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STARTING FOR HOME. REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A RAD iCAL SERMON. The Prodigal's Return Furnishes the Theme For a Powerful Discourse--A Di vine Care For the Ills of the World--A I Glorious Iuvitation. WAsHINGTON, April --A mot r d ical gospel sermon is the one of today by Dr. Talmage. It runs up and down the whole gamut of glorious invitation. His text was Luke xv. 18, "I will arise and go to my father." There is nothing like hanger to take the energy out of a man. A hungry man can toil neither with pen nor hand nor foot. There has been many an army defeated not so much for lack of ammunition as for lack of bread. It was that fact that took the fire out of the young man of the text. Storm and exposure will wear out any man's life in time, but hunger makes quick work. The most awful cry ever heard on earth is the cry for bread. A trav eler tells us that in Asia Minor there are trees which bear fruit looking very mcliethe long ne.n C t. Once inawhile the people, reduced to destitution, would eat these carobs, but generally the carobs, the beans spoken of here in the text, were thrown only to the swine and they crunched them with great avidity. But this young man of my text could not even get them with out stealing them. So one day, amid the swine troughs, he begins to solilo quize. He says: "These are no clothes for a rich man's son to wear; thisis no kind of business for a jew to be en gaged in, feeding swine. I'll go home; I'll go home. 1 will arise and go to my father." I know there are a great many peo ple who try to throw a fascination, a romance, a halo, about sin, but not withstanding all that Lord Byion and George Sand have said in regard to it, it is a mean, low, contemptible busi ness, and putting food and fodder into the troughs of a herd of iniquities that root and wallow in the soul of man is a very Door business for men and wo men intended to be sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, and when this young man decided to go home it was a very wise thing for him to do, and the only question is whether we will follow him. Satan promises large wages if we will serve him, but he clothes his victims with rags, and he pinches them with hunger. and when they start out to do better he sets after them all the bloodhounds of hell. Sa tan comesto us today, andhe promises all luxuries and emolumentsif we will only serve him. Liar, down with thee to the pit! "The wages of sin is death." Oh, the young man of the text was wise when he uttered the resolu tion, "I will arise and go to my fath er." In the time of Mary, the perse cutor, a persecutor came to a Christian woman who had hidden in her house for the Lord's sake one of Christ's ser vants, and the persecutor said, "Where is that heretic?" The Chris tian woman said, "You open that trunk and you will see the heretic." The persecutor opened the trunk and on the top of the linen of the trunk he saw a glass. He said, "There is no heretic here." "Ah I" she said, "you look in the glass and you will see the heretic." As I take up the mirror of God's word today, I would that, instead of seeing the prodigal of the text, we might see ourselves-our vwant, our wandering, our sin, our lost conditio~n -so that we might be as wise as this young man was and say, "I will arise, -and go to my father." The resolution - of this text was formed in a disgust at his present circumstances. If this -young man had been by his employer set to -culturing flowers, or trainig vines over an arbor, or keeping an ac coulit of the port market, or oversee ing other laborers, he would not have thouhghtof going home-if he had had his pockets full of money, if he had been able to say: "I have $1,000 now of my own. What's the use of my going back to my father's house? Do you think I am going back to apolo gize to the old man? Why, he would putme on.the ]imits. He would not haegon on around the old place such conduct as I have been engaged in. I won't go home. There is no reaon why I should gohome. I have plenty of money, penty, of pleasnt surroundings. Why should .I go home?" Ah, it was his pauperism, it was his beggary. He had togo home. Some man comes and says to me: "Why do you talk about the ruined state of the human soul? Why don't you sneak about the progress of the naineteenth century and talk of some thing more exhilarating?" It is for this reason: A man never wants the gospel until he realizes he is in a fam mne struck state. Suppose I should come to you in your home, and you are in good, sound, robust health, and Ishould begin to talk about medicines and about how much better this medi eine is than that, and some other med icine than some other medicine, and talk about this physician and that phy sician. After awhile you would get tired, and you would say: "I don't Swan't to hear about medicines. Why do you talk to me of physicians. I nev er have a doctor." But su ppose I come into your house and I findjou severe ly sick, and Iknow the medicines that will cure yon, and I know the physi cian who is skillful enough to meet your case. You say: "Bring on all that medicine, bring on that physician. I am terribly sick, and I want help." If I come to you, and you feel you are all right in body, and all right in mind, and all right in soul, you have need of nothing, but suppose I have nersuaded you that the leprosy of sin is upon you, the worst of all sickness. Oh, tnenyousay, "Bring me that balm of the gospel, bring me that divine mnedicament, bring me Jesus Christ." "But," says some one in the audience, "how do you know that we are in a ruined condition by sin?" Well, I can prove it in two ways. and you may ave your choice. I can prove it eith er by the statements of men or by the statement of God. Which shall it be? You say, "Let us have the statement of God." Well, he says in one place, "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." He says in another place, "What is man that he should be clean, and he which is born of woman that he should be rihteous?" He says in another place, ' here is none that doeth good-no, not one." He says in another place, "As by one-man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men, for that all had sinned." "Well," you say, "I am will ing to acknowledge that, but why should I take the particular rescue that you proposet This is the reason: Except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God." This is the rea son: "There is one name given un der heaven among men whereby they may be saved." Then there are a' thousand voices here ready to say: "Well, I am ready to accept this help of the gospel. I would like to have this divine cure. How shall I go to work?" Let me say that a mere whim an undefined longing, amounts to nothing. You must have a stout, a tremendous resolution like this young man of the text when he said, "-I will arise and go to my father." '-Oh." says some man, "how do I know my faher wants me How do I know if I go back I would be received?" "Oh," says some man, "you don't know where I have been; you don't know how far I have wandered; you don't talk that way to me if you knew all the iniquities I have committed." What is that flutter among the angels of Gad? What is that horseman run ning with quick dispatch? It is news, it is news! Christ has -found the lost. Nor anrels can their joy contaio, But kindle with new fire. The sinner lost is found, they sing, And strike the sounding lyre. When Napoleon talked of going into Italy, they said: "You can't get there, If you knew what the Alps were, von would not talk about it or think about it. You can't get your ammunition wagons even the Alps." Then Napleon rose in his stirrups, and, waving his hand toward the moun tains, he said, "There shall be no Alps," That wonderful pass was laid out which has been the wonderment of all the years since-the wonder ment of all engineers. And you tell me there are such mountains of sin be tween your soul and God there is no mercy. Then I see Christ waving his hand toward the mountains I hear him wi-ceam iver the Todh tains of thy sin and the hills of thine iniquity." There shall be no Pyrenees; there shall beno Alps. Again, I notice that this resolution of the young man of my "text was founded in sorrowat his misbenavior. It was not mere physical plight. It was grief that he had so maltreated his father. It is a sad thing after a father has done everything for a child to have that child ungrateful. How sharper tha a serpert's tooth it is To have a thankless child. That is Shakespeare. "A foolish son is the heaviness of his mother." "That is the Bible. Well, my friends, have not some of us been ci uel prodigals? Have we not maltreated our Father? And such a Father! Three times a day has he fed thee. He has poured sun light into thy day and at night kindled up all the street lamps ofheaven. With what varieties of apparel he hath clothed thee for the seasons. Whose eye watches thee! Whose hand de fends thee? Whose-heartsympathizes with thee? Who gave you your chil dren? Who is guarding your loved ones departed? Such a Father! So loving, so kind. If he had been a stranger; if he had forsaken us; if he had flagellated us; if he had pounded us and turned us out of doors. on the commons, it would not have been so wonderful-our treatment of him; but he is a Father, so loving, so kind, and yet how many of us for our wander ings have never apologized! If we say anything that hurts our friend's feel ings, if we do anything that hurts the feelings of those in whom we are inter ested, how quickly we apologize! We can scarcely wait until ws get pen and paper to write a letter of apology. How easy it is for any one who is in telligent, right hearted, to write an apology or make an apology! We apologize for wrongs done to our fel lows, but some of us perhaps have committed ten thousand times ten thousand wrongs against God and never apologized. I remark stillfurther that this resolu tion of the text was founded in a feel ing of homesickness. I do not know long this young man how man months how many years, he had been away from his father's house, but there is something about the readingof my text that makes me think he was homesick. Some of you know what that feeling is.- Far away from home sometimes, surrounded by everything bright and pleasant-plenty of friends-you have said, "I would give the world to be home tonight." Well, this young man was homesick for his father's house. I have no doubt when he thought of his father's house he said, "Now, nerhaps father may not be liv in." We read nothing in this story, this parable, founded on everyday life -we read nothing about the mother. It says nothing about going home to her. I think she was dead. I think she had died of a broken heart at his wanderings, or perhaps he had gone into dissipation from the fact that he could not remember a loving and sympatketic mother. A man never gets over having lost his mother. Nothing said about her, but he is homesick for, his father's house. He thought he would just like to go and walk around the old place. He thought he would just like to go and see if thmngs were as they used to be. Many a man after having been off a long while has gone home andknocked at the door, and a stranger has come. It is the old homestead, but a stranger comes to the door, lie finds out father is gone and mother is gone and broth ers and sisters all gone. I think this young man of the text said to himself. "Perhaps father may be dead." Still he starts to find out. He is homesick. Are there any here today homesick for God, homesick for heaven? A sailor, after having been long on the sea, returned to his father's house, and his mother tried to persuade him not togo away again. She said: "Now you had better stay at home. Don't go away. We don't want you to go. You will have it a great deal better here." But it made him angry. The night before he went away again to sea he heard his mother praying in the next room, and that made him more angry. He went far out on the sea, and a storm came up and he was or dered to very perilous duty, and he ran up the ratlines, and amid the shrouds of the ship he heard the voice that had neard in the next room. He tried to whistle it off, he tried to rally his courage, but he could not silence the eoice he had heard in the next room, and there in the storm and dark ness he said: "Oh, Lord ! What a wretch I have been? What a wretch I am! Help me just now, Lord Goa." And I thought in this assemblage to day there may be some who may have the memory of a father's petition or a mother's prayer pressing mightily upon the soul, and that this hour they may make the same resolution I find m my text, saying, "I will arise and go to my father."' A lad at Liverpool went out to bathe; went out into the sea, went out too far, got beyond his depth, and he floated far away. A ship bound for Dublin came along and took him on board. Sailors are generally very generous fellows, and one gave him a cap and another gave him a jacket and another gave him shoes. A gen tleman passing along on the beach at Liverpool found the lad's clothes and took them home, and the father was heartbroken, the mother was heart broken, at the loss of their child. They had heard nothing from him day after day, and they ordered the usual mourning for the sad event. But the' lad took ship from Dublin and arriv ed in Liverpool the very day the mourning arrived. He knocked at the door. The father was overjoyed and the mother was overjoyed at the return of their lost son. On, my friends, have you waded out too deep? Have you waded down into sin? Have you waded from the shore? Will you come back? When you come back, will you come in the rags of your sin or will y ou come robed in the Saviour's righteousness? I believe the latter. Go home to your God today. He is waiting fcr you. Go home! But I remark the characteristic of this resolution was, it was immediate ly put into execution. The context says "he arose and came to his father." ninety-nine times out of a thousand is that our resolutions amount to nothing because we make them for some dis tant time. If I resolve to become a Christian next year, that amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve to be come a Christian tomorrow, that amounts to nothing at all. If I re solve at the service this day to become a Christian, that amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve after I go home to day to yield my heart to God, that amounts to nothing at all. The only kind of resolution that amonts to any thing is the resolution that is immedi ately put into execution. There is a man who had the typhoid fever. He said, "On, if I could get over this ter rible distress; if this fever should de part; if I could be restered to health. I would all the rest of my life serve God." The fever depirted. He got well enough to walk around the block. He got well enough to go over to bus iness He is well today-as well as he ever was. Where is the broken vow? There is a man who said, long ago, "If I could live to the year 1896, by that time I will have my business mat ters all arranged, and I will have be a good, thorough, consecrated Christian." The year 1896 has come. January, February, March, April-a third of the year gone. Where is your broken vow? "Oh," says some man, 'I'll attend to that when I get my character fixed up, when I can get over my evil habits; I am now given to strong drink." Or, says the man, "I am given to unclean ness." Or, says the man: "I am given to dishonesty. When I get over my present habits, then I'll be a thorough Christian." My brother, you will get worse and worse, until Christ takes you in hand. "Not the righteous, sinners Jesus came to call." Oh, but you say, "I agree with you in all that, but I must put it off a little longer." Do you know there were many who came just as near as you are to the kingdom of God and never entered it? I was at Easthampton, and I went into the cemetery to look arou ad, and in that cemetery there are 12 graves side by side-the graves of sailors. This crew, some years ago, in a ship went into the breakes at Amagansett, about three miles away. My brother, then preaching at East hampton, had been at the burial. These men of the crew came very near being saved. The people from Ama gansett saw the vessel, and they shot rockets, and they sent ropes from the shore, and these poor fellows got into the boat, and they pulled mightily for the shore, but just before they got to the shore the rope snapped and the boat capsized, and they were lost, their bodies afterward washed upon the beach. Oh, what a solemn day it was -I have been told of it by my brother -when these 12 men lay at the foot of the pulpit, and he read over them the funeral service. They came very near the shore-within shouting dis tance of the shore, yet did not arrive on solid land. There are some men who come almost to the shore of God's mercy, but not quite, not quite. To be almost saved is to be lost! I will tell you of two prodigals-the one that got back, and the other that did not get back. In Richmond there is a very prosperous and beautiful home in many respects. A young man wandered off from that home. He wandered very far into sin. They heard of him after, but he was always on the wr'ong track. He would not go home. At the door of that beauti ful home one night there was a great outcry. The young men of the house ran down to open the door to see what was the matter. It was midnight. The rest of the family were asleep. There were the wife and-children of this prodigal young man. The fact washe adcome home and driven them out. He said: "Out of this house! Away with these children! I will dash their brains out. Out into the storm !" The mother gathered them up and fled. The next morning the brother, the young man who had staid at home, went out to find his prodigal brother and son, and he came where he was and saw and saw the young man wandering up and down in front of the place where he had been staying, and the young man who had kept his integrity said -to the older brother: "Here, what does all this mean? What is the mat ter with you? Why do you act in this way?" The prodigal looked at him and said: "Who am I? Who do you take me to be?" He said, "You are my brother." "No, I am not. I am a brute. Have you seen anything of my wife and children? Are they dead ? I drove them out last night in the storm. I am a brute. John, do you think there is any help for me? Do you think I will ever get over this life of dissipation?" He said "John, there is one thing that will stop this." The prodigal ran his fin eers across his throat and said: "That ~will stop it, and I will stop it before night. Oh, my brain! I can stand it no longer." That prodigal never got home. But I will tell you of a prodi gal that did get home. In England two young men started from their father's honse and went down to Ports mouth-I have been there-a beautiful seaport. Some of you have been there. The father could not pursue his chil dren-fcr some reason -he could not leave homne-and so he wrote a letter down to Mr. Griffin, saying: "Mr. Griffin, I wish you would go and see my two sons. They have ar rived in Portsmouth, and they are going to take ship and going away from home. I wish you would per suade them back." Mr. Griffin went and tried to per. suade them back. He 1persuaded one to go. He went with very easy per suasion because he was very homesick already. The other young man said: "1 will not go. I have had enough of home. I'll never go home." "Well," said Mr. Griffin, '"then if you won't go home I'll get you a respecta ble position on a respectable ship." "No, you won't," said the prodigal; "no you won't. I am going as a pri vate sailor; as a common sailor. "That will plague my father most and what will do most to tantalize and worry him will please me best." Years passed on and Mr. Griffin was seated in his study one day when a messen ger came to him saying there was a young man in irons on a ship at the dock-a young man condemned to death-who wished to see this clergy man. Mr. Griffin went down to the dock and went on ship-board. The young man said to him, '"You don't know me, do you?" "No," he said, "I don't know you." "Why, don't you remember that young man you tried to persuade to go home and he woldn't go?" "Oh. yes," said Mr. Griffin. "Are you that man?" "Yes, Iam that man," said the other. "I would like to have you pray for me. I have committed murder and I must die, but I don't want to go out of this world until some one prays for me. You are my father's friend and I would like to have you pray for me." Mr. Griffin went from judicial au thority to judicial authority to get that young man's pardon. He slept not night nor day. He went from in fluential person to influential person, until in some way he got that young man's pardon. Hie came down on the dock and as he arrived on the dock with pardon the father came. He had heard that his son, under a dis guised name, had been comnmitting sdeath. So Mr. Griffin and the father went on ship's deck and at the very moment Mr. Griffin offered the nar don to the young man the old father threw his arms around the son's neck and the son said: "Father, I have done very wrong and I am very sorry. I wish I had never broken your heart, I am very sorry !" 'Oh." said the father, "don't mention it. It won't make any difference now. It is all over. I forgive you, my son." And he kissed him. Today I offer you the pardon of the gospel-full pardon, free pardon. I do not care what your crime has been. Though you say ycu have comitted a crime against God, against your soul, against your fellow man, against the day of judgment, against the cross of Christ -whatever your crime has been, here is pardon, and the very moment you take that pardon your Heavenly Father throws his arms round about you and says: "My son, I forgive you. It is right. You are as much in my favor now as if you had never sinned." Oh, there is joy on earth and, joy in heaven. Who will take the Father's embrace? KILLED HIS SWEETHEART. A Young Man Shoots and Kills a Young Lady. TALBOTTON. April 8.-Miss Sallie Emma Owen, one of the most beauti ful and accomplished young ladies in Talbot and a member of a wealthy and aristocratic family, was assassinated in the parlor of Mr. J. H. McCoy's resi dence at 9:40 o'clock Monday night. Dr. W. L. Ryder, a prominent dentist here, was the assassin and he made also an attempt to kill Hon. A. P. Per sons, who was Miss Owen's guest at the time of the tragedy. Miss Owen, who was just 21 years old, lived with her parents at their beautiful country home, 10 miles from this place, and was a social favorite in all the towns of Georgia. She was a graduate of Wesleyan Female college and was noted for her beauty and excellence of character. Dr. Ryder of Talbotton, had been paying marked attention to the young lady for several months. He stood well socially and his company was never regarded with disfavor, though the young lady showed no disposition to requite the love that he evidently de monstrated. She treated him pleas antly but as a friend. Dr. Ryder drove out to the Owen home to visit Miss Owen and brought her to Talbot ton to spend the Easter evening with friends. She stopped at the residence of Mr. McCoy, a prominent citizen and a close friend of the family. After supper, while Dr. Ryder was with the young lady in the parlor, Hon. A. P. Persons called. Dr. Ryder left the young people in the parlor and went to church. He returned af ter services and for several minutes the trio chatted pleasantly, and Dr. Ryder was in apparently good humor. He soon said goodnight and left the residence. He went immediately to his office, changed his shoes, and went from there to his room in the Weston hotel. He was heard to leave the room in a few minutes. In 10 minutes from this time, at 9:40 o'clock, two gunshots in rapid succession rang out and the entire town was aroused and startled. In an instant a man was seen running from the McCoy resi dence with a doublebarrel shotgun in his hand, and the news of the tragedy was on every one's tongue. When Ryder left his room in the Western hotel he carried the gun in his hand. He passed on the streets unobserved and stepped softly upon the porch of the M'Coy residence; en tered the hall and made his way to the parlor door that was partly open at the time. Miss Owen, who was nearest the door, had just arisen from the chair and was laughing when the gun was fired; she fell dead in the arms of her guest. Mr. Persons saw the man and the smoke from his gun but befere he could utter an exclamation another load of shot was fired at him, several of them hitting him in his face and chest. Rder threw the smoking gun in Mc o's front yard and ran to his of fice; he left quickly and was seen go ing at a rapid rate towards Person's pond. It was less than 10 minutes after the tragedy that the streets were beginning to fill with people and ex citement was intense. A posse of citi zens was immediately organized by Sheriff Richards. At 11 o'clock Ry der was found at Person's pond. He had taken a large quantity of mor phine and had gashed his throat from ear to ear with his pocket knife in a desperate atempt to kill himself. .He was returned to the city, physicians summoned and his life saved. The cause of the tragedy is attribut ed to jealousy. It is thought that Ry der proposed marriate to Miss O wen yesterday, while driving to the city and she refused. The presence of Mr. Persons at the McCoy residence last evening as a guest of the young lady is presumed to have infuriated his rival to madness. It is known that Mr. Persons stood favorably with the young lady. Hon. A. P. Persons, who was Miss Owen's guest at the time of the tragedy and was shot at by Ry-: der, is one of the most prominent men in Georgia. He is a son of Hon. Hen ry Persons, an ex-member of congress, and is himself a candidate for the con gressional nomination this year. He has been a member of the state senate and has been prominent in Georgia public life since his majority. .His wounds are paintul but not serious. Dr. W. L. Ryder is conducted with one of the most prominent families in Georgia. He has a brother practicing medicine in Gainesville and another a professor in the public shools at Colum ous. Dr. Ryder is a young man not over 26 years of age; has a magnificent practice and until last night's tragedy was highly esteemed here. He is of pleasant address, educated and hand some and had an entre in the best homes in Georgia. Another Advance Made. The Keelev cure has been introduced into the St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, Md. The good Sisters realize that in the Keeley cure is found the only hope for those addicted to the liquor and morphine habits, and have made a contract with the K~eely Institute of Maryland by which the Keeley treat ment shall be administered at their hos pital by regular physicians instructed by Dr. Keeley. This is another argu ment proving that the Sisters of Char ity occupy the front place in the care of the diseased and in the service of suffering humanity. The treatment was adopted four years ago by the United States government and is used at the National home. Proving so ef ficacious the treatment is now given at Fort Leavenworth Post, to the ofli cers and enlisted men of the regular army. Durino the past two years the States of Maryland, Minnesota, Colo rado, Louisiana, North Dakota, Wis consin and others have by legislative enactments provided that indigent liquor and morphine habitues be given the treatment. The Keeley Institute of South Caro lina continues its good work at Co lumbia, and any information desirea may be had by addressing that insti TOE THE MARK. Coasty D1pesnmariei Amenable to the 'tat" Boarda Only. CoL1inrmA. April 9.-The circular letter sent out by the State board of control to the county dispensers will prove int-resting to those who keep track of tie whiskey business in this State. It is as follows: "The dispensary law under which you have hitherto worked became a nullity on the 31st of March, and you are now operating under a new law enacted by the recent legislature, and under that act ou are amenable sole ly to the State board of control. The board is composed of five members. who are charged with a general man asement of the dispensary business. and from whom you will hereafter re ceive all orders and instructions. You must send to the State board of con trol (and not to the commissioner or State treasurer) the following: All orders for liquors, beers and wines ; all invoices of empty bottles shipped by you, with bill of lading attached; all claims for shortage on invoices and all invoices needing correction. Your weekly statement of sales and cash acccu:nt and duplicate remittance to State treasurer, your monthly reports on forms "A" and "B" and your. quar terly reports must also be sent to the State board of control. You must re mit on Monday of each week to the State treasurer. To no one else must you send any reports*ve the original weekly remittance blank to the State treasurer. When your orde-s for shipments are received by the State board of control, they will be turned over to the commissioner, whose duty it will be to ship them and send you invoice for same. But if any correc tions are to be made or shortages on any invoice claimed you must report the same to the State board of control, and not to the commissioner. "Ship no more empty cases and also refrain from shipping empty bottles until further orders from the board. You must not speculate on your bottle purchases, as the rule allowing you to purchase is for the benefit of the par ties selling, and not for your profit. This rule will be strictly enforced. "The State board of control are un alterable in their determination to rig idly enforce the dispensary law, and they expect you to live up to every feature contemplated in the act. Their administration of the law will be done fearlessly and without favor, and, we hope, always tempered with justice. The trust reposed in you is a most im portant one, and you are charged with the sacred task of preserving the mo rality of that class of your community that is addicted to an intemperate use of intoxicants by rigidly enforcing the provisions of a law which clearly con templates a betterment of the morals of the people by minimizing the use of 1itoxicants by all, and absolutely plac ing them, so far as is in your power beyond the reach of inebriates and minors. "You must not allow any loafing or drinking on your premises, and your hearty co-operation. in our efforts to faithfully carry out the true spirt and intention of the dispensary la w will receive our approbation."-State. Vetoed by the Governor. COLUMBIa, April 10.-The governor has vetoed three acts passed by the last legislature. The first, and one which caused much talk before it got through the house, is entitled: "To provide for the appointment of magis trates and to define their jurisdiction, powers and duties." The governor objected to this act for two special rea sons, the first being that it gave him no power to remove a magistrate, no matter of what act he was guilty. Complaints were received very soon after by him from 3eople in regard to magistrates and if ihis act was passed he would have no way of getting an incapable man out: of the office. JIt will be remembered that the house re jected this part of the law, but it was afterwards put in by the conference committee and so got through. The second objection to -the act was that after the senate had rejected a magis trate he could be reappointed. The second act was: "To declare the duties of county treasurers as to publishing their reports and to pro hibit payment therefor" The objec tion to this was that it was only by publishing the cou.nty treasurer's re ports that the pe'p.e could learn of the finances of their county and they ought not to be kept in the dark. The third is: "To dispose of certain books in the State library." The books in question are thae first statutes at large of South Carolina. The object was to furnish copies of these books free of charge to any member who might want one, only reserving 500 copies for the State library. The book was edited by Thomas Cooper about the year 1792 and is one of his torical value.-Sts.te. Run Down and Kiled. PHILDELPHIA, A pril 8.-A peculiar ly horrible accident occurred this evening in Girardi avenue near Fif teenth street. While Mrs. Ed ward F. Morse, 30 years of age, wife of the president of the Morse Elevator coin pany, was riding a bicycle towards her home at 1,601 Girard avenue she was run down and killed by a runaway animal aproaching her, on account wagon. Mrs. Morse did not see the runaway animal approaching her on account of a street car which intercept ed her view. She turned in towards the curb, and as she did so the run away horse was upon her. The shaft of the wagon struck her squarely in the breast and entered her body fully six inches. Mrs. Morse was hurried ly picked up and taken to the hospital, but she died upon reaching there. While the crowd was still collected around the scene, Mr. Morse, who was on his way home to lunch, attracted by the commotion inquired of a police man the cause of the people gathering. The policeman recognized Mr. Morse and gave an evasive answer to his question.- Something seemed to warn Mr. Morse of the trouble that came upon him. When he was told that a 1 lady had been run down and hurt by a horse, he asked to see the machine that she was riding. When the bicy c'le was shown him Mr. Morse recog nized it as that of his wife and mna frenzy of anxiety he hurried to the hospital only to find her dead body. shot in the Dark.. JACKSONVILLE, A~pril 9.-Special to The Times-Union says: Last night 1 about 7 o'clock D'eputy Sheriff John W. Hanchey, near DeFuniak Springs Fla., was assassinated while walk( ing in his yard with a lighted lamp. His sister started for assistance and lost her way, only reachin' the town this morning. Hanchey adreceiv ed anonymous letters threatening his life, but paid no attention to them. No clew to the perpetrator s of the deed has been found. Elliott Lose,-stokes Wins. WASHINGTON, April 8.-House corn-] mittee on elections No. 3. Mr. Call ofa Massachusetts chairman, today decid ed four contested election cases. The case of Murray against Elliott, from a the First South Carolina district, wasc decided in favor- of Murray, coloredt Republican, the contestant. In the a case of Johnson vs. Stokes, from the Seventh South Carolina district, it is c recommended that Mr. Stokes (Dem. ) t retain his sat. IRBY INTERVIEWED STRONG TALK FROM THE STATE DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN. He Is Unlrerably Opposed to Rr-ting-He BeUeves the Silver People, if hey Stick Together, Can Control the Chicago Con vention. CoLimUA, April 6.-Unit-d States Senator Irby arrived in the city this afternoon, preliminary t> the meetiu2 of the executive committee. When asked what he had to say about the meeting, he replied that its purposes were indicated in the call. "Along what lines is the party to be reorganized?" I asked. "The construction of the party ex pressly states who shall participate in primary elections, namely, known Democrats and negroes who have voted the Democratic ticket continu ously since 1876. The executive com mittee supplemented this part of the Donstitution for the election in 1894, opening thc doors and allowing even Republicans amd Populiss to pirtici pate in the primary election who would agree to abide the result of the primary and support its nominees ac tively. Anyone can see that in the reorganization of the party on certain fixed principles the doors must be more carefully watched than in a primary election. In other words, in the or ganization Democrats and Democrats alone should participate. In confer ences and councils on party policy none but the true and tried should be allowed to enter. While there might be some excuse in primary elections to gain al. recruits from other parties possible, I do not hesitate to say that none but Democrats who are willing to give and take, and to aoide the re sult and sustain the nominees, should particpate in the organization or reor ganization at this time. I do not want to be misunderstood, for I never in tended or attempted to deceive the peo ple of the State since I have been chairman of the party, as winking at a mongrel organization. The white peo ple, I know, are Democrats by inberi tance, and have entrusted the colors of the party into the committee's hands as its guardian and trustee. It is treachery outright, barefaced, to talk of a State Democracy and a national Populism. We must go the whole hog or none at alL As chairman of the State I recognize the authority of National Chairman Harrity, and am acting under him as such. I propose to fignt any party whatever, Populist or Republican, as an enemy to the Democratic party of this State and the United States. I would not like to be misunderstood, though I believe every body understands that I favor free silver, but I believe, and have always believed, that no relief can come in this direction except through the Democratic party. A bolt or split means ruin to the South. If we repeat the mistake of 1860 it will rasten upon us the Repub lican party for probably fifty years because if we can scarcely win with 8. solid Democratic front, how can we hope to withstand the cyclone of Re publicanism that would follow a divis ion into two. It looks now as if Mc Kinley will sweep the National Repub' lican convention in St. Louis. If Southern farmers leave the party of their fathers the gold bugs of the West, Northwest and New England States will naturally gather to the sup port of the Republican candidate and overwhelming triumph will result for McKinley and a Waterloo for the Democratic party. This would mean in addition to the election of a Presi dent, a Republican House. They will soon have the Senate, then would fol low high tariff, and high money, or in other words, high hats or clothes or shoes, and low cotton for the Southern farmer. If we stay in the party and are defeated for President by McKin ley, we may carry the next House, which would be a check upon the elec tion of McKinley, who is the logical candidate of the Republicans, and is bound to be the nominee unless the Republican champion of protection in this country be repudiated. If the Southern farmer remains steadfast and sends his representatives to Chicago instructed in favor of free silver. 4"I believe now, and have always believed we will be able to control the onvention, as far as the majority is oncerned, and force a free silver plat rorm and prevent a .nomination of a old bug, under the two-thirds rule. [ adhere to the position taken some bme ago, that this State's Democracy should send delegates instructed for ree silver, who will meet the breth een of other States upon equal and bonorable terms and do the best that an be done in the present emergency. [f they win, they will expect the oppo ition to act as Democrats, if they lose, hey should not do less than they ex ~ect of others. "What is your impression of the eeling arnong the people?" "There can be but one answer to ~his question. The people both Con ervatives and Reformers are not dis osed to hold the principles of the emocratic party responsible for any nisinterpretation or betrayal, if I may ye allowed to use so harsh a word as hat of the platform of 1892, by men, vho have been expected to carry it )ut. The principles are the same, and f the leaders have failed in the dis :arge of their duties, it is the part of isdom to discard them and name thers, who will carry out the princi >es of the party. "And, besides, in this State a bolt iow means ruin to a large class of our itizens, inview of the fact that the ~stimate is made, even by Reformers, hat the Republicans will number at east 75,000 men. I know positively hat hundreds of Reformers will not olt, and even if all bolted it would eave 35,000 Conservatives, who have dways claimed to be Democrats, vho would reorganize on what they :onsider Democratic lines. We have iout 55,000 to 60,000 Reformers, a ery large estimate. With these hree tickets in the field the Republi ~ans would either carry the election or old the balance of power in the State1 lection, and would probably carry he electoral ticket. I may earnestly uggest that this is a jurisdiction of he fight that I made while a member f the Constitutional Convention. It rindicates my position against the suf ruge plan of that body. Taken tll in .11, the situation in South Carolina is s a very serious one, and it behooves very white man who loves his race o be firm and stand by the Democratic arty ."-News and Courier. Murdered. WAsHINGToN, April 7.-Wessley all, a colored hunchback, was found ,t his home here to-night with his Lead crushed and his ears split as if y a razor. Everything around was pattered with blood, and the disorder if the room showed that the murdered an had made a desperate effort .to efend himself. Hall was about 40 -ears of age and the treasurer of a hurch, which leads to the belief that le probable motive of the crime was A Wail from Now England. It has been our firm conviction for a number of years that it was only a mnatter of time when most of the cot. ton raised in this country would be nanufactured in the South instead of New England, and that conviction ii stronger now than it ever was. The New Englanders themselves are be ginning to realize the true situation, as cotton mill after cotton mill in that section is forced to the wall by the competition of the Southern mills. The Boston Journal recently published a very significant editorial under the caption -Are Our Mills to Leave use' The Journal then proceeds to answer its own question as follows: The Lawrence Manufacturing com pany has decided to go out of the busi ness of making cotton cloth, to sell its machinery and return to its stockhold ers one half of its capital from its cash surplus. With the other half it will continue to make hosiery. It takes this step after most careful delibera tion. This company has been one of the most successful in New England. It has nearly 100,000 spindles, used for making cloth. Its capital is $1,500,000. In former years its stock sold for about twice par. It accumulated a surplus nearly equal to its capital. It has one of the best known and most popular trade marks in the country. its plant is in good condition, and it would seem to be in a strong position, to continue business. Its managers are extremely able men-among the best in the community. Mr. T. Jeffer son Coolidge, than whom no one is better known in manufacturing cir cles, has been a large owner in and president of the company. The delib erate judgment of such able men as its officers is a cause for profound re flection. Is it the beginning of the end? Is it possible that Massachusetts industries are on the downward path? If so, what is the cause and what the remedy? While there has been much discussion from time to-time concern ing Southern competition in coarse gods and foreign competition under the Wilson tariff on fine goods, many have claimed that this talk was only for campaign purposes. The fact re mains, however, that the Massachu setts cotton mills of Lowell have spent $600,000 for a mill in Georgia. The Dwight mills of Chicopee have spent a similar sum in Alabama. The Whittier mills of Lowell have built a mill near Atlanta, and three or four other mills, like the Nashua, the Stark, etc., have started or are considering the establishment of mills in the South. With our present prices ror labor and hours, we cannot compete with the longer hours and cheaper la bor and material of the South. S.me of our mills have changed their ma chinery so as to make finer goods. These, however, have to meet foreign competition, with its cheap labor. The Wilson tariff hasunfavorably affected this kind of manufacturing. Now, we have the fact that such able and ex perienced manufacturers as those in the Lawrence company have decided, after most careful deliberation, to go out of the business, rather than to build a Southern mill or to change their present mill so as to make fine dress goods under our present tariff. They do this at a time when they can get their capital back. All the man ufacturers in New England today are discussing this move, and wondering whether their action is wise or not. Southern competition is unavoidable; foreign is not. Before more of our best mills are forced to go Out of busi ness, thereby depriving thousands of employment, we must give our manu facturers adequate protection, so that they can utilize the skill of well paid labor by the manufacture of the line goods which are now imported.. The Greenville News very truly says "the shoe pinches and New Eng land profits are shrinking. The mighty strides of the South in manu facturin f enterprises are telling on the incomes of mill owners in the North. It has not been so -very long ago, that Pennsylvania was buying iron from the South-it was made cheaper here than in the great monop oly iron State and then went up the howl that the Wilson bill was at the bottom, destroying American indus tries, admitting foreign goods at less than American cost price. The Boston Journal takes a high tariff vie w of the situation. Sauce for the goose must be sauce for the gander. If tariff re form effects the prices of goods in the North it will have the same result in the South. The Journal falls back~ on the fine goods plea, that the South does not or cannot make this class of goods and that foreign competition aims at this special industry. This is special pleading, and will not stand honest investigation. The claim that the South lacks skilled labor is to a limited extent true, for the simple rea son that the :manufacturers of tnis sec tion have not largely entered this field. But it is coming and coming with a rush. The manracturer of cot ton goods in the South is no longer an experiment-it is a cold, hard fact, come to stay. Southern capitalists will not remain satisfied with making coarser fabrics but will enter the field for production of the tinest goods. Machinery will be put up and the skilled labor of the North will follow the mills to the cotton fields. The Journal says that 'douthern competi tion is unavoidable; foreign is not.' This is only the old protection story ini a new form. Competition will :ontinue and possibly it is best that it should, New England shoddy has had its day and there is a growing de mand for better goods at fair prices. The South proposes to make goods that will meet, not only Ne w England, but all foreign competition. There is i sneer in the suggestion that the Bouth uses cheap labor or inferior la yor. As a matter of fact, if cost of liv .ng is considered, it is probable that nill operatives get better wages here ;han the same class get in the North. 'here is an easy solution of the ditll ~ulties of the Northern mill o wners. 10se up your business in the cold leak hills of New England, move y-our machinery to the cotton fields, ring your skilled labor with you, and n this "sweet, genial healthful climate, ou will find a warm welcome from CAN~oT SEE YoUR EYEs MovE.-A rery curious fact, say London Answer, s the impossibility of moving .your eye while examining the reflection of ,hat organ in the mirror. It is really he most movable part of the face, yet f you hold your head fixed and try to nove your eye while watching it, you :annot do it--even the one-thousandth >art of an inch. Of course, if you ook at the reflection of the nose, or kny part of your face, your eye must nove to see it. But the strange thing s that the moment you endeavor to erceive the motion, the eye is fixed. his is one of the reasons why a per. on's expression, as seen by bimself in he glass, is quite different from what t is when seen by others. 1 Castaways.. JACKSONvILLE, Fla., April 9.-xel rohnson, one of tha3 crew of the chooner Seminole which was wrecked everal days ago off the east coast of1 ?lorida, floated ashore four miles outh of of Fort Pierce on wreckage to hich he had been clinging 136 hours ithout food or water. T wo compaa-( ons with him on the raf t were wash- i d overboard several days ago. John- t POWDER Absolutely Pure. A crean of tartar baking powder. Highest of all ihi leaveninstrength. Latest Uoited States GoveruaeuitFo'kd R.aport. 3"nyaI lBaking Powder Co. 10t; Wal S.. N.Y. Tha Blaster of a Papsucker. The action of the Colorado Demo cratic State Central Committee recent ly in indorsing the idea of inviting Senator Tillman to address the Demo cratic State Convention of Coord>, has stirred the ire of A. L New, Col lector of internal Raveaur of that State. New. who has a good, fat of fice under Cleveland, characteriz es the convention which Senator Tillman has been invited to address, as a Tilrn"4 a ite convention, and says "ttie Dew , crats of the West or of any other part of the country need no advice irAE Mr. Tillinan or any other person who comes from outside the ranks of the party. Mr. Tillman was not elected by Democrats to his lofty position which he occupies and disgraces today and there is no more reason why he should be invited to address a Demo cratic convention with his tirade and vituperation than should Mr. Coxey or any other individual antagonistic to the principles of Democracy." New further states that in his opinion no true Democrat* will participate in the deliberations of this convention to be addressed by Mr. Tillman, but that Democrats will assemble and select delegates to the national convention to go as Democrats, not as Tillmanite bolters. Further, these delegates will be pledged to support the adioption of a free silver plank in the Democratic platform and the nomination of a man to carry it out. But in case this dele gation should be in the minority it will support the principle of Democra cy which has always characterized its independence, viz, that the majority shall rule. When Ne w says Senator Tillman was not elected by Democrats to his present position he displays a degree of ignorance that is remarkable in one holding a responsible, well pay ing office, or is "talking through his hat for political effect. It is very nar ural for men of New's stripe- to hate Tillman and attempt to read him out of the party. Tillman refuses to bend the knee to Grover Cleveland, whicn is a great crime in the estimation'of New and such office-holding hench men as he evidently is. New can rave, but Tillman will go to Coloradto au make his speech, and what is more, he will blister New.- It has come to a fine pass when the people of a free sovereign State mast lbe abusedby a pap sucking Federal office-holder, De cause they invite a prominent man to discuss the issues of the day before them in one of their political gamner - erings. But this is the tactics of the gold bugs all over the country. Like .t~enchman New, they want things their own way, or they ar-e redy-s break up the party. New wll tind. Out before he gets through that the people of this -country have some rights as well as office holding heaica men like himself. He may be willing to fall down and worsnij Grover Cleveland because of the favors be stowed on him, but he will tinad it up hill work to force his political master and benefactor down the throats of the Democrats of the South and West. -Times and Democrat. Blown to Atomw. VANsCoUvEa, B. C., April 9.-The steamer Express of Japan, which nas just arrived from the Orient, brings news of a terrific explosion in waien a large number of Chinese soldiers were killed at Kiang Gin. T wo regi ments revolted and at a signal fromi their leader, they seized the guns of the forts and poceeded to xill off all officers and a new regiment of sol diers recently arr ived. Ia the midst of the massacre a magazine explodec, and all hands were blowvn to pieces. Two battalions must have been~ wiped out of existence, as not a soldier lived to tell if the magazine wen.t off by ac cidentor designedly. All within ahun dred yards of the mnag.azie were killed by flying shells. Lne s~ory of the mutiny is told by those who watched it from a disice. iksides an immense quantity of sh a 1is, 14,00 pounds of po wder was stored iu the po wder room. One company fightiug near, in the building, literaili diap peared f romi the face of thie eart.h, w~t : trace of any of th.en bei->g foa:ad. Diaptain Kao, wn, was s in c~an mand of, the battaljoas, toxad taezf shockingiy dem~roralnzed :tudil sorts Jf crimes were beiLng practiced in the ~arrison town. His attempt at hoae,t reform co::t him n~is life. deve i orated officiers or the I war were zilled. Confecssed teU~ iiurder. CLEVEL.YD, 0., April 9. -A special ;o the Leader from Aaronz, 0., says: 'The Tallmadge iuurdeter nas been 'ound. Smith, the recentlyv discharged lired man of the Stone ?atuily, has ioefessed to the crime. Detectives wrho have been e mployed oni the case, irrested Jno. Smnita in l'aiadge last 2ight. Smith is about 21 years of age uin came to Summiti County nine nonths ago, going to work for Mr. Stone. T wo weeks before the murder le had a disagreement witn Stone and eft him. Smith was much enamored >f Flora, Stone's daug hter, and his at entions were distastesul to the family 'lora was the only one of tne family lot injured by the murder and cai the norning after the crine she made the tatemient that the votee of the mur lerer sounded like John's. A succesul)Benut. NEW YoRK. April 9.-The perfor nance given at Fifth Avenue toeatre 'or the benefit of the njortuarv fund of lie Confederate veteran cancp of Ne w cork this evening was a success. rosph Jefferson, MIay Ir win, John )re w, Maud Adams and otner players rom New York city's principal thea res voluntered their services and ren lered an excellent programme. It is hought the proceeds will amount to about $8,000 GEN. Wheeler, Democrat, of Ala >ama, has otfered in the House a bill >roviding that so long as the gold tan dard is mai atained in this country. he salaries of all oflicials, including Xongressmen, but excepting C-nited tates Judges, shall be reduced to hree-fourths the salaries as now pro