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V O L . X X I ~~P IC K E N S, S. . i M 1 14 THE TABERNACLE PULPIT DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ABOUT THE TEMPLE OF DIANA. Continuation or the Brooklyn Iivine's Series of Discournes on 111s TraveIo in the East-His Visit to the City of Ephe sus Described In Detail. BROOLYN,.Nov. 15.-Dr. Talmage outinued this morning his series ot ser miens entitled, "From the Pyramids to the Acropolis." Ilis text was Acts xix, 34, "Great is Diana of the Ephe We have landed this morning at Smyrna, a city of Asiatic Turkey. One of the seven churches of Asia once stood here. You read in Revelation, "To the church in Smyrna write." It is a city that has often been shaken by earth quake, swept by conflagration, blasted by plagues and butchered by war, and here Bishop Polycarp stood in a crowded amphitheater and when he was asked to give up the advocacy of the Christian re ligion and save himself from martyrdom the proconsul saying, "Swear and I re lease thee; reproach Christ," replied, "'Eighty and six years have I serve( him, and he never did me wromr; how then can I revile my King and Saviour?' When he was brought to the tires int< which he was about to be thrust, ant the officials were about to fasten him tc the stake, lie said: "Let me remain as ] a.i, for he who giveth me strength i< sustain the fire will enable me also with out your securing me with nails to re main unmoved in the tire." Histor: says the Vws relused to consume him and under the winds the flames ben outward so that t. v - did not touch hi pe .o i, and there are he was slain b swords and spears. One cypress bend ing o ier his grave is the only inonumeu to Bishop Polycarp. But we are on the way to the city < Ephesus, about fifty miles from Smyrna We are advised not to go to Ephesus The bandits in that region have had a ugly practice of cutting off the ears < travelers aad aenaing these specimer of ears down to Smyrna, demanding ransom. The baidits suggest to ti friends of the pei o .s from whom th ears have been subtracted that it* the would like to have the rest of the bot they will please send an appropria sum of money. If the money is n< sent the mutilated prisoners will be a sassinated. There have been cases where ten au twenty and forty thousand dollars haw been demanded by these brigands. NV did not feel like putting our friends much expense, and it was suggested thi we had better omit Ephesus. But th would have been a disappointment fro which we would never recover. N must s6 Ephesus--associated with t most wonderful apostolic scenes. N hire a specialrailway train. and in abo an hour and a halt we arrive at the ci of Ephesus, which was ca'led "TI Great Metropolis of Asia," and "One the Eyes of Asia," and "The Empre of Ionia," the capital of all learning a magnificeuco. Here, as 1 said, was o of the seven ciurches of Asia, andti i of all we visit the rains of that chur where once an ecumenical council two thousand ministers of religion w .held. Mark the fulfillment of the prophes -Of the seven churches of Asia Vour w( commended in the Book of Revelati and three were doomed. The cit having the four commentded churcl etill stand; the cities having the thi doomed churches are wiped out. It< curred just as the Bible said it wvo' occur. Drive on and you come to 1 threater, which was 660 feet from wi to wall, capable of hold"g 56,700 spec tors. Here and there there walls ar almost unbroken, but for the most p the building is downx. Just enough ' is left to help the imagination build it as it was when those audiences shiou and clapped at seime great spectacul Their huzzas must have been enough stun thdulheavens. Standing there we coultd not for that in that buildiug once assemble riotous throng for Paul's condemnati because what he preachedt coililetd v the Idolatry of their national goddt Paul tried to get into that theater address the excited multitude, hint friends held hiim back, lest lhe be tori pieces by thie mob. and the recoirde the city had to read the riot act, am the people who had shrieked for 'mortal hours till their throats were .and they were black in the f'ace, "G Is Diana of the Ephesians." Now we st.ep into t.he Staxdi Enough of its walls and appointim are left to show what, a stupendous p -- . il must have been when used for 'hwa\and for fights with wild beast.s. was a building 68(0 feet long by 200 wide. Paul refers to what t,ransi there in the w ay oh spectacle whme says, "We have been made a spectat( "Yes," Paul i'ays, "I have fought' beasts at Ephesus,"~ an expressioni ally taken as bgurative, but I suppx was literally true, for one, of t,he au ments in that Stadium was to put ii liked man in the arena with a hu lion or tiger or panither, and let the go on until either the man or the l or both were slain. It must have been great, fun for' haters of Christianit,y to hear th the morrow in the .tadium in ip the missionary Paul woul i, in the ence of the crowded galleries, il hungry lion. The people were there to get the lbest, seats, antd a alert anid enthusiastic crowd assembled. They took their di with them. And was there ever a unequal combat proposed? Pau cordIng to tradition, small, c.r backed and weak eyed, but the gra .man in sixty centuries, is led t.o the ter as the people shout: "Thler comes, the preach'er who has ruined our religion. The lion wvih but a brie! mouthful of him." It is plaini thatiall the sympac)t that crowd are with the lion. In < thrundergrounld rooms I hear the otlhe wild boasts. They have kept for several days without f< water in order that they may b pecially ravenous and bloodthirsty. What chance is there for Paul? But you cannot tell by a man's size or looks how iaed a blow he can strike or how keen a blade lie can thrust. Witness, heaven and earth and hell, this struggle of Paul with a wild beast. The coolest man in the Stadium is Paul. What has he to fear? lie has delied all the powers, carthly anid internal, and If his body tumble under the foot and tooth of the wild beast, his soul will only the sooner find di entliraillment. 'ut it, is his duty, as far as possible, to preserve his life. Now.I.. hear the bolt of the wild beast's door shoved back, and the whole audienec rise to the:r feet as the fIerce brute springs for the arena and toward its small occupant. I think the first plunge that was made by the wild beast at the apostle was made en the 1,oint of a sharp blade, and the snarling monster, with a howl of pain and reeking with gore. turns back. But now the little mieeionary has his turn of maing at tack, and with a few well directed thrusts the monster lies dead in the dust of the arena, and the apostle puts his right foot on the lion and shakes him, and then puts his loft foot on him and shakes him -a scene which Paul afterward uses for an illustration when he wants to show how Christ will triumph over death "le must reign till he hath put all ene mies under his feet'"-yes, under his feet. 1'aul told the literal truth when he said, "I have fought with beasts at Ephe ms,"l and as the plural is used I think he had more than one such fight, or several lasts were let loose upon him at one time. As we stood that day in the middle of the Stadium and looked around at the great Atructure, the whole scene came back upon us. In the midst of this city of Ephesus once floate I an arLificial lake, brilliant a with painte-l boats, and through the river Cayster it was conne ted with the sea. and s1ups - from all parts of the t known carth floated in and out, carrying on a commerce ohich made Ephesus the envy of the %N orld. Great w%as Ephesus! Its gymnasia, its hippodrome, its odeon, its athelleum, its forum, its aqueducts a (whose skeletons are still strewn along f the city), its towers, its Castle of Ila 8 drian, its morument of Androclus, Its a quarries, which were the granite cradle e of ciles; its temples, built to Apollo, tc 0 Minerva, to Neptune, to Mercury, to y I'acchus, to Hercules, to Cesar, to For, y tune, to d1upiter Olympus. What his .c tory and poetry and chisel and canya 1 have not presented has come up at the & call of archucologists' powder blast an( crow bar. d 3ut I have not to inveil the chic c wonder of this chiellLs', of' cities. I e 1813, under the patronwge of the Eng O lish government, Mr. Wood, the ex at plorer, began at Eunscs to feel alon under the ground at great depths f.) n roads, for walls. for towers, and here Ic Is-that for which Ephesus was mor e celebrated than all else besides-th r temple of the goddess Dana, called th sixth wonder of the world, and in 188 Y we stood amid the ruins of' that templ ie measuring its pillars, transfixed by it of sculpture and confounded at what w the greatest, temple of idolatry in a time. lie At As I sat on a piece ot one of its falle cl columns I said, "What earthquak of' rocked it down, or what hurrican as pushed a to the earth, or under whii strong wic ol' centuris did the giau y. stagger and ftlly'" There have bee re seven temples of' Diana, the ruins on each contributing something for ti es splendor of all its architectural succe les sors. Two hiundredl and twenty yea -ee was this last temp)le in constructiol >c. Twice as long as the United Stat,es haa ild stoodl was that temp)le in building. ,he was nearly twice as large as St,. Paul all cathedril, Londfon. Lest it should I ta- disturbed by earthquakes, which ha' ise always been fond ot making those r art gions their playground, the temple w. f' It built on a marsh, wvhichi was made fir up by layers of charcoal, coveredl by fleec ed of wool. The st,one came from tI ar. quarry near by. .to In removing the great stones fre. the quarry to their destinedl places get the temple, it was inecessary, in ord d a to keep the wheels, which were twel ol, feet in dliameter, from sinking (deelp iit rithi the earth uinder the unparalleled he ss. that. a frame of' timbers be arrang 11d( over which tihe wheels rolled. To I his the immense block of' marble in it,s ple i in over the dloor way of one of these te e of ples was so vast and (diflcult an und 0Lng taking that the architct at one t,il two gave it, up, and( in his chagrin intend ore suicide. but one night, in his sleep rat (dreamedi flit, the stone had settled the right place, andi the next day Lim,) found t,hat the gr'eat, block of marbe ht mts by its own weight, - ct,tle?d to t,he rij lace pla1ce, foot Trhe temple of D iana was four hv It dred and twenty-five hcet long by feet hundred and1( tw.nty toet wide. iredl Aaia was taxed to pay for it. It I n he one hundred and twenty-seven pilk Ie.'' each sixty teet hiighh, and each the gie with ai king, and1( inscrIbed with the nami usu- the dlonor. Now you see the mean 'se it, of' that passange ini lLevelation, just r Luse- king pr'ceentoi one0 of these plillari di- tbe Temle of' Diana had his own na ngr.y ch.seledi on it and tile name of his( .ight country, so s'ays Chlrist, "Iim I >as5t, overcomieth will I make a pillar in temple of' my (;od, and I will write u ,hese him the iname of' m.v God and the im i on of tihe ci~ty ofV my od, which is 2 CeLus ~Jerusalem. and1( 1 will write upon01 pres- my new name.'" llow suglestive ght a be'iutifull early In ad(dit.ion to those pillar's thu more climbed over while amid the ruinm aever D)iana's temple, I saw aftLerwalrd e ners of those p)illis at ConstanltinOPl( more winch city they had been removed, I, ac- are now a piart of' the Mosque 01 loked Sophia. Those eight coluamis ar< ntgreen j aspeir, but some of those a cu- stood in D)iana's tempie at Eph e he were fairly drenched with brilliant tearly ors. Costly metals stood( up in val make parts o1 the temiple, whore they < catch the f'ulest flush of' the 51un les of flight of' stairs was carved out of mue of grapevine. Doors ofcypress wood a griowl had been kept in glue foi.r years and been dered with bronze in bas~ relief; s1 '0(d or against pillars of brass and resou ieut on and hurled back through the cor ridors. In that building stood an image of Di-na, the goddess. This image was arved out of ebony and punctured here and there with openings kept full of spikenard so as to hinder the statue from decaying and make it aromatic, but this ebony was covered with bronze and alabaster. A necklace of acorns coiled gracefully around her. There were four lions on each arm, typical of strength. Her head was coroneted. Around this figure stood statues which by wonderful invention shed tears. The air by strange machinery was damp with descending perfumes. The walls multiplied the scene by concaved mirrors. Fountains tossed in sheaves of light and fell in showers of diamonds. The temple was surrounded with groves, in which roamed tor the temp tation of bunters, stags and hares and wild boars, and all styles of game, whether % Inged or four footed. Thert was a cave with statue so intenselI brilliant that it extinguished the eye o! those who looke-I upon it. unless, at the command of the priest, the hand of th( spectator somewhat shaded the eTes No wonder that even Anthomy anc Alexander and Darius cried out in tli( words of my kext, "Great is Diaua o the Ephesians." One whole month of each year, thi month of May, was devoted to her wor ship. Processions in garbs of purpl and violet and scarlet moved through it and there were torches and authiems and choirs in white, and timbrels an triangles in music, sacrifices and dances Here young men and maidens were be trothed with imposing ceremony. Na tiens voted large amounts to meet th expense of the worship. Fisheries c vast resource were devoted to the sup port of this re -plendence. Horace an Virgil and Hloi.ier went into rhapsodic while describing this worship. All artists, all archologist, all cer turies, agreed in saying, "Great is Dian of the Ephesians." Paul, in the preuenc of this Temple of Diana, incorporate it in his figures of speech while speal ing of the spiritual temple, "New i any man build upon this foundatioi gold, silver, precious stones, etc.," an no doubt -with reference to one of tl previous temples which had been sq on fire by Herostratus just for tl fame of destroying it, Paul says, "If ar man's work shall be burned, he shu suffer loss. etc.," and all up and do%N Paul s writings you realize that he hi not only seen, but had been mighti impressed with what he had seen of t I Temple of Diana. In this city the mother of Jesus w faiaid to have been buried. Here dwt Aquilla and Priscilla of Bible mentic who were professors in an extempor ed theological seminary, and th - taught the eloquent Apollos how to 7 eloquent for Cbrist. Here John prea( r ed, and from here because of his lid( t ty he was exiled to Patmos. Here P4 e warred against the magical arts J e which Ephesus was famous. The s, e cerers of this city pretenaed that tt g could cure diseases, and perform alm any miracle, by pronouncing these sen less words, "Aski Cataski Lix Teti Damnameneus Aislon." Paul naving performed a miracle the name of Jesus, there was a lyl family of seven brothers who imital a the apostle, and instead of their usi words of incantation used the w< Jesus over a man who was posuessed t a devil, and the man possessed tlew them in great fierceness and nearly t, these frauds to pieces, and in con qence all up and down the streets )f phesus there was indignation exci e against the magical arts, and a gr I- bentire of magical books was kindled 's the streets, and the people stirred i. blaze until thirty-five thousand doll 'e worth of black art literature had b it burned to ashes. 's But, all the glory of Ephesus I h >e described has gone now. At some re sons of the year awful malaries sw e.. over ithe place and put upon mattres i in graves a large portion of the po m lation. In the a pproximate mars Sscorpions, centipedes and all formi Bs reptilian life crawl and hiss and sti lewhile hyenas and jackals at night a] in and out of the ruins of buildi m which once startled the nations v~ in their almost supernatural granduer er lint here is a lesson which has nm ve yet been drawn out. D)o you not se to that temple of Diana an expressin Swhat the world needs. it wants a who can provide food. Diana w huntress. in pictures on many of coins she held a stag with one hi c and a bundle of arrows in the ct in Oh, this is a hungry world! I "" could not gIve one pound of nmea n eone mouthful of food to the millior edl her worshipers. She was a dead di he ity, an imaginary god, and so in id to trous lands the vast majority of pe le never have enough to eat. It is i, in the countries where the God of h ht en and earth is worshiped that the 'majority have enough to eat. Let D have her arrows and tier hounds. m- God has the sunsh)ine and the sho WO and the harvests, and in proportic 11l be is worshiped does plenty reign. ad So also in the Temple of Diant rs. world expressed its neced of a ref of To it from all parts of the land c of debtors who could not pay their d n" and the offenders of the law that a might escape incarceration. tul to sheltered them only a little while, mwhile she kept them from arresi Sguilty remained guilty. But, our hin Jesus Christ is a refuge Into iw the we may fly from all our sins an Po our pursuers, and not be safe for 1 me but safe for eternity, and the gu [ce pardoned and the nature is transfor umn What Diana could not do for her and shipers, our Christ accomplishes fc Rock of ages cleft for me, * I Let rme tilde myself in thee. ol' Then, in that temple were (dope ht treasures from all the earth foi to' keeping. Chrysostom says it wa and treasure house of nations; they brc St. gold and silver and precious stone; all coronets from across the sea, an hichi them under the care of Diana o esus E1phesians. But again and again col- treasures ransacked, captured ox , troyedh. Nero robbed them, the Scyt ousd scattered them, the Gloths burnedi Aul Diana failed those who trusted her Atreasures, but our God, to him we one intrust all our treasures for this 'hich and the next, and fail any one hor- puts confidencd in him he nev'e vung After the last jasper column has f ded and the last temple on earth has and into r.ins, and the world itself hs fered demolition, the Lord w ill keep for us our best treasures. But notice what killed Ephesus and what has killed most of the cities that T lie buried in the cemetery of nations. LuxuryI The costly baths, which had been tfie means of health to the city be came its ruin. Instead of the cold r baths that had been the invigoration of the people, the hot baths, which are only intended for the inlirm or the in valid, wore substituted. In thiso hot baths many lay most. of the t ime. A u thors wrote books w hile in these baths. 3usiness was neglected and a hot bath taken four or live times a day. When the keeper of the baths was reprimand ed for not having thei wari enough one of the rulers said, "You blame him for not making the bath warm enough; I blame you because you have it warm S at all." Gymnasiums? Yes, but see that the C vigor gained in them be consecrated to I God. Magnilleent tenples of worship ? I Yes, but see that in them iisteau of conventionalities and cold pomp of ser vice there he warnth of devotion and the pure Gospel preached. Imposing court houses? Yes, but in thein let, justice and mercy rule. I'alaces of journalism? Yes, but let all of the printing presses be marshaled for hap piness and truth. Great postomce r buildings? Yes, but through them day by day, may correspondence helpful, elevating and moral pass. Ornate dwelling houses? Yes, but in thoin let - there be altars of devotioi, and con 3 jugal, lilial, paternal and Christian lidel ity rule. London for magnitude, i1erlin for universities, Paris for lashions, I Rome for cathedrals, A!hens fir clas sics, Thebes for hieroglyp*ies, Mein - phis for tombs, Babylon for gardens, Ephesus for idolatry, but what shall be e the characteristics of our American cities when they shall have attainved their full stature? Would that "holi ness to the Lord" might be inscribed upon all our in inicipalicies. One thing s is certain, and that is that, all idolatry must come dou a. When the greatest goddess of the earth, Diania, enshrined a in the greatest temple that ever stood, e was prostrated at Epicus, it was a a prophecy of the overthrow of all the idolatries that ha e cursed the earth. f and anything we love mo: than God is 1 an idol, and there is as much idolatry d in the Nineteenth century as in the L First, and in America as in Asia. 3t As our train pulled out from the sta a tion at Ephesus, the cars iurrt-unded Y by the worst lookimg group A viliats 11 1 ever gazed on, all ot thwim -eoing in n a wrangle with each other a:d ; rying d to get into a wNrangle with !"c;. wid we y moved along the columi itf anwcient le aquieucts, each columi cro.aned with storks, having built their iiesti there, as and we rolled on <'owNi toward Smnyrna, lt and that night in a sailor's livthl as we n, spoke of the Christ whom the world z- inust know or perish, we fi,t that be ey tween cradle and grave there could not be be anything mech more enthraling for body, mind and soul than our visit to h-Ephesus. uill or A Plucky MemmingR. >r- CrCAoo, Nov. 12. -leports of i ey train robbery near the Western Uniou sst junction have been received. General ax Manager Earling of the Chicago, Mil waukee and St. 'aul Railroad statem " that the safes have been recovered and ng that the robbers did not get any booty ~ed ral The report says six en hoarded trair )rd No 3 at Western Union juirction,sixty of two miles North of Cnicago at I1 p. il. at and it is supposed the robbers reached >re tire junction over the Northwesteri 86- Road. They held up the engineer an of fireman and when the train r-ache( led Franksville,a small station or L00 o6 eat 300 Inhabitants, about three inilcs be mn yond the junction, they caused the en he gineer to stop it at the point of a re rs volver. Thiey dlemanrded of the expres: een- messenger that lie open thre car (door t< which he ref used to do. The coniducto> ave came up by this timne and he was taker ICea- prisoner. Trhe robbers then broke ii eep the window of the car and threw ii s or some kind of explosive which force. pu- out the e ad of the car. They then wen hes inside and covered the express messen I of ger with a revelver and tried to mak nlg, him open the safes. This he positive ink ly refused to do, and the safes wer ngs thrown out of the car. ith In the mneantimre, the rear brakeman .understanding~ the situation, rustie ver back to thre juct ion andI got help an e in an engine. The engine and( )osseI of once went to tihe scene and the robbler iod tded. The train went on toe MI iw luke ias a an(d thie fast miail trma, whl~ichl leave the Chicago at 3 o'clock p. mi., picked ui and the safes and carried themon to Mtiilwa' tier. kee. TIhe police of Milwaukee and tI ana secret servicei of rIhe system:, t ;etlu t or with the sheri I of I tic-ine Count.y, wei s of sent in pursuit of t lie robbehirs. .Thfie in- flight was sio hasty t hat Ihtrey did n< ola- take thre precaut ions they had evidenit ople intended to take, sa that the ollicia :ly believe they will get thremi hefore nrot avy- oday. ast . . lana ~ManonJI (Cott on lia rve ter. Our AUuJsTA, Nov. 12.--Thei Marson cc wers ton harvester, which has bjeen anxiou n as ly looked for here for several dayts, 'I Sthe rivedl today and was exhibited in op) uge. atlon in ai 11eld of cotton in thne l,xpio ame tion grounds this afternoon, in the pri ehts gem,e of a very large crowd of intere: they ced spectators. Thei iniachmr e gather she Iat the irate of :( )Iounds aun hour, and 3,000l pounds for an ordi 1nary wo rku she day. TVhe bushes inave bee l k iled0( I the frost and tire cott err has tieen open God the bolls about two mronrths, burt di hitch pite these dlrawbac-ks the cot ton whi d all was p)ickedl was ginnedl without bi imei, passedl through a cleaner, and p)rod(ut lt is a good clean sample. Mlr. Il'atri med. Walsh, the president of the lIxpositi wor- and the editor of thre Augursta ('hroi r us. was present (during thre trial of the r chine and said: "'I consider it i. im wonderful miachrine. It picks tire c toni undler most adlverse circurmstan sited1 without injurring the pIlnrts anrd urnri - safe bolts andl it gathers enough to miaki 8 the an implement of great valuie." 'l might machine will be e:xhibited uaain tour and row and will probably remain hre I i pult til thne l-'xposition clo5ss f the-- - r ere The. oui, old story. des- N Ew Youx, Nov. 14. -Natharn Bioy hianis a well to-do tarmner and president of1 hem. local bank at loyctt. N. C., wars SW with dI"d out of $300 by "gre-in goods" n 3 may onr Wednesday. li t received the irs world ciraurlar at his homre abourt ai monlth a who andl early this wee(k carme orn to iN 'will. York to "get i-ic-h." lIhe wars ileeced< allen, of his money in t he rusuial meithod aud( gone ed by thne green gooos men~i, and1( yes a su-. dany left fore home. IUIDIERS' ALLIANCE. HE SUP._ ANNU'29UNCIL MEET3 IN t he Delegates Welcomedi Patiotle itermionsm by Secretary ..-Prepildent Polk'sh Annual Add, ep4--s 0 Tarifr and Fiuancial Rleform the 1tin. INDIANAPOLIS, IN>., Nov. 17. 'he Supreme Council of the Fari.iers' Liliance was called to order in Tomilin- V on Hall at 10:40 o'clock by Presdent 'orce, of tL.e Indiana Alliance, with C ,early all the 120 delegates anl 500 ' pectatois in attendance. Mayor Thomas L. Sullivan was intro luced, and welcomed the delegates. T. Tillman. secretary of the Alliance ,xecutive Committee, in responding, hanked t,he people of Indianopo.s ior heir warm welcome, and, itler Iying I tribune to President1larrison, he con inued: "It is the Farmmlg and lab ring )eople who fecd the world, ,ho fought ,he battles of this country, and to whose mergy and patriotism this great and lorious land of ours is indebted for its -ichest. blessings of liberty and peace. It is not our mission to tear down nor disintegrate our honestly conductbd in dustries, but to preserve them. Y et we do mean the death-knell to all il"iu mate combinations and monopiolies- tt tend to destroy the Very spirit an.i inl L,ent of the constitution. "We are not. here as politiis ;ek ing to dispute as to partisal p a parties or to promete the lortune (it any political aspirant, nor are we bec! in th, interest of any third party, J-r Iy the very organic teachings we bavc the right, to vote with whichever political party we may think will best, adv,-cate 'oOd government. "I desire to call you attention I; the last billion do.:r Cont_-ress. Its e ,pen ditures reached a grand total of $1.,09. 2CA,471, which is nearly two-thihds of all existing United States mn1IIey. More money was spent by that I1 ,mati billion dollar Congress than was E;pent by all the Cong-resses duriii, the lirrt seventy-two years c' the histti Y of' this _overniment. It is more thai 177,000 for every d[ty from the tm- t ie Fi. tv-lirst Congress met, till itladiol led 1. mneant a tax of' $in on the he.. . of every family to support. the geneal ;ov I!rnlent alone. How long would hev indure it it Collected directly from 'hwm instead of indirectIv am it is now co e,t ed through our tarilCe "Say what you please about taril'. but t must and shall come down to a ,as onable basis of taxation, and these ;etk less expenditures by Congress mu:t, he stoppe<, or we will continue to chtng_e the pers,%nnel o, every Congress. "Yot this is not all, nor is it the hot iom which brought about tie uprisir 3t Ohe people of all parts of' this great . min iry. Trans)rtatiol), tarlF- and 'tist, .icre is the trouble. There air hre c.'s-crusli, change and controfled that, constitute the unwritte' an1d 'ron bound oath that our friendly pottii-al newspapers abuse us so about. I will now tell Vou what the oath is. It is to 4rush monopoly, change 1aIr1f ani on Lrol transportation. We are ,oi; " to succeed inl our offorts to obtain a ar!fe virculating medium. We mu,t have more currency and will mive it. "M6r. Mayor, the Farmers' All..jwe means the greatest, good lork the :cat st number, aw<l iS determine<l to oav oxact justice for all and especial Flivor.9 to ino It. numbers in co-oper.1ol n -ar 4,00t.0,000 andt it has1 comei to itay, ad will1 be held inItalt, as ai nonprij)sat orgaiz/atioin. M~embers of' all pol.tical parties may join the organiziation,. and i 1will never become a third political par 1ty. Th~lere is a bIg political signilit anic in it,, but no0 part.y politicatl significance jbecause that would mean hopeless ruin t We have already takein party extr..me: - out of us. have mladeo a lew governior' S ando Congressmen and bid lair for 2'i -next, year." eI Tlillman'.s references to the non-oart, isan nature of the Alflianice clduse< h somietinat of a sensation and wer e it d .:civedl wi th about equail e vid' ene :of ap irovail and (disari'rov al. Genieral W'eaver, of ho .a, was nei o,r and mtade ai speh oni t,b ic '(11n situat ion, which wasi rIce;e V.1with erL p lhuslasm. Ie wa~~is followed' by ('om . resshmn J erry Simpson,11 ot Kansa 11 e the same strain. Presidenit Wilcb r lie I(anisas All iancet, s poke b,rii Ii.e an .1 the meeting adjourned. r The alttenhdance'O ait the openliie t< t night, was somiething less than 1(4111 Y I 'residet, PLoi k del ivered his aunnu d a< Isdress. TIhie farimehLrs, he said, had( bee discriminated iagaintst, andI were nion al pealing to the hal lot box. The All ot suib-treasuiry bill has received nii c'ot t- sidlerationi exept denunciation b. , tI s. billion dollar Congress. I.h was an in r- peraL ive duty of' the peole to) arrer 1 l1 evidenit, amid alarming tendency to ccl r."alize the money power of' the counitr Th'Iiis was oiie of the grandlt purpor ':s 5-|tih sub)-Tr'easury bill. It woul ia t- ; tupplanited our unjutst and oppf ro' si w( : nationail ibanik system by securing 1 t or eople ani ade fualte amiiountl o1 iin 'n Sdirect Irom theo gover'hnment, at a a rate of interest, to ma':e, th(le I lgii dlemands of' the country. But in h icat.ion of the silent 1 conitempI t,V whi n characterized the receptioni of 1.,he mw e'd ure, assault1. veiheent and11 p1rsF tt ek haveC been made1 oin it. ml'intst, deii on instead of' argunmnt.s on the muliit n 1e pin iplles. ]u1t, deitite thni e ns,' ill la- ,hie sub1-treas11ury had1( growni unt11, ist senltimenti 1 ol theo order ini thirt3 Io ot. Statos was a unit. (;overnLment coni es iof riroads, P ol k 51aid, is onie (t '." e'ssenitial demahit4s of the Allian11ce: a1 he the retenitioni of the public domin il heour ownI people; also the nrohibiti' n S'a ubling in futures; also the f ree coimi of silver; also that no class legislat,ion eniactcd; also that UnlitedI States Ser tot's be elect,ed by p)opular vote; a1181 it, gradua(t,cdl tax on mlcomfes; but I ho. 'reatest demlandi ofl all is that,11 the Iitioinal banking syat,em be ab1olihied(O a Sthe peole's money be issue~d dlirect, th de 'overnmenlit, t,o the~ peole. 'I Ssupre neC qulestionl before the peleI )uthat of financial refor n. The t.wo gri pt piart,ies have evidently sounded a tre ~er. and, as in the past, this qjuestlin finanin1ia ref'rom shall continue to be ,ardled as "neutral ground'' between hem. Polk urged the members to stand irill and demand of ofliceseekers a deilni. ion of their priniciples. The organiza ion. lie claimed, was steadily growing. Ic recommended the continuance of the lu:itiona work through the press and etures. hllstoiry of (te Alliance has been miWl.g a speclal comittee of editors, ''i y A. Diunning was the chief ex.. trom * ionor of the original Clopd the state Qi9 -1mjp-.assas county, ,ard the national soe- beginning dc riginally organized to corree,..,,cI af ter vils as well as a protective i qainst thieves and robbt rs. with w.I hat section oi Texas at that time was articularly cursed. The first meeting a I, the national association was held at r Vaco, Tex., in .anuary, 1887. C. W. Liiaen was the chief spirit in that meet ig and I .ruely instrun-eutal in the adop ion of a plattorm, of which the motto vas: "i all things essential unity, md in all thin-s charity." Only I ou siania and Texas were represented at his gatherintg aut the delegat,es were inited in number. Now the officers -eport 30,0011) st sorditnate lodges, with tm nbership aggre,-ating .1,00o,00o and I repre.sentation it every state and ter -ir v. The first noteworthy political ietS tit (lie Alliance were the Ocala and S,ouis polattorins, with their demands or tie aholition of national banks and b tmlixtitli mt of treasury currency; 1(v iver c Oinage; prolhibition of alienl baud ierhip; prohibition of' specu hatin.g r ii-vricultural and mechanical produticions; fractional currency, and that the goovertmuent should own the telegiaph and ru't y lines. The Ocala p alo'1111 111s4) deiiadiled the ruloval of lie tarill from the necessities of' life, an income 1-ax, and that United States sen atfWrls ho Iletdl (lddi tly Iby the people. SE'ON D' l'AY 'S ')WCEEDiI N(is. I N oM AN A14, ,-. Nov. IS.-TRhe open inteting of the Alliance itis mornim-, 1-iatcI lut a few mnutes. Winn the v\Cen11ti ' ve sesSil opened the trouble over the sib-treasury iwitter be,-an. A colmnintil ic. (ionl was received from the executive cooniuttee of the Ai ti-sub tr evirv Alplance, asking a leariin' for it prol1e pliepar-1i by W. Pope Yei tnai . Ii soui under instructionls i*u the St. Louis convntion of last sep'mer.lTe MaIcunle h:14tiln opl pwued any hellarmel', but 11yini-stoni !of I-emi: 1itm'ovd the appIlitetL of' a toimm'iitLt tj' five to reMl the protet and ,eport, t' he Alliance whether or not i shouhl he read. oin this Inotion, which was tinalfly carried by a two-thirds vote, a hittcr ight 'wa-Is made by the Ma ce imen, who mlade a Carge that at attempt had been made to at4ssassinate Macine in Mississippi. Bcfore the ad iur,11mt-11ent to' the executive session sig Ilitivait action was taken which showr that the protest of the Anti-Sub-Trea ury people \wlit receive very little cot) siderationi. A resolution was adopted almost uaimously, reallirming the adt herence of the Alliance to every planl in the 1I1oaclidale platfor n. .Mactine's resolution to reduce repre selntation one-half was pass'd and i eives no eid of uneasiness to tie dele :e h. o vlv have comie here wi it a narrov allow'an"e of Ituiids. The treasury i m.I rly emplty* and unless reprusentatiol Wa:i red, vi there would not be enoug m1lowN t p all the delegTtes. 1l Amlliane has been 1,1lling oil' in man Sate, aiund State Alliances have beet unlable to furnish their qiota of the as sessment to tit. national body. I 're sidlent l'il k laid lefore the coinven tion an 4ticial lettei addressed to lii last nlight, b)y W. S. McAllIster of Miu sissippi r'eujuestiii to be heard in behal of the complaints and1 pirotests of' th anti-sub-treasury Alliance menil. Tb letter, although courtcously wordedI pr'odu.ced the wildest, confusion and dis orderi. -ever:al memtbers yelled out: "WX don)1't want tol tear aniythiing from Al Albister. lie has (lone more to destro -ius thiali all ouh ent unies hut togetli' I )owii with his trick to RoWv discoi (dhoniel lI ,vinigstoi intoved to iappjoh a co)))4r11tte 4)1 Iiv~e to meet I be an ti-sul r':'ury' )iliimittee' andt hear their pri il si atwl r'eporlt to' thle 5 tiprem le counii Ma I)'owell, of 'T'ennessee, mnoved i an k1ed I leAll ister. allemng lie w: here't in th e interest of Wall street, E'a d erIl priflan tihe Anti- Alliance Ii morneyi(' of )the4 South. Teel ot I )'1(1Ts oppos10ed the moti< to I able, satyin)gtliere wais a large a; onbr,ella, whose c:omipaints abioul c Wardell of South Dakota spoke car 1estly ill behiill of the motion to tabl esay ing tha it wvout beL cowardlice4 to r co4)'imzc Me A I lister's commnittee, tI echiair'man of which wa here reII '(presci ini' the worsIt political eleiimnts in tl S-outh; that lhe hatd doneit noithing else' I i'ht mo tibu att aick Alliance leade eand' Ioppose)x its mieasur.iiC ~r 1 lIrkett, 4)1 Mlxissip l closed ) i( ieba 1 te in behl4l of the1 tion141 to tab .lIe saled hatu (4winig to the bac'kmg glv er -! e\ llcc- 1 Ve b.v ihe 'Suibshbzed fpres he4 Vis IS h w Iorst enieIutv to the A liin a in th whof, coutr.v and( asi at resitlt -b his war,i the Allianie hamd lost t,wo Ui .'( "'ltks Setittors inl Mississippi 01 at year. S Ii vi n2stonil's lOotionI lpevailed.- Pr( (It I'ohlk then appo1intedCi at comimit w. ith I ivingston as chairman. lieii ng disposed of this matt,er ur conve(tnt'i n immedialtely forestatled 'oh1'prospectiv'e protest by adopting. a reso lie tion1 to sftand4 bys the sub-treasury pl so SIx tu,rnt to D)eauth. or UnlIOuI IAy N, N. Y., Nov. 18.-At of ear'ly honr1 t hits morning a fire occur ge in the four story tenement house at be 121) Nostrand avenue. The build a.- was constrnlcted mostly of wood, > the thimes spread to all portions of lie with marvetous rapidity, cutting mthe esceape of those wvho lived in the ilper floors. Six persons were burnet 1death, while a number of others w ba )ldly burned or had ttarrow esci he from death. The fires spread from 'm 120 to ad'ioinifng luldintgs and desti Mat editwenity of them. At least,fifty fa CC, lies were burned ont, and it Is probi of th at other persons besIdes those gi ro- ave huvn lost th~Ir lives. LOOK OUT FOR YOUR LAND NAS IT EVER OWNED BY ONE THOM AS WADSWORTH? It Wis YoU May be in Danger of Losinig It-A Story That Will jjtrest Many of 10ur itnir-aayInnocent'. Parties 3may suirer. ; Hi:i':NvInI.l:,.$. C., Nov. I '.--Recent y the Greenville News published the ollowing: The "Wadsworth poor clool fund" aind the Wadsworth es. t,,-ie been heard of by many peo early ev.'t.ate, but the story that sur tory is repeateiY falniar. Inasmuc Thomas Wadswe many people in on about the year 1L 77b-4e -tate, the \neriva froml England iN-a nan, first settling in Massachus eles. ater in Lauretis contity, this st: tear Milton. lie becane immensely vealthy, owning ihousands of acres of and and hundreds of slaves. After iving in Laurens coity inany years rie ioved to Charleston and went into Lte nerchanitili buihiit.si with a Mr. Turpin. hen he died lie ownl lands 'rom t,he miouitaiis to the siaioard of South Carolina, principa.lly in the cotin lies of Laure:Ns, SpartLmibg, (retn ville, Iickens. Antson, Newberry, Lexington vuil i 0r-nretmrg. A fter abuidaltly LLUoviiig for tik wito nd mother. f.>r he lad ito) childreI, lie h-It about 31,OA) icres ini Nariout.i colulties for a "poor school I iel." Ti, proper ty was not to be suh1. v hing was left in the hands of a bail 01 rustee, composed of five men. The trustees were to be elected every t wo yea s by the white free Imlders of 1irilaps bat talion of Lauren couniit y and tie school to bu sipportetdtl wao I the located in the .ttahon. Pi M. Wa, worLhi's d.ys the coutit hl3 w -o elivided into iattal"ons instead of to washi ps, as flow. and tl:'re were fcitr btaliois in Lin rens cointY. Thor wero ttl ) four in (',reen ille. 'i w deed to the Linds Wvre Icil, in tht imdnis of Itws'ees and aro now in thtle po,isiessinii of the preLsnt trustees, vlecteud List, vtar iv thii white voters lving in atli.alp's Iattalion." .\ school hhit wa ;bft inl ItLhe batta lion, tow%% 1,'int tvownht iip, anld IIas bilen inl Iu (1\*ver incik- although thle vast estate h-s imt, i.itil n yiebtd enlough to p-ly a, Ien'c!w'slar.T tirustee.i rtnt(l tki i- tor aw:ile an-.d Ilially leased it :n i, ter s r,11rng from litty to 1iiitey-o Ie \eAIs. The oNey-ceivc( \%I- wa0hIlItIJ ou'- and tuelh of it was lost. ,4mle of th" le<ses were eIewe l by othr triuters, but, a number of tlitn are beginnin to ex pire and a di:,tres."ing stat' of affairs is inl StOrO i0or a 11un1Iber Of pMoph. no0W inl -t. G. W allace ad W. I. Wiorkmin,il two of the live tr* s tc , are ini t Ie city - and are loolng upi a i) oI the ettato . located in tiL --unity lt)r the purpose of selling or settl1ig in some itmanner. An act of tll L gisi..ire a . hort. time ago empowered thu tr-tistees to sell the lands and reinvest in lands in Ltureins township, neat' thte Wadswlortlh .sehooi. 'lhe trustees lind by old recots ni the lZegister Mesno Conveyancie's olice liat - there are about 1,.'JM acres blongi tg to the estatu in this county. (Over 300 s acres of it are located two and a half I miles from the city and the worst part I of the story is that about forty seven L! persons own tho property and there are over twenty houses ()on it. Persons to whon it was le:ised and released years ago sold it to nistispecti:ig and careless pelrsonls anld there is Iot nmch doubt ut that maniy peole will havo to suf Ier 'art ohf the lantd 1s ini possioni of Captaitn William Golstithl. Miuch of tIe same land lies in the S:mdy Flat e in the city is included in the estate anid e~ real estaLte owner's rei' will brieatti ,easier. lin one tract in SVar'tltjb:rg -county there are I ,8001 acres. It was said at (tie time that the towin e of Andiersoni was cuilt on t his proper.. .ty, but the courmts freedt( the p)roperty v tere from tiuther.troul te. About one hiundr'ed anmd twenty-live acres east of ithe town h,elonged to the estate, anud the owners settled with the trustees some ittimte ago by pay inrg a fair ptrice to cotn proi e~. Wheev et'r i. presentt t 0witers Ihave fought, thle nat ter in courit s they '-have list. Thliis would 11 iend to I ritgh ton I. all who have anty interest int the prop1 [0 erty. Ly ( nme getlematn in this (cit y lately In e ve'stedl itt sonic of ti hm ca iil;st ol' heire s. and lie is no0w woried'i. All (tver the e. State, whierever' thier'' is any of this land, t here will be iine:ci.iness atnd a few mi may looise thetirt all. Thel' i tn ristee of t hie int i no w hiave about $3,00) ont hantd. 'lTey p)ropose to putsh nautters' ti se t tlenment and ini Jeaese the f und. Thecy 'taye planned to build two more schtool ho uses in ri1un n- lap's battahion, one at Cross H ill and C, one at Mounitville. 'Thle Wadlsworth ei- est ate is ntow valued at between W.NO, te 000) and s:300,000 at a low estimate. Lie ilturnieti to ijoathl. -( onn' M IUS, (1., Nov. 13.-Al. an early hour thtis morning ai' 'OW of cheap" rs frames oni N orth liigh eet w,a: des troyed by lire. IThis even~ the lire^ lie men foundui fouir bondie , three 'youir let. cthildren'id I ih(1:e ho Iturt of an tu1t, iu en1 the dLebris. Thiey wet' all inuom fl" oft ,"a fatmily and( tis exphas wh;v they est were not mIist'd. T1he h ead of I lie Illn (ot ily is said to be Charles hethiers, a Ia it. borer, but this has not been coal: eiied. it 'Tryigt t io ka ui T 1N' .k. . CHIA RLECSTON, S. C., Nov. 12.--Co)Il"' si tions are being talenu up in all colored ee churches here to ptrocutre counsitel to de tend the tori negroes wIho were coniCt hei ed of murder in Laurntis C'ounlty In a September hI:st, and sentenced to be lu- hamuged. The Governlor hats respited mi. the men, and the muovemtenit tnow i to) grant thlemu a new trial. So far $150) ot the $6500 needled lhas been M('&tred.' an red ^ CtyI" Iits' . go. Foo&'tow, CHtINA, Nov. l.-Ad" lng vices of' October' 3rd, hrom ILankowf, md China, says: "A. htuge tire destroyed it 1,300) houses ini this city and rendered, off 13,000 people htonmeless. It is believed u-a number i woment andI chIldren lo1st i to their lives. Tlwo days aiftei'ward 200 'cr0 more houises were burned."' Pesior Kilmd No.' h.u,No.1.llvnmnr mti- have beetn killed anid two intjiured by au ble explosion of' fire damtp iin a minie near yen Essex, the great German coalproduc ting district.