The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, March 19, 1890, Image 4

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TlE V AU 1' Uf0' L . DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES ON' , MAN'S ESTIMATE. Remark' Upon l'eople w!:o Would Live Their Live Over Agatu- 11e Un. of PresenI Opportunities. The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D. preached in the Academy of Music, b ' Brooklyn, Sunday morning, to aS a ovelfiewir:g congr2gation. After ex- f pounding appropriate passnges o C t Scripture he announced his subject to be: "Would You Like to Live Your Life Over Again?" His text was Job 1 ii, 4: "All that a man hath will he give for his life." He said: That is untrue. The Lord did nel i say it, but Satan said it to the Lord, when the evil one wznted Job still more afflicted. Tae recoid is: "So weut Satan forth from the presence of the Lord and smote Job with sore bolis." And Satan has been the awthor of all eruptive ?lisease since then, and ha hopesby poisoningthe blood L, pois' the soul. But the result of the diaba:; cal exper'reat which left Job victo. proved the falsity of the Sa-tan; re mark-"AIl that a maui hM.h ' i give for his life." Many a caItai w ho has stoo I on the bridige of tb sten:= - till his passengers got o a1d LC drowned: many an engineer wZ-o - kept his hand on the tbrot: e va ,ve cr his foot on the brake until the most .A the train ws ' saved while he we:. down to death through the open ra 4 bridge- many a fireman who puitnt into a blazing house to gct a 5f T n child out, sacrificing his life in tl tempt; and thousands of martyrs whc submitted to fiery stake and kie of massacre and hea dlsman's ax dwi guil lotinerather than surrender pro i ., proving that in many a case W le. was not true, when it says: AI that a man hath will he give fir hia life'? .. But San's falsehoed was butit tin -i truth .life is very precious, i.a : we would not give up all t0-re are many things we wouldsurrender ret er than surrender it. We se-e hoz precious life is from the fact tb-t do everything to prolong it. ene 411 sanitary regulations, all study of hygiene. all fear ofdraughts, ".ll water proof, all doctors, all medciues. -J struggle in crisis of accident An a: miraloi the British navy was courl martialed for turning his ship aroin. in time of danger and so uaaging the ship. It was proved agsin- l'ira But when his time came to be 'eard he said: "Gentlemen, I diI ! Ur.L the ship around and admit that it was damaged, but do you want to know why I turned it? There was a man overboard, and I wanted to sa.ve- him, and I did save him, and I coos&der 'Ie lifeof one sailor worth all the vessls of the British navy." No wootier : was vindicated. Life is iudeed very precious. Yea, there are rhotv who A deem life so precious they would lixe to repeat it, they would like to try it The fact is that no intelligent and right fearing man is satisfied with his past life. We have all made so many imistakes, stumbled into so many blun ders, said so many taings that ought Snoh have been said and done so many ~ things that ought not have been done, that we can suggest at least ninety l'ive per cent. of improvement. Now Swould it not be grand ifthe good Lordl would say to you: "'You can go back and try is over again. I will by a word. -A trn your hair to brown or black or golden, and smooth all the wrinkles oQl~fyour tem pie and cheiek, and take of your shoulders, and etr'tothe . the joint and the rheuniatic twings from the f- oot, and you shall be twenty one years of age ad just what you wer ~ when you reacheri that point before." 2X-I the ureposition were maade I think many thousands would accept it. That -feeling caused the ancient searca for 'watwas called the Fountain . p'ot, the waters cf which L.-ken ~hdturni the hair of the octogensr stoi. the curly locks of a btog, and ~h vr old a person who drank a: iatountain he would be youi uin. island was said to belong to the 'upof the Bahamas, ibut lay far in the ocean. The great spanish xpoer, Juan Ponce de Leon, fellow yagrwith Columbus, I hatve no Jotfelt that if he could diacover 5atFountain of Youth he wouldt do -~amuch as his friend had don'sj i 'is g America. So he pot outL z 2~Z2from Porto Rico and crused about sogthe Bahamas in search of that in. I am glad he did not anud heeis no such tountain. But if weeand its waters were ',ottka - sent abroad at a thouLsrmd rs a bottle, the demand would ia retrthan the supply, and maxy a '*nwho has come through a life c duesand perhaps sin, to cl l ~jwoulbe shaking up the pcotn - ui, and if he were directed to take ~oiya teaspoonful after eacih :neuU ,.wndbe so anrious to make sur .orhe would take a tableesonfr if directed to take a tabolespoon!o ( uol ake a glassful. But somne of on would have to go back~ fu'rthr tha twenty-one years of age to~ mz - -for there are many who ~ to get all wrong before Lo.t' pierod. Yea, in order to get a fair start some would have to go back :a ~--the father and mother and get them sorrected; yea, to the grandfa~ther ~.ad Sgrandmother and have their lire cor ected, for some of you are sfi-4; Hfrom ba'eedtr influences wvhich > started a hundred years ago. Well, if T your grandfather lived his life over >-aanand your father lived his lif'e 0 over again and you lived yo)urie~ .)er ,~.again, what a cluttered up place this 6 ~world would be, a place fillei w.Z miseraole attempts at repairs. i begin to think that it is better for each gven.-4 Seration tohave only one chan~c.e anid < -' hen for them to pass otl and give an -other generation a chance. ri Beside that, if we were permitted to live life over again, it would be a stale g -and stupid experience. The zest and a spur ad enthusiasm of L fe come from q1 the fact that wehave nover been along i this road before, and everything Ms g Snew, and we are alert for what may. -appear at the next turn of the road.~ Suppose you, a ma~n in mid-life or old t age, were, with your present feelings . -and large attainments, put bacz into a y~~fier the twenties, or .into cs Sthe teens, whit a-nfuisance von, would ~ Sbe to others and whatan unhappiness k to yourself. Your contemporaries te would not want you and you woulu a: 1>not want them. Things that in your | Liprevious journey of life stirred your I !Wealthful ambition, or gave you pleas. | i2urable surprise, or led you into happy i nterrogation, would only call forth gr rom you a disgusted "Oh, pshaw!" I Y ou would be blase at thirty and a misanthrope at forty and unendurable CAd at ifty. The most inane and stupid : thing imaginable would be a second ourney of life. It is amusing to hea people say: "I would like to live my -lif over again,if I cold take mypras i ot expeience and kncowle :ge of jt things back with me and begiu under i these improved auspices" ''Why, wh~au, an uninteresting boy yuu would be wih your present attainments in a "l ld's mind.I Besides that, would you want to ri'k I I r -om the mhet that you im'e here I con- r ude that though in -iany respects . ,ur life may have been uo forturmte 3 ix unconsecrated yon Iha' e got on so r tolerably weil, if urthing more ] an tolerqble. As for zn s Kf. though V life has been fa- frt.n , ti" s - !crated as I would like to Uage hd Iwould not want to try it over .ain, lest next time I would do worse. thy, just look at the tamptations we ave all passed through and just look t the multituides who have gone com letely under. Just call over the roll f your schoolmates and college mates, be eerks who were with you in Lhe ame store or bank, or the operatives a the same factory, with just as good rospects as you, who have come to omplete mishap. Some young man hat told you that he was going to be millionae and own the fattest trot es on the Westchester turnpike and -etire by the timo he was thirty-five ,ars of age, you do not hear from for any years, and know norning about um until some dey he cotaes into your storeaskibg for five ceuts to get a mug fbe.r. You, good mother ofa house iold and all your childrei rising up to .1 ou blessed, can rereemb-r when .u vere quite jealcus of the belit of aillage who was so transceudedt y and popular But wliile y ou have hse two honorable and (utey -uneI of wife and mother, she became I p or waif of the street., and went into blackness or dark-iess forever. [Ive ife over again? Why,if many of Aue- who are r-v respectable 'vere permitted to experi.ent, thle aaxt journay would be demlmtion. You have got through, as Joo says, by the skin of the te:'h. Ne. tim' oti might not gt trough at all. Maan would say: 'I i:ow him now 5ett.e than I did beftre, and have for sity years been sudi yin g his we k *xt-es', and 1 wili 'ave a tron.er web if circumstauos to catch ua ext time." And Satan would con enter his forces on this - ne man, and the last state of that maa woud be worse than the first. My friends, our faces are in i ie right direction. Bet tr go forward thau backward, even il we had the choice The greatest isas ter Ican thi.k of would be foryoI to return to your boyhood in 1S90. Oh, if i% were. a siao!i Luzerne or Cay ga lake, I w-uld like to get into a yscut and sail over it, not once, but ,wie,-yea a taousand times. But life is an uncertain sea, and some of re ships crash on the iceburgs, of ..ld inditiere-.ce, and scme take fir f eAil passion, and ,ome b-se their iearings and run into the sirries, %nd somat are never heard of. Surci v n such a treacherous sea as that one voyage is enough. Besides all this. do you know tat. f you could have your wish and live te over again it would put you s;) much further frotra reunion with your riends in heaven? if you are in the oon of life or in the evening of li.e vou are not very far from the gate at kvhich you are to meet your transport ad and emparadised loved ones. Y.!u re now, let us say, twenty years, or en )ears or one year Off from celes ial conjunc ion Now suppose you went back in your earthly life thirty years or forty years or tifty years, what an awful postponement of the ime of 'reunion I It would be as ,hough you were going to San Fran -isco to a great banquet and you got to Oakland, four or tive miles this side f it, and then-came back to Hoboken -r Harlem to get a better start; as ~hough you were you were going to rgland.to be crowned and having 3me in sight of the mountains ot Wales you put back to Sandy Hook in >rier to make a better voyage. The airther on you get in life,ifa Christian, :he nearer you are to the renewal of roken up companionlsnip No; the wheel of time turns in the righ t direc ~ion, and it is well it turns so fast. hree humdad-and-r*ixty-five- revolu jos in a year and 'forward. r-atherl Ean three hundred and sixty five rev. utions in a year and backward. But lear ye! hear ye! w bile I tell you how ou may practically live your life ver again and be all the better for it.j fou may put into the remaining years >f your life alt you have learned of sisdom in your past life. You may nae tho coming ten years worth the >eceding forty or fifty years. When man says he would lhke to live his fe ever again because he would do so nuch better, and yet goes right on iving as he has always lived, do you 0t see that he scultifies himself? He rves that it he could go back he vould do almost the same as he has one. If a man. eat vreen apples some Wednesday in cholera time, and is rown into fearful err'mps and says - Thursday: ( wi a I had been more irudent ir mny diet; oh, if I could live Vednesday over again," and then on 'ridiy eats apples just as areen, he ,raves th~at it would have been no adR antage for hin to live Wednesliay ever again. And if w a deplore our ast lire and with the idea of improve nt, long for an opportuni-:y to try it ver again, yet go on inktio; the same istakes and commif ting the same ins, we only demonstra e that the epetition of our existence would af nd no improvement It was green ppes before and it would be green .pples over again. As soon as a ship aptain strikes a rock in the lake or ca, he reports it and a buoy is swung ver that reef and mariners hencefor h tand ofi from that rock. And all our iistakes in the past ought to be buoys earning as to keep ia the rigtht chan Besides that.we have all these years een learning how to be usefal, and a the next decade we ought to accomn lisi more for God anti the church d the world than in any previous >ur decades. The best way to atone >r past indolence or past transgres io is by future assiduity. Yet you ften find Christian men who were ot converted until they were forty or fty, as old age comes on, saying: Well, my work is about done and it time for me to rest." T asy gave >rty years of thei~r aitet to Satan anncI ie world, a little fragment of their< fe to God, and now they want to t. Whether that belongs to comedy tragedy I say not. The man who ave one half of his earthly existenceC >the world and of the remaining t wo arters one to Christian work andC e other to rest, would not,T euppose, at a very brilliant recepition in aven. If there are any dried leaves iheaven they would be appropriate Ir his garland: or if thero is any9 Lrone in heaven with broken steps would would be appropriate for his j ionation; or any harp wi~h-rei~iede rings itivould be appropriate for his b igering. MIy brother, you give nine- d nts of your life to sin and Sat:an t d then get converted and then rest t' vhile in sanctified iaziaesss and then ti up to get your heavenly reward, I Ld I warrant it will not take the a shier of the royal banking house a - eat while to count out to you all' sur dues. He will not ask you aether you willihave it in bills of large nomination er small I would like 'Tis worth a wisQ man's past of tle, 'Tis worth a thousan d years ofiarife, ', If thou canst lessen but by one d The countless ills beneath the sun. As I supposed it would be, there are 'I atitudes of young people listeuing ' this sermon on whom this subject E acted with the forc-: of a galvanic i , ttery. Without my saying a word In them, they have soliloquived, say-| y "As one cannot. live his life over | ain, and I can make onlyontrp ast look out and make no mnistakes bc nako the~ most of it." My young ~riend% 1am g!-d you made this ap )icaTion of the sermon yoursuAf. hone'f a tr dnister .Awardl I he close of Ils serm-m) sa.ye: 'No a few words byw:. pplicationi," people begin to !:tkaretd fo r their hats and get heir armu througbh one sleeve of their overcuats, and t he sermonic applica tion le a failur-e. I am glad you have made your o*; u application and that you are resolved, like a Quaker of wvhom I read years ago, who, in sub stance, said: "I shalt be along this path of life but once and so I must do all the kindness I can~ and all the good t can " Miy hearers, the mis tak es of y outh can never be corrected. Time gone is gone forever. An op pertunity passe I the thousandth part of a second has by or~e leap reached the other' side f .. grat merrity. In the suumn wv hiu i* ebir : .mga you:L ..; kg upV e'bd tilak with2 wi:Ss ami : b-- fr. su trching todlay I look up~ :uNl se.e w larg-e wiogs in 1uW sw-p 'hey are the wings of the fly i year. Tfl.tt is fol lowed by ' flnek ot t bree iLundred ernd forty-tive, and t.hey arethe. tiyin~ <days. Eatii of:.he lia itig days is foltowed by twcet.y-four, an~d they are the~ flyvag hoar-s, innd each' 'f these is followed by sixtyv, andl tht se are the fiying~ minutes. Where did this greait flock start from? Etarnity past. Where a-e they bound? Eteruity to camne. You rnight as well go agun niug for the qualis that. w hi tied last v':r in the meadows or rho robiais tbat last vear caroled in rho) sky as to try to fetch down and ba~t on'e of thr past opportunities of your ife. Dinet say, "I will lounge now and make i' up afterwards." Young men and boys, you can't make ir, .ip. Mv observation is ibat those who in you h sowed wild oas to the end of o>f their .short life sawed wild oats, and that those w'ho start rsowing Generee wheat always sow Ge aesce wheat. And then the reaping oif the harvest is s3 ditferent. There is grau'dfather nowv. He has lived toQ old age t'ecause. his hai'ts havei been good His eyesight for this word 'sas got somewha ditn, but his eyesight for heaven is radiant. Hid hearing is not se acute as it once was, ahd he must betnd clear over to hear what his 'iule grardeiid says when she asks him what he has br->ught for Ler. But be .'asily catch es the music rais.:d from sup'ernal spheres Out yonder i' a man very old1 at forty years of ago, at a time when be ought t., he butt; set as the mortaing HEo got bad hahits fn hi-n very early and those habits have !Ieen worse. He is a man ou tire, on fire wuti alhio holism, on tire with all evil habits, cut with tha world and theO world out with him. Down and filling deeper. His swo:leni hands ha his tnrea-lbare pocket< and his eyes fixed on the ground, he passes tEnreugh the street, and the quick step of an innocent child or the strong step of a young man or the rell of a prosp -rous car riage mnaddens him, and be curses so cicby and he curses God. Fallen sick. with no rescurces, he is carried to the aimshouse. A loathsome Npectacle, he lies all day long waiting f-r dissolutiou or in the night rises om his cot and fights apparitio--s of what he might have been and of what he will be He starte.. life with as good a prospect as any mnau on the American continent but there he is a bloated carcass wait ing for t h4 sh->vels of public charity to put him tive feeb under . He has only reaped what he~ sowed. Harvest of wild oea-s! "There is a way that seemieth right to a man, but the end thereof i' death " Yeung man, as -:ou cannot live life ever ~again, how ever you may long to do so, be sure to have your one life right. There is in this august assembly, I wot not, for we are made up of all sections of this land and frem maoy lands, some young man who has gone away from home and perhaps under soame little spite or evil persuasion of a auo'her, ancd his parents know not where he is. MIy son, go home! Do not go to sea! Don't go to night where you may he tempted to go. Go home! Your fa ther will be glad to see you ar.d your mother. I need not tell you how shc feels. How I would like to make your perents apreseot 'of their way ward boy, repentant and in his right mind. I would like to write Them a letter and you to carry the letter saying. "By the blesaing of God on my sermon I introduce to you ono whom you have never seen before, for he has be come a new creature in Christ, Jesus." My boy, go home and put your tired, tired head on the bosom that nursed you so tenderly in -your childhood years. A young #cotchman gas in battle taken captive by a band of In dians, and he learsed their language an'd adopted their habits. Years passed on; but the o1(1 Indian chieftain never forgot that he had in his pos session a young mant who did not be long to him Well, one day this tribe of Indians ocune in sight of the Scotch regiments from whom this young man had been captured, and the old In dian chieftain said: "'I lost my son in battle and I know ho w a father feels at the loss of a son Do you think your father is yet alive?" The young rman said; "I am the only son of my father, and I hope he is still alive." Then said the Indian chieftain: "B,-. cause of the loss of my son this world is a desert. You go free. Esturn to your countrymen. Revisit your fa ther, that he may rejoice when he sees the sun rise iia the morning and the trees biossom in the spring." So [ say to you, young man, captive of way wardness and sin: Your father is waiting for you. Your mother is' waiting for you. Your sisters are waiting for you. God is waiting fox fon. Go home! Go home! A Modern Wonder. Thu great bridge over the River Forth tt E-lingburgh w bich was opened last 'uesd ay is one of the wonders of mod ~rn engineering. It is the greatest bridge :ver constructed en the caatilever prin iple. IL was becun in 18h53 and in its uilding over 50,000 toes of the finest teel nave been used. The bridge proper 3 over a raile long, and the viaducts at ach end add a half mile to its length. t has in its central prti. - two spans ~f 1,710 feet each, which are the longest ver attemnpted. The emsin span of the lrooklyn bridige, the next longest in the vorld, is 1,000 feet, while the longe-st pan at Niagara is only 80S feet. It re uired the -labor of an army of men for" even years to coostruct the great Foriji ridge. At'ot-time 4,500 men were mnployed on it. Such a great work can ardly be completed without some acci ent to those engaged it. The total umber of lives lost durig the coastruc on of thia bridge was fifty-three, five of dem from drowning. There were no as than 54:3 Don-fatal accidents to the -orkmien. Riot in the Atlanta Jail. 1 A riot occurred in the Atlanta jail: 'uesday afternoon. Henry Falvey, a rhite prisoner, and Sol Turner, a ne re, quarreled and fought. Falvey rew a concealed knife and- stabbed 'urner badly in the breast and head. 'he figtht then became general. Po ce were called in and stopped it. esides Turner, a negro named Moses 'as badly injured by blows on the sad from a piece of box. -A consciesce contribution fromn "J. .B.,'' Charleston, 8. C., o' $230.25, has ~en received at the Treasury Depart II ent. It SLAIN IM SPARTANBURG. GEO. S. TURNER SHOOTS TO DEATH E. H. FIN4ER 'THE BROTHER OF HiS WIFE. The Causes that Led to the Terrible I)eed E-EMorssto Lynch the staYer---!riuuph of the Law Over the Hub. Another bloody tragedy stains the record of our county. On Friday af ternoon Gao. S. Turner slow his broth in law, E. H. Finger, in toe public read at Valley Falls. The deed was done with a pistol, and Finger died in a few minutes after receiving his death wound. He never spoke after ward. TURNER's ACCOUNT OF THE TRAGEDY. Geo. S. Turner has furnished the fol lowing statement to the reporter of the Columbia Register: "Finger was walking and a negro was driving the wagon. I did not meet Finger on the road, but walked out of the house and was going to my gin house. The woman (Sparke) came to get pay for some washing, and did not say any thing about the matter between her and Finger. W. J. Fieger, a trother of E. H. Finger, the slain mar, and the latter were cursing the womana as she came up to the door where I wasistanding, as given in his own words bolow. "Fiuger became abusive, but was car ried off by Dan Willia:ns, a negro man,' towards bome. He came back, bow ever. "Finger told the negro to turn him loose, as I had dared him to holier there in the road, which I denied to Fnger and told him to go off and leave me alone. Tben he tore loose from the negro, and after he tore loose he had his pistol out nd shot. "When he drew his pis'ol the colored man had turned him loose. I did not say 'Let him come, I'll fix him,' as stated in the paper, or threaten to kill the negro if he didn't turn him loose. That is all wrong. "After he drew his pistol. FINGER SHOT TWICE. "One ball struck pretty near me in the ground, and the other struck my store house. I think the first ball struck the ground near me, as the smoke rose all around me. I ONLY FIRED ONE SHOT, and after he quit shooting I quit also. "I pulled my pistol when Finger start ed to pull his-wben the negro caught him and he then couldn't get his pistol out. I held my pistol in my hand then, and when he came back he had his *is;ol bointed at me. He fired twice and I fired once after he had fired his two shots, immediately after his second shot." ACTING THE TRAGEDY. That the reporter might make no mis take and should understand exactly his account of the matter, Turner in the jail corridor gave a sort of pantomimic representation of the affray. Stepping off six p'ces from the report er, and coolly oounting as he stepped, he said that was about the distance be tween him and Finger. Raising his hand as though levefling a pistol, he said that was the way Finger fronted him while he (Turner) heid bis pistol in his hands. Ie thoaught Ficger was watching the smeke rising up from around the discharge of his pibtol, but that he (Turner) bad hi' eye en the barrel of his own pistol. He said that after Finger was shot he walked to the bridge over the creek near by. and half acrosas it, before het fell. It was a mistake that he was kiled instantly. -- WHAT BROUT ON THE TRACEDY. In relation to the causes wich were alleged to have brought about the trag edy, and as to the published accounts in reference to the snme, Mr. Turner made the following statement: "I was not particularly mbd with E. H. Finger, the man now dead. but I had heard of his having threatened my life on two or more occasions "It was a suit for $25,000 damages and not $10,000 as sta'ed in the news pa'vers, brought in thbe csse for the -e duction of Clara Finger the slain man's sister and my sister-in- law. "The day I received the summons I went to irs. Finger's house, where E. H. Finger lived, for the purpose of stop 'tping this suit. I gave notice to Clara of my coming to the gate. Finger came out Os the piazza 'WITH His DOUBLE-.SARRELLED orN. cocked it, and took deliberate aim at me. I jumped behind a tree and tried to draw my pistol. Fitiger then took the gun down from his face, and the mat ter eased. AN UNAccEPTED cALNE "Once after that, across the creek from my store, he cursed me very loudly end dared me across the creek. I 'd not go. This was the second case. "I'll state that 1 thiok that this man, E. H. Finger, did not want to kill me on account of the seduction of his sister, but that he was persuaded or actuated by my enemies." HE SPEAKS OF His sIsTER-IN-LAW. After a few momenta' reflection, on being asked if he had anything more I that ae wished to say. Mr. TtfreerC said: "I have not spoken of this seduction matter before to any one but Sheriff. Nicholls, but without saying that I dig4 it. I will say this: *'I have one great reason why I should always like my sister, Clara Finger, C and that is she made a pleading reque~st ' of me to quit strong drink, which I have r gait for nearly twelve months. "I will also say that I believe that if C Clara will lay aside all the lies, persua. I sions and inducements that have been ~ offered and told to her since that educ- s tion suit was commenced, andl will put a herself back as she was the night that C her mother left homea AT THE DEAD HOUR OF MIDNIGIIT, c to ring this suit against me. and she S will make a full statement of the mat- rr ter, I believe, I say, that there will be no a: cause of blame upon me about the se- ix duction case, and I think that she will sl say that I have never treat ed her wrong- U] fully. cLAI~s TIlE K1LLING WAs JUSTIFIABLE. In relation to the alieged c'ondition of public sentiment against him, Turner "I don't think that there were any well thinking men in the mob who. sought to lynch me, or if there were, it ~ was by a misunderstanding of -the truee facts in the case. P "If W. J. Finge:, my wife's brothe~r k and the brother of the slain mar', vill t4 estify to the full truth and the whole W ruth in the killing matter, I believe er hat it will satisfy all reasonable people 9' hbat the homicide was justifiable." OX st; COT AFRAID TO STAY iN CPARTANrBURG- br "Did the Sheriff tell you that I wae | iot afraid to be kept in Spartauburg?"| d ~his man accused of t wo crimes aeked | cO he reporter. On being told ths' Sher- I Ef Nicholls had spoken highly of the! erve he had displayed, and had sa'id he| vas net unwilling to remain in the Spar. aaburg jail, Turser said. "Let me bu ake a statement aut that," and con inued as follows: Ic THE MOU S TERTRIBT.E THREAT. "I was not willing to leave Sp:.rtan- co urg until the Sheriff informed me that o md get Clara Finger end push her alont. a fr.nt ui4 they could ge. to my cel L( Yill me. "iThe. I e'-n1d. beh I N was fear L i thev brou:0:t rir t-re in the nit ek -:s, t kiiled. and i ro : to bo m'Ie or-p .vrk.- "r -.~a~h ! of iac'n Th t. inew, aui 'er b' :e 'haI was ac juninted with im, TtI: 1,OVEI) CLANA F!NGER As A SISTER IN LAW Lad always had loved her from a child. tod they were fully r.wpire that I woul: -zv' uk my owa life rs'her than tha -he siinuti be kled in "uch a cowardlv AFTER TURER'S BLOOD. %n Angry Mob Come to flave Ehe Prim Omer. The feel'agc against Turner around Vallev Fdls was intese. On Saturday nigbr rumors of ad; -ermination to lynch hi-n reached the 1it; on Sunday uneasiness prevailed bere, but ro manifes'asion was made until Monday morning. The people of Valley Falls had re 2eived notice that a party of200 lynch ers. thoroughly organized, would reach towr. en Monday at noon, and were instructed to be prepared there to assist in the lynching. About two hundrod of them assembled near the Morgan Monument. When twelve /'cloci arrived, and the North Carolina lynchers did not come, the crowd grew restless and ugly. They wanted to lynch the prisoner without further delay; but, relying on the organized mob which they expectd, they were without concert or leadership. SheriL Nicholls and his deputies, Brewton und Vernon with Mr. Andiew Moore ar.d Ed: Gentry were in the jail arm ed with Winchester rifls, ehot guns and revalvers. Mr. Ncho!ls was a brave Coafederz-. ,oldier, with a -enuta;in for courAg ind devotion to duty wnich ai kr.ow!. ul over the country ahd byeond it. Et was stsndi:ig behind the bars declaring that no ma-i should reich Turner but >ver his dad "ody. They knew the man and no one was willing to charge him. Finally four me.'r. went to the encamp mebt for the canoin belonging to toe Spartan Arullhry. They raised it up with a shout and hurrah, and unlimber d itin front of the jail. The men who brought the. gun were members of the artillery company and knew how to use it. The men in the jiii were armed with Winchester rifles. rhe distance was seventy.five yards. A bloody duel at short range with artillery and rifles seemed imminent. Men who bad remembered the scene of blood at Birmingharn, began to Ecater from the streets, but stili thn narro'v jail alley was packed wi-h excited men. No ons knew whether the cannon was loaded. The men in the jail thought so and were determined that it should never be fired into the building. They were ready with leveled rifles to shoot ofA the gunners at the first hostile move ment. Tne gua was not loaded. The men in charge Lad made tbcir plans to ase iron tish bars from the railroad and iteelyard peas for cannon shot, but rtey had not yet gotten them. The crowd was gett.Jg momentary more %cited. Jr.t it this moment Mayor ulenneman met the editor of the HERALD an isad. "What is to be done now?" "Seize tne gun and spike it," replied Mr. Jones. Mayor Hexueman'. .resoiution was :aken att osce. There was no time to >rgarizs a force. What was to be dcue nust be (lone promptiy. He had but ix policemen at his command, but he lid not hesitate. "Follow me," he continued, and they noved down Jaii street, through the nob. Mr. .Jlones ran through Archer's etore and rushed up on the opposite tide of the crannorn with the shoet, "Spike the.gun and arrest the men who rought it here"! Mayor Hlennemnan placei his foot on :he cannon and said: "I 'will arrest :he first man who touches the gun." It was a critical moment. The man in :haerge of the gua, taken by surprise, itepped back in the crowd. Mr. E. H. Jarver, who was one of them, says that 2e saw half :drunkea men on all sides, ~eachingfor thbeir pistols,and that he saw >ne man draw a self-cocking revolver, ted the hammer was half raised from :be cartridge, when some one seizbd it tnd stopped him. A sirgle shot fired va drunken coward would have been he signal for a bloody fusilade. Before hey recovered from their surprise, Mr. rones seized a hatchet, and drove a nail n the touch hole of the cannon, and in ess than two minutes six policemen tnd two civilians had captused the :annon in the face of two hundred ingry men, and spiked it, aid the langer was over, and a dezen negn es vcere ~rundling the useless cannon .nto be jal. Without artillery the jail i's inpregnable. The condi:ion in the jail was hardly ess exciting, and the danger from that laarter was greater than from the mob. l'he officers did not understand the cud len commo-iou and thought that the at ack was commen-:ing. Their guns were eady, their fingers on the triggers, and he Sheritf was o:. the point of giving he order to fire when Mayor Henoeman eld un his handkerchief. The men in harge of that cannon never keew how ear they were to death. Fr~ends of Sheriff Nicholls telegraphed o the Governor for military aid. When he Sheriff heard of it he at once tele-1 raphe the Governor that he could defend is prisoner without assist ance and would o so at -.11 hazards, and the military ras not called on. That night, it was. eported, another attack would he made. Dformation was brought that the moth-5 r and sister of the slain man wouldt tsd the lynchers, bslieving that the herii would not fire on them. Cojn- 5 arvative citize'is went to the Sheriffc nd urged him to carry the prisoner to olumbia and allay ine excitement, and b void the bloodshed which they kuew culd follow anattack on the jail. The r overcr telegraphed the same advice. > after suptper the Sheriff quiedy re oved the prisoner, drove down to Union td there boarded the train Tuesday orning, and on Tuesday night Tur..er& ept in Richland jail. -Spartanburg erald. That Remarkable Jury. Despite the denials of Mr. ChanC 'er It d other Republican Senators. ;be ekson'ville Times-Union reiterates its arnge that the recent grand jury drawn the United Sates Cour t for the~ North n District of Fhrida, Judge Swain yc esiding, was packed with Republican and jury men. It shows that of the *eflty three jurors selected, twenty-two yc :re Republicans and cn.y one a Demo- M at. A prominent Jacksonville mathe- w. tticatn figured upon it, under the ruies he cimbnations aod chances, demon- kr at:ng that, if the names in the jury 3~ x represented as' equal number of imocrats ard Repuh!tcans. ad the awirg w:is fa irly done, M'Ich a reault ald happen but once ir.82:;.50'7 times. nic IDest ruct ive Fire in (incinnat i. IC IN~..rr M::t eb 3.-Th-'e l.e r-tory wi ih: cro the naem corner ''f hi ir :o Im If re [(t, 'oed ad te- 101 phdb en yr& Co , ';e of is largesa' an'i 'aeot: :ict ci"!hing g nufctuin ' :tirms in this ci:', wa an ny letely destroed by lire urly this th: CORN AND WHEAT. Unprecedented Quatititiew IRemaining in the 1sand, of Grawerm. IVASUINGToN D. C., Mareh 13. -The untistical rep.rt of the Depirtmont of A.Lriculture for March relate- to the tiis riumion and consumption of corn ard wyleat. It makes the proportion of the :orn crop in the hands of growers 45 9 per cent. or 970,000,000 bashels, and of )f the wheat erop 31.9 per cent., Dr 156,000 000 bushels. The stock of :orn on hand is the largest ever report ed in Marcb, of the largest crop %fter tbe mildest winter. Tbe average of eight annual returns is 67 7,000,000 tush tel. That of lat year was 787.000 000 huehels. The estimated consumotion to larch 1st is 1,143,000,000 busheIs. Tbe igures are exceeded only by last year'b and 1886. The proportion of mnerchant able corn of the crop of 1889 is 85.7 per -ent., exceeded only ny those -f 1884 rnd 1876. The average value of all carn !- the first of December was 28.3 cents per bushel. The average on the first of Siarch was 27 8 cents for merchantable and 19 2 for unmercbantable, making the aggregate of value $35,000,000 less ARn the December estimate. Th: wheat crop of 1889 was exceeded b-y the crops of ISSO and 1882 and 1834, I'e average remaining in the hands of ,he growers on the first of March for ten Fesrs past has been 130,000,000 bushels; rne average yield during this period be ing 450,000,000 bushels. How are the Folks? "Oh, they're all well except Motter, she's about the rsme. Pour Mother, worn out by honsehold cares, exposure nd overwork. No wonder she gives up at lasr and takes to her bed. But )h! how much brighter the family ire side would be if mother's chair was not vacant The docto;-s don't seem to be doing her any good. She says their medicines don't seem to go to the spot. She feels so weak and longs for strength. "Oh! give me strength," she murmurs. Why not give her the remedy her system craves? Her im poverished blood and shattered nerves are starving for just such ingredients as are contained in B. B. B. (2otanic Blood Balm). Then try a bottle of this excellent remedy. It is truly woman's best friend. It quickly re lieves pain and restores health and strength and functional regularity. James W. Lancaster, Hawkinsville, Ga , writes: "My wife wrs in bad bealth f:r eight years. Five doctors itnd as many more patent medi uines had done no good. Six bottles of B. B. B. have cured her." All's- Well Th:; Ends Well. LAnRItxs, 3aarch 13.-Three months ago Miss Cornelia Virginia Chapman, a fair young laey from the banks of the foaming Saluda, came to the city in search for lawyers. She found a couple and told them a tale of woe, the purport ef which was that Jne. R. Wells, a neighboring and gallant ycun.r farmer, had sought and-obtained her affections, but that on the arrival of the time set for the marriage Wells had been seized with a fit of procrast ination which htd since become chron ic. The lawyers estimated the breaks in the lady's heart and sued Wells for t6,000 damages, which junt .,omforta bly sized his pile. When the Court of Common Please opened in February Miss Chapman was on hand with a cloud of witnesses, but before the case was called, suddenly disappeared. The case was continued. Yesterday the news came here that Miss Chapman bad dropped her suit, that WVells had renewed his and pushed it to a success fulI issue and that the parties are ex perimenting as to whether or not mar riage is a failure. The learned counsel refuse to be comforted. The Mother's Friend, used a few weeks before confinement, lessens the pain and makes labor quick and com paratively easy. Sola by all drug pists. Col. D, Ki. Norris Seriously ill. It ha. been learned here that Col. D. E. Norris, at Pendleton, has been the victim of a partial stroke of paralysis, lepriving him of the use of the right ilde of his face. Few particulars have 3een received of the unfurtunate affil :ion Colonel N{orris, who .was one td be tnree Clemson College Trustees who went to Starkville. Masssippi, to ex uthine into the State Agriculhural College :laere, was stricken while at .'Starkville. Ele was brought homne by his collesgue. Dol. R. W. Simpson, and reached Pen leton last Thursday. It is stared that ~is physicians, while not being appre ensive of immediate serious resub's rem the stro, prescribe for the >atient absolute rest and quiet avd free fota from excitement. I; is supposed that this uslooked for 15Mudiden ilness will result rnecessarily nt the withdrawal of Colonel Norria r(om the race for Judge Cuthran's seot n Congress from the Third District, i which he was fairly entered. Colonei f'orris being a prominent Farmer' iovemient mas and an active Alliat ce cader, was regarded sea strong causdi late, and his enforced withdrawal, st nuch to be regretted, would preba-1y nake a decided change in the outleok. Ireeznville News. Cotton Seed Hulls and Meal. Bulletin No. 3 of the Teanessee Ex >eriment station, c.intainsa the iuresti ations of Professor Stone, upon the ubject of ceston aeed as foord for cat Ie. The following are the condensed onciu~iens: 1. The practice of feeding cottcru sed hulls and meal as an exe~usire die. well e'stablashed, and increasing ia be vicinity of the cotton seed oil in ustry. All the informration availabhe idicates that -he practice is econosn' al and profitable. 2. Ii seems in no. myv harmful to the enlhb of the animal n'or to the headh ainees of the products (eef ard 'tr.ilis) ~sulting. 6. The diet seems adapted bath te production ol beef and mtAt.a a elI as milk. 4. Tne average ration al--C~ee: seaf4:pe unds of hulls, and tire :hths pound of meal detily. 5. The hulls are a cheap and effec' e substitute for bay. 6. The manure produced by thia I stem of feeding is an importanr, fac-. r in cronsidering its profiableness. Not the sme Party. Pastor to hired boy--So I have cauginr *u stealing apples out >f t be barrels. Hired Boy-Ye.s, parson, I own uL'. Don't you know, Thomnas, that whea u steal you commit a heinons sm?~ >reover, there is a being who sees uit do, before whom even I bow my ad with fear and trembling. Do yo~u ow who I mean? ~our wife, I euppcse.-Texas Siftings.j Senator Brown to Retire. Senator Joseph E. Bro an says his - bition is fully satistied; that he will t bela candidate for re-election to! a United States Senate, and that he 11 retire from office at the end of Spresent term and thus close his ig political career. '.b~is statement made by authority. The Journal ' ts it from the Senator's own lips, a it is coupled with the statement v tt Senator Brown believes that Gov-1 ior Gordon will be liis successor in . iR;nate.-.Atlanta Jonal. - FEMALE CAMP-FOLLOWERS. How African Wonitm Take an Active Part ini 'Exploring Exped i tions. Quite a l:tr(ge nunber of the peop'e Whom0rII Stante has jnst brought from central Africa. says the N. Y. Sun, are women and chiliren, the families of the Ergyptian .:oldiers who abandned the Upper Nile with Emin. Native women have taken an active part in the toils and hairdships of nearly every exploring expedition that has entered Africa. One of the most pathetic in-, cidents in the story of Stanley's first journey acroes the dark continent was that of the woman who, following the fortunes of her husband. trudged from sea to sea and then died of her priva tions at the mouth of the Congo, just as the party were about to take the steamer on their homeward journey. Col. Gallieni says that one of the 'most curious incidents of his labors in Senegal was the. regiment of women that constantly followed his columns as he pushed through the wilderness to the Upper Niger. .There was great la mentation in the camp three years ago, when he made his rapid march against the Marabout Lamine, because he de clined to let the women accompany his black soldiers for fear they would re tard the rapid march of his troops. A little later, however, the women and children joined the column as it marched to the Niger, and Gallieni says the women were among the mosi useful members of the expedition. His black soldiers,unlike the French troops, did not like to oceupy themselves with culinary details and other work of the camp. They left all these cares to their women, who took eharge of the rations and prepared the meals; and on the march they lightened the bur den of their husbands by carrying a good share of the baggage. The sol diers, having little but their arms and munitions to carry, were able to make longer marches. "I have rarely had any cause." says Col. Gallieni, "to complain of these women, who readily adapted themselves to our military dis cipline." The unmarried soldiers found that their more fortunate comrades were able to take life much easier than they, and therefore did not fail to improve any favorable opportunity of getting wives. Among the spoils of war was the harem of the Marabout Lamine, and the ladies cheerfully consented to make an equal number of bachelors happy. Thereafter these. women were among the most faithful workers in the camp and apparently had no regrets for their former lord, who ran away from them. In their long journeys through Africa Capella and IvenF, the Portuguese ex plorers. regularly enlisted women as well as men, and found them most use ful adjuncts to their expeditions. They said the women carried loads nearly as heavy as those of the men, did al the cooking, and made fewer com plaints. A number of explorers give similar testimony to the value of wo men on long expeditions. The notion that women are inferior to men euriously enough has led to very different results in two countries widely separated. It is found that many Burmans are anxious to have their sons attend English schools, be lieving their chance in life are thus im proved; but they are not at all anxious that their daughters should have sim ilar advantages. In Senegal, on the other hand, when the French recently besought ti.c chiefs to trust them with their sons, to be educated at govern ment expense, somec of the natives re plied: --We wish to keep our boys at home to it them to be chiefs them selves. But if you want girls you can have all vou will take, and teachi them everythiung in the books." IN PURSUIT OF SNAKES.r A Couector's Hunt After a Rather Igly Looking Reptile. There is a popular prejudice against even the most harmless snakes, and few people would carry the collector's rage so far as to attempt the capture of an ugly-looking reptile with the bare hands. But the born naturalist, like the born sportsman, does not mind any slight risk when his blood is up. In Shermnan F. Denton's "Incidents of a Collector's Rambles" is the following account of an incident belonging to his stay in Australia: . Snakes were rather numerous, and one (lay, while walking in the thick scrub, I[ clime across a large, light brown one, coiled upon 'the ground. He was by far the largest specimen I had ever seen at large, and was proba bly tea or twelve feet long, and as thick as a man's leg at the knee. I thought at first I would shoot him in the head with a light charge of shot, and carry home his s -'n. Then I con sidered that, if taken alive, he would be worth five times as much. Feeling about in my pocket and game bagI at'last found a leather strap with a buckle. I drew the strap through the buckle, making a noose, and thus armed, started cautiously toward his snakeship, intending to put the noose over his head. As soon as I came near,he partly un coiled, opened his mouth very wide, thereby disclosing his sharp teeth, and, hissing spitefully, struck at' me. I odged behind a small tree, and, lean ing out as far as I dared, tried several times to noose him. He was very sav ge, and looked powerful enough to :rush me in his folds. At this junct arc my courage was at rather a low bb. After 1 had teased him for some ime, he suddenly decided to leave my ompany, and stairted off at full speed. I caught up my gun and went after im, and, by hard running through the crub, managed to head him off. He topped, coiled up again, and again I ried the neose. He was equal to the >casion, putting his head under his oils in a very sulky manner; but as ~on as I reached out, and caught him y the tail lie pulled away with great ~oree and started off once more. This tinie lie took refuge under s, allen tree:: nd before I could head him ff, he was gliding down the hole ome wild beast, which was partly con ~eaeslby- teaHer~srnes T reached. he spot just as the last two or thret>.. et were going down, and seizing his al with both hands, I hung on desper tlv. Wfith my feet braced against a. limly fa tree, I pulled till the tail cracked. Ld snapped, as if it would break suder. Sometimes he pulled me rithin a fow inches of the hole, and. len I would brace up on the limb, and rag him half way out. At last I1 grew so tired that I had to t go my hold,and, with many regrets, saw the last few inches of the tail ~isappear beneath tb e ground. A Soap-3tubble Outfit. Somiebody has imirenited a soap-bufs e onuitit. It is pat in ai neat box, and acluides a1 peculiar- kindl of pipe, made specially to blow- .ubles, a special rand of soap, wamated to beat the rorld for iluity of .iilnL. anid other ap lanuces. Lonitlon's Foir Tower. I'.u- hun~dred nlaus have already eenr tle by :e commaittee who tiere p:5 I f- tie best ~uid second t.. pla:: for Ihen propose.1I Watkin Luer >- nh Elil. It will be ohigh h:t l tha:t nleed be (lone heni i n-:noms :n will be to cnter the t and in a fe-w i:nnutites be u y in the DR. AMAGESMOTHER. &n Eloquent T-ibute to Her 0emory by the Famous Preacher. I never write or speak to woman, says Dr. Talmage in the Ladies' home Journal, but my mind wanders off to one model-the aged one who, twenty four years ago, we put away for the resurrection. About eighty years ago. and just be fore their marriage day. my father and mother stood up in the old meeting house at Somerville, N. J., and took upon them the vows of the Christian. Through a long life of vicissitude my mother lived harmlessly and usefully and came to her end in peace. No child of want ever came to her door and was turned away empty. No one in sorrow came to her but was com forted. No one asked her the way to be saved but she pointed him to the cross. When the angel of life came to a neighbor's dwelling she was there to rejoice at the starting of another im mortal spirit. When the angel of death came to that dwelling she was there to robe the departed for the burial. We had often heard her, when lead ing family prayers in the absence of my father, say: "O Lord, I ask not for my children vealth or honor, but I do ask that they may all be the subjectsof thy comforting grace!" Her eleven children brought into the kingdom of God she had but one more- wish, and that was that she might see her Ion absent missionary son, and when the ship from China anchored in New York harbor and the long-absent one passed over the threshold of the paternal home she said: "Now, Lord, lettest thou thy servant depart in.peace, for my eyes have seen thy salvation." The prayer was soon answered! It was an autumnal day when we gathered from afar, and found only the house from which the soul had fled for ever. She looked very natural, the hands very much as when they were employed'in kindness for the children. Whatever else we forget, we never forget the look of mother's hands. As we stood by the casket we could not help but say: "Doesn't she look beau tiful?" It was a cloudless day when, with heavy hearts, we carried her out to the last restinv place. The wither ed leaves crum bed under hoof and wheel as we passed, and the sun shone on the Raritan river until it looked like fire; but more calm, and beautiful. and radiant was the setting sun of that aged pilgrim's life. No more toil, no more tears, no more sickness, no more death. Dear mother! Beautiful mother! "Sweet is the slumber beneath the sod. while the pure spirit rests with God." With such a mother as an example, is it strange that I should alwayshave' cherished the most exalted estimate of woman and womankind? SHOPPING IN AMERICA. Lecording to a Desripton Given by a B. cent British Traveler. The (American) storekeeper never says what a commodity is reilly worth intrinsically or in his particular market, but places its value about 25 per cent over what he will take for it and which is in turn about 25 per cent over what he paid for it. Bargaining which goes on in all the provincial cities and towns is extraordinary. The process is called "Jewing down," and proceeds some thing like this: Scene: Store. Enter prospective buyer, points laconically to article and loquitur: "Say, what's this worth?" Storekeeper-One dollar, and dirt cheap. P. B. (who really wants it)-Ah, waal, it's not quite what I want. But I'm in no pertickler rush to-day. (Pauses.) B'lieve I'll give you 70 cents for it. S.--Seventy cents? Why', I declar it's dirt cheap at $1; but-spittooning I'll let you have it for 90 cents. P. B.-That's quite ridiklous. How ever I ken jist let un rip! (Turns over about a dozen articles and then pre pares to leave the store.) S.-Come now, yer shall have it for 80 cents, thar'! I couldn't make it bet ter nor that anyhow. P. B. (examining article attentively. but grunting the while)-No, sir-ree; it won't run it. Now-confidentially TI'l tell yer what I will do. PIl give' er 75 cents--75 cents (impressively), and not a red cent more. What say? Trhe storekeeper fires a bolt at the -nearest spittoon, shakes his head, and - turns to serve anotheri customer. Pib 97. e riyesi wauterg areund the a sad? sles~tualiy reachies the door. At this moment the storekeeper calls. out: "Say, you can take that durnedi thing, but come and see us again, wilJ ver?" ~And so the compact is concluded~. Both are fully satisfled, and think noth ing of the ten minutes they have' wasted, for both concluded they have' "bested" the other. This phrase "come and see us ag'ain" is the usual fare we]. I have had it said to me scores of timnes.--Artkur Montefiore in Temple Bar. Negro Maims.' Wakkin' on 'nother man's farm at nioht is er short cut ter jail. Waitin' fer good times is like tryin" ter scratch matches in de well-buckit.. Red licker mighty quiet in de jug,. but mighty noisy in de nigger. Dese trus's dat's gwine roun' de' country don' trus' de po man much. Some womin like umbrellers; yo'' can' keep 'em at home no bow. Mighty hard ter manage seegyar an' gribbin' hoe at de same time. No use ter ax how denman is w'en you see his galluses wrapped roun' de muel's bin' laigs. Preachers' coat-tails gwine be mighty pp'ler on de jedgmint day. ome folks seem ter think do Lord don' want nothin' bigger'n copper cents. Forks in de road don' bother d f goose. SMighty lucky~ turky dat ain' got much appetite fo',thanksgivin'. When you gitz er chace ter vote fer honis' man, take it. De deafes' niggcr kin always hyear de dinner horn. Cragrass au' barcer wvurrums don' wvait.fer nobody. -.Pnllin' suckers in do barcer lot pays bettern ketchin' suckers in de creek. De bull ca'f wonder w'at de milk pail's fer. Silver creamupot don' sweeten sour - milk.- William G. Eggleston. Snbstitute for Coffee. A new substitute for coffee may turn aip in a berry known as "gaernera." Ihe British consul at Reunion says that t one time he has received miany let ers from merchants in England asking or information r'especting a shrub then alled "m ussaenida." the discovery of whi-ch, it has been said in somne comn nercial journals, would deal a severe low to the coffee and chicory trade. bout two years ago a runwr was pread that the berry of this shrub ould be advantageously emplloyed- as substitute for coffee and chicorv. It rows to about ten feet high, has~ very ew leaves, and its branches are wide part. The berries do not grow all ong the branches, as is the ease with oifee, but in bunches at their extreme ls. At p)resent it is only met with in be mountains, where it grows wild. It 2iight be produced on -'an extensive ale; but with its inferiorit y in fra rance and color it coul ha:h!!v comn ete with coffee. The ma~ucuacr c1 ci '. . - is to aegin on a large scale in the Crimea, rhere the roses grow in great 0 naBiann the monntaina.