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6 THE WlOlliNGTOX "MKSMvNi EL; FRIDAY AUGCST 17. - 1 00. DOWN FROMHEAVEN REY. DR. tALMAGE ON THE ONLY TRUE RELIGION Makeshifts of Human Manufacture . Are Useles Wlien Measured by God's Plumb Llne-ItelIglon Made to Salt Conditions From Troadhjem. Norway, where Dr. Talmage is now staying, he sends the following discourse, in which he shows that the world can never be benefited by a religion of human manufacture, which easily yields to one's surround ings, but must have a religion let down from heaven: text. Amos vll. 8: "And the Lord said unto me. Amos, what seest thou? And I said. A plumb line." The solid masonry of the world has for me a fascination. Walk about some of the triumphal arches and the cathedrals 400 or 600 years old, and see them stand as erect as when they were built, walls of great height, for centur ies not bending a quarter of an inch this way or that. So greatly honored were the masons who builded these walls that they were free from taxa tion and called "free" masons. The trowel gets most of the credit for these buildings, and its clear ringing on stone and brick has sounded, across the ages. But there is another Imple ment of just as much Importance as the trowel, and my text recognizes it. Bricklayers and stonemasons and car penters, in the building of walls, use an instrument made of a cord, at the end of which a lump of lead is fasten ed. They drop it over the side of the wall, and, as the plummet naturally seeks the center of gravity in the earth, the workman discovers where the wall recedes and where It bulges out just what is the perpendicular. Our text represents God as standing on the wall of character which the Israelites had built and in that way testing it. "And the Lord sand unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said. A plumb line." "What the world wants Is straight up and down religion. Much of the so called piety of the day bends this way and that to suit the times. It is oblique, with a low state of sentiment and morals. We have all been build ing a wall of character, and it Is glar ingly imperfect and needs reconstruc tion. How shall it be brought into per pendicular? Only by the divine meas urement. "And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb line. Th whote tendency of the times is to make us act by the standard of what others do. we throw over the wall of our character the tangled mm m A . S piumD line oi oiner lives anu reject the infallible test which Amos saw. The question for me should not be what you think is right, but what God think is riirht- This Deroetual refer ence to the behavior of others, as though It decided anything but Human fallibility, is a mistake wide as the world. There are 10,000 plumb lines in use, but only one is true and exact, and that is the line of God's eternal right. There Is a mighty attempt be ing made to reconstruct and fix up the Ten Commandments. To many they seem too rigid. The tower of Pisa leans over about 13 feet from the perpendicu lar, and oeonle eo thousands of miles to see Its graceful Inclination and to learn how, by extra braces and various architectural contrivances. It Is kept leaning from century to century. Why not have the ten granite blocks of Siani set a little aslant? ny not nave tne pillar of truth a leaning tower? wny si not an ellipse as good as a square? Why is not an oblique as good as straight up and down? My friends, we must have a standard. Shall it be God's or man's? SOCIETY UTTERLY ASKEW. The divine plumb line needs to be thrown over all merchandise. - Thou sands of years ago Solomon discovered the tendency of buyers to depreciate goods. He saw a man beating down an article lower and lower and sayinj? Jt was not worth the price asked, and when he had purchased at the lowest point he told everybody what a sharp bargain he had struck and how he out witted the merchant. "It is naught, saith the buyer, but when he Is gone his way, then he boasteth" (Proverbs xx, 14). Society is so utterly askew in this matter that you seldom find a sel ler asking the price that he expects to get; he puts on a higher value tlian be expects to receive, -knowing that he $50, he asks $75. And if he wants $50, he asks $S3. And if he wants $2, 600, he asks $2,500. "It is naught," saith the buyer. "The fabric is defec tive; the style of goods is poor; I can get elsewhere a better article at a smaller price. It is out of fashion; it t is damaged; it will fade; it will not wear well." After awhile the mer chant, from overpersuaslon or from de sire to dispose of that particular stock of goods, says, "Well, take It at your own price," and the purchaser goes home with light step and calls into his private office his confidential friends and chuckles while he tells how for half price he got the goods. In other words, he lied and was proud of it. Nothing would make times so good and the earning of a livelihood so easy as the universal adoption of the law of right. Suspicion strikes through all bargain making. Men who sell know not whether they will ever get the money. Purchasers know not whether the goods shipped will be according to the sample. And what, with the large number of clerks who are making false entries and then absconding and the explosion of firms that fail for million of dollars, honest men are at their wits' end to make a. living. He who stands up amid all the pressure and does right is accomplishing something toward the establishment of a high commercial prosperity. I have deep sympathy for the laboring classes who toil with hand and foot. But we must not forget the business men who, without any com plaint or bannered procession through the street, are enduring a stress of cir cumstances terrific. The fortunate peo ple oi xo-uiiy are uiose wno axe receiv ing - daily wages or regular salaries. And the men most to be pitied are those who conduct a business while prices are falling and yet try to pay their clerks and employees and are in such fearful straits that they would quit business to-morrow if it were not for the wreck and ruin of others! When people tell me at what a ruinously low price they purchased an article, it gives, me more dismay than satisfaction. I know it means the bankruptcy and de falcation of men in many departments. The men who toil with the brain need full as much sympathy as those who toil with the hand. All business life is struck through with suspicion, and panicsTareThe result of want of confi dence. ' fft-fln wrnne is stronger from thefact that to our day the large business houses are swallowing up the smaller, the whales dining on blueflsh and minnows. The large houses under sell the small ones, because they buy Jn greater quantities and at lower fig- urea from the producer. They can af ford to make nothing, or actually lose, on some styles of goods, assured they can make it up on others. So, a great dry goods house goes outside of its reg ular line and sells books at cost or less than cost, and that swamps the book sellers; or the dry goods house sells bric-a-brac at lowest figures, and that swamps the small dealer In bric-a-brac. And the same thing goes on in other styles of merchandise, and the consequence is that ail along the busi ness streets of all ur cities thre are merchants of small capital who are in terrific struggle to keep their heads above water. The ocean liners run down the Newfoundland fishing smacks. This Is nothing against the man who has the big store, for every man has as large a store and as great a business as he can manage. NEED OF rrVTNE SUPPORT. To feel right and do under all this pressure requires martyr grace, re quires divine support, requires celes tial re-enforcement. Yet there are tens of thousands of such men getting splendidly through. They see others going up and themselves going down, but they keep their patience and their courage and their Christian consisten cy, and after awhile their success will come. There Is generally retribution in some form for greediness. The own ers of the big business will die, and their boys will get possession of the business, and with a cigar in their mouths, and full to the chins with the best liquor, and behind a pair of spank ing bays, they will pass everything on the turnpike road to temporal and eternal perdition. Then the business will break up and the smaller dealers will have fair opportunity. Or the spirit of contentment and right feeling will take possession of the large firm, as recently with a famous business house, and the firm will say: "We have enough money for all our needs of our children. Now let us dissolve business and make way for other men In the same line." Instead of being startled at a solitary instance of mag nanimity, it nvill become a common thing. 1 know of scores of great busi ness houses thiat have had their oppor tunity of vast accumulation and who ought to quit. But perhaps for all the days of this generation the struggle of small houses to keep alive under the overshadowing pressure of great nouses will continue; therefore, taking things as they are, you will be wise to pre serve your faith and throw over all the counters and shelves and casks the measuring line of divine right. "And the Lord said unto one, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb line." BEGIN AT THE TOP. In the same way we need to rectify our theologies. All sorts of religions are putting for their pretensions. Some have a spiritulastic religion, and their chief work is with ghosts, and others a religion of political economy,, pro posing to put an end to human misery by a new style of taxation, and there is a humanitarian religion that looks after the bodies of men and lets the soul look after itself, and there is a legislative religion that proposes to rectify all jwrongs by enactment of better laws, and there is an aesthetic religion that by rules of exquistie taste would lift the heart out of its deform ities, and religions of all sorts, relig ions by the peck, Teliglons by the square foot and religions by the ton all of them devices of the devil that would take the heart away from the only religion that will ever effect any thing for the human race, and that is the straight up and down written in the book which begins with Genesis and ends with Revelation, the religion of the skies the old religion, the God given religion, the everlasting religion, which says "Love God above all and your neighbor as. yourself." All relig ions but one begin at the wrong end and in the wrong place. The Bfble re ligion demands that we first get right with God. It begins at the top and measures down, while the other relig ions begin at the bottom and try to measure up. They stand at the foot of the wall, up to their knees In the mud of human theory and speculation and have a plummet and a string tied fast to it, and they throw the plummet this way and break a head here and throw the plummet another way and break a head there, and then they throw it up, and it comes down upon their own pate. (Fools! Why stand at the foot of the wall rectifying up when you ought to stand at the top rectifying down? I was in the country, thirsty after a long walk. And I came in, and my child was blowing soap bubbles, and they rolled out of the cup blue and gold and green and spark ling and beautiful and orbicular, and in so small a space I never saw more splendor concentrated. But she blew once too often, and lall the glory van ished into suds. Then I turned and took a glass of water and was refresh ed. And so far as soul thirst is con cerned I put against all the blowing, glittering soap bubbles of worldly re form and human speculation one draft from the fountain , from under the throne of God clear as crystal. Glory be to God for the religion that drops from above, not coming up from be neath! "And the Lord said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said A plumb line." THE ONLY RELIGION. I want you to notice this fact, that when a man gives up the straight up and down religion of the Bible for a any new tangled religion, it is general ly to suit his sins. You first hear of his change of religion, and then you hear of some swindle he has practiced in a special mining stock, telling some one if he will put in $10,000 he can take out $100,000; or he has sacrificed his. integrity or plunged into irremediable worldliness. His sins are so broad he has to broaden his religion, and he becomes as broad as temptation, as broad as the soul's darkness, as broad as hell. They want a religion thaj, will allow them to keep their sins and then at death say to them, "Well done, good and faithful servant," and that tells them, "All is well, for there is no hell." What a glorious heaven they hold before us! Come, let us go in and see it. There are Herod and all the babes he massacred. There are Charts Guiteau and Robespierre, the feeder of the French guillotine, and all the liars, thieves, house burners, garo ters, pickpockets and libertines of all the centuries. They have all got crowns and thornes and harps and scepters, and when they chant they sing, 'Thanksgiving and honor sd glory and power to the broad religion that lets us all into heaven without repentance and without faith In those humiliating dogmas of ecclesiastical old f ogyism." My text gives me a grand opportuni ty of saying a useful word to all young men who are now forming habits for a lifetime. Of what use to a stone mason or a bricklayer is a plumb line? Why not build the wall by the unaided eye and hand? Because they are in sufficient, becausejf there be a deflec tion in the wall it cannot further on be corrected. Because by the law of gravitation a wall" must be straight in order to be symmetrican and safe. A young man is dn danger of getting a defect in his wall of character that may never be corrected. One of the best friends I .ver had died of delirium tremens at 60 -years of age, though he had not since 21 years of age, before which he had been dissipated, touched intoxicating liquor until that particular carousal that took him oil. Not feeling well In the street on a hot summer day he stepped into a dru;: store, just as you and J would have done, and asked or a dose of something to make him feel better. And t.iere v.-as alcohol in th dose, and that one dnp aroused the old appetite. and he entered the first liquor store and staid there until thoroughly under the power of rum. He entered his home a raving maniac his -wife and daughters fleeing from his presence. and at first he was taken to the city hospital to die. The combustible ma terial of early habit had lain quiet nearly 40 years, and that one spark Ignited It. FUN IS WHOLESOME. Remember .that the wall may be 100 feet high, and yet a deflection one foot from the foundation affects the entire structure. And If you live 100 years and do right the last SO years you may nevertheless do something at 20 years of age that will damage all your earth ly existence. All you who have built houses for yourselves or for others, am I not right in saying to these young men, you cannot build a wall so high as to (be independent of the character of Its foundation? A man before 30 years of age may commit enough sin to last hfan a lifetime. Now, John or George or Henry or whatever 'be your Christian name or surname say here and now: "No wild oats for me, no cigars or cigarettes for me, no wine or beer for me, no nasty stories for me, no Sunday sprees for me. I am going to start right and keep on right. God help me, for I am very weak. From the throne of eternal righteousness let down to me the principles by which 1 can be guided in building everything from foundation to capstone. Lord God, by the wounded hand of Christ throw me a plumb line." "But," you say, "you shut us young folks out from all fun." Oh, no! like fun. I believe in fun. I have had lots of it in my time. But I have not had to go into paths of sin to find it. No credit to me, but because of an ex traordinary parental example and in fluence I was kept from outward trans gressions, though my heart was bad enough and desperately wicked. have sworn one oath and never gam bled for to much as the value of a pin and never saw the inside of a haunt of sin save as when many years ago, with a commissioner of. police and a detective and two elders of my church, I explored New York and iBrooklyn by midnight not out of curiosity, but that I might in pulpit discourse set before the people the poverty and the horrors of underground city life. Yet, though I was never intoxicated for an instant and never committed one act of disso luteness restrained only by the grace of God, without which restraint would have gone headlong tovthe bot torn of infamy I have had so much on the planet at the present time who has had more. Hear it, men and boys. women and girls, all the fun is on the side of right. Sin may seem attractive but it is death'ful and like the man chineel, a tree whose dews are poison ous. The only 'genuine happiness is in a Christian life. HARMFUL PLEASURES. There they go two brothers. Th one was converted a year ago m the church one Sunday morning during prayer or sermon or hymn. No one knew it at the time. The persons on either side of him suspected nothing, but In that young man's soul this pro cess went on: 'tLord, here I am, a young man amid the temptations of city life, and I am afraid to risk them alone; come and be my pardon and my help; save me from making the mistake some of my comrades are making and save me now." And quicker than a flash God rolledl heaven into his soul. He is just as jolly as he used to be. Hecan strike a ball or catch one as easily as before he was con verted. With gun or fishing rod in this summer vacation, he is just as skillful as before. The world is brighter to hhn than ever. He appreciates pic tures, music, Innocent hilarity, social life, good jokes and has plenty of fun, glorious fun. But his brother is go ing down hill. In the morning his head aches from the champagne debauch. Everybody sees he is in rapid descent. What cares he for right or dencency or the honor of his family name? Turn ed out of employment, depleted in health, cast down In spririts, the ty phoid fever strikes him in the smallest room on the foruth story of a fifth rate boarding house, cursing God and call ing for his mother and fighting back demons from his dying pillow, which Is besweated and torn to rags. He plunges out of this world with the shriek of a destroyed spirit. Alas for that kind of fun! It is remorse. It Is despair. It is blackness of darkness. It is woe unending and long reverber ating and crushing as though all the mountains of all continents rolled on him in one avalanche. My soul, stand back from such fun. Young man, there Is no fun in shipwrecking your character, no fun in disgracelng your father's name. There is no fun in breaking your mother's heart. There Is no fun in the physical pangs of the dissolute. There is no fun in the pro fligate's deathbed. There is no fun" in an undone eternity. (Paracelsus, out of the ashes of a burnt rose, said he could recreate the rose, but he fallSd In the alchemic understaking, and rosea t life, once burned down in sin, can never again be made to blossom. GOD'S PLUMB LINE. Oh, this plumb line of 'the everlast ing right! God will throw-it 'over all our lives to show us our moral deflec tions. vGod will throw it over all churches to show whether they are do ing useful work or are instances of idleness and pretense. He will throw that plumb line over all nations to de monstrate whether their laws are Just or cruel, their rulers good or bad, their ambitions holy or infamous. He threw that plumb line over the Spanish mon archy of other days, and what became or her? Ask the splintered hulks of her overthrown armada. He threw that plumb line over French imperial ism, and what was the result? Ask the ruins of the Tulleries and the fal len column of the Place Vendome and the grave trenches of Seldan and the olood of revolutions at different times rolling throughout the Champs Elysees. He threw that plumb line over ancient Rome, and what became of the realm of the ancient Caesars? Ask her war eagles, with beak dulled and wings broken, flung helpless into the Tiber. He threw it over the Assyrian empire of a thousand years, the thrones of Shalmaneser, of 27 victorious expedi tions, the cities of Phoenicia kneeding to the scepter and all the world be came of all the grandeur? Ask the fal len palaces of Khorsabad and the corpses of her 1S5.000 soldiery slain by the angel of the Lord in one night and the Assyrian sculptures of the world's museums, all that now remains of that splendor before which nations staggered and crouched. God is now throwing that plumb line over this republic, and i t is a solemn time with this nation, I dishonor them, whether righteousness or Iniquity dominate, whether we are Christian or Infidel, whether we fulfill our mission or refuse, whether we are for God or againest him, will decide whethery we shall as a nation go on In higher and higher career or go down in the same grave where Babylon and Nineveh and Thebes are sepuichered. "But," say you. "if there be nothing but a plumb line what can any of us do. for there is an old proverb which truthfully declares: 'If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.' What shall we do when, accord ing to Isaiah, 'God shall lay judgment to the line and righteousness the plummet?' " Ah. her where thn gos pel comes in with a Saviour's righteous ness to make up for our deficits. And while I see hang-In: on the wall a plumb line. I see also hanging there a cross. Ana while tbeoiie condemns us the other saves us, if only we will hold to it. And here and now you may be set free with a more glorious liberty than Hampden or Sidney or Kosciusko ever fought for. Not out yonder or down there oinip here, but just where you are you may get it. The invalid proprietress of a wealthy estate In Scotland visited the coptinent of Europe to get rid of her maladies, and she went to Baden Baden and tried those waters and went to Carls bad and tried those waters, and In stead of getting better she got worse, and in despair she said to a physician, "What shall I do?" His reply was: "Medicine can do nothing for you. You have only one chance and that is in the waters of the Pit Keathly, Scot land." "Is it posible?" she replied. "Why, those waters are on my own es tate!" She returned and drank of the fountain at her own gate and in two months completely recovered. Oh, sick and diseased and sinning and dying, why go trudging all the world over and seeking here and there relief for jour discouraged spirit when close by and at your very feet and at the door of your heart, aye, within the verv estate of your own consciousness, the heatbng waters of eternal life may be had and had this very hour, this very minute? Blessed be God that over against the plumb line that Amos saw is the cross, through the emancipating power of which you and I may live and live for ever. (Copyright. 1900, by Louis Klopsch.) The Shlrt-Walst Man The shirt waist man has not reached Wilmington but he was very much in evidence sunday at our popular resort, the Seashore hotel, at Wrightsville beach. The guests of the hotel were lolling about the piazzas enjoying the delightful breezes or gamboling in the surf in front of the hotel, and every one was glad he was living, when sud denly three handsome young men ap peared at the desk and inquired of Chief Clerk Gardner if they could get dinner. Mr. Gardner with his usually polite manners said certainly, but upon look ing up he came very nearly fainting when he discovered that none of these young men was the possessor of a coat. They wore faultless fitting white duck trousers and beautiful negligee shirts strapped in with the latest in belts. The shirts were per fect dreams and would have made any of the fair sex green with envy. Mr. Gardner realized he was "up against It". He has had long experi ence in the hotels of vthe Old iDominion and elsewhere, but this was a new problem, one that Is agitating hotel men everywhere, and it came rather unexpectedly and somewhat in the nature of a "solar pluxus bow." As a matter of fact he was knocked out and rushed to Manager Hinton for as sistance. The manager hastily called his staff together and announced to them that it was a condition and not a theory that confronted them, and demanded to know what should be done about it. After a general expression of views Cashier Cronly suggested that as the ladies almost to a man had protested against the shirt waist man and there fore he would not 'be a "go," it would be best to mildly but firmly refuse these handsome young men the privi lege of the dining room in their lovely shirt waists but to let them know that with his usual foresight and race for the welfare of his guests, that Mana ger Hinton had prepared for just such an emergency as this and had provid ed coats for all shirt waist men apply ing. This plan met with approval and the H. G. M. were notified and immedi ately accepted the amendment and in a few minutes was businly engaged in regaling themselves with clam chow der, soft shell crabs and other sea deli cacies entirely oblivious to the fact that the beauties of their shirt waists were hidden from view. Judge LaCom.be refuses to sign the extradition papers for C. T. W. Neely. 'We hare three cUldrea. Etfcre tlie birth of the last one my wife used four bot tlsi of MOTHER'S FRIEND. If jou had the pictures of oar children, jou could see at a gftnee that the last one Is healthiest, prettiest and flriest-iooklng- of them all. My v5fe thir Mother's Friend. Is t greatest and grant. t remedy in the world for expect ant mothers." Written by a Ken tucky Attorney-at -Lair. prevents nine-tenths cf d suffering Incident to child birth. The coning Esther! disposition and temper remain csrcSSed throughout the ordeal, because this relax ing, penetrating liniment rclieres the usual distress. A good-natrred mother is pretty sure to hare a good-natured child. The patient is kept in a strong, healthy condition, which the child also Inherits. Mother's Friend takes a wife thrcrgh the crisis quickly and almost painlessly. II assists in her rapid recovery, and wards off the dangers that so often follow de livery. 5otf by druggists far $I bottle. THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO. ATLANTA. OA. Send for otr freo Illustrated book Kvreftsl? for expectant xaotAora, (BDduDgHipcbdd Ml FDIEI1D A DESPERATE LOVER Commit! Murder to Get Money for Ills Weddlnjr Mjrrterlou Killing or Mes senxer Lane In an Expre Car Ex plained by the Murderer's ConfeIoii Columbus, Ohio, August 12. Charles IL IL Ferrell, a former employe of th Adams Express Company, was arrested this afternoon in this city and has con fessed to the killing- of Mssensrer Charles Lane and the robbery of tho way safe of the Adams Express Com pany on the Pennsylvania eastbound train which arrived in this city at mid night Friday. One thousand dollars of the money which he had stolen was recovered. The crime was not discovered until the train pulled into Union station here Friday night. When Extra Mes senger Sheldon, of the Adams transfer office at the station, went to the car he was surprised to find the side door. which is usually opened by the messen ger as the train pulls into the station. closed. Pushing the door back Sheldon was startled by the sight of Lane s j body lying In a pool of blood. The rob ber had taken the key of the safe from the messenger's pocket, opened the safe and looted it. Great mystery surround ed the crime, and It caused a sensation here. Ferrell was to have been married next Thursday to Miss Lillian Costlow, daughter of Patrick Costlow, an en gineer on the Pennsylvania lines. He had been discharged from the employ of the Adams Express Company about three months ago and had not been able to secure employment since. Ferrell confessed that the motive of the robbery was to secure money of which he felt in great need on account of his approaching marriage. The money recovered he had given to Miss Costlow to keep for him, saying that it was money he had saved from his earnings. He was at the home of his fiancee and in her company when placed unaer arrest. Ferrell is but 21 years of age, and has a splendid physique, being six feet in height with dark hair and an at tractive face. When he found that he could no longer deceive the officers he made a full confession. After he was !ed to a cell he was in a state of nerv ous collapse and was closely watched. The confession disclosed a premedi tated and blood-curdling crime that seemed almost impossible of belief. Ferrell said he had become desperate because of his inability to secure em ployment and a realization of the fact that he must have ttioney to defray the expenses of his approaching mar riage. The robbery had been carefully planned, and it included the murder of Express Messenger Lane. He and Lane were friends. He knew that con siderable money was always carried by the messenger on Pennsylvania train No. 8 beweeen St. Louis and Columbus, and that he was certain to secure a large sum if he robbed the way safe on that train. Having provided himself with a Smith & Wesson six-shooter, 38 calibre, Ferrell went to Urbana Friday morning and waited for No. 8. When the train arrived Ferrell went at once to the ex press car and told Lane that he was out of money and asked permission to ride to Columbus with him. Lane con sented. For a short time after the train left Urbana they chatted pleas antly. Lane sat in a chair in the end of the car with his back slightly turn ed. When Ferrell could finally nerve him self for the crime he drew his revolver and stepted up behind Lane un observed and fired three shots in rapid succession into the messenger's back. Lane rolled off the chair on the floor on his face and Ferrell quickly fired the remaining shots at the prostrate body. Lane was unconscious, but Fer reill, fearing that the wounds already inflicted would not cause death, took Lane's revolver and fired two more bul lets from i't into the body. Ferrell then took the key to the way safe from the pocket cf the dead messenger, opened the sire, took out all the sacks contain ing the money packages, money orders and way bills, placed them in a small satclI and waited until the car ar rived at Plain City, when he slipped off the train. He went to a hotel and secured a room. Once in his room Ferrell went through the packages and took out all the cash. The remainder he tied up In a bundle. Lifting up the mattress of the bed he placed the revolver in a se cure place in the springs. It was not so easy to dispose of the bundle of ex press sacks and envelopes, but he con cluded he couUd get rid of the bundle best by expressing It to a fictitious ad dress in some distan -v. knowing thatt it would remain there for a year at least before it would be opened. If it was not intercepted. He arose early the next morning, expressed the pack age, which he addressed to C. W. Coy Ior, Lockport, N. Y., bought a ticket and took the train for Columbus at 6:30. When he arrived In the city he went at once to his boarding place and changed his clothes. Ferrell said he was much disturbed by the talk about the murder and robbery, which he heard upon every hand, but he kept up his nerve. During the day he paid a number of bills that he owed out of the money which he had stolen and bought some clothes and other things. Saturday night he went to see Miss Costlow and arranged to call again Sunday afternoon. Detectives O'Nell and Dundon ob tained the clue that led to Ferrell'g apprehension at the Plain City hotel. As soon as It was learned that Fer rell had given the money to his sweet heart Inspector Barron went to th- nouse and secured It. The young lady was utterly prostrated by the disclos ure. She had not suspected Ferrell of wrongdoing and the news was a ter rible shock to her and her parents, who had regarded Ferrell as a model young man. Convention of Democratic Clubs New York, August 10. The quad rennial convention of democratic clubs, originally set for September 8th at Indianapolis, has been postponed until October 3rd. Mr. Bryan urged that the date be changed and the sug gestion was approved by Adlal Steven son. Delegates to the number of 40,000 are expected to attend. Waldersee's Appointment Confirmed Berlin, August 11. Great Britain, the United States and Japan bave now ap proved the appointment of Field Mar &al Count von Waldersee as commander-in-chief of the allied forces In Cftlna. the United States and Japan unreservedly, and Great Britain condi tionally era all the other powers agree ing to the appointment. This condition has practically been fulfilled. Held for Kequlsltlon New York. August 13. John Butler alias Frisco Slim, was remanded today in the Center street police court to await requisition papers from Virginia where he is wanted to answer a. rhar of 'blowing open a safe in Strasburg crop can grow with out Potash. ii very blaie of Grass, even tiain S Com, all Fruits and Vegetables -v'st have i:. !f -i enough is supplied you can count on a full crop if too little, die growth will be scrubby." Sxd for cur books telljxj k3 About compoftitka of fmfcwr lt daptevl for H crop. They cost you GERMAN' KALI WORRS.m Sua St.,New Yor. James Sprunt Institute (Formerly "Grove Academy.") 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