The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, June 23, 1892, Image 4
A FAREWELL SERMON.
'JUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOR OF
GOD."
. Talmage Speaks of Ills Approaching
"eparture for Europe--H3 Advises His
uongregation to Hold a Very High
llodol-Take Jesus Christ for a Pattern.
BRooK LY N, June 12.-Dr. Talmage
reflaced his sermon this morning with
statement to the effect that he would
il on Wdnesday next for Europe, and
)ight be able to be present at the dis
'.bution in the famine districts of Rus
i of The Christian Herald reliefcargo,
nasisting of three million pounds 01
ur and other supplies which goes out
is week on the steaushi,) Leo, char
:red for the purpose. le congratulated
ic American people on the generous
,pirit evinced by this magnificent gift to
ic starving people. ils sermon was
com the text, Ephesians vi, 11, "Put
-n the whole armorof God."
There is in this text a great rattle of
-hields and helmets and swords. Sol
liers are getting reody for battle. We
!ave had recently in this churwti new
nlistments and I shall nddress mysell
;o those in this and other churches who
ire putting (in the armor of' God, and
.Vhio may feel themselves to be as I et
-)uly raw recruits. "Masterly retreat"
is a term often used in military -ireles,
but In religion there is no such thing.
I t is either glorious advance or disgrace
ful and ignominious falling back. It
would be a strange thing if all our anxie.
ty about men ceased the moment they
were converted.
The begiuning to be a Christian is
only putting down a foundation; but al
ter that there are years of hanimerin,
polishml, carving, liftin, before the
structure is complet,ed. It takes live
years to make a Christian character, it
takes twenty years, it takes forty years,
it takes seventy years if'a man shall live
so long. in otber words, a man dying
after half a century of Christian expert
ence feels that he has only learned the
"A 11 ('s" of'a glorious alphabet. 'The
next year will decide a great deal in your
history, young Christian luau; it will de
cide whether you are to be a burning
and shininlg light of' the church, or a
spark of grace covered up in a barrel of
ashes.
It will decide whether you are to be a
strong man in Christ.lesus, with gigantic
blows striking the iron ntil of dariiess,
or a bedwaited, whining, grumbling sol
dier that ought to be drimied out of the
Lord's camp with the "louties' Aarch.'
YoUi have only just, been launched. The
voyaie is to be made. Earth and heaven
and liell are watching to see how fast
1ou will sail, how wel! you will weather
tle telpest al whetler at, last, amid
the shout,ing of t,he aigis, you shall
come into the right harbor. May God
help mue this morning to give you three
oi four words of Christian counsel, as I
address myself more especially to those
who have just now entered the Chli IB;ai
life.
Aly first word of counsel is, Hll he
fore your soul a very highi model. I)o
not say, "I wish I could prav like that
man, or speak like this man or have the
consecration of this one."' Sai: "Here
is the Lord Jesus Christ, It perfect, ialt
terin. .ily that 1 mean, with God's
grace, to shIapi all my le.'' In other
wordas you will nev'er be any more a
Chrtstian than you strive to be. If you
build a thundation twenity by thirty fcet,
you will only have a small house. If
you buildl a fouindation one huniidredl by
one hundired feet, you will have a large
house. If you revo(lvye to be onl1y a
miiddling Chiiistian, you will only he a
middling Christinn. If you have lii hih
aspiration in a worldly direction you will
never- succeedl in business.
If y~ou have 1no huigh atspiratlOionm rel
gious things you will never' succeed in
eligioni. Y onuive a righit, to ashupire to
the very hIgliest style of Chirisfiani
ebairacter. F"roim your fe2et there reaches
out a Pathio (1 iiristiaii attaiinmenlit w hiebi
you may take, and I deliberatelyv say
that, you liay be a better man than was
P aul or' David or Summnerfieldl or I)od
di ge--a better woimiai than Ilaiiniah
Mlore or1 Charlotte Eliza/dbethl. WhIi
not! I lid theuy halve' ia imonopoly of
Christian grace? l>)id they ha:ve it priv
ate key of the storeblo iso of God's mier
c',? Does Godl shut y'ou out f'ronm the
clatdness and goodiiess to wh Iich they'
were liitrodulcedl?
Oh, no. You have just the same
puromlises, just, flhe samie Chist,~
just the same Ifol y Ghost, juist
the same11 eflers of i'reseint and I
everlastinig uove, and1( if you hlIl short fII
what they werec-le, if yon do iiot
comie tip to the po~int which they r.3achled(
and go beyond it-it is lot heceiuse
Chlrist, has shut y ou out fi-om any pouinIti
(i morial and spiritual elevation, b)ut lbe
caulse 3you deliberately r ie to take
I admlit, tht man cannot bccome a
Chlristiani like that wihout a struggle,
lbnt whiat (do you get without lighting for
iit? T1he hiortresses of ditrkiiess are to b(
tahken by3 storii. Yoti iiay by3 acute
striateLs ihmank the hosts of I ltept ion,
but there are teiinpltations, there are
evils, mi the wiay that you will have
to meet 11ace 10 face, and it wvill be shiotr
for shot, i.utn for gun giip for
tgil, slauighter' for slaiughter(. Thie
A luostle Paul over and1( ov'er aL!ain rep
lesents the Christian life its a combai)it.
When the win' vessel of Christ's I
churichi comes iinto glory, bringing its
crew and1( its passengers, it, will nlot coetui
in like a North liver yacht, becautifufly
pinltedl andl adorned, swinging mio th'e
boathouse aifteir it pleasure excuirsion. I
Oh, no. 1I, will be like a vessel coming<
with a heavy cargo from China or lindia
tile marks of the wave and the hiurri
cane uponi it-sails rent, riggings splheed,
p)u'ps all working to keep her afloat,
bulwarks knockedl away. I seel
such a vessel comiinIg, and1 get out my
small boat and ipush toward her, and I
shout:. "Ahoy, capt,aIn! What, are
you going to (do with those shivered tInm.
L:ers? That was a beaut,iful ship when
you went out, but, you have ruinedl it."
'-Oh," says tihe Captain, "I have a line
cargo on board, and by this roundl trip I
have made ten fortunes."
So I believe it will he when the Chris
tian soul at last comes into the harbor
of heaven. It will come bearing upon
It the mark of a great stress of' weather.
You can see by the very looks of that
soul as it comes Iito glory that it was
dIriven by a storm and dashed in t,he
hurricane, but by so much as the voy
age is rough will the harbor be blessed.
"-Jf'yo sufl'ered with him on earth ye
shall be glorified with himn In heaven."
Aim high. Do not De satisfIed to be
like the ChristIan all around about you.
Be more than they have ever been for
Christ.
JMy iecond word of counsel to those
wrho have recently entered upon Chris- I
ian life is, Abstain from all pernicious I
tesoclations, and take only those that
tre useful and beneficent. Stay out of o
ill associations that would damage your I
Ahrlstian character. Take only those
tsaociations that will help you. A
earned man said, "If I stay with that
nan Fenelon any longer I shall be a
Christian in spite of myself." In other
,vords, there is a mighty power in
Jihristian associations. N)w, what
knd of associations shall we, as young
Uliristlans, seek after? I think we ought
to get into company better than our
selves, never going into company worse
than ourselves. If we get into company
a little better than ourselves, and there
are ten people in that company, ten
chances to one we will be bettered. If
we get into company a little worse than
ourselves, and there be ten people in
that company, ten chances to one we
will be made worse than we were b4fore.
Now, when a young Christian enters
the church, God (toes no ask him to re
tire from the world. The anchorite that
lives on acorns is no nearer heaven
than the man who lives on partridge
and wild duck. Isolation is not demand
ed by the Bible. A mian may use the
world with the restriction of not abusing
it. But just as soon as you lind atiny
surroun[011dings pernicious to your spiritual
interest, quit those associiitions. Tbis
remark is espically more appropriate
to the young. Now it is impossile
that the young and untroubled blIould
seek their associations with those who
are aed and worn out.
As Gcd intecded the aged to associ
ate with the aged, talking over the past
and walking stafl' in hand along the
samne paths they trod thirty, forty and
lifty years ago, so I suppose he intended
the young chielly to associate with the
Young. The grace of God does not de
mand that we be unnatural. I do not
want you to take this caution I have
given1 you its that of a growling misan
thrope, hatimg hilarity. For you lust
have a1 spring bow if you want to make
the arrow fly. But while this is so. I
want you to be especially on guard in
this miatter and let the religion of Jesus
Christ control you in all your associa
Lions.
Iii this church there is a large corn
pany of young m1Ien anld young women
ctinseerated to Christ. I know of' no
better people than they are. Young
convert, I invite you into their friend
ship. Uontact with d,hem will elevate
Iou. All hail, young followers of Jesus
Christ, my joy and imy pridel My
heart thrills at, every step of your ad].
Sancemeint. I talked with you in th-it
hour when you first tried to break from
sin, ittid I now rejoice as .I sec you put
tig on the armor of* a conflict in which
God will give you present and everlast
ile victory. Stand oil' from all evil as
sociations. A mnan is nio better than
tie company lie keeps. Go among
those who atre better than you are, and
you will be made better. Go among
those who are worse than you tire and
jou will be made worse.
My next word of counsel is that you
be actively employed. I see a great
mniy Christians with doubts and per
plexities, and they seem to be proud of
tein. Their entire Christian lifi, is
made tn of gloom, and they Beemi to
cultivate that spiritual despntidentcy,
when I will undertake to say Ilhat in
nie cases out of ten spiritual despon
leucv is a judgiment of God Upoil idle
nhss. Who are the happy pIeople in
the church toda3? The busy pleople.
Show me a man who professes the re
ligion of Jiesus Christ and 1s 1(d1e, and I
will show you an unhappy man. Th'le
very lirst prescription that I give to a
man11 wheni i 11ind himru full of dloubts and(
ltas abou1tt his eternal intereat Is to) go
to wor41k for God.41 Ten thotusand voices
aire lit ted up asking for your hlp. ( o
andl help.
hlere is a wood lull ofMummer inseets.
An aixman 240es into the wood to ctt
lirewoodl. Th'ie insects do not bother
lum ery uchi, and every stroke'of thle
ax maikes themo Ily away. Uut, l. a
lnini 24o andI lie down there and lie is
bitten and mautled andI thinks if. is a hor
rilelt thiing to stay in the wood. Why
dtIes 11hIlnt take an ax and go to work~?
S(o there are thouisandls of CThristi.ins
no0w ini the church who go out amid
renI!it annoiIyanIces in) life-tihey are not
perllxed, they are all the time busy;
while there are ot,bers who do not.hing,
and( triey are sttung and st,ung and stuing
ild covered from head to loot wit,h the
bb>,tcthes of' indolence and inactivit,v a litd
Tlhie first thing, tben, y oul have to (10
I. Christiatn young' mall, Christian young
VI)omanl, is to go to work iln ,he service
ft the I 4ord if' you want to be a happy
bhrislti. WhelIn ani army goes (out,
,1ereI areC ailways stravglers lulling oil .
arl an 1, here, $01me because they are(
ainlt andi sick, but a great many because(
heiV arle afraid to light and too lazy to I
nlarch. A 11er awhvlile t,he liazy nmen on1t
hie road hear thle booming of the guns
or holurs, andl they heatr thle shiout of
'ictory, and a man 0on horseback COnmes
11 anut says, "'We haive won t,he (day!''
lIihti they hasten up. How brave they
1re iaft.r thle battle is over. Poor ait
.:htinig, bult grand lit "buitzza~!'' So
here atre si.ragglers going af'ter t,he
Ilil's host,. There conie days of' dark- ~
Is and ha11 :ttle. Where tire the3? We p
'all the roll of the host. TI'hey malhke I
o( anfswer', hut, after awhiile there comes~ t
daiy of tiriup 111 inU t,he churc . and11 they ~
re all1 about. "lIuzza! hiuzzat! IDidn't
re mi e it to thiem!'
I have aniother word ol counsel t.o
yi~e those who haive just enlteredo Chris
ian ie~, andl that,is,,lIe faithful iln prity- V
r. 1 ou night as well, businesa man,
tarL, out ini the morn'linIg wiL,boult food
lid explect to be strong all that day
-on mbiit, a well abst,rain from food all
he wveek and14 explect t,o be strong phli-i
ally as to be strong without, plrayer.
* e onlb way to get any st,rength inlto
lie 8011ui l y pIrayer', andi the onl'y dif
er'enlce between t,hat. Christian that is
Vor'th everything andi that who is worth
.l>thmig is the fact that the last, do)es not
~ray and1( the other (toes.
And the only difference bet,ween this
blristian, who is getting alonig very fast E
ni the holy lif'e, andh this, who is only i
Letting alongi tolerably, is that t,he first C
prays more than the last. You can
t
by the amount of' prayer, not1 by this
iiumbeor of hours, perhaps, but by tihe
earnest supplicationi thlat lie puts up to c
GodI. There is no exception to the
rule. Show mle a Chiristian man who t
neglects this kind or duLy and I will i'
show you one who is inconsistent. Show t
me a mani who prays. and his strengt,h
andl his po(wer cannot be exaggerated,. I
W hy, just give to a man th.is power of' I
prayer anid you give him almost omnipo- I
tence.
.Another WOrdl of counsel I have to
give. HIe faithful in Bible researchl. A
great many good books are now coaming
aut. We cannot read half' of thlemi. At
avery revolution of tihe printing press1
iley are coinlg. They cover our par.
d* tables and are in our sitting rooms
wnd libraries. Glorious books they are.
We thank God every day for the A ork
>f the Christian printing press. But I
iave thought that perhaps the followers
>A Christ sometimes allow this religious
.iterature to take their attention from
God's word, ant that there may not be
as much Bible reading as there vu.;bt.
Lo be.
How is that with your own experi.
Dmct? Just Calculate in your mnuda
how much relitious literature you have
read during the year, and then how large
a portion of the Word of God you have
read and then contrast the two and au
swer within your own soul whether you
are giving more attention to the books
that were writen by the hand of man
or that written br the hand of God.
Now you go to the drug store and you
get the mineral waters, but you have
noticed that the waters are nt, so fresh
or sparkling or healthful as when you
get these very waters at Saratoga and
Sharon-getting theni right where they
bubble from the rock. And I have no
ticed the same thing in regurd to the
truth ot the Gospel; while there ie a
good deal of refreshment and health of
the Gospel of God as it comes through
good books, I find it is better Wien I
conie to the eternal rock of' God's Word
and drink from that rountain that hib
bles ip fresh and pure to the lite and] the
relreshnient and the health of the soAl.
Read the Bible and it brings you into
the asiociation ol' the best people that
ever lived. You stand beside Moses
and learn his meekness, beside Job and
learn his patience, beside Paul and
catch something of his enthusiasm, be
side Christ and you feel his love. And
yet how strange it is that a great many
men have given their whole lives to
the assatlting of that book. I cannot
understand it. Toni Paine worked
against i lat book as though lie received
large wages, arid was inspired by the
very powers of darkness, confessing
that al1 the time he was writing lie (lid
not have the 13iolo anywhere near him.
flow many powerful intellects have en
deavored to destroy it. Ilune, Boling
broke, Voltaire have been atter It. Ten
thousand men now are warring against
the truth of God's Word. What do you
think of them ? I think It is mean,and
will prove it. I will prove it is tho
meanest thing that has ever been done
in all the centuries.
But I can think of a meaner thing
than that, and that is at old man going
along on the mountains with a stalf in
one iand and a lantern in the other.
Darkness has come on suddenly. lIe
is very old, itist able to pick his way
out amild the i ocks and precipices, lean
ing on hii staff with one hand and
giiiding himself with the light in the
other. You come up and sik: "Father,
you se-in to be lost. Y on are a long
way from home. "Yes," lie replies.
And then you take II in by the hand
and lead hint home. That is very kind
of you. Uut suppose instead of that
you should snat el the staff frot his
hands and hurl it over the rocks, and
snatch the lantern and blow it out?
That would be dastardly, conteiptible
until there is no depth of conteimpt be
neath it. If you have a better staff,
give it to him, If you have a better
light, give it, to him.
When God has put the staff of the
Gospel in our hands and t,he lamp of
G;od's word tt) light our feet, are you
going to take from us our only support.
and our only illumination? I love the
sting of the wasp and the rattlesnake
better than I (o the man who wants to
clutch the word of God from my wrasp.
T'here are people lhere who have been
reading it a good while. It is a precious
book to their souls. It has been so in
timie of darkness and troutble. There
was a soldier who fell ini battle, and at
ter lhe had fallen tie said ini a feeble
voice to his comiradIe, "Give me a drop."
Ills comrade replied, "t'hieme is niot a
p'art,icle of water in my canteen ." "Oh"
he said. "I (ldin't mean that . Look i'n
miy knapsacek and you will hind a Bible
there. Get out that old liible aiid just
give me a drop ouit of that,." Antt his
coim, rade founid the lible anud read a
fe~w piassages. The (dyinig soldier S:Oidl
''Oh, ( ltorg4e, there is ino hinii like that,
is thene, for' a dyinug sotutier ?
Cling to) your Bibte! IfI this hliblhe
dioui be (lest royed, if all thle liilelts
that have ever bseen pritedlt' shiould be
Jt'stroyed, wve could make up a flible
Ighit out oh- this muidience. F"rom' tha;t
blristiain man's experience I take one
,luster of promises, andl fromn that, old(
briistian mani's txpewrience aniothier, I
ut them all together, arid I think I
vould have a Bi tle.
Yomu see, miy f riendis, I inave not tried
0 hideC ie fact that I have large expec
at ion of youl who have eniteredl the
'hristiant life. D)o not be dliscouiraged.
'ress on towvard the prize, G od besidle
'on arnd Ileaveni hietore you. K(eep yotur
'ourage uip. Look ini thirty years from
ow upon this chtn:ch. Another man
n the pulpit. Other faces in the pews.
'diother man leadinlg the song. Otht rsa
arryirng around the arliis boxes ot the
hurch. All changed. Thirty years
ave gone, and I look iinto thle faces of
lie people, andh I say: " Why, It seems
0 mte I have seeni these people some
there, but I cannot exactly say where. }
)hi, yes, now I begin to thintk. TJhese
v'ere the converts in 18932 and 1890J.
'hiy, how you have chaungedl!"
"Oh, ye:s," they say, "01 couirse we 0 ~
ave changed. Tfhiirty years mnake a
neat change." I say, "I low many
rilnkles there are in your faces! "Oh, ~
es," they say, "thirty years make a
reat many wrinkles." "hlave you ,
ept tht: faith ?" "Yes, we have kept
hie faith." "Where are' those people
/ho use to sit in the pew wit.h y'ou ?"'
All gone.'' 'Theni I say, "W~ell, I I eel
)nely; come, let us sing one of the old
ymiis we use to sing thirty years ago,
i1892, on cotmmuinion (lay. Any of
on kinow thle 0old tunie? Some one
uim it. Yes, that's it, t hat's It. N ow, I
Itogether, let us sing, just as we did
' 1892:
"Th'lere is a fountain filled wIth blood,1
D)rawn fronm Immuanuiil's veins;
And sInners p)lunged1 benieath that flood
L ose all theIr guility stainis.
"Ioyng thief rejoiced to see
Thatiutaini in his day;
Amid there miay 1, though vile as lie,
Wash all my sins away."
Mi I EA PO1, ,Juine 9.-]tussell and *'
Is crowd of Independ'nts are f'eellng
'ery sore to-night. The committee on
redentuals hats not only decIded in fav- I
r of the Bray tonmans,b but they refused
D g've the tuissellites a hearing before
he commit,tee. Naturally the Htussel
curty are very indilgnalnt anid declare
hey will carry their conltt at to the floor c
f the Convention. Clayton,a liussell
te, says such a thitig Is dusheartening ~
o men who came all the way here I rom
outh Cyrolinia to receive such shabby '
reat ment from the ReDpublican leaders. a
Lhe Itusselhit.es hoped that their declar
ation in fayor of B1lalne would sect're
hem recognition. They jumpedl too e
coon, and lRussell, Clayton, Nlchols and I
tlunter, who are otlicebolders under ri
he present Administration, stand In a v
ad plight. Theiy not only declared f
ugainst IIarrison, hut t,hey were refused o
ecognition as legitimate lIepublicans. i
l'hey have hurrned the brid(ges behind t
~hem, and liarrusoni's friends wvill de- o
nand their ofilcial scalps Immediately. e
.gews and Courier
BOB SMALLS UAPPY.
41E REJOICES OVER HARRISON'S VIC
TORY OVER BLAINE.
1%raytoa aud If lo Crowd very Ruch Cant
Down--How I ie D1re ent Staten voted
A Repui4icati Who ThInkm Uarriaon
Will bo H.-ften.
CIIAI0,E,rroN, S. C., J une 13.- A
Jispatch from Minneapolis to tie News
xnd Courier says: Bob Smalbl and his
E1mbinistration crowd from South Caro
lina are rejoicing tonight over Ilarri.
son's victory, while Brayton and his
friends are correspondingly deprosseA.
Just alt,r liarrison's nomination was
assured I met, Brayton. lie said he was
not particularly loud of Blame or Mc
Kinley, but lie was anxious to defeat
larrison.
Among the delegates from South Car
olina it is considered that Dr. Crum ha's
a sure gras on the Charleston postmas
torship inl paymxent for his loyalty to
Harrison. lie was subjected to great
temptation to join the auti-Ilarrison for
ces, but Snialls, Webster and Miler,
who were inl the coulidence of the Ilar
rison mia,maaers, coivinced him that his
ersoittl interesIs were with Iarrison.
1t, is understood that lie was shrewd
enoughi to exact a written promise
author:zed by Harrison and Wanamaker
that le should succeed 'ost Master
Mowry immediately on returning home.
Be will probably stop at Washit.st,on and
take his appointment to Charleston in
his inside pocket.
This has beenl a bad day for the repub
lican bosses of' the Platt, Qu .y and
Clarkson stripe. They go thundering
down to politic 11 perdition, carrying
wit,h them some small fry bosses who
have outlived their usefulness in the
party. If they keep up the t.reats they
are making tonight Harrison has a very
hard road to travel in the coming cam
paign. It is generally conceded that
Cleveland or G"orman can defeat him.
In adlition to t,he hiostility lie aroused in
his own party, there are thousands of
republicans who are o)posed to a second
terni. Today's proceeding sholwed that
HIarrison can not, arouse much enthu
sastn, but lie and his Iriends are shrewd
manageri, and it will not, do for the
dLemrats to underestimate his
IiARISON WILL nE Il,ATEN.
The followinii twivato dispatch was re
3eived last night rem Ll well known
Sout,h Carolina repblicati now in New
"New York republicans are ut'erly
lisgusted with tie noniination, and say
he North is snubb-d. Illil or anyone
:an wipe up the Stale with Harrison.
Doli'l, theC miy natne.1
TilE IALLOT FOR PICICSIDiENT.
Tihie fo0llowing was .he ballot on the
1o1ination for president:
Alaska-llarrisoti 2.
Alabama-Ilarrison 15, MH.Kiuley 7.
Arkansas-llarrison 15, McKioley 11.
California-'farrisou 8, Blaile 9, Mc
xm,ey I.
Colorado-Blaine 8.
Connecticut--lia rison 4. McKinley 8.
Delawaie-ILarrison 4, Blaine 1. Mc
K1mlev 1.
Florida-Ilarrison 8.
Georgla-arrison 26.
Idalo-Blaine G.
Illinois-Ilarrisoni 34, laine 14.
Ini iana-ilarrisoni 30.
Maine--Blainme 12.
iowa-IIarrison 20, Bilaine 5, McKin
ley 1.
Kentucky--iatrrison 22,. Blaine 2,
McKinley 1.
Kanisa9-lIlarrisonm i1, MicKinlev 9.
Louisiana-i-Iiarriston 8, Blaine 8.
Malir> iami-I-nfm'sonm Io, linefl 2.
M':ch gn- Mc Kiniley19Iarion7
hllaine 2. 1,hrisn7
i-sonri-IIairrisonm 28, Blaine 4, Ms
Kiniley 2.
Maissachuts(etss-l larrisoni I8. Blain e
1, M\cKhiiley 1f.
,\iMineotta-- lIaraiso)n 8, Blaie 9,
Li Kmiey I.
'Mf issis.sippji--l farris~oni 13., Bflie)j
\ Unntilt--f arrisoni 8.
Vimr..inmia-i1arrison 1,1 liaine 13., Me
(:mley 2
Wecst Virginiat----Iharris~on 12.
Wisconsinm--f arrismi I19, 1lainie 2,
lel-inley 3.
South D)ak oto-IIairrison 8.
NorthLl Dako,ta-iarrison 2, B3laine 4.
WVashington---1arison~ 1, Blaine 6,
Ohio-I 1arrison 1, McKmlfey 45.
Oregon--lIarrI on 1, McKinley 7.
P ennsylvania-IIarris,n 19, Blaine 3,
IeKinley 42.
lImode k lands--l brison 5, Blaine 1,
Souiley I, lReed I.
ouhCarolina-IIari Lon 13, Jlhainie
,McKinley 2.
Tenmnessee-IIarriison 17, Blaine 4,
IcKmnley 3.
Missomi i-IIat rison 28, lIlaine 4, Mc
:iley 2.
Neb)raskam-Harrisoni 15, McKinley- 1.
Nevada-IIrrisonm 4.
New Manmpaluire-- hiarri .on 4, Blaine
, leed I. Lincoln I.
New .Jersey--IIarri ion 18, Bllaine 2.
New York--hlarrisoni 27, Bline 35,
IcKiniley 1t0.
North Carolina-I-larrisoni 18j, laiie
&, McKmnlev 1.
WVyoming-- iarrison 4, Blaine 2.
.Ariz ma-llarrisoni I, laine 1.
New Mexi, o-Hiaison 2.
O)klahoma-IIlarrisonm 2.
IDist,rict of Columbhima--BIllne 2.
Utah-IIharrison 2.
lindian T1erritory-liarrison I, Blaine
T1otal 90-1. Ha&rrison 535k, Blaine
82 1.6, McKinley 182, Reed 4, L aceoln
.Necessary to a choice '453.
"I am Not 4uity."
CIIAIRLOTTrE, N. C ,June 10.-Several
ears ago Alex. \Vhitley and D. II.
ucker, natives of Stanuly Count y, went
Vest atnd settledl at Arkadelphi. Ark.
n a gambling dispute WVhitley brutal
murdered Tucker. Whitley came
ack to his old home andI last week was
p4tured and put in jaIl at Albemarle.
all yesterday imorinlg a mob of 100,
11 wearing red shirts, went to the jail,
verpowered the keeper and took Whit
iy- omit and hanged him to a tree.
ames II. Abraham, Sherli of Clark
ounty, Arkan.sas, arrived at Albemarle
)r Whitley two hours after the lyn
rdng, his intention being to take the
risoner back ton Arkansas for trial.
hitley's last words just before being
rumng up were, "I am not guilty." le
as of a prominent family in Stanoly,
i was itasoTucker.
Hleallug the Breach.
BATON JBOUOE, La., June 15.--Two
3rnterence committ,ees or the divided
oulsiana Democrats have reached a
mm ,ual ly satisfactorallyv agreement pro
iding for an amalgamationi or the i,wo
ct.ions of the party and the sending
f a single Democratic delegatIon, tun.
strmcted to Chicago. Thew F'oster
action has been recognmzed its the head
f f,he party in the .'tate. Unilnstruct
d delegates at large to the Chicago
"GIVE ME A DRINK."
Were George Wililamis's L-st Word-e
Turned and fell Dead.
A,iLANrA, June 12.-People passing
along Piedwont avenue near the rail
road culvei t esterday morning about
8:30 o'clock saw the trembling form of
a man walking s-uthward along the
avenio suddenly reel and tall tottering
to the sidewalk. Tile man lay quite
still, uttring no sound, and a big crowd
rushed to his side. Some men lifted
the man up and carried him into How
ard's undertaking establIshment, just a
few steps away, and bent over him to
see if he was ii any danger of dying.
The man was (lead. ils heart and pulse
were still and his wide open, glassy eyes
were staring vacantly above him.
The curious crowd gazed pityingly
on the dead wan's upturned face, bloat
ed and wearing the marks of excessive
dissipation. Some one in the crowd
recognizud the dead man as George
Wiliais, a brick mason, who boarded
at 70 Alaietta street. Up to Saturday
tigh t Williams had a good position,
paying him about tlirve dollars and a
half a day. Ile did not return to work
Monday, his old enemy. whisky getting
ill its work on hint atid rendering him
unlit for work. ills drunk was pro
tracted over Tuesday and Wednesday.
Veditesday morning Oilcer Shepard
found Williams on Decatur street stag
gering about drunk and arrested him
Ile was tried before Recorder Cal
houn \Vednesday afternoon and lined
96.75. Subsequently the line was sus
pended and Williams died owing the
city just 56.75. After being liberated
from the police station Williams again
resumed his drunk, and WednPsday
night he was soaked in liquor. Early
yesterday morning, before the bar near
the corner of Decatur street, and Pled
mont avenue opened, Williams was
standing at the door. lie was in a piti
able coudition. Ilis face was bloated
and his eyes were blood-shot. Iis
handi were trembling and he seeired tc
be suleting terrible agony. The awful
thirst for whisky was gnawing upon
Im and lie was suffering all the agonies
of hell. Soon after the bar opened a
workman entered with a b sket on his
arm and called for a g,ass of beer
Williams walked up to him and said:
'.Pardner, for God's sake give me a
drink. I'm dead broke, and I'm dying
for a dr,nk."
Trhe ian paid for Williams a drink,
which lie gulped down eagerly. Wil
liams walked Out and was gone for
sonie time. lie returned about 8
o'clock and stood about the place, lits
hands trembling anti his face showing
the excruciating pain he was suffering.
A negro passed by him and he begged
piteously for the price of a drink. The
negro passed heedlessly on and Wil
liams w ilked up Piedmont avenue to
ward the railroad. lVhi-n near thecul
vert he reeled and fell-dead.
Coroner Davis held an inquest over
the dead man about 9:30 o'clock. The
verdict of the jury was that Williams's
death was caused by failure of the
heart brought on by excessive drink
ing. Williams has a family near Tal
lapoosa Ga., but he has not lived with
them for over two .ears. IIe came
originally from Fairburn, G t.
Took the Money and Fied.
SAN FRANCISCO, .June ll.--John Gil.
son, secretary of the .J udon Manufac
turing Company drew S[7,000O in gold
and silver coin trom the Bank of
British Columbia this morning and
took the Oakland ferry boat to cross
the bay and pay off the three hundred
(eimployees of the company at the fac
tory and rolling mills at Emnoryville, a
stat ioni between Oakland and Berkeley.
Leaving the terry boat b'i took the
Herkeley train, When the train stopped
at Jf street statioii two men sprang
aboard and hastened to Gilson's seat.
T'here, at the point of revolvers, they
cornipelled Gilson to give up the twvo
sacks containmng the coin. The men
thein jumped from the slowvly moving
trait, amnl entered a buggy which It was
su bseq iuentfly ascertained had( been
hitched at the foot of .15 street for some
ime (luring the morning and drove
away'.
(hlison lired live shots from the plat
torin o,f thle train and one of the men
who had his lace blackened returned
ihe shots, but none of' them took effect.
l'he passengers on the train wvere most
ly tuerry-makers on their way to a pic
nic and were dumbfounded at the scene
rapidly enacted before them.
Word wvas hastily sent to Oakland
andt guards were established on the
ferry boats and on the roads leading
into the country, but nothing has been
seen of thle men at a late hour, The
man who lhad his face blackened is de
s9cribed as wearing blue over aIls and
juniper, while the other wore blue
trousers and a limien duster, It is sup
p)osed that the men were discharged
employees, familiar with Secretary Gil
son's mnethods.
The cotton crop,
W ASIllNGTON, Ju nne 10.-Returns of
thae statisticarl correspond(ents of the
IDepartment of Agriculture report cot
ton p)lanting late, germination retarded
by low temperature, and slow dlevelop
merit of plant. In the entire cotton
belt temperature of the past three
imoonths is reported below nornmal, in
sottne districts twvo to three degrees be
low. Thme raintfall has also been report
ed below normal on the Atlantic
coast, while generally In excess in
the MississIppi valley, both conditions
co-operattig with tihe low temperature
to retard growth, Many correspon
dents of the Atlantic section report a
poor stand. '[he average condition of
cottoii in the consolidation of the re
ports Is 85.9. Th'lis ls the lowest aver
age, with or.e exception, since 1874.
state average are as follows: Virgin
Ia, 79; North Carolina, 88; South Caro
lina, 91t; Georgia, 87; Florida, 89; Ala
bama, 91; MississippI, 91; LouisIana,
82; Texas, 81; Tennessee, 90; Arkansas,
75.
Thel redluctioni of area from floods re
suiltinig from river overflows especially
of the MississippI and its tributaribs,
has beeni heavy. The acreage of cotton
has been materially reduced. On the
1st of May, while planting was pro
g ressing, ou r correspondents reported
the Intention to reduce the acreage 18.6
per cent. State percentage of area In
comparlsoii with the actual acreage of
last year are as follows: Virginia, 73;
North Carolina, 76; South CarolIna, 84;
Georgia, 84; Florida, 81; Alabama, 84;
Mississippi, 85; Louisiana, 80; Texas,
85; Arkansas, 82; Tennessee, 83; aver
age, 83 5.
Lightning iStrikes Two Churches.
MA nnID, June 13.-A terri flc thunder
storm prevailed in various parts of
Spain yesterday anid heavy loss of life
antd injury by lightning are reported,
At MIhas, in the province of Orenses,
the Parish church was struck while
worshippers were attending mass, Tee
were killed and twenty-eight seriously
in juredl. At Muccendes, in the province
of Valladolist, a church was struck and
five killed and ten injured.
Dave baw in Not Dead.
GREENVILLE, S. C., June .-It now
appears that Dave Nhaw, the Laurens
negro whose fate has been a mystery
for nearly two weeks, is alive aud "still
in the ring, although somewhat dis
tiguied." .1. M. Teriy, who lives below
Piedmont, was in the city yesterday
attnruoui atid reported to ( F. Dill
that Shaw has turned up and that be is
at Thouas Sullivim'u, nine itVles below
where he was supposed to have been
lynched. Shaw 8ays that the crowd
gave him an uinierciful whipping and
allowed him to go. lie has since kept
quiet fearing that an end would be put
to his life. All the facts In the alleged
lynching showed it to have been an
outrageous affair, and the treatment of
the negro has been condemned by the
press and people of the State. Mr. Dill
said yesterday afternoon that he has
known Shaw a number of years and
that he does not know a more honest or
straightforward negro. Ile says that
he has loaned Shaw money to make his
crop every year for a number of years
and that lie has been repaid i,romptly,
Shaw at present owes hin over $121
and he has no doubt but that lie will
get it. lie also says that when Shaw
was arrested lie had money, as he (H1r
Dill) had loaned it to him a tow days
before. Shaw, if alive, and the report
to that effect is aut.hentic, will probabl
make trouble for the party that toolk
the law into their own l,ands. The
negro's statement of the affair, whtwu
lie makes it., will be of interest all over
the State.-News.
'Ihe Alliance in Morning.
WASHIN(iTON, June 1I.-Col. L. L
Polk, president of the Farmers' Alli
ance, died at Gailield Hospital at 11:16
this morning.
Col. Polk was a relative of President
Polk. Ile was a native of North Caro
lina, where he was born about lifty-tive
years ago. Ilis education was received
in the common schools. During the
war he served for a time in the Con
federate Army and resigned to go to
the Legislature to which body lie had
been elected. Ile filled for severa
years the ollice of Commissioner 01
Agriculture for North Carolina and
later still, he began the publication of
the Progressive Farmer which he man
aged for a long time. At the time of
his death lie was serving his third tern:
as president of the body to which ie
has given so much of his time and at
tention.
Col. Polk's home was at 1laleigh, N
C. IIe leaves a wife and three children
The 11 o'clock train over the Rich
mond and Danville Railroad to-nigh
carried the remains of Colonel Polk t<
Raleigh, N. C., for interment. Tht
funeral services will be held at Raleigl
at 4 p. m. to-morrow. The remain
were accompanied by a party of abou
twenty-five of Colonel Polk's friends
among whom were Congressmen OtW
of Kansas, Moses of Georgia, Kem o
Minnesota, McKeighan of Nebraska
Stackhouse of South Carolina ant
Simpson of Kansas, the latter being ac
companied by Mrs. Simpson.
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Talbott's EngInes an(d Saw Mills.
Van Winkle and Lummnus Gins
Double Screw Presses and Suction Eleva
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V. C. BADHAM,
GENERAL AGENT,
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