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iwa?ecccb='i. m mm i. mma SHEDDING OF BLOOD W!THOUT I r THERE IS NO REMiSSiON ACCORDING TO SCRIPTURE. Ite Btv. Dr. Ta.'iraje P e.cli?B a-> Eicqu?rt and CcnvitciBg Sermon Fjodi % ICeU Known Text?P*?K for P*cr, B.'eod lor Blood acd Life f jr Life, The radical theory of Christianity is hv Dp. Talrca^e in this dis km q course, ana remarkable instances of elf sacrifice are brought out for illus tration Toe t?zt is H-brew ix, 22, "Without shedding o? blood is no remission." John G. Whittier, the last of the great school of American poets that made the last quarter of this century brilliant asked me in the White mountains one mornicg alter prayers, in which I had given cut Cowper's fa mous hymn about "the fountain filled with blocd." "Do jcu reaily believe there is a literal application of the blood of Christ to the scul?'' negative reply then is my negative "* nr>u^ "d.ulu o<j?w>pc repay BOW. 1JL1C Li.Jic , with all phjsicians and al. physiolof gists and all scientists in sajingthat the blcod is the life, and in the Chris ' tian religion it means simply that Christ's life was given for cur life. Hence all this talk of men who say the Bible story of blood is disgusting and that they don't want what they call a ''slaughter house religion." only shows their incapacity or unwillingness to look through the figure of speech toward the thii.g signified. The Wood that on the darkest Friday the world ever saw oozsd or trickled or poured from the brow, and the side, and the hards, ai>d the ftet of the ii lustrious sufferer back of Jerusalem in a few Lours coagulated and dried up and forever disappeared, and if man had de^eiided on the application o? tr>e literal blood of Christ there would Lot Dave been a soul saved for the last 18 centuritS In order 10 understand this r?d word of my ttxs we only have to ex ercise &S XUCU CJIUU.UU acuac iu icu~ gion as we do in everything else. Pang for pang, hunger for huDger, fatigue for latigu^ rear for tear, blooo for blocd, life for life, we see every day illustrated. The act of sab stitution is no novelty, although I hear men talk as though the idea of Christ's suffering suDstituted for cur - suff ring were somtthug ahnormai, something disiressiogly odd, some tbing wild;y eccentric, a solitary epi sode in the world s history, when I could lake you cu: into this city and . . - before sundown pjint you to 5G0 cases of subiti'.ution and voluntary suifer ing of one in behalf of another. At 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon go among the places of business or toil. It will be no difficult thing for you to find men who by their locks show you that they are overworked. They are prematurely old. Taey are has tening rapidly towards their decease. They have gone through crises in that shattered their nervous system and pulled on tne brain. They have a shortness of breath and a pain in the back of &e head and at night an insomnia that alarms them. Wny are they drudging at business early and late? For fun? No. It would be difficult to extract any amusemeut.cu!, of mat exhaustion. Because they'are avaricious? In many cases no. Because their own personal expenses are lavish? No. A few nundreu dollars would meet all their wants. The simple fact itf the man is enduring all that fatigue and exasperation and wear and rear to keep ms home prosperous. Th?>re is an invisible line reaching from that store, from that bank, from that shop, from that scaff olding, to a quiet scene a few blocks, ' a few miles away, and there is the se cret of that business endurance. He is simply the cnampion of a homestead, for which he wins bread and wardrobe and education ana prosperi ty, and in such battle 10,000 men fall. Of ten thousand men whom I bury j nine die of overwork for others. Some ftudden disease finds them with bo power of resistance, and they are rone. Life for life! Blood for blood! Substitution! At 1 o'clock tomorrow morning,the hour when slumber is most uninter rupted and profound, walk amid th* dwelling houses of the city. Here and there jou will find a aim light, be cause it is the household custom to keep a subdued light burning, but moss of the houses from base to top are as dark as though uninhabited. A merciful God has sent forth the ? 1?*??1 HA TV*!to Vtia &rcuangcx UJL SUCCJJ, OUU wings over the city. But yonder is a clear light burning, and outside on a window casement a glass or pitcher containing food for a sick child. The food is set in the fresh air. This is the sixth night tiiat mother has set up with that suffer. She has to the last point obeyed, the physician's prescription, not giving a crop too much or too little or a moment too soon or too late. She is very anxious, for she has buried three children witn the same disease, and she prays and weeps,eacn prayer and sob ending witn a kiss of the pale cheek. By dint of kindness ahe gets the little one through the cr deal. Alter it, is all over tne mother is taken down. Brain or nervous fever sets in, and Oae clay sho leaves the convalescent cnild witn a motner's blessing and goes up to join the three departed ones in tho Kingdom o> heaven. Life lor life! Substitution! The fac. is that mere are au uncount ed number ot mothers wno aiter they have navigated a large family of can dren througn ail tae diseases of in fa.ic.v and got them fairly started up the -flowering- slj&e of bovhood and girlnood have only siren^m enough ltfitodie. Tney lade away. S^me call it consumption, soms ca:l it nervous prostratiuii, some call it inter mittenor m*iari*l indisposition, bu: I cail it m-iriyrdom of ifce domestic circle. Life fur life! B.ooa for Dio>>dI SubstitutionOr pernaps a mother lingers long enough to see a son &et on tne wrong road, and his former kindness becomes rough reply when she ts presses anx iety about him. Bat sne goes rigW on, looking carefully after nis appa rel, rememoeriag Ms every birtaday with some memento, and when he is rougnt home worn out with dissipa on nurses him till he gets well and starts him again and hopes and prays and counsels ana suffers until hei strength gives out ana she fails. She is going, and attendants, beading over her pillow, ask her if she has 1X11 y LLLCly Cj Ckuu ouo great effort to say soree'.ning, bat out of three or four minutes of indistinct utterance they can c-tci but three "words. -'My poor boy!" The simple fact is she died for him. Life for life! Substitution! About 38 s ears ago there went forth from our nothern and scut? ern homes hundreds of thousands o? mea to do battle. All the poetry of war soon vanished and left them nothing but the terrible prose. They waded knee deep in mud. They siept in snowbanks. They marcned till their cut feet tracked the earth." They were swindled out of their henest rations and lived on meat not fit for a dog. They bad jaws fractured and eyes ex tinguished and limbs shot away. Thousands of them critd for water as they l>y on th? ri^Id ih-? nieht aft> r ihe OA'.tic and ^it 11 '. L'h~j *?ie homesick and received no message frc in their lovd ores. Thsy died in barns, in bushes, in di'ches, the buzzards of the summer heat the only at tendants on their obsequies. No one j but the infinite God, who knows every ! thing, knows the ten thousandth part i of the length aEd bread;h and ihpth I an/? 'height nf ATicuish of the northern and southern battle fields. Why did these fathers leave tbeir children and go to the front, and why did these young men, postponing the marriage day, start cut into ihe probabilities of never oamiDe back ? For a principle they died. L;fe for life! Blood for blood! Substitution? But we need not go so far. What is that monument in tbe cemetery? It is to the doctors who fell in the southera epidemics. Wby ?o? Were there i not enough sick to be attended in these northern latitades? Ob, yes; but tne doctor puts a few medical books in his valise, and some vials of medicine, and leaves his patients here in the hands of other physicians and 4 PafAfA llO ftpf.V | VOACQ ?UO AfiUi LIOAU? mw g vv? ww | the infected regions he passes crowded rail trains, regular and extra, taking the flying and affrighted populations. He arrives in a city over which a great horror is brooding. He goes trom couch to couch, feeling tbe pulse and studying symptoms and prescribicg day a'ter day, night after nisht, until a fellow physician says: 4 Doc tor you bad better go home aid rest You look miserable." But he cannot reit wbiie so many are suffering. 0a and on, until some morning finds him in a delirium, in which he talks of home, then rises and says he must go look after the patients. He is told to lie down but he fights his attendants until he falls back and is weaker and dies fnr npnnle with whom he had no kioshipsnd far away from his own family a_a is hastily put away in a istrarier's tomb, and oaly the fifth part of a newspaper line tells us of his sacrifice?his name just mentioned amutg five. Yet he has touched the farthest height of sublimity in that three weeks of humanitarian services. He goes straight as an arrow to the bosom of him who said, *'I was sick, and ye visited me". Life for life! B i ood for blood I Su bstitution! All good men have for centuries been trying to tell whom this substi tute was like, and every comparison, | CkiiU UJULUOj/UQWj VTaugwauw) a ; prophetic, apostolic and human, falls i short, for Christ was toe Great Unlike. 'Adam s.type of Christ, because he came dL-ectly from God: Noah a type of Christ, because h* delivered his own j family from deluge; Melchisedeca type ! of Chr;s>, because be had no prede j decessor or successor; Joseph a type of ! Corist, because he wa* cast out by his j brethren; Moses a type of Christ, be cause he was a deliverer from bond a^e; Joshua a type of Christ, because he was a conqueror; Sampson a type of Christ, btceusa his strength to slay the lions and carry iff tne iron gates of impossibility; 8olomon a type of Christ in the afflaence of his dominion; Jonah a type of Christ, because of ttie stormy sea in which he threw himself for the rescue of others, but put to gether Adam and Noah and Mwlchise decand Joseph and Moses and Joshua and Solomon and Jonah, and they would not make a fragment of a Christ, a quarter of a Christ, the half of a Cnrist or the millionth part of a Christ He forsook a throne and sat down ?*> Tito r?am fnrktetrtrtl TTn mimft fwii!l the top of glory to the bottom of hu miliation and changed a ciicamfer enca seraphic for a circumference diabolic. Oace 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, himself more lustrious, past larger* worlds to smaller worlds, down stairs of firmament and from cloud to cloud and through treetops and into the camel's stall, to thrust his shoul der under our burdens and take the lances of pain through his vitals, and wrapped himself in all the ago nies which we deserve for our misdoings and stood on the splitting decks of a foundering vessel amid the drenching surf of the sea and passed mid nights on the mountains amid "wild beasts of prey and stood at the point where all earthly and infernal hostili ties charged on him at once with their keen sabers?our substitute! When aid attorney ever endure so much for a pauper client or physician for the patent in the lazaretto or mother for the child ii, membraQOus croup as Christ for us and Christ for ynu and Christ for me? Shall any man or woman or child in this audience who has ever suffered for another find it hard to understand this Cbristly suffering for us? Shall those whose sympathies have been wrung iu behalf of the unfortunate have no appreciation of that one moment whicii was lifted out of all the ages of eterni; ty as most conspicuous, when Christ gathered up all the sins of those to be l Mflaama/t nn<4ai? Viia nr>A arm anH all their sorrows under his other arm and I said: "I will atone for these under? my right arm and will heal all those under my left arm. 8trike me with all thy glittering shafts, oh, eternal justice! Roll over me with ail thy surges, ye oceans of sorrow." And thuncer bolts struck him above, and ttie seas of trouble rolled up from be neath, hurricane after hurricane and cyclone after cyclone, and then and there in presence of heaven and earth and hell, yea all worlds witnessing, the price, ;he biiter pries, the transcendent price, 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 ch?.ngtd mean by "'blood." I glory in this re li<ion of blood! 1 am thrilled as I see the suggestive color in sacram.ntal cup, whether .t be of burnishes silver set on cloth immaculately white or rough hewn from wood set on table in log hu.s catenae house of the wil derness. No w I am thrilled as I see the altars of ancient sacrifice crimson witn the blood of the slain iamb, aud Leviticus is to me aotso much the Old Testament as tne Ne No <v I see why the destroying angel passing over Egypt in tne nigm spared all those houses that had biood sprinkled on their doorposts. Now I kaow what Isaiah meaas when ne speaks of "one in red apparel coming witn djed gar ments from B^zrah," and whom the Apocalypse means when it describes a heavenly chieftain whoss 4'vesture was dipptd in blood," and what John the apostle means when he speaks of Via ' ni?o/?ioue hlnfvJ that from all sin," and what the old, wornout, decrepit missionary Paul means when, in my text, he cries, ' Without shedding of blood is no remission." By that blood you and I will bs saved ?or never savfd at all. In all the ages of the world God has not once pardoned a single sin excip; through the Saviour's expiation, and he never will. Glory be to God that the hill back of Jerusalem was the battlefield on which Christ achieved our liberty I It was a mo3t exciting day I spent on the battlefield of Waterloo. Starting out with the morning train from Brussels, Belgium, we arrived in about an hour on tnat famous spot. A son of one who was in the battle, and who had heard from his father a thousand times the whole scene recited, aceom psnied us over the field. There stood tbvj old Hougomont chateau, the walls dvnad and scratched and brokvn and ' . . gOTC 1 BBM 8MB?g sbaUered by erapeshot sad cannon ball- There is the well in whicH 30C djing and dead were pitched There is the chapei with the hrad of the in fant Christ shot off. There are the gates at which for many hours English and French armies wrestled. Yonder were *be 160 suds of the jfcogjish ana the 250 guns of the F;ecch Yonder the Hanoverian hussars fled for the woods. Yonder was the ravine of Ohaia, where the French cavalry, not knowtbere v?as a bol'ow in the ground rolled over and down, troop after troop, tumbling into one awful mass of sufferi- g, hoof of ticking horses ggainst brow and breast of captains end coioneJs and private soldiers, the } uman and the beastly groan kept up until the day afier all was shoveled under because of the malodor arising in that hot month of June. "Th^re," said our guide, "the high land regiments lay down 011 their faces waiting for the moment to spring upon the foe. In that orchard 2,500, men were cut to pitces. Here stood Well ington with white lios, and up that knoll rode Marshal Ney on his sixth horse, five having been shot under him. Here the ranks of the French oroke, and Marshal Nevy, with his boot slashed or a sword, ard his hat off and his face covered with powder and blood, tried to rally his troops ss ho cried, 'Come and see how a marshal r?f EV?nr>h Hi#?s nn thfi battlefield.' From yonder direction Grouchy was expected for the French re enforce meet, but he came not Around those woods Blucher was looked for to re enforce tae Eagli*h, aad just in tiaie he came up. Yonder is the field where Napoleon stood, his arms through the reins of the horsed bridle, dazad ar-d insane, trying to go back " Scene of a battle that went on from 25 minutes to 12 o'clock on the 18ih of June until 4 o'clock, when the English seemed defeated, andtheircommander cried out: 'kB >ys, you can't think o' giving way? Remember old Eoelaud!" And the tices turned, and at 8 o'ciccs in the evening the man of des'iny, who was called by his troops Old Two Hundred Thousai d, turned away with i t*,a fat^n! r.nrips UrU&CJJ. iiCAL AUU ?UV was decided No wonder a great mound has been reared there. Tnere came a day when all hell rode up, led by Apoliyon, and the captain of our salvation confronted them alone. The rider on the white horse of the Apocalypse going out against the black hors9 cavalry of death, and the oattalions of the demoniac and the mvrmidons cf darkness. From 12 o'clock at noon to 3 o'clock in the afternoon the greatest battle of tbe universe went on Eternal destisies were bei'g decided. All the arr jws of hell pierjtd our Chieftain, and thr bdttleaxcs struck him, until brow and check and sbculdtr and hand and foot were incarnadintd with ocziog lif-, but he fought ?n until he gave a fin>>l stroke wiinsword from Jefcovah's buckler and the cam mander in chief of hell and all his forces fell back in everlasting ruin, and the victorv is ours. And on the racund that celebrates the triunph wo plant tbis day two figures, not in bronz9 or iron or sculptured marble, but two figures of living light, the Lion of Judan's tribe and the Lamb that was slain. DiXiE IN NEW YORK Five T&oniazd Engage In Wild Cheers When It 1b PJajed. There has been lively scenes in the theatres of late when the 4'Star Span gled Banner " was played, but noDe of them equalled the extraordinary demonstration of last night at the Metropolitan Opera House when Sousa's band played the national anthem and then swung into "Dixie." It was Sousa's last concert the house was packed with an audience that made even the top gallery black with a dense crowd. It had been announced that Sousa's "The Stars and Stripes Forever" would be given during the evening and tnat tne principals ana chorus members of the De Wclf Hop per and the "Bride Elect" companies would take part with the band. The audience had come with the idea of 4'letting itself locse" when the proper tiice came, but they did not wait for the advertised number, but caught at the first opportunity that presented itself. In response to an encore c*ll after a suite played by the bind Sousa gave a medley of such airs as "Yankee Dso die" and the heu3e was fairlv on fire with enthusiasm in an instant. Men began to beat time with their feet and pound canes, while a rattle of applause that grew louder and louder almost drowned the music. When Sousa finished there was a roar of cheers from the house and the band at once began the "Star Spangled Banner." In an instant the entire audience, from orchestra rails to top gallery, sprang to their feet, a whirlwind of cheers going up, and hats, * ? aw/4 r? r? OTQ XittUtiiicruiiiOia auu uaugg nwTwi in the uir. During the playing of the entire niece the demonstration kept up, and when it came to a conclusion wifca the final crash of music from ine band the scene beggared description. An encore was demanded, but Sous* stood calmly waiting quiet before he would go oil Then, when he could be heard, he said: "Ladies and gentlemen, it seems as though the only aporopriate encore that I caa give in these days is Johnny Get Your Gun," but there's anoth erair we all will cheer tonight,'' and turning to his band, the musicin swung into "Dixie." If tnere had been orderly enthusiasm before there was oedlam let loose no*, and while taec.ieers vent up as heartily as e^er tnere burst frjm ceriaialy a ihau>aad throats the famous ri bai yeil. It came from *1! parts of the nouse. For quite a time this conticu-1 men ana women ioiuina- in the! UDroar, the ladies hauiug out oi the boxes and waving their baaukcr coiefi! while t&e southern air was placed. Tne audieuci had hardly q tieied when a man in one of tne b-zxca Inn ea over the rail and yelled "^bc says we are not ready for war?'' and the house went wild atjaio, witb another combination of 'Uaion chters" and ''rebel yeils ' Then som-> one in the orchestra j -imped iiuo tbe isie and called for tnree cheers for '"Our flag aad oar country, the north, and t ie eouih? We'er all ready!" and the previous scene was re^ea--rd. When "Tne Stars and Siripss" was sung there was still another demon stration and tbeu ?L7e ihuu<aud iired and hoarse individuals took them selves- home,?New York Herald. cai.tuii' a Iodoform Liniment is the "nee plu ultra" of all such preparations in removing soreness, and quickly healing tresh cuts and wounds, no matter how bad. It will promptly heal old sores of long standing. Will kill the poison from "'Poison Ivy" or "Poison Oak" and cure "Dew Poison." Will counteract the poison from bites of snakes and stings of insects. It is a sure cure for sore throat Will cure any case of sore mouth, and is 2 superior remedy for all pains and aches. 8old oy druggists and dealers 25 csnts * oottis. g-m?-reran ??? ..M'-li i l iijjilll I I .1 GEN. LEE WELCOMED FRIGID WASH-NGiTON ELECTRIFIEE WITH Pf-TR 0 IC FRF. Ten* o *h<'u**tda Gr<ctt t'e S ut' en Cb'e.'tan it 1 e National C?plc?), Wkoii >"?me le Upon Eye y L!p Uop eceiecte Scrcre 11:1 e St*: e D partmrnt. Consul General L?e arrived it Washington on Tuesday of last we*l from Havana. He was met at th< railroad station by a large and enthu siastic crowd, and when he steppe< from the train he wss greeted with i tremendous outburst of applause Women waved their handkerchief] and men their hats and altogether thi demonstration was a notable one Long before the hour set for the arri val cf tfce train the crowd began t< gather. It fiJled the station. The general occupied the last car ir his train and whea it was ktown thai it had reached the station there wai a tremendous rush 10 get s lock a him. By the time he was ready ti alight the crowd was so dense abou . 2. - xL.i. ? iae tram toai cvsu wnu bus of a platoon of police it was wth diffi culty he reached the platforn. 8e^ eral personal friends of the genera among them a lumber of Jades,presi ed forward and finally succeded i grasping him by the hand. One c the ladies presented him with s, bo> qaet of roses tied together by -ibbon of the national colors and baring tiny Confederate battle flag. Immi diately the crowd began to cher, an round after round of applause jreete him as he walked slowly and un^oi ered down the long platform of tb s'a'.ion. On reactiog the B sinet ei trance Q-en. Lee entered a stte d? pti\ment carriage and was (rivei rapidly up tne avenue to the stae d* pirtment. News tbat 3-en. Lse was on hit war to the state department spread raridJ and when the carriage drew up it tfe south front of the building ; bg crowd was assembled. A rosiig cheer went up as Gczn. Lee stppd from the veb)c:e, bjwing rigii ad left, hurried into the building. Tb enters had apprised the clerks aril c*nar employes in the big buildiig # bis coming and there was a wildrua for the state department corrdoi Clerks left their desks without l<av\ *. fibers of the army and navy jane in the rush and for the time being to discipline of the building was reiaec fhe crowd lined up in iront o tb elevator shaft, leaving a Jane iron th dour to the s cretary's <. fR ;e. As the elevator cime <.0 a stop in the consul general stepped out a s?n occurrtd unprecedented in the hisor of the great building. Hat in bin: Gen Lee passed into the corridor an !>ome one said, "Now, txrys," ?m iiirae rousing cneers went ectar; duwn the Ion* hails. Then there ** another ouibur&t and people poirel forth from every room. The cheein; caused intense excitement, and it xa some moments before quiet coulc b> restored. Gen. Lea bowed to thi crowd, and as he reached the door 01 Secretary Sherman's ?. ffioe turned uac bowea again. Tnen the door clt&ee .on hin. and the throng dispersed. v After a lew minutes the consul jen erai emerged accompanied by Secre tarj Snerman and Assistant aecrearj Dij. The three entered a carrag< and were driven to the White House Gen. Lee getting another ovation 01 his waj over. Mrs. L^e dia noi couit to Washington witn tne general, leav ing tie train at Quantico. At th< Wnite' House the party was shown a once to tne library, where the cJlie executive accorded a hearty receptioi to the consul general. Tne only per sons present at the meeting were tin President, Secretary Sherman, Assist ant Secretary Day and Gen. Lee. Sec retary Snerman remained with tin others lor about half an hour an< then returned to the state department inith tho P?wi/i?nt f?lli ' LC^ I UOUij; TTAWU. KUW A AVUUVUV * W**J an hour, Jud^e Day and Gen. La took their departure, the latter goinj to nis hotel. An immense crowd, aug men tea by a number of ladies who at tended Mrs. McKinlej's reception, wa; on the portico when the two cam< do ^n stairs, and Gen. Lse was givei a tremendous ovation. As the car riage was b^ing driven away some on< fastened a Cuo^n fag to ine front o: the vehicle and this was tfte cause o: &ddnional enthusiasm. LEE MAKES A SPEECH. The ovaiiun mat loiiontd Consu General L-je, since he set foot oz American soil, on his return frorr Haoaaa, culminated Tuesday nignt ir Washington in wnat was in manj wajs one ol the most remarkable de monstrations the city has ever seen. From tiie moment he alighted in th< railroad station in the anernoon ht was surrounded by a caeering crowc that followed him to the siate depart ment, and iha spectacle ol army anc ciavy officers and government em plujes catering outaide the very dooi ol LQe office oi the Secretary oi stau was wnoixy unprecedented in the nis iory ol that staid department. A night the ciu turnea out m thousand; ?vnen a serenade was given lien. Lee at nis hotel and stood lor nours in ih< street Waiting t% giitnpsa ol mm. Ine night demonstration w?s almos as quick and unpremeditated as taal Anion nad greeted G-cn. Ljcat the ue pot and s;ate department. l'ne Umtec Spates marine oauu nad been secured irorn tne Oarracss and tne Seventy iirss regiment Danu, uuaor itie leader snip of Pruf. ffancmili, formerly can due tor of tc.e marine uaud, c*me ovcj frjm New YurK on auaitsrnoon train. Tae crowd asaemoied Wllnout Calling and b,y 8 o'clock was 5,000 strong ix tiie tlrec.es soout tiie ono/euam nuta wnere Gen Lse is quartered. Before ljcic closs was twi;e tnat sizs. Is was aiicr 9 o'clock oeiore he | appeared on one oi Lhc small cornel I balconies, accompanied oy a cjamiC I tte ot ih.s Union Veterans legion anc j tae Owiiifcdtrate Veterans association, vtiica was jointly lu Cnarge of the . ifiir. i'lic D*uas struck up die *'dtai cSpaaglea Banner1' aud iJtisre was t I uarst of fireworksirom tne nei^nbor mg iioussa /mile mjuuds oi red, whitt and Diue lij;nu> hamed. at interval aiong me street, taruwmg tne crowd on ttie balcony into snarp riiiel a^inst a bicsgrouud of flags. Ih cr.) wa yelled itself noarse, calling foi Lea and demanding a speech. Tnt rapetch was brief and so much broken by applause that tae crowd caugat probaolv little more th tji its genera] drift. Gin L;esaid: ''After all tne species i have been forced to mike in the past two days ] can hardly hope to make myself hearc over this ^reat gathering. I cm onlj assure you that such a great demon stration seems to me our of all propor tionto the simple fact of my humblf presence here, and I am frank to say ] don't see that I deserve it, having onlj tried to do my duty as an 4-merican where circumstances placcd me." The crowd broJce out afresh anc there were yells: "That's it." "That'f what you did." Gen Lee continued: L.T 1 /^, " nave iu maujt. yvu. u*x*?bu.y ?u> this splendid endorsement of ra] course. It is a thing that can hardly come to a man mere than once in i life time and it moves me more than ! can pul in words." gl~ 1 I M?s????SgESBt'J'll'Fl _____ "Yotucsn act pretty quick,5: cried a min in *-hf? c-owd, snd ihon 5Cme one yelled "War, fight," and the cheering ^ drowned everything else. ' I bsTe do* come to t*Jfc war," c>c tnuj-d Gf-n Lee, "but if war come?, n a few-days or a-few years, the pres nt crisis has crnvtd lhat it Willie*1? .sa united pto-^^dojO^1^3 est wiJ] b?* es to vrLrtTcan carry tue 0 lag fartherest and fastest" j "There is one thing in conclusion, want to thank my good New York riends who have cox>e so promptly to be front tonight. I' is only another ' rv;aince tnar. isew icririsreaay as c he has been in th? pasttostaDd by> f Tirgiuia. and if lie -??.! comes I cay * ?sure you aU that ^ trgioia *nll b * ounri standing shouider to should* 1 vith York." The fp aking aud music va3 ols [owfd by a very b/ief reception to 5 which a few score gained admitunce * in the rooms of Representative Connell. of Pennsylvania, from tfhose >balcony Gen. Les had made lis address. W iY HE UDN'TCARE A W*?tern Btaga Drirer Who Mil; With Hla March. As we kft Sandy Gulch for Rising j Sun there were six male passengers to go by the stage, and the roite was over the mountains and full of chan ces of disaster. The driver came out for breakfast ss soon as the stage was ready, and looking about oq the passengers he selected a small, pale faced man and invited him to cJimb up beside him. While the pale faced man was climbinc the driver wnisoered to the rest of us: I 41 picked him out in order to scare him to death. You fellows will see a hf-ap of fun before we've gone ten miles!'\ Two minutes west of the gulch the l road made a sudden turn with a sheer i fall of a Luadred feet down to Wild Cat creek, and ihe driver put hij horses at tae gallop and said to the palefaced man: "We may get around* all right, or we may fetch up down below. Hold yer breath and say yer prajersl" The passanger made no move and did not change ccuatenance. and after making the course all right the driver ratber indignantly demanded: "Didn't ycu see that the off wheel run within a foot of the edge of the precipice!" "Ii ran within six inches, s^r!"' wao hue icpij, Beyond the curve was a down grade of a mile, and with a yeil and a flourish ot his whip the driver urged his horses to a dtad run. The five of us inside had to hang on for dear life, and every half miuute the lumbering stage seemed bound to go over. Alongside the driver the pale-faced msn smoked a cigar and seemed to enjoy the race. When it was finished and we were climbiug the hill beyond the driver growled: "Did ye know that if we'd struck a rock we'd all been dead men in no time?" ' Of course." %'And ye wasn't prayin'?" 4'Not at all." Three or four miles further on the driver tried his man with another curve. Ia his determination to make 1 a close call of il one wlieel ran off the J edge of tile precipice, and only a sud ! den tffurt of the horse saved the r coach. We were flung in a heap and 3 frightened half to death, but the man beside the driver never lost a puff of | his cigar. When things were safe the > driver turned on him with: I "That surely was the brink of the 3 grave." t j ,k Guess it was," was the quiet reply. [I ''Theclussest shave you will ever Jtave till the last one comes." ( "Yes." Bl "Bee here, now, what sort of a crit . ferare you?" was the query. Don't ienri trr>r\TT7 'ntiflp frn oit cti?art i ' d "Nothing lias happened yet to scare i :ae>>' "But mebbe ye want me to drive \ pumb over & precipice a thousand i :?t nigh?'' , ''If jou conveniently can. The fact ' I cume cff up nere intending to . ommit suicide, and if you can dump 5 He whole of us over some cliff you'll 3 olige me." L A SCENE IN THESENATE. 3 1llni#ii Embraces FonJker After 9 8 Peif oraUon on tie Cab*n Qaa.tlon* Oae day last week while the Usited iaiea Senate nad under consideration I iia Cuoan matter Senator Foraker i ook up tne question of tne responai l Hiity tor the Main disaster, and closed 1 Ifflfcu it uriiixeuib pciuiauuu, r| 4,Ine time, I repeat, tor diplomacy - Jha3 passed. Tile lime for action has ? (come. Lst the douoting, the nesitati fmg, the pposing go to the rear wnile j tne virile, strong minded, patriotic I liberty loving masses of the Ameiican - people, coming from all sections and i ail pursuits and avocations of life rally as one man around our gallant army and navy, and lakiug tne fl i of our couuiry carry it on to trium pnant victory. (Applause in tne gaii lories.) s ''A victory, Mr. President, for civilj izitiunover DarbAriam; a victory :or ; ne ngnt and capacity 01 man to gov era Himself; a victory ior lha weatern L nemiapnere; a victory for Ixeeflom i and iiDcrty and independence, a vic tory wormy tne deaceudenis ol neroic I men wiioacnieved our own ind^penI r,/1 ar/irm o nf I hx fi I RTmM of 11 UQUVU V* (MV I tno.se ncroic men \yno naye since proserved. and perpetuated our priCaless :nerii.age." (applause m tne gal r leriesj (Senator Foraksx was warmiy cjn ^ graiuiaitd bj Senators and Senator U Tillman tare *v nis arm about the ij Onioau and nugged nim frantically. A GOOD START, > ? . ttsmbQ-g Oonaty e s He: Older als.ers a WO :>by JE**mp e. ^ The County of Bamberg held its ^ first court last week aud strange to i e . late a wUiie man was cjnvictsd of ' murder. A white maa named Z.s s:tc was convicted of the murder of aaotner white man and sentenced tc | be nuag. The court room was jimed i almost 10 sunocatwn irom me oegxn< ning to ihe close of the case and the keenest interest was taken oy the , s^ec:ators. Z.asett wa3 charged with going tc 5 the house of His alleged paramour, 1 Mrs. Mattie Gill, near Olar, in Bam [ berg cointy, in January of this year, where he found S'ark and Pink Wil s:m, two ycuag men 17 and 19 years L- old, respectively, and fancyiog thai j they were allienating Mrs. Gill's af fectioas from him, s&ot them botl: ' down without provocation cr warning and immediately flad the country ir company with Mrs, Gill. They wen r subsequently arrested in Cbarlestoi and placed in jiil there, Mrs. Gil. r /?harffpH as arrwSEOPV to th< b? ? ' crime, /.issett appealed to the g07er , nor and asked protection when thi sheriff of Bamberg went for him, fear 3 ing that if he was carried back to B?m berg he would ba lynched by friend; of Wilson. P 7 A new comet recently discovered t] J Prcf. Perrine of the Lick Observa * tory, California, is said to ba heading I t iwaris the ( arth at the rate of a noil li :n m;les a d >y. ... ^"'"' ill iii JI* ifl'mig BULLETIN. 3 W.TH T*E I'AM AGE CONE ITDEAi v the recent frost. TbiOish^ut th?> 8 a e?Fall Samj?fl*e J jf-iJ ?' tte Ropo ti asmde to Hes<?qa*i rs oj tee JL.--C01 uDS?ne ? rxe:?; isa llcewhtre. /The following is the first of the weekly bulletins of the weather bureau for the crop spason of 1898. It was issued on the 13ih instant ard deals with the recent frost: The weather during February was steadily cool and dry, the rainfall amounting to only 24 per cent, of the normal for the Sta'e. The actual rainfall averaged 5.46 inches less than the normal during January aid February and the deficiency was further increased, in places only, during March, but has been considerably reduced by tJQe generous rainfall of April up to aate, which has brought the total amount since March 1st about (qiai to the normal for thfs period. These conditions were favorable for me prttp&iauu.u ui JSU<<D uunuj .!. ?? ruary and March, which worfc pro gressed rapidly and is now about ten days in advance of its usual stage for this date, with fields practically all reedy for com and cotton. Even bat torn lands that are usually too wet to be plowed until May have been in good condition for working. Plant ipg of the staple crops was in advance of the season up to the beginning of April, since then the cool wca.her aDd heavy rains have retarded this work, espec:aUy over the western portions of the Sr.ate, where the ground was frozen hud on t^o mornings. T"e tempt-rature for the week aver agtd 8 degrees per diy below the normal, with a mean of 52 for the State. The range of temperature was be tween 83 on the 5 h at White Hall and 25 on the 7th at Central. Tre formed on the 7th as far east ss Hampton county, while ia the more westerly portioos the ground was frcz;n. Thin ics was noted on the 8ih in the western counties. Frost occurred on four mornings, but that cn the 7:h was general and damaging over the entire State, se vere enough aloog the coaat to materially in jare garden truck, corn and cotton that was up, but not hurting fruit. Throughout the central coun ties fruit escaped unhurt except over limited areas where peaches and p U23S were badly damaged Through out the northern ard extreme wf stern border counties, where the tempera : ture fell to from 3 to 7 degrees below ireezmg, 11 appears to oe me ciucp ticnal localities where peaches and plums escaped Grap?3, apples, pears and the several varieiiea of wild fruits ard berries appear to ba unhurt; wheat and oats only slightly hurt in a few localities; corn, beans., tomatoes, and melons, where up, considerably injured. The rainfall was copius over the greater portion of the State during ihe week, and very evenly distributed, raaeing in amounts from 0.85 inch to 2.83 inches The average of all reports is 1 41 while the State normal for the same period is approx-mately 0.70. San day's rainfall does not show in the ab ve a verge except from two stations. There is now plenty of moisture in the ground for tbe present needs of growing crops, and in places over the west central portions of the State farm work is delayed by the wet condition of the soil. There was less than a normal amount of sunshine during the week, and winds were cold northerly or northeasterly. CHOPS. Vegetation of ail kinds made but little if any growth during the weei as the temperature fell below the ac tive growing point, each night, over a large portion of the tate. Owing to the favorable weather during March farm work is well advanced and corn has been planted in portions of the State, being practically finished for early corn over the more easterly portions. Much that was up was irj ired by frost, the damage was especially severe in Horry county. The usual amount of replanting is necessary on account of crows aad cutworms, the Jater giving mvch trouble iu places daring the covl weather. Corn that had been recently cultivated was badly hurt by the frost, while fields near by that had not been worked were untouched. Cotton planting has mads considerable progress over the eastern counties, while, little has been planted over tne we?tern portions on m me ex treme northeast, but the preparatior of lands is well advanced and indicates that i bout the same area will be pu$ in cotton as last year. As but little cotton was up, tne darra^e by fro.t was slight. Sea island cotton is up in many places ana looking welL Rica planting is well advanced, un usually so in tne lower rice districts, while in the Georgetown fair progress has bee a made. Tobaccj plants are plentiful and large for the season; very little transplanting has been done jet, owing to tne cool weather. Oats are looking very promising, except in portions of the southeastern counties, wnere it was too dry during fKa mintni. ITVnct- a nriftr^n11 v riiH not VU.9 TtiMWW. ?AVWI hurt much, if at all, simply checked its rapid giowth. The same is true of wheat, although wheat in places turn ed slightly yellow. As neither wheat nor oats had begun to "jjint" at the ( time the most severe frost occurrtd, 1 they will not be materially hurt by the freeze. Melons, where up, .were badly frosted and garden truck iu general suffered more or less m ali portions o? the State, even in the coast truck district, where frosts in April are very rare. Pasturage started, to grow very well in Marcn, but latterlj Has been rather scant. O-ardttDS very backward generally, although instances are reported of remarkably early maturity. ( Large shipments are beiog made from the Charleston district of s;rawberries, beans, peas and potatoes. J. W. Biuer, Section Director, Columbia, S. C. Note?Correspondents will please mail tneir reports so they will reach tins office by Mondays. The Sp uiiardi Did It. Consul General Lee was before the Senate committee on foreign relations on Wednesday. Ha said that in his opinion tnere was no room to doubl that the destruction of the vessel was due to Spanish agencies. "Do you mean the Spanisa authorities in Cuba?" He was asked by a member ol ' the committee. ''I mean the Spanish officials," he replied, <lbut not G-en, bianco. I flint: some of the officials wore .^opnizint of the plans to destroy . the vessel, but I do not believe thai _ the Captain General ?:as." Blots la Spain. 3 According to a dispatch from Madrid there was a big; revolutionary j demonstration at Valencia Friday, ? Large crowds assembled, a red fla* , was di3plat ed and the Marstliaise was ' sur-g. The police dispersed the people arc cap'.urea -h? red flag. .THE CRUELTY OF SPAIN. P";ve Jinnrt-fM Ie*m of Savagery *nd Bloods? ed. Well may all rations in this centurystard *pp?lled at tbe s'ory told by Senator Proctor of the horrible condition of tbe inhabitants of Cuba. 0" no other nation save Turkey alone could such stories be tcld, but the Spain of tbe Sixteenth century in Eu rope and America is the Spain of today, fertital. bigoted, ignorant and obstinate. "What is Siid now of Spain in Cuba bas been tr>]d of Spain at home, o' 4-a (he Netherlands, of Spain aroorg the American Indians, the ages charge Spain not the least. Commerce passes her by; the ages of science and discovery do not enlighten Spain and Wejler of 1S98 is the legitimate successor of Torquemadaand of the Duke of Alva. Motley tells us that during the 18 years of Torquema^a's adminiat ration of the Inquisition, 10 220 individuals were burned alive, and 97 321 were punished with infamy, confiscation of property or perpetual imprisonment, so that this one friar dtsroyed 114,401 families. Naturally when Charles V proposed to establish the Spanish inquisition in the Netherlands, ihe Netherlands revelled In the Netherlands Alva organized the Council of BloccL Here is Motley's description of its work. "Thus the whole country became a charneihouse; the death bell tolled hourly in every -village; not a family but was called to mourn for the deareast relatives, while the survivors stalked listlessly about the ghosts of their former among the wrecks of their former homes. The spirit of the nation, within a few mon: h. i after the ar rival of Alva, seemed hopelessly bro ken. The blood of the best and bravest had filrpsdv stairpri ihft tc. fF >1d th? men to whom it had been accustomed to look for guidance and protection were dead, in prison 01 exile. The scaffolds, the gallows, the funeral pjres, which had been sufficient in ordinary times famished now an entirely inadequate machinery for the in cesant executions. Columns and stakes in every street; the door posts of private houses, the fences in the fields were laden with human carcasses, strangled, burned, behsadei The orchards in the country bore on many a tree the hideous fruit of human bodies." This is the story of the Spaniard in Ulimnrw if 1 o Whan ara Mai) uui vyv ^ i? au iv^/iyviuvvu nuvu ttw av?u of the Spaniard in Mexico and Peru 4'Indians," says Fiste, in writing of Peru'"Indians were slaughtered by ibs hundred, burned alive, impaled on sharp stakes, torn to pieces by blocdhoun ds In retaliation for the murder of a Spaniard it was thought proper to call fi'ty or sixty Icdians and chop their heads off. Little children were flung into the water to drown with less concern than if they had been puppies. In the mingling of sacred ideas with th-5 sheerest deviltry, there. was a grotesqueness fit for the pencil of Dure. Ozice in honor of Christ and his twelve apostles, they hanged 13 I Indians in a row at such a height that their toes could just touch the ground and then pricked them to death with their sword points, taking care not to k 11 them quickly." . . :i The story is too well-known ard-too horrible to be repeated at further length. It is the same bloody record of brutality from beginning to end; a story in which Spain is ever the foe of civilization, of humanity of freedom, and the apostle of bigotry, cruelty and despotism. As Spain was then, so is she today in Cuba; more feeble, it is true, but be cause feeble, more cruel. She sees power slipping from her, and she clings to it with the tenacity of despair. I^t Spain and Turkey remain to blot the map of Europe if Europe will have it so, but the time has come to close the history of Spam in the New World after five hundred years of almost uninterrupted savagery and blood* >hed. Rhode Island t>B aj About.' Having lost everything worth fighting for in the recent elections, the Republicans are boasting mightily over their "sweeping victory" in Rhode Island. When Republicans lose Rhode Island. Spain will be a civilized nation. 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