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'S lrr p VOL. VII. _MANNING, S. . WEDNESDAY, NOV BR 23, 1891. NO. 49. VOL.VII __ ___ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ THE TABERNACLE PULPIT DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ABOUT THE TEMPLE OF DIANA. Continuation of the Brooklyn Divine's Series ofiDiscouraes on His Travels in the East.-Bis Visit to the City of Ephe sus Described in Detail. BnooKLYN, Nov. 15.-Dr. Talmage continued this morning his series of ser mons entitled, "From the Pyramids to the Acropolis." His text was Acts x1x, 34, "Great is Diana of the Ephe sians." We have landed this morning at Smyrna, a city of Asiatic Turkey. One of the seven churches of Asia once stood here. You read in Revelation. -To the church in Smyrna write." It is a city that has often been shaken by earth quag~e, svrp-armtfsbo;4W-v-1 by plagues and butchered by war, and here Bishop Polycarp'stood in a crowded amphitheater and when he was asked to give up the advocacy of the Christian re ligion and save himself from martyrdom, the proconsul saying, "Swear and I re lease thee; reproach Christ," replied. "Eighty and six years have I served him, and he never d&d me wronf; how then can I revile my King and Saviour?" When he was brought to the fires into which he was about to be thrust, and were about to fasten him to e stake, he said: "Let me remain as I a., for he who giveth me strength To sustain the fire will enable me also with out your securing me with nails to re main unmoved in the fire." History says the fires refused to consume him, and under the winds the fdames bent outward so that they did not touch his person, and therefore he was slain by swords and spears. One cypress bend ing o;er his grave is the only monument to Bishop Polycarp. But we are on the way to the city of Ephesus, about.fifty miles fromSmyrna. We are advised not t6 Io to Ephesus. The bandits in that region have had an ugly practice of cutting off the ears of travelers and sending these specimens of ears down to Smyrna, demanding a ransom. The bandits suggest to the friends of the persons from whom the ears have been subtracted that if they would like to have the rest of the body they will please send an appropriate sum of money. If the money is not sent the mutilated prisoners will be as sassinad. There have been cases where ten and twenty and forty thousand dollars have been demanded by these brigands. We did not feel like putting our friends to such expense, and it was suggested that we had better omit Ephesus. But that would have been a disappointment from which we would never recover. We must see Ephesus-associated with the most wonderful apostolic scenes. We hire a specialrailway train, and in about an hour and a half we arrive at the city of Ephesus, which was called "The Saw a-. ,j~ e Epress of Ionia," the capital of all learning and magniflcence. Here, as I said, was one of the seven cnurches of Asia, and first of all we visit the rains of that church where once - an ecumenical council of two thousand ministers of religion was hed. Mark the fulfillment of the prophesy. Of the seven churches oftAsis four were commended in the Book of Revelation and three were doomed. The cities having the four commended churches still stand; the cities having the three doomed churches are wiped out. It oc curred just as the Bible said it would occur. Drive on and you come to the threater, which was 660 feet from wall to wall, capable of holding 56,700 specta tors. Here and there there walls arise almost unbroken, but for the most part the building is down. Just enough of it is left to help the imagination build it up as it was when those audiences shouted and clapped at some great spectacular. Their huzzas must have been enough to stan the heavens. Standing there we could not forget that in that building once assembled a riotous throng for Paul's condemnation, because what he preached collided with the idolatry of their national goddess. Paul tried to get into that theater and address the excited multitude, but his friends held him back, lest he be torn in pieces by the mob, and the recorder of the city had to read the riot act among the people who had shrieked for two mortal hours till their throats were sore and they were black in the face, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians." Now we step -into the Stadlium. Enough of its walls and appointments are left to show what a stupendous place it must have been when used for foot races and for fights with wild beasts. It was a building 680 feet long by 200 feet wide. Paul refers to what transpired there in the way of spectacle when he says, "We have been made a spectacle." "Yes," Paul says, "LI have fought with beasts at Ephesus," an expression usu ally taken as figurative, but I suppose it was literally true, for one of the amuse ments in that Stadmwas to put adis liked man in the arena with a hungry lion or tiger or panther, and let the dght go en until either the man oi- the beast or both were slain. It must have been great fun for these haters of Christianity to hear that on the morrow in the Stadium In Ephesus the missionary Paul wouli, in the pres ence of the crowded galleries, fight a hungry lion. The people were early there to get the best seats, and a more alert and enthusiastic crowd never assembled. They took their dinners with them. And was there ever a more unequal combat proposed? Paul, ac cording to tradition, small, crooked backed and weak eyed, but the grandest man in sixty centuries, is led to the cen ter as the people shout: "There he comes, the preacher who has nearly ruined our religion. The lion will make but a briet mouthful of him." It is plaini that~all the sympathiesI of! that crowd are with the lion. In one of the anderground rooms I hoar the growl of the wild beasts. They have been kept for several days without food or water in order that they may be es pecially ravenous and bloodthirsty. What chance is there for Paul? But1 you cannot tell by a man's size or looks how haed a blow he can strike or how keen a blade he can thrust. Witness, heaven and earth and hell, this struggle of Paul with a wild beast. The coolest man inthe Stadium is Paul. What has he to fear? He has defied all the powers, earthly and internal, and if his body tumble under the foot and tooth of the wild beast, his soul will only the sooner find disenthrallment. But it is his duty, as far as possible, to preserve his life. Now, I hear the bolt of the wild beast's door shoved back, and the whole audienc rie tn their feet s the fierce brute springs for the arena and toward Or its small occupant. I think the first mon1 plunge that was made by the wild beast ship. at the apostle was made en the ipoint of and a sharp blade, and the snarling monster, -aud with a howl o" pain and reeking with and gore. turns back. But now the little trian missionary has his turn of mazing at- Here tack, and with a few well directed thrusts troth the monster hes (lead in the dust of the tiens arena, and the apob'le puts his right foot expe on the lion and shakes him, and then vast puts his left foot on him and shakes him port -a scene wh!ch Paul afterward uses for Virg an illustration when he wants to show wil how Christ will triumph over death- Al "HIe must reign till he hath put all eue- turie mies under his feet"-yes, under his of th feet. of tt Paul told the literal truth when he it in said, "I have fought with beasts at ing Ephe-us," and as the plural is used I any think he had more than one sach fght, gold or several beasts were let loose upon no d him at one time. As we stood that day p in the middle of the Stadium and looked i nronA f ~ goAA4 r, Sewhole man scene came back upon us. suffe In the midst of this city of. Ephesus Paul once floate I an artiticial lake, brilliant not with painted boats, and through the imp' river Cayster it was conne,,ted with the Tei sea, and ships from all parts of the In known earth floated in and out, carrying A on a commerce which made Ephesus the Aqu envy of the world. Great was Ephesus! edo Its gymnasia, its hippodrome, its odeon, taug its athenrcum, its forum, its aqueducts eloqi (whose skeletons are still strewn along ed, a the city), its towers, its Castle of Ha- ty he drian, its monument of Androclus, its war quarries, which were the granite cradle whiie of cities; its temples, built to Apollo, to coei Minerva, to Neptune, to Mercury, to coult Bacchus, to Hercules, to Ciesar, to For- any I tune, to Jupiter Olympus. What his- less tory and poetry and chisel and canvas Da. have not presented has come up at the te call of archtologists' powder blast and fami crowbar. the 2 But I have not to unveil the chief wor wonder of this chieffst of cities. Ir Jesu 1863, under the patronage of the Eng. a de lish government, Mr. Wood. the ex- then te plorer, began at Ethesus to feel along thes quer under the ground at great depths f)r Ep'l roads, for wells. for towers, and here it agaii is-that for which Ephesus was more bofl celebrated than all else besides-the the s temple of the goddess Diana, called the blam sixth wonder of the world, and in 1889 wort we stood amid the ruins of that temple, burn measuring its pillars, transfixed by its Bt sculpture and confounded at what was desci the greatest temple of idolatry in all sons time. over As I sat on a piece ot one of its fallen in g columns I said, "What earthquake scor rocked it down, or what hurricane rept, pushed it to the earth, or under what whil strong wine of centuries did the giant in ai stagger and fall?" There have been whic seven temples of Diana, the ruins of their each contributing somethiag for the BU splendor of all its architectural succes- yet I sors. Two hundred and twenty years that was this last temple in construction. whal Twice as long as the United States have who stood was that temple in building. It hint was nearly twice as Large as St. Paul's u , a a . m Oh disturbed by earthquakes, which have coul always been fond of making those re- oneI cgions their playground, the temple was her a built on a marsh, which was made firm ity, I by layers of charcoal, covered by fleeces trou of wool. The stone came from the neve quarry near by in th In removing the great stones from en a 'the quarry to their destined places i mas the temple, it was necessary, in order God to keep the wheels, which were twelve and1 feet in diameter, from sinking deep into he is the earth under the unparalleled heft, So that a frame of timbers be arranged wonl over which the wheels rolled. To put To it the immense block of marble in its place debt' over the doorway of one of these tern- and'1 plea was so vast and difficult an under- migi taking that the architect at one time shelt gave it up, and in his chagrin intended cohi suicide, but one night in his sleep he ltu1 dreamed that the stone had settled to the right place, and the next day he inJ found that the great block of marbe had, ou by its own weight, settled to the right but place. Ipardi The temple of Diana was four hua- jWha dred and twenty-five feet long by two shipf hundred and twenty feet wide. All Asia was taxed to pay for it. It had one hundred and twenty-seven pillars' Th each sixty feet high, and each the girt of treas a king, and inscribed with the name of keepi the donor. Now you see the meaning tra of that passage in Revelation, just as a gold king presenting one of these pillars to coroi the Temple of Diana had his own name them chseled on it and the name of his own Ephe country, so says Christ, "Him that treas overcometh will I make a pillar in the troye temple of my God, and I will write upon scat him the name of my Ged and the name Dian of the city of my God, which is New te Jerusalem, and I will write upon hun andr my new name." How suggestive and putd beautiful! Afte: In addition to those pillars that I andi climbed over while amiid the rumns of into Diana's temple, I saw afterward eight fered of those pillars at Constantinople, to us ou wich city they had been removed, and Bu are now a part of the Mesque of St. whal Sophia. Those eight columns are all 11ie bi green j aspen, but some of those which Lux stood In Diana's temple at Ephesus bae were fairly drenched with brilliant col- bath ors. Costly metals stood up in various the arts of the temple, where they could only catch the fullest flush of the sun. A valid flight of stairs was carved out of one bath g'rapevine. Doors of cypress wood which thors ad been kept in glue for years and bor- Busi: dered with bronze in bas relief, swung taket aainst pillars of brass and resounded the k with echo upon echo, caught up and ed fo sent on and hurled back through the con-onC ridors' I bla In that building stood an image of at all Diana. the goddess. This image was Gy carved out of ebony and punctured here vigor and there with openings kept full of God. spikenard so as to hinder the statue Yes. from decaying and make it aromatic, but cony this ebony was covered with bronze and vice1 alabaster. A necklace of acorns coiled the gracefully around her. There were four court lions.on each arm, typical of strengtb. Justit Her head was coroneted. Around this Jour igure stood statues which by wonderful prmn i~vention shed tears. The air by strange pmne machinery was (lamp with descendini byild perfumes. The walls multiplied theely scene by concaved mirrors. Fountains dwell tossed in sheaves of light and fell in there showers of diamonds. . jugal The temple was surrounded with ity rt groves, in which roamed ior the temp- fori tation of hunters, stags and hares and RIoma wild boars, and all styles of same, sics, whether winged or four footed. There jphis: was a cave with statue so intensely EphE brilant that it extinguished the eye of the those who looked upon it, unless, at the ciie command of the priest, the hand of the thei spectator somewi-at shaded the eyes- upon No wonder that even Anthomy and is ce: Alexander and Darius cried out in the must words of my iext, "Great is Diana off godd the Ephesions. ''in th C whole month of ea~h year, L:e of May, was devutcd to hIr wor Processions in garbs of purple iolet and scarlet moved thro1uah4 it, there were torches and anthems. choirs in white, and timbrels acu Lles in music, sacridees and danes. young men and maidens were be el with imposing ceremony. Na voted large amounts to meet the use of the worship. Fisheries of iesource were devoted to the sup of this resplendence. Horace and I and Homer went into rhapsodies describing this worship. I artists, all archwologist, ali ceu s, agreed in saying, -Great is Diana e Ephesians." Paul, in the presence is .emple of Diana, Incorporates his figures of speech ahlie speak of the spiritual temple, "New if nan build upon this foundation. silver, precious stones, etc," and >ubt with reference to one of the lous temples which had been set tre by Herostratus just for the of destroyingit, Paui says, "1f any 's work shall te burned, he shall r loss. etc.," and all up and do wn s writings you realize that he had ly seen, but had been mightiy essed with what he had seen of the ple of Diana. this city the mother of Jesus ras to have been buried. Here dwelt lla and Priscilla of Bible mcntIon, were professors in an exteinporiz heological seminary, and they ht the elcquent Apollos how to be ient for Crnrlst. Here John predch nd from here because of h.s fideli was exiled to Patmos. Here Paul ed against the magical arts for h Ephesus was famous. The ser s of this city pretenced that they I cure diseases, and perform almost iracle, by pronouncing these sense ,vords, "Aski Cataski Lix CetrAx nameneus Aislon." ,ul iaving performed a miracle in tame of Jesus, there was a lyi~ng ly of seven brothers who imitated postle, and instead of their usual is of incantation used ths word s over a man who was posessed or il, and the man possessed 113w at In great ierceness and nearly tore frauds to pieces, and in conse ce all up and down the streets of us there was Indignation excited ist the magical arts, and a great re of magical books was kindled in treets, and the people stirred the until thirty-five thousand dollars' h of black art literature had been ed to ashes. Lt, all the glory of Ephesus I have :lbed has gone now. At some sea of the year awful malaries sweep the place and put upon mattress or aves a large portion of the popu n. In the approximate marshes >ons, centipedes and all forms of lian life crawl and hiss and sting, hyenas and jackals at night slink id out of the ruins of buildings ,h once startled the nations with almost supernatural granduer. .t here is a lesson which has never een drawn out. Do you not see in temple of Diana an expression of the worid needs. It wants a God can provide food. Diana was a ress. In pictures on many of the she held a stag with one hand -undleaof . arros inth- thor. this is a hungry world' Diana I not give one pound of ment or nofthful of food to the millions of worshipers. She was a dead divin 4n imaginary god, and so In idola lands the vast majority of people r have -enough to eat. It Is only e countries where the God of heav id earth is worshiped that the vast rity have enough to eat. Let Diana her arrows and her hounds. Our has the sunshine and the showers ;he harvests, and in proportion as worshiped does plenty reign. also In the Temple of Diana the expressed Its need of a refuge. from all parts of the land came >rs who could not pay their debtsI he offenders of the law that they tt escape incarceration. But she1 ered them enly a little while, and1 she kept them from arrest she not change their hearts and the y remained guilty. But, our God sus Christ is a refuge into which ~aa fly from all our sins and all ursuers, and not be safe for time, afc for eternity, and the guilt is. med and the nature is transfor med. t Diana could not do for her wor rs, our Christ accomplishes for us. Rock of ages cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee. en, in that temple were deposited ures from all the earthi for safe ng. Chrysostoni says it was the are house of nations; they broughut and silver and precious stones and ets from aeross the sea, anid p)ut under the care of Diana of the Isians. But again and again where ures ransacked, captured or des d. Nero robbed them, the Scythians red them, the Goths burrned them. a failed those who trusted her with ure, but our God, to him we may st all our treasures for this world th next, and fail any one who cnfidened in him he n'ever will. cthe last jasper column has fallen, he last temple oa earth has gone ruins, and the world itself has suf demolition, the Lord will keep for r best treasures. t notice what killed Ephesus and has killed most of the cities that 1 tried n the cemetery of nations. 1 trv! The costly baths, which hatd t tihe means of health to the city b'! its ruin. Instead of the coid that had been the invigoration of eople, the hot baths, which aree intended for the inlirm or the in-1 were substituted. In these hot many lay most of the time. Au wrote books while in these baths. 1ess was neglected and a hot bath four or five times a day. When eeper of the baths was reprimand r not having them warm enough I *f the rulers said, "You Diame him r at making the bath warm enough;e ne you because you have it waurm 1 mnasiums ? Yes, but see that th e -1 gained in them be consecrated toe Magnlcent temples of worsh ip? i but see that in them insteimi of I ntionalities and cold pomp of ser here be warmth of devotlion and >ure Gospel preached. Imposimg houses? Yes, but In them lett :e and mercy rule. P'alaces of I alism? Yes, but let all of the ing prsses be marshaled for hap s and truth. Great postolbce ings ? Yes, but through them day ay, my correspondence helpful,( tingr and moral patss. Oruste ing huses? Yes, but in them let be altars of devotio1, and con- 1 ,itial, paternal and Christian !idel l. London for magnitude. Berlin .iniersites, Paris for fashions,1 3 for cathedrals, Athens for clas-i Thebes for hieroglyphics, Mem-i for tombs, Babylon for gardens, su for idolatry, but whatshall oe ~haracerlstcs of our American1 when they shall have attained I full stature? Would that "hohi-t to the Lord" might be inscribed1 all our municipalities. One thing1 -tain, and that is that all Idolatryi com down. WVhen the greatest ass of the earth, D~iana, enshrined a gratet temple that ever stood, prophecy ofi the overthrow of all m. lat e4 that hav.- cursi'l Th . 'in ido!, d ilther- is a n 1.eh idolatry in th'- Nitenth centu : n F;rsr,, and in Anria as i Asi As our train pidh-d .:t - U . tion at 'phesus, tie cr sr --nded by the worst looking gr i ij s I ever gaz-d on, :-.1o themh -n i wrangle withl each other* an-i1y~ Lo get into a wra xt wi! us . w :queducts. ea cluum crowned rt storks, having built thir ness there, ind we roilei ou doi'vn toward S'Iyra', snd that night in a saior's bth-l as w noke of the Chri%.t .hom ih world niust know or peris, we felt that be. tween crad!le aid grtve there could not be anything much morc enthr n mth g for body, mind and so:i! than our visit to Ephesus. A Fincky 31emer. CmcAGo, Nov. 12.-l'ports of a train robbery near the West-rin Union junction have been received. General anager Earling of th Chicago, 1121 aukee and St. Paul Railroad states that the safes have been recoverod and ,hat the robbers did not get any booty. The report says six mn bo-.rded train No 3 at Western U inn tionR, :i, two mi-Xs Xorth cd Chical i p. m., -nd it !s supposcd the ro - ..ched Lhe junction trA't'- theNrh ltoad. They bed up the en :i. nd irewan and when tie tnunm rAc-Nd Frank:,vile, a sundni :ati of IZ or 300 inhabitauts, about tirle mi-s be road the junction, they caused the i :neer to stop it at the p-*It of a re volver. They denumded ofhe -ap-rss Me-ssenger that he open the car uioor to which ne rf used to do. Th cowK uctor -ame up ny ibis time ;n he ;-ns taken prisoner. The robbers then broke in the window of the car :nd thrr-w in ome kind of explosive weich forced out the end of the car. They then went inside and covered the express messen ger with a revolver and tried to make im uoVn ihe safes. This he positive ly retused to do, and the safes were tirown out of the car. In the meantine. the rear bralieman, uders'.anding the situation, rushed bck to the junction and got rllp and in engine. The engine and posse at nce went to the scene and the robbers ted. The traln went on to Milwaukee, and the fast mail train, which leaves Uicago at 3 o'clock p. in.. picked up the safes and carried them to Miiwau kee. The police of 1ilwaukee and the secret service of the system, together ith the sheriff of Riotne County, were sent in pursuit of the robbers. Their tight was so hasty that they did not Lake the precautions they had evidently intended to take, so that the officials believe they will get them before noon oday. Mason Cotto= Hlarvest-ar. ArUSTA, Nov. 12.-The Miaso~n cot bon harvester, which has been anxious y looked for here for several days, ar rived today and was exhibited in oper tion in a ield of cotton in the Exposi Lion grounds this afterncon, in the pres snca of.a very large crowd of int erest .cd spectators. The iniachine gatered it the rate of 300 pounds an hour. or 3,000 pounds for an ordinary working Jay. The bushes have been killed by frost and the cotton has been open in 'he bolls about t wo months. but des pite these drawbacks the cotton which was picked was ginned without being passed through a cleaner, and produced i good clean sample. Mr. Patrick1 Walsh, the president of the Exposition md the editor of the Augusta (Onronicle was present during the tial of the nia :bine and said: "I consider it a most vonderful machine. It picks the cot :on under most adversc circumstances without injuring the plants and unrip~e >olls and it gathers enough to mnrke it m implement of great value." The nachine will be exhibited again toruor - ow and will probably remain here un i the Exposition closes. Bad for the G. 0. P. niOsses. WASmnNGToN,Nov. 16.--The Supree Jourt of the District of Columbia to Iav' overruled the demurrer of Charles 1.'Newton, Preslient of the Old Domnin on Republican League, charged with ioation of the~ Civil Service Act for idding the solicit ation or receiving po-I itial conitributions in government >uildngs. .Newton sent a circular ask ng persons to become members of the eague, paying Si initiation fee and 25 :ents a month andl further contribmi ions if they couldi afford to airl in the :aipagn. 'Tho demurrer comend"'ed hit the law had not beenu vi. teu and f so was uncon.mT tationu Th court aid that Congress in the reC'sOTmli - rcse of its powers p:'ohiba 'd plie octtjoUs or conltaiuion i. puic >uildings and this was nor a nfr-g neut ot constit i'onal rigi . Civil Service Commnis:-io.. ,r Th- - on said he thought the e!'-t of "h:W :ision wi;1 be to practically st.. rei cal assesments1 and to lea 'iall 'vnr ~Ot as thev :sm DES 3oINES, IOW, N Y. 1'. TheI :ounty boardsO ofupriso'rs have -t 'las crised the canvam o e voecas at e lasi, election. ~The retrns re-cived >y the llegis.er frm all~ counies makie he total vote cast for :rverno 42 .4 This is the larg-est vote ever" eat n h tate. Votin' in the pres:!~idet~ai clee on0 inl 1888 was~ 4t4.000. Um -, e rat, received 207.574; Whic'r, re puh ca, ,3; WeUil, '.- e, 1,7 ibson. prohibtion, b'2 JB-ies plur-al y is 8,2(0, lackinw 4,280 of beir-g a ma urity. Twyears an~o Governor B~oes !aceon41obving a maijority o .i oe atin the State. For lieu cnant covernor, Begt-o, dmioc-rat, eceived 204,S'32, Van IIc'uten, republi-; an, 200,580; Jiestow's pluralmy. 4.242. or iudge of sunreme court. Kime, diem. cra 203,019); WVeaver. repubiican. 200. 10, Kime's plurant.. 3,15s. Fcr su rintendent ofpublic istrue-la. Knoeci der, demnocrat. 203. 77t; Sabin, reubi 'or OL3Is, S. -., No. 10.-l'rohibi Ieing cigneld nm te~m otte rmay in! jharleton. There is promise on a il ight when the rueasure is b-rough: be o e the Legislature. The lig'ht preci itated by the prohiblitcinis's will be Lotly contested by the aris. Not o~nly s Csreston up in arms. agalist the roposed law but the anti-prohibito sts of this city will take an activean n it. A copy 01 the Charlestoa petition geis the proposed inw h'as been re ied in the city and( it v;" be " c iated here. A petition of Chareletou arties has also been received prin'g he Legislature not to increase thie icense. Thetse petit inns w'l 1be- cilrC' ated nthe city. The anti p-prohbition sts have been stirred up by ther activ >f their opponents and a greait "h is R betweeni the conteniding~ focs. TILE ;)MfE13 .ALLIANCE TI HE SUP.REME COUNCIL MEETS lN ANNUAL SESSION. Thle De'e; ies Welcometd b.; thte:iI Mo I'atriuic 1*.-uou.e by Secrets.ry Tlimiat .--1x4ekidct Pdlk's Annual Addiess Tadrf'.*and F Rancial Reform the Intie .INDIANAPOLIS. IND., -NOV. . The Superue Counicil of the Farmers Alliance was called to order in Tomlin sou lia!l at 10:4% o'clock by Presiden !'oree, of t; . Indiana Alliance, witi carly all the 120 delegates and 50( spectatois in attendance. Mayor Thomas L. Sullivan was intro .iuced. and welcomed the delcgates. T P. Tiean. secreiarv of the Allianc( Executive Committee, in responding thanked the people of IndianopoEs foi their warm welcome. and, after payin tribune to Pre.ident Harrison, he con tinued: -It is the farmimg and laborin; peop:e who fecd the world, ,Tho fough he battles of this country. and to whosl (nr"y aid patriotism this great an lorious land of ours is indebted for it he-t blesiugs of 1ierty and peace . i not our mission t) tear down nei di-intrate our honcstly ceuciuci d in, austic. but to preserve them. Ytvw< (o ni3can the dtathi-kell to all illegit! ia te cibiuations and roonopolies thal tend' to destro7 the very spirit and in "t o the constitutIon. We are- nt here as politicions, seek ) t" dspU!e as to parisal pohtica :rties or to promote the fortune of an olitical as5prant, nor are we he:e il ,Lhe iterest of any tbird party, fbr bj :he very organic teachings we have the 'ight to vote with vhiciever politica: party -e may think will best advocatt ood zovernment. --I desire to call you attention to thl ast billion dollar Contress. its expen ditures reached a grand total of $1.009, 260471. which is nearly two-thirds o: all existing United States money More money was spent by that proli -ate billion dollar Congress than wa bpent by all the Congresses during the iirat seventy-two years cf the history o this government. It is more than $2, 177,000 for every day from the time thE PF tv-fitst Congress met till it adjourned It nieant a tax of $40 on the head o: every family to support the general gov ernment alone. How long would thej endure it if collected directly from therr initead of indirectly as it is now collect. ed through our tariT? "Say what you please about tariff, bui it must and shall come down to a reas, onable basis of taxation, and these reck less expenditures by Congress must bc stopped, or we will continue to chanz the pers.-nuel 0; every Congress. -Yet this is not all, nor is it the bot to which brought about the uprising oi the people of all parts of this great coun try. Transportation, tariff and trust here is the trouble. There are three C.'s-crush, change and controlled that constitute the unwritten and iron. bound oath that our friendly politica newnpapers ::buse us so about. I wil. now teli vou what the oath in. It is U crush monopoly, change .ar nd an con trol transportation. We are -olog tc succeed in our oflbrts to ob)taiu a large circulating medium. We mu't haTE more currency and will have it. "Mr. Mayor. the Farmers' Allianc means the greatest good for the great est number, and is determined to havc exact justice for all andl especial fivor! to none. It imbers in co-operation nar 4,000,000 and it has come to stay. and will be held intact as a nonpartisan oranization. Members of all p~ohtical paties may join the organization', a~nd it wili never become a third political par ty. There is a big political siiicance n it. but no party political signillcance, because that would mean hopeless ruin. We have already taken. piarty extremes out of us, have made a lew governor! ~ad Congressmen and bid fir for '200 next year." Tillmau's references to the~ non-"art isan nature of the Alliance caused soething of a sensation and were re eived with about equal evidence of atp proval and disapuroval. General Weaver. o-f Iowa, was called orm and made a spaech on the general sit.uation, which was rece~ved with en husasm. IHe was followed by Con rsmran Jerry Sinpson, of Kansas, in er; sa'me strain. P'residlent Willebe, of heKna Ailiance, spoke briefly and he.1 ment..~ adjourned. The attendance at. the opeing to. ixht was something less than 10,000. reidn Poik delivered his annual ad re-s. The farmner3, he said, had be en ,criminanted a;;ainst and were no-v ap :(:ling to the ballot box. The Alliance ub-treasury hili has received no con derati e-xcept denuncianion by the :lono dollar Con~gress. L. was an iu yt adt of the people to arrest the mtadalarmio:: tendenev to een ralize the money power of the country. his was one of the grand pur'poes of .he sub-Treasury bill. It would have sup~antedl our ~unjuist and oppressive ational bank system by securing to the eople an adequate amount ot money iirtect from the igoveranment, at a lower -Ite or interest, to m:-et, the legitituate icmands of the country. But in justi caton of the silent contempt which :i::racterized the reception of the mecas re, assaults vehement and persi.stent ave been made on its ninutest details, nstead of arzuments on the underlying irinciples, But despite these assaults, .he sub-treasurv had grown until the ientiment of thue order in thirty-four tates was a unit. Giovernment control .f railroads, Polk said, is one of the ~ssential demands of the Alliance: also e retention of the public domain fo:: ur own people; also the urohibition of a-ubing in futures; also the free coinage lver; also that no class legialation be ~nated: also that United States Sena s be elected by; pop~ular vote; also a r~aduted tax on mneomes;~. but the retst demand off t'li is that the a on bar:king systemn be a olished aIn I he peop'e's rnoney be issued direct by he oermiuent to the peop0' Th auren hlucsionc before the pepl0 i hat f financi refr-n. Thev "w great mrties have evidently sounded a truce, oad, as in the past. this queCs'ti of inncial refromn shall cont ine to be te yarded as "neutral ground" between hem. P'olk urged the members to stand rm and demand of ciliceseekers adefini .ion of their rprinciples. The orgaizat :on, ie claImed, was steadily growinte. I recommended the contiuanice of the du~ational wvork throughx the press and Cetres. A history of the Alliance has been ~sued b y a special committee of editors, ,f which N. A. Dunning was the chief ompiler. The honor of the original ociety Leiontes to Lampass.as counaty, ex., from which small begiunnn de eloped the state organ'zation and :fter yard the national society, It was evils as well as a protective measure against thieves and robb- rs. with which that section oi Texas at that time was I particularly cursed. The first, meeting V the national association was held at Wac.. Tex., in january, 1887. C. W. Macu ne was the chief spirit in that meet ing and h1 rgely instrumental in the adop tion of a platform, of which the motto was: "In all thinas essential unity, and in all things charity." Only Lou isatandi Texas were represented at this ,atherinz and the delegates were limitedl in number. Now the officers report 30,000 subordimate lodges, with a membership aggreizating 4,000,000 and a representation ma every state and ter ritory. The first noteworthy political acts of the Alliance were the Ocala and St. Louis platforms, with their demands for the abolition of national banks and the substituti n of treasury currency; free silver coinage; prohibition of alien land ownership; prohibition of specu lalilg in agricultural and mer-harical productions; fractional currency, a-ad that the Lrovernment should own the telegraph and railway lines. The Ocala platform also demanded the r.moval of the tariff from the necessities of life, an income tax, and that United States sen ators be elected directly by the people. SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. INDrANAPOLIS, Nov. 18.-The open meeting of the Alliance this morning lasted but a few minutes. When the executive session opened the trouble over the sub-treasury matter began. A communication was received from the executive committee ot the Anti-sub treastiry Alliance, asking a hearing for a proteit prepared by W. Pope Yeo mans of MIssouri under instructions from the St. Louis convEntion of last September. The Macuric faction op 'posed any hearing. but Livingstone of Georgia moved the appointment of a committee o! five to read the protest and report to the Alliance whether or not it should be read. On this motion, which was finally carried by a two-thirds vote, a bitter tight was made by the Ma cune men, who made a charge that at attempt had been made to assassinate Macune In Mississippi. Before the ad journin-nt of the executive session sig niticant action was taken which shows that the pro:est of the Anti-Sub-Treas ury people will receive very little con sideration. A resolution was adopted. almost unanimously, reaffirming the ad herence of the Alliance to every plank in the Roachdale platfor n. Macune's resolution to reduce repre sentation one-half was passed and it gives no end of uneasiness to the dele gates who have come here with a narrow allowance of unds. The treasury is nearly empty and unless representation was reduced there would not be enough money to pay all the delegtes. The Alliance has been falling off In many States and State Alliances have been unable to furnish their quota of the as sessment to the national body. President Polk laid. efore the conven tion an official letter addressed to him last night by W SS. McAllister of Mis sissippi requesting to be heard in behalf of the complaints and protests of the anti-s ub-treasury Alliance men. The letter, although courteously worded, produced the wildest confusion and dis order. several members yelled out: "We don't want to hear anything from Mc Allister. le has done more to destroy us than all our en -mies put together. Down with his trick to sow discord amow'; us." CoIonel Livingston moved to appoint a committee of five to meet the anti-sub treasury committee and hear their pro tasts and report to the suapremne council. McDowell, of Tennessee, moved to table Livimgston's motion, and bitterly attacked McAllister, alleging he was here in the interest of Wall street, E.as ters press and the Anti-Alliance De moracy of the South. Terreil of Texas opposed the motion to table. sayingithere was a large and respectable crowd under McAllister's umbrella, whose compiaints should be heard and considered. Wardell ot Soutth Dakota spoke earn estly in behalf of the motion to table, saving that It would be cowardice to re cognize McAllister's committee, the chairman of which was here represent ing the worst political elements in the so-ath; that he had done nothingz else for eight months but att ack Alliance :eaders and oppose its measures. Burkett. of Mississippi, closed the debate in behalf- of the motion to table. Hie said that owi'ng to the backing given MAl lester by the " subsidized press,'' h le was the worst enemy to the Alliancs n the whoh, country and as a result of' hiswar the Alliance had lost two Unit id Ste Senators in Mississippi this Livimston's mnotion prevailed. Presi dent Folk then appointed a commit'ee with ivingstou as ebairman. Hfaving disposed of this matter the convention immediately forestalled a prospective nrotest by adopting a. resolu tiou Lo standl by the sub-treasury plan. THIRD DAY'S PRoCEEDINGS. -INDL\NAL'oLIS. Nov. 19.-ResOlu tion were introduced today declaring that a largie number of men had beeun elected to Conirress by Alliance votes. and demanded that they support no man for speaker who would not first declare or the Alliance platform. They further declared it the sense of the body that those Con'2ressmen should nominate oe of their own nullmber for the speak ership at'd stick to him. They further admonished Alliancemen throughout the counmry to beware of committing them seles to any party in such a manner as to interiere with their freedom of politic ai actien, or of taking any position in avor of men or parties not in sympathy with Alliance principles. Trhe effect to make the platform of the Alliance more radical on the subject of governmecnt ownershipi of railroads andI telegraph lines was made by Branch. a deleiate at lar-te from Georgia. This resoiuti n demands complete ownership f railroads while the Oca a demands is for partial control, with con tingent owyn cr4Lhip 1. simp'y control is deemed im practial. The resolution went to the committee ou legislative demand. and the pros ects are that it will ibe favorably re portedl upon. Soon after the opemnn of this morn ing's executive session of the S'upreme Council. Colonel Livimgston, chairman Iof the committee which last night met renresentatives of the anti-sub-treasury elment, rose and said that this commit tee was ready t eot nsatythere was a disturbance. On motion from a delegato seated on the Macue side of the house, a canvass of those present was mads and every one not entitied toivote ia executive ses sion was obliged to leave the hail. When tle doors hadl been closed. Colonel Liv ingston read the~recommendationl of the committee, that Dr. WV. Pope Yeamans, Ithe author of the anti-sub-treasulry pro Aft acrimonious discussion word was sent to the auti-sub-treasury men to send in their protest. The antis replied to this that the com mittee was empowered through Yea mans to present the protest, and uutil Yeamans could be heard by the Supreme Council the latter body would necessari ly be deprived of the pleasure of reading the protest. The answer of the council was that the protestants could not be heard un less they furnished the council with a copy of the protest. This the antis re fused to do unless they could present their protest in person, and that ended the negotiations between the two wings ol the Aliance. The result is a split. The executive committee of the anti sub-treasury party will now proceed to Texas, where 127 sub-Alliances have already declared against the sub-treas ury scheme and will begin the work of organizing a new Alliance. The call for a national convention will probably be issued to-morrow. The capture of the Alliance by the People's party was practically accom plished twc or three days ago, but the iull extent of the capture was not ap parent till to-day when President Poik was unanimously re-elected and J. 11. Louks, of South Dakota, was chosen vise-president; J. H. Turner was re elected secretary and treasurer; and Q. F. Willets, of Kansas. national lecturer. George F. Washburn, of the national executive committee of the People's party stated that the leaders of that par ty were jubilant over the election of Polk. Of the four great leaders in the Alliance, Livingston. McCune, Terrell and Polk, the latter was regarded as the one favorable to independent politi cal action. Polk in his annual address Tuesday night positively condemned the two old parties and in the address, so strongly indicated his tendencies to the People's party movement that the election of any other one of the gentlemen men tioned would have been regarded as a blow to the People's party. While on the other hand the re-elec tion of Polk is regarded as a great vic tory for the People's party, the election of Louks, of South Dakota, as Vice President, is regarded as a greater vic tory from the fact that he is a member of the national committee of the Peo ple's party. The fact that a large num ber -t Farmers' Alliance delegates are also members of other industrial organ izations and working together would in dicate that the trend of their action was toward a unification of all, and in the direction of independent political action. Fighting the South Bound. The Savannah News, of a recent date says: "The Richmond and Danville seems to be adopting a policy of repres sion toward the South Bound. It has notified the South Bound that it will not receive freights trom Savannah and through points from it for any points on its lines north of Columbia and west of Augusta. Naturally it does not turn over any freight to the South Bound that can be carried around by its own lines. This action of the Richmond and Danville practically limits the South Bound to its local territory. "It pre vents Savannah from getting the bene fits of the decreased distance to points north of us," said a South Bound rail road man yesterday, and compels them to pay for shipping their goods over the same old round about routes." The putting on of the new schedt.le between avannah and Charlotte to connect with the Richmond and Danville for Washington and New York, giving practically the same time as the Atlan tic Coast Line Is regarded as an attempt to forestall the anticipated short route schedule by the South Bound. It is said now that the Richmond and Dan ville will not give the South Bound a vestibule train or a through- Pullman service between Savannah and Char lotte to connect with the vestibul-e on he Richmond and Danville for Wash ington and New York, as was confident ly expected a short while ago." A Victory for the Banks. NEWBERRY, S. C., Nov. 18.--The banks are on top now. Judge Hudson decided to-day that the Comptrol ter General in ordering the auditors to increase the returns of banks acted without the authority of law, and his *act is therefore illegal and nugatory. The case came up on a petition for a writ of mandamus by the Newberry Natinal Bank to compel the county auditor to change his tax list and tax duplicate and to reduce the assessment to the returns as made by the president of the bank. The petition was granted and the clerk of the Court was ordered to forthwith issue the writ. The bank returned its stock at par. This return was accepted by the township board of assessors and the county board of equalization. The market value of the stock is about $60 on the share above par. The Comptroller General ordered the auditor to change the return and place the stock on tax duplicate for taxation at its market value, thereby increasing the returns of the bank about 880,000. Under this decision the auditor is required to correct his tax duplicate so as to restore the original valuation of the pre perty and make the corresponding reduction in the tax pay ment by the bank. The case will go to the Supreme Court. Look Out for Them. NEW BERNE, N. C.. Nov. 18.-T wo representatives of a Boston. bad debt agency, who came here last week, left this city bright and early, leaving be hind them a debt which some rival agency would find it hard to collect. The men, who gave the.ir names as M. L. Hubbard and V. M. Weaver, claimed to be traveling representatives of a debt agency with headquarters at Bost'n. They engaged board with Mrs. J. M. ies, of New Berne, and, after run ning up a bill of S15 for their board,1lef t for parts unknown, taking everything they had with them except the blil, which they kindly left with their land lady. As no answers can be gotten to letters written to the Boston firm whose name they gave, it'is supposed here that the men are dead beats and are taking in the country as they go. Will The states Respond'? RIcImioND. Virginia, Nov. 13.-Mrs. Jeferson Davis and her daughter. Miss Winnie, left the city to-day for Mem phis, Tenn. The Riichmond Dispatch to-morrow in an editorial on Mrs. Davis will say: "The Southern States ought to vote a pension to Mrs. Jefferson Da vis and Virginia should lead the move ment. It is nothing but fair and pro per that we shovid put her upon the same footing that the United States Government places the widows of its Presidents. The duty devolves upon the~ States that composed the Confeder acy is a thing of the past. It can't be a very costly precedent for us. inas much as there never will be another Confederacy, and therefore never an other widow of a Confederate P'resi dent." __ _ _ Miners Klled. BERLIN, Nov. 13.-Eleven miners have been killed and two injdred by an explosion of fire damp in a mine near Essex, the great Gern'an coalproduc ing district. LOOK OUT FOR YOUR LAND WAS IT EVER OWNED BY ONE THOM AS WADSWORTH If It Was You May be in Danger of Losing It-A Story That Will Interest Many of Opr Readtrs ---Manv Innocent Parties May Suffer. GREENV;LLE, 6. C., Nov. 16.-Recent ly the Greenville News published the following: The -Wadsworth poor school fund" and the Wadsworth es tate have been heard of by many peo ple of this State, but the story that sur rounds them is not familiar. Inasmuch as the estate concerns many people in nearly every county in the State, the story is repeated below: Thomas Wadsworth died in Charles ton about the year 1771. He came to America from England when a young man, first settling in Massachusetts and later in Laurens county, this State,. near Milton. He became immensely wealthy, owning thousands of acres of land and hundreds of slaves. After living in Laurens county many years he moved to Charleston and went into the merchantile business with a Mr. Turpin. When he died he owned lands from the mountains to the seaboard of South Carolina, principally in the coun ties of Laurens, Spartanburg, Green ville, Pickens, Anderson Newberry, Lexington and Orangeburg. After abundartly providing for his wife and mother, for he had no children, he left about 34,000 acres in various counties for a "poor school fund." The proper ty was not to be sold. Everything was left in the hands of a board of trustees, composed of five men. The trustees were to be elected every two years by the white free holders of Dunlaps bat talion of Laurens countyand the school to be supported was to be located in the battalion. In Mr. Wadsworth's days the counties were divided into battalions instead of townships, as now, and there were four battalions in Lau rens county. There were also four in Greenville. The deeds to the lands were left in the hands of trustees and are now in the possession of the present trustees, elected last year by the white voters living in "Dualap's battalion." A. school house was built in the batta lion, now Hunter township, and has been in use ever since, although the vast estate has not, until now yielded enough to pay a teacher's salary. The trustees rented the land for awhile and finally leased them for terms ranging from fifty to ninety-nine years. The money received was loaned out and much of it was lost. Some of the leases were renewed by other trustees, but a number of them are beginning to ex pire and a distressing state of affairs Is in store for a number of people now in possession of the lands. R. G. Wallace and W. H. Workman, two of the five trusttees, are in the city and are looking up a part of the estate located in this ccunty for the purpose of selling or settling in some manner. An act of the Legislature a short time ago empowered the trustees to sell the lands and reinvest in lands in Laurens township, near the Wadswhorth schooL The trustees find by old records in the Register Mesne Conveyance's office that there are about 1,400 acres belonging to the estate in this county. Over 300 acres of it are located two and a half miles from the city and the worst part of the story is that about forty seven persons own the property and there are over twenty houses on it. Persons to whom it was leased and released yeu.rs ago sold it to unsuspecting and careless persons and there Is not much doubt out that many people will have to suf fer. Part of the land is In possion of Captain WilliamGoldsmitJ'. Much of the same ln s'in the Sandy Vlat section of this county. No property in the city is included in the estate and - real estate owners here will breath easier. In one tract in Spartanburg county there are 1,800 acres. It was said at one time that the town of Anderson was built on this proper ty, but the courts freed the property there from furthertrouble. About one hundred and twenty-five acres east of the town belonged to the estate, and the owners settled with the trustees some time ago by paying a fair price to com promise. Wherever the present owners, have fought the matter in courts they have lost. This would tend to irighten all who have any interest in the prop erty. One gentleman in thisicityilatelysin vested in some of this land east of here and he Is now worried. All over the State, wherever there is anyiof this land, there will be uneaslness and a few may loose their ali. The trustees of the fund now have about $3,000 on hand. They propose to push matters to settlement and in crease the fund. They have planned to build two more school houses In Dun lap's battalion, one at Cross Hill and one at Mountville. The Wadsworth estate is now valued at between $200,- - 000 and $300,000 at a low estimn. :. Wagener May Whistle. CHARLESTON, S. C., Nov. 17.-The Court of Common Pleas of Darlington county has been engaged since Novem ber 2 in trying cases involving the lia bility of the agricultural order known as the Grangers. The cases are brought by F. W. Wagener & Co., a wholesale arm of this .. ty, against four grangers, the amount involved being S5,000, said to be a balance due on notes for $20,000 given by the agrent of the Grangers for supplies. The Grangers were branches of the Patrons of Husbandry, which gave birth here to the present Farmers' Alliance. In three cases tried verdicts lave been given for defendants. Burned to Death. COLUS, 0.. Nov. 13.-At an early thour this morning a row of cheap frames on North High street was des troyed by lire. This evening the fire men found four bodies, three of young 3hildren and the fourth of an adult, in the debris. They were all members ot a family and this explains why they were not missed. The head of the fain ivy is said to be Charles Bethers, a la borer, but this has not been confirmed. Tryin: to Save Their Necks. CHARL EsTON, S. C., Nov. 12.-Collec ~ions are being taken up in all colored :hurches here to procure counsel to de rend the ten negroes who were convict ed of murder in Laurens County in September last, and sentenced to be Langed. The Governor has respited :he men, and the movement noe is to ~rant them a ne w trial. So far $150 of ~he $500 needed has been secured. A City in Flames. Foocirow, CmNA, Nov. 17.-Ad vices of Oztober 3rd, from Hiankow, C~hina, says: "A huge fire destroyed L300 houses in this city and rendered, L3,000 people homeless. It is believed i number of women and children lost :heir lives. Two days afterward 200 more houses were burned." Gnuty of.Mtanslangter. 3ARtNwELL. S. C., Nov. 17.-After :wo full days' work the case against W~m. L. McFail, for killing Policeman W. P. Burpee at Mid way, was given to ;he jury, who rendered a verdict of guilty of manslaughter with a recomn noncation to mercy.