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EATJRENS.- g. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1891. VOL. VII. EATJRENS.- g. C, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1891. NO. 18. DK. 1'A IMAGE IN ATHENS. WCMDr.P.S OF THE ACROPOLI8 AND ITS SUGGESTIONS. O, OCK1U lo Aero* Tli>' Ji.vhi Where tt>e Atlieninua Dally Met to u< .r ur Teil Some New Thing? si. l'oul on Muri nil?A City Wholly Utven to Idolatry BnooKLVN, Nov. 22.?The congrega tion at tlio Tabernacle, led *?y cornet an ' organ, i w this tnorniug with great power tho hyuin ofIbano Watts^ begin niog: Odr God, our help lu ages past, Our hope for yearn to couie. The sermon, which was on tho xvusvm pobs, Is tho sixth oltbo scrieB Dr. Tab/ m:r c is preaching on tho subjects BUg gosiod by his tour in Hiblo lauds. His tagt was taken from Acts xt?, 1?, ''While Paul waited for them at Athens his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry." (t seemed as it morning would never come. Wo had arrived after dark in Athens, Greece* and the night was sleop less with oxpcotnltou, aid my watch slowly announced to nio ouo and two ami three and four o'clock; and at the] first ray of dawu I called our party to lookout 6f the window upon that city to will?. '\ l'aal said ho was a debtor, nnd to which dio whole earth is debtor lor Greek architecture, Greek sculpture, Greek poetry. Greek eloqueu:o, Greek prowess and Greek history. Tim', morning in Athens wo sauntered for, u armed With' most generous and lovely letters from tho president, ot thoj TJmu d Stales and his bticrciary of state, and during nil our slay in that city those letters caused evory door and every gatoj and overy t^otnple and ovory palace to swing open ,before us. T!v uughtUstj geographical uanio o>r'< ;>.<th todu} V Amoricii. But this morning wo p??"> i\?iwA\ whore stov-d the Atora, tho r/cicnt I market plate, iho ' tyc?ditx wJwi pthttr--jJ soi era used to m^v*'their disiiplo*, walking whllo theitalked, auf1 where Paul, tho Chnsllnr/oacian, flung numy proud Sio enndi/ ! ihe laugh on many an impertinent Jfujureap. The marl et place- was the. A-uer of social aud politi cal Ute, and It?i the p'aco whero peo ple went J^1*affdViodr the news. 'i lie ma'tit place \?ay? a ?pu e three hutidrc^-.nVd fitly varies ^ong and two huitito* nnd fifty wltJrfi, nntl It Was given fi>. {t^^V^faA merchandise, nnd fg^ng an^^liesopliiztng. All this I BfeffifeG know in order to understand 11 .the BlWo when it says Paul, "There lOrc disputed he In the market daily with (hem (hat met him." You see it was ?the. best place tw got an audience, and if j a n an feel? himself called to preach ho wants people t?> preach to. But before we make our chief visits of today wo must take a turn at tho Stadium. Jt is a little way out-, but 20 wo must. The Stadium wa? -tho place whoro the foot race s occurred. Paul bad been out there no doubt, lor he frequently uses the -scenes of that I place as figures when ho tells vis, "Let | us 1 uu the race that is set before us, " and again. "They do it to obtain a cor- ] ruptiblo garland, bin we an im- ?rrupti ble." Tt.e marble and tho gliding have been removed but the high Jmouuds against w 'ch tho se tts were pilod are slid there. T'eu Suuilum is six hundred auo eighty feet, long, one. hundred aud thnty feet wide, aud heldf>rty thousand*1 spectators. There is today tho very t" * 2l through w'.iich the defeated racer departed fi om the Studium und from tho hisses of tho people, mid there aro the stairs up which tue victor wont- to the top Ot tho hill to be crowned with the lau cel. In tin's place contests with wild beasts sometimes too ; place,. acd while Had rian, ' ie empf .or, sat oa yonder height one. thousand beasts where slaiu in one colebrat.joo,.M.H.^.itH^rtS'thiefly for foot rfc^nFT atf).v?b*% pro posed to my' friend time, day while wo were In the Stadium thuiwe try which of us could run the sooner froni end to end of this histotjcal grcund. and so .it tho word given \<s the I lookers on wo starten- <*Ide by side hut1 before I got tlirough I tbuud out what Pu'u meant when he compares the spiritual'race with tho race im this very Stadium, as be says. W.ay a3ido every weight." My heavy overcoat aud my friend's freedom from such incumbrauco showed tho advantage In any kind of a ! race ot "laying aside every weight." Wo come now to tho Acropolis. It is u rock about two miles in circuatfer-] ghee at the base and a thousand 4cet In | Circumference at tho top and three hun dred feet hi :h. On It has been crowded moro elaborate architecture and sculp tuio than in any other placo under the whole heavens. On?;.?ally a fortress, afterward a congregation of temples and | Btfliuesnnd pillars, their ruins an en chantment from which no obtrorver eve. brt akH away. No.wouder that Arislldes! thought it the center of all things Greece, the cooler of the world, Attica, tho center of Greece; Athens, the center oi Attica, ami ihe Acropolis, the couter 01 Athens. Earthquakes huve shuken It, Vorres plundered It. J.oi i Elgin, the English embnssndor at Cbnstanlinople, yo\ pcrml&sion of the su'.tan to remove lrom tho Acropolis lal len piocca ot tho building, but he took from the building to England tho llnesi steiues, removing tin mat an expense ol eig ht huiuh'ed thousand dollars. .A storm overthrow nvoiy ol the statues of the Acropolis. Moro8iui, the general, at tempted to rernovo from a pediment the sculptured car and horses of "Victory, but tho clumsy machinery dropped it and all was lost. Hut tho overshadowing wonder of nil divinuico; centners in battle; weaponry from Marathon; chariot ol uigui; char'.ot ol the morning; h ?hcs of tho sun, the | fates, tho furies; etatuo of Jupiter holding I in hie right hand tho thunderbolt; silver , footed chair in which Xerxes watched tho battle of Salamis only a few miles away. Hero is tho colossal statue of Minerva In fud armor, oysB^of gray colored stono, figure of a Sphinx on hor head, gritTlns by her sldo (whichare lions with eagle's' beak), spear in one hand, staluoof liber ty In tho other, a shield carved with bat tle scenes, and even the slippers scul.> turod and tied on with thongs oi gold. Ear out at sea the sailors saw this statue ol Minerva rising hi;h above alt tho tem ples, gliltorlng in the sUu. Here are Kl..iu sol equestrians, statue of a hon ness, And there are the Graces, and yon der a horse in brouzo. There is a statue paid in the time of Augustus to have of its own accord turned mound from east to West and jjpit blond; sL.tues made out of shields c^^nicrt"! in battle; statue of Apollo, <% o"ILt ol locusts; statue of Ann trunk and singing; statue ot 1 . ? (irce-k ^venv-sbleXOT Acropolis and yonder^ytHijieo a statue of Hygeia, and the statute ^Theseus fltfhtiugr the Minotaur and thb sta^o of Hercules slaying serpents. Nd^Ta der that Petronlus said It was easieito find a god than a man iu Athens. Ob, the Acropolis! The most of Its 101.? - ples and statues made from the marble quarries of Mount Pentellcum. a little way from the city. Hut we cannot atop Iouger here, for] theTe is a hill t^ar by of more interest,! though it has not one chip of marble i<> suggest a statue or a temple. Wei hasten down the Acropolis to- ascond the Areopagus, or Mars HilV*fc ;*i 1* called. It Cook only about three mlnu\ tes to walk the dtt-tano?, and the two hilltops are so near that what I said in religious dlscoui ?e on Mara Ulli was 1 heard diatinutly by some English geny Omen on the Acropolis. This Majf ejlill is a rough pile of rock Dft^R fc-TV It was famous long bofoiMjew \?*.umcnt times. ^ TtrR^PersIans easily and terribly*^. saultedth^-Acropolls from thisIdjjR>p. Here assembled "tiMl court totjfcri,,^. nnls. It was held irHflP^dJpUiine, so that the faces of the juufiVcould not be seen, nor tho faces owho lawyers who mude the plea, and wir stead of a trial being one of smile i, It must have been one of wvf justice. But there was cue oonAion on this hill memorable ahovo/tll others. A little man/physically w*ak, and his rhetoric d/scilbed by himself as contemptible, /ad by his sermons rocked Athens with,'commotion, and he was Summoned ,?ther by writ of law or hearty invJiatlon to come upon that pulpit of rock and give a specimen of his theology. All the wise-acres of Athens tuined out and turned up to hear him ./The more venerable of them set In ao amphitheater, thft^granlte other people swarmed on all sides of the hill aud at the base of it to hear i ins.man, whom some called a fanatic, und others called a madcap, and others a blasphemer, and others styled con temptuously ''this fellow." Paul arrived in answer to the writ or invitation, aud confronted them and ga ??thom the biggest dose that mor tal's" eVev ?eok. j He was so built that, nothing couldscare him, aud as for Jupiter and. Atheala, the god and the aroddess, whose images were In full light on the adjoining hill, he had not io much regard for them as h? had for the ant that was crawling in the sand i under his feet. In that audience were the ilrst orators of the world, and they 1 had voices likellutes when they were I passive, and like trumpets when they were aroused, and I think they laughed in the sleeves of their gowns as this in dgnitlcant looking man rose to speak. In that audience we. e .Scholiasts, who inew everything, or thought they did, md from ti e end of the longest hair on 1 ihe top of their craniums to the end of tu?, nail on the longest toe, they were I jtufJfed with bypercrlticism, and they leaned back with a supercilious look to - listen. As in 1889,1 stood on that rock I ivhere Paul stood, and a slab of which i [brought from Athens by consent of the queen, through Mr. Tricoupis, tho i prime minister, and had placed In yon- ] ier Memorial Wall, I read the whole itory, Bible in hand. What I have so far said in this dia- : mrse was necessary in order that you may understand the boldness, the dell nice, the holy recklessness, the mag [licence of Paul's speech. The first thunderbolt he launched at the opposite tr'l?the Acropolis?that moment all uz littei with idols and temp1 es. He uries out, "God who made the world." Why, they thought that Prometheus made it, that Mercury made it, that Apollo'm&de It, that Poseidon made it, that Eros made it, that Pandrocus made it, that Boreas made It, that it took all the gods of the Parthenon, yea, all the arods and goddesses of the Acropolis to make it, and here stands a man with out any ecclesiastical title, neither a D. l?., nor even a reverend, declaring that the world was made by the Lord ol heaven and earth, r xd hencs the Infer ence that all tho splendid co\ ering of the Acropolis, so near that the people standing on the steps of the Parthenon could hear it, was a deceit, a falsehood, a sham, a blasphemy. Look at the fac?:s of his auditois; they are turning pale, and then red, and then wrathful. Them had been several earthquakes in that region, but that was the severo3t Bhocl- these men had e\ er felt. Tire Persians had bombarded the ACTOnolls .from the heights of Mars IIill,*imt this i>auiiltr? bonib^meut was greater and more tcrrllic. "What," said his hearers, "have we been hauling with many yokes of oxen for centuries, these blocks from the quarries of Mount Pentellcum, and have we bad our arch itects putting up t hose, structures of un paralleled splendor, and have we'had the greatest of all sculptors, Phidias, with his mm chiseling away at those wondrous pediments and cuttting away at these f riey.es, and have we taxed the nation's resources'to the Utmost, now to be told (hat thoae statues see noth ing, hear nothing, know nothing?" Oh, Paul, slop for a moment andgiva these startled and overwhelmed audi tors time to catch their breathl Make a rhetorical pause! Take a look around you at the interesting landscape, and give your heurers time to recover! N#, he does not make even a period, or so .much as a colon or ncmi< n, hut laun ches the second thunderbolt right after the first and in the same breath goes dp to say. God"dwelleth not In temples niade with hands." Oh', Paul! Is not d^ity more in the Parthenon, or more in the Erechthelim- v" more in the tehaple of Zeus '* ? ..iplus than in the open air, more than on tie- hilt where wo are sitting, more tb/ / on Mount Hjmettus out yonder,fjotu which the bees get their honey? v^N? more!" re spond-) Paul, "He dwelleth not In tem ples made with hands." But surely the preacher on the pol fit of rock on Mars Hill will stop now. Iis audience can endure no more. Two thunderbolts are enough. No, iu the same breath ho launches the third thun derbolt, which to them . Is more fiery, more terrible, more demolishing than the others, as he cries out. "hath made of one blood all nations. Oh, Paul! you forget you are speaking to the proudest and most exclusive audience in the world. Do not say "ot one blood." You cannot mean that. Had Socrates and Plato and Demosthenes and Solon and Lycurguaand Draco and Bophocles and Euripides and ./Eschylus and Parl ors and Phidias and Mlltlades blood just like the Persians, like the Turks, ?like the Jf<fyptian8, like the common herd of humanity? "Yes," says Paul, "of one bipod all nations." Hurely that must be the closing para graph of the sermon. Ills auditors must let up from the nervous strain. Paul has smashed the Acropolis and smashed tho naMonal pride of, the Greeks, and what more can he?ay? Those Grecian orators, standing on that place, always closed their addresses with something sublime and ollnoac trie?a peroratioif-^and Paul is going to give them a peroration which will eclipse in power and magesty all that ho his yet said. Heretofore ha has hurl ed one thunderbolt at a time; now he wilt close by hurltug twe at snce. The little old man, under the power of his speech, has straightened himself up, and tne stoop has gone out of his shoul 1 dsrs. and he looks about three feet tall Isrthnn when he bogan; anOhls eyes, which wer? quiet, became two Humes of Are; und his face, which was calm in the introduction, new depicts a whirl wind of emotion as he ties the two thunderbelts together with a cord of in consumable courage and hurls them at 1 the crowd now standing or Bitting aghast?the two thunderbolts of Kesjur jrectlon ?lud Last. Judgment. His clos ing wo*4fw*rere, "Because he hath ap pointed a>Juy in which he ?vlll judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained, whereof he hath given assunuice unto all men in that ho hath rained him from the dead.'.' llemeiuber those thoughts were to them r>. vel and provocative; that Christ, the despised Nazarene, would come to be their judge, aud they should have to get up out of their ct tuetsries to Btand before him and take their eternal doom. Mightiest burnt of elocutionary power ever heard The ancestors of some of those (irecks had heard DomoBtheut-s in his oration on the crown, had heard iEsohlnes in his speeches against Tim archus aud Ctesiphon, had heard Plato In his great argument for immortalit y of the soul, had heard Socrates on his deathbed, suicidal cup of hemlock, in hand, leave.his hearerd in emotion too great to bear; had in the theater of Dionysus at the foot of the Acropolis (the ruius of its piled up amphitneater and the marble floor of its orchestra still there) seen enacted the tragedies of ^Eschylus and Sophoch s, but neither had the ancestors of these Grecians on Mars Hill or themselves ever heard or witnessed such tornadoes of moral power as that with which Paul new whelmed his hearers. At those, two thoughts of resurrectiou and judgment the audience sprang to their leal. Some moved they adjourn to some other day to hear more on the same theme, but Qttr?^'l,iVihav?towi the sacred orator t? pieces. The record says: "Some mocked." 1 suppose it means that they mimicked the solemnity of hjtj voice; that they took off his Impassioned gesticulations, and they cried out: "Jew! Jew! Where did you study rhetoric? You ought to hear our orators speak! You had bet ter go back to your business of tent making. Our Lycurgua knew more in a minute than you will know In a month, bay, where did you get that crooked back, and those, weak eyes from ? Ha! ha! You try to teach usGreciauB! What nonsense you talk about when you speak of resurrection and judgment. Now, little old man,climb down the side of Mars Hill and get out of sight as soon as possible." "Some mocked." But that scene adjourned to the day of which the sacred orator had spoken? the day of resurrection and judgment. As in Athens, that evening in 1889, we climbed down the pile of slippery rocks, where all this had occurred, on our way back to our hotel, I stood half way between tho Acropolis and Mats In the gathering shadow) of oveatide, I seemed to hear those two hills in sub lime and awful converse. "I am chief ly of the past;" said the Acropolis. "I am chiefly of tho *=t?tu?.-?,"- .-..m \Cd Mars 11111. The Acropolis said: "My orawm are dead. My lawgivers are dead. My poets are dead. My architects are dead. My Bcuptora are dead. Iam a monu ment of the dead past. I shall never, never again bear a song suag. 1 will never again see a column lifted. I will never again behold a goddess crowned." Mars Hill responded: "I too, have a history. I had on my htights warriors who will never again unsheath the sword, and judges who will never agaiu utter a doom and orators who will never again make a plea. But my in fluence is to be more in the future thau it ever was iu the past. The words that mission;' y, Paul, uttered that oxciting day in the hearing of tho wisest men and the populace on my rocky shoul ders have only begun their majtBtic role; the brotherhood of man, and tho Christ of God. and the peroration of resurrection and last judgment with which the Tarsian orator closed his ser mon that day amid the mocking crowd shall yet revolutionize the planet. Oh, Acropolis! 1 have stood hero long enough to witness that your gods are no gods at all. Your Boreas could not control the winds. Your Neptune could not manage the sea. Your Apollo never evoked a musical note. Your goal Ceres never grew .* harvest. Yrour goddess of wisdom, Minerva, never knew the Greek alphabet. Your Jupl lev coultl not handle the lightnings. But the God whom 1 proclaimed on tue day. when Paul preached before the astounded assemblage on my rough heightsls the Godot-mittiC; the God of wisdom, the God of power, the God of love, the God of storms, the God of flun shine, the God of the land and the God of the sea, tho God over all, blessed for* ever." Then the Acropolis spake and said, as though in self doleuse, "My Plato argued tor the immortality of tho soul, and my Socrates praised virtue, and my Mittiades at Marathon drove back the Persian oppressors." "Yes," said Mars Hill, "your Plato laboriously guessed at the immortality of tho soul, but my Pr. \, divinely inspired, declared it as a faet straight from Clod. Your Socrates praised virtue, but expired as a suicide. Your Miltiades was bravo against earthly tow, yet died from a wound ignominionsly gotten in after defeat. Uut my Paul challenged all earth ami all hell with this battle shout. "We wrestle not against llesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wicked ness in high places, and then on the 29th of June, in the year 00, on the road to Ostiu, after the sword of the headsman had given one keen atmke, took the crown of martyrocm." I After a moment'a silence by both hills the A crop Iis moaned out in the darkness. "Alas! Alas!" and Mars Hili responded, "Hosannah! Hosannah!" Then the voices of both hills became Indistinct, and as I passed on aud away In tho twilight I seamed to hear only two Bounds?a fragment of Penlelicon marble from the architrave of the Acropolis dropping down en the ruins of a snattered l<\<\Vfald the other sound seemed to cemo'i'tom the rock en Mars Hill, from which we had just descend ed. But we were by. this time so far off that the fragments of sontences were smaller when dropping from Mars Hill than were the fragments '??> fallen marble on the Acropolis, and ?<vudi only hear parts of disconiiecte:-..)en tences wafted on the night air?,r(\-l who made the world"?"of ono blotty all nations"?"appointed a day In which he will judgo tho world"?"raised fror? the dead." As that night in Athens I put my tired hyad on my pillow, and the ex citing scenes of the day passed through my mind, I thought on the samo^sub ject on which, as a boy,1 I made my commencement, speech in N!bio's thea ter on graduation day from the New York university, viz, "The moral effects of -sculpture and architecture." but r further than I cenld have thought In boyhood, I thought in Athens that night that the moral effects of architec ture and sculpture depend on what you do-in ,Treat boilings niter they are put un-nnd upon the character ot the men wflrvae forms you cut in tho marble. Yea! I thought that night what Struggles the martyrs went through in order that In our time tha Gospel Might (have fall swing; and I thought that BHK^flH^HfbflHBfliSaffill night wiirtt w-Mratny religion It must be that could absorb a hero like him whom we- have considered to-day, a man tho superler of the whole human race, the inildels but pigmies or homunoull com pared with him: aud I thought what a rapturous consideration it is that through the same grace that saved Paul, we shall confront this great apostle, and shall have the opportunity, amid tke familiarities of tho skies, of asking him whut was the greatest oc-! easion of all his life. He may say, "The shipwreck of Mellta." H? may say, "The riot at Ephesus." He may say, "My last walk out on the road to Ostia." But, 1 think ho will say, "The day I stood on Mars | Hill addressing tho Indignant Areo pagites, and looking off upon the tower ing form of the goddess Minerva, and the majesty of the P trthenon and all the brilliant divinities of the Acropolis. That account in the Bible was true. My spirit was stirred wlthiu me when 1 saw tho city wholly given up to idol atry.'" ?OINQ TO THE THIRD PARTY. Xlio Imlastrlal Orgaulcatloae to Hohl a Convention, Indianapolis, Nov. 19.?The com mittee on confederation of the various industriid organizations met this morn ing at the Hotel Denison. This coin mitteo was composed of five represen tatives from each of the six organiza tions and was chosen by the latter for tho purpose of calling a congress of all labor and industrial classes. Tho dutv of tho present meeting of the committee is to tlx the plaro. The matter occasioned a lengthy discussion and ended In referring the question to a Bub-committee, consisting of Terrell, Taubeneck and Baumgartin, with iu sviif,.M?hP that neither Indianapolis, Louisville, Cincinnati, OuicugVr -ol : prlngOeldj Ills., bo chosen. rids committee will look into the de sirability cf theao places and the rates of transportation that can b i obtained, alter which it will report. It will make a dectsiou within twenty days. Tho political phase of the situation cropped out in the meeting, consuming much of the time of the session. The question at issue was whether the call for a confederate assembly ou February 22 should leave the way open for the nomination of a national ticket at that meeting or whether the scope of the work to be done thero should be limit ed so as to prevent political action. The latte< course was dually decided upon. When the assembly convenes it will proceed to draw up a platform of declarations and demands and the two great political parties will be required to give them consideration aud endorse ment. It Is not expected by any one that the great parties will take ?ny notice of these demands and the wny will remain clear for the People's parly to call a con vention after the other political conven tions have been held and adopt, the plat form of the confederate labor assembly. "SWa is tho plan of action now determin ed up?tl uj vj-- i ftople's party. Tho confederate^.,..^ , J f lnd..?,. trial unions as it is called1, W^VXa minds of the committee, bo the ino.-ft important organization of recent years. It alms tor the consolidation of all la boring classes and tho subsequent di version of tho whole strength of gi gantic combination into the ranks of the third party. It will be composed of twenty-llye delegates at large from each confederate organization and one dele gate for each leu thousand or fraction thereof of members.. A committee consisting of C. W. Ma cune, II. W. BaumgarteD, F. W. ?ilroth and J. B. Stelle, was appointed to pre pare an address to the laboring people setting forth the objects and purposes of the February meeting, which address is to be published within twenty days. THE PEOPLE'8 PARTY. tiibv inHue a Proclamation Retting Forth their Plans. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 20.?The | executive committee of the People's party today issued a proclamation, signed by II. F. Taubeueck, chairman, Robert Schilling, secretary, and M. C. Hanking, treasurer. It starts out: "The national co umtttee of tho Peo ple's party of tho United States deem it proper to lay before their constituents at this tiino some statements of the re ports of the conference held by them with various representatives of organ ized industry in this city during the past few days. Those results have been in every rcspecl most satisfactory. There is no longer any doubt that can didates for President and Vice Presl- [ dent will be in|tbe field before June let, I 1802, nominated by the People's party. It seems to us very plain that the time has come when no influence of the old political organizations and no power of aggregated capital can provent the hon est and unanimous coming togetner and co-operation of all tho labor organ izations in the United State, whether employed in the workshop, in the mine, or on the farm. This is an Important event in the history of tho natiou and I of civilized man--thero has been no precedent of It in any of the past ages." It has this to say about the Kansas] election: "As a striking illustration of Colossal lies with which the people are fed aad misled, we would poiut to the vote of the Peoples' party this year in the State of Kansas. Nine-tenths of the population of this country, incon sequence of the gross misrepresenta tions ef tho press, bolieve that the Peo ple's party vote of Kansas In 1801 fell off very greatly from their vote In 1800; while the official publication of tho vote taken this year shews that although tho total vot? of all parties in Kansas was about 30,000 less Chan It was a year ago, the People's party vote was actually in creased about 1*4 per cent, over its vote in lS'.K), or 47 per cent, of tho en tire vote. The Republican majority In South Dakota was reduced from 10.000 inlB?Oto 2,700 in 1801, while in Ne braske tho People's party came within 8,000 votes of defeating the combined power iof both the old parties, and elected eleven district judges. It is true that in seme judicial districts of Kansas the People's party candidates were de feated, but it was only by an unholy union of the Demociatic and Republi can parties against them." They'll Uav* War. Y Uio Janeiro, Nov. 18.?From dis | patches received hero today it is learned j that the insurgents aro fortifying the city ol Rio Grande and aro making pre parations lor repelling any advances mado on tho placj by the forces of Presi dent Fouscoa. They have sunk two ships in tho mouth of the Rio Grande river to obstruct navigation. The gov ernment has order cd a force of troops to the City ot Ucsberro, the capital of tho province of San'a Catherine, 4G0 milos southwest of'.do Juuoiro. It contains tho pal*74rtf the president of the prov ince and awtrsenat und is deiendedby several forts. W?iiTe? te H?<if to Manic. Amr.knb, Texas, Nov. 20.?William 11. Flizzie was hanged here to-day for the murder of his wife in Comnnohe County la>t June. Two days ago he req uested that the Abileno Cornet Baad be permitted to play at the hanging. ? THE STATE'S FINANCES. THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ?T?TE TREASURER. Tbo Tronsury IUnerve Fand Practically a Myth?H.r.uUInK the Coniola?A Brl?f Statement of th? Stnta'a Financial Con ditions Columbia, 8. C, Nov. 20.?The fel lowiug is the annual report of the State Treasurer to the Legislature, which will no doubt be read with interest: From tht itatements or exhibits giv en In this report, an idea can be formed of the condition of the Unauoial affairs of this State. No-one can say that they are in an eminently satisfactory condi tion. The fiscal year was begun with cash liabilities amounting to $489,197.33, and with cash assets only 977,943 93, and with merely 03,943 to the credit of the general fund, and available for the current expenses of the government. Notwithstanding the facts just stated and the further circumstance that the receipts from phosphate royalty fell off 862,030.60, a8 compared with the preced ing year, and that some 015,000 of the receipts of tho fiscal year just closed were applied to payment of debts of preceding year, fortunately we have been able to meet every demand made upon the Treasury. We have paid the loan negotiated under Act of the Leg islature by the last Administration amounting with interestto850,500,and also every claim against the State as it was presented, without resorting to a loan, except in one small instance. A loan of 8800 was obtained from the Central National Bank, with which to purchase bluo four and a half por cent. hoBds and certificates of stock needed for purposes of exchange, and purpose was technically lovured for in the appropri?V*ou of 81.000 for the fcSKSGJ! W completing the consolida tion. It will be necessury for the Leg islature to appropriate the uum of 8800 to pay this loan kindly made to the State without iuterest. I beg leave to call your attention and that of tho Legislature, especially, to the fact that tho State owes a large floating debt, es timated at 8271.890.07 of past due inter est alone, hesldeB unpaid Appropria tions as set forth above, and to the fur ther fact that the so-called "Treasury Reserve Fund" is practlcaily a myth representing for the most part debts, and not credits of the State. The Sink ing Fund portion of what constituted the original "Treasury Reserve Fund," amounting to 840,047.18, when the Act was passed in 1880, has since been ex pended, as I understand, under laws governing the Sinking Fund in pay ment ot warrants drawn against it by the Board of Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. The direct Tax Fund portion under Act of 1884, amounting originally to 839,244.39, (tho amount re ceived from Congress) has beon reduced to 818,453.77, by payments upon the warrants of the Governor to parties to whom it belonged under the law. The interest on the unfuuded bonds has been reduced gradually as the fund ing iu Brown Consols progressed, to 892,893.43, as estimated. Bin it shoiMd bo borne in mind that these are in a | c7;ffio debts the State owes, and do not gerve in*?ft(HS.a Pructically held in re Tho only avaBatfe^W reserve fund Is to raise aol?u.cre,,<te a by taxation or the sale of state TSVUIW ties aud then hold it in reserve for the' special purposes for which it was cre ated. A reserve fund is really needed to meet the large floating debt of the State, composed principally of past duo but uncalled for interest, and interest on unfunded bonds, estimated to be 8271,890.07, besides unpaid appropria tions. It would perhaps better satisfy tho people of the State if the Legisla ture would have this reserve fund in vestigated by a competent committee. It is surprising that tho consolidation does not progress more rapidly mid that tho past due interest has not been called for. Some of it may never bo called for. However, a demand is liablo to be made upon the treasury at any time for the mon*y, and yet it has been the policy of the Legislature to ignore tho danger and raise barely enough ; money to meet the current expenses of the State, and depend upon borrowing to meet any such emergency. 1 feel it I my duty to respectfully suggest that this is not the wisest policy, especially at this time when so large a part of tho State debt is nearlng maturity, and when it is more than ever incumbent upon the State to see that her treasury is provided with ample funds to pay promptly any just cIp'o) against her. I complied with instructions given mo in the Act, and had proper notices inserted in newspapers. 1 also had cir culars and copies of the Act printed, nrd notice jjiven that they could be had lpon application oy parties desiring in formation, and have sent out a large lumber of copies. Copies of tho circu lars and notices are furnished with this report. I also had prepared with much care the necessary books In which to record all transactions under the re funding Act and duplicates of these books for the offices of Governor and Secretary of State. An agreement was I entered into with tho American Bank Note Company, to furnish the necessary dates and to engrave the bonds and stock certificates as needed. 1 have or lered and paid for only three hundred ono thousand dollar bonds, three hun dred live hundred dollar bonds, and two hundred and fifty stock certificates, re serving orders f?r a further supply as may be required from time to time, as refunding progresses. Until .luly, 1892. the office is restiict I ed to the system of exchanging the new four per cents for the Brown Consols. Hut littlo progress has been made in I exchanging. Only 829,390.70 of new j four per cents, havo been exchanged for an equal amount of Brown Consols. Under tho rigid requirements of the Act, 1 am afraid not many exchanges will be effected. Propositions were made, if authority had been given me to accept, might havo resulted in my exchanging one.Million of these bonds by this tune. 1 am not seeking responsibility, but I respectfully submit; that perhaps a wider discretion should be given to the Governor and Treasurer than is al lowed in the Act as it stands. In the feasible event of the holders of the Irown Consols declining to make a voluntary exchange for the new four per cents., such provisions should be made as will Insure the sale of the four per cents. In order that proceeds thore | of may be applied to the redemption of the Ccnsols at maturity In July, 1893. An appropriation of funds should also bo made for the payment of the [difference of two per ceut. In Interest reo uired In the Act. I The variety, character and condition of the assets of the Clemson bequest give 1 the Treasurer and his assistants much trouble and increases very greatly his responsibility. The State Treasurer has virtually been made an executor In thU case and responsible for the man agement of an estate, some of tho so ! curities of which are payable in anoth er State, and soms are against parties in different Counties in this State, se cured by mortgages on properly, con ing which I know nothing of my own knowledge. See table No. 8 for dstalled ^statement. I have given notice to all against whom claims aro past due to settle by November 7th, or the c^ims will be placed In the hands of thtr^t I torney General for collection, my InteVj tlon being to invest ?11 the funds i\i State securities. 'h 1 respoctfully ask that the I/egisla\ ture will autheri/.e the speedy conver sion of all notes, etc., into cash?the In vestment of this into a piece of scrip such us the land scrip. The requirements under Act or 1880, No. 180, in regard to the Land Scrip have not beeu carried nut, because the Hoard of Trustees of the University of South Carolina, to whom the Scrip was issued, have not been able to produce it for cancellation. Conseqently the State Treasurer could not issue the now Scrip in lieu thereof to the Trustees of the University, and the Trustees of Clem Bon College. This oflice holds the re ceipt of W. D. Simpson, President of the Trustees of the University of South Carolina, for this missing Scrip. If it is impossible to find tlds Scrip, as seems to be the case, It might bo well for the Legislature nevertheless to author ize the issue of Scrip to t? o two Boards of Trustees respectively, and at the same time provit'e for converting tho CIeui8on Bequest into sin iliar Scrip. The collection of the privilege tax on fertilizers was imposed upon this office by Act of December, 1800. Table No. 0 exhltits the amount collected by this oflice nnd from what companies, and also tho amount col'ected by the De partment of Agriculture. Collections for this fiscal year exceeded those of 1880-00, by 814,240,25. On January 10, 1801,1 received from A. W. Jones, auditor Abbeville Count.-/, and ex-olllno eRCheator, flJ9&,?jQr?s tho sum of escheated esta-Veer T.Stacy Bur ton. i>. "-./"lfm statement, on file in this tnlioe. 1 took the liberty of placing tills amount tu one of our best savings hank at au interest while awaiting needed Instructions from the Legislature as to what disposition to make of It. Alexander Downer, of Kdgefield County, Borne time pritr to 1838, in his will devised and bequeathed tho princi pal part of his estate lor tho purpose of establishing and maiutalng a school for orphan children on his plantation. The Legislature in 1838 ordered tho appraise ment and sale of the plantation aud the erection and maintenance of a school lor orphan children at or near the plan tation. In 1880 the Legislature ordered the sale of the school building and lands by a board of commissioners, and the investment and reinvestment of the funds and their presoYution. In 1887 an Act was passed authoriz ing tho State Treasurer to receive the assets of this fund from E. S. Ham mond, troasuror, and to safely keep the same. Authority was given to invest the assets in Seuth Carolina and Geor gia Stato securities or in bonds of the city of Augusta. As stated In this re port, the fund now amounts to $8,274 38, and it might be well to make some practical use of tho sums not Inconsis tent with the benevolent purposo of Mr. Downer. _ Hot RcpabUcnim. New YORK, Nov. 18.?The executive committee of tho Republican county committee held a breezy meeting here today. Considerable dissatisfaction was manifested with the administration at Washington at not furnishing jobs for the hard workers of tho party here. A ?Solution was passe.I. That the sccre upo^S appointed a committee to wail insist thWfiGKelary of tho Treasury and meat employ bo t?flW!? in the govern cans put In their places. -ytlRcpubli qucsted t? make a complete list 01"*? DomocratB in the government employ iu tho city and to suggest the names of Re publicans to fill their places. Just at that moment one of the members shout ed out, "How about your civil service?" Instantly G. W. Wanaiuaker was on his feet. llTo the d ? with your civil services; what we want is all Republi cans in this administration." Tho chairman called him to order sharply._ "VVholo Family AaPhVXlatcd. AKDKRSON, Ind., Nov. Vi.?An entire family was suffocated by gas at Lapello last night. Mrs. Mary Huffman aud her two sous, l'eter and Newton, both grown, retired for the night and left the gas burning at high pressure in a stove. Somehow tho dritit was imper fect, and tho blaze was extinguished durintr the night. Gas poured into the room and asphyxiated the whole fam ily. Their condition wan not discov ered until a lato hour in the morning.1 when a neighbor called and tried to gel in. Tho doors were locked, but peering through the windows the lifeless body of Newton, the youngest, was seen lying In bed. The doors were broken open and Mrs. Huffman and the older son taken out into the air and a physician hastily summoned. Alter woiking with them for an hour or two anima tion returned, but they cannot livo. The younger boy was dead when dis covered. _ The Price of Cotton. Atlanta, Nov. 18.?It seems that there Is no end to tho fall in the price of cotton. There was a drop of six points more up to noon. Tho price at noon of January cotton was 7.78 cents per pound. Tho day before it was 7.81. The closing price was 7.81. The decline has been steady. There's no telling how much lower it will go, as the re coipts are steadily increasing, To-day's estimated receipts are 82,000 bales. Tho receipts today a year ago were 50,000 bales only, a difference of 20,000 bales. Tho difference In price is 2 cents less than to day one year ago. I "I believe that it will prove a bless ing in disguise to the farmers," Said a prominent cotton buyer to a reporter. "It will load them to plant more corn and rye. They ought to bo planting rye right now. It is the surest winter crop, and brings good prices. \ There are many interesting phases to tho sit uation. The heavy receipts are ?n doubtedly the cause of the rapid de cline. It readied within two points of this price lust year. With heavy crops two years it is natural that the price should drop a little. I don't believe it will fall much lower, the bottom has about been reached. I have known the timo when I sold cotton for Uyo cents a pound, and thought I was doing well, but provisions were proportionately cheap. The farmers will learn a lesson and profit by this experience. ?.....?t Out for Thttin. New Berne, N. C, Nov. 18.?Two -epresentatives of a lloston bad debt agency, who camo hero last week, left tlds citv bright and early, leaving be hind them a debt which some rival agency would find it hard to collect. The men, who gave their names as M. L. Hubbard and V. M. Weaver, claimed to be traveling represent?ti ves of a debt agency with headquarters at lloston. They engaged board with Mrs. J. M. Hlnes, of New Berne, and, after run ning up a bill of 816 for their board, left for parts unknown, taking everything they had with them except the bill, which they kindly left with their land lady. As no answerB can bo gotten to letters written to the Boston firm whose name they gave, it Is supposed here that I the men are dead beats and are taking lln the country as they go. - MURDERED HIS UNCLE. HU Furpofte Wm to Obtain the Old Mitu'a L.tfe iDRurauo*. Faystteville, N. C, Nov. 18.?Tho J]P( J). A. McDougald,charged with kn'- ,ux his uncle, Simon Counolly, aa old Han living in Uobeson county, be gan her* to-day. MoDougald was a lead'ng merchant ot Laurinburg, was president of the 1. M. C. A. and prom inent \n church and social circles. lie is also of a most excellent family. It is charged tbet ?>? left bis homo in Lau rinburg on the afternoon ot tho 21st day of April, 1891, and going to his uncle's house, called him out to ask Hie way to a neighbor's, and when a few hundred yards from the house shot Ins uncle down in cold blood, whore the old man was found dead the next morn lug. Three parties were lmmediatclv arrested on suspicion, at the instance of MoDougald. Alter several days' in vestigation they weie discharged. Sim pleton was directed against McDou gald, and he lied tho State and was ru cently arrest cd in Oregon by a l'lnker t?n detective and brought bas ier trial. There are 150 witnesses in the cuse. The motive chamed for the murder is that McDoug/ld wanted to get the Insurance on K?s uncle's lite, in which he was intervsted. All tho facts are circumstantial, and It promises to he the mdet remarkable trial In this State sincfe'thc war. WJuvisc'the case was called to-day both ?/noes announced their readiness and a jury was soon selected, composel of nine farmers and three clerks. Dr. lt. H. Lewis, coroner of Hobeson couuty, tho first witness, testified that he saw the murdered man the morning after murder; that two bullets passed through his head and caused death. Tho testimony of the next flrtOeSfl tended to show that McDougald k ft his home In Luurinburg on the morn ing of April 21, went to Maxton ar t from there to Shannon, a short dntanct from the scene of the murder. C. A Cottingham traveled on a train from Laurinburg to Maxton with tho de fendant, McDougald had a duster and a black valise and got oil at Maxton. E, McCormac saw McDougald at Max ton on April 21st, and McDougald asked him about trains to FayetteviUe, The prisoner now wears a full beard. All tho witnesses examined tc-day swore that on April 2lst McDougald was clean shaven, except a mustache. The court took a recess until morning. Some sensational testimony is looked for involving others in a conspiracy with the defendant to murder Counolly to obtain $5,003 insurance on his life. A great crowd of people from this sec tion of the State are here. Sympathy and opinion is about equally divided as to the guilt or innocence of the pris oner. C*N THIS BE TRUE? McAllUter Charge* SlcCuue with All Sort* Ol KaHcallty. Indianapolis, Ind , Nov. 21.?W. s McAllister, of Mississippi, chairman < tho executive committee of the Ar Sub-Treasury Alliance, publishes open- letter, making a herce altue* Dr. C. W. Macune, eh'" ecutivo committee of it ho says: "When the serpet. sanctified Eden, Jea upon its sinuous trai cunning, calculating with credulous Eve Macune with the cor veigTexas Alliancen, dollars V?in to put i The Texas Aiu linanci.. ished for a little o. lixci failed hopelessly in theo*/* Manager Macune's iirst ha' shows its (inanoial condition to have been as follows: amouut of cash capital. 87 leash subscriptions, 817,500 tions in cattle. 811,000; cout the city of Dallas, 805,000; ec by the city of Helton, 812,000; scriptions, 8183,500. "After tho faiuro in tho 1889, the exchange propert y a. was sold, to pay its debts, for Thus the loss borne by subscribe 8148.5C0. What became of this 8. between what was originally scribed and paid in as capital stock what the exchange property, Inolud assets, etc., sold for after the collapse in 1880? "The exchange pay roll contained the names of nineteen ralhoad employees, and cost tue fanners of Texas 81,891.50 every month In the y,:::r.- Later tho OX: orbltant salaries were proven tr> be frauds perpetrated by Macune up< n the stockho'ders in his desperate effort to account for the lunds that passed into his hands. The actual salaries paid were not as great by half as were represented by Macune to the investb gating committee, under oath. "lie got thousands of farmers to club together and give joint notes lor pro visions to bo purchased In future. The accounts of tho exchange show that 8120,901 95 worth of notes, secured by mortgages, had been placed in Macune's hands, and that 8348,035.84 worth of them had been pledged as collaterals for cash loans and as security for the pay ment of amounts duo for cotton com presses, cotton gins ami other property purchased bv Macune for the exchange. This left 872,869.11 werth of these notes which Macune utterly failtd to account for. Hut those who had signed them have since had to pay them. "Over 8300,000 of such collateral was put out by Macune. Often the amount loaned was ridiculously small, and iu hundreds of cases those who made the notes got only a very small part of their face ?olne." _ Will Fight. Charleston, s. c, Nov. 20.?The solicitors of all tho banks here held a meeting to-day which lasted several hours, The proceedings were secret, but it is said that steps will be taken to laake a light on the line.of the New berry Hank casts recently decided by Judge Hudson. It Is also said that the Comptroller (leneral has written a red hot letter to the County Auditor, In which attontlon is called to Sections 239 and 210 of tho Ueueral Statutes, which provides imprisonment for per sons refusing to make true returns or for making lalse returns._ Patlllo Acquitted. Avousta, Ga., Nov. IK.?The trial of Louis (I. I'atillo for the killing of Char les T. Hudson was ended tonight at 8:10 o'clock, when the jury, after bolng out an hour and ten minutes, returnd a ver dict of not guilty. The verdict was just what Mr. Patllo expected, and what It would have been in the opinion of tho public. Mr. Fatillo thanked the jury for acquitting and vindicating him, and ho received the congratulations from many friends._ Vaated Too I<onft, \ Nkw York. Nov. 19.?G. Henry str~* ton, one of a dozen men who bor fasting contest in the Fourteenthstreet museum and who lasted lorur^r than all the others, and who was tafton to Belle vue Hospital on Tuesday? an exhaust ed condition, died Mils morning. An autopsy wilrbe li*ld to determine the cause ot his death. M JC THE GIRW SCIIO?l THE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE MAKES ITSREPOIYf. "UnllHof Kids uytlio fct>v^ral Ottlna?So l?ot|ou of Site Left to Die \ru?t?j?-~Oo t llnn of rinn H?d Scoit? of the Si-houi. Columbia, 8. C, Nov. 21.?-The re port of tho Legislative commission ap pointed to investigate and report "pon the requirements for an industrial school for womon and the- probable cost of its maintenance, wa'i ;;ivoc to the State pnater la/, night: The report is voluminous, exhaustive and carefully prepared, and should give tho Legisla tive Solons all the iuformation neces sary for taking action ou the pres .!ox question. The committee ' ..vux}^T~ the' ? work in u very thopwfgh aud saW isf.u-lory hmnnor.. ^T-uoy have porsoflP ally Una' :*rfd the h ading industrial am.'.'-<auuul training institutions in the 'country aud have sent out circulars of inquiry to institutions and educators in this country and in other countries. Most of the work of tho committee inn been reported jnn i pasm in these col umns and it would uu a work of supe rerogation to publish therepoit In de tail. The object of the report i* stated to' be "to pr. sent the outlines, the geuoral features of a model Imlustrlal school lor women, in addition to facts con cerning location and cost." The design of tho school should he to prepare girls to earn their own liveli hood; to exert a reiinlog influence on 3o cioty and family by moans of ciltlvatod intellects, and to be skillful in the do mestic arts. .Such an institution would pot be a mere'shop rchool, divorcing Lnteiltfcvnce and manual labor and thus bringing the latter into disrepute, but would aim tit joining In the student a ?Vuitu'.ed mind'" with a "skillful hand." Vor tho Indus! rial and domes) lo depart ments the following inihV.I riej arc sug geuo I: Stawing,art-needlework,dressm .king, mihtuery, cooking, house-kee'iolng, dr,aw\ng [free hand and uieohanii i. design,(technical aud decorative) tin 1 architectural,] clay modeling, woo carving, eograving, stenography, ty w rlting, telegraphy, ohol ?graphy, b' keeping, tvpe-aettitig Hud printing Tho complete course of study extend over four sessions < months each, and tii ? time, n' equally divide I between t' and Indu drial ; pi of admission . fifteen yea:, a , edge of the > should be re dents. Thero s' of study, viously i should 1 tlm acres. A udersoh,.. out of which desiiry chased for 85 t DO t j ; 1.'MifS .<ie -^3'.,? i, >u t. til which clo sirabidsite oan be purchased for 310.0QQ t o #25,000. All c2 t esc bills were found to ema nate fron? properly constituted and re presentative authority. "Wo refrain," say the committee, ?Tiom rocomih?nd ing any one. of the communities a? the place for the location oftho school be cause wo are convinced that it Is I he in terest of the proposed Institution to leave the selection of locntion entirely In the hands of tho board ot trustees to be chosen \?y the General Assembly, who will be able to make a dctlnate con tract with a community and sec that proper-guarantees are full) secured be fore finally act ing, and we recommend that tills board, when constituted, he given the authority to tlnally nnddeih nately determine this tnattor. The committee recdmuiond that in tho act creating theschool any commu nity i.i which it is finally located be al lowed to vo>e an appropriation for it in I bonds or otnorwlse. The suggestion is made that the board of trustees consist ot tho Governor, the State Superinten dent of Education. ex-ofUclo, and seven others tobe elected by the Legislature "Twentieth century people in full ac cord with the broadest and best ideas as to tho edituation<.of women, i mieof whom ahou'd be woioen"?the regular term of oflice to be t t yei'-a. A num ber of scholarships of tree tuition, ap portioned to the different counties ac cording to the ni'mber ol white girls 15 to 25 years of ago. Tho report oloso3 with an eloquent and timely plea ror the proper provis ion for the fair danghtt rs ot Carolina. -State. .Sf ii?Atlon tu iChnrli*si(Mi. Cii.M:f.Ksi-o\, S. C. Nov. 20?There was something of a soqaatlon in the Sessions Court to-day. The grand urv lnthelt presontmoul charged speclflcal' ly that prisoners wore ::fi> In Jail with out warrant of law. Solicitor Jervey to day Hiked and got leave from .fudge Witherspobn to put on record a slate ment showing that thero was absolutely no truth in the charges and claiming that ho had proven to a corjjjrtftteo of the grantl jury that tho statements of tho prisoner* in qiiestVp were false long before thoy handed In thai* pre sentment. W*?h'>TUfo:- >< <>?? I'liitrorin. /u v ro.v, VVTAblngtofl, Nov. 20. Che State FaVmers' Alliance last to I gl elected n. Y. lUvens President. KeJ lntions were adopted favoring the si treasury scheree, tho third party mo-te men^andiiu freo and uahmit^d:C0ln\ age of domestic Silver;, revenue only. Sud the < lection of the President arid J 'pl'.Ai/Si-ateS Sen by dlroct vote oHnc < -mie. ) %'