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voll. XX. IJCKENS, S. (101 rl,l FJURSDAY, NO V14"JAI IIIU6 89.N.7 DR. rALMAGE'S FIFTH SERMON ON HIS TOUR IN THE HOLY LAND. Tpogpraphy of th0 Iea:da Sea Itegioll. 1'41pe))C i the VO1CMo-Tho LOu.St Liske in the World-EvIdenceu-i of God's Wristfla. ltooL.YxN, Oct. 26.-Dr. 'lilnage preached the lifth sermon of the series on his tour in the 11oly Land in the Academy of Music in this city this morning. This evening at Tho Chris tain lier;ild service in the Academy of Music, New Y ork, the serimon was re peate,i before an atidience which filled the vast building in every part. Dr. Talmage annotinted as his text, l. civ, 32: "lIe toucheth the hills and they smoke." lie said : David tie poet here pictures a vol cano, and what Church's Cotopaxi does on painter's canvas this author does in words. You see a hill, caln and still and for ages immovable, but the Lord out of tho heavens puts his linger on the top of it, and from it rise thick vapors intershot with fire. "lie touch eth the ils and they smoke." God is the only being who can man age a voleano, and again and again has 4 he em ployed volcanic act ion. Tfhe pic tures on the walls of Pompeii, the ex humed Italian city, as we saw them last Novenhter, denionstrate that the city N-as tic. lit to live. In the first century that city, engirdled wth palaces, eiparadisved with gardens, pillared into architectural exquisite ness, was at the foot of a mountain up the sides of \Ilich it ran with vine yards anl villas of merchant princes, and al. that marble and bronzo and in perial ba his aind a r boriculture and rainbowet omitains, and a coliseum at the dedieation of which nine thous and beasts had been slain, and a super nal landscape in whiii lhe shore gave roses to the sea and the sea gave cry. tals to the shore; yea, all that beauty and pomp and wealth could give was there o lie seen or heard. But the had morals of the city had shocked the world. I p the year 79, otv the 4th of A iigu4, a black col unin rose above the adjoining mountain and spread out, Pliny siiy, as lie s:aw it, like a great pine truee, wider and wider. until it b gan to rain upon the city first thin ashes and then pumice stone, and sul plhurolus fumes scooped, and streams of mud poured through the streets till few people escaped, and the city was buried, tnd soime of the inhabitants eighte#-n hunlidred years after were found etnialmed in the scoria- of that awful doom. The Lord called upon volcanic forces to obliterate that prolli gate city. lie touched the hills and they smiok-d. SC!IlNC E ANC -- ii'iTt: AN ( IEi, Nothing but volcanic action can ex plain what I shall show you at the Dead sea upon which I looked last )e cemnber, and of whose waters I took a bitter and stinging taste. Concerning all that region there has been contro versy enoaghi to fill libraries,seience saying one thing, revvIttion saying an other thii? g. Iut admit vo lcanic ac tioni divinely eniployed anid iboth testi minones are one andi the sam1e. (ology, chemistry, geography, astronony, ich thyology, ornithology and zoology are coming one b) liy one to confirm the Scriptures. Two leaves of one hook are .I'evelation and Creatioii, and the penninanship is by the same divine hand. Our horseback riide will not be so steep to-day, and you can stay on vttiout clinging to t he poitmel of the saddle, hut the scenes atiiid which we ide shall, if poss5ibIle, be mnore thrill ing, and( by the timiie the horses snuff the suliphurous atmiosphere of Lake Ashalt ites, or the lDead Sea, we will be ready to dlismlounit andc readt from our .Iibles about, w~hat was done that (lay by the Lord when he touched the hills andl they smoked. Tfake a dletou r andi( pass along by the rocky I ortrless of Masadha, w'here occur redl somaethiing imore wonitierful in the way of (desperat ion than you have ever heard of, unless you have heard of t hat. I [iO(t built a p)alace aimid thle se heaps of black and awfutl rocks wh ich look like a tummbled I nii lniigh t. A great band of robber-s, about one thtousand incli(l iig their famiilie-s afterward held the fo,rtr< ss. Whlen thle l~imani army stormed that step . andI the haindit's could 1no longer- hold the place, tthei r ch ieft ain, Eleaza r, munade a power-fult speech which persuaded them to (lie before they were capt ured. F"irst the men lissed their fatni iies a lovinrg and tearfu tl goodl-by andl then~ puit a (dagge into t hen- hearts, atul the w~omen arnd .chiildrien were slain. Tlhen ten inen were chosen byv Lot, to slay) all the other inep, andl each man lay down by the (lead wife tind childcreni and waitedc for thiese '-xecutionmers to do thmeir wor-k. 'l'hiis done, on e iumn ol the ten kitlled the otheir nine. Then thte surv-I vori comn miiittedl suicide. 'ITwo women anzd live childi-en hiad hid c them selv~es, and alIteri all was over nme f orth to) tell of thie nin.e hundiirejd and sixt.y slaught 'red. Gr ieat and r' gg-d naturanl sceniery naatkes thte mo ( st Iteendo us niatur nes for g''ad or evil. Gri-cat statesmnen arnd g i eat robbers, g r-eat Ora to(rs arnd g reat b)uttchers, were nearly aill born or tear ed among mountitain preci pic:es. Strong niatuires are haridly eerI hornm uipon the Suialn. Whten men hav'e aniythiinggr mt v r good or greatly evil to do the-y come (dOWn off the rocks. TI]ill LAND 1)0'y)M DotAION. IPass on fronm under tIhe shtad ow of' Masadha, the scene of conce.ntramted dia bolism, and come along wvhere the salt crystals ,crackle undcer the horses' hoofs. A oul arce near the mostGUod for saiken region of' all thle earth. You to w'.homn the wordl take has heretoforet sulgge-sted those b ew itchmient s of beau ty, L4uzer-ne or (Cay:iga, some great pearl set bay a lov'ing ( odc in thle bosonm of t he Iluxutriant vatlc ley.ehnge all your ideas about a laike, anid s'e t his sheet of - water which the Blible calls the Salt sea, or Sea of the Plain, and ,l osephius calls L ake. A sphmaltites. 'The mulittecrs will taike care of' the' htor-ss while we go (down to the brink and (lip lip the li id mixture in the ptalm of the hand. The waters are a commingling of brin stonle and( pitch, and have six tilnes lar get- percemitage of sailt i.han those of thle Atlatii oc-ani, thle ocean hiavinrg 4 per cent, of .salt and( this take 2f6). per cent. Lake Sir-l-kol, of lndia, is the highest lake in tIe world. This lake, on the banks of wvhich we kneel, is the lowest lale. 11 empties into no sea among other things, for the simple reason that water cannot run up hill It swallows up the river Jordon and l'ikes no response of thanks, and never reports whit it does with the twenty inPlion cibic feet of water annually received from that sacred river. It takes the tiree branches and logs float ed into it by the Jordan and pitclies them on the banks of bitumen to decay there. The hot springs near its banks by the name of Callirlioe, where King IIerod came to bathe off his illnesses, no sooner oi r in to this sea than they are poison vd. Not a lish scaleswims it. Not an in sect walks it. It hates life, and if youat tempt to swim there it lifts you by an innatural buoyancy to the surface, as much as to say, "We want no life here, but death is our preference; death." Those who attempt to wade into this lake, and submerge them selves, come out almost maddened, as with the sting of a hundred wasps and hornets, and with lips and eye lids swollen with the strange ablution. ''lh sparkle of its waters is not like the sparkle of' beauty on other lakes but a metallic luster like unto the flash of a sword that would thrust you. The gazell's and the ibexes that live on the hills beside it, and cranes and wild ducks that fly across-for, contrary to the old belier, birds dto safely wing their way over it-and the Arab horses you have been riding, though thirsty enough, will not drink out of thus dreadi'ul mixture. A mist hovers over parts oU it almost contin ually, which though natural evaporation, seems like a wing of doomi spread over liquid des olation. It is the rinsings of abomina tion. It is anl aqlucous monster coiled among the hills, or creeping with rip ples, and stenehful with nauseating nialodors. TilE ciTi's oF 'ill. , 'LAIN. in these regi:ms once stood four great cities of Assyria: Sodom, Gonior rah, Adima and Zeboim. The Bible says they were destroyed by a temptest of fire and briistone after these cities had filled tip of wickedness. "No; that is absurd," cries some one; "It is evi dent that this was a region or salt and brimstone and pitch long before that." And so it was. The Bible says it was a region of sulphur long before the great catastrophe. "Well, now," says some one, wanting to raise a quarrel between science and Revelation, "you have no right to say the cities of the plain were destroyed by a temptest of fire and sulphur and brimstone, be cause this region had these characteris ties long before these cities were des. troyed." \olcanic action, is my reply. These cities had been built out of very coiuhostible materials. The mortal was of bitumen vasily ignited, and the walls dripped with pitch most intlaina. ble. They sat, I think, on a ridge of hills. They stood high up and conspic lions. radiant in their sins, ostentatioum in their debaucheries, four hells or earth. One day there was a rumiling in tIh earth, a I a quaking. "What's that y cry the afTrighted inhabitants. "What' that ?" The foundations of the earth were giving way. A. volcano, whose fires had beenl burning for ages, at God's coinmand bursts forth, easily setting everything allame, and firsi lifting these cities high inl air' and thlei dashing them down in chaisms fatholn less. The fires of that 'ription inter shot, the dense smoke aId -olled lunt the heavens, only to descend again And all the conligutration of that conn try was changed, and where there waq a hill there came a valley, and where there had been the poip of iuclean ness caie widespread desolation. Tli, red hot spade of volcanic action hii,, shoveled under the cities of' the plain l3efore thle catasltropheli thei citie's stood~ oin the top of the salt and sulphur. After the cat.astrophe they wer'e undei the salt and sulphur. Science right: Ilevelation right. "Ie toucheth thi hills and they smoke." .No scienceiever frightened believers in Revelation so much as geology. TIhey feared that the strata of the earth would contradict the Scripltures, and then Moses must go uinder'. Blut as in the l)eadl sea instance so in all cases God's wvriting on the earth andl G od's writing in the Blible are harmo nious. TIhe shelves of rock correspondl with the shelve's of the A merican Biible society. Science digs into the earth and( fiinds (deep down the remair.s ol pilanits and so the lI ible announces pilants first. Science (dig dlowni andl says "'alinle an ini s next,'' anrd thc l idbe says, "'Marnem animals next.' Science dligs down and11 says, "LI and ani in als niextI," an d the' liile responds, "L andt aiinmls next." "Then comeic lnan!" says scien1ce. "T'heni c.omer man!"' re(sponlds the Iliile. Science d igt into the regions abouit the 1 )ead sea andl fiinds result (of fire and masse's 0: bri uistone, and ann1o0unfces a woniderfu1i geological fortnat ion. "O h, yes," say: the Bible, "Alos" wr'ote thousanos 01 years ago, ''Thie Lord ra ied upon01 Sod om an upon GIJo mor 1)0'rail bri mst.one an( lire mIot the L.ord out of heaven,' anl( lhavid wr'tett. 'lie touichieth the hills anm they sinoke.'" So I guess we w'lhl h on to oltr liibles a lit tIe longer. A gen. t leman iln thel anlte-rooni of the Whiitt I liuse at W~ashi ngtoni, hiavinog an ap. po intmenIt,t with li ~r. Lincoln at o'clock in the inorn ing, got there Ii f. teen 1tum1uites early, and( asked the ser vant, "'Who is talking in the next rootnl?" "Itr is the preslhlent, sir." 1:; aniybody with hiim?"' "No, sir; lie is r'eadintg th li IihIle. lie spe'nds everyI' mnorn inrg from -i Ito 5 o 'lck readli ng thk Aly Itext im iplins th at God controh volcanoes, not with the I uill torce o1 his hand, bitt w ith the tip of' his finger Etna, Stromboi l i atnil Vesu vius fawn at hiis feet like hioullids be'fore the hun t ter'. These ('rul ptioiis of I lhe hIlls (10 nol b)elonig toI' Pluto's realmi, as t he ancienth though t, b ut to t he div~i ne dloiions IIumnbohlt coilnited two hi ndredl 01 them, but since then the I ndian archti pelago has been fouiid to have iniint ,h,lindred1 of these greaut mout,hpieces 'I'hey arIe onl every conitinient anin al u latit.udes. That e'arthqjuake~ whiicl shook all Amilerica about six or sever stunmfIers ago was only the ravini around of volcanoca rushing against the sidels of1 t heir' ro)ky' caverns trying to bre'ak otit. Tlhey mullst come to th4 surface, but it will be at the divine caill T hey seemn re'servedl for t.he punishmiieni of ono' kind of sin. 'The seven citleu they have oliterated Were celebrat( 1'or one kind o.f transgression. Prolli gacy wals tile chief chlar'acteristic (of th< seven cities over whinhin hey put .he. smothering wing: Pompeii, Hercula. neum, Stabite, Adma, Zeboim, Sodom and Gomorrah. If our American cities do not quit their profligacy, if in high life and low life dissoluteness does not cease to be a joke and become a crime, if wealthy libertinism continues to find so many doors of domestic life open to its faint est touch, if Russian and French and American literature steeped l prurien cy does not get banished from the news stands and ladies' parlors, God will let loose some of these suppressed mon sters of the earth. And I tell these American cities that it will be more tolerable for Sodom and GomorraI in the (lay of judgment, whether that day of judgment be in this present cen tury or in the closing century of the earth's continuance. The 'volcanic forces are already in existence. but in the mercy of God they are chained in the kennels of subterraneous fire. Yet let profligacy, whether it stagger into a lazaretto, or sit on a commercial throne, whether it laugh inl a faded shawl un der the street gas light or to be wrap ped in the finest array that foreign loom ever wrought or lapidary ever impearled, know right well that there is a volcano waiting for it, whether in domestic life, or social life, or political life, or in the foundations of the earth from which sprang out the devastations that swallowed the cities of the plain. "He toucheth the hills and they smoke." But the dragoman was rejoiced when we had seen enough of this volcanic re gion 01 Palestine, anid he gladily tiazht ens the girths for another march arouinl the horses which are prancing and neighing for departure. We are off for the Jordan, only two hours away. We pass Bedouins whose stern features melt into a smile as we give them the salutation Salaam Aleikoumn, "Peace be with you," their smile sometimes leaving us in doubt as to whether it is I caused by their gladness to see us or by our poor pronminciation of the Ara bic. Oh, they are a strange race, those Bedouins. Such a commingling of rullianism and honor, of cowadice and courage, of cruelty and kindness! When a band of then came (own upon a party in which 'Miss Whately was trav eling, and were about to take pocket books and perhaps life, this lady sitting upon her horse took out her note book and pencil and began to sketch these brigands, and seeing this composure the bandits thought it something su pernatural and fled. Christian woman liness or manliness is all conquering. When Martin Luther was told that .)uke George would kill him if lie went to Leipsic Luther replied, "I woild go to Leipsic if it rained Duke Georges nine days." FIlHST VIEW OF TiE .lOnDAN. Now we come through regious where there are hills cut into the shape of ca thedrals, with altar and coluin and arch and chancel and pulpit and dome and arcliftectire of the rocks that I think can hardly just happen so. Per haps it is because God loves the church so well, lie builds in th . solitudes t Yellowstone park and Yosemite and Switzerland and Palestine these eceles iastical piles. And who knows but that inseen spirits inay sometimes worshi p there ? "Dragoman, when shall we see the ,Jordan ?" I ask. All the time we were oi the alert. and loiking through tamari ik and willows for the greatest river of all the earth. The Mississippi is willer, the Ohio is deep er, t lie A mazon is longer, the I Iudson rolls amid regions more picturesque, the intianes has more splendor on its banks, the Tibir suggests more iipe rial procession, the Ilyssus has more classie memories, and the Nile feeds ,greater populations by its irrigation, but, the ,lordan is the queen of rivers, and runs through all the Bible, a silver thre-id strung like Leads wih l heroics and be fore night we shalh m eet. on its banks Elijah and EClisha anmd Da)vid antiI ,J aeon and ,Joshua andl. lihn amnd ,J esus. At last betwveen two trees I got a glimpse of a river and said, "Whait is t.hat ?" "2The ,Jordan," was the <iu Ic k reply. And all alongr the line which had been lengthened by other pilgrims, somno fronm America, and ronme from ECurope, and somie f rom Asia, the cry wvas sounded "The ,Jordan ! Th'le ,Jor dIan!'' llund reds of thousands of pi I grims have chanted on its banks and( bathed in its wvaters. Many of them (lip a wet gown in the wave and wvrinig it out auul carry It home for their own shrou I. It Is an impetuous streamn, and( rushes on as though it were has teiming to t.ell Its story to the ages. Many an explorer has it whelmned and iany a boat has it wrecked. Lient. Molineaux had copper bottonmed crafts split upon its shelvings. Only one boat., that of ieut. Lynch, ever lived'o to sail the whole lengr h of it.. Alt the season wh'en the snows oni L ebanion imelt the 1-age of this streamii is like the C?onemaugh wvheii ,l ohnstowvn perished, and( the willd beasts that muay be miear run for the hills, explaining what ,1 er einiah says, "'Behold he shall go up like a lioii from thme swelling of ,J ordlani." No rive'r so oft en changes its mitil, for it, turns antd twists, travelhng t wo hunii (red imiiles to (10 that which ini a straight line might be done in si xty muilles. A mong banks now 1ow, nowv high, inow or rocks, now of nIa and now of sand, Javi'ig the feet of the ter ebinths and oleandlers andio ace.cias anid reedls and pistacios arid silv~er l.oulars. 'I'his river marries the D)ead sea 'so Lake Giallilee, an~d did ev'er so rough a groom take the hand of so fair -i bride ? 3M1i A c L .:s A'i' 'rln-:,omni>A N. This is the ri ver which parted to let an armiy of twvo million lsraelites across. Here the skilled nmajor g"neral of the Assyrian host at thei seventh plunge dIropped his leprosy not only by miiraciilous 15cure, bitsgetn to all ages that water, and plenty of it, has much to (10 with the sanitary imoprove ment of the worl. Here is where some thieologicaI stuideiits of EClisha's time were cutting trees with which to build( a theological seminary, arid an ax head, riot siifliciently wedged to the handle, flew off into the river and sank, andt the younrg moan dheplored riot so much the loss of the ax heatd ai the fact. that it was riot his ownr, mad cied, "Alas' It was hiorrowedh,'' andi the pro phet thre w a stick into the river, andi in defiance of the law of grav'itation the iron ax head caime to the surface arid Iloatedi like a cork upon ,the water, and( kept floatinrg utili the young mian caught, It. A miiracle perforumed to give one an opportunity to retiiun that which was borrowed, andl a rebuke in all a re's for thiose who hiorrow~ anti nev er return, thieir hadl habit in th is re spect so establ lishmed that it wonu(ldie a miracle If they (did retuirn it. Yea, fromi the bank of this river Flijah took a teani of iire, showing that .fhe m< raging element is servahtt. of t lie got anl that there is no need that. a chi of God fear anything, for if' the Ii( destructive of all eleinent., was th Jay fashional into a vehicle for id parting saint, nothing (-in ever hu yott who love an<d trust the Lont. I am so ghlhi that that chari it of li jah was niot male ont of' wool or cr. al or anything orlinarily pleasant 1hi ut of fire, a:d yet ho went up withol iaving so iich as to an iiiioej When, stepping froin amid the Iolia, )f these orantdcrs and tin.trMks ( .he banks of the .Jordan, he pitt, Ii root on the red step of the r(Ieil ci ige, and toek the red rein of vapor 1 is hands, a1nd spurretd the g,illopir iteels toward the wide open gat v leaven, It was a scene forever nincn ile. So tho hottest afllietions of vo ife may roll you e:ivenward. .; I > nosA burning l-.'ton,thf. III. iery Iroubles. may beconit upi !t ,)nly he sure tihat when you pi:ll he its of fire, you dri%ve up towm :1od, and not udown toward tl h- Db tea. When Latitiur an lIidh-vli- cl, hf stake t bey wont. n 11 a1 1-hariot I ire. W henl liy frievil l'. 1. lBliss, f! 4ospel singer, was consoint-4l with ti rail trainl that broke tilrolb Asht ah la bridge anil then took inlaie, I sa: 'Another llijah goi.e lip in a e iari >A fire!" 1AI'TIZIN41 I THNi- .imI,U'.\N. Btot. this river is a river of baptiin 1Ihrist was here baptize<l ai .hoa I Lized Im .1nY t ho.usamils. Whel her , these occasions the eantli<late fur h.I Lislin and the otlicer of religion we into this river, and then while ht were standing the watur was dipped the hand (f one an( sprinkled up the forehea! of the otlevr, (or' wIeth the entire forni of Lhu one Ib:ptized id appeaied for ;t ioient bhinat h the sv face of the Hlood(, 1 do no now dielni While I caliniot think without <it. eiotion of the fact tha1.t Iy parvi hield ine in infancy to tivh,sbptlistr Iont in the old meeting hots at So erville and a-umined ows on iy half, 1 imist tell yoi nlow of :ith mode of haptisim ob(served in the riv Jordan on that afternoon in I last I Cemliber, the partieulars of which I In i for the first timne relate. It was a scene of unim inlable einmity. A comrade in (ur 1ly Lm-,I journey rode up by iny side that L and told ic that a young mn1 who now sitidying For the gespe" -.nuist would like to he haptize< hv ine in t rivtr.lortlan. I go all the liic.s I con concern ing his earlstinlt -s :oull 1it and through personail ex:niimlath madle myself contllolnktt he w:, a wort! candidate. There w;Tre among w Arah attI,,ntlant-; t wo robws Iwt uliC t hose u1sedt for1 .\lln ricanl l ',listril aldallthe. we obtaill<d. As w" weI \qrP have a large group oi diiprnt nato al1tit present, I thctatt-d t) iiy dang ter a few vter.-es and l i-oliIes (inOM Inade to allow all 'o sing. (r lr- da nian had a inan famiiiar with'ifm riN wile t hrongh :zni -n..;; ts ho. xI (lepti and the swiftiness oif - str(: and thle Inlost appropria1tv I 1.w-v 1: tr C(,rflnony. Tiv-n I rvadl ir):n thiv Ilil the aCconit;ts oi hapt istiis in tlh:at s71'i streain, anad imiplort-ilI liv presen-e the Christ on whose henil t lie lovvi centle(i at the ,Jortan. Tin as t candidate un( invself stepliol i nan water the toople oi the banlk" s:m1g fill and resolindig N oico: (On ,Jordla'Ws,stormly bankis I -tand4 A id fast a wisn is III eye To Canaan's fair :io hap1 hl, W h'lere Ilny posst-sSi(Ons lit'. 011, the trantinplilig, raipturiII,en That risvs to myt) sight; Sweet fields arrayed in living ''-I Ani rivers of ielight. I"y this fill)v we h:,11 reach&e il t, ill" tile of tIe riVe'r. t :' C lidbla ,-anknler t In lio ds ai iose ata Ghost, ther' rushieil li t ough our' s'o a title1 of holy emlot ion Sri 'h as we si: not pr1obabily feel aga inr uiil we st< into the .J'lrtla tha:t <divitese'arth fro heav'en. W 'ill thiose wa ;t erIS I chi'<i' Will those tides lie st rong:' No ima ter if .J esus steps in wi th ius. I-'rii e Du this shore to help us oil. l-'riet, )fn the other'I shone to see us lantd. St They are comniing <down the hills on tI )theIr sidle to greet us. 11(ow well k now t~ heiri'step! lbow easilyv we dl batik we lmhli hmi withli te.rs :tol th hail uts with palini branchieii. 'l'hiy s to) us, "lIa that y'ou, fat he'l"' "'Is thi you, muothe~r ?"' arid we aniswer' by a1 ing, "'ls that you, toy dlarling '" Ili ne'am they se ,an hw arwt st reami that <ivi<es s! Could we but stani whiere \hio'es stitl. Anid view the laniseap 34'1'er, Not Jordtan's st reami nor ih-a th' ioi ib i CJould fright us fromn the "hor'. at. the Stalt' Fa:ir t o-d:tv. TIin thme gr'andL staini ini lhe pi "terfi lres ident of1 the Stati ;\ lImt. tro gad theLl ceretn4any.W The :oun -i 'it then1 teppedt inoi he tar oe a men t hiiht ofi a mul ilen ai hall wt this after'noln t ha;ll-3;aL-I 2 e'clo'k p Birmniingham, :uni still he:itlin' lior I youngl4t liouple a 34ur'-e of 4l :an largy~ie eher of ureent. ti' ren ilven 1iLielthempo to moulnti setni n mi 9.1(1 o'clock t'o-nihht. Iii,iii I 'tTieeDhor ' irl. Fl"oii T ( tm otin, Tlex;as, ( ;t . 2 . M Aiddi:e (Cullen, the tel'leho 'irl. her'e last nlight ickefedl throuh: to Ni Alayor W. S. I'endl'ltoi oleltia -el NI rs. I 'enleIton Noi. I was' Lraledi tuaia'ige w'll close one of the tost 'ie sa4tiona1l society nyhiIeavals li.owni ini I instor'y of Tfexas. 1''mlletonii ha:s hoe.: the practIee oh' latw 14 Newt Yiork i lid huni noirclusn- 14(li ():1 HE KILLED SEVENTY MEN. i . aIt of Ono 401 the \vi'41ii 1v*4%t ' Mo.11s)4t(i t j1 )-14-per:a t 0int Ik%'. C. A li frm ro 1:, . . T. Oct. 26. "Olhd T(i rt . t tarr," (ilt of the itost reinarlaible ties- i poradlcs i]i this coiiti ry, is d -a<d. lie \%is :1 Chierdkef 11diianl, -;ix llo-t folIlr!, it hl-vs il lf-iglt, straiglt as an arrow, it it anti it tIn tiie of iis diath, ncarly il h ;'flht". years of agi-vh 'T'is rclnaurkalle 1 n111 1 ntam 'est. with ti i l IIb 1, .11 s! i W 1'. i~ % II1 1111 1aj A 0 ' US W(T ttj. reViII(IO ll tI A thI is rt of th1w counlltry. A k hittI- f a %vIr the salv of thil howuso oIf t hi reiluail, E:ast, f hi .\I1iS- m I i etween wo I ; ltii oin kIs kwnl)W 1 T 1ois t Ih r I bwl( nti to 1h ie Zli les. i ts Ih t1i4o)%e; i his I lave( lit aI Ila rt v 4 1. 4.1111 ... Tonm I.h W .I It hrePe f tI i1 th I!. v <i ti sIIfit tlt the ('1a. he ritt l I ('tIIt I i, wervi . v i t i II \bI nit lift n - I go , 'Iiv-.;I ith1 i'' IIIre nI I I :i f!i ( s .4 itiu Ij. t ;I4 A I ,it '11*tl"t Itv I I I I l t t ta IntI:I reat yv i It h ( T IlI itce wit h vI In Itl.riis( he hs livet] ar i lt,n ii l il!; of his wal fare 8tainst Ils InIldian ov thor were Inal i . dret-isIII I-spvratv tlaritng- pl;t edti to his It it r<litt. I 'Iy hini I tax vollvetor in 'raw-li i ill 'oll*ity, .\rk., was > rat:tkell ill n 1 Ill m iitn tills. 1ierd ail robbed s "t a-Il jiu . W ;:t ;rit. t n t I C'hik e, it wi : I i !$II,I! I l ::-, t ke t ;1 1i . c s l ii "w Ilciti ws I I r bb-Z I tI lit- . itil n il l btitrer t Ii' litti t. I , I I ,o v rn,- t I t " n e I;i I t n i n it \ ti-ini '' Ib Itat i a s t he it h' i i lit I l i ho tIli ([ i-l lit liat i ith ki a ! IIi r -s t ii I II way , -hl4el Ib)y t lit- v n in, lt-d IflI I lIt' . A\ I*ttr II robbt) ery11', I "-.1 wolnt to TIexas, will-r.t he( ilc lt hl. ati lIle :,ml T 'nll ( i ir . el I ms er the (;%rayson bootv, til. Illirrii i:' un I I , To 'I's, ' p, so i o - it I n"1 T li hit wi-, . T h0 1itree I eas ag in trr u lil et 11111 ii;11-it I s1 it rt t , it 11 it lit " ti i I W t t It it, killcd t ach othir 1ii a twel over -t i I.t l il an. a a lit tle la:er H lel ilarr wAs SIt \ hile lt nt i r .ll t eb aick, lii I li-r honlw i t Younag r's Bend. pr) at-t ,1nab,lyh by Fricllli of1 hv-r bussbalud, who bIIvtf'I shw conlspirivd with West. to kill Simn. (thl l To-I woItb, t alk fri e- t )y , hi:q i-u-dt i t-tvalgi of Ihis fath r' 'eth,libt ls r-.e litpo of his d hit - Ixiloit!s. I V Mtil I a .lger . a linst 1:t r. t i i \ ..\ x .\, ( t. 2.3. The [o I. \\ \. V letilhi -!. the 1well-k own bulsinless liti:t'1" r IIf* t lit'nst itutitn, in .1 b, lit-vih b1'for1- tihl- C'nmi,ir;lte \~eLl-rans, t it li t tightrlt I tW i t t il ;oV InV iI t r;(ordmi a a b:0 11)(.- ('ml. f(.4h-ratte CIaISII. Il I said lito i-nlit -r i lv\ 4.1rvt Iing - it II IIt i ll ni' x t thacI, tIt i ghti. St t -I of 1hlit, (a'iust itil I i n im h i , I i t I . 'i.1 t i k issl I I, \- wit h llusinei .\;Inagmtr I-ii 1 - it 1i in ant . rh , NxtreVIi-ly lon .1littriAl. in I %hicb it - 'as clailtw l Is i i lI lc, t' w Ias Iali r ing t)i 1iht (il ( ;Io l ;lld tha 11:1 4 fliht :I. hi1 :1) 11 ('vnirtc sohd!(-r. W \\'hen .\ir.ti s ai tl h -<i oriall h1is lir.st i<t-:1 \\a:,, he s:I .ss Ili publ lish a ear:-ill all:swor Ili it, bu t1 h11is plan11 hu abanlonI"1;u \%ilitl nurcildinl" front - l h I m sitionl inl thel igl.. oca he . t'I thin t'. ha il tl i t wh11 at solst n 1 (liltrs ; ar w11.Ithl is- . W <l a th li-cri ly (11,rs wi t1 Il,y th lda t. a t he 'n tigr i h' et hvllr, cin .:v ai. T I s t:n by wha e sal.It 141< 14 b li l-mi I' h st riit :i1gh t is\ b n 'mlk-n ' Iu If whI ihh iw s to-.hI y thI greatest, if), PRICES GOING UP. 'eatl. Retading for Convusners from tile Trade Jouarnal. The trade jouirnals, whiose filinctionl it to CIIrolicle tle uIps antild downs of rices for t lie information of the jobbing itd retail trade, are just now interest ig reading for people with inelastic tcomnes. The McKinley tariff put i-her ditties oil foreign manufactures 'enable the lioie protected manufac trers to get higher prices, and the pub shed price lists shiow that they are orking the inew law for all it is worth. he Aiericanl Wool leporter of the tith instant niakes this report of tihe reseit state of mind of Wooleln man tettirers: "Naturally all are looking irward to a readjustment of values. 'his is imperative, and, more than this, the direct purpose of the inew bill." Ls to plain goods the leporter says: No oie can tell where the market will o on these fabrics. At the present ime lifty-inch goods that have been old by jobbers this season as low as 50 ents, anld in a few instances possibly own to -17!* cents, are held strong at gents' hands at 65 cents. AL decided dvance mutist be obtainled on these :tbrics, and it is held by some that rices will touch 75 cents before the pring season is over " Satinets, says lie same authority, are to command igher prices, "conseqluent upon tle hange i it arif laws. These ist cone; ivY are the inevitable result as well as Ie designed purpose of the McKinley ill.- Ftlaiinels, according to the lHe orter, are to enjoy "a 15 to 20 per cent, Idvanc.e over tle auction prices of last prig." The Ceitral Falls 'Mills, says ie s:une joiurl.1, have annitou1nced that i: a:n after the 18th the price of their all wool Thibets will be :1.87 1:,, an ad anee of 121.' (,ntits per yard, tile goods aving bieen sold this season at $1.75." (i t ie subject of carpets the Ieporter ad an interview with Nlr. A. T. Layman, f tilie Lowell Carpet.Company, as to t he t'ect of t lie new tariff on his bIsiness. All classes of woors entering into t he extire of carpets," says Nir. Lyman, aret subject to higher dit ies. A' large 1ioun11t, (if vool i1>v coming to us will ave to pay 10 per cent. more duty thati would have hid to pay if it. had come it last week. Ilight onl the top of t ie assage of' the eKinley bill, the l'hila CilriVa ar'pet m 170anui.facturers inviti'd lie repres'itatives of the Eastern mills t enter into an agreeinnittt to lock tip 1 1wr c'iit. of all the loomis for mne ear, begiing November Ist." The wekiing up1) pr)posit ioll was no41t adopted, tit it, was agri-ed to "raise pricus," and 'hiladelphia carpets have acicordingly Ittlln advaicedl tel cenits a yard. This Iction. hiowvver, was only preliminary o a Iturlitr advance. "-In additii.' :.s Mlr. LylNu:, "it. was agreed that, if lie 1'astvrn tmills advance, the Phila lelphlia miills will imnmediatelv follow mit with an advance il )on tll-At which bivy l e already Inade. New prices i'(r generally given out about D ecember i, bit t his year they will coiie 11nch ',-iVr a itt will be intich higher. A i >t her c iference (it mmiifactirers is to iwt held ini New York next week. To ,inil lip the sittuation: Constiners will oon have It) pay higher prices, or else hey inust buy inferior qualities of ear t a I I he old prices." The test iimy of t he I Dry (oods I','on iiist is t le salie. "The'l first effect, of hIt iiew t trill,''says t ie Econloiinist , ''has ti'n to harden valites for all kinds of ry goods and to advance prices for all hisses. Itw wool ias udvaiced and Il iinifactures arc firimer to higher. ill(,drnss goods are 10 to 15l per cent. cer, aid flannel fabrics are irier, itlh aii Illm-ard ttilelcy. Linens have iipwarld, pairticiuiarly f'oi' handiker hiil's. ()in all kinds oIf table linieis, iiratinigs, hldl andIs, shei'tt.ings, hitrlaps, 'wehniigs, amuld 114ouse-ktelpig linieins. t'n'rally, audvanices oIf 10 t) 12i per ieit . are readily oht ainedl, and trade is utite briisk at. that." A iFlood ini The 1Indso, "in todal;y shiowedI thet highest tide ini oirty yt'ar's. Thel ibrick yards situff'retd -ii'oiiously. M illionis (If brick were 'ist. Th'le yards hiet weeni losetoin and( \ lhaniy ar'e siubiin'rgedl, and the green 'ricks awaitiing hurnminig were thlrowni Iiow ni by t lhe lb lood. I t is t'st inuiited I huat u'irt y'-six iillion bricks hav~e biemn lost Si thle l'ing.stuon dist ridt. 'lTe fires were iig. ( i'r'en k ilmis wvere lhrowl%i (lOwn-i il hiricks iimterieitth, shedis n ere wash -'l a way; eeent. shedc(s siufferedl great ly. flit N'wairk i,,ime antI ( temnt, ('oin ' iy's shed' s arie siubm ierged with Ii twelve n'lhits ofi water'I. A ii mi'h hiighier ti(le is Xhe'td i enmbe c te liolln lE\ irii ni:,()t. 21. Mi's..\Mary .Jaiit dtills died4 at .now~ lIIill, Mld., ag.ed 102 -arsi aid six inoiithis. Mlrs. Mlills was .'&ri ini I)elauware .1 one 15thI, li 7, amid il I lie greter' por1tioni of hei' lifCe ini hat state4. Ilier faimily were nioted f'or lieir onigt'vity, heri iiothler livinig to the igi' of 1(i4, anid an att died at t lie ag~e if' It 2.1c' t lie u'e was killedl duirintg in' of' t lit tengaigernet's with t he Hniitishi it ihe warm of 182 while st'rvinig as a iri vate soldier ini one of' thme I )elaware nilit li coriiipanics. Mirs. Mlills (listimnct ly temiemblered thle butt Iof)1 N orthi I'oinlt, tying hie'a'd t he enilitmnaiunig, as at that imie she was liing near llahtiimre. In)stress ina Okliahoa. TI' '' I;il \, lK.\~ Ns., (Jet. 25.- 1". W am'i'r, farmier l ivinig ini Westernm 'ark, ( )kla Wina, near1 llenio, ar'rived'( in 'IT)lpeka yes ri'iay atormnimig. I he lutis beeni stnt (lit. y hiis sifin'jg nieighbors to solicit aid r tlhemi. Ware says the settlhers are it hoot suIpplies, anid their wives and bildfrena wit hiott clothing, antd they cani hit aini no work. I 'nless spIeedily sup lie<d withI aid the(y will stiffer from am-vat ion aiid cold. Th'le men imist re in iiuon their land or f'orfeit thiei r ITo lorida, Alliance. AleIxitie.to, FL"A., Oct. 23. T lheo lute h-armners' AlIlianice of Florida, in iumual session hei'e, adopted the follow lI esolved, Tlhiat this order is not wed id mnoir allied to any political party andi( ats lit room on its platform for pairti tm politics or' partisan politicians. hlorida's replresenttatives in the nma itnlt legislature were also called uponi [I vote fon thle bill abolishiing the ma itlmal banumkinig systenm and( suibst.itttimng or' it issues of' legal tendel(r t reasuriy Ott's; also to support the sub-treasuryV 'ill or samethting bettor. NATUREiS LA ST F I 1 Il l . LITTLE NEZ HAYES A PUZZLE TO SOUTHERN DOCTORS. Se EJect l Clten From I1er 111oliti anld Eves lkli Nuti.y Call Toil Ifow it In Ctu40d-stiperstitiotls I'vopie Saiy Siho it liewitellil I)R-:sDE-N, 'Teini., (Oct. 2. .\ ilnost ex traordinary phnn ois is t pre,-.enIt occiupying the attvitioln of the people inl this neighborhood. Alrv1ady the inieiws papers here have discf)verci<I tit hfacts inl the case as far as cbservatifil! cmild go, and front what hias bien broght t light thus far, there is Io\w i> d ut 1 that thle little Village of (ienib.about twenty miles fron lire. will bti-coi- fa mnous in connectlioln with lh! uxtmrodi Itary freak of iniatu to bt oind there. It is nothing Iess I han a gir Ulwo at regular intervals tjcts getinin, "tttin fron her eyes, ears aind thrit, iatd hitherto all aI tlempts to) solvv th 1 imvs tery ha.vt proved futile. T', egbr wvere at first inceli ed to at .b rt if, to solne soilt of legeretnIlaili, lit now they have been repvatedly com 'w-ed of* tie absence (of any trickery, all I t ey have donle the inevitable t.hing aimie sinl1 comumunities where anyt hing,- c:mot he properly accounited fIr that is, to as cribe it to wit eherv. The Ilayes girl. wihli is 11in- s ih.ject of this S1inge si ory.lives with heir parnilts near Grevitlild. Mir. I I;yc;; is sA-venity (1n1 years tit mit :u i ; \\s n if is but at fev years yiunger. Thi d ht lialne is I lez ()Iphi'lml , hil' I - i,; 'gi-ner aily called Tilic"ty. '-hw is- .1 ratlher good-l(wking girloftlvyar.wh fair skin, beautiful ppohh-m h.tir :m"I light Ilie eVys a1 p'IrhI''t SIpRCiIeII of the blinde. Site is stollt ly Itlil(, tholu.gh1 her faItily say sie is grdlially loiinlg flesh. S*he has spent stuc t il' at schiflol and is shuarp and iitellig.1t to a degrce. (ntestiiiois lfrIi visiltrIs d 1140 wou(rry her in thel least, andl during Iic periods whenl she is in -osstssiin tif' hir li-altl she is t le siutl of g td nit ire. E'arly yesterday milinf'g a pairy of Woine,n ald t wo geliteiii vi.sited the Ilayes ridtnIRi fT tihe puri'l(ise Of ofiding (ilt for ethtuselv s it' ih' siory of the cot tonl was 11r11k or 1 illy(th 4)f muinevinterprising ritnnnist.s. Oli likhe way to their dest ination sevcra l pTrson1s Whomn thet party viewlItere were asked toldirect t hei lilt heiir way. In all snlh cases rativi dibioi aiswers were given, but i 1 wt \'ts :ii icliina of the kntwtedge posst'sstl Iti t lie siu ject. ()Iit' iali wh l:ul :t-en th1- cott on phainly jctdfrmn: tho i'JSeys: Initted the fact.!u obe a it was caulsed by :nvy Apl:lio il aturn.. The liaves family Be i a sitmall, wooden, box-like liiuse, which c1t aits but, te room )I* at y iccollt . l it this It'lIn ihe i bre1 let' Th Ik i; i i itt eI - inl the rear. F-'. -lr:, I hin aiou d t( place was i . vi t a t it Ih.n. Thll irl was lying onl :u1 ol Ha1hilik, Iru w-b liear tih fireplac.. slit':s ed i in streeta ttire and -Ia plyf I 'iti.. 1yiiir wth ait le lic t trp:n' i t tt r is ick kiacks. e apte itrtd tirein iotd hialth:and spike fit 11nil:ily :liti leli gently. Tot lok a?t lir. 'b wtti bt think thati seli was upirtir w it Ihitn a girl's takin t iatrinary lu :s s i n liers The visiftos ilttt e b .it h' r foir some inu im litat u at i t' t w lfin'ally air la'. l. cs sked the(.i to lo k atltit it's ihf t. I'lhen a Sad Sight ai s r'vVc.,1u1 d. SinlV the poor grir het ai :tillield, :1 I'fw weeks agt, xher] tps hve mittrvi :.ar11untd towant s it c i>t ll 4m of\ er ftib a nd l l attemi t s tI st rait I n '': t lw-:a ve proved f'uitti, :nd c:iisi d her 't'rriit agony. 'TIhwy are c(it as dvtill aint so hies es at phyitianis havet~~il pti-red t einithroug l it' Int t i t o hwitt ii needles,''i' lyuin httt ha l ai. 'httil anitit i-mt iis nu (itd tta 'itie' btek lii ft ii tr 5i't frl postittson howl ver lts t . h I )irl Ierh:tjit on iit h lsttarhu tonath' bed tait auuwil e Ia )renere afllyd t flit ani ils ittnc sift c n l ed St uti ii, bts ionl nI .. .\1 oiefusdflt'den t th ay wa sittd itit h one ejete her pell and wittiit \i's here:nns shicet beugt her tlit' ilwr te I if. tuh haniur' rublet harer!" Net eoiisan t i' lei'tit willngw vioet l wth la- en hat''. . it h '<lit, a Ioupl of hui'tn i u' t'elu Ii hn' I in - spllsr i shiled' ill takidtini ist as