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WEWIMt I' h '< ii """ rnrr^w rim? --..- L.- --..-. ,?,f ? ' |SOM? HEARTS. Through days a-weary, and scenes so dreary, Some heart in the shadow mast stay. While the aching eyes scan gloomy skies For a light in the far away. V Through the darkness deep, dread agonies creep, And steal the reluctant perfume Of the flowers rare, that fate seemed to dare, On the grief stricken soil to bloom. Through the dismal years, of weeping and feara, Some hearts, with their burden of woe. On the grim highway, where no sun beams play, Through the blackness of night must go. Some hearts must weep, while ether hearts ^ sleep, Ne'er dreaming of pain or sorrow, Some hearts are sighing, some hearts are crying O'er visions of dread tomorrow. Some hearts must kneel and the chast'ning feel. As hopes that were framed in the past Fall into decay, and swift, pass away, Too frail, through suffering, to last. Some hearts are aching, ana suenuy urchin?, While tho lives of others are crowned With rarest delight, that never takes flight, Where despair's dark face never frowned. LESSONS OF A LAUGH. R?t. Dr. Talmsgt'd DlacuaMS Another . Unique Subject. Brooklyn, July 15.?Rev. l)r. Tal mage, wno is cow in ^.osiraita uu ui? round the world journey, has selected as the subject for his sermon through the press today "Laughter," the text being taken from Psalm cxxvi, 2, "Then was our mouth filled with laughter," and Psalm ii, 4, "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh." Thirty-eight times does the Bible make ~ reference to this cod figuration of the features and quick expulsion of breath which two call laughter. Sometimes it is born of the sunshine and sometimes the midnight. Sometimes it stirs the sympathies of angels, and sometimes the cach? " innation of devils. All healthy people laugh. Whether It pleases the Lord or displeases him, that depends upon when we laugh and at what we laugh. My theme today is the laughter of the Bible ?namely, Sarah's laugh, or that of skepticism; David's laugh, or that of spiritual exultatiOD; the fool's laugh, or that of sinful merriment; God's laugh, or that of infinite condemnation;heaveD's laugh,'or that of eternal triumph. Scene, "an oriental lent; the occupants, a!/? Ahrfthas-i and Sarah, perhaps wrink led and decrpit. Their three guests are three angels?the Lord Almighty one of them. In return for the hopitality ahotfn by the old people God promises Sarah that she shall become the ancestress of the Lord Jesus Christ. Sarah laughs in the face of God, She does not believe it. She is affirighted at wbat she has done. She denies it. She says, "I didn't langh." Then God retorted, with an emphasis that silenced all disputation, "Bat thou didst laugh!" My iriends, the laugh of skepticism; in all ages, is only the echo of Sarah's laughter. God says he will accomplish a thing, and men say it can_~1. 1- - J * A UWny-l* 1or??K Ob DC UUUC. A KiCttt IUU11UUUQ iuu^u at the miracles. They say they are contrary to the laws of nature. What is a law of nature? It is God's way of doing 8 thing. Ycu ordinarily cross a river at one ferry. Tomorrow jou change for one day, and yoago across aaother ferry. You made the rule. Have you not the right tochaoge ii? You ordinarily come in at that door of the church. Suppose that nest Sabbath you should come in at the other dooi? It is a habit you have! Have you not a right to change your habil? A law of nature is God's habit _ ?his way of doing things. If he makes the law, has he not a right to change it at any time he wants to change ii? Alas, for the folly of those who laugh at God "T 11 ~ ?) , wuctj lie soys. jl itui uv_? a uu^j responding, "You can't do it." God says that the Bible is trne?it is all trne. Bishop Colenso laughs; Herbert Sppncer laughs; Stuart Mill laughs; great German universities laugh; Harvard laughs ?softly! A great man> of the learned Institutions, with long rows ofprofes sore seated on the fence between Chris tianity and infidelity, laugh sofly. They >? say, "We didn't laugh." That was Sarah's trick. God thunders from the heavens, "But thou didstlaugh! The garden of Eden was only a fable. There never was any ark built, or if It was built it was too small to bave two of every kind. The pillar of fire by night was only the nothern lights, the 10 pla gues of Egypt only a brilliant specimen of jugglery. The sea parted because the wind blew violently a great while ftmm on/^ maan iruui UUC UHC^UUUi JL UO ouu aau u^wu did not pat themselves oat of the way for Joshua Jacob's ladder was only horizontal and pictaresqae clouds. The destroying angel smiting the the firstborn in Egypt was only cholera infantame become" epidemic. The gullet of the whale, by measurement, was too, small to swallow aprophet the story of the immaculate conception a shock to. all decency. The lame, the dumb, the blinfl, the halt cured by mere human surgery. The resurr?.c tion of Christ's friend only a beautiful tableau. Christ and Lazaru3 and Mary and Martha acting their parts well. My friends, there is not a doctrine or statement of God's holy word that has -? not been derided by the skepticism of the day. I take up this book of King Tammai fronslfttfnn. T ransider it a perfect Bible, but here are skeptics who want it torn to pieces. And now, with this Bible in my hand, let ma tear out all those portions which the skepticism of this day demands shall be torn out. What shall go first? "Well," says some one in the audince, "take out all that about creation and about the first settle' |? mentofthe world." Away gce3 Genesis. V "Now," says some one, "take out all that about the miraculous guidance of the children of Israel in the wilderness." Away soes Exodus. *lNow," says some one else in the audience, "there are things in Deuteronomy and Kings that are not fit to be read." Away go Deuteronomy and the Kings. "Now," says,some one, "the book of Job is a fable that ought to came out." Away ^ goes the book of Job. "Now," says some one, "those passages in the New Testament which imnlv the divinity of Jesus Christ ought to come oat." Away j go the Evangelists. "Now," says some i one, "the book of Revelation?how pre posterous! It represents a man with the moon under his feet and a sharp sword in his hand." Away goes the book of Revelation. Now there are a few pieces left. What shall we do with them? "Oh," says some man in the audi ence, "I don't believe a word in the Bible, from one eDd to the other." Well, it is all gone. Nosv you have put out the last light for the nation. Now it is the pitch darkneess of eternal midnight. How do you like it? But I think, my friends, we had better keep the Bible a little looger intac t. It has done pretiy well for a good many vears. Then there are old people who f?n/1 it. ft nr?mfr>rt. tn have if-. An 1hft!r lana. and children like the stories in it. Let ? us keep it for a curiosity. If the Bible is to be thrown out of ihe school and out of the court room, so that men no more swear by it, and it is to be put in a dark corridor of the city library, the Koran on one side and the writings of Confucius on the other, then let us each keep a copy for himself, for we might have trouble, and we would want to be under the delusions of its consolations, and we might die, and we would want the delusion of the exalted residence of God's r ?!i". : whj?h H mentions. Ob, what an awful thin;.' it is to laush sa God'a facp anri r.utl Irs Revelation hack at him. Alter a Veils lr;e dav will come "vhen they will ?^v they did not lau^h. Then all the t>vj;s<-ri riiioiSms, ail the caricatures and al! the learned sneers in the qua it: ly revif.wfc will be brought to judgment, and amid the rocking of eviryihiDal beneath, and amid the lUmiiig everything aD^ve, God will thunder, "l'u1 tlu-o didst lauijM" I think the mo3t fascinating laughter at Christianity I ever remember -vas a man in New Easland. He nndclhe word of God s'-era rediculr.u3, and ho laughed on at. rur holv religion until he cacn? to die and then he said, ' Mv lif 3 ha* been a failure?a failure domestically?I have no children; a failure socially, for I am treated on the strep'? 'ike a pirate; a failure profe?:s:onaliy because I know but or.e minister that has adopted my sentiments/' For a quart*r of a century he ;au?hcJ at. Christianity, and ever since Christianity has been laughing at him. Now, it i< a ratan thing to uo into a man's Lcuse and sieal h:s $oods, tut I tell }on the mo&t pi?antic burglary ever in rented is the proposition to steal these [ re as arts of our holy relisi.-n. The meanest. Iau;h ever uttered is the laugh of the skeptic. i The next laughter mfnlioacd in the Bible is David's laughter, or the expre3 sion of spiritual exultation. *-jLneu was our moulh filled with laughter," He got very much down sometimes, but there are other chapters where for four times he calls upon the people to praise and exult. It was not a mere twitch of the lips. It was a demonstration that took hold of his whol8 physical nature. "Then was cur mouth filled with laughter." My friends, this world will never be converted to God until Christians cry less and laugh and sine more. The horrors are a poor bait. If people are to be psrsuaded to adopt our holy rsligion, it wiii bs because they have made up their minds ft is a happy religion. They don't like a morbid {. hristianlty. I know there are morbid people who eDjoy a funeral. They come early to see the the friends take leave of the corpse, and they steal a ride to the cemetery, but all healthy people enjoy I a wedding better than they do a burial. Isow, you make the religion of Christ sepulchral and hear3elike, and ycu make it repulsive. I say plant the rose of Sharon along the church walks and columbine to clamb;r over the church wall and have a smile on the lip and have the, mouth filled with holy laughter. There is no man in the world, except the Christian, that has a right to feel an untrammeled glee. He is promised everything to be for the best here, and he 13 on tbe way to a delight which will I take all the processions with palm branches, and all the orchestras harpsd and cymbalied and trumpeted to exprefs "Oh." vou say, "I have so much trouble." Have ycu more than Paul hac? What does he saj? "Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing. Poor, yet making many rich. Having Dothing, yet pos? sesssing all things." The merriest laugh I think I ever heard has been in the sick room of God's dear children. When Theodosias was put upon the rack, he suffered very great torture at the first; Somebody asked him how he endnred all that pain on the rack. He replied. "When I was first pnt on the | rack, I suffered a great deal, but vsiy scon a ycuDg man in white stood by my side, and with a soft and comfortable handkerchief he wiped the sweat from my brow, and my pains were relieved, it was a punishment for me to get from the rack, because when the pain was all gone the angel was gone." Oh, rejoice evermore. You know how it is in the army?an army in ercampment. It today news comes that our 3ide has had defeat, and tomorrow another portion of the tidings comes, saying we have had another defeat, it demoralizss all the host. But it the news comes of victory todav and victorv tomorrow the whole army is impassioned for the contest. Xow, in the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ report fewer defeats. Tell us the victories?victory over sin and death and hell. Rejoice evermore, and agam I say rejoice. I believe there is more religion in a laugh than in a groan. Any bod v can groan, but to laugh in the midst of banishment and persecution and indescribable trial, that required a David a Daniel, a Paul, a modern heroine. The next laughter mentioned in the Bible that I shall speak of is the fool's laughter or the expression of sinfu1 merriment. Solomon was very quick at simile. When he makes a comparison, we all catch it. Wbat is the laughter of a fool like? He says, "It is the crack' r" ?J rp'?? JIDg Ol IQUrHS UUUCC a put. ALIO a.s.0tie is swims, a bunch of brambles is put under it, and the torch is applied to it, and there is a great noise, and a big bleze, and a sputter, and a quick extinguishment. Then it is darker than it was before. Fools' laughter. The most miserable thing on earth '.8 a bad man's fun. There they are?10 men in a barroom, they have at home wives, mothers, daughters. The impure jest starts atone corner of the barroom, and crackle, crackle, crackle, it goes all around. In 500 such guffaws there i3 not one item of happiness. They all teel bemeaned, if they have any conscience left. Have nothing to do with men or women who tell immoral stories. I have no confidence either in their Christian character or morality. So all merimentthat springs out of the defects of others?caricature of a lams foot, or a curved spine, or a blind eye, or a deaf ear?will be met with the judgments of God either upon you or upon your chil dren. Twenty years ago I knew a man who was particularly skillful in imitating the lameness of a neighbor. Not long ago a son of the skillful mimic had his leg amputated for the rery defect which his father had mimicked years before. I do not say it was a judgment of God. I leave you to make your own inference. 5o all merriment born of dissipation, that which starts at the counter of the drinking restaurant or from the wineglass in the home circle, the maudlin simper, the meaningless joke, the saturnalian gibberish, the paroxysm of mirth about nothing which you sometimes see in the fashionable clubroom or the exquisite parlor at 12 o'clock at night, are the crackling of thorns under a pot. Such laughter and such sin end in death. When 1 was a lad a boos came out entitled "Dow Junior's Patent Ssrmons/' It made a sreat stir?n very wide laugh?all over the country, that book did. It was a caricature of the Christian ministry, and of the word ol God, and of the day of judgment. Oh, we had a great laugh. The commentary on the whole thing is that the author of that book died In poverty, shame debauchery, kicked out of society and cursed of Almighty Go J. The laughter of such men is the ccho of their own damnation. The next laughter that I shall mention a3 being in the Bible is the lausch of God's condemnation, "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh." Again "The Lord will lau?h at him." Again, "1 win iau2a at nis calamity." vviiu such demonstration will Godsnc.t every kind oi great sin and wickednes?. But men build up vi)lanie3 higher and higher Good men almost pity God because he is schemtd against by men. Suddenly a pin drops out of the machinery of wickedness, or a secret is revealed, and the foundation be gins to rock. Finally the whole thing is demolished. What is the matter? I will tell you what the matter is. That crash of ruin is only the reverberation of God's laughter. In the money market there are a great > ?V 13any 200 d men and h yrcar. merry fraudu lent mm. a fraudulent man there says, ,;I mean to have my million " He goes to worx reckless of honesty, a*id he ge's his iirsl $100,000. He gets afcer awhile his $200,000. After "awhile he gets his 8500,000. k-Now," Fie says, I have onlv one more move to make, and I shall have my million." He gathers up all his resources, he makes that one last grand move, he fails and loses a!\ and he has Dot enough money of his own left to p^v the coat of the car to his home. People cannot uodcrstand this spasmodic revulsion. Some said it was a sudden turn in Erie railway stock, or ;n Western Union, cr in Illinois Central. Some said one thins' an ? some another. They all auetcsed wron^. 1 will tell you what it w?s, *lHe that sitteth in the heavens laughed." A man in New York said he would be the richest man in the city. He left his honest work as a mechanic and got into the city councils some way and in 10 year?, stole $15,000,000 from the citv government. Fifteen million dollar?! He had the legislature of the state of New York We grip of his right hand. Suspicions were aroused. The grand jury presented indictments. The whole land stood aghast, The man who expected to put half the city iu his ve3t pocket gjes to Blackwell's island, goe3 to Ludlow Slreet iail, breaks prison and goes across the sea, is reanested and brought back and asain remanded to jail. Wh}? "He that aitteth in the teaveus laughed." Rome wa3 a great empire; she had Horace and Virgil amoDg her poets; she had Augu3 us and Constantine among her emperors. But what mean j the defaced Pantheon, and the Forum trunea into a cattle market, and the broken vailed Coliseum, and the architectural skelton of her great aquedueU? What was that thundei? "Ob!" you say, "that was the roar of the battering rams against her walls." No. What was that quivei? ' Oh!" you say, "that was the i Li ttLU jj \Jl uuab.'it ***v quiver and tbe roar were the outburst of omnipotent laughter from the defied and insulted heavens. Rome defied God, and he laughed her.down. Thobes defied God, and he laughed her down. Nineveh defied God, and he laughed her i down. Babylon defied God; and he laughed her doarn. There 13 a great difference between God's laush and his smile. His smile is eternal bea*ilude. He sailed when David sang, and Miriam clapped the cymbals, and Hannah made garments for her son, Paul preached, and John i Trio'An onrl nuitueu wuu i lo.\jiu, uuu when any man has anything to do an<^ doe3 it well. His smile! Why, it is the 15th, of May, the apple orchads in fall bloom; it is morning breaking on a rippling sea; xt is heaven at high noon, all the I bells beating the marriage peal. But his laughter-?may it never fall on us! It is a condemnation for our sig ; it is a wasting away. We may let the satirist laugh at U3, and all our companions may laugh at us, and we may be made the target for the merriment of earth and hell, but God forbid that we sould ever come to the fulfillment of the propheay against the rejectors of the truth, UI will laugh at your calamity." But, my friends.ali of us who rrject Christ and the pardon of the gospel must come uoder that^treneendous bombardment. God wauts us all to repent. He counsels, he coaxes, he importunes, and he dies for us. He comes down out of heaven. He puts all the world's sin on one shoulder, he puts all world's sorrow on the other shoulder, and then with that Alp on one side and that Himalaya on the other he starts up the hill back of Jerusalem to achieve our salvation. He puts the palm of his right foot on one long spike^ and he puts the palm of his leitfoot on another long spike, and then, with his hands spotted with his own blood he gesticulates, saying: "Look, look and live! With the crimson veil of my sacrifice I will cover up all your sins. With my dying groan I will swallow up all your groane. Look! Live!" But a thousand of you turn your back on that and then thi3 voice of invitation turns to a tone divinly ommous, that sobs like a simoom through the first chapter of Proverbs: "because I hive called and ye refused, I have stretched out my right hand and no man reegarded, but ye have set at naught all my counsel and would none of my reproof, 1 also will ladgh at yoor calamity." Oh, what a laugh that is?a deep laugh, a long, reverberating laugb; an overwhelming laugh; God grant we may never hear it. But in this day of merciful visitation yield your heart to Christ that you may spjud all ycur life uu oarth under his smile and escape forever the thunder of the laugh of God's indignation. The other laughter mentioned in tne Bible?the only on? I shall speak of? is hp.?v<?n'* lanorhter. or the exoression of eternal triumph. Chri3t said to his disciples, ''Blessed are ye that weep now, for ye shall laugh." That makes me know positively that we are not to spend our days in heaven singing long meter psalms. The formalistic and stiff notions of heaven that some people have would make me miserable. I am glad to know that the heaven of the Bible is not only a place of holy worship, but of magnificent sociality. uWhat," sav you, ''will the ringing laugh go around the circle, of the saved?" I say Tes, pure laughter, cheering laughter, holy laughter. It will be a laugh of congratulation. When we meet a friend who has suddenly come to a fortune or who ha3 got over some dire sick? J A oUaTtA Kftn/lo /^A TTTO r\r\ f uce>3, UU yvo UUb oua&g uauuo, uvy nw uuu lau^h with him? And when we get to heaven and see our friends there, aome ot them having come up out of great tribulation, why, we will say to one of thsm, "The la%t time I saw you you had been suffering tor six weeks under a a low intermittent fever," or to another we will say: "You for 10 years were ' limping with the rheumatism, and you were fall of complaints when we saw you last. I coDgratalate you on this eternal recovery. We shall lauah. Yes, we shall congratulate all those who have come out of great financial embarrassments in this world because they have become millionaires in heaven. Ye shall laugh. It shall be a laugh of reassociation. It is just as natural for us to laugh when we meet a friend we have not seen for 10 years a3 anything is possible to be natural. When we meet our friends from whom we have been Darted 10 or 20 or 30 yea:3, will it not be with infinite congratulation? Our perception quickened, our knowledge improved, we will know each other at a flash. We will have to talk over all that has happened since we have been separated, the one that has been 10 yearB in heaven telling us all that hap happened in the 10 years of his heavenly residence, and we telling him in return all that has happened during the 10 years of his absence fr^m earth. Ye shall lau?li. I think George WhiteGeld and John Wesley will have a iaugh of contempt for their earthly collisions, and Toplady and Charles Wesley will have a laugh of contempt for their earthly misunderstandings, and the two farmers, who were in the lawsuit all their days, will have a laugh of contempt over their earthly disturbance about a line fence. Exemption from all annoyance. Immersion in all gladness. Ye shall laugh. Christ says so. Ye shall lau?h. Yes, it will be a laugn 01 uiumpn. un: wnai a pleasant thins it will be lo stand on the wall of heaven, and look down at satan and hurl at him debince, and see him cased and chained, and we forever free from his clutches. Aha! Yes, it wil be a laugh of royal greeting. You know how the Frenchmen cheered when Nap^eon e-me hack !rom El'o>. You Uno^ how the English cheered when Wellington came back from Waterloo. You know how Americans cheered when Kossuth arrived from Hungary. Ycu remember how Home cheered when Pompev come bajk victor over 900 cities. Every cheer was a laugh. But, oh, the mightie- greeting, the gladder greeting, -"hen the snow while cavalry troop of heaven shall go through the streeis. and, according to ihe book of Revelation, Christ, in the redcoat, the crimson coat, on a white horse, and all the armies of heaven following on while horses! Oh, when we see and hear that cavalcade, we shall cheer, we shall laugh. Does not jour heart beat quickly at the thought ot great jubilee upon which we are soon to enter? I pray Cod that when we get throag'u with this world and are going out of it we may have some such vision as the dying Christian had when he saw written all over the clouds in the .?ky the letter "W." and they asked, standing, by hi3 side, what he thought that letter lvW" meant. "Oh." he said. ;kthat stands tor we Icorne." And so raav it be wheu we quit this world. "W" on on the gate, "W" on the door of the mansion, UW" on the throne. Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! I have preached this sermon with live prayerful wishes that you might see what a mean thing is the lau?h ot skepticism, what a bright thing is the laugh of spiritual exultation, what a hollow thine; i3 the laugh of siatul merriment, what an awful thing is the laugh of condemnation, what a radiant, rubicund thing is the laugh of eternal triumph. Avoid the ill. Choose the r'ght. Bs comforted. "Blessed are ye that weep now?ye shall langh, ye shall laagV NO AGREEMENT POSSIBLE. Tho Uoa.io Will Insist?Wfc*t Different Leadois Have to Say. Washington, July 18.?The Democratic conferees on the tariff bill held a brief session today, and adjourned before 12 o'clock. They made another effort to reach an agreement, but^ it proved ineffectual. The meettDg adjourned with the understanding that a full conference of the committee, to begin at 2 o'clock, would report a disagreement. The report will be made to the House, but probably not before tomorrow. The llepublican members will make no opposition to this course. The conferees met again at 2 o'clock. Within a verv few minutes afterwards Voorhee3 announced that it was apparent that the two houses were unable to agree, and It had been decided to report a general disagreement. The Senate Republicans stood up for the Senate bill, as did the Democrats, while the House held out for their bill; and it was formally decided that the disagreement should be reported to their respective houses. Before this was done Wilson, chairman of the committee on ways and means, stated that if they could get together on coal, iron ore and sugar, he believed they could fix up an agreement that would be satisfactory to both houses. No proposition looking to thi3 end was made, and the action already indicated was taken. The whole thing was over in a very few minutes. Wilson stated after the conference that he would maKe the report to the Ilsuse tomorrow morning. During the formal discussion in the committee room he was asked by. Senator Jones how long the House would probably keep the bill, whereupon Wilson replied that he thought the conferees would be instructed to insist upon the House bill, and the conferee3 would be sent back within two hours. The same question was then put to Senator Jones, and he said that the action of the Senate would depend upon the action of the House. If the House insisted upon heaping coals of fire on the heads of the Senate conferees and assailing them it would be very" likely that the Senate, when the bill came ? ?- J i-'? ? DacK, would iu use mauuei ucuiito ouo bill. It Is believed, however, that the bill will be again in confererce by Saturday at the latest. ^ Although the report shows a general disagreement on all items this is not technically correct, for the reason that agreements have been made in many item?, but it was deemed best not to include them until a conclusion, had been reached on the whole bill. Wilson says the report of the conferees will be a verbal one and will simply state that the conference cummittet. of the two houses has failed to. reach an agreement. The committee on rules will probably meet tomorrow and report a special order limiting the time during which the debate upon the report may continue. Speaker Crisp could not say today how long the debate on the conference report tomorrow would be permited to continue in the house but it is un derstood that it will be limited to two hours, one hour on each side. Wiison will occupy a part If not all the time set apart for the Democrats, if he is physicaly able to speak, and Reed and ] Burrows will probably be spokesmen for the Republicans. Senator Jones, of Arkansas, after an i ineffectual meeting of the Democratic tariff conferees this morning, drove staighttothe White House and had over an hour's conference with Preis- , dent Cleveland. It is said he reported to the President that all movements looking to concession by the Senate to the House conferees had been blocked by the influence of Senator Gorman of Maryland, representing a groop of socalled conservative Senators. It is also said that Senator Jones informed the President that this announcement wo ilia probably De maae 10 tne nouse tomorrow, on the part of the House couferees, it being the intention of the | House conferees to let the country know where the responsibility for failure to agree rested. The House conferees had consultation this afternoon with Speaker Crisp ; before going to the full conference and they came away convinced that they were pursuing the right course in in- , sisting on the essential features of the House bill. Wilson, if his health enables him to stand the strain, wiil make a report to the House tomorrow when , the tariff bill comes back from the con- ' ference. Prenderjjast Hanged. Chicago, July 13.?Prendergas" was < hanged at 11:48 this morning. At 11:42 i a hush fell upon the throng In the corridor and far down the sombre halls i coum De neara me muraeu iramp ui i the funeral cortege. A few moments later Sheriff Gilbert and Jailer Morris 1 appeared at the right of the scaffold. The prisoner, pale and unsteady, walked behind them. He stood without ap- ] parent nervousness, though a trilie ] weak and unsteady as his arms were < being pinioned. He seemed deter- 1 mined to die game and looked calmly l out on the assembled crowd below him. A white shroud was next placed about s him, and barring a little restless mo- I tion of the eyes, looking down and from side to side, he made no motions. ] J ailer Morris now placed the rope about j his neck, the white cap over his head, and Prendergast, game to the last, had | taken his last look of earth. An in- ] sf.anf. lafpr at 11-48. he* shot downward. I his nead twisted to one side, his neck 1 having apparently tieen broken. Slowly swaying back and forth, he hung for ] a few moments while physicians held ] his wrists. A slight spasmodic move- ] ment of the legs was all the sign of life apparent within the loosely hanging j white robe. ! 1 y i A 9 . urnum wiscus. PISTOLS DRAWN AT THE EDGEFIELD CAMPAIGN MEETING. -> The Hnmbarp Affidavit Produced by Seaator Butlrr and Governor Tillman Introduces a Connter Affidavit? At One Time a Riot was In Sight. Edgefield, S. C., July 19.?The same Providence which has before prevented the shedding of blood at campaign meetings in this State interposed again today. With eyes glaring like tigers with hands on pistols and with open dirks and knives ready for deadly execution, it lacked only one overt act, only one blow, to have precipitated a battle which would have left a hundred dead and wounded men on the platform and grounds of Academy Grove. Innocent'women and children would have suffered and the consequences would uctve wcu uuinuiw. 1 have seen trouble in crowds before I have seen the eyes of men dance and the muscles quiver. I have seen the hand go to the pistol pocket, the glimmer of the bright weapon and the smoke clear away after the trigger was pulled, but I have never seen wilder or more ferocious expressions in the eyes of human beings than was exhib ited here today. I looked at any moment to see a shot fired and to see the fray commence. The scene of the trouble was on the speaker's stand. Right here it is well to remark that the lives of every public man are endangered by permitting anybody on the stand but those entitled to be there. With a packed stand and every man possessing a pistol few bullets will go astray. At the first iatimation of trouble desperate men crowd on the stand to be in the heat of-the fray. If everybody was forced to stay on the ground the danger would not be so great. In case of a row there would be room and opportunity for innocent people to get out of Vi o ttto tt uai ULL O TV CkJ The row occurred just before the closing of the meeting and during Senator Butler's speech. It was precipitated by the uncalled for remark of a man to Senator Butler. It would have come, however, with almost anything or any remark. It was in the air, and nothing was needed to cause the explosion. Senator Butler did not intend it, bui if he had not lost his temper to some extent the trouble might not have been so intense. The veteran of battles and bullets let passion get the better of him for a few minutes. He not only called a man a liar who had insulted him, but repeated it two or three times. He had become exasperated by the cheering for Tillman and was in a mood to vent his anaer on any man. The crowd numbered 1,200 people and was male up of the most peaceble and the most desperate men in Elgefield County. Governor Tillman had the majority of the crowd by several hundred, although Butler supporters were to be seen in all directions. As the interest to the public will centre in the speeches of the Senatorial candidates and in the trouble which was the outgrowth of those speeches, I will only give them. I will simply give the fact's and let the public make up its mind as it sees fit. During the speeches Governor Tillman sat toward the back of the stand, talking with friends and listening to the candidates. He has changed his white helmet to a dingy yellow one of the same style. Senator Butler sat near the front of the stand. He wore the old straw hat which has crowned his head from the first day at llock Hill until now. In his right hand he held the long walking cane which some friends gave him and which he cherishes. WILD OVER TILLMAN. Governor Tillman was greeted when he advanced to the front with a tumult of applause, wild cheering and a waving of hats. His partisans rose to their feet andiumDed in the air and yelled. I have known Governor Tillman for years and have reported many a speech of his, but I never saw a tear in his eye until today. It came when he opened his speech by saying tbat bis heart was Glled with gratitude to the people of Edgefield, to home people, those who had stood by him on every occasion. He talked of his previous campaigns and what he has done for the people. Voice: "IIow is it that taxes are higher ?" Tillman: "They are not and you know it." Governor Tillman said that the peonlo ara niviflort hilt. it. OT3S thrOUffh DO fault of his. He said that Butler now spoke of the antis and the uncles. He told how the uncles had been Imposed on for years until they rebelled. Butler is hustling to get the votes of the uncles, but will not get them. If ever a man tried to ride two horses my friend, the General, is that man. He has lost the love and respect of the men who supported Sheppard. but they aregoiugto support him because they hate me. One of the produest days of his life, Governor Tillmaa said, was when the Edgefield Rilles came to his assistance u ring: the Darlington trouble and were followed on the next train by the Edgefield Hussar3. Irrespective of political feeling, the men of Edgfield were soldiers. A literal volcano of applause followed the Governor's remarks on this subject. Mr. Tindal advises, said Governor Tillman, that the uncle3 allow the an tis to come back into the family. I don't object if they are penitent and honest, and if thev no longer claim to be the best people on earth." For God's 3ake let's have peace if these people really want it." The Governor turned his attention to national politics and said that a shaking up of the antis is needed in Washington. (Laughter and applause.) Taking a silver dollar from his pocket, Governor Tillman said: "The News and Courier and those other little lice does say this is a dishonest dollar." Toice: "Hand it over here; I will take it." About fifteen minutes was given to national affairs and Governor Tillman ended his speech by sayiua: to Butler: "I want to notify you that unless you withdraw your accusation that I ran at Hamburg I am prepared to prove that the men who make that charge are liars." The Governor said this in the most dramatic manner imaginable and set down amid a whirlwind of applause, and a waving of hats which was almost blinding. Senator Butler who was sitting in bis chair, turned to Tillman and handed him the certificate which appears rO riAmVi Am cioc nf Tillman told him to read it when his time came and he (TillmaD) would read the one he had. Four or five beautiful bouquets were tianded Governor Tillman. BUTLER'S INTRODUCTION". I3utler was received with strong applause. He said that there was appreaension all over the State that the men )f Edgefield would gettne devil in them today but he believed there would De good order. With pathos in his words, Butler said he was glad to see 30 many of the fair daughters of Edgeleld present. Butler made a fervent appeal for peace and for the cessation of bickering ma strire. General Butler said that he endorsed ;he noble sentiments of Mr. Tindal. Lie endorsed every word and believed :hat Tindal's advice could be accepted by every man of every faction. TUlman, Ger>eral Butler said, accused aim of ridding two horses. If he (Cutler) was any judge Tillman is riding four. Tillman; "But keeping in the midHe of the road." Butler: "Yes, but allow yourself *9 S* * i % p1t-r\tly of margin on each side:'' "Bow much sugar has lie put in year gourd V" asked Butler of the audience. Voice: "IIow much have you put in there during eighleen years in the Senate?" (Counter cheers and applause.) Butler* "Just keep quiet now. I know I am bitting you in sore places but you must take it." Butler jumped on Tillman harder than he lias tor davs and accused him of being stingy and penurious. He charged Tillman with not paying his subscription to a Reform paper. The yells and applause for Tillman partially drowned Butler's voice and the noise was terriGc. When it was over Butler said that every time he hit Tillman the (governor's" supporters wince and try to drown out his voice by cheering. Butler said that he had been riding only one horse since 1870 and that horse was the deliverance of the people. lie told what he had done in 1876 and of his participation in the Hamburg riot. While speaking of the Hamburg riot Ii. Townes asked Bulter if his (Butler's) house bad not been burned by negroes because he took part in the rior"Yes," answed Butler. J. 0. Atkinson, a Tillmanite, who was standing on the stand to the right of Butler, said: 'Yes, but you denied it in Washington." Butler turned like a panther and quck as lightening said: 'That is a lie; an infernal lie." If he had stopped at this there might not have been any trouble at that time, but he repeated what he said two or three times. Men began to surge toward the stand while Butler continued his denunciation. In an instant Charles Hammond jumped upon the stand, followed by H. H. Townes, each with his hand resting on the butt of a pistol in his hip pocket. It was then that the desperate men of uutu aiucs j uuijjsu ujjuu uic ab?uu auu those cf less courage moved off. Hammond and Townes got behind Butler, and Tillman's friends crowded around him. The antagonists began to glare at each other arid to talk in strong language to each other. Pistols were changed from one pocket another to be convenient for quick use. It was a squally time. The excitement is beyond discriptioa. Atkinson did not move one inch from where he had been standing. He was surrounded by excited men. General Butler quickly removed his wits and worked masterfully to cbeck the riot which seemed imminant. Tillman aid likewise. Each appeared to men of both sides to stop jowering. They begged those trying to get on the stand to stay off and those who were al ready on to get off. Among some of the men toying with their pistols were several known to have been in thrilling affrays and noted for coolness. The uproar continued for what appeared to be tin minutes- During this time the hundreds of men who had remained on the stand had got sen ready for action. I know it to a feet that almost every man had singled out a target for , his minf a r? /J -w"? r>t? a! tt rt rrfrt ( f f k a PA3LU dUU JJ-LCICIJ OWdiCCU LUC BlgUOl to turn loose. The excitement gradually subsided, but was really opposed. Butler resumed his speech to try to get the addience back in its former disposition. He gradually gre * salty again and there was another outbreak of eheering for Tillman. Butler got mad again and said there was an attempt tp drown his voice with their braying. "Any common jackass," he said vehemently, "may bray, but I do not propose to be stopped in free speech by a lot af blatant jackasses. I can not bef frightened. 1 have seen too m ueh o real danger to be mtimidated. "Governor Tillman says I am not in this race. He says he will beat me. I say if he will leave out his rings and give me a separate box I will beat him three to one in Meriwether township, where both of us live." Butler charged Tillman with being a ring and caucus man and said it was charged that there is a ring controlling the Gubernatorial race. Tillman, he said, has not dsnied this charge. Turning to Tillman Bntler exclaimed "I dare you?I dare you, sir, to give me a primary. You will never do it because you are afraid. Even ring won't save you." Butler attacked Tillman for his denun Nation of Cleveland. Butler took from his pocket the certificate relating to Tillman at Hamburg. He said that he had not considered it a matter of much importance and had not intended to refer to it again, but as Tillman had demanded it he would give it. The certificate is as follows* THAT CEHTIFICATE. "This is to certify that at Hamberg, July, 187G, we, the undersigned, were present and that Mr. B. R. Tillman was not seen by aay one of us when the firing began. That we were in the thickest of it from start to fmish, and fkona ma oTinnIhOTTO 1L LIU uau UCCLl CUCJLO TV C DUUU1U. uaiu seen him, and certainly did not after the firing began. (Signed; W. H. Hammond. T. P. Hammond, L. V. Storm, H. D. Storm, JohnM. Hightower, G. W. Walker, Jos. JB. McKie, John A. Bntler." The reading of the certificate finished Butler sat down. The Governor waited a few seconds and walked to the front. His eyes were flashing. He read the followiog certificate refuting the charges of the others: "South Carolina?Aiken County. "lo all concerned: This is to certify that on the night of the Hamburg riot, in 1876, we, the undersigned, were in the town of Hamburg from the beginning to the ending cf said riot, and that we know of our own knowledge that B. 11. Tillman stayed in said town and did his whole duty until the ending of the said riot. (Signed) "Henry Gitzen, L. W. Reese, J. O: Holder, W. H. H. Butler. J. C. Hammond, P. O. Thurmon, L. D Reese, G. W. Medlock. J. F. Atkins, S. B. Mays, T. A. Hays, J. A. Timnierman, S. W. Miller, W. F. Roper, J. CLanham, J. A. White, T. N. Timmer. man, W. F. Dobey." (Some of these men are Butlerites.) As the Governor read each name he asked the signers if they were not with him and they answered in the affirmative. Another row was expected at any rniuuuj auriug tuts re&uiug ui iuo certificate, but it did not materialize. A large number of men who had not signed the certificate shouted to Tillman: "Yea, you were there. We wf-re with you and saw you." The Hamburg riot incident was wound up by the following from Gov. Tillman: "If any man doubts that (referring to the certificate) let him meet me on the public square." While Tillman was reading, ten or fifteen of onwAnn/iflH V?im A TITVIfT?1 - 11 aO X1JLC-UUO omiuuuutu uuii, U.A. "Uii* wind of applause followed him and a hundred of his adjuirers warmly shook his hand. Hlown to Atom*. Portsmouth, Eag., July 19.?A terrible accident, resulting in the death of , seven men, occurred here this morning. , A Trinity house boat, having a crew of seven train wreckers on board, were engaged in blowing up the wreck of j Yatch Ilsalia, in Salent, as the wreck was dangerous to navigation. In some annmer, which will never be known, a dynamite cartridge exploded,and killed seven men, and shattering the boat. \ Small Eortnna . Montgomery, Ala., July 19.?In : digging a mess of patatoes from his I truck patch, J. 1'. Iteausu, a DeKalb J county farmer, t'oun 1 a small fortune, j Instead of turning over with his spade a handful oi potatoes, he turned up ' S3.000 in gold and siiver. The dates 1 on the pieces indicated the treasure ] must have been buried about the com-1 j mencemeot of the civil war. ' \ K \ THF BOND Q'J^S'ON. Cove-OT Tolin*u'4 Kepiy to Se??'or RaU^rN Chores Walterp.orro. S. C., July 13.?OrOV. Tillman at the meeting here today replied to the questions asked by Senator Antler at Charleston about the State debt. He prefaced his speech by say lng that Butler had pranced forward at Charleston, telling those people "how he loved them, and warned the Colleton people not to be fed out of Butler's spoon, but to spii it out, as it had Ilaskellite quinine in it. Butler out the questions in a decent way, and he congratulated him on the improvement- in his manners since the Chester meeting. He had put his fuse to his little bomb and nothing but Gzzle resulted. Replying to the question he said. "I have never hesitated or expected to find fault with any criticism of requests for information concerning* any official act of mine, and 1 will cheerfully make such reply to Gen. Butler's questions as I can, away from the official documents in Columbia. First, as to the $6,03065 charged in the treasurer's books to the redemption of Brown consols expenses, tne larger puruon ui luis was paid for the engraving and printing of the bonds themselves. The balance was the expenses incurred by Dr. Bates and myself, when we went to New York for two weeks, begging up and down "Wall street and every item, with vouchers, can be had in the treasurer's office. This is what was spent of the 88.000. To the second question, how mucn of the funds of the sinking fund commission were expended, and for what. I answer, not one cent. Third, who received the $124,101,05? This should be $118,12?, the 214 per cent, semi-annual interest on the new bonds. I answer that I do not know. We did not, as everybody knows, fund tne bonds in New York, because we were antagonized by the Charleston banks, and the feeling there appeared to be for a gold bond, which we were not authorized to issue, acd which I was unwilling to have the State issue. After our failure to do anything: in New York, we authorized Mr. Rhind to negotiate the loan of ?5,225,000 of 4 1-2 per cent, bonds at par, and expressly informed him that if he could sell them so as to get any commission it would be all right, but that the State would not pay him one cent. So far as Mr. Rhino's financial standing was concerned it did not concern us. We were dealing with him as a broker who apseared to know his business, and who had discretion and judgmentt His associates in the work with the syndicate, and who got part of whatever commission he received, were Messrs. Lancaster and Williams, of Richmond. I say this, however: That Lancaster, Williams, Rhind, or any other man, lias ever paid one cent, of his commission to anybody in.South Carolina that I know of, and I defy anybody on earth, under the ? *- V AMn earui, or auywuere tise, tu uaue aujr ml this mony to South Carolina, or say that Bates or I got one dollar of it. A. Voice?Are you a Populist or Democrat? The Governor?1 am a white man and a Democrat, but you are a white man with a black heart. (Laughter.) 1 wish you people had been at Charleston last night, and seenjme spit fire at those hounds, Chico and Cantini and Nolte. The present aristocracy of Charleston were out with their underlines, but I salted them down good. Voice?What about the dispensary shortage? The Governor?I told Gen. Butter he could examine the bjoks if he was honest in that matter, and we will send you along to wash the spittoon. (Laughter.) In regard to Gen. Butler's statement that the times were favorable to funding the delt, and that Georgia funded hers at 3 per cent., I say that, while the candidates for Governor and others who had been members of the Reform party, boasted of the refunding of the debt at a reduced interest as an achievement worthy of praise, I have never opened my mouth about it. I know how difficult the operation was, and how uneasy Dr. Bates and myselef were lest the scheme should faii through. In aarlxr in .Tiino the nonrnns strain on Dr. Bates was so great that he left me the whole burden to bear, and went to the springs, being completely prostrated. During the time he was absent the stringency in the money markets and the impossibility of obtaining currency was so great that the last week in J one money on call in New York commanded 60 per cent, interest, and but'for the fact that we had a bonus of S150..000 as a forfeit should the Baltimore Trust Company f *il to take the bonds, and but for the furtner fact that 1 assumed the responsibility of ship ping the bonds C. 0. D. by express, so that they could b9 deposited a3 collateral upon which to borrow the money to pay for them; there would have been a failure to complete the transaction. Gen. Butler's lamentable igaorance of the financial condition unier which th$ transaction was completed shows that he isn't even fit to go to the L egislature. Georgia's State debt is much smaller than ours, she is twice as large and her assessed value is over ?425,000,000, while South Carolina is assessed at S170,000,000; Georgia h?s a white majority ensuring a continuation of good government,while we* have 40,000 negro votes in excess of the whites. This means that under certain conditions which have at times appeared imminent there might be a struggle between the white factions which * ould make the negro vote the arbiter that would inevitably bring a return of the condition of affairs which caused John Patterson to say there were five more years of good stealing in South Carolina. Georgia owns the Western and Atlantic railroad worth SO,000,000,and which rents for $460,000, an asset nearly r> n hi I /> HoVif on fhof UUUUiC \ivwu wv uuuv any comparison of the financial standing and credit of the two States is simply farcical. I say it in no boasting spirit that we consummated the finest financial deal ever made by a "farmer and a clodhopper"?Dr. Bates and your farmer Governor?in reducing the annual charge by $80,000 and every man of any character or honesty in the State whose heart is not gangrened with political venom gives us credit for it. As to the veiled charge or insinuation that I received any of the commission, 1 denounce as a malicious slander and I can only say that those who are ready to make the charge only display the corrnntinn of their hearts and. confess indirectly what they would have done had they been entrusted with this important and delicate matter. F art her, John C. Haskell is on record in a speech before the Legislature as not believing South Carolina coald iloat a four per cent bond and he had introduced in the General Assembly which authorized the issue of the ?y2 per cent bonds, a joint resolution continning the interest on the State debt at 6 per cent, for three years. The only offer we ever received from Charleston , for any bands at all was made by Mr. Pringle who offered 97 per cent, for ' 8250,000. If Col. Ilaskell's proposition had received the endorsement of the Legislature it would have been a confession that the State was unable to refund her debt, while the interest for ( ho thrda Tjosra wnillri have ATI 1 a burden on the taxpayers of S23C.000, twice the commission which we paid, and then there would have been no guarantee that the debt could have been refunded at 4 1-2 or 4 per cent, without paying just as much commission as we paid. Such large blocks of bonds can't be handled in any but strong houses and such men do not work for uothing. 1 happen to know, having received the information from a banker in Baltimore, that many of the weaker ' \ .1 members of tja:e syndicate lost money by rearm of ttye enormous interest tbey had to pay/ for the currency to meet their obligations and take the bonds on time. .* ^ Trie Governor declared that there was >i rifcg forming in Colleton coonty & to sen6 some feliow to Congress and ttie people must see fctiai, no was uot one o* Cleveland's Nne-too's." If there was a reform ring iri\South Carolina be "must be in it for h? was toe centre of the clock, the lynch'Wn upon which the hands of reform havarevolved for four years and the peojtfe were the balance of the ring. ^ \ ?1 Itfastcftl Rome* ?re Have you ever noticed it?^ mind the homes of your friends^ra^ have a good Piano or Organ inth^^ ^^^ house. 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