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OG, KING OF BASHAN. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ABOUT THE GIANT'S BEDSTEAD. Lessons )rawn from the DibleI Recital of the Encounter of the IUraelites with tlie Eleven Foot IIenthon Warrior--A Powerful Sermon. BROOKLYN, March 13.-Dr. Talmage gave another illustration this morning in his sermon at the Tabernacle of hie wonderful power of drawing useful, prac. tical lessons from an obscure text, which, to the ordinary mind, seemee incapable ot yielding any spiritual edifi. cation. The text was Deuteronomy iii, 11: "Only Og, ktng of Bashan, re, mained of the remnant of giants; behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; h it not in labbath of the children of Am mon? Nine cubits was the length there of and four cubits the breadth of it." The story of giants is mixed witi myth. William the Conqueror was sai to have been of overtowering altitude but when in aftertime his tomb wai opened his bones indicated that he ha( been physically of only ordinary size Roland the Hero was said to have bec of astounding stature, but when his sep. ulcher was examined his armor ww found only large enough to fit an ordi. nary man. Alexander the Great ha( helmets and shields of enormous size made and left among the people who he had conquered, so as to give the im. pression that lie was a giant, althoujI lie was rather under than over the usual height of a man. But that in other dayE and lands there were real ginnts is aui thentic. One of the guards of the Duk( of Brunswick was eight and a half feel high. In a muscuin In London Is ti skeleton of Charles Birne, eIght feel four inches In stature. The Epiiieroi Maximin was over eight feet. Pliny tells of a giant inme feet higl and two other giants nine and a hal feet. So I am not incredulous when I come to my text and find King Og giant, and the size ofhis bedstead, turn ing the cubits of the text Into feet, th( bedstead ot Og, the king, iust hav( been about thirteen and a half feet long .udging from that the giant who occu pied it was probably about eleven feei in stature, or nearly twice the averag( hunian size. There was no iced ol Rabbinical writers trying to account foi the presence of this giant, King Og, a, they did, by saying that, he came dowi from the other side of, the flood, beim tall enough to wade the waters besih Noah's ark. or that he rode oi the toi of the ark, the passeigers inside the ar, daily providing him with food. Tier was nothing superliatural about, hii Ile was simply a monster in size. Cyrus and Solomon slept on beds o gold, i-td Sardanapalus had 150 hwd, steads of gold burned up with him, bu, this bedstead of' my text, Was of iron everythiing sacrificed for strength to ihI this excessive avoireduipois, this Alp o boie and flesli. No wonder tIs couch ws kept as a curiosity at Rtabath, ant people went, from far an I near to see it, just ats now people go to niuseums to behold the armor of the aicients. Yot say what a fighter this gianit., King 0g must have been. No doubt of It. I sup p)ose the size of his swordI and brearst p)late corresp)ond(ed to the size (of his bed stead, and his stridhe across thie battle tieldl and t,he f'ull stroke of his arm imus have been alipalling. With an armie< host lie comes (downi to <h ive hack thi Israelit.es, who are miarchiing oin fron Egypt to Canaan. We have no particulars of' the battle but I think the Israelites trembled wvhse they snw this monster of a man miovint dlown to crush theni. Alas for the is tachites! WVill theIr troubles nevel cease? WVhat can men five and a hal feet high (10 against this warrior o eleveii feet, and what can short swordh (10 against a sword whose gleam imus have been like a flash of liglhtringy Tin battle of Edrei openedl. Moses and hi: army met, the giant and IIs army. Thll L'>rd of' Ilosta descended into the fight and the gigantic stridhes that Og ha< made when advancing inito the batti were more than equaled b)y the giganti stri'les with which lie retreated,. liuzz for triumphant Israel! Sixty fortifie< cities surrendered to thenm. A lai.d o indescribable opulence conies iinto thiei possession, aif all that is left, of th< giant king is the Iron bedstead. "Nin cubits was the lenizth thereof and four cubits the breadth of it." That man has been thirty yeai's faith fhilly in attendance uipoin chuirchies an< prayer meetings and Sunday schools and putting himself among intense re ligious associations, iIe may have hii uinperfections, but, lie is a ver'y goo< man. Great is his religious statun'e The other mani has been f'or thirty year: among influences intensely worldlly, ari< lie has shut himself out from all othe influences, and his religious stature ii that of a dwarf. No man ever has beei or can lie indlepeitent of his sur'roundi( igs-social, intellectual, moral, rehg ions. The Bible indicates the leiigth o the giant by the length of' his bedstead Let no man say, "I will be good,'' aiit yet keep evil surroundings. Let no mil say, "I will be faithful as a Chiristiaii,' and yet consort chiefly with worldjings You are proposing an everlasting i.n possibility. From the fact that ('s bedstead wn! thirteen and a halt teet long, I conclud< the giaiit himself was about eleveni feel high. But let no one by this though be indluced to surrendler to unfav'orabia environments. A man can make hii own bedisteadl. Chiantr'ey andic IIuir Miller were born stein masons, but thi one became an immortal sculptor anci the other a Christian scientist who0s< name will r,ever (lie. Turner, the p)ainit. er, in whose praise .John Rtuskfii expend ed the greatest geniuis of his life, was the son of a barber who adver'tised 'a penny a shave.'' D)r. Prideaux, one of the greatest scholars of all tune, earned his way through college by scouring pots and pans. The late Judge Bradley W9rked his owni way up from a charcoal burner to the bench of the supremec court of the United States. Yes, a man can decide the size of his own bedstead, NotIce furthermore that even gianti must rest. Such enormous physical en. dowment on the part of King Og mighi suggest the capacity to stride across al fatigue and omit slumber. No. ie re quired an iron bedstead. tUlants muns rest. Not appreciating that fact, hiow many of the giants yearly break down Giants in business, giant. In art, glanti In eloquence, giant. In usefhiness. Thlej live not out more than half their dlays They try to escape the consequence 4) overwork by a voyage across the sea oi a sail in a summer yacht, or call on phy. sicians for relief from insomnia or res toration of unstrung nerves or the arrest of apophexhes, when all they need is what tni giant of my text resorted to ana iron bedstad. Tie only case of accident to sleep M mentioned In the Bible was when Eutv- V chus tell from a window during a sermon t! of Paul, who had preached until mid nighit, but that Was not so muchi a con- 'I dealittiou of sleep as a censure ot lo"g I serions. More scep is what the world I wants. Economize in everything but c sleep. William 11. Seward, the re- t nowned secretary of state, in the midst 1 of his overmastering tolls longed for the r capacity to rest, writing in his memo- t randum book, "1 have never found but 4 one invaluable recipe for having a good < nght's rest, and that is to have been I restless and sleepless the night be!ore.. When President John Quincy Adams I and the distinguished Josiah Quincy I went to hear Judge Story lecture on law i to his students, and when invited to sit i beside the judge and both fell asleep, l the judge appropriately pointed to them and said to his students, "Behold the evil efl'ets of early rising." In Bible times, when people arose at 4 the voice of t.he bird, they retired at the I time the bird puts his head under his I wing. One of our national sins is rob- I bery of sleep. Walter Scott was so I urgent about this dit,y of slumber that, whei arriving at a hotel wherf there was no room to sleep in, except that in i which there was a corpse, incluired if i the deceased had died of a contagious t distaso, and, when assiur-ed he had not, I took the other bed in t,be room and fell I into protounidest slumber. Those of i small en(hitrince must ce -tainly require < rest if even the giant, needs an iron tied- i stead. Notice, furthermore, that God's pei ple on the way to Canaan need no .e I surprised it they confront some sort of a giant. 1IN(l not the Israelitish hosthad I trouble eniugh alread3? No! RIed sea not enouglih. Water tain Ine not enotwh.i Lon, marcihes not enough. oppositio, by eneiiiies of ordinary stature not enotigh. They niutneed 0g. tihe giant of the iron heilsteud. "Nime ctbhl:-s was tihe lengli thereof am' 11our cuibits the breadth of it.'' Why not let these Is raelites go sioot,ily into ('anlaant with out this gi pTganti oppsition? Oh, they needee Lo lia'Ve their comirage and ftith 1tirtier tested and developedt! Amid blessed tihe iman who, in onur time, ill his march toward the Promised Land, does no. ineet mnore than one giant. D ho not ronclude that oul are not on tihe .vav to Canaan because of this obstacle. As well miglit time Isriaelites conIlde they were not. on the way to the Protimii ed L'ind tecaise they iet 0., lie giant. Stanling in your way is some evil pro pensity, some social persecutionl, solli businless i118iOrt tine, sOlme physical dis. t 'uss. N ot. oie ti you i lit meet a 4 'iatit who would hke to heW you II twail. I livb 1' 1.111 vn feet ehI s Og ha kenis the sky :i(l the raltik of his buckl i'r st1uns the viu. li-it yot are -oilng to -vt the vielory, ati;[dihe I Iriclites. In te i [nie, (if tihe (;()d (t Moses anmid Dlavid' .md .1tlsiua :amld 'tal, charg on him, i anmd )O(i wi leave his V;Arcass inl ithe widernesm. u wait a battlc sh1;.ut! lake tlit Nitth %ihh Davil, tIe live tooter-, assa:xled (',11iath, thle ine 1.>otur; whtiL thit -!utaL riled, with stiglinm con teritpt bot!h in inaiimer atid iiitutiatioi, "Came to m0. anl I will give thy lie-th unto the 1)., Is of tlt! aira toa t i the beast of tIe ilibl, and David looked up1) It tihe monte Of la'gadalo ad i detiatily rephtled: "Thout conit to e in thaf. dandl with a spear, an . ithi a shieldl; built I come toi thee in the name oif the Loriid oi I losts, the G oila I tthe ar'mies ol Israel, whinil thou hmast de lied. Th'lis iday wil th Ie l 4ord delhveri thee unto mine hmaind; iad I wilf smite thiee and1 tatke tthine head1( tri-im thee, anmd I will give the ca:casses oft the host, i.i the I'tiittsttnes this day unto the fowls of' the air and to the wild beasts of the earth that alt the earth may know thalit there is a Godl in Isra'tel."' of .Then Dvid, with probably three swis oftesling about, las head, got, it into sutliiient minomlt.n andl let Ily t,ill Li,he eraiiinim oit thle giant, broke ini a3d lie tell, andl I)avid leaped oni his carca ss,i one toot, on his chest and the other on his head, and that was thle last on die P'ihistine. Ihie.hen, I have made til m' imind( thatt we witl have to fight all the way up to the promiisedl land. I use< i) to think that allet awhile 1 woulid get int.o a time where it would lbe smooth andi easy, but th:e tinme idoes not, come anid it will never tcomei in this wor'ld. By the time King Og is useid up so tbat lie cannot, get into his ironi heiistead, some other' giant6 of Sopplositioni looms upj to dlispmute our wVay, r et us st,op looking foir an easy time aiii make it a thirty y'ears' warU, or a .Sixty 3 earsi' wair, or at hundreid years' I warl, it we live so long. , Must I be carriedl to the skies - Oni ilowery' bds1 iof entso, SWhile othiers fought to win the prize0 And sailed through buloodty seas' ,I)o you kniow the name of the biggest, in giant that 3(1ou enn piossibly niet--and I y~oui will meet him? iIe is not eleven - eet high, tbut oneW hundred feet high,. SHis bedlsteai:d is as8 long as the conttment. SHis nameilL Is D)oubt. hIis common food is infidel baooks anil skeptical lectur'es anil ministers who do not, kiiow whether 1 thme Bible Is inspired at all or inspired in spots, and Chtristmnns whio are more I inflidel thani Christian. You will never reach the Promised L andl unless you slay t,hat, giant. Kill D)oubt or Do'ubt wilt kill you. hlow to overcome I his gianmto Pray for faith, go with peple who have faith, rend everything t.hat, eiicouirage s aithi, av'oid as you wouild ship nfever aiil Sitmallaox t,he people whlo lank fa:ith. In thIs battle ag~ainst, King Og use niot for weapons time (rutch of' a liimpinmg Christian or the sharp jien of a contrmo Iversia list, taut the swordi of truth. w hih is the wordl of' Godl. Th'le word "'It"' is umiade up ol the same number of letters 'as the word "'0,"' andi it, is jiust aslbigta giant. Itf the Bi ble be true. II' tihe soid tibei imoriitil. If Chris t be0 Goil. I f 0our belief' and. behavior heie d ecidhe our future dlestimiy. II. I1f. If. I liate that wiord( "It.'' Noah Webster says it is a comijunction; I sy it is anl armiiedl gint. Satian breatthed upon01 it a curlse when lie said to Chirist, "'If thiou be time I Son of' God.'' What a dastardly and in 4 famous "'It.'' Aeainst that giant, "It"'' harl. ,oh's "'I know'' and Paul's "I'1 know." "I know that my Redeemer liveth."' "I know in whoin I have be- t lieved." Down with the "It" and ump with "I know." Oh, ;,hat giaint Doubt, is such a cruel - giant! It, attacks many ini the last, hour. It, could not let a' y mother alone even ini her dying moment,s. After a life of holi- 1 ness andl consecration such as I never I heard of' in any one else, she said to my I father, "Father, what If, after all, our prayers and struggles should go fort nothing." Why could she not, after allC the triais and sicknesses and bereave-I ments of' a long life and time Initrmities of old age, be allowed to go evithmout such a cruel stroke from Doubt, the glams? Do you wonder I have a grudge against, the old monster? If'I could I would give him a bigger bounce than Satan got ,hen, hurled out of heaven, the fir-it ilng he struck was the bottom o perd on. Another ipression from my subjet: he. march ot the church cannot, be im eded Iby i i) utic Ayposition. That .raclitish4 host led'oll by Mosei was the hurch, and when Og, the iant (him of lie iron bedstead), camie out agamtst u with amother liost,-a fresh host gainst one that, seemed worn out--thing nust have looked bad for Israel. No ac ount is given of *,he bed.tead of Moses, Xeept that one in which lie first slept he cradle of aquatic vegetatioll on the 4ile. where the wile of Cheaephres, the iug, found the floating babe and, having 1o child of her own, adopted him. Moses f ordinary sizo gainiist 04 ot extraordi iary dimenslons. Besides that Og was >acked ill) by sixty fbrt.Lfied cities. Sioses was backed up seeni ly by noth n1, but the desert that had worn him Imd his army into i group of undisciplin Ad and exhauisted strag-lers. But, the [sraelites triimpelid. I t you spell the iame of' O: backwark you turn it into ,Ie word "Go," and Og was turned ackwaid and made to go. With 0's downifill all the sixty cities urrendered. Nothilg Was left, of' the ,iant except his iron bedstead, was kept it a muisetm at Rabbath to show how all and stout Ie o1CO WaIs. So shalil the ast gianlit of opposition inl tile church's nar:h Ruccu ni. Not sixty cities cap- I ured, but ill the cities. Not only on i )me( side ol .Jlordan, but on both sides of ill the rivers. 'T'le day is comig. Hear I, all ye who are doIng something lor lie conquest, of the world fbr God and he truth, the ,ime will come tyhen, as I ,hure was nothing left of 0-, the gailt, I a)m the iron b.(stvad ku lit at 1tabbalt I is a curiosity, thcre wi:l be nothin. left > O,e iats 'il tnuitv except somie hinl'i for the relici hunters to examine. Wlici of the giants will be the last lain I kiow not, but, there will be a usetmn somewhere to iiol the relics if what ti-y o(ce were. A rusted I-ord will be uling i.;- --t he only reh f the giant of War. A delli1joli ,hte only I-lic ol the g iant of I lebration. I X roulette ball---the only reflie of' ti li iant, of tlaz. ird. A I i tured certili "Itv of wvatered stock -tht oily relic of he irtant. o'Slock I,ambling. A broken itkit--the. olf'. relic of' the giarit of I Nsat-!Ssilatioi. A y -ilo %copY of Toli alillt -tlie only relic of the giant. of '1beliel. And thal, mu111seti will do or I lie later ages of the world what, the ron bedste.d I W RabbatIi did f'or the I ;arli(,r agvs. Do % ot not See it, MAkes ill the di ff1erence in the world whither ve art fightlitg on towari a isirable lelI-at or towid a 1inal vicorl y r Al I lie W il, )r.)llSt S prophosy t lie I a atter, Mat o I Vlit V you who are 1 he roops oft (nid, ;ail I holigh 1i1141y things 're4 <iark hoo, liLmA \ XIert I review he( arhvb torvilblhl. anld I give yout he wa.t( hw11%(rd whil-b Marltill 111thl r -rog-laitl.t.d, " fl' Lol d of llosis ", i'( rd .f o ls' '' atil I cry out tx l11 l"gy vith 0 iver CoIlilntil atf the' I t l,f D httir, " lt od al "v ; lt li. v1v;nltis bo s'-atterl (." . lako allf hlk rp ra I ' f I he w%o431 i's t-vanl 1lzitionl. the llaf01 it h I -I I ll .'d Nl;a,y Molt litt, I he %ns%ouris who .uItr preachiing ill B0lih:1i:Lnd tot vin yv:ars wiutoill V0n1nVt when "Oll Nktd wi nit t wv n old iL.. to have I -1t th-Ili by way I gift from ill,nland, . 1i, "S1,11d ;I s.om inu ioti scivice, Iori Swill be -urely mee(-ed;' atit :ire 'nouglt tilie (-xpecteI ingithf1e1Ing I milny souls wals laized ali th e toini ituilion serv ice airrivsed ini t iime to cele irat Ict. A proprialtel-y did thalt miiis ogrppih waIs rEtluested: \ly allmtini is thie savage breast, Where dar-kness reignls and teiple!tsi wrect, Without onic ray or lighit. l'o write the nainie of .Jesiis thiere Andit poiint, tto woilds both brtighit andt fair, Xn wre the Ntavage bowedCt in pirayer, Is moy supreme tdelighit. WVhatever your work antd whetrever ou work for God--forward! Yt'u in< our wauy anld I iii liy way. With pluc1k ight on with soiiethinrg of the strength >t 'Thomas T1roiitidige, ws'ho it, Inkelr-1 mantiii had oneO leg shot off and thle loot >f t he oilier Itg, arid when they piropos d1 to carry him11 oil thle field, i eptied: No, I (It hot miove iiiitil the batitle isI wonit." Wihatevver lbe thle rock1 ig of the I :liuireb or state, have the calmness of he aged womnli .in ani eairthrijtmake that I rightened everybotly else, and( it, I vhien asked if she wais not afraiid, said, 'No; I am glad that I halve a God who 1 an1 sha~ke' thle world ." Wh lethier your isork be fto teach ai Sabbath class, or< I tirse an1 invsalid, or reformn a wandi(er e'r, or train a household, or bear I he I :itietouisness o1 sen3lility3, (ir chieeri the I flihartened, or 1lead a soul to Christ, know that by fidelity you may help biastenl the timne whlen the wvorld shall bie sniowt d under with white lily aind< incairnad inedl with1 retd rose. Anid 1now 1 hargain wit,h you that we 1 will comle bac1k somlei day t rtomi our sit persltefllar abtile to see how the world looks when it. shall1 be fully empair-' heailed, its last shacleI broKen, its last desert gardenized, its last giant of ini iqutity decaOlpitaited. Andf when we land, mnay it lhe somewhere near this spot of earth where we have together toiledt andi struiggled for' the kingdom Lif God, and( hiuay it be abioiit tis hour in the high noon1 or somse glorious Sab bath looking inito the uipti ued faces if sonme great audtienice radhflmt wit,h fioliiiess andit tritiiliuph. Itto Neck Wasi iirokenu. SiPtIA RTN i:n'o1, S. C., March i-f. - -It is seldomi ihat a i Iwelve inch faill proves fat al to ai per soni but this is the distiimee vichel G eorgt- Wihit e, ai negro boy, fell iin Saturtday inight , and h-y the t all his icek wals hiroheni. Geoorge was emiplov. d lat Iiower's Ii very st able, on E,ast huriiiebh st reet , ts dr i vter, antd I ogt ther 4vithI .1lohn inltey, a simaIll whliteI boy, ilso ian li emlltee a''lt t he staibles. was p lay in . on t he ; :tvemueii juiist beltow thei ~ttnlt's, andh dirtect Iy ini Iratit of avt hi'e arroin. It steeme titIhat tho 'boys ve l atninItg tihemsilves b0Iy iirowi tn g og onie I hi own by~ .lhn l'iinity, (George' White fell frtom thet paiviemrnlt inito Ithe utter an d iieveir a1rose. lie wsa; pic(k ed here exainLed. It. was thoutght bieforer he exam inaittiont halt th rl'iock I birown ty Ftilt'y ti i thle woi'k, but It thorough xainatliioni 0t thle negrot's btody bowed t,hat t here wi-rue iio bruiises anid lie ottly aiilmln waiI s fte b roken teck. inle'y wias arreste ii ioiielldiaitely afteor lie negro fell lund put in jail, but the oronler's jury 10ould see no reason why ic shoukdt be hed, and( hie wals freed. - Collimtbia Retgtste'r. Aut it Shoulde tIe. 'Th)PEKA, Ktan., MarlIchi 12.-It hats >eeni practically dlecidedi by the leading )emocrats of Kansas not to put ai 'res dlential electoral ticket int the field antd upport tht People's party elet'toral icket. A fuitoni wvill also beteffected< tfn State (ofices an[d Conigressmanl-at- I arge. Thefl Demnocrats will have two mt of seven Congreassmen. Thie corn >itnatlon will extend down to the leg - I slative and county offices. D)emocrat imd Alance headters claims that this i Will wipe out the Rhepublican party In I Kansas. The same tactics are to be uned in Nerasknta ana te n.ak,tas MINERS ENTOMBED ALUVE.1 IGH I FUL COLLIERY DISASTER IN ANDEL~L.Ul:'. BEIGILUM. kne litidred or MoroeA M1em ne Wolioen 1eitveel toe llave Met Their leatlh in th lie ptim-Terriblu Mmee -tu aud About the Mine,. DRUsSELLs, March l1.-A fright[ul 'olliery disaster has oqcurred at An lerlues. Threo hundred miners are mtoibed in the pit, and a series of ex Alosions have apparently cut off all ac - wess to the men. An at nempt has been iade to reach the imprisoned miners, )ut s) far without success. The ex plorcrs have beei beaten back by the 'oul fuimes. The shafting and ventila ion are destroyed. Three feniale miniers hava been res medit, and it seems aliost certain that ill the rest are dead. Intense excite nent prevails, and thousands are Ilock ng to the place, which is one of the ending mining centers of Beigium. 'he scenes at the pit mouth are most )athetic, a multitude of people bewail ng their relatives, stippose.l to have perished iii ie inine. Dispatches trom Charleroi this even ng state t hat four otllicials of the corn )tny owing the mine at Anderlues left or thescene of the explosion this alter loon. Machinery for keeping down the vater in the mine and facilitating the vork of hoisting out the wreckage has lready bien shippeo. The Govern ient is receiving bulletins of the pro ,ress of the work at the shft, and has ent a reprt seitative to the spot to as crain the facts for use in at in vestiga ion of the c:tises of the aecideat, and in Aacing the responsibility for it. King Leopold has contibuttd 5,0X) riaiies from his private purse to the epinior.ry support (if the fatinitts of niners already known to have been :illed. [lundrttds of ien ant women roin nearby villages have gat hered near he moutl i of the pit, and aro campi ng rotind bonfiri s. watching the progress if the work of rescue. Families and eLt tves of t he 2t or more mien have r1ide th-ir hoie in thw [itel(1s ftor the ight, a a re coking their me -is over penf-:r lires, %a t- io get the 4'arliest 1ws trmil thost. ill-Pristnetl by the hatti'led - haft. The place ;t which I tie vxplosioni oc 11r ti i i lit secini g:tIlery,5W0 yardc elow the snilaco, and thedep-th is diffi ilt and .olhinere. run'ers have ,'k-n ICt twitn tHree 1i1mCs itI a cage. l'hn'ii half %;wayv 'sowii on the fir.it tri) 1hv forther caving i'a Ot the shaft. rigifenit Ihlivm, and they returned 'ive ol the ten mn refused togo down gain,ai the min- was ll.ioiling rapidly, hivy ;Autt, a114t loosvled sides of the haft, hlio-alened t.o 1all iin and biry hit m. The otlier live inade te eo Ytcoiui ip anti reac~hedt the inteuth of1 the e-coind gallery. l'hey fouand a few mnen lit) werei niea:rest t he shaft whein the rst exloii occtiuired. These iiners tad to r-ut fo r t heirI ive's, buLt tint!beein muig'ht at the enitranice bcy fallinig timi ceis. All had berokent hones, and three A ere so lirmily lodged in the wreck that lie ru sculing p.iriy (lared nott wait to ~tricate thet. l-'ive of thme wounded vetrte brought uip ton ihe secondt trip, anid ive dead were brought upl ont the third. Tihe rescuetd mnen say that t went v-tiv~e >f the mi nters still i nprisoned ar~e wo nein. '[here are about 200) in all still o lie acecounted for. It is thought that hose nieart'st the lirst cavec-in in the rallerv mal:y he rescued n!ive. 'iThose iirithtest fromt t he entrance of Ithe ~allery have t pr'obably been suilocated ~efore ti u, antd if nott will die before hey caln hbe reatche<(. I he wak has been set back twvice his evenling by the caving of great )tlocks of soil and stone Irtom the sides >f the wrecked shaft, anid since the hird trip nio volunteers for the work of -escute could ho h ound. 'The sutperinten. lent ot the mine has twice gone down 00 feel,,t.t has returnrid, s-tying that he chances would be fouir to one against tim, if he' went lower. Thele dtead will number at~ least 100, mdt probably 150. A bout. 400 members 1f the htlillets of the missing mnen will ~amp in th lie hlds around the shaft all ugh t. A bout tiftLy of the 300 men in he gallery at the time of the first ex >losion got out by t.he second( shalt. Late tis evening ano'ther r-escue >ai ty dl'eCnded the scene of the explo iOn in the mine. 'l'hey cleared away he dlebris at the eni tnce of the gal cry and found twenity-hive dead bodies, ive ot tthei women. Most of the bod i-s were terribly miut iliated. Ot.hers hlowed but few fractures of the limits, tenth tainting bien c'aiusedt apparently y sulfiocation. 'Thei resaute party re urnied atid are still at work in the gal cry. les calatiity increases itt horror. 'The pit is no)w burning, and smnoke and bonetis batr the searchers in their work d restcue. it Is feared now that not tess I hatt 240) mi nuns hiave perished, in -htidm rg a large niuumber of wotnen, of who lt)uihere weure mnaiv employed in hie itninet. King Leo'tpold is infoirmed miutly oh t he situation at Antderlues. It is noi)w hel ieved that all those not rts 'tetd yes!terdlay were killted at the Itine >f thle ex plosion, or dit'd soon alter. Nevettrthi-tess, the frientds anid rela a ves persist ini hoping that some may taye escapjedu by3 tak inzg refulge inl somei vonrkinrg perttct ed [romn the e'ffect of' h.e tephionsitr. ~N obotlyi shares thtis be ief, honi evcter, t'xcepjt te lam ilies of Ite eri arid wtomen'i who are int the pit. i'hiere is no dtoutiI thant I stse who were tot de-sItoyedl by the t-xplosioni were sui lfcatedI by Ih e fuilteS ori d1rownled in wtateir which in)vadedl various lportions 31 t.he intne. The Ailliance. imecemn in Conim gretss hav'ee unlder con iuderat ion a programl designedt to itvatnce t he interest of the Alliance. l'hiey propose t) estaldishi an Atti nice Congressional camtnipaign comn nittee on about the SamEiO basis as tie commuittees which loo0k ttler tie mter'ests of the Ilepublican ind D)emocratic parties. 'The pro ram comntemplates the establish nnti of a bureau to supply documents mrnt to htavet charge of the assignitienit if speakers, also the establishmnt, ol a tationral niewspaper inl Washitngtoni. l'hese and other projects were discuss 'd at a meeting of t,be Alliancemen teld at the house of' Ilepresenitative hVatson of Georgia. But before decis ye atiton is taken, as conference with e held wilth Mr. Tatubeneck of St. Gois who Is the national representa lye of this arty. A Iturglar Killedt. The postoilleo at 1anibera was bur glarized on last Saturday night ail robbed of all the ca in it money draweii aid a ir tered package wl.ich had becu i during Et day. The burglars entered through e front window of the oifice and ther forced their way through the general delivery window and went out througl: the rear of the building. The amouni taken was about $43. It is said tha there was a laige amount of money it a tia- box l ing oi the counter, whiel was untouched. Tlhere is no clue as 1.( who the robbers are, except that th postmaster has buspicions and ha Town Malishal Cave working up tht case. The suspect left here fo Charleston freely spending money, an was followed by the marshal on thi next train. Thirty dollars of thi money was recovered Sunday night b, Policemen Cave and Jones. Tne housi of the suspected burglar was searche( and the money was found secreted un der the bed. This seLtles the guilt or it colored man, an ex-convict, who lefl for Charleston Sunday night. Thu Bamberg correspondent of thi State, from which journal the above ii taken, under date of March 14, sayi Town Marthal Wiley Cave shot an( killed Jako Samuels, colored, last nighi about 12 o'clock. It was the sequel t< the postollice robbery of Saturday night an account of which appears above The only witnesses to the shooting weri Postmaster Varn and Mr. Y. C. Jones An inquest was held Monday by Tria Justice lowe, and from the evidenci of the three witnesses and the principal which is corroborative, the followinj is gathered: After Mr. Cave recovered $30 of th4 stolen money from Samuels's house h tholight it possible that Samuels wouh return during the night to secure hit money, and t equested Postmaster Vart and Mr. Y. C. Jones to accompany hin: to make the arrest. After they hat bevn at tihe house about an hour Sam uels turned up, only to be surprised ant arrested. iIe broke down at once ant acknowledged that he robbed the post ellice, and gave up all the money hi had stolen. The three men then brought thel captive down the railroad toward thi guard house, when Samuels sudIt-ul5 turned and asked what they were going to do with him. Mr. Varn told hirr he would go to Sing Sing. At thi Samuels imade a break for liberty, bul the mnarshal, who was too alert for him wheeled and shot him within three feet of ths body and fired twice miore. ThE negro fell dead, the last ball piercing hiis heart and causing instant death. The verdict of the jury was that th( deevasm cmne to his death by a pistol shot wound irlicted by Wiley Cave Trial Justice Iowe committed Mr Cave to jail to await trial at the nexi term of court,. Public opinion differ, as to whether Cave was justifiable or n1ot. El .ct ropote.. Why sufler with sickness or disease 10hen you can be so eaily and quickll cured without medicine by the use o the Electropolse. II AWTHoitN. FLA., June 23, 1890. Rev. M. 11. Houston, Nashvilla; 'enn. Dear Brother: Yours of June 20th re eeived. I have had almost twa years' ex perience with the Electropolse, and mus say it far surpasses even skillful medics tion; and I have treated more than tw< hund1(1redl cases of various diseases with marked success. 1 have broken chills ana fever of several weeks' duratIon In froni one night to three ights. It Is inmpossibh to have chills while using the poIse proper 13'. I hav'e treated more thtan 13 cases o: fever, the majorIty being typhoid-malaria curing thecim in from two hours to fou days. Diarrhoea, dysentery and cholera nmorbus I have cured In from one hour t< eiftht generally. Rheumatism In fron three hours to three days. in one casenmak lng the patient throw away hIs crutcher and atraighten his dteformed lImbs In fom hours, and one more day's treatueint made a perinanent cure- it In beyond doubt the greatest remedy God has p)ermitted us ta know, Th'le Instruments are now place< all around rme, andt I am treating people day andl night. It Is giving me influence he re as noth ing else can. My cotidence in the treatinment Is almost unbounded; Il cures p)romp)tly andI permanently, I wvil mark a few certificates inm the enclose. circulars of cures effectedI by myself. T1he cert.ificates of' cures in FlorIda could hi madte much stronger than given in thme clir eculars lBy all means put the treatment Into ti hands of our mIssIonarIes for their p rotec tlon amd Iiluence, that lIke our Saviou they may go forth preachIng and healing thme people. Yours fraternally, C. N. MORiROW. A 40 page book, describing treat ment an.d cor taining testimonIals froi all s'ections' and for the cure of all dia eases, mailed free on applIcation, Ad dress, ATLANTrIC EL[ECTlOOISE CO. 222 King St., Charleston, S. C. A Fight WVith Robb,eru. E Aca LEm. PAss, Texas, March Il.- Wor< has just reached Eagle Pass of an at tempted robbery and a murder nea D)urango. Mr. Blrittain, of Las Vaca mines, left D)urango city on the nigh of February 29 for the mines, sorne sev enty miles oif. lie hamd with him $10, 000 in Mexican silver in a safe in hi wagon. This fact became known te six desperate characters and they wen a few miiles out on thme road to Las Va cas before dhaylight amnd lay In aumbusl for Mr. Brittain. TJhe .lirittain part; consisted of four p)ersonls, heavily armi ed, and when the amnbushed bandit saw the teams they at once charge< upon them, using pIstols and Winches ters freely. Tlhe others, however, mad< vigorous resistance, while hurrying into Constancia, and though one o their number, Antonio Castana, wai killed. the others with the treasure made safe ent ry into) Constancia. T1he robbe's, finding pursuit useless anc dlang';roums, turned~ towaird i)urango anc haav not been caught. i'ut in ai Coln,d Rtonin, to Di. hitUFI Am, March 1.-The threi mmon.hs' old babe of a man name< Carnier of Spring Brook was attacke< last night by diphtheria. Instead o: calling a (doctor Carner sent for "Moth ce" itronson, a midwife. She told the parents t here was no hope of saving the litt le one, and they might as well puti ini a coldh roonm where it could die easily A ccordingly the child was put in a roon w here there was no lIre. "Mother itronson ordered all the windows an dloors opened so the baby could hay the full benefit of the freezing atmosp here, while she and the ignorant parent sat mt another room htugging the stov an:l listening to the infant's plalntiv cries. For three days thte child's,vitalit: kept it alhve, bu't it died last night. Killed Mani and Wif. DAl n, LNO'TON, S. C , March 14.-Ys terd;my two negroes got into a diflcult; ini to wn. One went to the other's homn and h lId under the barn with his gun W hmen the other, whose name Is Stroth er, reached home his wife came out t< help him out of the wagomi. The at.sas sin, whose name Is not known, tIred and hit both man and -woman. Botl will die. The shooting oc'curred twelvi miles from t.own. Talbot & son, E NGINJIES, J10ILEX, COTTON SEED OIL MACHINERY, and all kinds of TOBACCO MACILNEI, CORN AND WHEAT MILLS 'JURBINE WATER W11EELs, SAW M[LU5, WITi RAi'E FEED, or r BELT AND VAlt1AlIlE FRICTION FEEl), * IMPROVED I)OGS, AN) t;F'r WORKS AND T131ER GUAGERS, h,aduated to sixteenth of an inch $200 to ;600: Brick Machinery and Wood Working Machinery a specialty. Planing Machines $200 and upwards. Drying Kilns for Brick and Lumber. Every yard should have one. Plans and drawings for construction fur. nished, We sell the10 highest grade of Machinery and at low prices. V. C. BADHAM, GENERAL AGENT, COLUumJA, S. C. Feb 19-1v. FadIel fays the Frett. A GREAT ORIEE THAT MAY NOT AoA [ BEREPEATED, 80 DO NOT DELAY, "STRIKE WHILE THE IRON 18 HOT." Write for Catalogue now, aind say wha paper yousaw this advertisement in. member that I sell everything thi. gL es to furnishing a home-manul actur. ing some things and buying others in tht largest possible lots, which enables iu tt kwipe out all competition 1HERE ARE A FEW OF MY bTAR' LING BAHGAINS A No. 7 Flat top Cooking Stove, fui size, 35x17 inch oven, fitted with 21 piece of ware, delivered at your own depol all freight charges paid by me, f;i only Twe4ve Dollars. Again, I will sell you a 5 hole Uookii. Range 13x13 inch oven, 18x26 inch top, tit i ted with 21 pieces of ware, for T liR TEEN DOLLARb, and pay the i reight to our depot. DO NOT PAY TWO PRICES FOR V OUR UOODS. I will send you a nice plush V'arlor suit,' walnut frame, either in colbiuation or banded, the most sty lish colors for :.50, to your .ai lroad station, freighi paid. Iwill alsohsoll you a nlice Bedrouwiv., uitt 0onsisting of Bureau with glatsi, I ingli head Bedstead, 1 WabhlStalid, I (tre table, 4 cane seat chairs, I cane .seat and back reeker all for iu.5u, and pay iroiyh to your depot. Or I will send )ou an t!legAUL isedroom 8uit with large glas, I II inArlic op, ir -03u, and piay treiglit. Nice wintuuw shado ou zipi iu roi wi 4 ou i I E.nuttau1a geanwta1r a .tiau-:12::. 4.0 Wtanul lounge, .0 ) 1ace curtais pe window, .U 1 iuanniot descrite! Cver3 thing~ 1in a :'iua&li Iadvertiseinent, bt,ti4' haVO ii itie . alte I containing 22,600u leet 01 hnt rou, wiLl: ware houses ant l:wity Duu tilg i nLherj - parts of A.ugusta, inaking in li then int-' 'gest business o tis iui undter one mu I aemient in the bouttliern states. I noe sLornsand warehouses~ are cru wded withi . he choicest prouuetions oftu Li.,st lco ries. My cattalo (ut contatuing iiIustaut,Ins - -,ay Whereii you 51aw t,is autUV t:.:i,imt. 1 , aI 1ji teight. Adure~.s, 3 L. F. PAiJIETT, 3 Proprietor l'adge,tt's I!ujulture, b'love 3 and Carpet blto, I !.110-1112J Br ad bt riee, A U(GU bT A,. OA. TY PEW RIT ER S E XCH A N GED. B ie Ft S aElT prpad LiietAyingre Gontals by Wh eithe rs - F Rm~s'FIEN D""S senic WILL D eared ttin iment d fogr ifen of rMoerzad Chled. ino c ontat tsesltimon ia als. o Ft Senthy ex es igreeipt are co.rn-e btl It NI)PAN RSh,PoreItor, Lifea.t of Mther .n Chl....o THE MUTUAL LIFE Insurance Company i New York RICHARD A. McCURD' , PRESIDENT. Statonut for thj year end ing Decomaber 81,1891 Assets - - $5, ,138 8 Eeserve on Policies (American Tablo 40/o) - - $146,968,892 0f LlabiliticR other than Beerve, 6071840 6 Surplus,- - - - - 12,010,907 16 Receipts from all sources, - 7t34,734 1 Payments to 1'olley.1olders, 18 25,711 86 E se asenmed and renewed, 194,470 policies, - - - 607,171,801 00 Risk. in force, U2,607 policies, amounting to - - - 03,73,461 06 NoTH.-The above statemenit shows a large increase over the business of 1890 in amount at risk, new bisinesa assumed, payments to policy-holders, recei ps assets and surlus ; and includes as risks assumed only the number an amount of policies actually issued and paid for in the accounts of the year. THE ASSETS ARE INVE11TED AG FOLLOWS: - Real Estate and Bond N crtgago Loans, - - - - - -81,345,640 48 United Slates Bonds ani other Securities - - - - 57,66111455 78 Loans on CoRateral Recur-les, 10,.28,903 go Cash in Banks anti Trust, Coupa. nes at interest, - - - 6,070,153 03 Interest accrued, Vremluts De ferred, etc., - - - - r,200,085 49 859,507,188 68 I have carefully examined tha foregoing statement and fiud the samne to be correct. A. N. WATEItoUSE, Auditor. From the Surplus a divileId will bo apportioned as usual. REPORT OP THlE B1LMII',KG COXEITTER. OMloe of The Ntual Life Insu.anco Company of Now York. January 25 189& It a meeting of tho Board of Trusio of this Company, hold on the 23d day of December, ultiimo, the undersigned wcr appointed a Con inittee to examine the annual statement for the y,ar ending December 31, 1891, mad to verify the same by ctimparison with the assets of the Cornpany. The 6mmittee have carefully performod the duty assigned to th and hereby certify that tho statement is in all partionlaraeorrect, a that the assets specified therein are in poshission of the Company. In maling this certificate the Comnittee bear testimony to the hio Character of te investments of tho Company and ex res their appre bation of the system, order, and acourecy with wi theaccounts i Touchon hay bwa kept, and the business in general is transoted. H. C. VON PoST, RosURT SEWELL, GEORGE BLIsS, J. H. HERRiCm, JULIEN T. DAVIES, D. C. RosN0ose JA8. 0. HoLoEN. ROBERT A. GRANNISS, VICE-PRESIDENT. WALTKR R. G:L.arru, - Genral Manager. FREDERIC CROMWM.LL, - - - Treasurer. EMORY MCCLIuOCIC, . - Actuary. OUNTY Ak4 ENTS. Abbevillo, ; Cieter, 11. G. Mellwainl; Fairfield, I]. G. Mcllwatin; Pickens, --------; F_oe nee; Edgelield, Geo MI. Lake; Ieil.ley, W. S. laWtl & Son; 11almt i ;-V. N. ileyward; WMlliamisbutrg, N. MI. .16hnson; Lautrens, M. T. 813mp1son;. Kershalw, E4. 3.Cantey. GernanI & 1yatt, (eneril Agents, Co lumbia, S. C. I. .. ~ LAMMJIt - s .uiU AN . n.Poraos -M 7 IE WORKMEN SOlth ~ ~ 1cr aalllala ileWo douthern Stae to senr satsfatio5 Amria uad'Iaia t ale Work. ayt. At, M OWJNSUlM IAIU,&C. ? tSen Statries ta)l 14001uforatiton I Amprica an d It0lia Mi WorA. A U kintl(THof