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VOL. V. MANNING , CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNEDAY, AUGUST 1 89 O 7 HOW TO CONQUER. Sermon by Rev. T. DeWitt TaJ mage, D. D. He Shows the Way Out or Sin Into the i Paths of Righteousness-The Worst Obstacles in the Way are Evil Habits and Society. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage preached a ser mon recently at Lake Maxinkuckee, Id., on the subject: "How to Conquer." The text was: "When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again."-Prov. xxiii. 33. The eloquent preacher spoke as follows: With an insight into human nature such as no other man ever reached, Solomon, in my text, sketches the mental operations of one who, having stepped aside from the path of restitude, desires to return. With a wish for something better, he said: "When shall I awake? When shall I come out of this horrid nightmare of iniquity?" But, seized upon by uneradicated habit, and forced down hill by his passions, he cries out: "I will seek it yet again. I will try it once more." Ouw libraries are adorned with an elegant literature addressed to young men, pointing out to them all the dangers and perils of life-complete maps of the voyage, showing all the rocks, quicksands, the shoals. But suppose amanhas already made shipwreck; suppose he is already off the track: suppose he has already gone astray. How is heto get back? That is a field comparatively un touched. I propose to address myself to such. There are those in this audience who, with every passion of their agonized soul, are ready to hear such a discussion. They compare themselves with what they were ten years ago, and cry out from the bondage in which they are incarcerated. Now, if there be any here, tome with an earnest purpose, yet feeling they are beyond the pale of Christian sympathy, and that the sermon can hardly be expected to address them, then, at this moment, I give them my right hand andcallthembrother. Lookup! There is a glorious and triumphant hope for you yet. I sound the trumpet of gospel deliver ance. The church is ready to spread a ban quet at your return, and the hierarchs of heaven to fall into line of bannered proces sion at the news of your emancipation. So far as God may help me, I propose to show what are the obstacles of your return, and ,then how you are to surmount those ob stacles. The first difficulty in the way of your return isthe forceof moral gravitation. Just as there is a natural law which brings down to the earth any thing you throw into the air, so there is a corresponding moral gravitation. In other words, it is easier to go down than it is to go up; it is easier to do wrong than it is to do right. Calltomind the comrades of your boyhood days-some of them good, some of them bad-which most affected you? Call to mind the anec dotes that you have heard in the last five or ten years-some of them are pure and some of them impure. Which the more easily sticks to your memory? During the years of your life you have formed certain courses of conduct-some of them good, some of them bad. T abit did yon. easily yield? Ah. my friends we have to take but amomentof.self inspection to find out that there is in all our souls a force of moral gravitation! But that gravi tation may be resisted. Just as you may pick up from the earth some thing and hold it in your hand toward heaven, just so, by the power of God's grace a soul fallen may be lifted toward peace, toward pardon, to ward heaven. Force of moral gravitation in every one of us, but power in God's grace to overcome that force of moral gra-itation. The next thing in the way of your return is the power of evil habit. I know there are those who say it is very easy for them to give up evil habits. I do not believe them. Here is a man given to intoxication. Heknows it is disgracing his family, de stroying his property, ruining him, body, mind, and soul. If that man, being an in telligent man, and loving his family,col easily give'up that habit would he not sot The fact that he does not giv up proves that itis hard to give ity?. It is a very easy thing to sail do stream, the tide cirrying you with rreat force; but suppose you turn the boat up stream, is it so easy then to row it? As lone as we yield to the evil inclinations in our hearts and our bad habits we are sailing down stream; but the moment we try to turn we put our boat in the raids just above Niagara and try to row up stream. Take a man given to the habit of using tobacco. as most of you do, and let him resolve to stop and he finds it very difficult. Twenty-seven years ago I quit that habit, and I would as soon dare to put my right hand in the fireas once to indulge in it. Why? Because it was such a struggle to get over it. Now, let a man be advised by his physician to give up the use of tobacco. He goes around not knowing what to do with himself. He can not add up a line of figures. He can not sleep nights. It seems as if the world had turned upside down. He feels his business is going to ruin. Where he was kind and obliging he is scolding and fretful. The composure thiat characterized him has given way to a fretful restlessness, and he has be come a complete fidget. What power. is it that has rolled a wave of woe over the earth and shaken a portent in the heavens?' He has tried to stop smokingorchewing! Alter a while he says. "I am going to do as I please. The doctor doesn't understand my case. rm going back to my old habit." And he returns. Every thing assumes its usual composure. His business seems to brighten. The world becomes an attractive place to live in. His children, seeing the difference, hail the return of their father's genial disposition. What wave of color has dashed blue into the sky, and greenness into the mountain foilage, and the glow of sap phire into the sunset? What enchantment has .lifted a world of beauty and joy on his soul? He has gone back to tobacco! Oh, the fact is, as we all know in our own experience, that habit is a taskmaster; as long as we obey it, it does not chastise us; but let us resist, and we find we are to be lashed with scorpion whips and bound with ship cable, and thrown intothe track of bone breaking juggernauts! During the war of 1812 there was a ship set on fire just above Niagara Falls, and then, cut loose from its moorings, itecame on down through the night and tossed over the falls. It was said tohave been a scene brilliant beyond all description. Well, there are thousands of men on fire of evil habit, coming down through the rapids and through the awful night of temptation toward the eternal plunge. O)! how hard it is to arrest them. God only can arrest them. Suppose a man after five, or ten, or twen ty years of evil doing, resolves to do right? Why, all the forces of darkness are allied against him. He can not sleep nights. He gets down onhis knees in the midnight and cries: "God help me!" He bites his lips. He grinds his teeth. He clenches his fist in his determination to keep his purpose. He darenotlook at the bottles in the window of a wine store. it was one long, bitter, ex haustive, hand-to-band fight with inflamed, tantalizing and merciless habit. When he thinks he is entirely free, the old inclina tions pounce upon himlike a pack of hounds with their muzzles tearing away at the flanks of one poor reindeer. In Paris there Is a sculptured representotion of Bacchus, the god of revelry. He is riding on a pan -ther at full leap. Oh ! how suggestive! Let every one who is speeding on bad ways un derstand he is not riding a docile and well broken steed, but he is riding a monster, 'wild and bloodthirsty, going at a death leap. How many there are who resolve on a bet ter life and say: "When shall I awake?" But, seized on by their old habits, cry: "I will try ist once more; I will seek is yet again:" Trears ago there were some Prince ton students who were skating, and the ice was very thin, and some one warned the company back from the air hole, and finally warned them entirely to leave the place. Bunt one young man with bravado, after all the rest had stopped, cried out: "One round mmo" He swept around and weut down, and was brought out a corpse. My friends, 1 there are thousands and tens of thousands of men losing their souls in that way. It is the one round more. I have also to say that if a man wants to return from evil practices society repulses him. Desiring to reform, he says: "Now I will shake off my old associates, and I will find Christian companionship." And he ap pears at the church door sone Sabbath day, and the usher greets him with a look, as much as to say: "Why, you here ? You are the last man I ever ezpected to see at church! Conic, take this seat right down by the door!" Instead of saying: "Good morning: 1 am glad you -are here. Come, I will give you a first rate seat, right up by the pulpit." Well, the prodigal, not yet discouraged, enters the prayer meeting,- and some ( nristian man, with more zeal than common sense, says: "Glad to see you, the dying thief was saved, and I s-nose there ismercy for you !" The young n .1, disgusted, chilled, throws him self back on his dignity, resolved he will never enter the house of God again. Per haps not quite fully discouraged about ref ormation he sides up by some highly re spectable man he used to know going down the street, and immediately the respectable man has an errand down some other street! Well, the prodigal, wishing to return, takes some member of a Christian association by the hand, or tries to. The Christian young man looks at him, looks at the faded ap parel and the marks of dissipation, and in stead of giving him a warm grip of the hand offers him the tip end of the long fin gers of the left hand, which is equal to striking a man in the face. 0, how few Christian people understand how much force and gospel there is in a good, honest handshaking! Sometimes when you have felt the need of encourage ment, and some Christian man has taken you heartily by the hand, have you not felt that thrilling through every fiber of your body, mind and soul, an encouragement that .was just what you needed' You do not know any thing at all about this inless you know when a man tries to return from evil courses of conduct, he runs against repul sions innumerable. We say of some mat., he lives a block or two from the church, or half a mile from the church. There are peo ple in our crowded cities who live a thou sand miles from the church. Vast deserts of indifference between them and the house of God. The fact is, we must keep our re spectability, though thousands and tens of thousands perish. Christ sat with publicans and sinners. But if there comes to thehouse of God a man with marks of dissipation about him, people throw up their hands in horror, as much as to say, "isn't it shock ing?" How these dainty, fastidious Chris tians in all our churches are going to get into Heaven I don't know, unless they have an especial train of cars, cushioned and up holstered, each one a car to himself! They can not go with the great herd of publicans and sinners. 0. ye, who curl your lip of scorn at the fallen, I tell you plainly, if you had been surrounded by the same influences, instead of sitting to-day amid the cultured, and the refined and the Christian, you would have been a crouching wretch in stable or ditch, covered with filth and abomination ! It isnot because you are naturally any bet ter, but because the mercy of God has pro tected you. Who are you, that brought up in ris 'cles, and watched by Chris tian parentage, yo uld be so hard on the fallenf I think men also are often hinde from return by the fact that churches are too anx ious about their membership and too anxious about their denomination, and they rush out when they see a man about to give up his sin and return to Mod, and ask him how he is going to be baptized, whetner oy spikiilmg or by inmnersion, and what kind of a church he is going to join. 0, my friends! It is a poor time to talk about Presbyterian cate chisms, and Episcopal liturgies and Metho dist love feasts, and baptisteries t a that is coming out of th ss of sin into the gloriousljg t f the Gospel. Why, it reminds-us of a man drowning in the sea, and a lieboat puts out for him, and the man the boat says to the man out' of the soat: "Now, if I get you ashore, are you oing to live in my street?" First get him shore, and then talk about the non-essen tials of religions. Who cares what church e joins, if he only joins Christ and starts or Heaven? 0, you ought to have, my rother, an illuminated face, and a hearty rip for every one that tries to turn from is evil way. Take hold of the same book with him, though his dissipations shake the ook, remembering that he that con erteth a sinner from the error of his ways hall save a soul from death, and hide a ultitude of sins. Now I have shown you these obstacles be ause I want you to undei'stand I know all the difficulties in the way ; but I am now to tell :vou how Hannibal may scale the Alps, nd how the shackles miav be unriveted, nd how the paths of virtue forsaken may e regained. First of all, my brother, hrow yourself on God. Go to Him, frankly nd earnestly tell Him these habits you ave, and ask Him, if there is any help in all the resources of omnipotent love, to give t you. Do not go with a long rigmarolie eole call prayer, made up of "ohs" and 'hs," and "forever and forever amens!" o to God and cry for help! help ! help! nd if you can not cry for help, just ook and live. I remember in the war [ was at Antietam, and 1 went into the hospitals after the battle, and I said to a man, "Where are you hurt?" He made o answer, but held up his arm swollen and pintered. I saw where he was hurt. The simple fact is, when a man has a wounded soul, all he has to do is to hold it up before a sympathetic Lord and get it healed. It does not take any long prayer. Just hold up the wound. 0, it is no small thing when a man is nervous and weak and exhausted, coming from his evil ways to feel that God puts two omnipotent arms around about him and says, "Young man, I will stand by you! The mountains may depart, and the hills may be removed, but I wvill never fail you." And then, as the soul thinks the news is too good to be true, and can not be lieve it, and looks up in God's face, God lifts His right hand and takes an oath, an affi davit, saying, "As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth." Blessed be God for such G."epel as this! "Cut the slices thin," said the~ wife to the husband, "or there will not be enough to go all around~for the children; cut the slices thin." Blessed be God, there is a full loaf for every one that wants it: bread enough and to spare. No thin slices at the Lord's table. I remember when the Master Street Hospital, in Philadelphia, was opened dur ing the war. A telegram came saying: "There will be three hundred of them," and froni my church there went in some twnty or thirty men and women to look after these poor wounded fellows. As they came, some from one part of the land, some from another, no one asked whether this man was from Oregon, or from Massa husetts, or from Minnesota, or from New York. There was a wounded soldier, and the only question was how to take off the rags most gently, and put on the bandage, and administer the cordial. And when a soul comes to God He does not ask where you come from or what your ancestry was. Healing for all, your wounds. Pardon for all your guilt. Comfort for all your troubles. Then, -ulso. I counsel you, if you want to get back, to quit all your bad assoc'iations. IOne unholy intimacy will till your so'u. with moral distemper. In all the ages of the church there has not been an instance where a man kept one evil associate and was reformed. Among the fourteen hun dred million of the race, not one instance. Go home to-day, open your desk, take out letter paper, stamps, and envelope, and then write a letter something like this: "My Old Companions: I start this day for Heaven. Until I am persuaded you will join me in this, farewell." Then sign youi- name, and send the letter with the first post. Give up your bad com panions, or give up Heaven. It is not ten bad companions that d '-troy a man, nor five bad companions, nor three bad companions, but one. What chance is ' there for that young man I saw along the street, four or ..v y .n menwt him, halting in front of a grog shop. ur:img rum to go in, ne re sisting. violently resisting. until afterawhile they forced him to go in' It was a summer night, and the do-'r was left open. and I saw the process. They held him fast, and they put the cup to his lips, and they forced down the strong drink. What chance is there for such a young mnan? I counsel you also seek Christian advice. Every Christian man is bound to help you. First of all. seek God: then seek Christian counsel. Gather up all the energies of boddy, mind axd soul, and, appealing to God for success, declare this day everlasting war against all drinking habits, all gambling practices, all houses of sin. Half-and-half work will amount to nothing; it must be a Waterloo. Shrink back now and you are lost. Push on and you are saved. A Spar 'tan general fell at the very moment of vic tory, but he dipped his finger in his own blood and wrote on a rock near which he was dying, "Sparta has conquered." Though your struggle to get rid of sin may seem to be almost a death struggle. you can dip your finger in your own blood and write on the Rock of Ages, "Victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 0. what glorious news it would be for some of these young men to send home to their parents. They go to the post-office every day or two to see whether there are any letters from you. How auxic as they are to hear. Some onesaid to a Grecian general: "What was the proudest moment in your life?" He thought a moment, and said: "The proudest moment in my life was when I sent word, home to my parents that I had gained the vic tory." And theproudest and most brilliant moment in your life will be the moment when you can send word to your parents that you have conquered your evil habits by the grce of God and become eternal victor. 0, de spise not parental anxiety! The time will come when you will have neither father nor mother, and you will go around the place where they used to watch you and find them gone from the house, and gone from the field, and gone from the neighborhood. Cry as loud for forgiveness as you may over the mound in the churchyard, they will not answer. Dead! Dead! And then you will take out the white lock of hair that was cut from your mother's brow just before they buried her. and you will take the cane with which your father used to walk, and you will think and think and wish that you had done just as they wanted you to, and would ;ive the world if you had never thrust a pang through their dear old hearts. God pity the poor young man who has brought disgrace on his father's name ! God pity the young man who has broken his mother's heart! Better if he had never been born-better if, in the first hour of his life, instead of being laid against the warm bosom of maternal tenderness, he had been coined and sepulchered. There is no balm powerful enough to heal the heart of one who has brought parents to a sorrowful grave, and who wanders about through the lismal cemetery, rending the hair, and wringing the hands. and crying, "Mother! nother!" 0, that to-day by all the memo ries of the past and by all the hopes of the Future. you would yield your heart to God. fay your father's God and your mother's %d be your God forever! MARVELOUS COURAGE. How an Humble Hero Saved the Day at Waterloo. c Duke of Wellington was once asked ho> n his opinion, was the bravest man at Water off- -I can't.tell you that," lie said, but 1 can tell vo'Jhrf one than whom I am ure there was no bray eP The following s the story put in the wor f the writer: "There was a private in the tillery. A arm -house,IN h an orcar urr thick bed , formed a most important oint - e British position, and was or le'd to be held against the enemy at any acrifice. The hottest of the battle raged round this point, but the English behaved ell, and beat back the French again and again. "At last the powder and bail were found to be running short; at the same time the -edges surrounding the orchard took fire. :n the meantime a messenger had been sent o the rear for more powder and ball, and n a short time two loaided wagonis~~cine alloping down to the farm-house, the gal ant defenders of which were keeping up a manty fire through the flames which. sur ,unded the post. The driver of the first wagon spurred his struggling horses hrough the burnihg heap; but the flames .ose fiercely round and caught the powder, vhich exploded, sending rider, horses and iagon in fragments into the air. For one instant the driver of the second wagon aused, appalled by his comrade's fate, the 2ext, observing that the flames beaten bac-k or a moment by the explosion afforded him anc desperate chance, he sent his horses at he smoldering breach, and amid the cheers f the garrison, landed his cargo safely vithin. Behind him the flames closed up ad raged more fiercely than ever. This private never liv'ed to i-cceive the reward which his act merited, but later in the en ragement he was killed, dying with the con ciousness that he had saved the day.-Lon lon Times.___ ____ -Men sometimes thinketheir lot to be a ery hard one in this wvorld, and even com plain against the providence of God as a sort of cruelty to them. If these same per sons would thoughtfully study the mercies with which God has crowned their days, they would soon discover that they have more mercies for which to thank Him than evils of which to complain. If they would carefully examine what they call evils, they would also see a great many things in this ist that are evils only in appearance, and are really "mercies in disguise." Much of the petulance of human nature with Provi dence would be cured by such healthful meditation.-N. Y. Independent. -To rule one's anger is well; to prevent Ltgis better.-Edwards. A Guinea Pig Farm. There is talk of a scheme to form a company in this city for the puri)ose ot breeding and raising guinea pig on an ex tensive scale. The idea is to organize a tok eomnpany, buy a piece of land and breed the little animals, so a~s to secure their tissue, to be usedl in mxaking in jections into the human system accord ing to the B3rown-Sequard discovery for renewing or stimulating of life. The guinea pigs used by the Pittsburg physi cian who has been making the experi ments cost. $1 each. They are very dif ficult to raise, except on a large farm, with uniform treatment, when they thrive. They feed on cabbage, potatoes and all kinds of vegetables. In the city it is extremely bard to raise them, as they are very delicate. Considering the price and the fact of their being as pro lific as rabbits, the gentlemen in the scheme say they see "big money in it." Pittsburg Dis-patch. Good News for Cotton Planters. Col. A. P. Butler, Commissioner of Agriculture, telegraphed Mr. L. A. Rau som from New York yesterday that the New York Cot ton Exchange had grantedl all that the Commissioner asked in re gardl to thei. tare on cottonl. It is tunder SL:.Y that the Commissioner req1uested the Exchange to fix prices on net cotton regardless of the tmaterial used for cov ering. This settlement of the question is favorable to the farmers and it will prevent any loss in the use of the cotton bagging as a substitute for jute. The Next Govenor of Virginia. RICHMOND, Va., August 15.-The State Democratie Convention met at 10 o'clock this morning and proceeded to take a second ballot for Governor. Before the roll call was completed C'apt. Phil. MeKenny was nominated b~y acclamation. J. Iloge Tyler of Pulaski, was nominated for Lieutenant Governor Where the Hand of God is Seen. Do I like the city? Stranger, 'tisn't likely that I would; 'Tisn't likely that a ranger from the border ever could Git aecnsiomed to the flurry an' the loud, onearthly noise Everybody in a hurry, men and wimmin, gals an' boys, All a-rushin' like the Nation 'mid the rumble an' the jar, Jes' as if their souls' salvation hung upon their gittin' thar. Like it? No. I love to wander 'Mid the vales and mountains green, In the border land out yonder, What' the hand o' God is seen. Nothin' 'yar but bricks and mortar, towerin' overhead so high, That you never see a quarter o' the over hangin' sky. Not a tree or grassy medder, not a runnin' brook in sight; Nothin' but the buildin's shadder makin' gloom o' heaven's light. E'en the birds are all imported from away across the sea Faces meet all distorted with the hand o' misery. Like it? No. I love to wander 'Mid vales and mountains green, In the bor'er land out yonder, Whar' the hand o' God is seen. Roarin' railroad trains above you, streets by workmen all defaced, Everybody tryin' to shove you in the gutter in their haste; Cars an' carts an' wagons rumblin' through the streets with deafenin' roar. Drivers yetliin', .wearin', crumblin', jes' like imps from sheol's shore ; Factories j'inin' in the chorus, helpiu' of the din to swel!; Auctioneers i: tones sonorous lyin' 'bout the goods they sell. Like it ? No. [love fo wander 'Mid vales and mountains green, In the border :aTd out Louder, W'har' the band o' God is seen. Yes, I love the Western border; line trees wavin' in the air, Ito< k' piledi up in rough disorder; birds a-siugt' everywhere ; Deer a-pla in is theirgludness; elk a-feecin' in the glen ; Not a trace o' pain or sadness campin' on the trail o' men. Brooks o' crystal clharness flowin' o'er the rocks an' lovely flowers In their tint- d beauty growin' 5n the moun tain dells and bowers. Fairer pictur' the Crestor Never threw on earthly screen Than this lovely home o' natur' Whir' the hand o' God is seen. -Captain Jack 'rawjird, in Ouding. COTTON BAGGING. FACTS AND FIGURES ON WHICH THE FARMERS' ALLIANCE PROCEEDS. How the Cotton Bagging Will Be a Source of Immense Profit to the South-Where It Will Come From. MONTGOMERY, Ala., August- 12.-The Alliance men say that the jute bagging has come and gone, and that there is now no nanner of doubt that this year's crop will be marketed in bagging made from the fleecy s;aple itself. The fight on the jute trust started in Birmingham on the 15th day of last May. when the representatives of four teen States met in council and declared that there was but one way to solve the nestion, and that was for the South to 'If ir cro n(in; So at and so earnest has the fight been agait st the jute covering that a few weeks ago when an Alliance meeting was held at Jefferson, in Marengo County, several farmers who had bundles of it left over from last year invited the delegation to the commons, and there in the presence of all the bagging was consigned to the flames, and around no bonfire that had urned in the State for thirty years has here been such rejofeing as was there round this. The same intensity of feel ng exists, too, in Choctaw County, and bout the smne time that the Jeffer on farmers were burning their clear ngs from last year, the Warwick Hill lanters were burying theirs, andl on the pot where the -jute is buried there tands a white nine board, and-in plain fgures, so that the wayfarer, though a ool, may read, is this inscription: Etected to the memory of the jute rust, killed and buried by the Southern farmers, in the year of our Lord eigh en hundred and eighty nine." Knowing that such sentiment exists troughout the State, it is not st range hat the meeting of the State Alliance, hich has just concluded at Aub~urn, hould have been one of the nmst argly attended and enthusiastic that us ever been held in the State. It was gathering, too, of pracetical farmers, who, by the sweat of their brow, have og enough paid tribute to bloated tokholders and trusts of all kinds, ad these horny-handed sons of toil took hold of the question as it now stands, and discussed it in every possible ight that the judgment and experience f years could suggest. The result is that the meetmng has adjourned and the armers have gone home with a feeling f satisfactiou and determination that hey have never before possessed. The question of whether jute should be use'd by the Alliance men was buried beneath an avalanche of noes, and it wvas expressly agreed and understood that in the event of the supply of cotton bagging falling short, that jnmte should not be used as a substitute, butt use any thing else, no matter wvhat it was. The :uestion of the manufacture of the cot ton bagging was discussed in all its details, and the showing which wvas made places Alabama in the vanguard of the Sttes that are fighting to the dleath this fearful tax and awful monster, the jute trust, into whose voracious maw the Southern farmers have for twenty years been pour-ing the fruits of their honest There are now in Alabama two manu factories which are producing 30o,000 yards of bagging per day, and a few las at furthest will see two more in operation, the output of which will be 15,000 yards. These mills arc the Alli aice Mill at Florence, 10,000 yards daily; the Rock Mills, Rock Mill, Ran dolph County, 20,000 yards daily; Tus caloosa Mills, Tuscaloosa, 10,000 yards daily; Tallassee Mills, Tallassee, 5,000 yards daily. This will give within the State a daily output of 45,000 yards. if the mills run four months the total number of yards manufactured would be 4,080,000~yards, and this at six yards to the bale would put in marketable form 780,000 bales, which is about the size of Alabama's erop. The only great dela, so the Alliance mna claim, will be withini the next fewv weeks, and after that time the supply will be almost if not quiie equal to the demandl. The ony disadv antatge this will have will be to elay the marketing of the crop, and thec members throughout the State say that they arc willing to hold it back, even to the endturing of some hardships, to carry their point, and from the pres ent outlook it seems that the largest portion of Alabama's crop will be packed it:cotton bagging. The other States arc not all so well siuatdl as Alabama, but Louisiana, wvith the Lane and Odenheimer mills with their output of 00,000 yards per day, will turn out enough to supply the de.ans of Mis.;ssippi and Louisin, while Georgia's four mills will mak enough for the Empire State, and prob ably for North Carolina. So it can be readily seen that with the way thingS now stand there will be enough cotton bagging manufactured by the 31st day of December to cover one-half of the entire crop, or about 4,000.000 bales. if every farmer was a member of the Alliance, and every member was to use strictly cotton bagging, this would leave half the crop without covering, and a substitute would have at once to be se ured. However, the Alliance, while t s strength is great enough to crush out of existence the gret trust, has not un fortunately every farmer within its fos tering folds, and there will necessarily be some who will use material other than that the Alliance prescribes, so that after all, even within five months from the beginning of the fight, the farmers have marshaled their forces and have almost iu the strong meshes of their bagging their foes. The difference in the cost of the cotton jute and the cotton covering has been a rather sore subject to those who have wavered in their support of the views of the Alliance, and to many it seems that the price is so much in favor of the jute that preference should he given it. If any doubtful one will read the follow ing statement, the accuracy of which is incontrovertible, and then doubt for an instant the wisdom of the charge, lie will be a man whom neither facts nor figures can eonvince: The cost of the jute bagging is 10 cents per yard, and the cost per bale is 60 cents. For this 60 cents, at 8 cents per pound, as the bagging weighs one and one-half pounds per yard, or nine pounds per bale, the farmer receives 72 cents when he sells his cotton. On the the other hand, the cotton bagging costs 7; cents per yard, or 75 cents per bale, and as it weighs three-quarters of a pound per yard, it turns out four and one-half pounds per bale. For this, at same price, the farmer receives 76 cents per bale. The difference in the cost of the bagging is 15 cents per bale in favor of the jute, and in sale the difference in its favor is 36 cents; so the total sum in favor of the jute is fifty-one cents per bale. This .in round figures would be $4,080,000 in favor of the jute bagging for a siigle crop. These figures may appear large to the casual reader, but by using the cotton bagging they are more than overcome, and the result would in a few years be simply wontierful. To begin with, if bagging for the en tire crop is made at home, it will require the consumption of 120,000 to 150,000 bales of cotton annually, which, at a low estimate, is home consumption enough to insure the price of cotton one fourth of a cent, and this, on the entire crop, would be $10,000,000. So, to be gin with, we have over $5,000,000 per year in round figures, which emphasizes the fact of the superiority of cotton bag gng. But this is nothing. It is not so much in increased price as in keeping at home and in circulation the $5,000,000 which have been annually blowing into the coffers of foreign corporations that the people of the South will be benefited. Again, the manufa re of this ba bng an outlay of over $2,000,000 to construct manufactures alone. So in this the bene fit received will be very great. Also to manufacture this bagging will be re quired the services of thousands of skilled laborers, and the money paid them'in wages will in itself be of suffi cient quantity to be felt in the channel of commerce. In diversified industries lies the salvation, and the ultimate great ness of the South, and the manufacture f this bagging will enthuse interest, and will cause the erection of manufac ures for rope, sacks, and everything else that can be made of cotton. When the Farmers' Alliance have beaten the bagging trust, there will not elapse many months before the cotton seed oil trust will be tackled, and unless the indications arc wrong, another year will see the Alliance mills in operation, and see hundreds of thousands of dollars being saved from this source. Another thing which the Alliance laims as a great advantage in the use f cotton bagging is that the price at which it is now being manufactured gives, according t~o the calculation of ne of the best experts in the State, a profit of nearly 100 per cent. This, with camnpetition, will l'e so reduced that a few years will see cotton bagging being manufactured atnd put on cotton t a cost that will be primarily cheaper than jute. At any rate, however, the AHiance is determih'd andI if the jute trust is not beginning to quake it is com posed of men who have become satis fed with their enormous accumulations ad are willing now that their occupa tion 1)e gone. People Who Talk Too Much. In the Supreme Court of Georgia at Atlta Monday last Judge Bleckley, who has considerable reputation as a humorist, had something to say about people who talk too much. The case un er consideration was one of Fox against enderson, which came up from Savan ah. Theceharge was slander. Upon the first trial of the case Fox got a ver dhet for $1,500. Henderson, it seems. ad used some rather strong expressions bout Fox. saying, among other things, tat Fox wvas "a thief, and ought to be in the nenitentiary." Fox took excep tion to this, and the court gave himi ;1 90 worth. Th m n:t.tcu premne Court, and Henderson got a new trial. It went back, wns tried again, with the same verdict and amount, and gain came to the Supreme Court. After ffirming the decision of the court below Judge Bleckley said: "The court thinks this is a harsh verdict, in view of the pall iati'ig facts set forth in the evidence, but not an tillegal one. It teaches a most nergetic lesson in favor of holding one's tongue, and it is well for that lesson to be learned sooner or later by us all." A Novel Sign War. Two Troy (N. Y.) merchants are con :ucting a novel sign war. They seem to vie with each other in seeing who can put up a sign that will most obstruct his neighbor's view. A few days ago one rerchant piled up a number of boxes and baskets almost in front of his neigh bor's window. The other merchant then put tip a sign extending the whole length f his window and exteninig out from it about thiee feet. The other tm'archant, not to be outdlone, put up a board par. tition between the two stores, Friday morning before daylight, wvhich is about twenty-five feet high and at least four feet wide. While it shuts out his neigh bor's view in one direction, it obstructs his own from the other. Price of Bessemer Pig Iron Advanced. PrTrsBURG, August 15.-Announce met was made to-day of an advance in Bessemer pig iron from $15.50 and $16 per ton to $16.50 and $17 per ton. The advance was made in view of the pros pective advance in coke freight rates. Trade is looking up and is niore encour ging than for months. BLOODY SEQUEL TO THE FAMOUS SHARON SCANDAL IN CALIFORNIA. Ex-Judge Terry, Who Married the No torious Sarah Althea Hill, Shot Through the Heart in a Railroad Dining Room by a Deputy United States Marshal for Assaulting Justice Field of the United States Supreme Court. LATUROP, Col., August 14.-Upon the arrival of the Southern Overland train here at 7:20 o'clock this morning, United States Supreme Judge Stephen J. Field and Deputy United States Marshal David Nagle walked into the depot dining room for breakfast and sat down side by side. Soon after Judge David S. Terry and wife (formerly Sarah Althea Ilill) came in. They were proceeding to another table, when Mrs. Terry, evidently reeognizing Justice Field, did not ,lown, but retired to the train for some unknown purpose. Before she reached it, however, and as soon as she had left the dining room, Judge Terry approached Justice Field, and stooping over him slapped his face. At this juncture Deputy Marshal Na gle arose from his scat and shot Judge Terry through the heart. As he was falling the Deputy Marshal fired again, but nis'ed hin, the bullet going through the floor. Both shots were Gred in very quick succession. The Judge never uttered a sound after being shot. He hardly had fallen when Mrs. Terry rushed to the side of his body and threw herself upon it. Then ensued a scene of the wildest ex citement. People rushed from the din ing room and others rushed in. During this time, Justice Field and Deputy Marshal Nagle retreated to the sleeping car, where they were securely locked within. At times Mrs. Terry would call upon the citizens to at rest them. Before the train pulled out Constaolc Walker entered sleeper and was carried away on board the train. He informed the crowd that he knew his duty and would per form it. During the time the train was stand ing at the depot, Mrs. Terry-was running wildly alternately from the body of her husband to the sleeper, demanding ad mittarce that she might slap Justice Field's face, and at the same-time beg ging that they be detained and have them arrested for examination here. Previous to the entrance of Constable Walker into the sleeper, Sheriff Purvis and a deputy of Stanisland County had already taken charge of Deputy United States Marshal Nagle. STOCKTON, Col., August 15.-At the inquest last night over the body of Judge Terry no new facts were developed. A number of witnesses were examined, among them being the proprietors of the hotel at Lathrop. The coroner's jury returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death from the effects of a gunshot wound inflicted by David Nagle at Lathrop, SAN FRANcISCO, August 15.-The fol lowing facts were submitted to Justice Field and doiar by him to be a cor led to the shooting. During Judge Terry's confinement in the.County jail he threatened upon his release to take the lives of Judges Field and Sawyer, Prior to contempt of court, for which he was in prison, Mrs. Terry, in his pre. ice, had made an assault on Judge Sawyer in a Pullman car. it is believed that had Sawyer resisted the insult Terry would have killed him. Terry's threats were so publicly made that they reached the ears of Justice Field's colleagues on the Supreme bench and were made known to the Depart ment of Justie in 'Vashington, where upon Attorney Gen eral Miller ordered Marshal Franks .o take whatever meafns were necessairy to protect the persons of Justice Field and Judge Sawyer from assault. Otn his arrival in California to hold court in this part of his circuit, Justice Field objected to being p~ut undler the protction of the Marshal's ofiice. When asked if he intended to carry arms to defend himself, he said: "N~o, I do not and will not carry arms, for when it is known that the Judges of courts are compelled to arm themsclves for the defense of assaults offered in consequence of their judicial action, it will be time to dissolv-e courts, consider the government a failure and let society lapse into barbarismn." Not withstanding his objection to pro tection, the Marshal declared himself subject to the order of his superior offi cer, Attorney General Miller, and depu tized Mr. Nagle to keep within reach of Justice Field ready to carry out the orders of the Department of Justice. In an interview at indianapolis At torney General Miller corroborates this sta:ement anai says he gave Marshal Franks ordecrs to protect the Judges. A passenger who was on the train at Lathrop says that when lhe heard the shooting he rushed out of the car and saw Mrs. Terry with a satchel in her hand. She was trying 1o open it, and he took it from her. She tried to gain pos session of it again but failed. When the zitchel was opened atftrwards a pis tol was found in it. David Nagle, lDeputy United States Marshal. who killed Terry, in 1881 re eived the appointment as chief of po lice of Tombstone. While occupying that positionihe had frequent encounters with the criminal, and soon earned the reputation of beingj a man of undl'puta bl cobrage andPiravei. llHeshat and killed a Mexican dlesperado) in Tomb stone after a fierce struggle. Nagle was apointed Deputy Marshal here a year ago, and when Terry made ani assault on Marshal Franks last September, Nagle disarmed him. The reports circulated that Terry intended doing Justice Field some injury when they met, caused Na gle to be detailed to act as a body guard to him when he came to the coast a few months ago. SAN FRANCIscO, August 16.-Sheriff Cunningham of San Joaquin County arrived here late last night from Stockton, with a warrant sworn to by Sarah Althea Terry for the arrrest of Justice Stephen J. Field on a charge of being accessory to the killing of her husband, Judge Terry. The warrant of ar-rest was served upon Justice. Field this afternoon at tire latter's chambers. A writ of haeas corpus was at once sworn out before Judge Sawyer of the Circuit Court and heard by him in chambers. ATrORNEY GENERAL MILLER TALKS. INDIANAPOLIs, August 1.-Attorney General Miller was seen yesterday and asked if he had anything further to say about the shooting of Judge Terry by Deputy Nagle. lie replied: "I see from the papers that the action of the Deputy is pretty generally endorsed. It appears to be considered that Nagle's presence~ was necessary and his action justifiable.I I do not care to speak ofthe legal as-j peets. of thease. T do not know any case similar to it in our history, and do not recall that it has ever been nee'ssary before to provide protection for a United States Judge. If the case comes to tri:,1 I suppose I will be called to testify. but I question whether there will ever be a trial. The grand jury may refuse to act, or the Coroner's jury may find it a caso of justifiable homicide. 1 have not ex amined the legal side of the question, however. I thought that protection of officers of the law might be necessary, and I knew something about the des perate character of the man with whom Justice Field had to deal. I thought of trouble! when the trial began, bat of course I did not look for it at a way sta tion or upon the train. If the Justice's life were in danger, he was as much en titled to the protection of the officer at the eating house as in the court room or upon the bench." "HAVE YOUR PICTURE TAKEN." The Last and Best of the Slot Machines Devised. "Drop a quarter in the slot and have your photograph taken." A South Side photographer was stand ing by a handsome cabinet similar in appearance to the automatic weighing machines which confront one every where. "A quarter! What's the matter with a nickel?" "A nickel will do in three or four months, when the novelty wears 'off. But until the automatic photographist is succeeded by a machine which will turn you out a house and lot a quarter only will work it. It is the latest thing out." The reporter squared himself before a small closed opening in the cabinet op posite his face. He dropped a quarter in a slot lower down. Instantly a little metal door unclosed, the opening ex posing the eye of a camera. There was a flash of light. The opening closed, and in a couple of minutes a finished photo graph of himself fell on a salver before the reporter. "H:ow did you strike the idea of such an invention?" "A Board of Trade man suggesged it," said he. "lHe said there was big money in it. Eleven weeks ago I started at it and here it is, patented, with a corporation behind it-all ready to take in the quarters. And it will take them in, For it is the only invention of the sort that appeals directly to the universal vanity of the public." While apparently complicated, the mechanism of the machine turned out ro be simple. It is run by an ordinary ell battery, the quarter completing the current. An instantaneous camera is supplied with the necessary light by a Ilash of magnesium and chloride of pot ash, dropped for each photograph on a pan above the opening and ignited by the heat of a platinum wire. The pho tograph is taken on a celluloid sheet about the size of a tintype. A set of rollers and a preparation of collodion in emulsion develop and (Iry the impres ion. The likeness issues much better finished than the ordinary tintype. "The machine cost about $50," said the photographer. "The expense of perating them is ne to nothing. We ,tore an saloon i ne country." "Are you going to utilize the inven tion for any other purpose than amuse ent?" "Yes, for two serious purposes. I ave a machine under construction which is to have the appearance of a ylock and be placed at the railings of -ahiers and tellers in banks." "What for?" "To enable them to take a photograph >f any one who cashes a cheeli, in ease hey should want to identify him after wards. While the man is before the railing the cashier or teller will press an ~lectric button and the man's photo ~raph will be taken in a tenth of at see )d. He will see nothing but a slight lash in the clock, and couldn't get away .f he tried before the instrument has in elibly recorded his features.--Cicago White Laps in Marion. On last Wednesday night the White l~aps in the Mullins neighborhood paid i visit to Laura Surles, a disreputable roman, who had been creating a dis urbance there for some time. As the White Caps approached the house in hicih she was staying they saw a man :ome out of the door and make for the w~oos, but not before lie was recognized y the White Caps. Entering the house, :ey took Laura out, and, putting a bag >ver her head, proceedled to lay the hip on her, when the man who had left :he house, and who turned out to be J. W. Lewis, came up andl demanded what :hey were doing. He had no sooner ;poken than a b~ag was thrown over his 'lead and he was given a sound thrash ng, and a rope was put around his neck md slung over a limb, but they (lid not >ang him. After shooting a hole or two n his hat he was turned loose, and left :he White Caps in such a manner as to ed one to believe a nest of hornets wvas ehind him. HeI (lid not stop to make my further inquiries about Laura, who inad also been given a severe whipping md( turned loose. On Thursday Laura vas seen wending her way to North arolina with a small bag containing ie~ (carthly belonigs on her back, proba lv having reached the conclusion that he neighborhood was too hot for hecr. Et is also said that Lewis, who is a mar -iedl man, is preparaig to vamOose. A 'idance of such characters is a blessinrg o any community. -Mariogp-.er. "The Newest Game." The newest game takes the form of an nfortation party, and is begun by pass ng to each gentleman a card, and to the adis small pieces of paper, which should >e numbred. Those who discover the ame number on their card and paper re partners for the game Each couple nust think of a question, sensible or idiculous, historical or in regard to the weather, to be written on the cards. mtter which the cards are to be gathered ogether, and the leader reads each in urn, giving a few moments for the artners to consider the subject and rrite the answer. which should be read iloud in turn. This is where the fun of :he game begins, as many of the an wers are exceedingly queer. Those mving a correct answer mark their catrd l0, a wrnig anrswer~ 0, and if the answer s anywhere near right it is counted 5. Wheii all are added pr:zes may be dis .ributed, as in progressive games, f r :he best and the .poorest record. The nstrutive part of the game is the dis mssion which follows the questions. [he height of Bunker Hill monument is hat everybody living near it ought to now, and yet in an information party ild a few evenings ago only one perison n a company of twenty was sure of the nact number of feet-Boston Traveler~. The Iowa Republicans. - DsMoINEs, Iowa, August l'.-The Republican State Convention this morn ig on the 25th ballot nominated H utch FEAF UL FOREST FIRmS. ALL THE NORTHWESTERN COUN TRY SEEMINGLY ABLAZE. The Sun and Moon Obscured by the Dense Smoke-Great Destruction of Property-Fires Started by Vengefut Tramps- Several of the Miscreants Caught and Summarily Dealt With. Po.TLAN, Oregon, Anini4 14.-The atmosphere for !iulesarcund is thick with smoke and cinders, and burning brands are falling in showers. All the North western country seems to be burning up in forest fires. The smoke has beei so dense in Portland for the last two or three weeks that for a time it was im possible to see far up the street, and the sun and moon looked like great balls of fire. In the harbor the smoke has had the effect of fog, and steamers have been required to blow their whistles every few minutes to avoid collisions. It is estimated that the total damage by forest fires in the Northwest thus far will amount to $500,000. Several farm houses have been burned, with stables and produce and stores. Several thou sand cords of wood have been con sumed. Yesterday the flames swooped down upon the settlement of Cedar Mills and - left the country barren. People in some instances had scarcely time to escape, and had to hurry through the woods, the fire being so thick along the regular roads. An extensive fire is raging in Southern Oregon, South of Rosebud, and a num ber of houses have been burned. Some of the forest fires are the work of tramps. If the arc not treated well - at any place, they start fires out of re venge. A number were ruled out of AfcLean's settlement in Southern Oregon the other day, and taking to the woods started a fire. It was discovered in time and extinguished, and a posse of, men started after the tramps and cap tured three. Ropes were put abon their necks and they were strung up for, some time - and then let down and, thrashed soundly. A CHINESE MASON. Low Yuk Ling Received Into the Fellow ship of the Craft. The regular semi-weekly assembling Eureka Lodge, No. 243, F. and A. 31, took place at their spacious lodge-room in the temple, says the New York Sar.. The occasion was the first instance of the conferring of the degree of Master Mason on a native of the flowery king dom. Low Yuk Ling, a Chinaman, who. is said to be of noble birth and a reTative of the present Chinese Emperor,- and whose ancestry probably dates back to the days of Confucius, was received into full fellowship as a member of Eureka Lodge in the presence of 500 members of the fraternity. The candidate, in order to be profici ent in preceding degrees, was under the tuition of Past Master of Eureka Lodge cetor of Police, Worshipful ilks, and the creditable vQhucbhthe can ow t t rothcr is a thorough disciplinarian and the subject a very apt pupil. That Brother Ling was thoroughly Americanized was clearly established, for in taking the. obligations his responses were given in a distinct, clear voice, and could be heard in every part of the large hall.. The hall was decorated with flags of both nations. Over the master's chair, i letters of 'gold, vas the word "wel ome." The handsomely papered walls, richly frescoed ceiling, and elegant pholstery under the incadescent lightV presenttd a striking picture. At the onclusion of the ceremonies Brother Ling invited "all the boys" to partake of a sumptuous banquet, where every :elicacy the market affords was taste fully spread. Covers for :300 were laid t a famous restaurant up-town. A MAP BY TELEGRAPH. ne Can Send Manuscript or Pictures by Electricity. The fae-simile telegraph, by which anuscript, maps or pictures may be ransmitted,- is a species of. the automa-' ic methods already described, in wvhichi he receiver is actuated syneronously. ith its tran smit ter. PBy Lenoir's method picture or map is outlined with insulat ng ink upon the cylindrie:1l surface of a otating drum, wich revolves under a oint having a slow movement along the rxis of the cylinder, and thus; the eon ucting point goes .over the cylindrical urface in a spiral path!. The electric ircuit will be broken by every ink mark on the cylinder which is in this path and hereby corresponding marks are made n a spiral line by an ink marker upon a rum at the receiving end. Tfo produce hese outlines it is only necessary that he two drums be rotated in unison. 'his system is of little utility, therg be ng no apparent demand for fae-simile ransmission, particularly at so great an xpenSe of speed, for it will be seen that nstead of making a character of the aphabet by a few separate pulses, as is one by Morse, the umnber must be geatly increased.- Many (do ts bectomo ecessary toalo the (outlines of the ore complex ebargteters. The pantele grph is an interesting type of ITi~Tace simile method. In thmis for-m the move nents of a pein in the writer's hanud pro dces corresponding movernents of the en at the di-tant station and thereby a fac-simile record.--&riber's agazine. A Compliment from a Strange Source. It is not often that tic P'hiladelphia Pess has sai-l anything good of~ South arolina. The outcome of the Yeldell ase, however, forces Char-les Emory Smith's paper to be fa'r and' handsome. When the heart of Philadelphia warms owards Edgefiek! it is time for thlO property man to ring down the curtain ad let the millennium occupy~ the pros enium box. The Pr-ess says: "The fears of lynching, whichl Yei ell's friends entertained shou~ld he he arried back to Edgetield, have proved roundless. The whole affai r has been onducted in a manner highly credhiI able o Edgefield County and the State of South Carolina, and we are glad of the >ppotalty to *place : ~t lo iiark to heir credit for their in-hsp osir u in Lhis nstance, at least, of a muatter involvmig the always trouble-wome and trying r-ace issue." Evidences of Prosperity. Throughout the rural .seenoa.s of the Southern States ther-e is a revm~ ofth arbecue, with all its attendant fe-ature f delightful social intercourse,. ii. >arbecues have been motrefr m sun'ner- thanl En nman yet. phi -ppeal regards- thm i as a.~- "s- g.t that the farmtersi are growm" ''n' haupt' that the condlitions~ of~ bu-inets ar. ; sa ng to their satisfactioan; ihalet pIt expe tite e .iust itis em'' ile-: m inr - ture.