The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, November 21, 1894, Image 4

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COULD WE BUT KNOW: C tnld ve but know if in the great hereafier I Our loved and lost .;nes we should meeC again. And all the broken links be reunited That Death has severed in love's g,-Iden chain- t Could we bat know It Could we bu' kno-v that voices we call silen t Are only hushed to our dull mortal ear, ] And call our names with all the old-lime fondness. Though oft we listen all in vain to he-ar Cou'd we but know! Could we but know if the pale eve-lid closinbe Gives to the spirit visions far more clear, And it can tell the rea. from the seeming, And see what worthless things we o t hold dear Cou'd we but know! Could we but know it friends still walk beside us, Unheard, unseen amid life's ceaselecs d n That th-y rej >lc-i if we are tiue to duty, And grieve, if vce'e daik path we enter 1 h2 Could we but know! Could we butknow if the pale hands w,'ve folded So still- and cold above the pulseiess 1 breast Still clasp our own, but with a touch so gentle Our bands of flesh feet not the light caress Could we but know! But to our question comes no certain an swer, We can but hope and trust; tis better sn. But our fond hearts are very weak and human, And longing, waiting, still we gladly say, Could we be t know! AGAIN IN BROOKLYN. Dr. Talmage Finds Many Lessons in the Joy of-Coming Home. BROOKLYN, Nov. 11.-Rev. Dr. Tal mage, having concluded his round the world tour, has selected as the subject for today's discourse through the press, "Home Again," the text chosen being Luke xv, 23, "Bring hither the fatted calf and killed it." In all ages of the world it has been customary to celebrate joyful events by festivity--the signing of treaties, the proclamation of peace, the Christ mas, the marriaoe. However much on other days ;I the year our table may have stinted supply, on Thanks vng day there must be something unteous, and all the comfortable homes of Christendom have at some time celebrated joyful events by ban quet and festivity. Something has happened in the old homestead greater than anything that has ever happened before. A favorite son, whom the world supposed would become a vagabond and outlaw for ever, has got tired of sightseeing and has returned to his father's house. The world said he never would come back. The old man alwayssaidhisson would come. He had been looking for him day after day and year after year. He knew he would come back. Now, hav in returned to his father's house, the fater proclaims celebration. Thereis a calf in the paddock that has been kept up and f to utmost capacity, so tobe ready for some occasion of joy that mioht come alono. Ah, t71ere never wil be a grander day on the old homestead than this day. Let the butchers do their work and the housekeepers brincr into the table the smokino meat. 'te musi cians will take t~aeir places, and the gy groups will move up and down te floor. All the friends and neigh- 1 bors are gathered in, and extra supply is sent out to the table of the servants. The father presides at the table and says gaeand thanks Godthat his long ab nt boy is home again. Oh, how they missed him! How glad they are to have him back! One brother ~indeed stands putingat the back door and says: "This is a great ado about no o.~ This bad boy should have been chatned instead of g-reeted. Veal is too good for him: 'Bfut the father says, "Nothing- is too good nothing is good enough." There sits the young man, glad at the hearty re-1 ception, but a shadow of sorrow. ilit tinig across his brow at the remem brance of the trouble he had seen. All ready now. Let the covers lift. Music. He was dead, and he is alive again He was lost, and heis found! By such bold imagery does the Bible set forth the merry-making w~hen a soul comes home to God. First of all, there is new converet s joy. It isno tamnething to become a Christian. The most tremendous mo ment in a man's life is when he sur renders himself to God. The grand -est time on the father's homestead is when the boy comes back. Among the great throng who in the parlors of ] mny church professed Christ one mght was a young man, who next morn rang my doorbell and said: "Sir, 'I cannot contain myself with the joy I feel. I came here this morning to ex press it. I have found more joy in five minutes in servino God than in all the years of my prodigality, and I came to say so." You have seen perhaps a man run ning for his physical liberty and the officers of the law after him, and you saw him escape, or afterward you heard the judge had pardoned him, and how great was the glee of that res cued man! But it isa very tame thing that compaedwith the running for one's everlastig life, the terrors of the law after him, and Christ comingi m to pardon and bless and rescue and1 save. You remember John Bunyan, in his great story, tells how the pilgrim put his fingers in his ears and ran, crying, "Life, life, eternal life!" A poor car driver, after having had to struggle to support his family for1 yers suddenly was informed that a areinheritance was his, and there] was joy amountino to bewilderment, but that is a small thing compared< with the experience of one when he] has put his hands the title deed to the< joys, the raptures, the splendors of heaven, and-he can truly, say, "Its 2 mansions are mine; its temples are mine; its songs are mine-; its God is I mine!"< Oh, itis notame thing to become a 4 Christian. It is a merrymaking. It is the kilg of the fatted calf. It is jubilee. You know the Bible never - compares it tio a funeral, but always t compares it to some-thing bright. It, is more aptto be compaed toa ban-] quet than anything els. It is com ardinthie Bibletothe water-bright, fashing water-to the morning, ro seate, worked, mountain transfigured morning. I wish I could today take all the Bible expressions about pardon1 and peace and lif'e and comfort andi hope and heaven, and twist them into< one garland, and put it on the brow , of the humblest child of God in all this land, and cry: "Wear it, wear it now< wear it forever, son of God, daughter of the Lord God Almighty! Oh, the joy ofthe new convert! Oh. the glad ness of the Christian service !" 1 You have seen sometimes a man ini a religious assembly get up and give his experience. Well, Paul gave his experience. He rose in the prCeence of two churches-the church ogr earth and the church inheaven-and lie said: "Now, this is my experience; Sorrow ful, yet always reoimg_; poor, yet1 making man rich: havimg nothmng: yet possesing all things." If all the< people who read this sermon knew the: aoys of the Christian religion, they would all pass over into the kimgdom of God thenextmioment. When Damiel Sandeman was dying of cholera, his attnant said, "aavyou N1m11h pain?' -Oli e rele,)lit'(. --Sime I found the .ord I lave evVer had any pain ex ept Sil." The they said to himi, -Vould y )t like to send a nesiage to 'Our friends:" "Yes, I would. 'Tell hem that only last night the love of esus caine rushing into my soul like he surges of the sea, and 1 had to cry ot: "Stop. Lord. It is enough: Stop, ,or'd-enoughi " Oh, the joys of this :hristian religion! Just pass over from those tame joys n which Votu are indulging-joys of his world-into the rapture.'s of the ospel. The worldcannot satisfy you. ou have found out-Alexander long ng for other worlds to conquer. and et drowned in his own bottle. Byron. vhipped by disquietideS ar1-oun11d the(' vorld, Voltaire cursing his own soul hinle all the streets of Paris were ap >lauding him, Henry II conslingliii ith hatred against poor Thomas a ecket-all illistiations of the fact hat this world cannot make a mail iappy. The very man who jpoisonied he pommel of the saddle on which 1ueen Elizabeth rode shouted in the treet. "God save the queen! One n0mellnt the world applauds. and the iext miomelint tile vorld anIalthieiiatizes. h. cone over i 0 this groater. joV. his sublime solace, this IaghiliceIt The ight after the battle of Shiloh here were thousanIJs of wounded on lie tiehl. and the amtbulances had not 'ome. One (iristian soldier, lying here a-dying unrder the starlight, be -all to sing: There is a lard of pure delight. And when he came to the next line here were scores of voices uniting: Where saints immortal reign. The song was caught up all over the ield among the wounded until, it was aid, there were at least 10.000 wound d ien uniting their voices as they ane to the verse: 1 here everlasting spring abides, And rever withering flowers. IDeath, like a narrow rtream, divides That heavenly land from curs Oh. it is a great religion to live by, Ld it is a great religion to die by. here is only one heart throb between -ou and that relizion this moment. rust look into the .ace of your pardon ng God and surrender yourself for ine and for eternity, and he is yours, mid heaven is yours, and all is yours. some of you, like the young man of he text.'have gone far astray. I know lot the history, but you know it-you mlow it. When a young man went forth into ife, the legend says, his guardian an gel went'forth with him, and gettin lim into a field the guardian angel ;wept a circle clear around where the round man stood. It was a circle of irtue and honor, and he must not tep beyond that circle. Arnied foes amnie down, but were obliged to halt it the circle. They could not pass. )ut one day a ten ptress, with diamond d hand. stretched forth and crossed hat circle with the hand, and the empted soul took it, and by that one ell grip was brought beyond the cir le and died. Soie of you have step >ed beyond that circle. Would you lot like this day, by the grace of God, ;o step back? This, I say to you, is your hour of alvation. There was in the closing iours of Queen Anne what is called he clock scene. Flat down on the ilow. in helpless sickness, she could 'iot move her head or move her'hand. lhe was waiting for the hour when he ninisters of state should gather in mgry contest, and worried and worn )ut by the coming hour. antd in mto nentary absence of the nurse, in the >ower'-strange power which delirium ~ometimes gives one-she arose and ood in front of the clock, and stood here watching the clock when the arse returned. Thte nurse said. "Do ou see anythincr pecutliar about that ~lock ?- She mai'e no antswer, but soon lied. There is a clock scene in every istory. If some of you would rise 'romn the bed of lethargy antd come out >f your delirium of sin and look on he clock of your destiny this moment rou would see and hear something r'ou have not seen or heard before. mnd every tick of the miinute, and ~very stroke of the hour, and every wng of the pendulum would say, Now, now, now, now !" Oh, come ome to your Father's house: Conme tome, oh, prodigal, from the wilder ess: Come home, come home: But I notice that whten the p)rodigal same there was the Father's joy. He lid not greet him with any formal "how do you do?" He did not conic ut and sav: "You are unfit to entter. 3 out ano1 wash in the trough by the ,ell, and thetn you cant come in. We ave had eniough trouble with you." An, ito! 'When the proprietor of ;hat estate proclaimed festival, it was m outburst of a father's love and a rather's joy. God is your father. I ae not 'much sympathy, with that lescription of God'I sometimes hear, is though lhe were a Turkish sultan aard and unsympathetic and listening 0t to the cry of his subjects. A man tol'd me lie saw in one of the Eastern lands a king riding' along, md two men were in altercat~ion, and ne charged the other with having' aten his rice. And the king said. "Then slay the man, antd by post mor em exanination find whether lie has aten the rice." And lie was slain. h, the cruelty of a scene like that! )ur God is not a sultan, not a despot, >ut a fathier-kind, loving,. forgiving' -and he makes all heaven ring agamt vhen a prodigal comes back. "I have 1 pleasure," he says, "in the death f him that dieth. If a man does not get to heaven,it is >ecause he will not go there. No dif 'erence the color, no difference the istory, nto difference the antecedents, 1 difference the surroundings, no ifferetce the sin. When the white iorses of Christ's victory are brought ut to celebrate the eternal triumph, rou may ride one of them, and as God s 'rater then all his joy is grreater, i 1 when a soul comes back thecre is n his heart the surging of an infinite mean of gladness, and to express that cladnes it takes all the rivers of )leasures,and all the thrones of pomp, d all the ages of eternity. It is a or deeper than all depth, and higher han all height, and wider than all 'idth, and v-aster than all immensity. .t overtops, it undergirds, it outweighs dl the united splendor and joy of thle miverse. Who can tell what God's ov si You remember reading the story of king who on some great day of fes ivity scattered silver and gold amiong lie people, who sent valuable pres nts to his courtiers, but methinks vhen a soul conies back God is so clad that to express his joy he flings ut new worlds into space, kindles up iew~ suns anmd r'olls among the white 'obed anthems of the redeemed a reater halleluiah, while with a voice hat reverberates among the nioun ains of frankness and is echoed back roa the everlastincr cates he cries, 'This, my son, was Rea'd and is alive uogain !". At the opening of the exposition il >cew Or'leans I saw a 3Iexican Ilutist, md he played the solo, and then af erward the eight or ten bands of mtu ie ccompanied by the gi'eat organt :ame in. ABut the sound of that one lute as conipared with all the orches :ra was greater than all the combined joy of tie universe' whetn compared with the resounding heart of Ahnigh Lv God. tinies a day to the depot. His soa went off in aggraivatig circumstances but the father said. "lHe will conic back." The strain was too much. and his mind parted, and three times a dar tle father went. In the early mliOrniinig he watched the Train-Its :ar .ival, the Stepping out of the passen gers and then the departure of the traiin. At Ioon lie was thieIe "aill watchin the advance of the tran. watchillng the departure. At igiht there augain,. watcingi the, comnig,1' watcliii' the going. for tel years. Ife was sure his soi would cone back. God has been watching and waiting for some (f you. ily brothers, 10 years. 20 Years. 3o Years. 40 years, perhiaps 50 years. waiting. waiting, watenmg. wa'tehing,. an1d if this mingthpo digal should coie home what: a scenle of gladness and festivity, and how the great Fatiher's leari 'w;ould rejoice at Voul comuig hoie: You will come. Simte of vou, will vou not l You will You will: I notice also that whel a prodigal comies 11 home there is the joy of the ministers" of religion. Oh. it, is a grind thing" to preach this gospel I know there has beeni a great deal said about the trials and the hardships of the Christian iniistry. I wish someb)ody would write a good, rousing book about the joys of the Christian mniiis try. Since I entered the professioni I have seen more of the goodness of God than I will be able to celebrate ill ;11 eternity. I know some boast about their equilibrium, and they do not rise into enthusiasm. and they do not break down with emotion. But I conl fess to vou plainly that wheit I see a mtan coating to God and giving up his sin I feel in my body, minid and soul a transport. When I see a man who is bound hand and foot in evil habit enancipa ted. I rejoice over it as though it were my own emancipation. When i-_ ar communion service such throngs of young and old stood up at the altars and in the presence of 1 eaven and earth and hell attested theie allegiance to Jesus Christ, I felt a joy something akin to that which tb apostle des cribes when he says: 'Whether in the body I cannot tell, or out of the body I cainnot tell. Got knoweth." Bave not ministers a right to rejoice when a prodigal comes home ? They blew the trumpet and ought they not to be glad of the gathering of the 'host They pointed to the full supply, and ought they not to rejoice when souls pant as the hart for the water brooks: They came forth, saying, "All things are now ready." Ought they not to rejoice when the prodigal sits down at the banquet? Life insurance men will all tell you that ministers of religion, as a class. live longer than any other. It is con firmed by the statistics of all those who calculate upon human longevity. Why is it? There is more draft upon the nervous system than in any other profession, and their toil is nost ex hausting. I have seen ministers kept on miserable stipends by parsimonious congregations. who woidered at the dullness of the sermons. when the meen of God were perplexed almost to death by questions of livelihood and had not enough nutritious food to keep any fire in their temperament. No fuel, no fire. I have sonetimes seen the inside of the life of many of the American clergymen-never ac cepting their hospitality, because theyv cannot afford it-but I have seen them11 struggle on with salaries of 85(00 an~d 860(0 a y-ear, the average less than that. their struggle wvell depicted by the Western nuissionlary who says in a let ter: "Thank you for your last remit ance. Until it came we had not any meat in our1 h~ouse for onie year. andt all last winter, although it was a s vere winter, our children wore their' summer clothtes." And these men of God I find in dif ferent parts of the land. struggling against an~novancees andl exasperations' inlumlerable, some of themn week af ter weekentertaining agents wvho hatve maps to sell and submitting them selves to all styles of annoyance, and et without conmplainlt and cheerful of soul. How do vou account for the fact that these life inlsuranice men tell us that nministers as a class live longer than any others? It is because of the joy of their work, the joy of the hiary est field, the joy of greetiig prodigals home to their Father's house. We are in sympathy with all itnno cent hilarities. We can enjoy a hear v song, and we can be merry with the nierriest, but those of us who hlave toiled in the service areready to testify that all these joys are tame complared withl thme satisfaction of seeingr men~ en-V tr the kingdom of God. Thme great eras of evervmninister are the outpour ings of the lIoly Ghost, and I thank God I have seen 21) of thenm. Thank God, thank God: I notice also when the prodigtl comes b)ack all earnest Christians re joice. If you stood on a promontory, and there was a hurricane at sea, and it was blowing toward the shore. and a vessel crashed into the rocks, antd you saw people get ashore in the life boats, and the very last man got on the rocks in safety, you could not con trol your joy. And it is a glad timc when the ch~urch of God sees menwh are tossed on the ocean of their sins~ plant their feet in the rock Christ Jesus. When prodigals come home, just hear those Christians sing: It is not a dull tone you hear at such times. Just hear these Christians pray ! It is not a stereotyped supplication we have heard over and over again for 20 years, but a putting of the case in the hands of God with an importunate p)leading. Men never pray at great length unless they have nothing to say, and thleir hearts are hard and cold. All the prayers in the Bible that were answered were short prayers: "God, be mercia ful to me. a smnner," "Lord, that I may receive my sight; "Lord, save me, or I perish." The longest prayer Solonon's prayer at the dedication o the temple, less than eight minutes in length, according to the ordinary rate of enunciation. And just hear them pray now that the prodigals are coming home: Just see them shake hands: No putting forth of the four tips of the fingers in a formal way, but a heairty grasp. where the muscles of the hleart seem to clinch the fingers of one hand. And then see those Christain faces, how ilhunincd they are: And see that old man get up and with the same voice that he sang 50 years ago im the old country meeting house say, "Now, Lord, lettest thou thy servant depam4 in peace, foi' mine eyes have seen thy stvatio." There was a man of Keith who w'as hurled into parison in time of preseution, and one day lie got off his shackles, and lie came and stood by the prisonecr door, and whien the jailr' was opening the door with one stroke lie struck down the man who had incae~rcerated himi. Passing along te streelts of London. he wondered where his family was, IIe did not (lare to ask last 'he excite suspicion; but, passing along a little way from tte priisoin, lie was a IKeith tan kar'd. a cu that beloniged to the famnily from reterationi to geeration-hle saw it inl window,,. Ihis famtily, hoping that soe day lie would get chir'e, caime and live'd as iiear as they'~ could to the prison house, and they set that Keth tankard in the wintdow, hoping lie would see it. And Ihe camte along anid saw it and knocked att the door atnd went in. and the long absent famiily were all together again. O)h, if' you w.u str-t fr the kingedom of God RDER Aztso!uter Pure. A cream e' tartar Daning powder Hiighest of all in leaveiing strength.-La est United States Goveruntnnt Vood Re port Roya! akingIa Piwder Oampaai 106 Wall st.. N Y toda v. I think somie of you Would fiind nearly all rour friends and nearly all your fanifes around the holy tan'kard of the holy communion-fathers. motliers. brotliers, sisters around that sacred tankard which commemorates the love of Jesus Christ. our Lord. Oh, it will be a great communion day when your whole family sits around the sacred tankard. One on earth, one in beven. Once mure I remark that when the prodigal gets back the inhabitants of heaven keep festival. I am very cer tain of it. If you have never seen a telegraphic chart, you have no idea how many cities are connected to gether and how many lands. Nearly all the neighborhoods of the earth seem reticulated, and news flies from city to city and from conti neut, to continent, but more rapidly go the tidings from earth to heaven, and when a prodigal re turns it is announced before the threne of God, and if these souls today should enter the kingdom there would be sonic one in the heavenly kingdom to say, "That's my father," "That's my mother." "That's my son," -That's my daughter." "That's my friend," "'That's the one I used to pray for," "That's the one for whom I wept so many tears," and one soul would say "Hosanna!" and another soul would say "Halleluiah!" Pleased with the news, the saints below In songs their tongues emp'oy. Beyond the skies the tidings go, And heaven is filed with joy. Nor angels can their joy contain, But kindle with new fire. The sinner lost is found, ther sin:, And strike the sounding lyre. At the banquet of Lucullus sat Ci cero. the orator. At the Macedonian festival sat Philip, the conqueror. At the Grecian banquet sat Socrates, the philosopher, but at our Father's table sit all the returned prodigals, more than conquerors. The table is so wide that its leaves reach across seas and acioss lands. Its guest are the re decimned of earth and the glorified of heaven. The ring of God's forgive ness on every hand, the robe of a Sa viour's righteousness adroop from every shoulder. The wine that glows in thie cups is from the bowls of 10.000 sacraments. Let all the redeemed of eairth and all the glorified of heaven rise, and with gleaming chalice drink to the returnl of a thousand prodigals. Sing, sing. sing! "Worthy is the lani, thait was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor and gloryan power, world without end! COTTON PLANTERS' ASSOCIATION. An organization Nationai in its Scope. Fogrmed by Southern Growers. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Nov. 14.-The cotton gr'owers' convention reassem bled today and organized an associa tion to be national in its scope for the better protectioni of the planters' in terests. The committee on statistics was in structed to obtain and arrange for the use of the convention official sta tistics of cotton, thd~ prices for the past ten years. etc. The president of the convention, Commissioner Lane of Alabama, read a statement show ing by the census returns that resolu ions on the part of the planters to re strict acreage have been followed by a decreased outp~ut of cotton. The res olutions of the committee continued, with sp ecial resolutions subsequently otlered and adopted by the conveni tion to cover the following subjects: 1. Reduction of cotton acreage and incr'easedl attention to the production of cereals. 2. Greater attention to stock and cattle raising. 3. Encouragement of mannfactur ing in the South by exempting manu fatories from taxation for a period of ten s-ears. 4. Encouragement of immigration. The resolution advises that largre plan tations be divided into small~ farms and the latter be sold to bona fide home seekers. 5s. Recommending that cotton be withheld from sale" by farmers who are not in debt to their factors and that it be held for a rise-'"which may reasonably .be expected if present heavy receipts are appreciably re duce<'." 6. The organization of the Cotton Planters' Association of thme United States of America to meet at least twice a year and to consist of four delegates~ from each Congressional District in the cotton growing States and three delegates at largre from each State appointed by the Governors of such States. irrespective of party pref eence, said association is to hold its first meeting in Jackson, Miss., the second Wednesday in January, 1895. 7. Cotton seed trusts are condemned. S. Congress is petitioned to pass the anti-optioni bill. 9. Congress is requested to refund the cotton tax collected in 1866-67. The convention then organized the new association by electing officers to serve until the January meeting as follows: Governor James Stone of Mlississippi, pr1eident: Hon. J. 0. -Waddel of Georgia and Commissioner of Agriculture, vice presiden; Robert E. Eckberger' of Alabama, secretary, aid Pr'of. James Smith of Georgia. treasurer. The chairman of the con ventiont was requested to issue an ad dress to all business interests asking co-operation in obtaining the objects of the associationi. Thme following resolution wvas also adoped : Resol)ve'd. That the honest coun ction of this convention as prac ticz'l couten gr'owers is that the esti mates that are being sent by the cot on exchanges in reference to the crop) ae excessiv'e and it is the belief of tis convict ion. b ased upon pr'actical ob~serationa and the best statistical in fomnatioin. that the presenut crop will ot exceedl 8.500t.000~ bales. The conivenitionl then adjourned sine' die. .Fri;1htenIedt' Death. MIus. Nov. 14.-Willie Smith, a negro) boy, fancied he saw a ghost ini thei roa1d, and, runing home, he informied his mo(thler. The lad became teriblv e'xcited. and ia physician was sunn<'>ned. buit, despite every effort, IN THE PHOSPHATE FIELDS. Statements of the Rock Mined During the Past Year. COLtMBIA, S. C., Nov. 14.-The fol lowing statement of the operations in the State phosphate territory during the past year will be of great interest to everybody in the State, in view of the desolation wrought in the territo ry by the hurricane in August. 1893. It is the general summary, which will conclude the annual report of State Phosphate Inspector A. W. Jones to the gislature, now in course of prearation: e total number of tons of rock shipped forthe year, commencing Sep teniber 1st, 1893, and ending August 31st, 1894, was 114,281 77-100 tons. Of the rock sent to market there have been shipped: To foreign ports, tons.......84,497.00 Coastwise ports, tons........10,173.00 Taken to Charleston, tons... 12,730.77 Taken to Beaufort, tons..... 7,884.00 Total ...............114,281.77 The amount of royalties to the State at 50 cents per ton for actual shipments, without regard to the price of the rock per ton, is as follows: Companies. Tons Shipped. Royalties Coosaw Co..... 52,627.00 $28,313.77 Farmers' Mining o.........37,334.00 18,867.00 Beaufort Phos phate Co...... 16,611.00 8,305.50 Carolina Mining Co........... 5,005.00 2,502.50 Ashley Phosphate Co........... 214.24 107.12 James Reid...... 1,986.00 993.00 John C. Nelson.. 504.00 252.00 114,281.78 $57,140.89 Additional royalties due the State for excess of value "free on board," over $4 per ton: Tons Royalties Adjusted. bue. Coosaw Co.......47,758.53 $ 563.S6 Farmers' Mining Co.............26,607.00 1,556.74 Beaufort Phos phate Co.......16,611.00 255.73 Carolina Mining Co............. 5,205.00 Ashley Phosphate Co........... 214.24 John C Neln.... 504.00 James Reid....... 1,986.00 98,685.77 $2,376.33 Royalties to the State on tons shipped..................$57,140.89 Additional royalties on ex cess of value............. 2,376.30 Total................... $59,517.29 Amount of tons adjusted for errors of value........ 98,685.77 Number tons to be adjuste&: Coosaw Co........ 4,869 Farmers' Mining Co.10,727 15,596.00 Total.....................114,281.77 The reason the excess value on the 15,596 tons is not given. is because the amount of sales has not bee ii received. The total number of tons of rock mined during the year is estimated at 89.296 tons. The number of tons on hand Sep tember 1, 1894, is estimated at 14,644 tons as follows: Coosaw 0................. 5,197 Farmers' Mining Co.......... 2,96 Beaufort Phosphate Co.......5,544 John C. Nelson............... 382 James O'Hear............... 625 Total....................14, 644 MUSCOGEE WANTS TROOPS. The Cook Gang Terrorlzlng the Indian Territory. WAsHINGTON, Nov. 14.-The Comn missioner of Indian Affairs today re ceived the following telegram from Aoent Wisdom: ~USKOGEE, I. T., Nov. 14.-As I predicted would be the case, the Cook gang, estimated at fifteen strong, held up the north~ bound train at 10 o'clock last night at Blackstone Switch, five miles north of this place. They rob bed all the passengers, g'etting consid erable money and ot'her property. Nobody killedl. The courts are utterly powerless to protect us in either life or property and I see no end to the trouble except the military intervene. I must recommend that troops be sent here. Please refer this matter to the Hon. Secretary of the Interior and, if need be, to the President. The utmost consternation prevails and people law fully residing in the territory are at the mercy of the bandits. In the last few days this gang has committed rape, murder and every sort of rob bery and the State of affairs is a shame and reproach to civilization. The Secretary of War upon the ad vice of the attorney general recently held that he was not to authorize troops to the territory, and it is said by Interior department officials that Sec retary Sihis pwerless in the mat ter. The telegram, however, will be referred to Secretary Lamont that he may understand the situation." Four United States marshals were guarding the express car of the Mis souri, Kansas and Texas train, which was held up by the Cook gang yester day, but they were as useless as lambs until the bandits had disappeared. There were six marshals in the coach es, but they contributed their guns, money and jewelry without a mur mur. Indian Agent 'Wisdom has wired Secretary Smith for troops forthwith. L. C. Perryman, chief of the Creek Nation, wired the United States Attorney at Fort Smith to place his marshals in the Cherokee Nation, and that he would place seventy-five Indian sheriffs in the Creek Nation at the nation's expense and drive the Cook gang out of the Creek Nation or kill them. Agent Wisdom has wired all his Indian police to report at the agency at once. J. C. McAllister, Unitedl States marshal for the Indian Territory, has just arrived, and is co oerating with Chief Perrpnan,Agent isdom and the United States Attor ney for the Territory. Marshal Mc Alister has 200 deputies that he can. draw from. Agent Wisdom has twenty-eight Indian police and the Fort Smith court has seventy-five marshals. In all there are 350 men subject to call to hunt the robbers. Thousands siain. LoNDOs, Nov. 13.-Three thousand Armenians, includino women and! childlen, are reportea to have been massacred according to a Constantin ople dispatch to the Daily News, in the Sassoun region, near Moosh, Turkish Arenia, during a recent attack by the Kurps. Twenty-five villages were, destroyed. The Turkish officials de clare that the report is not true, and - that it grew out of the supppression of a small uprising in the region in ques tion. The British ambassador is mnak ing inquiries into the matter. Comming to their Sense. CIcINNATI, 0., Nov. 13.-Cincin nati and the rest of Hamilton County to day electted Aaron McNeill, Demo crat. judge of the insolvency court over John R. Von Seggern, Republi can, by 3,158 majority. V on Seggern was opposed by the bar association. The Tribune fought Von Seggeraii bitterly, while the other Republican papers supported him, so the Tribune claims the result as a victory for it. One week ago the Republicans carried th omnty by 2.&000. In Poor Health means so much more than you imagine-serious and fatal diseases result from trifling ailments neglected. Don't play with Nature's greatest gift-health. oIf you ae f nel and -eneall 11= B I anc cant work, ble stroigthening medicine wh c is Ieronia Trsbe Ir ion Brown's Iron Bit. i Malria, eros Alenbts ]B~tte tles cure-benefit S Wmn comes from the Bnoittwers uere frst (ose Fair ~ &~t view andbok-re. P It Cures Dyspepsia, Kidney and Uver Neuralgia, Troubles, Constipation, Bad Blood Malaria, Nerv s uilments Women's complaints. T only the genuine-it as rosed red lines on the wrapper. All others are sub stitutes. On receipt of two 2c. stap we will send set ofuT Beautifnl aWodis Fair Views and book-free. BROWN CHEMICAL CO. BALTIMORE, MD: CITIZENS OF CLARENDON You have gone through two years f the greatest deprivation, and now here are certain goods you are com pelled to buy. The prospec~ts are for a better crop than you have had for four years, and we trust you are in a condi tion to Buy Tlis gods re not satisfied-we want more. Your friend now-a-days is THE MAN WHO HELPS YOUR POCKET. If you will give us a chance we will help you. Come and try Youis truly, )UCER & BULTMAN, l-mtr, S. o. P. S. We are helping to dcwn the jute trust by buying Sugar Bags, the aeapest covering for cotton bales. If >u have not tried it, do so. ESTABLISHED 1868. L. W. FOILSOM, - Sign of the Big Watch,. - SUMTE R, S. C. - A LINE OF * - ji!./ Presents. - Watches, Diamonds,+-: )ptical Goods, Fine Knives, seisos and Raziors, Ma chine NeedlesEtc S. THOMAS,Ja. .i M. ROMAS.~ stephen Thomas, Jr. & Bro. wVA.T-IrESa, WERY, SILVER & PLATED WARE, Spectacles, Eye 6lasses &Fancy Bonds, prWatches and .icwelry repaire~l by ompetent workmen. 257 KING STRFEX, ChIARLESTON, S. U. Manning Collegiate Institute, M.ANNING, S. C. Do You Intend to Educate Your Children I If so, Patronize the Institute. Why I Because the Institute is well equipped for its work, and offers advantages that are not to be found elsewhere in the county. Besides the advantages in the courses of study, moderate tuition rates, cheap board, healthfulness of the town, combined with others of equal importance make it to you in terest to send here. RLeac1! Comnsicer! Aat Send for catalogue. E. J. BROWNE, Principal. WM. SHEPPERD & 00. LARGE 2\UILmn ASSORTMENT G00ds, Etc., -OF- ~~T~ Send for circulars Timw e, and price lists. No.. 232 Meeting St., CHARLESTON, S. C. PERCIVAL M'FG. CO DOORS : SASH, : AND BLINDS. 4:8 to 486 Meeting Street. CHARLESTON, S.C OTTO TIEDEMAN & SONS, Wholesale Grocers and Provision Dealers, 172, 174, and 176 East Bay Street, Palmetto Pharmacy Save Your Eyes! When yo need a pair of spectacles don't biwa~n infe-ior glssb You will find none I Company.better than company. I -.9EX& PERFECTED CRYSTAL LENSES TRADC MUi Charleston, S. C. 4mm mes. 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We can mail over 2,000 articles in C U Sq.,N.Y the Drug line, anywuere, and pay special - , "sjn Luck," and attention to mail orders. We will mail our sowing Machine. catalogue to any address about April 1st, 1894. While this catalogue is not complete - . M it will give some idea of the stock we c . . MASS. carry. TE .Acat. ETNy - AAL .1 2? KING STREET, .E. BROWN1, MANNING, S. (One Door North of Wentworth.) Opposite Dime Savings Bank. SOUTHERN RUIT 0 WK N. BAHR & BRO., W. H. MIXSON, Manager. DEALERS IN AND MANUFACUBERs1 oF I'MPOTERS AND W11OLESALE DEALERS IN Cakes, Biscuits and Plain and Fancy Candies. FRUIT - PRODUCE. .Nit ulegethd Sipping huhg Etcs. Penny Candies and Chewing Gums. 0 French Mixtures and Chrystallized Fruitss --) 217 EAST BAY, ( 319 King Street, CHARLESTON, S. C- C h.arleston., 4. o. S.J. J.PERY. X. R. SIMONS. B.A. PRINGLE. jOnlers soleited, promptly shipped, Cx aretr l selectedl. 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