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THE GARDEN OF COT. REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A SEA SONAELE SERMON. He Compares the Church to a Gardea tie cause It Is the lace of Choice Flower., Select Fruit' and c. ( Thorough I rrigattion -An Invitation to Enter. WSUINTOX. April 26. --As the parks in Washington are abloom with hyacinths, and the gardens are being made, the simile dominant in this subject is very suggestive and practi cal. Dr. Talmage's text was Isaiah lviii,11, "Thou shalt be like a watere1 garden." - The Bible is a great poem. We have in it faultless rhythm, and bold imag ery, and startling antithesis, and rapturous lyric, and sweet pastoral, and instructive narrative, and devo tional psalm-thought expressed in style more solemn than that of Mont gomery, more bold than that of M1l ton, more terrible than that of Daut'-. more natural than that of Words worth, more impassioned than that of Pollock, more tender than that of Cowper, more weird than that of Spenser.. This great poem brings all the gems of the earth into its coronet, ana it weaves the flames of judgment into its garlands and pours eternal harmonies in its rhythm. Everything this book touches it makes beautiful, from the plain stones of the summer thrashing floor to the daughters of Nahor filling the trough for the camels, from the fish pools of Heshbon up to the psalm ist praising God with the diapason of of storm and whirlwind and Job's imagery of Orion, Areturns and the Pleiades. My text leads us into a scene of summer redolence. The world has had a great many beautiful gardens. Charlenaone added to the glory of his reign 1v decreeing that they be estabtished all through the realm, de ciding even the names of the fIldwers to be planted there. Henry IV, at Montpellier, established gardens of bewitching beauty and luxuriance, gathering into them Alpine. Pyren ean and French plants. One of the sweetest spots on earth was the garden of Shenstone, the poet. His writings have made but little impression on the world, "'he Leasowes," will be im mortaL To the natural advantage of that place was brought the perfection of art. Arbor and terrace and slope and rustic temple and reservoir and urn and fountain here had their crowning. Oak and yew and hazel put forth their richest foliage. There was no life more diligent, no soul more ingenious, than that of Shen stone, and all that diligence and gen ius he brought to the adornment of that one treasured spot. He gave ?300 for it; he sold it for ?17,000, And yet I am to tell you today of a richer gar den than any I have mentioned. It is the garden spoken of in my text, the garden of the church, which belongs to Christ He bought it, he planted it, he owns it, and he shall have it, Wal- I ter Scott, in his outlay at Abotsford, ruined his fortune, and now, in the crimson flowers of those gardens, you can almost think or imagine that you see the blood of that old man's broken heart. The pyment of the last ?100, 000 sacrifice him. But I have to tell you that Christ's lifeand Christ's death were the outlay of this beautiful gar den of the church of which my text speaks. Oh, bow many sighs and tears and pangs and agonies! Tell me, ye women who saw him hang ! Tell me, y e exectioners who lifted him and let hmdown! Tell me, thou sun that didst hide, ye rocks that fell! Christ loved the church and gave himself for it. If the garden of the church be longs to Christ, certainly - he has a rig'ht to walk in it. Come, then, 0 blessed Jesus, today; walk up and down these aisles and pluck what thou wilt of sweetnes for thyself. The church, in my rext, is appropri ately compared to a garden because it is the place of choice flowers, of select fruits and of thorough irrigation. That would be a strange garden in which there were no flowers. If nowhere else, they would be along the borders or at the gateway. The holiest taste will dictate so~ething, if it be only the old fashione hollyhock or dahlia or daffodil, but if there be larger means then you will find the Mexican cactus and blazing azalea and cluster ing oleander. Well, now, Christ comes to his aren, and he plants there some of he brightests spirits that ever flowered upon the world. Some of them are violets, inconspicuous, but sweet as heaven. You have to search and find them. You do not see them very often perhaps, but you _find where they have been by the bright ened faces of the invalid and the sprig of geranium on the stand and the new window curtains keeping out the glare of the sunlight. They are perhaps more like the ranunculus, creeping sweetly along amid the thorns and briers of life, giving kiss for sting, and many aman who has had in his way some great black rock of trouble has found that they have covered it all over with flowery jasamine, running in and out amid the crevices. These flowers in Christ's garden are not, like the sunflower, gaudy in the light, but wherever darkness hovers over a soul that needs to be comforted there they stand, night blooming cereuses. But in Christ's garden there are plants that may be better compared to the Mexican cactus-thiorns without, loveliness within, men with sharp points of character. They wound al most every one that touches them. They are hard to handle. Men pro nounce them nothing but thorns, but Christ lovres them notwithstanding all their sharpness. Many a manhas had a very hard ground to cultivate, and it has only been through severe trial he has raised even the smallest crop of grace. A very harsh minister was talking to a very placid elder, and the placid elder said to the harsh minister, "Doctor, I do wish you would control your temper." "Ah," said the minis ter to the elder, "I control more tem-, per in five minutes than you do in five years." It is harder for some men to do right than for other men to do right. The grace that would elevate you to the seventh heaven might not keep your brother from knocking a man down. I had a friend who came to me and said, "I dare not join the church." I said, "Why?" "Oh,"hesaid, "I have such a violent temper! Yesterday morning I was crossing very early at the Jersey City ferry, and I saw a milkman pour a large quantity of water into the milk can, and I said to him, 'I think that will do,' and he insulted me, and I knocked him down. Do you think I ought to join the church?" Neverthelesss that very same man, who was so harsh in his behavior, loved Christ and could not speak of sacred things without tears ofemotionandall'ection. Thorns without, sweetness within-the becst specimen of the Mexican cactus I ever saw Thereare others planted in Chiriss garden who are alwayrs radiant, al ways impressive, more like the roses of deep hue that we occasionally id called "Glants of Battle;" the Martin Luthers, St. Pauls, Chrysostoms, Wyclifs, Latimers and Samuel Rt other fords. What in other men is a spark in them isa conflagration. When they sea+ great drop of blood. When they pray, their prayer takes fire. When they. preach. it is a Pentecost. \Vhea they tight, it is a Thermpyhe. Wh1en they die, it is a martyrdom. You find a great many roses in the gardens, but only a few "Giants of Battle." Men say, "Why don't you have more of them in the church:' I say, "Why don't you have in the world more Ilumboldts and Welling tons:" God gives to some ten talents; to another, one. In this garden of the church which Christ has planted I also find the snowdrops, beautiful but cold looking seemingly another phase of winter. I mean these Christians wh> are precise in their ta :es, unimpassioned. pure as snowdrops and as cold. They never shed any tears, they never get excited, they never say anything rashly, they never doanyt hin gprecipitately. Their pulses never flut'er, their nerves never twitch, their i:dignatiou never boils over. They live longer than most people. but their life is in a minor key. They never run up to U above the stalr. In their music of life they have no staccato passages. Christ planted themii in the church. and they must be of some service, or they would not be there. Snowdrops, always snowdrovs. But I have not told you of the most beautiful flower of all this garden spoken of in the text. If you see a century plant, your emotions are start led. You say, "Why, this flower has been 100 years gathering up'fQr one bloom, and it will be 100 years more before other petals will come out." But I have to tell you of a plant that was gathering up trom all eternity, and that 1,900 years ago put forth its bloom never to wither. it is the pas sion plant of the cross: Prophets fore told it, Bethlehem shepherds looked upon it in the bud, the rocks shook at its burstitr', see and the dead got up in their winding sheets to see its full bloom. It is a crimson flower-blood at the roots, blood on the branches, blood on all the leaves. Its perfume is to till all the nations. Its breath is heaven. Come, o winds, from the north, and windsifrom the south, and winds from the east, and winds from the west, and bear to all the earth the sweet smelling savor of Christ, my Lord: His worth if alt the nations krew, Sure the whole earth would love him too. Again the church may be appropri ately compared to a garden because it is a place of fruits. That would be a strange garden which had in it no beri ries, no plums or peaches or apricots. The coarser fruits are planted in the orchard or they are set out on the sun ny hillside, but the choicest fruits are kept in the garden. So, in the world outside the church, Christ has planted a great mary beautiful things-pa tence, charity, generosity, integrity but he intends the choicest fruits to be in the garden, and, if they are not there. then shame on the church. Religion is not a mere sentimentali ty. It is a practical, life giving, health ful fruit-not posies, but apples. "Oh," says somebody, "I don't see what your garden of the church has yielded." In reply I ask, Where did your asylums come from, and your hospitals, and your institutions of mercy? Christ planted every one of them; he planted them in his garden. When Christ gave sight to Bartimeus, he laid the cornerstone to every blind asylum that has ever been built. When Christ soothed the demoniac of Galilee, he laid the cornerstone of every lunatic asylum that has ever been established. When Christ said to the sick man, "Take up thy bed and walk," he laid the cornerstone of every hospital the world has ever seen. When Christ said-, "I was in prison and ye visited me," he laid the cornerstone of every prison reform association that has ever .ben organized. The church of Christ is a glorious garden, and it is full of fruit. I know there is some poor fruit in it. I know there are some weeds that ought to be thrown over th~e fence. I know there are some crab apple trees that ought to be cut down. I know there are some wild grapes that ought to be uprooted. But are you going to destroy'the whole gardeni because of a little gnarled fruit? You will find worm- eaten leaves in Fontainebleau, and insects that sting in tha fairy groves of the Champs Elysees. You do not tear down and destroy the whole garden because there are a few specimens of gnarled fruit. I admit there are men and women in the church who ought not to be there, but let us be just as frank and admit the fact that there are hundreds and thou sands and tens of thousands of glorious Christian men and women-holy, blessed, useful. consecrated and trium phant. There is no grander, nobler collection in all the earth than the collection of Christians. There are Christian men in this house whose religion is not a matter of psalm singing and church going. To morrow morning that religion will keep them just as consecrated in their worldly occupation as it ever kept them at the communion table. There are women here today of a higher type of c'haracter than Mary of Bethany. They not only sit at the feet of Christ, but they go out into the kitchen to help, Martha in her work that she may sit there too. There is a woman, who has a drunkerd husband, who has ex hibited more faith and patience and courage than Ridley in tne fire. He was consumed in 20 minutes. Hers has been a 20 years martyrdom Yon der is a man who has been 15 years on his back, unable to feed himself, yet calm and peacefurl as though he lay on one of the green banks of heaven watching the orsmen dip their paddle in the crystal i'iver. 'Why, it seems to me this moment as if St. Paul threw to us a pomologist's catalogue of the fruits growing in this great garden of Christ-love, joy, peace, patience, charity, brotherly kindness, gentleness, mercy-glorious fruit, enough to fill all the baskets of earth and heaven. Again, the church in my text is ap propriately called a garden becuse it is thoroughly irrigated. No garden could prosper long without plenty of water. I have seen a garden in the midst of a desert, yet bloom ing and luxuriant. All around us were dearth and barrenness, but there were pipes, aqueducts, reaching from this garden up to the miountamns, and through those aqueducts the water came streaming down and tossing up into beautiful fountains, until every root and leaf and flower was saturated. That is like the church. The church is a garden in the midst of a great des ert of sin and suffering, but it is well irrigated, for "our eyes are unto the hills from whence cometh our help."' From the mountains of God's strength there flow down rivers of gladness. 'There is a river the stream whereof shall make glad the city of our God." Preaching the gospel is one of the aueducts The Bible is another. Bap tism andI the Lord's supper arc aque ducts. Water to slake the thirst, wa ter to wash the unclean, water tossed b:gh up in the light of the Sun of Rightousness, showing us the rain bob. around the throne. Oh, was there ever a garden so thoroughly irrigated! You know that the beauty of Ver sailes and Chatsworth depends very much upon the great supply of water. I came to the latter place, Chatsworth, one day when strangers are not to be admitted, but by an inducement which always seemed as potent with an En glihman as an A merican I ot in, and then the gardener went far up above the stairs of stone and turned on the water. I saw it gleaming on the dry pavement, coming down from step to step until it came so near I could hear the musical rusb, and all over the high, broad stairs it came, foaming !ashing, roaring down, until sunlight and wave in gleesome wrestle tumbled at my feet. So it is with the church of God. Everything comes from adove-par don from above -pardon from above, joy from above, adoption from above, sanctification from above. Hark: I hear the latch of the gar den gate, and 1 look to see who is coming. I hear the voice of Christ, "I am come into my garden." I say: "Come in, 0 Jesus: We have been waiting for thee. Walk all through the paths. Look at the flowers; look at the fruit: pluck that which thou I wilt for thyself." Jesus comes into the garden and up to that old man and says: "Almost home, father.; not many more aches for thee. I will never leave thee: take courage a little longer, and I will steady thy tottering steps, and I will soothe thy troubles and give thee 'rest. Courage, old man." Then Christ goes up another garden path, and he comes to a soul in trouble and says: "Peace ! All is well. I have seen thy tears. I have heard thy prayer. The sun shall not smite thee by day nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil; he will preserve thy soul. Courage, 0 trcubled spirit:" Then T see Jesus going up another garden path, and I see great excite ment among the leaves. and I hasten up that garden path to see what Jesus is doing there, and, lo! he is breaking off flowers sharp and clean, from the stem, and I say, "Stop, Jesus; don't kill those beautiful flowers." He turns to me and says, "I have come into my garden to gather li'.ies, and I mean to take these up to a higher ter race, for the garden around my pal ace, and there I will plant them, and in better soil and in better air they shall put forth brighter leaves and sweeter redolence, and no frost shall touch them forever." And I looked into his face and said: "Well, it is his garden, and he has a right to do what he will with it. Thy will be done" the hardest prayer ever man made. It has seemed as if Jesus Christ took the best. From many of your house holds the best one is gone. You know that she was too good for this world; she was the gentlest in her ways, the deepest in her affections, and when at last the sickness came you had no faith in medicines. You knew that the hour of parting had come, and when, through the rich grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, you surrendered that treasure you said: "Lord Jesus, take it. It is the best we have; take it. Thou art worthy !" The others in the household may have been of grosser mold. She was of the finest. The heaven of your little ones will not be fairly begun until you get there. All the kindnesses shown them by immortals will not make them for get you. There they are, the radiant throngs that went out from your homes. I throw a kiss to the sweet darlings. They are all well now in the nalace. The crippled child has a sound foot now. A little lame child says, "Ma, will I be lame in heaven?" "No, my darling: you won't be lame in heaven." A little sick child says, "Ma, will be sick in heaven' "No, my dear: you won't be sick in heav en." A little blind child says, "Ma, will I be blind in heaven ?" "No, my dear; you won't be blind in heaven. They are all well there." I notice that the fine gardens some times have high fences around them and you cannot get in. It is so with a king's gardenn. The only glimpse you ever get of such a garden is when the king rides out in his splendid carriage. It is not so with this garden, this King's garden. I throw wide open the gate and- tell you all to come in. No monopoly in religion. Whosoever will, may. Chosse now between a desert and a garden. Many of you have tried the garden of this world's delight. You have found it has been a chagrin. So it was with Theodore Hook. He made all the world laugh. He makes us laugh now when we read his poems, but he could not make his own heart laugh. While in the midst of his festivities he conf ronted a look ing glass, and he saw himself and said: "There, that is true! I look just as I am-done up in body, mind and purse." So it was of Shenstone of whose garden I told you at the begin ning of my sermon. He sat down amid those bowers and said: "I have lost my road to happiness. I am angry and envious and frantic and despise everything around me, just as it be comes a madman to do." 0 ye weary souls, come into Christ's garden today and pluck a little heart sease. Christ is the only rest and the only pardon for a perturbed spirit. Do you not think your chance has al most come? You men and women who have been waiting year after year for some good opportunity in which to accept Christ, but have postponed it 5, 10, 20, 30 years, do you not feel as if now your hour of deliverance and pardon and salvation had come? 0 man, what grudge hast thou against thy poor soul that thou wilt not let it be saved? I feel as if salvation must come today in some of your hearts. Some years ago a vessel struck on the rocks They had only one lifeboat. In that lifeboat the passengers and crew were getttng ashore. The vessel had foundered and was sinking deeper and deeper, and that one boat could not take the passengers very swiftly. A little girl stood on the deck waiting for her turn to get into the boat. The boat came and went, came and went, but her turn did not seem to come. Af ter awhile she could waitno longer, and she leaped on the taffrail and then sprang into the sea, crying to the boatnan: "Save me next! Save me next!'' Oh, how many have gone ashore into God's mercy, and yet you are clinging to the wreck of sin ! Oth ers have accepted the pardon of Christ, but you are in peril. Why not this moment make a rush for your immor tal rescue, crying until Jesus shall hear you and heaven and earth ring with the cry: "Save me next! Save me next!'' Now is the day of salvation:! Now! Now! This Sabbath is the last for some of you. It is about to sail away forever. Her bell tolls. The planks thunder back in the gangway. She shoves off. She floats out toward the great ocean of eternity. Wave farewell to your last chance for heaven. "Oh, Jerusa lem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thee as a hen gathereth her brood under her wings, and ye would not! Behold your house is left unto you desolate !" Invited to revel in a garden, you die in a desert! May God Almighty, before it is too late, break that infatuation. Comes south for a Brlie. AIKEN S. C., April 30.-lHon. Thomas James, of New York, ex-post master general, and Mrs. Jam'es Free burn Barden of Aik-en, were married at the residence of W. .T. Platt in this place last evening. Mrs. Platt is the bride's daughter and the bride is a sis ter of the first Mrs. James. Killed by Lightning. BCCKHEAD. Ga., April 30.-Richard Flerno, a segro preacher, was killed by lightning about six miles from here, on the farm of Mr. Leve Wat son. The negro was standing by a DESTROYED BY FIRE. THE WHOLE MINING TOWN ALMOST SWEPT AWAY. Thw Fire Wart SniH at First But Soon Spren.l--'eople Bar-ly EcaperI With Their Live, The Town to 1 ituilt Agtain More S:thtant ially. CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo, April 2.. One million dollars is a conservative estimate of the danage done hr fire ii the heart of Cripple Creek this after noon. Some estimates are as high as two millions. The amount of insar ance will not exceed $250,000. When the aire broke out in Carev's second hand store, the danger of a bid conflagration was not perceived, a nd was thought that the firemen, who were early on the scene would have the ames under control in a very few miyutes. But in a short time the fire had spread to the adjourning building and a brisk wind sprang up. The oc cupants began to move out, but many had waited too long and were unable to get their goods. Somna barely es caped with their lives. Several women were dangerously burned. The heat became so intense that buildings on into service, and goods were hauled away. Not a tenth part of the goods were saved. By the time the postefice had caught. it became evident that the only way to stop the progress of the fire was to blow up the buildings with dynamite. This was done under the supervision of the firemen, and a number of buildings had to be sacri ficed, before the fire had reached them. While one of the firemen was placing a big charge under the Sister's Hos pital the dynamite exploded blowing his leg off. The fire was started about 1 o'clock, and by four it had demolished the blocks bet ween Third and Fifth streets, on Myers, between Third and Fifth streets, on Bennett street. stopping be tween Third and Fifth, on Carr. With the exception of a few buildings on the Third street side, nearly all the buildings between Third and Fifth were destroyed. Many people lost everything they had. The people not affected have offered shelter to the homeless, of which there are several hundred. The burnt district is to be rebuilt at once with brick and stone buildings. The Candidate and the Editor. A candidate sent an editor a note informing him that he was in the race for a certain office and requested the editor if he said anything about the candidate's candidacy to send him a marked copy of the paper. This was too much for the editor and he indig nantly published the following: "We didn't do it. We ain't going to do it. We ain't saying a word. We ain't going to say a word unless the cash is in sight. And we can see smil ing of the Goddess of Liberty on one side of the dollar of our dad's, and count the tail feathers in the Great American eagle on the other. In times past we have given away col umns of paper, and reams of paper, and great gobs of ink in a political campaign. And what did we get in return? Nothing but the privilege of wading in the mud behind the band wag'n, and spilling coal cil on our only coat and getting shot in the tie with a Roman candle. But times have changed and our feelings have changed. Everything have changed except our pockets. There is no change there. We ain't no pack mule to carry no candidate into office and get tne cold shoulder. And perhaps the cold mutton after the election. Our enthusiasm is gone. It has leak ed through the holes at our elbows. Glory is a good thing but cold cash is better. Campaign thunder will no longer reverberate through these col umns, except so much per thunder, in cold cash. Our campaign rooster has to be fed, and wherewith shall we feed him without the cash. Hle's lost his tail feathers from the lASt carrpaign, and needs some extract of gold or sil ver right now. Our tow Ene is sag ging in the middle, and utyaveled at the ends. The sandidate is oiut for the office. We ar e for cash." A Sea Horror Near shanghai. LOsDON, April 30.-A dispatch from Shanghai received here today says that the steamer Onwo has been sunk by colliding with the steamer New Chwang off Woo Sung, ten miles north of Shanghai. The Oawo went down immediately and the New Chwang was beached to prevent her from sinking. It is feared that the accident has been very disastrous. Five foreigners and 250 Chinese of those who were on board are missing. A News Agency dispatch from Shang hai published in the Globe says that by the sinking of the British steamer Onwo many lives have been lost. The European survivors of the sunken vessel are Second Officer Cooper and Third Engineer Allen. The drowned include the captain and five English officers and 300 Chinese. The United States war ships Olympia, Boston, Yorktown and Detroit sent boats to the assistance of the Onwo and~saved many lives. Capture of the Competitor. WAsmNisoNo, Aprii 30.-Advices have reached Washington con firming the report from Havana of the capture by the Spanish naval forces of the American Schooner Competitor, load ed with arms and ammunitions of war for the insurgents, and with a party of men aboard. Contrary to this re port, however, it was found that the vessel came from Key West and not from the Mosquito coast, as reported, and there is reason to believe that the Spanish oflicials were aware in ad vance of her departure from Key West and were on the lookout for her appearance on the Cuban coast. The Competitor was seized at Punta Ber raco, on the north coast of Pinar del Rio, and according to the Spanish re ports there can be no question of the legality of the seizure, for she was not only inside the marine league over which the Spanish jurisdiction extends but at the moment the Span iards swooped down on her, was act ually engaged in landing men and stores. Betrayed Confidence. LONON, April 30.-Dr. W. Play faci, against whom a verdict for ?12, 000 was recently rendered in an action brought by Mrs. Kitson alleging .sL der and defamation of character, has withdrawn the appeal which he enter' ed against the judgment of the court. The terms of settiement with the plaintiff are not made public. The doctor betrayed professional con fi dence, and it was charged was mnista ken in his conclusions besides, and the result was the heavy verdict stat ed. _ The F'inanicial. Issue. The sound money advocates think the indications point to the control of the Chicago convention by the sound money Democrats. It is argued that the practical business men will prevail in thie counsels of the party, and that the silverites will be in a minority. l'he sound money men claim that a large portion of the business of the 5outh and Southwest is conducted on borrowed capital, and that. in order to successfully negotiate their loans, the interests of their creditors must be con wute .-Chaiston Sun. Many Reported Killed. Cox onnax, Kan., April 2S.-The cyclone which swept through this section of the state on Sunday even ing was trobably one of tfie most severe that Kansas has ever experi enced. Its path was about 40)0 feet wide and extended fullv20 miles. It formed about 7 o'clock Saturday even iug near the little town of St. Joseph, in the eastern part of Cloud county. and passed in a northeasterly direction through the northern part of Clay and probably into the southern edge of Washington counties. Fortunately. it struck no towns, but its course was through a thickly settled portion of the Republican valley. The cyclone was funnel snaped and its power un limited. Houses and barns were lifted into the air and dashed back to earth. Trees were uprooted or broken off, and everything in its track was de stroyed. The first victims of the storm were Eli Belthazzer and wife, living about a mile east of St. Joseph. The family was just preparing to seek re fuge in the cellar when the storm struck. The six children were all more or less seriously injured, and it is thought two of them will die. About a mile further east the home of Julian Trembly was destroyed and he was killed. The greatest damage was done south of Clifton. Two farmers, E P. Peterson and J. S. Haynes, were killed, and a number of others whose names could not be learned. At one place a woman and child were killed, and at another a 5-year-old boy. The body of the latter has not yet been found. Several people are reported to be seriously injured south of Palmer, and some of them fatally. The num ber of killed is reported to be 11, but the list will doubtless be increased by another 24 hours. Over 25 persons are said to have sustained serious in juries. Over 20 families were rendered homeless by the storm. The suffering of those injured was rendered greater by the severe hail and rain that close ly followed the cyclone. To the Same Tree. NASVILLE, April 26.-At 1 o'clock this morning, 15 masked men entered the residence of the jailer at McMinn ville, Tenn., overpowered the jailer, took his keys and entered the jail. They were after William and Victor Hillis. who were awaiting trial charg ed with the murder of Carol Martin in Vanburen county in August 1891. When the mob entered the cell where the Hillis boys were confined, Victor snatched up a bed slat and succeded in knocking down two of the crowd be fore he was overpowered. William, realizing that his doom was fixed, fell into a swoon. Without giving the Hillis boys time to don any clothing, the masked men then proceeded to their horses, and mounting rode quick ly and silently out of town to a point about five miles southeast of here, near Shellsford, where they hung the two brothers to the saue tree. The crime for which the Hillis boys were lynched was committed in Van Buren county in 1894. Carol Martin, an aged citizen who lived with his daughter in tie mountains of Van Buren, and who was supposed to have $1,000 in his house, was attacked one evening in August 1894, about twilight by two men with their faces blackened. The old man, who was 82 years of age, was murdered and his daughter, who struck one of the men on the arm with an axe, was shot in the leg. The men finally made off without their booty, the money having been thrown into the grass by Miss Martin. The Hillis boys were arrested on strong circum stantial evidence. The case has been continued several tinies in the Warrer county court, to which a change of venue took the case and, after convic tion, an appeal to the supreme courl resulting in a reversal, the people be came tired, with the above result. State. _______ As to Pensions' COLUMIBIA, April 30.-As has already been stated the increase of the amount appropriated for pensions from $50,000 to $100,000 has caused many thousands of people to make applications and hundreds of them are bound to be dis appointed. There are hardly enough application blanks to supply the de mand. The Comptroller General esti mates that there will be at least 7,000 applications, whereas, under the old law, there were only about 2,000 who received pensions. Instead of being increased, there is every probability that the number of pensioners will be decreased. While the law doubled the appropriation, it divided pensioners and amounts they were to receive in certain classes which, if paid, would soon dispose of the appropriation en tirely even in one class. The law, also, provides that where a man has a net income of $100 yearly from any source he shall not have a pension, but there are a great many who have that in come of $100 yearly who are making applications. None such will receive pensions, but there seems to be a gen eral idea that almost every Confeder ate soldier can come in, while as a matter of fact the number of pension ers will be increased very little, if at all. If it is increased certainly pension ers will not get what is provided for in the Act, because the board is al lowed to scale it down which will have to be done if there is much of an in crease in the numbers.-Register. Another Advance Made. The Keelev cure has been introduced into the St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, Md. The good Sister's -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 ficacious 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 rando, 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 tute or drawer 27. Large Seizures of Liquor. CoLcMBI, April 30.-The dispensa ry people were happy today. Two wagon loads of liquor seized about Charleston were received here this morning. One wagon load was made up of the lot seized at Rantowles. The authorities report that they are receiv ing more liquor from Charleston than ever before. The royalty that is offer ed for seizures seems to be the incent ive that leads to most of these large selzzurfs. This Looks- Bau(. EDGEFIELD. April 29.-State Consta ble C2ovar seized at the express onice~ at Edgelield yesterday a barrel of beer shipped to Leon J. Williams, a mnem ber of the State board of control. The express agent has given Covar a re eipt for the same beer to be shipped BETTER THAN EXPECTED. THE WEEKLY CROP BULLETIN IS QUITE ENCOURAGING. R.ainfall Ww. Light .Btt Did 11u1h (G 1i to the Young Crops Tinuzal A pril ieat i-xperi enced. CoLma.A pril 2). --Director U=.uer of the weather bureau yesterday is sued the following weekly bulletin of the cor'ition of the weather and I he crops in the State: This bulletin covers the weather and crop conditions for the week ending Saturday, April 25th. and in its prep aration were used reports from one or more correspondents in each county of the State. WEATHER. Hot weather continued the entire week, but with a gradual tendency to wards lower temperature. There was more cloudiness, also, that tended to make the heat more tolerable than during the previous week. The excess in temperature averaged 1u degress per day over the normal, ranging from S on the coast to 12 in the west ern portions of the State. The heat was very evenly distributed; 32 sta tions reporting mean temperature, did not differ more than 3 degrees in their mean for the week. The mean temperature for the week, deduced from 32 stations, was 76 de grees, and the normal for the same period is approximatly 65 degrees. A maximum temperature of 98 was recorded at Gillisonville on the 20th, and the week's minimum of 57 was recorded at Greenville on the 21st, and at Society Hill on the 251.h. The dry weather was greatly reliev ed in places by rains that covered the entire State during the afternoon and night of Friday, the 24th, with the exception of parts of Fairfield county, where no rain fell. The north central counties, includ ing Richland, Fairfield, Union, New berry, York, Lancaster and Sumter, had least rain with amounts in no place exceeding 0.50 of an inch and generally less than 0.25 of an inch; in the extreme western counties the rain was somewhat heavier, and also in the Savannah valley, while in the eastern portions of the State the rain fall averaged from 0.50 of an inch to 1.80 inches. The average of 42 rainfall measure ments for the week was 0.51, and the normal !or the same period is approx imately 0.S2. More rain is needed and no crop has had enough. The beneficial effects of the rain were increased by the generally clou dy weather during the latter portion of the week. The first of the week was almost cloudless. The sunshine average(i about 74 percent. of the pos sible. The thunder storms of Friday eve ning (24th) were accompanied in many places by vivid lightning and high winds, the latter having reached al most tornadic force in Aiken county, with considerable damage to fencing, forests and to buildings, but crops were too small to have suffered in jury. High winds were quite general on that day, but the resulting damage, if any was slight. CROPs. There is little change to record -i the general condition of crops', except where the rainfall was most copious, all vegetation was freshened and vi talized, but over the greater portion of the State the need of rain has not been materially lessened by the amounts that fell, which in many places gave only surface wetting. The northeastern counties fared best in the matter o2f rainfall, and there all crops and vegetation were looking well at the close of the week. Ravages of insects are this week re ported from various portions of the State: Colorado beetles in York, Char leston and Beaufort counties; a small beetle has attacked tobacco plants, cut worms are destructive in the fields and gardens in Lexington county, and other reports of less specific nature in dicate the prevalence of insect pests over a large portion of the State. The majority of correspondents re port corn in fine condition, with good star ds, healthy color and growing off well, in view of the dry weather. Bot tom lands are yet to plant largely, but more rain is needed to soften the ground before it can be prepared. Early planted corn is in some instances receiving its second working. Later planting coming up slowly but satis factorily. The corn crop at this time is in a very fine, promising condition over the entire State. Cotton planting. has prgese ar lywlhving L'een resumed since the rains, and is nearly finished; diff erent sections report from 10 to 25 per cent, yet to plant. That of earliest planting is up to pretty good stands, but hardly satisfactory ones, while later planting is comingup very slow ly, but will be helped by the rains where heavy enough. The cotton crop has generally made satisfactory advance over the previous week, and has, and is, receiving its first plow ing. Some tobaccc has been transplanted in the northeastern counties where the rains made the ground wet enough, but more and heavy rains are needed to make transplanting safe, and so this work was not pushed during the week. Reports from Kershaw county state that many beds failed, and that in consequence of the scarcity of plants, lands that were fertilized and prepared for tobacco will be planted to other crops, principally cotton. Generally tobacco plants are locking fine. Wheat is heading low but retains a good color. Fall oats are heading very low; were greatly helped by the rains, but need more rain. Spring oats continue to fail and any amount of rain would scarcely bring it into coidition to make a crop. Rice, sugarcane, melons and the usual minor crops are being largely planted, and where up are growing well, but with these, as all other seed, germination is very slow. In places sweet potato slips are rea dy for setting. Fruit looks promising generally, and apples particula~rly so in the western counties. Wild black berries are blooming finely and prom. ise to be plentiful. Farm work is well advanced and is up with the needs of the crops. Up land pastures are failing for want of rain. Teller Wil B ol t. WASHINGTON, April 29.-Two nota ble speeches by Senators Teller and Sherman, representing opposing ele ments on tile financial question, were heard in the Senate today. Mr. Teller addressed himself particularly to the Ohio Senator, controv-erting the views held by him, and maintaining that no honest effort had been made in the present Congress to pass a tariff bill. The Senator referred in Passing to the McKinley candidacy, saying t aat the motto of "Advance Agent of Prosperi ty-' was delusive, as no prosperity could come until financial conditions were reformed. The climax of Mr. Teller's speech was reached when he announced that he would vote as he spok~e, and that he would not hesitate to separate himself from the great part y with which he had been allied forty years if it pronounced for the gold standard. F:G-M iT ING DULS iN TAL.. .lroof tho Only E-irel.u in Which Na tax-% of he- sunny3 Land Indu1 ze. I~1uein !:; tl lke:7lil4 1!1! :llnlost the I ' ?.-.: :hiet le sDtrt ini tti::. says the -:r. It is true that tixre is an : 1".x ' Ilil, s J-t'!": I": 1'e. - . I[ti2 1Aeim-s. but there is no criccet. aa1 e-ept 111ng the lab1!in: ca- s h::l gamnes.i of even the mlit timr:teter are li:trly ever playe' d. Th1. , I, 1ia !al ..lithItall in in d el" ing an exercise which is beneficial to) his im.usc'les :tind sallielentv exeiting t"" inltere- him:n, and the imidde-::.-ti Italian ke.eps up his practice with the fils and oecasilonai!v challenges and fi.ghts a friend just to show that he i: n! It so o11 as to have lust a genial inter est in the innocent pursuits of youth. Dueling is contrary to law in Italy, but the duelist is never punisled (un less he should accidentally kill a man . except in the army. where the sport is obligatory and strictly prohibited. The same curious anomaly exists in (er. many, where army oflicers are arrest ed and punished if they fight a duel and1 either cashiered or forced te resign if hey <io not. The Italian ofli cer. when challenged to fight, is virtu ally told: "You'll be cclnlemuned if you do and condemnred if you don't." Th.is seems to the A ngo-Sason decidedly idiotie. but nothing can well be more iditic than dueling. Playing cha rades in a drawing-room rises to plilo sophie heights of wisdom in comn parison with it. At least ninety-nine out of everv hundred Italian duels are of the class technically known a:s "first blood duels. That is to say. the combat ceases the moment either of tile adversaries loses blood. In these duels the sword is always used. and the slightest scratch on the hand or the arn-which are the localities usu ally scratched-signalizes the end of the Lamne and authorizes the duelists to sheathe their weapons and go some where to dinner together. Instances have happened in which a duelist has been accidentally run through the body and killed. but incidents of this sort are extremely infrequent comu pared with the fatalities of the fool. ball field. Italian dueling is prohahly the safest of all athletic sports. except prize fighting as practiced by modern pugilists by means of letters to the sporting papers. Thrown out as a Feeler. COLtJIBIA, April 30.-Col. F. W. McMastr has taken hold of a move ment to have a Convention here of sound money men. He urges that some action be taken, and has issued the following address: "It is manifest that a majority of the business men of the State are op posed to the free coinage of silver, and that if there is a free silver plank in the Democratic platform the Republi can party must win. "By prompt action oa the part of the business men of our State we may avoid the catastrophe. . "Let a convention of self-appointed Jefferson Democrats met in Columbia at 12 o'clock M. May 13. . Let ten men come from Charsleston, five or more from Columbia, Spartanburg, and Greenville, and two or more from every town and village in the State. "Let this Convention, representing themselves to be true Democrats, Mass the following platform or some paper embodying the idea: "We, a Convention of citizens of South Carolina professing to represent the majority of true Democrats in the State, declare that we are in favor of sound money, and a tariff sutficient o meet the expenses of the Gvera 2ent. "That we heartily endorse the poli y of our noble President, Cleveland, n maintaining our present gold stand rd, and in preserving the credit of the aaton. "That we are uralterably opposed o coining silver at 1t; to 1. "Let the Convention thus constitut d elect delegates to represent the true Democracy of South Carolina. Let hese delegates go to Chicago and laim tbeir seats on the groun~d that he Tillman delegates are not Demo rats insomuch as they advocate cheap and therefore dishonest money. "If the delegates thus appointed by ur business men succe ed in gaining heir seats the National Convention ay and probably will have a maajcri y of votes for sound money, and the ruculent Benjamin will receive a tab un-ier the difth rib and the weight f his mailed band being removed, is delkded satelites will fiop over to rue Democracy arnd South Catrolina ill be delivered from Egyptian darkc ess. F". W\. McMAsTER, "Columbia, S. C. No More Dodging The Law. There was confusion in the old la w s to travelling out-door showvs. The aw provided for a license fee of $200; ut there was doubt as to whether this eant for each exhibit or each county, .id als- on account of an error intod ficatio2 there was a slight question as o whe:her, the fee was really $200) or oly $t00. Again, the law specified circus." This may be taken to mean oly shows in which there is a ring, nd there was a question as to wheth r it included menagerie exhibits and crobatic or other performance. At he last session of the general assembly, owever, the matter was greatly hin lifed by the enactment of the follow ig which was approved on March 9: ection 1. Be it enacted by the gen ral assembly of the State of South arolina, That section 1758 of the eneral statutes, being sec:,ion 1870 of he revised statutes of 1893, be amend d so as to read as follows: Any cir us or other such traveling show ex ibiting under canvass or outdoors for gain shall, before exhibiting in ny county in this State, obtain a li ense to show from the clerk of the ourt of such county, and shall pay to the said clerk for such license one hun ~red dollars for each and every day said circus or other shows shall be ex ibited: and said clerk shall forth with ay over to the county treasurer of said county all the mone ys by him re - eived on account of said license, to4 e applied to the use of said county. Fatal Error A fter Forty 1ears. CHARLEsTON. S. C., April 30.-Dr. .. M. Cohen, a drtuggist of long staud or, on upper King street, has been harged with catusing the death of a egro child, last Friday by careiessly ~opounding medicine. A coroner's aquest has been held and the verdict ttates that the child came to its death arough D~r. Cohen's carelessness. The ecused was bound over for trial be >re the next term of the sessions ourt. It is claimed that Dr. Cohen ut into the medicine tive cents worth I strychnine instead of onie-tfth g rain f the same poison. Dr. Cohen is ivell known in the city and has been the drug business for forty years. NiroLAs Tesla, the Ne w York elec riciani and inventor, has succeede-d by eans of the X rays. in seeing th rougn e bodies of three men placed one be tind another. It will be of intere st to athi the uses to which thlis marvelous iscovry will be put. The Charleston un says a man will no iorg*:r be safe hen an imp~lortunlate friends strikes ) tim for a loan, least when one swears e hasn't a cent, the persistent indgj POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar'baking powder. Highest of all in leavening strength. -Lae.<t United States Goc'ernmzent Foodi Riepof. ROYAL BAKING POWDER Co., New York City. The World's Wealth. The estimated amount of -money, gold, silver and paper, of the thirty two principal governments of the world, is $10,700,000,000. Of the to ta., gold comprises $4,086,000.000, sil ver, $1,071,0O0 000, and paper $2,564, 000.000. The largest stock of gold is in France. which has over SS50.000 040. Germany is second, with $625, 000,000; the United States third, with $61S.000,00; Great Britaia fourth, with $580,000,000, and Russia follows with more than $4S0,000.000 to her credit. The "white metal" is found in greatest quantity in the currency of India, over $050.000,000 entering into the monetary circulation of that em pire. China comes second in point of silver circulatien. with $750.000.000 while the United States is a close third, our currency being composed of more than $625,000,000 of the commodity, which many of our Senators and Con gre ismen insist should be freely coined at t 2e ratio of 16 to 1. Of paper money we find that Russia has a larger amount than any one other nations, $533,000,000 of the "long green" going to make up her circulation. Our coun try is not far behind Russia in this re spe"-t, there being over $416,700;000 of parer money in the United States. Great Britain has $113,400,000 in pa per currency. Coming to the distri bution of this vast amount of wealth among the people of the variouscoun tries, or the percapita wealth, we find France in the van with $35.78 for each one of the thirty-eight million and more citizeds of tnat wonderfully resourceful republic. It is especially remarkable that France should bold this position, when one recalls the de vas tating Napoleonic wars she suffered from during the first fifteen years of the present century, the subsequent political upheavals and her crushing defeat at Sedan, in 1873, when she lost not only her military - prestiege, but the two rich provinces of Alsace and Lorraine as well, and besides a huge war immediately saddled on her by the Germans. I t speaks well for French industry artd thrift. The .United Sti~tes comes fifth in point of per capi ta wealth $23.59 being the amount' that each "son of freedom" would re ceive if the entire stock of money in the country were divided among us equally, a plan after the hearts of some of our citizens of a socialistic bent, who seek to remedy the existing inequality, where one man has multi millions and another is , unable to "raise the price" of -a cooling glass~of larger. While great inequality, ud-> for tunately, does exist in the distribu tion of ?his world's e oods, all efforts to co:-rect the evil will doubtlesss prove. fu~ile as long as industry, intelligence and thrift are the superiors of indo lence and improvidence, "in the. world's broad field of battle." Contending Forces In Cotton. Not in years has so littie cotton ben in sight in the world's markets as to day. Depending so largely upon the American crop, this showing is easily accounted for in the home shortage last year. According to the Financial Chronicle, the world's visible supply is 3.291,753 bales against respectively 4,319,325, 4,000,001 and 3,291,347 bales one, t wo and three years ago. Up to A pril 10 the total brought into sight in this crop year according to Secretary Hester of the New Orleans cotton ex change, was 6,519,301 bales, against 9,335,502 one year ago, the last named figure being over 94 per cent of the ull commercial crop then. This shortage would suggest the possibility of manipulation of the market, were it not for the fact, for one thing, that there a little speculative interest, ei ther inL A~rmerica or Europe, and also the w. ailablity of th e spinner to c:'ntrac t for needed requireme uts when tI e new crop is near at hand. Outlin irg the situation in a general way, Hubbard Bros. & Co , of New YorK, write as follows: Many merchants, whiile admitting the strength of the position, contend that the m irket will be governed entirely by trade condi ions; therefore with general busiies depressed and cotton goods, if selling a. all, selling belo w the prices of last season, prices are high. enough. They: :nintain this view to be the correct. >aie so long as no encouragement cant b found in the outside situation to in d ace speculation. Others believe the peice will be entirely governed by the rospect for a large crop next season, iad therefore the market will be cou t:olled by weather conditions and no. by the supply remaining from this c-op. On the other baud, it is held tiat the world's supply will be so re duced in the autumn, that regardless of he crop, the demand will be bo great hat cotton is a purchase even in the fce of depressed trade conditions. To be a success. A UGUsnA. A pr'il 27 .-The leading msiness interests of the south and p'.minent otlicials of southern rail ays cordially endorse the Southern tates exposition at Chicago, and are ieti ely supporting the greatest enter :rise ever undertaken to adtertise ana i'velop the dormant wealth of the south. The southern advisory com rittee has been called to meet at At anta. May 1st, to perfect a thorough torking organizition. Tuere is no oubt tnat the exposition which opens t Chicago on the 15th of August and ontmnues for- three months will be a rand success. The following letter as been~ received from Vice P-resident. Ludre vs of tha Southern railway: New York, April 22, 1896. Jr. Patrick WValsh, Cnairman South ern \Advisory Baard Chicago and Southern States Exposition, Augus ta, Ga. Dear sir: In 'he absence of our resident in Eitrop, you: letter of the l1th inst., aiskin~g thle cooperation of he Southern Railway c-ompar.y in ehalf of the Southern Stases exposi ion at Chicago las beeni referred to In reply 1 beag to sayv that we have avesigated the matter and will take leasure in miakiug aniex hibit, if satis actory arran 2ements can be made. Yoars very truly,