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VOL. Xx. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1891- NO. 40. TALMAGE ON THE CREEDS. HE. GIVES HIS OPINION IN ANSWER TO MANY QUESTIONS. hatan 'timell I8 the Chief Instigajor of I tba, Controversy Now Itaging in Many 41h.urches. and Eairnest Work for Clarist 11n thle Recel.,.13 J1co0)o(1N, ,Jlune 14.--Dr. Talmage dealt in his sermon this morning with tlie very inely topic-the Battle of Cfeeds. A fter so long and exhaustiv, a discussion in clerical circles and In the sceplar press there seemed nothing more to ' , said on the subjeot. , Dr. Taimage, h Oever, has his own way of' looktig at all'itubjects, and evei, people who thought th ) knew all that could be said bn both sI es received light from .he fresh and -iginal contribution which he made to e controversy. His text was taken Iom Proverbs xxvi, 17. "He that .asseth by and meddleth with jLile be longing not to iiiii is like one tha taketh a dt g by the ears." Solomon here deplores the habit of rushing in between contestants of taking part in the antagonisms of others. of jjoining in fights which they ought to shun. They (1o no good to others and get damage for themslves. He compares it to the experiment of taking a dog by the ears. Nothing so irritates the can ines as to be clutched by the lugs. Take them by the back of the neck and lift them and it does not seem to hurt or offend, but you take the dog by the ear, ond he will take you with his teeth. In all the history of kennels no intelliget or spirited (log will stand thp.t. tNow," says Solomon, "you go into quarrels or controversies that are not yours and you - will get lacerated and torn and bitten. 'lIe that passeth by and meddleth with strife belonging not to him is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.'" THl11 IS THE AO' OF CONTROVERSY. This is a time of resounding ecclesias tical quarrel. Never within your mem ry or mine has the air been so lull of issiles. The Presbyterian church has )n hand a controvarsy so great that it linds it prudent to postpone its settle nent for at least one more year, hoping hat something will turn up. Somebody ight die or a new general assem4ly ay have grace to handle the exciting uestions. The Episcopal church has cast out some recalcitrants, and its 'digestive organs are taxed to the ut ,most in trying to assimilate others. "Shall women preach?" "Or be sent as delegates to conferences?" are questions r that have put many of our Methodist I brethren on the "aixious seat." And i the waters in some of the great baptistries I are troubled waters. Because of the i controversies throughout Christendom i the air is now like an August afterno -n i agout 5 o'clock, when it has been steam ing hot all day. and clouds are gathering, i and there are lions of thunder with i grumbling voices and flashing eyes com- i ing forth from their cloudy lairs, and i People are waiting for the full burst of i the tempest. I am not much of a i weather prophiet, but the clouds look to I me mostly like wind clouds. It may be a big,blow, but I hope it will soon be over. In regard to the Battle of the Creeds, I am every (lay asked what I think about it. I want to make it so plain this morn- ) ing what 1 think that no one will ever ask again. Let those who are jurymen in the 4 case-I mean those who in the diferent ecclesiastical courts have, the questions lput directly before them-weigh and do Scide. Let the rest of us keep out. The Smost damaging thing on earth is religious1 controversy. No one ever comes out1 o'f it as good a man as lie goes in. Some: *of the ministers in all denominations1 who before the p)resent acerbity werei good and kind and usefbi, now seems al most swearing mad. These brethren I I niotice always open their violent meet mugs with prayer before devouring each; other, thus saying grace before meat. I They have a moral hydrophobia that makes us think they have taken a dog by1 gthe ears. They n ever readthe imprecatory Psalms of D)avid with such zest as since the Briggs and Newton and MacQueary and Bridgmnan and Brooks enestionis got int.o full swing. May the ~rams of the s heeptold soon have their horns sawed off! Before the controversies are set.tl edC( a good many ministers will, through what they call liberalism, be landed into practical infidelity, and others thirough wvhat they call conservatism will shrink uin into bigots tight and hardl as the mummies of Fgrypt whiczh got through their controversies three thousand years ago. SATAN STrIRRED viT UP'. This troulhe throughout Chr:stendomi was dlirectly inspired by Satan. lie saw that too much good was being done. S Recruits were being gathered by hun dIreds of' thousands to the Gospel stand ard. The victories of' God and the truth were tco near together. Too many churches were being dedicated. Too many miisters were he'ng ordamned. Trou many philanthropies were being hostered. Too many souls were being saved1. It had been a dull time in the nether world, and the arrivals were t.oo few. So satan one day rose upon his throne and saidl, "Ye powers ot dark ness, hear!" And all up and (hewn the caverns the cry was, "Hear! Hear!" $atan *aidl: "There is that American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. ItL must either be demolished or crippled, or the first thing you know they will have all nations brought to God. A polly on the Younger! You go up to Andover and get the professors to discussing whether the heathen can be saved without thle Gospel. Divert them from the work of missions and get them in anary convention in a room at Young's hotel B3ostam, and by the time they ad journ the scause of foreign missions will be gloriously and magniicently injured. Diaboluis the Younger! You go up and get Union Theological8Seminary of New York and the general assembly of the Presbyterian church ate Detroit at swords' points and diverted f om the work of making earnest ministers of religion, and turn that old Presbyterian church, which has been keeping us out of customers for hundreds of years, into a splendid pan demonium on a small scale. Abadon the Tetrd! You go up and assault that old Episcopal chnrch, whickhn ha en storming the heaven@ for centuries with I the sublimest prayers that were ever < uttered-church of Bish*p Leighton, I Bishop White and Bishop Melvaine, < ind get that denomination discussing I men instead of discussing the eternities. < &baddon the Fourth! You go up to that a )ld Methodist church, which has, through 3 ier revivals, sent millions to heaven i which we would otherwise have added to 1 )ur population; the church of Wesley i md Matthew Simpson, against which I ve have an especial grudge, and get u hem so bsorbed in discussing whether u vomen shall take part in her conference r hat they shall not have so much time I o discuss how many sons and daughters ' ihe will take to glory.r What amazes me most Is that all peo. a le do not see that the entire movement 1 it this time all over Christendom is sa- i anic. Many of the infernal attacks are 1 ly and hidden and strategic and so in jenious that they are not easily discov- r ired. But here is a bold and uncovered < tttempt of the powers of darkness to 1 iplit up the churches, to get ministers to i ake each other by the throat, to make u eligion a laughing stock of earth and ' iell, to leave the Bible with no more I 'espect or authenticity than an old alma- I inc of 1822, which told what would be 1 ,lie change of weather six months ahead t md in what quarter of the month it is )est to plant turnips. In a word, the i ,fort is to stop the evangelization of the E vorld. It seems to me very much like I his: There has been a railroad acci- I lent and many are wounded and dying. v 'here are several drug stores near the I icene of casualty. All the doctors and v Iruggists are needed and needed right I tway. Bandages, stimulants, antes- a hetics, medicines of all sorts. What tre the doctors and druggists doing? Dis ,ussing the contents of some old bottles >n the top shelf, bottles of medicine which some doctors and druggists mixed < wo or three hundred years ago. "Come < loctors!" "Come druggists." cry the I )eople, "and help these wounded and t lying that are being brought from be- v ieath the timbers of the crushed rail v ,rain. In' a little while It will be too v ate. Come for God's sake! Come ight away!" "No," says the doctor, 'not until we have settled whether the nedicine on that top shelf was rightly nixed. I say there were too many drops >f laudanum in it, and this other man < ays there were to, many drops of cam- < )hire, and we must get this question set led before we can attend to the railroad f tecident. 30CTORS DISPUTE WIILE PATIENTS DIE. And one doctor takes another doctor )y the collar and pushes him back tgainst the counter, and one of the drug rists says, "If you will not admit that I km right about that one bottle I will imash every bottle in your apothecary itore," and lie proceeds to smash. goanwhile, on the lower shelf, plainly narked and wit hin easy reach are all the nediclues needed for the helping of the iufferers by the.accident, and in that Irawer, easily opened, are bandages and iplints for the lack of which fifty people tre dying outside the drug store. Be 'ore I apply this thought every one sees 4 to application. Here is this old world, tmd it is off track. Sin and sorrow have I .ollided with it. The groan of agony is 1 'ourteen hundred million voiced. God I inas opened for relief and cure a great < Ianitarium, a great house of aiercy, and tll its shelves are filled with balsams. i with catholicens, with help-glorious r ielp, tremendous help, help so easily 1 tdministered that you need not get upon r my step ladder to reach it. You can each It. on your knees and then hand it o all the suffering, and the sinning, and I ~he dying. Comfort for all the troubled! m LPardon f'or all the guilty! Peace for all t ~he dying! But while the world is need- ' ng the relief and perishing for lack of it, I; what of the church? Why, it is full or I Ight,ing doctors. On the~top shell are ;ome 0old bottles, which several hundred t rears ago Calvin or Arminius, or the a nembers of the synodl of Dort, or the a ormers of' the Nicene creed filled wit.h i< ioly mixtures, and unt;l we get a re- v rision of these old bott,les andh find out s whether we must take a teaspoonful or f' ,ablespoonful, andl whether before or af- e er meals, let the nations suffer anil f !roan andi (lie. Save t,he bottles by alli neans, if you canniotsave anything else. ( Now, what parts shall11 you andl I take i ni this controversy which fills all (jiris- a Lendom with clangor? My advice is, t take no part. In tume of riot all may- t rrs of cities advise good citize.is to stay I It home or in theIr places of business,t mud in this time of relIgious riot I advise t you to go about your regular work for < [God. Leave the bottles on the higher < iholves for others to fight about, and a Lake the two bottles on the shelf within 3asy reach, the two bottles which are all s Llhis (lying world needs; the one filled with a pot,ion which is for the cleansing ( >f ll sin, the other (Itled with a potion which is for the soutinag of all suffering. c I'wo gospel bottles! Christ mIxed them <1 ut of his own tears and blood. In them r s no hu-nan admixture. Spend no tinie ( n the mysteries! You, a man only 3 five or six feet high, ought not try to s wade an ocean a thiousandl feet (deelp. My own experience has been vIvid. I ii levoted the most of my time for years s in trying to undlerstand God's eternal do- 1 erees, and1( I was dletermined to find out a why the Lord let sin come Into the world, I ad I set out to explore the (doctrine of ( the Triuit,y, ndl wit,h a yardstick to a measure the throne of the Infinite. As 'J withi all my predecessors, the attemp)t ht was a dead failure. For the last thirty h1 years I have .got spent two minutes In i1 itudying the controverted points of the- t slogy, and If I live thirty years longer I i1 will not spend the thousandth part of a 5 second In such exploration. I know r two things, and these I will devote all r the years of my life In proclaiming-God r will through Jesus Christ p irdon sin. < and he will comfort trouble.i .K EEP UUT OF THlE SQUABBLE. Creeds have their uses, but just now m the church. is creeded to death. The I f'oung men entering the ministry are go- I ing to be launched in. the thickest fog I that ever settled on the coasts. A. [ ' mm told that In all our services students I af Princeton and Union and Drew and flher theological s 'minaries are present, s and as these words will come to thous mcds of young men who are sooni to en Ler the minitrye t me . sa tos. n hrough them to their associates, keep I ut of the bewildering, belittling. destroy. t ag and angry controversies abroad. The < [uestlons our doctors of divinity are try- c ng to settle will not be settled until the t lay after the day of judgment. It is I uch a voor economy of time to spend i 'cars and years in trying to flatho: the E ufathomable, when in five minutes in c eaven we will know all We want to c now. Wait till we get our throne. c Valt until the light of eternity flashes I ipou our newly ascended spirits. It is L Lse;ess for ants on different sides of a I nole hill to try to discuss the compara- i ive heights of Mount Blanc and Mount ( Vashington. Let me say to all young < nen about to enter the ministry that I oon the greatest novelty in the world 4 vill be the unadulterated religion of I Iesus Christ. Preach that and you will t ave a crowd. The world is sick to re- F urgitation with the modern quacks In I eligion. The world has been swinging i ll' from the old Gospel, but it will swing I ack, and by the time you young men go i ato the pulpits the cry will be coming tp from all the millions of mankiud, i 'Give us the bread of life; no sweetened 1 read, no bread with sickly raisins stuck t ore and there into it, but old fashioned ( read as God our mother mixed it and i aked it!" You see, God knew as much when he iiade the Bible as lie knows now. iIe as not learned a single thing in six I housand years. le knew at the start hat the human race would go wrong and vhat would be the best means of its res oration and redemption. And the law vhich wai thundered on Mount Sinai, rom whose top I had the two tables of tone in yonder wall transported, is the erect law. And the Gospel which hrist announced while dying on that z nount from which I brought that stone I a yonder wall, and which Paul preached I in that hill from which I brought yon ler granite, is the Gospel that is going o save the world. Young man, put on i hat Gospel armor! No other sword I vill triumph like that. No other shield I vill protect like that. No other helmet vill alance off the battle axes like that. I )ur theological seminaries are doing I lorious work, but if ever such theologi- i al seminaries shall cease to prepare J oung men for this plain Gospel advo- I acy and shall become mere philosophi- I al schools for guessing about God and uessing about the Bible and guessing Lbout the soul, they will cease their use ulness, and young men, as in olden ime, when they would study for the xospel ministry, will put tbemselves mder the care of some intelligent and varm hearted pastor and kneel with iim in family prayer at the parsonage, Lud go with him into the room of the ack and the dying, and see what vic ,ories the grace of God can gain when he couch of the dyingsaint Is the mara hon. VITAL RELIGION IS TIE RIEMEDY. That is the way the mighty ministers >f the Gospel were made in olden times. )h, for a great wave of revival to roll >ver our theological seminaries and our )ulpits and our churches and our eccles astical courts, and over all Christen lom! That would be the end of contro ,ersy. While such a deluge would float he ark of God higher an I higher, it vould put all the bears and tigers and eptiles of raging ecclesiasticism fif teen ubits under. Now, what is the simple fact that ybu a the pew and Sabbath school class and eformatory association and we in the ulpits have to deal with? It is this: 1iat God has somewhere, and it mat era not where, bitt somewhere. p)rovid d a great heaven, great, for quietness r those who want quiet; great for vast esemblage for those who like multi udes; great f'or architecture for those rho like architecture; great for beautiful mndscape for those who like beautiful mndscape; great for music for those who ke music; great for processions for hose who like armies on white horses, ad great for anything that, one especi Ily (desires in such a rap)turous denmin mn; and through the (doings of one who rats born about fIve miles sout,h o1 Joru alem and died about ten minutes' walk 'em its eastern gate all may enter that reat heaven for the earniest, arnd heart 31t asking. Is that, all? That is all. Vhat, then, is your wvork and mine? )ur work is to pursuade people to face liat way andl start thitherward and lin-. 1ly go iu. But has not, religion some bmng to do with this world as well as be next? Oh yes; but do you not see hat if the people start, for heaven on heir way there they wvill do all the good icy can? They will at the very start Sthe journey get so much of the spirit, 1. Christ, which is a spirit, of kindness nd( self sacrifice and generosity andI bur en hearing and helpfulness, t'..t every tep they take will resound wit,h goodl eed8. Oh, get your religion of)' of'stilts! 'ret it dowvn out 01f the high towers! Get on a level with the wants and woes of ur poor human irace! (Get, it, out of the ust.y theological books that, few people sad, and put it in their hearts and liv'es. Food thing is it to profess religion when on join the church, but, every day, amehiow, we ought to profess religion. A peculiar patchwork quilt, was, dur i' the civil war, madle by a lady and e.nt to therhospitals at the front,. She adl a boy in the army, and was natur Ily interested in the welfare of soldiers. tut what a patchwork quilt she sent,!1 In every block of the quilt was a p)as Ige of Scripture or a verse of a hymn. 'he months and years of the war went y. On that qjuilt many a wounded man adl lain and suflered and died. But one lorning the hospit,al nurse saw a pa ent under that blanket kissing the fig rec of' a leaf in the quilt, and the nurse upposed lie was only wandering in his 1mnd. But no; lie was the son of the tother who had made the quilt and lie ecogni'zed that figure of a leaf as partr f a gown his mother used to wear, and remmd(edl him of home. "Do you 1 now where this quilt came from?" he sked. The nurse answered, "I can I Ind out, for there was a card pinned I ast to it,, andi I will find that." Sure 1 nough, it conilinrmed what he thought. L'hen the nurse pointedl to a passage of cripture in the block of' the quilt, the bassage which says, "When lie was yet great way off' his father saw him and an and fell on his neck andl kissed him." 'Yes," Bald the (lying soldier, "I was a i reat way nIr. but. (God has met me and iad compassion on me." "Shall 1 write o your mother and tell her that the lost me is f5und and the dead is alive?" le Lnswered, "I wish you would, if it would kot be too much trouble." Do YOU sup )ose that woman who made that quilt und filled it with Scripture passages had tny trouble about who Melchizedek was, r how the doctrine of God's sovereignty an be harmonized with man's free agen y, or who wrote the Pentateuch or the neonsistencies of the Nicene creed? No; to; go to work for God and suilring hu nanity and all your doubts and fears md mysteries and unbelief's put togeth r will not be heavy enough to stir the hemist's scales, which is accustomed o weighing one-fiftieth part of' a grain of :hamomile flowers. Why stop a mo nent to understand the mysteries when here are so many certitudes? Why ipend our time exploring the dark gar 'ets and coal holes of a great palace which has above ground one hundred ooms flooded with sunshine? It takes il my time to absorb what has been re eealed, so that I have no time to upturn md root out and drag forth what has not )e9n revealed. The most of the effort o solve mysteries and explore the in .xplicable and harmonize things is an ittempt to help the Lord out oT theolo ieal difliculties. Good enough inten ,ion, my brother, no doubt; but the Lord a not anxious to have you help hium. Ie will keep his throne without your as iistance. Don't be afraid that the Bible will fall apart from inconsistencies. It iuna together many centuries before you overe born, and your funeral sermon will be preached from a text taken from its undisturbed authenticity. LA Y HOLD ON GOD'S WORD. Do you know that I think that if all ninisters in all denominations would stop .his nonsense of ecclesiastical strife and ake hod the world of' God, the only luestion with each of us being how many iouls we can bring to Christ and in how ihort a time, the Lord would soon appear 'or the salvation of all nations? When ,he young queen of England visited scotland many years ago great prepara .ions were made for her receptiont. The iessel in which &he sailed was far out at ;ea, but every hill in Scotland was ilium ned with bonfires and torches. The iight was set on fire with artificial illuni nation. The queen, standing on ship's leek, knew from that that Scotland was 'ull of heartiest welcome, and the thim ler of the great guns at Glasgow and Edinburgh castle woke up all the echoes. Boom! they sounded out over the sea. Boom! they sounded up among the hills. Do you know that4 think that our king would land if we were only ready to re ceive him? Why not call to him from all our churches; from all our hospitals, from all our homes? Why not all at once !'ght all the torches of Gospel invitation? Why not ring all the bells of welcome? Why not light up the long night of the world's sin and suf'ering with bonfires of victory? Why not unlimber all the Gos pel batteries and let them boom across the earth, and boom into the partin heavens. The King is ready to land if' we are ready to receive him. Why can not we who are now living see his de scent? Must it all be postponed to later iges? Has not our poor world groaned ong enough in mortal agonies? Have ,here not been martyrs enough, an(] have lot the lakes of tears and the rivers of >lood been 'deep enough? Why cannot he final glory roll in now? Why can lot this dying century feel the incoming ,ides of the oceans of heavenly mercy? Iust our eyes close in death andi our ars take on the deafness of the tomb, mnd these hearts beat their last throb efore thre day come mn? 0 Christ! YVhy tarriest thou? WVilt thou niot, be ore we go the way of all the ear'th, let is see the scarred f'eet uinder some noon lay cloud coming this way? Before we ie let us behold thy hiandls that were p)iked, sp)read1 out in benedictioni for lost race. And whry not let us, with )ut mortal ears, hear that voice which ipoke peace as thou didst go up) speak )ardlon and emancipation and love and roliness and joy to all nations ias thou omestd(own? But the skies (10 not p)art,. I hiear no umbling of' chariot wvheelscomime down ver the sapphire. There is no swoop >f wincs. I see no flash of' arngelic apl )eararnces. All is still. I hear noth ng but tire tramp of' my own hear't as I >asei5 between these utterances. Thie cing dloes not land because the worl<l is rot readyl, and tihe church is not readly. P'o clear the way for the Lord's comlina et us (devote all our energies of body, nind and soul. A Russian general rid rig over the battle field, his horse tread rng amid tire (lying (lead, a woimd(e dI noldier askedl him for water, but, tire of. icer dIid not understand hris lanrguage] md1( knew not whlat the poor fellow vanted. Then the soldier cried out, 'Crst0, and( that word( manat sym athry and help, andl the Russian officer lismounitedh andl put to tire lips of t,he ruflreer a cooling dIraughit. Be that tihe harmied word wit,h which we go fort,h to lo our whole duty. In many languages t has only a little difl'ererice of ternina ion. Christos! Its standls for sympa by. It stand(s f'or help. It stands for )ardfon. It standis for hopeL. 1I, stands or heaven. Christ,os!' In that, nam e ve were baptized. In that, name we ,ook our first sacrament. That, will be lie batt,le shout, that will wim the whole vorldl f or God! Chrristos! Putt it on our >anners when we march! P'ut, it, on our ips when we dhe! Put it in t,he funeral )salm at, obsequies! Put it, on the prlairn lab over our grave? Chrristos! Bless d be his glorious napie forever! Anmern! suicido of a School Girl. AUoU8TA, GA., .June 14.-Miss Anna Lugg, the eighteen-year old daughter if Mr. Sam B imgg, a respectable farmer f this county, who lives two miles rem IHephzibah, committed suicide this norning on the Augusta, Gibson and ,andersville Railroad train, while going ome from Augusta, by taking an over Lose of arsenic. Miss .dug g would ave graduated this week ,from the Iephzibah High School with honors, ut came to Augusta yesterday to meet ~nd marry her cousin, a young man of 5, named Clarence Rhodes. Thie young nan failed to meet her, and seeing no scape from disgrace, the young lady ~ommitted suicidle as above stated. hodes lives at Ilephzibah. There Ia eud talk to-night against him, b)ut he ias not been seen since this morning. News and Conrier. THE LOWEST PRICE OTTON HAS REACHED IN THIRTY SIX YEAR9. 3eplorable Caundition of tihe Cotton Mar- C ket-The Result of Oeri,rotuction-A 0 Talk With Mr. S. DI. lunman About Fu- I ture Prosiects. h ATLANTA, GA.. June 18.-Recently ;pot cotton in New York reached 81.' t .ents. the lowest price since 1855. The rice of August futures was 8.26, the owest figure in the history future con- d .racts. The trouble is that the crop has gone L,250,000 bales above the conservative stimates at the beginning of the sea ;on, and we begin the new cotton year with an enormous surplus. Intelligent r !stiiates of the crop last September ivere 7,500,000; now experts think a 0 ,rop of 9,000,000 bales was actually " rathered. In this state of affairs the price of cotton is lower than it has a been in thirty-six years. The only years in that long period when spot cotton has approached the present quotations were 1855, when it was 8 cents, 1858 when it was 8 1878 when it was 8 9 13-16 and 1880 when it was again 8 13.10. The acreage for this year, which was o supposed to have been much reduced 8 turns out to be only 21 per cent less than that of last year. The large acre age in Texas has counteracted the de- p crease in the acreage elsewhere, and it is estimated that we have now planted 20,779,205 acres against 20,S52,320 in 189). The government's report of the g condition of the crop is 85.7 against c 48.8 last year at this time. I f these con clitions continue a crop of not less than 7,5(),0(K) bales may he expected for this year, in addition to the large surplus carried over. 9 The Atlanta Constitution prints an1 interview on the situation with ir. S. M. Inman, of the firm of S. M. Inmnan & Co., whose long experience, immense business and close connection with the great markets undoubtedly enable him Y to speak with more weight on this sub ject than any man in the South. When Mr. Inman was asked what he thought of the situation and the out look, lie gave his views as follows: "The situation is something almost unprecedented in the history of the cot ton trade. The American crop, which 1 was believed by many conservative peo ple in the beginning of the year to be not over 7,250,000 to 7,500,000 bales promises to turn out nearly 8,750,000;i that ie, about 8,750,000 will be sold off the plantations and come into sight, t while there will probably be 100,000 to 200,000 bales which will never leave the plantations this season on account of the low prices prevailing in the mar kets. llence It looks now as if the yiel.- of this crop, gathered betweil September 1, 1890, and August :31. 1891, if it could all be counted, woul(l be somewhere between 8,800,X)0 andi 9,000, (XX) bales. "The crop of India will turn out 300,0M) to 400,000 hales short this year- c in pounds about equal to 300,(XO bales C of American cotton. "Now take the increase of the Ameri- I can crop-say 8,800,000 bales, against e 7,300,000 last year, giving an increase of 1,500,00) bales-and dedtuct the 300,0() 0 shortage in the crop of India, and you have an increase in the world's supply for this year of probably 1,200,000 bales C >f cotton. While there will be a large ro nerease in consumpti n this year, it d vill be nothing like suflicient to ab sorb sl his enormom increase, and it will be ri lecessary to carry a great deal of old t< wotton into the new year. This would il iot be so had if the producers had only t1 xercised ordinary business prudence in )lanting another crop: but nearly all avidence p)oints to time fact that the a Icreage in cotton this year is approxi- c nately tIme sate as last year, and while t here has been seine trouble with the f :rop in the Carolinas, Georgia and TIen- a lessee, the crop in the balance of the el iotton-raising States is dhoing very well (I mn:l unless some disaster occurs we will h iave another reasonably large crop. la 'It is the fear of another large crop h ,vhich is at present dlepressing prilces, ia nore thant the burden of the cotton that y 'as beeni made during the past year, be- o ~ause, if the world were assured th-it ij lie next crop) woultd not be over 7,500K,- 1 X)00 I think there would be a conisidlera- a ile rally from the present prices. l "As to thie future of (lhe mart,ket, it e typears to me abtout this way: That if we mauke another cr01), in any wvise ap )roximating the size of the one just rown, wet may lok for a year of :the I owest prices wvhich have ever prevail- I. id. You see we are on untrodden ii grouind. The future is 0one of uincer- V ainy. As I said before, with another te argoecropt we may look for very low Si >rices, while on the other hand, wvithm hi mnything like a general disaster to the ii ~rowinig crop, prices may be re-(estab- wv ished and producers may secure re- st nunerative figures for their cotton next o. vin ter. dII "Whaile it would seem to be a calamni- lt y to have aniothier crop made approxi- al niating the size of the one we have just at nadhe, it may result in a blessing in the ii md, in turning (lie at,tention of the al Larmers' Alliance and other organiza- at Ions to (the matter of controlling the fi imoiunt of cotton prIodluced front year to i rear. As I have said bef ore, this is thle pl )mly hope of the South's growing rich ju n cotton producintg. The consumxptionm al if the world is steadily increasing andl 't he South hasi a monlopoly of the in heIi rease ini produtctiont, and if it could lv a y be used wisely instead of increasi'ig SI hie p)roduction at double the rate of the ncrease of consumtptioni, all would go veil. The matter is in the hands of the >lanters themselves and they are the K mnly parties who can control it." b Comu;mnrA, S. C., .June i.--A pri- tI1 'ate :elegram received here tonight a.m- er otinces the death of Col. Isaac S. Lips- ci omb, ox-secretary of state, at Blryson a it,y, N. C. Trhe deceased wvas a native Pi if Nowberry; served as a gallant offcer rt n the calvalry in (lie Conlederacy, was C member of the State Senate from New- g terry countv, selected secretary of state f n 1882, holding tihe oflice until 1880, 0( le was also master of the St,ate 'Grange or many years, and held other promi- pi tent positions Under Cleveland, he te vas head of' the interior diepartmnent at ti Vashington. d 'riE iPhiladelphIa Times says that as he watermelon season advances the d sighth commandment suffers. When C t comes to an Issue between Cuiy and t' Ihe commandment, the commandment a in most apt to be the sufferer. IT WAS THE GOVERNOR. irpriso of Two Travelerg Who iad leen Conversing With a Carolinian. AJLANTA, Ga., June 12.-Mlr. John arey tells a good story at the expense two well known Atlanta men, one of kem AMr. Carey himself, and the other is friend Mr. Vaughn. "M1r. Vauighn and I were coming trough South Carolina the other day," tid Mr. Carey, in telling the story, "and ere naturally keeping our eyes open, iscussing the looks of the lands, its mssibilities and its probabilities. .Be ind us sat a one-eyed gentleman who ,emed to listen quite attentively, and ho, as we discussed matters particula' - partaining to the farmers and ag culturists, leaned over and joined in tir conversation. lie talked of the rtility of the soil, the possibilities 'Ith the intensive system of farming, nid of the use of fertilizers in a way 'hich showed that he was thoroughly osted. Both of uts put our new found rlend down as being a fertilizer agent. 'hen, naturally enough, we branched ff on politics. Air. Vaughn expressed i pretty strong language his opinion f the Governor of South Carolina. lie tid he hadn't much confidence in Till tan. Our friend stggested that possibly 'o d(id not, know the Covernor- that ossibly we did him an inijustice. "Y es,'said Mr. Vaughn.'but I haven't ich use for a man who will go around ia political campaign witi a hody iard of great red shirt followers to L1lp him out intimidating the other owd, and all that.' '"Well,' laughed our friend, 'you idn't believe that, did you ?' "'I saw it in the newspapers; it was eierally reported' said Mr. Vaughn, nd I think I have every reason to be eve it is true.' "The other gentleman laughed heart y, and tiriied oft the conversation by tying: "You don't telieve everything Si see in the newspapers, do you ?' 'Our talk was o1 the samio line for a .w minutes," said Mr. Carey, "our arolinii all the time speaking tather barily of Governor Tillman, but, de mding him mildly whetiever he was iggested. Finally we got to his get ng-ofT place, and shaking hands with s he moved oil. While lie was stand. ig on the platform we noticed that lie xemed to be very popular, and every oly seemed to know him. 'iurning ) some gentlemen who had been laugh ig considerably its they overheard our )nversation, we asked who that gen eman was. You can imagine how we .lt when they told us he was none ther than Governor Tillman. "As I said," continned Mr. Carey, what struck him particulary about the wovernor' was his readiness at answer ng us, his evident large information ipon the subjects we touched upon, is force and manner of putting things. le wasn't inclined to call a spade by ny other name than that used in the ardware stores and he talked right it once or twice about some charges ve referred to, calling them lies in very lain language. They tell me that his nemies respect him now that he is in lie chair, and that he is a good( Govern r."-Constitution. A Terriblo Accident. I:RNE1, uine 15.-Ft,rther details re 3,ved from the scene of the terrible ill road accident which occurred vester ty at a village near Basle Riilroad, low that two engines and three car ages loaded with excursitonists fell in > the stream which flowed beneath an on bridge which gave way and caused ie disaster. These carriages anti en ines now form a hopeless heap oF reckage beneath the bridge structure rid b)y its own size p)revented two other irriages, wvhich were sutspend(edl prac cally In the air, rro)m falling and still irthier increasing the inmber of kille rid wounded. At this hour eighty ex iraionist are known to have been rowned, though many of the bodies ave not been recovteredl yet. Of the rge number of persons injutredi many ave suffered so seriously that it consideredl likely that their injuries 'ill terminate fatally, as they consist I' b)ad lacerations, a[m( in soume cases mbIls have beetn completely severedl. lhe bridge or viadutct which collapsed rid caused the accident hlad only recet been bil t and had jutst b)eeni stretngt th ledl after suistaining dlamtag('. Cold--Iiodedi5, Mrdier. LI4xIN(t'ION, S, C., ,Jltine 14. -Sheriff rafts returned this evening from the ollow Creek section of this count,y, here he had been in search of William OOdls, who killed Lizzie Drehier yes rday, as reported exclusively in The ate this morning. Woods could not found. When last seen he was go .g ini the direction of Columbhia. F"romn hat can be ascertained of the circum-in ances, the killing has the app)earatnce beinig a cold and premeditatted mnur ~r. Tihe coroner's inqunest revealed the et that the girl was en diene. She d( WVoods had been sweethearts for me1 time, and hie had ptromiised to arry hier. lie became enamtoredh of othtter damisel ini the necighborhotod, idt the conclusion is that ini order to eei himselfI from the coniseqiuences of s !ouirtshiip with Lizzie, lie diecidied to it her out of the way. Yesterday, ist after dinnuter, she went (town to the urinig, abotut 300) yards from hier house. cods followed her and shot her in the ~ad. It is very likely he will be caught, several are ini pursuit of him.-T'lhe ate. Rtepud',atei the Mlovement,. Cmiri'A0(0. ill., Ju tne 15.---A Tiopeka, ansas, special says: Rteturns receivedl the Allilance Executive Committee om sub-Alliances which were asked pass judgment on the work done b)y e Cincinnati convention, are far t roim couraginrg the People's Party politi arns. It is known that twenty-flve *b- A lliances have repudiated the third rty movement. Fifteen of these have portedl to the State Alliance and ten the Rtepublican Central Committee. oud County Alliance has adopted the llowmng resolutions: Whereas the South was not represent I In the Cincinnati convention; and Whereas we believe that the third irty will disrupt the Riepublican party >the benefit of the Democratic party, erefore be It resolved, that we aban >ni the third party to return to our tst afilliation. These resolutions, it is said, nave rubled significance, because Clatud ounty is the home of Sepiator Wheeler, ie only Alliance member of the ben te, and has always been consider4 a 'eonlea Party marngimoId VERY MUCH LIKE A JOB. A PERVERSION OF THE SCHOOL FUNDS OF THE STATE. The Coluinbin Statzi Exposes a Little Game that Shoul( be Broken Ulp--An Attonipt to Submidii ia Private Enter p)rime. CoIX.N.i1FA, S. (., June 12. The fol lowing circular letters have been sent to the sehool commissioners of the sev erd counties of South Carolina by V. J. Thackston, the chief clerk of the State Superintendent of Iducation: "OmicE" oF1 ) "'A LMIETTO S(IIooI .)(NA 1 N., "COLX:MniA,S. C.,June 4, 18111. 5 "Dear Sir: Tihe State board of' exam iners, at their meeting in April, made the Palmetto School Journal the oflicial means of communication between the trustees and the department of educa tion. 'The State superintendent of edu cation designed 'to aid and instruct trustees in the department which he will conduct. Ii this way trustees will not only have their attention drawn to the laws governing the public schools of the State, ilt will also be helped and encoiraged to iinprove their schools inl many ways which he will indicate and make practical. The enclosed letter, which I ully explains itself, I beg you to sign and return to ine at once. I will have copies made anl mailed to each board in your county. "Your cordial assistancet is most earnestly solicited in this effort, believ ing that the iritere;t that will most surely be aroused will repay you a lum dredfold in the hell) it will give you iii your efforts to improve the schools committed to your keeping. "\You iare especially invited to send items of interest concerning the schools of your cotnty. I send you a copy of the .Journal. As each number ot the Journal will contain vital information that will appear only once, it is impor tant that Yout give attention to this at once. "Very truly, "W. J. TtAizs-rox. "Iditor and Owner l'almet,to .Journa (1-.nclosure.) ")ear Sir;- ph State lyutam of exal iners has j(_opted the 1'allndtto School .loirli I s the official means of comf IlnllicaLVt on between the department of eohucatio1 and school otlicers. A special (epartn nt will he edited by the State Superiiftendent Of Education, In which school law and <puestions relating to the g(pvernmient and improveielit of the segihools will be discussed. "TI e State board, with ourselves, mos , earnestly desire that every trus tee shioild receive the Journal, and by resc lution of the State hoard trustees are authorized to subscribe for the same am issue an order on county treasurer in pivarijent for same. " Elncloseu,Wrqt will find claim partial ly filled out for tifi - three (3) trustees of your district. Have ictt.4ims sied by your board and return t in order that your name may be for warde I to the State superintendent and have your names put on the mail mng list of the Journal. Very truly, This is a very interesting situation indeed! The State superintendent of education and his chief clerk have a little alliance among themselves, and a nvt know whether the superintendent of journal is issued by the latter, of which the former elits a department. We do education is a "silent partner" in the enterprise or not. or whether he is to receive compensation for edfitintg his~ lepartmient or not. Tlhat is a side issue. We (10 know that an attempt is being madle to miake one departmnet of the Stat,e government at oncC a ptilic of (Ice and a private "truist"---to) take the money of the peop)le and put it into the pocket of an otliceholder-to make the taxes of the coutities support Mr. Thlaickston's journal. T1he dleclaration that the State board of trustees has piassed a resolution au thoriziung this perversion of' the putblic funds does not come direct,ly, it will bo ieen, from Mr. Tlhackston. 1ie puts It in the nmouthts of the county school somm tissiotiers. I f it, be trite, the hoard inas done1 an act wh ich~ it, will find It very hard t.o julsti fy. I f it is t,rite, there is decept 1011 as5 well as jobbery. , lhit no tunatter how it standls, this atf. fair is scatndahotis. It, comtipels the taking of Lthrec copies of the P almietto School J1ouirial ini every school district f tIe State at the exp~enise of the tax payers, atnd the utnoney goes into the pockets o1 Mr, Th'fackstont individually, or Mr-. Thaickstoni andi his backers. It is estimtetd t hat the stm thtus proposed to be drawtn from the county treasuries will attount to f romt $,XK to $4,00 muuiial ly. -Tihte State. state is aboitt to have another vexations aw sit .thrust upon its htands, growing >it of' an Act of the last Legislature. I'he law priov(iding for a license of' .2t or the sale of p)istois and pistol cat -' ridiges, which goes into effect 01n thie ~3d itnstant, will he resisted by the moan ifacturers of these articles. Thley have retained Mordecai andl Gadsdhen, law ~ers of' this city, and havct instructedc ~hemn to resist the p)ayment of' license n every County In the State wvher.. aiu ttemnpt is made to eniorce t he collec ion of the tax. D)ealers throuighout, hie State will be notilied that fthe tman ifacturers will pay all the expenses of' the litigatian. Th lifght will probably be transferred to the F"ederal courts The ground upon which fte lawv is 1.o be resisted Is the decisiottof t he i nited St-ates Supreme Court kttown as thei original package case, in witichi it. was held that a license on goods sent f'romt one State to another mi thte otiginll package was uin:onst it utional. Thie fight promises to he as intierestinig as the Coosaw case aitd the irailr.:ad and bank assessment cases. llThe fight, will be made by mnanufactutrers in Newv York, Boston, Iliart ford, (fhicago and other cities.- -CoIlumbia Riegister-. Deoadly K(erosene. GRiE EN VILLE, S. C., ,June 15.-- es terday morning Mr-s. A. K. hell, of Piledmont was burned to death. She was making a fire u'y using kerosene oil. She was pouring oil on the woodl to make It burn more rapidly when the flames ran up the stream of oil from the can causing the can to burst, ignit ing her clothes. She was burned al most to a crisp. Mrs. IBelf' was a sister af tihe Messrs. McGee of' this city.