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?~- : ?>*(S*fe?-VVv''* *' " * * * T<" ??, mm i GO, LOVELY ROSE. "GOj lovely rose! < Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows , When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. "Tell her that's youn<j, Ar.d sh ins to haye her graces spied, That hadat thou sprung In deserts, where no men abide, Ihou must have uncommended died. "Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. "Then die! that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee, How small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair." FRIVOLOUS EXCUSES. Dr falmage Sp'aks ol tbe Men Who Reject EellgJon. Brooklyn", Sspt. 16.?Rev. Lr. T&lmage who is still absent on his round the world tour, has selected as the subject ot bis sermon through the press for today "Holy Compulsion." the text being Luke xiv, 23, "And compel them to come in." The plainest people in cur day have luxuries which the kings and queens of olden times never imagined. I walked op and down the stairs of Holvrood palace?a palace that was considered one of the wonders of the world?and I said, "Can it be oossible that this is all there was of this reputed wonderful place?" And this is the case in many other instances. There are traits in We3tches_ ter comity and on Long Island farms tar better than the pomegranates and apricots of Bible times. Through all ages there have been scenes ot festivity, and the wealthy man ot my test plans a great entertainment and invites his friends. If one builds a beautifal home, he wants his acquaintances to come and enjoy it. If one buys an exqu3ite picture. he wants his friends to come and appreciate it, and it was a laudable thing when the wealthy man of my texts happy himself, wanted to make other people happy. And so the invitation, ki-if- snm.fhinof TPAnf". VSVV VTOUli Ub.bj uuu ?(u much wong. You can imagine the embarrassment of any one who has provided a grand feast when he finds out that the gnests invited do not intend to come. There is nothing that so provokes the master of the feast as that. Well, these people invited to this grand banqaet of the test made most ^ _ frivolous excuses. The fact was, I sup5^. " pose, that some of them were offended > that this man had succeeded so much better in the world than they had. There are people in all occupations and professions who consider it a wrong to them that anybody else is advancsd. I suppose these people invited to the feast said among themselves: "We are not going to administer to that man's vanity. He is proud enough now. We won't go. Besides that we could all give parties if wo made our money the way that man makes his." So, when the messengers went oat with the invitations, there was a unanimous refusal. One man paid, "Oh, I have bought a farm and I mast go and look at it!" He was a land speculator and had no business to buy land until he . koew about it. A frivolous excuse. Another man said, "I have bought five yoke of oxen." The probability is he was a speculator in live stock. He ought to have known about the oxen oefore he bought them. Besides that, if ^e had been very anxious to get to the feag^he could have hooked them up and driven^36*11 oa the road there. Anothar fnvoiot! CS3CS3? Another man said, "Oh T married a wife, and I can't con: 3 ? he had said to his wife: "I have an Sivltatl0nt?-a sPlend|d dic^ complimentary to me. j * like to go. Will you go SiXong-wSwrme?" she woald have said, "To be sure, I wiUgo."-- Another frivolous excuse. The fact was that they did not want to go. ".Now," said the great man of the feast, "I will not bs defeated in this matter. I have, with an honest purpose, provided a banquet, and there are scores of people who would like to come if they were only invited. Here, my man, here; you go out, and when you fiad a blind man gi?e him your arm and fetch him in, and when you fiad a lame man giva him a crutch and fetch him in, . and wnen you ma a poor man ten mui i there is a plate for him in my mansion, j and when you find 8Dme one who 13 so 9G&* ragged and wretched that be has newer been invited anywhere then, by the kindest tenderness and the most loving invitation any one ever had, compel him to come in." Oh, my friends, it requires no acute^ ness on my part or on your part to see .x in all this affair that religion is a banquet. The table was set in Palestine a good many years ago, and the disciples gathered around it, and they thought they would have a good time all by themselves, but while they sat by this table the leaves began to grow and spread, and one leaf went to the east, and another leaf went to the west, until the whole earth was covered up with them, and the clusters from the heavenly yineyard were piled upon the board, and the trumpets and harps of eternity / " made up the orchestra, and this wine of VxUU IB prcaseu LU LUC lipj U1 a omuwj, bleeding, saflerinz, f dying, groaning world, a voice breaks from the heavens, saying: "Drink, 0 friends! Yea, drink, 0,~ beloved!" 0 blessed Lord Jesus, the best friend I ever had, the best ?. fnend any man ever had, was there ever such a table? Was there ever such a banquet? From the cross uplifted high, Where the Saviour deigns to die, What melodious sound s I hear Bursting on the ravished ear! Heaven's redeeming work is done. Come, and welcome, sinner come. Religion is a ioyous thing. I do not want to hear anybody talk about religion as though it were a funeral. I do not want anybody to whine in the prayer meeting about the kingdom of Gad. I do not want any man to roll up his eyes, giving in that way evidence of his saneman n?Arr?An nf ^In/1 wlinm Uby xuo uigu auu nvu^yu v* V*VVA H-V*? I happen to know for the most part find religion a great joy. It is exhilaration to the body. It is Invigoration to the mind. It is rapture to the scul. It is balm for all wounds. It is light for all darkness. It is harbor from all storms, and though God knows that some of them have trouble enough now they rejoice because they are on the way to the congratulations elerhal. Oh, toe Lord God has mauy fair and beautiful daughters, but the fairest of them all is she whose ways are pleas^ ? antest and whose paths are peace! 2?ow my brothers and sisters?for I have a right to call you all so?I know some people iook back on their ancestral line, and they see they are descended from the Puritans or Huguenots, and they rejoice in that, but I look back on my OUUCOU5U iUIC, ttUU JL OVO LUCICILL OUV^LL a mingling and mixture of the blood of all nationalities that I feel akin to all the world, Bad bv the blood of the Son of God, who died for all people, I address you in the bonds of universal brotherhood. I come out as only a servant, I " . bringing; an invitation to a party, and I put into your hands, saying, "Come for i all things are now ready," and I urge it 1 upon you and continue to urge it, aud before I get through, 1 hope, by the bles* ; amor nf find. tr? cnmn?l vou to come in. We most take care now we give the invitation. My Christian friends, I think sometimes we have just gone opposite to Chri3is command and we have com pelled X f' f people lo stay out. Sometimes our i elaborated instructions have been the i hindrance. We graduate from our theological eem'caries on still and it takes i tive or fcix >e.ira before we can come down and stand r?i>ot beside the great i masses of the people, learning their joys, i sorrows, victories, defeats. We gtt cur heads so brimful of theological w.sdooi that we have to stand very straight l>st they spill over. Now, what do tbe great masses of the people : care about the technicalities ot religion? What do they care ab:mttbe hypostatic union or the d ffarenca between sublapsarian and sayra'apsarian? What do they care for yDur profouad explanations clear a? a L'nfoo fo<? When a man is drowning, ha (Les not want you to stand by the dcck i..nd describe tbe nature ot the waier into which he has fallen, aod tell him there are two parts hydrogen has and one oroxvgen gas, with a common density of 39 F., turning to steam under a common atmospheric pressure of 212. He :.loe3 not want a chemical lecture on water. He wants a rope. Oh, my friends, tie coarse of God on the churcl, it seems to me, in this day is metcphysic3. We speak in an unknown tonguf. in our Sabbath schools, and in our religious assemblages, and in our pulpits, at.d how can people be saved unless they ca a understand us? We put UU uur uiLiuitti huyvuo, auu no nuwu. ?uw two silk ballouns fl tpplng at the elbows of a preacher give him great sanctity. The river cf God's truth flows down before u? pore a id clear as crystal, bat we take our theological stick and stir it up and stir it up uatil you cannot see the bottom. O'j, ior the simplicity of Christ in all our instiuotions?the simplicity be practiced whin, standing among the people, he took a lily and said, "There is a lesson of the manner I will clothe you," and, pointing to a raven, said: "There is a lesson of the way E will feed you. Consider the lilfes?behold the fowls." T think r.ffpn i.-> nnr rftlioifitis m8trUC tions we compel the people to stay out by our church architecture. People come in, and they find things angular and cold and stiff, aud they go away never again to come, when the church ought to be a great home circle, everybody having a hymnbook, giving half of it to the one nest him, every one who has a hand ought to shake hands, the church architecture and the church surrouadings sayipg to the people, "Come in and be at home." Instead of that, I think all these surroundings often compel the people to stay out. Now, let U3 all repent of our sins and begin on the other track, and by our heartiness of affaction and warmth of manner and iaiploration of the spirit of God compel the people to come in. How shall we lead .'inners to accept the Lord invitation? I think we must certainly begin by a holy lite. "We must be betfor m?n. hfttiBP women, before we can compel the people to come into the kingdom of Jssu i Chaist. There are fiae essays being written in this day aboat science and re-ligion, I tell you the best argument in behalf of our holy Christianity?it is a good man, a good woman, a lite all consecrated to Christ, No infidel can answer it. Oh, let us by a holy example compel the people to come m! I read of a minister of the gospel who was very fond of climbing among the Swiss mouitain3. Oae day he was climbing among very dangerous places and thought himself all alone when he heard a voice beneath him say, "Father, look out for the safe path. I am following," and he looked back, and he saw tbat he was climbing not only for himself, but climbing for his boy. Oa, let us be sure and take the sale path! Ou: children are following; our partners in business are following; our neighbors are fniinwmor. a ereat multitude stepping right on in oar steps. Oi, be sure and take the right path! Exhibit a Christian example, and so by your godly walk compel the people to come in. I think there is work also in the way of kindly admonition. I do not bslieve there is a person in thi3 hou3e who, if approached in a kindly and brotherly manner, would refuse to listen. If you are rebuffed, it is because you lack in fact and common sens8? But, oh, how much effective work there is in the way of kindly admonition! There are thousand of men all around about you who have never had one'personal invitation to the cross. Give that one invitation, and you would bs surprised at the alacify with which thev would accept it. T have a friend, a Christian physician, who one day became very anxious about 'he salvation of a brother physician, and so he left his office, went down to this man's office and said. Is the doctore in?" "No," replied the young man waiting; "the doctor is not in." "Well," said this physician, "when he comes, in, tell him I called and give him my Christian love." This vcrldly doctor came home after awhile, f.nd the message was given to him, and he said within himself, "What does he mean by lea?ing his Christian love for me?" And he became very much awakened and stirred in spirit, and he said after awhile, "Why, that man mu3t mean my soul," and he went into his back office, knelt down and began to pray, Then he took his hat and went out t) the office of this Christian and said, "What can I do to be saved?" and the two doctors knelt in the and commanded their souls to God. All the means used ia that case was only the voice of one good man saying, "Give my Chrirtian love to the doctor." The voice of kindly admonition. Have ycu uttered it toiaj? Will you utter it tomorrow? Will you utter it now? Compel them to come in. I think there is a great work also to be done in the way of prayer. If we had fsith enough today, Te could go betore God and ask for the salvatioaof all the people in our churches, and they would all Se saved, there and then, without a single exception. There might be professional men there, political men there worldly men there, mea who had not heard the gospel for 20 years mea who are prejudiced agaiast the music, mea * - ? I wno are prejudiced sgaiust iuo uuutuu, men who are prejudiced against God?I do not care?they might be brought in by fervent prayer?you would cDmpel them to come in. Oh, for such an earnest prayer! People of God, lav hold oi the horns of the altar now and supplicate the salvation of all those who pit in the same pew with you?yea, the redemption of all who sit in your churches. I tell you today, my iriendj, of a great salvation. Do you understand what it is to have a Saviour? He took your place. He bore your sin3. He wept your sorrows. He is here now to save your soul. A soldier, worn out in his country's service, took to the violin as a mode of earning his living. He was found in the streets of Vienna playing his violin, but after awhile his ' hand became feeble and tremulous, and he could no more make mu3ic. One day, while he sat there - weeping, a man passed along and said, .'.'My friend, you are too feeble. Give~"-nie your violin," and he took the man?3 violin and began to discourse most exquisite music, and the psople gathered arcund in larger and larger multitudes, and the aged man held his hat, and the coin poured in and poure-1 in until the hat was full. "Now," said the man who was playing the violin, "put that coin in your pockets." The coin was put in the old man's pockets. Then he held his hat again, and the violinist played more sweetly than ever and played until some ot the people wept and some shouted. And asain the hat was filled with coin. Then the Violinist cropped ine instrument auu i passed cff, and the whisper went: "Who i3jt? Who is it?" and some one, just I entering the crowd, sa:<?: "Why, that is Bacher; the great violinist, known ail through the realm, Yes, that b the great violinists." HP J ?? oroo V?^ horl inof foIvan fHof man's place, and assumed his proverty, and borne his burden, and played his music, and earned his livelihood, and made sacrifice for the poor old man. So the Lord Jesus Christ c:>mes down, and he finds U3 in our spiritual penury, and across the broken strings of his own broken heart be strikes a strain of infinites music, which wins the attention of earth and heaven. He takes cur poverty. He plays our music. He weep3 out sorrow. He dies our death. A sacrifice for you. A sacrifice for me. Oh, will you accept this sacrifice no ? ? I do not single out this and that man and this and that woman. But I say all may come. The sacrifice is so great, all may be saved. Does it not seem to you a3 if heaven was very near? I can feel its breath on my cheek. God i3*near. Christ 13 near. The Holy Spirit is near. Ministering angels are near, your glorified kindred in heaven near, your Christian father near, your glorified mother n?or TTrtnr f?hilr?p*n nftnr Viinr redemption is near, GOV. TILLMAN'S POSITION. He la a Democrat and Will Vote With Hts Party; Columbia, S. C., Sept. 19 ?la an interview with a reporter of the Atlanta Constitution recently GDvernor Tillman said: "The origin of the accusation that Tillmanism ia South Carolina is not Democracy was. the adoption two years ago as a part of the State platform of the O^ala platform. That came about in this way. At the May convention to send delegates to Chicago there was a strong third party element compased of the more radical Alliance men. The3e men were clamorous for radical resolutions and there was talk of instructions to the delegates to Chicago to withdraw in case of the nomination of Cleveland. To pacify them and prevent a division of the Democratic party, the Alliance aemanaa were inuurpuraoeu. x w<u a member of that conventioa and made a speech after the resolutions had passed, showing the absurdity and folly of our deserting the Damocratic party and urging unity. We went to Chicago and did our utmost to prevent Cleveland's nomination. We were defeated, but like good Democrats, returned home and carried the State by a larger majority in proportion to population than any other Southern State. Only 2,000 Weaver votes were polled in the State. As a reward some of our Reform Congressmen have been blacklisted and refused recognition by the President." "What is the claim made against you about you leaving the Damocratic party when you see a gleam of light in the West VI asked the Governor. "Daring the recent canvass between JBatler and myself the only practical difference between us was on the question by whom paper money should be issued. I advocated the issue of legal tender greenback direct to the people and the abolishment of national banks, while he favored the repeal of the State bank tax and the issue of paper money in tnac way. we Dom anuouucea tuts j belief that the South and West would have to get together before we secured j any relief. Bat I went further than he did, and proclaimed that I was then and there ready, and I stand by it now, not to submit to or follow tne dictation of Cleveland and his school of socalled Democrats. I announced the purpose to ally myself with the Western people, possibly under a name other than Democrats, in a struggle for free silver and financial relief when eyer I saw a hope of such coalition capturing the government. I said then and I say now, that if Mr. Cleveland is a Democrat I am not one." "Upon what grounds do you hold Mr. Cleveland is not a Democrat ?" The appointment of a Republican to the highest position io his cabinet, his joining forces with John Sherman and the Republicans against a majority of his party in the demonetization of silver; his veto of the seigniorage bill in face of the Chicago Dlatformf and his debauching the House of Representatives and the Senate by the use of patronage in carrying out his anti-silver policy. These are my reasons for charging him with being more of a KKaAM fknvi A " JAcp u ui;uau uuau a j^cjxl\s^i.c?u. "What effect upon the Reform movement in South Carolina will the attempt of the Conservatives to reorganize the Democratic party in the Slate have?" "There is so much insolence and idiocy and blind rage combined in the pretense of reorganization that I cannot think it will have any considerable following. The Democratic party now organized will go on doing business at the old stand, with at lea3t threefourths of the white people of the State enlisted under its banner. The pretense that we are not Democrats because we do not bow to Cleveland is too shallow and transparent tode celvemany. The leaders in thts new crosade for straightout Democracy are more greedy after office?the crumb3 from Cleveland's table?than they are for principle. They are sick nigh unto death with the long fast since they were turned out of power in the State in 1893." "What chance have they of controlling the Legislature?'' "None whatever, from the present signs of the times. I expect to go to the Senate if I live." "Will you affiliate with the Democrats ?" ' Of course I will, with the decent, honest ones, who stand by the party platform as interpreted by sensible, honest men, and not by knaves and charlatans; but I expect to vote with absolute independence,- always looking to the best interests of the masses of the people." Lady Odd Fellowa. Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 20.?The third day's session of the Sovereign urana juoage, i. u. u. x was opeaeu at LooJr"",f" inn this morning at 9 o'clock, rhe report of the commission appointed to locate and eiect a building as headquaters of the order in Baltimore was postponed indefinitely. The law requiring a canton tax was repealed. A Past Grand Masters' and Past Grand Patriarchs' Association was authorized for each jurisdicion. A special committee was appointed to inve3tigate the alleged misappropriation of funds donated to the Fargo sufferers. The temporary bond of 310000 each, made by the Grand Sacretary and grand treasurer, is to be made permanent after six months. Legislature on the admission of women to the order through the Itabekah Lodge came Bext. The new legislation admits the Old Fellows and their wive3 and the white women over 18 years of age who "believe in the Ruler of the university Formely only the wives of Old Fellows were admitted. The ladies had their time of pleasure this afternoon, being taken as the guests of the lo^ai He? beckah Lodge (Florece, No. .32) for a drive over the government road to Mis sionary Kidge and Delong's place where a Bohemian luncheon was served Another tradition has been shattered by the iconoclastic hand of science. The popular impressions concerning the bee must be revised, says an investigator of the honey-makers. The bee has long been praised for its industry and diligence, bat it has recently been learned that in these respects the bee is a fraud. As a matter of fact, "the little busy bes" work? but three hours a day, and is a most thoroughgoing loafer for the rest of the time. Must we give up forever the happy phrase, "the busy bee?" Let us} that hope the investigator is mistaken.' % A GOOD SPEECH. d b JOHN G4RY EVANS DEFENDS THE t d nn.l! A P_ATFDRM. d What Ho Had t:> Say Before the S:ate Dam ^cratlc Convention?He Wll! lie the G)vernorof the White Peopl?, and Not a Fact on; Columbia, S. C., Sept. 21.?The following is the speech of the Hon. J ohn Gary Evans before the State Democratic Convention after the nomination for Governor: Gentlemen of the Convention ani Fellow Democrats: Pew men, gentlemen, In the history of our State have been honored as I have been tonight by you. .Recognizing the fact of my youth I have felt that I can indeed thank yon from the bottom of my heart for this honor. I would be false to myself if I | told you I thought this is the happiest c hour of my life. I reel that the re- J sponsibiltyy resting upon my shoulde rs J = _ i- j_. j ?--r?...t- i c is mueeu great. nu i J-CCI wib wiiiu. the united democracy and with the people of South Carolina, whom you represent, supporting me in my effort for honjst government, that my efforts will not prove futile and that the will of the majority of the people of South Carolina will be carried out at all events [Applause.] Oar government i3 a government of the majority, and should I be electea to the position of chief executive of your State, I feel that I would be false to you should I not carry out the will of the majority, when it is fairly expressed, at all hazards. (Applause.) "We are, gentlemen, Democrats. We are here men who fought for the principles of Democracy; we see here men whn sat-. nn;in thfl laD3 of their mothers and heard of the brave deeds of their J fathers who fought for State's rights J men who sat there, children then, men now, Democrats now?men who im- 1 bibed Democracy with their mother's * milk. Tell me that those men, tell me 2 that those gray haired sires, could be ? false to South Carolina. It comes with bad grace, from any r South Carolinian, seeing your complex- 8 ion, seeing and hearing your principles, c and hearing the voice of South Carolina c expressed at the ballot box, to say that c this grand old State is not safe in your ' hands. (Applause.) There are some citizens in South Carolina who are fond 8 of ztt -jhing a tall to their Democracy. 1 We are Democrats. We are not 1 Cleveland Democrats. W^.re not any 1 other kind of qualified Democrats. We s owe allegiance to no man. We owe r allegiance to the principles which were 1 fought for by you and your fathers and } my father, and those principles must be 1 maintained at all hazards. (Applause.) < We have reached a state in the history c of our country which was prophesied 8 by your own statesman, Calhoun. We 1 have reached a state now where parties c ars not defined by principles, but are ? drawn by geographical lines. "We find true Democracy in the South and in f the West, the home of principle, whose * men fought for State's rights, and who are against a centralized government. 1 We find on the contrary the opponents 5 of Jeffersonian Democracy, which means equal rights to all and special 1 privileges to none?we find those men? 2 living in the North and the East. We I find an effort to centralize the govern- 1 ment confined to a section which has e grown rich upon the success of princi- 1 pies which have robbed the farmers of the South and the West. What is our Democracy ? In 1896,1 t make the prophesy here that the South t and the West will be called upon to re- * deem the Democratic party from the plunderer and the monopolist and the a millionaire, who are growing fearful, if a they do not have centralization of the f.hafc t.hnaA will hpfiflTOfc the f gV7TCi.ULU.uuu baiter that will surround their necks. 1 A great deal has been said in your convention about Democracy. A great deal has been said by people outside who attach tails to their Democracy against you. In natural history we read that the ape as he grows old becomes suspicious of his tail. It worries him mentally and physically until he dies, believing that that appendage is the cause of his death, such will be the fate of such Democrats in South Carolina. (Applause.) There assembled in 0 cala under the Southern sun, under tne shades of the palmetto, and almost down on the "Swanee Kibber," a body of the honest yeomanry of the country. Those men did not go there as politicians, not as ^ representing party, but they were there representing the agricultural interests s of this nation. They S9t forth there J certain principles which are commonly ( known as the Ocala platform. Those ! principles were set forth as principles i that were necessary to rescue their gov- c ernment and to save your interests * which Is the Dasis of all wealth, agri- ^ culturalists, from the clutches of the I Northern Shylock. . * We who are dependent on agriculture c for our existence sympathized with, c them. We said in our convention, 'This I i3 true Democracy, and we endorse it I here,' and I endorse it now. (Applause.) But they say it is not Democracy, t Bear with me a minute, and let me r show the ignorance of people who crit- t icise and condemn you. Let me show c you that those people cannot recogniza i Democracy when they see it in print- f or'o 4nlr T.at. TTIA rAfpr tf? this Dlatform. V The Democratic party in convention z assembled at Chicago endorsed a plat- c form of principles. They are true and ( represent honest government and are dear *.0 the hearts of everv one of you. e They have been endorsed by your con- a vention properly as true Democracy, j and these principles connected with r them have been endorsed, and I will a show you that the National Democrat- a ic party in convention assembled in Chicago has incorporated a majority of a those principles, and that the Demo- ? cratic majority in Congress have en- t acted into law every principle of that e platform adopted save one. j Is not that the highest evidence of its Democracy ? li It reads as follows: "We demand the t abolition of national banks." That is I Democracy as formulated in Sec. 8 of v the Chicago platform. "When they 0 asked for tne abolition of the tax on v State banks what did that mean? It \ meant death to national bank3 because they cannot compete with State banks g TrrViooa ioon a ia linfca'VPfl p T? UUJ'J 1CUU\J 1U uunuiMvvt! v "We demand that the amount of the o circulation medium be speedily in- r creased to not le3s than S50 per capita." a The National Democratic platform de- d plored the state of affairs of the farm- t ers of the country, calling attention to y the tremendous mortgage indebtedness c upon the farms, and called on Congress r to afford relief. How was that to be a obtained if not by an increase of the t circulating medium? So Lhat plank is included in the national platform. "We demand that Congress shall pass such laws as will effectually pre vent the J dealing in futures of all agricultural a and mechanical productions; providing b a stringent system of procedure in tri- o sis that will secure the prompt convic- t tion, and imposing such penalties as l shall secure the most perfect compli- p ance with the law. Tnat has passed d the House of Congress, where the Dam- y ocratB had over 30 majority, but was I defeated by the Senate. So, i3 not that d adopted by the Democracy V y "We condemn the silver bill recently s! passed by Congress, and demand in lieu w thereof the free and unlimited coinage d of silver." That demand is made abso- n lutely in section 7 of the Democratic ti platform. If English means anything a it means that free and unlimited coin- f: age was demanded by the Democratic a party, but under the prostitution of the y President of the United States a dif- b ferent construction was placed upon s: that demand and we were cheated and n i . i BB? ?BP?WMBB?M???? efrauded of its benefits. (Appla use. "We demand the passage of laws proib iting alien ownership of land, and hat- Congress take prompt action to levise sooi3 plan to obtain all lands low owned by aliens aod foreign syniicates; and that all lands now held by ailroads and other corporations in exess of such as is actually used and leeded by them be reclaimed by the [overnment, and held for actual setlers." That is the section 6 of the )emocratic platform adopted at Chicawr\ onH i riontinci 1 in lan om a arc* "Believing in the doctrine of equal ight3 to all and special privileges to lone." Those are Jeffersonlan princi)les which are set forth in the Chicago riatform. "We demand that our national legisation shall tie so framed in the future is not to build up one industry at the jxpense of another." This is almost dentically section 5 of the Democratic jlatform adopted at Chicago. "We further demand a removal of he existing heavy tariff tax from the lecessities of life that the poor of our and must have." That is the Demosratic plank of the Chicago platform lemanding a tariff for revenue only. 3ut what have we today i We have a Democratic Hou3e, a Democratic Senite and a Democratic President, and ve had the right to expect a tariff for evenue only, and yet we have a bill somparatively better than the McKiney bill. Why? Because the South and -he West new raise raw materials a*\ mak+kaoaf fln/1 f hflrr ;ucajJ5i iiuau LUC J.XUI iiucaoi, auu uu cj eave a high protective tariff on manufactured products and demand free raw naterials because the farmers consume nanufactured articles and sell the raw naterials. We asked for bread and hey gave us a stone. "We further demanded a just and suitable system of graduated tax on hcome." That is not Incorporated in he Democratic platform, but it has >een passed as a law by the Damocrat: c party in Congress. And that is the (tumbling bloQk which will make Eemblicans of every Democrat in the Northeast. Already tb9 Republican jegislature in one Northern State has atified the course of the Democratic Senators of that State in their o^posiion to this measure, which is not in his platform, and which has been enicted by the United States Congress. i.na yet these men, rnese men wno say hat we are not Democrats, support a nan who voted against that provision, i man who leagued with the Republics to defeat that provision, and to lefeat silver legislation and other printiples of pure Democracy included in he Democratic platform. ''We demand the most rigid, honest md just State and national governnent control and supervision of the neans of public communication and ransportation, and if this control and upervision does not remove the abuse low existing, we demand the governnent ownership of such means of comnunication and transportation." They tave never demanded the government ?wnership of railroads. They simply lemanded the control of the railroads, uid when we come to the point when t will be necessary to keep them from iwning the people then we will demand /vnrrn nvnK? n r>/>f 4*ill ;u VCIULLLCUU UYYU^OU:^, CkU\JL U.KJKJ 41111 hen. Is not that pura Democracy and or the protection of the people ? That tas been enacted by Congress when he interstate commerce bill became a aw and we only ask that the commision be given full power. When yon passed your railroad comnissidn law you gave your commission ibsclute control of the railroads, with >ower to fix rates, schedules, connecions, etc., but you have never demandid ownership of the roads and you do lot desire it. "We demand that the Congress of the Jnited States submit an amendment to he Constitution providing for the elecion of United States Senators by diect vote of the people of each State." rhe Democratic Congress has that enicted into law and a Democratic Senite defeated it. So you see every plank of that platorm save one, which is the sub-treasiry, is included in the Democratic >laiform and those which are not have >een enacted into law by a Democratic Congress. The sub-treasury is simply i plan put forth as an evidence of a lisease existing among the farmers vho demanded of these doctors of the lation to do something to cure that lisease. Have not the people the right to peition Congress ? I maintained this beore the people and I claim that they lave such a right under the Constituion of the United States. I am a rue Democrat and I stand on the nalonal Damocratic platform and I stand in the Ocala platform. I will not fool uy people, let it cost me what it may. Loud applause.) Now, gentlemen of the convention. I ay this because it ha3 been flaDg in 'our faces as a taunt. We in South Carolina are a noble people. We should lot cherish animosity and do not. We nvite every true and honest citizen to :ome with us and join in this bill of ights to preserve white supremacy. rVhite supremacy is worth more than :artv principle Cloud applause) and the nail who oppose tbe3e~ "demands, who ippo3es the free and unlimited coinage if silver, cannot stand before his peo>le and claim to be a Damocrat. (Ap>lause.) W e are a united people. We stand lere united, and if I thought, gentlenen, that my nomination and my elecion meant unhappiness to the people if South Carolina and threatened the nstitutions of my State, which I love, or every true patriot loves his State, 1 vould ass you to take back this nomitation, and I would pray God to put >ut the spark which glows in my heart. Appiause.) If elected I shall be Governor of the mtire people. I shall know no faction ;nd shall see that the will of the maority is obeyed and the interests of the ninority are protected by all the If.w ind power which is placed In my hands ,s your Chief Executive. (Applause.) And now I shall leave you. Icon;ratulate you on the work that you tave toaay. i congratulate yvu uyyu tie bold manner in which you remainid steadfast to principles and the tledges you made to the people. I promise you that the Dispensary 3w, which seems to be the bone of conentlon among some people, but which believe to be the only solution of the rhiskej problem, and the only rescue if the people from the tyranny of the whiskey ring, 1 shall enforce to the rery letter. (Applause.) I thank you for your kind support, ;entlemen. I thank you as the JDemoratic party and as the Representatives f the people, and when I pledge you ay heart, when I pledge you my hand, ,nd when I pledge you my head, I have lone all tbat mortal can do. Y"ou do be rest and support me, and I as3ur'ou that the proud banner of the Pal - rrKl'rtK I7AH h O XTQ Til 1 fl LLOLliU onmvu J wu uLt* ? xy ? ay hands shall never trail in the dust ;s long as South Carolinians are trus o principle and to South Caroiina. Executed with Ballets. Leoi Junction, Utah, Sept. 19.? Cnoch Davis, the wife murderer, died ,t 10.45 this morning with six rille iullets in his breast. About thirty fiicers and reporters were present at he execution, but no minister. At 0 40 he was placed in a chair with a lank at his back. The penitentiary qotor pinned a prescription blank fith a black mark over the heart. )avis was given liquor and strapped own. He protested, as he said he ranted the sharpshooters out in plain Ight, instead of in the tent as they rere, and he said be did not want to ie "like an Indian." When all was sady the marshal cried: "Make reaciy, ike aim, fire!" Six shots were fired, nd Davis moved slightly and gasped aintly. The doctor said it was only contraction of the muscles. Dsa^h nrafit.inallv instantaneous. Four ullets pierced the paoer, two at the tele, and one ball pierced the blaok aark. jjb? a SILVER TONGUE SILENCED. The Saccesstal Campaign ot the Women for Parity ia Politic*. Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 15 ?A arvornol f.vim T.^Yirahnn TCp-.RS.Va; The women who have made the most noble fight during the campaign asraicst the defarmer of their sex gave a last appeal in the lo^al press here this morniag, and today at 10 o'clock they met with the ministers in Morrison Chapel to cffer up a prayer for Breckinridgs's^ifea1-. The following is a sanpleof tae many small cards issued by them this morning: To tbe Men of Ashland District: We, the wives, mothers and sisters of many of the voters of tbe Ashland District, appeal to the vo.ers to help U3 ia this fight against Col. Breckinridge. It is the fi^bt of virtue against vice, and we appeal to the brave men of this glorious old district to help U3 win this fight, and we will pledge ourselves to go on from this to other and equally useful victories, and ia a short time we will free oar lovely city from the curses which now endanger our beloved one', to-wil: The saloon, the corner grocery, houses of the scarlet women, the gambling hells, the race tracks, and will rideem. the fair name of our city and our district. (Signed) Manv Women. Lexington, Ky., Sept. 15,6 P. M.? Eitimate of complete returns from Scott County, Oven's home, give Owens 1,600 majority. O vens claims nomination by 1,000 plurality. Lexington, Ky.. Sept. 15.?All the cities in the district are heard from. Breckinridge carries Lexington by about 200. Frankfort, complete, gives O vens 658, Breckinridge 276, Settle 70. George town, Owen3's home, give Owen's 452. Breckinridge 28. Oventon, Settle's heme, goes tor Breckinridge. Paris goes 13 for O wens. Frankfort, Ky., Sept. 15,?Woodford County, with two acknowledged n jrAna nr?Ainrts tn he heard from, srives Owds 256 ovar BrecKinrid^e. S^ott County, Georgetown, Owess 415 Breck inridge 28, Settle 7. Henry Countv Eaiiuence, Breckinridge 61, Owens 87 Settle 45. Bonrbon County, Hutchison, Brecnkiiidge 45, Ovens 33, Settle 1. Lexington, Ky., Sspt. 15 ?The Bceckinridse people practically coacede that they are defeated by Offens. Fights were numerous throughout the district but only one man is reported badly hurt. madeline pollakd's fevenge. Lexington, Sipt. 15.?Midmgbt tonight Col. Breckinridge was in hi? headquarters surrounded by the friends who have stood by him in all his troubles. He was a crushed and disappointed man. Just as the last news was coming in he turned from the table where his son, Desha, was figuring upon the returns, and said: "It is my own county of * * *?i. ?:-c t JC'djeil8 tuat gives me greatest ^nu< j. thought she would give me at least 800 majority, and many of my friends expected as mucKas 1,500. Instead ot that my majority in my own county is only 205. In Wood field we also expected a majority ct several handred, but the county has gone against me as has Franklin, another county that I thought would give me a small majority. They are holding bick ihe returns from Scott County for the purpose, I believe of declaring them if the news from the other counties does not suit the Ovens people. In this way they will probably defeat me. I had expscted Scott to go for Ovens by about 1,200 majority, but of course th?y can fis returns to suit themselves." The Colonel's headquarters seemed almost like a tomb, but the Colonel himself held up well under his defea1;, wh:ch he did not fully acknowledge and talking about his future plans said: *'I expect to live out my days right here in Kentucky and will countinue to go in and oat among these people uatil I am laid away in the beautiful cemetery where sleep ? * - *- ? -r 4-?~ A a all mat is mortal 01 my auucabuiB. xlo I said to these people on the stamp, if they do not chose to send me back to Congress I will find some other sphere in whiih to labor for them." Col. Breckinridge is ia splendid health, but he presents a sad sight. * To-night around bi3 headquarters everything was silent as the crave and one squire farther down, the Offens headquarters, thousands of young men and old ones too, were making night hideous with their yells, bio wins; tin horns and shouting for 0 #ens. Gen Gentry proposed three cheers for the wooien in the district and tbey were given with sueh a will a3 to almost deafen people who were standing on the other side 01 toe street. They then gave three cheers for the newspaper correspondents. Chinese Naval Disaster. London, Sspt. 19.?Adispatch to the Central News from Shanghai dated September 19.h, midnight,- says: "A Dumber of officers who were engaged in the naval battle on the Yalu river have arrived at Port Arthur with haT a dozm war sbip3 badly damaged and filled with wounded men." The dispatch says that the Chinese admiral, Ting's, fleet left port on Friday evening to convoy seven transports conveying a large force of troops. A number of Earopean3 in the serverice of the Chinese admiralty accompanied the troop3, which were to be landed near Wipi, from which point they were to be sent to the front. These troops comprised some artillery but were mostly composed of infantry. Nothiug was seen of the enemy until the Chinese flset reached the mouth ot she Yalu river when a fleet of Japanese war ship3 was sighted. Thereupon the trans* f.-totxror-l onf? th* OTftr PUL LS VVCiO UUL1XOU XkJ? ITUaU ? ?MV uwr 8hip3 were cleared Or action. The effort of the transports to land the troops tvere successful, and m93t of them were gotten ashore before the naval battle began. The Chen Yuen was the first vessel to open fire, and was soon engaged with two Japanese war ships of about the same s;z3, one of wh e1! is supposed to have been the craiser Chi Yoda. Soon all ot the vessels of both fleets were engaged with the Chinese cruisers. The Chin Yuen and King Yuen were sunk and 609 officers and men on baard of them were drowned. Only a few ot the men struggling in the water were "Pi-ia PhoA "Vnnor and "YTinn piUEwGU tip. XUV ? ^ Wei, in manoeuvering for more advantageous position, got into shallow water and ran around. Toe . stranded vesseh were helpless under the fire of the gnus cf the Japanese ship3, and were finally set on fire by tbe enem^a shells ana became wrecks. It is feared that'so-ne of the transsporls sh:p3 were sunk, including one whose troop? had not yet bstn landed. The Chinese loss is eiimated at 1,500 killed and wounded, and the Japanese bss is supposed to be 1,000; but none ot the Chinese officers giving accunts ot the battle, kao* the names or the size of the four vgssela of the enemy which are alleged to have been destroyed. Taking the Chinese best view of the battle, it is plain that the encounter has resulted in seriously crippling the naval strength of China. On Monday near Bowling Green, Ky., a negro fellow, by name Moses Christopher, assaulted a little girl of 7 years old, daughter of Mr. Judson Carter. The child is in a ^ery critical condition. The fiend was captured and a large crowd was in favor of lynching him at once, but being assured that justice would be done by the law allowed him to be put in jail. Oa Tuesday he was indicted, arraigned before the Court, convicted and sentenced to be hanzed on the 14th of November. All o which is mo3t respectfully referred I of our owq Courts.. I - - - ^ '-"X^ f A GREAT BiTTLE. THE CHINESE DEFEATED WITH MUCH LOSS OF LIFE. The Japsnaae Slake an Attack on the Chinese and Utterly Kin t Them?Over Sixteen Thousand Chinese K'lied, Wounded or Captured. London. Sspt. 17.?A Central News dispatch from Seoul, dated 6 p. m., September 16, says a great .ctle has been fought at Pine Yf between Chinese aod Japanese troops, in which the lormsr were utterly routed. On Thursday a Japanese column from Pong San made a reonnaisacce in force, drawin<* the fke of the Chinese forts, and idu3 ascertained tneir p^8xi;oD3. xae columns then fell back in eood order. By Friday all the Jaoanese were in position for a combined attack upon" the enemy. Tne Gen. San column threatened the left flinfc of the Chinese, the Pnn San column threatening the Chioese cflutex, while the Whang J a column operated sgalnist the right, which had been reinforcad the day before by de>tachmens of marines fron the fleet at the mouth of Taiton river. The Chioese bad utilized the old defenses at Ping YaDg and had thrown up new works, making their position txc^Dtioaally strong. The battle was opened Siturday at daybreak by a Japanese connonade on the C'ainese works, which was c3atinned without cessation until the afternoon the Chinese responding. The work wiih heavy 2uns showed good practice. Ai sbout 2 o'clock a body of infantry was tbrowa forward by the Japanese maintained ar lij lire upon the enemy until dark. Throughout the day only the PongSan column was ens:aged. The Chinese defences had suffered greatly, bat loisea on either side were small, both Chinese and Japanese having taken advantage cf all shelter available. Japanese troops, however, bad gained sioae advanced positions. Tae firiDg con. tmued at iutervals during the nisht and in the meantime two Japanese fiiDkxng columnshadjformed a cordon around the' Chinese, At 3 o'clock in the morning an MIWL Wtt3 UlttUO uy LUC rjapiUCOO JJ'JL' umDs simultaneously aud with admira Die precision. The Chinese lines, which were so strong in iront, were found to be weak in the rear, and her* the attack was a perfect success. The Chinese ware completely taken by surprise and werj thrown into a pnic. Hundreds were cat down and those who escapsd death, finding themselvss surrounded at every point, broke and Add. Some of Viceroy LvHuag Cbacg European drilled troops stood their ground to eastward and were cut down to a man. Tae Pong Sin column, 8warming ever defences in front, com* pleted the route. A half an hour after the attack opened, the positions at Ping Yang were in possession of the Japanese. It i3 estimaed that 20,000 Chinese soldiers were engaged in the battle, The Japanese captured immense stores of provisions, amunitions of war and hundreds of cobra. Toe Chinese loss is estimated at 16,000 Killed, wounded and taken prison era. Among those captured by the Japanese are several of the Chinese com manding officer3, including General Tso Funs, commander-in-chief of the Manchurian army, who was severely wouaded. The Japanese i038 is only thirty killed and 270 wounded, including eleven offi ce.s. Most of the losses among the Japanese occurred during the first day's fight and very few were the result of the night attack. The Japanese forces are in active pursuit of fugitives, who have thrown away their arms and readiy yielded themselves prisoners. A desultory war may be carried on for some time to come, but unless China shall succeed in getting another army into tha peninsula Corea will undoubtedly remain in possession of the Japanese. To Kef p Sweet Potatoes. A Virginia man writing to Home and Farm concerning methods of keeping sweet potatoes, says one who has been very successful in that line pursued the following plan: Select a spot in your garden from which the water drains readily, dig a trench around a spot as large as you wish the mound,fthrowing up the earth so as to raise it about ten or twelve inches above the trench. On this place a layer of dry soil or road sand. In the middle of this set up a kind of pipe for the escape of heated air, made of four three-inch wide, inch thick planks, each piece bored quite thickly with big auger holes (one and one-half inches in diameter), the holes say ahnnf siY inches anarf. frnm hot torn to top of pipe. As sooq as tie potatoes are duff, carry them to this place and pile tnem up arouad this pipe, cone shaped, as these kilos generally are. When you have piled up all your potatoes take dry straw, and then on this throw dry dirt or stand until it is about eight or ten inches thick all oyer. After all is mounded up the pipe should extend at least a foot and a half above the top. In ordinary weather leave this open, but when frosty, cold nights or days come, stuff some straw or grass down the pipe, rather below the surface or top of mound, and when it gets warm again pall it out. In real cold winter weather throw a old piece of nr snm^thino'nvpr the nine in addition. Make a shelter over the mound so that it will not get wet. Plant four posts, two beiog, say about two feet higher than the other two; nail a strip at the top of the two higner ones and another at the top of the lower ones; over this nail some boards or planks so as to turn rain and you have a very good shelter. I have found that all vegetables put up in these mounds keep better for being protested from rains and suns, in otber words kept dry. It is well to at least have two mounds for your potatoes, and as they are put away, separate the small one3 from the larger, keeping the smaller one3 for seed, which in almost every neighborhood you can find a ready sale in ihe spring. I need not say, perhaps, but will, that it is best to get out enough potatoes to last for a week or so at a tims, as of course daily opening makes them more liable to hurt. Every one can arrange so as to keep a small quantity from hurting before using. Some will say that this is too much trouble; but if you want to keep sweet potatoes you have certainly to taks trouble, and if the end gained by simply filling up the pips in cold weather and opening it in milder; that's a small trouble, I think. % Gambling Den Raided, Chicago, Sapt. 18.?At half past 1 o'clock this afternoon a squad of detectives from Matt Pinkertun's agency <jftonon(-?H tn raid t.hA crarnhlinc hems* of Hear? Varnell, ex-county bookkeeper, at 119 Clark street. The inmates of tbe establisnment had been aclvised of the intended raid and made a stubborn resistance. Several bloody noses and black eyes were inflicted and the row continued until Varnell issued warrants for the arrest of the Pinker ton men from a near by station on the charge of disorderly conduct. A sq uad of special constables descended upon tbe detectives and took the detectives to the Harrison street station and tbe gamblers went back to repair tbe damages. Varneli announces that h? will open as usual at 6 o'clock tonight. It is said that the raid was the work of the civic federal authorities. Anot her storvisthat it is a Dhase of the war between the "Trust Gamblers" and those who are carrying on business#on their own hook. For Fr*ad. Savannah, Gs., Sept. 18.?A special to the Morning New3 from Macon says: John A. Perry, oditor of The Irwingfon World, was arrested and brought before Commissioner Erwin today on a charge of using tbe mails for fraudulent pur- fl poses. Ferry runs a Populist paper at Irwington, Ga., and. was formerly a fl printer on The Macon Telegraph. The arrest was made by Deputy United 9 States Marshall White of Macou, on a . warrant sworn out Dy Postoffice Inspector Bulla, who charges Ferry with sending circulars through the mails to newspapers and individuals ia Georgia and other States announcing that he s has invented a means of winning at poker. These circulars are said to have A been sent out all over tne country even mk as far as California, where a newspaper obtained possession of one and exposed -J the scheme that Ferry is alleged to be working. Ferry was carried before. Commissioner Erwin today, but owing to tbe absence of an Important witness ^ the preliminary hearing was postponed hnd Perry released oa bond. Perry says ae can disprove fraud. _ George H. White, a colored candl a ate tor (jonjjres in JN orth uarouna says that "the solidity of the colored vote . in North Caroliaa and several other . Jt Southern States is not what it has jfl been. For three years or more there fl has been a tendency on the part of the people of my race to join other parties than the Republican to some extent fl A great many negroes voted the Demo- 1 cratic ticket in this State two years ago. and I would not be surprised if a M considerable number of them do so this fl year." * 9 PADGETT PAIS THE FREIGH1 9 Whj i?y E&m Prinsfer Gtifc! vjH is Cafeiozw sad Se? Wlat Y? Ch Sail -JIM ^ 1 COO for :h!? H| FRiCE now $15 I'W other Bedroom llK?-JmCBvJ Softs; ail prices. D aa $69 ~**?L$37 4 JS?! Jest tc introduce them. ?:?v5?^?rg} No freight paid on this Or- ~-Jfl ,kiV^- - -'"Cr; su. Guaranteed to be a M rood organ or money re- -V ij $ ninded. IP Si*!*! fl Kl';srant PIn?h PARLOR SUITS, contl?tl?t vi Sofa, Arm Chair, Rocking Chair, IMtm^ M arid 2 aide Chairs?worth S*6. Will Mtrm U '1 Ui -ocr depot tor 983. fi ?r~ ^ " TMa Fo.1 MIW J A $S8 sxrsrs iLicsn - M Kith all attachment#, for ONLY$1^.SO-^ ."mA H delivered to y ,ar depot, f ? VThe refxilar price of this AHpH^K^ H BUGGY ta6Sto 75dollars. V rhe manufacturer pays all the expenses and I sell them T FTB to jrou for ^42.76ica guarantee every one a & >arc?is. No freight paid W gs tt*ia Saggy A $<|80 FIAWI dsUvnred at your depot? HL 'ill5?3Br fl fM ?r?i^ht paid forlflB ^'*0 Sond for catalogues of Furniture, OoaktBf Itoves, Baby Carriages, Bicycle*, Oi|iH, IV KM, Tu S?U, KM? L4UBP*, ??-, W i?A.va icons?. AMnm L.g.gADgBTT'jgL'g' 1 fciiral*niTffln- 8 enlFtenttflon / / MljgMg tton usthe best / > lJJ^8^P 011 tae m*rirefc // Dur^^11^ I ^air% fael^vtei * Hu no Equal C. fl 5 ' IKaNOsTT ^ | ?RGHNS.il 1 jjj MID-SUMMER BARGAINS. |j| V Special Sale Summer 1894. The' 11 v time to buy-Cheap -and Kuf> Six' i ' V Special Summer Offers that heat the ' i V record. ] i O $50 saved every Piano purchaser. < J1 )( $10 to $20 on every Organ. j, [ j K Six Special Offers on oar Popular XKS- A ?s Summer Plan. Buy In August, September < , _ A and October, and pay when Cocoa con* ( i Jl O Spot Cast Prices. No Interest. Only a ' | Q Small Cash Payment required, $25 on iy 0 Piano, $10 on Organ, balance next Norero- <,> O ber 15th. Longer time U wanted. ),? k Payments to salt all. Pianos $S to $10' i' ;/ monthly. Organs $2 to $5. ] I' X Our Mid-Summer Offers sar* ttf money i' i O on all plans of payment. i i u Xew Pall Leaders ready. BmiH* '. i (# ful and Cheap. Tempting Bargains.1, i Q Write at once for 3ud-Somm?r Of* 1. i O fers. Good only until XoTesabar 1* <, i 0 Don't writ. < 11 ?| UDDEN & BATES i;l M -j SOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE,!; I || fi SAVANNAH, OA. 1 B NOW IS THE TIME ^ TO PLACE YOUR ORDERS FOR Threshers! ^ And I^Sell the Best In the Market, Write to me Before Baying. Shingle Machines, Stave Machines, Brick. Machines, f Planing Machines, Swing Saws, Band saws, Gang Bip Saws, and -all kinds of wood worki&g m ichines Irist Miils $115 to $250. Saw Mills S190 to $400. Watertown Engines and Boilers. ^ Talbott Engines and Boilers. Seed Cotton Elevators. Cottoh Gins and Presses M maw and LOW GRADE. V. C.:?ADHAM* -? COLUMBIA,S.C. :<pt' .