University of South Carolina Libraries
' I IE II iff KLOSOIRE. Cape Nome is the Richest Gold Be!t Ever Discovered. HIGH PRICES FOR FUEL AND FOOD Winter Life in C:>|>? Nome?Plenty of Food, Bat Wood and Coal Are Scarce? Dlncavorio* of Gold in the Beach Sancl Go On For Mile* K.nt and Went?Prospectors Waiting For the Spring Thaws. Tacojia, Wasb. (Special-).?Cape Nome news to December 15 was resolved here by the steamer Humboldt. It was brought by Carl Voa Kobelsdorff and Charles D. Campbell, who left Nome on December 10, making a trip of 1300 miles toDawsouiu fifty-seven days, including rest-> of six days. They reached Dawson February 5.? Immediately upon their arrival the Dawsou papers issued extras containing full details of Nome happeniugs, and these papers, with letters direct from Nome, were rushed through by dog teams traveling In relays day aud night from Dawson under (iovernmeut mail contract. The nows from Cape Nome is that further winter discoveries prove that that district Is undoubtedly the richest gold belt ever discovered. In several districts the men are at work this winter piling up rfumrts of gold-bearing saud and gravel f 1 L *LANDING FREIG] (Winter discoveries ia Cape Nome prove th I" i .' jwhich will be washed out ?9 300Q assprioe thaw comes. Numerous uusrgets bafe in value from $33 to UOOU lyuau, 4.M.un.Mr> _ ,$48. The greatest activity prevails in the bonanza district adjacent to Nome City. Beyond Cape York the Arctic distrlot has jjeen laid out. Rich pay has been found there, and it is certaiu that hundreds of prospectors will go there from Nome early next" oummer. The beach i3 supposed to be rich as far north as Port Clarence. Thore are places, however, where it will pay only for bydrauljc operations. , Provisions are plentiful at Cape Nome, and there will be 110 suffering there for food supplies. Wood and coal are very eoarce. All available wood has been used for ten miles on either side of Nome City. Wood brings 350 to $60 a cord, and It Is a verv poor article at that. The coal supply Is very meagre and coal is sold by the pound, bringing seven and as high as eight cents a pound. Men having small excess stocks of flour, beans and bacon liavtr been able to trade thom for interests in some of ths richest f claims on Auvil and other creeks. In this respect the scones witnessed in Dawson during the winter of 1897, have been oft repeated. Saloons and sporting houses are making fortunes, it a letter to the Tkniuann T)nllv News. Muior J. P. Strong, editor of the Nome Sews, says: "Some of the winter finds have been phenomenal. Nuggets worth as high as $36 have been found while those worth from $1 to $5 each are very common. Authentic oases are reported where two men late last fall rocked out $600 in a single day of ten hours. Including the early winter work the coast has been prospected for a distance of forty miles west of Nome, and for nearly a similar distance in an easterly direction. The great bulk of beaoh gold has been found between Nome River on the east and Penny River on the west, a dlsl tance of about' fifteen miles. The evidence of the way the sands were upturned are now visible only in places, the high tides of early December having obliterated most traces of the work. ! "Prospecting will be carried on all winter. Mauy miners believe that the richest sands will be found below the low water mark. As soon as the Ice is frozen solidly to the bottom of the shore they will cut out chunks of ice and prospect there. This work will solve the much vexed question as to the origin of gold In the beach sand, determining whether it was washed from unknown sources in the bosom ol the deep. The ground is found frozen fo an unknown'depth as in the Klondike, and if it should prove _ as rich us expected, an area of the country will be developed that ; will be greater than a score o? Klondikes rolled into one." KENTUCKY OFFICIALS SWORN IN. Minor Officers Then Go to State Hoax But Do Not Get In. / Frankfort, Ky. (Special).?The Stat? Contest Board awarded certificates of election to all of the Democratic contestant for minor State offices. Immediately afterward the contestants were sworu in and went to the State House in a body, wher< they made a formal demand on the Republican incumbents for possession of tht offices, but the demands wore not acceded to. The Democratic contestants sworn ic are: Secretary of State, C. b. Hill; At' f torney-Genera', Robert J. Breckinridge "Auditor, Gus G. Coulter; Treasurer. Wilbui Hager: Superintendent of Public Instruction, H. V. McChesney. The clerk of the Court ot Appeals, Mr Shackelford, administered the oath of office to all the contestants for office other thai Governor and Lieutenant-Governor. Keco in mended .Shooting Spanlih Officer# ! In replying to Spanish criticism Rear Admiral Sampson said he had recommend od snooting two upamsn capiatus iuc uostroying ships after surrendering them is the naval battle near Santiago da Caba. Sensational Murder and Suicide. Wilson Wakelln, a tanner, residing neai Brock, Neb., murder 3 his wife, formerlj President of the W. C. T. U., of Nebraska by catting her thront. He then went t( the coraetery where his .Irst wife was buriec and standing on her grave cat his owr throat and fell dead. Georgia BinK Mobbed. The Perry Loan and Savings Bank al Perry, Ga., was entered and robbed oi $S500. The vault door was blown open bj dynamite as was also the Inner monej vault. The loss is covered by burglar in" surauce. Dewey's Prize Claim Cut Down. The United States Court of Claim? a Washington rendered a decision on th claim of Admiral Dewey for prize mone; r. on account of the destruction of the Span Ish fleet In Manila harbor. The court do cided against the Admiral's contentioi that the eueray's force was s-uperior to his and awarded him $9,570. ????? Fifteen Year* For Kobbery of Four Cent* Er h I Hugh McCann, of Cohoes, N. Y., cot clcted ot highway robbery and assault,wa sentenced to fifteen years iu Dannemor Prison. McCann was indictei jointly wltl Archie Langlier in holding up an old mai named Levallez, in Cohoes, in Deoembe SL. last, and taking four cents from him | CARNEGIE SUED AGAIN. i Minority Coka Company Sharaholders Charge Fraud. j It ia Alleged That the Carnegie Steel Coin* p.iny in Getting Its Coke BeIoit Boal Value. Pitt.?bcrc., Pcun. (Special).?Suit was begun JloaJay by the miuority stockholders of the Frick Oompaav to aacul tlio con tract with tlie Carnegie St?9! Company by which thelatte;- is q:ettini? -J,500.000 tons of coke u year at Sl.Sj" per ton, when the market price of the fuel Is about $3 a ton. T ie plaintiffs named in the bill are: John Walker for himself aud Andrew Carnegie Wilson (miuor): 8. L. Sehoonmaker aud Joliu G. Pontefraet, The defendants are: The H. C. Friclc Coke Company, a corporation; Thomas Lyuch, H. C. Frick, George Laudor, A. M. Clemson, Andrew M. Moreland, James Gayley and Thomas Mortlson, composing tho board <?f directors for that corporatioo, and the Carnegie Steel Company, Limited. * This action is remately connected with the trouble between fl. C. Friclc, former Chairman of tue Carnegie Steel Company, Limited, and Andrew Carnegie, aud was precipitated by the tiling of Mr. Frick's bill lu equity to secure an accounting of the alTairs of the Carnegie Steel Company. In this case the plalntlfts seek to enjoin the defeudauts from selling any coke to the Carnegie Steel Company, Limited, under a coutnu't dated January 1, 1899, at a price of 81.33 a ton. the contract to run for a period of live years, and from settling with _ - 3T AIL NOME CITY. ' at It la-'a richer gold belt tliaq the Klondike.' the Steel Company for coke already deliv- j erad under the cputract. The court is a!sc asked to annul the contract and order ;tu j accounting. The plalutlfff) allege fraud in the obtain j ing of the oontraot and accuse a majority ! of the board of directors of the eoke corn- I pany of working solely for the interests of j tiie Carnegie Steel TGom pan y, Limited.with ! the purpose <tf derAudlng all stockholders ! *?? mflmhapa n f Htd ! uil.ua BUKV UUk ui^uiuuuvi steel company^ 'M. It i<i olaimed that it the contract is car- ! ried oat, the FrloJt'Gqka Company will linvc to refund to the^mgauy <596,000 on ac* 1 count of,eoke sol'd'aSHa steel company ! daring 1899, and, durf'gl&900. It will cause a loss to the ooke comptMfr of $4,000,COD. The capital stool coke company fa 1 $10,000,000,/dlvided&jHwOO shares of the j par value of #50. TWjHfeegi0 Steel Com- ; pauy, Limited, vai^dHber of 59,104 shares of tbe ?9the coku company, and Coraegle wisulrewlfle holder of 51,213, wh{ohtog?lBw^da&?tltated more than a majority of the ooke company's capital stock. This,-Ut is.claimed, enabled " the Carnegie Steel Compfuur/lildifted, and ! Carneirie, to eleot their nominees asdlrectors of the ooke company aad dominate and control their action. ^ Early in 1899, It is stated, the steel company and Caruegle set up the pretense that the ooke oomp'any had contracted a year before to sell to It coka at $1.85 a ton. The coke company's board of directors promptly passed resolutions denying tbe existence of any such agreement. Then, It is charged, changes were made ia tho directorate in Carnegie'* luterest, and later, in January, 1899, tbe directors voted to the steel compuny the prpsent contract. This nnntrant It la claimed br the ftlala tiffs, Is null and void. NO RELIEF .FOR CARTER. Refnsal of the Sapreme Court to Take Up tba Ciuw. Washington, D. C. (Special).?The United States Supreme Court has denied the application of,former Captain Oberlln M Carter to bring Ltls case into that court There was no written opinion. ' '' OBEBLrs M. CkBTEa. ' > Havlns: exhausted all judicial avenues oi escape from prison, Carter mjtft atyfcgt) Incarcerated in til* Fort Xearenwortfc Penitentiary. Tnere ne will serve the'sea. tence of flveyears at hard, labor impost | upon him by the oourt. " Abynsinla Gaina Territory. The Anglo-Abyssinian CoiivMtdQ^a&i, \ frontier delimitation has tween Emperor Meneleic and ain. Mitemeh, which was wlthlnaM:^' . fluence of the English zone, is no?H sinian territory. Bled at Her Sister'* Bed?lde.'r^ . Mrs. Katharine Kennelly went to thi r Mercy Hospital in Pittsburg, Penn., to se< her sick sister, Mrs. John Reardon. Hei , sister, who was asleep, was so waste! awajI by fever that Mrs, Keunelly fell dead ol* t shock. The body was removed while Mrf Reardou was still asleep. Morrsrane Iudebtedness In Cuba, t Senor Varoaa, Secretary of Finance. at ( H-tvaca, has completed a statement showr ing tho mortgages now existing on proper , ties in Cuba. The to?al number of iucura. bered properties is 43,715, and the liabill tie* nominally aggregate $243,000,000. Titn I.nUor World. t Ti.e United Hatters are spending thou ' sands of dollars to advertise their ualoc 0 label. f Minors are scarce In Great Britain, and - it is difficult to find workmen sufficient- to " man the mines. 1 The average advance in wages ia Wis' cousin for all classes in the year past was fifteen per cent. TJJhe clgarmakers' strike in Havana was i. broken, the men returning to work at their i- employers'terms. s Waco claims for $143,000 have been file*! ? for 161 employes of the Dock Department Ij In New%ork City. a In Wyoming the railroads have raised r wages to $1.75 per day and cut the board down to *3.50 per week. THE FAME IN INDIA.1 Over Sixty Milfion People on the Verge of Starvation. MANY DEATHS FROM THE PLAGUE, The Worst 5s Yet to Come?Spring anil j Summer Will Bring :i Greater Scarcity I ' ? Crops Are :t Failure and Cattle L)U ?Viceroy Advocates the Use of Anti. Plague Inoculation. Bomba? (By Cablft)-?The plague io j India continues virulent. With over Gl,< | 000,000 of people affected by'the famine j and about 4,000,000 lu receipt of relief j India seetns in bad plight, though the death rat? over the 550,000 square miles o; the famine area is decreasing. The Indian Government has issued a resolution approving Professor Haffktn's antl-plagu< inoculation, and the Viceroy, Lord Curzoa is advocating its use thrdb'ghout India. Detailed reports from the various prov inces affected all agree in saying that aevei before in the history of the country has sc dire a calamity of such stupendous magnl* tude ovectufcen'it. Not only has the prolonged drought been a record one in everj way, but the people themselves are far les? prepared to face a period of distress and scarcity than is usually the case, i , The present famine comes on the top of s series of bad-years and poor and indifferent "harvests. Only three years ago tlx* country wttii afflicted by a severe famine, from which It has not yet had time to re? cover. The people are cqnitfquently impoverished to a degree and la no way prepared to face the present disaster which uas overeaten iuuiu. There areclose on four millions of people on famine relief. The number is grow- I in# at the rate of something like a quartet of a million weekly. And the worst pinct of the famine has not yet been felt. That will come later, in the spring and earl; summer. It is difficult to realize the extent of the famine relief operations whiob will be necessary in two or three months' time. They will tax the resources of Government, both in men and money, to an extent never before heard of, or even oon? ' templated. Already all available officials are working practically continuously on famine relief lithe affected areas. But thesis areas are sc Immense, the distances so great, and th< pressure of work so enormous that already it Is apparent that there are not half enougfc workers lu the field. A single official maj have an area of 10,000 square miles, with a population of 1,000,000 in hU immediate charge. Under these circumstances much of the minor detail has to be left in th< hands of native subordinates, But, unfor; tuuately, these subordinates, true to the immemorial customs of the Orient, are tc ? * itn.l A inlt nn /\a frt oft. ft Kre.ll DilUUl tUHUJJl. HUU UUUUUWH W WW extraordinary degree. The war in South A-frica affects the famine ' Nc charitable relief caa be tfrpected from England, the various war furnls draining all superfluous money Into their coffers , In the famine of three yeats ago not less than $2,500,000 was subscribed in England for charitable relief in India. Now, witfc un infinitely worse famine, it is imposslbif to expect from the mother country sc mucii as a single dollar. The scarcity, on the top of a series o: bad years, has affected the people to au^x traordiuary degree. They are resigned, phlegmatic, helpless and hopeless. Lord Sandhurst, the Governor of Bombay, reports that the famine has affected seriously a higher stratum of society than hai aver beeu the case before. The sam? mi^ht be said with equal truth of otliei i parts of India. From all parts come reports of crop3 either wholly spoiled or simply non-exlst- i unt. The cotton crop in some of the most renowned cotton districts is said to be not one-twentieth of the normnfl yield. In many districts it is not worth gathering in. The yield of ail India Is less by some 700,000 bales than was the ca^e last year, The ground nut crop is but an eighth ol last year's crop. The*wheox crop will b wretched. In many districts it was impos slble to carry out sowings, owing to th< Intense dryness of the soil. In others the seeds either never germinated or the young plants withered and dried. Cattle are now dying by tens of thousands. In many places peasants are with difficulty keeping their beasts alive by means of driedieaves, the thatch of houses weeds, and similar rubbish. It being against the religious principles of the Hindus to kill their cattle, even when j they are dying in intense agony of thirst I and hanger, the poor beasts are turned j Innan In tlimiaAnrin <n tlio to die mis I erably, their wretched skeletons beinj* speedily picked oleau by jackals and vul> - tares. \ Meanwhile crime, the Invariable accompaniment of famine, stalk* abroad. The police are unable to oope with it, uad from . many quarters oome reports of assaults, ^fghwajrjjoblierlea, and ?ven murders, car ned out'publloly and In the lifcht of day The money lenders especially appear to he marked dawla for the people's wrath. In one distrlot alone a dozen such have beec robbed and beaten within the space of t single month. All books, deeds, and the | like are invariably burned on these occa 1 slons, and the loss to the bankers, all na tires, is of ooilrse Immense.Lord CJurzon, in an.. Important speech 'has. publloly admitted on behalf of his ' Government that the famine is the worst which has ever afflicted India. And, as al ready pointed oat, the most severe perior ia stfll to coice. CHICACO THIEVES' NEW CAME, j Woman Arooiei Sympathy and Admits ! Confederate to House. Chicago jCSpeoI^l)^BTltli the plea that - she wanted a drink oj^Mter, a young a ad pretty wptnac, wfirarlng a black tailormade gowa,.gained entrance to the Home of Mrs. Margaret Bcitrke, in tills city, and I theu robbed her. The' youug womnt knooked ;at thedoor of Mrs. Burke's UttW ootfage odd salds^e was faint and wanted Mrs. Burke turriec^to the kitchen to sooure a gi&sa of wat$r/and when slio ro turned-sfce^fqand a man 'standing besld* ''TiatiT^flPttVyOli bare we want mightj qatek^*;-|fetd the.man, as he pointed n re vol vflgptlM. Bur^&t'head. The thiovej soarc^^Cjfcbe/.bouae,' bat found only $20 ClUn?ija*n Commits Salclde. , iTow.Wlng/the'^Inaman recently conjp-ji&d'"of m^r??;ia<Blngham City, Utah, l^fchot, commuted aulJ>roJi*?A Son a guicMe. r ^inehael Sullivan, Jr? aged ^hlrty-flT? Philadelphia, who fobbed hla aMHpathar of bis savings ol many yoars nlvMitWimnnth nirn and thnti dlanonAiirml ^mfoni?d borne a few days ago almost pon.ulleaa.-aad-comraltted suicide by blowing -Oat bis brains. 1 1 " ' Publisher* Want Congress to Investigate The American Newspaper Publisher*' Association met in New York City and adopt* ed resolutions asking Congress to inquire into the advance In the price of paper, which they held to be without warrant anc due to the workings of a trust. . Newsy Ulenntngj. An epidomld of burglaries is sweeping over Long Island. James Walker, of Wilminerton, N. C.. is to provide the City Hospital there with a building to cost $30,000. I The New York Fire Department has purchased the searchlight engluo which it has been testing, at a contract price oi *5900. The Prussian Minister of Commerce is working on bills to be presented to the Reichstag for the control of trusts and pools. A census of the demented, deaf, dumb or blind persons in Delaware is being taken by Dr. Hauker, cf the Delaware State Hospital THE NEWS EPITOMIZED ! i Washington Item*. Congress lias been appealed to by the 7ftv> and Treasury Departments to act as impire la a radical 'difference of opinion j esarding the 3urvey9 of the new ialaud jossesslons. Secretary of War Root made an argument n favor of the Armv Reorganization bill >eforo the Hou3e Military Committee. A report on Pacific cable surveys by Commander Hodges, of the Nero, shows :hat a thoroughly practicable route was iiscoverod. The Hon. Lilian Pauncefote, third daugh:pp of Sir Julian Pauncefote, British Am oa39ador to the United States, was married to Mr. Robert Bromley, Honorary Attache of the British Embassy, la the presence of a di3tiuguishod company. General Otis has asked the War Department for 1000 pairs of handcuffs and 200 pairs of shackles. They are to be used principally to restrain insane American soldiers. 1 Our Adopted Ialnnria. During the Hawaiian debate in the United States Senate Mr. Pettlgrew offered an amendment to declare null and void all contracts for labor made since August 12, 1898. It was,adopted. Lieutenant J. 0. Gillmore, the leader of the Yorktown's little band who were held captive by. the PiJlplno3 for bo many months, has started on his way home from Manila on the Solace. The 9trlke at Clenfuegos, Cuba, was dejlared off on the order of Mayor Frias, . who bad all along encouraged the strikers. His action was due to pressure brtfught to bear by General Wood.. The first Important strike among Porto Rlcan laborers began when 500 men who had been constructing the military road from Ponoe to Adjuntas demanded five :ants an &our. The present rate of pay is three cents an hour. There are about .62,500 soldiers in the Philippines, of which about 31,000 are regular troops and about 31,500 are volao.eqrs. _ . Cuba's Independence day was generally observed in Havana by processions of clubs and outdoor sports. ? Already there are 100J)00 Caban children it school on the Island, and It is estimated :hat by the 1st of May there will be 5Q,OOn :more. J . : Domestic. Dr..Wllllam Tod Helmuth, in delivering - tL. -i ? trmrv 2is aounai jeocurt) to in? umsa ui iuw ? ;be New York Homoeopathic College, lenied.that agnosticism has been fostered oy the mioro9oope. Passenger agents of the railroads enterng the Northwest from Chicago estimate hat daring the aext,three months 3000 periods will be; taken from Chicago to Cap* >ome. In the Alaska gold fields. W. J. Plynn, of the United States Seoret iervlceat Pittsburg'.arrested George Austin >a Tamarack Moantain, Clinton County, ?enn., f^r the-ffianufaotura and passage of Mrs."Elizabeth Wossels died in Green* vich, Conn., Josfe week after her husjand's funeral. She survived him only devea days. She wa3 eighty-one years >ld. / James Mansea, of Putnam, Conn., 13 suferlng from poisoning wit h mercury, which t is believed was administered in coffee terved In his own house. ' The Rising Sun Postofflce was >roken into and robbed of 8800 in money ind stumps. The thieves escaped. The lafe was forced with dynamitG. The Democratic State Committee of Inliana fixed June 6 as the date of the State inniianHnn 'Pita convention will be held I it IndianapollsThe Virginia Legislature Una made June J, Jefferson Davis's birthday, a legal holilay In Virginia. Tom Hammond and C. C. Geary were nr ested at Jacksonville, Fla., charged-with nurderlng the three mombors of the Bob;rts family ten days ago, and with robbing .hem of $10,000. Mrs. J. A^ B. Scully, who married her grandmother's coachman and recently Inherited $200,000, has entered salt against her husband for separation iu the Probata Court of Fall Blver, Mass. FA severe storm was folt in Northern Ohio and the upper nart of New Tork State, and in the gale off the New England ooast two coal barges went ashore near Boston Light. At Mecbanlcsvllle, S. C., James Gardner, aged llfty-flve, a prosperous merchant, after making a will leaving all his property to the young girl who had rejected him, cook stryahnine and died. Chief Wash A. Kie, of the Eastarft Shoshone Indians, died on Wind Blver reservation in Wyoming, at the age of ninetythree. Sometime ago he was baptized by an Episcopal minister. His 3on will succeed Ulm. , In one of the benzola corn oil tanks at - ^ - /^l 1C1II nAm the plane ot cue uecutur voreai wm i/Umpany at Decatur, 111., Edwin C. Vance, the manauger, and Irving Edgar, one of the attendants, met Instant death. They were overcome by the fumes of the benzola. Henry 0. Miner, who had had a successful career as a theatrical manager and owner of theatres, and a former Congressman. died suddenly at nis noma In New i'orfc City. Jesse Overstreet, author of the House financial bill, was renominated for Congress from the Seventh Indiana District by the Republican district cpnventlon. The aomlnation was by acclamation. The Republicans and Populists of Louisiana are arranging a compromise by which Che vote of the alsaHected Democrats of i:he State may be controlled In the State campaign May next. A concern in Iowa Is making farm wagons wholly of steel, and It can scarcely .111 the orders that pour in from the wheat growers out in tho Diikotas and other parts 5f the West. Tha Hazleton CPenn.) authorities have :aken vigorous steps to suppress the sale ' jf cigarettes to boys at the public schools. ;.,j. > '? ' ' Foreign. Two more white persons and eight vanAkaj have died from the bubonic plague in New Caledonia. The Colonial Patriotic Fund Committee ,'orwarded $15,000 to the Jjoudoo Imperial Fund, as the first installment of Nowfouudand's subscription. A retired Gdrman army officer charges :liat the army hop been weakened by the Kaiser's changes In the regulatious. The total Boer losses in killed and .rounded since the beginning of the war is liven on the best aathdrity at not over 1500, the lists of names of all tha-kllled and mounded having been published in the jfflcial Boer papers, the agps which were <lven In most coses ranging from nineteen ,*ears to fifty. The highest Prussian court has decided :hat the American title of "Doctoir" canaot be used In Prussia without a special permit from the Government. France and Switzerland will hold^-tel^jUone convention to regulate the servioa ietween the two countries. # The independence of Slum Is said to he :hreatened by a proposed French expedlilon to seize Hainan. Artificial coal is being made at Kill and j Mannheim. The situation throughout Germany is desperate. _ Herr Ilg, Kins; Menelik's chief, who Is In UuraAiMae France, refutes the story that | :he king te planning aa ftntl-EugIhjh coup in Abyssinia. i - ' * j Italy's foreign trade last year aggrejrat| ad $587,595,600 and surpassed ?I1 records. Five Egyptian officers bave been cash.ered iu the Soudan for insubordination ind sent as prisoners to Cairo. Discovery of the uiutilatod body of Thomas M. Atkinson, a marine of the United States cruiser Prairie, in the canal it Havre, indicates that he was murdered and robbed by seaport thugs. The Colombian newspapers are discuBSing the reported discovery by a Oerman engineer named Krwiese of an Isthmian canal route which i3 only eleven miles long. The German Government was defeated in fbe Reichstag on a motion to repeal a measurtj enforced in Alsace-Lorraine. The British House of Commons rejected j the Iriati F.i-lnftirt u" 1 TVD rr i t if a n !?) OTimrrvvr ! lA-LiLLilUUO OJDriltiUi^, SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY"THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: A lieliRlon of Ghost*?Spiritualism Denounced as Nocrommicy ami Delusion?It* Disciples Are Doomed? It Causes Insanity Anions Its Victims. (Copyrialic i:?uo.I Washington, I). C.?Iii this discourse Dr. Talmage discusses a theme never more under exploration than at this time and warns peopie against "what be calls a relipriou of Klicsts; text, I Samuel xxvili., 7: "Behold, there is a woman that hRtli a familiar spirit at En-dor. And Saul disguised himself and put ou other raiment, and ho went, and two men with him, and. they caine to the woman by night." Trouble to the right of him and trouble to the left of him, Saul knew not wbut to do. As a last resort lie concluded to seek out a spiritual medium or a witch or anything that you please lo call her?a woman who had communication with the spirits of the eternal world. It was a very difficult thing to do, for Saul had either 9lain all the witches or compelled them to stop business. A servant one day said to King Saul, "I know of a spiritual medium down at the village of En-dor." "Do you," said the king. Night falls. Saul, putting off bis kingly robes and putting on the drdss of aplain citizen, with two servants, goes ont to hunt up this medium. Saul aud bis servants after awhile reached the village, and they say, "[ wonder if this is the house " and they look ' Id, and they see the haggard; weird and ; shriveled up .spiritual medium sitting by the light and on the table sculptured ' images and divining rods uud poisonous hogfpand bottles and vases. They say. 1 "Yea, this must be the place." One Iou J rap brings tile woman to the door, and as : she stands there, holding the candle or lamp above tier bead and peering oat Into ' the darkness, she says, "Who is here?" ! The tall king informs ber that be has ccmo to have his fortune told. When she hears j that, she trembles and almost drops the light, fQrslie knows there is no chance for a fortune teller or spiritual medium in all the land! But Saul having sworn that no barm shall come'to her, she says, "Well, who shall I bring up from the dead?" Saul says, "Bring up Samuel." That was the { prophet who had died a little while before. ' I see her whving a wand, or stirring up some poisonous barbs in a caldron, or hear her muttering over some incanta- ; tions, ^or stamping with her loot as she cries out to the realm of the dead: "Samuel, Samuel!" Lo, the freezing horror! The floor of the tenement opens, and J the gray hairs float up and the forehead, j the eyes, the lips, the shoulders, the arms, the feet?the entire body of the dead Samnel?Wrapped in sepulchral robe, appearing to the astonished group, who stagger back and hold fast and catch their hreath and shiver with terror. ; Tlie aeaa propuet, wmte ana awrui rrom , the tomb, begins to move bis usUen Hps, . and be glures upon King Saul and cries out: "What did you bring me up for? What do you mean, King Saul?" Saul, ; trying to compose and control himself, makes this stammering aud uffrlgbtod ] utterance as be says to the dead prophet: 'The tor3 Is against me, and I have come , to you for belp. What shall I do?" Tho dead prophet stretched forth his finger to 1 King Saul :iud said: "Die to-morrow! ! Come with me into the sepulcher. lam going now. Come, come with me!" Aud. , lo, tho floor again opens, and the feet of J the dead prophet disappear and the arms and the shoulders and the forehead! The j floor closes. Oh, that was an awful seanoe! To unlatch the door between the present state and the future str.te all the Angers of superstition have been busy. We have 1 books entitled "Footfalls on the Boun- 1 darics of Other Worlds," "The Debatable ! Land Between This World and the Next," "Researches Into the Phenomena of Spir- ; Itu'illsm" .and whole libraries of hocus focus, enough to deceive the very elect. . shall not take time to rehearse the his- ; tory of divination, Delphlo orncle, sibyl or 1 palmistry or the whole centuries of lm- j posture. j Modern spiritualism proposes to open ; the door between this world and the next j and put us into communication with the , dead. It has uever yet offerec^one reason- j able credential. j When I find Sum in my text consulting a familiar spirit, I learn that spiritualism is a very old religion. Spiritualism In American was born In the year 1847, in Hydosville, Wayne County^ N. Y., whon one night there was a loud rap heard against the door of Michael Weekman; a rap a second time, a rap a third time, and all three times. When the door was opened, there was nothing found there, tho knocking having been made seemingly by invisible knuckles. After awhile Mr. Fox with bis family moved into that house, and then they had tangings at the door every night. Ono night Mr. Fox crledout, "Areyou a spirit?" Two raps?answer in the affirmative. "Are . you an injured spirit?" Two rtips?answer ir tho affirmative. Then they knew right , i' it it was the spirit of a peddler 1 been murdered In that house yeai^-.{fore and who had'been robbed of ] his $500. Whether thaspirlt of the peddler , came back to collect his^SOO or his 'bones I do not kuow. The excitement spread. There was a universal rumpus. The Hon. Judge Edmonds declared iu a book that he had actually seen a bell start froin the,top shelf of a i closet, heard it ring over the people that were standing in the closet: then, swUng by < invisible bauds, it rang over the people In i the back parlor and flouted through the i folding doors to th4 front parlor, rang over < the people there and then propped on the floor. A Senator of the United States, at- i terward Governor, of Wisconsin, bad liis i head quite turned witii spiritualistic demon- : strumous, a 110 raoies tippeu, nnu ine sioois tilted, and the bedsteads raised, and the chairs upset, ami it seamed us it the spirits everywhere had gone into the furniture business! "Well," the people said,"we have got something new {a this country. It is a new religion!" Oh, no, nay friend, thousands of years ago, we Had in our text, a ' spiritualistic seance! Nothing ?ln tue spiritualistic circles of our day has boon more strange, mysterious and wonderful than things- which have been seen in past centuries of tho worid. Iu all ages there have been necromancers, . thos-e who consult with tue spirits of the departed; charmers, those who put their subjects in a mesmerio state; sorcerers, i those who by-taking poisonous drugs see everything and hear everything and tell everything; dreamers, people who in their Bleeping moments can see the future world i rtnd hold consultation with spirits. before the time of Christ, the Brahmaits went through allthfc,table moving, all the | furniture excitement, which tho spirits have exploited in our day, precisely the i same tbfng ovor and over again, uuder the manipulation 6f the Erahmnnp. Now, do i you sav that snlrltualism is different from these? I answer, all these delusions I have mentioned beloug to the samo family. They are eliminations from the uuseeu world. What does God think of all t!i(?e delusions? He thinks so severely of them that He never speaks of them but with livid thliudurw of indfgoation. He says, "I will tie aawift witness against the sorcerer." He says, "Thou shnlt not sutler a witch to live." And lest you might muke some important distinction between spiritualism ami witchcrait God says in so many words. "There shall not be among you.a cousuUhi of familiar spirits, or wizard, or necromancer, for they that ?lo these things are nn abomination unto the Lord." The Lord God Almighty in a s-ocre of passages which I Have not now time to quote utters His indignation against all this great family of delusions. Alter that be a spiritualist if you <lar??I Still further, we learn from tills text how It is that people come to fall to spiritualism. Baul It ml enough trouble l.o kill ten men. He did not know where, to go 'or relief. After awhile he resolved to go and ohm tli? witch of En-dor nrunc.teil that somehow slie would afford liltu relier. It was his trouble drove him there. Ami I b&ve to tell you now that spiritualism flnda its victims in the troubled, jhe bankrupt/ the sick, the bereft. You Josp your wutcb, and you go to the fortune teller to And where it is. You lose ft friend; yon want the spiritual world opened, so that you may have communication with him. Iu a i highly wrought, nervous and diseased j nute of mind you go and put yourself In that communication. That is why I lmto spiritualism. It takes advantage of one in a moment o* wenkness, whleh may come upon us at any time. We a ;&*. lose a friend. The trial Is keen, .sharp, suffocating, almost maddening. It we could marshal a host and storm the eternal world and recanture our loved one, the host would soon be marshaled. The liouso is so lonely. Tho world is so dark. The separation is so insufferable. But spiritualism says, "We will o^en th? future world, and your loved one can coma back and talk to you." Though we may not bear his voice, we may hear the rap *9 1.I. .. ? A 1.1... t,.UU CII*. /lAittti "i ma uiiuu. ou, cica* iuu iuui<?. oii< uvrwu* Put your hands oa the table. Be very quiet. Five minutes Ron*. Ton minutes. No motiou of the table. No response from the future world. Twenty minutes. Thirty minutes. Nervous excitement all the timo increasing. Two raps from tho future world. Tho letters of the alphabet are called over. The departed friend's name is John. At the pronunciation of the letter fJ two raps. At the pronunciation of the letter 0 two raps. At the pronunciation of the letter H two rap3. At the pronunciation of the letter N two raps. There you have the whole name spoLod out?J-o-h-n, John. Now, the spirit being present, you say, "John, are you happy?" Two raps give an afflrmati ve auswer. Pretty soon the haud of the medium begins t^ twitch and toss and begins to write out, after paper and ink are furnished, a message from the eternal world. Wiat Is remarkable, the departed spirit, although It has been amid the Illuminations of the , heaven, cannot spell as well a3 It used to. It has lost all grammatical accuracy and cannot write as distinctly. I received a letter through a medium once. I sent it back. I said, "Just please to tell those ghosts, they had hotter go to school and get Improved in tllelr orthogrivphy." Now, just think of spirits, that tho Bible represents as enthroned in glory, coming dowa to crawl under the table and break crockery and ring tea bells before supper is rwady and rap the window shutter on a gusty night! What consolation In suoli miserable stuff as compared with the consolation of our departed friends free from toll and sin and pain are forever happy und that we will jola them, not In mysterlOHfl and hAlf utterance which makes the hair stand on ond and makes cold chills :reep the back, but in a reunion most blessed aud happy and glorious! A.nd none shall murmur or misdoubt When God's groat sunrise finds us out. V A MnnM/i uiliuy /O mo tUO ObOuiugii utiuunw started from Europe for the United States. Getting mldocean, the machinery broke, md she floundered around day after day md week after week, and for a whole month after she was due people wondered und Anally gave her up. There was great anguish in ttie cities, for there were many who had frlends'aboard that vessel. Some af the women in thertr distress went to the spiritual medium and inquired as to the fate of that vessel. The medium called up the spirits, and the rapping* on the table Indicated the steamship lost, with all on board. Women went raving mad and were carried to the lunatic asylum. After awhile one day a gun was heard off quarantine. The flag* went up on the shipping, md the bells of the churches were rung, rhe boys rau through the streets crying: 'Extra! The Atlantic Is safe!" There was the embracing as from the dead when friends came again to friends, but some of those passengers went up to And their ivives ia tho lunatic asylum, where this 1 :heat of iufernai spiritualism had put them. I bring against this delusion a more fearful indictment?it ruins the soul im mortal, * Irst, It makes a man a quarter jf an'iafldel; then it makes him halt aa inUileli' then It makes him a-whole infidel. It God is ever slapped in the face, it is cvnen a spiritual medium puts dowu ber band on tbe table, invoking spirits departed to make a revelation. God has told j >'Ou all you ought to know, and how dare i >*ou be pryfiig into that which is none of four business? You cannot keep the Bible in one hand nnd spiritualism in the other. One ortheother wlllslip out of yourgrasp, i depend up<A it. Spiritualism Is adverse i to the Bible, in the fnot that it has in Lhsso lust days called from the future i world Christian men to testify against l Christianity. Its mediums call back I Lorenzo Dow, the celebrated evangelist, I ind Lorenzo Dow testifies that Christians ire idolaters. Spiritualism calls back Tom 1 Paine, and he testifies that he is stopping l in the same house in heaven with John Banyan. They call back John Wesley, and i lie.testlfies against the Christian religion, ? prhich he all hla'.lire gloriously preached. Andrew Jackson Davis, the greatest of all the spiritualists, comes to the front anddeilaros that the NewTastament is but "the iismal echo of a barbaric ago" and the Blblo only "one of the pen and ink relics i 5f Christian Ity." I have In my lioUBe a book used in splr- i Ituallstlc service, It contains a catechism ind a hymn book. Tho catechism has these questions and answers: o What la our chief baptism? A. Fre luent ablution In water. Q. What Is on* inspiration? A. Fresh air ind sunshlae. ? Q. What Is our love feast? A. Clear conscience and sound sleep. Q.( What is our prayer? A. Physical exsrolse* ' And then it goes on to show that a great proportion of their rellgious'^ervlce Is a jystem of calisthenics. Thea #hen tbey pant to afouse the devotion of the peoplo to the'highest pitch they give out the liym on the sixty-fifth page: The night hath gathered up her silicon fringes.. Or, on the fifteenth page: / Coma to the woods, heigh ho! "But," say3 some one, "wouldn't it bo of advantage to hear from the future ivorM? Don't you think it would strength- j sn Christians? There are a groat many materialists who do not Tiolleve there aro . souls, but,if spirits from the future world I should knock and talk over to us they ! would be persuaded." Toth?t I ansrsr in the rlugfhg words of the Son of God, "If they believed not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose fro,in the dead." I believe these are the days of which the apostle spake when he said, "In the latter i times some shall depart from tho faith, (i giving need to seduciug spirits." Audi- i eces lei this day need to have reiterated [ la clielr hearing the passages I quoted some minutes ago. "There shall uot be among you >n consultar of familiar spirits, i or wizard, or necromancor, for tbey that do tho.^e things are an abomlnatiou uu'.o the Loi-.l," and, "The soul that turuoth after such as have familiar spirits I will set ar.vself against them, and they shall be cut off from their people." But I Invite you now., to a Christian j j seauce, a noonduy seance. This congregation is only one great family. Here U the ehurch table. Conve arouud t'he church table; take your seats for this great Cbrlsliim seance; put your Bible on the table, put your hands on top of the Bible and then listen and hear it there are any voices cozi- ; lug from tho eternal world. I think thiJre j : ure. Listen! "Secret tblugs belong unto 1 the Lord, our God, but things that ure re- } vea!e<l belong unto us and to our children." Surely that is a voice from the spirit , world. But before you rise from this Chris- ] tlari seance I want you td promise me you will be satisfied with the Divfue revelation 1 untii tlie light of the eternal throne breaks ; upon your vision. Do not go after the witch of En-dor. Do not sit down at table rapplngs either in sport or In earnest. '^each your children there are no ghosts to<$e seen or beard in this world save those , wIKch walk on two feet or four?human or j bestial. Remember that spiritualism at j | the best is a useless thing, for If It tells ( what tho Bible reveals it is a superlluity, aud if it tolls what the Bible does not reveal it is a lie. Instead of going to got other people to toil your fortuuo tell your own fortune by putting your trust la God and doing the bi-at ycu can. I will tell your fortune. "All tilings work together for good to them that love God." Iusult not your departed friends by asking them to oome down and scrabble under an extension i ible. Remember that there is only one spirit whose dictation you b ivh a right to I io H,, lrn!v hlilqqod lUVQSe, ifcUU uuifcv JO w and omnipotent spirit ?. f God. Hark! He i.< ripping now, not ou a table or the lloor, but rapping ou the door of yom heart, and every rap is an Invitation tc Christ and a warning of judgmeut to come. Oil. grieve Him not away! Quench H(ro\ -j not. lie has been all around' yoa tblj^ A tnorniug. Ho was all arouud you juight, He has been arouud you all W><? lives. Hark! There comes a voice ivlth tender, overmastering iutouation, saying* "My spirit shall uot always strive." The com.mittee of the Manchester. Sal' ford and District Temperance Union ol Eugland have decided to establish an annual temperance sermon, to be delivered each year in Manchester,' by prominent ministers cl different denomination?. THIJ GREAT DESTROYER. SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. CFliat Have Jon Done To-Day'.*?Brandy Should Never Be (J*erf a* a ."Specific For ' the Cure of Nervous Debility?It AI-. ford* Slium Belief. ? saw a farmer when tlio day was done; The setting sua had sought its crimson bed, And the mild stars came forward ono t>y ooe; I saw tlie-sturdy farmer, and I said ' What have you donoto-dayi 0, f?ruior, say." "Oh, I have sown the wheat in yonder field,. And pruned my orchard, to increase the yield, And turned the furrow for a patch of corn? This have I done since morn." I saw a blacksmith In his smithy door, When the day had vanished and the west grew red. i Hi) all H*A tMAWHM n?/l ? aI/ia auu an iuu iiiniiy nmio auu uuiw TV ox a o'er; I saw the kindly blacksmith, dnd I -said: "Wlwtt Imve you done to-day? *" 0, blacksmith say." "Ob, I have made two plowshare9 all complete, Aad united the shoes oa many a horse's feet; And?0, my friend, I cannot tell you half," The man of muscle answered with a laugh. I saw a miller when the day was done, And all the sunshine from tue hills had fled, And tender shadows crept across tlifr lawn; . I saw a dusky miller; and I said: "What have you^done to-day? 0, miller, gray. ' ' "Oh, I have watclied my mill from morn till night; Did you ever see flour so snowy white? And many are the mouths to-day I've fed." And merry miller laughed as this he said.. I saw another when the night drew nigh, And turned each dally toller from his task, When gold and crimson cloudlets decked the sky. v "What have yott dTTae to-day? Drain-seller, say." But the drink-seller turned, with drooping head, /iau nut ? single wuru in answer saia. What bud he done? His work, he knew fall well, * Was plunging souls in deepest belli Alas! drink-seller, on that awful day When ueath shall call you, and your raca is run, f How can you answer? What can you say When God shall question you, 4fWhat hnve you done?" How cau you meet the eye Of the Most Hlgb? When night approaches, and the day grows / late, Think you to find your way to heaven's Kate? . Think j*ou to dwell with the souls of righteous men? Tuink you to outer in? It not, what then? ?Ella Wheeler Wilcox. A Popular Fallacy. The Idea of using brandy as a specific for the euro of nervous debility (as caused by overwork, mental worry, etc.) Is only another form of the popular fallacy which mistakes a process of irritation for a process of invigoratiou. "Alcohol i3 uelther a food nor a tfeneriitor of force In tbe human body," says Dr. N. 8. Davis, ex-President of the Amorlcan Medina! Association, ' thoueh like ether aari chloroform, its presence diminishes the sensibility of the nervou"9 system and Orala, thereby rendering the Individual less conscious of all outward Impressions. This diminution of sensibility may be seen In all Its stages from simple weight, exhibited by ease, buoyaucy, hilarity, to that 3f complete unconsciousness aud loss of muscular power. It has long been one of the uoted paradoxes of human physiology, that the same individual would resort tot the same alcoholic drink to warm him In winter and protect from heat in summer, to strength when woak and weary, and soothe aud calm when afflicted in aody or mind. The fact Is that alcohol achieves those eflocts simply by lessening our consciousness of impressions. But while its presence diminishes the sensibility of the nervous system, It also injures the functional efficiency ot the organism and tends to retard the process of nutrition and elimination." V It might bo added that oven that shamrelief is confined to the brief initial period of the poison-fever, and that the net result of the experiment never fails to aggravate the symptoms of whatever distress may have tempted the sufrerar to invoke the treacherous aid of aloohod. + One srreat temptation in the practice ot physicians privately opposed to the use of^-N^ Alcohol in any form, is the promptness of that apparent relief effected by large doses v of alcoholic stiuiul!iats..The patient applies S for a remedy.not for a lecture on the phys-^. iologlca! ofrl-cts o{ nt? unsanitary habits,' and perhaps oroa b&liovjs in the existence of miraculcus sp?:iflcs that would enable. him to reconcile those habits with the et?* joyment of permanent health. It would be difficult to convince him that total abstinence from stimulants, combined with frugality and outdoor exercise, would ultimately effect a far more thorough cure; he demands more direct results, and believes to have got his money's worth in the form of a prescription by which those results have been apparently accomplished. He deludes himself with the hope that the momentary feeling of relief might be accepted as nsymptom of permanent Improvement. But is it not, on the other hand, more than probable tlri* the inevitable) disappointment of that hope has done much to weaken the confidence In the trustworthiness of medical prescriptions in general? H*re a3 elsawhere, absolute honesty might, after all, prove the wisest plan. An Inslriloa* Evil. The persistency with which the daily I~# papers comiuuB 10 iuiuiui us m.n. m.. drink habit is growning nrnong women is iilarming. If it be true, as a lea?Iingr New l'ork paper asserts upon the authority of "one of tlie 400," that Delmouico's and the Waldorf-Astoria are the scenes of drunketi debauchery upon the part of women of the most exclusive circles of New York society, and th:>t lady members of leading aristocratic families go about the streets of New l'ork, in public places and in the homes of their friends, with their breath reekiug with the fumes of liquor, a new and specially daugeroua phase of the liquor problem conirouts us. There is nothing increiible in the reports. The morality of the women o! a nation seldom remains for a great length of tim t? :it*a higher grade than the morality of the meu.?The New Voice. . The Craaade in Brief. There are 250,000 peaces where liquor b 501J in this country. Why sbould any man who sells liquor have anything to do with the governing of the public achool??-:1 When the liqaor dealer get?.riob enough to build a brown stone front ;he bas a right to call it "The house that''jig.' built." Switzerland has three institutions for the care of drunkards, which record permanent eur?s in one-half of the cases treated. At tho annual meeting of the Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society Secretary of the Navy John D. Long was elected President. The average savings bank deposits for each citizens of Illinois is $6.14, of Ohio, 99.42, and of the prohibition State Maine, $30.77. Tbe students of Nobraska Wesleyaa University at Lincoln have organized a prohibition club with thirty-nlno charter members. Tbe world's W. C. T. U. Convention will be held this summer in Edinburgh, and two hundred delegates are expected to go from this country. Three hundred and Bfty drinking saloons hnve been introduced into Manila consequent upon the American oxpedltion to the Philippines, aud these are chiefly patronized by them. The Filipinos do not like tbe introduction of those canteen aud dramshops iuto their midst.