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VOL. XLYI. WINXSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 1. 1891. NO. 46. | AT THE TABERNACLE. ; I DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON VARIOUS i I KINDS OF PRODIGALS. 1 The Crew 1h;il Was Almost Saved?'The , Far<loo?d criminal? ? uc uuuij I That Leadeth :< K?-i>eutance. M Brooklyn*. June 21.?Dr. Talmage's : W-*' ' ser ion this morning was an appeal to 1 I youni; men. lumbers of these come to , L the Tabernacle services, many of them ^ from country homes, where they re" ceived Christian training, which, in the j temptations of city lite, has been cast i off. Dr. Talma-.-e ca:lcd his sernon "Tha Wnm?sick Suul." and his text was I from the parable ot the prodigal son, I Luke xv, IS, "I will arise and go to my I, father." I There is nothing like hunger to take A the energy out of a man. A hungry man can toil neither with pea. nor hand, nor ] W foot. There has been many an army defeated. not so much ior lack oi ammunition as for lack of bread. It was that -v fact that took the lire out of this young B y man of the text, t>torm and exposure W will wear out any man's hf'o in lime, but hunger maKes quick work. The most awful cry ever heard on earth is the cry ; jar for bread. A traveler tells us that in m Asia Minor there are trees which bear ( mm-h lilrp the loil<? IirUIl JUCAiiii; ?nj = bean of our time. It is called the carab. . Once in a while the people reduced to , destitution would eat these carabs. but ' generally, the carabs, the beans spoken ( ot here in the text, w ere thrown only to ( the swine, and they crunched them with , great avidity. But this young man of j text could not even get them with- j m.'7 stealing them. i>o one day amid the < ' ^^^gljhne troughs he besins to soliloquize., ??? r?1nt'ioc for {I I t?ifc "iuese ulc uv wvwiv. .. . rich man's ucn to wear; this is no kind . ol business for a Jew to be engaged in? j feeding swine; I'll go home, I'll go home; I will arise and ao to my father." , 1 know there are a great maay people : fwho try to throw a fascination,- jl ro- , mance, a halo about sin; but notvuth- , standing all that Lord Byron asyl |: George Sand have said in regard to it lfcf' is a mean, low. contemptible business, and putting food and fodder into the troughs of a herd of iniquities that root and wallow in the soul or man is a very j poor business lor men and women inr tended to be sons and daughters of ihe ; Lord Almighty. And when this young man resolved to go home it was a very : wise thing for him to do, and the only question is whether we will follow him. : L Satan promises large wages if we will : ' serve him, but he clothes his victims : with rags, and he pinches them with L hunger, and when they start out to do : '?&> better he sets after them all the blood- i ||| hounds of \ erdiuoo. Satan comes to us : BE today and he promises ail luxuries, all i|L emoluments if we will only serve him. ||1 Liar, down with thee to the pit! ''The jpP* wages of sin is death." Oh, tie young man of the text was wise when "he uttered the resolution, "I will arise and go to my father." In the time ot Mary the Persecutor, a persecutor came to a Christion woman i who had hidden in her house for the Lord's sake one of Christ's servants, and the persecutor said, "Where" is that heretic?'7 The Christian woman said. ^ "You open that trunk, and you will see the heretic." The persecutor opened the trunk, and cn the top of the linen of the trunk he saw a glass. He said, ^ "There is no heretic here." "Ah," she said, "you look in the glass, and you will see the heretic!" As I take up the mirror of God's word today would that instead of seeing the prodigal son of t'>e f text we might see ourselves?our want, our wandering, our sin, our lost condition?so that we might be as wise as this young man was, and say. vkI will arise and go to my lather." b ?IN SORROW ONE LONGS FOR A FATHER. The resolution of this text was formed h in disgust at bis present circumstances. & If this young man had been by his emfH ployer set to culluring ilowers or train - ? l-oovvinrr jj?|> lDg Vines over au tioui |R count of the pork market or overseeing otherlaborers he would not have thought of going home. If he had had his pockets full of money, if he had been able ?11 to say, "I have a thousand dollars now of my own; what's the use ot my goiny SailS back to my father's house? do >ou think ||r 1 am going back to apologize to the c!d man? why he would put me on the limits; he would not have going on around the old place such conduct as 1 have been engaged in: I won't go home; there t is no reason why I .should go home; I k have plenty of money, plenty of pleasant surroundings, why should I ?o r home?" Ah! it was his pauperism, it Koiiffort* TTr> Jind to fro home. vran mo f Seme man comes and says to me: j 'Why do you talk u bout the ruined slate i t of the human soul? why don't you speak about the progress of the Nineteenth century, and talk of something more exhilarating" It is for this reason: A man never wants the jrospel until he realizes he is in a famine struck state. Suppose I should c ;me to you m vour home and you are in good. sou?d, robust health; and I should becin to talk I about medicines, and about how much ^ v>ott^r this medicine is than that, and | if some other medicine thau some other jfe medicine, and talk about this physician and that physician. After a while \ou get tired, and you would say: "I don't waut to hear about medicines. Why do ?|L you talk to me or physicians? I never |i| have a doctor." K But suppose I, come into your house j and I tind you severely sick, ar.d I know j the medicines that will cure you, aud I i SL know the physician who is skillful j enough to meet your case. You sa\: ??F 4,Bnn<r ou that medicine; bnnir on that I " * 1_ ? j ? ! f physician, i am lernoiy sick, uuu x j want help." If I came to you and \ou - feci you arc all right in body, and all right in mind, and all right in soul ^ou have need of nothing; but suppose I have persuaded you that the leprosy of j sin is upon you. the worst oi all sickness;; oh, then you sa>: ".Bring ?^e that bahn of the gospel: bring me that divme med- j iciment: bring me .Tesus Christ." fButsajs some one in the audience, "How do you prove that we are in a | ruined condition by sin?" Well, I can prove it m two ways, and you may have I 1 tirnvp it hv t.he ! I^VUUt X \.K. - statements of men or bv the statement oi God. Which shall 11 be? You all say, "Let us have the statement of God." Well, he says iu one place. "The heart j is deceitful above all things and desper- ; atelv wicked.*' He says in another }f place, "What is man that he should be j clean? and he winch is born oi a woman, i 1 tliat he should be righteous?" He says j iu another place. "There is none that j H . doethgood, no. not one." lie says in j ||jia5| " another place. "As by one man sin en-! Ill treth into the world, and death by sin, j end so death passed upon all men, for; that all have sinned." "Well," you! I ? say, "I;am willing to acknowledge that, j |g| but why should 1 tak? the particular J rescue that you propose?" This is the | reason, "Except a Dian be born a^ain he i :-annot see the kingdom of God." This j is the reasou. "There is one name given j under heaven among men whereby they ! rnav be saved." Then there are athous-! and voices here ready to say. "Well, 11 am readv to accept this help of'.lie (Jos- J pel; I wouldlike to have this divine cure; j how shall I go to work?" Let me say j o whim or* nn 'Si* fines? lnncriruf I UU&L a U.Vig it liiju, tAiu. uuuvuuvu ?x-? ^ ^ amounts to nothing. You must have a stout, tremendous resolution like this youuir man of the text when he said, "I will arise and so to my father." THE ABOUNDING MERCYOF GOD. "Oh!" says some man, "how do I know my father wants me? How do I know, if I go back, I would be received:'" "Oh!" says some man, "you don't know ! where I have been, you don't know how ! tar I have wandered; you wouldn't iaiK j that way to me if you knew all the iniquities 1 have committed." What is that flutter among the angels of God? It is news, it is new?! Christ has found the lost. Nor angels can their joy contain, But kindle with new fire: The sinner lost, is found, they sins. And strike the sounding jyre. When Napoleon talked of going into Italy, they said: '4You can't get there. If you knew what the Alps were you wouldn't talk about it or think of it. You can't get your ammunition wagons Dver the Alps." Then Xapoleon rose in bis stirrups and waving his hand toward the mnuntains, he said, "There ho nn MnJ! " That, wonderful nass was laid out which has beeu the wonderment ol all the years since?the wonderment ot all engineers. And you tell me there are such mountains of sin between your soul and God, there is no mercy. Then I see Christ waving his liand toward the mountains. I hear him say, "I will come over the mountains of thy sin and the hills of thy iniquity." There shall be no Pyrenees; there shall be no Alps. Again, I notice that this resolution of the young man of the text was founded :n sorrow at his misbehavior. It was aot mere physical plight. It was grief that he.bad so maltreated his father. It is a sad thing after a father has done everything for a child to have that child be ungrateful. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, To have a thankless child. rn'- - * c-I?t; A flo/-\1 ic 1 > cnn j.uai is ouaticopcaic. is the heaviness of his mother." That is the Bible. Well my friends, haye not some of us been cruel prodigals? Have we not maltreated our Father? And such a Father! So loving, so kind. If he had been a stranger, if he had forsaken us, it he had pounded us and turned us out of doors on the commons, it would not have been so wonderful? our treatment oi him; but he is a Father 1 __ .7 ...... SO JlOVlUg, SO K1I1U, auu >et.nuvT uiuuj wi us for our wanderings have never apologized. We apologize lor wrongs done to our fellows, but some of us perhaps have committed ten thousand times ten thousand wrongs against God and never apologized. I remark still farther that this resolution of the text was founded in a feeling of homesickness. I don't know how long this young man, how many months, how many years he had been away from his father's house; but there is something in the reading ot my text that makes me think he was homesick. Some of you know what that feeling is. Far away from home sometimes, surrounded by everything bright and pleasant?plenty of friends?you have said, l'I would give the world to be home tonight." Well, this young man wa . homesick for his father's house. 1 have no doubt when he though, of his father's house he said, "Xow, perhaps, father may not be living." WAS THE PRODIGAL'S MOTHER DEAD? We read nothing in this story?this parable founded on everyday life?we read nothing about the mother. It says nothing about going home to her. I think she was dead. I think she had died ol a broken heart at his wanderings. A man never sets over having lost his mother. Nothing said about her here. But he is homesick for his father's house, lie thought he would just like to go and walk around the old place. lie thought he would just like to 20 and see if things were as the}- used to be. Many a man after .having teen oil a iong while bus gone home and knocked at the door, and a stranger has come. If- is the old homestead, but a stranger comes to the door, lie finds out father is gone and mother is cone, and brothers and sisters all gone. I think this young man of the text said to himself. "Perhaps father may be dead." Still he starts to find out. He is homesick. Are there any here today homesick for God, homesick for heaven? A sa'lor. having been long on the f<-w hie f-aflior'a hnil?p an<"] OCrt, itiuuitu bV 4MVWW4 V his mother tried to persuade him not to sro avvav again. She said: uXow you had better stay at home. Don't go away; we don't want you to go. You will have it a great deal better here." P. at it made him angry. The night before he went away a^ain to oea he heard his mother praying in the next room, and that made him more angry. lie went lar out on the sea aad a storm came up, and he was ordered to very perilous duty, and he ran up the ratlines, and amid the shrouds of the ship he heard the voice that he had heard in the next room. He tried to rally his courage, but he could not silence that voice he had heard in the next room, aud there in the storm and the darkness he said: O Lord! what a wretch I have been; what a wretch I am. Help me just now. Lord God." And I thought in this assemblage today there may be some who may have the memory of a father's petition or a mother's prayer _ - .KA ftAnl I preSSlDg LUigUtlHr U?JUU ux suui, uuu that this hour they may make the same resolution I tind ia my text, savin?, "I will arise and go to my father." ILLUSTRATION OK THE RESCUED BOY. A lad at Liverpool went out to bathe, went out into the sea. went out too far, got beyond his depth and he tloated far away. A ship bouud for Dublin came along and took him on board. Sailors are generally very generous fellows, and one gave him a cap and another gave him a jacket, and another gave him shoes. A gentleman passing along on me beach at .Liverpool ioima me iacrs cloihes and took them home, and the father was heartbroken, the mother was heart-broken at the loss of their child. They had heard nothing iicm him day after day. and they ordered tiie usual mourning lor the sad event. Dut the lad took ship from Dublin and arrived in Liverpool the very day the garments arrived. lie knocked at the door and the farther was overjoyed, and the mother was overjoyed at the return of their lost son. Oil. my friends, have you ? - AM* T lAtro Vf All t ^ IlUCU UUt IUU xiav ^ y vu n uuv>u i down into sin? Have you waded from the shore? Will you come back? When you comeback; will you come in the rags of your sin, or will you come robed in the Saviour's righteousness? I be lieve the latter. Go horns to your God today. He is waiting for you. Go home! But I remark concerning this resolution, it was immediasely put into excuz-.rmfAW oorc timco mi/J LiV Li. JL WUUV.AU AA.U U4VWV | came to his father." The trouble in nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand is that our resolutions amount to nothing because sv*e make them for some distant time. If I resolve to become a Christian next year, that amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve to become a Christian tomorrow, that amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve at the service tonight to become a Christian, that amounts to nothing at all. If | i resolve alter i go nome toaay 10 yieiu i my heart to God, that amovuts to {nothing at all. The only kind of resolution that amounts to anything is resoultion that is immediately put into exebution. There is a man who hud the typhoid fever. He said: "Oh! if I could get over this terrible distress! If this fever should depart, if I could be restored to health, I would all the rest of my life serve God." The fever departed. He got well enough to walk around the block. He go* well enough to go over o New York and attend to business, lie is well to-day?as well as he ever was. Where is the broken vow ? There is a man who said long ago, "If I could live to the year 1891, by that time I will have my business matters arranged, and I will have time to attend to religion, and I will be a good, thorough, consecrated Christian." Th? vear 1891 has come. January, February. March, April, May, June?almost half of the year gone. Where is your broken vow V "Oh," says some man: "I'll attend to that when I can get my character lixed up. When i can get over my evil habits. I am now given to strong drink," or, says the man, "I am given to uncleaaness," or, says the man, "I am given to dishonesty." When I get over my present habits, then I'll be a thorough Christian." My brother, you will get worse and worse, until Christ takes you in hand. "Not the righteous; sinners, Jesus came to call." DANGER OK PItOCRASTINATlOX. Oh! but you say,**i agree with vou 011 all that, but I "must put it off : little longer." Do you know there were many who came just as near as you are to the kingdom of God and never entered it? I was at East Hampton and L went into the cemetery to look around, and in that cemetery there are twelve graves side by side?the graves of sailors. This crew, some years ago, in a ship went into the breakers at Amagansett, about three miles awav. My brother, then preaching ?.t Last Hampton, ii&d Icen at the burial. These men of the crew came very near uemg savea. The people from Amaganset? saw the vessel, and they shot rockets, and they sent ropes from the shore, and these poor fellows got into the boat, and they pulled mightily for the shore, but just before they got to the shore the rope snapped and the boat capsized and they were lost, their bodies afterward washed up on the b3ach. Oh, what a solemn day it was?I have been told or it oy my brother?wheQ these twelve men lay at the foot of the pulpit and he read over them the funeral service! They came very near shore?within shouting distance of the shore?yet did not arrive on solid land. There are some men who come almost to the shore of God's mercy, but not quite, not quite. To be only almost saved is not to be saved at all. I will tell you of two prodigals, the onu that got bick and the other that did not get back. In Virginia there is a very prosperous and beautiful home in many respects. A young man wandered off from that home. He wandered very far into sin. They heard of him often, but he was always on the wrong track. lie would not go home. At the door of that beautiful home one night there was a great outcry. The young man of the house ran down and opened the door to see what was the matter. It was midnight. The rest of the family were asleep. There were the wife and tne children of this prodigal young man. The tact was he had come home and driven them out. lie said: "Out of this house. Away with these children; I will dash their brains oat. Out into the storm!" The mother gathered them up and lied. The next morning the brother, the younjj man who had stayed at home, went out to hnd this prodigal brother anri ?r?n nnrl hp came where he was. and saw the young man wandering up and down in front of the place where he had been staying, and the young man who had kept his integrity said to the older brother: "Here, what does all this mean? What is the matter with you? Why do you act in this way?" The prodigal "looked at, him and said: "Who am I? Who do you take me to be?" lie said, "You are my brother." "Xo, I am not, I am a brute. Have you seen anything of my wife and children ? Are they dead ? I drove them out last night in the storm. I am a brute. John, do you think there is any help for me? *Do you think I will ever get over this life of dissipa uon r' lie saiu, "iiromer, tnere is jusu one thing that will stop this." The prodigal ran his finger across his throat ana said: "That will stop it. and I'll stop it before night. Oh! my brain; I can stand it no longer." That prodigal never got home. 15at 1 will tell you of a prodigal that did get home. TWO RAN AWAY, BUT ONE RETURNED. In England two young men started from their father's house and went down to Portsmouth. The father could not pursue his children; for some reason lie could not leave home, and so he wrote a letter down to Mr. Gritlin, saying: ''Mr. Griffin, I wish you would go and see my two sons. They have arrived in Portsmouth, and they are going to taKe snip auu going away from"home. 1 wish you would persuade them back." Mr. Grillin went and he tried to persuade them back. lie persuaded one to go. He went with very easy persuasion because he was very homesick already. The other young man said: "I will not go. I have had enough of home. I'll never go home." 'Well," said Mr. Grillin, "then if you won't go home I'll a get you respectab'e position on a respectable ship." '*Xo you won't." said the prodigal. "No you won't. 1 am going as a common sailor: that will plague my father most, and what will do most to tantalize and worry him will please me best." Years passed on, and Mr. Griflin was seated in his study one day when a message eatne to him that there was a young man in irons on a ship at the dock?a young man condemned to death?who wished to see this clergyman. Mr. Crriilin went down to the! dock and went on shipboard. The I young man said to him, "You don't! know me, do you?" '\Xo," he said: "1 j don't know you." "Why, don't you re-j member that young man you tried to ; persuade to go horn-', and he wouldn't} go V" "Oh, ye?," said Mr. Griflin. "Are j you that man?" " Yes, 1 am that man." said the other. "I would like to have you pray for me. I have committed murder, and 1 must die, but 1 don't wan't to go out of thfc world until some one prays for me. l%u are my father's friend, and I would Tike to "have you pray for me." \ \ /"J' Mr. Griffin went from judicial authority to judicial authority to get the young man's pardon, ile slept not nisrht nor day. lie went from inlluen tial person to intluential person until sonic way he got the young man's pardon. lie came down on the dock, and as lie arrived on the deck with the par- . don tiie father came. lie had heard that his son, under a disguised name, had been committing cri.ne and was A ? J. x - .1 _ . n.;** i scans to ne pwi 10 ueaui. ou ^>11. um-1 fin aiid the father went on the ship's deck, ana at the very moment Mr. Grirlin offered the pardon to the young man. the old father threw his arms around the son's neck and the son said: < "Father, I have done very wrong and I | am very sorry. I wish I had never j broken your heart. J am very sorry." 'Oh!" said the father, "don't mention ; it; it don't make any difference now. It is ail over. I forgive you, my son." ( and he kissed him and kissed and* kissed , him. To-dav 1 offer you the pardon of the |! gospel?full pardon, free pardon. I do , not care what your sin has been. ' Though you say you have committed a , crime against God, against your own j soul, against your fellowman, against ( your family, against the day of judg- , menr, against the cross of Christ? whatever your crime lias been, here is pardon, full pardon, and the very o- . nient that you take that pardon your I heavenly lather throws his arms around about you and says: "My son, I for- , give you. It is all right." You areas much" in my favor now as it' you had never sinned." 0! there is joy on earth and joy in heaven. Who will take the 1 father's embrace? THE MANIAC, TIIE CRIMINAL AND THE | I! IilDE. rri.c.,? O (vantlumfHi ill -j> mil mir illUC ? (W <V AAA l? -.I*** j who saw in that same car three passengers ol' very different circumstances, first was a maniac. He was carefully ( guarded l>y his attendants. His mind, like a ship dismasted, was beating { against a dark, desolate coast, from which no help could come. The train , stopped, and the man was taken out ' into the asylum to waste away, perhaps, through years of gloom. The ' second passenger was a culprit. The . outraged law had seized on him. As -' the cars jolted the chains rattled. -On . his face were crime, depravity ?,ad aes- ' pair. The train halted arm he was , taken out to the penitentiary, to which ' he had been condemned. There was , the third passenge,, under far different circumstances. She was a bride. Every hour was gay as a marriage bell. Life ' glittered und beckoned, Her companion was taking her to liis father's House. Ths train haired. The old man was there to welcome her to her new home, ' iiuu ins w liitc lut-tva auuncu upuu ( her as lie sealed his word with a father's kiss. Quickly we Uy toward eternity. We , will soon be there. Some leue this life condemned. Oh, may it be with us, that, leaving this lleeting life for the next, we may find our Father ready to greet us to our new home with him for- 1 ever. That will be a marriage banquet! Father's welcome! Father's bosom! , Father's kiss! Heaven! Heaven! A WARNING. The New York Herald 011 the Third Party nr/v..A.MAn f New York, June 22.?The New' York Herald says tnat the National , Union conference held recently in Cincinnati, is not to be poh-hoohed away < as an insignificant gathering of cranks and soreheads. Following this the Herald continues: 'Tarty leaders, Republican or Democrat, who iook upon i it with indifference or treat it with ridicule, fail to see its significance and its warning. Admit that the interests rep resented are diverse, even incongrous and discordant: that visionary schemes may be favored and extreme demands made. It may be that no practical agreement will be reached, no platform adopted, no third party formed. All this signifies nothing. The real significance of the event is rather in its origin tlian in what may be its immediate results. in the causes which have led to it rather than the effects which may now come from it. From this point of view , the gathering on the banks of the Ohio, , representing as it does the Farmers' Al- ' liance and the Knights of Labor to say nothing of other organizations, is more : significant than any so-called third party movement we have had in this coun trv fnr vpars. Thfi srreenhattk. the nro hibition, the woman's suffrage and even : the labor cause have appealed to spec- . ial classes of limited numbers. Tney lacked the elements of national , strength, and consequently of national : achieVement. Different from all these is the movement now looming up with ; growing importance especially in the west. We have said that its signili- : cance is in its origin, its cause. That cause is party politics. It is a deep seated grievance" felt by the farmers and : the wage earners of the country in con- : sequence of the shameful disregard of their interests and welfare shown by the ] party in power. The organization of the aggrieved classes is a pracucai pro- ; test against such party management. As the grievance effects agricultural , and industry the scope or the movement may be as broad as the nation, as general as the masses. The Farmers' Alliance joined with the forces of labor and other organizations may prove a ; factor in coming politics more potent than maDy effect to believe. Of course , it is not expected that a third party, if , one should be formed next year, would elect its candidates, it might, how- j ever, carry enough States to throw the choice into the house, \ .iich would insure the election of a democratic president. J kit whatever may be the immediate effect of this new uprising, the movement is not going to disappear while the cause which started it exists. Either party in power must look to the interests oi' the farmers, workingmen ( aud the masses generally, or these classes will combine for their own protection. Another Official l)ecui*itatioa. Coloiita, S. C., June 21.?Governor Tillman decided yesterday morning to remove T. 1). McKlrov from the ottice of Supervisor of Kegistration. and notilled him of his removal in the following letter, which will fully explain the grounds of his action: Columbia, S. C. June 20,189!. 10 1 V. AL< J&IUCUl, ? ruuuuxuus, O. V. Sik: Charges of habitual drunkenness and of neglecting to attend to your ollice according to law have been preferred against you by the Senator and two representatives of your County. You are therefore removed from the oilice of Supervisor of Registration, inil ivill rnrn rvv^r fhp hnok?< hplnncrin(r to said olliee to Wm. Wright, who has been appointed your successor. JJ. K. Tillmax, Governor. Four .Men Killed. Richmond, Ky., June 23?A con- ' struction train belonging to the company which is building- the road from i this place to JJeattyville left the track at Million, live miles from here yesterday, and killed four men, Abner ilagen, ; Mat West, Joseph S wo pes and William j DeWitt, all colored. Six were wounded. one losing an arm. Conductor Stevens was severely hurt. The men who remained in the cars were not hurt, but those who jumped out were caught under the car as it turned over. A MARE'S NEST. THE CHARLESTON WORLD MAKES A WONDERFUL REVELATION. fhe Administration Said to l>e Opposed to Dr. Stokes and Tlie Cotton Plant?The j Tale as Told Published Below for What It is Worth. Charleston, S. C., June 25.?The World publishes this morning a very sensational article in which it is claimed that the State Administration is trying to shake off Dr. Stokes and The Cotton Plant. The following is the World's story which you can read for yourself: One of the most puzzling caucuses leaders of a very puzzling administration met in Columbia recently?June 3, at 8.30 p. m., to be particular as to imounrl If. w:is ft vprv PYfVln sive affair. Only bidden guests were welcome; in fact only those who bore jtylographic invites, and had the shibboleth of the clan, could gain admit:ance. And one of the most puzzling Features of this erstwhile sphynx of composite mold was that some people who might be expected to stand nearest :he throne were not hidden at all! Ihere were present: Benjamin R. TillmaD, Governor of South Carolina. James E. Tindal, Secretary of State. lluc;h L. Farley, Adjutant General. JolinL. M. Irby, United States Senator-elect. E. T. Stackhouse, Congressman 1'rom the Sixth District. George W. Shell, Congressman from Lne second -District. W. II. Ellerbe, Comptroller General. James JsortoD, Chief Clerk to the Comptroller General. D. \V. Townsend, Assistant Attorney General. ' James P. B.ea'n, Governor^ Private Secretary. VV. J. .Talbert. Superintendent of the Penii'outiary. 'Japt. T. \V. Daggett, Representative from Horry County. W. H. Timmerman, Senator-elect from Edgefield County. W. T. C. Bates, Treasurer of the State. H. A. Meetze, Senator from Lexington. Stanvarne Wilson, Member of the Legislature. John G. Williams. Member of the Legislature. Dr. Sampson Pope, Clerk of the Senate, L. S. i3igham, Senator from Florence County, C. W. Kinard. J. W. Anderson, editor Anderson Advocate. Stark. R. C. "Watts, one of the editors of the Laurensville Ilerald, and Irby's successor in the Legislature. T V.lmnre Yfnrfin nf Pharlp.st.nn. There were others present?possibly half a dozen more. But that don't matter; enough has been given. But there was one conspicuously absent. Who was it? Dr. William Stokes, editor of The CDtton Plant, President of State Alliance, defender of Alliance principles, and the Sub-Treasury plan in particular, which plan is just now booming up as a rock upon which the "dominant element" may split into a thousand pieces! Why wasn't Dr. Stoks there? Xot invited! Wasn't wanted! A "leader" in each county? which means a public officer or some kind?except Dr. Stokes?received a stylographic letter like this: " Columbia, S. C., May 18' '91. Dear Sir: At this time there*is no dailv paper in South Carolina which can be said to be in full sympathy with the dominant element in the state. The News and Courier is less bitter in opposition and is coming round apparently; the Register is friendly but weak?The World is opposed, and the others are avowediy antagonistic or bitter partisans, like The State. This being the case ail the acts and policy of the administration and its friends are misrep resented or colored so as to misieau tnc people and educate them against us. "We need a daily paper to counteract this state of things, and after consultation with some of our leaders, it has been deemed wise to liave a conference of some of our best men to take the matter under consideration to >ee what can be done and what is best to be done. This conference will meet in Columbia in the Agricultural hall, "Wednesday, Jane 3d, lit 8 p. in., and you are requested to attend as representative from your county, or to send some good man in your piace. Please signify your acceptance and consider this Taatter as strictly confidential. Respectfully B. R. Tillman. The meeting was caneu iu uiuei iu rather informal style. Representative Daggett, of Horry, was requested to take the chair, and did so with grace. He then asked lor a secretary. "Oli, what's the use of a secretary V" remarked a voice. "This is only a conference." J5ut the chair insisted that business was business; that the meeting tiad been called for business, and business methods must prevail. He carried his point. stflnvflrnft Wilson. Esci.. was appoint ed secretary, and did the work cleverly. The governor took a prominent seat, .vhich he sometimes occupied; also a leading part in the proceedings. The roll of counties was called, and, as the calling proceeded. Governor Tillman would state what replies to his circulars had been received, what each county ought to do to "educate the people" up to full sympathy with "the dominant element." Then came discussions. The governor's letter furnished the text, and the preachers stuck to it. The Dominant Element, (with a biar D and a big Ej spoke lirst. lie laid particular stress on the idea of educating the people. But insisted they must be educated the right way. Of course that way was his way; there were statistics to prove it. Xow, there was no daily paper that could be depended on to do this kind of educating. The Fence Straddler [The Xews and Courier] was coming 'round. That I ad been anticipated; but no dependence could be placed in it. Besides it was losing ground under spirited opposi tion. The "World was clearly opposed to the Dominant Element. It had done good service to the .Reform movement; but now was taking the other side, because The 2sews and Courier had become more l'rienuly. But, past blessings do not sullice for present needs, so ' The World must go.'' There was The Register; the spirit was willing, but the llesh was weak. It was not I'ar-reaching enough, but might be worked up. At present it nau a uoua. fide circulation of about 600; the big papers had that many thousands, or more, so The Register's efforts would be like blowiDg beans against a gale. All that might be improved, though, and The Register's intluence worked up." There were three propositions offered as to the manner in which control of The Register could be obtained, as follows: First, by advancing a suilicient amount of money to raise certain mortgages on the plant. Second, the daily edition of The Register Mnld be bousht, without the ex pense of taking the other branches of the business. Third, the whole business of The Register was for sale, book and job I f plants, and all the publications of the office. It was stated that it had been ascertained that 835,000 to 840,0C0 could be raised l'roin the dominant element; that would be sufficient to carry out either scheme in regard to The Ilegister. Then came a little storm. Col. Talfcert objected to any such bus: ness as this. It was a scheme against The Cotton Plant, the organ of the Al iiance principles, and consequently against the Alliance itself. Why was not Dr. Stokes here? Why should The Cotton 1'lant be ignored? Was it not because Dr. Stokes and The Cotton riant advocated the sub-treasury plan, which some people object to? Was it not because some people wanted to shake off Dr. Stokes, and The Cotton Plant and the Alliance, all together? Why had friends of the past been ignored ?" It was all very plain, that personal advancement was at the bottom ot tms desire for a paper as an organ for the dominant element, at the expense of the Alliance. It was a warm speech. Xo attempt has been made to reproduce the words of the speaker literally; but the substance is embedied above. Cel. It C. Watts made a. talk, too. But it was not so heated. He was in favor of an administration organ, a new one; one without a record to be pointed at. lie wanted to put on a new plant from the ground up, and have the "Plorrtanf OO T7/*"vT* XT i c I^yLmiiaut j^icaituu oa: ux. xixo uuu^vuw was logical, and the conclusion deduced was that the people demanded to be educated in the special manner suggested. Dr. Sampson Pope took strong ground in opposition to Col. Watts's proposi tion. He favored the purchase or practical subsidizing of The Register. He did not say "subsidize," but it's all the same. Dr. Tope made a characteristic address, ''-strong" and more or less to -lie point, "feit he was in a measure ,;sat upon," ana left Columbia with his i ..,11 rss/1 qrinrr iiuse uauij uub ui juiut, auir^viu;*^5 I that he was "out of it," and would not return until the next meeting of the senate. l)r. Tope was apparently very mad, but would not talk. He has, it is reported, lost his temper on one or two previous occasions, so the people of the state need not be aiarmed. Other discussion followed Dr. Pope's speech. Some members advocated the planting of ar organ in every county, in the shape of a weekly paper, in addition to the organ at headquarters in Columbia. It was argued that all the public Drintinff?advertisements and other wise could be given these papers. Then, being made the olllcial papers of each county, the public would be obliged to subscribe in order to be informed as to taxes, land sales, foreclosures, and the like;. Another member wanted to know if the assemblage had ever heard of Josephus Woodruff, and the Republican pnntiDg company of immortal memory. The Republican printing company had an arrangement something on that order, but more comprehensive as to perquisites. That would never do. Then the Cotton Plant came up again. Why had not that paper been taken better care of by those who professed Alliance dodrines? Finally it was decided to appoint a f A + oIro moftor KsKJ LL1 UilllCC VI lUXV,^/ IV luau UiUUb^l under advisement to consider the advisability of establishing a paper or papers, ana the ways and means, and report to a meeting to be called by the chairman. The committee consists of Benjamin II. Tillman, chairman: Col. 11. C. Watts and Mr. Stark. Then the meeting adjourned. What Dr. Stokes Says. Dr. Stokes was interviewed by the World correspondent at this place in reference to the above. The following is what he said: He did not know why he had been so unceremoniously left out. and that he has not vet received. and does not expecl an explanation of the why and wnerefore of the matter. Any explanation along this line would have to come irom other sources, as he certainly bad none, nor knew of any to give. In answer to other questions, Dr. Stokes said: "I had some intimation of this gathering, but did not know when it would come off. I really expected to be notified, but no notification ever c.fTrio.and I did not know that the meeting hau tnen held until I saw some mention of it in cue or more of the daily papers. "The views of those who discussed me matter 01 me estauiisumem, au out and out administration paper with me, beforehand, seemed to recognize the difference between the Farmers' movement and the Alliance. They drew the same distinction between the State Alliance organ and a paper designed to defend the Reform administration. It was recognized as very desirable that there should be a daily paper in Columbia, fully ^sympathizing with the administration and capable as well ' % c M'illinrr +/\ /liifcin/1 i fo O^tlAnC r\V Of VYXllilig IV VA*-i??XXV4. JLUO ttV/UVUO VI CtV any rate, to see that its actions "were fairly presented to the public. This function The Cotton Piant was not in position to perform, even if it were within the scope of its purposes. Its field, is the advocacy of Alliance principles along lines of political economy ?not the defense of any party or faction. It is at liberty to comment upon current events, ana does so, whenever it sees proper: but that is no p?rt of its duty except as its duty is to do the right aod see that the right is done. Consequently there could be no conflict between The Cotton riant and such a paper as I understood was under conrp.ninlation. "1 certainly think that such a paper as 1 have indicated above would be very desirable, and in fact, almost necessary to the fair presentation of tlie actions and purposes of the Reformers in office." "JDo you not think, Doctor Stokes, that the fact of the Cotton riant advocating the demands of the Oca'.a platform, and especially the sub-treasurj idea, while Governor Tillman and others of tne dominant element oppose the sub-treaeurv scheme, absolutely prevents the realization of any hope that the Cotton Fiant could ever become the organ of the present Administration'?" Dr. Stokes repiied that he did not think so. thoueh The Cotton Plant had never aspired to that position. I think, said he, "ihat there would be no more impropriety in our occupying thai relation man there would be in an antisilver Democratic paper occupying the same relation, for the great majority of the Democratic party are pronounced in fuv'AP nf fran Cilvar T r> m \i inHft. 1U li* TV/1. KJi. JAW JJLIVCI* JLA1 A-UJ JUUJ, meat a sub-treasury Democrat is as about aa good a Democrat as an antisilver Democrat." ' J.3 it not somewhat more than probable," 1 asked, "that the cheif fun3tion of the proposed organ, bv the June conference. would be to boom certain men for future political preferment?" "Well, while such a paper might be used in that way, in my judgement the *.. j- - _ i.1 controlling motive in uie minus ui luusc | at the conference, in its establishment was to secure for the friends of reform a fair statement of what was being done by-the exponents of reform in Columbia!" "What, in your opinion, will be the effect of the* present factional fight among the leaders of the Reform element; for do you not regard this conference as naught else but a throwing of the guage of battle to the advocates of the subtreasury plan by those opposed to it?*' "I do not construe this newspaper enterprise as a challenge to the sub-treas-1 ury element of the Democracy. I have never considered the difference between tue sub-treasury Democrats and other Democrats as at all likely to be serious. These differences, I have no doubt, will be happilly composed, so far as the Alliance is concerned, by agreement, at j tho Sn?rf-.flnh:ir<T meetincr of the State ! Alliance in Ji-ly? ANTI-FOREING RIOTS IN CHINA. The Fitfht of tbo British Consul atWuhul iu Delcnceof the Missionaries. Sax Francisco, June 23.?The Xorth China Daily Xews in its-aceount of the Wuhu riots, says: Tt. hefin reported tor several days that a mob of Chmeses bad determined to loot aud burn the properly of the Jesuits at Wuhu. It was rumored that children had been killed and their eyes taken out to make medicine for the Jesuit lathers. On the afternoon of Tuesday, May 12, a mob of Chinese gathered about the premises of the priests and broke through the walls, eventually setting fire to the Cathedral and other "buildings, after driving out the missionaries and pillaging the palace. The mob then proceeded to the English consulate and destroyed considerable property by throwing stones. The arrival of Toalai, the local magistrate, and the coolness of the British consul saved the buildings from being set on fire. The consul and his wife escaped from the mob by dressing in Chinese costumes and hurrying to the custom house, where they embarked with other foreign residents in the China Navigation Company's receiving ship. ?number of foreigness, headed by the conB'di^rmed themselves and passed the time at" custom house, and, assisted by Toatai, ^epeilsd^themob, w!ir> i.wirp. rlnrinc* the niorht made"5ll flt" l tempt to loot and set on fire the custom house and residences of foreign officials. The next morning an immense crowd again set fire to the custom house aod surrounding buildings but the customes staff, fully armed, charged the natives and again put out the fires. In the afternoon three Chinese gunboats, which were escorting Shen Ping Cheng, Governor of Anhul, up the river, arrived on the scene, and learning of the riot began to fire blank cartridges, which had the effect of frightening the mob. Some two hundred soldiers arrived from Taiping Fu, and this lent additional protection to the foreign residents. rr,, _ L. 3-.J1 ?i. Aa X ne mo D uiu uui miitve uuj> lui tuti uvmonstration againsttlie Methodist Episcopal (America) Mission, but, advised by the British consul, the missionaries from that point also embarked on the Tensing, which brought theni, together with the ladies and children of Wuhu, to Shanghai. At Chain King the priests, who escaped from Wuhu in a boat, were picked up. There was only one British manof-war on the north China station at the time of the riot, and the gunboat Lmnett "\xr.i C.m/y Vvnf ?< woo cDnt fnr VY&Sj LiCUL IT U cuu^ uuu fug *v* and pioccedeci to Wuhu. On the 16th of May, four days after the Wuhu riots; the natives o'Xsanking made an attack on the Koman Catholic mission there. The priests succeeded in keeping the mob off and one of the assailants was arrested and punished. The Catholic mission was not the only one attacked, for a crowd equallv large made a descent on an inland mission'near the north gate, but the Chinese authorities arrived in time to prevent any serious damage. Placards had been posted by the rioters announcing that the mission build ings would be totally destroyed on jl-tiday, May 22. Placards also had been posted in the French quarter of Shanghai threatening foreigners. Brave Fred lirokaw. Asbuey Park, June 24.?Fred J3rokaw, the eliest son of Isaac Y. Brokaw, the prominent ]S'ew York clothier, was drowned while attempting to rescue the servants of Mrs. Hess, at Elberon, this afternoon. Annie Donohue, one of the servants, was also drowned. Miss Annie Donohue, Miss Maggie .Hirsh and Miss Julia Torpis had gone bathing. Th.ey were carried out beyond their depth, ^heir cries were heard by Brokaw, who, wiihi>r, of Philadelphia, was sitting on the ' -<? T> TKofurn I JilWII Ul liUC X>1U W <iw cuiua^c. iitgniiv threw off their outer garments and leaped into the sea. Brokaw seized Miss Donohue and Dr. Ferris caught hold of Miss Birsh. Brokaw made a gallant struggle to reach the shore with his burden/ The girl completely lost her head, several times breaking from his grasp. He would not desert her, and struggled to bring her to the shore. Finally his efforts to retain his hold on the girl exhausted him, and he sank from view, with the girl, to whom he clung to the end. Mr. and Mrs. Brokaw witnessed the sad accident from the beach, and are almost frantic with grief. Miss Torpis and Miss Birsh were saved. Dr, Ferri > was completely exhausted when rescued, and was taken to the Brokaw cottage where he lies in a critical condition. Probably Murdered. Columbia, June 20.?Jane Merritt, a white womau, was found on a rail road track here this morning with her head mashed off and ground to pieces. She was seen lying on the track as the train approached. Before it could be stopped the engine passed over her. From the fact that the body was cold and stiff and blood was rut ilowing when examined a minute or two later it is believed she was dead long before the enpine nassed. This added to the fact that along the bank there are evidences of a body being dragged, together with footsteps creates the suspicion that she was murdered. A coroner's jury rendered a verdict of death by the hands of a person or persons unknown. The theory of suicide is also advanced as the woman was a poor creature recently dircharged from the alms house ana last night she was heard to say she would rather be dead and with the devil rather than to live such a life. s?r?rAl P?r?.nns Drowned. i Waterloo, la, June 24.?Reports were received this morning by the Illinois Central oflices in this city of a terrible v.ind and rain storm which prevailed last night along tbat company's lines from Storm Lake to Lemars, a distance of lifty-six miles. All the towns are considerably damaged. Four persons were drowned at Cherokee and four at Correctionville. The railroad depot at Calumet was blown down and much damage to the town property was done. The wires are all down and it is impossible to obtain-accurate information except the reports transmitted through the railroad officials. The Illi nois Central train yo. 'l, tne passenger train which left here last night at 10.50 is still at Storm Lake, and the trainmaster here says there is no prospect of moving it in the next twenty-four hours. THACKSTOFS REPLY TO HIS NEWSPAPER CRITICS WHO CHARGE HIM WITH JOBBERY. Ill* Action in Sseekinc Contributors v Amons School Trustees Intended to Promote tUe Efficiency of tbose Officers ? Does Not Fear Any Investigation. Columbia, S. C., June 23.?The following article from Mr. W. J. Thackston ol the State superintendent of Education's office will appeur ir. the next number of the Palmetto Schooi Journal. The publication of this number has been delayed because of the fact that Profes- 3 sor Thackston was waiting the arrival 'M a circular giving information about the Teachers' Association which meets in Chattanooga next month: The editor and owner of the Palm'etto School Journal has been made the.target for some sharp shooting by a number of newspapers, many. of whom have attempted to attribute to him the lowest and meanest of motives, and have labor ed painfully to show that not only this journal and its editor, but also others, have attempted a high-hauded game of treason and robbery, and are guilty of >?. jobbery and incipient rottenness. The acts of the publication and its owner and editor are always amenable to a just and fair public sentimeut. Nothing has been done in the dark. There has never been any attempt '.o conceal anything. -J The Journal came into possession of its present owner seme time last Marcn. Some negotiations were made with a gentleman who is a printer in Columbia looking towards the printing ot the .Journal and becoming interested in its Duplication in order to advertise his goods to teachers. 2*o agreement was reached. Since that time no one but myself has in any manner been interested ia the Journal financially or otherwise. Xo one has ever been solicited in any avyinpr. dirp.c.tlv or indirectly, to become i n terestedTiuanciatij^' otherwise. ^ Ti. ?:iu - ?,.?vrr^-tL <v?nvu?f.inn jLt was >yii,u a, pi.uiuuuu that such a publication could be ma<fe~a'~???" wi great power for good ia the improvement of the administration of the affairs of the public schools of the State that induced me to assume the publication of this same Journal. This belief was strengthened by the experience of other States. The Pennsylvania School Journal, now about 60 years old, is the most notable instance, and is the official means of communication between the department of education and school officers. At one time in Virginia the State su* * - ** - -? J. J - j JL penntenaent 01 eau^auou maue iureci? contribution from State funds to the support of the school publication of that , State. I am not positive, but think that the amount was something like one-third of the total expenses. . : "! The State superintendent ot education of Arkansas is associate editor of the Journal of Education of that State. A former State superintendent of education of Alabama was joint editor of the educational Exchange and conducted an official department in the same. He still retains his interest and edits the publication in question, while an official department is conducted bv the present superintendent of education of that State. A careful study of the schools and JBI school system of the State as well as an experience of six or more years has led to the belief that a better administration of the affairs of the common schools, under present circumstances, can only be bad by giving the trustees more light and more assistance in the discharge of their duties. The only question was how to reach them. Some 2,100, according to the | report of the Superintendent for 18'JU. \ After a good deal of thought the plan which has brought so much wrath upon my head was deemed feasible by me, and a proposition to that effect was made to the State Board of Examiners. The result of this was announced in a double-leaded page in the April number of the Journal (p. 2G3) which was published about the last of April or first of May. This announcement was followed later by a circular letter which has been published. That plas was one I con* ' ' - - * ceiveu to oe iue uesu iu euecc me cuua desired. It was not in auy manner con- H cealed or hidden. x "'TlitiC i10 scheme to filch money from the taxpayers; -io~ git something for nothing. In uo way were trustees forced to take the Journal. The mat- if ter was entirely voluntary, first with the dommissioners, then with the trustees. If any person or newspapers desire to impugn the authority of the State Board of Examiners, the courts are opea. u The Jourdai has never contained one item that 30uld in any manner De con- a strued as political or partisan. Nothing has been printed that cculd be construed to be an attempt to "boom" politically or otherwise any person. The aim is opeuly and avowedly for the promotion ot the educational interest ot the State. The most searching investigation is cordially invited. The results will show ? J that in no thought or acts have any but * the purest motives for the best interests 3 or the common schools of the State oromoted mv action as an individual or otherwise. The above is a plain, simple statement of the tacts, and, with these noted, I am quite willing to be judged by a lairminded and discriminating public. W. J. Thackston. Dashed to Death. St. Petersburg, June 22.?While a large "ba'doon belonging to vjcant Apraxine was being inflated with gas yesterday, it escaped from the attendants who were holding it to the ground and carried UDward four workmen who were in the car when the ballooa broke away. After it had ascended to a great height the onlookers were horrified to J see the balbou burst aud the bodies of the unfortunate workmen dashed to the earth, where they were smashed almost beyond recognition. - * A Jealous Divorced Husband. Augusta, Ga., June 20?This morning about 2 o'clock, as Mr. Leo, Schwartz 4 and Mrs. Ed. Burnett were returning I from a ball at the Schuetzenplatz, Mr. J Schwartz was attaeked by Mr. Burnett, m who felled him to the grouud with a weight, fracturing nis skull. Ilis condition is now quite serious, and it is thought the wound wili be fatal. Mr. and Mrs. Burnett have not been living together for some months, a divorce J having been secured by her, but he ob- M jects to her receiving attention from M other men. The would-be murderer is still at large, but the police think they fl wili catch him as he is hiding somewhere in tJiej^\--SUte;__ -Joxes, the family exterminator, gets off light. He goes to the penitentiary for twenty-one years, which is just A seven year's each* for the three men he "\J| murdered. lie ought to have been given the longest term under the law, dg thirty years, U I