The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, November 11, 1896, Image 5

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T OF THlE STARS. MU C WAS THE THEME OF REV. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. A Predletiou that Ilarmonuy Shall Chris tianize the World-Sacred Songs Are astening the Tritnup'i-The Universe WM Again be i Tune. WASHGTO, Nov. 1.-The musical resources of all the nations seem drawn upon by Dr. Talmage im this sermon to illustrate a most practical truth. His subject was "The chant of the Stars," and the text Job 3S. , 7, - Who laid the cornerstone thereof, when the morning stars sang together:' We have all seen the ceremony at the laying of the cornerstone of church, asylum or Masnic temple. Into the hollow of the stone were placed scrolls of history and important documents, to be suggestive if. 100 or 200 years after, the building should be destroyed by fire or torn down. .We remember the silver trowel or iron hammer that smote the square piece of granite into sanctity. We remern ber some venerable man who presided wielding the trowel or hammer. We remember also the music as the choir stood on the scattered stones and tim ber of the building about to be con structed. The leaves of the notebooks fluttered in the wind and were turned over with a great restling, and we re member how the bass, barytone, tenor, contralto and soprano voices commin gled. They had for many days been rehearsing the special program that it might be worthy of the cornerstone Imy text the poet of Uz calls us to a grander ceremony-the laying of the foundation of this great temple of a world. The cornerstone was a block of light, and the trowel was of celes tial crystal. All about and on the em bankments of clouds stood the angelic choristers u..rolling their librettos of overture, and other worlds clapped shining cymbals while the ceremony went on, and-God, the Architect, by stroke of light after stroke of light, dedicated this great cathedral of a world, with mountains for pillars and sky for frescoed ceiling and flowering fields for a floor and sunrise and mid night aurora for upholstery. "Who laid the cornerstone thereof, when the morning stars sang together?" The fact is that the whole universe was a complete cadence, an unbroken dithyramb, a musical portfolio. The great sheet of immensity had been spread out, and written on it were the stars, the smaller of them minims, the larger of them sustained notes. The meteors marked the staccato passages. the whole heavens a gamut with all sounds, intonations, modulations, the space between the worlds a musical interval, trembling of stellar light a quaver, the thunder a bass clef. the wind among trees a treble clef. That is the way God made all things a per. fect harmogpy. But one day a harp string snapped in the great orchestra. One day a voice sounded out of tune. One day a discord, harsh and terrific, grated up on the glorious antiphon. It was sin that made the dissonance, and that harsh discord has been sounding through the centuries. A 11the work of Christians and philanthropists and reformers of all ages is to stop that discord and get all things back into the perfect harmony which was heard at the laying of the cornerstone when the morning stars sang together. Be forelIget through, iffI am divine helped, I will make it pa- ~ism is discord and righteous~e harmony; that in general t.ig are out of tune isas plainas'~masician's ear is the una pmhof clarinet and bassoon ' orchestral rendering. The world's health out of tune; weak lungs and the atmosphere in collision, disordered eye and noonday light in quarrel, rheumatic limb and dam p weather in struggle, neuralgias and pneumonias and consumptions and epileptics in flocks sweep the neighbor hoods and cities. Where you find one person with sound throat, and keen eyesight, and alert ear, and easy respi ration, and regular pulsation, and supple limb, and prime digestion, and steady nerves, you find 100 who have to be very careful because this or that or the other physical function is dis ordered. The human intellect out of tune, the judgment wrongly swerved, or the memory leaky, or the will weak, or the temper inflammable, the well bal anced mind exceptional.. Domestic life out of tune; only here and there a jonjugal outbreak of in compatability of temper through the divorce courts, or a filial outbreak about a father's will through the sur rogate's court, or a case of wife beat ing or husband poisoning through the cruninal courts, but thousands of fam ilies with June outside and January within. Society out of tune; labor and capi tal, their hands on each other's throat; spirit of caste keeping those down in the social scale who are strugghing to get up, and putting those who are up -in anxiety lest they have to come down. No wonder the old pianoforte of society is all out of tune, when hy pocrisy, and I ' g, and subterfuge, and double de' g, and sycophancy, and charlatanism, and revenge have for 6,000 years been banging away at the keys and stamping the pedals. On all sides there is a shipwreck of harmonies-nations in discord without raling it. So wrong is the feeling of nation for nation that symbols chosen are fierce and destructive. In this country, where our skies are full of robins and doves and morning larks, we hav'e our national symbol, the fierce and filthy eagle, as cruel a bird as can be found in all the orni thological catalogues. In Great Brit ian, where they have lambs and fal low deer, their symbol is the merciless lion. In Russia, where from between her fitzen north and blooming south all kindly beasts dwell, they chose the growling bear, and in the world's her aldry a favorite figure is the dragon, the fabi winged serpent, ferocious and dreadful. And so fond is the world of contention that we climb out througni the heavens and baptize one of the other planets with the spirit of battle and call it Mars, after the god of war, and we give to the eighth sign of the zodiac the name of the scorpion, a creature which is chietly celebrated for its deadly sting. But *after all, these symbols are expressive of- the way nation feels toward nation --discord wide as the continent and bridging the seas. Paul says. "The whole creation groaneth." And while the nightingale and the woodlark, and the canary, and the plover sometimes sing so sweetly that their notes have been written out in musical notation, and it is found that the cuckoo sings in the key of D and that the cormorant is a basso in the winged choir, yet sportsman's gun and the autumnal blast often leave them rufiled and bleeding or dead in meadow or forest. Paul was right, for the groan in nature drowns out the prima donnas of the sky. Tartini, the great musical composer, dreamed one night that he made a contract with satan, the latter to be ever in the composer's service. But one night he handed to satan a violin, on which Diabolus played so~cii s weet music that the ecomposer was' awa ke ned tne sounds. and tjerefrom was writ- n ten Tartii's most fanous piece, "The 1 Devil's Sonata," a dream ingenious, ti but faulty, for all melody descends w from heaven a"J only discords ascend v from hell. All. hatreds, feuls, con- NN troversies, backbitings and revenges n are the devil's sonata, are diabolic fu- n gue, are denionoiac phantasy. are c grand march of doom, are allegro of b perdition. t Eut if in this world things in general h are out of tune to our frail ear, how a much more so to beings angelic and n deitie: It takes a skilledartst to fully o appreciate disagreement of sound. Many have no capacity to detect a de- c fect of musical execution. and though l there were in one bar as uany oifenses h against harmony as could crowd in be - . tween the lower F of the bas:: and the a higher G of tile soprano it would give a them no discomfort; whie on the a forehead of the eJu-ed artist b:ads a of perspiration would stand out as a r result of the harrowing dissonance. t. While an amateur was performing on s a piano and had just struck the wrong t chord, John Sebastian Bach, the im- 2 mortal composer, entered the room, c and the amateur rose in embarrass- v ment, and Bach rushed past the host, n who stepped forward to greet him and : before the keyboa.td had stopped vi- s brating put his adroit hand upon the L keys and changed the painful inhar mony into glorious cadence. Then e Bach turned and gave salutation to the N host. t But the worst of all disc)rd is moral c discord. If society and the world are s painfully discordant to imperfect man I what must they be to a perfect God? People try to define what sin is. It seems to me that sin is gettin.; out of t harmony with God, a disagreement N with his holiness, with his puirity, with I his commands. our wili clashing with his will, the ni--it- dasinz against ;1e iniinhe. the frail against the puissant, the created against the creator. If 1, - 0oo musicians, with flute and cornet-a- I piston and trumpet and violoncello, r the hautboy and trombone and all the 1 wind and stringed instruments that s ever gathered in a Dasseldor jubilee e should resolve that they would play t out of tune and put concord to the rack and make the place wild with shrieking and grating and rasping r sounds, they cculd not make such a : pandemonium as that which rages i in a sinful soul when God listens to < the play of its thoughts, passions and emotions-discord, lifelong discord, < maddening discord. The world pays more for discord I than it does for consonance. High I prices have been paid for music. One man gave $225 to hear the Swedish i songtress in New York, and another t ,625 to hear her in Boston, and an- ; other $650 to hear her in Providence. ( Fabulous prices have been paid for sweet sounds, but far more has been paid for discord. The Crimean war cost $1,700,000,000 and the American civil war over $9,500,000,000, and the war debts of professed Christian na tions are aboat -15,000,009,000. The world pays for this red ticket, which admits it to the saturnalia of broken bones and death agonies and destroyed cities and plowed graves and crushed hearts, any amount of money satan asks. Discord! . Discord! But I have to tell you that the song that the morning stars sang together at the laying of the world's corner stone is to resound again. Mozart's greatest overture was composed one night when he was several times over powered 'with sreep, and artists say they can tell the places in the music w:here he was falling asleep and the places where he awakened. So the overture of the morning stars spoken of in my text has been asleep, but it will awaken and be more grandly ren dered by the evening stars of the world's existence than by the morning stars, and the vespers will be sweeter than the matins. The work of all good men and women and of all good1 churches and all reform associations help to bring the race back to the origi nal harmony. The rebellious heart to be attuned, social life to attuned, commercial ethics to be attuned, in ternatiorality to be attuned, hemis shers to be attuned. In olden times the choristers had a tuning fork with t wo prongs, and they would strike it on the back of pew or music rack and put it to the ear and then start the tune, and all the other voices would join. In modern orches tra the leader has a complete instru ment rightly attuned and he sounds that, and all the other performers tune the keys of their instruments to make them correspond and draw the bow over the string and listen, and sound it over azain until all the keys are screwed to concert pitch, and the dis cords melt into one great symphony,) and the curtain hoists, and the baton taps, and audiences are raptured with Schumann's "Paradise and the Per," or Ressini's "Stabat Mater," or Bach's "Magnificat" in D. Now our world can never be attuned by an imperfect instrument. Even a remono would not do. IHeaven has ordained the only instrument, and it is made out of the wood of the cross, and the voices that accompany it are imported voices, cantatrices of the first Christmas night, when heaven sere naded the earth with "Glory to God in the highest, an on earthlpeace, good will to men." Let we start too far off and get lost in generalities, we had better begin with ourselves, get our, own hearts and lives in harmony with the eternal Christ. Oh, for his al-1 mighty spirit to attune us, to chord our will with his will, to modulate-our life and bring us into unison with all< that is pure and self sacrificing and heavenly : The strings of our nature: are all broken and twisted, and the bow is so slack it cannot evoke any thing mellifluous. The instrument3 made for heaven to play on has been roughly twanged and struck by influ-) ences worldly and demoniac. O)mas ter hand of Christ, restore this split and fractured and despoiled and tun strung future until first it shall wail out for our sin and then thrill with divine pardon. The whole world must also be attun ed by the same power. I was in the Fair banks weighing scale manufacto ry of Vermont- Six hundred hands, and they have never had a strike: Complete harmony bet ween labor and captal, the operatives of scores of years in their beautiful homes near by the mansions of the manufacturers, whose invention and Christian be havior made the great enterprise. So, all the world over, labor and capital w ill be brought into euphony. You may have heard what is called the] "Anvil Chorous," compcsed by Verdi. a tune played by hammers , great and small, now with mighty stroke and now with heavy stoke, beating a great1 iron anvil. That is what the worldi has got to come to-anvil chorous, yardstick chorous, trowel chor-"s, crowbar chorous, piekax chorous,. gold mhe chorous, rail track chorous, loco m-tive choreus. It can be done, and it 01 be done; so all social life will e ~.atttued by the gospel harp. There wil be as many classes in so ciety as now, but the classes will not e regulated by birth or wealth or ac cident, but by the scale of virtue and benevolence, and people will be as signed to their places as good, or very good, or most excellent. So also com mercial life will be attuned, and there will be 12 in every dozen and 10 ounc e~in every pound, and apples at the bottom of the barrel will be as soun d as ot be cotton, and sAlers will not ive to charge honest people more tan the right price becauze others 'ill not -ay, and good; will c~me to ou corresponding with the saiole. by -hic'i you purchased them, Ud esil'e -ill not be3 chicoried, and s i wiI ot be sanded, arAd milk will not lb lalked, and adulteration o' fo w Will ea state prison oftene Ave, all lings shall be attuned. I. ions ia agland and the United States will o more be a grand carnival of defa iation and scurrity, but the elevation f righteous men ia a righteous way. In the six:eeath century the singers ailled the Fis-her brothers reached the )west bass ever recorded, and the ighes: note ever trilh' .1 is by LI astardella, and Cataliu's voice had C)mpass -f :. octares. But Christi nitv is mora wonderful, for it rans il up and d a tlhe greatest heihts ad the deepest depth of the world's ecessity, and it will campli3s every aing and b i ag it 11 )cc )r with tie ong chich the uornin~ stars sa-g a, he laying -f the wirld's eaerson-. L11 the sacred m asi: in hones and oncert halls and churches tends tc -ard this consummation. Make it iore and more hearty. Sing in your laces of business. If we with proper pirit use these faculties, we are re :earsing for the skies. Heaven is to have a ne w song, an ntirely new song. Bat I should not onder if, as sometimes on earth, a une is fashioned out of mary tunes, ir it is one tune with the variations;so ome of the sngs of the redeemed may tave been playing through them the ongs of earth. And how thrilling, as ming through the great anthem of he saved, accompanied by harpers ith their harps and trumpeters with heir trumpets, if we should hear some if the strains of -Antioch" and 'Mount Pisgah" and "Coronstion" md '"Lenox" and " St. Martin's" and 'Futitain" and "Ariel" and "Old lundred :" How they would bring to nind the praying circles and commu ion days, and the Christmas festivals, Lnd the church worship which on :artn we mingled: I have no idea hat when we bid fareiwell to earth we xre to bid farewell to all these grand >ld gospel hymns which melted and -aptured our souls for so many years. cw, if sin is discordand righteous ess is harmony, let us get out of the me and enter the otter. After our dreadful civil war was wer, in the summer of 18*39, a great ational peace jubilee was held in 3ston, and as an elder of my church iad been honored by the selection of ome of his music to be rendered on hat occasion I se.ompanied him to he jabilee. Forty thousand people at and stood in the great coliseum rected for that purpose. Thousands )f wind and stringed instruments. L'C.elve thousand trained voices. Che masterpieces of all ages render d. hour after hour and day after day --Handel's 'Judas Maccabaeus,'Spohr's LastJudgment," Beethoven's"Mount )f Olives," Haydn's "Creation," Men lessohn's "Elijah," Meyerbeer's "Cor )naion March," rolling on and up in ;urges that billowed against the heav mns. The mighty cadences within were recompanied on the outside by the -inging of the bells of the city, and sannon on the commons discharged > electricity, in exact time with the nusic, thundering their aw.ul bars of harmony that astounded all nations, ometimnes I bowed my head and rept. Sometimes I stood up in the nchantment, and sometimes the effect was so overpowering I felt I could not ~ndure it, especially when all the roices were in full chorus, and all the >atons were in full wave, and all the >rchestra in full triumph, and 100 an rils under mighty hammers were in all clang, and all the towers of the ~ity rolled in their majestic sweetness. nd the whole buildmng quaked with he boom of 30 cannon. Parepa Rosa, sith a voice that will never again be ~qualed on earth until the archangel .c voice proclaims that time shall be ao longer, rose above all other sounds n her rendering of our national air, "The Star Spangled Banner."' It was too much for a mortal-quite enough or an immortal-to hear. And while some fainted one womanly spirit, re leased under its power, sped away to be with God. 0 Lord, our God, quickly usher in he whole world's peace .iubilee, and 11l islands of the sea join the five con inents, and all the voices and all the nusical instraments of all nations :ombine, and all the organs that ever sounded requiem of sorrow sounci only m grand march of joy, and all the bells ;hat toled for burial ring for resur -ection, and all the cannon that ever cured death across the nations sound ~orth eternal victory. Antd over all eclaim of earth and minstrelsy of caven there will be heard one voice weeter and mightier than any human >r angelic voice, a voice once full of ears, bu t now full of triumph, the oice of Christ, saying, "I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the md, the first and the last." Then, at :he laying of the top stone of the world's history, the same voices shall e heard as when, at the laying of the vorld's cornerstone, "the morning stars sang together." Bold Highway Robbery. GREENVILLE, S. C.. Nov. 3.-Green. ille broke her record in crirae last eight when about It0 o'clock three hugs with drawn pistols held up a hite man within sight of Main ~treet and the station house, and robb d their victim of $165 in cold cash, naking their escape witb ease. C. B. IIorgan came here from Henderson ile a few days ago. Having been ut in the country some seven weeks pedding leather and apples, he accu nulated a large sum which lie care essly carried about on his person. 'his fact, he thought, was known on .y to his immediata associates. Last ight he left Morgan's lot, where lhe md his friends were camping, and went down to call on Alderman Mac lonald. Ua returning he was met in front of T. B. Whitmire's residence. ~orner McBee avenue and Academy ;treets, by two highwaymen, who ~merged in the dimly lighted street rom behind a large oak tree. A short, stout man, marked with a red ankerchief, walked in front of Mor an, leveled a pistol in his face and ;aid: "By G - hand over your noey." For a moment Morgan was speechless with surprise, but quickly regaining con fdence, protested he had 2 money and shouted for help. But 2e soke only once. T wo other ruf ?ans, tall and lank, stealthily but ~uickly stepped up behind the victim md gave him such a wrench about he shoulders that lhe stopped shouting o seek the faces of his new assail mis. But they lost no time. Pre senting Morgan a view' down thie bar ~elsof three cocked revolvers they leanded his silence while in a mo nent they rifled his pockets. They then ied down Academy streets to wards the river and that was .the last seen of them. The hold up and rob bery was all done in less time than it akes to write it and Morgan was lest lu founcaered. As quick as they left he yelled :aai for help and Mr. Whitmire ran oit to his assistance and showed Mr. Morgan to ihe police station. Chief Kennedy was not at lhe station at the time but Sergeant Eall immediately began work on the ase. Up to a late hour last night his :-orts were unsucrcssful.- -News. Palmn-:r and !tucknor. Wh-n. s->:n- weeks ago, aon Jolia M. Palvmr anzi lIon. Simon Blivar Bucknvr were noninated for Presi dent n.1 Vice President, respectively, by the boDig D)rocrats at Indian apolis, :-:e ventured the prediction that by the close of the campaign they would b' objcts of almost universal contempt awd ridicule. We think we may say this morning that our prophecy has been fulfilled. At no time during the contest have they been seriously considered for the places to which they pretended to as pire. 1. has been understood on all sides that their candidacy was absurd: they never would have been consid ered for the faction of an instant by any convention representing a real party: they were performing simply as decoys to trap timid and unwary Democrats and deliver them to Mr. Hanna to swell the triumphal proces sion of McKinley. Nobody has re garded them with respect. No one has contributed to their fund except as a means of promoting the Republican cause. Nobody wanted to elect them. Nobody has otfered them the poor travesty of reverence and honor. They have gone through the country, a couple of transparent mc ntebanks and mummers. Robert Macarie and Jac ques Strop themselves were not more impudent imposters. 1t seems incred ible that they could have expected more than half contemptuous tolera tion, yet oftener than once they have resented it with a fury that made them only more ridiculous. They have, in fact, saddened us with the thought that out of more thanseventy millions of people they only have failed to re alize their pitiful predicament. McKinley will be elected, and he will administer the affair of govern ment as best he can under the condi tions that beset him. Bryan will be defeated and will return to private life, conscious of having made the most gallant and most brilli ant fight that man ever made against overwhelming and uncon qurable odds. Both will be shrin ed, the confidence and the respect of those who have followed them throughout. Both will be recognized by all their fellow-cttizens as genuine gladiators in a genuine arena. But these poor puppets, these make-believe champions of a tinsel cause-they will, along with their beggarly reti nue of allies, the Bynums, the Cock rans, and the sulking Hills, pass from the stage without one cheering word or pitying tear, fortunate beyond their best deserts if they be forgotten utterly. The world forgives the man who will not vote against his consci ence. It never forgives and it is sel dom able to forget the man who plays the husker with his dignity.-Wash ington Post. An Old Cotton Btale. Perhaps the oldest bale of cotton in the world was purchased last Wednes day by Mr. Allen Fleming, of Flem ing & Foster's Compress Company. The cotton was grown in Laurens county, S. C., in 1831, by an old man by the name of Watts. The cotton, though old, was snowy white and not the least tinged with yellow. It was a curiosity to the cotton men of to day and attracted considerable attention. The bale was of the usual size and was packed in a coarse home made cloth woven from old rags into a sheet. The ties which held the bale together was made from grape vines and were as hard and taut as raw hide thongs. The cotton has been in the family ever since it was made and dumped from the cotton press into the yard. It was then taken into the old barn where it has been safely sheltered from the weather for more than sixty years. Mr. Watts, though fairly a rich plan ter, refused to sell the cotton at any price. Old man Watts after his crop of cotton was ginned and baled in 1834, one was set a side from the en tire lot, saying to his son at the time: "I may be a poor man when I come to die, and in case I am, I want that bale of cotton," pointing to the par ticular bale, "sold, and the prcceeds used to defray my funeral expenses." The years rolled by, he continued to add to his wealth, and when he had lived his allotted time he was pretty well fixed in this world's goods, and the cotton was left unsold. Some time before Mr. Watt's demise he took occasion to remark to his son that in case the cotton was not used to keep it in the family, guarding it carefully and not to sell it under any circum stances except for funeral expenses. The bale was then taken in charge by young Watts and was more carefully watched by him than by his father. Mr. Watts, Jr., was industrious and when he crossed over the river it was not necessary to dispose of it to pay the expenses of the funeral. Be fore the young man died he made a will to his sister, and in that will it was his expressed wish that the precious bale be disposed of cfly for the pur pose of obtaining money to pay her funeral expenses if it be necessary. When she died she was wealthy and tne cotton was not sold. Miss Watts recently died intestate and when the final winding up of her estate was made the cotton was put on the mark et and sold.-Augusta Evening News. Common sense Asserting Itself. According to the fashion magazines, the small waist must go. It is no longer fashionable for women to lace their darling selves nigh unto death. This is good news. We never could see any sense in a woman iacing around the house with the rest of the family hanging on to her corset strings, thus trying to draw them tighter, or in strapping herself to the bedpost with the aforesaid strings and then standing on her hind legs try to paw the plastering otf in the next room. Neither could we ever see any pleasure in hugging a woman with a waist like a cheese straw there was no excuse for using both arms. A bove all things, if a woman wants to appear pleasing in the eyes of mani let her ook~ natural and comfortable, which she cannot do if laced so tightly that you can hear her ribs and corset stays cracking for two squares. December Weather. We have published what Ihicks has to say about the weatner for this month. IHis predictions for December are as follows: "The month of Decem ber will be one of the most severe that we have experienced in years. It is not likely that the storms will be dan gerous because they do not come at the period of the year when dangerous s'orms are to be expected. Ikat you will get all the old tashioned blizzards you want during the last part of that month. Things will grow interesting about the 19th of the month, and will continue until December 30th. We will have a good sprinkling of bad weather before that for winter wvill be in early and be a cold one, but the center of the worst period begins De cenber 19th. During this time the influence of Mars will be added to others, producing a commelion in the earth's atmosphere which will be felt by all the inhabitants.? TIIEnI is no other such enemy to noble living and heroic achievement as worrying. But if we meet the hin drances and discouragements with un dismayed courage, with persistent re solve and with unconquerable energy we shall master them, and in master ing them, carve royalty of character BOWS TO TRlE BLLGTS. LHA!RMAN JONES CONCEDES M'KiN LEY'S ELECTION. Risalt N:t Comp'"meutary to the Vat Forces Urougit Against Denoertcy The Great Struggle Just Hegun-Headrlxar ters Abandoned. Ciiica)o, Nov. 5.-Ciair.nan Jones formally conceded the defeat of Wm. J. Bryan tonight and made his last presidential campaign statement to the public. The free silve- standard was really lowered late lait night so far as the election of 1836 is concerned, when advices were received at headquarters from West Virginia conceding the electoral vote of that State to McKin ley, bat it was decided not to make a public announcement of the fact until today. In the meantime, Governor 1Mone arrived in Caicago from Mis souri in response to Senator Jones' telegram. The national committee chairman, the governorand Campaign Chairman Campau were in conference this afternoon in the sinator's room and at its conclusion the following sfatement was given L) the press: - -The result of the presidential elec tion is apparently no longer in doubt. It has been one of the closest contests that the people have been cal led on to detrmine in recent years. We have claimed the election on our advices from States that were admittedly in doubt, in which we knew there had been many frauds and from which there were evidences of tampering with the returns. It seems now to be apparent that Mr. P-yan, after making the most brilliant campaign in the history of our country, has cirried most of the States claimed to be dobutful, but has not cirried enough to assure his success in the electoral college. Bry an electors have been chosen in all the States south of the Potomac and Ohio except West Virginia, and all those west of the Miss uri. except California and Oregon. le has 1:)J electoral votes and this number may be in creased by final returns from States yet in question. This remarkable campaign closes with the election of Wm. McKinley. The result was brought about by every kind of coErcioii and intimidation on the part of the money power, includ ing threats of lockouts and dismissals and impending starvation by the em ployment of by far the largest cam paign fund ever used in this country and by the subordination of a large portion of the American press. The president-elect and his party are un der pledge to the American people to continue the gold standard, by its operation to restore prosperity to this country. As chief executive. Mr. Mc Kimley will have the cordial support of the millions of patriotic Americans who have cast their votes for William Jennings Bryan. They bow to the majesty of the ollice and abide by the result with none of the mutterings that would have come from the money power had it been unsuccessful. They are conlident the gold standard cin not give the promised prosperity but will gladly welcome it if it comes. They will continue the great struggle for the uplifting of humanity and the maintenance of the dignity of our country in the establishment of an American monetary system, and the Democratic party, aided by its present allies, will still uplift the bimetallic standard and bear it on to victory. "JAMS K. JONEs, "Chairman Democratic National Comn." Senator Jones and his family, ex cepting his son Kimbrough, will leave for tneir Arkansas home tomorrow morning, his son remaining to wind up the affairs of headquarters. Nation al Committeemen Jhonson, Walsh and Camnpau will depart for their homes by the end of the week, when there will be nothing left but a mem ory of both Republican and Demo cratic headquarters. suit for Htuband's Body. NEW YoRK, Nov. 4.-Since Dr. Al exander Buchanan died, on Septem ber 2 last, his wife, Margaret Buchan an, has brought several actions in the supreme court. One is to contest his will, by which she was cut off with a bequest of $50; another is to set aside conveyances of valuable real estate which he made to Mrs. Kate M. Fos ter, and the third and most remark able one she has instituted is to re cover possession of the body of Dr. Buchanan, which was buried by his brother, James D. Buchanan, on Sep. tember 3 in Greenwood Cemetery. The contest for the possession of the body of Dr. Buchanan, who was at one time worth nearly St,000,00, and was quite wealthy when he died, came up yesterday in special term of the suipreme court. Dr. Buchanan owned his home at 355 West Thirtieth street, besides other property, and had an in come of $20,000 a year. lie lived hap pily with his wife until Christmas day, 1885, when Mrs. Buchanan read in the newspapers that her husband had transferred valuable property to K. M. Foster. She soon discovered that K. M. Foster was Mrrs. Kate M. Foster, a handsome young widow. Mrs. Buchanan and her husband had sev eral quarrels, and on August 21, 1887. Dr. Buchanan left his home and estab lished his oilice in Mrs. Foster's house. Later Dr. Buchanan purchased the house directly opposite his wife's house, and opened an office there. Mrs. Foster lived in the house for a time, and, according to Mrs. Buchan an, drove out in the doctor's carriages. Mrs. Buchanan brought an action in the supreme court for a separation in 1S91, and had her husband arrested, alleging that he was about to leave for Europe with Mrs. F1oster. Mrs. Buchanan subsequently ob tained a decree of separation. In the complaint Mrs. Buchanan de clared that her husband had lived with Mrs. Foster at various places, and had taken trips to Europe with her, and that the doctor had expended more than $10u,0Y'0 on the woman, besides giving her three houses. She charged him with abandonment and cruelty. Dr. Buchanan denied his wife's.charg es, and accused her of cruelly annoy ing him. He said that she had pasted in his hats: "Prepare to meet thy God." She, lhe said, set a music box outsidle his door at night, and drove him out of the house. By his will D~r. Buchanan practically dlisinherits his wife andl three daughters, and makes Mrs. Foster princip~al beneficiary. Vatal Fire iu New York. NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-A fir-e occurred shortly after 12:30 this afternoon in the 5 story double brick flat, No. 540 West One Hundred and T wenty-Sixth street. and gutted the building. Ma mnie D~eacher, 7 years old, the daugh ter of I'alicemnan Geo. D~eache-r, was cut cif by the flames and burned to death, and her father in attempting to rescue her, was himself badly burned about the face, hands and arms. Sev eral other persons were scorched and slightly burned either in escaping from the house or in work of rescue. A policemnan and several citizens did heroic work, risking their lives to save the tenants of the house whose means of escape were cut offY by the [ies and who would have inevitably been burned to death but for t.he prompt aid given them, along the window ledges to an adjoining build ing. The origin of the Sere has not ON TO VICTORY. illied Silvor iX'arce4 Will Tobly lie -n the Fight of I 8-S. Cmerwo, N ov. 5.-Chairman Wash )urn closed the Chicago headquarters f the People's party national conit :ee tonight and will depart for his dome in Boston tor_1orrow nornin~g. [n about ten days he will go to Wash ngt'rn to confer with Senators Jones mnd Butler in regard to the future pol cy, of the allied silver forces. In this :onnection Mr. Washbarn said to a :eporter for the Southern Associated Press: "As a result of the present :ampaign we find victory in defeat. The fact that so much was accom plished in so short time with our lim ted means, inspires the belief that we :an win four years hence. We were cnfronted with a united army and an anparalleied campaign fund, while our own forces were divided, with se :ret forces in our midst as well as fu ion difliculties and the amalgation of pposing forces to contend with. Mr. Bryan made the greatest campaign re corded in political history and stands unrivaled as a leader. Revolutions never go backward and the momentum of this campaign will be continurd by the allied silver forces. "I believe this election will result in separating the gold chaff from the sil ver wheat and force the traitors in the silver ranks to unite with the Repub licans, where they belong. It is worth all our effort to shake oli these barna cles and start afresh with renewed hope. In order that all the elements constituting the movement-the silver Republicans, the silver Democrats and the Populists--:nay be satisfied, it may become necessary to merge all these forces into one great army under a new name. It is rarely that a new great issue succeeds under an old par ty name. "We begin the congressional fight of 1898 and the presidential figt of 1900 tomorrow. We shall have a con ference of our national leaders within a short time when the Dlans of the contest and the policy of the future may be determined upon. Let no one believe that silver is defeated. The movement is simply purified and reg ulated. In a new form, with new hope and vigor and with the gold bug traitors eliminated from the movement we emerge from this contest stronger than ever, to march forward to the victory which awaits us." William to Mark. NEW Yoax, Nov. 5.--The following telegram was received by Mark A. IIanna from Major McKinley tonight: Hon. M. A. Hanna, New York: Canton, Ohio, Nov. 5, 1896. Your telegraphic message announc ing the result of the election has been received. I beg you to accept my hearty thanks for your great service in the cause of sound money and pros tection throughout the campaign now closed and gloriously .won. They were most generous and effective, and will receive the warm approbation of your countrymen everywhere. I will be pleased to have you convey to your associates of the national committee my high appreciation cf their efficient services. The people in their majesty, ignoring party lines, have declared their destination of repudiation and dishonor in whatever specious guise they may be presented. They have with the same mighty power affirmed their devotion to law and order and their undeviating respect for justice and the courts. They have maintained their unfaltering determination to sup port and uphold tae const'tuted au thorities of the country, and have thereby given new vigor and strength to our free institutions. They have indeed consecrated themselves to coun try and baptized the cherished ordi nances of free government with a new and holy patriotism.- The victory is not to party or section, but of and *for the whole American people. Not the least of the triumphs of the election is the obliteration of sectional lines in the republic. We have demonstrated to the world that we are a reunited people in purpose as in name. We have manifested in the great cause the spirit of fraternity and brother-hood that should always characterize our common and equal citizenship, and have proven conclusively that in a country of equal privilege and equal opportunities the insidious doctrine of hate or of class or sectional distinctions cannot prevail.- Let us as Americans straightway devote ourselves to the ubuilding of America, to the peace, honor and glory of our common conn try. Party dissensions should no lon ger divide or rack the public mind nor the zeal or temper of either side deter any citizen from patriotic devotion to the good of all. Wo1. McKin-E. Opening Again. WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.-Dispatches to the Associated Press from many points to-night indicate a notable re sumption of manufacturing and busi ness enterprises following the election. In some instances the statement is made that orders held contingent upon a Repnblican victory is the im mediate cause of suspended industries rsuming work, while in others it is said it was intended to resume after the election. Among the more important inte ests announced as resuming operations today are the follow-ing: Shops of Big Four, Chesapeake and Ohio and Baltimore and Ohio Rail roads at Cincinnati, 0. Ensign car works, Iluntington, W. Va., Mount Vernon, Ill., car works. Niles tool works. Hamilton, U., in crease of force. Grimlth wood works, Cincinnati. Ipswich woolen and cotton mills, Ipswichi, Mass., 1,000 hands. Spalding and Pepper Manufactur ing Company, Springfield, Mass. Knowles loom works, Worcester, Mass., increase of working men. Addition of 1,500 men, construction of ansas City, Pittsbur-g and Gulf Railroad. Addition of 300 employes to Mil waukee harvester works. King, Gilbert and Warner steel works, Columbus, 0., partly resumed. Parlin implement works, Canton. I. Steel plants at Y oungstown. 0. Vandorna iron works, Cleveland, O0, increased working houvs. Mu!lhauser woolen works, Cleve land, (). Rarin machine wocrks, Columbus, Measuring an Acre. Few farmers know the size of their fields or how miany acres they contain. It is desirable-in fact, indispensable -for good work that a famer should know this, otherwise he cannot appor ion seed or manure for it, nor can he tel! how much time it should take to plo w harrow or cultivate it. A good cot ton cord, the si-ze of a plow line, should be kept for this purpose. To make one. buy sixty-seven feet of cotton rope, fasten a ring at eachl end, and make these rings precisely sixty-six eet apart. This is four rods. Tie a piece of red rag in the center. One acre of ground will be a piece four of these cords long and two and one-halft wide, equal to sixteen by ten rods, making is' square rods to an acre. The ad vantage of the rings is that on e person can measure by driving a staket n the ground to hold the rope while he stretches it out. The rope should be soaked in tar and thnen dried. Th is will prevent it shrin king. The Assktant RepublIcAuw. We hope that those so-called Demo crats who masqueradEd during the late campaign under the banner of Palmer and Buckner, bat who mostuy voted for McKinley, willstay where they have gone-in the Republican party. As Senator Tillman says, that is exactly where they belong, acd the real, true Democrats are glad to gel rid of them. An open enemy is far more preferable than a false and trai torous ally. These so-called Demo rats pretended to support Palmer and Buckner. but when the time came they abandoned their false pretence. and vo-ed openly for the Republican candidate. As the Columbia State says, "the sham of a 'true Democratic ticket' served its purpose. The half way house to Republicanism was reached and passed. The scheme tc seduce Democrats from their allegi ance under the pretence of a higher Demccracy and then deliver them to the Republican party was successful. A large majority of the men who have been proclaiming themselves bettey Democrats than toe bulk of their party have cast their votes unequivocally for the Republican party in its latest and most hateful attitude. To all in tents and purposes they are Iepubli cans. Assistant Republic ans no long er. they have become the real thing. We wish them joy. And we heartily wish them to remain where they are. Let us have no more pretenses, no more hypocrisy. As they have con tributed to the triumph of centraliza tion and plutocracy let us consider them henceforth as Repu'olicans, tak ing their share of !esponsibility for falling prices, falling wages, autocra cy in Washington, the domination of the treasury by Wall street, the main tenance of the gold standa:d by bond issues, the subordination of all the producing interests of this country to the money kings of the east. Lei them be credited with the vindication of the right of the Federal executive to wantonly employ troops in any State against the protest of that State. Let them be given their share of credit for the restoration of a McKinley tar itf, to raise prices, not for all, not foi the agricultural masses, but for a fa vored few. Let them have due re cognition for their service to the trust; that bleed the people from a hundred wounds. Yes, let them stay where they belong, and share in what they have sought to create. The Demo cratic party is well rid of them. Be. tween it and them 'there is a deep gull fixed.' Defeated now, the party o Jefferson and Jackson will within short years triumph by the excesses of its enemy. Against the victory of money over men it will appeal yet again, and it will win--and win the more surely because freed from the hamporing of those who filched it, name to betray it. Good-bye to the Assistant Republicans; and wolcome to the new Republicans, as open foes! Feeding Calves. CLEMSON COLLEGE, S. C., Nov. 2. Since it is of the greatest importance to bring up calves properly, the future of the herd depending on them, a few words as to the correct feeding of these animals may not be amiss. Fine calves can be brought up on skimmed milk if a fe w precautions are observed. Heat the milk always to blood heat, keep the pails from which the animnal drink absolutely clean by scalding them after each meal. Do not feed too much skimmed milk at one time, the six-week-old calf requires about t wenty pounds of milk best given in three meals each day. Skimmed milk is not a whole food, that is, it does not contain all the ingredients to cause a quick and healthy growth, the addi tion of oil meal being essential For young calves scalding water is poured over the oil meal, it being stirred at the same time, this produces a jelly. Of this jelly one to four table-spoon fuls are given in the milk. For older calves the oil meal need not be scalded but is simply added and stirred in the milk.- Oats well ground or even whole is an excellent food; but not more must be feed than they will eat up clean. Young calves can be taught at an early age to eat oats, best done by putting.some oats into their mouths as soon as they finish drinking the milk. As they seem to have the de sire to work the mouth after drinking, they quickly learn to love the taste of ats. Scouring, the bane of calf rais ing, can be prevented to a great ex tent, as it is usually de to cold milr, dirty pails, feeding too much milk and irregular feeding. In those cases, lime water two tablespoonful at each mess preceded by a dose of castor oil is of benefit. Of course they must have good shelter until they ar e about five months old when they are quite able to take care of themselves.. W. E. A . WYms, V. S. Taxaible Property of tihe State. The Comptroller general has corn pleted the tabulation of the returns of the taxable property of the State show ing a total valuation of real estate of $100,95,300, showing an increase of about $70C,000 over the previous year. The total value of personal property is $45,500,000, an increase of somewhia over $170,000. This value of railroad property is $23,902,712 and the total taxable property of all kinds in the State is $170,298,018. The following comparative statement of the valua tion of real estate in the different coun ies will prove of interest, the first lig ure standing for 1895 and the second 1896: A bbeville, $t,046,01I0, *1,182.430; Ai ken. $ 363.756, $3,41i :?-: Anderson, :3,754,23, $83,879,700: L .e a well, $3,. 1 1,110 $3,S77,015; Beaufort, $1,913, 365. 1.962,670; Berkeley, $2 479,191, 1,51,210; Charleston, $13,25, 570, 812 :387,725; Chester, $2 197,7i $2S, 207,60; Chesterfield $957,710. i38,. 010; Clarendou, $1,530,880, $6.533. NO; Colleton, $2,195,256, $2,182,613: lDarl ington. $2,373,235. $2,383 600: Edge field, $1 :351,110, $2,905 13). Trs .ap parent decrease is caused tby the cut ting off of Saluda; Fairfield, $2,139, 53, $2,128.317: Fiorence, $2,080,420, $2. 01,220; Georgetown, $1,234,620, $122,370; Greenville, 81,228,780, $i,* 282,65; Hampton, $924t,267, $924,013; Iorry, $1,932,905. $1 910.525; Ker shaw, $1,217,228, $1 : 9 59; Lancas ter, 2,640,395, $267u~ Lexington, $192975, $1,944,710; Mar. $2,780, 435, 2,797,765; Mariborn. 8$ 787,655, $1,783 395; Newberry, $2,sM : O1 $2,. 832,920; Oconee, $l,528,-114. i 565, 418; Or-ageburg, $3,824,400, 831,. 290; Pickens, $1.165,977, $1. 173,024; 1cland, 3,4.50,475, $1t 4:1 :'2 ; Spar 124,1; Union, $2,w38,86'), $2,133, 570 Williamsburg, $1,392.5), $1L 36),017; York, $:338,1 10, $3,4112,655. Ax electrician has invented a won derful watch that will tell a man when his note is comning due. IHis watch: would be a werat deal more remarkable a wel -as useful, if it would tell the man where tr> get the monley to pay the note._ _ _ iEi hornest with yourself, whatever the temptation; say nothing to others th.'t you do not think, and play no riegs with your own mind. Ofi a!! the e i spirits abroad at this hour inl te worM insincerity i.s the mmt dIau UAYild POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of all in leavening strength. -.41test VU"itel Sbten (Uoc~-erit Food Report. Roy, BAK[Is POWDER Co., New York City. FOOLISH CHARLESTON. Many of Her Busines Men Vote for McKinley. CrAnLESTOI, S. C., Nov. 4.-Bryan carried Charleston County by a plu rality, but not by a majority of all the votes cast. The figures, so far as tab ulatd, give the regular National Democratic electoral ticket 1 4S6. while the three ether electoral tickets in the field-the two straight Republican tickets and the Palmer and Buckner ticket-if their supporters had conce-. trated their forces on one set of names. would doubtless have given a majority against the Democratic standard- bear er. as aggregated, they make a total of 1,711 votes against him, a differ erce of 225 votes. The Palmer ana Buckner ticket ran behind the strong est of the t wo Republican electoral tickets as well as behind the Bryan ticket. It is evident, irdeed, that more of our former national Demo crats voted directly for McKinley than was included in the number of those who stopped at the Palmer and Buck ner hal. way house. Of the vote so far tabulated, the highes! aggregate of the old-time Republicans is un doubtedly found in the sum of the votes cast for Murray and Cohen, the two Republican candidate for Congress as against Elliott, the Democratic can - didate, the number of which is 881. Take this number from the total of 1,711 votes cast for the three opposing electoral tickets, and we have 630 left, which would seem to be the number of our former Democratic citizens who saw fit to vote directly for Major-Mc,. Kinley. This result is not strange,. considering the bitterness of the fight, both open and avowed and secretly.,. which has been made here against Bryan. It only tends to illustrate the fact that the balance of power having been removed from the bands of the colored voter by the operation of the new Constitution and election laws, the white voters will naturally fall apart and divide up between the two great parties, as their opinions or in clinations may dictate. Nor do I think this result by any means unde sirable. It seems to me that there would be less rancor and bitterness than has marked the course of our family jars in South Carolina. In the meant'me, it will be interest ing to observe who here will come in for the Federal patronage under the regime of President McKinley, if his~ over-claimed election should indeed be assured. It is more than probable that of the 600 and upwards of former Democrats who voted squarely and flatfootedly for McKinley, there will 'e some promising neophy tes who-wi. appear at the front when the spoils of office are ready to be ladeled out. Will Dr. Crum, of the Republican Regulars, for instance, again receive the appointment of a Republican Pres - ident to the local postoffice, only to be finally defeated by the retention of our present model, politic and eco nomic postmaster. Or will the new aspirant and conver t, who is spoken of on the quiet as yet and who seized opportunity by the forelock recently to put himself on record by emphati zally denouncing Bryan and his asso elates as "anarchists," intervene and carry off the place from both? But. this is matter for the future. Major McKinley's election is not as sured up to the present writing, and as time passes it become more doubtful and uncertain hourly. Last night's dispatches, as summed up in this morn ing's News and Courier, apparently gave, everything to McKinley and. were calculated to make the hearts of his stoutest supporters sink. For hours last night the representative crowds gathered in front of its bulle tin canvas expressed their feelings as it flashed the doctored news. With rather a dim and uncertain light be fore their eyes-the McKinley contin gent, colored and white, c nining out strongest as it continued to give Mc Kinley majorities, in the mai; the Palmer and Bucknerites emiittinig a feeble sound once on ly, and t bt. w ben the venerable countenances of Mc K in - ley's decoy ducks were thrown on the canvas; and the Bryanites, who divi-d ed the crowd nearly equally wdh the former Democrats and colorrd Il--pub licans, giving faill vent t ) th-ir pVeas ure at long intervals. when so:ne piece of good ne ws f or their endidates was vouchsafed to them by theC one sided canvas arnd its news s eaders. At the clubs and other pi only news of a sii .a a to be had, an-T M acK'le-ites, one and all, we4e wild with .joy. But, oh! what a difeiei:ce in the morning. It was e'arly apparent to those who calmly comnpued the claims of the Re-pulicans, eveni n i!hi the dis oatches upon which they were based, hat they had overdone the bui.iness. The News and Courier had put Norith Carolina, Tennessee, Virg in i.s, Nebras ka, Indiana and Missouri i the Mc kinley column, and as one after an other of these in succession had to be given up to the Democrats, the faces and tunes of the people~ on B;road street this forenoon underwent a sin gular change. Those who had sung hosannahs during the nig h began to look anxious and doubtful, while the Bryanites plucked up courage wonde fully. When The Register arrived at noon v-ith Chairman Jiones' (declara ion, wt~ich had been carefully exclud ed by our- mornit g daily, that the Re pubicans were in charge of the news avenues and were playing a "bluil." game, many were found ready to beliere him. And the end is not et- It is safest not to whoop until Enie is out of the woods. J.1 HMSI. Moony., in Columbia Reg ister. su icide in New O)rleans. NEW OnrLE.xGs, Nov. 4. --M. L. No vera, well known merchant and insur ance agent whose name was recently mentioned in connection with the union bank scandal killed himself to day. Is br-other in law of .J. N. Wolf sn. charaed with looting bank. A cyclone pit is a regular part of te eq-41pmnent of mainy 1owa school Ihou.-s now, and the cihldren are drilld to s-.ape fromh eyelones as I ildren in otheru p! ices have their Ure drill.