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UTNOCCUPIED FJELES REV. DR. TALMAGE'S SUCCESSFUL WORK iN NEW YRK. ie Says' in Ini seriLjo1 Thar HeIN' GA. to 'Work onj New ~ra That Do",r Not in terfere With Others--Tho Cavalry - vice. NEW YonK. March 3.-Public inter est in the services -it the Academv of Music is solething phenemenal. Al though the arrangement is an innova tiom in religious methods in New York, both as to time and place. there is no chnrch in the city to which so I many people go or where so much eagerness to secure admission is dis played. The usual immense audience was present this afternoon to hear the famous preacher. Dr. Talmage's sub ject was -New Ground" and his text Romans xv, 20. "Lest I should build upon another man's foundation." After, with the help of others, I had built three churches in the sanie city, and not feeling called upon to under take the superiuman toil of building a fourth church Providence seemed to point to this place as the field in which I could enlarge my work. and I feel a sense of relief amountng toexultation. Whereunto this work will grow I cannot prophesy. It is M vitingand promising beyon anything I have ever touched. ThI huce are the grandest institutions this world ever saw, aud their pastors have no superiors this side of heaven, but there is a work which must be done outside the churches, and to that work I join myself for awhile, "Lest I build on another man's foundation." The church is a fortress divinely built. Now, a fortress is for defence and for storing ammunition, but an army must sometimes be on the march far outside the fortress. In the campaign of conquering this world for Christ the time has come for an advance move nient, for a "general engagement. for masssing the troops, for an invasion df the enemies' country. Confident that the forts are well manned by the ablest ministry that ever blest the 9hurch, I propose, with others, for awhile to join the cavalry and move out and on for service in the open geld. In laying out the plan for his miss ionary tour Paul, with more brain than any of his cotemporaries or pre decessors or successors, sought out towns and cities which had not yet been preached to. He goes to Corinth, a city mentioned for splendor and vice, and* Jerusalem, where the priest hood sanhedrin were ready to leap with both feet upon the Christian re ligion. He feels he has a special work to do, and he means to do iL What was the result? The grandest life of usefulness that man ever lived. We modern Christian workers are not apt to imitate Paul. We build on other people's foundations. If we erect a church, we prefer to have it filled with families all of whom have been pious. Do we gather a Sunday school class, we want good boys and girls, hair combed, faces washed, manners attractive. So a church in this day is apt to be built out of other churches. Some ministers spent all their time fishing in other people's ponds. and they titrow the line into that church pond and jerk out a Methodist, and throw the line into another church pond and bring out a Presbyterian, or there .is .a religious row in sorae neighboring church, aiid the whole school of fish swim off from that pond, and we take them all in with one sweep of the net. What is gained? Absolutely nothing for the general cause of Christ. It is only as in an army, when a regiment is transferred from one division to an other or from the Fonrteenth regi ment to the sixty-ninth regiment. What strengthens the army is new recruits. There is a vast field here and every where unoccupied, plenty of room more, not building on another man's foundation. We need as churches to stop bombarding the old ironclad sin ners that have been proof against 30 7ears. of. Christian assar'lt and aim for the-salvation of those who have never y et had one warm hearted and point blank invertation. There are churches whose buildings might be worth $200, 000 who are not averag'ing~ five new converts a year and domg' less good than many a log cabin meeting house. with tallow candle stuck in wooden socketand aminster who has never seen a college or known the difference be tween Greek and Choctaw. We need churches to get into sympathy with -the great outside world~ and let them know that none are so broken hearted or hardly bestead that they will not be welcomed. "No," says some fastidious Christian. "I don't like to be crowed in church. Don't put any one inmy pew." My brother. what will you do 'in heaven? When a great multitude that no man can num ber assembles, they will put 50 in your pew. What are the select few to 'dayassembledin the Christian church es compared with the mightier millions outside of them? At least 3,000.090 people in this clustei-of seaboard .ities and not more than 20000. iin the churches. Man;y of the cha'dhes are like a hospital that should advertise thatits patients must have nothino worse than toothache or "run arounds' but no broken heads, no crushed ankles, no fractured thighs. Give us for treatment moderate sinners, velvet coated sinners and sinners with a gloss on. It is as though a man had a farm of 3,000 acres and put all his work on one acre. He may raise neve so large ears of corn, never so big heads of wheat, he would remain poor. The church of God has bestowed its chief care on one acre and has raised splen did men and women in that small in closure, but the field is the world. That means Northand South America, Europe, Asia and Africa and all the is lands of the sea. '];a order to reach the multitude of outsiders we must drop all technicali ties out of our religion. When we talk to people about the hypostatic umon and F rench encyclopedianism and erastianism and comuplutensianism, we are as impolitic and little understood as if a physician should talk to an or dinary patient about the pericardium and intercostal muscle and scorbutic symptoms. Many of us come out of the theological seminaries so loaded up that we take the first ten years to show our people how much we know and the next ten years toget our people to know as much as we know, and at the end find that neither of us know, anything' as we ought to kumav. Here are hundreds of thousandso Ka:ig, struggling and dying people who need to realize just one thing-that Jesus Christ came to sr:-e them and will save themi now. But we go into a profound and elab orate definition of what justification is. andafter all the wo~k there are not, out-, side of the learned professions. 5.,000t people in the United States who can tell what justification is. I will read you the definition: "Justification is purely a forensic act, the act of a judge sitting in the forum, in which the Supreme Ruler and Judge. who' is accountable to none, and whio alone' knows the manner in which tie ends of his universal gover'nmetnt can best be attained, reckons that wbich was done by the substitute. and not on ac count of antything done by themn, but Nwht is justinet tion IIIw tel! you w at hen a Sin belivs 1utilet him utl. wat1 o i e ftry iand I(s wie mi ttac" Ired :md saw over the Inext loor, N admiuance" Of cou.rse T entered. I grot ins.ide~ and foutn% it a inI falm,.d they.. weVre making pin-;. k 1"ve Sici' e 'u and useful Pins. So hespirit .f e.ei's ''AdWettt 118'sC E'iveness has 'r-ie iealic witte over theI outs:ide dior o ne hrh over' the "Iecn dr " t tance, and ' ' Is in o'&ver . l. t pew doors sen tt. --No ,a - palpit ammerir ont Is lne nice ties, o-f b~elief, aynigout Ie wte" caiies of reli' onmakng pilns. in 1e mosti pr eti c.itmmonl senie .ia.md the'ardt~ti dh u m8' reig ion. -0 oil oi11:( God ;;ie mission. Telli': the p " what tn'V need and whe anid how they can ?Ct it. Comlparailve v little eTort 's vet has 1:en un'de to save tha t irg1e Class of )Versons inl ouridst called sketies. d -e wh4 goes to w(Irk ler will not be buijld1ing0- upon anotherl man's foundation. There is a great multi tude of them. They are afraid of us Mnd oir churches, for the reason we do not know how to treat them. One of this class met Christ. and hear with what teliderness and pathos and beau tv and success Christ dealt with him: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thv heart, and with all the soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. This is the first commandment, anid the second is like to this-namely, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is no oth er conunandnientt grealer than this." And the scribe said to hin: "Well. Master. thou liast said the truth. for there is one God, and to love him with all the heart, and all the understand ing, and all the soul, and all the strength, is more than whole burnt of ferings and sacrifices." And when Jesus saw that lie answered discreetly he said unto him. "Thou art not far from the kingdom of God." So a skeptic was saved in one interview. But few Christian people treat the skeptic in that way. Instead of taking hold of him with the gentle hand of love, we are apt to take him with the iron pinchers of ecclesiasticism. You would not be so rough on that man if you knew by what process he had lost his Christianity. I have known men skeptical frim the fact that they grew up in the houses where religion was overdone. Sunday was the most awful day of the week. They had religion driven into then with a trip hammer. They were surfeited with prayer meetings. They were stuffed and choked with catechisns. They were often told they were the worst boys the parents ever knew. be cause ther liked to ride down hill bet ter than to read Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress." Whenever father and mother talked of religion, they drew down the corners of their itiouth aild rolled up ihieir eyes. If any one thing will send a boy or girl to ruin sooner than another, that is it. If I had had such a father and mother, I fear I should have been an infidel. When I was a boy in Sunday school. at one time wve had a teacher who, when we were not attentive. struc'k us over the head with a New~ Testament, and there is a wvay of using the Bible so as to make it offenisive. Others were tripped up of skepticis'n fr'om heing grievously wronged by some man who professed to be a Christian. They had a partner in business who turned out to be a first class scoundrel, though a professed Christian. Of course their rejection of religion on such grounds was unphilosophical and unwise. I am told that many of the United States army desert every year. andl there are thousands of court martials every year. Is that anything agrainst the United States government thiat swore them in? And if a soldier of Jesus Christ desert, is that anything against the Christian ity which he sw'ore to support and de fend ? How do you judge of the cur rency (f a country ? By a counterfie-t bill? Oh, you must have patience with those who have been swindled by religious pretenders. Live in the presence of others a frank. honest, er'nest Christian life, that they- ma:: be attracted to the same Saviouir up1mnz whom your ho >es deper d. Remember ss'epticism alway. has some reason, good or bad. fo" -istin.g. Goethe's irreligion started wh en the news came to Germany ca the earth quake at Lisbon. Nov,. 175 That 60,(00 people should hiave perished in that earthquake agin th e after rising of the Tacrus so stirred his symnpath'ies that he lirex' *up his belief in the goodness of Goda. Others 'ave gone into skepticism from a natural persistence in asking the reason why. They hiave been fear fully stabbed of the inteirrogation point. There are so many things they gannot get explained. They- ca-mnot understand the Trinity or hiow God can be sovereign and yet man a free agent. Neither can I. They say, "I don't understand why a good God should have let sin come into the world.'' Neither do I. You sax', "Why was that child star'ted in life with such disadvantagoes, while others have all physical and mental equip' ment?' I cannot tell. They go out of church on Easter morning and say. "That doctrine of the resurrection con founded me." So it is to me a myvs ter'y beyoind uinravehnent. I iuder' stand all the processes by which men met into the dark. I know them all. I have traveled with burning feet that blistered way. The tirst word which most children learn to utter' is .' Papa' or "Mama,'' but I think the first word I ever uttered was "W\hyx ?" I know~ what it is toi haxve ahbundr'ed midnights pour their darkness into one' hour. Such ment are not to be scoffed, but helped. Turn your back upona drowning man when y'ou hav'e the rope with which to pull him ashore at'llet that woman ini the third story of a house per'ish in tihe flames when von hav-e a lad'ler wxith which to heir her out and ihelp her down, rather than tun yotur back scouing'ly on a skeptic, wvhose soul is in more peri thiau the bodies of those other' endan gered onles possiy can be. Oh, skep ticism is a dark lan<'. There are men inl this hlouse'. wh~o would g"ive a thous and worlds. if' th possesised tiheim, to oet back to the' lacid faith 0f their to help themih andi we imay help thlemi never th:o'ugh ih (o irhea ds, but always~ wxhen broughit to Je~Ss will be mig ht ily ethectixve, fart more" so thtan those wvho ieveri examnjd' the evde:so Chria'stianlity. Robert HI~all " skc'ptie,1 Robert Nowt. n a skeptic, Chriisntas 1Ian a sete But whiea once, with stttrn "the took hold of the c'har'ict of the ;'ospel thev rolled it on wilh mnomeonum li 2 alldre~ss such men and womien toda. I throw out no >eo!f. I impulead them by. thew memnory of the good (1Old aysv when' at their muother's kuet' they said. "No\. I h;'r mec downt to sleen.* and by thoses days :mud nights of scarlet ever' in w'.hich SheC wattched von, wiv ing y'ou the mecine at ~ justthr h thneC and turin'itg y'our pillow wvhen. it a ao turnet't'd to aut s om1led a y (1r Pail. and wth voi e I bVdI b:dI Z dyi wr *i hneors a'dv: !'At *SConuI'ng overyorou 1t at I e ou to w b0111 k : onreligion. I 'wasood ecOt. n ,cr Ier. I is ->d e 0 IV :1i imcLe vhe o' !, andil~l zi 1!d dit zh 1 hro 1o L the ' Son .f G who :wrace ou this3 momllent* with tor L'Vtw ad hiceate handl and whippe-' isek ad sayig, "Cme unto, --a al wh ae Cearl and haeidn id I will give- u rVst. ainthere is a field of u-e fl ess bu-.t little touched, ( cupied o th who are astrav inl their hiabits.Al northern nations, like those of North AXnerica and England and Scotiland that is, in the colder climates-ar- de vastatcd by alcoholism. They likte the fireto keep up the warnih. In southern countries, like Arabia and Spain, the blood is so warm they are not tempted to fiery liouids. The great Roman armies never dratik anly thing stronger than water tinged with vinegar blit under our northern lC mate the temptation to heating stium ants is most mighty, and millions suc cunmb When a mans habits go wron. the church drops him. the so cial circle drops hin, good influence' drops him. we all drop him. Of all the men who get otff track, but few ever (ret on again. Near my summer residence there is a life saving station on the beach. There are all the ropes and rockets, the boats, the machinery for getting peo ple off shipwrecks. One suminer I saw there 15 or 20 men who were break fasting after having just escaped with their lives and nothing more. Up and down our coasts are built these useful structures, and the mariners know it. I and they feel that if they are driven into the breakers there will be apt from shore to come a rescue. The churchbs of God ought to be so many life sav ing stations, not so much to help those who are in smooth waters, but those who have been shipwrecked. Come, let us run out the lifeboats: And who will man them? We do not preach enough to such men. We 1zave not enough faith in their release. Alas, if when they come to hear us we are laboriously trying to show the ditfer en:e between sublapsarianism and supralapsarianism, whi1e they have a tbousand vipers of rumors and despair coiling around an:1 biting their 'im mortal spirits: The church is not chiefly for goodish sort of men whose proclivities ar all right, and who could get to heaven pi-aving and ing ing in their own homes. It is on the beach to help the drowning. Those bad cases are the cases that God likes to take hold of. He can save a big si ni ner wel as a small sinner, and when a man calls earnestly to God for heir he will go out to deliver such a on-_ IC it were. necessary. God wouid eco dowm from the sky, followed by all the artillery of heaven and a million anoels with drawn swords. Get 100 sueh redeemed men in each of you churches, and nothing could stand be fore them, for such men are genrCahi:y warm hearted and enthusiastic. No formal prayers then. No heartle-ss singing them. No col d conventional ismis then. Furt hernmore, the destitute chtildren of the streets offer a field of work com patrativ'ely unoccupied. The uncaredi for children are in the majority in nicst of our cities. Their c'. idition was well illustrated by what a boy in this city said when lhe was found un der a catrt gnawing a bone, and sonme one said to him, "Where do you live?' and he answered.' "Don't ~live nowhere, sir:" Seventy thousand of the cli Idren of New York city can neither read nor write. When 'they grow up. i: unreformed, they will outvote your chiktreai, and they wvill govern your children. The whisky ring will hatch: out other whiskey rings, and grog shops will k-ill wvith their horrid stench' public sobriety, unless the church of God rises up with cutstretched arms and enfolds this dy-ino population in ~her bosom. Public selools cannot ac it.. Art galleries cannot do it. Black well's island cannot do it. Almshouses crannot do it. New York Tombs can rnot do it. Sing Sing cannot do it. People of God, wake up to your mag nificent mission: You can do it. iet somewhere, somehow, to work. The Prussian cavalry mount by put Sting their righit foot into the stirrup, while the Anmerican cavalry mnoun t b I don't care how you mount your wa. charger if you only get into this battle for God and get there soon, right stir rup, or left stirrup, or no stir'rup a all. The unoccupied fields are all around us. and why should we build on another man's foundation I have heard of what was called the "'thundering legion." It was in 179, part of the Roman army to winch: some Christians belonged, and their p rayers, it was said, were answered by thunder and lightning and hail and tempest, which overthrewv an invad ing army and saved t he empire. An( 1 would~ to God that yotu could be sc mighty in prayer and work that vou 'would. becomie a thundering legion, before 'which the forces of sin nigh1 be routed and the gates of hell made tc tremble. All aboard now on the gos pel ship: If you can not be- a captai or a first mate, be a stoker, or a deck hand, or ready at command to climi the ratlines. H~eave away now, lads Shake out the reefs in tihe foretopsail Come, 0 heavenly wind. and fill th< c:anvais: Jesus aboard will assure ou: safetyv. Jesus on the sea will beckona forward. Jesus on the shinting shot will wcecomneus into harbor. "Am so it came to pass thtte alecpet safe to land." Negroe'. oil' to A frica. 'IE3IPHIS, Tenn., MIarch G.,--Thel11rs mov-emnent of S'outhern'i negr'oes t< Africa will begin Thursday next ude1 the auspices of the Inter'nationzl 11 grationi society of this city,. when special train will leave 1emnphis foi Savanunah via Birmnig~ham and At lanta. Three hundred negr'io.s fro Arkansas. Tennessee. 31'~issiipAh bama and Georgia have arrangned te go. The African steams~hipl compan:-~ hich'l is c~o-perative withi the mIte steamter' fronti Savannah0 to) Morvi sailing on the ninth. The cot'm'itt of negro injisters who w"ant to Libi ini 'J anary to inivestigate' tha't -'"i wrnite' bac'k glowing letters, a''" negr"Ioes are exceited over the nh ar ti'iing to the dark continnt.l ian i'r' prep:stg to go during thyar C~mMar'ch S.-Two stiste werIe suf focate&d by gas durn'gt thi;: and'w'r found dead 'bled by he ',( years Lold. The youing wvomenn wen' >rph iiiti and occupied a suie of r'ooi: alonte. When found the gas in th:ei ro~nwa turned on full and hoth: "iri: - 1ha1 evidentivihecn dead s''vet'ai 1-~ t'rs I't' is beievddI the deaths were'ccie tad as tne girls had fair iniconow rN" real estate and no~ cause f or subidel I: GR.D SCZ" OF MR. C. B. OLIVER FOUND THi!S 2NING Y-riG-A o'clock b s or ninfomatin reche(d the -zad bid of MKr. Con vs .n emi f th I CoIL p my. vi d been1 Found i i., w ju't".s b ack of thC * vilion a 't SI1;luion somei n1! 0,o !ri ladi to the . i y-"d. Ti:- body was ..d it lay in a pool blod. h:st exennatonShow n'thA the .t: had either been stab d or shot. The latte'r theorv is prob V (vcorret 'as p:rtiis in the neigh' br.ood y theyi heard a pistol shot -:aVelv in the mor-ninlg. T in ,.mge part abo)ut it is that Mir. !vcr was - ge!erally thouglit to have bn without an enemy in the world. %V1e ws*uv tad olungr Man Of 02 VIrs Of acge. He was farried and lxaves a wifoe :zmd se: veral little chil Ien. His hoie '.as in the northern subui:rz. more tli:'i two miles from h his bodv was found. Robbery m.Iuld not have been the object of the nmrIdeer as Mir. Oliver wore his dirty e id had no moner abouthim. H emc!ne up town early in the evening atr quitting work for the day. H intended to go out on one of the.farms beyond Shandoin to spend the night with son friends. It is supposed tiat he was on his way there when he met the person who waylaid him and end -ed his existence so cruelly. Coroner loach was notified shortly before 2 o'clock this morning and at this hour he is startiig to the scene of the g'asv'tly find. This is all that is known in the city at 2 a. in. A 4 o'clock this morning the repre' sentlive of the State who went to the scene of th- murder with Coroner R o:h and Police Sergeant Hamilton, retirned to the city. The scene of the killing was most desolate. about three quarters of a mile beyond the Shan don avilion, near the point where Shandon adjoins Dr. Burney's farm. The body was lying flat upon the back across a path which ran1 at right an gles co the roadway running east and west. There in the cold night air were the gray-haired father-in-law and other relatives of the deceased man. around a bi- fire. Sitting on the body was the murdered. man's faithful dog. a bull dog, which steadily refu:'ed to asow an one to approach the re main~s.This dog had discovered the body. After a battle with the dog he was secured whiie ~ the officers examined the body and the locality. There were two pistol ioles in the right breast. both bullets having evidehitly -one( througl the lung. They were withini three inches of each o:ber. Both bul 'ets had gonI through a long plug of '"Rebel Snv chewing tobacco and a copy of the State. which the unfortu SIn.te moin had L hiis right breast pock 't. Ii:; open-face. smooth-back sil ver railroad wratch and double lined watch Chain were missing. In is pants pocket. however. was 55 cents i inone ; and some other things. Oin thle opr~osite side of the road was fo U Gi dinner bucket and a string of Iishr waich he had purchased in town. They had evidently been care fully place'd downi on the ground eith'er before or after he was shot. Tihe indications are that lhe was shLot on the opposite side of the r'oad and then rn on down the path where he wxas found, going in the diigetion o0 his father-in-law's house. H e had manv timeAs before come over to is fatherin-law's to spend the nliht. This relation was MIr. John W. B~oyd. an old grey-h aired man. wxho has beenl residing on ' the plxce for the. pa two mtonths. M1r. B~oyd savs~ the :raurdered man's, wife-hi: dughter-was at his house and Olive: hiad told her' that he would be over irT timel for supoer'. At 10 o'clock he had not come. an~d beig uneasy,3Ir. Boyd and his other son-in-law. went out tc go along the road in the hope of meet; injg him. They took the mnurderec man's little dog along with them. ?her went on dowxn the short cut path: and past the place where the body lay, it being to one side. They went on to the Shiandon paxilion. After waiting there awhile, iney missed the (log and started back. As they came inito th< road the dog r'an towar'ds them bark ing. and then ran back in the woods. Tfhen~ they saw~ the body. It looks as ifthe purpiose was not 'obberIy; thal tile taking of the watch, leaving the mloney. etc., was merely a blind; anc that the man did tile shooting used: -double action pistol, firing hastily al close r'ange. else the bullets could no havxe entered as close to one another as ther- did. There were no tracks visible last night. Thxeie are but few houses in th< Ineigrhborhood, tihe nearest being one ~ood distance away, occupied by MIr Haltiwanger, a white man. Ther< Iwas no one in all that desolate locah irv so far as known.who had anythilnl against the murdered man. They gav the alarm, and MIr. Bovd remnamc there while Mfr. Dav-is went to inforn tile miur'dered man's wife. MIr. Boyi states that Oliver has been in the em ploy of the Southern Rai!way fo -fourteen years or more, and lie knev of no ene'my that lhe hlad ini the worla. -It appears that the shooting wa done between 7 anid 8 o'clock last eve ning and the circumstances wouili indicate that some one xwas walkinl along with tile man, talking to him, the tailk enin ainqarrel and th< 1lhoting. It imust have been soin on'de whlo ainew himl wel. Larmni spnn a 11n old colored wonman, xvh< lixe a bout a quar'ter' of a mile awxay. just across tile valley, says she wa talkinig to Mi's. Rlountree~at the hatter" 'wate near1 ha-r house wxhien, at the timli innnePd, sheO head( some loud talking 'as of i wo men1 quiar'reling. Sh.Ie coukii 1n0t dis"tin'guish tihe w'ord(s. Then she eardl two sh'ots inl quhick' succession and 'a loud~ erv:C "h. ou'xc shio me:". Then sh' sax's ~tere was mor" quarre'(~ling. and( she heard'( 110 more 3' S. Sniions~. a steadylookingr mid dai-ge oor ed'a N inwh iveshi 'oix Dr. Brneys plce. losay he hearts two sht tir ".vfed at quic nuicessions thn1 . it se'mas. "'ifiiea ie srowlingi't all1 come. ani nrtions nooltan n oe THE REGISTRATION MUDDLE. Wliat Webster. Republican State Chair ma:: Says About It. COLUMBIA. March 7.-Yesterday a good mianv appiicants for registration certificates were granted certificates y Supervisor Green iii this city uider the pruvisions of the new registrat!o(n Act. Early in the morning a good supply 01 bank forms prepared by the attornev General, stricken off exactly like those ordered by theIrby commni tee were delivered af Republi'can head quarters and all day leaders were busy filling out the blanks for illiterate col ored voters. A large number of such votersgot their registration certificates during the day. The only trouble the Republican leaders are laboring under now, they say, is that the supervisor still has no renewal and lost certificate application banks. The foliowing card from State Chair man Webster of the old-line wing of the Republicans is self-explanatory, in this connection: Orangeburg, S. C., March 5th 1S9.5. Tothe Editor of The State, Sir: In your issue of today in giving an ac :ount of the contemptibe trick in with holding from Republican applicants for registration the blank form prepar ed by the Attorney General, he is re ported as follows: Mr. Barber went on to say that he had notified Webster, as chairman of the Republican party, when he completed the preparation of the forms that he had done so, and that they were ready to be sent out. He saw that Webster got copies. This statement is misleading or false in every essential particular, and I am reluctant to believe that you correctly reported Mr. Barber. I was not furn ished with a copy of these forms by the Attorney General and wasnot pre mitted to make a copy of those in the possession of the Supervisor here un til 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The following are the facts in reference to my connection with this matter as State Chairman. About three weeks ago I called at the Attorney Generals olliceland inquired if lie had prepared the foirms of application for registra tion as required by the law passed by the last General Assembly. He inform ed me he had not as yet been able to at tend to the matter, but assured me that the forms would be prepared and cir culated in ample season for use on the first Monday in March. Not hearing from him further in regard to this im portant matter, I wrote him last week requesting that he would furnish me with a copy of the forms prepared by him or inform me where Icouldsecure one or a supply of the same. In re ply he did not send me the forms or in form me where I could secure a copy but stated that "the blank forms re quired to be prepared by nic for appli cants for registrasion, under the con vention law, have been prepared and turned over to the Secretary of State. It is his duty to furnish all the books, I blanks. etc., to the supervisors of regis tration." I immediately informed the R-publican county chairmen through out the State that these blanks could be obtained. :z;m the Supervisor of Re gistration. Great was my surprise on yesterday morning to find that the Supervisor here had only three of these blanks, and that he refused to even alloyv me to make a copy of them until he had wired to.the Attorney General for instructions. Soon dispa' Ahs from every section of the State be-gan pour ing in showing that there w;as a gener al conspiracy to withhold these blanks from Republican applicants for regis tration. I understood the Attorney General's letter to me to mean that the Secretary of State would furnish the Supervisors with a supply of these blanks, and I submit that under the circumstances it admi's of no other reasonable construction. Respectfully, \~nTR State Chairman. THE SIGN ER S. List of the Men Who Slgned Mr. Bryan's Free Silver Cait. WASHINGTON, March 8.-The follow ing are the names of the D)emocrats who sign~ed the address recently given -to the public urging all Democrats to make the money question the para niount issue, and to ondeavor to place the Democratic party on record in fa Ivor of the " immediate restoration of the free aiid unlimited coinage of gold and siiver at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for the act or consent of any international confer -ence, as it existed prior to 187;3, such coin to be a fuli legal tender for all debts, public and private: R.IP. Bland of Missouri; W. J. Br-van, of Nebraska; H. A. Coffeen, of W'voming; Geo. WV. Fithian, of Illi .nois; J. V. Cockrell, of Texas, John McLaurin, of South Carolina; Jas. C. MIaguire, of California; Geo. P. Ikirt, Sof Ohio: Justin R. Whiting of Michi gan; H. C. Snodgrass. of Tennessee; Geo. F. Richardson, of Michigan: M. SA. Smith, of Arizona; A. WV. Ogden. ,of Louisiana: J. A. Capeheart, of West Virginia: H. B. L. Moore, of Kansas: 11. D. Money. of M1ississippi: R. W. Fyan, of 3Missouri: B. F. Gra dy, of Noi-th Carolina: Chas. H. Mor gan. of Missouri, G. WV. Shell, of South Carolina: Edward Lane, of Il linois; D. D. Donovan, of Ohio: A. C Latimer, of South Carolina; Marsha] -Ar-nold, of Missouri: WV. R. Denson, of Alabama; WV. J. Talbert, of South Carolina: John S. Williams, of Missis sippi: T. U. Strait, of South Car-olina: A. Caminetti, of California: WV. H. -Bower. of Nor-th Carolina: Antonio Joseph. of New Mexico: Evan P. How ell, of The Atlanta: J. Floyd King. ex member of Congress fronm Louisiana. They represent sixteen States and two territories. The paper was taken to the Senate just before the close of the session, but it was impossible to have any conference with the senators or- to see any considerable number of them. As it was not possible to make a thorough canvass among them it was decided to leave that, out enttrely, so that no misunderstand ing mnignt ex ist between those who were willing to sign and those who had no opportu nity to do so. M1r. Bryan said, in regard to the ad dr ess. that it had been issued in order to call the attention of the rank and file t te implor-tance of~ active wvork in fav or of bi-mnetallism. An Arch F-rjind. Jac K.soN vILLE. Fla., March S. u'-noday' eeing. Annie Jenikins. a 15 rear-old white girl. was ravished by a ner-o and theni roasted. The girl wais retu-rning hiomie fr-om a neighbor's ;md wa~s walking on the railroad track Shie dilscovere-d somec ties on lire and at tempte.d to extinguished the llames Wh ile thus engaged a negro seize-d her~ and dlragg(ed hier into the~ busht~les, andt repeatedly r-avish e-d her. After his lust had been sat istied, with Iienidish cr-uelty the brute held the girl over the burning ties un til bet- clothing was in a blaze. H[e the-n threwv her into a muddy hplace near the track and escaped. The gir-l became unconscious and was so foundi seve.ral hou~'rs later by her father- who. alarmned by her absence, went in seatrch Whieni shei recovered conisciousne~ss she toldI the above stor-- Posses aie scarchiung for the negro'and if caught the whites swear the-y will burni' him -a the stake. The girl will hardly r A TALA W mIT TJLLMA. PLAIN REPLY TO SENATOR iRBY AND CONGRESSMAN WILSON. is aboreay M . ':r-oenal A m biton JIe w7ill Take the Steump Ht e W To carry out the Coipronie. UO rsn. GA.. March G.-Senator Tillman was interviewed at his home at Trenton on last Thursday. The following is the interview. "Have vou seen Senator Iibys let ter, and what do you think of it?" was asked. The Ex-Governor replied: "Yes. I have seen it. I read it in NVashington yesterday and was considerably sur prised. as when we parted with him on Sunday lie gave no intimation of any pirpose to antagonize the efforts for an adjutiment. There are in it some errors of fact, which it is not necessary to particularize, and some uncharitable and unreasonable asser tions and deductions. it seems to me unfortunate that the chairman of the Democratic State executive committee did not see proper to join in that effort. If I understand the situation in South Carolina we must have mutual conces sions and make due allowance for pre judices and feelings that have been so de2ply aroused in trying to adjust our political matters so as to prevent a struggle between the majority of the white people on one side and a minor ity in alliance with the negro on the other, and any man who cannot rise above his personal feelings at this juncture will be unsafe E , 1ow. "In this connection I notice in this morning's paper an interview with Congressman Wilson, which. boiled down, means that we must have a fight, and that it can't be prevented. I have great respect for Mr. Wilson's judgment, but it seems to me he has igrored the only factor of any prime in-portance in the case-that is the negro. The people of Spartanburg can. with all safety, have a fight, for the whites outnumber the negroes two to one in that county. They have never understood the necessity and importance of a Constitutional Con vention, with its overmastering pur pose of getting rid of the negro in politics, because they have never suf fered from negro domination as the middle and lower counties did during the Reconstruction period. If Mr. Wilson had taken a broader view and considered the entire State. lie could not dismiss so flippantly this vital is sue. If the conditions were through out the State as lie pictures them, there would be no need for a Conven tion at all. I realize, as he does, that the people will settle all these mattet-s either at the primary or at the gene: al election. What Iihad hoped to do, and what I still hope to see done, is to have the white people unite in the primary, and have all abide it. Then the whites will present a united front tothe negroes in the general election. -If Mr. Wilson's idea prevails that a fight is inevitoble and best-which I deini-then a large number of whites will not go into tie primary at all, and if their anger and passions shall prompt them to lead the negroes to the. Dolls. which we can easily iniagie when we remember what occurreJ at the last State election, the State will present a spectacle alike disgraceful to both factions, and no matter which wins there will be wounds to the body politic that will not heal for a half century. To prevent this Iam willing to sink'all personial fellings, all person al ambitions, all considerations of yin dictiveiness or revenge, and make such concessionis a-s ar'e just and proper. "If Senator Ir'by and MIr. Wilson shall succeed in forcing a fight. and I still hope that their cooler judgment will show that it is neither patr'otic nor wise to do so, I have faith in the patriotism and good sense of the mass es who are interested in no man's poli. tical fortunes sutliciently to take suec' dreadful risks. This is not an ordina ry State election and cannot affect either Mi.- Wilson or Senrtor Irby. If the Reform Government cannot live without a perpetuation of strife and b~itterness then it ought to die, I do not believe any such stuff myself. I har;e always'relied on its principles and the wisdom of the policy whiichj has been pursued. Our people hase been educated in p)olitics to know what their rights are and they will always sustain the right when properly pre sented o them. " Senator lI-by charges that he hias been betrayed.' I for one deny hay ing taken him into consider'ation when arriving at an agreement with the Barnwell comimittee, and the Reform ovement is stronger to-day than it has ever been." When told that the opposition of the ultra conservatives to the scheme was that they did not wish to subscribe tc the coniitions proposed in t'he Hemp hill conference Senator Tillmnan said: " That's not at all surpristng, beca.use no one expected them to be reason able. Their programme all alono' has beeni rule or ruin, and I would0mi Irby andl Wilson in a battle to the dleath foir the control of the Conven tion by the Reformers alone if .thai idea lOrevailed generally among the Antis. We will iiever have a Consti tutional Convention with my consent which will disfranchise the poor and ignorant white man along with the negro. As I have already said once before, the practical. sensible, patr'iot c men on both sides must get tog'ether nd hold down the exterminsts." In conclusion Senator Tillman said: "Theie's one other point in MIr. Wil son's interview which I think worthy of r otice-tlhat is that the plan outlined by me has failed already because the Snartanhurg'~ Herald, the G reenvillhe Nes and the Columbia State have re fused to endorse it. I think lhe will find that 'ust the i'everse will be foumnd to be true. I did niot expect unani mnous consent. least of all from those sources: in fact would doubt my own sanity and honesty of pui'pose if I re ceived such backing." And when I asked the Senator: if lie were willing to take the stump against the TI-by and Wilson forces if they b: ighit a fight about he replied: -If the issue is present in sucha way as to required it, 1 will take the stunip. I have already said this, and it was no Pick wrekian uttereince. It was said in downruiighut earnes. He wVtas aFiend. C;LWLIEsToN.. . C., Mfarch (.-0ne da in Febi'uary last. Ignatius Hanck O.z enitered a store( on King str'eet wei'e his brother, -Jolin HanckoWitz was working and shot him. firingthree bullets into him. lHe then gave hin self up and refused to miake any state muent in palliaution or justification of his horiible deed. Yesterday Hanck owitz was tried for murder. and for the first time the story of the motive that led to the killing was developed. Mrs. Igniatius Hlancko witz. wife of the accused, testitied that the deceased had jiutraed her and had committed an assault on her little six or seven vear old daughter. aind also on his own sis ter The cr' imes, she said, were comi wfittdl at ditlerent times. and their re latons dev.eloped a degree of doniestic uniceanliness that is unitit for publica ion. The litl"gr was also plce upon the stand aiid corroborated hec mioter so far as the statement con pro.tlnacqLoitted. THE FARMING SITUAT!ON. CoT tGnral MaC h -He it is l most the second week in March, : not a furrow. scarcetly. has:hei tmnn ed in the farming fields of this Ste by the farmers, soC men who travel t;e entire State say. And again. scarcy a ton of fertilizers has bei no.ed. About the only localities in the State where any activity among tbe farm classes is visible are those arcund Tren ton, on the C., C. & A., and Newberry. There has been no time, perhaps. in the last quarter of a century when farm operations were sofar behind as now, and the farm class have never had to face such conditions us now confront them. The farmers have undoubtedly been delaying to see what would conic of the demands they recently made of the fertilizer manufacturers for cotton option trades. And the general public has been waiting with great interest also to know what would come of this. Yesterday one of the convention's committeemen, whois in a position to know, was asked about the matter. He'said it was practically settled now that the fertilizer manufacturers would decline to accede to the demands for a cotton option and would cons nt to no other arrangement than that which they have offered through the State Alliance Exchange, the terms of which have been published. In that arrangement the manufacturers want more cotton payable Ochber 15 than the farmers, in their resolutions, of fered to give, and they will not allow any option. There can now be no further question as to what the man ufacturers are going to do. and it re mains only to be seen whether the far mers will stick to use no fertilzers in case their demands were not granted. The result will doubtless be that, while some farmers here and there will use the guano, others will not. The committeeman stated further that the companies had done one thing which the farmers considered unfair. "Heretofore it has been the custom of the companies. if one want ed a carload of mixed fertilizers-so much acid, so much kainit, etc.-to put these in at the carload prices al lowed for each. Now they have de cided and announced that they will not sell in less than carload lots except at an advance of $1 per ton on each." The committeeman who has been ab out the State a good deal, says that the farm class has done very little to ward preparing for this year's crop so far. He says you only have to men tion cotton to the farmer to see him turn pale. They are badly dissatisfied at the action of the fertilizer companies and consequently are still waiting. He says that it will now be impossible for the farmers of the South Atlantic States, particularly this one, to make a full crop of anything. They will only buy fertilizers to a very limited extent. They have used them for so many years continuously, he says. that the land can produce pretty well for one year without them. Again, the farmers are makino more home manure to be utlized. fie thinks that only about one-fifth of last season's cotton crop will be produced this year. Farmers and Farming in the South. A writer in the February number of Lippincott, a Northern man we sups pose, undertakes to show that the far mers of our country are sinking gradually into ignorance and illiter acy. He thinks that the downward grade is manifest that they will finally be estimated in the United States as the peasantry of Europe who farm :as mere tenants. That the farmers as a class may not be so highly educated and cultivated as they should be is true, but the Northern writer takes a very limited, one-sided view of of the situation. The West is bad off and the farmers out there may be so handicapped with debts, mortgages and interest as to be practically wage earners only for the large land owners. But this is not the case in the South to the same extent, and by r. very great deal. While it is true that the prices of farm products have been steadily declining for years under bad Republi can Legislation that has been absolute ly hostile to the great farming .class. it is also true that the farmers in tne South are still independent taken as a body, and are in no danger of becom ing tenants or of degenerating in the condition of European peasantry. Farming has had much to depress it in the South, but it has yet been able to make some progress and now that farmers are returning to good old way of raising what they consume-bread and meat-hog and homi ny and the other good, toothsome things, they are better off than Northern pessimists may think. Like an Earthquake. ANDERSON, Ind., March S. -Thme most destructive natural gas explosion in the history of the Indiana gas belt occurred here at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning. A $75, 000 business block on the Court House Square was blown all over the central part of the city. In the building were the When clothing stores, Prather's shoe store, Hadlev's drug store and a large number of halls and business offices on the upper floor. Fire followed the explosion, which was like an earthquake, and the re mains of the' debris began burning fiercely. The entire fire department was called out and prevented the fire from reaching the new court house. Attorney Ballard and County Com missioner Metcalf lived in rooms above the When store, and it is feared they have perished. The loss on the build ing and contents is totaland will reach $100,000. The front,~ of all business houses in the neighborhood of the ex lloson were denmol ished, paved streets ripled open and telephIoneC cables niort down. Steamer Burned. WasrisoToN, March 8.-A special from New Orleans says: Dowineomi ing steamers bring news of the de stiutiton of the mail steamer-. Laura Banks, on the Tenas river with the loss of several lives, including the son of Captain Knight, the others being negroes. The vessel caught fire while fast onl a reef and as a high wind was blowing. the vessel was totally de stroyedI in a few minutes. Thme calp tains family, several roustabouts and someC negro pasngr were all the humatn beings board. Capt. Knight's son. 12 year's old, was in the boiler room, w~-ere the fire originated. Hie could not escape and perished there. A couple of roustab~outs were seen to sink in the river when trying to swio ashore. and it is possible that othmers met a like fate. Will Not Return. WVAsHINCGToN, March 8.-The sena tors whose terms exp~red On thle ad journument of the fiftymmird congress are Mesrrs. Butler. of South Car'olina: Camden. of West Virginia: Cartey, of! Woming: Coke, of Texas: Dixon. of hode Island: Dolph, of Oregonm: lHi gn, of Delaware; M1unton, of Var ina: McLaurin, of Mississippi: Me I erson. of New Jersey: Mandlerson . of Nebraska: Martin. ot Kan-ns: I'ow ei- of Montana: Ransom. of Nor-th Caroina; shoup, of Idaho: Walsh, of G-eoria: Washaburn. of Minnesota. an-m1 sn. Iowa KII POWDER Absolutely Pure. A "iam rf tartrar naRing powder. Hight-st of all in leavening strength.-LA ,t 'nited States Govert'nment Food Re PNyal1 aaking PNrder ompaanj 106 Wall :t.. N. Y. Why Irby Is Kicking. Senator J. L. M. Irby is now en raged in the harmless amusement of 'oing a good deal of talking through his bat. As the Charleston Sun sayshis first letter on the Constitutional com promise was a strong one in its way nd from a personal standpoint but he begins now to talk like a rag-baby. senator Irby is quoted in an interview vith a Washington correspondent as avmg: .If the proposed compromise is effec ed and the contract, which is signed md now in the possession of men who howed it to me, is fulfilled, it can only' n-an the death knell of the Reforbi novement aud the Democratic party n South Carolina. I have beard from a man whose word cannot be disp uted :o his face and who had a right to ,now their secrets, that young Wn. . McGowan, of Abbeville, who at ended the conference, is to succeed Latimer in Congress. Dan H. Hen lerson, of Aiken. who also attended Ihe conference. is to take Talbert's place. Ira B. Jones, an old enemy of Dr. Strait is to displace him, and Wn. D. Evans is to take McLaurin's scalp. NE. L. Donaldson, of Greenville, whom the people repudiated as one of Cleve and's cuckoos. is for Stanyarne Wil on's place. Joe Barnwell is to get he nigger's or Col. Elliott's seat in the House. Cal. Hemphill seems to be satisfied with the prospect of be :oming the successor of the late Capt. Dawson, the brainy editor of The ews and Courier, as the political rreneralissimo of the Democratic forces in South Carolina. I do not vouch for this programme. but one equally inimical to the people of South Carolina will be promulgated. As far as I am concerned, I have burnt my bridges and expect to stav in the fight as long as a plank in the "Reform craft is afloat." - We agree with the Charleston.Sun that nobody will give credence to Ir bv's assertion that there is a contract, ritten or otherwise, between Senator Tillman and the Confervatives who attended the late conference. No Re former will believe for one moinent that Senator Tillman would be guilty of doing anything that would hurt the Reform Movement. Irby has seen no such contract as he professes to ave seen, or else he would not fall back on hearsar evidence to let the public into the s'tipulations of the-con tract. H~e is simply talking through his hat. with theC hope that what he says may inl jure Senator Tillman, but he very much mistakes the temnoer of the people if lie thinks any such tac ties will succeed. As the Sun groes on to say the future may hold in its w omb some of the po litic-al changecs which Irby predicts,. not because of any agreement, but-from the natural course of events. "but. there is one mental spectre& ii this panorama of fate which most iills Irbv's soul with des peraticn and -fear a?nd yct which he caefully excludes from the printed category hoping, it may be. that by silence the ghost in his thought may best be laid. It is the spectre of the dumb, cold corse of his own political career: the blighting breath of the charnel house, the pall. the gloom, while above it climbs, with steadfast purpose and singleness of aim,a that recks not of any obstacle to his ambi tion the man wvho late the Senator. helped to pull above the heads of oth cers and now tears his hair and vents impotent imprecations upon his folly, as hie sees his pupil and protege praid ly forging ahead to the first place in the political race, which the-former fondly thought to hold to the end of time,'and already become his master's master. "Had Ir'by taken up the thick-witted. Elleroe or the conservative and-timid Tindal in tihe 1894 campaign for the "Reform" standard bear'er he would have forestalled hlis sad fate. It took no0 prophet to foresee when he chain pioned the cause of.-the enterp'isimg son of Aiken that he was pursuing the surest method of compassing hisowa downfall. We predicted this trend of events fromi the start and cannotthere fore think that it was wholly hidden bhinhd the veil of the future. Sena tolrya ast fully realizes what is in tor' or imand' no agreement that nn" em be arrived ait will placate him wihih C w's not include a pledge that will pru1ne .John Gary Evans' political p)inions to a tlighit shiort of the United States Senate. He fondly hopes to, interest and identify with his own the fate of others sufficient to give success ful battle to the new coalition.--Te Times and Democrat. Wny Cat ton is Cheap. During the Fifty third Congress the Snte Commniitte'e on Agriculture and Fo-e'try waos ma:i h'rized by the Senate to mnake :iI hituiry pon thme existing de1 3)ressi( n in1 fhu-m i)odut's, and Sena toi-s GJe(rge, Bate' and Procter' were selected ais a subh-coninii ee to take in hand the portionl of the inquiry con cerinl the depr'o-sedu p'ice of c'otton. Te Iabe conuittee asc~ietainecd that wit 'h pr'ices prevariline in the years 1s1. l)Im and 1>.0 inr nearly every part of the ct tuon-p'oducing reigion the cost of pr!oducition equ~j~alled, if it did not exceed. the value of the cotton ri'ed .-lTer is a genueral concensusl ofopiion tl-ha oln c'annot, except be4 raised prol[italy at less than eight ets' per' punid, nor wit:hout lost un der3 see cens. Tihe committee tin "ta' thr' 'e t wocouses for the low- piIe' of cottonA niow prlevailing the .al.n in ft n . and the demonec tiz'dion of~ -'iv"-. The' 'omttee in arningr the righ of The F~ederal Gov ermue to l Pgi la.e o the subject, de elre ti -the br''ines of' dealing in it n-es and"-' o be transacted oyinthe tw O\xch*mgr" of Newv ork and New (Orleanis, and that the hate is wrev an:mnx to the for mer Te co:Ini '1* e.meiludes that the(4 1' ' delig o ' th I \xcha~nges inter f Zenit th ne :e commerce, ad the i\ poe' of Congr'ess should be . r i'- I ablI"ih tlhm. The de mont:ation oiulvris -rgarded as the most"~ piotn cause of the0 low price of c:'on hab t ther c 'o''ittee concedes that p her is no~ i'nmeitte prospect of removin1g thi ~.m . Terefore they 'eoe iund cttnri'rs to keep their mon-y at hnwi by -ai<ig their own appli5 and iesiyn.g their crops, andi inivet- the moine x:ow spent for these u in ee'ing cttoin and other fac