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AN5 MANNING, S.--., EDN ESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1891. NO. 44. VOL. VII. X A N - " N S7q'TL THE SWO:RD OF ET F A ZAR. A SERMON ON THE COLDNESS. DOUBT AND UNBELIEF OF THiSAGE. Sad Cabes of Chrlitians Who Believe but a Part of the liAble, of Men Who Doubt Everything and of Self Styled Christians Who Shrink from the Confliet. BROOKLYN, Oct. 11.-Among the vast audiences which crowd the Brook lyn Tabernacle at every service are large numbers of young men, many of whom are theological students. Dr. Talmage's sermon this morning had a special in terest for them. At this time when so many are ;ivng up the Bible, or hold ing the truth less firmly than before, the eloquent preacher put himself on record so clearly and forcibly that no one who heard him could have any doubt as to his attitude. His text was II Samuel xxiii. 10, "And his hand clave unto the sword." A grept ge:eral of King David was Eleazar, the hero of the text. The Philistines owuined battle against him, and his troops re.reated. The cowards fled. Ele.zar and three of is comrades went into the 'Jattle and swept the field, for four n-.;n %%ith God on tbir side are stronger t 'aL a whale battalion with God again- t tV. m. ' Fall back!" shouted the comranar c: the Philistine army. The cry r..a a! n- the host. "Fall back! Eleasar lhvug swept the ftield throws himself ou the ground to rest, but the muscles and sinews of his hand had been so long beat around the hilt of the sword that the hilt w as imbedded in the flesh, and the gold wire of the hilt had broken through the skin of the pa-m of the hand, and he could not drop this %word which he had so gallantly wielded. "His band clave unto the sword." That is what I call msrificent fighting for the Lord God of Israel. And we want more of it. I propose to show you this morning how Eleazar took hold of the sword and how the sword took hold of Eleazar. I look at Eleazar's hand, and I come to the eonclusion that he took the sword with a very tight grip. The cowards who fled had no trouble in dropping theiz swords. As they fly over the rocks I hear their swords clanging in every direction. It is easy enough for them te drop their swords. But Eleazar's hand clave unto the sword. . Oh, my friends, in this Christian con flict we want a tighter grip of the Gos pel weapons, a tighter grasp of the two edged sword of the truth. It makes me sad to see these Christian people whc hold only a part of the truth and let the rest o the truth go, so that the Philis tines, seeing the loosened grasp, wreach the whole sword away from them. The only safe thmg for us to do is to put our thumb on the book of Genesis and sweep our hand around the book until the New Testament comes into the palm, and keep on sweeping our band around the book until the tips of the fingers clutch at the words, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." I like an infidel a great deal better than I do one of these namby-pamby Chris tians who hold a part of the truth and let the rest go. By miracle God pre. 'served this Bible just as it is, and it is a DamaEcus blade. The severest test to which a sword can be put in a sword factory is to wind the blade around a gun barrel like a ribbon, and then when the sword is let loose it flies back to its own shape. So the sword of God's truth has been fiuly tested, and it is bent this way and that way and wound this way and thai wav, but it always comes back to its own shape. Think of it! A booki written eighteen centuries ago, andi some of it thousands~of years ago, and yet in cur time the average sale of this book is more than twenty thousand cop ies every week, and more than a million copies a s ear. I say now that a bock which is divinefy inspired and divinely scattered is a weapon worth holding a tight grip of. Bishop Colenso will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the five books of Moses, ands Strauss will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the miracles, and Renan will come along and try to wrench out of you hand the entire life of the Lord Jeisus Christ, and your associates Ir. the store, or the shop, or the-factory, or the banking house will try to wvrench out of Syour hand the entire Bible; but in the strength~ of the Lord God of Israel, and with Eleazar's grip, hold on to it. You y''i the Bible, you give up any part of it, an) p2.r. - g parden and peace and life and heaven. THoTHIGAIANS' CREE1). I see hundreds, perhaps thousands, 0f young men in thais audience. D~o not be ashamedi, young man. to have the world ea~da'o are a friend of the Bible. This bcok is the friend of all that is good and it is the sworn enemy of all that is bad. An eloquent writer recently gives an incident of a very bad man who stood in the cell of a western prison. This criminal had gone through all styles of crime, and he was there waiting for the gallows. The conviet standing there at the window of the cell, this writer says. "looked out and declared, 'I am an in fidel.' He said that to all the men and children who happened to be sgathered there, 'I am an infidel,' " and the elo quent writer says, "CEverv man and wo man there believed him." And the writer goes on to say, "If he had stood there saying, 'I am a Christian,' every man and woman would have said, 'IHe is a liar!' " This Bible .is the sworn enemy of all this wrong, and it is the friend of all that is good. Oh, hold on to it. Do not take part of it and threwt the rest away. Hold on to all of it, -There are so many people now who do .not know. You ask them if the son] is immortal, and they say, "I guess it is, I don't know; perhaps it is, perhi &ps it isn't." Is the Bible true?~ "Well, perhaps it is, and perhaps it isn's; per. haps it may be figurativelyv, and perhaps it may not be at all." They despise what they call the Apostolic creed; but if their own creed were written out it would read like this: "I believe in noth ing, the maker of heaven and earth, and in nothing which it hath sent, which nothmnt was born of nothing, and which nothing was dead and buried and des cended into nothing, and arose from noth~ ing and ascended to nothing, and nowt sitteth at the right hand of nothing, from which it will come to judge Nothing. I believe in the holy agnostic church and in the communion of nothing-garians, anmd in the forgiveness of nothmng, and she resurrection of nothing, and in the life thatnever shallbe. Amen." Thai is the creed of tens of thousands of peo. ple in this day. If you have a mind te adopt suchu theory I will not. "I be. y e in God the Father Almighty, er of heaven and earth, and in Jesue bit, an'd in the holy catholic church. din the communion of saints, and ir lfe everlasting. Amen." Oh. n I ate m Ela a ing such a stonw I rip of the swon iii tie baLC against Sin and for righteousness, I come to the conclusion that we ought to take a stout er grip of God's eternal truth, the s wor d of righteousness. As I look at Eleazer's hand I also no tiee his spirit of self forgetfulness. lie did not notice that the hilt of the sword was eating through the palm of his hand. He did not know it hurt him. As he went out into the conflict he was so anx ious for the victory he forgot himself, and that hilt might go never so deeply into the palm of his hand it could not disturb him. "His hand clave unto the sword." Oh, my brothers and sisters, let us go into Christian conflit with the snirit of self abnegation. Who cares vhether the world praises us or denoun ces us? What do we care for misreprm sentation, or abuse or persecution in a conflict like this? Let us forget oursel ves. TLat man who is afraid of getting his hand hart will never kill a Philis tine. Who cares whether you get hurt oi not if gou get the victory ' Oh, how many Christians there are who are ali the time worrying about the way the world treats them. They are so tired. and they are so abused. and they are so tempted, when Eleazer did not thiw': whether he had a hand. or an arm, or a foot. All he wanted was victory. We see how men foret themselves la worldly achievement. We have e:ten seen men who in order -o achieve world ly success will forget al physical fat~gue and all annoyance ant- all obstacle. Just after the battle of Yorktown. in the i American Revolution, a musician,' wounded, was told he must have his limbs amputated, and they were a"out to fasten him to the surgeon's table for it was long before Lhe merciful dis covery of auxsthetlcs. He said, "'No, don't fasten me to that table, get me a viohn." A violin was brought to him and he said, "Now go to work as I be gin to play," and for forty minutes, dur ing the awful pangs of amputation, le moved not a muscle nor dropped a note while he played some sweet tune. Oh, is it not strange that with the music of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and with this grand march of the church militant on the way to become the church triumph ant, we cannot forget ourselves and for get all pang and all sorrow and all per secution and all perturbation? THE ENDURANCE OF HEROIC MEN. We know what men accomplish under worldly opposition. Men do not shrink back for antagonism or for hardship. You have admired Prescott's "Conquest of Mexico," as brilliant and beautiful a history as was ever written; but some of you may not know under what disadvan tages it was written-that "Conquest of Mexico"-fcr Pres::ott was totally blind, and he had two pieces of wood parallel to each other fastened, and totally blind, with his pen between those pieces ot wood he wrote, the stroke against one piece of wood telling how far the pen must go in one way, the stroke against the other piece of wood telling how far the pen must go in the other way. Oh, how much men will endure for worldly knowledge and for worldly success, and yet how little we endure for Jesus Christ. How many Christians there are that go around saying, "Oh, my hand, my hand, my hurt hand; don't you see there is blood on the hand, and there is blood on the sword?" while Eleazar, with the hilt imbedded in the flesh of his right hand, does not know it. Must I be carried to the skies On flowery beds of ease, While others fought to win the prize Or sailed through bloody seas? What have we suffered in compari son with those who expired with sullo cation, or were burned, or were chopped to pieces for the truth's sake? We talk of the persecution of olden times. There is just as much persecution going on no tv in various ways. In 1849, in Madagas car, eighteen men were put to death for Christ's sake. They were to be hurled over the rocks, and before they were hurled over the rocks, in order to make their death the more dreadful in antici pation, they were put in baskets and swung to and fro over the precipice that they might see how many hundred feet they would have to be dashed down, and while they were swinging in these bask ets over the rocks they sang: Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly, While the billows near me roll, While the tempest still is high. Then they were dashed down to death! Oh, how much others have endured for Christ. and how litte we endure for Christ! We want to ride to heaven in a Pullman sleeping catr, our feet cn soft p ush, the bed made up early so we can sleep all the way, toe black porter of~ death to wake us up .nly in tinme 1o en-' er the golden city. We want all the surgeons to 11x eur hand up. Let them bring on all the lint, and all the banda gen, andl all the salve, for our hand is hurt, while Eleazar does not know his hand is hurt. "IIis hand clave unto the sword." As I look at Eleazar's hand I comc to the conclusion that Le has done a great deal of hard hitting. I am not surprised when I see that these four men-Eleazar and his three companions-drove back the army of Philistines that Eleazar's sword clave to hIs hand, for every time he struck an enemy with one end of the sword the other end of the sword wound ed him. When he took hold of the sword the sword took hold of' him. Oh. we have found an enemy who canno tbe' conquered by rose water and soft speeches. It must be sharp stroke and sraght thrust. There is intemperance, and there is fraud, and there is gambling, and there is lust, and there are ten thou sand battalions of iniquity, armed Phil istine iniquity. IHow are. they to be captured and overthrown? Sol t sermons in morocco cases laid down in front of an exquisite audience will not do it. You have got to call things by their right names. IMPERATIVE NEED OF' AN AWAKEN IG. We have got to expel from our churches Christians who eat the sacra ment on Sunday and devour widows' houses all the week. We have got to stop our indignation against the Hlittites and the jubusites and the Gergishites, and let those poor wretches go, and ap ply our indignation to the modern trans gressions which need to be dragged out and slain. Ahabs here. Hlereds here.I Jeebels here. The massacre of the in: fants here. Strike Ibr God so hard that while you slay the sin the sword wili adhere to your own hand. I tell you, my friends, we want a few Jolhn Knoxes and John Wesleys in the Christian church today. The whole tendency is to refine on Christian work. We keep on refining on it uutil we send apolo getic word to iniquity we are about to capture it. And we must go with sword silver chased and presented by the la des, and we must ride on white pallrey under embroidered housing, putting the spurs in only just enough to make the charger dance gracefully. and thetn we ii.z cad, to aml, the old black g-iaut of , he will not surrender. Women saved by the grace of God ant >u glorious mission sent, detained from 4abbath classes because their new hat s not done. Churches that shook our Ities with great revivals sending arounJ! .o ask some demonstrative worshiper if .1' %ill not please to say "amen" and halleliujah" a little softer. It seems is if in our churches we wanted a bap ism of cologne and balm of a thons md flowers, when we actually need a )aptism of fire from the Lord God of Lentecost. But we nre so afraid some )odv will criticise our sermons, or crit cise our prayers, or criticise our re iious work that our anxiety for the world's redemption is lost in the fear we will get our hand hurt, while Eleazar sent into the conilict, "And his hand flave unto the sword." But I see in the next place what a iard thug it was for Eleazar to get his mud and his sword parted. The mus :!es and the sinews had been so long Zasped around the sword he could not lrop it when he proposed to drop it., tad his three comrades, I suppose, come . and tried to help him, and they atled the back part of the hand, hop ag the sinews and muscles would relax. lut no. "Iis hand clave unto the s word." Then they tried to pull open the, ngers and to pull back the thumb; but o soonLer were they pulled bick than Aey c!ostd again, "and Is hend clave into the sword." lut after aw':ile they were sueccssful, and then the) noticed Lflat the CurVe in the palm of ie hand corresponuded exactiy with the curve of he hilt. 1is hand clave unto the sword." You and I have seen it many a time. here are in !he United States today many aged ministers of the Gospel. hey are too feeble now to pre ch. In he church records the word opposite heir names is 'emeritus." or the words ire, "a minister without charge." They 6ere an heroic race. They had small alaries and but few books, and they wam sring freshets to meet their ap pointments. But they did in their day a mighty work for God. They took >ff more of the heads of Philistine in Equity than you could count from noon Lo sundown. You put that old ministerof the Gospel now into a prayer meeting, )r occasional pulpit, or a siak room where there is some one to be conforted, nd it Is the same old ring to his voice and the same old story of pardon and peace and Christ and heaven. His hand bas so long clutched tht sword in Chris ian conhfiet he cannot drop t. "His hand clave unto the sword." THE AGED MINISTER'S FAITH. I had in my parish in Philanelphia a very aged man who in his early life had been the companion and adviser of the early presidents. Madison and Monroe. 1ie had wielded vast influence, but I Dnly knew him as a very aged man. The most remarkable thing about him was his ardor for Christ. When he ould not stand up in the meetings with ut propping he would throw his arms round a pillar of the church, and thougzh is mind was partially gone his love for Christ was so great that all were in eep respect and profound admiration, and were moved when he spoke. I was :allea to see him die. I entered the room, and he said. "Mr. Talmage, I cannot 5peak to you no w." He was in a very pleasant delirium, as he imagined he ad an audience befOre him. He said. I must tell these people to come to Christ and prepare for heaven." And then in this pleas ant delirium, both arms lifted, this octogenarian preached Christ and told of the glories of the world to come. There, lying on his dy ng pillow, his dying hand clave to his sword. Oh, if there ever was any one who bad a righ' to retire from the conflict it was old Joshua. Soldiers come back rom battle have the names of the bat tes on their flags, showing where the! istingished themselves, and it is a very appropriate inscription. Look at the lag of old General Joshua! Oa it Jer ~cho, Gideon, Hlazar, City of Ai, and nstead of the stars sprinkled on the flag he sun and the moon which stood still. rhere he is, one hundrcd and ten years ld. He is lying flat on his back but he s preaching. His dying words are a battle charge against idolatry and a rally .ng cry for the Lord of Hosts as he says, lhold. this day I go the way of all he earth, and God bath not failed to ~ulill his promise concernin.. Israel." [11s d yinir hand clave unto the sivord. There is the headless body of Paul on he road to Ostea. His great brain and als great heart have been severed. The almoedI rods had stung himW fearfuily. When the corn ship broke up he swam shore, coming up drenche& with the rine. Every day since that day when the horse reared under him in the subu ebs f Damascus, as the supernatural ight fell, down to this day wben he is sixty-eighut years of age and old and de :repit from the prison cell of the Mamer tine, he has been outragsously treated, and he is waiting to die. How does he p~end his last hours? Telling the world ow badly he feels, and deeetsibing the ~heumatsm that hie got in arisen, the heumatism sillicting his limbs, or the euragia pieccing h~is temples, or the hirst that fevers his tonguer Oh, no. Elis last words are the battle shout for Chrstendomn: "I am now ready to be lered, and the time of my dieparture is m hand; I have fought the good fight." nd so his dying hand clave unto the sword. It was in the front room on the second loor that my father lay a-dying. It was aturday morning four o'clock. Just .hree years before that day my mother mad left him for the skies, and lhe had een homesick to join her company. He wvas eighty-three years of age. Minis ers ot the Gospel came in to comfort um, but he consforted them. How wonderfully ths words sounded out from is dying pihlow, "I have been young md now am old, yet have I never seen .he righteous forsaken, or his seed beg ~ing bread." They bathed his brow, and they bathed his hands, and they bathed his feet and they succeeded in straihtening out the feet; but they did at succeed m bathing open the hand so t would stay open. Tney bathed the and olen, but it came shut. They athed it open again, but it came ihat. What was the matter with the :humbh and the fingers of that old hand? Xlhi it had so long clutched the sword >f Christian conflict that "his hand lave unto the sword." a1RITS OF THE~ MARTTiRS. I preach this sermon as a tonic. I aant you to hold the truth with inera ficable grip, and I want you to strike so uard or God that it will react and while ou take the sword, the sword will take Tou noticed that the oflicers of the iorthern army a few years agro assem >led at Denver, and you noticed that he officers of the southern army assem bed at Lexington. Soliers coming to periences and to show their scars. Here is a' solier Who pulls up his sleeve and says: "There, I was wcunded in that arm," and shows the scar. And an other soldier pulls down his collar, and sals, "There, I was wounded in the neck." And another soldier says, 'I have had no use of that limb since the gunshot fracture." Oh, my iriendis, when the battle of life is over and the resurrection has come and our bodies rise from the dead, will we have -n us any scars of bravery for God' Christ will be there all covered with scars. Scars on the brow, scars on the hand, scars on the feet, scars all over the heart won in the battle of redemption. And all heaven will sob aloud with emotion as they look on those scars. Ignatius will be there, and he will point out the places where thm tooth ana the paw of the lion seized him in the Cliem; and John B uss will be there, and he will show where the coal first scorched the foot on that day when his spirit took wing of flame from Constance. M' Mi Ian and Campbell and Freeman, Amer ican missionaries in India, will be there -the men who with their wives and children went down in the awful massa cre at Cawnpore, and they will sho-v where the daggers of the Sepoys struck them. The Waldenses will be there. and they will show where theirbones were broken on that day when the Piedmont-se sol diery itehed them over the rock-. And there will be those there who tok care of the sick and who looked ater the poor. and they will have evidences of IearthlY exhaustion. And Christ, with his ,carred hand wavinz over the scarred multitude, will say, "You suffered with ine ou earth; now be glorihed with me in heav en." And then the great orsrius of eternity will take up tie chant and St. John will play, "These are theiy who came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white 'n the blood of the Lamb." But what will your chagrin and mine be if it shall be told that day on the streets of heaven that on earth we shrank back from all toil and sacrifice and hardship. No scars to show the heavenly soldiery. Not so much as one ridge on the palm of the hand to show that just once in the battle or God and the truth, we just once grasped the sword so firmly, and struck so hari that the sword and the hand stuck to gether, and the hand clave to the sword. o my Lord Jesus, rouse us to thy ser vice. Thy saints In all this glorious war Shall conquer though they die; They see the triumph from afar, And seize it with the eye. When that illustrious day shall rise, And all thy armies shine In robes of victory through the skies, The glery shall be thine. Gone Wrong. NEW Youx, October 15.-The New York Times and other morning papers to-day published news of which the fol lowing is the substance: John HIoey. who for the last forty years has beeL identified with the Adams Express Company, andI who for over three yeart has been its president, was yesterday discharged from his high office by the unanimous vote of the board of direc tors on the charge of malfeasance. Clapp Spooner vice president of the company, a Bridgeport millionaire, who occupied the president's chair when the ote was cast to discharge Iloey, and who voted for that discharge, handed in his resignation, and it was accepted for precisely the same reason for which Hoey was discharged. The charges against Hocey and Spooner. which brought about the above act-ion, are that they purchased the Ne w York and Boston Dispatch Express Company and Kinsley Express Company for $150,000, and turned them over to the Adamai Express Comp'any for $850,000, and that the difference between these two amounts was divided between IHoey and Spooner, Henry Sherburne and Henry C. Taft. The exposure was brought about by a suit brought by Sherburne against the other three men for an accountima: and his share of the profits of the deal. Ioey's share of the profits is set down as $179,000, and Spooner's at $172,000. The published statements are that when the directors met to consider the subject Hoey had nothing to say. ieu ry Sanford, of Bridgeport. Conn., was this afternoon appointed presidert of the Adams Express Company. and Frederick Lovejoy, of this city, was ap pointed vice president. Educationals5tattics,. WASmflIOTON, Oct. 9--The 'Cencus Bureau has issued an extr: bu!!he-on o ' education as a summary of statistics' heretofore published but briniging rt turns of private and parochial schools up to July. 1, 1891, and giving~ paro hial schools by States and by commuu ities, not before shown ic any censu. The total school enrollment for the United States, reported July 1.1l691, wi-s close to 14,220,000; the tot:l public school enrollmenit, includmng about '65, 0Mi in universities, schocls for trainin g teachers, and so on near 12,73t0,000; ia private schools and in parochtal schoon, at far from 750,000 each. A t able gives the national population and scbiool enrollment from each decade from 184-), when the first educational e'-nsus was taken, showing a gain of population from 1850 to 1870 of 66.26 per cent ;from 170 to 1690J of 62.41 per cent.; of spetai enrollment from 1850 to 1870 of 97 94 per cent.; from 1870 to 180'0 of 'J7.21 per cent,, indicating nearly the same reht tions of population and school enroll ment in each period, notwithstanding great local changes meantime. Returns received sincei this bulletin was pre pared will add considerably to private and parochial enrollment and modify the classitication in some degree. All Hands Wore Drunk. ST. Jonx's, N. F., Oct. 15 -A sailor named John Brennan arrived at ? re passy today and tells the following si ora.I ~e was one of the crew of forty-three f the steamer City of Rtome, which left Montreal, October 7, for Dundee wit h 575 cattle and a lot of flour and maize. he steamer, he says, was tot ally wreck ed Monday night at Marine Cove, St. Mary's Bay. The captain, crew and of icers were all drunk and could not save themselves. H~e was thrown on the rock, and after a terrible night's experi ence was rescued by a man natued Lun :drigan on Tuesday morning. All t be others were lost, ie tells a pitiful tale f the struggles of the cre w and of the cattle in their efforts to save themselves. There is considerable excitenment here over the story o fthemnanlBrennani. who claims to be the only survivor of the cattle ship City of Rome. There are nu-; merous persons here who refuse to be lieve his story. Brennan is on his way to St. John's. - Egyptian Cotton srers Too. CARlo, Oct. 8.-The cotton associa tion reports that the recenit cold an~d foggy weather which has prevailed throughout the cotton growing distrl':ts of Egypt has seriously affected the crops. -The association, taking every thing into consideration.'estimates tihe vlelQ of cotton will te ;3,70',00 cantr-rs.; DIVIDIENG THIE IN 01110. I t AN EXTRAORDINARY UNION PGLITI- r CAL MEETING AT ADA. M Governor Campbell, t h e Democratic Chamion, iVtns the Opening and Clos int, and MakeA Good Uso of the Privi- V c lege In Doing Up McKinley. f A iu, OrIo., Oct. 8.-The little town of Ada was in gala attire to-day in honor of its great political e7ent, and c not only did every front window pre sent a likeness of either McKinley or 9 Campbell, but from every limb of the c tr-es were suspended above the streets t portraits of the distinguished Ohioans. 5 Flags and banners and bunting there t were without number, and so generous a was the friendly rivalry of decorations displayed by Democrats and Republi- ] cans tbat the very horizen was obscured p by the familiar lines of the national t coiors. Great decorative taste was dis ph'ed in various triumphal arches,the e moet prominent of these structures be- t ing the non-partisan. "Weleome" arch, which rose above Main street and bore the words, "Welcome to their leaders." c From the Keystone were also suspend- t td portraits of McKinley and Camp- I bell, and as the various marching clubs t marched under the arch they eneered 1 lustily for their respective leaders. I By noon there were over Ilve thous- 3 and strangers in the city, and although V great enthusiasm was manifested by C both parties, the rivalry was a friendlv . one and entirely devoid of unpleasant a incidents. Many Indianians and a few 11liuoisians came and they numbered in their ranks the most enthusiasti- par- e tIsanson thteground. Fr'm early inorn- t ing until the opening of the meeting the C music cf bands resiurded through the i streets and occasionally the blast of a tin horn tilstlirbed the martial melody. , There was an object lesson, however. t in these tin horns, for they were under- t stood to be and labelled as the product c of A merican tiu. The handy walking v cane, displayed with much ostentation t by various marching clubs, was alluded : to as having an origin in the tin mines 3 of Dakota, and no occasion was lost to i denounce in vigorous language the bete t noir of Ohio Republicans, the ")emo cratic tin-plate liar." On the other hand a the Democrats retaliated by displaying d badges bearing allusions to the incon- S sistency and impotency of the McKin- t ley bill. The ladies wore distinctive j badges, which attracted much atten tion, and the Democratic badge receiv ed special allusion by Governor Camp- t bell. I1t bore a nortrait of Campbell, y and below it werethe significant words, "American wool, 24 cents, on accowL.t h of the McKinley blil." An Ameri- 0 can tin badge, displayed with equal t pride by Republicans, contained a por- t trait of McKinley and bore the words: l "Protection and honest money." 1 There were many prominent Ohio a politicians on the grand stand, ard both a parties were fairly well represented. r At 11.15 a special train bearing Major , McKinley, Senator Jlumphreys and t others rolled into the depot, and cheer after cheer arose from the crowds as the features of the great exponent of protection were recognized by the mul titude. The Major bowed smilingly to V the crowd, and, Quickly en tering a car- b riage, was driven to the residence of t Prof. Lehr, under escort of various V marching clubs, led by an exultant i brass band. Promptly at 12.W0 the ocking Valley train, bearing about one thousand cheering Democrats and h Republicans, drove in sight, and at tached to the rear of it was the special 1 car "Buckeye," containing Governor Campbell, Dr. Norton, Chairman Nor ton of the State central committee, Lieutenant Governor Marquis, and a few other prominent Democrats. A e repetition of the enthusIastic ovation ~ e extended to McKinley was the recep- ~ tion tendered Campbell. As the cheering multitude pressed . around the carriage in waiting to re- I ceve the Governor not a few insisted r on shaking hands and the proceedings were temporarily interrupted while ~ Governor Campbell extended his hand to a few of the more demonstrative.g The band struck up "The Campbells are Coming" and again a series of enithusi astic Democratic cheers rent the air.1 Te Governor was rapidly driven to theP residence of Prof. Lehr, where he met Major McKinley, and they took lunch with Prof. Lehr and a few personalU frinds. For a brief hour politics andb the great struggle which is being waged a for partisan supremacy in the .Uuckeye State were forgotten and these two gen thmen, each acknowledged by his op ponents to be "the prince of good fel lows." met in steeial friendship: in ful turlment of their mutual pledge at the - contest that there should be a campaign P of measures an~d principles and not of ~ pe:soality. Today'd union political meeting was P held in a vas. amphitheatre on the 0 Fair grounds5. G reat taste was display ed in the decorations and in the centre Y of the grounds was a large pole, fromP which floated proudly the Sinrs and I Stripes. Artillery was called :-nto re- q usition, and as the two disting~uished le~ders appeaired1 in sight a Governor's salute was tired. A mong the prominent peoph on thea g~rand stand were Congressman Storer,~ Congressman Taylor, Gen. Finley, Ex-. Congressman Yoder, E. W. Fee, Re publican candidate for Auditor of the State: .J. P. Briley. Democratic candi date for Attorney General; Chairman Norton, of the State central cimmittee; Pro. P. 5. Leiper and many others. A 1)UAL. PRESIDENCT. The meeting was presided over by two chairman, J. M. Fleet, of Harlin County Democratic central com~mittee,~ o behalf of the Democrats, and James t . Ilowe, off the Republican count Ic central committee, on behalf of the Re-n pu blicans. It was 1.45 P. M. when the meeting was called to order by the Rev Mr Campbell, a Presbyterian minister,. nd at that time fully seven thousand h people were on the grounds. The cleric-t al gntleman introduced the t wo presid-U ing oflicers of the meeting, and an once:l that Governor Campbell would be the ,irst speaker. la Chairman Fleet, the Democratic presiding oflicer, made a brief speech of a ongratulation to everybody, and an- a nounced that Governor Campbell had gained the privilege of opening and. losing by casting lots. The gentle an committed a slight bull by allud- n ing inadvertently to Major McKinley P' s 'iovernor McKinley," and the Re-K publicans cheered lustily, while theh chairman blushed in contusion. tU GOVEIRNORt CA3MPBELL.g ft-r being introduced as one of Ohio's tU greatest Governors, launched into de- be bate. I regret. said Governor Campbell, tU in opening, that I have not time to T properly present the indictmernt of that px overgrown monster, which, muasqluer- ax ading in the garb of protection, sub- p1 ists on the~ wage-earner and agrical- T urist. [A pplause.] Yearly farming is pi growinr moore unprofitable, *.ur com- gi merce is 3awept from the seas aLnd that qji ndustry abandoned; under protection st splendid palaces of protected mnanufac- [oi turers are crowning the hills, while tr mprted inns, ITalins and Baheminns atc re displacing American citizens. 'hose who are sometimes called "-rotten ich" are defying the people, seeking brough a venal press to destroy the eputation, honor and estate of any rho may wage war vigorously in the ause of the people. [Applause.] We re rapidly reaching the condition rhich was predicted by Abraham Lin oln when he uttered these words: "As be result of the war corporrtions have een enthroned, an era of high prices rill follow, the money power will en eavor to prolong its reign until all the realth is aggregated in the hands of the ew, and the Republic Is lost." [Ap lause.] To convince you that Lincoln-s pre ietton is being realized I cite to you be utteranes of a Republican Con ressman (i-utterworth) from Ohio, rho said in Congress that he could up n the ten fingers of his hands count le men who had added more to their realth in the last ten years than had een added to the wealth of all the griculturists in any State in the Union. Democratic applause.] The American ,conomist says that the number of eople in the United States who own eir own homes has in twenty-five ears fallen from five-eights to three ighths. How many years will it take em to fall to one-eighth? The Pro ress says that when Egypt went down per cent of her people owned 97 per ent of her wealth; people were starved D death; that when Persia went down per cent of her population owned all e land; that when Rome went down ,800 tmen owned all the known world. n 1850 in this country capitalists owned 7% per cent of her wealth. Yet he rho goes before the people, and without omment, without temper. points to hose facts that are statistical, is sneered t as a "calamity croaker." Bradstreet, an authority in this coun ry, says that the total number of mer antile failures in the United States for be nine months for 1891 was 8,846, as ompared with 7,528 in a like period of 590, an increase of 17 per zent. This under the McKinley bill. :Applause.] et in 1890, when McKinley accepted e nomination for Congress, he said at if his bill passed the Senate this uuntry would win a boom more mar ellous than it had ever known. [Laugh r.] Where is that boom? [Demo ratic applause. "Free sugar!" "Free ugar!" from the Republicans.] Were not for the present abundanc crops, e best in ten years, these failures ,ould be a great deal worse than they re. One of the greatest causes of the epression and failures of the present !ason is that we are paying too much xes. McKinley, on May 5, 1888, at 'hiladelphia, said that tariff was a tax. Democratic applause.] Now, who ays that tax? The Major says that als tax is not paid by the consumer. iow, the Supreme Court of the United tates, the highest authority in the land, as said who paid the tax. In the case f Brown vs the State of Maryland ey unanimously announced that "a utv on imports is a tax that is paid by onsumers." [Democratic applause.] a 1870 William Richardson, once a iember of the Court of Claims and ex ssistant Secretary of the Treasury, in ,ply to an inquiry by Senator Sherman, iid that the importer adds the duty to 2e cost of the goods and the consumers ay it. Governor Campbell here caused a oard to be hoisted upon the stage on rhich he demonstrated by methods of ookkeeping the injustice of a high iriff. A man goes to England and archases goods to the amount of $5,000; ie average duty on these goods would e $3,000, making $8,000, total sum paid y importer. Here another board was oisted on which this $3,000 was charged p to "profit and loss," indicating that the Importer did not charge the duty the consumers he would lose $3,000 aid in duties. Thus the foreigner did ot pay that tax. Another board was oisted. It was sho wn that if the for igner paid the tax the cost price of the oods offered to the American consum e would be $5,000 instead of $8,000, rhich would be absolute free trade. ow, when genuine reciprocity comes 1, we would have not little one-sided ciprocity with the little countries of outh America, but substantial re procity with England, France and the rorld. [Applause.] The duty on plate lass is 140 per cent. Last year we im orted $160,000 worth of plate glass. 'hat was the value of the goods in ngland; yet upon that glass there was aid 223,000 duties, or $63,000 more ian the cost of the glass in England. Ebo paid that tax ? D~id ESnglish man facturers give us glass and pay $63,000 sides to get us to take it ? [Applause ad Laughter.] A Chicago paper says iat last week a Chicago firm received 1,400 worth of pearl buttons from .ustraia and the duty on these buttons 'as just $3,000, or a trifle over 200 per mt. Who paid that duty? [Laugh i.] Did the foreign manufacturer ty nearly $2,000 for the privilege of ~nding pearl buttons to us? [Laugh r and applause.] The McKinley bill ovdes that 90 per cent of the duties a some articles shall be refunded, pro ded these articles are exported. Last tar the Standard Oil Company im rted tmn to this country upon which iey paid more than a million and a .arter tax or duty. If they did not, if i foreigner instead paid that duty, ien the United States has put its hand ur pockets and presented the Stand -d Oil Company with a million and a arter of our money, for this amount as refunded to the Standard Oil Comn my. There were manufastured in tis country last year $5,500,000,000 orth of goods. If the tariff on dutiable goods is 60 r cent it is fair to presume, taking 7otected and unprotected industries gether, that at least one-third of that m is paid In lieu of duties to manu turers at home upon the American ~oduct. It is said all this is done for e upbuilding of and maintenance of raufacturers. "Ihow long, Lord, how rig, shall this upbuilding and mainte mce go on ?" [A voice: "For all time."i hen will it not stop with eternii~y." pplause.] Campbell continued in this manner s analysis c f the McKinley tariff and en read from the certificate of the Re iblican secretary of the Ohio State ,ard of equalization showing that in i years the appraised value of farm nd has depreciated S98,000,000, and ked: "IHave other classes suffered Col. Howe, Republican chairman of e meeting introduced McKinley as .n ideal typical American, onae known t only at horne, but abroad." [Ap ause.] It gives me much pleasure, said Mc inley after the ovation which greeted s appearance had subsided, to greet is great audience and pleasure to eak from the same platform and to e same audience with Governor Camp 11, that we may present the causes at we may respectively represent. ae issue beteewn us and between the rties for which the moment we stand e fixed not by ourselves, but by the atforms of our respective parties. aere is one or two of them which I: opose to present. One of them is the iestion of silver, and the other the1 estion of taxation. One relates to the andard with which we shall measure 1 tr exchanges with each other and the st of the world, and the other relates the methorls of taatonn by which we Upon this question of silver the Dem ocratic platform has declared for free and unlimited coinage of the silver of the world as freely as gold i3 now coin ed and upon the ratios now fixed. The Republican party stands opposed to that, insisting that it cannot be safely done until great commercil nations shall have fixed the ratio between gold and silver. Coming back to the tariff question McKinley said: The Governor's plat form conimits him to a tariff for revenue only, that is, a tariff upon foreign pro ducts, levied with no other object in view but revenue, unmindful of every other consideration but revenue, not caring for the industries and occupa tions of the people. A revenue tariff will raise revenue for the Government; a protective tariff will do that; a rev enue tariff will do nothing else; a pro tective tariff besides raising revenue will also stimulate the industries of the people, encourage the skill and genius of American citizens, develop the re sources of the Government and secure to it as it has done in the past thirty years the first rank in mining, agricult ure and manufacturing. Tell me why the foreign producer should be permit ted to enjoy this market equally with the American citizen; why he should have the same privilege to enter this market with his competing products as the American citizens enjoys. McKinley then analyzed his tariff bill from his own standpoint. At the conclusion of Major McKinley's speech the adherents of the great expo nent of high tariff burst into cheers and prolonged applause, hats and parasols were waved in the air and the band be gan to play. It was some minutes be fore Campbell could obtain order, and not until McKinley had signalled to his friends to subduetheir enthusiasm. Ladies and gentlemen, said Governor Campbell, I concur most heartily with Major McKinley that this is the greatest and best ad proudest nation on earth. But, unlike him, I would distribute that greatness and that wealth as God dis tributes the dews of heaven. upon un just as well as just. [Prolonged ap plause and cheers.] I depicted the condition of the farmer, and the answer of the Major is not only that I am a calamity croaker, but in the words of somebody else, you must not grumble. [Laughter.] You Findlay gas workers who have had your meagre wages reduced, you steel workers of Cleveland who have had your pltbance further cut down, you must not grum ble, because yonr poverty adds to some other man's wealth. [Cheers. A voice: "Give it to him."] 1 will take care of him now if you will just let me alone. [Laughter.] This is a good-natured tight, for we are both good men. How ever, as only one of us can be Governor, and I am there already, why, perhaps I had better stay. [Great laughter. Carelees Cotton Covering. WAsHINGTON, Oct. 16.-The acting Secretary of State recently received a letter from the British minister at Washington relative to the packing of American cotton intended for shipment in which the minister refers to the great risk to human life which has been shown to exist from the loose bailing of cotton, and remarks that the subject is one of such great importance to both countries and, indeed, to all nations, in addition to the evidence already sub mitted by him, he desires to Invite at tention to the letter of Edward Atkin son stating that American cotton is treated more dangerously than any other great staple of any other kind of cotton in the world, and to Atkin son's further remarks, as follows: "Bales are badly made, badly covered, badly cut and badly broken. They are rolled in mud and exposed to the weath er, and are always in a condition in which they may become liable to the impregnation of cotton seed oil and thereby to spontaneous cumbustlon. When a bale of cotton which is slight ly moistened with oil on the end or side becomes broken or that air can en ter Into the interstices among the fibres it may happen very often that the right combination of fibre, oil and oxygen will occur, causing the rapid oxidation which is known as spontaneous com bustion." The minister also draws attention to Atkinson's suggestion that there should be careful examination of bales before shipment, which examinations might abate part of the danger, although the whole danger will not be abated un til a bale of cotton is made up, com pressed, guarded and protected as it ought to be. The correspondence with the Secre tary of the Treasury shows that he has repeatedly instructed customs oflicers to take such measures as may be prac ticable for the enforcementiof penalties prescribed by law for improper ship ments of cotton. It is assumed by the treasury department that these instruc tions will lead to an examination of cotton bales shipped and the prosecu tion of the offenders. A Snake Story. WAsuINTON COURT HOUSE, 0., Oct. 15.-While building a kiln to dry fruit a few days ago two boys named Wither spoon and Priest, living near Mt. Pleas ant. Vinton County, Ohio. had a very unpleasant experience. They were get ting out stone for their kiln, when two Large black snakes came out of the rock nd attacked them. The boys beat a Liasty retreat, and were pursued by the makes, which moved with great rapid Lty. Witherspoon succeeded in making is escape by scaling a fence, bat his oompanon, Priest, was overtaken at :he fence, and before he could climb it >ne of the snakes had wrapped itself iround his ankle and bound it securely to the bottom rail. The other snake sprang at his neck and bound it to the op rail, its powerful coil pressing with such tension against the boy's wind pipe and jugular that his tongue and ayes protruded and his face turned pur ple. He remained in this horrible pre Ilcament while Witherspoon ran away L'or assistance. Mrs. George was sum nroned, and, hastening to the spot with mn axe, she proceeded at once to lay out :he serpents, cutting the snake from P~riest's neck and severing its body in wwain. She next struck at the bottom make, cutting it in two, but also sever ng a couple of the boy's toes. The makes measured seven feet six inches md eight feet six nches. Tempted Their Fate. LouisviLLE, Ky., Oct. 15.-Near Mdount Sterling, Ky., last night George md James Howard, sons of Press Hlow ird, a well-to-do farmer, went to the iouse of a man named Cupps, who does iot bear a good reputation, and attempt id to force an entrance in Cupps house with the intention, it is supposed, of tukluxing Cupps. They knocked in ;h door of the house, when Cupps >pened fire on them with a shotgun, tilling them both. James How ard lived n Missouri and was at home on a vis Frost in North Texas. ST. LoUis, Mo., Oct. 8.-A dispatch rm Gainsville, Texas, says a heavy rost formed there and throughout No4rth Texas and the Chickasaw coun ry Tuesday night, doing considerable aaage to the young, undeveloped cot on boils, thus greatly dilminishing the )rospective crop. The weather has been luite cold and the indications are that mother 1k11ing f,.oet will ocunr tonight. ALL.rL1y Al 1110 1 U01. THE UNTIMELY END OF POLICEMAN EAVES. Shot Do wn While Attempting to Arrest a Drunken Mau. also a Policeinan-The Slayer, a Third I'oilceuan, Likewise Drunk. CH ARLESTON, :. C., Oct. 12.-Police man James W. Quinhvan shot and kill ed Policeman Richard C. Eaves at the southeast corner of State and Queen streets, between 11 and 12 o'cloci last night. The shooting grew out of a arunken spree in which Policeman Quinlivan and J. J. Duggan were en gagea. I seems that both Quinlivan and Duggan nad beelt drinking heavily dur ing tae day, and when tney went oIL duty last evenig at 7 o'clocK they kept it up. Eaves's oat was East Bay be low Broad street. Duggan was the ad joing beat, that is East BAy above Broad, ana Quinuvan was stationed on 6tate street. SLortly before 11 o'clock last nignt Quinivan and Duggan left their oeats anu went down on Eaves's beat and began carousing and making a noise. Eaves went up to thetn anO or dered them to leave his beat. RESiSTING AtRREST. Duggan, who was the drunkest of the two, refused to go, so it is said, and Eaves, atter ?epeaung his orders in vain, called upon IA.waru Doran to assist him, and promptly placed Duggan un der arrest, and Lrieu, w ita .oran's as sistance, to take him to the patrol box at tue corner ct Pniladelpnia and Queen streets. Duggan oujected strenuously to being arresed, and Quiniivan also protested in Duggan's benaif, but Wiln ouLt avail. Eaves had taken iDuggal as iar as the corner of Queen anu state streets, when Quimiivrn, lindng that nis entreaties were unavailing, and de termined to prevent Duggats ucing sent to the station Rouse, aLtemptew to release nim by force. TUE EILLING. Eaves then dre w is ciab and struck QuinivYan a heavy bioW on tne neau, cutting tie scaip ana Urnging blood freely. Grazed oy tle ulo w aid drinx Quinnvan jered 11:3 pistoL out Ot its olsLer anu shot at Eaves once. lhe ball entered Eaves's head on the left sate, just back of tue temple, anu deata must have been almost iusanLaneous. P'arLlaUy so uered by wnat lie had done Quinivau ran to tne nearest patrol box and telepioned to the stationl inouse for tae patrol wagon. A iOlRiiBLE 61UiGH. In the meantime Lieut. Aleidt and 6ergt. .1cCaltrey. had heard of the shooting and hastened to the spot. ney found Eaves lying on his back on the pavement, ills face turnea up to waras the 3ay, a smile upon his lips, and both blood and brains ooZiLg out or a gnastiy wouna bacK of the ieft teuplg .ne 0100a trickled sloWly down to W'e - pavement, tortinag tiny poois in the no01ows of the oncks. Uuggan and Quinlivan were standing near at hand. QV'INLVAN'S sTORY. Quinhvan toid Lieut. .aeidt that Eaves naa struck nim with his CiuD and that he then snot niw. .de also claims tnat Eaves drew his pistol on him, and, as Eaves's pistol was found lying on the pavelet by the aeU n11 s side, Quinlival' s story may be true. As Soon as Lie patrol wagon arrived LieuG. 1eilt aenzt QuinLiva and Dug gan up to tau staion tiouse wueie uey w ere iocKeu up. Tile coroner bad in Wue niealtitWe been noUtned of the kining, and Deputy coroner tivers went to the scene of the tragedy, ana atter vie wing tile body had iL removed to the City Ihospital, w acre tine inquest wil be held this tnorning. Ax iN VE5TfGATiON. G olden wvas on the spot, soon Chiefe shooting and made an inves after th into the matter. It was ex tigation y drillectu~t to nnd anyone who. ceedngi coulu' throw any light upon would or 'fie only witniess secured the killin ' as Edw ard Durail, who had last night * Evst tage .Luggan to been assis nEaved wtowtnseh the patrol boco nd h wtesu h quarrel and cot hapee sootin i account of w relaced auove. Yeither ally the story as niivan was in a condi Duggan nor Qui~ewed last niignsl atter tion to be intervilo that it ws imposs5i being locked up, s version' ci the "iiO"I ble to learn their TiIE 3LAN WHO WAS KILLED. Eaves was a young man, with light eyes and hair, of a ruddy complexion, well built and bore an excellent and en viable reputation for sobriety and strict attention to his duty. He came to Charleston t wo years ago from Sul livan County, Tennessee, and secured employment as a driver on the Enter prise Railroad. He remained in the employ of that company until June 4, 1891, when he was appointed to the po lice force, being very strongly endorsed for that position. He was 23 years of age and unmarried. TILE 3LANSLATER. James W. Quinlivan, the officer who did the shooting, was appointed to the force on June 22, and was also 23 years of age. J. J. Duggan, the cause of the shooting, is thie oldest man of the trio and has been on the force for a longer time. He was appointed July 7, 1889, and is 24 years old. He is not what is known as a drinking man, care fully avoiding as a rule all intoxicating liquors, but when he does begin to drink he never stops until he is drunk. The -occurrence last night was a most deplorable one, and it will be sifted to the bottom at the inquest this morn lng.-News and Courier. Eels Choked:the Wheel. M3LorSBnJno, 0., Oct. 16.-The tiour ing mill of U. Engleman has been com pelled to shut down the last few days for a most unusual reason. The water wheel has been completely choked up with eels, and every few hours it would be necessary to clean them out. Fifteen to twenty would be taken out each time, some weighing nearly five pounds. This never occurred before, and is ex plained that several years ago the fish ommission planted a lot of young eels n the Maimi, above Dayton. which have now grown up, and in numbers suffi ient to stop a mill. Released the Parachtte. GREENLr, Ill., Oct. 9.-Just as a bal loon was ascending from the fair grounds yesterday afternoon, Alex. Gordon, a youth, became entangled in the ropes attached to the parachutte and was carried tup, his head hanging 'downward. In his struggle he caught the rope that released thle parachut, and he and the aeronant were thrown to the ground eigrhty feet below. The balloonist, Wm.~ Kisser, of Louisville, Ky. was killed and Gordon was serious injured.__________ six Acres in Fiames, LOIsviLLE, Oct. 8.-A lire at May feld to-day burned nearly six acres of ground. Tfhe Newport News and Mis sissIppi Valley freight and passenger depots, the Western Tobacco Com pany's warehouse and six hundred hgsheads of tobacco and a number of residences were burned. The total loss