The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, March 31, 1892, Image 4
AT THE TABERNACLE.
THE DIVINE ASTRONOMY AS DE
ECRIBEL BY THE PRCPHETS.
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In Ile Ul('arafrg Volmne c: tMbcf- kles
It Is WritIen That Glcd I a OCd of t
Infiite Order 'and Without Varlatble
nemv e1 Shadow of Turning.
BROOKLYN, March 20.-In this ser
mon Dr. Talmage traverses wild realms
of thought to teach useful everyday les
sons, bassed on the text, Amos v, 8,
"Seek him that maketh the Seven
Stars and Orion."
A country farmer wrote this text
Amos of Tekoa. Ile plowed the earth
and thrashed the grain by a new thrash
ing machine just invented, as formerly
the cattle trod out the grain. Ile gath
ered the fruil of the sycamore tree and
scarilied it with an iron comb just before
it was getting ripe, as it was necessary
and customary in that way to take from
i', the bitterness. IIe was the son of a
poor shepherd and stuttered, but before
the stammefing rustic the l'hilistines
and Syrians vud Phonicians and Moab
Ites and Ammonites and Edoinites and
Israelites trembled.
Moses was a lawgiver, Daniel was a
prince, Isaiah a courtier and David a
king; but Amos, the author of my text,
was a peasant, and, as might be sup
posed, nearly all his parallelisms are
pastoral, his prophecy lull of the odor
of new mown hay, and tho rattle of
locusts, and the rumble of carts with
sheaves, and the roar of wild beasts de
vouring the Ilock while the shepherd
came out in their deiense. IIe watched
the herds by day, and by night inhabited
a booth made out of bushes, so that
through these he could see the stars all
night long, and was more familiar with
them than we who have tight roofs to
our houses and hardly ever see the
stars, except among the tall brick chim
neys of the great towns. But at sea
sons of the year when the herds were in
special danger, he would stay out in the
open field all through the darkness, his
only shelter the curtain of the night
heaven, with the stollar embroideries
and silvered tassels of lunar light.
What a life of solitude, all alone with
his herds! Poor Amos! And at 12
o'clock at night hark to the wolf's bark,
and the lioas roar, and the bear's growl,
and the owl's te-whit-te-who, and the
serpent's hiss, as I,e unwittingly steps
too near while moving through the tliick
etal So Amos, lik%e other herdsmen, Lot
the habit of studying the map of' the
heavers, because it was so much of the
time spread out belore bim. IIe noticed
some stars advancing 9nd others reced
in. le associaied their dawn and set
ting with certain seasons of the year.
Ile had a poetic nature, aud F-e read
night by night, and month by month,
and year by lear, the poem oi the coii
stellatious, divinely rhythmic. But two
rosettes of stars especially at:iacted his
attention while seated on the grouind or
lying oil his back under the open scroll
of the midnight heav(ns-the Pleiades,
or Seven Stars, and Orion. The former
group this rustic propliet associated with
the spring, as it rises about tie first ol
Miny. 11 he latter be associated with tPe
winter, as it comes to the meridian in
January. The LPleiades, or Seven Stars,
connected wvih all sweetness and jioy;
Orion, the herald of the teimest. Tihe
ancients were the moie alit to study the
physiognomy and juxtaposition of' the
heavenly LIodies, because they thought
they had a special influence upon01 the
earth, andl perhaps they were right. If
the mioon every Jew hours lifts and lets
down the tides of' the .Atlantic occan,
and the electric storms of the sun, by
all scientIfic admission, affect the earth,
why net the stars have proportionate
effect?
Astrology, after all, may hiave been
something more than a brilliant heathen
ism. No wonder that Amos of the
text. having heard these two anthems
of the stars, put dlown the~ tout, rough
staff of the herisman and took into his
brawn hand and cut and knotted liniger's
the pen of a prophet and advised the r'e
cent people of' is time to return to God,
Eaying, "Seek him that mketh the
Seven Stars and Orion."'i'This comn
miandl, which Amos gave 785 years B.
C., is just as appiropriate for us, 1K02
A. D.
In the first place, Amos saw, as we
must see, that, the God who made the
Pleiades and Orion must be tihe God of
order, it was not so much a star here
and a star there that implressedl the in
spired herdsman, but seven in oneC group
and seven in the other group. lie saw
that nigt after night andl seas on after sea
son and dlecade after deande they had
kept step of' ight, each one in its own
place, a sisterhood never clashing and
never contesting precedence. From
the time IIesiod called the Pleiades the
"seven daughters of Atlas,'' and Virgil
wrote in his EAneid of "St.ormy Orion''
until now, they have observe'd the ordler
establishied for their coming aind going;
order written not in manuscript that
may be pigeonholed, nut with the hand
of the Almiighty on the dome of1 the sky,
so that all nations may readh it Order.
Persistent order. Sublime order. Omi
nipotent order.
What a sedative to you and me, to
whom communities and nations some
times seem going pelinell, andl world
ruled by some fiend at hiaphiazzardl and
in all directions maladminist,ration! The
God who keeps seven woi'lds in right
circuit for six thousand years can cert,ain
ly keep all the affairs of individuals andl
nations and continents in aojustment.
We had not better fret much, f'or tihe
peasant's aigument of the text was
right. If God an take care of the seven
worlds of the Pleiades and the fouir chief'
worlds of Ox;on, lie can probably taike
care of the or.e world we inhanit.
in your occupation, your mission,
your sphere, do the best you can, and
then trust to God; and if things are all
mixed and disquieting and your brain is
hot and your heart sick, get some one
to go out with you into the starlight and
point out to you the P'leiades, or, better
than that, get into some observatory,
and through the telescope see further
than Amos wIth the naked eye could
namely, two hundred stars in the P'lei
ades, and that in what Is called the
sword of Orion there is a nebula com
puted to be two trillion two houndred
thousand billions times larger than
the sun. Oh, be at peace with the God
who made all that and controls all that
-that wheel of the constellations turn
ing in the wheel of galaxies for thouis
and, of years without the breaking of a
cog or the slippmng ofa band or the snap
of an axle. For your placidity and com
fort through the Lord Jesus Christ I
charge you..Mek him that maketh the
Sevn4Er'idui Orion."
, ,AiUe, iiis oga as we must see,
wil beru fo Goer'sstde these two groups
wil b ru fr Ovee4 oI ht. Amos
can ticket this year. --e *lm.
naking one ar, or two stars or three
tars. but. 1 ''ikes seve,-; and having
ihitIed thai o o worldl8, makes
.other arou - r1 alt, group. To
the Pleindms he1 adda Orion. It sc.m8
.hat (od biios light so well that ie
;wes inakhe:! it Only oiw being i t.he
U.li(rs k --s the 5tat tics of soilar,
unar, stel;ar, imetevoric creationis, and
,hat Is the Creator hiisel. And they
live all heeu lovingly christened, cach
mie a namec as distinct as the nalmes of
,our children, "He telleth the number
)f the stars; he calloth them all by their
immes." The seven l'clads had names
;fven to them, and they are Alcyone,
ferope. Gelhno, Electra, Sterope, ''ay
;cto and Mala.
But think of the billions and trillions
f daughters of starry light that Go(l
,alls by name as they sweep by him
vith beaming brow and lustrous robe!
So fond is God of light-natural light,
aioral light, spirtual light. Again and
igain is light harnessed for symboliza
Aon-Christ, the bright morning star;
vangelization, the daybreak; the re.
lemption of nations,Sutin of Righteous
ness rising with healing in his wings.
D) men and women, with so many sor
rows and sins and perplexities, if you
want light of coinfort, light of parton,
light of goodness, in earnest prayer
through Christ, "Seek him that rmaketh
the Seven Stars and Orion."
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
that the God who made these two arch
ipelagoes of stars isist be an inchang
ing God. 'There had been no change in
the stellar appearance in this herds
nian's lifetime, and his father, a shep
herd, reported to him that there had
been no change in his lifetime. And
these two clusters hang over the celes
tial arhor now just as they were the
first night that they shone on the
E'denic bowers; the sane as when the
Egyptians builtthe pyramids, from the
top of which to watch them; the smne
as when the Chaldeans clculated the
eclipse8; the same as when Elih, ae
cording to the book of Job, went out to
study the aurora borealis; the same un
der Ptolemaic systeni and Copernican
system; the same from Callsthenes to
Pythagoras, alid from Pythagoras to
Herschel. Surely, a changeh ss God
must have fashioned the I'leiades anid
Orion! Oh, what an anodyne ami(d t lie
upi and downs of life, and the 11 ux and
rell ux of the tides Ut prosperity, to know
that we have a changeless God, the
Sane "yrsterday, today and forever!"
Xerxes garlanded and knighted the
steersman of his boat in the morning
and hanged liitn in the evening of the
saine day. 'I'l world sits in its char
iot and drives tandem, and the horse
ahead is tuzza and the horse behind is
Anathema. Lord Cobhain, in King
.1ames' tiltine, was applauded, and had
thirty-five thousand dollars a year, but
was atterward execrated and lived on
f.craps stolen from the royal kitchen.
Alexander the (Great after (teath re
iitined unburied lor thirty days, be.
CaIse lo one would do till h0io of
shtoveling hin imnder. The lhike of
Wellingtoni refused to have his iron
fenee mended because it had been
brokenl by an inil l iate; popuilace inl
some hour of political excitement, aill
lie left it inl rumis t haat meni might lealrn
what a tickle thng is himan favor.
"iit the itrey of the O Lord is frmn
v .er-asting I ( everlasting to thein tliat
fear himl), ntid his right. ousness into
the chiireti's children o such as keep
his covenant, and to those who remiem
her his coin tnadmIjents to do ithein.
This Moitn-nt. "Seek hii that maketh,
the Seven Sta-s and (Orion."
Again, Amilos saw', ast we muist See,
that the (Ged who made these two teia
cons of lhe oritat naight, sky must ho
a Giod of love and kindly warning. Thle
P'leiadest rising in midsky said to all
t'be herdsmeni and shepherds antd hmus
bandmuen, "Come out and enjoy thte
tm ildi weather and culIti vate your gar
densi and fields.'' (Orion~, comninrg in
winter, wvarnedl them to prenare~ I or
te'mpest. Alt1navigation was regulated
by these two constellations. T[he one
said to shiiptinaster' and crewu, ''.11oist
sauil for the sea andl gathter merchamuilise
1romn other lands.'' But ( )rion was the
ston.m signal, anid said,"'Ilteef si!, make
things sng or piut into harbor, for thte
h urracanmes are get iig their wings out."
As the leiaeb-s were the sweet e'van
gets of the sp.ring, tOrieon was thle warn
ing prophet of the winiter.
Oh, now I get the best view o1f ( od I
ever had: iThere are two kinrds of ser
mons I never want to p)reachi-the onec
that presenits God so k inid. So) indulgent,
s or enit, so Iimlbeetle that men mtay
do what they will against him andl( frac
ture his every haw arid putt the pry of
their impertinence andi rebellioni under
his throne, andi( white they are spitting
in his face and stabbing at his heart,
lie takes thein up in his arms and kisses
their inifuriaited brow and cheek, say
ing, "Of such is the kingdom of heav
eni." Tihe other kind of sermon I nevt r
want to preach is the cne that repere
sents Godl its all lire and tortutre imd
thunndercloud, andl( with red hot pit chi
fork tossing I lie hiiiumn race iutito)parox
ysis of iniiniite agony. Theli sermi ni
that I am now preaching believes in a
Go~d of loving. kinutty warning, tIme(>
of spring and winiter, the God of the
Pleiades andt Orion,
.You must reinet-mber that the winmtei
is just.as important as the spring. L e't
one witIer pass w ithiout frost to kill
vegetation andi( Ice to bind the rivers
andl snow to enrich our lields and then
you will have to enltarge your hospitals
and yeour cemeteries. "A green Ghist,
mias makes a lilt graveyaurd" was thei
old p)roverb. Stornis to purify the air.
Th'lermuometter aut ten dlegrees above zero
to tonie up the system. D)ecemb er arid
,Jan eary j ust as itmplortant as Mutay and
,June. I tell .5ot we need t he stormts of
life as rmuch as we (do thte sunsiihin e.
Tlhere are imore men rutined bcy pirospier
ity than by adversity. If we lad our
own way ini life, bel ore this we would
hav Ibee impiillersonlat ions of setllishntess
aund worldilintess and disgusting sini, andti
pcufted up until we would have been
lake Juliuos ('esar, who was made hy
sycop)hatnts t) believe thait hie wats di
vinie, and the freckles onm his face were
as stars of the lirinamter,t.
One of the swit test transatlanttic
voyages made last sunner Iby our
s wiftest steamer was bcecauise sIte htad
a sto -my wind abaift, chasing hier front
N ow York to Liverpool. liut to those
going in the opposite direction theo
storm was a btuiftorg andl( a hindrance.
1t. Is a bad thing to have a storm ahead,
pushing uis back ; but if we be God's
children andt aiming toward hmeavenm the
storms of hife will only chase us thme
sooner into the harbor, 1 am so glad
to believe that the monsoons andl ty
phoons and muistrals and siroccos of
the land and sea are not unchalined
maniacs let loose upon the earth, but
are under divine suphervision-! 1 am so
glad that the God of the Seven Stars is
also thme God of Orion~ ilt was out of
Dante's suffering came time sublinme
"Di vina Commedia," anid out of John
Milton's blindness came "Paradise
Lost," and out of miserable intidol at
tack came thme "BIridgewvater Treatise"
in favor of Christianity, and out of D)a
vid's exile came the songs of conisola
tion, and out of thme sufferings of Christ
come the possibility of the world's re
demption, and out of your bereavement3
your persecution, your poverties, your
misfortunes may yet come an eternal
heaven.
Oh, what a mercy it is that in the
text and all nn and down the Ribit
Go, Induces us to look out toward
o'he workls! Biblo astronomy in
(.e' -is, in .Jor 'ua, in Job, in the
Pba;mi inl the prop.hets, major and
mir,or, in St. .Jolu's Apocalypse, prac
tally saying: "Worlds! worlds:
wor;ds! Get ready for them!" We have
a u:ce little woid here that we stick
to, . though I'sing that we lose all.
We aj eafraid of falling off this little
raft of a world. We are afraid that
some meteoric iconoclast will some
night simt3ash it, and we want everything
to resolve around it, and are disappoint
ed when we liud that it resolves around
the sun instead of the sun revolving
around it. What a fuss we make about
this little bit of a world, its existence
only a short time between two spasms,
the paroxysin by which it was [turled
from chaoi into order, and the parox
ysm of its demolition.
And I am. glad that so many texts call
us to look off to other worlds, many of
them larger and grander and more re
splendent. "Look there," says Job, "at
Maz:iroth, and Arcturus and his sons!"
"Look there," says St. ,John "at the
moon under Christ's feet!" "Look
there," says. Ioshua, "at the sun stand
ing still above Gibeon!" "Look there,"
says Moses, "at the sparkling firma
ment!" "Lock there," says Amos, the
herdsman, "at the Seven Stars and
Orion!" Don't let us be so sad about
those who shove off from this world
under Christly pilotage. Don't let us
l.e so agitated about our own going oif
this little barge or sloop or canal boat
of a world to get on some Great East
ern of the heavens. I)on't let us persist
in wanting to stay in this barn, this
shed, this outhouse of a world when all
the king's palaces already occupied by
many oA our best friends are swinging
wide o)en their gates to let its inl.
When 1 read, "In my Father'. house
are many mansions," I do not know
but that each world is a room, and as
niany rooms as there Yre worlds, stellar
stairs,stellar galleries, stellar hallways,
stella win(lows,stella (loii(s. llow our
departed friends must pity its shut up
inl thes,_- cramped apartments, tired if
we walk fifteen miles, when they some
mornimg, by one stroke of wing, can
make circuit of the whole stellar sys
teml and be back in time for mat ins!
I'erhaps yonder twinkling constellation
is the residence of the martyrs; that
group of twelve liminaries is the celes
Lial holme o the apostles. Perhaps that
steep of light is the dwelling place of
angels cherubic, seraphic, archangelic.
A imansioni with as many rooins as
worlhs, and all their windows illmni
nated for festivity.
Oh1, how this widens and lifts and
stimulates our expectations! How lit
tlIe it makes the present and how stu
pendon.j it makes the future! How it
Consoles us about ouir pious dead, who,
instead of teing boxed tip and under
the ground, have the range of as many
rooms as there are worlds, and welcome
evur% where, I or it is the Father's house,
i which there are many mansions. Oh.
ILordi God of the Seven Stars and Orion,
how can I einure the transport, the
eirst.asy of sunch a vision! I must obey
myX tx%tad sie(k him. I will seek him.
I eck hiil now, for I call to mind that
it i. not the material utniverse that is
lost valuable, but the spiritual, and
that each of us has a soul worth more
than iall the worlias whicn the inspired
li rdmiian saw !rom his both on tihe
hills of Tokoa.
I'a stlied it before, but the Cathe
dri e04 0Colne. Germa11Iny, never im
p iresed me as it did the lust time I saw
it. It is ndnittedly the grandest gothic
strulci tur 'e in the world, its foundation
h:ii<i in I 2 IX, only eight or ntine years
ag'' compllete'd. More than six hundred
years i1 building. All laurope taxed
for its 4:3nstruc'tiont. Its chapel oi the
Magi w ithi precious stonjes eniough to
pcuicha-*e a kingdom. Its chaipel1 of' St.
Agneus w"ith ma)tsterpjiees (f paint ig.
Its spire0 springing live huindredl and(
eleven feet inito the heavens. Its staIued
glass the chorus of' all rich colors.
S'atues~ cue'irching the pillars and eneir
clinig al. Statutes aba ve statues, untIl
scullpture ennt do: no more, but faints and
hallIs 'cek ni.eainist carvedl stalls andu
down in 1'avemeniits over whlihl tihe
kinL's andt < (ueen s of thme earth have
wal kedlC toi cote's!in. Nave atnd aisles
ando tr':miseli and1( potalius comibining the
sIClendI 'rs oi sunii'se. hIiter'aced, inter
lo)li<ited, inlei columned grandeur, As
I stoo ~'loutsidle looakjing at the doCuble
ranlge oi tll inig buttresses and tile fortst,
() lininacIes, big hier and higher and
highi r, until I almost reeled tromt diz
z ness, I exclaimed: "'Great doxology
ini stonie! F'rozenm prayer of many na
tionul!"
.lit while standing there 1 Saw a poor
inan enter and put dlown his pack and
kneoel beside his burden on the hard loor
of that ciathedrlnal. And tears of deep
emotion cam e into my eyes as I said to
tiuysell: "T'here is a soud worth more
than all tihe miaterial surroutndings.
Thhat man will li ve after the last p)in
nacle hias falleni, and not one stone of
all that. cathedral glary shall remain
ulneruimbled. iIe is ntow a Lazarus in
rags and poverty and weariness, bit
Iimmnortal aint a son of the Lord God
Almight y, and I lie plrayer lhe now offers,
though amid many superstitions, I be
lieve Godl will hear, and among the
apostles wvhiose sculptitred formns stand
in the sulrroundi(ing niches he will at
last be lift.ed, and( into the presence of
that Christ whose suffierings are repre
se'nted hby thle crusilix before which he
hows, arid beC raised in dine time ouit of
all his po)ver't ies into the glorious home
bilt 14Cr hunii and built hor its by 'IIlim
who rniaketh time Seven Stars and
Orion.'"
Ituirgilarei I .exingtona.
L,i: xeN''oN, S. C., March 23.-Yes
terdaliy morning betwe 3 and:itic 4 o'clock,
thie hirge iron sale in the store of' W. P.
lioof wast blownt openm by', burglars.
Sale 4und LACek CCompanthy, of ie neimati.
hiad its large oiuter doors driilled and
buown open, ias was also the inner door,
.vbhieih separated the outer (doors f'rom
the vault,. T1hec heavy steel vault, secured
by~ an1 adChtionail conmbiiationi lock, with.
stood( the heavy attack atnd rematins uin
inj.ured. '1The robbers were unable to
rtach the contents of the vatilt, btit suc
een eid in getting a small amount of
cibiuige wh ii.hI had been left out of the
T wo chisels, a large hammer, a brace
anid a dr;ilI were left onl tihe scene. Th'le
side door of' the store house was found
openi anid the drawer' in which the
change wvas deposited was foundi( under
the wan..on shetd in the lot, about twenty
yard1s Irom thesnide (hoar. A small stIck
of dymnmite, whice ('0uld( easily be slip
pled through the hole madec by tihe dIrill,
and the luse accompanying it, were
p)ickedl up near the safek. Tihe wrapper
of the stick of' dynaumite may fur'nish a
clite, as there ar'e certain well delinedh
marks on it.
A Negro Exodlu.
Minir H s, Tenn., March 23.-- A meet
tig waus held last night In Zion Hail by
about '2,000) negroes, who passed resolu
tions oondemning the lynching of Moss,
Stewart and McD)owell on the 9th lnst.,
its a foul and utnjustillable murder and
outrage. Negroes are leaving this
locality in large numbers for Okla
homa and other points and a general
TILLMAN ON PRIMARY.
rHE GOVERNOR 9XPLAINS HIS POSI
TION FULLY.
itrosag 'resertatiou of t he Situatiou and
Reassons Why a Primary is aot Wise-It
Wotltd Work Great injistice to tihe
Lower Countries.
COLUMBIA, S. 0, March 24.-In view
f the fact that numbers of anti-Till
nan meetings, which have elected del
gates to the convention which meets
o-day, have adopted resolutions de
nanding a direct primary, a reporter
or ]Che Register sought an interview
vith Governor Tillman to hear what he
"d to say on that subject. The scribe
iegain his probing with the question:
lovernor, what is your attitude and
>pinion in regard to a direct primary ?
lie answered: "I am surprised that
'ou should ask this question when the
natter was fully discussed by me during
,he last campaign. I am one of the
)ioiieers in the agitation in advocacy of
State primary, and in 1888, on two
iccisicens, in both State conventions, I
nade speeches advocating tho nominia
ion of Stale oflicers by this method. In
loth conventions the matter was over
vhelmingly defeated and after careful
nialysis and study of the situation I so
ar modilied my opinion as to advocate
he plan, now in vogue, of electing del
gates by a primary. 'ie demand for
change was made in the March plat
urn, .10, which I wrote, and it was
ncorporated in the party constitution
ti teptember. The present hue and cry
or a direct primary is a piece of politi
al clap-trap by which my enemies seek
,() place me in a false position. If it
,ere carried out they would be the first
ii regret it and advocate a change.
I.hey <don't watit it. But I desire to say
ight here that individually I am will
tig and was in 1890 to submit my can
iidacy to a direct vote of the white
D)enocrats of the State. I have every
eason to believe that my strength
vould be imore clearly shown and I
vould have a more emphatic endorse
iient under that plan than I could un
ler the existing one. The Counties of
.;eorgetown, Beaufort, Sumter, Rich
and and Fairfield, which are all de
>atable and which for the sake of ar
,ument I will say will go against me,
vould in that event be counterbalanced
>y the majority I expect to obtain in
either Spartanburg or Greenville. The
lemand for the primary arose in the
vliite section of the State and was de
;igned to tbreak tip ring rule. It was
'iever intended to take any advantage
)f the brave Democrats of the negro
ounties.
"What caused you to modify your
>pinion and change from a direct pri
nary to an election ot delegates by pri
nary ?"
?rWell the primary system looks to
>btaining tihe popular voice by allow
ing the individual voter to express his
personal preference and the present
iystem gives that. I am and always
have been in favor of the people select.
ing their own rulers."
The Governor here put his hand in
hiis breast pocket and drew out a note
book, and said: Here is a table which
I have prepared for campaign pu pos s.
Ihili is miy basket of "rocki," he laugh
ingly added, and I will chunk one into
the enemny's catp before the campaign
i)pen[s. It is a table giviig the white and
L:lored popuilation with the delegates
ini the State Convention of fourteen
Counties, and will showv very clearly
what a distutrbing factor in State poli
tics a direct primary would be. HIere
is the table. Thue iirst two columns of
figures show the white and colored
population of the counties namied in
IMI( and the outside column tihe iwm
bet' of delegates each is entitle(1 to in
St ate Conivenrtions:
WVhite. Clrd )lgts
Aiken........ 13,571 1,4
A nderson .. 25,1s4 1,52 1
Chiesterhield, 10,90)2 7,5
Fioren......10,-100 ','7 i
reeni llt-..'. 27, :;7 I I61 :s 1
hl rry ....... 1:u,6; ; 5,9 7
I ,anca'steri.. 10, :t:u18 142
1,Axilgto.. 1:1,705 15 6
Marin .... 14,4i:14 5.'.4s
Oh'otwe........11:5,014
l'ickens ...12,194 .91i
Spar tanbruilg :4I, 7291,52 4
1:Yok........ 10,o3 0,,4 ; 1
Wie.Colored. Delegates.
edc.:10517,26 1i
72,4~95:,565 26
Andwe indtht 4,urte7 Cutie
is,thihirecopeld tocnto
34:47 1,e0o1s or79,027 11r4 en
Tie tots fr(e as olos: ovnin
Whitoerlnes Color. Deeley,es
In"ate..., 45orget5w anti0: Sute,0n
Delduc...n:1,1 the02 po11tono
tAte we hind thatths fourteen Cune
Lisontaining only 179,00 of the cole
)Iepopulat ion would overbalatey
twntyr Cte which are complerocnro
hat47 nere;oSpartanburg, entildt-fute
tildt renvotes inte convention, udi
wouldar overbalance Beau fort, Berkey
ic,Fairied, Georgetown a( Sumter,n
Giitedl to ly votes in r conven,an
io,dyet have 750 votes to spare.
"ly peucive ate tpopualaretio of
thesrv ouee Cloytifrme potcal
ties, contaningol7,0 of tirhete t wol.
uireh population,inould oveavyc
tento Counties whc are cse o
pfleewllexped to cotrol th,00neres,o
voted inote cneion,specuiv Con-a
prsimarydsn overbacance teuote erke
ltey, Falthold, teygeownlad uer,
mt,hane to obtt.y anye of the conveno
ices and resno ha s50 hite otae.
You iteterceatoncbe orhat directi
hinry ouad henceroy hangofiia
"qulibrt, ofero,f onae.wiea In ldd
iuorke. Thasa Democrat pin the poer
teSatgr Coneithoeno ased whto
idopt tissstem ofnointngStt
ttier wi blxpectd per to tolte
ooge vote nt k theiepcinge asun
le,ased thDIi ecrgumenoth Leis
atocuire,adof they would ke-Serhave
canc taotr obtnenyo eletatef
iiepresaiono in smg.ssall b oe.
ese on ethe reaonae orast rahe thdon
hen poulain. he y chatg oe
"Bt oeno,W n hite man inSuhCaoiaha he
leklhs as much poitcall power
n hit,te maionventio or fKynwhst
un ife igrtnorg will precedet breed1
"At ecgz the jbusticeo appeiarg-b
wrong,ibutour part takiingst asowe
irec we tradexpot tetFrae-Shermao
igting alongetatliart, wndhichde
ivndl( reesertroraon in Con-alb
3rasd on the votumpast resta
tpopulation weeThe conithaonae
whitequal nd Sot,he equolinarhas thet
bye asage m canpoitbie e power
sow, ifane woring add precdeto the
hrmon and nio the p?Rpresenta
10~
seems so dear to these same patriot
It is a riatter for the party to dote
mine, aad 1 am ready to submit to it
verdict of the people."
Electropolse.
Why sufMer with sickness or diseai
when you can be so easily and quick
cured without medicine by the use
the Electropolse.
ELco, S. C., July 27, 1891.
ATLANTIC ELECTRIo1'osE Co.
Charleston, . C.
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been better than 1 have in years.
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LANCASTER, 8. C., Aug. 1, 1891.
ATLANTIC ELECTROPOIsE CO.,
Charleston, S. C.
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the Electropolse as the only agent, and
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B. J. WITHERSPOON.
CHARLESTON, 8. C., Feb. 12, 189[.
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My little girl was also cured by the Ele
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I would not be without the Electropol
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JOHN H1. MULLER,
135.Queen Str et.
CHARLESTON, S. C.. Feb. 23, 1891.
Gentlemen: My general health has bei
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poise. I would not be without it. AE
tonic it Is excellent. It affords me mu,
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Very respectfully,
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Over-Production of Cotton.
WASH INGTON, March 18.-The Man
report of the statistician of the Depar
ment of Agriculture, issued to (a
shows that the production of cotton <
the world exceeded tie consumpti(
more than 1,500,000 bales in 1890, at
further greatly enlarges the excess
1891, glutting the markets, increasil
visible stocks (iring the past year mo
than 100,000 bales, and reducing ti
Liverpool price of middling uplat
from A 1-16d in January, 1890, to 4 1
in January, 1892. it states that in tv
years tis country has produced an e
cess above normal requirements<
more than 2,000,000 bales, and indicat
a heavy reduction In breadth as ti
only possible remedy; otherwise tl
agriculture of the South will suf
worse than Western agriculture ev
has. It declares that the cotton Stat
must introdluce new crops, as the ag:
cultural popuLlation has outgrown ti
capacity of cotton to support it.
Hlinded by Grip.
VICKsnUiRO, MIss., March 17.-Tv
eases of sudden blindness resultir
from grip have occurred here recentl
the sufTerers being well known persorn
One lady has consulted the most en
nlent oculists in .New Orleans, wi
unite in declaring her case hopele:
and admitted that they w(re ignorai
of the causes that occasioned the lo:
of sight. The other is that of a bo
son of a well-knowni merchant, wi
was attacked by dilsease and lost hi
sight in a few hours. An operatic
promptly performed has partially r
lieved him, though as yet he can on
dlistinguish light from darkness. II
ph) sicians have hopes of hIs recover
IIis case begun with a severe chill, cme
mninating in muscular rheumatism
Several similar casts are reporta
among negroes, but not well authent
cated.
The Free Silver D)ebate.
WV A 8111 N ( TON, March 21.-jReprese
tative Bi-awley has boen assigned a Co
spicuious position in tihe dlebate again
the free silver bill. According to ti
list of speakers made out today by 1M
TIracy, who is to lead the opposition, I
Fred Williams, of Massachusetts Opel
the disscussion, and lie will be followa
b)y Messrs. IIarter of Ohio, Rlayner
Missouri, Brawley of South Carolini
andl Warner of New York. Over se
enty-five gentlemen have re quested pe
mission to participate in the de~ba
against the bill and It 1.4 probable;
many more will speak ini favor ofj
-News and Courier.
Gierrynmo~derinag OhIao.
CoLUMBUs, Onio, March 18.-Ti
caucus of the Ilouse of ltepresentativ
last night agreed upon a plan for Col
gressionial re distribution, and th
practically determines the questk
which huas been the cause of much col
tention (luring the whole session. U
der the now arrangement the Rtepubi
cans will have sixteen and the D)em
(rats live districts. T1he D)emocrats
present have fourteen districts. Coi
gressmen Outh waite, IIare and Laytc
are the only D)emocrats left in safe di
tricts arid are likely to be retnrned. Ti
bill will be reported to the IIouse ne>
weeK.
hu Luck.
U K [ Alt, Cal., March 21-I t has ,ju;
dleve1loped that a servant in Ukiah ha
fallen heir to $500,000. She was in LI
employ of M. Newfleld, who secur<
her services through an employme,
ofice in San Francisco. She is Mr
D)uncan, andI was marriedl in Londo:
where her husband (lied leaving a lari
estate. It was involved in litigatioi
and the widlow despaired of gett,ing an
thing. She had a friend in CalifornI
and came lie 'e, and being (destitute el
gaged as a domestic. 11cr friends lie
interested thecmselves in her behalf at
el3f)oyedl a New Yoik attorney to goi
Londlon, with the above result.:
Another suicide.
CIIAR,ESTON, S. 0., March 18.-TI
suicidal epidemic Is again on het
This morning Albert Rink, a yout
clerk, was found in Columbus stre
with a bullet in his brein and a p1st
in bis hand. Rink had been indisposi
for some time and mental depressic
is supposed to have caused him to tal
his life. This is theseod uii
here this week. n sl
Au Unf,rtupa,e Ala.r.
-PINEVILix-, N. C., March 119. --Brown
e [togero, a yoting tinn who 1, I n li
Pineville abotit t1hre nioitlis at,tend
ing Professer Scott's school, lelt, sud
ie denly and unexpectedly Vedtnesday
,y night, under rather pectuliar circui
af stances. ie was frorn V"ani \Vycke,
S.C., and Is a son of Turner Rogers,
one of the most prominent citizens of
that place. A few dayn before he left
lie received a letter from his father tell.
ing him that he had disgraced his
m family, anti that lie never wanted to
a see hitu again anti forbidding him to
le ever coie to his house. Tlio day he
I left he wrote to his sister telling her
ve about getting the letter and that lie
would carry oat his father's wish, s and
that he nor any of the family should
ever see or hear from hiin agaia. The
letter was a great surprise to ttw faini
ly as the father had not written tho
letter spoken of above to his sun. lie
was overwhelmed with grief and came
re at once to Pineville to sce about is
e son. lie telegraphed to several poinis
a to-day but could not hear froin hini.
th The letter young Rogers receivtd M as
it a forgeey, and it is supposed to have
Is been written by some one as a joke oin
et the young mann. lie was a <quiet, sober
U- young man and made imaty f riends
during his stay here. Lis lamlily is
almost overcome with grief on account
e of the unfortunate affair aud are
A anxious to communicate with him.
murder la ciarention
0 MANNINO, S. C., March 21..-Ar. But
ler B. Dulose Was killed irom ambush
f- last Saturday night on the public road,
, about eight miles from this place. The
re inquest. was held yesterday, and the
jury brought in the following verdict:
iy "The deceased cattle to his death from
w1 wounds inflicted by a shotgun in the
d hands of J. Carson Stukes." Th only
h witness was Mr. DuLBose's little nine
is year-old-boy, who ran to the house an
le reported to his grandfather that. Mr.
id Stukes had killed his father. Mr.
(. Stukes Is one of the best ien in the
a county, being known as a hard-work.
ing, quiet and peaceable citizen. it is,
5e indeed, hard for one who knows Carson
r- Stukes to believe t hat he would waylay
a man and shoot him to dealh withouil
warning.
A Walk- Over for Mlis.
AUSTIN, Texas, March 18.-Mr. Cul
,n berson has withdrawn from the Sena
0' torial race. Ilis friends say this is not
a in the interest of any other candidate.
It is believed, however, that a number
of his supporters will go over to Mills,
which will insure Mills' election. It is
said that Chilton will come from
t- Washington shortly to withdraw froni
m he Senatorial race.
bdftt ays the Friat
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d HERE ARE A FEW OF MY sTA'1
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