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CONCORD AND DISCORD. I rbr. Talmage’s Sermon Yester day Morning |AT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE .Brooklyn’, November 6. [Special.]-? 1 pho main feature in the music of ,rehe Brooklyn tabernacle is the con gregational singing. Today, after the open atig song, in which all the thousands heartily participated, Professor Browne gave on the or gan, Scherzo, opus (ir, by Mendelssohn. The IBev. 1. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., expounded a chapter in the first book of Samuel, where Saul, possessed of an evil spirit, threw a jave -Biu at David, who was playing on the harp be fore him, thus showing that the evil spirit does pot like sacred music. The subject of ftue sermon was “Concord and Dis fcord,” and the text was from Job, (Chapter xxxviii, v. G and 7. “Who laid the (Corner-stone thereof: when the morning stars ‘(gang together?” Dr. Talmage said: Wc have all seen the ceremony at the laying -Of the corner-stone of church, asylum or MaZ Iconic temple. Into the hollow of the stone were placed scrolls of history and important documents to be suggestive if, one or two (hundred years after, the building should bo ’ .destroyed by fire or torn down. We remember Ithe silver trowel or iron hammer that smote jthe square piece of granite into sanctity. We premember some venerable man who presided, (fielding the trowel or hammer. We remem ber, also, the music as the choir stood on the (Scattered stones and timber of the building (about to be constructed. The leaves of the potebooks fluttered in the wind, and were purned over with a great rustling, and wo re pnember how tho bass, baritone, tenor, con tralto and soprano voices commingled. They pad for many days been rehearsing the special ►programme, that it might be worthy of the joiner-stone laying. in my text tho poet of Uz calls us to a gran der ceremony—the laying of the foundation of .Miis great temple of a world. Tho corner-stone (Was a block of light and tho trowel was of Icelestial crystal. All about and on the embank gtnents of cloud stood the angelic choristers, [Unrolling their librettos of overture, and other (worlds clapped shining cymbals while the cer emony went on, and God, the architect, by Stroke of light after stroke of light, dedicated this great cathedral of a world, with moun tains for pillars, and sky for frescoed ceiling, kind flowering fields for floor,and sunrise anil (midnight aurora for upholstery. “Who laid fthe corner-stone thereof; when the morning Stars sang together?” . The fact is that tho whole universe was a Complete cadence, an unbroken dithyramb, a musical portfolio. The great sheet of immen sity had been spread out, and written on it •Were the stars, the smaller of them minims, ,the larger of them sustained notes. The me teors marked the staccato passages, tho whole heavens a gamut, with all sounds, intonations Rind modulations, the space between the worlds a musical interval, trembling of stellar light a .quaver, the thunder a base clef, the wind (among trees a treble clef. Tiiat is the way (God made all things, a perfect harmony. But one day a harp-string snapped in the great orchestra. One day a voice ‘sounded out sos tune. One day a discord, harsh and terrif jjio, grated upon the glorious antiphone. It fwas the sin that made the dissonance, and that iaarsh discord has been sounding through the ((Centuries. All the work of Christians, and mliilantliropists, and reformers of all ages is fto stop that discord and get all things back into l»he perfect harmony which was heard at the •laying of the corner-stone, when the morning Stars sang together. Before I get through, if I am divinely helped, I will make it plain that (sin is discord and righteousness is harmony. That things in general are out of tune is as {plain as to a musician’s car is the unhappy clash of clarionet and bassoon in an orchestral ren dering. The world’s health out of tune: Weak Jung and the atmosphere in collision, disor dered eye and noonday light in quarrel, rheumatic limb and damp weather in struggle, Neuralgias, and pneumonias, and consump tions, and epilepsies in flocks swoop upon pei ghbbrhoods and cities. Where you find one person with sound throat, and keen eyesight, and alert ear. and easy respiration,and regular pulsation, and supple limb, and prime diges tion, and steady nerves, you find a hundred >who have to be very careful because this, or Shat, or tho other physical function is disor dered. Tho human intellect out of tone: The judg ment wrongly swerved, or the memory leaky, pi the will weak, or the temper inflamable, end the well balanced mind exceptional. Do pnestic life out of tune: Only here and there a conjugal outbreak of incompatibility of temper [through the divorce courts, or a filial outbreak [about a father’s will through tho surrogate’s ffiburt, or a case of wife-beating or husband Koisoning through the criminal courts, but ■thousands of families with Juno outside and jyanuary within. Society out of tune: Labor and capital, their ■lands on each other’s throat. Spirit of caste Steeping those down in the social scale in a [Struggle to get up, and putting those who are sap in anxiety lest they have to come down. No wonder tho old pianoforte of society is all out pf tune, when hypocrisy, and lying, and sub terfuge, and double dealing, and sycophancy, land charlatanism, and revenge have for six thousand years been banging away at the keys land stamping the pedals. ‘' On all sides there is a perpetual shipwreck of (harmonies. Nations in discord: Without real izing it so wrong is the feeling of nation for pation that the symbols chosen are fierce and [destructive. In this country, where our skies Bl'C full of robins, and doves, and morning larks, we have our national symbol, the fierce And filthy eagle, as immoral a bird as can bo c found in all the ornithological catalogues. Ip Great Britain, where they have lambs and fal low deer, their symbol is the merciless lion. Bn Russia, where from between her frozen north and blooming south 011 kindly beasts dwell, they choose 4he growling bear; and in tho world’s heraldry ja favorite figure is the dragon, which is a winged serpent, ferocious and deathful. And fio fond is the world of contention that we (Climb out through the heavens and baptize one <sf the other planets with the spirit of battle, find call it Mars, after the god of war, and we give to the eighth sign of the zodiac the name Sf the scorpion, a creature which is chiefly cele brated for its deadly sting. But, after all, these symbols are expressive of the way na- Blon feels toward nation. Discord wide as the continent and bridging the seas. I suppose gon have noticed how warmly in love Kry goods stores are with other fflry goods stores and how highly grocery men think of the sugars of the grocery men on the I nine block. And in what a eulogistic way Jal opathlc and homeopathic doctors speak of ■ach other, and how ministers will sometimes >ut ministers on that beautiful cooking instru pent which the English call a spit, an iron oiler with spikes on it, and turned by a crank jefore a hot fire, and then if the minister bo ng roasted cries out against it, the men who jro turning him say: “Hush, brother! we are tuning this spit for the glory of God and the [ood of your soul, and you must be quiet while re-close tho service with: “Blest be the tie that binds ' Our hearts in Christian love.” The earth Is diametered and circumferenced ijritii discord, and the music that was rendered fit the laying of the world's cornerstone, when <be morning stars sang together, is not heard pow: and though here and there, from this and |hot part of society, and from this and that Start of the earth, there conies up a thrilling Solo of love, or a warble of worship, or a sweet net of patience, they are drowned out by a dis cord that shakes the earth. \ Paul says: “The whole creation groaneth," find while the nightingale and tiie woodlark find the canary and the plover sometimes sing fio sweetly that their notes have been written ' out in musical notation, and it is found that | the cuckoo sings in the key of D, and that the | ioromant is a basso in the winged choir, yet . ■portman's gup and the autumnal blast often • Eave them ruffled and bleeding or dead in • jfcoadow or forest. Paul was right, for tho j Koan in nature drowns out the prima donnas of Ke sky. ' Tartini. the great musical composer, dream- , Ed one night that lie made a contract With atan, the latter to be in the composer’s ser ice. But one night he handed to Satan a iolin. on which Dlabolo played such sweet 1 juaip that the composer was awakened by the j THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 8. 1887. emotion and tried to reproduce the sounds, ana therefrom was written Tartini’s most lamous piece, entitled the “Devil’s Senate,'’ a dream ingenious but faulty, for all melody de scends from heaven, and only discords ascend from hell. All hatreds, feuds, controvirsies, backbitings and revenges are the devil's sonata, are diabolic fugue, are demoniac phan tasy, ate grand march of doom, are allegro of perdition. But if in this world things in general are out of tune to our frail ear, how much more so to ears angelic and deitie. ft takes a skilled artist fully to appreciate disagreement of sound. Many have no capacity to detect a defect of musical execution, and, though there were in one bar as many offenses against harmony as could crowd in between the lower F of the bass and the higher G of the soprano, it would give them no discomfort, while on the forehead of the educated artist beads of perspiration would stand out as a result of the harrowing‘disso nance. bile an amateur was performing on a piano and had just struck t he wrong chord, John Sebastian Bach, the immortal composer, entered the room, and the amateur rose in em barrassment, and Bach rushed past the host, who stepped forward to greet him, and before the keyboard had stopped vibrating, put his adroit hand upon the keys and changed the nainful inharmony into glorious cadence. Then Bach turned and gave salutation to the host who had invited him. But tho worst of all discords is moral dis cord. If society and tho world are painfully discordant to imperfect man, what must they be to a perfect God. People try to define what sin is. It seems to mo that sin is getting out of harmony with God, a. disagreement with his holiness, with his purity, with his love, with his commands, our will clashing with his will, the infinite dashing against the infi nite. the frail against the puissant, the created against the Creator. If a thousand musicians, with flute, and cornet-a-pis ton, and trumpet, and violincello, and hautboys, and trombone, and all the wind and stringed instruments t hat ever gathered in a Dusseldorf jubilee should resolve that they should play out of tune, and put concord to the rack, and make the place wild witli shriek ing, and grating, and rasping sounds, they could not make such a pandemonium as that which rages in a sinful soul when God listens to the play of its thoughts, passions and emo tions —discord, lifelong discord, maddening discord. The world pays more for discord than it docs for consonance. High prices have been paid for music. Ono man gave two hundred and twenty-five dollars to hear the Swedish songstress in New York, and another six hun dred and twenty-five dollars to hear her in Boston, and another six hundred and fifty dol lars to hear her in Providence. Fabulous prices have been paid for sweet sounds, but far more has been paid for discord. The Crimean war cost one billion seven hundred million dollars, and our American civil war over nine and a half billion dollars, and the war debts of pro fessed Christian nations are about fifteen bil lion dollars. The world pays for this red ticket, which admits it to the saturnalia of broken bones, and death agonies, and destroyed cities, and ploughed graves, and crushed hearts, any amount of money Satan asks. Discord I Dis cord 1 But I have to tell you that the song that tho morning stars sangtogether, at the laying of the world's corner-stone, is to be resumed again. Mozart’s greatest overture was com posed one night when he was several times overpowered with sleep, and artists say they can tell the places in the music where ho was falling asleep, and the places where ho awak ened. So the overture of the morning stars, spoken of in my text, has been asleep, but it will awaken and be more grandly rendered by tho evening stars of tho world’s existence than by the morning stars, and tho vespers will bo sweeter than the matins. The work of all good men and women, and of all good churches, and all reform associations is to bring the race back to the original harmony. The rebellious heart to be attuned, social life to be attuned, commer cial ethics to be attuned, internationality to be attuned, hemispheres to be attuned. But by what force and in what way ? In olden time the choristers had a tuning fork with two prongs, and they would strike it on the back of pew or music rack, and put it to the car, and then start the tune, and all the other voices would join. In modern orchestra the leader has a complete instrument, rightly attuned, and he sounds that, and all the other performers turn tho keys of their instruments to make them correspond, and sound tho bow over the string and listen and sound out over again, until all the keys are screwed to concert pitch, and the discords melt into one great symphony, and the curtain hoists, and the ba ton taps, and audiences are raptured with Schuman’s “Paradise and the Peri,” or Ros sini’s “Stabat Mater,” or Bach's “Magnificat” in D, of Gounod’s “Redemption.” Now, our world can never be attuned by an imperfect instrument. Even a Cremona would not do. H eaven has ordained the only instru ment, and it is made out of tho wood of tho cross, and the voices that accompany It are im ported voices, cantatrices of the first Christinas night, when heaven serenaded the earth with : “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good-will to men.” Lest we start too far off, and get lost in tho generalities, we had better begin with onrselves, get bur own hearts and life in harmony with the eternal Christ. Oh, for his almighty spirit to at tune us, to chord our will with His will, to modulate our life with His life, and bring us into unison with ail that is pure qnd self-sacrificing and heavenly. The strings of our nature are all broken and twisted, and the bow is so slack it cannot evoke anything mellifluous. The instrument made for heaven to play on has been roughly twanged and struck by influences worldly and demoniac. O! master hand of Christ, restore this split and fractured and despoiled and unstrung nature until first it shall wail out for our sin and then thrill with divine pardon. The whole world must also be attuned by the same power. A few days ago I was in the Fairbanks weighing scale manufactory of Ver mont. Six hundred hands, and they have never bad a strike. Complete harmony be tween labor and capital, the operatives of scores of years in their beautiful homes near by the mansions of the manufacturers, whose inven tion and Christian behavior made the great enterprise. So all tho world over labor and capital will be brought into euphony. You may have heard what is called the Anvil Chorus, composed by Verdi, a time played by hammers, great and small, now with mighty stroke, and now with heavy stroke, beating a great iron anvil. That is what the world has got to come to—anvil cho rus, yardstick chorus, shuttle chorus, trowel chorus, crowbar chorus, pickaxe chorus, gold mine chorus, rail-track chorus, locomotive chorus. It can be done, ami it will bo done. So all the social life will be attuned by the gospel harp. There will be as many classes in society as now, but the classes will not be regulated by birth, or wealth, or accident, but by the scale of virtue and benevolence, and people will be assigned to their places as good, or very good, or most excellent. So, also, com mercial life will bo attuned, and there will be twelve in every dozen, ami sixteen ounces in every pound, and apples at the bottom ot the barrel will be as sound as those on tho ton, and silk goods will not be cotton, and sellers will not have to charge honest people more than the right price because others will not pay, and goods will come to yon corresponding with the sample by which yon purchased them, and coffee will not be chickoried, and sugar will not be sanded, and milk will not be chalked, and adulteration of food will be a state's prison offense. Aye, all things shall be attuned. Elections In England and the United States will no more be a grand carnival of defama tion and scurrility, but the elevation of right eous men in a righteous way. In the sixteenth century the singers called tlie Fischer Brothers, reached the lowest bass ever recorded, and the highest npte ever trilled was by La Bastardella, and Catalini’s voice had a compass of three and a half octaves, but Christianity is more wonderful; for it runs all tip and down the greatest heights and the deepest depths of tho world's necessity, and it will compass everything and bring it in accord with the song which the morning stars sang at the laying of the world's corner-stone. All the sacred music in homes, and concert halls and churches tends toward this consummation.' Make it more and more hearty. Sing in your I families. Sing in your places of business. If ; we with proper spirit use these faculties, we are rehearsing for the skies. Heaven is to have a new song, an entirely new song, but I should not wonder if, as some- I time on earth a tune is fashioned out of many I tunes, or it is one tune with the variations, so . some of the songs of the redeemed may have ‘ playing through them tho songs of earth, and now thrilling as coming through the great an- 1 them of the saved, accompanied by harpers with their harps and trumpeters with their trumpets,we should hear some of the strains of , Antioch and Mount Pisgah and Coronation and Lenox .nd St. Martins and Fountain and Ariel and Old Hundred. How they would bring to mind the praying circles, and communion day.-., and the Christmas festivals, and the church worship in which on earth wo mingled 1 I have no idea that when wo bid farewell to earth we are to bid farewell to all those grand old gospel hymns, which melted and raptured our souls for so many years. Now, my friends, if sin is discord and righteousness is harmony, let us get out of the one and enter the other. After our dreadful civil war was over, and in the summer of 1869, a great national peace jubilee was held in Bos ton, and as an elder of this church had been honored by the selection of some of his music, to be rendered on that occasion, I accompanied him to the jubilee. Forty thousand people sat and stood in the great Coliseum erected for that purpose. Thousands of wind and stringed instruments. Twelve thousand trained voices. The master pieces of all ages rendered hour after hour, and day after day Handel’s “Judas Maccabaeus,” Sphor’s “Last Judgment,” Beethoven’s “Mount of Olives,” Haydn's “Creation,” Mendelssohn's "Elijah,” Mey erbeer's “Coronation March,” rolling on and up in surges that billowed against the heavens. Tho mighty cadences within were ac companied on the outside by the ringing of the bells of the city and cannon on the commons, in exact time with the music discharged by electricity, thundering their awful bars of a harmony that astounded all nations. Some times I bowed my head and wept. Sometimes I stood up in the enchantment, and sometimes the effect was so overpowering I felt I could not endure it. When all the voices were in full chorus, and all the batons in full wave, ami all the orchestra in full triumph, and a hundred anvils under mighty hammers were in full clang, and all the tow ers of tho city rolled in their majestic sweet ness, and tho whole building quaked with the boom of thirty cannon. I’arepa Rosa, with a voice that will never again be equalled on earth until tho arch-angelic voice proclaims that time shall bo no longer, rose above all other sounds in her rendering of our national air, the Star Spangled banner. It was too much for a mortal, and quite enough for an immortal, to hear, and while some fainted, one womanly spirit, released under its power, sped away to bo with God. O Lord, our God, quickly usher in tho whole world's peace jubilee, and all islands of tho sea join the five continents, and all the voices and musical instruments of all nations com bine, and all the organs that over sounded requiem of sorrow sound only a grand march of joy, and all the bells that tolled for burial ring for resurrection, and all the cannon that ever hurled death across the nations sound to eternal victory, and over all tho acclaim of earth and minstrelsy of heaven there will be heard one voice sweeter and mightier than any human or angelic voice, a voice once full of tears, but then full of triumph, tho voice of Christ saying: “lam Alpha and Omega, tho beginninng and the end, thofirst and the last.” Then at the laying of tho top-stono of tho world’s history, the same voices shall be heard aS when, at the laying of the word’s corner stone, “the morning stars sang together.” READ! READ!!—THEN ACT! ACT!! TO YOU: Hero is a letter we want you to road. Read it closely and sco what it means' Think about it while you read it. Ladonia, Texas, September 21. Editors Constitution : In last March I showed two sample copies ot The Constitution and secured two s bscribeiß. It took me a few minutes. I sent them in. Their names and mine went iu the March present box. On April 9th I receive a check fob SIOO with tho statement that it was my present from The Constitution. lam a poor man’ with a larec family, and I never received aly money that did me so much good. The Constitution is the best paper I ever saw. Yours truly, A. J. Salmon. Now on January Ist, 1888, we give away SI,OOO in gold to our subscribers. Our first present is SSOO, our second S2OO, etc. You do not pay one cent for your chance at these presents. You simply subscribe for the paper and your name goes in tiie box. Can you afford not to subscribe at once? Remember, you get the best, biggest, cheapest family paper in America, anyhow, and may get SSOO in gold. Mr. J. G. Samples, of Alt. Vernon, Tenn., was a single subscriber, and ho got SSO in gold on May 6th. Mr. Salmon (letter above) spent only a few minutes and got two subscribers. This got him SIOO in gold. Our January present is SSOO. Can you afford not to get a few subscribers and have a chance? Your own single subscription, besides getting you tho best and cheapest paper, certainly may get you the SSOO. Subscribe at once. Gel up a club and send with your name. Every name increases your chance. THE COTTON CROP. The Season Somewhat Disappointing—Esti mates Reduced. New Orleans, November s.—The crop re port of tho Cotton World.published today is as follows: , . , The outcome of the season is disappointing in comparison with September expectations, and a crop even smaller than that of last season is re port ed in the returns. In Arkansas, Texas and Tennes see the drouth cut short tlie yield greatly. The con trast in many portions of the first named state is greater by reason of the good yield of last season. In Texas the crops were spotted. Contrasted with these the Atlantic seaboard states fared better, and while not reaching the expectations ofthe late sum mcr, will get more cotton than in 1886. The Georgia crop is very much spotted, and a careful review by counties does not justify some of the general opin ions of tho product of state re ceived from merchants at large centers. Ou the other hand the Carolinas will come upto the late general estimates, or exceed them. Alabama has not turned out anything like what was very recently estimated, the larger yield in some sections being more than on'sot by a decrease in others. In the lower Mississippi valley the yield, while so much below the promises of the early fruiting sea son, is yet above last season, but the gain has been all in Mississippi. The picking season has proved very favorable on the whole, and the crop has been gathered unusually early. Nearly nil over the belt from two-thirds to seven-eighths of the crop was reported as picked at tfie date of our replies. ‘As foreshadowed, however, in the last report, the top crop lias proved a failure nearly everywhere, and little was made In October. The worms cut short the prospects in many sec ions, adding to the damage by the drouth. Light frosts in all states, and killing fr s s over a very consider able part of the belt, have been reported during the past mouth. Below w’o give our estimates of production by Acres Yield Production cotton per acre bales. States planted. hundredths of bales. Virginia 115,700 81 8-5,867 North Carolina.l,ols,2oo 8714 390,208 South Car01ina.1,550,400 36>J &(i3,0i0 Georgia2,9so,o'X) 301-5 890,905 Florida 247,200 25 01,800 A1abama...2,765,800 29% 808,897 Tennessee 832,600 31% 2G3,ti-v: Mississippi2,3sß,Boo 39 919,932 Arkansasl,32s,7oo 38% 513,708 Louisianal,o2s,3oo 45% 461,802 Texa5.3,774,800 31% 1,".11,743 T0ta151,799.500 34 3-5 0.225,258 Our lady friends will be interested in know ing that by sending 20c to pay postage, and 15 top covers of Warner’s Safe Yeast (showing that they have used at least 15 packages) to H. H. Warner & Co., Rochester, N. Y., they can get a 500 page, finely illustrated Cook Book free. Sucli a book, bound in cloth, could not be bought for less than a dollar, It is a won derfully good chance to get a fine book for tho mere postage, and the ladies should act promptly. * Ah Hal From the New York Sun. “Do you know, Miss Smith,” he said, “that when I see you 1 always look about for a while horse?” , “1 suppose you do, Mr. Brown," she replied, “and do you know tlie color of the horse that I look for on seeing you?” "No.” “Chestnut.” There are many forms of nervous debility in men, that yield to tho use of Carter’s Iron Bills. Those who are troubled with nervous weakness, night sweats, &c., should try them. Converted on the Spot. From the New York bun. Prohibitionist (to a saloonkeeper)—l wish I could convince you, my friend, that liquor inflicts untold misery upon countless thousands; that water, pure, cold water, is wbut we all should drink; tiiat Saloonkeeper (convinced)—You are right, sir; water Is a good thing. (To bartender) —Kelley, pour alxait four more gallons of water into that band of whisky. ANGOSTURA BITTERS do not only dis tinguish themselves by their flavor and aro matic odor above all others generally used, but they are also a sure preventive for till diseases originating from the digestive organs. Beware of counterfeits. Ask your grocer or druggist for tlie genuine article, manufactured, by Dr. J. G, B. Seigert & .Sous, ALABAMA POLITICS. An Interesting Account of Men and Measures in the State. THE CONTEST BETWEEN MORGAN Selma, Ala., Novembers.—[Special Corres pondence.]—Alabama promises to have a live ly political fight when the state legislature is called upon to choose Senator Morgan's suc cessor. That gentleman, himself, seems to realize tho fact too, for every day some part of tho state is treated by him to a political theses as entertaining as it is instructive. There will be no great struggle of principles. On tho other hand the contest promises to be purely among men. Some time ago an is sue was made upon Senator Morgan that he did not represent tho proper tariff sentiment. Tho charge camo from tho Birmingham dis trict, but since then Senator Margan has made several speeches in that district, and all oppo sition for a while at least seems to bo silenced. Senator Morgan is so essentially tho biggest man in Alabama that a contest between him and those that have been mentioned savors very much of the giant and pigmy idea. He had the reputation in Washington of being a very prolific speaker, but no one insisted that he did not speak sense. And down here, where there is not a superfluity of senatorial elo quence and oratory, tho talking habit of the senator is something to his advantage. The two men most prominently named in tlie con vention, as probable successors of Morgan, uro Ex-Governor Watts and 11. C. Tompkins. Both reside in Montgomery, Morgan living in Selma. Watts was the war governor of Ala bama, where he achieved considerable eminence and distinction. Since then he lias regularly practiced his profession with marked ability and considerable success. He is esteemed be yond all question tho ablest lawyer in Ala bama, and figures in nearly every prominent case that is argued before its supreme court. Tompkins is a lawyer, also, and of no mean ability, and has a place at the bar of tho state that any man might well envy. But neither of tho men are of the make and stature of Mor gan. They stand out bold and prominent enough, when alone, but when looked at through the same glasses, the comparison is greatly to Morgan’s benefit and advantage. John T. Morgan is prominently a remarkable man, In all the list of acquaintances with men and matters, I know of no one who pre sents a greater versatility of talent. In tho senate chamber, ho is as profound and as scholarly as any of his conferos, in tho court room he carries as good and as trusty a blade; on the hustings, before the people, take him where you find him. ho will win the popular fauor, can do all those things on tho same day, ami to all appearances feels no loss of- energy or of power. Now, if the Tompkins and Watts’ factions could oppose this redoubtable knight witli a principle, the strength of tho principle would 1 probably compensate for tho loss in tho strength of tho relative combatants. But that is just what they cannot do. If a man comes out here and takes wholly and bodily tiie Birmingham theory, ho will have arrayed against him tho balance of the .state. It. is difficult to tell what is tho political sentiment of the state. Senator Morgan is on record as favoring a re duction on tobacco, and it is hardly unlikely that lie would carry that refusal so far as to object to other things. Favoring a reduction on wool, woolens mid other things, he may lie said to favor a tariff for revenue with incidental protection, and that is the position of the Ala bama people. A few months ago a lot of Montgomery people went up to Birmingham to live; they were loudly against the tariff, tho most pronounced free traders -one w’ould ever hope to see. A slight change of residence did tlie work. Today no more fierce pud uncompromising enemies of free trade exist in tho state titan those, same Montgomeriaus. And after all a man's residence and his busi ness decides this matter for him. Why shouldn’t it? You live iu Birmingham where every interest is dependent upon tlie production of iron, and as a very natural result, it is true you find nothing but protective interests and sentiments there. When you come hero to Montgomery, where the people are not partic ularly in love with any special thing, it is difficult to class; but as between absolute free trade or protection, I have yet to interview tho man who adheres to free trade pure and sim ple. lie may be and is willing to take a great many articles upon his faith in the experiment, but to the farmer, and others engaged in agri cultural pursuits, they care very little about tlie matter, and are by no means free traders. “Tlie sentiment has not crystallized into any shape here,” said a prominent lawyer, “and it will not do in tlie proposed race between Morgan, Tompkins and Watts. These men, represent as far as I am informed, about the same shade of views. Whatever differences may exist would not be apt to cause a differ ence in votes. I think Morgan’s re-election sure, so sure in truth that a discussion of tho probabilities against liim is a waste of time. But whenever our people, arc called upon to elect a new senator, to change from the one class of men to another, you know who that man will be. It will be Governor Seay.” The governor is the most popular man in tlie state. The race he ran last time was phenomenal. Ifo had Clayton, Dawson and McElroy all against him and they were older then, and many of them had made fame and fortune in other work. Seay was lower on tlie ladder when the first ballot was taken than any other man of the lot, and yet you see what hap pened. Ho was nominated and elected. lie was the young man’s candidate, and with en thusiasm ami eclat they rallied about him and successfully carried liim through, A more popular official does not exist in the state. The office has been shorn by legislative enactment of much of its power. 'The governor’s capacities to do wrong are very limited. Tlie office of the state audi tor is far more important. In fact, as a prom inent politician said to mo, if wo had tooliooso between a democrat auditor and a republican governor, wo would infinitely prefer a demo cratic auditor, for he it is who Controls, sliapns ami fashions the financial policy of the entire state. Fortunately for Alabama, she has no need of making any such choice, for In Gov ernor Seay an<l "Auditor Burke she lias two officials that will stand equally with tho o ot any state in the union. Politics are not talked much here. Over in Montgomery one occasionally hears something abort the fight over Senator Morgan's seat. In Mobile and Selma but little interest appears to Ixi manifested. Birmingham is tlie great center ot tho protection theories, and iu this district, perhaps in none other, will a contest be waged upon the tariff. Local issues down south so far yet predominate over public ques tions that it is doubtful if a stralglitout pro tect ton i*,t would win over a popular, able low tariff reformer. Tho last race in tho district pri'-ented some curious and startling facts, which demonstrate, if they do nothing else, the truth of the statement that the tariff ques tion t, still auboriinate. Alabama will send a strong Cleveland dele gation to the next dorno'.ratic convention. This is already a foregone cofloiuaiou, It was so before he came down here among them, and saw in their welcome looks and cordial greetings a truly democratic reception of his administration. Tlie congressional delegation is solidly for Cleveland, and no bettor repre sentation of the state’s views upon tho matter could be otherwise obtained. Airs. Cleveland is more of a favorite perhaps than her husbnnd, and as Mayor Reese, of Montgomery, said the other d->v, she could carry the state in case h r husband failed, It is only here and there, mainly in the ease of disappointed local politicians, that one hears any opposition to the re-nomination of the presentexcellent magistrate. And local poli ticians do not get in their work on such occa sions. The most hopeful sign in all Alabama that I have mot with is the great improvement of the public press. The old aristocratic city of Mo bile has an able and highly intelligent repre sentative in its morning "Register.” and Mont gomery, in the “Advertiser" and "Despatch,” enjoys the enterprise and spirit engendered by two live morning papers, while Richardson, of tho "Evening Star,” is carefully making head way against odds. In the other cities, like Selma, Anniston, Huntsville, excellent ga zettes instruct the masses upon popular ques tions. They arc everywhere edited with abil ity, and in many instances show a vim and en ergy charaetcri.-iie of a stronger and livelier community. When you look into tho compo sition of a state’s press,and see tho men, whoso ability entitle them to stand as tho exponents of public opinion, and find, as in the case of Alabama, such uniformly good men, one feels that tho helm of state is in good hands. In another letter, I will give an account of an interesting enterprise and industry conducted on tho shores of Mobile bay, the cultivation of Alobile plants, a most enjoyable and delicious specimen of the oyster. H. 11. I’. A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. Sturgeon Bay, Wis., November I.—Up to the arrival of the s- liooner Pomeroy, from Chi cago, which passed through the bay today, it was supposed that not a single survivor was loft of the forty or fifty people on board tho propeller Vernon, which went down off She boygan early last Saturday morning. It is now known, however, that at least one man lives to tell tho tale of that terrible night on Lake Michigan. The Pomeroy has on board tho only survivor, so far as is known, of that awful disaster, The name of the man thus rescued from death, alter he had given up all hope of ever again setting his loot upon dry laud, is Alfred Slone, of Chicago, one of the Vernon's crow. IWi had been in the water sixty hours, ex posed to the bitter, piercing wind and without a bito to ent. When tho Pomcry discovered biin on a raft last night, about eight miles from Sheboygan—-it was clear inoonlight—Stone was so cold as to bo almost hidpicss, and so wonk from hunger that ho could scarcely move. Although still very weak from tho effects of bis awful experience, S:ono was aide hi make a brio! statement of the nover-to-be-forgotten night. “I was awakened in tho middle of tho night,” ho says, “by tho cries of the passen gers and crew that tho vessel was sinking. I sprang out of a window and found myself on a life raft with six other persons. 1 cannot say now who my companions were. A part of them were members of tho crew and a part were passengers. It seemed only a moment before tho vessel had gone down, and I believe that all but a few of those on board went down with her. Ido not know just how many people were aboard at tho time, but tho number could not have been far from fifty. We passed through an awful night. I think I never saw’ such a sea as that which tossed over the little raft at its mercy. AV hen daylight camo wo hoisted a signal of distress, it ing a cons tied to an oar. Two vessels passed so near us Saturday that they must have seen our signal, yet, for some reason, they apparently inado no effort to reach us. The storm still raged and it may bo they had all they could do to save themselves. Ono alter another of my companions perished in the cold or was washed off the raft when they became too numb with colil to hold on any longer. Wo never saw any others from the sunken i-teamor, and I don’t believe any others survived. The vessel went down so suddenly that tho crow hadn’t time to mini the boats.” When Stone was picked up there was tho corpse of one man on the raft with him, tho other f air having perished several hours be, fore. Stone says this num was one of thecrew whose name ho does not know. AlilwaukSß, Wis., November 2.—Five fish ing tugs went out from Two llivors, Wis., to day and brought back the bodies of seventeen men and two women who had been aboard tho Vernon, making tweuiy-two bodies that have been recovered. '1 he engine house at Two Rivers was turned into a morgue, where tho corpses were stretched side by side to enable identification by the relatives and friends, who flocked there from Alanitowoc. The faces were all placid and in good condition, except two, whoso expressions gave evidence of in tense suffering. All were clothed fully but two women, who wore witlmul headwear and shoes, but were otherwise fully attired. Only seven bodies were, identified. CAUGHT INA OEM KSAND. Fearful and Tlii-Hllng Experiences of a Hunter Who i’uced Eleat li. From the St. Louis Itcpubllciin. Otto and Eras' Bertrand, twoy atngmon of Caron delet, put their shotcinis on their shoulders last Wednesday moaning about daybreak, slung their game bags at their shies, and idler eating a hi.sty breakfast hi their iiarents' house, Ko. i;,:L!t South Broadway, started oil’ to spend three days duck bunting among the lakesof tho Arneriean bottom on the other side of the river. They had a skid'moored near their house mid crossed the river in it, hiding the Is,nt in a little cove between Cahokia mid East t'arendelet, when they Lal reached the other side and were slid ting for the lakes. They had fair luck hunting mid .‘ ts.t d home yesterday morning. When they got to Caliokla Ernst, who had the hia.’lest bug of ducks, told Otto that ho would cross the river by the ferry mid sell bls game in the In ion market. Otto ne-ente I, and made Lis way along to the boat. Be misse l the path, mid, attempting to reach tin: skfll'by following the bank ofthc river, he plunged Into a bl. k filthy and tena cious quicksand. Ills right l‘ g went into the mire over l.li knees at tho first step, and the other leg followed it, s'uking up to the HTjh ixilbr-: he under stood he win In a qua.iuilre. Ho tried to extricate himself, mid could not. Both his legs were tightly clasped by tlie mu 1 mid moved not mi inch. He shouted tor help, heard no reply, and ih n remembered that the nearest house was two miles away. It seemed to him that lie was sinking deeper In tho quicksand, mid then It came to his mind for the first tlum that men had lost their lives in such places mid their bodies had never been found. He grew fraud - and seroimed at the top of his voice and waved his arm about, beating the mud null catching at little roots and stones that appeared in It. He tiled to move his fettered legs, mid found that bls bo ly up to Ids waist was dead. He was elapsed in an embrace that knew no relax ing. Hu lost bls sen.-cs. Hi min i wandered. He thought of those he had loft at homo -hrs brother who had just loft Elm. He cried and feebly pat tered his hands in the mud until his face was streaked with it. Then the thought came to him suddenly that be was about to die by suffoca tion and in an agony of terror ho lifted his voice and erle I for help again. The sky looked down upon him clear and Joyful, and modi' d him with Its calmness. ll'-’ tried to kill blnrolf. His shotgun had been on bls shoulder when lie slipped Into the quicksand and he look* <1 around for It, Intending to shoot lihii-clf. It Lad sunk. Ho continued to struggle and became Insensible; but continued to utter c. les of dlr,tress In his uneonselousners. Ho bad 111 lien into tlie quicksand at nine o’clock In tho morning. At four o'clock in the after noon a negro boatmmi emne rowing along from Cahokia and heard him morning. He pulled his liaot In and fried to pull tho hunter out of the mu 1. Bertrand by this time hud sunk to bls armpits In tho quick utn 1. Tho negro saw I hat ho war unable to save tlie young man and rowed back to Cahokia, four miles away, where he got two other men. When the b int got back to B< rtrrnid ho had sunk until only bls head and neck were visible, and It was three ho irs before the three boatmen could get hire out of the mud. Ho was taken home al once und put to bed, and Is now rapidly recover ing. "•' ' ♦ “ It was an old oriental doctrine that women have no soqjs, .More cnlighn tied philosophy concedes that they L ive purer, liner, mpro exalted ails than mon. But they are who often contained in feeble, auffering bodies, which hamp'irAmd retard their full develop ment. For all those painful ailm< nta incident to the sox, Dr. I’lerce's “Favorite ITesctlp- Vion” is the besi specific In the world, and l» sold under q positive guarantee th. i Jr will do all tiiat is claimed for it. I’rice reduced to outs doilin-. By druggist#, ACROSS THE WATER. A British Journal’s Opinion oil Chamberlain’s Appointment. THE SWEDISH NIGHTENGALE’S DEATH Toronto, Ont., November 2.—The Globe refers to Mr. Chamberlain’s appointment thie morning, and in a strongly-worded editorial says: Let British journals rub their eyes again, end wake up to the necessities of the situation. Mr. < hatnbcrlaiu must be recalled. There is no • o igbt” or ‘•should in tho case. The imperative is re ;uired and Canadians are entitled to employ it. lie must be recalled. Let the British understand tiiat their own interests are hugely staked on the result of the impending negotiations, should the commissioners •a I to reach a settlement, or should the senate burke an agreement, nothing can be more certain than that war t>e tween (heat Britain ami the United Statei ean be avoided only by Great, Britain’s nbandonimr Canada m away that will forever disgrace tho British name. Do Britons know tiiat tlie Uniteil States c ingress has already passed an act to cut off tVx-rysiut of commercial exchange with CanaduT Do t hey know that congress lias urged the i.dmiuia trution to enforce that ad? Are they aware tiiat a very large proportion of Amerh an journals ceases lessiy vituperate the president became 1c has not resorted to retaliation? Dothoy comprehend that he can have no option but !o emplov tne act if ne* gotiutlons fail, or if the agreement be disallowed in tho senate? If he does employ it whal then. wo do not act as alarmist! in declaring that war which Great Britain lome Dared more than any other ixjssiblo war—will prob ably occur. 1 To avoid tho dangers and disgrace that threaten, there is but one way. Mr. Chamberlain is the sole cause that the outlook is dark. Betbr? his appoint* nient it was light enough. It was bright until he wantonly embarrassed the situation. It Ls gloomy because he has rendered th' I ost method of settle mont dWicult to propose or dis. uss, and because ht has m ido bin s If hateful to tbD continent. Without distindiou eforigin, Americans resent his insolent attack upon those fellow-citizens whose loyalty ran true by the tnosi terrible of tests, when hundreds oi thousands of the sous of Irish mother* laced death in battle for the republic. It is usules* to found smooth prophecies upon the hope that Mr. ( iiamhcrlain’s principles can escape the conso <tuencos of hostility that he hits avoir eI. Itiheydd V./.', 1 '' 1 *’P him, they take the responsibility for hini» II they do not r ‘call him, it ran only be i'Ciniuse they me full of synniathy for him. His own rasl> ins..!- ii ’C Ims hr u ht him Into troubl- and he alone should be the vic’ .m. Su oly, ;t's l etter that he l»e mr.de to r.ndi r :o h s d- sells t han that the p. ace of* hundred millj a* < i ngLsh speaking people be Jeopardized on behalfof his dignity.’’ O’Brian’s Tinprisoinont jCondenined. Di r.i tv, November 3.-- I’iiited Ireland today, contains t \\ o columns of reports of meetings of suppro'sed branches of tlie national league. Id an editorial it characterizes the removal o* Mr. (.) Brien to Tullatnoore jail as an outrags' and says it was done in behalf of landlouW. Ilcitei forth, it; says, the people will make the landlonls hostages for Mr. O’Brien’s I he plan of campaign will become not merely tho tenants weapon of defense, but an instru> men! of vengeance. It says: Will Irishmen remain qiiiv ent and not raze hie torture b.o'• to the ground ? Please Go I, notuiiitA. t Mr. <> P.run is harmed, for 'very hair of Ids head Irishmen will exact compound vengeance. STOIUVI ON TIIE ENGLISH COAST. London, Novi'inber I.—A galo prevails throughout England. Tclegrai.h wires have been broken, chimneys blown down, and trees uprooted. A number of minor marine casual ties are reported. Tho gale is now subsiding. The races at Brighton, which were suspended on account of the storm, have been i. sumed. A Score of vessels in the Mersey I.robe front their moorings and drifted broadside up ths river. There was one very serious collision. Seven vessels were wrecked at Cardiff, and many wrecks are reported from other places. The gale, which is terrific, extends around the en tire coast ol tho United Kingdom and is ac companied by rains. Reports of the stranding of vessels continue to bo received and an im mense amount of damage has been done. At Falmouth a number of vessels have Leon driven ashore. Death of Jonny I.lnd. London, November 2.—Jonny Lind (Afadatno Goldschmidt), tlie celebrated Swedish sh; . r.is dead. She was sixty-six yearsof ago. Sin’ had been seriously ill for some weeks. 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