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THE DRAMA OF LIFE. "MEN SHALL CLAP THEIR HANDS AT HIM AND HISS HiM." Rev. Dr. Talmage Choose. Another Unique Text and Preaches an Eloqtuent and lor tatory Sermon FTu of Vivid Picttures. Last Act of the Drama. WasmGTO , May 21.-Rev. Dr. Talmage, in this discourse, sets forth the causes of failure in life, drawing on a Biblical reference to the the thea ter for startling illustration. His text was Job xxvii, 23, "Men shall clap their hands at him and shall hiss him out of his place." This allusion seems to be dramatic. The Bible more than once makes such allusions. Paul says, "We are made a theater or spectacle to angels and to men." It is evident from the text that some of the habits of theater goers were known in Job's time, because he describes an actor hissed off the stage. The impersonator comes on the boards. and, either through lack of study of the part he is to take or inaptness or other incapacity, the audience is of fended and expresses its disapproba tion and disgust by hissing. "Men shall clap theirhands at him and shall hiss him out of his place." My text suggests that each one of us is put on the stage of this world to take some part. V hat hardship and suffering and discipline great actors have undergone year after year that they might be perfected in their parts you have often read. But we put on the stage of this life to represent char ity and faith and humility and helo fulness-what little preparation we have made, although we have three galleries of spectators, earth and heav en and hell! Have we not been more attentive to the part taken by others than to the part taken by ourselves, and, while we needed to be looking at home and concentrating on our own duty, we have been criticising the oth er performers and saying, "that was too high" or "too low" or "too feeble" or "too extravagant" or "too tame" or "too demonstrative," while we our selves were making a dead failure and preparing to be ignominiously hissed off the stage? Each one is assigned a place. To supernumeraries hanging around the drama of life to take this or that or the other part, as they may be called upon. No one can take our place. We can take no other place. Neither can we put off our character. No change of apparel can make us anyone else than that which we eter nally are. Q Many make a failure of their part in the drama of life through dissipation. They have enough intellectual equip ment and good address and geniality unbonded. But they have a wine closet that contains all the forces for their social and business and moral overthrow. So far back as the year 959 King Edgar of England made a law that the drinking cups should have pins fastened at a certain point in the side, so that the indulger might be reminded to stop before he got to the bottom. But there are no pins projecting from the sides of the modern wine cup or beer mug, and the first point at which mil lions stop is at the gravelly bottom of their own grave. Dr. Sax of France has discovered something which all drinkers ought to know. He has lound out that alcohol in every shape, whether of 'wine or brandy or beer, contains parasitic life called bacillus potumanice. By a powerful micro scope these living things are discovered and~when you take strong drink you take them into your stomach and then into your blood, and, getting into the crimson canna of life, they go into every tissue of your body, and, your entire organism is taken possession of by thesenoxiousifinitesimals. When in delirium tremens a man sees every form of reptilian life, it seems it is only1 these -aaie of the brain in exag ertdsize. It is not a hallucination ibtthe victim is suffering from. He only sees in the room what is actually crawling and rioting in his own brain. Every time you take strong drink you swallow these maggots. and every time the imbiber of alcohol in any shape feels vertigo or rheumatism or nausea it is only the jubilee of these maggots. Efforts are being made for the discovery of some germicide that can kill the 'aastes 'of alcoholism, but the only thng that will ever extir pate them is abstinence from alcohol and teetotal abstinence, to which I would before God swear all these young men and old. America is a fruitful country, and we raise large crops of wheat and corn and oats, but the largest crop we raise in this country is the crop of drunk ards. With sickle made out of the sharp edges of the broken glass of bot tle and demijohnl they are cut down, and there are whole swathes of them, -whole winrows of them, and it takes all the hospitals and penitentiaries and grveyards and cemeteries to hold this havest of hell! Some of you are going down under this evil, and the never dying worm of alcoholism has wound around you one of its coils, and by next New Year's day it will have another coil around you, and it will after awhile put a coil around your tongue, and a coil around your brain, and a coil around your lung, and a coil around your foot, and a coil around your heart, and some day this never dying worm will, with one spring, tighten all the coils at once, and in the last twist of that awful con volution you will cry out, "Oh. my God!" and be gone. The greatest of dramatists in the tragedy of "The Tempest" sends staggering across the stage Stephano, the drunken butler, but across the stage of human life strong drink sends kingly and queen ly and princely natures staggering forward against the footlights of con spicuity, and then staggering back into failure, till the world is impatient for their disappearance, and human and diabolic voices join in hissing them off the stage. Many also' make a failure in the drama of life through indolence. They are always making calculations how little they can do f or the compen sation they get. There are more lazy ministers,lawyers, doctors, merchants, artists and farmers than have ever been counted upon. The community is full of laggards and shirkers. I can tell it from the way they crawl along the street, from their tardiness in meeting engagements, from the lethagies that seem to hang to the foot when they lift it, to the hand when they put it out, to the words when they speak. Two young men in a store. In the morning the one goes to his post the last minute or one minute behind. The other is ten minutes before the time and has his hat and coat hung up a; his post waiting for duty. The one is ever and anon, in the afternoon, looking at his watch to see if it is not most time to shut up. The other stays half an hour after he might go, and, when asked why, says he wanted to look over some entries he had made to be sure he was right, or to put up some goods that had been left out of place. The one is very touchy about doing work not exactly belonging to him. The other is glad to help the other clerks in their work. The first will be a prolonged nothing, and he will be poorer at 60O years of age than a 20. rThe other wilt be a mecrhaunt: prince. Indolence is the cause of more failures in all occupations than you have ever suspected. People are too lazy to do what they can do and want to undertake that which they cannot do. In the drama of life they don't want to be a commo" soldier. carrying a halberd across the stage, or a falconer, or a mere attendant, and so they lounge about the scenes till they shall be called to be something great. After awhile, by some accident or prosperity or circumstances, they get into the place for which they have no qualification, and very soon, if the man be a merchant, he is going around asking his creditors to compromise for 10 cents on the dollar, or, if a clergy man, he is making tirades against the ingratitude of churches, or, if an at torney by unskillful management he looses a case by which widows and orphans are robaed of their portion, or. if a physician, he, by malpractice, gives his patient rapid transit from this world to the next. Our incom petent friend would have made a pas sable horse doctor, but he wanted to be professor of anatomy in a universi tv. lie could have sold enough con fectionery to have supp->rted his fami Iv, but he wanted to have a sugar re doery like the Havemeyers. He could have mended shoes, but he wanted to amend the constitution of the United States. Toward the end of life these people are out of patience. out of money, out of friends, out of everything. They go to the poor house, or keep out of it by running in debt to all the grocery and dry goods stores that will trust them. People begin to wonder when the curtain will drop on the scene. After awhile, leaving nothing but their compliments to pay doctor, undertaker and Gabriel Grubb, the grave digger, they disap pear. Exeunt: Hissed off the stage. Others fail in the drama of life through demonstrated selfishness. They make all the rivers empty into their sea, all the roads of emolument end at their door, and they gather all the plumes of honor for their brow. They help no one, encourage no one, rescue no one. "How big a pile of money can I get?" and "How much of the world can I absorb?" are the chief questions. They feel about the common people as the Turks felt toward the Asapi, or com mon soldiers, considering them of no use except to fill up the ditches with their dead bodies while the other troops walked over them to take the fort. After awhile this prince of worldly success is sick. The only in terest society has in his illness is the effect that his possible decease may have on the money markets. After awhile he dies. Great newspaper capitals announce how he started with nothing and ended with every thing. Although for sake of appar ance some people put handkerchiefs to the eye, there is not one genuine tear shed. The heirs sit up all night when he lies in state, discussing what the old fellow has probably done with his money. It takes all the livery stables within two miles to furnish funeral equipages, and all the mourn ing stores are kept busy in selling weeds of grief. The stone cutters send in proposals for a monument. The ministers at the obsequies reads of the resurrection, which makes the hear ers fear that if the unscrupulous finan cier does not come up in general ris ing he will try to get a "corner"~ on tombstones and graveyard fence. All good men are glad that the moral nui sance has been removed. The Wall street speculators are glad because there is niore room for themselves. The heirs are glad becausc they get possession of the long delayed inheri tance. Dropping every feather of all his plumes, every certificate of all his stock, every bond of all his invest ments, every dollar of all his fortune. he departs, and all the rolling of "Dead March" in "Saul," and all the pageantry of his interment, and all the exquisiteness of sarcophagus, and all the extravigance of epuitaphology, cannot hide the fact that my text has cotie again to tremendous fulfillment, "Men shall clap their hands at him and shall hiss him ou-t of his place." You see the clapping comes befor~e the hiss. Tho world cheers before it damns. So it is said the deadly asp tickles before it stings. Going up, is he? Hurrah! Stand back and let his galloping horses dash by, a whirlwind of plated harness and tinkling head gear and arched neck ! Drink deep of his maderia and cognac! Boast of how well you know him! All hats off ashe passes! Bask for days and years in the sunlight of his prosperity ! Going down, is he? Pretend to be near-sighted, so that you cannot see him as he walks past. When men ask you if you know him, halt and hesitate as though you were trying to call up a dim memory and say: "Well ye-s, yes. I believe I once did know him, but have not seen him for a long while." Cross a different ferry from the one where you use to meet him lest he ask for financial help. When you started life he spoke a good word for you at the bank. Talk down his credit now that his fortunes are col lapsing. He put-his name on two of your notes. Tell him that you have changed your mind about such things, and that you never indorse. After awhile his matters come to a dead halt, and an assignment or suspension or sheriff's sale takes place: You say: "He ought to have stopped sooner. Just as I expected. He made too big a splash in the world. Glad the bal loon has..burst. Ha, ha!:" Applause when he went up, sibilant derision when he came down. "Men shall clap their hands at him and hiss him out of his place." So. high up amid the crags, the eagle 1lutters dust into the eyes of the roebuck, which then, with eyes blinded, goes tumbling over the precipice, the great antlers crash ing on the rocks. Now, compare some of these goings out of life with the departure of men and women who, in the drama of lire, take the part that God assigned them and then went away honored of men and applauded of the Lord Almighty. It is about 50 years ago that in a com paratively small apartment of the city a newly married pair set up a home. The first guest invited to that resi dence was the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Bible given the bride on the day of her espousal was the guide of that household. Days of sunshine were followed by days of shadow. Did you ever know a home that for 50 years had no vicissitude? The young wom an who left her father's house for her young husband's home started out with a parental benediction and good advice she will never forget. Her mother said to her the day before the marriage: "Now, my child, you are gcing away from us. Of course, as long as your father and I live you will feel that you can come to us at any time. But your home will be else where.. From long experience I find it is best to serve God. It is very bright with you now, my child, and you may think you can get along without religion, but the day will come when you will want God, and my advice is, establish a family altar, and, if need be, conduct the worship yourself." The counsel was taken, and that young wife consecrated every room in the house to God. Years passed on, and there were in that home hilarities, but they were good and healthful, and sorrows, but they were comforted. Marriages as bright as orange blossoms could make them, riven. They have a family lot in the cemetery, but all the place is illumi nated with stories of resurrection and reunion. The children of the house hold that lived have grown up, and they are all Christians, the father and mother leading the way, and the chil dren following. What care the mother took of wardrobe and education, char acter and manners. How hard she sometimes worked. When the head of the household was unfortunate in business, she sewed until her lingers were num and bleeding at the tips, and what close calculation of econo mies, and what ingen'iity in refitting the garments of the elder children for the younger, and only God kept ac count of that mother's sideaches and headaches and heartaches and the tremulous prayers by tae side of the sick child's cradle and by the couch of this one fully grown. The neighbors often noticed how tired she looked, and old acquaintances hardly knew her in the street. But, without com plaint, she waited and toiled and en dured atd accomplished all these years. The children are out in the world, an honor to themselves and their parents. After awhile the moth er's last sickness comes. Children and grandchildren, summoned from afar, come softly into the room one by one, for she is too weak to see more than one at a time. She runs her dying fingers lovingly through their hair and tells them not to cry, and that she is going now, but they will meet again in a little while in a better world, and then kisses them goodby and says to each, 'God bless and keep you. my dear child." The day of the obsequies comes, and the onliciating clergyman tells the story of wifely and motherly endurance, and many hearts on earth and in heaven echo the sentiment,and as she is carried off the stage of this mortal life there are cries of, "Faith ful unto death." "She hath done what she could !" while overpowering all the voices of earth and heaven is the plaudit of the God who watched her from first to last, saying: "Well done, good and faithful servant: Thou hast been faithful over a few things. I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!" But what became of tue father of that household? He started as a young man in business and had a small in come, and having got a little ahead sickness in the family swept it all away. He went through all the busi ness panics of 40 years, met many losses and suffered many betrayals, but kept right on trusting in God, whether business was good or poor, setting his children a good example and giving them the best of counsel, and never a prayer did he offer for all those years but they were mentioned in it. He is old now and realizes it cannot be long before he must quit all these scenes. But he is going to leave his children an inheritance of prayer and Christian principles which all the defalcations of earth can never touch, and as he goes out of the world the church of God blesses him, and the poor ring his doorbell to see if he is any better, and his grave is surround ed by a muititude who went on foot and stood there before the procession of carriages came up and some say, "There will be no one to take his place," and others say, "who will pity me now?" and others remark, "He shall be held in everlasting remem brance." And as the drama of his life closes all the vociferation and bravos and encores that ever shook the am phitheaters of earthly spectacle were tame and feeble compared with the long, loud thunders of approval that shall break from the cloud of witness es in the piled up gallery of the heav. ens. Choose ye between the life that shall close by being hissed off the stage and the life ~ that shall close amid acclamations supernal and arch angelic. On, men and women on the stage of life, many of you in the first act of the drama, and others in the second, and some of you in the third, and a few in the fourth, and here and there one in the fifth,but all of you between entrance and exit, I quote to you as the peroration of this sermon the most suggestive passage that Shakespeare ever wrote, although you never heard it recited. The author has of ten been claimed as infidel and atheist, so the quotation shall be not only religi'xus ly helpful to ourselves, but grandly vindicatory of the great dramatist. I quote from his last will and testament: "In the name of God, amen! I, William Shakesi~eare of Stratford upon-Avon, in the county of War wick, gentlemen. in perfect health and memory, (God be praised), do make this my l'ast will and testament, in manner and form following: First, I commertd my soul into the hands of God, my Creator, hoping and assur edly believing through the only mer its of Jesus Christ, my Saviour, to be' made partaker of life everlasting." A Slanal Victory For Silver. LEXINGTON, Ky., May 31.-The free silver leaders are jubilant today over their sweeping victory throughout the State yesterday. Accurate figures on the returns from the state show (70 silver delegates to the State con vention against 240 of gold. The sil ver men carried every congressional district except the Fifth, which is the Louisville district. The western end of the State, including the Frst, Sec ond, Third and Fourth districts did not send a sound money delegate, and for that reason, the leaders, who have consulted with Senator Blackburn, think it will be proper to make a wes tern Kentucky man chairman of the convention. 'The choice will probably fall between ex-Congressman Good night of the Third district, and Con gressman Stone of the First, Senator Blackburn is disposed to be magnani mous. He said tonight: "There is no time for quarrelirg. The success of the Democratic party ought now to be the the aim of every true Democrat. We have fought a good fight and we have won. We ought riot to say an unkind wvord of our late opponents nor censure those who came to us at the eleventh hour." The friends of Carlisle and Cleveland are not so easi ly propitiated, for they say they -will not vote for a free silver candidate for President. They openly avow their preference for McKinley or any other Kenublican for President over a silver Democrat running on a free silver platform. Senator Blackburn will probably be made temporary chairman of the convention Wednes day. He is in splendid spirits tonight over yesterday's victory and the hun dreds of congratulatory telegrams he has receivedl from all over the Union. A Gold Eng Bolt. CmeCAco, May 21.-At a representa tive meeting of the sound money men of Iltinois held at the Palmer House yesterday afternoon, it was decided that a new Democratic organization in Illinois should be inaugurated. The object of the new party will be to de feat the silver men, and to that end they will ignore the present coun ty and State committees, and will not take part in the primaries called for tomorrow. They will also hold a State convention of their own, at which a delegation to the national conven tion will be chosen. This delegation will be pledged to the single gold standard idea. Another meeting will be held next Thursday and a comnete plnio action will be outlined. ~ LOYAL WOMEN ORGANIZE. CONVENTION OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY. An Adnirale Con-titution Adopted--Mr Ioins' Proposition Endorsed-Thanks to CaItain White -Ch:arleston. Invitation Received. COLMm.a, May 2.-The State con vention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy met yesterda - at 12 m. in the senate chamber of the state house, and remained in session about three hours. Besides the delegates there were a good many Columbia ladies present, all tending to make the occasion one of enjoyment as well as of usefulness. Dr. J. W. Flinn, chairman of the escort of honor from Camp Hampton, was called on to open the meeting with prayer. At the conclusion of the prayer he submitted the following: To the United Daughters of the Con federacy, South Carolina Division: Lidies-I have the honor to report that an escort of honor has been ap pointed from Camp Hampton veterans to tender your most honorable body any service you may require in aiding your plans. The escort consists of the following gentlemen: Col. R. G. La mar, Col. McMaster, Col. Cardwell, Col. W. H. Manning, Col. Youmans. Col. A. D. Goodwyn, Col.. R W. Shand, Col. T. J. Lipscomb, Adjt. D. R. Flenniken, Dr. T. B. Legare, Rev. J. W. Flinn, D. D. These gentlemen are at your bidding. Respectfully, J. W. Flinn After reading the above, Dr. Flinn invited the ladies to visit the South Carolina college, and assured them that the faculty would take great pleas- 1 ure in aiding them in any way. A temporary oreanization was per fected, Mrs. Smythe being chosen president, and Mrs. Miles secretary. The president appointed the following committee on credentials: Mrs. Clark Waring of Columbia. Mrs. Bailey of Georgetown, Mrs. Buist of Greenville. The committee's report showed these delegates present: Charleston-Mrs. augustine T. Smythe, Mrs. L. C. McCord, Mrs. E. R. Miles, Mrs. James Connor, Mrs. Zimmerman Davis.Mrs. Fannie Jones, Miss S. A. Smith, Miss Etta Kelly and Miss Bessie Ravenel. Abbeville-Mrs. W. C. McGowan and Miss Perrin. Greenville-Mrs. Hugh Buist and Miss Blythewood. Georgetown-Miss Munnerlyn and Mrs. Bailey. Edgefield-Mrs. John Bacon. Marion-Miss Durham. Johnston--Miss Ready. Spartanburg-Mrs. C. E. Flem ming. Columbia-Miss Kate Crawford, Mrs. Thomas Taylor, Mrs. T. J. Lips comb and Mrs. Clark Waring. The temporary organization was made permanent after accepting the report of the committeeon credentials. The chairman of the Charleston del egation submitted a draft of a consti tution. which was referred to a com mittee of five, consisting of Mrs. Smythe, Miss Kelly, both of Charles ton; Mrs. Taylor of Columbia, Mrs. Flemming of Spartanburg, and Miss Ready of Johnston. During the recess which was taken until this committee should report, refreshments were served in the ante room of the senate chanber. Here the ladies mingled freely together and spent a pleasant time making new friends and chatting with old ones. Tea and cakes were welcome to all after the arduous duties of the morn ing. and when the convention was called to order everyone felt much better, The constitution was read and adopt ed by sections. It declares the name of this division to be, "Daughters of the Confederacy, South Carolina Divis ion." Continuing, it says: "The ob ject of this association shall be literary, charitable and social; to collect records and incidents of the Confederate war; to aid in the preservation of the truth of its history, the perpetuation of the principles involved in that struggle, and the memory of those who took part therein; and to see that there is laid before the rising generation an impartial and just account of that pe riod of our history. Those eligible to membership in this organization are. "The widows,( wives, mothers, sisters nieces and lineal descendants of such men as j served honorably in the Confederate army or navy, or civil service, or those persons whose loyalty gave material aid to the cause, and also all women, and tneir lineal descendants wherever living, who can give proof of personal service, and loyal aid to the southern cause during the war."r The constitution and by-laws as adopted, are concise and well written, and reflect credit on their authors. Carrying out the provisions of thec constitution, Mrs. A. T. Smythe of Charleston was elected president: Mrs.s Conner, of Charleston, first vice presi dent ;Mrs .Thomas Taylor of Columbia second vice president; Miss Martha B.a Washington of Charleston, secretary I and Mrs. Durham of Marion, treasurer.e Mrs. Bacon offered the followinge resolutions, which were adopted: - Resolved. That we, the U~nited I Daughters of the Confederacy of Southi Carolina, in convention assembled, doe greatly value the generous propositione of Mr. Charles Broadwvay Rouiss ofJ Ne w York, to donate $100,000 for the t establishment of a grand battle abbey or memorial in the south, for the ore servation of Confederate relics and re cords, on condition that the wholes united south contribute an equal I amount for that purpose. 2. That we heartily endorse the splendid scheme of this high-souled man, once a poor Confederate soldier, now a wealthy New York merchant, ant, and will exert, our best efforts to I advance this patriotic project. 3. That it is the sense of tuis meet ing that no place will be so appropri- - te for the battle abbey as the Confed erate museum the stately mansion for- a merly occupied by the Hon. Jelfer son Davis, while P'resident of the Con-( federate States, now held in sacred s trust by the Confederate Memorial c Literary society of Richmond. Mrs. Miles spoke on the offer made t by Mr. Rouss, to defray one-half the expenses of erecting a memorial shaft at Winchester, if the ladies of South( Carolina would raise the oth~er half. N l-s. Miles said she had visited the Stonewall cemetery and that 149 soldi- 1 ers graves were known an.i marked, 1 but that there were 800 unknown, many of them from the upper lpart of this State. The Daughters should 1 avail themselves of Mr'. Rouss' offer and raise the required funds. Mrs. Fleiining offered the follow- I ing resolution, which was passed: Whereas, Capt. Samuel E. White of Fort Mill, S. C., has erected in his town a handsome monument to the I women of the Con federacy; therefore, beit Resolved, That we the South Caro- a lina division of the Daughters of the a Confederacy, in this, our fir-st meet- e ing, return most hearty thanks to aptain White for his generous and chivalrous act. We also wish to as- r sure him that it is our highest aim tov cherish and keep green, through our d association the memory of the brave a men who made the geat safce or Cn their State in the hour of need. In the future we shall endeavor to show ourselves worthy of this noble deed of a gallant soldier. Mrs. Waring announced that Gen eral Hampton would preside at the meeting for the free library, which was held last night in the opera house and invited all the ladies of the con vention to attend. Charleston invited the divison to hold its next annual meeting in Decem ber, at that place, Mrs. McLeod, on the part of the visiting delegates, offered the follow ing resolution, which was passed: Resolved, That the thanks of the visiting members of this conven tion be given to the ladies of Colum bia for their warm-hearted hospitality and kindness; also to the members of the United Confederate Veterans for their courteous attention to the dele rates; also, to the State House author ities for the use of the senate chamber. and to Dr. J. W. Flinn and the fac alty of the South Carolina college for their courtesy. The convention after this adjourned. The women who constituted yester lay's convention were as represeata Live a body as could be gotten togeth :r, and their actions reflect credit on themselves and the organization of which they are members. The stay of the visitors was made as pleasant as poss ible by the ladies of Columbia, and all will doubtless often hink of the hospitality of the city on ,he Congaree. MANY PERSONS KILLED. k Cyclone's Destr.Actire Work in the State of Michigan. DETROIT, Mich., May 26.-The cy lone which devastated the northern ortion of Oakland county last even .ng swept a path half mile wide and ixteen miles long from west to east, ,leari-ng the earth of nearly every hing moveable. About forty per ons were killed outright and fully that number were injured, some of whom will die. The cyclone first truck the earth six miles west of Or onville and passed half a mile north >f that village. In these six miles of levastated country before Ortonville was reached fifteen persons were kill ad and twenty injured, some fatally. Of the injured William Mitchell, Joseph Porritt and John Wilkie will lie. At the Mitchell homestead not a trace of the house and farm buildings remain but the foundations: There is nothing but foundations to show where he home of Abraham Quick stood. Bix occupants of the house were killed md one seriously injured. Prescott Wilkins, one of those killed in the quick home, had reached there on a n'isit but an hour befor the cyclone tore its way through. The home of John Wilkie, on a Line with Ortonville, was unharmed, but his barns were wiped out. Mr. Wilkie and his son John, aged is were in a barn when it was demolish !d. The son was instantly killed and he father is in a critical condition. [n the next half dozen miles f the track of the storm only two persons were killed and the damage was comparatively light. The dead tre Mrs. Cleo K. Meaton and Ed l'ifield. Three persons were proably fatally injured and ten less seriously aurt. The cloud struck Oakman almost without warning and there is little eft of that village today. The Meth dist Episcops.1 and Congregation ~hurches the town hall, practically all Lhe busines housess and most of resi lecnces were left in ruins. Nine per ons were killed in the village and nany injured. The three miles tretch from Oakwood to Thomas, is a ~cene of heartrending desolation and wreckage. Everything in the path of he cyclone was levelled. In and round Thomas, the death list is arge and many are injured. Between Oakwood and Thomas and n the latter village the dead are: EIrs. Van Wagner, Charles Hicks, hv. C. M: Pretchyplace, Andrew Pettibone, M. Bremeyer. After com leting its work of destruction at IChomas the cyclone evidently separa ed, one section going northeast and loing immense amount of damage be ween Thomas and Dryden, in La eer county, and the other following a outheasterly direction to North Ox ord. After leaving North Oxford, he path of the southeast cyclone is narked at intervals until Mount llemens is reached, where greiat dam. Lge was done and many persons in tired, only one fatally, however, a vidow named Anna Pohl, whose back vas broken. The next heard from the storm was tear Walkerville, Ontario, twenty nie a e scuth of Mount Clemens he cyclone evidently expended its orce after striking Canada,as no other eports of damage have been received. t.fter passing Dryden, and White rille in Lapeer- county, the next he-ard rom the other storm was in Sanilac ounty, thirty miles away at the vil age of Amadore, which was nearly wept away. The funnel shaped cloud struck a nile west of the village and in a path mile wiae and six and a halt miles ong to the shores of Lake Huron, ev ry building was more or less damag d. Tuscola county was also visited >y a wind storm of cyclonic violence ast evening. Nearly every building n the path of the storm, which start d near Gilford and traveled directly ast for six miles, was destroyed. 'oseph Malburg was hit by a flying hoard and instantly killed. Eleven Drowned. CAIRo, Ills., May 26.-This morning bortly after S o'clock the ferryboat catherine, capized and 11. persons reredrowned. The boat left her land nig at 8 o'clock and was near the Illi Lois shore, about a mile below here. rhen the storm struck her. She turned ompletely ov-ei and remained in that osition for some time, while her up ~er works were carried away, nothing emaining but her hull ar.d engine. ~he captain, John F. Hacker, Engi eer Geo. Ma gee, Clerk Stanley Posey nd Jos. Curry, a passenger, escaped rom~ the wre~ck and they assisted Dr. )rr of Wycklitf'e, Ky., another pas enger, out of the debris and they all limbed up on the overturned hull, w-hich was partly submerged. They xpected every minute it would sink .nd Hacker, Posey and Curry swam shore, while MaGee remained with )r-r, who could not swim. Assistance was soon at hand and the survivors rere brought to this city. The boat Las since righted herself and lies with er stern considerably sunken. Dr. )rr was badly injured about the head y falling timbers. He was stand ag in the cabin with Mr. Rittenhouse rhen the boat turned over and he can Lot tell how he escaped. Mr. Ritten Louse and Mr. Gilhofer were both old esidents of Cairo. sad. Picnic Ending. COLUMBIL S. C., May 22.-At Sa uda, a picnicking ground ten miles bove here, Bellinger Fishburne and 'inckney Purse, boys about 16 years of ge, were drowned today. They had *one from here with several hundred hildren on the annual picnic of the Vashington Street Methodist church nd went swimming in the Saludia iver. Pinckney sank and Bellinger, rent to his rescue and both were rowned. They were both most ex Ilent boys, and their sad ending has POSTPONEMENT OF T HE EXPOSITION What the Hon. Patrick Warsi. Says A io.at the Matter. AU(;cSA, May 2t. To the People of the South: On account of the great interest man ifested in the reported postponement of the Southern States' exposition of Chicago and in response to numerous telegraphic inquiries. I make the fol lowing statement: The announcement of the postpone ment of the Southern States' exposi tion at Chicago on account bf the Ten nesse Centennial was totally una'ithor ized by the advisory board. Neither the chairman nor the secretary of the board authorized any such statement. The dispatch sent out from Chicago last night by the Associated Press that the secretary of the board at Augusta made such a proposition in the inter est of the Tennessee Centennial is wholly unfounded. Before my de parture for Washington last week in the interest of the exposition, I wrote a letter to Major J. W. Thomas, pres ident of the Tennessee Centennial, who was until recently the Tennessee member of the advisory board, depre ciating the inaction of Tennessee. In this letter, I informed Major Thomas that if Tennessee was hostile or indif ferent to the Southern States exposi tion. I would resign my position as chairman forthwith. The answer to this letter confirmed me in the belief that nothing had been done in Tennes see, and Major Thomas informed me that it would be impossible to prepare Tennessee's exhibit in three months. I was in Washington when Major Thomas' reply to my letter reached Augusta. On its receipt, General Manager Debarard and Mr. Thomas K. Scott, who had taken an active in terest in the exposition, visited Major Thomas in Nashville. The result of their visit is briefly summed up in the statement that Major Tnomas went with the Augusta delegation before the Tennessee commissioners, ad vocat ed the Southern exposition, and agreed to subscribe S1.000 to the fund. "Mr. Debarad came onto Washing tou and explained the situation in Tennessee. "I returned to Augusta last Wednes day to find that 11 appointments had been made for me in Georgia by Pres icient Mesbitt of the Georgia Exposi tion company. I was not satisfied with the general situation, and-my ap pointments were postponed. On my return from Washington. und an official notice from the c an of the Chicago committee that the south must have exhibits from nine States. This was the agreement entered into at Chicago. A prominent citizen of Chicago wrote me confidentially that he thought the Chicago management would be satisfied with exhibits from seven States. I could only see in sight exhibits from four States, supplement ed by exhibits from the Southern rail way, the Mobile and Ohio and the Georgia railway. Under these cir cumstances, with a notification from Chicago that the management there would have to be definitely informed 1 of the south's action by the 25th, I is sued a call for a meeting of the south ern advisory committee to be held in Augusta on Thursday next. I wired the Chicago management of the Au gusta meeting and invited Chairman Lawrence to be present, or to send a delegation as the meeting was impor tant. In response to this, Chairman Lawrence wires today: "The com mittee deem it unnecessary to be rep resented on Thursday. Have writ ten." I have not been officially notified of the postponement of the exposition by the Chicago exposition company. If the Southern Exposition is a failure, it would be a perversion of the truth to place the blame on the merchants of< Chicago, who have made the most pub lic spirited and most liberal offer ever made to advertise the products and re- < sources of the south. If the proposed southern exposition fails, let us place - the responsibility where it belongs, on< the citizens of the States who have - failed to avail themselves of Chicago's 4 unexampled opportunity to advertise the varied products and unrivalled natural bounties of the southern States. 1 I have given three months' time to I the Scuthern States exposition of Chi cago, and I feel that the work has not I been in vain. Patrick Walsh. Chairman. THLE EXPOSITION OFF. AUCsTA, May 28.-The proposed Southern States exposition is aband-. zd, because the s'outh did not re spond in accordance with the terms of the agreement entered into at Chicago that nine States should be represented. South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama would have been ready in time-Mary- S land applied for space. The Southern I railway, the Mobile and Ohio and 9 other roads had also applied for space. These roads would have secured ex hibits from half a dozen more States, C but this would not have been a com pliance with the agreement. The depressed condition of business, rendered it impossible to secure favor-r able action in the Virginias, Northb arolina, Florida, Mississippi and oth- a er States. Under the circumstances, the South ern advisory board which met in this k ity, declared the exposition off. The ~ chairman has authorized the follow- c ing announc ement, which will be re ieived with regret by the friends of , Southern development, wno appeciate r the generous offer made by Chicago and who believe in cultivating trade o r~ations between the citizens of the south and northwest. The advisory board of the Southern s States exposition company met in Au- b usta this morning and declarea the s proposed exposition otf, for the reason t that a sullicient number of States had b not responded in aecordance with the e agreement entered into in Chicago in February last. This is to be regretted r because of the liberal otfer made by *y Chicago, and the great opportunity which the exposition would present to nvertise the south. Tbc ~advisory d board feels that the provisional comi- a mittee of Chicago has complied with Lts agreement and expresses the earn est hope that a southern exposition will be held in that city in the not dis- c nt future. Rhspect fully, Patr-ick Walsh, Chairman. \ iveryh'.ay W11 1)e welcomIV.I l('Iolon, May 2t.-Some of the eatures of the approaching Con fed ~rate reunion will be the reception i . be given at the Confederate muse- v 2m in honor of Mrs. Jeltersoni Davis ji nd her two daughters, Miss Winie d Davis and Mrs. IHayes. The idea is if .hat this entertainment should be C nore select, and that a limited num- b er of invitations should be issued, h~ s5 been exploded. The atrair will be public and ' rough the columns of he oress, the thousands who will be in Richmond on the night of June 30l, v tS%, will be extended a cordial invita- t ion to attend. Mrs. Davis and her t. laughters will receive in the Georgia t oom, which was Mrs. Davis' draw- fi ng room while she presided over the o iomestic atairs of the '"White H~ouse y :.f the Confederacy." Other ladies w' who will be in the room with Mrs.L Davis will be the sponsors represent- a ng the several States, the omeiers of a he Confederate Memorial Literary Ih ociety and the regent and the vice Ia THE STORM KING AT WORK U~eathi i Being Cyciones Visit Iowa and Michigan. DES MoiM:s. May 25.-As more de finite accounts reach here of the storm in Polk and Jasper counties the num ber of dead is placed at 20 with as many more seriously injured, a number of whom will certainly die. The storm started in two divisions about 12 miles north of Des Moines, the starting points being nine miles apart. Asthe divisions progressed they gathered force and gradually converged until they met two miles east of Ankeny and there they developed first the cy lone form with funnel and tremen :ous force and with roaring and elec. trical disturbances. MCGEGOR. Ia., May 25.-A fatal cloudburst devastated this city and county las t night. For 10 miles every thing is in ruins. All the afternoon the clouds were gathering and about 1 o'clock the storm burst in its fury. con deluging the valley it swept everything before it. Six bodies have been found and no people are missing. A. small stream called Bloody run pas ses through the town, and some of the anfortunate victims are supposed to have been carried out in the Missis sipoi river, into which Bloody run smnties at North McGregor. OELWEIs, Ia., May 25.-A cyclone, half a mile in width, passed through ingo, Ia., about 12:30 this morning, illing Mrs. Martha Dickey, Mrs. L Witney, Mrs. Schell and a young child >f D. Aiken. ROCKFORD, Ill., May 25.--Several people were killed and many thou sand dollars worth of property de troyed by a storm of wind, hail and rain, which swept upon tbis region Last night. Four persons were injur ad, some fatally. The storm was nost severe southeast or the city. At nidnight a cyclone struck one mile south of Egan City, wrecking the res dence of Mrs. Isora Bird and killing er instantly. Dc. llilderbrandt, his wife and laughter were killed near Monroe 'enter, the wife being beheaded by a Iying beam, and Miss Rhinehart lost er life at Leaf river. Davis Junc ion was also a victim of the storm to serious extent. In this city, the storm raged for nore than an hour, filling the air with balls of electric fire and flashes >f lightning, following with frightful -apidity. The city, however, escaped he destructive force of the storm, the :hief damage being to houses struck >y lightning, first floors and base nents flooded and telephone wires roken. The railroads into the city ire obstructed by washouts. The racks are strewn for miles with the reckage of the storm. PONTLIC, Mich., May 25.-Reports 'rom Ortonville, Oakwood, Oxford nd Thomas which are located in Oak and county, 15 to 20 miles north of sere, say that a cyclone swept these ;ections this afternoon. Ortonville md Thomas were nearly wiped out of ?xistence. It is said that fully a dozen >eople lost their lives at Ortonville, ivhile at Thomas four were killed. MoUNT CLEMMENS, Mich., May 25. -A cyclone passed over this city this wening wrecking about 50 houses mnd kiling six or eight persons-and njuring several others. HUNDREDS THROUGH A BRIDGE. >e of the Year's Greatest Disasters at Vic toria, B. C. ICc.oRIA, B. C., May 26 .-A defect. ye soan in the Government street traf i bridge across Victoria Arm, gave way this afternoon, precipitating a oaded street car and several private arriages into the, bay, 100 feet below. Che number of victims cannot at this ,ime be estimated. The bridge was rowded with vehicles containing leasureseekers bound for MacCan ey's Point, where the qneen's birth [ty celebration sports were in progress. .t 2 p. mn., a large and heavily laden. ar left Government street, having up ards of 100 people on board. When the middle span of the traffic ridge, about 150 feet in length was -eached, it collapsed, throwing the car Lnd a number of carriages and foot >assengers into the water. The car was completely submerged and all ave a few who were on the platform nd roof were drowned. A number ere killed by falling timbers, and a ew escaping by climbing to the float. ng ruins of the bridge. The number if cars lost anid the foot passengers arried down in the wreck cannot be earned. It is claimed by many that illy 200 persons went down with the pan and tbat more than half of them erished. The accident occurred so uickly that nobody has a very clear ecollection of what transpired. A umber of bodies have been carried ut of the harbor by the outgoing tide, hich runs at not less than seven :nots an hour at the point where the ccident occurred. Sixteen identified bodies have been ecovered, as well as a nuanber, which ave not been identified and others re constantly being taken out of the rreck. UOwing to the fact that nearly every ind of craft in the city was engaged >r the day, boats were hard to pro ure and the work of rescue was some rhat slow. Steam naptha launches rere hurried to the scene, and in this articular the boats of the various rarships were the most active. Scores f people who were floundering in tne rater or clinging were picked up and iken to places of safety, but many ank before the eyes of the rescuers efore they could be reached. The ad atfair Ihas cast a deep gloom over 1e city. The navai review and sham attle 'were caucelled, as were all oth r sports planned for the afternoon. Tuousands of sorrowing friends and1 elatives are gathered around the ap roaches of the bridge eagerly scan ing each body as the work of rescue rogresses. It "will probably be several ays before the full extent of the dis ster can be correctly estimated. Her Children swept Awiay. Duuasmo, Ia., May 25.-In the midst f the storm here ton ight, Mrs. Clark, ~ation agent of the Cnicago and Great 1 Vestern railroaa, was called from her I asidence to the depot nearby to get I rders for a train, which had just ar ied. She took her four cnildren I i:h ner. and was at work when theC ood, sweeping down the Maquota aley, carried away her residence and3 aiy tihe depot which was borne own sti-eamn a oulle and a half. TheJ ur children were drowned, but Mrs.. Mark clung to the roof and was saved 1 y the trainmen. Her bereavement as dethroned her reason. Electrocute'd in The Streets. ST. Lonis, May 31.-One person 1 as killed, one fatally injured and o seriously, in a panic on an elec -ic car on the Carondelet line. The olley wire broke and fell on the car, ightening passengers, who rushed ut. Miss Veronica Pavelock, 17 ears old. camre in contact with the I 'ire anid was instantly killed; Miss s illie Gloqutte, 17ypars old, sustained compound fracture of the skull ad will die; Miss Blanche Cloquete, er sister, received a scalp wound t ad Uswalk Vatt, a butcher, had hiis POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. Hiohest of all in leavening strength. -Latest United States Government Food Report. ROYAL BaTING POWDER Co., New York City. OUR OLD VETERANS. Sarge Plunkett Watches tht Impressive Scenes on Memorial Day. As I stood upon the corner and watched the procession on Memorial Day I forgot my own sorrows while remembering the brave Confederates for whom the day is celebrated. Thirty five years have passed since the guns lumbered at Fort Sumter, yet it seems but a short while to the old folks; so short a time that the inci dents of those troublous days seem as but yesterday. These memorial occa sions lend a hallowed sweetness to everything around, and it is to be hoped that the interest in them will never grow less, but will go on, in creasing down through the ages. It should be thus, and especially does it occur to me that little caildreu cannot be impressed too forcibly with the sacredness that sutrounds tae oc casion. They should be encouraged to take the liveliest interest, for to thern will be left the duty of perpetu ating and keeping the occasion Let the children, sweet and lovely, Bring that day the sweetest flowers, And their hands in loving kindness, Scatter them in softest showers, Above the graves where heroes sleep And thus perpetuate and keep A sacred day. It will not be long-it will see mighty short when it has passed-till the children of today will be men and women. Last Monday I watched a mother at her work who was a babe in the cradle in the year 1861. It did not seem long, as 1 ruminated over it, since this mother was a babe, and yet she was starching and ironing the dresses of her own little children, and before the line or march was taken up they were ready, looking prim and sweet with flowers to scatter. This is as it should be, and I hope enthusiasm will never grow less. Ttur ty-five years ago as 1 stood over the cradle of this mother of to-day, I little dreamed of what was to come, and come so quickly. She had a sweet mother in those troublous days, sweet as any now, and the last time I saw her she was fixing up clothes to go into her husband's irnapsack. John was this husband's name, and he was the father of the babe in the cradle the mother of last Mtonday. As I watched this mother of last Monday it brought up many memories, sweet memories and sad memories, -so sad that I could but shed a tear as .1 watched and ruminated. I could see her soldier father as he waited for his. clothing to be packed. I could see his foot tilting the -rocker up ancL . down, up and down, it seemed so real as I studied upon it. And that war time mother came back to me so plain, so plain. I could see her as steolded the garments, so clean and smooth, along with the gray jacket and packed them into the knapsack. With every garment came a tear, but she kept her sorrow hid-many times she turned away to keep John. from seeing the tears. I saw the parting. Isaw many sorrowful partings. Tneir hearts were ready to burst when the little babe was taken from the er..le to be kissed goodby. The little babe thought it was fun and jumped and crowea, and I doubt whetner sne has ever realized how good and brave a father she lost when John was killed at Malvern Hill. I'nen Let the mothers-while there's any And the sisters and the wives, Of the noble Southern heroes Who for country gave their lives, Mlagnify M1emorial lbay Teach the children in this way 3Make it sacred. I watched with espe.aisl interest the yld veterans in the procession. All :heir heads are tinged with g:ay. Tne youngest among them are groating >ld, and their line is shorteniug fast. rhese old men look almost pitiful now. They are bent with age, and Limping with infirmities, but thirty ive year ago they stepped proudly to he tap of the drutm, and I doubt if here will ever be again such physical nanhood as was round in an carlv ieorgia regiment of volunteers. Taeoy were as strong of heart as they were >f limb--brave, true and willing Grand survivors of the conflict "Rebel" veterans, old and lame Raise your heads in pride of conscience For with the dead you share the faume That was won through tribulation, ln a loved, but short lived nation- - lll.as this day. Especially should noble old (Jon !ed rate women be remembered on the~e >ccasions. It was her part of tue treit tragedy to etuifer lat solitude. Chey had not the privilege to die. lhey could not join in th : songs of he camp nor the excitment of the >attles-they could ouly be patient, - and suffer, suffer. Wneu the child en were sick they nursed them all Jlone; when tbe childreu cried for >read it was for these women to hear heir cries, and the children had none >ut these mothers to feed them. There ver-e many, many just such cases. ick children and an empty meal bar el was the portion of many a Con ederate mother for mrn-e than once. lut they were as true as the Spartan romen of old, and they should hold a nost atfectionate nooa int the hearts of oming generations. What changes have the last thirty 'ears brought? What changes will the next thirty -ears bring? This cannot be answered, but 1 feel n my heart that Vhen other thirty years hav-e pa-ced, And all have gone who were the gray, weet little childron, with their tiowers, Will mteet and miagnify this day. he South's warm heart is beatingr yet, nd never, nier can forget, Who wore the gray. Eighty Children Killed. QUINCY, Ills., May 2t.-A report as reached here that Rage, Ills., near toodhouse, ills., a cyclone struck a chool house, utterly demolishing it, illing eighty children and injuring early as many more. Nearly every ouse in the village is wrecked, and ough no other fatalities are reported, is more than probable that other