The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, September 25, 1889, Image 1

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NOL 42. VOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SE'?TEMB3ER 25, 1889. THE DAY IS AT- HAND. Sermon by Rev. T. De Witt Tal mage, D. D. The World About to See the Dawn of Better Times-The Sunrise of Mor ailty - Arbitration taking the Place of War, and Civil ization the Place of Barbarism. -Upon his return home recently, Rev. Dr. Talmage was welcomed by an overflowing congregation in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. The subject of his discourse was: "The Sunrise," and his text: "The day is at hand." Following is the sermon: Back from the mountains and the seaside, and the springs, and the farmhouse. your cheek bronzed and your spirit lighted, Ihail you home again with the words of Gehazi to the Shunamite: "Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child '; On some faces 1 see the mark of recent grief, but all along the track of tears I see the story of resurrection and re union when all tears are done; the deep plowing of the keel, follovdd by the flash of the phosphoresence. Nogy that I have asked you in regard to your welfare, you naturally ask how I am. Very well, thank you. Whether it was the bracing air of the Colorado mountains, twelve thousand feet above the level of the sea, or the tonic atmosphere of the Pacific Coast, or a bath in the surf of- Long Island beach, or whether it is the joy of standing "Th.,his great groupof warm-hearted friends, or wiretier it is a new appreciation of-the goodness ofGod Ican not tell. Isimplyknow I am grandly and gloriously and inexpressi bly happy. It was said that John Moffat, the great Methodist preacher. occasionally got fast in his sermon, and to extricate him self would cry -'Hallelujah !"- I am in no such predicament today, but I am full of the same rhapsodic ejaculation. Starting out this morning on a new ecclesiastical year, 1 want to give you the key note of my next twelve months' ministry. I want to set it the tune of Antioch, Ariel and Coro nation. Some time ago we had a new stop put in this organ-a new trumpet stop-and I want to put a new trumpet stop into my. sermons. In all our Christian work you and I want more of the element of gladness. That man has no right to say that Christ never laughed. Do you suppose thas he was glum at the weddlig in Cana of Galilee? Do you suppose Christ was unresponsive when the children clambered over His knee and shoulder at His own invitation? Do you suppose that the -evangelist meant nothing when he said of Christ: "He rejoicd in spirit?" Do you believe that the Divine Christ who pours all the water .over the rocks at Vernal Falls, Yosemite, does not believe in the sparkle and gallop and tumul. tuous joy and rushing raptures of human life? I believe not only 'at the morning laughs, and that the mountains laugh, and that the seas laugh, and that the cascades laugh, but that Christ laughed. Moreover, take a laugh and a tear into an alembic, and assay them, and test them, and analyze them, and you will often find as much of the pure gold of religion in a laugh as in a tear. Deep spiritual joy always shows itself in facial illumination. John Wesley said he was sure of a good religious im pression being produced because of what he calls the great laughter he saw among the people. Godless merriment is blasphemy anywhere, but expression of Christian joy is appropriate everywhere. Moreover, the outlook of the world ought to stir us to gladness. Astronomers recent ly disturbed many people by telling them that there is danger of stellar collision. We have been told through the papers by these astronomers that there are worlds coming very near together, and that we shall have plagues and wars and tumults and perhaps the world's destruction. Do not be scared. If you have ever stood at a railroad center, .where ten or twenty or thirty rail tracks -cross each other, and seen that by the movement of the switch one or two inches the train shoots this way and that, without colliding, then you ma understand how fifty worlds may come within an inch of disaster, and that inch be as good as a million miles. If a hu'man switchtender shoot the trains this way and that without harm, cannot the hand that for thousands of years has upheld the universe keep our little wor'ld out of harm's way? Christian geologists tell .us that this world was .millions of years in building. Well, now, I do not think God would take millions of years to build a house which was to last only 6,000 years. There is nothing in the 'world or outside the world. terrestial or astronomical, to excite dismay. I wish that some stout gospel breeze might scatter all the malaria of human foreboding. The sun rose this morning at about half past live, and I think that is just about the hour in the world's history. "The day is at hand." The first ray of the dawn I see in the gradual substitution of diplomatic skill for human butchery. Within the las't twenty five years there have been international differences, which would have brought a shock of arms in any other day, but which were peacefully adjusted, the 'pen taking the place of the sword. That Alibama question in any other age of the world would have caused war be tween the United States and England. How was it settled? By men-of-war off the Nar rows, or off the Mersey? By the Gulf Stream of the ocean crossed by a gulf stream of human blood? By the pathway of nations incarnadined? No. A few wise men go into a quiet room at Geneva, talk the matter over, and~ telegraph to Washington and to London: "All settled." Peace. Peace. England pays to the United States the amount awarded-pays really more than she ought to have paid. But still, all that Alabama broil is settled-settled forever. Arbitration instead of battle. Sothequarreleightornineyears agoabout the Canadian fisheries in any other age would have caused war between the United States and England. England said: "Pay me for the inv-asion of my Canadian fish eries." The United States said: "I will not pay anything." Well, the two nations said: "I guess we had better leave the whole mat ter to a commission. The commission is ap pointed, and the commission examines the affair, and the commission reports, and pay Swe ought, pay we must, and pay we do. Not a pound of powder burned, not a cartridge bitten off, no one hurt so much as by the 'scratch of a pin. Arbitration instead of battle. 50 the Samoan controversy in any other ige would have brought Germany and the United States into bloody collision. But all is settled. Arbitrattion instead of battle. 'France will never again, I think, through peccadillo of ambassador, uring on a battle with other nations. She sees that God, in punishment of Sedan, blotted out the French empire, and the only aspirant for that throne who had any right of expectation e dies in a war that has not even the dignity of being respectable. What is that blush on the cheek of England toddy? What is the leaf that England would like to tear out of her history! The Zulu wvar. Down with the sword and up with the treaty. We in this country might better have settled our sectional difficulties by arbitra tion than by the thrust of the sword. -Philanthrophy said to the North.: "Pay down a certain amount of money for the purelase of the slaves, and let all those born after a certain time be born free." Philaathropy at the same said to the South: "You sell the slaves, and get rid of this great national contest and trouble." The North replied: "I wont pay a cent." The South replied: "I wont sell." War! ~Warl A million dead men, and a national debt which might have ground this nation .to powder. - W hy did we not let William H. Seward, of ew York, and Alexander H. Steph'ns, of ~eorgia, go out and spend a few days under 1th trec on thc banks of the Potomac and talk the matter over, and settle it. as settie it they could, rather than the North pay in cost of war, four billion seven hundred mil lion dollars and the South pay four billion seven hundred and fifty million dollars, the destroying angel leaving the first born dead in so many houses all the way from the Penobscot to the Alabama. Ye aged men, whose sons fell in the strife, do you not think that would have been better? 0 yes ! 1 we have come to believe, I think, in this country that arbitration is better than battle. I may be mistaken, but I hope that the last war between Christian nations is ended. Barbarians may mix their war paint, and Afghan and Zulu hurl poisoned arrows, but I think Christian nations have gradually learned that war is disaster to victor as well as vanquished, and that almost any thing bought by blood is bought at too dear a price. I wish to God this nation might be a model of willingness for arbitration. No need of killing another Indian. No need of sacrificing any more braveGeneral Custers. Stop exasperating the red man ; and there will be no more arrows shot out from the reservation. A General of the United States Army, in high repute throughout this land, and who, perhaps, has been in more Indian wars than any other officer, and who has been wounded again and again in behalf of our Government in battle against the In dians, told me that all the wars that had ever occurred between Indians and white rien had been provoked by wbite men, and that there was no exception to the rule. While we are arbitrating with Christian nations, let us toward barbarians carry our selves in a manner unprovocative of con test. I inherit a large estate, and the waters are rich with fish, and the woods are song ful with birds, and my corn fieldsare silken and golden. Here is my sister's grave. Out yonder, under that large tree, my father died. An invader comes, and proposes to drive me off and take possession of my prop erty. He crowds me back. he crowds on, and crowds me into a closer corner, and still closer corner, until after a while I say: "Stand back, don't crowd me any more or I'll strike. What right have you to come here and drive me off my premises! I got this farm from my father. What right have you to come hersand molestmer" You blandly say: "O. I know more than you do. I belong to a higher civilization. I cut my hair shorter than you do. I could put this ground to a great deal better use than you do." And you keep crowding me back and crowding me on intoa closer corner and closer corner, until one day I look around upon my suffering family, and fired by their hardships I hew you in twain. Forthwith all the world comes to your funeral to pro nounce eulogium, comes to my execution to anathematize me. You are the hero, I am the culprit. Behold the United States Government and the North American Indian. The red man has sm2od more wrongs than I would, or you. We ould have struck sooner, deeper. That which is right in de fense of a Brooklyn home or a New York home is right in defense of a home on top of the Rocky Mountains. Be or this dwind lin'g red face dies completely out I wish that this generation might by common jus tice atone for the inhumanity of its prede cessors. In the day of God's judgment I would rather there be a blood-smeared Modoc than a swindling United States of ficer on an Indian reservation. One man was a barbarian and a savage, and never pretended to be anvthing but a barbarian and a savage. The other man pretended to be a representative of a Christian nation. Notwithstanding all this, the general dis gust with war and the substitution of diplo matic skill for the dittering edge of keen steel is a sign unmistakable that "the day is at hand." I find another ray of the dawn in the com pression of the world's distances. R' hat a slow, snail-like, almost impossible thing would heve been the world's rectification with fourteen hundred millions of popula tion and no facile means of communication; but now, through telegraphy for the eye and telephonic intimacy for the ear, and through steamboating and railroading, the t~wenty-five thousand miles of the world's circumference are shriveling up into insig nificant brevity. Bong Kong is nearer to New York than a few years ago, New Haven was; Bombay, Moscow,Madras Mel bourn within speaking distance. Purchase a telegraphic chart, and by the blue lines see the telegraphs of the land, and by the red lines the cables under the ocean. You see what opportunity this is going to give for the final movements of Christianity. A fortress may be tr onths or years in building, but after it is constructed it may do all its work in twenty minutes. Ghristianity has been planting its batteries for nineteen centuries, and may go on in the work through other cer taries; but when those batteries are thoroughly planted, those fortresses are fully built, they may all do their work in twenty-four hours. The world sometid~es derides the church for slowness of movement. Is science any quicker? Did it not take science 5,652 years to find out so simple a thing as the circuala tion of the human blood! With the earth and sky full of electricity, science took 5,800 years before it even guessed that there was any practical use that might be made of this subtle and mighty element. When good men take possession of all tnese scientific forces, and all these ag~encies of inven tion, I do not know that the redemption of the world will be more than the work of half a day. Do we not read the queen's speech at the proroguing of Parliament the day before in London? If that be so, is it any thing marvelous to believe that in twen tyfour hours a divine communication can reach the whole earth? Suppose Christ should descend on the nations-many expect that Christ will come among the nations personally-suppose that to-morrow morn. ing the Son of God from a hovering cloud should descend upon these cities. Would not that fact be known all the world over in twenty-four hours i Suppose He should present His gospel in a few words, say ing: "I am the Son of God; I came to pardon all your sins and to heal all v our sorrow; to prove~' that I uam a super natural being. I have just dcscended from the clouds; do you believe me. and do you believe me now P" Why. all the telegraph stations of the earth would be crowded as none of them were evecr crowded just after a shipwreck. I tell you all these things to show you it is not among the im possibilities or even th~e imlprobabilities that Christ will conquer the whole earth, and do it instanter, whcn the time come'. There are foretokenings in the air. Something great is going to happen. I do not think that Jupiter is going to run us down oi that th axle of the world is going to break; but [mean something great for the world's blessings and not for the world's damage is going to happen. Ithink the world has had it hard enough. Enough, the London plagues. Enough, the Asiatic cholera4s, Enough; the wars. Enough, theshipwrecks. Enough, the conflagrations. I think oufr world could stand right wvell a procession of prosperities and triumphs. Better be on the lookout. Better have your observa tories open toward the heavens, and the leses of your most poweriul telescopes went polished. Better have all your Leyden jars ready for some pulsations of mighty influence. Better have new fonts of type in your printing oflices to set up some astounding good news. Better have some new banner that has never been caried, ready for sudden processions. Ectter have the bells in your church tower's well hung, and a rope within reach, that you may rmng out the marriage of the King's Son. Cleanse all your court houses, for the Judge of all the earth may appear. Let all your legis lative halls be gilded, for .the great Law giver may be about to come. Drive off the thrones of despotism all the occupants, for the King of heaven and earth may be about to reign. The darkness of the night is blooming and whitening into the lilies of morning cloud, and the lilies reddening into the roses of stronger day-fit garlands, whether white or red, for Him on whose head are many crowns. "The day is at hand!" One more ray of the dawn I see in facts chrooial and mathematical Come now, do not1 eus uo another Stroe OI worx unil we have settled one matter. What is goil to be the final issue of this great contest be tween sin and righteousness f Which is go iug to prove himself the stronger, God or Diabolus? Is this world going to be all garden or all desert? Now let us have that matter settled. If we believe Isaiah and Ezekiel and Hosea, and 3licah and Malachi, and John and Peter, and Paul and Christ, we believe that it is going to be all garden. But let us have it settled. Let us know whether we are working on toward a suc cess or toward a dead failure. If there is a child in your house sick, and you are sure he is going to get well, you sympathize with present pains, but all the foreboding is gone. If you are in a cyclone ouT the Florida coast, and the captain assures you the vessel is staunch and the winds are changing for a better quarter, and he is sure he will bring you safe into the harbor, you patiently submit to present dis tress with the thought of safe arrival. Now, I want to know whether we are coming on toward dismay, darkness and defeat, or on toward light and blessedness. You and I believe the latter, and if so, every year we spend is one year substraefed from the world's woe, and every event that passes, whether bright or dark, brings us one event nearer a happy consummation, and by all that is inexorable in chronology and mathe matics I commend you to good cheer and courage. If there is any thing is arith metic, if you subtract two from five and leave three, then by every rolling sun we are coming on toward a magnifict et ter minus. Then every winter passed in one severity less for our poor world. Then ev. ery summer gone by brings us nearer un fading arborescence. Put your algebra down on the top of your Bible and rejoice. If it is nearer morning at three o'clock than it is at two, if it is nearer morning at four o'clock than it is at three, then we are nearer the dawn of the world's deliverance. Gods cioca seems to go '-ery slowly, but nendulum swings and the hands move. and it will yet strike noon. The sun and the moon stood still on-c; they will never stand still again until they stop forever. If you believe arithiretic as well as your Bible, you must believe we are nearer the dawn. "The day is at hand." There is a class of phenomena which makes me think that the spiritual and the heavenly world may, after awhile, make a demonstration in this world which will bring all moral and spiritual things to a cli max. Now, I am no spiritualist; but every intelligent man has noticed that there are strange and mysterious things which indi cate to him that perhaps the spiritual world is not so far off as S>metimes we conjecture, and that after awhiletron the spiritual and heavenly world there may be a demonstra tion upon our world for its betterment. We call it magnetism, or we call it mesmer ism, or we call it electricity, because we want some term to cover up our ignorance. I do not know what that is. I never heard as audible voice from the other world. I am persuaded of this, however, that the veil between this world and the next is getting thinner and thinner, and that per haps after a while, at the call of God-not at the call of the Davenport brothers, or Andrew Jackson Davis-some of the old &riptural warriors, some of the spirits of other days mighty for God-a Joshua, or a David, or a Faul-mnay come down and help us in this battle against un righteousness. 0, how I would like to have them there - him of the Red Sea. him of the Valley of Ajalon, him of Mars Hill. History says that Robert Clayton, of the English cavalry, at the close of a war boughtup all the old cavalry horses lest they be turned out to drudgery and hard work, and bought a piece of ground at Naversmire heath and turned these old war horses into the thickest and richest pasture to spend the rest of their days for what they had done in other days. One day a thunder storm came un. and these war horses mistook the thun uer 1iui * i - i tUU i u oc iLC, aia, they wheeled into line-no riders on their backs-they wheeled into line ready for the fray. And I doubt me whether, when the last thunder of this battle for God and truth goes booming through the heavens, the old scriptural warriors can keep their places on their thrones. Methinks they will spring into the fight and exchange crow for helmet, and palm branch for weapon, and conic down out of the King's galleries into the arena, crying: "Make room! I must light in this great Armaged don." My beloved people, I preach this sermon because I want you to toil with the sun light in your faces. I want you old men to understand before you die that all thre work you did for God while yet your ear was alert and your foot fleet is goinig to be counted up in the final victories. I want all these younger people to un derstand that when they toil for God they always win the d.ay: tha~t all p~ravers are ansn'ered and all Christian work is in some way effectual, arid that the tide is setting in the right direction, arid that all Heaven is on our side-saintly, cherubice, seraphric, arch -angelic, omnipotent, chariot arid throne, doxology and procession, principal ities and dominion, hre who hath - the moon under his feet, and all the armit s of heaver. on white ho'rses. Brother!i brother! all I am afraid of is, not that Christ wvili lose tire battle but that. on aird 1 will riot get into it quihltenoughr to ilo something worthy of our blood bought inirortality. 0, Christ, how shall I meet Thee, Thou of the sear-red brow, arid the scarred back, arid thre scar-red hand, anod the scarred foot. and thre scarred br-east, if 1 have no scars or wounds gotten in Thy service? It shall not be so. 1 step o uto-day in fr-ont of tire battle. Go~ on, you foes of God, 1 dare you to the combat. Come on, with pens ipped in malignancy. Conic on with tonues forked arnd viiperine arid aderous. Cms on, with typ~es o iked in tire scum of the eternal pit. I defy you! Comec on ! I defy you! Come on! 1 bare nsy browv, I uncover my heart ! Str-ike! I can niot se my Lord until1I have been hurt for Christ If we do not suffer with him on earth we can not glorify with Him ini Heaven. Tat e good heart. On ion:i On ! See ! the skie have brightened ! See! the hour is about to come! Pick out all the cheeriest of .n thems. Let the orchestra strirrg their I est instruments. "The night is far spent, tthe day is at hand." The Theological Seminary . This institution was opened on Mion day inst withi the ustual deivoltionali e-xer cises. Besides lire olid studentis present, three new ones reported and were re eeived. On yesterdayv three miore niew students reported. Thmere is ar erncour agitg prosptet of an increase inr the unube-r of students over last year, and it is expected the ntumber that will be in attendance tis session will reachr fifty or sixty. Some of the old st udents atre now filling engargements wvith churrchies and canniot retlirn to thet Semrinary until two weeks from now. Tihe factulty of the Seminaryv now ir eludes thre followinrg: Prof. .J. P. Tad lock, D). D., professor (if Ecclesiastical History and Chrurchi Polity; Prof. J1. L. Girardau, D. D)., L. L. D., professor of idactic and Polemic Theologv: P'rof. F. R. Beat tie, Pb. D.. D. D)., Perkin's professor of Natural Science ini connec tion withi Revelation, and Christ ian Apologetics: Rev. W. N. MfePheeters, professor of Biblical Li teratture.. Tire senior professor in length of service is by seniority chairman of thre faculty, and Prof. Tadiock, thre first nanmed above, occupies that position. Tire stdies of lire Chair of Pastmirarl Thieologyv mnd Sarned Rhti:orie a re taurght by. thei ocupanr rts of othern- chairs inttl trdbtin to t!eirt regmilarr istruct ion s. Thie Rev. .James Staey, 1). D. of Geror ia is president of tire board of directors, the Rev. Johin G. Law of Spartanbrg is seretarv, and 3Mr. W. - . Dutlie of tis city, I'reasur-er. -polumbia 1f !iste-r, Septemberi 18. A Serious Charge. The St. Louis Re-public openly charges that tire men in 3Missouri to whom the President enltruisted tire dispensation of Federal patronrage hatve matde a sale of the offices. It gives lire names of the ssers, the names of the buy~ers and the amonitts paid, arid wafnts to know what the Preadent is going to rdn about it. 15,000 LIVES LOST. THE GREATEST DISASTER KNOWN IN THE HISTOTY OF JAPAN. Whole Villages Buried Under Avalanches from the Mountain-Enormous Rains Cause an Unprecedented Rise in the Southwest Rivers. SA: FaRANcisco, September 18.--The regular mail steamer Gaelic has just ar rived from Yokohama, bringing details of the overwhelming disaster in Japan. The province of lKii, in the Southwest ern part of Japan, has been visited by the greatest tragedy in the history of the country. Probably more than 15,000 people nave been killed, several towns have been wiped completely off the face of the earth, and others have been nearly demolkhed. The catas trophe was occasioned by floods in the Western part of the province and by the crumbling of a mountain which buried six villages under a huge mass of rocks and earth. The early part of August was remark able for its rains, and the rapid rise of the rivers soon became alarming. The banks of the Kinogawa River, a stream over 100 miles in length, broke near the city of Wakayamo on August 19th, and a mountain of water, like that which swept through the Conemaugh valley when the dam above Johnstown broke, rushed out upon the fields and towns, wrecking houses, bridges, fences, tem ples, and all things in its path. In this district :200 houses were carried away and 5,000 were ruined by the water, leaving 30.000 people dependent upon the local officials for food. Lower down the emlbankments of Hi dakagown were also destroyed, flooding the cultivated fields and adjacent towns. Out of sixty houses at Wakanoruura but two remain standing, and more than 50 people lost their lives. An official of the Nishimura district oflilee, who arrived at Wakayamo on the evening of August 22d, reports that at about 4 p. m. on August 19th an inroad of water took place at Sanabemachi, and in a few moments the floors of buildings in the vicinity were covered. Many houses in the district were carried away, and about 300 persons are said to have lost their lives. All villages within an extent of ten miles are more or less submerged. In Choraihomure several hundred houses were washed away, leaving only eleven buildings standing. Many persons are reported to have lost their lives in this district also. The volume of the River Kinokuni, an adjacent stream, swelled-to an extra ordinary extent, the rise being in some places as much as 13 to 18 feet above the normal level. No bridge over the stream could withstand the force of the flood. The river steadily rose from about 6 o'clock in the 'evening until at last near midnight it began to overflew its embankments, and about four miles from the city of Wakayama the banks at the village of Iwahashi wera washed away. Immediately the village and its whole neighborhood, including about forty-eight other hamlets, were covered by the raging waters. The depth of the flood is said to have been from 5 to 15 feet. The neighborhood of Osaka has also suffered very severely. From a telegram received by the home office from the Governor of Osaka it appears that in the districts under his authority relief is being given to several thousands of people. The embankments on the Yodo gawn and Inkedapaigawn Rivers were broken at several places on August 21, and considerable damage was caused to farms, while many houses were sweCpt away or otherwise injured. In Hlongu iura 180 houses were washed away and t hirty persons drowned. In Higashipo, Murogori and Neshiip Mfarogori several undred houses were demohshed and :onsiderable loss of life is reported. In IIlida ka gori ;180 houses were carried away andn~ seventy houses were more or less damaged, while 120 persons lost their lives and fity others received more or le:,s severe injturies. About 5,000 persons. narrowly escaped death. A telegram from Wakayamio dated August 25 says that many houses in sehigawara and Shikiya, which are sit mated close to Kumnatgawa, wvere car ried away andl many lives lost. The buildings of the Kumano Shrine, except ne or two small temples, were all swept aay, but the Sac-red Image wvas saved. According to the report from Jeninu, in ligashi Murogari, about one-fourth of the buildings there (over. 300) and 100 persons were swept away. The Hikawga River rose twenty-eight feet above the rdinary level and villages close to the river flooded, in consequence of which about 150 houses were washed away, many persons being drowned. Seventy ight houses and the Miwake police sta tion at Shusan were also carried away. Owing to several landslides which oc -urred close to the source of the Hida kagawa vast numbers of trees, some of which were very large, were uprooted and swept on to the fields, where several thousands are now lying. Inquiries as to the condition of vari os villages along the river have not yet een conpleted. In Goto there arc still wo feet of muddy water. About 1,200 ioues of the v-illages elose to the Tomni agawa were swes away and over 500 e.ons are reported to have lost their Another telegram from Wakayama, ated August 26, announces that ae oiding to the investigations made up o that date the total number of houses ared away in Nishi Murogori was ,u92, while 508 others were dhemolished ad 440 houses were more or less darn edl. The number of deaths there ~vs 8;. Other villiges suffered much loss by he floods and the numubetr of dead can ot be accurately dletermuined, but for the province of Kii it will not fall below 0,000. Bloated bodies and wreckage f all description covered fields for iles around, and it wvill be months be fore the survivors can proceed witht work. The loss in money is roughly stimated at $6,000,000. Relief has been sent to the ruined istrit, but inadequate facilities for oletinig and (distributing provisions will make the suffering intense, and in ne oulying dlistricts many will die Th- samte rain whiich ruined the West rii piairt of the province of Kii by flood lso wrought a most singular and rain mis disaster in the Eastern section of the same povinee. The Au-se Kippo, ubtlished at Osaka, gives a clear ac ount. It says: "Since A ugust 18 Totsugawa-Go dis trit has been visited with very heavy rains, and at dawn on the 19th it was discovered that the rivers were rising apidly. People in the neighborhood of Amano-Gawa, fearing an inundation, nade preparations for the emergency. "While they were thus employed moun taiis suddenly crumbled away, obstruct ing communication between Tsujido ,.ra a 8akmain-Mua, and the wa ters in the rivers, which rose in coinse quence, covered the houses in Tsujidri Mura, the people fleeing to the temple on an elevated piece of ground. There, however, they were not fated to be safe. as the mountain of Sugi-Tania, which is at the back of this temple, suddenly came down on the village in an ava lanche, burying the entire village under ground, only the upper half of the ter ple being left to view." It is impossible to furnish aid to all the thousands of sufferers, and many must die of hunger and thirst. The losses in lives and money will never be known, as whole towns have been wiped from the earth, with no survivor to tell the story. As an instance of the disaster it may be mentioned that the Portuguese gun boat Rio Lima, on her voyage along the coast, was greatly obstructed by the wreckage of roofs, timbers of houses, &c., so that on several occasions she had to stop to prevent damage to her screw. This debris extended at least ninety miles along the coast. This is the great est disaster Japan has known for centu ries, and further details can only bring stories of more desolation and more suf fering than have thus far been related. The Japanese newspapers, after careful estimate, think the loss of life does not fall below 15,000. PERILS OF LAKE NAVIGATION. Terrible Experiences and Narrow Escape of the Steamer City of Detroit With 700 Passengers on Boar;. DETROIT, September 20.-The steamer City of Detroit arrived from Cleveland this morning, after a very rough expe rience. No sooner had the boat left Cleveland last night than she was struck on the port side by a monstrous wave, which fairly lifted her out of the water. As the vessel proceeded the lake became rougher, and by midniuht she was labor ing heavily and was badly strained. The paddle-box bulkheads were sprung a good deal and a leak was rising in their vicinity. When this information came to the passengers, of whom there were about 700, they became very badly frightened, and most of them donned life-preservers. When the bulkheads gave way, shortly after, a terrible panic ensued. Water was forced into the boat at every revo lution of the wheel, and rose rapidly. In the after saloon on the main deck the oficers' apartments were soon flooded, as well as the ladies' saloon. The water rose inch by inch until it was fully six and a half feet high in the cab ins. During this terrible situation the pas sengers were clustered in the saloon, all prepared for / the worst. One man, whose name could not be ascertained, rushed up and down the cabin shouting: "We are lost! The boat is- sinking!" This. of course, added greatly to the confusion and made the already terrified passengers very difficult to manage. The male passengers seemed to be more frightened than the women The officers of the boat admit that it was as rough a night as they want to see. The appearance of the boat this morn ing shows what she has passed through. The cabins are still flooded. A gang of men are at work putting in new bulk heads and repairing other damage. The Ill-Fated Yacht Leo. CLEVELAND, 0., September 20.-The body of Irwin D. Lawler of Loraine, Ohio, one of the owners of the naptha yacht Leo, which exploded on Lake Erie during the storm last Sunday night, was picked up oy a tug early this morning about a mile from this harbor. The bodies of two more victims weic picked ap on the lake by a tug this afternoon. T'he remains were identified as those of Captain Sam Root, master of the yacht, and Engineer Dixon. Root lived in Loraine and the engineer was from D~e troit. Tannerism. Without Tanner. It is stated to be "practically cer-tain" that General Merrill will succeed Tanner s Commissioner of Pensions. If he oes we shall have Tannerism without anner, and the country will not be any better off than it was. General Merrill s chairman of the Grand Army comn nittee on pensions. At the recent en ampmenit at Milwaukee he made a re ort urging Congress to give a p~ension f $12 a month to all ex- Union soldiers iow or hereafter disabled without re uiring proof that their disability arose from service in the army; t~o increase he pensions of minor children from *2 o $5 a month; to give pensions to idows, whether their husbands were r were not in receipt of pen sions, and, finally, to give pen sions to all dependent parents fromt he time of actual dependence, whether ccurring at or subsequent to the on's enlistment. When all this shall ave been granted, Congress, the Gen ral said, "will have gone far - toward he completion of the full measure of the ation's'indebtedness to the men who efended her flag." These are n->t con ervative views, surely. They place the nan that holds them in pretty much the ame place with Tanner. Warner has een ha~ppily escaped, it appears, but errill is nearly as "liberal." The President would do well to remember hat what is wanted is not a man with a olicy, liberal or other, but a man who vill go by the law as it is. There is ~omething scandalous "in the Presiden t's feling bound to take the Commissioner f Pensions from the ranks of would-be >eneficiaries of the treasury. It is like etting up the man with a claim to judge is own case. -Baltimore Suna.' What Irrigation Will Do. Gen. John B. Bowman writes in the ansas City iTime.s: "It is my opinioni hat irrigation will be th'e means of loubing the population of ever-y West rn State and Territory within the comn ng ten years. I further- believe that in he East, where the raifall is heavy, ut uncertain, irrigation will ultimately e resorted to in order to insure gr-eater egularity of crops. Four-tenths of the rea of the United States, not including AGaska, require irrigation. This terri ~ory includes parts of California. Texas, ansas, Nebraska, Nevada, 0: ,.on, all f Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Wyom ug. Montana, and portions of Dakota nd Washington. Through this vast erritoi-y there flow a number of str-eamns ith narrow v-alleys capable of cultiva ioi. In these valleys settlers have aken up their abode, cities have beeni uilt, and now the cry is for more room. he room is there, and the only- tihing eeded to make the broatd, sunbtirned lains vie with valleys is irrigation. The entiment in favor of this method of re ~laiming lands is growing strong, and I redict that ten years will witness a evolution." A Virginia Brakeman Kinled. RICHMOND, Va., September 19.--Theo iore B. Band, a braketban on the James iver division of the Chesapeake and hio Railroad. was run over and killed o-day. It is supposed he was walking from one car to another, putting ou brae, andl fell from the train._ I A FATAL LAND)SLIDE. TERRIBLE CALAMITY IN THE CITY OF QUEBEC. Immense Masses of Rock Become Dis ldcged and Sweep Down Upon and Demolish Seven Brick Dwelling Houses as if They Were Made of Cardboard. Many Persons Crushed and Buried. in the Debris. Q EaIeiJ. September 19.-To-night sev cral thonsand tons of rock slid from (ape Diamond, at the end of Dufferin Terrace, to Champlain street, :00 feet below, demolishing in its course s:even 4lwellings. Cries of "Help! help!" are heard from beneath the debris, but no help can be given. Very little progress is made in iccovering the bodies, owing to the stu pendous mass of rock covering the ruins. More rocks are falling and it is feared that the whole boulder, forming the highest point of Quebec, will give way. The mass of rock detached from the cliff's side left a vacant space of extraor dinary dimensions under Duffeiin Ter race, and that great promenade is now unsafe. Thirteen corpses and sixteen wounded have been taken out. The bodies are covered with coagulated- blood and dust, and are sickening spectacles. The houses in that locality were of stone and brick, and inhabited by ship laborers. etc. Officers and men of the Royal School of Cavalry are coming to the rescue with ropes, picks and shovels. About six hundred men are now at work. The Redemptorist Fath ers are among the rescuers. BOSTON, September 20.-The .Jornal.s Quebec special, tited midnight, says: It is known that at least 200 dead bodies still remain under the pile of de bris. Rescuing parties are hard at work, but are meeting with accidents, as huge masses of rock still continue to fall from the cliffs. QUEBEC, September 20.-The work of excavating at the scene of the landslide is still going on. Among those who it is alleged are still missing and who are said to be beneath the ruins are Air. and Mrs. Charles Allan, Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Henry, Richard Mayburg and wife, Mrs. R. Lawson, R. Kemp and family, Michael B. Leahy, and a number of children. The loss sustained by the surviving victims of the disaster is very great. Some of the workingmen who are de prived of their homes lose all their fur niture and other effects, even their sum mer earnings, and many are left penni less at the commencement of the Cana dian winter. The injnred have nearly all been re moved to the Hotel. Dieu, where they will receive all possible care and atten tion. William Powers, wife and child were saved by men of B battery, who, aided by a detachment of the cavalry school, effected quite a number of res cues. QUEBEC. September 20.-The wor of rescuing victims is going oiigorots y. The members of tire Bl.ck family were buried alive, twelve feet below the sur face of the debris. On being asked if they were safe, Mrs. Black answered: "Mv husband is killed at the door. The rest are safe, but we are suffering from wounds and bruises on our limbs." Shortly afterwards, Miss Mary Cald well, a niece of Mr. Black, was ex tracted from Black's house. Her limbs were so stiff from inaction that the least touch on them caused intense pain. The next pers5on taken out was Thos. Berrigan, whose wife was taken out of the ruins (dead. lie was so disfigured that his friends could hardly re ognize him. He was removed to the Ihotel Dieu Hospital, muttering a prayer of thanks for his-miraculous escape.' The next to follow was an eight-year old boy, also named Berrigan. Hlis left leg wvas crushed to a jelly.. Theni came Mrs. Black. 11er bosom, neek and face were dlreadfully swollen. Thme scenie of the terrible disaster was visied by thlousands. who blocked u the streels and made it a diflicult task for anyv one to move in any direction. There Ibeing but one narrow street 'he tween the rock and the river. there is a complete stoppage, of trafic, exept .by limbing over the debris. A large force of men is engaged in the work of searching the ruins. The shipping ulice in the D~ominion govern menit building has been turned into a tmporary morgue, andl over twenty bodies are lying in it. It is difficult to identify some of the bodies, so much haye they been disfigured and crushed. Several of the persons reported miss ing have turned up, but it is thought that there will be teni or more victims to be added to the list. A complete list of the injured cannot be made up as yet, as they were removed to different hospitals and to friends' houses as soon as they were taken from the ruins. The City Conneil is now holding a spe cial meeting to consider what best course of action will be to complete the work of recovering the remaining dead. It is feared that a large part of the rock adjoining tibe site of the slide will comet dIown, as latrge crevices have ap p(ared, andl rain is still falling and may repeat the operations which caused last night's disaster. People are moving out of threatened houses. There has been no lack of volunteers for work at dhe roins, but there i-s a lack of intelligetit direction, as there is no person~ in authority. Citizens are send ig in money to relieve a;.y immedliate distress among the homeless women and child:-en. The mass of carithI andt rock moved is. roughly speaking, about 600d feet front age by 80 feet in depth. Some of the masses of fallen rock must weigh nearly twent y tons, and there are so many huge blocks that it makes the work of clear ing it very difficult.1 The working par'-ies this afternoon are better organized anid eqwpped and are making more headwvay. The site of the presenlt landslide is almost identical with that of one which occurred in 1841, when eight buildings were crushed and thirty-two persons were killed. The houses destroyed last night all stood on the other side of the roadway and were not thought to be in ~langer. but the inu nense mmass of roek i aepr. r-a:r ae(rons the roadI~way andl overj he brick huiilding-.. demiolishuing t hem s if t hey wecre madeI of ecardboardl. The Vacant Pension Commissionership. WXASHINGTON, September 18.-There is no longer any doubt that Major Warner has declined the Pension ,Commimission rship. The appointment of Merrill to that position w~ill prob~ably be announced within a day or twvo. The Cold Wave in Virginia. DANXLLE, Va., Septembe~r 19.- A1 cold wave struck this section last night, and this morning the weather was co di enough for fires and overcoats. No camae to copsn is reporterd. EDUCATION IN THE SOUTH. Unprecedented Development of the Pub lic School System. WASHINfornN. Septemifbe r 1S.- -li. N. R. Dawson, the Conmissioner of FAuea tion, has filed with the Secretary of the Interior his annual report for the year ended June :30 1889, in the cours: of which he says that from an analysis of the statistics of publie schools for the decade of 1876-77 to 1886. 87, it appears that the growth of the system, consider ing the whole country, outstripped dur ing that period the growtl of popula tion. the excess of the increase of enroll ment over the increase in population. G t#14 years of age, being 1.6 per ent. This gain, the Commissioner says, is due entirely to the progress of the public schools in the two Southern sections. and more especially in the South central division. Here the increase of enroll ment shows an excess over the increase of population probably never before paralleled in a country so long settled. The sentiment in favor of free schools supported by public funds, he says, is becoming each year more universally prevalent. The public school systems. of the Southern States have been under going an unprecedented development under laws adapted in each case to local circumstances, and are now practically all established on a permanent b'asis. An equal share of the school funds is apportioned to colored children, unless in the State of Delaware, and their schools are kept open as long'and under as well paid teachers as those of the white children. The funds for the sup port of these schools are furnished mainly by the white inhabitants. and after making due allowance for all the sums that have been furnished for the education of the negroes through pri vate sources of benevolence and through the taxes raised among themselves, it may still be said that the children of those once held in servitude in the South are being educated by the sons of their former masters. IS THERE TOO MUCH LEARNING. The Greatest Idleness is in the Intellec tual Trades, Not in the Manuals. The alarming increase in the number of learned men forms the theme of a statistical work which has just been is sued by a Gottingen professor. Dr. Lexis's figures refer more especially to Germany, though they are not much less applicable to many other parts both of Europe and America. Taking the number of students en tered on the -books of the twenty-one Teutonic universities at twenty-nine thousand-Berlin heading the list with less than five thousand, while Rostock brings up the rear with something over three hundred-the Professor shows that fully one half of these hopeful youths are doomed to a life of poverty and dis appointment. The vast majority of these twenty-nine thousand Burschen are looking forward to becoming law yers, or doctors, or pastors, or school nas other way, either ' - e or r to arn thei ucation t e at pre ousl, quiring. - Tis is not the first time that a simi lar alarm has been sounded. No less a personage than Prof. Virchow recently advised young men to abandon all thought of finding a career in medicine, and more than once, both in America and in Great Britain, figures have been published showing that there are not atients for half the doctors, or clients for half the lawyers, or churches for a fifth of the curates, who are every year let loose upon the world. Tihe rush to the learned professions egan, it is sometimes atfirmed, after the epression in agriculture, and the cot esponding rebound from the commer eial prosperity of fifteen or twenty years ago. This may, no -doubt, be partially true. But, as the same phenomenon has been noticed in every othier country, the xplanation must be sought a little eeperi. The real causec will, we venture o think, he found in the ever mecreasilg endency on tile part of parents and their %ons to look to the "gentlemanly pro fessions" instead of the more lucra ave and more certain callings of iless "genteel" description. In ~ermaniy and America this trait is per aps exhibited in its most exaggerated form, simply because in those countries professional training is (:eep and the prliminary educationl abundant or easy a obtain. But we see it everywhere ~lse. Since the schmog boar-ds brought he three B's within the i-each of every ~hild, it is notorious that these youthful rauates have displayved a rupugnance a the useful lives in which they have been born. They want to "better them selves" by becoming city clerks or nurs ry governesses. It is the first result produced by an unwonted state of af fairs. By and b~y education will get too ~ommon to be marketable. It will then ae regarded simply as a preliminary to ny calling, and not as a necessary an aecedent of what the Germans call " -bread studies." A carpenter, or a blacksmith. r a machinist, or a shopkeeper will dis ~over thut he is none the worse for be ag a good scholar, and will even find :hat in the enhanced esteem, the greater pleasure, and the enlarged chances in ife which it gives him. he is quite as auch benefited byv his education as if lhe tad sought to earn his living by means Z itdiretl.-Londonu sandard. The Tail End of the Storm. Theii severe storm whtich i-aged in the outhI Atlatnt ie last week anid which pent most of its fur-y along thoecoast iboe Campe ifatter-as was not without is effect up~on our ownt coast. The tides or several (lays weire unusually high, totwithstanding tihe fact that a strong esterly windl was blowing mnosit of the ime. The rice plantations wereC over lowed, but no0 serious damage was su~s ained, the m-ajrity of the planter~s taving detferredl the entinig of. their mops to await the suibsidence of the raters. A small portionl of the crop. ying on the stubble in the field<, was vet and slightly injured. The suspense ame to an end on Saturday. when there vas a fall of five inches in the tide 1evel. Fhe weather hlas sitnce been more or l1 hreateing, but the har-vest wor-k i gpro;ec-nted withI vigor. -fbrorI,/o'rr The Piedmont Exposition Governor Hill of New York. in re ponse to an invitation to attendh the atp )roaching Piedmont Exposition at At mnta, Ga., writes that he is anxious to isit the exposition and to meet the peo le of tihe South. Hie has many pressing ~ngagemnts, but will accept the invita ion if possible. An mnterestimg feature if the exposition will be the exhibit of he Vermont Dairy, one of the largest; ~onerns of the kind in the world. At 1 he exhibit the visitors can wttnessi ?very process fr-om the milking of the1 -o to the mangr of butter and cheese. 1 DOWN A MOUNTAIN SIDE TERRIBLE ACCIDENT ON THE MIS SION RIDGE ELECTRIC RAILROAD. The Electric Current Fails and a Car Con taining Fifty Persons Dashes Down the Steep Incline With Lightning Velocity. The Passengers Jump for Their Lives. Several Receive Fatal Injuries. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., September 20. An accident occurred this morning on the electric railroad running from the foot to the top of Mission Ridge. The car had nearly reached the top of the steep track when the -electric current failed, and the car started down the mountain at great speed. The motor man tried to stop the car with the brakes, but failing in this, the conduc tor shouted to the passengers to jump f from the car. The car contained fifty people, all of whom were visitors to-the reunion of the Army of the Cumberland, one-half of the party being ladies. Then there was a scene of wild excitement and a panic seizing all on board, they. began leaping rapidly from the moving car down the mountain side. Five or six persons remained on the car with the conductor and motor man and all were uninjured, as when the load was par tially removed from the car it was stopped before reaching the foot of the ridge. Mrs. Mary Adams of Casey, Ill., wife of an express.agent in that city, in jump ing from the car struck one of the poles carrying the electric wires, and was thrown in front of the car and struck on the head and thrown. to the side of the track, suffering injuries from which she died this afternoon. Wm. Munford of Casey, Ill., in jump ing from the ear, struck in a mass of " barbed wire and was badly cut, one eye being literally torn out. Capt. Owen Wiley of Casey, Ill., was badly hurt on the head, and it is feared he is injured internally. . Mrs. Abram Hollingsw.orth, of Thorn town, Ind., was badly hurt on the head and about the body, but not fatally. J. S. Clark, of Owensville, Ind., was hiured, but not seriously. A. P. DeBruler, of Vincennes, Ind., and wife were on the car. Mrs. DeBruler escaped with only a scratch, but Mr. DeBruler was considerably bruised about the arms and legs and his head badly cut. Mrs. A. C. Addison, of Casey, Ill, was painfully bruised about the head and shoulders, but not seriously hurt. W. J. Carthill, of Princeton; Ind. had his right shoulder dislocated; anJd it is feared received internal injuries. Mrs. D. B. Massey, shoulder dislo cated and ankle sprained. - Mrs. Sturdevant of Casey, Ill., sus tained injuries about the head, but is not seriously hurt. None of the other passengers were seriously hurt, though all had more or less bruises and scratches. The affair cast a gloom over the visit ors in the city, who did not attend the barbecue at Chickamauga, and nearly left the city on offic possib - d bad a fu icor t' ground fifteer minutes after the acci dent occurrea. Will Sorghum Sugar Succeed? That fine old farmer Jeremiah Susk, who presides over the Department of Agriculture, pauses long enough from his profound struggle with intercultural tillage, fungicides, peach curl, apple scab and bean tests to remark that the nited States government is going to ake the sorghum sugar industry a sue Here is a matter that interests every erson in the country. If the manu facture of sorghrm sugar can be made o pay private enterprise it will kill the agar trust as dead as Julius C(ar. ust now the factories in Kansas, which ave taken the place of fihegovernment's xperimental station, receives aid from be public treasury. ~Agents of the..De artment of Agriculture carefully watch he operations of these factories and res ort the results. If the process can he educed to a certain economical basis it ill solve a tremendous problem and ive the people cheap sugar and in such uantities that the market cannot he ornered. Sorghum is a Chinese sugar cane, the / eeds of which were obtained from raance by the United States Patent Of ce and distributed gratuitously in 1856. 7 ater on Orang4udd of New York gave way thenty-five thousand packages of tto American farmers. The plant can e cultivated in most of the tates. It yields good sugar and mo asses; flour can be made from the seed nd thie fibre of the cane is used in the >anufacture of paper. Secretary Rusk is about to personally aspect the sorghum sugar factories. He will then be prepared to recommend an dequat-s4propriation for the coming; car. Congress set aside eighty thou sand dollars for this purpose last year, nd it is announced that over three hun red thousand pounds of the sugar were rofitably manufactured at Fort Scott in welve months. The whole question is still in the ro .ion of empiricism, and it is rather dis ouraging to know that the factories ust be subsidized, but if there is ai Cair chance of success we believe that ecretary Rusk should receive all the aid that'Congress can reasonably extend. h neeessaries of life should be re moved as far as possible from the lutches of monopoly.-.Y T.lBerd. A Little Blind Girl's Fatal Fall. R ALEIGH, N. C., September 17.-Yes erday afternoon a little blind girl, amed Rosa Ellis, had a fatal fall at the stitution of deaf, dumb and blind n this city. She was sent to the asylum . ame time ago, but was in such bad iealth that the authorities refused to dmit her, and were awaiting the proper me to seud her home. She was in her uomn in bed, and when the matron went > dminer she shut the window andlocked ie door to make sure the blind girl ould not get out. Before return, how er, she had crawled through the win low and out upon a porch which was o stories from the ground. She walked f the edge of the porch, falling to the ~round, and was killed. Geronimo to Go to North Carolina. WASHINGTON, September 19.-The eretary of War has decided to accept e offer of the Indian Rights' Associa ion to purchase a tract of land in North Jarolina for Geronimo's band of Indians low confined at Mt. Vernon Barracks, id to establish them there in a more ivilized mode of life. A Fat Take. WAsINGTON, September 19.-E. L. [ordan has been appointed Assistant ;uperintendent of the Bureau of Eu ~ravig and Printing. Mr. Jordan has )een a plate printer in the Bureau for hirteen years, and was active in the noveent which resulted in the discon nan of tem presses.