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THY WILL BE DOE. When earth is reached with sunny blue, And life is but the caroling Of memories of pleasz.nt hue, And thoughts that can no sadness bring, How easy then it is to say, On bended knee, day unto day: "Thy will be done." But when the morning's rosy light We seenot throughour tear-dimid eyes. Ard Peace has winged herselt fron sight, And bird-songs are but nrockerics; How hard a thing it is to say, On bended knee, day unto day: ''Thy will be done." Thrice blesse& they, or high or low, Or rich or poor, in youth or age Who calmly walk through weal or woe And con life's lessons page by page, And with an honest heart can say, And with a child-like trust can pray: "Thy will be done." THE DIVINE RESCUE. Salvation Without Money-Death RobbEd of Its Terr ors. BROOKLYN, Sept. 2.-Rev. Dr. Tal mage, who is still absent in the south Pacific, has selected as the subject of today's sermon through the press "The Rescue," the text chosen being Acts xvi, 31, "Believe on the L'rd Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Jails are dark, dull, damp, loathsome places even now. but they % ere worse in the apostolic times. I imagine today we are standing in the Philippian dun geon. Do ycu not feel the chill? Do you not hearthe groans of those incarce rated ones who tor 10 years have not seen the sunlizht and the deep sigh of women who remember their father's house and mourn over their wasted estatee? Listen again. It is the cough of a censumptive or the struggle of one in the nightmare of a great horror. You listen again and hear a culprit, his chains rattling as he rolls over in his dreams, and you say, "God, pity the prisoner." But there is another sound in that pri son. It is the song of joy and gladness. What a place to sing it! The music comes winding through the corridors of the prison, ana n all the dark wards the whmper is heard: "What's that? Wbat's that?" It is the song of Paul and Silas. They cannot sleep. They have been whipped very badly whipped. The long gashis en their backs are bleeding yet. Theyie fiat on the old ground, their feet fast in wooden sockets, and of course they can. not sleep. But they can sing. Jailer, what are you doing with these people? Why have they been put in here? Oh, they have been trying to make the world that all? That is all. A .pit for Joseph, a lion's cave for Daniel, a blazing furnace for Shadrach, clubs for John Wesley, an anathema for Philipp Melanchthon, a dungeon for Paul and Silas. But while we are standing in the gloom of the Philippian dungeon, and we hear the mingling voices of sob and grodn and blasphemy and halleluiah, suddenly an earthquake! The iron bars of the prison twist, the pillars crack off, the soh1d masonry begms to heave, and all the doors swing open. The jailer, feel inghimsel4 responsible for these prison e andbeheving in his pagan ignorance suiciae to be honorable-since Brutus killed himself and Cato killed himself, and Cassius killed himself-puts his own heart, proposing with one strong keen thrust to put an end to his excite ment and agitation. But Paul cries cut: "Stop, stop! Do thyself no harm. We are all here." Then I see the jailer running through the dust and amid the ruin of that pri son, and I see him throwing himself down at the feet of these prisoners, cry. ing out: "What shall I dc? What shall I de?" Did Paul answer: "Get out of this place before there is another earth quake. Put handcuffs and hopples on these other prisoners, lest they get awa!?" No word of that kind. His compact, thrilling, tremendous answer, memorable all through earth and heav en, was, "Belheve on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Well, we have all read of the e quke in Lisbon. in ' ' .and in Caracas,b elive ina latitude 'our memory there has not one severe volcanic disturbance. And yet we have seen 50 earthquakes. Hee is aman who has been building up a large fortune. His bid on the money market was felt in all the cities. He thinks he has got beyond all annoymng rivalries in trade, and he says to himself "NowlIam freeand safe fromall possi ble perturbation." But in 1857 or in 873 anationalpanice strikes the founda tion of the commercial world, and crash goes all that magnificent business estab lsement. Here is a man who has built up a very beautiful home. His daughters have just come home from the seminary with diplomas of graduation. His sons have started in life, honest, temperate and pure. When the eveniug lights are struck, there is a happy and unbroken family circle. But there has been an accident down at Long Branch. The young man ventured too far out in the surf. The telegraph hurled the terror up to the city. An earthquake struck under the foundation of that beautiful home. The piano closed; the curtains drop ped: the laughter hushed. Crash go all tho domestic hopes and prospects and expectations! So my friends, we have all felt the shaking down of some great trouble, and there was a time when, we were as much excited as this man of the text, and we.cried out as he did: "What shall I do? What shall I do?" The same reply that the apostle made to him is appropriate to us, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." There are some documients of so little importance that you do not care to put any more than your last name under them, or even your initials, but there are some documents of so great import ance that you write out your full names So the Saviour in some parts of the Bi ble is called "Lord," and in other part, of the Bible he ns called "Jesus," and in other parts of the Bible he is called "Christ," but that there might be no mistake about this passage all three names come together, "Lord Jesus Christ." Now, who is this being that you want me to trust in and behieve in? Men sometimes come to me with credentials and certicficates of good character, but I cannot trust them. There is some dishonesty in their looks that makes me know that I shall be cheated if I confide in them. You cannot put your heart's confidence in a man until you know what stuff he is made of, and am I unreason able when I stop to ask you who this is that you want me to -trust in? No man would think of venturing his lie on a vessel going out to sea that had inever been inspected. No'; you must have the certificate hung amidships, telling how many tons it carries and how long ago it was built, and who built it, and all about it. And you cannot expect me to risk the cargo of my mortal interests en board any craft till you tell me what it is made of, and where it was made, and what it is. When then, I ask you who this is you want me to trust in, you tell me he is a very attractive person. Contemporary writers describe his whole appearance as being resplendent. There was no need for Christ to tell the children to ecme to him. "Suffer little children to come unto me," was not spoken to the chil dren. It was spoken to the disciples. The children came readily enough with out any invitation. No sooner did Jesus appear than ihe little ones jumped from brauty and love, into his lap. Christ did not ask John to put his head down on his bosom. John cuid not help but put his hod ibere. I suppose a look at Christ was ja,t to love him. HOw at. tractive his mane!! Why, when they saw Christ com;ng alone the street they rau into their hcuses, and they wrapped up their invalids as quick as they could and brought them out that he might look at them. Oh, there was Eomeihing so pleasant, so inviturg, sO cheerin, in everything he eid, in his very look. When these sick ones were brought out did he say: "Do not bring before me these soreE? Do not trouble me with these leprosies?" No, no. There was a kind look; th'ere was a gentle wore; there was a healing touch. They could not keen away fom him. In addition to this softness of charac ter there was a Eery momentum. How the kings of the earLh turned palt! Here is a plain man with a few sailors at his back, coming cff the sea of Galilee, go ing up to the palace of the Casars, making that palace quake to the foun dations and uttering a word of mercy and sindness which throbs through all the earth and through all the heavens, and through all ages. Oh, he was a lovmg Christ. But it was not efiemi nacy or insipidity of character. It was accompanied with majesty, infdite and omnipotent. Lest this world should not realize his earnebtness, this Christ mounts the cross. I think there are many under the in fluence of tha Spirit of God who are say ing, "I will trust hiM if you will only tell me how," and the great question asked b) many is, "How, how?" And while I answer your question I look up and utter the prayer which Rowland Hill so often uttered in the midst of his sermons, "Master, hel.!" How are yOu to trust in Christ? Just as you trust any one. You trust your partner in business with important things. If a commercisl house gives you a note payable three months hence, you expEct the paymsnt of that note at the end of three months. Youhave perfect confidecs in their word and in their abil ity. Or, again, you go home today. You expect there will be food on the tabe. You have confidence in that. Now, I ask you to have the same cond dence in the Lord Jesus Christ. He ssys "You telieve; I take away your sins," and they are all taken away. "What!" you say, "before I pray any more, be fore I read my Bible any more. before I cry over my sins any more?" Yes, this moment. Believe with all your heart and you are saved. Why, Christ is only waiting to get from you what you give to scores of people every day. What is that? Confidence. If these people whom you trust day by day are more worthy than Christ, if they are more faithful than Christ, if they have done more than Christ ever did, then give them the pre ference, but if you really think that Christ is as trustworthy as they are then deal with him as fairly. "Oh," says some one in a light way, "I believe that Christ was born at Bethlehem, and that he died on the cross." D.3 you believe it with your head or sour heart? I will illustrate the difference. You are in your house. In the morning you open a newspaper, and you read how Captain Braveheart on -the sea risked ia life for the salvation of his passengers. You say: "What a grand fellow he must have been! Bis family deserves very well of the country." You fold the newspaper and sit down at the table and perhaps do not think of thati ncident again. That is historical faith. But now you are on the sea and it is night, and you are asleep, and you are awakened by the shr iek of "Fire!" You rush out on the deck. You hear. amid the wringing of the hands and the faint ing, the cry: "No hope! No hope! We are lost!' We are lost!" The sail puts out its wmng of fire, the '0 makes a burning ladder in e ht heavens, the spirit of wreck sses in the wave and on the ' e deck shakes out its erosmoke and darkness. "Down 'ith the lifeboats!" cries the captamn. "Down with the lifeboats!" People rush into them. The boats are about full. Room only for one more man. You are standing on the deck beside the captain. Who shall it be? You or the captain? The ca-ptamn says, "You." You jump and are saved. He stands there and dies. Now, you believe that Captain Braveheart sacrificed himself for his passengers, but you believe it with love, with tears, with hot and long continned exclamations, with grief at his loss and joy at your deliverance. This is saving faith-mn other words, what you believe with all the heart, and believe in regard to yourself. On this hinge turns my sermon-aye, the salvation of your im mortal* soul. You often go across a bridge you know nothing about. You do not know who built the bridge, you do not know what material it is made of but you come to it and walk over it and ask no questions. And here is an arched bridge blasted from the "Rock of Ages" and built by the Architect of the whole universe, spanning the dark gull between sin and righteousness, and all God asks yu is to walk across it, and you start and you come to it and you stop, and you go a little way on, and you atop and you fall back, and you experiment, You say, "How do I kuow that bridge will hold me?" instead of marching on with film step, asking no questions, but feel ing that~ th.estrength of the eternal God is under you. Oh, was there ever a priae proffered so cheap as pardon and heaven are of fred to you? For how much? A mil ion dollars? It is certainly worth more than that. But cheaper than that you can have it. Ten thousand dollars? Less than that. Five thousand dollaret Less than that. One dollar? Less than that. One farthing? Less than that. "Without money and without price." No money to pay. No journey to take. No pennance to sufler. Only just one decisive action of the soul, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." ShalllItry to tell you whatit is tobe saved? I cannot tell you. No man, no angel can tell you. But I can hint at it for my text brings me up to this point, "Thou shalt be saved." It means a happy lifejhere and a peaceful death ahd a blissful eternity. It is a grand thimg to go to~sleep at night and to get up in the morning and to do business all day feeling that all is right between my heart and God. No accident, no sick ness, no persecution, no peril, no sword can do me any permanent damage. I am a forgiven child of God, and he is bound to see me through. He has sworn he will see me through. The moun tains may depart, the earth may burn, the light of the stars may be blown out by the blast of the judgment hurricane, but life and death, things present and things to come are mine. Tea, further than that, it means peaceful death. Mrs. Hemans, Mrs. Sigourney, Dr. Young and almost all the poets have said 'handsome things about death. There is nothing beautiful about it. When we stand by the white rigid fea tures of those whom we love an'd they give no answering pressure of the hand and no returning kiss of the lip, we do not want anybody poetizing around about us. Death is loathsomeness and midnight and the wringing of the heart until the tendrils snap and curl in the torture unless Christ shall be with us. I confess to you an Infinite fear, a con suming horror of death unless Christ shall be with me. I would rather go down into a cave of wild beasts or a jun gle of reptiles than into the grave unless that I am to be carried out from my bright home and put away in the dark nes ? I cannot bear darkness. At the first coming of the evening I must have the gas lighted, and the farther on in life I get the more I like to hava my friends round about me. And am I to be put off for thcusands of years in a dark p'ace, with no one to speak tc? When the holidays come and the gifts are distributed, shall I add no ioy to the "Merry Christmas" cor the "Haypy New Yeai?" Ah do not point down to the hole in the ground., the zrave and call it a beautiful place. Unless there be some supernatural illumination I shudder back from it. Mv whole na ture revolts at It. But no .v this glori ous lamp is lifted above the irave, and all the darkness is gone, and the way is clear. I look into it now without a sin gle shudder. Now my anxiety is not about death. My anxiety is that I may live aright, for I know that if my life is consistent, when I come to the last hour and this voice is silent, and these eyes are closet, and these hands with which I beg for your eternal salvation to day are folded ever the still heart, that then I only begn to live. What power is there in anything to chill me in the last hour if Christ wraps arcuid me the skirt of his own garment? What darkness can fall upon my eyelids then, amid the heavenly daybreak? 0 death, I will not fear thee then! Back to thy cavern of darkness, thou robber of all the earth. Fly, thou despoiler of families. With this battleax I hew thee in twain from helmet to sandal, the voice of Christ sounding all over the earth and through the heavens: "0 death, I will be thy plaguB. 0 grave, I will be thy deitruction." To be saved is to wake up in the res ence of Christ. You know when Jesus was upon the earth how happy he made every house he went into, and when he brings us up to his house in heaven how greatshall be our glee! His voice has more music in it than is to be heard in all the oratorios of etemi4y. Talk not about banks dashed with (il fresceoce. Jesus is the chief bloom of heaven. We shall see the very face that beamed sym pathy in Bethany and take the very hand that dropped its blood from the short beam of the cross. Oh, I want to stand :a eternity with him. Toward that har bor I steer. Toward that goal I ran. I shall be satisfied when I awake in nis likeness. Oh, broken hearted men and women, how sweet it will be in that good land to pour all your hardships and breavements and losses into the loving car of Christ and then have him explain why it was best for you to be sick, and why it was best for you to be widowed, and why it was best for you to be persecuted, and why it was best for you to be tried, and have him point to an elevation propor tionate to your disquietude here saying, "You suffered with ms on earth; come up now and be glorified with me in hea ven." Some one went into a house where there had been a good deal of trouble and said to the woman there, *,You seem to be lonely." "Yes," she said; "I am lonelv." "How many in the famdh?" "0aly myself." "Have you had any children?" "I had seven chil dren." "Where are theN?" "Gone." 1 "All gone?" "All." "All dead?" l "All." Then she breathed a long sigh . into the loneliness and said, "Oh, sir, I I have been good a mother to the grave." And so there are hearts here that are utterly broken down by the bereave ments of life. I piont you today to the eternal balm of heaven. Oh, aged men and women who have knelt at the thorne of grace for threescore year and ten, will not your decreptitude change for the leap of a heart when you come to look face to face upon him whom having not seenj you love? O'h, that will be the'God Shepherd, not out in the night and1 watching to keep oft the wolves, but with .lamb reclining on the sunlit hill.] That- will be the Captain of our salva tion not amid the roar and crash and boom of battle, but amid his disbanded troops keeping victorious festivity. That will be the Bridegroom of the church coming from afar, the bride leaning upon his arm while he looks down mnto her face and saye: "Behold, thou art fair, my love! Behold, thou art fair!" WEATHER-CROP BULLETIN. As Reported by 3. W. Bauer for the Week E ading sept. 3rd. The temperature was somewhat low er than during the previous week but there was an average daily excess of temperature of from two to three de grees over the normal,quite evenly dis tributed throughout the week. The coast regions were relatively warmer than the interior of the State. Highest temperature 96 at Oakwood on the 80th, and 94 at Spartanburg on the 31st; lowest 58 at Greenville on the 28. There was more sunshine than dur ing the previous week. During the lat ter portion of the week there wasi much haze or smoke, which caused. light fleecy clouds to form during thei hottest parts of the day through which the sun shed a diffused oranged colored1 light. The nights were uniformly clear after 9 p. m. There were few rainy days, although the rain that fell on the 28th through-1 out the greater portion of the State ex cept on the coast where the showers1 occurred on the 28th, left but small, if any sections of the ktate without rain.1 It was generally needed and proved very beneficial, except that the show ers on the 28th were very heavy at places washing some lands badly. Cotton boils are maturing and open-1 ing rapidly and picking has by this time become general. As nearly all I fields have been gone over, the actual condition of the fields can be judged,I for instance, the fruitage and the dam age by shedding and rust, and the rot ting of boils. Shedding and rust are not as general as heretofore although the reports of damage from those1 sources continue, particularly from lo calities having a sandy soil, where, also, there is no top crop, making growth having stopped. *n stiffer or heavier soil the plant has attained a very rank growth of weed, but the fruitage is deficient, owing it is thought to the rapid growth of the plant when the July rains began. This luxuriant growth of weed has given crop a deceptive appearance heretofore, I and its aggregate condition must be placed at considerable less than an av erage crop. There is considerable and quite general complaint of rotting of, boils near the ground. The late corn crop Is fast maturing and will not yield as well as the early planted but Is nevertheless a fair crop. Fodder about all gathered in very good condition. Considerable hay was made during I the past week under favorable weather< conditions, although the showers in the fore part of tne week drenched1 some newly cut grass Injuring it< slightly. Peas are beginning to make pods andi are doing very well. Some pea-vine I hay has been cut. The rich harvest is still under way and the yield is most encouraging for1 a good average. Shipments of new rice have already been made to North era matkets. The yield of sweet potatoes is large, but the growth of the tuber was so rapid that many are split, and a dry1 rot nas affected the crop in places. Rutabagas and other varieties of I turnips are growing finely where a1 good stand was obtained, which wasJ generally the case. A large portion of the cabbage crop has rotted, but other seasonable garden < products are plentiful, having been favored by the weather. On the whole the past week's wea- 1 ther was favorable for growing and 1 A DAUGilTEi'8 iET[ER. A TOUCHING DEFENSE OF A DEAD FATHER'S CAREER. Tfie Pitiful Side (t the Rceant BIackville Tragedy-An Expbinat ion Froin Canata ble Gribbmn'd. E dost D.gubter-'fhe story. COLUMBIA, S. C., Sept. t.-There is another chanter of the recent tragedy in Blackvillie, in which Liquor Consta ble Gribben and Mr. Sol Brown lost their lives, that presents a very Pathetic side to the picture. The chapter is from the nen of the deceased consteable's daughter, and it was received by Gov er nor Tillman Saturday. The constable's daughter, under the caption "A Few Remarks to Explain Matters to Your Excellency, Governor B. I. Tillman," writes as follows, endeavoring. as any true daughter should, to shield her fath er's career: You are no doubt aware of the cir austances of the butchery ot our dear father. Sudden and unthought of as was tho shock or his tragic death-3udden as the shock was to his widow and or phan children-it scarcely seems as if it was near so bad or unlooked and ancalled for as the defaming of his character by Col. Mike Brown and Ed mund Felder, which neither one of them would have dared to do, or ever lid as long as there was a breath of Life in his dear body. No one would be surprised at the statement of. Col. Mike Brown, who was the brother of my father's mur lerers. But for Edmund Felder, who my father has defended from himself many and many a time, it looks to .ny one who knows my father and his ,haracter, moral and otherwise, stran ge md unchristian. He was on their hot tracks the last few days of his life and was expecting Liquor at any hour on any train or any :onveyance, in any shape or forni, to be delivered to them or called for by ,hem at any stations, Blackville or yther wheres, as they have been get 'ing it left off at different stations. Of :ourse it was mineral water, but it >ccurs to me, and no doubt it will to ou, that innocent mineral water would rather face its accusers, instead of :oming home roundabout ways like an influential drunkard who has been painting the town red and not coming iome till 2 in the morning. My father always did his duty and mny other constable you choose to send lere, who tries to do his duty, as papa lid, will be served the same way, no loubt, as my father was, as the Browns ire still at large and at present it looks Ls if nothing is going to be done to hem. As regards my father being dis harged by the present town council or lack of judgment or political faith, )wing to pledges made by town coun il before being el3cted, there is no ruth in such a statement. The pre ient town council was elected by bought iegro votes, and old Simon Brown. was the purchaser. As the present ;own council's principles, not political, lid not agree with my papa's, he hand )d in his resignation. it was accepted ith reluctance, owing to my father's general competency and superinten lence for the good of the town. They iad no idea he was going to resign and has avoid collision with Simon Bro wn. ks he bought the election, it was sup osed that he would run the town too, md furthermore he served as town narshal a term during your administra ion. My father joined the British army when a mere boy. He did not like it, either did his friends and relatives ike his being there, so he left, owing ;o the influence of his friends and rel tives, who where very influential with the government, and to prove that t was not desertion pure and simple, ny father went to Scotland, then came o America; then went back to the old ~ountry and stayed there two years, art of the time in England, Ireland nd Scotland, without any attempt eing made to touch him. As to joining the United States ;roops, that is what brought my poor apa to the South. He came in '76. de stayed in the army about six nonths. As before he did not like it, md he applied for his dismissal, Ow ng to his good behavior and good ~onduct, Capt. Cline, of Company C, so far as I can remember it was Capt. ~line of Company C,) secured his pa >ers for an honorable discharge. I had forgotten the circumstances tont my father leaving the Marine jorps. I remember now that he told ne about it. He got the colonel at dgefield to have his papers straight med. The papers came out correct. [f the living liars about my dead ather were to take the trouble to find >ut, they would find the papers still ~orrect instead of using the word deserter." As to being a straggler of Sherman's irmy, one does not kno w whether to be imused at or to pity Col. Brown's la nentable ignorance. My father, as far is he can remember, was at that time )etween nine and twelve years of age. it that time he was in Ireland with is mother. As to his not resenting the abuse of be Browns awhile ago, I am reliably nformed that my father's murderers were in waiting Lor young Brown to ight with papa and then come up and )utcher him as they did the other day. Et was a feud of long standing owing ;o the fact that my father did his duty md did not allow the Browns to run he town. No matter how zealous he was in his luty he had always the endorsemennt of ts superiors to support him. When my father opened the box in he freight deopt there was nxot one ord said to him, but Brown went iome and armed the family to be ready ;o butcher my farther when he made is appearance on the streets again; md they succeeded, but it took four o do it. Before the tight my father ffered to fight all of them one at a ime, after trying his best to ward off he fight. if you want to publish this you can, s I think that if my f ather's murder ~rs and Edward Felder can write lies nd untruths. i think that, in the ab ence of any male relative, I~ am justi ed in coming forward with an expla iation of the truth. One ward more. Neither the dispen ary or Your Excellency is responsible or the tragedy. The opening of the ox was only the match to the maga ine of their infernal hatred of long tanding. I hope this is satisfactory to you. I will close my lengthy explanation and eg to remain, Yours respectfully. MAGGIE GRIBBEN. The alliance in Georgia. Tne statement is going the rounds ofI he press that the Georgia Alliance has lisbanded. This is not strictly true. ihe Georgia Alliance is badly dislig ired, but still in the ring. The L an aster Review, which is an Alliance >aper, says the present bad plight of he Georgia Alliance seems to be due ,o two causes, politics and mismanage nent of its State Exchange. When it ent into politics as an organization it was 80,000 strong, but in a very shor t ,ime its membership was reduced over ifty per cent. Its political venture was ut the beginning of the end, It seems. Ihe politicIans who captured the organ zation proved to be too big a burden 0 carry. The indications are that it will scarcely recover from its bitter po itical experience, Its late annual neeting at Dublin was slimly attended. t elected olicers, however, for another rear. The State Exchange, in which he members had put over $70,000, was :dosed with a debt hanging over it of $25,000. It is thought that its organ ill soon suspend, as It too has been osing money heavily. The Alliance in his State if wise will profit by the sad ompdamencenf its onrg-ia hrethren, T HE CTTON OUTLODK. Mr. Het3r oi New Orleans Reviews the Situatlo a. NEW OiLEANS, Sapt. 3.-Secretary Hester's New Orleans Catton _H x. change report on the cotton crop was issued in full to-day. After stating that the crcp for 1893-94 was 7,549,879 bales, an excess of 819,452 over last year, he says: The largest part f the gain was in the group of Atlantic States. cons!st ing of Alabama, Georgia, Florida and North Carolina, which ran ahead. The Gulf States, Arkansas, Louisiana Mis - sissippi and Tennessee, increased 351, 000, whil9 Texas droppei ofI 59.000. Mr. Hester puts'the average commerci al value of the crop at $37.50 per bale, against $12 50 last year, $37.50 in 1891 .2, and the total value was $283,118,000, against 8284,150,000 last year and *333, 812,000 the year before, showing the remarkable fact that while the output of the last year has been 849,452 bales in excess of the year before, its com mercial value is $1,632,000 less. Mr. Hester says with an average of 7 1 2 cents per pound which the crop brought, planters as a class would have been backrupt had they adhered to their old policy of all cotton and little food crops and instances the signiticant fact that the cotton States produce over $148,000,000 of corn, nearly all of which was consumed where grown. In reference to acreage, he says the published estimates are still unsatis factory, and comments on the Inten tion of a change of the base of compar ison on that subject by the United States Agricultural Department being first made known through an Faglish source. From this information the statistician of the Washington Depart ment has written to a prominent mem ber of the House giving as his opinion that the cotton acreage of 1893 was 20,000,000 acres, or more than 3,000,000 acres over the heretefore published estimates. M: Hester announces the result of his investigations in this movement under a new system,. saying that several hundred thousand bales have hitherto been credited by the trade to Gulf States which properly be longed to Atlantic States and that facts show the seat of cotton production has not been raoving Westward as rapidly as supposed. The commercial crop in bales is given as follows, in thousand bales for 1893 94: Alabama, 935; Arkansas, 625; Flor ida, 50; Georgia, 1,125; Louisiana, 400; Mississippi, 916; North Carolina, 425; South Carolina, 750; Tennessee, etc., 275; Texas and Indian Territory, 2,059. Total crop, 7,550,003 bales. In relation to American mills, Mr. Hester says the season has been any thing but favorable, North or south. On the heels of their largely decreased Zakings for1892-93 Northernmills show a further reduction for the pastseason of 86,113 bales. The effect of financial stringency and delay as to tariff legisla tion also decidedly were depressing in" fluences in this industry, and for the first time since the war a set back is to be recorded. Instead of an increa3e of 37, bales, which with anything like last year's crop would have resulted from bringing into full play the new spindles added in the South at the close of last year and the early part of the present season, Southern consumption has fall en off 25,333 bales. The total takings North as shown were 1,601,173, against 1,687,286 last year and 2,190,766 the year before, while the mills in the South re port as their consumption (including takings from ports) 718,515, against 743,848 in 1892 93, and 686,080 in 1891 9. Commenting on the outlook for cot ton consumption in the South, Mr. Hester says with a return to normal conditions there is promise not only for an increase of 62,000 bales per annum in the products of mills now in opera tion, but tables show twenty-one new mills not completed with nearly 100,000 spindles, besides thirty-six idle mills with 130,000 spindles, a good part of which would be brought into play. In ther words, the South has 2,500,000 spindles with a consumptive capacity of 825,000 bales per annum. Grover ad Gorman. WASKINGTON, Sept. 6.-There was a story back of the wholesale discharge of employes in the government print ing office last week not disclosed in the asual announcement that there had been a reduction of the force because of the adjournment of congress. Of about 500 employes discbarghed, nearly 300 of them had been appointed on the political ecommendation of Senator Gorman. The Maryland senator is chairman of the senate printing committee. He has been in a position to make trouble for every public printer who did not honor is requisitions for patronage. Under he last Republican administration he ontrolled about 200 appointments, al-, hough he was then only a majority member of the committee instead of its haiman. Captain H. T. Brian, the foreman of printing, is a Gorman ap pointee, and has been retained through several administrations on the Mary an- senmor's demand. Puablic Printer Benedict had determined to dislodge Brian wbn he took charge of the office, but found his own nomination held up in Ihe senate, and Senator Gorman would .not permit it to be confirmed until Bene ict promised to keep Brian as foreman f printing. The recent onslaught by the public printer on German's appoin ees is on orders from the White House.. The war between Fresident Cleveland and Senator Gormau, growing out of the ariff debate in the senate, is getting ore setious every day. The action of he Maryland federai oflicials recently in esigning from the campaign committee t the request of the president, although dvised b~y Senator Gorman not to do o, shows that the Gormnan-Cleveland factional war in the Maryland Democ acy is getting serious for the senator. he entire Maryland delegation in the ouse stood out against Senator Gor an in the last house caucus and voted againt accepting the senate bill. Con ressman Rayner, who recently an ounced as a Democratic candidate for overnor, will stand as an administra ion candidate against Gorman domuina ion in the state ol Maryland. Arresting H1i OMclals. WASHIINGTON, Sept. 5.-Chief Hasen .f the Treasury secret service, received a telegram today announcing the arrest a St. Louis, Mo., this morning of Sec etary Smith, ,>i the St. Louis Bank ote Company. This company, it will e recalled, printed and engraved the 5 and $2 warrants of the State of Miss ssippi, which bore a striking simili Lde to United states money. The >resident of the company will be ar ested when he returns to St. Louis and gent Holmes, of the comp-any, who is au charge of the Chicago branch, will iso he looked after. In the meantime, he United States district attorney at ackson, M~iss., is preparing a case tgainst the State officials of Mississippi, Lovrnor Stone and others, in the same ase. The Mississippi ollic!aas refused o call in the warrants, hut the fact that Ley have been declared illegal by the ;eneral government has, it is said, had he eticet of destroymng public confidence an them as money, arnd the banks rcfuse onger to take them. Whipped by Womnen, JAOKsoN vILLE, Fla., Sept. 5.-A pecal to the Tinaes-Union from Waldo, Fla., says: Last night Da.n iggins, a notorious wife-beater, was ragged from home by masked men. iggins was carried into the woods md lashed to a tree. Several woman f the nighborhood, who sympathized ith Mrs. Wiggins, w ere present, and as soon as Wiggins had been tied they egan to whip him. After beating him mmercifully Wiggins was untied and ef to make his way home. It is honght that Wigginsa will die. THE CONGRESSIONAL NOMINEES. Counting the Votes of C3ngressional Can d dates In Ezch Distric'. COLUMBIA. S. C., Sept. 5.-The State Democratic Executive Committee met last night in the btate House. State Chairman Irby called the committee to order shortiy before 9 o'clock. Secre tary Tompkins and Tre isurer Jones were on hand. A. H. Patterson of Barnwell and H. H. Townes of Edge field,sent in their resignations as mem bers of the committee and the resigua tions were accepted. The committee proceeded to tabulate the votes of Congressional candidates in cch di3 trict and to declare the result. The following is the vote for each district and the candidatEs who received a ma jority were declared the nominees of the party: FIRST DISTRTIOT. Wm. Efliott. Sullivan. Charleston......... 1,257 1,457 Georgetown........ 553 18) Beaufort........... 219 17 Williamsburg...... 350 31 Colleton ........... 256 1 Berkeley........... 159 140 Totals............ 2,937 1.789 SECOND DISTRICT. W. J. Talbert. Hampton.........................1,248 Barnwell....-......................1.584 Aiken ............................1,521 Edgefieli .......... ........ ....2,058 Total...........................6,411 THIRD DISTRICT. A. C. Latimer. Abbeville ................. ........2,348 Newberry ........................1,111 Anderson.................-......2,657 Oconee............................1,380 Pickens...........................1,433 Total............................8.929 FOURTIi: DISTRICT. Wilson. Duncan. Johnson. Greenville....1,789 293 1.435 Laurens......1,321 54 838 Fairfield...... 232 454 7 Svartanburg.. 2493 81 404 Union........ 670 504 243 Rticnand..... 398 308 696 Totals....,93 1,696 3.628 Wilson's majority over all, 1,579. FIFTH DISTRICT. T1. J..Strait. D. E. FinIpy. Soartanburg..... 314 - 77 York............ 716 1,094 Chester.......... 915 131 Lancaster.......1,375 431 Chesterfield...... 859 542 Kershaw......... 930 286 Union............ 303 94 Totals.........5,442 2,655 Majority for Strait, 2,787. SIXTH DISTRICT. John L. McLaurin. Clarendon ........... .786 Darlington........... 768 Marlboro............. 880 Marion............... 1,571 Florence.............No report Ilorry................792 Williamsburg ..... 411 Total............... 5,208 SEVENTH DISTrICT. J. Win. Stokes. toe i .gton ............... 1,493 rangeburg................ 2,135 Sumter....................1,078 Colleton...................1,586 Berkeley....................798 Wichland................. 127 Total................... 7,217 The Reformers and the anti-g.il.man ites each held a primary in eaufort county, and the question came before the committee of counting the vote for Congressional candidates. lEach side claimed to be Democratie. The com mittee decided to count all the votes in each of the primaries for Sullivan and Elliott. Before adjourning the com mittee passed a resolution asking the railroads to give reduced rates to dele gates who will attend the State con vention this month. A New Railroad. The Orangeburg correspondent of the News and Courier recently had an in terview with Col. Gardner, the engineer of the Atlantic Coast Line system, du ring the course of which Col. Gardner Is reported as, having said that he had just heard it rumored that the Louis ville and Nashville had bought the South Carolina and Georgia Road. Col. Gardner did not vouch for the statement, but merely gave it as a ru mor which had reached him. Discuss ing the matter further Col. Gardner is reported as having said that the line recently surveyed to Augusta would probably be built if the Louisville and Nashville did not succeed In purchas ing the South Carolina and Georgia property. Ini commenting on the above the News andi Courier, of last Wednesday says: "The fact that Col. Gardner is officIally connected with one of the lines which proposes to build the new road lends a weight to what ever he may say on the subject which it would not other wise have. There is no reason for presuming that Col. Gardner was speaking excathe-ira, yet in cases of tnis kind the public will find it hard to forget that he i3 an Atlantic Coast Line official, and that the name of the Atlantic Coast Line has been intimately associated with that ot the Louisville and Nashville system both in the project to build a new route to Augusta or to obtain control over the old route. In regard to the rumor that the Louisville and Nashville has act ually arranged to purchase the South Carolina and Georgia Road, railroad men in this city place little faith in it. No one questions that such a transfer has been and still Is one of the possibil ites, but that any of its details have been arranged at the present time is another question. The present owners have taken possession of their property and are operating It in a manner which suggests that they have come to stay, at least for a period somewhat longer than would be the case had they sold out to the Louisville and Nash ville system. Col. Gardner's belief that the new line to Augusta will be built if the purchase of the South Carolina and Georgia by the Louisville and Nashville is not iinally effected is shared by many people. On this point Col. Gardner's opinion is entitled to some consideration. ie was selected by his road as the man to make the pre liminary survey for the new line,.and e did it. When the road was project ed it was stated that it would be built if it could be constructed within a giv en figure. That Col. Gardner believes t will be done in case the competing ine cannot be bought would seem to ndicate that his survey had demon strated that the road could be built for . sum falling within the limit set. But verything pertaining to the subject as been discussed so often that there is no reason for adding an additional word now. Col. Gardner's statements stand for themselves." Kined a Tramp. IIENDERSON. Ky., Sept. 4--Two' r nps entered the farmhouse of John illespie, near Eriks City, on Green river, and, iinding his wife alone, they emanded food, which she refused, when they helped themselves and plun ered the house. On her husband re urning and ascertaining of the robbery, e armed himself with a shotgun and, ccompanied by a neighbor, went on the trail. They came upon the tramps ear Congleton, McLean county. Tne uflans drew their pistols and refused o surrender, whereupon the pursuers pened fire, fatally wounding one, the ter effecting his escape. [Goes With the Pop*. WAsmNIXTON, Sept. 4.-Today urnisheti a genuine sensation in polit ical circles by the announcement thati enator John 1'. Jones, of Nevada, I who has represented his State in the nited States Senate for over twenty one years as a Rtepublican,has formaliy 1 enounced his allegiance to that party 1 man cat his lot with the Popnhaft I BARN BURNERAS KILLED. An O .gan'zidGngXof Fiends Shot Down by Iadigaant Clt3rsis. MEMPIis. Tena, Sept. .-Six negro barn burners were take~n from the cus tody of officers at Millington last night and shot to death by a mob of unkno wn men. Millington is a village in the northern part of Shelby County on the Chesapeake and Ohio and Southwest Wilroad. Recently there have been a number of fires in the vicinity of Mil lington under such circumstance as to indicate that they were the work of an organized gang of incendiaries. Cotton gins, numerous barns and other out houses and one or two dwellings have been burned and the diabolical work culminated in the destruction of the buildings on the fair grounds at Mil lington. Several negroes were charged with complic ity in these deeds of arson and yesterday evening Deputy Sheriff Rich aroson arrested Dan Hawkins, Glenn White, Warner Williams John Hughes Ed Iall and Robert Iaines, all col ored, on warrants charging them with the crime. The arrests were made at Keeville, which is a station on the Chesapeake and Ohio and Southwestern Railroad below Millington. The pris oners were to have had a preliminary hearing before a justice of the peace at Millington today. The deputy and one guard, a white man named Atkins started for that point, carrying the pris oners, who were chained together in a wagon. As the party neared the Big Creek bridge, a very lonely spot In a dense forest and cane brake, almost a jungle, a voice from out the thicket was heard to say: "'rurn to the right, the bridge is down." The deputy who was on horseback ordered Atkins, who drove the wagon containing the prison ers, to tuin into a narrow road leading to the ford. As he did so, a band of about fif ty armed men appeared and de manded the prisoners. The deputy re monstrated with those who seemed to be the leaders of the mob and protested against any violence, but to no purpose. While the oflicer was being held under cove r of revolvers the rest of the mob drew their weapons and opened a mur derous fusilade on the defenseless pris oners. One of the prisoners, Hawkins, threw his arms about the white driver, imploring protection, when one of the mob placing a revolver close to his head, blew the top of his skull off. The men were not masked, but neither the deputy or the driver, Atkins, recog nized any of them. None of them live in that community and it was quite dark where the murderous work was done. Deputy Richardson immediately apprised the justice of the peace of what had been done. The jury was summoned consisting of four negroes and eight white men and an inq.est held. The verdict was in accordance with the facts as detailed by the only witnesses. Judge Cooper of the Criminal Court, summoned Deputy Sheriff Richardson before him today, and questioned him closely concerning the lynching. The Judge is prepared to issue bench warrants for the arrest of all parties with reasonable suspicion of being connected in the crime. At half past 1 o'clock this afternoori, Deputy Richardson was arrested on a bench warrant issued by Judge Cooper, charged with being an accessory. That Ext ra Session. COLUMBIA, S, C., Sept. 6.-The Journal pubushed an article a few days ago saying that it was likely that an ex tra session of the Legislature would be called to ameiid the election laws o1 the State. Senator Irby was seen at the Grand Central Hotel and when asked for an interview on the subject said: "I did not come here to be interviewed. I came here to attend the meeting or the State executive committee, and when that is over I shall ao home." Then looking in a rather insinuating way he sid: "I do not shoot in the bushes. ? wait until the birds come out." "Isr that in reference to the proposed "independent movement?" "Yes, but I do not think there will be one. When those fellows get sober they wilitimk the matter over and not put out a ticket. Tbere is no cause for it. The people have spoken and that settles it." "Do you think there will be an extra session of the Legislature?" "It depends upon cicmane, was the significant reply. "What circumstances?" "That is private," was the pertinent reply. "What do you think of the reigistra - tion laws?" "They are before the Superemne Court, [ am no lawyer. I reformed and quit the law, and cannot now give a legal opinion." "Will the registration laws have any thing to do with the calling o1 the ex tra session?" "I d.. not know. Go ask Tillman," was the evasive answer. "Do you not think that Governor Till man has been indiscreet in his attacks pon the Democratic parts?" "As [ understand it, he has not at acked the Democratic party. He gave leveland the devil, but Cleveland de served ten times as much as he gave hm. Clevelarnd is not the Democratic party, nor is it representsd by such bumbums as he is. Some people in South Carolina seem to think that Cleveland s the embodiment of the Iaemocratic party. I don't." "Don't you think that Tillman will eave the Democratic party?" "I believe Tillman is as good a Dem crat as weer3 hair. If anybody leaves he Democratic party Cleveland's sort ught. I am convinced that Cleveland ould not have gottea the nomination if he Southern States could have known is financial policy in advance." "What about the Reform convention dopting the Ocala platform?" "The convention only reiterated what he Democrats of this State adopted in 392 as their platform." "But there are those who say that the platform adopted iui 1892 was not Democratic?" "I thought it was Democratic then, md I think so now, and the p'eople of the State ratified it." With this the Senator and the repor ter parted company. Tera Ibie Dis.aster. WAEwAKA, Ill., Sept. 5.-At the As umption coal shaft, about seven miles South of here, at an early hour this orning, in lowering a care, when about 200 feet from the bottom, the wire cable broke and the cage fell to he bottom, demolishing everything in Its way, the shaft is 1,000 feet deep. he enginEer became confused at the nishap and losing control of his engine Let the up-bound cage go up through :he roof ot the shaft house, carrying :omplete destruction in its patb. The vhole side of the engine room was torn ut and the cable drums were wrecked. Lwelve men were at work below and hey have not as vet been taken out. Every effort is being made to rescue .e men. A gent Shot . ATLANTA, G3., Sept. 4.-Rev. Ben aston, who recently gave a personally onducted emigration excursion for iegroe-s from Atlanta to Liberia, was hot last night during a general ilgat a Hancock County. Gaston has been a that County working up an emizrra Ion scheme. 'Two or three thousand iegroes have become worthless idlers consequence. They quit work and en refused to take an interest In pol ics. A negro politician named Jen rns told the Gaston cro wd that they ere deluded. Gaston and his lieuten ints got mad at .Jenkins. L ast night here was a pitched battle between the wo factions. Gaston was shot in the ROYAL~ir AKiN POwDER AbsoluteI2 Pure. A cream or tartar naing powder Highest of all in leavening strength.-LA test 'United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 Wall St., N. Y. The Beaudtal Long Ago. How it comes to us In 'the rush and hurry. worry and care of our busy every-day lives. Amid the din of the noisv cty, or the restial quiet of te couatry. An almost in'>)xcating per lume, as it were, floating Upon the Ira arant memories of an olden time sweet ness--The Beautiful L >ng Ago." The something that came into our lives which glorid1 as with a halo and has never whoily IeL us. Surrourding love and peace, bright hopes, or borken promises! One, or all perhaps. And among the ruins, with bated breath, or siagbs, eyes mist-/ with tears, we catch the far-way sound of sweet voices, whose rhythmic cadences haunt us still, the touch of a gentle band, the flash or tender glance of dark eyes, a ripple of laughter, of sweeter song, the quick, firm step or the dainty tread. Adown in the lane floats the kcent of dewy hedge; up yonder or the billtop, how pure and iresh the breez!; and soly in the valley, down by the old mill, the brook ripples on the sea. The wading path and the way side bo wers, with the giant trees stretch ing their great aims, with their whisper ing leaves. in a tnediction over our heads. Glimpses of blae sky, with aun light between, the quaint checkerings make by the interstices of bono.hs and leaves, falling aslant face and form with a silent warnibg all uaheede- on the lature before us. The warble of oirds and iragrance of orchard bloom. .Memo ries of days agone, when time was young and we stocl by. Smiles, and tears, wi"u c1ches of song, upheld by faith and n:avcr-the old-time blessings. Ah one by one, as in a dream, the fond memories of "The Beautiful Long Ago" float before us, up through the mists of the vanishing pa-t, with its holes and fee 's, sorrows and joys and star.gleamed trust- of youth. "Tbe Beautiful Long Aso," when the heart knew not a single pain and the eye burmed not with tears. Floating, drifting away into the intermin. able misty distancet! How tipped are the memories with golden halos, how fair with pearls of promise. and how sil. vern the hopes. Yes, with bated breath we drink it in, with a longing that is un ttr-able. Storm-beaten it may 1 3, and tempest tossed, while life's !retted waves lave not only washed to our feet, but swept over us with overwhelming forze. Aloes have been burned w.th the myrrh and frankincense, shadows have been thicker than the sun sbne, the wine of 'ie vintage of love, with the chalice filled to the brim, bitter with the dreas of disappoitment. Sirrow, but of all, come what has and come what wdll, "we have been blest," and as a partal re comnpense we lhve it over again in dreams, thot "Beautiful Long Ag.)" so fiall of precicus memnories. "A sorrow's crown of sorrow is rememnbermng happier thi'rge" to Dante, bnt not * us. Our hearts are lighter and betier for the remembrance, and we take up cur scrip and staff content to begin anew. or tuke up the taneled threads ot aur homely duties just where we lett eft when "The Beautiful Lonxg Ago" would t~ 3 smnu and heard and felt, and ci on e whcie r pirit had left itsc'ay, we come back, sadened 3 et purified, for "the place we stood was holy ground," and we saw as we are seen, clasped ha ds, and stood beset to heart with those, where at ocr ov, a weary feet lay a row of grass-gcown graves beiween. A hush falls upon us, and then upn the summer a!" is he ard the whir of wings. Mounting with snowy pinions to the fair beond, risn the exquisite pleadings of "Thie Besautiful Long Ago." Twenty-Tharee Indians Perish. POKEGAM A, Minn., Sept. 7.-A con rier brines a rert that the bodies of wenty-three Chippewa Indians, bucks, squaws and papoose lie upon the sands between hare an d 0. st ad, a small set lement on the E astara shores of Lac Mille Lacs. They are scattered over ten miles of th's country and will in all prohnbility prove food for their buzz irds and wolves, as the country where they ie is too far 'Rom civilzation for burial eremo-es. The ladie-is left their re servation two months ago and built a hu-tng lodgze along one of the forks of Sharidge Greek. Chief Wasconta was he big chief of the~ party and he perished with h:3 followers. The first bcodyfound by the cor-isr was that of an inf-nt, arely a year old. Then came those of wo squaws a-nd 11 -e children. They ad evidently turned West when the fires swept through the fores';. A ride f a mile brought him ta a pile of asbes, which marked the siie of the hunting amp. There was one tepee. she shriv eled raw hide thongs marking the place where it stood. Around it were the uins of a half dczen b:ach wood brak hanties, and protruding from the ashes were the lused barrels cf r is and shot uns. Theii for flye neles the pathway , was lined with cbe-red b~iies. The ourier counted twenty-three. A Horrbia Xurder. A NDERS@N, S. C., Sept. 4 -Barbara all an old colored woman, was snot and killed last Saturday mrning about o'clock by her two grand sons, Law ence Rutledge and John Andrew R~ice. 'he circumstances of the tragedy an s follows: Gilbert Rutledge, the step father of the two boys, had given them severe thrashing, and they after arm^ ing themselves with a shot gun loaded with buck shot, went to thea Hall wo an's house, where their stepfather as, with -the purpose of wreaking their vengeance on him. She refuse them admission. They then fired at the door, behind which she was stand ing. The shot passed1 through the door and entirely through the old woman, aking a hole in her ;chest as big as n egg. A number of negroes were arrested, but after hearing the evidence at the inquest all were released except the boys above named and they are ow in jail, held for trial. C.>st Him His Life. BIRMINGIIAM, Ala., Sept. 6.-Near ewsite, Taliapoosa county. James Aley and his son Robert went into the field where Rsbert Cross, a young farmer, was harvesting. Robert Ashley held Cross while his father fired seven bullets into his body. Ashley fired as ong as Cross breathed, remarking, "I m going to shoot as long as there is breath In the d-d rascal's body." Cross went to church with Ashley's daughter sunday and kissed her. She reported he matter to her father and the mur ler resulted. A posse is in pursuit of he Ashleys, and If caught. it is likely ;o hat terill be lynched.