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l She ICheuN _____ _e VOL. XX. PICKENS, S. C2., THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1891. NO. 4L AT THE TABERNACLE. DR. TALM AGE PREACHES ON VARIOUS KINDS OF PRODIGALS. The Crew 'hat. Was Almost Saved-The Pardoned Crim"inal--The Godly Sorrow That Leadeth to itepentaice. itollXYN, .Iune 21.-Dr. Talmage's sermon this morning was anl appeal to young men. Numbers of these come to the Tabernacle services, many of them from country homes, where they re ceived Christian training, which, in the temptations of city life, has been cast oil'. Dr. Talmage called his ser non "The Homesick Soul," and his text was from the parable of the prodigal son, Luke xv, 18, "1 will arise and go to my father." There is nothing like hunger to take tihe energy out of a man. A hungry man can toil neither with pen, nor hand, nor fbot. There has been many an army de feated, not so much for lack of ammuni tion as for lack of bread. It was that fact that took the fire out of this young imian of the text. Storm and exposure will wear out. any man's life in ,ime, but hunger makes quick work. The moat awful cry ever heard on earth is the cry for bread. A traveler tells us that in Asia Minor there are trees which bear fruit looking very much like the long bean of our time. It is called the carab. Once in a while the people reduced to destitution would eat these carabs. but generally, the carabs, the beans spoken (i here in the text, were thrown only to the swine, and they cruncheld them with great avidity. But this young man of' my tkxt could not even get them with oi stealing them. So one (lay amid the swine troughs lie begins to soliloquize. lie says: "These are no clothes for a rich man's son to wear; this is no kind of business for a .lew to be engaged in feeding swine; I'll go home, I'll go hoe; I will arise and go to my father." I know there are a great many people who try to throw a fascination, a ro mance, a halo about sin; but notwith standing all that Lord Byron and George Sand have said in revard to it it is a mean, low, contemptible business, and putting food and fodder into the troughs of a herd of' iniquities that root and wallow in the soul of man is a very poor business for men and women in. tended to be sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. And when this 1oung man resolved to go home it was a very wise thing for him to do, and the only question is whether we will follow him. Satan promises large wages it' we will serve him, but lie clothes his victims with rams, and lie pin,hes them with hunger, and when they start out to do better lie sets after them all the blood hounds of I erdition. Satan comes to us today and lie promises all luxuries, all emoluments if we will only serve him. Liar, down with thee to the pit! "The wages of' sin is death.'" Oh, tie young man of tie text was wise when he ut tered the resolution, "I will arise and go to my father." In the time of Mary the Persecutor, a persecutor came to a Christion woman who had hidden in her house for the Lord's sake one o1 Christ's servants, and the persecutor said, "Where is that heretic?'' The Christian woman said, "You open that trunk, and you will see the herefic.'' The persecutor opened the trunk, and cii the tol of the linen of the trunk lie saw a glass. Ile said, ",,There is no heretic here.'' "Ah,'' she said, "you look in the glass, and you will see the heretic!" As I take up the mirror of God's word today would that instead of' seeing the prodigal son of' t,he text we might see ourselves-our w~ant, our wandlering, our sin, our lost condi tion-so that we miight he as wise as this young man was, and say, "'I will arise and go to my father.'' iN SORROW ONE LoN(S I"OR A F"A'THERI. The resolution of' this text was formed in disgust at his present circumstances. If' this youing man had( been by his em iloyer act to culturing flowers or tr'aia ing vines over an arbo,r or keeping ac c'oun1t, of the pork mar ket, or ov'erseeing ot,hier la borers lie would not. have thlought of going homie. I' lie had haid his piock ets full of money, if hie bad been able to say, ''1 have a thiousandi dollars niow of my own; what's the use of iiy goinig back to my lather's house? do you think I am going hack to apologize to the (ild man? why he would put me on t.he lim its; lie would not hlave going on ariousid the old place such conduct as I have been engagedi in; 1 won't. go home; there is no reason why I should go home; I have plenity of' money, pIlnty of pleas unlt surriounidings", why should I go hioime?'' A h! it was his paupeism.l, it was his begganry. le had to go home. Seime mu comes and1( says to me: "Why do you talk about the r'uinedl state of the hiumani soul? why don't y ou speak about the progress of the N ineteenth century, and talk of' something moire ex hilaratingy'' It is for this reason: A man never wants the unospei until lhe realizes he is in a familne struck state. Suppose I shiould c)Ime to you ini vour home and1( you are ini goodl, 5lsuI, r'o bust health; and I should begin to talk about raiedicines, and about how mumclh better this medicine is than that, and some ot,ber mnedicinie than some other mnedicinie, and talk about this physician and that physician. After a while you get tired, and( 3011 wouldkisay: "I1 don't want to hear about. mfedhichuies. Why do you talk to me of physicians? I never have a doctor.'" - ~ But suppose I, come into y our house and I find you severely sick, a;.d I know the medicines that will cure you, andl I know the hy3sician who is skillful enough to meet your case. You say: "BIrina on that niedicine; bring on that phiysicaan. I am terribly sick, anid I want help"' if I came to you and iou f'eel you are all r'ght in body, and all right in mind, and all right in soul you a have needl of not.hing; but 5'.ippose I have persuadled you that the leprosy of sin is upon you, the worst of all sickness; oh, then you say: "Bring mec that balm of the gospel; bring me that dilvme medl icament; bring me JesusB Christ." But, 8113 some one in the auience, "Hlow (10 you prove that we are in a ruined condition b)y sin?'' Well, I can prove it in two ways, and you may have y onr choice. I cnn proe it by the statements of men or by the stateme of God. Which shall it be? You i say, "Let us have the statement of God Well, he says in one place, "The len 18 deceitful above all things and desp( ately wicked."' le says in anoth place, "What is man that he should 1 clean? and he which is born of a woma that he should be righteous?" le sa in another place, "There is none th doeth good, no, not one." He says another place, "As by one man sin e treth into the world, and death by sir end so death passed upon all men, I that all have sinned." "Well," yl say, "Ian willing to acknowledge the but why should I take the particul rescue that you propose?" This is ti reason, "Except a man be born againl cannot see the kingdom of God." Th is the reason. "There Is one name give under heaven among men whereby tht may be saved." Then there are a thou and voices here ready to say, "Well, am ready to accept this help of 'he Go pel; I would like to have this divine cur how shall I go to work?" Let me sa that a mere whim, an undefined longir amounts to nothing. You must have stout, tremendous resolution like th young man of the text when lie said, will arise and go to my father." THEABOUNDING MERCYOF GOD. "Oh!" says some man, "how do know my father wants me? How do know, if I go back, I would be received! "Oh!" says some man, "you don't kno where I have been, you don't know ho far I have wandered; you wouldn't ta that way to me if you knew all the i iquities I have committed." What that llutter among the angels of God? is news, it is newe! Christhas found tl lost. Nor angels can their joy contain, But kindle with new fire: Thie sinner lost, is found, they sing, And strike the sounding lyre. W hen Napoleon talked of going in Italy, they said: "You can't get ther If you knew what the Alps were v< wouldn't talk about it or think of i You can't get your ammunition wagoi over the Alps." Then Napoleon roi in his stirrups and waving his hand t ward the mnuntains, he said, "The: shall be no Alps." That wonderful pai was laid out which has been the woi derment of all the years since-the woi derment of all engineers. And you te me there are such mountains of sin b tween your soul and God, there isi mercy. Then 1 see Christ waving h hand toward the mountains. I hear hi say, "I will come over the mountains thy sin and I he hills of thy iniquity. There shall be no Pyrenees; there sh be no Alps. Again, I notice that this resolution the young man of the text was found, in sorrow at his misbehavior. It w not mere physical plight. It was gri that he had so maltreated his fattier. is a sad thing after a father has dol everything for a child to have that chi be ungrateful. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it Is Tro have a thankless child. That is Shakespeare. "A foolish s< is the heaviness of his mother." That the Bible. Well my friends, haye n some of us been cruel prodigals? Ha we not maltreated our Father? Ai such a Father! So loving, so kind. lie had been a stranger, if he had fc saken us, it lie had pounded us at turned us out of doors on the common it would not have been so wonderful. our treatment of him; but lie is a Fath so loving, so kind, and yet how many us for our* wanderings have never apl)O gized. We apologize for wrongs (do1 to our fellows, but some of us perhal have committed ten thousand times Li thousand wrongs against, God and nev ap)ologized. I remark still farther that this resol tion of thme text was founded in a feehir of' homesickness. I don't know how loi this young man, how many months, ho many years he had been away fromh father's house; but there is something the reading of my text that makes 'n think he was homesick. Sonme of y< know what that feeling is. Far aws from home sometimies, surrounded h everything bright and pleasant-plent oif friends-vou have saidl, "I would gli time worldI to be hiomie tonight." Wel this young man wa i homesick for~ h fathier's house. I have no dloubt whe he thiough., of his fathier's house lie sai< "Now, pierhiaps, father may riot be h ing." WVAS TIilE PRI(O(AL'S MOTI[ER DEAl We read nothing in this story-th paralble f ounded on everyday life-we ret nothiing about the mother. It says not) ing about goimg home to her. I thir sihe was (lead. I think she had died(< a broken heart at his wanderings. man never cots over having lost hi miother. Nothing saidl about her her But lie is homesick for his father's hious lIe thought lie would just like to co a: walk around the 01(1 place, ie thiougi he would just like to go andl see if thiinj were as they used to be. Many a ma af ter ,having been oIl a X>ng while hu gone home and knocked at the (door, ar a stran)ger has come. Ihis the 01(d honm stead1, but a stranger conmes to the doo Ile finds out father is gone rind moth is gone, and brothers and sisters all gon I think this young man of the text sa to himself, "Perhaps father may 1 dIeadl." Still he starts to find out. Il is h<.mesick. Are there any here tode homesick for God, homesick for heavel A sailor, having been long on Li sea, returned to his father's house, at his mothier tried to persuade him not go away again. She saidl: "Now y< had better stary at home. D)on't go aw a we don't want you to go. You will ha it a great deal better here." B.it it ma him angry. Tfhe night before lie we away again to sea lie heard his moth praying in the next room, and that ma him more angry. lIe went far out the sea ad a storm caime upi, arid was ordered to very perilous dut and lie ran up the ratlines, a amid the shrouris of the ship heard the voice that he had lien im the next ro.om. Hie tried to ral his courage, but lie could not sllen that voice he had heard in the next root and there in the storm and the darkne he saId: 0 Lord! what a wretch I hia been; what a wretch I am. Helpr ,ust now, Lord God." And.[ thou~ in this assemblage today there may some who may have Uemeor nt father's petition or a mother's prayer ll pressing mightily upon the soul, and ." that this hour they may make the same rt resolution I find in my text, saying, "I r- will arise and go to my father." er ILLUSTRATION OF THE' RESCUED BOY. Je A lad at Liverpool went out to bathe, n, went out into the sea, went out too far, ys got beyond his depth and he floated far at away. A ship bound for Dublin came in along and took him on board. Sailors a- are generally very generous fellows, and , one gave him a cap and another gave or him a jacket, and another gave him )U shoes. A gentleman passing along on t, the beach at Liverpool found the lad's ir clothes and took them home, and the e father was heartbroken, the mother was e heart-broken at the loss of their child. is They had heard nothing fiem him (lay n after day, and they ordered the usual y mourning for the sad event. But the 3. lad took ship from Dublin and arrived In I Liverpool the very day the garments a- arrived. le knocked at the door and 3; the farther was overjoyed, and the moth y er was overjoyed at the return of their g lost son. Oh, my friends, have you a waded out too deep? Have you waded a down into sin? Have you waded from I the shore? Will you come back? When you come back; will you come in the rags of your sin, or will you come robed I in the Saviour's righteousness? I be I lieve the latter. Go home to your God today. He is waiting for you. Go w home! W But I remark concerning this resolu .k tion, it was immediasely put into excu i- tion. The context says, "le arose and is came to his father."' The trouble in nine [t hundred and ninety-nine times out of a ke thousand is that our resolutions amount to nothing because we make them for some distant time. Ift I resolve to be come a Christian next year. that amounts to nothing at all. It' I resolve to become a Christian tomorrow. that ,o amounts to nothing at all. I I resolve at the service tonight to become a Chris In tian, that amounts to nothing at all. If t. I resolve after I go home today to yield is my heart to God, that amovints to Inoth le Ing at all. The only kind of resolution ). that amounts to anything is resoultion ,e that is immediately put into exebution. is There is a man who had the typhoid 1. fever. le said: "Oh! if I could get 2. over this terrible distress! If this fever 11 should depart, if I could be restored to B- health, I would hll the rest of my life k serve God." The fever departed. ITu i got well enough to walk around the block. le got well enough to go over m o New York and attend to business. D Ile is well to-day-as well as lie ever was. Where is the broken vow? There al is a man who said long ago, "If I could live to the year 1891, by that time I of willhave my business matters arranged, d and I will have time to attend to re a ligion, and I will be a good, thorough, ef consecrated Christian." It The year 1891 has come. January, ie February. March, April, May, June-al ld most half of the year gone. Where is your broken vow? "Oh," says some man: "I'll attend to that when I can get my character fixed up. When I can get over my evil habits. I am now m given to strong drink," or, says the is man, "I am given to uncleanness," or, ot says the man, "I am given to disbones le ty. When I get over my present habits, kd then I'll be a thorough Christian." My If brother, you will get worse and worse, r- until Christ takes you in hand. "Not id the righteous; sinners, Jesus came to call." DANOElt OF PROCHASTI NATION. er Oh! but you say, -I agree with you on af all that, but I must put it off a little . longer." 1)o you know there were ie many who caime just as near as vou are >to the k ingdom of God and never en tered it? I was at East IIampton and I went into the cemetery to look er around, and in that cemetery there are twelve graves side by side-the graves Lof sailors. TIhis crew, some years ago, ig in a ship went into the breakers at ig Amagansett, about three miles away. w M y brother, then preaching at East is Hampton, had been at the burial. n Tfhese mnen of the crewv caime very near eo being saved. u The people from Anmagansett saw the yvessel, and they shot rockets, and they sent ropes from the shore, and( these poor fellows got into the boat, and they pulled mightily for the shore, but just e before they got to the shore the lope snajapped and the boat capsized and they ia were lost, their b)odies af terwardl washed ni up on the b3ach. Oh, what a solemn I, day it was-i have been told of it by - my brother-when these twelve men lay at the~ foot of the pulpit and he read >? over them the funeral service! T1hey is caine very necar shore-witin shout. Ld ing distance of the shore-yet did not . arrive on solid land. There are some 1k men who come almost to the shore of God'semercy, but not quite, not quite. To e oniily almost saved is not to bie is I will tell you of two prodligals, the 3. one that got back and the other that 5. did not get back. In Virginia there is da very prosperous and beautiful home it in many respects. A young man wan. a dered off from that home, le wan n dered very far into sin. They heard of as him often, but he wvas always oni the i wrong track, lIe would not go home. . At the door of that b,eautifiul home one night there was a great outcry. The * young iman of the house ran down and ropened the door to see what was the Smatter. it was midlnight. Thei rest of Ld the family were asleep. There were >e the wife and tne children of this prodli Le gal young man. The f act was he had y come home and dIriven them out, iIe a? said: "Out (of this house. A way with te these children; I will dlash their brains id out. Out into the storm!" to 'rho mother gatheredi them up and >u fled. The next morning the b,rother, ,the young man who had staye(d at home, went out to find this prodigal brother leadson, and he caime where hewas, and saw the young mian wannering uip and down in front of the place where er he had been staying, and the young le man who had kept his hitegrity said to >n the older brother: "ifere, what does be all this mean? Whlat is the matter y, with you?' Why (10 you act in this id way i" 'fie prodigal looked at him he and saidi: "WVho am 1? Who do you rd take me to be ?" lie said, "You are my IVbrother." "No, I am not, I am a brute. ceIave you seen anything of my wife and children ? A re they dead ? I d rove ,them out last night in the storm. I asam a brute. John, do y'ou think there VS is any help for me ? Do0 you think I no will ever get over this life of dlisslpa hit ion ?" lie said, "lBrother, there Is just eone thing that will stop this." The a prodigal ran his finger acosse his throat an:l said: "That will stop it. and I'll stop it before night. Oh! my brain; I can stand it no longer." That prodigal never got home. But I will tell you of at prodigal that did get home. TWO RAN AWAY, nUT ON- HIiTR'NISD. In England two young Men started from their father's house and went down to Portsmouth. The father could not pursue his children; for some reason lie could not leave home, and so he wrote a letter down to Mr. Griffin, saying: "Mr. Griffin, I wish you would, go and see my two sons. They have ar rived in Portsmouth, and they are going to take ship and going away from home. I wish you woild persuade them back." Mr. Griffin went and lie tried to persuade them back. lie per suaded one to go. lie went with very easy persuasion because lie was very homesick already. The other young man said: "I will not go. 1 have had enough of home. I'll never go home." "Well," said Mr. Grillin, "then if you won't go home I'll a get you respectable position on a respectable ship." "No you won't," said the prodigal. "No you won't. I am going as a comnion sailor; that will plague my father most, and what will do most to tantalize and worry himt will please me best." Years passed on, and Mr. Griffin was seated in his study one day when a znes sage came to him that there was a young man in irons on a ship at the dock-a young mai condemned to death---who wished to see this clergy main. Mr. Grillin went down to the (lock and went on shipboard. The young man said to him, "You don't know ime, do yot ?" "No," he said: "I don't know you." "Why, don't you re member that young man you tried to persuade to go home, and lie wouldn't go?" "Oh, yes." said Mr. Gri Ilii. "Are yott that man?" "Yes, I am that man," said t he other. "I would like to have you pray for me. I have committed murder, and I miust (lie, but I don't wan't to go out of this world until some one prays for me. You are my father's I riend, and I would like to have you pray for me." Mr. Grillin went from judicial au thority to judicial authority to get the young man's pardon. Ile slept not night nor day. IIe went from influen tial person to influential person until some way he got the young man's par (Ion. lie came (town on the dock, and as lie arrived on the (leck with the par don the father came. Ife had heard that his son, under a disguised name. nad been committing crialie and was going to be put to death. So 1%r. Grif niii and the father went on the ship's deck, ant at the very moment Mr. Griflin offered the pardon to the young man, the old father threw his arms around the son's neck and the son said: "Father, I have done very wrong and I am very sorry. I wish I had never broken your heart. I am very sorry." "Oh!" said the father, "don't mention it; it don't make any difference now. It is all over. 1 forgive you, my son," and lie kissed him and kissed and kissed him. To-day I offer you the pardon of the gospel-full pardon, free pardon. I do not care what your sin has been. Though you say you have committed a crime against God, against your own soul, against your fellowman, against your family, against the day of judg ment., against the cross of Christ whatever your crime has been, here is pardon, full pardon, and the very I o inent that you take that pardon your heavenly father throws his arms around about you and sayi: "Aly son, I for give you. It is all right. You are as much in my favor now as if you had never siniied." 0! there is joy on earth and joy in heaven. Who will take the father's embrace? TH'IE 3MANIAC, iE (ClIiI NA L, A NID TI'll TJhere was a gentleman in a rail car who saw ini that same car three passen gers of' very dilferent ci reumstances. tirst was a maniac, lie wvas carefully guarded by his attendants. ii is mind, like a ship dismastedi, was beating against a dark, desolate coast, from wvhich no hielp couild come. 'The ti'aini stoppedi, and the man was taken out into the asylumn to waste away, per haps, through years of gloom. Tlhe seconid passenger was a culpriit. TIhe ouitragedl law had seized oni him l. As the ears jolted the chains i'attled. On his face were crime. dlepravity and (les pai'. Thel train halted and he was takeni out to the penfitenmtiary, to wvhich lie had been cond(emnied. Tihere was the third passenger, uder far di lferent circumstances, Slhe was a bride. Every hour was gay as a marriage hell. Life glittered and1( beckoned, 11er cornpan ion was taking her to his fat her's house. Th'le traini halted. Tlhe 01(d man was there to welcome her to ther new home, and( his white loeks sno wed down upon her as liesealed his word wvithi a father's kiss. Quickly we ily toward eternity. We will soori he lthere. Someit leave this life conidemnied. Oh, may it be with us, that ,leaving thiis fleeting lifeo for' the next, we muay lid our l"at.her' ready to greet us to ouri new hiotnie with himi for' ever. Tlhat will be a miar'riage baniquiet! Pat.her's welcom('! Father's bosom! I"athier's kiss! I leaven! I leaven! A iother' O)iiel,as Iccapitaitio,. CoILl'M iA, 5. (., ,1 ine 21I.--Gov'erior Tlillmian (decided yesterday morning to r'emove 'T. D. Alsroy fromi the ollice of' Sripervisor of JHegisti'at.ion, and no tilled him i of his reinioval in the follow ing letter, wvh ich will hilly e'xplaini the grounmds of' his action: COL ,:31BI A, S. C., .Ji ne 20, 1891. 'To T. D). AleEl,iov, Gloodgions, S. C. Sm n: Charges of habitual drunken ness anid of' neglecting to attend to your ollice according to law have beein preferred against you by the Senator anid two IIep)resenltativyes of your Cotun tv. You are thierefore removed from the ollice of Supervisor of Rlegistration, and will turn over the books be'longing to) saidl oflice to WVm. Wright, who has beein a1pp)ointed( you r successor. ii. It. TiIL LtIAN, Governor. aIpltl ri's I)eadiy Work RtALEIor, N. C., .lune 19.-Airs. 'T. It Glennanm, wife of J'ast Assistant Sur geon Glennan, U nitedi States Navy, ar rived at Italeigh Thuinrsday evening froini WVashiington with four children. Rlosa, 5 years old, had a case of diphithneria arid died Mlondiay evening. L 'anly, 3I years old, died of the same dlisease this afternoon. Kenneth is now at dleath's door and the remiaining child has the disease. ,OHON BBOwN, a Greek of Athaint, kissed a gitrl in his em ploy and thiecour lined him $100. As lie was "forkina over" the line he sa1id with Sparta brevity:- "It. is no wort.h it. " DASHED INTO A DITC1. FEARFUL FATE OF AN EXCURSION TRAIN NEAR CLEVELAND. Eight Cars Leave the Track-Several Coaches Smashed to SIlinters-Forty Ieole Injured-Several Fatallv--Train t t Was Running Sixty Miles an Hour. CLEVELAND, June 21.-A frightful c wreck o,curred on the Nickle Plate t railroad thirteen miles west of Cleve- I land this afternoon. The West Side Street Railway com pany gave an excur- . jion to Oakpoint for the benefit of their 3iployees. There were two trains con iisting of ten cars each. The flrst sec tion left on time at 2 30. 'ho second section was delayed and did not leave Cleveland until about 2 o'clock. When three miles west of Dover, the second section jumped the truck, ditch- I ing eight of the ten cars. Seven of the r cars were overturned and four of them t were torn into splinters. Many women t an(d children were caught under the c debris. About forty were badly hurt. IdwarI Rodgers was horribly man- a gled. I[is head was crushed into a pulp, t one armi partly severed and his breast crushed. Iodgers was a nember of the Shamrock baseball club, and at one time was a professional player on t he Toronto team. t Ten or twelve were fatally injured L but their names could not be learned -9 owing to the reticence of the hospital V employees. t Every ambulance in the city was li called and met the special train that went out for injured. TIiey were taken to the different hospitals. A man taken to the 1:niversity hos pital died this evening. Many wVom11enl and children had their arilsi broken and were otherwise injured. The newsboy. John IIHiggins, wINas seen by a Press News reporter, )It ie t was so badly hurt he could not give a t clear account of the wreck, but says t the train was running sixty miles an c hour when they left the track. His clothes were torn nearly off. IIis face I was cut and he was badly bruisedI about the body. The engine buried itself in the ditch. The engineer and fireman saved their lives by jumping. The cars rolled down the embank ment six feet into a ditch which was filled with muddy water. The passen gers were covered with mud and as nearly everyone was bleeding from cuts-i received, it was diflicilt to tell how badly they were hurt. The car iiext to the engine was mashed into splinters and all who were in this car were seriously hurt. There were at least twenty that had to be car ried from the special train that brought then to Cleveland to the ambulances which numbered fifteen or more. It, is not known what caused the train to leave the t rack but it is supposed the track spread. A Iisttir and a Miaso,. BoSToN, .Juic 22.-1)uring the regular Monday meeting of the iBaptist ministers in Chapel Hall this forenoon the .Rev .1. 11. Stoddard addressed the Conference, at its suggestion, upon the iiiluence of secret, societies upon the (hurch, and in i the course of his remarks lie strongly de nounced Masonry, declaring that when a man swears allegiance to Masonry le i swears allegiance to ia code anta,,onistic to God. The Rev Mr. Cleveland, of Melorse. I who was in the audience, arose to a point if order, and], with suppressed emotion, aid: "I aim a Mason and I cannot listen to this unjust and uncalled for- abuse." C;hair-man Aloran put, the qluestion to tIhe mfeetinig of sustaining tIhe poinit of rirder, and it, was dlefeated-50 to 7. Inistantly Mr Cleveland rose and, ad rIressing the secretary, saidl: "I requiest I that you drolp my namie from the roll of I memb)ersimip) of' this Contferenice. I do t niot caire to be a member of any body y thiat refuses to sustain any decent point 1 f order."'' Then taking his hat, lie let t. the h all andi Stoddard finished his arddress, P'robably Mu10rdeIrtII. Coin IA, .June 20.-Jane Merritt, a whiite woman, was founad on a rail roadI f track here this mnorning with her head mnashmed off and( groundi to pieces. She I was seen lying ona the track as the train 1 ap)proached. ilefore it could lbe stopped the engine passed( over her. From the I tact that the body was col and stiff t and blood was not flowing when ex atmined'( a minmute or two later it is be. c lieved she was dead long before the en gime p)assedl. Th'is~ added to the fact that along the bank there are evidences of a body be lng dragged, together with footstep~s arcrates the suspicioni that she was muiiir ilere'd. A coroner's juriy rendieredl a verdict (of dleath by the hands of' a l:er sonl orI persons unkniowin. The theory oif sulicidle Is also ad vaniced as thme wo mani was a poor creaturen re-emit ly dis chiargedi from the almns house amid last night she was hieardl to say she wo1(1 r rathler be dead and with the devil rathi or than to live such a life. A l'iIagueI of L.ocat,. t LONI>DOx, J1uine 18.-T'he miost thirili- IF lng stories come from Algeria of the ravages of the locusts. In unanmv Is- ( tricts not a sprig remaTins5 on ia farm, 11n( the inhabitants are in a f-unmishinug ( Bonditioni. Their only resort for food1 0 Is the locusts themselves, of whichl vaslt t~ riuantities are bieing consued(. Th'Ie t F'rench colonmial authorities are- tak inmg ~ iteps to stay the plague as mumch as p)os- t sible by the use of scientific laneans. U The Chamber af D)eputica has voted Ii 'k0,000 fiancs to be0 used( In demstroyinlg i the locust plagne in Algeria. h A D)eath-D)ealng Storm. LII' LE IlocK, Ark., ,June 20.--A de mtructive storm passed over Etastern A r- 3 ansas thits morning. Ilouses were un- I: moofed amid blown down, fences carried t iway and a large area of timbher land was laid waste. Mrs. ,Julia Shadrick d was killed by a falling tree. John Stan ley, who was hauling ties in the wmoodls, ~ was crushed beneath falling timbers. C i'wo boys niamedl Ilollngsworth aire m~issing and it is feared they have been I killed in tihe woods.t illsEyes hliow Ont. EI)ovuIELDm, S. C., ,June 18.---Some caps and dynamnite contained in the satume barrel were ig nited by sparks from an engine at the United btates qularry, two miles from Edgefleld, this' evening. ,Jaimes E. D)avis, the engineer, had his eyes knocked out and chest crnahed --State. ANTI-FOREING RIOTS IN CHINA. 1to Fight of the British Consul at wit In Defenceof thoMlissionaril. SAN FRANCISCO, June 23.-The Torth China Daily News In its account r the Wuhu riots, says: It has been reported for several days iat a mob of Chmeses had determined > loot aid burn the property of the esuits at Wuhu. It was rumored that bildren had been killed and their eyes iken out to make medicine for the Jesuit ithers. On the afternoon of Tuesday, lay 12, at mob of Chinese gathered c bout the premises of the priests and , roke through the walls, eventually set ng lire to the Cathedral and other build- d( igs, alter driving out the missionaries S nd pillaging the palace. .a The mob then proceeded to the Enghsh I onsulate and destroyed considerable C roperty by throwing stones. The ar ival of Toatai, the local magistrate, and lie coolness of the British consul saved 0 lie buildings from being set oin fire. The n onsul and his wile escaped from the a lob by dressing in Chinese costumes a ud hurrying to the custom house, where ci hicy embarked with other foreign resi- J ents in the China Navigation Company's eceiving ship. tr A number of foreigness, headed by J( lie consul, armed themselves and pass d the time at the custom house, and, t %sisted by Toatai, repelled the mob, ho twice during the niilit made an at %mipt to loot and set on fire the custotn OUse and residences of foreign otficials. vt The next morninig ai iiiense crowd ,ain set lire to the custom house alit uirrounidiig buildings but the customes tal, fully armed, charged the natives nd again put out the fires. In the at rnioon three Chinese gunhoats, which wre escorting Shen Ping Cheng, Gov rnior of' Anliul, up the river. arrived onl lie scene, and learning of the riot hegane' t) tire blank cartridges, which had the Ifect of' frighLtening the mob. ,otme two hundred soldiers arrived rolmI Taiping Ftu, and this lent addition .1 protection to the fure-gn residents. i 'lie miob) did not make any further de alonstration against,the Methodist Epis-_ opal (America) Mission, but, advised 91 y the British consul, the nissionarles il rom that point also embarked on the l 'ensing, which lrouht theni, together tl viol, the ladies and children of' Wuhu, to h1anlghai. At Chain King the priests. who es aped from Wuhu in a bout, were picked ' ip. There was only one British man >f-war on the north China station at ,he ime of' the riot., and the gunboat innett d vas near Wu Sung, but it was sent for c' ad plocceded to Wuhu. On the 16th >' May, four days after the Wuhu riots, Lhe nati;fns of Nganking made an attack c n the loman Catholic mission there. 'I'he priests succeeded in keeping the mnob off and one of the assailants was ar rested and punisled. The Catholic mission was not the only oie attacked, or a crowd equallv large made at de cent on an inland mission near the iorth gate, but the Chinese authorities " irived in time to prevent any serious laniage. t Placards had been posted by the riot r-s announcing that the mission build " rigs would be totally destro3,l on Fri- L lay, Alav 22. Placards also ha(d been al iosted in the French quarter of Shan- i ai threatening foreigners. ol Brave Fred hrokaw. SL Asmit-y 'A i K, .1 ine 24.-Fred iro- e. aw, thre el-lest son of lanac V. liro- te aw, the priominent New York clothier, of mas drowned( while attempting to r'es- m~ ue the servaants of Mrs. Iless, at lilber- bi n, this aifternoon. Anniiie Doniohue, i ne of the servants, was also drowned. t liss Annie J)onohue, Mliss Maggie Ii rsh arid AMiss ,J lia Tforpis lad gone t athinig. Tlhey were carried out be ond their depth. Their cries wvere card b)y hirok raw, who, wvith l)r, lFerris, A f 1l'hiladel ph ia, was sitt,inig on the w awn of the iowaw cottage. Th'le two ii birew off their outer garmuents and l~ 'apledI Into the sea. irokaw seized wi hiss l)onohuie rand I )r. Ferris caught T1 .01( of Mliss l i rsh. ir'okawv made a d< 'lant st ruggle to reach the shore with of is burrdeni. Th'le girl compihletf ly lost h. er head, se ve'ral timries break irig f roim is grasp. lie woml riot, desert her, ' mi struiggled to bring her to the shore. hi irnally his efforts to retain his hold on1 he girl exhiaulstedtr im, arid he sank ci rrain view, with the girl, to whom hie< lung to the end. Mir. arnd AMrs. lHro- ce aw witnessed the sad raccident from lie becach, and are atlmrost frantic with Iri rief. Aliss TIorpis anid Mliss liirshi to 'ere saveil. lI r, l-'erri was completely l'o xhiaustedl when rescued, andi was taken te ) the lIrok aw Cottage wi'here lie lies ini th critical conadition- te several Poeauie Drowneaii. sa. rere received this morning by the lil i- TI ois Con tral oflices in this city of a t er- itt ibale wliud anid raini steo which pre- st ai led last night along that company's hu nie f romi Stornim Lake to L emars, a to istarnce of Ii Ity-sI x imiles, All the or )iwns rare ionisider'abiy dlamfaged. l-"our 01 ersons wiere drown'aed rat (Cherokee and 01 sur at Correctionville. Thle railroadT elpot at Calurmet was blowni down andl 1iuch daiinage to the town property was one. Th'le wires are all down anid it i irpossible to o'btaini accurate informna (In exce'pt thre reports transmitted o) irugh the railroad oflicials. Th'le Ill i- pr ois Central train No. 2, the passenger ot raini which left here Iast niighat at 10.50 still at Storm Lake, rand the train- of matter here says there is nio prospect of w ioving it in the next twenty-four ' ourrs. Four Mlen Killed. HiclinMoN, Ky., June 23.-A cou truction train belonging to the corn- a any which is building the road from j hus place to Beattyville left the track t Mlillion, live miles from here yestor-a ay, and killed four men, Abner hlagena ~ tat WVest, Joseph Swopes and William' )eWVitt., all colored. Six were wound- ' d, one losing an arm. Conductor Stev- ~ ns was severely hurt. The men who 1 emained in the cars were not hurt, but a hose who jumped out were caught un- t. ier the car as it turned over.e CHARLFSTON, S. C., Juneo 23.-A dlight shock of earthquake occurred C lere at 11 :l p.nm. There was a distinct f )oom and shock. No damage was done, 5 md the earthquake was so 81light that nI t escapea1 the notice of hal f the popula- g ion. tI THACKSTON'S IEPLY 0 HIS NEWSPAPER CRITICS WHO CHARGE HIM WITH JOBBERY. im Action in Soekinmg Contribuitorii Among School Trustoe Intended to Promote thae Ficienicy of tihmm, 01corpi -Doem Not Fear Any InvuNtigntiont. Col'Murilt, S. C., June 23.-The f'ol wing article from Mr. W. J. Tliacks n of the State Suiperi tendent of Edu jtiou's oflice xvill appear in the next imber ol' the Painetto Shool .1ournal. lie publicntion of this numll 5er has been layed because of' the Itct that Profes r Thackston was waiting the rtcrivill circular giving information ab( ut the -achers' Association which meets i iattanooga next mnonth: The editor and owner of the 'almetto 'hool .Jouirnal hia1s 14 been Inade tietarget r some sharp shootin-, by ,I nuiber of 1spapel5, 11111113' 1 whom)ii1 have tempted to attribute to hii the Jowests id Invalest (4,flotives, ail[ have labor I paiflltlly to shmv that not oily this urnal and its editor, but also others, tve attempted a high-iaindeud game or eason and rob'wry, and are guilty of bbery and Incipient rotteniness. The acts 01' the publication and its vier and editor are always aimnuable I a just and lair public scuunnilt. Nothill 111 bwuln donec. III the dark. here i.s neve ii beeIai attempt to >ccal anythiniig. The .Journal camei it-) p Cessi ok 3 present ownr:mm time last. Mtarch. )imc lleneotiationls were.i Inad! with a !Itleliiil whio is a prinI.r il (,fluuhia okii towards the printin-4 ol the turnal and beconuinlg inivrcstel in its i' licatioii in order to aIveitise his voods teachers. -No arement,;I was relchl I. Since that time io (n Ih)t myselt' ts im any manner becn interested inl e .1ournal linanci:dly or othierwise. o one has ever het(i solicitted inl any aunet, directly or in-liectly, to becone terested financially mr-otherwisk-. It was with a prfoutnd conviction aLL "uch at publicati4n could be mlade a eat, power For gi t in the improve ent of the administiatin41 Ot the af irs of the public :wchq)ols (o1 the- State at indluced me to a1stuiine the iuiblicn )n of this same Journal. This belief as strengthened v the expericice ot ,ber States. The 'ennsylvania School irial. now about yers * ol, is the Lost notable instance. aid is tie Olliciatl cans of communication het ween the apartmient ol edutcation otiR t chool ofl .rs. At Onte timnie in \irginia th(e State si erintendent ot edu--ati- n mi4 lladt2 <hdrect mtribution f'rom tate C nds L) the Llllppor1 oL1 the school pull;cativii 44 tlat taLe. I am not positive, but thiik that le alouit was soilkething like ne-third f the total expenses. The State supcriImtendent tl tilcation f Arkansas is aLSOcii te e* dit0' of II ournal ol I-ducation of, t that State. A Former State suIp'eriltendew. of ed. cation W* Alabamn' wats.finlt edjto. 44f i( edicatiOll-al 'xc all-e and cozi 11tcie 11n1 olicial depalrtillent in til tie. Ile stil'. retains his initerest and htL4 the publicatloil in liuestiin, while I oflicial department i- c-('nducted bv ie present siperinterndent if' CdtIcationi that State. A. caretl'i study ()I the scho ds nd hool s. stem of the State as well as an perieice ol six or. lir virs htwas led the belief that a better aniministrationi the atlhairs of1 the commioii schools, d.er present,I circuliimstainces, cani11 ony h ad b y givinlg th e 1trustees iiuire Ilight dh miore atssistanice in the' i hs,har.ge of1 cir' duties. TIhe only quelsti. ni wa, hmv". to) rechll emi. SiomeU 2, 11.41, alccord in to14 tlie plort of thiw 51uperin itieiet, 141r 1 SI,l fler a good deal of1 t li.hoit the plan hiel1 h as briouighit so noii h'wrath uponi i 441 y' iead was d Iemed teasile b y me, idi a propoiisitioni to that efect was aide to the Stite I>r ofi', 41.:;nminer's. hie resuilt oft tis was aliIi.uniced ini a )lible-Ieadejd pauge ini the A pr11lilmber the .lurnlal (i. 2.: w.hich was pub-. hedh abouiit the laist of .\ pii or1 tirst oft aly. This aimilunleielln tS alollowed ter' b.y a cirireiiwI lttcer wih h' as beeni iblished(. That, phmt Iwa1s one il ivedi to be the be'st to elIfeet the ends sireid. 1I, w..as not in miy iimer con aldor hiiddein. Th'lere was noi sielm to illeh money10 >m) tihe taxpiayeirs, [to get somlethmng r nothmig. In no way were t rustees r'eed to take the ,onurnia!. The11 mat. r was eiitiirely v4hmitary, first with e d oimmiissioiners, thien w'Ith tIle t rus Ls. 1' amiy p4ersoni or ilewspapers dec -e to) impu)lign the ancihiority 01 the~ State 11rd 1of E-xainieis, the IC uriits are open, IC .1 oinedal has necveri cionitainled oiie m that ::ouhd in any mannerl1 lhe coil-. ruLed as political or' Partisani. Nothiing .s beeii priinted that ccul b le consMtiried otherwise any Uerson . Th'Ie aim is icinhy and1( avo)wediI'l l fo the promtionu)i thie ediuentioinat interest 4)t the State. bie most searching mve;'tigat ion is rdlially iinvitedh. 'Thle re.sults will .hiow tile commuion sehiools it tihl Mtate Ompted my action as an iitidjlv:i ;' Ir 11erwise. The abov'e is a plain, simple statemienit the tacts, and, w.ithi these inoted. I amii ute willingt.o 14be judged by a biiii inded0( and discriinling publllic. STr. Pni: itn'm-41, .1 tine 22. Whii e large ha.loon beClnginC ho ('munt spraxinec was beinlg inithited With1 gas est,crday, it e'scap ed fro' m the at teind ills who w.ere lihohln it to the groundt nd( cariedt unwV.ardh ' iutr wvorkmeni who14 rere in tIle (car when thet hlllooni broke waly. Alter it hiaud ascendhed to a greatl eight the oInlooker's wereC hor'ri ied 1to cc the ballooni hurst and~ the bod)4ies of lie unfortunate w.orkmeii dashedi to the arth, where 1they were smiashed ailmost cyoind recognition. JONES, the family eXtermuina4tor, gets ft light. iIe goes to the peinitenltiary 3r twenty-One years. which Is just sven years each for the t.hree meni hie ourderedI. I[e ought 14 tve been1 Iven the longest termi under the 1law, ilrty years.