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V. DR.'TAL1AGE 'DISCOURSES ON n HEAVENLY MANNA. ~b'ourilinient Not ~eded in Spir altatioh-'uidc Forms Lar art of the Seraphic Menn. NDW YORK. 2-rach 10. Amn'uI the ousands who g-reeLed Rev. Dr. TaV Ige in the Acadeilly of Music this ernoon were a Large number of -angers from distant- parts of the .Un 1. At the close of the services the avngg pla -i ID gerrontby enu6 h bglg fo M iAn drinarf izd CMA intent on shaking hands with him. e subject of discourse for the after on was "*, Sraphic Diet," the text lected being!Psalms lxxviii* 25z &an did eat angels' food." Somewhat risky woild be the un rtaiing to tell'just what was the madi E&tllito'th Iirealites in the ilderness. of what it was made and o made it,, Themanna was called Lges' food, but why so called? Was because it came from the place here angels live. or because angels epounded it, or because angels did tit, or because it was good enough rangels? On what crystal platter Masit carried to the door of heaven id then thrown out? how did it ste? We are told there wa in it mething like honey. but if the sac arine taste in it had been too strong any would not have liked-it, and so may have had a commingling of fla es-this delicacy of the skies. It ust have been nutritious, for a na )n livedon it for 40 years. It must e been healthful, for it isso inspir gly applauded. It must have been undant, because it dismissed the ne ssity' of a sutler for a great army. Wh person had a ration of three arts a day allowed to him, and so ,,000,000 pounds were necessary er y week. Those were the times of hich my text speaks, when "man did 6t an 'ood." f e good Lord, who has helped e so often.will help me now, I will -s tell you what is angels' food and n how we may get some of it for nselves In our mortal state we ust have for mastication and diges mn and assimilation the products of Leearth. Corpotyas weil as men lity and - - * ity characterizes us. estyleo iethasmuchtodo withour all being. Light and frothy food tak Sexclusivelv results in weak museles , semi -v dism. The taking of o much animal food produces sensu ity. Vegetarians are crank.- Res xable selection of thefarinaceous and e solid ordinarily produces physical amD1U. But we have all occasionally been an eestatic state where we fort Le necessity of earthly food. e r- fed by joys, by anticipa ans, by discoveries, cy compamon ips that dwindled the dining hour Ito insignificance and made the esres of the table stupid and. unin ting. There have been cases where om seemingly- invisible sources the iman-body has been maintained, as the remarkable case of our invalid Ad Christian neighbor, Mollie Fan wer, known throughout the medical kd Christian world for that she was von weeks without earthly food, fed 14duanined- on .heavenly visions. urlisloved Dr. Iranmus Primne, edi tadthologian, recorded the won esoneming this girl Professor rtha <g.ea scientist,- marveled tand.Wallard Parker, of world idsh min surgery, threw up his dinm arment at it. There are uneain all our lives when the soul serts ifself and says to the body: Eush!i Stand back! Stand down!1 Ia.atabaniquet where no chalices lear, and no vianmds smoke, and no digon tha which no human had s mixed andno earthly oven baked. ma eating "angel' food." If you se never beens in such an exalted ate, I ommniserate your leaden temn mrament, and I dismiss you from this vice asincompetent to understand tethrilngand. oriouIs suggestive eso yte enit says, "Man 4 eat angels food." Nwhat do>the supernaturals live iheyexperience none of the de antls fcorporeity anid have nohnn 'azce or environment in the shape of me and, muscle -and flesh, and hence a whicanaydeleftate our palate or vigorate our' poor, dyg frames ondube ofno'use to them.B t they we a food of their own.- My text y so. There may be other courses foodin the heavenly menu that I anot aware of, butlIknow offiveor r styles of food always on celestial bles when cherubim and seraphim d arhangel gather for heavenly pattemystery of redemption, anstia]3e muisic.~the heavenly pic iresque, sublime colloquy, eternal en prinses, saintly association, divine npamonship, celebrative jubilance. here is one subject that excites the Lriosity and ingnisitiveness of' all tose angels. S.Peter say's, "Which ming the desiet lokinto" t sy'dChrister change a pal sefor a barn? Why did he drop a epter from his right band to take a ear n his left side? Why quit the tthem of the worshiping heavens to nr the crooningof. a weaymother's >i~ee Was a strawbetter thn a gar nf? "Could it not have been done some other way?" says angel the est. "Was the human race worth ich asacrifice?" says angel thesecond. Eow could heaven get along without imfor 33years?" says angel the third. [hrough that assassination may sin il man rise into-eternal companion dpip" says angel the fourth. And ten they all bend-toward each other id talk about, it and guess about it, id try to follow it and -ophesy concerning it. But the .They only break off a piece of They only taste it. The;js dip Lto it. And then one angel cries, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain !" nd another says, "Unsearchable." nd another says, "Past finding out!" nd another says. "Allelua!I" And ten they all fill their cups of gold ith the new wine of the kingdom." Unlike the beakers of earth, which aison, these glow with immortal Balth, the wine pressed from the rapes of the heavenly Eshcol, and iey all drink to the memo of man sr and cross, shattered seucer and livetic ascension. Oh, tat raptur as inspiring, transporting theme of the -orld ransom That makes angels food. he taking of that food gives stonger ulse to their gladness, adds several iornings of radiance to their fore eads,gives vaster circle to the sweep f their wings on misson intercon ;ellation. Some of the crumbs of that ngells' food fall all around our wilder ess cam today, and we feel like cry oth u,"Oh. the depth of the 'ies, bt of the wisdom and k-nowl uge .of God!" or with expiring Ste heen, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!' r with many an enraptured soul: 'None but Christ! None but Christ:' 'ass around this angels' food. Carry Sthrough all these aisles. Climb 'ith it through all these galleries: 'ake it among all the hovels as well as mong all the palaces of the great wn! Give all nations a taste of this Nwin the emerald pnalace of heaven a-tnhe uarr n servants of the king remove tis course from the ban quet and bring on another course of angels' food, which is celestial music. You and 1 have seen at some concert or oratorio a whole asseniblagetowhomi the muisic was a feast. Never anything that they took init the-i*~ of the miouth. was so delightful to:-- ir taste as that wbich they tok in. a-1 lips of the ear. -I hav'. seen and you have seen people actually intoxicated with: d'&eet sounds. Oratorios which are always too nrotrateted for those of -us who have net had our*-faculties culti vated in. that direction were never lona enou-h for theni, as at 1 oC'lock at night te leader of the orchestr' gaye the-three. taps. of his baton to agdin sta4ithe .music they were as fketh and!alet;- as k r ithree hours before and at 8 o'clock the curtair was first lifted. Music to them is food for body. food for mind- and food for soul. From ithat I'read in my Bible I think celes tialized music will make up a large part of angels' food. Why do I say "celestialized music?" Because. though music may have been born in heaven, it had not all its charms until it came to earth and took a baptism of tears. Since then it has had a pathos and a tenderness that it could not otherwise have possessed. It had to pass under the shadows. and over stormy seas and weep at sepulchers and to be hummed as lullaby over the cradle of sick chil dren before it could mount to its pres ent attitudes of heavenly power. No organ on earth would be complete without the stop "tremoto" and the stop "vox humana." And no music of heaven would be complete without the "tremolo"of earthly sorrow comforted and the "vox humana" of earthly sympathies glorified. Just take up the New Testament and find it a note book of celestialized music. It says Jesus sang a hymn before he went to the Mount of Olives, and if he could sing on earth with Bethlehem humiliation close behind him, and sworn enemies close on both sides of him, and the torments of Golgotha just before him, do you not suppose he sings in - heaven? Paul and Silas sang imidnight dungeon, and do you not suppose that now they sing on the delectable summits? What do the harps and trumpets and choirs of Rev elation suggest if not music? What would the millions of good singers and players upon instruments who took part in earthly worship do in heaven without music? Why, the mansions ring with it. The great halls of eternity echo with it. The worship of unnumbered hosts is in wrapped with it. It will be the only art of earth that will have enough elasticity and strength to leap te ~rve and take possession of heaven. Clpture will halt this side the grave because it chiefly commemorates the forms of those who in heaven will be reconstructed, and what would we want of the sculptured imitation when we stand in the pres ence of the resurrected original? Paint ing will halt this side the grave be cause the colors of earth would be too tame for heaven, and what use to have pictured on canvas the scenes which shall be described to us by those who where the participants? t One of the disci p les wil tell us about the "last supper" tter than Titian, with mighty touch, set it up in art gallery. The plainest saint by tongue will describe the lastjudgment better than Michael Angelo, with his pencil, put it upon the cei ling of the Vatican, Architecture will hault this side the grave, for what use would there be for architect's compass and design in that city which is already built and garnmsh eduntil nothing can be added; all the Tuileries and Windsor castles and St. Clouds of the earth piled up not equal ing its humblest residences; all the St. Pauls and St. Peters 'and. .St. Izaaks and St. Sophias of the earth built into onecathedral not-equaling the heaven ly temple, but music will pass right on right up and right in, and milhon heaven will acknowledge thaet under God, she was the chief cause of their salvation. Oh, I would like to be pre sent when all the c'eat Christian sing ers and the great christian players of all the agsshi'11eongregate~in heav en1; Of course they. must, lie all the rest of us, be cleansed and ransomed by the blood of the slain Lamb. Alas that somof the great artists of sweet sound have been as distmgm~dshed for profligacy as for the way thAey warbl ed or sang or fingered the keyboard or trod the ognpdLSome who have beenditnuihdbassos and sopranos and primadonnas on earth I fear will never sing the song of Moses and the Lamb or put the lip the trpumet with sounds of ~victory. Butmany'of the mnasters who charm ed us on earth will more mightily charn us in heaven. Great music hall of eternity! May'you andlIbe there soeday to acclaim when the "Halle luih hors"is wakened. As on earth there have been harmoniesmade up of other harmonies, a strain of music from this cantata and a strain of music from that overtrue, and a bar from -this and a bari from that, but one great tune or theame into which all the others were poured as rivers into aseaso it.may be given to the mightiest soul in the heavenly world to gather something from all the sac red songs we have sung on earth or which have been sung in all the ages, and roll them on in eternal symphony but the one great theme and the one overmastering tone that shall carry all before it anduplift all heaven from central throne to farthest gateof pearl and to thehighestcapstone of amethyst will be, "Unto him who loved us- and washed us from our sins in his own blood and made us kings and priests unto God and the Lamb, to him be glory!" That will be manna enough for llheaven to feed on. That will be a bnet -for immortals. That will be angle' food. Now in the emerald palace of heaven let the cupbearers and servants of the King remove this course from the banquet and bringon another course of angles' food, te last course and the best-the dessert, the culmina tioni of the feast which is celebrative jubilance. You and I have known people who prided themselves on never getting excited. They have cultivated the phlegmatic. You never saw them cry:;you never heard them in a burst of laughter. They are mon otonous and to me intolerable. I am afraid of a man or a woman that can not cry. I am afraid of a man or a woman who cannot laugh Christ says'- in the . book of Revelation~that such people are to him nauseating and cause regurgitation (Revelation iii, 16) "Because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot If will spew thee out of my mouth." But the angles in haeaveni have no stolidity or unrespnosiveness. There is one thing that agitates them into holy warmth. We know that absolutely. If their harp be hung up on the panels of amethyst, they take it down and with deft fingers pull from among the stig a canticle. They run in to their neigbors on the same golden streets and tell the good news. If Miriam has there cymbals anythying like those with which she performed on the banks of the Red sea, she claps them in triumph, and there is a festal table spead, and the best of the angles food is set on it. W\hen isit? It is when a man or woman down in the world who was all wrong by the grace of God is made all right-(Luke xv, 10) "There is joy in the presence of the angles of Wby are they so happily agitated' Ee cause they know what a tremendfrus: thing itis to-tr'n. clear around from thewrongaad take the riglt roa'. If isbecause they know the~ ditterence between swines' trogh with nothing bt husks and a kicg's banquet with angel food. It is icause they knokw the. infinite, the everlasting differe'tfCe between down and up. \.nd.then their festivity is catching. I we hear the bells of acity rin. we say, "What is that forF" If we hear o inbgoit- from an auditorium the soud of a full orchestra. we say. "What is happening here:" And wh'en the angels of God take on jubi lance over a case of earthly repentance your friends in heaven will say: What new thing has happened? Why full diapason, Wly the chime froi the oldest towers of eternity C The fact is, my hearers. there are peo ple in heaven who would like to hear from you. Your children are wonder ing when father and mother will come into the kingdom, and with more glee than they ever danced in the hallway at your coming home at evening tide they will dance the floor of the heav enly mansion at the tidings of father and mother saved. Besides that the old folks want to hear from you. They are standing at the head of the celestial stairs waiting for the news that their prayers have been answered, and that you are coming on to take from their lips a kiss better than that which now they throw you. Calling you by your first name, as they al ways did, they talking about you and saying. "There is our son," or, "There is our daughter down in that world of struggle, battling, suffering, sinning, weeping. Why can they not see that Christ is the only one who can help and comfort and save?" That is what they are saying about you, and, if you will thic hour in one prayer of surrender dhat will not take rr ore than a second to make decide this, then swifter than telegraphic dispatch the news would reach them. and angels of God ,who never fell would join your glorified kindred in celebration, and the caterers of heaven would do their best, and sainfs and seraphs side by side would take angel's food. Glory be to God for such a possibility! Oh, that this moment there might be a rush for heaven! The pirit and the Bride say Come, Rejoicing ssints re-echo, me, Who faints, who thirsts,. who will, may coy e. Thy Saviour bids thee come. MASSACHUSETTS' COMMITTEE. What Mr. D. A. Tompkins Says About the "Mil Committee." COLUMBIA, S. C., Mach 13.-The fol lowin"- telegraphed by Mr. D. A. Tompins of the Charotte Observer to his paper from Atlanta, in regard to the Massachusetts mill committee, speaks for itsself: "The Massachusetts Legislature appointed a committee to come South to learn the cause of the 'mill exodus' agitation in New Eng land. The committee arrived here to night. It is made up of the following named members of the Senate and House of Representatives: Senators F. W. Darli (chairman) and J. P. Hutchinson; legates Chas. G. Ban croft. Republican; Geo. M. Eddy, Republican; E. Morarity, Democrat; Frank Chandler, Repulican; W. J. Donovan, Democrat; Arthur L. Spring, Republican, and R. T. Teamoh (colored Republican). Mr. Win. Whit ing, deputy sergeant-at-arms, is with the party as asort of treasurer. The committee is the regular legislative committee on manufactures. The colored man was elected to the Legis lature from a district in Boston having 500 colored voters of a total of 3,000. The district is entitled to two delegates and without the solid negro vote the Republicans could not carry it. To secure the negro vote they made a Re publican ticket having one white man and one colored man. The presence of the colored man on this committee is entirely accidentaL. He comes South in no agressive spirit apparently. hut simply uea trip at the c~gkaense of the commonwealthof Maissachusetts is too good a thing notto :ake advantage of. It has been made clear to him and to the committee that neither the col ored man nor the cojmmittee could alter, even temporm-11y. Southern so cial conditionsarndideas. The colored member and the rest of the committee acquiesce fully in this. The former was taken in cl arge of herein Atlanta by a colored lawyer, who will undoubt edly take good care of him. The comn mittee will probably travel on about the following schedule: Monday, at Atlanta; Tuesday, at Aug'usta; Wed nesday, at Charlotte; Thiursday, at Raleigh; Friday, at Richmond; Satur day and Sunday at Washinoton;- and. Tuesday back to Boston. ~f~i sche dle may be changed. The committee desire to examine into and report as to the accuracy of the statements made before the Massachusetts Legislature that the South has great advantages over New England in cotton manufac tures. The members of the committee are a little at sea as to how to go about accomplishing the purposes of their trip. It was proposed to invite South ern manufacturers to their rooms in the hotel to be interrogated. They were advised that probably no manu facturers would come to be interro gated. The committee will probably visit some mills, get the most pleasure out of the trip possible, return home, make areport and that will be all the outcome there will be to the 'whole business. It's what commonlyknown as a polical junketing party- about such as the Congressmen have when they take a dead member home to be buried." _______ THE Appleton, Wis., Post says that some time ago a gang of tramps was arraigned before a Justice. The first man up gave his name as Daniel Web ster, then followed Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Chas. Sumner, Stephen A. Douglass, Roscoe Conkling, John Sherman, and so on until the last man, a little dried-up dwarf of about ninety pounds weio'ht, announced himself as 'Tom Re, of Maine." The whole gang got ten days. While in jail they got their names mixed, and when the day of their discharge came considera ble confusion was created by several different statesmen claiming the same name as the roll was called. The dif ficulty was finally settled by -the sher iff declaring that "Congress is nocr adjourned."' Burned to Death. P~asoss, W. Va., March 13.-A fa tal hotel fire, in which three persons lost their lives and four may die, oc curred at Mackeysville, six miles north of here at 1 o'clock this morning The dead are: Squire Corley, eEugene Sission and Homer Collett. The fol lowing were severely and probably fatally burned: J. K. Williams, James Jinkins, Jacob Confer, Wil liam Wilson. The burned building was I. D. Junkin's hotel. The fire started in the lobby, and is supposed to have originated from a defective flue. The flames spread so rapidly that the guests had scarcely any time to escape.____ Has Accepted. COLUSIBIA, S. C., March 16.-Gov ernor John Gar.5 Evans has been ask ed to preside at the centennial celebra tion of Union college on June 24 next, the day to be devoted to Union college in statesmanship and politics. Govern or Evans was for two years a student at Union. The goyernor will accept i th invitation. NEGPOES- M-AK AN'APPEAL AS TO YHf~EigSTRATION. An addiY.'. Looking to an Immediate Teat of the State Registration Laws in the United States Court--Their Course out lined. COLUMBIA. S. C.,March 15 -Yester dav - morning a committee from the Colored .Iinisters Union, composed of the Revs. R. E. Hart and W. D. Chap pelle, headed by retiring Congress man George W. Murray, as chairman called on Governor Evans in regard to the registration matter, and made the request of him to call the State Legis lature in extra session, for the purpose of allowing further time for the regis tration of colored voters, averring that the ten days allowed by the act, which have now expired have been entirely insufficient and inadequate'to permit of the registration of those qualified voters who applied. The committee waited on the Gov ernor at the executive chamber about 1 p. m., and they presented to him the following paper, making state nients in accord therewith: "As representatives of the Ministe& rial Union and the Republican party organized to aid the masses in qualify ing themselves to discharge the hioh est function of citizensbip in oer that they might take part in choosiDg delegates to the Constitutional .con vention. in which the status of their citizenship is to be fixed or destroyed, having received advices from all parts of the State relative to the manner, conduct, and extent of registration during the ten days set apart for reg istration, which are exhausted today, we assure you that not more than 10, 000 electors were registered within the entire State. and that many more than 100,000, after unparelleled exposure, suffering and sacrifices, remain un registered and disfranchised and that the four remaining days under the law, namely -the first Mondays in April, May, Juae and July are wholly ixdequate, therefore in behalf of these thousands of wronged and in jured persons, we call upon your ex cellency to pray that the Legislature be convened in extraordinary session to provide means whereby these more than a hundred thousand citizens may qualify themselves to exercise their constitutional right in the selection of delegates. "We respectfully submit that stat utes creating such conditions as re quire electors to travel from ten to fifty and seventy-five - miles to the va rious county.seats and to expose them selves in sunshine, rain -and cold for weeks in endeavoring to qualify them selves, and to have them sent away at the end of which without even an op portunity to register, to say nothing of their unconstitutionalityare too cruel and barbarous for the civilization -of the age. "We further submit that the time set ipart for registration is wholly in suificienL Under a recent decision of the Attorney General in relating to placing the penalt y on delinfuents in the collection of ta os, persons who were in the tax officb daring the pe riod for paying the same and fniled of an opportunity, are exempted from the penalties, and we claim that regis tration as conducted in our State is analagous. to paying taxes, and that electors who did all they could to qualify themselves withmn the pres cribed period and manner are not en titled to the penalty of ,disfranchise ment. "W. D. CHAPPELLE, "R. E. HART, "GEO. W. MURRAY."' TEGOVERNOR'S ANSwER. . Governor Etans informed the com mittee that he would take the matter into conisderation, and asked that the paper be turned over to his private secretary. He told the committeemen, that;he thouoht they were unduly ex cited over t% matter. The matter was resulting in no -more injury, to them than to the white people -who had not registered. He, however, pro mised the committee to let them have a reply as early as possible. INTO UNCLE SAM3'S COURT. But the move made abo~re was not aJl that developed yesterday on the last day for the registration of the voters under the special registration act. The Ministerial Union has take charge of matters, and it is preparing to fight all the way down to the last ditch. It nrow appers that they intend to make use of al the data obtained recently, anrd intend to go into the United States court immediately to test the leg'ality of the registration laws of the State, with a view to having them nullified. Such a fight has been having fire for some time, but it now seems that the crisis has come and action is to .be taken immediately. The following circurlar, issued last night, explains the move: Headquartes Ministerial Union. Columbia, S. C., March 14, 1895. Dear brethern. ministers of all de nominations: Whereas, a determined purpose have been reacher on the part of the faction now in control of the government to disfranchise and bru tallize the masses of our people in this State, and with the machinery of the government and courts in their pos session their designs and conspiracies are easy of accomplisment, as is. evi denced by the maner in which the re oistration has been and is being con Zucted; and as such we can hope for very little either from the government or courts of the State. Our only hope and safety, therefore, are in the Fed eral courts within the guarantees of the Federal Constitution, Suits to test the constitutionality of the laws by which we are being brutalized must be brought in the Federal courts at once, and the means for defraying the expenses of prosecuting the same must be obtained from the masses, whose protection we are seeking. In fact, a civil suit has already been com menced in the Federal courts by Con gressman Murray, must lane'uish uin less the means for its imnmediate' pro secution are secured, Therefore this is to request each and every colored min ister in South Carolina to set apart the fourth Sunday in March, or not later than the first hunday in april, for sthe purpose of raising the means for the above mentioned object. The masses should be thoroughly educated and aroused to the importance of giving liberally. As the case will be tried in Charleston, S. C., Congressman Mur ray has employed the attorneys for the prosecution of the case, and as the noney should be put or sent where it will be available when needed, with out being put to the trouble of corres ponding vwth the various committees of the counties, I would suggest that the money be sent to the First Nation al Bank, Charleston, to the credit of George W. Murray, and forward the figures to me, No. 17 East Laurel street, Clumbia. William D. Chappelle, Chairman. T. J. Clark, Secretary. I'r appears that Mexico, which has always been considered to be very far behinid the United States'of America in everything, is very far ahead of us in a currency system. Cotton in Mexico is worth sixteen anda half cents in sil ver, or half that amount in gold. Prices for all domestic articles are as low as in this country and there is prosperity in agricultural and all other SAM JONES' EXPERIENCE. What lie Say of :he Limuor 1iaint and Its Cure. In a late issue of the Menohis Sun day Times is an account. of a visit, made to the Keeley Institute of Teu nessee by the great Georzia evige- i list, the'Rev. Sam Jones. We copv. In part, his remarks. "I went," said he. "all the taits.nl know what it is to drink the cup to the dregs. My wife has followed im to the front door, and with tears in her eyes begged me 'not to take a drink today,' would promise by all I held sacred, and alas: I would come home that night drunker than ever before. No doubt my wife thought me a hypocrite and a liar, but I wasn't; I was only weak and diseased. I was honest in my promise, but didn't have the mind to know Christ, nor the strength to resist liquor. 'I found Christ at last, when I was 24 years old. It was before the Kee ley treatment came to make the road easy and safe for men. And. friends, we. owe a heap to that man. I believe in the Keeley cure. I have sent men to take the treatment, and I have paid their expenses. Christianity is the best thing on earth, but there is no use in talking Christianity or any other kind of 'anity' to a man who arinks a man under the paw of the tiger. You must get a man sober before you can give him religion. I put little faith m the man who gets religion when mauldin drunk or feebly sick. He is then afraid the devil is going to get him, and he promises like a good fellow until the scare is over. N o siree! that won't do. The best thing is to let the Keeley cure pick you out of the ditch, put you on your feet and wipe the mud off; then, while you are clean and healthy, go and take the Christ cure. Mine was the Christ cure, but if I should go up town and drink three drops of red liquor, I would get t on a howling drunk and paint t1e town red before morning. "A Keeley Cure will make you like a two-year-old boy: but if you drink a i drop afterwards you are worse than the man who had theseven devils cast out of him. If I go and wallow with a tiger and he bruises meand scratch es me and tumbles me all over in the mire and mud andthen go home, get clean,see a doctor and get my wounds dressed, I will get well, I suppose. If I am fool enough .to go and wallow with that tiger again, what can I ex Pect? Wha, ought Ito t? Why,he just ought to scratch t life out of me and that's just what he would do, too; you can bet on it. But the Keeley graduate has more sense- than to wal low with his tiger a second time. I have met many hundreds of them,and can recall only three who have ever gone back to romp with the tiger. "My brother-in-law was the worst drinkard that ever lived. I sent him to the Keeley Institute and I never look at him now without saying, 'what.a marvelus work of the Keeley Cure.' - I "A Dutchman drinking too much and*asked me what to do about it. I told him to take the Keeley Cure. as I tell every man who is aMicted with the whiskey appetite. "'Hein,' said he, 'dot would cure me altogedder, und I don't want dot. I 'ust vant to be cured so dot I can e two or three drinks a day.' "Well, my friends, there is no mid dle course like the Dutchman wanted. < You must quit it and then fight it. If liquor isn't with you it's against you and you must fight it tooth and] toe nail. "I believe the Keeley Cure helps the head and no doubt it helps the morals and then leads on to Christianity. When you leave here, I beg of you tof go away praying. Ask God to send you home agood man. Say to him: " 'I have set a bad example to my1 community, teaching the young the road that leads to ruin. ~Let me go home an exemplary citizen. Let me live upright and sober in my homet anid win the respect of men where be forelhad their pity.' "My own reasons forgeing sober 1 are my boys, my wife, my fellows, myefand my God. Ibelieve God is in the Keeley Cure as much as Ibelieve the devi is in thet saloons.] "Now, when yo go home shun the saloon, live righl and don't stop un til you get wit Go.A Keeley In stitute will help .you. Write to the] officers and physicians, write to each. other and have grand reunions. "Lord, what a sight is there! Bettert than the reunions 5f all the veterans1 in the world. These have talks of war and carnage and blood, but you, oh, my friends, can tell of wrecked lives saved, of souls saved, of homes saved, I of a new and better life, of sad voices ( made merr, of woebegone faces madeI bright, of te goodness of God and the wonders He has shown one and all of you; and now good bye. A joy anda blessingbe with you forever." 1 Information about the cure may be t hdby addressing the Keeley Inisti tute, Columbia, S. C. A Swindler's Clever Game.' MAcoS, March 14.--A -swindler hass recently g'otten several thousand dol lars out of the leading jewellers in thea different cities of the State by the usea of a very clever game. He operatedr from Swainsboro, a town in Emanuelr county, remote 'from the railroads. He used the letter heads of J. C. Cole- la man, a well-known merchant of higrh a financial standing, and signed Coile- l1 man's name to the letters. The mer- e chants shipped the goods at once af ter getting Coleman's rating. o When the goods were received at Midville, the nearest railroad station, the express agent did not deliver them until assured y the merchant Cole man that he ddnot order such goods. I Then he delivered them to the strang- C er. He left Swainsboro day before f esterday and jewellers all over the 3 state are anxious to find him. f Attacking the Law. CARiLESTON, March, 12.-A civil suit for $2,500 damages has been enter ed at Washington by Douglas & Obear attorneys for Daniel Wiley, colored, against D. L. Sinker et. al., managers a >f Precinct 2, Ward 6, in this city, int the last Federal election. The sum mons and complaint were sent from Washington to the clerk of the United ~ States Circuit Court, with directions that they be served at once, which was one last night. .n the last election Wiley attempted twice to vote without aving a registration ticket and was a not allowed to do so by the managers. He was at the time accompanied by 's ex-Congressmnan Murray. This is thought to be the first mcve in an at tack on the validity of the registration h law. _______ THE Atlanta Constitution asserts ta that the unprofitable price of cotton a ffects the farmers less sorely that it 8 oes the business and trade of the l< outh and of the country, and this v statement is undoubtedly true, for as c the Constitution says: "The farmers y an live. He has the sun and the 'l soil to sustain him. To produce cot- f: ton at a loss hurts, but it does not v paralyze him. He can most assur- c edly turn his attention to somectthing ese. He can cease to plant cotton d atogether and still survive; but, mean- t< while, what is to become of the bu si- i 1 ess interests, the trade and conmmer-ce hat have built themselves up and are c ustained entirely by the money that ~t as been brought into the country by ji th alei of cotton and cotton good " 't< AS IRBY SEES IT. ZHALL HE HAVE A SECOND TERM IN THE SENATE? iite sapremacy. ze..toration of White taiy. a Good State Constitution are Mat e4 of Moon.,ine to Irby Unless He Can be Reelected. WaSHIINGTON. March 8.-Altbough Jongress has adjourned and all of the Souti Carolina Congressmen have ,oine home the menibers of the Pal netto colony here are still speculating pon the causes and the effects of the 'split- between Senator Irby and 3enator-eiect Tillman. Senator Irby nay try to disguise the fact as much ts he pleases, but the general impres ion prevails here that Tillman is not vorking in double harness with him ny longer. As near as I have been ble to get at the "meat" of this pecu iar contention the trouble arises over he next United States Senatorship. Senator Irby wants a second.term in he Senate, and he wants it badly. He iot only wants it. )ut he demands it ts a matter of right. In a recent con ersation with him on the subject he aid that he intended to make a fight or a re-election in spite of any opposi ion that might arise. He contended hat it is'the custom to give a Senator Nho attends to his business acceptably t second term. He feels that he has lone all that could have been expected if him since he entered the Senate and ie -will therefore ask the people of south Carolina to give him another erm after 1897, whenhis present term xpires. The friends of Senator-elect Tillman ay that he does not want Irby to have L second term and he will do nothing o assist him in that direction. Who ilhuan has selected as his favorite to ucceed Senator Irby will appear later, ust now very little is being said on he subject. It is claimed that Irby xas but an accident in the first in tance, and, therefore he should be atisfied with six years in the Senate is the immediate successor of Wade Eaampton. That may sound all very well zor those who have not tasted of :he Senatorial sweets. Senator Irby nay not have been an active partici )ant in the great debates that have :aken place in the Senate during the last two or three years, but he has.put i four years of comparative luxury, with a private secretary, a private com mittee room and all of the trimmings .hat go with a Senatorship. He can ot be blamed for wanting more of it. rhey all do. The more they get the nore they want. The only interview that Senator Alect Tillman and Governor Evans had with Senator Irby during the re:ent visit of the Senator-elect and the Gov .rnor to this city must have been very nteresting. It took place in Senator Irby's committee room. Senator Irby was spread out in a luxurious reclin .g chair, ~with his wool hat canted >ver to one side-he generally wears is hat in his committee. room and lso at his private apartments. He is etting bald rapidly in consequence. enator-elect Tiliman and Governor Evans entered the room and proceeded ;o relate to the Senator the terms of ;he recent compromise, with the ac :ompanying details. It seems that vas the first intimation that Sena ;or Irby had received on the subject. Ee is naturally a sensitive man, and ie at once-appreciated the fact that he ad been totally ignored in the trans c'tion. It was-a terrible blo0w to his ride, but he struggled to control his eelings and appear indifferent as far s he was personally concerned, but ~xpressed great anxiety as to the effect t might have on the Reform Movement n the State. He went so far, it is said, i to chide Tillmnan with alack of tact td political sagacity, and charged hat the editor of The News and Con ier had "dehorned" him. The auth >rized interview with Senator Irby im roperly used the word "deceived" for 'dehorned " The latter word is the ne Senator Irby claims as his own, orhe was going on to tell Tillman of he amputation of several parts of his olitical anatomy by the Conservative eaders. It was anything but a merry arty. The next day Messrs. Tilmman Ld Evans proceeded further North to altimore, Philadelphia and New E'ork. The night after their departure Sena or Irby went into "executive session" ith himself, and considered all that e had heaxd from Messrs. Tillman tnd Evans in connection with other -umors and actual occurrences that ave been floating around in South Jarolina politics for several months ast. The result of his deliberations v'as the authorized interview which he cave out to the press associations. Ie realized that a determined effort is eing made to "turn his political pic ure to the wall," and he objects to uch poceeding for the reason above tated. When Seuator-elect Tillman eturned to Washington, on his way tome from New York, it was under tood that Tillmnan and Irby were to ave another consultation. T liman ined with Representatives Talbert .nd Strait, but a few doors from the esidence of Senator Irby, but they ever met again in this city. Mutual riends stated that Tillman and Irby Lad engagements to meet each other ,t varions p laces within twenty-four ours, but they manged to keep out of ach other's way like two professoinal rize fighters of the present day en aged in making "a draw of it.' Married in Haste. CHICAGO, March 11.-Paulin Cony ubry, daughter of Chief Justice Ful er, of the United States Supreme ourt. has applied to the Circuit Court or a divorce from her husband, James fatthew Aubrey, Jr. The bill was led in the Circuit Court this morn aig. This is the outcome of the sensa onal runaway match which startled hicago society in March, 1889. It rill be remembered that the couple rere married in Milwaukee March 19, 889. Miss Fuller was 18 years of age t the time. Aubrey was 22. A short ime before Chief Justice Fuller had one to Washingtonto take his seat on he Supreme bench Miss Fuller had een in Washington, but returned to ~hicago on the pretext of visiting iends. The marriage was a complete rprise to the families of both the oung people. and not many months fter became the source of chagrin and arrow through the flagrant excesses f the young h~usband. For a year or -iore Mrs. Aubrey has been living rith her parents, unable longer tolbear .er husband's conduct. Mrs. Aubrey a her bill says that her husband con acted the liquor habit, and to that she ttributes all her domestic difficulties. he says that she was compelled to save hier husband and to tak-e refuge rith her father. The couple have two hildren. Melville Cony Aubrey, 5 ears old, and Mildred, 4 years old. 'he Court is asked to exclude Aubrey ro1 participating in any manner rith the education or control of the hildren. Mrs. Aubrey says she has ieans to care for thema and does not esire her husband to have any access them at all. Aubrey is at present 1~ Chaicago, where he has been served rithi a process. His father-in-law it is laimed, has been put to a good deal of oube over some of Aubrey's proceed gs In egard to tihe financial mat CHEAPER FERTILTZERS. How the Farnes Prpo.se to Get Ahvad of PhOSpIatLe Mn. COLuMBIA. '. C.. March 13. -Ever since the convention of the .farmner" was held and the fertilizer manufact urers declined to accede to their de mands as made in that conventiun. it has been a matter of speculation as to their resolution not to use any fertili zers, or go ahead and make purchases of small amounts, or. devise some other scheme. It seems that the last plan is being put into operation. They have devised a scheme, according to what Col. D. P. Duncan. the manager of the State Alliance Exchange, had to say yesterday, by whieh they are to buy separately kainit, dissolved bone. and cotton seed meal, manipulating them themselvesand thus making their ,own animoniated fertilizers at a saving to themselves of $3 a ton, making it cost only $13 a ton. This is the way the farmers expect to save a few dol lars and avoid paying the prices of the fertilizer companies for their manipul ated fertilizers. Col. Duncan says that cottoi seed meal hasbeen cheaper this year than ever before. The lowest price reached per ton was $14. It then went up to $14.50 in more than car load lots and $15 a ton in car load lots. The price has now within the last week advane 'ed 50 cents per ton, showing that large quantities of meal are being sold. Y esterday thirteen tons were sold here at $14.25 a ton. The scheme of the farmers, as explained by Col. Duncan. is to purchase kainit and dissolved bone and manipulatethe mixturethem selves, takgin one-third of kainit, one third of dissolved bone and one-third of cotton seed meal. Col. Duncan says that this makes the most -ifect ive fertilizer that a farmer can use. The kainit is obtainable at $10 a ton and the dissolvel bone at $9. Thus for say-$39, the farmer making his own manipulation, he can secure three tons of good fertilizers of the same e he would have to pay$16a ton. The only drawback is that cotton seed oil companies do only a cash business and all the mea: has to be paid for in cash. It is stated that the fertilizer manufacturers bought their supply of cotton seed meal early in the season, when the price was $19 a ton, and of course they have to have their profit thereon, hence the high prices of the ammoniated goods. CoL. Duncan says that the farmers are paying for their meal in cash in most instances; manipulating it with their employes on rany days at practically no cost td themselves. Col. Duncan says that owing to the large cotton crop last year the oil mills have made a -much largeor amount of meal than ever be fore. He says this home-made mix ture is being used much more largely than the preparedammoniated goods. He says that so far as the orders through his exchange go-and most of them come through the exchange up to date as compared to .last year not more than 20 per cent. of the fer tilizers have been moved. In propor tion to the other goods boughtthe far mers have investedmuch more largely in the cotton seed meal home-made combination than ever before.-State. A Mysterious Shooting. CoLmBIA, March 3.--There was no more deservedlypopular and high toned young man in Columbia than A. Burwell Symmer and his untime ly death will be sincerely regretted by every one. Ten minutes before his death he was talking plaantly with his fellow employees in the Carolina National Bank. It was just about five minutes after the time for closing the bank that a pistol shot was heard by those in the bank. Mr. Joe Bell was the first to be attracted by the noise, and seeing Mr: Symmers stretched on: the bed, he calle for Mr. Walker,the: teller of the bank A -hurried exami nation showed that Mr. Symmers had been shot and Dr. Talley was sent for,. ' but before he arrived death had come. It appears that Mr. Symmers, as way his custom, went into the back room1 to take off his working clothes and put on his street appre and wash himself1 and while handl' a pistol of Mr. Te pleton was fatall wounded. Mr.1 Templeton ocupe a rooift on the grund floor of th bank building, andi Mr. Symmers, who was a bycicle en thusiast, took his pistol froma under< the pillow and used it on his bycicl ei rambles, and it is thought -that whi'.e he was "breaking" the pistol he held it in front of his prson and it went, off. The bullet tokeffect in the hea:.-t and was inclined downward. The coroner's jury, of which Mr. D. Card well was foreman, after hearing what testimony there was, (no one saw the] shooting), brought in the followir:g< verdict: "That A. Burwell Symmers came to his death by a wounti ia flced by a pistol in his own hands; whether accidentally or intentional.y we dont know." It might be said that there was no young man who had a pleasanter home circle and more rea son to be anxious to live. He heldi with credit to himself and entire sat-1 isfaction to the bank the position of] bookkeeper and the bank officials stat-I d that his acconnts were absolutely orrect and that in his capacity as ookkeeper he did not have the hand ling of any moneys, and the bank had< he utmost confidence in him. It was oly an hour before his death that Mr. Symmers wrote a note to a friend bout a matter he expected to use later 1 n, showing at that time he had no dea that the need for it would never1 arise. t Getting Poorer and Poorer. A late census bullitin shows that an stimate of five persons to the average t amily is not far from correct. Their are in the United States 12,690,252 amilies. The investigation into their mmber was made partly with the view 1 f ascertaining how many people min nited States own the homes theyt ive in. The report is not a particul-c arly cheerful one. Over half thes amilies in this republic, 52.20 pert ~ent, live in rented houses or ona 'ented farms. Furthermore, only bout 33 per cent of all the peoplet n this country own their homes un-t ncumbered byv debt or mortgage. If t the present tendency continues, it willc n a generation or two more be in t this republic as it is in European mon-t rchies,the land all in t he hands of the few, wvhilethe miajority of the in-1 1abitants, like those of Ireland, will( be a peasant and a tenant class. If s this was what the pilgrim fathers land d on Plymouth Rock for, they might better ha've staid on the other side. Itt was not worth the trouble of c mingt Liere. It was not worth the trouble of 1 fighting the American Revolution anda roclaiming that all men were borna "LAsT summer," says the Anderson eform Advocate, "when the pri nary election was over Larry Ganttt filled his paper with barrels full of eace and unity gush. He did the lamb and lion' act to perfection. Then e suddenly waked up to the enormity f the costitutional convention r cheme and orn~ed all his bitterness c iganst it. Now aiter John Irby -has ' ought him b making his son hi pri-- e c-ate~ secretarry he is pouring out all us vials of bitterness and is the loud- r st mouthed man in the State as to the t. ersonnel of the convention and as to r s duties although he bitterly; opposed he calling of it. Nhat shamaeless . yporis and nhhshing cheek. -i1 Absolut P A creani or" ta . powder. Highest of all 4b lea ni Rth.-La test United States. ve nt Food R Royal Bakia Po de apany, 10t6 WallN . . They W;at Pe -- In response to the ca the Chair man of the ExecutiveC' ttee of the Reform Party of the Ba 1 County a meeting of the Execu Commit tee, along with promine Reformer-, from all parts of the co ..was held, in the Court House at - ellon the 9th inst.. A.'Howard Pat. presid ing, W. H. Duncan act as Secre tary. which the follo preamble and resolutions were p i regard to the Constitutioial ention, to wit: Whereas .the Dem arty of South Carolina and county for several years past a divided into two factions, and have been several plans sugges uniting the party ni the election of' to the Constitutional Condedi dhearti ly sympathizing wi . desire for unity and harmony, formers in mass meetingsse d'callu.6n all factionsandshad nion''-th in the ranks of the D tic party to accept the p.ast an bering our common traditions n ho and common intees rk .toge er in common for the g f the entiie people of the State a0. And Whereas th ' Committtee.is chag the dotistita tion with -dete policy of the party-and havins. inrended a plan and pulished which should commend ap lve the--es pect and support o, ya Demo crats. ;t - Be it Resolved, ratify anA endorse the action e State Demo cratic Executive'Co in cfn1g. a Primary elections e -lection .of delegates to the vention, and insuch primary ..et.in the spirit of the addres d cQmmittee and vote foi the be' iirrpetive of past politicalsi and reod mend to our ,.:Bformeis throughout-the cor to d1ikewise Resolved Thad Ethi qenn.fi cations to a seat., ventioi to be wisdom, mo onitaapatriot ism, and not ial zadherence and declareour y idadie our acsociate,~ to, nperfect good faith with all.Denia on this b sis, for the presen. ind'the l1t ing good of. the f - Resolved, Tha* e for i6 rrian simply on tr d thet he is a Reformer nor p siInp1f because. g s ii bu~for the bestimn', irr 6co4 Resolved;-Tha98 -epeoDe mocra in gerid f~1 Reform party i rtical~ ~ oiia rpent place any .onspote'% pod'. the ne . choose their rep tatives and 'auak~is fun lamen --aw. - Reso ed,Tnat- ln hrb adop reconnner ou e ~ause seems to 1- ny fail plan, dthe othiey eomne >y goo, Democry tp r e jected: not becanw ~osma ie.with.the sj * .tndy u ,eoause av do nt. ~~~ rc icabler - - - Resolved,. That hri eus :he Coainty'.Eieci ~ m itet :all Pa-Bimary' ~'' no he eo :rae-pa-ty .to se. t~ciddtso lie.Democatic pa 'b-ioedfrn :he eiedtioni of d oth tt lopstitutioni Co nio.Iopo ~'i~:fr te iid g:pl ana. hrb tnsfi i rso tsabe d connsio enaon ly-byasile on. U ~ ~ ~ ~~ae re-ui ti h~ cee :0 dmnite a lc aeom tne to [nfch el v~themcahoughateso ~i hl ctr mc tfe for in oihwih~x r ~ teate ouddawih alt-o preumtouro s rittenfo the .soldi n wo x e tohbe -pcn. 'edsoter Sento ns tes aie eae of thatoiidbosaddc :onfetene f i' es to.as td riin delega ''th poiqutionus he conveso . denstor tIrbay' act :erin~oi whch hein . h s tho cif fr :he gret aprov dta 'It roving's p.no. eepti- .h won~he ace ad il the uces f ti,a oroceeds; rscmea of-cnlike ate;sonlmser,.i >eot lseat ip iiand rom. Evn-. [er himttwo deas yi: thm ougn hut 2sole caeter'It mans'in-ther sthat iewith whidha on t propaogue woudelri'th lote resumpIous an crfary shipolicys it who had tage to ath coi yn or t ihes con Sritte of the stic 14 oen wo ex >ect ta bemen as pmoabisty ad aoneerymanen and yllableiviio of' he bw the 'ines. too. elmt ofsit hoei deseaeis and piqous because hey wiav e ared. sekin any aion ontrooutfconeultingthroughemahipflo ionsofgtea trrvo'te. The aboveisg prng son,-action.' foftheistnhesat atm the ucc e Stafthie. n ofh )eatorialg sea ing awyfo wano er thism two ye~ ars rifeow and t-a nase pen ' ' gw'ot thes ond oi ionsitoa creer. fo Ithea fenta ne we ill aid o Gntewth protoses batee uptif b i o itte. of the truggl tof the bi r end fcor the con rol and the onsl tial constittion, .nd that mans, :i~ probe abid, ad hat whstit eple ->de b ltementiof heypeoil e~ alw eeigtgan Introl~ of th Staf Mrch m2asua xions of th nly vote. The bov-s aknfrom They :-le'vs ot ex jokndasonbe. n of the wstnhes uefo m apes li he tte. cen of a )rae b Conti, do you ant to e oet thisr~Ld Doyo wa etead bill ion toure.i olwte edoea