United States government has no right to interfere with. They resort to any desperate measures to protect themselves. C\m +Via dorr tt/ViAn "R*yn T?nco tpoo V/ AX ?UJULV/ V*WJ ;IJUVU JL?VWM If UIW killed he had been to the city as a witness in a revenue trial before Commissioner Hawthorne. There were a number of people from the same section in the commissioner's office. Some of them heard Ben Ross say that he was getting tired of the old ring and if things did not go better he intended to break it up by telling the whole thing to the revenue officers. It seems that Ross had been suspected, and his remarks in the court room reached his seoti on ahead of him. "While sitting in front of the fireplace at his home that night, he was instantly killed by a shot throuph a window. Several arrests were made, but it was impossible to unravel the mystery, and all those arrests were dismissed at the preliminary hearings. "Little Bill" Howard's confession was made freely and voluntarily a few days ago and was written down. He was advised not to make it, but said he knew what the consequnces would be. Howard confesses that he was present when Eoss was killed and that William M. Howard, -r-r -i _ /* ? alias "Jtsig JBLLi nowarci, a nrsi cousin, was the murderer. He says that "Big Bili*' spoke to him a dozen times about killing Ross and that he refused to have anything to do with it. "Big Biilv told him that if he did not go along with him he would kill him (Howard.) ''Big Bill" had a double-barrelled shot gun and wanted him to take a weapon, but he refused^ They went to Boss's house, and "Big JtSiLL' went up on tne piazza wliile "Little Bill" stood near by. After the shooting the two men walked about a hundred yards and then separated, "Big Bill" going home and "Little Bill" to the house of Mr. Moon. As the two men walked away from Ross' house "Big Bill" said to his companion that he thought he "got him that time." Deputy Marshal Fisher has been working up the case. "Big Bill" Howard is hidinsr in the neighbor liood of his home and could not be found by Sheriff Gilreath on Sunday, jt is said, however, he will surrender ,,, A "Wonderful Stone. Kingston, Ga., July 14.?Mr. John McCraney, living near here, has found a most wonderful stone. While yVImrrincr on o QnnrlVinr in f.hft Btowah river, he saw something shining with the most brilliant of lights just to one aide of him. He stopped his plow and went to pick it up. It was a clear white stone, the size of an egg, reflecting in one way all the colors of the rainbow. Turning it over the colors took on the character of a spirit level, following each other up through the centre of the rock till all were gathered in one end. Mr. McCraney has been_offered ?1,000 for it but refused it. He will take it to Atlanta to have it tested. It may be a diamond. It emits a perfectly white light in the dark. What Congress Has Done. The present Congress cannot be charged with not having done anything. It has done much. Much that will have to be undone, and much that the people will have cause to regret. It has doomed to destruction all that has been accom plished by half a dozen wars and the wisdom of 100 years of statesmanship. It has done too much. The people should , give it an eternal rest, if they are ever again, permitted to go to the polls and vote.?Cincinnati Enquirer. ?During a marriage ceremony e cently in a church at Christians ourg, Va., a goat deliberately walked n and interrupted the ceremony by giving the groom a grand send-off wi'ik his head. The bride fled to the pulpit for safety. ?A special to the Louisville Evening Times from New Albany, Indiana, says: The Gosport accommodation train on the Menon route collided with a freight train at Smithviil. a flag station eight miles south ' J. _ J- ^^ rn^ oi -Dioommgxoii at o:ou u uwa. jlcw lives are lost. ?A lett?f from Pension Commissioner Raurn sent to the Senate in response to a resolution of inquiry shows that the total number of pensions at all the agencies was 537,479 in May 30 last. & _ WOMEN LAID BRUIN OUTBrave Fight of Two Molus River Matrons? Both Unhurt. Vaxcebor?, Me., July 17.?There is still a little of the old time pioneer spirit to be found among the women of the oresent day who live in the [ sparsely settled regions in this section. It has cropped out no more plainly than in a thrilling incident at Molus River, a provincial town, a few nights since, in which two women were the heroines. Roderick McDonald, who lives in one of the remote parts of the settlement, was absent from home, leaving his wife and sister as the sole defenders ot ins nousenoid, and mosr, successfully did they show that they were able to cope with the task. Just at dusk the two women, who were busy about their household duties, were suddenlj' attracted by a bellowing ampng the cattle in the barnyard, Tliey listened for a moment and were convinced that the noises were those of terror among the animals. "Without the slightest hesitation the women armed themselves with the only weapons at hand, an axe and a pitchfork, and sallied forth to meet i the foe, and a most formidable opponent they found. Only a few steps had been taken before they saw an enormous black bear, who stood aggressively await- ; ing them. At either side of him lay an ox, which had fallen under his heavy blows, while the rest of the cattle were huddled closely in one corner of the yard, bellowing piteously in their fright. The women lost no time. Mrs. McDonald, excited at the sisrht of the dead animals, rushed at 1 the bear "with a pitchfork and thrust it deep into his neck. A roar of mingled anger and pain followed, and with a sweep of his paw he struck the 1 weapon from her hands and sent it '< rattling on the other side of the yard. ] The other woman had not been idle in the meantime, and as the bear ^ made this movement she struck at ] him with an axe, disabling one of his ! forelegs, Mrs. McDonald ran for her pitchfork, recovered it, and the two } Vklnrtlrrr rrr/\mnn TTTATif of KimiT* TtrifVi I] ?Y \yiOJL^/JJL UAAVyJ-L ?T VA1UWU W1 UXU TIAl/u hammer and tongs. Mrs. McDonald ; worried him with the pitchfork in ( while her companion did deadly exe- ! cution with the axe j The battle was short and sharp, I and the bear was dead in a few mo- ^ ments. He was very large and old, { and two hunters with rifles would have considered him a good capture. 1 The women had their clothes badly ' torn, but beyond a few scratches and the fright, suffered no injury. 1 i HIS DYINC CONFESSION. 1 Dick Haire's Statemeut About Killing ?is , Wife and Daughter. The written confession of Dick Hawes, the notorious wife and child I murderer, will never be published in 1 book form, as was expected. The < following details, which are contained 1 in the confession, clear up some of i the mysteries of the crime, and are I nrwtr mode nnWi/? f.VlP -firsf, timP. Hawes states in the confession ' that he did not contemplate the mur- : ders until Friday night before they 1 were committed on Saturday night. . It was then his wife refused to leave ' the city, as she had promised to do, 1 and the plan of putting her out of the way for good was quickly decided on. Detectives have hunted in vain for the conveyance Hawes was supposed to have used to remove her body to tne lake, ana ms coniession ciears up that part of the mystery. His wife and children were induced to drink liquor until both were intoxicated, and then, under some pretext, they were taken to the lake and murdered on the banks, and their bodies were thrown in. They were not killed at the house, as it has always been supposed. He says the negro woman, Jb'annie -Bryant, who was convicted as his accomplice, assisted him from beginning to end, and when the bloody work was finished, they swore a terrible oath never to betray each others secret. The confesfion admits that Fanny Bryant told the truth in her testiXTatttac 11 fflO MQ.V LLLKJLiy LU.<JLU JLLa YV CO bvv/A JU.UWA-W from her house on Monday night. May would have been murdered on Saturday night, but they could not induce her to drink the liquor, and another plan had to be adopted to get rid of hor. In concluding the confession Hawes wrote that he fully deserved the late in store for him, and he wanted no one else to die for his crime. A Dangerous Trick. ^ t?i 1 i r\~ VJOLUMBIA, O. OUiy JL*.?WiJL ulujlday night a party of younsr Degroes finding John Kobinson, a fifteen year old boy, asleep on a bridge near the outskirts of the city, they determined to play a trick on him. A quantity of heavy paper was procured and saturated with kerosene oil. and secnvplv tied around the naked legs of the sleeper. A lisht was then applied. The bey sprang up and the flames ran up his legs. He screamed for assistance, and a white man living near by, with his hands, tore the burning paper and clothing off. The > 1? Doy is very dangerously uujuicu, and hisjrescuer had his hands seriousy burned. ?Two freight cars loaded with sixteen tons of powder exploded at Kings Mills, 0., Tuesday afternoon, causing the explosion of the cartridge factory, which set fire to the* lrrounding buildings, about ten of which were destroyed, and killing six persons and wounding twenty men and women. '"xfl on/1 V>ia U^U JJ1LUUOOC) Ui^LVt t/v/j uuu AJLA.V two sons, Hugo, aged 6, and Max, aged 12, were struck by a train at the crossing at the comer of Pauliva and Kinsie street, Chicago, on Tuesday night and fatally injured. The sudden closing of the guard gates penned the unfortunate trio helpless ly on the tracks in front of tHe coming train. ?The President has signed th silver bill, and it is now in full force ^ J DEATH FLEW FAST. SUDDEN AND AWFUL STORM ON A WISCONSIN LAKEA Cfnowoi* Aroitfalrm orxl ransi 7.wl?Men. ! Women and Children Thrown Struggling into Raging Water?Awful Scenes of the Tempest?Rescuing Partie* at Work. Lake City, Mnrc?., July 16.?Sunday night just before dark a disastrous cyclone bore down upon this community, and in a few minutes nearly two hundred people were killed. What appeared to be an ordinary electric storm was noticed coming from the west, but in half an hour the whole heavens were converted into a lightning lined black canopy of death. A little before dark a terrific wind struck the village, driving every one in doors. Trees were uprooted, buildings wrecked and much damage done in the short time the storm lasted. In a few moments news was abroad that an excursion boat with over two hundred people \J1? XL V>ao AJ-L Uli.v <illUV41V VA I Lake Peppin. The boat was tlie steamer "Zawing," which came down from the Lake Diamond Bluff, a small place about seventeen miles north of here, on an excursion to the encampment of the First Regiment of National Guards, which is being held a mile below the city. The steamer started back on the homeward trip about eight o'clock and although there -were signs 01 an approaching storm it was not considered in any way serious and no danger was anticipated. * The boat was crowded to its fullest capacity, about 150 men, women and children from KedWing and Diamond Bluff being on board and about fifty people on a barge which was attached bo- the side of the steamer. "When about opposite Lake City the boat began to feel the effects of the storm but the officers kept on their way. The storm increased as the boat continued up the lake and in fifteen minutes was at its height. Nearing Central Point, about two miles above Lake City the steamer was at the mercy of the waves which were washing over the boat, and all was confusion. The boat momentarily ran* 3ii a bar ana me uo rge was cut loose and the steamer again set adrift into the like. A number jumped overboard and swam ashore. As the barge floated again into deep water those 3n the barge saw the steamer as, it jjas carried helplessly out into the middle of the lake and as they were being tossed about on raging waters were horrified to see the steamer capsized and its cargo of 150 people thrown into the lake. The' barge remained there until 1 #!. 3 tney were arutea near snuie, ua swam ashore. There were a number of ladies who were brought to the beach by strong and ready swimmers. As soon as the storm struck the boat Captain Weathem gave instructions to run the boat into the Wisconsin shore, but it was too late. The waves were too strong to permit the working of the rudder. After the I ~ nrrotr if TTTO C /">O TV10/1 f.A was tut anaj j.u vuii..w. ,v the middle of the lake and boats were lowered by the crew and the more cool headed passengers were devoted to preparations for the worst. A. dozen or more secured the few life preservers that were to be found and jumped into the water, preferring to take their chances. In five minutes more the waves began to wash into the boat and fill the lower decks while hailstones as large as hen's ? /3svrmi I1TV1T1 of tggs V^iVU-lC UU1TU u^fvu the people, -while a huge wave struck the craft on the side at the same moment that a terrific blast of wind, more horribly forcible than the others, came up and earned the boat over. All of the people on board. 150 or more, were thrown into the water, some beiite caught underneath and others thrown into the water. The boat turned bottom upwards, and only about twenty-five people were observed floating on the surface. These caught hold of the upturned bottom, those first securing a position assisting others. In fifteen minutes more twenty-five or thirty who had obtained safety on the boat could observe no others. After the crew and passengers had made a thorough search in the immediate vicinity of the boat they began a more extensive search. After " " -a?u ward, However, as a nusu ui li^umins ; lighted the surface of the lake,by the J brilliant light the dress of a drowning woman or child was observed, but it was impossible for those who witnessed the horrible sight to render any aid. Those remaining began to call for help from the shore. Soon the storm began to abate and in a half hour lights were observed flitting about on the shore near where the steamer had been drifted before help coizld reach it. The poor creatures who remained to tell the horrors of the night were again compelled to suffer farther horrors of the elements. A hail storm burst with no word of warning, and as they were just beginning to hope that they would be ? * t taken off by tnecntzensoi ju?*e the boat again turned over, this time on its side and all of the twenty-five passengers were hurled into the water and drowned before they cor,11 be brought to the boat by those who succeeded in remaining afloat and holding on the ship's side. It Requires a Head. a - /VUin <t dnn'f rennirp rrmoll JL VIV1A V * VV^H 'W m ... ~? W? head -work.*' B.: "That's what I thought until I read in a paper the other day that a colored preacher had conquered a stubborn mule by butting him." Very Illiterate. Policeman: "Excuse me. Major, but isn't that your dog.'" Major B.: "Certainly." Policeman: "You see what the sigi says?'No dogsallowed in this park?"' Major B.: "Yes, but that dog can": read: he is very illiterate. Gooc morning, sir." ?Nicholas Costello, the oldes citizen of Massachusetts, died o] . Sunday, aged 108 years. He was ai Irishman and a stalwart Democrat Effect of Heat Upon Crops. A T3ie weather is beyond man's control. He can neither make it hoi or cold, wet or dry. But he can modify these in part or more strictly speaking, can modify their effects, and he J| can arrange and regulate his operations with reference to them. In this i ? t t 1 Ml f? il. . consists me real skill oi sue iarmer, and upon it depends his success. Attention is called to tins matter now, because the wide-spread heat of late has bome heavily on the crops, and farmers have a most excellent opport tunity of noting the effect that dis tance or tiie lack of distance between plants has had upon the crops. Not only his own crops but those of his neighbors are open to his inspection. As he travels along the road, on any mission whatever, let him keep his eyes open and look carefully for facts bearing on this matter. People must look for ideas, as well as for things, if they expect to find them. The observant. man has no better eyes than other people, but he has an active brain'behind his eyes that is constantly interpreting the facts he sees, bringing them together and establishing their relations. "When he sees a stalk of corn or cotton suffering - from heat, he does not stop with the thought simply that Iieat Has done it, but proceeds to inquire whether the effect of the heat has been increased by the character of the soil, by the manner in which it was prepared and was cultivated?by the kind of manure applied and by the manner in which it was applied, by the greater or less quantity >i soil from which the plant could draw moisture to replace that which the heat is taking from its leaves. ? . > He notes tiiat plants growing oythe side of streams or on damp soils make finest growth when the sun is hottest. Mere heat alone then is not the trouble; heat is good when accompanied with other needed things. Among all these other needed things attention is now directed to the distance given plants. As you pass about note the condition and appearance 'of crops that have been planted at different distances. Note the ef * * 3 .f feet of wide and narrow rows ana 01 different spacing in tlie rows. The most advanced farmers now plant in wide rows?three and a half to four feet. The old timers plant in two to two and a half feci lows. Probably both classes exist iu your neighborhood. Note how their respective crops have stood the intense heat. V: All the different modes of planting and cultivating crops which you may cfp- hta so m.'inv experiments that you may study to adv;mtage. Neighborhood clubs, that hold meetings at farms of members, that inspect and catechise, aie most admirable agencies for increasing knowledge. If not a member of such a club, inspect for yourself every farm along the roads you travel and pump the owner whenever you have opportunity.?"W. L. Jones in Atlanta Constitution. A Modern Need for Sleep. There is not one man or woman in 10,000 who can afford to do without seven or eight hours" sleep. All those stories written about great men and women, who sleep only three or four hours a night ruake very interesting reading, but I tell A?^ you, my readers, no man or woman ever yet kept health in body and mind for a number of years with less than seven hours' sleep. Americans need more sleep than they are get1 * - ? M1L-~ 1 ~ CA r?/irT7_ TiUlg. JL ILLd iiltbilCO uu^juu ov uvjl v ous, and the insane asylums so populous. If you cannot get to bed till late then rise late. It may be as Christian for one man to rise at 8 as it is for another to rise at 5. *1 counsel my readers to get up when they are rested. But let the rousing bell be rung at least thirty minutes before your public appearance. Phy- J siciaus say that a sudden jump out of bed gives irregular motion to the pulse. It takes hours to get over a lie fi-imo _ LOU &U.U.M I llg lioiiig. viiiv .11..^ ^ after you call us to roll over, gaze at ~-~ the world full in the face, and look before you leap.?Talmage in the Home Journal. * ? The Old Man Looked Ahead. Chicago clerk?I would like to have the day off tomoirow. Employer?Why, you are rather soon about asking for holiday. vou * haven't been working here but a 'week. Clerk?I would not ask, but I'm to be married. Employer? Tut! Take two hours at dinner to-morrow: that's plenty of time. If you can do that I won't mind letting you off a week when you go to get your divorce.?Memphis Avalanche. ' "V All the Comforts ?f Home. "Now. here is an advertisement that looks promising," said a young man who was looking for lodgings. "What is that "It says 'all the comforts of home.'" "Don't chance it. It means that you can smell onions frying in the kitchen, be invited to help amuse the baby and have the pleasure of hearsome weak-voiced girl play and sing hymns on an organ all Sunday afternoon.' ' ?Louisville Courier-Journal. ?Dr. Charles K. Barlow, one of the leading dentists ofPoughkeepsie, N. Y.. has taken no food of any kind except a glass of milk or a cup of coffee -each day for forty-five days. "When he began 'fasting he weighed 245 pounds and measured forty inches around the body. He no ,v weighs 201 viAnTt^c onrj mpnsiirAstHrtv-sixincheS ?J\J UJ-IVW V around the body. ?Jay Gould has given about two r . acres of land in Broadway, Irvingtonom-the-Huason, to the Protestant Episcopal and Presbyterian churches. For a long time these churches have vainly endeavored to get possession of this property. Mr. Gould bought ? it and gave it to them in equal parts, as it lies between the two churches. i ?Two freight cars loaded with six, teen tons of powder exploded at 1 -?/rrn r\ JLSiITIg" 8 JJJLIJL.U J.cite JL oiici' noon, causing the explosion of a cartricfee factory, burning several t housefand killing six persons and 1 and wounding twenty men aid woa men. Four of the wounded have since died. \ "TtriiiiniffliliSiSi i " "i .. .