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VOL, III. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1888. NO.'20 TROUBLE AN EDUCATOR. DR. T. DE WITT TALMAGE PREACHES ON LIFE'S VICISSITUDES. Ruth Among the Reapers Gathering Straw-Her Accidental Meeting With Boaz--Greatest Fesults Often Springing from Inconsequential Inctdenut. Dr. Talmage's sermon at the Brook lyn Tabernacle Sunday morning was upon the developing inflieace on human character of sorrow and adversity. Ruth among the reapers and her first meeting with Boaz was the text of the discourse. A part of what the Doctor said follows: "The time that Ruth and Naomi ar rive at Bethlehem is harvest time. It was the custom when a sheaf fell from a load in the harvest field for the reapers to refuse to gather it up; that was to be left for the poor who might happen to come along that way. If there were handfuls of grain scattered across the field after main harvesthad been reaped, instead of raking it, as farmers do now, it was, by the custom of the land, left in its place so that the poor omingalong the way might glean it and get their bread. But, you say, What is the use of all these harvest fields to Ruth and Naomi? Naomi is too old and feeble to go out and toil in the sun, and can you expect that Ruth, the young and the beautiful, should tan her cheeks -and blister her hands in the harvest field?' "Boaz owns a large farm, and he goes out to see the reapers gather in the grain. Coming there, right behind the swarthy, sun-browned reapers, he be holds a beautiful woman gleaning-a wo man more fit to bend to a harp or sit upon a throne than to stoop among the sheaves. Ah, that was an eventful day! "It was love at first sight. Boaz forms an attachment for the womanly gleaner -an attachment full of undying inter est to the Church of God in all ages, I while Ruth, with nearly a bushel of: barley, goes home to Naomi to tell her the snnaesse and adventures of the day. That Ruth, who'left her native land of Moab in darkness and traveled, through an undying affection for her mother-in- I law, -in the harvest field of Boaz, is affianced to one of the best families in 1 Judah, and becomes in after time the ancestress of Jesus Christ, the Lord of I Glory. Out of so dark a night did there I ever dawn so bright a morning? "I learn in the first place from this i subject how trouble develops character. I It was bereavement, poverty and exilb I that developed, illustrated and an nounced to all ages the sublimity of I Ruth's character. That is a very un- < fortunate man who has no trouble. It 1 was sorrow that made John Bunyan the better dreamer, and Dr. Young the bet ter poet, and O'Connell the better orator, and Bishop Hall the better preacher, i and Havelock the better soldier, and Kitto the better encyclopaedist, and Ruth i the better daughter-in-law. "Misfortune and trials are great edu cators. A young dcetor comes into a I sick room where there is a dying child. i Perhaps he is very rough in his pre- I scription, and very rough in his manner, i and rough in the feeling of the pulse, E and rough in his answer to the mother's anxious question, but years roll on and I there has been one dead in his own E house, and now he comes into the sick 1 room, and with tearful eye looks at the f dying child and he says: 'Oh, how this remin me of my Charlie!' Trouble, the geteducator. Sorrow-I see its touc in the grandest paintings, I- hear its tremor in the sweetest song, I feel its power in the mightiest argument "Grecian mythology said that the fountain of Hippoorene was struck out by the foot of the winged horse Pegasus. I have often noticed in life that the -a~nd most- beautiful fountains of c omfort and spiritual life have been struck out by the iron-shod hoof of disaster and calamity. I see Daniel's courage best by the flash of Nebuchadneza's furnace. I see Paul's prowess best when I find him on the foundering ship under the glare of 'the lightning in the breakers ~of Melita. God crws His children amid the howling of wild beasts and-thechopping of blood-splashed guillotine and the crackling fires of martyrdom. It took -the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius to develop ?olgyar and Justin Mry.It. took the world's anathema to delo Martin Luther. It took all the hsii ties against the Scotch Covenanters and the- fuyof Lord Claverhouse to develop James Iewick, and Andrew Melville, and Hug Mc2ail, the glorious martyrs -of Scotc history. It took the stormy sea, and the December blast, and the desolate New Englandocoast, and the war whoop of savages to show forth the prowess of the Pilgrim F~athers. "When you started out for Heaven, oh, how dark was the hour of conviction -how Sinai thundered, and devils tor mented, and the darkness thickened! All the sins of your life pounced upon you. Atter a while you went into the -harvest field of God's mercy; you began to glean in the fields of divine promise, and you had more sheaves than you could carry as the voice of God addressed you, saying: 'Blessed is the man whose trngesons are forgiven and whose sins are covered.' A very dark starting ia conviction, a -very bright ending in the pardon and the hope and the triumph ofthe gospel! -."So very often in our worldly busi ness or in our spiritual career we start off on avery dark path. We must go. The flesh may shrink back, but there is a voice within or a voice from above saying, 'You must go,' and we have to drink the gall, and we have to carry the cross, and we have-to traverse the desert, and we are pounded and flailed of mis representation and abuse, and we have to urge our way through ten thousand obstacles that must be slain by our own right arm. "Can you imagine anything more un important than the coming of a poor woman from Moab to Judahi? Can you imagine anytin more trivial than the fact that -hi Buth just happened to alight on that field of Boaz? Yet all ages, all geerations have an interest in the fact thtshe was to become an ances tor of the Lord Jesus Christ, and all nations and kingdoms must look at that one little incident with a thrill of un L skable nd eigPDa Uatisfaction, So it is in your history and mine. Events that you thought of no importance at all have been of very great moment. That casual conversation, that accidental meeting-you did not think of it again for a long while; but how it changed all the phase of your life! "It seemed to be a matter of no im portance that Luthe-found a Bible in a monastery; but as he opened that Bible and the brass-bound. lids fell back, they jarred everything, from the Vatican to the farthest convent in Germany, and the rustling of the wormed leaves was the sound of the wings of the angel of the Reformation. It seemed to be a matter of no importance that a woman, whose name has been forgotten, dropped a tract in the way of a very bad man by the name of Richard Baxter. He picked up the tract and read it, and it was the means of his salvation. "In afterdays that .man wrote a book, called 'A Call to the Unconverted,' that was the means of bringing a multitude to God, among others Philip Doddridge. Philip Doddridge wrote a book, called 'The Rise and Progress of Religion,' which has brought thousands and tens of thousands into the kingdom of God, anc among others the great Wilberforce. Wilberforce wrote a book, called 'A Practical View of Christianity,' which was the means of bringing a great multi tude to Christ, among others Leigh Richmond. Leigh Richmond wrote a tract, called 'The Dairyman's Daughter,' which has been the means of the salva tion of unconverted multitudes. And that tide of influence started from the fact that one Christian woman dropped 3 Christian tract in the way of Richard Baxter. "Through the gate of indolence how many men and women have marched, useless on earth, to a destroyed eternityt 3pinola said to Sir Horace Vere: 'Of what did your brother die?' 'Of having nothing to do,' was the answer. 'Ah,' aid Spinola, 'that's enough to kill, any ;eneral of us.' Oh, can it be possible n this world, where there is so much inflering to be alleviated, so much dark ness to be enlightened and so many yrdens to be carried, that there is any ?erson who canna find anything to do? "Mme. de Stael did a world of work n her time, and one day, while she was eated amid instruments of music, all of which she had mastered, and amid anuscript books which she had written tome one said to her: 'How do you find ime to attend to all these things?' 'Oh,' he replied, 'these are not the things I im proud of. My chief boast is in the act that I have seventeen trades, by any me of which I could make a livelihood f necessary.' And if in secular spheres here is so much to be done, in spiritual work how vast the field! We want more Lbigails, more Hannahs, more Rebeccas, nore Marys, more Deborabs, conse rated-body, mind, soul-to the Lord rho bought them. "I learn from my subject the value of gleaning. Ruth going into that harvest leld might have said: 'There is-a straw nd there is a straw, but what is a straw? can't get any barley for myself or my nother-in-law out of these separate traws.' Not so said beautiful Ruth. She gathered two straws and she put hem together, and more straws, until he got enough to make a sheaf. Pat ing that down she went and gathered nore straws, until she had another heaf, and another, and another, and mother, and then she brought them all ogether, and she threshed them out, nd she had an ephah of barley, nigh a >ushel. Oh, that we might all be leaers!" Optical and Other illusions. The senses are subject to illusions..in >roporton to the remoteness of the in ormation that they give from the imn nediate necessities of the organism. Youch, the most immediate and least in erential of the senses, is least subject to lusions, while sight is so very much so hat the blind often say they have an ad rantage over the seeing in being free rm visual illusions. The illusions of >odily motion are much nearer to those >f touch than to those of sight, and yet hey can, under certain conditions, be duced through visual impression. Of his the writer has recently had two in ;eresting examples. He was standing ipon the floor of a railroad station, the yoardsof which were laid with aconsider bledjen space betwreen them, anid the hadow of an electric light was moving ip and down by the swinging of the .ight in the wind. Looking at the floor seemed as though the sharinw were itationary and the floor boards moving. rom this it followed that the person on t was moving too, and the writer dis inctly felt the swinging sensation; in act, his attention was called to the )henomnena by this feeling of motion. 'he other observation was as fellows: While riding in the cars and looking out fthesindow the trees andall are seen x move in the opposite direction.- If, iow, one looks in a mirror so situated hat it reflects, the passing landscape, which, however, must not be visible ex ept in the mirror, one has the illusion :>f moving in the opposite to the real iirectiorof motion, owing to the rever alf the image in the glass. In both these cases an immediate bodily sensa tion is induced by a more or less uncon ciousinerence through visual sensation. -American Analyst. A Few Facts A bout the Bible. Verses in the Old Testament, 23,241. Verses in the New Testament, 7,959. The books of the Old Testament, 39. The books of the New Testament, 27. Words in theOld Testament, 591,430. Letters in the New Testament, 838, 820. Words in the New Testament, 181,253. Chapters in the Old Testament, 629. Letters in the Old Testament, 2, 728,100. Chapters in the New Testament, 260. The word "Jehovah" occurs 6,885 times. The middle book of the Old Testament is Proverbs. The middle chapter of the Old Testa ment is Job xxix. The middle verse of the New Testa ment is Acts xxii, 17. The shortest verse in the New Testa ment is John xi., 35. The longest verse in the Old Testa ment is Esther viii., 9. The middle book of the New Testa ment is Second Theesalonians. The middle chapter and shortest in th Ribla in Psalm czvii. TIDE MISERIES OF MISERS. Some Remarkable Men who Regarded Wealth Above all Physical om torts. From the Pitsburg Dispatch. Perhaps the most famous miser that ever lived was John Elwes, an English- 1 man, who died from neglect because he refused to incur the expense of physicians and nurses, though worth not less than $4,000,000. In the case of John Elwes, his sordid character was not the result of ignorance, for he was a graduate of a Swiss university and later in life was a member of parliament. His greed of a gold was hereditary. He was the son of t a London brewer, who died when the boy was only four years old. His mother sur vived, but to such an extent did her pas sion for money gain a hold upon her that, A though she had $500,000 in her own right, she actually starved to death. An uncle, Sir Harvey Elwes, was also a miser, and the example of these two blood relatives 1 exercised such an influence upon John Elwes that he became the most famous miser of three centuries. After his return to England from Geneva Elwes moved ca in fashionable London society, where e his prospective wealth entitled him to re cognition. When he visited his uncle in Suffolk, where the latter lived in the most abject a penury, his hopeful nephew would play r a double part. He would wear his a fashionable garments as far as a little inn in Chelmsford, where he exchanged them for a pair of patched trousers, a worn a out coat, darned stockings, and clod- a hopper shoes with iron buckles. In this attire he would call upon his uncle. 91 The latter would not permit a fire on cold March days on the score of its being extravagant, and the two would sit with a crust of bread and one glass of wine between them until it was too dark to c see each other's faces, and then they h would retire to save the expense of candles. When this uncle died he left his nephew a fortune of $1,000,000. As he grew older, John Elwes devel oped the terrible avarice that marked his life by a passion for cards. He would e sit in his threadbare clothes with the Duke of Northumberland and play with feverish eye and trembling hand with a: thousands at stake, and then after hav ing lost or won as the case might be, he would walk to his miserable lodgings, k three miles distant, in a peltering rain rather than pay for a cab. u Elwes owned a magnificent country seat in Berkshire. When he would leave London to visit it he would put t three hard-boiled eggs and some crusts of bread in his pockets, then mounting a ti horse would ride over fields and through bi lanes, going miles out of his way to avoid T roads where he would have to pay a few h; pennies toll. A more than faithful bio grapher says of him: hi "He would eat his provisions in the h last stage of putrifaction rather than have to a fresh joint from the butcher, and at one time he wore a wig a wig about a fortnight which he picked out of a rut in in a lane and which had apparently been a thrown away by a beggar." At his country seat he allowed of no fa repair save a little brown paper or a bit of broken glass. During the harvest he would amuse himself with going into the g fields to glean the corn on the ground ti of his own tenants, and they used -to leave a little more than common to please d the old gentleman, who was as eager f after it as any pauper in the parish. To save bed coverings, before his death, he would go to sleep completely dressed with n boots and hat on. He died miserably, li his mind weakened by worry and priva tion. The value of his fortune, which I went to two sons, was not less the Anotherncelebrated miser was Ephraim hi Lapes Pereira, Baron d' Aguilar, former ly cashier to the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria. Strange to say, the early years of his life at Austrian court wered years of splendor. Then he moved to England, married a wealthy lady, and-m settled down. He lived in sumptious r style; kept several carriages and twenty servants. He was married twice, and after his second marriage he left his family and friends and withdrew himself from the fashionable world. He turned a farmer. At this time he was worth one I million dollars. After a year in this ~ ountry his place began t> be known asr "Starvation farmyard." His cattle and P poultry were a mass of skin and bones, ~ and peasnts began to hoot at the baron ai whenever he appeared for his mean treatment of his animals. He always 1 insisted upon being present when the l stock was being fed so that he might see that there was nothing stolen or wasted. 0. He went about his farm clad in mean h and dirty clothes, and refused to spend i money to buy new ones. After a life of r selfishness and meanness he died in t March, 1802, leaving property estimated ci at $1,000,000. His diamonds alone were P worth $150,000, while his solid silver t. plate weighed over 700 pounds. d But exceeding by far the example of John Elwes is that of Daniel Dancer, t whose life is the most striking example b perhaps in all history of the insatiable a thirst for gold. His father died and leit 9i him, together with a sister, a comfortable M fortune. Dancer and his sister lived in ~ a miserable hut near Harrow, in Middle- ~ sex, England. Their fare consisted of a piece of cheap beef and fourteen hard ~ dumplings boiled on Sunday, and this lasted them the rest of the week. The pair dressed in rags, and when the sister n was dying from cold and starvation her brother refused to summon medical aid 9 on the ground that he could not spend P his mney for medicine, because if the i "old girl" was going to die the doctors couldn't save her anyhow. Dancer was too miserly to provide soap and towels c for himself. He would wash in a neighboring pool 0 and lie out in the sun till he was dried. ~ His clothes, a mass of patches, were held V up by a belt of twisted hay, and his whole ~ appearance was that of abject misery. Dancer on his rambles never returned ~ empty handed. He would gather up the bones in the village streets and lanes, bring them home, and after picking them clean himself would crack them and feed d them to his dog. Once neighbors com plained that his dog worried and killed C their sheep, and for fear that he would have to pay for future depredations, he took the dog to a blacksmith's, where he had all the poor dog's teeth broken off to prevent a further recurrence of the trouble. He mended his own shoes and wore one hat continuously for thirteen c years. When he lay on his dying bed his only trated with, he said that he came mt his world without a shirt and he woul o out of it that way.: When a visito uggested that he have a pillow for hi iead he ordered his only servant, whos eekly wages were only thirty cents, t >ring him a whisp of hay, which he use; ,s a pillow till his death,.a few days later To left an estate valued at $25,000, ampl: utlicient for all. his needs during hi ifetime, had he so desired. This money a odd sums, was hidden in old rags ailed down to the under part of the ranger floor in the miserable cowshed nd over $10,000 was found hidden ii be manure pile, where it had lain fo: ears. THE LADY AND THE LEOPARD. ,n Exciting Adventure in an India; Bungalow (From Chambers' Journal.) In an Indian bungalow every bedroon as a small ante-room attatched in whicl ie important function of bathing is per >rmed. The floor is of cement and un arpeted, to allow of splashing, an( round the tub are placed the ghurras, o: arthen pots of water which are requirei >r the bath. The little room has alway: o doors, one opening on the outer air y admit the bheesti with his supply o 'ater, the other opening into the bed >wi. On the evening in question, jas1 i dusk was falling, I had finished the npacking of a box in my bedroom and 'as moving away, when I fancied I heari slight sound in the bathroom. It wai a unusual hour for the bheesti's visit, ) I opened the door, and, to my horror, iw just in front of me the beautiful tek back of a large leopard, whiel as crouched on the floor and drinking at of one of the ghurras. The room as so small that I found myself quitE .se to the leopard, and could, indeed, ave touched.the spots on its glossy coat om where I stood. I was too frighten I to move, and stood perfectly still, and, irtunately for me, the outer door by hich the creature had entered still stood ide open, and with a single bound it eared the threshold and disappeared up is hillside. Had the door blown to, o1 en closed from the outside by a serv it, the animal would have had no re >rce but to seek an exit by the door ay in which I was standing, and the awledge of my narrow escape made very careful ever after about shutting a early in the afternoon. A few nights later we were awaken by ?aring the watchman call out~ loudly Lat there was a leopard in the veranda, id we ran to the window in time to see Le waving of the branches where the ast had sprung out among the trees. he bearer, who was lying rolled up in a blankets in the same veranda, slept undly on meanwhile, unconscious of ,s proximity to the stealthy footed crea re. These leopards are cowardly crea ire, and will never attack a human being they can avoid it their special fancy is r little dogs, and they will so haunt Le neighborhood of any house where >gs are kept that the greatest care is oessary to prevent the little quadrupeds fling victims to the big ones. As the weather became better they wed less bold, and it was only toward e end of the season that we saw them ain. When snow fell on the farther 1 they were driven to seek food lower >wn, and then again they began to in et the station. Often in the month of etober, when coming home late at night, have heard the hoarse sort of purring >ise they make as they rub their sides, ke huge cats, againsed the trunks of ees. The men carrying their dandi ight palanquin) would then step out, d talk very loud, to keep up thair urage, while the mate would niourish lantern and shout. No leopard ould come near so noisy a party, and .e only danger on such occasions -is of a men taking a panic and dropping the mdi, when the situation would be awk g. This, however, never happened to e, and I was equally fortunate when :ling. Ranch Lite in California. The women often show the wear and i tear and of their isolated positions, ithout compensating social interests, ore than do the men, who are sur unded by men interested in the same irsuits. Love of luxurious clothing ounts to a passion in the women of classes. About their homes they go essed as elegantly as if in the fash nable streets of San Francisco. This the result of the wish of husbands, ins and fathers for the visible display their wealth speedily shown. Too irried to build the good homes which ty need, all rushing along the heated ce course that leads to sudden wealth, iy aeck their women as a means of stablishing their claims to social ima >rtance, and to compensate them for ie real hardships of their lonely lives iring much of the time. The religious, educational and moral me of the community is largely upheld y women, and a reverential bearing is lopted toward them which is beautiful id very gratifying without doubt. The mense size of the ranches, however, uds to isolation, and the maddening onotony of the life is very trying to ie moral staminane day is much h another months during the heated rm, day after day, week after week, unday included. With the nearest eighbor five miles away, what cheer is be found ifi the last Parisian styles. ghten months late, or in tiger's-eye sels in bracelets and brooches, all the ay from the Cape of Good Hope and too lovely for anything," just sent as 1 latest thing out from Tiffany's; or a trased silver tea service, with accom anying pottery of the Doulton make; r a lovely pug, King Charles, with -appings to match the Parisian suits, 'hen the jewels and dresses arc to be an only by the Chinese cook and [exican and Indian vaqueros, neither f whom can speak ten consecutive -ords in English; and the tea service tc e used on a pine table built in the ining room, ungraceful as a Gothic eath's-head and crossbones; - or of :ing Charles, when there is not ever n feminine heart to be wrenched -"by 1 black beak of envy"? It is a general belief that all good, loco iotive engineers arc practical machinmsts ut an engineer says the rule has alway: eon that the best engineers come up fron e ranks of firemen and not from the ma bine shops. The nerve required to r express train cannot be acquired in i rachine shop, and practical machinist: fen fail as engrineera on that account DISEASED STOCK. r Report of Dr. Uenj McInnes, Jr., Veteri nuary Surgeon of the South Carolina I)e partnent of Agriculture. CARLESTON, S. C., April 28, 1888. A. P. Butler, Commissioner of Agri culture, Columbia, S. C.: Dear Sir-As instructed, I visited Pendleton, Ander son county, on Tuesday, April 24th. I was met at the depot by Mr. Harris, who is manager of the Woodburn Stock Farm, owned by Hon. A. T. Smythe. He conveyed me next morning, April 25, to the farm of Mr. W. W. Russell, whose stock was reported to t on as be ing diseased. - Mr. Russell has three horses, two of them suffering now. From symptoms displayed, and from previous history of these horses, [am of the opinion that they are affected with chronic glanders. Some time last year Mr. Russell pur chased a black horse which was sick then and said to have distemper. This horse he reported to me last summer, and I answered saying I would try and visit his place later on. Not being instructed to go there, I heard nothing further of the matter until your communication from Major Smythe a few days ago. Mr. Russell says that this (black) horse discharged from his nostrils for some months, and then the flow became less and less until now it is very scanty. This horse is now eating well, but does not seem well, his skin, hair and general condition being bad. The two bay horses contracted the disease about six months ago. The discharge from the nostrils is profuse in both cases, and the submaxillary (under jaw) glands have the characteristic swelling. The horses are thin, notwithstanding they eat-25 to 30 ears of corn per day; skin and coat in bad condition; in fact, they are not thriving. Mr. Russell has been and is now working them very hard. I advised Mr. Russell to give them twenty drops of carbolic acid in food twice a day, and to keep them on his farm-not allow them to leave. Al though now there are no apparent symptoms of glanders in the black horse he has certainly been the cause of the disease in the two bay horses, and I be lieve upon post mortem in the lungs of the black horse will be found the char acteristic tubercles of glanders. In none of the three animals are there any ulcers on the mucous membrane of the nasal cavity as far as I can see, but as they usually commence in the upper part of the nose and windpipe they may be there without my being able to detect them. The owner may say that he cannot understand this, as the black horse is now to all appearances well. To make this more plain, I quote the following from Robertson's Equine Medicine: "It ought to be remembered that these ulcers or sores on the nasal mem brane may most certainly heal or cicatrize in the way indicated, and still the specific dyscrasia remain; that it is highly probable that even with this local healing process there may exist in the lungs, as previously, the specific nodules and tubercles characteristic of the disease of which these local nasal sores now healed are but partial mani festions and exhibitions of the peculiar general diseased condition, and that it is almost certain, should the animal sur vive long enough, that these local sores will appear again. The certainty also that in such cases, even with the cicatri zation of the chancres, the power of the infection is not lost-that from such an animal an acute case of glanders may be propagated-must be ever kept before our minds, so as to regulate our conduct and the advice given." The public will then say, how are we to determiine a case of chronic glanders where there are no ulcerations of nasal cavity or other unmistakable signs? By making strict enquiry about all, animals purchased with any discharge from the nostrils, watching the nasal membranes for sores, and observing the general health of the animal. The disease is highly contagious, and will most surely spread to nearly all horses or mules brought conistantly in contact with it. I quote the following from Fleming's "Manual of Veterinary Sanitary Screna and Polia": "We have already alluded to a chronic form of glanders which has been desig nated -internal' fi-om its presenting itself in a maskedform and without very marked external symptoms. The expert, called in to decide upon an outbreak of this disease and the cause for its main tenance and propagation,, cannot be too careful in his examination of even the unsuspected animals. Many outbreaks persist for months and even years owing to horses affeted with this occult form being allowed, through lack of knowl ege, to remain alive and associate with others. Regiments of cavalry, batteries of artillery, omnibus, cab and other es tablishments have been so haunted and ravaged for sometimes long periods, and the records of such events are numer ous.' Janner, of Leignitz, reported that for two years cases of glanders were fre quent on an estate in Silesia without any assignable cause, and a number of horses were destroyed in consequence, when it was decided to kill an olai horse, though not for glanders, but because it was useless from what appeared to be asthma. It was examined after death, when the lungs were found to be studded with miliary tubercles, which by their caseous degeneration and calcification showed that the animal had been affected with glanders for a long time. With the death of this horse the disease dis eace disappeared from the stables. Another instance was observed at Muhoun, in tho stables of a man who had lost several horses from glanders. Zndle found in his possession an old horse which had neither ulceration, dis charge, nor enlarged glands, but which after it had been killed had its lungs studded with tubercles undoubtedly the cause of the outbreak, for with the death of the animal the malady ceased in the establishment. In the middle of Octo ber, 1873, Zundle had had three horses destroyed which had neither enlarged glands nor nasail flux, but only some little more or less ulcerated eminences in the nostrils. Their lungs, liver and spleen, &c., were filled with cubercles of different sizes and in various stages. Two of these horses had been sold in the previous August by the German military administration as healthy. One of them, in whom Zundle had first recognized the signs of glanders only four da preiouly had nevertheless infected its companion five weeks be fore. An autopsy proved that the die ease was of long standing in the firs aniinal, while in the second the pulmo nary tubercles were surrounded by a rei circle. It was Zundle's opinion thai this form of glanders could be easil3 marked by submitting a suspected horse to medical treatment, and especially to i course of arsenic. The external symp toms are made to disappear; the anima is, as it were, whitewashed; but the in ternal malady remains in all its virulence BENJ. MCINNES, JR., V. S. THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE. What the Organizat Ion Proposes to Do--a Declaration from Headquarters. (From the Atlanta Journal.) Hon. R. H. Jackson, President of th Farmers' Alliance of this State, is in the city to-day. A Journal reporter, desirous of keep ing the readers of the Journal posted it regard to the movements of this greal organization, asked Mr. Jackson how ii was progressing. "We now have forty thousand mem bers in Georgia, and when you remem ber that we began to organize about the first of March, this shows a remarkable growth, and before the present year ex pires we will have in Georgia cne hun dred thousand members. Our organiza tion is not only great in numbers, but ii compact and solidified by a common purpose, and that is to greatly improve our condition." "We are desirous of knowing, Mr. Ja':kson, what iou are teaching your members in the way of improvement?' "Well," said he, "first, we ara using our utmost influence to get our farmers (members of the order) to diversify their crops, and as a result, in all sections where we have a foothtld, there is at least one-third more corn planted than last year, and in a few years'we hope to have our members, each and every one, self-sutaining. Another thing we are doing is to reduce the cost of articles of neeessity." "Oar plan is to get bids from respon sible merchants to furnish our members with goods at lowest price for cash and on time, and if sold on time we st-ud each other's security, and thus making the dealer safe, he can afford to make his per cent. small." "But," continued Mr. Jackson, "what we have done and are doing is as noth ing compared to our plans for the futre. To give give you an idea of this, I will mention what the Alliance in Texas has already accomplished, viz: Established an agency for handling the commerce of its members. Members of the Alliance ship their cotton to this agency and buy their goods from it. Only the cost of handling the cotton is charged them, and in the purchase of goods they are only charged cost of manufacture and freight. Within a year Georgia will have several of these agencies." -Your plan, if carried to its full extent, will do away with the necesity of having ny merchant, except your own agen ies," we suggested. "You do not intend to do this?" "I am of opinion," said Mr. Jackson, "that we are on the eve of a commercial revolution. The farmer has been pluck ed so often and for so long a time that be is going to rise up in self-defence and make a revolution and its influence will be felt all over the country. You may be sure it is ^ioming. We hope to have all the farmers in the South in our organ zation, and they will buy from our agen ies and ship their produce to them. here will likely be one in Atlanta and another in Savannah, with sub-agencies n every county. In Western Georgia e have already commenced this busi ess on a small scale. We have Alliance tores, and do not trade with any other, ven if the others try to bait us with ower prices." "And" said Mr. Jackson in conclusion, there are other things which we will do hat may startle people who think the farmer has been ridden until he no longer esists. Wait and see." THE PROHIBITION ALLIANCE. Forming a Permanent Organization to Work Within the Democratic Party. CoLUMLa, S. C., May 23.-The State Prohibition Convention of South arolina, which has occasioned some ittle talk in the newspapers, assembled ere last night and completed its labors his evening. There were forty-one elegates, representing thirteen out of he thirty-four counties of this State. f these twenty were from Columbia. A discussion arose upon a resolution eclaring that no person be allowed to ote or to participate in the discussions f this convention who is not recognized s a Democratic voter of the State. The resolution was finally adopted by a vote f 21 to 20. Some delegates were ointed and earnest in their declarations hat the Prohibitionists of South Caro ina contemplate no third party move ent, and no movement calculated to njure the Democratic party. The name adopted by the permanent organization s the South Carolina Democratic Pro ibition Alliance. County Alliances are o be formed under the direcion of the everal vice-presidents of the State Alli ne, there being one vice-president for each county. Resolutions were adopted, urging the stablishment of a Prohibition paper as oon as practicable, and asking mean hile the co-operation of the press; call ng attention to the laxity in the en orcement of the statutes respecting the sale of intoxicants and suggesting that the Legislature be memorialized for re ief. A resolution reported by the com nittee, recommending the use of pri ary elections for choosing Democratic andidates, was discussed at some length ad with some little warmth. Finally t was withdrawn by the committee and the convention made no declaration auching the manner of making political ominations. The president of the Stats Prohibition Alliance, elected by the convention this orning, Mr. W. K. Blake, of Spartan urg, formerly a member of the Legis lature, is an ardent temperance man nd one of the best men in the State. The proceedings of the convention were conservative and dignified through out and the demeanor of the delegates has made a very fine impression. Gen. Lawton, United Statps minister at Vienna. and wife have arrived at Paris on their way to America. Gen. Lawton having ben granted leave of absence. A MODERN DICK TURPIN. Standing Thirteen People in a Line While He Robbed Them. (From the Dallas News.) The lone highway robber must have escaped from the clutches of Uncle Sam, as the United States mail and thirteen of her brave citizens were relieved of their valuables by a single robber while on their way from here to San Angilo yester day morning. As there were too many passengers for the stage an extra hack was sent with it. When the stage reached a point not far beyond the Nicholas pasture, about noon yesterday, the stage driver was ordered to- halt, which he did, and re mained at a stand until the hack drove up, which was about one hundred yards behind whereupon the passengers were ordered to dismount, which order was promptly obeyed, and standing up in a line, the robber, after placing caps over the heads of all of them, quickly and uninterruptedly relieved them and the mail pouches of their valuable contents.. After this was done he held them for nearly four hours, waiting for the other stage going from here, but on account of the bad and muddy roads it failed to make its appearance. The robber per mitted them to depart on their way, giving each enough money to buy a meal at Willow Waterhole Station. Also a certificate written on a drummer's card, in words as follows: I hereby certify that all of you are honest and brave gentlemen, but that you are not armed and pr, pared to defend yourselves. Stage Robber. During the performance the bold rob ber asked the stage driver what had be come of that smooth-faced fellow who drove the stage last fall when he robbed it, and for which offense Mr. Newsom was so unfortunately convicted by the United States District Court .at Waco. He also said. "They haven't got me yet. I am a dandy, ain't I?" The robber and horse were both com pletely masked, so it was impossible. to recognize him or the color of his horse, but Mr. Ellis, the stage driver, who also drove one of the stages that was robbed last fall, says that judging from the stature, pistol and voice, he feels confident that he is the same man. The robber took money only. One of the.. passengers saved $60 by secreting it in his mouth, where he had to hold it for four hours. The Sheriff and three rangers left Ballinger this morning to see if it is possible to accomplish anything by pursuing the robber's tracks, which, on account of the abnndance of therecent rains in this section and the muddy con dition of the soil, ought to be very distinct and easy to follow. HIS BODY CREMATED. The Process of Cremation Witnessed by a Charlotte Man, who Rather Thinks that it is Better than Burying. (From the Charlott Daily Chronicle,) Prof. Albert Rouse, late music teacher of the Charlotte Female Institute, who dropped dead of heart disease at the residence of Capt R. E. Cochrane, on the.13th, was a believer in the art, of cre mation, and according to his expressed wish, his body was burned to ashes. The cremation ceremony was performed a ceremony at Fresh Pond, Long Island, five miles out from Brooklyn, the Pro fessor's old home. Mr. RobertL. Coch rane, who accompanied the body from this city to Brooklyn, witnessed the entire ceremony, and was so favorably impressed with the manner of .disposing of the dead that he is himself almost ready to join the ranks of the cremation ists. The crematory is a very simple affair, comprising an ordinary house with very thick wall in which are located a furnace and reception rooms, the latter being for the accommodation of the friends and relatives of the deceased while the body is being reduced to ashes, a process that usually requires about three hours. The coffin which contained Prof Rouse's body was not opened from the time it left Charlotte until it reached the crem atory. When the funeral procession ai rived there, the furnace was fired up and ready to receive the body. The coffin was opened and the body was taken out and wrapped in a .cloth that had been thoroughly saturated. with alum. The body was completely enveloped by _the cloth, and was then placed on an iron bed, when the furnace door was opened, and it was shoved in and the door closed. The furnace was constructed something in the order of a baker's cven, and was at a white heat when the body was shoved in. So intense was the heat that the at tendants could not approach within less than four feet of it. The iron bed, con tainirg the sheeted body' was lifted by long hooks-and shoved mnto the furnace. As the body was assigned to its proper place, the furnace door was shut and closed tight by means of screws. Then the heat was left to do its work. At the end of three hours, the door was opened and the iron bed that held the body was drawn out. The alum cloth was intact, and within its folds were the ashes of Prof. Rouse. The ashes, which were sfficient to fill a pint measure, were col lected, deposited in an urn and turned over to his relatives. At Her Beet. Those who are best acquainted with the President's wife, and see most of her domestic life, are her most enthusi astic admirers. At a late supper she is always seen at her best. Her girlish fancy for cosy little suppers at ia ate hour, born possibly of the school girl's innate-fondness for the forbidden mid night "apread," is still keen, and she frequently surprises the President by producing, just as he is about to retire for the night, a dainty little dish which the obliging White House chief is ever ready to concoct for her. "To see Mrs. Cleveland pour tea," said an enthusiastic admirer of the President's wife, "is as pretty a sight as you will ever gaze upon. I had the pleasure once, and I became so thoroughly absorbed in watching her graceful manipulation of the tiny little teapots, cream pitchers and delicate china, that I forgot all about my surroundings, and she was actually forced to ask .me twice whether I would take one lump or two in mine."' -Chicago Herald. Stranger (to boy)-Boy, can you direct me to the nearest bank? Boy-I kin fer twenty-five cents. "Twenty-five centsf Isn't that high pay?" "Yes, sir; but it's bnk iretrsir what gits high pay."