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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
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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