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A GREAT SACRIFICE, j REV. DR. TALLAGE ILLUSTRATES THE j ATnvtrMTNjT t ^ ' v" [ He Explain* the Theory of Vicarious Sac- i riGce?The Blood of Christ?of Seo- J stitutioc?X>ife ior Life?Frcquince of j | Sn IToriu g tor Otiisi*. WASEixGTONa March 21.?From many conditions of life Dr Taimage, in this sermon, draws graphic illustra- J tions of one of the subline est theories j of religion?namely, vicarious sacri- j FTis text was Hebrews ix, 22, ! "Without shedding of blood is no re- j mission." John G-. Whittier, the last of the great school of American poets that made the last quarter of a century brilliant, asked rue in the White mountains, one morning, in which I had given out Cowper's famous hymn about the "fountain filled with blood," "Do you really believe there is a literal application of the blood of Christ to the soul?" ily negative reply then J is my negative reply now. 1'iie JtsiDie j statement agrees with all physicians, I and all physiologists, and ail scientists. I in saying that the blood is the life, and in the Christian religion it means simply that Christ's life was given for our life. Hence all this talk of men who say the Bible story of blcod is disgusting and they don't want what they call a "slaughter house religion" only shows their incapacity or unwillingness to look through tne figure of speech to war a xae uuajc sigmaiu. The blood that 011 the darkest Friday the world ever saw, oozed or trickled or poured from the brow, and the side, and the hands and the feet of the illustrious sufferer, back of Jerusalem, in a few hours coagulated and dried up and forever disappeared. ^ and if man had depended on the application of the literal blood of Christ there "would rot have been a soul saved for the last IS centuries. T- -3 -L- j U,.-r! in oruer 10 uaucrsw u-a uiuitu . of my text we only have to exercise as ! much, common sense in religion as we i do in everything else. Pang for pang, j hunger for hunger, fatigue for fatigue, tear for tear, blocd for blood, life for I life, we see every day illustrated. The act of substitution is no novelty, although I hear men talk as though the idea of Christ's suffering substituted for our suffering were something ab normal, something distressingly oaa, i something -wildly eccentric, a solitary episode in the world's history, when I could take you out into this city, and before sundown point you to 500 cases i of substitution and voluntary suffering j of one in behalf of another. A 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon go j among the places of business and toil, j It will be no difficult thing for ycu to ! find men who, by their looks, show ] you that they are overworked. They j are prematurely old. They ar'j hastening rapidly toward their decease, j They have gone through crises in business that scattered th^nervous system and pulled ontVie brain. They have a shortness of/breath and a pain j in the back of the head, and at night an insomnia that alarms them. Why are they dredging at business early and late? S"or fun ? No; it would be difficult to extract any amusement out of that exhaustion. Because they are avaricious? In many cases no. Be cause tneir.own personal expenses are lstVish? No; a few hundred dollars .'"would meet all their wants. The sim pie fact is the man is enduring an mat j fatigue and exasperation and wear and j tear to keep his home prosperous. | There is an invisible line reaching j Z' from that store, from that bank, from that shop, from that scaffolding, to a quiet scene a few blocks away, a few miles away, and there is the secret of that business endurance. Ke is simply the champion of a homestead, for which he wins bread and wardrobe and education and prosperity, and in such battle 10,000 men fall. 0? ten business men whom I bury, nine die of overwork for others. Some sudden disease finds them with no power of resistence, and they are gone. Life for life-, blood for blood.- Substitution! ?XL J. V CilfSiX UUJ-L1VJ. J.UVY kaj.^ hour when slumber is most uninterrupted and most profound, walk amid the dwelling houses of the city. Here and there you will find a dim light because it is the household custom to keep a subdued light burning, but most of the houses from base to top are as dark as though uninhabited. A merciful God has sent forth the archangel of sleep, and he puts his wings over the city. But yonder is a clear light; burning, and outside on the window casement is a glass or pitcher containing food for a sick child. The food is set in the fresh air. This is the sixth night that mother has sat up i with that sufferer. She has to the last | point obeyed the physician's prescription, not giving a drop too much or <1 -mnmonf fcnnr> ot> ton fcV/V .Ubb.IV) \s+. ? -ULbvv ~ j late. She is very anxious, for she has \ buried three children with the same j disease, and she prays and weeps, each i prayer and sob ending with a kiss of! the pale cheek. By dint of kindness [ she gets the little one through the ordeai. After it is all over the mother j is taken down. Brain cr nervous fever sets in, and one day she leaves the con-? valescent child with a mother's blessing and goes up to join the three in the kingdom of heaven. Life for life. Substitution! The fact is that there are an uncounted number of mothers who, after they have navigated a large family of children through all the diseases" of infancy and got them fairly started up the flowering | slope of boyhood and girlhood, have j only strength, enough left to die. j They fade away. Some call it con- j sumption, some call it nervous prostration, some call it intermittent or [ malarial indisposition, but I call it ] martyrdom of the domestic circle. { Life for life. Blood for blocd. Sub-1 stitution! Or perhaps the mother lingers long i enough to see a son get on the wrong { j ' L:. f i_: 3 T ( roau, anaxus ;ormer Kiiiuiiess vtwiucs j rough, reply when she expresses anxie-1 ty about him. But she gees right oil, I looking carefully after his apparel, re- j membering his every birthday with j some memento, and, when he is j brought home, worn out with dissipa- j tion, nurses him till he gets weil and i starts him again and hopes and expects and prays and counsels and suffers until her strength gives out and ? she falls. She is ?-oin?. ana atten- i dants, bending over her pillow, ask j her if she iias any message to leave, j and she makes great effort to say some- S thing, but out of three or four minutes j of indistinct utterance they can catch | but three vrords, "My poor boy:" The simple fact is she died for him. j T tam lira Ar? * 1 it 1 O J.VJX . About otj years ago there went forth from our northern and southern homes hundreds of thousands of men to do battle for their country. Ail the poetry of war soon vanished and left them nothing but the terrible prose. They waded knee deep in mud; they slept in snowbanks: they marched till their cut feet tracked the earth; they were swindled out oi tneir nones: rn- j tions and lived on meat no: Si for a j dog; they had jaws all fractured, and I eyes extinguished, and limbs shot j away. Thousands of ihem cried for j water as ihey lav dying on the field j the night after the battle and got it j not. They were homesick and re-1 csived r<-t message from their loved f ones- They died in bares, in bushes, j in ditches, the buzzards of the summer j uao* tho /snixr nt? on their 1 obsequies. No one but tbe infinite ' God, who knows everything, knows I the ten-thousandth part of the length j and breadth and depth and height of i the anpnish o! the northern and south- | era battle fields. Why did these :a- i thers leave their children and go to ! the front, and why did these young men, postponing the marriage day, start out into the probabilities of never j coming back? 'For the country they died. Life for li.e. Blood for bloctl. Substitution! But we need not go so far. What is that monument in Greenwood! It is to the doctors who who fell in the southern epidemics. Why go: Were there not enough sick to be attended in these northern latitudes? Oh, yes! Bui the doctor puts a few medical books in. his valise as d some vials of medicine afnd leaves his patients here ia the hands of other physicians and takes the rail train. Before he gets to liie infectec- regions! he passes crowded rail trains, regular and extra, taking the Hying and affrighted populations. He arrives na city over wnicha great horror is brooding. He goes from couch to couch, feeling of the pulse . i ; 3 ana m.vjlauu ing day after day, night after night, until a fellow physician says: "i)cctor, you" had better go home and rest. You look inferable." Bat he cannot rest while so many sr3 suffering. On and on, until some morning finds him in a delirium, in which he talks of home, and then rises and says he must go and look after those patients. He is told to lie down, but he fights his at** uants until he falls back and is weaker and weaker and dies fcr people with whom he had no kindship, and far away from his own family, and is hastily put away in a stranger's tomb, and only the fifth part of a newspaper iine tens us has his name just mentioned amon?; fiveYet he has touched the farthest height of sublimity in that three weeks of humanitarian service. He goes straight as an arrow to the bosom of him who j said, "I vras sick, and ye visited me." Life for life. Blocd for blood. Substitution. In the legal profession I sse the same principle of self sacrifice. In ISio William Freeman, a pauperized and idiotic negro, was at Auburn, N. j; Y., on trial for murder. He had slain the entira Van Nest j family. The foaming wrath of the j community could be kept off him j hv ampf! constables. Who I would volunteer to be his counsel? Xo attorney wanted to sacrifice his popularity by such an ungrateful task. All were silent, save one, a young lawyer with feeble voice, that could hardly be heard outside the bar, pale and thin and awkward. It was William H. Seward, who saw that the prisoner was idiotic and irresponsible and ought :o be put in an asylum rather than put to deaih, the heroic cDiinsel utterine these beautiful words: "I speak now m the hearing of a! people who have prejudged the nri- j soner and condemned me for pleading ( in his behalf. He is a convict, a pau- j per, a negro, without intellect, sense or emotion. .My child, with an affectionate smile, disarms my careworn face of its frown whenever I cross my threshold The beggar in the street obliges me to give because he says, 'Grod bless you!' as I pass. My dog caresses me with fondness if I will but I smile on him. My horse recognizes j me when I fill his manger. What re- j ward, what gratitude, what sympathy j and affection can I expect here?} There the prisoner sits. Look at him. ! Look at the assemblage around you. j T.icfon +/y their ill sninnrpssed censures I and their excited fears and tell me | where among my neighbors or my fellow men, where, even in his heart, I can expect to find a sentiment, a | thought, not to say of reward or of acknowledgment, or even of recognition ! Gentlemen, you may think of this evidencs what you please, bring in what verdict you can, but I asseverate before heaven and you that to the best of my knowledge and belief, the prisoner at the bar does rot at this moment know why it is that my shadow falls on you instead of his own." The gallows got its victim, but the pest mortem examination of the poor +/-v oil orvcDrknc CrCctbLAl C iiiU VV Cwi. L\J Ct-LJ. O ^WVAiu and to all the world that the public vras wrong, that William H. Seward was right, and that hard, stony step of obloquy in the Auburn courtroom was the first stepjof the stairs or fame up which he went to the top, or to within one step of the top, that last denied him through the treachery of American politics. Nothing sublimer was ever seen in an American courtroom than "VV illiam H. Seward, without reward, standing between the fury of the populace and the loathsome imbecile. Substitution! fino fViP>*o> txtoc XIX ivu: . 11 W L A-U.V UA ^ vuv^v ' as remarkable an instance. A brilliant but hypercriticised painter, Joseph William Turner, was met by a ! volley of abuse from all the art galleries of Europe. His paintings, which have since won the aoplause of all civilized nations?'"The Fifth Plague of Egypt," "Fishermen on a Lee Shore In Squally Weather," "Calais Pier," "Trie Sun Rising Through Mist" and "Dido Building Carthage" ?were then targets for critics to shoot at. In defense of this outrageously abused man, a young author of 24 years, just one year cut.of college, came forth with his pen and wrote the ablest and most famous essays on art that the world ever saw, or ever wiii see?John Raskin's ''ilodern Painters/' For 17 years this author fought the battles of the maltreated artist, and after, in poverty and broken hearted ness the painter had died, and the public tried to undo their cruelties toward him by giving him a big funeral and burial in St. Paul's cathedral. his old time friend took out of a tin bcs 19,000 pieces of paper containing drawings by the old painter, and through many weary and uncompensated months assorted and arranged tiiem for public observation. People say John Buskin in his old days is cross, misanthropic and morbid, j Whatever he may do that he ought! not to do, and whatever he may say j between now and his death, he will leave .this world insolvent as far as it has any capacity to pay this author's | pen for its chivairic and Christian de-1 fense of a poor painter's pencil. John j Kuskin for William Turner. BiOOd for blocd. Substitution! "What an exalting principle this which leads one to suffer for another! Nothing so kindles enthusiasm, or awakens eloquence, or chimes poetic canto, or moves nations. The pricci-J pie is the dominant one in our religion ?Christ the martyr, Christ the celestial hero, Chris: the defender, Christ the substitute. No new principle, for it was as old as human nature, but novr on a grander, wider, higher, deeper and more world resounding scale. The shepherd boy as a champion for Israel with a sling toppled the giant of Philistine braggadocio in the dust, but here is another David, who, for all the armies of churches militant and triumphant, hurls the Goliath of perdition into defeat, the crash of his brazen armor like an ex-1 nlosion at Hell Gate. Abraham had aT God's command agreed to sacrifice j his son Isaac, and the same God iust I in time had provided a ram of the j thicket as a substitute, but here is an-1 other Isaac bound to the altar, and j no band to arrest the sharp edges cf laceration and death, and the universe j shivers and cuakes and recoils and | groans at '.be horror. All 2ccd men have for centuries j been trying to tell who this substitute j was like, and every comparison, in- j spired and uninspired, evangelistic, o riAct r*Kr? o nV? 17 rr"> ?5 r> "folic I y- w/Ctwvo^yuv UwM I short, for Christ was the Great Unl;ke. j Adam a type of Christ because he j came directly from God, Noah a type j of Christ because he deliverad his own ! family from the deluge, Melchisedec j a type of Christ because he had no j predecessor or successor, Joseph a i type of Christ because he was cast out | by his brethren, Moses a type of i Christ because he was a deliverer frora bondage, Samson a type of Christ because of his strength to slay the lions and carry off the iron gates of irnposibiiity, Soiomon a type of Christ in the alliuence of his dominion, Jonah a type of Christ because of the stormy sea in "which he threw himself for the res- j cue of others, hut put together Adam j and Noah an Meichisdtc and Joseph and Moses ar d Joshua and Samson and j Solomon and Jonah, and tbey would j make a frasment of a Christ, a quarter of a Christ, the half of a Christ or the millionth part ol a Christ. He forsook a throne and sat down on his own footstool. He came from the top of glory to the bottom of humiliation and changed a circumference ! seraphic for a circumference diabolic. Ooce waited on by angels, now hissed at by brigands. From afar and high up he came down; past meteors] swifter than they; by starry thrones, j himself more lustrous; past Jarger worlds to smaller worlds; down stairs of firmaments, and from cloud to cloud, and through tree tops and into camel*stall, to thrust his shoulder under our burdens and take the lane- j es of pain through his vitals, and wrapped himself in all the agonies which we deserve for our misdoings, | and stood on the splitting decks ofaj foundering vessel amid drenching j surf of the sea, and passed midnights on the mountains amid wild beasts of prey, and stood at the point where all ^ v?/3 /?li o I cariuuj auuimc~.Liai uuobii^o onai^cu j on him at one 3 with tiisir ksea sabers ?our substitute! When did attorney ever endure so much for a pauper client, or physician for the patient in the lazaretto, or or mother for the child in membranous croup, as Christ for us, as Christ for you, as Christ for me? Shall any man or woman or child ia this audience who has ever suffered for another find it hard to understand this Christly suffering for us? Shall those whose sympathies have been wrung in behalf of the unfortunate have no appreciation of that one moment which was lifted out of all ages of eternity as most conspicuous when Christ gathered up all the sins of those to be redeemed under his one arm and all his sorrows under his other 1 arm and said: "i will atone tor these under my right arm ana will heal all j those under my left arm. Strike me j with all thy glittering shafts, 0 eternal justice! Roil over me with all thy surges, ye oceans of sorrow!1' And the thunderooils struck him from above, and the seas of trouble rolled up from beneath, hurricane after hurricane, and cyclone after cyclone, and then and there in the presence of heaven and earth and hell?yea, all worlds witnessing?the price, the bitter nriee. the transcendent t>rice. the awful price, the glorious price, the infinite price, the eternal price, was paid that sets us free. That is what Paul means, that is what I mean, that is what all those who have ever had their heart changed mean by "blood." I glory in this religion of blood. I am thrilled as I see the suggestive color in sacramental cup, whether it be of burnished silver set on cloth immaculately whit6 or rough hewn from wood set on table in log hut meeting house of the wilderness. Now I am thrilled as I see the altars of ancient sacrifice crimson with the blood of the slain lamb, and Leviticus is to me not so much the Old Testament as the New. New I see why the destroying angel, pass j ing over Egypt in the night, spared j all those houses that had blood sprinkled on their doorposts. Now I know what Isaiah means when he speaks of "cue in red apnarel coming with dyed garments from Bosrah," and whom the Apocalypse means when it descrbes a heavenly chieftain whose "vesturs was dipped in blood," and what Peter, the apostle, means when he speaks of the "precious blood that cleanseth from all sin," and what the old, worn out, decrepit missionary Paul means when, in my text, he cries, "Without shedding of blood is no remission." By that blood you and I will be saved or never saved at all. Glory be to God that the hill back of Jerusalem was the battlefield on which Christ achieved our liberty. The most exciting and overpowering day of one summer was the day I r.v> fna /\f \A/oI O^S^JJLb VSJ-L v-/A. TV u?v/iiwy, j Starting out with the morning; train from Brussels, we arrived in about an hour on that famous spot. A son of one who was in the battle, 2nd who had heard from his father a thousand times the whole scene recited, accompanied us over the field. There stood the old Hougomont chateau, the walls dsnted and scratched and broken and shattered by grape^hot and cannon ball. There is the well in which 300 dying and dead were pitched. There, is the chapsi, with tne head of the infant Christ shot off. There are the gates at which for many hours English and French armies wrestled. Yonder were the 160 guns of the English and the 250 guns of the French. Yonder the Hanoverian hussars fled for the woods. Yonder was the ravine of Ohain, where the French cavalry, not knowing there was a hollow in the ground, rolled over and down, troop after troop, tumbling into one awful mass of suffering, hoof of kicking horses against brow &.nd breast of captains and colonels ana private soldiers, the human and the beastly eroan kept up until the dav after, ail was shoveled under because of the malodcr arising in that hot month of June. "There," said our guide, "the highland regiments lay down on their faces waiting for t he moment to soring upon the foe. Ia that orchard 2,500 men were cut to pieces. Here stood j u *? 3 r vv exiiugtuu wxou wmtc liui, auu up i that knoll rode Marshal Ney on his : sixth hcres, live having been shot under him. Here the ranks of the French broke, and Marshal Xey, with his boot slashed of a sword, and his hat off, his face covered with powder and blood, tried to rally his troops as he cried. 'Come and see how a marshal of France dies on a battlefield!' From yonder direction Grouchy was expected for the French re enforcement, but he came not. Around those woods Blucher was looked for to reenforce the English, and just in time he came up. Yonder is the held where Xaooleon stood, his arm through the rciJLLo sji wiic u'Jicu a yi uacu auu. 1 insaane, ; ji&g to go back." Scene j from a battle that vrent on from 25 [ minutes to 12 o'clock, on the 18th of Jane, until 4 o'clock, -^hen the Eng-; lisk seemed defeated and their commander cried oat: "Boys, can you think of giving Tray ? Remember old England!" and the tide turned, and at 8 o'clock in the Evening the man of | destiny, vrho vras called by his troops f. Old Two Hundred Thousand, turned away with. broken heart., and the fate of centuries was decide::. Xo wonder & great mound has been reared there, hundreds of feet high?a mound at the expense of millions of dollars and many years in rising? and on the top is the great Belgian lion of bronze, and a s;rand old lion it is. But our great Waterloo was in Palestine. There came z. day when all i > t v i ..-n _ J neii rcae up, iea oy .ii-poiiyon, anu the captain of our salvation coil 'routed them. The rider on the -white horse of the Apocalypse going out against the black hor:;e cavalry of death, and the battalions of the demoniac, and the myrmidons of darkness. From 12 o'clock at nccn to 3 o'clock in the afternoon the greatest battle of the universe went on. Eternal destinies were being decided. All the arrows of hell pierced our chieftain, and the battleaxes struck him, until brow and cheek and shoulder and hand and foot were incarnadined with oozing life, but he fought on until he gave a anai siroKe, anu wc <;utuujiiuuer :u chief of hell and all his forces fell back in everlasting rain, and the victory is ours. And on the mound that celebrates the triumoh we plant this day two figures not in bronze or iron or sculptured marble, tut two figures of living: light, the lion of Judah's tribe, and the lamb that was slain. AN A ft MY Or EMFLOYES. The Uaited States Haa a Mammoth Pay Roll to Foo;. Tne civii service commission nas prepared a report, winch has been presented to Congress, ?,nd will be issued in a few dajs, showing that there are 173,717 people in the employ of Uncle Samuel, not including those in the military and naval service, and that tbey receive as compensation for their services annually the enormous sum of $99,5S9,S27. Of the total number of persons employed in the civii service* 91,609 are unclassified and are not subject to examinations for appointment. The total number in the sArtfic.e. whn rannnt nft dis charged without good cause and cannot be appointed without competitive examination, S7,10S. Of the classified service 4,120 are examining surgeons for pensions. Tne remainder are divided by salaries as follows: $720 or less . . 19,745 $SiO or less . S,6i7 $900 or iess . . 1,666 $1,000 or less .....10,605 $1,200 or less...................18,179 $1,400 or less 6,770 ?1,600 or less................... 4,701 $1,800 or less...... 4,701 $2,000 or less... 1,570 z-n rrtfi 1 1 1 '31 Ui ?? ??% ?! J-jAO-fc. More than $2,500 1... 510 The unclassified service consists of 65,725 fourth-class postmasters, 8,850 laborers, 5,570 persons whose salaries average less than $300 annually, 4,230 clerks in second, third and fourth-class posto??c;s, 2,061 Indians and 4,818 persons whose appointments are confirmed by the Senate. In addition to these are private secretaries and confidential clerks, cishiers in customs and postofnces, deputy collectors of customs and internal revenue, deputy postmasters,!marshals, attorneys and assistant attorneys, employes in the quartermaster's department of the army, custodians of military reservations, clerks in Congress in the liberality of Congress, commissioners of various tnrtri.c snpm'al scpnt.s. sunerin tenaents of national cemeteries, etc., amounting in all to about 700. The following table shows the di vision of the employes of the government unde:* the various departments, and the total compensation paid to each department: Executive office, 21, $35,200, Civil service commission, 62, $19,340. State Department, 122, $144.SS0. Treasury Department, 15,163, $11,971,227. War Department, 14,967, $9,951, 699.62. Department of justice, 704, $1,344,Postoifiee Department, S,465, $S,826.453.3S Navy Department, 1,252, $1,322,399.53. Positions registered under navy department regulations, 5,063, $3,835,754.5S. Interior Department, 9,713, $S,0S4,* 497.07. Pension examining surgeons, 4,120, $63S,600. Department of agriculture, 2,241, i SI 713 nfi5 70. Department of labaor, 95, $127,320. Commission of fish and fisheries, 1S3, $180,440. Interstate commerce commission. 142 $195,020. Smithsonian Institution, 292, $243,715.13. Library of Congress, 39, $51,720. Superintendent State, War and Navy building, 25, $24,920. Postoffice servicj, 104,811, $35,665,025.10. Government printing servica. 2,852, $2,509,S30.97. Custom house service, 5,103, $6,333,027.36. Internal revenue service, 3,2S1, $3,29S.266.81. Total executive civil service United States, 178,717, $99,589,827 23. Young Karmon Pardoned. COLiTiiBiA, March 22.?Governor Ellerbe to day granted a full pardon to young A. M. Harmon of Lexington who last summer shot young Cal Caughman to death at Lexington for cpdurvincr >175 sister. The trial created great public interest and public opinion "was very much divided as to the justification of the killing. Harmon who is the son of the proprietor of the Lexington Dispatch was tried at the fall term of court, but despite the efforts of eminent counsel he was con victea and recommended to the mercy of the court. He was sentenced by Judge Buchanan to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. An appeal was taken to the supreme court which is still pending. Governor Elierbe bases tUe pardon on netitions, signed by the majority of the people of the coun"* ? ? 'i * ?- J-? _ i? ~ ly endorsed oy ine majority ox toe trial jurors and the trial judge. ScoveJ Reaches Jie-7 York. New York. March 23.?Sylvester Scovel, the newspaper correspondent who was imprisoned for 31 days at Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, arrived here today on board the Ward Lme steamer Seeeranca from Havana. Mr. Scovel was in the best of health and stated that a great deal of sympathy had been wasted on him, as he hs.d been treated YVIlxi wudiuciauuu auu jxxjuuness. The Spanish authorities did all they could to make him comfortable, and Consul General Lee and Consul Raphael iladrigal at Sancti Spiritus were untiring in their efforts to effect his release. He was released by direct order of General Weyler. Mr. Scovel was met at Quarantine by friends and taken to New York. It Is Said That of all the diseases that aSect mankind, diseases of the kidneys are the most dangerous ana fatal. If this j be so, hcv7 important it is that the j kidneys be kept in a healthy condition . The use of Hilton's Life for the Liver and Kidneys will do this. It is *he "ounce of prevention" in these troubles, IMMTTV nr VWV QT. A j\T j r AlifliU .L \Jr miju uju a. in. AFTER THE GHASTLY DEED, THE HOUrESET ON FIREA Mysterious Hurder ? A Neighbor Discov. | ers the ilre anil Goes to Only Find the Charred BocUes--5fo Clew Left. Nashville, March 24.?Particulars of what appears to have beec a horri- j ble and brutal inurder were received here from Paradise Ridge earl 7 this morning. Jacob Ade, one of the oldest and bust known farmers of the ridge settle neat, his wife, his daughter and son, and a little daughter of Henry Moirer were probably murder ed and their bodies cremated m Ade s house, which was burned to the ground. The theory of murder is strengthed by the fact that all of the bodies were "found in the same room, but. scattered around over the space occupied by this room. It was thought that the old man was killed for his money, as he was known to be wellto-do, and always kept a supply of money on hand, but whether this be true cannot be positively stated now, as the old man's money, or at least the ashes of what was once a. big roll or money, nas been discovered in me ruias of the house. The dead are: Jacob Ade, Mrs. Jacob Ade, Lizzie Ade, aged 20 > ears; Henry Ade, aged 13; Kosa Moirer, aged 20, Jacob Ade lived 15 miles from this city near the Cheatham county line. The house sits uack half a mile from what is known as the old Clarksville turnpike. It was a 1-story frame dwelling with five rooms?two rooms in front with a hallway between and three rooms running back forming an L. Old man Ade and his wife usuallv occupied the first room in the L just l U A -va /S ? 4 U n f UAAW1 /~W> ill tJJLC ICtiil \Jl Lilv i.'.UjUIj 1UUULI Ui pal" ior. There was only one bed in this room. It was in this room that all the bodies were found. The first indication of the tragedy was discovered at 10 o'clock last night by Justic3 Simpson, who lives half a mile from the Ade place. There was a sick man at Mr. Simnson's house, arid about 10 o'clock Mr. Simpson went out to get some water for the man, when he saw that Ade's house was on fire. He at once rede over to the scene and found the house in TT t YI 1 n iv n A V.qov* QimVk X U1JUO. *- AJULUlug jaw UUU JLXUChk y KJkU^kjJ | soil's suspicions were aroused, and upon closer inspection lie saw the bodies of several people in the ruins. He went to work at once to rescue the bodies and succeeded in getting four of them out. These proved to be the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Ade, Miss Lizzie Ade and Miss Rosa Moirer. After this Mr. Simpson rode around notified a number of the neighbors, and in a short while quits a crowd collected j about the ruins. Henry Ade, the IB year old son of Mr. Ade, was also missingr, but his body could not be found. It was first thought that he had escaped to the woods, but a further search of the ruins of the house this morning disclosed his body. The bodies of Mr. j and Mrs. Ade, Miss Lizzie Ade and Henry Ade were burned to a J crisp. The head and limbs were were burned off, and in fact only a small mass of ilesh and bones remained. The old man and his wife were more horribly burned than the others, j The body of Kosa Moirer was not j burned so badly as the others. The i little girl's legs were burned off, one arm was raised ovar her head and the hand of this was gone. A. portion of her skull was missing, but the brain, which was exposed and the skin on her face was only partially burned. This fact gives further evidence in support of tiie theory of murder. Some of the people believe that possibly while tie other members of the family were being murdered this child escaped and was not killed until after the house had burned awhile, when the body was thrown into the fire. The fact that a part of the skull is gone and the rest of the head perfect with the skin of her face only badly burned, lends weight to the theory that she was knocked in the head, probably with an axe. One handless arm was raised over her head and it may b9 that in trying to protect herself she threw up her arm and the hand was cut off by the same blow which tore away a part of her skull. The blow paraljzsd her muscles and fh,a ftrrn remained in this r>rotectinsr ! position after death had ensued. The purpose of the murder was at first thought to be robbery, but if this be correct the murderer was ill paid for his horrible crime, in searching j the ruins of the house this morning, I an oyster can was found under the j place where a closet once stood in Mr. Ace's sleeping room. In this can the remains of what was evidently a large roll of money was found together with four silver dollars which had been melted so that they were sticking together. Mr. Ade s neighbors ?new \ that hp; Irpnt Wis monev in this closet. I He was in the city Monday. While j here he told Jerry Mf'thews that he had $2,000 and he did not know what 1 to do with it Mr. Matthews advised hiai to deposit it in the Fourth National bank. Mr. Ade did not say he 'noH mrvnev with him. Sheriff Sharp was notified of the crime early J :his morning ana he with several J deputies went to the scene and they are now working on the case. Disposing of the robbery theory, it is very hard to find a motive for the horrible crime, as Mr. Ade was a very j popular man and well liked by all his j neighbor:;. The only enmity which) might have existed between him and any of the people living in that sec- j tion was that which resulted from a charge he made against a man who was arrested in Cheatham county a few days ago, charged with stealing U^rrc f-nnryi A /lo ThlC m9 71 WAS t JLLWgO UWU.J. iJUkXt ? ^ r tried before a magistrate in Cheatham county and bound over to the circuit court. There is, however, no evidence against this man which would in any way connect him with the murder. Mr. Ade was 60 years old and had lived in that community for 25 years. Bermuda Cleared. Washington, March 26.?The Sec-j retary of the Treasury has authorized I r,he Collector of Customs at Fernandi:ia, Fla., to issue clearance to the sus- J pected filibuster Bermuda now at that port. These instruction were issued upon receipt of an affidavit made by the captain of the Bermuda pledging himself not to attempt to enter any Cuban port, or to take on men or arms to be transferred to another vessel on the high seas, or to do any other act in violation of the laws of the United States. Two Souls Made Happy. Washington, March 2i.?The Pres J.UCJJ.L i-LCU5 iiUUIluaL^u ^&:uaiu ^wibtuuu , of Ohio, to be Collector of Internal Hevenue for the first district of Ohio; and Chester H. Brash of Connecticut, i;o be Recorder of the General Land Office. Our drinkers spend SI,000,000 annually for liquor and starve for bread. This $1,000,000 spent for drink annually covers the value for one year of all the bread bakery products of the United States, all the slaugntermg j and meat packing, all the cheese, but-1 ter and condensed milk, all the boots, shoos and woolen goods. I I TILLMAN'S PLAIN TALK. |l [CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.] ( Four on the Jlontery; 6 on the Mo- ' nadnoc^;S oa tbe New York; 4 on ! the Arapnitrite, 3 on the Terrror; 3 ion the Oregon, 3 on the Oiyrnpia: 6 on the Indiana; 4 on the Massachuf setts, and so on. You -were asked to cooperate with ! the House and to have those plates 1 taken off and tested before the Gov- . ernment paid for them, and you would : not do it. Why aid you not doit? | [A pause, j Do not everybody answer : at once, [laughter] especially you peo pie who think I am slandering the Senate. Why did you not do it? If we get into a war with Spain or anybody else and those ships of ours | go out to meet an honestly construct- ' ed vessel of equal strerigh a shot from one of those vessels plunging through : r?np r>f t hpsft ennti.crv nlates which have - been plugged up would send our 1 American vessel with 600 or S00 men , to the bottom of the sea bj the frauds perpetrated by these pets of the Sen- : ate. Then what wili your responsi bilitybe? ' Now, are jou ready to continue : thes^ monopolists in their grab game ! of looting the Treasury at will? You : can only help it by authorizing the construction of a plant which will j make armor for the Government in j case these monopolists will nor sub- ' LLHii LU d UCUvilb pi vui tells you that $300 will allow them 33 per cent profit, while the Secretary of 1 the Navy, in order to reach $400, has < to give them 50 per cent proiit and ' $10 a ton bonus. ; Why should you not reduce the price to $300 and say, "Now, you rob- J ber rascals, if you do not come here 1 and take this work; at a reasonable } price, we will make it ourselves, even J if it costs $500 or $SOO a ton." We 1 would at least have then the satisfac- 1 tion that the money that is spent 1 would go to tae common laborers and mechanics and the "men in blouses," 1 who are going into the ditch with my ^ friend from Pennsylvania (ilr. Q uay), or, I believe, he is to go into the aitch with them. (Laughter.) Now, J my friend, if you do not vote to fix the price at $300. we will know that ' you do not mean to go with them. 1 The eight-hour law and the red tape in connection with Government ad- 1 ministration in conducting its own af- 1 fairs is such that it costs the Govern- : ment more. But let us distribute the ! benefit among the masses and not con- 1 centrate it upon these two pets, the : fiomoarivand the neople at - Bethlehem, who have had a rich, 1 rich, rich reward for their "patriotism" < ten years ago in going into the manu- J facture of armor so that Americans 1 could have a navy constructed by J Americans cut of American material. You are face to face with it, gentlemen ; you car- not dodge it. Tiiat is the situation. < This committee comes here and says that these frauds were perpetrated, and they proved it by the admissions ] actio ariri vmi did nothing1 aboul ' V* VW.'.?V^*W J w?? ? o < it, would not even investigate. Carnegie was fined but the fine was re- J znitted. The two plants were in col- : lusion, and the Secretary of the navy J said so before the committee, and I as , an humble member of that committee directed all the inquiries I put to them 5 to bring out the fact that tbey to day j are practically one corporation. They ?<-?+ if That, is t.Vip. situation. You can not help yourselves from taking whatever they ofrer, unless you do now allow the government to make its own plant. I would not say buy any plant, because there are only two j for sale?they are the only two m the ] country?and we open the doors to i buy what we paid for to these people, ? and we were asked to give them two t dollars for every one the plant cost. t They have got it; they have got the i title; and row you say "We will buy 3 it." I would rather build a new one. j And honest man who resents robbery j and rascality and stealing would ratn- i er build a new one than let these i thieves have their own way. I would j sooner see them become useless if the ] Government enters into the manufac- < ture. That is my position. I am not i afraid to get up here and say -what I t think and what I believe when you i give me facts like these to base my belief on. Nobody from Connecticut or anywhere else is going to terrorize me. I am not thin skinned. I am J not afraid of being sccused of stealing ? if I did Tote for the subsidy for the- > Southern mail last night. You men * who have been here so long, who are * so friendiy, so loving and kind in * your consideration toward the great * wealthy combinations?you are the * men wno have to face the alternative 1 of voting for a decent reduction ia the t price of armor and giving us a way * cut by allowing us to construct a plant 1 if these people will not come down to c a decent -tfe; you have got to vote one way or the other. You have voted for these people in the past without regard to public opinion, and I dare say you will vote that way to-night. The old guard never surrenders. But there is a young man in the Senate from West Virginia, a weakling, a suckling, like i myself, who feels his inability here i to get in touch with the business of i the Senate, and sits here and sees < things ground out; and you get up and quarrel like schoolboys or like geese over some little pitiable $10,000 or ?5.000 or ?3.000 proposition, and you slide through these mil J ions like greased lightning [laughter]; you do not even discuss them; you do not even ventilate them. Here is one that the Naval Committee brings to your attention. We prove these charges; we prove not only that they are robbing the Government, but that they are practicing fraud upon the Govern ment in the manufacture of armor, and they iiave not been punisnea ior it. Will you stop it or will you not? Will you allow the Government to go into the business of manufacturing armor if the Government must pay these people twice what the armor is worth? I went down to Bethlehem. I followed that thing through from the < ore at the beginning to the finished plate at the end. I saw how many ' men were at work; I saw the machinery; I saw tne entire output and how it was handled: and I do not believe it costs $200 a ton to make it. I am ' ready to take an oath to that, and oth . ers of the committee think so, too. But the Naval Committee tries to be harmonious. We come here with what we think is a reasonable proposition, a liberal proposition, to give these people *300 a ton. ana it is left for the Senate to decide now whether we shall reduce the price to $300 or will allow the Government a way out by giving it an opportunity to ma lie its own armor if it can not buy it at s that price. Mr. President, I have only to say in conclusion that I would be glad if t somebody would ask some question about this, for I have probably forgot- 1 ten some points about it. Mr. Stewart. I would ask the Sena lor me cosi 01 iae same kiuu ui armur in other countries? ] Mr. Tillman. We found out that all the armor manufacturers in the world i are in the same combination that these two American concerns are?tneCreu- ' sot people in France, the Gsrman mandfacturere, and the Eaglish are all together, each robbing their own Government all in a pile. So that if * i : ] 3 you go abroad, you will only get on the other prong of the fork- You do not want to go abroad, i would rather pay the American workmen $10 a day for sis hours' work, and let this money be distributed among the masses, than allow it to go into the pockets of the combination here. Let as do the Government business through Government agencies, and then these combinations against the flnTTOi<nm?Ti+ rrri 11 Via in TrQir> (To Mr. Quay, who had risen.) Now I am ready for the Senator, who is the blouse Senator. (Laughter.) I am afraid he is not witli the workingman. [ know how he is going to vote. Mr. Quay?There is no difficulty j about tue way I am going to cast my vote on this question; but I merely aesire to ask tne Senator from South ! Carolina whether I understood him to say that this amendment, proposing to Limit the cost to $300, comes from the Naval Committee and is offered by the authority of that committee? Mr. Tillman?It comes in this way. Ihe Senator from New Hampshire and all of the committee, except four,were m lavor of using the limit at $<5uu, but out of consideration for the other members of the committee, and with a desire, as we thought, to be reasonable and to get seme action?mind you, we have got to run the gantlet 3f the House, and everybody ^nows how the trusts are fortified in that 2nd of the capital at this time, with the gag law in full force and effect, with every man manacled and unable io obtain the eye of the speaker or get a chance to say a word, unless he srawl around on his belly like a worm ?for a free American Representative in Congress has got to crawl around like a whipped cur to obtain recognition. You can not do anything over there; and unless the Senate rises to its duty and protects the people, then :he steal goes on. The majority of the committee are in favor of $300 a ton. Mr. Q aay?But they aid not direct this amendmeat to be offered on tne floor of the Senate. Mr. Tillman?We did not direct it. Mr. Quay?That is all I want to know. Mr. Tillman?We did not direct, it oecause we knew that we had to pass the gantlet of the great moguls of the Appropriations Committee, and we proposed to come in here, where we svculd have a bstter chance, and ask pou gentlemen to give us some consideration. Let the Naval Committee :ake charge of the Navy, instead of you gentlemen of the Committee on Appiopriations managingit, because we do know more about it than you io, although you are all-wise and iiave been here long enough to have yVXSaoili cue Willi yuu wiieucvcr yvu 10 out of here. (Laughter.) A Disastrous Fire. Lawrence, Mass., March 22.?The worst fire this city has ever known since the burning of the Washington Mills, six years ago, completely dismantled the G-leason building, one of ;he best business blocks in Lawrence, iarly today and resulted in the injury eight persons and the loss of property valued at $100,000. Those injured are: John Bowering, left leg .njured, severe bums; Mrs. John Bowering, left side injured and ribs aroken: Miss McKinzie, head injured, ;erious burns; William Gallagher, Dadly burned; Bernard Gallagher, ovjreome by smoke and seriously burnid; S. A. Hunter, slight burns! Most )f those hurt are now in the hospital. Pianos 6/ c&e MUe. See Ludden and Bates' new adver;isment of one thousand Mathushek aianos. Suppose them all loaded on ,0 wagons in one grand procession, illow 15 feet for each wagon and ;eam and the line would be nearly ;iiree miles long. That is just the wholesale way this great southern louse does business. Having acquired m interest in the noted Mathushek Piano factory, they are now supplyng purchasers direct and saving ail ntermediate profits. This means a saving of from $50 to $100 on each nv\/^ + Vl ^ AM /\ >"v? tVl A JlCkLLSJ} aJLLU. CUO UL UUC UJ. bllC jldest and most reliable instruments at i remarkably low figure. Better write ;hem at Savannah, Ga., or at 93 Fifth Ive., New York City. No New Tragedy. Washington, March 25?New York capers contain the statement that the )oat belonging to the wrecked steamer St. Nazaire, which was picked up by he steamer CreoJe, is ttae same one rom which Captain Bsrri and his hree companions were rescued by the ichooner Hilda. The Captain says he eft 6 bodies in the boat. That was the lumber of corpses that floated out of he boat when it was hoisted out of he water. It was ooat No. 3 and that vas Cap!,. Berri's boat, so that the Crete's find disclosed no new tragedy. Ths> trnQtwrrrthc mirs -fnr thp )plcm, Morphine and Tobacco Habits, for further information address The ?eeiey Institute, or Draper 27, Coitimb'a, C. WE WANT APiimsfi. [N EVERY. TOWN. Postmasters, Railroad -Mints, Genari, tore Keepers, Clerks, Ministers, or any >ther person, lady or gentleman, wao can levote a little or ,all of their time to our )usi ess. Vv - Jo not want any money in Avznce. and piy large commissions to hose who work for as. Wq hav9 the best family ilediclnes on earth, aad can prolace lots of testimonials !roca oar home people. Send foi "olaDk application and circular. Address RWi7rrriw varum VR no._ 844 Broadway, Anpusta, fcra < j jV'' $; BiyMnaBB??BPM???t SEE 'rA HERE. ISJYOUR LIViR ALL RIG 5T? Aj ? your Kidneys in a healthy condition H If<an TTIltrin's T.ifa for thfl T.5uflr and Kidneys will keep them so. If not, Hilton's Life for the L ver and Kidneys will make them so. A 25c bottle. will convince yon of this fact. ^ r Taken regularly after meals it is an aid to digestion, cures habitual constipation, |jgj and thus refreshes and clears j both body and mind. SOLD WHOLESALE BS ? \af tw 31 a ir i?i i r: | !. UV -JKLUllMJ JU/t. vw. COLUMBIA, S. C. ( " A25D Dr. H. BAEK, Charleston. 8. C. j Advice to Mothers. W j tate pleasure in calling yoar attea ,, : tion to a remedy so long needed la carry- j tog chlllcen safely tbxough the critical . j stage cf teething. It is an incalculable blessing to mother and child. If yon are J disturbed at night with a sick, fretful, 1 teething child, use Pitts' Carminative, it will give instant relief, and regulate the 1| bowels, and make teething safe and eisy. ? B It will cure Dysentery and Diarrhosa, Pitta Carmin?iive is an Instant "elief for colic of infants. It will prom&?<s digestion, J| gi?e tone and energy to the stomach and sffl bowels. The sick, puny, suffering child will soon become the fat and frolic ?iu< joy of the household. It Is very pleasaat to f| the taste and only cost 25 cents per b Jt:ls told by druggists and by 2H2 HURRAY DRUO 00 , I Columbia, S. 0. - ^ ;i Machinery^ ANS] Supplies *" (l Engines, Boilers; Saw Mills, \Corn Mills, Wheat Mills, Planers, Brick Machines, A Moulders, Gang Edgera.; Jp And all kinds oC Wood Working Ma chlnery. No one In tne South can offer ' * you higher grade goads, or at lower prises. Talbott, Llddeli and Watertown Eagines. We are only a few hours ride from you. : v Write for prices. ~|j Light, Variable Feed Plantation 3a w Mills a Specialty. . ; | V. C. Badham, General Agent, Columbia, s. c. *ewp| SOT MSLEADINS. A. o ;; No Dasgee, is Cced?g Ose Habit, of FobmisoAsothee. - s OPIUM (Morphine, Laudanum) Etc., Cubed ik feou Foue to Six Weeks. T ?. LIQUOR .DISEASE Cured Usually in Four "Weeks. Also Tobacco Habit and Nervous Diseases. The Cure has been endorsed by the Legis lature of six States and-one Territory; by U-. the- National Government in the Soldiers' > Homes - and in the regular army; by many Sflocal authorities in. the ;.cure '..of indigent /maama^'wa * AVK? VltT \f iao * U.X U1XJXH.X UO ?/LJ_LLL^ aUU. J J KfJ , -, Wallard, the W.. Cl T. U".; francis Murphy, & Neal Dow and the I. 0. GvT.; by prominent men all over the laad; by 300,000 cared pa- ' : tiehts, more than '20,000 of these.being physicians. '-v" * The Leslie E. Keeley; Company and the A Keeley Institute of S. C; are responsible corporations'which could'not afford to put forth A any claim that they are "unable to'prove. y > For printed matter and termsV address, THE KEELEY INSTITUTE, or Drawer 27. : Columbia, S. C. Mention this paper. | "MATHUSHEK"-~The Piano fcr--a Lifetime. . other LUDDEN &. BATES, Interested In I -v* this Factory, now offeivthis great stock at S50 to $100 less than former prices. >'o ' strictly Eigh Grade Piano ever scld so low. ONE PROFIT from Factory to Consumer. Greater inducements than ever in slight-.' lv used Pianos and-Organ's?many as J M Iffood as new?sold under guarantee. jffls Latest Styles.- Elegant Cases. Also JSF New STEINWAY Pianos, ^asonS Hamlin Organs. ^Trite for Factory Prices and Bargain Lists. i nnnnt o. nsTre Oltriiiuiu ei JLUUUCn C6 CM I CO, OHIHIinftn, OH. I Aii Sheet Mnsic One-Half Price. j ENGINES, J BOILERS.. 1 SAWf MILLS, ^ fiut?t Mir r u: UI11U1 JJJLJLJUAJO? AT FACTORY v r PRICES, E. W. SCREVEN, ! COLUMBIA, 8.0.j jM - - ^3% -m