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TRIAD OF TROUBLES. REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHED ON BE - NAIAH'S GREAT COURAGE. The Christian May Overcome Sin and Mis fortune by the Sword of the Spirit. The Lion of Bereavement-The Harbor of Heaven. NEw YoRK, Feb. 24.-Continued winter storms seem to have no effect in diminishing the great audiences that gather every Sunday in and around the Academy of Music. Today the crowds were as. large as ever, and the spacious Academy was packed from t to dome long before the services Dr. Talmage took forhis sub t "A Snowy Day" the text selected 'ng I Chronicles xi, 22, "He went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day." Have you ever heard of him? His name was Benaish. He was a man of stout muscle and of great avoirdupois. his father was a hero, and he inherit ed prowess. He was athletic, and there was iron in his blood, and the strongest bone in his body was back bone. He is known for other wonders besides that of the text. An Egyptian five cubits in stature, or about 7 feet 9 inches high, was moving around in braggadocio and flourishing a great spear, careless as to whom he killed, and Benaiah of my text, with nothing but a walking stick. came upn him, snatched the spear from the oyptian, and with one thrust of its sharp edge put an end to the blatant bully, There is trouble in all the neighborhood. Lambs are carried off in the night, and children veuturing only a little way from their father's house are found mangled and dead. The fact is, the land was infested with lions, and few ple dared meet one of these rzly much less corner or attack it. As a good Providence would have it, ~one morninga footstep of a lion was tracked in the snow. It had been out on its devouring errand through the darkness, but at last it is found by the impression of the four pawson the white surface of the ground, which way thewild beast came and which way it had had gone. Perilous under taking, but Beaiah the hero of the text, arms himself with such weapons as those early day afforded, gunpow der having been invented in a far sub sequent centuryby the German monk, Bertholdus Schwarz. Therefore, with eutgu or any kind of firearms, Be ' of the text no doubt depended on the sh steel edge for his own de fenseand e slaughter of the lion as he followed the track through the snow. It may have been a javelin it may have been only a knife, but what Benaiai lacks in weapon he will make up instrength of arm and skill of stroke. But where is the lion? We must not get off his track in the snow. The land has many cisterns, or pits, for catching rain, the rainfall bein very scarce atcertain seasions, an -hence these cisterns or reservoirs are digged here and there and yonder. Lion have an instinct which seems to tell them whex they are pursued, and this dread monster of which I speak retreats into one of thesecisterns whichhappenedto be free of water, andis there panting from the long run and licking itskjaws after a repast of human flesh and after quaffing the red yin of human blood. nanisallalprt and comes cau tiously on toward the hiding place of this terror of the fields Oon'mnto the verge of the heit ks down at thelion, and the linlooks up at him. What a moment it was when their eyes clnahed! But, while a modern Du Chaillu Gordon Cumming or Sir Samuel Baer or *Divid Iavingstone would have just brought the gun to the shoulder and held-the eye against the barrel and blazed away into the depths andfinish ed the beast, Beaislh with only the old time weapn can &o nothing until b e get on a leve with the beat and soeups into the pit, an d helion. of human life, springs for the man, while Benaiah springs for the beast. But the quick stroke of the steel edge flashed again and again andagi until the snow was no lone white, and the right foot of triumplian Ben * aiak is haff covered with the tawny mane of the slain horror of Palestine. Now you see how emphatic and tragic and tremendous are the words of my text, 'He went down and slew alionin apit in a snowy day." Why *pithat in the Bible? Why put it 'twce in the Bible-once in book of Samueland here inthe book of Chr oni cles? Oh, the practicalessons are so many for you and for me! What a cheer in this subject for all those of you who are in conjunction of hostile circumstances. Three things were against Beaisliof my text in the mo *ment of combat-the snow thatimped ed his movement, the pit that environ ed himmin aall space and the lion, with open jaws and uplifted paw. And vet Ihear the shoutof Bnaab's vic tory. 0 men and women of three troubles! Youisay, "I could stand one, andl think I could stand two but three are at least one too many." Icould m rh t off theseset adacross this , If they would toubes This 500 peoplewt three troble. hisisthe opportunity to play the hero or the heroine, not on a small saewith a few hundred people to clap teir approval, but with all the galleries of heaven filled with sypathetic and appiauding spectatr cloud of witnesses." My brother, my sister, my father, my mother, what a chance you have! Whil'e you are in the st1gl, if you only have the grace of 'his to listen,'a voice parts the heavens, saying, "My grace is suf ficient for thee." "Whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth." "You shall be more than conquerors." Paul had three troubles-sedrin denouncing him-that was one great trouble; phy sical infirmity, which he called "a thorn in the flesh," and although we know not what the thorn was we do know from the figure he used that it must have been something that stuck him-that was the second trouble; ap pacing martyrdom-that made the hretroubles. Yet hear what he says: "If I had only one misfortune, I could stand tabut three are two too many?" NoI misinterpret. He says: "Sorrowful, yetalways rejoicing Poor, yet maing many rich; aving nothin, yet possessing all things. "Thank be unto God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." David had threetroubles-a bad bov, a temptation to dissoluteness and d'e thronement. What does he say? "God is our refuge and strength, ao very present help in the time of trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed and though the mountains be cast into the midst of the sea." John Weslev had three troubles-defamation by mobs, domestic infelicity, fatigue from more sermons preached and more miles traveled than almost any man of his time. What does he say? "The best of all is, God is with us." And when his poet brother, Charles Wes ley, said to him, "Brother John,.i the Lord were to give me wings, I'd fly." John's reply was, "Brother Charles, if the Lord told me tofly I'd do it and l1av him to find the wings."'' George nWhitetield had three trou-' bles-rejection from the pulpits of England because he was too dramatic -that was one trouble; strabismus, or the crossing of his eyes-that subject ed him to the caricature of all the small wits of the day; vermin and dead animals thrown at him while he preached on the commons-that made three troubles. Nevertheless his ser mons were so bouyant that a little child dying soon after hearing him preach said in the intervals of pain, "Let me go toMr. Whiteflield's God!" Oh, I am so glad that Benaiah of my text was not the only one who tri umphed over a lion in i pit on a snowy day. Notice in my text a victory over bad weather. It was a snowy aay, when one's vitality is at a low ebb. and the spirits are naturally depressed, and one does not feel like undertaking a great enterprise, when Benaiah rubs lus hands together to warm them by ex tra friction, or thrashes his arms around him to revive circulation of the blood, and then goes at the lion, which was all the more fierce and rav enous because of the sharp weather. Inspiration here admits atmospheric hindrance. The snowy day at Valley Forge well nigh put an end to the struggle for American independence. The snowy day demolished Napoleon's army on the way from Moscow. Thank God there are Christians, who, though their whole life through sickness has been a snowy day, have I killed every lion of despondency that dared to put its cruel paw against their suffering pillow. It was a snowy day when the pilgrim fathers set foot, not on a bank of flowers, but on the cold New Enogland rock, and from a ship that might have been more ap propriately called after a December I hurricane than after a "Mayflower," i they took possession of this eat con tinent And amid more cIly world ly circumstances many a good man or a good woman has taken possession of a whole continent of spiritual satis- i faction, valleys of peace, and rivers of gladness and mountains of joy. hrist landed in our world not in the I month of May, but in the stormy month of December, to show us that we might have Christ in winter weath er and on a snowy day. Notice everything down in the pit that snowy day depended upon Bena- i iah's weapon. There was as much i strength in one muscle of that lion as I in all the muscles of both arms of Be- < naiah. It is the strongest of beasts andhasbeen known to carry off an ox. Its tongue is so rough that it acts as a rasp tearing off the flesh it licks. The twogreat canines at each side of the mouth make escape im 'ble for anything it has once seiz yet Bena iah puts his heelon the neck of the "king of beasts." Was it a daggert Was ita javelin? Was it a knife? I cannot but everything depended on it. But for that Benaiah's body under one crunch of the monster would have been limp and tumbled in the snow, and when you and I go into the fight with temptation, if we have not the right kind of weapon, instead ofsla i the lion the lion will slay us. he sword of the Spirit! Nothing in earth or hell can stand before that. Victory with that, orno victory at all. By that I mean prayer to God, confi dence in his rescuing power, saving grace, almighty deliverance. I do not care what oucallit I callit "sword 1 of the 'it " and if the lions of all t the 'uglsof perdition should at once spring upon your soul by that weapon of heavenly metal youcan thrust them 1 back and cut them down and stab I them through, and leave them power- 1 less at your feet. Your good resolu- t tionsweilded against the powers which.'3 assault you is a toy pistol aganst an C armtrng unria pedknsab eld out Heintzlmnan's cavaly charge. Got into the fight against sin on your own strength, and the result will be the. hot breath of the lion in your blanch- 1 ed face, and his front pawsomeoneacha lung. Alas, for the man not fully I armed down inthe pit on a snowy day I and before him alion!t A word to all who are in a snowy day. Oh, fathers and mothers who have lost children, that is the weather that cuts through body and soul. But drive back the lion of bereavement 1 with the thought which David Rae of Edinburgh got from the Scoth grave digger, who was always planting white lover and the sweetest flowers on the children's graves in the cemetery and when asked why he did so replied: I "Surely, sir, I canna make ower fine the bed coverin o' a little innocent sleepe that's waitin there till it's I G's time to waken it and cover it with the white robe and waft it away tglory. When sic grandeur is waitin it yonder, it's fit it should be decked out here. I think the Saviour that ounts its dust sae precious will like to see the white clover sheet spread ower it. Do ye noo think so, too, sir?" Cheer up all disconsolates. The best work for God and humanity has been done on the snowy day. At gloomy "Marine Terrace," islandof Jersey, the exile Victor Hugo wrought the migt est achievement of his pen. Eeil anished and bereft andan invalid at Cornhfl, on the banks the Chebar,. had his momentousvisionofthe cheru bum and wheels within wheels. By the dim light of a dungeon window at Bedford, John Bunyan sketches the "Delectable Mountains." Milton writes1 thegrestest poem of all time without eyes. Michael Anel carved a statue I I out of snow, an Florence gazed in raptures at its exquisiteness, and many - of God's servants have out of the cold ut their immortality. Persecutions were the dark background that made more impressive the courage and con secration of Savonaroia, who, when threatened with denial of burial, said, ~ "Throw me into the Arno if you I choose; the resurrection day will find ~ me, and thatis eoh." Beaiahi, on a cold, damp, cuttn, snow day, - gained'leonine triumph. Hadhp and rouble have again and agi exalted ad inspired and glorifie their sub- ~ iects. The bush itself hpgs mounted higher s And fourished unoonsumed in fire t Well, we have had man ysnowy days s within the past month, and added to he chill of the weather was the chill- t ng dismay at the nonarrival of the f oean steamer Gascogne. Overdue C or eight days, many had given her up i s lost, and the mostthopeful were very1l axious. The cyclones, whose play is fi shipwrecks, had been reported beingin s wildest romp all up and down the At- a antic. The ocean a few days before :ad swallowed the Elbe, and with un- V1 ppeared appetite seemed saying, ii "Give us more of the best shipping." i Te Normnandie came in on the same n rack the Gasogne was to travel, and a i had not seen her. The Teutonic, 11 aved almost by the superhuman ef- t] orts of captain and crew, came in and ii eard no gun of distress from that miss ing steamer. There were p ale faces ad wringing hands on bot contn mts, and tears rolled down cold cheeks ir mn those snowy days. We all feared d; hat the worst had happened and talk- d: d of the Cit of Boston as neverheard f< f after sai~ig, and the steamship ti resident on which the brilliant Cook- te man saile'd, never reported and never it obe heard of again until the time when e< the sea gives up its dead. But at last, c< tider most powerful glass at Fire is- o0 and, a ship was seen lhmping this way al ver the waters. Then we all began si o ho~ that it might be the missing ti and agonizing waiting and two contin ents i suspense! W hen will the eye glasses at Fi island make revelation of this awful mystery of the sea? There it is! Ha! ha! The Gascogne! Quick: Wire the news to the city! Swing the flags out on the towers! Ring the bells! Sound the whistles of the ship ping all the way up from Sandy Hook to New York Battery! "She's safe. she's safe:" are the words caught up and passed on from street to street. "It is the Gascogne !" is the cry sound ing through all our delighted homes and thrilling all the telegraphic wires of the continent and all the cables un der the sea, and the huzza on the wharf as the gangplanks were swung out for the disembarkation was a small part of the huzza that lifted both hemis pheres into exultation. The flakes of mow fell on the "extra" as we opened it on the street to get the latest particu lars. Well, it will be better than that when some of you are seen entering' the harbor of heaven. You have haa i rough voyage-no mistake about :hat. - Snowy day after snowy day. Again and again the machinery of ealth and courage broke down, and he waves of temptation have swept ylear over the hurricane deck, so that ou were often compelled to say, "All .hy waves and thy billows have gone ver me," and you were down in the rough of that sea and down in the troug of the other sea, and many des. a of your safe arrival. But the great pilot, not one who must come ff from some other craft, but the one who walked storm swept Galilee and aow walks the wintry Atlantic, comes mn board and heads you for the haven when no sooner have you passed the arrows of death than you find all the ,anks lined with immortals celebrat ng your arrival, and while some break >ff palm branches from the banks and ave them those standing on one side ill chant, "There shall be no more ;ea," and those standing on the other dde will chant, "These are they which ame out of great tribulation and had heir robes washed and made white in be blood of the Lamb." Off of the ,tormy sea into the smooth harbor. )ut of leonine struggle in the pit to uidance by the Lamb, who shall lead Fou to living fountains, of water. Out >f the snowy day of earthly severities nto the gardens of everlasting flora md into orchards of eternal fruitao-e he fall of their white blossoms le ly snow in heaven. PROGRESS OF PACIFICATION. That the State House Offcais Say About Irby's Letter, CoLrxBLA, S. C., Feb. 28.-The sim iltaneous publication of the address * the Conservatives and the astonish ng interview of Senator Irby werethe ak of the town lately. The address was perfectly intelligible, but the in erview was something more than :ould be generally understood. Some Alaced one construction on the matter aid others had an entirely different riew of the letter. As to the effect of he break by Senator Irby there is a rery great diversity of opinion, but as nost it is regarded that Senator Irby :an only accomplish a very limited umount of mischief, if any at all. It is iow the general impression that this ast interview is the straw that will >reak the camel's back in the political ruce between Irby, Tillman and vans. After this t'he copartnership il have to be more limited, as the miversal impression is that Governor ivans and Senator Tillman will stand >y their compact, Irby to the coun ray notwithstanding, and that they il do everything they legitimately ran to carry out the agreement that tad been voluntarily made and which as been unanimously approved by he conference of Conservatives that net here Monday night. Talking about the matter one morn ng aState House official said: "The agreement is so manifestly fair and tonest and the purposes are so good hat the people wil exidorses it no mat er what certain of the 'bosses' might rant done. The time has come when he hot heads and the fighters of both ides will be pushed aside and the con ervative men of both factions will mite in carrying out the agreement; hat has been made and accepted in< he best interests of the entire people, nd the voters are not going to sacri ice themselves to bolster up any 'bos es' in their personal disputes. The1 eople will, after allthat has been said ad done, realize that any fight over his matter will be for purely selfish A taear ago Senator Irby wrote letter charging this correspondent ith manufacturing sentiment against tim and all such things. It was then1 s it is a fact, which he or any one else ran find out, that there are precious ew of those around Columbia, who re in politics, who have any sym athy with him in his effort to spoil he agreement which has been going along so very nicely and which the eports from all parts of the State indi ate is meeting with such general avor. Said one of them: "The intervie-w an do no material harm. About the nly thing. will be that Senator Till nan and the others will have to show heir hands and convince the people hat they are on the right line, as I no w they can do." Another said that he was not sur rised at the attack Senator Irby had made; that there was nothing else for tim to do, and that it was his very ex stence to keep up the fighting. ToI top the fight would mean the politi al annihilation of Senator Irby. And< o it went. Every one around'Colum >ia is very much interested in the 1 ,greement that has been made and ex ect it to be carried out to the fullest 1 tent. There is, of course, some rea on to count the influence of Senator 1 rby in Laurans and Spartanburg. bruh the Piedmont Headlight, but'] utie of that it is not feared that here will be much trouble in Senator ilman and Governor Evans influenc- f ig their faction, and as for the Con ervatives they are generally expectedc >fall into line after the address has I hown the position of the conference.s The only intimation of trouble to h consummation of the progamme :r an equal division of the delegates I omes from the Piedmont section, and r ;will be a very difficult task for any 1 sader to involve to people in another c ght, when it can be soceasily and sen- 1 ibly avoided, is the general opinion mong those who talk on the matter. c There is one thing brought out by r 1e interview and the consequent talk, s 'is that collateral with the Constitu- 1 onal Convention contest, if one be t iade, will be the preliminary shirmish t mong those who are after Senator -by's seat in the Senate, and perhaps 8 1at is what Mr. Irby is afraied of a ore than anything else. Served Him Right. PROSPERrrY, Feb. 28.-One day dur- I ig the first week of the snow, Ran- b all Wilson stripped one of his chil- l< ren and whipped it unmercifully, o rcing it, while nude, to jump into a i ib of water, ice cold. He then fas- c: ned the child in an outhouse and left C there to suffer or freeze. A knowl- C lge of the facts caused a number of C lored men to go to Randall's house b re night last week and take him out o: ad undress him and roll him in the . iow until he was nice and cold. They TI ten warmed him up with plum p A WAR OF WORS. SENATORS HILL AND MARTIN SKIN SENATOR CHANDLER. The Debate Was JBrouight on by a M'otion of Chandler's to Declare Martin's Seat Vacant as the Kansas Legislature Was Illegal. WASHLNGTOX. March 1.-When the night session opened :, S p. im. last night there were not many Senators present, but the galleries were crowded with spectators. The reading of the leg slative, executive and judicial ap propriation bill was continued, and in 45 minntes the bill was completed, so far as committee amendments were concerned. At 9:10 p. m. Mr. Chan dler interrupted the consideration of the legislative bill and called up the resolu-ion heretofore offered by him, declaring that there was no lawful election of the Legislature of Kansas of a United States Senator when Sen ator Martin was declared to be elected. He began by stating that if the seats of Senator Martin of Kansas, and Sen ator Roach of North Dakota, were to be vacated, the Legislature of those two States, now in session,would elect Republicans,and the DemocMts in the Senate, even if they retained the votes of Senators Kyle of South Dakota,and Allen of Nebraska. Populists, would lose control of the Senate and their would be a majority of 2 against them. It had been always his judgment that those two Uats should be vacated and his resolution would certainly be adopted if the Senate would properly act upon indisputable facts. There had been only three Democrats, he said, in the Kansas Legislature, but the Re publican and Populist had been hood winked into electing Mr. Martin, who as soon as he came to Washington made the closest connection with the Democratic leaders. After his admission to the Senate he had renounced all pretensions of Pop ulist affiliations and had possessed himself of all the National patronage. given to Kansas and had become one of the most uncompromising and re lentless Democrats in the Senate. From Kansas, Mr. Chandler passed to North Dakota, claiming that Mr. Roach had been elected by interfer ence and manipulation of the basest sort. Chandler charged Mr. Gorman with having thwarted investigation into Mr. Roache's case and read volumi nous extracts from the Congressional Record to prove it. "And now," he said in his bitterest tones, "the cashier of the Citizens National Bank of Washington represents the State of North Dakota in the appropriate garb of a Democratic Senator." When Mr. Chandler took his seat, Mr. Hill rose and said. in serious tones: "I will now speak on the ap propriation bill." (Laughter.) And he proceeded to make a scorching attack upon Chandler, whom he accused of having taken advantage of the cour teous privilege afforded to him to as sail one of his brother Senators. Hill did not believe that the Senator had helped an honest cause by the specta cle he had made of himself. "But," said Mr. Hill, with great earnestness and passion, "I could forgive him what he said about the Senator from New York (Mr. Murphy) and for what he said about the Senator from Eansas (Mr. Martin). but I cannot for give him for the cruel, mean, con temptible, malicious attack which he made on the Senator from North Da kota, (Mr. Roache.) (Applause.) The Senator said he had no pleasure in at tacking Mr. Roache, but I do not be lieve that a single Senator who heard him say that, believed a single word of it. A hyena that was seeking to tear a woman limb from limb might just as well turn round and say that it took pleasure in the attack; andlI !ould believe the hyena just as quick v as I would believe the Senator from R'ew Hampshire. (Laughter.) "Have you forgotten what took place in 1876? Have you forgotten what p arty it was that cheated Samuel I. Tilden out of the Presidency to which he was elected by a popular ma ority. Do you recollect the conduct f our friend, Chandler,when he went o Florida to steal that State from the DemocracyI (Some applause in tne ple .)He is the last ma ninthe world ;o mak-e charges against the Dem >cratic party. I hate a hypocrite be fond all other men. I do not like the zan who stands up and says 'i am rolier than thou.' The Senator from SAw Hampshire need not deceive him ;elf. His party has not come here to stay. The Democratic party is the arty of the people, the p arty of the Donstitution, the party whiich believes n equal rights and equal privileges, in onest elections and in fair play. That aarty, though now temporarily in the :ninority, will certainly rise again, md probably much quicker than the senator from New Hmhir imag Enes.." (Applause in the o'alleries.) Mr. Martin (Dem.) of 'ansas, 'rose ;o reply to Mr. Chandler, but was ad ised by Mr. Cockrell to pay no atten ion to Mr. Chandler's "paper pellets." Ee declined, however, to act on that idvice and proceeded to speak in the itterest tone and harshest words of fr. Chandler. If the stories which he iad heard of that Senator were true > half-true, instead of representing ~he magnificent commonwealth of iew Hampshire in the Senate of the Jnited States, he should be in the enitentiary." Mr. Martin also spoke of the politi al contest in 18-76 and of Mr. Chand er's connection with what he called lie attempt to steal and plunder the rote of every doubtful State in the .jmon. "New Hampshire," Mr. Martiu con inued, " used to be represented in the senate by men of splendid intelleet, >ut the eagle has been driven from its iest and a buzzard had taken the agle's place and vomnited forth its ith on every occasion." Mr. Martin was not permitted to1 ontinue. He was called to order: and1 or some time there was much confu-3 ion and disorder; but finally Mr. fartin withdrew his objectionable ords "out of respect to the Senate" ut he still retained his own opinion especting the subject. (Laughter.) It ras nearly midnight when this sort of 1 ontroversy came to an end and the ending bill wa open to amendment. Most of the amecndments that were( ffered were objectionable to Mr.Cock ell, in charge of the bill; but for the ake of getting on with the business, .e allowed them to be adopted-with 1 xe intention, evidently, of having I iem defeated in conference. Finally the bill was passed, and the I enate at half an hour after midight djourned till Friday at 11 a. m. f A Chance for a Hanging. j CoUscit, B3LUF~s, Ia., Feb. 23.-1 teuty Sheritf O'Brien, who was shot y'theGriswold bank burglar, is very >w, and sligh t hopes are entertained d V his recovery. The authorities have e lentified Smith. the wounded robber f ptured. He is Cad Maguire of ~ maha. Riley, the robber who shot I Brien and then escaped, is the son of 1. 'Connor of Omaha, his righ~t name a eing Chiarley-O'Connor. Th'le auth- c ities are hot on O'Connor's trail and I <pect to capture him before nioht. I he postage stamps Miolen were si-t ad ~y White to a man named Davis r , Chao. t] PREJUDICE DYING OUT. Statement from a Leading Journal on a luiportant Subject. In a rece;t issue the New Yorl It is gratifying to note that the pre' udices of intelligent physicians an, clergymen are fast disappearing in th light of the widespread knowledge o the certainty of the Keeley cure. It I perhaps proper enough that a measur of conservatism should prevail in thes professions, for otherwise a thousan' and one heretical doctrines of a per nicious character might come in t< rend the bodies asunder. While thi conservatism is ofttimes carried too fat still it is altogether better than unre strained license to accept every ne theory that comes along. Much o the opposition was that of suspendei judgment, in all probability. Num bers of the leading clergymen and pre gTessive representatsyes of the genera body of clericals, as well as many o the most advanced of the medica thinkers of today, have practically ac cepted and indorsed the Keeley treat ment. As to growth of sentiment amon1 medical gentlemen, it may be statei in passing that nearly 20,000 physi cians have testified their faith in it b: taking the treatment. The number o clergy who have availed themselves o the benefits is small, to be sure; yet i is by no means an uncommon sight tq behold one of that profession in line waiting to receive the healing balm. It is most natural that the clergi should jealously guard the churcl and its power and authority, and re gard with suspicion any seeming dero gation of its rights. The Keeley Cure however, is in nosense designed to taki the office or the work of the Christiai ministers. It simply takes the temp< of the human body when it is vile an< filthy from horrible disease, cleanse! it arid makes it altogether fit for th< reception of the immortal truths de clared by the church. Instead of beini a hindrance to church work, Dr. Kee ley may be regarded as a sort of Joh the Baptist, preparing the way, for i is undeniable that the eLevation o moral tone, a quickening of conscienc< and a higher conscientiousness invari ably follow a restoration of the physi cal man through the agency of th Golden remedy. Just as the variou temperance societis, just as the gov ernment of h'.e United States througi its managers of the Soldiers' Homes just as the newspaper press, just as thi leading business and professional mei have awakened to an appreciation o the infinite value of the Keeley move ment, so, in time, the clergy and med ical men must also heartily subscrib to it Except one has studied and followe< the Keeley movement carefully it i impossible for him to appreciate its ex traordinary growth, or how largel: and generally it is entering into th, thought and feeling of the age. Ther is nothing in all the world that cai compare with it in the rapidity of it growth. Never before was there ai undying discovery that so quickly fas tened itself into the confidence of th thoughtful and reflective. Never be fore was there a movement tha brought forth such immediate result on so large a scale. It stands ou alone, a marvel, if not a miracle, to it adherents, and a cause for devout grat itude to the good God that it shouk be so. The Keeley Institute at Columbia continues to apply this cure witli won derftaly satisfactory results. A SCHOONER OF WHISKEY. A Ship Load of savannah Whiskey Seize< by the Police. CiARLEsTON, S. 0., Feb. 27.-Th< police department, acting in conjunc tion with the State constabulary,seize< yesterday morning the schooner Caro lina loaded with twenty-eight barrel: of whiskey. The liquor seized is prob ably worth $1,500, and the value o: the schooner, which will be held un der Section 38 of the dispensary law is worth probably as much again. Th< details of the seizure and subsequen proceedings are interesting and are af follows: Information having reached the au thorities that one or more schooner: loaded with contraband liquor were expected to arrive in Charleston, th State constables, under Chief Holley and the police, under Chief Martin were on the lookout. At about 3 :3t :'clock yesterday morning Sergts. Quina and McCaffery, of the polic force, on watch along the east rive1 front, discovered a small schoonet oming quietly up to Palmetto wharf. he came in. lowered her sails and made fast. Her movements and the fact of her coming up to a wharf al hat hour gav~e the officers a clue, and n a very few minutes they hailed er. The captain was at first inclined tc >e troublesome, but the sergeants soon howed him that they meant business and boarded her at once. Word was t once sent to headquarters and Chief artin, Lieut. Mollenhauer and sev ral men repaired to the scene. Chief onstable Holley was not far off and ,as shortly on the wharf. The schoon er was fouind to be the Carolina and he cargo consisted of twenty-eight arrels of whiskey. The captain, J. E. V. Jevvey,his son, J. E. V. Jervey, r., and a colored deck hand, named enry Gardner, were put under ar est, and as soon as daylight made it >racticable the cargo was unloaded. he barrels were, with three or :four :xceptions marked "vinegar," and the evenue stamps had been covered by >asting over them pieces of white pa er. A few barrels were not marked nd the stamps not covered. The Carolina is a two-masted schoo er about sixty feet long, of substan al build. She has been engaged in he coasting trade for some years and s owned principally in Charleston. h1e left Savannah Saturday morning. The whiskey,which Chief Constable ollev estimated to be worth $1,500, as sent to the South Carolina and teorgia Railroad depot for shipment o Columbia and the captain and crew f the Carolina were taken before ustice Rouse on a warrant served by ~onstable Levy, charged with violat g Section 33 of the dispensary law. hey gave bond of $300 each for their .pearance when desired and were eeased. The Carolina, however, is eld by the authorities and will prob *bl , be advertised as confiscated and r sale in a fewv days. The section nder which the Carolina is held re trs to seizure of vehicles or any means sed in transportation of contraband ~quors.-News and Courier. Caught Up With. ST. JoSEPH, Mo., March 1.-Several ays ago one B. WV. Hyatt camue to this ty with credentials purporting to be om Governor Morrill, of Kansas, d solicited aid for people in western ansas, who, lhe claimed, were eating orse flesh. He is novw denounced as i imiposter by dozens or miore person~s Decatur county, one of the counties yatt claimed to represent. Letters atcounty saying that while many ople are in destitute circumstances, .ey a not ating hoarse fleh. IRBY KICKS OUT. SAYS HE WILL NOT BE BOUND BY THE LATE COMPROMISE, And -trongy y epttes Any Arrasge ment to ti--e the Conservatives Half of the Dele.iates to the Constitntional Convention. N VASIHINGTox, D. C., Feb. 25. To the Editor of The State: T am re ceivinz letters from all over the State protesting against the consummation of a scheme or agreement between Sen ator-elect Tillman and Governor Evans on one side and John Calvin Hemp hill and Joe Barnwell. of Charleston, on the other. My friends of the Reform movement seem to be anxious to know whether I am acting in collusion with Governor Evans against what they conceive to be a sacrifice and surrender of princi ple and their rights in the election of delegates to the State convention. I wish vou would favorme with the pub lication of this letter which must ne cessarily be brief, to say: That I was not consulted by either side to this agreement and without my subsequent acquiescence cannot be bound in any respect by what has been done. In 1885 when Tillman commenced his most remarkabla career I was among the first who echoed for him in Laurens County. Laurens and two or three others endorsed his position in the election of members of the Le-is lature and we went to the Legislature to be sneered at and almost spit upon by the ring or clan in the State that was controlled absolutely by the Cal. Hemphill and Joe Barnwell class of politicians. When we had reached the climax, the crisis, Tillman backed down and wrote a letter withdrawing from politics or having anything to do with it. Men who were as much in sympathy with his ideas and opinions as he was, even in apparently igno, minious minority, were unwilling to follow him and forsake the people whom we had dared to lead, and they continued the fight in the Leoislature. He was tied hand and foot. ie could not have gone before the people of South Carolina for any office after his letter of retirement but for the death of Mr. Clemson, bequeathing that property to the State for the benefit of the farmers' bovs. This, gave him a new opportunity and at my sugges tion he came back into the political arena. We met at Dan Tompkins' house on the line of Edgefield and Abbeville conaties, in the spring of 1889 and agreed upon a fight that would give the people of the State control and dethrone the party led by Cal. Hemphill and Joe Barnwell. The condition and understanding was that Tillman was to lead and be the nomi nee of the farmers for Governor. This is where the March convention scheme -was agreed upon and the work car. ried on by the preparation of a mani festo which was published in January following that - lg the March con L vention, which nominated Tillman for ; Governor. t So far as I am concerned, results were all that I wanted. I did not ex pect any position and mypromotion to the speakership and to the United States Senate was as great a surprise to me as it was to my many friends. Since my election to the Senate I have Stried in every respect to be true to the -people who elected me both in Wash tington and at home. One of the main principles that was advocated at the tMarch convention and intended to be -carried to success, was the calling of a Constitutional convention, and I may say here that it was the hardest fight that we ever had since 1890. We had Cal. Hemphill, Joe Barnwell, t'ie edi tor of The State and of the Greenville News opposed to that call. I say it with proper respect and friendship to our present Governor, that when the crisis camne and it looked as if defeat would follow the action of the State convention, he fled the State. and could not be found by teleoram or let ter. Senator Tillman sodtrue to me, .as chairman of the party, and did all .he could. We did our best to make this call and are now being abused and villified all over the United States on the charges of corruption and fraud. I had at least expected him to stand by the people, whom he had led since 1890 and not go into any alliance or compromise (for compromise means a surrender of principle) with such men as Barnwell and Hemobill. I know what it means after the most faithful loyalty to Tillman since 1885 up to this time. I also know what it means after my throwing myself into the breach just one year ago tosave Evans from disgraceful defeat, to dare to op pose any scheme that they may agree upon. If the terms of agreement be tween this crowd had been fair and honorable to the people and to the Re form movement, I would not say a word, but it means the defeat of the objectof the Constitutional convention and the sooner the people of the State know it, the better for them. I speak as an individual Reformer and not as State chairman, because as State chairman I have already acted and had hoped that the primary scheme would have saved the party from a wreck. I want it understood now and for all time that I will niot and do not agree to any equal division of the dele gates to the convention. As for Lau rens, we propose to stand upon princi ples and to elect our delegates from among men who can be trusted to take care of the rights of the poor men and genuine Democrats of the country. Any agreement by Tillman or Evans is gratuitous and cannot bind us. An equal division with a lot of sworn Conservatives and half of the Tiliman its who will prove treacherous when the crisis comes, means on utter fail ure of the convention to take care of t rights and the property of the peo ple of the State and white supremacy. Befsore the election in November I in timated in an interview that a division of delegates according to numerical strength would possibly be fair, but knowing that we controlled three-fifths at least, I would not have imposed the idea of an equal division upon any sane man. When I was eontending before Cleveland, after haviing sustained him with a majority of 50,000, Hemphill and Barnwell re fused any proposition looking to an equitable distribution of the patronage' and I got no support from the news papers opposed to our faction, but on the contrary, they said that Reformers were not Democrats and were not en titled to any showing. Yet these men, Barnwell and Hemp~hill. a prominent cuckoo for Cleveland, invites Tillman, the~ leader of the opposition to Cleve land, arid who has his pitchfork ready to stab into the bowels of the President, into a conference to settle the question as to what the ditferent countiesshould (10. And Tillmnan walks into the par lor of the spider. 3Ir election to the Senate has not in anv~war ch anged my feelings to the people of the State. If we, the Reform er's, stand lirmn we can win, but we had better be defeated by allowing Cal.I Hemphill and Gonzales to go with the' negro than to humbly surrender in a 14 way like this. I humbly suggest that Till1man, the agitator, now th~e pacifi-t cator, has been completely dethroned, I and Evans. if lhe is sincere, has been j bamboozled. As for myself I think s any'sane man will see that I have been|s betrayed: but honorable defeat is much;a bette a m-eferable tome in the sele-.' tion of delegates to this onvention than a dishonorable comnro'mise. It is well enough for the 1F7ortv. tov he iAd ers of the Conservatives aid tLe )ac te cators, to bring up and -t ready for the fight, for I am satisfied thaut tim true men who were in tiis iIovetent from its incilpiency fronc. ile will not submit to any such ageeniat. The combination will not do. - com bination between a 'possum aud coon cau't win as every eformer knows they cannot sleep in the same log long. I am very busy here. but after the 4th of March I will return home and take a hand in this fight, sink or swim, live or die. politically. I an ready to stand by the principles of the first March conventioa as against all comers and all of its enemies. The main principle of that convention was a Constitutional convention to be con trolled by men who were its friends and not its enemies. The poor white men of the State arc not safe with any such possum and coon combination. Their rights under the homestead exemption and qualifi cation clause are imperiled. They cannot afford totrustmen like Colonel Hemphill, Joe Barnwell, G onzales and A. B. Williams. It would have been farbetter had the convention failed in November last than that the Reform movement should be defeated and the rights and liberties of the poor white men of the State imperilled by men like these. I believe that Tillman and Evans were sincere, but they were simply gulled into a compromise that means the destruction of the Reform movement and protection for the poor white men of the State, but for whom Tillman in the Senate and Evans as Governor would have been impossibili ties. I do not mean to denounce Till man or Evans. I weep for them in be ing monkeyed with by anysuch crew. Cal Hemphill and Barnwell were orig inal members of the Forty. When the primary scheme was promulgated by the Democratic committee they were whipped and could not destroy the Reform movement. Then they proposed to muzzle me as chairman of the party and the whole Democratic organization by going into an agree ment with Tillman and Evans. wich Irespectfully submit will not only ruin the Democratic party, but the Reform movement of this State. Respectfully. J. L. M. IRBY.' COTTON BY THE CUBIC FOOT. Ocean Freight by Space Instead of Pound Rate Preferred. AUGUSTA, Feb. 27.-The decision of the convention now in session, of cot ton ship rs in New Orleans in favor of astandard bale of the same length, the same density and the same number of ties for every bale of cotton shipped is generally approv ed by the cotton shippers here. The Orleans resolutions declare in favor of abale 56 inches in length, 25 pounds density to the cubic foot and with eight iron bands. The shippers propose to secure the adoption of this standard through the efforts of the cotton exchanges, the railroads and the compreses, by taking such action as to make the bales which do not come up to the standard prac tically unmerchantable or rather make the difference in the cost of ship ment such as to make it to the interest of the producer to conform to the Mr. J. M. Barnard, Jr., of Richard son &Barnard, of Savannah, has given this subject considerable attention. Mr. Barnard's idea is that if a change in the method of determining ocean rates were made so that the rate be by the cubic foot, and not by the pound as at present this would eventualy result in the general adoption of the standard bale. He says: Ships are now chartered by the ton, on a basis of 100 cubic feet to the ton. On this basis we have to cal culate a pound rate. If the bales run according to the average we come out all right in our calculations. If they are poorly pressed and of odd lengths, we fail to get as much into the ship as we had calculated upon, and lose ac cordingly. We never know what we are going to get until after the ship is loaded. If the rate were based upon the cubic foot of space, we would, be able to make a much more equitable rate. Knowing how much space we had, we could tell exactly how many bales of a standard measurement we could get into the ship, and would be calculated accordingly. The advant age, of couase, would be in favor of the standard bale and the tendencyr would be in favor of a conformity to the standard." "Where does the difficulty now lie in bringing about a standard bale?" Mr. Barnard was asked. "The difficulty is with the country presses where the cotton iaginned and baled. There is no attemp'; at regnlar ity in packing cotton into bles, and it is in the country ta h e "Can this be easily done at small expense I" " It can." was the reply. "An ex pense of $2 or $3 at each gin would be sufficient to make the majority of the boxes conform to the standard length; would only be necessary to nail in a! few inches of boards to shorten the box. When the requirments were known it would be a very simple mat tet to pack the cotton so as to give the proper density to the bale. The com presses would do the rest. It would be easy to find some means to make them comply with the standard re quirements. A heavier rate would be :harged for poorly compressed cotton, and if this did not bring about a reform a refuse to accept porly compressed otton would soon hve its effect." The action of the convention will be brought to the attention of the Cot on Growers' Association, which eets in New Orleans next week. To show how easy a reform can be rought about by the ships it is only .' ecessary to refer to the changec that| as wrotight in the manner of bailing ea island cotton. This kind of cotton I as packed in round bales. Thlejt sips charged a much higher rate of t freight for round bales than for square.< >ales. .The result was that in one sea on a change was affected from round.t o square bales.-Chronicle. A Bolti Robbery. e CLEVELAED, 0., March 1.-One of he boldest acts of lawlessness which as occurred in this city for a Jong: ime tocok place in the western suburbse unday night. While a Nickelplate l freight train:was standing in front of g de telegraph office near the Detroit t ~rossing awaiting orders, a gang of :amps appeared, and, with drawnre. olvers, drove off the crew of the train. he gang then began breaking -open I reight cars and helping themselves toj eir contents. Meanwhile, the police! ad been notified and a patrol wagon I lled with officers came on the scerse. he tramps, however, were on the atch and escaped in the dlarkne-ss. ~ater, two men were airrested charged~ I ith being members of the gang. Shot the ntascal. ROME, March 1.-A theological stud- li t in Casanzaro, shot the rector of the heological College in the presence of h e bishop of the diocese Thursday wi:i ri revolver. The rector was wounded be riously, but he will recover. The Iu udent said after his arrest that lhe (p ught revenge for the bishop's refus-w 1to ordain hin. The student's name ci TLuig-i Nisi. POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream or tartar lDarg pawder. Highest of all in leavening -rg:-gagttl. -L1 test United States Govern'uent Youd 8e port. Royal BakleR Powder Companys 106 WaU St., N. Y. NO COTTON OPTION. Rates for Fertilizers Payable in Cotton Only, in October. CoLmA, S. C., Feb. 28.-All the railroad freight magnates were here yesterday and appeared before the State railroad commission, in regard to the matter of the proposed reduction in the fertilizer rates. Among those pres ent were Messrs. Sol Hans, J. D. Draks and Culp of the Southern system; T. M. Emerson of the Atlantic Coast Line; E. P. McSweeney of the Charleston and Savannah; L. A. Emerson of the South Carolina and Georgia; W. J. Craig of the Port Royal and Western Carolina, and H. C. Beattie. There was a long and exhaustive discussion of the whys and where fores, the railroad men showing from their standpoint theinjusticeof any re duction at this time. Most of the rail road men presented written argu ments and statements of great force. Inasmuch as it seemed to be the desire of the railroad men and the commissioners to exclude the representatives of the press so much so that they were excluded-The State though knowing all that was said on both sides, does not care to 4ve the arguments. It is only necessty tosay that the showing made was unanswer able. The commission has taken no action. It will remain in session sev ernl days. In this connection it might be men tioned that the "cotton option" de mand made by the farmers on the fer tilizer manufacturers does not seem to be heeded. All remember the terms of the demands made by the recent' convention. It will be interesting to cbmpare those terms with the follow ing arrangement made by the Alliance exchange with nearly all the Charles ton companies, which has just been announced. It will be easily seen that the two are most materially different. 'Here is the announcement of the ex change: We quote fertilizers, per ton, in car. load lots, f. 0. b. Charleston, S. C., to be paid for on or by October, 15, 1895, in middling lint cotton, as follows: Dissolved bone, per ton.....185 lbs Acid phos. (1 to 2 per cent. pot ash)...................195 " Kainit...................200 " Guano 2 to2* per cent)...325" Guano 24 to 3 per cent.)-..335" The company will prepay and carry freight at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum,. charging the number of pounds of cotton as 5 will go into the freightand interest. To ilIustrate: If the fr eight is SS and the interest sayr 15 cents, the total will be $3.75, and5 into this will go 73 times, or 75 more pounds of cotton will be added to the above prices to pay the freight and in terest. The cotton is to be midrd1inglint and to be delivered on or before Oto ber 15, in good marketable condition at the station where the fertilizers were received unless otherwiee aoreed upon. It is to be middling, accor 'ng to the Charleston exchange classification and upon actual weight by sworn weighers at the time of delivery. All grade be low middling will have to be made good and none below .good ordinar wvill be received except '>y sp -c'a agreement. This is n->t a "cottou p tion," but a cotton trade, ar.d if you buy for cotton you must pay in cotton and noth ing else. FERTILIZERS-CAR LOTS. May- Nov. 1. '95. 1, '95 Dissolved bone, per ton.$ 9 50 $ 9 90' Acid phos. 1 to2 per cent potash, per ton...9 75 10 15 Kainit, per ton.,.....10 16 10 56 Guano, 2 to 24 per cent. 16 25 16 90 Guano, 21 to 3 per cent. 16 75 17 40 Freight from Charleston, S. C.. to yorsainto be added to the above prices. In lots of fifty tons to be ship ped to one shipping point we haive a . reduction of 5 cents per ton on carload prices, except on kainit. Let the sub Alliances and clubs send in their or ders so as to aggregate fifty tons and we can get the reduction in price. On less than ten tons there will be f1 per ton drayage and freight will be 20 per cent. higher than carloads. SeditionsM Teaching. KINGsroN, March 1.-Alexander B. Edwards, a negro, who styles himself i. prophet, and who during last year tttracted a fodowing of over 5,000 per- . sons, has been arrested by the authori ties on a charge of sedition. In ad iressing his congregation recently, Edwards. it is alleged in the most em phatic manner, advised his listeners to rebel against the government and to ~rush out tne whites. The' prisoner's irrest was accomplished as seretlyas' >ossi i. lIe wa's surpris:-d' at"' his mujse I a mdnight by a squad of 30 solicemen. and without any resistance - rase coveed to a police station. hntearrest was made public treat excitement prevailed among his 'riends, somec of whom threaten to at empljt a rescuc-. xWhile others' believe hat Ed wards, through his own powers. anl escape punishment. Edwards be-' an operations about a y aradahalf t sent by God to heal the sc.H rjected a house on the banks of a lit e stream a few miles back of King tonl and invited the people to come nd bathe in the waters he lessed. asserting they could thus be. ured of any disease. In a month his ongregation often numbers 6,000 or ,000) persons and all day long the birongs of believers might be seen raarcing alon.g tihe roads with bottles r pannikins to retch away some of ie blessed water Others, too weak to talk, were carried to the water by 'len dS. ilurned in Their fleds. HAuuM, Conn.. March 1.-Persons n the way to church Sunday night unde a horrible discovery, about a tile back of the villaoe of Middle adam: at what is Zealle Hog's Hill. or some thirty years Thomas Cava augh, an industrious farmer, has ved in a little story and a half house -irh his wife. The church goers were or'rified to see the house a mass of'a iins. A search was begun, and the - :>dy of the mian was found almost arecognizable. Neai'y. was found a alric 'oone, all that reiiuiined of the oman. From the loeurio', it was de ded that the couple who were about