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VOL. VII. _MAN-NiING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE .19. O 4 HE DEFINES HIS BEUEF. ONE WEEK'S WORK THE SUBJECT OF DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. He Bellevs 6 in the Mosaic Account of the Creation, and Does Not Hesitate to Say So Most Emphaticaly-A Notable Ser mon Preached Snuday, May 24th. BRoOKLYN, May 24.:-The striking sermon Dr. Talmage delivered this mornig to an audience which filled the new Tabernacle in every part dealt with a topic of interest to all who have watched the discussions now agitating the churches. Wherever the questiou of the inspiration of the Bible is raised, the trustworthiness of the Mosaic narra tive of the creation is always the point chiefly assailed. The fact that so prom inent and eloquent a preacher as Dr. Talmage places himselt clearly on re cord on the side of orthodoxy will doubt less have a marked influence on public opinion. His text was Genesis i, 31, "And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." From Monday morning to Saturday night gives us a week's work. If we have filled that week with successes we are happy. -But I am going ;o tell you what God did in one week. Cosmogony, I geology, astronomy, ornithology, ichthy ology, botany, anatomy are such vast subjects that no human lite is long enough to explore or comprehend any one of them. But I have thouaht I might in an unusual way tell you a little of what God did in one week, and that the first week. And whether you make it a week of days or a week of ages, I care not, for I shall reach the same prac tical result of reverence and worship. THE FIRST MONDAY MORNING. The first Monday morning found swinging in space the piled up lumber I of rocks and metal and soil and water trom which the earth was to be builded. God made up his mind to create a hu- 1 man family, and they must have a house to live in. But where? Not a roof, not v a wall, not a door, not a room v as 1it r for human occupancy. There is not a e pile of black besalt in Yellowstone park r or an extinct volcano in Honolulu so in- I appropriate for human residence as was I this globe at that early period. More- L over, there was no human architect to c draw a plan. no quarryman to blast the : foundation stones, no carpenter to hew t out a beam, and no mason to trowel a c wall. Poor prospect! But the time s was coming when a being called man a was t be constructed, and he was to ( have a bride; and where he could find a c homestead to which he could take her t must have been a wonder iLent to an- c gelic intelligences. r There had been earthquakes enouth and volcaroes enough and glaciers y enough, but earthquakes and volcanoes v an 4 glaciers destroy instead of build. A v worse looking world than this never s swung. It was heaped up deformities, v scarifications and monstrosities. The c Bible says it was without form. That i is, it was not round, it was not square, I it was not octagonal, it was not a rhom- a boid. God never did take any one in his counsels, but if he had aeked some angel -about the attempt to turn this planet into a place for human residence s the angel would hive said: "No. no; try some other wor'd; the crevices of this t earth are too deep; its crags are too ap palling; its darkness is too thick." But Monday morning came. I think it was a spring morning and about half- I past four o'clock. The first thing need- c ed was light. It was not needed for t God to work by, for he can work as well In the darkness. But ight may be nec-c essary, for angelic intelligences are toc see in its full glory the process of worldc building. Blut where are the candles, t where are the candelabra, where is thec chandelier? No rising sun will roll in f the morning, for if the sun is already[ created its light will not yet reach the earth in three days. Nor moon nor starsc can brighten this darkness. The moona and stars pre not born yet, or if created their light will not reach the earth for some time yet. But there is need ofa immediate liht. Where shall it comea from? Desirina to account for things in2 a natural way you say, and reasonablya say, that heat and electri::ity throw outa light independent of the sun, and that t the metallic bases throw out light inde-e pendent of the sun, and that alkalies throw out lhght independent of the sun.c Oh, yes; all that is true, but I do not t think that is the way light was created. The record makes me tbink that, stand-\ ing over this earth that spring morning,t God looked upon the darkness that pall ed the heights ot this world, and the chasms of it, and the awful reaches of it, and uttered, whether in the Hebrew of I earth or some language celestial 1 know not, that word which stainds for the sub- I tie, bright, glowing and all prevadinga fiuid, that word which thrills and gar lands and lifts everything it touches. thatc w'rd the lull meaning of w bich all ther chemists of the ages have busied them- 1: selves in exploring, that word which suggests a force that fies one hundredt and ninety-thousand miles in a second. and by undulations seven hundred ande twenty-seven trillions in a second, that one w ord that God utters-Light. r And instantly the darkness began to ( shimmer, and the thick folds of blacknesse to lift, and there were scintillations and~ 1: coruscations and fiashes and( a billowing t up of resplendence, and in great sheets 1 it spread out northward, southiward,. eastward, westward, and a radiance filled the atmosphere until it could hold no more of the brilliance. Light now toi work by while supernatural intelligences look on. Light, the first chapter of tile first day of the week. Light, the joy of all the centuries. Light, the greattst blessing that ever touched the htumn Ii eye. The robe of the Almighty is wovent out of it, for he covers himself with,; light as with a garment. Oh, blessed I light! I am so glad this was the first thing created that week. Good thing to I start every week with is light. That t will make our work easier. Trhat will keep our disposition more radiant. Thatt will hinder even our losses from becomi ing too somber. Give us more light nitural light, iellectual light, spiritual light, everlasting lhgbt. For lack of it the body stumbles, and the sou! stum bles. O thou Father of Lights, give us eight! .. The great German philosopher in his last : oment said, "I want more liaht." A minister ou Christ recently dying cried out In exultation, "1 move into the light!" 4 Mr. To'plady, the immortal hymnologist,i in his expiring moments exclained, "Light! Light!" Heaven itself is only ( more light. Upon all superstition, all upon all ignorance, upon all sorrow let in the light. But now the light of the first Monday is receding. The blaze is! going out. Tie colors are dimmmng. Only part of the earth's sur'ace is visible. It is 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock; ob seuration and darkness. It is Monday night. "And the evening 'and the morning were the first day." rESnDA Y' WORK. No. it is Tieday morning. A deli :ate and ti enendous undertaking is set ipart for this day. There was a greal muperabundauce of water. God, by the wave of his hand, this morning gathers part of it in suspended reservoirs. and art 0 it ie orders down into the river mnd lakes and seas. How to hang whole atic oceans in the clouds without .heir spilling over except in right quanti es and at right times was an undertak ug that no one but Omnipotence would ave dared. But God does it as easily is you would lift a glass of water. There 'e hoists two clouds, each thirty miles ,ide and five miles high, and balances .hem. Here he lifts the cirrous clouds and ;praads them out in great white banks is t hough it has been snowing in heaven. Aud the cirro-stratus clouds in long >arallel lines, so straight you know an ulinite geometer has drawn them. ,louds w aich are the armorv from which hunder storms get their bayonets of fire. louds wh ch are oceans on the wing. Ko wonder, long after this first Tuesday )f creation week, Elihu confounded Job vith the question, "Dost thou know the )alancings of the clouds?" Half of this Tuesday work done, the >ther half is the work of compelling the vaters to lie down in their destined )laces. So God picks up the solid ground md packs it up into five elevations, vhich are the continents. With his fin er lie makes deep depressions in them, Lnd tese are the lakes, while at the pil ng up of the Alleghanies and Sierra Ne radas and Pyrenees and Alps and Him ayas the rest of the waters start by the aw of gravitation to the lower places, md in their run down hill become the ivers and then all around the earth these ivers come into convention and become >ceans beneath, as the clouds are oceans bove. How soon the rivers got to their ylaccs when God said: "Ifudson and rames and Amazon, down to the At antis; Oregon and Sacramento down to he Pacific." Three-quaaters of the earth being ater anv only one-guartar being land, tothing but Almightiness could have 'aged the three-tour hs so that they could tot have devoured the one-fourth. [hank God for water and plenty of it. Vbat a hint that God would have the tuman race very clean! Three fourths >f the world water. Pour itthrough the tonies and make them pure. Pour It brough the prisons and make theIr oc upants morai. Pour it through the treets and make them healthy. There re several thousand people asleep in reenwood who but for the filthy streets Brooklyn and New York would have een to-day well and in churches. More ver. there n-ver was a filthy street that emained a moral street. How important an agency of reform vater is, was illustrated by the fact that hen the an nent world got outrageously icked it was plunged into the deluge .nd kept under for months till its iniquity vas soaked out of it. But I rejoice that mn the first Tuesday of the world's ex stence the water was taught to know its lace, and the Mediterranean lay down t t .e feet of Europe, and the Gulf of dexico lay d.wn at the feet of North Imerica, and Geneva lay down at the ect of the Alps. an I Scroon lake tell to leep in the lap of the Adirondacks. 'And the evening and the morning were he second day." THE cREATION OF VEGETATION. Now it is Wedensday morning of the vorld's first week. Gardening and orticulture will be born to-day. How tueer the hills look, and so unattractive hey seem hardly worth having been nade. But now all the surfaces are hanging color. Something beautiful is :reeping all over them. It has the col >r o emerald. Ay, it is herbage. Hail o the green grass! God's favorite col ir and God's favorite plant, as I judge rom the fact that he manes a larger Lmber of them than of anything else. ut look yonder! Semething starts out f the ground and goes higher up higher d higher. and spreads out broad leaves. t is a palm tree. Yonder is another ~row th. and its leaves hang far down, d it is a willow tree. And yonder is growth with mighty sweep of branches. nd here they come-the pear, and the ppe, and the peach, and the pomegran te, and groves and orchard~s and forests, heir shadiows and their fruit girdling the ath. We are pushing agriculture and krit ulture to great excellence in the Nine eenth century, b at we have nothing iow to equal what I see on this first Vednesday of the world's existence. I ake a taste of one of the apples this Vednesday morning, and I tell you it ainges ini its juices all the flavors of pitbergen and Newtown pippin and hode Island greening and Danvers Vinter -Sweet andI Roxbury russet and Iubbardston Nonesuch, but added to 11, and overpowering all other flavors, a the paradisaical juice that all the or hards of the Nineteenth century fail to each. 1 take a taste of the pear, and it as all the luxury of the three thousand arieties of the Nineteenth century; all e Seckel and the Bartlett of the pom ilogical gardens of later times an acidity, :onipared with it. And the grapes! V lv. this one cluster has in it the rich Lss of whole vineyards of Catawbas and :ocords and Isabellas. Fruits of all :olor, of all odors, of all fiovors. No Iandl ot man yet made to pluck it or ongue to taste it. The banquet for the iuan race is being spread before the r: ival of the first .;uest. In the fruit of that garden was the el for the orchards and gardens of the iejiheres. Notice that the first thing hat God made for food was fruit, and denty of it. Slaughter houses are of ir ivention. Far am I from being a etarian. but an almost exclusive net diet is depraving. Savages con nei themse-lves alnost exclusively to aimal food, and that is one reason that hey are savages. Give your children noe app!. and less mutton. The orid will !.ave to elve dominance to hei 8ruit (dit ot Paradise before it gets m to the mforatls of Paradise. May ad's blessing comue down on the or hards and~ vidlevard!s of America, and teei) back the frosts and the curcuho. 3t we must not forget that it is Wed Ies evening in Eden, and upon that cierect truit ot those perfect trees let he curtain drop. "And the evening nd th~e morning were the third day." PUTTiNG~ THINGS TO RIGHTS. Nowv it is Thursday morning of the vorld's first wveek. Nothing will be reated to-day. The hours will be passed n scattering fogs and mists and vapors. hie atmosphere must be swept clean. )ther worlds are to hove in sight. This itte ship of the earth has seemed to iave ai; the ocean of immensity to it ;elf. But mightier craft are to be hailed :oday on the high seas of space. First, .he moon's white sail appears and does .erv well until the sun bursts upon the cee. The light that on the p)revious .hree morniugs was struck from an es ecial word now gathers in the sun, 'noon and stars. One for the day, the they had all within twenty-four hours c been created. Ah, this is a great time r in the world's first week. The moon, t the nearest neighbor to our earth ap- I pears, her photograph to be taken in u the Nineteenth century, when the tele scope shall bring her within one hundred and twenty miles of New York. And the sun now appears, afterward to be found eight hundred and eighty eight thousand miles in diameter, and, put in astronomical scales, to be found t to weigh nearly four hundred thousand t) times heavier than our earth; a mighty ti furnace, its heat kept up by meteors t pouring into it as fuel, a world devour- r ing other worlds with its jaws of flame. n And the stars come out, those street n lamps of heaven, those keys of pearl, a upon which God's fingers play the mus- f( ic of the spheres. How bright they look n in this oriental evening! Constellations! 3 Galaxies! What a twenty-four hours of this first week-solar, lunar, stellar ap- , pearances! All this Thursday and the adjoining nights employed iv pulling tl aside the curtain of vapor from these n tdushed or pale faced worlds. Enough! j "And the evening and the morning were s the fourth day." n THE FISHES AND THE BIRDS. c Now it is Friday morning in the first fi week of the world's history. Water, ti but not a fin swimming it; air, but not a ci wing flying it. It is a silent world. a Can it be that itwas made only for veg- ih etables? But hark! There is a swirl a and a splashing in all the four rivers of i Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel and Euphrates. p They are all aswi-n with life, some dart ing like arrows through split crystal, y and others quiet in dark pools like shad- w ows. Everything, from spotted trout b to behemoth, all colored, all shaped, the si ancestors o.f fluny tribes that shall by ai their wonders of construction confound w the Agassizes, the Cuviers and the Lin- al noeuses and the ichthyologists of the tl more than six thousand years following w this Friday of the first week. 1 And while I stand on the banks of t1 these Paradisaical livers, watching these di finny tribes, I hear a whirr in the air w and I look up and behold wings-wings t of larks, robbins, doves, eagles, f1amin- 1U goes, albatrosses, brown threshers. bi Creatures of all color-blue, as if dipped hi in the skies; fiery, as if they had flown ol out of the sunsets; golden, as if they had L: taken their morning bath in buttercups. z< And while I am studying the colors they in begln to carol and chirp and .oo and twitter and run up and down the scales of a music that they must have heard at w heaven's gate. Yes, I find them in m Paradise on this the first Friday after- im noon of the world's existence. And I oi sit down on the bank of the EuDhrates, bi and the murmur of the river, together h< with the chant of birds in the sky, puts di me into a state of somnolence. "And p< the evening and the morning were the ki fifth day." C BEASTS AND MEN. n< Now it is S iturday morning of the y world's first week and with this day the m week closes. But oh, what a climacter- t ic day! The air has its population and w the water its population. Yet the land 0 has not one inhabitant. But here they n come, by the voice of God created! a Horses grander than those which in af- Y ter time Job will describe as having neck f clothed with thunder. Cattle enough to Y cover a thousand hills. Sheep shlep- b herded by him who made for them the r green pastures. Cattle superior to the G Alderneys and Ayrshires and Devou- ti shires of after times. Leopards so beau- U tiful we are glad they cannot change their spots. Lions without their fierce ness and all the quadruped world so gen- 0 tle. so sleek, so perfect. a Look out how you treat this animal a creation, whether they walk the earth t~ or swim the waters or fly the air. Do b you not notice that God gave them pre- hi cedence of the human race? They were I. created Friday and Saturday morning, ri as man was created Saturday afternoor.. nf They have a right to be here, He who ti galls a horse, or exposes a cow to the ci storm, or beats a dog, or mauls a cat, or a' gambles at the pigeon shooting, or tor- ' :ures an insect, will have to answer for ' it in the judgment day. You may con- b sole yourself that these creatures ares not imnmortal and they cannot appeark against you, but the God who made x these creatures and who saw the wrong tc you did them will be there. Better look out, you stock raisers and railroad com panies who bring the cattle on trains without food or water for three or four days in hot weather, a long groan of' ago ny from Omaha to New York. Better look out, you farmer ridimg be hind that limping horse with a nail that the blacksmiith drove into the quick. Better look out, you boys stoning bull frogs and turning turtles upside down, and robbing birds' nests. But some thing is wanting in Paradise and the w week is almost done. Who is there to a pluck the flowers of this Edenic lawn? Who is there to command these worlds a of quadruped and fish and bird? F or whom has God put back the curtain from a the face of sun and moon and star? The e* world wants an emperor and empress-c It is Saturday afternoon. No one butti the Lord Almighty can originate a hu- Tj man being. In the world where there st are in the latter part of the Nineteenth tlh century over fourteen hundred million i people, a human being is not a curiosity. e But how about the first human eye that was ever kindled, the first human , ear that was ever opened, the first hu- ' man lung that ever breathed, the (irstg human heart that ever beat, the tit F human life ever constructed? That needed the origination of a God. Ie had no model to work by. What stupendous .a work for a Saturday afternoon! lie ,nust u originate a style of human heart through al which all the blood in the body must te pass every three minutes. Hie must TI make that heart so strong that it can, m during each day, lift what would be equal to one hundred and twenty tons of' weight, and it must be so arranged as to i beat over thirty-six million times every .a year. About five hundred muscles must be strung in the right place, and at least ft two hundred and fif ty boL-es constructed-. te Into this body must be put at least umne al million nerves. Over three thousand y perspiring pores must be made for every e inch of fleshly surface. p The human voice must be so construct- s ed it shall be capable or producing seven teen trillion five-hundred and ninety- two billion one hundred and eighty-six mil-U lion forty-four thousand four hundredU and fifteen sounds. But all this the. most insignificant part of the human be lag. The soul! Aha, the construction of that God himself would not be equal to if he were any the less of a God. Its understanding, its will, its memory, its 1; conscience, its capacities of enjoyment or suff'ering, its immortality! What a work for a Saturday afternoon! Aye! I Before night there were to be two such I human and yet immortal beings con structed. The woman as well as the k man was formed Saturday afternoon. s Because a deep sleep fell upon Adam, u and by divine surgery a portion of his o. tier creation. it has been supposed that >erhaps days and nights passed between he masculine and icminine creations. 3ut no! Adam was not three hours nimated. If a phycician can by anocsthetics put ne into a deei sleep in three minutes, .od certainly could have put Adam into profound sleep in a short while that aturday afternoon, and made the deep nd radizal excision without causing dis ress. By a manipulation of the dust be same hand that iokied the moun sins molded the features and molded be linbs of the fiather of the human aze. But his eyes did not see, and his orves did not feel, and his muscles did ot move, and his lungs did not breathe, ad his heart did not pulsate. A per !ct form he lay along the earth, sym ietrical and of godlike countenance. Iaanificent piece ot' Divine carpentry nd Omaipotent sculpturing, but no itality. A body without a soul. Then the source of all life stooped to ie inanimate nostril and lip, and as .auv a skillful and earnest physician as put his lips to a patient in comatose Late and breathed into his mouth and ostril, and at the same time compress a the lungs, until that which was arti cial respiration became natural respira on, so methinks God breathed into this ld sculpture of a man the breath of life, nd the heart begins to tramp, and the ings to inhale. and the eyes to open, ad the entire form to thrill, and with ie rapture of a life just come the rostrate being leaps to bis feet-a man! But the scene of this Saturday is not et done, and in the atmosphere, drowsy ith the breath of flowers and the song of obolinks and robin redbreasts, the man umbers, and by anasthetics, divinely :lministered, the slumber deepens until ithout the oozing of one drop of blood the time or the faintest scar afterward, iat portion is removed from his side hich is to be built up the Queen of aradise, the daughter ot the great God, le mother of the human race, the bene etion of all ages, woman the wife, after ard wsman the mother. And as the Vo join hands and stroll down along ie banks of the Euphrates toward a zwer of mignonette and wild rose and )neysuckle, and are listening to the call the whip-poor-will Irom the aromatic iiekets the sun sinks beneath the hori )n. "And the evening and the morn g were the sixth day." A GREAT WEEK'S WORK. What do you think of that one week's ork? I review it not for entertain ent, but because I would have you join D Iavid's doxology, "Great and marvel is are thy works, Lord God Almighty;" ,cause I want you to know what a >mestead our Father built for his chil -en at the start, though sin has des >iled it, and because I want you to 2ow how the world will look again when brist shall have restored it, swinging 3w between two Edens; because I want >u to realize something of what a ighty God he is, and the utter folly of ying to war against him; because I ant you to make peace with this Chief the Universe through the Christ who ediates between offended Omnipotence id human rebellion; because I want >u to know thow fearfully and wonder 1lly you are made, your body as well as ur soul an Omnipotent achievement; cause I want you to realize that order igns throughout the universe, and that od's watches tick to the second, and iat his clocks strike regularly, though ey strike once in a thousand years. A learned man once asked an old ristian man who had no advantages 'schoolmg, why he believed there was God, and the good old man, who prob bly had never heardl an argument on ie subject in all his life, made this no .e reply: "Sir, I have been here going ird upon fifty years. Every day since have been in this world I see the sun se in the east and Ret in the west. The yrth star stands where it did the first 21e I saw it; the seven stars and Job's >fin keep on the same path in the sky id never turn out. It isn't so with an's work. IHe makes clocks and atches; they may run well for awhile, it they get out of fix and stand stock ill. But the sun and moon and stars ep on this same way all the while. he heavens declare the glory of God." ea, I preach this, because I want you walk in appreciation of Addison's bline sentiment ,vhen he writes: The spacious firmament on high,. With all the blue etherial sky And spangled heav'ns. a shining frame, Their Great Original proclaim. In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, Forever singing, as they shine. The hand that made us is divine. Firing on a Train. BANG OR, ME., May 27.-A train hich lef t Bangor for St John last night ;7:40 was held up just beyond Enfield r four men, who fired at the engineer 2d cars. The train left Enfleld when man, who was noticed by the fireman -awling over the tender, told them to op the train The gong on the engine >unded but the engineer did not stop Le train until the gong sounded again. he train t hen came to a stand, when ooting wasibeard, and for five minutes Le gang kept up ant indiscriminate inog, the mail car being the particular >ject of attack. The leader of the gang was armed ith a rifle, the others wvith revolvers. hey tired several shots into the bag sge and mail cars, but the engineer illed the train out before anyone was njured. The station agent at Enfield as fired at by the men as~ he was hang tgout a signal light. The glass of the ,nterni was broken and the light extin ished. The men ordered him to leave 2d he did so. Uilicers will be sent out >capture the assailants if possible. he affair caused considerable excite cent in this section. Crime or Accient? TOPEIKA, Kansas, May' 27.-A small -ame residence at the corner of Buch an avenue and Gordon street was irned this morning. In the ruins were >uld the charred remains of Mrs. Aup rew, aged 35, and her three children, 1 girls, aged from fifteen months to five ea rs. Allt the surrounding circumstan :5 pointed to a deliberate and carefully tnned triple murder and suicide. The ~ene of tne tragedy is in a sparcely :ttled portion of North Topeka, and 1e house was supposed to have been ninhabited. It is learned that the uifiy moved in the house about a iontit ago. The father is a teamster id left home early this morning to ok for worin. Darkey vs. Dago. SUTTON, W. Va., May 27.-Alex D~un p, a negro from Wheeling, who was orking with a gang of Italians five iles east of' here, had a desperate bat e with thema on Saturday. There was trilling dispute and a light. The ne ro caught up a Winchester riule, and. acking himself against a stone wall, ept fully 200 Italians at bay from early aturday morning until the afternoon, en he was arrested. In the course f the fray he shot two of the Italians, THE PEOPLE'S PARTY. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE THIRD PARTY CONVENTION. Who Can be Glad and Who Sorry--The Al liance and the Democratic Party Should Rejoice--Livinaston's Fine Work--Why Cleveland was Made a Target Of. WAsIoGTox, D. C.. May 2i.-Viewed from a strictly political star.dpoint, the I interesting Cincinnati conference stamped upon the minds of various party leaders and individuals impres sions quite as distinct as the hetero geneous elements which composed the gathering itself. When the conven tion finally adjourned, a full day at least sooner than was anticipated, those most deeply concerned hal reason to feel about as follows: 1. The Far mers' Alliance-relief. 2. The Democratic party-satisfac tion. 3. The Republican party-alarm. 4. Mr. Harrison, Mr. Blaine or who- f ever may be the Republican candidate- I misgiving. 5. Mr. Cleveland-solicitude. These results are due, not so much to what the convention really did as to the temper of the more conservative men present, indicated by their speeches and acts. The leaders of the Farmers' Alliance c may well haeve a sigh of relief at the passing of the most serious danger which has menaced their organization. e While, from their point of view, the conference did little or no good, it cer tainly resulted in less harm than was r anticipated. Instead of forcing the Alliance to indorse or reject certain vexatious principles the convention I practically referred the whole mattter to the regular Alliance convention next February with a recommendation in favor of naming its own candidate for president. Colonel Livingston, who represented the officials of the Alliance outside of the convention itself, shrewd ly focussed the inevitable dispute upon this point and secured the adoption of policy which the Alliance leaders have 2 no disposition to antagoniae at the ( proper time. By making a show of re- s sistance, moreover, the Colonel diverted 0 attention from matters which might v ,have seriously embarrassed himself and t his colleagues. iHe must have returned t home in a happy frame of mind. r The politicians who have been in- I clined to consider all Alliance men "un- r: practical" will do well to study Colonel V Livingston's successful manipulation a of the most intractable body of men y ever got together. It would have re- s. flected credit upon a tactician as clever a as Manning was or Gorman is. 1 "The ideas of the old mossback lead- P ers in the Democratic party',' said Col- P onel Polk, "if not suppressed by the h younger element, will certainly lead to i its destruction sooner or later, and it v may come as early as 1892 if they are a not careful. b "As for the Republican party, it is b corrupt from core to circumference, * while its opponent is not controlled by 1 the main body of the people, who vote g the ticket, but by the insidious influ ence of capitalists. The only wonder t] to me is that the farmers have notlong c ago arisen in their might and swept f both parties from the field. Cleveland 14 will be the nominee of the Democrats s: and his nomination will be dictated by s Wall street. Yes, and Wall street will s nominote an anti-silver Republican. e "The objects of the Democrats will I be to force us to place a third party in P the field, with the hope that it will m throw the eletcion into the house of n representatives, and then Cleveland C would be declared elected. But I am t not so sure that such would be the case, ~ as the Alliance may sweep the coun- e try." r Only a bald statement of fact cold a be more definite than this. The Alli- a ance intends to name its own candi- E dates, but not until the time is ripe. ~ The premature action, which, in Colo- e nel Polk's opinion, referred to in this I column last week, would be fatal, is ~ one of the things that Colonel Living- p2 ston went to Cincinnati to prevent. h He succeeded so well that the Alliance s1 will have only a "national committee" a of about fifty members instead of a 'I horde of cranks to deal with in Februa- t ry. It is not expected or even asked to r endorse the Cincinnati platform, and it d can yield to the vociferous demand for a third party with perfect complacence. 8 If anything the conference was a bene- g lit to the Alliance. it enabled a large V number of troublesome reformers to y let off steam without scalding auy bodv. t The strategists of the house may well p keep their eyes on Colonel Liviugston ~ when he enters upon his congressional I career in December. 1 The facts so gratifying to the alli- V ance leaders are no less sasisfactory to C Democrats. Nothing could be more d advantageous to the Demccratic party at this time than a steady growth in a Alliance membership. Consequently, i Democratic politicians will rejoice with ~ their friends, the f armers, that the most b serious danger has been averted by clever management. Moreover, it is pleasing tc note that the very fear of t being committed against their old party 4 kept the alliance men in the South att home. Reasons why the Republican party leaders must feel uneasy are so numer- it ouis and so patent that they need hard- C ly be noted. Last fall's election furn ished conclusive proof that they can not hope to tight on equ~id terms, but 1 to achieve success must make great in- s roads upon the opposition. It was ar- il gued speciously by Republican opti- a mists last fall that the election was on ly "an oft-year revolt," and that when T the time came to make decisive choice k of a Republican or a Den ocrat for o: president the farmers of the We-st and st Northwest would be found under their a old banner. The Cincinnati cornference i may open their eyes to the truth. Nine- e tenths of the delegates came from the t: formerly Republican States of Kansas, di Nebraska, a .mnnesota, Ohio and Illinois, u and of that great number it is safe to say that not more than a handful ever voted a Democratic ticket. The sin cerity of these men in advocating the a ideas put forward by others not so guileless can not be questioned. What ever they do they will do wvitn all their li might. The true signilicance and cdan- s ger of the conference, from a Republi- r can standpoint, lies in tne fact that there wa not the slightest indication ni of a desire to return to the fold. In- i stead, there wa a unanimous demand 11 for a third party. Talk about "mere n off-year revolts," therefore is out of o, place. And the danger is even greater than it would seeml to 1)e at idrst thought. Take away from the Republican party the sturdy count::y element, whose ai- tl legiance has r.ever wavered for an in- t! stant, and what is there left of the bone ti and sinew, except a few spoilis-monger s< in the big cities who thrive on "deals" ha with their political opponents? t If any reader of The World fails to 'n see cause for solicitude on the part of w~ Mr. Cleveland, let him read a second T1 time the excerpt from Colonel Polk's t4 interview printed above and then re- ei flect upon the tenor of the speeches in g: Cincinnati, of which the following by Ii Weaver is a sample: h; "T want to say that the battle for the w nstitutions and liberties of this people vill be waged in 1892 between the can lidates whom you name and those vhom the cohorts of Wall street nomi iate. Now, the Republican party is )ractically out of the fight in 1892. Chev were left in a forlorn condition ast November. The only rart they :an play next year is to act as the niners and sappers of the other party. "Mind, now, what I say. Mr. Cleve and, when he wrote his anti-silver let er, did it deliberately, as I happen to i now. He did it agamst the protests I )f many of his friends. It had this ef Iect, to consolidate the money power in uis support. The plutocracy in 1892-14 vill make the battle under his leader- 1 ;hip, They are playing a shrewd game. Che great work to be done is tha: of )rganization and preparation." The talk of a played-out politician ike Weaver is of no consequence, but he spirit of his remarks permeated all he speeches and the entire convention, Lnd can not be disregarded. Mr. Cleve and is the victim of circumstances and iis own action. The engineers of the iew movement know very well that ,hey can not retain their hold upon the ,reat mass of Republicans who com >rise their forces if there arises in their ninds the slightest suspicion that they I Lre being led into the Democratic camp. z 'onsequently some Democrat must erve as a target along with the makers f McKinley bills, and Mr. Cleveland tappens to be the most conspicuous nark. le greatly facilitated the exe ution of the plan by pronouncing gainst free silver, thus presenting to he leaders of the Alliance sufficient xcuse for designating him as a slave f Wall street-and mention of Wall treet is to the farmers what a red t ag is to a bull, Thus the Alliance t aen hope to solidify their own ranks E y attractic g both Democrats and Re ublicans who have been inclined to i >in thoir faith to tariif reform.-New Jork World. MRS. SURRATT'S EXECUTION. Ln Outrage Upon Justice in the Opinion C of Her Confession. C WAsHINGTON, May 28.-The Rev. J. L. Walter, pastor of St. Paterick's 1 :hurch, this city, has prepared and pre- t ented to the Catholic Historical Society a f New York a paper on Mrs. Surratt, 1 hich-he thinks will throw new light on I be character, trial and execution of r bat unfortunate woman. It will be ead before the Society to morrow night. 'ather Walter was pastor of St. Pat ick's Church when President Lincoln as assassinated, and Mrs. Surratt was member of his congregation. On the 1 ery night that Booth tired the fatal bot she was at Father Walter's church, na that circumstance alone, in the iind of the clergyman, wes partial C roof that she knew nothing of the a lans prepared by the assassins at her 1 ouse. He became deeply interested j i her case, was her confessor and ad- s iser after her arrest as well as before, o nd did everything in his power, both - y appeals to President Johnson and y bitter denunciations of the unjust ieasures .adopted by the Goverament 1 its prosecution, to save her from the t allows. a Although the occurrences which Fa- ( ier Walter describes in his. paper oc- b arred so long ago, that be still feels i eshly and keenly the injustice which a d to Mrs. Surratt's execution. In f peaking of the matter to a Sun repre- t mntative he said: If President John- t m had been a man of courage the ex- r eution would not have taken place. ( [e simply acted in accordance with e ublic clamor, an:d signed the death a rarrant without even reading the testi- e iony on which the woman had been 1 onvicted. 1 went tohim and told him iat I had read every line of the testi- t iony, and that there was rnot enough r vidence to hang a cat on; that I did r ot ask a pardon for Mirs. Surratt, nor t commutation of sentence, but merely r repreve for ten days, in o:der that ? r light prove her innocence, but Presi- t ent Johnson did not have courage d nough to comply with my request. e [e feared if he did so he would be ac- t used of commending the deed that had t ut him in the Presidential chair. So t e consigned an innocent woman to a a ameful death in order to escape the dverse criticism of a frenzied populace. 'he whole trial was an outrage, and iere is no doubt that the Government esorted to fraudulent measures in or er to obtain a conviction. t "Mr. Bradley, who defended John S urratt, had among his papers a tele- f raph book showing that John Surratt ~ as in Elmira on the night of April 13, t et when a search was made for the ho- c sl register, that would have shown his 13 resence there on that date, it had dis- I ppeared and not until a year ago was t able to ascertain that the Government s ad taken possession of it and had t ithheld it order to deprive the prison- o cs of the benefit of this bit of evi- t ence. I "John Surratt was allowed to escape f trial because the Government knew e hadI no case against him, and if he o ere innocent, his mother was also. It 1 as been charged tnat I forbade Mrs. a urratt's speaking, but this is not true. D he declare'd her innocence up to the 1 me of her death, and beyond this dec- h ration she had nothing to say."-Bal- a more Sun. This May Interest You. CA MDEN, S. C., May 27.--The follow- a ug has been received by a gentleman in amden: "G AuRDINER, MA INE, A pril 21, 1891. "To the commainding officer of the C th regiment S. C. Y., Confederate t, taes, in the war of the rebellion ot c 16.-Sir: W ill you be so kind as to in- ( >r me if the second lieutenant, Coin- c any I, of that regiment is still living. c his officer was wounded in the right fi nee at the second battle of Bull Run r a the 28th of August, 1862. If he is 'l ill living please so inform me. H~e s as w' ounded in the knee. His servant g as a prisoner, by the name of Sheed or c aider. This officer may hear of some- I; iing that will interest him. His resi- 1< ence was at the time of his entering r le service Charleston, South Carolina. c ease answer. Very respectfully, n "Henry E. Merrill, a "Late 1st lieutenantL Iancock's 1st ii rmy corps, United States Veteran t ol unte-ers."o This wa referred to Capt. J1. C. Rlol- n ngs.of Camden, who was at the time n ~cnd lieutenant of Company I, 12th gimenlCt but Capt. Rollings was ounded in the face on that day, and ot in the right knee, as stated by Mr. J [errill, so he is not tne man sought for. p is thought thrat there must be some h~ istake in the initial of the company o the number of the regiment. Blocked by Caterpilars. t MINNEAPOLIS, May 23.-A special to C 2e Journal from Mankato, Minn.,says t at all trains on the Milwaukee Road k is morning are delayed at a point h ~ven miles out of this city by caterpil- o: rs, which had crawled upon the rails t< >sun themselves. The sand boxes c( ere soon exhausted and two engines ere hardly able to move the train. he morning freight was an hour and n minutes in going two miles. Cat- t< pillars were ground into masses of b. rease over which the wheels slipped d; ke so much butter. The caterpillars 11 ave been a pest in the locality for two ai CAN'T HOLD TWO OFFICES. rhe Governor Removes the Supervisor o Registration for Charleston. COLUMBIA, S. C., May 28.-Messrs F. M. Eason and G. W. Dingle of thi )allot reform committee of Charlestoi vere in the city yesterday, and inter riewed the Governor in reference to th natter of the Supervisor of Registratioi or Charleston County'. They represen ed to him that the present Supervisor 1r. Cantwell, held t.vo offices, viz. hat of Supervisor of Registration an :lerk of the Board of County Commis ioners. The Governer concluded tha dr. Cantwell could not legally hold tw iffices, and determed to remove him le first, however, submitted the poin avolved to the Assistant Attorney Gen ral, who gave the following writtei >pinon: "The inquiry referred by your Excel ency to the Attorney General, of thi late, embraces, as I understand it, tw [uestions: Is the Clerk of the Board o .ounty Commissioners an officer?" -I person holding the office of Superviso f Registration eligible as Clerk of th 3oard of County Commissioners?" Without having time to give my rea ons in full. I have the honor to state t< our Excellency uriefly that in my opin Dn the Clerk of the Board of Count' ommissioners is an officer, and second hat a person cannot hold two offices a he same time. I refer your Excellenc: o Section 30, Article 2 of the Constitu ion and sections 91 and 612 of the Gen ral Statutes of South Carolina. The Governor on receipt of this opin >n wrote as follows to Mr. W. P. C m rell: "SiR-It has been brought to my at ention that you are the Clerk of thi 3oard of County Commissioners, whili t the same time you have held the offic f SupervIsor of Registration. In th pinion of the Attorney General on( aan cannot hold these two offices legal y, and you are therefore removed fron be office of Supervisor of Registration nd will turn over all public property be, )nging to said office remaining in you: ossession to the present Board of Com. iissioners of Registration. "Respectfully, "B. R. TILLMAN, Governor." The Governor also wrote to Mr. Geo, V. Willlams, Chairman of the Board o: ,ommissioners of Registration for Char. iston County. advising him of the re ioval of Mr. Cantwell, and directing hii ;oard to take charge of the books, etc. f the office until his successor has beet ppointed. The committee from Char iston have suggested the name of Ma )r Hall T. McGee as Mr. Cantwell'r iccessor. and it is probable that he will et the appointment if he will a.:cept it. -Register. Tones Wil Be Tried. COLUMBIA, S. C., May 28.-Jones, th( riple Edgefield murderer, is to be triec t the next term of court in Lexingtor ounty, the change of venue having een made some months ago, but Solic ,or N elson has had some doubts of hi, bility to secure the State's witnesse rom Edgefield, on account of the faci hat there was no provision made foi be payment of their per diem anc ileage. He accordingly wrote to the 'rovernor suggesting that he pay thes( xpenses out of his contingent fund nd in response to this request the Gov. rnor yesterday wrote to him as fol. >ws: MY DEAR Sin: Your letter of yes erday, asking that arrangement bf iade for paying the expenses of wit. esses in the Jones case, came to hand his morning. 1 am very anxious that o delay shall occur in bringing that 1atter to an end, and I will pay out of be contingent fund a sufficient per iem to each of the State's witnesses tc over actual expenses, not- to exceed he amount named by you-S85. I dc his with the express understahzding bat you will insist on a trial at any nd all hazards. Yours, very truly, B. R. TILLMAN, Governor. -Ingall's Views-. IHUTCINsON, Kansas, May 27.-At 2 leeting of Republican editors of the eventh Congressional District a letter com ex-Senator Ingalls was read and rarmly applauded. Among otheI hings the letter said: The Republi an party is confronted with great roblems which threaten its supremacy. f we are to succeed we must deal with he issues of to-day as we dealt with Lavery, secessian and State soverignty airty years ago. The Republicanism f the future must readjust itself to ae changed conditions of American fe or it will perish. 1 wish to save it com this fate by recalling the spirit of nergy, aggressive and patriotic force f the founders to the campaign of B92. This will be waged upon economic nd practical questions, and not upon iemories or motions. Harrison will e renominated and Cleveland will be is antagonist. If we have courage nd conscience it will be Austerlltz. It .'e dicker with popular errors, coim romise with unprinciiled leaders and neer at honest differences of judgment nd opinion, it will be Waterloo." That New Party. MADISON, Wis., May 27.-Railroad ommissioner HI. A. Taylor, in a letter the State Journal, of this city, says f the people's party inaugurated at incinnatti: "The convention at Cin innati has no rightful claim to be alled a national convention. In it we nd men who have been prominent in either political nor business circles. 'he men of brain, of integrity and tatesmanship, the men who have or anized and controlled our great fin-an jal enterprises, whc ".ave enacted our iws and devoted lives of fidelity to all gitimate public interests, haven't aised their voices in the clamor ot dis ontent which comes from the Cincin ati convention. I cannot believe that ny considerable number of leading ien of either of the great parties of ae country will be round in the ranks t this new party. It will be largely rade up of perhaps well meaning', but rismnformed men." Death of a Colored Preacher. CHARLESTON, S. C., May 20.-Rev. acob Mills, probably the oldest colored reacher in the country, died yesterday Charleston. lHe was ninety-one years age. When quite young he was madec ee, and was an exhorter long before e war. Of late years was pastor of entennary Church. this city. He had ec respect of all white citizens who 2ew him, and his own p~eople venerated m. The funeral to-day took the shape a public demonstration. He is said have married over 2,000 colored >up~les in Charleston. The Agony Over. TALLAIIASSEE, Fla., May 27.--Sena r Call was re-eiected United Senator y the Legislature in joint session to sy. lie received fifty-one votes, only Ety-four members being present. The ati-Call men absented themselves nom the joint session. CLOSE ON ITS HEELS. THE "CHARLESTON" SIXTY-FIVE MILES BEHIND THE "ITATA." Both Vessels Going at Full Speed-They Were Met by the "Colima"-Rumor* That the Insurgent Leaders Will Give Up the "Itata." SAN FRANcIsco. May 25.-The first authentic ne ws about the Itata since she left this port, was received here to-day. The steamship Colima, which has just arrived from Panama and way ports, re t ports that she spoke both the Itata and the Charleston. The Itata was met at 10.52 o'clock t the morning of the 15th inst., going south at full steam, sixty-five railes i from Acapulco. At 5.20 p. m. the same day the Colima spoke the Charleston . 130 miles from Acapulco. Capt. Remy, of the Charleston, asked the captain of the Colima if he had seen f the Itata. He answered in the affir mative, and then the United States crusier went straight on her way. Ev idently the Charleston missed the pirate steamer by only about one hundred and twenty miles, by putting into Acapulco. The Esmeralda's ran out of Acadulco and back again, about the time of the Charleston's arrival, was clearly made r to warn the Itata, which kept off shore. If she has coal enough to carry her to Iquique, she will be able to carry a ,. to the insurgents, otherwise she .sg stop at Panama, where the Ca.- 'ston will probably catch her. It is rumored here to day that insur gent leaders have agreed to deliver the Itata to the United States authorities on her arrivl at Iquique and thatthere fore the (Larleston will make no far ther seriots efforts at capture. When the Esmeralda tirst entered port at Acapulco she saluted the fort with twenty-one guns, which salute was not returned. On the tollowing day her commander made an official visit to the commandant of the military forces. The Hope Broke. BRoKEN DOw, Neb., May .--Thg respite of thirty clays granted ry Gov ernor Boyd tc AlbertE. Haners:.me,the murderer of Hiram Roten and1 William Ashley. expired today, tu at 1:30 o'clock the condemed mat was hanged. IrA spite of the storm, 4,0:i eoplegath ere-3 t-- vitness the exe 3ion. When the trap was sprungthe. io a shotdown ward and dropped to th ? ground, the rope having broken. The lialf conscious man was seized by the sheriff and car ried back on the gallows. The rope was then doubled and the trap again sprung. This time his neck was brok en by the fall. At midnight he made a statement. He said that two weeks prior to the murder he was accused of petty thiev ing. The murdered men, with others, annoyed and threatened him. At one time somebody poisoned water that he had hauled in barrels. On the fatal day Roten and Ashley came to his place, without authority, to search for a clock that had been taken from the school house. Roten carried a Wincheste across his arm, Hanerstine gave them the clock and then asked them to din ner. They would not eat with him., An altercation took place, and in the heat of passion he shot Roten to protect him self. Then he shot Ashley, who at tempted to draw his pistol from his pocket. Eleven Miners Killed. Birmnmaisn, May 22.-At the Pratt mines to day an explosion of gas in the shaft where convicts are worked killed ten negro convicts and one free miner named Tom Moore. It is believed thait the men had in some way knocked of a plank from the door which stood across an old chamber and on which the word "Gas" was written. The gast rushed Out and caught fire from a lamp Officers of the company went to the rescue and worked to save the men, but were themselves suffocated and nar rowly escaped, being dragged out un conscious. The bodies of the deadhave all been recovered. The mines are not considered in danger from gas as a rule, and this is the first accident of the sort in a long time. T wo life convictsN. worked faithfully with the rescuing party. ________ Tortured by African Savages. ST. LOUIS. May 27.-A letter has been received here from Cape Town, South A irica, aiving an accountt of the capture and torture by Zulus of Jeff Allen, of Decatur, Ill., and W. A. Ken nan, whose home is supposed to be eithei in St. Joseph, Mo., or Silver City, New Mexico. The letter is dated March 1st, and it Is signed "Frank Short." It was enclosed in an envelope from the United States consulate at Cape Town. The letter says: "The British ship Neptune, Captain Saunders, master. of London, was re cently driven ashore off the coast of Na tal. adjacent to the Free States, and a.11 but live out of the crew of fitty-eIght perished. The live men started on foot to Natal, 170 miles distant, and on the way they were captured by a band of Zulus, who stripped off their clot'.es and proceeded to torture them by t.yn.g them to a tree and beating the <vuth the Shambock, a jagrged club muade of rhi noceros hide. While the nends were in the midst of this barbarous ,asi: ne, they were surprised by a party of' P er hun ters, armed with muskets, whi charged upon them and put them te sii it. Ken nan and Adams were the o ly nes who survived the torture, and wec 3 safely conveyed to Natal and thence to Cape Town. Kennan is still insane rom his suffering." Three Mllen Killed b~y Foul Air. CENTRALIA, Wash., May 27.-While grading a street this morning a laborer uncovered an old well to ascertain its depth. lIe was overcome with foul air and fell into the well. Three other la borers, who went to his assisance, were also precipitated into the well in the same manner. After the air became pure the men were brought to the sur face. Only one, named Ford, could be resuscitated. The names of the dead are Burns, Perry and Dobson. Congressman Houk Dead. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 25.-Con gressman Ilouk died here early this morning. Judge Houk had been suffer ing from heart disease. Yesterday .he went to a drug store to get a prescrip tion put up. The druggist made it up and put it clown in a glass near another containing a strong solution of arsemic, and he took the latter by mistake. Un dier medical treatment he seemed to be recovering last night, but oecame worse toward morning and died at 7 o'clock Ravages ofta Rain storm. A LM.\, Neb. May 27.-The worsG rain storm ever known here occurre.l last night. The city is comepletely inunda ted. The water was from two to tour. feet deep. The WVest wail of Sims block gave way under the pressure and is a total wreck. The sidewalks succombed to the presure, and twenty-flve feet of the dam at Lake Tisapointrment is swept away. The damage to crops will be enormous.