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HHHHHHHHi HSaBBBEBEBBSUBESKEKSSnBESnKSSBBBRSanEE THE PLACE TO START. REV. DR. TALMAGE SAYS IT IS AT THE CAPITAL. i He Says America Is Going to Be Taker j For God and That the Place to Begin li : In Washington?All Will Cry Amen tc This. Washington, Feb. 9.?The audience of Dr. Talmage is thronged with the chief men of the nation and people from all parts, making this sermon most timely. An hour and a half before the doors open the people gather in the street, and policemen keep the way open for tho pewholders. The text chosen for I today's discourse was Luke xxiv, 47, "Roninninnf r?t. .Torncfilom " ~ ? "There it is,"said the driver, and we all instantly and excitedly rose in the carriage to catch the first glimpse of Jerusalem, so long the joy of the whole earth. That city, coroneted with temple and palace and radiant, whether looked np at from the valley of Jeliosbaphat or gazed at from adjoining hills, was the capital of a great nation. Clouds of incense had hovered over it. CharioTs of kings had rolled through it. Battering rams of enemies had thundered against it. There Isaiah prophesied, and Jeremiah lamented, and David reigned, and Paul preached, and Christ was martyred. Most interesting city ever built since masonry rung its first trowel or plumb line measured its first wall or royalty swung its first scepter. What Jerusalem was to the Jewish kingdom Washington is to our own country?the capital, the place to which all the tribes come up, the great national heart whoso throb sends life or death through tlio body politic, clear out to the geographical extremities. Christ Will Reign There. What the resurrected Christ said in my text to his disciples when he ordered them to start on the work of gospelization, "beginning at Jerusalem," it seems to me Cod says now in his providence to tens of thousands of Christians in this city. Start for the evangelization of America,"beginning at Washington." America is going to be taken for God. If you do not believe it, take your hat now and leave and give room to some man or woman who does believe it. As surely as God lives and be is able to do as ho says he will this country will bo evangelized from the mouth of the Potomac to the mouth of the Oregou, from the Highlands of Navesink to the Gold- ! en Horn, from Baffin's bay to the gulf of Mexico, and Christ will walk every lake, whether bestcrmed or placid, and be transfigured on every mountain, and the night skies, whether they hover over groves of magnolia or over Alaskan glacier, shall bo filled with the angelic overture of "glory to God and goodwill to men." Again and again does the old book announce that all the earth shall see the salvation of God, and as tbo greater includes the lesser that takes America gloriously in. Can you not see that if America is not taken for God by his consecrated "people it will be taken for Apollyon? The forces engaged on both sides are so tremendous that it cannot be a drawn battle. It is coming, the Armageddon. Either the American Sabbath will perish and this nation be banded over to Herods and Ilildebrands and Diocletians and Neros of baleful power, and Alcoholism will reign, seated upon piled up throne cf beer barrels, his mouth foaming with domestic and na- i tional curse, and crime will lift its unhindered knife of assassination and rat- j tie keys of worst burglary and wave | torch cf widest conflagration, and our cities be turned into Sodoms, waiting for mighty tempest of firo and brimstone and one tidal wave of abomination will surge across the continent, or our Sabbaths will take on more sancti- | ty, and the newspapers will become : apocalyptic wings of benediction, and penitentiaries will be abandoned for lack of occupants, and holiness and happiness, twin son and daughter cf heaven, shall walk through tbo laud and j Christ reign over this nation either in j person or by agency so glorious that the whole country will be one clear, resounding echo of heaven. It will be one j or the other. By the throne of him who j liveth forever and ever I declare it will j be the latter. If the Lord will help me, | as ho always does?blessed be his glorious name?I will show you how a mighty work of grace begun at Wash- j iugton would have a tendency to bring i the whole continent to God, and before this century closes. William the Conqueror ordered the curfew, the custom of ringing the bell at midnight, at which all the fires on the hearths were to be banked, and all the lights extinguished, and all the people retire to their pillows. I pray God that the curfew cf this century may not be sounded, and the tires be banked, and the lights extinguished as the clock strikes the midnight hour that divides the nineteenth century from the twentieth century until this beloved laud, which was to most of us a cradle and which will bo to most of us a grave, shall come into the full possession of him who i3 so glorious that William tho Conqueror could not bo compared to him, even the One who rideth forth "conquering and to conquer." A Battle For Sonls. Why would it be especially advanta- ; geous if a mighty work of grace started here, "beginning at Washington?" First, because this city is on the border between the north and the south. It is neither northern nor southern. It com- | mingles the two climates. It brings together the two styles of population. Ic is not only right, but beautiful, that people should have especial love for the latitude where they were born and j brought up. With what loving accentuation theAIabamian speaks of his orange ! groves! And the man from Massachusetts j is sure to let yon know that he comes | from t lie land of ihe Adamses?Samuel ; and John and John Quincy. Did you j ever kirjw a Virginian or Ohioan whose j face did not brighten when lie announcThrsw Away His Canes. Mr. D. Wiley, ex postmaster. Black Creek, X. Y., was so badly afflicted with rheumatism ihat he was only able to hobble around with canes, j and even then it caused him great j pain. After using Chamberlain s j Pain Balm he was so much improved that he threw away his canes. He says this liniment did him more good i than all other medicines and treatment put together. For sale at oO cents per bottle by Julian E. Kauffrnan. 10 Four Big Successes. Having the needed merit to more than make good all the advertising claimed for them, the following four remedies have reached a phenomenal sale. 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Georgia would clasp the hand of New Hampshire, and Maine the hand of Louisiana, and California tho hand of New York, and say, "Come, let us go up and worship the God of nations, tho i Christ of Golgotha, the Holy Ghost of j the pentecostal three thousands." It has often been said that the only way the north and the south will be brought into complete accord is to have a war with some foreign nation in which both sections, marching side by side, would forget everything but the foe to be overcome. Well, if you wait for such a foreign conflict, you will wait until all this generation is dead and perhaps wait forever. The war that will make too sections forget past controversies is a war against unrighteousness, such as a uuiversal religious awakening would I declare. What we want is a battle for souls in which abont 40,000,000 north- ! erners and southerners shall be on the same side and shoulder to shoulder. In no other city on the continent can such a war bo declared so appropriately, for all the other ureat cities are either north- I era or southern. This is neither, or j rather it is both. Religion Among Statesmen. Again, it would be especially advantageous if a mighty work of grace started here, because more representative men are in Washington than in any other city between the oceans. Of course thero are accidents in politics, and occasionally there are men who get into the senate and house of representatives and other important places who are fitted for tho positions in neither head nor heart, but this is exceptional and more j exceptional now than in other days. There is not a drunkard in the national legislature, although there were times when Kentucky, Virginia, Delaware, . Illinois, New York and Massachusetts had men in the senate or house of representatives who were maudlin and staggering dv-.mk across those high places. Never nofcler group of men sat in senate or house or representatives than sat there yesterday and will sit there tomorrow, while the highest judiciary, without exception, Las now upon its bench men beyond criticism for good morals and mental endowment. So in all departments of official position, with here and thero an exception, are today the brainiest men and most honorable men of A "hir\x\* L-Tinnncn * tin TTolxr fiVincf. power should fall upon this city, and thesu men from all parts of America should suddenly become pronounced for Christ. Do you say the effect would be electrical? More than that. It would be omnipotent. Do you say that such learned and potent men are not wrought upou by religious influence? That shows you have not observed what has been going on. Commodore Foote, representing the ( navy; General Grant and Robert E. Lee, representing the northern and j southern armies; Chief Justice Chase, j representing the supremo court; the j Frelinghuysens,Theodore and Frederick, ! representing the United States senate; ! William Pennington and scores of oth- | ers, representing the house of representatives, have surrendered to that gospel, which before this winter is out will in ' this capital of the Americau nation, if we are faithful in our prayers and exertions, turn into the kingdom of God men of national and international power, their tongues of eloquence becoming the tongues of fire in another Pentecosr. There are on yonder hill those who by ; the grace of God will become John i Knoxes and Chrysostoms and Fenelons j and Bourdeleaus, when once regenerated. There is an illusion I have heard in I prayer meetiugs and heard in pulpits, j that a scral is a soul?one soul worth as i much as another. I deny it. The soul j of a man who can bring 1,000 or 10,000 other souls into the kingdom of God is worth 1,Q00 times or 10,000 times more than the soul of a man who can bring no one into the kingdom. A great outpouring of the Holy Spirit in this capital, reaching the chief men of America, would be of more value to earth and heaven than in any other part of the nation, because it would reach all the j states, cities, towns and neighborhoods ' of the continent. Oh, for the outstretch- I ed right arm of God Almighty in the i salvation of this capital! A Look backward. Some of us remember 1857, when at tho close of the worst monetary distross this country has ever felt, compared with which the hard times of the last : llirtfy Jt'ttrs wtio a uu'jiu kjl piunpciio > i right on the heels of that complete pros- I tration came an awakening in which j 500,000 people wero converted in differ- i ent states of the Union. Do you know ! where one of its chief powers was dem- | onstraled? In Washington. Do yon know on what street? This street. Do i you know in what church? This church. | I picked up an old book a few days ago and was startled and thrilled and en- I chanted to read some words, written at j that time by the Washington correspondent of a 2s ew York paper. Ho j wrote: "The First Presbyterian clmrch j can scarce contain the people. Requests I are daily preferred for au interest in the ' prayers offered, and the reading of these ; forms one of the tenderest and most ef- | fective features of the meetings. Partieu- J lar pains are taken to disclaim and ex- j elude everything like sectarian feeling. I General astonishment is felt at the unexpected rapidity with which the work has thus far proceeded, and we are beginning to anticipate the necessity of opening another church." Why, my hearers, not have that again, and more than that? There aro many thousands more of inhabitants now than then. Bosides that, since then uro the telephone, with itssemiomnipresence, and the swift j cable car for assembling the people. I ; believe that the mightiest revival of ro- i I ligion that this citv has over seen is vet ! i to come, and the earth will tremble from j I Capitolino hill to the boundaries on all j sides with tho footsteps of God as he , comes to awaken and paidon and save j these great populations. People of Washington, meet us next j Thursday night, at half past 7 o'clock, I to pray for this coining of the Holy ! j Ghost?not for a pcntccostnl 3,000 that j I have referred to, but 30,000. Such a j fire as that would kindle a light that would be seen from the sledges crunching through the snows of Labrador to the Caribbean sea,where the whirlwinds are born. Let our cry be that of Habak- j kuk, the blank verse poet of the Bible, ! "O Lord, revive thy work in tho midst | of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy." Let the battJecrybo Washington for God, the Uuitcd States for God, America for God, the world for God! We are all tired of skirmishing. Let ns I bring on a general engagement. We are J tired of fishing with hook and line. With one sweep of tho gospel net let us take in many thousands. This vast work must begin somewhere. Why not hero? Some one must give the rallying cry, why may not I, one of the Lord's servants? By providential arrangemeut, I am every week in sermonic communication with every city, town and neighborhood of this country, and I now give the watchword to north and south and east and west. Hear and see it, all people?this call to a forward movement, this call to repentance and faith, this call to a continental awakening! Mighty Men of the Past. This generatron win soon be ont 01 j sight. Where are the mighty men of the I past who trod your Pennsylvania avenuo and spake in yonder national legislature and decided the stupendous questions of the supremo judicatory? Ask the sleepers in the Congressional cemetery. Ask the mausoleums all over the land. Their tongues are speechless, their eyes closed, their arms folded, their opportunities gone, their destiny fixed. How soon time prorogues parliaments and adjourns senates and disbands cabinets and empties pulpits and dismisses generations! What we would do we must do quickly or not do at all. I call upon people who cannot come forth lrom their sickbeds to implore the heavens in our behalf from their midnight pillows, and I call upon the aged who cannot, even by the help of their staff, enter the churches to speud their last days on earth in supplicating the salvation of this nation, and I call upon all msu and women who have been in furnaces of trouble, as was Shadrach, and among lions, as was Daniel, and in dungeons of trouble, as was Jeremiah, to joiu in the prayer, and let the church of God everywhere lay hold of the Almighty arm that moves I nations. Then senators of the United States will announce to the state legislatures that sent them here, and members of the bouse of representatives will report to the congressional districts that elected them, and the many thousands of men and women now and hero en gagea iu me xxiciuy uepiiriiiicu ic ui uutional service will write homo, telling all sections of the country that the Lord is here aud that ho is on the march for th9 redemption of America. Halleluiah, the Lord is coming ! I hear the rumbling of his chaiiot wheels. I feel on my chocks tho breath cf the white horses 1 that draw the Victor! 1 see the flash of his lanterns through the long night of tho world's sin and sorrow ! We want in this country, only on a larger scale, that which other centuries have seen cf God's workings, as in the reformation cf the sixteenth century, when Martin Lulher and Philip Mclanchthon led on ; as in the awakening of the seventeenth century, when Banyan j and Havel aud Baxter led on; as in the awakening of tho eighteenth century, when Tennant and Edwards aud tho Wesleys led on; as in the awakening of 1857, led on by Matthew Simpson, the seraphic Methodist, and Bishop MacIlvaiue, the apostolic Episcopalian, and Albert Barnes, the consecrated Presbyterian, and others just as good in all denominations. Oh, will not some of thoso glorious souls of the past come down and help ns? Come down off your thrones, Net tleton and Finney and Daniel Baker and Edward Payson and Truman Osborne and Enrle aud Knapp and Inskip and Archibald Alexander?that Alexander the Great of the Christian churches. Come down ! How can you rest up there whc-u the world is dying for lack cf the gospel? Come duyvn and agonize with us in prayer. Come down and help us preach in our pulpits. Come down and inspire our courage and faith. Heaven can get along without you bet- j ter than wc can. But more than all, and I ivi t li ? ororonf nnini inn Wft i ask it, come, thou of the deeply dyed garments of Bozrah, traveling in the greatness of thy strength, mighty to save! Lord God of Joshua, let the sun of this centnry stand still above Gibeon and the moon above the valley of Ajaion until we can whip out the five kings of hell, tumbling them down the precipices as the other five kings went over the rocks to Bethboron. Ha! Ha! It will so surely be done that I cannot restrain the laugh of triumph. A Call to the Pulpits. From where the seaweed is tossed on | , the beach by the stormy Atlantic to j . the sands laved by the quiet Pacific this country will be Emanuel's land, the ' work beginning at Washington, if we j have the faith and holy push and the i consecration requisite. First of all, we | ministers must get right. That was a startling utterance of Mr. Swiunock when he said, "It is a doleful thing to j fall into hell from under the pulpit; but, ! oh, how dreadful a filing to drop thither | , out of the pulpit." That was an all sug- I gestive thing that Paul wrote to the j Corinthians, "Lest that by any means, A Life Saved. Jamestown, Term., October 15, 1891. My daughter tried physicians and : ii i * ? .f ? T .i i _ ; nearly an remedies iur j; em;ue irregularities, but received no relief or I benefit whatever. We had nearly ; despaired of her recovery when we ; were induced by our postmaster, j Mr. A. A Gooding, to try Gerstle's i Female Panacea and after using four j bottles she was entirely cured, for ! which I feel it my duty to let it be | known to the world and suffering ; humanity, for I believe she owes her j life to the Panacea. A. J MACE, Sheriff of Fentress Count}*, Tenu. For further information call at | Julian E. KauiTmau's drug store and i get free, a pamphlet entitled, '*Ad- j vice to Women and Other Useful In- I formation." 15. | when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." That was an inspiring motto with which Whitefield sealed all his letters, "We seek the stars." Lord God, wake up all our pulpits, and then it will be as when Venn preached, and it was said that men fell before the word like slacked lime. Let us all, laymen and clergymen, to the work. What Washington wants ruost of all is an old fashioned revival of religion, but on a vaster scale, so that the world will never be eompellc-d to say as of old, "Wo never saw it 011 this fash- i ion." But remember there is a human side as well as a divine side to a revival. Those of us brought up in the conn- ! try know what is called "a raising"? the neighbors gathered together to lift the heavy frame for a new house after the timbers aro ready to be pnt into j their places. It is dangerous work, and there are mnnv accidents. The neich bors had gathered for such a raising, i and the beams had all been fitted to their places except 0110, and that very heavy. That one, on the long pikes of tho men, had almost reached its place when something went -wrong, and the j men could hoist it no higher. But if it did not go in its place it would fall back upon tho men who wero lifting it. It had already begun to settle back. Tho I boss carpenter shouted: "Lift, men, or die! All together! Yo, heave!" With mightier push they tried to send i the beam to its place, but failed. Still ? they held on, all the time their strength lessening. Tho wives and mothers and daughters stood in horror looking on. Then the boss carpenter shouted to the women, "Come and help!" They came, and womanly arms became the arms of j giants, for they were lifting to save the lives of husbands and fathers and sons, as well as their own. Then the boss carpenter mounted one of the beams and shouted: "Now! Altogether! Lift or die! Yo, heave!" And with a united effort that almost burst tho blood ves- r eels, the great beam weut to its place and a wild huzza was heard. That is the way it sometimes eeems iu the churches. Temples of righteousness are j to be reared, but thero is a halt, a stop, a catch somewhere. A few are lifting ji 11 thoT r?im hnfc \va wniit: mnr? hrmds VM"? ~ ?v j at this raising, and more hearts, more i Christian men to help?aye, more Christian women to re enforce. If the work | fail, it means the death of many souls, j All together, men and women of God! Lift or die! The top stone must come to , its place "with shoutings of grace, grace unto it." God is ready to do his part; are we ready to do our part? There is work not only for the knee of prayer, j but for the shoulder of upheaval. Good News. And now I would like to see this hour that which I have never seen, but hopo | to see?a whole audience saved under one flash of the Eternal Spirit. Before you go out of any of these doors enter the door of mercy. Father and mother, come iu and bring your children with you. Newly married folks, consecrate your lifetime to God, and be married for eternity as well as time. Young j man, yen will want God before you get i through this world, and you want him now. Young woman, without God this | is a hard world for women. One and all, wherever you sit or stand, I lift my voice so that you can hear it, out in the corridors and on the street, and say, in j the words of the Mediterranean ship captain, "Call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that wo perish not." Oh. what news to tell, what news to relate to yor.r old father and mother, what news to telegraph j your friends on the other side of the mountains, what news with which to thrill your loved ones in heaven! It was cJ such news that a man read in a noonday meeting in Philadelphia. He arose, and unrolling a manuscript read: Where'er we meet, you always say: "What's the news? What's the news? Pray what's the order of the day? What's the news? What's the news?" Oh, I have got good news to tell? My Saviour hath done all things well, And triumphed over death and hell? That's the news! That's the newsl The Lamb was slain on Calvary? Xuav 3 mv umi lut' ncnoi To set a world of sinners free? That's the news! That's the news! The Lord has pardoned all my sin? That's the news! That's the news! I fe< 1 the witness now within? That's the news! That's the news! And since lie took my sins .-.way. And taught me how to watch and pray, I'm liappy now from day to day? That's the news! That's the news! And Christ the Lord can save you, too? That's the news! That's the news! Your sinful heart he can renew? That's the news! That's the news! This moment, if for sins you grieve, This moment, if you do believe, A full acquittal you'll receive? That's the news! That's the news! And now, if any one should say, "What's the news? What's the news?" Oh, t( 11 him you've begun to prayThat "s the news! That's the news! That you have joined the conquering band, And now with joy at God's command You're marching to the better land? That's the news! That's the news! LeaTrss Canno; be Cured. By local applications, as they cannot reach the diseas?d portion of the car. There is only one way to cure Deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. 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At the time of the acquisition of the j uew and extensive parks in tho annexed j district (provided for by an act of the I legislature in 1S84 and legally acquired j and paid for in 1889) New York city j had only 1,094 acres of park land, com- | pared with an area of 3,000 acres in Philadelphia and 3,000 in Chicago, among American cities, and 5,000 acres in Berlin, 8,000 in Vienna, 22,000 in London and 172,000 in Paris. Tho insufficiency of New York's park area had led to the appointment of a special commission for the acquisition of new park lands, and these were acquired to tho extent of 3,800 additional acres, at a total cost to the city of $9,800,000, exclusive of the sums paid for the smaller parks in the more thickly populated parts of the town, the last of these sites being at Mulberry bend and C'orlears Hook. With these acquisitions tho park area of New York is 5,174 acres. A similar increase in the park area of other American cities has been noticed recently. Chicago has four parks of more than 200 acres each?Jackson park, the site of the World's fair; Washington park, not very far from it; Lincoln park, in the north end cf town, and Humboldt park, on tho West Side. Cleveland has in a short time increased its park area from 200 to 900 acres by tho purchase of land for small parks in six districrs of town. St. Loais has a park area of 2,100 acres, San Francisco 1,190, and Philadelphia 8,175. The park area of Baltimore, which was 700 acres seven years ago, is now 911, including Druid Hill park, one of the finest in the United States. The extension of the park system in American cities has been so rapid of late that only four large cities had on Jan. 1 more than 1,000 population to an acre of park area within their municipal limits. Of these four cities, one, Cleveland, has already acquired additional park laud; another, Indianapolis, has a large park for the use of its inhabitants a little beyond the city line and, a third, Brooklyn, has a commission, authorized by an act of the legislature in 1892 to acquire land for park purposes. By the annexation of the former county towns of Kings county which are now an integral part of the city of Brooklyn 130 additional acres have been added to the former 630 of park land, exclusive of either the Ocean or the Eastern parkway. The area of Prospect park is 520 acres, and Brooklyn has, besides, half a dozen small parks, of which Washington park is the largest. The city of Newark is behind other American municipalities in park area, a deficiency which, it is said, the Trenton legislature at this year's session will be asked to correct by the appointment of a commission with authority to buy additional land. One legislative condition which is favorable to the extension of park areas in American cities is the practice of providing for purchases by the issuance of bonds to be paid at a future date, and only the annual interest on which is to be met from the proceeds of taxation. By this means park lands may be secured without additional burdens upon the taxpayers of any city, and taxpayers, it is well known, are not at all reluctant to incur obligations which others will liquidate. All over the United States, in the west as well as in the south, where the facilities for parkmaking are perhaps better than anywhere else, the size and number of parks are being increased and tho landscape beauties of parks developed and extended.?New York Snn. A Forgotten Fortune. One of the great capitalists m New York, a man whoso achievements by reason of their magnitude canse his namo to bo as familiar to the public as that of almost any man in New York, went into the safo deposit vaults cue day and gavo to tho manager an envelope which he said contained 2,000 rst V/wfliivosf-orn cfnpfr JTn did Bljaica VIA llVAiii ?TVI.IV*M w.vv^ ?. . not want to put this stock in his vault i for reasons best known to himself. The j envelope was given to an employee, who did not know its contents, who was instructed to place it in his own private vault until called for, and with that arrangement the capitalist seemed content. A few mouths later this capitalist was in a great state of mind. Ho could not find anywhere among his possession a block of 2,000 shares of Northwestern stock. He could not say whether it had been lost or stolen. At last he gave a bond to the railroad company and received for it new stock, and the old issue was canceled. At the beginning of the following year the deposit company's employee asked that he might be relieved of the i responsibility of caring for the cap- i italist's envelope, although he did i not know what it contained. The capitalist was sent tor and the envelope given to him. He himself received the envelope in apparent ignorance of its j contents until he opened it and found j within the missing 2,000 shares of the j par value of $200,000. The whole trans- j action was an utter blank to him. If he I had been a man of intemperate habits it j might have been explained, but he is j practically a total abstainer.?Philadelphia Press. Cecil Rhodes. "Cecil Rhodes," says The Saturday j Review, "is a strong man of the kind that is never finished by a single stroke. And he is strong with the strength of a j coarse, ruthless, greedy egotism, the j strokes of whose piston rod force the j minds and the money of weaker men into its reservoir. As he was at Oriel 20 years ago so he is at Cape Town today? 1 1_ ?,v1? ii-T-ifalilti nilfl lint; JULIUI^I fcCJi UUOUiU^U| 4*. J. ?u?w *V/ ? ?> ? to be relied upon. He hates women, whom he regards as unnecessary impedimenta in the campaign, and ho has j no idea of friendship. Ho only recog- i nizes instruments to be used and enomies to be dealt with. Success accentu- i ated his defeats to the puiut of disease j and made him so irritable, so self ab- j sorbed and so insolent that none but ! parasites could live with him." Bucklen's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and Skin : Eruptions, and positively cures Piles j or no pay required. It is guaranteed ! to give perfect satisfaction or money i refunded. Price 25 cents per bos. | For sale at the Bazaar. When you come to town don't for- | get to call and settle your subscrip- j tiou due the Dispatch. Ben's Hot Words. They were Not Altogether Without Precedent, Says T. R. R. Cobb. Atlanta (' nstitutiou. I have read Tillman's speech from the Congressional Record. It is a terrible arraignment. Neither admitting nor denying his bold charges, I maintain that there is not one word of blackguardism in the speech?bis language comes with the precedents made by America's greatest Senators, and is no harsher than that used in debate by the foremost statesmen of other countries. Furthermore, from an American standpoint, bis words were not even unparliamentary, used as they were, and when they were. To prove these assertions, I would first quote the Constitution of the United States, where it says: "The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. Each house may determine the rules of proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and with the coDcurence of two-thirds, expel a member." Therefore, the only "parliamentary law" of force in the Senate is the code of rules made by the Senate. Tillman has broken none of these, else there would be a motion at least to punish or expel him. For, if Ben Tillman has behaved the blackguard in our Senate, his fellow members are derelict in duty."false to oaths, and particeps erimiuus to blackguardism, if they sat dumb and idle and interested during the performance. So, it is fair to presume Tillman broke no present rule of the Senate, and therefore he was parliamentary within the Senatorial sense of the phrase. For comparison I have chosen the roughest of Tillman's utterances; they are as follows: "Besotted tyrant," "Bull headed and self idolatrous man," "Judas from Kentucky," "Vanity and obstinacy," "Process of debauchery," "Why 1 i * L-J |T: 9" uTl.? nave you not, impeucueu lulu: xlic Supreme Court, by oue corrupt vote." Now for precedents! John Randolph said, in that same Senate, of President Adams and Secretary Clay: "This puritanic?diplomatic black legged administration.'' Henry Clay said in the same Senate of President Jackson: "What security have we against the lawlessness of any President?" The people have been betrayed, insulted: their interests betrayed." "To propiiate President we bee approaching tyranny." "May I live to see the people rescue the public treasury from this pillage." John C. Calhoun said of President Jacksou in that same Senate: "He Las entered the Treasury with the false keys of sophistry, as a pilferer under the silence of midnight." "The corruptions and encroachment of the executive." After these speeches, the Senate passed a resolution, by majority, condemning Jackson. As such speech was not unparliamentary there and then, many S< nators have used such language directly against colleagues. For instance Ben Hill on Mahone: "The people will not tolerate treachery," "False to a trust,1 'foiled with dishonor," etc. Ingalls sc d in the Senate of one Cleveland's fo ir.er edietaries: "A more degraded, In: thsomc, execrable and detestable utterance never came from any pubic official.*' Old Hoar interrupted Ben Hill, just like he did Ben Tillman. Berrien said in that same Senate: "The administration and its al lies give currency to these calumnies,'' while ForsUk said in the house: "A stupendous fraud is intended by the Secretary cf War." "To call it a biibc would shock his delicacy, just as Cowper's preachers 'could not mention hell to ears polite."'"Profitable schemes of villiany!" Sir John Elliott, iu 1G2S, said in the House of Commons: "The ignorance and corruption of ministers." "If you survey the count, the bar and bench show our disease to be desperate!" Chatham said of Prime Minister Walpole: "By his ignorance and wickedness." "His weak, pusillanimous and wretched measures:" So I could go on and on quoting English and Irish statesman. Who can forget the close of Grattan's great invective? "The merchant may say cf you, the constitutionalists may say of you, the American may say of you, and I, I now say, and say to your beard, sir, you are not an honest man!" Did not L. Q. C. Lamar say in the United States Senate such awful - -- ? i woids of Cockling, that i.e nimsen i described them thus: "I have said of you what no good man deserves and no brave man will bear?" "Was Lamar a blatkguard? Did not Cleveland make him a Supreme Court judge? Has not justice Brown used ; the epithet, "Sordid despotism of : wealth?" Does not Mr. Carlisle's ! eloquence abound in anathemas, no ! tably bis denunciation of "the great- j est crime of the century." Did not j Thomas Jefferson, the greatest of j parliamentarians, use languageiu the | Declaration of Independence like this? "Absolutely tyranny." "Judges j an his will alone." "HlS i UCJJCLiuguu works are begun with cruelty and perfidy." Did not our great party denounce certain legislation as a j cowardly makeshift?" Does not j President Cleveland himself speak j right out sometimes7 Did he not once j say officially to those from whom'be | differed something about "Party j perfidy and dishonor!" These are but few illustrations and 1 authorities from high sources that ; have fallen uncer my view?more ! experienced students of political talk ! could point to stronger speech, but j these will do. L(t men and Sena- j tors slop lying about Tillman's language and answer Tillman's argu- j ineute. Suppose that Webster had j siit silent and maintained thatHayne j was a "blackguard?" Iustc-ad of i that, like a manly orator, in the open- i ing of his "reply," he warned Hayne: I "If provoked into crimination and recrimination, I have blows to give as j well as take. Therefore, the honor- I ADVERTISING HATES. 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As a Democrat, I want Tiilman answered, but in common with thousands, I rejoice that he has shaken to pieces that political "white sepulchre" called "senatorial dignity.'1 The powerful pomposity which bore that name was the nearest imitation that has ever flourished in America of English aristocracy, lordliness, etc , and I hope Tillman killed it?Washington, Jeffrrstn, Jackson and such patriots knew none of it. Had they heard Tillman, they would have an swered or applauded him. "When a Senator says another is "a dog/' he is a blackguard, and is unparliamentary, for n) man can be a dog; therefore the charge is mere billingsgate, and cannot be answered. But when a Senator say any one is a '"besotted tyrant,"' it may or may not be true, and therefore should be answered, disproved?for silence gives consent. "Why will not some Senator defend our President and our party? Is it possible that a parcel of superanuated mascaline maids are so timid that strong speech makes them tremblingly dumb? Oh, for a Webster! Don't think because you are sick and nothing seems to give you relief that you can't be cured. There must be a cure for you somewhere. If your doctor can't cure you, perhaps he has mistaken the cause. Anybody is liable to make a mistake sometimes. One in three of us suffer from indigestion. and one out of three dyspeptics doesn't know it. That is, he may know he is sick, but be blames it to something else. T "> - - ,.t JLDQIgesllOU IS me cause 01 uan vi our dangerous diseases. Shaker Digestive Cordial, made from tonic medicinal roots and herbs, is the most natural cure for indigestion. It relieves the symptoms and cures the disease gently, naturally, efficiently, giving fresh life, strength and health to sick dyspeptics. At druggists. A trial bottle for 10 cents. ? -o In Be Evars. Charleston Post. "We have seen it hinted somewhere that Governor Evans placed the metropolitan police here with the design in some way or other to capture the Chai leston delegation to the legislature when the time comes for the election of all. S. senator. It is possible that he entertains some hope of constructing a Gary Evans party in Charleston. If he does his hope s will be disappointed. It may be that the opposition of Charleston to Mr. Evans will prove helpful to him in his political career, it may be?but this be may put iu Lis pipe aod smoke?he will have it. He has put upon this community an insult and done it an injustice such as was never perpetrated under the forms of law upon any city before. He has aroused a resentment in Charle:-ton which has been felt towards no other man in c..?i;?o fcinm 1S7G. John OUU Hi UilUIllJU . _ Gary Evans will be remembered in Cbarleston. Rather than fail to show the deep indignation which stirs them against him, we believe that our people would almost to a man support a John Irby in preference, if necessary to express it. Winter is Hear. BriDgiDg "With it Catarrhal Diseases of All Kinds. Winter is half over. People are continuing to catch colds, and not a house but hears the winter cough. People are trying to get something to cure these troubles, which are almost inevitable at this time of the year. It can safely be said that ninetenths of the people in the United States have a cold some time during the winter. There is one remedy which will prevent colds and coughs and cure them with certainty when they are contracted. Ihis remedy is Pe ru na. Taken with regularity during the winter months, it will entirely prevent coughs, colds, la grippe, consumption, bronchitis or pneumoTf u ill also cure without failure UAC4. A ? >. ... _ catarrh and recent cases of consumption. and often in advanced stages. Everybody should have the 64-page book on catarrh and winter diseases which is being sent free by The Peru-na Drug Manufacturing Company of Columbus. Ohio. Secretary of Agriculture Morton refused to furnish the farmers of this country with free seed to experiment with, but we notice that the Government last year spend over one hundred thousand dollars in flowers to decorate the White House and the homes of Cabinet officers.?Piedmont Headlight. Superior to Ail Other. Gerento, Miss , May 6th, 1892. Although I never used any secret remedies before, I prescribe !*>t. Joseph's Sarsaparilla in my practice as I would any prescription of my own compounding, and any physician who will do the same will be greatly pleased at the results achieved. In my opinion it is superior to all others and has been especially useful to me in Rheumatic and Scrofulous cases. R. M. KITTREL, M. D. For further information call at Julian E. Kauffmaun's drug store and ask for a pamphlet entitled, "A Treatise on the Blood." 15.