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VOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER I1, 1889. NO. 40. FOUND WANTING. Rev. T. De Witt Talmage Preaches a Sermon at Omaha, Neb. Sow the People or This World Are Weighed In the Christian Balances -Too Light to Make Their Side Come Down Without Christ's Help. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached to an immense congregation at Omaha, Neb., recently from the text: "Thou art weighed in the bal ances, and art found wanting"-Daniel v., i4. The eloquent divine spoke as follows: Babylon was the paradise of architecture, and driven out- from thence the grandest ouildings of modern times are only the evi-. lence of her fall. The site having been se lected for the city, 2,000t.0G men were em ployed in the rearing of her walls and the building of her works. It was a city of sixty miles in circumference. There was a trench all around the city, from which the material forAbe-bulding of the-city had peen digged. There were twenty-five gates on eachside Df the city; between every two gates a tower of defense springing into the skies; from each gate on the one side, a street running straight through to the cor responding street on the other side, so that there were fifty streets fifteen miles long. Through the city ran a branch of the river Euphrates. Thi: river sometimes overflowed its banks, and to keep it from the ruin of the city a lake was constructed into which the surplus water of the river . wol drun during the time of freshets, and the water was kept in this arti icial lake until the time of drought, and then this water would stream down ever the city. At either end of the bridge spanning this Eu phrates there was a palace-the one palace a mile and a half around, the other palace seven and a half miles around. - The wife of Neduchadnezzar had been born and brought up in the country, and in a mountainous region, and she could not bear this tiat districtof Babylon; andso.toplease his wife, Nebuchadnezzar built in the midst of the city a mountain four hundred feet high. This mountain was built out into ter races supported on arches. On the top of these arches a layer of tlatstones, on the top of that a layer of reeds and bitumen, on the top of that two layers of brick, closely ce mented, on the top of that a heavy sheet of lead, and on the top4of that thesoil placed the soil so deep that a Lebanon cedar had room to anchor its roots. There were pumps worked by mighty machinery fetching up the water from the Euphrates to this hanging garden as it was called, so that there were fountains spouting into the sky. - Standing below and looking up it must have seemed as if the clouds were in blossom, or as though the sky leaned on the shoulder of a cedar. All this Nebuchadnezzar did to please his wife. Well, she ought to have been pleased. I suppose she was pleased. If that would not please her nothing would. There was in that city also the temple of Belus, with towers-one tower the eighth of a mile high, in which there was an observa tory where astronomers talked to the stars. There was in that temple an image, just one image, which would cost what would be our $52000,000. 0 what a city1 The earth never saw any thing like it, never will see any thing like it. And yet I have to tell you that it is going to be destroyed. 'he King and his princes are at a feast. Theylare all intoxi cated. Pour out the rich -wine into the chalices. Drink to the health of the King. Drink to the health of Babylon. Drink to a great future. A thousand lords reel intoxicated. The King, seated upon a chair, with vacantlook, as intoxicated men will-with vacant look stared at the wall. But soon that vacant look takes on intensity, and it is an af-. frighted look; and all the princes begin to look and' wonder what is the matter, and they look at the same point on the wall. And then there drops a darkness into the room and puts out the blaze of the golden plate, and out of the sleeve of the darkness there comes a fingei--a finger of fiery terror circling arounid and circling around as though it would write-; and then it comes up and with a sharp tip of flame it inscribes on the plastering of the wall the doom of the King: "Weighed in the balances, and found wanting." The bang of heavy fists against the gates of the palace are followed by the breaking in of the doors. A thousand gleaming knives strike into a thousand quivering hearts. Now death is king, and -he is seated on a throne of corpses. In that ball there is a balance lifted. God swung -it. On one side of the balance are put Bel shazza's opportunities, on the other side of the balance are put Beishazza's sins. The sins come down. His opportunities go up. Weighed in the balances-found wanting. There has been a great deal of cheating in our country with false weights and mneas ures and balances, and the Government, to change that state of things, appointed com missioners, whose business it was to stamp weights and measures and balances, and a great deal of wrong has been corrected. But still, after all, there is no such thing as a perfect balance on earth. The chain may break, or some of the metal may be clipped, or in some way the equipose may be a little disturbed. You can not always depend upon earthly balances. A pound is not always a pound, and you may pay for one thing and get an other; but in the balance which is sus pended to the throne of God, a pound is a pound, and right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a soul is a soul, and eternity is -eternity. God has a perfect bushel and a perfect peck and a perfect gallon. When merchants weigh their goods in the wrong way, then the Lord weighs the goods again. If from the imperfect measure the mer chant pours out what pretends to be a gal lon of oil and there is less than a gallon, God knows it, and he calls upon His record ing angel to mark it: "So much wanting in that measure of oil." 'The farmer comes in from the country. He has apples to selL. He has an imperfect measure. He pours -out the apples from this imperfect measure. God recognizes it. He saystothe recording angel: "Mark down so many apples too few, an imperfect measure." We may cheat ourselves and we may cheat the world, but we can not cheat God, and in the great day of judgment It will be found out that what we learned in boyhood at school is correct; that twenty hundred weight make a ton, and one hundred and twenty solid feet make a cord of wood. No more, no less, and a religion which does not take hold of this life as well as the life to come, is no religion at all. But, my friends, that is not the style of balances I am to speak of to-day, that is not the kind of weights and measures. I am to speak of that kind of balances which can weigh principles, weigh' churches, weigh men, weigh nations and weigh worlds. "What!" you say, "is it possible that our world is to be weighed f" Yes. Why, you would think if God put on one side the balances suspended from the throne the Alps and the Pyrenees, and the Himalayas, and Mount Washington, and all the cities of the earth, they would crush it. No. No. The time will come when God will sit down on the white throne to see .the world weighed, and on one side wili be the world's oplportunities. and on the othecr su' the world's sins. Down will go the si and s~way will go the opportunities, ang God will say to the messengers with the torch; "Burn that world! weighed and found wanting!" *so God will weigh churches. lHe takes a great church. That great church, accord ing to the worldly estimate. must be, weighed. He puts it on one side the bal-. ances, and the minister and the choir and. the building that cost its hundreds of thou-, sands of dollars. He puts them on one sides the balances. On the other side of thre scale he puts what that church ought to be, what its consecration ought to be, what its sympathy for the poor ought to be, what its devotion to all good ought to be. That is on one side. That side comes down, and the church, not being able to stand the test, ..se,, in e blncns. It does not make any utiference about your magnificent ma chinery. A church is built for one thing to save souls. If it saves a few souls when it might save a multitude of souls,.God will spew it out of his mouth. Weighed and found wanting! So God estimates nations. How many times HI has put the Spanish monarchy into the scales, and found it in sufficient and condemned it! The French empire was placed on one 'side the scales, and God weighed the French empire, and Napoleon said: "Have 1 not enlarged the boulevards? Did 1 not kindle the glories of the Champs Elysees? Have 1 not adorned the Tuileries? Have I not built the gilded Opera House!" Then God weighed the na tion, and He put on one side the scales the Emperor, and the boulevards, and the Tuileries, and the Champs Elysees, and the gilded Opera House, and on the other side He puts that man's abominations, that man's selfishness, that man's godless ambi tion. This last came down, and all the brilliancy of the scene vanished. What is that voice coming up from Sedan? Weighed and found wanting! But I must become more individual and more personal inmy address. Some people say they do not hink'ef6rgtnen ought to be personal in their religious address, but ought to deal with subjects in the abstract. I do not think that way. What would you think of a hunter who should go to the Adi rondacks to shoot deer in the abstract? Ah, no. He loads the gun, he puts the butt of it against the breast, he runs his eye along the barrel, he takes sure aim, and then crash go the antlers on the rocks. And so, if we want to be hunters for the Lord, we must take sure aim and fire. Not in the abstract are we to treat things in religious discussions. If a physician comes into a a sick room, does he treat disease in the ab stract? No; he feels the pulse, takesthe diagnosis, then he makes the prescription. And if we want to heal souls for this life and the life to come, we do not want te treat them in the abstract. The fact is, you and I have a malady which, if incured by grace, will kill us forever. Now, I want no ab straction. Where is the balm! Where is the physician? People say there is a day of judgment coming. My friend, every 'day is a day of 3udgment, Cud you and I to day are being canvassed, inspected, weighed. Here are the balances of the sanctuary. They are lifted, and we must all be weighed. Who will come and be weighed first? Here is a moralist who volunteers. He is one of the most upright men in the country. He comes. Well, my brother, get in-get into the balance now and be weighed. But as he gets into the balance 1 say: "What is that bundle you have along with you?" "O," he says, "that is my reputation for goodness and kindness and charity and generosity. and kindliness generally." "O, my brother, we can not weigh that; we are going to weigh you-you. Now stand in the scales you, the moralist. Paid your debts?" "Yes," you say, "paid all my debts." "Have you acted in an upright way in the com munity?" "Yes, yes." "Have you been kind to the poor? Are ydu faithful in a thousand relations in life?" "Yes." "So far, so good. But now, before you get out of this scale, I want to ask you two or three questions. Have your thoughts always been right?" "No," you say; "no." Put down one mark. "Have you loved the Lord with all your heart and soul and mind and strength?" "No," you say. rake another mark. "Come, now. confess that in ten thousand things you have some short havd you not?" "Yes." Make ten thou sand marks. Come now, get me a book large enough to make a recgrd of that mor alist's deficit. My brother, stand in the scales, do not By from them. I put on your side the scales all the good deeds you ever did, all the kind words you ever uttered; but on the other side the scales I put th is weight which God says I must put there on the other side the scales and opposite to yours I put this weight: "By the deeds of the law shall no flesh living be justified." Weighed and found wanting. Still, the balances of the sanctuary are suspended and we are ready to weigh any who come. Who shall be the next? Well, here is a formalist. He comes and he gets into the balances, and as he gets in I see that all his religion is in genufiexions and in outward observances. As he gets into the scales I say: "What is that you have in this pocket?" "Oh I" he says, "that is Westmin ster Assembly Catechism." I say: "Very good. What have you in the other pocket?" "Oh!" he says, "thatis the Heidelberg Cate chIsm." "Very good. What is that you have under your arm, standing in this balance of the sanctuary ?" "Oh !" he says, "this is a church record." --Very good. What are these books on your side of the balance?" "Oh !" he says, '-those are 'Cal vin's Institutes.'" "My brother, e are not weighing books; we are weigte. c you. t can not be that you are dept :..ng for your salvation upon your orthodoxy. Do ou not knoit that the creeds and the forms of religion are merely the scaffolding for the building? You certainly are not going to mistake the scaffolding for the temple. Do you not know that men have gone to per dition with a catechism in their pocket?" "But," says the man, "I cross myself often." "Ah! that will not save you.'' "But," says the man, "I am sympathetic for the poor." "That will not save ,you." Says the man, "I sat at the communion table." That will not save you: "But," says the man, "I have had my name bn the church record." "That will not save you." "But [ have been a professor of religion 'forty years." '-That will not .save you. Stand there on your side the balances, and.I wiil give you the advantage-I will let you~ have all the creeds, all the church records, all the Christian conventions that were ever held, all the communion tables that were ever built, on your side the balances. On the other side the balances. 1 must put what God says I must put there. I put this mil lion-pound weight on the other side of the balances: "saving the form of godliness, but denying the power thereof. From such turn away." Weighed and found wanting! Still the balances are suspended. Are there anygothers who would like to be weighed or who wvill be weighed? Yes; here comes a worldling. He gets into the scales. I can easily see what his whole life is made up ef. Stocks, dividends, percent ages,"buyer t-en days," '-buyer thirty days." Get in, my friend, get into these balances and be weighed-weighed for this life, and weighed for the life to come. He gets in. I find that the two great questions in his life are: "How cheaply can I buy these goods?" and "How dearly can I sell them?" I find that he admires Heaven beoause it is a land of gold, and money mtist be "easy." I find fromn talking with him that religion and the Sabbath are an interruption, a vul gar interruption, and he hopes on the way tehurch to drum up a new customer ! All the week ho has been weighing fruits. weighing meats, weighing ice, weighing coals, weighing confections, weighing world ly and perishable commodities, nap real - Izing the fact that he himself has been weighed. On your side the balances, 0 worldling! I will give you full advantage. put on your side all the banking houses, all the store houses, all the cargoes, all the insurance companies, all the fac-tories, all the silver, all thegold, all the money v-anlts, all the safe deposits-all on your side. But it does not add one ounce, for- at the very noment we are congratulating, you on your tine house and upon your princely income, God ail the angels ar-e writing in regard to your soul: "Weighed and round wanting!" But 1 must go faster and speak of the final scrutiny. The fact is, my friends, we are moving on amid astounding realities. These pulses which now are drumimg the march of life, may, after awhile, call a halt. We walk on ahi'r-hung bridge over chasms. All around us adangers lurking ready to spring on us fr ambush. We lie down at night not know g whether we shall rise in the morning. We start out'for our occupa tions, not knowing whether we shall come back. Crowns being burnished for thy brow or bolts forged forr thy prison. Angels of ight ready to shout at thy deliverance, or fiends of darkAess stretching out skeleton hands to pull thee down into ruin consum mate. Suddenly tne judgment will be here. he-ael wit onfoot on the sea and tho I other foot on the :and, will swear by Him that liveth forever and ev"r that Lime shall be no longer: "Bekid, He cometh with clouds, and overy eye shall see Him." Hark to the jarring of the mountains. Why, that is the setting down of the scales, the bal ances. And then, there is a flash as from a cloud, but it is the glitter of the shining balances, and they are hoisted, and all na tions are to be weighed. The unforgiven get in on this side the balances. They may have weighed themselves and pronounced a flattering decision. The world may have weighed them and pronounced them moral. Now they are being weighed in God's balances-the bal ances that can make no mistake. All the property gone, all the titles of distinction gone, all the worldly success gone; there is a soul, absolutely nothing but a soul, an im mortal soul, a never dying soul, a soul stripped of all worldly advantages, a soul-. on one side the scales. On the other side the balances are wasted Sabbaths, disre garded sermons, ten thousand opportuni ties of mercy and pardon that were cast aside. They are on the other side the scales, and there God stands, and in the presence of men and devils, cherubim and archangel, He announces while groaning earthquake, and crackling conflagration, and judgment trumpet, and everlasting storm repeat it: "Weighed in the balance, and found wanting." But, say some who are Christians: "Cer tainly you don't mean to say that we will have toget into the balances' Our sins are all pardoned, our title to Heaven is secure. Certainly you are not going to put us in the balances?" Yes, my brother. We must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, and on that day you are certainly going to be weighed. 0 follower of Christ! you get into the balances. The bell of the judgment is ring ing -You must get into the balances. You get in on this side. On the other side the balances we will place all the opportunities of good which you did not improve, all the attainments in piety which you might have had, but which you refused to take. We place them all on the other side. They go down, and your soul rises in the scale. You can not weigh against all those imper fections. Well, then, we must give you. the advan ta'ge, and on your side the scales we will place all the good deeds you have ever done, and all the hind words you have ever uttered. To: light yet! Well, we must put on your side all the consecration of your life, all the holiness of your life, all the prayers of your life, all the faith of your Christian life. Too light yet? Come, mighty men of the past, and get in on that side the scales. Come, Payson, and Doddridge, and Baxter, get in on that side the scales and make them come down, that this righteous one may be saved. They come and they get in the scales. Too light yet! Come, the martyrs, the Latimers, the Wickliffes, the men who suffered at the stake for Christ. Get in on this side the Christian balance, and see if you can not help him weigh it aright. They come and get in. Too light? Come, angels of God on high. Let not the righteous perish with the wicked. They get in on this side the balances. Too light yet ! I put on this side the balance all the scep ters of light, all the, thrones of power, all the crowns of glory. Too light yet. But just at that point, Jesus, the Son of God, comes up to the balances, and he puts one of his scarred feet on your side, and the balances begin to tremble from top to bot tom. Then he puts both of his scarred feet on the balances, and the Christian's side comes down with a stroke that sets all the bells of Heaveh ringing. That Rock of Ages heavier than any other weight. But says the Christian: "Am I to be al lowed to get off so easily?" Yes. If some one should come and put on the other side ne scles all your imperiecuons, au your envies, all your jealousies, all your incon sistencies of life, they would not budge the scales with Christ on your side the scales. Go free ! There is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Chains broken, prison houses opened, sins pardoned. G free! Weighed in the balances, and nothing, nothing wanted. Oh! what a glorious hope. Will you accept it this day? Christ making up for what you lack, Christ the atonement for all your sins. Who will accept Him Will not this whole audience say: "I am insuficient, I am a sinner, I am lost by reason of my transgressions, but Christ has paid it all. My Lord and my God, my life, my Oardon, my Heaven. Lord Jesus, 12 hail thee." Oh-! A you could only understand the worth of that sacrifice which I have represented to to you under a figure, if you could under stand the worth of that sacrifice, this whole audience would this moment accept Christ and be saved. We go away off, or tack into h~istory, to get some illustration by which we may set forth what Christ has done for ns. We.need not goso far. I saw a vehicle behind a run away horse dashing through the street, a mother and her two children In the carriage. The horse dashed along as though to hurl them to death, and a mounted policeman with a shout clearing the way, and the horse at full run. attempted to seize those runaway horses and to save a calamity, when his own horse fell and rolled over. him. Hs was picked up half dead. Why were ot sympathies so stirred !Because he w badly hurt, and hui:t for others. But I tel you to-day Of- how Christ, the Son of God on the blood red horse of sacrifice came foi our rescue, and rode down the sky and rodE unto death for our rescue. Are not yoi hearts touched! That was a sacrifice fot you and me. 0 thou who didst ride on the red horse of sacrificg! come this hour, and ride through this assemblage on the white horse of victory. --Wit should be used as a shield for des fense rather than as a sword to wound others.-Fuiller. Death by Electricity Horribly Painful. Of eourIse, electricity can instant ane ously kill a persoin, but 'n that infintesi nulyv small sp)ace of ti e~ of the transi I ion'from life to death ie person will sier inconceivable pain. Although the speed of electricityv is at, the rate of 26,00 miles per second, the killing cantot he so instantaneous as to~ pre chie all pain. Every particle otf the n lervons system is polarized, and1( polari zaton causes each particle of mnatlter to revolve on its axis, wvhich nmeansth st~ethintg oif thet nervest~ out of alhl pro portion, and .onuen~lttly the most ini tense panin. But the great fault with execution by electricity is that it is almost impossible to ascertatin just how strong a current will kill a man instantaneously and yet not be a barbaromns mode of killing. If the current be but a few volts stronger than that required to instantly execute a certain person, the consequences would be terrible, it would disfigure the body beyond recognition, and would dlisfigutre every port ion of the cot pse. Shiould the cuirreit be just a trifle too~ weak tco exe cute a person, it would throw him into a trance so deathlike that it is probable that the body woul be buried alive A Relic of the Red Men. Alr. J1. W. Goodson hans left with us an Indian stonme hopper in which the squaws uised to beat maize inito meal be fore the pale face camiL and drove them from this pleasanit hand. It is an up country flint stone, weighing about tif teen poundis, andl hollowed out on oppo. site ends into small basins. It was ploughed up near his mill on Well Branch, and is probably as perfect a specimen of Indian ingenuity as there is in existence. All persotns curious in such matters are invited to call and examine it. It certainly shows that the Indian women had a much harder time than their civilized white sisters.-Barn well TERRELL'S PLAIN TALK. FARMERS' ALLIANCE AND WHAT IT IS INTENDED TO ACCOMPLISH. Its Object the Organization of the Farmers to Act as a Unit in all Things Affecting Their Interests-A Plan to Raise the Price of Cotton and Reduce the Price of Supplies-A Bountiful Barbecue. (From the Columbia Daily Register. Sept. 7.) Columbia is a hard place to "enthuse" and its people do not turn out to public gatherings asgenerallyas in many other places. This fact, and the threatening weather, prevented the Hon. Ben Terrell, the nation:.l lecturer of the Farmers' Alliance, from being favored with a very large audience at the fair grounds yesterday. . The farmers of the County. too, were by no means out in full force, but though small in numbers the gathering was a fairly representative one, and in cluded, beside many prominent citizens, quite a number of prominent farmers from this County and Lexington. The audience were seated on the grand stand and a speaking platform covered with an awning, had been im provised from a couple of wagons drawn up on the race track. Upon this platform were seated Gov erior Richardson, ex-Senator Kinsler, Ca;t. J. C. F. Sims and Mr. Terrell, the speaker of the day. GOVERNOR RICHARDSON was the first speaker. le said if any body imagined the alliance was intended to affect injuriously any industry or any individual in South Carolina, or any where in America, they had a very dif ferent idea of the alliance from what he had of it. If was simply an oiganized effort to advance the interests of the farmer-to remove the difficulties and remedy the restrictions which now hin dered the farmer from securing the full return of his labor. That difficulties and rest tictions did exist was as certain as that the sun was shining. Let all come forward and aid this legitimate movement, the success of which would redound to the interests of every citizen of this great republic. He thought they could see light ahead. In the spirit of the utmost friendliness to all classes the farmer asks simply jus tice. A farmer himself, .he would be loth to injure the rights or property of any individual or class in this or any other community. They were all brothers in one boat. The lawyer and those who follow other professions could not do without the farmer. Neither could the farmer do without the lawyer, the doc tor. etc. Let the farmers lead the way by proper united effort to general prosper iry, and all the world would unite in according all praise to the farmer. In a few well-chosen words the Gov ernor introduced as the speaker of the day, TJE HON. BEN TERRELL OF TEXAS. Though not much above medium stature, Mr. Terrell is a man of rather striking presence. Straight as an ar row and well proportioned, he carries a well-shaped head above his broad shoulders, and studying how to make the r;aiing of cotton pay, or something else, has left the hair a little thin-to put it mildly-on the crown of his dome of thought. His face is a good one, suggesting good nature blended with etermination, and a pair of keen, blue yes light up an expressive countenance. ~Mr. Terrell has a good voice and knows how to use it whether in the mavity of persuasion, the ardor of issertion or tne emphasis of denuncia tion. -THE FARMERS DO THE UOwING. Mr. Terrell spoke substantially as fol ows: Fellow Citizens-Without any pre face I will say a few words to yohi. I gree with Brother Richardson that we arc all in one boat. Whatever enriches ne class must to some extent help mother. But I do think heretofore the farmers have had the oars and the rest have been riding free. The farmers have been directed and ontrolled atuu taken advantage of by others. They haven't had any voice in le disposal of their productions. They ay it is our f'ault that this is so. It 'is ur fault and it can be remedied We have organized to do it. They say we don't admit all classes to our order. Did they admit us into the privileges and ad .intaes they possessed? Not much. We don't blame the cotton buyers for making oney, but we are going to try TO MAKE MONEY OURSELVES. We have to sell and have to buy. We produce more wealth than all other classes combined. The cotton crop alone is of enormous value and of the greatest mportance to the world. We have gone n producing it without regard to the Cist of production until we have grown poor, while other classes have increased n wealth.. Statistics prove this. . Twenty-five years ago one-half the wealth belonged to the farmers. Now but one-quarter blong to thenm. What is the reason? Not becaue we have grown lazy. We pro iuc nor-e, have more acres under cuilti vatin and paty better wages. The rea o is that a few men comparatively ma nipulate the money of the country. They ae money tight when they please, and tet sell its use at. the highest rates. hbey raise the price of necessities of life >v inanipuilationi and we have to pa~y iii exorbitant profit. wE MAKE NO WAR >i any one. lt is not necessary. If it ,ats necessary we would not shrink from it.- But it is not required. We should get in a position to sell our otton thi-ough another ebannel. and if those by whom we now sell it -won't do so in a fair way with reasonable charges WE CAN GET ALONG WITHOUT-UEM. We propose to organize the ..-mers ll over the country into sub-alliances, each in a territory six miles square. From these alliances delegates wilt e selected to comprise County Alliances. In the alliance the viinoi'ity mu tst obey the majority. This is the part of intelligence and wis 30m. Any mnember who won't obey' the ecision of the majority should be dis missed. You cant get on better without Sel-et your best men to go to the Co nty Alliances. They can't deceive you. They can't make any money, can't even electioneer. They are bound to be l)ure and honest. You send such men from every sub-alliance. They meet in the County Alliance and will discuss County matters intelligently, for they know wvhat they are talking about. Then they will send delegates to the State Al iance. Then from these delegates you should send to the National Alliance your beat men. They are competent to discuss nmd deci<|e what is best for all. You uAsurrender your individual judgmep othe superior wisdom of thes m T is the nart of wisdlom to submit, for with all the facts before them they best know what is best to be done. Now I would say the alliance has NO CLASS FEELING. We don't care who represents us, so far as his vocation is concerned. I recog nize that the upright and honest man of business is worthy our respect and ap probation. But there is a kind of merchants I do oppose. I mean those that do not deal honestly with either their customers or those trom whom they themselves purchase their goods. There are other men who don't pay their debts as well as the farmer.. Every retail dealer who fails to pay for his goods raises the prices paid by the farmer. You know it. We propose to remedy this by starting a State Exchange; to have every mem ber give $2 absolutely into -a common fund. It would amount in this State to about $100,000. Then select the best maur you have got in your sub-alliance as a trustee, and another good man for sub business agent. Then you will have A BUREAU OF INFORMATION unconnected wit i any interests except your own. You wouldn't then have to depend on reports of the cotton crop sent out by Wall street gamblers. You notice they never fail to make the crop too large' by 500,000 bales or so, and they say it's all the farmers fault; that he comes into his merchant's store to get more goods on credit, and tells him his crop issplen did-a bale to the acre when he knows lie won't make half a one, etc. Well, we propose to have a bureau of information that will have the facts to deal with. Every sub-alliance will make up its report, for the section it covers, and every member is bound to report truly the condition of his crops, for his neighbors are there and know as well as be what he is doing, and the County Al liance receives the reports from the sub alliances, makes up one for the County aid sends to the State. In August your State agents will all meet. They will have before them full and accurate reports from al the States, and will know all the facts outside the statements of Wall street manipulators. FIXING THE PRICE. Farmers hit berto have never had any thing to say. about the price of their products. The dealer will say "Well, your needn't sell if you don't want to." As well tell a starving man he needn't eat if he don't want to, when one. knows he has got to eat to live, What is the reason through the Alli ance farmers can't fix the price of their cotton? There is no reason in the woril. The members of the sub-alliance cat come up and make a note, and secure it by a mortgage on their cotton. Then the representatives of the alliance can borrow money on the cotton, make al lowances to the farmer and hold it until it can be sold at the right price. When the State Business Agents meet, they may decide from all the reports be fore them as to the crop, etc., to say bold your cotton for 12} or 15.cents per pound on a basis of middling. Tben in the way I have suggested you can do it in your own warehouses. By Qo doing we are making no war on anybody, but simply attending to our own business. . WHEN WE CAN CORNER THE CROP we can make the price.. I would like to see the color of the man's hair who will dare speculate in cotton. when the.farm ers corner the crop. There is no need of enmity or conflict nless other classes force it. There is o one I have met any where who denies tat we can do this if we can control he crop; but they say: "You c-.n't get he farmers to stick." Doggoned if it sn't a slander on us farmers. All we have got to do is to make a tand and be a unit. We may make a mstake. Everybody makes mistakes. But are you going to cry like you had stubbed your toe? Why not get up and ry it again? THE ORDER's WONDERFUL PROGRESs. Referring to the progress of the alli nce Mr. Terrell described its origin, and stated that while its principlespwere fo-mulated and :he present system of >rganization adopted but four years ago, t now had about 2,000,000 members of eople enlisted under its banner. New embers were rushing into the sub aliances in the upper part of South arolina every week, and be thought te membership in the State would be 0,000 before he could get through his our here. Continuing he said: "if we don't or ~amze WHA T CAN WE Do? T wenty-five years ago the influence of he farmers was felt, now we havn't a ingle Congressman thoroughly commit ed to our interests-only a few half reeds. We have allowed the other lasses to get in and control us. Every hing in government and business is so onducted tha~t the chief burden falls on he farmer. He pays for everything. hey never dleprive the farmer of one >ff'ice-that is paymaster. What are you going to do ? Ain't ou coming together in sub alliances md discuss the situation as intelligent en ? If this civil revolution fails theni he time is at band when this gover nent WILL GO DOWN IN BLOOD. We are in just the condition of all the ountries that have gone down in his ory. All now is moving to central zation. The money is held in the ands of the few. Look at the trusts eing formed and the aggregation of api:tai everywhere. THE JUTE TRUsT, hich forced up the'price of bagging to iteen cents a yard, robbed us last ear of Ahree or four million's of dollars. hat are von going to do ? Sit down upinely ana curse it. They don't care cent for your curses. Commercial exchanges everywhere esolved against the jute trust. The nerchants and people condemned it. I tought they meant it, but they didn't. What the merchants ought to have ~lone was to have gone to the nanufacturers and said: "Here, the men who support us have een robbed by the jute trust anid want oton bagging. Make it, and we will take every yard and pay for it.' But they didni't (10 it, and jute bag aing is findling its way into the stock of ome dealers. How can we whip the jute trust unless we quit amrg it? They may say you nave broken the trust, and ow you can get jute bagging, two ounds to the yard, at 9 cents. What bould prevent them next year, if we uit opposition, to come up to 20 cents f they want to? INCRASED CoNsUMPTION. If you increase the amount received by farmers you would see a great increase n consumption. Where will you find the farmer now who consumes as much s he could or would if able? I can showj .ou mny w-ho dn'tnsunme one-fourth -yes, one-tenth -of what they would if they received more for their products." As illustrating the great saving to farmers by ,pealing as a unit with manu facturers or wholesale dealers through their'exehange, Mr. Terreill cited the case of wagons in Texas, where 500 were bought on orders placed through the alliance at a saving of $19 each from former price. This had brought down the price of wagons generally, too, at every store, as they found they must meet this competition. In Alabama fifty buggies had been bought at a saving of $25 each in the same way. * ROUNDING UP THE RAILROADS. Touching on transportation, Mr. Ter rell said the farmers paid every bit of extortion by the railroads. They did not ship their o Nn cotton, and the rail roads knew only the cotton buyer. By having a State Exchange it was pro posed for farmers to ship themselves (in combination) and the railroads would soon see on which side their bread was. buttered. In Texas by this method fair ray es had been secured all over the State, for no road dared stay out. Cotton was shipped direct to Liverpool, with out touching a commission man's hands. NO MONEY LOST BY COTTON BAGGING. The speaker denied that any money was lost by using cotton bagging. The cotton used was the sort that is now a hin drance in the market-dog-tail cotton, worth only six cents a pound. The pro ducer needs some place to have it con sunied. It costs but 11 cents per pound to manufacture it into bagging, making the bagging cost but 7. cents a pound. Afler using, it could be cut off and would still be worth 6 cents, thusmaking the loss for its use as bagging but 1J cents per pound. THE TERRIBLE TARE. Any farmer, he said, who thought he was getting a cent for his jute bagging was badly fooled. In England they strip off the bagging and stain and deduct its weight from the cotton bought, or Lather make a suficient allowance, or more, by a reduction in the price, to cover it, so that they pay for only neat cotton. This is the tare for which now a 6per cent. deduction is made. This is all taken into account by the buyer this side of the water to allow for what will te taken off abroad and the farmer loses it all. Mr. Terrell said "We don't propose to stand this, every allowance is made in favor of the buyer." He advo cated alliance exchanges where the farmers' representative should sample, weigh and class the 'cotton and the buyer should stand all claims for re clamation, etc. If they didn't want the cotton on such terms let them lea-e it alone. "TAKE CARE OF YOUR POLITICS," he said, "Dog-on it, why are they so mighty afraid we will go into politics? I will say we discuss politics-manly poli tics, in the alhance. We want to sen the right men to Congress. We are in terested in the financial questions, the tariff, transportation, etc. "The contemplation is' that the alb ance shall be felt in politics, igedm meree, in transportation. "As the alliance is intended to influ ence public opinion, we intend to have an organ in every State,- and a national organ, and create a public opinion that will carry our objects to success." In conclusion Mr. Terrell said: ''ATh these things must to dependent on your own labor. They must depend on your own efforts: If we succeed the world ,ill hoi: c us for our success. If we fail t will despise us-and it ought to." Thbroughout the address close attention as paid the speaker, 'and most of his earers seemed to fully accord with the iews expressed, judging from their fre unt applause. Mir. W. W. Keys of Greenville,*editor f the Cotton Plant, called attent'on to hat paper as the organ of the Alliance n this State, and the meeting was then ismissedl by Capt. Kinsler, the chair an. THlE BARBECUE, erved by Messrs. J. Mf. Roach and Lewis farstellar. in the old fair building, was iberally patronized, and all who par ook of the palatable products of Prof. oach's skill pronounced the cae one of the best of the season. A DISTTUBBANCE IN L AURENS. A Mob of Negroes Assault a White Man and Then Resist Arrest-Two Wounded. An Incendiary Fire. LAURtENs, S. C., September 4.-[Spe cial to The Register.--Something of a race conflict occurred in the lower see ionl of this County to-day, between a arty of young men and some dozen or ore North Carolina negroes. It seems that yesterday the negroes threatened a white man and were only prevented from oing him bodily injury by the inter erence of those present. The neigh orhood turned out to arrest the neC roes, who showed fight. Both parties fired and two negroes were wounded. 'he negroes fled. They were working m the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Railroad in Holsshouser's camp, which is now completely deserted. N. P. %'hitoire lost his dwelling this orning by lire, thought to be ineen :1iary.. Facts About Pensions. At the last session of the Legislatur-e 50,000 was approp~riate-d for the pay nt of pensions to Con federate soldiers r sailors of the late war, or to the wid ws of such soliers or sailors. It was rovie(d that such pensions should be a a monthb. Under the p~rovisions of the Act pen ioers on the roll have been, paid $3 a nonth for the months of February, farcb, April, May, June and July, arid h-y will be- paid for the months of tugust and September the last of the wresnt month. There will not be suffi :ient remaining from the app~ropriatio)n :o pay the full $3 for the mouth of Sep ~emer, and no more will be paid out mntil another appropiriation is made by hec Legislature. A matter not genierall', knoGwn, per taps, is that the pensions paid by the state are only paidl for the fiscal year Cvhih e-xpires (Jctober- 31, leaving only en mionths for pensin., i bepad Fo- ilhe in formationm of anmy one inte stedl it may be stated that the iotal mmirber- of'pen sioners on the roll -is 1,934. to which will be paid by the lose of this month something less han the sum of $40,416. By the Act, the members of the County boards f examiners were to be paid -$3 a day for their services for not more than tight deys in any one year. For the bhirty-five Counties this would entail an ~xpenditure of $2,520, if all the boards were in session the full eight days, but! many of them were not. Some $2,000 was r-equired for this purpose. Besides his, there is $1,200 for clerk hire, and~ il the items mentioned will be found to so up the entire appropriation of so0,n0n WOMEN WHO EAT ARSENIC. A Habit Common in Many Large Cities. English Women Use Fly Paper, but Americans Take the Genuine Article. The sensational trial, conviction, sen tenee and commutation of sentence of Mrs. Maybrick. charged with poisoning her husband, and her defense, through which she claimed th'at the presence of arsenical fly paper in her boudoir w:(s f.>r toilet purposes. have turned publi attention to the use of thik poison by women of fashion. Mrs. Maybriek en deavored to explain away the presence of the poison by alleging its nse for the .improvement of her complexiotr. She explained how she skillfully prepared it for toilet purposes, and, in view of the strictness of English law regarding the sale of poison when not. absolutely :i necessity, her explanation would-proba w bly have been accepted by the court and her diversions from the path of wifely duty been less notorious. It is appalling to note how the d. :nand for arsenic has increased of late years. Before the enterprising American wo men of the middle class discovered the complexion-improving qualities of the deadly drug, its use was confined to wealthy women of fahiin. Soon all women began to learn of the desirable pale pink tint imparted to the skin when arsenic was judiciously taken, and druggists began to find in arsenic a profitable source of revenue. Druggists do not deny (nor do r pu table physicians) that arsenic carefully administered may improve the complex ion or even benefit the system under certain conditions. But they deplore the prodigal use .which the poisonous drug has reached. English law is so strict regarding the sale of such drugs that conscientious apothecaries refuse to supply customers except upon the prescription of a physician. In America the laws are more lax, and the most trivial excuse given by the lady customer will pave the way for the purchase of arsenic which an unscrupulous customer may apply to an unlawful purpose. A well-known druggist makes the statement that fly-payer is largely used in England by women for the same pur pose to which Mrs. Maybtick devoted it. Soaking the paper in water ivill extract the arsenic from the sheet and transfer the poison to the liquid. It is then ap plied to the skin or drank in minute doss with the result which is so appar ent in Mrs. Maybrick's 'aj.pearance. Like the opium habit, arsenic eating grows upon the victim, and its work is slow but sure. arsenic is used for anointing purposes, too, by large num bers of working girls who toil in the mills and factories. They have not yet learned the art of eating the drug, and employ it in a crude fashion by dissolv ing the substance in water and applying it in lotion-like form to the face and hands. Its beautiful effects are not so quickly apparent as are those of arsenic eating, but sooner or later the foolish ictims'of the poisonous drug contract an appetite for it, and their death is but a matter of months. . It is not possible to estimate the ntum herpf deaths among women for which the u. arsenic is responsible, ow. ,, to their : - ut a goodly pro blood poisoning cases d to an ig norant use of . -senic. T iere is no de nying the act that its use is daily in ersa i'ng. American women, favored by the looseness of laws governing druggists, are enabled to buy arsenic in its pure state, and do not take kindly to fly-paper. Doubtless they sympathize with Mrs. Maybriek, whose confession has laid before the world the dire emer gency to which women arsenic' slaves in England have been reduced. With characteristic ' A merican independence, they buy arsenic p)owder or in lumps, andh seek the seelusion of their homes to make use of it. -Philadelphid Record. Newspaper "Dogs. A well-known newspa:per man liv-ing in the upper part of the city is the owner of a pointer dog that answers to the name of Dash. Dash has tnever bee~n broken for the nield, and is a family pet. He opens the gates and doors without difficulty, and, under the tutelage of the newspaper man's little daughter, makes known by means of a set of bloceks his simple wants. When asked what he would like, Dash selects the letters B-o-n-e from the pile of blocks and lays them in regular sequence at the foot of the qtuestioner. The question, " What do you hate?" spurs the dog to spell B-a-t-h. ".Where. would you like to go?" asks the dog's little mistress. -ut, he instanthy spells, and when she adds, "Where do you go sometimes that makes miaster very angry and gets you a whipping?"' he drops his ears and picks out the blocks that spell 1-n. Another newspaper man, lhvig- on Walnut street, near Elev-enth, is th owner of a very intelligent water span iel named Prentice. Rtecently Preiitice was whipped by his master for some mis demeanor and ran yelling from the room. He took shelter with another newspamper man living on an upper floor. and( wheni the latter petted him and expressed re grets that he had been punished, Pren ice immediately took up quarters with his champion, and now, whenever his old master, with whom lie was always on the best. o~f terms, approaches, he snaps and shows every token oV dislike. -Philadelphia Inquirer. Carrier Pigeons on the Wing. Yesterday morning at 6:15, city time, Agent McCullough, of the Southern Express Company, relecase'd ininet een carrier pigeons. belonging to E. S. St:arr, of No. 3i2 South Third street, Pniladecl pha. Mr. Starr sent the pigeons here list week, aud Mr. McCullough has been waiting instructions from him to turn them loose. The bartch of them arie among the fastest flyers in the Quaker City, andl each has attached to both of its legs a number puniched in a piee of steel, so that there:~vill be no miistatke about identifying it. Thie distancee fron: here to Philadelphia is ~>2t mile-s on an air line, and when the pigeons were re leased they flew upward and circeled around several timies, as they usually do when they stairt on a journey. At latst the cntite tineteeni started in a Nor-th ery direct ion, -nd in a few rin iies were out of ighit. Mr. St ai-i thin ks that these pirens will break the eir for 520) mie-. Agent McCurlloughl tee grahed Mr. Starr thait th'e pigeons had been released. Thle fastest of them were expected to reachi Philaidelphia about 6; or 7 o'clock y esterday afternoon. Gireencille Neu's, !4th. An Unnsual Homicide. WINNsBORO, September f.-[Special to The Register.J-Wyatt Walker and Bob MDuffie, two negroes, got into a diffi culty several days ago arid Mcbuffie struck Walker on the head with a rock. The wound resulted fatally last night. The Sheriff arrested McDuflie fo-dayv anid he is now in jail to await his t rial. The homicide was committed about ten miles frm here. THE MISSISSIPPI RIOT:' THE MISCONDUCT OF BAD NEGROES BROUGHT ONTHE TROUBLE. A Dispassionate Statement of Some or the Circumstances-Good Men of.Both Races Bent on Peace-No Further Dii turbance Apprehended. NEW ORLEANS, September 6.-A spe cial from Greenwood. Miss., says: From present appearances it looks as though the sun of race would supersede the cloud of war. The Sheriff of this County returned from Minter City, the seat of war, last. evening, and reports everything quiet up there. Four of the ringleaders, Adolph Horton, Scott Mor ris, M. J. Dial and Jack Dial, were killed. The military arrived at Minter City at 7 o'clock yesterday morning. Excitement among the negroes was aug mented by the report that a peaceful negro had been killed during thw night for refusing to take up arms against the white people. Upon the arrival of the troops it was learned that a party of about 160 ne-. groes well armed with Winchester rifles were encamped near Cane Lake. at a distance of si:: or eight miles from Minter City. A reconnoitering party of citizens numberingabout fifty men wasorganized, and proceeded to interview the belliger ent blacks. After riding for some time through a dense forest of cane and vines, they' arrived at the place desig nated as the camp of the negroes, but to their surprise they had moved to some other place. Search was at once instituted. Part of the men were detailed to go in different directions and make a thorough search of the entire surrounding country, in order to discover their whereabouts. The party, while passing through the plantation of Mr. C. A. Lownes, came upon Adoph Horton and Jack Dial, and they were commanded to surrender, Without. regarding the command of the officers, they drew their pistols and started to run, when they were shot down. These two were very desperate and mischievous, and had been the -- pricipal aiders of Cromwell and Thomas in arousing the negroes of this County. Other leaders were killed this morning while resisting arrest. Thomas, Allen and Cromwell, the moving spirits of the insurrection, have not been arrested; but the whites and the better class of negroes are determined to bring them to justice. George Allen is another one who killed another negro last Sunday night on Townsend's plantation for refusing to join his band, and it is believed he is still in this County, Cromwell is an ex couvict and one of the principal insti gators of the riot. His whereabouts at present are unknown, but there are about seventy or one hundred men searching the woods for Allen and his accomplices, of whom there are about eight. The best of feeling now prevails be tween the whites and the better class of negroes, and when this 'troublesome' de ent has been brought to justtjhe ffairs will moe' A not ppene The New York Independent has col lected a large supply of statistics, out of which it has compiled what is proba bly an approximately accurate Chris tian census of the United States. The totals will appear surprisingly large to many readers. The whole number of communicants in this country is placed at 20,750,000, or about 30 per cent. of the entire population. The Methodists outnumber any other denomination, the membership of the several branches of that church footing up 4,723,881. Next come the Roman Catholics with 4,486, 019. The thirteen varieties of Baptists combined make agreat army of 4,078,589, and the nine divisiens of Presbyterians count up 1,180,113. Of Lutherans there are 998,008; of Congregationalists 475, 608, and of Episcopalians 459,842. The Catholics outnumber any other singleor ganic denomination, though not equbl to the combined strength of the several varieties-of Metnodists. It is fair to state, however, that the Catholics count in the number of their communicants young children and the entire Catholic popula tion, while the Protestants inculudeoniy those who have actually become mem bers of the church under prescribed regulations. A classification :of the statistics shows the Episcopal system to be largely predominant in the Umted States. It includes 9,433,198 communi cants against :4,929,619 under the Con gregation policy and 2,888,228 under the Presbyterian. The Reformed Episcopalians constitute the smallest denomination; the Mora vians come next; then the Unitarians and the Universalists. The Roman Catholics ar largely increased by immigration. The growing churches of this country are the Catholic, the Methodist, the Baptist and the Episcopal. The others are hardly holding their own. The total increase of communicants last year was 877,000, which is consider ably greater than the number for 1887. There is a growing tendency to subdi vision among the Protestants, and it is muost pronounced among the Baplistsand Met hodists. We have already thirteen. varieties of each. Thrown from His W.agon and Kilted. James D. Kirby, commonly called "Bud" by the companions of his youth, wa killed in the road below Rich Hill, near the old A. K. Smith place, last Thursday afternoon. He and his son had driven twvo mules hitched to a wagon to town and were carrying back a load of doors and sash. Going down a slant the mules began to run and when they ame to the steepest part of the hill Mr. Kirby was thrown out to the front amongst the traces. He caught hold of one and held on until he wans so much cut and bruised and injiured that he :ied in a few minutes. He was about 50 ears old, a member of the Church and Masonic fraternity. lHe was a good cit zen andl will b)e much missed in his comn nun ity.-Spartanbunry Spartan. A Suicide at Niagara. Brmrto, N. Y., Septensber 5. -An umnknown woman commi tted suicide at iagara Falls this morning by jumping nto the wAter inbove the falls. She was apparently about 25 years old, had red air and wore a black dress. She wasi aive when she went over the falls, as hie was seen to raise her head. She as ai stranger. and had arrived on the arly morning train. Close observers say that Buffalo Bill ould nlot have inet with success in Eu ope if he had not worn long hair. His ocks were, so to speak, the la y e ictory. Elijah Hal ford. President. Harrison's rivate secretatry, is thinking of pur hasing a summer residence either in arblehead or Swampscott, M1 ssrche etts. He wants to be near the whistling