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TALX&VE S SEXN.
The Time in Which We Live is WVo
derful for Disasters and Blessings.
In thisdis-enre Dr. Taa; re:
soma gre.t everts ard "-o:s Cant u
world i rdraarg ;.a the rght r
ti on; ter.X J -; l i I, 3a " il.S
wonders in the hca-ens and in 0l
earth."
Dr. Cumming-grat and go d anr
would have told us the ex e" time
the fulfillment of this prophecy. As
stepped into his study in Lnt don on n
arrval from r', jer aiter thc Fre:
had surrendered at Sads. tie
dceLor sai.d to m3: ". i t wz
have told you anort F31 P.E
laughed at MeI beauw ed
the seven herr e nr nd the
foresaw a!' oIe t bK
iel and C-e bo ok C.",~n
taking any sea r.pit
interpretation a
ly assert Ltha& :e "si it S et- Co0
many thngs in vir time.
Our eyes itate and on neart Qa
ens in its pulsations as we reaa
events in the third century, t.2 eft
century, the eighth century, t"e icu
teenth century, bu there were
farreaching even;, crovdee. inte u
nineteeenth centu-y than :t:) .
other, and the i twen;y years cz p
any priceeding twenty. V e rea-U.n l
daily newspapers or events '
in one paragraph and si: !Ycu 7
cial emphasis-3ve s rhieh a H r
dotus a Jas.phue, a X er cphon, a Gil
bon would have taken whole eopte
or whole volumes to ci'ore. L)ol
ing out upon our time we mui cry on
in the words of the text, "Wonders i
the heavens and in the !arth "
I propose to sh:,w yu that the tin
in which we live is wonderful f'r di-a
ter and wonderful fir iessing, fr ,te:
must be lights and sbades in this pi
ture as in all others. Need I argue tho
our time is wonder-ul f erdiaser 0
world has had a rough ti-e since b- t
hand of God it was3 bowed cut
space. I is an epilep-lO esrth-coi
vulsion after convulsion; frostr bout!
ing it with sledge hammer of icete
and fire melting it with furnt.cts zere
times heated. 1 is a wcuder to ma
has lasted so long. Meteors shootir
by on this side and grazing it and'met
ors shooting by on the other side an
grazing it, none of them slowing up ft
safety. Whole fleets and navies an
argosies and flotilas of worlds sweepin
all about us. Our earth like a fishin
smack off the banks of Newfound at
while the Msj stie and the St. Pw
and the Kaistr Wilhelm der Grosf
rush by. Besides that, cur world h1
by sin been damaged in its internal m
ohinery, and ev..r and anon the furi
sees have burst, and the walking besa
of the mountains have broken, and ti
islands have shipped a sea, and tI
great hulk of the world has been j tre
with accidents that ever and anc
threatened immedidate demolition.
But it seems to us as if the last hUt
dred years wEre especially characteriz:
by disaster-volcanic, oceanic, epid
io. I say volinia because an earti
quake is only a volcano hus;hed u;
When Stromboli and Cotcepaxi at
Yesuvius stop breathing, let th~e fou!
dations of the earth beware! Seve
thousand earthquakes in two centuri4
recorded in the catalogue of the Bri
ish associcatior1 Trajan, the empero:
goes to ancient Antioch and amid ri:
splendors of his reception is met by a
earthquake that nearly destroys tl:
emperor's life. Lisbon, fair and beaut
ful, at i o'clock on the 1st cf N ever
ber, 1775, in six minute3 60),00) hai
perishedi, an~d Valtaire writs of then
'For that regio: it was the last 3 d
mnent, nothing wanting but a trumpet.
Europe and America feeling the thro
-1,500 chimneys in Boston partly<
fully destroyed!
But the disasters of other times ha'
had their counterpart in later timt
In 1812 Caracas was caught in the gi
of ans earthquake, in 1882 in Chile 100C
000 square iio~s of land by voloag
force upheaved to four atnd seven fe<
of permenent elevation, in 1854 Japa
felt the geological agony; Naph
shaken in 1857, Mexico in 1858; 3ei
doza, the capta. of she Argentine R
public, in 1861; Manila terrorized:i
1863; the Hawaiian Islands by sue
force uplifted and let down in 187i; Ne
vida shaken inl 1871, Antion mn 187:
California in 2872, San Salvader:i
1873, while in 1883 what subterranea
excitement! lachia, an island of ml:
Mediterranean, a beautiful italian ws
euing place, vineyard clad, surronnde
by ati natural charm and nistorieti r<
miniscence; yonder Carri, the summe
resort of the Roman emp~eror5; yC2dt
Naples, paradice of art this Dentih'
island suddenly toppled intothe treng
of the earth, 8,000 neerr makers pe:
ishing, and some of them sc Iar dos
beneath the reach of humnan obsequit
that it may be said cf many a oeo<
them, as it was said of Moses. "Ti
Lord buried him." Italy, all Euro;
weeping, all Christendom weepin.
where mnere were M'arts to sympaths
and Christians to pray. But whileoto
nations were measuring thst magnitut
of disaster, measuring it rot with go:
den rod hike that witL which the ange
measured heaven, but with the biae
rule of death, Java cf the indian archi
pelago, the most fertile island oi all t?
earth, is caught in the grip of the earn'
quake, and mountain after mountai
goes down and oity siter city until tha
island, which produces the best beva:
age all the werld. produced the ghast
liest catastrophe. Oae hurndred thou
sand people dying, dead! Comim
nearerhome, on Aug. 31, 186, rb
great earthquake which prostrated one
half of Charleston, S. C.
But look at the disssters cydonic
At the mouth of the Ganges are thrne
islands-the Hattiab, the Sundeep an.
the Dakin Shabazpore. In the mid
night of Oitober, 1877, on all thot
three islands the cry was. 'The wat
ers!'' A cyclone srose~ ar~d rolled th
sea over those three islands, and of
population cf 310,000, 215,000 vwer
drowned. Oaly those saved who has
climbed to the top of the highest t-eet
Did you ever see a cyclone? No? 'The:
I pray God you may never see one.
saw a cyclone on the ocean, andi
swept us 800 miles back f rm ot
course, and for thirty-six hours durn
the cyclone and after it we expecco
every mement to go to the bottem
They told ut before we retired at
o'clock that the barometer had falles
but at 11 olock at night we we:
awakened with the ahcek of the waves
All the lighta out. Crsh v~erut all thi
lifeboats. Wa'ars ru.shing through th.
skylights down iut- the cabin and dow
on the furnsees until thsy hissed
smoked in the delnge. 8.vn Lundred
people praying, shrieking, Oa arc
ship poised a momenL en the to c
mountain of phosphorescant ea
then plucged down, dow~n, unn! i
seemed as if ahe neve- wru: again h
rghted. Ah, you never an toe se
ylone at tea!
But I was in Minnesots, where thr
was one or those os ciones on lane. ta
swept the city of R~cheater from it
funatinsa nd iook dwelling houseE,
bars, men. woman, children, horses,
eattle, ::d :ossed them into indiscrimi
en:.in and lifted a train and dashed
own a mightier hand than that o
ernser on the airbrake. Cyclone ix
cylone in Missouri, cyclone ir
Wiensin, cyclone in Ilinois, cy'Onl
Ia! Satan, prince of the powei
of the air, never made such cyclonic
a- iszarbances as he has in our day.
W And am I not right in saying that ont
0; thc characteristics of the time 1E
which we live is disaster cyclonic?
But lock at the disasters 'ccao
- Sh T call tnei roll of the d2ad shipping.
Y ;o~sars of the deep, answer whet
%11 yolur names. The Ville de Havre
d~e 8,hizlcr, th City ot B e o, o i
d 1 the Presi&ent, the Cimbri%
f 0:on, the Mahogan. Bat wh:
sould 'I go on calling the rol
w'e 2 os of them!= ans;Fers and1 0
o.. . a; in as the ;hite scro*l of t,
atie suf at Cape Hatteris br-ak
r ? I the o.n cables could repar
ai the Scattered life and all th
b~& e be-es that they rub against ix
h e cn. what . message of pathos anc
tr oy fcr b )h beachesI In one storn
e yfishermen perished off the com
of N'wfoudhini and while . fi ets o
tem i :h3 caset of E igland Go
khelo the poor fellows at sea and giv:
g'i tea-3 in heaven to the Grao i Dsr
li::g and the Ida Lewises and lifeboa
y men hvering around Good vin sandl
: and the Sgerriet! The sea, oWnin
ethree f'ourtas of the earih, proposes L<
canture the other fourth and is bom
Sadi he lend all around the earth
11e movina of the hotels at Brighto:
B h teckwrd 100 yards from wher
bey once s:oCd a iype of what is gi:ns
a a around the world on every coast
The D-ad S a r :lls tod ; % here the an
n cient ciies stood. P lier: of tempic
that st.od on hgll, g ologists now fini
tan c. zar crs under the Vater or alto
gether -u*ierged. The sea, having
wrc d so m %ny merchantmen and fl
tiiks. wants to wreck the continen-s
t d het d 3:asters oceanic. Alas fx
G;veson and other cities almosi
Look at the Cisss'er; e;idem c
--peak not of the plagune in 2c four.l
century that rav&gd E rope and it
. eseo?S Sad the Nespointaa dominieint
a and Marseiles wrought such terror it
the eighteenth centary, but I look a
the yellow fevers and tve choleras an:
the diphtiherias and the scirlet feveri
d and the typbo da of our time. Fron:
Hlud ar India, whe11re LV-r; t welftl
yea- 3,000,000 devotees cmngregate, the
caravan's brought the cholera, and thal
*g one disease slew 18,000 in eighteen dayi
in Bissorab. Twelve thousand in one
summer slain by it in India and 25 00(
e i* Egyrt. Disasters epidemic. S~m1
5 of the fLest monumen's in Greenwooc
I and Laurel Hill au Monat Aubara ar!
. to doctors who lost their lives battling
r with southern epidemic.
e But now I tur2 the leaf in my sub
e jact, and I plant the white lilies and
d I the palm tree amid the nightshades and
n the myrtle. This aga no more charac
t-rized by wonders of d saster than bi
. wonders of blessing-blessing of lon
d gevity; the average of human life rap
. idly increasing. Forty years now wortt
. 400 years once. Now 1 can travel frou
Mianitoba to New York in less that
three d sys. Is other times it would
. have taken three months. In othei
n words, three days now are worth threE
- month of other days. The average oi
. human life practically greater now that
r when Noah lived, with his 950 years,
'~ and Methusaleh lived his 96 years
SBlescine~s of intelligence: Tae- Sal
e mcn P. Chases and the Abraham L~n
.coins and the Henry Wilsons of the
Scoming time will not be re qvired tc
ec read by pine knots or sea'ed on shoe
mnaktr's bench, nor will the Ferguson!
have to study astronomy while watoh
ing the cattle. Keowltdze rolls its
b ides a'ong every man's door, and hi!
> ichildren may go down and bathe it
them. If the philosophers of a hun
dred years ago were called up to recite
ein a class with our 'boys and girls, thoe
old philcsophers would be sent down tc
the foot ot the class because they failed
to answer the qaestional Free libra
eries in all the important towns and
t cities of the land, Historical alcove!
Sand poetical shelves and magazine ta
Sbids for all who desire to walk through
them or sit down at them.
2Blessings of quick information:
Newerapers Llling a'l around us thick
as lenves in a September equinoctial.
SNews three days o11 rancid and stale.
SWe see the whole world twica a day
through the n opaper at the breskfast
ta'ele and through the ne wspaper at the
teatable, with an "ex:ra" nere and
Sthere between.
SBiesdiegs of gospel prolamnation: Dc
r ycu r o know that nenrly all the mis
r siot ary seec.eties hsve ben born within
:1 a hundred *ears and nearly all the
hi B ble societies and nearly all the g-eat
-philethropic movements? Chrisraan
i.y' is on the march, while infidelity is
sd sindling into imbecility. While in fi
f delity is thus dwindlig the wheel of
e Caris;.anity is makiug about a thous
e ' rnvolut~ions in a minute. All the
, copies of Shakespeare and Tennyson
and Diersili ad of any ten of the most
e popular writers of the day less in num
e br than the copies of the Bible going
l- out frm our printing presies. A few
1 years ago in six weeks more than
k 2.000,000 copies of the New Testa-nent
purchased-not given away, but pur
echased, because the world wijl have it.
hemost popular book today is the
a ble, and the mightiest institution ic
,t the churcb, and the greatest name
among the nations and more honored
ths~n ar~y is the name of Jesus.
Wonders of self sacrifice: A clergy
e six y ar3 he was a missionary at the
-xtremz north, livirg 400 miles from
a postoffice, and sometime:, the ther
mometer 40 degress below s tro, he slept
out of docors in winter, wrapped in rab
bit saias woven together. i said: 'Is
it possible? You do not mea 40 de
grees b-elow zeuo?" He said, "I do.
a .d I was happy." All for Christ!
Whe re is there any other being that
will rally such enthusiasm? Mothers
sewing their dagers off to c ducate their
oys for the gospel ministry. For nine
years no lux-iry on the table until thne
curse through gran ar schonl and cal
ege and theological seminary b3 com
pleted Poor widow puttir g her mite
nto the Lord's treasury, tne faee Cf
emperor or president is imnpressed upan
the coin not so conspicuous as the biced
I 'vh which she earned it. Milliions of
gcoi me~n and womnen, but more women
than men, to whem Christ is every
thing. Cnrist first and Christ last and
Christ forever.
S|Why, this age is not so characteriz ;d
3by invention and scientinec explorat~on
ias it is by gospel proclamation. You
i a e no idea of it unless you can
lring all the church bells in one chime
Sand sound all the organs in one diapason
iand gnher all the -congregations of
! Chistendom in one "Gloria in En:el
:| ws" ighty camp nieetinget Mighty
Sis hauquis! Might conventions of
| iian workers! Mighty general as
i m!'s of the Presbyterian church!
Au v ig~ conferences of the Methodist
o hunh! Mighty associations of the
Batis; church! Mighty conventions
of the Episcopal churen! There may
be many vears of hard work yet before
the consummation, but the signs are to
me so -ncauraig '.. I woud n ot !j
unbelieving if I saw the wleg of the
aDocayp- C t I prd for its het tri
uMp3l i i7 t d.y's sanset or it
tomrorrzw mela th ocean cables
dhri u with thl news that
CAra: te LrU had Jited on Moun.
0:ivet tor aim universal donini n
All dead ciirches. ws e up! Thr 1w
baok the shutters of stiff ccolesiari
c.ism and let the light oF th Ppr*ig
morri:g C m ,i :rn.rg o->r 19
lsnC! Morning for the ses! :q raieg
of jigtt and le,, aand p-te 1 brn g
of a day in which th-re shs'l b. Z,
chairs to break, no sorrows tO ssage,
no despotiim to shacer, Fo woes to
e->mpsiana'e. B ev:cd Christ, d
sc-n! S-.red temple, ta-e 1hc c-n !
B-ui--ed ha -,ake the ,a er! Wo-a
ed fo ), 3se- o'n t, dhr3.: "Tin
is t.e Dinciom.
Thes t:in; [ !say bee-u;-e i a
you to be airt. I wan. you t> be
i cing all theSe wonders unrolli -e
irom the brvers and the earth. G )
has elissfi d the, whether calaamt
tOus or pcasing. Tan divino purposes
bra harmsL ed in trie:s ta eanrot
break and in girns th. .-sanot slio
and in bu~klcs that cannot losen and
ar; driven by r ios thcy mu;t insw.r
I preaae ny fstalism A swarthv en
gineer at one of the dip-ti in Dko a
sail. "When will von ge on the in
comotive and take a rida with us?"
.Well," i said. "now, if that su:Ls
vou." So I got on oa soie o' the io
3x'otive, and a Methodis; minister,
i who wa? als> icvited, got on the other
side, a:'d between us were the enginte
and the stoker. The train started. The
mginee: had his han-i on the agitated
pulie of the groat engin.. The stoker
sihoveled in the coal and shut the dcor
with a loud c'anz. A vast plan slipp
ed ur der us, and the hills & vept by,
and that areat mir:-ter on which we
role trembled aid bondied and snort
ed and ra:ed as it huried ns cn. I said
to the Methodist mir:ister on the ether
tile of the loo;mozive: 'My brother,
why should ministers quarr,'i about the
Jecrccs ar d free agene) ? You see that
track, that firm :rack. that iron track;
that is the deer.e. You see this engi
neer's arm; that is free agency. How
beautifuliy they work together! They
are going to take us through. We
could not do without the track, and we
could not do without the engineer."
S) I rej day by day, work for all
to do, and we may turn the crank of the
Christian machinery this way or that,
for we are free agents. Bat there is
the track laid so icng ago no one rem
embers it-laid by the hand of the
Almighty G d in sockets that no ter
restrial or estanic pressure can ever af
foot. And along the track the car of
the world's redemption will roll and roll
to the Grand Central depot of the mil
leUuium. I havj no anxiety about the
trace. I am only afraid that Lor our in
dclence and unfaithfulness God will
diseharge us and get some'other stoker
and some other engineer. The train
is going through with us. S), my
brethern, watch all the events that are
going by. If things seem to turn out
right, give wings to your joy, If things
seem to turn out wro::g, thrw out the
anchor of faith and hoid fast
There is a house in Lond on where
Peter the Great of Rassia lined awhile
when he was moving throug.h the land
incognito and in workman's dress that
he might learn saip carpentry, by
which he cuid supply the nee ds of his
people. A s'rnger was visiting at
that hous3, "What's in that box?"
The owner said: '-I don't know. Tbat
box was there when I got the house,
and it was there whe2 my father got it.
We haven't had any curiosity to look
at it. I guess there nothing in it."
"Well." said the stranger, "P'l give
you ?2 for it." 'Well, done," The
A2 was paid, and the contents of that
box were sold to the es -.r of Rnssia for
$50,000. In it the lathing machine of
Peter the Great, his private letters
and decuments of value beyond all
monetary consideration. And tere are
the events thit seem very losigoificant
and unimportant, t they :inoase trea
sures of Divine Provideneo and eter
nities of meaning which after awhile
God will demonstrate bEfore the ages
as being of stupendous value.
These of you who are in mnidlifs may
well thank God tnat you have seen so
many wendrous things, br.t there are
peop: ative todiy who may' live to see
shimmering vei between the material
and the spiti'nal world uplitted. flag
netism, a w-orid wiii weien we cover up
our ignorance, will yet be an exolored
realm. Keectriey, aroe fiery courser of
tae sky, that Besnjamia Fracnkiand las
soed and Morse and Bediaad Ejison
have brought under complete control,
has greater wonders to reveal. Whether
here or departei this life, we will see
thing-. It does not make mruch differ
enee where we etand, but the higher
the standpoint theilarger tee prospect.
We will see them from heaven if we do
not sec thiem frcm earth.
Years sgo I was atF.r2 Island, Long
Idrnd, sn:: I went up in tuconooia
from which they telegraph :o NLw Yeri.
the approach of vasels hours before
hey come into port. fnere is an open
in n h wali, and the operaitor puts
his telescops through that opening and
looks o-it and sees vessels far out at
ses. Wfliie I was talking with him he
;ent up andi looked our. Ele sasid, "We
are cxpecting the Ar a ;na tonignt." I
said: -Is it ro-asibie you know all those
eela? Do you k~ow ictm as you
know a man's fac.?" he said: -.Yes:
I never make a mistahe. Biore 1 see
the hulls I ofttn know them~ by the
masts. .L 1, ow them al-j hr~v watch
ed them sa long." Oa, what a grand
thing it is to have ships toL'graphed
and hernaied long bof ore 1.hey c ame to
pot, that nie::ds may ccme down to
the whatf at d welcosmo thou2 absent
onct' So today we take cur stand in
the watchtower, and throt.gh the glass
of inspe-ation we look *ff at.d e e a
whoe fleet of ships comirig in. That
i the sIhip of peace, with one star of
Bthihem fbsatiog abov: the top gal
Innts. That ic the ship a: the church,
mark of tait water hig t upon th:e smoke
stck, showing &te has had roua~h
weette', 'cu::he C.:ptain of Siv:ion
cmneds her, atnd dHis 3 ll wih her.
The t-hip oi heav;e, migties~ crsit
ever nched, millior of pssengeri
waiting for noIllo::s mere, prophets aed
martyras in the cahin, corogerors at
he f~oot of the ma: we ile from the
igig hardi are waving - his way as if
they knew uas, and wo wave back egai2,
ro they are ours. They went cut from
our own households. Oar.! Hail, hai;!
Put off the black and put on the white.
When Titans play quoits, they pitch
mountains, but who owns~ the gigantic
natural fonr s we are cons .a:tlyreading
about? Whose hand is on the throtle
valve of the volcanoes? Wahte foot,
ndienly planted on the fo'otstool,
makea the con ints~ quiver? God! I
must be at poee with tnim. Through
the L-rd Jeans Chriet, this Gof is miee
aid tie is yon-s. I put the earthquake
that shook Palestine at ie crucitixion
against all the down rockings of the
cntures. This God on our side, we
may challenge all the centu'ies of time
Now the ship comes around the great
headland. Soon she will strike the
wharf and we will go aboard her. Tears
f :r ships going out. L mghter for ships
eniig in. Now 9e tU uches the wharf
T n out the p.ncs Block not up
t a gangway with em ricing long lost
::;ewas, for 3ou will hav, eternity of re
i;.: a. Stand back ana give way util
other milions coma aboard her. Fare
welt to tin! F,r-vell to struggle! F.re
el; to sicknees! Farewell to death!
"R sad a- ell they who enter in
trugh tra saw& 'n~o the ci'y."
Big Fat Salaries.
A a ei e nt pri pr m'i by direction cf
Secrt:s E ibu Ro.,: gives the firit full
cd i e meere p rt of salaries paid the
igher. ffivis in h Pmsiippines un
der ih3 bf- .enmi sdon. The Sacre
ur -.i the:; curize were fixed by
ta P:is'de-. 4:-t u-ame:r on his rk
c:ndakiosa , a:,o that it would have
teen impossilsle to st cure the character
of men d- s'red withrut adequate salar
i-s b(i-g paid. Commisiioner Taft
hds the lisi, with a s:!ary of $20,000
ano the oth-r c.ommi8sioners receive a.
salir - of $'5 000 The other officers
under :he C ,muMis xo1 ara p3id as fol.
low': Scecrctary to the cmmission. $3,
500; 'wo, assisstw, one Spanish and
one E ig ash, at $3 500 and $2.750 each;
seers-ury to the civii gtv-rnor, $7.500;
r uditor, $6 000: ecltecto;r of customs,
$6000; depuly, $1,000 attorniey g;?neral,
$5 500; tw> asat-wntt t $4 500 a-id
$3,500; Nhi:f j i1c f th; SUp'em:?
U, urt, $7 500; asiow.ee j asices, $7,00)
clerk to the Sapr m- Uourf, $3 000;
Judges of court of Fi s- bEts c4 in
Manilia, $5,500; th :s, auside, $5 000;
mtm . rs of muni..i;nal ocad, $t,50;
superintendent of pu1c wri ks, $6,000,
and about twenty ol h-r effiaials, whose
salaries range from $2,750 to $4,000.
Tbo commidsioner of public health re
c ives $6 000
Baptist state Coventin
The Baptist Sta:e CoLvention con
vened at Florence. Tuesdav evening
December 3 Rsv. C C. Brt'rn, D. D.,
of Sumter preached a beau.f al termon
from John 14, 1-3 R -v D W. Key
of Greenvilie was elected. President,
ar.d Revs. C. S. Ivin, hnd V. L Ma3
ters, clerks.
The different bcarda were ably rep
resented. The new Hame Missionu,
Secretary Dr. McOoawell, gave a most
instructive and stimulating address.
It is doubtful if the late lamented Dr.
Kerfoot could have had a more worthy
successor.
Foreign Missions w-re or an urmui
ly interesting natare. D:- W it. g
ham told how large L ibsrt - f Caiin2.ie
were seeking admiato I 1,to Bapdat
missions, upon a profession of their
faith in the Lord Jesus. Dr. Bailey
our able Secretary of State missions,
was full of hope and inspiration. All
missionaries were paid up to December
ist, and others to December 31ts, edu
cational work was we'l discussed by
D-. Montague and others. All (f the
boards are in a flouribhing condition.
The convention is a well representa
tive body of men. The addresses and
discussions of a hig 1 ord r. Alto
gether it was one of the best conven
tions3 of Baptists ever held in t his Saa be.
Perfect harmony prevailed. Next year
the Baptist hosts meet in Greenville.
Battles of the Civil War.
Gen. F. V. Greene says in Peribner's
Magazine: The campsagns and battles
of the civil war were on a reale of :ur
passing magnituAe There were mare
than a score of rirele batkle, some
times extending over several days, in
ese'b of whieh the losses in killed and
wounded on the federal side were great
er than the aggregate of all our losses
in all our other wara csmbined. How
paltry seem the 5,000 killed and woun
ded in the war of 1812. or the war in
Mexio', or the-war with Spain, e 'mpar
ed with the 14,000 at Sbilo. 15,000) at
the Chickahominy, 13.000 at Antietam,
the same at Fredersetrburg, 16,000 at
Chancellorsville. 23 (t00 at Gettysburg,
16,000 at Chietam'unc, 37,000 in the
Wilderness and 26.000 at Spottsylva
nia. The grand aggregate of destruct
ion fair'y staggers the imagination ac
customed as we have been for more
than a generation to the figures; 93,000
killed by bullet., 186.000 killed by dis
ease, 25 000 dead from ether causes-a
grand total of 304.000, about one in
nine of every man who wore the uni
form.
Hard to Beat.
Gov. Jeiks, of Alabama, Wednesday,
granted a parole to Mrs. Nantnie Cheek
who was recenuly convicted in Hemnry
county of killing Danzey, her divorced
husband. She married Danzey when
she was 13 years old. A divorce fol
lowed after two children were born and
Mr,. Dansey married R. M. Cheek, of
Georgia S8re returned to Alabama
and attempted to secure possession of
her children who had been pieced in
cstody of Dasey by the courts. D)an
ey remaerried. In a three cornered
fght between Dit zov, Mrs. Cheek and
her brother, Danzsy was killed and the
brother in law wounded, afterward dy-:
ing. Mrs. Cheek, who is less than 20
years old, was sentenced to two years
imprisonment upon conviction of man
saughter and had been imprisoned ssv
erai weeks when the parole was secured
through the earnest effirts of Check,I
t e husband, and Baer, the father.
Executive elemency was recommended
by the trial jury, the trial judge and
he State's attorney.
A Fatal Duel.
C. L Povell and J. S. Overstreet,
wo promitnent naval stores man afac
urers, shot and killed each othrer in a
fc.e to-face duel about 10 30 o'clock
Wednesday. Oeorstreet went to
Powell's still, nine miles west of Z ilfo,
la ,to see about soms hands. The
two men had some words and both drew
heir guns and commenced firing, from
wat facts are at present obtainatbie,
oth men emptied their guns, without
ong any d5mago. Poweli then went
nto the house and cime out with a
ifile. Both fircd together ari both
el. Overstreet was shot in the fore
ead and Powell just below the heart.
vratreet was killed instatly and
ovcil only lingered for an heur,
owell was one of the largest operators
nd owners of turpentine lands in
lrida.
Information Wanted.
The cnmptroller general Thursday
eeived a letter tne contents of which
re given in the hope that some one
onverant with the fiets may see it
ad write the lady. The writer of the
etter is Mrs. Fanny Li Hutchinson, of I
Bteville, Independence county, Ar
anms. and says: "I want to know of I
f the dlepositio~n of the estate of I
Jck' or John Priinhard, tho estate I
eft by him when lie came west. To
he best of my recollection it was andC
s situated in Pickens district. If you
an give me any information [ will be
ery thankful. I am the only living
hild and when John Pritchard died IC
COLOSSAL WEALTH
Is The Creat Darg-r to The
Uniied States.
MEN WHO OWN THETRUSTS
By Consolidations and Comb'nes
are Doirg Away With Corn
pettior, Excep BewSeen
WJ'ge Earners.
The London Mail tells us some plain
truths that it would be well for u3 to
ponder. It rays:
The slave drivcr; of today in America
are the millicnaires and the men who
operate the trusts. They are the fat
tening ogres whom the per p'e will have
to destroy or be destroyeo. by. They
are the Simon Legrees of the hour
They operate within the law, for they
make the law.
The American people have somo pet
phrases with which thr-y I ke to de
scribe Eorknd. They say it is f u
dal, king-ridden, a help'ess tool of the
aristocraoy, and that sort of thing.
They do not see the beam in their own
eye. The United States is millionaire
ridden.
The millionaires start and operste
univerities, discharging professcrs
,who teach economic doctrines of which
they disapprove. The millionaires
operate the legislatures, and in some
cases the courts. They run congress,
and they are qiartered in the White
House at Washington, where the Presi
dent, whom they elected, does thEir
bidding.
Every year a greater p 2rcentage of
the wealth of America goes into ihe
pckets of the millionaires. L is a
,act that the second million is mo-re
easily made than the firmo. third than
the second, and so o:n. By the force
.of atraetion, a dollar naturally gravi
tates toward the largest pile.
The Rookefellers, who control the
Standard Oil Company, are absorbiog
the wealth of Ameries at an enormous
rate. With the wealth come political
power and social power. Social pres
tige is obtained with a startling rapidi
ty. Thirty years ago the Vanderbilts
had no social posiiion in New York,
and their obancas of ever getting any
were looked upon as poor. 'In a few
r.hort years they have bought a social
prestigs-eent round the corner for it
as one sends to the grocer's.
This is stated not from any opposi
tion to the Vanderbilts, but to make
the point that what they can buy say
one else can buy. If money can be
exchanged for anything on earth, it
is natural that it should be more in de
mand than anythirg on earth. If ir
will purchase a dirragard by the people
of how it was obtained, what matters i;
how it was obtained?
By consolidations the American
trasts are gradually doing away with
every competition, except that between
men who want jobs. The result of
tbis, of course, must be a raisiog in
price of the commodities and a lower
ing of the wages. What has prevented
both these things being done in excess
has been the force of public opinion.
Sugar, coal, meat and other necessities
which have been eornered liy the trusti
have risen in price through artifi.3ial
reasons to an extent that has put extra
millions into the pookets of those whio
control thcm and who have vo much
prep rty already that they suffer from
a sort of financial indigeation.
The aristocrats of the Unieed States
are the corporations. They conduct
their forays upon the people as did the
robber barons of old. A corporation of
large capital is in New York as sacred
as the person of the sovereign in L mn
don. it can rob, burn, or murder al
most with impuoity, and if it wants
help all it has to do is to call out the
state troops to help it.
The last sentence may appear to be
an exaggeration, but competing refin
eries have been burned down in the in
terest of the Standard Oil company, and
even such philanthropists as the part
ners of Andrew Carnegie sent a hand
of civilian "dead shots" to Homestead
to shoot down strikers. I was there at
the time and saw the corpses.
If the industrial millionaires can
Lnae and defy the laws, buy ar~d b-ibe
juries and judges and congessmen, what
is to restrain th.em, unless there j3 sorn
uprisiog and some enormoua chaegt?
I'ne nearest available remedy for some
of the abuses will be the government
ownership of what the Americans cahi
"public utilities."
Those include the mediums of trans
portation, the railways and the tram
lines, systems of lighting and the tele
gaphs and telphones now in the hand~s
of private companies.
The Standard Oil Company built, up
it s monopoly by controlling the rai
road lines. These quoted prohfbotive
freight rates to owners of oil wells
and competing refmines and ther
were driven out of business, and the
Sandard Oil Company got their walls
and phints at their own figures. The
Seel truet is nowy able to pursue the
ume taeties with rivala throuzh it.
nerest in the railroads and in eseam
eips. 'Hie opposition to the lotsl
overnment ownership of 'publie ut.li
ies" is very great, almost insuprse
t the presant time. Those who,. favor
i are calle d "anarchists."
A man who thinks that the enmmuni
y should get the profit from its "utili
its" is dencunced as one who waves
he red flag of riot. Thie same epithet
f anarchist is applied to those whoe be
ive in the income tax and ath du
ties. The United States will not al
ow an income tax because it is "rev
lutionary," and the highesl court of
he land denounced it and declared it
zaconstitutional, when it wrns passed.
ut although you cannot have so riot
>s a measure as an income tax, you
ay burn a negro alive if you like. In
his you see signs of the money power.
he courts rejact an income tax at the
ehest of the ricai. Nobody owns the
egro who is burned alive, so it dosen's
atter. In the old days of slavery,
hen a negro was worth $1,000 to his
aster, they did not burn him alive.
The agitation for the transfer of
'public utilities" to the people is not
ased on a desire to get the dividends
o much as it is to deprive the million
iires of the power which the posses
ion of those "utilities" give to them.
The men who own the railroads in a
Itate own the legislature and the jndges
ud the executive foroes. They ao this
rugh the magic pasteboard that
eans free transportation, through the
ower that the ability to make lower
reight :ates to shippers and manufac -
res gives to them, by the voting force
f their own employes, and by a hun
red other method,, including a bank
count on wich they can draw checks.
A man who cannot be bought with
old often sucumbs to railroad passes,
to the honor of getting a private car
Tit for Tat.
The resolution of M1r. Moody,
of yiassachusetts, fora congres
sional investigation of the right
of Louisiana members of con
gress to hold their seats, Friday
drew a rejoinder Representative
Fleming of Georgia, who pre
sented a resolution for the in
vestigation of the right of Mas
sachusetts members of congress
to hold their seats. Mr. Moody's
resolution asserts that a certain
class of voters were disfran
chised in Louisiana, thus invali
dating the election of Louisiana
representatives. Mr. Fleming's
resolution, in part, recities:
"Whereas the constitution of
the state of Massachusetts, in
contravention of the provision
of the Federal constitution, im
poses additional culifications for
suffrage by declaring that no
person shall have the right to
vote who shall not be able to
read the constitution in the
English language and write his
name.
"Resolved, That when the
said select committee shall be
appointed it shall be charged
with the further duty of in
quiring and reporting, by bills
or otherwise, whether the rep
resentatives from the state
of Massachusetts are entitled to
membership in this house and
whether the number of repre
sentati ves from said state should
not be reduced."
Mr. Fleming is right. His
resolution will expose the hypo
crisy of such men as Moody and
will effectually put a stop to the
intended raid on the South.
There are other Northern States
besides Massachusetts that
should be investigated.
Entitled to Compensation.
Patience-Is that so that your en
gagement Is broken?
Patrice-Yes, it is.
"And the ring; that's gone too?"
"Yes; the mean thing asked me to
return it."
"Why, you wouldn't want to keep
the ring if the engageinent was
broken, would you?"
"Certainly, I would. Why. he wore
out four of my waists and nearly
fractured my ribs In three weeks.
Isn't that worth some compensa
tion?"--Yonkers Statesman.
Loyalty.
"Your wife," observed one of his
friends, "says you are decidedly in
favor of amending the laws so as to
give women equal rights with men
in voting, holding oftice and dispos
ing of property."
"If my wife says so," said Mr
Meeker, "it's so. I have always been
of the understanding that my mar
riage vow bound me o love honoi
and 0. K. her in everything."-Chi
cago Tribune.
He Knew the Act.
Vaudeville Manager-No, we can
not book you to act. You see, we do
not allow any profanity in our house.
Badd (of Wreoughten and Badd)
Why, sir, there. is not a profane ex
pression-not even any slang-in our
turn.
Manager-I know. But we do not
allow the audience to swear, either.
-Baltimore American.
A Case in Point.
"Money" remarked the man who it
given to trite remarks, "is the root o:
all evil."
"That's nonsense," answered thE
commercial friend. "I have read the
histories treating of the subject witi
great care, and I am convinced thai
. the snake who made the trouble in the
garden of Eden didn't have a dollas
to his name."-Washington Star.
It's Wicked to Lie.
"I'm surprised, dear, that yom2
friend, Miss Singleton, should encour
age wickedness."
"Why, Charles, she wouldn't. How
can you say such a thing?"
"Because she did. She asked me how
old I thought she was, and she knen
I was too much of a gentleman to tel'
the truth."-Philadelphia Bulletin.
Prophecy Fulfilled.
I f"The late editor's wife is somethir4
ofa humorist."
f"Indeed?"
S"Yes. Took a line from his original
salutatory and placed it on his tomb
stone."
"What was it ?"
"We are here to stay!"-Atlanta
Constitution.
Slow to Realize.
"My dear," said Mr. Bickers to his
wife, "I saw in the paper to-day a de
cision of a Virginia court that the
wife may', in some cases, be the head
of the family."
"John Henry," replied Mrs. Bickers,
"the courts are sometimes very slow
about finding out things!"-Puck.
Money Tight.
Drug Clerk-I've been docked a
week's salary for making a mistake
and killing a man. Lend me five dol
lars, won't you?
Friendly Policeman-Couldn't pos
sibly. I've just been suspended a
week for killing another one.-N. Y.
weekly.
~Shot by a Socialist.J
Frtnoni fvesgh, an editorial writer
on an afternoon newspaper in New
York, who was shot early Wednesday
morning by Alexander Ho:r, a book
binder and printer, is in Bellevue hos
pital in a critiC il condition. The
woutded man made a statement to the
orcuer anid Herr was taken to the hos
pital to b3 Mdentified by Iveagh. Ac
cording to the police. Iveagh Eaid to
Horr: "You are the man whao shot me.
You are an snarchist and a publisher
of anarchistic iterature." Ivesgh rert
dia room for himzelf, his wife and
thir four year- old son from Herr about~
a month ego. The rent had been psa
up until Wednesday, ard Tanu~sdar
[veagh told Hebrr thast be inte'reed to
move. ('oifiednTg storiest ar-e told as
to the causas of the shooting but it
sems to have follonad an a:.tempt by
[vah to entrr his roomn af& r he hi~d
xecn locked out by Horr.
May End Fatally.
As the result of a peculiar bet Back'
'ampbell is dargernusly ill at his home
n Ashley, Pa., and the doctora eay he
ay die. Camp aa bet Saeve Lieber
an $10 ?hat he could s't on a radij~tor
oger ther, the la:tcr could. The con
et lasted f~trty Ev' mni-utes, and th en
ampibeli fell to the fint un sncius
ad eevlrely burred. Sir berman tot
off a second after Crpbel. Th'e lat
ter was taken home in a enh, caufht
o badiy burned that if he recoverm he
ill be lame for life. Lieberman was
THE SAILOR'S SLANG
Names That Sailor-M1en Use To TheiL
Mates While Abroad.
Our sailors having acquired a re
markable slang of their own, as will
be seen by the followiniig, which are in
dali) use on board: t
The boatswain is "Tommy" or "Tom- I
my Pipes."
The carpenter Is "Chippy."
An able seaman a "jarbee."
A stoker is a "cinder knotter."
The Master-at-Arms Chief of Police)
Is the "jaunty."
His assistants (ships' corporals) are i
called "crushers."
A carpenter's crew is a "wood spoil
er."
A cooper Is called "Jimmy Bungs."
The ship's steward assistantj "*dusty."
The captain of the hold, "tanky."
The boatswain's mate, "buffer."
A bandman is a "wind jammer."
The sick bayman is a "poultice miX
er."
The painter, "Putty."
The sailmaker, "Sails."
Signalman, "Bunting Tosser," and
the drummer, "Sticks."
Biscuits are "hard tack." and pre- I
served meat, "Fanny Adams;" it is al
so referred to as "soup and bufly."
Fresh meat boiled with vegetables in
the copper Is "copper rattle," while
plum pudding Is "plum duff" or "figgy
dowdy."
To be asked by a messmate to pass
the "lighthouse" is simply a request
for the pepperbox; a similar request
for a "gibby" means a spoon.
To hear a man being "smashed"
means that he has lost his petty oficer
rating, while to hear that he got a
"lift" expresses the opposite-tflat he
has received promotion.
A man breaking his leave Is said to
be "stething it," and if after punish
ment he is heard to upbraid himself for
his folly, he is said to be "flogging the
cat." "Long may your big jib draw"
conveys to a messmate all the possible
good you can wish him; while "I'll
stretch you along like a Yankee main
tack" has a fa'r diflerent meaning.
"Cocking a chest like a half-pay ad
nm:ral" is often used to describe the
bulk of a person who is considered to
be putting on side.
To be told that you look like "a billy
goot In stays" is not a compliment
To "spin a cuff" is to tell a steby. and
to be told to "cut" the latter signifies
you are to stop and generally to go on
with the job in hand.
The order to "heave round" "look
suippery," or "shake a leg," means
you are to make haste.
To "top your boom" or "shove off" is
to leave the company you may be con
versing with.
While the modern expression, "Well,
you take the cake," is now often used,
its equivalent. "Well, you paul my cap
stau" still may be heard.
To be told to "buck up and take a
chilly" Is an Intimation for you to
;halke yourself together, especially so
if the person in question has had a
"cooking day"-a drop too much. The
sun is said to be "over and foreyard"
when referring to anyone not sober,
and to hear of so-and-so having "rolled
up" means that he is dead.
"Rlaggle" doesn't sound very select,
but such is the expression used on the
lower deck. Once a man takes a lik
in- to one man more than the remaind
er of the ship's company, they. at once
become known as "raggies."
Naval proverbs are interesting, but
not very expressive. For instance,
"First on the topsail and last in the
beef shid" is that expression made con
cerning a smart seaman.
"Pick him up and pipe clay hIm andi
he'll do again," is often used to expressl
that a marine has slipped down a lad-.
der leading to the lower deck.
Jack Not Always Victim.
A shipping master named Millet put
ft sailor aboard the British freight
steamship Beltor, just before she left
her Brooklyn pier for Fernandina.
Millet had received an advance note
frmhe ent of the si'sorges18,
frotemount of the siorges1fo
one month. The note was payable
after the ship sailed, provided, of
course, that the sailor should be
aboard. Feeling sure of his man, Mil -
let paid him $12, his share of the ad -
vance money. The other $6 represent -
ug Jack's expenses for board an .1 other
things, the shipping master retained.
Jaci's baggage was put aboard and
he appeared to be ready for the voy
age. A moment after he got the
money, however, he climbed over the
ship's sIde and went running up the
pier. Millet saw him and started after
him. After leaving the pier Jack ran
into a saloon. Millet came In panting
and saw Jack standing placidly up
against the bar drinking a schooner of
beer. A throng of longshoremenl were
doing likewise at Jack's expense. Mil
let said: "Come, man, hurry with your
drink: the ship is going to pull out in a
moment.''I
Jack stared hard at Mlllet, and said:
"What ship are you talking about?"
Millet asked Jack to quit fooling and
come along. Jack looked Indignant,
declared that he was an honest British 1
sailor, and had no recollection of hay
lg seen the shipping master before.
Then he grew warm and said he sus
pected that Millet intended to "shang
hai" him, but with the help of the
honest laboring men present he hoped
to prevent any such high-hanled pro
ceeding. The longshoremen growled
approvingly of Jack's sentiment. Mil
let began to get nervous. Jack Invited
the bartender to fill 'em up again for,
all hands. Millet saw there was not
much hope of getting .Tack to return
to the ship. so appealed to him to at
least gzive back the $12. Jack said that
inasmrah as he had never seen the
shipping master before, he did not see
ho~ it was possible for him to have
any of the shippIng master's money.
The lonieshoremnen growled again in 1
chorus and moved toward the shipping
master. who got out in a hurry. The
honest sailor was still setting 'em up
several hours later, and the longshore
men were swearing that they would
see that nobody interferred with his
rights.
"i say, father," said little Timmie
O'Brien, "whoy didn't Saint Patrick
sign the Declaration of Independence?
Didn't they ask him?"
"Yis, Timmie, they asked him all
right," said Mr. O'Brien, "but, ye see,
he t'ought th' man that brought it to
him was wan o' these autygraft- hunt
ers, an' he chocked him out o' the,
houe."-Harper's Bazar.
THE following statistics as to
illiteracy among immigrants to
this country have been compiled:
"Passing on to the race items,
it appears that Scandinavian!&
immigrants are the best edu
cated, less than one in 100 of I
them being illiterate. English i
and Scotch immigrants come,
next, with a little over one in 100'
of them unable to read and
write. Of Irish immigrants 3.2~
per cent. only were illiterate; of
French, :3.9 per cent.; of Ger
ran. 4.1 per cent.; of Dutch and j
Femishi, 7.8 per cent. The Ital
ian immigrants show the high
st proportion of illiterates, but ,
there is a marked difference be-!+
:ween those from Northern and
:hose from Southern Italy. for
vhile 1.5 in every 100 is the 'lli
erate ratio among the former,;
t is 59 in every 100 among the
atter.'I
In giving ycur ochidren prCes ]
ive them something useful and sub- t
AT THE SHOW.
Vhat Was Heard During a Most Ak
sorbing Scene.
Macauley's Theatre was so crowded
Lie last n'ght of the Julia Arthur en
agenjent that there was no room for
he Fool Killer who came late. Down
a the parquet was a couple in need of
is services. They had been engaged
robably twenty hours, and within five
ninutos everybody In their vicinity.
:new it. Two young men who think
diss Arthur the greatest as well as
he most beautiful English-speaking
Lctress were in front of the loving pair.
Trouble started with the second act,
rhen Miss Arthur swept on the stage
fowned in her Cleopatra costume, a
rision of perfect loveliness. The aU
lience gasped its admiration and the
>nly male creature that had been en
;aged since Eden whispered to the cot
on-locked damsel beside him: "That's
ust as you looked last night, Evange
ine."
Then followed the scene when Jose
)hine, with all the seductive power of
ier voice, her beauty, her love and her
omanliness, coaxes the sulky Napo
;on. from his room. The house was
carcely breathing. The two young
,orshippers were living on Miss A;.
lur's pleading. The voice of the gir,
who had bitten off more love than she
tculd digest secretly, rasped them to
ath again.
"Henry," she grated, "that's just as
[ begged you after we quarreled to.
.ight."
Again came comparative peace until
Napoleou began to urge 'the divorce.
osephine sinks on a sofa overcome.
Eer husband offers her water. She
ibrinks from him. "That water Is
oisoned, Junot. Drink!" thunders the
mperor, and Junot drains the glass.
"Would you do that, Evangeline,"
runted Henry, turning calf's eyes on
er.
"I'd do it If I loved him. Id drink
o1son for you, Henry," she whimper
d, sentimentally.
That was past all patlen-e. One of
he men whirled in his seat.
"For heaven's sake, young woman.
rink It, and drink It quick," he said.
The voice from the stage was heard
lone after that.-Loulsville Courier
Fournal.
He Guessed Wrong.
Brown-You seem to be a hustler.
[ saw that life insurance agent go into
our house this morning, and In less
than half an hour after him came the
doctor.
Smith-Well, what do you gather
from that?
Brown-Merely that you were in a
great hurry to undergo the pbysicsa
examination and have It over with.
Smith-You're wrong. The doctor
came to examine the insurance man's
wounds.-Philadelphia Press.
Outlandish.
The tramp entered the private of.
ee of a South Water street cheese
merchant.
"Boss," began the knight of the tis
can tribe, "l'se a Boer, an' I wants,
yer to help me to land In South Af
rica."
"I'11 help you to land on the outi
ide!" blurted the busy cheese men
chant.
"Den, boss, I'll be en ontlander."
And the tourist vanished before the
bombardment of ripe cheeue.-ChI.
eago News.
Rapid Development.
"You are in business In Montanat*
saked the passenger In the skull can,
"Yes," said the passenger In the
smoking jacket.
"Is business good out there?'
"Yes. In the last two years our
plant has increased In size more thaa
L,Q00 per cent."
"Great Scott! What was the alse
>f your plant originally?"
"It consisted of a pair of 3elgiam
rabbits.-Chicago Tribune.
The Fareweil.
"Good-bye," said the pale, determin
ed man, as his wife flngt her arms
wildly about his neck, and gave wiay
oa flood of weeping.
"Do not go lnte unecessary dan..
~er," she cried. "I know you will be
rave and return with honors."
Andhe was gone. He was not of
othe war. No; he'was abasebaU
impire, and he was leaving home for
:he opening game. -Pha nhla
Korth American.
Foliowing instructIons.
"Young Sammie Spender Is carry
ng out his Governor's wishes faith
ully, Isn't he?"
"How's that?"
"Why the old gentleman left instruo'
:ons In his will that after his death
d9 dust .was to be scattered to the
Mother, Sisters and Wife.
"Man spends twenty years of his
Ife n sleep,"
"You ar-e mistaken; he spends ag
east nyve of the twenty years in bat,
ing with his women relatives who
rant to make him get up."--Chicag.
secord.
Connubial Caicrics,
YokIsee they have a new cure
or rhecumnatism. They roast the par
lent.
Twson-My wife must think I have
L-Bltimore American.
Explanation of Her Penchant
"I notice that she has her portrait
sainted but never has her photograph
aken."
"Yes. You see the camera Is so
sa~ct."
THE Republican plan is said
o be to admit New Mexico and
)klahoma as states, not be
ause either has population
nough to entitle it to <>ne re
>resentative, but because the
dmission of both would doubt
ess add four more to their ma
n city in the senate. The popula
ioni ~of New Mexico is 153,593;
f Oklahoma 61,8:34, and the
atio of representation in con
;ress is 173,901.
GENERAL Wood, who knows
h-at he is talking about, insists
hat some measure of reciproci
y on sugar and tobacco is
ecessary to restore prosperity
d stability to Cuba. It is said
rth a protectionist sneer that
abanl patriotism begins and
ni witi. sugar and tobacco;
ut this is an ill-natured remark
aat is capable cf much more
Ktanie napliin.