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THE ONE RIGHT ROAR REV. DR. TALMAGE POINTS iT OUT TO LIFE'S TRAVELERS. We ShowS the Road of R:ghteousnes.4 to be Safe---Plain.Peam. rd.mot and With a (lorioui Termintiu" at Last. WAsHINGTON, Feb. 2. -Rev. Dr. Talmaze's sermon for today was a pic ture of the road that many have trav eled and others are trying to get on and is no more appropriate for the capital of the nation than for all places. The text chosen was Isaiah xx, 8, 9, 10: "And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for those; the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor any raven ous beast shall go up thereon,~it shall not be found there, but the redeemed shall walk there, and the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sihing shall flee away." There are hundreds of people in this house who want to find the right road. You sometimes see a person halting at crossroads, and you can tell by his looks that he wishes to ask a question as to what direction he had better take. And I stand in your pres ence conscious of the fact that there are many of you here who realize that there are a thousand wrong roads, but only one right one, and I take it for granted that you have comt. in to ask which one it is. Here is one road that opens widely, but I hive not much filth in it. There are a great many expensive tollgates scattered all along that way. Indeed at every rod you must pay in tears, or pay in genuflex ions, or pay in flagellations. On that road, if you get through it at all, you have to pay your own way, and since this differs so much from what I have heard in regard to the right way, I believe it is the wrong way. Here is another road.' On either side of it are houses of sinful enter tainment and invitations to come in and dine and rest, but from the looks of the people who stand on the piazza I am certain it is the wrong house and the wrong way. Here is another road, It is very beautifuland macad amaized. The horses' hoofs clatter and ring, and they who ride over it spin along the highway, until suddenly they find that the road breaks over an en , and they try to halt, and they see the bit in the mouth of the fiery steed and cry: "Ho! Ho!" But it is too late, and, crash! they go over the embankment. We shall turn and see if we cannot find a different kind of road. You have heard of the Appian way. It was 350 miles long It was 24feet wide, and on either side of the road was a path foot passengers. It was made out of rocks cut in hexa gonal shape and fitted together. What a road it must have been! Made of smooth, hard rock, 350 miles long. No wonder that in the construction of it the treasures of a whole empire were exhausted. Because of invaders, and the elements, and time-the old con queror who tears up a road as he goes over it-there is nothing left of that structure but a ruin. But I have to tell you of a road built before the Ap pian way, and yet it is as. good as when first constructed. Millions of souls have gone over it. Millions more will come. The prophets and apostles, too, Porsned this read while here below, We therefore will without dismay, Stll walk in Christ, the good old way. First, this road of the text is the king's highway. In the diligence you dash on over the Bernard pass of the Alps, mile after mile, and there is not so muchas a pebble to jar the wheels. You go over bridges which cross chasms that make you hold your breath, under projectngt rock, along *nelsadipwith the melting of the glaciers, and perhaps for the first time learn the majesty of a road built and su rted by governmental authority. emy Lord the King decided to build a highway from earth to heaven. It should span all the chasms of hu man wretchedness. It should tunnel all the mountains of earthly difficulty. It should be wide enough and strong enough to hold 50,000,000,000,000 of the human race, if so many of them * should ever be born. It should be blasted out of the "Rock of Ages," and cemented with the blood of tne cross, and be lifted amid the shouting of angels and the execration of devils. The King sent his son to build that road. He put head and hand and heart to it, and after the road was completed waved his blistered hand over the way, crying, "It is fin ished!" Napoleon paid 15,000,000 francs for the building of the Simp Ion road that his cannon might go over for the devastation of Italy, but our King at a greater expense has built a road for a different puirpose that the banners of heavenly domnin ion might come down over it. Being a king's highway, of course it is well built. Bridges splendidly arched and abuttressed have given way and crushed the passengers who attempted to cross them. But Christ the King would build no such thing as that. That work pone, he mountsthe chariot of his love and multitudes mount with him, and he drives on and up the steep of heaven amid the plaudits of gaig worlds! The work is done wel done-gloriously done magnifi cently done, Still further, this road spoken of is a clean road. Many a fine road has become rairy and foul because it has not been properly cared for, but my text says the unclean shall not walk on the one. Room on either side to throw away your sins. Indeed, if you want to carry them along, you are not on the right road. That bridge will break, those overhanging rocks will fall, the night will come down, leaving you at the mercy of the mountain bandits, and at the very next turP of the road you will perish. But if you are really on this clean road of which I have been speaking, then you will stop ever and anon to wash in the water that stands in the basin of the eternal rock. Aye, at almost every step of the journey you will be crying out, "Create within me a clean heart!" If you have no such aspirations as that, it proves that you have mistaken your way, and if you will only look up and see the finger board above your head you may read upon it the words, "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is death." Without holiness no man shall see the Lord, and if you have any idea that you can carry along your sins, your lusts, your worldli ness, and yet get at the end of the Christian race, you are so awfully mis taken, the name of God, I shatter the delusion. Still further, the road spoken of is a plain road. "The wayfaring men, though iools, shall not err therein" that is, if a man is three-fourths an idiot, he can find thisroad just as well as if he were a philosoper. The im becile boy, the laughing stock of the street, and followed by a mob hooting at him, has only just to knock once at the gate of heaven, and it swings open while there has been many a man whoI could lecture about pneumtics and chemistry and tell the story of Fara day's theory of electrical polarization and vet has been shut out of heaven. There has been many a man who stood in an observatory and swept the heav ens with his telescope and yet has not been and yet has not been able to see the morning star. Many a man has been familiar with all the higher bran ches of mathematics and vet could not do the simple sum. "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul.:' Many a man has been a Fine reader of trage dies and poems and yet could not "read his title clear to mansions in the skies." Many a man has botanized across I the continent, and yet not known the Rose of Sharon, and the Lily of the Valley. But if one shall come in the right spirit. asking the way to heaven, he will find it a plain way. Tli, par don is plain. The peace is plain. Everything is ilain. le who tries to get on the road to heave: through the New Testament teaching will get on beautifully. he who goes through philosoph-cal discussion will not get on at all. Christ says, "Come to me and I will take all your sins away, and I will t ake all your troubles away." Now what is the use of my discussing it any more? Is not that plain? If you wanted to go to some city, and I pointed you out a highway thorough ly laid out, would I be wise in detain ing you by a geological discussicn about the gravel you will pass over, or a tphvsiological discussion about the muscles you will have to bring into play? No. After this Bible has pointed you the way to heaven, is it wise for me to detain you with any discussion about the nature of the human will, or whether the atonement is limited or unlimited? There is the road-go on it. It is a plain way. "This is a faith ful saying and worthy of all accepta tion that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." And that is you and that is me. Any little child here can understand this'as well as I can. "Unless you become as a little child you cannot se the kingdom of God." If you are saved, it will not be as a philosopher; it will be as a lit tle child. "Of such is the kingdom of heaven." Unless you get the spirit of little children you wili never come out at their glorious destiny. Still further, this road to heaven is a safe road. Sometimes the traveler in those ancient highways would think himself perfectly secure, not k-nowing there was a lion by the way, burying his head deep between his paws, and then, when the right moment came, under the fearful spring the man's life was gone, and there was a mauled car cass by the roadside. Bat, says my text, "No lion shall be there." I wish I could make you feel your entire se curity. I tell you plainly that one minute aftez a man has become a child of God he is as safe as though he had been 10,000 years in heaven. He may slip, he may slide, he may stumnble, but he cannot be destroyed; kept by the power of God, through faith, unto complete salvation, everlasting safe. The severest trial to which you can subject a Christian man is to kill him, and that is glory. In other words, the worst thing that can happen a child of God is heaven. The body is only the old slippers that he throws aside ist before putting on the sandals of light. His soul, you cannot hurt it. No fires can consume it; no floods can drown it; no devils can capture it. Firm and unmoved at e they Who rests their souls on Go:1; Fixed as the ground where David stood, Or where the ark abode. His soul is safe. His reputation is safe. Everything is safe. "But," you say, "suppose his store burns up ?" Why, then it will be only a change of investments from earthly to heavenly securities. "But," you say, "suppose his name goes down under the hoof of scorn and contempt?" The name will be so much brighter in glory. "Suppose his physical health fails?" God will pour into him the floods of everlasting health, and it will not make any difference. Earthly sub traction is heavenly addition. The tears of earth are the crystais of heav en. As they take rags and tatters and put them through the paper mill, and they come out beautiful white sheets of paper, so often the rags of earthly destitution, under the cylinders of death, come out a white scroll upon which shall be written eternal eman cipation. There was one passage of Scripture the force of which I never understood until one day at Chamou nix, with Mont Blanc on one side and Montanvert on the other, I opened my Bible and read, "As the moun tains are around about Jerusalem, so the Lord is around about about them that fear hin." The surroundings were an omnipotent commentary. Though troubles 'assail and dangers af right, Though friends should all fail and f oes all unite, Yet one Iting secures us, whatever betide, The Scripture assures us the Lord will pro vide. Still further, the road spoken of is a pleasant road. God gives a bond of indemnity against all evil to every man that treads it. "All things work together for good to those who love God." No weapon formed against them can prosper. That is the bond, signed, sealed and delivered by the president of the whole universe. What is the use of your fretting, 0 child of God, about food ? "Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them." And will he take care of the sparrow, will he take care of the hawk and let you die? What is the use of your fretting about clothes? "Consider the lilies of the field. Shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith ?" What is the use of wor rying for fear something will happen to your home? "Lie blesseth the hab itation of the just." What is the use of your fretting lest you will be over come of temptations: "God is faith ful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able, but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that ye may be able to bear it." Oh, this King's highway : Trees of life on either side, bending over until their branches interlock and drop midway their fruit and shade. Houses of entertainment on either side the road for poor pilgrims. Tables spread with a feast of good things, and walls adorned with noples of gold in pictures of silver. I start out on this King's highway, and I find a harper, and I say, "What is you: name:' The harper makes no response, but leaves me to guess, as with his eyes toward heaven and his hand upon the trembling strings this tune comes ripplidg on the air: "The Lrd is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear: The Lord is the trength of my life. Of whom shall [ be afraid l' I-go a little farther on the same road and meet a trumpeter of heaven, and I say, "Haven't you got some music for a tired pilgrim:' And, wipmng his lip and taking a long breath, he puts his mouth to the trumpet and pours forth this strain, " They shall hunger no more, neither shall they thirst any more, ueither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat, for thre Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall lead them to liv-ing fountains of tears from their eyes." I go a little distance farther on the same road, and I meet a maiden of Israel. " -She has no harp, but she has cymbals. They look as if they had rusted from sea spray, and I say to the maiden of Is raei, "Have you no son" for a tired pilgrin? " And. like the clang of vie tors' shields, the symbals clap as Mir iam began to discourse: "Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed glo tiouslv. The horse and the rider hath he thrown into the sea." And then I see a white robed groun. They come boundinig toward me, and I say, "Who are they! The happiest, and the brightest, and the fairest in all heaven -who are they?" And the answer comes, "These are they who came out of great tribulations and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb. 1 pursue this subject only one step farther. What is the terminus? I do not care how fine a road you put me I on, I want to know where it comes out Mv text declares it. "The redeemed of the Lord come to Zion." You know what Zion was. That was the king's palace. It was a mountain fastness. It was impregnable. And so heaven is the fastness of the universe. No howitzer has long enough range to shell those towers. Let all the bater ies of earth and hell blaze away. They cannot break in those gates. Gibral tar was taken, Sevastopol was taken, Babylon fell. but these wall of heaven shall never surrender either to human or satanic besiegement. The Lord God Almighty is the defense of it. G-eat capital of the universe: Termi nus of the King's highwav Dr. Dick said that, among other things, he thought in heaven we would study chemistry and geometry and conic sections. Soutbey thought that in heaven he would have the pleasure of seeing Chaucer and Shakespare. Now, Dr. Dick may have his mathe matics for all eternity, and Southey his Shakespare. Give me Christ and my old friends-that is all the heaven I want. Christ and his people that I knew on earth-that is heaven enough for me. Oh, garden o.^ light, whose leaves never wither, and whose fruits never fail: Oh. Banqnet of God, whose sweetness never palls the taste and whose guests are kings forever! Oh, city of light, whose walls are sal vation, and whose gates are praise! Oh. palace of rest, where God is the monarch and everlasting ages the length of his reign! Oh, song louder than the surf beat of many waters, yet soft as the whisper of cherubim! Oh, glorious heaven? When the last wound is healed, when the last heartbreak is ended, when the last tear of earthly sorrow is wiped away, and when the redeemed of the Lord shall come to Zion, then let Rll the harpers take dewn their harps, and all the trumpeters take down their trumpets, and all across heaven let there be cho rus of morning stars, chorus of white robed victors, chorous of martyrs from under the throne, chorous of ages, chorous of worlds, and there is but one song sung, and but one name spoken, and but one throne honored -that of Jesus only. TILLMAN'S SPEECH. What Has Been Accomplished by its Deliverance. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-Mr. Till man's speech in the Senate is engaging but little attention in political circles on the score of its want of good taste. There could not very well be but one opinion on that subject. But the point of interest is that the most extreme dondemnation of the deliverence on that line is the best assurance to Mr. Tillman himself that he has necom plished the purpose whichbrought hiia to his feet. He and his friends, in deed, measure his success on Wendes day by the fact that the speech is con ceded to be without precedent in the Senate for severity of tone and direct ness of attack. And they want it, for campaign purposes, to continue to eu joy that startling direction. Mr. Tillmnan is a silver man, and is 'lassed as an agitator, not a states man. He is a Democrat, and at the head of his party at home. It may not be extravagant to say that he is the most powerful factor in political af fairs th~at South Carolina has known since the days of Mr. Calhoun. Will lie be able long.to retain his power? That is cor sidered of less moment than what he is likely to do with it while he does retain it. And how-will he exercise it in the settlement of the great problems of this year? Mr. Tillman will go to Chicago as chairman of a delegation which willi obey him to the letter. He will have designated eve'ry one of his associates, and they will act in the fullest agree ment with him. He indicates in his speech what he and his friends will demand of the convention in the way of a platform. But suppose he is dii-1 appointed. Suppose the convention writes a platform unacceptable to him. Will he bolt? Will he return home and put affairs in order for a transfer of the electoral vote of the State to a new party, or to the Populist party? ? And what would be the effect of such a step on extreme silver men in the surrounding States? For all that, his refernces to Mr.] Cleveland and to Mr. Carlisle are so offensive the South Carolina Senator, in his speech, shows the capacity of diplcmatic expression. There are some shrewd appeals to the Democrats of the South and to the Republicans of( the West. He soothes the one by tell ing them that they are not to blame:< that th'ey have simply been dragged :own to their present plight by artful< treachery, against which they can in future be on guard. And when he >haracterizes Mr. Lincoln as the great- I as1 American of the nineteenth cen ~ury, lie gives his hand, without re-c servation, to the silver Repulicans of t ~he W~est. This, indeed, is the tone ins w'hichi all of the serious talk about a a inuion of the South and West for na .onal supremacy is keyed. This is thet purport of the utterances: Let bygones s :e bygones. Let each section, in rising t .o the true conception of the duty of I lie present, rise also to a juster and t 'ranker appraisement of the past, and t hus let both sections become brothers I ~o the fullest degree, 'When a Demo 1 ~ratic Senator from South Carolina t >uts Abraham Lincoln next after s 1eorge Washington on the list of r &merican heroes, something is un- 'l loubtedly shown to have been accom- E >lished in that direction. r If a new party should be the result I >f the year's agitation, it will not be tJ liflicult to fix Mr. Tillman'splace in it. b :Ie will become a national quantity. I Whether for good or ill, men of promi- h~ tence express themselves freely. They b livide acccrding to their views on the >endiug questions. Men of the sound s noe stam deplore the bare sugges- s; io ftefurther rise of a man of Mr - 'llman's foxe and methods. But c .here 'are free sihrer Democrats, in- p :apable themselves of employing in r >ublic debate of tne coarse and savage e :haracterizations of Mr. Tillman, who: a hink very much as he speaks, and : ;ho could not be induced to take the J loor and rebuke his language for fear k, >f appearing in the light of dissenting 2 'rom his argument. He is an agitator, a tad they consider that as an agitators; ie states his case with premeditated g mnd carefully prepared extravagance. n agitation and discretion are not kin.- if TIL LMAS HOT WORDS. THEY WERE BY NO MEANS WITHOUT SOME GOOD PRECEDENTS. ISpeeches in Which Equally as Strong Lan guage Was Used. The Fact That no At tempt at an Answer Has Been Made Makes it A ppear ULanswerable. ATLANTA, Feb. 4.-T. R. Rt. Cabb, a brilliant young lawyer of this city, writes as follows to the Atlanta Consti tution: I have read Tillman's speech from the Congressional Record. It is a ter rible arraignment. Neither admitting nor denying his bold charges, I main tain that there is no one word of black guardism in the speech-his language comes within the precedents made by America's greatest Senators, and is no harsher than that used in debate by the foremost statesmen of other coun tries. Furthermore, from an Ameri can standpoint, his words were not even unparliamentary, used as they were and when they were. To prove these assertions. I would first quote the Constitution of the United States, where it says: "The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeach ments- Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member." Therefore, the only "parliamentary la w" of force in the Senate is the code of rules made by the Senate. Tillman has broken none of these, else there would be a motion at least to punish or expel him. For, if Ben Tillman has behav ed the blackguard in our Senate, his fellow members therein are derelict in duty, false to oaths, and particeps criminis to blackguardism, if they sat dumb and idle and interested, during the performance. So, it is fair to pre sume Tillman broke no present rule of the Senate, and therefore he was parliamentary within the Senatorial sense of the phrase. For comparison, I have chosen the roughest of Till man's utterances; they are as follows: "Besotted tyrant," "Bull-headed and self-idolairous man," "Judas from Kentucky," "Vanity and obstinacy," "process of debauchery," "Why have you not impeached him?" "The Su preme Court, by one corrupt vote." Now for precedents: John Randolph said, in that same Senate, of President Adams and Secretary Clay i "This puritanic-diplomatic-black legged ad ministration." Henry Clay said in that same Senate of President Jackson: "What security have we against the lawlessness of any President?" "The people have been betrayed, insulted; their interests betrayed." "To. propi tiate the President we see approaching tyranny." "May I live to see the peo ple rescue the public Treasury from this pillage." John C. Calhoun said of President Jackson in that same Sen ate: "He has entered the Treasury with false keys of sophistry, as a pil ferer, under the silence of midnight." "The corruptions and encroachments of the executive." After these speech es, the Senate passed a resolution, by G majority, condemning Jackson. As such speech was not unparliamen tary there and then, many Senators have used such language directly against colleagues. For instances, Ben Hill on Mahone: "The people will not tolerate treachery," "false to a trust," "soiled with dishonor," etc. ngalls said in the Senate of one of leveland's former Secretaries: "A more degraded, loathsome, execrable and detestable utterance never came from any public official." Old Hoar interrupted Ben Hill, just like he did Ben Tillman. Berrien said in that same Senate: "The administration and its allies give currency to these calum nies," while Forsyth said in the House: "A stupendous fraud is intended by the Secretary of WVar." "To call it a bribe would shock his delicacy, just as Dowper's preachers 'could not mention dell to ears polite.'" "Profitable 'cheme of villainy !" Sir John Ell tott, in 1628, said in the House of Coin mons: "The ignorance and corrup ion of our ministers." "If you sur rey the court, the bar and bench show >ur disease to be desperate !" Catham 'aid of Prime Minister Walpole: "By ais ig-norance and wickedness" "His weak, pusilanimous and wicked meas ares." So I could go on and on quoting ~nglish and Irish statesmen. Who an forget the close of Grattan's great nective?- "The merchant may say >f you, the constitutionalist may say >f you, the American may say of you, md I, I now say, and say to your >eard sir, you are not an honest man! Did not L. Q. C. Lamar say in the inited States Senate such a wful words >f Conckling, that he himself describ d them thus: "I have said to you what no good man deserves and no rave man will bear i" Was Lamar a >lackguard? Did not Cleveland make iim a0 Supreme Coart Judge? Has ot Justice Brown used the epithet, 'Sordid despotism of wealth ?" Does ot Mr. Carlisle's eloquence abound in matemas, notably his denunciation >f "the greatest crime of the century." Jid not Thomas Jetferson, the great ist of parliamentarians, use language n the Declaration of independence ike this ?--"Absolute tyranny." "Judg s dependent on his will alone." "His 701ks are begun with cruelty and per idy." Did not our great party de iounce certain legislation as "a cow trdly makeshift:" Does not President lleveland himself speak right out ometimes? Did he not once say oili ially to those from whom he differed omething about, "Party perfidy and ishonor!"' These are but a few illustrations and uthorities from high sources that ave fallen under my view-more ex >erienced students of political talk ould point to stronger speech, but hese will do. Let men and Senators top lying about Tillman's language .nd Tillman's arguments. Suppose ebster had sat silent and maintained hat Hayne was a "blackguard :" In tead of that, like a manly orator, in lhe opening of his "reply" he warned layne: "If provoked into crimina ion and gre(riraination, I have blows :give as well as take.- Theref ore, the onorable gentieman had better hus and pia'3ntly all his resources for aunt and sarcasm!" The only an wer Tillman has had was the ",panto ine of Brice," How like Tittlebat 'itmouse that Brice is: He got to the senate by money, and answers argu ents with monkey motions. In the [ouse of Commons the "struct ile' ittlebat used to crow like a cock and ray like an ass. It is to be hoped that rice, like Titmouse, will fall back to is natural sphere through the loss of is money. As a Democrat, I want Tillman an vered, but in common with thou mds, I rejoice that lie'has shaken to ieces that political "whited sepulchre' Iled "Senatorial dignity." The owerful pomposity which bore that ames was nearest th imitation that has ver flourished in America of English ristocracy, lordliness, etc., and I ope Tillman killed it-Washington, elferson, Jackson and such parties new none of it. Had they heard illman, they would have answered or pplauded him. When a Senator tys another is "a dog," he is a black uard, and is unparliamentary, for no ian can bea dog; therefore the charge ;mere billingsgate, and cannot be an ivered But when a Senaor s any one i.s a "besotted tyrant," it may or may not be true. and therefore should be answered, disproven-for ci lince gives consent. Why will not some Senator defend our President and our parts : Is it possible that a parcel of superannuated masculine maids are so tinid that. strong speech makts them tremblingly dumb Oh, for a Webster:. VEST TALKS LIKE TILLMAN. Caustic Satire and Itidictule Heaped Upon the iHead of the Secretary of Agrieulture. WAsHINGTo0, Feb. 5.-The most caustic utterance heard in the Senate since Mr. Tillman's sensational speech was that of Mr. Vest of Missouri to day, arraigning Secretary of Agricul ture Morton. The keen satire and ridicule directed against the Secretary and the allusions to the President made the speech hardly less notable than that which recently startled the Senate. Mr. Vest referred derisively to "the colossal intellect dealing with cabba ges." At one point the Senator said: 'The Secretary of Agriculture charges from his office, reminding us of what Cicero says of Cataline's flight from the Senate: 'Abeit excessit, evasit, erupit.' (Laughter.) When the Sec. retary of Agriculture hears of a silver lunatic he is like the war horse in Job -his neck is clothed with thunder. Ycu might go further, and say: 'He saith among the prophets, Ha: ha! And lie smelt the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains and the shout ing."' Mr. Vest severely criticised the prac tice of furnishing costly flowers from government greenhouses for the re ceptions at the Executive Mansion, and added: "Sir, I would rather give twice the amount of this appropriation to enable some poor man in a distant county of the West, who is fighting the hard battle of life-I would rather give him something that would make his cheerless home comfortable and bring light to his fireside-I would rather put one flower in the sick room of a noble working girl or matron than have it said that I voted a hun dred and odd thousand dollars for the flowers and exotics to go to the recep tions and banquets of the officials of this government, where the chande lier flashes its light across the red wine and the air is fragrant with per fume like the spicy breeze of Araby the Blessed." The technical construction of the law by the Secretary, said Mr. Vest, was a mere sham, to cover up the per sonal opposition to this particular law, which had stood for years and had been excluded with incalculable val ue to the whole country. It was an effort to discredit those in Congress who distributed seeds. "The Democratic party has been most unfortunate," said the Senator, with emphasis, "not only as to its in ternal discords, but also in the fact that the devil has owed us a grudge and has paid it in a Secretary of Agri culture." The Secretary had, continued Mr. Vest, put the Democratic party in an tagonism to the great agricultural in terests of the party, although that par ty had always stood as the close friend of agriculture: Why did not this secretary turn his searchlight on the sale of bonds to a foreign syndi cate? Why did lie not investigate the profligacy of public printing? 'T.he gi gantic intellect of this Secretary of Agriculture had daily gone outside of his legitimate duties, and why did it not discover some of the really fla grant abuses? "This Secretary" proceeded the Sen ator, "assumed to run the entire gov ernment. He has been practically the Secretary of the Treasury, flooding this country with reports and pamph lets denouncing the silver lunatics and upholding the single goid standard." Mr. V'est said the Senator from South Caralina (Tillman) had been called a communist because he had sounded a warning in the Senate. He compared this with a New York pub lication threatening revolution unless Senato-e and Represenatives yielded to the goui standard. When the Democratic party was de feated he (Vest) had seen an interview with this Secretary of Agriculture, gloating over the fact that the Demo cratic banner was trailing in the dust. The Secretary shouted with ghoulish glee at the Democratic defeat. "The trouble is," said Mr. Vest, "that the Secretary is a monomaniac on the gold standard. He seen only gold, gold, red gold, and he thinks any man who does not see as he does is a lunatic." Mr. Vest closed with a remarkably sarcastic and bitter peroration. He referred to the useless seeds which it was asserted the Secretary had proper ly ref used to buy, but, added the Sen ator, there was one seed not mention ed. "It was." lie proceeded, smiling ma Iliciously, "the aurefur feniculum caues mortonao, or, in plainer words, Mor ton's golden dog weed. This will flourish while this Secretary, swing ing his golden censor at the Executive Mansion, shouted his 'Holy, holy, art thou, 0 Grover, king of king and lord of lords.' An Unexplained Chiasm. JACKsoN, Feb.- 3.-Mr. George Lil lv, a farmer who lives 12 miles from Jackson,reports that yesterday a round hole eight feet across andof unfathom able depth appeared in a stall in his stable. The neighbors for miles around have looked at it but cannot explain it. Old negroes on the place declare there never was a well or cist ern there. and that for 30 years the spot has been in the stable. Mr. Lilly bought more rope today and will ex plore the chasm. In Jail For Bigamy.' CoinvMua, Feb. 2.-Win. A. How ard, a young railroad conductor from Pelzer, S. C., went to Rockmnart, Ga., about a month ago and married Miss Carrie Stokes, a beautiful and highly respected young lady, who lives near that place. It now develops that How ard had a wife living at Pelzer, S. C.. and he has been arrested and lodged in the jaii of Polk County, Ga. The young man was a stranger to Miss Stokes and the marriage was brought about through an advertisement. Howard is reported to be of a highly respected family. A Great Big flnd. RAIGIar, N. C., Feb. 4.1J. HI. Parkes of High Point learned somne time ago that a large amount of gold coin was buried near Sunbury station, on the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley railroad. In some way lie located the treasure, and news reaches here that yesterday he unearthed it. There is $l18,000. The man who buried it is not known. The find has caused great excitement in all that section. Father and Son slain, EL Pao Tex., Feb. 4.-Col. Albert J. Fountain of Las Cruces. N. M1., a prominent lawyer and speaker of thec terintorialI house of representatives, has been murdered, with his 9-year-old boy, by cattle rustlers on the desert between Tulurus and Las Cruces, N. M. The cause was Eis activity in pros ecuting the cattle thieves. Posses are scouring the country. Fountain was en route home from Lincoln, where hehad beehan attending- court. FOR FREE SILVER. HE SENATE ADOPTS THE FREE COINAGE SUBSTITUTE. :c -W.t- Ach i'Ceid by a Comb1ilito,: cf a Democratic 3t,.jor ity, aReuio Miioriry and the !opulate--Tillman o.1 frby, orcour., Voted for It. W\ASINC;TON, Feb. .--The lorg ruggle in the senate over the ques an of the free coicage of silver ter inated at 3 p. m. today in a victorv . the friends of silver. The great ght was over the finance committee's ib.titute to the house bond bill. At o'clock the discussion was closcd in Ieordance with the unanimous con nt arrived at on Friday and the ef ct of that agreement was to exclude orm cot-sidcration the iumerous nendineits of which notice had been ven from time to time since the re )rting of the bill. Much disappoint ent and bad feeling arose from this celusion, 'which seemed to take by trprise the Senators who offered ose amendments. Prior to that )int of time, however, Mr. Morrill 1.1 cffered an amendment reserving the government the seignorage on e silver coined: and the senate had jected it by a vote of 33 ayes to 44 >es. Mr. Gorman had also in a short rnest speech, moved to lay the sub itute on the table; and that motion as defeated-yeas 34, nays 4:. Then .e concluding votes were taken, the ee silver substitute being adopted by vote of 43 to 34, and the bill thus nended, passed by a vote of -12 to 35. s title was changed so as to make it ad: "To restore the cainage of sil r dollars and for other purposes." The debate was begun by Mr. Mer who delivered a 45-minutes eeci in opposition to the bill. Dis ission proceeding under the 5-min .e rule, Mr. Daniel opposed the nendment proposed by Mr. Butler, quiring the secretary of the treasury pay out either gold or silver as the .se may require, when the two metals ere not at a parity, as one that was upracticable. Mr. Butler's amend ent was defeated; 13 t- GO as follows: Yeas-Allen. Brown, Butler. Cam -on, Cannon, George. Hill, Kyle, effer, Pritchard, Roach, Stewart, ilman-13. Nays-Allison, Bacon, Baker, Bate, rry, Blanchard, Burrows, Call, arter, Chandler, Chilton, Clark, ockrell, Davis, Dubois, Faulkner. rye, Gallinger, Gibson, Gorman, ray, Hale, Hansborough, Harris, .awley, Hoar, Irby, Jones of Arkan s; Lindsay, Lodge, McBride, McMil .n, Mills, Mitchell of Oregon: Mitch 1 of Wisconsin: Morgan, Morrill, :urphy, Nelson, Palmer, Pasco, Per tus, Pettigrew, Platt, Proctor, Pugh, ,oup, Teller, Thuston, Turpie, Vest, ilas, Voorhees, Walthall, Warren, Tetmore, White, Wilson-60. Mr. Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska offer an amendment depriving the secre .ry of the treasury of the power to sue bonds without the prior authori r of congress. This was rejecied by vote of 21 to 54 as follows: Yeas-Messrs. Allen, Bacon, Baker, erry, Blanchard, Brown,Butler, Call, ameron, Cannon, Hill, Hoar, Irby, :yle. Lindsay, Mills, Petfer, Pritchi d, Roach, Stewart, Thurston-21. Nays-Messrs. Allison, Bate, Bur ws, Carter, Chandler. Chilton,Clark, ockrell, Daniel, DuBois, Elkins, aulkner, Frye, Gallinger, Gear, eorge, Gibson, Gray, Hale, Hans cough, Harris, Hawley, Jones of Ar nsas, Lodge, McBridle, McMillan, :antle, Martin, Mitchell of Oregon; itchell of Wisconsin; Morgan, Mur ay, Nelson, Palmer, Pasco, Perkins, latt, Proctor, Pugh, Sherman, Shoup, orhees. Waltham, Warren, Wet .ore, White, Wilson-54. Mr. Gorman then moved that the bstitute be laid on the table, which as lost by a vote of 34 to 45 as follws: Yeas-Messrs. Allison, Baker, Bar iws. Caffery, Chandler, Davis, Elk s, Faulkner, Frye, Gallinger, Gear, ibson, Gorman, Gray, Hale, Hawley ill, Hoar, Lindsay, Lodge, a Me ide, McMillan, Martin, Mitchell of isconsin, Mforrell, Murpny, Nelson, ilmer, Platt, Sherman, Thurston, ilas, W'etmore-34. Nay s-Messrs. Allen, Bacon. Bate, sry, Blanchard, Brown, Butler, ll, Cameron, Cannon, Carter, Chil n, Clark, Cockrell, Daniels, George, arris, Irby, Jones of Arkansas, Jones Nevada, Kyle, Mantle, Mills, Mitch [ of Oregon, Pasco, Peffer, Perkins, attigrew, Pritchard, Pough, Roach, ioup, Squire, Stewart, Teller, Till a, Turpie, Vest, Voorhees, Walt t, WXarren, White, Wilson-43. The vote was next taken on Mr. orrill's seignorage amendment and was rejected-33 to 44, as follows: Yeas-Messrs. Allison, Baker, irrows, Cafferty, Chandler, Davis, ins, Faulkner, Frye, Gallinger, ear, Gibson, Gorrman, Hale, Hawley,. ill, Hoar, Lodge, McMillan, Martin, ills, Mitchell of Wisconsin, Morrill, urphy, Nelson, Palmer, Platt, Proc e, Sherman, Sguire, Thurston, Vilas, 'etmore-33. Nays-Allen, Bacozi. Bate, Ber'ry, anchard, Brown, 13 itler, Call, Cam >, Cannon, Carter, Chilton, Clark,< ekrell, Daniel, George, Gray, lHar Irby, Jones of Arkansas: Jones Nevada: Kyle, Lindsay, Mc ~Bride, Mantle, Mitchell, of Oregon: Pasco, PelTer, Perkins, ttigre w, Pritchard, Poug b, Roach,t oup, Stewart, Teller, Tillman, I rpi' , Vest, Voorhees, Waithall, arren, White, Wilson-44. fter much colloquy, Mr. Sherman ced unanimous consent to have the reral amendnments voted on, but Mr. trris objected. All the proposed tendments having been thus cut off Ssenate was brought to a direct vote the free silver substitute, and the >stitute was agreed to-43 to 34. asc lows: feas-Messrs. Allen. Bacon, Bate,t rry, Blanchard. Brown,Eutler, Call, t meron, Cannon, Carter, Chilton, trk, Cockrell, Daniel, George, 1-ar- , Irby, .Jones of Arkansas; Jones of t ada; Kyle, Mantle, Mills, Mitch-h of Oregon: P asco, Perkins, Petti w, P ritchiard, Pugh. Roach. Shoup, i ire, Stewar t, Teller. Tillman, Tur-u , est, Yoorhees, Walt hall War t. hite, Wilson-43. Jas-Messrs. Allison. Bamier, Bur es Caifery, Chandlecr, D~avis, El- r I Faulkner, Frye, Gallinger, Gear. c son, Gorman. Gray, Hale, Haw- 5 luHll, Hoar, Lindsay, Lodge, Mc- 1. de, McMillen, Martin, Mitchell of ce-nsin: Morrell, Murphy, Nelson, 1 mer, Platt, Proctor, Sherman, ti irston. Vilas, Wetmore -34. I5 he pairs of the 12 sena~tors not vot-c were announced as follows: s. .ekburn (Dem.) of Kentucky and u lom 'Rep.) of Illinois; Dubois a p.: of Idaho and Smith 'Demi.' of p .v ersey: Hlansborough :Rep.) of s, eth Dakota and ' ldnich th'ep.; of a~ de Island; Gord-on l)Dem. of a rgia and Sewell IRep.: of Ne 51 sey-: Woleott . Rep.; of Colorado , tBrice lDemn.) of ohio; Morgan m:.) of Alabama and u:ay <Rtep). 'e bill as amende;d was thecn passed D hout a 'division and was then re- it ted to the senate-its conisideraticn vi wrto having been in comnmittee of be whoe. v3 he vote was then taken on the pas-i e of the bill as amended, and it was Iit. TREMENDOUS BOND OFFERINGS Trea:.ury Olicials Regard the Loan :- ;. Complet e socecs. WA.smn:;roN, Feb. F.-our thous and six hundred and forty bids for: $558.,260,80: worth of bonids. Such is the tremendous total of the subsnriptions opened at the Treasury Department today, in accordance witi the tornis of the call, issued a mont'i aao, inviting proposals for $100,00 000 of United States four per cen;.. 4 bonds to run for thirty years fror February 1, 1805. These figures da not include about $120,000.000 Of "cre.k" bids, rejected as bogus. The inmense offerings astounded 2 experts. The bids literally swamped the Treasury Department, which was so taken by surprise that at 6 o'clock - tonight. although extra clerks ha d been~ hurriedly drafted, the work of tabulating the bi:Is was still in pr gres, aid it was impossible to te!i with definiteness ho v many bids and for what aggrerate had been receiv(d at !igures in advance of the upset price of $110.S.7.7 at which at a syndicaite, composed of J. P. Morgan & Co., Pliny Fiske 6- Co and the Deutsce' Baik of Berlin offered to take the to whole loan. The bids ranged from up to a single 50 bid at $150. It is impossible, ' therefore, to say at this r time how the awards will be made. Treasury offeials regard the loan as a complete success, both as to the pop ular subscription feature and the t prices obtained. Bids came from ser- f eral thousand individuals and from a hundreds of national banks and other a banking institutions. Nearly all the I. leading New York bankers and insur ance companies were represented in the list of bidders, but, with few ex ceptions, they were outmanoeuvered ri by the Morgan syndicate. wing to the confusion caused by I the magnitude of the offerings and u the consequent delay in classifying a and scheduling the bids, any authori tative statement of the policy that will t be pursued cannot be made at tis er time. As the great bulk of offerings were below the Morgan figure, it is believed that the bid of the syndicate m headed by the great New York bank ers will be accepted for at least $50, - 000,000, and possibly more. In any p extent, no bid below the syndicate T rate of $110.68.7.7 will be accepted, as that rate covers the entire loan. It is B understood that Mr. Morgan will pro- C cure a part of the gold from abroad, C and will not need to deplete the Treas ury to furnish any part of the goldG called for under his bid. F There were a vast number of bids s for figures fractionally rising $110 but la under the Morgan figures, and for amounts aggregating sufficient to take e up the entire loan. Among them were k! the offers of the Stewart and McCall S syndicates, including the big insur- - ance, banking and trust companies of New York city, which stood ready to tak-e huge blocks of bonds at figures in excess of prices named a week ago e as high mark for large lots. is Secretary Carlisle was greatly pleas- t ed at the success of the bond offerings. He said no definite statement could be made as yet concerning the awards B to successful bidders, nor how far, if C at all, he would exercise his option of rejecting any of the bids. a1 Secretary Carlisle was greatly pleas ed at the brilliantly conspicuous suc cess of the loan, and said that it show ed what the people of this country F would do when appealed to. He c thought, too, that the effect abroad bl would be very marked in our favor. The first announcement from Mr. , Eckles made it known that bond bids approaching the $400, 000,000 mark had p been made, with enough unopened to represent another $75,000,000; then g came anannouncement that the total was the stupendous figure of $684,269 - 850, which was subsequently reduced by throwing out three bogus bids of $100000,000; $16,000,000 and $6,000, 000. It would be impossible. with any rc ordinary telegraphic or typ~ographical ."M1ies, to give a cc.mplete list of all bids, and save as a matter of history H no importance attacaes now to any B bids naming below 110.68.7.7. From the list of bidders a:, and above that figure the successful bidders undoubt edly will. Some of the bidders in this list are: J. P. Morgan & Co., Harvey, B Fisk & Co., and the Deutsche Bank of C Berlin, $100,000,000 at 110.68.7.7. Mer- to chants National Bank of Richmond, ~ Va., $25,000 at 111. The Secretary said that it probably o would be three or four days yet before the bids could all be verified, sched uled and classlied, and until that time he could give no deli nite information as to how low bids would be accepted. He had the impression, however, from ' hearing the names and amounts read, that it would be necessary, in all probability, to accept some bids at aB rate slightly lower than 111, but howF miany or in what amount he could not now tell. Gol.den Resolutions. How many good resolutions are to: roken during these January days! W s the midnight bells ring out the ld and ring in the new year, how B] any thousands of penitent inebriates er romise themselves to lead better lives Cc nd for weeks and days thereafter ris truggle manfully against the tyrant of hat runs riot through their veins! M< But flesh is weak and alcohol is strong of and as the days go by the craving for Pe rink becomes so great that few of the Sh truggling thousands can resist it, Tu ad, one by one. they fall hopelessly W nto the old ways until another mile tone shall give~ them pause. To the asl eak but willing among us the Keeley se. nstitute of South C2arolina is a goa- He end. The gold cure is "not gold that ant litters," but it shines like a benedic- the' tion in the faces of the liberated-the on free! Make, by all means, your good su esolutions, but back yourself with the fol old to be had only in South Carolina - tthe Keeley Institute in this city.- Be he State. Ca CL Collapse of',. Church. ris, Pants, February 2.-A church col- Ne psed today at Manlevrier, a village elI ear Angiers, in the departnent ofgr aine et Loire, while Mass was being Sqi elebrated. The structure was comi-pi ftably filled, most of the worship- ret pers being women and children. Sud enly and with v-ery little warning rov he walls began to sway, and fell be- kit ore all the congregation could get Gil utside. Fight persons were killed, ley and thirty were wounded.- Bri A1- Fatal Itoiler El:X?osion. J a o'clock this morning a large boiler 'I n the works of the Hollidaysburg ing Iron andI Nail Comipany e' plode~d. Bih killing live yersons anid inljuring Cu tenty-thi-ee, three of whom will die. The boiler was blown through the roof!Xe hree hundred feet into midair and No: .me erash imlr down through the roof Rh, nto another portion of the works. IGe< Jer Ni:w YoIu. Feb.:1.--Forme-r Police . D omissoer Stepe D'' . Frienich of >mitted suicide todayt" by- shjooting .I is-i throu'h th1e he~art. For some~ wit .me M\1r. Fre'~in ha-s been imoodyv and po lespodent. His fien'ds have ob- hitl erved1 that bothI in appeCoran)ce and the mvtersaton Mr. i Frech was not T1 lte brutiself. So far as known there sag ~vasno dequte aus forhissuicde.l~a POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder Highest of 'all in leavening strenath-La test United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 105 Wall St,. N. Y. YBas-Allen, Bacon, Bate, Berry, Blanchard, Brown, Bnitler, Call. Cam eron, Can non, Carter. Chilton, Clark, Cockrell, Daniel, George. Harris, Irby, Jones of Arkansas; Jones of Ne adfa: Kyles. Mantle. Mitchell of Ore zon : Pacco, Pet'er, Perkins. Pettigrew, Pritchard, Pugh. Roach, Shoup, Squire, Stewart, Teller, Tillman, Tar pie, Vest Voorhees. Walthall, Warren, White. Wilson-42. Navs- Allison. Baker, Burrows,. Calrery. Chandler, Davis, Elkins, Faulk rer. Frye, Gallinger, Gear, Gib, son. Gorman, Gray, Hale, Hawley, Hill, Hoar, Lindsay. Lodga, McBride. Mc1illan, Martin. Mills, Mitchell, of Wisconsin; Morrill, Murphy. Nelson, Palmer, Platt, Proctor, Sherman, Thurston, Vilas and Wetmore -35. FOUR CENTS COTTON. That is the irediction of a Prominent Augustan. AuGUsTA, Jan. 30.-What. are the prospects for the price of cotton next year; have you thought the matter over or does it interest you? Well it would seem that almost every South erner should be interested in the mat ter and should do all he could to keep the price of the staple from going down. Yerterday on Broad street there was a little knot of gentlemen congregated who were discussing this subject which is of such vast impor tance to the South. Not only to the farmer, but to every class of trade. At the conclusion of the conversation all were convinced that if the facts were as they believed nothing short of cotton at four cents stares the South in the face. What the gentleman said was this: "I understand that, so far this sea son the Georgia railroad alone has dumped into Augusta and along the route from here to Atlanta, and other wise handled one thousand and six hundred and sixty car loads of stock. Do you realize what that means? At twenty mules to the car, which is about the average, there are nearly thirty-five thousand mules and horses, which this one road alone has handled in the South. Of course many of these were for through shipment, but the statement, if true, goes to show that there are perhaps hundreda of thous ands of mules and horses shipped to the South from the stock farms of Ken tucky and Tennessee. "Any casual observer will have noted the great numbers of mules that all this season have been driven through the back streets of Augusta. But that is not all. Go to any hard ware merchant in Augusta and ask him what his- supply of plows and other farm implements amounts to. You will find that his stock is very low and he will tell you that h'e~san get no orders filled at the great facto ries in the South and East. They have sold out up there and the tons upon tons of plow shares have been dumped into the South. The demand is unprecedented, so say the dealers. There is yet another fact that has great weight. The sales of the fertili zer manufacturing companies in all parts of the South have been great, The shipments over the railroads have far exceeded those of former years. "Now what does all this mean? Year before last we had 5 cents cotton. The price of cotton in Augusta today is 7 15-1G as against 7 1-2 in 1894. In 1893 it was 9 1-2, so this year has been the most prosperous one the cotton raiser has seen in three years. He is greatly encourged by the dtfference between the price of last year and the year before, and forgetting the causes which led to the slump of prices in 194 and 1S95 he is now prenaring to :o the very same thing over again. 'hese immense shipments- of mules. plows and fertilizers do not meani that he crops are to be diversified, but are woof positive that the farmer of the southintends to plant cotton again. [f the staple does not sell at 4 cents his time next year I will be greatly urprised. The: time for action is ipe. It is no use to theorize with the armer, so the only way to do is to how him these bare facts and let him ee debt a-ad the money lender stare at 1i from br~tween the liaes."-Chrom de.__ _ _ Terrible Tragedy lin Chica24. CmeCAGo, Feb. 5-An entire family f six, father, mother, wife and three :hildren, were murdered last night by ichard Klattke, a Lakeview carpen er who then completed his work by iling himself. The dead are: Rich rd Klattke, carpenter, 38 years of e;Kate Klattke, his wife; John lattke, his father, 73 years of age; dina Klattke, his mother, aged 71 ears: Mina Klattke, his daughter, ged 9; Anna Kiattke, dlaughter, aged :Emma Klattke, daughter, aged 7. attke used a revolver to do the lody work. He was an anarchist f unsound mind. He had be-en out f work for some time, and this fact, he police believe, led to the terrible ragedy. The bodies were discovered a the house early this morn inz by a eigh bor who called to in foirm Klattke ist he had found emoplovment for im. Each victim had ~been shot irough-the brain, and the murderer sems to have laid his plans with the tmost deliberation and carried them ut to the letter. Sharpened knives ere found beside the corpse of Jattko, indicating that he was pre ared to complete his bloody work by ther means, should the bullets fail, his is the third timue a husband has illed his entire family in Chicago 'ithin less than a year. On July 5 tst, Fritz Hellman, a stonemason, irned on the gas ar-d destroy the es of himself, his wife and four aidren. Hellman had been sun ruck. and this is believed to have nsettled his mind. Less than a ~onth ago came the crime of Jens anseu, a~lias Peter Hougard. Han mn. bytrnn onth gs, wiped out family of wife and nye children and ded to the crime tmurder that of liiee. Business troubles wxere re >onlsibUle for Lan scu -l 1eaperatigg. Free $Silar in Ter. A-TIN, TEX., Feb. 5.-The State emcratic executive commnittee was session here again today. The sil rcauus was attended oy M memn rs of the comm:ittee. ilver was etorius on the one convention scheme the caucus. It is likely the major of the delegates to the national