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L-XXI. P E .. URSDAY., JANUARY 19,1893. U AMONG THK BIRDS. TALMAGE DRAWS MANY LESSON. FROM THE FOWLS. ising Frequenev of Alilsions tt 9 in the Scriptures and Always ti oh an Insportant Leson---Ornithol Is Hureiy a Divine Science. OOKLYN, Jan. 8.-Dr. Talnaii morning -ontinued the cour.e o nts begun 'a Jew Sahbaths age ng preached about the "Astronoin1 Bible-; or God Among teSaru,' i e% ";hronology of' the .B.bl; or b 0 mong the Ctuturies," this wori hI dipeourptd on the "Ornithologi D Bibe ; or, God A mnmg the Birds.' ext, was Matthew vi, 26, "Behob :ip 18 of the airl" ere is silence now in aii our Jan, reests, except, as the winds whistlh I the bare brawthes. Our nort,h. -ood- are deserted concert halls oorvan lofts in the temple of naturi aht mnless. Trees which were ful lirol and chirp and chatet are no% )r ng for the coming back of rich 1,es and warbling vt ices. 8oo. du,ts i ets, cantatas and Te Deums. Bu! jhble is ull o birds at all seasons >I ophets and patriarchs a--id apostle -hvaigelists and Cl rist himself em th:)mfor moral and religious pur .4My text is an extrac the sermon on the mount perhaps it was at amomen a flock of birds flew past thal t waved his hand toward them ant "Beh9ld-the fnwla of the aill Y so, iL' this course of sermons oru -everywhere, I preach to you thi sermon concerninL the Ornithologi Bible; or, God Among the Birds !at of the o her sciences y(.u ma3 or not study as you please. Use own judge ijent; exeicise your owt . But about this science ot orni. gy we have no option. The divint and is positive when it says in mi "Behold the fowls of tie 0b1) is, study their habits. Examinc - a"'irs. .Notice th6ir speed. Sef c"id a God in iheir construction e, me to ey the comhmant Smith. lor I was brotight up amont u.I ho.'l wings and trom bolhooi 4 Y.a atins at, sunrie and ihi i1et. e tanave beeu to me a fascina dT0a, istfction is that I nevei .d one of them, any more th,.n I d steal a child from a cradle, for I a a child of the sky. and its nes, I. radle. They are almost human t-y have t)elr loves and hates at and antipathies, understand jo -il, have conjuval and mat. rua t, wage wars and entertain jeal have a language of their own am . o1 aestciation. Thauk God loj and Fkies full of them. It is use N exptet to understand the BibIt we tat.dy natural history. hundLed and ninety-ihree timiei the Bible allude .o the tacts ot na history, and I do not wonder tha ice s su many allusion ornithological skies aid the caverns of 'alesLint let'c to the winged creatures, ant any and rocat and nest an in tI '. reLion that IL spired writ. t,ot t ve Jar to go to get orniLto. d illustrat,ion of divitle truth. There er fort3 species of birds recognizet Scripturtr. Oh, what a variet Ugs In Palestin! -11,Christian 4cology-lor you knom e is a Christian geology as well at T an helps) Lhe Bible show whiel t, til.e birtd creation. Before 1 hm race came int,o t,his work( Siwas occupied by reptiles ant 1yles of dest,ructive monsters rof creatures loa heome anm God 'sent huge bitds to c'ea, Sof' these creatures before Adan. were created. Tme remumns o biis have been lound imbeded it ocksi The skeleton of one eangl been found twent,y feet in height, anit l eet from tip of wing to t,ip of wing my armies of beaks and claws wert asary to clear the eart,h of creaturee wdunld have dest,royed t,he human Swinh one clip. I like t.o lihd t,hil mony of' revelat,ion anti science anc ,ave demonstrat,ed that, the God whc -:l the world made the Bible. ses/, the arcatet, lawy er ofi all time gleat finan for laces, had enough' ent aud poet,ry and musical tastt come thle illumuined wings antd ices divinely tdrilled into the lirsi er'o Genesis. llow shiouldl Noah, Id ship carpenter, 600) years of age, ut, when t,he worlmi waallt,amu toi n residt mnce al ter the un ivereal e:P A bird will toll, andI not.ing~ can. No man can come downa fron \mountain to invite Noah and his ,out to terra lirma, 1or tihe mIounI Sweie submerged. As a- bled hra ,ed the hauman tace iLO tne world .\ ah ol ,a a hpe bird will hellp t,he human race at whel,ned overything. eb 4 tanics on Sunda~y mornaing al J.ndlow ol the ark, in lit- hand r g ;ove, so gentJe, so innocent, e< 1on.ate, and he said, Now, liy lit - y e, fig away over these wat.rs, ex .and come back en I tell us w ethie - de to land." Alter a long light i ned hungry and weary s.d wet >y its looks,and manners sa (Ito Nejal his family4 "Thle world la not fit, fo: to disem >rak." Noah wait.e1 c, and nt 4 Sunday morning lie le .love fly a ain for a second t-xplora ,and Sand jry evenir g it came bacd I a leat that had the sign o1 just hay bee r plucked from a living Irmit tree the bir4 reported the worke ild do to. .- bly well for a bird to live >ut, not yet flfiAiently recovered 101 lan residlenf e. loah waite another week, and flext .day mornnig he sent opt t,he dove _he third ex ploration, hut, It roturnet ,for it fond the world so attractive v' it did not waint to be caged again then the ( tmigrants trom the ante vian work( Ian-..d, It was a birt htld them whn 'o take poesesslor is resuscit sted pianet,. 80 the hui race were saved by a bird's wing attempting to land too soon, thea kd have per bsed. Ay. here comes a whole flock of doves-rock d >vep, ring dovde i, stock doves-and they make Isaiah think of grEat revivals and great awakingi when souls fly for shelter like a flock of pligecns swooping to the openings o a pigeon coop. and cries out, ' Who are these that flv as (loves to their win dows?"' David, with S vil alter him and flying from cevern, to caverns compares himself to a desert partridge' a bird which especially hunts rocky plaeo., 9iboys and huntgrs to this (lay take a gr'It with st'cks, for the p.irtridge runs rather thau flies. David. chased and clubbed and t,c ried of nursuers. say: "I aml hunted as a pari.rid-e on the mountains.! Sp nk - ing (if his forlorn condition, he says, [ a n like a pelican of the wildurnets" Describing his loneliness, he says, "1. am) a swallow alone on a housetop.1 liezekiah. in the amaciation of his sick ness, comparea himself to a crane, thin and wasted. Joh had so much trouble he could not sleep nights, and he de scribes his insomnis by saying, "I am a companion to owls." Isaiah compares the desolations of banished Israel to an o% I and Wittern and cormorant among a city's ruitis. Jeremiah, describing the cruel'y ot parents toward children. compares them to the ostrich. who leaves its eggs in tho sand uncared for, crying, "The daugh - ter of my people is. become nke the os - tri-thes of the wilderness." Among the provisions plied on Solomon's bountiful table the Bible speaks of "fattea fowl." The Isrealites in the desor. got tired of manna and they had quails- quails for breaki'ast, qua Is for dinner, quails for supper, and they died of quails. The Bible refers to the migratory habits of the birds and says,"The stork knoweth her alointcd time, and the turtle and the crane, and the swallow the time of I their going, but my people know not, the iudienot,s of the Lord." Would the proplhet ill.strate the fate o. the fraud. lie points to a failure at in cubation and sajg, "As a partridge sit eth on eggs and haicheth them not, s he that Cett,eth ri -hes, and not by right, Ahall leave them in the midst of his days and at his end shall oe a fool.' The parridge, the most careless of all b:rds in choice of its plat-e ot nest, build ing it on the ground and often near a frequented road, or in a slight depres- i sion of ground, without reference to I safety, and sooL a hoof or a sCy1,he or a cart wheel ends all. So says the prophet a man who gathers under hicu dishonest dllarswill ttat.ch out of the no peace, no satisfaction, no happi ness, no security. What a vivid similitu le! Tie qtick est way to amass a fortutne is by iuiqui t but the trouble is about keeping it. Every hour of every day some such par tridge is driven ofif the nest. Panics are only a flu; ter of partridges. It, is too tedious work to become rich in the old fashioned way, and it i man can by one falsehood make as much as by ten Yeas hard labor, why not, tell it? An'1 if one counterfeit checs will bring the dol ars as easily as a genuine issue, why not make i? One year's fraud will be I qual to halt a litetime's sweat. Why not, live solely by oiie's wits? A fortune thus built will be firm aud everl sting. Will it? Ila! bund your house on a volcano's craler go to sleep on the ho8omu ol an avalanche. The volcano will blaze and the ava- I lanche will thunder. There are estat,nt which have hen coming together from age to age. Many years ago that estate tarted in a husbano's industry and a wife's economy. It grew from genera t,ion to generation by good habIts and highiniided ent.erprise. Old fasbhionetd indlu-try was tile mline froim whlic: that, gold was (lug and 0 d w ill kee p 'te (leeds of such an estat,e in his buckler< Foreelose ou moU ilrt.gage, spring your anal) judgt iment,s, plot with ticutest in- i trigue againlst,. a family property likeI that, anld you1 cannuot (d0 it a perminent damage. Better than warrentee dl.ed andl h) -,ttr than fire inlsuraince is the deC fense which God's own hand will gtve it Bitt here Is a man today as poor as3 Job alter lie was robbed tby Saran of everything but his boils, yet suddenly tomorrow he Is a rich man. There is [n0 accountinlg for his suddlen afIl'ience. I Hie has not yet railed ot'ten einough to become wealthy. No one pretends to accounit for his princely wardrobe, or the chased silver, or the Ifull curbed< steeds that rear and neigh like Buiceph alas in the grasp of his coachiman. I)idi he come to a sudden inheritance ? No.t D)i( he make a fortune on purchase and sale? No. Everybody asks, Wheret did that partrlige hatch ? T'he deivil suddlenly threwv him up) andi the dlevil will smid(enlty et, him comle dow ni. T bfat' fijdaeni scheme God saw fromi thte lirst (onlceptioin of thle plot. That part i idge. swi ft disaster wilt shoot it. do4wni, and the high ter it tlies the harder it IallIs. L'he prophet saw, as you and I have of ten sen, t,.he awif ul imistake o1 partrid ges. Biut from the top of' a liible hir tree I hear the shlrill - ry of the stork. ,1 oh, Ezek itl, .Jereiah, speak ot it . D)avid cries out., "As for t,he stork, the fir i re. is her hous'e." Tlhis large white Bible blrdl is supuposed without aligh'inw somet,imes t,o wing its waty fromi the regioni Of tile Rhine to Africa.. As wint.er comc>s alt the storks hly to warmer lrmes, and( the last oneC of their number that arrives at the spo)t to which they migrat,e is killed by theii. What havoc it, would make in our species if tihose men were killed who .re always beihind! In oriental cit,ies the stork Is dIomesticaited, and walk about on the street anid will follow its4 keeper. i i the city of E phesus I saw a long row of pfilera, on the top of each pillar ai stork's nest. Buta the word "st ork" ordinarily means mercy and affection, from the fact that this bird was dls' tingulihed for its great love for its par ents. [t never forsakes them, and even after they become feeble protecteP and provides for them. In migrating, the old stor ks lean their necks on the young storks, and when the old ones give out the young ones carry them on their back. God forbuid that a diumb stork should have more heart than we. Bllessed is that table at which an old father and mother sit; blessed that al tar at which an old father arnd mother kneel. What It is to have a mother they know beat who have lost her. God on 1y knows t:hane anshe snuffered for us, the times sihe wept over our cra'tle and thu anxious sighs her boson heaved as we lay upon it, the sick nights when she watched so lonr after every oie was tired out but God and herself. Hier lifeblood be.its in our heart and her image lives in our face. That. nan is graceless as a cannibal who ill treats bis parents. and he who begrudges them daily bread andi clothes them but. ihabbily-may God have patience with -lim; I cannot. I heard a man once ay, "I now have my old mother on my nands." Ye storks on your way witn ood to your aged parents, shame him! But yonder in this Bible sky flies a ird that is speckled. The prophet de -rthing the.church cries out, "Mine ieritage is unto me as a speckled bird he birds round about are against her." 5 it was then; so It is now. 11oliness Alcked at. Conseeration picked at. 3ienevolence picked at.. Usefulness icked at. A speckled bird is a pectil ar bird, and that arouses the ant ipathy )f all the beaks of the forest. The ,hurvh of God is a peculiar institution md tihAt is enough to evoke attack of he A orld, for it. is a speckled bird to be Ackod it. Thle inconsistencies of 3hristians are a banquiet on which mil itudes get fat. rey ascribe every hing you (1o to wrong motives. Puit L dollar in the poor b,x, and they will riy tha' you dropped it there only that ?ou might hear it ring Invite them *o Christ, and they will call vou a ia atic. Let there be contention amoniq Ch ris ins, and they will say: "urrah! 'he church is in decatlence." Christ, ntended that his church should always emain a speckled bird Let birds of mother feather pick at h-r, but t.hey anot rob her of a single plune. Like ,he albatross. she c4n sleep on the )osom of a telipest. She has gone hrough the fires of Nebiiciadnezzar's urnace and not got burned, through ,he waters of t he Ited sea and not been Irowned, through the shipwreck on tile )reakers of Melita and not been found -red. Let all earth and hell try to hunt' town this speckled bird, hut, far above tman scorn and infernal assault it ,hall ing over every mountain top and ly over every nation, anw- her trium thant song shall be: "h'lie church of xod! The pillar and ground of the ruth. The gates of hell sh.d-l not pro rail against her." But. we cannot stou here. From a all cliff, hanging over the sea, I hear he el4gle calling unto th e tet pest and ifting its wing to silte thle whirlwind. ,loses, jeremiah, llosea and labak k uk it times in their writ ings take their pen "rom the eagle's wing. It i- a bird with ierceness in its eye, its feet. armed vith claws of iron, and its head wit hI a Ireadful beak. Two or three of them an fill the heavens with clatgor. But. generally this monster of the air is tlone and unaccompanied, fwr the reason that its habits are so vredaceouis .t requires five or ten miles of aerial or -arthly dominion all for itself. The black brown of its back, and the white of its lower feathers, and the lire f its eye, and the long flap of its wing iake one glimpse of it as it swings lown into the villey to pick up a ral At, or a lamb, or a child and then wings back to its throne on the rock omething never to be forgotten. Scat ered about its eyrie of altitudinous olitude are the bon s of its con(iiests. Iit while the beak and tihe claws o! the agle are the terror of all the travelers If the air, the mother eagle is mi st. ind and gentle to her young. God compares his treatment of his )eople to the eagle's care of the eaVlets. )euteronoiny xxxii, 11, "As an eagle tirreth tip her nest, fluittereth over her roung, spreading abroad her wings, ,aketh themi, beareth them on her vings. so the Lord alone did lead " The >la eagle first shoves the young one mut of the nest in oi der to make it fly, 11w1 then takes it oin her back and tie's with it, and shakes it (11 in the air, -od f it seem's like falling <quickly hies uni. Ier It and takes it ont her wing again, so God does with us. D)isaster, failure ni business, dIisa ppointment, bereave nent, Is only Go<d's way of shaking us tit of our comfort able nests in order hat we may learn how t,o ily'. You who are complairing thnat you inve no faith or courage or Churisi iaii .eal have had it too easy. You never vill learn to fly it' that comitlortable lest. Like an eagle, Christ, has carried is on his back. A\t times we h ave ueen haken off, and when we were about. o fa1li e came under us again arid >ro'.ight us out of the gloomiy valley to he sunny mountain. Nev~er an eagle urooded with such love anid care over uer young as Gon's wings have been ver uns. A cross what oceans of troui Ie we have gone in safety upon the Umighty wings. F'romi what, muni ains of sin we have been carried arid r, times have been borne tip f ar above he gtimshot of the world antd thei urrow f the devil! When our time on cart hi is closed, on brese great wings ot God we shall speei'( vii h inilinite unnickne-ss from earth's nountainis t.o heaven's lills, and as roim the eagle's ci rctiit unth-'r the sun uiea on the g roiinid seemil simal and in.. igni ficanut as liznrdls on an ro ck, so all -arthly things shall dIwirn'eiintoa -peck md the raging) river of (denth so far i leath will seemi smuooth and glassy as aSwiss lake. It was thought, in anienut i ii nesm lhat in eagle could niot on ly 'rn'lt Its iea' hers ii old age, but, that after arri vinig at treat age it would renew its .s'.renrg th ind become entirely young againmu. To .his Isaiah allud1es wvhein lhe says, 'lThey hbat. wait on the Lord shall renew t.t heir itrenigtht; t hey sll mOoiunt, u ip w uth ~vings ol eagles." Even so thti Chtris lan In old age will re nu w his spiritural itrengr.h. lIe shall b - young in ardor md enithusmasm for Chrt.st, anid as the iody f ails the soul will grow ini elas' ic ty till at death it will spring upl like a nlaiddened child Into the bosom of God. Yea, In this ornit hologic'al study I see' Mhat ,Jobt says, "llis (lays 1ly as ani eagle Mhat hastethn to its prey." T1he speedl of a hungry eanglet when it law its prey ai score of iiilts distamnt was toimiaginiable. It. went.like a thunder. boit for speed arid pow~er. So fly our lays. Sixty minutes', eac(h worth a deaven, since we assem bleti in this place, ave shot like lightiining into etern ity. lhe old earth is rent arnd crac'ked under ~he swift rush of (lays anmi months arnd years and ages. "Sw ft asani eagle that tasteth to its prey." lk hold the fowls at the airI Have you consinder.-d that uhey have, as you anid I have niot., the power to change their eyes s' that one ilnmute they may be telesco pic anid the iext microscopic ? New seeing some GhlDg a mile away, and by telescopic syeight, and then dropping~ to Its food m the groun.L ahle to see it...'annby, and with miscrescopic eyesight. But what a senseless passage of Scrip ture that is until you know the fact, which says, "The sparrow hath found a house and the swallow a nest for herself, where she m4v lay her young, even thine altars, 0 Lord of hosts, my king and my God." What has the swallow to do with the altars of the temple at .Jerusalem? Ah, you know that swal lows are all the world over very tame. aad in summer time used to fly into the windows and doors of the temple at .Jerusalem and build a nest on the altar where the priests were offering sacri fices. These swallows brought leaves and sticKs and fashioned nests on the altars of the temple and hatched the young sparrows in Lhose nests, and David had seen the young birds picking their way out of the shell while the old swallo ws watched, and no one in the temple was cruel enough to disturb either the old swallows or the young swallows, and David burst out in rhapsody, saying "'l'ne swallow hath found a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, 0 Lord of hosts, my king and my God." Yes, in this ornithology of the Bible, I find that God is determied to impress upon us the architecture of i bvird'a nest and the anatomy of a bb ds wing. Twenty times does the Bible reter to a bird's nest: "Where the birds make their nest.," As a bird that wandereth from her nest" "Though thou set the iest among the stars," "The birds of the air have their nest," and ao on Nests in the trees, nest on the rocks, nests on the altars Why does God call us so frequently to consider the bird's nest? Bec4use it is one ot the most wondrous of all styles of architecture and a lesson of providential care, which is the most important lesson that Christ in my text conveys. Why, just look at the bird's nest and see what is the prospect that. God is go. ing to take care of you. Here is the kluebird's nest under the eaves of thm house. Here id the brown thrasher's nest. in a bush. Here is the bluej ty's nest in the orchard. Here is the gros beak's nest onl a tree bra'ach hanging over the water, so as to be free from attack. Chickadee's nest in the stump of an old tree. 01, tne goodness of God in showing the birds how to build their nest'sl What carpenters, what masons what weavers, what spinners the birds are! Out of what small resources they make so exquisite a home, curved, pillard, wreathed. Out mosses, out of sticks out. of lichens, out of horsehair, out oi spiders' web, out of thread swevt fron the doors by the housewife, out of the wool of the sheep in the pasture field. Upholstered by leaves actually sewed together by its own sharp bill. Cushion ed with feathers from its own breast. Mortard togither with thegum of trees and the saliva of its own tiny bill. Such symmietry, such adaptation, such con venience, such geometry of struct uire. Surely these nests were built by som. plIn. They did not just Aappen so Who drafted the plan for the birds nest ' God! And do you not think that if he plans such a house for a chafllitch, for an oriole, for a bobbolink, for a spar row, he will see to it that you always have a home? "Ye are of more value than many sparrows." Whatever else surrounds you, you can l2ave what the Bible calls "the feathers of the Al. mighty." Just think of a nest like that, the warmth of it, the softness of it, the safery of it-"the feathers of the Al mjightv." No limingo out flashing the tropical sunset ever had such brilliancy of pin ion; no robin redbreast ever had plum age dashed with such crimson and pur pie and orange ani gold-"the featners of the Am ighty." D. you not feel the touchel of them now on forehead and cheek anid spirit, and was there ever such tenderness of brooding-"the feathers of t,he Alnighty ?" So also in this otnithology of the Bible God keeps impressing us with the anatomy of a bird's wmng. Over fifty times dloes the old liook al lude to the wing-"Wilngs of a dove," "Wings of the morniing," "Wings of the wind," "Sun of righteousness with healing in his wings," "Wings of the Almignty," "All fowl or every wing." What dloes it all mean ? It suggests uplifting. It tells you of Blight up ward. It means to remind that you yourself have wings. Da~vid cried out, "Oh, that I ha'i winLs lke a dove that I might. fly away and iWe at rest." Thank God that you have better winigs than any dove of longest or swiftest flight. Caiged now in bars of flesh are those wings, but the day comes when they will be liberated. Get ready f or aseen sion! Take the words of the olo hymn and to the tune unto which that hymn is married sing: Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wing; by better portion trace. .. p u of these lowlands into the n esof higher experience and wid er prospect. But how shall we rise? Only as God's holy spirit gives us st.renigth. But that is coming now. Not as a condor from a Chimborazo peak, swooping upon the afrighted valley, hw s a dove like that whIch put its t it rown wings over the wet locks of Lhr at at the biapt ism in the ,Jordan,. . a of gentleniess! D)ve ol peace! Comie,. holy sp)irit, heavenly dove, Withi all thy quickening powers; Comio sihed ab,road a Baviour's love, Anid that shlttlt kindle ours, ttandes the Test: W ASH IN(ITON, ,Jan. ii.-Thes Navy D)epartmient to-day received an official dlispattch from the chief engineer of the coast defense vessel Monterey, stating that she was a success in every partie uilar. Tlhe horse power developed is being ascertained by a hoard of engin eer e'illcers, and it is believed that the result will show that the vessell has earnell a hiandsome premium by sur passing her cotntract reqluirements. A t."legrami was also received from tte Uinion Irou WVorks, st-4ting that, the Monterey exceeded her contract, in all particulars. ThIe Monterey was launched at the yards of the Union Iron Works by Mrs. Hlarrisen, while she was with the President on his tout t.o the Paciflic coast. Gov. Tillman heus pardoned J. W. Floyd. Floyd kil:ed Calvin Rhodes is D)ar!ington in November, 1890, ant was convicted of manslaughbter at the October term of court of 1891. H1e was sentenced to the Penitentiary foi 10 years, and served only a little ovel a year ot his time when he was pardon ed. WORKINGMEN IN POLIIICSIvan Vol ANOTHER MANIFESTO AND CALL FO suba A MARCH CONVEN I ION. 1ong St at The Railroad Men", Movement Ha,t ConO burt Along-Now is the Proper Tine to Get whe Aboard-The Platform of the New Era Movement. Wol COLUMBIA, Jan. 10.-The Indult rial ImIen and Wage Workers' Democratic League w il citi? was organized here tonight on a sensi- he ble basis. The committee on consti tu- reco tion and declaration of principle had we r not been idle during the recess. and in tr when the body met it was found that aitl five or six various plans we re before y the committee. After consiterablelgali discussion the paper which was thought; witt to be the fr9est trom objection and the mur most feasinle was adopted, and the li- and dustrial Union goes before the world Ifron on its merits. It does not ask for en- cit.v courageient through prejudic", biut 1p reason. It sets forth in unt-quivocal adol language, without personaltie8 or ratl abuse, its principles and asks and ex- dra;I pects the endorsement of the laboring: men of the State. 1)1', The organization Is not conined to laboring men of any clitss; that is ex actly what it is intended to avoid. T Every wage-earner is eligible and de- the sired for metbershIp. The laboring righ1 men, who has never been allowed a ileg, prominent part in Carolina's PolitieS, ther is going to take a place. The coInmmit- feel tee plainly and emphatically expects ena< to have the agricultural laborers co- whi operate with it and shows how their stit interests are identical. On The committee consists of 11. A. sem Williams, J. I. Cummings, John 11off- ilne man, J. M. Brawley. Jas. P. Cathill, 'T. ana W. Bohiman, W. T. Martin, L. W. repe Warren, It. G. Wara and J. Pat Mee- whe han. offl. On behalf of the laboring men they e1j have presented a deciaration of pur- o tj poses as clear as it is decisive. They Rilai nave called a convention to approve the I or reject t heir plans, and if acceptable card to carry out the purposes of organizi- I righl tion. The ball itas been set inl muot lon, boi with what success the thinkiing peopie agal of the State can estimate for i hem | the selves from the preamble and delara- I whI tion of principles. Here they are: dear Fellow wage-workers and sy mpathiz w ing fellow cit izeys: Your committee latic having been appoinWed to formulate a Leg, plan upon the basis of which an jr- endt xtnizat.ion, capable of correcting the- nor evils of which we complain, inight he of n effected, feel that they cannot do bet- ilI ter than preface the plan agreed upon capi with a few remarks calling attention cy, I to the grounds upon which we seek to tu re justify our action. IOCCIu bpeaking of the possibility of oppo- the sition to tne iniquitous laws enacted W at the recent session of the Legislat uro the i it has been said: "Your head is in the clal mouth of the Reform lion, and so long redo as the lion don't close its jaws it s inser policy to keep quiet and not enrage it 1o 1 to crush you; such opposition would stal enrage and emoitter the triumphant. bit i faction, and you would bring down rum upon the corporations and towns per- w baps stricter laws than those which bo,li they seek to esc.&pe. It would be po- crat litical suicide to every ambit ious iin spec enlisted on the side of the minority." purl in this manner does the "triumphat legi5 faction seek to Ireeze the manhood in W the veins Of those who might, under- te take tu oppose its unhallowed course! ism Thus is the vaunted intellect u I civiii- I zation of the nineteenth century re- soin solved again into the kingdom of irute the forcOl So has it been decreed that We dept shall bow down in homage to the edicts of tI of this political Nebuchadne zzar! ind But surely the God of hosts, who de- the livered D)anfel out of the deni of' lions, tru will deliver ius also, who hav'e ihie Wv courage to declare our manhooa. ot and of the month of' this "Reormu hio,.!" tha How, then, shall t,he scriptures lhe ful boI tilled, if, in the sequel, thei e be not"a "weeping and gnashing of teeth I?" pIe Hass It not been written that ". he W zeal of mine house has eaten me ep ?". laws and have they not test ilied to fhe zeal prtv of both houses in doing as well at in we leaving undone? Wit ness how salaries righl have beeni cut down! Behold the re- capil duction of taxe?! Mark hiow the Ituma dtust Trust was defeated! Oh, I rohiettion, W requiescat In pa-:e, "f or when I have at ing more convenient season I will catll for aid< thee!" See how "justice to all sidesa" and has been met,ed out ! What matt ers lo w. the right of ten thousand against t,he the might of' fIfty ! "Damn!" Wherefore At should corporation-u and the dwellers cipke an cities and towns ob)ject to beinig leg- limi islated "agaInst ?" Vb hy should dlrug- piei gist.', keepers of hotels,saloons, re stati- erne rants anti places of public amusement, to complain because exempt from the bur- cred dens of the new "dispensation ?" -In Uinder such condit,ions as these is it, that, "policy to keep quiet?" Shall the fear Imt c of '"enmtbiLtering the triumphant fac- gest tlin' permit, the sword of libert y to and rust in its sheath? or the shadows ol to ti "polis ical suicide" cause the hand to cro v t,rembile as it is drawn from itisaab,. bard'? Friends, let us not "strain at kitats and swallow e sanes," pious explet,ives are not issues of vital importanice to the people of this State. Let, them damn on to their heart's content,r so long as lhe shall not undlertake~ to dlatu the sacrea stream of individual liberty by denying equal rights to iall, by grantIng speciaa prIvileges to any, or by challenging the right oft judicial appeal, a right which has b'ein to a free people as "the shado w of a g reat, rock in a weary land " It is, however, the violation of not one', but, all of' these, watich c auses us to Lake counsei e's of with each other. ti i We are In a minority, yet why should ns that discourage us?y Let, us go~ fort,h i lik David, with naught butt the st oneme o&honest purpose in our sliug, ai,d 'the so shall we have strength to light: seat against Glollath and his Phitistiaies ini mitt defence of the heritage of free tmeii. We are not and must not become a class. Let us welcome to our counmclsj and our comfort the farmer and the wit? mechanic, the operative and the labor- ''s er, for our cause is a comrmon cause, nod We are a minority of the people of' dlec I tw South Carolina, but, like the woman of boLl Macedon, who appealed "to Philip In the his sober senses, w e claim the a,tenith tion and challenge the reason of t,he majority of our fellow citizens. Let, ts begin now to) educitate our selves so that we may judge bet.ween Ing the wise and the un wise, tue evil and by the good: for in no other way can we do~ hope to have our efforts crowned with nans success, conclusIve of the integrity of Jan our purposes. are Your committe recommend the or- Tti zation of an Industrial and W -kers' Democratic Leagiue, wil I Consist of a State League, w )rdinate county and (is'r ties; and, in connection with I e league, the establishment c au of Information; and final n the objects sought by the orgi onl of the Industrisl and Wi kers' Democrafic League sh - been attained, through the ena t of just and equitable laws, ,h the lights of every individi en, howsoever humble, shall hu duly considered, your commit mmlDend that we disband, so ti tiay not becolle a political machi mo haids of designing men, to I imnt of the interests of this St; its citizens mir cominittee ,ill appotnt an zing committee in a'h inti i inst-ructions to organize COUII icipal, township and ward leagii to arrange to send delegat es t.he i to a convention to be held in I of Columbia on the - - day of ,or the purpose of electinug otlice >I tug a plan of orgatimz4 ion a 0ing ort amending the followi t, submitted as a 1, AIt ATIO0N 0OF TIIPl , I N 'I I'l, ESs IE. INDVlSTRItAL AND> WAM-. WMi ts' DEi:M(W'iRATIC i.I'C LE l'I. le Constitut ion of the State and 'mted States guarantees i q ts to all, and prohibits special I 4s to any Of its eItizo,n1. 11, fore, t he dtiy of those who, ii themselves aigrieved throtish t.ment of u1j,ist laws, Ihe elfee ,-h is to deprive some of their C ittional rights, while hestowing i others milawfil privileges, to bIe and protest against. such unjt iutabile and unlawful legislati to take measures to Hccomplisl al. More especially is this a di ii, from the decision of iartis als, empowered to execule I rme such laws, the right of app e Courts is denied; a right wisi anteed by the fundanet al law and, and recogiized its onie( of t inal principles of Deimracy; which experieei ha4 proven a shield of safety to thl We ist the strong, to the few agaii many ; a right, which has beei, a h intist lie, cheriihed aniogsl t e t. privill ges (it free pmople. e condemi the vicious cias.; !ew 11 atteinpted aid enact.ed1 by I slature at its recent. session, :1 rsed and aPprovud by the Go% >A this State, t he pernicious vftei hiCh Will h1e to put to hazard strie, depentient upon corporati tal, to lesien ti he voltime of curr u iniecase the cost (.f crudit, t itier uneertain and prec.triotis t p,tlon of all wage workers wil 'tate. e deno i.ce the i consisteney tocalled iteforim part.y, which, p iii ng salariis too large, (units ce them; declariig taxes too II as s them; prt fesiig opposil 110110oo0ly, conspires to inake 0 aI moi0n o)lists; vreaching pr in, leglslates the State iPswll iit seller. e declare our principles to be 4 e in the simple butt Souid D>el ic doctrine of "Eqial riglits t ial privileges to nlone," and >ose to repeall and to oppose ilation inconsistent therei,ub. e ackniowledge agrietilt.ure to naster wheel of indust rial moch but, we declare that in t he ei t anld execut ion of just alld wit laws it, is essential to consider I tlantity and quality of the preodu 'Id upon the iarmonliols work te whole machine; and( that ipon stry more than agriculture will i ijuirios Effects of a depart ithis juist principlle. o helieve the int erests of c ipi labor to be t.he same, Cand( we ass a blow aimned at one will fall ii ; and that legislat ion direc inst."' either will react up1)on ihe f the whole State. us recognize the propriety of' j rest rai nitng t.he abusti of rights leges granted to ladiv idu uls; I coindemni all laws tending to eouisl y lessen t.he induicemenlts aul to inv estmnet of legiti iotte rio's wit in the State. a assert thle necessit y of twiinta lie indi(ependene and( hIgh stai >f the .1 uodiciary, atnd condhemn ii all att'emphts to ctirtail thle one r the of hier of these safeguards 4ojoym)eitl of individutal rights lherintg st rictly to t he sound pr s of I )emnocracy, liv intg within t.h ationi, anid boelievinig that "1 p hest. gove rned wh ichi is leoast g< I ," we shall untder take to in ainut he hig lust standard t.be iniai.c It.and1( p)ohlial dignity of' theo St C coniclusion, we heg leave to hr he principles w hich we haive o I ani d the planis which we have s I 3d may meet, with !tie aLpproblsl iindotrseinenit oh ouir telowv-ci' lze e entl that C glorious success ai ii Ottr righlteouis 0 forts. Kn0|lII. A. WI'l i ,i.iA .Ils, Chim'o ,l. ,1. . iCNNi N(., ,1 No. G. I JiOFF.\ A N, .J aIU .It t'. C A n i .u,, it C. WACi. WV. T Aa irriN. -Ne ws andi( Couit ier lIemIs'nerua, Co (ht 00tur Moota,tn i:.,N A, .\ lont., ,1 an. t;.--lloth 1l0 t hoe L egislature has adjo)urrned( londaty. Thhe mfostt imirportat, bi done this morniir,g wais the ajpoot . (of a coimmiittee on elect ions ll otuse t O conisidler the con~ test of' frotm Choteau County. Tis cc ee consist.s of two itepubilican, t locrats and one l'opulist. lleecl is chairman, has ~heretofore ac tthe l)emocrats. 'The commit pectled t,o report on M onday, w tluibt the rei will be a light over ti itor'. Should they seat IIatnil otild give I lie l)o'mocrats contro houses without the assistanc 1'opuilists. Fight, to the DIe .tih. 1ECATIUR, Ala.,,Jan, 6,--Thlis in ,wo white men we1e fatally stial *wo negroes, who were In turn 'n b.y the wounded white men. es of white men nre John les Hlerndon. The negroes' na Edmund Todd and Todd Bowl h cautae oh ihe tronh1e in not ken ch ith ict ALLABDUT I he fr aCON Mf- Ato Onitilbsit 11s t Poif lge, ge On'mtitasitte" Mp.oti4 Toono cl- ticns--Ex-Trial Jug. ii1 t ckat fihe-Simlo,. ve~ (r.r'tu i ., S.C., sn. . lee the IItarmer- t d their 1oh1tICad. ne Vu sE" year,3 ao with it cA Ae *.u lv inl the year, so will the lab, lte iti miii oI S.)utli Carolina begrin their repatt vWemiO, n11V. Tiev are deter lined it WI,L, h--y aire doin.(, and are t Nthoroui;hy I% aroused to the conditions whichi threaten to drink thwir life's blood re by lakin,_, Ithe bread and meat from ,fe t eir mouthe. A le v ''eCs ago wien they held r, their tm iss ieetin in tiise city it (lid iot ilt In tke itich knowled-ae oif tile intentions Jig of a workini_ nimi to see that they were im arat mrei-va tmient, with a determinua r1 Lit 't,p tI\ it out," and take their Ii IIb, e1inthe11."e of DOliticl inl S.uth (' arolin:i. of 'l'he mt:1ss ntit-tint wits hut pre.imina ta rs to the al wottk ot in-tu.gurating the ive liitl a1,1(l Oh tune for the wave to -lu-iiui roll is at hand. Tomorrow p' iht he c1nnit )1)a4)pit,tcd to draw ite ill a c-itiAlut-tiln ori 1)phitorm and by o(f hIiWS. 1-vtlrniin! Ihe proposod league n: Will m1iet, aid this plaetoti will be 1p- iilie , it lav'! he'tn alteady pre ts- ioiv,ud hv a s,h c,ummitt,ee composed of st, Il n of vx )e- ietice. [), At this meet-inW- also the call for a con ts vent ion of I he lahoring men of all class. e- in Suith Ca1ritna will be issued. "i1) The pitamin will be one, so a cominit tvetan 4als, that every working man ill S mti ('aroihn-ii C:in stand upon. It will Ie inl exceptiorlly Stoug one. It e steems, is 'ir a4 can be ascertained, tha' t the v IeC itito Wil hw eiiled f >r some to <ii1V ab0n111' the close f next month. ak A men,h -r of the committee yesterday ist said Ibe itit cvi uti that the number of :iu wtorkineitti inl Coltimbia onl the day of It e covLlio clii -ti itn W ii,# be in -.ie thous - twdk, indt l voti'-I he heart an(i soul in tie imfoveintit.. They propose to con (inde lithe 4bwrtion o the convention rWith a1 tnl' trceon at night. at I Tiw t i tt - NrM,n Killed. al 1'Nv-:I.. ('ol., .1an. II.-Yesterday Ve i A- tt e'inooni t Ir0am.iture explosion oc I (d etirred in oi- id' the chambers of the ie liioi f'ili.- coal inites at, Kin, four tiiiles from C>ntw, where iwenty-eight 'iiiri's were it. work It is what the nit1nlers ("ill a 'dust. explosion." The ro- shock kille-I 27 of' Itie men, only one es It, Uing, Ile bellig niearly at the en 9h, tratict. ilt h bod-s were not recover ionl ed 11(itil mlililight. On account of the i'r hl.icket-d condition only eleven of thi t henty s-vei were recogniza Sia bie. I ,-0-r. It is now learned that twen IN ft.livt mi-tii were lit tile iineand twen n lltir wi-re killed. Tht single survi all, or was t iimwii forward upon his face Ml by I he tiemo-iitlous force of the blast, a hut % as iit -itriotisly iuirt, and, seraniiblig over te biies of lits fel low wmi k int-ii, he mide his way to the et Tit . iis, of I he exlplosion was heard , ie. m vIl .v firY t of the iininwt, anld all the fiat ;oiltr i u working Iin the mine, about cls sevei Iy-ive, risied to tite open air. A trig lesCinHjjf p,irt.y was <iickly obtained. [M 'ont sir, still (-tne from the latal i c-aiien h-r, hlt iave iten rushed in and e Ur( twilt (lit lteh, ns If he lheado ati nry every family in tiihe li l ie 'ow n of king was emuployed ert O" "ri abli .' t hie inniie iand( the women onfn ihnii ent c1 olwded ab-out t,he en tranji'i.ice a-sT irho be lis t w:e~ e-rried ou t en- 1111lto'e da~yiighiI- It wvas nort unt,il af. Ier d.irk I tim I he ilast b ody was btrought -i8f Ir()in thle itnine T1hie portionl of the mt utin wh:nchi the arceideint occurrred Iat wa roinjily seatlied tip by the proper m-i1~J utoifties, to awav it fihe arrivalI of tire to iKaIte inspecfo ofcoal mninies. in [ihe atccidlenit was cauisedl by what irtwrs o-all "'wind(y slhoit"-thalkt IS, a in cha ! of is a' den L,i. net has beenl I nsuf ni. li' fnty tanipuif. Thfie resulIt was tire nyinstdit. exIdh,si.n oh thle gas ini tire orchainbetr of thle iin e wheo-re the mn to were'~-i worig. Th'le concission set I re' ani ci renila'el the black damp, in. andf tin- arlintii institat dethf of t,wsF u.. were !!lns, one' was a Scotehman >v. ar 1 wo w, tre Aiini'ricants. A bouteight uof 1 fini wire nirr'id( men. 1al '1 i A in tt, INTiN, S. C.. .Jan. 6.-Joseph aft Triescoi I. ii Wmi. d. Cox, coiored, coin *e shtl tr Tf'Iriial lui ce John Abriens, oin we re shti it iody wiile attempting to ar 0t4, lesti al 8 pi-r.it 0neoero narmed Joseph at j"ishr I i ITrevoliit (lied of his8 inljurles aial 0'.x is Ithittat.etndedi for a stiat - tred am. Th'le contSttbles were armed wvilith a"i warrant e C'ariginir. FItsher and iih-'her withi ha;vitin as iufted and at (iftepleI to kill It-ir ioIoredi foreman at the' Wi do I liin,phaite Works, Oscar nttwM (If ihu killing treaedo tire city, ('hie ii I I> i ie Ma~rtrm, two lieutenants anol ai lii ve - qi l 11,f ioce hurried to Nil wiika, lbnt the muii'trerrs had tled. Not- inferntmn could he gained from -rue natives. Ti wo detect.ives are on his trail. I t is tholulht heo will be captured tou rl iht. 'lloTer are irtors of threat,s by lhe n'l~e.wt of buirnintg the phosphate wvork 4, bIut Ltee are discrtedited, of-, l'eor Mean Weakening C ii A iil.ESToN, Jian. .11.-it seems thrt,. the city couniill in passing the [li metned li'uor law acted with jndg mnt.i. Theii. ramendiced la w dloes rnot abro wo gat.e thle liei-nse erarnted upi t,o thlis timne ter, for one 'year. it merely pirovidles that teil ittier .riry 13.,whe a :he Evans law , tee g'oes into efleci , licenses sall be is sued bien on1) for six months. Those who have ecir taken 6ut licenses f'or a year can get a tn rebarte of $5p if they desire to tdo so, but 1ilhere is Ino oblitgation oni t,hem to (d0 5o, "'As rt ilattier oif fact,, the liqutor men tire weaik int. Tlhis tar, only about,eighty dealers have taken out license, the total >rn- number betine ablout 200 Iast year. >hied Maniy of the brinobr deatlers, wholesale htand r-etil, it, is M'id ate arranging to go The ouit of hu-iness, anid 'rite trustees of' Clemson College are leti puthting tire work oil that institution tQ w.have it ready by s pring.