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1)W TO TAKE A CITY. ABIMELECH WAS A RASCAL, JUT HE KNEW HOW TO FIG!T. Itev. Jir. Talmuag Show., 11"" GudSome tines DrIves a straight Nail With a Poor Hammer--The ltei C-y " "b'he" andI It., Lesmon. WA5smNsTO . Jan. S. ---In his str mon for today r. r. Talmare took for his subject "The Power of Exam ple." The text seleted was J ites i x, 48: "And Abimelech took an ax in his hand and cut down a bougl from the trees and and took it and laid it on his shoulder and said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seei me do make haste and do as I have done. And all the people likewise cut do wn every man his bough." Abimelech is a name' maladorous in Bible history yet full of prolitablc suggestion. Buoys are black and un comly, but they tell where the reeks are, The snake's rattle is hideous, but it gives timely warning. From. the piazza of my summer ho-ne, night by night, I -saw a lighthouse 15 miles aay, not placed there for adornmenit. but to tell mariners to stand. oil from that dangerous point. So all the iron bound coast of moral danger A marked with Saul and Herod aui:l Rehoboam and Jezebel and Abirmelech. These bad people are mentioned in the Bible not only as warninzs. but because there were sometimes aishes of good conduct in their lives worthy of imi tation. God sometimes drives a very straight nail with a very poor ham mer. The city of Shechem had to be tak en and Abimelech and his men were to do it. I see the dust rolling up fromtheir excited march. I hear the shouting of the captains and the yell of 'the besiegers. The swords clack sharply on the parrying sbields. and the vociferation of t wo armies in death grapple is horrible to hear. The bat tle goes on all day, and as the sun is setting Abimelech and his army cry, "Surrender: to the beaten foe, and. unable longer to resist the city of Shechem falls, and there are pools of blood and dissevered limbs, and glazed eyes, looking up beggingly for mercy that war never shows, and dying sol diers, with their head on the lap of mother or wife or sister, who have come out for the last offices of kind ness and affection, and a groan rolls across the city, stopping not, because there is no spot for it to rest, so full is the place of other !groans. A city wounded! A city dying: A city dead! Wail for Shechem, all ye who know the horrors of a sacked town. As I look over the city I can find only one building standing and that is the temple of the god Berith. Some soldiers outride of the city in a tower, finding that they can no longer de fend Shechem, now begin to look out for their own personal safety, and they fly to this temple of Berith. They go within the door, shut it, and they say, "Now we are safe. Abimelech has taken the whole city, but he can not take this temple of Berith. Here we shall be under the protection of the gods." 0 Berith, the god, do your best now for these refugees: If you have eyes, pity them; if you have hands, help them, if you have thun derbolts, strike for them. But how sha.11 Abimelech and his army take this temple of Berith and the men who are there fortified? Will they do it 'with sword? Nay! Will they do it with spear? Nay ! With battering ram, rolled up by hundred armed strength, crashing against the walls? Nay ! Abimelech marches his men to a wood in Zalmon. With his ax he hews off a limb of a tree and puts that ~limb upon his own shoulder, and then he says to. his men, "You do the same." They are obedient to their command er. There is a struggle as to who shall have axes. The whole wood is full of bending-boughs, and the crackling, and the hacninng, and the. cutting, un til every one of the host has a limb of a tree cut down, and not only that, but has put it on his shoulder just as Abimelech showed him how. Are these men all armed with the tree branch? The reply comes, "All armed!" And they march on. Oh, wl~rat a strange army, with that strange equipment: They come up to the foot of the tem peat Berith, and Abimelech takes his limb of a tree and throws it down, and the first platoon of soldiers come up, and they throw down their branches, and the second platoon, and the third, until all around about the temple of Berith there is a pile of tree branches. The Shechemites look out from the 'window of the temple upon what seems to them childish play on the Dart of their enemies. But soon the flints are struck, and the spark be gins to kindle the brush, and the * atme comes up all through the pile, and the red elements leap to the case ment, and the woodwork begins to blaze, and one arm of flame is thrown up on the right side of the temple, and another arm of flame is thrown up on the left side of the temple, until they clasp their lurid palms under the wild night sky, and the cry of "Fire :"with in and "Fire!" without announces the terror, and the strangulation, and the doom of the Shechemites, and the com plete overthrow of the temple of the gdBerith. Then there went up a sout, long and loud, from the stout lungs and swarthy chests of Abime leoih and his men as they stood amid ths ashes and dust crying, "Victory. -victory !" Now I liarn first from this subject the folly of depending upon any one form of tactics in anything we have to do for this world or for God. Look over the weaponry of olden times javelins, battleazes, habergeons-and show me a single weapon with which Abimelech and his men could have gain ed such complete triumph. It is no easy thing to take a temple thus armed. I *have seen a house where, during~ Rev olutionary times, a man and his wife kept back a whole regiment hour after * hour because they were inside the * house and the assaulting soldiers were outside the house. Yet here Abime lech and his army come up, they sur round this temple, and they capttire it * without the loss of a single man on the part of Abimelech, although I sup pose some of the old Israelitish heroes told Abimelech, "You are only going up their to be cut to pieces." Yet you are willing to testify today that by no other mode-certainly not by ordinary modes-could that temple so easily. so thoroughly have been taken. Fathers and mothers brethren and sisters in Jesus Christ, what the church most 'wants to learn this day is that any p lan is right, is lawful, is best, which helps to overthrow the temple of sin and capture this world for God. We are very apt to stick to the old modes of attack. We put on the old style coat of mail. We come up with the sharp, keen, glittering steel spear of argument, expecting inm !hai way to take the castle, but they have 1,Q00 spears where we have 10. And so the castle of sin stands. OJh, my friends, 'we will never capture this world for God by any keen saber of sarcasm, by any glittering lances of rhetoric, by any sapping and mining of profound disquisition, by any gunpowdery ex plosions of indignation, by sharpshoot ings of wit, by howitzers of mental strength made toswingshell five miles, by cavabry hrsegowrgeousiy canari soned palwm me :ir. im vain al thne attenpts on the pariL o Lhese eccleiasti ceal foot solier, lighr'trsenc-n and gre'nadiers. My frientds. propose a ditferent style of tactics. Lt eacih one go to the forest of God's proaiise and invita tiou and hew down a branch and put it on his shoulder, and let us all cone around these obstinate iniquities, and then. with this pile kindlied by the tires of a holy :zeal and the llames of a constcr'ated life, we will bur:i them out. What steel cannot do iire may. And I announce myself in favor of any plan of religious attack that suco ceeds-any plan of reiigious attack, however radical. however odd, how ever unpopular, however hostile to all the convntionalities of chlreh and state. If one style of prayer does uno do the work, 1-t i trv another style. If the church musi of today does not get the v "tory then let us mIake the a1sault with a back woods chorus. If a prayer imetting at half past 7 in the evening does ItOt succeed, let us have one as early in ite morning as when the angel found wrestling Jacob too much for him. If a sermon with the three authorized heads does not do the work, then let us have a sermon with heads, or no heads at all. We want more heart in our song, more heart in our alnsgiving, more heart in our prayers, more heart in our preaching. Oh. for less of Abimelech's sword- and more of Abinmelech's con Ilagration: I often heard. There ;s a fountain fill with blood sunz artistically by four birds perched on their Sunday roost in the gallery until I thought of Jenny Lind and Nilssou and Sontag, and all the other warblers, but there came not one tear to my eye, nor one master emotion to my heart. But one night I went down to the African Methodist meeting house in Philadelphia, and at the close of the service a black woman in the middle of the audience began to sing that hymn, and all the audience joined in and we were floated some three or four miles nearer heaven than I have ever been since. I saw with my own eyes that "fountain filled with blood'* -red, agonizing, sacrificial, redemp tive-and I heard the crimson plash of the wave as all went down under it. For sinrers plunged beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains. Oh, my friends, the gospel is not a syllogism: it is not casuistry; it is not polemics or the science of squabbles: It is blood red fact: it is warm hearted invitation; it isleaping, bounding, fly ing good news: it is ellorescent with all light; it is rubescent with all sum mery glow: it is arborescent with all sweet shade. I have seen the sun rise on Mount Washington, and from the Tiptop House, but there was no beauty in that compared with the dayspring from on high when Christ gives light to a soul. I have heard Parepa sing, but there was no music in that com pared with the voice of Christ when he said, "Thy sins are forgiven thee, go in peace." Good news! Let every one cut down a branch of this tree of life and wave it. Let all the way from Mount Zalmon to Shechem be filled with the tossing joy. Good news: This bonfire of the gospel shall con sume the last temnle of sin and will illumine the sky with apocalyptic joy, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Any new plan that makes a man quit his sin and that prostrates a wrong I am as much in favor of as though all the doctors, and the bishops, and the archbishops, and the synods, and the academical gowns men'of Christianity sanctioned it. The temple of Berith mustcrte down, and I do not care how it comes. Still further, I learn from this sub' ject the nower of example. If Abime ech had sat down on the grass and told his men to go and get the boughs and go out to the battle, they would never have gone at all, or if they had, it would have been without any spirit or effective result, but when Abimelech goes with his own ax and hews down a branch, and with Abimelech's arm puts it on Abimelech's shoulder, and marches on, then, my text says, all the people did the same. Ihow natural that was: What made Gari aldi and Stonewall Jackson the most magnetic commanders of this century? They always rode ahead. Oh, the over wheming power of example !Here is a father on the wrong road. All his boys go on the wrong road. Here is a father who enlists for Christ. His children enlist. I saw in some of the picture galleries of Europe that before many of the great works of the masters -thi old masters-there would be sometimes four or five artists taking copies of the pictures. These copies they were going to carry with them, perhaps to distanit lands, and I have thought that your life and character are a masterpiece, and it is being cop ied, and long after you are gone it will bloom or blast in the homes of those who knew you, and be a Gorgon or a Madonna, Look out what you say. Look out what you do Eterrnity will hear the echo. The best sermon ever preached is a holy life. The best music ever chanted is a consistent walk. If you want others to serve God, serve im yourself. If you want others to shoulder their duty, shoulder yours. Where Abimelechi goes his troops go. Oh, start out for heaven today, and our family w'ill come after you, and your business associates will come af ter you, and your social friends will 30mi you. With one branch _of the tree of life for a baton, marshal just as many as you can gather. Oh, the in finite, the semiomnipoktt power of a good or bad example: I saw last summer, near the .;each, a wrecker's machine. It was a cylin der, with some holes at the side made for the thrusting in of some long poles with strong leverage, and when there is any vessel in trouble or going to pieces in the oiling the wreckers shoot a rope out to the suffering men. They grasp it, and the wreckers turn the cy inder, and the rope winds around the ylinder and those who areshipwrecked are saved. So at your feet today there is no influence with a tremendous leverage. The rope attached to it swings far out into the billowy future. Your children, your children's chil dren, and all the generations that are to follow will grip that influence and feel the long reaching pull long after the figures on your tombstone are so near worn out that the visitor cannot tell whether it was 189~G or 1790 or 1G6 that you died. Still further, I learn from this sub ject the advantage of concerted action. If Abimelech had merely gone out with a tree branch, the work would not have been accomplished, or if 10, 20 or 20 men had gone, but when all the axes are lifted, and all the sharp edges fall, and all these men carry eah his tree branch downi and throw it about the temple, the victory is gained-the temple fails My friends. where there is one man in the church of God at this day shouldering his whole duty there are a great many who never lilt an axe or swing a bough. It seems to me as if there were 10 drones in every hive to 1 busy bee, as though there were 20 sailors sound asleep in the ship's hammocks to 4 men on the stormy deck. It seems as if there were 5,0001 men be longing to th~e reserve corps, and only 1 ,(('f active combats. Oh, we all want our boats to get over to the gold en sands, but tihe most of tus are seat ed either in the r'ow or ins the stern, wrapped in our striped shawl, holding a bi handled sanshade, while others ie oareloaks; groan and1 the blados Dend till they snap: (h. you relig ous sleepyheads, wake up: You have lain so lonz in one place that the ants ind caterpillars have begun to c-.wi wVe- you' What do you know. my jrother. about a living gospel nade to torm the world? Now, my idea of a hristian is a man on imre with zeai For God, and if your pulse ordinaril y beats (;, times a minaiute when you think of other themes and talk about :>ther themes. if your poise iloes ot Zo up to 75 wr So Vhewin vuU coie to talk about Christ and heaven. it is he :ause vou (1t not know the one and have a poor chance of getting to the cther. In a forme~r charge, one Sabbath. i Look into thepulpiL thechurch rt-eordsm. and I laid theni on the piupit. and op -ned them and said: 'I rethren, bere are the church records. I find a reat many of you whose names are down bere are ofl dumty." 'Some were ifraid 1 would read the names, for at that time some of them were deep in the worst kind of oil stociks and were idleas to Christian work. But if rin isters of Christ todayshould bring the church records into the pulpit and read, oh, what a flutter there would be: There would not be fans enough in the church to keep the cheeks coul. I do not know but it would be a good thing if the minister once in awhile should bring the church records in the pulpit and call the roll, for that is what I consider every church record to be-merelv a muster roll of the Lord's army, and the reading of it should reveal whero every soldier is and what he is doing. Suppose in military circles on tie morning of battle the roll is called. and out of a thousand men only a hundred men in the regiment answer ed. What excitement there would be in the canip: What would the colo nel sav ? What high talking there would be among the captains, and the majors and the adjutants: Suppose word caine to headquarters that these delinquents excused themselves on the ground that they had overslept them selves, or the morning was damp and they were afraid of getting their feet wet, or that they were busy cooking rations. MY friends, this is the morn ing of the day of God Almighty's bat ties: Do you not see the troops? Hear ve not all the trumpets of heav en and all the drums of hell? Which side are you on? If you are on the right side, to what cavalry troop, to what artillery service, to what gar rison duty do you belong? In other words, in what~Sabbath school do you teaoch? In what prayermeeting do you ex4ort? To what penitentiary do you deblare eternal liberty? To what alnshouse do you announce the rich es of heaven? -What broken bone of sorrow have you ever set Are you doing nothing? Is it possible that a man or woman sworn to be a follower of Jesus Christ is doing nothing? Then hide the horrible secret from the angels. Keep it away from the book of judgment. If you are doing noth ing, do not let the v orld find it out, lest they charge your religion with being a false face. Do not let your cowardice and treason be heard among the martyrs about the throne, lest they forget the sanctity of the place and denounce your betrayal of that cause for which they agonized and died. May the eternal God rouse us all to action : As for myself, I feel I would be ashamed to die now and enter heaven until I have accomplished something more decisive for the Lord that bought me. Oh. brethren, how swiftly the time goes by ! It seems to me as if the years had gained some new power of locomotion. The temple of Berith is very broad, and it is very high. It has been going up by the hands of men and devils, and no human engineering can de molish it, but if the 70,000 ministers of Christ in this country should eatch take a branch of the tree of life, and all their congregations should do the same, and we should march on and throw these branches around the great temples of sin and worldliness and folly, it would need no match or coal or torch of ours to touch off the pile, for, as in the days of Elijah, fire would fall from heaven and kindle the bonfire of Christian victory over demolished sin. Still further, I learn from this sub ject the danger of false refuges. As soon as these Schechemites get into the temple they thought they were safe. They said: "Berith will take care of us. Abimelech may batter down everything else. He cannot batter down this temple where we are now hid." But very soon they heard the timbers crackling, and they were smothered with smoke, and they mis erably died. I suppose every person in this audience thIs moment is step ping into some kind of refuge. IHere you step in the tower of good works. You say, "I shall be safe in this ref uge."- The battlements are adorned, the steps are v-arnished, on the wall are picture:: of all the suffYering you have alleviated, and all the schools you have established, and all the fine things you have ever done. U p in that tower you feel you are safe. But hear you not the tramp of your un pardoned sins all around the tower? They each have a match. You are kindine the combustible material. You feeY the heat and the suffocation. Uh, may you leap in time, the gospel declaring. "By the deeds of the law shall no flesh'living be justified:" "Well," you say, "I have been driven out of that tower. Where shall I go?" Step into this tower of indif ference. You say, "If this tower is attacked, it will be a grea'; while be fore it is taken." You feel at ease. But there is an Abimelech with ruth less assault coming on. Death and his forces are gathering around, and they demand that you surrender everything and they clamor for your overthrow, and they throw their skeleton arms in the window, and with their iron fists they beat against the door, and while you are trying to keep them out you se'e the torches of judgment kind ling, and every forest is a torch, aind every mountain a torch, and every sea a torch, and while the Alps and Pyrenees and IHimalayas turn into a live coal, blown redder and redder by the whirlwind breath of a God om nipotent, what will become of your refuge of lies: "But," says some one, "you are en aged in a very mean business, driv ing us from tower to tower. Oh, no: I want to tell you ofa Gi ralter that never has been and never vil be taker, of a wall that no satan c assault can scale, of a bulwar-k tnat he judgment earthquakes cannot udge. The Bible refers to it when it iavs. -"In Ghod is thy refuge, and un e~rneath thee are the everlasting rms" Oh, fling yourself into it: rread down uni ceremoniouisly every hing that intercepts you. Wedge your' var there. There are enough hounds >f leath and peri;l after- you to make -on hur-ry. Many- a man has perished just outside the tower, with hris foot >n the sten, with his hand on the atch. 1 >ii, get inside: Not one su plus second~ have you to spare. uick. uick, quick: __ A mra in Barton. \'t., mairrie-d his ;tepmother a few weeks ago. The natch was inter-esting, but niot suicc-ess 'ul. Domestic ditlicultics b~ioughmt .hem into the pol ice court a wery fe-w eeks after their marrige, and the! A BQIDE SIX T'IMES. ntomm1e.Career or a Ciri in Netw York--a Fam * Ieauty. Thcre d(led :1t a ranch near Santa A Ca. Cal., teiw thpr da a m-iddl- I aged wvoian. Mrs. Loul'e Campbell. who has ben six times a bride and husband to the grave. says the Now York World. Mrs. Campbell was 51 years oI age and was brn in L-in ein-burg, near Albany. 'N. "A. Shew wv-as a reltiv of the old tIutv-h pa trioon 'amil y Aruyns of 11(th upper HuI-dson. i er coutry. Hir maiden iam was iie Tay lo-. Siet was :m only child and her fanily was ''ong Li' wealthiest in that !oality . She h:id a private tutor and tit was tl p :1lnts' iten ian to send her :ibroa f sever-al yoreirs of trav-el and resid'nc( when he'r si'hool davs should ha ce been H nishr d. A s a child she was always a beauty, and before she wvas 15 years old she had younz omen admirers by the dozen in the old town of Lancinrg. In hen, when17 years old. she Vis Ited an aunt in Brooklyn. There her beauty i nmmediatelyaittraicted attention. She fell madly in love with an impe cunious young man, just home from colleze and at the time a teacher in the Brooklyn public schools. Alhond Rollins was his name. After a few week's acquaintance with him she eloped from her aunt's home and was married to the school teacher. The young people went South. X% hiere Rollins got a place as tutor in a seminary in Montgomeay, Ala. The change in climate affected his health and lie was an invalid for two years. He resigned his place as tutor and tried light work on plantation. His beautiful bride cheerfully accepted their unfortunate lot and taught mu sic for the support of herself and hus band. She was too proud to write to her relatives for financial or other aid. In 1860 Rollins died. The widow, then V9 years of age, re remained in Alabama, supporting her self by teaching. In May, 18,11, she was married to Clarence Cushman, a very rich young English merchant of New Orleans. Pictures of her still extant and taken at the time of her second marriage, show that her sad experience and hard work and priva tions had made little if any change in her wondrous charm of eyes. and her refined, classical features. The Cush mans went to Europe, lived in Munich for several years, and two children that died in childhood were born to them there. In 1864 Mr. Cushman lost over two-thirds of his property in the South by the ravages of the war. In Rome Mr. Cushman was seized with the Roman fever and died. The widow went to London, where she found that her husband was really a bankrupt. Too proud to inform her relatives of her distress, she remained in England and once more became a teacher. She was a governess in an English family for three years, and then returned to New York. where she was a saleswoman in a dry goods store. In 18S8 she was married in Plain field, N. T., to Lieut. Oscar D. Wil liams U. S. A.. and went with him to live at Fort Sully, N. 1). They lived happily together and Mr. Williams became the favorite of all the fort. In August, 1869, her husband was drowned while bathing in the Missou ri River, and his wife became for the third time a widow. Her father, who heard of his only daughter's misfortunes, begged of her to return to her former home and be forgiven, but she still felt the sting of his refusal to recognize her first mar riage and once more began earning her own living. For two years she was governess in the family of a Lou isville merchant. She married in 1S71 the Rev. Edward Lukes at Covington, Ky. The preacher was a boon com panion years ago of President Cleve land at Syracuse, N. Y. Her hunsband was sent as missionary to India and his wife accompanied him. They made their home successfully in India. Hong and Honolulu. Mr. Lukes died in the Sand wich Islands in 1876 and his wife made her way back to America with his body. Mrs.- Lukes lived with a brother and a sister of her dead husband in Indian apolis. She then entered a private hospital in Chicago as nurse. 5' e was very poor and was again com pelled to work hard for a living. Among the patients who came to the hospital was a middle-aged man, a widower, named Hiram E. Dana. In his days of convalescence he was waited ~upon by the beautiful Mrs. Lukes and he fell desperately in love with her. The two were married in Chicago in D)ecember, 1880, and visit ed the fashionable resorts that winter. They had a fine home in Kansas City, and'late removed to St. Paul, Minn., where Mr. D~ana added largely by the real estate boom to his comfortable fortune. In 1885 his head was injured by a fall on the ice, and his wound de veloped brain disease. A few months later lie shot himself at a private asy lum near Milwaukee. Mrs. D~ana lived in retirement. and possessed, ample means for several years. She gave generously to the foreign Imissionary cause and to hospi tals- She and a cousin went to Eu-I rope on a long tour, and wvhile abroad she had several proposals of marriage from Americans also traveling. In Florida, in 1891, shie met Albert E. Campbell, and they found they had a host of mutual friends of long ago. They were married several months latei'. From that time until last July Mrs. Campbell and her husband made their home in Boston. They lived very happily and quietly. They went among literary and musical people and butilt last year a new r-esidence at a cost of $80,000. Mrs. Campbell went to California for her health. Among the bequests is a sum for a monument at the grav-e of her first love, Almond Rollins, in Montgom ery, Ala., and also a memorial tablet for her fourth husband, the Rev. E ward Lukes, to be set up in the P~res byterian College at Clinton, New Yornk. __ Ro~bbedi Himself. DENvERt, CoL.., Jan. 28.-Pinc-kerton detectives have arr-ested Express Agent Larout of Colorado Springs on the charge of being implicated in the theft of $35.n00 from the Wells F-argo Ex press Company sev-eral months ago. His father- who recently came to Colo rado Springs from Illinois, was also arrested as he was leaving the State and about 8;5.000~ was found sewed up int his clothing. The robbery occ-urr ed on the nigh~t of November- it at thme Santa F'e DI epot in Color-ado Springs. just after the night train pulled out South. L arout said that two men hiad! oerpowered imm in his olhice and tak-j en two packages consigned from )e n ver ban ks, whiiich contained 835.000,I overlooking~ auother package contain -- ing ~ 15,.000. As Larout had been in the emnploy of the expr-ess company for a inmber- of years. suspicion did not at first p)3i~t to him. HeI told a vry plauisible story and it was at the1 timec believed A IE(E o0 bituimfinous coal was re cently duIZ ont ofI the coal mhine of Newsamn Uros., nearn Pekin, Ill., on which were impi-nted the Arabic nu merals ;w,0; th charater-s being about an inch long. Tihe tiud was made 125 fe"t below the surface of the ean, and the loca it ent'ific "'s'ps HARD FATE OF PATRIOTS. THE!R STEAMER SUNK WITH r S r'm;CELESS CARGO. Loo--enyi~ in .\rms anid AmunH-1 tion,--wretvhednIe- of :he Rt-iec'-dI 'ar ty . NEW You, Jan. 2S.--Seventv of the survivors of the alleged filibuster lg expedition which sailed from this nort on .an. 20, on board the steamer I. W. Hawkins, were landed in this city lat th afternoon by the tug F. B. Dalzil. The men composing the part*y inmm(iately separated on arriv li. and it was impossible at the mo ment to gyet details as to the founder ing of the '-teamter of Montauk Point, is reportcd from Vin.yard Haven, Mass. The captain of [he tur Dalzell says that while cruising oil the highlands this morning he was hailed by the schooner Leander V. Beebe, bound from Baltimor.e for Boston. The schooner's captain reported that he had picked up 70 men who were in eight life boats, while on his way up the coast. and requested that the Dal zell land theni in New York. The men were transferred to the tug, which brought them to the city. Te tug was commanded by Captain Harry Denise. He reports that he was fying off Long Branch early this morning, looking for a tow. At 8 oclock he sighted the three-massed schooner Leander V. Beebe from Bal timore to Boston. An American 11ag, inverted, flew from her rigging and the Dalzell ran up and hailed her. "The schooners deck," said Captain Denise tonight, "swarmed with men in all stages of undress: .Wretched ness was written in every line of their faces. Very few wore hats, some of them were without shoes and nearly all were minus coats. "What price do you want to take 70 men into New York " shouted the skipper of the Beebe. ..I told him," continued Captain Denise, "and we made the bargain. 1 ran up alongside and after an hour's dangerous work, got the 70 men on the Dalzell. After the tug got under way it was agreed that I put one man off at pier S, North river, and I did so. He said he was a gunner. I did not catch his naae. None of them made any secret al>ut their efforts to reach Cuba to fight for her freedom. The most dejected man on board was an old man, who told me he was Calixto Garcia, and was in charge of the expe dition. He was accompanied by his son, Carlos. Garcia seemed com pletely broken down. He said that the Cubans had played one of their strongest cards of the revolution in sending out this expedition and that more than $200,000 worth of arms and amunition had been lost by the sink ing of the Hawkins." He then related to Captain Denise the story of the wreck. He said: "We loaded the steamer James W. Hawkins for the expedition of Port Morrise. All day the hatches were closed and nobody ever had any sus picion that we had thousands of dol lars worth of arms in her hold. All the work was done at dead of night. We sailed Friday night and went out by Long Island Souid. We had ex cellent weather until Sunday, when it began to get rough. On Monday morning early the vessel sprung a leak. The waves and wind just open ed her seams. Pumps were manned. but they soon choked with coal and became useless. Then the men got buckets and bailed for their lives. The water gained inch by inch and finally coal went overboard, and then costly arms and amunition. It broke our hearts to throw these arms away, but we had to keep the vessel afloat some how. Gradualv the Hawkins settled down at 11:30~ o'clock on Monday morning we took to the life boats and deserted the sinking steamer. Half an hour latter after the Beebe hove in sight and took us on board. At the time the Hawkins went down she was 45 miles south southeast of Barne gat and the sea was very wild." Captain Denise said that the men saved nothing but two valises fiilled with United States bank notes. These were in the possession of General Gar ca. The Hawkins was making some wa ter when she left port, and when she encountered the rough weather out sie with a heavy sea, she filled in about 20 minutes. Those on board had barely time to get into the steam er's boats. One of the boats was pick-* ed up by the Benedict and her 25 occu pants taken to W\ood's Hloll, where. they embarked by train for Boston and New York. It was reported by those rescued that the steamers true destination was Cuba. and that her cargo, consisted of $25,000 worth of ammunition, one gun on board hay in g cost j5, (00. They were, without doubt bound on a filibustering expedi tion to Cuba. The fourmasted schoo ner Alicia B. Crosby, Newport News for Boston, fell in with another boat from the steamer about 60 miles south east by east of Sandy Hook lightship, which contained 23 persons,but owing to the rough sea only 13 were saved, the other 10 being drov~ned The Crosby land the 13 survivors at Woods Holl this morning, and they left oni a train for New York this afternoon. Another vessel, a three-masted schoo nr, picked up 75 of tbe survivors,and it is stapposed put back with them to Deleware breakwater. The men would say but little. There were three Amer icans among those at Woods Holl,the others being Spaniards. They say that thousands of dollars in m~oney went down with those who were drowned and in the private chests in-the steam The only member of the crew of the Hawkins that was picked up by the Beebe was the mate, Crowley. He de clared that all the men were saved, and that not a man was even injured. When the Beebe picked the men up, they were in double-end whale boats which could live in any sea. The other schooner were in the vicinity at the time, and, according to Crcwley, they must have been landed by the Daizell at Pier 8, North river, sihe proceeded up the river to the foot of West Forty-second street, where the other 69 filibusters disembarked and separated. At the headquarters of the Caban junta in this city, it was declar ed by the leaders tonight that the Hawkins was not a filibuster, so far as they knew. They said tlhe story was started by Pinkerton men because they had been unable to catch the Gacia party and declared that Garcia was and has been in this city for some time past. Many shipping men do not believe that the Hawkins was a uh bustr. They think she was a boat bought by the Captain junta to throw the Spanish ofr the track of the real ilibuster, which will soon be heard fromuu at a distant point of Cuba. A batch of 25 of the rescued meni arrived late tonight on a train from Boston. Among them was Antonio Maria Cerena, who is a brother of a lawyer in this city. H~e estimated the loss of men at from six tc nine. H[e could not give any of their names. The Iinagathering of the illibustersu was in a fnarblevard in Fort Morris, at i:;sth street ~dock, latc Saturday night, Gen . Garcia, his son and 170 other Cubans who had enlisted for the expeitin met in ihe yard and the llawkmns tied( up at this dock. Then it was found that there were more vol unteers than the steamboat. could car rv. It was iMp-ossib e to t ike more thal 120. Captain HNall sai.l. Znd it was iecessary to sinM1t out 5.7 ine'n. Tiis announ-'toment was made after two men had desertel and lad been chased away in the darkness. After the chosen band had been sifted and the 120 had got aboard, the Hawkins stem : away for tie sound. The arms of tlie boat consisted of two Hotchkiss -apid-firing guns. 1,200 Remington and Winchester ritles and some revolvers. There was plenty of ammunition for the Hotchkiss giin and 1,(00.0' cartridges for the riles G(en. Garcia also had taken alon '1,010 pounids of dynamiite and male rials for making leavy evxploives. Extcrmijcati'r, A.ned A. Lo.mX)oN, Jan. 2. --Eue booiks ha m been issued contain ing all the oilic-ial dispatches relative to Armenia between July 21, 1894. and October 16. 1895. and the reporLs of the consular dele gates attached to the Sassoun Commnis sion. The report giv-es the history of the Armenian agitation for several years and records the obstacles thrown in the way of the commission by the Turkish delegates. It also acquits the Armenians of the charge brought against them of burning their own property to incite an outbreak among their people, adding that the facts elie ited fail to prove that the Armenians were in revolt, but show that the agi tator Murad instigated several Armen ian outrages on Kurds. The latter then retaliated and the Armenians tied to their villages. The contl icts Letween the Armen iaus and Kurds followed and the govern ment did nothing to arrive at a peace ful settlement or to protect women and children. The report shows that the number of killed has been. grossly exaggerated, but the report admits that owing to the absence of registration it is impos sible even approximately to fix the number of victims. Mr. Shipley, the British delegate. de clares that the Armeuians were hunted like beasts and if slaughter was not greater it was owing to the vastness of the mountain ranges, which facili tated the escape of the Armenians. He was convinced that the Turks aimed at the complete extermination of the Ar menians in the Talori district. The editorials in the morning papers upon the Armenian blue book mostly comment on the fact that they only picture the overture to a long tale of massacre and that the careful report of the delegates has justified every de nunciation yet published of the Sul tan. The Fertilzer Compromise. Inasmuch as there is much discus sion as to the terms of the agreement entered into between the railroads and the railroad commission in regard to the quarrel over the new fertilizer rate, the following agreement made between the roads and the commission, being Mr. Henderson's proposition to the commission, has been made public: On behalf of the railroad attorneys, I submit to the board of railroad comr missioners the following propositions with a view of adjusting the difrerences between them as to the fertilizer rates, and bringing about a feeling of confi dence and friendship between them. 1. The railroad companies will have immediately withdrawn the pending bill in the United States Courts os equity in the Manchester and Augusti railroad case, and the railroad com panies will agree to put in operation as soon as rate sheets can be arranged, the reduced tariff on fertilizers, but nc penalties are to be imposed, provided the railroad companies shall refund tc the proper parties the excess charges above the new tariff on all shiipment since January 1, 1896, that being fixed upon as the date when it shall be con sidered as having gone into effect. 2. At the request of the railroac companies, the commissioners will take up at an early date with traffic man agers of the several lines the consider ation of the entire freight rate with view to ascertaining whether there are not some other articles which they can, consistently with their official duties, grant raise of rates or so revise the entire tariff as to do justice and equity~ to all parties concerned. (juick Work of at Mob. BLUEFIELDs, WV. Va., Jan. 28.-Ale3 Jones, a negro desperado of Elkhiorn, boarded a westbound passenger traim last night at Key Stone, evidently for the purpose of having .troable. He was under the influence of liquor and was very boisterous. He abused the conductor and refused to pay his fare. Jones pulled two revolvers and corn menced firing at random through the car, which was crowded with peo pe, emptying both weapons. After the shooting it was discovered that WV. H. Strothier, postmaster at Elkhorn, was shot through the abdomen, caus ing death almost instantly. Conduct or McCullough was shot in the side, but not seriously wonnded. Peter Rice, a colored miner, was shot through the right breast and will prob ably die. Jones was arrested and placed on the 2 o'clock train for Hunt ingdon. While passing Hemphill, the train was tlao-ed by a mob of 5( men, who took fones from the train: and hanged him to a tree and shot his body full of lead. How many good resolutions are broken durinig these January days: As the midnight bells ring out the old and ring in the new year, hiow many thousands of penitent inebriates promise themselves to lead better lives and for weeks and days thiereafter struggle manfully against the tyrani that runs . riot through their veins: But flesh is weak andi alcohol is strong and as the days go lby the craving for drink becomes so great that few of the struggling thousands can resist it, and, one by one. they fall hiopelessly nto the old ways until another mile. stone shall give them pause. To the weak but willing among us the Keeley Institute of South Carolina is a goa send. The gold cure is "not gold that glitters," but it shines like a benedic ion in the faces of the liberated-the free! Make, by all means, your good resolutions, but back yourself with the gold to be had only in Southt Carolina at the Kecley Institute in this city. The State. _____ Fatal Famuily (uarrei. BUFimU-:. Wv. Ya., Jan. 2- -In a family quarre iat kyl e today, Mr's. LizzieSavage wa's shot and killed by Thomas Burns, her stepson. After the shooting JBnens w ent to the barn and fired abullet througha his h-ft breast. causin" instant death. As soon as his wife sa w the lifeil-ss body, she fainted and, after being revived. w.ent to the house and took poison- .It was with great ditlieulty that hier life was saved. Hecr mind is thought to have been deranged. IUmIl.:\ur Tex., Jan. ;V'. -Thom as Dwer, a millionaire, was murde red last''night by unkuosva persons in his otce in the centre of the business por tioni of th~e city, robbery being the purtose. I Ie was then takent to a cis tern and thrown in, where his muii lated remnainls wer'e fountd. H e was Tt y.ears of age and leaves a widoiw and nn nnrrmd chiltd. Coln~,In. S. C., Jan. :i. --The fol low:in' r.port, which was adopted by* the L.Jisitare, Cxplais itel: T'ie s:1b conITnittee appinted by the commuttee of the Senate and Houwse o Reprstt s rf specfully b-g leave to report: That we have investigated all the charges made by Mr. Willoughby against the Superinten lent and Boaru of Directors of the State Penitentiary except two. and one of these tacitly admitted by Mr. Wilot:ughby would be satisfactorily explained, and the other would involve the investigation of the books oftheinstitution. After having; mna(e a thorough, exhaustive, pais-: taking and patient investigation, find nothing but what would reflect credit on the nanagement of the institution. That in the investigation of the mi nority report of the Board of Direc tors signed by Mr. Willoughby. i having been testilied to by Mr. W ilI lougliby that he would have signed the inajority report of the Directors of the Penitentiary and so expressed himself to the Board of Directors. thereby acknowledge the correctness of the said report: Provided, the ulogy of the Superin tendent was expunged from the said report, and his presence in the board meetings be excluded in the future. That after the investigation of most ot the charges preferred, and flinding Inothing in them, and Mr. Willough Ibv acknowledging the correctness o tie said majority of the Board of Di rectors, by his willingness to sign it with the above specified exceptions which do not in any way affect the showing as set forth:: the ellicient, honest, and economical administra tion of the said institution: Now, therefore, we the sub-commit tee appointed by the committees of the Senate and the House of Repre sentatives finding that from Mr. Wil loughby's testimony that there was no ground for the charges, and that the investigation was a useless expense to the State, beg that this report be tak en, the committee be dischaiged; and that the report be spread on the jour nals of the Senate aad the House of Representatives. Respectfully sub mitted. (Signed) T. S. BRcE, Chairman. L. M. RAGIN, On the part of the Senate. IN. 0. TATu, L. A. MOORE, W. B. LovE, On the part of the House. Chicago and the South. Hox. Patrick, Walsh editor of the Augusta Chronicle, has written a very interesting letter to Mr. T. B. Thack ston, editor of Products of the Pied mont, at Spartanburg, S. C., in which he sets forth the advantage to acrue to the South from the proposed Cotton -Exposition to be held at Chicago. Mr. Walsh says he has the most unbound ed faith in the practical results of the exposition, and believes that every community and every interest ia the South will promote its interests. "I am sure," says he, "that if the South embraces the opportunity Chicazo can be relied ainon to do its full duty in making tie enterprise a grand suc cess- -the South has everything to make and nothng to loose by the ex position. The Chicago Cotton Expo sition is strictly a business movement. Its purposes is to carry to the people of the West and Nort~hwest the most striking object-lesson of what the South has accomplished already in one reat industry, and to show a practi cally illimitable field for profita ble in vestment in this same direction, and to invite Chicago and Western capital in the establishment of bleacheries and print works for finishing the products of Southern mills, and for- the estab lishment of machine shops for the manufacture of textile machinery. The Chicago Exposition," according to Mr. Walsh's idea, 'need not be confined to cotton and the products thereof, but it should embrace in its scope all of the -natural -products of the South. It should contain, in ad. dition to cottcn, all of the resources of our mines and forests, and show con spicuously the rich and varied pro ducts of diversified agriculture and hor.ticulture." The Norfolk Virgin ian says Mr. Walsh is firm in the opinion that the exposition, if prop ely conducted will prove of incalcu lable benefit to the people of the Southern States, and sees in it an op portunity that should be availed of to the fullest extent, and every interest in the South should prcomote its success in every possible way. Hie says Chi cago sees in it an apportumity to ad vance its commercial interest and the. South should see in it, an opportunity to build up its agricultural and mau facturng industries. The Cash l:nyer. The man who always pays cash can dictate prices within reasonable bound. The merchant will not let him leave his store, if the prices offered affords any mrargin of profit. The merchant sees that there is no risk or trouble. -that he gets back the money invested and a little profit, and gladly makes sale at a price below what he could af ord to make to the man who buys on credit; the cash buyer pays a fair pr-ice for what he gets, but does not help pay the worthless accounts of others; the buyer on credit has to. carry the whole load.- Many farmers are some what i.n debt, and they say they must buy on credit. They are the ones who should not do so, even if others do. It is :far better to go to a neighbor, state the facts, and borrow the sum of money nieeded to put affairs on a cash basis;'the saving wili amount to sev eral times the interest paid on the note. Then, too, there is a gain in other ways. Ones credit growvs better when little used, and there is escape from the worry of being dunned for ittle accounts. When it is understood that a man always pro.ys cash for what he buys, his opportur.ity to get what ie wants increases. Those needing cash are quick to give him the refusal of what they have to sell. The man who drops the credit. plan, borrows the needed meney at a fair rate of in terest, if lie has no capital of his own, and then keeps accurate account of the expenditure of every dollar of it, im proves his chance to success. A writer to the Scientific American says that 'a rood absorbent' will ease th~e pain of stings: 'The best absorb ing substance thiat I have tried is lean~ fresh meat. This will relieve the pain o a wasp sting almost instantly, and has been recommended for the cure of rattlesnake bites. I have also used it with marked ef fect in erysipelas.' Mra~io unkindly rises at this mo ment to remind the United States that land-grabbing is not entirely a British trait. The Mex ican Herald also tells us that if the Monroe doctrine is to train forde in America outside of the Jnited States it must be made to mean ;oething more than a declaration purely in the sellish interests of the Jnited States. Fifty-Six were Killed. Cmuws, WAuy~s. dan. 2:).---The ex p)loraton of tbe coal vine near Tylers town, which was wvrecked yesterday, has been completed and it is found that the total number of killed ROYA POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder ligbert of al in leavening strenath-La test United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 10G Wall St.. N. Y. A Huntling Concern. One of the most enterprising and hustling firms in Columbia is that of Richard & Mixs-rn, dealers in bicycles and general repairers and plumbers. They are now building an addition to their store, being too crowded in the one they occupy, which they will use as an enameling and plumbing shop. They now manufacture a bicycle which they call the "Palmetto." It sells for $S5, and they claim that it is as good as any wheel manufactured at no matter what price. They thorough ly guarantee it to be free from imper fections in material and workmanship and will make good any defective parts within cne year after date of sale. With 15 years experience as a me chanic-and the greater part of that time devoted to bicycles-Mr. Richard certainly ought to know how to build a wheel that will meet all the require ments of the roads in the South. Mr. Richard built and owned one of the first bicycles used in Columbia. It was one of the old style "high wheels" and was built 12 years ago, when bi cycles were just becoming known in this part of the country. Mr. Mixon is a rider of considerable note, having won many races in the past three years, and his friends claim that he is the fastest in the South, al though the southern championship is rightfully held by Geo. N. Adams of Jacksonville, Fla. Being prepared to build bicycles, Richard & Mixson are of course fully equipped for repairing, and make this. branch of their trade a specialty, re ceiving work from all over the State, as well as Georgia and North Caroli na. They are both hustlers, and, al though this is not the bicycle season, they are doing better now than ever before. Visitors -.o their store are received cordially and treated well. You will do well to pay them a visit.-State. some Good Advice. A prominent Southerner, now liv ing in Nev York, but still iaterested in the pros erity of our people, writes to the Columbia State as follows: "I have noticed several of your ref erences to cotton aereage this year. I think that if you could urge upon tbe farmers the importance of a short crop this year it would be the greatest good any one coild do for the South. The professional bears are simply wild with delight and are looking for a gr and bear campi ngn oni account of the increased mule and fertilizer sales. English spinners are over 500.000 bales short, but they thin k the South will turn loose its spots if a large ame--t~ is planted and that price will decline. They are therefore doino their utmost to break prices and maile the South turn loose its holdings." As will be seen by the above the immense trade in mules and fertilizers is taken by the cotton sharks as an indication that the Southern farmers are going wild over cotton planting again and they are using the argument of a large cotton crop as a reason for reducing the price of cotton. They seem to think that mules and fertilizers are only used in the South for making cotton. Already they have their agents throughout the cotton belt reporting the prospect of an increased cotton acreage, and on these reports they predict a fall in the price of cotton. We adhere to the opinion we have always held, that the Southern farmer cannot afford to raise cotton except as a surplus crop, and when he does that he can do so orofit ably even if the price goes down to five cents. Let your first object be to make plenty of meat and other home supplies and then plant all the cotton you can cultivate and you will be prosperous and happy. "'Pay as You Go.'' The farmer cannot succeed until he learns to live on what he makes after it is made, and not on what he ex pects to make before it is made. Many years ago, an economical, thrifty far mer, was asked by a large cotton planter, why it was that, though he was called a poor farmer and made much less to the hiand thani many of his neighbors, he was prospering, while they, with all their broad acres and heavy crops, were constantly fall ing into debt and becoming embarrass ed. He replied: "You begin at the wrong end ; you -buy your supplies at the beginning of the year on credit,T buy mine at the end for cash." This was the true secret of the difference.Mr MDulie, in an agricultural address, delivered thirty years ago, in the hall of the General Assembly at Columbia introduced, in connection with this subject, the language of that remarka ble statesmen, John Randolph, who, in the midst of one of his brilliant rhapsodies in the United States Senate, suddenly paused and exclaimed with the utmost tention of his5 sqtueaking voice: Mr. President! I have dis covered the philosopher's stone! It consists in these four plain English monosylables: Pay as you go !" Tm.: colored Bishop Turner is report ed to have used the following lan guage recently in Baltimore: "I be lieve that the time will come when this continent will tremble beneath the foot of the black man, but it wilt not be until we have some individuali ty, a country of our own, a tiag of our own. The black race in this country is yet in its infancy. We have a great and grand future and we will be in the prime and vigor of our existence when the white race is on the decline. The black race is God's youngest child. This world runs by periodicity. Races have their day, play their part and go out. Bringing us to this coun try was no accident, not a work of the devil." Died in the Pulpit. MEiPwms, .Jan. 27.-Rev. T. B. Har' grove, pastor of the Methodist Church at Cold water, Miss., dropped dead in the pulpit Sunday. lie had offered prayer and given out his text, "Be liee in thle Lord .Jesus Christ and ye s~all be saved." These were his last words. With a moan lie fell heavily and when t wo physicians who were in the cihurch r'eiched him, life was ex tinct. Hfeart disease was the supposed