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TOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, .8. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30 1889. N. 47. '.THE SAVING LOOK." Sermon by Rev. T. DeWitt Tal mage, D. D. Christ Our Personal Saviour, an Example, a Sympathizer, and a Final Rescue -Paul's Advice to " Run the Race U-fore Us, Loukinsr 'uto Jesus." The subject of Dr. Talmage's recent discourse was "The Saving Look," and his text Hebrews xii., 2: "Look unto Jesus." Following is the sermon: In the Christian life we must not go slipshod. This world was not made for us to rest in. In time of war you will find around the streets some city, far from the scene of con men in sol dier's uniform. who ha -. right to be away. They obtained a urlough and they are honestly and righteously off duty: but I have to tell you that in this Christian conflitt; betwee the fist mo ment when we enlist under the banner of Christ, and the last moment in which we shout the victory, 'there never will be a single instant in which we will have a right to be off duty. Paul throws all around this Christian life the excite ments of the old Roman and Grecian games-those that sent a man on a race, with such a stretch of nerve and muscle. that sometimes when he came up to the goal, he dropped down exhausted. In deed history tells us that there were cases where men came up and and only had strength just to grasp the goal ana then 1 dead. Now. says this apostle. mak llusion to those very games. we are run the race, nt to crawl it. not k i-but "run' the race set before -ing unto Jesus," and just as in times. a man would stand at of the road with a beautiful at was to be put around head he successful racer, so the 'hrist stands at the end of race with the garland of nd may God grant that by t we may so run as to ob .ished Welliston, the -ed where his laboratory auirers expected to be e apartment filled with pparatus; but Wellis servant to bring on a and a retort. and he rs: "That is all my ke all my experiments , I know that there who take a whole Ii their theology. They eories on ten thousand ave to say that all my passed in these three g unto Jesus," and when tand the height and the e length and the breadth infinity and the immensity of passage we can understand all. I remark in the first place, we must look to Christ as our personal Saviour. Now. you know as well as I. that man is only a blasted ruin of what he once was. There is not so much difference between a vessel coming out of Liverpool harbor, with pennants flying, and the deck crowded wth good cheer, and the guns booming, and that same cessel driving against Long Island coast, the drowning passengers ground to pieces amid the timbers of the broken up steamer as there is between man as he came from the hands of God, equipped for a grand and glorious voyage, but afterward. through the pilotage of the devil, tossed and driven and crushed, the coast of the near future strewn with the fragments of an awful and eternal shipwreck. Our body is wrong. How easiy it is ran sacked of disease. Our miad is wrong. How hard it is to remember, and how easy to forget. The whole nature dis ordered, from the head to the sole of the foot-wounds, bruises, putrefying sores. "All ha-e sinned and come short of the glory of God." "By one man sin entered into the world and'death by sin, and so death has nassed upon all men for that all have sinned." There is in Brazil a plant they call the "murderer." for the simple reason that it is so poisonous it kills al most everything it touches. It begins to wind around the root of the tree, and coming up to the branches reach out to the end of the branches, killing the tree as it goes along. When it comes to the tip end of the branch the' tree is dead. Its seeds fall to the ground and start other plants just as murderous. And so it iswith sin. It is a poison ous plant that was planted in our soul a long while ao, and it comes winding about the bociy and the mind and the soul, poisoning, poisoning, poisoning killing, killing, killing as it goes. Now, there would be no need of my discours ing upon this if there were no way of plucking out that plant. ~It is a most inconsiderate thing for me to come to a man who is in financial trouble and en large upon his trouble if I have no alle viation to offer. It is an unfair thing for me to come to a man who is sick and enlarge upon his disease if I have no remedy to offer. -But I have a right to conme to a man in financial distress or physical distress if I have financial re inforcement to offer or a sure cure to propose. Blessed be God that amonga the mountains of our sin there rolls and reverberates a song of salvation. Loud or than all the voices of bondage is the trumpet of God's deliverance, sounding: "0. Israel, thou bast destroyed thyself. but in me is thy help." At the barred ates of our dungeon the conqueror knocks and the hinges creak and .grind at the swinging open. The famine struck pick up the manna that falls in the wilderness and the floods elap their hands, saying: 'iDrink, oh thirsty soul, and live forever." and the feet that were torn and deep cut on the rocky bridle path of sin now come into a smooth place, and the dry alders crackle as the panting hart breaks through to the wa ter brooks. -and the dark night of the soul begins to grow gray with the morning, yes to purple, yea to flame, from horizon to hor izon. The batteries of temptation silenced. Troubles that fought against us captured and made to fight on our side. Not as a result of any toil or trouble on our part. but only as a result of "Looking unto Jesus." "But what do you mean by 'Looking unto Jesus?'" some one inquires. I mean faith. "What do you mean by faith?" I mean believ ing. "What do you mean by believing?" I mean.th - If you promise to do a cer tain thing for me, and 1 have confidence in your veracit-if you say you will give me such a thing and Ineed it very much, I come in confidence that you are an honest man, and will do what you say. Now, the Lord Jesus Christ says: "You are in need of pardon and life and heav en. youi can have them if you come and get them." You say: "I can't come and ask first. I am afraid you won't give it to me." Then you are unbelieving. But ou sav: "I will come and ask. 1 know. ord ,Tesus, thou art in earnest about this matter. I come asking for pardon. Thou hast promised to give it to ine,. thou wilt giv it to me. thou hast given it to me." 'That is faith. Do you seeO it et?"O," says some one, "I can't un Serstand it." No man ever did without divine help. Faith is the gift of God. You say: "That throws the responsi bility ok my shoulders." No. Faith is the gift of God, but comes in answer so prayer. All over glorious is my Lord. He must be loved and yet adored: His worth iftall the nations knew, Sure that the whole earth would love Him, toe. I remark again, that we must look to Jesus as an example. 1Now, a mere copyist, you know, is always a failure. If a painter go to a portfolio, or a gal le1 of art, however exquisite, to get his idea of the natural world from these man-ct e will not suceed as well as the anLsb wflo starts out ana aes Lue ue 'V from the grass and sees the morning just as God built it in the clouds, or poured it upon the mountain, or kin dled it upon the sea. People wondered why Turner. the famous English paint er, succeeded so well in sketching a storm upon the ocean. It remained a wonder until it was found out that sev eral times he had been lashed to the deck in the midst of a tempest and then looked out upon the wrath of the sea, and coming home to his studio. he pict ured the tempest. It is not the copyist who succeeds, but the man who confronts the natural world. So if a man in literary composition resolves that he will imitate the smo.othness of Addi s'u, or the ruged vigor cf Carlyle. or tne wierdness of Spenser, or the epi grammatii style of Ralph Wr:l:o Emer son. he will not sucac"d as w'1 a. that man who cultures his own natural Mtyle. What is true in this resp'ct is t"n in I respect to character. There ver- e'n who were fascinated with Lord Byron. He was lame and wore a very. la'-g Col lar. Then there were tens ' thounds of men who reeled that theV "li be just like Lord Byron, and they limped and wore large collars, but they did not have any of his genius. You can not successfully copy a man whether he is bad or good. You may take the very best man that ever iived and try and live like him, and you will make a fail ure. There never was a better man than Edward Payson. Many have read his biography, not understanding that he was a sick man, and they thoutght they were growing in grace because they werr growing like him in depression of spirit. There were men to copy Cowper. the poet, a glorious man, but sometimes af flicted with melancholy almost to in sanity. The copyists zot Cowper's faults, but none of his virtues. There never was but one being fit to copy. A few centuries ano he came out through humble surroundings. and with a gait and manner and behavior differ ent from any thing the world had seen. Among all classes of people he was a perfect model. Among fishermen he showed how fishermen should act. Among tax-gatherers he show' d how tax-gatherers syud act. Among lawyers he showed how lawyers should act. Among farmers he showed how farmers should act. Among rulers he showed how rulers should act. Critics tried 10 find in his conversation or sermons something unwise or unkind or inaccur ate: but they never found it. They watched him, 0 how they watched him! He never went into a house but they knew it.and they knew how long he stay ed.and when became out.and whether he had wine for dinner. Slander twistedt her whips and wagged her poisone: tongue and set her traps. but could no catch him. Little children rushed out to get from him a kiss. and old men tot tered out to the street corner to see Inm pass. Do you want an illustration of devo tion. behold Ilim wholk nights in prayer. Do you want an example of suffering. see His path across Palestine tracked with blood. Do you want an example of patience. see Him abused and never giving one sharp retort. Do you want an example of industry. see Him with out one idle moment. Do yon want a specimen of sacrifice, look at His life of self denial. His death of ignoiny. IIis sepulcher of humiliation. 0. what an example! His feet wounded. yet lie submitted to the journey. His back lacerated. and yet He carried the cross. Struck. He never struck back again. Condemned. yet iHe rose higher than ilis calumniators, and with wounds in Ills hands and wounds in His feet and wounds on His brow, and wounds in Ilis side. Lie ejaculated: "Father. forgive them. they know not what they do." Ah. my breth ren, that is the pole by wh~cii to set your compass, that is the heailcnd by which to steer, that is the ligh t by which to kindle your lamps, that is the exam ple that we ought all to follow. flow it would smooth out the roughn"ess in our disposition, and the world would be impressed by the transformation and would say: "I know what is the mat ter with that mazi: he has been with Jesus and has learned of Him." Alexander was going along with his army in Persia and the snow and ice were so great that the army halted and s'aid: "We cant march any further." Then Alexander dismounted fromt his horse, took a pickaxe, went ahead of his army and struck into the ice and snow. The soldiers said' "If he can do that. we can do it," and tiey took their picks and soon the way wa cleared and the army marc ed on. So our ILord dis mounted from His glory, and through all icy obstacles hews a path for hlimself and a'path for us. sayirng: "Follow me! I do not ask you to go through any suffer ing, or fight any battles where I do not lead the way! h'oIlow me!" Again I remark. that we are to look to Christ as a sympathizer. Is there any body in the house to-day who does not want sympathy? I do not know how any body can live without sympathy. There arc those, however, who ha toe gone through very rough paths in life who had no divine.arm to lean on. How they got along I do not exactly know. Their fortunes took wings in some unfortunate ~investment and flew away. The bank failed, and they buttoned up a penniless pocket. Ruthless speculators carried off the fragments of an estate they were twenty-ive years in getting with hard work. How did they stand it without Christ? Death came into the nursery and there was an empty crib. One voice less in the household. One fountain less of joy and laughter. Two hunds less, busy all day long in sport. Two feet less to go bounding and romping through the ball. Two eves less to beam with love and gladness. Through all that house shadow after shadow, shadow after shadow until it was mid night. Hiow did they getm through it? I do not know. They trudged the great Sahara with no water in the goat skins. They plunged to the chin in the slough of det pond and had no one to lift them. In an uinseaworthy crait they put out into a biack Euroclydon. My brother. my sister,' there is a balm that cures the worst wound. There is a light that will kindle the worst dark ness. There is a harbor fi-om the rough est oe'%U. You need and may have the Saviour's sympathy. You can not get on this way. I se your trouble is wear ing you out. body and mind and syul. I come on no fool's errand to-day. I come wth a balm that can heal any wound. Are you sick? Jesus was sick. A re you wearv? Jesus was weary. Are you per secutd? J-esus was p.ersecu ted. Are you bereaved? Did not Jesus weep over L azarus? 0, yes, like a roe on the mountain of Bether, Jesus 'omies bound ing to your soul to-day. Tihere is one passage of Scripture, e:"ry word of whih is a heart throb: "C(oue unto me, all ye who are wveary and hWavy laden. and I will give you rest." Then there is another passage just as goo-.: "Cast thy burden on the Lord. and lie will suts tan thee." 0, there are gr(.enf past ures whre the hoave:nly shepherd leads the wounded and sick of the tivck. - The Son of G3od stands by the tomb <of Lazarus. and will gloriously break it open at the right time. G3enesaret can not toss its waves so high that Christ can not walk them. The crtuse of oil will multiply into an illimitable supply. After the orcltard seemts to have been robbed of its fruit, the Lord has one tree left, full of golden and ripe supply. The requiem may wail with gloom and with death, but there cometh after a while a song, a chant, an anthem, a battle march. a jubilee, a coronation. , do you not feel the breata of Christ's sympathyv now, you wounded ones, you troubleal ones? If you do not I would like to tell you of the chaplain in the army who was wounded so he could not walk. but he heard at a dis tac mn he dyving a man who said: must help that man though I can't walk." So he rolled over and rolled through his own blood and rolled on over many of the slain. until h came where this poor fello :: sut~'ring and he preached to _-im the comfl'ort of the g-.s gel, and with his own wounct he seemed to soothe that man's weund. It w:s sympathy going out toward an ohjc::t most necessitous and one that he could easily understand. And so it is with Christ. though wounded all over IIim self, Ike hears the cry of our repentance. the cry of our bereavement, the cry of our poverty, the cry of our wretched ness, and 'le says: "I must go and help that soul," and JIe rolls over with wounds in head, wounds in hands, wounds in feet, toward us. nntil He comes just where we are weltering in our own blood. and He puts His arms ovei us-and I see it is :: wounded arm and it is a wounded hand, and as He thruws lis arm over us-1 hear lHim say: "I have loved thee with an everlast big love." . Again. we must look to Christ as our final rescue. We can not with these eyes. however good our sight may be, catch a glimpse of the heavenly land for which our souls long. But I have no more doubt that beyond the cold river there is a place of glory and of rest, than we have that across the At lantic ocean there is another continent. But the heavenly land and this land stand in mighty contrast. This is bar renness and that verdure. These shal low streams of earth which a thirsty ox might drink dry, or a mule's hoof tram ple into mire, compared with the bright crystalline river under the throne. on the banks of which river the armies of leaven may rest, and iuto wlhose clear flood the trees of life dip their branches. These instruments of earthly music. so easily racked into discord. compared with the harps that thrill with eternal raptures, and the trumpets that are so musical that they wake the dead. These streets along which we go panting in summer heat or shivering in winter's cold. and the noor man carries his burden and the vagrant asks for alms. and alou which slutile the feet of pain and want and woe, compared with those streets that sound forever with the feet of joy and holiness, and those walls made out of all manner of precious stones. t;Ie light intershot with reflections from jas per and chrysolite and topaz and sar donyx and beryl and emerald and chry soprasus. 0, the contrast between this world. where we struggle with temptation that will not be conquered, and that world where it is perfect joy. perfect holines and perfect rest! Said a little blind child: "Mamma, will I be blind in !ieaven'" "0, no. my dear." replied the mother, "you won't be blind in leaven." A little lame child said: "Mamma, will I be lame in heaven?" "o," she replied, "you won't be lame in Heaven." Why. when the plainest Christian pilgrim arrives at the heavenly gate it opensto him. and as the angels come down to escort him, and they spr.-a-t the banquet, and the:. keep festival over the august arrival, and Je'sus comes with a crown and says, "Wear this." and wi:. a palm and says, "Wave this." and points to a throne and says, "ount this." Then the old citizens of Heaven come around to hear the newcomer's recital of deliverance wrought for him. and as the newly arrived soul tells of the grace that pardoned and the mercy that saved hin, all the inhabitants shout the prais" of the King, crying, "Praise Him: 'rai. e llim!" Quaint John'Btnyan caught a glimpse of that consummation when he said: .lust as the gates were opened to let in the man, 1 looked in after them, and be hold the city shone like; the sun: the streets were also paved with gold and in them walked many men with crowns on their heads, and golden harps to sing praises withal. And after that they shut up the gates, which when I had seen I wished myself among them." Young Women in Alaska. In Alaska a girl is ready for society as soon as she enters her teens. It does not require many years in that country tr a girl to grow up. The dress of the verage Stickee river maidens is not very elaborate. A plain cotton garment. ong; and loose, envelopes her person. nd a Turkish bath towel is wound about ead. When she goes out a blanket of right colors is thrown around her houlders. The wife of a missionary in hat section says the young women often o barefooted, but that after they see the boots and shoes of white women, heir great desire is to have a pair.-Hiar er's Bazar. -H~e who kindly and faithfully calls the attention of another to his errors. whether of opinion or practice, and rges him to forsake them, is alwvays oing a good work and acting the part f a friend, and yet such friendship is not always appreciated. It is 'neverthe ess true that truth-telling, even when t is condemnatory, is the only course to o taken when dealing with error.-N. V. Independent. -When one makes a mistake and is ebuked for it he will, if he be wvise. use t as a help against the temptation to faults in the future. If he be not wise he will becomc angry, sour and so incensed s to study sonie kind of revenge. To every one at a time of fault it is given o so proit by it that it shall be rememi ered afterward as a blessing.-United Presvteian. -Conceit may pufT a man up but never prop him up.-Ruskin. ____ Hunting for Bnried Treasure. The .?Eews some weeks ago gave the history of a lot of silver plate, valued at ';3,00 that was buried near a country graveyard, twelve miles from Chester, S. C., by an officer in Sherman's army. The story will probably be remembered by our readers. There did not appear to be anything crooked about it, as the narrative of the Federal officer, into whose hands the secret was entrusted, would show. He wrote to a party in Charlotte, giving a full history of the case, and urging the Charlotte man to join him in the search for the bidden treasure. The thing leaked out and the .News got hold of it. The Charlotte miin declined to go into the enterprise, but others who saw the things described in the Eews jumped at, it. For several weeks past a party of three Charlotte men have been turning up the soil near Chester, huuting for the hidden trea sure. The party is headed by Mr. Alex ander, who lives near Charlotte. They have dug pits until the whole country about Chester looks like a field of ant hills. So far as heard from they have not succeeded in unearthing the treasure. The searching party has made an offer to certain landon ners in the vicinity to prospect their land for a gold miu'. -Charlotte .Nes. Twenty Kimhon Bushels of Corn. Captain A. P. Brown of the Agricul t~ral Department, from the reports to the department from regular correspon dents and others, estimates that the yield of corn in South Carolina for the pres ent season will amount to 20,000.000 bushels. This is in excess of the yield of any year since the war, the neares approach being in 1882, when the yield was 17,000,000. Sitting Bull is becoming civilized. He WOULDN'T BE A PRIEST. THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH LOSES ONE OF ITS EMINENT MINISTERS. Rev. Dr. J. M. Leavitt, Editor of the Church RevTew, Leaves the Church to Escape Ritualism and Other Alleged Roman Catholic Tendencies-Reasons for His Defection. There was a good deal more than the usual attendance yesterday at the morn ing services in the First Reformed Epis copal Church, at Madison avenue and Fifty-fifth street, says the New York Sun of Monday. The cause of the in creased attendance was a general knowledge of the fact that the Rev. Dr. John McDowell Leavitt, for more than forty years a clergyman of the Protest ant Episcopal Church and a man of wide reputation in that body, would yesterday announce 'in the church his parting from the communion with which he had so long been connected. and an nounce his accession to the Reformed Episcopal Church. Dr. Leavitt's letter of resignation was sent to Bishop Potter recently. Dr. Leavitt has been for several years the editor of the Church Review, one of the leading magazines published in this country in the interest of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was the founder and editor of the International Review. He was born in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1824, and became a Protestant clergy man in 1848. He has been a professor in the Ohio University and Kenyon Col lege. He was president of Lehigh Uni versity at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for five years. Later Dr. Leavitt was president of St. John's College at An napolis, Maryland. Among the works published by Dr. Leavitt are "Reasons for -Faith in the Nineteenth Century," "Americans in Rome," "Visions of Solyma," and "Hymns to Our King." Dr. Leavitt has accepted the profes sorship of ecclesiastical history, Church -evidences, and Church polity in the recently established theological seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. The services at the First Reformed Episcopal Church were conducted by the rector of the church, the- Rev. William T. Sabine. he said that the congrega tion and all Reformed Episcopalians bade Dr. Leavitt a cordiat welcome, and wished him all possible success in the important work which he was about to undertake in Philadelphia. In his ser mon Dr. Leavitt said that some public expression of the reasons which led him to take the important step he had taken were fitting, in view of his service of more than a quarter of a century as a Protestant Episcopal minister. "Let me put in one sentence," he said, "the result of my long struggle and study. I believe the Anglican commun ion to be a mixture of political compro mises and irreconcilable contradictions. I turn to the calendar of the English Prayer Book and I see that January 30th commemorates Charles the Marty, King of England, and May 29th commemorates Charles II.-Charles IL, the royal adul terer, who polluted the thought, polluted the literature, polluted the court, pollu ted almost everything ins England in his time. In the old Prayer Book a clergy man is called a minister; now a minister is called a priest. Tradition has come to overbalance Scripture. The Scriptures contain all things which are necessary to salvation-that's what the articles of the Church say-yet the Episcopal Church is coming to think more of tradition than of the Scriptures to-day. "After years of effort to twist the truth, I can blind common sense and conscience no longer. The Scriptures are silent on the question of infant bap tism. If the Scriptures .do not tell me of this I do not know it, and what I do ot know I should not affirm. It will not do to say that the Church creates the doctrine. It is against that which I protest. If the Church can create one doctrine it can create others, and then* where do we stand? The crucial time came with mec one day when I was expected to stand at the font and baptize an in fant. I said then that my lips would never ntter what my heart disbelieved. So it is with the use of the word priest. In the New Testament the wvord priest is used to designate a very different thing than a minister. It may he thought a small matter, but ritualism roots: itself in this word priest. I re nounce it forever; no man shall ever give me that title again. I enter the brotherhood of Protestant ministers. "Again, the doctrine of apostolic suc cession lay on me like an iceberg. This doctrine and priestly prerogative go together. It is to me abhorrent that I should acknowledge as a Protestant minister a man who-wears a scapular to p~rotect him from lust and purgatory. Ritualism is stifling Protestantism in the Anglican Church. The Bishops of the Episcopal Church now treat as servants, not as equals, the other Protestant mm iters. They will sit on the same plat forms with these ministers, but they will not admit them to Episcopal altars. The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in this city teaches that the Bible is to be received ov the authority of the Church. It makes the Church first and the Bible next. Now, nothing must come between me and my Bible but the Holy Ghost. The Roman communion puts the popes anid the fathers between mec and my Bible, and the General Theological Seminary puts the fathers between me and my Bible. I wll have none of either. "The General Theological Somioary exalts tradition above Scripture," said D~r. Leavitt. "The money contributed to the Domestic Board of the Protest ant Episcopal Church is used to send out graduates of this seminary, who, working especially in the West. are ex pected to develop a strength that im future diocesan and general conventions wil tear all the Protestant elements out o the Prayer Book. In this city you can confess to an Episcopalian minister, you can be absolved by an Episcopal minister, and you can have prayers said for the repose of the (lead, if not actu ally have the dead prayed to by an Epis copal minister. Do you wonder that people who like this sort of thing in time get to prefer the coin to the coun terfeit and go into the Roman Catholic Church? I thank God that I am going m the opposite direction. The banner that the ~Protestant Episcopal Church flings down the Reformed Episcopa Church picks up, and the latter Church will wave it in triumph." Good Advice. If yen worry when there's trouble, You but make the trouble double Do not fret. Bear up bravely, don't cry, baby, And remember that you may be Happy yet. Sine the blithest songs you know of, And await a better throw of Fortune's dice. Hard it may be to be tcerry, But, you'll own that this is very FRIENDS. [Written for THE REOISTRi.3 You pity me, my friend, in this strange land, So m ny hundred lenuues azcrss the sea, Far from the elI'p of any friendly hand And light of eyes that once have smiled on me. Yet even here the yellow sunset splendor Lingers as fondly on thesa foreign trees, That reach up skyward, dark and sir.ight and s'ender, With soft, faint sighs for every passing breeze. I find the same dear stArs at night above me, In their accustomed places in the waste of blue, And fancy, as of old, that those who love me Are thinking of me sill with hearts as true. The fleeting, perfect glory of the sunset sk'es Brings back a host of memories to soften, And tears unbidden to my unwilling eyes, Remembering silent voices once heard often. The pale blue morning glory 'round which hovers The romance and the freshness of my youth, 8 es up at me with eyes of real lovers . yes full of innocence end truth. The distant sait across the wurld of waters; A glint of gold green marsh grass nearer shore, And I am wrapped in dreams as tweet and real As life was in those days that come no more. You see, my friends are legion-can you pity Me, now that you understand at last How these, my comrades, in this queer o'd city, Help me to live again the happy past? Nay, then-not ever homesick or forsaken. With the bright blue .ky at noon and stars by night, When dawn restores more than the dark has taken, U hering in some new and fresh delight. PArs. P. FREsas'. Cglumbia. 8. C. The South's Manifest Destiny. The whole world seems to be making a great advance movement in every line of industry. No -one can study the signs of the times without being iu pressed with this fact, and without re alizing that we are entering upon a petiod which gives promise of greater and more widereachiu movements in the world's commercial and manufac turing interestb than has ever be en seen before. It is not in this country alone that there is almost unprecedented ac tivity in business interests. The work shops of Europe are crowded, and many of the long-idle plants of Great Britain are running night and day to meet the demand for iron and steel. And wher ever we look there are indications of development and advajucement and or gigantic enterprises that are destined to euangoemany of the currents of the world's commerce. In this country we see almost every furnace that can ever blow in, actively at work, while tolling mills, sreel rail milis and kindred en terprises are all equally as busy, and yet the consump'ive demands are grad ually gaining on production and causing a decrease in stocks on hand. Great enterprises, from the building of the Nicarauguan canal; the construction of new railroads into rich mineral sections, the development of which means aliost as great a revolution in steel making as the development of Alabama's iron in terests made in iron production ; tile building of new ports on the Gulf that will turn the traffic of the rich and populous West from its present chan nels, and pour a vast business, scarcely dreamed of now, through these new Southern ports; the great activity in iron and steel ship-builaing, fally taxing to its utmost every ship-yard in the country; the certainty of closer cum mercial relations-and consequently a larger share of their trade-with the rich countries of Central and South America, are some of the movements that are now making themselves felt in all the varied ramifications of the busi ness interests of this country. Just at this period, which is to mark a distinctive era in the history of the human race--an era of advancement nd progress for the peoples of all na ions-- th& South is the centre of attrac on. It has demonstrated that it has he advantages needed to make it the entre of iron and steel. production of he whole world, and "that nation or hat section of any nation which pos esses supremacy in the production of ron and steel and in their conversion o final forms foi use will dominate and ontrol the commerce of the world ;" it roduces three-fourths of the cotton of he world, and it is inevitable that the south, which grows the cotton, is des ined to spin and weave it; it has the ost abundant supply and the greatest rariey of timber to be found in the nited States and must become the entre of wood-working interests; it has he advantage of the best climate on bis continent, and of agricultural ad rantages, which, taken as a whole, are ot equalled in productive possibilities nder wise agricultural methods by any similar area elsewhere; it has a long stretch of seacoast and many rivers, eabling its products to reach the con suming markets of the world at the inimum of cost. To the fullest utili ation of these advantages the South is ow bending every energy, and it enters pon'this work at a time when the con ditions of the world's business interests are most favorable for making the South the controlling factor in the great dvance movement. No man can picture the commanding influence of the South n the world's industrial and commer cial interests ten years bence.--Balli nore Manufacturers' Record. A Strata-ic Criminal ILawyer. Lawyer Forest, the leader of the coun sel for the defense in the Cronin trial, s, doubtless, the most strat-gic criminal awyer in Chicago.- At one time he was retained to defend a prisoner charged with highway robbery. The case was n a police .iustice court. The defense was an alibi, and nine witnesses, one by ne, stepped up and swore that the ac cused, at the time the alleged robbery took place, was basking amid the refined lihts of a dog tight, three miles away from the scene of the robbery. The prisoner was discharged, but one by one as these witnesses stepped down from the stand they were "pinched" by a stern-faced minion of Chicago law and ooked for the crime of participating in dog fight. This result had quite evi dently been foreseen by Mr. Forest, and e appeared even hilarious at the turn f affairs. H~e demanded a change of rnue and an immediate trial. The nine ,ere arraigned, pleaded not guilty, and in all the widie wastes of Chicago not a witness was to be found against themi. The Cotton Oil Trust. NEw YoRtK, October 24.-The plan for hanging the constitution of the Ameri can Cotton Seed Oil Trust and merging it into a new incorporated company was made public to-day. Under its pro visions the new company will issue $21,000,000 stock and $11,000,000 in five per cent. bonds. The new securn ties will be exchanged for outstainding ertificates. The present holders will receive 25 per cent. of the face of their ertificates in new bonds, and 50 per' ent. in new stock. All the property of the present trust will be transferred to, h new ompny.v CONGRESS. THE COMING SESSION LIKELY TO BE UNUSUALLY LIVELY. Gossip About the Organization of the House-The Struggle for Offices-Speak ership Contest- Southern "Outrages" Legislation, Etc. WASHINGTON, October 20.-Although Congress will not assemble for six weeks, speculation has already become very lively as to the organization of the House of Representatives and the proba ble course of legislation during the eight months that Congress may be ex pected to remain in session. Of all the ca-ndidates for the elective offices of the He-use it is likely that Mr. Edward McPherson, whowishes to take back his old placo of clerk, can give the best ap proximate estimate of his own strength. There is probably no better nor more systematic canvasser in the United States than Mr. McPherson. He always begins ahead of the other fellows, and he obtains his pledges in such shape that he knows exactly who can be depended upon and who is uncertain. When the last Republican House of Representa tives came together, in December, 1881, it was found that Mr. McPherson had received assurances of support from many of the inembers mouths before, and from not a few even in advance of their election. This will doubtless be the case again; but whether, as before, Mr. McPherson will have enough to give hun the nomination can be told only after the meeting of the caucus. PENNSYLVANIA "KICKERS." The only prominant candidates for clerk of the House are Mr. McPherson and Major John M. Carson, the Wash ington correspondent of the Philadel phia Ledger. Both these gentlemen are Pennsylvanians. They are both men of the highest personal character, of fine ability and of enlarged experience. One or the other will be made clerk. The settlement of the contest may turn upon the strength wbich each has in his own delegation. Major Carson's friends contend that the majority of the Penn sylvania, delegation will be for him, but this is denied on Mr. McPherson's be half. In 1881 several of the Pennsyl vania members were bitterly opposed to Mr. McPherson and declared they would not vote for him even if he received the ;caucus nomination. It was also current r-ported at the lame time tbat several Republican members of the House would ref'se to vote for Mr. Keifer, who owed his nomination for Speaker to the skill and finesse of a well-known Washington correspondent, who has for many years been recog nized as one of the very ablest and boldest political managers in the whole country. It was this same correspond ent who conceived and carried out the plan which gave a Republican Legisla ture in Delaware last year and secured a United Ststes Senator for that party. When the timeanmeto vote in the House for Speaker and Clerk all those who-had threatened to bolt Keifer and.fcPherson came to the scratch, although some of them made awfully wry faces over it. Then, as now, the Republican majority was slender, and a bolter rat the risk of not only seriously; but fatally, im pairing his own party status. THE SOUTH DEMANDS THE DOORKEEPER. The talk of a bolt by the Southern Republican members, notwithstanding so much has been said about it in the papers, was never considered here of consequence. The disgust and disap pointment of the Southern Republican members at their failure to receive from the Harrison administration what they held to be due them has been ciident enough for a long time. Bat they could not better themselves by a bolt, and that idea, which a few of them enter tained, was long sitice abandoned. Mr. MComas of Maryland, who laid his plans early in the last session of Con ress for the election of his friend, Captain Adams, as doorkeeper, is en tirely confident that Adams will be the winning man. The Southern Republi :ans, under the lead of Mr. McComas, will ask for Mr. Adams, and the belief s they will get him. The doorkeeper f the House has most of the offices at is disposal, and it is generally con eded that the Southern Republicans will demand the lion's share of the ffces under him. Mr. McComas will oubtless have a good deal to say about hese offiees. THE SPEAKE~bsHIP CONTEST. The contest for Speake~r of the House s narrowed down, like that for Clerk, o two men-McKinley of Ohio and Reed of Maine. The chances of these wo appear tb be almost evenly balanced. he East seems to be nearly unanimous for Reed, and the West for McKinley. he Southern Representatives, should hey throw their votes in a body, can ertainly make the Speaker. As it is, he canvass for this office will be prose uted with unusual vigor and animation from now up to the minute of the meet ng of the caucus. Both of the candi ates are in thle contest with their coats ff. If it was to be decided simply on he intrinsic merits of the ease, Mr. IcKinley would get the prize. For wile he may possess r~o higher intel etual gifts than Mr. Reed, he is roader. U~e woul come nearer to the ~levated standard of a Speaker as set p by Mr. Carhisle. With Mr. Reed it ould be a simple impossibility to rise bove the blind partisan in the consid ration of any question. RosPECTS FoR THE sEsiON. Quite a sprinkling of members of both huses are alrea-ly in Washington for te reason, and many have been coming n the last week or ten days on brief isits to make arrangements for winter tuarters, etc. The Ihouse members, in paking of the offices of that body, ex ress naturally, of course, their indi idual preferences. The Democrats of he two houses, having nothing to do ith the question of the offices, confine he expression of their viw to the pro able legislation of the session. The epublicans talk both about the offiees mnd legislation. Every one seems to hink it next to certain that something ill he clone with thle tariff, hut as to hat no onie seems dispiosed to venture won a p~rediction. S.' far as any other lgislation of gereral importance is con ~erned there is a variety of opinion and f expectation. SOt'THERN LEGISLATION. The Chandlers and the Hoars in the enate, and their followers in the House, ill, it is assured, make the usual mo ions for the raisitig of committees of ovestigation into Southern politics, and eeks of time will be comsumed by them n going over the old stories they have een telling for a quarter of a century. rom these discussions will be hatched new series of election bills for use in he South only. Whether or not theseI ills become legislation it matters but ittle. All the diabolical ingenuity which~ ~an be brought to bear to throttle the' South will prove as inoperative as the cunningly devised measures of the past. The strong probability is that the greater portion of the ensuing session will be consumed in political discussions, and the bulk of the legislation will be of a private character. THE DEMOCRATIC LEADER. Uncommon interest is taken in the question as to who will be the Demo cratic leader on the floor of the House, and in some quarters a disposition has been exhibited to stir up personal jeal ousies and rivalries. Nothing is likely to come out of this. It is thought by the oldest and the most experienced of the Democrats that all such questions as this will naturally adjust themselves according to precedent and circum stances. Mr. Carlisle after six years in the Speaker's chair, will come down on the floor. He will undoubtedly be as signcd a prominent position on the mi nority representation of the com'mittee on ways and means. By common con sent Mr. Carlisle will be regarded as the Democratic leader on all matters con nected with the tariff or other legisla tion. The proposed change of rules and the disposition of contested election cases are not of a legislative character. It is here where Mr. Randall's remarka ble qualities can come into play, and in these matters, in all likelihood, he will be called to the front. He is much bet ter suited to take command in parlia mentary battles of this kind than Mr. Carlisle or any other man on the Demo cratic side. A STUBBORN EIGHT ExPECTED. Mr. Randall's decided views in refer ence to change of the rules is that the Democratie minority in the coming House shall not surrender one iota of the parliamentary power to restrain the majority, enjoyed to the fullest extent for six years past by the Republican minority, and which the Republicans thought perfectly proper until now. Ia reference to contested election cases, Mr. Randall is for opposing with might and main the seating of any Republican contestant whose right is not fairly de monstrated. With him, on these two points, to the bitter end, will be found solid, compact and resolute, the Demo cratic minority. --Baltimore'Sun. The Australian System of Taking a Drink. The employment of the new-fangled Saxton Australian ballot system in the elections in the four new States and at a recent local contest in Miuneapolis did not justify the claims made concerning irs advantages by its Democratic cham pions, unless their purpose was to aid in the election of Republicin candidates. But the practical introduction of the Australian ballot system has had at least the effect of stimulating inventive ingenuity in the great Northwest. Captain John Van Winkle of Minne apolis, a steamboat man, has become vastly impressed with the advantages of the Australian system, and he believes that it can be applied successfully to barrooms. Accoringly, with all the en thusiasm of a new and true reformer, he has taken out a sort of copyright upon what he calls "the Australian system of takin-agink." Under new Van Winkle system-the Cap'tain is several centuries in advance of tip, who believed consistently in the old plan of "another with me"-this is to be hereafter the approved official method : The person who is desirous of appeasing his thirst steps into a small room and registers his name. He then receives a slip of paper similar in appearance to a laundry list, upon which is printed a catalogue f all the liquid refreshments usually ept in a first-class saloon. The thirsty man then steps into the next room, arring the list with him. At the furth r enid is a row of curtained stalls, each just large enough to hold one person. Ue enters one of these stalls, makes a ross with a pencil -opposite the drink e desires, and places the list, together with the money, on a dumb waiter which stands ready. The dumb waiter isappears, but is soon returned with he required beverage. The thirsty nan pours it down, wipes his mouth, and departs. - As will at once be seen, this system ecessarily tends to reduce the aggre gte amount of drinking, and, at the ame time, promises to remove many of he evils of the old conbibulous system. hrough its adoption an end will he put o "treating;" an end will be put to the rinking of the health or good fortune f another, and an end will be put to ood cheer and open conviviality. Un fortunately, no end will be put to the olitary consumption of liquor. The ardened old toper will find a premium laced upon the secrecy of his libations, and a new mncitement to the ignoble, umanly and indefensible practice of rinking alone. Therefore, while the odious evil of in emperance would probably continue to fourish, and .drnnkenness remamn as ifficult to dislodge under the Van Win le system as now, no corresponding ain to the cause of sobriety would en ue. In like fashion the adoption of the Kagaroo system of balloting would u'n uestionably reduce the volume of vot ng by adding new restrictions to the xercise of the franchise, yet it would o away with none of the abuses of the allot, and would not eliminate the real ffender that such reforms are intended o reach--the "floater," who is to poi is what the confirmed toper is to bar ooms. Captain Van Winkle evidently is a an of ingenious mind, and he has ade a valuable contribution to the lite ature of the ballot reform discussion. ew York Sun. oucing Story of a Mother Stricken With Blindness. A touching incident was that of Mrs. illiam Nichols, a brilliant and much amired lady of Bath Beach, w ho had een suffering for some time from an! ffection of the eyes, says the-Brooklyn itizen. She was led to fear a speedy ~hange for the worst, and immediately' ~onsulted her physician. An examnina ion dirscovered a sudden and fatal fail ing in the optic nerve, and the informa ~ion was imparted as gelntly as possible hat the patient could not retain her iight more than a few days at most,1 ntl was liable to be totally deprived of ' t at any moment. Last Tuesday the iiteI mother quietly made such ar ~angemnts as would occur to one about o comumenee so dark a journey of life,~ ntd then had her two children, attired1 n their brightest and sweetest costumes, rought before her, and so, with their ittle faces lifted to hers, and tears athring for some great misfortune they hardly realized, the light faded I ut of their mother's eyes, leaving an! neffaceable picture of .those dearest to ter on earth-a memory of the bright Faces that will console her in many a! ark hour. _ _ Don't be deceived by eititions or paid for cer tificates. All testimonials printed in our paper ~oncerning the merit of B. B. B. (Botanie Blood Balm) are true and genuine. Write Blood Balm o. Atlanta. Ga.. for "Book of Wonders." f. THE LOWEST OF HUMAN :BEFNGS. Some Interesting Facts About the People of Terra del Fuego. The advertising columns of the Lon don newspapers have recently announced that nine cannibals from Terra del Fuego would be fed three times a day in view of the audience at the Aquarium. At two, six and ten o'clock the specta tors have enjoyed the privilege of seeing these specimens of an extraordinary type of American savage heat their beef and fish over a fire, and then tear the flesh to pieces with their fingers and devour it practically raw. This family of Ona Indians 'are the only representatives of their large tribe that have ever been taken from their homes. Many years ago some natives from the South coast were taken to Eng land and received there a rudimentary education. But the Onas, who are spread over more than four-fifths of the great island, have been almost unknown until the recent discoveries of Lista and Popper; and the mountain ranges that parallel the South and West coasts have been a barrier which the natives on either side have never tried to cross. The family now in London includes a woman about 50 years old, her son, a tall and not bad-looking specimen of his race, his two wives, and their five chil dren, ranging in age from 1 to 16 years. The thing about the Onas which most stimulates scientific interest and popu lar curiosity is the fact that they are regarded by some authorities as the lowest stratum of uncivilized humanity that has yet been discovered. Many years ago Darwin inclined to the belief that in the race he met in Beagle Canal he had found the missing link in the chain of evolution. In his last years he was of the opinion that the data he gathered in Terra del Fuego were too meagre for valuable deductions; and it is certain that had he extended his re searches North of the mountains he would have found a tribe that was even lower in the scale of being than the savages he saw and described. This family now in London seem -to possess the most limited vocabulary. Lista said he could not learn that .tbe Onas have any words except those relat ing to hunting and fishing and the few natural objects.that interest them. Pop per could never get them to speak exept in monosyllables, and they seldom made themselves intelligible. It is probable that their vocabulary does not. embrace more than 200 or 300 words. It would be interesting to know'the circumstances under which these speci mens were taken to England. Mr. Farini, who has introduced them to the Old World, has apparently published no account of the way they came into his hands. It is not at all improbable that they were taken captive and made the journey unwillingly. Their tribe is ex ceedingly timid, and when their fleet ness of foot has not availed them to escape from the whites, they have been far more' likely to launch arrows at their pursuers than to accept friendly overtures. Th?bieacco + ven in the Lon newspapers of these visitors bear witness that they are blessed with won derful appetites. The explorers who have seen them at home also testify that when food is scarce they can endure hunger with remarkable fortitude. Mr. Stubenrauch, who has a sheep ranch on the coast, tells a curious story of a captive Ona girl, about sixteen years old, who fell into his hands while he was chasing her friends, who had been stealing sheep. He says she refused to ta any kind of food for eight-days. On the ninth day he placed the- car ass of a sheep beside her. Breakfast then began, lasted three hours, and when it was over, as Mr. Stubenrauch asserts with great solemnity, the gir's body was swollen to extraordinar di mensions and the sheep had almost entirely disappeared. A wretched little collection of the rudest hunting and fishing implements, together with the guanaco skins they wear in winter and which also, stretched upon sticks and placed to windward of them, are their only shelter against the elements, is exhibited in London. It represents the entire range of the mann. facturing arts as practiced by the Onas. The masculine specimen in London is taller than the women, and were it not for this fact it might be difficult, clad as they are in their guanaco skins, to tell one from the other. Mr. Popper asserts that he found it very difficult to distinguish the sores, but observation finally taught him that the Indian carry ing a bow was always a man, while, the [dian weighted with a heavy burden was invariably a woman. Low as these miserable creatures .are in the scale of humanity, it can hardly be said that some of the poorest of'the Shoshone tribes in our own latitude *oc :upy a much higher plane. Some of he wretched natives- in Nevada and ther parts of the Great Basin, living in doles dug in hillsides, or merely shel ered by brush heaps, greedily, eating ood that most other savages reject, are 2nmistakably the poorest specimens of ankind in North America. As the W~estern historian Bancroft says, it is 2ardly possible to conceive a lower hase of humanity.-New York ,Sun. NINE TIES TO THE BALE. he New Scheme to Make up Weight on AliantCe Cottod. "Here is the latest in the jute-cotton ight," said a well known cotton buyer esterday, as he handed a reporter a lipping from a Georgia paper. The lipping is as follows: "Papers in the interior are announc ng that at last a plan has been discov ~red by which the cotton planters can ~eep even with the exchanges and the ute bagging men and bid defiance il enemies. The new scheme as e ated in interviews provides f lacing of nine ties upon a bale f six heretofore. By this meca oped to get the advantage of younds that the extra ties weigh "Who will be the first toca de into practice is unknown. rery likely to find it a dismal failur >uytrs will certainly refuse to become arty to the new movement at their own :xpense." "Now, that is great, isn't it?" contin id the buyer, when the clipping had een returned. "This movement is not just started, yut on the contrary has been in ~opera ion several weeks, and bids fair to be ~ome a standard rule in some conmu ities. As far back as September 15th, had a dozen bales shoved on me withI line ties, and, as I saw nothing to pre rent it, I bought them off hand. V's nere nonsense, and you can find if you quire around that dozens of bales this rear have had nine ties upon them. Of ~ourse all were ccedwith this cheap ~otton bagg-<ndif it was any favor o the far sfor me to buy the bales at way why I was willingt "