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VOL. VII. ___ MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1891 NO. 38. THE COIN CRIB OF FGYPT. NO ADN4ITANCE TO GOD'S BOUNTY - UNLESS CHRIST GO WIT H YOU. The Famiue ir.t Was Scv iW AQI Lnds -The Condittion Imponed That Henja nao Shond (; into ENpt with 2i2 Brethreu--ujamin a T.&pz of Chriit. BuooKrxy., Au:. 30.-The cabled reports of a-ager harvests in Europe. and the memory o. the vast crops of ripening grain Y hich Dr. Talmage saw during his recent tour in the west, have combined to turn his tnoughts back to that patriarchal time when all the world sent to Egypt to buy corn and to sug gest a Gospel lesson. His text is Gen esis xliii. 3, "Ye shall not see my Iae. except your trother be with vcu." This summer, having crossed ei% teen of the United States-north, south, east aud west-I hare to report the mightiest harvests that tits country or any other country ever reaped. If the gratu .m blers do not eomehow wreck these har vests wc are about to emwer upon the grandest sceae of prosperity that Amer ica has ever wiat *sed. but whiie this is so in our owa country, on tie other side of the Atlantic tter are nations threatened vab fatuine, and the n.oAt dismal cry that is ever heard will, I fear, be uttered-the cry for bread. I pray God that the contrast between our prosperity and their want may not be as slurp as in the lands referred to by mv text. TLere was nothing to eat. Plenty of corn in Egypt, but ghastly lumine in Canaan. The cattle moaning in the stidl. Men, women aud'children a.w tally white with. hunger. Not the failing of oue crop for one summer, but tie taling of all the crops for seven ears. A nation dying for lack o1 that w hiei is so comniqn on your table and so little appreciated; the product of liar vest field and grist mill and oven; the price of sweat and anxiety and struggle -bieaa! Jacob the father has the last report from the flour bin, and he tnds that everything is cut, and he says to his sons. "Boys, hook up the wagons and start for Egypt and get us some thmng to eat." The fact was there was a great corn crib in E gypt. The people of Egypt have been largely taxed in all ages, at the present Lime paying between 70 and 80 per cent, of their products to the government. No wonder in that time they had a large corncrio. and it was full. To that crib they came from the regions riund about-those who were famished-eome paying for corn in money; when the money was exhausted, paying for the corn in sheep and cattle and horses and camels, and when they were exhausted, then selling their o vii bodies and their families into slavery. THE SORROW OF JACOB. The morning for starting out on the crusade for bread has arrived. Jacob gets his family up very early. But be fore the elder sons start they say some thing that makes him trewble with emo tion from bead to foot and burst into tears. The fact was that these elder sons had once before been in Egypt to get corn, and they had been treated somewhat roughly, the lord of the corn crib supplying them with corn, but say ing at the close of the interview, "Now, you need not come back here for any more corn unless you bring something better than money-even your younger brother Benjamin." Ah! Benjamin-that very name was suggestive of all tenderness. The mo ther had died at the birth of that son-a spirit coming and another spirit going and the very thought of parting with Benjamin must have been a heart break. The keeper of this corncrib, neverthe less, say s to these older sons, "There is no need of your coming here ay more for corn unless you bring Benja min, your father's darling." Now, Jacob and his famIly very much needed bread, but what a struggle it would be to give up this son. The orientals are very demonstrative in their grief, and I hear the outwailing of the father as these older sons keep reiterating in his ears the announcemens of the Egyptain lord, "Te shall not see my face unless your brother be with y ou." "Why did you tell them you had a brothery" said the old man, complaining and chiding them. "Why, father," they said, "he asked us all about our family, and we had no idea he would make any such demand upon us as he has made." '"No use of ask ing me," said the father, "I cannot, I, will not, give up Benjamin." The fact was that the old man had lost children; and when there has been be reavement in a household, and a child taken, it makes the other children in the household muore precious. So the day for denarture was adjomined and ad journed and adjourned. S8ill the hor rors of the famine increased, and louder moaned the cattle and wider open crack ed the earth and more pallid became the cheeks, until Jacob, in despair, cried out to his sons, "Take Benjamin and be olf." Thc older sons tried to cheer up their father. They said: "We have strong arms and a stout heart, and no harm will coms to Beniamin. We'll see that the young men to ths father, in a tone of assumed good cheer. "F-a-r-e w-e-l-l!I" said the old man. for that word has more quavers in it when pro nounced by the aged than by the young. Well, the bread party-the bread em bassy-drives up in front of the cornerib of Egypt. Theee corneribs are filled with wheat and barley and corn in the husk, for those who have traveled in Canaan and Egpt know that there is corn there corresponding wtith our In dian maize. Liuzza! the journey is end ed. The lord of the cornerib, who is also the prime muinister, comnes down to these arrived travelers, and says: " Dine with me today. How is your father? Is this Benjnan, the younger brother, whose presence 1 demanded?" The travelers are introduced into the palace. They are worn and bedusted of the way, and servants come in with a basin of water in one hand and a towel in the other, and kneel down before these newly arrived travelers, washing off the dust of the w ay. The butchers and poul terers and caterers of the prime reinis ter prepare the repast. The guests are seated in small groups, two or three at a table, the food on a tray; all the luxuries rom imperial gar dens and orchards and a.:quariums and aviaries are brought there, and are 1i11 ing chaliee and platter. Now is the time for this pritne minister if he has a grudge '~gainst Benamin to show it. Will he kill him, now that lie has him in his hance? Oh, no! This lord of the cornerib is seated at his own table, and he looks ovwr to the table ot his guests, and lie sends a portion to each of them. but sends a larger portion to lBenjamin, or, as the Bible quaintly puts it, "B3enamin's mess was live tues so much as any of theirs." De quick and sndm word back with the swiftest camet Ito Canaan !o ih! Jaco. hi;O -11j.'!n I 1y; the E:yptian lord d'd not Imezanl mu. dI 1nd death; ht- he nwtit delivrance and e i when he alnunced(oti I to Us Ou that day, "Ye 13hall Sno 3e 1y fac; UU IN y ur brothewr Ue w:0h vou.'") Well. ty triends, this world is famiiine struck of Jsin. It does not Vield a siu le cr-op of shd stisfactioI. It id dv ing. I' 0 huuger hitten. The laet that it dos not, can not, fe-d a maul's hea:-t was .vell illustrated the life of the English comedian. All the world hou ored him-did everytLti, for him thalt the world could do. He was applauded in England and applauded in the United States. He roused up nati Pns into t laughter. He had no equal. And set, although many people supposed him cu tirely happy, and that this world was < completely satiating his soul, he sits I down and writes: "I never m my lie I Idut on a n'w hat that it did not rain and ruin it. I never went out in a shabby coat because it was ra:ning and thought J all who had the choice would keep in doors that the sun did not burst forth in its strength and bring out with it all the buttertfies of fashion whom I knew and who knew re. I never consented to accept a part I hated, out of kindness to another, that I did not get hissed by the putlic and cut by the wrier. I could i.t take a drive for a f.e awmnutes with Terry without being overturued and having my elbow bone broken, though my fri'nd got off unharmed. I could not make a covenant with Arnold. which I thought was to make my :ortune with out making his instead. than in an in credible space o time-I think thirteen months-I earned for him twenty thous- i and pounds and for myself one. I an persuaded that if I were to set up as a i beggar, every one in moy neighborhood would leave t4l eating bread." That was the lament of the yorld's comedian 'I and joker. All unhappy. The world did everything for Lord Blyron that it could do, and y et in his last moment he asks a friend to come and sit down by t him and read. as most appropriate to his case, the story of 'The Bleeding1 Heart." Torrigiano, the sculptor, exe cuted, after months ot care and carving, . "MadoLa and the Child." The toval family came in and admired it. Every- 1 body that looked at it \Nas in ecstacy. t But one day, after all that toil and all t that admiration, because he did not get as much compensation for his work as he had expected. he took a inailet and dashed the exquisite sculpture into atoms. The world is noor compensa tion, poor satisfaetion, poor solace. Famine, famine in all the earth; not for f seven years, but fbr six thousand. But, blessed be God, there is a great corn-r crib. The Lord built it. It is in anoth- c er land. It is a large place. An angel s once measured it, and as far as I can t calculate it in our phrase that corncrib i is lifteen hundred miles long and fifteen hundred broad and fifteen hundred high, I and it is full. Food for all nations. "-Oh!" say the people, "we will start right away and get this supply for our soul." But stop a noment, for from the keeper of that cornerib there comes this word. saying. "You shall not see my 1ace except %our brother be widi t you." In other words, there is no such v thing as getting from heaven pardon and 5 comfort and eternal life unless we bring p with us our Divine Brother, the Lord v Jesus Christ. Coming without him we c shall fall before we reach the corncrib, t and our bouies shall be a portion for the jackals of the wilderness; but coming with the Divme Jesus, all the granariesr of heaven will swing open before our soul and abundance shah be given us'. We shall be invited to sit in the palace 6 of the king and at the table; and while e the Lord of heaven is opportuoning from b his own table to other tables, he will b not forget us; and then and there it will ( be found that our Benjamin's mess is larger than all the others, tor so it ought a to be. "Worthy is the Lamb that was t slain to receive blessing and riches and 1 bonor and glory and power." NO ADMISSION WIT ROUT CH RIST. I want to make three points. Every ~ frank and common sense man will ac knowledge himself to be a sinner,. What are you going to do with your c sins? Have them pardoned, you say. d How? Through the umercy of God. What e do you men by the mercy of God? Is ti it the letting down of a bar lbr the ad- t] mission of all, without respect to char- b aeter? Be nut deceived. I see a soul I coming up to the gate of mercy and ~ knocking at the corner'ib of heavenly supply, and a voice from within says, "Are you alone?" The sinner replies, "All alone." The voiec from within a says, "You shall not see my pardontng i face unless your Divine Brother, the e Lord Jesus, be with you." Oh, that is p the point at which so many are discom- s: forted. There is no mercy from God except through Jesus Christ. Coming i with him we are accepted. Coming y without him, we are rejected. y Peter put it righ t in his great sermon bef ore the high priests when he thun- ~ dered forth: "'Neither is there saiva zion in any other. There is no other c name given undcr heaven among men whereby we may be saved." 0 anx- 1 ions sinner! O dying sinner! O lost siner! a onhnvOUt9Ao-ILave t. this divine Benjamin along with you, a Side by side, coming to the gate, all the v storehouses of heaven will swing open f: before your anxious soul. Am I riht ~ in calling Jesus Benjamin? Oh, y es! 0 Racnel lived only long enough to give a name to that child, and with a dying Y kiss she called him Benoni. Afterward Jacob changed his name, and he called him Benjamin. The meaning of the ~ name she gave was "Son of my Pain." r, The meaning of the name the father a gave was "Son of My Righ. IHand." u And was not Christ the Son of Pain? hj All the sorrows of Rachel in that hour," when she gave her child over into the s hands of strangers was nothIng comn- C pared with the struggle of God when he P gave up his only Son. The omnipotent C God in a birth throe! Andl was not C Christ ap~proprialely called "Sou of th~e Right Ihand?" Did not Stephen look into heaven and see him standing at the right hand of Gody And does n.et Paul speak of' hum as standing at the right hand of God making intercession for us? h O) Benjamin-Jesus! Son of pang! Son n of victory! The deep~est emctions of : our st uile ought to be stirred at the sound of that nomenclature. In your prayers ~ plead his tears, his sufferings, his sor-9 rows and his death. If you reiuse to h it all the corn cribs aunI the palaces~ of1 heaven will be bolted and barred against s our soul, and a voice from the throne C shall stun you with the aunouncemeut, "Y ou shall not see m3 iace except your brother be with you." TritE WouRD's Sv31PAT11Y IS WEAK. My text dso suggests the r'easonI why 'e so many people do not get any real comn fort. y ou meet ten people; nine of them are in needI of some k'nd ot condolence.i There is something iu their health, or is their state, or in their domestic condi- I Lin that dmema symoathy. And vet i smst (11 uw worid's symanth auuints to absoIutely no.hing. Felte C o to tie wrong crib or they Lo iu h S11 r(:J way. iWhen the plaguc was in 11 fl .ime a great many years a'o. there ver ehzhty men who chanted them elves to death with the litanies of Greg C irv the Great-literally chanted them !lves to death, and yet it did not stop o he plague. And all the music of this t" vorld cannot 1 halt the plague of the hu. ( n il heart. s I come to some one whose ailents y Lre chroule, and I say, "In heaven you t ,ill never be sick." That does not r :ive you much comfort. What you Y vant is a soothiug power for Your pres -nt distress. Iist children, have you? come to you and tell you that in ten T ears perhaps you will meet those loved >tes before tWe throne of God. But I here is but lttle condolence in that. )Je day is a year without them. ten r ears is a small eternity. What you vant is sympathy now-present leil. come to those of you who hav.e lost leur friends, and sa: "Try to forget ' iem. Do not ke-p the departed il- 4 vays in your mind." flow cau hu tfr- m :et them wileu every figure in the car- o >et ant every book and every picture el LUt every room calls out t eii. name. Suppose I come to you and sty ty T vay of condolence, -God is wise." "Oh," ou say, "that gives me no help." Sup- 1 >ose I come to 3 ou and say, "God, Irom al etenity, has arranged this trouble." 'Ah!" you say, "that does we no good." s L'heu I say. "With tne swilt feet of t >rayer go direct to the corn erib for a teavenly supply." You go. You say. Lord, help nie, Lord, comfort ine." ;ut no help yet. No comfort yet. It b s all dark. What is tue mat-er? I P ave found. You ought to go to God 1 d say: "Here, 0 Lord, are the h Vounds of my soul, and I bring with a e the wounded Jesus. Let his wounds r >ay for my wouads, his bereavements 3 or my bereavernents, his loneline*ss for h ny loneliness, his heartbreak for my iearthbreak. O God! for the sake of the M ord Jesus (nrist-the God, the man, o he Benjamin, the brother-deliver my tt gonized soul. 0 Jesus of the weary t oot, ease my fatigue. 0 Jesus of the ching head, heal my aching head. 0 t esus of the Bethany sisters, roll away er he stone from the door of the grave." i'hat is the kind of prayer that brings lo ep; and yet how many of you are get- SL ing no help at all, for the reason that & here is in your soul, perhaps, a secret CE rouble. You may never have men- a ioned it to a single human ear or you tl ay have mentioned it to some one c rho is now gone away. and that great orrow is still in your soul. After s Vashington Irving was dead they a und a little box that contained a raid of hair and a miniature and the cc ame of Matilda Hoff man, and a mem- a randuni of her death and a remark t omething like this: "The world after t hat was a blank to me. I went into I he country, but found no peace In sol- sL tude. I tried to go into society, but a found no peace in society There has at een a horror hanging over me by night, at ad by day, and I am afraid to be lone." FA.SE AND FOOLISH P'OMIsES. IIow many unuttered troubles: No u'nan ear has ever heard the sorrow. t. )h, troubled soul. 1 want to tell you P hat there is oae salve that can cure the re rounds of the heart, and that is the alve made out of the tears of a syin- in athetic Jesus. And yet some of you th all not take this solace; and you try blor-l, and you try morphine, and you s ry strong drink, and y ou try change of :ene, and you try new business asso iations, aiid anything and everything E ather tnan take the Divine companiou- th hip and sympathy suggested by the rords of my text when It says, "You hall not see my face again unless your t rother be with you.' Oh, that you cc iight understand something of the er eight and depth and length and readth and immensity and infinity of t kds eternal consolations.c I go further, and find in my subject CN hint as to the way heaven opens to T se departing spirit. We are told that tIm eaven has twelve gates, andsome peo- tt le infer from that fact that all the eople will go in without reference to a heir past life: but what is the use of avig a gate that is not sometimes tob e shut? The swinging of a gate im- bi lies that our entrance into heaven is g unditional. It is not a monetary con~ r ition. if we come to the door of an g squisite concert we are not surprised sat we must pay a fee, for we know 1at ine earthly- music is expensive; t all the oratorios of heaven cost jo othing. Iheaven pays nothing for its 1usic. It is all free. There is nothing ft be paid at that door for entrance; A t the~ condition of getting into heaven at Sour bringing our divine Benjamin tr long with us. Do you notice how ta f:en dying people cahi upon Jesus? It hi tle us at prayer offered-the prayer p: feredt more than alt the other prayers m ut together-"Lord Jesus receive my :irit." fr Oe of our congregationl, when asked H the closing moments of his life, "Do cc on know us?" said: "Oh, yes, I know sa o. Goct bless you. Good-by. Lord p1 eus, receive my spirit;" and he wvas it one. Oh, yes, in the closing moments N our lite we must have a Christ to bi al upon. If Jacob's sons had gone to- yc 'ard Egypt, and had gone with the cry finest equipage, and had not take-n 1] tijamin along with them, and to the ot uestion they should have been obliged in >auswer: "Sir. we didn't bring himu, y s father could not let him go; we didn't nt 'ant to be bothe redl with him," a voice Tom within would have said: "Go way from us. You shall not have any f this supply. You shall not see my 13 we because your brother is not with IB on." te 31ANS EXTRtEMiTY, GOD's TDE fr And if we comec up toward the door tr f heaven at last, though we come trorn ti, 1 luxtiriance and brilliancy of sur- ly undings, and knock for admittance to uid it is found that Christ is not with Iin s, the poliee of heaven will beat us th ack from the breadhouse, saying: sa Depart, I never kne w you." If Jacobs .r ans, cowing toward Egypt, had lost lif verything on the way; if they had ex- fo ended tueir last shekel; if they had fo ome up utterly exhausted to the corn- pa ribs of Egypt, and it had been fotund nat Benjamin was with them, all the :orehouses wotld have swung open efore them. er And so. though by fatal casualty we 0' a3 be ushered into the ternal world; he~ ho'ugfl we muay be weak and exhausted fr y protracted sickness-1f, in that last ol ioment, we can only just stagger and X3 dat and tall into the gate of heaven- se seems that all the cornectibs of heav- iin will open for our need and all the de alaCes will openu for our reception; and G. e Lord of that place, seated at his ta- Ic te, and the angels of God seatedl at their bi abe and the martyrs seated at their P a ble, and all our gloriltied kindred seat- at d at otur table, tue king shall pass a w otion from his table to ours, and then, tb ,hile we think of' the fact that it was esus who started us on the road, and esus wno kept us on the way, anad 13 esus who last gained admittance for F" tr soul, w e shall be glad if hie has seenu fr t the travail of his soul and been satts- c ed, and not be at all jealous if it be be oud that our divine l$hnjam in's mess jII f ive times larger than all the rest. 1; lail' anointed of the Lord, thou art 11 My frienis. \au ee :t is eai r CIrist r famioe. if there vere two bmquiets pread, and to one of themn ouly you ught go, you might and and think jr a good while as to which invitation ou had better accept: hut here it is easting or starvation. If it were a hoice between oratorios, you might say, I prefer the'Creation." or "I pre'ler the 4esziah."' But here it is a choice be ween harmony and everlasting discord li, will you live or die? WVill you tart for the Egyptian cornerib, or will ou perish amid the empty barts of the au:anitish famine ? "Ye shal not see iy face except your brother be with IF IT DON'T PAY, QUIT IT! here Is No Need to Raine Cotton at Seven cents. To the Editor of the News and Cou er: There is another phase of the ver-production of cotton that has not een touched upon, although it may ave been in the thoughts of many of our farmer readers. The cultivation f cotton in the South Atlantic States ; (loomed. Handicapped at the very utset by the necessity of purchasing >mmrcial manures we enter the race -ith the Gulf States at a disadvantage. here is a saying among farmers that oix cents cotton and one hundred dol rs a year negroes cannot grow in the ..ne field." Texas. with her four feet oif black >il, made about 25 per cent of the cot )a crop this past year, and I venture >say 'n ive years'time will double rpresent yield. Is it fair to call a alt on Texas or any other Gulf State ,ause we cannot keep up with the rocession? Labor in the Siuth At nmic States is getting scarcer and rher each year, our lands are wasting vay under cotton cultivation, which quires about thirteen months in the ar, and this despot which has so long Ild us in ileecy chains is now trans rring his seat of empire across tie ississippi. Let him go, and instead bemoaning our fate let us turn our oughts and efforts to other produc ns. Surely the men who stood amidst te ruins of 1865 and worked out deliv ance with none to help save God, need >t be dismayed at this present out ok. Is there a man east of the Mis ssigpi who can say truly that cotton his chief crop will pay him at six nts, or even seven cents. It will be gigantic and iron bound combination at could reduce the production of itton. We have no right to cramp e largest efforts of Texas and Arkan .s because our few bales are made at loss. We must go to grain and grass id cow peas and stock, and reduce our tton fields down into cotton patches, d small ones at that. Does it seem o mild to say that before the dawn of e next century the South Atlantic ates will not make enough cotton to ppiy the milis within their limits, id that financially they wili be far ead of their pre.-ent status, over and )ove the reguiar increase. CHEER-UP. Pendleton, August 25. Bright Outlook for Port RoyeI. BALTIORE, Aug. 27.-The Manu cturers' Record of this week says that obably the most important enterprise ported for many weeks is the an >uocement in today's issue that lead g English capitalists, represented in is country by the Jarvis-Conklin ortgage and Trust Company, of Kan s City, have purchased a controlling terest in Port Royal, S. C.. thus unit g in the development of that port iglish and Western influences and e Richmond Terminal Company, giv g assurance that the South is to have other great deep-water port. The ndency of the foreign trade of the untry 1s to seek outlets through South n ports, and this will prove of great .ue to the whole South, as it means e building up of a number of great mmercial cities along the coast from ewport News and Norfolk to Texas. ie American Association, Limited, e English company which founded e town of Middlesborough, Ky., and bich owns nearly 100,000 acres of coal ad, is preparing to develop a ne w line business for that part or the South -building up a heavy coal shipping siness from Port Royal, as the ...or-| k and Western and the Chesapeake d Obio railroads have done an, Nor lk and at Newport News. Dashed to the Earth. DETROIT, Mich., August 29.-A bal ion ascension, at the Exposition -ounds this afternoon, ended in a ihtful trawedy. George Hogan, of n A rbor, Mlich., aeronaut, made an eersion, performing while un the apeze. When one thousand feet from e earth he lost his grip on the trapeze tr. The crowd did not seem to cotn ehend the accident until the doomed an had almost reached the ground. The body shot through the air with ightful velocity heal donnward. ogan struck the earth on Rliver street, ming in contact with the sidewalk. great was the impact that two inch anks wvere broken and splintered. ood spurted 100 feet fr->m tne ccrpse. t a bone in the body escapedl the eakage arnd the head was mashe:1 be nd recognitionl. logan leaves a widow and1 one child. e victim of the tragedy was a brotherI Prof. Ihogan, who made an ascension Campbell's airship in Brook iyn, N. ,a couple of years ago. and who vr returned. Restitutioni by a lBandit. KaNsas CiTY, Aug. 26.-Traveling ssenger Agent Baxter, of the Chicago, irlingtou and Quincy Railroad, yes rday received in his miail 860. steien :m" him at the time a Burlington tin was held up and robbed by fron >r bandits fifteen years ago. A poor dressed man walked into the Burling ollce at St. .Joseph .sestorday and :juired for Mr. Baxter. Being told at Baxter's headqluarters were in K~an s City, the man explained that he was e ct the bandits whe robbed the train teen years ago, and handed the check r 860 in an envelope, asking that it be t warded to Baxter. le then. disap ared and has not been seen since. The sb'Ip WVent Down. MELOURNE, Aug. 28.-The steam SGambler and Easb'y collided at 1 lock this morning, inside Fort Philip ad. The Gambier was coming in i Sydney and the Easby was bound it. The Gambier's side was crushed and a panic ensued amiong the pas gers, most of whom had been asleep their berths and who now ruishetd on k. The Easby rescued many of thie u bier's passengers and crew, but b'e e she could reach themi all the Gam er sank, carrying down live saloon .ssengers, fift een steerage passengers d six of the crew. The Easby's boats re unable to find any survivors in e w ater.___ Three My a& Killed. SiuxNOVIELD, Mo., Aug.' 29.-Near rush Creek, on the St. Louis and San rancisco Road, this mornine, two eight trains going at full speel colid , killing three mien and demolishing th trains. Those killed wvere George aston, emrineer.of train No. 2'06, C. C. ridewel, engineer of trair. No. 183, arry M. .Johnson lireman of train No0. DESERTED IIIS WiFE. PROF. HENTZ PROVEN A M/-RRIED MAN AFTER ALL. His Wife Turns Up in Columiait--She A ppars Oer Her Own Ne.n--.-A Sad Tale of D"saert on--3ome Conclusve ;:vi dence. COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. 3.-Yr. W. W. Hentz, the young man fron: New berry County who only recently went out to Jacksboro, Texas, to acci pt the position of professor ot Latia and mathernatics in the North Texa-, Bap tist College, finds himself in an txceed ingly unenviable position. A few days ago-August 12-a regu lar marriage notice appeared, aniounc ing the marriage of Mr. Hentz to a Miss Eva Henderson of Hinds. That notice Prof. Hentz saw in his Texas hone, and yesterday The State published a card iromn him denouncing the Tiotice as a falsehood an I saying lie was accompa nied by no one away from Darliogton. This was thought io be the last. of it, but yesterday the following caie to The State oflice, and tells A TALE OF DESERTION. Here is the communication: To the Euitor of The State: In The State of this morning I see where my husband. W. W. Ilentz, forme-ly of Newberry, S. C., now of .iacksboro, Tex., denies taking a bride with him to his Texas college. Alas, how true! He left me. behind. Any one can bid the truth of my statement, which is that W. W. Hentz is a married man. having met me by appointment at the home of my mother in Fiorence County, also the home of my grandfather. G. I. Wayne, D. D., and there had the Rev. Henry 11ill, of the same place, to marry us on Wednesday night, August 12, 1891, afterwardsi residing with inc fr ni Wednesday until Saturday. I.uring. that time my mother and other rela tives made up nearly $100 for me, ,vhich my husband persuaded me to I :t him keep for me. I suspected nothitg and let him have it. Ie left me Saturday afternooa Au vust 15.1891, promising to return be fore night. Instead, he left n:e for good-deserted me without a penny, knowing I had no way of getting any more money to follow hii. I have known W. W. Hentz for the past year and a half and during all this ',me I have had to meet his demand. give hlin money to pay his bar bills, and even have bought most of his clothes. I have letters frou him to prove ail I say in this column. I also have letters from him to my mother to prove that he went to Florence with expectations of marrying me. God knows I wish he had not done so, and bad left me alone in a public house where I have beeri since he met me over a year ago, and have made the money that has clothed him and paid his bills during thi: time. I blush to acknowledge my sham-, but do so in order to explain fully to the public how the professor of the i;aptist College of Jacksboro, Texas, has taken advantage of me-a poor nisguided girl that was already thrown en the world. Why did he marry me to desert me? Simply to obtain the few hard earned dollars of my poor relatives. It was but little, it's true, out I see ao other reason, as the whole affair was planned by him 1-y his letters, that any one can see by aking the time to call on me and looking at them. It is easy for Mr. Hentz to deny, but it would be hard to prove hi. lying tatement. Ask the Rev. II. Hill if he did not marry me, Rosa Hinds, to W. W. Hentz on Aug. 12, 1891; als>, ask any one residing in the county o: Flor nce if I have not written trut'ifully. rusting God will deal more gently with him than he, my husband, has with :e, I remain as he has left me, "thrown n the world," but hIs wife. Mns. W. W. HENTiZ. (Alias Eva H~enderson ) THE WIFE FOUND. This would not have been pubhished b'it for the securing of the apparently udeniable evidence found below . The Sate representative at once set out in1 search of "Eva Henderson," and at a h0use on Gates street she was round. She is a girl of rather striking appear mnce anid does not look over t wenty years f age. She told her story as a bove, but ith more completeness. Attached to a chain around her neck as a gold medal bearing the name of 'W. W. Ilentz," and showing that it had een won at Newberry College. On her inger she wore a seal ring on the inside f which was the inscription "W. W. EI. Prof. H entz, it must De remiem 1ered, attended the South Carolmna Uni ersity and graduated from there with1 igh honors In the class of '90 It was vhile here that he met the girl, becamie nfatuated with her, as the story goes, tnd has been her constant attendant ver sine. While in the University lhe wa regarded by both faculty a'id stu ents as a model young man. THIOSE TELL-TALE LETTERS. The girl produced a pack of itters, nd when the c-hirography was put logsde of that in the card st-nt in by ?rof. Ilentz yesterday it was im possible o tell one from the other. There are ive of the letters, signed. variously. "W. . H-entlz, "W. WV. 11." andl "W. The .irst is dated Newberry, April 1:3. and is o Mrs. Hinds, lie tells her lie uas se mred a position to travel and arsks he~r > come and live with himiself an' R..-sa, md gives plans for th.eir future The ext letter is dated Columia, J aiy 17. nd is also to Mrs. IIinds. 1' rds as ollows: Dear Mrs. liin'.ds I wrote . ou sine :ime ago that Rosa and I would be down omie time in August. 1 (lid no)t heatr rome you, so write again to kno w tf . ou vould lik-e to) have us come. It may be he last chance you will ever have to see er for some time, f.or 1 have b,-en ~lected a professor in a big college in exas and a il leave in about live weks o take ch:.rge of my work. and would ike to cou.e down with her anid marry n your preence, so that you would be etter satisried. I know I can sipport ier. I will get $700 per year t ninet oths. They will pay me i87t at thie ud of each month. Write me at 'iuma ia, So. Ca., at once. w. w. i. The next is from P'omaria. J1 ly 21t ,d is to Rosa. telling her they wvilli ave on August 10th, and giving her in ~tructions as to how to proceed. It is cigned "your husband, W." On JIuly 7 from Pomaria he writes Rosa ag-aim, ondering why hie hadl receivedl no an wer. The last is a long one from l'omia ia, August 1st. It telis the girl -o takeC verything she has, and how t o proceed.t lie tells her he w to entice a you-g imani n Darlington so as to secure finds. These acts are given as they are, I vithi a sincere leeling of regret for theJ :nissguidedl yoting man's family is well I is himself, but they should be known .n justice to the woman "'thrown on the vorld.-Trhe State. front in b orth Dakota, . MINNEAPOLs, Aug. 27.-A Decial rromi Church's Ferry, N. D.,say s: Iheavy rrost last night did damage to gre-en od uun grain. The therm:;meter registered 28. lee was formled ot. he-ads t f wheat in many hields. F-armners triedli mudge fires, but some think tt-ey di dli not comnmence soon enouigh, se'nes or i hem waitinig till almost freezing pointlI NO .;ANGER OF A DUEL. Iatltia Penile RiHcule the Idea (of f Col. Polk Fighting. lAVEIOr, N. C.. Sept. 3.-During the last week dispatches have been seat out from this city by correspondents of a number of Northern dailies about a pro posed duel between Col. L. L. Polk, president of the National Farmers' Alli aace, and the editors of the News and Observer, on account of the scorching articles which are appearing in that pa Per from day to day attacking the per- 1 sonal and political history and ambi tions of Poik. There is not the reinot est probability of a duel, however, and tue reports were read with much amuse- 1 ment by those who know the alliance 1 president best and who have never re- i garded him as a "fighting character." The idea of his sending a challenge to any one caused many a smile among his acquaintances hereabouts. loo. T. R. Jernigan, one of the edi- I tors of the News and Observer. when asked about the matter today. express ed surprise at the reports sent out,, and that he did not anticipate a "challenge" from Col. Poik, and certainly was not losing any sleep thiaking over the pros- a pects of being shot. Mr. Jernigan is a I man of very quiet manners, but of in- I doubted courage, and if President Folk t is "spilin' for a light" he will undoubted 1 lv he accommodated if be makes appli cation to that geatleman. But it is not believed by those who are familiar with the Colonel's lighting qualities tnat it i %ill be found necesstry to keep him in timated to prevent his "spilin', and so tbere is no prospuct. (if a duel. : wIIAT TlE COLONEL SAYS. U W ASAINOTON, Sept. .-President Polk of the Farmers' Alliance returned 1 to Washington today, without having passed through the dangers ot a duel t with a North Carolina editor. Mr.Polk said to a Star reporter today: "I do not think any one is thinking of Lighting a duel. Tne whole story is the inventioiu of a very sensational reporter. I have received dispatches and letters from all over the country begging me to show my moral courage by refusing to light a duel. Some of the letters have come from Vermont. If any one wants to light a duel with ue I have not been in formed of i:. The thing is a lot of t onesense." Speaking of the Alliance, Mr. Polk r said that it was growing stronger all a the while, and the man who lost sight a f iL for three days was left away in the L rear. The Alliance is getting no set back. If any of the old parties come out and takes a itand squarley on the Alliance platform, he says, that party will get the Alliance, but. every mem ber of the Alliance will light any and s all parties opposed to them. This is their platform without reservation. RIOTING AND MURDER. t! llutcherhes Committed by Dictator Hal- d mnaceda'As MercenarIes. L VALPARAISO, Chili, Sept. 2.-The r comparative quiet and good order which prevail in Valparaiso is not universal in r Lhe smaller towns. It has been found f( necessary to get the assistance of foreign ar ships at Coronel. where riot and 1 disourbance are rampant. Yesterday a morning the German war ship Sophie and the British gunboat Daphne left here for that place. The new government is also making c hurried preparations for the restoration o order, and will put down rioting with i firm hand. The beginning of the rioting took place when news of the defeat of Balma eda reached Coronel. Two regiments o Balmaceda's troops had just reached that place from Coquimbo. -e These mercenaries, when they beard d of the rout of their party leaders, imme- y liately renounced their allegiance. I When their oilicers tried to restrain 'hem the mutineers shot tiem down. Thley then swarmed over the place in a riotous crowd, havinir been joined by a lot of coal miuers. They sacked houses and burned them. Any person who .e ried to protect his property or the hon 3r of his househ old was shot down with- ~ >t quarter. All the horrors of a town a ~aptured by storm were perpetrated. s Members of the JIunta arnved at San- a ~iago yesterday. d There is the strongest feeling against f. aliuister Egzan. Admiral Brown is be ieved to be acting under his instruction. c phe recall of Mimister Egzan will, it is ~ ,elered, be the first demand of the new ;overnment. from the United States. Very little quarter will be shown to t: m of Balmaceda's fl!lowers who may o e c-auzlht. It has been discovered [hat the late ~ liator, on one occasicu. ordered no t ess than forty-two young imeu, many of a hemn only boys, to be shot for complici- f y. in an alleged plot,. Business is once more ini swin:g in Val- p araison, and the city is recovering its 1 rdmary appearance. It is long since b u h a ieelinir 'o security existed. h No definiwe news has been obtained of s Baliaceda's wh-ereabouts. e He Kin.ed the Naus. NEW YonK, Aug. 3.--This morning .~ he youngest n'm in the convent atf Williamsburg, which is a branch of the uig D~omincan Convent of the IHoly " l'imty, Sister Angelica, awoke with a C starit.0 A rough hand was resting upon her, td she could just make out the form of L i man. ie was leaning over her and aressed her down oii the bed in antici- 'y ation or her attempt to escape. l'he a ;irl gave on)ie piereing scream, and then, ith the strength of terror, managed to reak from the fellow's clutch. The nun ran toward the Siste~r Supe- I -or's roomi. On her way the nian ove-r- I :ook her, and. thrustimg her against the v ,val, cove-red her face with kisses. un- a redog her cries or her struggles. I By this time the Si-der Sup-rior and S he rest of the nuns, clad only in their tU ight robesi, had runi out ot their rooms ti o warn the cause Of the outcry. Ii Whben the ruilian sa w t he Siste-rs about r din he released tue Iirst one, rushed at a a eond, insulted her and then seized the c; hird. The Sisters were in a state oif rat excitem ent and rumshied about be videre' . The Sister Supe'rior made her way to 3 he ground hloor, and from a room thre w it Sbox at O[:e oft the windows of the par- c< onage and awakened Father Zentiraf.l ['he riest, without waiting to I ully el Iress, grasped a revolver ami hastened 0 o the building whei-ethe Sisters lived. tr ust as he was appro ching, the nun's -x issaiant caime out and ran across the ti awn, scaled the fence and escaped. fhe priest lired at the man, but missed ur. The shiij' Went Down. 1LawIV x, N. S., Sept. 2.-TIhe ste:uar unmerry, of Blelfast, which ?;ailed rm New York, Augu'st 26, for Ant- s verp, with a cargo of grain, sank abot r ight hundred nodes east of New Yora e ui the morning of the 29hth. She had a .a ew ot twenty-eight men. comfmandedi A y Capt. 31ealorran. Eight of the crew Ip r lost. The others were tossed about o n a ie boat for two days and inally ticked up by the steamer flans and ju. urst, wvhich carried the men to this 11' tort - jw SNEEZING TO DEA FH. nia 4'Co,,nnor Prostrated by a stransge M:tlady. LANCASTER, Pa.. Sept. 3.-Ella FConuor. a sli-ht girl ot 11 years, his neezed herself nearly to death. For Ve day- she sneezed almost centinuous- I y. From the time the malady began ntil it left her completely prostrated he child -ot sleet only when it was in uced by artificial means. She took but St: Itte nourishment, and so exhausted was We 'lia that even her recovery is not as- ag ured. ce The attending physician was utterly bo ailled and his medicines availed but thl ttle. The strange case has excited the 1n1 aterest of other doctors, who have come ca r inpuire about it. She bezau sneezmng last SundaY night iff' t 8 o'clock. .She was not sufibring from ny cold. The sneezing continued with- c ut a miaute's cessation the whole night ga ;ith the exception of a short two hours, t mhen, exhausted. the girl fell into a tal Cavy sleep. bi E.trly on Monday morning the girl B, gain began sneezng,. and kept it up all 01 ay with a two hours interval of sleep. ro. rom noon of that day until 11 o'clock of at night Ella sneezed without a mo- ne 2ent's pause. A hypodermic injection pr imorphia was then administered, which I rut her to sleep until Tuesday morning, qu .t 6 o'clock. She then awakened very Se ick. For two hours she w.&s extremely rel 1. Then the sneezig begvan once more, pr rid it continued the greater part ot tie bi ay. re. I She would occasionally have a rest for tee few moments. She complained o a tat ain in her back and head. At times thl le sneezirg was more severe thau at a thers. During the severe spells shie as] ould scarcely catch her breath. Many pr imes the anxious mother thou. ht her th aubhter was strangling to death. The sneezing reached its climax on se] aesday eveninu. The doctor who at- W nded the child was helpless before We uch an enemy. It was plain to all that by reliet did not soon come death would. an A heavy injection of morphine was lc last resort. This put her to sleep, n nd she slept soundly until Wednesday In torning. When she got awake she ha gain began sneezing, but it was a mild ttack, and from that time she gradually D. ot better. The spells grew more infre- an uent and of shorter duration. On Fri- ro: ay they ceased altogether. lu This is the third attack the girl has ad, and, for the time it lasted, was the ml verest. Two years ago she was aflicted to i this way, but then :he sneezing con nued for ten days. When it ceased th ie _irl was reduced to a mere skeleton. It A year ago she was attacked a second w8 me. Then the malady lasted three er" ays. Dr. J. W. Hess was her physician. . [c says that there is nothing known in t1 iedical practice to reach such cases. OP The girl has been subject to hemor- ch anges of the nose. but she has had none tia >r four weeks. The doctor hoped in " ie early part of her illness for such a cl emorriage, believing that with it the thi ou; acezing would cease. .. th( Had to Decline. thi Governor Tillman a few days ago re eived the following letter. tlo AUGUSTA, GA., Aug. 24. of rov. B. R1. Tillman: th<( DEAR SIR: Tuesday, November 24, in ill be South Carolina day at the Ex- sai osition. It is my pleasure to extend to ou and your staff an invitation to be of resent as the guests of the Exposition. on 'be board of directors unite with me in ha sking you to favor us with a short ad ress. Your acceptance and compliance thiz ith this invitation will greatly ob- las ge. Yours respectfully, af:a PATRrCx WALsu, President. lin The Governor yesterday replied as cot llows, declining the invitation: dis COLU~mIA, S. C., Aug. 26, 1891. lea [on. Patrick Walsh, Augusta, Ga. an< DEARt Siin: Your valued favor of the t 4tih inst., inviting me and my staff to -in ttend the Aug-ista Exposition on outh Carolina Day, on November 24th, Ge nd deliver an address, to hand. I as- tioa Lre you it would give me pleasure, but lat ur general assembly meets on that a I ay and my oilicial duties prevent me fol ram leaving the city. With assurances of great appreciation poi f your kind invitation, I am, yours car ery truly, B. RI. TILL3MAN- or Great Britain storm-swept. rai LoNuoN, Aug. 2.-All night long a slo -emendous hurricane prevailed through- en1 at reat Britain. Everywhere the tele- fre raph wires are prostrated, and it is im- ind ossible to o'btain anything mare than J i mast meagre information as to the ser mount of destruction caused by the the ~arful wind and sweeping rain, In and is I bout London, and the few outside bei laces that have been heard from, trees vis are been dragged out of the ground so y their iaots and the roafs of houses ere ave been ripped up and hurled into the res rees, lanes and by-ways. At New stle the tents of the liower show were - lown away like straws andl the beauti- bar di e:xhibit which they had enclosed was Sr. lost entirely destroyed. A dispatch ' aom Southport. ma Lancaster County, an athe Irish Sea, reports that the Norw- rai ~inn barque Getion has been wrecked the that place. The cre w were, however, bor ved. Numerous thter minoar casual- au3 s are reported. It Is feared that with so ie restoration of the telegraph service eve ill came the news of serious disasters wai I along the coast, ard pre A Rteward of $10,000.th CH AR LOTTE, N. C., Sept. 2.-Capt. W- car .Green. Col. A. B. Andrews, and Sal cid [aas of the Richmond and Danville,ta -ith the State railroad commissioners d experts from the P'ennsylvania and be altimore and Ohio railroads, went to e :tesville to-day to make an examnina. tar on of the bridge and the cause of the of* rribe disaster at Third Creek. The to ) ,ichmond and D~anville hias altered a of ward of 810,000 for the arrest of the the iscreants who removed the rail that abl tused the wreck.A chiarleston's commlere. CARLESTON, S. C., Sept. 1.-The ll ews and Courier will publish to-mar y its annual review of the trade and Gl >nmerce of Charl-ston. The total Pr( isiness of the city for the year just sonl sed sho wea net increase of 817,935,001 mi :er the trade 0f 1689401). The total to ade for the year 1590-91 was $98,- pos 4,001, as conipared with $S80619,717 tert .e previous ye-ar. Charleston has re- Co, oved every trace of the earth quake of a re years ago, anid shows a gaml of rau hlp166i~t in its trade and commierce dec nce that time. me Mcane and 31cAiIter Frgt. zer .Ja.\KsONVILLE.FILA., Auguist 2".- A 2:3r .cial to, the Times-l'nion? fromn Du- wml nit, 31iss., states that in a p)ersonal en inter between L-etiirer MIeAllister d Editor 31cCune. representing two I! Iliiace fa.ctio)ns, 31cAllister severely fan inished .leCune. The trouble grew :Sal. t of alliance maitters. MlcCunie as- age rted that 31eAlister had sold the Al- dro ee to W all Street and that he lPad bey d about another matter in connection to r TARIFF FOR COTrON. PORTANT ACTION OF THE RAIL ROAD COMMISSION. ort and Long Haul on the South Caro na and C., N. & L. Roads -A Fertilizer arifr Conference Cafled. OLUMBIA. S. C., Sept. 3.-The Lte Board of Railroad Commissioners s in session all (lay yesterday and un last night and the meeting was talnly the most important that the ird has held in some months. Among results of the meeting was the fir of a standard tariff on cotton and a 1 for a conference with the phosphate' .nufacturers in regard to fertilizer tar for next season. rhe board met at their office in this y, yesterday morning and at once be :x a hard day's work. The first mat considered was that of the freight il of the South Carolina and Comm , Newberry and Laurens railroad. invitation President W. G. Childs, the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens Ld. and General Manager C. M. Ward, the South Carolina, and their attor y, Joseph W. Barnwell, Esq., were isent, as was also Attorney General pe, in behalf of the commission. The estion was as to the requirements of 'ion 1443 of the General Statutes in erence to the leasing of railroads and viding that when two roads corn ed the shorter and longer hauls were ,ulated by law. That is, to say, the ,sing road had authority to make the 'if uniform. Throuah Mr. Barnwell railroad men admitted that this was orrect interpetration of the law, but ced the commission to so construe the >Viso of the act or 1887 as to place matter in their discretion conjoiqtly .h the railroads concerned to make )arate tariffs for the roads. In other rds, the South Carolina officials nted to retain the tariff already fixed them on the Columbia, Newberry i Laarens Road. rhe Attorney General orally an mnced his opnion, which is embodied Lhe following opinion he subsequently aded to the commission. rhe opinion is addressed to "Messrs. 7. .0vncan, chairman; E. P. Jervey I H. R. Thomas. composing te rail Ld commission of South Carolina, Co abia, S. C.", and reada as follows: JENT.E3MEN: I herewith give you opinion on two questions submitted your commission: L. What is the effect of the lease of Columbia, Newberry and Laurens ilroad by. the South Carolina Rail y, in view of Section 1443 or the Gen .1 Statutes, so far as the regulation of iaht on leased roads is concerned? Lnquestionably the section in ques a requires that a leased road shall be .rated and controlled so that it shall trge or receive no grea.ter compensa a for carrying, receiving, storing, for rding or handling articles of the same tracter or description for a shorter n a longer distance for one continu-' carriage; and such construction of section in question is admitted by railroad authorities here concerned. !. Does the proviso appended to dec a 1443 of the General Statutes by act 1887, amendatory thereof, authorize railroad commission of this State, their discretion, conjointly wit; the d corporations, to fix different rates loll in compensation for freight traffic each of said hitherto independent s or divisions? :n my answer to this question I state t this section of the general railroad of the State deals with the subject -ates freight traffic on one contmnuous 3, so as to prevent a greater charge or upensation for a shorter than a longer tance, and directs that a coatract by se or otherwise by one railroad of >ther, shall so operate as to make the > or more railroads one continuous 3; and the Scetion as found in the aeral Statues remained without altera 2 from~ 1882 to 1887. But during the :er year the general assembly added >roviso to that scetion that reads as ows: T1rovided2, further, That it one cor ation shall use, operate or otherwise tra.l, ,vholly or in part, several lines divisions of hitherto independent 'roads, within the State, the commis a may, in their discretion, fix differ rates of toll or compensation for rlht trafice on each of the said hitherto eiendent lines or divisions." 3y this amendment the general as ibly of this State have so changed powers of your commission that it >erfectly legitimate for you to so act, ring in mind, however, that the pro >does not direct your commission to act, but simply vests you with dis tionary powers in the premises. Very pectfully. Y. J. POPE, Attorney General. so final action was taken by the rd. LNDARD COTTON TARIFF ADOPTED. The matter of fixing a standard tariff cotton which shall govern all the roads in the State was discussed all afternoon, and in the evening the .rd adjourned without having reached 'conclusion on the matter, being of aiuch importance. Last night, how r, another meeting was held, andl it idecided so lix a standard rate in er to adjust the cotton crop for the sent season. At the conclusion of meeting last night Chairman Dun 01o the board, said: "We have de ~d that we will adopt a standard ti far all roads doing business in the te, but I cannot yet say what it will Hleretof ore there has been a separate :J for each road, and the adoption his means the equalizing of the rates 1l points in the State-the putting ill on an equal basis. It will reduce tariff on some roads very consider :ERTILIZER TARIIFF CONFERENCE. Juring the morning the matter of >sphate or fer-ilizer and cotton tariffs Staken up. A committee from the be Phosphate Company consisting of sident Hu'iet, Superintendent Robert and Dr. Bates waited on the com sion and presernted certain-claims as the tariff on fertilizers. It is pro ed to put in a uniform tariff on all ilizers on all railroads. The Globe npany wants all discrimination inst Coluinbia stopped and a just to accomplish this end. The Board decd last night at a subsequent stinu to call a conference of all fertili manufacturers in the State on the I inst., in this city when the matter f inally be decided.-State. In Each Other's Arma. norIN(orIr, Ala., Aug. 27.-At a sily picnic at Blossburg today Misses ie and Claudia Marson, of this-city, 1 1- and 15 respectively, were ined while bathing. The older got >nd her depth and the younger went er relief. Neither could swim and dramowl in each other's arms.