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CAMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1891 SCHOOL NQVEMSEB 29. 1891 \ trai ? "?h*n Pilate Therefor*; took Jeecis and ?pour^ed &lcrJ " Before the high priest He 7** atcastfl by many false witnesses, and 2Joe<JJ?8cii condemned to die, because He w** the Christ, the Son of God; then w?y mocked Him. snoot*- Him, blindfolded ^. fcpat in His face, and when the morn Was come they bound Him and led Him ? o Pontius Pilate, the Roman govern? ; W. . t wtoUe He was before the hig& jpvst tiat Fet? r thrice denied Him. Pilsfte -??>w*ng ?*> fan it m Ham Cxviii., 38) desired Co |^2,? 1??** but ****? lr??*ted upon the re n * ?' *torabvas. a robber and murderer. lite tboae who now prefer the devil, a Sorcerer from the beginning, to Jesus, the *We of Lif,.. " "And the soldiers platted a crown of worn* and put it on His head, and they put ?? 7.1? a purple robe." In the scourging we *** .im receiving the stripes by which we # nealed; He wh*> did no sin suffers in the fr???r * stead, for the Lord laid on Him the il WKjuity of us all jjba. liii., ~fc the crown of thorn* we see Him bearing*- the ^wse upon the ground (Gen. .iii., 18), for His *Wemption when fuliy consummated shell /Wiverance to the very earth itself, ?Oa there shall be no more curse (Rev. xxii., ?,r ?! Rouj. viij., Jl>. The purple robe was r s. ?cctr inockeryof His royalty, but His real "k21'1 ** s^n, as it is written, Yet have I set My Kiag upon My holy hill of Zion'l iP? ii., tf). See also Jer. xxiii, 5-8. Eg s- "Andssid, Hail. King of the Jews> and jj >mote Kim with their hands. n Wnen the Jews rejected Him as their king Block ed Him. we need not wonder at then Roman soldier* an t their words and coo-, duct. The lesson for to-day is that if Chris* S tiaii? think aa little of Christ as they seenr w hat wonder .that the world goes on it? still less of Him. 4. **rilatB therefore went forth again sat ?aith mate them, heboid, 1 bring HJm forth to yon, that ye may know that I find n a iauit in Him.*1 5. "Then, came Jesus forth, wearing the ' * 2?^ ?f thorns, and the purple robe. And *Uate sarth unto them, Behold the man.7* Concerning the first king over Israel we arc toW that when Samuel saw 8aol the Lord said unto him, '"Behold the man" (I Sam. ix, 17) . Saul, however, . was a great coo ***** to Him of whom it is written in Zech. 12, Id, "Behold the man whose jg Branch. 4 * * He shall build the fetnj^apiwl the Lord, and He shall bear the gJo ry. and shall sit and rule qppn Hie i* I.U *>? jffk* , _^aief priest# therefore and - they cried out, saying. crucify Him." like wild meting ior blood they seek His life. ? bated Him! it is but faintlv ?4e>i forth in the hatred of Joseph1# rea The Jews answered Him, W? have a ttH bv our law He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God." Their accusations were that He said God was His Father, making Himself equal with God, and that He, being a man, made God (chapter v., 1>; x., 33). works had clear jV proved that He was what He said He * wi?, lor who but God could cleanse the leper, open the ?yes of one born blind and raise the dead. J?. "U heu Pilate therefore heard that say ing be was the more afraid." 9. "And went again into the judgment hail and >aith unto J?wus, Whence artThou? But J?sus gave' him no answer." Jesus knew when to sj>eak, and just what to say, aad ?when to be siient. If we are true believers Christ is in us; why, then, should we not know just when to "speak and when to be silent 10. "Then .?aith Piiate unto Him, Speak, est lhou not unto me? Knoweet TTiou not that 1 have power to crucify Thee, and have power to rel?-as? Thee'' "So it seemed to ! rilate. but he like other rulers of whom we ; rea<t ui ?'-'criptare knew not that "The Most High ruieth in the kingdom of m<w, and ( giveth it to whomsoever hie will, and setteth up over it the basest of men" (Dan. iv., 17). Jesus Hin.seif was the very one who as Goid ha-t given this positiou t?> Pilate for the time being, but Pilate kuew it not. He only saw before him a helpless man whose life was being sought by an angry people, and whom, as be though, he had jxiwer to release or crucify . IfT "Je>us aniwere*'. Thou couldst have no power at ail against Me, except it were Eiveu thee from above therefore he that de-r vereil Me unto thee nath the greater sin?* Even the devil could not lay a finger on Joh, the servaut of G<*f, without God's per rrusnou ?Job i., 12; u.. How much iesa could Pilate touch the Son of God without permission from Go?. But permission from God does not !?3Ksen the- guilt of the sinner, therefore the High Pnest of Israel who de livered Jts>us to Piiate, was more guiltv than ^ Pilate. * 12. "Ami from thenceforth Pilate sought to reieose Him; but the Jews cried out, say ing. If t'nou let this man go thou arfcnot C*sar s friend; whosoever maseth himself a king speaketa a^amst C^-ar." Pilate knew Him to be innocent and testified to that faci; he ha<l just acknowledged to Jesus that be had power to release Him ; be knew that that was the right thing to do, and yet he hesitates to do it. We cannot say a good word in favor of his fear to do right. ^Then we these hypocritical Jews standiogr-for Cjpw against their own King, the Lord from Heaven. 1?. "When Pilate therefore beard that saying ho brought Jesus forth and sat down in the judgment seat, in a place that is called the Pavement, but, in the Hebrew. Gab batha."' Pilate decides to continue Capoar's friend at all fost?, however much he would like to be a friend of Jesu*, and he site on tlj# judgment seat as Cajsar's rapresentac five. .14^-" An! it was tha preparati<xi of the pssjover an i about the sixth hour, an-^> he ssycth ont.) the J-"vs, B -hold your king!" In verse -> it was "Bahold the min-r Son of Wan, Son of G.j), King of the Jjws, it is all true. It shsll bo> seen now ere long, and the paw*">V8S soali have its complete fulfill ment m the kingdom of C*ai (Luke jcxii., l.\ 1?. when He ?ha!l come, no longer in hu mi<iatioa riding upon an ass's colt(John xiL, H. 1">), tat utx)u the white horse of power ? aad victory, acco upaniad by all the arjaies of he*V'.?n (Riv. xis., 11-1?. 1-V "Bu: tney criel one. Away with Him! Away with Him! Crucify Him* Pliat* ?aith unto the- Shall ( crucify your king? The ch.ef priest ^asw^red, We have no Ififtg but CV-v " Contrast Ps. Ixxxix., LS, "The ?t<oor deTeas y an l the Holy One of --^>.ra?l is -Mir K'ii-."' But as it was isSamuefs days, when they r .'jec-edGol as "their king II Sa?n. vi#? so now they rejected G^ manifest :n the .ie-b. the Son of David, Son vi Abrabati, Son oc Mao, Son ctf God. and they have been reaping the f raits of their cbote? from that lay to this. dehvertd he Him therefore unto them to l>e crucified. And they took Jesus ~ " The vol r-h ie>f prtests prevallej, a roooer aaa^s?Kf?rar was ert free, and the Jews choee Caesar instead of God. Pilate also decided against Jesus in favor o t Cawar. And to this day our Lord is still rejected and Sy the world ' disowned. ^ by the many still neglecte 1. an i by the few enthroned. He is ever before us for reception or rejection, and many times a day we must decide for Him or again -t Hiu Let u* al ways say: "We have no iiag but Jesus." ? jLeason tfeiper Libertan Erni^ratioa. tk>n of cole ted people from tU r VriitnT ^ itc-s to Africa, and in par f; j ns? New York to Liberia, goes m sfe.i i?y as to lend a special interest ?r- t - Uit; v 4.?tmir Silva White, seo - ' t irv , fjfhfr Scottish Gaoggiphicai S*H-.icvy. ifr. White >avs tjie foreign * <*?? tjolofiziu^ and acquiring proper : the Dark Continent most < f. - f iLform programms before the j i * , .?<. 'rica can be developed ak?| This seems directly to -v..;. AUTUMN WHISPERINGS. Telhit Ket That Our Southland Is Prosy. We Will Tell You About Many Im portant Happenings That Have Occurred During a Week. VIRGINIA. Nowlin, the condemned murderer of Mosca, sfcfc Italian, in Botetourt county, ha* confessed. - Minnie Grevy, an old mare who went throu/n the war, died, aged thirty-five, Leesburg. One feature of the exhibit of natural and artisan products m ?de by Buana Vis ta at the 5tate Fair was Jthat of marl, of which there are extensiv^ surface beds in Buena Vista near the lines of the rail roads. It attracted much attention in conncction with the yield it wiil make when b timed into lime, and its value for agricultural purpeies. Under tha old methods of making iron with charcoal fuel this marl was used as the fluxing matt-rial Lee HoflJn and George Dye are under arrest at Calverton, Fancier county, charged with being icoplicate i in the murder of Mrs. Kines and her three chil dren near there Wednesday mornings Hoflin is the man. mho, on seeing the house in flames, went some distance to the neighbors to give the alarm instead of going to the burning house. A portrait o( Jefferson Davia, painted by Wit iam Gail Browne, for the West moreland Club, of Richtnond, is said to be a perfect likeness of Mr. Davis as he apj>eared at the time he took the reins of the Confederate Government. The pic ture is a full three-quarter length, the canvass measuring 5 feet 6 inches bv 3 fept 4 inches. Mr. Browne in paint ing the portrait had nothing to work from but the Gait bust, a detective pho tograph and his owa recollection of Mr. Davis. The Baptists met at Norfolk. A re port sv;Ows that during the past year eighty-five missionaries occupied two hundred and tweo'y-ttro stations, preach* d 6,369 sermons, baptized 1,043 converts, ai^ed pastor's meeting* 1,587, uvule 12,374 visits to families for re ligious conversation and rrayeT, organiz ~ed fifty new Sunday Schools and fourteen tew churches, were engaged in building nineteen bouses of wor hip, completed twelve churches and sustained one hun dred and eighty-five Suodaj Schools^* their stations. The total amount con tributed for missions during the past ten yearsfau* been $113,263 91. 'Ihe elec tion of otficec resulted in the re-election of a I mast all oNhe old officers, the Hon. J. Taylor Ellison, of Richmond, receiv ing the unanimous vote cf the body for president. NOBTH CAROLINA After a very gay time in Raleigh the Fifth Maryland Regiment left for home Thursday. II. P. Cheatham, of North Carolim, the ouly colored member of the next Congress, is a college graduate, and ^ is said to be the best educated negro, with a siugle exception, that ha?, jet sat in t>fte House. The Maryland Steel Company is nego tiating for a r gular 'arge supply of Bes semer ores in North Carolina. * rjThe elect ion on the proposi lion of issuing $40,000 bonds for the completion of the Charlotte city hall and htreet worly was carried l& a large majority of the vote polled. William Roberts Weathcrly, a promi uent me ch int, comm tted suicide at Tyro Shops, Davidson c? unty, Wednesday night. Liceuse has been gran'ed. in Anson count v by the commisrfcoucra to Samuel Sheppard. The tax colle* tor of Burli gton, Ir.dell county, has defaulted. Work has commenced on the new N?-r mal School Building at Greensboro, near the Female College. Charlotte is becoming the musical center of the State. The new School of Music there has met with wonderful success Ex-Prcaidcnt Cleveland cannot attend the Raleigh Exposit:on. He writes: 4'I know I should enjoy a such a visit t> my North Carolina friends and their neigh bor?, and I am entirely certain that my reception and entertainment would fully accord with ihe ho?j>itable disposition which distinguishes tlie locality. I there fore regret tfiat I am obliged to decline the courtefHK invitation you transmit, for the reason that my engagements and oc cupations forbid my leaving home dur the present month . SOUTH CAROLINA. Jas. Rivers B e, a wealthy and promi nent C arieston merchant of ante-bellum d:i_\ s, died at Edgefield last v. eck. Orangeburg C. H. is making a strong ? fight against the proposed new county of Ca^hotra. The State Alliance Exchange, at a meeting. Wednesday, determined to more the headquarters of tba Exchange to Co lumbia. The change will be made on Jasuary 1. A commission for charter has been is sued to the Waterloo Loan and Saving ; Bank. Capital, |25,000. The district Alliance lecturers of the i State met at Columbia, last week, to dis- j cuss 4he past and future work in this State. One of the members said that the organization was in excellent order and theJnfcure work would be pressed as rig- ' oroufely as heretofore; especially the cam paign of education. Collections are being taken up in all ! the colored churches through the State to ; procure counsel to defend the"tt? negroes who were convicted of murder in Lau rens county, on September 1st, and sen tenced to be hanged. The governor has respited the men and the movement is now to get a new trial. So far about hnlf of the $500 needed has been secured. Charleston News and Courier: Lying - [ at Central wharf is the brig Bessie E. j Crane, drect from Porto Rico, with a ? -cargo of cocoanuts. which she *? busily | discharging. This is the largest cargo ; "vf cocoanuts ever received at th'g port. , It consists of 255,000. The South Carob'na Historical 8oca?ty, being desirous of extending its opera tions over the whole State and enlisting the aid of all who are interacted in them, has called a meeting, to l>e held in Co lumbia on the evening of December 1st next, to e-ta&ish branch societies in i ev*-ry county, and to appeal to the Gan \ ctftl Assemb y for aid in prosecuting i*a I work. The committee which' was ap 1 pointed to arrange for the meeting con ' sists of Messrs. Edward McCrady, .Jr., j 1 Johnson Hagood. John Johnson, William ! H. Grier, Ellison Capers, John L. Weber ; and G. W. Holland, and these gentle men hare a printed a circular letter of invitation -which they have sent to many persona, begging them "to extend the in vitation to everyone interested in the ; preservation of the hUtory of the State " Theco'lector of the port's statement of j the exports from Charleston far the month ! of October shows a gratifying increase I in trade. The total value of the ship | ments was $2,853,764. The Custom J i House figures so far recorded this month, ! show that the bu-inessof the port will be I far in excess of last mouth. The official j statement for October Ls as follows : Value Sea island cot t in. brigs 328 $ 27,813 Upland cotton, bales 62,293 2,812,451 Phosphate rock, toas 100 700 Sosiu, barrels r- 2,694 4.000 Spirits turp'tine, gal*? 18.^00 6.300 Cotton seeds, pounds 210,8 ;7 15,000 OTHER STATES. Fannie Edwards, the girl preacher, has closed a revival at Bristol. Tenn. Flames destroyed apart of the business portion of Tampa, Fla , last Thursday. Los? $85,000 Texas wants to raise $300,000 for its exhibit at the World's Fair. The lum ber dealers and manufacturers have fub scribed about $30,000 worth of lumber j of various kinds towards the construc tion of the State building, and to exhibit the wealth of Texas in timber. I ake Palmyra is a part of the Missis- I sippi River at high water, but at present j its bottom is drv. with a thin upper crust of dry eaith ana a deeper lower layer of soft mud. A half-witted negro who tried to walk across to an island broke through the crust. In one day he sank to the wa'st, and in two days to the neck. On the night of the second day he was pull ed nut. , Some time ago C. P. Goodyear and j other enterprising citizens of Brunswick, j Gi., undertook to deepen the harbor at that placc by the use of dynamite. At a cost of a few thousacd dollars they sc- i cured an incre;ised depth of 2^ feet, ' though engineers had estimated that hundreds of thousands 'would be required. Not satisfied with this_Mr. Goodyear and his associates have offered to the city j council to guarantee to secure 25 feet, and a contract will doubtless be made to that effect. TRAIN ROBBERY FOILED. 'I ' An Interesting Story From Down in Alabama. BnutrsGHAM, Ala, [Special.] ? A story comes from Collinsville, on the Alabama Great Southern railroad that sounds very much like an attempted train robbery. The sgent at Collinsville heard that an attempt would be made to rob the Southern Express which passed there about twelve o'clock. Shortly afterward fifteen men, nicely dressed, came in and took possession of the Station, refusing to vacate when locking up time came. The agent then called on the local au thorities, and the mayor and marshall, police and a posse of citizens came to his rescue and drove the men away. The gang was well armed and left threaten ing vengeance. The train at Chattanoo ga was notified and left there with aU the train men armed to the teeth. As it pulled in Coliinsvilie, four of the men re<ppeared and attempted to board it, but the citizens fired on them and they fled. It is said one of the fellows was hit and fell, but got up and made off again. It is believed the attempt was planned to have been made below Col iinsvilie, but the train came through without being molested. All the train men on the division are now armed and an extra lookout is observed. One of the gang has been arrested, but his story has not yet been obtained. TRANSACTION IN RAIN MAKING Sale of a Bain Company's Secret Process for $50,000. * Temple, Tex., [Special.]? Rain mak ers have b.en at work here. They came from Kansas, are called the Inter- State Artificial Rain Company, and have their headquarters at Goodland, Kan. Thi3 company, of which E. H. Murphy is President, was negotiating a sale of their secret to a stock company, and th? expe riment here was the last of a series that resulted favorably. The stock company, through its agent accompanying the party, signified its satisfaction with the experiments. The party, consisting of President Mur phy .Messrs Smith, Bush and Morris, arriv ed in the city on Nov. 1, and commenced operations Monday evening in a small outhouse at the edge of towa. The con d tions were extremely unfavorable for rain. No results could be seen at fiist, but on Friday the sky I ecame overcast w:th clouds. On Saturday a high wind pre vailed, and on Saturday night some rain come from the southwest. On Sunday rain fell all day and at night a norther arose. Roports from 100 to 1*0 miles round the town shows that raia fell on Sunday in most localities in considera ble quantities. The rain makers are jubilant and claim the rain fell on account of their efforts. They closed the bargain for the purchase of their secret upon the results here and Tuesday left for here. It is understood that $50,000 was the price. Th? process is claimed to be that used by Melbourne, j HE DEFIED THE SHERIFF, ' : TT: ' And Drove Judge Byrrum From th? Bench. The Asheville, N. C , Mount iin Home Journal reports that a most disgraceful and daring occurrence took p ace at Burnsville, Yancey county, last week, and says the facts are these: One of the ' b??t citizens of that county, Solomon Carter, bad died very suddenly, and was j being buried. Garret. D." Ray, another I leading citizen of the same town, had, J not lived on good terms with Mr. Carter during the latter's lifetime, but as death had removed one of the two, Mr. Ray thought he would aid in paying the last tribute of respect to his departed neigh bor and attended the burrial. This so enraged the son of Mr. Ray that he shot at his lather several times, whereupon Judge Bynum ordered the arrest of young Ray . He defied the sheriff, but walked into the courthouse, and. with his doiible barr 1 gun, drove the judge from th* bench, cleared out the assembly and de- ; Hberately walked off. 5 FARMERS' ALLIANCE.* Annual Address of President Joseph of the Iowa Alliance. ' % "Monopoly is the Arch Enemy of In dustry and the Political Mon ster of Modern Times." Ai Des Moines. Iowa, the other day, President J. M. Joseph delivered his an nual ad ires', and said in part: "The duties of the farmer include very much more than the cultivation of ^ the laud and the production of crops. Upon him more than upon any one else, de pends the character of public inst'tutions and the welfare of all classes - of people. With him maialy rests the responsibility of good or bad government. "That there bos been a great awaken ing among fariaets during tbe past few years in mattera^pertaining to their rights and duties everybody knows. The Far-, mere' Alliance is the result of the dissat isfaction produced by an unjust system of distributing the benefits and lurdens of public institutions.'' "Statesmen of all parties, while sub scribing to the fundamental doctrines of our government, are found advocating measures and policies subversive of them. For a score of years they have been plant ing seeds throughout our industrial and commercial system utterly at variance with the doctrine of equal rights. To day we are cursed with privileged classes existing by virtue of legal enactments to as great a degree as many of the nations of Europe . We have broadened the foundation of the splendid temple our our fathers began, but we have not raised its walls, except with a single stone, in 100 years. The emancipation of the black man is the only achievement in the interest of humanity worth recording in this cen .tury. _ > '"Monopoly is the arch enemy of indus try, the political monster of modern times. It has come to be a constant, ever pres ent. menace to free government. It rears its head in every field, it clutches at the throat of every honest toiler. It besets the public highways. It Interests everv market. It is intrenched in court and Congress alike. The horse leach's daughter of holy writ was not more rapa cious. As a political force. it domi nates both the great parties. Its ten dencies are toward arbitrary, despotic government. The home of the monster is in the modern contrivances we call cor porations. '?The forces of nature, the natural pro due's of the earth, the equal gifts of God to all the children of men, are walled up by the omnipresent corporation. The goods, the rights, the benefits made, matters of corporate ownership and distributed to the few, while many are shut out from a fair participation. "Public instrumentalities, the railroad, the telegraph, the financial system drift enormous revenues into private coffers, while they exist under a normal condition of public control. This condition is an economic absurdity. "No solution of the great problem of equitable distribution can be found out side the public ownership of natural forces and materials. -"Partisans have raised a ghost and named it paternal government, forgetting that the people are, in theory and ought to be in fact, the government, forgetting that except for the paternal care of government there would not be a corpo ration on the face of the earth. Yet par t suns build no adequate defense against the combination that clutches labor by the throat, that glowers industry with the eye polyphemus, sucking up her tub stance to the wall cf bare subsistence. "The $60,000,000,000 of wealth in our country is the result of the genius and industry of all the ages gone. It is a splendid legacy to leave posterity. That a small minority, who have contributed nothing toward" its accumulation, should inherit the wfcole of it, to the exclusion of the great majority, is not only a fla grant injustice upon the face of the mat ter, but it marks the fact that in human affairs there are yet whoie realms in the matter of equitable distribution unex plored, matters of vast concern to those who come after us. "The Farmers' Alliance as an organi zation, is the natural result of the neglect of political parties to consider economic questions from the stand po:nt of merit lather than of party advantage The farmers have become weary with the long-drawn quarrels over minutes and barren contests of mere place hunte.s "The animosities of a contest fought to a finish many years ago ought to have been buried long ago, and would have bfen except for the partisan who found politic il capital in keeping alive the en mities and jealousies' of the sections against each other. "The Alliance seeks to reunite the people into one harmonious nation with equal rights for all. It seeks to limit the power and curb the rapacity of coipora tions. It seeks to reform the industrial system to the end that th?i products of industry may be fairly distributed Its task will not be finished till these lesults are achieved. It was not bo- n in a night nor will it perish in a day. It is a pro test against plutocratic tendencies, against extravagant public expenditures, against unequal taxation, agaiust the spoliation of the working classes, against the ex ploiter and speculator in the products of tbe field, the mine and the factory ; against the whole class who make a mo nopoly and live by usury, against the pri vate ownership of public 'nstrumentali ties, against the whole policy of inflated capital and bonded debts. "The Alliance demands a sufficient volume of money to euable industry to exchange her products on a cash basis, to the end tfeat labor may escape the bur den of interest that now eats up her sus tenance in maintaining the crcdit system. "The Alliance recognizes that the; government monopolizes the creati-n of money and insists that this "fact carries with it tbe duty to provide a sufficient volume of money. The Alliance holds that the volume "of money is not sufficient as long as average interest is above the average profits of industry.'' "The fanner and mechanic may well ask each other why they should be put to the expense of maintaining a third class of people digging metal counters from the earth to enable^, them to ex change their products. <jt why they should be burdened with an ip'terest-eating bond as a foundation for a circulating medium, when they cou'd furtfish the security for the medium of exchange themselves at one-fourth the expense. "The past six months has lifted the fog sufficiently that all may now /e where the centre of the great indu>ciial battle is to be. Politicians may beat the bush j?t a little iojijg^r ov^r an intignifi ' S 4' . :? , ?Hii I cant difference in the adjustment of the tariff. buUthe real contest cannot be long delayed. We must fix the status of the ruling force in America. "Shall it be money or manhood? That ' Ts the question. We must settle the question whetheis.our medium of ex change shall be a great national labor saving machine, as great as the nation's industries, as strong as the nation's arms, as sound as the nation's heart, or wheth er it shall continue to be a tool of mo nopoly, nominally under public control but really controlling the people, and ex I acting tribute from industry by the rob ber's rule of 'what the traffic will bear:' " "Our chief school nod hope lies vih the sub- Alliances Let us plant these in every neighborhood, push the Alliance press and literature into every borne Let us renew no subscriptions to the par ty press of either party that misrepre sents or opposes our demands. We far mers and mechanics cannot afford to do it any longer. *? "Let usy stand firm by the colors of the Alliance. Let ui cultivate a spirit of fraternity with all kindred organizations. Let us put the Alliance above our fealty to any political party, and in the great contest for the emancipation of industry from the domi nation of monopoly, let us rejoico in the promise of battle and the hope of vic tory." $2.50 A TXEB. How would you like to sell your tim ber at that price, brother farmer f < How many of you are selling wood de livered at the r&lroad for $1.50 a cord? How mairf are telling crossties at 20 cents apiece and haul therohtcveral miles, maybe? ?. Well, farmers, $2.50 a tree was paid a few days ago by a Northern lumber com-' pany for 2#0,000 soft wood tftes, stand ing, in a Southern State a little north of us. * You ask if farmer* sold that batch of trees? Well no, they had been sold by the original owners some years ago for a mere song; and the immense profit in this last trade went to the speculators. - Farmers, the timber of the Northern forests is nearly exhausted./ The im mmense lumber mills operating must move, and they must move 8out?. They have their scents all through the South buying up lands at a ridiculously low fig gure. A few years hence the land you sell them at $8 an acre will be worth all the way ten to twenty-five dollars an acre. Hold ou to your timbered lands, farmers. The near future will prove them to be a mine of wealth to you? you may in less than five years sell the timber at $2.50 a tree and have the land left. TO STORE COTTON. It is stated that the Greenville, 8. C., County Alliance has derided to store n large portion of thejr cotton crop. They have made arrangements with local banks to advance 80 p*r cent, of the present vulue at one per cent, per month. The storage for the first lo days Mill be free. The tot il cost of storage and ^csurince per month will not exceed 25 cents per bale. This is rather a costly way to hold cot ton when compared with the Sub-tro .8 ury, but with a short crop and April fu tures already higher than for the present month, it doubtless will be safe if a large number of farmers will make simi lar arrangements. But without unity of action it will avail but little. However, it should be tiied. If we make but little ' nothing will be lost. It is certainly sui ; cidal so sell all this crop at the present : prices. Let every cotton county go to work and see if anything can be done at ? once. That was quick work of President Pnlk j ipeaking in California on the far off Pa cific coast and exactly one week from date to stand with his people on the banks of the Blue Albemarle at El'zabctb City. The Tarboro Advocate says that Col. Harry Skinner and Judge Bourne will soon discuss the Sub-treasury I ill. Time and place not yet agreed upon. The factory inspection committee of the Illinois Woman's State Alliance have : found 106 shirt factories ? dren from tea to twelve-flours daily for the fat salary of $1 per week, iu the en terprising city of Chicago ?St. Louis j Monitor. The farmers of Iowa after ten years of hard work, of thirteen and one-hnlf ; hours to the day on an average, fiud | themselves $65,000,000 -worse off tbau ! they were a decade ago.? Industrial Edu | eator. TIIE latest! ! Coi. Polk went to California upon the invitation of Senator Leland Stanford, and ic js understood that he is to be paid a vast sum by the railroad king. So says a New York paper. Next! ! The Farmers' Alliance will run the I Warehouse which will soon be Vbcatc J by | Mr. Gravely, on Church street, opposite i the Eagle, says the Rocky Mount, C\, I | Phoeni*. TH? .FARMERS' CONGRESS. Seme of the Resolutions Adopted and Rejected at Their Meeting;. Sedalia, Mo.? The Farmers' Natio- aj Congress unanimously adopted the fol lowing resolutions: llecommending state | coutrol of live stock exchanges; recom mending the passage of a national lavr requiring the stamping of art-f'c'al hog products; demanding the passage of a Federal law prohibiting gambl'ng in farm products; endorsing ihe principle of re ciprocity. The following resolutions, previously | reported upon adversely by the cotnmit ] mittee, were rejected by the Congress: 1 Demanding the coinage of silver dollars j of the value of 100 cents each ; demand ing Government ownersh'p of railroads and' telegraphs; demanding national revenues derived from taxes from imports ' which come into competition with home ! manufacturers; demanding Federal pro ! bibition of the sale of intoxicants, and ; demanding the cession of arid lands to j the various States in which the arid i lands are situated. Luray Inn Barnad. VLmaav, Y-a ,[ Special.]? Luray Inn and furniture bnnMd Thursday night,-: loss ' ?.?WMW; inwgwiBe Itoo.ooo. ; . . i ? ri: f; 4h jl - ?; ? " ; j .T !; : : ; i'\ ? i ' '.J ? ! i J I --li'i -"'ri' '4 ? I 1 THANKSGIVING. 1 The golden grain is garnered? Our store-houses o'erflow? L CVr prairie broad and city mars 1 he winds, of fortune blow. No losses from disteibper? No runt the wheat to blight? T hanksgtrln? to the Father Who has blessed us day ind night V No pestilence is near Hi No sound of war is heard? Peace tinkles in the shepherd's bell, And rusting lies the sarord. The brooks rush oa? right merrily? * The song-birds seem to say, "Praise God for every blessing seas On this Thanlwgiviug Day V Friends who have long been parted, The dear old homesteed seek. To chat of pleasures that ar i past, And of the future speak. All borne once more, with hearts aglow They gather round tije boar J, And cry in concert, fervently, "Than giving to the Lord:" Ail fe^lfishness is put to flight? The Wretched poor may feast On dainties that they seldom touch For this ona day ?t least And e'en the felon ia his cell May taste of dainty fare? Ok, God js gracious ! Shout His praise Tlyuiksgivmg everywhere! \ . \ ?Francis $, Smith. A THANKSGIVING ElFRGLAIi 4 'One o' butter, two o" sugar, three o1 flour 'n four eggs," soliloquised Aunt Hepaie Barber, u she measured out the ingredients for the children'* favorite cup cake. "Seems like that rule is like a verse of poetry, it run*, off so glib ; but, my ! it ain't nothin' to the way the cakes go off after the children get* a holt of them. Let's see, now, how many tinsful did I bake last Christmas? Six, as I'm a livin' woman, an' afore night their faces was all .puckered down with, tOh, kbnt Heirsie, ain't there no more pattiest'HU doleful as if they hadn't had one apiece. It does beat all how much children cau ftold, an' not hev an explosion. Nbw, I sot out to have enough this year, but I d'no's I he#. One good thing, that rule's sure ? true blue, like indigo cali per, an* not light's a feither one time an* flat's a pancake another, like some rules. " Rules is like folks sometimes, an' not to be trusted; they're all nice an' pinicky onct or twict, an' next time je see 'em they're way off the handle, an' you've got to get acquainted with em' all over -*gaiQ. That Widow Jenkins, now, she's that sort ? well, Marion; here you aro at last, an' right glad \am to see you, too." \ * <;I expected you woul? be, Aunt Hep sie, and I should have been here earlier, tot company came last night and I could lot get away." DUSTED AND ARRANGED EVERYTHING. A bright-faced girl had entere I .in 1 wag taking off her wrappings as if per fectly at home in the farm-house, and perf&tly sure of her welcome. She was of middle height and a graceful build. Her face was a very pleasing one, though just where the charm was onc^cbuti' scarcely determiue, whether"" in the brighj^expngajptwfy^^e warm, sym or the winning ex jres siou, but at all events it wm there, if somewhat beyond analysis, ami Marion Ahislie was a charming girl, with the faculty <>f attaching wnrm friendship to herself from young aud old. "Uoc'e Jerry's foik^ came and stopped over on their way to Water town to spend Thanksgiving with Eli, she explained. "They wanted me to go too, but I knew you needed me, and J. .can go there an other time." ! "Land sakes, child, you needu't a stayed for that.'' Aunt Hepsie turned quickly around from her baking. "I could a found some one else to help me through.'' "But some one else wouldn't have been me, would it, Auntie? ' The gir came :tud /aid her bright head on the el-Iec ; woman's slio iHer. "And then. i loo, Thanksgiving isn t quite the same i to mcTauy where else but litre." "No, Marion. nob;>dy can till your j place,'' the bony old hand, withered an.l , worn in service for other.-, smoothed the ej'.tiny bl;?.ck hair caressingly. "If vou - ? - - was realiy juv own darter, I couldn't se: more store by you." A crimson flush ovcwpreal thy so Urunette cheek. "You haven't heard anything fran Jack, have you, Marion) ' "Xo, auntie. not a w?ri." * sighed. " Just a yetr a^o to-day, ami i*. s?e us like teu. v '? What was it, child, that set him oil I v?r" as ced Mr?. liarber gently. "I've always wanted t?> k?w>**, J).!* t thought w hen vou wanted n:e to hear it you'd tell Uif."' ??Why, Aunt llepsi-*, didu'c ' you o vr" The-girl raued her hjead with a ioo* of a>t fni?.imen;. "I nu.ipjseJ of l bourse that he had toll you the whol* .ooi.su story, or 1 should have spoken o' it long ago/' ??Not a word, cearie. lie only ca.ne in o:;e da', bin fa;t; all -viiiie iad set. to i ? ? i ?oil me that he was goinj\ aojl that alt ' were flirt* and deceit ri. I thought tor a vhsie that y?ii| h*d mil ?erei in:;*, i>t:t I've p-ai Imo and t#o to v/.-t. ? r nud c waged :oy ?? A ny , \ ou knov, miniieJ 'I: wa? in timai** Dully Joking* J jbou: that tiOKS* ? | * | "There. I kno\rei that ! tormenteci widder had something or other to do with ? k-ritt ? J' terrupted Mrs. Barber energeti Jt -!y. ? . "And the kept telling me ' ot the at tention* which Jack was paying her on the sly, and intimating more than she really said, until at last I taxed Jack with it, and ? \6u know how quick Jack is, auntie?" "Yes, ready to go off the hia.lle at a minute's warnin' an' then jtoa pr.ml to own that he's in the wrong." ? And he wouldn't give me a word of satisfaction as to whether! she htd told the truth or not, only that if I ha I cora r- ? ^?d distrusting him so soon we icij;bt 11 pan first as last, with other v*' .hes which cut deeper still. 0'4, it was so hard. Aunt E^pspie; when I loved hira so. He accused ma of >?einar jeal ous, but it^ras not to. If v thought it best if he really cared fo. v , to hiv^ the matter settled rightly before it wa too late." ^ 1 ' ' \Y "My poor little girl ; and that widder. " with detestation /in every tone, "shir* been after- him tbfcker'n mush ever since she took oS be* mourain', an' all her grievance is thatbe would have nothing to say to hepw ] { "Yes. I know that, now that it is too late, Aunt Hespie, but tv'.e'tf uo use cry ing for spilt milk," a Jjr ight tear trem bled on the long eyelj^^a, "and I will try and notapoil my Jf anksgiving with tears.'* & * j For the next ft'ti iurt the discussing of the measuring J /ghing and beating predominated lug i large kitchen and spicy ocors Mkp ^ck nook and crano>> penetrating t'< to the parlor "Seem pies when Jac! remarked "'pears like there pumpkin pies like he doea." ^?Perhaps that young minister who is riming Horaoe will eat Jack's shire," .suggested Marion.^ "Minister < usually have a pretty petite 'or goo. I things, I've noticed." ; ! "I s'jK?e now Horace will-be, anxious to show of! bis relation* in pretty goock style to his college tried l,"rejoiaei A'nc Hespie, rtflectively. "When h<? toid mc he was cominsr. he said, Ujuhin-r like 'i^ve been bragging on your cojk ing, auntie, and I waut to show fcinimy Holland what a real Thflplta^ivmg in the country is like.' " At length the coo!<iu~/was all done, ihe big turkey dres*ei and reiiy fo. stuffing, and?be rjws ani row* of pies aad rich, plummy cakcs, the pan of doughntvls and the heaping platter of cup cakes and another of jam tarts sug gested a large gathering ou the morrow . lu Jack's room alone, no prep tratiou was to be made, for Aunt Hepsie would use the room for no one but its owner ; but Marion went in there with a lonely i'etling in her heart, ^e soug dyin.? upon hi*r lips as 6he did so. She lingered abont the little ilmsiag table, absently pushing in the f)in> wbjfh spelled "Jack" upoa hi? pin cushion, and thinking of him with such longing that Jacsc could not have re maioed angry with her could h-i Itave seen her hungry eyes. ?rJ. _ . Suddenly a thoughi^snre to iier?sht wotiiu prepare Juc~. )i room, too, tts if he were coming with the rent, and v.it.i nimble tiogere sho dusted and. arranged everything in the best possiole'orJer, pinning a spray of dried ferns and suuuc upon the window curtains that the cloje ness might be dispelled by the clear, kt;en air of a perfect November day. The window opened out upou the broad verandah, and Jack had oftea climbed its supports and gone to his room and to bed without awakening the family, when ,nt home. iw1 * She would have been his wife now, had he not gone off in such hasty, reasonable anger, and she sank ou knees by the bedside when all was doo^ '?Oh, Jack, comeback. Come back t*. , me," her heart cried out, and if spirit; voices can become audible to each other., Jack's spirit must have heard the earnesc appeal wherever be was. i'he house began to till with a merry crowd of rela^w^t au early hour 0:1 li e morj^^.N||wjr Thanksgiving dinner at Atii ] ;] ~''&K was a treat to youa j and olo f'Srs. Barber herjelf lookei curewcrJii^fed old. '?I gue^s I was too tired to e1??p well last iyghi," she said, as she battel the L-\ 'for I keptturniu' an' twistio' a:l '?ng, an' I dreamed o' burglars atf is, an' along toward mornin' I de clare if I didu'i imagine some nae t-neakia' around the house. I was tu> li'ed to get up an' see. an' 1 dropped o! to sleep a^itD, aa'c must bsen a dreau with the rest on't, for there's nothing m -iinj. an' th? silver sponuj s>C right ??:: ;'.ie dining, room table." ' ??'? anyone had conic ia for plunder tli'.v xv.iutd bs'.'e lonke I lor silver 6rst of a. , ?> > r i) a rra't havj ->een *tkea-.u?nir. : ' ? ? Qjr -vr *" fr auntie. ""replied Marion^ smiling. "But what shall we d? with die children m'ti' dinner's renjy?** '?Send them upstairs toi play," h* Aunt Iiepsey. "Here comes your Cou-. Horace ai?d bis friead, and a proper, tin young man he looks, too." A moment: later and Marion *as mak ing her company bow to the joun^ clergyman and as she carried h:sov<erco? and hat jftto t e hallway, shr <rave tli* children permission to go Jnto t?u chain!>c-r?. ?'And please don't l>e rude or noisy, she -at?i, trarniugly, 4*for Awat Uepsey hn>- a headache tun momiDg." ??We woa't. We'll be still as mi?e.*' &iid on-; of tli-* flock, cohddeatiy ? jus if it were a possible state o? things at a family merrymaking. j j ; \ , . i i:. J*'