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VO~e 193IANNING, S. C., WEDNEPSDAY, JUNE 11,180 VOL V . .-.-.-----4 31W SWORD. IT nAS PLA (ED A GREAT PART. BUT IT IS DOOMED se. mon by Dr. Ta'nigo at the Brooklyn Acadeimy-The Sword a- Seen in the VUible -The Use and Abase by Nation.-The Time 1N coming Wheni Nation Sh .11 No .ire .iit Up Sword Against* Nation. iKLYN, N. Y., June 5.-Chap inin T. i. Mtt Talmage last Sun day preached the annual sermon be fore the Thirteenth regiment, in the Academy of Music. The staff-officers andii members of tne regiment were immediately in front of the platform, and their friends thronged the gal Ieries. The hynmn sung was the Nat ional Air: .Y con try..k of "w SweeL laud of Itberty." The subject of the sermon was: --The Sword-Its Mission and its Doom." The text, Isaiah xxxiv. 5: My sword shall be bathed in heav en. Three hundred and tifty-oue times does the Bible speak of that sharp, keen. curved. inexorable weapon, which ilashe: upon us from the text -the sword. oometimes the mention is applaudatory and sometimes damn atory, sometimes as drawn. some times as sheathed. In the Bible, and in much secular literatiure, thb sword represents all javelins, all muskets, all carbines, all guus, all poliee clubs, all battle-axes, all weaponry for phys ical defence or attack. It would be an interesting thing to give the his tory of the Plough, and follow its fu - row all down thiough the ages, from the first crop in Chaldea to the last in Minnesota. It would be interest ing to follow the pen as it has track ed its way on down through the liter ature of nations, from its first word in the first book to the last word which some author last night wrote as he closed his manuscript. It would be an interesting thing to count the echoes of the hammer from the first nail driven, down through all the mechanism of centuries to the last stroke in the carpenter's shop yester day. Butin this, my annual sermon as chaplain of the Thirteenth regi ment, I propose taking up a weapon that has done a wcrk that neither plow nor pen nor hammer ever ac omplished. My theme is the sword -its mission and its doom. The sword of the text was bathed in heaven: that is, it was a sword of righteousness, as another sword may be bathed m hell,and be the sword of cruelty and wrong. There is a great difference between the sword of Winklereid and the sword of Cataline, between the sword of Leonidas and -e sword of Benedict Arnold In our effort to hasten the end of war, we liaive hung the sword with abuses and execrations, when it has had a divine mission, andwhen manycrises of the world's history it has swung for liberty and&tice, civilzation nd righteousness and God. At the very opening of the Bible, and on the east side of the Garden of Eden God placed a fiming sword to defend the tree of life. Of the officer of the law, St. Paul declares: "He beareth not the sword in vain." Through Moses God commanded: "Put every, m.mn his sword by his side." David. in his prayer, says: "Gird thy sword upon thy tigh, O) most mighty." One o~f the old battle shouts of the Old Testament was, "The sword of the Lord and of Gideon." Christ, in a great exigency said, that such a wea on was more important than a coat, for He declared: "He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one." Again He declares: "I come not to send peace, but a sword." Of Christ's second comung itis said: "Out of His mouth went a sharp. two-edged sword." Thus. sometimes fig'atively, but oftener literally, the divine mission of the sword is an nounced. What more concentrated thing in the world than Joshua's, sword, or Caleb's sword, or Gideon's sword, or David's sword, or W\ashington s sword, or Marion's sword, or Lafay ette's sword, or Welling'ton's sword, or Kosciusko's sword. or Garibaldi's sword, or hundreds of thousands of Amierican swords that have again and again been bathed in heaven. Swords of that kind have been the best friends of the human race. They have slain tyrmies, pried open dungeons. and cleaned the way for nations in their march upward. It was better for them to take the sword and be free. than lie under the oppressor's heel and suffer. There is something worse than death and that is life if it must cringe and crouch before the wrong. Turn over the leaves of the world's history, and find that there has never been a tyranny stopped or a nation iberated except by the sword. I am not talking to you about the way things ought to be. but about the way they have been. What force drove back the Saracens at Tours, and kept Europe from being over whelmed by MIohammnedanlism, and, subsequently, all America given over; to Moammedanism? The sword o~t Charles Martel and his men.Wh can deal enough in infinities to tehl what was accomplished for the world's good by the sword of Joan of Arci In December last, I looked off andi s-n in the distance the battlefield of MIarathon, and I asked myself what was it that, on that most tremendous dr" in history, stopped the Persian osts. representing not only Persia. but Egypt. and Tripoli, and Afghan istan. and Beloochistan, and Arnie ia: host that had Asia under foot and proposed to put Europe under foot and, if successful in that battle, would have submerged .by .Asiatic 1ararasm European civilization, and, as a consequence in after time. American civilization! The swords of Miltiades, and Themistocles, and Aristides. At the wcarmg of these swords, the 11,100 lancers of Athens on the run, dashed against the 100, 000 insolent Persians, and trampled them down or pushed them back into the sea. The sword of that day saved he be4)art of the hemisphere, a tiniof keen steel flashing in the ~-two lights-the light of the setting of barbarismi, the light of the de bunof civlization. Hail to these three great swords oathed in heaven! What put an end to infamous Louis XVIs plan of universal conquest by which England would have been made to kneel on the steps of the Tuileries and the Anglo-Saxon race would have been halted and all Eu rope paralyzed? The sword of Marl borough, at Blenheim. Time came when the Roman war eagles, whose beaks had been punched into the heart of nations, must be brought down from their eyries. All other attempts bad disgracefully failed, but the Germans, the mightiest nation for brawn and brain, undertook the work. and under God succeeded. What drove back the -Roman cavalry till the horses, wounded. flung their riders and the last rider perished, and the Hcrcynian forest became the scene of 1Rome's humiliation? The sword, the brave sword. the trium phant sword of Arminius. While passing through France last January my nerves tingled with excitement and I rose in the car, the better to see the battlefield of Chalons, the mounds and breastworks still visible. though nearly 500 years ago they were shovelled up. There, Attila, the heathen monster, called by himself the "scourge of God for the punish ment of Christians,' his life a massa cre of nations, came to ignominous defeat, and he put in one great pile the wooden saddles of his cavalry. and the spoils of the cities and king doms he had sacked, and placed on top of this holocaust the women who Lad accompanied him in his devasta ting march, ordering that the torch de rut to the pile. What power broke that sword, and stayed that red scourge of cruelty that was roll ing over Europe? The sword of Theo Loric ank Actius. To come down to later ages, all intelligent Englishmen unite with all itelligent Americans in saying that it was the best thing that the Ame-:i -an colonies swung off from the gov irnment of Great Britain. It would iave been the worst absurdity of 4, )00 years if this coatinent should ave continued its loyalty to a throne )n the otherside of the sea. No one ould propose a governor general or the United States as there is a overnor general for Canada. We ave had splended queens in our merican capitol, but we could hard y be brought to support a queen on he other side of the Atlantic, lovely md good as Victoria is. The only ise we have for earls and lords and lukes in this country is, to treat them vell when they pass through to their munting grounds in the Far West, or when their fortunes have failed, rein orce them by wealthy matrimonial Lliance. Imagine this nation yet a >art of English possessions! The rouble the mother country has to lay with Ireland would be a para lisaic condition compared with the rouble she would have with us. England and the United States make xcellent neighbors, but the two fam lies are too large to live in the same ouse. What a god-send that we hould have parted, and parted long ige! But I can think in no other ;ay in which we could have possibly 'chided American independence. 3eorge the Third, the half-crazy king, ould not have let us go. Lord iorth, his prime minister, would not ave let us go. General Lord Corn r-allis would not let us go, although ifter Yorktown he was glad enough o have us let him go. Lexington, mud Bunker Hill, and Mlonmouth, md Trenton, and Valley Forge, were roofs positive that they were not rilling to let us go. Any committee >f Americans going across the ocean :o see what could have been done *ould have found no better accom nodations than London Tower. The )nly way it could have been done was y'sword. Jefferson's pen could write the Declaration of Indepen lence, but only Washington's sword ould have achieved it, and the other swords bathed in heaven. So now the sword has its uses, al :hough it is a shecatheds word. There s not an armory in Brooklyn, or New York, or Philadelphia, or Chicago, or harleston, or New Orleans, or an. &meian city, that could be spared.! We have in all our American cities a ufian population who, though they ire small in number, compared with good population, would again and igain make rough and stormy times f, back of our mayors and common councils, and police, there were not in the armories and arsenals some keen steel which, if brou,ght into play, would make quick work with mobocracy. There are in every great eommnity unprincipled men who ike a row on a large scale, and they beat themselves with sour mash and old rye and otherjdecoctions,enriched with blue vitriol, potash, turpen tine, sugar of lead, sulphuric acid, logwood, strychnine, night shade and other precious ingredients, and take down a whole glass with a resound ing "Ah!" of satisfaction. When tLey get that stuff in them, and the blue vitriol collides with the potash; and the turpentine with the sulphu ie acid, the victims are ready for any thing but order and decency and good government. Again and agamn, in our American cities, has the neces sity of home guards been demonstra You remember, how. when the sol (ers were all away in the war in 1863-64, what contlagrations were kindled in the streets of New York and what negroes were hung. .Sonic of you remember the great riots in Philadelphia at tires, sometimes kin dled .iust for the opportunity of up roar and despoliation. In 1849 a hiss at a theatre would have resulted in New York eity, demolished had it not been for the citizen soldiery. Because of an insult which the Amer ican actor Edwvin Forrest had re ceived in England from the friends of Mr. MIacready, the English actor. when the latter appeamred in New York in 3Maebeth. the distinguished Englishman was hissed and mobbed, the walls of the city have been lpla caded with the announcement: "Shall Americans or English rule in this cityvf Street were filled with a crowd,~ insane with passion. Thle iot wvas read, but it only evoked louder yells and heavier volleys of stones,'and the whole city was threat Iened with violence and assassination. But the seventh regiment, under Gen. Duryea,mached through Broad way, precceded by mounted troops, and at thc command; -nre. Guards! Fire'" the mob scattered, and New York was saved. What would have become of Chicago, two or three year's ago. when the police lay dead in the streets. had not the sharp conunand of military officers been given. Do not charge such scenes upon American institututions. They are as old as the Ephesian mob that howled for two hours in Paml's time I about the theatre amid the ruins of I which I stood last January. TiCy were witnessed in 1675 in London, when the weevers p&.. . the streets :al entered buildings to . :: the machinery of those who. becauso their new inventions, could underselli the rest. They were witnessed in 1781 at the trial of Lord George Gor don, where there was a religious riot. Again. in 1719, when the rabble cried. "Down with the Presbyvteri:ms: Down with meeting houses!" Tlhcre always have been, and alway will be, in great communities, a class of peo ple that cannot govern themselves and which ordinary means cannot govern, and there are exigencies which nothing but the sword can meet. Aye, the militia are the very last regiments that it will be safe to disband. Arbitrament will take the place of war between nation and nation. and national armies will disband as a con sequence. and the time will cone God hasten it'-when there will be no need of an American army or na vy, or a Russian army or navy. But some time after that,cities will have to keep their armories and arsenals.and well-drilled malitia, because until the I millennial day there will be popula tions with whom arbitrament will be as impossible as treaty with a cavern of hyenas or a jiugle of snakes. These men who rob stores and give garroter's hug, and prowl about the wharves ait midnight. and rattle the lice in gambling-hells, and go armed with pistol and dirk, will refrain from isturbance of the public peace just in proportion as they realize that the militia of a city, instead of being an awkward squad. and in danger of shooting each other by mistake, or losing their own life by looking down to the gun-barrel to see if it is loaded, or getting their ramrod fast in their boot leg, are prompt as the sunrise, keen as the north wind, po tent as a thunderbolt. and accurate. and regular, and disciplined in their movements as the planetary system. Well done, then, I say, to legisla tures. and governors, and mayors, and all officials who decide upon larger armories. and better places for drill, and moi e generous equip ment for the militia. The sooner the sword can safely go back to the scabbard to stay thcre. the better; but until the hiit clangs against the case in that fanal lodgment, let the sword be kept free from rust; sharp all along the edge, and its point like a needle, and the handle polished, not only by the chamois o! the regi mental servant, but by the hand of brave and patriotic officers, always ready to do their full duty. Such swords are not bathed in im petuosity, or bathed in cruelty, or bathed in oppression, or bathed in utrage, but bathed in heaven. Before I speak of the doom of the word, let me also say that it has de eloped the grandest natures that the world ever saw. It has develop ed courage-that sublime energy of the soul which deiies the unverse hen it feels itself to be in tihe right. t has developed a selt'-sacriiice hich repudiates the ides that our ife is worth more than anything else, hen for a principle it throws that ife away, as much as to say, "It is not necessary that I live,. but it s necessary that righteousness tri-I mph. There are tens of thousands mong the Northern and Southern eterans of our civil war. who are 93 per cenr. larger and mighier in soul, than they would have been, had they not, during the four years of nation al ugony, turned their back on home, nd fortune, and at the foot sacrific d all for a principle. It was the word which on the Northern side eveloped a Grant, a 3IeClellen, a oker, a Hancock, Sherman, a Sheridan, and Admiral Farragut and orter. and on the Southern side a Lee, a Jackson, a Hill, a Gordon and the Johinstons,' Albert Sydney and Joseph E., and Adniral Semmnss ma many Federals and Confedrates rhose graves in national c'emetaries are marked "unknown." yet who were just as self-sacrificing and brave s any of their major-generals, and ,hose resting places all up and down the bank of the Androscoggiu, the dudson. the Potomac, the 31ississip i and the Alabama. have recen~tly een snowed under with white fiow ers typicad of resurrection, and strewn with red flowers comumemo ative of the carnage through which they passed. and the blue tiowevrs il lustrative of the skies through whic'h they ascended. But the sword is dloomed. There is one word that nee'ds t-> be written in every throne room. in ev~ywa flice, in every navy yard. im every national 'ouncil. That word is di s imaent. But no governmenti c'an afford to throw its sword aw ay until ll the great governments have agreed to do the sae. Thr'ough the influence of' the~ re'ent conven tion of North and So)uth American governments ai \ashiugton- and through the P~eac'e Convention a be held next July in .London. and oter moveents in which pr~imul ers and kings, and quecens, and sultuins. and czars shall take part. all civilize'd nations will comeI to disarmlnneu'lt and if a few barbarian races decline to quit wair. then all the' accent nat tiols will send out a tort't of et nt nental police' to wip~e out froml the face of the '2arth tihe miservants. ~u until disarmauuent and conse quent arbitration shall be1 agre'ed to y all the great governmleml. any sa ge government that dismnantles its fortresses and sp)ikes its guns and b'eaks its sword would simply in vite its own destruction. Suppose,. before such general agreementat, Eug laud should throw away the sword: think you France has forgot ten \\a terloo.' S Ijppose before' so-h~ goner' al agreement Germany should thtrow away her sword: how long would Al sace and Lorraine stay as iney are? Suppose the Czar of Russia before any such general agreement should thro awa his sword, all the eagles and vultures and lious of European nower would gather for a piece of the Russian bear. Suppose the United States w.iout any such general agreement of disarnuanent. hould throw away her sword, it would not be long before the Narrows of our harbor would be ablaze with the bunting of foreign navies. coinl" here to show the folly of the "Moi roe doctrme. Side by side the two movements must go. Complete armament until all agree *o disaruent. At the s:une command of --halt!" all nations halt ing. At the saTme connuand of ilod arms! all muskets thuip ing. At the same command of -break ranks!" all armies disbanding. This may be nea- r than you think. The standing army is the nightmare of nations. England wants to get rid of it, Germany is being eaten up bV it. Russia is almost taxed to death with it. Suppose that the millions of men belonging to the standing armies of world and in absolute idle ness. for the most part of their lives. sLiul become producers instead of consumers. Would not the world's prosperities improve, and the work*s mnorals be better? Or have you the the heathenish idea that war is ne :essary to kill off the suIrplus popula tion of the earth. and that without it. tbe Vorld would be so crowded there would soon be no reserved seats aid even the standing room would be ex austed Ah! I think we can trust to the pncumonias. and the consumip ions. and the fevers. and the Rus Sian grippei to kill the people fast nough. Besi(..; th. when the orl , gets too full GoA will blow up he whole concern and start another world aid a better one. j.e;ides that, %var kil-; the people who caui least be pared. It takes the pick of the na ions. Those whom we could easily pare to go to the front, are in the penitentiary, and their duties detain hem in that limited sphere. No: it it is the public-spirited and the val >rous who go out to die. Mostly are the young men. If they were aged, xnd had only five or ten years at the most to live, the sacrifice would not be so .-rcat. But it is those who ave forty or fifty years to live who tep into the jaws of battle. In our ar Col. Ellsworth fell while yet a erelad. Renowned3McPherson was )ly 35. Magnificent Reynolds was >ly 43. Hundreds of thousands-fell between twenty and thirty years of ge. I looked into the faces of the 'rench and German troops as they ent out to fight at Sedan, and they 6ere for the most part armies of splendid boys. So in all ages war has >reelrred to sacrifice the young. LIlexander tile Great died at thirty 7wo. When war slays the young it iot only takes down that which they ire, but that which they might have >een. So we are glad at the Isaiahie pro >heey. that the time is coming when lation shall not lift up sword against nation. Indeed, both swords s.all o back into the :cabbard-tlie sword athed in heaven and the sword bathed in hell. In a war in Spain a soldier went on a skirmishing expedi ion. and. secluded in a bush, lhe had :he opportunity of shooting a soldier f the other army, who had strolled war from his tent. lie took aim and 1roiped him. Ruommg up to the fal .en man he took his knap-sack for spoil. and a letter dropped out of it. n it turned out to be a letter signed y his own father: in other words. he blad shot his broth~er. If the brother cod of man be a true doctrine, then e who shoots another man always boots his own brother. What a orror is war and its cruelties were vell illustrated when the Tartars, af er sweeping through Russia andl ?oland, displayed with pride nine reat sacks filled with the right ears f the falleu, and when the corres ondent of the London Times. writ ng of the wounded after the battle f Sedan, said: -Every moan that -he human voc can utter rose from .hat heap of agony, and the cries of wtemr! or the love of good, water! L doctor! A doctor"' never ceased."' Lfe war has wrought such cruelties, iow glad w e will be to have the Old Ionter hanself die. Let his dying oich be spread in some dismantled ores through which the stormy id howl. Give him for a pillow a battered sineld, and let his bed be iard with the rusted bayonets of the an. Cover him with the coarsest lanket that picket ever wore, and let ii only cup be the bleached bone of me of his war-chargers, and the last caper by his bedside expire as the nidight blast sighs into his ear: ~The candle of the wicked shall be ut out."' Tonight.against the sky of the glorious future. I see a great blaze. [t is a foundry in full blast. The workmen have stirred the fires until the furnaces are seven times heated. The last wa gon load of the world's swords ha:~s beenI hauled into the loundry, and they are tumtbled into the furnace. sua they begin to glow md r edden and melt, and in hissing ma sparkling lajuid they roll on ~lown through the crevice of rock un tl they fall into a mold shaped like h iron foot of a plough. Then the iquid cools off into a hard mietal. mnd. brought out on an anvil, it is eaten and pounded and fashioned. toke after stroke. until that which was a weapon to reap harvests 01 aocn. bec(omesc an iimplenment turning te soil for harvest ot corn, the sword having become the plowshare. Olicers and comirades of the Thir enth ir eiet of State militia: ttr another year of pleasant ac untance I hail you with a saluta ion all made up.of good wishes and pae Honored with resideuce inl the best city~ of the best land under -h run. let us dediente ourselves :now'- to) God and counitry. :mdI~ home! In the Eng~lish confliet. called --The War ofi thei RosesC " white rose was the b:adge of the house of York. and the red ros the badge of the House of Lancaster. and with these two col ors they opposed each ~ other in battle. To enlist you in the Holy War for all that is good agains~t all that is wrong. I piI over. your heart two badges. the oneC suggestive of the blood shied for our redemption and the other ;ymbolie of a soul made white and clean, the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Be these hence forth our regimental symbols-Rose nd Lily Lily and Rose! ALLIANCE IN POLITiCS. Clear aud rrank Statement From Presi dent stackhouse. I am in receipt of letters from brethren in dLilrent parts of the State, asking the question, "Is it constitutional for the Alliance to pass resolutions for or against the action of the March convention? I did not advise against the pas sage of such resolutions because I hield that such action was unconstitu tional, but I did so because I believ ed that such action would be hurtful to the Alliance, and because I be leved there was no absolute neces sity for such action, and I have seen nothing in the developements so far to lesson my estimate of the danger, or to show the necessity for such ac tion. While there is nothing partisian in +he questions submited by the far mers' movement-they refer to the policy of the Democratic party in South Carolina-yet it may not be denied that the discussion of these questions within the party had de veloped a spirit of bitterness between the faction and that. too, before the or-nization of the Alliance-such as would be hurtful to if not absolutely destructive of Alliance unity. This being true, would it not be far safer and better to form clubs for or against the "moveient in which to discuss and advance their ideas of true Dem oeratic policy! I would not advise this course in the study and discus sion of new questions. but I do earn ;&ly advise the abandonnient of such action by the Alliance on these ques tions for the reason stated, and I have been pleased to see th:t Cap tain Tillman has avised the same course, because of his appreciation of the daiger to our organization. So. too, has your State Lecturer, Bro. Elder. So again, let me advise the abandonment of such action by the Alliance. If our people desire to give organized expression to their views on these questions, let them organize for that purpose, where none need be present who are notin sympathy with their views and purposes. In most of our Alliances there is more or less division of spinion on these questions --divisions that had caused irritation of feeling before our order was organ ized. So, again. let me advise against such action, not becausr it is uncon stutional, but because it is danger ous to the unity and success of the Alliance. E. T. STAcKHoUSE, Pres't S. C. S. F. A. ON9 OF ECYPT'S PLAGUES. An .ptlenuic of Crawfish Makinx Misssip pi P'la.iters Miserable Farming operations in the vicinity of Egypt. Eiis.. are grcatlvretarded by the crawfsh. which burrow in the ielkds and keep the surface broken an wet. They bore under ground to ihe.' donth of two or three feet, so that the hogs can not get at them. else they woLh not live to do any damage. At the bottom of their holes they have a conspecious nesting place, where hundreds of them nest .ogether and whence they bore tothe surface in every direction. So great a pest have they become. that a plant er of the vicinity. Mr. Adam Carlisle, conceived the idea of enlisting the negroes to exterminate them. He offered 10 cents a hundred. The ne groes took lanterns and hunted the crawfish at night, when they would be promenading around the mouths of their holes. Mr. Charlisle paid out 830 for two nights' eatch, and abandoned the plan. He thi-nks of establishing a colony of raccoons on his place, as a last desperate resort. The Choctaw Indians used to set up poles with crosses on them for the convenience of the owls, which are famous crawfish hunters, and thus their little crops were fairly protect-' ed; but owls are too searce to be em ployed on large plantattions, and the planters are therefore debarred from this means of protection. The craw fish question is a serious one to them, however ludicrous it may appear to people at a distance. RETURNS F.ROM OREGON. A1. nepuxbHcani Represcenttive and Legisla ture and DemnocratiCc Governor. l'ORTLAIND, OREoN. Juie 3---e tunj'ts from the State arC veryv mcom plete. The electijon of Herman (Re publican) for Congres is assured. The Governior is ini doubt with the chances in favor of Pennoyer (Demi oati. Th e Thiublicans ehret the remainder oIf the State ticket anid a majority in both branches of the wanooItf Tonigue or Palate Geuo. WVatson. a Texas rancher. reached New \ork thie latter~ part of Nov embIr w ithi at (ousignmlent of polo polies fromn G-rason county. They were a part of a pur'chase by Iaes Goirdon 33ennett and L'rd Lonedl"- and were to b shiiped t) Engma~. Watsonm had cancer of the tongueo dit went to the Charity Hos pital. It was decided to remove his tongue. lower palate and lingual buids beneath the tonlgue. On the tternooni of D'cemiber 2 the opera tion was nerformecd by Dr~s- J. Kelly and Cuthbert Gilhuin. F~or several months Watson took nourish ment thr'ough a silver tube inserted 1] hi tesophaigus just bl)Cow the rit '-ar. He wats unable to artica lat at al1 for a month followiing the oprationi, andt the tirst words he utl tered wer~ie dbouted at a troublesome ct in is wardl in tin hospital. His lanuge~ was~ idiomiatie and emphatic. T acr ar no ou ward rubcations to show tint Watson is~ tongueless and pdattless. His speech is hampered a great deal. however, his artica tion binug defective. He will always speak somuewhait inarticulately. The gretest loss to him is the loss of all slense of taste and smell. Swailow ing solid is a very difficult task for him. as hie has los4t the power to gulp food. which the tongue Ldves. Watson was otticial interpreter for Indiais at W'ashiington twelve years ago. He speaks or spoke, tihe IComache, Priste. Ute. Shosuione Iand Arapahoe lingo. H was in the ranks of the Taxas Rangers and fought on the Confederate side dur ing ecivil war. OUR ELECTION LI. WS DECLARED BY THEdREPUBLICANS TO BE IUNCONSTITUTIONAL. A oflunderingSynopsis o Provisions-Ne groesWh(o sell Out-MNiller's Election De creed. WASuINGTON, D. C., June 3.-The majorityreportin the case of Mdler vs. Elliott from the se-:enth South Caro lina district was submitted to the House Committee on Elections this morning. The report is somewhat sensational in that at the very begini ning it declares that the entire South Carolina registration and election laws are unconstitutional. The ba sis for this declaration as stated in the report is that the State law im poses a number of restrictions upon the exercise of the right of suffrage which are in conflict with the State Constitution. The Constitution de prives a person of the rights of su-f frage only upon conviction for mur der, felony, duelling and treason. The State laws prohibit the exercise of the right of suffrage by persons who were - entitled to register in 1881 and neglected to do so, also those who moved into the State and neglected to register at the first reg istration and on those who sold their registration certificates for a valua ble consideration. The report says that a number of negroes have been compelled by poverty while waiting the maturity of the cotton crop .to negotitate their certificates to traders who immediately send them to politi cal headquarters with the result that the negroes are permanently dis franchised. After laying down this proposition the xeport proceeds to discuss the legal aspects of the elec tion from the usual standpoint and recites the fact that in certain pre cincts what amounted to an educa tional test (and therefore an illegal test) was imposed by lettering the ballot boxes, which were separate in the case of each office, and that voters were deceived by an intentional shift ing of boxes, so that the judges of electiou were able to throw out all ballots cast inthe wrong boxes. There was also, says the report, evidence of ballot box stuffing, Summig up, it is found that, taking the position most favorable to the sitting member. the contestant, Miller, had a majority of 757, while, if the law was strictly followed, his majority will reach 1,448. Wilson, of Missouri, will pre pare the minority report. Afraid ofService Pension. WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3.-After a talk yesterday beteen Senator Davis and Representative Merrill, chairman of the two committees on pe.nsious, it was believed tant an agreement would be finally and for mally reached to-day by the conferces on the general pension bill. But when the House conferees came up this morning with the instructions of the Republican caucus of last night to maintain the principle of service pensions. it was manifest that agreement could not be secured un der those conditions, asnd the vote to report a disagreement to the respec tive houses was adopted. The ser vice pension feature was the only one of importance upon which the confeirees could not agre e. Cleopatra's Ashes. CHIcAGo, June 3.-Alexander Tag liaferro, of Alexandria, Egypt, writes to the directors of the world's fair that lie is in a position to furnish them an interesting exhibit. He has sent the offieials a photograph of a sarcophagus which he asserts is that of Cleopatra. It was recently dis covered in Coesar's Camp, near Alex andria, by archaiologists. When the sarcophagus was opened the contents were in ashes, with the exception of the skeleton, which is still preserved. Mr-. Taghaferro says he is prompted to negotiate with the exposition au thorities from notices which he has senr in the newspapers from the United States announcing that the Khedive of Egypt has been asked by the directors of the exposition for the mummy of Ranmises. His price is 860,000.________ "SLOYD." A System of Manual Training Now Being Taught in This Country. The word "sloyd"' has been seen in print more or less of late years in magazines as well as newspapers5, sav.' the Boston Transcript, and always in connection with the vital question of manual training and its introduction into the public schools. It is an anliczed form of the Swedish slojd, meaig dlexterity or mlanulal skill (compare Norse word slogd, cunn, Enlish sly.) Of late. .however, the wod has been restricted in its use to denote a systeml of manual training, of which tihe best knowvn is the so called Naais system, adopted some fifteen years ago in Sweden. When this system wvas adonted at ~aas it was newv only as a whole. The details had been worked out and proved to be beneficial by different persons at different times atnd in differ ent countries, but not until then had they been collected and made into a systematic whole. The material used is wood, found, by experiment, to be the cleanest and easiest to work--a most profitable selection, as with proper tools it can be worked into any shape and form. The purpose of tile sloyd iastruiction is by no means only to give general skil! to the hand, but also to stimulate and broaden the mind and to excite a love and respect for all honest work; it is to be looked upon as educational, a tiling which will help us all and gener atios to come to be more fully and evenly developed. On'the value of the various systems. there is much dissent; but all be lievers in matnual training agree to the, following principles. Tile work must. 1. Interest the pupil. 2. (Give usc sul articles as a product. 3. Promote gneral dlexterity. 4. Develop the senseC and love of order andl exactness. 5. Encourage cleanliness and neatneIss. 6. Take into consideration t'he ability and strength of the pupil. 7. Cultivate the esthetic sense. 8. Develop and strengthen the body. 9. Counteract see'ayoccupations. 10. Progress meetialy. 11. Train the plercep) in andl develop tihe construeutve anid invetive faculties. 12. Cultivate at tention, diligence, and perseverance. These qualities the sloyd wi!I be found to supply more fully than any other system, while it is better calculated to eure a symmetrical developmnent of MR. PORTER AND HIS CENSUS. The Surpervisor Taltes Water as to his Objectionabl onestion-, Except in their Application to fhe Criminal Classes. WAiSIGrox. June 1.-Robert P. Porter. sunerintendent of the census. I has received telegrams from about one hundred supervisors stating that they were thoroughly prepared to en t'er upon the work of taking the Cen sus on Monday last. and that everv thing is in readiness to push the work I forward with accuracy and rapidity. The telegrams were in response to a message sent out from Washington yesterday. All the supervisors heard from reported that no trouble had yet occurred, and that no serious diffi culties were apprehended. Porter intimited very plainly this evening that so far as the "chronic diseases- questions were concerned, it was not the intention of the office to endeavor to bring to -punishment those who were reluctant to make answers, but as to the "mortgage" question he held language not quite so cheering for those who have de termined not to answer this part of the schedule, though the probability is strong that nothing will be done with recalcitrants in this matter. He expressed himself very earnestly, however, with regard to bringing the law to bear upon those who willfully refuse to answer any and all questions put to them by the enumerators. They wili be compelk d to answer, he s aid, or to take the censquences of their refusal. He thought there was a possibility that members of the criminal classes might take advan tage of the fight made against the diseases and mortage questions to refuse any information whatever to the enumerators, and lie stated that this would not be tolerated under any circumstances. GEN. EARLE WILL BE A CANDIDATE. The Gener.d Defers to the Wishes of His FriendA. SUMTER, June 3.-Your correspon dent has been credibly informed by a friend of Gen. Earle that he has decided to enter the race for gover nor. Letters and petitions have been pouring in upon him from all parts of the State for several weeks past, and he has at last decided to ield to their demands and enter upon the canvass of the State. Gen Earle, himself, is absent from the city attending to his official duties in Columbia and it was impossible to see him; but in a few days he will de clare himself through the press. Charleston World. Sam Small Changes Again. The Rev. Sam W. Small is a man of many minds. Several years ago he joined the Episcopal church and was confirmed at St. Philip's, Atlanta. A few months later he made his re arkablefeechon the head of-aqbar rel in the streets of Atlanta, announle ing his conversion. He then connect ed himself with the Methodist church and loomed up as an evangelist, be ing in partnership with Sam Jones for a year or two. When the partner ship dissolved, Small went it alone for a while in the evangelical work. In 1888 he darted back to Atlanta and ran as an independent candidate for the State Senate. Being defeated, he again took up the business of a trav elling evangelist, subject to nobody's direction but his own. Several months ago it was announced that he would withdraw from the Methodist Church and become an Episcopal clergyman. He undertook some missionary work in Boston in connection with the Episcopal Church and pursued it vigorously for several weeks. Then he suddenly reappeared in Atlanta and proclaimed that he would be a candidate for the Legislature. His fiends have been, zealously working up his political prospects ever since and were confident of his election. He left Atlanta a few days ago and Saturday a telegram was received from him dated Ogden, Utah, in which he stated that he had been elected president of the Utah Univer sity of the Methodist Church and had accepted the position. This indi cates that Mir. Small will renounce political ambition and the Episcopal Church, at least for the present. He is a rarely gifted man and is capable of success in almost any line he may choose. What his line will be in a few months hence it is always im possible to predict. But whatever he may do and wherever he may go. Mr. Small is sure to attract attention. Macon Telegraph. A Murderous Deputy Marshal. L~oXvILLE, TENN.. June 8--Re ports received here last night state that Bud Lindsay, Deputy United States marshal. shot :aud killed Kilts, a distiller. in Campbell county. Lind say wished a gallon of whiskey. Kilts told him he could not sell less than ten gallons under his license. Lindsay got mad and abused Kilts. The distiller's fourteen-yeatr-old son thought his father in danger and threw a rock at Lindsay. Lindsay attempted to shoot Kilts. but his party took his pistols froma him. They left, and when a mile away Lindsay asked for his pistols, saying he woul .o no harm. He got his pistols, wheeled his horse and rode back to Kilts house. The latter saw him coming and locked his door. but Lindsay broke it down and shot Kilts twvice, killing him instantly. He then attempted to shoot the boy, but missed him and hit a liti - girl seri ously wounding her. It is reported that Lindsays party arrested him and gave hinm over to the sheriff of the county. Lindsay is a desperate character, having mur-dered a prom inent citixen of Campbell county live ears ago and e.scaped because of lack of evidence, claiiming slf-defen ce. and there were no witnesses. The place of the rcen't killing is t wenty five miles from a telegraph stat~on He Rtemovedi the Flag. W\ismsovos. D. C.. June :3.-Chair man Cooley of the Inter State Comn merce Conunission noticed this after noon that one of the clerks of th e ommnissioni was wearing a Cofederate flag in his buttonhole ad directed Secretary Mosely to re mov e th e flag or the clerk. Secretary Mosely; rem~oved the flag. -Thae Grand Army of the Repub li has bought the land where the Andersonville prison stood, and will tun itit a pleasure park. WAR TO THE DEATH. Col. John J. Dargai will Fight Col. Earle "to the Bitter End." So-ne years ago an acrimonious quarrel occurred between Col. Earle and Col. Dargan of Sumter. It cul minated i, a challenge from Darga, to light. The challenge was prompt ly accepted, but friends interfered, the inatter was left to a board. of ar bitration, and the difficulty adjusted. Dargan never forgave. Recently he said that if Earle came out for Gov ernor he would do all in his power to defeat him. The utterance seemed so ungenerous that many admirers of both men refused to believe it. CoL Dargan places the matter beyond dis pute by the following letter to the World Budget: Editor of the Budget: It is to be regretted that what I said of my op position to Col. Earle should have gotten prematurely into print. It was said at a picnic, it is true, but in private conversion, and was not in tended for the press. When Col. Earle announces him self regularly as a candidate for gov ernor, I shall conceive it to be my duty to oppose his election, and shall give to the public the grounds of my opposition. I am trying to do my part towards securing a good State government, and I am iot to be restrained in this work by any personal considerations whatever. I am not of those who are Ifor anything to beat Tillman," but of those others who are for anything to advance the cause of the people in our State and National administra tions. I can be depended upon to fight vigorously against both Tillman and Earle "to the bitter end;" and against anyone else who may come out for an office that Iconsider unfit for aproper discharge of its duties. Respectfully, JOHN J. DARGAN, Stat.eburg, S. C., May 31, 1890. HOMICIDE IN PICKENS. Col. John C. -ridtzi Stabbed to Doath b. S. Stephens. Picrx , June 2.-The first murder for the town of Pickens was com mitted Saturday. David S. Stepiens stabbed John C. Griffin in the left breast, inflicting a mortal wound, of which Giiffia died two hours after the blow was struck. 'Stephens had been employed by Griffin to attend to his mills on Town creek, near Pickens, andlived with his fam ily in Pickens, next door to Griffin. The contract for sawing the lumber for Clemson college had been award ed to Griffin and R. W. Gillebpie. On May 26 Griffin removed the saw part of his mill from Pickens to Fort HiL and had been absent all that week. He returned a little after-sun down and called at the postoffice for his mail. Stephens was waiting for m at F. M. Morris's store, near by, an' iad been using some pretty strong-liNiguage about what he was boing to do-or Griffin. if he did not gring the sawfaill back. But no one had any idea of vidence. As soon as he saw 3r. Griffin he ca ed him, and meeting up with him he ens) began to say how he understood = contract. Griffin did not agree with him, and they walked on down the street talking together until they reached the house of M~rr. Stephens. At this place a negro, who says he was near by, testified that the lie wa mutually passed, and Griffin struck Stephens a blow with his fist, when Stephns sruckhim back, and,. as Griffin advanced again Stephens stabbed him with a knife. Grifr - then turned back up the street, cry ing "Help! help! im murdered," and called to John P. Boggs, the nearest one to hum, to come quick. Boggs, thinkinghe had been disem bowelled, ran ar d met him after he. had walked about twenty-five steps, and eased him down on the street. On examination he found the wound as above described by the blood gush ing out. Drs. Williams and Earle were soon on the scene and had him carried to his house. An examina tion convinced them that the wound was mortal. The remains were buried yesterday afternoon with MIasonic honors, at the Hagood burying ground no.'rth of Piekens. Railroad Up the Jungfrau. French engineers are planning for an attack upon that hitherto virgin peak of the Alps the Jr ngfrau. They propose to continue the present line of railroad from Interlaken to Lauter bruauien as far as Stockelberg, at the foot of the Jungfrau, and thence to mount up by a succession of slanting cable roads, forming a zig-zag, to a height of some 12,000 feet. lancing nearly at the summit of the mountain. where there will be a hotel for the e cursiomists who are expected to make the trip by thousands daily. There will have to be five steps to the great stairease, and a separate railroad for each step), making five changes of cars necessary to reach the sumnut. -A vocalist in a local theatre be gan to sing the song. "For goodness sake don't say I told yo, a few nights ago, and was promptly hit with a rotten egg by one of the au dience. --Who threw that?" he howled. --I was me ci iedl a voice in the gallery. "but for goodness sake don't say I told you."~ This brought down the house and the singer re tired. -Senator Stanford. who wants the gvernmnl t to go into the business of lending m-'oney at a low rate of interest on real estate mortgages, owes his first step to great wealth to a lire that burned his law librar3, while he was pract(iing in Wiscon sin, and drove himi out to California at a time when he struck a tide that ld on toimmnense fortune. -The Republicans of the first dis trict nominated Hon. Thos. B. Reed for Congress by acclimation. Abbot's East India Corn Paint re moves quickly all corns, bunions and warts without pain, -The Lottery people seem to be gaining ground, and are very confi dent.