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IN TRUMPET SOUNDS. REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A SER MON FULL OF HOPE. Help For the Hopeless Through the Name of Christ--The Need of sym pathy---Ful fument of a Great l'romise--A Mighty Gathering. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.--This sermon sounds the note of triumph, a note that all will be glad to hear in these times, when so many are uttering and writing jeremiads of discouragement. Dr. Talmage took as his text Genesis ix, 10, "Unto him shall the gathering of the people be." Through a supernatural lens, or what I might call a, pronhescope, dy ing Jacob looks down throurh the corridors of the centuries until he sees Christ the center of all popular at traction and the greatest being in all the world, so everywhere acknowl edged. It was not always so. The world tried hard to put him down and to ut him out. In the year 1200. w 'le excavating for antiquities 5'3 miles northeast of Rome. a copper plate tablet was found coutaining the death warrant of the Lord Jesus Christ, reading in this wise: "In the year 17 of the empire of Tiberius Ci;sar, and on the 25th of March, I, Pontius Pilate, governor of the Proetore, condemn Jesus of Naza reth to die between two thieves. Quin tius Cornelius to tead him forth to the place of execution." The death warrant was signed by several names. First, by Daniel. rab bi, Pharisee; secondly, by Johannes, rabbi; thirdly, by Raphael; fourthly, by Capet, a private citizen. 'he cap ital punishment was executed accord ing to law. The name of the thief crucified on the right hand side of Christ was Dismas; the name of the thief crucified on the left hand side of Christ was Gestus. Pontius.Pilate, describingthe trag-edy, s NP l I %A' om noon until night. Thirty-three years of mal treatment. They ascribe his birth to bastardy and his death to excruciation. A wall of the city, built about those times and recently exposed by archor ologists, shows a caricature of Jesus Christ, evidencing- the contempt in which he was held by many in his day-that caricature on the wall rep resenting a cross and a donkey nailed to it, and under it the inscription, "This is the Christ whom the people worship." But I rejoice that that day is gone by. Our Christ is coming out from under the world's abuse. The most popular name on earth today is the name of Christ. Where he had one fnend Christ has a thousand friends. The scoffers have become the worshipers. Of the 20 most celebrated infidels in Great Britain in our day 16 have come back to Christ, trying to undo the blatant mischief of their lives-16 out of the 20. Every man who writes a letter or signs a docu ment, wittingly or unwittingly, hon ors Jesus Christ. We date everything as B. C. or A. D.-B. C., before Christ; A. D,, Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord. All the ages of history on the pivot of the upright beam of the Scrossof the son of God, B. C., A. D. I do not, care what you call him whether Conqueror, or King, or Morn iStar, or Sun of Righteousness, or Balm of Gilead, or Lebanon Cedar, or Brother or Friend, or take the name used in the verse from which I take my text, and call him Shiloh, which means his Son, or the Tranquil ator, or the Peacemaker, Shiloh. I only wantito tel-yon-that "unto him whall the gathering of the people be." In the first p lace, the people are gthered around Christ for paron. Nosensible man or healthfully ambi tious man is satisfied with his past life. A fool may think he is all right. A sensible man knows he is not. I do not care who the thought'u man is, the review of his life-time behavior be fore God and man gives to him uo es pecial satisfaction. "Oh," he says, "there have been so many things I have done I ought not to have done, there have been so many things I have said I ought never to have said, there have been so many things I have written I ought never to have written, there have been so many things Ihave thought Ioughtnever to have thought. I must somehow get things readjusted, I must somehow have the past r'econ structed: there are days and months and years which cry out against me in horrible vociferation." Ah, my brother, Christ adjusts the past by 'obliterating it. He does not erase the record of our misdoing wi'h a dash of ink from a register's pen, but lifting his right hand, crushed, red at the palm, he puts it against his bleeding. brow, and then against his piered side, and with the crimson accumula tion of all those wounds he rubs out the accusatory chapter. He blots out, our iniquities. Oh, never be anxious about the future; better be anxious' about the past. I put it not at the end of my sermon; I put it at the front mercy and pardon through Shiloh, the sin pardoning Christ. "Unto him shall the gathering of the people be." "Oh !" says some man, "I have for 40 years been as bad as I could be, and is there any mercy for me?" Mercy for you. "Oh !" says some one here, "I had a grand ancestry, the holiest of fathers and the tenderest of mothers, and for my prfidy there is no excuse. Do you think- there is any mercy for me?" Mercy for ycu. ."But," says another man, "I fear I have committ ed what they call the unpardonable sin, and the Bible says if a man com mit that sin, he is neither to be for given in this world nor the world to come. Do you think there is any mer cy for me?" The fact that you have any solicitude about the matter at all proves positively that you have not committed the unpardonable sin. Mercy for you? Oh, the grace of God which bringeth salvation ! The grace of God! Let us take the surveyors chain and try to measure God's mercy through Jesus Christ. Let one surveyor take that chain and go to the not, and another surveyor take that chain and go to the south, and another surveyor take that chain and go to the east, and another sur veyor take that chain and go to the west, and then make a report of the square miles of that vast kingdom of God's mercy. Aye, you will have to wait to all eternity for the report of that measurement It cannot be measured. Paul tried to climb the height of it, and he went height over height, altitude above altitude, montain aboue mountain, then sank down in discourragement and gave it up, for he saw Sierra Nevadas beyond and Matterhorns beyond, and waving his hands back to us in the plains he says, 'Past finding out; unsearchable, that in all hings he might have the pre-emin ne." You notice that nearly all the inners mentioned as pardoned in the Bible were great sinners-David a t sinner, Paul a great sinner, b a great sinner, Magdalene a great sinner, the Prodigal Son a great sinner. The world easily understood how Christ could pardon a half and half sinner, but what the world wants to he persuaded of is that Christ will forgive the worst sinner, the hardest sinner, the oldest sinner, the most in excusable sinner. To the sin pardon - ing Shiloh let all the gathering of the But, vireark agaim, the people will gather around Christ -ra sympathi zer. 0h. we all want sympathy. I hear people talk as though they were independent of it. Noue of us could live without sympathy. When parts of our family are away, how lonely the house seems until they all get home: But, alas: for those who never come home. Sometimes it seems as if it must be impossible. What, will their feet never again come over the threshold? Will they never again sit with us at the table? Will they never again kneel with us at family prayer i Shall we never again look into thei: sunny faces? Shall we never again on earth take counsel with them for our work? Alas me, who can stand under these griefs: 0h: Christ, thou canst do more for a bereft soul than any one else. It is he who stands beside us to tell of the resurrection. It is he that came to bid peace. It is he that comes to us and breathes into us the spirit oA submission until we can look up from the wreck ani ruin of or brightest exuectations and say, "Father, not my will. but thine, be done - oh, ye who are bereft, ye augruish bitten. come into this refuge. The roil of those who caie for relief to Christ is larger and larger. UnIto this Shiloh of onnipetent sym pathy the gathering of the people shall be. .Un, thatChrist would stand by all these empty cradles, and all these desolated homesteads, and all these broken hearts, and persuade us it is .ell. The world cannot offer you any help at such a time. Suppose the world comes and offers you money. You would rather live o - a crust in a cellar and have your departed loved ones with you than live in palatial sur roundings and they away. Suppose the world offers you its honors to con sole you. What is the presidency to Abraham Lincoln when little Willie lies dead in the White House? . haps the world comes and ., "Time will cure it all." Ab niere are griefs that have ragedn-' for 30 years and are raig-rt. And yet hundreds have been comforted, thousands have been comforted, millions have been comforted. and Christ had done the work. Oh, what you want is sympa thy, The world's heart of sympathy beats very irregularly. Plenty of sympathy when we do not want it, and often, when we are in appalling aeed of it, no sympathy. There are multitudes of people dying for sympa thy-sympathay in their work, sympa thy in their fatigues, sympathy in their bereavements, sympathy in their financial losses, sympathy in their physical ailments, sympathy in their spirtual anxieties, sympathy in the time of declining years-wide, deep, high, everlasting, almighty sympathy We must have it, and Christ gives it. That is the cord with which he is go ing to draw all nations to him. At the story of punishment a man's eye flashes and his teeth set and his fist clinches, and he prepares to do bat tle even though it be against the heav ens; yet what heart so hard but it will succumb to the story of compassion! Even a man's sympathy is pleasant and helpful. When we have been in some hour of weakness, to have a brawny man stand beside as and promise to see us through-what cour age it gives to our heart and what strength it gives to our arm. Still mightier is a woman's sympathy. Let him tell the story, who, when all his fortunes were gone and all the world was against him came home and found in that home a wife who could write on the top of the empty flour barrel, 'The Loid will provide," or write on the door of the empty wardrobe, "Con sider the lilies of thie field; if God so clothed the grass of the field, will he not clothe us and ours?" Or let that young man tell the story who has gone the whole round of dissipation. The shadow of the penitentiary is upon him, and even his father says: "Be off ! Never come home again!" The young man finds still his mother's arm' outstreti'ed for him, and how she will stand at the wicket of the prison to whisper consolation, or get down on her knees before the governor, begging for pardon, hoping on for her way ward boy after all others .are hopeless. Or let her tell the story who, under villainous allurement and impatient of parental restraint, has wandered off from a home of which she was the idol into the miurky and thunderous mid night of abandonment, away from God, and further away, until some time she is tossed on the beach of that early home a mere splinter of a wreck. Who will pity her now? Who will gather these dishonored locks into her lap? Who will wash off the blood from the gashed forehead? Who will tell her of that Christ who came to save the lost? Who will put that weary head upon the clean white pil low and watch by day and watch by night until the hoarse voice of the suf ferer becomes the whisper, and the whisper becomes only a faint motion of the lips, and the faint motion of the lips is exchangred for a silent look, and the cut feet are still, and the weary eyes are still, and the frenzied heart is still, and all is still? Who will have compassion on her when no others have compassion? Mother ! Mother! Oh, there is something beautiful in sympathy-in manly sympathy, wife ly sympathy, motherly sympathy ; yea and neighborly sympathy ! Why was it that a city was aroused with excite ment when a little child was kidnaped from one of the streets? Why were whole columns of the newspaners fill ed with the story of a little ch~ild? It was because we are all one in sympa thy, and every parent said: "-How if it had been my Lizzie? How if it had been my Mary ? How if it had been my Maud ? How if it had been my child? How if there had been one unoccupied pillow in our trundle bed tonight? How if my little one-bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh were tonight carried captive into some en of vagabonds, never to come back to me? How if it had been my sorrow looking out 'of the window, watching and waiting-that sorrow worse than death?" Then, when they found her, why did we declare the news all through the households, and every body that knew how to pray says, "T'ank God?" Because we are all one, bound by one great golden chain of sympathy. Oh, yes, but I have to tell you that if you will aggregate all neighborly, manly, wifely, motherly sympathy, it will be found only a poor starving thing compared with the sympathy of our great Shiloh, who has held in his lap the sorrows of the ages, and who is ready to nurse on his holy heart the woes of all who will come to him. Oh, what a God, what a Saviour we have: But in larger vision see the nations in some kind of trouble ever since the world was derailed and hurled down the embankments. The demon of sin came to this world, but other demons have gone through other worlds. The demon of conflagration, the domou of volcanic disturbance, the demon of destruction. Dr Place says he saw one world in the northern'hemisphere I G months burning. Tv:cho Brahe said he saw another world burning. A French astronomer~ says that in 33Q years, 1,5ti worlds have disappeared. I do not see why inlideis find it so hard to believe that two worlds stopped in Joshua's tinie, when the astronomers tell us that 1, worlds have stopped. Even the moon is a world in ruins. numerable. Bui it seein as if the most sorrows have beern reserved for our world. By one toss of the world at Tieuboro, of 12,000 inhabitants only 26 people escaped. By one shake of the world at Lisbon in live minutes ti.000 perished and 200),0 before tie earth stopped rocking. A mountain falls in Switzerland, burying the vil lage of Goldau. A mountain falls in Italy in the night, when 2,000 people are asleep, and they never arouse. By a convulsion of the earth Japan oroken off frc-m China. By a convul sion of the e.rth the Caribbean islands broken oft from America. Three is lands near the mouth of the Ganges, with 340,W0 inhabitants-a great surge of the sea breaks over them, and 214, 00 perish that day. Alas, alas, for our poor world. It has been recently discovered that a whole continent has sunk, a continent that connected Eu rope and America, part of the inhabi tants of that continent going to Eu rope, vart coming to America over the tablelands of Mexico, up through the valleys of the Mississippi, and we are finding now the remains of their mounds and their cities in Mexico, in Colorado and the tablelands of the west. It is a matter of demonstration that a whole continent has gone down, the Azores off the coast of Spain only the highest mountain of that sunken continent. Plato des cribed that continent, its grandeur. the multitude of its inhabitants, its splendor and its awful destruction, and the world thought it was a ro mance, but archaeologis's have found out it was history, and the English and the German and the American fleets have gone forth with the archaeologists, and the Challen ger and the Dolphin and the Gazell. have dropped anchor, and i ,eep sea soundings they h . - ,nd the con tour of t . sun -en continent. there is trouble marked on the rockz, on the sky, on the sea, on the flora and the fauna-astronomical trouble, geological trouble, oceanic trouble, political trouble, domestic trouble-and standing in the presence of all those stupendous devastations, I ask if I am n;t right in saying that the great want of this age and all ages is divine sympathy and omnipotent comfort, and they are found not in the Brahma of the Hindoo or the Allah of the Mohammedan, but in the Christ unto whom shall the gathering of the people be. Other words may fall, but this morning star will never be blott ed from the heavens. The earth may quake, but this rock of ages will never be shaken from its foundations. The same Christ who fed the 5,000 will feed all the world's hunger. The same Christ who cured Bartimeus will illuminate all blindness. The same Christ who made the dumb speak will put on every tongue a hosanna. The same Christ who awoke Lazarus from the sarcophagus will yet rally all the pious dead in glorious resurrection. "I know that* my Redeemer liveth," and that "to him shall the gathering of the people be." Ah, my friends, when Christ starts thoroughly and quickly to lift this miserable wreck of a sunken world, it will not take him long to lift it.. I have thought that this particular age in which we live may be given up to discoveries and inventions by which through quick and instantaneous com munication all cities and all commu nities and all lands will be brought together, and then in another period perhaps these inventions which have been used for worldly purposes will be brought out for gospel invitation, and some great prophet of the Lord will come and snatch the mysterious, sub lime and miraculous telephone from the hand of commerce, and, all lands and kingdoms connected by a won drous wire, this prophet of the Lord may, through telephonic communica tion, in an instant announce to all na tions pardon and sympathy and life through Jesus Christ, and then, put ting the wondrous tube to the ear of the Lord's prophet, the response shall come back, "I believe in God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son." You and I may not -live to see the day. I think those of us who are over 40 years of age can scarcely expect to see the day. I expect before that time our bodies will be sound asleep in the hammocks of the old gospel ship as it goes sailing on. But Christ will wake us up irk time to see the achievement. We who have sweated in the hot har vest fields will be at the door of the garner when the sheaves come in. That work for which in this world we toiled and wept and struggled and wore ourselves out shall not come to consummation and we be oblivious of the achievement. We will be allowed to come out and shake hands with the victors. We who fought in the earlier bat tes will have just as much right to rejoice as those who reddened their feet in the last Armageddon. Ah, yea, those who could only give a cup ful of cold water in the name of a dis ciple. those who could only scrape a handful of lint for a wounded soldier, those who could only administer to old age in its decrepitude, those who could only coax a poor waif of the street to go back home to her God. those who could only lift a little child in the arms of Christ, will have as much right to take part in the ovation to the Lord Jesus Christ as a Chrysos tom.- It will be your victory and mine, as well as Christ's. De the conqueror, we shouting in his train, Christ the victor will pick out the humblest of his disciples in the crowd, and turning half around on the white horse of victory he shall point her out for approval by the multitude as he says, "She did what she could." Then putting his hand on the head of some' man, who by his industry made one talent do the work of ten, he will say, "Thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make thee ruler over ten cities." Two different theories about the fulfillment of this promise. There are people who think Christ will come in person and sit on a throne. Perhaps he may. I should like to see the scarred feet going up the stairs of a palace in which all the lories of the Alhambra, and the Taj ahal, and St. Mark's, and the Win ter palace are gathered. I should like to see the world pay Christ in love for what it did to him in maltreatment. I should like to be one of the grooms of the chargers, holding the stirrup as the king mounts. Oh, what a glori ous time it would be on earth if Chrin; would break through the heavens,and right here where he has suffered and died have this prophecy fulfilled "Unto him shall the gathering of the people be." But failing in that, I bar gain to meet you at the ponderous gate of heaven on the day when our Iord comes back. Garlands- of all nations on his brow-of the bronzed nations of the South and the pallid nations of the North--Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, and the other continents that may arise meantime from the sea to take the places of their sunken predecess ors -arch of Trajan, arch of Titus, arcof Triumph in the Champs Ely sees, all too poor to welcome this king f kings and lord of lords any con iurors in his august arrival. Turn out all heaven to meet him. Hlang all along the route the Ilags of earthly ominion, whether decorated with' rescent, or star, or eagle, or lion, or oronet. Hang out heaven's brightest anne, with its one star of BethlehemI and blood striped of the cross. I hear the procession now. Hark! The tramp of the feet, the rumbling of the wheels, the chattering of the hoofs and the shout of the riders! Ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands. Put up in heaven's library. right beside the com pleted volume of the world's ruin, the completed volume of Shiloh's triumph. The old promise struggling through the ages fulfilled at last, "Unto him shall the gathering of the people be." WhVe everlasting ages roll Eternal love shall feast their soui And scenes of bliss forever now Rise in succession to their view. EXTRAS FOR THE HOUSE. Fortunes Spent in Stationery. Soap and Laundering. WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-The con cluding report of James Kerr, as clerk of the House in the Fifty-third Con gress, has been returned from the Government Printing Office, and shows that from December 8, 1891, to December 2, 1895, he disbursed a total of $2,865,9S7.54. The minor expenditures are devoid of that wild abandon which distin guishes the apportionment of the Sen ate contingent fund. Quinine pills, mineral waters, and various expen sive articles of luxury and personal comfort do not figure in the list of pur chases. There appears. as usual, a statement that the sun $41,000 was gives, a donation to high and lw -alaried offi cials and employ .lice, in the shape of an extra ma th's pay. Sepgort shows that very few of ae members allowed their conscience to intervene and prevent them from drawing the full allowance of $100 per month for clerk hire. There were some, however, who seemed to think thev should exercise due economy in this as other matters, and left a cer tain balance each month to be return ed to the Treasury. As an illustration, during the month of January, 1895, Mr. Blak of Geor gia, only drew $35.47 cents for clerical help, and General Black of Illinois, but $60. Mr. Burrows drew $74.17; Messrs. Coffen and Gillett $75 each; Mr. McKaig, $51; and Mr. Turner $28. It is also shown that the large pro portion of members took the cash for their allowance of $125 in stationery and either used that allotted to their committee rooms or obtained it else where. Mr. Murray, the colored member from South Carclin, used but three cents worth of stationery, for which he paid, and Mr. Cousins but six cents worth. Mr. Settle of North Carolina was almost entitled to the zaedal for ex travagance, as he utilized $100.88 of his $125 allowance for stationary. The others, who broke into their reserve at all, range between these two ex tremes. Mr. Mutchleis credited with 50 cents; Mr. Moses, 33 cents; Mr. Sweet, 40 cents; Mr. Taylor, 33 cents; Mr. Livingston, SO cents; Mr. Caruth, 65 cents; Judge Hayes, $25; Mr. Mc Millin, $29.97; Major Piciler, $43.80; General Harmer, $28.37; Mr. Alder son, $40.49; and Mr. Aldrich approxi mate the record with an expenditure of $95.84 for stationery. Mr. Morse did right well using $25.34; Mr. Quigg, $73.27; Mr. Kilgore, $47.34; Mr. Outhwaite, $93.34; Mr. Springer, $64.44; Mr. McCreary, $59. 18; Mr. Walker, $38.9S; Mr. Dalzell, $63.90; and Mr. Phillips, $67.65. Mr. Sperry heads the list so far as the use of writing material is con cerned, having used $105.24 of his al lowance, leaving but $19.76 to be drawn in cash. The thousands of yards of carpet in the various committee rooms and on the floor of the House were cleaned at the uniform price of 5 cents per yard. It cost $264.40 to sew and lay 1,323 yards of carpet in the hall of the House, or at the rats of 20 cents per yard. It cost $2 each to steam sheep skin rugs and $1.50 a pair for laun dering the lace curtains in the Speak er's room, and 50 cents a pair for hanging them. The enormous quantities of station ery necessary is illustrated by the fact that in the month of September one envelope company furnished 292,000 manilla envelopes, at an aggregate cost of $289 and in October, 529,000, envelope', costing $853.77. In the month of May and June this same company furnished 3,260,000 manilla envelopes, for which tihe sum of $5,100.27 was paid. In addition suplie wre obtained from local deles en other sources. It cost $500 for the judiciary~ sub committee to go to Cleveland and in vestigate the charges preferred against Judge Ricks. It required 55,000 pounds of ice to keep the House cool during the month of August, 1894, ana this cost $132 The sum of $1,347.16 was expended in conveying the congressional com mittee to Eau Claire, Wis., to attend the late Representative Shaw's funeral, and in addition $399 were paid for funeral expenses. An itimired statement is also given of the expenses incurred in the inter ment of Representatives Wright and Lisle. That cleanliness is next to Godliness is emphasized by the fact that in the doorkeeper's department from March 4 to 31 there were washed 532 dozen towels at an expense of $132.75, or 25 cents per dozen. For the same period 141 dozen bath towels were washed at a cost of $35.27. The cost per quarter for telephone rental was $263.30; the stationary fur nished the clerk's office amounted to $446.50; sergeant-at-arms, $3734; post master, $128; reporters of debates, $287.16; the press gallery, $04.00; the Speaker's room, $72.98. The committee on accounts used $45.45 worth of stationary; that on agriculture, 81l2. 09; appropriations, $45.39; District of Columbia, $30.70; the committee on naval affairs seems to have been the most extravagant, having used $51.44, and that on ex penditures in the State Department the most economical, having expend d but $1.04. The clerk's office and connections sed 940 boxes of matches, the door keeper's department 468 boxes, and he engineer's department and ser leant-at-arms office each 108 boxes; he postoffice found use for 184 boxes mnd the committee on appropriations L20J boxes. But the committee on appropria tions is credited with but one cake of oilet soap as against six of the comn nittee on claims and four to the Dis rict of Columbia. The committee on military affairs ased three boxes of blacking, that be ng the maximum record .-Washings ton Times. senator Tillman. NEW YORK, Feb. 24.-Senator Till :an of South Carolina, who was in ;he city to-day visiting friends and naking inquiries concerning Wall ~treet methods, lef t to-night for Wash .ngton over the Pennsylvania Rail -oad. An Excellent Law. LINcoLN, NEB ., Feb. 24.-The Lin oln city council to-night passed-Wil iam Lawler's cigarette ordinance. ['his ordinance prohibits the use of ~igarettes, cigars or tobacco by persons mder 18 years of age within the city DECLARED INNOCENT. VERDICT OF THE JURY IN THE COL LETON CASE. The Conclusion Reached on Monday Night. Col. Aldrich Moves for Bail on Very Nov el Grounds--The Application Refused. WALTERBOIO, Feb. 25.-"Gentle men of the jury, have you agreed upon a verdict?" "We have." It is midnight. The old court house of Colleton county is dimly lighted, the body of the building being in semi-darkness. The figures of the prisoners are imperfectly seen in the dock, which is elevated tive feet above the floor. At the rail dividing the bar from the public portion of the hal, there is a wall of white faces. Men have been pusning and struggling for an advantageous position, but now a hush falls upon the assemblage. A few minutes before, when the news that the jury had agreed was heard on the quiet streets, men had seemed to spring from the ground, and in an incredibly short time hun dreds were struggling and pushing up the winding stone steps of the court house, surging into the building, al most overpowering the force of depu ties stationed along the railing. - But Judge Aldrich had-aived and the stillness. -Vf-es Ttnow reigned. Around a table lighted by one of the three kerosene lamps in the hall, were three or four special correspondents. The Rev. G. H. Ackerman, father of Dr. W. H. Ackerman, sat by the side of his wife, his white hair and beard being conspicuous in the uncertain light. The devoted mother, who has so faithfully attended the court, was bent forward, a handkerchief pressed to her eyes. Several girls, relatives of the prisoners, were seated about the dock, serious but not deeply moved. The prisoners looked straight ahead. "Wait a moment, Mr. Clerk," said the judge, who then warned the audi ence against any demonstration. "Let the verdict be read," he said. "The State against W. B. Ack-er man, Frank Jenny, Frank Brant and Wyman Kearse; indictment for mur der-not guilty." A smile spread over Dr. Ackerman's face as the last words fell from the clerk's lips. His father let his face fall in his hands with a sob; his moth er seemed to press the handkerchief closer to her eyes. The other defend ants were unmoved. Perfect silence continued for a sec ond, when some one tapped the floor with his feet, but a stern command of silence cut off the applause. Court was then adjourned. A hundred men pressed about the dock from all sides. while the prison ers stood up and received their enthu siastic congratulations. Mrs. Acker man was overcome with emotion and the other ladies wept aloud. The jurymen then filed by Rev. Mr. Ackerman, who, still weeping, took each one by the hand with a fervent "God bless you." The mother was the next, with tear-bedimmed eyes, to give thanks to these 12 men, who then shook hands with the four oxu pants of the dock and several friends of those men. The prisoners were remanded to jail, being under indictment for the murder of Isham Kearse. Such is human nature and so it ever will be. In this friendly circle the conviction of these men would have been considered a crime too terrible to contemplate; the enormity of the of fense charged against them was over shadowed, forgotten, in the moment of danger to those for whom they have regard, and all the influence of a 'oow erful connection has been exerted to spread that feeling to the minds of neighbors. "Why should our friends be the first to fall before this newly aroused public sentiment, when if they killed these people they did not intend to take lifeV" On the other side, those living be yond this little circle of friends and acquaintances of the defendants, -:hose who know that neither the leading counsel nor the prisoners will deny that the latter committed the crime of whipping, those who have given in telligent and unbiased attention to the evidence and have heard distinguished lawyers make a desperate effort to cre ate the shadow of a defense, must re alize that this was another case in which-from whatever cause- the eyes of Justice have been bound and the unbalanced scales taken from her hands-arnd in the sight of an enlight ened, order loving country, liberty is unprotected, truth is without honor and justice is a mockery. Colonel Aldrich in open court today made an oral application for bail for the six prisoners in jail-the four de fendants in the Hannah Walker case and Hiers and Cam pbell in the case in which they are charged with the murder of Isham Kearse.- The last two have not been indicted. The motion was made on the ground that the prisoners were ready to go to trial and could not do so, and that there being great similarity between the cases of Hannah Walker and Is ham Kearse, and as the evidence would be the same, the verdict of acquittal in the former should be taken as a legal conclusion that in the second case the proof of their guilt was not apparent nor "the presumption great." "If the verdict of a jury deserves redit-and it must have credit in this court-the presumption of their in nocence is here." Solicitor Bellinger opposed the mo tion on legal grounds. To. suppose that the testimony in the ase of Isham Kearse will be the same as in that of Hannah Wal ker, is to do so without the founda tion of knowledge of the facts, for he was the only man in the court house who knew. Solicitor Bellinger opposed the otion by defendants, coun sel for bail, whIch was made cn the ground that the evidence for the State in the case of Isham Eearse would be the same as in that of annah WValker, he read the follow ing affidavit, made on Dec. 4, 1S95, be fore C. A. Walker, trial justic, acting oroner: "P. H. Hiers sworn, says: On Mon :ay night Dr. Willie Ackerman and ]rank Brant, Frank Jenny and Wy an Kearse came to my house about o'clock and wanted me to go with hem to Sandy Campbell's to see if sham Kearse was there. Before we ot to Sandy Campbell's we met Sandy nd Isham' Kearse in the road; they rrested Kearse. If they had any war ants for his arrest they did not show hem. Then they went on locking or Hannah Walker; found her at Ben Seymour's; tied her and carried er on with them. F. W. Stanley was at my house and went with us af ter we got Hannah. Two men taken er and went to look for a Bible which ad been stolen out of St. Nickle's hurch. We. or the crowd I was with, ame to Mr. John Yarn's; directly the ther crowd came on and had Rosa Kearse, Isham Kearse's wife; had er tied also: said they were going to he swamp. When they came to the wamp they said they were going to kill them or make them tell where the Bible was. They whipped all three ,ith a buggy trace. I tried to get sham to tell where the Bible was. I old them and tried to get them not to wip them so much, and also begged them not to kill them. I don't think they intended to kill them. Dr. Ack erman. Frank Jenny, Frank Brant, Wyman Kearse, is all that 1 am certain that whipped them.. (Signed) P. H1. ier;. This; was a surprise to those present, as the existence of this affidavit had not been iade known diring the trial of the Hannah Walker case. Ifiers is one of the prisoners now in jail under the same charge as Dr. Ackerman, but he has not been indicted. He was one of those who created a sensation on the second day of the trial by refusing, when put upon the stand as a State's witness, to answer questions which had any connection with his or the other defendants' whereibouts cn the day of the tr'g edy. Mr. Gruber intimated that the State was attempting to impress the court with an idea that it had evidence, when it had none. Mr. Belliuger protestt'd azainst such an uncalled for assertion. Judge Aldrich said he did not care to hear any more arguments. By a legally provided express procedure. the judge is enabled to say whether or not "the proof is evident, or the pre sumption great." "There are here separate indict ments. One case has been .ra-d aird I am asked to take actual n'otice that the testimony - i- the case of Hannah W;tkir is applicable in that of Isham Kearse. In such circumstances the rule is that the State is not supposed to have presented its full case in the first instance. "Therefore, without passing upon the question whether the defendants were entitled to bail on the ground upon which the application was made, I have not the legal right to entertain the motion." The defense will probably make an other effort before Judge Aldrich or another judge, putting their applica tion in a different form. W. E. Gonzales. LIVELY TIMES AHEAD. . Three Republican Conventions to be !Xeld In ApriL COLUMBIA, Feb. 26.-The Republican Executive Committee, of which Capt. L. D. Melton is the chairman, met in this city yesterday fo.r the purpose of fixing a date of the State convention to elect delegates to the St. Louis con vention. April 14 was the day chosen. Chairman Melton was asked about the results of the meeting and he said that there was a full attendance and that the Republicans felt much encour aged from reports received from every part of the State. The committee de cided to issue an address which is quite lengthy and which will be given to the public today. One of the committee has been quite prominent in the State as a Straight out and anti Dispensary man. He is Mr. C. S. Nettles of Darlington, who is now a full fledged Republican and a member of the committee. Another is Mr. Mike Watson of Edgefield, a brother of Senator Watson, who has 'aeretofore been a Democrat. These two, wit Capt. Melton and Mr. E. M. Brayton, were found at Fitzgibbon's restaurant yesterday af; ternoon and were asked who the dele gates elected by the convention would probably favor for President. They declared that they could not state and declined to express any preference themselves between McKinley. Reed, Morton or the rest. As the "boys" expect the next President to be a Re publican they don't want to commit themselves too early in the game as there are some good fat jobs to be dis tributed among thema if a Republican is successful. Naturally, they will want to be on the winning side and rake these in. Capt. Melton's committee has been recognized by the National Executive Committee as the representative of th~e party in the State, but the Webster faction don't give up yet. They will have a convention on the 7th of April and will elect delegates to St. Louis and between the two there will be a lively contest for recognition. But the best of it all is that Samps Pope is going to hold a little peace and unity convention on April 15th for the purpose of bringing the two warring factions together. He has iss'd a call for such a meeting, but it is hard to see what ae can accomplish after both sides have met and elected delegates. Neverth-eless, three coni ventions in one month for the Repub licans will make it quite lively for the party in this State and their move ments will be watched with interest by the Democrats. The Melton people are claiming a grea~t many converts among Democrats which if substanti ated would indicate a serious defec tion from the party. A great many men have signed the club rolls who do not feel at liberty just yet to make themselves known sand thus, it is claimed, the work of proselyting goes uietly but effectively along. The following were present at the meeting yesterday: L. D. Melton, J. W. Morris. G. WV. Murray, rep~resent ed by S. H. Nix; R. W. Memminger, represented by C. F. Holmes; Z. D. Green represented by R. B. Ander son; S. J. Lee represented by S. E. Smith; R. E. Primus, represented by E. F. Clecklv; M. WV. Watson, H. B. Eendrix, W. W. Russell, 1). H. John son, Frank Nichols, V. P. Clayton, W. F. Myer, F. M. Prickett, D). W. Bowen, 'W. C. Rush, Jr., F. WV. Wil liams, J. B. Fishburn, C. S - Nettles, E. L. Shirewsbury, represented by J. . Lopez.-Register. Miss Flagler's Sentence. WasaIINToN, Fe~b. 25.-Miss Eliza beth M. Flagier, daughter of Gen.. D. W. Flagler, chief cf -ordinance,L Unted States army, pleaded guilty of invol ntary manslaughter in the crimunal ourt'in the District of Columbia to a, and was sentenced to a iine of ~500 and three hours' imprisonment in the District jail. Un Aug. 2, 1805, Miss Flagier, who was in charge o1 her father's suburban r-esidence, tired small revolver at a small colored boy. Ernest Green. who she thought was stealing fruit from her father's rounds. Miss Flagler has always ontended that her intention was to fire in the air, simply to frighten the o. The moment that she discovered that he had been wounded, she had im brought into the house, but he lied before a physician could be se zured. The young lady at once drove to police headquarters, where she sur endered. Being released on bail, she let the city. suttering from extreme nervous prostration, but returned to plead to the indictment found by the rand jury . A fter sentence had been 1 passed today. Miss l'lagier, accompa nied by her father and other friends, vent to the miarshal's oflice and wait da few minutes until the comtmt ent papers were made out. These Formalities being concluded, Gen. ,lagler paid the tine to the marshal md Miss Fiagier, in charge of a balitf md accompanied by her aunt. drove o the jail in her- father's private car iae. followed by Gen.- Flagler. At 20 p. mn. the warden notitied her i hat 'her term of imprisonment havingi xired, she was at liberty to go hier -vay. She was shortly af terwar-ds re - ovedrb he r friends. TRHE TARIFF BILL 11EAR THE SENATE REFUSES TO TAKE iT UP FOR CONS!DERATION. To Iring About this ie-tilt Five RepiulpIi can. Vote With the Demiocrat; and Pop - alists--Shermrn ard Morrill ought H~ard to Take Up the 1111. W.S-NGTON, Feb. 25.-A storm broke over the Senate today. It has been gathering force ever since the de feat of the motion to take up the tariff bill. There was a fierceness of debate which set aside all the usual restraints of the Senate and arrayed Mr. Teller of Colorado in a wordy war against his party associates, Mr. Morrill of Vermont and Mr. Sherman of Ohio. The controversy rose unexpec'.edly on the motion of Mr. Morrill, chairman of the Finance Committee, to take up the tariff bill. The motion was de feated-yes 22, nays 23. The follow ina is the vote in detail: Yeas- -Republicans: Aldrich. Alli son, Baker, Brown. Burrows, Camer on, Clark, Cullom. Davis, Getr. llae. Hansborough. Hawley. L6dze. Mitch ell (Oregqe, Morrill, Nelson, Perkins, Proctor, Quay, Sheiman and Shoup 22. Nays --Republicans: Cannon, Car ter, Dubois, Mantle and Teller-5. Democrats: Bacon. Bate, Berry, Caf fery. Call, Chilton, Cockrell, George, Gordon, Gray, Harris, Hill, Lindsay, Martin, Morgan, Palmer, Pasco, Roach, Turpie, Vest, Walthall and White-22. Populists: Allen, But ler, Jones (Nevada), Kyle, Petfer and Stewart-6. The pairs were as follows, the names of those who would have voted aye being given first Chandler with Murphy; McBride with Smith; Hoar with Pugh; Warren with Jones of Arkansas; Wilson with Irby; McMil Ian with Blackburn; Pritchard with Blanchard; Wetmore with Voorhees: Pettigrew with Gibson; Frye with Gorman: Squire with Daniel; WoLcott with Brice; Platt with Vilas. Elkins with Faulkner; Sewell with Mitchell of Wisconsin; Thurston with Tillman. The announcement of this result was the signal for an outbreak. Mr. Morrill declared that he accepted the vote as defeating the tariff bill. It showed, he said, that the Republicans did not have a majority in the Senate, and he would not again bring the sub ject before that body. Mr. Teller responded in a speech which will be long remembered for its directness of statement and deep ear nestness. The Colorado Senator pro tested against the efforts of Mr. Mor rill to read the silver Republican Sen ators out of the Republican party. He asserted that they had the same loy alty, the same devotion to the party as the Senator from Vermont. "We can get along without the party as well as the party can get along with out us,' declared Mr. Teller, in an im petuous manner. He closed with the declaration that he and his Republi can associates could not be frightened or driven from the Republican ranks by the sneers of the finance Chairman or the press. Mr. Sherman followed, in a striking appeal to the Senate for action. He declared that. it was a disgrace to civi lization. a disgrace to the country, that the government should be spend ing more than its income.- The Senator announced that he would not aban don the tariff bill, but would again move to take up and give the treasury the relief it required. He warned Congress that if an adjournment was taken without action, the people would visit their ccndemnation on every man responsible for the inaction. Mr Sher man, continuing, disclaimed all part i san feeling in respect to the bill. He said: "That bill does not beogto any party ; it is not the representative of any party. The only merit in the bill is that it proposes to furnish $40,000, 000 of revenues for the support of the government, enough to meet the cur rent expenses of the government. I do not think any one can claim that that bill is a Republican measure, or that it is to be voted for by any one on that ground, or that it has any merit whatever except the fact that it would relieve the treasury from the :eficiencies now occuring and accru ing and increasing every day. It is a bill prepared for an occasion, not a political~ one. The gentlemen who prepared that bill in the House of Rep resentatives did it in order to secure revenue for the support of the govern ment. I say now, Mr. President, I shall vote for any tax whatever, which may be proposed by anyone, whether Democrt Populist or Republican, which shall supply sutlicient revenue for the support of the government. I will vote for a tax on tea, on coffee, n anything, in order to meet this de iciency.' Mr. Peffer-"The President asserts hat we do not need any more rev eue. Mr. Sherman-'"I do not care what he President says." "-Mr. Peffer-"I thought so." Mr. Sherman-"Every man within the sound of my voice krows that we eed more revenue. Ihere is a state ent that since the first day of last uly and up to the present month of February, 1896, there has already been deficiency in the current revenue of 20,69,000 and that before the end f the first fiscal year, at the same ratio, the amount of deficiency will be 3,000000. If such a condition should ccur in Great Britain cr any other ountry where they have -a parliamen Larv law it would dethrone any arty in power, and an immediate ef fort would be made to inci'ease the in ~ome tax, or to provide some other form of taxation to meet the current xpenses. Yet now, and every day and every hour since the passage of e present law, and even before, in ew' of its passage. we have been unning in debt and itcreasing our tebts. There is no occasion for it. -'sir, 1 have not one word to say bout Populists; I have not a word to ;ay to wound my friend. the Senator rom Colorado (Mr. Teiler), or any ine else; I do not wish to arraign any dividual: but what I do is to ap eal to the Senate of the United States. The other house having sent is ever so faulty a bil., let us take t up, and if it is not right, let us make t right, and send it back to the ouse, and we will have a ready con ~urrence. Now. for us to adjourn vith these deficiencies accruing more id more is, as I say, not a manly Letion to be taken by either of the ~at parties or by any paity that is -esposible for it. Every Senator here appreciates the iecessity for increasing the reventie. ?very Senator knows that the hopes4 Ld expectations of the President and e Secretary of the Treasury, a-s made a their reports, have heen er-roneous -not from any wilful design on their )art. hut becauise they (lid not see the iatural tendency of a coirse of mecas res which every da lef 1t the govern-4 neut more and imore in de-bt. anid very month tie necessity Mr' Iarris-:'\ "hy does not the enator fromt <>ho advise the Treas :rv Denar-tmenit to coin the :i55,I0 l. In of segniorage and tihe ialance of ie silver that lies in the Tr'easury de, and utilize it to -mswer' tihe pur-- I moses of the TIreasury: :r. Sherman: "The Senator from enncsee x~he todm~ rt m to he question of free coinage of silver. That has beii tried and tested and if ever that question met its firai solu tion it was in the House of Represen tatives freshiy elected by the people. where. by a majority of almost 2 to 1. the judgment of the House of Rep resentatives. the representatives, of the people from equal and exact districts throughr'at ti:e country, pronounced their "enunciation of the most foolish And dangerous policy, of departing from the now lawful standards of money in the country. "Mr. President. I have sail a great deal more than I intended to say. I will merely add that I shall not con sider my duty in the Senate dis charged during the pressent session un til some action is taken, according to the wishes of the President and the Secretary of the Treasury--not their form of action. but until we give them as the executive department of the governeut sufflicient money col lected from the peovle of the United States to carry on the expenses of the government. If we go home to our covstituents without performing that duty, every manao -an b: held :cponsible for that condition will be severely dealt with, as I believe, by the people of the United States." Mr. Frve added his judgment that the tariff bill was dead, "as dead as Julius Cawar," and there is no resur rection whatever for it. The Cuban resolutions occupied the latter part of the session and the de bate was, in progress when the Senate ajourned. BLOODY WORK OF B,-NK ROB3ERS. One Officer Kilied and Another Danger oasly Wounded--The rhieves Foiled. WARREN, Ark., Feb. 25.-A daring and desperate attempt at bank robbery occurred here at 3 o'clock this after noon. The robbers failed to get any money. bat the brave Cashier Adair lies drngerously wounded and T. M. Good wvin, a leading citizen, merchant and bank director, is dead. There were only three of the robbers in sight-one a tall, red-complexioned. sandy moustached individual, and the other two, apparently brothers, black hair and dark-complexioned, round faces, appearing to be of foreign birth. They have been camped a few miles out from town for about 10 dazs near Nero Pen nington's house. They have been about town occasionally, buying horse feed and provisions, and one of them made a deposit of $25 in the Merchants and Planters bank, shortly afterward drawing it out, half at a time. Today at 2 p m. they were noticed coming into town, but no attention was paid to them until they walked into the bank, single file. On enier ing the bank the one who had deposi ted and drawn out the $25 demanded of the cashier to know if he did not pay interest on deposits. He replied in the negative, whereupon with an oath the robber presented his pistol and ordered the cashier to hold up his hands. At this time T. M. Goodwin and D. W. Sutton, two directors, were sitting inside the office and did not pa.y any attention until Mr. Adair, instead of holding up his hands, reached for his pistol lying close by. Then the rob bers fired on him, the ball graz'ag his head, stunning him so that he fell to, the floor. Doubtless the robbers thought A dair dead, and rushed inside to get the plunder, hut Goodwin and Sutton, be- - ing in their way, though unarm~ they were fired on, and Goodwi 4~, fataly wounded. Meanwhils the cashier, from his position .cai he floor, fred t wo shots at the robber Dearest him. They were returned, and a 45 calibre bullet went through Adair's shoulder. He is not considered fatel'~ ly wounded. The bandits then tied, with a posse of citizens in pursuit. ANOTHER OF THE SA31E SORT. WICHITA FALLs, Tex., Feb. 25. T wo robbers entered the City Nation al bank of this city at 2:45 p. m. to day and demanded the money of Cashier Dorsey, who resisted thaem. Shooting began, resulting in the death of Cashier Frank Dorsey and the wounding of Bookkeeper P. P. Lang ford. Langford's injuries are not se rious, being slight flesh wounds. The robbers secured oniy a few hundred :ollars in silver. They then mounted their horses and made a run for their lives. By this time many of the citizens had armed themselves and a battle took place. One of the robbers' hore s was shot from under him and it is believed the robber was wounded. He mounted behind his partner and bout a mile from town met a farmer in a buggy. They took his horses and started for the hills. In the :eantime the citizens had secured orses, and at last reports were within a quarter of a mile of the robbers, with good prospects of overtaking hem. Captain McDonald and his angers came in at 4 o'clock and took he trail at once. It is believed a hanging will take place if the robbers are caught. A eward of Sl,o00 is offered by the Panhandle and City National bank for their capture, (lead or alive. CAPTERED AND LYNCHED. FonT WouV~TH, Tex.. Feb 26.-Fos er Crawford and "The Kid," who aided the City National Bank at Wichita Falls. Tex., yesterday after oon, killing Cashier Frank Dorsey, ounding Bookkeeper P. P. Lang ford and securing $400, were captured ast night nine miles from town, after fight of an hour. The robbers were n a thicket surrounded by pursuers, nd surrendered only wheur all hope vas gone. They wer-e taken to Wich ita Falls and State Rangers guarded hem all night. One of the robbers, oster Crawford. is wvounded, though ot seriously. Both of the robbers re well known in the locality, having een cowboys on the range for a num er of years. A mob at Wichita Fals took the wo bank robbers from the jail to ight and hanged them to a telegraph ole in front of the bank they tried to o. The Rangers who were guard ng the jail got a sudden call to Amarl a. and left the men in charge of citi ens, who immediately turned them ver to the mob. It was tirst the in ention of the a- nry citizens to burn he desperados abre in the public quare,'but this idea was abandoned nd they were hurriedly taken to the ene of their crime and. strung to a elegraph pole. sho Elven Times. BaisTOL, F1A. F 1eb. 2 -M. F. Irissett was killed at logging camp of ovington. Cox & Co. (rissett was a esperado, and went to the camp to ,lean it up. He opene d fire. slightly ounding Messrs. Covington and Cox. eauwhile, Henry Colv-in and W. R. ~'lowrs, employees, procured pistols ndl begun tiring at Grissett. After he exchange of shots, byv one of which ovin was wounded. Grissett fell Lad. Examination showed that he d been struck by 1t bullets. Childre.n F~tatlly Burned. BAIor Mons. Feb. 24. T wo children ere fatally and two others seriously ~urned in ~a fire in Canton, a suburb fBaltimore. tonight. The explosion ia coal oil lamu which one of the bildren was try'ing to light caused