The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, October 16, 1895, Image 4

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IS THY HEART RIGHT!i REV. DR. TALMAGE MAKES A POINT BLANK QUERY. Jehn's Question to Jehonadab-It Was Not More Appropriate for that Hour and Place Than It Is for this H-.ur ami Place. An Eloquent Discourse. - - NEw YORK, Oct. 6.-In hir sermon for today Rev. Dr. Talmage speaks di rectly to the hearts of all who have not yet definitely aaccepted the free offer of salvation in Cii-ist Jesus. Ti2e subject was "A Point Biank Ques tion," the text. beini II Kin x, 1. -Is thine heart rig-t Vith muetkled horse~s at full sueed foi he was celebrated for fast driviii, Jehu. the warrior and kinr. retur!., from batle But seeing Jehonadab. an acquaint =uce. by the wayside, le shouts: "Whoa: Whoa:" to tue heat ed spau. Then 1eaning over to nadab, Jehu salutes him ia the words of th text-words. nat more a ppropri ate fo~r that hour aud that place than for this hour and place, --1s thine- heart right?" . 1 I should like to hear of your, calhealth. Well myelf, I keto have .everybody else well, and so might ask: Is your eyesight right, your htaring right: Are your nerves i-ight, your lungs right: Is your en tire ody.right: Bat Iam busy today taking diagnosis of the more 'inport ant spiritual conditions. I should like to hear of your financial welfare. I want everybody to have plenty of money, ample apparel, large store h->useand comfortable residence, and I might ask: Is your business right, your income right? Are your worldly surroundings right? But what are these financial questions compared w'th the inquiry as to whether you have' been able to pay your debts to God; as to whether you are insured for eternity: as to whether you are ruining yourself by the long credit system of the soulf I have known men to have no more than one loaf of bread at a time, and yet to own a gov ernment bond of heaven worth more than the whole material universe. The question I ask you t cday is not in regard to habits. I make no inqui ry about your integrity, or your chas tity, or your sob1-iety. I do not mean to stand on the ontside of the gate and ring the bell, but coming up the steps I open the door and come to the pri vate apartment of the soul, and with the earnestness of a man that must give an account of this day's work, I cry out, 0 man, 0 woman immortal, is thine heart right? I will notinsult you by an argu meat to prove that we are by nature all wrong. If there be a factory ex plosion, and the smokestack be upset, and the wheels be broken in two, and the engine unjointed, and the ponder ous bars be twisted, and a man should look in and say that nothing was the matter, you would pronounce him a fooL Well, it needs no acumen to discover that our nature is all atwist and askew and unjointed. The thing doesn't work right. The biggest trou ble we have in the world is with our souls. Men sometimes say that,though their lives may not be just right, their heart is all right. Impossible. A farmer never puts the poorest apples on top of his barrel, nor does the mer chant place the meanest goods in his show window. The best part of us is our outward life. I do not stop to dis cuss whether we all fell in Adam, for we have been our own Adam, and have all eaten of the forbidden fruit, and have been turned out of the para dise of holiness and peace, and though the flming sword that stood at the tto keep us out .has changed posi tion and comes behind to drive us in we will not go. The Bible account of us is not exag gerated when it says that we are poor and wretched and miserable and blind and naked. Poor! The wretch that stands shivering on our doorstep on a cold day is not so much in need of bread as we are ol spiritaul help. Blind! Why, the man whose eyes perished in the powder blast and who for these ten years has gone feeling his1 way from street to street is not in s'uoh utter darkness as' we. . Naked! Why, there is not one rag of holiness left to hide -the shame of our sin. Sick! Why, the leprosy has eaten in to the head and the heart, and the hands~and the feet, and the marasmus of an everlasting wasting away has already seized on some of us. But the meanest thing for a man to dois to discourse about an evil with out pointing a way to have it reme died. I speak of the thirst of your hot tongue only that I may show you the living stream that drops crystalline and sparkling from the Rock of Ages and pours a river of gladness at your *feet. If I show you the rents in your coat, it is only because the door of God's wardrobe now swings open, and here is a robe white with the fleece of the Tamb of God, and of a cut and make that an angel would not be ashamed to wear. -If I snatch from you the black, moldy bread that you are munching, it is only to give you the bread made out of the finest wheat that grows on the celestial hills and baked in the fires of the cross, and one crumb of which would be enough to make all heaven a banquet. Hear it, one and all, and tell it to your friends when you go home, that the Lord Jesus Christ can make the heart ist we need a repenting heart. If for the last 10,20 or 40 years of life we have been going on in the wrong way it is time that turned around and start ed in the opposite direction. If we of fend our friends, we are glad to apol ogize. God is our best friend, and yet how many ofushave never apologized for the wrongs we have done him. There is nothing that we so much need to get rid of s ssin. It is a hor rible black monster. It polluted Eden. It killed Christ. It has blasted the world. Men keep dogs in kennels, -and rabbits in a warren, and cattle in ae pe. What a man that would be wowould shut them up in his par lor ! But this foul dog of sin and these herds of transgession we have enter tained for many a long year in our heart, which should be the cleanest, brightest room in il our nature. Out with the vile herd: Begone, ye be foulder of an immortal nature: Turn out the beast and let Christ come in! A heathen came to an early Christian who had the reputation of curing diseases. The Christian said, 'Tou must have all your idols des troyed." The heathen gave to (ne Christian the key to his house, that he might go in and destroy the idols. He battered to pieces all he saw, but still the man did not get well. The Christian said to him, '-There must be some idol in your house not yet destroyed." He confessed that there was one idol of beaten gold that he could not bear to give up. After awhile, when that was destroyed, in answer.to the prayer of the Christian the sick man got well. Many a man has awakened in his dying hour to find his sins all about him. They clambered up on the right side of the bed, and on the left side, and over the headboard, and over tha footboard, and horribly devoured the soul. Repent, the voice celestial cries, Nor longer dare delay. The wretch that s:orns the mandate dies And maet a fiery day. Again, we need a believing heart. A good many years ago a weary one went up one of the hills of Asia Minor and with two logs on his back cried out to all the world, offering to carry their sins and sorrows. They pursued him. They slapped him in the face. They mocked him. When he groaned. they groaned. They shook their fists at him. They spat on him. They hounded him as though he were a wild beast. His healing of the sick. his sight giving to the lind, his mer cy to the outcast silenced not the re venge of the world. His pravers and benedietions were lost in that whirl wind o' exeeration: "Away with him: Away witn !.in' A .\i w no-t Imrey I he iwe p'een Of wood th '1 h 'eied It was the Of the aes dw wrh of God. thi' s'r rO-.S Of hel&h ttudu neet of an uinendig eternity. No wonder hi.; back bent No wonder the blood ,%tarti d frorn !-verv por No wonder that e e( h .dzr a to e that miade the sui fatl.. and the everlast ing bills trelhe. and the dead rush. up) n their wiing sh eets as he cried, ;t be possible. let this cup pass from une." But the clp did not pass. None to co:nfort. There he hangs: What has that baul done that it should be thus crushed in the palmi It has been healing the lame and wiping away tears. What has that foot beei doing that it should be so lacerated? It has been going about doing good. Of what has the victim been guilty? Guilty of saving a world. Tell me. ye heavens and earth, was there ever such another criminal? Was there ever such a crime? On that hill of earnage. tbat sunless day, amid those 'howliin rioters, tuay not your sins and nilne have perished I believe it. Oh. the ransom has been paid: Those arms of Jesus were stretched out so wide that when he brought them to gether again they might embrace the world. Oh, that I might, out of the blossoms of the spring or the flaming foliage of the auturn, make one wreath for my Lord: Oh, that all the triumphal arches of the world could be swung in one gateway, where the King of Glory might come in: Gh, that all the harps and trumpets and organs of earthly music might in one anthem speak his praise! But what were earthly flowers to him who walketh amid the snow of the white lilies of heaven? What were arches of earthly masonry to him who hath about his throne a rainbow spun out of everlasting sunshine ? What were all earthly music to him when the hundred and forLy and four thous and on one side, and the cherubim and seraphim and archangels stand on the other side, and all the space be tween is filled with the doxologies of eternal jubilee-the hosanna of a re deemed earth, the halleluiah of un fallen angels, song after song rising about the throne of God and of the Lamb! In that pure, high place let him hear us. Stop, harps of heaven, that our poor cry may be heard. 0 my Lord Jesus, it will not hurt thee for one hour to step out from the shin ing throng. They will make it all up when thou goest back again. Come hither, 0 blessed one, that we may kiss thy feet. Our hearts, too long withheld, we now surrender into thy keeping. When thou goest back, tell it to all the immortals that the lost are found and let the Father's house ring with the music and the dance. They have some old wine in heaven not used except in rare festivities. In this world those who are accustomed to use wine on great occasions bring out the beverage and say: "This wine is 30 years old" or "40 years old." But the wine of heaven is more than 18 centuries old. It was prepared at the time when Christ trod the wine press alone. When such grievous sinners as we come back, methinks the cham berlain of heaven cries out to the ser vants: "This is unusual joy. Bring ufrom the vaults of heaven that old wine. Fill all the tanikards. Let all the white robed guests' drink to the immortal health of those newborn sons and daughters of the Lord Al mighty." "There is joy in heaven among the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth," and God grant that that one may be you! Again, to have a right heart it must be a forgiving heart. An ord writer says: "To return good for evil is God likie. Good for good is manlike. Evil for good devil like." Which of these natures have we? Christ will have nothing to do with us as long as we keep any old grudae. We have all been cheated and lied about. There are people who dislike us so much that if we should come down to poverty and disgrace they would say: "Good for him! Didn't I tell you soT' They do not understand us. Unsanctified human nature says: "Wait till you get a good crack "at him, and when at last you find him in a tight place give it to him. Flay him alive. No quar ter- Leave not a rag of reputation. Jump on him with both feet. Pay him in his own coin-sarcasm for sarcasm, scorn for scorn, abuse for abuse." But, my friends, that is not the right kind of heart. No man ever did so mean a thing towards us as we have done toward God. And if we cannot forgive others,how can we expect God to forgive us? Thousands of men have been kept out of heaven by an unfor giving heart. Here is some one who says: "I will forgive that man the wrong he did me about that house and lot. I will for give that man who overreached me in that bargain. I will forgive that man who sold me a shoddy overcoat. I forgive them-all but one. That man I cannot forgive. The villian-I can hardly keep my hands off him. If my going to heaven depends on my forgiving him, then I will stay out." Wrong feeling. If a man lie to me once, I am not called to trust him again. If a man betray me once, I am not called to put confidence in him again. But 1 would have no rest if I could not offer a sincere prayer for the temporal and everlasting welfare of all men, whatever meanness and out rage they have inflicted upon me. If you want to get your heart right, strike a match and burn up all your old grudges and blow the ashes away. "If you forgive not men their trespass es, neither will your heavenly Father forgive you your trespasses." An old Christian black woman was going along the streets of New York with a basket of apples that she had for sale. A rough sailor ran against her and upset the basket and stood ex pecting to hear her scold frightfully, but she stooped down and picked up the apples and said. "God forgive you, my son, as I do." The sailor saw the meanness of what he had done, and felt in his pocket for his money, and insisted that she should take it all. Though she was black, he called her mother and said: "Forgive me, moth er. I will never do anything so mean again." Ah, there is a power in a for giving spirit to overcome all hardness. There is no way of conquering men like that of bestowing upon them your pardon whether they will accept it or not. Again, a right heart is an expectant heart. It is poor business to be build ing castles in the air. Enjoy what you have now. Don't spoil your com fort in the small house because you expect a larger one. Don't fret about your moome when it is $3 or $4 per day because you expect to have after whle $0[ perd, Aor 0,000alf a yar because you t-xpect it to be 1,20.000 a year. But about heavenly things the more we think the better. Those cas ties are not in the air, but on the hills. and we have a deed of them, in our possession. I liketo see a man all full of heaven. He talks heaven. Ile sings heaven. Ile prays heaven. He dreams heaven. Soie of is in our sleep have had the good place open to us. We saw tIe pinnacles in the sky. We heard the click of the hoofs of the white horses on which victors rode and the clapping of the cymbals of etern~al triumph. And, while in our sl-ep we wert glad thatall our sorrows were o-er and burdens done with, the throue of God grew whiter and whiter :Id whiter till we opened our eyes and saw that it was only the tun , f earthly moruuiug snhtining on our 1)ilow. To have a right heart you need to be filled with this Expectancy. it would mtake your privations and annoyauces more bearable. In the midst of the city of Paris stands a statue of the good but broken hearted Josephine. I never imagined that marble could be smitten intosuch tenderness. It seems not lifeless. If the spirit of Josephine be disentaber nacled, the soul of the empress has takbn possession of this figure. I am not yet satisfed that it is stone. The puff of the dress onl the arm seems to need but the pressure of the finger to I indent it. The figures at the bottom of the robe, the ruffle at the neck, the fur lining on the dress, the embroid erv of the satin, the cluster of lily and leaf and rose in her hand. the poise of her body as she seens to conic sailing out of the sky. her face caln, humble, beaitif a, but yet sad-attest the genius of the sculptor and the beauty of the heroine he celebrates. Looking up through the rifts of the coronet that encircles her brow, T could see the sky beyond. the great heavens where all wOilial' s wrongs shall be righted, and the story of endurance and resignation shall be told to all ages. Tie rose and the lily in the hand of Josephine will never drop their petals. Believe not the recent slanders upon her memory. The children of God. whether they suffer on earth in palaces or in hovels, shall come to that glorious rest. O heaven, sweet heaven, at thy gate we set down all our burdens and griefs. The place will be full. Here there are vacant chairs at the hearth and at the table, but there are no vacant chairs in heaven-the crowns all worn, the thrones all mounted. Some talk of heaven as though it were a very handsome church, where a few favored spirits would come in and sit down on finely cushioned - seats all by them selves and sing psalms to all eternity. No, no. "I saw a great multitude that no man could number standing before the throne. He that talked with me had a golden reed to measure the city, -and it was 12,000 furlongs" that is, 1,00 miles-in circumference. Ah, heaven is not a little colony at one corner of God's dominion, where a man's entrance depends upon what kind of clothes he has on his back and how much money he has in his purse, but a vast empire. God grant that the light of that blessed world may shine upon us in our last moment. The first time I crossed the Atlantic the roughest time we had was at the mouth of Liverpool harbor. We ar rived at nightfall and were obliged to lie there till the morning waiting for the rising of the tide before we could go up to the city. How thre vessel pitched and writhed in the water: So sometimes the last illness of the Chris tian is a struggle. The waves of temptation toss his soul, but he waits for the morning. At last the light dawns, and the iides of joy rise in his soul, and Ihe sails up and casts anchor within the vale. Is thy heart right? What question can compare with this in importance? it is a business question. Do you not realize that you will soon have to go out of that store; that you will soon have to resign that partnership; that soon among all the millions of dollars worth of goods that are sold you will not have the handling of a yard of cloth, or a pound of sugar, or a penny worth of anything; that soon, if a conflagration should start at Central park and sweep everything to the bat tery, it would not disturb you; that soon, if every cashier should abscond and every insurance company should fail it would not affect you? What are the questions that stop this side the grave compared with the questions that reach beyond it? Are you mak ing losses that are to be everlasting? Are you making purchases for eterni ty? Are you jobbing for time when you might be wholesaling for eternity ? What question of the store is so broad at the base, and so altitudinous, and so overwhelming as the question, "Is thy heart right?" Or is it a domestic question? Is it something about father or mother or companion or son or daughter that you think is comparable with this question in importance? Do you not realize that by universal and inexora ble law all these relations will be brok en up? Your father will be gone, your mother will be gone, your com panion will be gone, your child will be gone, you will be gone, and then this supernal question will begin to harvest its chief gains or deplore its worst losses, roll up into its mightiest magnitude or sweep its vast circles. What difference now does it make to Napoleon III whether he triumphed or surrendered at Sedan? Whether he lived at the Tuileries or at Chiselhurst? Whether he was emperor or exile? They laid him out in his coffin in the dress of a field marshal. Did that give him any better chance for the next world than if he had been laid out in a plain shroud? And soon to us what will be the difference whether in this world we rode or walked, were boved to or maltreated, were applauded or hissed at, were welcomed in or kicked out, while ]aying hold of every mo ment of the great future and burning in all the splendor or grief and over arching an'd undergoing all time and all eternity is the plain, simple, prac. tical, thrilling, agonizing, over whelm ing question, "Is thy heart right? Have you within you a repenting heart, an expectant heart? If not, must write upon your soul what George Whitefield wrote upon the window pane with his diamond r ing He tarried in an elegant house over night, but found that there was on God recognized in that house. Before he left his room in the morning with his ring he wrote upon the window pane, "One thing thou lackest." Af ter the guest was gone tihe housewife came and looked at the window, and saw the inscription, and called her husband and her children, and God, through that ministry of the window glass, brought them all to Jesus. Though you may today be surround ed by comforts and luxuries and feel thatyou have need of nothing, if you are not the children of God, with the signet ring of Christ's love, let me in scribe upon your souls, "One thing thou lackest." Disgusted Robbers. ST. Louis, Oct. 7.-A special to the Star-Sayings from Fort Smith, Ark., says: Six men held up the north bound train on the St. Louis and Sari Fran cisco road at midnight last night near Gaston, I. T., a small station fifty miles south of here. After all their risk, trouble and planning, they secured but eighty-five cents. They wvere so disgusted that they threw the money o the floor, cursed the expressed mes THE LAST OF.1 TIE SEASON. THE FINAL WEATHER AND CROP BULLETON FOR THE YEAR. Dirctor Iiauter Veiy Inttiebtingliy Stun narizes- 4he ConldItions Exist ing--The Tex-, of tite ulletin Ismued Yeterday The Ot look. COLuBIA, S. C., Oct. 10.-The fol lowing weekly bulletin of the condi tion of the weather and the crops of the State was issued yesterday by Di rector Bauer of the State weather serv ico. Iasmuch as it is the last report that will be issued this season, it will be read with unUh niorc interest than usual: The week ending Monday, October 7, was cooler than usual over the en tire State, the departure from the nor nial having been greatest on the first three days when it ranged from S to 12 degrees per day lower, after which there was a gradual rise to normal or above on Sunday and Monday, th and 7th. The temperature for the week ranged betwe n 92 and at Co lumbia on the 7th and :30 at Green ville on the 1st. The mean tempera ture for the week, deduced from 33 station reports, was 63.5, and the nor mal for the same period is approxi mately 68.5. Tuere were frosts on the 1st, 2nd and -3rd, reaching from the extreme western portions of the State into the central and northeastern counties, where, however, but little or no injury resulted. In the western and extreme northern counties the frost was heavy, killing pea vines, sweet potato vines, very late corn, and what cotton leaves that remained green, but it was not cold enough to injure cotton boils. There was an entire absence of rain during the week, and the drought be came greatly intensified. Over the whole State there has not been more than at best a trace of rain fromthe 9th to the 12th of September, and in many places there has been no benefi cial rain since the 23rd of August. The effect of the drought has been to cut short the pea crop. stop the growth of cotton and cut off the top crop; prevent late corn from filling proper ly; to cut off the yield of sweet pota toes, estimated at from J- to j; to great ly reduce, if not to make an entire failure, of root crops in general; to re duce the yield of molasses from sorg urn and sugar cane; to ruin fall gar dens; to keep back the growth of win ter vegetables on the coast truck farms, and to prevent the sowing of small grains. However, the long con tinued dry, sunny weather gave excel lent opportunity for making hay of all varieties and a very large fodder crop was saved in the very best condi tion; for drying out and housing corn: for picking cotton, which made rapid progress, and the lint has been saved in a beautiful condition; and for gen eral harvest work. There were showers over the west ern and central counties during the afternoon of the 7th and early morn ing of the Sth (Tuesday) that will be beneficial to turnips, etc., but likely discolored open cotton to some extent. The amounts that fell have not been reported to this office, but the rainfall in places was heavy. There was almost continuous clear weather the whole week; on the 7th alone was the sky obscured by clouds in the western portion. The condition of the various crops remains practically unchanged at the end of the week. Rapid progress was made in picking and harvesting cotton, so that it is gener-ally reported from the eastern portions of the State that at least two thirds of the crop has been picked and a large proportion of it marketed. What remains in the fields, in that section, is all open, and picking will be finished in from t wo to three weeks, if the weather remains favorable. In the western portion of the State pick ing is less advanced, but even there nearly the whole crop is open, and picking and marketing is oeimg pushed. The prevailing satisfactory price of cotton causing the farmers to sell as fast as gathered. As picking advances towards completion the smallness of the crop becomes more and more apparent. There is little more to add to what has been said of corn in previous bul letins. Husking and housing has been carried on to some extent, but the weather has been such that corn did not demand immediate attention was, in fact, better conditioned in the husk than it would have been in the crib. The crop is large enough to sup ply the needs of the State, with possi bly a surplus. The entire season has favored the harvesting of rice, and that work is practically completed on the coast and river plantations: upland rice filled rapidly during September, and is rip ening very satisfactory. Peas of late planting did not fill well, and will be a short crop. Early peas yielded well. Sweet potatoes and second crop of Irish potatoes are yielding very poorly generally. although quite well in places. -The growing season is now practi cally ended, and little change can oc cur in the condition of the different crops not yet entirely gathered. It is unnecessary to review the sea son as a whole, as a file of these bulle tins is a bettei- record, except to say that, everything considered, the farm e~s of South Carolina have abundant reason to feel satisfied with the sea son's results, for while some crops were undoubtedly short others were correspondingly large. Although the weather conditions may not have been perfect, and the cro ps might have been larger, yet few, if any, States fared better, while many fared worse. The entire absence of destructive- storms of wind, rain or hail is worthy of notice. Note.-With this issue the South Carolina weather and crop bulletins are discontinued for the season of 1895. The bulletins have contained a general but faithful record of the weather that prevailed over the entire State from week to week. It was left largely to the reader of the bulletins to use his own judgment as to the ef fect of the weather on the crops, al though the actual condition of the crops was accurately reported by the correspondents, and reproduced in the bulletins, and in their reports the final yield of the principle crops were foreshadowed long before maturity. It is, therefore, a subject of regret that the reports could not have been pub lished in full. The director takes this opportunity of thanking the correspondents most heartily and sincerely for their co-op eration, for the director shares, only as one of them, the credit due for the merit and value the bulletins had. Of ten the language, always the prevail ing tone of the reports, was used in writing the bulletins. As the weekly reports are no longer needed, corres pondents will please discontinue them for the year. Where Is the sheriff? LAURENS, Oct. 7.-Three negroes have been killed in this county in tho IRBY 0,11 THE WAR PATH. iUNTIXtED FROM PAGE ONE. disihke vt ry much to have to speak so plainly. but it is vitally necessary that some one should sound a note of warning- and arouse the Reformers and the poor men of thisState to the danger that menaces them. This is one reason why I was anxious'for nt adjournment of the conveption-to give the people a chance to catch their breath and strangle this political mon strosity. "lississippi is held up as an example toSouth Carolina. There is no analogy oetween the political conditions of thes t.w' States. Ii Mississippi the whites are not divided. but working together. There was not a faction ther. standing -ready to appeal to the negroes, and use him at the first op portunity to crush the power of the farmers. But in South Carolina our white people are divided, and will con tinue to be divided. Turn 50,000 ie gro voters loose upon our State, and you can't manufacture a magnifying glass large enough to discern the re mains of the reform movement. But let us dive still further into this report of Senator Tillman's suffrage committee and we will find where. from the hour of its adoption, that the poor white voters in our towns and cities are disfranchised. Here is a clause that speaks for itself. "At any special elections in incor porated cities and towns of this State for the purpose of bonding the same, all resident owners of proper in said cities and towns of the assessed value of $200, who are qualified electors in der this Constitution, shall alone be entitled to vote.' "It matters not how honorable and intelligent and upright he may be, a voter living in Spartanburg city can have no voice in voting on theissuing of bonds unless he is worth $200. "When you begin to restrict the suffrage of white men there is no tell ing where it will stop. There is where the danger lies. Only a few days ago Senator Tillman worked for, voted for, and carried through a measure per mitting the incorporated towns to ex empt manufacturing enterprises from taxation for a series of years. The poor laborers in those mills had no such clemency extended to them. They must pay their street and their poll tax, and even a tax upon their pot, kettle and mattress, while the rich northern investor is allowed to go scot free. Now I canot see with what consisteneg Senatr Tillman can say that those operatLss-who honestly sustain the government, shall not vote in a certain election because they have not $200 worth of property, while the wealthy stockholders in that mill, and who were exempt from taxation, have a right to vote? This is not in keeping with the addresses that Senator Till man made upon the stump, when lie wanted office. "I have unseathed my sword and thrown away the scabbard. I am in the battle to the end. No poor and un educated white man will lose his vote, if I have the power to prevent it. I shall denounce this outrage upon the floor of the convention, and I shall denounce it upon the stand before the people. We can preserve white supre macy in South Carolina without either disfranchising or humiliating a single white voter. The report of Senator Tillman's committee' certainly vindi cates the position of the Piedmont Headlight when it opposed the calling of the Constitutional Convention. It would have been a thousand times bet ter to have never had that assembly meet than L.et it pass the suffrage qual ification proposed by that committee. You will find every Conservative ap plauding and endorsing this plan, for the simple reason that it will strike down the vote that they could never secure, and. give them political control of our State. "I believ e that some of the members of the committee signed this report, at the earnest solicitation of Senator Tillmanm without dae consideration or appreciatir.g its danger. I do not know hiow. a single member of the convention stands upon its adoption, but you cani say to thie poor and uned ucated whi te voters of South Carolina that they have in John L. M. Irby a friend who will stand by them to the end, and will fight this monstrous pro position to the very last ditch. "Senator, why did you vote for the name of Butler, for the new county, instead of Saluda?" "bI am glad you have ask ad me this question, for I'desire to state my posi sition and my reasons in lanouagre so plain that all may understan2. ~I did not dlesire or intend to honor the name of ex -Senator M. C. Bumtler, but I had in my mind at that time the name of William Butler, one of the most gal lant soldiers of the revolution, and a hero from whiose loins sprung a long line of the ablest statesmen and war riors that our State has ever produced. Did William Butler, the founder of this illustrious family, today survive lie would be a Reformer. When our State was a howling wilderness Butler left Virginia on horseback, his wife riding behind him, because he could not hold his own with the rich and aristocratic families of the old donmin ion. He built a cabin upon the Saluda river, and when the war of the revo lution broke out did heroic battle for his country. T wo of my great uncles fell fighting in his command, while a number of the families in the upper section of our State are linked with that of Butler. My great uncle mar ried William Butler's daughter, and her dust now reposes in the family burial zround at Red Band, in Salida county. Pierce Butler, another heroic soldier of this name, fell fighting be side a brother of Ben Tillmnan's at Cherabusco, Mexico. Others of that name have occupied high and distin guished positions in our State and have rendered their people faithful and valiant service. When M. C. But er was a youth of 15 years George D. Tillman was elected for the legisla ture from Edgefield county on tL creation of this new county, to be kno' eu s Butler county. For forty live years the people of that section contended for that name, the com mittee unanimously reported the name of Butler, and I voted for the name of Butler. I did not have M. C. Butler in view at the time, and Mr. George D. Tillman expressly and distinctly stated upon the Iloor of the conven tion that the name was notintended as an honor to M. C. Butler. This Re form movement is founded on great principles ;it is not founded on passion on hatred or on prejudice. We are not a set of ghouls, to dig up the bones of the dead and spit upon and spurn them. It is the honored name of But er for which I cast my ballot. I have neither regrets to offer nor apologies to make. I fought Butler for five years in the Senate and I fought his re-elec Ition last year. Hie was defeated. and as a poor man had to leave his native State and go elsewhere to seek employment by which to make a sup port for his family. 1 do not believe in insultig the dead or hounding down the living. Senator Butler did wrong when he became an independ ent candidate, and lie was rebuked by his people with a crushing defeat. Let, us now leave him in peace, and re memiber that he left a portion of his body up-on the battlefield of Virginia. If Senator Butler aspired for othice to ay I would oppose him, for he does iot r-ipr. s-it the sentiments of myself or my people. I condemn his mnde pendent candidacy as much as any one. :m nothinug that M. C. Butler can do will cast a reflection upon those old hetros. st:ttesien and patriots, whose dust reo'e in the soil of SAluda." s-ai:aor. do you expect opposition for ie election to the United States Senate :' "I really do not know. I understand that a secret caucus has already been held, and a slate ticket formed'in Co lumbia. But I do not care the snap of my finger for the machination of the politicians. I have anchored my faith :md my hope in the people, and when I getthe people on rnysi(e I can buy up all the politicians I want at 5 cents a piec. Ni xl year we must g before the people, and they will decide who they desire to represent them in the Senate. Iam wiiiig to trust thlem, and if they say that I must s tav at home, and they prefer to be represented by some oneelsp. I will gracefully bow to their will and earnestly work for the nominees of my party with the same loy-ity and devotion that I rallied to Senator Tillman when he wanted of fice. and to Gov. Evans when he as pired to the position he now holds. I have made war on n:> one. When the Tillman - Hemphill - Barnwell - Evans caucus was held. I denounced it b3 cause I knew that it meant ruin to our reform mo enent. Even Senator Tillman afterwards confessed that I was right and he was wrong when he repudiated the agreement entered into. 1 worked for the calling of a Constitutional convention, pledging our white voters that not one man should lose his suffrage. I never have misled or deceived the people. and do not intend to. I may be struck down, but I shall go down holding aloft the reform banner and advocating the same principles that Tillman and my self advocated in 1890. I have an abid ing faith in the loyalty. wisdom and patriotism of the reform voters of South Carolina. I shall stand by them as loyally and as devotedly as they have stood by me. I do not propose to truckle to any politician or so-call ed leader for oflice. I place my trust in a sovereign people--I shall go be fore them and plead my cause, and gracefully bow to their decree what ever it may be. I shall enter into a combination with no man or set of men to secure re-election. I shall run upon the record that I have made in the Senate, and upon that I shall stand *or go down. I have never betrayed my people or sold them-out,and never shall." Independence Declared. SANTIAGo de Cuba, Oct. 1. via Key West, Oct. 9.-Those here whoargued that the Cubans could not be recog nized as belligerents becaus they nee ded to have a regular government acting, were surprised to learn that a government had been organized and tie fundamental laws of the republic of Cuba formally proclaimed. Official confirmation of this news has been re ceived here and also that the indepen dence of the island of Cuba was sol emnly declared on September 2:3, at Auton de Puerto Principe province, The government has been consti tuted in the following manner: President-Salvador Cisneros Betan court of Puerto Principe. Vice president Bartolome Massoo of Manzanillo. Secretary of war-Carlos Roloff of Santa Clara. Vice secretary war -Marce Menocal of Matanzas. Secretary of foreign affairs-Rasfae] Portuondo Tamnayo of Santiago. Vice secretary of foreign affairs Fremin Valdeis Domninguez of Havana Secretary- of .finance -Severo Pina of Saneti Spiritus. . Vice secretary of finance-Joaquir Castillo Duany of Santiago de Cuba. Secretary of interior-Santiago Can izarcs of Remedios. Vice secretary of interior-Carlo Dupois of Baracoa. General in chief-Maximo Gome: Lieutenant general-Antorio Maceo Jose Maceo. M1aso. Capote, Serafir Sanchez and Rodriguez have been ap pointed major generals. Jose Mace< will lead the operations in Baracoa Guatanamo, Mayari and Santiago d< Cuba: M1aceo irn Manzanillo, Bavamt and Holguin; Sanchez in Las tillan and Rodriguez in Camaguey. Gomez and Macco are plotting th< invasion of Matanzas. The headquarters of the ne w govern ment have been establishiedin Puert< Principe province, and a systemfati< government is to be maintained. The Cotton Crop. WAsaiNGToN, Oct. 10.-The returns to the statiscal divison of the Depart ment of Agriculture of the month oj October makes cotton show a decline of 5.7 points fromi the September con. dition, which was 70.8, against 65.1 fot the present month. There is a genera. complaint, from all the counties re porting, of extensive damage froir early rains, recent drought and ray ages by boll worms and other insects. In South Carolina, Georgia and Mis sissippi there is not one exception, and in the remaining States very few. The top crop almost everywhere is reported a failure and the yield short ened by premature opening. The per centages by States are as follows: Virginia 78, North Carolina G8, South Carolina 64, Georgia 72, Florida 8S, Alabama 70, Mississippi 67, Louisiana 64, Texas 58, Arkansas 72, Tennessee 70, Missouri 85. Democratic victory. CHATTNxOOA, Tenni., Oat. S. There is great rejoicing in this city t o night among the Democrats over the re-election of George Ochs as Mayor. and the election of five out of eighi aldermen. A great political fight was mtade over the election to-day, thi Repuiblican forces being marshalled byH. Clay Evans, prominently men tioned as a Republican nonuee 1oi vicepresident. The etfort was miade to carry the city for the prestige it would give his political aspirations. It was expected that the Demiocrats would bt ided on account of the recent gu beratorial contest, but the D)emocrats p resented a solid vote and carried the day, reversing a Republican majority of 1L270 last fall. Hlekt in Servitude. Atlanta, Oct. 8.-Writs of habeas corpus were served today upon Kec Owang and Leon Lam, proprietors of the Chinese village on the Midway of the Atlanta Exposition, comimanding~ them to produce the bodies of nint Chinese womcn,charged by Lum Ling, an Atlanta laundryman, with being held in voluntary servitude. Ling, who appears in th~e role of a philan thropist. says womien w~ere bought ia China and transported agrainst their wil. The writ was taken out under the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. These are the Chiinesei concerning whose admission into the United States at Ogdensburg. N. Y. has caused so much trouble. Sm-NTont Jones. of Arkansas, says that the President in harmony with 'a York Deniocrats, will ask Cen ress to retire all the I'reasury notos nd greenbacks by an issue~of $500, UU00,000 worth of bonds, and thereby reduce the volume of the currency to that extent, or, in other words, re duce the per capita about SS per head The Senator adds: "Il believe he will do this. It has been the boast of the goldbugs that we have more m oney hne an ohercony aimost.' TORTU RING THE P RISONERS. Shocking Mthods I'irued by Chinese to Extort 4t-if-CtvcP etin Eu: viIelec. LONDONx. Oct. 10.--The Pail 1l Gazette publishes a second letter frnn its correspondent in Kucheng detailing the difticulties attending conmunica tion with Foo Chow and describinz the trial of a prisoner implicated in the outrages upon the missionaries. When the court is ready, the writer says, the a ccused man is brought in handcuffed. Hre is filthy in appearrnce ad has the wild and ghastly klok of a starved man, whit! he really is. The prison er op9niis the proceedings by swearing tiat he was nowhere near the scene of the massacre and then the torture begins. The man is first compelled to kneel with.his bare knees upon a coil of chain. His head is dragged back and his pigtail is fastened to a rack higli above his head. A pole is then thrust across his legs and two soldiers stand on each end of it, crushing the poor wretcis knees into the coil of chain. The British consul could not stand this method of extracting testi mony and insisted that it be stopped. This was done as far as tle proceed ings in the court room were concerned. b,:" for an hour afterwards the shrieks of tormented prisoners could be heard <,ming from an adjacent room, where the torture was continued. When the magistrates wanted to hear the confession of a tortured man. the prisoner was brought back into the court room. If he held back his confession he was threatened with re sumption of his torture. This was us ually suflicient to secure the prisoner to tell all he knew rather than return to the torture chamber. Besides the torture described the prisoners were beaten with bamboo sticks until their yells were most horrible to hear. One prisoner appeared in the court room unable to walk from the beating he had received, and another was unable to kneel because his knees had been broken by the chain links and his thighs had been lacerated by the strokes of the bamboo rods. In the midst of such misery cakes, fruits, tea and wine were served and partaken of by the native officials, who could not understand why the foreigners present pushed these delicacies aside, refusing to touch them. The correspondent de clares that the powers ought to de mand justice without torture, reaching the mandarin as promptly as the man who works in the field. The whole business, he says, lies at the door of corrupt officials. Ten and a Half Cents Cotton. Mr. Hector D. Lane, president of the American Cotton Growers' Pro tective Association. recently issued a circular to the Association from New Orleans advising them that they are masters of the situation, and begging them to hold their cotton uptil they get ten and one-half cents a pound. In order that our readers may judge for themselves we print below the cir cular in full. Mr. Lane says: "Twenty days ago, in advance of the bureau report, I issued a circular stating the crop conditions and warn ing you against a hasty disposition or marketing of your cotton. The cotton buyers and bear.speculators ridiculed that circular, but when it was more than confirmed by the government bureau, they began to have some re spect for my investigations. Since that time the crop has deteriorated to such an extent as to amount to disas ter. No such weather has ever be fore been seen in the cotton districts. The worms have continued to do much damage, and even from districts like the Tallahatchie river in Mississippi, where the crop was said to be good, comes reliable information of a 4) per cent. deficiency. The best authorities put the Texas crop at 1,750,000 bales. The cotton plant is now practically dead throughout the South, and a frost to-night would do little if any damage. In my opinion, the crop can not exceed 6,500,000 bales maximum. Even Mr. Neill has been compelled to reduce his estimate to a maximum o 7,000,000) or 7,250,000 bales, with possi bilities of much less.- What he te'rmed a 'possibility' when his circular was issued is now an established fact, and it is difficult to see how Mr. Neill, as a statistician, can fail to recognize this fact when he issues his next circula.. "The situation as to the price of cot tou is plain. The European manufac turers, relying upon mistaken infor mation given them about the size of tits crop, and not realizing in time that the world is on a trade boom, have sold manufactured goods ahead until July of next year. To make these goods they must have your cotton or ruin themselves by violating their contracts. They, as well as the Ameri can spinners, are caught in a trap, This crop is t'oo small for all of them to get their full share. America, Mex ico, Canada and Japan will consume a minimum of 3,000,000 bales. This will leave 4,500,000 to be distributed between Great Britain and the Conti nent, ao'ainst 6,800,000 bales last year. This will wipe out the visible supply and- create a public panic among cot ton buyers. The price of cotton has come to stay, and to go very much higher. Last year the manufacturers reaped a golden harvest by buying 5 cent cotton. It is now your turn. They knowv that the crop is all open and can be marketed before December 1st. They expected you to bite at the bait held out by the present so-called great rise and rush your cotton forward and press it for sale. They will then stay out of the market, hoping that the weight of the cotton offered would de press the price. I implore you not to do this. Sell as they try to buy from hand to mouth, and before January you will have the American, English and Continental cotton buyers out bidding each other for every bale of cotton you have to sell. Do not be de ceived Iby the advice of a New York bear' circular disguised under a bull's hide. Under present crop and trade conditions your cotton is worth 10l cents Do not sacrifice it because last year it sold for 5 cents and now is sell for 81 cents." Gen. Mahone D~ead ! Washingtou. Oct. 8.-Gen. Wmi. Mahone died at Chamberlain's hotel at 1 o'clock this afternoon from the effects of a naralvtie stroke sustained last Monday Septernber ~30. IIe has been totally unconscious for more than -48 hours previous to death, and passed away seemingly without pain. Mrs. Mahone, Butler and Wm. Ma lone aJr., his sons, Mrs. 0. M. Me Gill his daughter', L. L. Manry of Southampton county. \Virginia, ai nephew. and Capt. Riogers, secretary of the Virginia State Republican com mit tee and formler secr-etary to Glen. Mhone, were at the bedside w\hen~ the ITun- Greenville News says "p)roably the best assurance of the continuance of the large counties uudiattu'bed and undivided is in the number and eager ness of the cliimants for court house honors. There are so many of thenm that even the most exTensive and in genious carv~ing of the old counties willh not provide terr'itory or' popula' tion enough to go around unless some arrngemnent can1 be made to allow them to subsoil and create and annex a secondl story under ground. While the rival new counties contend for the territory of the old ones5 tihe territory I is lft undistured." MKIl 'POWDER. Absolutely Pure. A oreamu or tartar nating powder iighest of all in leavening strength.-La . United States Governmnent Vood Ra iRoyal Haking Powder Company. 106 WallSt..N Y We Are Getting rhere. The latest cotton book of Latham, Alexander & Co.. a copy of which we have just received, contains two tables illustrating the rapid growth of the cotton milling industry in the South, and shows very plainly that in the language of Sam Jones this section is getting there. Both tables place South Corolina in the front rank as having progressed more rapidly in that respect than any other Southern State. The first table appears in an article written by Mr. R. H. Edmunds upon cotton mills in the South. From this article we cull the following figures, which will be of interest to those who have watched the growth of the cotton manufacturing industry in the South. The number of mills in the various Southern States in June, 1890, and on December 31, 1894, was as follows: North Carolina ........... 49 158-. Georgia ............... 40 69 Maryland...-.............. 19 22 Tennessee................. 16 27 Alabama ................. 30 61 South Carolina............ 14 61 Virginia.............. 8 13 Mississippi............. 8 10 Kentucky............. 3 8 Arkansas ..............2 5 Louisiana................. 2 7 Texas..................... 2 14 Florida................... 1 1 Total...................180 425 The number of spindles in the vari ous Southern States in June,1SSO, and on December 31, 1894, was as follows: Georgia ...........198,656 592,764 Maryland .........125,706 176,786 North Carolina.... 82.334 743,590 South Carolina .... S2,334 730,299 Alabama .......... 49,432 264,458 Virginia........... 44,340 120,444 Tennessee .......35,736 128,066 Mississippi......... 18,56S 62,678 Kentucky ......... 9,022 54,088 Arkansas ......... 2,015 16,640 Louisiana ......... 6,096 55,132 Florida...........S16 1,400 Texas ............. 2,648 77,514 Total............667,754 3,023,859 The number of looms in the South ern States in June, 1880, and on De cember 31, 1894, was as follows: Georgia ..............4,493 13,522 Maryland ............2,425 3,520 North Carolina.... ...1,790 14,376 South Carolina ... 1,676 20,004 Virginia...........1,322 3,483 Alabama............S863 4,019 Tennessee ...........S818 2,539 Mississippi ......1,894 Louisiana ........... 120 1,495 Kentucky........... 73 748 Texas............... 71 2,385 Arkansas............ 28 220 Total...........14,323 68,205 The above fi'rures show that the South has ma<Ye rapid str'es in tag last fourteen years in a Jyyac ture of cotton. The following table gives the number of pounds of cotton consumed by the mills of the South during the cotton year 1894-95: South Carolina.........107,964,838 Georgia..............,103,224,396 North Carolina........102,100,814 Alabama.............. 26,476,351 Virginia............... 15,442,214 Tennessee ......... 8475,961 Louisiana.............. 7,809,741 Mississippi............... 7,393,627. Texas ................. 6,426,566 Arkansas................ 996,312 Missouri................. 328,790 Total..............401,706,255 The Columbia Register in comment ing on these highly interesting figures very truly says they will not be as dry and dull reading' to the people of the South as statist~ics usually are, "for they teil a wonderful story of pluck and progress, a story in which every true Southerner will feel a deep pride. They will be especially intersting to South Carolinians for they prove con clusively that in the last few years their State's stirde forward in ma terial progress has been marvelous. A few years ago several Southern States had 'more spindles and looms than South Carolina, but now South Caro lina leads them all in those t wo par ticulars and also in the amount of cot ton consumed by her mills. .The New England States' laurels are now in danger. In a few more years the South will manufacture most of the cotton grown in her borders, for the mills must come to the cotton. There is little danger that South Carolina will lose the palm she has won for there is every prospect that she will increase the lead she now as over the other Southern States in the manufac ture of cotton goods." Hurrah for Cu]lbersoni! Governor Culberson. of Texas, proves himself to be made out of the right sort of stuff. He announced most positively that the Corbett-Fitz simmons fight should not take place - in Texas. The promoters of the tight continued with their preparations for the mill, and the courts of Texas de cided that the laws of the State did not rohibit the fight. But Governor Culberson meant business He is built on a different plan from Gov ernor Mitchell, who made such a fiasco of his opposition to the Corbett Mitchell light in Florida. He had this unhappy experience of Florida's overnor before him as a horrible ex mple, and hos shown his determina- - tion not to follow his unhappy exam ple. Me has called the Legislature of the State together for the express pur pose of passing an anti prize fight law, about the meaning and intent of which there can be no doubt, and no ground for legal quibbling. The Leg islature complied with the Governor's request and 'passed a stringent law agaist prize fighting in Texas. Bo~b Fitzsimions may as well ptut on his sweater and shake the dust of the Lone Star State oflf his sandals. The Sherill of the counity in which the tight is scheduled to take place seems to be as earnest as Governor Culber son, and the men who are working up te mill might as well procceed to Mexico at once. Governor Culber son's action serves to emphasize th pouar disrepute into which prie lihigi held. Whlat could do so more etfectually than the calling of the Legislature together for the spe ctic and sxinge p)urpose of preventing the tight ini Texas. In the language o th e Augusta Chronicle, from which paper we take the above, Governor Culberson's~ remedy come high, but 'disases desperate grown, by desper