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AN IMPERIAL EXILE DR. TALMAGE'S ELOQUENT SERMON ON CHRIST'S EXPATRiATION. The King Who Left a Throne. Closed :t Palace and went Forth to Die Ia l[os. te Country-America the Homne of the Voluntary Exile. WASHioTOx, April 19. -It is won derful to how many tunes the gospel may be set. Dr. Talnige's sermon today shows another way in which the earthly experience of our Lord is set forth. His text was 11 Samuel xv. 17, "And the king went forth and tar ried in a place which was far off." Far up and far back in the history of heaven there came a period when its most illustrious citizen was about to absent himself. He was not going to sail from beach to beach. We have often done that. He was not going to put out from one hemisphere to anoth er hemisphere. Many of ushave done that. But he was to sail from world to world, the spaces unexplored and the immensities untraveled. No world has ever hailed heaven, and heaven has never hailed any other world. I think that the windows and the bal conies were thronged, and that the pearly beach was crowded with those who had come to see him sail out of the harbor of light into the ocean be yor.d. Out and out and out and on and on and on and down and down and down he sped, until one night, with only one to greet him, when he arrived, his disembarkation so unpre tending, so quiet, that is was not known on earth until the excitement in the cloud gave intimation to the Bethlehem rustics that something grand and glorious had happened. Who comes there? From what port did he sail? Why was this the place of his destination? I question the shepherds. I question the camel driv ers. I question the angels. I have found out. He was an exile. But the world had plenty of exiles. Abraham, an exile from Haran; John, an exile from Poland; Mazzini, an exile from Rome; Emmet, an exile from Ireland; Victor Hugo, an exile from France; Kosruth, an exile from Hungary. But this one of whom I speak today had such resounding farewell and came into such chilling reception-for not even a hostler went out with his lantern to light him in-that he is more to be celebratea than any other expatriated exile of earth or heaven. First, I remark that Christ was an imperial exile. He got down off a throne. He took off a tiara. He closed a palace gate behind him. His family were princes and prin cesses. Vashti was turned out of the throneroom by Ahasuerus. David was dethroned by Absalom's infamy. The five kings were hurled into a cav ern by Joshua's courage. Some of the Henrys of England and some of the Louis of France were jostled on their thrones by discontented subjects. But Christ was never more honored or more popular, or more loved than the day he left heaven. Exiles have suf fered severely, but Christ turned him self out from throneroom into sheep pen and down from the top to the bot tom. He was not pushed off. He was not manacled for foreign transporta tion. He was not put out because they no more wanted him in celestial do main, but by choice departing an:i de scending into an exile five times as long as that of Napoleon at St. Helena and 1,000 times worse; the one exile suffering for that he had destroyed nations, the other exile suffering be cause he came to save a world. An imperial exile. King eternal. "Bless ing and honor and glory and power be unto him that sitteth on the throne." But I go farther and tell you he was an exile on a barren island. This worl[d is one of the smallest islands of light inthe ocean of immensity. Other stellar kingdoms are many thousand times larger than this. Christ came tothissmallPatmos of a world. When exiles are sent out they are generally sent to regions that are sandy or cold or hot-some Dry Tortugasof disagree ableness. Christ came as an exile to a world scorched with heat and bitten with cold, to deserts simoon swept, to a howling wilderness. It was the back door yard, seemingly, of the uni verse. Yea, Christ came to the poor est part of this barren Islaud of a world-Asia Minor, with its intense summers, unfit for the residence of a foreigner and in the rainy season un fit for the residence of a native. Christ came not to such a land as America, or England, or France, or Germany, but to a land one third of the year drowned, another third of the year burned up and only one third of the year just tolerable. Oh! it was the barren island of a world. 2arren enough for Christ, for it .gave such small worship and such inadequate affection and such little gratitude. Imperial exile on the barren island of a world. I go farther and tell you that he was an exile in a hostile country. Turkey was never so much against Russia, France was never so much against Germany, as this earth was aainst Christ. It took him in throuh the door of a stable. It thrust him out at the point of a spear. The Roman gov ernment against him, with every wea pon of its army, and every decision of its courts, and every beak of its war eagles. For years, after his arrival the only question was how best to put him out. Herod hated him; the Phari sees hated him; Judas Iscariot hated him; Gestas, the dying thief, hated him. The whole earth seemingly turned into a detective to watch his stp.And yet he faced this ferocity. Noiethat mcst of Christ's wounds were in front. Some scourging on the shoulder, but most of Christ's wounds in front. He was not on re treat when he expired. Face to face with the world's sin. Face to face with the world's woe. His eve on the raging countenances of his foaming antagonists when he expired. When the cavalry officer roweled his steed so that he might come nearer up and see the tortured visaage of the suffering exile, Christ saw it. When the spear wasthirust at his side, and when the hammer was lifted for his feet, anid when the reed was raised to strike deeper down the spikes of thorn, Christ watched the whole procedure. When his hands were fastened to the cross, they were wide open still with benediction. Mind you, his head was not fastened. He could look to the right, and he could look to the left, and he could look up and he could look down. He saw when the spikes had been driven home, and the hard, round iron heads were in the palms of his hands. He saw them as plainly as you ever saw any thisig in the palms of your hands. No ether, no chloreform,. no merciful anastheic to dull or stuni fy; but, wide awake, he saw the ob suration of the heavens. the unibal aning of the rocks, the countenances quvering with rage and the cachinua tin diabolic. Oh, it was the hosti "o as well as the barren inland of a world : I go farther and tell you that this exile was far from home. It is 95,000. 000 miles from here to the sun and all astronomers agree in having that our sola system is only one the smaller wheels of the great machinery of the universe turning around some one great center, the center so far distant cuiation and if, as some think, that greateenter in the distance is heaven, (hrist came far from hone when he camte here. ive you ever thought of the ho:nesiciness of Curist? Somle of v.a inowv w:at homesickness is Shetn you have been only a fe i weeks abstnt from thedomestic circle. Christ was :sears a.var from hotme. Sou ')f yoa feel howesickness when you :re 100 or 1,0UU miles array from the domnestic circle. Christ was more mirl lion mi s a -vay from home than yoi could count in your life you did noti ing but count. You ku.v what it is to be h >umsick e'-nri amid pleasant surroundings. bat Ciristslept in huts. and he was athirst aud he was a-b iu zered, and he was ou tac way fro:n being born ins another i is bun to being buried in another man s grave. I nave read how the Swiss, when they are far away f ruin their native country, at the sound of their national air get so homesick that they fall into melancholy and sometimes they die under the homesickness. But, oh, the homesickness of Christ. Poverty hcasick for celestial riches. Persecu tion homesick for hosmnua. \ eari ness homesick for the rest. Homesick for angelic and archangelic compan ionship. Homesick to get out of the light and the storm and the world's execration. Homesickness will make a week seem as lonl as a month and it seems to me that the three decades of Christ's residence on earth must have seemed to him almost interminable. Yeu have often tried to measure the other pangs of Christ, but you have never tried to measure the magnitude and ponderosity of a Saviour's home sickness. I take a step farther and tell you that Christ was in an exile which he knew would end in assassination Holman Hunt' the master p tinter. has a picture in which he represents Jesu, Christ ia the N:izarenecarpeuter shop. Around him are the saws, the ham mers, the axes, the drills of carpentry. The picture represents Christ as rising from the carpenter's working bench and wearily stretching out his arms as one will after being in contracted or uncomfortable posture, and the light of that picture is so arranged that the arms of Christ, wearily strechAd forth. together with his body, throw on the wall the shadow of the cross. Oh. my friends that shadow was on everything in Christ's lifetime. Shadow of a cross oa the Bethlehem swaddling clothes: shadow of a cross on the road over which the three fugitives fled into Egypt shadow of a cross on Lake Gali lee as Christ walked its mosaic floor of opal and emerald and crystal; sha dow of a cross on the road to Emnmans; shadow of a cross on the brook Kedron. and on the temple. and on the side of Olivet; shadow of a cross on sunrise and sunset. Constantine, marching with his army, saw just once a cross in the sky, but Christ saw the cross all the time. On a rough journey we cheer our selves with the fact that it will end in warm hospitality, but Christ knew that his rough path would end at a defoliaged tree, without one leaf and with only two branches, bearing fruit of such bitterness as no human lips had ever tasted. Oh, what an exile, starting in an infa- :cy without any cradle and ending in assassination. Thirst without any water, day with out any sunlight. The doom of a des perado for more than angelic excel leuce. For what that ex piration and exile? Worldly good sometimes comes f rom woridly evil. The accidental glance of a snarp blade fIrom a razor grinder's wheel put out the eye of Gambetta and excited sympathies which gained him an education and started him on a career that made his name more majestic among French men than any other name in the last 2(0 years. Hawthorne, turned out of the offhee of collector at Salem, went home in despair. His wife touched him on the shoulder and said, "Now is the time to write your book," and his famous "Scarlet Letter" was the brilliant consequence. Worldly good sometimes comes from worldly evil. Then be not un believing when I tell you that from greatest crime of all eternity and of the whole universe, the murder of the Son of God, there shall come results which shall eclipse all the grandeurs of eternity past ind ete:-nity to come. Christ, an exile from heaven opening the way for the deportation toward heaven and to heaven of all those who will accept the proffer. Atone ment, a ship large enough to take all the passengers t bat will come aboard it. For this royal exile I tbespeak the love and service of all the exiles here present, and, in one sense or the other, that includes all of us. The gates of this continent have been so widely opened that there are here many vol untary exiles from other lands. Some of you are Scotchmen. I see it in your high cheek bones and in the color that illumines your face when I mention the land of your nativity. Bonny Scotland !Dear old kirk: Some of your ancestors sleeping in Grey friars churchyard, or by the deep lochs filled out of the pitchers of heav en, or under the heather, sometimes so deep of color it makes one think of the blood of the Covenanters who signed their names for Christ, dipping their pens into the veins of their own arms opened for that purpose. Ho w every fiber of your nature thrills as I mention the names of Robert Bruce1 and the Campbells and Cochrane. I bespeak for this royal exile of my text the love and the service of all Scotch exiles. Some of you are Eng lishmen. Your ancestry served the Lord. Have I not read of the suffer. ings of the Haymarket? And have I not seen in Oxford the very spot where Ridley and Latimer mounted the red chariot? Some of your ances tors heard George Whitefield thunder, or heard Charles Wesley sing, or heard John Bunyan tell his dream of the celestial city, and the cathedrals under the shadow of which some of you were born had in their grandest organ roll the name of the Messiah. 1 bespeak for the royal exile of my sermon the love and the service of all English exiles. Yes, some of you came from the island of distress -over which hunger, on a throne of human skeletons, sat queen. All efforts at amelioration haltea by massacre. Pro cession of famines, procession of mae tyrdoms marching from northern channel to Cape Clear and from the Irish sea across to the Atlantic. Au island not bounded as geogra phers tell us. but as every philan thropist knows-bounded on the north and the south and the east and the west by woe which no human politics can alleviate and only Alminghty God can tissuage. Land of Gold smith's rhythm, and Sheridai?s wit. and O'Cnnll's eloquence, and 1l mudBurke's stat-smanship, andI O'Birien-'s sacrifice. Another P'atm.-s wth its apal pseiv!5 of blood. Yet you cannot think of it today- without hay ng your eyes buiuded -.ith emoton, for t ere your acestors sh-ep in graves some of whichL they Latere-d for k of bread. Fur this royal exile of my s.rmoni I bes"'ak the love -and the sri-: of all irish exiles. Yes; some of you arc from Germany, the land of Lutrier, and some of 5ou are Iromn Italy, the l-and, of Garibaldi, and and some of you are from France, the land of Juohn Calviii, one of the-.tihree mightiest of the glorious reformation. Soa.e of you arec descendants of the Puritan and they were exiles, and some of you are descendats of the Huguenots, and they were exiles, and some of you are descendants of the H lland'refugees, and they were ex ii.s son of you were born on the haiks of the 1'>iZO() or the Savannah. awnl YOu ar" n.v living in tnis lati:mle; ..ime of you on th' banks of the Ken nebec or at the foot of the Gireen moutainas. and you are here now some of you on the prairies of the west or the tablelauds. and you are here now. (ti. how many of us far avay from home! All of us exiles. This is not our home. Ieaven is our bome. Oh, I am so glad when the royal ex ile went back he left the gate aj:.r or ieft it wide open. "Goiog hone That is the dying exclamation of the majority of Christians. I have seen many Christians die. I think nine out of ten of them in the last moment say, "Going home." Going home out of banishment and sin and sorrow and sadness. Going home to join in the hilarities of our parents and our dear children who have already departed. Going home to Christ. Going home to God. Going home to stay. Where are your loved ones that died in Christi You pity them. Ah, they ought to pity you! You are an exile far from home. They are home! Oh, what a time it will be for you when the gate keeper of heaven shall say: "Take off that rough sandal. The journey is ended. Put down that saber. The battle's won. Pat off that iron coat of mail and put on the robe of con queror." At that gate of triumph I lave you today, only reading three tender cantos translated from the Ital i n. If you ever heard anything s eeter, I never did, although I can not adopt all its theology: 'T vas whispered onemorning in heaven How tll' tittle child angel &day. In tie shade of the great white portal, .t Fora owing nigat and day; How she -aid to the stately warden, He of the key and bar: "On. angel, -w et angel, I pray you :et the beautiful gates ajar, Oni. a tittle, I pray you, Set the beautiful gates ajar. ' I can hear my mother weep'n;. She is lonely; ;he cannot see A glimmer of light in the darkness When the gites shut after me. Oh, turn me the key; sweet angel. The splendor will shine -o far." But the warden answered, -I dare not Set the beautifu gates ajar," Spoke low and answered, "I dare not S6t the beautiful gates ajir." Then up rose Mary, the b'essed, Sweet Mary, the mother of Christ. Her hand on the hand of the angel ShM laid, and he- touch sufficed. Turned was the key in the oortal, Fell rigirg the golden bar, And, :0, in the little cnild's fingers Stood the beauttfui gates ajar, In the li tlechuid's angel finugis Sto:;d the b autiful gates aj ir. Another Advance Made. The Keeler 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 Keely 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 icacious the treatment is now given at Fort Leavenworth Post, to the ofli cers and enlisted men of the regular army. During the past two years the States of Maryland, Minnesota, Colo rado, Louisiana, Nerth 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 desireai may be had by addressing that insti tute or drawer 27. Murder and Robbery. LA PLAnA, Md., April 24.-A horri ble double murder, accompanied by burglary, was committed at Hill Top, a small village in Cnarles County, near this place; this morning. About 2 o'clock, Joseph Cocking, who keeps a general store at Hill Top, was awak ened by a noise in his store, over which, his family lived. Hastily arising, Mr. Cocking came down stairs and was struck senseless by a blow on the head. He was tied with a rope and thrown down into the cellar stunned and helpless, where he was discover ed this morning by a passing colored man, who found the store door open and heard moans. In their rooms up stairs, the dead bodies of Mrs. Cock ing and her sister, Miss Daisy Miller, were found. Both women were ly ing on the floor with their skulls crushed as if by an iron bar or a simi lar instrument. The store had been robbed. There is no clue to the mur derers. Kulled For 'Nove. RICamxo~D, Texas, I .pril 1.-Albert Somerville in a fit of jealosy shot and almost instantly killed Emma Somer ville, a davghter of Jtudge H. L. Som erville, postmaster of this city, this morning', and then attempted suicide, but made c'' a slight wound. Miss Somerville was a popular and high ly esteemed young lady. The young man came here recently from Alaba ma, where his parents reside. He is a nephew of Judge Somerville and was visiting at his uncle's house at the time. The tragedy occurred in the street just in front of the Somerville home. Young Somerville was in love with the young lady, but on ac count of relationship between the young people the parents refused to cosent to their marriage. Somerville is now in jail. Three Chuidren Injured. ATLANTA. Ga., April IS.-Tl'rce children named Turner, whose ho~me is on Gartrell street, were painfully injured today by the explosion of a jar of lime. In the morning while at play they poured water into a glass jar containing a gallon of fresh lime. They had the jar in their playhoase. Three hours later the jar exploded and seriously wounded all three of the children, ag ed 3, 6 andS8. The young est, a girl, will probably die, her skull having been crushed by a piece of glass. Oscar Turner, their father, is a pressman on The Constitution. Diaz at Liberty. HAmiNA, April 23.-The Rev-. Al bert Diaz, the~American Baptist miis sionary and his brother, Alfred, who were arrested last week hav.e been set t lioerty, but have been orderd t-> leave thie country before the expira tiou of six days from the time of their reae. Messrs. O'Leary and Dawl'y, delgar-tes respectively of tihe Philade! phia Bulletin and Hlarner's Week ly of New York, who wore arrested at ~Ma taz7as have beenZ releastd on bLli. wichl was furnished by- the Amer''ie vice consul. Cmicaoo. April 1 --James Talla &, a well kno wn resident of signal moun tan, near this city, commint ted suicide this morning by shooting a load of buckshot into his head, almost tearing it from the shoulders. The cause is WILD OVER TILLMAN. COLORADO PEOPLE GIVE HIM A GRAND OVATION. d Sp:'tuest' t:e. i: by , Memnber; of All Partier to the iitin;;uiihed Caroli niau -:i.gt Thlouwitni 'eopIe 'r', For ward t'. (rnsp His Ilan~d. All the world loves a hero. In these days of rapid mutations when the va rious sections of the country are torn by division of sentirmnt on one of the nost vital-prob!emls of the republic. it requires a man of strong force of character, with indomitable will, iron nerve and unflirnchinz honesty, to break away from the time honored as sociations and traditions of party and step boldiy to the front as a champion of the masses. It requires a man who has the courage of his convictions to thro.v party alliliatious to the winds aud light the battle of the people against the odds of political forces long intrenched in po 'er and pres tige. Such a man is made of the stuir of which heroes are made. He stands out in bold rehef against the back ground of demagogues, political trim mers and fawning subservients. A man who has displayed these qualities of a hero arrived in the city yt-s:erday, and is an honored guest of the people of Denver. He has been received with open hands and gener ous praise. Although hailing from a distant State on tne Atlantic coast, he has proved that he has the true ring of the true metal, and it has a 1G to 1 melody that runs through sentiments of silvery eloquence. This man of honest heart and noble bearing is the great apostle of genuine bimetallism Senator Benjunin R. Tillman, of South Carolina. While the people of the West need no introduction to this man in order to become acquainted with his intel lectual and political honesty, yet they do enjoy the opportunity to meet him face to face, grasp his hand and give him a brother y greeting. The people of Denver demonstrated this fact last evening. The coming of Senator Till man had been heralded by the press for days, and the public was intense ly eager to do him. honor. So, when a public reception was arranged for last evening at the Brown Palace Hotel, all loyalists in the silver cause turned out in force. They wanted to see this hero from the Palmetto State-a State whose people are noted for their courage, for they are "fight ers from 'way back." Tihe opening hour was S o'clock for the reception, but as early as 7 o'clock the peo)p le began trampiig across the tiled floors of the Brown. They came by the hundreds upon hund.reds, and soon filled every square foot of the great rotunda. In front of the grand stairway a small platform, draped in red, white and blue bunting, had been erected for the guest of honor and the reception committee. Suspended above it was a massive silken flag of the Union. A small cordon of police, in charge of graceful Drill Captain Hein ig, was on hand to keep the crowd back in comfortable distance from the platform. Still the hundreds of peo p'.e beseiged the doors for ad mittance, and the police made an opening for them to pass up the stairs to the galle ies above. For one hour a stream of people passed up the grand stairway beeatn the folds of the great flag, and sought places of sight seeing in the galleries above. This cro wd was conspicuous by the large number of ladies, both from the ranks of fashion and from the sthtionr of honest humil ity. Baukers, merchants, men who follow the various pursuits of com mercial life, elbowed each other on that stair way, alongside the men who toil in the~ mines and those who own ths mines. It was a crowd that rep resented every avocation in Western life. These com ponent elements of the so :ial and business world came as if irawn by some strange magnetic force. They knew perfectly well the charac ter of the man they came to see. His fame had long since brushed against the Rockies. They had not forgotten that only a little while ago this man illnman had bounded into the Sena torial arena at Washington and in a speech which lifted him to fame, tiad sprinkled corrosive sublimate over the door of the upper chamber. They knew that his tongue was as sharp as a serpent's tooth. The people well re rembered how every sentence of that ~reat speech boiled over with scorch ng sarcasm, and how the speaker lau mcorked a bottle of vitriol for every period. They knew how he had brought forth old skeletons to the laring light of day, and had roasted she Wall street goldbugs and their White House chief to a brown turn. And when he had finished that re narkable sneech, it was remembered, Benator Hoar aud other Yankee fos mils of his kidney crouched on their eats and in suppressed whispering, aid: "Senatorial courtesy has been uined." But all the while that Senator Till nan was shaiaing up the dry bones mud urncovering the "whited sepul ~bres" in that speech, he was talking earlessly for free silver. The people ast night had not forgotten that fact. s it any wonder, then, that thousands locked to the Brown Palace to do him everence? It was a magnificent audience that ~reeted the Senator. It was patient n its waiting for his arrival. A brass and stationed in the third gallery nade the hour fly swiftly by with its armony. By S o'clock not only was he rotunda crowded to suffocation, :ut far up to the sixth gallery the 'oeo ale had found their way. At S8:20 the band struck up the strains of 'Dixie" mnd the vast audience of 7,000 or 8,000 eope cheercd so lustily that the aesrt of every Southerner prese-nt .vas ;atisfied. While thme melodies of "Dix .e" flimted through the rotunda, Sena or Tiilman, arm in arm with Mayor ~IcMuray. walked down the grand iair ay and took seats on the i-ght >f the platform. They wvere followed by the other membenhrs of the reception ammttee-C. S. Thomas, T. M. Pat ~erson, A. WV. Ruicker, Cald well Yea an. Jos'ph T. Corn forth. N. P. Hill. It. P. Stee-le, E.R. Hlolden and 3-eorge H. Kindel, who took seats on :he stairway landinig imediately )ack or the platfom. The~ arrival of senator Tiitman was thme signal for 'leafening applause. No~ soone-r was :he Senator seated than the Tilbmnan :lub of Denver, eighty stronmg, tilled a fr-om the Se-venteenith street en ~rance and t:ook. their places in fronit f the platform. The leader was a big nan of powerfutl build. anmd abve is ziaygrizzle head he c arri-ed a huge wooden pitchfork, the three proues of which wet-e d: cwrated with red, white md blue r-ibont rop-uctively inl the !olors as naumd Iue him camue .he .steady traimp in:' Tiln n menii aCh1 caring perptendicularly a gen an pitenfcLIork besid- his s-hou lder-. A ,hite' tranmspari:icy bore the wor-ds in ed etters:- "Coorado Must llave reeSl ' er-1tt to 1." The arrival of .i- nuique ciab ereated uproarious :nt.usas in theC audinceIC. But whien Senator-Tilhuman, the her-o f the hour. arose to be introduced by \Iayo- Mc Mu rray the audience attested ts ove tor hinm by wild and tumultu us applause. Yolleysof cheers arose -.,n the crowel in the rotnnda fleor and buffeted against the galleries far above. (.oi. to be answered by still areas-r -o!- of cheers from the crw.)d hit I aniinz over the gallery rail iun. It vas ant inspiring scene. M-n ou the ro;ad i lHor waved their hats ice their exihiti-m. and from along the Oal:le ry rails helutiftu women. whose E t r boun+ ti lent variegated color under electri: lihts. leanen over and wavt-d their handkerchief in their gieef ui iood. It was an honest greet ing of b:ave Westerners to a warm hearted Southerner. and demonstrated the fat that the free silver sentiment is bounded orly by the limits of this great co)untry. It was sev.ral miiutes before the ap pla use su osid d. and Mayor McMurray w is ake t make the speech of seIu;ioet. The novor's welcome was framed l br- a aaiJ )ibral lines. He amred e Senaror that he did not of fer -. ' eme on th'e grouinds of party pol:y,~ but he. a Republican mayor, welc-?ied the distinguished guest, a Dmrtie~ ic United States Senator, as one Wio in this nation had stood for that which was rinht and true. The *audienct cueered this sentiment to the echo. The Mayor was agaiu cheered whets he assured the visitor that Colo rado did not look at the financial ques tion as a local issue, but believed that true biietalism was the only thing that would oring prosperity from Marne to Calforaia. Anotrer opportuuity for applause eii:ed when Ed. R. lloldensteppedto the platforn and made an enthusiastic sp-ec of welcome in behalf of the Tillman club. Mr. Holded created ap pliuse at the beginning of his speech by turni+g to Senator Tillman and saving: "Yoa are the first man who darcd to set aside the sentiments of your own party and stand for the mass es of the people." Another mighty shout of the multitud; went ap when Mr. lIoldea remarked that the pictures of Senator Tillman adorned many cot tage homes from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The seatiment behind the re mark was that Tillman is loved by the masses, weld the audienc: appreciated and approved it. Mr, Holden then presented the Sen ator with a pitchfork, regulation size, but made of solid silver, the wooden handle even having a large band of the white metal. Tne glistening gold tipped prongs were adorned with red, white and blue ribbons. He handed it to the Senator and the latter bowed politely, and then handed it to Mayor McMurray for safe keeping until he was through a reply to the welcome. Mr. Holden created laughter and loud applause by expressing the hope that the Senator would use the prongs of the fork in digging down into the re cords of Senator Sherman and Secre tary Carlisle and exposing their moral cowardice. When Senator Tillman, who had re mained standing during the welcom ing speeches of the mayor and Mr Hol den, stepped forward to make reply the audience again gave vent to un stinted applause. Senator Tillman is aman of striking individuality. In stature he is a little above the medium, and his physique is that of an athlete in appearance. His face is full, his cheeks have a glow of health and he is slightly swarthy, as if tanned by a Southern sun. His full forehead denotes brain power, his square chin tells of determination, his tinely shaped head reveals the phre nological signs of combativeness, and, in fact, the whole man discloses the qualities of an intellectual fighter. He w as~ attired in solid black, with Prince Albert coat buttoned closely over his full chest. As he brushed his black hair back from his massive forehead, a gold ring with a diamond setting glistened on his right hand. He looks the hero that he is. When Senator Tillman began speak ing the utmost quiet prevailed in the large audience, for every one seemed to be -eager to catch his every word. He has a poworful voice, with a ri~ch resonance, and he made himself un derstood even to those in the remotest gallery above. In beginning his re marks, the Senator was slow and de liberate, his gestures were made by his left hand swinging out ward with open palm. -But as he warmed to his sub ject his speech became more fiery, and his gestures were made with out stretched arms, or perhaps both fihts were clinched and he shook them above his head to emphasize some point of logic, or he may sweep a grace ful arc with one hand to accord with otne graceful senti ment in eloquence. IIe is a finished oartor. Senator Tillman, in his response, at ter thanking the audience for its cour teous applause and the committee for its kind attentions, then set himself right with becoming modesty. He as sured the speakers who had flattered him that too much honor had been done him. Then, with sober mind, he declared: "It was not hard for me to call a rascal a rascal, and a thief a thief. If it is against the dignity of the United State Senate for a man to get up . and tell the truth, then God help the dignity of the Senate." This allusion to his famous speech in the Senate, when he used a pitchfork of rabid sarcasm in punching the " be setted tyrant," .elicited deafening ap plause from the audience. About the time silence was restored some man yelled: "Your're all right, Tillman" And then sal vos of cheers rattled along the rotunda from floor to roof. The Senator only spoke a quarter of an hour, but it was evident that he does dot care to be placed in the posi tion of a demigod before whom the peo ple must bow and grovel. He is not the sort of wise man who comes from the Esst, and expects the people to tarry upon his words as if he if a myste rious god. But the Senator wished it to be known that it was only natural for him to tell the truth in the Sen ate, and therefore he was not neces sarily a genius, but simply a man who put into expression the thoughts of the common people. At the close of the Senator's speech there were loud calls for T. M. Patter son. Mr. Patterson, in a few remarks, assured the audience that it was a Tilmau night, and that the people could fille by the platform and the Sea ator would shake hands with them. Immediately there was rush to get into line, and for ever an hour the peo ple passedJ by and grasped the hand of the great fi ee silver apostle, and pass ed out at the Broad way entrance. The line had been going by five minutes when a corpulent lady with gray hair, and wearing gold-rimmed spectacles, walked up and clasped the Senator's hand with a firm grip, and before he knew it she had pulled him forwar-d and had planted a smacking kiss on his cheeks. The osculatory in :ident was loudly applauded, while the Senotor blusned and the lady lied to the street. Thle lady was Mrs. Dar uell anid shie declared that sne was not a . woman' rights woman, but that she was in fa or- of free silver and she ad mizred Senator Tillmiiu for his baavery \rs. Datrueil was accompamted by a beautifulyoungilady, with rosy cheeks ad auourn hair, who seemed to give at sigh of regreat because she could noi stea as kiss from the Senator. One- of tne charming features of the rcep'tionf was the appearance of May W\eaver, a beautiful, brown-haired lit tle iss, who stood on the platform rehind the Senator while he was shak ing hands with tile crowd. She was auired in pure white, and her cheeks ied with the roses in her hair in their tints of beauty. She held the solid sil shepherdess might lean upon a staff. Denver Rocky Mountain News. . WEEKLY CROP BULLETIN. Cotton S,4ud Not God- robtcco Planters Wait for Rain. CoLUMIA, S. C., April 21.-Tnis bulletin covers the weather and crop conditions for the week ending Satur day. April 18th, 1896, and in its prep aration were used reports from one or more correspondeats in each county of the State. WEATHER. The hot weather of the past week was noteworthy not only because the high est April temperatures, within the time covered by the weather bureau records, were recorded, but also be cause the heat wave was so prolonged, as such steady heat is characteristic of July or August, but remarkable for April. The heat of the week converted a deficiency of 70 degrees in tempera ture since March 1st, which existed at the beginning of the week into an ex cess of about 25 degrees. The week exhibited another feature of mid-summer in that it was as hot, or hotter, in the interior as on the coast. The daily mean temperature aver ages from 7 to 12 degrees per day higher than the normal, and from 11 to 16 degrees higher per day than during the previous week. The greatest gain occurred in the extreme western counties, and it was warmest in the south central counties. The highest temperatures reported was 98 on Fri day, the 17th at Gillonsville, Hampton county, and the lowest was 47on Sun day, the 12th, at Greenville. Toe mean temperature for the week for the whole State, taken at 45 differ ent stations, was 73, and the normal for the same period is approximately 63. There was but one shower reported the entire week, and that occured in the upper portion of Sumter county on the evening of Friday, the 17, and the greatest anount that fell was less than one-tenth of an inch (0.03 at Camden.) Along the immediate coast the absence of rain was partially sup plied by heavy dews, which substain ed vegitation, but in the interior there were scarcely any dews. The normal rainfall for the week is approximately 0.80 inch. The defi ciency in rainfall for the whole State is now over four inches, since March 1st. The last beneficial rain occured on April 2d. The winds were generally from the south and southwest, and were very de-sicatiag, especially on newly plow ed ground. Tnere was less than the usual amount of cloudiness generally, ex cept in Berkely county, where the sun shine was reported less than 50 per cent. of the possible, while for the greater portion of the State it ranged between 89 and 90 per cent. CROPS. The reports covering last week di vide the State into two distinct divis ions, but the line of demarkation is but a well-defined one; in a general way it runs from Abbeville to Lancas ter county. To the northward and westward of this line the reports all declare the hot, dry weather favora ble on crops, with the exception of oatssowed since January, which are needing rain badly. To the south ward and westward of the line the re ports indicate a less favorable and more diverisfied condition, altogether on ac count of the lack of rain. Nc t only has there been less rainfall in this division since the crop season began, but the soil is less retensive of moisture generally. Corn of earliest planting is gener-al ly up with a good color and growing fast, but few satisfactory stand are re ported and replanted corn does not come up and will not until it rains; the same is true of late planting. Corn planting is practically finished, except ste May or June corn. Cotton planting slackens, both be cause the greater portion of it has been .'anted and because the ground is too dry for thorough preparation, while others prefer to wait for rain before planting. The first planting is up, but not to good stands. Later plant ing cannot germinate. Wheat is doing well generalay, but needs rain to prevent it from heading prematurely. The condition of fall oats has not changed materially since last week and is fairly promising except that it is likely to head prematurely should the dry weather continue. Spring oats are failing everywhere and in some localities the crop has already failed. Pastures have improved generally under the influence of the hot weath er, but in Beaufort county pastures re failing. Tobacco lands are prepared and only waiting for rain to begin transplant ng a little of which was done before the ground became too dry. Irish potatoes need ramn as do gar lens, the latter are parched on light soils. Early blosoming fruit does not look promisinig generally, but late blos soming varieties appear more favora ble, except that some report fruit, es pecially peaches, dropping badly on account of the dryness. In vie w of the hot weather there is remarkable freedom from destruct ive insects; reports from various sec tions of the State indicate that none have yet appeared. J. W. BAUER, ~State Director. A Preacher Lynched. KNOXVILLE, April 22.-Bob. Chamn ers, a negro preacner, was tied to a tree and shot to death by a mob a Cran berry, N. C., last night. He had at :empted to chloroform and rape Mrs. Wilson. In order to get the people iway from the house, so as to present i favorable opportunity, Chambers ied the barn. A pistol, a large knife md a bottle of chloroforc1 were found n the ro-m. He confessed the crime mnd said he had a companion, intend - ng committing similar outrages if uccessful in this case. Dime Novel Monroe Dead. NEW YonK. A pril 24.-George Mon -oe died suddenly on Thursday morn .ng at Pine Hill, in the Catskills, There he had gone to superintend re airs and improvements in his cout try ome. He fell dead on the road be ween the late Dr. Dr. Howard Cros >y's house and his own while walk ng from breakfast to the spot where as men were engaged at work on the tround. A medical examination ~howed that heart failure was the ~ause of death. He made a great for une in the publication of cheap ed i ions of standard literature in New ~ork. Alabama All Rtight. MONTGO3IERY, Ala-, April 23.-The D~mocratic State convention today tdopted a platform for the free coin tge of silver at 16 to 1 and instructed he delegates to Cnicago to vote as a nit on that and othe, questions. President Cleveland was endorsed on ~verything except finance and the ad ninistration of Governor Oates wais tlso endorsed. EmIsoN calls his newest inveaitio:1 he "-iluoroscope," by means of which anconjunctioni wit h a Urooke's tube he whole interior anatomy of the muman body may be made visible to AN EARTHQUAKE DETECTOR. Marvelous Messages of Shaking" in Japan Conveyed by a Little Instrument. It has become possible to discover an earthquake and to mark its force at a distance of over seven thousand mile, says the New York World. This seems to smack of magic, but it is neverthe less a scentific fact. Some time ago it was stated as simple truth that the earthquake in Algeria was made known to the scientists in Paris itself while it was actually taking place by the un dulati s of certain delicate instru ments cver a strip of paper. That the movements of the earth could thus transmit themselves almost instantane ously, registering, as it were, across the Mediterranean and nearly the whole of France more quickly than a telegraph message could have been sent, was thought hardly plausible. But it can well be believed now in view of a recent more marvelous dem onstration of the self-registering of an earthquake much farther away. Within an hour from the time it com menced the late- earthquake in Japan had revealed itself to the instruments of the Roman college. The oscilla tions of the earth outlined themselves on a single sheet of paper clearly and distinctly, showing plainly that there were five separate "disturbances" of varying force. Recent scientific re ports that have just come from the Japanese empire confirm the accuracy of the instruments of the Roman col lege in a most remarkable manner. The practical part of the discovery is that the approach of an earthquake may be told with little chance of error, though it must be confessed that the instruments give no hint of direction nor do they indicate the starting point. Instruments of this character were at Nicolaieff and Charkow. cities in the central part of Russia, and here the Japanese earthquake mentioned was registered even more plainly, the dis tance in this case from its' seat being fully four thousand five hundred miles. The instruments in these towns were carefully watched at this time and they were seen to oscillate and mark the tremblings of the earth for over an hour. One of the most remarkable of mod ern inventions, indeed, is this seismo graph. which was invented by Bartelli, the "father of earthquakes." The most valuable evidence of its pra'tical bene fit to mankind was in 1883, when the sensitive machine gave warning of an eruption of Mount Etna. Up to this time; however, it has only been valua ble for foretelling shocks comparative ly near at hand. The long-distance in stances recorded above are the first in the history of the seismograph. TOO STCUT FOR CONVENIENCE. Naval Of eers Accumulate Too Much Flesh for Comfort. Following closely upon its considera tion of the much-disputed question as to whether entrances to the conning towers of our ships of war should be made large enough to permit the easy ingress at d egress of the more rotund of our naval officers comes discussion by the navy department as to the meth ods to be employed in removing to the "sick bay" such persons as may be wounded on the decks in action. The intimate connection of the two topics, says the Washington Star, may not be apparent at first glance, but the thoughtful student of naval affairs will doubtless see that there is a relation ship. The principal point to be noted is as to the difficulty that would be ex perienced in removing from the con ning tower the wounded body of one of those obese officers who, when in pos session of all his faculties, could barely manage to' squeeze his way in. By projecting himself edgewise, so to speak, most of the ultra-stout among our naval officers could manage to secure admission, but the getting of one of them out in case he should chance to be injured would be a serious undertaking. Matters like this have to be consid ered now in time of peace; wvhen a ship is in action and the unconscious form of her commanding oficeer is so tightly wedlged in the slot as to make move ment in or out temporarily impossible, it is then too late to discuss the width of conning tower doorways. A twofold remedy presents itself: Either make the slot wide enough to admit easily the embonpoint of a three hundred-and-fifty-pound oflicer and the whole body of a twelve-inch shell, or else insist that officers who cannot easily enter a moderate slotted tower shall stay ashore and do bureau work or roam around on ships that are not equip~ped with towers or other uncom fortably-contracted living or fighting quarters. The Elephant as a Playfellow. A man who has traveled in India a great deal says that an elephant is a better playfellow for a boy than a dlog. Thienative boys make the elants take them in swimmling. They climb on the elephant's back and ride in tri umphb to the best swimming hole. The elephant walks into deep water and keeps right on walking until there's aothing to be seen of him except his trunk and a goodl level island of back. The b~oy stands on the island and yells, like - well, just about like a goodl. healthy American boy, and he dives off the isia nd. and the elephant grabs him withi his trunk and puts him up onto "d!ry land." and answers his veil with a cry th'at's half snort and i:alf whoop, and altogether he grives that boy just as c'ood a time "'in swinmning" as if he had hived in America andi never dreamed~ of usi:ig an elephant's back for a springboard. Queer country, In -ia. isn't it? The Laraest IBowlder. The. yve hircgest erratie bowlder vet reco-a:u'm an mesured within the limits of the ['nited States is a block of granite lying near the town of Madli son. N. 1H. Prof. Crosbyr. of the lBoston [nstitute of Techinolog.;rives the fol lowing as its maximum dimensions: Legh s;3 feet; width. 45 feet t inehes; ici t. :36 feet; contents. 00.000) cnhie feet: probable weight 15.:;00.000 pounds, *u 7.650) tons. -.*Jubilant. ATLANTA, April 23.-The Baptist ome Mission board passed resolutions h'aanking all who have assisted in se uring the release of Dr. A. J. Diaz, he Baptist missionary arrested by the panish in Habana. Dr. Diaz was abled to come direct to Atlanta. The aptists are jubilant. They acted romptly a;d secured the speedy re ease of their missionary. Despondency and Suicide. GLOUCHESTER, N. J., April 18. espondent because of the accidental estruction of $100U of his hard earned avings, Justice of the Peace, Henry . Bancroft committed suicide to day y cutting his throat with a razor. ancroft had hidden his money in a igar box, and his son turew it in the re with some other rubbish. iBlack District Republicans. ST. MATTHEW's April 17.-A con etton to uominate delegatess to the ational Republican convenltion from he 7th district met here today, and ominated R. 11. Richardson of Sum er and -Smith of Lexington, w ith . P. Samuels of St. Matthew's and - Mitchell of Berkely as alternates. Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. Hiohest of all in leavening strength. -latest United States Government Food Report. ROYAL BAKING POWDER Co., New York City. IN SPAIN'S CAPITAL. Madrid Is Not a Great Place. But It Has Soewn Good Points. The city of Madrid is one of the minor capitals of Europi architecturally, and the eivirun:nent provided by nature for such monuments as it possesses is none of the best. says IHarper's Maga zine. The surrounding landscape is monotonous and bare. The few parks are pretty in themselves and the famous promenade. known as the Prado, is broad and nretentious; but these at tractions are insufficient to counterbal ance the shabbiness of dusty, ill-kept streets and dwellings in a dull, nonde script style. Life in Madrid is rendered diverting upon occasions of public re joicing by the presence of the court, otherwise it is the same as in other large modern cities. like New York or London. only not so bright. The bull ring alone may claim to be better man aged in Madrid than anywhere else. This and the ball game called pelota, whili was brought recently from the Basque provinces, are the only impor tant national spectacles, old and p'z turesque institutions, which survive in the center of Spanish political life. There is little in Madrid itself, then, which makes it a tampiation to wander from the highways of European travel. Very few of the buildings and collec tions. aside from the great museum, are worthy of a capital city. The most that can be said for the royal palace, an enormous building designed by a Piedmontese architect, Sacchetti, is that it has more simplicity than was usual in the late renaissance period from which it dates, and that under one of the ravaging skies of which Spain is prodigal in spring and summer it has a regal dignity which is im pressive. if the purely artistic features of the -.:aeme are not. Of tae ar m ry attached to the palace it is p xsible to speak more cordially. It contains a fine collection of antique mail and weapons, finer, I think, than either of those at Turin and Paris. It has the virtue, moreover, uncommon in Spain. of being very well arranged. The academy of San Ferdinand has some good pictures by Murillo, and by a much later man, Goya, who is always interesting: and in the square before the royal palace there is an equestrian bronze of Philip IV., by the Florentine Tacca. which is in a measure compara ble with the statues of Verrocchio and Donatello. STAYED A MOB'S VENGEANCE. How a Professor in a Miltary School Cooied. the Hot-Headed Students. In the winter of 1860-61 the majority of the students at the Virginia mili tary institute were secessionists, whilk the people of the town were almost unanimously for the union. One day, says the San Francisco Argonaut, two of the students camne back to the insti tute much worsted in a fight with the villagers, and the whole school re solved on vengeance- Seizing their guns a large number of the boys start ed toward the town. On their way they had to pass Prof. Jackson's house. and nie came out just in time to inter cept them. Jackson stepped on a horse block in front of the house, and just as the foremost of the students came abreast of him he called out in his most commanding tone: "Halt! front face:" Almost instinctively they obeyed, and after waiting for the stragglers to come up he said in his miildest tone: "Well, young gentlemen, where arc you going?" One of the men explained in a very excited way that two of the 'boys" had been maltr-eated by the villagers, and they were deter mined on revenge. "Well." said the professor, "that may all be very well, but whom have you for a leader? You can't go oii an expedition without a leader." They had not thought of that. they said. "Well, suppose I lead you?' said Prof. Jackson. Nothing would suit them better. "All right," saidl thme professor. "but before we start we must get a little better organ ization." To that end he marched and countermarched them. wheeled them un andl down the road, and, in short. carried them through all the evolu tions necessary for his purpose. which was to cool them off. That being ac c'mplished he halted them before the horse block, and, having lectured them, lie wound up by advising the f to go back to school and be goodloys. And this they did. after giving three cheers for Prof. Jackson. Degeneracy of the Barber's Art. "I tell y'ou." said a Sansom street barber to a Philadelphiia Bulletin re porter, as he took up a pair of clippers and made a wide swath on the scalp of a shock-headed young man muifled up in towels in the chair before him, "I tell you these arec degenerate days. Time was wh'len a man paid more at t'ntion to the trim of his beard or the errIi of his forehek than lie did to the enu: of his coat or the whiteness of his inm.', That's all changed. Now a man rushecs in all of a sweat with his coat half off before he enters the door. I say to hhm: '[low do you want your hair cut. sir?' 'In a hurry,' he says. 'Short in back, with room enough to comb in front' I ask. 'In a hurry.' he answers. and1 so it goes. The hurry up clippers have supplanted the scis sors. while art. as theo hair-cutter knew it of old, goes liying away on the wings of the past." and the barber sighed as he dismissed the well-cropped customer anid called: "Next:" The Force of a Cyclone. C'areful estimates of the force of a ylone, and the energy required to keep a full-fledged hurricane in active oeration. revealed the presence of a power that makes the mightiest efforts of man appear as nothing in compari son. A force fully equal to four hun dred and seventy-three million horse power was estimnatedl as developed in a West Ind'ani evelone. TLhisis about fifteen times the power that is :ratable by all the rmun wit hini the caige of man's capaibiities during the same time. Were steam. water, wind mills and the strengt h of all muen and nimals combined, ther could not at all 1pproach the t reme'ndous force exerted