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AT HEAVEN'S GATES. ANOTHER SERMON OF RARE POWER BY REV. DR. TALMAGE. Twelve Gates amd All ot l'earl-The Door keepers and the Password--k y-ew Word% About Bigotry and Secta&rianismu-S,-ome Rare Pearls. NEW YORx. April 7.-The bright spring weather has broulit still larg er crowds to the Sunday afternoon services conducted by the Rev. Dr. Talmage. He took for his subject to day "The Gates of Heaven," the text being Revelation xxi. 13: "On the east three gates: on the north three gates: on the south three gates; on the west three gates." The Cashmere gate of Delhi where converged a heroism that makes one's nerves tincle. the Lucknow gate still dented aia scarred with sepoy bom bardment, the Madeline gate, with its emblazonry in bronze, the hundred gates of Thebes, the wonder of centu ries, all go out of sight before the gates of my text. Our subject speaks of a great me tropolis, the existence of which manv have doubted. Standingon the wharf and looking off upon the harbor and seeing the merchantmen coming up the bay, the flags of foreign nations streaming from the topgallants, you immediately make up your mind that those vessels come from foreign ports, and you say, "That is from Hamburg. and that is from Marseilles, and that is from Southampton, and that is from Havana," and your supposition is ac curate. But from the city of which I am now speaking no weather beaten merchantmen or frigates with scarred bulkheads have ever come. There has been a vast emigration into that city, but no emigration from it so far as our natural vision can descry. "There is no such city," says the undevout astronomer. "I have stood in high towers with a mighty tele scope and .iiare swept the heavens. and I have seen spots or. the sun and caverns in the moon, but no towers have ever risen on my vision, no pal aces, no temples, no shining streets, no massive wall. There is no such city." Even very good people tell me that heaven is not a material or ganism, but a grand spiritual fact, and that the Bible description of it are in all cases to be taken figuratively. I bring in reply to this what Christ said, and hemought to know, "Igo to pre pare"-not a theory, not a. Drmciple. not a sentiment, but "I go to prepare a place for you." The resurrected body implies this. If my foot is to be reformed from the dust, it must have something to tread on. If my hand is to be reconstructed it must have something to handle. If my eye, hav ing gone out in death, is to be rekin dled, I must have something to gaze on. Your adverse theory seems to imply that the resurrected~ body is to beihung on nothing, or to walk in air, or to float amid the -intangibles. You may say if there be material or'n isms then a soul in heaven wlbe cramped and hindered in its enio. ments, but I answer, Did not Ad am and Eve have plenty room in the gar den of Eden?. Although only a few miles - Tuld have described the cir cumfei.:nti of that place, they had Imple room. And do you not sup poethat God, in the immensities, can 'uid a place large enough to give the whole race room, even though there be material organisms? Herschel looked into the heavens. As a Swiss guide puts his Alpine stock between the glaciers and crosses over from crag to erag, so Herschel planted his telescope between the worlds and glided from star to star until he could announce to us that we live in a part of the universe but sparsely strewn with worlds, and he pesout into immensity until he finsa region no larger than our solar sytem in which there are 50,000 worlds moving. And Professor Lang says that by a philosophic reasoning there must be somewhere world where there is no darkness, but everlasting snshine, so I do not know but that it is simply because wehaveno telescope powerful enough that we cannot see into the land where there is no dark ness at all and catch a glimpse of the burnished pinnacles. As a conquer ing army marching on to take a city comes at nightfall to the crest of'a mountain from which, in the midst of the landscape, they see the castles they are to capture; and rein in their war chargers, and halt to take a good look before they- pitch their tents for the night, so now, coming as we do on ths mountain top of prospect, I _com mand this regiment of God to rein in their thoughts and halt, and before1 they pitch their tents. for the night take one good, long look at the gates of the great city. "On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates, and on.the west three gtes." In -he first place'I want you to ex amine the architecture of these gates. Proprietors of large estates are very apt to have an ornamented gateway. Sometimes they spring an arch of ma sonry, the posts of the gate flanked with lions in stat~uary; the bronze gate representation of intertwining foliag~e, bird haunted, until the hand of archti tectural genius drops exhausted, all its life frozen into the stone. Gates of wood and iron and stone guarded nearly all the old cities. Moslems have inscribed upon their gateways inscriptions from the Koran of the Mohammedan. There have been a great many fine gateways, but Christ sets his hand to the work, and for the upper city swung a gate such as no eye ever gazed on, untouched of in spiration. With the nail of his own cross he cut into its wonderful tracer ies stories of past suffering and of gladness to come. There is no wood or stone or bronze in that gate, but from top to base and from side to side it is all of pearl. Not one piece pick ed up from Ceylon banks, and another piece from the Persian Gulf. and an other from the island of Margarette, but one solid pearl picked up from the beach of everlasih light by heavenly hands and hoiste and swung amid the shouting of angels. The glories of alabaster vase and porphyry pillar fade out before this gateway. "It puts out the spark of feldspar and diamond. You know how one little' precious stone on your finger will flash under the gaslight. But, oh, the brightness when the great gate of heaven swing's, struck through and dripping with the light of eternal noonday ! Julius Caesar p aid 125,000 crowns for one pearl. The government of Portugal boasted of having a pearl iar r than apear. Cleopatra and Phih p Idazzled the world's vision with precious stones. But gather all these together, and lift them and add to them allithe wealth of the pearl fisheri ies, and set them in the panel of one door, and it does not equal this magni ficent o'ateway. Ani almighty hand hewed &is, swung this, polished this. Against this gateway, on the one side dash all the splendors of earthly beau ty. Against this gate, on the other side, beat the surges of eternal glory. Oh, the gate, the gate: It strikes an infinite charm through every one that passes it. One step this side of the gate, and we are paupers. One step the other side of the gate, and we are kings. The pilgrim of earth going. through sees in the one huge pearl all his eaty ear in crytal. 0 gate of light. gate o' pai. zate of neaven, for our wn y so,, i at last swmng ix open. W hen haI these eys" th t heaven built wa!!s Ard peativ t tes behl id; Thv uks with -alvatiom .tron A::d rt-et-, of shining g.d i,. heaven is n.ot a dull place: Heaven is not a [contracted place. Heaven is not a stuped place. "I saw the 12 gates, and they were 12 pearls." In the second place, I want you to count the number of those zates. Im perial parks and lordly manors are apt to have one expensive gateway. aid the others are ordinary. but look around at these entrances to heaven and count them. One, two. three, four, five, six,'seven, eight, nine, ten, elev en, twelve. Hear it all the earth and all the heavens. Twelve gates: I ndmit this is rather hard on sharp sectarianisms. If a Presbyterian is bigoted, he brings his Westminster as sembly catechism. and he makes a gateway out of that, he says to the world, 'You go through there or stay out." If a member of the Reformed church is bigoted, he makes a gate out of the Iieidelberg catechism, and he says, -You go through there or stay out." If a Methodist is bigoted, he plants two p4'sts. and he says, -Now, you crowd in between those two posts or stay out." Or perhaps an Episcopalian may say, "Here is a lit urgy out of which I mean to make a gate: go through it or stay out." ' Or a Baptist may say "Here is a water gate: you go through that, or you must stay out." And so in all our churches and in all our denominations there are men who make one gate for themselves and then demand that the whole world go through it. I abhor this contractedness in religious views. Oh, small souled man, when did God give you the contract for making gates? I tell you plainly I will not go in that gate. I will go in at any one of the 12 gates I choose. Here is a man who savs, "I can more easily and more closely approach God through a prayer book." I say, "My brother, then use the prayer blook."' Here is a man who savs, "I believe there is only one mode of baptism, and that is im mersion." Then I say, "Let me plunge you." Anyhow, I says, away with the gate of rough panel and rot ten posts and rusted latch when there are 12 gates, and they are 12 pearls. The fact is that a great many of the churches in this day are being doctrain ed to death. They have been tryim to find out all about God's decrees, and they want to know who are elected to be saved and who are reprobated to be damned, and they are keepinga on dis cussing that subject when there are millions of souls who need to have the truth put straight at them. They sit counting the number of teeth in the jawbone with which Samson slew the Philistines. They sit on the beach and see a vessel going to pieces in the of fino, and instead of getting into a boat an< pulling away for the wreck they sit discussing the different styles of oarlocks. God intended us to know some things and intended us not to know others. I have heard scores of sermons explanatory of God's decrees, but came away more perplexed than when I went. The only result of such discussion is a ozreat fog. Here are two truths which are to conquer the world-man, a sinner; Christ, a Say iour. Any man who adopts those two theories, in his religious belief shall havmy right hand in warm grip of Christian brotherhood. A man comes down to a river in time of freshet. He wants toget across. He has to swim. What does he do? The first thing is to put off his heavy apparel and drop everything he has in his hands. He must go empty handed if he is going to the other bank. And I tell you when we have come down to the river of death and find it swift and raging we will have to put off all our sectarianism and lay down all our cumbrous creed and empty handed put out for the other shore. "What." say you, "would you resolve all the Chris tian church into one kind of church? Would y'ou make all Christendom worship m the same way, by the same forms?" Oh, no. You might as well decide that all people shall eat the same kind of food without reference to appetite, or wear the same kind of apparel without reference to the shape of their body. Your ancestry, your temperament. your surroundings, will decide whether you go to this or that church and adopt this or that church polity. One church will best get one man to heaven and another church another man. I do not care which one of the gates you go through if you only go through one of the 12 gates that Jesus lifted. Well, now, I see all the redeemed of earth coming up toward heaven. Do you think they will all get in? Yes. Gate the first, the Moravians come up; they believed in the Lord Jesus; they pass through. Gate the'second, .the Quakers come up; they have received te inward light; they have trusted in the Lord; they pass through. Gate the third, the Lutherana come up; they had the same grace that made Luther what he was, and they pasthrough. Gate the fourth, the Batsspass through. Gate the fifth, the Free Will Baptists pass through. Gate the sixth, the Reformed church p asses through. Gate the seventh, the Congregational ists pass through. Gate the eighth, the German Reformed church p asses through. Gate the ninth, the Metho dists pass through. Gate the tenth, Sabbatarians pass throughi. Gate the eleventh, the Church~ of the Disciples pass through. Gate the twelfth, the Presbyterians pass through. But there are a great part of other denominations who must come in. and great multi tudes who connected themselves with no visible church, but felt the power of godliness in their heart and showed it in their life. Where is their gate? Will you shut all the remaining host out of the city? No. They may come in at our gate. Hosts of God if you cannot get admission through any other entrance, come in at the twelfth gate. Now they mingle before the throne. Looking up at the one hundred and forty and four thousand, you cannot tell which gate they came in. One Lord. One faith. One baptism. One glassy sea. One doxolgv. One triumph One heaven: "Why Luther, how did you get in ?' "I came through the third gate." "Cranmer, how did i ou vet in?' "I camne through the eig'hth gate." "Adohiram Judson, how did you get through ?" "I came through the sev enth gate." "Hugh McKail, the mar tyr, how did you get through?" "I came through the twelfth gate." Glory to God, 12 gates, but one heaven. In the third place, notice the points of the compass toward which these gates look. 'Ther are, not one side, or on two sides. or on the three sides, but on four sides. This is no fancy of mine but a distinct announcement. On the north three gates, on the south three gates, on the eastthree g'ates, on the west tre gates, What does that that mean? Why, it meeans that all nationalities are included, and it does not make any difference from what quarter of the earth a man comes up. If his heart is right, there is a gate op en before him. On the three gates. That means mercy for Lapland and Siberia and Norway and Sweden. On the south three gates. That means pardon for Hindustan and Algiers an Ethiopia. On the east three gates. That means salvation for China and Japan and Borneo. On the west three America. It does not make any dif ference how dark skinned or how pale faced men may be. They will find a gate right before them. Th )se plucked bananas uud'r a tropical .uc. These shot acr-ss Russian snowsb, hind win deer. Fr-om'i Mexican planteau. from Roman campania, from Chinese tea lield. from Holland Dvke, from Scotih bighilands, they conle, thiey come. kIeaven is not a monopoly for a few pree'ous souls. It is not a Windsor castle built only for royal families. It is not a small town with small popula tion. but John saw it, and he noticed that an angel was measuring it. and he measured it this way. and then he measured it that war. and which ever war lie measured it it was 1,500 miles, so "that Babylon and Tyre and Nine vah and St. Petersburg and Canton and Peking and Paris and London and New York and all the dead cities of the past and all the living cities of the present added together would not equal the census of that great metro polis. Walking along a street, you can, by the contot r of the dress, or of the face, guess where a man comes from. Yoiu say, "That is a Frenchman; that is a Norwegian; that is an American." But the gates that gather in the right eols will bring them in irrespective of nationality. Foreigners sometimes get homesick. Some-of the tenderest and most pathetic stories have been told of those who left theis native clime, and longed for it until they died. But the Swiss, coming to the high residence of heaven, will not long any more for the Alps, standing amid the eternal hills. The Russian will not long any more for the luxu riant harvest field he left now that lie hears the hum and the rustle of the harvests of everlasting light. The royal ones from earth will not long to go" back again to the earthly court now that they stand in the places of the sun. Those who once lived among the groves of spice and oranges will not long to return now that they stand under the trees of life that bear 12 manner of fruit. While I speak an ever increasing throng is pouring through the gates. They are going up from Senegambia, from Patagonia, from Madras. from Hongkono. "What," you say, "do you mntroduce all the heathen into glory ?" I tell you the fact is that a majority of the people in those climes die in infancy, and the infants all go straight into eternal life, and so the vast majority of those who die in Chi na and India, the vast majority of those who die in Africa go straight into the skies-they die in infancy. One hundred and sixty generations have been born since the world was created, and so I estimate that there muit be 15,000,000,000 children in glory. If at a concert 2,000 children sing, your soul is raptured within you. Oh, the transport when 15,000,000,000 little ones stand up in white before the throne of God, their chanting drowning out all the stupendous har monies of Dusseldorf and Loipsic. Pour in through the 12 gates. Oh, ye redeemed,banner lifted,rank after rank, saved battalion after saved battalion, until all the city of God shall hear the tramp, tramp! Crowd all the 12 gates. Room yet. Room on the thrones. Room in the mansions. Room on the river bank. Let the trumpet of invitation be sounded until all earth's mountains hear the shrill blast and glens echo it. Let mission aries tell it in o'oda and colporteurs sound it across tie western prairies. Shout it to the Laplander on his swift sled, halloo it to ~the Bedouin career ing 'across the desert. News: News! A olo'ious heaven and 12 z'ates to get into it! Hear it! Oh, you tmiin blooded nations of eternal winter-on the north three gates. Hear it! Oh, you bronzed inhabitants panting under equatorial heats-on the south three gates. But I notice whenl John saw these gates they were open-wide open. They will not always be so. After awhile heaven will have gathered up all its intended population, and the children of God will have come home. Every crown is taken. Every harp struck. Every throne mounted. All the glories of the universe harvested in the great garner. And, heaven being made up, of course the gates will be shut. Austria in, and the first gate shut. Russia in, and the second gate shut. Italy in, and the third gate shut. Egypt in, and the fourth ate shut. S in, and the fifth ate shut. F ce i, and the sixth gate shut. England in, and the sev enth gate shut. Norway in, and the eighth gate shut. Switzerland in, and the ninth gate shut. Hindustan in, and the tenth gate shut. Siberia in, and the eleventh gate shut. All the gates are closed but one. Now, let America go in with all the Islands of the sea and all the other 'nations that have called on God. The captives all freed. The harvests all gathered. The nations all saved. The flashing splen dor of this last p earl beg'ins to move on its hinges. Let two miighty angels p ut their shoulders to the gate and heave it to with silvery clang. It is done. ~ It thunders. The twelfth gate shut. Once more I want to show you the gatekeepers. There is one angel at each one of those gates. You say, that is right. Of course it is. You know that no earthly palace or fortress would be safe without a sentry pacing up and down by night and 'by day, and if there were no defenses before heaven, and the doors set wide open with no one to guard them, and the 'icious of earth would go up after awhile, and all the abandoned of hell would go up after awhile,and heaven, instead of being a world of light and oy and peace and blessedness, would ethe world of darkness and horror. So I am glad to tell you that while these 12 gates stand open to let a great multitude in, there are 12 angels to keep some people out. Robespierre cannot go through there, nor Hilder brand, nor Nero, nor any of the de bauched of earth who have not re pented of their wickedness. If one of those nefarious men who despised God should come to the g'ate, one of the keepers would put his hiand on his shoulder and push him into outer :arkness. There is no place in that land for thieves and liars and whore mongers and defrauders and all those who disgraced their race and Lought against their God. If a miser should get in there, he would pull up the golden pavement. If a house burner should get in there, he would set fire to the mansion. If a libertine shouldl et in there, he would whisper the abominations standing <E the white oral of the sea beach. Only those who are blood washed and prayer lip ped will get through. Oh, my brother. if you should at last come up to one of the gates and try to get through and you had not a pass written by the rushed hand of the Son of God, the atekeeper would with one glance wither you forever. There will oe a password at the gate of heavena. Do you know what that password is? Here comes a crowd of souls up to the gate, and they say: "Let me in. let me in. I was very use ful on earth. I endowed colie'ges, I built churches and was famous for my btrities, and having done so many wonderful things for the world now I come up to get my reward." A voice from within says, "I never knew you." Another great crowd comes up. mi~d they try to get through. They s.y 'We ere hig-bly honorable on earth. and the world bowed very low I before us. We we re very honor-a ble on tath. and nov we come to get hontors in heave1." And a voice from withi' .ays. "I never knew you. " %.- -.--. very moral people on earth. very moral indeed, and we come up to g! .propriate recognition." A Vo0 alSwers. "I never knew vou." After zwhile I see another throng approach the late. and one seems to be spokesman for all the rest, although their voices ever and anon cry: "Amen: Amen "' This one stands at the gate and says: "Let me in. I was a wanderer from God. I deserved to die. I have come up to this place not because I deserve to, but because I have heard thi:t there is a savin power in the blood of Jesus. The gatekeeper says: "That is the pass word-'Jesus esus:'--and they go in and surround the throne, and the cry is; 'Worthy is the lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honorand glory and power,world without end:" I stand here this hour, to invite you into any one of the 12 gates. I tell you now that unless your heart is changed by the grace of God you can not get in. I do not care where you come from, or who your father was, or who your mother was, - or what your brilliant surroundings-unless you repent of your sin and take Christ for your divine Saviour you cannot get in. Are you willing, then, this moment, just where you are, to kneel down and cry to the Lord Almighty for his deliverance. You want to get in, do you not? oh,you have some good friends there. This last year there was some one who went out from your home into that blessed place. They did not have any trouble getting through the gates, did they? No, they knew the pass word, and coming up they said, **Je sus :" and the cry was, "Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates, and let them come in."' Oh, when heaven is all done, and the troops of God shout the castle taken, how grand it will be if you and I are among them: Blessed are all they who enter in through the gates into the city. Governor Ceneral Campos. HAVAsNAH, VIA KEY- WEST, April 10.-Brig. Gen. Jose Jimerrez Moreno, chief of the Governor General's staff, sailed today on the 'illaverde to re ceive Mariinez Campos. who is ex pected to arrive by the 15th. Campos will land at Guantanamo or Santiago, and by royal decree becomes Gover nor General the moment he sets foot on land, avoiding the delay attendant upon observing the customary form of taking the oath of office here. Governor General Calleja will retire from oflice upon notice of the landing of Campos and.will sail home on the 20th inst. General Campos is expect ed to push active operations against the insurgents in the province of San tiago de Cuba, which.is the only sec tion where the insurgents are known to be in auy numbers. Latest advices place the number at 3,000, divided into bands of 50 to 200 men each. Gen. Bartolo Maso is in command. The other leaders are Adjt. Gen. Cespedes, chief field officer, Col. Estaban Tama vo, Capts. Rabi Perez Estrado, Bello Guerra. Levis, Capote Suarez Papas, Vega, Gonzalez, Aramburo and Brea. The isurgents announce that a syndi cate has been formed in the United States to furnish money for the revo lution, reimbursements guaranteed from customs receipts when independ ence is secured. 'Wealthy and influ ential Cubans here give no aid to the insurgents and declare the uprising a mistage. All three parties here pledge support to the Government. The gen eral belief is the insurrection will be short :A'ed. Gen. La Cihambre, in command of the Government forces in Santiago province, reports roving bands in the mountainous section. but no massing of insurgents and no rising in other provinces. All are under martial law. Troops are stationed at all towns. Monday a band of forty-eight moun ted insurgents invaded Puerto Prin cipe province and were attacked by Government forces and defesated. One leader, Panchin Varona, was killed, another mortally wounded a.nd taken p risoner and a woman and child in a hut killed by stray balls, Three of the party, wno landed near Baracoa with Miaceo after killing the captain of the schooner Honora, were captured Mon day. The others fled to the moun tains. The members of the party arrested Sunday in a supposed attempt on Ja ruca barracks~were liberated today ex cept Pedrc Lopez, Giland Francisco Paz. The others arrested at Puerto Principe April 5 were also released, including Marquis Santa Lucia. THE CI-BAN UPRISING GAINING GROUND. NEw YoRK, April 10.-The Ward Line Steamer, which arrived this morning from Mexican ports and Havannah, says that it was learned that while nothing official could be heard of the progress of the Cuban insurrection the uprising was general throughout the island and was gain ing ground dally. Everything is at high tension among the people, and the insurgents have more sympathi zers than the authorities are willing to admit. A Call to Ex-Confederates. HEADQUARTERS S. C. DIV., U.C. .*, GREENVILLE. S. C., April 9, 1895. ( General Orders No. 11. 1. The attention of camps of United Confederate Veterans of this division is called to the great reunion which is to be held at Houston, Texas, on the 22d, 23d and 24th of May proximo,and to the importance of their being fully represented on that occasion. Business of great importance will come before the Convention, and probably the election of division commanders, (by State delegations.) as their respective terms of o!Iice, with nton-eligibility to re-election under the constitution, have expired. 2. Railroads throughout the South have agreed to issue tickets to veterans at one cent per mile, limised to ten days, which will probably be extend ed to t wenty-five dlays, while our com rades in Texas are anxious to receive us with warmtest welcome and un stir: ted hiospitality. 3. T~hc constitution precscribeCs that each camp shall annually, during or before the month of April, transmit to Adjt. Gen. Gieorge Moorman. New Drleans. La, a comiplete roll of its membership. with the annual dues of ten cents for each member. 4. This division now ranks sixth in the ntunber of its camps, having thirty-four camps in full fellowship, and ald soldiers throughout the State, in e .'ery neighborhiood whcre fifteen otwety veterans crin be found, are cordially invited to form camps imme diately. and provide for' i-epresentation at the approaching reumtflou. By order of S. S. Crittende2, Major General South Carolina .Division, U. C. V. J,s. (4. HI.wvaonNE. Adjutant General. Ne' spap)ers throughout the State are ruspectfully r'eqtuested to copy. scared by a storm. HIAvRE, April 11t.-The captain of the steam~iship Merrimac, which arrived here from New Orleans today, reports that on the fourth, he put his chief of rneer and ten men aboard the British ship Arnos which had been abandoned at sea. They will take the vessel to Liverpool, lie says. The Arnos crew were taken off in a storm by a Ger man seamshin, Normannia. A FIGHT TO THEDEATIJ. TERRIBLE ENCOUNTER WITH A MUR DEREr:!N JACKSONVILLE. A Negro Desperado from ColiminL s. C.. After Killim:. Anothe-r Negro, RuT-- tAY but is Hiunt.ed Down--He Rid .Definnlee; to the Police. JACKSONVILLE, FLA., April 7.-Brit Glenn, commonly known as "Kid" Charlie. a negro gambler and desper ado. ran amuck here early this morn ing and as a result two nen are dead and three wounded, one of them pro bably fatally. The killed are: Napole on Stucks, 2. negro porter employed in Ricker's saloon, shot in the throat and his neck broken; Edward Minor, policeman, shot through-the heart. The wounded are: Jim Clemons, a negro commonly known as "RagJim," shotinthe right thigh, artery thought to be severed and may die; James Meyers, lieutenent of police, shot in the right ankle, wound slight; boot black, name unknown shot in the right thigh, wound slight. Stucks was the first man killed by Glenn and it was while resisting arrest that he killed Policeman Ed Miner and wounded the others whose names are given above. Stucks killed about 1 o'clock this morning in the "Rabbit Foot" saloon, a notorious negro dive on West Bay street. A crowd of ne groes were in the saloon and Glenn arew his- pistol on a negro named Willie Manning. Stucks jokingly said that he would take the pistol away from Glenn and advanced toward him. He passed by Glenn, however, and went toward the "Free and easy" room in -the back part- of the saloon. As he neared the door he turned round and Glenn pulled out his pistol and fired. Stucks was- standing in front of the door at the time. No words pas sed between the two men and no quar rel of any kind was heard. As soon as Stucks was shot herushed out of the front door of the saloon and and fell dead near the steps. Exam ination showed that the bullet had struck him in the throat, just above Adam's apple, and passed through breaking his neck. Glenn turned and fled as his victim was failing, pursued by a large crowd of negroes who soon lost sight of him in the darkness. Shortly after Lieut Minor, Sheriff Bowden and other officials arrived on the scene and began an organized hunt for Glenn. All the negro dives in the western portion of the city were search ed and about 5 o'clock this morning the officers started their game. Rag Jim. ore of the negroes subse quently shot, was in front of the pur suing party, and he found the negro hiding on a lighter in McCoy's Creek, half a mile west from the scene of the murder. When Rag Jim sighted Glenn he gave the view halloo. The murder er then ran due east, followed by a crowd of people. Glenn passed direct ly by the saloon where - lie had killed Stucks a couple of hours before. He headed Jecksonville, probably hoping to escape in a swamp which lies some distance beyond the city limits. Glenn was fleet of foot, and easily distanced all of his pursuers save Rag Jim, who. hung on like grim death. This was about 6 o'clock in the morning, and. the streets were deserted save for the fleeing negro and his pursuers. Finally the murderer, b: a desperate spurt, succeeded in leaving even "Rag' Jim" behind. By this time the chase'had led into East Jackson~ville and the officers- were gathered near Hotel Roseland, completely at. fault. Just as they were about to abandon the pursuit in that direction -the little boot black, who v'as afterwards wounded. came running np an said that he had seen a negro run into a barn near -the hotel. At that timneLieut James Min or, and Policeman Davis were the only officers present, but they were accompanied by a large ci-owd of ne croes, who were as intent on capturing lenn as the officers, as Stucks, the. murdered man, had been ~a favorite with his'race. On learning that the negro was in the barn the officers and crowd approach ed. Policeman Ed Minor and Lieut Jas Minor were the first to enter. They found that the negro had climbed up into a loft in the barn and was lying behind a pile of lumber which formed and effectual barricade. Minor called on Glenn to surrender and the negros answer was a shot. The officers re turned the fire, emptying their pistols, but the negro was effectually protect ed by the lumber. The Minors stepped out to reload and "Rag Jim" rushed into the barn. In a moment he stag gered out, bleeding from a dangerous wound in the thigh. Then the Minors re-entered and the fusillade ag'ain began. 'Soon Ed Minor handed his pistol to his brother, the lieutenant, sayinG, "Jim, T'm shot." Then the brave fellow staggered-out of the barn, lay down on the grass and in three minutes was dead. The jittle bootblack who had disclosed the hunt ed man's place of hiding, here entered the door, only to receive a bullet in his thigh, which, however, did not in flict a serious wound. The fusillade had now continued for ten minutes, and of the four men who had entered the barn to arrest Glenn one was dead and two were wounded. Lieut. James Minor, however, was still in the barn firing at Glenn, who lay in safety be' hind the lumber. Suddenly Glen-n rose up and fired and dropped back behind the lumber. Then Lieut. Minor felt his ankle give way and knew that he was wvounded. But the shot that wounded the lieuten ant had exhausted Glenn's ammunition and the next moment he called Out: "Lieutentant, T'll give up if you won't let 'em kill me." ."All right," replied Minor. "Throw down your pistol and come down." The negro obeyed and the next minute Lieut. Minor led his prisoner from the barn. As the lieu tenant stepped forth with his prisoner the first object that his eyes fell upon was the corpse of his brother Ed, lyiwg. near the door of the barn. Until then the lieutentant did not know his broth er was dead. The lieutentant led the negro toward the city jail, which was more than a' mile away, followed by an immense crowd clamoring for the negro's blo~od. Near the city jail Policeman Ed Hol land approached with pistol drawu. swearing he would kill the negro and avenge his brother otlicer, EdA Minor. The lieutentant placed his pistol against Holland's head and said: -'This man is a prisoner and as such sacred. If you shoot him I will low out your brains." So Lieut. Minor broughit the negro safely to jail. This was about S o'clock and by 9 o'clock there was rumors that a mob was arming to storm the jail and lynch the necgro. The mob was said to be composd of negroes as well as white~ men. as the former were enraged over the killing of Stucks by Glenn. This rumor proved to be untrue, but te officers, in order to run no risks, moved the negr-o secretly fromi the jail, rowed him across the St. John's River. flagged down the train for St. Augus tine when it passed and carried the nie mro to the Ancient City, where lie was placed in jail. The ollicers were con fi dent of their ability to protect the nie gro, but the excitement in Jackson v-ille was so great that they feared a bloody conflict might result unless the negro were removed to a distant coun Brit Glenn, the murdere came here from Columbie, S. C. Ile was once a train hand on the Columbia and Greenville Railroad. He is a'out 35 years old and ii noted among the negroes as a desperado. Policeman Ed Minor. who was killed in the bat tle at the barn, was 23 years of age and was a fearless otlicer who was very popular in .Jackson ville. Jim Clemons, or "Rag Jim," who so persistently pursued Glenn, and was probably fataly shot, is a familiar figure in Jacksonville and the white people are loud in praise of his con duct. Lieut. James Minor has been on the police force only a few years. He is 25 years old, and has captured more murderers single-handed than all the other members of the force. His wound in the ankle is slight. The battle occurred near the Hotel Roseland, which was full of guests' and the shooting caused the greatest excitement among them. Frequent shrieks came from the ladies. The Rabbit Foot Saloon, in which Stucks was killed. by Glenn, is noted for the freqency of the murders occur ring therein. Sticks is the sixth man kilfed there in two years, and not one of the murders has been followed by a hanging. The last one undoubtedly will be. NOT VERY STARTLING. Sterling Morton and a Nebraska Railroad Man Fxchauge News. ATLn "A. April 11.-The Constitu tion will publish tomorrow morning a Washington dispatch containing some correspondence between Mr. J. R. Buchanan, a Nebraska Railroad man, and Secretary J. Sterling Mor ton of the Cabinet, and between Secre tary Morton and Hon. John Dewitt Warner of the Reform club, New York. The correspondence is based upon the sweep of the silver sentiment in the West and in the South and con tains the suggestions that President Cleveland should be re-nominated for a third term. Mr. Buchanan is gen eral passenger agent of the Fremont, Eikhorn and Missouri Valley railroad. Secretary Morton wrote to Mr. Bu chanan thankinghim for securing the publication of an article entitled, "A Few Facts in Finance," by the Secre tary. Mr. Bechanan had it published "in a great many of the patent inside papers which are circulated out West." Replying to the Secretary's letter, Mr. Buchanan states that he hardly thinks "the very evil effect being exerted by the so-called free silver interests in this country is appreciated in the great centers." Mr. Buchanan states that he travels a great deal and meets and sees people from all classes and places, and he adds: ":The wave of this baneful idea has almost reached an epidemic con dition and unless fully answered in kind, both great political parties will be obliged in response to popular de mand, to either incorporate a substan tially free silver plank in their plat form or else a disgraceful straddle." Mr. Buchanan says he presumes that the Secretary has -seen "Coin's Financial School." He proceeds to say that this book is sold and read on trains to a disgusting extent. He sees and hears it discussed everywhere,and considers it more than any other agen cy responsible for the spread of the sil ver sentiment at this time. Continu ing he says: "It is sweeping over this couuztry, and in my op'mion should be answer ed by some one who fully understands the subjecL. That answer should be written with an equally facile pen. I understand this little book has been purchased in large numbers by silver people and distributed crttously. It seems to me the banking interests should take the requisite steps to pub lish a reply in equally attractive form and put it on the market at the iowest pricc." In conclusion Mr. Buchanan says: "My judgment, from the present out look, is the Eastern conservatives of both parties are likely to unite and possibly renominate Mr. Cleveland, who will carry the East and South no doubt: (the East on his able, honest conservatism, and the South because they could never vote other than the Democratic ticket, thus insuring a vote which would elect) and the West will undoubtedly support a Populist or free silverite unless there is a great change. If this is not done, I feel the election will be thrown into the House as the result of three tickets being in the field, in which case the balance of Dow er would be with the free silver inter est. I believe if there was a vote to day on the naked question of a 16 to 1 silver platform, Nebraska would give it a majority of 50,000, or near it." This letter, from which the above quotations are only extracts, -is for warded by Secretary Morton to John Dewitt Warner. The Secretary explains that his ob ject in sendino' the letter "is to give you a jthorougfi going business man's views of the situation. The letter shows how fallacies flourish among the financiers of the West and South. The letter also points out the necessity of immediate, coherent and organized aciton in behalf of sound inoney. Having read the same (you may copy it if you desire it), I wish you would return it, and I will then write Mr. Buchanan. Possibly our friends of the reform Club ma bebe nefitted by seigM.Buchanan's communication. Veterans Protest. JACKsoNVILLE, Fla., April 11.-A special to the Times-Union from Pen sacola, Fla., says: At a meeting today of Camp Ward. Confederate Veterans, the following resolutions were adopt ed: Whereas, the Legislature of the State of Florida. at its present session, has passed a joint resolution known as Senate resolution No. 13, requesting the Congress of the United States to purchase the site of the battlefield of Appomattox for a national park and to erect a joint monument to Generals (rant and Lee upon the spot where the latter surrendered to the former, Whereas, the battlefield of Appo mattox is known only as the spot where the hopes, aspirations and in dependence of the Southern Confed eracy were forever crushed: and Whereas, a monument to Generals Grant and Lee at Appomattox is not desired by the Southern people; and Whereas if a monument should be erected at Apuomattox to Generals Grant and Lee the movement to that end would more gracefully orioinate with the victor thxan the defeated: and therefore, be it Resolved, by Camp Ward. Confed erate Veterans. No. 10. 1. We regret and deprecate the intro duction and passage of Senate resolu tion No. 13. 2. We urge 9ach and every camp of Con federate 'Jeterans th roughiout the State to join with us in expressing dis approval of said resolution. 3. That the Governor of the State of Florida is requested to veto said reso lution. 4. That the adjutant of this camp be and is hereby directed to send a copy of these resolutions to the Governor of the State of Flo: ida, a copy to the Southern Associated Press and one copy to each camp of Confederate Vet erans+throughout the State of Florida. INCOME TAX DECISION. [CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.] ed. The judgment of the Courts, as far as it related to the payment of the tax on rents and State and municipal bonds, was reversed. In the Moor case the effect of the Court's action is to affirm the refusal of an injunction against the commissioner of internal revenue. Justices Field and White read inde pendent dissenting opinions. Justice Field devotedl some time to a review of the provisions regarding rents and denounced the principle sought to be establisted by the income tax law. Many of his conclusions were in conformity with those express ed by the Chief Justice. He also at tacked the law on account of its lack of uniformity and dwelt upon its ex emptions andthe many discrimination found therein. Taking up the exemi) tion of mutual insurance companies, he declared that they were conducted on lines identical with those on which large corporations were -conducted for the mutual benefit of stockholders He inveighed against the exemption of saving and building associations, which were not charitable in'stitutions, but conducted for either money-mak ing or money-saving. All these ex emptions stamped the law as class legislation of the most pronounced character. The law .violated every right and comity guan teed under the Constitution. That there shouldbe any doubt about the subject surpassed his comprehension. If the census figures did not convince one of the magnitude and injustice of the exemptionshe did not think Congress could be convinc ed, "though one rose from the dead" to convince it. The law was also in valid in that it levid a tax upon the salaries of the one hudred and one Judges of the United States, many of whom received small salaries. If the provisions of the Constitution could be set aside by the arbitrary act of Congress, were, he asked, would this power end? It was but a stepping stone to other a greater acts that would eventually open the way for a war be tween the poor and the rich. Such a power assumed by congresses and per mitted to go unchallenged would mark the hour when the decadence of the nation would commence. If the limit by the exemption could be fixed at $4,000 future Congresses might fix it at $15,000 or $29,000, thus compell ing one class alone to pay the tax. Or, the limit might be fixed at an amount as a board of walking delegates might determine to be necessary. In conclusion Justice Field announc ed his opinion that then hole law of 1894 should be declared to be null and void. Justice White prefaced his dissent ing opinion with the statement -thai thecustom of rendering long dissent, in a Court of last resort was more honored in the branch than in the ob servance. Their only effect was tc weaken the efficacy of the opinion of Court. Justice White saic he should not speak to-day but for the fact that the Court had overruled and set aside establishec precedents and the settled and uniforr doctrine of the supreme Court dowr to the present time. He regretted thai at this late day this Court should thu over throw and nullify an Act of Con gress, supported and affirmed by all text writers and by every decision of the Supreme Court of the United States. When the fathers constructed ouw from of government they gave it. no1 limited, but uinlimited power to levj taxes, with but one exception, that o taxing exports. The assertion tha the constitutional power of Congres was limited was, he thcught. the fund amental error in the reasoning of th majority of this Court. - The . greai question before the Court was, is the inom tax a direct tax? That question was practically decided a hundred years ago, and he did not deem it nec essary to enterintoanelaborate review~ of the cases that had been decided. In briefly reviewing the cases presented to the Court he observed that the ar guments made and the citations used in this case were the same as those brought out in the Hyton case, and now this Court was asked to again take up the qjuestion adjudicated by a unanimous Court a hundred y-ears ago.Justice Harlan was of the opimion that a tax on gains, profits and income derived from rent of lards was not a direct that under numerous decisions of this Court the income derived from municipal bonds was not the subject of speific taxation in any form by the United States. In other matters he was in accord with Justice White. At 2.35 the Court concluded the reading of opinions. Upon the question of the Constitu tionality of the taxation of incomes from State and municipal bonds the Court was unanimously in the nega tive. Upon the question of taxation of rents the Court stood as follows: Af firming, Justices Harlan and White; agaist the law, Chief Justice Fuller, Justices Field, Gray, Brewer, Brown and Shiras. Upon the gneral question of the constitutionality of the law the Court is said to be divided as follows: For the law, Justices Harlan, Brewer, Brown and White; against the law. Chief Justice Fuller, Justices Field, Gray and Shiras. The President was informed of the income tax decision shortly after it was rendered by the Supreme Court, and at 1:30 he summoned Secretary Carlisle to the Executive Mansion and the two discussed the matter for some time. Other members of the Cabinet dropped in later, among them the Attorney General. The decision was a disappintment, but the Administra tion w'i at once issue instructions to ollectors of internal revenue to con form to the emasculated law. Secr-e fary Carlisle followed his well defined custom not to discuss the matter for publication. Attorney General Olney said the overnment would not ask for a re hearing, but would accept the decision as rendered. He was not surprised at that portion of it excepting munmcipai nd State bonds from taxation.. but expressed the hope that the questior, of renms might be brought before the Couit in some other shape when lie ntertained the strong belief that the >resent attitude of the Court would be revised. In the treasury department Assist nt Secretary Curtis declared that the ondition of the treasury was good. nd the revenues amply sufficient to meet current expenses. -- Commissioner Miller and the offcia of the income tax division held a con ferente tonight of several hours dura tion at the treasury, discussing the bearing of the decision upon te in ome tax machinery in operation. and changed it when necessary to meet the changed conditions. These ins true ions will De ready for publication to morrow or next day. A monument has been ereeted ove the graves of the 6,000 Confederate soldiers buried at Chi cago. It will be dedicated on Decoration Day with ora tions by General Gordon, of Georgia. nd Wade Hampton. The flowers for the decoration are to be sent from the South, and several refrigerator car loads have already been arranged for, enough to cover every Confeidrate g~rav in Chicago POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream or tartar 'amng powder. Highest of all in' leavening strength--Lt test United States Government Food Be port. R (yal Baking Powder Company1 106 Wall St., N. Y. FOR ~~EMPERANCE WORKERS. Usefull Suggestions from. an Iminois Editor. In a recent article, addressed more particularly to members of the order, the Illinois Good Templar says: Every member in our Order has promised to do "all in his power to ad vance the cause of temperance..' Do we realize how far-reaching and signi ficant this promise is? Are we doing "all in our power to advance the cause of temperance?" 'While we are edu cating the young and persuading the moderate drinker to forsake his habits, we must not overlook the drunkard, because he is in need of our most lov ing solicitude and consideration. Tru ly, as Paul srvs: "We must be all things to all men that we may save some." It is this thouoht in our mind that impels us to ca71 attention to a line of work much neglected, but which might be taken up by almost every lodge in the State with compar ativelv little offort; that is, the treat ment of inebriety as a .disease. Any lodge can. by a series of entertainments or lectures, easily raise the sum of money to be used for this special pur pcse, to be known as a "Rescue fund." This is to be used for defriaving the expenses of the patient while taking a course of treatment at some Keeley Institute. The patient, when cured, will, of course, be required to refund the loan as soon as possible; and when i-epaid, it can be usedagain and again, aud thus be a permanent fes e.of4 work with practically no expense to the lodge after the original fund is raised. Several Good Templar Lodges have been working along this line for some time, and with great success. On the return of a patient, he should be in it'ated into the'lodg6 an lths mi should endeavor to make it pleasant for him, ih..s by their influence in a social way making it possible for him to start life anew with brighter pros pects. We refer to the Keeley Treatment adviedlv because it is undoubtedly the best known of the many remedies for the cure of iriebrotes -and because of its uniform success, statistics show ing that out of over 200,000 patients treated, ninty-five per cint. were per maneniy cured, and have been return ed to socieLy, not as a charge, but as zelf-supporting, respectable citizens. It has bee a introduced into the Sol diers' Homes and the redar'rmf. Colorado. Louisiana and Maryland have laws providiuo for the treatment to beadraiinisi~ered tlie'habitual drunk erd at the expense of the-State. -Bills looking to the enactment of similar legislation are pending ini the legisla tures of Illinois and eight other Sae in some of which they have been pass ed in one branch and reports are en couraginig that they will become laws. From personal observation among friends and acquaintances who have taken the Keeley treatment we can heartily recommrend it as. bing all that is claimed for it. .. How successful it has proved in the. Soldiers' Home can be seen; from the latest official report of Col. A. J. Smith Governor at Leavenwor'th, which will be found in another doliumn. The'treatment thus highlycominend ed is successfully administered, at the Keeley Institute, Columbia. S. C. .Japan's Terms of k'eace WASHINGTON,. April 10. -The cable. announcement that seven of the eight Japanese conditions have been accept ed- by Peace, Commissioner Li Hung Chang is very gratifying to diplomats here, who have no longer a~ doubt. that a peaceful termination w'l speedi ly result. As understood in Washing ton the eight conditions were as fo~I lows: 1. Independence of Corea. 2. Cession of Formosa. 3. Cession of Lian Tong Pionion tory, including Port Arthur. 4. War indemnity. 5. Admission of machinery into China and permission to foreigners to establish factories.. 6. Modification 'of likin tax and ex tension of system of transit passes for imports. 7. Opening certain Chinese rivers to commerce, including the Yang-tse iagto Chun-g King, the Siang from Han Kow on the Yang-tse to Siang Tan Kiang, -Cainton River to Onacho'w and Woosung and its canals as far as Suchow and Hang Chow. 8. Railway privileges and similar concessions to Japanese and foreign capitalists. to thes In aditon o teseconditionsits believed certain promises have been o will be exacted from China, the terms of which are to remain secret. The condition which, it is thought, has not et beeni accepted by Li Hung Chang s that numbered three above, provid ing for the occupation of a portion of the territory known as the Regent's Sword and Citadel *of Port Arthur. l'hat this would be most strenuously pposed by China has all along been audoubted. and it has been predicted. hat it might prove a stumibling block f such di:niensionls as to prevent peace nlers saaeu compromise could be greed upon as to the lengath of occupa ion. the Chinese~ being likel'y to insist hat it. should not be permanent. .All.. > ther cordit ions, except that of indem ail'treaty Powers are as deeply inter estedi in them as Japan has been. .The nited States have been particularly active in urging the abolition of the lkin tax. whiel., is not unlike the oc ori of I'rance. thugh less r'easonable. ma loss liinited thani the French sys en. The independence of Corea hias aw:-a been in contention, and the nhed. States ha:ve ;irmly maintained hat Ciorea was to be treated as an'in ependent nade:'n since her minister at Wasunagton was recognized ten years ago. ;:tie,.j in)Demand, in China. Sminman. Coni., April 11.-Before bhe New York east conference, Dr. tunt reported that 100. t00 Bibles had een distributed in China during the ast four' months. A copy- of the New lestament was presented to the dowa er empress. and at his own request a' opy of the Old Testament was given o thle emperor. In .Japoin. 70.000 Bibles have been distributed to the oldiers and Chinese .prisoners, and he emperor has appointed Christian