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WJSHaES OF ALL AGES. I asked a little child one day A child intent on joyous play; "My little one, pray tell me Your dearest wish; what may it be. The little one thought for a while, Then answered, with a wistful smile: "The thing that I wish most of all Is to be big, like you, and tall. I asked a maiden, sweet and f air, With dreamy eyes and wavy hair: "Whatwould you wish, pray tell me tue, That kindly fate should bring to you?" With timid mien and downcast eyes And blushes deep and gentle sighs, .Her answer came: "All else above I'd wish some faithful heart to love." I asked a mother, tried and blest, With babe asleep upon her breast: "Oh, mother fond, so proud and fair. Whatis thy inmost secret prayer?" She raised her calm and peaceful eyes, Madonna-like up to the skies: "My dearest wish is this," said she, "That God may spare my child to me." Again, I asked a woman old, To whom the world seemed hard and cold: "Fray tell me, oh, thou blest in years. What are thy hopes, 'what are thy fears?" With folded hands and head bent low Tho answer made, in accents slow: "For me remains but one request It is that God may give merest." THE DRESS TRAGEDY Yev. Dr. Ta3mage on the it fluen ce of the Idol of F.shion. BROOKLYN, Aug. 5.-Rev. Dr. Tal mage, who is now in Melbeurne on his round the world tour, has chosen as the subject of his sermon for today throueh the press "Thie Tragedy of Dress," the text selected being I Peter ii, 3, 4, "Whose adorning let it not be that cut wecd adorning of plaiting the hair and the wearing of gold or of putting on of apparel, but let it be the hidden man of the heart." That we should all be clad is proved by the opening of the first wardrzbe in in paradise with its apparel of dark green. That we should all, as far as cur means allow us. be beautifully and gracefully appareled is proved by the fact that God never made a wave but he gilded it with golden sunbeams, or a tree but he garlanded it with blossoms, or a sky but he studded it with stars, or al lowed even the smoke of a furnace to ascend but he columned and turreted and domed and scrolled it into outlines of indescribable gracefulness. When I see the apple orchard of the spring and the pageantry of the autumnal forests, I come to the conclusion that if nature ever does join the church, while ehe may be a Quaker in the silence of her wor ship, sne never will be a Quaker in the style of her dress. Why the notches of a fern leaf or the stamen of a water Hil3? Why, when the day departs, does it let the folding doors of heaven stay open so long, when it might go in so quickl3? . One summer morning I saw an army of a millicn spears, each one adorned with a diamond of the first water-I mean the grass with the dew on it. When the prodigal came home, his father not -only put a coat on his back, b jewelry on his hand. Chri w e a beard. Paul, the bacchlor apostle, not aftlicted with aT sentimentality, ad. mired -te arrangement of a woman's air when he said in his epistle, "If a woman have long hair, it is a glory unto her." There will b a fashion in heaven ason earth, but it will be a different kind of fashion. It will decide the color of the dress, and the population of that country, by a beautiful law, will wear white. I say these things as a back ground to my sermon, to show you that I have no prim, precise, prudish or east n-on theories on the subject of human apparel. But the goddess of fashion has set up her throne in this world, and at the sound of the timbrels we are all expected to fall down and worship. The Old and New Testament of her Bible are the fashion plates. Her altars smoke wit hi the sacrifice of the bodies, minds and souls of 10,000 victims. In her temple four people stand in the organ loft, and from them there comes down a cold drizzle of music freezing on the ears of her worshipers. This goddess-of fash ion has become s'rival of the Lord of heaven and earth, and it is high time that we unlimbered our batteries against this idolatry. When I come to count the victims of fashion, I find as many masculine as feminine. Men make an easy tirade againabt woman, as though she were the chief worshiper at this idolatrous shorine, and no doubt some men in the more conspicuous part cf the pew have already cast glances at the jnore retired part of the pew, their look a prephecy of a generous distribution. My sermon shall be as appropriate for one end of the pew as for the other. Men are as much the idolators of fash ion as women, but they sacrifice on a different part of the altar. With men the fashion goes to cigars and clubrooms and yachting parties and wine suppers. In the United States the men chew up and smoke *100,000,000 worth of to bacco every year. That is their fashion. In London not long ago a man died who had started in life with *750,000, but he ate it all up in gluttonies, sending his agents to all parts of the earth for some rare delicacy ,or the palate, sometimes one plate of food coasting him *300 or $400. He ate up his whole fortune and liad only one guinea left. With that he bought a woodcock, had it dressed in the very best style, ate it, gave two hours for digestion, then walked out on West minister bridge and threw himself into the Thames and died, doing on large scale what you and I have often seen done on a small scale. But men do not abstain from millinery and elaboration of skirt through any superiority of humi hty. It is only because such append ages would be a blockade to business. What would sashes and trains 3* yards long do in a stock market? And yet men are the disciples of fashion just as much as womsn. Some of them wear boots sot ightthey can hardly walk in the paths of righteousness. And there are men who buy expensive suits of clothes and never pay for them, and who go though the streets in great stripes of color, like animated checkerboards. I say these things because I want to show you that I am impartial in my discourse, and that both sexes, in the language of the surro gate's office, shall "share and rhare alike." As God may help me, I shall show you what are the destroying and deathful influences of inordinate fashion. The first baleful influence I notice is in fraud, illimitable and ghasty. Do you known that Arnold of the Revolution proposed to sell his country in order to get money to support his wife's ward -robe? I declare here before God and this people that the effort to keep up ex pensive establishments in this country is sending more business men to tempo ral perdition than all bther causes combined. What was it that sent Gilman to the penitentiary, and Philadelphia Morton to the watering of stocks, and the life in surance presidents to perjured state ments about their assets, and has com pletely upset our American finances? What was it that overthrewa the United States secretary at Wahmeinton, the crash of whose fall shook the continent? Buti why should I go to these famous default ings to show what men will do in order to keep up great home style and expen - sive wardrobe. when you and I know scores of men who are put to their wits' end and are lashed fronmJanuary to De cember in the attempt? Our politicians may theorize until the expiration of tneir terms of oflice as to the best way of improving our monetary condition in this country. It will be of no use and thingswill be no better until aud 1eet and hands no more than we can pay for. There ae clerks in stores and banks on limited salaries who, in the vain at tempt. to keep the wardrobe of their fami l1 as showy as other folks' wardrobes, are dying of muffs and diamonds and shawls and high hats, and they have nothing left except what tbey give to cigars and wine sup pers. at d they die before their time, and they will expect us ministers to preach about them as though they were the victims of early piety, and after a high class funeral, with silver handles at the side of the coilla of cxtraordmary brightness, it will be found out that the undertaker is cheated out of his legiti mate expenset! Do not send to me to preach the fun eral sermon ota man who dies like that I will blurt out the whole truth and tell that he was strangled to death by his wife's ribbons. Our countries are dressed to death. You are not sur prised to fid that the putting up of one public building in New York cost Mi iors of dollars more than it ought to bave cost when ycu Bnd that the man who aave cut the ccntracts paid more than $5,000 for his daughter's wedding dress. Cashmta res of a thousand dol lars each are not rare on Broadway. It is estimated that there are 10,000 wo men in these two cities who have ex pendeid on their personal array $4,000 a year. What are men to do in order to keep up such home wardrobes? Steal! That is the only respectable thing they can do. During the last fifteen years there have been innumerable fine businesses shipwrecked on tbo wardrobe. The temptation comcs in this way: A man thinks m-ire of his family than c f all the world outside, and if they spend the evening in describing to him the superi or wardrobe of the tamily across the street, that they cannot bear the sight of, the man is thrown on his gallantry and on his pride cf family ana withcut translating his feelings into plai.n ]an guage he goes into extortion and issuing of false stock and skillful penmanship in writing somebody else's name at the foot of a promissory note, and they all go down together-the husband to the prison, the wife to the sewng machine, the children to be taken care of by those who were called poor relations. Oh, for some new Shakespeare to arise and write the tragedy of human clothes! Will you forgive me if I say in tersest shape possible that some of the men have to forge and to peijare and to swin dle to pay for their wives' dressee? I wIll say it whether you forgive me or nor. Again, inordinate fashion is the foe of all Christian almsgivi'ig. Men and wo men put so much in personal display that they often have nothing lett for God and the cause of suiering humanity. A Christian man cracking his Palais Royal zlove across the back by shutting up iis hand to hide the cent bie puts into the poor box. A Christian woman at the story of the Hottentots, cryine co pi s into a $25 handkerchief and en giving a 2 cent piece to the collec tion, thrusting it under the bills so peo ple will not know but it was a $10 gold. piece. One hundred dollars for incense to fashion; 2 cents for God, God gives us 90 cents out of every dollar. The other 10 cents by command of his Bible belong to him. Is not God liberal ac cording to his tithing system laid down in the Old Testament? Is not God lIb eral in giving us 90 cents out of a dollar when he takes but 10? We do not like that. We want to have 99 cents for ourselves and 1 for God. Now, I would a great deal rather steal 10 cents fromyou than from God. I think one reason why a great many people do not get along in worldly accumulation faster is because they do not observe this divine rule. God says, "Well, if that man is not satisfied with 90 cents of a dollar then I will take the whole dol lar, andlIwill give it to the man or wo man who is honest with me." The greatest obstacle to charity in the Chris tian church today is the fact that men expend so much money on their table, and women so much on their dress, they have got nothing left for the work of God and the world's betterment. In my first settlement at Belleville, N. J., the cause of missions was being present ed one Sabbath, and a plea for die char ity of the people was being made, when an old Christihn man int the audiernce lost his balance and said right ought in the midst or the sermon, "Mr. Talmage how are we to give liberally to these arand and glorious causes when our fam ilies dress as they do?" I did not an swer that question. It was the only time in my life when I had nothing to say. Again, inordinate fashion is distraction to public worship. You know very well there are a good many people who come to church jnst as they go 'to the races to see who will come out first. What a* flutter it makes in church when some woman with extraordinary display of fashion comes in! "What a love of a bonnet!" says some one: "What a per fect fright!" say five hundred. For the most merciless critics in tne world are fashion critics. Men and women with souls to be saved passing the hour in wondering where that man got his cra vat or what store the woman patronizes. In many of our churches the preliminary exercises are takeh up with the discus sion of wardrobes. It is pitiable. Is it not wonderful the Lord does not strike the meetmng houses with lightning! What distraction of public worship! Dy lug men and women, whose bodies are soon to be turned into dust, yet before three worlds strutting like peacocks, the awful question of the soul's destiny submerged by the question of navy blue velvet and long fian train skirt, long enough to drag up the church aisle, the husband's store, office, shop, factory, fortune and the admiration of half the people in the building. Men and women come late to church to show their clothes People sitting down in a pew or taking up a hymnbook, ali absorbed at .the same time in personal array to sing: Rise, mysoul, and stretah thy wings; Thy better portions traae. Rise from transitory things Toward heaten, thy native place. I adopt the Episcopalian prayer and say, "Good Lord, deliver us!" Insatiate fashion also belittles the in tellect. Our minds are enlarged or they dwindle just in proportion to the impor tance of the subject on which we con stantly dwell. Can you imagine any thing more dwarfing to the human intel lect than the study of fashion? I see men on the street, who, judging from their elaboration. I think must have taken two hours to arrange their apparel After a few years of that kind of absorp tion, which one of McAllister's magnify ing glasses will be powerful enough to make the man's character visible. l'hey all land in idiocy. I have seen men at the summer watering blaces through fashion the mere wreck of what they once were. Sallow of cheek. Meager of lImb. Hollow at the chest. Showing no animation save in rushing across a room to pick up a lady's fan. Simper ing along the corridors, the same com pliments they simpered 20 years ago. A New York lawyer at United States hote'. Saratoga, within our hearing rushed across a room to say to a sensi ble woman, "You are as sweet as peaches!" The fools of fashion are myriad Fashion not only destroys the body, but it makes idiotic the intellect. Yet my friends, I have given you only the milder phase of this evil. It shuts a great multitude out of heaven. The first peal of thunder that shook Sinai de clared. "Thou shalt have no other God between the goddess of lashion and the Christian God. There are a great many seats in heaven, and they are all eae seats, but not one seat for the devotee of fashion. Heaven iq for meek and quiet spirits. Heaven is for those who think more of their souls than of their bodies, Heaven is for those who have more joy in Christian charity than in dry goods rehgion. Why, if you with your idolat':V of tashion should somehow get into heaven, you would be for putting a French roof on the "house of many mansions." Give up this idolatry f fashion or give up heaven. What wculd you do standing beside the Countess of Hunticgton, whose joy it was to build chapels for the poor, or with that Christian woman of Boston who fed 1,500 children of the street at Farcuil ball on New Year's day, siiving out as a sort of doxology at the end of the meeting a pair of sboes to each one of them, or those Dorcases of modern society who have consecrated their need les to the Lord, and who will get eternal reward for every :titch they take. On, men and women, give up the idolatry of fashion. The rivalries and the com petitions of such a life are a stupendous wretchedness. You will always 1ad some one with brighter array, and with more palatial residence, and with laven der kid aloves that make a tighter fit. An4t if you buy this thing and wear it you will wish you had bought something else and worn it. And-the frets of such a life will bring the crows' feet. to your temples before they are due, and when ycu come to die you will have a miser able time. I have seen men and wo ,men of fashion die, and I never saw one cf them die well. The trappings off, there they lay on the tumbled pillow, and there were just two things that nothered them-a wasted life and acom itg eternity. I could not pacify them, for their body, mind and soul had been exbausted in the worship of fashi-tn, and they could not appreciate the gospel. When I knelt by their bedside, they were mumbling out their regrets and saying: "0 God! O God!' Their gar ments hcng up in the wardrobe never again to be seen by them. Without any exception, so tar as my memory serves me, they died without hope and went into eternity unprepared. The most ghastly deathbeads on earth are the one where a man dies of delirium tremens, and the other where a woman dies after having sacrificed all her facul ties (f body, mind and soul in the wor ship of fashion. My friends, we must appear in Judgmeat to answer for what we haie worn on our bodies as well as for what repentances we have exercised with our souls. On that day I see com ing in Beau Brummel of the last cen. tury. without his cloak, like which all England aot a cloak, and without his cane, like which all England got.a cane; withcut his snuff-box, like which all England got a snuff-bcx. He, the fop of the ages, particular about everything but his morals, and Aaron Burr, with out :Ihe letters that down to ola age he showed in pride to prove his early wicked gallantries, and Absolom without his hair, and Marchioness Pompadaur with out her titles, and Mrs. Arnold, the belle of Wall street when that was the center of fashin, without her fripperies of vesture. And in great haggardness they shall go away into eternal expatriation, while among the queens of heavenly society will be found Vashti, who wore the modest veil before the palatial baccha nalians, and Hannah, who annually made a little coat for Samuel at the tem ple, and Grandmother Lois, the ances tress of Timothy, who imitated her vir ture, add Mary who gave Jesus Christ to the world, and many of you, the wives and mothers and sisters and daughters of the present Christian church, who, through great tribulation, are entering into the kingdom of God. Christ an nounced who would make up the royal family of heaven when he said, "Who soever doeth the will of God the same is my brother, my sister, my mother." Protest Against sugar Sacks. Farmers who hereafter cover their bales of cotton with sugar sack bag ging will be unable to find a market for their product. The cotton manufactur ing companies who consume the cotton both here and in New England protest against its use and have given notice that they will not receive a bale of cot ton this year that is packed in the sugar sack bagging. The objection to the substitute material that has been used is that it is heavier than ordinary jute bagging, takes water quicker and re tains it longer and stains and damages the cotton Immediately next to the covering much more than the jute. The reason it stains the cotton more is that little or no air can pass through it' There Is little if any of the cotton that comes to this market packed in the sugar sack bagging, but for the infor mation of the farmers who may be cod sidering its use. The Chronicle be low gives the protest of the manufac turers which is being circulated here and elsewhere: BOS TOX, Aug. 1st, 1894. President of the New York Cotton Ex change: Dear Sir:-We Treasurers of Cotton Manufacturing Companies in New England, hereby enter our protest against the use of sugar sacks in the covering 'Of cotton bales in the States growing cotton for the reason that, be ing closer than the ordiuary jute bag ging, it takes water quicker, absorbs more, retains it longer, and stains and damages the cotton immediately next the covering much more than the jute. Any extra loss to the mills from such covering would cause us to reject any cotton thus covered. Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, by T. Jefferson Collidge Treasurer. Dwight Manufacturing Company, reat Falls Manufacturing Company, by J. Howard Nichols, Treasurer. Lawrence Manufacturing Company, by C. P. Parker, Treasurer. Lancaster Mills, by Hlarcourt Amory, Treasurer. Everett Mills. York Manufacturing Company, by Geo. S. Sisbee, Treas urer. Stark Mills. by Edmund Dwight. Treasurer. Boston Manufacturing Company, by H. M. Yordale, Treasurer. Armory Manufacturing Company,by C. W. Armory, treasurer. Hamilton Manufacturing Company, by C. Bl. Armory, treasurer. Pemberton Company, by Henry S. Shaw, treasurer. Fitchburg Duck Mills, by Samuel A. Clough, treasurer. Appleton Company,Saratoga Tictory Manufacturing Company, P~eabody Mills, by Louis Robeson, treasurer. Peizer Manufacturing Company ot Greenville. Whiskey's Work.. DES MOixs, Iowa, Aug. 8.--The little village of Charlton, near here, this mornig was the scene of a horrible tragedy. At 10:30 o'clock WV. D. Jen kins, night baggage man of the Burl ington Road at that place, entered the home of his betrothed, Miss Julia Mur phy, and after a bitter quarrel drew a revolver and shot her. He then turned on her sister, Mrs. Josie Townes, and fired a bullet into her, killing her almost instantly. Mrs, Murphy, mother of the girls, rushed into the room only to meet with a bullet from the revolver held by the apparently insane man. Her injury Is such that the physicians iave little hope of her life. Jenkins then turned the weapon on himsel f and fired a bullet into his brain, Hie died an hour later. Jenkins had been drink ing for several days and it is believed the murder and suicide was the out come of a quarrel between himself and Miss Murphy over his intoxicated con dition. The women were highly re THE DISPENSARY LAW. JUDGE SIMONTONS DEC!SiON ON THE SILVER CASE. The Attorney-Gneral C,npttues the D - cfiion to Mean that !he 793 Law Is Held Solid on Federil Constitutionai Qrs tione, The following, which is the full text of Judge Simontion's decision in the Sil ver habeas corpus case-the case upon which the State is endeavoring to have the United States Supreme Court de clare, whether the '93 dispensary law is in violation of the constitution of the United States or not-vill b: lound of great interest: The United States of America, District of South Carolina, 4th Cireut-In the Circuit Court-In ihe matter of A. Silver. This is a petition for discharge from custody under writ of habeas corpus. The petition sets out that Silver is a Russian suhject, an alien, and that he bas been since the year 1892 and is now dolg business or trading in the State of South Carolina. That he is wrongfully detained and imprisoned by Mr. John H. Dukes, sheriff cf Orange burg county in said State, on a war rant issued by Mr. Charles P. '.Brunson, a trial justice, on 21st July, 1894, for an alleged violation of the act of the Gen eral Assembly of the State of South Carolina, approved 281 December, 1893 entitled: An act to declare the law in reference to and further regulate the use. sale, consumption, transportation and dispoition of alcoholic liquors or liquids within the State of South Carolina and and to police the same. The petition avers and charges in the;e words, "that the said act is un constitutional, nual and vjid, in viola tion of and repugnant to numerous and sundry provisions contained in the Con stitution of the United States and that of the State of South Carolina, and that it is in violation of the treaty no *r exist ig between the United States and the Russian Empire." The Hon. 0. W.Buchanan, Attorney General of the State of South Caroli na, was present at the presentation of the petition, and upon the issuance of the writ filed the return of the sheriff thereto. The return simply submits the warrants of the trial justice upon which the sherif acted. No mention whatever is made in the warrant or in the affidavit on which it was issued of the act of 1893, set out in the petition, nor is there any reference thereto. The argument has taken a wide range, and the fundamental principles of govern ment, primordial rights. of the people and the limitations of legislative power have been tully and learnedly discussed. This line of argument will not be fol lowed, for the grounds on which a con clusion has been reached lie in a very narrow corupass. The Courts of the United States are very reluctant to interfere with the crim inal process of the State courts. In Cook vs. Hrt, 140 U. S. 195, the Su preme Court, recognizing the right un der proper circumstances so to Interfeie, and adhering to its rulings in ex parte Royall, 117, U. -S., 241, and ex parte Fonda, 1 bid 516, goes on and says: "While the power to issue writs of ha beas corpus to btate courts, which are proceeding in disregard of rights secured by the Constitution and laws of the United States exist, the practico i f ercising this power before the question is raised or determinded in the State court is one which should not be encour aaed. The party charged waives no question of jurisdiction by submitting to a trial of his case on the merits, and we think that comity demands that the State courts, under whose process he is held, should be appealed to in the first instance. Should such rights be denied his remedy in the Federal Court will remain unim paired." See also in re Fcederick, 149 U. S. 74 is this one cf t hose exceptional cases in which this court should inter fere? The averments of the petition are vague and uncertain. They contain a sweeping assertion, that the act of 1893, under which he alleges that he is pros ecuted is null and void, ''In violation of and repugnant to numerous and sundry provisions" of the Federal State Consti tutions. Over so much of this assertion as re fers to the Constitution of the State of Soth Carolina this court has no juris diction in habeas corpus. It can only inquire if the prisoner is in custody for an act done or omitted in pursuance. of law of the United States or of any order, process. or decree of a court of the same or of a judge thereof, or is in custody in violation of the Constitution of the United States. (Revised Statutes of the United States, Section 753.) See iure Burves, 138 U. S., 586. The sherifd's justification for holding the prisoner is the warrant of the trial justice. That warrant is issued on an afidavit, with a distinet, direct aver ment that ene A. Silver, at his store in the city of Orangeburg, in the county and State aforesaid, on the 21st of July, 1894, did unlawfully sell intoxicating li quors, to-wit, one pint of whiskey, with out a permit, mn violation of law. 'The warrent recites that whereas, complaint has been made before me that A. Silver has unlawfully violated the dispensary act in selling intoxicating liquor, and without permit, certificate or State license, orders his apprehension. The Supreme Court of South Carolia in McCullough vs, Brown, Mas., 1894, has held that so much of the dispensary law of 1892 as forbids the sale of intoxi cating liquors without a license is not In conflict with the State Constitution. The Supreme Court of the United States in an unbroken current of decision has settled beyond question that in toxicating liquors are within the con trol of the police powers of the States, and that State statutes regulating sales under license, and even prohibiting sales altogether, are not in conlict with any provision of the Constitution of the Wited States or any law made thereun der. Were the petitionet a citizen of this State or of the United States, this court could not intefere with this prosecution. Nor does the fact that he is a Russian subject change the situation, lie Is charged with an offense, not bezause he is an alien, but beeinse, being in trade in S-uth Carolina, he had violated her laws. Coming to the State an alien, do ing business therein, he is subject to the laws of the State, and must render the sano obedience to them as is required o citizens. His alienage gives him no exemption and no treaty could put him on a better footing than a citigen. He cannot be discrIminated against because of his alienage. There can be no discri mination in his favor because of his aienage. Let the prisoner, A. Silver, be re manded to the custody of the sheriff of rangeburg county, and his petition be and it is hereby dismissed. C3BARLES H. SDIONTON, Circuit Judge. The Columbia State says whien asked the view 1,be State took of the decision, Attorney General Buchanan said that the State construed the opinion to mean that there is nothing in the 1893 law which is contrary to the Constitu tion of the United States. He says, further. that the decision was just what the State has expected, Judge Simonton having rendered practically the same de cision in the Cautini case. The State authorities regard the Federal constItu inalit og r aw ou set tled' so fa,- a all tLe lower Federal courts are concerned. An appeal will be taken lrom Judge Sirm onion's decision to tIe United State Sup - reme Court immediately. WAR TO THE KNIFE. Edi'or Gentr Goes far thvAt '-whIt-WAs Ing c mmIttae." SP'ARTANrBURG, S. C., Aug. 1.-The Piedmont Headlight, of last week pub-. lished the following: The blackest and meanest negro in South Carolina, when arraigned, has a right to employ counsel, to face his ac cusers and enter a defence. The thought of arraigning, trying and condemning a man in secret counsel, and without his even knowing that he is on trial, or that a case has b:!en made against him, is so repulsive to every sense of fairness and justice as to disgust our American people. And yet this is just what the State Alliance of South Carolina did in the case of the editor of the Piedmont Headlight. We received notification from that body that the charges we made against D. P. Duncan were to be investigated, or that our loyalty to the Order was questioned. So while we were in blisstul ignorance of the fact that our arraignment was going on at Aiken, and while at our oflice, more than one hundred miles from the scene of the trial, we woke up one morning to read in a daily paper thrown at our door tbat the charges of T. L. Gantt against Ex'change Manager Dun can have been investigated that Duncan was "vindicated" and that Gantt expelled from the Alliance. Here we find this representative organ ization of farmers, whose motto is "Equal rights to all and special privi leges to none," gailty of an act of des potism, tyrany and i rMustice such as was never before known in any civi lized and Christian land. But this crowning outrage does not stop here. The committee in that State Alliance, to which the charges against us were referred, brought in a report, in which they stated that "we find that the charges against Brother T. L. Gantt are not proven." Bat what did that Convention do? M. L. Donaldson, one of our bitterest enemies, and the man who went on to Chicago and worked for Grover Cleveland's nomination while we were opposing him and up holding our Alliance demands, and con tending for the selection of a candidate in harmony with the people, arose in that Convention, and in a bitter speech exclaimed,"Great God!.Not proven you say? Not proven!" and then went to demand that those resolutions be re committed, and with instructions to. make a report condemning us; and this was done. Since the days of Jetries, when he made an unwilling jury burn Alice Liles at the stake, never was such an outrage as this perpetrated. That Alliance Convention was con trolled by our political enemies-men who wanted strike us down because the paper that we edit stood in the way of their selftsh ambition-and in order to do this they packed a committee upon us; and even when that committee, ter roized by the outrage that they were chosen to perpetrate, wanted to evade the dirty work, its members were dri ven back into their room by the lash of seme of Grover Cleveland's supporters and made to do their work over again. No. That Convention was composed of our political enemies, and presided over by a man who had gone into a Sunday caucus in Spartanburg and a disappointed candidate for Governor. Failing to silence or crush the Head light, they aimed and assassin's dagger at us in the darn, and the stab came un seen and without warning. IThis action by the Spartanburg Sub A'liance will be re-echoed by Alliances throughout our Piedmont section. Our farmers are just and fair-minded, and will not remain silent and see a brother member persecuted and hounded down for no other reason than that he stands in the way of the ambition of certain omce-seeking politicians, and tells the people the truth: Now, what will President Evans do? Our own Sub Alliance refuses to obey his despotic and tyrannical compmands, and T. L. Gantt will continue to meet and affiliate with the Order. Will President Evans expel the Spartanburg Sub-Alliance? It is the only thing left. And we predict that after he is through with this lodge he will have many others in our own and other counties to deal with; and so the public will be treated to the spectacle of a Sunday caucuser and would be Governor, acting on a small scale the Tycoon of Swat, an'd and with his tyranical hand tearing to pieces the organization that he is elect ed to build up. The issue is now clearly drawn between T. L. Gantt, a plain Alliance man, and W. D. Evans, president of the State Alliance. We refuse ;to obey his commands and quit the Order. In this determination t~he sub-Alliance, of which we are a mem ber, stands at our back. Now, what is President Evans going~ to do about it? How is he going to help himself and vindicate his "author ity ?Y' To remain silent will make him the laughing stock of the country. President Evans has issued his pronun ciamento expelling T. L. Gantt, but T. L. Gantt refuses to be expelled, and his lodge declares its intention of con tinuing to receive and recognmze him. So this Alliance Dictator, who assumes unto himself the right to try and con demn a member without the accused even being informed that he is under a charge and on trial, has now two horns of a dilemma placed in his hands. We are anxiously waiting for the next step to be taken by President Evans. A Narrow Escapeor a Train. ST. LouIs, Mo, Aug. 6.-The most. remarkable feature of last night's at-. tempt at train wrecking at Eureka, Me, was thle scape of the entire train and ons hundred and eighty-three persons; upon it from absolute destruction. The desperadoes, who were undoubt edly accomplices of the fellow with whom Express Messenger Ferguson had the fight, forced open a car of dyna mite that stood on the sidetrack below~ the station at Eureka and stole two big~ dynamite cartridges that were Intended for heavy blasting in quarries and mines. Each cartridge was capable of, tearing to pieces tons of solid rock. They were placed by the dastardly bandits on the rails, the intention being to destroy the train anad plunder the~ richly laden express car, and probably the passengers. It is a miracle that the entire train was not hurled to destuction, for the miscreants who attempted to wreck it placed the cartridges within a few feet of a car which contained ten tons of dynamite. Then they secreted them selves and waited for the train that was due to arrive a few minutes before 10' o'clock. The train left St. Louis at 8.30, and was only a few minutes behind time, the delay having been caused by the shooting of thne express messenger by one of the robbers. When the forward wheels of the en gine rolled on the cartridges there was a teridec explosion, which lifted the machine from the tracks and tore the massive pilot from the bolts riveted to the engine. All the forward part of the machine was wrecked and twisted, and although It was able to carry the train a few miles beyond, it was so badly wrecked that another engine had to be procured. The entire train was severe ly shaken, the windows broken and the packages of letters thrown from the boxes in the mail car. It is wonderful how the carrload of dynamite escaped. The explosion tore a great hole la the earth, wrested the rails from their fastening and ilung the ties in every direction. It tore open one side of the dynamite car and ex posed to view tons of the powerful ex plosive, while for some unaccountable reason this vast amount of dynamite, with energy enough to blow an entire city of[ the earth, did not explode. If it had not a person In all those one hun dred and eighty three passengers would hoa esaped.r THE CAMPAIGN ENDED. The Columbia Sate Namei the Winning Ticket. CLUMBIA, S. C., Augz. 9.-The State campaign of 1894 is now a thin- of the rast. As a result of the campai-n and the recent meeting oftbe Sligh executive committee, it is ptetty easy to cee now that by this time next week the guber natorial contest, as far as Messrs. El lerbe and Tindal are concerned, will be no longer a matter of interest. It is pretty generally cocnceded that the two eeutlemen named are now loomed to defeat in the S:.ate couven tiou next Thursday, and that :Evans is to be the R-eform nominee. If such a result comes abcout, the-i the long-fought battle narrows to a square fight in Vie general primary between Dr Pope and John Gary Evans. Dr. Pope's name does not go before the Reform pri mary. If such is the cutlook--and Evans' friends claim that their is ncw no longer a doubt of his receiving the nomi nation-then both Tindal and Elleroe are barred from going any furtber. An entirely new igh.t will be on. Evans' friends will have io battie with Dr. Pope's ftiends, who will very likely decline to participate iu the Reform pri maties on Saturday. The vote on Sat urday. therefore, will tell pretty well what Pope's strength is no, considering any other vote which may go to him, if there be any. At any rate Pope, undir the circum stances named, will not be cut of the race by a good deal. He has made, it is understood, many friends recently by his action in kicking cut of the traces. Now there is considerable doubt as to what Ellerbe and Tindal will do. If the g are going to kick oat of the traces they will have to do it by tomorrow night, for the Reform primaries take place Satur day. It the results of these primaries throughout the S!ate can be ascertamei on Saturday night, the result of the State convention on Thursday next can 1e told. There is a good deal of silent dissat isfaction among the general primary ad vocates with regard to the SlIgb commit tee's action. This may, or may not, develop into a sentiment strong enough to induce Tindal and Ellerbe to withdraw their pledges, already filed. An Evans man yesterday, leaving out of the matter entirely any consideration of Pope's chances. said that the whole thing was going to result in the nomina tion and election of the following ticket, and if the element of doubt as to EUer be's course and Pope's primary race was removed, all would doubtless agree with him: For Governor-John Gary Evan?. Lieut. Governor-Dr. W. H. Timmer man. Attorney General-0. W. Buchanan. State Treasurer-W. T. C. Bates. Superintendent of Education-W. D. MaS field. Comptroller General-A. W. Jones. Secretary of State-D. H. Tompkins. Adjutant and Inspector General John Gary Watts. Now as to the effect of the campaign on the Senatorial fight, Tillman's friends claidm that lie comts out of the stump 'battle stronger than ever. The general opinion, however, is that the stump work has been mote beneficial to Butler than to Tillman. Butler's friends re gard his chances as much better than at any time heretofore. As to the effect of the campaign on the dispensary outlook, it is said by one who ought to know, that Governor Tillman is fally satisfied, by his tests of the crowds at the meetmnas on the dis pensary, that the great body of the peo ple demand the dispensary; that he ex pects them to send a Legislature here which will re-enact the law and pass a metropolitan police law, forcing a lar ge number of such police on all cities where with to enforce the law, and that they will enact a law providing for changes of venue in liquor cases.-State. A Terrie Traredy, CoiuarA, S. C., Aug. 8.-Yesterday morning about two miles from the city a young son of Mr. Henry Williams was shot and killed by his brother. The children were 7 and 5 years old respect ively. It was a strange case and no ex planation of the reason why the deed was done is given: The facts are as follows: Mrs. Williams left her house and went out into the adjourning woods for some purpose and left her three children at the house. They were aged 7, 5 atid 3 years. When she return ed she was horrified to find the five-year old child dead. Blood was pouring from its ear. She screamed at the sight, which brought in some neighbors. The seven-yearold child on being questioned said that he had'taken a nail and while his little brother was lying on the floor he had put it in his ear and stuck it with his hand. He did not mean to drive the naii in, he said. This explana tion was not at all satifactory, but the little fellow stuck to it for a long time. In the meantilhe Coroner Roach was notified and Dr. Green was sent for. The Doctor saw at once that the fatal wound had not been made by a nail. The boy was questioned again and af. ter much persuasion and some threats he finally said that he had gone to a trunk, took out a pistol, pr.t it to his brother'e ear and fired. The little three year-old child in its baby wiay confirm ed that statement. Absolutely no reason is given as to why the child shot his brother, and it is sI!mosed that he really did niot Know what he was doing when he put the fatal weapon to his brother's ear and fired. Coroner Roach empaneled a jury and a verdict was rendered in ac cordance with the above facts. The boy being only 7 years old is clearly not responsib~le for the act. Church and state. The Columbia Register,of last Thurs days, says a convention ot the leading colored clergymen and laymen of the State assembled Wednesday in the well known Calvary Baptist Church in that city. All denonminatious were repre sented. The purpose of the gathering wss to discuss the imperative necessity of dividing the union of church and State educational interests as exemphi lied in Claflin University. After a full and spirited discussion of the princi pes at issue, and a formal series of re commendations by a duly appointed committee, it was decided to appoint two committees; one to properly pre sent the whole question before the representative bodies of the various colored denominations of the State, and the other, consisting of Rev. H. M. Raiford, Prof. J. N. Cardoza, Rev. E. 1. Coit, Prof. J. RI. Wilson, Rev. D. C. Baum, Prof. J. W. MorrIs and Rev. W. D. Chappell to present a memorial to the State Legislature. There was op position to the action of the meeting and a number of persons, who consider it inexpedient, separated themselves from the main body and decided to present a counter memorial to the Legislature. Among those who do not agree with the majority are: Rev. J. II. Johnson, John A. Barr, C. J. Carroll, D. HI. Moorer, P. C. Parks, . R I. Bulk and Rev. M. G. Johnson. O~sta Elected. MoNTooMERVY, Ala, Aug. 7.-Comn plete unoflicial but reliable retur -is from every county in the State but two make the Democratic majority 26,I;3. Those two counties are Baldwin and Covington, both small counties, wmh cannot possibly change the foregoimg result more thani a fe w hundred. T:he oficial counn, Ia the counties takes place Saturday and the result will not be changed materially. The Democrats have at least 22 members of the Senate out of 33 and 61 members of the House ot of 100. THEY STAND BY THE PLAN. rhe Reform Executive Coinmut MAke No Chavge. COLr3MA, S. C., August 8.-The 3tate Reform Executive Committee net last night in the Senate chamber it the Capitol. The committee had een called together by Chairman Sligh inder a call published a few days , go. n which were set forth the reasons for als action. It was brought about by atements made to. and letters receiv r. oy him, caining his attention to the act that the plan as adopted by the ommittee at its first meeting was nsatisfactory to a large number of LUfcrmers. These statements and let ers were so numerous as to bring Mr. Sligh to the conclusion that perhaps for the sake of harmony and unity in he Reform ranks the committee should be called together to ascertain 'he extent of the reported dis3atisfac tion, and to amend the plan in such particulars as would bring about a bet ter state of feeling among Reformers in regard thereto. The committee was called to order by Chairman Sligh, and the following members answered to thei r names when the roll was called by Secretary Otts: Abbeville-D. II. Magill. Aiken-J. T. Gaston. Anderson-D. K. Norris. Barnweli-A. H. Patterson. Charleston-W. G. Whaley. Chester-T. J. Cunningnam. Colleton-L. E. Parler. Clarendon-Louis Appelt. Darlington-J. S. DuBose. Edgefield-13. B. Evans. Florence-J. S. McCall. Greenville-J. T. Austin. Hampton-W. II. Mauldin. Uorry-J. M. Stalvey. Kershaw-T. J. Kirkland. Lancaster-J. C. Elliott. Laurens-J. A. Jones. Lexiagton-C. M. Edird. Marion-D. W. McLaurin. Newberry-J. A. Sligh. Orangeburg-J. W. Stokes. Vickens-T. C. Robinson. Richland-I. A. Deal. Spartanburg-T. L. Gantt. Sumter-H. R. Thomas. Uniot:,w-J. C. Otts. Williamsburg-Wm. Cooper. York-W. R. Riggins. Fairfield-J. W. Lyles. On motion of Mr. Mauldln,of Hamp ton, all persons were exclued from the chamber except the members. All others retired. Quite a crowd waited in the lobby to learn what they could of the proceedings from such members as strayed out now and then for a breath of air, or to converse with friends on the outside. The session was long and the debates were earnest and excited. The speakers could be heard throunh the glass doors, bt not distinct enough to convey an intelligent understanding of their re marks. All of the members participa ted in the debate, some of them taking the floor several different times. Larry Gantt vehemently opposed any chang ing of the plan. His speech was suffi ciently distinct to show that he was utterly opposed to anything of the kind and was heard to say at its con clusion "that if we do so now the peo pie will think that we are a set of babies and jackasses." He was ap plauded by toe members who agreed with him. John Lyles, of Fairfield, offered some resolutions declaring for a general pri mary. He made a strong speech in fa vor of the same and was warmly ap plauded. Member after member of the com mittee took the floor and spoke for and against the resolutions. What the tenor of their remarks were could only be judged from the expression of the faces of the members whose opinion on the subject was known. As a substi tute for Mr. Lyle's motion Dr. J. Wmn. Stokss introduced the following: Whereas, this committee recognizes that the plan adopted in April and re iterated in July is not perfect, but af ter full consideration for all interest, prefrence, circumstances and condi tion that confront the Reform move ment, it is the best that we have been able to devise; If faithfully carried out the plan will compass the object in view when the committee was organ ized-namely, the nomination of a can didate for Governor who shall be the choice of the Reformers. Resolved, That we deem it inexpedi dert and unwise to abandon the plan already agreed upon. The substitute w as adopted, it is un derstood by a very decided majority. A long discussion. participated in by nearly all present, ensued upon various propositions to adopt additional rules, and to explain the meaning of certain doubtful terms contained in the plan. Te debate took a wide range and cov ered everything of importance concern ing the Reform party. Chairman Sligh, Colonel Norris, Dr. Stokes, Messrs. Kirkland, W. Gibbes Whaley, Ellrd, McLaurin, Maulj i . O is, Evans, Elliott, Thomas, Ajpel, Patterson, Deal, Parler, Dlulose, Stalvey and in fact every member of the committee spoke at some length on the subject with more or less warmth and earnest ness. The committee adjoured -S ate. Train R->bbers Folled. CLEVELAND, Aug. L.-Lake -Shore Express train No. 12 arrived from the West and puffed into the Union sta tion this morning, after having enco untered a most thrilling experience on the plains of Indiana. An attempt was made last night to hold up the train at Kessler upon the identical spot that the train was held up last fall. The train was just approaching a split swich at Kessler, when the engineer noticed that the switzh was turned so as to run the~ train on the siding. A big obstruction of ties and lumber was piled upon the sding a few rods ahead of his engine. The obstruction dId not appear to be Impassable and the engineer put on all the steam and dashed through the pile passing safely on the main track through the switch at a high rate of speed. As the train passed the ob stuction the engineer noticed a group of masked men and as the engine clear ed the track of all obstacles the would be highwaymen f ired several shots In to the train, none of which, however, took effect. The United States express car was attached to the train and had on board a large amount of money. It is thought that this was known to the desperadoes who attempted to hold up the train. Their disappointment in carrying out their plans of stopping the train was evinced on their firing shots when they saw that their plans had been foiled by the bcldness of the engi neer in dashing through~ the heap of ties upon the track. storm ia vurginia. WA ING ToN, Aug. 11.-A special to the Post from Leesburg, Va, says: A destructive wind, rain and hail storm caused a serious loss of life and limb at the Temperance Bush meeting at Pur cellville at 3 &elock this evening. The large tent sheltering about 2,000 peo ple was blown down. In its fall John Nicols, of Philamont, was killed, Mrs. Dunbar, Mr. Schooey, Mrs. Peacock and several others were severely hurt, while Mrs. Samuel Di. Leslie h-ad her back severely injurned and it is thought she will die. Trees were uprooted, cairri ages blown over and destroyed and much property in the neighborhood injured. InelIgible. LrTTLE 11005, Ark., Aug. .-lt was discovered to-day that D). E. Barker, the Populist candidate for Governor, had not paid his pC!i tax. This makes him neligible to hold oflice or to vote, the time for paying poll taxes having expired a month ago. If he were to re eive amajority of the votes cast at the election which occurs the first Mouday in September, he would not be granted a certiicate of election. The Demo crats in this city feel highly elated over this iscovery. RyAL' IW AKIN P OWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream or tartar Damng powder Highest of all in leavening strength.-La test United States Government food Re port. Royal Bakig Powder Company, 106 Wal St., N. Y. A Substitute Suggested. The Spartanburg Herald suggestes a substitute for the sub-treasury scheme offered by the Farmer's Alliance, and presents its views on the subject by saying that it is "firmily convinced that the financial policy now in force in this country is the greatest injustice ever perpetrated on any people on the face ef the earth. We believe that the peo ple are at last aroused and determined to get some relief. The great danger is that by the persistent refusal of the money powers to grant reasonable demands for the relief of the masses they will drive the people to despera tion and to excess. It was the denyal of the reasonable demands of reapportion ment, primary elections, etc., which brought on the revolution we have had in this State. Just so it will be in the nation if the administration in power continues to bind the county to a finan cial system which is every day drawing tighter, requiring each day more labor to get a dollar than on the proceeding day. For more than twenty years the farmers have seen the prices of their produce go down, down, down! In 1873 he could take ten bushels of wheat to New York and get $13.30 in gold. If he takes the same amount of wheat to the same market today he will get $5 40. In 1873 100 pounds of cotton wefe worth $20.00 in gold. Today it will bring $6.75. It is hardly reasonable that in this country when the power to regulate such things rests with the peo ple that they will longer tolerate this system that has robbed them of more than half their wealth, and countinues to rob them daily, because it makes money harder to get, requiring more labor to be given in exchange for a dol lar. The people will have more money. The question Is how shall we getit. Shall we start the presses and print it as the Argentine Conferation did a few years back, or shall we borrow on farm pro ducts? The first is absolutely danger ous. If all men were wise and pure and good a certain amount of geenbacks issued could be maintained profitably but in a republic where the administra tion change frequntly and the policy is at the caprice of the demagogue and charlatan as often as the statesman, the acheme is fraught with untold horrors. No men of ordinary prudence would hazard such an experiment or establish such a precedent. The sub treasury is better, but hardly practicable. Why not go back to the system that has nev er failed to bring prosperity, growth, development and advancement in civi lization? Why not put in force the system that worked so well In 1873, before it was destroyed by stealth? Nature has povided that just enough gold and silver can be mined each year to meet the demands of Increasing business. Open the mints to gold and slyer and prosperity will follow, but no makeshift or artifice can give perman ent relief outside of the free and nlim ited coinage of gold and silver. His tory, from the earliest ages, records prosperity of the people just in propor tion as the mines yielded bountifully. Even in this country this has been the case. Along about 1850 the world's supply of the precious metals annually did not exceed the demands of com merce and the arts. There was no in crease in the circulating medium and hence prices fell 50 per cent. It was a time of deepest gloom, when the discov reies of gold and silver in Califernia and Australia gave new life to enterprise and change the very conditions of clvi lization. The policy of constant contrac tion was changed by the discoveries to one of expansion, and prosperity took the place ofdesolation. We believe that the producers of this country have determined to threw off the grasping Shy locks who ate sticking at their throats. Relief will come through the opening of the mints to gold and silver on equal terms, but the further question arises: What political party will be trusted to carry out this legislation; Both the Chicago and Minneapolis plattorms were for bimetallism, and yet the leaders of both the parties went squarely back on it. Will the people who votedl to put the Democrats In power trust them again ? Promising to treat gold and silver on equal terms, a Demo cratic president went so far as to refuse even the cinage of the siver the gov ernment alrt-dy owns. We do not uin dertaske to anisv er, but If the Demo cratic party i- wise It will lose no time in unloading he men who have caused the party to r,-pudiate its platform." Hintall y. . - TEIARKANA, Ark.. A,. 8.-Henry Wheeler and his waia, negroes, who live in the north suburbs of town, have been arrested snu lowged in jiall on the charge of murdering the 16 year old sister the latter, who had been living with them. It is c'iarged that they ied her hand and foot and left her alone f >r days at a time in a secluded spot. T-ee des 2ot on to the lacerated portions of her b :d y up n which she had been beat en anid ecrew worms resulted by th'e Nundredd. When tound she was literalg a living skeleton, a j . c e.. .i. ..u. A cor ouer's jury found it a case of murder, and Wheeler andl h's wife will remain in ji until the next crand ja y which meets in November. Wheeler has al ways borne a god c'maracter among the white people, but wam disliked by the negroes because of his aristocratic main nr. He has been eexton for ten years at the Southern Methodist church. ra Hard Luck. MARLBORO, Aug. 7.-The family of Rev. C. M. Page, of Collington, has been peculiarly unfortunate this summer. Mr. Page's son-in law, the Rev. Carl Grammer, is ill, at the rectory; a few days ago he received a telegram from Mexico announcing the sudden death of his son, Woods Page, and the critical illness of his young wife, and 24 hours af ter this another telegram was received telling of the sudden death, from heart disease. of Miss Maud Grammer, only sister of the ill man. That afternoon Miss Lilla [Page and Mr. Carl Gram me's little daughter drove with Mrs. G~rammers nurse to John M. Bowie's. The hose ranaway and threw all three from the vehicle, cutting the little girl's foreheld from the heair down to the right eye, a terrible gash. The nurse was cut and bruised, and Miss Page es caped with a few bruises. Senterced. Lo~,s Au' . 3.At 12:37 Ceasario ws srnienced to death for the murder o Carit As t he sentence was pro nCucd he tottered, atnd with a weak voice, said: "Viva la S~cial Revolution." Then in a louder voice he shouted: "Courage comrades, vive la anrhi. In spite of the prisonrir's defl-iattitude, his habitual smile disappeared fro-n his face when thbe sentence of death was pro