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lffp ^ S?:V'" Sf}> CLEAHSED IN THE BLOOD.! - - - | CR. TVLMAGS ILLUSTRATES AN OuD TESTAMENT SCENE. Freedom ot Parifled Soul?Sios That OaJy tlood Can Einjvs- Wfc*: We Are Teustic b/ Birds of Ancient Sacrifice. From a scene o? old Dr. Talmage in thia sermon presents the old gospel under another phase; text, Leviticus xiy, 5 7: "And the priests siiall com mand 'that one of the birds be killed in an earthen ves;e!, over running water. As for living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hjssop and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood ef tne oirdt hat was kiiled over the running -water, and he snail sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times and shall pronounce him ciean and shall let theiiving bird loose into the open field." The Old Testament to very many ft orpftt slaughter house ??W?UV ? ? fc- 1 o strewn with the blood and bones 1 and horDS and hoo;s of butchered animals. It offends their sight; it disgusts their taste; it actually nauseates the stomach. But to the intelligent Christian the Old Testament is a magnificent corridor fchrougn wnich Jesus advances. As he appears at tne otner end of the corridor we can oniy see the outlines of Ms character. Coming nearer, we can descry tne features. But when at last ne steps upon the platiorm of the New Testament, amia me lorcnes ox evangelists and apostles, the orchestras of neaven announco him witn a blast ol minstrelsy in&t wakes up Betnienern at midnight. Tnere were a great many cages of biros brought down to Jerusalem for ^ sacrifice?sparrows and pigeons and turtledoves.' lean h-ar tnem now, w rustling, caroling and singing all aruuud acout tiia Lempxe, wncn t* leper $i:... wa? to Do cured of ms leprosy, in or- j der to nnt cleansing two o? tnese birds J were lafcen. Uae ot tnem was siain i over an earthen vessel of running water?that is, clear, iresh water?and then the bira was killed. Another ' bird was tnen taken, tied to a nyssop br&nca. and piuaged by the priest into the blood of tue hrst oird, and then with tms hy&sop Dracca, oird tippled, the priest would sprinkle the iepar seven times, then unue the Dird from the hy&sop branch, and it would go soaring in 10 tne neaveas. Now open your ejes wide, my dear breinern and sisters, and see tnat tnat first Oird meant Jesus and tnat the second bird means your own soul . There is notning more suggestive than a caged bird. In the down of its breast you can see the glow cl southern climes. In the sparkle of its **** eve \ou can see the flash of distant -m - m V seas. la its voice you can hear the song it learner*, in tne wild wood. It Is a cnnd of tie sky in captivity. Now j the dead bird ox my text, captured from tne air, suggests tne Lard Jesus, Who cams down. Irom tne realms ol lignt and glory. He once stood in the sunJignt of neaven. He was tne favorite of tne land. He was the Ring's {Son. Wneaever a victory was gaineu or a throne set up ne was tne first to hear it. He could not walk incognito along tne aire?is, for ail heaven &new nim. For eternal ages he had dwelt amid ite migniy populations of neaven. No noliday naa ever dawned on tne city wneane wasaosent. He was not liKe an earthly prince, ivCMinct trr>m a mlum heralded oy & troop oi claaJang norse guards. JNro; tie was greeted everywnere as a brotner, aiid all heaven was periectly at Home witn Him But one nay mere caaie word to the - palace that an insignificant island was ??. ? m rebellion and was cuttng itseilto pieces witb. anarcny. 1 :ie&r an angel t'- say: "Let it periszu The King's reaim is vast enough. without tne island. The tributes to the King are large enough without mat. w e can spear it." "Not so," said the Prince, the King's Son, and I see mm pusn out one day under tne protest oi a great comply. He starts straignt xor tne rebellious island. He lanos amid tne ^xecr&tinns of the nmaDuants, that grow in violence unul the malice ol eartr. has smitten him, and the spirits of the lost world put their bin.cs. wings over his djmg Head and shut me sun $T"- out. The hawJis and vultures swooped upon this dove ol the text, until head and breast *nd feet ran blood?until m nnder the flocks and oeaks 01 darkness the pcor thing perished. No wonaer is was a bird tnat was taken and slain over an earthen vessel of running water. It was a child of the skies, it typified him who came down from heaven in agony and biocd 10 save our I: souls. Blessed be his glorious name forever I X notice also in my text that the bird taat was siain was a clean bird. Tnetext demanded that it should be. The raven was never sacrificed, nor the cormorant, nor the vulture. It must be a clean bird, sajs tiae text, and it sugguests the pure Jesus?the hnJ*i .Thsii? A lfhrtT?o>rt ho snftnt, his AiWAJ WXWWMk MMIUVMgU JULW " ?"? boyhood in the worst village on earih, - aiuiougn blasphemies were pouxea into ills ear enough to have poisoned any one eise, he stands be!ore the world a perfect Christ. Herod was cruel, IK Maaiy VlLL was andean, William HI J was treacherous, but point out a fault of our King. Answer me, ye boys who knew nim on the streets of N&za retn! Answer me, ye miscreants who saw him die! The skeptical tailors have tried lor 1,800 years to find out one hole in tnis seamless garment, but they have not found it. Xhe most ingenious and eloquent infidel of this day lii tie last line of his book, all of wnich denounces Christ, says, '"Ail J ages must proclaim tHat among the I sous ol men tnere is none greater! than Jesus." So let this bird of the text be clean?its feet fragrant "with S the dew mat it pressed, its beak carrying spng ol thyme and frankincense, its learners wasnea in summer showers, O thou spotless Son of God, impress us wiin tny innocence! Thou lovely source of true delight, Whom 1 unseen, adore, * v Unveil thy beauties to my sight, That I may love thee more. I remark, also, in regard to this first bird mentioned in the text that it was a defenseless bird. When the eagle is assaulted, with its iron beak it strikes like a bolt against its adversary. This was .a dove or a sparrow, we do not know just which. Take the dove or pigeon in your hand, and the pecking ol its beak on your hand makes you laugh at the feebleness of its assault. The reindeer after it is down may fell you with its antlere. The ox after you think it is dead may break your leg in its death struggle. The har pooned wnaie la its last agoiiy may crush you in the coil of the unwinding rope. But this was a dove or a sparrow?perfectly harmless, perfectly defenseless?type of him who said, "I have trod the wise press alone, and there was none to help." None to help. 2he murderers have it all their own way. Where was the soldier in the Roman regiment who swung his sword in the defense of the divine martyr? Did the? put one drop of oil on his gashed feei* Was there one in all that crowd manly and generous enough to stand up for nim? Were the miscreants at the cross any more interiemd with in their work of spiking him fis\ than the carpenter in his I: . > shop driving a nail through a pine j board! The women cried, but there | Yy AZt il%J MCIHU 1U bUVU iweuo* 41 vuv ?w > help, none to help. 0 ray Lord Jesus, ? none to help. The wave of anguish I came up to the arch of his feet, came ! up to his knee, floated to his waist, rose to his chin, swept to bis temples, yet none to help. Ten thousand times ten thousand angels in the sky ready at command to pJunge into the bloody affray and strike back the hosts of darkness, yet none to help, none to help, On, this dove of the text in its last moment clutched not with angry talons. It plunged not a savage oeak. It was a dove?helpless, defenseless. None to help, none to help. As after a severe storm in the morning you go out and Had birds dead on the snow, so this dead bird of the text makes me think of that awful storm that swept the earth on crucifixion day, when the wrath of God, and the malice of man, and the fury of devils wrestled beneath the three crosses. As we sang just now: Well might the sun in darkness hide And snut his glories in When Cnrist, the mighty Maker, died For man, the creature's 6in. But I come now to speak of this sec ond bird of tne text. We must not let tnat fly away until we nave examined if: 'Prjo nrmct tr?n!r th? J?>f?nnd hird. > tied 1; to the hjssop brancn and ttien plunged it in me blood of the first oira. AH, thai is my soul, plunged for cieasicg in the riaviour's bloud. Ihere is not enough water in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to wash away our smallest sin. tSin is sucn an outrage on God's universe that nothing du; blooa can atone for it. Yuu &nO',v tne life is in tne Diood, and as tne lile has been forfeited, nothing could buy it back but blood. What was ;it that was sprinkled on the doorposts when the destroying angel went inrough the land? Blood. Wnat was it tnt>i went streaming irom the altar or anclealsacrifl.se? JtSiood. Wnat was it tnat the priest carried into the holy or holies, maJtuig intercession for tne people? Biood. * Wnat was it that r?ir* *no <vut?Wdn c f ftafhCM. u coiu OTTWQy buv v ?- vivvumw naaufc i Great drops ol blood. Wnat does .ne wine in tne sacramental cup signify. Blood. Wnat makes tbe roDcs of the righteous in hoaven so fair! Tney are washed in tne blood ol tne Limb. What is it tnat cleanses all our pollution? Ine blood of Jesus (Jurist, ihai cleanse til from all sin. 1 near someocdy saving, "1 do not like >.u;n a sanguinary religion as tnat." Do you tniuS it is very wise for tne patient to tell the accior, "I don't li&e tne medicine you nave given me?1' It he wants to bj cured, ne Had better take the medicine. My Lord God has offered us a balm, and it is v<jry /oolisn for ua to say, "I don't like tnat balm." Wo nad oetier take it and &e saved. But you do not oppose Lie shedding ol Diood in other oirecucus and lor omer ends, 11 100,000 men go out to battle lor their country and Jtiave to lay aosvn tneir lives lor free institutions, is mere anything ignoble about Uiai? No, you say, "gioncui sacrifice ratner." And is the::e anytning no Die in the iaea that me Lara Jesus Christ, by me snedding of nis biootl, delivered not only one land out all lands ana all ages i::om bondage, introducing men by millions and millions into tne lio erty of me sons of U-oa? Is mere anytning ignooie about tnat? As mis second bird ot the text was plunged in fie olooa of me first bird, so we must be wasned in me olood cf (Jurist or go polluted forever. Let the water and the blood, From thy side a healing flood, Be of Bin the double core, Have from earth and make me pure. I nouce now mat as soon as this second oird was dipped in the Diood cf tne first bird tne priest unloosened it and it was free?free of wing and free of foot. It could wnet its beak on any tree branch it chose. It could peck tne grapes of any vineyard it cnose. It was free; a type of our souls ttf ?r we have washed in the blood of tne Lamb. We can go where we will. We can do what we will. You say, "Had you not better qualify that?" . f I - tur x rciacxuuer uui, ui uu-avoision the will is changed, and the man will not will that which is wrong. There is no straitjacket in our religion. A slate 01 sin is a state of slavery. A state of pardon is a state of emancipation. The hammer of God's grace .knocks the hopples from tne feet, knocks the handcuffs from the wrist, opens the door into a landscape ail ashimmer with fountains and abloom wit^ gardens It is freedom. If a man has become a Christian, he is no more afraid of Sinai. The thunj a: z 4. * a l. uers wi oiaax uu nut irignwsa, lulu. You have on some August cay seen two thunder showers meet. One cloud from this mountain and another cloud from that mountain, coming nearer and neaaer together and responding to each other, crash to crash, thunder to thunder, boom, boom! And then the clouds break and the torrents pour, and they are emptied perhaps into the very same stream that comes down so red at your feet that it seems as if all the carnage cf the storm battle has been emptied into it. So in this Biole I see two s:o. ms gatner, one above Sinai, the other above Calvary, and they respond one to the other?flash to flasn, thunder to thunder, boom, boom. Sinai thunders, "Ine soul that sinneth. it shall aie." Calvary responds, "cJave them from going down to the pit, f jr 1 have found a ransome." Sinai says, "Woe! voe!" Calvary answers, "Mercy I mercy I" And then the clouds burst and empty their treasures into one torrent, and it comes flowing to cur feet,red with the carnage of our L jra, in wnich, if thy soul ba plunged, like the bird in the test, it snail go forth free?free 1 Qan. Fish said that he ones stood at a slave block where an old Cnristjan minister was being sold. The auction eer Said of him: " Wnat bid do I hear for this man? He is a very Kood kind of a man; he is a minister." Somebody said, 'Twenty dollars" (he was very old and net wortn much), some body eh?, "Twenty fire," "JL'hirty", i "Inirty-five," ''Forty." The aged Christian minister began to tremble. He bad expected to be able to buy bis own freedom, and he had just $70 and expected with the $70 to get free. As tne bids ran up the old man trembled more and more. "Forty," "Forty-five," "Fifty," Fifty five," "Sixty," "Sixty-five." The old man cried out, "Seventy." He was afraid they would outbid him. The men around were transfixed. Nobody dared bid, and the auctioneer struck him down to himself?done! But by reason of sin we are poorer than that African. We cannot buy our own deliverance. The voices of death are bidding for us, asd they bid us down. But the Lord Jesus Christ comes and says: "I will buy that man. I bid for him my Bethlehem manger. I Dia ior mm my nunger on the mountain. I bid for him my aching head. I bid for nim my fainting heart. I bid for him all my wounds. A voice from the throne of God says: "It is enough! Jesus has bought him." B:ught with a price. The purchas9 complete. It is done. Tha orftftt transaction's done. I am my Lord's, and he is mine. Ee drew me, and I followed on, Charmed to confess the Toice divine. Why is not a man free when begets rid cf his sins ? The sins of the tongue gone, the sins of action gone, the sins of the mind gone. A.1I the transgres sions o{ 30, 40, 50, 70 yesrs gone?no more in the soul than the malaria tbat floated in the atmosphere a thousand jears ago, for when my Lord Jesus pardons a man he pardons him, and there is no halfway work about it. Here I see a beggar going along the turnpike road. Ha is worn out with disease. Hs is stiff in the joints. He is ulcered all over. He has rheum in hisejes. Ha is sick and wasted. He is in rags. Every time he puts down his swoiJen feet be cries, "Oa tne pain!'' Hs sees a fountain by the roadside under a tree, and he crawls up to that fountain and says: "I must wasii. Jtiere x may cool my ulcers. Here I m^y get rest." He stoops down and scoops up in the palm of his hands enough water to slake hi3 thirst, and that is all gone. Then he stoops down and begins to wash his eyes, and the rhtun is all gons. Then he pals in his swollen feet, and Lhe swelling is gone. Then willing no longer to be only half cured he plunges in, and his whole body is laved in the stream, and he gets upon the bank well. Meantime the owner of the mansion up youdei comes down, walking thrown the ravine with his only son, and he sees the bundle of rags and asks, "Whose rags are these?-' A. voice from the fountain says, "Thnso aro m7 vflorc " Th?n savs thft master to ills son, "Go up to the house and get the best new suit you can find and bring it do?m." And ha brings down the clothes, and the beggar is clothed in them, and he looks around and says: "I was filthy, but now I am clean. I was ragged, but now I am robed. I waa blind, but now I see. G-lory be to the o wner of that mansion, and glory be to that son who brought me that .new suit of clothes, and glory ba to this fouoiain, where I ( have washed, and waera all who wili , may wash and be clean!" Where sin abounded, grace ?iotli much more , abound The bird has been dipped; no w let it fly away. ( The next thing X notice about this bird when.it.was loosened (and this is the mainidea) is that it flew away. Which way did it go? When you let a bird loose from your grasp, which way does it fly ? Up. Wna; are wings for? To fly with. Is there anything in the suggestion of tne direction ; taken by tnat bird to indicate wHich , wuy we ought to go? Ri3e, my soul, and stretch thy wings, i Thy better portion trace. Rise from the transitory things ; To heaven, thy native place, We should be going heavenward. That is the suggestion. Bat I know that we have a great many era wbacks. 1 You had them tnis morning perhaps. You had them yesterday, or the day anH althnuirh vrtii -want tr? hft going heavenward, you are constantly discouraged. Bat I supposs when tnat biru went out of the priest's hands is want by infectious?sometimes stooping. A bird does not shoot directly up, bat this is the motion of a 1 bird. So the soul soars toward God, rising up in love and sometimes de-l! pressed by trial. It does not always go in the direction it would like to go, out the main course is right. There is one passage in the BioJe which I quote oftener to myself than any other, ''He knoweth our frame, and ha remembereth that we are dust." Tnere is a legend in Iceland which sajs tnat when Jesus was a boy playing with his comrades one tiabDatn day ha made birds of clay, and as these birds of clay were standing upon the ground an oldSaducee came along, and ne was disgusted at tbe sport and dasned the birds to pieces, but the legend says tnat Jesus waved his nand abov tne broken birds, and taking wing h >y went singing heavenward. Now tnat is a lable among the Icelanders, but it is not a fable mat we are dust and tnat, the hand of divine grace waved over us once, we go singing toward the sties. I wisn, my friends, tbat we could litMk in q liTtrhcn* atmnenhprA Tf a man's whole life object w to make dollars, lie will be running against tuose who are making dollars. If it is his whole life object 10 get applause, he will run against those wno are seeking applause. But if he rises 1 higher tHaa that ne will not be interrupted in liis flight heavenward. , Why doas that fhek of birds, floating up against tne blue sky so high that you can nardly sse tnem, not cnange < its course lor spire or tower. They are above all obsiructioas. So we would not have so oi ten to change our Chriskian course if we livtd in nigher < atmosphere nearer Christ, nearer iha ; throne ol Grod. Oh, ye wlio have been washed in , the blood of Christ?ye who have been loosed from the hyssop branch? ? no tft orvmo I 1 3WU(i UCaTWUTTCUU. 4V vv bv wvmv o.. you a long flight, temptations may dispute your way, storms of be- j reavement and trouble may trike your < soul, but God will see you througn. i Build not on the earth. bet your af- J lections on things m heaven, not on things on earth. This is a perishing J worid. lis flowers f&oe. It fcuu- J tains dry up. Its promises cheat, ties < jour affections upon Carist and < heaven. I rejoice, my dear brethren i and sisters in Christ, that the flight i will after awhile be ended. Not al i wajs beaten ox the storm. Not ai ; ing on weary wings. There is a warm dovecot of eternal rest where we shall Hud a place ot comfort, to the everlasting j jj of our soul. On, : they are going up all the time?going I up from this cnurcn?going up from ; all the families aad irom all tne tue churches of the Jand, the weary doves seeking rest in a dovecot. On. tnat in that eood land we may all m9et wnen oar trials are oyer! we cannot get inio the glorious pres encc of our departed ones unless we have been cleansed in the same oiooa tnat wasned tneirsins away. I kno* this is tiua of all wno have gone in, tnat tbey were plugged in the blood, th?t tbey were ulooscd from tne njssop branch. Tnen tney went singing into glory. See tnat ye refuse noi' him '.natsteiketn, fjr u they escaped nof rciuss nim that spake on earth how mucn more snail not we escape il we lurn away from nim mat speaketh from heaven. Sick of tfce War. A dispatch from Earcelona sajs: "All Barcelona is heartily sick o! the war. The people regard it as merely a continuation of the Cuban war, which has paraljzsd business lor three years. Recently the government called upon the manufacturers of Barcelona voluntarily to contribute $6D,U00 for the defense of the town, ihey replied that they had already paid | most of the expenses of the govern! meat and of the defenses of Spain, adding; 'If the Yankee admiral cjmes heie, we shall invita him to dinner.' " E/.eib? Cannibals. Mail advices received from Australia contain a brief account of the cannibal outrage in New Guinea. A number of native prisoners held at Mombare escaped and fied to the oush tribes in that neighborhood. The fugitives gathered a strong fores aud returned to Mombare. Tney attacked a peaceful village b?low tbe polica camp, whose people they suspected of treachery, and carried off all the women. They captured and killed 18 men, 10 nf mlinm tVior- ftffl CONDITION OF CROPS. THE EIGHTH WEfc KLY WEATHER AND CROP BULLETIN ISSUED. What Xoans tops are Doio* Wii? t the Ob?e:T8ri All Over the St?<e Report J9 Bead<iaart*ra-Tlie I?f >ritatUn Cocuolidkt'd. The Allowing is the weekly crop bulletin of the South Carolina section of the climate and crop service, United States department of agriculture, issued Tuesday b.y Director Bauer: The temperature continued high du ring the week, with day temperature ranging between 80 and 100, toe latter extreme was reached oa the 28;h at a few places, on the 29:h at many and on the 30;h quite generally. The night temperatures ranged between 54 and 75. The minimum oc curred at Walhalla on ths 25th. The mean temperature of the wetk was 78, the normal for the same period is about 74. Scattered showers, heavy in places, but generally light, occu-redon the 24'.h, 25 ;h and 26th. The weeks rainfall was unevenly distributed. In U/vma t?i am A. iJUL J-LUI" ry, Clarendon, Marion, Sumter, Pickens and Greenville counties the rainfall was in places quite heavy and nearly all portions of tnose counties received enough rain for the present needs of crops. la Williamsburg, Sumter, Chasterfield, Orangeburg, Barkeley, Lancaster, Oconee, Bamberg, Bichland, Newberry, Hampion, Charleston, Aiken and Chester counties the rainfall was verj partial and rarely heavy enough to do much good, while in Anderson, Fairfield, Greenwood, Edgefield, Lexington, Barnwell, Lauiens, Kershaw^ Uuinn. York. Cheater, ftaffnflr flnar-' tan burg, Aiken, Abbeville, Dorche3 ter, Hampton and Beaufort the showers were light and widely scattered, and gav? bat little relief from the prevailing drought. In portions of An cterson, Abbeville, Greenwood, Aiken, Edgtfiald and iSaiuda counties no rain of measurable amount has fallen in from four to five weeks. The average of the measurements for the week ia 0.70 and the approximate normal is 1.80 inches. Fourteen piaC3s reported measurements of one inch or more, and 41 places reported measurements of less tnan one inch ranging between 0.03 and 0.91. In many sections wells are beginning to fail and streams are at extremely low stages. Toe records of former years encourages the belief and sustains the Inpa tnat the drought will soon be relieved. Damaging hail sto?m3 occurred in Bamberg, G-reanville and Spartanburg counties, and without doing any appreciable damage in York and Sumter. Tnere was slightly more than an average amount of bright sunshine; the estimated percentage for the State was 81 per cent, of tha possible. Tne winds were generally light, hot and dry westerly or southerly and variable on two days. Where showers fell to any extent, crops made rapid improvement, bat where the rainfall was iight or there was none, crops made little or no growth and even deteriorated, except cotton which made slight improvement. The corn crop is in a very unsatis factory condition ever most of the Siate. In the southeastern counties the stands are very uneven with some nills large enough to tassel, and equally as many where the plants are but a few inches high. The same irregularity in standi prevails over the enure State. Cat, bud and wire worms are damaging corn very mush. Late planted and replanted corn slow to come up exespt where plenty of voin fall *lVir% /it*or in woof nlo^oo trt X U1J AAA iUIMI kV plant bottom lands. Some oat stubble planted to corn. In northeastern counties corn is generally in fine condition. Corn has been well cultivated and fields are clean and free from grass. Wilting during the heat of the day. There was a general improvement in the condition of cotton, very slignt in the counties and parts of couaties where arought prevails, and marked wnere the rainfall was heavy enough to so*k the ground. Cut worms have damaged cotton in many places. Late planted and replanted fields not up yet in ins was turn counties tne ground being too dry for germination? Orer tne eastern, east central and Pee Dee actions of the State cotton is doing well, and chopping to stands is about liaistied, winle over the west cantral norm central and western cjunues cotton is undersized, of irregular and incomplete stands, and much not yet up, wmie chopping to stands is out partly finished. Fields are clean and in fine tilth. Sea island cotton looks miserable from tne tracts of tne prevailing drought. WHeat harvest has begun in a few Localities and will be general by tne 5?n of June. Tne prospects cjntinue to indicate a large yield. Host con tined to blades. uj,;s narvest nas extended to tne more western couaties and is nearly liaiahed, for winter sown, in eastern cjunties. Yields continue good, and on moist lands tne yield is heavy. Spring uats are either very poor or eise complete failures owing to lack of rain at, tne right time. A few localities report the crop not turning out well wnile other iccilities say it is the best crop in many years. Tne continued warm weather has improved rica, which is doing weii Some grassy fields in Berkeley. There is danger of salt water reaching the rice fields on account of low stage of water in the rivers. Tobacco was greatly banefikted bythe showers which visited a large por blUli Ul wuo laiaiug bat there is urgent need or a general hesvy rain fur this crop. Worms are already numerous and have damaged the crop to a slight extent. In Flor ence county bad stands are reported; elsewhere stands are quite even and full. Field peas are being planted on stubble lands and in with corn. There is much delay in setting s ffeetpotato slips, the ground being two dry'although many slips were set during the week. In places enough rain fell for this work and some wa 3 i. I ?1 A_ I 1_ J rcreu me yiauis ujr uauu. Irish potatoes ara not doing well. They need rain. Colorado beetles are numerous and destructive, in the nor them counties. Barced. a: the staie. A special to the News fron Shreveport, Ls., says: A thousand people gathered at Doyline, about 18 miles from here, to witness the burning at the stakes of William Street, a negro who attempted the assault and murder of Mrs. Parish. The crime was committed on the night of May 30. Sireet was 23 years of age. He confessed the crime to a colored minister, but said a negro minister named John R lodes was implicated. H? was tied to the stake, and flames started at 1 o'clock. It Ft3 a sickening sight which lasted 10 minutes, when 8treet was a charred mass. Weil-known lawyers made speeches, warning the crowd of negroes that such crimes would not be tolerated in a civilized community. The woman whom Street assaulted is in a mo3t critical condition and could not identify Street wnen caught until a doctor held open her eyelids. I S83B8WSBB??MBSBBggBCSV.'. j" " ' UGH PRICE OF WHFAT. Sep t?l!ve stokes od the Biff De?l j 35?de by Jo? L?lte<*. Editor Washington Post: Ycu sre usually so acc irate when ycu invoke facts that I read with surmise your attempted defense of "Jo1' Leiter, and incidentally of option gambling in yesterday's Post You characterize as unspeakably wicked certain expressions of leading Kniphts of Labor and others which recently appeared in a New York paper. The unspeakable wickedness of the labor men apparently is only less in your estimation than that of the unmention ayiC ILL pULULLCLLLU ? UIOUI. In your defense of the man and the method you sppeal to the facts, and charge those wno hoJd contrary views with deliberately deceiving the people as to the facts. Can the editor of The Post be serious when he sajs Loiter has not speculated or gambled in futures or options? The merest tyro in the exchange methods knows that bis trass actions from start to finish were speculative purely, a* d the very essence of gamblng. It is true, as you say, he "bought the actual wheat in the open market at the prevailing prices." But he bought it solely be caus?> it became necessary in order to. win Vila AH ofo'r 4 n r# TT1U X1XO (JU.tabaXJ.Wl.Ug Toe es-enca of the transaction was like this: Leiter bet ten million dollars, say, that wheat would go above 70 cents by a certain date, and the higher above the bigger would he the stakes according to an agreed scale. He put up his stakes, and then with all the power of unlimited money, he went to work to force the price above 70 cants, in order that he might win his bets. The higher above 70 cents he could force it, the bigger would be his winnings. By thimble rigging methods well known on the exchanges, he forced the price up to 77 cents. tii .*4 u;?- :# Ua la JLUL"ix jlw uccurrcu lu xx lie uvuiu get control of the actural wheat, he could demand delivery of actual wheat instead of the margins. In that event, his antagonists would have to come to him for wheat to fulfill their gambling contracts, and so he CDuld force the price up indefinitely. That is precisely what he did. He bought up all the wheat in the market ?at what price? At thepric9 he himself hai fixed by manipulating the figures on the exchange. Then what? Having control of the actual wheat and of the gambling contrasts as well, he actually forced tue price up to $1.85 per bushel. And yet The Po3t says Leiter is not responsible for the higher price of bread. However we may dis agree about terms descriptive of those acts, there can be no rubbing out the * l. at l. : i. i w iaci mat iub price v. qui up irom 11 cents to $1.85 after Leiter bought actual wheat, How, then, can Tne Post say that "if the cost of wheat has been increased, it is the result o* natural causes over which no operator had or could have had the least control?" It is begging the question to say that the increased price inures to the pro ducers of wheat. It is not only untrue, but disingenuous. This increase in price has ta&en place in the main since the producer parted with his product. It is always so, not only in respsct to wheat, bit in respect to cotton and every other subject of option gambling. But suppose the producers did get the benefit of these gambling operations in this instance. How does that help the producers who had to sell last year and the year before, and for ten years past, while the market was unaer control or toe "Dear&r The Knights of Labor are right "Jo" Leiter and his class, and the exchanges which make them possible, should b3 abated by law. They perform no useful functions commensurate with the evil they do. I have a bill pending before a committee of the House which will accomplish that purpose, and if the people who are forced to pay more for Dread, or go lacking, by reason of these gambling operations, will help, such abuses will not occur again, (iarmany and Russia have legislation for the protection of the producers and consumers of bread and other agricultural products. Will this country be less considerate of the masses? I hand you herewith a copy of my bill and of my speech thereon, and ass; that you review your facts as well as -i u: your upimuu uu tuia auaurumg question. J. WilliA3i Stokes. House of Itepresentatives, May 30, 18S3. A BIG FAILURE. An Atlanta Firm Fell* for a Lar^e Amount. A dispatch from Atlanta sajs Juige Lumpkin, at 1 o'clock Wednesday morning appointed Henry Weilhouse temporary receiver for tne Moody & Brewster company. The firm failed during the day for $160,000 and mortgages amounting to $105,432 were filed in the clerk's office against the com pany. As a result of the failure of ?i i _ r> oi _: i f i' _ jiuuuy tv ofowsier, oaiuiey cv vai., 153 Decatur street, aJsa failed fur $7,500. Gary S. Brewster, the juaior memDer of the firm has left Atlanta, leaving nctaing behind bat a note to his partner, Mr. John T. Moody, saying that on account of great losses, ne will remain out of town for a short while. The assets of the company are estimated at about $100,000, wnila the liabilities will reaca $160,000, according to the statement of Mr. Moody. It is said, on reliable authority, however, that the concern owes money to tbe amount of $350,000. It is said the firm owes $150,000 in Georgia alone. Ine faiiuie was caused by speculation in cotton, wheat, stocks and bonds. Mr. Brewster, in the note ha left Mr Moodv. stated that he lost 252 000 in speculation in Atlanta and. $2U,000 in New York. Mr. Moody sail today that the firm alone has lost $60,000 in speculation in cotton aud wheat. The firm had been in business but three months and, while engaged in the wholesale dry goods business, operated uader the firm names of Moody & Brewster, Southern Pacific Guano company, Moody Loan and Banking company and F. A. Smiliey & Co. Mr. Smiliey, who has also failed, is a Drother-inlaw of Mr. Moody. The failure is the largest that has ever occurred in Atlanta. The assets are hardly one-third what the liabilities are said to be, and the creditors include people in all parts of the United States, east of the R^cky Mountains. The bill for reed ver, which has been filed, makes many allegations, aud an amendment }will be filed tomorrow morning, which is said to be of a sensational character. The senior partner said tonight: "I do not believe that Mr. Brewster is far away. He left, in my opinion, solely because he could not bsar to face what he knew was coming. He left here Saturday night, although I knew nothing of tne conditions o' affairs iitiH] MrtnHav mnrnint* " _?e?Anotber Appeal# The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Mail says: ''Spain has addressed another appeal to the powers to intervene in the war, and Austria is prepared to accede, but only in conjunction with other powers." THE HONOR ROLL. Mai'e K 11 of the i'atrcet:o K He*. Al k?r, <3. C. . I The following is the muster roll of the Palmetto R fie3, of A'ken, S. C.,1 now Co. L. First regiment, Scuth j Carolina volunteers. COMMISSIONED OFFICERS Claude E. Sawyer, captain, lawyer, Chinquepio, single. Willis J. Duncan, first lieutenant, planter, Barnwell, siEgle. James A. Willis, second lieutenant, student, Williston, single. SON COMMISSIONED OFFICERS George P. Ashley, first sergeant, farmer, Aiken, single. George W. Nevils serocd sergeant, physician, Blacksville, single. William A. Collett, sergeant, merchant, Edgefield, single. Carroll D. Nance, sergeant, student, Cross Hill, single. William R. Wright, sergeant, merchant, Bamberg, married. -r>! j n n. i. * xucuara u-, oi-one, sergeani, jawyer, Greenville, single. Henry A. Weight, corporal, merchant, Bamberg, single. William Pricher, corporal, farmer, Weimers, single. Allen M. Perry, corporal, carpenter Monnetta, single. Albert E HilJ, corporal, clerk, Altmont, Mich., single. t tr< o" ? i .1 -i.. J ? a. I ot-asjju. EJ. i-Lariey. cur^ura:, s.uucui. Williston, single. Mike H. Murray, corporal, conductor, Aiken, single. Charles H. Peeples, musician, far mer, Whaley, single, Louis H. Troato, musician, clerk, Wiiliston, single. Lawson K. Ghinter, artificer, carpenter, Aiken, single. Samuel Col van, wagoner, night watchman, E igeneld, single. PRIVATES John W. Abram, farmer, Whitmere siDgle. Orria Alexander, engineer. Eureka, Ohio, single. Wyatt Bickias, railroader, Charleston, single, A ^ f\l 1 lran>\AM fUft*. U JwV]/U a. AJwAA) VUOl" leston, single. Albert S. B^rry, pluiuber, Charleston, single. Joseph A. Best, farmar, Ulmer, single, PnaraohJ. Bottom, manufacturer, Rockey. Neb., single. Portiua D. Brown, laborer, Caarles ton, single. Roper H. Bussey, farmer, Modoc, single. Henry Dampsey, blacksmith, Hamp ton,single. Clarence Die, farmer, Batesburg, single. Isaac 0. Eimunds, salesman. New York, single. Charles L. Edwards, millman, Kill* ian, single. Munroe Fennel, farmer Sjlvania, Ga., single. Elijah M. Free, farmer, Bamberg, single. Ryerson 8. Guesi, student, Denmark, single. John T. Hawkins, butcher, Greenville, single. Gideon C. Hair, constable, Willis ton, single. George H. Hope, carpenter, Den lustra., single. Edward W. Holman, farmer, Barnwell, single. JohnH. Holman brakeman, Denmark, single. John J. Holm33, farmer, Sjuthberry, N. Y., single. James M. Hai3t, telegrapher, Jjhnstoa, single. James J. Jeffcoat,painter, Barnwell, single. Ernest Jjnes, millman, Langley, single. Liaton L. Kennedy, painter, Dinmark, single. 0;?is R. Keaaady, farmer, Aikea, single, Hsary Kirklaad, labour, Aiken, single. Joaes Lsoaard, brickmaker, Lexington, N. C., single. Jake Lott, millmaa, Lingley, siagle. . Banjamia S. Moore, farmer, Bara* well, single. John J. Moore, farmsr, Bira well, single. RafusR Moore, marchaat, Barawell, siagie. Charles F. Maaa, millmaa, R )ck Hill, single. Jao. L. Neeca, laborer, Swansea, married. Robert Q Navils, wagoier, Barnwell, single. Clifton Peake, farmer, Kershav, single. William Pearson, millman, Starrform. P. 0. single. William F. Perrin, clerk, Abbe vill single. Lawrence D. Padgett, farmer Mont morenci, single. Henry J. Pxjce, Jr., farmer, McCor* mick, single. James A. Price, farmer, Bamberg, single. Joseph G. Pritcher, sawyer, Weimers, single John H. Prince, farmrr, Modoc, single. Joseph S. Bxid. millman, Ling ley, single. JohnH Rjesa, millman, Augusta, single. Henry L. Rowell, wheelwright, Elko single. Wade H. Sucker, farmer, Swansea, single. Wilson L, Sheridan, farmer, Holly Hill, ainclfl. Aloyed M-Smith, brick mason, Hop Mill No. 2, N. C., single. Coke Smith, millman, Crim, single. Charles G. Sontag, farmer, Denmark single. Charles L. Stanbss, undertaker, Aiken, single. George S. Taylor, millman, Oi9r, single. William E. Turner, farmer, Cops, single. Sq lire Usery, farmar, Bildoc, single. Thomas M. Usery, farmer, Baldoc, single. James L. Whiting, mulman, Pacolet, married. George Whittle, mUlman, Langlay, single. John H. Wiggins, farmer, Peaks, single. 8:?yen M. Wiggins, farmer, Peaks, single. John Williams, fsjmer, Langley, single. Wm. A, Wingard, printer, Aiken, single. in TTr:? "Piu.. vyiiita. JL. ?* iaouiaii, uuuuci, imisoiton, Ga., single. Wm. M. Young, firmer, Camden, single. Almost every man in America has some digestive trouble. When men meet, the greeting usually is, "Well, how are you?" That develops health taik. The man who has no bowtl or stomach trouble is almost a curiosity. Trouble is men take no care of themseiveB. They eat as though they,thad copper stomachs and bowels of brass. By and by, overworked nature rebels Then come headaches, nervousness, Daa Diooa, aver ana Kianey trouoies. i Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pallets furnish! help for constipation and torpid lirer, sick and bilious headache, dizziness, sour stomach, loss of appatite, indigestion. or djspesaia, windy belchings, ?ii n _ ? 3 ~ m "near i our pam aim uiairesEa aiicr eating, and kindred derangements of the liver, stomach and bowels. Accept no substitute. - >> 5-P-ANlARCS DESPERATE. Cap-*Ui I) rat Hrjg Bjmt Co'j M?n Will j Fight L!k* 3?v ?^i. Csp-aia J. H Dorsl has been doing some vtry daricg and dangerous work far the government, says a Key West dispaich. He has taken his life in his hand a dozen times. His instructions were to assist ths Cubans in making connection with. the Uoited Statesofficials, and see that tbe Remington and Springfield rifl-?s, for which Gen. Go mtz was askicg"lfiO insistently, got into his hands.. Bat behiad this was a mucfcTgJaver'work. It was to ascer win aoosu wnat me reaienic.ive icrce of Spain w*9 in Cuba, and, generally, about what sort cf a fight Spain intends putting up, judging from the evidence obtainable. Captain Dorst says: "Spain intends fighting with the ferocity of a ceniu 4y ago. The captur ed man will receive about the treatment accordad to captives by the tuques. He begs to dissipate the impression, if aDy such be current, that it will be any easy matter to drive out Spain'a soldiery. "It is well," sajs he, "to baar in mind that Spain has in Cuba between 60,000 and 75,000 soldiers, who have ; survived two epidemics, and the bid [ food and worse sanitary arrangements of Spauish barracks. These men re hgiously believe that, if captured,, their throats will instantly be cut. Their superior c ffi sers tell them this, the priests declare that it is tru*. Ia the first two or three battles these soldiers will fight with true Latin desperation. Tne Uaited States army go leg to Uuba may as well understand thai it business will be serious war. Tae native population will help us all it dares. Finally, the sooner we be gia the better. This talk about the terrors oftbe climate is humbug of the most arrant kind. TJae water of Cuba is excellent, and the climate is a very good one. Trtose leilows wno come Here from Arizona will think the change simply heavenly." B.G iENSATlON IN CH \RLESTON. Ti? P.i/e Orew ons Spanlih Prix 3 Fire a Into. A dispatch from Charleston to the Augusta Chronicle under date of Juse 2 say: A big sensation is on in this city, caused by the alleged firing of ceriam memoersoi tneuaronna idem club upon the Spanish pr.z3 ship Rita. The firing occured in the harbor j 1st off.the Yacht ciu? house and was returned by the seamen of the prizj craw, who thought an attack w&s being mad a on their vessel. Fortu nately no inj iry resulted to either party. Tnt m ambers of the Yacht club deny that iney nad a naadiu (ha aff *ir and are highly indignant because taay are charged with naving fired on the steamer. Tney saythe snooting was done by parties at the head of the Commercial wharf, who are noi mem bers cf the club. The marshal! ani 3samen of the priz* ship Rita say that t&e firing was done by members of the yacht club, as tae shots came from the club house. The fire' was returned from the poifc battery of the ship, but fortunately, the guns were not trained directly on the club house. Tne prizs commissioners have taken a hand in the mat. ter and an investigation will bs held.. Should the fac: be established that the pr:'z 3 ship was fired on by members ef cue yacht club the affair will take a se noui turn and will terminate unfortunately for the gudty parties. The Carolina Yacht club is compos | ed of tne swell set or tne town, wno are also members of the St. Cecelia society. The affair has caused a great sensation, owing to the prominence ot the parties implicated, and some startling developments are elected. Gone to til* Front. Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock the First Regiment ltf: Columbia for Chlcamauga, where they will remain until they are fally (quipped. It is likely they will then be sent to Porto Eico. B.f ore leaving Columbia, the soldiers were made a parting address by Gov. Eilerbe. It took four trains to carry the regiment. Oljmplft'a CapUAQ Dlci The navy department has received a cablegram announcing the death at Kobe, Japan, Saturday of Capt. Charles V. Gridley of tha cruiser Olympia, Admiral Dewej's flifcship. No particulars are given. Faux Livai Lost. Reports have been received Thursday of great damage done by a tornado in DcKalb county, Mo., causing the loss of four lives. The dead are: Wito and three children of- Calvin 8mith, living eight miles northwest of aiaysville. A Big fire. A conflagration at Peshawer, India, which was not mastered for 24 nours. destroyed 4,000 houses, doing damage to the amount of about four scores or rupees (about $20,000,000). This is supposed to be the record fire of India. Mbs. Rjbley D. Erans takis a lively interest i a me navy. Her husband, "Fighting Bob," commands thel3??a, her brother commands the Indiana, her son is on the Massachusetts, and ner son-in-iaw :s on trie ?ew x one; ana she has two daughters who have volunteered and are training; for nurses. ?"ns LOVE THAT flAKES THE WORLD CO ROUND." Some people think money is a greater power than love. Oh ! What a mistake! 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Detailed inform vtioa a^lVr "on application. v ; :'4*% " THEKEELEYISSTltUTe/; ^ (or uox 61) ureearrllfc, Si e. (In. writing mention tMa paper ^ !Mklfc.1tiu?r?jte&tfL