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WINDDWS AN) GAliS . THE REV. DR. TALMAGE P FROMANEGLECTED TEXT. "And I Will -1.vk, ThynWiM.vINA . tAs and Thy GAtes of C.rbd -Uw Christ Holfsted the G:-ol .M toe of Pmr don In His Owa Bloo-. WAsHmNGT)N, Sp- 27. -Fco n a neglected text, and one to most people unknown, Rev. D1:. Talmage this morning produces a sermon appropri ate to individual and national circuai stances. The subject was, "G -tes .of Carbuncle," the text being Isiah hv, 12, "And I will make thy windows of agates and thy gates of carbuncles." Perhaps because a human disease of most painlul and ofttimes fatal char acter is named af Ler it the church and the world have never done justice to that intense and all suggestive pre cious stone, the carbuncle. Tne pearl that Christ picked up to illustrate his sermon, and the jasper and the sip phire and the amethyst which the apocalyptic vision masoned into the wall of heaven, have had proper recog nition, but this, in all the ages. is the first sermon on the carbuncle. This precious stone is found in the East Indies, in color is an intense sear let, and held between your eye and the sun it is a burning coal. The poet puts it into rhythm as he writes: Like to the burning coal whence comes ing name, Among the Greeks as Anthrax known to fame. God sets it high up in Bible crystal lography. He cuts it with a divine chisel, shapes it with a precise geo me try and kindles its fire into an almost supernatural flame of beauty. Its law of symmetry, its law of zones, its la.v of parallelism, somethin to excite the amazement of the sci.-tist, ene tue cantos of the poet and arouse the ado ration of the Christian. No one but the infinite God could fashion a carbunele as large as your thumb nail, and as if to make all ages appreciate this precious stone he or dered it set in th'e first row of the high priest's breastplate in olden ime and higher up than the on-i and the em erald and the diamond, and in Eze kiel'sa prophecies concerning the splen -dors of the Tyrian court the carbuncle is mentioned, the brilliancies of the walls and of the tessellated dioors sug by the Bible sentence, "Thou walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire!" But in my text it is not a solitary specimen that I hand you, as the keeper of a museum might take down from the shelf a pre cious stone and allow you to examine it. Nor is it the panel of a door that you. might stand and study for its unique carvings or bronzed traceries, but there is a whole gate of it lifted before .our admiring and astounded vision-aye, two gates of it- aye, many gates of it, "I will make thy tes of carbuncles." What gates? of the church. Gates of any thing worth possessing. Gates of suc cessful enterprise. Gates of salvation. Gates of national achievement. Isaiah, who wrote this text, wrote also all that about Christ "as the lamb to the slaughter" and spoke of Christ as say Mg, "I have trod the wine press alone," and wrote "Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed gar ments from Bozrah?" And do you think that Iaiah in my text merely happened to represent the gates as red gates, as carmine gates, as gates of ca-rbuncle? No. He means that it is through atonement, through blood red trgle, throuch agonies, we get into an 'g wortEi getting into. Heaven's gates may well be made of '-pearl, a bright, pellucid, cheerfulcrys ta11ization, because all the struggl{es are over, and there are beyond those gates nothing but raptures and cantata and triumphal processioni and everlast ing holiday and kiss of reunion, and so the 12 gates are 12 pearls, and could be nothing else than pearls. But Christ hoisted -the gates of pardon in his own blood, and the marks of eight ~ers~&-wG _thb~mhs are on each ."gate, and as he lifted the gateit lealed against his foreheadand took from it a crimson impress, and all those gates are deeply dyed, and Isaiah was right when he spoke of those gates as gates of carbuncle. What an odd thing it is, think some, this idea of vicarious suffering, or suf fering for others! Not at all. The world has seenvicarious suffering mil lions of times before Christ came and demonstrated it on a scale that eclipsed all that went before and all that shall come after. -Rachel lived only long enough. after the birth of her son to give him a name. In faint whisper she said, "Call him Ben-oni," which means "son of my pain,' and all modern travelers on the road from Jerusalem to Bethel uncover their heads and stand reverently at the tomb of Rach el, who died for her boy. But in all ages, how many mothers die for their children, and in many cases grown up children, who by recreancy stab clear through the mother's heart! Suffering for others? Why, the world is full of it. "JumpI" said the engineer'to the fire man on the locomotive. "One of us is enough to die. Jump!" And so the engineer died athis post, trying to save the train. When this summer the two trains crashed into each other near Atlantic City, among the 47 who lost their lives, the engineer was found dead, with one hand on the throttle of the locomotive and the other on the brake. Aye, there are hundreds here today suffering for others. You know and God knows that it is vicarious sac rifice. But on one limestone hill about twice the height of this church, five minutes walk from the gates of Jerusalem, was the sublinmest case of suffering for others that the world ever saw or ever will see. Christ the vic tim, human and satanic malevolence the executioner, the whole human race having an overwhelming interest in the spectacle. To open a way for us sinful men and sinful women into glorious pardon and high hope and eternal exultation. Christ, with hand dripping with the rush of opened arte ries, swung back the gate, and, behold, it is a red gate, a gate of deepest hue, a ate of carbuncle! Wht is true in spirituals is true in temporals. There are young men and older men who hope, through the right settlement of this acrid controversy be tween silver and gold, or the binmetal lic quarrel, that it will become easy to make a liviaig. That time will never come. It never has been easy to make a living. The men who have it very easy now went through hard ships and self denials to which most young men would never consent. (Jnless they got it by inheritance you cannot mention 20 men who have enme to honorable fortune that did not fight their way inch by inch and against fearful odds that again and again almost destroyed them. For some good reason Go i has arranged it for all the centuries that only the way for most people to get a livehood for themselves and their families with both hands and all the allied forces of body, mind and soul to push back and push open the red gate, the gate of carbu~ncle. For the benefit of all young nm- m, f had time, I would call the roil of thocs" who overcame obstacle. H o w many of the mighty men who wen: ione way i. or Ol ne an et,3 r L) d1 0 : Not one-. H ,'n1 s-nra and s and bru-al attack did ULrace M1 n endure bais'eea the time when l irst begau tO tight for a better comn mI- soa) l system in Massachusetts and th3 day when a statute in honor of hii-n was pl:aced on the steps of 1he stateh use overlooking the cruimas? R sa- the biography of Rbert H 1l. the Biptist preacher, who, t.ough he had been pronounced a dun.e at selo )l lived t0 thrill the world wita his. C aristiau eloi en:e. an. o' G sor'e: PeabxlJy, who never owned a carriage, and denied himself all livaries that he might while ilivin and after deat', through last will and testaannt, de vote his uncnnted millions to the education of the p or poole in ICi land and Americi, aa-1 of Bishop Janes, wh> ia byha)d workel his passage fran Irelaid to A'nerici and beea-ne thej~q of Methdisn and a blessing t tic race. G> t the bio grapia ialc veia city, state or national ibrary and fiad at icast every other book an illustration of overcom. ob stacle and of carmine gate that had to be forcedopen. What is true of individuils is true or nations. Was it a mild spring morn ing when the pilgrim fathers landed on Plymouth rock, and did they come in gilded yacht, gay streamers I ying? No. It was in c~ld ecember and from a ship iu which one would not want to cross the Hu:soa or the Potomac river. Salping knives all ready to receive them, they landed, their only weleime the Indian war vhoop. Red nen on the back. Red men in the forest. 1 d men on the mountains. R d men in the valleys. Lving &ates of rei men. Gates of carbi&: Th epitaph, was all readY: -Ire lie s the American republic. R'Orn at midadelphia, 4th of July, 177t. Killed at Bull Run July 21, IS1. Aged S5 years atud 17 days. Peace to its ashes." But before the obseqaies had qit:* closed there was an iuterruption of the ceremonies., and our dead nation rose from. 'is mortuary sarroundings. God -iia made for it a special resurrection day and cried: "Cone forth, thou re public of Washington and John Adams and Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry and John H1ancock and Daniel Webster and S. S. Pren tiss and IHenry Clay' Came forth" And she came forth, to be stronger than she had ever been. Her mightiest prosperities have come since that time Who wculd want to push back this country to what it was in18) or 1PS5(0 But, oh what a high gate, what a strong gate. she had to push back be fore she could make one step in ad vance! Gate of flame! See Norfolk navy yard and Columbia and Cham bersburg and Charleston on fire. Gate of bayonets! Se glittering rilles and carbines flash from the Susque hanna and the James to the Mississip pi and the Arkansas! .rate of heavy artillery, making the mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky and Virginia tremble as though the earth itself were struggling in its last agony. The gate was so fiery and so red that I can think of nothing more appropriate than to take the suggestion of Isaiah in the text and call it a gate of car buncles. This country has been for the most part of its history passing through cri ses, and after each crises was better off than before it entered it, and now we are at another crises. We are told on one hand that if gold is kept as a standard and silver is not elevated confidence will be restored and that hation will rise triumphant from all the financial misfortunes that have been afflicting us. On the other hand we are told that if the fre~e coinage of silver is allowed all the wheels of busi ness will revolve, the poor man will have a better chance and all our indug tries will begin to hum and i. During the last six presidential -c tions I have been urged tg.-etr the political arena, buj f~ er have and never will tur9.- e pulpit in which I preach in z~political stump: Every n2iaisimust do as he feels called to do, and I will not criticise him for what he considers his duty, but all the political harangues from pulpits from now until the 3d of November will not in all the United States change one vote, but will leave many ears stopped against anything that suech clergymen may utter the rest of their lives. As a general rule the laymen of churches understand politics better than the clergy, because they (the lay Imen) study politics more than the clergy and have better opportunity of being intelligent on those subjects. But good morals, honesty, loyalty, Christian patriotism and the Ten Comn mandmnents, these we must preach. God says distinctly in the Bible, "The silver and the gold are mine," and he willI settle the controversy between those two metals. If ever this coun try needed the divine rescue, it needs it now. Never within my memory have so many people literally starved to death as in the past few months. Have you noticed in the newspapers how many men and women here and there have been found dead, the post mortem examination stating that the cause of death was hunger? There is not a day that we do not hear the crash of some great commercial estab lishment, and as a consequence many people are thrown out of em ploy ment. A friend told me the other day of a shoemaker in a Russian city whose bench was in the basement of a build ing and so far underground that he could see only the feet of those who went by on the sidewalk. Seated on his bertch, he often looked up, and there went the swift and skipping feet of children, and then the slow and uniform step of the aged, and then crippled feet, and he resolved he would do a kindness to each who needed it. So when the foot with the old and wornout shoe was passing he would hail it and make for it a comfortable covering, for lhe had the hammer, and the pegs, and the shoe lasts, and the lapstone, and the leather to do it. And when he saw the invalid foot pass he would hail it and go out and offer medicine and cru'ch and helpfulness. And when he saw the aged foot pass he hailed it and told the od man of heaven, where he could be young again. When he saw the foot of childhood pass on the sidewalk, he would go Out with good advice and a laugh that seemed like an echo of the child's laugh. Well, time went on, and as the shoernaker's wants were very ew he worked but little for him seif and most of the time for others, and in the long evenings, when he could not so well see the feet passing on the sidewalk, he would make shoes of all sizes and stand them on a shclf, ready for feet that woul-Il pass in the daytime. Of course, tis the years~ went on, under this proces-s the suani maker became more and more at Chris tian, until one day he said to hinsmelf . "I wish among all those feet passing up ther-e on the sidewal' I coulId see the feet of the of the dear Christ pass ing. Oh, if I could only see his feet go by, I would know them, because they are sacred feet." That night the shoemaker dreamed, and1 ithe dream he saw the glorious ChIrist, and he said, "( Christ, I have be*-n waiting for thee~ to pass on th. e' idewlk and I have. seen~ lame feet, and wounded fe, ani poor feet, but in vaini h ave loo d fo thy sacred fet. And I di-I p- on the sidewalk, and you di se my feet,1V and you did come out a- 'ul ha; m i d bloss me and he me. 0 i t t i was the foot 'of a ':)r old man that went shulling by tat was my1V fo2t. You thought iL was the Fool of a soldier that went impaing past, that was m11y foot. You t-ouht that shoeless fo)t was the foot of a beggar; thit was my foot. The shoes, the clothing, the znedicines, the rheering words that you gave io thiim, you gave to your 1)rd. 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these. ye have dca1 it unto ne4.M hoarers, with the li:ale snirit of that it issian me'ni.:li let us go forth and help o'.hers. itiving shov ed b.ck the carbuncle ite for your self to pass in and pass on and pass ap, lend a hand to others that they als> may get throuzh ti red gaie and pass in and pass up: But mark well and underscore with heavy dashes of the pen the order of the gates. Gtte of carbuncle before gate of pearl. I aiai the princ3 saw the one gate e mtures before St. John the exile saw the other. Tih! one you must push open. Tile other staads open. Gate of a Saviour's atonement before the gate of divine pardon. Gate of poverty before gate of aflu ence. Gate of earthly trial befoe gate of heavenly satisfaetioa. Tnrough muc h tribulati)a you eater the kingdom of God if you enter it at all. Bit heaven will not be so much of a heaven to those who had had everything in this world. A man who hatd everything in this world enters heaven, and the welCOmintg angel appoints such a news!y arrived soni to a mansion, and says -Go in and live there. Thit mnausion is yours forever." That man thiuks to himself. "Why, I have for many years lived in a mansion; a man sion is no novelty t me." Tue wel coming angel appoints some one pros pwred Cf earth to the honori of heaven, the coroneLs and thrones. Tn: soul thinks to it~elf, "I had more honors on earth than I cuid ano-enae and ermari are hatvy things to wear, any how." Tne welcoming angel appoints some prospered soul of earth to a fine landscape in the heavenly evuntry and says, "Walk there and enj )y your self." The soul thinks to itself, "the place I owned on the lfudson"or "the castle I had on the Rhine was almost as picturesque, and then I cannot see the sunset on the river, for it is here everlasting day and the sun nev er sets." The welcoming angel s3ays to some newly arrived soul, "Listen now to the music; the orchestra of heaven is about to render one of the best ora tories." The soul would think, "Why I have been hearing the best music 3o years on earth. Almost ev ery winter I heard in the A( idenmy of Music the 'Creation,' the 'Messiah' and 'Jephtah.' I have heard all the great living prima donas and some who are dead." Let the welcoming angel then say to a prospered soul of earth, Go now and rest; this is the everlasting rest." "Why," the soul would think, "I am not tired. Why do I want to rest? I have not done a stroke of work for the last 20 years. I spent my winters in Florida and my sum mers in the Adirondacks, and I am not in need of rest." MY hearers, heaven will not be so much of a heav en for those who had no struggle on earth. But when those who had a hard push with the red gate of my text, the gate of carbuncle, come to it gate of pearl and find it wide open, ? ey will say: "Why, how strange this is: This is the flest gate of valu able entrance in -m0 years that I1 have found open." And the welcoming angel will say to some Christian moth er who reared a large family of chil dren and prepared them for useful ness and heaven, "Go where you please and sit down on what velvet bank or cushioned throne you may efer." And I hear the newly arriv ed sal saying, "Oh, my : What a good thing it is to rest. I was so tir ed. I was'tredXrAL years. Angel, tell me, is this an unbroken rest? Can it be that there are no sick chil dren to take care of ? My head was so tired, planning for the household on small means, my eyes were so tired with sewing and knitting, my back ached with doing work that made me stoop for so many hours. There was nothing in the universe I so much need as rest. Now I have it. Blessed Jesus? Blessed heaven! Blessed rest!" Then the welcoming angel will say to some Christian that on earth was deaf and had not heard voices of song or voices of friendship. "Iar-k now to the choirs in white as they are about to join in the openin I piece of the tem ple worship." And as the baton swings as the deft fingers begin to feel the pulses of the harp and lips of mar tyrs breathe on the soft lutes of praise, I hear the surprised soul, just entered heaven, saying: "Music: Why, that is the first I ever heard. WVill it keep on? Tell them not to stop. What is the name of that anthem? Why, I never heard anything like that. I never heard anything at all." And a little child, long ago in heav en, pulls at the white robe and says, "Mother!" and she turns around. saying, "My child, for the first time I hear your voice. On earth I saw your smile and felt the coil of your blond curls on your childish brow, but I never heard your v-oice, e yen in play or prattle, and I am confused to which is the best music, that which the an gels of God render or the voice of you, my darling. Music: I read about it and saw the notes in the music hook, and I saw the fingers of pianists and organists run up and down the snow banks of the keyboard, but I never thought it would be anything like this. Music:" Then the angel will say to a lifelong invalid: "Did you ever breathe air like thmis:' Such bahnm! Suc-h tonic ! Such immortal life in every respiration: Did you ever have any climate on earth like this climate of heaven?" A nd thesoul says: '-This is the irst time in many a long year I have been freed from pain. As I passed through the river by that gate the last ac-he left me. and I amx well, gloriously well, everlasting ly well. I have swallowed the last bitter draft I have felt the last cut cf the knife. I have passed the last sleepless night, and now I realize the beauty of what St. John said in Reva lation, 'There shmall be no more pain. And then the martyrs and the prophets and the apostles will take up the chmo rous, and all the recovered invalids froni earth will join in the triumphant refrain that surges to and fro, from east gate of heaven to west gate. Chorous, "No more pain, no more pain; no more pain, no more pain' My hearers, it will be a great heavenm for all who get through, but the best heaven for those who had on earth nothing but struggle. Btlessed all those wvho, before thecy entered thle ga te of yearl. pased. ihr mough the gate of '.arbumnche 1Trv:rim, l'a., - t. 1. -Freight train No. T1I was derailed at JEilson, a station nmar 8:and I 'teh, on the east erni slop' of the miountains, on the Baltimore and < thio railroad, 12:15 o'clock this miorninig. Thme entire train crew, consisting of enginer, fireman, conductor, two bre-aan':se and a lire man and two trami: v.ibe were steal ing a ride, were kifb-d. Thirty-four ars, which wsre loaded wvithi coal, to gethmer with the engine andi the caboose, are piled up on the track. and trallic P'L!TICS OUT WEST, WHAT EX-GOVERNOR NORTHERN. OF GEORGIA, SAW AND HEARD. He Tr.tvelId Incoi;to, ani Finally Be lieves that 1Bryan Will Carry Illinoi and luwa -A Very Inter-sting Interview. ATLNTA. Sept. 29. --Governor Nor thern has just returned from a West ern tour of three months, during which time he went through eleven states and stopped at 100M or more towns and cities. He made the trip on immigration business, but took ad vantage of the opportunity to study the political situation. In order that he might get at the facts better, he went about the political headquarters and mixed with the crowds incognito, heard their street discussions, sounded men of every class and every shade of political opinion, and took note of every straw that showed which way the wind blew. He had some inter esting experiences and comes back probably the best posted Georgian who has been West. He tells what he found and relates some of his experi ences in the following interview: "The West is not solid by any man ner of means," said he. "I have never seen such political conditions. Party lines are obliterated. If you address a man as a Republican he says: "Don't speak to me as a Republican, we are not known as Republicans or Democrats any more, but as advocates of the gold standard or the silver stan dard." "Old landmarks are gone. You have to seek new means of measuring for ces, and when you do it is so mixed that you can't tell anything about it. Nothing short of a count of heads will reveal the result. Th!y are constantly polling the trains and the people who travel are io-ally gold standard advo rLeS. The best result I saw was four votes for Bryan out of 2 on a sleeper. A laboring man said. 'That's pretty good for a sleeper, but wait till the work train comes.' "I couldn't get any satisfactory in formatioa from b'he party headquarters on either side. There it was all gold or all silver. The polling of trains showed nothing. The best method I could find was to take up each class or occupation separately and question the most intelligent men in that pur suit as to the sentiment of his associ ates. In this way I tried to get at the sentiment of business men, farmers, mechanics and all the classes I could think of. When I got through the evidence I had collected was so con tiicting that I could not form any con clusion." When Iowa was mentioned as a State which some Democrats and Pop ulists conceded to the Republicans,the Governor said: "On the contrary, I can give you just as strong evidence on the other side. At Cedar Rapids I talked with the clerk of the court, a very intelli gent man. 'I know this State will go for Bryan,' said lie, 'and I will show you why I think so. There is Clar ence, a town of G17 population, with a voting strength of about 125. Of this number I personally know thirty eight Republicans who will vote for Bryan.' Besides him sat a dealer in hats. 'I am a Republican,' said he, 'and I shall vote for Bryan. My part ner is a Republican, and he will vote for Bryan.'" One of the most interesting facts brought out by Governor Northen's study of the situation is that Illinois is hikely to go Democratic. He did not reach this conclusion until he had stud ied the situation for several week-s. "I canvassed Illinois thoroughly," said he, "and was in different parts of the State. The first thing that made a deep impression on me was the P'opu list convention at Springfield. I saw it, and it was an enthusiastic indorse ment of Bryan. The McKinley paper at Springfield said that this meant a vic tory for Bryan in Illinois, and remark ed thai it was strange the Republhcans had overlooked such an important fac tor as this convention. Still I was not convinced, for I knew there was an immense population of working men, and that the Republicans were canvassing this element with tremend ous energy. I thought the labor vote would give McKinley a majority in Illinois. This opinion was changed on Labor Day. There was an im mense demonstration and 40,000 peo ple went out. The Republican nation al committee adjourned out of respect for the occasion arnd started out to at tend the exercises. Then it occurred to some ot them thai they had received no invitation to be present. Some. one went to the master of ceremonies and suggested~to him that he had over looked Mr. Hanna's committee. 'No,' said he, 'Mr. Hanna has not been in vited, nor will he be invited.' If this incident is any indication of the senti ment of the workingmnen of Illinois, it is important, for if they go against McKinley he loses the State. It is my opinion after what I saw that Bryan will carry Illinois" In regard to fusicn, Governor Nor then said: "Until recently Kansas and Nebraska were regarded as safe ior Bryan, but complications connected with fusion have disturbed matters very much and the result is not cer The Governor gave a picturesque description of the street debates which constitute an interesting feature of the Western campaign. "The discus sions are continuous and uniinterrupt ed," said he with a smile. "They know no Sundays and niight is robbed of sleep. Two neighbors will meet on the street and begin to talk about gold and silver. They get animated1 and talk louder. One or two others come up. People see disputants- shaking their fingers or their fists at each other and come to see what's the matter. Pretty soon the group grows to 100O, and keeps growing till it blecks tile street. -In hundreds of places tihe po lice forbade these discussions because they obstructed thoroughfares, but they were called partisans and thle re strictioin was taken oilf. I saw a crowd gather about 5 o'clock, and it lasted till I wcnt to bed about 11. The next morning the hotel man told me he drove thenm away at 1 o'clock. "The disputants in these discussions are well posted. If you evince any in terest, a bystander wvill pull a wad of lhterature out of his inside pocket and ask you to read it. Tile dliscussions are mostly good natured. There is head cracking sometimes, but general ly, when things get warm they guy each other and laugh it off~. When a fellow makes a point you will hear them say 'good boy,' and the other side says 'rats!' At Minneapolis, where the Jlournal was dlisplaying baseball news in anm unusumal y attractive man ner~, the~ timie between bulletins w~ Iilfled vn wjih argmmant for sil ser or gold. 'ie street was lilled fir a block and the discussioni amounted to an open air miass meeting. '-1 found the newspapers very lib eral," continued thle Governor. ''Sil - ver papers printed a gold orator's speechl and put in all thleap~plause, and the ovatiOn. The gold papers did the same when a crowd went wild over a silver orator. That is my idea of thes way to rumn newspapers. And they had enormnous siales. The-y sell thleir papers for a cent a copy and the cir comlations are enormous. I saw a poor wojman buying a paper for a cent. don't have to carry them long." Governor Northen's flrst business was with Mr. Fitzgerald at Indianapo lis. They are organizing afruit colony to cover about ,000 acres of Georgia land. Grvernor Northern is to select the land and Mr. Fitzgerald will people it. The fruit farms are to consist of forty acre tracts, and all the conditions necessary to successful fruit growing will be provided. The Governor wishes to interest a number of repre sentative Georgians in the enterprise. This is regarded as the most promising undertaking these gentlemen have yet set on foot. The recent exposition at Fitzgerald has aLtracted wide attention and this State is very popular out West. Uovernor Northern said that every mar who heard him say a word about GLo-gia immediately said he wanted to come here. A great many spoke of the exposition, and the farm ers are coming here as soon as they can sell out. When he was being converted by a free silve.- enthusiast Governor Northen left him with a cir cular contn.iuing of picture of the fam our train load of provisions that went from Atlanta to Nebraska. The man stood with eyes wide open at the thought of lecturing a Governor of Georgia.-Atlanta Journal. BRYAN'S VOTE IN 1892. A Canard That."Should be Repudiated by Descent and Honorable len." There is one little canard in circula tion which, as we see the matter. should be repudiated by decent and honorable men, no matter whether they be Republicans or Democrats or Populists, and that is the story that in 1892 Mr. Bryan bolted the Democratic party and cast his vote for the Popu list nominee for the presidency. This story is having a wide and somewhat hysterical circulation. Eis opponents are not satisfied with insisting that Bryan is a reckless and windy infart, a firebrand, an agitator, an apostle of class-prejudice and hatred, a menance to our national peace and safety. It does not suflice them to declare that he is t'n ignorant and unprincipled mountebank and a fool whose words betray him. They must get out this foolish story about his having voted for Weaver in 1892 instead of stand ing by his party and voting for Cleve land. Now, everybody -understands by this time that, whilst The Post is the organ of neither party to the pending contest, but takes its opinions and frames its utterances according to its own judgement and conscience, we do not approve or advocate the p-licies represented by Mr. Bryan. If we have failed to make that fact clear it is through no lack of effort on our part, and we shall concern ourselves no further in the preinises. But we do stand for fair play, for an intelligent and honest statement of the issues be fore the country, and for the exposure and denunciation of falsehood, stu pidity and malice. We do not believe that the triumph of the gold standard cause needs these vicious and abhor rent aids. We should deplore a vic tory achieved by such malignant agencies. If Mr. Bryan cannot be de feated without the help of scandal, misrepresentation and false witness we should prefer to see him win. When the American people reach a point at which their political destinies can be manipulated by a lie there is no further degradation possible to them. We do not know whether Mr. Bry an voted for Weaver or Cleveland in 1892. What we do know is that the Democrats of Nebraska were urged by the Democratic National Commit tee-made up of Mr. Cev-eland's party friends an:1 prompted by Mr. Whit ney-to vote for Weaver and to ig nore the Democratic ticket altogeth er. In Nebraska, as in several other States in the Northwest, the Demo crats had no hope of carrying the day. They were in a hopeless minority, and their one alternative was to combine with the Populists and take the State from IHarrison by electing the Weav er men. There was no secret about it at the time. The manoeuvre was a matter of common knowledge and of universal discussion. If Bryan did vote for Weaver, then, he did soin obedience to the earnest request of his party's leaders, at the instance of Mr. Cleveland's campaign managers, and in the discharge of his duty as a loyal Democrat. It is impossible to make a point against him on that score. It is discreditable to those engaged in the enterprise to try to make one. -Wash ington Post. FELL TO THE GROUND. Vice President Stevenson and Party Are Badly Injured. BcnLINavox, Ia., Oct.. 1.-The semicentennial exercises today were marred by an accident which happened to the reviewing stand erected near the Union Denot for the convenience of Vice President Stevenson. Gover nor Drake, of Iowa, and his personal stail', and some forty other prominent people, in reviewing the parade. Just as the head of the processicn reached the point, with almost no warning the 'entire stand collapsed. throwing its distinguished occupants to the ground. a dlistance of fifteen feet. The majori ty of those on the stand were bruised nmore or less. Following is a list of the more seriously shaken: Vice President Stevenson, jarred and shaken, but other wise uninjured ; Governor Drake, of Iowa, slightly jarred ; ex-Governor Herman, of Vinc ton, brised and shaken by fall; ex Governor Newbold, of Mt. Pleasant, Ia., hand sprained; Hon. Lafayette Young, editor of the Des Moines Capi tol, and orator of the day, hurt about the back and shoulders; Rev. D). S. M. Fellows. of Fayette, bruised ; Auditor of State, C. G. McCarthy, of D)es Monies, bruised also; City Comimis sioner, S. 11. Jones, of Burlington, ankle sprained; Lieutenant Colonel JamesiD. Rowan, of Des Moines, an kle sprained ; Major J. C. Wyman, of Ot tumiwa, hurt internally; County Treasurer E. S. Burrows, of Burling ton, Compound fracture of leg, being the worst of all injured. It was about noon when the accident occurr-ed. Thie morning parade had passed through the principal str-eets of the city, anid the Governor andi statf, escorting Vice President Stevenson, had just left the line of march and en tered the stand to review the proces The stand had been hastily erected at the last moment for thneconvenience of \Vice President Stevenson, Gover nor D~rake and stall, and his party of friends and guests. H eavy rains had so softened the soil on which it was constructed that the supports sank and carr-ied the structure to the ground. Killect Four l'eople. ('riEsTEn, P'a., Sept. 28.- -The Britishi trainp steamer Sirrus, boun d fr-om l'hiladelphia to Norfolk, \'a., met with a seriousI accidenit to-night while oli this city. and~ threce of~ her c-rew. and an uniknowun stowawav lost their lives. The dead are: Alfred T. Rechs, first mate; Hans Jaggers and lFred H ilner, sailors and the unknown stowaway. Thme accident was caused by the burst ing of a barrel of oil which was being lowered into the hoid. Tent Thou~zsnd Dea!. Morv, Turkistan. Oct. I . A malig nant fet-er similar to that which ap peared in 1893 has ravaged Turkistan for the past two months. Tleni thno s and persons have died from the fever, most no thrY~tnmS e in eNilhen. KEEPIN(1 UP TIE FIIIT. THE MATT-ER OFCOTTONCOMPPESS ES AND WIRE TIES. Wihat tho Comnmisviloner of Agriculture of Georgia Ias to ay on the Sulb.ject-VIe of Tles ContinuCd. Cor. ',. Oc 2.--The fight being made by the compresses against the new tie that is being so generally used is creating widespread interest at pres ent. The farmers began the use of this tie for the purpose of defending the: n selves against the steel tie trust, a id they do not intend to be frighten d off by a few compresses The Al i ance exchange continues to receive o ders steadily from all quarters of th State. Here is a letter received by Col. Duncan yesterday from the con missioner of agriculture of the State of Georgia: ATLANTA, GA.., Sept. 30. Mr. D. P. Duncan, Columbia. S. U. Dear Sir: I regret to see from the papers that compress men are fighting you at Charleston and Wilmington. I see that you don't propose to surren der tamely to their dictation, and if your people will back you you can easily bring them to terms. Divert all wire baled cotton to Norfolk and Charleston and Wilmington will soon be bezging for mercy. There will be nothing accomplished in Georgia this year, because we commenced too late. but we are getting in shape for them next year. We now have a tie that I think will supercede all wire ties. I send you a clinping that you may see what it is. I think this will be the tie next season. Very truly yours, R. G. Nesbitt, Commissioner. The clipping referred to gives Com missioner Nesbitt's answer to the ques tion as to what had become of the wire tie from a Georgia farmer. IH re is what the commissioner says and lie shows that compresses are goiug to accept the wire tied bales, though the tie be the one he refers to or some other: "Owing to the rapidity with which the crop has been gathered and also to the fact that most merchants and gin ners had already purchased a supply of the Ilat ties, it has been impossible to introduce the wire tie generally this season. The first ones tried did not give entire satisfaction, but you will see from the following certili cates, that the improvecd Hitt wire tie, double strand and patent buckle, is not only a substitute, but is considered superior to the flat tie in many res pects. A bunch of these weighs 50 pounds and costs $1.10 at present pri ces. The flat ties weigh 45 pounds to the bunch and cest 1.35. We trust that farmers will read these certificates and investigate the merits of these ties. Any questions addressed to the department of agriculture, Atlanta, will be cheerfully answered. "The Brunswick compress, where the ties were tried, is one of the lar gest in the South. The certificate speaks in no uncertain tones as to the superiority of the wire tie. The ties will be on exhibition at the agricultu ral department, and we would be glad to have farmers come in and examine them. The two additional certificates are from two different compress com panies in Albany, Ga. "Brunswick, Ga, Sept. 23. '-To Whom it May Concern. "I am now handling catton upon which Hitt's wire tie and patent buckle has been use d, and, havinig25 years' experience in stovedoring and compressing, will say that I can high ly recommend the Hlitt device to the public as being in every way far supe rior to the Ilat bands and buckles heretofore used. "First. It is cheaper, hence the planter gets a benefit. "Second. Wire bands will not break and can be tied just as quickly as the flat ones, heAce the compress people are benefited. "Third.- Wire bands can be tied tighter than flat bands, which means a greatte density, and as there will be no broken bands thre cotton arrives at destination in much better condition than if it had been compressed with flat bands thereon, hence the shippers are benefited in two ways: First, by lower ocean rates on account or in creased density, and ,econdly by hav ing cotton reach destination in better condition than if pressed with liat bands. "Fourth. 'There are no sharp ends of bands to cut the hands of laborers when handling cotton compressed with the Hitt device, hence the steve dores will prefer wire bands upon cot ton. "Fifth. Underwri'ers should make a reduction in insurance rates on cot ton with wire bands upon it, and no doubt they will when they are gener ally used, as in case of fire wire bands will stand more than double the heat of Ilat bands without breaking, hence a great deal more cotton will be saved in ba'es than if it were in the loose condition, as loose cotton burns very rapidly. Respectfully, "A. F. CuURCIIILL, "President tire Brunswick Terminal Co." "Brunswick, Ga., Sept. 2-4. "lon. R. T. Nesbitt, Commissioner of Agriculture, Atlanta, Ga. D~ear Sir: I forgot to mention in my letter of yesterday to you that I have had censiderable experience in the use of wire bands upon cotton. I have used them in tihe past when dou bling cotton (putting t wo bales togethrer) un - der great pressure in our Brunswick compress. Necessity compelled me to use wire, as tire fiat bands would not hold(1 (oubled bales. "Wire bands will not cut the bag ging of cotton bales when two bales are pr-essed into one, let alone upon single pressecd bales. I have proven this fact fr-om practical experience, and I mrake this statemient without fear of contradiction. Furthermore the tensilestrength of wire is far nrort than tensile strength of flat '>ards, hence there will not be any broken bands or bursted bales when tied with wire, wvhich must certainly be a bene lit to e -ery body who is interested. "I cannot discover any disadvant age in the use of the Hitt device, but, vice versa, it has an advantage over the flat band in every particular. \'t ry recspect fully yourns, "'A. F. CncL w:HuitLL "Pr'xesidenrt tire Brunswick Termninal Co." A n.mx, GAx., Se pt. 2L. "To whom it May Concern. "'In a trial of thle "Hfitt bale tie" at our compress we Find it altog-thrr available for comrpress reqremcren Is "1t secures tire bale at thie de-nilfy so whichi the press redui ces it ful Ily ais well as thre baird tie. lktspectfi illy, "'Alban (y t Copress Co., "H'I. Nott P arken-, See. anrd T1reas. Ar rANy, (Ga., Sept. 24. "I ear Sir: A fter havrng tried tihe Hitt balec tie I lid thre strengthr of the tie and its muethiod of buckling entire 1 - elrective. Yours truly. --Al bany Cotten Compress. "J1. R. Whitehead, Manager A leatdinig South Carolina farmer. wih) is but one of tire marry, wr'ites to Col. D~uncan: '"The bagginrg anid ties are ver-y satisfaciory. You may al ways cournt me in tihe fight against a trust. Hloping thre farmiers will stickI Ic yo in this tight, I amn c. State. WILL GE T TOGETHER. The Lily whtlles and Black aud Tan Re publican4 to Analgamate. CIHARLESroX. S C, Oct. 1 ----The two factions of the Republican party are about to amalgamate and one straight ticket for Governor and State olicers is to Oe named. The executive committee of the Webster faction and of the Lilv Whites will niet at Colum bia on Wednesday, the 7hh instant, and an attempt will be made to heal the differences which have been exist ing between the factions for some time. Senator Quay of Pennsylvania has been delegated by the national Repuolican executive committee to be present at the meeting and assist in the amalgamation. This step the leaders of the factions have been looking forward to for sometime. Each faction wanted to take the initiative but each was fearful of ol'ering a compromise. The lead ers foresee that no possible success e in befall them as long as they remain divided, and that as soon as they amalgamate their strength. their hope of success will improve. For this rea son they have been anxious to come together. They only wanted a little encouragement and this encourage ment has come from the head of the party. Some correspondence has tak en place and as a result, the effort will be made to amalgamate, under the direction and assistance of the national executive committee. Col. R. M. Wallace, of Sumter, it is understood, will be the unanimous choice of the party for Governor. As regards the other State ollizers, they will be selected from the two tickets nominated by the rival convetions at Columbia a few weeks ago. The tick ets as nominated by the conventions read as follows: Lily Whites---Governor, Sampson Pope, Newberry; Lieutenant Gover nor, W. W. Russell. Anderson; Sec retary of State, B. R King, Horry; Comptroller General, V. P. Clayton, Richland; attorney General, L. D. Melton, Richland; Treasurer, D. J. Knotts, Lexington; Superintendent of Eduacation, M. A. Daws'n, Green ville; Adjutant General, A. T. Jen nings, Charleston. All on this ticket are white. The Webster or the recognized fac tion--Governor, R. M. Wallac3e, Sam ter; Liutenant Governor, Dr. J. P. Latimer, Greenville; Treasurer, Geo. I. Cunningham, Charleston; Attorney General, E. F. Cochran, Anderson; Superintendent of Education, E. B. Burroughs, Cheraw; Secretary of State, Abial Lathrop, Orangeburg; Comptroller General, F. M. Butler, Anderson. Burroughs is the only ne gro on this ticket. It has been recognized all along that Dr. Pope stood no show and even could not uoll the full strength of his own faction. He is a weak man, it is said, and would invite but a small support from those outside of the par ty. On the other hand Colonel Wallace is very popular throughout the State. 11 is highly esteemed in Sumter, where he is the president of the Sum ter National Bank. He is also inter ested in one of the largest ,anks in this city. In addition to I is personal popularity, he has the "stuik," which is an important factor in politics. He has, it is said, announced his willing ness to let the bottom d rop out of his barrel if the unanimous nomination comes to him. The leaders of both factions are happy over the prospects. They feel that they wvill now have an opportu nity to gret in charge of the State, and once they get the reins in their hands, the State will be gerrymandered and other wise an ef -rt will be made to "fix" the Congressional Districts. The leaders' hope of success is further sus tained by the report that gold Demo crats will put out a ticket.-Register. A Lynching Averted. RALEIGH. N. C., Sept. 28-At the request of the Sheirfot Vance County, Governor Carr today ordered out Com pany C., of the Third Regiment to pro tect t wo negroes con fined in ihe jail at Henderson, N. C. ;Last Monday even ing the two negroes murdered a young white girl, the mother of a four months old illigimate child bec ause she spurned their advances. The woman's head was beaten to pieces with an axe and when found the little child, cov ered with its mother's blood, was tug ging at the lifeless form. Lynching was openly talked of today and it was reported that a lyne'hing party was be - ing organized in the country to take the two prisoners frm j ul. Panic in a Theatre. A DERDEEN, Sept. ;30.-During the progress of the performance in the People's Palace theatre this evening, a fire broke out and the audience were thrown into a panmc and made a rush for the exits. A number of those present were seriously burned and many others were crushed in the wild endeavors of the cro vd to reach the street. It is stated that at least 40) per sons were in jured, w hile a number of others, who are known to have been in the theatre when the fire started, are renorted to be missing. - Aberdeen, Oct. 1.-Up to this time three bodies have been found in the ruins of tbe theatre and fears are entertained that the search will reveal more. Cut to Pieces. PR.cEIuri, Sept. 27.-Near Hender son yesterday, two negroes went to the house of a 19 year old white wo man of ill-repute named Faulkner and' tried to gain admission. She ordered them to leave. They forced entrance and attacked her with an axe. She raised her arms to shield her head and both wver-e nearly cut oil'. He head was cleft in ii *-' pieces. They spared her- infant cild, four months old. 11er murderers bled but were captured and are today in jail at Henderson. Cloudburst 'u ArizonaL. Tuesos, Ari., 0 -- h.-A special frorai Benson says: i' rt of the town was washed away and six per-sons were drwned in a ilood from a cloudburst in the W~hetstone zmmounta ns, twelve mies south west of to.sn. The dead, whose bodies have been recovered, are: Win. Seek, a barber, his wife nd twochildren, and Oscar Ash burn, a cattle man. Four more persons are lSing. __ _ Fatal P'olities4. G'cnx, v. V, Spt. 2S --T vo lives were lost as re reslt of a political dispute on S.tmlay night in Mingo suty. Jiohni i .rts struck "Doc" Estep with a uw Estep shot and killed lInuerts. i ngs Roberts, a brother, then procuacd a Winchester adu followed l atep, killing him with - n ai hundred yardst of his home. The unell were fiarmzwrs. (.iven lIig D~ama-ge. CmemoW, ,ct. 1. Mrs. Rlosalie J.1 Andersoni of 1RichmonmJ, ' a., was to ay awarded a v-erdijet for $17,CI00 dam gs against tihe N orth Chicago Street lhilway c-ompany by a jurmy mn Judge Jhetlain's court- During the world's air Mrs. Anderson wes injured while trying to board a car. Shte suled the om panry for $50,I 00. I( leei by Caring walls, NEW lonK, Sept. 2S -OUne was ied and two others were injured to ia by the caving in of the walls of an -xcavation at -15th streer. and Fifth venue. The dead man s 'atrik inn. The injured ar-e Anmd r-w R eil POWDER6 Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar bakilg powder. Highest of all in leaveninir strength. lest Uniited States G(oernient Fo"Ih1 Uekport. RvonLr. BAKr:o Powin Co., New York City. "NO WHITEWASH1ING, PLEASE." Larry Ganitt, Father of the Dispensary, Wants a Searching Investigation. The pirtial investigation of the dis pensary management was only break ing the ice, and far from satisfactory to our people. The work will be re sumed in October, when the whole business must be investigated from bottom to top and from start to finish. Enough has already been developed to show transparent evidences of bribery and corruption, if not deliber ate stealing. If there are thieves and bribetakers c-nnected with the dispen sary management, why let their names be known. that they may either be prosecuted, and if the law cannot reach them, then they can be branded by public execration and retired to the deepest and most ignomineous shades of private life. The Editor of the Heedlight is a Re former and a friend to the dispensary law. But at the same time the great mass of farmers, at the back of this movement, are honest and incorrupti ble, and will not endorse anything that smacks of mismanagement or rascality. If necessary, let the entire profits of the dispensa.-y ior a year be expended in investigating the business and straightening out tangles. Let competent accountants go through those books from the day the business started up to the hour that the inves tigation commenced. Summons those dealers from whom whiskey was bought, and then require every man who is or has been connected with the dispensary to answer truthfully every - question propounded. It has been the history of every country that any party, to hold su preme power for a long term of years, will gradually become tainted with corruption and must be watched, Now we do not charge our Reform officials with venality; but we do know that grave charges have been made against some of them, and which charges have never been satisfactorilly answered. There is a cloud of black smoke of suspicion ascending from the dispen sary building, and there must be the , fire of corruption somewhere. Well, let us go to work, discover, and then stamp out the last spark. Unless we do this, the Reform movement will surely be held responsible and should be held responsible, too. But if the men who have the task of investiga tion in hand will go to work and puri fy every public office, and fix blame where it belongs, so far from such disclosures injuring the Reform party they can and will only serve to strengthen the confidence of the m~a. ses in the purity of-o'r avnt, and givse us a new lease on power. And when they are - through with that dispensary investigation, let a legislative committee then make a careful investigation of that bond deal. We believe that Gov. Evans will demand this. for he owes it not only to himself but to those friends who so loyally supported him for the United States senate. Let Mr. Rhind be summoned, and every other man' who knows aught of the transaction. The Piedmont Headlight<d es not' intend to support any party that cannot show a clean balance sheet. Our Reform movement is made up of honest farmers, and they de mand that the officers they have placed in power be held to strict account, and if any of them have be trayed the trust reposed in them, why let their names be known. They, don't want any whitewashing report. Let evry questionable transaction be sifted to tue bottom, and it there is corruption, why they want to know it.- Peidmont Headlight. Figure Oiut a Victory. Cmncaco, Ill., Oct. 2.-Managers of the National Democratic Committee today compiled a table of States and electors showing whence they-expect the electoral votes that will elect W. J1. Bryan. In the "absolutely sure" column they hise placed twenty-sir States, having a total of 203 electoral votes. Here they are with their re spective votes: Alabama...11Nevada.... 3 Arkansas... North Carolina. .11 California...9 North Dakota... - Colorado...4 Oregon........4 Florida...... .4 South Carolina..+ Georgia....13 South Dakota...- 4 Idaho.........3 Tennessee..,12 Kansas........10 Texas.........1 Kentucky..13 Utah : Louisiana.. F?9 Mississippi..9 Waish i ug on..... 4 Missouri..17 Wyoming....3 Montana.. ... -- debraska.. Total... ...... 203 The States considered "reasonable certain" were these: Maryland .. West Virginia... Delaware... 3 - Minnesata.. 9 Total.......26 These, added to the 2u3, would bring the total of Bryan electors up to 229, 5 more than would be required to elect him. Under the caption "Con fident They Will," the statisticians placed the following: Iowa, 13; Mich igan, 13, total, 2G. Three of the big Western Central States are put down, as "the commit tee has every reason to belheve they will go for Bryan." They are Illino:: 21: Indiana 15; Ohio 23. Total 62. Recapitulated, thesituation as view ed by the D)emccratic leaders, is as fol lows: Bryan has a chance of getting 317 out of the 417 votes that comprise the electoral college, and they claim them as follows: Absolutely certain.............203 Rleasonably certain.............26 (onident of............. ....... 26 FXery reasoni ti t-li.ve.......... 62 Total............... ......3 STr PFrn.:n, Minn., Sept. 27.-For ome time this p-art of the country has >eeun infected with a fatal hog disease. lMring the last fe w weeks it has been specially severe, and is killing whole erds of swine. It is estimated that he presence of the disease will cost icollet and Msseaer couaties over M1a'o and othaer counties in this >art of .Mmnesiotet muc more. The enerual ve-rdhict ie that the disease is ot cholera, het some~L a'fection of the