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VOL. XLVI. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1891. NO. 10. I fAr nnhti^ nnrnAQP< I T"rr T T^T\ a T* 1 tn HAnH THE SVrCnD OF ELEAZAR.| A SERMON ON THE COLDNESS. DOUBi" j I AND UNSEL1EF OF 7HISAGE. Sad Ctiht-r- of IhristiHiiH Who Kellivo but | a FarS u* llie of Ken Who Doubt I Krerytli. ng kl.<1 of self Styinl Christians i I Who Shrink ;roi:i tb?? Conflict. j Bkookltx, Oct. 11.?Among the | Yast audionces which crowd the Brook-! iyu Tabernacle at evert scrvice are large i numbers of ycunu men, many of whom J are theological students. Dr. Talmage's i aermon tbis mornius; had a special in- j f A < if>tc tMr>r> whpn so i LCICSi, ilJi tlitlii. v,?.w v. - many are giving up the Bible, or hold-1 ing the truth less firmly than before, the eloquent preach?r put himself on record j so clearly and forcibly that no one who j heard him could have anv doubt as to i his attitude. His text, was II Samuel j xxiii, 10, "And his hand clave uuto the ! sword." A gref t general of King David was J Eleazar, the hero of the text. The i Philistines ojcued battle against him, j and his troop? retreated. The cowards fled. Elcazarand three of his comrades went into the battle and swept the tielil, tor four m eu vfth God on thwir side are | stronger than a whole battalion with Godagairst them. '"Fall back!" shouted the commander of the Philistine army. The cry r^n along the host, "Fall back!" Eleasar having swept the field throws himself on the ground to rest, but the muscles and sinews of his hand had been so long bent around the hilt of the sword that the h-lt was imbedded in the flesh, and the gold wire of the hilt had broken through the sk'n of the palm of the j hand, and he could not drop this sword ; which he had so gallantly wielded. "His hand clave unto the sword." That is what I call magnificent fighting for the Trm} nr?i nfTsraeL And we want more of it. I propose to sho.v you this morning how Eleazar took hold of the sword and how the sword took hold of Eleazar. I look at EIeazar?3hand, and I come to the conclusion that be took tbe sword with a vt-iy tight grip. The cowards who lied hitu uo trouble in cropping their 8words. As they fly over the rocks I hear their swords clanging in every ^ direction. 11 is easy enough for them to BL drop their swords. I3ut Eleazar's band MSkclave unto the sword. Oh, my friends, iu this Christian conPfcf we wan', a tighter grip of the Gos weapons, a tighter crasp of the two ^^vord of tue tiuth. It makes me these Christian people who of the truth and let the BiLi.-uth go, so that the Fhilis^the loosened grasp, wrench away from them. The for us to do is to put our the- bcol. of Genesis and sweep P?arcunt.the booK until me _>ew l^tamfcnt comes into ihe palm, and keep on sweeping our land around the book uniil the tips of the lingers clutch at the words, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." I like an infidel a great deal better than I do one of these namby-pamby Christians who hold a part of the truth and let the rest xo. By miracle God preserved this i'lble just as it is, and it is a Damascus blade. The severest test to which a sword can be put in a sword i factory is to wind the blade around a gun barrel li^e a ribbon, and then when i ihe swoid is let loose it flies back to its own shape. So the sword of God's truth j has been luliy tested, and it is bent this ; way and that war and wound this way and thai wav, but it always comes back to its own shape. Think of it! A book wiltten eighteen centuries ago, and tome of it thousanus;of years ago, and \et in our time the average sale of this book is more than twenty thousand cop-, ies every week, and more than a million copies a ^ear. I say now that a book which is divioefy inspired and divinely scattered is a weapon worth holding a tight grip of. Bishop Colenso will come along and try to wrench out of ^ur hand me Live OOOKS OI ALUSCS, iiuut ouauos will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the miracles, and Kenan will come a)on<: and tr^ to wrench cut ot >ou hat d the entire life of the Lord Jtsus Christ, and jour associates il the stuie. or the shop, or the factory, or the banking house will try to wrench out ol >oui- hand ti.e entire Bible; but in the strength of the Lord ot Israel, and with ELazar's grip, hold on to it. You give up the .Bible, you give up any part of it. an-! you give up pardon aud peac? and life and heaven. THE NOTHINGARIANS' Ci'.KKD. I see hundreds, perhaps thousands, ol }oung ran in this audience. Do not be ashamed, }Oung man. to have the world know that you are a Iricnd of the .Bible. This book is the friend of ali that is ?*ood and it is the sworn enemy of al! that is bad. An eloquent writer lectin ly gives .??? Afo T:crr )\Q/? mon W hf> fctonii ttl.4 ill V. V VI a ?ViJ WUU .' "V m ihe cell of a western prison. This criminal had gone through all styles of crime, -.nd he was there waiut.g lor the ''allows. The conviet standing there at thft window or the ceil, this writer says, "looked out and declared, 'I am an infidel.' He -.aid that, to ail the mwn and children who happened to be gathered there. *1 am an infidel,'" and the ?!oquent writer says, "Etery man and woman there believed him." And the writer gee* on to say. "If he had stood there sating, 'I am a Christian.' every man and womi>n would have said, 'lie is a liar!''' This Bible is the sworn enemy of all this wron^r, and it is the friend of all that is good. Oh, hold on to it. Do not take part of it and threw the rest away. Hold on to all of it. There are so many people now who do not know. Y ou ask tliem if the soul is immortal, and they say. "I guess it is, I don't know; perhaps it is, peril ips it isn't." Is ihe Bible true? "Well, perhays it is, ana perhaps it i?n's; perhaps it may be figuratively, aud perhaps it may not bo at all." They despise what they call the Apostolic creed; but if their own creed were written out it til-*. <K!p. V a!:oi-a >rt wnth ? UUJLU iAC tllio. X 1U uv?i. ing, the mnker of heaven and earth, and in nothing which it hath sent, which nothimr w-s born of nothing, and which nothing was dead and buried and descended into nothing, and arose from nothioii and ascended to nothing, and now sitteth at the right hand of nothing, from which it will come to judge tothing. I believe in ihe holy agnostic church and in the communion of nothing-garians, and iD the lorgiveaess of nothing, and the resurrection of nothing, and in tne life that never shall be. Amen." That is the creed of tens of thousands of people in this dav. If you have a mind to adopt such theory i will not. "1 believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of ht-aven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, and in the holy cathoiic church, and in the communion of saints, and in the life everlasting. Amen." Oh. when I see Eleazar taking such a stout \ snip of the sword in the battle agaiust bin and for righteousness, I cor-ie to the i conclusion that we ought to take a stouter grip of God's eternal truth, the s tvord of righteousness. As I look at Eleazer's hand I also notice his spirit of self forgetfulness. He did not uotice that the hilt of the sword was eating through the palm of his hand. He did not know it hurt him. As he went out into the conflict he was so anx- : ious for the victory he forgot himself, and that hilt might go never so deeply into the palm of his hand it could not disturb him. *%IIis hand clave nnto the sword." Oh, my brothers and sisters, let us go into Christian conflict with the spirit of self abnegation. Who cares whether the world praises us or denounces us? What do we care for misrepresentation, or abuse or persecution in a conflict like this? Let us forget ourselves. That man who is afraid of getting his hand hurt will never kill a Philistine. Who cares whether you set hurt ot not it you get the victor}? Oh, how many Christians there are who are all the "ume worrying about the way the world treats them. They are so tired. . and they are so abused, aud they ara so tempted, when Eleazcr diet not think whether he had a hand, or an arm. or a toot. A.'I lie wanted was victory. We see how meu for^rt themselves in 11 worldlr achievemeat. We have wften seen men vho in order to achieve world: ly success will forget all physical fatigue and all annoyance and all obstacle i. \ Just alter the baltle ot Yorktown, in the ! American Kevolutiou, a musician, j wounded, was told he must have his j limbs amputated, and they werea;.out to fasten him to the surgeon's table? for it was long before the merciful discovery of anaesthetics. He said, "Xo, don't fasten oie to that table, get me a violin." A violin was brought to him and he said, "Xow go to work as I begin to play," and lor forty minutes, during the awful panes of amputation, he moved not a muscle nor dropped a note while he played some sweet tune. Oh, is it not strange that with the music of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and with this grand march of the church militant on the way to become the church triumphant, we cannot forget ourselves and forget all pang and all sorrow and all per secution and all perturbation? THE ENDURANCE OF HEROIC ME>\ We know what men accomplish under worldly opposition. Men do not shrink back for antagonism or for hardship. You have* admired Prescott's ''Conquest of Mexico," as brilliant and beautiful a hi story as was ever written; but some of you may not know under what disadvan! tages it was writteu?that "Conquest of ! Mexico"?fi r Pres^ott was totally blind, and he had two pieces of wood parallel to each other fastened, and totally blind, with hia pen between those pieces ot wood he wrote, the stroke against one piece of wood tellins how tar the pen must go in one way, the stroke against the other piece of wood telling how far the pen must go in the other way. Oh, how much m??n will endure for worldlj knowledge and for worldly success, and jet how little we end*re tor Jesus Christ. How many Christians there are that go around saying, k'0h, my hand, my hand, my hurt hand; don't you see there Is j blood on the hand, and there is blood on the sword?" while Eleazar, with the hilt imbedded in the f.esh of his right hand, does not know it. Must I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease, While others fought to win the prize Or sailed through bloody seas? What have w? suffered in comparison with those who expired with suffocation, or were burned, or *ere chopped to pieces lor the truth's sake? We talk of the persecution of olden times. There is just as much persecution coins; on no * in various ways. In 1849, in Madagas' car, eighteen men were put to death for Christ's sake. They were to be buried over the rocks, and before they were hurled over the rocks, in order to make their death the more dreadful in anticipation, they were put iu baskets and swuU? to and fro oter the precipice that they might see how many huudr<?d feet they would hay? to be dashed dowu, and while they were swinging in these baskets over the rocks they sang: Jesus, lover of my t-oul. Let me to Thy bosom fly, While the billows near me roll, While the tempest still is high. Then they were dashed down to death! I Oh, how much others hate endured for I Christ, aud buvr little we endure for ! chrisi! We want, to ride to heaven in ! a Pullman sleeping car, our teet on soft ! p ush, the bed made up early so we can sleep all the way. the black porter of death to wake us up only in time to ruler the golden city. We want all the {surgeons to fix ?ur hand up. Let them i bring on all the lint, and all the banda!ges. and all the salve, lor our hand is {hurt, while Eleczar does not know his j hand is hurt. "Ills hand clave unto the l sword." J As I look at Eleazar s hand I come to ' the conclusion that he hus done a great I deal of hard hitting. I am not surprised } whtn 1 see that these lour men?Eleazar j and his three companions?drove back I tfce army of Philistines that Eleazar's sword clave to his hand, for every time ! he stiuck au enemy with one end of the sword the other end of the sword wounded him. Wheu he took hold ot the sword the. sword took hold of him. Oh, we have found au enemy who cannot be conquered by rose water and soft speeches. It must be sbarp stroke and straight thrust. There is intemperance, and there is fraud, and there is gambling, and there is lust, and there are ten thousand battalions ol iniquity, armed Philistine iniquity. How are. they to hi. captured and overthrown? bolt sermons iu morocco cases laid down in front of an exqu'site audience will not do it. You have got to call things by their riiiht names. imperative NKHD OK AX AWAKKN IXG. We have got to expel Irom oar churches Christians who eat the sacrament on Sunday and devour widows' houses all the week. We have <?Ot to stop our indignation gainst the Ilittites and thejubusites and the Gergishites, and let those poor wretches go, and apply our indignation to the modern transgressions which need u be dragged out and slain. Ahabs here. Herods here. Jezebels here. The massacre of the infants here. Strike for God so hara that while you slaj the sin the sword will adhere to your own hand. I tell you, my friends, we want a few John Knoxes and John Wesieys in the Christian church today. The whole tendency is to reiine on Christian work. We keep on refining on it until we send apologetic word to iniquity we r.re about to capture it. And wemustuo .cilia sword silver chased and presented by the ladies, and we must ride on white pallrey under embroidered housing, putting the spurs in only just enough to make the charger dance gracefully, and then we must send a missive, delicate as a wed- J ding card, to ask the old black giant of sin "if he will not surrender. Women saved by the *race of God and ou glorious mission sent, detained from Sabbath classes because their oew hat is not done. Churches that shook our cities with great revivals sending arouu i to ask some demonstrative worshiper if he will not please to say "amen" and "hallelujah" a little softer. It seems as if in our churches we waoted a baptism of cologne and balm of a thousand flowers, when we actually need a baptism ot fire from the Lord God of Pentecost. But we .-ire so afraid somebody will criticise our sermons, or criticise our prayers, or criticise our re- j ligious work that our anxietj for the j world's redemption is lost in the fear we will get our haud hurt, while Eleazar \rent into the conflict, "And hi* hand % A. - ^ I 1 - } ciare unto mc swuru.' Bnt I sec m tbc next place what a lmrd th ng it was for Eleazar to get his hand and his sword parUd. The muscles and the sinews had been so long grasped around the sword he could not drop it when he proposed to drop it. end his three comrades, I suppose, come up and tried to help him, and they bathed the back part of th? hand, hopiag the siuews aud muscles wo?ld relax.! But no. "His hand clave unto the sword." Then thej tried to pull open the,: lingers and to pull back the thumb; but no sooner vrero thej pulled back than I hey closed agaiu, "and his hand clave unto the sword." But after awhile they were successful, and then they noticed that the curve in the palm of the hand corresponded exactly with the curve of the hilt. "His haud clare unto the sword." J You and I have seen it many a time. There are in the United Statei today many aged ministers of th? Gospel. They are too feeble now tc preach. In the church records the word opposite their names is 'emeritus," or the words are, "a minister without charge." They were an heroic race. Thty had small J salaries and but few books, and they swam spring freshets to meef. their ap- j pointcnents. But th?y did in their day - * ' 1- < /" ~.l tn?.L a ruigmy won iui vruu. aucj off more of the beads of Philistine iniquity than yon could couut from noon J to sundown. You put that old ministerjof I the Gospel now Into a prayer meeting, or occasional pulpit, or a tick ro?m | where there is some one to be coaforted, i and it is the same old ring to his TOlce and the same old story of pardon and peace and Christ and heaven. Hit hand has so long clutched ths sword in Christian conflict be cannot drop it. "His hand clave unto the sword." THE AGED MINISTER'S FAITH. I had in my parish in Philanelphia a very aged man who in his early life had be*n the companion and adviser of the early presidents, Madison and Monroe. He had wielded vast influence. but I only knew him as a very aijed man. The most remarkable thing about him was his ardor for Christ. When he could not stand up in the meetings without propping he would throw his armt around a pillar of the church, and tkough his mind was partially gone his lore for Christ was so great that all were in deep respect and profound admiration, and were moved when he spoke. I was called to see him die. I entered tke roem, and he said, "Mr. Talmage, I cannot speak to you now." He waa in a very pleasant delirium, as he imagined he had an audience before hirm. He said. "I must tell these people U come to Christ and prepare lor heaven." And then in this pleas ant delirium, both arms lifted, this octogenarian preached Christ and told of the gloriet of the world to come. There, lying: on his dying pillow, his dying hand elave to hia sword. Oh, if there ever was any one who had a right to retire from the conflict it was old Joshua. Soldieri come back from battle hare the namee of the battles on their flags, showing where they d-sting'.iislied themselves, mditia arerj appropriate inaciption. Loelc at the flag of old General Joshua! On it Jericho, Gideon, llazar. City of Ai, and instead of the stars sprinkled on the fla^ the sun and the moon which stood still. There he is, one hundred and ten years old. He is lyinsr flat on his back but he is preaching. His dying words are a battle charge against idolatry and a rallying cry lor the Lord of Hosti as he says, ' i^hold, this day I go the way of all the earLh, and God hath not tailed to fulfill his nram;sft concerning Israel." IIis dying hand clave nato the sword. There is the headless body of Paul on the road to Ostea. IIis great brain and his sreat heart havo been severed. The i elmn ood rods had stunr him fearfully. When the corn ship broke up he swain ashore, coming up drenched with the brine. Every day siuce that da? when the horse reared under him i* the suburb* of Damascus, as the supernatural light fell, down to this day wben he is sixty eight years of aaeand old and decrepit from the prison ctllol the Mamertine, he has been ontragsously treated, and he is waiting to die. How does he spend his last hours? Telling the world how badly he fgels, and describing the rheumatism that he got in orison, the rheumatism sfflictinvr his iimb3, or the Deuralgia pieccing f is temples, or the thirst that fevers his tongu*!' Oh, no. His !a?t words are the battle shout for Christendom: l'I am now ready to be olTered, and the time of my departure is at hand; I have fought the good light." And so his dying hand clave unto th? sword. It was in the frent room on the second flr?r>r m* father lav a-dvinir. It was Saturday morning lour o'clock. Just three years before that day my mother had left him for the skies, and he had been homesick to join her company. He was eighty-three years of age. Ministers ot the Gospel came in to com tort him, bat he comforted them. How wonderfully ths words sounded out from his dying pihow, "I have been young and now am old, yet have I never seen the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging bread." They bathed his brow, and th*-y bathed his hands, and they bathed his feet and they succeeded in straightening out the feet; but they did not succeed in bathing open the hand so it would stay open. Tnty b*th?d th# hand 01 en, but it cam? shut. They bathed it open again, but it cam? shut. Tfhat was the matter with the thumb and the fingers of that #ld hanu? A h! it had so loDg clutched the sword of Christian conflict that "his hand -1 i.. il.. 1 JJ Ciave uliwj tuc srnjru. SPIRITS OF TUB MARTYKS. I preach this sermoa as a tonic. I want you to hold the truth with ineradicable grip, and I want you to strike so hard for God th*t it will react and whiU you take tke sword, the sword will take you. You noticed that the officers of the northern army a few years ago assambled at Denver, and you noticed that the officers of the southern army assembled at Lexington. Soldiers coming together are very apt to recount their ex/ periences and to show their scars. Here J is a soldier who pulls up his sleeve and : says: "There, I was wouu^ed in that ! arm," and shows the scar. AuJ au-! other soldier pulls down his colur, and j nays, "There, I was wounded in the ; j neck." And another soldier says, "I | hare had no use of that limb since the j gunshot fracture." Ob, my rrieuds, i wh?n the battle of life is over and the : resurrection has come and our bodies [ rise Irora the dead, will we have >;n us any scars of bravery for God? Christ will be there all covered with scars. Scars on the brow, scars on the hand, scars on .he feet, scars all over the heart won In the battle ot redemption. And all heaven will sob alond with emotion as thoy look ou those scars. Ignatius will be there, and he will point out the places where the tooth ana the pavr of the lion seized him in the Colisseum; and John Buss will be there, and he will show where the coal first scorched the foot on that day .Then his soirittook wing of flame from Constance. M' MilIan and Campbell and Fr?cman, Americas missionaries in India, will be there ?the men who with their wives and children went down in the awful massacre at Cawnpore, and they will show where the daggers <if the Sepoys struck them. The Waldenses win oe there. ana taey will show where their bones were broken on that day when the L'iedmontese soldiery pitched them over the rocks. And l-here will be those there who took care of the sick and who looked alter the poor, and they will have evidences oi' eartnly exhaustion. And Christ, with his scarred hand waving over the scarred multitude, will say, 'You suffered with me on earth; now be glorified with me iu heaven." And then the great organs of eternity will take up the chant and St. John will play, ''These are they who cam* out of great tribulation and had . their robw washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb." But what will your chagrin and mine be if it shall be told that day on the streets of hearen that on earth we shrank back from all toil and sacrifice and hardship. No scars to show the heavenly soldiery. Not so much as one rid?e on the palm of the hand to show that just once in the battle lor God and the truth, we just once grasped the sword so firmly, and struck so hard that the sword and the hand stuck together, and th? hand clave to the sword. 0 my Lord Jesus, rouse us to thy service Tier saints in all this glorious war Shall conquer though they (lie; They see the triumph from afar, And seize it with the eye. When that illustrious day shall rise, And all thy armies shine In robes of victory through the skies, The gl?ry shall be thine. Got* Wroiiff. Niw Yokk, October 15?The New York Times and other morning papers to day published new3 of which the following is the substance: John Iloey, [ who for the last forty years has beer [identified with the "Adams Express Company, and who for over three years has been its president, was yesterday ; discharged from his high oHice by th'e [ unanimous vote of the board of directors on the charge of malleasance. I Clapp Spooner, vice president of the J company, a Bridgeport millionaire, who [ occupied the presidents chair when the ;vote wa3 cast to discL rge Iloey, and who voted for that discharge, handed In his resignation, and it was accepted i for precisely the same reason for which \ Iloey was discharged. The charges against Hoey and ijpooner, which ! brought about the above aciion, artthat they purchased the New York and ! Boston Dispatch Express Company and : Kinsley Express Company for 8150,000, ! and turned them over to the Adams j | Express Company for 3850,000, and that I the differyice between these two amount* .vas divided between Iloey | fand Spooner, Ilenry Sherburne and Henry C- T*ft. [ The exposure was brought about by a suit brought by Sherburne against, | the other three men tor an accounting and hi? share of tb? profits of the deal. Hoey's share of the profits is set down as $179,000, and Spooner's at $172,000. The published statement* are that when th? directors met to consider the subject Iloey had nothing to say. Henry Sanford, of Bridgeport, Conn , was this afternoon appointed president of the Adams Express Company, and Frederick Love joy, of this city, was appointed vice president. Hdueattonal Statistic*. Washington, Oct. 9? The Census Bureau has Issued an extra btilietion on education *s a summary o< statistics heretofore p*blished but bringing returni of private and parochial achoois up to July 1, 1891, and giving parochial schools by btates and by commun ities, not before shown i:i any census. The total school enrollment for the United States, reported July 1,1891, was clow to 14,220,000; the total public sBhoil enrollment, including about 05,0u0 in universities, schools i'or training teachers, and so on near 12,730,000; iu prirab? schools and iu parochial schools, r.^f f-jr tmm 7nT) 000 paeh. A table cives Ihe national population and school enrollment from tacb decade from 1840, when th? tirat educational c-nsus was taken, showing a gram of population from 1850 to 1870of per cent.; from 1870 to 1890 of 62.41 per cent.; of spcial enrollment from 1850 to 1870 of 97 94 per cent.; from 1870 to 1890 of G7.21 per cent,, indicating nearly the same relations of population and school enrollment in each period, notwithstanding tfreat local change* meantime. Returns ; received since, this bulletin was pru-1 pared will a<id considerably to private) and parockia! enrollment and modify j the clasiificatlon in seme degree. All VT*r? Drunk. St. John's, N. 1\, Oct. 15.?A sailor I named John Brennan arrived at i'repasey today and tells the following st or\: He was one of the crew of forty-thri e of the steamer City of Rome, which ier't Montreal, October 7, for Dundee with 575 cattle and a lot of flour and maize. The steamer, he says, was totally wrecked Monday night at Marine Cove, St. Mary's Bay. The captain, crew arid officers were all drunk and could not save themselves. He was thrown on the rock, and after a terrible night's experience was rescued by a man named Lundrigan on Tuesday morning. All the others were lost. He tells a pitiful tale of the struggles of the crew and ol the cattle in their efforts t<? save them?el ves. Ther? is considerable excitement here over the story of the m*o Brennan. who claims to be the only survivor of the eattle ship City of Rome. There are numerous persons here who refuse to bei lleve his story. Brennan is on his way to St. Jebfi's. V Kfjftian Cotton SaflTers Too, Cakio. Oct. 8.?The cotton association reports that the rec?nt cold and foggy weather which has prevailed threughout tba cotton growing districts of Egypt has seriously affected the crops. Tfie association, taking everything into consideration, estimates the jieid of eotton rill be 3,700,000 cantars. (A canta^r is equal to forty-live pounds.) | I DIVIDING TIME IX OHIO. an extraordinary union political meeting at ada. Uovtrnor C:iiui>l>pll, the Democratic Champion, Wius th? Opening anrl Closing, and flakes Good Use of the frlvi]?-Ko In Doing lrp McK1nl*y. Ada, Ohio., Oct 8.?The little town of Aila was Id gala attire to-day in honor of its great political event, and not only did ev^ry front window present a likeness of either McKinley or Campbell, but lrom every limb of the trees were suspended above the streets portraits of tbe distinguished Ohioans. Flags and banners and bunting there were without number, and so generous was the friendly rivalry of decorations displayed by Democrats and Republicans tLat the very horizen was obscured by .the familiar lines of the national colors. Great decorative taste was displayed in various triumphal aretes,the most prominent of these structures being the non-partisan, "Welcome" arch, which rose above Main street and bore the words, "Welcome to their leaders." From the Keystone were also suspend-.1 r.? tu JJUllJLiiiia Ui lUUlViUiCJT aun be!l, and as the various marching clubs marched under the arch they eneered lustily for their respective leaders. By noon there were over live thousand strangers in the city, and although great enthusiasm was manifested by both parties, the rivalry was a friendlv one and entirely devoid of unpleasant incidents. Many Indianians and a few Illinoisians came and they numbered in their ranks the most enthusiastic partisans on the ground. From early morning until the opening of the meeting the music of bauds resounded through the streets and occasionally the blast of a tin horn disturbed the martial melody. There was an object lesson, however, in these tin horns, for they were understood to be and labelled as the product or' American tin. The hnndv walking cane, displayed with much ostentation by various marching clubs, was alluded to us having an origin in the tin mines of Dakota, and no occasion was lost to denounce in vigorous language the bete noir of Ohio Republicans, the ''Demo cratic tin-plate liar." On the other hand the Democrats retaliated by displaying badges bearing allusions to the inconsistency and iu) potency of the McKiuKill Thto IcrHcc urnrf> /lint; npti VP badges, which attracted much attention, and the Democratic badge received special allusion by Governor Campbell. It bore a portrait of Carupbeil, and below it were*the significant words, "American wool, 24 cents, on account of the JMcKinley bill." An American tin hadge, displayed with equal pride by Republicans, container a portrait ofMc-Kinley and bore the words: "Protection and honest money." There were many prominent Ohio politicians ou the grand stand, a:;d both parties were fairly well represented. At 11.15 a special train bearing Major ilcKiiiley, Senator Humphrey and others rolled into the deput, and cheer after cheer arose from the crowds as the features of the great expo:.cut of protection were recognized by (is multitude. The Major bowed smilingly to the crowd, and, Quickly entering a carriage, was driven to the residence of Prof. Lehr, under escort of various marehin? clubs, led by an <;<ultant brass band. Promptly at 12.'30 the Hocking Valley train, bearing about one thousand cheering Demon .its and Kepublicans, drow in sight. ;;nd attached to the rear ol it vtas the special car "Buckeye," containing Governor Campbell, Dr. .Nortoo, Chairman Norton of the State central committee, Lieutenant Governor JM.?rquis, and a few other prominent Democrats. A repetition of the enthusiastic ovation extended to McKinley was thu rtception tendered Campbell. As the cheering multitude pressed around the carriage in waiting to receive the Governor noi ??few insisted on shaking hands and the proceedings were temporarily interrupted while Governor Campbel; exreuded his hand to a lew of the m:>re Oecuonstrative. The baud struck up '"The Campbells are Coming" and a^ain a :-eiies of enthusiastic Democratic cheer- rent the air. The Governor was rapidly driven to the residence of Prof. Lehr, where he met Major Ale Kin ley, and they took lunch with Prof. Lehr aud a few personal friends. For a brief hour politics and the great struggle which is being waged lor partisan supremacy in the Buckeye State were forgotten and these two gentlemen, each acknowledged by his opponents to be "the prince of good fellows." met iu s; ecial friendship in fulfilment of their mutual pledge at the contest thnt there should l e a campaign of measures acd principles and not of personality. To-day's union political meeting was held in a vas*. amphitheatre on the Fair grounds. Great, taste was display ed iu the decorations ana m iiic centre of the grounds was a large pole, from which lloated proudly the Stars and Stripes. Ariiliery was called into requisition, and as "the two distinguished leaders appeared in sight a Governor's salute was tired. Among the prominent people on the grand stand were Congressman Stor*r, Congressman Taylor, Gen. Fiuiey, KxCoDgrrssiLian Yoder. E. W. 1'oe, Republican candidate for Auditor of the State: .}. P. Uriley. Dfmocratic candidate lor Attorney General: Chairman Norton, of the State central cimmitfee; Prof. P. S. Lei per and many others. A DUAL PRESIDENCY. The meeting was presided over by two chairman, J. JU. Fleet, of Ilarlin County Deujocratic central committee, on behalf of the Democrats, and James C. Howe, of the Republican county central committee, on behalf of the Ilepublicans. It was 1.45 P. M. when the meeting was called to order by the llev Mr Campbell, a Presbyterian"minister, and at that time fully seven thousand people were on the grounds. 'H e clerical gentleman introduced the two presiding officers of the meeting, and announced that Governor Campb? ;l would be the first speaker. Chairman Fleet, the Democratic presiding officer, madea brief speech of congratulation to everybody, and announced that Governor Cami bell had gained the privilege of opening and closing by casting lots. The gentleman committed a slight bull bv allud ing inadvertently to Major JSicKiniey aa "Governor McKinley," and the Hepublicans cheered lustily, while the chairman blushed in confusion. GOVERXOK CAMPBELL, after hem* introduced as one of Ohio's greatest Governors, launched into debate. I regret, said Governor Campbell, in opening, that I have not time to properly present the indictmeLt of that overgrown monster, which, masquerading in the garb of protection, subsists on the wage-earner and agriculturist. [Applause.] Yearly farming is growing iuore unprofitable, our commerce is swept from the se;is and that industry abandoned; under protection splendid palaces of protected manufacturers are crowning the hilis, while imported Huns, Italiansand Bohemians are displacing American citizens. Those who are sometimes called "rotten rich" are defying the people, seeking j through ;i venal press to destroy the i reputation, honor and estate of any i who may wage war vigorously in the 1 cause of the people. [Applause.] We | are rapidly reaching the condition which was predicted by Abraham Lincoln when he uttered these words: "As the result o! the war coruorrtions have i been enthroned, an era of high prices I will follow, the money power will en- j deavor to prolong its reign until all the wealth is aggregated in the hands of the few, and the Republic Is lost." [Ap-1 plause.J To convince you that Lincoln's prediction is being realized I cite to you the utterances of a Republican Congressman (liutterworth) from Ohio, who said in Congress that he could upon the ten lingers of his hands count the men who had added more to their wealth in the last ten years than had been added to the wealth of aU the agriculturists in any state in the Union. [Democratic applause.] The American Economist says that the number of people in the United States who own th^ir own homes has in twenty-five years fallen from live-eights to threeeighths. How many years will it take them to fall to one-eighth? The 1'rogress says that when Egypt went down 2 per cent of her people owned it" per cent of her wealth; people were starved to death; that when Persia went down 1 per cent of her population owned all the land: that when Rome went down 1,800 men owned all the known world. In 1850 in this counrry capitalists owned 'iiy> per cent, of iter wealth. let ne j who goes before thr pt-ople, and without comment, without temper, points toi these facts that are statistical, is sneered I at as i "calamity croaker." iiradstreet, an authority iu this country, says that the total number of mercantile failures in the United .States for the nine months for 1891 was 8,8W5, as compared with 7,528 iu a like pt-riod of 1890, an increase of 17 per cent. This is under the McKinlev bill. [Applause ] Yet In 1890, when McKiDley accepts the nomination for Congress, he said that if his bill passed the Senate this country would win a boom more marvellous than it had ever known. [Laughter.] Where is that boom? [Democratic applause. "Free sugar!" 'Tree sugar!" lrom the Republicans.] Were it not for the present abundant crops, the best in ten years, these failures would be a great deal worse t.Han they are. One ot the greatest causes of the depression and failures of the present season is that we are pay ing too much taxes. McKinley. on Si ay 5. 1S88. at Philadelphia, said that tariff was a tax. [Democratic applause.] Xow, who pays that tax? The Major says that this tax is not paid by the consumer. Xow, the Supreme Court of the United States,the highest authority in the land, has said who paid the tax. In the case of Brown \s the State of Maryland they unanimously announced that "a I iint.v on inmorts is a tax that is paid by consumers." [Democratic nppinuse/j In lbTO William Richardson, once a member oi the Court of Claims and exassistant Secretary of the Treasury, in reply to an inquiry by Senator Sherman, said that the importer adds the duty to t he cost of the goods and the consumers pay it. Governor Campbell lure caused a board to be hcist<d upon I he s'age on which he demonstrated by methods of bookkeeping the injustice of a high tarilT. A man goes to England and purchases goods to the amount of $5,000; the average duty on these goods would be 83,000, making 88,000, total sum paid by importer. Here another board was hoisted on which this 83,000 was charged up to "protit and loss," indicating that if the importer did not charge the duty to the consumers he would lose 83,000 paid in duties. Thus the foreigner did not pay that tax. Another board was hoisted. It was shown that If the foreigne paid the tax the cost price of the goods offered to the American consumer would be 85,000 instead of 88,000. which would be absolute free trade. Now, when genuine reciprocity comes in, we would have not little one-sided reciprocity with the little countries of South America, but substantial reciprocity with England, France aud the world. [Applause.] The duty on plate glass is l4u per cent. Last year we imported 8100,000 worth of plate glass. That was the value of the goods in England; yet upon that glass there was paid 8223,000 duties, or 803,000 more than the cost of the glass in England. Who paid that tax? Did English manufacturers give us glass and pay 803.000 besidrs to get us to take it? [Applause aud Laughter.] A Chicago paper says that last week a Chicago linn received 81,400 worth of pearl buttons from Australia and the duty on these buttons was just 83,000. or a i.ritle over 200 per cent. Who paid that duty? [Laughtn.j Did the- foreign manufacturer paj nearly 82,000 for the privilege of sending pearl buttons *o us? [Laughter and applause, j The ilcKinley bill provides that i?U p*-r cent of the duties on some articles shall be refunded, provided the-e articles are expor-ed. Last year the standard Oil Company imported tin to '.his country upon which i they paid m?re lhau a* ruiihon and a quarter tax or duty, it they did not, if ;he foreigner instead paid th=it duty, then the United Sutes has pul" its hand in our packets aud prwnled fiiestandard Oil Co.npauy vsilh a million and a quarter of our money, lor this amount was refunded to the Standard Oil Company. 'i'lf-n: \*eie manuiactured in this country ! a -1 ye.ir .^n.oOO.UOO.COO worth ot go<<ds. If the tariff on Untie*Me -roods is 00 per cent it is fair t<> presume, taking protected and unprotected industries togcthrr, that, at hast one-third of that sum is paid iu lieu of duties to manufacturers at home upon the American product. It is said nil this is done for the upbuilding of *nd maintenance of manufacturers. 4;iIow long, Lord, how long, skill this upbuilding and maintenance go 011[A voice: "Foralltiine."J "Then will iK not stop with eternity." [Applause.] Campbell continued in this manner his analysis i f the McKinley tariff and then read from the certificate of the Hepublican secretary of the Ohio State board of equalization showing that in tm years the appraised value of farm land" has depreciated .*?i'3.0GO,000. and ask-d: "Have other classes suffered alike?" Col. Howe, K-pubiican chairman of *- - - J .! ot. me lneeiuijf luiruuiicwi jaiiimci <?o 'an ideal typical American, cut* known not only at home, but abroad." [Applause.] It gives me much pleasure, said McKioley atter the ovation whic/i greeted Ins appearance had subsided, to greet this great audience and pleasure to speak from the same platlorm and to the same audience with Governor Campbell, that we may present the causes that we may respectively represeut. The issue beteewn us and between the parties for which the moment we stand are fixed not by ourselves, but by the platforms of our respective parties There is one or two ot thfiu which I propose to present. One ol'them is the c uestion of silver, and the other the question of taxation. One relates to the standard with which we shall measure our exchanges with each other and the rest of the world, and the other relates to the methods of taxation by which we \ dUail iai3C icvcuato ivi yuwitv Upon this question of silver the Democratic platform has declared for free and unlimited coinage of the silver of the world as freely as gold is now coined and upon the ratios now hxecL The Republican party stands opposed to that, insisting tiiat it cannot be safely done until great commercil nations shall have fixed the ratio between gold aail silver. Coming back to the tariff question McKiuley said: The Governor's platform commits him to a tariff for revenue only, that is, a tariff upon foreign products, levied with no other object in view but revenue, unmindful of every other consideration but revenue, not caring for the industries and occupations of the people. A revenue tariff will raise revenue for the Government; a protective tariff will do that; a reveuue tariff will do nothing else: a protective tariff besides raising revenue will also stimulate the industries of the f^ople, tuspurage the skill and genius of^merican citizens, develop there-, sources of the Government and secure to it as it has done in the past thirtv years the Jirst rank in mining, agriculture and manufacturing. Tell me why the foreign producer should be permitted to enjoy this market equal!/ with f-r.0 A mori/ion o\tAten' Ul'hv hp should have the same privilege to enter this market with his competing products a3 the American citizens enjoys. McKinley then analyzed t>is tariff bill from his own standpoint. At the conclusion of Major McKinley's speech the adherents of the great exponent of high tariff burst into cheers aod prolonged applause, hats and parasols were waved m the air and the band began to play. It was some minutes before Campbell could obtain order, and not until .McKinley had signalled to his friends to subdue their enthusiasm. Ladies and gentlemen, said Governor Campbell, I concur most heartily with Major McKinley that this is the greatest and best aad proudest nation on earth. But, unlike him, I would distribute that greatness and that wealth as God distributes the dews of heaven, upon unjust as well as just. [L'rolooged applause and cheers ] I depicted the condition of the farmer, and the answer of the Major is not only that I am a calamity croaker, but in the words or somebody else, you must not grumble. [Laughter.] You Findlay gas workera who have had your meagre wages reduced, you steel workers of Cleveland who have had your pittance further cut down, you must not grumble, because your poverty adds to some other man's wealth. [Cheers. A voice: "Give it to him."J 1 will take care o? him now if jou will just let me alone. [Laughter.j This is a good-natured light, for we are both good men. However, as only one of us can be Governor, X rrVitr riorVlO na T (11JU J. <1LU LUC1G ail liiUJ, 11 UJ , ?"-? ""fj ? h:td better stay. [Great laughter. Carclcsa Cotton Covering. Washington, Oct. 16.?The acting Secretary of State recently received a letter from the British minister at Washington relative to the packing of xlmerican cotton intended for shipment in which the minister refers to the great risk to human life which has been shown to exist from the loose bailing of cotton, and remarks that the subject is one of such great importance to both countries and, indeed, to all nations, in addition to the evidence already submitted by him, he desires to invite attention to the letter of Edward Atkinson statin? that American cotton is treated more dangerously than any other great staple of any other kind of cotton in the world, and to Atkinson's further remarks, as follows: ''Bales are badly made, badly covered, badiy cut and badly broken. They are rolltd in mud and exposed to the weather, and are always in a condition in which they may become liable to the impregnation of cotton seed oil and thereby to spontaneous cumbustion. When a bale of cotton which is slightly moistened with oil on the end or side becomes broken or that air can enter into the interstices among the fibres it may happen very often that the right combination of fibre, oil and oxygen will occur, causing the rapid oxidation which is known as spontaneous com UUOblVU. The minister also draws attention to Atkinson's suggestion that there should be careful examination of bales before shipment, which examinations might abate part of the danger, although the whole danger will not be abated until a bale of cotton is made up, compressed, guarded and protected as it ought to be. The correspondence with the Secretary of the Treasury shows that he has repeatedly instructed customs oflicers to take such measures as may be practicable for the enforcementjof penalties prescribed by law for improper ship tuents of cotton. It Is assumed by the treasury department that these instructions will lead to an examination of cotton bales shipped and the prosecution of the offenders. A Snako Scorv. Wasiiintox Court House, O., Oct. 15.?While building a kiln to dry fruit a few days ago two dojs named Wither?poon and Priest, living near Mt. Pleasant. Vinton County, Ohio, had a very unpleasant experience. They were getting out stone for their kiln, when two lar^e black snakes came out of the rock mcY attacked them. The boys beat a hasty retreat, and were pursued by the snakes, which moved with great raoid ity. U'itherspoon succeeded In making iilS Wirtpc ijj m ivuvv., v.v companion, Priest. was overtaken at the fence, and before he could climb it ore of the snakes had wrapped itself around his ankle and bound it securely to the bottom rail. The other snake sprang ar ins neck and bound it to the top rail, its powerful coil pressing with such tension against the boy's windpipe and jugular that bis tongue and eyes protruded and bis face turned purple. lie remained in this horrible predicament while Witherspoon ran away for assistance. Mrs. George was summoned, and, hastening to the spot with an axe, she proceeded at once to lay out Uie serpents, cutting the snake from Priest's neck and severing its body in twain. She next struck at the bottom snake, cutting it in two, but aho severing a couple of the boy's toes. The snakes measured seven feet six inches and fight feet six inches. Tempted Their Fat?. Louisville, Ky., Oct. lo.?Xear Mount Sterling. Ky, last night George and James Howard, sons of Press Howard, a weli-to-do farmer, went to the house of a man named Cuppa, who does not bear a good reputation, and attempted to force an entrance in Cupps house with the iutfcntion, it is supposed, of kukluxing Cupps. They knocked in the door "of the house, when Cupps opened fire on thein with a shotgun, iriMinor them both. James Howard lived ... 0 _ in Missouri ana was at home on a visit. Frost in North Texas. St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8?A dispatch from Gainsville, Texas, says a heavy frost formed there and throughout ISorth Texas and the Chickasaw coun-! try Tuesday night, doing considerable damage to the young, undeveloped cot-! ton boils, thus greatly diminishing the prospective crop. The weather has been quite cold and the indications are that j another killing frost will occur tonight. | 1ULLMJ Ai 1U5 JTUM. THE UNTIMELY ENO OF POLICEMAN EAVES. Shot Down Wblle Attempting to Armt a Drunken Man, also a Policeman?The Slayer, a Third Policeman, Likewise Drunk. Charleston, S. C., Oct. 12?Policeman James W. Quinlivan shot and killed Policeman liichard C. Eaves at the southeast corner of State and Queen streets, between 11 and 12 o'clock last night. The shooting grew out of a drunken spree In which Policeman Quinlivan and J. J. Duggan were engaged. It seems that both Quinliran sod Duggan had been dunking heavily during the day, and when they went on duty last evening at 7 o'clock they kept it up. Eaves's beat was East Bay below Broad street. Duggan was the adjoing beat, that is East Bay above Broad, and Quinlivan was stationed on State street. Shortly before 11 o'clock last night Quinlivan and Duggan left their beats and went down on Eaves's beat and began carousing and making a noise. Jtiaves went up 10 mom auw uidered them to leave his beat. RESISTING ARREST. Duggan, who was the drunkest of the two, refused to go, so it is said, and Eaves, after repeating his orders in vain, called upon Edward Doran to assist him, and promptly placed Duggan under arrest, and tried, with Doran's assistance, to take him to the patrol box at the corner of Philadelphia and Queen streets. Duggan objected strenuously to beins arrested, and Quinliran also protested in Duggan's behalf, but without avail. Eaves had taken Duggan as iar as the comer of Queen and State street?, when Quiniivan, finding that his entreaties were unavailing, and determined to prevent Dcggau's being t sent to the Station House, attempted to release him by force. THE KILLING. Eaves then drew his club and struck Quinliran a beavy blow on the head, cutting the scalp and bringing blood freely. Crazed by the blow and drink Quiniivan jerked his pistol out or its holster and shot at Eaves once. The ball entered Eaves's head on the left side, just back of the temple, and death must have been almost instantaneous. Partially sobered by what he had done Quinliran ran to the nearest patrol box and telephoned to the Station House for the patrol wagon. A HORRIBLE SIGHT. In the meantime Lieut. Heidt and Sergt. McCaffrey had heard of the shooting and hastened to the spot. They found Eaves lying on his oacs on the pavement, his face turned up towards the sky, a smile upon his lips, and both blood and brains oozing out of a ghastly wound back of the left temple. The blood trickled slowly down to the pnvement, forming tiny pools in the hollows of the bricks. Duggan and Quinlivan were standing near at hand. QUINLIVAN'S STORY. Quinlivan told Lieut. Heidt that Eaves had struck him with his club and that he then shot him. He also claims that Eaves drew his pistol on him, and, as Eaves's pistol was found lying on the pavement by the dead man's side, Quinlivan's story may be true. As soon as the patrol wagon arrived Lieut. Heidt sent Quinlivan and Duggan up to the Station House where they were locked up. The coroner had in the meantime been notified of the killing, and Deputy Coroner Rivers went to the scene of the tragedy, and after viewing the body had it removed to the City Hospital, where the inquest i will be held this morning. AN INVESTIGATION. Chief Golden was on the spot soom after the shooting and made an investigation into the matter. It was exceedingly difficult to find anyone who would or could throw any light upon the killing. The only witness secured last night was Edward Doran, who had u "Cf?Vo T>n<T?Mnri tft ueeu iWSl."Xiayco iu wulx the patrol box, and who witnessed the quarrel and consequent shooting. His account of what happened is substantially the story as related above- Neither Duggan nor Quinlivan was in a condition to be interviewed last night after bein^ locktd up, so that it was impossible to learu their version of the shooting. THE MAN WHO WAS KILLED. Eaves was a young man, with light eyes and hair, of a ruddy compjexwiS, well built and bore an excellent and enviable reputation for sobriety and strict attention to his duty. He came to Charleston two years ago from Sullivan County, Tennessee, and secured employment as a driver on the Enterprise Railroad. He remained in the employ of that company until June 4, 18U1, when he was appointed to the police force, being very strongly endorsed for that position. He was 23 years of age and unmarried. THE SIANSLATEIi. James W. Quinlivan, the officer who did the shooting, was appointed to the force on J une 22, and was also 23 years of age. J. J. Duggan, the cause or the shooting, is the oldest man of the trio and has been on the fcrce for a longer time. He was appointed July 7, 1889, and is 24 years old. He is not what is known as a drinking man, carefully avoiding as a rule all intoxicating liquors, but when he does bfgin to drink he never stops until he is drunk. The occurrence last nijtht was a moat deplorable one, and it will be sifted to the bottom at the inquest this morn ing.?^sews auu v^vunci. E?I? Choked the W1?mL Maimisburg, 0- Oct. 16.?The flouring: miLl of U. Engleman has been compelled to shut down the last few days for a most unusual reason. The water wheel has been completely choked ud with eels, and every few hours ic would be necessary to clean them out. Fifteen to twenty would be taken out each time, some weighing nearly five pounds. This never occurred before, ana is explained that several years ago the fish commission planted a lot of young eels ia the Alaimi, above Dayton, which have now grown up, and in numbers sufficient to stop a inilL Relsas??l the Parachutte. , Greenup, III., Oct. 9? Just as a bal- A loon was ascending from the fair 41 grounds yesterday afternoon, Alex. Gu'don, a youth, became entangled ic the ropes attached to the parachutte and was carried up, his head hanging downward. In his struggle he caaghl the rope that released the paraehutt#, ana ne ana me aeronau# ncic ununu to the ground eighty feet below. The balloonist, Wm. Kisser, of Louisville, Ky., was killed and Gordon was serious ly injured. Six Acres In Flames. Louisville, Oct. 8 ?A fire at Maytield to-day burned nearly six acres of ground. The Newport News and Mississippi Valley freight and passenger depots, the Western Tobacco Company's warehouse aad sir hundred " hogsheads of tobacco and a number of ,,t residences were burned. The total loss j is placed at S100.000. Insurance light. ^