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AT THE TABERNACLE. REV. LR.TALMAGE PREACHES UPON "THE BARE ARM OF GOD. God dad not so Much as Lift a Finger to Bring forth Light- a. Stupendous Under taking.--Need of God's Bare Arm!. B0ooLYN, Jan: 21--Singularly ao propriate and impressive was the old gospel hymn as it was sung this morn ing by the thousands of Brooklyn Taber. Lacled, led on by cornet and organ: Arm of the Lord, awake! awaked I Put on thy strength, the nations shake. Rev. Dr. Talmage took for his subjecl '"The Bare Arm of God," the text being Isaiah 1i, 10, "The Lord bath made bare his holy arm." It almost takes our bieath away to read some of the Bible imagery. There is such boldness of metaphor in my text that I have been for some time getting my courariup to preach from it. Isaiah, the evangelistic prophet, is soanding the jubilate of our planet redeemed and cries out, "The Lord hath mads bare bis holy arm." Wbat overwhelming suggestive ness in that tigure of speecb, "Tce bare arm of God!" The people of P:destine to this day wear much biudering apparel. and when they want to run a special race. or litt a special barden. they put off the outside apparel, as in our land woea a man proposes a special exertion he puts off his coat and rolls up his sleeves. Walk tbrough our foundries, our mia chine shops, our mines, our factories, and you wili find that most of the toilers have their coats oft ar.d their sleeves rolled up. Isalau saw that there must be a ire mendous amount of worz acne before his world L ecomes what it oubt to be-. and te fo'resees it all accomplished, and accomplighed by the Almihtv, not us we ordinarily think of him. Lut by the Almighty with the sleeve of his rihe rollea back to his shoulder, "The L rd bath made bare his holy arm." Notning more im Presses me in the Bible than the ease with which God does m-si tbings. Tncre is such a res-rve ot power. He has more tvundeb 'is thou he has ever flang, more ll;t than he bas ever distributed, more blue thau tat witb which he has overarered the sk'., more green than that wn0 w bich he ri. s emeralded the grass, mort- crim--on thau that WiLh 4.tich he has buroisbea ihb SunsetS. I say it with reverenee, from all I can see, God has never half tri-d .You know as well as I do tbi man o! tMe most elaborat- an I exp. nive is - dustries of our world htve been em ple ed in creatinz arti5cial ha t. H-l of the time the % orld is dark. l be moon and the stars have their glorious uses. but as instruments of illumination the.N are failures. They will not allow you to r-ad a book or stop the ruffi ism of .lour great citits. Had not the dark ness been persistently fought back bi arficial means, the most of the world's enterprieees would have halted half the time, while the crime of our great muni cipalities would for half the time run rampant and unrebuked; nence all the inventions of creating artificial liht, from the fiint struck against steel in een I turies past to the dynamo of our elec trical manufactories. What uncounted unmbers of people at work,. the year round in makmg chandeliers and lamps and fixtures and wires and batteries where ligh i shall be made or along which light snail run or where lhght shail poise! How many bare arms of human toil and some of thoe bare arms. are very tired-in the creation of ligat and its ap paratus, and~after all the work the great er part of the contmnents and hemis pheres at night have no light at all. ex cept perhaps the firefhies flashing their small lanterns across swamp. But see how easy God made tne light! He did not make bare his arm; he did not even put forth his robed arm; he did not lift so much as a finger. The flint out of which he strack the noonday en was the word "Light." "-Lst there be light!" Adam did not see the sun until the fourth day, for, though the sun was created on the first. day, it took its rays from the first to the fourth day to work through the dense mass of flids by which this earth was comnassed. Did you ever hear of any thing so easy as that? So unique? Out of a" word came the blazing sun, the father of flowers and warmth and light. Out of a word building a fireplace for all nations of thre earth to warm themselves by! Yea, seven other worlds, five of them inconceivably larger than our own, and 'i9 asteroids, or worlds on a smalle-r scale! The warmth and light for this great brotherhood, great sisterhood, great family of worlds, 871larger or smnai ler worlds, all from that one magnifi cent fireplace made out of the one word "Light." The sun 386,000 miles in di. ameter! I do not knoe how much gran der a solar system God could have cre ated if he bad put forth his robed arm to say nothing of an arm made bare! But this I know-that our noonday sun was a spark struck from the anvil of one word, and that word "Light." "But" says some one, "do you not think that in making the mnachinery of thre universe, ot which our solar system is comparatively a small wheel working into mightler wheels it must have caused God some exertion-the upheaval of an1 arm, either robed or an arm made bare?" No. We are distinctly told other wise The machinery of a universe God made simply with his fine ers. David, inspired mn a Right song, says so-" When I con sider tby heavens, the work of thy fiui gers." A Scottish clergymnan told me a f-wi weeks ago of dyspeptic T bomas Carly le< walking out with a friend one starry night, arnd as the friend looaed tip andi said, "What a splendid sky!" Mr. Car lyle replied as he glanced upward. -Sad sight, sad sight!" Not so thought David as he read the great Scripture ef :he< night heavens. It was a sweep of em broiderv of vast tapestry, G-.d maniva lated. That is the allusiou cf the psalm- I 1st to the woven hangings of tapestr t as they were known lone nefore David's time. Far back in the ages what eu chantment of thread and color, the Florentine velvets of sia and gold and Persiau carpets woven ot goats' hair! It you have been in the Gobehtn manul ac tory of tapestry in paris-als, now no miort!-you wanessed wondrous things as you saw the wooden needle, or broacb, gomn back and forth and in and out. You were transfixed with admiration at the patternse wrought. No wonder that Louis XIV bought it, and it became! the possession of the throne, and tar a long while none but thrones and palaces might have any tf its work. What triumvphs of ioom! What v:ctory of skilled fingere! So David says of the heavens that God's fingers wove into them the light; that God's fingers tapestried tnefn with stars that God's fingers einbroiderered themn wit worlds How much of the im mensity of the heavens David under stood I know not. Astronomy was born in China 2,800 years before Christ was barn. During the reign of Hoang ri as ronomers were put to death if they made wrong calculations about the beavens. Job understood the refrac tion of the sun's rays and said they were "turned as the clay to the seal." The pyramids were astronomical ob ervatories and they were so long ago built that Isaiah refers to one of them in his nineteenth chapter and calls it the "pillar at the border.? The first of all sciences boin was astronomy. Wheth er from knowledge already ab:oid or from direct inspiration, it seems to me David had wide knowled e of the heav ens. Whether he understood the full forces of what he wrote I kno -v not, but the God who inspired him knew, and he would not let David write anything but tiuth, and therefore all the world that the telescope ever reached or Coperoi. cus or Gahlei or Kepler or Newton or Laplace or Herschell or our own Mitch ell ever saw were so easily made that they were made with the fingers. As easily as with your fneers you Erold the wax, or the clay, or the dough to par. ticular shapes, so he decided the shape of our world, and that it should weiih ix sextillion tons, and appointed for all worlds .heir cibits and decided their :ol .r-the white to Si-ius, the ruddy to Aldebaran, the vellow t-> Pollux, the t~lue to Altair, marryi-g some of the stars, as the 2.400 double stars that Herschell observed administering to the whims of the variable stars as their dance becomes brighter or dim, prepar in2 what astronomers calleu -the Lzirdle ,)f Andromeda" and the nebula in the sword handle of O:ien. W rlds on w.rlds! Worlds under world! Worlds above worlds! Worlds beyond world-! S. many that arithmeties are of no use in tbe calculation! But he counted them as be na de them, and be made them wi:h his finaer,! Reservittion of Power! Sup eression ot omripotence! Resource as yet untoucher.! Almigbtiwess yei ndernonstratedI N ow, I ask for the benrfi. of ah diseartened Cnristia, workt%:s, if God accomplished so muca with hit fiuters. what can he do when be puts out all his streogth and when be unlimners all -he batteries of his omnuip )eoce9 The- Bible speaks aia-d and inaw of Go-1's ou;st esched arm, ' n inv occ-. and that in the text, of the bare arm of God. My text makes it plain that the recti Scou..n of this;w >rid is a stupendou- un :eraking. D takes m->re power to mdrke .his wo-ld over agaio than it took t, make it at first A word svas only ve :e-Kary for the first creation, but tor tne ait-w creat-on the unsleeved and unhin 3ered fore arm of the Almighti! The ea -on at that I can aadert;tand. In ttie ;hipvards or Liverpool or Glasgow or w York a great vessel is constructed. rhe architect draws out the plan, the ength of the beam, the capacity o1 ton Dse. the rotation of whell or screw, the :abios, the masts and all the appoint ente of tbis great palace of the deep. rbe architect finisbes his work without LUn perplexity, and the carpenters and trt-zans toil on the cratt so many hours r day, each cne doing his part, until ith figs and thousands of people buz '?ng on the docks the vessel is launched 3t out on the sea that steamer breaks er shaf t and is limpire slowly along to acd harbor when Caribbean whirlwinds hose mighty bunters of the deep, look oa out for prey of ships, surround that ronded veisel and pitch it on a rocky oast, and she hifts and falls in the >reakers until every joint is loose, and very spar is down, and every wave weeps over the hurricane deck as she arts midships. Would it not require nre skill and power to get that splin ered vessel oft the rocks and reconstruct t than it required originally to build her? ave! Our world that God built so beau ital, and which started out with all the ~denic foliage and with the chant of aradisaical bowers, has been 60 centu es pounding in the skerries of sin and orrow, and to get her out, and to get er oft, and to get her on the right way gain will requIre more of omnipotence ;han it required to build her and launch er. So I am not surprised that though a the drydock ofone word our world was nade it will take the unsleeved arm of lod to lift her from the rocks and put ier on the rlght couise again. It is evi sent from my text and its comparison with other texts that it would not be so ~reat an undertaking to make a whole onstellation of worlds, and a whole gal iy of worlds, and a whole astronomy > worlds and swing them in their right rbits as to take this wounded world, his strandcd world this destroyed world md make it as aoo:1 as ?(hen it started. Now, just look at the enthroned diffi ~ulties in the way, the removal of wbtch he overthrow of which seem to require he bare right arm of omnipotence. lhere stands heathenism with its 860, )00,000 victims. I do act care whether ou call them Brahmans or Buddhists, lonfucians or fetich idolaters. At the World's fair in Chicago last summer hoe monstrosities of religion tried to nake themselves respectable, but the ong hair and baggy trousers and trimk ted robes of their representatives can iot hide from the world the facts that .nose religions are the authors of funer tral pyre, and juggernaut ,:ruasbing and lanaes infanticide, and Chinese shoe orture, and the aggregated massacrei f many centuries. They have their :eels on India, on Chins, on Persia. on 3rneo, on three-fourths of the acreaae >f our poor old world. I know that the issionaries, who are the most i-acrific ug and Christlike men and wo nen on arh, are making steady and glorious roads upon these built up abominations >t the centuries. All this stuff -hat v.ru ee in some of the newspapers abriut he missiouaries as living in luxury and iler ess is promulgrated bv corrupt Lmerican or Engli:-h or Scotch mer rants, whose lcose oehavior in heathen ities has been rebuked by the mission ries, anid these corrupt merchants rite home or tell innocent- and unsus etinig visitors in India or China or he darkened islands of the sea these lsehoods about our consecrated mis ionaries, who, turning their backs on iome and civilization and emolument .nd comfort, spend their lives in trying o introduce the mercy of the gospel mong the downtrodden of heatheniem ome of those merchants leave their ailies in America or England or coland and stay for a few years in hes ports of heathenism while they are ] nakrng their fortunes in the tea or -ice or opmum trade, and while they are 1 hus absent from home give themselvs o orgies of dissoluteness such as no pen or tongue could, without the abo lition of all decency, attempt to report. 'he presence of the missionarie mth their pure and noble house olds in those heathen ports is a con stant rebuke to such debauchees and miscreants. If satan should visit deaven, from which he was once rough. ly but justly expatriated, and he should write home to thle realms pandemon lac, his correspondence published in about what he had seen, he would re- 1 port the temple of God and the Lamb i as a broken down church, and the I house of many mansions as a disrepu- I table place, and the cherubim as sus- 1 picious of morals. Sin never did like holiness. and you had better not de- 1 pend upon satanic report of the sub lime and multipotent work of our mis sionaries in foreign lands. But not withstanding all that these men and I women of God have achieved, they feel, I and we all feel that it the idolatrous 4 lands are to be Christianized there 1 needs to be a power from the heavens I that has not yet condescended, and we i feel like crying out in the words of 1 Charles Wesley: A m of the Lord. awake, awake! Xt on thy btrength, the nations shake. Aye, it is not only the Lord's arm that is needed, the holy arm, the out stretched arm, but the bare arm' There, too, stands Mohammedanism, with its 176 000,000 victims. Its Bible is the Koran, a book not quite as large as our New Testament, which was re- I vealed to Mohammed when in epilep tic fits, and resuscitated from these fits. he dictated it to scribes. Yet, it Is I read today by more people than any other book ever written. Mohammed, < the founder of that religion, a polygam- < ist, with superflaity of wives, the first I step of his religion on the body, mind i and soul of woman, and no wonder that the heaven of the Koran is an ev erlasting Sodom, an infinite seraglio, about which Mohammed promises that t each follower shall have in that place t 72 wives In aadition to all the wives he had on earth, but that no 1d woman shall even enter heaven. t When a bishop of England recently i proposed that the best way of saving Mohammedans was to let them keep their religior. uut ii graft upon it some t new principles from Christianity, he i perpetrated an eczlesiastical Jke ar. I which no man can iaugh who has ever t seen the tyranny and domestic wretch- i ediness which always appear where tbat i religion gets foothold. It has marched E across continents and now proposes to E set ip its fil hy and accursed banner in i Americi, and what it has d -ne for I l'urkey it world like to do for our na I tion. A religion that brutally treats s womanhood ought ,ever to be fostered 1 in our country. But there never was i a religion so absurd or wicked that it t did not get disciples, and there are t enough fools in America to make a E large discipleship of Mohammedanism. t This corru pt religion has been making r sweady progsess for hundreds of years, i ana uotwithstanding all the spleudid E work done by the Jessups, and the a Gomaells, and the Blisses, and the Van Dy kes, and the Pos: s, and the Misses I Bow ens, . and the Misses Thompsons,,t and scores of other men and women of c wvhom the world was not worthy there I it stands, the giant of sin. MOnammed t anism. with one foot on the heart of a woman and the otner on the heart of e Christ, while it mumbles from its min- c arets this stupendous blasphemy, "God E is great, and Mohammed is his pro- i phet." Let the Christian printing c presses at Beyroot and Constantinople t keep on with their work, and the men d and women of God in the mission c fields toil until the Lorn crowns them, L but what we are all foping for is some- c thing supernatural from the heavens c as yet unseen, something stretched clown out of the skies, something like an arm uncovered, the bare arm of the g od of nations! C There stands also the arch demon of s alcoholism. Its throne is white and 1 made of bleached human skulis. On ] one side of that throne of skulls kneels ( n obeisance and worship democracy, t and on the other side republicanism, t and tne one that kisses the cancerous ad gangrened foot of this despot the aftenest gets the most benedictions. here is a Hudson river, an Ohio, a ississippi of strong drink rolling ~ :hrough this nation, but as the rivers rom which I take my figure of speech ~ empty into the Atlantic or the gulf this I mightier flood of sickness and insanity ~ and domestic ruin and crime and bank- ' ruptcy and woe empties into the hearts, C and the homes, and the churches, and r the time, and the eternity of a multi- s tude beyond all statistics to number or c describe. All nations are mauled and sacrificed with baleful stimulus or kill ing narcotic. The pulque of Mexico, s the cashew of Brazil, the hasheesh of, Persia, the opium of China, the guavo of Honduras. the wedro of Russia, the soma of India, the aguardiente of Mo rocco, the arak of Arabia, the mastic ~ of yria, the raki of Turkey, the beer ~ of Germany, the whiskey of Scotland, S the ale of Eagland, the all drinks of c America, are doing their bent to stupe- a fy, inflame, dement, impoverish, bru- u talize and slay the human race. Hu- s man power, unless reenforced from the t heavens, can never extirpate the evils a [ mention. li Much good has been accomplished by the heroism and Idelity of Christian re formers, but the fact remains that there . are more splendid men and magnifi cent women this moment going over the Niagara abysm of inebriety tnan at a any time since the first grape was turned into wine and the first head of ' rye began to soak in a brewery. When1 people touch this subject, they are apt t to give statistics as to how many mil- h ions are in drunkards' graves or with c iuick tread marching on toward them. , 'he land is full of talk of high tariff , and low tariff, but what about the tighest of all tariffs in this country, :he tariff ot $900,000,000 whi ch rum put pon the United States in 1891, for that. i what it cost us? You do not trem- 1 ole or turn pale when I say that. The t act is we have become hardened by Y itatist-s, and they make little impres i ion. But if scme one could gather in o one mighty lage all the tears that ( ave been wrung out of orphanage and e vidowood, or into one organ diapa- d son all the groans that have been ut. t :ered by the suffering victims of this ~ olocaust, or into one whirlwind all ~ he sighs of centuries of dissipation, or from the wicked of one immense prison t ave look upon us the gi-iring eyes of t ill those whom strong drink has en ~ unngeoned, we migh'. perhaps realizs L he appalling desolat!On. But no no; t t'e sight would forever blast our vis-s on; the sond would forever stun ourt ouls. Go on with your temperance t iterature; go on with your temperance r latforms; e on-with your temperance ~ as. B3ut we are all hoping for some- 0 hg from above, and while the bare t irm of suffering, and the bare arm of - nvalidsm, and the bare arm of pov- a ~rty, and the bare arm of domestic des- t lation from which rum bath torn :he sleeve are lifted up in beggary md supplication and despair let thei >are arm of Gcd strike the 3reweries, and the liquor stores, md the corrupt politics, and the license aws, and the whold inferno of grog. i ihops all around the world. Down, t ;hou accursed bottle, from the throne! t [to the dust, thou king of the demi- I hn! Parched be thy lips thou wine :up, with fires that shall never be quen- c thed! But I have no time to specify the i nanifod evils that challenge Christianl-C ty. And I have seen. in some Chris .ians, and read in some newspapers, md heard from some pulpits a dishear- 1 tenment, as through Christianity were t so worsted that it is hardly worth while f o attempt to win this werld for God, t nd that all Christian work would col-C ;each a Sabbath class or distr racts or exhort in prayer meetings reach in a pulpit as satan is gaining tround. To rebuke that pessimism, ;he gospel of smashup, I preach thie iermon, showing that you are on the vinning side. Go ahead! Fight on! WVhat I want to make out.today is that >ur ammution is not exhausted; that til which has been accomplished has ieen only the skirmishing before the reat Armageddon; that not more than me of the thousand fountains of bsau y in the King's park begun to play; hat not more than one brigade of tne nnumerable hosts to be marshaled by ;he rider on the white horse has yet ;aken the field; that what God has done et has been with arm folded in flowing ,obe, but that the time is comiag when ie wili rise from his throne, and throw )ff that robe, and come out of the pal ices of eternity, and come down the tairs of heven with all conquering step md halt in the presence of expectant ations, and flashing his omniscient byes across the work to be done will put )ack the sleeve of his right arm to the ihoulder and roll it up therte and for the vorld's final and complete rescue make are his arm. Who can douh' the result vhen according to my text Jehovah toes his best when the last reserve forco )f omnipotence takes the red, whe-n the ast sword of eternal might !eaps from ts scabbard? D. you kuo' what de :ided the battle of Sedan? The hills a ;housand feet high. E'even hundred :annon on the hills. Artillary on the ieights of Givonne and 12 German bat eries on the heights of La Mon:)ello Che crown price of Saxony watched the cene from the heights of Mairy. Be ween a quarter to 6 o'clock in the norning and 1 o'clock in the aiternoon f Sep'. 2. 1870, the hills dropped the hells that srinttered the French host in he valley. The French emperor and he 86,000 of his army captured by the ills. So in this conflict now raging be ween holiness and sin "our eyes are into thp bills." Down here in ,the ralleys of earth we must be valiant oldiers of the cross, but the Command r of our hosts walgs the heights and Iews the sceue far better than we can n the valleys, and at tne right hour all leaven will open its batteries on our ide, and the commander of the hasts ot orighteousness with all his followers ill surrender and it will take e'ernity o fully celebrate tie universal victory nrough our Lord Jesus Christ. "Our yes are unto the bills." It is so cer ain tu be accomplishted that Isaiah in y text looks down through the field ass of prophecy and speaks of it as ready accomplished and 1 take my tand where the prophet took his stand ,nd look at it as all done. "Hallelujah is done. See those cities wiLhout a ear! Lo k! Those continents with ut a pang! Behold! Those hemis heres without a sin! Why those des rts-Arabian desert, American desert nd Great Sahara desert-are all irrigat d into gardens where God walks in the ol of the day. The atmosphere that ncircles our globe floating not one roan. All the rivers and lakes and deans dimpled with not one falling ear. The climates of the earth have ropped out of them the rigors of the old and the blasts of the heat,and it is niversal spring. Let us change the Id world's name. Let us no more be alled the earth, as wh-n it was reeking rith everything pestiferous and male olent, scarletted with battlefields and ashed with graves, but now so anged, so aromatic with gardens and o resonant with song and so rubescenit rith beauty, let us call it Immanuel's and or Beaulab or millennial gardens r paradise regained or heaven! And o 'God, the only wise, the only good, he only great, be glory forever. Amen. Killed Wife then Himself. GREENVILLE, S. 0., Jan. 23.-Last ight Ed Davis kille d his wife and then illed himself. Davis was a well known d rather prominent negro. He has en sellinz papers and also keeping a tore. His wife was a handsome yellow roman. Both were under thirty yeas f age. The whole affair is wrapped in iystery, They lived happily, were re pected by white people and no cause an be assigned for the act. Davis cut his wife's head with an axe, robably while sbe was in bed asleep. ,he ad several ualy gashes, either of rhich would have caused death. She ras ound in bed this morning, her long air carefullylsmoothed and the cover eatly pulled up about her, and had it ot been for the blood it would have eemed that shewas sleepmng. The body f Davis was found in his well a few teps from his back door. The theory Sthat !n a sudden fit of passion he truck, and then finished the job with be axe. The horror of the deed was so reat that when he calmed down he de berately went and leaped into the well. )avis' eldest child, some eight years d, saw the father and mother retire.' o screams or noise were~ heard by elabbors. There is a growvina reellng mong the colored people tha:. there was >ul play and that Damvis aed his wile rere botb murdered. The coroner's iry brought in a verdict to the effect de woman came to her death at the ands of parties unknown. It is a signia nt fact a negro suggested that Davis ras in the well as soon as the murder ras discovered.-State. Tilman an d Ir by. WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-Editor Wil ams of the Greenville News, who, bis afternoon, had a conversation rith Senator Irby on a personal matter, Sautority for the statement that the enator deciares positively that he and rovernor Tillman today had a confer-. ce of four hours, came to a full un erstanding, and will work together in be coming campaign. Senator Irby as he will do all he can to defeat lowden's attempt to prostitute the bformrs' organization to the uses of be Third party. Etitor Williams says iat the Senator declared emphatically hat he bel'eves there is a plot to com it the Reformers to the Third party y reslution if a March conven ton aall be held. This Jumfers 'nach from e story of others of the Reform fac ton, who were jubilant this morning their evident rielief that Tillman is ith them and will force Irby into line r throw bim overboard. They claim, owever, to have told Tillmnan that he ust come in or stand bamck. So f'ar s can be gathered here, the arrival of he Governor, instead of pacificating r solidifying the warring factions, has ivided them, and they seem to be arther apart than ever.-State. Importanlt E lplanatioo. WAsHINGTON. Jan. 20.-"There is a aisconceptiona regarding the income ax," said Tarsney (Dem.) of Missouri his morning. "Fhe bill exempts all ncomes of $4,000 and less. In other ords, a man who has an annual in ome of $4,000 pays no tax. A man rith an annual incime of $4,100 pays a per cent. tax on $100, whicn is the ex es above $4,000. A member of Con ess fer example is taxed 2 per cent. n $1,000, the other $4,000 of his incoms ieing exempted by the la w. It is well hat tiue public should understand this, or the impression seems to be general hat where one's income exceeds S4.000 me is taxed on the full amount which BELIEVES IN FREE SPEECH. Sigi Ificant Action of Several Sub-Alti- T1 ances in Lancaster Cunty. LANCASTER, S. C., Jan. 24.-The Re view newspaper, which has been the Jc County Alliance Organ for several j years, having very severely criticised at the Legislature for some of the acts el passed by it, had its offieial head cut off by by the County Alliance by a vote of pr 15 to 19 sometime ago, which body at the same meeting passel a resolution gz boycotting the Review, all because the ?l Review criticised and condemned some in of the work of the Legislature. In op- t position to the County Alliance sevoral M sub-alliances have taken up the cud- I~l gels for the Review, and the fight has 2r become a very interesting one, as it A shows that the boycott business won't " work any longer to hide the doings of 1h the demagogues who want to conceal i their ion-performance of duty from th3 people. to About ten days agr Carnes sub-alli- an ance passed very strong resolutions re condemning the action of the County re Alitance in attempting t) boycott tie C Review, and pledging its support to of the paper, and this week the Gill's tb Creek Union, which is composed of tb several sub-alilances, passed tjie f >- fu lowing preamble and resolutions: sp Whereas, At the Coanty Alliance tr meeting held at Midway school house on the 5th day of January, 1894, at the se instance, and upon the motion of J. Ny Copelana Elliott, which was seconded th by James Cullins, resolations were n adopted whereby the actisn of the Al- an liance in the selpetion of the Lancaster c Review as the County Alliance Organ cl was rescinded, and the support of the " Alliance withdrawn from the said c! newspaper, on account of the editor of 8 said pp-r publishing an editorial m wherein he saw fit t criticise the ac- to tion of our recent Legislature. Ana, ao whereas, in the judgment of the Gill's tut Creek Alliance Union such action is to. not approved. Therefore be it re- Ge solved, Do 1st. 'hat we t eartily endorse the rea- he otutions of the Carnes school house Al- to liance adopted on the 13 h instant, con- G demning tne action of said County Al hance for boycotting the L incaster la R-view for the reason above stated. st 2nd We most heartily commend our 01 worthy brother, the E iitor o, the Lin- rit caster R-view, for the manly and fear- hi less way in which he expressed himself in the editorial above alluded to, and we do respectfully invoke our true and Ju worthy brother to turn on the light pi with maore just such editorials, and en- th lighten and brighte-n the minds of the 2 < deluded people of our country that theyi Jc may soon see day and the error of their of way, and for which he shall ever h.ave Ct our support and commendation. El 3rd. We as AUliancemen recognize ry fully the guarantee made us before we la! became members of the Alliance that w, said Order would in no wise interfere M with our religiousor political principles. al Therefore, we as non-political Alli- cil ancemen will endeavor henceforth to OD strengthen our noble O der by turning fa a deaf ear to the selfla cries of all de- th magogues and political tricksters, and sP to see to it that this Alliance is not tb used in any way to promote any man's ci cause for political office. se A motion was passed requesting the m county papers and the Cottoa Piaat to publish the foregoing resolutions. The following resolution was adopt ed by the St. Luke Alliance, which is ed the strongest sub-alliance in the coun- hi ty, and one of the best in the State: d( Whereas, The County Alliance at ba Midway school house meeting on the les 5th instant adopted a set of resolutions dc rescinding a certain resolution previ- fli ously adopted mating the Lancaster hi Review its County Organ and with- to drawing its-support from said news- or paper, assigning as a reason fc: such action that the Review had gone back th on the Reform movement, and where- til as the Alliance and the Reform party m are two distinct organizations, one a ci; faction of the Democratic party and mi the othera strictly non-partisan organ- uj ization. Therefore be it s Resolved, That we feel constrained an to express our disapproval of the ac- iy tion of the County .Allance in said sta particular, believing and knowing as fu: we do that the Review has been true to of the Alliance and its principles and re- he cognizing as we do its right to criticise to the action of any political party as well et: as the acts of all public officials. That sh we commend, instead of condemning ca the Review for its honest expressions fo of opinion upon both men and meas- th res, whether its views accord with pe ours or not, and we pledge to that pa- -wi per our cordial support in the future as his in the past. Inl A motion was passed requesting the of county papers and the Cotton Plant to publish the above resolution. These resolutions are significant from the fact that many of the members of'$ the sub-alliances which paesed them are Tillmanites,but they are done withj the boycott business, and are willing to ear both sides, provided the criticisms are couched in proper language, which was the fact in the Review case. Theli boycott, that dangerous weapon of the S iatant demagogues, has played out in I r ancaster County. Our people believe I n free speech, and will not boycott a se4 paper simply because it differs with ga them politically.W A seamer Lost. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J,, Jin. 22.- ser The steamer Andes, Captain Willams, lo, which went ashore at 1:30 o'clock this Be norning, off Little Beach, will probably of e a total 1088, as she now lies in but in, about filteen feet of water with the sea ty. ounding her heavily The chances for pr her getting off are decidedly poor. Tne da vessel is laden with a valuable car so of o offee, bananas and oranges, and was onod from Costa Rica to New York. A crew ol fortyv men In addition to the atain and offi.:ers are on b -ard, and will , emain unuil all chauces f >r her be- ( log saved are exhausted. The two pss- Ti. ser.ers who were on board, were this foi orning taken cff by the life saving bu rew.b D ENSly "THE WORLD'S GREATE! THE MACHINE T The Only FORL TYP'EWRITER~S AT THE STATI "MACHINE COULD. - BE ANY BETTER. IT.IS PERFECT" privave statement of one. of the Judges. Responsible Oounty ~A J. W. 0Gibi GENERAbL AGETS A SURPRISE OF SURi)RISES te Mftchel-Corbett MXi Cami off At t] ter All! ti fl JACKSONVILLE, FL&., Jan. 24.- - dge Ebydon M. Call reached forth his w dicial hand at 3 o'clock this aifternacn 1, .d pulled the Daval Athletic Club out fc the hole into which it had been cast p, the Governor of Florida. To the sur- is ise of almost everybody the Judge I anted the injunction asked for by the er ib restraining Sheriff Broward from M and way interfering with the fight be- o -een James J. Corbett and Charles I itchell, which is scheduled to take w ice in this city to morrow. The order h anting the injunction is very brief, the age simply stating that in his opinion er love contests" were not violative of to at law of Florida which forbids "fight- - D by previous appoinLment." The Court room was picked almost ; euffocation b7 the sporting gentry, d wben the import of the order was aEzsd pandemoalum broke loose. - ieer alter cheer came fcom the throats r lovers of pugilism, and the officials of e Court were utierlv unable to qaell 5disorder. Judge Call grew -eJ in the :e and pounded fir order, but the orts were too overjoyed to be con led easily. To say that the occasion caused a neation in the city is putting it mildly, ne men out of every ten beleved t Judge Call would uphold the Gover *r .in his cfforts to prevent the mill, d when his deciesion in favor of the ib becamo gener tlly kocwn the people re dumbfounded. At presernt the ib people are on top for the. Grst time ice they undertook to pull off the .tch, but bow long they will remain on p is a quetioo. It Governor Mitchell 3epts the decision of course there is no ther ohae in the way ot the fight -morrow. BUt the attitude of the >vernor has been s, determined in op ti'ion to the fight that many believe will yet find some ;ay to ctrcumvebt . club. It is understood that the >vernor ia averse to declaring martial v. In fact, Attornev General Lamar ed to-oweht that martial law would t be declared This- was on the autho y , f a tele_-ram from the G >vernor nself. TIE FIGHT. JACKSONVILLE. Fla, Jan. 25-James bn C irbett or California is the cham )> pugilist of the world. He won to e honor at twenty-eight minutes past W >'ock this af ternoon, when "Honest" bn Kelly pronounced him the winner en the prize of $20,000 in his tight with iarles Mitchell, the champion of igland. Tne fight was arr easy victo for the American champion. It ted only three rounds, and Corbett is the aggressor from the very start. itchell was clearly out-classed, and bhough the fight was a sharp and ex ing one, it was really a ore-sided de e In every particular. There were 1ly 3,000 people present and all of em were disappointed because the ectacle was so short as to hardly give s, em the worth of their money-espe--y lly those who had paid $25 for boxL ats and come from 1,000 to 3,000 iles to occupy them. Take the Cuzre. A number of cases have been report in this city where Keeley graduates ,ye been drugged. A man who would this deed for the purpose of getting ,ck a customer should be filled with ad up to his neck, and the man who les this brutal act as a joke should be led with the samie metal to the top of s hat. There can be no terms' used severe for a greedy whiskey peddler fool of this kind. The Keeley Cure has done more for e human race than anything In our ne. They can as successfully cure a c an of whiskey-drinking as any Dhysl an can treat the measles. It is a in nsure that people can afford to back u, protect, defend and push. They ab ofd vigorously punish the dopers d firmly insist that all maudlin, tip nuisances should take the Care and Oil Ly cured. There is no need of being rther annoyed with this useless class fa< humanity. If a man can keep sober is under obligations to his neighbors do so. If he cannot maintain sobri ' under all circumstances, then he uld take the Cure. All know he 4 a be cured, and he knows it. Be e many years it is to be eXpected ye] t the authorities will by law comn ta man to be decent and sober ether he will or not; at least retain n in safe keeping where he will not T erfere with the peace and happiness I other people.-Joliet (Ill.) Ne ws. Fianors and Organa.... Wow is the time to buy summer plan 5 cash balance November 15th 1893. ill by a Piano at spot cash price $10 ;h, balance November 15ta 1893 ill buy a organ at spot cash price. the list to choose from. Steinway, sn& Hamhn. Mathushek and Stir g Pianos, Mason & Hfamlin and rling Organs. Fifteen days test a and freight both ways if n4t satis ~tory. A large lot of nearly new and ond hand Pianos and Organs at bar ins. Good as new. Write for prices .. Trump, Columbia, S. C. A Sad O ccurrence. LBERTON, Ga., Jan. 21.-Quite a ious if not fatal accident occurred in 1M ver Eiberton Friday. Young Mr. n Tillmain, son of Governor Tillman Soth Carolina, is visitisg his cons young Mr. Sam Stark, of this coun These t wo young gentlemen were cticing shooting at a target on Fri v, when the gun, while in the hands e. Song Liliiman, accidentally dis irged, the ball passing the body of jg Mr. Stark producing a serious und. R-w.'d. JOLIBIA, 8. C , JMt.. 20--G9en0 rmau has offe-red a reward of $100 the capture of the party who, a eed the store of H. S. Folk at Bamn [OREF. iT TYPEWRITER," EAT TOOK; Award E FAIR,NOVEMIBER' 8, 1893. THE ONLY AWAR~D br WAS - to ALSO MADE TO US ht IOR TYPEWRITER'S ht * SUPPLIES. f Si .gents Wanted. es & Co., LCOLUMBIAI 80C. All L1abiIt1tes. CHICAGO, Jan. 20.-Liabilities, $55, 0,000; assetts, 8440. This evitome of te report of Receiver T. J. Harley, of ie Guarantee Investment Comyany, Led in the circuit court here, tells vol ies about the nature of the concern hose presiden, C. B. McDonaldis )w under sedtence of imprisonment r fraud. The report shows the com my's liabilities were $55,000,000-that there were 55,000,000 bonds outstand g. To payoff these bonds the recely found $449 in cash and 75 cents in utilated. He also tound a quantity office . furniture, which he expected ight be turned into money for the nefit of creditors, but Mr. Harley as dumbfounded to receive within Ilf an hour after he had left his re irt a notice informing him that ev y stick of furniture was mortgaged Austin & Co., private bankers. WE TT PAYS TH FREIGI j 'ay 'treme Prices for Goods! rd for aiogue and See What You aa SaMf $60 37'F - ro -- .T ustt.:. intr),hace -!wim. ... j o. .3 N~o freight pado . O (r-. -.n. Guaramteed t. - us a gd .r'a2 or ?uo!Wc re -aw ~ uu.d -I-~ IS, -on p I..~j I D va -'2a r - i-we - $46. Will delivel o your detlo. Ir : Thin No.* Tbwit 2 pieces of ware, will be deliver ed to your depo' for - -- only $12 regular *W 4w#Zprice $1& h a11 .or --ON LY $! -3. 0 elivered :, * mr '*po-t. - The re;:aa - this e(x - Y . you for 5342.78 d guarantet- every one a rgain. No freight paid W hia Buggy A $650 PAN livered at your depot t frph! p:. for *,10 -4 send for catalogims of Furniture, Cooking ovea Baby Carriagems, Bicycles, Organs, Pi ou .'.ea Sets. Dinner Seta, Lamps, &c., and LVE MONEY. Address .F.PADGETT uGA"L lachinery Commission Agents, With a view to mutual advantage, we rte all parties who intend buying ma inery to correspond with us before piac g ther orders. We are confident or our lilty to save money to our customers, and~ ly ask the opportunity of proving the Besides machinery of all kinds, we a largely in ]3uggiesr Wagons, and other ieles. Write to us. ----- r. H Gibbes Jr., & Co.. COLUMBIA, 8' C. --THE For Agricub. I tural at:d Gin - ral Plantation4 Use, have earn.' ed their reputa j tion as the best -Jon tne market. FrSimplicity. SDurability and fuel an'd water -ro TOsEa Has no Equal.. ICE fULLERS. Rice Planters and Rice Millers can y a single machine that will clean, .11 and polish. rice ready for market $ 350.00. Corn Millers can buy the best French trr mill, in iron frame, fully guaran ed, capacity ten bushels meal per >ur, for $115.00. Saw Millers can buy the variable iction feed DeLoach Mill fro .90.00 up to the largest sizs. Also Gang Rip Saws, Edgers, Swi'i tws, Paning Machines, and allikinds wood working machinery. "Taboit" Engines and Boilers. Special discounts rr.ade for cash. Vs C. BADH AM, COLUMBIA. S. C.