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ON THE GOSPEL SHIP. REV. DR. TALMAGE DRAWS A LESSON FOM THE ARK. 6ift of Salvation Through Christ-A Sure Defence In Time of Troubie-The Load stone of a .oi Fearing Life. NEW YoRK, March 3.-Although his oratorY is all times magnetic and eloquent,' there is one theme with which, whenever he makes it the groundwork of his sermon, Dr. Tal mage never fails to communicate to his auditors the enthusiasm he himself feels. That theme is the'gospel invita tion, and when, this afternoon, he took for his subject "The Gospel Ship" the great audience that crowded the Academy was in full sympathy. The text selected was Genesis vi, 18, "Thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons' wives with thee." In this day of the steamships Lucania and Majestic and the Paris I will show you a ship that in some respects eclipsed them all and which sailed out, an ocean underneath and another ocean falling upon it. Infidel scient ists ask us to believe that in the fornia tion of the earth there have been a half dozen deluges, and yet they are not willingr to believe the Bible story of one deluge. In what way tie catastropnie came we know not-whether by the stroke of a comet, or by flashes of lightning, changing the air into water, or by a stroke of the hand of God, like the stroke of the ax between the horns of the ox, the earth staggered. To meet the catastrophe God ordered a great ship built. It was to be without prow, for it was to sail to no shore. It was to be without helm, for no human hand should guide it. It was a vast structure, probably as large as two or three modern steamers. It was the Great Eastern of olden time. The ship is done. The dooris open. The lizards crawl in. The cattle walk in. The grasshoppers hop in. The birds fly in. The invitation g'oes forth to Noah, "Come thou and all thy house into the ark." Just one human family embark on the-strange voyage, and I hear the door slam shut. A great storm sweeps alone the hills and bends the cedars until al the branches snap in the gale. There is a moan in the wind like unto the moan of a 0V ing world. The blackness of the heav ens is shattered by the flare of the 'lihtinws that look down into the wat ers an throw a ghastliness on the face of the mountans. How strange it looks! How suffocating the air seems! The big drops of rain begin to plash upon the upturned faces of those who are watching the tempest- Crash g the rocks in convulsion!. Boom go the bursting heavens! The inhabitants of the earth, instead of flying to house top and mountain top, as men have fancied, sit down in dumb, white hor ror to die, for when God grinds moun tains to pieces and lets the ocean slip its cable there is no place for men to fly to. See the ark pitch and tumble in the surf, while from its windows the passengers look out upon the ship wreck of a race and the carcasses of a dead world. Woe to the mountains! Woe to the sea! I am no alarmist. When, on the 20th of September, after the wind has for three days been blowing from the northeast, you prophesy that the equi noctial storm is coming, you simply state a fact not to be disputed. Neither am I an alarmist when I say that a storm is coming compared wit'h which Noah's deluge was but an April shower and that it is wisest and safest for you and for me to get safely housed for eternity. The invitation that went - -frth to Noah sounds in our cars, "Come thou and all thy house into the ark." Well, how did Noah and his family come into the ark? Did they climb in at the window, or come down the roof? No. They went through the door. And just so, if we 'r4t into the ark of God's mercy, it will' be throuoh Christ the door. The entrance to te ark of old must have been a very large en trance. We know that it was from the fact that there were monster am mals inthe earlier ages. and-in order to get them into the ark two and two, according to the Bible statement, the door must have been very wide and ver hih. So the door into the mercy of Gois a large, door. We goin, not two and two, but by hundreds, and by thousands, and by millions. Yea, all the nations of the earth may go in 10, 000000 abreast. The door of the ancient ark was in the side. So now it is throug'h the side of Christ-the pierced sid.e, the wide open side, the heart side-that we enter. Aha. the Roman soldier, thrusting his spear into the Saviour's side expected only to let the blood out, but he opened the way to let all the world in. Oh, what a broad Gospel to preach! If aman is about to give an entertainment, he issues 200 or 300 in vitations carefully put up and directed to the particular persons whom he wishes to entertain. But God, our Father, makes a banquet, and goes out to the front door of heaven, and stretches out his hands over land and sea, and with a voice that penetrates the Hindoo jungle, and the Greenland ice castle, and Brazilian grove, and English factory, and American home cries out, "Come, for all things are now ready!" It is a wide door. The old cross has been taken apart, and its two pieces are stood up for the door posts so far apart that all the world can come in. Kings scatter treasures on day of great rejoicing. So Christ, our 'ing, comes and scatters the .jew els of heaven. Rowland Hill said that he hoped to get into heaven through the crevices of the door. But he was not oblige thus to go in. After ving preached the gospel in Surrey chapel, going up toward heav en, the gatek-eeper cried. "Lift up your heads, ye everlastino gates, and let this man come in !" 'The dyino thief went in. Richard Baxter anid fbert Newton went in. Europe, Asia, Af rica, North and South America may yet go though this wide door without crowding. Ho, every one-all condi tions, a ranks, all peopele: Luther said that this truth was worth carry ing on one's knees from Rome to Jerusalem, but I think it worth carry gall around the globe and all around eheavens-that "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Whosoever will, let him come through the large door. Archimedes wanted a fulcrum on which to place his lever and then he said that he could move the world. Calvary is the ful crum, and the cross of Christ is the lever, and by that power all nations shall yet be lifted. Further, it isa door that swings both ways. I do not know whether the door of the ancient ark was lifted or rolled on hinges, but this door of Christ opens 'both ways. It swings out towards all our woes. It swings in toward the raptures of heaven. 'It swings in to let us in. It swings .out to let our ministering ones come out. All are one in Christ-Christians on earth and saints in heaven. One army of the living God, At his command we bow. Part of the host bave crossed the flood, And part are crossing now. Swino' in, 0 blessed door, until all out until all the heavens come forth to celebrate the victory. But. further, it is door with fasten ings. The Bible says of Noah. "The Lord shut him in." A vessel without bulwarks or doors would not be a safe vessel to go in. When Noati and his family heard the fastening of the door of the ark, they were glad. Unless these doors were fastened, the first heavy surge of the sea would have whelmed them, and they might as well have perished outside of the ark. "The Lord shut him in." Oh, the per fect safety of the ark: The surf of the sea and the lightnings of the sky may be twistea into a garland of snow and fire-deep to deep. storm to storm, darkness to darkness-but once iii the ark all is well. "God shut him in." There comes upon the good man a deluge of financial trouble. He had his thousands to lend. Now he call not borrow a dollar. He once owned a store in New York and had branch houses in Boston. Philadelphia and New Orleans. lie owned four horses and employed a man to keep the dust off his 'coach phacton. carriage and curricle. Now lie has hard work to et shoes in which to walk. The great )eep of commercial value was broken up. and fore and aft across the hurri cane deck the waves struck him. But he was safely sheltered from the storm. "The Lord shut him in." A flood of domestic troubles fell on him. Sickness and bereavement came. The rain pelted. The winds blew. The heavens are aflame. All the gardens of earthly delight are washed away. The mountains of joy are buried 15 cubits deep. But standing by the empty crib, and in the desolated nursery, and in the doleful hall, once a-ring with merry voices, now silent forever, he cried: "The Lord gave: the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord." "The Lord shut him in." All. the sins of a lifetime clamored for his overthrow. The broken vows, the dishonored Sabbaths, the outia geous profanities. the misdemeanors of 2o years, reached up their hands to the door of the ark to pull him out. The boundless ocean of his sin sur rounded his soul, howling like a si moon, raving like an euroclydon. But, looking out of the window, lie saw his .sins sink like lead into the depths of the sea. The dove of heaven brought.an olive branch to the ark. The wrath of the billow only pushed him toward heaven. "The Lord shut hini in." The same door fastenings that kept Noah in keep the troubles out. I am glad to know that when a man reaches heaven all earthly troubles are done with him. Here he may have had it hard to get bread for his family. There he will never hunger any more. Here he may have wept bitterly. There "the lamb that is in the mialst of the throne will lead him. to living foun tains of water, and God will wipe away all tears -from his eyes." Here he nay have hard work to get a house but in my Father's house are many mansions, and rent day never comes. Here there are deathbeds and coffiins and graves. There no sickness, no weary watching, no choking cough, no consuming fever, no chattering chill, no tolling bell, no grave. The sorrows of life shall come and knock at the door, but no admittance. The perplexities of life shall come up and knock on the door, butno admittance. Safe forever: All the agony of earth in one wave dashing agaimst the bul warks of the ship of celestial light shall not break them down. Howl on ye winds, and rage, ye seas! The Lord -."the Lord shut him in." Oh, what a grand old door: So wide, so easily swung both ways and with such sure fastenings. No bur glar's key can pick that lock. No swarthy arm of hell can shove back that bolt. I rejoice that I do not ask you to come aboard a crazy craft, with leaing hulk and broken helm and un fastened, doors but an ark 50 cubits wide and 300 cubits long, and a door so large that the round earth without grazing the post might be bowled Now', if the ark of Christ is so grand a place in which to live and die and triumph, come into the ark. Know well that the door that shut Noah in shut others out, and though, when the pitiless storm came peltig on their heads, they beat upon the door saying: "Let me in! Let me in!" the door did not open. For 120 years they were in vited." They expected to come in, but the antediliuvians said: "We must cultivate these fields. We must be worth more flocks of sheep and herds of cattle. We will wait until we get a little older. We will enjoy our old farm a little longer." But meanwhile the storm was brewing. The foun tains of heaven were flling up. The pry was being placed beneath the foundations of the great deep. The last year had come, the last month. the last week. the last day, the last hour, the last moment. In an awful dash an ocean dropped from the sky, and another rolled up from beneath, and God rolled the earth and sky into one wave of universal destruction. So men now put ofl fogoing' into the ark. They say they will wait 20 years first. They will hiave a little longer time with their worldly associates. They will wait until they get older. Theyv sav: "You cannot expect a man oinmy attainments and my position to surrender myself just now. But be fore the storm comes I will go in. Yes I will. I know what I am about. Trust me." After awhile, one night about 12 o'clock. going home, he pass es a scaffolding just as a gust of wind strikes it. and a plank falls. Dead. and outside the ark: Or, riding in the p ark, a reckless vehicle crashes into him, and his horse becomes unman ageable, and lie shouts: "Whoa: Whoa:" and takes another t wist in the reins, and plants his feet against the dashboard, and pulls back. But no use. It is not so much down the ave nue he flies as on the way to eternity. Out of the wr'eck of the crash his body is drawn, but his' soul is not picked up. It tied behind a swifter courser into the great future. Dead, and outside the ark! Or some night h wakes up with a distress that mo mentarily increases until he shrieks out with pain. The doctors come in. and they give him 20 dr'ops, but no relief: 40 drops, 50 drops, 60t drops, but no relief. No time for prayer. No time to read one of the promises. No time to get a single sin pardoned. The whole house is aroused in alarm. The children scream. The wife faints. The pulses fail. The heart stops. The soul fies. Dead, and outside the ark! I have no doubt that derision kept many people out of the ark. The world laughed to see a man go in and said: "Here is a man starting for' the ark. Why. :.ere will be no dleluge. If there is one,that miserable ship will not weather it. Aha, going into the ark ! Well, that is too good to ke-ep. Here, fellows, have-you heard the news? This man is going into the ark." Under this artillery of scorn the man's good resolution perished. And so there are hundreds kept out by the fear of derision. Thevyoung man asks himself: "' What would they say at the store tomorrow morning if I should become a Christian ? When I go downi to the clubhouse, they will shout: -IHere comes that new Chris tian. Suppose you will not have any thing to do with us now. Suppose you are praying now. Get down on your knees and let us hear you pray. Come, eh? Pretty Christian you are.'" Is it not the fear of being laughed at that keeps you out of the kingdom of God? Which of these scorners will help you at the last? When you lie down on a dying pillow, which of then will be there: In the day of eternity will they bail you out My friends and neighbors, come in right away. Come in through Christ, the wide door-the door that swings out toward you. Come in and be saved. Come and be happy. "The Spirit and the Bride say, 'Come.'" Room in the ark. Room in the ark. But do not come alone. The text invites you to bring your family. It 's. "Thou and thv sons and thy wife." You cannot drive them in. If Noah had tried to drive the pigeons and the doves into the ark, he would only have scattered them. Some pa rents are not wise about these things. They make iron rules about Sabbaths, and they force the catechism down the throat as they would hold the child's nose and force down a dose of rhubarb or calomel. You cannot drive your children into the ark. You can daw your children to Christ, but you cannot coerce them. The cross was lifted not to drive. but to draw. "If I be lifted up, I will draw all men unto me." As the sun draws up the drops of morning dew so the son of righteousness exhales the tears of repentance. Be sure that you bring your hus band and wife with you. How would Noah have felt if when he heard the rain pattering on the roof of the ark he knew that his wife was outside in the storm? No, she went in with him. And yet some of you are on the ship "outvard bound" for heaven, but your companion is unsheltered. You remember the day when the marriage ring was set. Nothing has yet been able to break it. Sickness came and the finger shrank. but the ring staid on. The twain stood alone above a child's arave, and the dark mouth of the tu% swallowed up a thousand hopes. but the ring dropped not into the open grave. Days. of poverty came, and the hand did many a hard day's work, but the rubbing of the work against the ring only made it shine brighter. Shall that ring ever be lost Will the iron clang of the sepulchre gate crush it forever? I pray God that you have been married on earth may be together in heaven. Oh, by the quiet bliss of your heaven ly homne, by the babe's cradle. by all the vows of that day when you started life together, I beg you to see to it that you both get into the ark. Come in ana bring your wife or your husband with you-not by fret ting about religion or dingdonging them about religion, but by a consist ent life and by a compelling prayer that shall bring the throne of God down into your room. Go home, and take up the Bible,and read it together, and then kneel down and commend your souls to him who has watched you all these years. and before you rise there will be a fluttering of wings over your head, angel crying to an gel, "Behold they pray ." But this does not include all your family. Bring the children too. God bless ihe dear children! What would our homes be without them? -We may have done much for them. They have done morefor us. What a salve for a wounded heart there is in the soft palm of a child's hand! Did harp or flute ever have such music as there is in a child's "good night?" From our coarse, rough life the angels of God are often driven back, But who comes into the nursery without feeling that angels are hovering around? They who die in infantcy go straight into olorv, but you are expecting your children to grow up in this world. Is it not a question, then, that rmngs through all the corridors and wind ings and heights and depths of your souls, what is to become of your sons and daughters for time and for eter nity? "Oh," you say, "I mean; to see tha~t they have good manners!" Very well. "I mean to dress them well, if I have myself to so shabby." Very good. "I shall give them an educa ion. I shall leave them a fortune." Very well. But is that all? Don't you mean to take them into the ark ? 1)on't you know that the storm is coming and that out of Christ there is no safety, no pardon, no hope, no heaven? How to get them in? Go in your self. If Noah had staid out do you not suppose that his sons. Shem, H am and Japheth. would have staid out? Your sons and daughters will be apt to do just as you do. Reject Christ yourself, and the probability is that your children will reject him. ~An account was taken of the reli gious condition of families in a cer tain district. In the families of pious parents two-thirds of the children were Christians. In the families where the parents were ungodly only one-twelfth of the children were Chris tians. Which way will you take your children ? Out into the deluge or into the ark? Have you ever made one earnest prayer for their immortal souls ? What will you say in the judgment when God asks: "Where is George or Henry or Frank or Mary or Annal Where are those precious souls whose interests I committed into your hands?"' A dying son said to his father, "Father, you gave me an education, and good manners, and everything that the world could do for me; but, father, you never told me how to die, and now my soul is going out in the darkness." Oh, ye who have taught your child ren how to live, have you also taught them how to die? Life here is not so important as the great hereafter. It is not so much the few furlongs this side of the grave as it is the unending leag ues beyond. 0 eternity, eternity ! Thy locks white with the ages! Thy voice announcing stupendous destiny: Thy arms reaclung across all the past and all the future: 0 eternity, eternity:. Go. home and erect a family alter. You break down in your prayer. But never mind, God will take what you mean, whether you express it intelli gibly or not. Bring all your house into the ark. Is there one son whom you have given up ? Is he so dissipated that you have stopped counseling and pray ing? Give him up? How dare you give him u)? Did God ever give you up? While you have a single articulation of speech left cease not to pay for the return of that prodigal. He may even now be standing on thie beach at Hong kong or Madras meditating' a return to his farther's house. Give him up? Never give him up: Has God promised to hear thy prayer only to mock thee ? It is not too late. In St. Paul's London, there is a whispering gallery. A voice uttered most feebly at one side of the gallery is heard distinctly at the opposite side, a great distance offr. So every word of earnest prayer goes all around the earth and makes heaven a whispering gallery. Go into the ark-not to sit down, but to stand in the door, and call until all the family come in. Aged Noah, where is Japheth ? David, where is Absolom? Hannah, where is Sam uel ? On one of the lak~e steamers there were a father and two daughters jour' neying. They seemed extremely poor. A benevolent gentleman stepped up to the poor man to proffer some form of relief and said, "You seem to be very poor; sir." "Poor sir," replied the man. "If there's a poorer man than a-troubling the world, God pity both of us." I will take one of your chrildren and adopt it if you say so. I think it would be agreatrelief toyou." "A what?" said the poor man. '"A re 1 ief to have the hands chopped off from the body or the heart torn from the beast? A relief indeed: God be good to us: What do you mean sir.' low ever many children we have, we have none to give up. Which of our families can we afford to spare out of heaven? Will it be the oldest Will it be the youngestf Will it be that one that was sick some time ago? Will it be the husband? Will it be wife? No, no' We must have them all in. Let us take the children's hands and start now. Leave not one behind. Come, father: Come,' mother: Come, son: Come, daughter: Come, brother! Come, sister! Only one step, and we are in. Christ. the door, swings out to admit us and it is not the hoarsenss of a stormy blast that you hear, but the voice of a loving and patient God that addresses you, savin, "Come thou and all thy house into the ark." And there may the Lord shut us in: A GREAT TRIP For South Carolina Teachers to Take To Colorado. The National Educational Associa tion'sa nnual meeting is to be held in Denver, Col., this summer. The fol lowing circular letter, handsomely printed and illustrated and signed by the two South Carolina directors of the association and the railroad men interested will be found of great in terest to all teachers: "We desire to call the attention of the teachers of South Carolina. and their friends to the fact the next an nual meeting of the National Educa tional Association will be held at Denver, Col., the coming summer. from July 5th to 12th, 1895, just after the adjournment of the South Caro lina State Teachers' Association, in Spartanburg, thus giving an oppor tunity for teachers to attend both of these gatherings. "The meeting of the National Edu cational Association promises to be the best attended and most interesting in the history of the association, and we are anxious that South Carolina shall send a good delegation. 'After considering carefully the ad vantages of the various railroad lines, we have decided upon the following route as the best and most pleasant for South Carolina teachers: Via Ash ville, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Nash ville, St. Louis and Kansas City, using the Southern Railway, Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, Louisville and Nashville, Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific lines on going trip. and -eturning via Colorado Springs Pike's Peak and Missouri Pacific to bt.Louis. "In order that sleeping car and other arrangements may be perfected, we suggest that all those who are in terested in this del.ightful tour inform us as early as possible. The regular rate will be one first class fare for the round trip. "This is the lowest rate ever made from the South on occasions of this character. The sleeping car rate will be about $2 for double berth (which can be occupied by two persons.) "We will join the delegates from North Carolina at Ashville, and dele gates from Georgia and other States at Chattanooga, and be accompanied by oentlemanly railroad agents,who will I'eave nothing undone to make all parts of the trip pleasant and profita ble. "Side trips from Denver to the heart of the Rocky Mountains, and to their snow-capped peaks, will be made from day to day. Very low rates will be made for the benefit of those who wish to extend their trip farther West, to Salt Lake or to the Pacific Coast. '"A second circular will be issued la ter, giving schedule of train on which we will leave, and exact ticket rate from all principal points. Arrange ments will be made by which through tickets may be pur'chased from any station, which will be less expensive than buying local tickets to nearest coupon office, and rebuying from that P0 "D. B. Johnson, "N. E. A. Manager for S. C., Columbia, S. C. "P. F. Brodie, "N. E. A. Director for S. C., "Spartanburg, S. C. "A. A. Gallagher, "S. P. A. Missouri Pacific R'y., R.Chattanooga, Tenn. ".W. Hunt. "T. P. A. Southern R'y., "Augusta, Ga. WHY NOT, INDEED! The Post Thinks it Time Sectional Barriers Were Demolished. WASHINGTON, April 4.-The Post this morning, under the caption "A Southern Democrat for 1896," publish es a column editorial, in which it says "Why should not the Democrats nom inate a Southern man next year? Why would it not be the right thing to do the courageous, the consistent, the equitable thing? Why, indeed:" The Post says it is difficult to un derstand the a?ttitude of the National party and the acquiescence of the bouth in regard to the Presidency, possibly it is habit. For two decades at least, Southern D~emocrats have agreed to the propositions set up by their Northern colleagues that the country is not ready for a candidate from tile section lately in rebilion ag ainst the general government. For two decades and more, it has been an accepted theory that a Southern candi date would alarm tile American people would revive all the apprehnsions and the antagonism of 1861 -5, and uring all that time the Southern Democr'acy have assented without protest, subordinated them selves to the mere phanom of a vanish ed past, meekly borne the heat and burden of successive campaigns, f urn ished the rank and file for all the great battles and stood aside in hum ble deference and uncomplaining ab negation w hile the fruits of their stren gth and prowess were divided among the members of an insignificent con tingent, but why At most, this was only an expedient. It was never' es sentially a matter of principle and pro priety. The Post thinks tile time is ripe to put an end to the existing state of affairs. Senator Margan declares that the case could not have been better put than it is in the Post's editorial. Sena tor Hill has telegraphed to the Post the following: Albany, N.'Y., April 4. 1895. To the Editor of the Post: I have pursued with much interest your' article entitled '"A Southern Democrat for 18963." It is able, credit able and timely. Any policy which seeks to debase an otherwise acceptable candidate, simply by reason of the section of country wherein he resides, is unpatriotic, unwise and unamerican and I am opposed to it. This is no time for the toleration of section pre judices, jealousies and animosities. T he existing political conditions de mand that the party shlould have the whole country to choose from. Let there be a free field, a fair contest, and may the best man win. This is my Democracy, and these are my senti ments, brielly and hastily expressed. TILLMAN INTERVIEWED. What He SLys About the Convention of the Forty. AuGUSTA. Ga., 'March 2.-Today I called on Senator Tilhnan at his new home near Trenton and obtained from him his views on the action of the re cent peace and unity Convention of the forty and on the Constitutional Convention questions of note. Ie re quested me to furnish copies of his statement to the various leading dail ies. Ex-Governor Tillman, the recog nized leader of the Reform party, spoke as follows: "It appears to ime that the action of the Convention ends rather to aggra vate than sooths the situation. The failure to adopt as a part of the scheme of pacification the conditions agreed upon by the conference held on Feb ruary 20. while accepting the idea of giving half to each faction, opens the whole question, and will I fear, destroy in a large measure the chances of hav ing the Convention elected without a struggle between the factions. "These conditions are vital, and I. for one, would never consent to any such agreement. and in speaking thus I desire to recall the fact, which some people seem to have forgotten or pur posely misconstrued, that I have never in this business assumed to dictate to the people or attempted to bind them in any way. Many of my friends have misunderstood my actions, others have been quick to suggest treachery to the people and a willingness to make terms with the enemies of the Reform Movement, which were unfair and undemocratic, inasmuch as I agreed to advocate an equal divison as far as possible, thereby surrendering the right of the majority to govern. " I have never, and do not now, as sume to do more than advise, and that advice will be taken or not, as the peo ple see fit. I note that great stress was laid on the fact of the Governor and myself agreeing to an equal division, and the proposal to substitute fair' or 'ecuitable' for 'equal' was rejected mainly on that ground, and herein lies the very danger of which I spoke in a previous interview of betrayal of the Reform "Movement under the guise of pacification. "It is well known that there are men holding positions in the Reform Movement who have been opposed to almost everything we have accom plished or undertaken. In fact, they are Reformers only in name, and for us to agree to an equal division with out conditions and then have some of these men elected as Reformers with -the almost absolute certainty that they would align themselves in the Conven tion with the Antis, would be to sur render the control of that Convention before it is elected. "As a trusted leader of the Reform Movement I could never consent to advocate any scheme that would jeop ardize the ri at to vote of the poor and illiterate white men who have so trust ed me. These men were warned by the Conservatives who opposed the calling of the Convention last Novem ber that if the Convention was called they would have voted their last time, and now it is proposed to have a Con vention elected, giving the * Con servatives half of the representation without conditions, thus making it possible to have the predictions fuTfill ed. The excuse is that we must have a Constitution which will insure white supremacy without resort to fraud. I do not know that anyone propeses to incorporate a provision in the new Constitution which will give us a frau dulent white supremacy, but we can not lift ourselves over the fence by our boot straps, and we must have re relief from the incubus of universal negro suffrage. "It is very well for the Forty Con vention and the Conservatives to sub scribe unanimously to the doctrine of white supremacy. A simple education al and property qualification would solve the whole vexed questioni. We would have white supremacy and we would also have the supremacy of the whole crowd, who have been out in the cold for four years, along with it. These men have been chastened by defeat, and their restoration to power might not produce any unpleant rev olutions in existing conditions, but I will never consent to put it in their power to disfranchise any white man except for crime. "I am ready to stand by the agree ment we have already made and ex ert whatever influence I may possess in electing a non-partisan Convention ora that basis. Thousands of Reform ers are dissatisfied with the idea of equal representation, although' the are perfectly willing to give proor tionate representation upon the basis of the primary of 1892. "This is perhaps as good a time as any to state that as practical men all the Reformers who attended the con ference of the 20 of February for( saw that this would be the case, and we expressed the belief that the Reform ers would not conscent do more than this. "There was no deception on either side in the meeting and we agreed to advocate eqnal division as individuals only after the vital conditions of which I have spoken were incorporat ed in the agreement. I believe 90 per cent of both factions would be glad to have a better state of feeling an~d less strife and bitterness, and when the time conmes I believe that the people will settle this whole business in a way that 'i~b satisfactory without giving ay ~ weight than they deserve to the acion of the Forty Convention or of the previous conference. "When the time comes, if it be ne cessary, I will stump the State in the advocacy of the scheme proposed by the conference, but I will fight the world, the flesh and the devil rather than see a Convention elected that will fail to secure white supremacy without detriment to the poor men who have trusted and followed me. I am not wedded to the MIississippi plan, but if nothing better offers, then those who are opposed to it, and threaten to ap peal to :he negro, may as well get ready." E. .J. w. COMIENT OF A COLDIBIA PAPER. COLDux~A, MIarch 29.-In to-day's Evening News in the leading editorial it is said of the Forty Convention among other things: "For example, we did not hear any discussion or see any pulhication of a discussion upon the point covered by the conference of the Conservatives and Senator Till man. In the formier conference it was agreed not to encumber the Constitu tion with matters which related to police regulation and were strictly subject to the control of the LeginL ture. I a the second place tne former conference was not endorsed. It might w ell have been. There was no excuse, so far as we can see, for this omission. It is the veriest nonsense to say that the gentlemen who composed that conference did not represent the people. We will take Senator Till man as a vote-getter against the field any day in the week. The Conserva tives who came here then were equal ly as representative as the C'onse'rva ive members of the Forty Convention. The forty recognize existing differ ences an:d acknowledge two opposing factions. They have come forward with their own committee, and prio pose to work in their own way. It begins to appear that the forty have been side-tracked in some way or Diveraitied Crop-. An exchange very truly says one of the most potent influences in causing the South for so many years after the war to turn its attention almost whol 'y to the production of cotton and to buy its corn and provisions in the WVest was the necessity of farming on credit. After the war Southern farm ers were without money, and it be came necessary to mortgage their crops in advance, even before they were planted in order to get to work. Cotton factors and commission mer chants were willing to lend mon ey against cotton to be raised, but woula not advance anything on corn or agricultural products. This com pelled farmers to give all the atten tion to cotton in order to raise as large a crop as possible, because out of its proceeds they had to purchase their provisions and corn. This acted in the interest of the factors and commis sion merchants, because it gave to them opportunity to sell Western corn and bacon to Southern farmers. This condition of affairs has been one of the strongest influences against the di versification of Southern agricultural interests. Once introduced, it became almost impossible to break away from this system. One of the most encour aging movements yet made in chang ing this system has been started by the merchants of Wilkinson county, Miss. Believing that farmers are giv ing too much attention to cotton to the disadvantage of the country, these merchants have decided not only to use their influence to induce the farm ers to cultivate corn and other food stuffs, but have announced that they will sell no more corn, cornmeal, oats or similar products on credit after January 1 next. Under these circum stances the farmers will be obliged to raise their own food supplies or to buy for cash. If the merchants of the en tire South would take such action as this it would immediately solve the whole question of diversified agricul ture. instead of standing, as the sys tem represented by them of advancing money against cotton only, as a bar rier to the diversification of agricul ture, the merchants would take the lead in forcing this diversity upon the farmers. For a short time they might lose some trade by their failure to find a market for Western corn and bacon, but the prosperity of the South would be so greatly enhanced that all of its people would be able to buy more largely of general merchandise, and the merchants would thrive accord ingly. The above is from a recent is sue of the Manufacturers' Record and we give it our cordial endorsement. Tricked by Thieves. SI'RINGFIELD, Ills., April 2.-The Springfield postoffice was robbed of about $8,000 today. It was the neatest and most mysterious job ever put up in this city, and there is little clue to the pernetrators. The amount taken, with the exception of about $30, was in stamps. It was abstracted from the vault in Postmaster Ridgeley's private office while Mr Ridgeley was absent for luncheon. The Toss was not dis covered until after 4 o'clock. The thieves used duplicate keys to unlock the office and vault, and they worked so quietly that with a dozen clerks on either side of the room no suspicion was aroused. The vault and that in the revenue collector's office are only separated by a wall, and Chief Clerk Will Vredenburg of the collector's office heard some one moving on the other side. Miss Davis, the stamp clerk, passed through the corridor abut the same time, and saw two men standino near the postmaster's office. The rob ery was discovered by assist ant Postmaster Lester McMurphy when he went into the vault to get some stamps. Ten thousand dollars woth had ben placed there Monday, andL from which two days sales had been made. A box containing jewelry andl silverware belongino to the post master's daughter, Ms. barry Deve raux, partly wedding presents, were also stolen. The thieves had carefully closed all the doors which they had to unlock with their duplicate keys. T wo weeks ago, two men passing as attorneys, came into the postmaster's office and asked to borrow his keys to unlock a tin box carried by one of them, which they said contained pa pene to be filed mn the United StatesI court. While there another man came in and asked to see the postmas ter. Mr. Ridgeley referred him to Mr. MMurphy and went across the hall to introduce him. When he came back he noticed one of the supposed lawyers holding the safe key to the light and examining it intently. The postmaster learned from the clerk of the Circuit Court that no papers had been filed. Suspicion was allayed, hwever, by the return of one of the men next morning who told Mr. Rideley he had got the box open and wouid file the papers soon. The po lice believe that while Mr. Ridgeley was introducing one of the conspira tors to Mr. McMurphy, the accomplice in his private office was taking a wax implression of the keys. Abominable Crimes. GALENA, Kas.. April 3.-A double murder and attempted criminal assault occurred four miles northwest of this city yesterday. James Walters and Samuel Cox live on adjoining farms. Cox is a widower and his daughter Dolly, about seventeen years old. keeps house for him. He had two sons, George and James, agednineteen and twelve, living' at home. Newton Walters, about ninieteen years old, and son James Walters was infatuated with Dolly Cox, but the latter did not care for him. 'Yesterday morning young Walters went to the Cox place and wanted the two boys to go to the river with him after ducks. The two Cox boys and Walters started out, taking a gun with them. Mr. Cox was absent on business and the girl was left at the house alone About noon young Walt ers returned to the house alone and at tempted to assult the girl, who escap ed, nowever, and ran to one of the neighbors. Word was brought to town of the affair and a party went in search of the Cox boys who where still mising. The body of the older boy was found in a sitting posture, against a tree, with a bullet hole in the back of head. He was alive, but unconsci ous. Hec reoained consciousness long enough to tell that young Walters shot him. Near where the older boy was found, were traces where the younger boy had been shot and his body drag ged to the river and thrown in. The body has not been recovered. Wal ters was found hanging to a tree near Boston Mills, two miles from the scene of his crime. Whether he committed suicide or was lynched is not known. A Heavy Demand. ST. PETERSBURG, April 3.-A tele gram received here from a Chinese source says that the bad weather, the sickness ~among the Japanese troops and the~ overflow of the rivers have rendered a continuance of the war ex treely difficult. It is added that this produced a favorable effect upon the peace negotiations, but the hopes of a speedy conclusion of peace are weakened by the Japanese demand for the cession of a portion of Manchuri, a war indemnity of 70,000,000 yen, and pending fu 1 payment of this in demnity that Peking be occupied by t JapToa nese troops. THE ROAD LAW. The Duties of Overseers and People Generally. When the Overseers of Districts neglect to call out their hands and work the roads when required by the county commissioners, they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, in the court of any Trial Justice, be fined, in a sum of not less than five nor more than twenty dollars. Any person liable to road duty, who shall have been duly warned twelve hours before the day fixed in his no tice for such working, stating the hour and place of working, shall be subject to the direction of the Overseer in charge. If any person of the legal age shall neglect to appear, or, shall re fuse to work upon the highways and roads, (having no justifiable excuse), according to the direction of the Over seer, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before a Trial Justice, shall be fined in a sum not less than five dol lars, nor more than ten dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail for a period of not less five or more than twenty days. On any extraordinary occasion, when an; highway shall be suddenly obstructed by storm or otherwise. so as to require immediate labor to remove such obstruction, it shall be the duty. of the Overseer in whose district such obstruction occurs, to proceed forth with to have such obstruction remov ed, and for this purpose shall summon to his aid a sufficient number of work men to open and repair such highway. If any person shall in such case, per form more days' labor than is required by law for the year, he shall be paid for any such over-plus at the rate of one dollar per day. by the county com missioners. upon the certificate of the Overseer, showing that such overplus of labor was performed. If on any such extraordinary occasion, the Over seer shall, for the space of a day after application made to him for such pur nose, by any citizen residing in his aistrict, neglect to call out a sufficient number of persons to speedily open and repair suchJiighway, he shall for feit an-d pay to the Treasurer of his county, to be expended in the repair of highways, where and when neces sary in his district, the sum of fifteen ($15) dollar unless the Overseer shall show sufficient reason for such neg lect, the said fifteen dollars to be col lected by an action, in the name of such county commissioners, as plain tiffs, before any Trial Justice in said county. If on any such extraordinary occasion, any person liable to work highways, after being summoned for the purpose of removino such obstruc tion by the order of the Z)verseer, shall neglect to turn out and assist in open ing and repairing such highway, he shall be deemed guilty of a misde meanor, and, upon conviction thereof, in any Trial Justice's court, shall be fined three dollnrs per day; said fine to be collected and expended as here inbefore provided in the matter of for feitures of Overseers. The county commissioners shall au thorize the Overseer of any district to allow a man working one day, and also furnishing a horse, plough,, or cart, two days' labor; and one working himself for one day and furnishing a wagon and two horses, mules, or oxen, three days' labor, All able bodied male persons, be tween the ages of sixteen and fifty years, shall be liable, annually, to work on the public highways and roads. It shall be the duty ~of any employer to furnish to the Overseer, a list containing the names of all per sons in his employment liable to road duty, whenever the same shall be re quired of him by said Overseer. Upon the failure of any employer to comply with such demand, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon convic tion thereof before any Trial Justice, shall pay a fine of ten dollars or ten days' imnprisonment, for every such oficeen. Overseers of Roads shall call out the hands assigned to their several sec tions, and work the roads and repair and build the bridges of the same, whenevier they deem it necessary, af ter 12 hours notice, and shall require every road hand to bring with him for use a hoe, axe, mattock, spade or other tool for work on the roads and bridges. They shall determine the number of days for each working, and the tools to be brought by each hand; but not more than three week's work are re quired of any one hand in a year. - The Supervisor shall cause Over seers, when working' on sections in which there are bridges, to have such repairs or work done on such bridges, to preserve and keep them in order, as in their opimion are of such a charac ter as to not require to be given out by contract and can be done by the road hands. The Overseers in their respective Disricts shall have full power to cut down and make use of any timber, wood, earth, or stone, in, or near the road, bridges or causeways, for the pur pose of repairing the same as to them shall seem necessa'y, making first compensation therefor, should the same be demanded; Overseers shall not authorize the cutting down of any timber trees reserve~by the owner in clearing his land or planted for the pupse of shade or ornament either in the fields, around the springs, or about the dwelling houses or appurte nance, nor the cutting down of rail timber, that may be procured at, or near the place, or take stone or ear:h from within the g'rounds of any person enclosed for caltivation without con sent of the owner of the same. If any person liable to perform such labor, shall remove from one county to another, and has, prior to such re moval, performed the whole, or any part of it, or in any other way has paid the whole, or any part of' the amount aforesaid in lieu of such labor and shall produce a certificate or re ceipt of the same from the Overseer of the District from which such person has removed, such certificate or receipt shall operate as a complete discharge for the amount herein specified. The residence of any person whlo has a family shall be held to be where his family resides, and the residenuce of any other person shall be held to be where he boards, in any County of this State. Each Oveseer is expected to keep a list of the hands under his control, and note the hours of actual work which each hand performs, and to return to the County Commissioners, after each working ordered by them, a list of each hand under his control who works and the number of hours he has actually worked. He shall also keep a list of such hands as refused or failed to work, and make his return to the County Comissioners, with his cer tificate attached thereto as to the cor rectness of such return. Teachers and studenis of schools and colleges, and ministers of the Gospel, who are serving a congregation, are exempt from road duty, and no others. Any person liable to road duty may be relieved of such dluty for the period of one year by poying to the County OYAA 4AKINO POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream or tartar nang powder. Highest of all in leavening strength.-La test United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 Wall St., N. Y. A RECORD BREAKER. Republicans Raise the Roof Off the Dem ocratic Shanty in Chicago. CHIACGO, April 3.-The Republicans smashed all election records in Chi cago. Complete returns give George B. Swift, the Republican candidate. for mayor a plurality of 41,110, the largest known here in a similar con test. The service law was carried by a large majority of 45.750. The other candidates on the Republican 'city ticket were all elected, although Trude, the Democratic candidate for city attorney, ran nearly 20,000 ahead of his ticket. The Republicans also made a clean sweep of the town south, northeast and west and in the annex ed districts, Hyde Park, and Lake view, while in the town of Lake, the sto:k-yard district, one of the supposed Democratic strongholds, the Republi can landside was remarkable. The election gives the Republicans complete control of the city council, which will now contain 50 Republican aldermen and only IS Democrats. Dr. Holmes, the People's party can didate for mayor, received 14,000 votes, a few less than half as many votes as were polled by the Third par ty last fall. Mr. Wenter declined to discuss the result except to say: "Evidently, the people did not want another Democratic mayor just at this time." Mayor Hopkins, Democrat, was ap parently not surprised over the result. "We have carried civil service," he said, with a twinkle in his eye when asked what he thought of the result. Chairman Peabody, of the Demo cratic campaign committee said: "Instead of coming to Mr. Wenter's support, I think the foreign born citi zens want it understood that they are Americans, and for that reason they rather resented the claims set up as to their prejudice." Mavor-elect Swift said: "It is -a source of great satisfaction to know that the people of Chicago have out grown a campaign of villification and appeals to race prejudice." Unusual interest was taken in the results in the ward contest which were such a picturesque feature of the cam paign. Martin Madden (Rep.) the vice president of the Western Stone com pany defeated Attorney Frank Walk er (Dem.) for alderman in the silk stocking Fourth ward. Noble B. Judah, Republican, is an other notable winner for a seat in th . city council. "Hinky Dink" Kenna went down with the other Democrats, his success fuil opponent being Patrick Gleason, Buck McCarthy, Republican won in' the stock yards district, the greatest surnirise of the election. blr. Wetherell has held this position on one or two former occasions, nota bly under the Democratic administra tion of Mavor Harrison. Mayor FNlect Swift has decided to appoint Mr. C. D. Wethereli as city controller. The Tafe of a Theft. CHICAGo, April3.-Assistant Cashier Frederick.W Griffin of the North western National Bank walked into the vault where the money is kept Saturday morning and took therefrom a package containing $50,000 in cur rency. Another employe saw him come out and noticed he was ill at ease. After thinking the mater over all night, he went to Vice-President Dummer's residence Sunday morning and r-elated what he had seen. On be ing questioned about the occurrence, Griffin made a full confession, als though there was at that time-not the slightest particle of evidence against him beyond the suspicion ofhis fellowv clerk. Bank Examiner McKeon was at once called in and an investigation showed the books had been tampered with so as to cover the amount missc ing, the speculation extending over a period of six months. Gritlin took the money in a vain en-. deavor to conceal his crime from the bank officials. He secured a draft from another Chicago back with the $50,000 abstracted and placed the draft to the credit of the United States National bank of Omaha. This bank, as the Omaha cor-respondent of the North western, had originally $80,000 to its credit in the Chicago institution. Com mencing his stealings, with the a'c counts of other banks Griffin fitially_ mulcated this one alone. His systemi was to put in false tickets for fele graphic transfers of money. When the Omaha bank at last called for a settlement he saw the case was ho - less and required a~ desperate remedy, forgetting that while his plan made the Omaha account all right, left the Chicago institution s cash account short to the amount taken. Unfortun- - ate speculation in stocks was the cause of his down fall. Aside from these the life lie led was an exemplary one. He had the entire con fdence of the offici als and did not even give a bond when he took the position. He is .36 years old, has a wife and two children and had been in the employ of the bank ever since he was 16 years of age. Hie was arrested last night and has been in the custody of the ma?rshal ever since. At 3 o'clock this afternoon he was brought before United States Commis sioner Humphreys who continued the case in $15,000 bonds until tomorrow. No bond will be given until after the hearing when there will be no trouble in finding bondsmen. Griffin recent ly resigned the presidency of the Ash land Club. He was prominent in" North Side society circles and declares he will live down his disgrace. The bank othicials will be as lenient with him as possible. His father lives in Florida._________ It Ran In the Family. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 3.-The body of a negro. Williams Rawis, who was taken from guards at Newansville Alachua county, last nigh~t, was found this morning swimging from a limb and riddled with bullets. Riawls was lynched for thme murder, March 27, of if. B. Kaul, a prominent merchant of Newansville. The murder was for the purpose of robbery. A coroner's jury is now investigating the lynching of Rawls. The negro's fathier was legally ianged four years ago for a similar