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The marriage rite was over &nd though I turned aside To keep the guests from seeinz. The tears i could not hide. I raised my face in smiling, And led'my llttle brother To gret my father's chosen But I could not call her mother. She is a fair young creature, With meek and gentle air, With blue eyes bright and beaming, And sunny silken hair,. I knew my father gave her The love he gave anctt er. But if she were an angel. I could not call her mothr. They took my mother's picture From its accustomed place, And hung beside my father's A fairer and younger face. 'They made her dear old chamber The abode of another, .Bat I will not forget thee Mv own my angel mother. Last night I heard her singim A song I used to love, As its dear notes were hallowed By one who sings above. It grieved my heart to hear her 'Ihe tears i could not smother, For every tone was hallowed By the voice of my mother. My father's in the sunshine And brighter days to come, They have forgot fhe shadows That darkened our dear home His heart no more is lonel.. But I and little brother, Will still be orphan children, God gives us but one niothrr. ONLY ONE VERDICT. Rev. Dr. Taimage (Ives Waroir to the impenitent. BROOKLYN, June, 17.-Rev. Dr. Tal mage, who is now on bis round the world journey. Las selected as the sub ject for his sermon through the press to day "Another Chance," the text bein taken from Ecclesiastes xi, 3, "If the tree fall toward the south or toward the nortfi, in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be." There is a hovering hope in the minds of a vast mulititude that there will be an opportunity in the next w orld to correct the mistakes of this; that if we do make complete shipwreck of our earthly life it will be on a shore, up which we may walk to a palace; that, as a defendant may lose his case in the circuit court avd carry it up to the supreme court or court of chancery and get a reversal of Wndg ment in his behalf, all the costs being thrown over on the other party, so if we fail in the earthly trial we may In the higher jurisdiction of eternity have the judgment of the lower court set aside, all the costs remitted, and we may be victorious defendants forever. My ob ject in this sermon is to show that com mon sense as my text declares that such an expectation ischimerical. Ycu say that the impenitent man, having got into the next world and seeing the disaster, will, as a result of that disaster, turn, the pain the cause of his reformation. But you can find10,000 instances in this world (f men who have done wrose, and distress overtook them suddenly. Did the distress heal them? No. .hey went right cn. That man -was flang of dissipations. "You must stop drinking." said the doe tor, "and quit the fast life you are lead mg, or it will destroy you." The pati eut suffers paroxysm, but under skillful medical treatment he begsin to sit up, begins to walk about the room, begins to go to business. And, 1o, he goes: back to same grogshops for his morning dram, and his evening dram, and the drums between. F1-t down zagain. Same 1 doctor. Same physical angish. Samei medical warning. Now the illness is1 more protracted, the liver is more stub born, the stomach more irritable, and 4 the digestive organs are more rebellious. But after awhile he is out again, goes I back to the same dramshops and goes the same round of sacrilege against his I physical health. . He sees that his downward course is 1 wnining his household; that his life is a 1 -perpetual perjury acrainst his marriage i vow; that that broken hearted woman is so unlike the roseate young wife whom he married that her old schoolmastes do not recognizs her; that his sons are tobe 1 taunted for a lifetime by the father's< drukennesE; that the daughters are to I pass into life under the scarification ot a disreputable ancestor. He is drinking *up their happiness, their prospects for this life and perhaps for the life to come Sometimes an appreciation of what he is doing comes upon him. His nervous system is all a tangle. From crown of head to sole of foot he is one aching rasp ing, crucifying, damning torture. Where is he? In hell on earth. Does it reform him? After awhile he has delirium tremens, with a whole jungle of hissing reptiles let out on his pillow, and his screams horrify the neighbors as he dashes out of his bed crying, "Take these things cff me!" As he sits pale and convalescent the doctor says: "Now, I want to have a plain talk with you, my dear fellow. The next attack of this kind you have you will be beyond all medical skill, and you will die." He gets better and goes forth into the same round again. This time medicine takes no efiect. Consulta tion of physicians aglee in saying there is no hope. Death ends the scene. That process of inebriation, warning and dissolution is going on within stone's throw of you, gomngdmb in all the neigh borhoods of Christendom. Pain does not correct. Suflering does not reform. What is true in one sense is true in all senses and will forever be so, and yet men are expecting in the next world pur gatorial rejuvenation. Take up the printed reports of the prisons of tne United States, and you will find that the vast majority of the incarcerated have been there before, some of them four, five, six times. With a million illustra tions all working the other way in this world, people are expecting that dis tress in the next state will be salvatory You cannot imagine any worse torture in any other world than that which some men have suffered here, and without any ealutary consequence. Furthermore, the prospect of a refor mation lm the next world is more improb abie than a reformation here. In this world the life started with innocence of infancy. In the case supposed, the other life will open with all the accumulated bad habits 0? many years upon him. Surely it is easier to build a strong ship out o? new timber than cut of an old hulk that has been ground up in the breakers. If with innocence to start with in this life a man does not become godly, what prospect is there that in the next world, starting with sin there would be a seraph evoluted? Surely the sculp tor has more prospect o? making a fine statue out of a block of pure white Parian marble than out of an old black rock seamed ad cracked with the storms of a half century. Surely upon a clean white sheet of paper it is easier to write a deed or a will than upon a sheet of paper all scribbled and blotted and torn from top to bottom. Yet men seem to think that though the lie that began here compara t'.vely perfect turned out badly, the next life will succeed, though it starts with a dead failure. "But." says some one, "I thmnk we ought to have a chance in the next life, because this life is so short it allows only small oprportunity. We hardly have time to turn around between cradle and tomb the wood of the one almost touch ing the marble of the other." But do you know what made the deluge a neces sit3? It was the longevity of the an tediluvians. They were worse in the recond century of their lifetime than in the first hundred years, and still worse the way on to 700, 800 and 900 years and the earth had to be washed and scrub bed and soaked an,' anchored clear cu of sight for more than a m-nth befbre i could be made fit for decent people t live in. Longevity never cures impenitency All the pictu:es o " Time represent bin with a scythe to cut, but I never say any picture of Time with a case of medi cines to heal. Seneca says that Ner for tht first five years of his public hf was set up for an example of clemenc and kirdnes. tut his path all the wal descended until at 68 A. D. he becamI a suicide. If SCO years did no't maki an'.ediluvians any better, but only toadi them wcrse, the ages of eternity coul< have no effect except p0rolo.::a8on o depravity. "But." says some one, "in the futur< state evilsurroundirge wli b) withdraw; and elevated ofluenecs substituted. anc hence expurgation and sublimation anc glorification." But the. righteous, al their sins forgiven, have passed on intc a beatitis state. and consequently the unsaved w:li be lett alone. It cannot be expected that D:. Dc'i, who exhaust ed himself in teeching Hndoo3 the way to heaven, and .Dr, Abecl. who gave his life in the cvaugelfztion of China, and Adcniram Judson, who toiled for the redemption cf Boineo, should be sent down by some celestial missionary soci etv to educate those who wasted all their earthly existence. Evangelistic and missionary efforts are ended. The entire kingdom of the morally bankrupt by themselves, where are the salvatory influences to come from? Can one speckled and bad apple in a barrel o: diseased apples turn the other apples good! Can ihose who are themselves down help others up? Can those who have themselves failed in the business of the soal pay the debts of their insolv ents? Can a million wrongs make one righ:? Poneropolis was a city where Kng Philip of Thracia put all bad people of is kingdom. It any man had opened a primary school at Poneropolis, I do not .h:nk the parents from other cities would ave sent their children there. Iastead f amendment in the other world, all the isscciations, now that the good are svolved, will be degenerating and down. You wculd not want to send a man to a :holera or yellow fever hospital for his -ealth, and the great ]bzaretto of the ext world, containing the diseased and lague struck, will be a poor place for noral recovery. It the surroundings in ;his world were crowded ot temptation, be surroundings of the next world, after ;he righteous have passed up and on will be 1,000 per cent mcre crowded of ;emptation. The Count of Chateaubriand made his ittle son sleep at night at the top of a :astle turret, where the winds howled md where specters were said to haunt ;he place, and while the mother and sis ;ers almost died with fright the son tells is that the process gave him nerves hat could not tremble and a courage .hat never faltered. But I don't think hat towers of darkness and the spectral orld swept by sirocco and euroclydon will ever fit one for the land of eternal unshine, I wonder what is the curri -um of that college of inferno, where fter proper preparation by the sins of ,his world, the candidate enters, passing )D from freshman class of depravity to nphomore of abandonment, and from iophomore to junior, and feom junior to enior, and day of graduation come, and ith diploma signed by satan, the pres dent, and other professional demoniacs ttesting that the candidate has been ong enough under their drill, he passes ip to enter heaven! Pandemonium a reparative course for heavenly admis ~ion! Ab, my friends, satan and his ohorts bave fitted uncounted multitudes or ruin, but never fitted one soul for ippiess. Furthermore, it would not be safe for his world if men had another chance in he next. If it had been announced that iowever wickedly a man might act in his world, he could fix it up all right in he next, society would be terribly de noabzed and thie human race demol shed in a few years. The fear that if we re bad and unforgiven here it will not ewell for us in the next existence is the hief influence that keeps civilizatfon rom rushing tack to semibarbarism and emibarbarism from rushing into mid ught savagery, and midnight savagery com extinction, for it is the astringent mpression of all nations-Christian and teathen-that there is no future chance or tnose who have wasted this. Multitudes of men who are kept with n bounds would say: "Go to, now! et me get all out of this life that there a in it. Come, gluttony and inebria ion and uncleanness and revenge, and lsensualities and wait upon me. My .ife may',be somewhat shortend in this world by dissolateness, but that wilt niy make heavenly indulgen::e on a arer scale the soone~r possible. I will vertake the saints at last and will enter the heavenly temple only a litdle later than. those who behaved themselves ere. I will on my way to heaven take a little wider excursion than those who were on earth pious, at d I shall go to heaven via gehenna and via sheol." Another chance in the next world means Eree license and wild abandonment in this. Suppose you were a party in an im portant case at law, and you knew from :onsultation with judges and attorneys that it would be tried twice, and the irst trial would be of little importance, but that the second would decide every thing. For which trial would you make the most preparation, for which retain the ablest attorneys, for which be most anxious about the attendance of wit nesses? You would put all the stress upon the second trial, all the anxiety, all the expenditure, saying, "The first is nothing; the last is everything." Give the race assurance of a second and important trial in the subsequent life, and all the preparation for eterm~ty would be "post mortem," post funeral, pst sepulchral, and the world with one jerk be pitched off into impiety and god lessness. Furthermore, let me ask why a chance should be gIven in the next world if we have refused innumerable chances in this? Suppose you give a banquet, and you invite a vast number of friends, but one man declines to come or treat! your mnvitatfon with indiflerence. You n the course of 20 years give 20 ban quet and the same man is invited to them all and treats them all in the same obnoxious -vay. After awhile you re move to another house, larger and bet ter, and you again invite your friends. but send no invitation to the man whc declined or neglected the other invita tions. Are you to blame? Has hea right to expect to be invited af ter all the ndignities he has done you. God it this earth has invited us all to the ban quet of his grace. He invited us by hi! proidence and his spirit 365 days o! every year since we knew our right hand from our left. If we declined it ever' time or treated the invitation with indif ference, and gave 20 or 40 or 50 years of indignity on our part toward the ban queter, and ot last he spreads the ban quet- in a more luxuriant and kingl3 place amid the heavenly gardens, haye we a right to expect him to invite ui again, and have we a right to blams him if he does not inviteus? If~ 12 gates of salvation stood open 24 years or 50 yenrs for our admission ani at the end of that time they are closed can we complain of it and say: "Tnest gates ought to be open again. Give ut another chance?" It the steamer is t< sail for Hamburg and we want to get t< Germany by that line, and we read it paper that it will sail on a certain day, - for two weeks we have that akvertisei t ment before our eyes, and then we go t down to the dock 15 miautes after it ) has sloved fl'into the stream and say, "Come back. Give me another chance. It is not fair to treat me in this way. 2 Swing up to the dock agaic, and throw r out planks, and let me come on board." Such behavior would invite arrest as a ) madman. And if after the gospel ship has ain at anchor before our eyes for years and ryears, and all the benign voices of earth and heaven have urged us to get on board, as she might set sail at any mo ment and after awhile sht sails without l us, is it common sense to expect her to f come bach? You might as well go out on the Highlands at Navesink and casll to the Majest:c after she has been three i days cut and expect her to return as to I call back an opportunity for heaven I when it has once sped away. Ali heav l en of'ered as a gratuity, and for a life time refuse to taks it, and then rush on the bosses of Jehovah's buckler de manding another chance. There ought to be, there can be, there will be no such thing as posthumous op portunity. Thus our common sense agree3 with my text, "It the tree fall toward the scuth or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be." You see tLat this idea lifts this world up from an unimport int way station to a platform of stupendaus issues and makes all eternity whirl around this hour . But one trial for whici all the preparation mnt be made in this world or ctver made at all. That piles up all the emphasis and all the climaxas and all the destinies into life here. No other chance! Oh, how that augments the value and importance of this ,hance! Alexander, with his army used to surround a city, and then would lift a great light in token to the people that it they surrendered before the light went out all would be well. But if once the light weLt out then the battering rams would swing against the wall, and de molition and disaster would follow. Well, all we need do for our present and everlasting safety is to make surrender to Christ, the king and conquer'r-sur render of our hearts, surrender of our lives, surrender of everything. And he keeps a great light burnine, light of gos. psi invitation, light kindled with the wood of the cross and flaming up against tae dark night of our sin and sorrow. Sarrender while that great light contin ues to burn, for after it goes oat there will be no other opportunity of making peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Talk of another chance! Why this is a supernal chance! In the time of Edward VI, at the battle of Musselburg, a private soldier, seeing that the Earl of Huntley had lost hia helmet toom off his own helmet and put upon the head of the earl, and the head of the private soldier uncovered he was soon slain while his commander rode safely out of the battle. But in our case, instead of a private soldier of fering helmet to an earl, it is a king put ting his crown upon an unworthy sub ject, the king dying that we might live. Tell it on all points of the compass. Tell it to night and day. Tell it to all earth and heaven. Tell ,t to all centu ries, all ages, all millenniums, that we have such a magnficent chance in this world that we need no other chance in the next. I am in the burnished judg ment hall of the last day. A great white throne is lifted, but the Judge has not yet taken it. While we are waiting for his arrival I hear immortal spirits in conversation. "What are you waiting here for?" says a soul that went up from Madagascar to a soul that ascended from America. The latter-says: "I came from America where 40 years I heard the gospel preached and Bible, read, and from the prayer that I learned in infancy at my mother's knee until my last hour I had gospel advantage, but for some reason I did not make t'2e Christian choice, and I am here waiting f~r the Jndge to give me a new trial and another chance." "Strange," says the other. "I had but one gospel call in Madagascar, and I ac cepted it, and I do not need another chance." "Why are you here?" says one who on earth had feeblest intellect to one who had great brain, and silvery tongue, and scepters of influen'.e. The latter respone is: ' Oh, I knew more than my fellows. I mastered lhbraries and had learned titles from colleges, and my name was a synonym for eloquence and power. And yet I neglected my soul, and, I am here waiting for a new trial." "Srange," says the one of the feeble earthly capacity. "1 knew but little of worldiy knowledge, but I knew Christ and made him my partner, and I have no need of another chance." Niow the ground trembles with the ap proaching chariot. The great folding doors of the hall swing open. "Stand back!" cry the celestial ushers. "Stand back, and let the Judge of quick and dead pass through!" He takes the throne, and looking over the thorng cf nations he sayse: "Come t's judgment, the last judgment, the only judgment." By one flash from the throne all the his tory of each one flames forth to the vision or himself and all others. "Divide!" says the juge to the assembly. "Divide!" echo the walls. "Divide!" cry the the guards angelic. And now the immortals separate, rushing this way and that, and after awhile there is a great aisle between them, and a great vacuum widening and widening and the Judge, turnmng to the throng on one side, says, "He thai, is righteous, let him be righteous still; and he that is holy, let him be holy still," and then, turning towards the throng on the opposite side, he says, "He that is unjust, et him be unjust, still and he that is filthy let him be filthy still," and then, lifting one hand toward each group, he declares, "If the tree fall toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be." And then 1I hear something jar with a gi-eat sound. It is the closing of the book of judgment. The Judge ascends the stairs behind 1,he throne. The hail of the last assize is cleared and shut. The high court of etrm~ity is ad journed forever. Titiman and Dr. Cave. COLUMBIA, S. C., June 16.-Thenoi Louis Globe-L emocrat is said to cons of an expression of opinion from Goveich Tilman regarding the untimelinesdid the Rev. Dr. Cave's address in R St. mond in May. Governor Tillman tain not like the interview, and gave me this statement tor the press: "I have not seen the Globe-Democrat and do not feel altogether warranted in denouncing that as false which may not have appeared in that paper. All I have got to say is that it is another New York Herald fake if such a thing has appeared anywhere. I have not sent any such I telegram or even expressed any senti Sments like this, and while I did not read -D , Cave's utterances I yield to no man Sin admiration for tbe men who fought for the "Lost Cause." That cause was .jst, and the Confederate soldier is my highest type of a patriot." He also sent this telegrem: Globe-D~emocrat, St. Louis; Have you published as coming from me a telegram purporting to say: "Just so long as such infamous utterances are allowed to go on unrebuked just so long will our Northern brethern keep their distance" (In reference to D:. Caves's Richmond address) If so, you have been imposed on. I have not received any reonest for an opinion, and, therefore, have sent i none. Please answer. B. R. T111mam. - N reply was reeived this evening. A WAR OF WORDS. TILLMAN AND BUTLER LOCK HORNS IN DEAD EARNEST. Stormy Meetir g,4 at Chester Wnd Lancas tar-Great Exettement and Sme Year th %t Trouble Would Ar!se, But Fortun ately Everything Passed off Peaceably LANCASTER, S. C., June 21.-The meeting at Chester yesterday was red hot, and it is a wonder that there was not serious trouble. Governor Tillman was the first speaker. He said he was glad that his term as Governor was nearly out. He said he had a hard and stumpy road to travel, but that he had cleaned out everything in the road for the people, and that he was there ask ing to be sent to the United States Senate. The Governor said the farm ers were being legisIated into the poor house by the national government. Things in this State were kind of straight now, although they needed some changes. He told the people to watch the legislators. He said that for thirty years the laws of the national government have been made in the in terest of the classes against the mass es. Most legislation is aimed directly at the farmer. The result is a few millionaires and sixty million paupers. Ile said the people had been bambooz led and had sent men to Congress who sold them out. The Governor said that if he were sent to the Senate he t would try to turn things upside down. The Governor said he wanted to go to the Senate because he wanted to do something for the starving and down trodden farmers. A majority of the t Senators now in Congress worship 3 money and bow down to the golden t calf. Lots of them were millionaires. The people sometimes tore things up- I side down in the House of Representa- t tives, but the money power is en- t trenched in the Senate. Monopolies c and trusts control everything. He i went on to say that trusts and f combines buy Congress and buy Legis- d latures in some States to elect Senators. They have invaded South Carolina with their money and are trying to buy c you. He spoke of the Rock Hill Coxey t army hauled free by railroads and i jumped on the Richmond and Danville Road again. He told the whole free excursion plan to the delight of the audience. He said the blame for it lay among four-ButlerCleveland,whiskey or railroads. He said it may have made t Butler feel good to hear his friends cheer him, but it made Tillman feel a bad for Butler. He said: "I would beat Butler if I went back to Columbia and t never opened my mouth. (Cries of ( 'Yes.") but I want to get out with the a people." He said Butler had not got- I ten rich in the Senate, but had rubbed e up against millionaires so long that he r half way believed himself to be one and was incapable of representing the a people. About this time there was a single cheer for Butler. The Tillman- 1 ites yelled: "That's mighty weak." e Tillman brought up Butler's sup- s port of the nominees in 1890 and spoke some about Hampton. Butler had re- c sented in plain terms the rising up of the people and said that it would s amount to chaos. From that chaos the I Governor said arose Clemson and Win- t throp, and by it railroads and Coosaw I were whipped into submission. Butler t is not in sympathy with you. He has been away from home too long. As to what Butler had done he had distribu ted a few seeds, which Butler himself dmitted were of no account. He I ead Butler's letter to the Democratic , xecutive Committee and said it was mbiguous. He said he would leave c t to the committee to do what it peased. He was willing to abide the ( esult of the Democratic primaries. I When he got ready to leave the party , e would bet two-thirds of the party a ent with him. (Loud applause.) A BITTERl SPEECII. Senator Butler .was then introduced 1 ad spoke substantially as follows: 1 When I began this campaign I an ounced that I intended to say nothing hat would provoke trouble or excite-t ent and Governor Tlllman,in his firstc peech, said he wanted issues and pub-c lic measures only discussed. Yet atc E orkville, where he had the reply, he ut an insult upon my character that I ermit no man living to do without esenting. (This provoked some con fusion and tne crowd began to look outJ or squalls.) Gen. Btutler raised hisc oice vehemently and declared he pro osed to have a hearing and If he pun- t shed Tillman he must take his punish- I ent like a little man. Governor Till- i an charged or rather in a meanerc ay than that, by insinuation, innuedot ad suggestion, that I had a corrup tion fund from Wall Street or else- ] where with which to buy my seat into he Senate. I say in reply that he or ay other man who says so is an infa-c ous liar. When he has charges to ake against me as a man or as a Sen- I ator, let him come like a man of cour-t age and truth and specify, and not in-r ulge in the innuedo of a blackguard. The man has never lived (Voice: "Tell t.") and never will live who imputes ishonesty to me. Governor Tillman ay go to the Senate, but he shall nott go there slandering me. Let him go on his own merits, and not by misrep-t resenting and villifying better menc han he is. lie thinks I am not in f sympathy with the people of this State.I Voice: "Were you at Brandy Sta tion?." - Y es I was, and I1 am here today, and I will be with the Governor evsry day.t trust I have not got some of the de ects of his character whereby he ac- ' uses a man behind his back and the f ext day denies he said it.t Referring to the Governor's remarks] about the Coxeyltes at Rock Hill, Gen. 1 Butler pointed to some one in the 1 :rowd as one of the Uoxevites who :ame from .Edgefleld, and said that the Governor would no more dare to say toc that man that he was a tramp, if he were on equal terms with him, than he t would undertake to fly. Tillman had insulted these men bacause they hadc gone to Rock Hill without his con sent. He had been bossing this State t so long that he thought he had a right. title and interest to do it. Regarding I the Governor's remarks concerning his not having spoken in the heated cam-1 paign four years ago, Gen. Butler de clared that Tillman did not tell the< truth when he said the committee hadi invited him to speak in the canvass. He said: "I was systematically ignored. Gen. Hampton was invited and went to Aiken to speak and Tillman's myr midons howled him down and tried to disgrace that old man. I did not go to 1 the meetings because I was not invited and it appears to me it was a part of a design to keep me from the people. In 4 1892 1 tendered my services, but was not permitted to speak.I Some one asked about Ramburg and Gen. Butler said he was there, but didn't see Tillman. He had been told,1 though he didn't know how true itI was, that when the shooting began: Tilman couldn't be found. Tillmani said he was not in the war because he was too young, but some of his (But-: er's) couriers were younger than that. Tilman had claimed the credit for Clemson College, but the people knew that men like Tindal and Simpson had as much as anybody to do with it. Till man was always attacking somebody while that somebody was away. At Yorkville he had the indecency to lug Col. Mcilee's wife into his speech, but he would no more fing an Insult of that kind in McBee's face on terms of equality than he would attempt to pull up a tree by its roots. Gen. But ler said he had nothing to do with out side men being taken to Rock Hill; he didn't know who arranged it and did not care. Tillman admitted yesterday that some of his friends came on the same train and on free passes. Voice-"Given by your friends." Gen. Butler then exhibited the fa ,m,,s "Pas..n 1" err the Richmond and Danville, given to oveoTil man and family. Some one asked hir where he got it, and the Genereal repli ed that it was nobody's business wher he got it. Turning to Governor Tillman he asked him if he denied receiving thi pass. Governor Tillman-I do not and know the man who hauled these me gave it to you. (Applause.) Gen. Butler went on to say that whe Tillman "was caught with this Pa3 like a thief with stolen goods, he gav it up and threw himself behind hi wife." Taking oit of his pocket a copy 0 the State dispeneary report, Gen. Butle said he wanted to say that he hac eard no breath of;suspicion against an, )f the departments of the State govern ment. In an interview in the Nev York Herald, Governor Tillman sai that he alone was responsible for th iispensary. He says if he goes to thE enate he will not go junketing arouna Why did he junket in Cincinnati anC he West to buy whiskey to ram dowr he throats of the people? Cheers and counter cheers brough or good deal of confusion, and Governe rillman arose and assisted the chair nan in restering order. Continuing, the Senator said he had iot gone junketing while in Congress Chirty days would cover every day h iad been absent on his own account lince he was first elected to the Senate, Reading fr->m the report of the dis >ensary, Gen. Butler said that the as ets.according to the reports, footed up 280,347.37 and the liabilities the same; >ut instead of that, the former really mounted to only $260,634.16, a short ge of $19,000. Where is it, said he i an Governor Tillman account for it? las any of it struck in his pocket, o be used as a campaign fund to bribe ou? I leave it to him to account for hat, and if he can, nobody will be ore delighted than myself. Gen. But er read from the reports, saying that he purchase of wines was shown here without giving prices or tuanity, and yet they call that an tonest administration of the public unds. There Is over $5,000 marked own here in this way for one quarter, iving no explanation, except the gross uantity of all the various kinds pur nased. How much of that $5,000 is to e used as a corruption fund to buy is way into the United States Senate? AVoice: "GA knows." I wonder if he stays there for six ears if any money will stick to his ocket! Speaking of the Governor's statement hat any Reformer who got office under eveland was looked on with suspicion s having been bought, Gen. Butler ointed to United States Marshal Hun er, and said that he was appointed by leveland, that he was a Reformer and sked the crowd if he was bought. his was answered by cries of "Nev r!" and Mr. Hunter said he defied any aan to say he was bought. Gen. Butler said he knew of only one ppointment given this State at his re nest. It was well known that Cleve ind did dot Incline to him on account f his position on finance at the extra ession. Answering the charge that United tates Senators had raised money to lp him In his canvass, Gen. Butler tated that his brother Senators had 'oluntarily offered to do so, but that e had declined to let them. The man vho said he had a corruption fund for hat or any other purpose was a liar. le charged Governor Tillman with aving perpetrated a deliberate slau er on the United States Senate. There ras less money among the members Low than in ante bellumi times. These sen would not be purchased half as uickly as the man who made the barges. There was Gordon and Walsh, forgan and Pugh, Berry, Jones, Vest, ockerill, Black~burnl and Daniel and indsay. Southerh men against rhom the breath of slander was never eard until today when this man made t1 base charges. When I asked him if he would put Ls chances on voting in a separate ox he pretends that he does not under tand it. If he daresubmit to a prim ay I will beat him three to one before he people. But when I have got to ontend with the rings and packed onventins he has built up I am at a lisadvantage. And I quote his friend ,d associate Senator Irby, when I peak of rings in the State House, I have a theory about that dis pensa v and I believe it was put through by illman to be used as a political ma hine to send him to the United States enate. Under that law he had a right o appoint ten thousand constables to ehis political workers, and we read n the newspapers that when the de :ision of the Supreme Court, declaring he law unconstitutional, came, he aid it paralyzed him. I don't wonder. .t broke up his political smoke house. The Legislature gave him $50,000 to tart the dispensary with, but instead if that he %oor several hundred thou and and exceeded his authority. 11 iave nown the clerks in Washington o go two months without their sala les, because Congress had not appro iriated money therefor. Cleveland ever dares to exceed an amount ap ropriated. The system of accountability under hat dispensary law is loose, and over 1l9,000 is unaccounted for in one quar er. The next time the Governor harges me with having a corruption und, I would rather him specify it. Voice: "Tell us what you have done i the Senate." Butler: "I have done my best. I don't :now whether I could satisfy. you if I rought on the millenium." (Laugh Gen. Butler made light of Govemnor llman's professions as to being a armer, declaring that he had plowed wenty furrows to the Governor's one. e had not seen where the Governor iad benefitted the State. I voted for Lm twice, and I hope the Lord will for :ive me for it. He said the Governor's rother. Congressman Tillman, had ignifed his office and had rnot gone bout standing .and villifying men as he Governor had. The Senator said he knew the causes depression better than- Tillman did Ld he had more chance of correcting he evils than Tdliman, because he had settled line of action, while the Gov irnor's scheme was only abuse. He vonld not undertake, like Tillman, vhle professlng Democracy, to pull Lown ne pillars of Demoaery on all ur heads, The Democratic party had ts faults and he had been disappoined n some particulars, but some of its ledges had been carried uot. He ioped that the party would next time )ut forward a man at the head of the ~overnment who could do the people's il as Mr. Cleveland had not done. Ihe President had no right to veto the leigniorage bill. In the great struggle len. Butler declared he would be found lways on the side of the people. To 1s own personal detriment he had Ltood for the people. When he condiuned Chairman B3ar :er stated that the Governor wished to nake a brief explanation, but Gen. Butler said that he had himseif made ;he same reqaut at Yorkville atter the lovernor's speech and it had been re tused, and htpreferred that the Gover sor take his hances at the next meeting. TILLAEPLIEs TO BUTLER. At this plate today Governor Till man replied to the speech of Senator BatIer made at Chester yesterday, and wilich is given above. When Tillman was intrednced he began by saying that hehad doie more work than all Lhe Governors since the war and he wanted to be sent to the Senate, be cause he believei he could be of equal service there. Replying to Gen. But Ler's remarks a', Chester yesterday, he said that every imaginable indignity had been heaped upon him and that it was blacker and fouler than had been made against any :nan. "!u took them;'" shouted Yancey Sherrard, a well known drummer. 'swill tell you why I took them, you 30ardly hound. I will meet you We.ev.r you want to," repliedl theI - Governor. "I took them because I am a Governor of South Carolina and I can- s not afford to create a riot on the public e platform." t Mr. Sherrard made some'reply that 8 was inaudible on account of the noise r created by the crowd, which became U I agitated at this sensational incident. a 1 Scores of men jumped up and gathered 81 about Mr. Sherrard and various cheer. r 1 ing and hurrahing ensued. A number I , of ladies left ;heir seats quickly and g a moved away, aad the Governor called 3 to them to return, that nobody would d be hurt and that the "few little pup- g f pies barking around here can have tl r their tails and necks both cut off, if v I they want to." it F After quiet had been restored the a Governor continued his. speech as fol- f< r lows: Gen. Butler's pretense was that I P had insulted him. The insult was that ix I said at Rock Hill that 800 men P had been hauled there free to hurrah for aim. I had ridiculed them as the a new Coxeyites, the tools of the corpo- h rations, and I said that somebody had ti money to spend and that there was a st corruption fund, and that somebody f had the disbursing of it. I said if he O3 did do it let him say so. If the railroads did not do it let the superintendent, al who is here say so. "There is no doubt that Wall Street, R through Cleveland's influence, has p raised a corruption fund to buy your Senatorship. If he felt aggrieved, as th an old neighbor of mine, couldn't he have said to me, "Did you mean to say it that I am responsible for this?" This is the way he should have done if he yc had been a gentleman. He was glad of pr an excuse to assume the attitude of bulldozer and of saying things by innu- M endo, which he knows the men of sa Edgelield don't take. If an insult :s Gi offered in Edgefield there is a fight or th a funeral. Gen. Butler had declared dL that he was to pitch this campaign on de a high plane, but in an interview at H: Darlington for the Associated Press he sp characterized me asA bully and brag gart, yet when I mot him at Rock Hill Bt I addressed myself solely to the issues. of His speech was made up of innuendoes sa: and personalitie. ml At Yorkville he confined himself to br the issues and at that meeting I ex- op posed the new Coxey business and I Gi intend to ke!p it to his back as a mus- th: tard plastr, until it is explained. pr From henceforth I shall denominate T1 him as 'ICoxey Butler." (Liughter si< from tle crowd and "That's right," un from Ga. Butler.) 1 thought we had Bi too mudi State pride to show ourselves mi that wa: before the world, until the ne General disgraced himself by accusing ag the Govrnor of being a bully, brag- roi gart, covard and thief. He don't make he these chrges directly. He out-innuen dos inniendo, if there is such a thing tic possible. When he opened his mouth au and put tut his tongue to see if it was 00 bitter, it only stunk from the foul pe words. ne The Gevernor said he beat Sheppard tu' for Goienor 1,500 votes in his own be county md he would beat Gen. Butler SiC more thm that there. lai I can fford, said he, to show records lei with hiD, both public and private, but ty I will nft speak of all the things noto- Pli riously surrent about his private rec- an ord, bemuse 1 don't fight that way. I . believe him honest, notwithstanding im the Chalwick lottery in Charleston in bri 1874. Ye forgave him that mistake, m1 notwitlstanding we lost our money In1 and he is supposed to have made a It great dial by it. Soiling another will Sh not make oneself clean. I defy him, YO the w(rld, the flesh and the devil to oring anything against my private so, record. The young man who says I he took his Insults, and I suppose he was me a Coxeyite, and a fair sample of the he men collected on the stand at Chester, Da to curse me, I tell you the honest truth, ' my pulse never quickened the one-six- we teenth ofan incn. orc As he made the remarks Mr. John sot Dunnoyant, who had been at the Ches-.~ the ter meeting, jumped upon the stand cal leaned over the stage railing and told Go the Governor tnat nie wanted to ask roc him a question. He was very cairr. rio Before ne could propound his questica ( the chairman and several wparshals nol hollowed out to him to get down from the stanid andnot interrupt the speak- ?11 er. Dunnovant insisted on putting nis ma question, buta dozen persons clustered cot around him and attempted to drag i him froma the stage. He persisted that as he simply wanted to ask a question he but that he didn't care to be pulled. he down. ?owever, he finally got down he c-.i the tround in some way and an wb ..xcited cowd gathered arond him as 0oc he was iey determinedly telling the Ge marshals to take their hands off of pet him andlht him alone. Ga Duringall this commotion Governor in, Tillman itarted to resume his speech, as sayingh had no man going around 'j with afn to act as a bully; that the cor people vere his protectors. About Fe this timethere was a sort of ,incipient apl volcano aging behind the stage where an' the Cnieer man stood in the midst of wo excited 'riends and foes. Hie sung the out that'if Tiliman told him to move. agi (.-d d-1 him, he wouldn't go." At thia number of persons shouted the "kill hirr' and It looked as if the volca- agi no woulchelch forth ire. People be- wa gan runmg to the rear of the stage, ria while Dunovant stood cool andI deh-~ me ant tellig the marshals to take their ov, hands ol1im: that he was doing noth- gir lng. Goernor Tillman sung out that Cle he did ne know who ho was, but- if pla they ha:1ny law in Lancaster, they had the better tae him to jail. Some effort thi was evenmally made to do this, but Sin Dunnovat's friends stuck to him and ste a clash semned imminent, his "Where is Butler?" shouted someju one. ma "Right own there in the thick of it, Pai as he alwg's Is when there is danger," '] shouted aioice,- pointing to the lion- hir like form of Gen. Butler, who was get standing ithe midst of the excited wo crowd doig his utmost to pacify them. pre By thatintervention of providence the which is emetimes thrown between wo life and dsth, order was restored and tio: the Govelor renewed his speech. yea "Gen,Buter may just as well under- 1 stand," sal he, "that such unseemly at! and disgrceful conduct is not going stil to phase re one iota. He is the beat tha man, Iannot. I am not going to be i intlmidatd. They have talked so coni much abat killing me that I think I we am going o live as long as the L ord j irends m to. ' i will raw take up some of Butler's wo false ssaiments. He says that the he:] execuiveomnmittee did not invite him ter to speak i 1890. I can't prove now bat that they did, but the records will goc show thathe Invitation was ordered I to he sent o him. If It wasn't sent he ern can't chare me with it, and his state- pro mentthat. was in a plot to keep hlim tres from spealing is unworthy of him. ie the says :hat lasked Strait to aid in tight- ed ing him. Pshaw! The man who has unc handed Earle, Orr and Sheppard gy doesnt ned any help to handle one cou more 3wper.ias Col. Medee is here and I will repeat had what isall about his wife at Yorkville. whi I simp.~9aid that some newspaper had S said thattis wite ought to leave him of because h had allowed me to sleep in Till his room i his private car going to the Washingtn. T urning to Col. McBee, Ithe1 the Goveror stated that he had made T this remai in perfect good humor and the inquired Ilhe considered it insulting. sar: (Go1. Mclee arose, his stalwart form the straihenng to its full length, and thal looked theovernor squarely in the hot' eye, mnd todi him he would tell him ex- was actlywhatae thought about it. Said scm he: "this s a political campaign in beel whici I ha'e no interest. I have not aski attenied tbase meetings and do no: ex -how pect b atted them, except where I G may lave insiness, and ( overnor Till- and man Isay ti you now that so far as it. Mrs. 5cBees name is concerned you sari must beep i; ou~t of this- campaign.' ig Cl.McB e uttered these words in a Rl deter~ned sianner and with emphasis for and he raised a torrent of applause. ern< Govern~r Tmllman started to say some- and thing ad Col. McBee told him he did tim The 'iovernor-1 will discuss yo >me more yet. Col. McBee-But don't you dare sa oythio about her. Governor Tillman then said- A ght, if Col. McBee considered he ha Sed her name unwarrantably he woul pologize for it. He went on to sa )>iething about Gen. Butler havin ade reference so his wife, and Ger utler immediately replied: "I apolt ze for that." There was some little excitemen aring this snappy dialogue, and Leat many Dersons closed up arouni ie stand. Governor Tillman said h 'ould repeat to Col. McBle's face tha he, as superintendent of the Riet .ond and Danville, was responsibl r these men being carried on fre sses, he would declare that it was ai terference with the liberty of th, .ople by the corporations. The G overnor declared that the state ent made by Gan. Butler, when hi ld up a pass at Caester, yesterday at it wa;is the original pass No. 1 is ed t,- him by 'Bunch" McBep, wa ,Ise. Col. McBee did not have thi iginel pass. "I have it myself." There was loud applause for Tillmai this. Whera did Butler get it? said he is friend, McBee took one of h sses and wrote a duplicate of it. Uol. McBee: "I will bet you *35,00( at it is the original pass." G overnor Tillman: "It is not. I sam in my drawer, last year." Col. McBee: "I will certainly breal u for the money on that and wil ove it by your own correspondence. rhis brought the cheers for Cal. ,Bee. Governor Tillman went on t< ' that Col. McBee was a kinsman o: n. Butler and they were as thick a. eves. I will characteriza his con ct as I please. said he, and until hi ies that he took those men to Rodb il I will stick it to him as being re )ndsible for it. rhe Governor then took up Gen tler's statement as to the shortag( $19,000 as shown in the State dispen y report. He declared that the untain had labored and had not even >ught forth a mouse. On the ver3 posite page of the report from which n. Butler read, it would be seen thal s $19,000 was an omission of th< nter and was inserted afterward e report was made up by C:mmis ner Traxler and he never saw i til it was sent to him. Yet Gen. Ltler accused him of stealing publi( ney. (Applause for Tillman.) The Kt time Butler made any charges ainst him he had better see if his :k was not a lump of cotton. before pitched it. Lie Governor said the second sec n of the dispensary act gave him thority to use more than the $50, ) appropriated for starting the dis asary. Under that sectioa the mo 7 from the county dispensaries waw ned over to the State Treasurer tc drawn by the dispensary commis n when necessary. Holding up the v, Governor Tillman asked Gen. But if he, as a lawyer, denied his authori to use this money. Gen. Butler re ed that he would read one section i answer it tomorrow. Lhe Governor said that Butler had itated his friend Haskell, who had )ught up his war record and inti ted that he was a coward for not go in the war when he was an invaild, was not generous in him to do so, ime on you, said be brave soldier that i are. ren. Butler denied that he had done and Governor Tillman replied that had a very treacherous memory aning Gen. Butler's statement that ought to have led the military to rlington. he Governer said that his enemies ce praying for him to go there ii er thiat they might kill him. .Jeffer Davis and Lincoln did not follow~ r armies around, but stayed in their itals directing their troops. The vernor said he could prove that fle e down the street at the Hamburg ;with Gen. Butler. 'n. Butler said he remembered hIng about it. he Governor scouted the idea of a lan being a co ward, when six Till. ns had given their blood for their tntry. ef erring to Gen. Butler's statement ;o the large amount of money thai had spent for lawyers' fees while had been Governor. Tillman stated had only spent $9,000 altogether, le Smythe alone nad been paid $15, by A. P. Butler in one case. .As 1. Butler was such a fine lawyer the 'pe had better make him Attorney ieral, though Buchanan, do wn there 3olumbia, "could black and sell him s lawyer." ~he Governor declared that the rich porations of the country owned the ieral iudiciary. Every judge now ointed was put tnere by Wall street I they never put a man there whc aid not stretch the Contitution in interests of the money power inst the people. le scored Judge Simnouton and said t the only reason thiat he decided inst the Richmond and Danville 3 because the L egislature haa memo ized Congress and because in his ssage he had blistered his back all r. Ten days after he had shown ionton up as a tool of the railroads, veland had put him in Judge Bond's ce. He was just the kind of fellow t they wanted there to control ogs. Gen. Butler knew all about ionton's tyranny and invasion of te rights, but he never opened mouth in the Senate against it. He t said: "Simonton is the kind of n I want. He is 'Bunch's' friend. s him along." ~he Governor declared, so help 1, God, the people who had tried to the Agricultural Ha-ll in Columbia ad never get it. Before the Su me Court affirmed the decision in ir favor, Secretary of State Tindal nd be out of oflice and the litiga i would be kept on for a hundred a regard to his meeting Ben Terrell partinburg, the Govenor said he I occupied the identicial position the occupied in Spartanburg. [e asked Gen. Butler what had be ie of him at Batesburg when Tom tson annihillated him. utler: "Oh, he used me up." he Governor went on to say he ild not call Butler his triend until iad apologized to him, but that af he had given his back a few more ings he would be a right sort of a di fellow. 'iscusing the dispensary, the Gov r said that they now had a net it of $93,003 to turn into the State sury. In the town of A bberville prolts from the dispensary amount o more than they had ever had er any other system. There was 00 to be devied between town and ty, and what the county got was that much picked up, as it had never gotten any money from skey before. >me one in the crowd said that all the clod-hoppers would vote for man and the Governor replied that general had better quit the race ouching Gen. Butle's re.marks as to purchase of wines by the dispen r without giving the quantities in ofiicial reports, the Governor silid these wines were bougth for the ls at Coarleston arnd Aiten. There vouchers in Columbia for every trila of liquor brought. Beer had i brought by the car load, and he ad Gen. Butler how he could tell -many gallons there were. en. atler said he did not know, that it was not his business to run "Well, youbhad better let it alone," I Governor Tiliman, it is being run hty well now. egarding Gen. Butler's propositM an a separate senatorial box, the C . r said the .a.heme was to buy votes put in that box as they did last Sfor Sheppard. This ended the mu y d ,OYA E.01 a AKIN ePOWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream or tartar bakIng powder Highest of all in leavening strength.-La - test United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 WaU St., N. Y. WEEKLY WEATHERREPORT. Conditions or the Crops Tbroaghouat Soath Caroltna. COLUMBIA. o. C., June 20.-The fol lowing is the report of Director B tuer for the week ending June 17: The reports repceived cover weather and crop conditions during the week ending on the 17th only, and do not , therefore, rellect the changed condition which the rains of Sunday and Monday (17th and 18th) have made. It seems that rain was the only thing wanting to put all crops in prime condition, that unless rain came soon many fields would be hopelessly ruined, and as the propect for rain seemed as far off as ever, a gloomy view was taken by many correspondents, of the crop outlook; the rain has come, and as f Ar as known at this office, the suo wers co7ered the Western and central portions of the State and very likely extended to the coast, so that a more hopeful view can well be taken. The temperature for the week was slightly belo w the norma the nights being exceptionally cool while the days were hot and sultry. On the 13th maximum temperatures of from 100 to 105 degrees were noted. The sunshine was about seasonal, with dense haze during the early week. There were light showers on the 13th Wed2e3day) evening and night in many portions of the State but they were altogether insufficient to relieve the drought though they freshened vegetation considerably. Growing crops of all kinds were in splendid con dition to profit by the rain fall, being clean and well worked so that during the latter part of the week plows and hoes were generally idle. While all field crops needed rain bad ly theyhad not suffered much Impair ment, except gardens which are liter ally dried up an early corn which Is tasseling low and cannot now recover to yield a full crop, or one proportion ed to the stand it has. Late planted cern is small but vigorous and healthy and clean. The drought hurt cotton less than other crops although the plant made but slow growth. The stand ranges from fair to very 'good. The plant is small and backward, being from two to three weeks under seasonal growth, but clean and free from grass and weed's and generally In shape to profit by more favorable weather conditions. It is beginning to fruit and a few blooms have been noted, first on the 12th. the flowering 18, however, by no means general as yet. Rice, sorghum, tobacco, etc., all felt the adverse effects of the dry weather and as the weather impr oves can be expected to make rapid Improvement. Some peas have been sown but most farmers were forced to wait until the - rain softened the stubble land enough to permit preparing the ground. The transplanting of sweet potatoes setting was practically suspended but will no doubt be resumed as the soil becomes tit. Native melons will be on the mar ket within the next two weeks, but the early crop will be smaller than usual. Some few ripe ones have been - noted in the Southeastern portion of the State. On the whole, crop prospects are, at this time not discouraging, and will continue to improve for some time. It cannot, however, be denied that there has been a great and irreparable cur tailment in the food products compared with former years, when the fact is taken in consideration that there wll be but a small quantity, instead of the usually abundant fruit crop, and that the vield of thle late planted gardens will be nextto nothing while the e arly planted gardens were destroyed by the March freez?. No heavy rainfalls re ported. Semid Him Risht. WAsHINGToN, Ju~e l8. -A spaclal from Atlanta saye: Dr. Wright, resid ing near Fore, tb. Ga., just after supper Saturday was called to go on a profes sional visit t1, a pitient several miles away. Dairius h is absencs a negro nam ed Ogletree w..nt to his hiouse and out raged Mrs. Wright. A posse was or ganized and isnegro was captured this morning. Is was recognized by his victim and :rmerliatalv hanged by a mob. A paper was p.d.1d on his coat with the words: "Tried and found guilty. All others found guilty of such crimes will be dis posed of in the same way. We are here to protect the wometu. ("Signed) 29'7 Citizens." Mrs. Wright is in a critical condition. Kiled by GrIet. SUTr, June 22.--Mes Juius N. Spann. whose maiden name was Susan Ann Yeadon, died here very suddenly today upon the receipt of a telegram from Americus, Ga., annonacing the death of her son, Bennie, at that place this morning. The shock was so great that she swooned sway and was dead iin a rew minutes. Bennie's body will ar. rive here tomorrow afternoon and there will be a double funeral on tomrrow af ternoon or Sunday morning, as may be decided upon by the family tomorrow. This sad occurrence has cast a great a loom over our city. H ad Rim Treed. ATLANTA, June 22.-Jane Gates, a mulatto woman, who is a lunatic, emp tied a -e~volver at Harry Hardy, who, she bald, had conjured her child to death, Ha dy was engaged in trimming trees in front of the Gates woman house. Hie was up a tree when she began firing at him. He scrambled to the ground in a great hurry and run oft. As he run the woman winged him twice, but neither wound is serious. The Gates woman is demented and will be sent to the asy luma. Lois Tritton, the last slave sold In New Haven, died Sunday night at her home in that city. She was born in Halifax, N. S., Christmas Eve 1799, and was a slave up to 1825. when she and her sister were sold on Ne w Haven Green to Anthony P. Sanford for $10, under an execution issued on a former utn ent against hero wner. TuIEE is a gun in the British navy, a 22-ton Armstsong, which hurls a solid shot a distance or twelve miles, the highest point in the arc described by the shot being 17,000 feet above the earth's surface. The discharges of the gun cannot be heard at the place where tl ball strikes.