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BY THE HOLY SPIUT. REV. DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES ELO-;t QUENTLY ON TONGUES OF FIRE. They Who Have eced--'d the I" t Pr'v once i Their Ie:arts Are .:ifted Alove t Sorrow and ( 3tisort une--La!>urs of Noted NEW Yoli. MarchL 2.-Wi2n Dr. t Tahnage asened the platform of the Academy of Music this afternoon lie faced an audinuce quite as large asany -Mt that had asembied in the great build ing since the.se services began, while i several thousand others were outside I unable to secure seats or even standin I room. He took for his subject. "Tongues of Fire,' the text selected being Acts xix, 2, "H1ave ye received the Holy Ghost" The word g-host, which means a soul or spirit, has been degraded in common parlance. We talk of ghosts as bale- i ful and frightful and in a frivolous or superstitious way. But my text speaksI t of a ghost who is on.nipotent and di vine and everywhere present and min" tv-one times in the New Testament called the Holy Ghost. The only li:ne I ever heard this text preached from I was in the opetiua days of ny minuis ! try, when a lorious oldSeotci minis- C ter came up to ht Lp n int myl yi church. On thie daty of M o'dmation and installation he said,' lf you geti into the corner of a Saturday night without enough sermons for Sunday. send +or me, andi I will come and preachi for you." The fact ought to be known that the first three years of a pastor's life are appallingly ar duous. No other profession makes the twen tieth part of the demand on a young man. If a secular speaker prepares one or two speeches for a political cam- , paign, it is considered arduous. If a e lecturer prepares one lecture for a year j he is thought to have done weil. But a young pastor has two sermons to de- 1 liver every Sabbath. before the same audience, beside all his other work,c and the most of ministers never re- ov er from the awful nervous strain of r the first three years." Besympathetic f with all young ministers and withhold your criticisms. My aged Scotch friend responded to i my Arst call and came and, preached r from the text that I now announce. I 1: remember nothing but the text. It s was the last sermon he ever preached. t On the followino Sabbath he was call ed to bis heaveay reward. But I re- I member just how .he appeared as, t: Ieaning- over the pulpit, he looked into f the face of the audience and with ear- , nestness and pathos and-electric force d asked them, in the words of my text, I "Have ye received the Holy Ghost?" t The office of thb'present discourse is to a open a door, t6-uaveil a Personage, to v introduce a force not. sufficiently re- a costnized. Hetis as great as God. He t is 6od. The second- verse of the first il chapter of the Bible introduces him. c Genesis i, 2, "The spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters"-that is, as an albatross or eagle spreads her wings over her young and warmsthem into life and teaches them to fly, so the eternal Spirit spread his great, broad, radiant wingsover this earth in its callow and unfledged state and warmed it into life and fluttered r over it. and set it winging its way , through immensity. It is the tiptop of all beautiful and sublime sugg~estive ness. Can you not almost see the out spread wings over the nest of young worlds? "The Spirit of God moved up n the face of the waters." Another appearance of the Holy Ghost was at Jerusalem during a great ~ feast. Strangers speaking -seventeen .different languages were present from many parts of the world. But in one house they heard what seemed like the coming of a cyclone or hurricane. It made the trees bend and the houses quake. The cry was, "What is that?" -And then a for -ed flame of fire tipped each forehead, and what with the blast of wind and the dropping fi're a panic took place until Peter explained that a it was neither cyclone nor confiagra lion, but the briince and anointing ~ and baptismal power of the Holy e Ghost. - The scene was partially repeated in a a forest when Rev. John Easton was preaching. There was the sound of a.b rnshing, mighty wind, and the people c looked to the sky to see if there wasb any signs of astorm, but it was a clear b sky, yet the sound of the wind was so y grea t that horses, frightened, broke a oose from their fastenings, and the , wholeassembly felt that the sound was -, supernatural and Penteco'stal. Oh, y what an infinite and almigrhty and a glaosproae is the Hol7y Ghost. tl Hebrooded this planet into life, and b~ now that it has become a dead world e he will brood it the second time into life. Perilous attempt would be the g comparison between the three persons c of the Godhead. They are equal, but ., ther'e is some consideration which at- tl taches. itself to the third person of. the s Trinity, the Holy Ghost, that does not b -attach itself to either God the Father e 'or God the s3on. We may grieve God n the Father and grive God the Son and tl be forgiven, but we are directly told it that there. is a sin .against the Holy a Ghost which shall never be forgiven, si either in this world or in the world to a come. And it is wonderful that while h on the street you hear the name of God tt and Jesus Christ used in profanity you t! -never hear the words Holy Ghost. a This hour I speak of the Holy Ghost s1 as Biblical interpreter, as a human re- o constructor, as a solace for the broken u hearted, as a preacher's re enforce- 1, ment. c The Bibleis a mass of contradictions h an affirmation of impossibilities, unless I the Holy Ghost helps us to understand o it. The Bible says of itself that the o Scripture is not for "private interpre- ti tation." but "holy men of God spake tI as they were moved by the Holy d Ghost"-that is, not private interpre- h tation, but Holy Ghost interpretation. s< Pile on your study table all the com- u mentaries of the Bible-Matthew Hen- se ry and Scott and Adam Clarke and a Albert Barnes and Bush and Alexan- w~ der-and all the archamologies, and all fe *the Bible dictionaries, and all the c< maps of Palestine, and all the interna- A tional series of Sunday school lessons, 11 and if that is all you will not under- b1 stand the deeper and grander meanings sc cf the Bible-so well as that Christian it mountaineer, who Sunday morning, b. after having shaken down the fodder si . for the cattle, comes into his cabin, G takes up his well worn Bible, and with n a prayer that stirs the heavens asks for g the Holy Ghost to un fold the hb'vk. ti No more unreas si 'v ':i j b if' 0 I should take up The L e \'?uya ti of St. Petersburg. all printed in Rus sian, and say "There is no sense in p this newspaper, for I cannot under- h stand one line of all its columns," k than for any man to take up the Bible wc and without gettimg Holy Ghost illu- te mination as to its meaning say: "This hb book insults my common sense. I em cannot understand it. Away with the ui incongruity:"' No one but the Holy 11: Ghost, who inspired the scriptures, can er explain the Scriptures. Fully realize at that, and you will 'Ce as enthusiastic a c lover of the old book as my venerable a friend who told me in Philadelphia as last week that he was reading the Bible ii through the fiftyninith time, and it be- w came more attractive aymd thrilling ai every time he went through it. In II the saddle bhg: that humg-across my V Lorse-s back :s I rode f omu Jerusalem to vu to the Deiad sea and up toDanas us I had all the books about Palestine hat I could cazrry. but miany a mau on, is knees in the privacy of his own I oon has had uashed upon hi mrore -ivid appreciation of the Word of God han many a nian who has visited .tl11 he scenes of Christ's birth, and I Paus loquencet, and Peter's iipri-sonmniiit. .nd Joshua's prowess. and ija' a ension. I do not dtpreciat' a* o0 he iels for ik' study. ut I do sa: hat they all together emene initvl hort without a rI:ect 'o u rom the iirone: o;4.f _(1, in nc.onse ind miany miietmgo ' thog "s bout the Diile wi. u eOl crC Iluinat *) ..(ion, as ho ni horse 'l0omon had in ii.. sabls. <-r h ong was Noah's a.k, or wo wa' the >nly woanut who' full ne is rivn n the Scripture, or whlich is th mid le verse of tIe lid, and all that wil to vou lno ilore good thanl. to be ale o tel 1ow iiauy b:) le1Cs there are ii your ieighbor's w-i.11den. The learned Ear ' ahom heard he fanouis _Mr. Ccil preach about the Io lv r1os: _ ian said to a frieiid (ion the va 'ome f ro ci. "I could not mlderstand 1t and do yo( u Suppose ui bodv undcrstood it - *Oh. yes, -A id is' tia find. 'there were "lducated! \oien and some little hildren present who understood it." warrant youthat the English soldier ad under supernal innluence read the ook, for after the battle of Inkerman ,as over he was found dead with his and glued to the page of the open ible by his own blood, and the words dhered to his hands as they buried im, "I am the resurrection and the fe: he that believeth in me, though ead, yet shall lie live." Next consider the Holy Ghost as a uman reconstructor. We must be aade over again. Christ and Nico emus talkcd' about it. Theologians all it regeniera'ion. I do not care 1hat you call it. but we have to be re onstructed ay tho Holy Ghost. We econe new creatures, hating what -e once loved and loving what we nce hated. If sin were a luxury, it iust become a detestation. If we pre :rred bad associations, we must pre er good association.- In most cases is sucih a complete change that the -orld notices the difference and begins o ask: "What has come over that 2an? Whom has he been with? What as so affected him? What has ran 3cked his entire nature? What has arned him square about:" Take two ictures of Paul-one on the road to )amascusto kill the disciples of Christ: Ele other on the road to Ostia to die :r Christ. Come nearer home and :ok at the man who found his chief elight in a low class of clubrooms. iccoughing around the card table and Eten stumbling down the front steps fter midnight and staggering home rard, and that same man one week fterward with his family on the way :a prayer meeting. What has done It must be something trenemend us. It must be God. Notice the Holv Ghost as the solacer f broken hearts. Christ calls him de comforter. Nothing does the world D much want as comfort. The most f people have been abused, misrepre ented, cheated, lied about, swindled, ereft. What is needed is balsam for ae wounds, lantern for dark roads, escue from maligning pursuers, a lift e'om the marble slab of tombstones. ife to most has been a semifailure. 'hey have not got what they wanted. 'hey have not reached that which 1ey started for. Friends betray. Ihange of business stand loses old cus >m and does not bring enough custom >)make up for the loss. Health be omes precarious when one most needs rong muscle, and steady nerve, and ear brain. Out of this audience of aousands and thousands, if I should sk all those who have been unhurt in lie struggle of life to stand up, or all banding to hold up their right hand, .ot one would move. Oh, how much re need the Holy Ghost as comforter! [e recities the ~sweet gospel prom ;es to the 'hardly bestead. Hel ssures of mercy mingled with the' averities. He consoles with thoughts f coming release. He tells of a heav a where tear is never wept, and bur en is never carried, and injustice is ever suffered. Comfort for all the oing people who are maltreated at ome, or receive insuflicient income, r robbed of their schooling. or kept ack from positions they have earned y the putting for ward of others less' torthy. Comfort for all these men nd women midway in the path of life orn out with what they have already one through and with no brightenitig iture. Comfort for these aged ones mid many intirmities and whio feel 2emselves to be in the way in the ome or business which themselves stablished with their own grit. The Holy Ghost comfort I think enerally comes in the shape of a solil quy. You find yourself saying 'to ourself: "Well, '[ ought not to go on uis way about my mother's death. he hadl suffered enough. Site had orne other people's bhrdens lono. cough. I am glad that father an2 iother are together in heaven, and 1ey will be waiting to g'reet us, and will be only' a little while anyhow, nid God makes no mistakes," or you >liloquize, saying: "It is hard to lose ry property. I anm sure I worked ard enough for it. But God will tke care of us, and, as to the children, te money might have spoiled them, rid we find that those who have to :ruggle for themselves geneally turn at best, and it will all be wvell if this psetting of our worldly resources ~ads us to lay up treasures in heaven.' 'r you soliloquize, saying: "it was ard to give up that boy when the ord took him. I expected great things F him, and, oh, how wve miss hinm out1 F the house, and there are so many ings I cone across that make oneI ink of him, and he was such a spen id fellow, but then what an escapeI e has made from the temptations anid >rrows which come to all who grow< p, and it is a grand thing to hiave him fe from all possible harm, and there< ee all those Bible promises for parents< ho have lost children, .and we shall el a drawing heavenward that we >uld not have otherwise experien<!ed." nd after you have said tat you get at relief which comes from an out irst of tears. I do not say to you, as I: >me say, do not cry. God pity peop~le Strouble who have the parched eye ill, and the dry eyelid, and cannot] red a tear. That makes maniacs. To II od's people tears are the dews of the . ihahdwith sunrise. I am so ti (ad you can weep. But you think 1 ese things you say to yourself arei :l li 'ls. No. no. They are1 teCn nwoisteHlahst th ,eacher's re-enforcement. You arnd I I tve known prteachters encyclopedic in1 1owledge, bri'liant as an iceb~er < hen the sun smites it,and with Ches-] rfieldian address, and rhetorical md uplifted with diamond big:i tough to dazzle an rnssembly, and so icharged with vocabulary that when ev left this life it might be said of I' ch of them as IDe Quincey said of 1 tother that in the act of diying he mmnitted a robbery, absconding wvithi valuable polyglot dictionary, yet no vakeninig or converting or sanctify g result, while some plain man, ith humblest phriaseology, has seen idiences whebuied with religious in 2euce. It was thre Holy Ghost. t every iniister would give the history of his sermons: Years ago at an out door meeting in the State of New York I preached to many III ousands. Tiiere lhad been iiucli prarve on the gr~ounlds 1"or Z,- rea iitfiiit, () Of th Holo:4 at ihiat service. and the aw)eigpower exceededl any1thling. I ever wvitnes.:ed 'incI begai L0g pireacih. witih p'irhaps the exception of two Orl three, occasions. Clergymen and Christian workers by the score and hunlh't-dr, expressed themselves as iIi b bleed d . ring the ser vic.. 'That aterloon i to ok the t rain Ar an outdoor meeting in the state of 0)hili. where I was to preach Oil tle ni-ht of the next day. As the sermon had inoved so useful the day before. and the the e was resh inii mv inid, I resolved to reproduce it andi did w produce it as far as I could, but the - sult was nothing at all. Never had I seemed to have anything to do with flatter failure. What was the differ enee between the two services, Soc will say, -You were tired with a long journey." No. I was not tired at all. Some will say : "The temporal circun stances in the first case were more fa vorable than in the last." No, they were more favorable in the last. The difference was in the power of the Holv Ghost, Mightily present at the first service. Not seemingly present at all at the second. I call upon the ministers of America to give the his tory of sermons, for I believe it will illustrate as nothing else can the truth of that Scripture,. "Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord. On the Sabbath of- the dedication of' one of our churches in Brooklyn at the morning service 328 souls stood up to profess Christ. They were the con verts in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where we h.ad been worship ing. The reception of so many iem bers. and many of 'hem baptized by iniu:ersion, h'ad made it an arduous service, which continued from half past 10 in the morning until half pa 2 in he afternoon. From that s- rvice we went home exhausted, because there is nothing so exhasuting as deep emotion. A messenger was sent out to obtain a preacher for that night, but the seaich was unsuccessful, as all th ministers were engaged for some other place. With no preparation at all for the evening service, except the look ing in Cruden's Concordance for a text. and feeling almost too weary to stand ip. I began the service, saying audibly while the opemng song was being sung, although because of the sm, ing no one but God heard it: "0 Lord, thou knowest my insutliciency for this service. Come down in gra cious power upon this people." The place was shaken with the divine pres ence. As far as we could find out. over 400 persons were converted that night. Hear it, all young men enter ing the ministry; hear it all Christian workers. It was the Holy Ghost. In the Second Reformed Church of Somerville, N. J., in my boyhood days, Mr. Osborne, the evangelist, came to hold a special service. I see him now as he stood in the pulpit. Before he announced his text, and be fore he had uttered a word of his ser mon, strong men wept aloud, and it was like the day of judgment. It was the Holy Ghost. In 1857 the electric telegraph bore strange messages. One of them read, "My dear parents will rejoice to hear that I have found peace with God." Another read: "Dear Mother-The work continues, and I, too, have been converted." Another read, "At last faith aind peace." In Vermont a reli gious meeting was singing the hymn, "Waiting and Watching For Me." The song rolled out on the night air, and a man halted and said;~ "I wonder if there will be any one waiting and watching for me?" It started him heavenward. What wvas it ? The Holy Ghost. In that 1857 Jaynes hall, Philadelphia, and Fulton street prayer meeting, New York, telegraphed each other the number of souls saved and the rising of the devotional tides. Noonday "prayer meeting were held in all the cities. Ships came into harbor, captain and all the sailors saved on that voyage. Police and fire depart ments met in their rooms for diviae worship. At Albany the legislatu.e of the state of New York assembled in the rooms of the court of appeals for religious services. Congressional un on prayer meeting was opened at Washington. From whence came the power? From the Holy Ghost. That power shook New York. That power hook America. That power shook' the Atlantic ocean. That power shook the earth. That power would take this entire audience into the peace of the gospel quicker than you could lift your eyes heavenward. Come, Holy 'Ghost: Come, Holy Ghost: He has come ? He is here: I feel him in myI heart. There are thousands who feel him in their hearts, convicting some, saving some. sanctifying some. The' difference in evangelical useful ness is not so much a difference in brain, in scholarship or elocutionary gifts as in Holy Ghost power. You will not have much surprise at the ex traordinary career of Charles G. Fin-j niev as a soul winner if you know that so~n after his conversion lie had this! experience of'tihe Paraclete. He says: "As I turned and was about to take. a seat by the fire I received a baptism! of the Holy Ghost. Without any'ex-! petation of it, without ever having the thought in my mind that thcej was any such thing for me, without ay recollection that I had ever heard he thing mentioned by any person in' the worldl, the Holy Ghost descended upon me in a manner that seemed to o through me body and soul. Indeed it semed to come in waves and waves f liquid love, for' I could not exprees it in any other way. It seemed like. he very breath of God. I can r'ecol te: distinctly that it seemed to fan me ika immense wings. No words can express the wonderful love that i s led abroad in my heart. I wept loud with joy and'love. These waves ~ame over me, and over me, and over ne one after the other until I recall I 'ied out, 'I shall die if these waves ~ontiue to pass over me.' I said, Lord, I cannot bear any more." Nowv, my hearers, let 500 of us, vhether clerical or lay workers, get ;uch a divine visitation as that, and e could take this world for ~God be ore the clock of the next century trikes one. How many marked instances of oly Ghost 'power: When a black rupeter took his place in White eld's audience proposing to blow he trumpet at a certain point. in ie servtee andl put ev-erything. nto derision, somehow lie couild lot get the trumpet to his lips, and at1 ie close of the meeting he sought out he preacher' and asked for his prayers .t was tihe Holy Ghost. What was tihe natter with H-edlev Vicars, the meni-] rable soldieir, wvhien lhe sat with his ibe before him in a tent and his deri hinigorades come in and jeered, say g "Tuirned Methodist, elh?" And niotheri said: "You hypocrite: Bad( s you weire, I never thought you vould comie to this, old fellow :' And] ben lie becamie the soldier evangelist, tu when a soldieir in aiiother regi net hundreds of miles away tele ~raped his spiritual anxieties 'tolled-] ey Vicars, sayiug, "What shalliI do' 'icars telegraphed as thr'illinig a miess- ] .ge as ever wvent over the wires. "Be ive on the Lord Jesus Christ and io shalt be saved." What power I And what morc) propiate, ror. the Holv Ghost isa "tonzgue of firr," and the electreity that flies along the wires is a tonae of lire' And that reminds ime of what I nilit do ui0w. From the place where I staid on this plat forim there are invisible wires or lines or ilniluence stretcliiig to every heart in all tie seatson the main floor and l) into the boxes atd galleries. and ther are otlier innumerable wires or lin-s of iniluence reaching out from th., plalce into the vase beyond. and acros-o".tineLs, and under the seas. for m y a journey aroulld the world I did not !in-d a coultrv where I had not been preachinig this gospel for many years through the printing press. So as a eh'r-raph operator sits or stands ata given point and sends messagess in all direations, and you onlv hear theelick, click, click of tile electric app araitus. but the telegrams go on their err.Und. God help me now to touch thieri- lit key and send the right massage along ihe right wires to the right places: Who shall I first call up? To whoi sihall I send the message: I guess I will send the first to all the tired, wherever they are, for there are so maly tired souls. Here g ies the Christlyiessage, "Come unto me. all ye who are weary, and I wvili five you rest." Who next shall 1 call up? I g-*-s the next message Will he to the fatherless and widows. here goes God's message, "Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me." Who next sliall I call up? I guess my next imi'sisage will be to those who have buried members of their own families and here it goes, "The trum pet shall sound and the dead shall rise." Who next shall I caU up? I guess the next message will go to those who think themselves too bad to be saved. Here it goes. "Let the wvicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him return unto the Lord. who will have mercy, and unto our God, who willahundantly pardon Who next shall I call up? I gue..s it will be those wio may thinklI have not yet touched their case. Here it goes, "Whosoever, whosoever whoso ever will, let him11 cone. And now may God turn on all the electric power into thisgospel battery for the last tremendous message. so that it may thrill through this assem blage and through all the earth. Just six words will compose the message, and I touch the key of this gospel bat tery just six times and the message has gone: Away: Away it flies: And the message is, -Have ye received the Holv Ghost ?-that is. do you feel his power? has he enabled you to sorrow over a wasted life, and take full pardon from the crucified Christ, and turned your face toward the wide open gates of a welcoming heaven? We appeal to thee, O Holy Ghost, who didst turn the Philippian jailer, and Saul of Tarsus, and Lydia of Thy atira, and helped John Bunyan out of darkness, when, as he describes it, "Down fell I as a bird shot from the top of the tree into fearful despair, but was relieved by the comfortable word, 'The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin, "and helped John Newton when standing at the helm of the ship in a midnight hurricane and mightier than the waves that swept the decks came over him the memory of his blas phemous and licentious life, and he carried out, "My mother's God have mercy on me:"' and nelp one nearer home, even me, De Witt Talmage, at about 18 years of age, that Sunday night in the lovely village of Blawen burg, N. J., when 'I could not sleep be cause the questions of eternal destiny seized hold of.me, and has helped me ever since to use as most expressive of my own feeling: Amazmng grace, hew sweet the sound Thbat saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found; W as blind, but now I see. Through many dangers, toils and snares i have already come. Tis gratce has brought me safe thus far, A ud grace will lead me home. FORTY STATE COMMiTTEE. The Committee Forms a Temporary- Or ganization. COLmBIA, S. C., March 30.-The action of the convention of the Forty was much discussed in all quarters yesterday. The one main feature of all these discussions was that the con vetion had succeeded in sowing 'the seeds of peace and unity, seeds which would grow despite any efforts that might be made to stifle their germina tion. Many expressed the belief, too. that the good feeling which prevailed throughout the convention would be emulated by the people all over the State. Pretty nearly everybody, irres pective of faction, seems pleased with the results so far attained. It is need less to quote the many expressions of opinmon heard on all sides yesterday. The origual signers of the call for the convention express themselves as well pleased with the action of the conven tioni. They say that thus far they have accomplished all that their most san guine hopes led them to expect. Their best wvork, they say, is yet to be done. Yesterday morning Chairman Tim mermnan appointed a good many of the members of the "working" comn nmittee, consisting of two in each coun ty. one from each faztion. He is, how ever, getting the (delegations to recoin mendl the committeemen to him, and in a good many counties the memxbe-'s couldl not be appointed yesterday, as the delegation hiad returned home. He requests those delegates from coun ties in wvhich lhe has made no appoint ments to write himx at Timimerman's P. 0. in Edgefield county giving their recommendations, or send them to Mr. F. H. Weston in Columbia. Those members of the committee already ap) pointed miet yesterday and organized by the election of Mr. T. J. -Kirkland as temporary chairman, and Mr. F. H. Weston as temlporarv secretary. The committee y-esterday discussed the p~lan of organization, but did not come to any full understanding. They have pretty well agreed that there shall be a compllete organization in every town ship in the State. The following committeemeni have been appointed so far: Aiken-F. P. Woodward, C.' K. Hendlersoni. Marion-J. E. Ellerbe. Greenville-B. M. Shuman, W. L. M1auldin. Hlampton-M. B3. McSweeney, J. T. Morrison. Darlington-A. J. A. Parrott, Henry E. Thomipson. Union- James Welsh, J. M. Hlanes. Abberville-J. T. Robertson. J. C. Maxwell. Sumnter-E. M. Pitts, WV. D. Scar borough. Lexington-J. C. Counts,. J. A. Muller. Oconee-C. Ri. D. Burns. W. A. Lowry. Newvberry-W. C. Sligh. Laurens--J. C. Fuller, J. W. Fer 'usoni. Chester-T. J. Cuningham, J. IL. 31enn. 1Ricihand-F. H. Weston, R. N. Iichbourg. Pickens-J. E. Boggs. T. C. Robin ,On. Lancaster-John T. Green, Jiolhn W. Iam ei. Kershaw-T. J1. Kirkland, U3. II. Joikin. Edzretield--J. C'. Sheppard J. C. suddathi. Clarendoni--Louis Appelt, H1. B. MEETING OF TIlE FORTY. peace- to I Iear t1hat thiir fathers amI brothers "are mit in cncordL"' i w'anited a1ll to go i1 a1 sin haeverVtlil; persoll~d for the people of South Caro lina. Ill gave his heariy approi 1m0' to the resolutiol. '' UTRLY-HiEADE) JouiiNNiE Mr. MeLaurin was calked upon 1 give his views. He said be desired t< express hiiself inl iis crisis. MCI should speak out and say what the' know to be right,. le would rathel offer more than enoulh concession t< secure peace and harmony. ife di( not like to talk about a divisiion of de 1-gates. But, by poweres over whici lie had no control. the half-and-hal idea had taken root. it showed a nar row spirit to fall short of the idea ex pressed in the fortv's address. Aftc all, the people had the say ii in the matter-we can only advise. 1 doesn't say this outrigit. but it i, what it means. What we want is: non-partisan convention. After w( form our organization, we can devise other means to carry the counties or non-patisan lines. All we want is tc meet the public sentiment in the var ious counties. As a Reformerhe wouhl be ashamed if the Reformers here fel] short of what has alread been done. The people at home would repudiatc such a narrow plan. (Applause.). MR. APPELT EXPLAINS. Mr. Appelt did hot wish to be an obstacle in the way of peace and unity He was representing the people. Would you not expect an equal di vision in each connty if we adopted it: Mr. Murphy-We will expect abso lute good faith on the part of the ma jority. Mr. Appelt said lie was among the first to advocate a non-partisan con i vention. He would urge his people te wipe out factional lines. He didn't care whether there were all Conserva tives or Reformers in the convention or not. The men in the recent confer ence did not represent anybody. W< are here, sent by the people as repre sentatives, of the people. Mr. Murphy replied, saying that Mr. Appelt said lie had no authority t( bind the.people of Clarendon county. I have noue either, but we must act im absolute good faith, and that will serv the purpose. An executive committe< could frame a plan which would make the members of this convention all powerful in their influence. We musi depend on eauh other. GEORGE JOHNSTONE'S IDEAS. Col. George Johnstone said the situa; tion was the grvest that had facec the people since 1876. He thoughi they were here to offer advice. HE did not represent any wing of any fac tion of any party: he was here repre senting solid white people of Sout Carolina. What mattered the propor tion of delegates? It would requir all the white voting strength in the State next November to maintair white supremacy. White unity alon would stem.the tide. It was only foi the preservation of the supremacy o the white man in the State. Then weredangers between now and Septem ber. All agencies would be resorted tc to break down the barriers of this darl flood which threatened. Suppose thE Federal court should break down the protecting barriers of the election ma chinery. He conceived the coming fight to be the fight of '76 over again EQUAL DIVISION GOES. Col. McSweney raised the point tha1 Mr. Appelt's motion had not met with a second. On the vote Mr. Appelt's motion was killed, he only voting for it. When the first resolution was rea( the Rev. J. A. Sligh moved :o strike out the last part andl instead the word. "the ag'reefhient of the Hemphill Evans-T illman conference." This gavo to the majority in the several counties the odd menmer of the delegation. He believed that all they should do was tc endorse the agreement and go home. This convention would have been im possible but for this conference. Mr. Thomas moved to lay the amendmeni on the table, and this was done, somo eight or ten members voting for Mr. Sligh's motion. IThe second resolution was read and adopted without opposition. The third resolution was then read and adopted. 3IR. SLIGH OBJECTS AGAIN. The fourth resolution was read, and once more Mr. J. A. Stigh came for Iward, saying he was in a peculiar sit uation. He was a member of the State Iexecutive committee as of the special committee to prepare rules and regula tions for the primary. He did not at tend the county mass meeting. Hi thought his friends did him wrong. I lhe remewhbered correctly, in the cal] of the Forty it was said that nothing would be done but what is subject tc the organized Deynocracy of South Carolina. The party in this State is organized. The members of the com mittee wer'e elected by a convention of delegates direct from the people 'We came here tonight for what? Ta organize ano'ther party? To organiz an executive committee ? To antago nize the regular committee? Hie wvas in favor of white supremacy. Thiey could not maintain it without unityv. Don't organize a committee which can be considered in oppositon to the r'egu lar comimittee. lHe for one woula not submit to it. If you do this y~ou wvill do it without my voice and without nmy consent. I come here to meet thec Conservatives and talk over the situa tipn, and do 1:'hat is right. FINLEY S HO3ME THRUST. Mr. Finley said Mr. Sligh hiad asked some (questions which should be an swered. He, as one of the Forty, wanted to answer them. lie did not think that on of.3Mr. Sligh's intelli gence should come here and ask if they proposed to organize a new party The sentiment of the Forty, as ex pressed in their address, was to act subject to the Democratic party of South Carolina. What they were do. ing wasm merely advisor'y to get the white people united, in order to main tain white supremacy. He went on to explain very fully the intentions of the Forty. This resolution was mere lv to forin ain auxiliary comimittee to the Democratic commnittee. Hie hit Mr. Sligh pretty aptly aiid solidly wher. lie asked 'him if he did not re menmber that hie himself was a member of a State Reform executive committee. The work was of thiesame charaxcter as this committee's would be. We simp ly want to provide means for propa gating the resolutions adopted here and of securine white unity. He could not sec w~iy Mr. Sligh should take umbrage at it. Mr. Boggs was glad Mr. Sili had brought it up: lie merely wanted to say that lie was in favor of it. AN A31ENDM1ENT. Col. Johinstone said he simply wanted to amend by saying that the committee should co-operate with all other organizations seeking alike pur pse, and be subordinate to the State emocratic executive commi~tee. MIR. SLIGH S DISTINCTIo-N. Mr. Slighi then admiittod that lie had been th~e chairman of a Reform State committee. lie was chairman of the committee of a faction of the organized Democracy. Tonight you propose to make an executive comnmittee of the whole Democracy when you already have one. The best way' to amend was to strike it all out, root and branch. Mr. Johinstone took occeasion to say strikezn out. He would like to see all factions stricken out. i ANOTHERt 3E3BERi OF THE STATE C001 MITTEE. j Col. 3IcSweencv said lie was also :j emiN-iber of that State Democratic com niittee, aud not fo. one moment had such :in idea as Mr. Sligh expressed pres\'ed entered his head. In the com mittee thev discussed the matter and II e did not and do not intend any condlict with the regular committee. All we wanted to say was to spread I the idea that white supremacy was to be rjnintained. We should send forth what we have done and intend to do. What's the use to do anything if we can t say to the people what we advise? Adopt the amendment but don't strike it ou t because it is the essential feature. Mr. Boykin suggested to change the name to the "working" instead of "ex ecutive committee. Mr. 31urphy made a laughable reply to Mr. Sligh's distinction of commit tees. He asked were they simply to come here and pass resolutions and stop? No, we stand here as bulwark against an alien race. A man who sees the conditions, and won't make concessions cannot be a friend of the white people of South Carolina. Why are we hear? For the welfare of the whole people of the State. I submit that with the amendments the resolu tion should pass. ANOTHER SLIGH MIAN. Mr. T. C. Robinson, another mem ber of the State Democratic committee, agreed with Mr. Sligh. He said that all remember how those campai-n committess were criticised. It 1oo-s like prescribing a medicine and send ing a committee along to see that the people take it. Offer the advice and leave it to the people Mr. Murphy-Are you really in fa vor of this proposition? Mr. Robinson tried to reply, but advanced only the same ideas as ex pressed above. MR. THO3AS REPLIES. Mr. Thomas repiled to Mr. Sligh, drawing a fine distinction, and show ing that this committee was intended only to advance the work of applying the salve which would heal the wounds. Mr. Sca-borough wanted one of each two committeemen in each coun ty to be appointed from each faction. He expressed himself in favor of the resolution. The committee then accepted the amendment changing the name of the committee to "working" instead of "executive" committee. MR. SLIGH TAT BETTER. Mr. Johnstone's amendment was then offered Mr. Sligh came to the front and said that this amendment met his hearty approval. The State Democratic exe t cuitive committee had declared in fa vor of a primary. Mr. Johnstone's amendment was then adopted without opposition. The report was then adopted as a whole as amended. It was then decide. that the chair man appoint the committee at his leis ure. The convention adjourned at 11:10. A Nigger In The Wood-Pile. Gov. O'Ferrell of Virginia, enter tained a negro unawares at the Execu tive Mansion last week. He was asked by a friend to entertain a committee of the Massachusetts legislature who were junpeting in the south ostonsibly looking into the causes of the muigra tion of New England cotton mills to this section, and, not knowning that Mr. Teamoh, a "gentleman of color," was one of the honorables fixed an 1hour at which he would entertain at luncheon, the committee. To the sur prise of all, it seems, and to the deep disgust of the Governor and Mrs. O'Ferrall who was also introduced to the committee, the colored "'gem'ea"~ put in an appearance, coming from the wood pile, so to speak, which to say the least -threw a cloud over the scene. Noth ing but southern good heeding prevent ed an explosion on the spot, thought the ill treated Governor h-as been "letting off" considerably since, and we think with. suffi cient cauxse. It further appears that the white committeemen en deavored to sidetrack or telescope the colored member, or lose himat Raleigh and on finding him again with the~m at Richmond, expressed their sincere -regrets and apologized to the Governor -though or returning home theyv made light of the matter and in pulished I interviews said thatthe Governor enter tained the negro knowingly he having -been, they say, told that Teamoh would be present. This vemin the Governor resents in a sharp letter to the chair man of the committee, stating that no part of such a statement is true. He acknowledges that he made the best of an awkward position under "official duress," as it were, and promises to be more careful hereafter. Make Convicts Pay Their Way. INext to Denver Washington is call ed by many the most beautiful city in the United States. Its clean, wide av enues and streets cannot be sufficiently admired by those wlho come from Iplaces where the highways are crook ed, narrow, broken and dirty. Wash ington roads and streets are built by workhouse convicts, mostly black they seem to be, as their dark figures. clad in stripes, move to and fro busy as ants. North Carolina presents an ob ject lesson and the model system of roadmaking- to her sister States. Her convicts will hereafter work on the p~ublic highways. The problem of finding employment for penitentiary prisoners and yet not having them come in competition with honest labor is thus solved at one stroke. New York. Texas and Ohio are considering the establishment of the same system. It is so admirable that the wonder is all the States did not inaugurate it long ago. Criminals ought not to be permitted to eat their heaas off in pris on at public expense growing lazier and more worthls every day. Nei thier should they be leased out to ras cally contractors who get their work for nothing while honest laborers starve. No! Put theln on the public highways. The counties and States are too poor to pay for making and mend ing roads properly. Here is labor al ready to their hand that will not need to be paid for. At the same time the convicts will get the discipline of reg ular work in the open air. It will be the making of many of them. D~isastrous Fire' M1ILwAUKEE, M1arch 27.-Lower Graind Avenue, where the heart of the wholesale and retail commerce of the west side throbs, was the scene of one of the most disastrous fires in the his tory of the city. Some of the leading mercantile institutions are in ruins. The lire was the worst since the con flagration in the Third war-d on Oct. 2S. 1892 and the loss will exceed $1, o00,000. There were, however, lucki yno fatalities. A Double Drowning. HLLunx. MIarch 27.-A double drow xningisreported fromPjeasantHar bor-, near this city. Twvo young men started on a excursion and the next day their boat was found ashore in the breakers smashed to pieces. The men were Louis lilishay anxd William Bor gal, aged 18 and 20' years respectively. The former was the oldest of a family ANOTHER ACTRESS MURDERED. And the sayer iniis Him-ce-lf--A Trage- iy and a Mystery. NEW YORK. March 2.--Murder and suicide were committed some time t day in the furnished rooma hui,e in West Twenty-fourth street. Vhat led to the tragredy may never be known for nothing was left to indicate any reason for the mad acts. The perpe trator of them was John Bigelow, an actor, and the scene of the tragedy was the room of Miss Amy Thill. his victim, who was an actress. It appears that lie killed the young woman by firing three shots into her hicLAd and theu shot himself in the head. Miss ThilI occupied a room in the house with her two sisters. Alice and Marie, and Bigelow was a frequent caller upon them. Shortly after 10 o'clock this morn ing. Martha Coleman, wife of the jan itor of the house, heard four sharp re ports, and, thinking a water pipe had burst,she summoned her husband and they examined the pipes but found no breaks. It was Miss Thill's custom to rise about noon, but she did not ap pear and during the afternoon it was decided to break open the door of her room. When this was done, a horri ble sight was presented. On the floor, with his head near the foot of the bed stead, and his feet in the alcove lay Bigelow. In his right temple was a hole from which the blood had ceased flowing, while blood was spattered on the wali. Clutched in his right hand was a revolver with four of its five chambers empty. In the alcove lay the body of Miss Thill. Her head was near the door, while her feet were under the wash stand. She was. partly clothed. In one hand was a towel; nearby stood a basin with water. Her face was cov ered with blood. There was one bul let hole under her left eye. another in her left cheek and a third in the left side of her head. She had evidently been washing and had been shot while standing with her left side towards her slayer. On one of the bureaus in the room lay two letters in the wom an's handwriting-one addressed "S. S. Karsch, the Standard, 1155 Broad way." and the other "Madame Thill, 812 Mill street, Minneapolis, Minn." The second letter, it-is believed, was for the dead woman's mother. Her family are said to be well-to-do. The coroner, after being duly notified by the police, viewed the bodies and gave a permit for their removal to an un dertaking establishment. Meanwhile, the two sisters of the dead woman Misses Alice and Marie, at present with a theatrical company in Erie, Pa., were notified. Ir was learned tonight that Bigelow was the son of J. Bigelow, a. ietired lawyer and ex-mayor of Morristown, N. J.,and that he had claimed to have wealthy relatives in Brooklyn and in the South. It was said that Bigelow had been very gloomy since he lost his position last Christmas and had been drinking heavily. BIGELOW WAS LSANE. NEW YORK, March 28.-Investiga tion this morning set at rest all theo ries as to the cause of the double trag edy yesterday morning, when John Bigelow, an actor, shot and killed Amy Thill, an actress, in the Falk .House, at 13 West Twenty-tourth street, and then turned the pistol upon himself and sent a bullet through his right temple. Bigelow, as it was learned throu-l one of his most inti mate friends, ~las been in insane re treats at least five times within the last ten years, and there can be no doubt that the murder and suicide yes terday were caused by a sudden return of his insanity, brought on by the night of drinking and debauchi that preceded it. The last time Bigelow was in a lunatic asylum was in the fall of 1892, 'when he spent some time in a retreat in Hartford He has also been several times in Bloomingdale. His insanity; in the belief of his friend, is the result of a severe attack of Roman fever which he contracted when a 2 year-old baby. Coroner Fitzpatrick viewed the re mains of the murdered woman and the suicide this morning, but has not de cided when to hold the inquest. A Pointer. BALTIMORE, March ' 30.-It is esti ma-;ed that the South spends annually the sum of $100,000,000 for products, horses and mules, which could be1 raised with greater profit in that sec tion than elsewhere. The bulk of this: vast sum goes to the West to pay for a-rain and meats. Before the war the ?outh raised its own corn and provi sions, and an agitation has been started to return to that custom. If less cot ton were produced and more acreage was devoted to other crops, the finan ces of Southern farmers would be in better shape at the end of a season. Trolley Car Ran Away. HAZLErON, Pa., March 30.-A freig-t ful accident occurred on the mountalin tracks of the Lehigh Traction Com pany at Jeanesville today. A trolley car coming down the incline ran away and three persons were killed outrighi: two were probably fatally injured and a number of others were seriously hurt. Mrs. John Early, 'of Beave~r Meadows. his son Edward, aged 8 years, and Mars. Watkin T. Williams, of Hazleton were killed. Mrs. Jose Evans and Mrs. John Weir, both of Colerain were probably fatally hurt. Bride of Four Months. NEW YORK. March 28.-Mrs. Cora Shear, 20 years old, was taken to Roosevelt hospital suffering from the effects of a dose of carbolic acid taken with suicidal intent in her apartments. She dIed during the night. Mrs. Shear was a bride of about four months. She came to New York from Savannah, Ga., with her husband. Lent Shear. who is an engineer, a few weeks after they married. He cannot explain the motive for the deed. Murder at a Prayermeeting. GUTERIE, 0. T., MIarch 28.-Regi uald A. McGinniss. aged 28, entered a prayermeeting at the "4 B." school, eight miles north of here, drew a re volver and fired on Joseph Bradford, a married man aged 26,. inflicting a fatal wound. A feud had existed between the men. McGinniss alleged that Bradford had been intimate with his wife from wvhom he was divoi ced three months ago. An Extra Session Called. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., March 25. Governor Stone has decided upon call ing the Legislature in extasession. That body adjourned hastily Saturday even ing, leaving much importanct legisla tion incomplete. For the first time in twenty years. the Republicans have a majority~in one branch and a blockade to needed measures exist. Something Expected to Drop. CARSON, Nev., March 25.-It is thought something startling will be made known in the mint shortage af fair. An item in a San Francisco pa per yesterdayr is calling- forth much comment, It is stated thme blame has been located and taken off the shoul ders of this administration. TELEGRAMIS ave been received fromi Minister Bayard stating that under- no circumstances would England attempt to acquire any additional American territory, even though Nicaragua should refuse to pay the indemnity dle 11KA. POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream or tartar barmg powder. Highest of all in leavening strength.-La test United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking -Pawder Copany, 106 Wall St., N. Y. Got Their Deserts. CUrrTAXooGA, TENN.. March 27. South-bound passenger train No. 3 on the Cincinnatti Southern Railroad was held up at 2.35 o'clock this morn ing at South End Tunnel No. 9. The tra~in was ascending a steep grade be tween Greenwood and Alpine, Ky., in the midst of the wildest mountain section of Kentuckv. When a white lantern in the darkness ahead brought it to a stop. a man with a cocked re volver in his hand climbed into the cab and covered Engineer Tom Spring field and Firaman Daisy Rankin. who were ordered to stand still. Three other robbers, wearing broad-brimmed slouch hats and dressed like moun taineers, withal desperate looking men, boarded the baggage car, whicn they mistook for the exprese car. Three road detectives were sitting in the smoker, and when the train stopped Detective Will Algood stepped out on the platform. A fourth man on the ground ordered him to throw up his hands, but he replied with a pistol ball, which brought the robber to the ground. The bandits on the baggage car stampeded at hearing the shooting, and jumped ctown. A battle of small arms ensued, in whic the other detectives, William Eddy and Thomas Griffin, took a hand. At the finish two robbers were found lying dead and a third mortally wounded. At Cumberland Falls the officers telegraphed the news out, and, alighting, set out on the trail of. the ,vo fugitives. It is thought the wounded man was a tramp and shot by one of the robbers, who mistook him for a train man. She road offi cials were aware of the plot to hold up the train, and the presence of the offi cer* was not accidental, although such is denied. - WHO THE BANDITS WERE. -CHATTANOOGA, TEN., March 27. Six men were engaged in the train robbery on the Cincinnati Souihern Railroad this morning. Two were killed by the road detectives. - Their names are Jerry Harbin and his son Tom Harbin. A third bandit was shot but got away. A boy of 19-a tramp -who was stealing a ride on the train, was shot by one of the robbers under the impression that he was a train man. His name is William Parker of Pittsburg, Pa. He was taken to the hospital at Somerset, Ky, and will recover. Jerry Harbin was the leader of the gang. Altruiiar. It has started up again, this time in Sonoma countyv. Cal. It is about 60 miles north of San Francisco. It is an organization formed to realize perfect happiness on earth by introducing as rapidly as possible perfect systems of production and distribution of thfr' world's goods. You can become. a member of it by paying $50. That is to help establish the coiony. Mr. Ed ward B. Payne, writing in The.Ameri can Magazine of Civics, says that the aim of the colony is to make all its members comfortable as to enjoyment of this world's goods, but the "greater thought is to make social life strong, beautiful and sweet and individual ex- . perience, free, joyous and noble." It is to be hoped by all means that the Altruria colony will succeed in doing this. There is need of it. Every Al turian. male or fsmnale, has just the same right. "The allowance of wealth out of the common stock" will be exactly the same for every member. There ca~n be no Gould ini-llions on the one hind and men blowing their brains out because they are starving on the othrer. The colony already has a membership of 35-25 grown people; 10 cii ireni. Fa--ming and a chicken r-anch have been started. There are also a cooperative blacksmith shop, furniture factory and, grocery. The colonists are publishing a paper. The Alturian. May these gentle, kindly. honest people realize every one of their golden dreams: But we give them three years of colony life at most before they break up. Rev. J: M. W. Deshiong preached with great lire and zeal to a colored congregation in Fayetteville. Tenn. Colored people like tire and zeal, and for a time the Ret-. Deshong's sermons had great acceptance. Sinners were awakened, and a.t the alta- -of peni tence they howlied mightily as the good work went on. With the zeal of a martyr Rev. Deshong begani to weed out the sinners in his congregation from the saints. 'I divide vou into-"o' sheep and goats," he said. "In the last great day the sheep will sit on the right hand and the goats on the, left. ~Next Sunday I will read out loud to you fron~ this pulpit a list of the sheep and another of the goats in my congcregration." Next Sunday the church was crowdewd. All Fayette yille wanted to knowv particularly who the sheep tvere and still more particu larly wtho ttere the goats. Brer De shong 'ead out the lists as he threat ened. On the goat list were the names of some of the most prominent colored ladies of the congregation. These dear sisters fired up at being called goats before all the people. Tfheir rage sur passed ct-en their -Christianity, and one night they got another goat pre sumably of the male persuasion, to shoot at Brer Deshong as he reposed in bs roone after the labors of the day were over. But the bullet did not hit. Ber'r Deshong still lives to call the sis ters goats. A Novel Case. Coxcon., March 2t.-Nashiua Say ings Banik has been enjoined upon ap plication of the batik commissioners to the court, for the reason that the de muand made by its depositors upon the bank f'or thir deposits is such that the bank is unable to meet them wvithout seling its securities at a sacrifice. The bank has in round numbers $2.,600,000 >f deposits. A pplication for the in junction was made solely because of. he run upon the bank b'y its deposit >s. The bank had already borrowed . ~9.00 to meet these demands. The issets of the bank, at a conservative. typ)Iraisal,. are niore thtan sullicient to ay all claims. Superintendenxt Dead. LouIsVILLu, Xr.. March 25.-W. P. ?~ike, superi ntemitent o: the Louisville. k Nashv-ille Railroad. d'ed here this after'noo.n. Death resulite d from ery