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THEGOOYERNOR REVITJWEDI. HIS DEFIANCE OF LAW DHCUF DY A CITY ATTORNEY. Evan4, the ndividuaLI, Liatble to Arrest JUst A" any ()Lter CitIzeu of tlse State Who Violates the Law--The Goverour Not Entitled to Kingly Perogati es. FLORENCE, August 5.-- City Attor ney George G. Thompson last week addressed the following letter to the city council, in view of the recent ac tion of Governor Evans in defying arrest for breach of the peace here: "FLoRENCE,.S. C., July 31, 1S9G. To the City Council: On last Friday, J. Gary Evans, who holds the official position of governor. of the State of South Carolina, and Joseph IL Earle, a judge of the cir cuit court of this State, each in his personal and private capacity, and ex -ercising the right held by every citi 2zen of this State, was addressiug in public with this city, a large number of citizens, each endeavoring in ac cording to his methods, to secure the votes of the people of this county. During the progress of this meeting these two political contestants became engaged in a persona! combat. Hun dreds of men were present; some drew pistols, others made ready for their use, excitement ran high. One stray shot by ary excited spectator would in all probability have precipitated a riot and many lives migh', have been sacrificed. The peace of the city was Jeopardized and its laws violate d. jI was communicated with by the mayor and advised him that these par ties could and should be arrested with out regard to their official positions. Warrants were accordingly issued charging them with fighting and breach of the peace. Joseph H. Earle rendered ready obedience, but J. Gary Evans resisted and defied the law. He told the chief of police to take the warrant back to the mayox "with the contempt it deserves," and that he "considered it an insult." He inform ed the mayor that he could not be ar rested; that the only way to reach him was by impeachment. He threatened - to use the power of his office to pro tect him from the consequences of the broken law. He threatened to "take charge of the mayor and the town," or words to this effect. We are left to coec ture as to precisely what J. Gary Evans meant by "takin- charge of the town." As interpreted at the ' time by several of his ccnstables, who were with him at the time of the at tempted arest, it -5 an unworthy and unlawful threat to resort to the metropolitan police. J. Gary Evans was not arrested. He left the city and has since boasted through the press that the town authorities apologized for the attempted affront to "his ex cellency." I never advised that the governor could be arrested, but then advised, and still reiterate that J. Gary Evans could and should have been arrested, and that without regard to his official position and without regard to conse quences, even if it required every man - in the ci to accomplish it, and even if it ent'ied penalty of metropolitan police. In his novel position, that he is above the law, sound from point of law or reason? From the standpoint of reason such a position, in the ex prme language or The News and 'ore is "simply monstrous," and coin from the person claini a- the exeptincan only be accounte for on tetheory of total ignorance of the first principles of republican gov ernment, or such a diseased imagina tion as appoxmates the condition or our fredthe doctors would call "de mentia of egotism." Such an exemption could only arise under the common law or by statute, including the constitution. The com mon law can hardly be appealed to, for no such office is known to it, for it *is a creation of the constitution. It could arise from the common law on the thoyof "kingly prerogatives," i-eitdfrmthe sovereigns of Eng land, and it seems that our governor rests his case on this theory, for he in formed the mayor that he could no more be arrested than the "king (sov eeg)of England," or words to that eec2fretting at the moment of this riiuosassumption of "kingly ' ve" that the doctrine of "the 'can do no wrong" hass no place -among republican simplicity; .that a monarch the sovereignty resides in the pesn of the king, but in a repub -lic thi sovereignty abides in the peo pie. The constitution which creates his office gives him no comfort in this re markable assumption. Article 2, sec tion 14, article 3, section 14, and arti cle 13, section 2, exempt at certain times electors on the day of election, members of both housesand volunteer militia! from arrest, but is par ticular in eahcase to expressly pro vide that these exemptions shall not apply-to "treason, felony or breach of the peace." Article 15, section 3, provides that "the governor and all other executive and judicial officer shall be liable to impeachment; but judgent in such cases shall not ex tend further than removal from office. The persons convicted shall, never theless, be liable to indictment, tria] and punishment according to law.' It is obvious that this section does noi fix the time in which an indictmeni may lie to after conviction on im pachment but only intends to pre vent a conviction on impeachmeni being plead in bar to an "indictment, trial and punishment, according tc law." If this contention were true, then the governor could not alone claim this immunity, but every othei "executive and judicial officer" could claim like exemption. Besides, if thi house saw fit to refuse to prefei charges of impeachment for any of fanse, or the offense was one for whici impeachment would not lie, then his aeelency, the governor, would os necessity escape all punishment, be cause the alleged pre-requisite of con. viction on impeachment could not b4 shown. Thus is shown the utter ab. surdity of such a contention. But il may be urged that if the governo' could not be arrested and put injai there would be no one to exercise the functions of his office and the peopli would be without an executive head Article 4, Section 9 of the constiiutioz provides: "In case of the temporar, disability of the governor the lieuten ant governor shall perform the dutiel of the governor." Thus it will be seer that in case his excellency should be come temporarily disabled by prefer ring to go to jail rather than pay a smalfine of a few dollars, the pea ple's government would not go t< ruin for want of an executive head. It is no doubt true that the gover nor, in exercising the political func tions of his office, is beyond the reacd of the courts, but "in his person he i subject to judicial control, as othe: citizens." Eighth Americau and Eng lish Encyclopmdia of Law (tirst eii tion,) 1406. The warrant im this car.' wa~s no against the governor, but aga:ins~t :. persozn of J. Gary Evans. If the contention of the .gove-r o were doubtful, I still maintam tL at ii should have been arrested, as the onl: way to settle a disputed point of las of this kind is by resort of the courte nd the courts could not settle it with ,-ibLv rr-- l SWIL CJ.)U u ti V II possibility b the lV, thou it shlioud be judicially determied, and give the people a chance of changing it to con form to republican institution. Surrounded by his uivrnuidons ,ath ered about his person as rumors of his arrest reached them, John Garv vans has outraged the laws he has sworn to see enforced; he has brought the go' ernment of this city into contempt in the eyes of all brave and free people who have not learned to "bend the supplehinges of the knee,"' and until it is wiped out a blot rests upon her fair name forever. It has always been the boast of our people that "all men are equal before the law ;" that there are none too high to escape it: punish ment, and none too low to forfeit its protection. If thi; precedent is allow ed to stand, hereafter any humble citizen, arrested without apology and dragged before our tribunals, can just lv complain that our boast is false, and throw in our teeth the accusation that "all men are not equal herore the law. I submit both the soundness and justice of 'ny advice to the considera tion of the city council, to whom [ am responsible. Respectfully, G EORGE G. ThoMPSN Upon receipt of this communication the city council adopted the following resolutions: Resolved, by the city council of Florence in council assembled: 1. That we have absolute confidence in both the justice and legality of the advice of our city attorney on the oc casion of the recent attepnt to arrest John Gary Evans. 2. That the action of the governor in escaping arrest by representing to the mayor that he was not subject to arrest, was unworthy of the governor of this great State. 3. That we assure the mayor that he will ever have our heaaty co-oper ation in every e lrort in his rower to vindicate the laws of this city and bring all offenders to feel its force and without regard to their otlicial position. 4. That the communication of the city attorney, with these resolutions be given to the county and State press with requests of publication. A PA- RIOTIC LETTER. Fom the Chairann of the Popuisit Nation ai Committee. ATLANTA, GA., Aug. 5.- -Senator Marion Butler, chairman of the Pop ulist national committee, telegraphed to the Atlanta Journal this morning the following signed statement in re gard to Senator Jone's interview criti cising the Southern Populists, in which it is claimed Jones said the Southern populistsshould go with the negroes where they belong: "You wire me purporting to the in terview with Chairman Jones as it ap pears in Mcnday's World and ask me for a statement with reference to the same. I am not prepared to believe Senator Jones was quoted correctly. The election of McKinley would mean not oly four years more of Sherman ism and Clevelandism but also many additional and culminative resulting evils. "No intelligent, patriblic voter, no true American citizen, can by his ac tion or inaction, be responsible direct It or indirectly for such a thr-eatened c'alamity. The only possible way that it can be averted is by a complete, harmonious and enthusiastc union of all parties opposed to the destructive rule or corporate greed and British gold upon the candidate for President and Vice President that represent juist the opposite of what McKinley and Ho bart represent. "Those upon whom is the great re sponsibility of the consummation of this end should not do orsay anything that . would produce friction, but should, on the other hand, subordi nate all minor differences and bend every energy for harmonious union and victory when the cause of outrag ed and suffering humanity is trem bling in the balance, when victory fo~r American independence and proslperi ty is in sight. "What a humiliating and sickening spectacle it would be should the folly of personal ambition and the demon of party spirit step into, confuse and divide the allied majority and deliver our people into the hands of the ene mies of republican institutions But this caanot, this will not happen. "The American people are not now in any humor to be tritled with, They realize the cause of ot~r evils; they fully appreciate the threatened dan ger. They will this yeaar drive the B~ritish money changers and their American Tory allies from tie tem ple of liberty and take charge of thein own affairs. "It would be better fcr canididates and chairman to do less talking for the present. But in spite of the indiscre tions of individual and so-called lead ers the American people have deter mined to win the fight and they will de it. "(Signed) MARION-BUTL.ER." WHAT JIONES DID) SAY. WsniNGTON, Aug. 5.-Senato' Jones, chairman of the Democrati national campaign committee, dictat ed the following statement in regard to his alleged utterance concermg the Populists: With reference to the New York World story, I simpl3 want to say that I had a conversatiot with two newspaper men, which I re garded in the light of a private con versation, in which I said something of what appears in The World inter view. There are however a numnbe: of inaccuracies- If it was the inten tion to make me say that Mr. Bryat would not accept the Populist nommna tion, that was unauthorized. I hat no authority, did not ihtend to mak< any such expression, and did not mak4 it. I stand mn substance that the Pop ulists from the north and west at St Louis were, as far as I observed them seemingly a more conscientious bod3 of men than those from the south -though there were, of course, a num ber of strong and able men from th< south who seemed to be animated b~ the higLest motives of patriotism.. . said in substance that the Populist: were divided into two classes in thd s outhern states, one class, in my opin ion, men who were Populists for th< chance of ->ersonal advancement o: promotion v, ith little regard to public inte :ests; that the other, the large: class of southern Popuhsts, were pa triotic citizens, unseltish in their pont ical wishes, and .1 expressed the idei that this latter class would, in all tiu man probability, vote with the D~emo cratic party, while the others, fron the fact that their sellish ends couh m ore easily obtain, would vote witl the Republicans. You may state posi tively that I used no such expressior as "oing to the negroes where the2 belong". There are anumber of othe inaccuracies in the report, which suppose were not intentional, as n attempt was made to take notes of ou ccnversation. lai fact, I had ni thought of there being such a repor of the conversation as the one ? find ii T he World 'uaiA, Neb., Aug. E-. Lightnin! :.ruL the Bohemzian C2atholiic church ist at the close of mass at a' 'e-loc! ti orning instantil illing Mrs THE PEOPLE AROUSED. W..ARN:- DEBAT'E WITH HOPi. IN T HE GOLD COUNT RY. il '41iA the Veople Up On the Free slkver M tf "- Was Givent an E-1thu "iaih Rtve p ti oil by t Ie Crond%% aI tInt There. The lion. John L. .eLauriu has re turned froi Frauklin, Ohio, where he went to debate the muoney question with Mr. Ilorr, the leading gold advo. cate of the northwesteru coluntry. That Mr'. McLiuriu fared w-ll in his debate with the fauied gold lighter cau be seen from th followi k11-'ke frotu the &iue'ioniiti kuquire': flon. J. L. MAlaar4.iu of meniber of the ways and meau! coat illittee and t \ attorney genleral of Il,. State-, was at the (Gibson yesterday, returniu-j fr:mn the great debate ie held with l[on. Roswell . lforr of Michigan, the gold champiou. at Franklin, Warren county, Ohio. Speaking of the great cont roversy he said: "I was most agreeably surprised at the receptiou. 1 received and the number of silver people pre-sent to greet me with enthusiasm. I had ex - pected to encounter an icrberg, but on the contrary, I found a imultitide of my way of thinking. There were 6.o0 people present and I could tell by the applause and cheer;, that I re eeind that I had fully half the assem blage with me. We made tive speech es, and during one of mine some oue raised a picture of Bryan in the audi ence and thousands stood up and cheered and it was fully ten minutes before I could proceed. It was a grand meeting of the people, and after it was over Mr. IHorr suddenly departed in a carriage and [ could not leave for an hour, the crowd gathered thick and fast about me to shake my hand and 1 will pledge you my word that my right arm isso sore from hearty shakes that I can hardly lift it today. All this I attribute to the cause I advocate and the straightforward way in which I presented it. Mr. Horr got mad when I pinned the shortcomings of his party down to facts. I quoted them from Senator Sherman's strong silver speech made in. 1869, when he was a poor man, and contrasted that with utterances since he has grown to be a millionaire and lives in a marble palace. "I told them that those marble walls could not shut out from his ears the murmurs of disapproval and dis content occasioned by financial policy. I showed them from statistics how in their district in 1880 the number of tenant farmers was 24 per cent.; in 1890 it had increased to 38 per cent., and 40 per cent. of the farms under mortgage. Prices of products were falling all the time, it taking more and more wheat and corn to get a dol lar, and it is only a question, of time when 15 per cent. of the citizenship will own all of the rich Miami valley. I read them something from the rec ordr of the Ohio legislature, a joint reso jtion adopted when General Grosvenor, now a gold ad vocate,'was speaker of the house of representatives -something they had forgotten. It is history, and here it is: "Joint resolution relative to the res toration of the silver dollar to its for mer rank as law ful money: "Resolved by the general assembly of the State of Ohio, that common honesty to the taxpayer, the letter and spirit of the contract under which the great body of indebtedness was as sumed by the United States, and true financial wisdom,each and all demand the restoration of the silver dollar to its former rank as lawful money. G. II. GJrosvenor, Speaker of the house of representatives. "H. 'W. Curtis, "President of the Senate. "Adopted April 24, 1877." "I read them from James GI. Blain's speeches in 1877 and 1880, extracts which I would like to see printed every day. Here is what Mr. Blaine said in the senate in 1880 on the mon ey question: 'On the much vexed and long mooted question as to bimetallic and monometallic standards, my own views are sufficiently indicated in the remarks I have made. I believe the struggle now going on in this country and in other countries for a single gold standard would, if successful, produce widespread disaster in and throughout the commercial worlds. The destruction of silver as money, and. establishing gold as the sole unit of value must have a ruinous effect' on all forms of property except those investments which yield a fixed re turn in money. Those would be enormously enhanced in value and would gain a disproportionate and un - fair advantage over every other sje eies of property. If, as the most reli able statistics atlirm, there are nearly $7,000,000,000 of coin or bullion in the world, very equally divided be t ween gold and silver, it is impossible to strike silver out of existence as money without results that will prove disastrous to millions and utterly dis astrous to tens of thousands. "I believe gold and silver coin to be the money of the Constitution; indeed the money of the American people, anterior to the Constitution, which the g'reat organic law recognized as quite independent of its own exist ence. No power was conferred on congress to declare either metal should not be money. Congress has, there' fore, in my judgment, no power to demonetize either. If, therefore, silver has been demonetized, I am in favor of 1emonetizing it. if its coinage has been prohibited, I am in favor of or dering it to be resumed. I am in fa vor of having it enlarged.' "I told them thatlIwas glad to know that there was one great daily paper north of the Ohio river that had the courage and honesty to stand by the people in this great supreme struggle, the Cincinnati Elnquirer, and they cheered me to the eeno." Mr. Teasdale, an enthusiastic young Democratic silver man and a tobacco manufacturer of Franklin, was so much pleased and impressed with Col. McLaurin's speech that he came on to this city with him and persuaded him to return later in the campaign and make more speeches in Uhio. lHe says it was the greatest triumph he ever witnessed on the hustings, and that H~orr, angered and battled in the debate, tu:-ned to abuae the south, which his opponent ridiculed and de nounced as a dodging of the issue and a want of argument. Col. McLaurin came here fromn North Carolina, and in reply to a query as to how that State would go, he said: "You may go to sleep with the as srlalure that the Tar Heel State is safe for- Bryau by 25,000. There is no doubt about it whatever." "- low ab?lout your State, Smthi ( ar olina:yo Sih, it i-s all olut way thoee:o hear' nothing bu t silver-. -Bryan'k ma jority will run fl00U t-o '0,000 casy. Unless theie i-; a complete change inl public sentiment l:ryan wii a weep the country- WXatsmn won~ .i hil the way." Cmic-:c Autg. -Tihirt; persons were prostrated here by tbe heat. ons AT THE CLOSE OF DAY. THE G_)PEL Of GOOD CHEER FOR THE SORROWING. Rev. D)r. Talm: a&.d I)V % a a%. ad Plclureni of the I.ali ieiaial: Sa1 ,a'.'.., 40 i1I.e- 1 w hen T'ime EI11 ud : U V Id BeKni I gliis- T Ile I.:gttt o'f Charist. WAsillN ;TUN, Aug. 2. -Dr. Tal m1age's subject today lighits up the sor rows of this life and sounds the gos pel of good cheer for all who will re ceive it. llis text was Luke xxiv, 29, "Abide with ws, for ", is loward evrn Two sillagers, having concluded their rrland in Jetruialem, haaving started out at Lie city gate and :re on their way to Kaiuinnau., Ile place of thele re-mdeut. 'They go ith a sad heart. Je- :, who had been their ad mliration and their joy, had been base I y mas',saered and eutobnled. As with sad facm aid broken le:rt they passon their way, a stranger accosts them. They teli him their anxieties and hit terness of soul. Ie in turn talks to themi, uighlily expounding the Scrip titres. lIe throws over them the fas cination of intelliigenL conversation. They forget the time and notice not the objects they pass and before they are aware have comeiC up in front of their house. They pause before the entrance and attempt to persuade the stranger to tarry with them. They press upon hizi their hospitalities. Night is coming on, and lie may meet a prowling wild beast or be obliged to lie unsheltered from the dew. He cannot go much farther now. Why not stop here and continue their pleas ant conversation ? They take him by the arm and they insist upon his coni ing in. addressing him in these words. "Abide with us for iL is toward even ing." The candles are lighted, the tabil is spread, pleasant socialities are enkin died. They rejoice in the presence of the stranger guest. He asks a bless ing upon the bread they eat, and he hands a piece of it to each. Suddenly and with overwhelming power the thoulit flashes upon the astonished peopte-it is the Lard' And as they sit in breathless wonder, looking upon the resurrected body of Jesus, he van ished. Their interview ended. He was gone. With many of us it is a bright, sun shiny day of prosperity. There is not a cloud in the sky, not a leaf rustling in the forest, no chill in the air. But we cannot expect all this to last. He is not an intelligent man who expects perpetual daylight of joy. The sun will set after awhile near the horizon. The shadows will lengthen. While I speak, many of us starid in the very hour described in the text, "for it is toward evening." The request of the text is appropriate for some before me. For with them it is toward the even ing cf old age. They have passed the meridian of life. They are sometimes startled to think how old they'are. They do not, however, like to have others remark upon it. If others sug gest their approximation toward ven erable appearance, they say, "Why, I'm not so old after all." They do, in deed, notice that they cannot lift quite so mu.h at once. They cannot walk qtuite so fast. They cannot read quite so well without spectacles. They can not so easily recover from a cough or any occasional ailment. 'They have lost their taste for merriment. They are sur prised at the quick passage of the year.. They say that it only seems a little while ago that they were boys. They are going a little down hill. There is something in their health, something in their vision, something in their walk, something in their changing associations. somieth ing above, something beneath, something within, to remind them that it is to ward evening. The great want of all such is to have Jesus abide with themi. It is a dismal thing to be getting old without the re juvenating influence of religion. When we step on the dewn grade of life and see that it dips to the verge of the cold river, we want to behold some one near who will help us across it. NVhen the sight loses its power to- glance and gather up, we need the faith that can illumine. When we feel the failure of the ear, we need the clear tones of that voice which in olden times broke up the si lence of the deaf with cadence of mer ev. When the axmen of death hew d'own whole forests of strength and beauty around us and we are left in solitude, we need the dove of divine mercy to sing in our branches. Wh~en the shadows begin to fall and we feel that the day is far spent, we need most of all to supplicate the strong, benefi cient Jesuis in the prayer of the villag ers, "Abide with us, f:r it is toward evening." The request of the text is an appro priate exclamation for all those who are approached in the gloomy hour of temptation. There is nothing easier than to be good natured when ev'ery thing pleases, or to be humble when there is nothing to oppose us, forgiv ing whben we have not been assailed, or honest when we have no induce ment to fraud. But you have felt the grapple of some temptation. Your nature at scme time quaked and groaned under tne infernal force. You felt that the devil was after you. You saw your Christian graces retreating. You feared that yoa would fail in the awful wrestle with sin anid be thrown into the dust. The gloom thickened. The first indications of the night were seen in all the trembling of your soul. In all the infernal suggestions of sa tan, in all the surging up of tumultu ous passions and excitements, you felt with awful emiphasis that it was to ward evening. In the tempted hour you need to ask Jesus to abide with you. You can beat back the monster that would devour you. You can un horse the sin that would ride you down. You can sharpen the battleax with which you split the head of the helmeted abomination. Who helped Paul shake the brazen gated heart of Felir? Who acted like a good sailor when all the crew howled in the Med iterranean shipwreck? Who helped the martyrs to be firm when one word of recantation would have unfastened the withes of the stake and put out the kindling fire: When the night of the soul came on and all the denizens of darkness camne riding upon tbe winds of perdition, who gave strength to the saul? Who gave calmness to the heart: Who broke the spell of in fernal enchantment? Ie wno heard the request ->f the villagers, "A bide with us, for it is toard evening." One of the forts of France was at tacked, and the outworks were taken before night. The beseiging army lay down, thinking there was but little to do in the morning, and that the soldiery in the fort could be easily made to surrender. IBut during the night, through a baelk stairs, they es eaped into the country. In the morn ing tne besieging army sprang upon the battlements, b .t found that their prey was gone. So, when we are as sauted in the tam ptation, there is al ways some secret :;tair by which we might get oil. God will not allow us to be tempted above what we are able, bat with every temptation will bring a way of e!.eape that we may be able to bear it. The prayer of the teg.t is appropriate for all who are anticipating sorrow. Tts greatest fno that e-or c-epw on this planet is tendency to borrow trobihle. uLlt there are titnes when appr-oa'hing- sorrow is so evident that we need to be making special prepara Lion for its coming. une of your thildren has lately be come a favorite. The cry of that child strikes deeper into tue heart than the er vofall the'ithers. Youthink more about it. Yo-u give it more attention, riot because it is any more of a treas ure than the ,>thers, but because it is becoming frail. There is something in the cheek, in the eye and in walk that makes you quite sure that the leaves of the tiower are going to be scattered. The utmost nursing and medical attendance are ineffectual. The pulse becomes feeble, the complex ion lighter. the Ftep weaker, the laugh faintrr. No more romping for that oue through hall and parlor. The nur-ery is darkened by an approach ing calamity. The heart feels with mournful anticipation that the sun is going down. Night speeds on. It is toward evening. You have long rejoiced in the care of a nother. You have done every thing lo make her last days happy. You have ruui with quick feet to wait upon her every want. Her presence has been a perpetual blessing in the household. But the fruit gatherers are looking wistfully at that tree. Her soul ii ripe for heaven. The gates are ready to flash open for her entrance. But your soul sinks at the thought of a separation. You cannot bear to think that soon you will be called to take the last look at that face which from the first hour has looked upon you with atrection unchangeable. But you see that life is ebbing and the grave will soon hide her from your sight. You sit quiet. You feel heavy hearted. The light is fading from the sky. The air is chill. It is toward evening. You had a cor.siderable estate and felt independent. In five minutes on one fair balance sheet you could see just how you stood in the world. But there came complications. Something that you imagined impossible hap pened. The best friend you had proved traitor to your interests. A sudden crash of national misfortunes prostrated your credit. You may to day be going on in business, but you feel anxious about where you are stard ing and fear that the next turning of the wheel will bring you prostrate. You foresee what you consider certain defalcation. You think of the anguish of telling your friends you are not worth a dollar. You know not how you will ever bring your children home from school. You wonder how you will stand the selling of your lib rary or the moving into a plainer house. The' misfortunes of life have accumulated. You wonder what makes the sky so dark. It is toward evening. Trouble is an apothecary that mixes a great many drafts, bitter and sour and nauseous, and you must drink some one of them. Trouble puts up a great many packs, and you must car ry some one of them. There is no sandaLso thick and well adjusted but some thorn will strike through it. There is no sound so sweet but the un dertaker's screwdriver grates through it. In this swift shuttle of the human heart some of the threads must break. The journey from Jerusalem to Em maus will soon be ended. Our Bible, our common sense, our observation, reiterate in tones that we cannot mis take and ought not to disregard. It is toward evening. Oh, then, for Jesus to abide with us. He sweetens the cup. He extracts the thorn. He wipes the tear. He hushes the tempest. IHe soothes the soul that diies to him forshelter. Let the night swoop and the euroclydon cross the sea. Let the thunders roar. Soon all will be well. Chi-ist in the ship to sootle his friends. Christ on the sea to stop its tumult. Christ in the grave to scatter~the.darkness. Cthrist in the heavens to lead the way. Blessed all such. His arms will in close them, his grace comfort them, his light cheer, them, his sacritice free them, his glory enchant them. II earthly estate takes wings, he will be an incorruptible treasure. If friendh die, he will be their resurrection. StaL ding with us in the morning of our joy and in the noonday of our prosperity, he will not forsake us when the luster has faded and it is toward evening. Listen to Paul's battle shout with misfortune. Hark to the mounting Latimer's fire son. L.ook at the glory that has reft the dungeon and find tilled the earth and heavens with the crash of the falling manacles of despot ism. And then look at those whc have tried to cure themselves by hu man prescriptions, attempting to head gangrene with a p)atch of court plaster and to stop the plague of dying em pires with the quackery of earthly wis dom. Nothing can speak peace to the soul, nothing can unstrap ouz crushing burdens, nothing can ove come our spiritual foes, nothing can open our eyes to see the surrounding horses and chariots of the salvation that fill all the mountains, but voice a-nd command of him who stopped one night at Emnujaus. The words of the texL, ar-e pertinent to us all, from the fact that we are nearing the evening of death. I have heard it said that we ought to live a though each momeni were to be our last. I do no1 believe that theory. As far as prepara. tion is concerned we ought always tc be ready, but we cannot always be thinking of death, for we have dutier in life that demand our attention. When a man is selling goods, it is his business to think of the bargain he is making. When a man is pleading ir the courts, it is -his duty to think oh the interests of his clients. When a clerk is adding up his accounts, it im his duty to keep his mind upon the column or figures. He who fills ui his life with thoughts of death is fai from being the highets style of Chris tian. I knew a man who used often to say at night, "I wish I might die before mocrning !" He became an in lideL. But there are times when we can ani ought to give ourselves to the con temiplation of that solemn momen1 when to the soul time ends anc eterinty begins. We must go througl that one pass. There is no round about way, no bypath, no cir cuitous route. Die we must, and il will be to us a shameful occurrence or 2 time of admirable behavior. Om friends may stretch out their hands tc keep us back, but no imploration on their part can hinder us. They migh1 offer large retainers, but death would not take the fee. The breath will fail, and the eyes will close, and the heari will stop. You may hang the couch with gorgeous tapestry, but what doer death care for beautiful curtains? You may hang tile room with the fines1 works of art, but what does death care for pictures: You may fill the house with the wailings of widowhood and orphanage does death mind weeping: This ought not to be a depressing theme. Who wants to live here for ever. The world has always treated me well, and ever-y day I feel less like scolding and complaining. But yet 1 would not want to make this my eter nal residen-rce. 1 love to watch the clouds and bathe my soul in the blue sea of heaven. But I expect when the firmament is roiled away as a scroll tc see a new heaven, grander, higher and more glorious. Yiou ought to be willi~ngt xhanga -snm- bodye thai has headaches and sideaches and weaknesses iuumerabie. that limps with the stone bruise, or festers with T the thorn or flames ou the funeral pyre of feers, for an incorruptible body and an eye that blinks not be- L3 fore the jasper gates and the great white throne. But between that and ce, this there is an hour about which no ..e man should be reckless or foolhardy. 'n I doubt not your courage, but I tell 7 ycu that you will want something '-' better'than a strong arm, a good aim r and a trusty sword when you come b, to your last battle. Youi will need a te better robe than any you havein your re wardrobe to keep 3 oN warm iti tiat us place. Circumstances do not tiake so much difference. It may be a bright day op when you push off f-out the planet, cee or it may bea uark night and wh'le co the owl is hooting from the iorest. ft I may be spring, and your soul may go out among the blossoIs, apple orch- co ards swinging their censers in the al way. It may be winter and the earth tlt in a snow shroud. It may beautumn, (C and the forests set on fire by the re- re( treating year, dead nature laid out in pL state. It may be with yo-ur wife's in hand in your hand or you may be in er a strange hotel with a servant faith- di ful to the last. It may be in the rail ne train, shot olf the switch and tumb- rig ling in long reverbration down the by embankment-crash, crash! I know not the time. I know not the mode, hi But the days of our life are being sub ti< tracted away and we shall come down br to the time when we have but ten days w left, then nine days, then eight days, ag then seven days, six days, live days, be four days, three days, two days, one ot day. Then hours-three hours, two H hours, one hour. Then only minutes af left-live minutes, four minutes, three th minutes, two minutes, one minute- da Then only seconds lef t-four seconds, three seconds, two seconds, one sec- on ond. Gone! The chapter of life end- fir ed! The book closed! The pulses su at rest! The feet through with the bi journey! The hands closed from all work. No word on the lips. No o breath in the nostrils. Hair combed w, back to lie undisheveled by any hu- du man hands. The muscles still- ry The nerves still. The lungs du still. The tongue still. . All th still. You might put the stethoscope di to the breast and hear no sound. You might put a speaking trumpet to the W ear, but you could not wake the deaf- to ness. No motion. No throb. No th life. Still, still! be So death comes to the disciple. yO What if the sun of life is about to ur set? Jesus is the dayspring from on at high; the perpetual morning of every C ransomed spirit. What if the dark- kr ness comes? Jesus is the light of the in world and of heaven. What though lu this earthly house does crumble? m Jesus has prepared a house of many th mansions. Jesus is the; anchor that se always holds. Jesus is the light that C is never eclipsed. Jesus is the foun- I tain that is never exhausted. Jesus is m the evening star, hung up amid the tb gloom of the gathering night! You are almost through with the ha abuse and backbiting of enemies. as They will call you no more by evil ie names. Your good deeds will no D longer be misinterpreted noryour hon- L or filched. The troubles of earth will C end in the felicities! Toward eveninol eg The bereavements of earth willsoon be TJ lifted. You will not much longer Ti stand pouring your grief in the the tb tomb, like Rachel weeping for her th children or David mourning for Ab salom.. Broken hearts bound up. hi Wounds healed. Tears wiped a way. sg Sorrows terminated. No more sound- fe ing of the dead march. Toward even- w ing ! Death will come, sweet as slum- til ber to the eyelids of the babe, as full tb rations to r.starving soldier, as even- tb ing hour to the exhausted workman. The sky will take on its sunset slow, every cloud a fire psalm, every lake a glassy mirror, the forests transfigured, delicate mists climbing the air. Your friends will announce it; your pulses s will beat it, your joys will ring it; g your lips will whisper it, "Toward , evening 1" na Aliabamia Goes Democratic. tl BIRMINGHA3I, Ala.. Aug. 5.-Fur- ol ther returns from Monday's election ex show that Johnston and the Democrat- Ic ic ticket have carried forty-one courn-t ties, while Goodwyn, Populist, has 91 twenty- two. Three counties, Pike, Cullan and Tallapoosa are close and ni in doubt. It is about a stand off in P1 these. Johnston's official and estimat- t ed majorities amount to 48.873, while " Good wyn's majorities are 9,205, leav- st ing Johnston's net majority at 39,448. The otlicial canvass of the vote Satur day will, it is thought, not vary from these figures. For the Legislature ~ later reports show that the House to stand seventy-four Democrats, a gain of ten members, t wenty Populists and sigx doubtful. In the Senate the Deim oeat have elected thirteen members, This gives the Democrats over three- te fourths of the Legislature. John- ol ston's majority of the white counties NI is near.y 10,00) niot including the Y Black Be~Lt w hich is calculated to dis- h: ose of the charge that Good wyn was de elected but counted out. Conserva- i tive Populist leaders assert that if it is se shown officially that the white coun- it ties elected Johnston they wilt sup- It port Bryan and Sewall in November. la Other wise they will go for Bryan and t Watson, believing in the latter event a< that Johnston got elected by fraud. w Riot Near Charleston. CHARLESTON, S. C., Aug. 4.-There e( was a riot at a negro picnic held at tc Mouut Pleasant, just across the river na from here, today. Some negro vend- w ers on the grounds were violating w town ordinances. They were ar rested by negro deputy marshals and the riot was started by their friends. Knves and pistols were used freely and six men were more or less serious- fi ly hurt. The ringleader of the riot o~ had his he:'d crushed in by one of the 0o marshals, and he will probably die. o The other injured men are Marshal W Edmund Jenkins, Henry McNell, o Prince Simons, Jack Gethers and an P unknown negro. These men weree cut with razors Dy the rioters. A de. sf tachmnent of the CJhicora Rifles, of the f~ Mount Pleasant Naval Reserve, were r called out and the riot was quelled. c~ Six of the ringleaders of the mob were 01 arrested and lodged in jail, and there tt will probably be a number of other tt arrests tomorrow. The Oost of BIc3ye,. In adjusding the lire insurance los caused ny burning of its salesrooasb and stock of wheels oni hand of one of 'l the largest and most popular bicycle manufacturing companies in the United States, the fact developed that the cost of one hundred dollar ma chines was but nineteen dollars at the te factory. The public is asked to pay t one hundred dollars fora wheel which is manufactured at a cost of but nine- t teen dollars, a profit to the mnanufac- ac turer of over 400) per cent. The pur chaser is told that it costs a lot of o~ money to sell the wheels, which might be and still leave several hundred per cent. prolit for the poor manufacturer. The day is not far distant when bi- sc cycles will be sold in hardware and of other stores, like lawn mowers, at a Cf price .nearer t wenty-fi ve dollars than A one hundred. There may be other er goods manufactured which cost but fa ne-fifth of the price they are sold for, ar but the public certainly is nct aware th WA NTS THEM ANSWERED e Goveruor Accused of Dodging Cer tain %Questions. ifor Columbia Register: 3overnor Evans at Orangeburg read -tain questions which he stated he :eived from "The Gospel Temper ce Union" and made what he claims .s a satisfactory answer to them. e first question of the series was not d by the Governor nor alluded to him, but was important as a con ,t to the next ques'ion which he LU as the first and turned to his own [he first question was as follows: 'Have you at any time during the ration of the dispensary law re ved compensation as attorney or Ansel for the Charleston brewers or uor dealers of that city?" When he first saw these questions, a py of which as a matter of courtesy d fairness were given to him before meeting commenced at Shandon olumbia) on Wednesday, he demur to the first two as unnecessary, ex tining that he had acted as counsel the matter for the Charleston brew of rice beer after the passage of the peary Act in 1893, and that at the xt session of the Legislature the ht to sell rice beer was forbidden' an amendment of the act. rhis was taken as an admission on part of his agency in the transac a as the paid representative of the wers, which was what the question s intended to bring out. It was reed that the two ques ionsshouldnot read and that he would ans wer the er questions of the series that day. a failed to allule to them, saying ;er his speech that he had forgotten am, but promised to do so the next y at Orangeburg. t will be seen that he used the see d question as the first, omitting the st altogether, which was a species of ppression which aided him admira F to keep from the public the im rtant admission which he had made the questions personally, that he s the paid counselor of the brewers .ring the operation of the Dispensa law and that he did use his agency .ring that period to procure for em special privileges which others i not enjoy. Now, as to the other questions. 'hat must be thought of his answers the questions asked him for the au rity of law by which he granted e privileges. He wasasked: "Will u point out the authority of law der which you acted as Governor .d chairman of the State Board ot )trol in 1895, in granting what are town as special privileges to certain dividuals for the sale of beer in Co mbia and Charleston? Did you not ke such appointment without an ority of law, and without the con at or approval of the State Board of >ntrol of which you was chairnan? sa, what were your reasoes for king said appointments witnout e authority of law?" And he replied: "The State board 4 right to make the rules. Tillmian chairman made a rule that brewer ; could sell their beer as parts of the spensary. Old man 8eegers in >lumbia has as much right as the arleston brewery to have the privil e, and I granted him the privilege. iat's the only privilege granted. ie new State Bard has extended em some, but I don't know whether ey had the right to do so." This after admitting that the act 4 denied the right in the face of his ecial et'orts as attorney to secure it r the brewers. Now, Gover nor, ill you kindly answer these ques >ns fairly and squarely, either on e stump or througn the columns of e press and oblige, Yours Respectfully, ROBT. Mi. ADAM1. Baby's Head Bitten Ofr. CHILUICOTHE, 0., Aug. 6.-Eddie rd, the two-year-old son of hiana r Hard, of Hagenbeck's menagerie, as killed by a lion yesterday after >on. The menagerie was on exhibi m at the fair grounds and a two-year d lion was tied to a stake near the trance to the tent. The lion be ged to Jim Corbett, the prize figh-. r, and was not regarded as feroci is. While Hard and his wife were .front selling tickets for the after on performance little Eddie was aying in the tent. The child went o near the lion and suddenly the ani al sprang upon him and in an in at the caild's head was in the lion's oth. Hurd rushed to the scene ntuically, but tbe nead ad already en severed. The animal was then a high state of ferociousness and it ok se vere clubbing to get him into s eage. After the Dispenser-. CoLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 7-'he State ard of control showed a desire yes rday to "crawl the log," so to speak, Dispenser Stevenson of Winneboro. ention was made in the reports of the rinsboro meeting thiat Stevenson d taken an active part in howling >wn some of the speakers. From e appearance of things now it would em that his overzealous action is go g to make him a man without a job. seems that he either forgot the cir~cu r letter sent out by the State board .at none of the dispensers were to be tive in politics, or disregarded it ilfully. As a result, instruction::~ ive been sent to the county board of ntrol 'of Fairfield for all tne facts in anection with Stevenson's actions be laid before the State board at its xt meeting. This will be a test of hether the board means a thing hen it says it or not.-State. 5'aal Railroad 1W reck. DES MoiLNEs, Iowa, August7.-Nine eight cars were ditched at Lighton, the Keokuk and Des Moines branch the Rock Island R~ailroad, at 2:30 lock this morning. Seven men ere killed. They were all employees the Liverpool and Des Moines icking Company. The train, an :tra east-bound, was running at full ed when an axal on the fifth car o the engine broke, ditching the mainder. In the wreck are four ,rs of sheep, one of hogs and three meat. The way car, containina e conductor and brakenman, was rown on top of the wreck. Kansas Fusion Compiete . UTiCfIISos, Kns , August 7.-The eocratic part of the Populist fusion is carried out at 8.30 o'clock this riag, when a dozen men, repre ning the remnant of the State Con ntion, assembled to nominate the at Populist ticket put up at Abi ae. The names were read from a legram taken down by the secretary id at once declared the norninees of e Democrats. The Convention then journed after waiting three days for e Populists to act on the fusion prop itioni. 5everal P'ersone Kilied. CH Ri ASS, August 7. -T welve per us their lives through the burning a gilding factory in this -city. iree f the victims were children. nutimber of persons who had gath ed t witness the fire were strucit by ling walls. Six were killed outright d thirteen injured. Of the latter ree have since died in a hospital to ,POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of all in leavening strength. -Latest United States Government Food Report. RoYAL BAKING POWDER Co., New York City. FREEDOM IN SIGHT. The Cotton 'TIe Trust Checkmated-Suc cesaful Test of the Wire Tie. Tne Columbia State says a test of the new wire tie was made recently by Colonel Duncan. and so far as ie and the local cotton men dan see it is goig to be a Quccess. Colosel Duncan bad a bale of cnttbn specially put up by D. Crawford & Sons jus: to maice a trial of the wires. The b.le is as neat and compact as if it had been bound #ith the flat tie. The bale was examined critically by'a number of the local cot ton men and allof tiem expressed sat isfaction at the result. Sud one of them: "I don't see anything to keep this tie from sup planting the old 1i1t tie. It is jusi as Ftrong, keeps the bale as compact, and in every other respect is jst as good as the flat tie. There is but one other test that the wire must be put to.and that is shipping. It it stands a ship ping then it is undisputably a success." Oae or two other buyers who were ex amining the bale acquiesced. Colonel Duncan saia t) a represen tative of The State: "'I nave hal this bale packod to demonstrate to the farmer that a cheaper and equally as good a tie as the flat can be iound iu ibe wire. No time will be lost in fas tening the wirei for when this bale had the ties put on it took only twen ty minutes to remove the flat and put the wire in their place. Tnat was quick time, but when a bale is in the press the wire can be put on in a few minutes. We had to remove one set and put another in thcir place, ant twenty minutes was a short time for the ch wge to be made. "Several cotton men have lookel at this bale carefully, and tkere as- nOL been one who does nor say it is a sue cess. I do not see any necessity for buckles being used with the wire. It can be twisted easily and wil hold fast." Colo..el Duncan has shipped the bale to j. B. Sloan& Son, at Chires ton. ae will write a letter soon to be published in The Oton Piaat. Le&llt, the different county - allianuces of tne est. He is well pleased, and teiI wle will be .used. Six ties of njumberl10 wire, the size it is proposed to use, weigh four pounds. Couauug it at three cents per pound, this will be on lyi12 cents per bale. Tfne fte ties cost - 30 ceats per baleand weigh nine pounds. rhe difference in thle cont ts readily seen. .The D)awia Monument, The recent laying of the corner-stone of the monlument to Jeffersn--Davi was tine commencement of a wore which the Southern peo21le shtould see pushed 1.0 the earliest comrpletion ihat is possible. The mornumnent is'toos $20,000 and the Association inchargu or the work bas ne in hand or immei diately availablde about $25,000. Tajei rest must be contribated by suoacrip-. tions of the douthierun people. fTue press of the Southern tates are esptc ially asked to bring the matter to pub lic nouice. Oa Ina point t'te News and Courier says: -Thle goid worc of ob tain ing suoseriptions need not, ho or - ever, ne contined to thle newspapere All the organizations of CGmatederaus soldiers, and of their sons and daugai. ers, and all other organiizIruons wnaiu care 1o interest themssives in tueo work, can contribute tneir aid i any and every way which lney find to be practicable aud ettective. ?he object is to raise-the money that is needes, and to raise it as rapidly as practica ble, and every associatioa and every community can work in its owsn way, and ghould go to work quietly but earnesly to a.:comnplisti all it can. t should ntot be necesiry to renew thle invitation, or to matke numerous puci lic 'appeals' in the papers, in owder to command the measure of interest anad effort thiat is required -or tie early completion of tie monJLIautentA, ani ,.> ot think it will be uccessary. L'ne chief value aud significance of tue memorial will lie in meI readiam with which all the peuple of tie doutu will contribute to ins cus,& ustioc. Every family that was iaentilied in any way or degree witu the cauwo which Presieni tvzs zepreseused should be represented by an offerms, large or small, in tne lua.d. sur cue construction of the monumneat wo i.i. We suggest that every suca lamnis ii the State whicn propos::s to take part in the work subscribe one doliar, least, and more, accordingto~~cneir means, and subscribe the determned sum without watting for aniotner invi tation. Lokssociauus can iivi., materiallyfby opening abs::ripam lists and circulatung then, LuLLa aiv - ing every one who is so u spiseu tue opportunity to suscribe wv ia t o W iii. 1'ne corner s~onie 01 the u-onuuntent has been laid, and it wiul be a i.ubte ani beautiful memorial to Mir. Dais thle Confederacy and its builders Wuen completed. Let us comiplese it wahi out delay." The Columbia Eivening News seconds these saggestious, as follows: -There ought to De no need : to suggest to the boutnern people Lsat they snould speedily supply Lme mean to build a suanable monument to' Jei ferson Davis. such a mnemorial woulid attest more than thle feeling 01 Lmo Southern people toward Lme head uf the Confederate government. it would be a monument to the Conieder-acy itself. The suggestion or the NeWs and Courier, that thme faud tie raisesi by subscriptions ranging from olne dollar upwards, and reprseatinlg every family in the SoUth, is an. exeleiaiL one. 'The monument should represeat, as much as possible, the leelling ol time Southern people in general, rather than the liberality o1 somed individ uals. The money needed can be raised without any sacrice on tnle part ot any who are expected to contribuite. It ought to be raised at once." W e most neartily agree to all tniat is thus said by the Cnariestoni and1 Couiuz Din conteporaries.- We simould luke to see South Carolina in tne front ra~ng of those who shall see to tneC raising of a monument in memiory of Jefter soL Davis, tile ?resident of thle Clxi federate state Tne wanole sae should do its part iu a worli of Lure and reverence, whieui is to De snared by thle whole South. But little effort wiott any sacririce will bring that .or. o earlyconsmmation.