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GOLDEN HOURS, GOLDEN D AV.% Everything has beauty in it In the world that 'round us lies, Lifting up each waking minute, Giving joy to longing eyes, That shall fill the hours with praise - Golden hours made golden days. By us joys are ever flyinlg, Let us make our hearts their snare, Let us share the sweetness- lini All about us everywhere Let us walk in happy ways Golden hours make golden days. Troubles come but they are fleeting; soon their shadows will go by. As the clouds the sunlight meeting, Pass and show the azure sky. Life is full of sunny rays Golden hours make golden da5 s. LIVES WORTH LIVING. Those That Les d t, an Ex ettErce That Nevir Ends. BRooKLYN, July 22.-Rev. Dr. Tal mage, who is now touring in the Aus tralian cities, has chosen as the su j-ct for today's sermon through the press "Worth Living," the text beins taken from Lamentations lii, 39, "Wheref're doth a living man complain?" Uf we live to the evolutionists to guess where we came from and to the theolo gians to prophesy where we are going to, westill have left for cousideration the important fact that we are bere. There may be some doubt about where the nver rises and some doubt about where the river empties, but there can be no doubt abcut the fact that we are sailing on it, so I am not surprised that every body asks the qusstion, -Is life worth living?" Solomon in his unhappy moments says it is not. "Vanity," "vexation of spirit," "no good," are his estimate. The fact is that Solomon was at one time a polygamist, and that soured his disposition. One wife makes a man hap py; more than cne makes him wretched. But Solcmon was converted from polv gamy to monogamy, and the last words be ever wrote, as far as we can read them, were the words, "Mountains of spices." But Jeremiah says in my text lfe is worth hving. In a book supposed to be doleful and -lugubrious and sepulchral and entitled "Lamentations" he plainly intimates that the blessing of merely living is ao great and grand a blessirg that though a man have piled on him all mitfortunes and disasters he has no right to complain. The author c f my text cries out in start lng intonation to all lands and to all centuries. "Wherefore doth a living man complain?" A diversity of opinion in our times as well as in olden time. Here is a ycung man of light hair and blue eyes and sound digestion and genercu3 salary and happily 'flianced and on the way to become a partner it a commercial firm of which he is an important clerk. Ask him whether life is worth living. Me will laugh in your face and say, Yes, yes, yes!" Here is a man who has come to the forties. He is at the tiptop of the hill of lifS. Every step has been a stumble an a bruiae. The peo ple he trusted have turned out deserters, and the money he has honestly made be has echeaten out of. His nerves are o- cut of tune. He has a poor appetite, and all the food he eat does not assimi late. Forty miles climbing up the hill of life have been to him like climbing the Matterhor, and there are 40 miles yet to go down. and descent is always more dangerous than ascent. Ask him whe ther life is worth living, and he will drawl out in shivering and lugubrious and appalling negative, "No, no, no!" How are we to decide this matter righteously and intelligent11? You will gand the same man vacillating, oscillat ing in his opinion from dejection to exu berance, and it he be very mercurial in his temperament it will depend very much upon which way the wind blows. If the wind blow from the northwest, and you ask him, lie will say "Yes." and if it blow from the northeast, and you ask him, he-will say "No." How are we, then, to get the question right souly answered? Suppose we call all nations together in a erest convention onf eastern or western hemisphere and let all those who are in the affirmative say "Aye" and all those who are in the negative say "No." -While there would be hundreds of thousands who would answer in the af firmative' thera would be more millions ' who would answer in the n-gative, and because of the greater number dho hare -sorrow and misfortune and trouble the "noes" would have it. The answer I shall give will be different from either, and yet it will commend itself to all who hear me this day as the right answer. If you ask me, "Is life worth liviag?" I1 -answer, it all depends upon the kind of life you live. In the first place, I1 remark that a life of mere mgney getting is always a fail ure, because you will never get as much as you want. The poorest people in this 'country are the richest and next to them those who are half as rich. There is not a scissors grinder on the streets of New York or Brooklyn who is so anxious to make money as these men who have piled up fortunes year after year in storehouses, in government secu rities, in tenement houses, in whole city blocks. You ought to see them jump when they hear the firc bell ring. You ought to see them in their excitement when some bank explodes. You ought to see their agitation when there fs pro. posed a reformation in the tariff . Their nerves tremble like harp strings but no music in the vibration. They read the reports from Wall street in the morning with a concernment that threatens para lyesi or apoplexy, or more probably they have a telegraph or a telephone in their own house, so they catch every breath of change in the money market. The disease of accumulation has eaten into them-eaten into their heart, into their lunge, into their spleen, into their liver, into their bones.: Chemists have sometimes analyzed the human body, and they say it is so 'much magnesia, so much time, so much chlorate of potassium. If some Chris tiani chemist would analyze one of these financial shohemoths, he would find he is made up of copper and gold and silver and zic and lead and coal and iron. That is not a life worth living. There are too many earthquakes in it; too many perditions In it too many agonies in it. They build their castles, and they open their picture gal leries, and they summon prima donnas, and they ofier e'ier inducement for hap piness to come and live there, but hap piness will not come. They send footmanned and portilioned equipage to bring her. She will not ride to their door. They send princely escort. She will not take their arm. They make their gateways triumphal arches. She will not ride under them. They set a golden throne before a gol den plate. She turns away from the banquet. They call to her from uphol stered balcony. She will not listen. Mark you, this is the failure of those who have had large accumulation. And then you must take into consid eration that the vas'. majority of those who make the dominant idea of life money getting fall far short of afliuence. It is estimated that only but two cut of a hundred business men have anything worthy the name of success. A man who spends his life with the one domi nant idea of financial accumulation spends a life not worth living. *So the idea of worldly approva. It that be dominant in a man's life, he is miserable. The two most unfortunate men in this country for the six months of next presidential campaign will be tvo men nominated for the pesecy. The remve~ < f ae ' am diatribe and m2 iCd:Ctiou will oradualhI till u~s i e kv ,zallon. hoi'shad above ho!shead, and about :iu u these two r: serroirs will be brming fall, aut a hsr-e wil! be at taclhed] to Each one, and it will play away on these nominees, and they will have tn stard it and take the abuse, and the falsehcod. and the caricature, and the anathema, andI the catcrwauling, and the filh, and they will be. rolied in it and relied ovcr and over in i , until they are cbcked and submergc(d and strangulated, en . at every s of re turnini conseciusress they will be bark ed at by SIl the hcunds of phLtical par ties frc m ccean to , cean. And Net theie are a hundred men today strrggling for that privilege., and therz are thousaus of men who are helpou them ii the struggle, NoIw, that is nota life worth h1ving. You can ue. slandered and abused cheaper that that. Take it-on a smaller scale. Do :ot be so ambitious to have a whcle reservo:r rolled over on you. But w hat N cu see in the matter of high political preferment you see in ev Ery c)MmunitY ri the struggle for what is called social posmon. Tens ot thousands of people tr)iu( to Let into that rcahn,. aud they are. uder terridc tensicn. What is social po3itior? ItL is a d fiiculL thing to defne but we all know what it is. Good morals and in telligence are not necessary. but wealth or show of wealth is absolutely indiepen sable. There are men today as notori ous for their libertinism as the night is famous for its darkness who move in what is called high social position. There are hundreds .f cu end out rakes in American sccity whose names are mentioned among the distinguisbed guests at the great levees. They have annexed all the known v:ces and are longing for other worlds of diabolism to corquer. Good morals are not necessa ry in many of the exalted circles of so ciety. Neither is iitefligen ae necessiry. You find mn that re-lm men who would not know an Ad verb from an adjective if they met it a hundred times a day, and who could not write a letter of acceptance or regrets without the aid of a secretary. They buy their libraries by the Equare yard, only anxious to have the binding Russian. Their ignorance is positively sublime, makig English grammar al most disreputable. And yet the finest parlors open Lefore them. Good morals and intelligence are not necessary, bat wealth or a show of wealth is absolutely indispensable. It does not maae any difference how you got your wealth if you only got it. The best way for you to get into social position is for you to buy a large amount on credit, then put your property in your wife's name, have a few preferred creditors and then make an assignment. Then disappear from the community until the bretz . is over, and then come back and start in the same business. Lo ycu not see how beautifully that will put out all the peo ple who are in competition with You and trying to make an honest living? How quilckly it will get you into high social position. What is the use of 40 or 50 years of hard work when you can by two or three bright strokes make a reat fortune? Ah, my friends, when you really lose your money, how quick they will let you drop, and the higher you get the harder you will drop. There are thousands in that realm to day who are anxious to keep it. There are thousands in that realm who are nervous for fear they will fall cut of it, and there are changes going on every year, and every month, and every hour which involve heartbreaks that are never reported. High social life is constantly in a flutter about the delicate questian as to whom they shall let in and whom they shall push out, and the battle is going on-pier mirror against pier mir ror, chandelier against chandelier, wine cellar against wine cellar, wardrobe aainst wardrobe, equipage against equi page. Uncertainty and insecurity domI nant in that realm, wretchedness en throned, torture at a premium, and a life not worth living. A life of sin, a life of pride, a life of indulgence, a lite of worldiness, a life d'e voted to the world, iLhe flesh and the devil is a failure, a dead failure, an in finite failure. I care not how many pres. ets you sent that cradle or how many garlands you send to that grave, you need to put right under the name on the tombstone this inscription: "Better for that man if he had never been born." But I shall show you a life that is worth living. A young man says: "I am here. I am not responsible for an cestry. Others decided that. I am not responsible for my temperament. God gave me that. But here I am in the afternoon of the nineteenth century at 20 years of age. I am here, and I must take an account of my stock. Here]I have a body which is a divinely con structed engine. I must put it to the vary best uses, and I must allow noth ig to damage this rarest of machinery. T wo feet, and .they mean locomotIon. Two eyes, and they mean capacity to pick out my own way. Two ears, and they are telephones of communication with all the outside world, and they mean capacity to catch sweetest music and the voices of friendship-the ry best music. A tongue, with almost in finity of articulation. Yes, hands with which to welcome or resist or~ lift or s-ite or wave or bless-hands to help myself and help others. "Here is a world which after C,000 years of battling with tempest and acci dent is still grander than any architect, human or angelic could have drafted. I have two lamps to light me-a golden lamp and a silver lamp, a golden lamp set on the sapphire mantel of the day, a silver lamp set on the jet mantle of the nmght. Yea, I have that at 20 y ears of age which defies all inventory of val uables-a soul, with capacity to choose i reject, to rejoice or to suffer, to love or to hate. Plato says it is immor'al. Seneca says it is immortal. Confui cius says it is immortal. "An old book among the family relics a book with leathern cover almost worn out and pages almost obliterated by oft perusal, joins the other books in saying I am immortal. I have S0 years for a lifetime, C0 years yet to live. I may not live an hour, but then I must lay cut my plans intelligintly and for a long life. Sixty years added to the 201I have already lived, that will bring me to 80. I must remember that these 80 years are only a brief preface to the tive hun dred thousand millions of qumntiilhons. of years which will be my chief residence and existence. Now I understand my opportunities and my responsibilities. "If there is any being in the universe all wise and all benedcient who can help a man in such a juncture, I want. him. The old book found among. the family relIcs tells me there is a God, and that fr the sake of his son, one Jesus, he will give help to a man. To him 1 ap peal. God help me! Here I have yet 6 years to do for myself and to do for others. I must develop this body by all industries, by all gymnastioc:, by all sun shine, by all fresh air, by all good habits. And this soul 1 must have swept and garnished and illumined and gloriled by all that I can do for it and all that I can get God to do for it. It shall be a Lux embrg of fine p~ctures. It shall be an orchestra of grand harmonies. It shall be a palace for God and righteousness to reign in. I wonder how many kind words I can utter in the next CO years. I will try. I wonder how many good deed3 I can do in the next 00 years. I1 will try. God hellp me!" Thatyoung man enters life. He is buf fete; he is tried; he is perplexed. A grave opens on this side, and a grave opens on lie gets into a lard battle, but he eis the victorv. The Im liu course of hits ;l;e is in the ri ht direction. He blesses everybody be comes in contact with. God forg:ves his mistakes and makes everlastinz rpcird of his holy endeavors, an] at the ccse of it God sao to him, "Well done, good and faithful servani; enter into the i >s of thy Lord." MV brother. my sisLer, I do not care whether thaL man dies at 30, 40, 50, NO, 0 cr SO years (f ege. You can ch's %l rigIht under hIs Inie on the tombstone these words: "His lie was worth !!vine." Amid the hills cf New hAmpshire in oiden times there sits a mother. Tncre are six childrenin the household-1our boys and two girls. S nall fsrm. Very rough, hard work to ciax a livring cut of it, M hty tu.:s to make two ends of the sear meet. Tie b ys imo to school in winter and work the farm in summer. Mother is the chief presiding spirit. With her hands she knits all the stockings for the little feet, an1 she is the mantua maker for th! hoVS, and she is the milli ner for the giris. There is only one mu,leal instrument :n the house-the spinning wheel. The tbod is very plain, but it is alwlSs well provided. The winters are very cold, but are kept out by the blankets she quilted. Oa San day when she appears in the village church, her children around her, the ministei looks down and is reminded ot th-t bible descrition of a good house wife: "Her children arise up aud call her blessed. Her husband also, and he pralseth her." Some years ao by, and two eldest boys want a collegiate education, and thrie household econombs are severer, and Lhe calculations are closer, and until those two boys get their edacation there is a hard battle for bread. 0.ie of these boys enters the university, stands in a pulpit widely influential and preac'2es righteousness. jadgment and temperance and thousands during his ministry are blessed. The other lad who got the col legiate education goes into the law, and thence into legislative hills, and after awhile he commands listening- senates as be makes a plea for the downtrodden and the outcast. Oae of the younger boys becomes a merchants, startin'g at the foot of the ladder, but climbiog on up until his succeess and his philanthro. pies are recognized all over the land. The other son stays at home because he prefers farming life, and then he thinks he will be able to take care 'of father and mother when they get old. Of the two daughters, when the war broke out, cue went through the hospit als of Pittsburg Landing and Fortress Monroe, cheering up the aying and home sick and taking the last message to kin dred far away, so that every time Christ thicught of her he said, as of old, "The same is my sister and mother." The other daughter has a bright home of her own, and in the afternoon of the fore noo'n when she has been devoted to her household she goes forth to hunt up the sick and to encorage, the dicouraged, leaving smiles and benediction all along th way. But one day there start five telcgrams from the village for these live absent ones saying "Come; mother is danger ously ill." But before they can be ready to start they receive another telegram, saying, 'Come; mother is dead." The old neighbors gather in the old farm house to do the last offices of respect. But as that farming son, and the clergy man the senator, and the merchant, and the two daughters stand by the casket of the dead mother taking the last look or lifting their little children to see once more the face of dear old grandma I want to ask that gro~up around the cas ket one ques tion, "Do you really think her life was worth living?" A life for God, a life for others, a lite of uncelfish ness, a useful life, a Christian life, is al ways worth hiving. I would not find it hard to persuade you that the poor lad Peter Cooper, making glue for a living and then amass lug a great fortune until he could build a philanthropy which has had its echo in 10,000 philanthropies all over the coun try-I would not find it hard to persuade you that his life was worth living. Nei ther would I find it hard to persuade you that the life of Susannah Wesley was worth living. She sent out one son to to organize Methodism and the other son to bring his anthems all through the ages. I would not find it hard work to persuaed you that the life of Frances Leere was worth living, as she estab hshed in England a school for the scien tific nursing of the sick and the2 when the war broke out between France and Germany went to the front. and with her own hands scraped the mud cf! the bodies of the soldiers dying in the tren ches, with her weak arm, standing one night in the hospital, pushing back a German soldicr to his couch as, all fren zied with '.is wounds, he rushed toward the door and said: "Lat me go! Let me go to my hebe mutter." Mjor ge'i erals standing back to let pass this angel of mercy. Neither would I have hard work to persuade you that Grace Darling lived a life worth living, the heroino of the life boat. You are not wondering that the Duchess of Northumberland came to see her, and that people of all lands asked for her lightnouse, and that the proprie tor of the Adelphi theater in L'>ndon offered her $100 a night just to sit in the lifeboat -hile some shipwreck soenie was being enacted. But I know the ,thought in the mmnds of hundreas who read this. You say, "While I know all these liyed lives worth living. I don't think my life amounts to much." Ah, my friend, whether you live a life conspicuous or inconspicuous It is worth living if you live aright. Aud I want my nex t sen tence to go down into the deaths of all your souls. You are to be rewarded not according to the greatness ofyour wvork, but according to the hoiy industries with which you employed the talents you really possessed. The majority of the of the crowns of heaven will not be given to people with 10 talents, for most of them were tempted only to serve them elves. The vast majority of the crowns of heaven will be given to people who had one talent, but gave it all to God. And remember that our life here is in troductory to auother. IL is the vesti bule to a palace. But whO despises the door of the Madeleine because there are grander glorIes withity' Your life, if rightly lived is the iirst bar of an eternal oratorio, and who desruses the note of Haydn's symphonies? And the lile you lve now is all the more worth living be cause it opens into a life that shall never end, and the last letter of the word "time" is the first letter of the word "eternity!'' KiledI .Four Po'o pie. Los ANGELEs, Cal., JIuly 2i.-John Craig last hight drove to Glendale, ive miles from this city, where his wife, from whom he was divorced three months ago, was stopping with her brother, George Ihunter, and deli .berately shot and killed both. Ie then returned to the city, went to the home of his father-in-law Win. IHunter, and killed him stepped over the body and walked to the aining room and shot and killed his mother-in-law, ie then fired ;two stots into his own forehead, but failed to kiilhimself. Trouble over the settle ment of thecommmunity property was the case. Mine Disast(r. WILKESBAR E E,Pa., July 2e8.-An ex ploring party of prominent men was descending a mine in West Pittston this morning when the cage fell to the bottom. Col. A. G. Mason, superinten dent of the Lehigh Valley Company, was instantly killed and three others are belieed to be fatally ininred. TIE ATtE ALLIANCK. PRESIDENT EVAN 'SABLE AND PRAC TICAL ADDRESS. H-i Dinsutt the Welfare of the Allaarce Su a M .,terly Mnner-Important sug getnv "de-Au-4ions t.; theg official O ,<n of the ()der. AIKEN, S. C., July 23.-Whea the Alliane met thiis morning in the Ai ken county c)urt nouse at 11 o'clock there was a full attendance of the members. President Evans was in the chair and secretary Reid was in his place. The other cilicers of the order presentwere Vice-President J. S. Keitt Treasurer F. P. Taylor. State Lecturer J. Wim. Stokes, *teward E. B. Taylor, Sergeant-at-Arms J. E. Jarnegan, Dis trict Lecturer J. R1. Blake, Jr., of the Third District and W. 0. Tatum of the new Seventh; and executive committee men T. 1. Mitebell, E. It. Walter and S. T. ). Lancaster' and judiciary com-. mitteem.n W. N. Elder, D. K. Norris and John T. Gaston. The absent ofi. cers were Chaplain James E. Douglass, Dhorkeeper J. W. Kenned y and Assist ant Doorkeeper L. E. Parier. The following delegates appeared and presented their credentials and were enrolled: Abbeville-J. T. Robertson; Aiken J. S. McKte; Anderson-J. M. Glenn; Barnwell-W. L. Bamberg; Berkeley T. S. Browning; Chester-S. T. Mc Keown; Chestertield-R. E. Rivers; Clarendon-James E. Davis: Colleton D. M. Varn; Darlington-H. A. Josey; Fairlield-J. M. Galloway; Florence J. E. Pettigrew; Georgetown-R. J. Donaldson; Greenville-J. H. Latimer; Horry-James A. Lewis; Lancaster-J C. Elliott; Laurens-A. P. Goodwyn; Lexington-D. F. Erd; Marion-J. D. Montgomery; Marlboro-G. W. Hear say; New berry-W. E. Lake; O.onee J. L,. Smith; Orangeburg-S. C. Kenne dy; Pickens-Joel I. Miller; Richland -James Norton; Spartanburg-M. 0. Lowiand; Sumter-H. T. Abbott; Uu ion-H. 0. Little; Williamsburg-J. D. Daniel; York-W. J. Miller. Among the other Alliancemen pres ent were Col. W. A. Neal, Prof. W. N. Marchant, Senator Reagan, D. W. Mc Laurin, D. K. Norris, It. E. Kirven, W. N. Elder and others. There were in all about forty live members of the Al liance in attendance. A few more are expected in tomo r row morning. The body is composed for the most part this year of new blood Mr. D. W. McLaurin, who attended the first meeting of the State Alliance of South Carolina. said to me: "This is as good a body as I have ever seen and I have been to every meeting the State Alliance has ever held. After the organization had been com pleted President V. D. Evans proceed ed to deliver his annual address. It was a strong one and seemed to great ly impress all the members of the Alli ance. ie urged the Alliance In the strongest terms to stand to its guns, reiterated all of its demands, etc. The copy of the addres3 was placed in the hands of the committee to be reported npon and I've had some difficulty in getting at it. Here, however, is the address: G entlemen of the State Farmers Al liance of South Carolina: Six years have come and gone since the Alliance has been organized in this State. These years have been spent by us in advo cating measures burdened with the pre servation of the liberties of the people and freighted with the responsibilities of perpetuating our republican form of government, a iegacy handed down to us by our revolutionary ancestors as a sacred trust for generations yet un born. Let us ask ourselves today if we are faithfully and honestly discharging our duty as trustees of this noble es tate. From 1888 to 1889, the agricultu ral and industrial classes were aroused to knowledge of the fact that the props were being knocked from under them, and that they had not only to stand alone bearing upon their shoulders the legitimate superstructure of maintain ing the professional and non-producing classes in their necessary and honora ble calling, of producing bread for the eater and raw materials to clothe the naked, but that a horde of gamblers and speculators under the forms of legalized monstrosities, had fastened themselves upon them, and had placed burdens upon their shoulders grevious to be tolerated. In fact there was an uprising of the people protesting against a financial system that was first destroying the resources of the farm, and sweeping all the profits of the laborer into the coffers of the legalized robbers. The result of Investigation and consultation showed that unless a different and better system of finance was adopted by the government, ruin and disaster would blight the peace and prosperity and happiness of the people. To avert this calamity, the Alliance formulated and set forth what are known as the Ocala demands, and boldly predicted that unless these de mands were inacted into law, the coun try would witness the most disastrous panic ever known in its history. This prediction has been more than verified, for not only the government itself, but every kind of legitimate basiness has been on the verge of bankruptcy for the past t welve months. The Alliance being mulde up of mem bers of all the political parties, these deaands were m~ade in a strictly non partisan spirit, and therefore every political party was appealed to to give relief to the country through a better and just financial system that would give the wealth producers equal change under th1e law. We have stood by these demands from 1890 to the present time, believing them to be founded upon justice, demanded in equity upon the broad Democratic principle of equal rights to all, special privileges to none. Until experience teaches us something better, we must stand squarely by and advocate these demands,supporting for ohece only those who are with us and who will usetheir political influence to advance and build up our interests. If we do no less than this we will be re creant to the high duty of citizenship, traitors to our country, to our homes and to our families. While the membership of the order is not as large as It should be,lt is grat ifying to know that a larg e majority of the people of the State are with us-in fact in every State. In this union thou sands of voices are preaching from the same text, and earnest men are work ing for the success of the same meas ure. TIhere is no longer a yawning gulf separating the North from the South, but the farmers of the entire country are banded together in a com mon brotherhood, having the same pa triotic purpose to rescue this land of ours from the desecrating grasp of the Shylock. One in heart, one in purpose, they wvill be invincible in the struggle which is to decicie whether the man or the dollar shall be the ruler in this American government. The time is past when sentiment should bind us to man or party, Hie that is not bor us is against us, and we should have sense enough to know it, an1 courage enough to show It. The Chief Executive of this great nation today is a puppet in the hands of or ganized monopoly, and we are in a large measure responsible by our votes for it. I. have spoken thus plainly, brethren not with any intention of stirring up passions, for I1see the tires of indignation already burning in your eyes; sold out, betrayed by the so-called E astern Democracy, let us seek politi cal afllliation with the great Wvest, where the dawn of empire is fast brightening in the full power of the noonday sun. It has been brought to my attention, by a resolution passed by the subordi nate Alliance in Columbia,that charges of mismanagement had been made by the editor of the Piedmont Headlight against the manager of the iExchange and akingfor an investigation. I alld nunnn theaJudiciary Committee to make the investigation, but owing to the failure of Brother T. L. Gantt, who had made the charges,to respond to the summons of the committee, and the ab sence of Brother J. T. Gaston,who was an important member of the committee the work was necessarily unsatisfac tory and incomplete. I herewith hand in the testimony of the witnesses ex amined, and would urge that the Alli ance take such action in the matter as to thoroughly investigate and publish the investigation. If there is anything wrong in the management of the Ex change, it is due to the Alliance that it should be known, and on the other hand if the charges are without foun dation, it is due to the Exchange Man ager that he should be vindicated. [t is much to be regretted - that the editor of the Headlight, who is a mem ber of the Alliance, did not prefer the charges through the proper Alliance authorities instead of through his newspaper. The Exchange is a most potent fac tor in forcing prices down, and there fore looked upon with disfavor general ly by merchants and manufacturers. It has broken up the old order of dealing through middlemen in a large measure and undertakes to bring the producer and consumer nearer together in busi ness relations, thereby getting rid of the heretofore unreasonable profits de manded by middlemen. If the mem bership of the order could arrange their business affairs to buy fertilizers, bag ging, ties and heavy groceries through this channel, it would soon become a still more useful agency in accomplish ing the purpose for which it was inau gurated. In connection with this I will call your attention to the fact that the National Alliance has decided to estab lish a national exchange in the city of Baltimore, which is destined to become great and useful to farmers in provid ing a channel through which they can with the least expense and greatest profit dispose of their produce and pur chase such things as they may need to great advantage. With a national exchange and a sys tem of State exchanges there is no rea son why the producer and consumer will not be brought into business rela tions which would be mutually bene ficial but especially so to the farmer. The State organ of the Farmers Alli antie, for some unaccountable reason, does not receive the support it is enti tled to. This paper should be in the home of every Alliance family in the State. I am satisfied that any one will be a moro useful member of the order by readirg it. In fact I don't see how any true Allianceman can afford to do without it. I earnestly recommend to this body and bespeak for it a more liberal patronage. To educate is one of the chief missions of the Alliance and it is through the press that the peo ple are most easily reached and taught the science of government and the evil or good efects this or that system of legislation bears in relation to pros perity. It is necessary, therefore, for a man to become an intelligent voter that he must become a constant reader. The capital stock of the Cotton Plant should be increased to place it upon sure and permanent basis, and I suggest that you take proper steps to accom plish the end. The second means of educating the people is through the system of lectur ing, and it is very important that faith ful, intellingent lecturers should ad dress the people, but owing to the fac1 that the treasury was in depleted con dition, we have been forced to do with out a great deal of lecturing that should have been done with profit. I submit herewith for your considera tion a communication from Marior Butler, President of the National Alli ance, showing the conditions of the flfi ances of the national order and sugges1 the adoption of the plan gotten up bj J.W. Ried, State Secreary, which,J think, will give the desired relief. It is as followers: Change the system re porting so that subol-inate Alliances should report semi-annually intread o1 quarterly, sending to the county seer e tary 35 cents for each member, male and female, repo.rted in good standing March 31st and September 30 of eact year.~ Let county secretaries repori semi-annually, tabulating reports and sending to the secretary of the State Alliance each member,male and female Let the State Secretary then tabulatE and send to the National Secrtary I cents for each male and female, front March 31st to July 1, and from Septem ber 30 to January 1. This will in eacta case give three months for the report~ to come in and the State and national dues to be collected.. This will enable us to pay the na tional dues at the time required by the National Alliance. This, you will ob serve, divides a dollar for the year as follows: National Alliancemen dues, 1C cents; State Alliance dues, 30 cents; Subordinate Alliance dues, 30 cents, total, S1. Let all initiation fees be returned b3 the subordinate Alliance. No part tc be sent to the county secretaries with the report. Require County Alliances to pay the mileage of delegates to the State Alliance meeting and let the State Alliance papper deem. This,J think, a better plan than the system under which we are operating. If you adopt this plan there will be no use tc consider the proposed amendments tc the constitution, embodied in the cir clar letter sent out some time back tc county secretaries. I have received two letters from cot ton associations, one in Liverpool and the other in Philadelphia, calling atten tion of the Alance to the evil parctice of over-taring cotton bales and request ing that you take such steps as will, in your judgment, put a stop to the prac tice. The letters are herewith subnmit ted and I hope you will give the sub ject the attention it is intitled to. The future as well as present condi tion of the cotton grower in the State Is not a very enviable one with cotton now below the cost of production. What is the outlook for the future? With the rapid increase of acreage planted in Texas and the Western States, we will be forced to turn our attention to something else and I would] recommend that the South Carolina farmer would diversify his crops and make his provisions at home. Home made provisions, more stock, more home-made manure, this moans less debt and more independence. The Alliance is having a wonderful inra-ace in the politics of the State. Though constantly told thlat tne Alli ance is dead, yet it is a fact when I s ey there is no candidate who stands the least change of being elected to the of lice which he aspires in the campaign going on, who does not either stand upon the Alliance platform or has made the people believe he does. We have reached the period in the life of the order where the most serious forces are drawn up in battle array. The fight will be fought out along fin ancial lines. The issue have been made up and the result of the contest will decide whether the people shall be the rulers of this country or the vicious inancial system devised and fasteued upon us by the mouey kings ofLombad and Wall streets shall prevail and con tinue to rob the people of their honest earnings. We must light this fight to the finish. There is no compromise ground for us to stand upon. We must be true to our principles, true to the country, true to ourselves, believing in the justice of our cause. Having faith in a just Arbiter of the affairs of men, let us -acquit ourselves like men worthy of the trust reposed in us, having every confdence that victory will crown our efforts. May the God of nations direct your minds, control your deliberations and lead you on to a higher and nobler appreciation of the work tnat is before At the afternoon session the Alli ance took up the committee's report in regard to making the candidates for the State Legislature declare them selves as standing flat footed on the Al liance platform and pledging them selves to vote for no men who did not so declare themselves. After quite a ight the A llince passed the resolution which is considered stronger than that recently passed by the Marion County Alliance. Some of the delegates wanted to compromise and vote for candidates now before the people who came near est to standiug upon the Alliance plat form, but no compromise would be agreed to. A few wanted to leave the matter alone 6ntirely. Others said they were tired of being considered as only fit to do what Tillman told them to do, and angered considerably by the Gov ernor's statement at Winnsboro, were all for figut from the jump, and won the day by a good majority. The key note was sounded in President E van's speech this morning, and Governor Tillman's Winnsboro speech only added fuel to the flame. The question is now a plain one. Having passed the resolution, the Alli ance cannot vote for either Tillman or Butler delegates. Their members of the Legislature will have to vote for somebody-but who? That's the ques tion. I hear that Keitt will be the man. Another important matter was the passage of a resolution reenacting the Alliance catechism of last year. The judiciary committee in the afternoon also submitted a report in the Gantt matter. I understand that it gives Gantt a pretty heavy dose. Of all the surprising things, though, that I have found in this campaign, is the way the Alliancemen speak of Governor Till man. They are hot, and they make no attempt to conceal it. One listening at most of them talk would think he was listening to a crowd of '92 Conserva tives. The dispensary situation is not being talked of at all. The committee to whom was referred the address of the president, submitted areport which was adopted, in which it is said: "We would emphasize that part of the message in which we are urged to stand firmly by each and every demand made by the Alliance."-State. SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. AIKEN, S. C., July 26.-The first event of today was the meeting of the State Farmers' Alliance exchange. This meeting was held about 9 o'clock, in the Park Avenue Hotel. Tne prin cipal feature of the meeting was the exoneration and then the re-election of Col. D. P. Duncan as the manager of the State Alliance exchange. All the old officers were re-elected. The board as elected consists of the following: First Congressional District-0. , Riley. . Second- -Dr. W. H. Timmerman. Third-J. M. Glenn. Fourth-John R. Harrison. Fifth-A. Ir. White. Sixth-S. T. McKewn. Seventh-name not given. The ollicers elected are as follows: President-J. A. Sligh. Secretary-W. 11. Timmerman. Treasurer-J. W. Farguson. The financial report showed the ex. change to be in line conditiou. The exchange has $17,000 invested in the stock of the Farmers' and Mechanics Bank of Columbia, holding the major ity of the stock and having five out o1 the nin'e directors. The entire capital of the exchange now is about $225,000 A resolution was unanimously passec instructing the executive committee ol the State Alliance to submit the in terrogatories framed by this Alliance at its last meeting to all candidates for Congress in this State and publist their answers in the State organ. Urgent and cordial invitations wer extended from Lexington and othei places for the . next meeting of the State Alliance, but Columbia was tho most favored in this matter, and th( next session of the State Alliance wil: be held in the Capital city on th4 fourth Wednesday in July, 1895. Rtesolutions were adopted commem orating the death of J. A Jeff aries, ex State Lecturer. This resolution was unanimous3 adopted. Resolved. That we approve the gen eral course of our members of Con gress who have been directed in thleil efforts for relief by Alliance policy, bul express deep regret and condemnatiot of their vote upon the bill to repeal unconditionally the tax on State bank! as being a repudilation of the demands of the Alliance upon the vital question at issue. Messrs. W. A. Neal, of Anderson; J A. Sligh, of Ne wberry; D). P. Duncan of Union; T. J. Cunningham, of Ches ter, and W. H. Timmerman, of E dge field' were made a permanent commit tee to take charge of the Cotton Plan and put it on a firm foundation by re organzation and placing new men al the helm. This action was taken be cause of the fact that J. W. Bowdex was impelled to give up its manage ment on account of Ill health. He hai given the utmost satisfaction in al his work and the Alliance "regret very much that ha is so situated tha he has to sever his connection." Thi fact is that Mr. Bowden has been run ning the Cotton Plant under a lease He has give up his lease, being physi cally unable to attend to all the work. I understand he is to be continued af editor, however. The sensation of the day was the up shot of the Duncan-Gantt matter. The judiciary committee made th( following report which was adoptec unanimously: "The committee, after repeated ef forts, due notice having been given tailing to get Mr. Gantt before them it person or with testimony, finds thE charges alleged are groundless and thi committee fully exonerates Manager Duncan of said chargee. WV. N. EILDER, Chairman. There was also a report from a spec al committee to consider the conducl of Mr. Gantt. They made the following report, which was adopted by a rising vote: "The committee to whom was re ferred the resolution to investigate the conduct of T. L. Gantr, editor of the Pied mont 11eadliight, and a member of the Farmers Alliance, would respect fully submit: "I'hat as such editor he has persist ently used the columns of his paper it preferring promiscuous enarges agamnst a brother-maember, D. ?. Duncan, the State Exchange agent, instead of pro. ceeding according to the provisions as expressed by the Constitution, Section 4 Article 15. That in thus using the coumns of his paper he not only vio. lates the spirit and letter of the Alli ance law,and brings discredit upon the order, but forfeits the conditions upon which editors are eligible to member ship under Section 1, Article 10. "In view of the above violations of the constitution we recommend that he be expelled from the order. "(Signed.) W. O.'Tatum, J1. R. Blake, Jr., J. D. Montgomery, I. C. Elliott and 1. L. Smith." Reports from :smember of the board of directors of the Alliance Exchange and from Manager Duncan were heard and gave entire satisfaction, and showed the management to be conduct ed on business principles and the ex change to be in a good financial condi tion. The annual election ot' ollicers was then entered upon. TVhe following orlicers were elected: President-W. D). E vans. Vice President-J. LA. l i~tt. Secretary-J. W. Reid. T easurer-F. I'. Taylor. State Lecturer-Rev. J. A. Sliga. Stward-E. B. Tyler. Doorkeeper-II. C. L ittle. Assistant D.oorkeeper-D). M. Varn. Sergeant at Arms-J. E. .Jarnigan. T. P'. Mitchell was chosen a memuber of the executive committee for a three year's term. W. N. Elder was elected for a three year's term to the executive committee. D). K. Norris was elected delegate to the national convention. John T. Gaston was elected alternate. J. William Stokes's name was pro posed for re-elee-i m as iecturer. but it was withdr'. v , he asking all his friends t.) vo:. Lor Sligh. After damier the Alliance reassem bled, the new oilicers were installed, some resolutions of thanks were adopt e, anel them the body adjourned sine die. All of the delegates are much pleased with what they have done, and they have been handsome-?ly treated by the people of Aiken. A Nate ox WArning. WASHINGTON, July 24.--"Tbc mot stringent measu-es may need to be taken to protect the United States," writes Dr. Stuart Eldridge from Yokohams to the marine hospital bureau in rega-d to the black plague. Particular care, h; sugests, is ad visable in admittinz certain classes of gozds from China likely to crnvdy infec tion-rags, old cottou, etc., and also sucu manufactured articles as are mad! in the native workships, with, ;erhaps, a case of p]arue dying ;n the same room. Such th'I*m vf - v mt tin 4, em - croideries and every sort of textile fabr.c. Rtcogiz-ng the difliculties in the way of obta.iniuL accurate informati ;n upon sanitary matters fro:n oriental countrios, Dr. Eldridge, who is the helth oflicer o' the p~rt ot Yokohama and a member oi the imperial board of health of Tokic, has sent to the Marine hospital bureau a semi-oflicial state ment of the epidemic in scuthern Chin%. It appears from bis report that this scour 5 is one of the most fearful on record, having its greatest h-ld at tha port of Hong-Kong, where mestof the fo.eign commerce touches. The disease broke out in Canton late last. February, and about the same time was epidemic at Pakbol, a port not often visited by Europeans. Dariig March and April it steadily increased until it assumed gigantic proprtions, yet, ac cording to D:. E'dridze. the eastern au thorities manifsted their customry in ditlerene. "Although Hong -Kong is the center cf trade in the east," he writes, -but a half day's journey from Canton and in constant communication tLerewith. the existence ot danger was ignored. Sev eral cases appeared in Hong Kong dur ing the first days of May, btit not until the tenth of that month was any official action taken. It has steadily increased in that place until the mortality has reached 100 a day, despite the exodus of 100,000 Chinese and many Europeans. The natives, in most cases, have left on feeling the first symptoms of the disease in the hope of ding in their native vil lages, while a dczm Elropeans have been attacked and most of them have died. From Canton and Honz Kong the disease is spreading thrugh the neigh boring country and will probably soon appear in the coast towns ot China north of Hong Kong, because from the care lessness in those parts no effective qua rantine is likely to be established. Sev eral cases have already occurred on steamers tradin , from Uong Kong to Chinese ports but without serious con sequences on accouat of rrompt action by the ships' surgeons. "A qaarantine system has been put in operation in Japan holding ships from the infeeted districts nine days after arri val or after the last case has been abated and only one infected ship has reached Japan. As long as the disease is kept out of Japan, so long will this country be tWe . pst bulwalk for the Uninted States against thi importation of the disease." Horrible Experience. RONDotT, N. Y., July 25.-At Spra kers, a village not far from here, Miss Ele.snor Markham complained of heart trouble, and was treated by a physicIan She grew weaker gradually, and appa rently breathed her last. The doctor pronounced her dead, and furnished the usual burial certificate. Miss Markham was put in the coiln, the lId was fastened, and the undertaker and his assistant took the coffin to the hearse waiting outside. As they ap proached the hearse a noise was heard and the coffin was put down and opened In short order. Behold, there was poor Eleanor Markham lying on her back, her face white and distored and her eyes distended. "My God!" she cried in broken ac cents, "where am I? You are burying me alive!" "Hush, child," said Dr. Howard. who happened to be preseat. "It is a mistake easily rectifled." The girl was then taken into the house and placed on the bed, when she fainted. While the doctor was admin istering stimulating restoratives the trappings of woe were removed, and the hearse drove away with'.more cheer ful rapidity tnan a hearse was ever driven before. The cordials had the desired effect, and Miss Markham grew a little stronger. As it was evident that her nerves were suffering from the terrible shock they n.e'd. received, the doctor ordered the doors thrown open, and told the girl's mother and immediate friends to stay with her until she completely recovered, and say or do not nothing in her hearing or sight that was~not cheerful and stimula ting, and, above all, not to refer to the late sensational episode. But this El eanor would not hi've. She spoke of it herself, and seemed relieved, and pass ed into a refreshing sleep when she had unburdened her mind. "I was conscious all the time you were making preparations to bury me," she said, "and the horror of my situa tion is altogether beyond description. I could hear everything tnat was gaing on, even a whisper outside the door and though I exerted all my will power: and made a supreme physical effort to cry out, I was powerless. I had read in a New York paper lately about how the Reverend Doczor Kand died and wen to heaven, but felt that my fate was to be buried alive, and the frightful idea was the saving of me, for as I was borne to the hearse I prayed to God for strength and, making another attempt, succeeded in rapping on the lid of the cofin. At first I fancied the bearers would not hear me, biut when I felt one end of the collin falling suddenly I knew that I had been heard." Miss Markham Is In a fair way to re covery, and what is strange. is that the iutterings of her heart that brought on her illness are gone. Died from Hydrophobia. MUrNTvirLI:, S. C., July 2.-An eleven-year old son of Mr. Itobert Cole man died near here this rmorning ot hydrophobia. He together with an older brother, was bitten by a rabid dog about three months ago. The case de veloped about two days ago, and the child became rapidly worse. His strug gles and screams are described as horri e and heart-rending. Dr. 'T. D). Hairs ton treated the case, with Dr. A. R1. Ful r in consultation. Ihere again is a strong plea for the exterminatlin of the worthless curs. Let a law be passed that will heavily tax the dogs. The cry heretofore has been "protect t.e sheep" and now let it be save human ife.-egster.________ Blood Thirsty. WAsimGTON, D. C., July 20.-A special from Cuattanooga says: "E . W Matson, editor of a local evening paper was called to his door and assaulted last night by County Judge Hugh Whiteside, whom Matson attacked in his paper. The Judge struck Matson and attempted to draw a revolver, but Matson escaped. Recently Judge Whiteside attempted to kill Dr.George Ihunt for a similar cause." REv. Wesley L. Pegues, one of the old est members of the South Carolina Con ference, died in Chera w on Monday. Ith intst. Mr. Pegues j ined the Conufer ence in 1839 and was actively engaged in the ministry up to the time of his danth. I U " R POWDER Atolute1Y Pure. A cream of tartar baing powder Highest of all in leavening strength.-La test United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, - 106 Wall St., N. Y. SOUTHERN COTTON CULTURE. crops cannot 08 cart.ed-A Z2. tO Hold tie Mcaopsiy. D. A. Tompkins. of Charlotte, one of the most experien<ed cotton manufac Lureres in the South, who has just re turned from an ex, ended business -trip through the New Erzland and other part of the Iorth, says with reference to the cultivation of cotton in the Southern States in the future. "The idea, which we often hear ex pressed in the South, of curtailing the cotton crop down here in order to In crease the price of that staple, will never work. The South will have to ligbt to hold the cotton monopoly of the past, which really is no longer a monopoly. The S~uth must make cot. ton cheaper, handle it better, gin it bet. ter and put i; on the market in better shape. It will never do to fall into the idea that pr'cas can bie controlled curtail in- production. It it. simply a question whether the United States will beat the rest of the world in competition and con. tinue to furnish the cotton which the markets require or whether Russia Egypt, India and South America will do it. The production of cotton in Russia is attracting attention, and it is asserted that in less than fi7e years Russia will be exporting cotton instead of buying it from America. "Ten years ago there was no Egyp tian cotton imported into the United States. Within ten years its importa. ton has increased from nothing to 40,. 000 bales, or about 28,000,000 pounde, valued at about $3,000,000. These are the liures given by the Umted States consul at Cairo. Ezyptian cotton first came into use here in the manufacture of balbriggan hosiery. It is this cotton which gives the peculiar brown color and silky i3tre to some kit goods. The popular color of much of the best knit ur derwear is due to the Egyptain cot ton from which they are made. All ef jorts to imitate this by dying the Ameri can cotton have been unsuccessful. The price of Egyptian cotton is only from one to two cents more than American cottcn. Some people have been expect that the South would demand protection against Egyptian cotton. While it is far cheaper than our sea island cotton, it is better than our ordinary upiand, and has a better color and lusire than our best grade of improved upland. "It is said that the improvement in the prcduction of cotton in Egypt is greatly due to the Con'ederate officers who were engaged In this country by the Khedive to reorgan'ze his army. These cilkers in many cases gave attention to other things besides ;military afairs. Among these things was the importation from the United States of quantities of sea island cotton seed, whicn were used in the valley of the Nile. The good quality of cotton now brought to this country from E gy pt is said to be theouat come of the work done in improving cat ton culture in Elypt by these ex-Con federatcs. "The Egyptian cotton has almost en - tirely taken the place of American cot ton abroad for the production of lisle thread aoods. The extent 01 its intro duction in this country would be enough to show that it must be making even greater headway abroad. Oatside the Unted States it Is now largeiy used where American sea isla'id cotton was used formerly. "Since the civil war la the United States the tendency down here has been to gin the cotton immediately afser it is picked. It is a well known fact that better cotton was made before the war when the seed cctton was stored just as it was picked, and then ginned at leisure. It is believed that strongt before ginning gave time for the fibre to absorb just a little oil from the seed, which gave it some of that brown color and silky Jus tre peculiar nn'w to the Egyptian cotton. Prior to the wasr, too, cotton was gin ned by mule *)Wer, a much slower prc cess then tb:.a now in use, so that the fibre was less u'. then than it now is by the steam gins "The color ,na luadre gained by the fibre from the vil in the med while in storage are not the oxy~ advantage gained. The dry and cut cotton as it is now ginned eaisly generates electrici ty tht-s charging each A bre so that it tends to istand on end. Thts tendency in some cotton has been found to oe great as to almost provent its use for spinning. The .Egyptian cott n is said to be bet ter in this respect, and it is thjought a great improvement could be made in the American staple by holding the seedcot ton in storag~e from one to three months and then ginning it e trefully. It is prob. able that by these means our improved upland staples c in be made to serve all puposes as well as the Egyptian cotton, ad thus the Suth may get back some valuable trade lost in the markets both of this country and abroad. Certainly, if the houth desires to continue to hold the markets, as of course she does, we must make better and cheaper cotton and put it on the market in the best. p)ossble shape." Three Firemen KRhedi. WASHIINGTON, July 25.-At 2:2Gthiy morning fire was discovered In the warehouse and stables o1 the George W. Knox E xpress Company, occupying over a quarter of block at Second and T streets, northwest. The building and its contents were destroyed, and 205 horses were burned to death. Three iremen were killed by falling walls and four were, seriously injured. One of the Knox stable emyloyes was badly injred and will probably die. The warehouse was packed from basement to ioof with furnitnre and merchan dise, many families having their entire household goods stored in the building. Loss about$500,000. vessel Lost. SAN F.Axcrsco Cal ,July 2.-Word was received here of the total wreck of the British bark William Le Laenur, off Cape St. James, on Provost Island, t00 miles from Singap->re. The vessel left Singapore for Hong K mg May 4, loaded for San Francisco. Her bones are now bleaching on the rock off Cape St. James, while the bodies of the crew are strewn along the shore. Out of a crew of twelve not a man lives to tell the tale. The crew consisted of four nglshmon a fonr Chinese.