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THE STORM1Y PASSAGE. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES IN THI AN CIENT VILLAGE OF CAPERNAUM. A Sermon Appropriate I . 7 rl'toO De avered on the Banks of the La.ke Where Christ Stilled the Tempest So Many Cen turies Ago. CAPERAiI, Dec. 15.-The Rev. T. Pe Witt Talmage, D. D., preached here today to a group of friends on "The Stormy Passage," taking for his texts the verses of the oospel following: John vi, 17: "Entered into a ship, and went over the sea toward Capernaum; and Mark iv, 39: "And he arose and rebuked the wind an '. -..- He said: Here in this seashore vit Cage was the temporary home of that Christ who for the most of his life was homeless. On the site of this village, now in ruins, and all around this lake, what scenes of kindness and power, and glory and pathos when our Lord lived here! It has been the wish of my life-I cannot say the hope, for I never expected the priv tand on the banks of Galiee. - L a :so lemnity and what a rapture t,- :lereJ I can now understand the feeling of the immortal Scotchman, Robert Mc Cheyne, when, sitting on the banks of this lake, he wrote: It Is not that the wild gazelle Comes down to drink thy tide. But he that was pierced to save from hell Oft wandered by thy side. graceful around thee the mountains meet. Thou calm reposing sea: But ah! far more, the beautiful feet Of Jesus walked o'er thee. I can now easily understand, from the contour of the country that bounds this lake that storms were easily tempt ed to make these waters their play ground. From the gentle way this Lake treated our boat when we sailer on it yesterday, one would have thought it incapable of a paroxysm o rage, but it was quite different oI both the occasions spoken of in mi two texts. I close my eyes, and th< slire of Lake Galilee as it now is wfh but little signs of human lift, dim appears, and there comes back to m; vision the lake as it was in Christ time. It lay in a scene of great lux uriance; the surrounding hills, ter raced, sloped, grooved, so many hang ing gardens of beauty. On the shor were castles. armed towers. Romai baths, everything attractive and beau tiful-all styles of vegetation in short er space than in almost any othe space in all the world, from th palm tree of the forest to the trees o rigorous climate. ONE WAVE OF BEATY. It seemed as if the Lord had launch ed one wave of beauty on all th scene, and it hung and swung from rock and -hill an oleander. Roma gentlemen in pleasure boats sailing this lake, and countrymen in fisl smacks coming down to drop that nets, pass each other with nod an shout and Daughter, or swiging idl; at their moorings. 0, what a beauti fug scene! It seems as if we shall have a quie night. Not a leaf winked in the air not a ripple disturbed the face of Gen) nesaret; but there seems to be a littli excitement up the beach, and we has ten to see what it is, and we find it ai From the western shore a flotilla psigout; not a squadron, o dedy armament, nor clipper witl valuable merchandise, nor piratic yes gels ready to destroy everything the: c ould seize, but a flotilla, bearing mel sengers of light and life and peace Chrst is inthe front of the boat. Hi disciples are in a smaller boat. Jesus weary with much speaking to larg n -ultitudes, is put into somnolence b ~was any ~,the ship wll sarbor to larbord r frm board to starboard, the boat wouk ~Xrock, and by the gntleness of the mc tion putting the 2iater .asleep. An< ~.they extemporized a pillow made ou of a fisherman's coat. I think n< sooner is 'Chi-ist prostrate, and hi head touched the pilow, than he . s ound asleep. The brees of the laki run their fingers through -the locks a the worn sleeper, and the beat rise and falls like a sleeping child on th bosom of a sleeping mother. Calm night, sar night, beautifu mih.Run up 'the sails, ply a] the oars, and lethelarge boat and th s mall boat gieover gentle Gennes aret. But te sailors saythere is gc nag to be a change of weather. An< etnthe passengers can hoar th oanng ofth storm, as it comes oi with gre stride and all the terror of hurrneane and darkness. The larg, ~'boit trembles like a deerat bay amen, 4-~ he cdangor of the hounds; grea e al fthe vessel loosen, and th .sa~ winds crack like pistols; th ~mler boats like petrels poise on th< -" ciffs of the waves and then plunge. THE STORE. Overboard go cargo, tackling an< maste and the -drenched disciples rus] into the back part of the boat, and la2 bold of Christ,.and say unto him b "Maste, carest thou not that w< >peish" That great personage lift: Shshead from the pillow of the fisher ''innscoat, walks to the front of the Svessel, and looks out into the storm SAll around him are the smaller boats d rven inthe tempest, and throughi Scomes the erry.ot drowning men. B2 4eflash of the lighitning I see th< calm brow of Christ as the spra2 dro~e from his beard. He has on< wofrthe sky and another for thi waves. Looking upward he cries rC "Peace I" Looking downward he says "Be sf111"! The waves fall flat on their faces Sthe foam melts, the extinguished star reiht their torches. The tempest fall dedand Christ stands with hsfe Ton the neck of the storm. And whilk the sailors are bailing out the boats, and while they are trying to untangli the cordage, the disciples stand ir amazement, now looking into the Scalm sea. th'en into tLe calm sky, ther into th'- i- 'untenanc andt0 :: -;anner man is this. that even the winds and -the sea obey him?" V ALwAYS HAVE CHRIST i THE SEiP. The subject in the first place im presses me with the fact that itis very important to have Christ in the ship; - or all those boats would have gone tc the bottom of Gennesaret if Christ had not been present. Oh, what a .lesson for you and for me learni We must always have Chris in thi ship. Whatever voyage we under. take, into whatever enterprise we start, let us always have Christ in the >ship. All you can do with utmosi tension of body, mind, and soul, yeu aye bound to do; but oh! have Chrisi - -.in every enterprise, Christ in every I e are men who ask God's heli at the beginning of great enterprises. He has been withb them in the past; no trouble can overthrow them; the storms might come down from the top of Mount Hermon, and lash Gen nesaret into foam and into agony, but ' coud not them. But here is an wo strtsout in world ly enterprise, azid he depends upon Ithe uncertainties of this life. He has no God to help him. After a while the storm cornes and tosses off the mastse of the ship; he puts out his life boat and the long boat- the sheriff I Mlle ca t nelp mm1n oiu; Lie must go dow 1 -o- Christ in the ship. lour life will be Imade up of sunshine and sha:Oeu. There may be in it Arctic blasts or tropical tornadoes; I know not what is before you, but I know if you have Christ with you all shall be well. You may seem to get alonig without the religion of Christ i while everything goes smoothly, but after awhile, when sorrow hovers over i the soul, whenr the waves of trial dash clear over the hurricane deck, and the decks are crowded with piratical disas tern-oh, what would you do then < without Christ in the ship? Take God h for your portion, God for your guide, t1 God for your help; then all is well; all is well for time, all shall be well for- 1: ever. Blessed is that man who puts in ,t the Lord his trust. le shall never be t: confounded. t But my subject also impresses me with the fact that when people start - to follow Christ they must not expect 1 snototlh sailing. Ixh'T EXPECT s310rI SAILING. These disciples got into the small boats, and I have no doubt they said: "What a beautiful day this is! What a smooth sea! What a bright sky this is! llow dlelitful is sailing in this bout! And as for the waves under the c keel of the boat, why they only make tie motion of our little boat the more delightful." But when the winds swept down and the sea was tossed into wrath, then they found that fol lowing Ch rist was not smooth sailing. So vou have found it; so I have found I it. Did you ever notice the end of the life of the apostles of Jesus Christ? You would say, if ever men ought to have had a smooth life, a smooth de parture, then t! ose men, the dis ciples of Jesus Christ, ought to have had such a departure and i such a life. St. James lost his head. St. Philip was hung to death on a pil lar. St. Matthew had his life dashed I out with a halbert. St. Mark was i draged to death through the streets. 1 St. ames the Less was beaten to death with a fuller's club. St. Thomas was struci: through with a spear. They did not find following Christ smooth sail ing. Oh, how they were all tossed in the tempest! John Huss in the fire; Hugh 'MeKail in the hour of martyr r doar; the Albigenses, the Waldenses * the Scotch Covenanters-did they finA - it smooth sailingt But why go into history when we can draw from our own memory illustrations of the truth s of what I say? Some young man in a store trying to serve God, while his employer scoffs at Christianity; the young men in the same store, autao r nisticto the Christian religion, teasing a him, tormenting him about his relig f ion, trying to get him mad. They suc ceed In getting *hin mad, saying, "You're a pretty Christian!" Does that young man find it smooth sailing when he tries to fol low Christ? Or you remember a I Christian girl. Her father despises the Christian religion; he' mother de l spises the Christian religion; her r brothers and sisters scoff at the Chris I tia, religion; she can hardly find a quiet place in which to say her pray ers. Did she find it smooth sailing when she tried to follow Jesus-Christ? t Oh, no! All who would live the life of the Christian religion must suffer persecution; if you ao not find it in ono way, you wili get it in another soway. she question was asked: "Who are those nearest he throne?" And the answer came back: "These are theby who came up out of great tribu lation-great .flailing, as the original r has it; great flailing, great pounding -and had their roibes washed and made white in the blood of the lamb." Oh, do not be disheartened I Take courage. You are in glorious comn Spanionship. God willsee you through all trials and he will deliver you. My subject also impresses mue with the fact that good people sometimes get E isor AFmID. In the tones of these disciples as they -rushed into the back part of the boat, I find they are frightened almost to -death. They say: "Master, carest thou not that we perish?" They had no reason to be frightened, for Christ was in ithe boat. I suppose if wehad been s there we would have been just as much Saffrighted. Perhaps more. In all ages very good people get very much Saffrighrted. It is often so in our day, Sand men say: "Why, look at the bad lectures; look at the various errors go ing over the church of God; we are 1 going to founder; the church is going to perish; she is going down." Oh, how many good people are affright ed by iniquity in our day, and think the church of Jesus Christ is going to Sbe overthrown, and are just as much affrighted as were the disciples of ray ter:t. Don't worry, don't fret, as Sthough iniquity were going to triumph over righteousness. A lion - goes into a caverm to sleep. He lies down, with Shis shag'gy mnane covering the paws. Meanwhile the spiders spin a Sweb across the mouth of the cavern and say' "We have captured Shim." Gossamer thread after gossa mer thread, tintil the whole front of the cavern is covered with the spider's web, and thre spiders say: "The licsn is done; the lioni is fast." After a while the lion has got through sleeping; he rouses himrself, he shakes his mane, he walks out into tihe sunlight; he does nrot even know the spider's web is spun, and with his voice he shakes the mountain. So men come spinning their sophistr'ies and skepticism about Jesus Christ; he seemas to be sleeping. They say: "We have captured the Lor3; he will never come forth again - upon the nation; Christ is captured forever. His religion will never make any conquest anmng men." But after a while the Liou of the tribe of Judah will rouse himself and come forth to shake mightily the nations. What's a spider's web to the aroused lion? Give truth and error a fair grapple and truth will come off vistor. FOOUSH FF:ARS. But there are a great many good people who get affrighted in other re- I pcts; they are affrighted in our day about revivals. They say: "Oh! thist is a strong religious gale; we aref afraid the church of God is goincr to be upset, and there are going to 'ea t great many people brought into the church that are going to be of no use , to it;" and they are affrieted when- f eethysee a revival t-igholdof5 the chur-ches. . As though a ship cap- a tain, with five thiousand bushels of * wheat for a cargo, should say some day, coming upon deck: "Throw ovr e board all the cargo;" and the sailors ~ should say: "Why, captain, what do t you mean? Throw over all the cargo?" i "Oh," says the captain, " we have a 1 peck of clhaff that has got into this five p thousand bushels of wheat, and the d only way to get irid of the chaff is toe throw all the wheat overboard." Now, that is a gr-eat deal wiser than the talk I of a great many Christians who want to . throwv overboard all the thousands and tens of thousands of souls who are the ? subjects of revivals. Throwv all over board because they are br'ought intoh the kino'dom of Go~d thr'ough great re vivals, >ecause there is a peck of chaff, aquar'tof chalf, a pint of chaff! Isay, let them stay until tire last dlay; the Lor'd will divide tire chalf from tire a wheat. Do not be afr'aid of a great t< revival. Oh, that suich gales fr'om b, heaven rmight sweep thriough all A our churches! Oh, for such days as ai Richard Baxter saw in England, and m Robert McChieyne saw in Dundee! a Oh, for such days as Jonathan Ed wards saw in Northampton I I have lcd often heard my father tell of the fact li that in the early pat of this century a 01 Lid soine people were very much agi tied about it. They said: "Oh, you egoing to brinxg too iany people to Ih ehurn-ch at once;" and they -it dlown to New Brunswick to get obn11 L]ivi:zstou to stop the revival. Veil. there was no better soul in all ie world than John Livingston. He ct and looked at the revival; they -antcd him to stop it. He stood in ie pulpit on the Sabbatlh, awd looked ver the soleniin .:ditory, and he said: 't'his, brethren, is in reality the work f God; beware how you try to stop ." And he was ain old man, leaning eavily on his staff-a very old man. and he lifted that staff, and took I old of the small end of the staff, lid began to let it fall slowly arough between the finger and xe thumb, and ho said: "Oh, iou impenitent, thou art falling now -failing from life, falling away from eace and heaven, falling as certainly s that cane is falling through my and-falling certainly, though per aps falling slowly !" And the cane ept on falling through John Living ton's hand. The religious emotion in he audience was overpowerinig, and ei saw a tv pe of their doon, as the ane kept fallug and falling, until the :nob of the cane struck Mr. Living ton's hand, and lie clasped it stoutly nid said: "But the grace of God can top you as I stopped that cane;" and hen there was gladness all through he house at the fact of pardon and icace and salvation. "Well," said the eople after the service, "I guess you tad better send Livingston some; he s making the revival worse." Oh, or gales from heaven to sweep all the :ontinents! The danger of thechurch >f God is not in revivals. GOD AND MAN IN ONE PERSON. Again, my subject impressed me ith the fact that Jesus was God and na in the same being. Here he is it the back part of the boat. Oh, how ired lie looks; what sad dreams he inust have! Look at his countenance; le must be thinking of the cross to :oie. Look at him, he is a man >one of our bone, flesh of our flesh. 'ired, he falls asleep; he is a man. But then I find Christ at the prow of he boat; I hear him say: "Peace, be ;till;" and I see the storm kneeling at ais feet, and the teipests foldingr their ings in his presence; he is a God. If I have sorrow and trouble, and vant svm >athy, I go and kneel down it the back part of the boat and say: "Oh, Christ f wearv one of Gennesaret, sympathize with all my sorrows, man )f Nazareth, man of the cross." A nan, a man. But if I want to con luer my spiritual foes, if I want to vet the victory over sin, death and ell, I come to the front of the boat, d I kneel down, and I say: "Oh, Lord Jesus Christ, thou who dost hush .he tempest, hush all my grief, hush ill my temptation hush all my sin 1" man, a man; a bod, a God. I learn once more from this subject that Christ can hush a tempest. It did seem as if everything must go o ruin. The disciples had given up the idea of managing the ship; the rew were entirely demoralized; yet Christ rises, and he puts his foot on the storm and it crouches at his feet. h, yes! bhrist can hush the tempest. You have had trouble. Perhaps it was the little child taken away from ou-the sweetest child of the house iold, the one who asked the most cu rious questions, and stood around you with the greatest. fondness, and the pade cut down through your bleed ing heart. Perhaps it was an only ion, and your heart has ever since been like a desolated castle, the owls m the night hooting among the fallen arches and the crumbling stairways. Perhaps it was an aged mother. You always went to her with your troubles. She was in yvour home to welcome your children into l'e,- arnd-- whens they-diedv-she was there to pity you- that old hand will o you no more kindness; that 'white lock of hair you put away in the casket or in the locket didn't look as it usually did when she brushed it away from her 'wrinkled brow in the home circle or in the country church. Or your property gone, you said: "I have so much 6anik stock, I have so many government securities, I have so many houses, I have so many farms-all gone, all gone." Why, sir, all the storms that ever tramp'led with their thunders, all the shipwrecks, have not been worse than this to you. Yet you have not been completl overthrown. Why? Christ says: 'I have that little one in my keeping. I can care for him as well as you can, better than you can, 0 bereaved mother!" Hushing the tempest. When your property went away, God said: 'There are treasures in heaven, in banks that never break." Jesus hushing the tempest. There is one storm into which we will all have to run. The moment when we let go of this world and try to take hold of the neit, we will want all the grace possible. Yonder I see a Chi-istian soulI rocking on the surges of death; all the powers of darkness seem let out against that soul-the wiring wave, the thunder of the sky, the shriek of the wind, all seem to nite together; but that soul is not trou'led; there is no sighing, there are no tears; plenty of tears in the room at the departure, but he weeps no tears-calm, satisfied and peace ful; all is well. By the flash of the storm you see the harbor just ahead, md you arc making for that harbor. al shall be well, Jesus being our guide. Into the h~arbor of heaven now we gildox We're home at lst, home at list. Softly we drift on the brIght, silv'ry tide. We're home at last. Glory to God: all our dangers are o'er. We stand secure on the glorified shore: Glory to God: we will shout everme'e, We're home at last. Domestic Seryice in the South. There are too many low-grade enoks, irty nurses and lazy house girls. They ave demoralized the better class of egro servants to be found here before he war, and at that time one of the atures of Southern households. Do estic service bas been dragged dow n the level of the rough plantation ands, who pour into the cities, and rho are ready to begin cooking for a tiily without having ever seen a stove their lives. They work at a place a xontb and then leave it for another, nd te domestic history of most fami es is tbe South to-day ie a steady sue ession of incompetent negro servants. Ve are suffering on the servant quest on as much as the people of New E'ig md. They from a lack of domestics, e from an excess, which has thorough rdemoralized all and dragged the good own to the level of the worst. If we uld ship annually some 10.000 or even 30.000 negro servants North it would better for all hands. Perhaps onrt oirthern friends could make something i of them, and we would certeinly uprove domestic service here with wer but better cooks, nurses and ause-girls.-New Orleans Times-Dem Irat.C --a pubbec meeting was held in Rich ond -n Tuesday, to arrange a plan e induce the permanent burial of the dy of Ex-President Davis in that city. no her mass meeting will be held at early day. In the meantime a comn-I ittee will canvass for subscriptions to monument fund. -The Farmers' Alliance of Oconee >unty recommends Capt. J. L. Shank- 5 2, its president, as one of the trustees f te Cemson College. OUTiERN E1S IN NW YORIG. .n1. or i1 1h1 in al t)..partme nt s u- The ::.g io t.. f.iie--'om- Who aue Wanon Farst naud r' gasr 5ui-. Y. Letter to Baltimcre TAtue ican. It is said by some that New York ontains more Southern than Rich-. pond or Atlanta, aind quite recently boomer of New Y< rk's claim to the orld's Fair cited to this fact as howing that, the Southern in Congress ould1 vote for New York. A South rner is said to feel especially at home a this city, a fact, which is in part ex >lained by the recent opening of a dub house ter Southern men in New Cork city and visitors here from that >art of the country. In every profes ion and in nearly branch of commer :ial endeavor and in public office we ind Southern-born men in Gotham. When the war closed, the men whcse ortunes had disappeared. and whose >rospects did not seem bright in their )ative States, came to New York to teek employment- Many of them have >ecome rich and famous, and have iothing left by which to trace their southern nativity but a tinge of dia ect. Perhaps it is the dropping of a ew "r s" or a quick way of getting )ner thh vowel sounds. But one, meeting them on the big 'exchanges and in courts, will invariably recog nize the Southern men. In walking yesterday a single block, I met three en, all of them born in "Dixie," all rf them lawyeis, and all of them pret ty well known in tneir profession. he first was Assistant District Ate torney Dawson, a hearty .looking old gentlemen with iron-gray hair. pierc ing eyes and courtly manners, who at tends the dinners of the Twilight Club and amuses the members with his taking stories of the Southern darkey. He was a lawyer before Colonel John R. Fellows, his chis!, had left. college, Of course, he has a title, and the frat ernity alweys speak of him as Major Dawson. At the Twilight dinners Major Dswson manages to get a seat between another Sou.heruer and some New Yorker, and then begins his interesting sr.ories of ante-beifum days. following Major Dawson was Mr. Eben Apleton. It is hardly necessary to tell Baltimoreans that Mr. Apple ton is the custodian of the Star Span gled Banner and a blood :elation of the Armistead family. For many years Mr. Appleton has practiced law iu this city, but he came from the State of Virginia, spending several , ears in Baltimore on his way to Gotham. He is a little past middle age and is counted one of the handsomest mem bers of the New York bar. "I dislike to ask young men-some of them-to come up to see me," said Mr. Appleton to me, when he had finished telling about the means he has taken for the proper preservation of his banner. '"You see." said he, modestly, "I am such poor company, I don't smoke; can't chew, never drink, nd can't tell a new story. ButI flat ter myself I am a good listener, and I enjoy the company of young people." Despite these facts, Mr. Appleton is a highly entertaining talker, but is a close reader of law and current litera ture. He has a valuable library in which he spends most of the time not devoted to his clients. Burton N. Harrison, who was the private secretary of Jefferson Davis, from 1862 to 1865, was seen in the same block. Mr. Harrison looks about forty-eight, but must be a trifie older than that, as he was a man when the civil war began. Be comes from Mr. Davi' own State-Mississlppi-but has been a long time a member of the New York bar, with an office in the handsomest office building in New York-the Equitable. It would not take a stranger long to find out that 31r. Harise.e-was kbonin 1-he Southe He is much like the more important member of Congress from thie South in his manner arad way of saying things. He likrs poetry and law, and can re. member when he could quote "Don Juan" from the first canto to the last couplet. He is very precise, and looks lide a mao who has a single purpose in mind. His hair, once jet black, has egun to take on a small quantity of of silvery gray. His law office is so full of paper s and briefs that Mr. Hara rison has to keep his type writers in an adjoining room. Gen. Roger A. P yor, John S. Wise and Johin C. Cal houn might have been seen in their offices within three blocks of each other, while in Wall Street .perhaps one-fifth of Ithe big law firma contain the names of men whose fathers were famous in the South years age. Their club has nearly six hundred members, while applications for ac tive member'hip are being received every day. DR. CRONIN'S MURDERERS. How Ther Take Their Fate-Some Legal Questions. CICAGO, December 18.-The case of Coughlan, O'Sullivan, Burke and K~untz, convicted of D),. Cronin, and, sentenced, by the verdict of the jtury, to imprisonment for life (except for Kuntz, who gets three years), con tinues to attract much of the public notice. An appeal has been taken, of course ; and now the point is made that if after a new trial, the prisoners be found guilty the jury cannot affix the penalty of death. Friends of the tour prisoners called on them this morning to express sym pathy. Mrs. Coughlan leaned against the bars of the prisoners' oage and sobbed as though her heart w uld brak, while her husband whispered such words of comfort as he could comuand. O'ullivan's sister, accompanied by her husband, paid the ice man a visit. She vept bitterly over her brother's Kunt z's sweetheart and a lady friend visited him. The little German was joyous and tried to cheer them up. No ane called to see Burke, and he did at seem to feel hurt at his isolation. e still maintains the cool demeapor hat has alwvays characterized him. Sumter [Has a Girt 3tratery. Daisy Robinson is a little mulatto girl iout twelve years old, now living with ier aunt. Laura. who is a servant in the iouse of Mr. F.. A Tradewell, a well tnown resident of our city. Her mother dead, and her father resides in Co umbia. There is nothing uncommon bhout Daisy's appearance. She looks .nd acts very much like any other chtld if her age. Saturday evening last while she and ir aunt and sister were in their room in ,ouse in Mr. Tradevrell's yari, there vere heard repeated rappings about the oom, which is ceiled all around, which vere followed by such strange phenom na as the falling of crockery from the op oif the cupboard and manstel-piece nd the sudden leaping of flat-iroins rom the front of the fire to the middle f the room There was not much leeping done that night by the inmates 'f the house. Of course such phenom na naturally excited attention, and al unday and Monday crowds visited the 'lace uintil their oresence amnounted to a uisane, and Mr. Tradewell was oblis~ed o ask for a policeman to 1t detailed to ep out the throng. Doctors of medi ine and divinity also vent to see the trange sight. electric light ruen. and ex erimenters in ez:tricity, ladies and oung men who caould spare tia. time ocke to the nina-Suimter Watch REPUiBLIC ANt MEAN 3 MI'!{IE In the last taiInIbe'r ,"' t ' , ." il Amercan Review the Hont. It-r 4. Mills bay puh'i-hed an interstin t paper on what has been elven oulit a- I the probable cou;se of the lIepullienn itjority, not only witlh respect. to the proposed change in the rules of pro- i cedure, but in ot.her matters destgned t to perpetuate Republican control of the government. Mr. Mills starts out by pointing to the well-known fet that "As soon as it was known that the elections had given the present House to the Republican party the leaders of the party begau a :ystematic crusade against the rule-s of procedure. These rules are intended prima' ily to facilitate the dispatch of business, -ut they are also intended to protect the weak against the strong." Mr. Mills does not deny the right of the majority to govern, nor the right to make rules to promote the business of the House. But "the demand for the removal of limitations in the rules (which wer3 intended to secure tae rights of freer. men against the abuse of power), means,'' says Mr. Mills, "that the party in power are fatally'bent on mis chief; that they have some desperate. enterprise on foot their prophetic souls tell them is beyond the boundary of rightful jurisdiction, and that in carrying if out they will meet with stubborn opposition: It is not believed that they desire to create an estabii-h ment of religion, or to abridge the freedom of speech or of the press; but there is good ground to believe that the wantonness of power has suggested to them the necessity of doing some things that are as palpable violations of the constitution as those would be, though they may not be so pernicious. The excesses which they will attempt will be such as are dictated by a con viction of party necessity. The tneas ures for which the way must he cleared are such as will, in their julgineut, secure party a.ceudency. It it call he done, the rules will be so framed that all opposition will be silenced when they are ready to vacate a Democratic seat and give it to a Republican con testant, regardless of the constituency. And there will be no "scandalous scenes" when they are trying to pass bills to create returning boards to .-ive certificates of election to defeated Re publican candidates for electors and members of Congress. It is to prepare the way for the advent of this higher civilization that the rules have been indicted and "arraigned before the bar of public opinion." The objection now raised to the existing rules is "that they permit filibustering," but Mr. Mills shows that this resort to parlia. mentary faction for the purpose of de feating acts of gross injustice is the only course except one other that a minority can take, and he cites an in stance wherein an attempt was made by the Republican majority to unseat three Democrats undoubtedly elected, which was in two cases successful, and in the third was only prevented by persistent filibustering until the end of the session. In 1854 the minor ity resorted to the same parliamentary tactics to defeat the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and in the Forty-third Congress the Democrats resisted the passage of the civil-rights bill until "the gag" was adopted and the bill passed, only to be declared by the Supreme Court to be unconstitutional. "In 1877," says Mr. Mills, "there was another notable struggle by the Oemnocratic mi,ority to prevent the theft of the Presidency. * * * It was unsuc cessful, but. when Mr. Hayes was de clared President and inaugurated. he sustained the Democratic remonstrance by deciding that Louisiana had gone Democratic for all the officers from the Governor down, though the same re turning board that declared a majority for hinm declared it for all the Republi can candidates." Mr. Mills goes on to say : "The Republicans again have a majority in the House, but not large enough to insure the success of their schemes. They have again extraordi nary measures to be carried through, and the rules must again be subjectecd to their manipulations. They have gotten up seventeen contests for Dem ocratic seats. These vacated and given to Republicans would give them a working majority large enough to place beyond the domaid of doubt the passage oX such laws as will materially aid in preserving and perpetuating their party ascendency." He admits that there will be no difficulty in mak ing a rule to prevent dilatory motions, and that the Speaker will refuse to put such motions to the vote. The only defense then remaing for the minority will be toprevent the quorum whih the constitution requirea to do business. -In the present House a quorum will consist of one hundred and sixty -five members. "This rule," sas Mr. Mills, "cannot be changed, and with a margin of three over the constitutional requirement it will be be very difficult in so large a body, to keep in their seats the indi.-pensable number of absentees from sickness, business or other causes. The per. plexing que-tion that wdll not down is how to obtain a quorum if the minor ity sit still and refuse to vote. This question has often been before the House." Mr. Mills cites a number of cases in whicb attempts were made to force the abstaining minority to vote, and in every instance the Speaker de cided that he had no power to make up a quorum by going behind the roll call; that "the majority party must make the quorum to do business, and that the majority of members present, when less than a quorum, can only *ompel the attendance of absentees, but cannot compel the vo:e of a mem her." Mr. Mills clases his article by saying that the Republicans, with a majority in both hou-es, and having ontrol of the three branches of the law-making departments, including h3 executive, being doubtful of their retention of power, "feel '.he necessity of throwing fortifications around t-em, and making their hold on power so strong that the ballot-box cannot dis lodge them. To do this they must re vive the old returning boards thaz throv out the Democratic votes, and in all cases where it is important to give the crtificate to the Republicsn, whether he is elected or not. The measure they proposeC is bold and revo luntionary, and it retnains to be seen whether they will succeed in passing it, an, if it is passed, what the popu lar verdict will be when it comes to be enforced." A Peculiar Marriage that Failed. The little town of Pardeeville is all arg over a peculiar meatrimonial affair. One morning, a few days ago, Benjamin WVin2 met Mrs. Le.avenworth, a widow. - Although he is seventy and she is seventy one, the inspiration seized him to pip the question. She accepted the aged suitor, stipulating, hcwever, that he shuld reside in his own hou- anid she in hers, the same as before. The same evening they we-re marrietd, the bride groom standing in one corn-:r of the room and the blushing bride in the op n site corner. After the ceremot~y shet ~wt to her home anxd he to hia. Thet next day Benjamin concluded toi call ont his bride, and was greatly surprised c when she met him at the door with a a 1'i of scalding water and warned him b to keep away if he did not want to get t ht. And now there is to be business for the divorce courts, and another bit of evidence that marriage is a failure has 1 eeAn adu.AMilenikre Sentinel C ESTABLISHED 1844. ales Iron Works, Manufacturers and Dealers in Marine Sta( ionadry aii( Poirta le Engiiies and Boilers, Saw 1 ill Machiiery, Cotton Presses, Gids, Railroad, Steam )oat, Machinists', Engineers' and Mill Supplies. - -R'jejouirs Pe. I!-(jl wil/ jYnomjlne's anl Ii.1,aleih. Sendijor jprice li4t. East Bay. Cor. Pritchard St., Charleston, S. C. - - -------R. C. Ihatir t.Y Presub-ent. - - - - C. Biss . JiENKINs, Geni'1 Manaer. Ii. U:D s.) G .w r. s,-. *rrea s. The Cameron & Barkeley Gompany. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, -AND AGENTS F')R Erie City Engine and Boilers. 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H fBULs WINKL Rus Pr0o case.o one daoen pintsat $ 2 er doze-ln;' fi, adoapze at ispe dn n intocask plea -DEsALESI-special lyeoznec aute for cersnso eak azn. des Grain,2 Hay, B:iand Feeid. 17 e of mu tnst acom anyeahor;sde s opgt.d ats partn anpdlmedina quliisirseia South er Sreether We ae o Aur s clbaed old renwn Oats a bpecialt-unes doere ieact 0cnrdoze.ah CHAL~RL ESTY), S. C. \ CRAM ER A HKERST EN, PALMETTO BREwRY, MaHRIng Shaving alr - CharlesonS.C. U. S. A HAIR CU'TTING~ AnTISTrICALLY EXECUT ED. '- - A n I Shavmg unie ' ii b biest R .z its 303 King Street. Csrarleston, S. C. Sp. ci a tts i jn paid tn o Inmp suing Two Doors North of Liberty, ; - .i.in;abte expeter ce Si vnHictin n hmoig senr~ igeate, an e~rnte isSALOON. fact inu I., my .uate.mers Par i.,r nt xt AnTFsras BATus, noT AsD coLD. do'r to M.ssiNG TIi .Specil attenution paid to cutting of chil - D) IL!ILTON. dren's hair. EBAU HICKMAN. 1',e uaamous Tuas t it- Propioed to a For rign Visiror. V.,shiugtou 'rees. Colons I Arorud, a well know nRussiau elates an experience be had with the astorically notoridts Beau Hickman, rhich is typically characteristic of that reat wag. "When I first came to Washington, in 847," said Colonel de Arraud. "I put p at the old National hotel and imme liately sought the acquaintance of Henry lay, to whom I had a letter of introduc ion from one of the highest government ificials at St. Petersburg. I found Mr. lay in bis privhte rooms at the hotel, .nd after a long tatk with him we stroll d into the lobby of the hostelry. I could peak very little English, and, having a sery foreign accent, immediately attract ,d the attention o( Beau Hickman, who ras one of the 'hangers-on' around the >lace. He approached me in great dig iity and said with the courtesy of v ?renchman: "You are a stranger here? I be ieve you have just arrived from Rus "Yes, sir," I replied, 'I have just as ,ived from the capital of Russia.' "Well, sir,' continued Hickman, 'it is -ustomary for strangers arriving here to give me money.' "The air of the man and the extreme earnestness with which he spoke impress ed me that he was a head tax collector or a passport cens:r like we have in Rus sia, and I presumed that the immediate payment of any demand he might make was necessary. I noticed Mr. Clay, who stood only a short distance from me, smile blandly as he watched the inter view which Hickman was holding with me. Finally I said: How much must ] give you?" "It is customary,' said Hickman, 'tc give me from $1 to $5.' "I thought that I would show myself princely, ann immediately placed a $: coin in the man's hand and turned to Mr. Clay who expressed astonishment that ; should have suffered myself to be bled al I had. Greatly to my surprise Hickmat approached Mr. Clay and making th most profound salaam, inquired after hi, health. I thought I would cap the cli max by asking Hickman to take some thing at the bar. He declined witi great grace, saying that he did not drink but said he would go into the counte and propose a toast. This is what It gave us: "-Here's to the A merican eagle and to th, Russian bear, One's got the feathers and the other' got the hair; Put them together and they will make pair."' SELECTING A WIFE BY LOT. A Singular Bet Beteen Two Brothers Liv Ing Near Newport, Minn. ST. PAUL. Minn., December 19. William C. King is a farmer at New port, Mint,., and is about 30 yeara c age and unmarried. Sidney C K ng who is three years older and carries o; a teaming business at the same plac is his bi-other. A few days ago the; were sitting at William's house readin; the newspapers, when Sidney notice a paragraph about a man in the Ea who was advertising for a wife. Sidne said he thought that was a foolish pla by which to secure a wife. Wiliar said he didn't think it was, and th brothers got into a heated argumieu over the question. "I will tell you to what I will do, finally declared Sidney. "I will bet yo $.5u0 even that you dare not select wile by lottery in a way that I will ii dicat e." "I have no money," replied WVilliamz "but I have a farm worth that at leas and I will l ake that bet if you will pt up your money against my farm Corkington." All righ t; its a go," said Sidney, an they set to work to prepare the teru of the het. A contract was drawn u in legal form and each signed it.] provides that William shall ge- n( wore than 500 miles nor less than thre miles from his home and select awi by lottery. He is to make 100 ticketi niumbered from 1 to 100, which are C he put in envelopes and one givent every lady wishing a husband, regare legs of her age or nationality. A ce: tain day is to be announced for th d rawing and a public notice is to b given of the place wvhere it is to tak place. On the day of the drawing som person is to be selected by the audienc and blindfolded. The tickets are t be placed in a hat and well shaken ui Tfhe man, blindfolded, will then b brought on the stage and requested t draw one ticket from the hat. By th number which it bears the future wif of William King is to be determined as he must marry the lady holding th< corresponding number or forfeit hi farm. If he carries out this agreemen he will receive the sum of $500 bet b: his brothor. A SHOWER OF HYMN BOOKS Riot tn a Negro church In Kanas City Two MIen Dangeronnly Hurt. KANSss CITY, Mo., December 19. Differences Ibetween factions in the First Baptist Church, colored, of Kan sas City, culminated Sunday night it a riot in which two mnen were danger ously injured, and quite a numbe: hurt. Toe ractions were that wtiicl sided with tbe pastor, the Rev. J. R Jones, and another which oppose< him. There was a meeting of mem hers of the church organization t< select officers last evening. The pasto> presided, but the anti-Jones factioi out- numoered the pastor's supporters Whenever a motion hostile to the pas tor's crowd was made, he would cal: on some brother to pray. He block aded business this way for two hours Trhe op)posing factions was enraged and when G. W. Smnith was called or to pray. a shower of hymn books and chairs greeted him. Then followeda general ridt. Razors were used and two negroes were seriously cut. Their names are Benjamin and Knight. Others were pounded over the head with chairs, but no dangerous wounda were infieted. A Trennaendou~s Euplosion In Rtunnin. ST. PETERsBURG, Dec. 20.-A shell exploded today in the artillery maga ine at Bakuk, tatusing a general ex posion of all muntions stored there md the destru' -tuon of the building. rhe noise of the explosion shells and ockets sounded like a bombardment. )ne hundred thousar d cartridges were iestroyed. Four persons were killed tnd four ir'jured K(ilaed by Ga.' in Hanititnore. BALTIxoRE. Den. 20.-Wilflam irth, of Front Royal, Va., was foun~i ead this mnorning~ in his room at the iagara House, having been overcomo > gais. He prohably blown out the as last night, as the cock was turnied n. He had only arrived here last "ght. J. E. Phillipa, who lives near West. inster, recently killed five poirkers. birteen months old, whir b weighed in he aggregamte fourteen hundred and wenty-seven pounds. They were a ross of Berksbire~ and Essex. They 're raised on TBermuda grass, wheat ran and oats until S.:ptember, when ~ey were put in a pen and fed on, co'rn. Thos. B. Johns'on, of Sumter, has eon appoin ted colleto: of customs :1 harl ston