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WHAT IS IN A DREAM? DR. TALMAGE DEDUCES AN IMPOR TANT LESSON FROM VISIONS. Draam Itecordi d In the ]iime>c-WIy thte DreaRns of Taday Are. Am a tule, of No signIicalcc-tut Cod Van ar'd 04 stonly DoepsSpeek In Drennis. BROOKLYN, Maicli 21;-- A remarka ble sermon was preached by lW v. Dr. Talmago in the Tabernacle to:lay, the subject being a physcholo-ical and re ligious study of the phemtoliel:1 of* the mindd urin- sleep an(] the sinifilcance oM dreams as evidence ot immoilrLliity. The text chosen ias Gene is xxviii. 11, "IIe took of the stones of that place aid put them lor his pillovs aind lay eown in that plae' to sleep, and he dreamed." Acleep onl a pillowcisc ted with hens' feathers it is not strate one should have pleasant (treanis. But here is a pillow of rock Itnld d acob W th his head on it, and, lt! a drelliam of awgels, two processions. thos-e coinl*g down the stairs met by those _ooig U p t'e stairs. I is the first dream (t Bible record. You tmay say tofa dr amt it it is nocturnal lantasia, or that it is the absurd coimbination of wakin.g thoughts,. and with a slur of intonation you may say, "It is only it dream,'' bitt ( God has honored the dreai by nakiig it the av enue through ivhich aint and agai" le has ninrehed upon) the htnilanl soul, de cided the fito of natiois andI changed the course of the world's his tor y. God appeared in a dreami to Abime lech, warning him against an unlawful marriage; in a dream to d osheph foretell ing his oming Power unlder the figure of all the sheaves of the Iarve-t bow ing : down to his sheal; to the chiet butler, foretelling his disimprisonment; to the chief baker, announcing his decapitation to Pharaoh, S'owing him first the seven plenty years and then the seven famine struck years, under the fiL.ure of the sev en fat cows devouring Ihe (eve lean cows; to Soloman 1iving him the choice between wisdom and rat:,e and honor; to the warrior, Lut tie li-ure of a bar ley cake suting dovn a l(it, encourag ing Gideon m his battle aiginst the AmalekLes; to -N,lbIchadld zer, tui der the ligtre a b),hrokenl im age 'Ind a hen down tree, foretelling his overthlrow of J;ower; to Josheph of the New IestamleIIt, an nouncing the hi-th tl Ch rist in 1es own household; Lo Maary, hadhg her to fly from Ilerodic 1erse-utionis; to -date)s wile, warlinlg h im it te b4e)nhcome e om plicated with the iial overthrow of Christ. We all admit i that (fod in ancient times and under .ihble disipensat/ou ad dressed the people tlhro eIgh dreams. The question nov is, Does God appear in our day and reveal hiiself through dream? That is the <iuestion over b)o dy asks, and that question this morn ing 1 ithall try to answer. you ask me if I belieNe in dI eamis. My answer is, I do believe in (reImil, Itu, all I lave to say will be under liv, heads. Rem'ark the Fir t-Tie Seriptures are so full ofreNel.ations Irom (od t at if we get no commutticatin front tim in, dreams we ouhht, neverttheles.s to h! sat isfied. With 20 guidebooks to tell you how to get to Roston or i ttsb.urg or London or Glaegow or Manchiester, do yotu wvant a night vision to tell you how to make the journes t W e have in this Scr iptuio fall direction m r-euard to the journey of this life and how to get to the celestial city, and wvitth this griandi iuidIeboeok, this magnuicetit directory, we ought to be satisfied. I have mote Iait h in de.. Cision to which .l come wheni I am wide awake thtan whten I amt soundtt asleep. I have nlotice2d that thoese who give a groatdeIal ot their tinte toe stitetving dreams get the. brains ta lIed. They are ver~y anxitons to reuttember wvhat they dreamiedta bout the iirusitnightt they slept in a new house. If in their threat ithey t ake the h anud of acorpse, they are 0oin to) tie, i they dream of a gant n, t it means a sp niche.- 1 somthn ts t)ut ne coiding to a nigh. vision, they tiay: "'M e 1 1 am not surpr eisted. I dreau ed night vision, they say, "'Well, direamts go by contraries.'' lit thir efforts to p)ut their dreams into rhtyllant they pim their waking thot ughts inito disconehI Now, the IBi blet is ste luii ot revel ain that we ougt to be satisied it we get ino further revelation. Sound sleep received great honor when Adam slepL so extraordinarily that the zurgical incision w1eich gave thim Eve did no. wake him. .liuL there i8 nto such need for x traordinary slumzber now, and ho wvhto catches aun Eve must< be wide awake! No neced of such a 1 dream a s ,1 acob had wv ith( a ladd(er agaitnst the sky w-hen ten thous- . and times it had been dhemorstrated that earth and heaven are in commuini- L cation. No such dream needed as that which was given to A bimelech, warn ing him aga'uist an unlawful marriage, I when we have the records of the countyL c'erk's ofl'ce,. No need of such a drcant as was giv en to Pharaoh about the seven years of 1 famine, for now the seaLonts narctt in 0 regular p)rocession, andl ste: ner. andi raily train carry breadstutts to) everv famine t struck nation. No need o at dhi am like that which encouragedi Gideon, for all through Chbrlsteudomn it is annotuneed I and ackeowledged and( dtemtonstratedd that rightteousncass sooner or later will I get the vicLory, 1 Alf these shiou ld come abeout a crisis in your life upon which the lI ible does notr see, to be sulliciently sp)ecific, go to God in prayer, ad y ou will get es per ial I direction. I have mo:c fathtt 9 tunes I OUt o1 100 in directions given you w ithr the Bible in your hap and your thou ght uplifted in prayer to God tihan in all the Information you will get, unconsciousI on your pillow. I can very easily understand why the B3abylodians andI the Egyptians, withi no Bible, shiould p)ut so imutch sLress oui dreams, and the Chinese, in their holy book, Chow King, should think their emperor gets his directions through dreams from God1, and thtat llomer should think that all dreams came from Jove, and that in ancient times dreams were classified Into a scieLee. But why do you and I put so much stress on dreams when we have a supernal book of Infinite wisdom on all aut>jects? Why should we harry ourselves with dreams? Why should Eddy tone and Blarnegat lighthouses question a sumrmer fireflby Remark the second-All dreams huave as important meaning. They prove that the soul Is compara lively Independent of '.the body. The eyes are closed, the senses are dull, the entlrs body goes Into a lethargy which in1 languages Is used as a type otdeath, S4then the soul spreads its wIngs and neDvOr sleeps. It laps the Atlantic ocean and mingles in scenes 3.000 miles no away. It travels great reaches of time, me flashes back 80 years, and the octogena- ble rian is a boy again in his father's house. out If the soul, before It has entirelv broken the its chain of flesh, can do all this, how ple far can it leap, what circles can it cut, when it is fully liberated? fro E.very dream, whether agreeable o' Go. harassing, whether sunshiny or tem-' not pestuous, means somuch that risina, tha from your couch you ouaht to kneel beli (lown and say: "0 God! am I immortal? job Whence? Whither? Two natures. Mv tin( soul caged now-what when the door of' fIct the cage is opened? IfI my soul can 11Y p2r so far in the few hours in which my bOd y by I is asleep in the night, how far can it fly dire when my body sleeps the long sleep of tjot the grave?" Oh, tils power t.O dream, tha how startling, how ove whelmmig! It l, prepared for the titer death flight, what doe an enchantment! If not, prepnred for verl the after death tlight, what a crushing N auon ! Immortal! Immortal! a C iemark the Third-The vast majority vhl (Ireams are merely the result of disturb- shil ed physical c,ndition andi are not a Wa superaatural miessa-ge. abo Job had carbinicles, and he was scared re in the night. Ile says, "Thou scarest Ve ile with dreams and terrifiest me with cra visions." Solomon had an overwrought ho0 tin brain. overwrought with public businesa, rnt md lhe suffered from erratic slumber, Yo Ind he writesin Ecclesiastes, "A dream Thi omethi through the multitude of busi less.'' )r. Gregory Iin experimenting h vith dreaus found that a bottle of hot , vater put to his feet while in slumber I nade hin think that he was going up the he hot sides of Mount Etna. to < Another morbid physician, experi- sitU nontimg w;th dreams, his feet uncovered for hrough sleep, thought he was riding in son Ili Alpine (tiligence. lut a great many nig Ireams are merely narcotic disturbance. of Anything that you see while under the tol niluence of chloral or brandy or sel "hasheesh" or laudanum is not a revela- to .ion from God. The learned De Quincey Ti lid not ascribe to divine communication ,vhat he saw in sleep, opium saturated; se Ireams which he afterward described in he followinL words: "I was worshiped- pe I Was sacrificed; I fled from the wrath I >f Brahma through all the forests of ifo Asia. Vishnu hated me. Siva laid in ilil wait for ie. I came suidenly upon Isis on md Osiris. I had done a deied, they wl ail. that iade the crocodiles tremblce. sn< I was buried for a thousaud years in .), stone collins, with mummies and dr1 slinxes in narrow chambers at the "l' iceart ot eternal pyrami(s. I was kissed roT with a cancerois kiss of crocodiles and n lay confounded with unu(terable slimy things among wreathy and Nilotic mud.'' dri Do not mistake narcotic disturbance for ne: divine revelation. Ml But I have to tell you that the ma- ti iority of the dreams are merely tile penalty of outraged digestive organs, and you have no right, to mistake the i)r nightmare for h.avenly revelation. Late of slippers are a warranty deedI for bad th1 ICCms. Highly spiced salads at 11 ti 'clock at night instead o openiIg the door heavenward open the door internal re a l diabolical, You outrage natural p( Iw, and you insult, tile God wlIo ilade ill ivse !aws. It takes from three to live pi hours to digest food, and you have no Ill ri-hit to keep your digestive organs in P sirulgl21e when the rest of Vour body is I n oM111inolence. Tihe general rule is, eat n nothing litter fl o'cl,ck at night., retire h at 10, sleep on your right, side, keep the window open five inches forw ventilation, and other worlds will 1101 dlisturb you .f much. ', By physical maltreatment you take ti the ladder that Ja cob saw ini his dream, w anid you iower it to thce nether world, ali- p)( l>wing the ascent of thie (demoniacaf. IDreamcs arie idnfighti dyspepsia. An pc unreguilattedl detsire forC somleting to eait of rined the race in paradise, and an tin- ccp regulated dlesire for something to eat his kep it rmnefld. The world duLrinlg asi1 Qc,ct00 yeats has tried inl va'in to (digest, i*l that first apcple. T1hce world will nlot he mtl ('vanigelizedi until we get, rid of a dlys- re peptic Christianity. Heialithy icople dob not ant thi caaverus ndsee t ti ti inl. that some people call religion. $f 'l'hiy wanit a rehigioni that lives regular- jy , I y bcy day and1( slesps sounldly by3'night, to If through troub lc ot coming on of' be olhl age or exhatustion o1 Chiristian ser- ti: v;e ccyou cannliot sle'p w~ell, then you hii may expect, from God ''ionls ins the night,'' but there are no blessed com.- div dmuienitionis to those who willingly sur- tut trendier to indigestibles. Napoleon's atI rmiy at LeipIsic, D)resden and ilor (dinlo thle uin anear heinig destroyed through the thal fstturbed gaMriec juices of' its comlman.- an fer'. That is thce way you hlave lost gor somie of' your battles. ani Arother remiek I make is that, our 2OC lrcan.is are alpt to be0 merely tile eho of F' >urt day thoughts. are I will give you1 a recipe f'or pleasant ver' hzeams: Fill your (lays with clevated1 lRe hioughit iand uinsel fish act,ion, andl your e Ireaims wvill he set tlmusic. If' ali (lay lig 'on are gouging and( gcasping aund t,hio varicious, in your dIrea.ns you will sec <md :old that you cannot cIuth and bar:;ains , a which you were outshylockedl. Iftvi luring the (lay yotu are irascible and you cugniaciotis andi gun powdery of displosi ion, you will at night, have battle withao nlemies in which they will get o lie best, of you. If you are all day thal mig in a hutry, at night yotu will dream the 1' rail trains that you want to catch wer ,hiile you cannot move one inch toward wvi t he depot. Neo If you are always oversusp)icious atnd hiav xlpectnt, of assatult, you will have at ano ightf hiallucinations of assassins with (dr aggers dIrawn. No one wonders that, plutg tichard III, the iniquitous, the night til I 'clone the battle of Bo-swort,h Field U lreamed( that, all those whom lie hadit( u luirdered stared at, im, andc thatt lie is, .storn to p)ices5 oy demfonls from the cit. The scholar's (dream is a phiiloso- fir chice cho. The poet's dIreami is a allet hy thmic echo. Coleridge composed his from 'Kubla Khan'' asleep~ in a niaraotic that ream, andit waking upi wrote (hown) 300 uab imes of it. .Taut,mi, the violin player, befir ompiose:l his most, wondlerlul sonata ovel v,ille asleep in a drea u so vivid1 that wvh( vaking lie easily transferred it, to paper. kee] Waking thoughts have thleir echo iin sleeping t,bouIghts. If a man spendls his Wder life in trying to make others happy andlw is heavenily minded around his pillow A he will see cripples who have got, overoc their crutch, andl processiotns of celesti- wit al imperial, and hear the grand march he roll down from drums to heaven over (tha .iasp)er parapets. You are very ap)t to G hear in dreams what you hear when youider are wide awake.y m Now, having shown you that having of a Bible we ought to be satisfied not get.. to t,ing any further communication from sto God, and having shown you that all the dreams have an important mission ros since they show the comparative inde: Gel pendence of thes soul from the body ,and int th having shown you that the majority of a i dreams are result of distur bed Physical a conditions, and havIng shown you that ~ our sleeping Thoughts are apt to be anvi echo of our waking thbohgits I come c w to my fifth and idat Important re. rk, and that Is to tay that It Is capa of proof that God does sometimes In (lay and has often since the close of Bible dispensation appeared to peo- J in dreais. C LIl dreams that make you better are c n God. Ilow do I know it: Is not I the source of all good? It d.os t take a very lo:-ical mind to argue V t out. Tertullia and Martin Luther r eved in dreams. The dreams of n Ilues are immortal. S,. Augus- t , the Chriitian father, elves us the that a CarLha-inian ohysici in was M:ided of the immortality of the soul in ariru-ent which he heard in a in. The niih. before his assassiona- t the wile of Julius Caesar dreamed j her husband fell dead across her r It is possible to prove that God t s appear in dreans to warn, to con- d anid to save ilen. [y friend, a retired sea captain and 3 hristitm, tells me that one night t le on the sea he dreamed that a 's crew were in great suffering. king up from his dream, he put ut the ship, tacked in different di ions, surprised everybody on the iel-thmy thought lie was going zy-sailed oil in another direction ir after hour and for many hours il he came to the perishin crew and 'led them and brought them to Ne w rk. Who conducted that dream? 3 God of the sea. a 1695 a vessel went out from Spit- t d for the West Indies and ran inst tie ledge of rocks called the kets. The vessel went down, but crew clambered up on the Caskets tie of thirst or starvation, as they posed. But there was a ship bound Soutliam pton that had the captain's on board. This lad twice in one ht dreaimed that there was a crew sailors dying on the Caskets. He I his father of his dream. The ves cane down by the Caskets in time lAnd and to rescue those poor dying n. Who conducted that dream? e God of the rocks, the God of the ie Rev. Dr. Bushnell, in his marvel book entiLled "Nature and the Su natural," gives the following fact 6t he got from Captain Yount in Cal rmia, a fact confirmed by many fam !: Captain Yount dreamed twice night that 150 miles away there 8 a company of travelers fast in the )w. IIe also saw in the dream rocks poculiar formation, and telling his 'am to an old hunter the hunter said: Ihy, I remember those rocks. Those ks are in the Carson Valley pass, 150 les away. aptain Yoimt, impelled by this 'am, although laughed at by his ghbors, gathered mien together, took ties ani blankets. and started out on expedition, traveled 150 miles, saw aiie very rocks which he had de 'ihed in hits dream, and finding the 1yering ones at the toot of those rocks ought them back to confirm thestory Captaini Y ont. Who conducted at dream? The God of the snow, e God of the Sierra Nevada3. God has often appeared in dreams to sce and comnifort. You have known !p0 -Perhaps it is something I state your owni experience-you have seen 1op4ei go to slep vith bereavements caonsol-l,. and they awakened in !rfect resiuation because of what lvy had seen ii slumler. D. Cran ige, one of the imost remarkable men ever inet-remarkable for benevo neo anti great philanthropies-at 'ellington, I1 nglanid, showed me a use where the Lord had appeared in wonderi'til (reamh to a poor woman. lhe woinanc was rheuamna; ic, sick, poor a the last p)oinlt oif destitution. She as waifted on and cared for by another por wonini, hier only3 attenidant. Word eanme to her one day that this or woan hiad died, and tihe invalid whoma I ami speaking lay helpless ona te (11cuc wondi(erinig wvhat wvould I :omie of her, In that mood she fell i ee.. Ini heir direamis she said the an of thle Lord ap)pearedA and took her I o. thle open'i air and p)oinited In one di- I tiin, and there were mountains of ad, aind p)ointed in another direc-E n, and there were mountairs of but- I and( in aniother direction, and there I re mu intains of all kinds of world- I utpply. Thme angel of the Lord said 'ier, "Wo.aan,* all these mountains 1 aig to your Father, andl do you Ilk that he will let you, his child,C ager and( (lie ?" )a. Cranniage told me that by some inc imipulse he went into that dlest e home, saw the suffering there and ninistered unto it, '2aring for her all way thirough. Do1) you tell ine that t dreami was wvoven out of earthly adynes? Was that the phantasma i of a diseasedl brain ? No, it was all symplathetic God addressing a r woman through a dream. imrthermore, I have to say that there peole in this house who were con- a ed( to God throughl a dream, The E . Johin Newton, the fame of whoser y fills all Christendon, while a prof- 'J te sailor on shipboardl, in his dream Light that a being approached him 1 gave him a very beautiful ring and t it upon his finger and said to him, t .long as you wear that ring you be p)rospered; if' you lose that ring, will be ruined." the same dream another person- Il app)eared, anid by a strange infatua- t persuaded ,John Newton to throw c ring overboard, and it sank into f sea. Then the mountains in sight c e full of lire, and the air was lurid t i consuming wrath. While .John t vton was repentmng of his folly in il ing thrown overboard the treasure h ther personage came through the c urm and told John Newton lie would d ige into the sea and bring the ring d f he aesired it. e plunged into the sea and brought ~ p and said to ,Johnu Newton, "Here iat gem, but I thinik I will keep it ~ you, lest you lose it again," and ( ni Newton conlsented, and all the a went out frorm the mountains, andl 0 ,he signs of lurid wrath dlisappeared tl n the air, arid ,Johni Newton said M lie saw in his dIream that that val- P he gem was his soul, and that the c g whio p)ersuadled him to throw it e rboard was satani, aind that the one a plunged ini aria restoredl that gem, i ping it for him, was Christ, aiid 0 dIream makes one of the most won- it mil chapters in the life of that most h derful man. ti German was crossIng the Atlantic s mn, amnd in his dIream lhe saw a man it ii aiadful of white flowers, and C vats told to follow thme man who had it handful of white flowers. The al mani, arriving in New York, wan- ir d( into the Fulton street prayer n ~ting, and Mr. Lamphier-whiom et iy of you know-the great apostle rayer meetings, that day had gIven sinm a bunch of tuberoses. They )d on his desk, and at the close of ti religious servIces he took the tube- h es and started homeward, and the a: eman followed hinm, and through an ci erpreter told Mir. Lam phter that on S sea he had dreamed of aman with n andful of white flowers and was told v follow him. Suflce it to sa, through m ~t interview imd following inter- c SWa he became a Christian and is a fl by missInr rahn tegse ; hi1 own countrymen. God in a IreamI John Hardock while on shipboard I [reamed one night that the day of udgment had come, and that the roll if tWe ship's crew was called except his wn name, and that these people, this rew, were all banished, and in his r ream he asked the reader why his own It ame was omitted, and he was told it tas to give him more opportunity for epentance.- He woke up a different p ian. le became illustrious for Chris. a ian attainment. If you do not believe s hese things then you must discard all p estimony and refuse to accept any L Ind of authoritative witness. God in dream. e Rev. Herbert Mendes was converte D God through a dream of the last adgment, and I doubt if there is a ian or woman in this house today that tI as not had some dream of that great ay of judgment which shall be the a vinding up of the world's history. If P ou have not dreamed of it, perhaps c( onight you may d ream of that day. it There are enough materials to make ti dream. Enough voices, for there ti hall be the roaring of the elements v ,nd the great earthquake. Enough ght for the dream, for the world shall laze. Enough excitement, for the e nountains shall fall, Enough water, or the ocean shall roar. Enough as- h ronomical phenomena, for the stars L hall go out. Enough populations, for rt .11 the races of all the ages will fall in- c( o line of one of two processions-the b ine ascending, the other descending; w he one led by the rider on the white S iorse of eternal victory, the other led .5 in by Apollyon on the black charger of y iternal defeat. The dream comes on me now, and I ee the lightnings from above answer ng the volcanic disturbances from b( leath, and I hear the long, reverberat ng thunders that shall wake up the a lead, and on one side I see the opening f a gate into scenes golden and ame- i hystine, and on the other side I hea- n he clanging back of a gate into ba. I' Iles of eternal bondage, and all the g ieas, lifting up their crystal voices, cry, r 'Come to judgment!" and all the voic( > I )f the heaven cry, "Come to judgment!' ind crumbling mausoleum and West inster abbeys and pyramids of the lead with marble voices cry, "Come to mdgmentl" And the archangel seizes an instru naent of music which has never yet been sounded, an instrument of music 'hat was made only for one sound, and .hrusting that mighty trumpet through ie clouds and turning it this way he ihall put it to his lip and blow the long, loud blast that shall make the solid earth quiver, crying, "Come to iudgment!" Then from this earthly grossness quit, Attired In stars we shall forever sit. Alken County Stirred Up. The Augusta Chronicle, of last Wed nesday, says news was brought to that wity of a terrible crime that was sup posed to have been committed in Aik en County by two black fiends, one of whom is now in the Aiken jail. Ac cording to the Chronicle about two weeks ago Diana Miller, a fifteen year old colored girl, who lives out in the country about ten miles from Aiken, with her parents, two respectable col ored persons, wont out for a walk, and for several days nobody knew where she had gone. Her people became alarmed at her prolonged absence and collecting a few friends together they commenced to scour the woods as foul play was sus pected. After searching for quite a while several of the party came across a bundle of clothes on the bank of a creek, which upon investigation proved to be those of the missing woman. The clohies looked as if they had been torn from the body of the person who - wore them. as they were almost torn into shred.s, and were scattered all tround this spot. The ground was also torn up as if ~ here had been a violent struggle, and hero were several rags, a part of the I Iress, hanging from some bushes near e >y. It was learned that the body ofi he dead girl was found several hun- I ired yards down the creek from the t pot where the struggle was supposed o have taken place and was taken to he house of her parents and was bur ed Upon discovering that foul play had >een- committed, Jeff Craig and Lon 3oyd, two negro men, were suspected ' if having outraged the unfortunate I rirl and the-i drowned her in the creek tear by. An oflicer was called in and C e immediately wvent to the houses of t he two negroes to arrest them, iIe 3 "rested Craig and carried him to Alk-i n where he was lodged in jail until he ] ould be given a preliminary hearing; ut Boyd must have got an inkling of c vhat was going to be done with him s he escaped to parts unknown and eft no clue behind by which to trace Boyd's running away certainly looks ~ ~s if he was connected with the crime, ~ nd the Aiken county authorities will t nake every effort to app)rehend him. r 'he negroes as well as the whites of Liken are very much excited over the t irutal murder, and are determined that he guilty parties shall be punished to r he very fullest extent of the law. Myatery of a Prison,. FIRANKFORLT, Ky., March 27,-There I? a mysterious priso ner in the peniten Lary. lie was sent there upon a charge f having stolen a horse and buggy rom Covington and goes by the name f Thomas St. Clair. lie admits that lie name is assumed, and chafes bit erly under what he considered unjust k :nprisonment. iIe refuses to divulge " is name on account of the prominence '9 f his family and because he has two la augh ters at Vassar College. lie is uin- a oubtedly a man of refinemenit and i wealth and comes from Ohio. lie has b stepbrother, a social outcast, and it c believed that St. Clair is suffering ta ow for the misdeed of this man. St i lair claims to have been an evangelist nd to have wri tten the words and music f a number of gospel hymns. lie says iat if' his tr se name were known it a ould cause a decided sensation. The rison chaplain says thiat St. Clair re alves nu.nbers of letter from promin- n nt divines. St. Clair claimsi to be the L< uithor of the celebrated poem beginn- ft ag "if I thould die tonight," the auth- h 'shi p of which was at one time accred- p ed to Henry Ward Beecher. Trhe l ulf-brothers, who is supposed to be al ie cause of all of St. Clair's woes, a sembles him closely, and St. Clair ] ys upon the night the theft occurred Covington he (the prisoner) was in olumbus, Ohio. An effort is now be- t ug made to have the prisoner pardoned, ' id afldavits have been sent to private ai idividluals ot Frankfort from prom i- l ent Ohio people, which will undoubt- in 1ly have weight with the Governor, hi I)rowned. MOnILE, March 24.-By the upset ng of a skiff ini the BIlg bee rive- near ti [t. Sterling, Ala., yesterday, H ubert pi ad John Dix, mill men of Choctaw P sunty, and Edward Wescott, of Mt. se terling, were drowned. TIhey were ci tembers of a fishing party. There u rere five men in the boat besides those le amied, one being Hi. C. Wilcox and an- ci therta negro named MoTinker. They si oatd dwnon heuptrned skiff andhi orDckdDbyatamboPJr. n POISONED THE KEEOERS. C ltw Mtricide Latiner E,caped froin the heli Prison ot Jackson. con JACKSON, Mich., March 28.-Lati- t 1er, the escaped murderer, is still at of I irger, although extraordinary efforts Tye re being mad3 to capture him. le th olsoned Keeper Haight with prussic han aid placed in a cup of cocoa. The poi. at t )n was purchased through help of the nan rison clerk, upon the pretense that chIe ,atimer wanted to use it in photopraphy. 11al Latimer seems to have "got around" toi verybody entrusted with his keeping. As Oruggists refused to sell prussic acid for gan atimer's use until the prison clerk cer- den tied that it was all right. Latimer pris iade cocoa and cof'ee for ,Ilight, Gill wro ad the other niant keepers. and was "No ractically allowed the liberty of the said )rridors and offlees of the iall, so that kin( was an easy matter for him to secure- my ie keys and walk out in the confusion chec lat followed the discovery that laight TI 'as sick. ed ti Maurice T. Gill, nght keeper of the able rson, was V'e indirect means of the her icape o1' LWtier. About 11:30 o'clock occu in t a and l,atimer took lunch together in evr ie hallmastar's olice. It was against liec iles for Gill to take a convict out of his pie Ill. Capt. Gill was clearly bamboozled ist. v Latimer, who told Gill that there at ti as $2 800 buried on an island in the dy's Late of Ithode Island. where Latimer's won rther livetd when Lrving was 'hirteen liC c ears old. Gill was taken with this (lid I .ory and had Latimer out to lunch prie very night to give him details. Gill ex- ed t ected to leave prison in three weeks. Pol ,ast night, Latimer told Gill a lot of N ories about the buried fortune. ly It transpired that, Latimer had been in thin ,e habit of taking .up a cup of chocolate t early every night, to Gate Keeper [aight, passing it through a slide in the rating, which iHaight took with his it iidnight lunch. There is no doubt that reac latimer had pla'ned to poison both In ( laight and Gill, and tile chocolate at (an ight was only to gain contidence until e could get some poison, clot At lunch Sunday iigit Latimer car- thet ied up a alass of lemonade to Hlaieht in- 1 tead of chocolate and ITaight died in hivt wenty minutes alter drinkin- it. Gill the ilso ('rank or the le nonade and was at- war ,acked with spasms almost instantly. out [n a few minutes a cry came from the wh( ruard room above. which Hiahh. occu- A1u1 )Ied. It was evident that H[aight was van Ock and needed help. Gill was so sick and ae could not go. Dal Latimer said: 1I will go and whistle 'in' )r Dr. Mason." "All ri:;ht; go ahead.'' replied Gill. Latimer then took t'e keys, but in stead o1' going for help lie unlocked the :loor of the guard room, passed through ti the gates and was liec. lie took the ano prison keys with him. The exact titue lin be left the prison was 11:55 p. m. When pric Latimer escaped he had neither coat nor All 4at, and it is believed impossible that Viv ac can escape. The prison authorities all. have offered a reward for L'timer, dead V :r alive, and ollicers are scourin., ,the dea ontry. mw Latimer is onc of the shrewdest con- loa Wa victs known to the prison ollicials. He tol sad engaged i:i several plots for an up- IaI :ising ot the priso,ners, and onca suc eeded in introducing a quantity of :Ivzanite into the prison. It was in. Lended to blow down the walls and free U ill the convicts. The plot, was dhis :overedI. Latimer, although the lea~an 3p.irit in it, was only temporarily (Ie )1:ved of his privileges as a fivorite >risoneor, Latimer brutally murdered his own nother at .Jackson on the night~ of Jan Iary 24, 1889. Ilis trial lasted twenty ava and wvas very sensational, le was 4g entenced to life imprisonment. Lati 2er's father died under sue picious cir umstances a year p)revious to the mur or. iIe was heavily insured in favor of is wife andl son, and it is believed that, hie son poisoned him. LATIMER RECAP'TUREU. JEROME, Mich,, March 29.-At 9 "clock last night a man entered a coun ry store here and1 asked for a pair of oots. The young man st,anding by rhispered in the clerk's ear: "That is ,atimer." e The clerk nearly fcll dlown. "Ruin ut and tell father,'' lie said, faint,ly, to -- he man who recognized Lit,imer. The 'oung man slipped out, o1 the store t,o aform the piroprietor. Bly this time satimer relized that he was recognized. Ie left the store, having purchased a heap pair of boots, a pair of socks and pair of buck mittens, iIe passed be ween two stores, struck the railroad rack, followed it a short distance and Dok the traveledl road back the way lie ad come. Coming to the read leading a IIudson he st.artedl up that. iIe did ot run, but walked at a good gate. After a few moments' confusion at bie store, t,he t,wo young men folio ged i'rs own the road] and soon overtooa< Lati see'. They wore walking along by the ide of him, fearinig to lay hand on him, lhen a constable who had jomfedl in the ursuit dIrove up and1 jumpedl from the uggy and tapped Latimer. on t,he reast, saying. "You are Latimer; I rant you.'' "Who is Latimery?' smill igly inquired the fugitive. "You are, and I want you."' "I never heard of Intimer, t,hat I now of,"' insistedI the convict, IIe SOL ade no resistance whatever, but aiked back a mile and a half' to the vii. CAS ige with his captor. IIo was tired out, ad could not have made any resistance lie had wish to. Ini paying for the Dots and ot,ber articles Laitmecr handed ut one of' the $5 gold p)ieces taken form ie pockets of George Ilghit, who he ad murderedl twenti four hours before. atimer was recognizedh by the strip)ed iirt, which lie tried to keep covered up ad by his prison trousers. SAFE IN PRJISON. JACKSON, Michm., March 29.--Lat,i Cer was returned to prison by hils cap >rs at 3.40 this muorning. iIe was per ctl y cool and uniconcerned and had no asit,atsin about acknowlednimg that lie isonedh Guard iItighit, anid Keeper Gill.j e says he usedh a mixture of' opium d( prussic acidh, but, lie intendled only stup)efy and not, to kill his keepers. 'e sprained his ankle t,he night, follow g his escape, andh t.o thiat,accidIent he at ibutes his recapture. iIe says hits lards were ignorant of his Plans and e absolutely blameless for all that has LIpenedh. iIe narrowly escapedl lynch- ~ g at Jeronie and was in some (hanger ~re before lie was returned t.o il. Eggs by MachbInery., PITTSnIURO, Pa., March 29.-Eggs by e carload at b a dozen! TIhat is the oject held forth by Louis Gross of siladelphsia, now in Lhis city. 1IIe ys he can manufacture an egg that mnnot be distinguIshed from the gen ne. These eggs are nutritious and ok exactly hens' eggs. The shell is emposed of paper reache. Mr. Gross iys he baa applied for a patent andI he is pleuty of capital to back his outer / Mr Mood.y's GeneoUs Ao. HARLOTTE, M. t., 6arch 29.-At conclusion of the services recently I here by Mr. Moody_ the finanoe imittee called at Mr. Moody's room ir the last service at the Audito n, and presented hic with a purse .70j, $200 of which was for Miss on. The amount for Mr. Moody I in two checks, one for $400, the 3r for $100. When Mr. H1anna ded them to Mr. Moody he glanced hem and taking his pen wrote his to across the back of one of the ks, and handed it back to Mr. ma, saying, "There's my subscrip to your Young Men's Christian ociation." Mr. Hanna and all be expressing their thanks, when sud ly Mr. Ilanna gave a start of sur e and said, "Mr. Moody, you've le a mistake; you endorsed the ng check; this is the 8400 check." no, I didn't make a mistake," he, in his quick, off-hand, but lly way; "this one Is enough to pay expenses," pointing to the $100 :k. le committee was too dumbfound speak. This is the most remark. occurrence that ever happened It brings up a little incident that rred in Mr. Moody's room just af te came here. At several of the igelistic meetings held here a pub. pportunity vas given to the peo ,o make up a purse for the evangel Some members of the committee iese meetings went up to Mr. Moo room to sound him and see if he ld permit them to take up a pub ollection. They told him that they iot wish to offend his sense of pro Ly and wanted to know if he object > an opportunity being given to the )le to make a contribution kat!" sid Mr. Moody, "for meT' 9," was the reply. "No," said Mr. dy. "I could not think of such a g. I would rather drink water it the brooks." The Bees 'Von the Fight. ALEIOII, N. C, March 26.-News hed here today of a remarkable tight 'Peveland County, near the South )lina line. Two men, named Trout liutchin., were removing a bee ,about which they had wrapped a i. Two men named McDaniel met n, and a quarrel and fight followed. cnins stripped the cloth from the , and. placing it over his head, held hive in front as he advanced to d the McDaniels. 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