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..4i A THE K TABERNAgLF. REV. tfR. TALMAGE PREACHES UPON4 THE WORTH OF RELIGION. An Interesting atid EiceqQOut OTnon Froin the Words of solomon-- Wisdom Is Better Than Ruble""- -Tito True Christian Spirit. B1o(KLYN, F.b, lt.-In the Taber nacle this f-renoon lInv. Dr. 'Talmnage preached to a crowded audience thu, filled the great building to ovci 11 vit!, tte h-uJ -et of h nenon'l ) tiln, ' 110) ri Surp(,ed." and 'he lext Prover)- vitt, 11. %"Wivdom ib hl, ter otan rub'yes 11 You have all seun the precious stolle cOmmonly called the rubv. It is 01 dead red color The ilhIe makoA mueo' ot I. It glowed in the first. rov (f the high priest's breas-plato. Undor tnother name it stood in the wail of I.eaven. Jeremiah compares ohh rtdy Chei'k .t the Nazariles to 0i erubv Ezeki i1 poin'ts it out in th r hes oif ,he kint of Ty Four gitmes does Solohlna umo It as a dymbol by which to exil wv isb<)i oIr - gif'.n, always setting its viah+ es boI. than rubice. The world doce not arec as to how - the precious stones w, I i form d. Tx ancients thought. hit, aIbr we M IL't nuvie cf drops of pr iou of tibe lod . Ge. The thijhuneron.ie w,;- upoo rd to have droi per fl'iim a stormelaud The emerald wia lenid to have h( n 'ue <1 the fir fly. The lq pit I zull wa.; 0iomn.aht to have been 1) )'r of I i- ery' a a:.! lo dianguiant. Ati mcidern mineralogm say that the prfff uli sionel S I WS( i were made of gases and :q'i'da. ro mia 1nby seems like a spark from the anvil of te setting sun. The 101me of the g-enuiattiuby 4, Bu'r mash, and 60 miks from U its c11p)1:d, where lives and reians the rotier, caled "Lord of the Ruhica," ider a cat-Oit governmental tuard are tthese0 vabian) mines of ruby kept. R irely hait anM foreigner visited themi. V\ hi a ruby If lirge value was dipcovert it wasbu'h forth withclatoatc cO -em.y, it rc it SIOn was formed. un!, witi all br'em I Pomp, military gurd ai ol prn:c vI - tendants. the gem was brought t-> ihe kine's palace. Of gieat value is t1he il, b itnm more so than diamond. as hipidaries and low:l era Will tell you. An expe on ti13 subject wiites, "A ruhi of tpciet. c'bir weighing five karats is iorth at V e m is. cut day ten times as mi a a dhtiod of equal weight." 1t vas a ditater whiu Charles the .31oid lost the ruby he was wearing at tbe battle of Galln'dson. It was a great a tli ipnne 'hen", Rdol ph I L of Austria inherited a ruby from his sis ter, the queen dowaiger. I was thou.glt to have had much to d with the victory of Henry V. as he wore it into tih bat tle of Agiucourt. It 18 the pride of the Ru'an court o own the largest ruby o altl the wo presented by (ustavus Ill to the RI. aian empress. Wondr9iutru13 I.t h:t, electric characteriiue, and Ihere itre hLghtnings comprest(l in it,(s double bix sided prisms. What Shal 1. e ii C ? It is frczen fire. I is plltrifiid bloot! i all the worlI there i3 o'nIly e0110 thiur mote valuable, and my text makesi the comparicon, "Visdoi is bntter than rubles." But it is impossible to compare two things togethber unless there are soul penlts of similarity as well as of' diler once. I am glad there is nothmrl lack ing here. Trho ruby in more bcauttfuli na the night and under toe hiumplight hluu by day. It is preicrredl for tvu ini adornment. How thle rubies glow and burn anti flash as the lights idnhf .1m 'ar nesel Catherine of Aragon 6:ii o in r linger a ruby that fairly ltunited the night. Sir John Maudoville, the ce'lebfrateul traveler ot 4100 years ago, said that the emperor of China had a rut)y timut mnade thie night as bright, as thet day. The probability is that Solomon, tuider' so -us of the iamps that iluine~id his CEdarl palace by mlghlt noticed the p cutlir gloiw of' the rulby as it looked in the hist ot a sword or hung ini som11 fold( of1 the u phol stery or beauti lh d the lip of' some chul ice, while lie was thiimkmig at the same~ time oIf tihe excellency of our holy rel iu ion us chiefly seecn in the night of troum ble, and1 be cr'ies~ out, ' Wy isdoin is het ter than rubies." Oh, yes, it in a igood tiuug to haive re ligion while the sun of' prosperity iid. a high arid everytingi. is brdiha, m Infr tune, ini healt. ii wold ily favor Yet you can at 81u h timesi ha1 (dly tell how much of it is natural e'xuberanlco atnd hei w muchi of it is the grace oft God. Buit l.t the sun set and1( the shadow~s avaIlce the plam andl t ho thick darkness of stch nesssr poverty or iersecuitin (er mlental exhaustion illi the soul atuf fili thme he use and fill time wvorld; then you sit down bi the lamp of God's wuord, and1 utnder its light the consolations of' tihe gospel come out- the peace of God1 whioch passeth afl understanding appears. You never fl ly aippreciatedl thleir power1111 int tie deep) ight of trouble the Divine Lamp) revealed their exquisiteness. Peairls and amethysts for the oay, but rubies Icr the . night. All the bcoks of the Bible atempt in some way the nlaungtment ol miisfor tune. Of tihe 150 psalms of David at, least 90 allude to trouble. There arc sighinga im every Wind and tears in every brook and pan11gB in every heart. it, was origmnally plroposed to cail the president's residence atl Walhington, "il'he Palace" or "The Executive Man 510on," but, alter it was destro',ed ini the war of 1814 anld rebit it w~ as pinted white to cover up the marks of the smoke and fire that had blacken3ed tihe walle. Hence it was calledl "The White House." Mtost of the tit 5 no07 white with attractiveness were once black with disaster. Whatithe worldl most needs is tihe con solatory, and hero it comnea, our holy roligion, with both handls full of atiodynos adsadatives andl balsams, as in Dani Shadratimetostop mouths leonine; as in. as m Ezekiel's timto cooles curnac; ty, as in 5t. Joh' ieo unrolltin apocalypse over rockv desolatinutirolear its soothing voice asit ce clare. "Weepar lng may endure for a night b "u ~ cometh in the morninir." "Th, buti-o tains shall depart and the h ills beoun~ moved, but my loving kindness shallnt depart from you." "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth." "They shatli Lunger no more, neither thirst any more peither shsll the sun light on them, nio any heat, for thle Lamb which is in' the midst of the throne shall lead them t( the living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from theiL eyes." The most 'Wholesome tiling on earth ih ttoble If met in' CJhistlan spirit. T( m o~ Paul what he was took shipwreck. ndWhipping on the bare back, and pealbet)ar~y and pursuit of wild mobs, and34 tesOrd of decapitation. Tc waneDavid *hat lhe was it took all tnal Abitephel and Saul and Absalom and Gollath and all the Philistine hosts could do against him. It took Robert Mhaw bers' malform itiou of feet to make him the literary conqueror. It was boreavement that brought William Uaworth of Westsy's time from wickedness to an evangelam that won many thousanis for heaven. The world would never have known whatI heroic stufl RHiev was made of had not i the flres been kindled around his f, et, I and not lklog their slow work he cried: "I cannot burni Let the fire come to me! I cannot burtil" Thank God that there are !.ems that unfold their best, .'lories undeir the lanillglit! Thazk 1 'I foir Ohe rill Mioreov.r I tt.i suire thAt Sal)omon wasj r'lit, iu sayir;!t that relizion or wis (4,1m in heutier than rubies, from th fact huit a thivg is worth what it will fetch. Ib li ionI will l-clh Oolid i:typnlless, and Lhe. rill v will :)t tu all your onssrvii lion d.d You tver 11id a person thor. t iNV i itavd h) v ti incrusl.ileit of L j-wel? As jon know ioro of yourself' th1 1n tn y one ('kC, aro you huppici ro vih -orldl adtornments and sue ( C.-e";(- t11:1 iore VIc.u Wo)I tlhem1l)? Des.)Q < Ole l)ettlre h1al. cost, yon hundreds or a !fniuds of dollars oil your wall brinr Z 011 1A much n isiclCio as the engrav ih a, t IIho xpnse of $5 was hung upo(n the wall when Nou liest began to keephlousei? Do all the cutlery and rare plate that i14er en vonti extension dining' table, suu'VOnIded by flattering gueists, coutain imo o! real olivs t.ha th plain ware -f % ('1C lirso, tabl 61- 0 which SA., )Inly two .) -vs a wardroi.e crowdod with costly :01 ir y 4 ' on 'U ore Rtishaction than on lir. clo1 he-s cloket, ih. its four or I livo pert? Dii nt the pluiu ring set on 'Ii trd lim-!er of your leit, hand on tbe t ''y <(' ',our be trotlal mivo more gladness tinn th ruby th t. ia now enthroned on tf-c third fiaiZer of your right hand? If in thin journey of life we have learned ' .thing we have lea.imed that tua wald neither with its emolumeurs Sr I'. can satisfy the soul. Why, h eIle ans many witnesses as I wish lo '' to tih stand to testify that lie lere bH!fh hear en and the world, in can P-inionlshil) with Jesus Christ and a good i-opc of heaven, they feel a joy that all Ihe iceources of their vocabulary iail to exprese. Sometimes it evidences Itself into (jacullations of hosana, sometimes in dxology, sometimes in tears. A converledl native of India in a )ettcr cid, "Ifow I I -ng for my bed, not that I mayulee p-I lIe awake often and long but to hold sweet communiou with my God." 11 so miguihty Is worldly joy that Jul. m1s 11, hearing his armies were trium thaut, expiced, and if Talya, hearing that the 1 'man Senate decreed him an hoior, and if Dionyaius and Sophocies, olvercome of joy, expired, and if a ship wrecked purser, waiting on the coast of Guinea in want and starvation at the th t of a vessl bringing relief, fell dead "ram i shock of deliit, is it any surpriec o you that the joys of mirdou and henv - en rollin over the nut should Roime times be almost too iuclih for thet Christ. itil to lldulra) an11d live? An g!ed aunt said to In(: ''Da Wit, the times I have faitiled dead avay un1der too gieat Christian joy. It was in all three cases at the holy commun lon." Au eminent Christian man while in prayer said: "Stop, Lord; I cannot bear any more of this cladaness; it is ton much for mortal. Withhold! Withhold!" W e have heard of poor workmen or workingmen 'getting a letter suddenly telling t.t~m that a fortune had been left them, and how they were almost be icide them~ist Ives with glee, l:iking the hrM ship in' climii tihe estate. gut, oh. whci it is to wake up out of the atulnr of a sinfail lifeI and through pard(omol~g fl11 od th. all our CorIith ly existenice will n divinely nmanaired for our bes!. ivelfare atI 1 hat thenu all heaveni will roll in upl tin I lie soul! (Comiparcel with that a spring morning :.s st upid, an August sunset is imane, aind an aurora hasi '10 piliaredl splend2r, and a diamond has no thlash, and a pearl 1no li ght, and a heiryl no aquamarine, and a r'uiv no0 rutddinocsa. My GracIous Lord! My glorious God! My pirecions Christ! RI ll over on us a few billows of that reture. Andi ow I ask you, as fair nleId imen and ./;omen, accustomed t~o inaoke comparisonia, is not isuchl a joy as that worth tuore than anything oneP nn have in a jeweiedl casket? Was notSoi omonC I ighlt when he said, "'Wisdom is bet ter Ithan rubios!"' TIhere isi aio something in the dleepi carmiig ofi the ruby that pugrgests the~ nliiuec en whI:ch our whole atem of r,'eion "pnids. While the emerald acga ';the muemlows, anu1 tile sapphire tI:e eiies, mal thle opal the sea, the ruby 5uCosits the blood~ of eacrifice. The miost emphatic and~ startling nf' all colors hlalti tth h. Solomon, the author of my1 text., kne w all about, the sacriflce of' 1lam1b and1( dove on the altars of' the tomn plo,. and he knew the meaning of sacrifl cind blood, aund what other precious atone comi I he so well use to symbolize it as the~ ruy.Rd, intenrely red, red as the blo fthe greatest martyr of all time -Jesus of tile centuries! Drive the stoiry of thle crucifixion outt of the Bible and the dloctrine of' the atonemient, out of our relieion, and there would be nothing of Christianiity left, foi our wvorship or cur admiration, Why should it, be hlard to adopt the Bible theory that our redemption was purchased by blood? What great bridge ey~er sprung its arches; what temple ever reared its towers; what nation ever achieved its independence; what mighty good was ever (d031 without sacrifice of iufi? The great wonder of the world the . Ldge that, nnlites these t~wo cities cost the le of thle first architect. Ask tihe shipyards of Glasgow and New York how many carpenters went down under accidents before the stoamer was launched. Ask the three great trans continental railroads ho0w many in thleir construction were buried under crumb ling embankmnents, or crushed undler timbeis, or destroyed by the powder blast. Tabulate the statiatics of how many mothers have been martyrs to tile cradle of sick children. Tell us how many men sacriflee nlerve and muscle and brain and life in the effort, to support their hlouso holds, Tell me how many men in Eng land1, in France, in Germany, in Italy, in the United 8Sates, have died for their country. Vicarious suffering is as old as the world, but the most thrilling, the most startling, the most stupendous sacrifice of all tIme and cternity was on a blufl back of Jerusalem, when one Ihi. lng took upon hlimel the sins, the ago nlks, the Perdition of a great mnultitu 'e that no'man can numib,r, between 12 o'clock of a (larkened noa)n and 3 O'clocK in the afternoon, purchasing the ransom of a ruined World. Dive ini all the seas, extplore all the mines, crowbar all the mountains, view all thle crowned jewels of all the empe. rors and find me any getn that, can so ovrerwhelmingly symbolize that martyr dom as thb ruby. Mark you, there aro many gems that are somewhat )ike the ruby. 8o Is the cornellan, 'so is the garuet, tso is the spinel, so is the balas, so the gems brought trom among the wravol of Caylon and N" w South Wales. but there Is only one genuine ruby, and that comes from the mine' of Burmah. &ud there is only one Christ, and he btmes from heaven. OneRedeemer, one Lansom, one Son of G id, only "one iamo given under heaven among men )y which we can be saved." Ten thousand times ten thousand Jeautiful imitations of that ruby, but miy one ruby. Christ had no descend mnt. Chr is?. had no counterpart. In he ligtif up grandour and glory and ovO and s i mpathy of his ch aracter Lie a the Incomparable, the Inlirtte One --"the only wise God, our saviour." ,et. all hearts, all homed, all times, all ternities bow low before himl Lt his inner be lifted in ali our soula! In olden times Scotland was disturb (I by freebooters and nirates. To rid he seas and ports of these desperadoes he hero William Wallaco fltted out a 'wrchaut vessel, but filled it with rmed men and put out to sea. The iralis, with their flag inscribed of a eath's head, thinking they would get u easy prize, bore down upon the cottish merchantman, when the arm d men of Wallace boarded the craft of he pirates and put them in chains and hen sailed for port under tho Scotch tag flying. And so our souls, assailed f sin and death and hell, through Ihrist are rescued, and the black flag I* sin torn down, and the stripped Hag I the cross is hoisted. Blessed be Godt or any Eigu, for any signal, for any ireciou s one that brings to mind the irice paid for such a rescue! I like the coral,for it seems t he solid lied foam of breakers, and I like the asper, for it gathers 17 colors into its )Osom, and I like the jet, fur it com >resses ihe shadows of many mid ighits, and I like the chrysoprase be ause its purple is illumined with a mall heaven of stars, and I like the vhiysoloi.e for its waves of color,which ieem on fire. But this morning noth. ng so impresses ma as the ruby, for it itpicts, it typiles, it suggests "the 'lood of Jesus Christ that cleanseth rom all sin." "Without the shedding )f blood there is no remission." Yea, Solomon was right when in my text he mid, "Wisdom Is better than rubins." To bring out a contrast that will Il lustrate my text I put before you two last earthly scenes. The one is in a room with rubies, but no religion, and the other in a room with religion, but no rubies. You enter the first room where an ail ltent and worldly man is about to quit this life. There is a ruby on the mantel, possibly among the va see. There is a rubly in the headdress A the geenly wife. On the finger ot the dying man there Is a ruby. The presence of these rubies implies opulence of all kinds. The pic Lures on the walls are heirlooms or the trophies of European travel. The cur tains are fromn foreign looms. The rugs are from Damascus or Cairo. ThE sofas are st.uffed with ease and quie, tude. The rocking chaire roll back ward and forward on lullabies. The l)iilows are exquisitely embroidered. All the appointments of the room art a peroration to a successful commer cial or professional life. But the mar las no religion, never has had and nov or professed to have. There is not a Bible or one religious book in the rooLn. The departing man feels that hit earthly career is ended and nothing opens beyond. Where lie will latr stepping off from this life is a mystery or whet her he will land at all, for ii may be annihilation. [le has no pray er to oiler, and he does not know how to pray. N hope of meeting aigain in anoot her state of existence. Ito Is through with this life and Is sure of no olier. '['he rubty on the mantel anid the ruby on the wasted fluger of the cierartfug one say nothing of the ran souiiug bWool which they so mightily ryplif y. S3o far as giving solace or iliu mination to a dlepartirg spirit they are m dlead failure. Midnight of utter 10pee5sQsnes drops ou all the scene. Another roo~m of mortal exit. Reli iion and no rubies, She never had noney enough to buy one of these ex juisites. S .metimes ahe stopped at a eweler's show window and saw a row if them incarnadining the velvet. She lad keen taste enough to appreciate 1hose gems, but she never o wned o ne >f themn. She was not jealous or un nappy because others had ruties while ihe had none. But she had a rieher ~ressure and that was the grace of God ~hat ha~d comforted her along the way imid bereavements and temptations and persecutions and sickness and pri nvatons and trials of all a-orts. Now she is going out of life. TIhe room is bright-not with plot ures or statutes, not with upholstery, not with any of the gems of mountain or oif sea, but there is a strange and vivid glow in the room-not the light of chaixlelier, or star, or noonday sun, but something that outshimes all of them. It must be t he presence of su p ernaturals. From her illumined face thinkI sno must hear sweet voices. Yeai she does hear sweet voices, voices of departed kindred, voices apostolic and prophetic and evangelic, but all of thorn overpowvered by the voice of Christ,saying,, 'Come, ye bless sd of my father, inherit the kioghom." From her illumined face I think she must hear rapturous music. Ye3, she [does hear rapturous music, no w sort as solos, now thunderous as orchestras, now a saintly voice alone, now the hundred and( forty and four thousand in concert. From her illuinnined face I thinik she must breathe redolence, Yea,she does inhale aroma from off the gardens whose flowers never wither from the blossoms of orchards every tree of which bears twelve manner of fruit. From heir illuminedl face I think she mnust see a glorious sight. Yes, shte sees the wall that has jasper at the bas,and amethyst at the top, and bilood red rubies between. Goodby, sweet soul! W~hy should you longer stay? Your work all done; your burdens all carried; your tears.all wept! Forward into the light! - Up into the joy! Out into the g randeurs. And after you have saluted Christ and your kindred search out 1dm of the palaces of Lebanon cedar atnd tell him that you have found to be glori. usiy true what, thousand of years ago ben asserted in this morning's texL, "Wisdom is better than rubies." IRi those burnissed palaces of our God nay we all meet:, for I confess to you ihat my chief desire for heaven is not the radiance or to take the suggestion >f the text-not the rubescence of the scene. My one Idea of heaven is the place to meet old friends-God, our est friend, and our earthiy friends al ready transported. Aye, to meet the millions to whonm I hamve never seen, out to whom I have administered in the gospel week by week tnrough journalism on both sides of the sea,and throughout Christendlom, and through many lands yet semibarbaric. For the last 23 years every blast of injustice against me has multiplied my readers all the world over, and the present malignancy printed and utter ed because our church is in financial struggle aftt havirg two great struct ures destroyed by lare and we compell ed to build three large nhnrcesa-I .a. the present. outrageous iihjustice it some quarters will multiply my audi ence In all lands if I can keep in good humor and not fight back. A gentleman tapped me on the shoul der summer before last on a street of E linburg and said, "I live in the Shet land islands, north Scotland, and I read your sermons every Sabbath to an audience of neighbors, and my brother live in Cape Town, and he reads them every Sabbath to ah audience of his neig bors." And Ihere and now say to the 40,000,000 of the earth to whose eyes these words will come that one of my dearest anticipations is to meet them in heaven. Ab, that will be bet ter than rubies! Coming up from different continents from different hemispheres, from opp-s. ito side of the earth, to greet each 1 othr in holy love in the presence of the glor ious Christ who made it possible for us to get there! Our sins all pardoned, our sorrows allebanishe, never to weep never to part, never to diel I tell you that will be better than rubies. Others may have the crowns, xnd the thrones and the scepters. Give us our old friend back again, Christ, "the friend who sticketh close than a brother," and all the kindred who have gone up from bereft households, and all our friends whom we have never yet seen, and you may have all the rubies, for that will be "better than rubies." Instead of the dying kiss when they looked so pale and wan and sick, it will be the kiss of welcome on lips jubilant with song, while standing on floors paved with what exquisiteness, under ceilings hung with what glory, bounded by walls facing us with what splendor amid gladness rolling over us with what doxology. Far better, infInitely Detter, everlastingly better than rubles. HOIST BY HIS OWN PETARD Syper Attempted to Show Fraud in the ship Premimniums. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Chairman Cummings, of tha House Naval Com mittee, has completed the reported of the committee upon the Holman re solution declaring that the premiums paid for speed of naval vessels are ex cessive and seeking to restrain futrher payments on that score. Mr. Cum mings perfaces his report by calling attention to the fact that Mr. Holman sought to secure the immediate adop tion of the resolution without reference to the committee. He says a patient effort has been made to unearth facts to warrant an investigation. Mr. Hol man has introduced Mr. J. Iale Sypei as a gentleman of excellent reputation who had furnished the facts upon which the charges were based; but when the committee accepting Mr. Rolman's es. timate of the gentleman, called for facts none were presented. The wit. ness did not believe that any naval oiflcer had been party to a corrupt com bination, but believed that the pro mimum law was unwise and that re ekles extravagance had been shown, it appeared that Mr. Syper knew noth irg Af any fraud or of navl construe tion or engineering, but relled upon newspaper reports, Ile nanied experts who would support his statemeLts that the designed engineers could cal culate the speed of a vissel within a quarter of a knot, but when one of theim was call-d he denied the possiblity of predicting the speed within a knot or a knot and a half. Chief Engineer Mel. ville had denied that the prediction could be made within half a knot anc so had other naval experts. The committee found that the chargt that the dosigns were purposely dra mr to secure more than the contract speei was not borne out and the same wat true of the allegation that unusul an limproper means were used to force thi vessels on trial trips, dam aging the machinery. Th le report next taxes up the question of Mr. Sy per's motives in passing the charges. It quotes the testimony to show that he declared that he appeared "pro bono publico, a patriot" and that he had denied any concern in the in troduction of the Blair resolution pre ceding Mr. Hlolman's resolution on the same subject. Then it quotes Syper's letter to the Cramps Sept. 28th last saving that he had important information at their service; and continuing this evidence of ex-Rtepresentative Hiazelt on who: drew up theBlair reolution he says it was prepared in Syyar's office in forma tion furrnished by Syper. In further at tack upon the ch aracter of thewitness, the report says: The Hlolman prermble and resolution were introduced into the 1-louse D.ec 13. On his first appearance biefore thu co~umittee Mr. Syper was asked; "Did you prepare a copy of that resolution ?' ils reply was, "No sir." lHe wa than asked whether lhe had knowledgi of t he resolution before its introduced ils reply was, "Yes, sir; 1 had know. ledge and that i'esolution probably err ginated from the suggestions matte b) me basedi upon these newspaper arti cles." Futher along, he was asker] "Did you farther the resolution ?" He replied, "Why? It is not m: child." He was again asked, "You did lie prepare or caused it to be prepared ?" Ils reply was, "I (lid not prepare its but I had a talk With Judge Hlolmnan several times and showed him these newspaper arhicles and gave this Infor mation." The Vilent MIay Return. NAShVILLE, TIenn., Feb. 9.-When Evangetist Sam Jones called for peu itents last night at the Gospel Taber nacle in thi3 city, ,vhere he is holding a revival, the fIrst person in the line of those who went forward to take his ex tended palm was no less a personage than lion. Johin J. In galls. Mr. Ingalls has been In Nashville several days and will lecture here tonight. Ils presence at Lhe tabernacle last night was con spicuous and it was noticed that he took a deep interest, several times laughing and joining in other demon strations as the unique Georgia preach er In turn roasted and cajoled the sin ners. "I endorse every word you say," he miarkedi earnestly, as he grasped the evangelist's hand. "God bless you," responded Mr. Jones fervently. "Possibly," said one who witnessed the scene, "the decalogue may after all havo a place in politics and hope for the politicians prcve more than an ir ridescent dream." .Thirtiy Were Fros e . KANsAs CITY, Mo., Feb. 18.-Reports received here today from Oklahoma anid the Indian Territory make it al most certain that at least thirty lives were lost during the great storm of Sunday. Many Isolated honesteads where the families were porty prepared for the winter, cannot be heard fro m days, and possibay weeks, and there iF reason to believe that thirty will not represent the total number .of the dead, In Western and Southwestern Kansas there was fireat sufteriug and it Is prob able that In more than one house dead bodies will some day be found. Th4 worst of the storm was over in thi MIssouri valley today, and as it ii growing warmer and Is cloudy ,it i not unliaely that the snow will be melt ed suddenly causing floods ~in man) streams. AFrtR STOR D LIQ ORS. OIG.RAIDSARE TO BEGIN AFTER FRI DAY WEEK. The 8tate 1 aold of onter.1 Will Kaoore the Law SltetriT-parties Who Have LI quor SteTd Alut O t Coriloatosor Have it saigeda COLUMBIA !. . Feb. 13.-Aftoe Friday week those who have liquori stored away in. qurimtities greatei than flive gallons, and who do not appl) to the liquor comm'ssioner for cortlil cates to be placed .upon t hew, wil make I heir places liable to sear ch and all such property found thereon will be seized and said. Such is the action of the State boarcof c3ntrol at a meet Ing held yesterday, acting under cer tain sections of the act. At this meeting yesterday there was a full attendance of the meumbers of the board, and Commissioner Traxler was present by invitation. It was decided that Section 35 of the act shall be rigid ly enfosced on an after the 23d. Thin section reads as follows: Section 35. That violations of any of the sections of this act, wuere punish. ment upon conviction is not especially provided for, the person or persons or corporation so convicted shall b3 pun ished in the discretion of the couet try ing the same. All talcoholic liquors other than domeetic wine, and in q'iAn tity more than flve gallons, whict (to not have on the packages in w iich they are contained the labels and certilloates going to show that thev have oeen pur chased from a State officer author izec to sell them are hereuy declared con traband, and on seiznre will be forfeited to the State as provided in Section 31 Provided, That this section shall not apply to liquor held by the owners of registered stills. Persons having more than five gallons of liquor elsewhere than at his or her home, which the) wish to keep for their own use, may throw the protection of th law around the same by furnishing an inventory of the quantity and kinds to the State commissioner, and applying for certill cates to alix thereto. After sixty days from the approval of this act any liquoi found in the State not having suct certificates may be seized and conils. catcd. Persons having more than the) wish to use may obtain certificates to ship beyond the limits of the State Any persons aillxiug or causing to be aillKed, to any package containing al. coholic liquor any imitation stamp or device than those furnished by the State commissioner shall for each of fence be liable to a ponality of ter days' imprisonment or twenty-flve dollars lue. The State bard fi-Ce a spPcillc day in order to allow all th se* who have such liquors storetd away and who ma\ not be acquainted with this provistuu of the la w, time to secure the req uired certitlca.es from the State liquor coi missionar. Tne board holds that the certificates cost nothing and can be bad by simply applying to the commission er as specified in the act. The member of the board say, whether as a blul cannot be told, that they have infor mation of where a great deal of suct liquor is stored away in Columbia and elsewhere, and if the application is n)t immediately made, an I the certilicatjs not secured by the date named, met will be put t' work seizing the stuff at once. The board dlecidedl not to allow the commissioner to issue any such creti ficates to former liquor dealers wvhc have taken out revenue licenses since the dispensary law went into effect ciming that they have the right to make such refusal, under the following section of the act: Section 17. The payment of the Uni ted State special tax as a liqulor seller or notice of any kind in any place o1 resort, or in any store or shop, indicat ing that alcoholic liquors are there sold kept or given away, shall be held to b( prim a f acie evidence that the person or perions paying said tax and the parties displaying stich notices are acting ia violation of this act, and unless said person or parties are selling under per mit as prescribed by this act they shall be published by a line not exceeding one hundred dollras or imprismoent nol more than thirty days. It remains to be seen how the scheme will work out. It shows that some oni is studying out the various phases o: the law with the viewv to breamking ui the blind tiger business, if possible. No action has yet been taken by the Attorney General's oflice to carry the local lioquor cases futher. Assistani Attorney General Biarber is to have control of the matter and cothing it going to be done until his return to the city. Isaastina strrm, BEILN, F~eb. 13.-Rfeports of loss o1 life and damage to property by yester day's storm2continued to be received from all parts of the country. Among the many dispatch received, giving de tails ol' the storm, is one from RIde burg, a small town in Saxony, one fronm Penzlin, in Meckclenaburg Schewerin one from Rintein, in IlesewNassaut and one from Sondlerburg, on the sauch west side of Island sf Aisen, in the Baltic. At Reoadeburg, a scaff'olding upon which a nnmber of men wver( working was blown down and four o1 the workmen were instantly killed. Some of the other imen who fell witla the scaffolding were injured. At Pen zlin, a house was blown down and all the inmates were buried in the ruins Seven children were either crushed tc death or scaff acated1. At iRintelE, the tallchimney of the stove and giast works was blown over, Some of th< brickastruck three persons, killing them instantly. At Sonderburg, r bridge collapsed and several personi who we:e on it were killed. D ENS "THE WORLD'S GREA THE MA.CUIb T he O n1 F4ORt TYPECWRITE1RS AT THEi t8 "N,0 MAC hINE COULD. BE ANV BETC'TER. VT' N. PERFECT." privave statement of one. of the Judges. .r$>, ReOsp)onsible Oout J. W. &it GENER&L AQENT COLUMBIA S. C., Feb. 15.-.At the i cent meeting of the National. Farmel Alliance* at Topeka, as .reported b Delegate Bowden, who fias returned t< this city, it was decided that the AItI ance should discuss three topidu befor States shall regulate the liquor tarif b some such plan as the dispensary. K Bowden is emphatic in saying that th Alliance has made no offilcial promulg tien ou the question. The Dispensar has been no part of the platform, an it has been announced as a topic fo consideration and debate merely to ge the matter discussed and to get Aillat cemen thinking about the advisablit of State control of the liquor traffli I and whether the South Carolina DiE pensary idea is suitable to the needs o the various States. All of this goes to show that th Dispensary idea is spreading and I may be taken up as an Alliance de m and. Mr. Bowden talked interestingl about his Western trip. .The femal suffragists, he says, had a great time ii Topeka. 'heir convention was aslarg as anything he has seen, and the womel were much in earnest about the mat ter. The National Alliance, he said, dii not do anything on the question of fe male suffrage, and was inclined to er tirly dismiss the matter and leave eact State to act independently on the ques tion, if it saw it. The order adopte< without alteration or amendment th4 original Oaala demands. There are two candidates for the nex meeting place of the National Alliano -Loss Angelos, Cal., and Raleigh, N U. The selection is to be made by thi executive committee. The offer fron California is coupled with a propositiol to pay the expenses of the delegatel and if that effort is successful the Al liancemen will no doubt "Go West next year. The Alliancemen of Norti Carolina wish to have the conventio held there and for the members to at tend the ceremoles at the dedication o a monument to the late president Polk. On the subject of, State poaltics Mi Bowden said that there will be an earl; convention.-Ragister. what Will Become of Parvig. JAISON. Miss., Feb. 14.-Attorne: General Johnston, in the name of th, State, has made a motion in the SU prome Court in the case of Will rurvi to have the question settled in or der t< have a new sentence passed eithe r b: the Supreme Court or Circuit Court, a' the Supreme Court may see proper t, determine. The motion will bepresent ed to the Supreme Court next Monday Section 3467 provides that the sen tence of the Supreme Court in all crim inall cases brought before it shall be ex ocuted in like manner as if passed b] the court in which the prosecution or iginated, while Section 1451 providei that the-mode and manner in whch th4 Circuit Court may resentence a convicl where the convict has not been' execute according to the original judgment o the court, ond this provides that th convict shall be brought before the Ci cult Court on a writ of habeas corpus The question which arises is whethe: this case, in which the sentence wa not executed by the sheriff was pronc unced by the Supreme Court and wher the sheriff was acting under the man date of the Supreme Court come within the terms of Section 14b1 an whether it is a case proper for the Cir cult Court to award the new sentence The whole matter can be readily de termined on this motion by the Sn preme Court and the proper directioi given by the court in the premises. Er hausted inquiry confirms the belie heretofore telegraphed that Purvi wil be dealt with under section 1451, Codi of 1892, that the Supreme Court ha notning to do with the case and that it will be so stated. MuI~rder of an Aaed Conple. I ~oxvILLE, TENN, Feb. 9.-Hlenra n era v, aged 9i, and his wife, age's 70 were murdered on Tnursdav night about 8 o'clock, n Union County, eigh teen miles from Knoxville. The news of tragtedy reachied this place about noon Tae old man wais very wealthy and was kntown to have a large sum of mone' c -ncealed about his house. His grand son living with him had occasion to g< on an errand to the mill near by. H' opened the door and saw two masket men on the outside armed with revel vera. Hie sprang back, but a volley wai - Gred and Snoderly hell dead. Anothe: was fired and Mrs. Snoderly was kIlled The burglars covered the young mai with their pistols and ordered hIm t< find his grandfither's money. The be.: pulled the drawers out of the bureau an< emptied them in the bed. Finding at olportumlty while they were searching for~ the money he sprang out of the dooi escaped to alarm the neighborhood. Af ter searching the house the burglar1 saddled two flne horse and escaped in ths direction or Knoxville. it is said they secured only *200. No accurate descrip Lion could be given on account of then maak, but the robbers were trailed tz within flve miles of Knoxville. It it be. lieved they were city men and may ben concealed somewhere around here' Thn 4police and a force of deputy sheriffs are ocouring the city and county. Pianora and Organs. Now js the time to buy summer p lan $25 cash balance November 15th 1898. Will buy a Piano at spot cash prioe 61C cash, balanc November 15th 1893 Will buy a tgan at spot cash price See the list to choose from. Steinway Mason & Hamlin, Mathushek and Stir ling Pianos, Mason & Hamlin and Stirling Organs. Fifteen days teal trial and freight both ways if net satis, factory. A large lot of nearly new and second hand Pianos and Organs at bar. gains. Good as new. Write for pricei W. N. Trump, Columbia, S. C._ NIORE. TEST TYPEWRITER." IC THAT TOOK y Aw a rd TATE FA IR,';OV E MB~ft1, 1893. . THEC ONLY AWARDJ SWAS AIBO ,MADB TO.- UE FOR TYREWB1IR'1 BUPPLIBS. ty Agents Wanted.* ibes &; (Jo., 'I00LUMBIA C. S COLMIA, 8. 0., Feb. 9.-Last s night about 10 o'clock a trio of D)O y vagabonud forcilely entered a colored L) teum t'shue' o"' the frm~n Of tienerAl fIMP1,n, about four and onebau miles from (Jolumbiai, and, at- the point Ofra 0 platol, he was ipade to give tup all of the y rations he ha4in his house Thaoy then r. marched hinfout and made him go with e them to the residence of Miss Hampton. I. There they broke into the store bouse and appropriated many thinge such as Clothing and groceries. From there, nor r being satisfied Aith booty obtained, they it came back a mile p the road and broke L- into tie store home of (ol. John Has. Y kell. While there a white man on the )s place dicovered them and fired uponk them, but they made their escane, The supposition is they belong to the lot of a newnegroes who have come hete in the t hope of getting work at the nl -ill . when it commences uslineas.-- a. 5 P4DGETT PAYS THE FREIGHI 1) b hy Ray tIm Prdies for Goods I Srnd for atlogu aid See What You Can Saul 15 * - 'ftir., !i5 ''-ti' lmornes $69 o ,-3 jIst tc Introduce them. No fretl 't pail on t.bbi1 Or. t -- gn. uaratteed to be a ii food "rtau or mnoney re Elt-gant P1lt PARLOR tit*-%, conslit.tusi of Son A rrn Chair. Rocking (hair Divauk A 2 a et -Is- orth $45. Will delivet I it to yonr depot for $88. - This No.1 with 21 pieae of be deliver, de for frY~~ ~ r1.0'& on 2 8 A I3 nwilts MAOPM wit all attahelmeLn. for ----O N *18.6b deliver o your depot. e oirr6ce f this The manufactursr pvq all eexpense and I oell them to you for A4.7..-. and gusrante every one a ~bargailn. No (roljht pi em s luggy paid A *6DO PIAM dolivered at Your de t A& ?1..SreihtFp d (irr t seud for catalogues of Furniture, Cooking M Stoves Baby Carriages, HicyclesrOrgans, Pi Met. Dinner Sete, Lamps, a., and U EMONEY. Addross L.F.PADGETTTilan,"r Machinery Commission Agents, With a view to mutual advantage, we invite all-parties who intend buying man chinery to correspond with us before pa lng their orders. We are confident or our ability to save money to our customners, and onily ask the opportunity of proving the *faot. Besides machinery of all kinds, we. )deal largely in liuggles, Wagons, ann other - venloles. Wrte to us. W. H, Gibbes Jr., & Go, CO LU M BIA, 81C. - For Ajfculr Stural anG e' ral Plantation. - edse, have earnl Stien as the best, Son tne market.. - ~Durabil a i -.fuel an watery TER TOzEn Has no EQual~ RICE ULLERS.' Rlice Planters and Rice Millers can buy a singl machine that will clean, hull and olish rice ready for market. Corn Millers can buy the best French burr mill, ina iron frame, fully guaran I teed, capacit ten bushels meal per riour, for 0115.0 Baw Millers can buy the variable fricotion feed DeLoach .Mill from '0190.00 uito the l argest sizs. Saws, ~ip s, Ed Swis g Saw, Pani Mahins, n ikind oif wood working machinery. "Talbott" Engines and Bolers. Special discounts made for cash. V. 0. BADHAM, COLUMBIA. 8. 0,