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. 16 14.. VOL. VII. -mFANNiN'G, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 2.19.__ _N.2 HEAVENS BuI)AL FEAST. "COME. COME, FOR ALL THINGS ARE NOW READY. Dr. Taimage Preachts on "Invitation to a Wedding"-The Le , the Host: the RIe deemed, the Guests; and the Angels, the Cup-Bearers. BROOKLYN. May 10.-The subject of I Dr. Talmage's sermon to-day was "In vitation to a Wedding," and the text Luke .iv., 17: "Come for all things are now reads." Holy festivities to-day. We go-'.ier other sheaves into the spiritual garner. Our joy is like the joy of Heaven. Spread the banquet, spread all the chali ces. We are not to-day at the funeral of a dead Christ; we are celebrating the marriage of the King's son. It vas an exciting time in Enulish history when Queen Elizabeth visited Lord Leicester at Kenilworth castle. The clocks in all the towers and through out the castle were stopped at the mo ment of her arrival, so continuing to point to that moment as the one surpass ing-all others in interest. The doors of the great banqueting hall were opened. The queen marched in to the sound of the trumpets. Four hundred servants waited upon the guests. It was a scene that astonished all nations whe" they heard of it. Five thousands dollars a day did the banquet cost as it went on day after day. She was greeted to the palace gates with floating islands, and torches and the thunder of cannons, and fireworks that set the night ablaze, and a burst of music that lifted the whole seet e into enchautment. Beginning in that way, it went on from joy to joy. and trom exci ement to excitement, ana from rapture to rapture. That was the great banquet that Lord Leicester spread in Kenilworth castle. Cardinal Wolsey entertained the French ambassadors in Hampton court. The best cooks of all the land provided for the table. The guests were kept hunting in the parks all the day, so that their appetites might be keen, and then in the evening hour they were shown into the banqueting hall, with table aglitter with imp irial plate, and ablush with the very costliest wines, and the second course of the feast was made of food in all shapes, of men and birds and beasts, and dancing groups, and Jousting parties riding ui,on each other with up lifted lances. Lords and princes and ~ambassadors, their cups gleaming to the brim, drank first to the health of the king of England, and then to the health of the emperor of France. That was the banquet that Cardinal Wolsey spread in Hampton oourt. But to-day, my brothers and sisters, I invite you to a grander entertainment, My Lord. the King. is the banqueter. Angels of God are the cup-bearers, all the redeemed are the guests; the halls of eternal love frescoed with light, and paved with joy, and curtained with un fading beauty are the banquetifg place, the harmonies of eteinity are the music, the chalices of God are the plate. and I am one of :he servants come out with invitations to all the people, and oh, that you might break the seal or the in vitation End read in ink of blood, and with the tremulous hand of a dying Christ: -Come, come, for all things are now ready." Sometimes there have been great dis appointments at a banquet. The wine has given out, or the servants have been rebellious. or the lights have tailed; but I walk all around the banqueting table of my La rd to-day, and I find everything complete, and I swing open the door of this banqueting house and I say: "All things are now ready." Illustrating my text, I go on and in the first place say that the Lord Jesus Christ is ready. Cardinal Wolsey did not come into the banqueting ball until the second course of the feast, and when he entered booted and spurred, all the guests arose and cheered nim; but I have d---o tell Ton that our buu<1ueter, the Lord Jesun-Christ comes in at the beginning of the feast. Ay, he has been waiting for his guests, waiting for some of them 1891 years. waiting with mangled feet, waiting with hand on the punctured sides, waiting with hand on the lacerated tern pies, waiting, waiting! Wonder it is' that the banqueter did not get weary and say: "Shut the door and let the laggards stay out." No, he has been waxting. 1How much he is in earnest! Shall I show iou? I gather up all the tearm that flooded his cheek in sympathy. all the blood that channelled his brow and back and hand and foot. to purchase our redemption. I gather up all the groans coming from midnight chill and mountain hunger and desert loneliness. and I put them into one bitter cry-I gather up all the pange that shot from cross and spike and spear, into one groan -I take one drop of sweat on his brew, and I put it under the glass of the 20s pel, and it enlarges to lakes of sorrow, to oceans ofagony. That Christ to-day. emaciated and worn and weary. comecs here, and with a pathos in which every word is a heartbreak and every~ sentence a martyrdom, he says to you and says to me: "Come, come, for all things are now ready Ahasurus made a feast that lasted 180 days. This lasts forever. Lords and princes were invited to that. You and 1 are invited to this. Yes. he has been waiting, he is waiting now. Other kings wrap themselves in robes of beauty and power before they come into a banquet. So does Christ. Oh. he is the laiuest of the lair. In his hand is the ominipotent surgery that opened blind e es and straiahtened crook limbs and hoisted the pillars o1 heavens, and swung the twelve gates which are twelve pearb. Oh, what a Christ-a Christ of beauty, a Christ of power. There are not enough cups on earth to dip up this ocean ol beauty. There are not ladders to scale these heiahts of love. Oh. thou flower of et rnity, thy breath is the perfume of l.eaven. Oh, thou daybreak of the soul, let all nation clap their hands in thy radience. Chorus! Conme men and angels and cherubim and seraphimi and archangel, all heights, all deths, all immensitits. Chorus! Roll on through the heavens in chariot of universal ae claim, over bridges of hosanna, tinder arches of coronation. by the towers chim ing with eternal jubilee. Chorus! Unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and made us kings and priests unto God, to him bc glory. SAh! there is one word of live letter that I would like to write; but I have no sheet fair enough to write it on, and no pencil good enough to inscribe it. Give me a sheet from the heavenly records. and some pencil used by anaels in des cribing a victory andl then with haud struck with supernatural energy, and with pencil dipped in everlasting morn ins, I wvill write it out in capitals of love: j-~E-S-U-S, Jesus! It is this One that is w.an for yon and for me, for we are :n the same platform before God. Hoi long he waited for me! How long lie ba, waited for you! Waiting as a banquetei waits for his delayed guests, the meatU smoking, and the beakers brimming, and the minstrel with his finger on the string ready to strike at the first clash of the hoofs at the gateway. Waiting as a mother waits for a boy that ten yearE agio went off dragging her bleeding eart after him. ;Waiting. Oh, can you aot Live me some comparison intense enough, importunate enough high as heaven, deed as hell, and vast as eter. aity? Not expecting that you can helr me with such a comparison, I simply saN ae is waiting only as an all-sympathetic Christ knows how the wait for a wander ung soul. Bow the knees and kiss the Son, Come and welcome, sinner, come. But I remark again, not noly Christ is waiting, but the Holy Spirit is waiting, Why are some sermons a dead failure' Dby are there song that do not get theit oving under the people? Why are thers players that go no bigher up than a unter's halloo Because there is a miss ng link that only the Holy Spirit can nake. If that Spirit should come tbrough his assemblage this morning, there ould be a power felt like that wher aul was unhorsed on the road to Da. nascus; like as when Lydia's heart was )roken in her tine store like as whet >,000 souls were lifted out of midnighi nto midnoon at the pentecost. Do you otice that sometimes that spirit takes in insignificant agency to save a soul? I Lhink it is very often that at just one passage of Scripture, just one word oi sriptur., a soul is saved becaused the Eloly Spirit gives it supernatural power. Do you kilow what it was that saved Martin Luther? It was that one verse: The just shall live by faith." Do you know what it was that brought Augus due from. his horrible dissiations? 11 as that one verse: Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ. add make no provision for the flesh. to fulfil the lusts thereof." Do vou know what it was that saved Hedley Vicars, the celebrated soldier? It was the one passage: "Believe in the Lord Jesus Cnrist and thou shalt be saved.' Do you know what it was that broughi Jonathan Edwards to Christ? It was the one passage; "Now unto him be zlory for evet and ever." One Thanksgiving morning In church [ read my text, "O, give thanks unto the Lord'. for he is good," and a young mar tood in the gallery and said to himself: "I have never rendered one acceptable ffering of gratitude to God in all my life. Here, Lord, I am thine forevere.' By that one passage of Scripture he wa brought into the kingdom, and if I mighi tell my own experience, I might tell hoA one Sabbath afternoon I was brought tc Lhe peace of the'Gospel by reading of the Syro-Phoniciar's cry to Christ wher she said: "Even the dogs eat of the crumbs that fall from the master's table.' Philoscphic sermons never saved any body. Metaphysical sermons never savec anybody. An earnest plea going righ out of the heart blessed of the Hol1 Ghost, that is what says, that is wha brings people into the kingdom of Christ I suppose the world thought tha Thomas Chalmers preached great ser mons in his early ministry, but Thoma, Chalmers says he never preached at al until years after he had occupied a pul pit he came out of his sick room, an< weak and emaciated, he stood and toh the story of Christ to the people. An in the great day of eternity it will b found that not so much the eloquen sermons brought men to Christ as th story told, i erhaps by those who wer unknown on earth, the simple story o the Saviour's love and mercy, sent by thi power of the Holy Ghost. straight to thi heart. Come, Holy Ghiostr Ay, h is here this morning. He 1ills all thi place. I tell you the Holy Ghosti ready. Then I go <n and tell you the churc] is ready. There are those here who say "No one cares for my soul." We d< care for it. You see a man bowing hi head in prayer and you say: "That mai is indifferent." That man bows his hwal in prayer that the trute may go t every heart . The air is full of prayers They are going up this morning fron this assembly. Ihundreds of prayer straig it to the throne of a ltsteding God Thie air is full of prayers-prayers as cending noon by noon from Fulton stree prayer meeting. Friday night by Frida: night all over this land, going up fron praying circless. Yea, there is not minute of an hour of any day that ther! are n'.t supplications ascending to thi throne of mercy. The church is read: And if you should this moning star for your Father's house, there would b hundreds and thousands in this assem bige who would say if they iknew it "Make room for that man, make roon for him at the holy sacrament; bring thii silver bowl for hiis baptism; give hin full right to all the privileges of th :hurchi of Jesus Christ. Oh. I know tbere are those who sa: the church is a mass ot hypocrites, bu ter do not really think so. It is: glorious church. Christ :purchased it Christ built it. Christ swung all it: gates. Christ .curtained it with uphio sterv, crimson with crucihxion carnage Come into it. I do not pick out thi man or that man and sal: "You ma: cone." I say all may come--whove wil, "Come with us and we will di you gzood. The Lord had promised goo concernitxg Israel." We are a garden walled around Chosen and made peculiar ground, A little piot enciosed by grace Out of the world wild wiiderness. Do not say you have never been iu vited. I invite you now to the Kingr feast. One and all. All! All! But I g further aud tell y ou that the ancels ar ready. some people think when w speak about angeis we are getting int the region of fancy. They say it is vern well fo,1 a man when he has just entere the ministry to preach about the ar gels of heaven, but after hie has g.one o: erther it is hardly worth while. M friends, there is not any more evidenc in the 1L ble that there is a God than tha there are ange s. Did they not swarn around Jacob's laddery When Lazaruw soul went up di~d they not escort it? Di not David sa', "The chariots of Go are 20,000, even thousands of angelsy Are they not representedl as the chit harvester or the judment day? Did nc one augel in one night slay 180.000O Senacherib's troops? Oh, yes, ot world is in communication with tw other worlds. All that communicatio is;by angels. When a had man Is to die a man who has despised God and rejecte the Gospel, bad spirits come on sulphu: os wingr and they shackle him and tr o push him oil' the precipices into rui and they hft a guiraw~ of diaibolical exu: tation. But there is a line of angelh bright and beautiful and loving angels mighty angels, reaching all the way fro: earth to Heaven, and when others gathe like them I suppose the air i- full< Ithem. They hover. They flit abou Te push down iniquity from 501 heart. They are ready to rejoice. Look! There is an angel from the throne of God. One moment ago it stood before Christ and heard the dox ology of the redeemed. It is here now. Bright immortal, what news from the golden city? Speak, spirit blest. The answer comes melting on the air: "Come, come, for all things are now ready." An gels ready to bear the tidings. Angels ready t> drop the benediction. Angels ready to kindle the joy. All ready. Ready, cherubim and seraphim, Ready, thrones, and principalities and powers. Ready, Michael, the arch angel. Yes, I go further and say that your gloriffed kindred are reaev. I have not any sympathy with modern spiritualism. I believe it is born in perdition. When I see the ravages in makes with human intellects, when I see the homes it has de vastated, wheh I see the bad morals that very often follow in its wake, I have no faith in modern spiritualism. I think if John Milton and George Whitfield have not anything better to do than to crawl under Rochester's table and rattle the leaves they had better stay home in glory. But tue Bible distinctly teaches that the glorified in heaven are in sympathy wit h our redemption. "There is joy in heaven among the angels of God over one sin ner that repenteth," and if the angels hear it do not our departed kindred there hear it? There are those there who toiled for your salvation, and when they bade you good-by in the last hour, and said, "Meet me in heaven." there was hovering over the pillew the awful pos sibility that you might not meet. But oh, the pathos when that hand was thrust out from the cover and they said good by. For how long good-by was it? Now, suppose ' ou should pass into the kingdom of God this morning, suppose you should say: "I'm done with the sins of this world. Fie upon all these follies. O Chaist! I take thee now. I take thy service, I respond to thy love, thine I am forever"-why, before the tear of repen tance had dried on your cheek, before your first prayer had closed, the angel standing with the message for thy soul, would ;ry upward, "Ie is coming!" and angels poising mid-air would cry up ward: "He is coming!" sll along the line of light from doorway to doorway, from wing tip to wing tip, the news would go upward till it reached the gate, and then it wonid flash to the house of many mansions, and find your kindred out, and those before the throne would say: "Rejoice with me my prayers are answered. Give me another harp with which to strike the joy. Saved, saved. saved!" At Kenilworth Castle, I told you. they stopped the clocks when Queen Eliza beth arrived, that the hind of time might point to that moment as the one most significant and tremeadous; but if this morning, the King should enter the cas tle of your soul, well might you stop all the clocks and have the finger of time pointing to this moment as the most stupendous in allyour life. Would that I could come all through these aisles and all through these gallaries, not simply addressing yon perfunctorily, but taking you by the hand as a brother takes a brother by the hand, and saying to one and all, to each: "Come, come, the door is open, enter now and sit down at the feast." Oid man, God has been waiting for thee long years. Would that some tear of repentance might trickle' down thy wrinkled cheek. Has not Christ done enough in feeding thee and clothing thee all these years to win from thee one word of gratitude? Come, all the young. Christ is the fairest of the fair. Wait not till thy heart gets hard. Come, the furthest away from Christ. Drunkard, Christ can put out the fiue of thy thirst. He can restore thy broken home. lie can break that shackle. Come now, to day, and get his pardon and its strength. And the one further off. further than I have mentioned, a case not so hopeful as I have mentioned, self-righteous man. feeling thyself all right, having no need of Christ, no need of pardon, no need of help-0 self-righteous man! dost thou think in those rags thou canst enter the feast? t'hou canst not. God's servant at the gate would tear off' thy robe and leave thee naked at the gate. 0 self righteous man! the last to come. Come to the feast. Come, repent of thy sin. Come, take Christ for thy portion. Day of grace going away. Shadows -on the cliff reaching further and further over the plain. The banquet has al ready begun. Christ has entered into that banquet to which you are invited. The guests are taking their places, The servant of the king has his hand on the door of the banqueting-room, and lie begins to swing it shut. Now is your time to go in. Now is my time to enter. I must go in. You must go in. He is swinging the door shut. Now, it is halt shut. Now, it is three-fourths shut. Now, it Is just ajar. Alter awhile it will be forever shut! Why will ye waste on trifling cares That life which God's compasion sparest IWhile in the endless round of thought The one thingneedful Is forgot. Tragedy in a Church. NAsHvILLE, May 13.- A special from Birmingham, Ala., says: "L. F. Burgess shot and fatally wounded Sam G. At wood at Pleasant Valley church, two miles South of Atalla, yesterday after noon. They were both inembers of the church. A bout two months ago Burges's son attempted to rape Atwood's daugh ter for which offense young Burgess ied the country. Hard feellings have existed between the parties ever since. and an altercatioii has been feared. When the matter was b-oughmt for ad -justment in the church between the Sbrethren, and while the committee who )had the matter in hand were retired, the Bbelligerents decided to fight, and began with the above result. Marion Smith, Sby interferring, received a stray shot Sthrough the hand. The shooting occur jred in the church which was tilled with people to the utmost capacity, but fort Sunately none were shot except Smith and A',wood. Burgess, the elder, escap ed. Fifteen shots were exchanged. H lan Off With a Blind Girl. COBJnECTON, N. Y., May 13.-M. S. Tyler, a leading bnsiness man of D)a mascus, Penn., across the D~eleware SRiver from this place, had lived happi ly with his wife and family for many Syeas. Some days ago he disappeared, rand about the same time a y oung blind Sgirl, a daughter of the most conspicuous family in this part of the Dele ware Val rley, was missed. A brother of the girl Straced her to New York and back to Middleton, Orange County, where he found her living with Tyler. All the dbrother's efforts to induce her to return home were of no avail. The girl recent yly became of age and obtained $12,000, ua bequest from her father, who died a few years ago. She is said to have made over her money and property to Tyler. A Cloud Burst. LuIERTY, M. N., May 12.-A party of rcampers near here were washed away fby a cloud burst. E. J. Willcox was drowned, and others had a narrow es MAJOR TERPILLS TALK. EXPOUNDING ALLIANCE PURPOSES, TEACHINGS AND REQUIREMENTS. What t he Alliance Obligation Demands The Third Party--Place of the Order Between the Parties-The Currency Question and the Sub-Treasury Ell. (lREENVILLE, S. C., May 13.-Lectur er Terrill, of the National Farmers' Al liance and Industrial Union, spoke to about 300 people at the city park yes terday. A few of this number were ladies. The male part of the audience was made up of city people and country people, the farmers, of course, being in a large majority. The foot of the stand was decorated with stalks of wheat, oats and rye and ears of corn and flowers. The lecturer arrived at the grounds shortly after 11 o'clock. On the stand were the Hon. M. L. Donaldson, manager of the State alliance exchange, H. B. Buist, presi dent of the Greenville county alliance, the Rev. J. A. Sligh, of N?wberry, J. Wm. Stokes, editor of the Cotton Plant and others of prominence in alliance circles. The Hon. George Washington Shell, of Laurens, sat with the audience. The farmers present were of the intelli gent class and they listened attentiyely to the conservative remarks or Major Terrill. The exercises were opened with pray er by the Rev. John 0. Wilson. Chair man Buist then introduced Major Ter rill. Tne lecturer spoke for over two hours and at the conclusion some one in the audience wanted him to continue another hour. The substance of Major Terrill's address is as follows: My friends: Again 1am here to speak in behalf of the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union. Many things have occurred since I last saw you. Our great organization has increased so that the way it goes so will the election go in 1892. The organization is a pow erful one. We meet here to dlscuss those things that are important to us, to see where we are discriminaied against. We are organized for the pnr pose of each other's advancement, so cially, financially and otherwise. We are opposed to class legislation and we think that the financial management of the government is iniquitous. It is sure to destroy popular government if it c mtinues. The duty of the alliance men is to discuss this question and all other questions that are of deep inter esr to them. Speaking of the objects of the alli ance for the mutual advancement of its members, Major Terrill said that they were to bring the farmers into ci-ser social relations, to destroy pre judices, local and national. The farm -rs had had too little social intercourse with each other. The obligations alli &.nce men took were to help each other. Prejudice was one of the main evils the alliance should eradicate. It was re sporsible for the condition of things to day. No man is fit to hold office who is narrow minded and prejudiced. "The Farmers' alliance is making war on prejudice," he said, "and I am opposed to that prejudice that prevents the unity of tne people. The alliance doesn't propose to discuss questions with prejudice. You have got no right to bring your political prejudices into the alliance." Alliance members must help a brother when he is sick and if need be plant his crop. They must as sist a brother who has taken the wrong course in anything; they must kill out immorality, and while the alliance is not a temperance organization he did not believe that a member canconscien tiously take the obligation and roll in the streets drunk. Tlhe alliance is op posed to whiskey drinking and urges every brother to prevent another from becoming intoxicated. In speaking of the prejudices that the alliance is doing away with, Major Ter rill said that the chasm that once stood between the farmers of Kansas and South Carolina was being closed. The first applause of the day was when he spoke of John J. Ingalls' political death in Kansas. The farmers of the South should do the same thing if a man is lilled with prejudice like Ingalls. Tne four leading grounds of the Alli ance were the refusal to give lands to aliens, or America for Americans; the railroad transportation of the country in charge of the govern meut; an honest and equal division of taxes; that every dollar shall be a dollar and the circula tion increased to $50 per capita. to be distributed fairly among the people. Under this last question came the sub treasury bill. After stating that the alliance has made certain demands, and before be ginning a discussion of these demands, Major Terrill said that to discuss these issues calmly and clearly the farmer needed mlore political education. lie held that the alliance must not become a party and would quit it when it did so. They can have nothing to do with the Democratic, Republican or third party as alliance men, but as individu als they could do as they pleased and vote for their own interests. They mustn't have leaders that they would pin their faith to blindly. The princi ples of the order were above any man. In the Farmers' Alliance they sought the truth and tried to elevate princi ples. If they voted for a man solely because he was a member of the order they prostituted their order, bnt if they found that he represented their posi tions vote for him. The howl of the newspapers about a third party was a howl for nothing, so far as the allhance as an order is concerned. It had noth inst to (do with it. The (question of public lands is, he said, an important one. Is it ;best for foreigners to own our lands? I say, a thousand times, no. Let America be for Americans. Let the foreigners be come A mericans before the government gives them land. The speaker advised every farmer to own his home, If the lands are monopolized popular . govern nment will cease to exist. To make it self loved the govern ment should assist every man to own his home. I am not satisfied with the present system of transportation. We hold that transportation, without govern ment control robs the people and con trols the markets. The railroads con trolled the wheat market. Last year in the West they divided up the terri tory among themselves and bought wheat and ~sold it back to the fartners at a protit of 200 per cent. Think about it. The railroads can build up or tear down a city. They can starve little towns and break up markets, You see the necessity for a change. The allh ance demands that the government lix rigid rules for the control of the roads and when they do wrong forfeit their charter. WXe are opposed to discrimi nationi and all must be treated alike on the highways. The linancial question is a big one. The taxes of the country are unequal. The rich man pays less in proportion than the poor man. The farmers bear the burden of the government, and wve demand that every man pay tax in pro portion to his wealth. I hold that the demands of the Farmers' Alliance are right. I hold that the downfall of every nation has been from the power of mn-e tonnpess We pay the debts and they create them. Our demands, are radical and directly contrary to the policies now pursued. The men who have dictated the policy are the ones with tne money. Let a Wall street man become a farmer and he will make the same demands we are making. What are you farmers going to do if you don't discuss the finance? There is only one hone for the finance of the country and that is for the man who hasn't got a dollar to get coatrol. The time has come when you must send men to Congress who will represent your views. There are Democrats and Democrats, and if one don't suit you, try another Every dollar ought to be legal tender. A dollar that is good with the bond holders ought to be good anywhere. The next demand of the Alliance is that the circulation be increased to $50 per capita. There is good reason for it. It now takes more of our products to pay the debt than it did in 1865 when the debt was over two billions of dollars. Ignoring of the people's inter est with immunity makes those in con trol of affairs bold. They can run gold up to suit themselves. Some men say we don't want the free coinage of sil ver. It will increase the currency, and will make the bonds easier paid. Over a billion dollars is to be paid in fifteen years. Free silver to pay it will beneit 63,000,000 people while a few will not longer get the chance to enrich them selves. There is every reason why the currency should be extended and the control of the currency taken out of the hands of a few. It will in crease the price of everything and that's what we want. Gold is the best money now because it pays all debts public and private. Silver can be made to do the same thing. They say the government is not a pawnshop. I don't know why. It hoards up all the gold and loans money on bonds. If the government loans money on bonds I don't see why it can't lend itto us on land. I believe that the United States government ought to control all the circulation. I don't ap prove of a single dollar that is not guaranteed by the government, and then we demand that it should circu late to the advantage of all men. Why can't land be used to distribute the money as well as bonds and securities? John C. Calhoun wanted to know why the government charged the people for money when it could extend it to them direct on a land basis. There is so much money in circulation that it can't be redeemed by gold and silver. This g overnment doesn't need gold behind er currency. This is the grandest nation God lets the sun shine on, and when lt says a greenback is worth $5.00 every nation will accept as such. Some smart alecks say that the demands of the farmers are unconstitutional, that they are for class legislation, &c. How's that, when only one out of every 50,000 people get the benefits of the financial policy of the government? The goy ernmet is a pawn shop. It is a storage house to-day. If it is this way for one why not for another? When the money is distributed direct to the people it will become the servant and not the master. National banks were estab lished as distributors. We offer to dis tribute it by giving our lands as secur ity. The sub-treasury scheme is not in tended to increase the circulation- It will make a flexible currency. There are three points of this question to dis cuss. 1. Is there a necessity for that flexi ble currency? 2. Is the basis for that flexible cur rency sufficient? 3. Will it cure the abuses that we complain of to-day? I am ready to answer any question that may be put to me. It should be that the amount of money in circula tion and the amount of produce for sale keep pace with each other. If the circulation keeps up with the amount of produce there will be stability of price. That's why we need and why we want a flexible currency. It will be good for everybody but the speculator. The merchant and manufacturer are not to blame for the fluctuation in the price of goods. The average fluctua tion in the price of goods for sixty years has been 40 per cent. We hold that we can make a flexible currency by farm products as a basis. "What number of officers will the sub-treasury create ?" asked a man in the audience. "The alliance demands will not create a single appointive officer. They will be elected by the people who wili also decide where the sites of the ware houses shall be." The principles of the sub-treasury will live forever. Is the security we offer good ? It's not gold but it has a gold value. If the govern ment can make a money basis out of bonds it can do it out of corn, cotton and other products. The sub-treasury is on the same plan as a man who own bonds. There is no difference. It is the power of the government to dis tribute money. Give us a flexible cur rency without a warehouse and we will take it and drop the warehouse p.art. When the interest of the farmers is ad vanced that of the lawyer, merchant and doctor is advanced. The newspa pers have never done the sub-treasury justice. They have never discussed the principles of it and say it is fool ishness. I am here to educate the lecturers to place before our organization our dle mands, and I am organizing to (10 it. The discussion of these questions don't hurt anybody. Our order is the grand est organization on the earth because it has a bsolute truth for its mottoes. The speaker said when the Democratic party refused to listen to the demands of the people it would lose one humble voter. Mlajor Terrell advised his audience not to fall out with the newspapers for fair criticisms. We have the intelli gence to open up their sophistry. When the press seeks to break up our orgauization and does not want to (10 right then you can turn upon it in your wrath. Malicious newspaper attacks destroy your best efforts. When they get down to slander they are too dirty to handle, Hie also advised them not to entertain prejudice against men of other avocations. The exercises closed with prayer by the Rev. J. A. Clifton. The Cieveland Democracy. BUFFALO, May. 13.--The Cleveland Democracy, Buffalo's foremost poiltical organization. having a membership up wards of 1,700 opened its very spacious, elegant and conveniently appointed new club house on Washington street this evening with ex-President Cleveland as a guest and the speaker of the occasion. Cleveland was greeted with the wildest cheering, long continued and often re peated. The president of the cluib, IHer bert P. Bissell, delivered an address up. on the purposes and growth of the or ganization, and in welcome to its distin guished patron and guest, Cleveland, who appeared in splendid health and spirits, replied with a speech which was received most enthusiastically, every point being recognized with applause and cheers. After the exercises in the assembly hall, Cleveland, assisted by prominent Democrats of the city and County, held a reception in the front drawing room of the club house to which the geal pubic was admitted. COLUMMIIA'S UEN I ii-N AL. ONE OF THE GRANDEST AFFAIRS EVER HELD IN THE STATE. General Hampton Speaks-Thousands of Visitors-Grand Military Parade--Gov. Tiliman Heads the Military Procession Everybody Delighted. COLUMBIA, S. C., May 1.-The Cen teunial Celebration opened last Wed nesday and ended on Friday. It was a complete success from beginning to end. Thousands of people were m at tendance, and everything passed off most pleasantly. Main street was spanned by numerous arches and the city was decorated with flags and fes toons. A rain which set in on Tuesday night and which continued off and on to the end of the celebration, did some damage to the decorations, but could not dampen the order of the enthusias tic Columbians or their visitors. On Wednesday the celebration was opened by a speech from Gen. lamp ton at the fair grounds. The assem bling of the military and the other features of the civic procession was amid strains of music and the cheers of the multitude. There were possibly 15,000 people on Main street when the various sections of the long line were being marshalled into position. The line of march to the Fair grounds was formed as follows: Cordon of police. Carriage containing Gen. Hampton, the Rev. Dr. Ellison Capers, Mayor Mc Master and Dr. W. C. Fisher. Confederate Survivors, mounted and on foot. Carriages containing State and city officials and invited guests. Palmetto Regiment Band. The military. Palmetto Fire Company. The marshals of the parade were: John Taylor, chief; W. H. Gibbes. Jr., D. H. Crawford, G. A. Guignard, John W. Dunnovant, F. Goodwyn, Frank Hampton, J. K. Alston. In the carriages following that of the orator of the day were the following gentlemen in the order named: The Hon. M. C. Butler. the Hon. Wil liam Elliott, the lion. W. H. Brawley, the Hon. J. J. Hemphill. Col. R. W. Shand, Congressman Geo. D. Johnstone, Ex-Governor John C. Sheppard, Ex-Governor Hugh S. Thompson. Col. Thomas Taylor, the Hon. W. L. Mauldin, J. P. Thomas, Jr., the Hon. John T. Rhett. J. C. Hemphill. editor of The News and Courier; J. K. Blackman and mem bers of the executive committee. Capt. C. J. Iredell, Aldermen J. R. Allen, J. M. Smith, J. I. Green. Col. D. Cardwell, Aldermen E. J. Brennen, J. S. Dunn. H. J. lennies. Col. S. A. Pearce, Wm. Muller. Governor Tiliman, Secretary of State J. E. Tindal. Attorney General Y. J. Pope, Superintendent of Education H. L. Farley. Capt. George Bruns, Alderman W. McB. Sloan As the line moved up the streets the crowds cheered their favorites, and the enthusiasm was at times intense. Long before the procession had come in sight of the Fair grounds, and while yet the bands of music were only faint ly heard -in the distance, throngs of people began crowding into the gal eries of the main building and secured seats for hearing the oration of the day by Gen. Wade Hampton. A few mo ments later the head of the procession appeared in sight The carriages containing the distin guished guests of the occasion dashed into the ground. The ConfeJerate Survivors filed around the right of the grounds and came to the stage, follow ing Gen. H.amnpton, who was escorted to his seat. by Major 31eMaster on one side and by Dr. W. C. Fisher, the presi dent of the Centennial Association, Oni the other. As the grapd old nero as cended the steps and apneared with un covered head in full view of the multi tudle a cheer went up from the throats of the men which made the welkin ring, and from the galleries thou sands of kidlgloved hands clapped an enthusiastic welcorme. The scene in the galleries at this mo ment was very picturesque and inspir ing. The bright colors of the ladies' gowns, the fluttering of their dainty kerchiefs, their bright faces and flash ing eyes made up a picture calculated to make even the old veteran's heart burn again with the thrill and passion of youth. Immediately following Gen. Hlamp -on upon the stage were distinguished Carolinians who had come here to re joice with Columbia In her glory and her pride. Among these were: Con gressman W. H. Brawley, Congressman J. J. Hemphill, United States Senator M. C. Butler, Congressman George Johnstone. Ex-Governor Sheppard, Ex Attorney 'Gen. Earle. State Senator Woodward, Ex-Lieutenant Gov. Maul din. Ex-Governor Hugh S. Thompson, Col. A. IP. Butler, Major J. C. Ilemphill, of The News and Courier, Col. Thomas Taylor, Cal. S.A. Pearce, Ei-Attorney General Leroy F. You mans, Major L. W. Youmans, Solicitor 0. M. Shumnpert, Governor Tillman, State Senator Sloan, Mr. 1R. W. Shand, Secretary of State Tindal, Attornwy General Y. J. Pope, Superintendent of Ed ucation M-iytield, Comiptroller General Ellerbe, State Treasurer Bates. Col. RI. M. Sims, Con gress man W. E. Elliott. Attorney Gen eral Farley, the Rev. C. S. Vedder, Mr. Clarence Nettles. Mr. A. A. Hlowlett at the Charleston, Sumter and Northern Railroad, and mnany others. Mayor McMaster, as soon as lhe could make himself heard, opened the meet ing by requesting the Rev. Ellison Ca pers to niake a blessing on the proceed ngs. After prayer Mayor McMaster deliv ered an address of welcomne, and then introuced Glen. Hampton as the ora tor of the day. As Gen. hlampton rose to respond, cheer, after cheer went up from the crowd and the fair daughters of Caro lia rose in their seats to give emphasis to their welcome to one of the greatest of Carolina's sons. Gen. Hampton was attired in a dark gray suit, and from the lappel at his oat w~as suspended badges of the Cen tennial committee and of the Surviv ors' Association. The grand old mnan as ne towered above the sea of human tces upturned to his, with his iron gray bair brushed back ironm his fore head and fluttering in the breeze, made a striking picture. his face glowed with health, and as he warmed up with his subject he did not look a day older than lie did fifteen years ago as lie stood in front of the Democratic headquar ters in Main street and said to the surging masses of the people: "I prom ise you here, my friends, that, so help me God, if I am not your Governor there will be no Governor of South Carolina." It was only after several moments that Gen. Hampton could proceed with his oration. The oration was heard with marked attention and was punc tured by applause at almost every pe riod. In the closing sentences, where the orator alludes to his services to the State and his undying devotion to her welfare and to her people, there were few dry eyes among the old veterans who stood before him. follower of ilam.n. callhd out at the close of the oration: 'In 1876 Hamp ton was to South Caroliua what Wash ington was to the Colonies in 1776," a sentiment which was cheered to the echo. This ended the festivities for Wednesday. Thursday was military day and a grand display our :;oldier boys made too. The following is the order of the parade: TIE ORDER: OF PROCEssION. The order of prccession is given be low. showing the participants in the parad&. The State secured the com p!ete list of every man in the parade, tut owing to an unforseen and irreme diable accident it is impossible to give them. The order was as follows: Platoon of mounted police under command of Chief Higbe, and consist ing of the sergeants and several pri vates. The Capital City Band, with eighteen pieces. Governor Tillman, Adjutant General Farley. Assistant Adjutant General Watts. The Governor's staflf. Maj. Gen. Moore. with Col. W. A. Kelley, and Gen. Gerhardt Riecke. TIIE'FOURTiI 1RIGADE. Then come the Fourth Brigade, the favorites of Cnarleston. This was the first of the military column and it was headed by Brigadier General T. A. Hu genin and his staff consisting of Major E. T. Legare, Major G. W. Bell, acting adjutant; Capt. Stephen B. Bell, and Dr. A. E. Baker, surgeon. The Carolina Brass and Reed Band, with fourteen pieces. The German Fusiliers, the seniors of the brigade, with 46 men. The Washington Light Infantry, of Charleston, with 28 men. The Sumter Gu'irds, of Charleston, with 34 men. The Chicora Rifles, of Mt. Pleasant with 11 men. The Irish Volunteer Band, of Char leston, with 1.1 men. The Irish Volunteers, of Charleston, with 19 men. The Montgomery Guards. of Charles ton, with 22 men. Colored band of the German Artil lery. The German Artillery, Charleston, including the band, 110 men. The LaFayette Artillery, of Charles ton, with forty-four men. TIIE THIRD BRIGADE. The first break in the long line of foot soldiers came he~e, when thetroops of the Third Brigade marched. Brig. Gen. W. E. James and staff, consisting of Col. James R. Sparkman, command ing the regiment and acting adjutant; Maj. C. P. Quattlebaum, judge advo cate; Maj. G. D. Sparkman, acting sur geon; Maj. P. A. Wilcox, paymaster; headed the column on horseback. The companies of the brigade came as fol lows: The Fourth Regim at Band, of Sum ter, 19 men. The Sumter Light Infantry, Sumter, 30 men. The Darlington Guards, of Darling ton, 39 men. Manning Guards, of Manning, 26 men. Lancaster Guards, of Lancaster, 30 men. Cheraw Guards, of Cheraw, 28 men. Tbe Allen Brass Band, colored. Then came the Hornet's Nest Rifles, of Charlotte, the only company from <mother State. The Georgetown Rille Guards, of Georgetown, 29 men. The Beaufoit Volunteer Artillery, of Beaufort, 28 men. Gordon Rifles, of Bennettsville, 22 men. The Patrick Military Cadets, of An derson. This squad was composed of 30 fine looking youths who were much adniired. Gordon Volunteers, of Blackville, 28 men. Palmetto Ridles, of Aiken, 28 men. Edisto Rifles, of Edgefield, 27 men. 'TIIE SECOND BRIGADE. Gen. Richbourg and staff, consisting of Brig. Gen. R. N. Richbourg, Maj. and Adjt. Gen. W. A. Metts, Maj. Charles Newnham, Maj. H. C. Patton, Maj. T. II. Meighan, Maj. L. W. C. Bla lock. The officers of the regiment, some mounted and some orn foot were: Col. Wilie Jones, Lieut. Cel. George K. Wright, Maj. J. K. MarshalL. Adjt. M. H. Brennen, Sergt. Maj. W. E. Gon zales. The Gordon Light Infantry, Winns boro, with 3J4 men. The Richmond Volunteers, cf Co lumbia, with 46 men. The Edisto Rifles, of Orangeburg, with 28 men. The Governor's Guards, of Columbia, 33 men. The Catawb.a Rifles, of Rock Ilill, with 30 men. The Lexington Rifles, of Lexington, with 31 men. The Jenkins Rifles, of Yorkville, with 27 men. The Lee Light Infantry, of Chester, with 33 men. The Columbia Zouaves, of Columbia -the only Zouave Company in the line -with 34 men. The Fort Motte Guards, of Fort Motte, 19) men. The Abbeville Rifles, of Abbeville, with 20 men. The Greenville Guards with 24 men. The MIorgan Rifles, of Clifton, with 34 men. The column passed in review before Governor Tillman and staff on Elm wood avenue. The captains saluted and the men brought their arms to a carry as they passed, and the Governor and staff acknowledged the salute by lifting their hats. At the fair grounds the troops were dismissed, some of them going to their hotels. The Gov ernor and staff, with the staff and com pany oflicers, spent a pleasant half hour together, and the Governor took dinner with the soldiers at the grounis instead of entertaining his staff at the Executive Mansion, as he had intend ed. After the parade the Columbia Zouaves gave a fancy drill, which was loudly applauded. Dutring the course of the dinner Gov ernor Tillman, in response to loud calls rom the soldiers, made a brief speech. Ie said he was glad of th~e opportunity of meeting the military of the State, and it was with great pleasure that he had observed that they were not daunt ed by the wveather, but had marched well ~through mud and rain. dleterm ied to do their duty in honor of the capital of the State. There were very few or those present who had worn the gray, but there were very few of them who hadl not had relatives in the struggle, and all of them could ap preciate the deeds of the old soldiers. ie referred to the fact that nearly all of them were visiting military, and he begged leave to extend to them the thanks of the State for the courtesy they hail shown in aiding in making the centennial a success, and he hoped that the celebration would end as it had begun, under very happy auspicea. Thie remarks of the Governor were greeted with vocifterous applause. This ended the proceedings of Thurs day and on Friday the Centennial wound up with a grand trade's display. Taken altogether the centennmal was one of the best things of the kind ever held in the South. PILES OF ASHES MARK THE SITES OF FORMER VILLAGES. Several Counties in Michigar. Are LaN Waste--Inhabitants Fighting Fire to Save Their Homes-Story of Destre tion. DETROIT, MICI., May 12.-The hoped for security from the recent rain did not materalize for the panic-etricken inhabitants of the burned district in this state. Some idea of the vastness of the tire district can be gained from the fact that almost anytwo of the dozen counties now filled with fire is as large as the whole state of Rhode Islsnd. The Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Michigan railroad has been obliged to - abandon all attempts to rn cars north of the Clare county line. A freight train and crew had a narrow ESCAPE FROM CREMATION yesterday. The ties in many places were so badly burned that the rails spread when the train went over. When near Moore's siding one of the cars in the center of the train was de railed and the train crew were obliged to abandon the rear part of the train after working until the cars began t6 smoke. Before they reached Farwell there was another derailment, and all but three of the train of eighteen cams were left to their fate. Three of the trainmen were badly blistered. The wind shifted and droie the fire to the southwest and into Newaygo, Mecosta and Oceana counties. Cook's Station and BarLon, both in the line of the fire have not been heard from and are SUPPOSED TO BE DESTROYED. West Troy, a few miles north of Oti, has been environed by fire since early yeste-day morning and is supposed to be in ashes. Reports from Cadillac, Wexford county state that the inhabitants of all ;W the villages in the county have been out fighting fire for the past threedays, ,and many of the smailer places -are wiped off the face of the earth. Where Nivarna and Tremont,onthe Flint and Pere Marquette road once stood, there is nothing now but piles of ashes. The village of Lake has not been A heard from since its last appeal for help. Fire SWEEPING THROUGH THE WOODS near Red Cloud, Newaygo county, while more than 100 miles away, across the state, the little hamlet of Taft is in a gulf of flame. Monton in Wexford county, abovi Cadillac is cut off from communication with the outside world. The latest news from Traverse city is to the effect that the entire population is out fighting fire. Millions upon mil lions of logs are burning all over the centre of the state. FOREST FIRES IN WISCONSIN. POMBINA, Wis., May 12.-Forest fires have broken out along the line of thi Soo road between this place and Her mansville, and are burning with a vigor that bodes no good to the cedar inter ests unless rain descends very soom Just across the Wisconsin line from the station of Menominee river,;on the Soo, the line of five can be seen from the railroad, which burns as far north as the eye can reach, and from the im mense volume of smoke which arises it is plain to see that the fire runs back a long distance north from the railroad. There has been no rain of conse quence in this locality for two weeks or more, and everything is as dry as tinder. A RAGING SEA OF FIRE. WHITE CI.OUD, MICHi., May 12.-Five upper townships in this county have been a surging sea of fire ever since Sunday, and it is believed that not a single one of the small hamlets is left. Field's Station, with its four saw mills and general store, is no more, and 300 people who lived there Sunday are to day without a home or a roof to cover their heads. Otis, or Dingman, as it is known to the postal authorities, 1s but a collection of smoking ruins, with 200 people who called the place home standing around in despair. Park City, in Lincoln township, WENT OUT IN FIRE and smoke yesterday morning. Noth ing is left of the cluster of small houses that marked the place. Lily Station Is hardly worth the name of stationras only a small hotel and a smaller rail road station are left to mark the towfl site. Freight cars without number and logging trains melted away into ashes on the tracks, where they stood await ing their loads of lumber. DESTRUCTIVE FOREsT FIREs. WARREN, PA., May 12.-Forest fires in this section have caused aheavy loss to the oil men. The fire started Satur day afternoon, and a strong wind blow ing encouraged it yesterday afternoon and to-day, when great damage was done. It was fiercely fought and final ly extinguished. The loss to tanks, oil, rigs, and to oil property aloneis estima ted at fully $150,000. BEYOND HUMAN CONTROL. HUNTINGTON, PA., May 12.-Qver four thousand acres of valuable timb~r lands ire aflame within a radius of se'v. - en miles of this place, and in distant parts of the county woodland is being swept away to an alarming extent. Mountain fires are beyond all human control and can only be extinguished by rainfall. The farmers in the whole burning district have sustained irreparable losses to fencing, and hundreds of acres of growing grain have been ruined. The fires originated from either rail roads or wandering bands of Gypsies. THlE DAMAGE ENORMOUS. BIELLEFoNTE. PA., May 12.-The damage done by forest fires that have been raging throughout the county has been something enormous. All along the Buffalo Run railroad, through near ly e very patch of timber, the fire has raged, burning miles and wiles of fence, orchards, valuable standing and cut timber. A number of logging camps have been completely destroyed. The fires still continue to rage with unaba ted fury in many places not yet burned over, it being a hopeless task to fight them. The loss will run into hundreds ot thousands of dollars. A Startling Discovery. CIsCINNALI, May 7.-Dr. W. Dickore, the analytic chemist, who is examinma the viscera of W. B. Snooks, the dea groom of the unfortunate Snooks-Herr wedding feast, says there have been many such cases in the Ohio V alley and nowhere else, and that he is satisfied the poi jioning came throngh milk used at the wedding, the milk having become tainted by the cow eating a poisonous plant as yet unknown to botanmsts, and growing particularly in the Kentucky Blue Grass region. He still Lives. LOUIsVILLE, May 13.-Win. Rowe, a brakeman on the J. M. and I. train, was thrown between the cars at Jefferson ville, Ind., and horribly mutilated. At last accounts, the man was alive, al though his chest is torn open so that his heart can be seen through the en membranes. Both legs andhi were also broken.