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- O.y7INS.ESkt,1O. VOL. VI. MANNLNGq Sl. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23,19ON. . BUTERS AND SELLERS. DR. TALMACE !N THE TABERNACLE PULPIT no Prma a Praotieal Sarno& on the It the service in the Academy of Musie Sunday mOrning Dr. Talmage a.nounced as his textProverbs 20:14: ,-?It is naught, It is naught, ssitligthe buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth." Folowing is his sermon in full Palaces are not such prisons as the world imagines. If you think that the only timo when kings and queens come forth from the royal gcs is in procession and gorgeously attended, you are mistaken. Incognito, by day or by night, and clothed in eti sn' apparel, or the dress of a work ing woman they come Cut and se.e the world as it is. In no otbhAr way coull King Solomon, the anthor of my text, have known everything that was going on. From my text I am sure he must, in disguise, some day have walked into a store of ready-made clothing, in Jerusalem. and stood near the counter and overheard a wversation between a buyer and a sellar. The merchant put a price on a coat, and the customer begin to dicker and said: "Absurd! that coat is not worth what you ask for it. Why, just look at the eoarseness of the fabriel See that spot on the eol Mar Besides that it does not it. Twenty dollars for that! Why, it isn't worth over ten. They have a better article than that, and for a cheaper pdce. down at Cloathem, Fitem & Brothers. Besides that, I don't want it at any price. Good morning." "Hold" says the mer ehant, "don't go of In that way. I want to sell you that eoat. I have *oms payments to make and I want the money. Come now, how much will you give me for that coat." "We'11" says the sustomer, "I will split te differenee. You asked me twtnty dollars, and I said ten. Now, I will give you Afteen." "Well," says th" merchant, "it's a great saenee. but takeit at that price." Then Sol oman saw the customer with a roll under his arm start and go out and em-er his own place of business, and Bolomon in disguise followed him.. He heard the customer ash-, unrolled the coat say- "Boys, I have made a great bargain. How mach do you guess I gave for that coat V" *Well," says one, wishing to eom pliant his enterprise, "you gave $30 forit." Anothersays: "I should think you got it sheap if you gave $25." "No," says the buyer ix triumph, "I got it for $15. I beat him down and pointed out tha im erfections, until I really made him lieve it was not worth hardly any thing. It takes me to make a bar gaim. Ha! ha!" Oh man, you got the goods for less than they were worth by positive falsehood; and no wonder when Solomon got back to his palace and had put off his disguise, that he sat down at his writing-desk and made for all ages a crayon sketch of you: "It is naught, it is naught, eith the buyer, bat when he is gone his way, then he boasteth." There are no higher styles of men in all the world than those now at the head of merchandise in Brook yn anid New York and the other great cities of this eon tinenit. Their casual promise is as good as abond with piles of collat trae. Their reputation for initeg rity is as well established as that of Perrh residing inthe familyof Car dinal Colonna, and when there was a great disturbance in the family the ardinal called sll his people together, and put them under oath to tell the truth, except Petrarebi, for, when he eamne up to swear, the eardinal put away his book and said, "As to you Ptrarch, your word is sufficient." Weve since the world stood have rhere been so masymerebants whose kasctionis can stand the test of the ten commnandments. Such bargain maekrs are all the more tobe honored because they have'withstoodjyear af ter year, temptafions which have sung many so flat,and fung thorn so hard they can never recover them selves. While all positions in life have powerful besetments to evil, there are specifto forms of allure mernt which are peculiar to each oc upation and profession, anid it will be useful to speak of the peculiar temptations of business men. First, as in the scenie of the text, business men are often tempted to sacridce plaintruth, the seller by ex aggerating the value of goods,anidthe buyer by depreciating them. W e cannot but admire an expert sales man. See how he first induces the customer into a mood favorable to the proper consideration of the value of the goods. He shows himself to be an honest and frank salesman. How carefully the lights are arranged until they fall just ri'ht upon the fabriel Beginn'mg with the goods of medium quality, he gradually advan ss toward those of more thorough make, and of more attractive pat trn. How he watches the moods. ad whims of his eustomeri With what perfect calmness he takes the; order and bows the purchaser from| his oresence, who goes away having made up his mzind that he has bought the goods at a pr-ice which will allow him a living margin whon he again sells them. The goods arel wrth whit the salesman said they were, and were sold at a price which1 will not make it necessary for the house to fail every ten years in order to ftxup things. But with what burning indigna tiu. we think of the iniquitous strat agems by which goods are sometimes disposed of. A glance at the morn ing papers shows the arrival at one of our hotels of a young merchant from one of the inla.nd cities. He is a comparative stranger in the great city, and, of course, he must be shown around, and it willbe the duty of some of our enterprising houses to escort him. He is a large purchaser ~and has plenty of time and ''roney, ~d it will pay to be very itentive. The evening is spent at a mice of doubtful amusement. Then ey go back to the hotel. Having c.ome to town, they must, of - r..k A frind from the samo mercantile establishment drops in, and usage and generosity suggest that they must drink. Business prospects are talked over, and the stranger is warned against certain dilapidaited mercantile establishments that are about to fail, and for such kindness and magnanimity of cau tion against the diskonesty of other business houses, of course it is ex pected they will-and so they do they take a drink Other merchants lodging in adjoining rooms find it hard to sleep for the clatter of decan ters. and the course carousal of these "hail fellows well met" waxes louder. But they sit not all night at the wine cup. They must see the sights. They stagger forth with cheeks flushed and eyes bloodshot. The outer gates of hell open to let in the victims. The wings of lost souls hit among the lights.and the steps of the carousers sound with the rumbling thunders of the damned. Farewell to all the sanctities of home! Could mother, sister, father, slumbering in the inland home. in some vision of night catch a glimpse of the ruin wrought they w)uld rend out their hair by roots and bite the tongue till the blood spurted, shrieking ous: 'God save him. What, suppose you, will come upon such business establishments! and there are hundreds of them in the cities. They may boast of fabulous sles, and they may have an unpre cedented run of buyers, and the name >f the house may be a terror to all rivals, and from this thrifty root there may spring up branch houses in other :ities, and all the partners of the firm nay move into their mansions and hive their full-blooded span, and the samilies may sweep the street with Lhe most elegant apparel that human rt ever wove, orearthly magnificenc ver achieved. But a curse is gath ring somewhere for those men, and i it does not seize hold of the pillars rd in one wild ruin bring down the ample of commercial glory, it will break up their peace, and they will remble with sickness and bloat with lissipations, and, pushed to the pre :pice of this life,they will try to hold back, and cry for help, but no help will come, and they will clutch their old to take it along with them, but t will be snatched from their grasp, Lid a voice will sound through their oul, "Not a farthing. thou beggared piritr' And the judgment will come tnd they wil stand aghast before it, and all the business iniquities of a life Lime will gather around them, saying 'Do you remember this?" and "Do rou remember that?" And clerks hat they compelled to dishonesty. md runners and draymen and book keepers who saw behind the scenes, ill bear testimony to their nefarious leeds, and some virtuous soul that Mce stood aghast at the splendor and >ower of these business men will say: -Alas! this is all that is left of that ,_ea frm that occupied a block with heir merchandise and overshadowed :he city with their influence, and made ighteousness and truth and purity all under the galling fire of avarice na erime." While we admire and approve of all euteness and tact in the sale of goods, we must condemn any process y which a fabrie or product is repre ~ented as possessing a value which t really does not have. Nothing but heer falsehood can represent as per ection boots that rip, silks that peedly lese their luster, calicoes atimmediately wash out, stoves that crack under the first hot fire, ooks insuficiently bound, carpets that unravel, old furniture reju enated with putty and glue and sold as having been recently manufa c ~ured, gold watches naade out of brass, arrels of fruit, the biggest apples on top: wine adulterated with strychnine,j ioiery poorly woven, cloths of do-I nestie manufacture shining with !oreign labels, imported goods repre ented as rare and hard te get, be ~aue foreign exchange is so high, olled out on the counter with match Less display. Imported indeed! but rom the factory in the next street. L pattemn already unfashionable and malable palmed off as a new print pon some eountry merchant who has ome to town to make his first pur shase of dry goods and going home with a large stock of goods warranted x> keep. There are a hundred practices pre valent in the world of traffic which ught never to become the rule for onest men. Their wrong does not ake your right. Sin never becomes virtue by being multiplied and ad :itted at brokers' board or mer chants' exchange. Because others smuggle a few things in passenger trunks, because others take usury when men are in tight places, because :thers deal in fancy stocks, because others palm off worthless indorse muents, because others do nothing but blow bubbles, do not, therefore, be overcome of temptation. Hollow pre tension and fictitious credit and com mercial gambling may awhile prosper, but the day of reckoning cometh, and in addition to the horror and con demnation of outraged communities, the curse of God will come, blow after~ blow. God's will forever and foreeris the only standard of right and wrong, and not commercial ethis. Tong business man, avoid the first business dishonor, and you will avoid all the rest. The captain of a vessel was waking near the mouth of a1 river when the tide was low, and there was a long stout anchor shain, into one of the great linkrs of which his' foot slipped. and it began to swell and he could not withdraw it. The tide began to rise. The chain could not be loosened nor filed off in time, and a surgeon was called to amputate the limb, but before the work could be done, the tide rolled over the vie tim, and his life was gone. And I hae to tell you, young man, that just one wrong into whteh you slip may be a link of a long chain of circum stances from which you cannot be ex tricated by any ingenuity of your own, or any help from others, and the tides will roll over you as they have over many. When Pompey, the wirrior, wanted to take possession of a city, and they would not open the gates, he persuaded them to admit a sick soldier. But the meck solawer after a while got well and strong. an!d he threw open the gates and lei the devastting army come in. One wrong admitted into the soul may ain in sbrength unarater a while:. it flings open all the avenues of the im mortal nature, and the surrender is complete. Again, business men are sometimes tempted to throw off personalrespon sibility upon the moneyed institution to which they belong. Directors in banks and railroads and insurane companies sometimes shirk personal responsibility underneath the action of the corporation. And how often. when some bankinghouse or financial institution explodes through fraud, respectable men in the board of lirec tors say: "Why, I thought ali ; going on in an honest way, and I am utterly confounded with this mixde meanor!" The banks. and the fire and life and marine insurance con panies. and the railroad companies. will not stand up for judgment in the last day. but those who in them acted righteously will receive, each for himself, a reward. and thimeo who acted the part of neglect or trickery will, each for himself, receivTe a con demnation. Again, many business men have been tempted to postpone their en joyments and duties to a future new on of entire leisure. What a seda tive the Christian religion would be to all our business men if. instead of postponing its uses to old age or death, they would take it into store or factory, or worldly engagements now: It is folly to go amid the un certainties of business life with no God to help! A merchant in a New England village was standing by a horse, and the horse lifted his foot to stamp it in a pool of water, and the erchant, to escape the splash, stepped into the door of an insurance agent, and the agent said: "I suppose you have come to renow your fire in surance?" "Oh," said the merchant, "I had forgotten that." The insur ance was renewed, and the next day the house that had been insured was burned. Was it all accidental that the merchant, to escape a splash from a orse's foot, stepped into the insur ance office? No, it was providential. Lnd what a mighty solace for a busi ness man to feel that things are provi lential! What peace and equilibrium n such a consideration, and what a grand thing if all bLsinews men could realize it! Many, althoagh now omparatively traightened in wordly circumstan es, have a goodly establishment in he future planned out. Thqy have n imagination built about twenty rears ahead a house in the country not difficult of access from the great own, for they will often have busi aes, or old aceounts to settle, and nyestments to look after. The house a large enough to accommodate all heir friends. The halls are wide md hung with pictures of hunting scenes and a branch of antlers, and ).re comfortable with ehairs that can >e rollect out on the veranda when 'ho Teather is inviting. or set out un ler some of the oaks that stand son inel about the house, and rustling in 'he cool breeze. and songful with the -obins. There is just land enough to keep them interested, and its crops of Llmost fabulous richness springing ap under application of the best theories to be found in the agriciltu !al journals. The farm is well stock 1d with attle and horses, and sheep hat know the voice and have a kindly >eat when one goes forth to look at hem. In this blissful abode their ~hilren will be instructed in art and cience and religion. This shall be he old homestead to which the boys t college will direct theirletters, and he hill on which the house stands ill be called Gukwoodl or Ivy Hill or ?leasant Retreat or Eagle Eyrie. day the future have for every busi ess man here all that and more be idet .But are you postponing your appiness to that time? Are you ~djourning your joys to that consumn nation? Suppose that you achieve all yon pect-and the vision I mention is ot up to the reality, because the ountains will be brighter, the house ranper, and the scenery more pic uresne-the mistake is nouie the Less fatal What charm will there be n rural quiet for a man who has hirty or forty years been conforming his entire nature to the excitements f business? Will flocks and herds. with their bleat and moan, be able to silence the insatiable spirit of ae uisitiveness which has for years had ull swing in the soul! Will the hum f the breeze soothe the man who ow een find his only enjoyment in the stoek market? Will leaf and cloud nd fountain charm the eye that has for three-fc--ths of a life time found its chief beauty in hogsheads and bills of sale? Will parents be com etent to rear their children for high and holy purpose, if their infancy and boyhood and girlhood were neglected, when they are almost ready to enter pon the world and have all their aits fixed and their prmnciples stereotyped? No, no: now is the time to be happy. Now is the ilme to serve your Creator. Now is the time to be a Christian. Are you too busy? I have known men as busy as you are who had a place in the store-loft where they went to pray. Some one asked a Christian sailor where he found a place to pray in. He said: " can always find a quiet place 'at masthead." And in the busiest day in the season, if your he-art is right. you can find a place to pray. Broad wy and Fulton street are good places to pray in as you go to met your various engagements. Go home a little earlier and get introducixd to vour children. Be not a gallery-slave by day and night, lashed fast to the oar of business. Let every dsy have its hour of worship and intellectual culture and recreation. Show your e~lf greater than your businom. Aet not as though after deat~h you would enter upon an eternity of railroad stocksjsnd coff'ee and ribbon. Roast not your manhood before the perpetual fires of anxiety. With ev-ery yard of cloth you sell, throw not in your soul to boot. Use firkin, counting room. desk and hardware crate as the step to glorious usefulness and Christian character. Decide once and forever who shall be master in your store, you or your business. Men appreciate the importano- of having a good businless stand, a styre n the right side of the atreet or in the right block. &w' every place of business is a good stand for spiritual culture. God's angels hover over the up those who are trying to do thei duty. To-morrow, if in your place o worldly engagement you will lister for it, you will hear a sound loude: than the rattle of drays and th< shuffle of feet and the chink of dol lars, stealing into your soul, saying "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all othex things shall be added unto you." Ye1 some of those sharpest at a barga are cheated out of their immorta blessedness by stratagems mare pa pable than any "drop game" of the street. They make investments in :.s everlastingly below par. They pi L> 'aluables in a safo not fire proof. Thcy give full credit to in flnunces that will Rot be able to pay one cent on a dollar. Thr-y plunge into a labyrinth from which no bank Irupt law or "two-thirds enactment" will ever extricate them. They take into their partnership the world, the nlesh and the devil. and thL enemy of tighteousness will boast through eter nal ages that the man who in all his business life could not be outwitted or over-reached3, at last tumbling into spiritual detalerion, and was swin dled out of heaven. Perhaps some of you saw the fire in New York in 1835. Aged men tell us that it beggared all description. Some stood on the house- tops of Brooklyn. and looked at the red ruin that swept down the streets, and threatened to obliterate the metrop olis. But the commercial world will yet be startled by a greater con tiagration, even the last. Bills of ex ehange, policies of insurance. mort gages and bonds and g-vernment securities, will be consumea in one lick of the flame. The bourse and United States mint will turn to ashes. Gold will run moltui into the dust of the street. Exch'nges and granite blocks of merchandise will fall with a crash that will make the earth trem ble. The flashing-up of the great light will show the righteous the way to their thrones. Their best treas ures in heaven, they will go up and take possession of them. The toils of buiness life, which racked their brain and rasped their nerves for so many years, will have forever ceased."There the wicked oease from troubling, and the weary are at rest." A GREAT MYSTERY SOLVED Bob Iniorton Chases a Man Two yars and Captures Him. The mystery surrounding the theft in May, 1SSS, of $41,000 be longing to the Exchange Bank of New York,has been cleared up, and Edward Sturgis Crawford, a former employee of the Bank,is under arrest in Spanish Honduras, where he was followed by a Pinkerton detective, and where he confessed to his part in the theft. The public had well nigh forgotten the story of the crime, which was a nine days wonder, and which was dropped by the press when the next sensation came up. The bank placed in packages the snm named in nation al bank notes to be sent to Washing ton through the Adams Express Company for redemption. The packages were taken to the express office by two of the bank's messen gers, Crawford and a man named Earl, who brought back a receipt for them, but when the packages arrived in Washington they contained slips of paper neatly cut in the shape and size of the bank notes. Who substi tuted. the slips of writing paper for the bank notes? This was a ques tion which was upon the tongue of nearly everybody, but nobody could an'wer it satisfactorily. Crawford had borne an excellent reputation at the bank, and his conduct during the scene nimediately following the dis covery o'f the the theft seemed to show that it would be unjust to sus pet him. The mystery was appar ently impenetrable, and the express company shouldered the losa. The detective whom it employed suspect ed Crawford, however, and his sus picions were strengthened when that young man. a few months later, gave up his position at the bank and went to Honduras. Little by little the evidence against Crawford was ob tained, and last February the de te-tive felt justified in going to Hon duras and charging the crime upon the young man, who at first assumed an injured air and protested that ho was innocent, but who, when he saw that the detective had been too sharp for him, confessed his guilt. When arrested he had in his possession $32.525 in bank bills. The Adams Express Company is said to have spent $25,000 in working up the case, but it will now receive from the bank the .41,000 which it made good. There is no extradition treaty be tween this country and Honduras, and if Crawford is brought back it will be only by courtesy of the Hondu ras govermunent, which, it is stated, has agreed to favorably consider a request from Secretary Blaine for the young man's return. Crawford was born in Hancock, N. Y., and before he came a messenger of the bank he was a Broadway car driver. He is of prepossessing ap pearance and pleasing address, and his intimate friends say that they will not believe that lie is a thief un til they hear him say that he is. A Judge's Social Bomnbshell. )An~uA, Mo., April 17.-Actingun de- iustructions of Judge Ryland. th grand jury has issued subponas for a number of members of the High Yive" Club. a tony social or gadzaion, among whose members are quite a number of young ladies. to appear before that body. It is suposdi that an effort will be made to find indictments against persons at whose houso the club has met during its existence. on a charge of permitting gambling on their premi ss. Judge Riyland's instructions to the jury on Monday to indict all per sons engaged in or participating in a game of "euchre," "high five" or -chuch ra~le" has created not a lit tle unfavorable comment hero. Al first it was regarded as a joke, bui now that an attempt is being made tc cary out his instructions, a mnore serious~ iew is being taken of th< --State Treasurer, Archer, of Mary A BRAVE TEXAN. L HE GAVE HIS LIFE IN DEFENCE OF A WOMAN. The Story Connected With a Lonely Grave Rear Newbrrv-The Brave .Ca Da. Eis Grave-aolent Deeds of - Chivalry Reoalled. D. A. Dickert Ia the Atlanta ConstittuOn, NXwrmy, S. C., April 13.--A little mound near the e0"on mills in New- t berry, S. C., covers the remains of I one who has left an eternal monu ment to the South's chivalry. His name is unknown. Immediately af- t ter the close of the war the negro a troops belonging to Sherman's army were marched by different routes to Port Royal and Charleston, there to be disbanded. The night of which I d srpeak, a regiment of negro troops were encamped in Newberry, near a the railroad depot. 3 The town had been plundered, and her citizens subjected to all the in- j dignitie-s that a drunken negro mob t could offer. A government train was C thex running from a point twenty- i3 five miles north of Columbia to * G'reenville to carry soldiers and refu- y gees as near their homes as possible. c This night as the train Aowed up at 8 the depot it was imr adiately sur- e rounded by a drunken, howling C crowd of negro soldiers. On board s the train were two ladies. The ne- p groes swarmed through the cars like h a set of demons set free from the in- I fernal regions, while white soldiers t, on board were helpless and at their p mercy. What a place for two help- a less women without friends or pro- C tectors! In the coah wit the ladies was a soldier, and from his dress and de- d meanor, one would judge him to be from Texas. He was tall and stately, b piercing black eyes, while his mas sive head of hair well became his b brawny face. He plainly showed ti that he had been a determined fol- . lowor of the lost cause. In their c wild carouse one of the drunken ne- t) groes came to where the ladies sat, b and commenced to offer insults and indignities to the younger, too re- C volting in their nature for rehear- d sal. In tryingto release herself from y his loathsome embrace she cried out in despair: "My God, have I no friend; will no one protect me?" In t< a moment a voice was heard in the yi rear end of the coach: "Yes, I will it protect you, if I die for it." The tall u form of the unknown Texan was i seen rapidly approaching along the d, aisle. His eyes shone in the dim g light like those of the wild beast i ready to spring upon its prey. The blade of a knife was seen to glitter S1 abcve his head and with a mighty b< blow was buried to its hilt in the y breast of the black ruffian With a ild yell he leaped from the car and ni fell dead upon the side-track. b< The stranger quietly walked ont of tj the coach at the other end, and step- w ped a few paces away, under cover of y the darkness. and waited develop- D ments. He had not long to wait. , All the imps of darkness turned loose could ot have equalled the uproar y( and tumult this deed created. Word tt flew to camp that one of their corn- hi rades had been murdered by a Con federate soldier. A wild rush was e made for the train, and for a few o) moments it looked as if all on board j, would be put to death. Search was r made for the murderer, declaring T that if found he would be put to b: death at once. The stranger stood il but a few feet away, qietly listening tc to his death sentence, as the soldiers gg madly rushed by. At last one de clared he had found the man; he il seized one of the officials of the rail- a, road, and others coming up, with eulpositiveness swr ohis iden tity. Violent hands were lam uponE the innocent man, while the drunken , mass that crowded around him seem ed as if they would crush him to n, death. His vain pleadings of inno- o: cence were drowned by the wild yells ir of the surging crowd. He was being 3 carried away for execution- Where d was the unknown Texan! He had r shown his courage, now would he waver in the face of immediate death' With his hand he had pro tocted the person of defenceless s1 women, by dyeing it in the blood of Iher assailants, would he stand by and see an innocent man die in his stead! b With calm deliberation, without ca any emotion whatever, he made his ta way to the maddened crowd, and n with a loud voice said: "Turn this ta man loose, he is innoeent. I am the il one who did it-now do your worst!" n This gave new impetus to the drunken p crowd, and he was hurried away to d camp. A drumhead court-martial A was convened, and he was condemn- b ed to be imimediately shot. While i he was being tried, word flew like t1 lightning over the town that a white I man was to be shot, and every negro .t that could possibly go came rushing an into camp and surrounded the brave -t Texan, offering him every insult and I idignity that their wicked souls p could invent. The negro women outdid the men in rejoicing over the i fate of the prisoner. Even the blood- c thirsty and cruel Queen Esther could x not have rejoioed mor. over her cap- t tives. At half-past twelve a spade wasd given the condemned and he was order I ed to dig his grave. Selecting a spot i: near the brow of the hillhhecommexced 1 thc heartrending task of digging his f own grave. Spadeful after spadeful ji was thrown up, until three feet is I reached. Then standing erect and stretching out his arms. he said: "I1 am ready." A breathless stillness for a moment prevailed. The com mand fire was given-a volley rings ,ut, and the brave TAxan falls dead in his grave, amid the deafening~ 4 shouts of the multitude, leaving be-t hind him the grandest tribute toi Bouthern chivalry-men who kive their lives to protect the honor of unknown women. An Unfaithful Employee. I Loxnnox, April l'.-A sensation < has been caused m Bradford by the 4 arrest of Francis Stubbs, who was at ho head of the dyeing department of ( the Lister Company, Limited, silkc works. It is alleged that he has corn mnitted frauds amounting to thous- 4 ands of pounds. It is expected that 1 others will be arrested for complicity 2 *nthe frands. DICK WINTERSMITH OF KENTUCKY rwe stors. Ab.ut M= Whsch Xsa. Cos. gre.mme Laugh. WAs=uoTox, April 17.-Hard fight ng on the floor of the House produces rood stories. The rougher the ground ;he better the crop. At the end of a ricious spat in the House some sol .mn statesman usually secures the loorand dulls the intellectual atmos yhere with platitudes. This drives he bright fellows into their restau ant or elsewhere. The pie eater of he West, the bean consumer of the ,as', the "chitling" masticator of the lulf States, the terrapin admirer of he Eastern Shore, retail many an musing story while smacking their ips over their beer, ice water, whis :ey or champagne. There were a~ reat many of these stories told in he restaurant during the Oklahoma ebate. One good story of a good man iways brings another of the same lan. One of Col. Dick Vintersmith of Centucky was retailed. It is said at not long ago he went to John lhamberlin's hotel forbreakfast. He idulged in breakfast and onions. The teak was succulent and the onions rere crisp and not greasy. The Gol nel ajoyed the meal hugely. After wallowin an extra cup of oofee he alled for his check. It amountedto 7er $2. He protested strenuously, aying that it was an outrageous rice. John Chamberlin laughed at im and;offered to "chalk his hat." he Colonel, however, with true Ken acky hauteur, refused the faver. He aid the bill. Not long afterward an cquaintance entered. Turning to the ,olonel, he said: "My appetite is a little of this iorning. I hardly know what to or or for breakfast. The Colonel advised him to try eefsteak and onions. "There is nothing more palatable," is friend responded, - "and nothing hat would satisfy my appetite so rell, but Ihave to attend several re gptions this afternoon,and am afraid aat that the onions will taint my reath." "That needn't trouble you," the olonel replied. "Sit down and or er your steak and onions. When ou get the check for it, it will take our breath away.' Another story told of Colonel Win rsmith is well worth repeating. then the Colonel first went to Wash Lgton, many years ago, he strolled p to the CapitoL Wil~e wander tg through the corridors he acci entaly stumbled into the public dlery of the United States Sen The galleries were packed. Charles amner was making a speech, Every dy listened with breathless itevr';st. rhen Mr. Sumner closed, Garrett avis arose. Mr. Davis enjoyed the ckname of Garrulous Davis. As he agan to speak there was a rush from it galleries. Colonel Wintersmith as astounded. He reoognized Mr. [r. Davis and became indignant. rawing a brace of revolvers he dd: "Gentlemen, you will please keep )ur seats. The Senator from Ken icky is talking, and you must hear Every man resumed his seat in antly. Among the number was an d Jerseyman, who was wedged in a ont seat between two negroes. Gar tt Davis tal.ked for three hours. he Jerseyman drew many a long reath, but he never swerved. When e speech was ended he walked up C olonel Wintersmith and with >e emotion said: "Did I unaderstand you that it as ie Senator from Kentuoky who was idressing us?" "Yes, sir," responded the Kentucky olonel; "he was Senator Davis from :entucky. Have you any fault to find ith his speech?" "N-n-no," the Jerseymian stain tred, "but I want to ask one favor you. The next time you eatch me ithis gallery when the Senator from entucky arises to speak, please on't warn me, but shoot-shoot ght off-the quicker the bette." RANDALLUS SUCCESSORt hte senator McAleer the Xost Premtt aaidato Pmm1uAaL, April 17.-There will e a bitter struggle among the Demo ratic leaders of this city for the con -ol of the convention which will ame Randall's successor. The dis det is undoubtedly Democratic, but 1. fight which is now in prospect iay result in the election of a Re ublican. The only avowed candi ate as yet is State Senator Wia [cAleer, a shrewd politician who has een fighting Randall's friends all his fe. McAleer's friend.,elaim that hey can control the district, but isquire McMullen and others of tandall's friends will be against him, s will also ex-Postmnaster Harrity, rho is the most potent factor in the )emeratic polities in this city at resent It is said that Governor Beaver will .ot order an election to fill the va ancy, but will allow the place to re Sain unfalled until the next T egisla ure meets, when the distri will be aad. Republican. This statement is enied by the Governor's frienads. iAleer could probably get the nomn ation if left alone in the district, iut outside influence are likely to de at his ambition. H. may get the elp of the Republican machine in i fight. Half a dozen candidates il be in the ield against him, how ver as soon as the funersl is ove if o before. The Cost of Tying 5hoosit )age. One of the mainagers of a big Bash n knitting mill has made a ealcula ion that the shoestrings of a wak ng girl will come untied three times >er die,and thab a girl will lose ibout 50 seconds every tim. she ~toops to retie them. Most of the mployes have two feet, so this entails loss of 800 seconds every day for ach girL. There are about 400 girls mployed in this factory, and there. ore the gentleman finds that 43,800, 100 seconds are wasted in the course : >a year, which timo at the average, -aia of wages, is worth $948.17 j. rders have accordingly been issued hat the girls must wear only button hoes or congress gaiters under pen BAGSOVERTHEIRHEAD THE TREATMENT GIVEN PRESIDEN LINCOLN'S ASSASSINS Im5rordiaery Xeesure Usoed to Frevez Eaape Rescue and suilide-a signincr Chapter of Unpublished History. During the exciting times immed ately following the assassination c Abraham Iincola the prisoners, wh were srested in sonnetion with the affair, were confined on board c United States monitors anchored i the Potomac River, opposite the nay yard. A history of the Washingto: navy yard, written by Chaplain Henr B. Hibben, which has just been issue as sa executive document by the Set ate, contains the orders given to th commandant of the navy yard as t, the oare of those important prisonerv and these orders revealed one or tw< featnres of their treatment, which, i is believed, have never before beei made publio. The arst order was from the Nay Department to Commodore J. E Montgomery, commandant of th yard, and dated April 15, 1885, th day of Mr. Lincoln's death. It read as follows: -If the military authorities arres the murderer of the President an< take hin to the navy yard, put hin in a monitor and anchor her out i the stream, with strong guards o' vessel, wharf and in navy yard. Cal on commandant of marine corps fo guard.Have vessel immediately pre pared, ready to receive the crimina atany hour, day or night. He wil be heavily ironed and so guarded as to prevent escape or injury to him self." Two days later the departmen notined the commantan that "th< War Department wishes special at ention edled this afternoon to orde of Baturday, 15th instant. Keep i boat in constant readiness and hav, a guard at the gate, that the prisonei ean be safely got on board " The :first prisoners were received a the navy yard that night, and th< following day Commodore Mont omery reported that Mike O'Flaher ty and Lewis Payne had been deliver ed during the night, and were con fined on board the monitor Saugus in double irons and under a strong guard. Samuel Arnold was added t< the prisoners at 2.30 o'clock the morn ing of A il 10. The same day th, ommanant received orders to per mit no person to see or hold com munication with the prisoners withou a paso signed jointly by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy. At 11.10 p. m., April 20, two mor prisoners were received at the navn yard. They were lap drev Atzerott and Ernest Hartman tchie! his brother-in-law. April23 the As sistant Secretary of the Navy sent this order to Commodore Mont gomery: "The Secretaryof War wishes Atze. rott separated from his brother-in law, Ritchie, by putting the forme2 in another vessel, unknown to the other prisoners; also, that a ball and chain to be put on each ankle o Payne." On the following day the command - neoeived directions which showed tSecretary of War Stanton pro. posed to neglect no precaution to ward preventing any sort of corn nunication between the prisoners hese directions were as follows: "The Secretary of War request. that the prisoners on board iron-clads belonging to his department for bet er security against conversation shall have a canvas bag put over the head f each and tied around the neck with a hole for proper breathing and eating, but not seeing, and thai Payne be secured to prevent self-de struction." To this order, which ia now brought to light for the first time, Command nt Montgomery replied on the same~ "The hoods were made, and have >een applied as directed. The pris mers are in all respects entirely se cure." Ned Spangler was taken from the ld Capitol prison that day and con tned on one of the monitors. Three days later, April 27, the commandani reported to the Navy Department as tolloweo "David 0. Harrold, prisoner, and~ the remains of Wilkes Booth were delivered here at 1.45 this morning The body of Boothis changing rapid ly. What disposition shall be made of tiIt is now on board the iron-clad ontak." Later in the day the commandant was hande.? an order, signed by Secretaries felles and Stanton, di recting him to permit Surgeon Gene ral Barnes, Judge Advocate Genera Holt, and certain other officers anc civilians, incliueng a photographer to go on board the Montauk and set Booth's body. The order also direct. ed that, after the Surgeon Genera had made an autopsy, the body shoulc be p laced in a strong box, .sarefufll sealed, and delivered to the charge o: Cl L 0. B'aker. A letter sent to the Secretary a the Navy the following day by Comn mandant Montgomery shows that he had nochnce t crryput ap art this joint order. The writer comn plains that the body of Booth wa suddenly and unexpectedly remova by 001. Baker to a tug and take: away before the marine officer had any opportunity to report the pro eodings to the commandant. Th< box prepared for it was left on th< Montauk, and Commandant Mont Pmery reported that it was read for delivery when called for. Othe: correspondence shows that the nav: offers at the yard felt that theyha< not been properly treated by th. highr authorities~, and were dispose< criticise the military authorities for the "informal and immilitary way in which Booth's body was ia ken from thei custody, without an: written authority for so disposmng o: im having been shown to any offce: of the vesseL. The orders leave n< doubt of the great fear wmieh bese Secretary Stanton that the prison r5 would escape or be rescued, anc this fear seems to have extendec even to the dead body of the assas Tahest antry reparding thMi oners shows that Commandant Mont. gomery was relieved from his trouble some charge April 29. In a communi T cation to Secretary Welles, dated April 30, he says: "In obdience to a telegram received * at 9 o'clock last night the prisoners in my charge were delivered at 10.80 p. m. to General Hancock, and under - military guard they left the yard at 11 o'clock." Immediatel, after this the deperk ment ordered the removal of the ex, traordinary restrictions that had f been established relative to the ad a mission of visitors to the yard during the time the prisoners were in the commandant's custody, and this end ed the connection of the naval es. F tablishment with these state pris oners. UNITED STATES COURTS Provisions of the Ne-T Bl Definel Mh&t Juridictein-An Important Xeasurm The House of Representatives has passed the bill to define and regulate the jurisdiction of courts of the United States. The final vote wis, yeas 131, nays 13, the Speaker count ing a 'quorum. The following is a e synopsis of the provisions of the a new law: It withdraws all original jurisdic t tion now vested in the circuit courts j of the United States and vests the L same exclusively in the distract a courts of the United States and also i provides that the circuit courts of 1 the United States shall exercise such r jurisdiction by writ of error and - appeal as they have and exercise, 1 under existing laws. The circuit 1 court is made an Appellate Court exclusively, except that it has power - to issue alternating process. The circuit courts shall consist of the b present circuit judge and two others to be appointed in each cir cuit by the President by and with r the advice and consent of the Senate. a It requires three judges to constitute , a quorum, and in case either of the judges is absent at any term the senior circuit judge of the circuit t may require any district judge of the circuit to sit in his stead for the time being. But there must always be one circuit judge present and no cir cuit or district judge before whom a case is tried in the district court can sit in the same case in the circuit court. The circuit courts shall be courts of record. The terms of the circuit courts are to be held at the following places: . :t Circuit, Boston. 2nd " New York. 3rd " Philadelphia. 4th " Richmond, V& 5th " New Orleans. 6th " Cincinnati. 7th " Chicago, Ills. 8th " St. Louis. 9th " San Frac rts oferror in proper cases in all other cases appeals may be had from district to circuit courts, both at law and in equity, and cases of admirality and maritime jurisdiction within six zrnths after the entry of final judgry it or decree inidistricts. The circuit courts shall have original jurisdiction to issue certain remedial writs and to establish rules of prae tice not inconsistent with. those of the Supreme Court. ,Writ of error from the circuit court of an appeal to the circuit pourt may be had in all commercial cases wherein the cir cuit court may be had in all commner cial cases wherein the circuit court may now exercise jurisdiction by writ of error and pending appeals of writs ot error and judgment of the district court in all criminal cases are stryed until the case is fimally deter-. mined by the appellate. Civil cases now removable from State courts in circuit courts of the United States may become involved in the district courts of the United States in the territorial jurisdiction of which they were commenced. The circuit courts are given appellate jurisdiction by writ of error or appeal to review thi judgments and decrees of the supreme courts of the several territories and for the review of the judgments and decrees of district courts. The cir cuit court shall have final and con clusive jurisdiction on appeal or writ of error in all cases in which juris diction is acquired by the district courts by reason of the citizenship of parties only and in which no ques tion arises under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States. But questions arising in this class of cases of a novel, difficult or impor tant character may be carried to the supreme court for determination in the discretion of any two of the circuit judges trying the case. Millions in Mortgages. Mr. Luther J. Kaufman, Lancas ter, delivered an interesting address Saturday last at the farmers' insti tute, held under the auspices of the Berks county Agricultural Society, at Reading. Mr. Kaufman dwelt upon the great depression in agriculture in Pennsylvania, and produced ar Iguments, statistical and otherwise, that the farms in the East, exclusive of improvements,were worth no mo now in the market than those in No braska and Kansas. He stated that the mortgages on the farms in Berks county were $9,000,000, and in Lan ease oMaty $15,000,000. In closing his address fr . Kaufman said that the cost of issuing and distributing ~currency by the govrernment was one qurtrof one per sent., and he wanted toknow why, tiii being the -case, the farmer should not be able to secure a loan on his farm for the one per cent. He said that the grmt accumulative power of money at pre !vailing interest rates was one of the chief causes of the present distress, and urged the farmers of Berks to seur frmCongress the establish mnofanational bankig bureau, ~which should issue and loan money to all citizens upon good security at one per cent. He left a number of petitions to that effect, which were signed by many of those present. > -The New York World isprintingas serial story purporting to give the -mystery of Judge Hilton's wonder' L ful influence over A. T. Stewart and -t the history of his absorption of the -Stewart millions. It says there is a 'woman and a story of dishonor in the