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THE GLORIOUS PALM. DR. TALMAGE SPEAKS OF THE TYPE OF CHRIST'S TRIUMPH. The Entry Into Jerusalcin -A Letson for Arbor Day-Thanik God for tile Trccm.. Tie Gonpel of Self Sacrifice. BRooKLYN, April 1d.-This day is recognized as Palm Sunday tlroughout the world, and that Itht gave direction to Dr. Talmafge's sermon. Among the Iymus suing was the hymn Clad in raiment pu0 alid white', Victor palms in every hand. Text. John xii, 13, "They took branches of palm trees and went lorth to meet hnt." How was that possible? How could palm branches be cast, in tihe way of Christ as Ie -, approached .Jerusalem? There ire sanCely aniny palm trees in Central Palestine. Even the one that was carefully --uarded for many years at Jericho has gone. I went over the very road by which Christ approached .Jerusalem, and there are plenty of' olive trees and fiv trees, but no palm trees that I could see. Yiou must remember that the climate has cianged. Tle pa!n tree likes water, but by the cut ting down of the forests, which are lealy prayers for rain, the land has become unfriendly to the palin tree. .Jericho once stoed in seven miles of*palm _rove. Olivet was crowned with pahns. The Dead sea has on its banks the trunks of palm trees that floated dowln from somec old time palm grove and are preserved from decly by tihe salt Wh11eh they re ceived from tihe Dead sea. Let woodineni spare the trees oi America, it they would not ruinously change the climate andl(] brinm- to the soil barrenness Instead of fertilifty. 'I'hanks to God and tine legislatures in' Arbor Day, which plants trees, tryin-, to atone for tine ruthlessl ness wi1ch ha's destroyed them. Yes, lily text is in harmony with the condition of that coun try oni th'e morning of 1a1lmn1 S111(da y. A bout three million people have come to .Jerusalem to attend tine religious festivitics. Creat news! Jesus will enter .Jerusalemn to day. The sky is red with the morning, and the ipeople are flocking out, to tihe loot of' Olivet, and up and on over tine southern shoulder of' the mountain, and the proce9sion coming out from the city nects t-ic processionI escorting Christ, as lie comes toward tine city. There is a turn in the road, whNe e ,Jerusalem suddenly bursts uplon the vision. WO hInd riddeln that diy all tinhe wIy from Jericho, and had visit(d tihe ru ins of' tine house of' \iary and Martha and L"'mzarus, Inid were solmewhiat weary (f sight seeing, WhIen there s1 uddlenlhy arose b-fore onur' vision Jerusalemll, the reliigi mis capital of all Christian at-es. 'I'at was the point of' observation where my text comes ii. A exander rode l'ou cephalus, Duke Eihe rode his fanMnou3 Marchugay, Sir 1leiry Lawrence rode tine high mettledl Conrad, Wllfington rode his proud Copenhagen. but the con queror oi earth and heaven ridts a coll. unle that had been tied at tine ro-Iside. It was unnbrokenl, arnd I have no doubt fractious at tine vocferaltion of tine pop ulace. An extemporized sadlIe inade out of the garmInents of tine people Was put on the breast. While somtie people eriped thne bridle of tIne colt, othners icy erently walted up~on Chirist ait tIhe mnounit ing. Thie tw proce. )'(ssions of peCople now become olne-thnose wino camfle out of'thne city and those wvho( camne over' tine h ill. than we of the western world, their v'oices louder, thirl gesticuliations mor 'e v'iolent, andl tine symb ls by whnich they express thoeiiotions mor'e sigh ~nnnt. Thne people wino left, Phnoceen, in tine fanr east, wishning to make innpressive thnat they wounld never retunnrn, took a ned fnot balf of iron an<d thrnew it innto tihe seat, au1g said they''~ wounhn nev'er return'n to IPhiocca until thial. ball rose and floated on tine surifaice. jI nc ot siur'pised, therie fore, nat tine deminonistration in tine text. As th.e colt with its r'ider' descendis fine slope of Olivet, tine palmzi tr'ees hn ing tine road ar'c called unpon to r'ender their contr'ibuntion to tihe scene of wnel. conmc andl r'ioicinng. Th'ie brnanchnes oft these trees ar'e hnighn up, and( sonme miust, nieeds clinmb tine tn'ees aind tear' off tine leaves and thrnow thnemn dowin, and (othn ens make of these leaves ian emer'ald paivemelnt for tine colt to tn'ead on1. I .ong before that mornning tine palmii tree hnad beeni typical of triumphni. IIer'o dlotus and( Strabo had thuis describedl it. Lanyar'd finds tine pahn leaf cut, in tine walls of Ni:nev'eh, with tine same snigni licannce. Ini tine Greek athletic gamles tine victors cnarrnied palmns. I ami ver'y gladl that our L ordl, wino fivec danys after lhnd thnorns upon ihis br'ow, for' a little while nat least madl plmins strewn undn(er is feet. Oh:, tIne glorionus palm! A miar' asinga, tine II IindOO scholar', calils it "'thne kinsz amondlg tIne gn'asses."' I,ilnmns calls it '"tne prince of vegetation."' A mong all tine trees thnat ceri canst a1 shadt(ow on' yielded fru!lf on' lif ted thnein' airms toward'( hieavein, it inas 110 equal ionr muiltitudhinous uIses. 1).0 you wannt flowers:- One pnalmn tree' will ptt f'orth na hnangmng gard(en of' thnem, 01ne cluster' cotuntedi by in scientist containinig 2(i, - 000 bloome. Do1 you want food? It, ns the chnief diet, (t whole lntionls. Onne pnailm in Chili wvill yield ninnety gaifor.s of honey. In I>olynesiat it is tace chief food of tIne inhabtiitalnts. inn India thnere ara mnultitudesC of plel dei nd n)lh(lt tupon nt for sustenannce. Oh:, Lord God, give uns mnore palm trees-men a1( n' omen miadhe Ior' noth ing bunt to b)e unsefuli; dispnositionns all abluoom; branches of influence ladeln with fruit; p)eop)le good fon' ever'ythinng, ins tine palm t.hr'ee. If' kind words inre waintedi thney are readt(y to tutter thneml. If hnelp ful deeds are neededh thney are readhy to p)erfoim thnem. If' lans of' uisefunlness are to lie laid out, they are read(y to pro ~jQct, them. If eltnterprisnes are to lie for' warded( they aire ready to lift thnemi. People wino say "Y es! Yes!" wibn theoy are asked for assistance by wvord or (eed, instead of "No! No!" Most of tine myster'ies thatt b)iothe others do not bother me, becaunse I nad journ them; but tIne mystery that, realily bothers me is wIhy God madho so many p)eop)le who amount to nothmig so fatr as thne world's betterment is conerned. They stand in Line way. Th'iey object. They discuss hindirances. They sung gest possibilities of fatilurie. Over tine roadi of life, instead of pullIng in tine traces, they are lying back ini tine breech ings. They are the everlasting No. They are bramble trees, they are wil lows, always mour'ning; or wild cherry trees, yieldmig only thne bitter; or crap apple trees, producIng only thne sour, while God would have us all flourish like tine palm tree. Planted in the Bible that tree always means usefulness. < But how little any of us or all of' us I accomplish In that direction. We take t twepty or thirty years to get fully ready n for Ubriatian work, and In the afterpart fi f* If we take ten or twenty years for h1 he uradual closing of active work, and a hat leaves only so little time between i >pening.' and stopping woi k that all we I lccomplish is so little an angel of G(od h ieeds to exert himself to see it ali. b Nearly everything I sc-I around, be- tl 3,atli and above in the natural world 0 iuggests usefuL service. If there is noth MO ing in the Bible that inspires you to use. fulness, go out and study the world around you this springtime, and learn r the great lesson of usefulness. ''What . art thou doing up there, little star? 11 Wihy not shut thine eyes and sleep, for who cares for thy shining?" "No,'I saith the star, "I will not sleep. I guide N the sailor on the sea. I cheer the trav- t eler among the mountains. I help tip the Oew with light. Through the win- i dow of the poor man's, cabin I cast a I bean of hope, and the child on her I mother's lap asks in glee whither I come I and what I do and whence I go. To glea.n and glitter, God set me here. Away! I have no time to sleep." The snowflake comes straggling (own. "Frail, flIckle wanderer, why comest thou lirt-.'" "I am no idle wanderer," responds the snowflake. "l1igh up in the air I was born, the child of the rtuin and tile cold, and at tile divine behest I come, aid I am no straggler, for God tells me where to put my crystal heel. To help cover the roots the grain and ss, to cleanse the air, to make sports. men more happy and the ingle lire more brighIl, I come. Thougl so) light I am that, you toss me from your mullier and crush me under ycu: loot, I am doing my best to lifill what I was made for. (lothed in white I come on a heavc.nly iolns'10i, and, when my work is done and (God dhall call, in mornini- vapor I shall go back, drawn by the fiery courses of the sun." Wh eat doest thou, insignificant grass hlade uider my fcet?" "I am doing a work,' says the grass blade, "as best I can. I help to make up the soft beau',Y "t' lid and lawn. I am satisfied, I with 1inllHons of others no bigger than (we can give pasture to flocks and he ail. I am wonderfillv madn. Ito who feeds the ravens gives ime substance Irotml the soil and breath from fhie air, and lie who clothes the lilies of the field reW-ards Me with this coat of green.'' "For what, lonely cloud, goest thou acros.s the heavens?" Througl the briglit air a voice drops from atar, s1y Ill,-: "'pand down this sapphire floor I pace to teach men that like ie they are passig away. I gather up the waters from lake and sea, and the'i, who it the thunders toll, I refresh the C11rl, making le dry ground to lau-h1 with hirvebsots.f wheat,and fielde of'corn. I catch the frown of- the stori an( tie h11ues of the rainbow. At evening tide on the westorn slopes I will pitch my Int, and over ie shall (lash the saftron, ild the purple, and the fire of the suu set. A pillar ol cloud like me led the bwSenti across the desert, and surrounded b sulh as I the 11udge of Ileaven and IF:arth will at last descend, for Illehold hlu (oUwthL! with cod!' I, my friel(s, if vCrVthilz in the !IImlate world - be usefi, let 'us im l)rtaxl tn and women be useful, and iii that respect be like the plamt tree. " ut I Must not be tempted by what I'viday says of that green shalt of P'ales. tinle, that living aind glorious pillar in the easternt gardens, as seen inl olden times --the pwalmi tree; I must, not be tempited by' what the Oh(! Testamuent, says ot it, to les.cti emphdasis of what John, the eanigeliSt., sai s of' it i liy text. N'tice that it was a beautif'ul and lawfl robbeiry of' the palm tree that, helped( maiike up Christ's triumph on the reIII to J1erusalecm that, l'alm Sunday. I'he lonig, brioad, green(:i leaves that, were strewn italer the feet of the colt and in the way of' Christ, were torn off' fomi the trees. What, a pity, someone might say, that those stately and graceful irees shoul be dlespoiled. The sap OZ oh out at theC places where the bran cIhes broke. The (lory otf t,he planm tree was apipropriately sacrilled for the Rivioul 's triumajl procession. So it always was, so it always will bwe in this world-no worthy triumph of aniy sort without thwe tearintg down of someithiig r hookl yn bridge, die glory of our con t;nntt, nmuit, have two architects pros. trated, ttie 01ne slain b)y his toils and the other f'or a lifetime invalided. T1hie gre'atest, pictures of' tho worlod had, in their richest, coloring, the 1)100( of' the aitists whio made themi. The mighttest braitoios that, ever rolledl through the chuinrches had, in their pathos, the sighs aml groans of the coiiposers, who wore their lives ouit, in writing the harmony. Amnerican Inodependlence was trium ~humt, but, it movedl on ovcr the lifeless formis (of tens of thousands of' men who fell at thunker Ililt andl Yorkt.own and lhe battles between which were t,be he'morrhtages otf the tiation. 'Te kini.adomi of' God adlvanicos itn all the earthLl, buit it iust, le over the lives (It missionaries who (lie of' malaria in th jutngles or Chiristiani workers who prieaicfh and( pray andlt 1,111nd(lie in the serivi(ec. T1he~ Saiou0r tr'iumiphs in all directions-but beauty tand strongth must be torn dlow from the ptalm tree of (Chiristin heroism atnd cons9ecration and1( thrown in ii s path way. ToC what better use could those palm11 tree's own the southern shoulder of' Mount, Oliv'et, and clear downi into the Valley of' Gethsemane put their branches than to surr'endler them for the maiiking of C.hriist' journey towardi.Jerusaiemi the tmore prictur'esqule, the nmore memnorable and1( ghe more triumpihant111? And *to w hat better use could1( we put our lives thatn itito the sacrif ice for Christ and his ('auso5 and( the happiness of' our' follow creaturiex? Shall we not, be wilting to bte torti down that rightoousiness shall hav e triumnphaiit wa)?Y Christ, was torn dlow tn for' us. Catn we not, tilford to hwa torn downi for him? If' C'hrist couldl suft fer so mutch for us, can we not suffer a little for Christ? If' lie can all'ord on P'ahun Suniday to travel to ,Joerusalemi to carry a cross, can we inot allord a f'ew leaves from ouir bratiches to make emerald lisa way? Tholi process is going oin every mo menit in tall (directions. What, makes that father have such hard wvork to find the hymn today? lie puts onl his spec tacles amid holds1 thte 1)0ok close up, and then holds it far off', and is not quite sure whiether the nml,er of the hymn is 150 or 130, andl the fitigers with which lhe turns the leaves are very clumsy, iIe stoops a goodl deal, although unce lie was straight as an arrow, andi his eyes were keen as a hawk's, and the hand lie1 ollered to his bride on the marriage dlay was of goodly shape aind as God made I will tell you what is the miatter. LForty years ago lie resolved his family hould have no need and his children hould be well educated and sufT'er none f the disadvantages of lack of school og from which he~had sufl'ered for a life- a ime, and that the wolf of hunger should I ever put its paw on hIs doorsill,- and jb br forty or fifty years ho han bonn tne. n ig oil from the vlam tree of his plyslcal xrength and manly form branches to irow in the path way of his household. L has cost him m1iscle and brain and esilth and eyesight, and there have een twisted off'more years from his life ian any man in the crowd on the liil. us Palm Sunday twisted ofl' branches om the plam trees on the road from oethpage to Jerusalem. What makes that mother look so juch older than she really is? You say he ought not yet to have one gray line i her hair. The truth is the family ias not always as well off as now. The iiarried pair had a hard struggle at the tart. Exatnine the tips of the forelin ;er and thumb of her right hand they vill -ell you the story ot'the needle that vas plied (lay in and (lay out. Yea, ook at, both her hands, and they will ell the story of the tine when she did ter own work, her own mending and icrubbing and washing. Yen, look into the face and read the itory oi scarlet fevers and croups an iiid-ight watchings, when nonle but aod and herself in that house were awake, and then the burials an(d thc loneliness afterward, which was more ,xhausting than the preceding watchinu had been, and no one now to put to bed [low fair she once was, and as gracefu as the paln tree, but all the branchet of her strength and beauty were lon ago torn oil' and thrown into the path way of her household. Alas! that, sons andi daughters, them selves so straight and graceful and edu cated, shiouhl ever forget that they ar walking today over the fallon strengtl of an industrious and hionored parent aI-e. A little ashamed, are you, a their ungrammnatical utterance? It wa: through their sacrifices that you learne accuracy of speech. Do Non lose pati ence wAh them becauNe they are a littl qlueruloas and complaining? I gutss you have lorgottt.n how queri lous and complaining you were whei you were getting over that whoolini conxh or that intermittent fever. A lit tie annoyed, aro you, because her heat ing ia poor and you have to tell lie something twice? She was not alway hard of hearing. When you were tw years old your first call for a drink i midnight woke tier froni a sound slee as quick as any one will waken at tli trumpet call of the resurrection. Oh, my youig lady, what is that un tier the sole of'your fine shoes*! It is plan leal which was torn off the tree o maternal fidelity. Youn. merchan! young lawyer, young journalist, youn; mechanic, with good salary and filu clothes and refined surroundings, hav, yoi forgotten what a time your lathe had that winter, aler the summer' crops had faile(t through drouxhits o floods or locust, aud how he were hi: old coat too long and made his old ha 1o, th it he might keep you at school oi uollege? Wbat is that, my young man ander your line boot today, the boo that, so well lits your toot, such a boo as your flather coid ntever aflord t< wear? It must be a leaf from the paln trei At your fatier's self sacrifices. Do no, be ashamed of him when he coLne t< Lown, and because his manners are a lit tle old fashioned try to smutgle him it imd smuggle him out, but call in you best treuds and take him to the house o God and Introduce him to your past,Ol and say, "This Is my father.'" If he had kept for himusell the advantage which lie gave you lhe wouldl be as wel edlucated nod as well gotten up as yon W hen in the English parliament,a oiem h)er was making great specech that wai unanswerable a lord dlerisively cried ou "I remember you when lou blackene< my father's boot's!" "Y'es,'' rephe< the men, ''and didl I not (d0 it, welly' Never bec ashamed of your early sur roundlings. Yes, yes, all the greel leaves we walk over were torn elf som palm tree. I have culu,vated the hiabit of forget ting the unpleasat things of life, ati chiefly remember the smnoot.h taiings, an as far a I1 remember niow miy life hai 1or the most part movedl on over a roat soft with greeni heaves. Th'ley were tori oilf two pailin trees that st,ood at, the stari of the road. Theli prayers, the Chiristiam exampile, thie good advice, the liar. work of my father and1( mother. IIow~ they toiledl! Th'eir lingers wvere knott,ed with hard work. TIheir foreheads were wrinkled with many cares. TIhieir backs stoop)ed fromi carrying our lhurdlens. Thley long ago wont int,o alumbhe: among their kindred and frIends on tEl bainks ot t he itaritani, but thie inluten ces they thre w in t.he wiay of ttieir clii dreni are yet green as leaves the momean t,hey are plucked from a palmn tree, an< wve feel themi on our brow andl( unde our feet, and they will strew all the was ttil we lie downi in the same shumboi Self sacrilice! What a thrilling word Glad am I that our worldl has so mana specimens of it. Th'le sailor boy os siihiboardi was dleridled because lie wouh not fight or gamuble, and they calledi hin a cowvard. lt when a child fell over boardt and no one else wvas ready to hli the dlerfided sailor leaped inlto the se and, though the waves were rough, th sailor swiimming With one arm, carrie the child on the other arm till rese and were Jift.ed into safety, anid the en of coward ceased and all hauzzaud at thi scene of daring andl self sacrifice. Wh'len recently Captain Bhirtoni, t h great author, died, lie left a zcentifi book in manuscript, which lie expecte would be his wIfe's fortune. lIe 0ttec toldi her so. iIe sid, "This wIll miak you independenit and aallIuesnt after I at gone." iie suddenly diedl, and it wa& expected that the wife would publlisi the book. One publisher told her h coulid hmliself make out of It $l00,000 liut it was a hook which, though writ tenl with pure scientilc deCsign, sh felt would( (10 immeasurable dfamnag h o putblic morals. With thet two large volumes, whiici hall cost, her h usband the work of year she sat down on the Iloor before the lir and said to herself, "Th'lere is a for tun for me in this book, and although m husband wvro:.o it with the right motiv and scientillc people mIght be helpe< by it, to the vast, majority of people I would be harmful, and I know ft woula lamage the worIl." Then she tool upart thes manuscript shieet after shee md put It Into the lire, until the las ine wvas consumed. Bravo! She Ilungf -ier livelihood, her home, her chio: worldly resources under the best rmora mdn relIgious Interests of the world. How nch am e yotu willing to sacri Ice for others ? Christ is agaIn on tha narch, not from Bethipage to Jerusa em, but for the couIjuest of thes world lie will surely take It, but who wil 'urnish the palm branches for the tri amphant way ? Self sacrifice is tha a'ord. There is more money paid ti lestroy tihe world than to save It l'here are moore build ings put up tc uln the race than churches to evange. ize It. There Is more depraved litera ure to blast men than good literature o elevate them. Oh, for a power to descend upon nai Il like that which wheirmed Charles G. 'inney with mercy, when, kneeling in is law oflce, and before he entered pon his apostolic care of evangei. zation, lie said: "The Joly (Iost de scended on mie inl a Ialter tiat seem eth to go through me, body and soul. I could feel the impression like a wave of electricity going through and through me. Indeed It seemed to come in wavef and waves of liquid love, It seemd like the breath of God. I c-a,n recollect distinctly that it seetned to fan me likt immense wings. I wept 10oud witl 1oy and love. These waves came ovel me and over tme one af ter the another. and until, I recollect, I cried out, 'I shall die if these waves continue tc Pas over me.' I said. 'Lord, I cannot bear amy more.'" And when a gentle. tiema i came into the office and said, "Mr. Finney, you are in pain ?" he re plied, "No, but so happy that I cannot live." My hearers, the time will come when e.pon the whole church God will do. scend such an avalanche of blessing, and then the bringing of the world to God will be a matter of a few years, perhaps a few days or a few hours, ltide on, 0 Chr ist! for the evangeliza tion of all nations. Thou Cirist who (lid-t ride on the unbroken colt down the sides of Olivet, on the white horsE of eternal victory ride through all na. tions, and may we, by our prayers, and our self sacrifices, and our contribu tions, and our consecrations, thro%% palm branches in the way. I clap m3 hamds at the coming victory. I feel this morning as did the Isreal. ites when, on their march to Canaan they caie not under the shadow of ont palm tree, but of seventy palm trees standing in an oasis among a dozer gushing fountains, or as the Book put: it, "lwelve vells of water and three score and tenl palm trees." Surel' there are tmore than seventy such grea and glorious souls present today. lin t dued, it is a nilgit y grove of palm truee and I feel something of the rapture I which I shall feel whenl. our last battl - fought, and our last, hbrden carrie( and our last tvai, wept, wo siall becom one of the multJ ituiles St. J ohn describe "clothed in wite robes and palms ii their hands." lail though bright. thmn swift, ad vancing, thou verlasting 'alm Sinda of thle skies! Vivtorsi ovr sin and sol row and death and wov, 1roin the hill r and vallies of the heavenl ''alestim they have phucked the iong, broac ' green leaves an<i all the ransoned t some ink gates of pearl, and some o p battlements of anethyst. and sonic o C st eets of gold, and some on seas of sal phire, they shall stand in numbers lik the stars. in splentdor liko the mori waving their palti)s: t Ktlectropoalao. Why suller with sickne:s or diseas whlen you canl be so eas11y and quickl e Cured without mdC(licilf, by the tise the Electropoise. r A i .N, S. C., Sept. 19, 1890. 3 The Electropoisc has worked won r ders in my lotielold. I introduced i ; to Mrs. Cutlbhrt last March as a reie L dY Wor oheum1-iatism, and siucc theu sh has laid aside stick and crutches and i able to attend to all of her houseiol duties. Another member of my famil L by u-ing it is better than she has eve been, and I myself find it un pdmtirabl toltte whent tired out after three service on the Sabbath. Several parties hav imvested in tIs in-1trument hecause c out- ex perience and expression of opin ion. Very gratefully, Rev. L'cioUs Cu'Tr nEur. t Mrs. Sallic F. Chapin, PresIdent o the Womeon's Christian Temperanc Unmon of South Carolina. Charleston, H s C., writing tund(er (late (of January 2C 1 1890, says: I was tuly glad to learr .that an olliec hmad been opened in ou - city for thie sale of an instrtument (thi u lectropoise) aitit which I became si t. enthusiastic a few moiths ago that. j rashly went, into pirint in an article (IC I scribuing its wvontierful cutralive propier >ties. 1. (lid riot imagine tihe troubhleJ . was buriging uipon myself', for not 1week has paissed since [hat I hare beei caill upon to give further testimton andl tell more abouit it. I have fr-iendl - wh Io, alter uf'rnfor years the mos !excruciating pain, which the most skill I fl physiciar,s North and Souith had fail ed to relieve, have been ctiued by t.he usi I of the E'lectr)lpoise. It is a panacci for nerLvousniess, brnu fatiguec, and( gen. etral deiliity. It onily needsl. ai trial t< conymeeUc time most ske ptical, and whet 1 h Iear the tostimony (it the li. Win C. Sibley, of Augusta, tIme 1.[er. 1T. W whiomt I personally know aimd w ho hiavi been benuelited, I feel it a duty I owi sulferin-g hittmianity ta say , try 1he Ehec e tropaise. A 40 pago book, describing treat - mlent, aradl Cot tainug testimonials ir-on - aill sections' and for the cutro of' .all dis eases, mailed free otn application, Adi dress. ATL'ANTIC ELEI'[iOroIslE CO. 1 2.i2 Kinig St., Chaurlestoin, S. C. A Muoetary Congresu, W A5ItuNox, A pril 8.---liepresenta tive i\leCreary of K(entuceky, fot' Ai I Spriniger, to(lay inti'od tiet d in the I louis 1 a bill t.o aitioizu the hoh lintg of an ini . te'rnational muotn'tary 'oriness. Thi p lill providles that I he conigre'ss shall bl ,held ini Chicaugo,coireuuinguhursdayi a August 3, 189:3, to cottinueu in sesioi tututi I a mjority of flue congress niay deC I termine, to lid j ourn. Th'leity-one dele y gates to thle c:ongr'ess are' to be appoint e ed to repr'eset t e I 'nited Sttes. Tltm P residenit of t he I'mu t e States is to ap~ o polit Seveni of [lie dlelegautes, thlie presi e dient of rie Senate :(event anid the spieak~ er of [,he I louise of t.he prese'nt Coungres :seven. TIhe appoiintees of the P'residein e are to be citizens of the Ulnitedi State riot holding ollice iiider the Govern s melunt, and1( the apupoi nte'es of thei pres: i dlent of the Senate and( the speaker c e the flouse are to lhe nmmbers of th . Fifty-seeond an(d ifty-third (Congrest .Not more thani tmr ol lie appointee a tare to lie membii ers of thie same politi e cal parnty. TIhe P'residtential appointee are to receive $5,(X) a year, t.he other ino additional coinisation. The See a retary oft Stte anrd the director of th a mint aure also t.o be delegates out thm a part cf the Limited States. , TIhie PrIe.sident is autthorizedlto inv'it the Governments with wvhich we main I taimn dillomatic relatmons to sendi repre t. sentat.ives to the conigr'ess, eachm to de Stermnine the numuber of representative it shall send. hlut each Government I to lbe.entitled to one vote only, to be de terummied by a tmajority o1 its delegates Trhe coingress is to formulatte and ti submit for the approval of the Govern menits representedl unilorm systems tu noumenclatutre of coiniage aind of weIght a1(n easures, aitd also, if feasible, ai international agreement as to the rela t.ont which shahll be matintainedl betweel gold and silver, and uniformity ii weight and lneress of the coin of eatc] metal, andl the adaption of coins tha would be current aut the same value it all countries of the world. A Tornado LITTL.E ROOK, Ark., April 8-A tor nado struck the northwestern portion o1 Faulkner county 'Tuesday night. 'Thi st.orm swept the coumnty for severa miles. Thme houise of ,John llale, neat Q uitman, was blown to pieces, and tht chimney tell upon and crushed Hale t( death. Twenty dwellings were demol. ished aind over fifty persons were injur ed. some of whom wil ,ie. ITAIA. ADOUT COL TALBERT IS O goii A DAMAGING RUMOR CIRCULATING IN dist whu WASHINGTON. leal not beet It in Said to have Written a Conproamis- my Jing Letter to President Polk, of Th Ird viev PIarty FaLne-What Col. Talbers Says About It. re agit WASIIN'ToN, April 8.-There is a prei rumor floating around In the South Car. ban olinat colony w!'ich, if sustained, may wo cause Col. W. J. Talbert considerable que trouble in reaching the goal of his politi- F"N cal ambition-a seat in Congress from . the 2d district. Several days ago I Th' learned from a well-known South Caro linian that Col. Taldert some time since Pol wrote a letter to Col. L. L. Polk, presi- my dcnt of the National Farmers' Alliance, and inl which 1.e declared in favor of the wal Third Party. It Is also stated that Col. we Talbert made a rank Third Party speech at OCalj. The News and Couriercorespondent N at Columbia write as follows concerning boyi the above from that cit3: There are not the a few politicians here who are ot the whe opinion that in the event of the nomina- air i tion of Cleveland or any other Democrat ben opposed to the Alliance platform, at the stre National Convention, there will be a day Third Party in South Carolina. For some day reason it is supposed that W. Jasper c Talbei t is -oimg to be one of the leaders toy, of -uch a movement. A telegram was Ilin, received here stating that Col. Talbert as h1 had written a letter to President Polk, in his Washington, endorsing the Third Party the Simovement. hea I called on Col. Talbert this mornina air at his residence to ascertain what, if befc any, truth there was in the rumor of his of S Third Party declarations. IIe was quite bee: 1 pleasant and allable and said that he did ary not e xactly understand the si-nilicance haa of the r uimor, but called attention to the had ( interview with him published about a was 3ear ago, in which he took a position in whc the middle of the political road and which lie declares lie has.never changrd. "I have written no letter to Col. Polk, 1 or anone e he said, "advocatin2 Die a the Third Party. Everything I iav- the either said or 'ritten tias been on the uP 1 line of my original stand, and identical Che ago 4, with the policy I had when I wrote my fro last letter to The News and Courier. ed "Within the last two weeks I have edI e made fully six speeches in which I re y iterated that South Carolina wanted no I Third Party, because we do not need it. C That third parties do not live long in , South Carolina, and that I judge irom the short life of tho moyernent of the t same kind about two years ago. My positioni1s that we are making our fight a as Alliance men in the Democratic i ranks, through the Democratic primaries I atd at the Democratic elections as V Democrats, supp , rting such men ae r stand on t,e Ocala platform. This is a what I said to you in Orangeburg, andi 1 s also then stat,ed to you that there were tnot enough newispapers in the State to i make me change my position. Col. - Peck or anybody else Is at perfect liber Ly to publish any letter I've ever writ ten so far as I'm concerned. 'Lemember, I have rIways contended that there is a sharp distinetion be a tween the National and State politics ,in Sout.h Carolina. While I consider ,our State riovernment, is in good shape and is not, sutfering from r muaalnogcrment, J. at,tribute the present depressed condition o1 ) our p)eodle to the faulty national Anan L cial legielation. The Alliance people - have formulat,ed demand after demand A -which have bes u resp)ect,fuliy sent to the legislators in Washington. Now the relief' asked for is surely needed and p must he had, and if there is no chance p "iio the face of the earth to get thuis relief ge I trom exist,ing parties when that point is 1119 reachedt and the people Iind that relief inr cannot, be hadl, t,ben in will be time WI] enongh to look about ;or the people's HiJ party or any ot,ber party that will gave ~t. If t,his relief cannot be had in any othier way than by wipling out of exist. siz ence both of the o'ther old pa:1~ties, why of then the inevitable moust comie. The ,ail relief must be had. on: "I shall claim, as I have previously Ra s ?tatedl, that th.s Alliance demands and ted its principles are founded on Jeffersonian 'U I)emoraci, andl I expect to advocate VO them as long as there is life in me. I - C ielieve them to be right, and just and -lproper. Our condlition has come from Soppres sive national fmnancial legislation. !ai Agriculture st,ands at, the b)ott,oml of all to' -the other industries in this depression. J No argument neced be longer adIduced to: coO conivince the p)eop)le of' this tact. Our lC suirroundlings proclaimi that the time has ariimed for the great West, the great South andl the Northwest to link their . hands1 and( hearts toget,ber and march to sui a the ballot,-box andi take p)ossesiion of' $3C - the G;overnment,, restore it to the princi- 3i4 ides of our fatbers and run it in the in- Wi 3 terest of the people. Th'is our national La organiization has been endeavoring toj (do, comiiposed as it is of both Democrats ad' -and Itepublicans. As a proof of this coI -two years ago v.e presented our de- W" mandii(s to Conigess. TJhey were sup)- pa: po. ted by the petitions of a half-million ag . ilrmiers, and1( not,bing w~ as (done. No at- att . tent.on was panid to t.he dJemands by the the a law-makers, and onie year ago they wore rie t, present,ed again, and what was the an- o 3 swer to tbeir appeals? 'Go home, work sa - larder, live closer and stay out of poli-.a -tics, and( all will be well." Only three f' months iigo we again knocked at tbe Lir a (d0or of the present Congress, and what has been the answer? After four Smonths of dliscussion about the poor negro and the wild Iadian they have paseed a resolution of 's1ncere sym .. i)athy' for the poor white man. That's e all, and1( now we are;not,asking sympathy e or char'ity, but simple justice at the hiands of our Nat,ional Legislature, We a want relief and as I have said on mauy - a stump, from the city to the seaboard, -we a' e contending for it and must have - it., even if' we have to wipe the old na-j tional p)arties out, and t,he party that does give the relief will st,ill be tihe Democratic party, brought back to its proper moorings from the worship of the goldlen calf. " l'he act,ion of the Alliance peoele in SSouth Carolina, in my judgment, in the natIonal campaign, depends a great deal - on the action ot the National Democratic Convention to be held in Chilcego." 1When aked how Cleveland's nominia- De L,ion would aff'ect the aass, he replied: "''I wont say anything further on this line. "Now, again. & want it empaatlcally understood4hbat ihave never expressed ayohrsentiments, and I sincerely hpthtall parties interest,ed will be satisfied. I am a candIdate for Con gi'ess from the 2d dlistrict, but as far as I am concerned, office may- go to the dogs if principle is to be sacrificed to get It while I'm lighting for the people, their rights, and an eConomic and just Govern. ,men I reali,e that the press of the State pposed to my indeas. but I propose i9 belbre he peoplu of my State, my riet and my conty and say to them t I believe, %vhy I believe it and re the decision with them. I shall clain the vote of any citizen simnply tuse Iin an Alliance man, but oi meri a ai W. J. Talbert, and the rs I have. The ques ions I am going to discuss not peculiar to this State, but are atiug the entire world; it is an irre sible conflict, and if you were to dis. I the Alliance the revolution started Id not be stopped. The-ie great Wtions must be consideted and an red soot er or later by every indivi I am aware that this Lccusation of d Partyism attributed to me is a Lical dodge of possibly some one of opponents in the Congressional race, in view of this faA., if they'will only :, I will meet them face to face be the people of the 2d district where :au discuss Lite entire matter." Fell Down an Air Shaft. EW YOltK, April 10.-Two or three i were playing today on the roof of tenement No.51 Washington street, n one of them dropped a toy in an ihaft between the tenement and the led warehouse No. 53 Washington t. It is a dark hole, into which the t penetrates for a little time once at but this happened today, just as boy looked down to see what bad ime of his toy. Ile did not see the but saw something which made turn cold and to give vent to a yell e started for the door. Ile regorted Ind to the police, who went into warehouse, and opening one of the vily barred windows leading to the shaft, which had not been opened ire in years, they recovered the body boy iamed Harry Quill, who had i missing from home since Febru 10. uill's moLher said she thought he gone to sea, as he had often threat ito do so. It is supposed that Quill trying to jump from roof to roof n he tell and was instantly killed. He Was Lynched. ICu3oND, April 8.-A letter to the patch states that Isaac Brandon, negro who attempted an assault n a young white lady living in 6rles City County, abont two weeks , was on Wednesday night taken n the jail of that County by a mask )and of seventy-live men and hang .o a tree in the court house yard. HILD BIRTH - - - 00 MADE EASY! 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