AT THE TABERNACLE. THE DIVINE ASTRONOMY AS DE ECRIBEL BY THE PRCPHETS. 1 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:iipinion 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 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. 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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