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VOL. VI. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1890. NO. 47. D1':AD) SEA AND) JORDiN. DR. TALMAGE'S FIFTH SERMON ON HIS TOUR IN THE HOLY LAND. Topography of the Dead Sea RI-:0on. Pompeii aud the Volcano-The Lowest Lake in the World-Evidences of God's Wrath. UIZOOKLYN , Oct. 26.-Dr. Tinage preached the lifth sermon of the series ou his tour in the IIoly Land in the Acadeyiv of Music in ihis city this morning. This evening at Tne Chris tain Herald service in the Acwiemy of Music. New York, the sermon was re peated before an audience which filled the va.st building in every part. Dr. Talmage announed as his text, Ps civ, 32: "Ile tucheth the hills an d they smoke." le said Il)avid the poet here pictures a vol cano, and what Church's Cotopaxi does on painter's canvas this author does in words. You see a hill, calm and still and for ages immovable, but the Lord out of the heavens puts his finger on the top of it. and from it rise thick vapors intershot with fire. "He touch eth the hills and they smoke." God is the only being who can man age a volcano, and again and again has he employed volcanic action. The pic tures on the walls of Pompeii, the ex humned Italian city, as we saw them last November. demonstrate that the city was not fit to live. In the first century that city, engirdled with palaces, emparadised with gardens, pillared into architectural exquisite ness, was at the foot of a mountain up the sides of which it ran with vine yards and villas of merchant princes, and all that marble and bronze and im perial baths and at boriculture and rainbowed fountains, and a coliseum at the dedication of which nine thous and beasts had been slain, and a super nal landscape in which the shore gave roses to the sea and the sea gave cry tals to the shore; yea, all that beauty and pomp and wealth could give was there to be seen or heard. But the bad morals of the city had shocked the world. In the year 79, on the 4th of August. a black column rose above the adjoining mountain and spread out, Pliny says, as he saw it, like a great pine tree, wider and wider, until it be gan to rain upon the city first thin ashes and then pumice stone, and sul phurous fumes scooped, and streams of mud poured through the streets till few people escaped, and the city was buried, and some of the inhabitants eighteen hundred years after were found embalmed in the scorix cf that awful doom. The Lord called upon volcanic forces to obliterate that profli gate city. He touched the hills and they smoked. SCIENCE AND SCRIPTURE AGREE. Nothing but volcanic action can ex-, plain what I shall show you at the Dead sea upon which I looked last De cember. and of whose waters I took a bitter and stinging taste. Concerning all that region there has been contro versy enough to fill libraries, science saying one thing, revelation saying an other thing. But admit volcanic ac tion divinely employed and both testi monies are one and the same. Geology, chemistry, geography, astronomy, ich thyology, ornithology and zoology are coming one by one to confirm the Scriptures. Two leaves of one book are Revelation and Creation, and the pennmanship is by the same divine hand. Our horseback ride will not be so steep to-day, and you can stay on without clinging to the pommel of the saddle, but the scenes amid which we ride shall, if possible, be more thrill ing, and by the time the horses snuff the suiphurous atmosphere of Lake Ashaltites, or the Dead Sea, we will be ready to dismount and read from our Bibles about what was done that day by the Lord when he touched the hills and they smoked. Take a detour and pass along by the rocky fortress of Masada, where occur red something more wonaerful in the way of desperation than you have ever heard of, unless you have heard of that. Herod built a palace amid these heaps of black and awful rocks which look ike a tumbled midnight. A great band of rob~bers, about one thousand including their families afterward held the fortress. When the Roman army stormed that steep and the bandits could no longer hold the place, their chieftain, Eleazar, made a powerful speech which persuaded them to die before they were captured. First the men kissed their families a loving and tearful good-by and then put a dagger into their hearts, and the women and children were slain. Then ten men were chosen by Lot to slay all the other men, and each man lay down by the dead wife and children and waited for these executioners to do their work. This done, one man of the ten killed the other nine. Then the sur vi vor com mitted suicide. T wo women and five children had hid themselves, and after all was over came forth to tell of the nine hundred and sixty slaughtered. Great and rugged natural scenery makes the most tremendous natures for good or evil. Great statesmen and gi eat robbeis, great orators and great butchers, were nearly all born or rear ed among mountain precipices. Strong natures are hardly ever born upon the Dlain. When men have anythinggreat ly good or greatly evil to do they come -own off the rocks. TilE LAND OF DESOLA TION. Pass on from- under the shadow of Masada, the scene of concentrated dia bolismn. and come along where the salt crystals crackle under the horses' hoof s. You are'near the most God for saken region of all the earth. You to whom the word lake has heretofore suggested those bewitchmients of beau ty, Luzerne or Cayuga, some great pearl set by a loving God in the bosom of the luxuriant valley, change all your ideas about a lake, and see this sheet of water which the Bible- calls the Salt sea, or $ea of the Plain, and Josephus calls Lake Asphaltites. The multecrs will take care of the horses while we go down to the brink and dip up the iquid mixture in the palm of the hand. The waters are a commingling of brim stone and pitch, and have six times lar ger percentage of salt than those of the Atlantic ocean, the ocean having 4 per cent. of salt and this lake 23 per cent. Lake Sir-i-kol, of India, is the highest lake in the world. This lake, on the banks of which we kneel, is the loweat lake. It empties into r.; a among other things, for the simple reason that water cannot run up hill. It swallows up the river. ordon and tinkes no response of thank's and never reports wh: t t c:ors with -.he twenty milion cub-ie Ieet of water arnnm1lly received fioma that :aiered river. It takes the three brauches -uad logs doat ed into it by tlbe Jordan anlu pitches thetm on the backs of bitumen to, decay there. The hot spring' near its baumts by the namLe of Culit~ho'e, w here Kn:g Ilerod cam?e to bathe oil his ~Lin-ses, .08000 pour into tthis sea thani they are poison ed. Not a fihscalesuils it. Not an in sect walks11. It hates life, and if you at. tempt to swim there it lifts you by at -. nnatnral buoyancy to the surface as much as to say, "We want no life here, but death is our preference; death." Those who attempt to wade into this lake, and submerge them selves, come out almost maddened, as with the sting of a hundred wasps and hornets, and with lips and eye lids swollen with the strange ablution. The sparkle of its waters is not like the sparkle of beauty on other lakes buta metallic luster like unto the flash of a sword that would thrust you. The gazell-s and the ibexes that live on the hills heside it, and cranes and wild ducks ihat 1ly across-for, contrary to the old belief, birds do safely wing their way over it-and the Arab horses you have been riding, though thirsty enough, will not drink out of this dreadful mixture. A mist hovers over parts of it almost continually, which though natural evaporation. seems like a wing of doom spread over liquid des olation. It is the rinsings of abomina tion. It is an aqueous monster coiled among the hills, or creeping with rip ples. and stenchful with nauseating malodors. TIlE CITIES OF TiE PLAIN. In these regi:>ns once stood four great cities of Assyria: Sodom, Gomor rah, Adma and Zeboim. The Bible says they were destroyed by a temptest of fire and brimstone after these cities had filled up of wickedness. "No; that is absurd," cries some one; "it is evi dent that this was a region of salt and brimstone and pitch long before that." And so it was. The Bible says it was a region of sulphur long before the great .catastrophe. "Well, now," says some one, wanting to raise a quarrel between science and Revelation, "you have no right to say the cities of the plain were destroyed by a temptest of fire and sulphur and brimstone, be cause this region had these characteris tics long before these cities were des troyed." Volcanic action, is my reply. These cities had been built out of very combustible materials. The mortar was of bitumen easily ignited, and the walls dripped with pitch most inflama ble. They sat, I think, on a ridge of hills. They stood high up and conspic uous, radiant in their sins, ostentatious in their debaucheries, four hells on earth. One day there was a rumbling in the earth, and a quaking. "What's that ?" cry the aff righted inhabitants. "What's that?" The foundations of the earth were giving way. A volcano, whose fires had been burning for ages, at God's command bursts forth, easily setting everything aflame, and first lifting these cities high in air and then dashing them down in chasms fathom less. The fires of that eruption inter shot the dense smoke and rolled unto the heavens, only to descend again. And all the configuration of that coun try was changed, and where there was a hill there came a valley, and where there had been the pomp of unclean ness came widespread desolation. The red hot spade of volcanic action had shoveled under the cities of the plain. Before the catastrophe the cities stood on the top of the salt and sulphur. After the catastrophe they were under the salt and sulphur. Science right; Revelation right. "Be toucheth the hills and they smoke." No science ever irightened believers in Revelation so much as geology. They feared that the strata of the earth would contradict the Scriptures. and then Moses must go under. But as in the Dead sea instance so in all cases God's writing on the earth and God's writing in the Bible are harmo nious. The shelves of rock correspond with the shelves of the American Bible society. Science digs into the earth and finds deep down the remaiLs of plants and so the Bible announces plants first. Science digs down and says; "Marine animals next." and the Bible says, "Marine animals next." :cience digs dowp and says, "Land ani mals next," and the Bible responds, "Land anImals next," "Then comes man:" says science. "Then comes man!" responds the Bible. Science digs into the regions about the Dead sea, and finds result of fire and masses of brimstone, and announces a wonderful geological formation. "Oh, yes," says the Bible, "Moses wrote thousands of years ago, 'The Lord rained upon sod om and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.' and David wrote, 'He toucheth the hills and they smoke.'" So I guess we will hold on to our Bibles a little longer. A gen tleman in the ante-room of the White House at Washington, having an ap pointment with Mr. Lincoln at 5 o'clock in the morning, got there fif teen minutes early, and asked the ser vant, "Who is talking in the next room ?" "It is the president, sir." Is anybody with him?" "No. sir; he is~ reading the Bible, lie spends every morning from 4 to 5 o'clock reading the Scriptur es." PROFLIGATE CITIEs OVERWHELMED. My text implies that God controlst volcanoes, not with the full lorce of his hand, but with the tip of his finger. Etna, Strombouli and Vesuvius fawn at his feet like hounds before the hun ter. Trhese eruptions of the hills do not belong to Pluto's realm, as the ancients thought, but to t he divine dominmons. Humboldt conted two hundred of themi, but since then t be Indian archi pelago has been found to have nine hundred of these great mouthpieces. They are on every continent and in all latitudes. That' earthquake which shook all A merica about six or seven summers ago was only the raving around of volcanoe" rushing against the sides o1 their rocky caverns tryin'g to break out. They must come to the surface, but it will be~ at the divine call. They seem reserved for the punishment of one kind of sin. The seven cities they have obliterated were celebrated for one kind of transgression. Profli - gacey was the chief characteristic of the seven cities over which they put their smothering wing: Pompeii, Hercula neum, Stabiac, Ad ma, Zeboim, Sodom and Glomorrah. If our American cities do not quit their profligacy, if in high life and low life dissoluteness does not cease to be a joke and become a crime, if wealthy libertinism continues to lind so many doors of domestic life open to its faint est touch, if Ilussian and French and American literature steeped inprurien cy does not get banished from the news stands and ladies' parlors, God will let loose some of these suppressed mnon sters of the earth. And 1 tell these American cities that it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrahi in the (day of judgment, whether that day; of judgment be in this present ceii tory or in the closing century of the earth's continuiace. The volcanic Thrces are already in existence. but in the mercy of God they are chained in teenesof subterraneous lire. Yet letp-oiigcywhether it stagger into a lazaretto, or sit on a commercial throne, whether it laugh in a faded shawl tun detr the street gas light or to be wrap ped in the tinest array that foreign loom ever wrought or lapidary ever impearled, know right well that there is a volcano waitingr for it, whether in donmest ic life, or social life, or political life, or in the foundations of the carth from which sprang out the devastations that sustaowed the cities of the plain. "-le touch:eth the hills and they smoke." But the dragoman was rejoiced when we had seen enough of this volcanic re winn of Palestine, and he gladly tight ens the girths for anothtr march around the horses which are prancing and neighing for departure. We are off for the Jordan, only two hours away. We pass 3edouins whose stern features melt into a smile as we give t hem the salutation Salaam Aleikoum, "1Peace be with you," their smile sometimes leaving us in doubt as to whether it is caused by their gladness to see .s or by our poor pronunciation of the Ara bic. Oh, they are a strange race, those Bedouins. Such a commingling of ruflianism and honor, of cowadice and courage, of cruelty and Kindness! W hen a band of them came down upon a party in which Miss Whately was trav eling, and were about to take pocket books and perhaps life, this lady sitting upon her horse took out her note book and pencil and began to sketch these brigands, and seeing this composure the bandits thought it something su vernatural and tied. Christian woman liness or manliness is all conquering. When Martin Luther was toid that Duke George would kill him if he went to Leipsic Luther replied, -I would go to Leipsic if it rained Duke Georges nine days." FIRST VIEW OF THlE JORDAN. Now we come through regions where there are hills cut into the shape of ca thedrals, with altar and column and arch and chancel and pulpit and dome and architecture of the rocks t:at I think can hardly just happen so. Per haps it is because God loves the church so well, he builds in th3 salitudes of Yellowstone park and Yosemite and tswitzerland and Palestine these eccles iastical piles. And who knows but that unseen spirits may sometimes worship there? "Dragoman, when shall we see the Jordan?" I ask. All the time we were on the alert, and lo:king through tamariik and willows for the greatest river of all the earth. The Mississippi is wider, the Ohio is deep er, the Amazon is longer, the Hudson rolls amid regions more picturesque, the Thames has more splendor on its banks, the Tiber suggests more impe rial procession, the Ilyssus has more classic memories, and the Nile feeds greater populations by its irrigation, but the Jordan is the queen of rivers, and runs through all the Bible, a silver thread strung like Leads with heroics, and before night we shall meet on its banks Elijah and Elisha and David and Jacou and Joshua and John and Jesus. At last between two trees I got a glimpse of a river and said, "What is that?" "The Jordan," was the quick reply. And all alone the line which had been leigthened by other pilgrims, some from America, and some from Europe, and some from Asia, the cry was sounded "The Jordan! The Jor dan!" Hundreds of thousands of pil grims have chanted on its banks and bathed in its waters. Many of them dip a wet gown in the wave and wring it out and carry it home for their own shrou.1. It is an impetuous stream, and rushes on as though it were has tening to tell its story to the ages. Many an explorer has it whelmed and many a boat has it wrecked. Lieut. Molineaux had copper bottomed crafts split upon its shelvings. Only one boat, that of Lieut. Lynch, ever lived to sail the whole length of it. At the season when the snows on Lebanon melt the rage of this stream is like the Conemaugh when Johnstown perished, and the wild beasts that may be near run for the hills, explaining what Jer emiah says, "Behold he shall go up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan." No river so often changes its mind, for it turns and twists, traveling two hun dred miles to do that which in a straight line might be done ir sixty miles. Among banks now low, now high, now of rocks, now of mud and now of sand, Javiarg the feet of the ter ebinths and oleanders and acacias and reeds and pistachios and silver poplars. This river marries the Dead sea to Lake Gallilee. and did ever so rough a groom take the hand of so fair :sbride? MIRACLEs AT TIIE JORDAN. This is the river which parted to let an army of two million Israelites across. Here the skilled major general of the Assyrian host at the seventh plunge dropped his leprosy not only by miraculous cure, but suggesting to all ages that water, and plenty of it, has much to do with the sanitary improve ment of the world. IHere is where some theological students of Elisha's time were cutting trees with which to build a theological seminary, and an ax head, not sufficiently wedged to the handle, tiew off into the river and sank, and the young man deplored not so much the loss of the ax head as the fact that it was not his own, and cried, "Alas! it was borrowed," and the pro phet thre w a stick into the river, and in defiance of the law of gravitation the iron ax head came to the surface and floated like a cork upon the water, and kept floating until the young man caught it. A miracle performed to give one an opportunity to return that which was borrowed, and a rebuke in all ages for those wvho borrow and nev er return, their bad habit in this re spect so established that it would be a miracle if they did return it. Yea, from the bank of this river Elijah took a team of lire, showing that the most raging clement is servant of the good, and1 that there is no need that a child of God fear anything, for if the most destructive of all elements was that (lay fashioned into a vehicle for a de parting saint, nothing can ever h urt you who lov-e and trust the Lorda. I am so glad that that charift of El - jah w-as not made out of wood or crys tal or anything ordinarily pleasant but out of lire, an~d yet hie went up without hav-ing so much as to fan himself. When, stepping from amid the foliage of these oleanders and tamarisks on the banks of the Jordau, he put his foot on the red step of the red equip age, and too'k the red reins of vapor mn his hands, andl spurred the galloping steeds toward the wvide open gate of heaven, it w~as a scene forever memor able. So the hottest afllictions of your life may roll you heavenward. So the most burning persecutions, the most fiery troubles. may become uplifting. Only be sure that when you pull on the bits of fire, you driv-e up toward God, and not down toward the Dead sea. When Latimer and Ridlev died at the stake t hey went up in a chariot of fire. When my friend P. P. Bliss, the gospel singer. w~as consumed with the rail train that broke through Ashtubii ha bridge and then took flame, I said, "Another Elijah gone tip in a cariot otf fire!" B.\PTIZING IN TIIE JORD.\N. But this river is a river- of baptisms. Christ was here baptized and Jlohn bap tized m any thoiisands. Whether on these occasions the candidate for hap tismt andl the otlicer of religion wvent into this river, and then while both were standing the water was dipped in the hand of one and sprinkled upon the forehead of the other, or whether the entire form of the onie baptized dis appearedl for a moment beneath the sur i'ac-e of the flood, 1 do not no w dleclare. While I cannot think without deep emotion of the fact that my parents held ine in infancy to the baptismal font in the old meeting house at Som erville and assumedi vows on my be half, I must tell you now of another mode of baptismi observed in the river Jordan on that afternoon in last Dc cember, the particulars of which I now for the first time relate. It was a sene of unimaginable snl emnty. - conrade in our holy Land journey rode up by my side that day and .old me that a young man who is now studying for the gospel ministry would like to be baptized by me in the riv r Jordan. I go; all the facts I could concerning his earnestness and faith, and through personal examination made myself conlident he was a worthy candidate. There were among our Arah attendants two robcs not unlike those used for American baptistries., and :iese we obtained. As we were to have a large group of diff-rent nation alities present I dictated lo my daugh ter a few verses and had copies enough made to allow all to sing. Our drago man had a man fami;.ar withsthe river wade through and across to show the depth and the swiftness of the stream and the most appropriate place for the ceremony. Then I read from the Bible the accounts of bautisns in that sacred stream, andimplored the presence of the Christ on whose head the dove de ended at the Jordan. Then as the andidahte and myself stepoed into the water the neople on the banks sang in full and resounding voice: On Jordan'ststormy banks I stand And ^ast a wishful eye To Canaan's fair and happy land, Where my possessions lie. On, the transporting, rapturous scene That rises to niy sight; Sweet fields arrayed in living green And rivers of delight. By this time we had reached the mid dle of the river. As the caiididate sank under the floods and rose again inder a baptism in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, there rushed through our souls a tide of holy emotion such as we shall not probably feel again until we step into the Jordan that dividestearth from heaven. Will those waters be deep?. Will those tides be strong? No mat ter if Jesus steps in with us. Friends on this shore to help us off. Friends on the other shore to see us land. See! They are coming down the hills on the other side to greet us. How well we know their step! How easily we dis tinguish their voices! From bank to bank we hail them with tears and they hail us with palm branches. They say to us, "Is that you, father?" "Is that you, mother?" and we answer by ask ing, "Is that you, my darling?" How near they seem, and how narrow the' stream that divides us! Could we but stand where Moses stood And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream nor Death's cold flood Could fright us from the shore. Desecrating the Marriage Ceremony. BIRMING1HAr, ALA, October 24. There was a thrilling Ualloon ascension at the State Fair to-day. Thomas J. Mims and Miss Gertrude Pittman, of Brewton, A'a, were married in front of the grand staLnd in the presence of 10, 000 pcopie. The Rev S. M. Adams, president of the State Alliance, perform ed the ceremny. The young couple then stepped into the car of a monster gas balloon. and with a strong wind salled off on there bridal tour. The bal loon took a southerly direction, and at the height of' a mile and a half went over Red Mountain. It was last seen this afternoon at hall-past 2 o'clock pas sinz over Oxmoor, seven miles south of Birmingham, and still heading for the mountainous region of Shelby County. The State Fair management gave the young couple a purse of $250 and a large number of presents were given to them. The groom is 20 and the bride is 18. The balloon bridal party landed on the top of a mountain seventeen miles from Birmingham, after a trip of an hour They were seven miles from a railroad station, but the country people near by arried them to Helena,.where they took the train for Birmingham, arriving at .10 o'clock to-night. Flooded by a Standplpe. ST. Lorrs. October 26.-A dispatch from Temple, Texas, says: Two hun red and eighty thousand gallons of water confined in a steel standpipe :roke loose from its cnmlines about 3 'clock on Friday morning and flooded he town. Immense sheets of boiler steel, hundreds of pieces of scaffoldings, ouses, barns, fences and all the debris f the surrounding neigh borhood went loating and crashing in all directions. The people of the town were awakened, md~ stood in frightened groups about he towns watching the destruction of heir homes and property. The house f 0. T. ]Rdon was crushed as an egg shell, and afterwards took fire from an verturned !amp and was burned. Rig on was seriouly burned, and his recov ry is doubtful. The accident is unaccountable. No laws were apparent in any of the bro en pieces of the pipe and the work :nanship shows it to be first-class. The fonndation is still there solid and un armed except in 'one place, where a ash two feet long was cut through he bottom and a couple of rocks wash d away. Money in Canning Factories. CH A RLEST ON, Oct. 25.-Hlere is a hint o Columbia capitalists and farmers: The canning factory established here ess than a year ago on a very small cap tal is making money not only for itself ut for the farmers. It has' saved the ruck farmers many thousands of dol ars in an emergency that had not oc urred to them and that in no other way ould be averted. Thue large crop of string beans, (the second crop) which rnaturing now, is alwvays shipped to the North. This year, there having been no rost as yet in the North, the Southern ean is a drug on the market. Here omes the canning factory and offer to uy the entire crop and cure it, paying he farmers 40 cents a bushel for the eans. .All of which goes to show that canning f'actory is a convenient thing o have around. He Loved the Telephone Girl. FoRT W~onTir. Texas. Oct. 21.-Miss Addie Cullen, the telephione girl. left bere last nigzht ticketed through to Newv o'k city where she will be met by ex Mayor WA. S. IPendleton and a secret :nahrriage cer'emony will he performed. Mrs. Pendleton No. I was granted a ivorce a f'ew weeks since and this second arriage wvill (close one of the miost sen sationial society npheav'als known 'ni the llstory of 'Texas. Pendleton has begun the practice of law in New York cit ad has putrchiasedl some pro(perty. Death Robbe~L Irkt-to-ie. liomsIon11ui, ALA.. Oct. 24. -Thfle dead and~ wounided from the collision on the Kansas City, 31emphis and Birmiing 1am road, two miles from lBirminghiam last night. were brought to this city this morninig at aL late hour. 'The dead a re~ .J. D). Franklin. a drummer, of Nashville.l and Johnl Killian, liremlan. Fireman Kilian was not Oin thet engine, but was in a passenger coach en route to A rmory', Miss., where he was to be mairrie'd to) morrow. The Alliance Strong in Kansas. TorP"'A. Kan.. Oct. 23.-The Far mers' Alliance has enrolledi 130.000 members. Trho greatest political p~owe'r withmn its ianks. its ablest 'Iranizer' and most pow'erlui speaker is a w~oman, Mrs. Mary' A. Lease. a lawyear of Wichita. Ms. Lease is possessed of or'atori cal powers and a~ comprehension of the political situation which arc, for a wo man, wonderful. SIIARED SIBERIKS W OE. A RUSSIAN EXILE OF FOUR YEARS'! SERVICE COMES TO NEW YORK. A Russian Whose Liberal Tendencies Sent Him Misery--How a Detective secured the Secret of the Existence of a Myster iouts Printing Plre-;s. NEw YoRK, Oct. 29.-There arrived in New York Irom abroad last week a Russion who until recently was a poli tical exile in Siberia. ie was sent there for having in his possession a copy of Buckle's "History of Civiliza tion." Ile had previously, when a sto dent, published a phamphlet which was construe:1 as showing some hostile' feeling to the government. Ie stiffer- t ed four years of exile ann has been 3 pardoned. Ile now comes to America i to make it his home. t The name of the exile is Dr. Isaac 2 Aaronovich. He is cultured, and has a high reputation for legal ability in Ilussia. Besides, he is a doctor of medi cine. Ile has contribuited to Russian literature and speaks several languages Iluently. He is a guest of Dr. Woll maun, on East Broadway, near Jeffer son street. Dr. Aaronovich told his story to a reporter yesterday in French, r the language of cult4 vated Russia. A t quaint use of the tense known as the passe definc gave a peculiar ring to his tale. "I shall begin," said the doctor, "by saying that George Kennan has told the truth. The men of whom he speaks in his lectures I have known and have met in exile. Dr. Dolgoboloy, upon C whom atrocious cruelties were prac tised, and who was taken from one Siberian place to another in the dead of winter, while ill and dressed in his night clothes, I knew intimately. My arrest? Well, I was a student at St. Petersburg in 1879. Like all other s young men, I was fond of good com panions. Of course we talked politics, I an I did so in the cafes. We were not e Revolutionists in any sense. Inspired, n however, by the love of authorship, I z had written a little pamphlet entitled h What is Constitutional? criticising in i a youthful way some features of the 6 government. I had this printed at the oflice of the Zemlja Volio. a radical paper, the printing place of which was a secret. There was a reward of 4,000 roubles offered by the police for the lo cation of the press rooms of that Liber- b al organ. P "There presently came among us a young fellow dressed in a working- a man's clothes. Ile had been discharg- I ed, lie said, from a rich manufacturer's mill, and he was very bitter against a capitalists. Ilis wife and he lived in a, e house near by, and, attracted by his a rough eloquence and determination several of my friends took interest in him. We gradually held our little meetings at his house. One day he made the proposition that as working men were getting very low wages in P St. Petersburg it was to their interests a that they should strike. Now, a strike s in Russia is a crime-one of the numner- e ous against the government. Our I friend volunteered, on account of his great prominence among the working- b men, to make the proclamation. But A it could only be made on the presses of the Liberal paper. I was appealed to, T and at the request of my friends offer ed to have the matter printed. But it wvas found necessary to have it set up . y ourselves. The type was brought ~ from the secret press and in the house s f the workingman the proclamation as printed. The amateur press was a p faced in one of the student's rooms. a The day the document was finishied the s< police entered the place and arrested p verybody-that is everybody except p he workingman, who was a clever de ective employed by the government, and who, while he wvas urging the stu-a ents, his friends, to sign the proclama- ~ ion, had sent his wife around to notify tl he police. My rooms were searched, the mann- r cript of my pamphlet found and much hat aided the police in locating my ~ rinters. I was spending the evening t my sister's in company with a young p ady and three young men, none of ci hom had any acquaintance with my 'I tudent friends. We were all dragged G o prison and were confined there two weeks on suspicion, the ladies suffer ng frightfully. I was exiled from St. Petersburg and placed in my native ( own under strict police surveillance s a suspicious and dangerous charac er. Nothing could be proved agamnst IC me except my unfortunate literary ni effort. I organized a reading class in a: my village and we met once a week. I tl wais guilty of translating the terrible s ook called 'Buckle's History of Civili- C ation.' To this I owe my exile to e Siberia. e "It~ was in 1881. I had been marriede a short time. 1 was sent to Siberia for a an indefinite term. We went fromi Nij ii- ovgorod to Siberia in a convey- ~ nce called a kilitka. Soldiers accom- ~ :anied me all the way. Every forty ' iles there was a relay of horses and d aother wagon. I was not allowed to c) leep anywhere on the road, but had to v o the best I could by getting naps in he bottom of the wagon. The jolting fr was frightful. Fortunately it was Summer. but the rainstorms were se- n vere,andl Iliad to travel (irenchied to he skin. There were steamers on the Volga, along the banks of which we raveled, but it was not considlered safe o allow me to make my journey in hat mannier. "I1 at last reached my destination, ~ alotorvsk, a small village. As I had o really committed no very grievous e: rime 1 was simply under surveilance. v [ was allowedI to do manual labor, but I ll other work was forbidden me. v Thrice a day the police visited me and l inqired in the nrnme of the Czar re au ding my health. t "We were an interesting little comn mtnity. There was Mr. Machlet, a writer of considerable ability, who tried ' to found a Russian colonyv in Kansas. ~ is wife has been exiled for an indefi- I nte term. Korolini, also a well known i writer, was with us, then the~re was for a a time Dr. Dolgopoloy, Kennan's friend. ti Ie suffered seve: e punishment. When e he was iirst exiled he was place d at a s smiall .iberian village, the priest of which wa's afflicted with a cataract of c oe eye. Being a celebrated specialist' ~ Dr. Dolgopoloy volunteered to treat the ufotunate man andt he culred himi. This was a crime, as the exile had been forb idden to exercise his profession, and he wais obliged to undergo a long imrisoment for the offense. "Our lives were sp-nt in the quietude of the tomb; no books, no amusement, no diversion of any kind. T1he vill-ze s was small and remote. My wife and 1 ehild joined ime and formed a part of fi the colony of exiles. Sometimes with out warning we wvere transferretd to another village. This was supposed to be a punishment. The houses were mere huts. The winters were long and a tedious. Sixty-live degrees below zeroa was the temperature frequently. Wee became L small Utopia. We shared ourf money with each other, the rich exilesjj supporting the poorer ones.t "We had a piano one winter and some yne sang in that dreadful place. It was ;he only bright spot in our life. You nay talk of solitary confinement, but vhat more horrible punishment can you magine than a forced stay in a wretch ,d village deprived of every comfort, ,very attribute of civilization. with >nly the hope of death to relieve you ? rhis is the milder kind of punishment. Four years of this existence and I was )ardoned-free to go home again, but diways under strict police surveilance." )r. Aaronovich then proceeded to peak of the future of Russia. He said: 6What Russia needs is a representative ,overnment. The enlightened class in lussia are Liberal. This change c an >nly be brought about, I fear. by the llied powers making war on Russia. k great fight like the campaign of the ,rimea would perhaps result in the es ablishing of a new government for tussia. The taxes are heavy. Rus ians. a,- a rule, are opposed to war and he liberty of Russia is a problem as et. "We do not know what thesterm Ni tillsm is. In Russia a man with ex reme views is called a Radical not a ihilist. As to the Czar," concluded )r. Aaronovich, "his life is little bet er than that of the poor Siberian exile. ['he only difference is that he has his >alace while the exile has his hut. 3oth are under the constant protection ,nd the ever watchful eye of the iolice." Dr. Aaronovich will remain in the ity some time. He is fine looking and most fascinating talker. Since his eturn from exile he has traveled ex ensively through Europe. THE LUTHERAN SYNOD. Niection of Offcers--Good Work in the Mission Fields. NEWBERRY, Oct. 27. -The Evan elical Lutheran Synod of South Carolina onvened in its sixty-sixth annual ses on last Tuesday night at Luther Chap ], Rev. W. C. Schaeffer's charge. .'he simple and appropriate word "Wel ome" with the figures 1824 and 1890 n either side were all there was of in criptlon or decoration. The sermon ras preached by the President, Rev. J. I. Wilson. It rained without a mom nt's cessation during the first day and .lght of the session. Synod was organi ed in Lexinton County in 1824 and as grown in strength, wealth and in .ence until this year of grace. which nds it in a flourishing condition. Rev. J. H. Wilson was re-elected presi ent; Rev. W. A. Julian. vice president; tev. M. J. Epting, secretary; Major P. Wise. treasurer. Major Wise has een regularly elected treasurer for the ast thirty years. There were sixty delegates in attend nee, twenty-five from the Woman's lome and Foreign Missionary Society. The routine work was dispatched im business like way during the day an rmons preached on import ant church nd educational work at night. A very interesting Mission Board eeting of the United Synod was held, i which its able Secretary. Rev. L. K. 'robst. gave a pleasing statement of the rogress of the work-. both mn the home nd foreign field. Three foreign mis ionaries will soon be commissioned, quipped and sent out by the Southern .utheran Church. The matter of coeducation in New erry College was not discussed. It ,as referred to the Board of Trustees. The subject of Lutheran pulpits for ,utheran preachers, and Lutheran [tars for Lutheran communicants. was rought up, but the sentiment of Synod not averse to the spirit of true follow bip. The Synod was very much exercised bout ministers descending in to the rena of politics and offering them elves as candidates for office. It laced on record its unqualified disap royal in the form of a resolution. This ras a timely deliverance. The Synod didt a grood thing in propriating $600 toward the uildinir of another house for e professra~ on the college cam us. The wdrk-31fithe body, after a harmo ious session, was brought to a close aurday night, and on yesterday the ulpits or our town- were generally oc pied by the members of the Syond. 'ho next meeting will be in Augusta, a.-Columbia Register. THE HANGING OF WOLFOLK. eorgia's Multiple Murderer Expiates His Crime. PER~RY. GA, October 29.-Tom Wol >1k was hanged at 1.30 P.M. for the irder, on August 6, 1887. of Capt Rich rd F. Wolfolk, his wife, Mattie Wolfolk, 2eir children, Richard F.. Jr.. aged 20 ; uan Pearl, 17, Annme. 10; Rosebud. 7; :harlie, 5 ; Mattie, 13 months, and Mrs 'emple West, 84 years.. All were kill d by blows on the head with the but of a axe, except the little boy. whose head ras split open with the axe blade. Not. blow struck except on the head of the ictims, andl they were tound in their ight garments where they were struck own. and thiebiod and brains from the rusedl skulls.had run out until the room as a sea.of-gore. The doomed~man slept 'well iast night. -omi,2oklock until 4. H~e got up at 8 p.;har1a long interview with a party of espaper men, with whom lhe conversed >r half an hour, laughing and exchang ig jokes, and being seemingly absoulute i undisturbed by his approaching eth. After the departure of his visitors, he athed and shaved and put on a new suit f othes. He wvas then visited by sev al of his relatives, whom he bade fare 'el without betraying any emotion. ater he was closeted with spiritual ad isers, to whom lie professed his helief a is salvation and his perfect hopes r a future life, telling the ministers at he hoped to meet them in heaven. For several hours thereafter Woolfolk ras left alone, devoted the time to ieditation and prayer. About i o'elock e was conveyed under the escort ofa cal military company to the gallows. hich had been built in a little valley in c outskirts of the town. Seven or ight thousand people swarmed the hill ides around to watch the execution. On the gallows Woolfolk was cool and oposed. After the ministers had' rayed he himself prayed fervently. eclaring his innocence in his invocation. t writte-a statement signed by Woolfolk ras read, in which he gave it as his dy ig declarauodi that he was innocent of e crime for which lhe was being hung. t 1.1:3 the drop fell. The fall tiled to rak his neck and death resulted froim tragulation, his pulse continuing to at foir eleven minuetes after the tral l1. Twenty five minutes later: the body as cut downu. No Rlest for the Czar, Puus. Oct. 22.-The Evenment has dvices from St. Petersburg statinag that s the traini in which the Czar was tray ling on his return to St. Petersburg rom his hunting trip in Holland wam assing. Grodno, a shot was fired at the rain +%o.nmther-ilway sttinn there." PRICES GOING UP. Pleasant Readin; for Consumers from the Trade .Journals. The trade journals, whose function it is to chronicle the ups and downs of prices for the information of the jobbing and retail trade, are just now interest ing reading for people with inelastic incomes. The McKinley tariff put higher duties on foreign manufactures to enable the home protected manufac turers to get higher prices, and the pub lished price lists show that they are working the new law for all it is worth. The American Wool IReporter of the 16th instant makes this report of the present state of mind of woolen manu facturers: "Naturally all are looking forward to a readjustment of val.es. This is imperative, and, more thaii this. is the direct purpose of the new bill." As to plain goods the Reporter says: "No one can tell where the market will go on these fabrics. At the present time fifty-inch goods that have been sold by jobbers this season as low as 50 cents, and in a few instances possibly down to 47%- cents, are held strong at agents' hands at 65 cents. A decided advance must be obtained on these fabrics, and it is held by some that prices will touch 75 cents before the spring season is over." Satinets, says the same authority, are to command higher prices, "consequent upon the change in tariff laws. These must come; they are the inevitable result as well as the designed purpose of the McKinley bill." Flannels, according to the Re porter, are to enjoy "a 15 to 20 per cent, advance over the auction prices of last spring." The Central Falls 1Mills, says the same journal, have announced that on and after the 18th the price of their '"all wool Thibets will be $1.87%, an ad vance of 12% cents per yard, the goods having been sold this season at $1.75." On the subject of carpets the Reporter had an interview with Mr. A. T. Lyman, of the Lowell Carpet Company. as to the effect of the new tariff on his business. "All classes of wools entering into the texture of carpets," says 'Mr. Lyman, "are subject to higher duties. A large amount of wool now coming to us will have to pay 40 per cent. more duty than it would have had to pay if it had come in last week. Fight on the top of the passage of the McKinley bill, the Phila delphia carpet manufacturers invited the representatives of the Eastern mills to enter into an agreement to lock up 40 per cent. of all the loons for one year, beginning November 1st." The locking up proposition was not adopted, but it was agreed to "raise prices," and Philadelphia carpets have accordingly been advanced ten cents a yard. This action, however, was only preliminary to a further advance. --In addition," says Mr. Lyman, "it was agreed that if the Eastern mills advance, the Phila delphia mills will immediately follow suit with an advance upon that which they have already made. New prices are generally given out about December 1, but this year they will come much earlier and will be much higher. An other conference of manufacturers is to be held in New York next week. To sum up the situation: Consumers will soon have to pay higher prices, or else they must buy inferior qualities of car pet at the old prices." The testimony of the Dry Goods Econ omist is the same. "The first effect of the new tariff,"says the Economist, 'has been to hrden values for all kinds of dry goods and to advance prices for all classes. Raw wool has advanced and all manufactures are firmer to higher. Fine dress goods are 10 to 15 per cent. dearer, and flannel fabrics are firmer, with an upward tendency. Linens have advanced 10 per cent., and the tendency is upward, particularly for handker chiefs. On all kinds of table linens, shirtings, hollands, sheetings, burlaps, towelings, and house-keepimg linens enerally, advances of 10 to 12% per cent. are readily obtained, and trade is quite brisk at that.' A Base Slander Refuted. ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 20.-John Liv ingston, president of the State Farmers Alliance of New York. figures in a po litical sensation just uncarthed in Geor aia, in which Livingston's namesake, Leonidas Livingston. president of the Georgia State Farmers' Alliance and Democratic nominee for Congress in this district, is the other pronyinen~t fig ure. During the past few days the State has been flooded with circulars containing affidavits of John Livingston, in which he declares among other things that Leonidas Livingston wrote him a letter in which lhe said: "Of course we want the Lodge bill or something like it. but from local feeling and prejudice it is not policy to say so to the public just now. I shall be will ing to vote with the Republicans on all party questions to win votes for our sub-treasury plan." H~e further charges that Livingston, the Georgian. is the employee of John uman and the West Point Terminal Company. President Livings ton, when shown the letter to-day, pronounced it an abso lute forgery. lHe says the only letter lhe ever wrote the New York Livingston about the force bill was one in which lie strongly urged its defeat. and says John Livingston theni replied through a Rich mond paper. in which lie said that in consideration for the wishes of his fel low farmers through the South he would do all lie could to defeat the force bill. An Unfortunate Cutting Aflair. To'Iroxyntsu. Oct. :30.--While Edmiondl H. Deas. colored.,-who is run ning on the Republican ticket for Con ress from this dlistrict. was adldressing a crowd of negroes ia the interest of the Haskell cause, exception was taken to his remarks by certain Tilhnauites. among whom was J. Gully~ Jackson. Jackson's temper was excited to a point of belligerency, and he drew his knife on Deas andl splht his mouth open on one side nearly to the car. andi would have killed him but for Colonel I. L. MIorris, who pressed up to make peace. In this praisewvorthly endeavor of Col onel M1orris, however. .Jackson. who was hihly wrought up. turnedI upon Colonel M1~rris and slashed him a severe cut on his leftcheek and raked him aeross his left sitde, cutting clear throuuhi his cloth ing and ripping the sk~n. thoah not to a serious dcpth. Deas bleu profuisely and it was belicved bec wouldl die from the wound rceivedI. .Jacksoni was ar res tel but released on 3100 bond for~ 1his appearance before thme town council next Th'ursdav. 6th instanit. There is considerable exieemnt amiong~ the citi z'?s.-Columibia Register. a farmer living in Western Park. Okia homa, near Rleno, arrived in Topeika yes terday mnorniing. lie has been sent out by his sull'ering neighbors to solicit aid Ifor them. Warner says the settlers are !.witout supplies, and their wives and children without clothin.,, and they can obtain no work. Unless speedily sup plied with aid they will suffer from starvation and cold. The men must re main upon their land or forfeit their hmestnd rights. NATURE'S LATEST FREAK LITTLE !NEZ HAYES A PUZZLE TO SOUTHERN DOCTORS. She Ejects Cotton From Her Mouth and Eves and Nobody Can Tell How It is Caused-Superstitions reople Say She is Bewitched DIESDEN, Tenn., Oct. 26.-A most ex traordinary phenomenon is at present occupying the attention of the people in this neighborhood. Already the news- 4 papers here have discovered the facts in the case as far as observation could go, and[ from what has been brought to light thus far there is now no doubt that the little village of Greenlield, about twenty miles from here, will become fa mous in connection with the extracrdi nary freak of nature to be found th-e. It is nothing less than a girl who at regular intervals ejects genuine cotton from her eyes, ears and throat, and hitherto all attempts to solve the mys tery have proved futile. The neighbors were at first inclined to attribute it to some sort of legerdemain, but now they have been repeatedly convinced of the absence of any trickery, and they have done the inevitable thing among small communities where anything cannot be properly accounted for-that is, to as cribe it to witchery. The Hayes girl, who is the subject of this strange story, lives with her parents near Greenfield. Mr. Hayes is seventy one years of age and his wife is but a few years younger. The daughter's name is Inez Ophelia, but she is gener ally called Tinesey. She is a rather good-looking girl of twelve years, with fair skin, beautiful golden hair and light blue eyes-a perfect specimen of the blonde. She is stoutly built, though her family say she is gradually losing flesh. She has spent some time at school and is sharp and intelligent to a degree. Questious from visitors do not worry her in the least, and during the periods when she is in possession of her health she is the soul of good nature. Early yesterday morning a party of women and two gentlemen visited the Hayes residence for the purpose of finding out for themselves if the story of the cotton was true or a myth of some enterprising romancists. On the way to their destination several persons whom the party encountered were asked to direct them on their way. In all such cases rather dubious answers were given, but there was an inclina tion displayed to avoid giving any details of the knowledge possessed on the sub ject. One man who had seen the cotton plainly ejected from the girl's eyes ad mitted the fact. but doubted that it was caused by any operation of nature. The Raves family live in a small, wooden, box-like house, which contains but one room of any account. In this room the three sleep. There is akitchen in the rear. Everything around the place was neat and clean. The girl was lying on an old-fashioned trundle bed near the fireplace. She was dressed in street attire and was playfully toying with a Little harp and some other knick knacks. She appeared to be in - goedtr health and spoke cordially and intelli gently. To look at her, nobody would think that she was more or less than a girl taking an ordinary lounge after din ner. The visitors, conversed with her for some time and began to grow some what impatient, when finally Mrs. Hayes asked them to look at the girl's feet. 'hen a sad sight was revealed. Since the poor girl became afflicted, a few weeks ago, her toes have curved around towards the bottom of her feet, and all attempts to straighten them have proved futile and caused her terrible agony. They are cold as death, and so lifeless that physicians have pierced them through and through with needles, causing no pain. When an attempt is made to bend them back to their natural position, however, the girl screams with agony. The woman in the party thoroughly searched around the bed and examined the patient carefully for any evidences of concealed cotton, but found none. All of a sudden the girl was seized with one of her spells, and with piteous screams she besought her mother to "-Rub harder! rub harder!" at the same time gesticula ting violently with her left hand, with which she vainly tried to reach her throat, as if to knock something away. The mother rubbed vigorously at the girl's throat meanwhile. This spell last ed a couple of minutes and three min utes later it was followed by another and another. At the cessation of each quite a large ball of cotton was removed from her throat. As soon as she began to re cover from the'prostrating effects of her spells she smiled and talked in just as agreeable a maimer as she had before the spells made their appearance. To inquiries as to how she felt durin the time that she is thus so strangely agitated she said her throat felt as if somebody were sticking a sharp knife into it. and the only thing which relievs her is 'a brisk rubbing of the muscles of the throat, which her mother always at tends to. Sometimes the cotton is eject ed clean through the skin, and on one occasion her throat was completely cov ered with it. The sufferer at these periods wanders in a strange manner, and positively asserts that her bed is surrounded by strange forms, one of which she describes as "a woman dress ed in yellow." She charges these forms with depositing the cotton around her. A strange thing in connection with the girl is her pecular sense of hearing. This is in itself very extraordinary. People standing by her bedside cannot hear a sound when she will tell themshe hears voices at certain points, and, sure enough, she has been correct in every instance. She has been tested repeated ly, but has never slipped. Superstitious people ascribe the whole business to the infinence of witchery, but her parents, while ridiculing this idea, cannot ac count for the phenomenon. Scores of visitors have been to see the afflicted girl, among them being many reputable physicians. Dr. Clopton of Milan says she is perfectly sane, Cap tain H. C'. Roberts ascribes the fits by hysteria. but no onie can explain away the presence of the cotton. Mrs. liar vey IDrewery watched by the girl's bed side last Sunday and distinctly saw the cotton co:me out of the girl's eves. At breakfast the same day a portion was ejected from her mouth. Mr. Hf. C. Pucket says lie witnessed it coming from her throat while she slept as he watched her. Next Monday the parents will take tihe girl to Lovelace. IDallard County, Kv., where her relatives live. There an effort will be made to have something clone for her. .\tlreadv sc-ores of letters have been sent to tile girl's father and mothter of fering every kind of advice. An Ugly Sensation in Columbia. C ottV ma Oct. 2i.-Dr. Francis D). Kendall. one of the most prominent young physicians in the city, was ar rested here to-day on a wvarrant sworn ouit by Dr. A. N. Tally, jr., charging hun w-ith abortion. Dr. Kendall gave bond in the sumI of 8:300 to appear at a preliminary examination to-morrow, The wvarrant also charges a young Co lumbian now living in Chester and a young lady of that city with being parties criininal. All the parties are well known personages in society. The matter has caused a great sensation a nd is the talk of town to-night.