The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, November 26, 1890, Image 1
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
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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.