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VOL. V1. MANNING, S. C. WEI)NESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1890. No. 50. AMONG TILE BEDOUINS. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES HIS EIGHTH SERMON ON PALESTINE. Night After Night In a Tent In Pales tine-A Famous Well In History. from Which Some Well-Timed Les-&ons Are Drawn. BRooxLYN. Nov. 16.-The following is Dr. Talmage's Eighth Sermon on his visit to Palestine. Iis subject was "Among the Bedouins," and his text, Numbers x.31: "Forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness." Night after night we have slept in tent in Palestine. There are large vil lages of Bedouins without a house, and for three thousand years the people of those places have lived in black tents, made out of dyed skins, and when the winds and storms wore out and tore loose those coverings, others of the same kind took their places. Noah lived in a tent. Abraham in a tent, Jacob pitched his tent on the moun tain. Isaac pitched his tent in the valley. Lot pitched his tert toward Sodom. In a tent the woman Jael nailed Sisera, the general, to the ground, fIrst having given him sour milk called "leben" as a soporific to make him soundly sleep, that being the effect of such nutrition, as modern travellers can testify. The Syrian army In a tent. The ancient battle shouts was "To your tents, 0 Israel!" Paul w as a tent-maker. indeed, Isaiah, magnificently poetic, indicates that all the human race live under a blue tent when he says that God "stretheth out the heavens as a curtain and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in," and Hezekiah compares death to the striking of a tent, saying, "My age is removed from me as a shepherd's tent." Nothing surprised me so much as the persistence of everything. A sheep or horse falls dead and, though the sky may one minute before be clear of all wings, in five minutes after the skies are black with eagles cawing, scream ing, plunging, fighting for room, con tending for largest morsels of the ex tinct quadruped. Ah, now I under stand the force of Christ's illustration when he said: "Wheresoever the car cass Is there will the eagles be gathered together." The longevity of these eagles is wonderful. They live fifty or sixty and sometimes 100 years. Ah, that explains what David meant when he sals "Thy youth is renewed like the eagl.'s." I say a shepherd with the folds of his coat far bent outward and I wondered what was contained in that amplitude of apparel and I said to the dragonan: "What has that shep herd got under his coat?" And the dragoman said: "It is a very young lamb he is carrying, it is too young and too weak and too cold to keep up with the flock." At that moment I saw the lamb put its head out from the shep herd's bosom and I said, "There it Is now, Isaiah's description of the ten derness of God-'He shall gather the lambs with His arm and carry them in His bosom." But here we found ourselves at Tanw4wr~al=h. Iamuweou u -W hi tory, most distinguished for two things, because it belonged to the old patriarch after whom it was named, and for the wonderful things which Christ said, seated on this well curb, to the Samaritan woman. We dismount from our horses In a drizzling rain, and our dragoman climbing up to the well over slippery stones, stumbles and frightens us all by nearly fulling into it. I measured the well at the top and found It six feet from edge to edge. Some grass and weeds and thoroy growths overhang It. In one place the roof Is broken through. Large stones embank the wall on all sides. Our dragceman took pebbles and dropped them in, and from the time they left his band to the instant they clicked on the bottom you could hear it was deep, though not as deep as once, for every day travellers are applying the same test, and though in the time of Mann drell, the traveller, the well was a hundred and sixty-live feet deep, now it is only seventy-five. So great is the curiosity of the world to know about that well, that during the dry season a Captain Anderson descended into this well, at one place the sides so close he had to put his hands over his head in order to get through and then he fainted away, and lay at the bottom of the well as though dead, until hours after recovery, he came to the surface. It is not like other wells digged down to a fountain that fills it. but a res ervoir to catch the falling rains and to that Christ refers when speaking to the Samaritan woman about a spiritual supply, he said that he would, if asked, have given her "living water;" that is, water from a flowing spring in dis tinction from the water of that well which was rain water. But why did Jacob make a reservoir there when there Is plenty of water all around and abundance of springs and fountains and seemingly no need of that reser voir? Why did Jacob go to the vast expense of boring and digging a well perhaps two hundred feet deep as first completed, when, by going a little, way off he could have water from other fountains at little or no expens.'. A h, Jacob was wise. Hie wanted his own well. Quarrels and wars might arise with other tribes and the supply of water might be cut off, so the shovels and pick-axes and horing instruments wers ordered and the well of nearly four thousand years ago was sunk through the solid rock. When Jacob thus wisely insisted on having his own well he taught us not to be unneccessarily dependent on others. Independence o f business character. Independence of moral character. Independence of religious character. Have your own well of grace, your own well of courage, your own well of divine supply. If you are an Invalid you have a right to be de pendent on others. B3ut if God has given you goord health, common sense, and two eyes. and two ears, and two hands, and two feet. Hie equipped you for independence of all the universe except Himself. If He had meant you to be dependent on others you would have been built with a cord around your waist to tie fast to somebody else. No; you are built with common sense to fashion your own opinions, with eyes to find your own way, with ears to select your own music, with hands to fight your own battles. There Is only one being in the universe whose advice you need and that is God. have your -own well and God will till it. Dig it if need be through two hundred feet of solid rock. Dig it with your pen, or dig it with your yard-stick, or dig it with your shovel, or dig it with your Bible. In my small way I never accom plished anything for God or the church, or the world, or my family, or myself except in contradiction to human ad vice and in obedience to divine counsel. God knows everything and what is the use of going for advice to human bi. ings who know so little - that no one but the all-seeing God can realize how little it is. I suppose that when Jacob began to dig thiswell on which we are singm this noontide, people gathered ai ound and said: "What a useless ex pense you are going to, w-hen rolling down from yonder Mount Gerizen and down frcm' yonder Mount Ehal, and out yonder in the valley is plenty of water"' "Oh," replied Jacob, "that is all true but suppose my neighbors shuld get angered against me and cut ofT my supply of mountain beverage what would I do, and what would my family do. and what would my flocks and herds do? Forward; ye brigade I of pick-axes and crowbars and go down into the depths of these rocks and iiake me independent of all except lim who fills the bottles of the clouds. I must have iy own well!" I suppose when Jacob began to dig this well on whose curb we are now seated this December noon. it was a dry season then as now and some one coines up and says: "Now, Jacob, sup pose you get the well fifty feet deep or two liundred feet deep and there should be no water to fill it, would you not feel silly ?" People passing along the road and looking down from Mount Gerizim or Mount Ebal near by would laugh and say: "That is Jacob's well, a great hole in the rock, illustrating the man's follv." Jacob replied, "There never has been a well in Palestine or any otlier country, that oncethorough fl dug was not sooner or later filled from the clouds, and this will be no ex ception." For months after Jacob had completed the well people went by and out of respect for the deluded old man put their hand over their mouth to hide a snicker and the well remained as dry as the bottom of a kettle that has been hanging over the fire for three hours. But one day the sun was drawing wa ter and the wind got around to the east and it began to drizzle and then great drops splashed al over the well-curb and the heavens opened their reservoir and the rainy season poured its floods for six weeks and there came maidens to the well with empty pails and car ried them away full and the camels thrust their mouths into the troughs and were satisfied and the water was In the well three feet deep. and fifty feet deep. and two hundred feet deep and all the Bedouins of the neighbor hood and all the passers-by realized that Jacob was wise in having his own well. My hearer, it is your part to dig your own well and it is God's part to fill it. You do your part and He will do His part. On and on we ride until now, we have come to Shiloh, a dead city on a hill surrounded by rocks, sheep, goats, olive gardens and vineyards. Here good Eli fell backward and broke his neck, and lay dead at the news from his bad boys Phineas and Hophni; and life Is not worth living After one's children have turned out badly, and more fortunate was Eli, instantly ex piring under such tidings, than those parents who, their children recreant and profligate, live on with broken hearts to see them going down into deeper and deeper plunge. There are fathers and mothers here to-day to whom death would be a happy release because of their recreant sons. And if there be recre'it sons here present, and your parents be far away, why not bow your head in repentance, and at the close of this service go to the telegraph office and put It on the wing of the lightning that you have turned from your evil ways? Before another twen ty-four hours have passed, take your feet off the sad hearts at the old home stead. Home to thy God, 0 prodigal! But I turn from this Shiloh Eli's sud den decease under bad news from his boys, and fnd close by what is called the "Meadow of the Feast." While this ancient city was in the height of its grosperity, on this "Meadow ot the Feast" there was an annual ball where the maidens of the city amid clapping cymbals and, a blare trumpets danced in a glee, u'pon which thousands of Ispectators aazed. But no dance since the world stood ever broke up in such a strange way as the one the Bible de scribes. One night while by the light of the lamps and torches theso galetes went on. two hundred Benjamites, who had been hidden behind the rocks and the trees, dashed upon the scene. They came not to injure or destroy, but wished to se-t up households of their own, the woman of their own land hay ing been slain in battle, and by pre concerted arrangements each one of the two hundred Benjamites seized the one whom he chose for the queen of his home, and carried her away to large estate and beautiful~residence, for these t wo hundred Benjamites had inherited the wealth of a patron. But wve must this afternoon, our last day before reaching Nazareth, pitch our tent on the most famous battlefield of all times-the plain of Esdraelon. What must have been the feelings of the Prince of Peaceas he crossed it on the way from Jerusalem to Nazareth! Not a liowver blooms there but has in its veins the inherited blood of flowers that drank the b'lood of fallen armies. IHardly a Foot of ground that has not at some time been guiled with war chariots or trampled with the hoofs of cavalry. It is a plain reaching from the Mlediterranean to the Jordan. U'pon it look down the mountains of Tabor and Gilboa and Carmel. Through it ranges at certain seasons the river Kishon which swept dowvn the armies of Siser'a, the battle occur ring in November when there is almost tlways a shower of meteors so that "the stars in their courses" were said to have fought against Sisera. Through this plain drove .Jehu, and the iron chariots of the Canaanites, scythedl at the hubs of the w'heels, hewing down their awful swathes of death, thou sauds in a minute. The Syrian armies, the Tlurkish armies, the Egyptian ar mies again and again trampled it. There they career across it David and Joshua and Godfrey and Richard Coeur de Lion and Baldwin and Saladin-a plain not only famous because the Bi ble says the great decisive battle of the world will be fought there-the battle of Armageddon. To me the plain was the more ab scribing because of the desperate bat tle here and in regions round in which -he Holy Cross, the very two pieces of woodl on which .Jesus was supposed to have been crucilied was carried as a standard at the head of the Christian host, and that'night closing my eyes in my tent on the plain of Esdraelon--for there are some things we can see bet ter with eyes shut than open-the scenes of that ancient war come before me. The twelf'th century was closing and Saladin at the head of eighty thou sand mounted troops was crying "Ho for Jerusalem' Ho for all Palestine'" and~ before them every thing went down but not without unparalleled re sistance, in one place one hundred and thirty Christians were surrounded by many thousands of furious Moham nedans. For one wvhole day the one hundred and thirty held out against these thousands. Tenny'son's "six hun dred" when "some one h-as blundered," were eclipsed by these one hundred and thirty fighting for the Holy Cross. They took hold of the lances whici had pierced them with death wounds, and pulling them out of their own breasts and sides hurledl them back again at the enemy. On went the fight until all but one Christian had fallen and he mounted on the last horse, wielded his battle axe right and left till his horse fell tinder the plunge of the javelins and the ri der, mak-ing the sign of the cross toward the sky, gave up his life on the point of a score of spears. But soon after, the last battle came. Ilis tory portrays it, poetry chants it, paint ing colors it, and all ages admire that last struggle to keep in possession the wooden cross on which Jesus was said to have expired. It was a battle in which mingled the fury of devlns and the grandeur of angels, Thousands of dead Christians on this side. Thous ands of dead Mohammedans on the other side. The battle was hottest close around the wooden cross upheld by the Bishop of Ptolemais, himself f wounded and dying. And when the Bishop of Ptolemais dropped dead, the . lishop of Lydda seized the cross and again lifted it carrying it onward into a wilder and fiercer fight, and sword against javelin, and battle-axe ipon t helmet, and piercing spear against I splintering shield. Horses and men tumbled into heterogenous death. Now the wooden cross on which the armies of Christians had kept their eye. I.e- t gins to waver, begins to descend. It falls! and the walling of the Christian . host at its disappearance drowns the huzzah of the victorious Moslen. But that standard of the cross only: seemed to fall. It -rides the sky to-day in triumph. 500,000,000 souls, t he mightiest army of the ages, -ire follow ing it and where that goes they will go, across the earth and up the mighty 1 steeps of the heavens. In the twelfth century it seemed to go down, but in the nineteenth century it is the might iest symbol of glory and triumph, and means more than any other standard whether inscribed with eagle, or lion, or bear, or star, or crescent. That which Saladin trampled on the 1.lain of Esdrelon I lift to-day for your marshalling. The cross! The cros4. The foot of it planted in the earth it saves, the top of it pointing to the heavens to which it will take you, and the out-spread beam ot it like out stretched arms of invitation to all na tions. Kneel at its foot. Lift your eye to its victim. Swear eternal allegiance to its power. And as that mighty n symbol of pain and triumph is kept be- t fore us we will realize how insignili cant are the little crosses we are called to bear, and will more cheerfully carry them. Must Jesus bear the cross alone t And all the world go free? 1 No, there's a cross for every one t And there's a cross for me. t As I fall asleep to-night on my p!l- t low in the tent on the plain of Esd; ae- t lon reaching from the Mediterranean s to the Jordan, the waters of the river V Kishon soothiDg me as by a lullaby. I c hear the gathering of the hosts for the last battle of all the earth. And by F their representatives America Is here I and Europe is here and Asia is here and Africa is here and all Heaven is q here and all. hell is here, and Appolly- I on on the black horse leads the armies 1: of darkness, and Jesus on the white 1 horse leads the armies of light, and I i hear the roll of the drums and the clear e call of the clarions, and the thunder ct p the cannonades. And then I hear the 1 wild rush as of millions of troops in i< retreat, and then the shout of victo ry s as from fourteen hundred million I throats, and then a song as though all p the armies of earth and heaven were t] joining it, clapping cymbals beating t the time-"The kingdoms of this world 2 are become the kingdoms of our Lord t and of His Christ, and He shall reign Ni forever and ever." tq S5 Cast up by the Sea. r1 CIIARLESTON, S. C., Nov. 17.-The e body of the late Wm. Bornemann, 0 head of the cotton firm of Knoop, C Ericks & Co., who mysteriously disap peared on last Thursday night, was t found yesterday near the Etiwan Phos phate Works about three miles fromn the city. The contlicting accounts ofa Mrs. H eidtmann, his housekeeper, ofrt Captain Igoe and Engineer Rlainer, who y heard some one fall or jump into Mid die Atlantic dock, and of Mr. Thomass Hawkins, who saw some one answermng5s to the description of Mr. Bornemanns walking across his strawberry field, allh differed as to time and circumstance, 1 and the many friends and beneliciaries c of the bounty of the liberal, big-hearted merchant all hoped against hope that he d might tur-nup safe and sound. These hopes were rudely dispelled yesterday afternoon about 1 o'clock, when Super intendent Cresse of the Etiwan Phos-d phate works, telephoned the Centraln station that the body had been found. It appears that Messrs. John D~unn and William Busch, laborers on the Kenner ly farm, were yesterday morning taking e a pleasure sale on the Cooper river. As they neared the Etiwan Phosphate works, looking up a little creek they saw a body fioating in the marsh, forc the tide was high. They moved theh body to the spot and informed Superin tenden Cresse of the fact. Later in the afternoon Coroner De Veaux, Lieuten- ' ant Heidt and Officer Miller secured the body with some difficulty, and deliver ed it at the Etiwan works to the repre sentatives of the family. The body was easily recognized as that of Mr. Borne mann, the disfigurement, disarrange-. t ment of clothing and effect of the salt water having been slight.-News and Courier. t Now We Want an Omfce. tl GRIEENNILLE, S. C., November 15. l Your correspondent has been trust worthily informed that Col. Ellison S. ~ Keitt, of Newberry County, will be a candidate for the Vnited States Senate 0 to succeed Gen. Wade Hampton. Mr. P Keitt is an ex-member of the Legisla 1 ture from Newberry County and was ai prominent supporter of Capt. Tillman d in the recent campaign. It is uinder- t stood that he endorses tlie sub-treasury bill and the other Alliance demands.-s T. C. Gower, of this city, will be a~ candidate for railroad commissioner.d He is a personal friend of (Capt. Till man, and is one of the most successful and energetic business meii in Green ville.d Gen. J. Walter Gray, another Green- 0 ville man and one of the chief supp~ort-d ers of Capt. Tillman during the cam-s paign, is out for clerk of the House of Representatives. He was a candidate Y at the Sepetmnber Convention for Statet Treasurer, but was not nominated be- s cause W. D. Mayfield, of this city, had been nominated for Superintendent of ' Education. Gen. Gray is vigorously pushing his canvass for the position._t News and Courier,. A Victim of Cotton Futures. b SUITER, Nov. 19.-1l. P. Mayes, a b young merchant and cotton buyer of sl Mayesville, in this couty, dlecamped e: for parts unknown Saturday night. ti leaving a note to the effect that he had ec done what could never be undone. He tl had been in Sumter Saturday andI drew s< from the two banks about $5,000, giving 2 a draft on Sprunt & Son, of Wilming ton, N. C., and several Charleston lirms, It is now learned that he owes money amounting to several thousands to par- 1< ties in Mavesville. He was treasurer of the tow'n of Mayesville and also of 2 several societies and appropriated their ( money also. ils age is about 23 and a he comes of the best family. lie was I doing a large business and apparently c gaining wealth rapidly. 11is deficit a will amount to about S15,00J0 in all. c The supposed cause was sneculation in a futures. The banks at once had his :( store and stock attached and will not I A MOMENTOUS MESSAG. FHE FATE OF THE REPUBLICAN PAR TY IN THE BALANCE. larrison must Choose Between McKinleY and Illaine-Tho Issue Clearly Made ont the Force Dill and Tarilf-His Coming 31essage to Congress Will Tell the Story. Wasmsr oN. Nov. 19.--Plresident larrison to-day held an informal con erence with several members of his abinet on the subject of his annual nessage to Congress upon which he is iow hard at work. The liveliest curiosity exists here as o what the document will contain. peculation about the outcome is even v divided between the theory that the >aper must in reason be only a conven ional commonplace summary of de >artment reports. topped off with a few xecutive generalities and the expecta ion, shared by the more aggressive Re >ublican politicians, that the President vill. improve the occasion to give an inphatic reindorsement to both the IcKinlev tariff bill and the force bill .nd, so far as lies in his power, keel) his oarty up to the work already begun. lerewith are given the views of a pro ninent Republican in a position to iiow the inside status of his party's Mfairs: The present week will witness some arnest and probably some exciting abinet conferences. The President's dvisers as usual are having the mes age read by sections and are thus af orded an opportiuity in advance to in orse or dissent from the views therein xpressed. It is believed that the cabi tet., like the general Republican public s divided on the subject of what the ccasion calls for. Certain it is that a erious difference of opinion exists be ween the President and Mr. Blaine as o both of the measures to which by eneral agreement now is laid the lame of the recent Republican rout. Ir. Blaine, originally opposed to the orce bill, is against it still and thinks it ultght to -lie on the Senate's table. le iscourages all talk about committing lie party further to its fortunes. He is ikewise opposed to any re-assertion of he principle of high protection as illus rated by the McKinley bill. Freer rade tlrougl the medium of reciproci y is the shibboleth lie proposes shall be ubstituted for the unfortunate cry 7hich the party adopted in the last ampaign. The Iresident to-day leans in the op osite direction on both propositions. le wants the force bill passed, and is aclined to give it the active and un ualified support of the administration. le holds that the Senate acted unwise ,- in not enacting the measure into a y at the last session, and could do othing better than to pass the bill as arly after reassembling in December as ossible. It is believed, too, that his resent purpose is to give some emphat , expression of these views in the mes age now preparing. As to the 1Mc inley bill he stands by that. He sym athizes with Mir. McKinley's assertion tat the bill was condemned without ie proper hearing, and he has hopes, as r. McKinley seems also to have, that tie developments of the next two years ill put an improved face on the mat r. At any rate he stoutly resists the aggestion from the Blaine quarter of anning away from the party's recent onomic record, and while not ignoring r belittling reciprocity, seems little in lined to bring that question forward to Ie exclusion of everything else. These facts make it plain enough that ie President and his premier are rap 1y approaching if indeed they have ot already reached a point seriously iTeeting their own and the party's for mles. If they are to hang together, a ery nice and diplomatic adjustment in risting differences between them must peedily take place, whereas, if they lould part company and MIr. Blaine :ould leave the Cabinet as the result of is open repudiation of thle Harrison eed-McKinley program thle Republi in collapse would be complete. It is no secret here that the Presi ent's friends are now warmly denounc ig Mr. Blaine. They regard him as a aitor ill the camp, bent only upon his wn aggrandizement. They want him riven out of ollice, and as the situation ow appears a demand to that effect ay shlortly be made. They hlave been rodding the President on tile subject rer since MIr. Bllame's merciless criti smn of thmeMcKinley bill was first made ublic. The interpretation given to tat expressionl of opinion was that 31r. laine was willing to help the democra y win tile coming light in order that is own views about reciprocity, which lust then come in for seperate exami ation, migilt dominate tile platform in .le presidental year. They fully ex ect him to repudiate those views. But r. Blaine remains mute, or wheni peaking at all only adds to the belief at lie was from the outset one of tile lost extreme and uncompromising of ie opponlents of the McKinley tariff ill. That all of this is with a purpose and rat purpose the making of M1r. Blaine e Republican nominee for the presi ency in 1892, tile friends of the Presi et believe. Thie Iharrison peop~le ad it that if MIr. Blaine sihould break way from the President or be forced ut of the cabinet the prospect of Re ublican success in 18912 would be dark ideed. But ill order to down MIr. laine, whom they suspect of schleming isloyalty to his chief, they are willing > pay anty penalty. A s tihey view the situation there is ,iall hope of success under the best anditions5, and their idea of the Presi ets only duty ill the premises is that e shlould unmask and dismiss without esitation the one man wvho seems will ig to discredit all of his party associ tes ill order to clear tile path for his wnt advancement. If tile penalty is efeat for everybody let it come, they my. Better that than success achieved ider and for the benefit of a shlrewd Iggler, who hlas nto sense of the obliga ens of fair dealing or true comrade It is because tile President's message ust throw much light 0on this contro ersy that such great interest attaches >it. If the passage of the force bill is dvocated inl it and the principle of pro ction as illustrated by tile McKinley ill reasserted, then MIr. Blaine will have een turned downi. But it~the message ould be one only of temporizationm anld slanation, then 31r. Blaine will have -iumphied, and, having the President ompletely in his power, it will not tax e patience of the country to wait and se what he will furthler do with him. ew York Wuorld. The Lone Lyncher Convicted. BA RNwElLL, S. ('. Nov. 17.-The fol >wing jury, Gi. P. Kirkland, foremanl, . . Loadhtodt, J. (.. Woolly, D~avid uluns, Aaron R etz, RI. J. Andersoni, 31. .Kiniard, J. F. Ilutto, I). Ii. Rhtood, C. 1. Edinlield. A. N. Carlton anid 1. 3M. [utto, brought in a compromise verdict f mani-slaughier against D~avid Ready, fter being in tile jury room about 10 clock 0on Saturday morning unitil they greed on a verdict. The jury stood six >six between acquittal anld convictionl. 'lie prisoner was remanded for sentene. NEW MEN IN CONGRESS. Old Faces That Will be MlIssed at The Capital. WASHINGTON, November. 14.--The 52d Congress will contain more new members than old ones. Of its 332 members at least 170 will make their first bow in the National House. Many of then are without any experience whatever in the legislative hall, and at least two-thirds of them will take the places of men who have become proni nent factors before the country. The slaughter of leading men at the past election and in the primaries previous to it has been wonderful. In fact, the memory of the oldest inhabitant here runs not back to the time when this has been exceeded. Were a regular atten dant upon the sessions of the House to be absent for a year and then look in upon the next House he would fail to recognize it, owing to the absence of so many familiar faces. The Democratic side would be more familiar because there have been but few changes in the Southern delegation, but those changes have resulted in the removal of some old oddities. Barnes, the fat man of Georgia.is one of the latter class. About medium height, with a girth of forty-six inches aud weighing nearly four hundred pounds, lie has been left at home by his constituents, who have sent in his stead a lightweight, who will barely tip the scale at one hundred pounds, to succeed him. Then there is Major Martin, of Tex as. Six feet two, straight as an arrow and wearing a broad sombrero, he natu rally attracted the attention of all. Dur ing his first term lie was the butt of ridi cule and maniy were the jokes played up on him. Illiterate and uncouth,he al ways was surrouded by a crowd of his colleagues. Although he was charged with blowing out the gas and in other ways showing his disregard of the meth ods of civilization, yet the old man retires from Congress better fixed by far than many of those who surround ed him. At the end of this session he will have served four years in Congress, and it is believed lie has saved his entire salary-$20,000. His mileage amounts to about S1,000 per annum and he has managed to live on that, boarding at a private house and paying but 525 per month. The next notable who has succumbed to the fates of politics is Iceman Tur ner. of New York city, who was chosen to fill out an unexpired term. Iis sud den elevation to the National Congress at a $416 per month salary turned his head. le was willing and anxious to make a speech on any subject that came before the House, and cared but little what the subject was, so long as it af forded him a chance to talk. Then there is McClammy, of North Carolina, a little. dried up man. le served two terms from one of the moun tain regions of North Carolina, and never made a speech but one, when he branched off into tar heel poetry, that convulsed both sides with laughter. "Major Thomas Winfield Grimes, by gad, sir." of Georgia, is another of those who will be conspicuous by their ab sence in the next House. Mr. Grimes was a polished Southern gentleman, and is a descendant of one of the oldest fanilies in Southern Georgia. Neat and tidy in appearance, he always com manded attention. le must, however, have been nominated on his name. for during the four years he has been here his legislative work was confined solely to voting on questions or staying away from the House in order to break a quo rum. His only notable exploit during this time was when he seized his hat and stampeded from the dining room of the Riggs House in a rage because Ex Minister Atwood, a colored man, was llowed to take dinner there. The picturesque Vaux, of Philadel phia, who was elected to Congress be ause he had danced with Queen Vic toria, will also be missed. is antique garments and long thowing hair remind ed one of the Colonial days. On the Republican side the changes ill be more marked. Foremost in the ist of absentees will be William Mic Kinley, Jr, the great defender of protec ion. The record of the infamous gerry nander which left him at home is too. well known to berepeated here. Next in: importance is honest .Joe Cannon, of llinois the defender of the freasury de artment from the raids of the lobbyists. fter seventeen gears of faithful service he is left at home because a banker with lenty of boodle coveted his seat. Then here is the dignified Adams, of Illinois, ne of the brightest legal lights in the [Iouse. He, too, will be conspicuous by his absence. and no good reason can be iven for his defeat. Billy MIason, also, is numbered among he slain. MIr. Mlason was undoubtedly one of the rising men of the House. lthough but serving only his secend erm in that body he ranked among the eaders and always commanded atten ion whenever he took the floor. Next o M1ajor MIcKinley MIr. M1ason comes in he general regret that is expressed over he defeats of Tuesday. Then there is the black eyed, black aired MIcComas, of MIaryland, who four lifferent times withstood the assaults of he Democrats and carried the Republi ~an flag to victory in Western MIary and, lie, also, went down in the rush. With him went hiis two young colleagues, M1udd and Stockbridge, tihe three once naking the youngest delegation in the [Iouse. Another victim that will be missed is Elihu S. Williams, of Ohio. A quiet. ligniied and well-informed old gentle an, lhe sprang into fame during the losing days of tile last session, w~hen, as a peacemarkert lie received ini the eye a low from the list of Congressman Beck ith, intended for Congressman Wil on, of Washington. His colleague, -ighting Bob" Kennedy, will also be specially missed. Then there are Gen. rosvenor, Gen Butterworthi Mr. hompson and young Theodore Nuhrton, all in the list of absentees from the next ongress. Thle absentees in the New York dele-' ~ation will be more then numerous. elix Campbell, little Judge MIeCarthey, he stuady .John Quinn, MIoses D). tivers. Charles J1. Knapp, .John HI. Iofitt. Fred Lansir, .James S. Slier an, Dave Wilbur, S[ilton De Lano, homas S. Flood, big and good-natured harley Baker, of Rochester. MIajor arquhar, of Buffalo, the dignified .Johin f. Wiley, of East Aurora, and the itty story teller, William G. Laidlaw, al give way to new men--more than alf of the delegation.-New York ress. ___________ The Rtope was Tied to a Limb. BlnMJN;onAM, Ala., Nov. 19.-Near illman, Ala., eight miles from this ity, Henry Smith, colored, was lynched for a brutal assault on Mirs. Mlary Cal oun, a respectable wvhite lady 60u years f age. The assault was committed a eek ago, but the negro wvas not cap ured until Mlonday night. As soon as e was indlentified a crowd ot white meni took him to the woods and strung im to a limb. SENATOR INGALLs' friends are san uine that he will be re-elected. They laim enough votes to insure it and ount on a number of friendly Alliance men, formerly Republicans, to vote for THE APPORTIONMENT PLAN. P"robability That the Dunnell Measure Will be Much Changed. WAsmINxTox, Nov. 19.-There is some reason for suspecting that the Fifty-first Congress will not be in such haste to pass an apportionment bill as it was a few months ago and before it was imagined that the whole country was about to go Democratic. At all events it is apparent that what was called by courtesy the Dunnell appor tionment bill, but which was really the Census iDureau bill, will be very ;:nlike the bill that will be permitted to emerge as the law of the land. When Mr. Dunnell, on September 10, introduced his apportionment bill, it was said to have been constructed upon the inform::tion that the population of the States was about 63.000,000. At first the ratio was said to be one to 178 000, or thereabouts, and a little latei, on the same day, it was announced as be ing 180,000. The bill proposed a House of Representatives of 354 members. How the ratio came to be fied at 178, 000 or 180,000 no one could tell and no one can be found now who appears to be willing to tell. Another scheme has appeared in the Tribune, which may be assumed to know what its party intends to do, al though it does not readily find out what its party has done about election time. Finding a ratio of 186,078 to ap ply to a total population much reduced since Mr. Portor helped Mr. Dunnell to get out his apportionment bill, it shows that the House of liepresenta tives should consist of 332 members, which is only two more than the mem bership of the present House. Under this after-election scheme Ne braska will gain three members, Minnesota will gain two, and each of the States of New Jersey, Texas, Arkansas, Colorado, Washington, and Oregon will gain one. New York will lose two, and there will be a loss of one in each of the States of Maine. Mary land, Virginia, South Carolina, Ten nessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Iowa. This Is unlike the Dunnell bill, which gave an extra inan to Michigan at the expense of Virginia. This latest scheme, prepared after the election, I does not give that extra man to MichI gan. Instead of giving Pennsylvania two new members that State's repre sentation Is allowed to stand. But New York is reduced. There Is some probability that the revolution at the polls, by which sever al States recently Republican have 1 gone to the other side, may have the effect upon the Reliblicans of dissuad- I ing them from forcing an apportIon ment at all. Several States that were then Republican are now Democratic. The state of things will be better understood when it is observed that the only States having solid Republi can delegations in the next Congress will be Colorado. Idaho, Maine, Ne vada, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming. The loss of State Legisla tures In some of the States may have I led the Republicans to conclude that I this will be a poor time to attempt to grab anything that may make the party additionally unpopular. But if it was fair and just to increase the representation from 330 to 354 only two months ago, the fact that the ele tions have gone Democratic in nearly every State ought not to be expected to be a suflicient reason for increasing the I ratio of representation and lessening I the total number of members. If the Democrats should do that it would at t once be denounced as a "partisan out- i rage." The public that has listened to some of the superior denunciations of ( the Democrats for what they have done( has expressed its estimation of them, and there is no doubt that the public( will bear in mind the Republican course( on this apportionment business unless it should be straight. ROMANCE AND REALITY. Wonderful Matrimonial Record of a Tav ern Keeper's Daughter. BRADFORD, Pa., Nov. 19.-Ten years ago the little tavern at Emaerson'sji Mills, in the Pine Run lumber region, was kept by an odd character. EliasIa Benton. Ie had a vcry pretty daugh- i ter named Betty. Her mother was dead, I and she looked after the honsehold af: Ers of the tavern. She was 16 years t old and Edward Shott, a batrk contractor, voung and well-to do, was in love with ier and wanted to marry her. Betty wanted to marry xotung Shott, but her rather had other plans, and she was :ompelled to obey.I Hie chose for her husband a man threet imes her age, who owned a large pine tract in the neighborhood, a valuable p~rtperty, that landlord Benton was anx ous to possess. lie compelled his 16 year old (laughter to marry this man,' Aulds by name. He lived only six months and left Ijis young widow the pine land, which her father sold and 1ppropriated the proceeds to his own ise. Young Shott in the meantime had losed his contracts and gone away. Jne year after the death of her husband Mrs. Aulds married, to spite her father. John Grover, a sawyer. lie was killed n his employer's mills one month Ia- e er. The landlord's daughter was twice a 2 v~idow, although she was not yet eigh-t een- years old. Two months after her t second husband's death Edward Shott I eturned to Emerson's Mills, and on ~ er eighteenth birthday young Widow ~ 3rr-er, who had grown defiant of her ar .er, married her old-time love. TheC :ouple lived happily for a year, and one 1 :hild was born. The child was not two e eeks 01(1 when the father was crushed t :o death by a fallimg tree in the woods. t Widowed now for the third time, the andlord's daughter mourned her third usband sincerely for two years. About his time her father died. ' At the age of twenty-ono she made I hat was retarded as a most fortunate a narriage, her fourth husband being El- ~ ncr James, a young Warren County t awyer. James turned out to be a drunk- t md. lie abused his wile and her child V o shamefully that she had no diliculty a n obtaining a divorce, which was grant- ~ d four months after she became Mrs. h amies. She remained single then until t he was twenty-three, when sheC mar- ~ ed George Rhone, a widower of fifty. r Ie was a prominent man in the locality. t Before they were married a year Rhone r lied with the smallpox. His young s vife nursed him all through the course h t this dreadful disease, escaping with- P ut taking it herself. Rhione left his t. vidow $10,000 in cash. Not long after ier last husband's death she took her hild and went to Ohio, where she had u elatives livingz. This was one year ago. n .'st 'Tucsday she wrote to a friend in b 3radford that shie was to be married f he next day ini Covington, Ky., to a a -oung man named Charley Green, a s ue grass farmer. TilE farmers aire the salyation of the c ounry, andl now that they haya put n heir hands to the political plow we 9 nop they will not turn back. c HIGH HOPE FOR '92. The Alliance will Probably Mtke a Straglitout Fight Two Years Hence. WAInIxo-roX, Nov. 19.-The spectre of the Farmer's Alliance overshadows all other political considerations here. Clever politicians estimate the vote polled by that organization in the re cent election at not less than 2,500,000. The Alliance people themselves are say ing nothing that can be construed as an indication of their future purposes. The expectation is that their party will increase so rapidly during the next two years that their voting strength in 1692 will not fall much, if any. short of 5,000, 000. In that event they will undoubted ly place a Presidential ticket in the field, with a moral certainty of carrying half a dozen Southern anti Western btates. Already they are claiming all the agri cultural States in '92. This is, of course, an exaggerated and over sanguine view of the situation, growing out of their recent success, but they have a reasonable probability of carrying North and South Carolina, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska and Minnesota. I am told by their leaders here that not only will they continue to develope strength in the States where they have already shown unexpected power, but that Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Massachu setts offer them an equally promising field. The work of organizing will go on rapidly in these States from this time, with the possibility of bringing one or more of them also under their dominion. It is obvious to any student of politi cal affairs that the Alliance people are "felling their oats," as they figuratively put it. They organized originally for mutual benefit, but they have drifted into politics almost imperceptibly from the start, and their manifest purpose now is to secure control of the country, or at least develop such strength as will enable them to hold the balance of pow er between the two great parties. It is not their intention to consolidate with either. Their leading men tell me they will welcome any man or set of men who may choose to enter their ranks, but they can only be admitted by renounc ing forever their former political aflilia tions. It is only as a distinct organiza tion with aims and purposes that they can hope to win, and from this course they will not swerve a hairsbreadth. The Alliance people are claiming fifty live votes in the next House. Of this number forty are straightout Alliance Representatives and fifteen others have committed themselves in writing to the measures advocated by them. The more important of these measures are the free silver coinage and sub treasury bills. They will not stop, they say, un til they accomplish the passage of both. Judging from their conversation they expect to do this before the close of the 52d Congress. There is one tenet of their political faith which fair minded men without re gard to other considerations will cheer fully endorse. They are opposed to sec tionalism and to the statesmen who sup port such doctrines. They tell me seri ouly that their principal opposition to Senator Ingalls arises from his malevo lent and repeated efforts to widen the breach between the North and South. His other sins they could forgive, but this they regard as unpardonable. I ask them what in that case they pur pose doing with Senators Hoar and Chandler. They replied that as soon as the organization became stronger in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, these gentlemen should be immediately turned down, unless their "brigadier scalping" tactics. as they term them, are abandoned. The General Council of the Alliance wvill hold its annual meeting at Ocale. Fla., December 2 next. A bout fifty del egates and fifteen hundred other lead ing members of the Alliance will be in attendance. The Conference will be an important one, and before its close the aims and purposes of the Alliance for the future will no doubt be better tun derstood.-New York Herald. Cleveland's Congratultions'. PHIILADELPHIA. November 19.-Iu refutation of the published statement that Ex-President Cleveland had failed to congratulate Governor-elect Pattison, the followiag personal letter is made publhc: NEW YORKc, November 7, 1890. My Dear Sir: Though I know that you are overwhelmed with congratulations I annot resist the tempta;ion to express to you my delght upon your election as Governor of Pennsylvania. I have felt the most intense interest n the contest in your State and have had great sympathy with the good people there, confronted as they were wIth verything that was bad, and this en orsed and supported by a party claim ng an immense majority of votes. It seemed that their condition was almost pitiable and that the - struggle between ight andl wrong at such odds ought not to have been forced upon your grandl old Commonwealth. But when it came, pre ipitated by the arrogance of those ac ustomed to deceive and betray thle people with impunity. I almost held my reath, and as an American citizen, proud of his country. p~rayedh God for he people's safe deliverance and for the emonstration that they hind not lost heir love for honesty and right. The emonstration came,~ and I am now glad hat the issue between righlt and wrong as made so clearly, that wrong so im pudently displayed the banner under hich its forces were gathered I want to thank you as a citizen and s one of the people for the gallant fight ou madhe, and for all that you have one in this trying hour to save Ameri an character, and I am so glad that his thing was done under Democratic uspices, though I think every man who otedl for you dleserves the gratitude of is tellow-coiintrym en. Yours very incerel y. Grover Cleveland. The Ilon Robt E. Pattison, Philadel >hia. Pa. ___________ A Fatal Boller E~xplosion. READING, PENN., Nov. 17.-At Mer ytown, this county, at 7 o'clock this orning, while the employees of Ed-) vard Treaxler's stove factory were pre >earing to start work and the engineer as getting up steam, one of the large oilers exploded and the building was ~ompletely wrecked. Henry Eler, aged 21, Sassaman ili ert, aged 25, and Charles Oswald, aged 5. were instantly killed. Among the nore seriously injured are Samuel Epler, -rederick D)elong, Elbert Reppart, Jas. lasher and Charles Albert, all terribly calded, and Epler, Delong and Albert ad limbs broken. The exact cause of the explosion is ot known. The force of the concus ion was felt a (distanice of live miles. Lhe bodies of the killed were horribly naniglei. Charles Bausher is badly cut nad Charles Albert received fatal inju ies. All seven of the injured were tanding in the boiler house warmng hemselves when theO explosioni occur ed. ______I "T1oo; Swer tariff in the McKinley ill and~ too much nigger in the force ill,"~ is what a westernl lieptublican pa er says is the matter with tihe Republi THE PENSION FRAUD. AMAZING RESULTS OF SOME INFAM OUS LEGISLATION. Already a Deficiency of S20,000,00) in the Pension Account for This Fiscal Year-Where Will This Flood Leave the National Finances? WAsHINGToN, D. C., Nc v. 19.-Under the Dependent Pension bill, passed June 27, 1890, 530,000 claims have al ready Leen filed. The total annual expenditure which these claims, exclusive of all other pen sions, will cause is, at the lowest pos 5ible estimate, $49,000,000. By the end of another fiscal year the total number of claims filed under the same act will probably amount to 900, )00. The total annual expenditure which fhese claims, exclusive of all other pen iions, will cause is estimated at $54, 300,000. Of these claims ninety-six per cent. ire filed through attorneys. At the rate allowed by the law, $10 or each case, the fees of the attorneys ander this act alone will amount to :8,640,000. By the end of another fiscal year the .ew act and the operation of the old ets will have increased our pension ex >enditure to more than $200,000,000 a rear.1 And this new act was not passed at Ie demand or desire of the old soldiers, .)t at the instigation of-the pension ittorneys. When the bill was under discussion n Congress we were told that the great st number of claims of all kinds which .ould possibly be filed under it from iow to the end of time was300,000, and 75,000 was much more likely to be the igure. Instead of that in the first four nonths and a half of the law 530,000 ,laims have been filed and more are oming at the rate of 9,000 or 10,000 a veek. We are told that $40,000,000 a year vas the largest amount that could ever )y any possibility be called for by the ill and that $30,000,000 would prob Lbly prove to be the actual figures. Instead of that the claims already: iled represent an annual rayment of iearly $50,000,000. It was asserted that the additional xpense would be so light that it would iot be necessary to make extra appro riations at the time the bill passe:, )ut the amount called for could readily e paid out of the general pension und. Instead of that there will be a defi 4ency this year in the pension account if $18,000,000 to $20,000,000, and it is a rave question if the revenues of the ounty will be sufficient to meet these nd the other expenses of the govern ent Never was an ela'orately supported orecast :that f-Wied so completely. sever was such P plausible demonstra ion of figures so atterly demolished by he facts. There are now pending in the Pen ion Bureau one million claims of all inds. With the clerical force at the b eau's disposition it is poss'ble to dia: iose of about 16,000 cases a month.- - In other words the cases are piling ip through the operation of the new aw twice as fast as they can be hand ed. Here is a comparative statement of he number of certificates issued dur ng the last five Octobers : Original. Total. ctober, 1886......3,358 7,826 )ctober, 1887.......3,722 7,856 ectober, 1888.......3,437 12,914 )ctober, 1889.......4.047 10,180 ctober, 1890....5,712 16,413 -Original" means first claims allow :d. "Total" means these and cases of issue and increase. Any person who wants to realize ust how kind and generous and liberal he United States government is to its id soldiers, should pay a visit to the reat pension office building which .ands between F and G and Fourth .nd Sixth streets. It is a monstrous brick structure, igger than the New York postoflice, nd a beehive of industry from morn nto night. Inside there is an open... tunda that would accommodate a ace track, the floor filled from one end o the other with cabinet after cabinet ontaining the papers of pension cases. The four floors rising around the tunda look like the cell of a beehive. )n each floor are innumerable little oors, and behind each little door is a oom where the busy clerks are noting .nd arranging and filling in cabinets he papers in thousands of other pen ion cases. A steady roar of subdued onversation and rustling of papers oes up all the time. I don't know nything that gives one so good an fea of the immense amount of work hat Is going forward. In this place 9,000 pension applica ions are being assorted and filed every .ay. More than 30,000 separate pieces .f mail are received every day. More han 6,000 separate pieces of mail are espatched every day. Here are on file n a vast comprehensive system for in .ant reference all the papers and evi ence in the cases of the 537,967 per ons who, under this liberal' govern lent, receive - pensions aggregating 109,357,534 a year. Here are on file all he papers and evidence In the cases of be 1,000,000 other persons who want to ceive pensions. Here are the records f the expenditures for pensions since be beginning of the government, hen they amounted to a mere trifle, own to ten years ago, when they mounted to $38,000,000 a year, and ames A. Garfield 'saidi they had reach d the utmost possible limit, and down - the present time, when they are three mes that amount.-New York Herald. A Guiteau For Cleveland. NEW YORK, November 19.- John . Davis last night shot Miss Glanye rice, organist of th~e Mariners' Church, . she was leaving the church after ser ce. Davis was arrested and proved )be a dangerous crank. He asserted at Miss Price was' his wife, that she as being pursued by Grover C~'veland, ud that he intended to kill Clevelandi' iss Price had never spoken to Davis in r life and knew nothing of him, except at he sometimes attended the Mari ers' Church. To-day Davis was ar igned in Court and remanded to await ec result of Miss Price's injuries. He mnbled mn his talk and repeated his atement that it was his intention to ve shot Cleveland. Miss Price will obably recover, although she was shot rough the body. Fell Into, a Vat of Boiling Water. A~SnvILLE, Nov. 15.-A Chatta oga, Tenn., special says: "Feet fore ost into a vat of boiling water, where ocks of wood are softened, yesterday 11l a young man by the name of Teague t a box and basket factory, in the aburbs of Sherman Heights. He went 1to his shoulders and when taken out as parboiled, his feet being literally >oked on account of the delay in re oving his shoes. Should life be spared, ich is doubtful, he will always be a ipple.