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WISHES OF ALL AGES. I Mked a little child one day A child Intent on foyOus play; "My littleone, pray toll me Your dearest WrIsh; what may it be?" Trho little one thought for a while, Then answered, with a wistful slile: "The thing that I wish most of all as to be big, like you, and tall." I asked a maiden, sweet and fair, With dreamy eyes and wavy hair: " What would you wish, pray toll imo tne, That kindly fato should bring to you?" With timd mien and downeast eyes And blushes deep and gentle sighs, 11r answer came: "All else abovo I'd wish some faithful heart to love." I asked a mother, tried and blest, With babe asleep upon her breast: "h01, mother fond, so proud and fair, What is thy inmost secret prayer?" he raised her calm and peaceful eyes, Madonna-like up to the skios: "My dearest wish is this," said she, "'That God may spare my child to mc." Again, 1 asked a woman old, To whom the world ecomed hard and ecold: "Pray tell me, oli, thou blest in years. What are thy hopes, what are thy fears?" With felded hainds and head bont low 'The answer made in accents slow: "For me remains it 0110 request It is that God may give me rest." THE DRESS TRAGEDY HtAv, Dr. Talmi1aso on the It HuoucO of tie Idol of Fashion. BRooicLTYN, Aug. 5.-Rev. Dr. Tal mage, who is now in Melbourne on his round the world tour, has chosen as the subject of his sermon for today throuh. the press "Tuo Tragedy of Dress," the text selected being I Peter 111, 3, 4, "Whose adorning iet it not be that out ward adorning of plaiting the hair and the wearing of gold or of putting on of apparel, but let it be the hidden man of the heart." That we should all be clad is proved by the opening of the first wardrebe in in paradise 'with its apparel of dark green. That we should all, as far as our means allow us, be beautifully and gracefully appareled is proved by the fact that God never made a wave but he gilded it with golden sunbeams, or a tree but he garlanded it with blossoms, or a sky but he studded it with stars, or al lowed even the smoke of a furnace to ascend but he columned and lurreted and domed and scrolled it into outlines of' indescribable gracefulness. When I see the apple orchard of the spring and the pageantry of the autumnal forests, I come to the conclusion that if nature ever does join thechurch, while ehe may be a Quaker in the silence of her wor ship, sne never will be a Quaker in the style of her dress. Why the notches of a fern leaf or the stamen of a water hiI3? Why, when the day departs, does It let the folding doors of heaven stay open so long, when it might go in so quickl3? One summer morning I saw an army o a million speae, each one adorned with a diamond of the first water-I meau the grass with the dew on it. When the prodigal came home, his father not only put a coat on his back, but jewelry on his hand. Christ wore a beard. Paul, the bachelor apostle, not ailicted with any sentimentality, ad. mired the arrangement of a woman's hair when lie said in his epistle, "If. a woman have long hair, it is a glory unto her." There wIll be a fashion in heavern as en earth, but it will be a diff'erent kind of fashion, It will decide the color 0i the dress, and the population of tha; country, by a beautifld law, will wvear white. I say these things as a back ground to my sermon, to show you that .I have nio prinm, precise, priudish or caa;, iron theories oni the subject of human apparel. But the godidess of fashion has set up her throne in tils world, and at the sound of the timbrels we are all expected to fall downi and worshipl. The Old and Nlew Testament of her Bible are th~e fashion plates, IHer altars smoke wit lithe sacrifice of the bodies, mmsda and souls of 10,000 victims. in her templlle four p~eople stand in the orean loft, and from them there comes dtOWn a cold udriazle of music freezing on the ears of her worshipers. Th'iis goddess of fashi ion has become a rival of the Lord of heaven and earth, and it is high time that we unlimibered our batteries against this idlolatry. Whaen .1 cOnme to counit the victims of fashion, I fInd as many masculinie as femiinine. Men mnake an easy tirade against .woman, as though a hie were the chief worshiper at. this idolatrous shiorine, and no doubt sonme men in the more conspicuous part of the pew have already cast, glances at the more retired part of the pew, their look a prophecy of a generous distribution. My sermon shall be as appropriate for one endl of the pew ns for the other. .Men are as much the idolators of lash ion as women, b'ra they sacrilce on a different part of tue altar. With men the fashion goes to cigars and clubrooms and yachting parties and wine suppers, In the United States the men chew up and smoke *100,000,000 worth of to. bacco every year. That is their fashion. In London not long .ago a man died who had started in life with $750,000, but lie ate it all up in gluttonies, sending his agents to all parts of the earth for some rare delicacy ,or the palate, sometimes one plate of food coasting hIm *300 or *400. lie ate up his whole fortune and1 had only one guinea left. 'With that lie bought a woodcock, had it dressed in the very best style, ate it, gave two hours for digestion, then walked out on West minister bridge and threw himself into the Thames and died, doing on large scale what you and I have often seen done on a small scale. But men do not abstain from millinery and elaboration of skirt through any superiority of humi lity, [t is only because such append ages would be a blockade to business. What would sashes and trains 31 yards long do in a stock market? And yet men are the disciples of fashion just as much as woma n. Some of them wear boots so l~h hthey can'hardly walk in the paths of hoihteousness. And there are men wh buy expensive suits of clothes and never pa for thorm, and who go though te strees in great stripes of' color, like animated checkerboards. I say these things because I want to show you that I am impartial in my discourse, and that both sexes, in the language of the surro gate's office, shall "share and ehiare alike." As God may help me I shall show you what are the destroyin an deathfnl influences of inordinat tashlon. InThe first baleibl Influence i notice is ifraud, illimitable andhasty. D o known that Arnold of the Rlevolution proposed to sell his country in order to get money to support his wife's ward robe? I declare here before God and this people that the effort to keel) up ox penslie establishments in this country is sending more business men to tempo. ral perdition than all other causes combined. What was it that sent Gilnan to the penitentiary c#d Ph4adelphia Morton to the wat~i~g'ofstocks, and the life in. ~i~4~e pesients, to perjured state. w tther ee . What was it that overthre w the United States secretar y at Washington, the crash of whose fall thook the continent? But why should I go (o these famous default inus to show what men will do in or(ler to keel) up arent home style and expen - sive wardrObe. when you and I know scores of men who are pit to their wits' ond and are Islied frnt.iJauiary to De - .elber inl the attemp? Oar politicians may theor'ra until the expiration of their terms of cilice ars to the best way of improving our nionetary ,ondition in this ccuntr). It will be o no use and things will be no better until we learn to put on our heads and backs and icet and hands no more than we can pav for. There are clerks in stotes and bnks on limited salaries who, in the vain at tempt to kee-p tho wardrobe of their fanii lV as showy as other olik' wardrobes, are dying of irt and ( die monds and i-hawlA ail lhi hats, 1111d they have nothing left except what they give to cigars and wine sup perm, and they (lie bofbre their time, [tud tl:ey will expect uts ministers to preach about them as though they were the victims of early piety, and after a high class atieral, with silver handles at the side of the collin of extraordinary brightness, it will be found out that the undertaker is cheated out of his legiti mate expensee! Do not send to ire to preach the fun eral sermon of a man who (lies like that I will blurt out the whole truth and tell that he was strangled to death by his wife's ribbons. Our countries are dressed to death. You are not sur prised to flad that the putting up of one public building in New York cost mil. iors of dollars more than it ought to htave cost when yeu find that the man who gave out the contracts paid more than $5,000 for his daughter's wedding dress. Cashtiif res of a thousand dol. lars each are not rare on Broadway. It is eatimated that there are 10,000 wo. men in these two cities who have ex pended on their personal array $4,000 a year. What are men to do in order to keel) up such home wardrobek? Steal! That is the only respectable thing they can (to. During the last lifteen years there have been Innumerable line businesseB shipwrecked on the wardrobe. The temptation comes in this wa3: A man thinks more of his family than c ft all the world outside, and it they spend the evening in describing to him the superi or wardrobe of the family across the street, that they cannot bear the sighi of, the man is thrown on his gallantry and on his pride of family ann without translating his feelings into pla.n lan guage lie goes into extortion and issuing of false stock and skillful penmanship it writing somebody else's name at the foot of a promissory note, and they al go down together-the husband to the prison, the wife to the sowing machine the children to be taken care o1 by thos who were called poor relations. Oh for some new Shakespeare to arise an< write the tragedy of human clotheel Will you forgive me it I say in terses shape possible that some of the me have to forge and to perjure and to swir de to pay for their wives' dresset? will say it whether you forgive me o nor. Again, inordinate fashion is the foe all Christian almsgivinig. Men and w< men put. so much in personal dhispkl that, they often htave nothinig lef t f'or (t and~ the cause ol~suflering humanity. Christian man cracking his P'alais Rloyt glove across thte hack by shutting a his hand to hide the cent hto puts int the Poor box. A Chtristiani woman a the story of' the JIottentots, crying cc pious tears mnto a $25 handkerchief ani then giving a 2 cent piece to the coilec ion, thtrustinug it undi~er the hills so pec jie will not, know but it, was a $10 gold piece. One hundred dollars for incens to fashion; 2 cents for God, God give ns 90 cents ouit of every dollar. The other 10 cents by command of htis Bible belong to him. 1s not God liberal ac cording to his tithing system laid dlow in the Old Terstamienl? Is not, God lib oral in giving us 90 cents out of a ddlla: when he takes but, 10? We (10 not hiki that. We want to have 99 cents foi ourselves and 1 for God. Now, I would a great deal rather stea 10 cents fromyou than from God. I thin] one reason why a great many peop~le di not get along in worldly accuimultiot faster is because tbey do riot Obseryv this (Irvine rule. God says, "Well,i that, man is not antisfied with 90 cents o a dlollar then I will take the whole (10! lar, and I will give it, to the muan or wo tian who is honest with me.'" Thi greatest obstacle to charity in the Chris tian church todlay is the fact that met expend so much money on their table and~ women so much on their dress, the' have got nothing~ loft for the work a God and the world's bettermont. It my first, aettlemenitat ]Belleville, N. J. the cause of missions was being prese nt ed one Sabbathb, and a plea for the char ity of the people was being made, whei an 01(1 Christihn man in the audicac lost, his balance and said1 right ought ii the midst of the sermon, "Mr. Talmag how are we to give liberally to thes arand and glorious causes when our fam ilies dress as they (10?" I did not an swer that, question. It, was tihe onl' time in my life whien I hiadl nothing ti say. Again, inordinate fashion is distractiot to public worship. You know very we] there are a good many pisople who comi to church inst as they go to the races t< see who will come out first. What, flutter it makes In church when somi woman with extraordinary dilsplay 0 fashion comes in! "What a love of bonnet!" says some one: "What a per rect fright!" say five hundred. For thi most merciless critics in the world arn fashion critics. Men and women wit~l souls to be saved passing the hour In wonderIng where that man got his cra rat or what store the woman patronizes [n many of our churches the prellminar) exercises are takeh up with the discus sion of wardrobes. It is pitiable. Is iI tot wonderful the Lord (loss niot strike the meeting houses with lightmngl What distraction of pub~lic worship! Dy ing men and women, whose bodies are loon to be t~urned into dust, yet before three worlds strutting like peacocks, thie twfil question of the soul's diestiny mubmerged by the question of navy blue velvet and long fan train skirt, long enough to drag up the church aisle, the husband's store, otlice, shop, factory, fortune and the' .dmirat~ion of half the people in thie building. Men and women come late to church to show their clothes People sitting down In a pew or taking up a hymnbook, all absorbed at the same time in persofial array to smng: Rise, lysoul, and stretch thy wings; Thy hoter portions traee. Rise fromi transitor thsn Toward heaven, tiv ei place. I adopt the E~pisc r1a~ ayer anid ma ~ Good LorkI de, ' te1 t W0the 1mpou, tance of the subject on whic'i we con stantly dwell. (Jan you imagine any thing more dwarting to the human intel lect thun the study of fashion? I see men oi the street, who, judging from their elaboration, I think must have taken two bouts to arrange their upparel After a few years of that kind of absorp. tion, which one of McAllister's mnagiy Ing glasses will be powerful enoigh to make the man'd character visible. 1'hey 1 all land in idiocy. I hIve seen mnent at the summer watering vices through I fashion the mere wreck of what they once were. Sallow of cheek. Meager of limb. Hollow at the cheat. Showing no animation save in rushitig scroa a room to pick up a lad%'s 'llm. Simper isti along the corridors, the someu con pliments they dimpered 20 yeara tao. A New York lawyer at United States hotel Saratoga, within our hearing rushed acro3s i room to say to a senits ble woman, ''You are as sweet as p3ache!' The Fos of fashion are myriad Fashion not only destroys the body, but it makes idiotic the intelleet. Yet my frienids. I have givei yon only the milder phase of this evil, It shuts a great multitade out of heaven. The first peal of thunder that shcok Sinai de clared. "Thou shalt have no other God before me," and you will have to choose between the goddess of fashioni and the Christian God. There are a great many seats in heaven, and they are all easy seats, but not one seat for the devotee of fashion. Heaven is for meek and quiet spirits. Heaven is for those who think more of their souls than of their bodies, Heaven Is for those who have more joy in Christian charity than in dry goods religion. Why, if you with your idolatry of lashion should somehow get into heaven, you would be for putting a French roof on the "house of many mansions." Give up this idolatry of fashion or give up heaven. What would you do stanling beside the Countess of Huntington, whose joy it was to build chapels for the poor, or with that Christian woman of Boston who Fed 1,500 children of the street at Farucuil hall on New Year's day, giving out as a sort of doxology at tile end of the meeting a pair of shoes to each oie of them, or those Dorcases of modern society who have consecrated their need les to the Lord, and who will get eternal reward for every -t~tch they take. On, men and women, give up the idolatry of fashion. The rivalries and the com. petitions of such a life are a stupendous wretchedness. You will always lad some one with brighter array, and with more palatial residence, and with laven der kid gloves that make a tighter fit. Ani if you buy this thing and wear it you will wish you had bought something else and worn it. And the frets of such a life will bring the crows' feet, to your temples before they are due, and when Vcu come to die you will have a mider. able time. I have seen men and wo men of fashion die, and I never saw one cf them die well. Tile trappings oft', there they lay on the tumbled pillow, and there were just two things that nothered them-a wasted life and acom a ing eternity. I could not pacify them, for their body, mind and soul had been exhausted in the worship of fashi-n, and 'r they could not appreciate the gospel. When I knelt by their bedside, they were mumbling out t-eir regrets and Ssaying: "0 God! O) God!" Their gar m uents hung up il the wardlrobe never dagain to be seent by them. Without any exceptionl, so far its my miemiory ii sirves me, they died without hope anld P wenlt into eternity unpilrepaired. 3 VTe most ghastly deathhbeads on earth Sare the one whero a man (lies of dliiriumi 'tremiens, and the other where a woman 1 (lies after having sacrificed all her facuil -tIes cf body, ntmnd and soul mn the wor 'shilp of fashtioni. My friends, we must appear in Judgment to answer for what 3 we ha/;e worn on our bodies as well as for what repenltances we have exercisedl with our souls. On that (lay I see comn ing in Beau B3rummel of the last cenl. tury, without his cloak, like which all Enlgiland got a cloak, and without his cane, like which all England got a cane; without his sniuff-box, like which all England got a snu'll-box. ie, the fop of the ages, particular about everytina hut is morals. and Aaron Burr, with out |thae lctter's that down to 01(1 age hte shlowed in pride to prove his early wicked gallantries, nd Abs~olom withotit his hair, andl Marchioness P.ompadour with out her titles, and Mrs. Arnol, the belle of Wall street when that was the center of fashi n, without hter fripperies of vesture. And in great htawariess they shall go away imto eternal exp~atriation, whtile among the (l ueents of heavently society will be found Vashti, whoc wore the modest veil bef ore the palatial baccha nahians, and( Ilannah, who annually made a little coat for Sauul at, the tem-. ple, and Ghrandmothter Lois, the ances tress of 'Timothy, who imitated her vir ture, add Mary who gave .Jesus Christ to the world, and many of you, tile wives andl mlothlers and sisters andi dlaughtters of the present Christian church, who, through great tribulation, are enterIng into the kingdom oif God. Christ an nlounicedl who would mtake up the royal family of heaveni when ite said, "'Who soever dJoeth th ilof Gdthe same is my brother, lmy sister, my mohe. A Terrlibto Trseody, Cor.MnIA. S. C., Aug. 8.-Yesterday morning about two miles from the cIty a yoiung son of Mr. Henry Williams was ebot and killed by his brother. The children were 7 and 5 years old respect rively. It was a strange case and no ex planation of the reason why the (deed was done is given. Tihe facts are as follows: Mrs. Williams3 left her house and went out into the adjourning woods for same purpose and left her three chIldren at the house. They were aged 7, 5S ahd 3years. When she return ed she was horrifIed to find the five-year old child dead. Blood was pouring from its ear. She screamed at tihe sigcht, which brought in some neighbors. T'he seven-yearold child on being questioned said that he had taken a nail and while his little brother was lying on the floor lhe had put it in his ear and stuck it with his hland. ie did not mean to drive the nail in, he said. This explana tion was not at all sati factory, but the little fellow stuck to it for a long tim e. In the meantime Coroner RIoachi was notified and Dr. Green was sent for. The Doctor saw at once that the fatal wound had not been made by a nail. The boy was questioned again and af ter much persuasion and some threats he finally said that he had gone to a trunk, took out a pistol, put it to his brother'e ear and fired. Tile little three year-old child in its baby way confirm ed that statement. A bsolutely no reason Is given as to why the child shot his brother, and it is supposed that he really dhid not know what he was doing when he put the fatal weapon to his brother's ear and flred. Coroner Roach empaneled a anyud a verdict was rendered in ac, O)ano with the above facts. The t98pfl5Il~t~t~ oldt ja learly not KOLB MEANS TO FIGHT, Ui9 Recent Dofeat Denotuc4d an Wrong I und a Robbary, JIRMINIIA31, Ala, Aug. 9.-The ,onference of Kolb leaders which con - ( rened yesterday finished their labors I oday. They have been consulting on c he situation and discussing a plan of tction. The following address to the eople was given out this afternoon as ,he result of their labors: To the people of Alabama: The .ampaign committee of the Jefferson an Democracy and the People's party t )f Alabama have been instructed by a ( 3onference of our State candidates, the t ending suiporters of that ticket and I 1ho State Executive Committee to pro nulgate the following: The election returns as reported by f 'he Associated Press and supporters of Lhe ticket headed by Colonel Oaten ;how a repetition of the election frauds f 1892 with less pretext and absolute y without the least semblance of justi ication, in order to overcome legiti inate majorities for our ticket in forty )no white counties. The false and v rraudulent majorities aggregate 24,107 Erom hfiteen black belt counties. In [892 these same black belt counties had iggregated majorities of 28,069. In ad lition to this frauds have been perpe ,rated in white counties of not less than [5,000. With the consummation of 'heso has been also brought forth four >r five fraudulent elections of Senators ind eleven or twelve fraudulent elec 'ions of Representatives in the General &ssembly. This outrageous action, ntensilled by the impu'dence and of [rontery with which it has been taken, lisplays a disregard of public senti mient in such a brazen faced manner that it seems to have been intended to add insult to injury. The law under which the election of 1892 was held, which was devised to as sure the prevention of fraud with ease facility and safety, has been amended by the Sayre law, the purpose of which to assure the perpetration of greater wereto disfranchise illiterate voters and frauds in the black belt counties. This has been demonstrated by the "election just held, and was known and Intended by the usurper who exercises the func tions of Governor and was illustrated by his remark when he signed that bill. A contest law was promised to allay and prevent a popular uprising in 1892 to be broken in the most shameful manner, and the perfidy and treahery displayed was af terwards boasted of as a fine piece of legerdemain. We ad monish our people not to accept prom. ises nor pledges from those who have proven themselves recreant to every requirement of law, to every demand of honor and to every exaction of duty. They demoustrated that they are enemies to liberty and re publican institutions. In the face of the fact that only a few months ago the proposition to sub mit the election to a State primary was made, in which only white voters should participate, which was after wards so amended as to meet the sup posed wishes of Oate's followers by eliminating white Republicans, which they declined to accept upon a specious excuse that was an af ter thought and very Ipuerile, combined with the fact that only 42,000 votes were polled in the State primary that brought, out the fill strength of that party, they now claim, urge and insist upon the most extravagant and roediculous figures as correct andl true. The conditions in this State have reached a climax. T1here is no dloubt that the State ticket headed bp Captain RL. I". Kolb has been elected. The al ternative is presented of submission to wrong, insult and robbery or to assert the sovereign power before which thrones totter, scepters fall and ontrages of tyrants cease. That alternative must meet a response from manhood or silent sub~mission from those un worthy of citizenship. A proud and chivalrous people worthy of freedom cannot shirk the responsibilities the sittuation enforces. A distir~guiished patriot has asserted that the man who will not light for his liberty is unwor thy of freedem. We (10 not advise fighting or lawlessness of any kind, but the crisis has arisen that the sovereign newer sh all assert itsel f to compell un worthy servants of its will to sub~mit to its power and recognize its authority. Your committee recognizes that It has been entrusted1 with certain duties andl that its powers are circumscribed; and it feels authorize:I only in going to the extent of advising and urging those whom it represents to exercise the power inlvestedl In them and to hold meetings on Thursday, the 23d of Au gust, at the respective court houses, if not othierwise specinied to act upon this great crisis and to insist that manhood patriotism and love of liberty which has alwvays evoked prompt and decisive action from them shall find expression in their course, that will be creditable to their revolutionary aires and furnish a precedent in our history to which all will ever revert with pridle and satis faction. At the same time andl place, we would urge the organization of law and order leagues to uphold the supremacy of that greatest of all law and power-the sove reign will of a free people. Upon the adjournment of these meetings, reports of the proceedings should be furnished immedliately to W. HI. Skaggs, chair man, Ilirmingham, Ala. (Slgned)-W. 11. Skagga, Chairman Ceratral Campaign Committee; A. T, Goodwin, Chairman Jeffersonian Exec utive Committee; John W. Pitts, Chair man Peopi's Party Executive Commit. tee. Went~ fack on Him, MONTO OMERY, Ala., Aug. 7.- .N ear ly every County turns up with a heavy loss for Kolb as compared with his vote of 1892. For instance, Madison County in 1892 went for Kolb by 298; official returnes give it to Oates by 1, 443, a change of over 1,700 votes. Law rence, another Tennessee Valley County, goes for Kolb by only 1,250, as against 2,135 before. Limestons goes for Kolb by only 153, as against 1,623 in 1892. Tallapoosa goes for Kolb by only 600, as against 2,419 in 1892. In Cherokee his majority falls 300. Cren shaw went for .Kolb 775 in 1892. This year it is very close. Sumter gem a for Oates by over 2,500; Damacrav,ic ga4in of over one thousand; and Macan goes for Oates by 800, a Democratic gain of over 1,600. Ihenry Oates' own County went for Kolb in 1892 by over 1,500; this year over 5CO for Oates. Blarbour, official Democratic majority insreased. The smaller Counties go the same way in less degree. Oates' majority will be closed to 40,000. No one places it under 26,000. Legislative returns indicate safe Democratic majority, even with out Jefferson's delegation of six, though the prospects are that ,Jefferson has gone Democratic.. FORi Five Stories. NEWv YoRK, Aug. 3.-Mary Ilassa lives as 339 East Seventy fourth street. She is 22 years 01(d. WhIle watering plants she leaned too far out of the win dow and she and the plants and pots tumbled down fiye stories to the street. She was taken to the Presbyterian hos pilal inter~ahly injured, but will proba. bly get Well. THE CAMPAIGN ENDED. 'ho (Jolunbla State Names the Wino nng ' Ticket. CL(UMnTA, 8. C., Aug. 9 -The State ampnIgn of 1894 Is now a thing of the E ant. As a result of the campaign and he recent meeting of the Sligh executive ommittoe, it is pretty easv to ree now hat by this time next week the guber. atorial contest, as far as Messrs. ElI arbo ald] Tindal are c-ncerned, will be I L'3 longer a matter of in terest. It is pretty aenerally conceded that he two gentlemen named are now loomed to defeat in the State conlven iou next Thursday, and that Rvais is e o be the Lefoii noin-e. If such a result comes abeut, then the I wng-fought battle narrows to a equare t Ight in Vie general primary between Dr Z nope an( John Gary Evans. Dr. Pope's I ame does not go before the Reform pri. t nary. If such is th outlook-and -vans' friends claim that their is no'w no onger a doubt of his receiving the noi I iation-tLen bo. Tindal and Ellerbe Lre barred from going any further. An entirely noe f.ight will he on. svans' friends will have to battie with 1 Dr. Pope's filends, who will very likely i lecline to participate in the Relorm pri- 1 naties on Saturday. The vote on Sat- ( trday. therefore, will tell pretty well Nhat Pope's slrenIgth is noL considering Iuy other vote which may go to him, it here be any. At any rate Pope, und r the circum tances named, will not be out of the ace by a good deal. He has made, it s understood, many friends recently by ils action in kicking out of the traces. Now there is considerable doubt as to vhat Ellerbe and Tindal will do. If they tre going to kick out of the traces they vill have to do it by tomorrow night, for he Reform primaries take place Satur lay. It the results of these primaries broughout the S'ate can be ascertamedi m Saturday night, the result of the State onvention on Thursday next con Le old. There is a good deal of silent dissa', sfaction among the general primary ad rocates with regard to the SlIgh commit ee's action. This may, or may not, levelop into a sentiment strong enough ,o induce Tindal and Ellerb3 to withdraw heir pledges, already filed. An Evans man yesterday, leaving cut >f the matter entirely any consideration )f Pope's chances, said that the whole t ,hing was going to result in the nomina .ion and election of the follo wing ticket, md if the element of doubt as to Eller- i >e's course and Pope's primary race was 'emoved, all would d'>ubtless agree with I un: For Governor-John Gary Evans. Lieut. Governor-Dr. W. H1. Timmer nan. Attorney General-U. W. Buchanan. State Treaturer-W. T. C. Bates. Superintendent of Education-W. D. Mas fii d. Comptroller General-A. W. Jons. Secretary of State-D. I. Tompk'n3. Adjutant and Inspector General John Gary Watts. Now as to the <11'ect of the campaign on the Senatorial fight, Tillman's friends claim that he comas out of the stump battle stronger than ever. The general opinion, however, is that the slump work has been mote beonelicial to Butler than to Tilaman. Butler's friends re gard his chances as much haetter than at any time heretofore. As to the efl'ect of the campaign on the dispensary outlook, it is said by 01ne who ought, to kniow, that Governor Tillman is hilly satisfied, b~y his tests >1 the crowds8 at the meetimgs ont the (di pensary, that the great body of the peo-. pie demand the dlispeusarJ; that he ex pects them to send a Legislature here which will re-enact, the law and pass a uetrop~olitan police law, forcing a lar ga aumber of such p)olice oil all cities where Nithi to enfarce tihe law, and that they I ivll enact a law providing fUr changcs ofi' ienue in liquor cases.--State. Train R(obbers Failed, . (CLEYELAND, Aug. 7.-Lake Shore l0xpress train No. 12 arrived from the West and pulTed into the Union sta .ion this morning, after having enco mnteredl a most thrilling experience on ~he plains of Indiana. An attempt was bade last night to hold up the train at Kessler upon tihe identical spot that the ~rain was hleld uip last fall. TIhe train vas just approaching a split swich at Kessler, when tile engineer noticed that ~he switch was turned so as to rttn the ~rain on the siding. A hIg obstruction )f ties and lumber was piled upon tihe tiding a few rods ahead of his engine. l'he obstruction did not appear to be .mpassable and the engineer put on all the steam and dashed through the ptil' passing safely on the main track rhroughi the switch at a high rate of ipeed. As the train passed the 0o) ituction the engineer noticed a group of masked men and as the engIne clear ed the track of all obstacles the would be highwaymen fired several shots in to0 the train, none of wvhich, however, took effect. The United States express car was attached to the train and had on board a large amount of money. It is thought that this was known to the [lesperadoes who attempted to hold up the train. Their disappointment in carrying out their planis of stopping the train was evinced on their firing shots when they saw that their plans had l been foiled by the boldness of tile engi neer in dashing through the heap of< ties upon the track. TEx ARKANA, Ark., Aug. (l.--IIenry Wheeler and his wife, negroes, who live ill tile north suburbs of town, have been arrestedI and lowgedl in jsil on the charge of n' urderinig the 16-year-old sister the latttr, whIo hand been living with them. It is charged that, they tied her hand and loot, and left her alone for (lays at a time in a secituded spot. The files got oil to the lacerated portions of' her body upon which she had been beaten and( screw] worms resulted by tile hlundredls. When] tound1( she was literally a living skeleton, J andl was too far gone to receive any benefit from medical attentionu. A cor onetr's jury found it a case of' murder, I andi Wheeler and his wife will remain in jail until tile next grand~ jury which n1(ets ini November. Wheeler has al ways borne a good chlaracter nam ng tile winte'people, but was disliked by the negroes because of his aristocratic mjan - ner. lie has been sexton for teni years at , the Southern Methodist church. Oats Elected. M0NTaOMERTY, Ala , Aug. 7.-Com plete unofficial but reliable returns from every~ county in the State but two (1 make tile Democratic majority 26,165. t: Those two counties are Bald win andh Dovington, both small counties, which hi cannot possibly change the foregoing t result more than a few hundredl. The e sfllci count, In the counties takes e place Saturday and the result wili not e be changed materIally. The D~emocrats it have at least 22 mnem bers of the Senate a ant of 83 and 61t members of the House c ant of 100.t THEY STAND BY THE .AN 'lie Rer. rn lXeVuCve O.mi toO M1ko No Otarg o. COLMIA, SP C., August 8.-The ltate Reform E'xecutivo Co m mittee net last night in the 4enate chamber t the Capitol. The committeo had een called together by Chiairian iigh inder a call published a few days ' go, a which were set forth the reasons for is action. It was brought about by tatements made to, and letters receiv d by him, calliir his attention to the act that the plan as adopted by the onmnittee at its first meeting was mnsatisfactory to a large number of teformers.. These statements and let era were so numerous as to bring Mr. ligh to the conclusion that perhaps or the sake of harmony and unity in he Reform ranks tile committee hould be called together to ascertain he extent of the reported dis3atisfac ion, and to amend the plan in such >articulars as would bring about a bet. er state of feeling among Reformers n regard thereto. The committee was called to order )y Chairman Sligh, and the following nombers answered to their names vhen the roil was called by Secretary )tts: Abbeville-D. II. Magill. Aiken-J. T. Gaston. Anderson-D. K. Norris. Barnwell-A. II. Patterson. Charleston-W. G. Whaley. Chester-T. J. Cunningimin. Colleton-L. E. Parler. Clarendon-Louis Appelt. Darlington-J. S. DuBos'. Edgeflelid-B13. B. Evans. Florence-J. S. McCall. Greenville-J. T. Austin. Hlampton-W. II. Mauldin. lHorry-J.. M. Stalvey. Kershaw-T. J. Kirkland. Lancaster-J. C. Elliott. Laurens-J. A. Jones. Lexington-C. M. Elird. Marion-D. W. McLaurin. Newberry-J. A.Sligh. Orangeburg-J. W. Stokes. Pickens-T. C. Robinson. Richland-"iL . A. Deal. Spartanburg-T. L. Garitt. Sumter-H. R. Thomas. Union-J. C. Otts. Williamsburg-Wm. Cooper. York-W. IR. Riggins. Fairfield-J. W. Lyles. On motion of Mr. Mauldin,of liamp on, all persons were exclued from the hamber except the members. All )thers retired. Quite a crowd waited n the lobby to learn what they could )f the proceedings from such members is strayed out now and then for a )reath of air, or to converse with riends on the outside. The session was long and the debates Nere earnest and excited. The speakers ,ould be heard throunh the glass doors, >ut not distinct enough to convey an ntelligent understanding of their re narks. All of the members participa :ed in the debate, some of them taking ;he floor several different times. Larry aautt vehemently opposed any chana ing of the plan. Ilia speech was sufi Diently distinct to show that lie was Ltterly opposed to anything of the kind and was heard to say at its con 3lusion "that if wo do so now the Peo. plo will think that we are a set of babies and~ jackasses." .lle was ap' plauded by thue members who agreed withi him. John Lyies, of Fairfield, offered( some resolutions declaring for a general pri nary. lie made a strong speech in fa lor of the same andi was warmly api dlauded. Member after membe~r of the comn nittee took the Iloor and spoke for and ugainst the resolutions. What the enior of their remarks were could only )e judged from the expression of the 'aces of the mnemb~ers whose opinion on ~he subject was known. As a suibsti .ute for Mr. Lyle's motion Dr. ,J. Wmn. Stokss introduced the following: WVhereas, this comnmittee recognizes hat the plan adopted in April and ro teratedl in July is not perfect, but af or full consideration for all interest, )refdrence, circumstances andi condi'-. ion that confront the Reform move nent, it is the best that wve have been Lutle to devise; if f aithfully carried out he plan will compass tihe object in ,iewv when the committee was organ zed-namely, tile nominationi of a can lidate for Governor who shall be the hioice of the Reformors. Resolved, That we deem it inexpedl lent and unwise to0 abandon the plan ulready agreed upon. Tihe substitute w as adopted, it is un lerstood1 by a very decided majority. A long discussion, participatedi in by learly all present, ensued upon various >ropositions to adopt additional rules, and to explain the meaning of certain loubtf ul terms contained in the plan. L'be debate t.ook a wide range and coy ir,edl every thing of importance concern ng the Reform palriy. (Chai man Sligh, Jolonel Norris, D)r. S'okes, Messrs. (irkland, W. Gibbes Whaley, Eiirrd d1cJaurin, Mauld(1in, O tts. Ryvans, $ lliott, Thomnas, Appelt, P.atterson, )eal, Parler, D~ulose, Stalvey andi in act every member of' the comn rnitteo poke at some length on the subject vith more or less warmth and earnest. 1ess. TIhe committee adjoured.-State. Ohurchx and state, TPhe Columbia Register,of last Thurs lays, says a convention or the leading :olored clergymen andi laymen of the state assembled Wednesday in the well cnown Calvary Baptist Church in that tity. All denominatious were repro. mented. The purpose of the gathering ,vss to discuss tile imperative necessity >f dividing the union of church and Rtate edlucational interests as exempli led in Cia fin University. After a full md spirited discussion of the princi )les at issue, and a formal series of re ~ommendations by a (luly appointedl ~ommittee, it was decided to appoint wo committees; one to properly p~re ent the whole question before the representative bodies of the various olored denominations of the State, md the other, consisting of Rev. it. M. taiford, Prof. Jt. N. Cardoza, Rev. l' I. Colt, Prof. .J. RL. Wilson, Rev. I). C. Iauim, Prof. .J. W. Morris and~ Rev. WV. 1). Chappeil to present a memorial to lhe State Legislature. There was 01) osition to the actIon of the meeting mud a number of persons, who consider ,t inexpedient, separated themselves rom the main body andi decided to >resent a counter memorial to the aogislature. Among thiose who do not gree with the majority are: Rev. .J. Hi. olonson, .John A. Barr, C. .J. Carroll, ). II. Moorer, P. C. Parks, J. RL. Bulk ey, .John 11. Fordlham, .J. S. Mobley. nd Rev. M. (I. Johnson. Tnel igible I. LI'rTLIC RooK, Ark,, Aug. 8.-it was iscoveredi to-daiy that D). E. Barker, hie Populist candidlate for Governor, ad not paid his poll tax. This makes im ineligible to hold office or to vote, he time for paying poll taxes having' xpiredl a month ago. If he were to re oivea majority of the votes cast at tile lectioni which occurs the first Monday i Soptember, he would not be granted certificate of election. The Demo. rats in this city feol highly elated over Mis discovery Ena Hard Luck. M ALBuoo, AuI. 7.-The family of Rev. U M. page, o Collin Iton, has been peettilarly tn ortunate th a summer. Mr. Page's son-in law, the Itev. Carl Grammer is ill, at the rectory; 4 few daya ago he revelved a telegram from Mexico annouritng thesudden death of his son, Woods Page, and the critical Illness of his young wife, and 24 hours after this another telegram was received telling of the sudden death, from heart disease, of Miss Maud Grammer, only sister of the iII man. That afternoon Miss Lilla Page and Mr. Carl Gram. met s little daughter drove with Mrs. Grammer's nurse to John M. Bowie's. The hose ranaway and thr6w all three from the vehicle, cutting the little girl's forehead from the heair down to the right eye, a terrible gash. The nurse was cut and bruised, and Miss Page es. caped with a few bruises. ' ET 1f PAS THE FREIGHI W4~ al Elbio Film G4461as endi lor tidaiuque vad Sea What You Cu SMIn thl $6Q $37 JIr.f,'t. Int uri tIIIn141 . - o m t paid oil thiis or uarantted to be a to(A orgai l or caon uey t - .%rn 'har. ttocktig Chair Divazk u t * r,1 $45. Wi deives Thi- No. S en m Uof 0111 to prie se, A 030 Wf MACHM witi anlattitiiments. for --ON iY $18.60 deli vere to your depot. *,'The roguilar priete of this C Y V I ttC)Co 75 diOllnIre. The maiutfietturer patys all thbe ex ptnitsesi and I qell 1-hem1 tolrou for Agg'7 n guarantee every one a bargain. No freight paid %a this Huggy--. A. $*B PIAW% -9 ilosivorer a.: yourdeipot -r erAsm.: .v of wi rniture, Cookt Jto ahyr Ca~inoi, HI.-Nies, Oftau, -! uIFk I'l, -7b. r. h MPe, &.. &Ad te /F PAD)GETT'"A"tft*.%C" a ram.-THE Enile: For Agricui tural and in eral Plautaition Uae, have earn ed their reputa tion as the best on tue market: For Simlity, lUnrabiilc and Esonomy in fuel and water fl~- as no Equal. SpcalSloSmor194 h ."el Sumr0'esta ba h rerGIs $50 saved every Piano purchaser. $10 to $20 on cycry Organ. Six Speial ol~or~s on our Popular Mid man itnor.Plan. liny In A ugust, September nitul S (ltbur, anid pay whn- to o e >l (,-l lah rlicoq. No Interest. Only a . ii :I Cash P'avient requjirix, $25 on a Ii nn. $10 mmi Iigsi , balanc no xt Novem P.vyw I toIt41 suilt nll. Pitanos $5 to $10 ~ inonibly. Organs $23 to $5. (lur Mi.iibi-Snnr Offers save big money itn it] !lans~ of paintfone. NwuallI Inadelra ready. fleauti ii amli hnap. Temptin Iargainae. Ie ati 41ncc for lit(-.ummer Of ~iii (itid only until November 1. SUDDEN & BATES SOUTrHERN MUSIC HOUSE, SAANAH, GA. N(OW IS TdE8 TIME To l'[jAJE YOtll Oitl)ELtI FORl Threshiers! Andi I Soil th0 Best it the Market, Write to mte Bofore Buying. Shingle Machines, Siave Machines, JBrick Machines, Planing Machines, Slwing Saws; Band saws, Gang Rlip Saws, ando all kinds of woodl working machines, 3rist Mills $115 to $250. 8aw Mills $190 to $400. Watertown Engines and Boilers. Talbott Engines and Boilers. Seed Cotton Elevators. (lottoh .Gins and Pressem HIGH11 and lOW GRADEI. V. 4Js PADH&IM. 00EMMLBIA8 0,