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VOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1889 NO7 ORJISTIAN WORKERS tJeaed to the Ooinstellations is the Heavens. & T!sbute to the Th.asands of Bellevie 2n me Divinity-Dr. Talmare Preaches at a Great Oatdoor Meeting in Winneld. Kan. Rev. T. De~itt Talmage preached last Bunday at a great outdoor meeting in Win 96M, Ran., to an immense audience. The test was: "They that turn many to right eoasness shall shine as the stars for ever sad ever."-Daniel xii. 3; and the subject: 4The Constellations of the Redeemed." The eloquent Brooklyn divine spoke as fol lows: -- me --ma-bas a thousand roots and a thousand branches. His roots reach down through all the earth; his branches spread through all the heavens. He speaks with yoiee, with eye, with hand, with foot. His silence often is thunder, and his life is an anthem or a doxology. There is no such thing as a negative influence. We are all positive in the place we occupy, making the world better or making it worse, on the Lord's side or on the devil's, making up reasons for our blessedness or banish meat; and we have already done a mighty work In peopling Heaven or bd. Ihear people tell of what they are going to do. A man who has burned down, selty might as well talk of some evil that he expects to do, or a man who has saved a empire might as well talk of some good tathe expects to do. By the force of your evil influence you have already consumed infinite values or you have, by the power of a right Infuence, won whole kingdoms for God. It woud be absurd for me to stand here, and by elaborate argument, prove that the world is of the tradk. You might as well stand at the foot of an embankment, amid the wreck of a capsized rail-train, proving elaborate argamentthat something Is out p order. Adam tumbled over the embank sent sixty centuries ago, and the whole In one long train, has gone on tumbling -the same direction. CrashI Crash! The eat question now is, by what leverage can -he crashed thing be lifted? By what ham : sermay the fragments be reconstructed! SI want to show how we may turn many to ighteoasneas, and what will be our future e for so doing. t may turn them by the charm st a right example. A child, coming from a Sityhome,was'taught at school to wash its tacs. .It went home so much improved in " pearanethat its mother washed her face. -And when the father of the household came hees and saw the improvement in domestte he washed his face. The neigh happening in saw the change and tried same experiment until all that street wos purified, and the next street copied its 'mampnle and the whole city felt the result -on e schoolboy washing his face. That is a fable by which we set forth that the 'best way to get the world washed of .its sins and pollution is to have our - heart and life cleansed and purified. 4manw r2u7 u m. -. a tas 'a cheerfulness in his face and holy -consltey in his behavior is a perpetual -termoa; and the sermon differs from others :a thatit has but one head, and the longer rns the bettar. There are honest men -who walk down Wall street, making the teeth of iniquity chatter. There are happy 'mM who go into a sick room, and, by a :ook, help the broken bone to knit, and t* enelted nerves drop to calm beating. 'bere are pure men whose presence silence stongas of uncleanness. The mightiest of good on earth is a consistent esan Ilike the Bible folded between Ids of cloth, of calfskin, or morocoo, but it better when, in the shape of a man, goes oat into the world-a Bible illus sted. Courage is beautiful to read about; b rather would I see a man with aN the world against him confident as :*pngh aI the world were for him. Fat aeels beantiul to read about; but rather wouldlo ma buffeted soul calmly waiting fur the tine of delivesanoe. Faith is beauti -.ftltoe ed about; butrather would I find a wman In the midnight wallring straight on as -mughhbe saw everything. 0, how many -. ave beon turned to God by the charm When, In the Mexncn war, the troops -wwrewavering, aGeneralrose in his stirrups :andashed into the enemy's lines, shout lng, "Mesn, follow!" They, seeing his orage and disposition, dashed on after him and gained the victory. What men want to rally them for God is an example to lead thecn. All your commands to advance mount to nothing so long as you stay be hind. To affect them aright you need to sta or Heaven yourself, looking back only to givethe stirring cry of "Men, follow!" Again: We may turn many to righteous nessab prayer. There is no such detective -.as pryer, as no one can hide away from it. It puts its hand on the shoulder of a man -tin thousand mites off. It alights on a ship .1d-Atlantic. The little obild can not under-. essed the law of electricity, or how the tele *.~heoperator, by touching the instrn ~ethee, may dart a message under the sea toanather continent; nor can we, with our smail intellct understand how the touch of a Chriatian's prayer shall instantly - n - - -.-'1 en + Aatar. a nf the earth. Yeu ean take ship and go to so5r-r cuntry and get there at eleven o'clock in 'te morning. You telegraph to New York, -sad te message gets here at six o'clock In - same morning. In other words it seems *ziiehere fiv. hours before it started. tLk$hat Is prayer. God says: ')efore they call, I will hear." To overtakesa loved one on the road, you may :spur-up a lathered steed until he shall out race the one thatbroughtthe news to Ghent; but asprayer shall catch it at one gallop. A boy running away from home may take' the midnight train from the country village and reach the seaport in time to gain the ship that sails on the morrow; but a mother's prayetwill be on deck to meetbhim, and in the hammock before he swings into it, and at the capstan before he winds the rope around It, and en the sea, against the y sthe vessel plows on toward it. There is amightiness in prayer. George Muller prayed a oompany of poor boys together, and then he prayed up an asylum in which they might be sheltered. He turned hisifae -tewart Edinbur and prayed, and there ame a thuadpounds. He turned his fass toward London and prayed, and there aie a thousand pounds. He turned his face toward Dublin ad prayed, and there came a thousand pounds. The breath of ]lijah's prayer blew all the clouds o-f the sky, and It was dry weather. The breath of Elijah's prayer blew all the clouds -together, and it was wet weather. Prayer, in Daniel's time, walked the cave as a lion 'tamer. It reached up, and took the sun by It. gelde bit, andstppedlit, We have al to try the full power of prayer. The ew~ll come when the American Church wE pray wfth its face towards the west, sad a the prairies and ild elties will MIder to God; and wiRl pray with face theg e sea, and all the Islads and 4eE beomne (hristian. Parents who see wwastsons will get down on their nee ad ay:"Lodsend my boy home. Qs Wi Canon-ogli ab31 Ii'. wharf to find out which ship starts rst for Amrica. -Not one of us yet knows how to pray. l we have done as yet has only been potter ing, and guessing and experimentiun. A boy gets hold of his father's saw and ham mer, and tries to make something, but it is a poor affair that he makes. The father comes and takes the tame saw and hammer, and builds the house or the ship. In the childhood of our Christian faith, we make but poor work with these weapons of prayer, but when we come to the stature of men in Christ Jesus, then, under these im plements. the temple of God will rise, and the world's redemption will be launched. God cares not for the length of our prayers, or the number of our prayers, or the beauty of our prayers, or the place of our prayers; but it is the faith in them that teis. Be lieving prayer soars higher than the lark ever sang; plunges deeper than diving bell ever sink; darts quicker than lightning ever flashed. Though we have used only the back of this weapon instead of the edge, what marvels have been wrought! If saved we are all the captives of some earnest prayer. Would God that, in desire for the rescue of souls, we might in prayer lay hold of the resources of the Lord Omnipotent. We may turn many to righteousness by Christian admonition. Do not wait until you can make a formal speech. Address the one next to you. You will not go home alone to-day. Between this and your plaoe of stop ping you may decide the eternal destiny of an immortal spirit. Just one sentence may do the work. Just one question. Just one look. The formal talk that begins with a sigh and ends with a casiting snuffle is not what is war.ted, but the heartthrob of a man in dead earnest. There is not a soul on earth that you may not bring to God if you rightly go at it. They said Gibraltar could not be taken. It is a rook sixteen hundred feet high and three miles long. But the English and Dutch did take it. Artillery and sappers and miners and fleets pouring out volleys of death, and thousands of men, reckless of danger, can do any thing. The stoutest heart of sin, though it be rock, and surrounded by an ocean of transgression, under Christian bombardment may be made to hoist the flag of redemption. But is all this admonition, and prayer and Christian work for nothing? My text promises to all the faithful eternal luster. "They that turn many to righteousness sha.ll shine as the stars forever." As stars, the redeemed have a 1mugWSd light. What makes Mars, and Venus, and Jupiter so luminous? When the sun throws down his torch in the heavens, the stars pickup the scattered brands, and hold them in procession as the queen of the night ad vances; so all Chiistian workers, standing around the throne, will shine in the light borrowed from the Sun of Righteousness Jesus in their faces. Jesus in their songs, Jesus in their triumph. Christ left Heaven once for a tour of redemption on earth, yet the glorified ones knew He would come back again. But let Him ab dicate His throne, and go away to stay for ever, the music would stop; the congregation disperse; the temples of God be darkened; the river of light stagnate; and every chariot would become a hearse, an'. every bell would toll. and there would not be room on-the hillsides to bury the dead of the great metropolis, for there would be pesti lence in heaven. But Jesus Christ lives, and so all the redeemed live with Him. He shall recognize them as His comrades in earthly toil, and remember what they did for the honor of His name and the spread of His kingdom. All their prayers, and tears, and work will rise be fore Him as He looks into their faces, and He will divide His kingdom with them; His peace-their peace; His holiness-their holiness; His joy-their joy. The glory of of the central throne reflected from the sur rounding thrones, the last spot of sin struck from the Christian orb, and the en tire nature a-t 1e and a-nfash with light, they shall shino t the stars forever and ever. Again: Christian workers shall be like the stars in the fact that they have a light independent of each other. Look up at the night and see each world show its distinct glory. It is not like the conflagration in which you can not tell where one flame stops- and another begins. Neptune, Her schel and Mercnry are as distinct as if each one of them were the only star; so our in dividualism will not be lost in Heaven. A great multitude--yet each one as observa ble, as distinctly recognized, as greatly cele brated, as if in all the space, from gate to gate, and from hill to hill, he-were the only inhabitant-no mixing up, no mob, no Indis criminate rush; each Christian worker standing out illustrious; all the story of earthly achievements-adhering to each one; his self-denials, and pains, and services, and victories published. Before men went out to the ]ast war, the orators told them that they would all be re membered by their country and their names be commemorated in poetry and in song, but go to the graveyard in Richmond, and you wgfl find there 6,000 graves, over each one of which is the inscription, "Un known." The world does not remember its heroes, but there will be no unrecognized Christian workers in Heaven. Each one known by all; grandly known; known by accinmtion; all the pas story of work for God gleaming in cheek, and brow, and foot, and plm. They shall shine with as distinct light as the stars, forever and ever. IAgain: Christian wo cers shall shine like unftr lnetsters. In looking up, you ind the worlds in family circles. Brothers and sisters-they take hold of each other's hands and dance in groups. The solar sys tem is only a company of children, with bright faces, gathered around one great fire. place. The worlds do not straggle off. They go in squadrons and fleets, sailing through immensity. So Christian workers in Heaven will dwell in neighborhoods and clusters. I am sure that some people I will like in Heaven a great deal better than others. Yonder is a constellation of stately Christians. They lived on earth by rigid rule. They never laughed. They walked every hour anxious letthey should lose their dignity. But they loved God, and yonder they shine in brilliant constellation. Yet I shall not long Ito get into t haa particular group. Yonder is a constellation of small-hearted Chris tians-asteroids in the eternal astronomy. While some souls go up from Christian battle, and blaze like Mars, these aster eds dart a feeble ray like Vests. Yonder is a constellation of martyrs, of apos tes, of patriarchs. Our souls, as they go up to Heaven, will seek out the most con genial society. Yonder is a constellation almost merry with the play of light. On earth they were full of sympathies and songs, and tears, and raptures. and con gratulations. When they prayed their words took fire; when they sang, the tune could not hold them; when they wept over a words woes, they sobbed as if heart broken; when they worked for Christ they lamnd with enthuiasm. Yonder ti~ey are *icle of light! constellation of joy!I galaxy ofbel O, that you and I, by that grace which san transform the worst into the best, might at last sail in the wake of th at est, ad wheel in that glorious group, as ie stars forever and ever! Againt Christian workss will shine like mee.sessiftness of motlon. The worhis o uit step to shine. There are no fised sta~esie t0 relatis'e positten. The stsi saa4b anhi saes ansands e miles a mingte. The atronomer, using -l telescope for an alpenstock, leaps from world-crag to world-crag, and finds no star standing stilt. The chamois hunter has to By to catch his prey, but not so swift is his game as that which the scientist tries to shoot through the tower of observatory. Like petrels mid-Atlantic, that seem to come from no shore, and bound to no landing-place -flying. flying-so these groat flooks of worlds rest not as they go-wing and wing-age after age-forever and ever. The eagle hastes to Its prey, but we shall in speed beat the eagles. You have noticed the velocity of the swift. horse under whose feet the miles slip like a smooth ribbon, and as he passes, the four hoofs strike the earth in such beat your pulses take the same vibration. But all these thiuns are not swift in comparison with the motion of which I speak. The m'on moves fifty-four thousand miles in a day. Yonder, Neptune flashes on eleven thousand miles in an hour. Yonder Mer cury goes one hundred and nine thousand miles in an hour. So like the stars the Christian worker shall shine in swiftness of motion. You hear now of father, or mother, or child sick one thousand miles away, and it takes you two days to get to them. You hear of some case of suffering that demands your immediate attention, but it takes you an hour to get there. 0, the joy when you shall, in fulfillment of the text, take starry speed, and be equal to one hundred thousand miles an hour. Having on earth got used to Christian work, you will not quit when death strikes you. You will only take on more velocity. There is a dying child in London, and its spirit must be takenup to God; you are there in an instant to do it. There is a young man In New York to be arrested from going into that gate of sin; you are there in an instant to arrest him. Whether with spring of foot or stroke of wing. or by the force of some new law that shall hurl you to tpe spot where you would go, I knew not; but my text, suggests velocity. All space open be Sfore you, with nothing to hinder you in mission of light, and love, and joy, you shall shine in swiftness of motion as the stars forever and ever. Again: Cbristian workers, like me stars, shall shine in magnitude. The most illiter ate man knows that these things in the sky, looking like gilt buttons, are great masses of matter. To weigh them, one would think that it would require scales with a pillar hundreds of thousands of miles high, and chains hundreds of thousands of miles long, and at the bottom of the chains basins on either side hundreds of miles wide, and that then Omnipotence alone could put the mountains into the scales and the hills into the balance. But puny man has been equal to the undertaking, and has set a little balance on his geometry, and weighed world against world. Yea, he has pulled out his measuring line, and annnounced that Herschel is 86,000 miles in diameter, Saturn 79,000 miles In diameter, and Jupiter Si.C00 miles in diameter, and that the smallest pearl on the beach of Heaven is immense be yond all imagination. So all they who have toiled for Christ on earth shall rise up to a magnitude of prvlege, and a magnitude of strength. and 1 magnitude ofhnliness. ^"r_ a magnitt ie o: joy; and the wcakest saint in glory become greater than all that we can now imagine of an archangel Brethren, it doth not yet appear what we shall be. Wisdom that shall know every thing: wealth that shall possess every thing; strength that shall do every thing; glory that shall circumscribe every thing! We shall not be like a taper set in a sick man's window, or a bundle of sticks kindled on the beach to warm a shivering crew; but you must take the diameter and the circum ference of the world if you would get any idea of the greatness of our estate when we shall shine as the stars forever and ever. Lastly-and coming to this point ny mind almost breaks down under the conteapla tion-like the stars, all Christian workers shall shine in duration. The same stars that look down upon us looked down upon the Chaldean shepherds. The meteor that I saw flashing acrosathe sky the other night, I wondered if it was not the same one that pointed down to where Jesus lay in the manger, and If, having pointed out his birth. place, it has ever since been wandering through the heavens, watching to see how the world would treat Him. When Adam awoke in the garden in the cool of the day, he saw coming out through the dusk of the evening the same worlds that greeted us on our way to church to-nighit. In Independence Hall there is an old oracked bell that sounded the signature of the Declaration of Independence. You can not ring it now; but this great chime of sil ver bells that strike In the dome of night rings out with as sweet a tone as when God swung them at the creation. Look up at night, and know that the white lilies that bloom in all the hanging gardens of our King are century plants-not blooming once in a hundred years, but through all the centuries. The star at which the mariner 1001rs to night was the light by which the ships of Tarshish were guided across the Mediter ranean, and the Venetian flotilla found its way into Lepanto. Their armor is as bright to-night, as when, in ancient battle, thestars in their courses fought against Sisera. To the ancients the stars were nmbols of eter nity. But here the figure of say text breass down-not in defeat. but in the majesties of the judgment. The stars shall not shine foreer. The Bible says they shall fall like autumnal leaves. It is almost impossibe for a man to take in a courser going a mile in three minutes, but God shall take in the words, flying a hundred thousand miles an hour, by one pull of his little finger. As when the factory band slips at nightfall from the main wheel, all the smaller wheels slacken their speed, and with slower and slower motion they turn until they come t a full stop, so this great machinery of th universe, wheel within wheel, making revolution of appalling speed, shall, by the touch of God's hand, slip the band of present law and slacken and stop. That Is what will be the matter with the mountains. The chariots in which they ride shall halt so suddenly that the kings shall be thrown out. Star after star shall be carried out to burial amid funeral torches and burning worlds. Constellations shall throw ashes on their heads, and all up and down the highways of space thsre shall be mourning, mourning, mourning, because the worlds are dead. But the Chrhtlan workers shall never quit their thrones-they shall reign forever and ever. If, by some inva sion from hell, the attempt were made to carry them oli into captivity from Heaven, the souls they have saved would rally for their defense, and all the angels of God would strike with thieir scepters, and the redeemed, on white horses of victory, would ride down the foe, and all the steep of the sky would resound with the orash of the overwhelmed cohorts tumbled headlong out of Heaven. -One may become surfeited with getting, but he never can be surfeited with right giving. He who spends the most energy in serving himself will be most likely to tire Iof the service-as well as i the service. He wrho spends most energy in serving others will be least likely to tireof the serv ie-ven though he may tire In the service. The surest way to got all the good we can on ouzr own energies is to pnd thman *ha n zo.in o a ihar- & 2. s. THE PRICES OF FERTILIZERS. A Circular Which Explains the Advance and Predicts a Further Rise. A prominent fertilizer manufacturing company sends to The Greenville News a circular regarding the increase in the prices of fertilizers and suggestsits pub lication as an explanation to the Farmers' Alliance of the objectionable rise. The following is the gist of the circular re ferred to: Prices on kainit and all manufactured fertilizers have already actually advanced anywhere from $2.50 to $4.00 per ton above last year's figures, and we look for a still further advance later in the season in the same way and for the same reason that it came last year. At the beginning of the year the stock of fertiizers carritd over unsold in Southern ports from the season before was not far from 45,000 tons. The demand took all this and caused every Southern factory to ran one month later than usual, winding up the season with acid chambers and storage bins perfectly empty, so that at the start this year no one had anything on hand and had only eleven months to manufac ture in instead of thirteen as they had the past season; hence the supply will not be equal to the demand. This of itself would cause a marked advance in prices, but manufacturers will probably not realize any advantage from this before February 1st. The actual advance already accomplished has been forced upon manufacturers to their detriment by many other causes, especially the following: 1st. The miners of phosphate rock found that they must quit the business they had been conducting with loss, and by mutual agreement they raised the price of their goods from 25 to 35 per cent. over last year's prices. 2d. Ocean freights from England and Germany have advanced to such a high figure that all potash saltsnow costmuch more than last year, this advance being in some cases as much as $3 to $4 per ton. This freight advance adds that much to the cost of all potash in this country, and also prevents the importa tion of English Acid Phosphate to any extent. Formerly this foreign acid has been brought here inconsiderable quan ities, and had a tendency to keep prices down below a profitable figure. No re lief can be anticipated from this source as freights may be still higher. 3rd. Makers of blood, tankage, cotton seed meal and other sources of ammonia had their factories cleaned out by the demand last year, and hays charged and obTiained prices this season 25 to 30 per cent. higher than last year, with supplies still scarce and hard to buy, and certain to reman so. 4th. The same state of things applies to Northern manufacturers, but besides this they can not compete successfully wi thphe low and unpreflL prices pre:iling during the last few years in the South; this, with the fear of adverse legislation, making it impossible to con duct their business with safety and profit, is gradually forcing them to withdraw more and more, sending less goods every year, and thus forcing up prices as the capacity of Southern factories has not increased sufficiently to supply the quan ity consumed. The Snub to Ingans. The omission of the President pro tempore of the Senate in the list of in invitations to the State dinner last night crested considerable commotion in Re publican Senatorial circles. A Senator of long experience. said to-day that for the first time in the history of this gov; enent the President, in his first offi cial dinner, has ignored the President and presiding otficer of the Senate. Senator Ingalls says he is not distarbed on account of the slight, as he concedes that the President may have cause to feel aggrieved at him for his criticismi of the administration. It is well known in so cial circles here that the President's feeling towards Ingalls is shared by every member of his Cabinet and their families, and that Mrs. Ingalls and her daughter-are ignored on every occasion where the Cabinet ladies have the power to do so. Mrs. Ingalls accepts the situ ation very philosophically and says she expects to be excluded from the Execu tive circle till next March.-Wash. Cor. Philadelphia Times. The Origin of a Common 5aying. "The divinity student's broke out again," said the young man that boards on South Davidson street.- "We were sitting at dinner to-day, and Miss Staggs she up and says one of her pupils will never set the river on fire. The divinity student looked up and said: "I see that you like other good people, are in error ~ccaionally." "What do you mean?" said Miss Staggs, gctting red in the face. "1 mean,' said the divinity student, 'that when you talk about setting the river on fire you are using an old saying that's got ofl the track. it used to be, He'll never set the Thames on fire," and people when they said it had in mind te river Thames; on the contrary it means a miller's sieve, called the temse which was used in the wind and water mill days. This temse had a wooden rim, which slid back and forth in a a wooden frame. If the man that worked it was energetic in his work he sometimes et the temse en fire from friction. Hence it was said of a dull, blow person that he would never set the teinse on fire, and the saying has been corrupted to itsi present form.' " Genaerai Harrison". Queer Present. Gen. Harrison received a present a few days ago that is not likely to be placed among his collection of gifts. .lt was an advertising sign from a Milwau kee brewery, giving in bright colors a viw of Gen. Harrison and Grover Clveland sitting at a table drin~king over flowing glasses of beer seived to them by a female in scant dress, with an out line of the White House in the back ground. It was sent to the President elect by express by the audacious adver tisers. Jack Coates, colored, an inmate of the jail at Danville, Va., the other day re eived some molasses pudding from his wife, but he refused to eat it, thinking ;hat it was "tricked". Squire Towkes, another negro prisoner, ate some of the pudding, and soon died in great agony, with every sympton of poisoning. The woman was arrested. There is much ex Icitement among the negroes, who declare ts*hat h pndamng wa "oninred." PARCELLING OUT THE PLACES. The Young Colored Republicans and the Offices-They will Make War on the Car pet-baggers and Take all the Plums they Can Get. (From the News and Courkr.) Our old friends, the enemy, are evident ly up to something. T. E. Miller, the defeated candidate for Congress from the 7th district, and quite a number of the faithful were seen stirring around the streets yesterday. This is, of course, not an unusual thing, but its significance was in the fact that some of the leading lights were seen in company with a Mr. R D. George and in close proximity to a certain national bank, and to the ad ditional fact that Mr. R. D. George evi dently had a check which he wanted cashed and which required identifica tion. Mr. B. D. George is perhaps better known on 'Change and in banking circles than he is at the Republican primaries and conventions. Mr. George, in fact, is understood to be the financial man who is at the back of the recent ant'-car petbag movermement in the 1st and 7th districts. He is said to be a rich man. He owns hundreds of acres of pincforest in Colleton, Berkek y and Orangeburg counties, runs a hu-h a dozen turpe-tine farms and and is simply a millionaire in ebony. When the c-!ored young men's movement w.s Carted here during the last canpiigi? it was openly announced that Mr. George had agreed to fainish the sinews of war for the new movement. So that having seen Mr. George identi fied and and receive the cash for a three figure check the Reporter went in and gathered something like the follo wing as a summary of the situation: The young Colored Republican com bination mean war against the carpetbag wing of the party. Mr. George is back ing them. The election of Gen. Harri son has solidifi d the Y. C. R. U.. and they are now about to enter the field for an active war. The Federal offices have not yet been parcelled out, but a rough slate has been agreed upon and some what after the following style. Of course the money has to be fur nished to Miller to conduct his contest for Col. Elliott's seat in Congress. The combination, however, are confident that the Federal offices in this State will be bestowed upon the faithful. Dr. W. C. Crum has been assigned to the Post Office. Gen. S. J. Lee is to be either district attorney or assistant district attorney. Johnnie Freeman will get a place either in the district attorney's office or in the Post Office. S. W. McKinlay, who, it is understood, has given up all idea of contesting Congressman Dibble's seat, is to be pro vided for, either in the marshal's office or in the Post Office. Mr. George'sa bjective point is not yet known. He will probably be pressed for a place in the revenue department. E. C. Brown and other members of the Y. C. R. C. are, of course, to be pro vided for. Gen. Taft is, perhaps, the single car petbagger who has not been tabooed by the combination. It is admitted that Gen. Taft could get the Post Office again if he wanted, but the belief is that Gen. Taft does not want public office. On the other hand, the white Republi cans have not been remiss, and it is be lieved that they too have made up a slate. Mr. Brayton is, of course, down for his old place, collector of internal reve nue. Col. Tom Johnston aspires to his old place, collector of customs, and Major Tim Tuomey to the marshaLhip. Ostendorif'wants to be deputy collector of customs, just as he was before. The Post Office and the district attor neyship seem to go a-begging, as it is not certain whether Mr. Melton will be williig to take the latter, and as there is no available white candidate for the Post Office. The fight altogether promises to be a lively one, and it will doubtless be watched with interest, especially by the 'ins." Mr. Gladstone and the Phonograph. Mr. Gladstone talked into a phono graph on the 18th of December last. On last Wednesday Mr. Edison had the in strument at his laboratory. He fixed the instrment when he heard, the New York World says, Mr. Gladstone's voice "clear and distinct as if he had been in the room." Here is what the great man said: -"I am profoundly indebted toyou for, not the entertainment only, but the in struction and the marvels of one of the most remarkable evenings which it has been my privilege to enjoy. Your great country is leading the way in the ima p'rtant work of Invention. Heartily do we wish it well; and to you, as one of its greatest celebrities, allow me to offer my hearty good wishes and earnest prayers that you may long live to witness its taiumph in all that appertains to the well being of mankind. Mark, this was uttered on December 18th, in London. On 9th of January, Edison beard it in New Jersey, his pho nograph repeating dhe message of Glad stone to him. The tomato canning industry was boomed last year to an unheard of degree. A pack of 3,319,437 cases of two dozen cans each is reported as against 2, 817,048 cases for 1887, an increase of 500,000 cases. The average consumption for the psst six years has been about 2, 500,000 cases. Assuming, therefore. tiaat the demand for the current year wi b only a normal one, there will be a surplus of from 500,000 to 800,000 cases to be carried over. Low prices stimulate consuption however, andi as prices are certain to be low the surplus may not ue so large as present figures indicate. In the production of canned tomatoes Mary land leads with a pack for 1888 of 96, 733 cases, New Jersey follows with 7b9, 363 cases, and De'aware is third on the list with 227,030 cases, the product of the three States bemng 1,985,126 eases, or three-fifths of the entire output. The increased production of thie past year has been chiefly in the South and West, showing that these sections are begin ning to pack tomatoes for their own con sumption at least. Anthony Higgins, of Wilmington, was nominted for United States Senator from Delaware on the forty-third ballot n the Beanhoan oana at 8.80. ANNEXATION KNOCKED OUT. The First Test Electon in Canada Indi cates that She Would Not be Ours. (From the New York World-) WLDsOR, ONT., Jan. 7.--The first great battle on the issue of politics! union netween Canada and the United States has been fought in Canada, and the unionists have met defeat,- I has been a fierce, bitter struggle, in which all the old party lines have been broken down and the political enemies of former years have worked side by side, f or or against it. Sol. White, the candidate of political1 union, made a good fight, but the old line Conservatives, with their strong party machinery, proved too much for him. One o. the pecuiiarities of Windsor voting is that a mat- can vote in as many wares as he is taxed in, and women ex ercise the same rights of suffrage as the men. The motto of "Vete early and ofte," especially applies to the Canadian voters. The old conservative leaders a few days aczo beeane frightened at the way in I which ii ss were aoving and applied to the P rmer, Sir Jo'hn Macdonald, to have lian exert his influence with White, either to have him withdraw or abandon his issue of political union. Sir John is an r and personal political friend of Sul. White's aaid he did as the couservative leaders asked him. White r,,used, and the Liat wont forth that no stone maiust be l.t unturned to defeat him. That injuoction was carried out and ended in ;i.: defeat. The most bitter personal feeling was stirred up by attack ii:g White's personal and private charac ter, and race prejudice was engendered by :diusions to his birth and the fact that he is a half-breed. The Conservatives put up a candidate whose religious proclivities did not coin cide with their own to draw a certain vote, and then appealed to the colored vote to down the friend of the French. They did their best to hide the issue of political union and those who were strong for it. They pointed to the fact that teir candidate had once said that he wanted annexation with the United States, if he had to tiiAht for it. To iake things still safer they induced a popular doctor to run to draw votes from White. Even with all these precantions, they did not feel safe, and before the result was announced were extremely nervous about it. When it was found that Wbite had been beaten by 33 votes out of a poll of over 1,500 they were dismayed, and are now clamoring that the victory is nothing and that political union was not the issue and that White was beaten on his merits as a man and citizen. A queer feature of the election was shown by 'Hiram Walker, a citizen of Detroit, who owns the entire town of Waikerville, about a mile from Windsor, and also the largest whisky distillery in Canada. He sent all the Windsor roters he employed to vote and work against Waite and political union, giving them a day off to do so and going around him self to see that they did it' The ardent political unionists, while sorry for their defeat, say that it has been victory for them and has given annexation a placeI among the live issues of the day. Had they had a candidate less objectionable to the old party leaders and with fewer personal enemies, they would have car ried the day. The Conservatives do not claim it is a great victory, but say that they have laid the ghost of political union up for a rest. One of the curious features of the election was that the negroes vo.ed al most solidly against political union. A colored candidate for councillor, r.m ning on the same ticket with a political unionist, was badly slaughtered by the unionist and defeated after the trick of the iregroes became kne wn. The French vote was almost a unit for White and union. The Irish vote was cast to a .large extent for T.womey, the Catholic candidate put up by the shrewd Conserv atives for the purpose of catching this vote. The town is wild with excitement to night and the conservatives are not re joicing very much. The majority is too slim to please them. Mayor Beattie, the retiring official, said to-night: "ITt is not a defeat for political union, but a defeat for White, who has too many enemies to carry the town on union or any other issue. I am a nolitical unionist myself, and know that' the elected Mayor is." The fight of to-day, while a losing one, will givo political union a boom that w?l place it in the next Parliamentary ele: ton. TOOK A TURnI~sH IATHI. Novel Method of Curing a Hippopotamnus of a Severe Cold. The S3,000 hippopotunmus, Caliph, of the New York Zoo2logical Garden, has been an interesting invalid in his quart ers for the last two weeks. Caliph caught a cold, owing to a change in the weather, but Dr. Conklin, his medical adviser, brought all his medical and veterinary kiloberon the Siflctions of Cahp.h. skil hiopopar u became very indif ferent,~and finally showed no d-aire to tke his daily baths. His appetite die appeared and his thick hide soon showed that the flesh was falling away beneath it, giving the skin a baggy appearance. Within one week he lost more than three hundred pounds. Last week the animal was with gre..t difficuty forced to enter a tank of water. The steam had been meantime turned on in the water, which had attained a blood-heat temperature. Dr. Conklin deternmined to try the effe ctsof a Turkish 'bath for Caliph as a preliminary sterj. The attendants kept the animal in the tank as the temperature of the water was gradually raised: its heat penetrated Ithe two itnches of cuticle which covers the hippopotamuas, and big drops of perspiration oozed fioim his br-ows. The building was also heated so that the liones and tigers looked uncomfortably warm, and when Caliph emerged from the water his enormous body was steaming. all over like an immense boiled ham.' The attendants scrubbed him off wimL brooms, tcrubbing brashes and soft soap, ad then piling blankects on him, allowed him to lie and steam quietly. He is much improved from his I'arkish bath. The deadlock in West Virginia Senate~ continues, and it is not likely that the body will organize for some time. Senator Matt Ransom, of North Caro lina, received the Democratic caucus nomination for re election on the secondI Iballt, A CraTL li DuUitasL. The Jews As a Separate People Must Even tually Disappear. The New York Herald's European edition published last Saturday the fol lowing letter from Paris: For nearly two thousand years Israel has been awaiting the secnd advent of the Messiah. "When will the Messiah come?" I asked yesterday of a prominent Israelite. "The Mlessiah has come and is at this moment' in Paris," was the astonishing reply. I, of course, supposed that the person with whom I was talking intended to mystify me, but he was serious. I pressed him with further questions and his ex planation was as follows: "We Jewshave iong ago to tfaith in a literal Incarnation of the Messiah. That would not be compatible with ideas of modern civili zation, but a new doctorine has now taken root in the hearts of Jews all over the world, the doctorine of assimilation with Christianity, and the apostle of this. doctrine, destined to bring about the salvktion of Israel, is now in Paris and is no other than Baron Hirsch, the well known Parisian banker, who has given over I00,000,000f. inRussia and Austria alone toward carrying out this glorious conception." A YEW APOSTLE. "Will you take me to see the Baron Hirsch?" I asked. "Certainly" was the reply, and in a few moments I was seated besides Baron Hirsch, in his magn:fi cent house next the Palais de l'Elyeee. Baron Hirsch is a fine looking man of medium height and athletic build. He is appearently about fifty years of age and his eyes are bright, gray, brimul of intelligence. His nose is aquiline, his jaw has a determined lock about it and his long miltary mustache is wangled with gray. He looks morelike an Austrian cavalry officer than a finan cier. "Will you tell me, Baron, about the motives that induced you to make your magnificent donations in Russia?" I asked. GREAT AND USEFUL WOGE. "My idea is this," replied Baron Hirsch. "I am a bitter enemy of fanat iciem, bigotry and exclusive theology. The Jewish question can only be solved by the disappearance of the Jewish.race, which willin evitably be accomplished by the amalgamation of Christians and Jews. The-funds I have placed at the disposal of Russia are not I ar educational purposes of Jewish children alone, but Christian children as well. "There are four and a half millions of Jewish children in Russia, who are in a most destitute condition. They do not even know the Russian language, and steak a sort of Hebraic jargon of their own. They are frightfully handicapped in all that concerns earning their bread and making their wag ih life. There is a complete Crinese wall around them iolating them from the rest of human ity. "My idea was to knock out the corner stone of this wail by establishing schools in Russia, on the condition that they should be open to Jews and Christians on terms of perfect equality." TRUE PHTTANTEROPZ. "Does the Russian government facili tate the establishment of these schools in Russia, where the government is everything?" "Unfortunately the government seems to fear that there issome politicalmotive behind the plan. The truth is.this: I happen to possess more of the so called gocd things of the world than I reqre, and I carefully stu.iied how I could best accomplish an act of pure philanthro py. "I looked about and foun<} that on te whole the condition of the Jews in Russia was worse than that of any large body of people in the civilized world. I am a Jew myself, and I felt for those of the same race and set about giving them a fair chance to work side by side with and assimilate themselves with the people of the country in which they live. I merely want a guarantee from the Bussian gov ernment that the iunds I hold at their disposal shall be applied to the purpose intended-namely, the estabiishmuent of scools for Christians and' Jews on a loting of equality. "The mixed Echools that are estab lished in Galacia, Austria, are a success. So they would be in Russia if the gov ernment would only consent to itself of the idea that there is a political motive in my offer." HALTrHYa AssIMrrATios. "You feel convinced, then, that the doctrine of assimilation is the solution of t is &..mitic question?" "Clearly so," replied Baron Hirsch. "Why, you have only to look about to see tilat'this is the universal tendency o modern times. Younger members of e families of Rothchilds and Monte fire and dozens of others are assimilathd tat is to say, are married with the Gram monte, the htchelieus and the Roseberys. Lu other strata ot society thle same lhw prevails. In saint Antoine and Baileville mied Christian aid Jewish marriages take place every 'eek. The Jewish race is disappeariag. There are numer ous instancas of conversion of Jews to Chrisinity, but I cannot recall a soli tary instance of a Christian becoming cnverted to Jadaism. The salvation of aie Jews is assimilation.. "Let them be amalgamated by Chris tianity and merged in Christianmty. Let the fusion.be complete; let Jewish iso lation be broken down; let the Jews as a distinct sect disappear. This i-: the tedency of the age. This will be the solution of the Jewish question and a blessing to civilization." President-elect Harrison gave no assurance to the Tirginia delegation that vsited him in the interest of Glen. 11hone for a cabinet position. We are ure that the selection of Gen. Mahone or a caoilnet position would not be accepted by the South as an evidence of a conservative administration. Gen. .ahone, by reason ox tiie party feuds ad antagonismisin his own State, would reward his friends and punish his ene mies. He is bitterly hostile to the best men of Virginia. An ultra partisan would not make a wise cabinet minister. The Virginia State Board of Agricul ture has decided to prepare a pamphlet for general distribution setting fourtai the resources of every county in the Siate, inclading the value of land on the market and the productiveness of the same; also to appoint a local agent in evr State.