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3031E RE&RTS. Through days a-weary, andt scCne SO dreary, SoIe heart in the shadow mulst staY, While the aching eyes scan gloomy skies For a light in the far away. Through the darkness deep, dread agonies creep, And steal the reluctant perfume Of the flowers rare, that fate seemed to dare, On thegrief strIcken soil to bloom. Through the dismal years, of weeping and fears, Some hearts, with their burden of woe. On the grim highway, where no sun beams play, Through the blackness of night must go. Some hea;ts must weep, while other hearts sleep, Ne'er dreaming of pain or sorrow, Some hearts are sighing. some hearts are crying O'er visions of dread tomorrow. Some hearts must kneel and the chast'ning feel, As hopes that were framed in the past Fall into decay, and swift, pass away, Too frail, through suffering, to last. Some hearts are aching, and silently break ing, While the lives of others are crowned With rarest delight, that never takes flight, Where despair's dark face never frowned. LESSONS OF A LAUG4. Rev. Dr. Talmsg.'a Discusses Another Un'que Subiject. BROoKLYN, July,15.-Rv. Dr. Tal mage, who is now in Australa on his round the world icurney, has selected as the subject for his sermon through the press today "Laughter," the text being taken from Psalm cxxvi, 2, "Then was our mouth filled with laughter." and Psalm ii, 4, "He that sitteth in the heav ens shall laugh." Thirty-eigit times does the Bible make reference to this configuration ot the feat ures and quick expulsion of breath which we call laughter. Sometimes it is born of the sunshine and sometimes the mid night. Sometimes it stirs the sympa thies of angels, and sometimes the cach innation of devils. All healthy peoDle laugh. Whether it pleases the Lord or displeases him, that depends upon when we laugh and at what we laugh. My theme today is the laughter of the Bible -namely, Sarah's laugh, or that of skepticism; David's laugh1i, or that of spiritual exultation: the fool's laugh, or that of sinful merriment; God'o latugh, or that of infinite condemnation; heaven's laugh, or that of eternal triumph. Scene, an oriental tent; the occupants, old Abraham and Sarah, perhaps wrink led and deerpit. Their three guests are three angels-the Lord Almighty one of them. In return for the hopital ty shown by the old people God promises Sarah that she shall become the ances tress of the Lord Jesus Christ. Sarah laughs in the face of God. She does not believe it. She is affirighted at what she has done. She denies it. Sha says, "I didn't laugh." Then God retorted, with an emphasis that silenced all dis putation, "But thou didst laugh!" My friends, the laugh of skepticism; in all ages, is only the echo of Sa rah's laughter. God says he will ac complish a thing, and men say it can not be done. A great multitude laugh at the miracles. They say they are con trary to the laws of nature. What is a law of nature? It is God's way of doing a thing. Ycu ordinarily cross a river at one ferry. Tomorrow you change for one day, and youngo across another ferry. You made the rule. Have ycu not the right tochange it? You ordinarily come in at that door of the chureb. Suppose that next Sabbath you should come in at the other door? It is a habit you have! Have you not a right to change your habit? A law of nature is God's habit --his way of doing things. If he makes the law, has he not a right to change it at any time hewants to change it? Alas. for the folly of those who laugh at God when he says. "I will do a thing," they responding, "You can't do it." God says that the Bible is true-it is all true. Bishop Colenso laughs; Herbert Spencer laughs; Stuart Mill laughs; great Ger -man universities laugb; Harvard laughs --sofrly! A great many of the learned lnstitUtions, with long rows of profes sors seated on the fence between Chris tianity and infidelity, laugh sofly. They say, "We didn't laugh." That was Sarah's trick. God thunders from the heavens, "But thou didstlaugh! The garden of Eden was only a fable. There never was any ark built, or if it was built it was too small to bave two of every kind. The pillar of fire by night was-only the nothern hghts, the 10 pia gues of Egypt only a brilliant specimeu of jugglery. The sea parted because the wind blew violently a great while fm one direction. The sun and moon 'ld not put themselves out of the way for Joshua. Jacob's ladder was only horizontal and picturesque clouds. The destroying angel smiting the the firstborn in Egypt was only cholera infantume be come epidemic. The gullet of the whale, by measurement, was too. small to swallow aprophet the story of the immaculate c~ncep iion a shock to all &cency. The lame, the dumb, the blind, the halt cured by mere human surgery. The resurre -tion of Christ's friend only a beautiful tableau. Christ and Lazarus and Mary and Martha acting their parts well. My friends, there is not a doctrine or statement of God's holy word that has not been derided by the skepticism of the day. I take up this book of King James' translation. I censider it a perfect Bible, but here are skeptics who want it torn to pieces. And now, with this Bible in my hand, let me tear out all those portions which the skepticism of this day demands shall be torn out. What shall go first? "Well," says some one in the audince, "take out all that about creation and about the first settle mnent of the world." Away gces Genesis. "Now," says some one, "take out all that about. the miraculous guidance of the children of Israel in the wilderness." Away goes Exodus. "Now," says some one else in the audience, "there are things in Deuteronomy and Kings that are not fit to be read." Away go Deuteronomy and the Kings. "Now," says some one, "the book of Job is a fable that ought to came out." Away goes the book of Job. "Now," says some one, "those passages in the New Testament which imply the divinity of Jesus Christ ought to come out." Away go the Evangelists. "Now," says some' one, "the book of Revelation-how pre posterous! It represents a man with the moon under his feet and a sharp sword in his hand." Away goes the book of Revelation. Now there are a few pieces left. What shall we do with them? "Oh," says some man in the audi ence, "I don't believe a word in the Bible, from one end to the other." Well, it is all gone. Now you have put out the last light for the nation. Now it is the pitch darkneess of eternal midnight. How do you like it? But I think, my friends, we had bet ter keep the Bible a little longer intac t. It has done pretty well for a good many years. Then there are old people who find it a comfort to have it on their laps, and children like the 3tories in it. Let us keep it for a curiosity. If the Bible is to be thrown out of the school and out of the court room, so that men no more swear by it, and it is to be put in a dark corridor ot the city library, the Koran on one side and the wrilings of Confucius on the other, then let us each keep a copy for himself, for we might have trouble, and we would want to be under the delusions of its consolations, and we might die, and we would want the delionn of the ealnted residence of (-), wh . : m m A !ty x'11 1I,' Ge - ev n h car .atre ami .l i h esee-rs in the ou1Le In touh to jur:eadsa h ek ngof ev ryhingbn h, I) : he i ..ig o-v eeryuh tt rve.C G li thunder, KBa1'. 1b-, kdtu Iu!" I thinlctlhe mo-t if emauc lauzlhter at Christitiy I e: rme:nbei .air --a a n in New E}land He mi"e i" -Vord Of God stcm nd u. h iluh.:o at curc re e oU.l be cte to di X0fa'Q IL ,- I''" -'~ " 'a r in a and t0e :e:a My !:f1. he fallereC-:1 falurze d etil l hlave no childrce; a failure seec al ,)r 1 am treated . -n -t'r s.rm ' e apirt; a faiure f~ree-s ali aus I kn but OtLo m-icister 'hah ha:d orted my sentiments.'' For a g: ;i a centu ry o lug!'.ed aC . d evcr since C 1,r]?IheP1i ha.s b::-_U I egnog.1 at him. N"-ri mn -i'-t 'o i a man'sL u ut I tell 'cu the mot; gianti:c urglary ever icnttd Is m o to steal these ireasures cur hol rlh u. The mc-ne lau- tvr r u-red i" laug , :e Ske . The ext ;:h rniond in the Bible i;s Davd's augLter, or the expres sion ofipiritual exuhatiou. "Then was our mouth lilled with lughter." He got very much down sormetimes, but there are other chapters where fr four times he calls upon the people to praise and ex ult. It was not a mere twitch of the lips. It was a demonstration that took hold of his whole physical nature. "Then was our mouth filled with laugh ter." My friends, this world will never be converted to God until Christians cry less and laugh and sing more. The horrors are a poor bait. I people are to be persuaded to adopt our holy re ligion, it will be ht cause they have made up their midds If is a happy reliion. They dont ike a morb:6 hristianiv. I know there are morbd people who enjoy a funeral. They come early to see the the friends take leave of the corpse, and they steal a ride to the cemetery, but all healthy people enjoy a weddicg better than they do a burial. Now, you make the religion of Christ sepulebral and hearselike, and ycu make it repulsive. I say plant the rose of Sharon along the church walks and col umbine to clamber over the church wall and have a smile on the lip and have the mouth tille' with holy lau2hter. There is no man in the world, exzept the Christian, that has a right to feel an untrammeled glee. He is promised ev erything to be far the best here, and he is on the way to a delight which will take all the processions with palm branches, and all the orchestras harped and cymballed and trumfeted to exprezs "Oh." vou say, "I have so much trouble." Have you more than Paul had? What does he aa? "Sorrowful, yet always rejAicing. Poor, jctnmakng many rich. Having nothing, let pos sessaing all things." The merriest laugh I think I ever heard has been in the sick room of God's dear children. When Theodosius was put upon the rack, he suffered very great torture at the first. Somebody asked him how he endured all that pain on the rack. He replied. "When I was first put on the rack, I suffered a great deal, but very soon a ycung man in white stood by my side, and with a soft and comfortable handkerchief he wiped the sweat from my brow, andl my pains were relieved. It was a punishment for mie to get from the rack, because when the pain was all gone the angel was gone." Oh, rejoice evermore. You know how it is in the army-an army in et campment. II today news comes that cur side has had defeat, and tomorrow another portion of the tidings come3, saying we have had another defeat, it demoraizes all the host. But itthe news comes of victory today and victory tomorrow the whole army is impassioned for the contest. Now, in the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ report fewer defeats. Tell us the victories-victory over sin and death and hell. Rejoice evermore, and agamn I say rejoice. I believe there is more religion in a laugh than in a groan. Anybody can groan, but to laugh in the mid t of banishment and persecution and indescribable trial, that required a David a Daniel, a Paul, a modern heroine. The next laughter mentioned in the Bible that I shall speak of is the fool's laughter or the expression of sinful mer rment. Solsmon was vary quick at simile. When he makes a comparison, we all catch it. What is the laughter of a fool like? He says, "It is the crack ig of thorns under a pot." The ket tie is swung, a bunch of brambles is put under it, and the torch is applied to it, and there is a great noise, and a big blza, and a sputter, and a quick extin guishment. Then it is darker than it was before. Fools' laughter. The most miserable thing on earth is a bad man's fun. There they' are-10 men in a barroom, they have at home wives, mothers, daughters. The impure jest starts at one corner of the barroom. and crackle, crackle, crackle, it goes all around. In 500 such gaffaws there is not one item of happiness. They all feel bemeaned, if they have any con science lef t. Have nothing to do with men or women who tell immoral stories. I have no confidence either in their Christian character or morality. So all meriment that springs out of the defects of others-caricature of a lame foot, or a curved spine, or a blind eve, or a deaf r.r-will be met with the judgments of God either upon you or upon yoar chil dren. Twenty years ago I knew a' man who was particularly skillf ul in imitating the lameness of a nei~hbor. Not long ago a son of the skillful mimic had his leg amputated for the very defect which hIs father had mimicked years before. I do not say it was a judgment of God. It leave you to make your own inference. So all merriment born of dissipation, that which starts at the counter of the drinking restaurant or from the wine glass in the home circle, the maudlin simper, the meaningless joke, the satur nalin gibberish, the paroxysm of mirth about nothing which you sometimes see in the fashionable clubroom or the ex quisite parlor at 12 o'clock at night, are the crackling of thorns under a pot. Such laughter and such sin end in death. When I was a lad a book came out entitled "Dow Junior's Patent Ser mons." It made a great stir-a very wide laugh-all over the country, that book did. It was a caricature of the Christian ministry, and of the word ol God, and of the day of judgment. Oh, we had a great laugh. The comment ary on the whole thing is that the au thor of that book died In poverty, shame debauchery, kicked out of* society and cursed of Almighty GoLi The laugh ter of such men is the echo of their own damnation. The next laughter that I shall men tion as being in the Bible is the laugh of God's condemnation, "ie that eit teth in the heavens shall laugh." Again "The Lord will laugh at him." Again "I will laugh at his calamity." With such demonstration will God gr eat every knd o1 great sin and wickedness'. But men build up villanmes higher and higher Good men almost pity God be cause he is schemed against by men. Suddenly a pin drops out of the machinery cif wickedness, or a secret ig revealed, and the foundation he gins to rock. Finally the whole thing is demolished. What is the mnattei? I will tell you what the matter is. That crash of ruin is only the reverberation cof God's laughter. a dmn:d nrem frauda en t fl n. A rau:iiulent mrilan there says. ". n:ein to h:,ve in, illica " HI ,o o wor7 reckless cf h-onesty, and he gtes 1s rst $100,000. He gets after awhik A s $200,000. A"t,- aw ile he Lels hi %500,000. No" he sayr,, -I have . o mre move -o make, an' I .haill 'ave y miLion." He gathers af i resources, he makcs that one las. 'and C move, ho l alls anld loses all, aric 'zc ha not enough muone of his own lef! ! 3:h cost of the car to his home. -i c anot undErstaud this ptrasmodk revulson. Some sad it w1 au trm in Erie railwvay .w:ck, or :n Wes, lern Union, cr in 111:ois Cemtral. Some :Ad one thig an sop-, another. Thes ll nessed wrongr. I w:Il tell you whal L was, "lle that sittcth in the heaen: A ran in New York said he would be the richest man in the cit,. Ile lefi his honest work as a mechnie and 'oi ut the city coucils some way and ir 10 years s:ole $15,000,000 from i-he cit overnment. Fitteen million dollar. IlIe ha2d the legislaure of thc state n! New York in the -rip of his right hand: Suspicions were aroused. The gran jury presented indc'tmente. The whok lsd stocd aghast. The uan who ex pected to put half the city in his vesi ucket --es to Blackwe'lls island, goes to Ludlow Street ihil, breaks prison aut oes across the sea, is reariested aut brought back and naain remanded to i ll WhA? "He tbat sitfth in the leavens lughed." Rome was a great empire; she had Horace and VIrtil amonL Ler poets; she had Augus U and Constantin( am'ing her emperors. But what weat the deflced Pantheon, and the Forun trfieu1d into a cattle market. and the bro ken walled Coliseum, and the architectu ral ske ton of her great aqueduati? What was that thunder? "Oh!" you say, "that was the roar of the battering rams against her walls." No. What was that qui ve ' Oh!" vou say, "that was t tramp of hostile legions." No. The quiver and the roar were the outburst f omnipot.ci laughter from the delled nd insulted heavens. Rone delled God, and be langhed3 her.down. Thobes de ied God, and he laughed her down, !ineveb detied God, and he laughed her own. Babylon defied God, and he aughed her do wn. There is a great difference between Uod's laugh and his smile. HIs smile is ternal bati'u'!e. Ie a niled when David sang, and Miriam clapped the 3mbals, and Ilannah made garments [or her son, Paul preached, and John kindled wi. apocalyptic vis-on, and when any man has anything to do and oes it well. His sonule! Why, it is the 15th, of May, the apple orchads in full bloom; it is morning breaking on a rippl g ses; it is heaven at high noon, all the bells beating the marriage peal. But is laughter-may it never fall on ur! It z a condemuation for our sic; it is a wastinz away. We may let the satrist augh at us, and all our companious nay laugh at us, and we may be made the target for the merriment of earth and del!, but God forbid that we sould ever :ome to the falillment of the propheV ngainst the rejectors of the truth, "I will Laugh at your calamity." But, my friends, all of us who reject ,rist and the pardon of the gospel nust come under that"tremendous bom bardent. God wants us all to repent. Ee counsels, he coaxes, he importunes, md he dies for us. He comes down out f heaven. He puts all the world's sin yn one shoulder, he puts all world's eor ow on the other shoulder, and then with ,at Alp on one side and that Himalaya n the other he starts uo the hilt back f Jerusalem to achieve our salvation. e puts the palm of his right foot on one ong spike, and he puts the palm of his ett foot on another long suike. nd then. ith his hands spotted witn his own blood e gesticulates, saying: "L->ok, look and ive! With the crimson veil of my sacri ice I will cover up all your sins. With ny dying groan I will swallow up all your groaus. Look! Live!" But a :housand of you turn your back on that mnd then this voice of invitation turns to tone divinly ominous, that sobs like a simoom through the first chapter of Pro erbs: "Because I hiave called and ye efused, I have stretched out my right aand and no man reegarded, but ye have set at naught all my counsel and would aone of my reproof, I also will ladgh at oor calamity." Oh, what a laugh that s-a deep laugh, a long, reverberating augb; an overwhelming laugh; God grant we may never hear it. But in this day of merciful visitation yield your eart to Christ that you may spand all yur life on earth under his smile and scape forever the thunder ot the laugh >f God's indignation. The other laughter mientioned in t.te Bible-the only one I shall speak of a heavet's laughter, or the expression of eternal triumph. Christ said to his lisciples, "Blessed are ye that weep ow, for ye shall laugh." That makes me know positively that we are not to spenid our days in heaven singing long meter psalms. The formalistic and jftif notions of heaven that some people have would make me miserable. I am lad to know that the heaven of the Ri. ble is not only a place or holy worship, out of magnificent sociality. "What," say you, "will the ringing laugh go around the circle, of the saved?" [ say yes, pure laughter, cheering laugh. ter, holy laughter. It will be a laugh of conaatulation. When we meet a friend who has suddenly come to a for tune or who has got over some dire sick ess, do we not shake hands, do we not laugh with him? And when we get tc heaven and see our friends there, aome of them having come up out of great tri ba lation, why, we will say to one o1 them, "The last time I saw you you bad been surlering for six weeks under a a low intermittent fever," or to anoth'er we wIl say: "You for 10 ycars were limping with the rheumatism, and you were full of complaints when we saw you last. 1 congratulate you on this eternal recovery. We shall laucli. Yes, we shall con ;ratulate all those who have come out o great financial embarrassments in this world because they have become aillionaires in heaven. Ye shall laugh. [t shall be a laugh of reassociation. It s just as natural for us to laugh when we meet a friend we have not seen for 10 years as anythmng is possible to be 2atral. When we meet our friends rom whom we have been parted 10 or 0 or 30 years, will it not be witn~ iniite :ongratulation? Our perception quick. me, our knowledge improved, we will now each other at a flash. We will rave to talk over all that has happened since we have been separated, the one Lat has been 10 years in heaven telliog s all that has happened in the 10 years f his heavenly residence, and we telling 2in n return all that has happened dur g the 10 years cf his absence from arih. Y e shall laugh. I think George W'iiatield and JIohn Vesly will have a laug. of contempt ?or their earthly collisions, and Toplady mud Charles Wesley will have a laugh of :ontempt for their earthly misunder standings, and the two farmers, who were n the lawsuit all their days, will 2ave a laugh of contempt over their arthy disturbance about a line fence. Exemption fcom all annovance. Immer sion in all gladness. Ye shall laugh. hrist says so. Ye shall laugh. Y's, t will be a laugh oi tr iumpb. Oh! what pleasant thy:. it will be to stand on .e wall o1 heaven, and look downd at ratan and hurl at him daimsee, and see aina caged and chained, and we forever 'ree fromi his clutches. Ah.:! Yes, it wil )e a laugh of royal greeting. hen Napc. u - I , ack irom Ei: You Jmo : tos 1. E-uglish cheere Swhen Wellct.u 'came back froi Waterln.o You km how American cheered when: Kossuth arrived from Hur gary. Ycu rcnmem berihow Rome cheere whein Pompev come ba.:k victor ovi Q00 cities. E very cheer was a lau Bu, the mniehtie- greeting, tbe gla der izreetiog, beP the enow white cai airy troop of heaven shall go throug the stres. and, acccrding to ihe boo of Revelatiou, Christ in the red coat, th cum O q ca', r. white horae, and a the vrmiie Cf h vanl following on whit horse! 0*. whe"n we see and hear th cavalcade, we sil cheer, we sha lcu'g. D.ors nLou -%our heart heat qmcl 1-7 : 0;'heu orta' jabilc-e upo wchwe .re soon 1.o rete, . piay G'd that when we get throng witht his world and are CinL, ou. of it w may have nme such' vison as the dyin Cistien hi when he sa'V written a! over the clouds in the Qky the lette "WV,71 andtlc :sked stan(!iug, b ..Wo mean~ t. "O:" he Eaid, "the stand for we icome."l Aid so ra; be when we quit tis world. "W" c en the ati . -W" on the door of th man0L', "W"" on the throne. We comt! Welcrm! Welcome! I hav preached this sermou with five prayerft wishes that you might see what a mea thirtg is the lau'h of skepticism, what bright thmg is the laugb of spiritual es ultation, what a hollow thing is the laug of niatul merriment, what an hwfal thin is the lauzh of condemnation, what radiant, rub:cuud thing is the laugh eterual triumph. Avoid the ill. Choos Lhe r*t'i. B. comforted. "Blessed ar ye that weep now-ye shall laugh, N NO AGREEMENT POSSIBLE. The HIome Will Iosist-What Dftaren Leadeis HaIva to Say. WAsmNOTON, .1 uly 18.-The Demc cratic conferees on the tariff bill hell a brief session today, and adjournei before 12 o'clock. They made anothe effort to reach an agreement, but il proved ineffectual. The meeting ad journed with the understanding that , full conference of the committee, to be gin at 2 o'clock, would report a dis agreement. The report will be made t( the House, but probably not before to morrow. The Republlcan member will make no opposition to this course. The conferees met again at 2 o'clock Within a very few minutes afterward! Voorhees announced that it was appa rent that the two houses were unabi to agree, and it had been decided t report a general disagreement. Th Senate Rep.-blicans stood up for th Senate bill, as did the Democrats, whil the House held out for their bill; an it was formally decided that the die agreement should be reported to thei respective houses. B#efore this was done Wilson, chair 4nan of the committee on ways an( means, stated that if they could get to gether on coal, iron ore and sugar, h believed they could fix up an agree ment that would be satisfactory ti both houseis. No proposition looking ti this end was made, and' the action a: ready indicated was taken. The whol thing was over in a very few minutes Wilson stated after the conference thal he would mak~e the report to the Hious tomorrow morning. During the formal discussion in the committee room he was asked by Sen ator Jones how long the House woul< probably iKeep tlX innI, whseroauze WL son replied that he thought the con ferees would be instructed to insis upon the House bill, and the conferee would be sent back within two hours The same question was then put t< Senator Jones, and he said that the act ion of the Senate would depend upoi the action of the House. If the House insisted upon heaping coals of fire 01 the heads of the Senate conferees ani assailing them it would be very likel: that the Senate, when the bill came back, would inlike manner debate the bill. It Is believed, however, that the bill will be again in confererce by Sat urday at the latest. Although the report shows a genera disagreement on all Items this is no technically correct, for the reason tha agreements have been made in man: items, but it was deemed best not t< include them until a conclusion ha< been reached on the whole bill. Wilsor says the report of the conferees will bi a verbal one and will simply state tha the conference cjmmitteer of the tw< houses has failed to reach an agree ment. The committee on rtiles wil. probably meet tomorrow and report special order limiting the time durinj which the debate upon the report ma: continue. Speaker Crisp could not say toda: how long the debate on the conference report tomorrow would be permite' to continue in the house but it is ur derstood that it wilt be limited to tw. hours, one hour on each side. Wilsor will occupy a part if not all the timi set apart for the Democrats, if be ih physicaly able to speak, and Reed an4 Burrows will probably be spokesmer for the Repubiicans. Senator Jones, of Arkansas, after ai ineffectual meeting of the IDemocratic tariff conferees this morning, drova staight to the White House and had over an hour's conference with Preis dent Cleveland. It is said he reportet to the President that all movement: looking to concession by the Senate t< the House conferees had been blocket by the influence of Senator Gorman o Maryland, representing a groop of so called conservative Senators. It is als< said that Senator Jones infor med thi President that this announcemen would probably be made to the Hions tomorrow, on the part of the lHous conferees, it being the intention of thi House conferees to let the countr: know where the responsibility for fail nre to agree rested. The House conferees had consulta tion this afternoon with Speaker Crisj before going to the full conference an< they came away convinced that the: were pursuing the right course in in ststing on the essential features of thi House bill. Wilson, if his health en ables him to stand the strain, will make a report to the House tomorrow whel the tariff bill comes back from the con ference. Prendergaat Hanged. CmICAGO, July 13.-P'rendergast was hanged at 11:48 this morning. At 11:4: a hush fell upon the throng in the cot ridor and far down the sombre hall! could be heard the mufiled tramp 0: the funeral cortege. A few momenti later Sheriff Gilbert and Jailer Morri appeared at the right of the scaffold The prisoner, pale and unsteady, walk ed behind them. He stood without ap parent nervousness, though a trilli weak and unsteady as his arms wert being pinioned, lie seemed deter mined to die game and looked calm13 out on the assembled crowd below him A white shroud was next placed abou him, and barring a little restless mo tion of the eyes, looking down and from side to side, he made no motions J ailer Morris now placed the rope abou his neck, the white cap over his head and 1Prendergast, gamne to the last, hac taken his last look of earth. An in stant later, at 11:48, he shot downward his head twisted to one side, his need having apparently Deen broken. Slow ly swaying back and forth, he hung fo a few moments while p'iysicians held his wrists. A slight spasmodic move meat of the legs was all the sign of lifi apparent within thle loosely hangins white rmhe EXCI "ING SCENES. a 9 PISTCLS DRAWN AT THE ECGEFIELD L. CAMPAIGN MEETING. The H t.mbnrg Affidavit Prc(inced by Sea [- ator Butler and Governor T1liman In trcdluced a Counter AffidsvIl-At One k Time a M~ot was in sight. e BDGEFIELD,S. C., July 19.- The same i Providence which has before prevent e ed the shedding of blood at campaign ;t meetings in this State interposed again !I today. With eyes glaring like tigers - with hands on pistols and with open n dirks and knives ready for deadly exe cution, it lacked only one overt act, only one blow, to have precipitated a e battle which would haveleft a hundred dead and wounded men on the platform and grounds of Academy Grove. Inno cent women and children would have r suffered and the consequences would ' have been horrible. r I have seen trouble in crowds before I have seen the eyes of men dance and the muscles quiver. I have seen the a hand go to the pistol pocket, the glim c mer of the bright weapon and the l- smoke clear away after the trigger e was pulled, but I have never seen wild 1l er or more ferocious expressions in the a eyesof human beings than was exhib. a ited here today. I looked at any mo ment to see a shot fired and to see the fray commence. The scene of the trouble was on the speaker's stand. Right here it is well a to remark that the lives of every pub I lic man are endangered by permitting e anybody on the stand but those enti e tied to be there. With a packed stand e and every man possessing a pistol few bullets will go astray. At the first in timation of trouble desperate men crowd on the stand to be in the heat of the fray. If everybody was forced t to stay on the ground the danger would not be so great. In case of a row there would be room and opportu rity for innocent people to get out of harm's way. I The row occurred just before the I closing of the meeting and during Sen r ator Butler's speech. It was precipita ted by the uncalled for remark of a man to Senator Butler. It would have - come, however, with almost anything or any remark. It was in the air, and nothing was needed to cause the explo sion. Senator Butler did not intend it, but if he had not lst his temper to some extent the trouble might not . have been so intense. The veteran of battles and bullets let passion get the better of him for a few minutes. He not only called a man a liar who had insulted him, but repeated it two or three times. IHe had become exasper ated by the cheering for Tillman and was in a mood to vent his anger on B any man. 3 The crowd numbered 1,200 people and e was male up of the most peaceble and the most desperate men in E Igefield County. Governor Tillman had the 3 majority or the crowd by several hun I dred, although Butler supporters were . to be seen in all directions. As the in terest to the public will centre in the speeches of the Senatorial candidates and in the tiouble which was the oLt - growth of those speeches, I will only i give them. 1 will simply give the facts and let the public make up its mind as it sees fit. 3 During the speeches Governor Till - man sat toward the back- of the stand, y talking with friends and listening to the candidates. H~e has changed his I white helmet to a dingy yellow one of Sthe same style. Senator Butler sat e near the front of the stand. He wore the old straw hat which has crowned shis head from the first day at Rock SHill until now. In his right hand he a held the long walking cane which some friends gave him and which he a cherishes. - WILD OVERl TrLLMIAN. i Governor Tillman was greeted when - mult of applause, wild cheering and a waving of hats. His partisans rose to a their feet and jumped in the air and . yelled. I have known Governor Tillman for - years and have reported many a speech of his, but I never saw a tear in ahis eye until today. It came when he iopened his speech by saying that his iheart was filled with gratitude to the rpeople of Edgefield, to home people, a those - who had stood by him on every Soccasion. He talked of his previous acampaigns and what he has done for .the people. Voice: "Ho w is it that taxes are I higher?" t Tillman: "I'hey are not and you tknow it." 1 Governor Tillman said that the peo >pie are divided, but it was through no ifault of his, lie said that Butler now spoke of the antis and the uncles. He atold how the uncles had been imposed Son for years until they rebelled. But yler is hustling to get the votes of the .uncles, but will not get them. If ever la man tried to ride two horses my Sfriend, the General, Is that man. He ,has lost the love and respect of the Smen who supported Sheppard. but they are goiug to support him because they b ate me. SOne of the produest days cf his life, Governor Tillman said, was when the lEdgefield Rtiles came to his assistance 11 ring the D~arlington trouble and were followed on the next train by the Edge field Hlussars. Irrespective of political feeling, the men of Etigtield were sol I diers. 1A literal volcano of applause fol lowed the Governor's remarks on this subiject. Mr. Tindal advises, said Governor Tlllman, that the uncles allow the an - tis to come back into the family..- I .don't object if they are penitent and honest, and if they no longer claim to Sbe the best people on earth. For God's ysake let's have peace If these people ireally want it." l The Governor turned his attention -to national politics and said that a yshaking up of the antis is needed in aWashington. (Laughter and applause.) STaking a silver dollar from his pocket, SGovernor Tillrian said: "The News 3and Courier and those other little lice Sdows say this is a dishonest dollar." rVoice: "Hand it over here; I will -take it." About lifteen minutes was given to - national affairs and Governor Tillm in >ended his speech by sayingi H lu:l-r: i"I want to notify you that tiuless you Swithdraw your accusation that I ran - at Hamburg I am prepared to prove that the men who-make that charge are liars." The Governor said this in athe most dramatic manner imaginable 1and set down amid a whirlwind of ap . plause, and a waving of hats which was almost blinding. Senator Butler who was sitting in his chair, turned to Tillman and hand Sed him the certillcate which appears elsewhere. -Tillman told him to read it .when his 5 time came and he (Tillman) would read Ethe one he had. P ouror live beautiful bouquets wer-e I handed Governor Tillman. .1UTLER's TNTRODUCTION. -Butler was received with strong ap -plause. lHe said that there was appre Shension all over the State that the men Sof ELigelield would get tne devil in them today but he believed there would rbe good order. With pathos in his ,words, Butler said he was glad to see ;so many of the lair daughters of Edge -field present. I Butler made a fervent appeal for . peace and for the cessation of bickering and strife. General Butler said that he endorsed the noble sentiments of Mr. Tindal. -He endorsed every word and believed ,that Tindal's advice could be accepted :by every man of every faction. -Tillman, General Butler said, accused :him of ridding two horses. If he (But ,ler1 was any judge Tillman is riding -four. Tillman: "But keeping in the mid Sdie of the road." piently of margin on each side." "How much sugar has lie put in you gourd ?" asked Butler of the audience, Voice: "How much have you put in there during eighteen years in the Senate?" (Counter cheers and ap plause.) Butler- "Just keep quiet now. I know I am bitting you in sore places but you must take it." Butler jumped on Tillman harder than he has for days and accused him of being stingy and penurious. He charged Tillman with not paying his subscription to a Reform paper. The yell-s and applause for Tilhman partially drowned Butler's voice and the noise was terric. When it was over Butler said that every time he hit Tillman the Gover nor's supporters wince and try to drown out his voice by cheering. Butler said Zhat he had been riding only one horse since 1876 and that horse was the deliverance of the people. He told what he had done in 1876 and of his participation in the Hamburg riot. While speaking of the Hamburg riot 11. Townes asked Bulter if his (But ler's) house had not been burned by negroes because he took part in the riot. "Yes," ans wed Butler. .1. 0. Atkinson, a Tillmanite, who was standing on the stand to the right of Butler, said: "Yes, but you denied it in Washing ton." Butler turned like a panther and quck as lightening said: "That is a lie; an infernal lie." If he had stopped at this there might not have been any trouble at that time, but he repeated what he said two or three times. Men began to surge toward the stand while Butler continued his denuncia tion. In an instant Charles Hammond jumped upon the stand, followed by II. El. Townes, each with his hand resting on the butt of a pistol in his hip pocket. It was then that the desperate men of both sides jumped upon the stand ard those of less courage moved off. Hammond and Townes got behind Butler, and Tillman's friends crowded around him. The antagonists began to glare at each other and to talk in strong language to each other. Pistols were changed from one pocket another to be convenient for quick use. It was a squally time. The -x-ite ment is beyond discription. Atkinson did not move one inch from where he had been stanaing. le was surrounded by excitedrcen. General Butler quickly removed his wits and worked masterfully to check the riot which seemed imminant. Till man aid likewise. Each appeared to men of both sides to stop jowering. They begged those trying to get on the stand to stav off and those who were al ready on to get off. Among some of the men toying with their pistols were several known to have been in thrilling aff rays and noted for coolness. The uproar continued for what ap peared to be tin minutes. During this time the hundreds of men who had re mained on the stand had gotten ready for action. I know it to a feet that almost every man had singled out a target for his pisto and merely awaited the signal to turn loose. The excitement gradually subsided, but was really opposed. Butler resumed his speech to try to get the addience back in its former dis position. He gradually gre v salty again and there was another outbreak of eheering for Tillman. Butler got mad again and said there was an attempt tp drown his voice with their braying. "Any common jackass," he said vehe mently, "may bray, but I do not pro. pose to be stopped in free speech by a lot af blatant jackasses. I can not bef frightened. 1 have seen too much o real danger to be intimidated. "Governor Tillman says I am net in this race. He says he will beat me. I say if he will leave out his rings and Sio o a. aopar.ito box I uwiin bat him three to one in Meriwether township, where both of us live." Butler charged Tillman with being a ring and caucus man and said it was ebarged that there is a ring controlling the Gubernatorial race. Tillman, he said, has not dsnied this charge. Turning to Tilman Butler exclaimed "I dare you-I dare you, sir, to give me a primary. You will never do it be. ause you are afraid. Even ring won't save you." Butler attacked Tillman for his de nun 3!ation of Cleveland. Butler took from his pocket the cer tificate relating to Tiijlman at Ham burg. He said tha-t he had not consid ered It a matter of much importance and had not intended to refer to It again, but as Tillman had demanded it he would give it. The certifiea'e is as follows THIAT CEnlTIFICATE. "rhis is to certify that at Hamberg, July, 1876, we, the undersigned, were present and that Mr. B. Rt. Tilimsin was not seen by any one of us when the fring began. That we were in the thickest of it from start to finish, and if he had been there we should have seen him, and certainly did not after the tiring began. (Signed) W. HL. H~ammond, T. P. Hammond, L. V. Storm, H1. D. Storm, John M. Hightower, G. W. Walker. Jos. B. McKee, John A. Butler." The reading of the certificate finished Butler sat down. The Governor waited a feN seconds and walked to the front. His eyes were llashing. lie read the following certificate refuting the' charges of the others: "South Carolina-Aiken County. "To all concerned: Th'is is to certif y that on the night of the Hamburg riot, in 1876, we, the undersigned, were in the to wn of Hamburg from thie begin ning to the ending of said riot, and that we know of our own knowledge that Bi. R. Tillman stayed in said town and did his whole duty until the ending of the said riot. (Signed) "Hlenry Gitzen, L. W. Ieese, J. 0. Holder, W. HI. II. Butler. J. C. Hammond, P. e. Thur mon, L. 1). Reese, G. W. Medlock J. F. Atkins, 5 B. Mays, T. A. Hays, J1. A. Timmer man. S. W. Miller, W. F. R oper, Ji. C Lnham, J. A. White, T. N. T'im mer man, W. F. Dobey." (Some of these men are Butlerites.) As the Governor read each name he asked the signers if they were not with him and they answered ina the ailirma tive. Another row was expected at any minute during the rea.ding of the certiicate, but it did not materiali-ze. A large number of men who had not sign-ed the certificate shouted to iluan: "Yes, you were there. We were with you and saw you." The hainburg riot inci dent was wound up by the following from Gov. Tillman: "If any man doubts that referring to the cartiilcate) let him meet me on the public square." While Tilman was reading, ten or fifteen of hs friends surrounded him. A whirl wind of applause followed him and a undred of his admirers warmly shook hs hand. isownl to Atomii. P'onTsMOrrn. ELog.., July 19.-A ter rble accident, resulting in the death of seven men, occurred here this morning. A Trinity house boat, having a cre w f seven train wreckers on board, were egaged in blowing up the wreck of Yatch Rsalia. in Salent, as the wreck was dangerous to navigation. In soma anmer, which will never be known, az ynamite cartridge exploded,and killed seven men, and shattering the boat. - &SmnalJ i Ortun9 . MoN'rooxy~nY, Ala., .July 19.-I[n igging a mess of patatoes from his ruck patch, J. P'. Ro msu, a iaKalb ounty farmer. in: a small fortune. nstead of tuing over with his spade handful ot potatoes, he turned up ~33O in gold and sliver. The dates on the pieces indicated the treasure must have been buried about the com mncement of the civil war. Governr T-imn's 1eply to Sernator Rntler'.- Ch r.-m. WALTERPDOrnO. S. C., July 13.-Gov. Tillman at the meeting here toJay re plied to the questions asked by Senator Butler at Charleston abou: the State debt. le prefaced his soesch by say ing that Butler had pranced forward at Charleston. telling those people how he loved them, and warned the Colle ton people not to be fed out of Butler's spoon. hut to spit it out, as it had Has kellitle quinine in i Buler out the questions in a decent way, and he con gratulated him on the improvement in his manners since the Ches-er meeting. lie had put his fuse to his little bomb and nothing but lizzie resulted. Reply ing to the question he said. "I have never hesitated or expected to find fault with any criticism of requests for in formation concerning any official act of mine, and I will cheerfully make such reply to Gen. Butler's questions as I can, away from the ofliciai documerts in Columbia. First, as to the .56,030. 65 charged in the treasurer's oooks to the redemption of Brown consols expenses, the larger portion of this was paid for the engraving and printing of the bonds themselves. The balance was the expenses incurred by Dr. Bates and myself, when we went to New York for two weeks, begging up and down Wall street and every item, with vouch ers, can be had in the treasurer's office. This is what was spent of ':he $8.000. To the second questioo, how mucn of the funds of the sinking fund commis sion were expended, and for what. I answer, not one cent. Third, who received the 5124,161,65? This should be $118,125, the 2 1-4 per cent. semi-annual interest on the new bonds. I answer that I do not know. We did not, as everybody knows, fund the bonds in New York, because we were antagonized by the Carleston banks, and the feeling there appeared to be for a gold bond, which we were not authorized to issue. and which I was unwilling to have tt.e State issue. After our failure to do an% thing in New York, we authorized Mr. Rhind to negotiate the loan or 65,225,000 of 4 1-2 per cent. bonds at par, and expressly in formed him that if he cculd sell them so as to get any commission it would be all right, but that the State would not pay him one cent. So far as Mr. Rhind's financial standing was concerned it did not concern us. We were dealing with him as a broker who apseared to know his business, and who had discretion and judgmentt His associates in the work with the syncicate, and who got part of whatever commission he re ceived, were Messrs. Lancaster and Williams, of Richmond. I say this, however: That Lancaster, Williams, Rhind, or any other man, has ever paid one cent. of his commission to anybody In South Carolina that I know of, and I defy anybody on earth, under the earth, or anywhere else, to trace any of this mony to South Carolina, or say that Bates or I got one dollar of it. A Voice-Are you a Populist or Democrat ? The Governor-1 am a white man and a Democrat, but you are a white man with a black heart. (Laughter.) I wish you people had Deen at Char leston lost night, and seenime spit fire at those hounds, Chico and Cantini and Nolte. The present aristocracy of Charleston were out with their under lings, but I salted them down good. Voice-What about the dispensary shortage? The Governor-I told Gen. Butler he could examine the books if he was hon est in that matter, and we will send you along to wash the spittoon. (lAugh ter.) In regard to Gen. Batler's statement thej th timps a're favorable to fund ing the delt, and that Georgia funded hers at 3 per cent., I say that, while the candidates for Governor and others who had been members of the Reform party, boasted of the refunding of the debt at a reduced interest as an achieve ment worthy of praise, I have never opened my mouth about it. I know how difficult the operation was, and how uneasy Dr. Bates and myselef were lest the scheme should fali through. In fact, early in June, the nervous strain on Dr. Bates was so great that he left me the whole burden to bear, and went to the springs, being completely pros trated. During the time he was absent the stringency in the money markets and the impossibility of obtaining cur rency was so great that the last week in June money on call in New York commanded 60 per cent. Interest, and but for the fact that we had a bonus of $150,000 as a forfeit should the Balti more Trust Company f sil to take the bonds, and but for the further fact that 1 assumed the responsibility of ship ping the bonds C. 0. D. by express, oz that they could be deposited as collate ral upon which to bors ow t be money to pay fot them, there would have been a failure to complete the transaction. Gen. Butler's lamentable ignorance of the financial condition un-ler which the transaction was completed shows that he isn't even fit to go to the L'uis lature. Georgia's State debt is much smallsr than ours, she is twice as large and her assessed value is over $425,000,000, while South Carolina is assessed at S170,000,000, Georgia has a white ma jority ensuring a continuation of good government,while we have 40,000 negro votes in excess of the whites. This means that under certain conditions which have at times appeared lmnmi nent there might be a struggle between the white factions which would make the negro vote the arbiter that would inevitably bring a return of the condi tion of affairs which caused John P'at terson to say there were five more years of good stealing in South Carolina. Georgia owns the Western and Atlan tic railroad worth $'J,000,000,and which rents for $450,000, an asset nearly double her entire public debt so that any comparison of the financial stand ing and credit of the t wo States is si-mply farcical. .I say it in no boasting spirit that we consummated the linest linancial deal ever made by a '-farmer and a clodhop pe"-Dr. lutes and your farmer Gov ernor--in reducing tne annual charge by .380,000 and every man of any char acter or honesty in the State whose heart is not gangrened with political venom gives us credit for it. As to the veiled charge or insinuation that 1 received any of the commission, I de nounce as a malicious slander and I can only say that those who are ready to make the charge only display the corruption of their hearts and confess Indirectly what they would have done had they been entrusted with this im portant and delicate matter. Fur; her, John C. Hlaskell is on record in a speecn before the Legislature as not believing South Carolina could il~at a four per cent bond and he had introduced in the General Assembly which authorized the issue of the 4%4 per cent bonds, a joint resolution con tinuing the interest on the State debt at 0 per cent. for three years. The only offer we ever received from Charleston for any bands at all was made by Mr. Prngle who offered 97 per cent. for $250,0u0. If C2ol. liaskell's proposition had received the endorsement of the Legisiature it would have been a con fession that the State was unable to refund her debt, while the interest for the three years would have entailed a burden on tue taxpayers of $230.000, twice the commission which we paid, and thenathere would have been no guarantee that the debt could have been refunded at 4 1-2 or 4 per cent. without paymng just as mauch commission as we paid. Such large blocks of bonds an't be handled in any but strong bouses and such men do not work for othing. 1 happen to know, having* received the information from a banker in naimore that many of the weakerI inembers of the syndicate lost money by reasou of the enormous interest they had to pay for the currency to meet their obligations and take the bonds on. time. The Governor declared that there was a ring forming in Colleton county to send some fellow to Congress and the people must see that he was not one of Cleveland's "me-too's." If there was a reform ring in South Carolina he must be in it for he was the centre of the clock, the lynch pin upon which the hands of reform have revolved for four years and the people were the balance of the ring. pYA A MKi POWDER Absolutely Pure, A cream or tartar baking powder Highest of all in leavening strength.-La test United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 Wall St., N. Y. A BAD OUTLOOK. A Populist Predicts that the RepublIcana Will W10. Politicians are already beginning to figure on the probable result of the elections this Fall, and strange to say nearly all of them figure out a Repub lican majority in the next House of Representatives. During the summer of 1892 Col. Blanton Duncan, who, we believe is a native of this State, but now a resident of California, predicted that Cleveland would be elected and that the Democrats would have a large majority in the House to be elected that year. The prediction came out very near as made by Col. Duncan, showing that he knew then what he was talking about. Col. Dancan has been figuring on the complexion of the House to be elected this Fall, and his conclusions are not very encouraging to the Demo cratic pirty -,r the Pop ot party, of which l..m-r Ci Dne is A member. le predicts thl' ti next, ti min will be composed of 192 Repubhcans, 135 Democcu.sand .38 Populists, giving the Rplunns a m.tj~ri:,y of~ 28 over both the Denrocrals aid the Populists. By StaLes he thiuks in wili staad as fol lows: States. Dem. Rep. Pop. Alabama........ ..7 2 Arkansas........ .......5 1 California...........1 6 . Coloradbo................ .. 2 Connecticnt..........1 2 . Delaware..............1 - Florida...... ......5 .. . Georgia............7.. . Idaho.................1 - Illinois.... ..........6 16 . Icdima..............4. 9 . Icwa...............1 10 . ...sa.... ..........1 4 3 Kentucky..... .......7 4 . Lutisi-a............6 .. . Ma'ine.................4 . Mairymd:..............2.. Massac-husetts........2 11 . Micniman........... .... 12 . Mintnesota............1 5 1 Mississippi...........7 . . Missouri............1 4 . MonI'ana................1 . Neb-aska.................4 2 Nevad~a........ ..............I New Ilampshire .........1 . New Jersey..........2 ' . New York..........12 22 . North Carolina.......4 3 2 North Dakota........... . O hio.... ........ ...- 6 . Oregoa................ 1 1 Per.nsylvania.........7 22 1 Rhode~ 1I.land............2 . tiouth Cirolina.......4 1 2. South Dakota............2. .Tennessee............6 3 1 Texas..............11 .. 2 Vermont................ 2 .. Washington.............2 8 West Virginia.........2 2 . Wisconsin...........2 8 .. Wyoming.............. 1 ... Totals...........135 192 38: According to the above figures the Republicans will have 24 States,. the Democrats 15 and the Populists 2;. wblle 15 will be divided between the, three parties. This, Col. Duncan' claims, will be of no onsequence, as' the next President will be elected by the people and not by the House, as was thought sometime back was likely. te be the case. Hie thinks that the Ee publicans will win the next presidea tIal election, the vote in 'ne electoral college being 269 Rep~nuicans, 133 Democrats, 7 Populists and 38 doubtful whilch would give the Republicans a large majority. The Senate. CoL DuD can claims, will stand in March. 1897, 46; Republicans, 36 Democrats, 2 Po~pu lists and 4 doubtful. This is certainly a bad showing, but we are not prepared to say that the figares given will not be verified. Everything points that way, and as much as we regret the fact, we are compelled to admit its probabil ity. Co!. Duncan thinks that this great reversal in public feeling has been brought about by the failure of- the Democratic party to legislate into law the pledges it made the people in the Chicago platform. lie thinks that 1' resident Cleveland and his immediate advisors are responsible for this failure which in our judgment is correct. As one of the~ lamentable results of the re instatamtent of the ltepublican party. in power he says they will at once re place all partizan legislation, which the Democrats have repealed, and proba bly the enactment of other partizan laws, such as the force bill, etc. As we said above. Col.. Duncan blames Presi dent Cleveland for the whole trouble and scores him in unmsasured terms. lie says tile only thing that willpreveilt. te Repablieans from again capturing the government, will be for the "black clouds now lo wering over the country" to grow into anarchy and civil war. lie thinks that it is scarcely possible, short of absolute revolution by the masses and the fear of consequences to himself, that Mr. Cleveland will permit the passage of relief bills by Congress during ma! term of oill:0. He claims that Itie root of our trouble lies deeper than the tariff and is chargeable to "the black stream of distress which flows from the wells of avarice, which were dug by Cleveland and his allies, to sink down -the money of the world, and so to constitute themselves the enemies of mankind. The circulation in the hands of the peo ple today does not equal $300,000,000, and to bring back prosperity to our peo ple, such as we nadI atter the close of the war, or in 1893-1-2, we require more money for our 70,000,000 of popu lation, than the most prosperous nation - of the world, France, which now uses for her 38,000,000 of people $2,200,000, ma "~