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AS THE TREE FALLS. NO MATTER IN WHAT DIRECTION, THERE IT SHALL LIE. 3e. Dr. Talmze Preaches An Earnest sermon, Warning the IW penitent Against Waiting for the Next World Before Cor recting the Mistakes of This. WAsHmNGTON, Aug 9.-Dr. Talmage today discusses a question that every body same time discusses. It is one of tremendous import, Shall we have an other chance? The text is Ecclesiastes ii, 3, "If the tree fall toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be.11 There is a hovering hope in the minds of the vast multitude of people that there will be an opportunity I the next world of correcting the mis takes of this; that however complete a shipwreck we may make of our earth ly life it will be on a beach up which ve may walk to a palace; that as the defendant may lose his case in a cir cuit court and appeal it and have it go up to: the supreme court or court of chancery and all the the costs thrown over on the other party, so a man may lose his case in this world, but in the higher jurisdiction of eternity have the decision of the earthly case set aside; all the costs remitted and the defendent be triumphant forever. The object of my sermon is to show you that common sense declares with the text that such an expectation is chimerical. "If the tree fall toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be." There are those who say thatif the im 'tent and unforgiven man enters the next world and sees the disaster, as a result of that disaster he will turn, the distress tte cause of his reformation, but we have 10,000 in stances adl around about us of people who have done wrong and disaster suddenly came upon them. Did the disne heal them? No; they went on. There is a man flng of dissipations. The doctor says to him. "Now, my friend. if you don't stop drinking and don't stop this fast life you are living you will die." The patient thanks the physician for his warning and gets better. He begins to sit up, begins to walk around the room, begins to go to sia, takes the same round of grog Wherehe got his morning dram, his evening dram, and the drams - between. Downagain. Samedoctor. Same physical anguish. Same medi cal warnig. But now the sickness is more tracted, the liver more obsti nate, e stomach imore irritable, the digtive organs more rebellious. But s'l, under medical skill, he gets bet ter, goes forth, commits the same sac rilege against his physical health. Sometimes he wakes up to s)e wbat he is doing, and he realizes he is de stroying his family, and that his life is a perpetual perjury against his mar riage vows, and that that broken hearted woman is so different from the Saneate wife he married that her old ahoolmaets do not recognize her on the street, and that his sons are going out in life under the taunt of a father's drunkenness, and that his daughters are going out in life under the scarifi cation of a disreputable ancestry. His nerves are all a-jangle. From crown oflhead to sole of foot he is one ach ing, rasping, crucifying, damning torture. Where is he? Heisminhell onearth. Does it stop him? Ah, no. After awhile delirium tremens pusout upon his pillow a (whole jngle of hissing reptiles. His sreams horf the neighbors as he Gina out of becrying, "Take these .hings off me 1" He is drinking down the comfort of his family, the educa tmn of his children, their prospects farthishfe and perhaps their prospects 1oethelifeto come. Pale and conva larent he sits up. Physician says to him: "Now, my good fellow, I anm to have a plain talk with you. ynever have an attack of this kind again, you will die. I can't save you, andall the doctors in creation can't save you." Thepatient gets up, starts out, goes the same round of dissipation and is Mown again, but this time medicines do not touch his case. Consultations f iabysicin say there is no hope. Death ends the scene. That process of inebriation and physical suffering and medica warnmng' and dissolution is talhig place within a stone's throw of where you sit and in every neighbor oodof Christendom. Pain does not reform.. Suffering does not cure. What is true in regard to one sim is true in regard to all sins, and yet men are expecting in the next life there ~willhe opportunity for purgatorial re generation. Take up the printed re orsof the prisons of the United Sttsand find that the vast majority oftecriminals were there before, some for two times, three times, four tim.s six times-; punished again and btthey goright on. Millions inients and instances working the other sway, and yet "'en think that.-in the .next world pnishment willwork out for themnsalvable effects Why, ou and I cannot imagine any wreitur~e from another world than we Eakseeen men in in this world, adwithoutany salutary consequence. Furthermore the prospect of refor mation in anotlier world is more in probble than here. Do you not re alize the fact that a man starts in this wrdwith the innocence of infancyi n*Ithe other case, starting in the oth ei world, he starts 'with the accumu lated badhabitaof alifetime. Is it not to be expected that you could build a better ship out of new timber than out ofan old hulk that has been ground up inthe breakers? If starting with comprative innocency the man does not become- godly, is it possible that starting with sin a seraph can be evo luted? Is there not more prospect that a sculptor will make a finer statue out of a block of pure white Parian marble than out of a black rock jhat has been cracked and twisted and split and scarred with the storms af a half century? Could you not write a last 'will and testament, or write a deed, or write an important document ona pure white sheet of paper easier than you could write it upon a sheet scribbled all ov'er with infamy and blotted and torn from top to bottom?~ And yet there are those who are so un common sensical as to believe that thougha man starts in this world with infancy andit innocence and turns out badly, in the next world he can start with a dead failure and turn out well. "But," say some people,."we ought -to have another chance in the next world because our life here is so very brief. We scarcely have room to turn around between the cradle and the ,rave, the wood of the one "l most striking against the marble of the other we ought to have another chance because of the brevity of this life." My fri~ends do you know what made the ancient deluge a necessity? It was the longevity of the antedilu vins. They 'were worse in the sec ond century than in the nirst, and worse when they got 300 years old, and worse at 400, and worse at 500, and 'worse at 600, and worse at 800, until the world had to be washed and scrubbed and soaked and sunk and anchored a whole monuli under water before it was fit for decent people to live in. I have seen many pictures of old Time with his scythe ,,+ut but r -, mneve a an icture oi Time with a het of mdieies to heal. Seneca said that in the first few years of his public life Nero was set up as an exaniple of cleniency and kindness, but he got worse and worse, the path descending, until at 68 years of age he was the suicide. If 803 years of life time could not cure the antediluvians of their iniquity, I undertake to say that all the ages of eternity would be only prolongation of depravity. "Dut," says some one, "in the next life the evil surroundings will be with drawn and good influeaces will be substituted, and hence expurgation, sublimation glorig-ation." Bt you must remember that the righteous, all their sins for given, pass right up into a beatilic state, and thea having passed up into the beatific state, not needing any other chance, that will leave all those who have never been forgiven, and who were iupenitent. alone- alone and where are the salvable influences to come from? Can it be expected that Dr. Dutf, who spent his whole life in pointing the Ilindoos to heaven. and Dr. Abeel, who spent his life in evangelizing China, and that J uds->n, who spent his life in reaching the gospel to Burma- can it be expected that they will be sent down from celes tal missionary society to educate and save those who wasted their earthly existence? No. We are told distinctly that all missionary and evangelistic influences will be ended forever, and the good, having passed up to their beatific state, all the morally bankrupt will be together, and where are the salvable influences to come from? Will a specked or bad apple put in a barrel of diseased apples make the other apples good? Will one who is down be able to lift others up? Will those who have miserably failed in the business of this life be able to pay the debts of other spirit aal insol vents? Will a million wrongs make I one right? Poneropolis was the city where ing Rufus of Thracia put all bad people of his kingdom, and when ever there were iniquitious people found in any part ol the land they were all sent to Poneropolis. it was the great capital of wickedness. Sup pose a man or a woman had opened a primary school invloneropolis; would the parents of other cities have sent their children thereto be educated and reformed? If a man in this world was surround ed with temptation, in the next world, all the righteous having passed up in o the beatific state, the association will be mcre deterioriating, depreciating and down. You would not send to a cholera or yellow fever hospital a man for his health, and the great lazaretto of the future, in which are gathered the diseased and the plague struck, will be a poor place for moral recov ery. The Count of Chateaubriand, in order to make his child courageous, made him sleep in the turrets of the castle. where the winds howled ar0 specters were :said to haunt the place. The mother and the sisters almost died of fright, but the son afterward gives his account, and he says, "That gave me nerves of steel and gave me cour age that has never faltered." But, my friends, I do not think the turrets of darkness or the spectral world swept by sirocco and euroclydon will ever prepare a soul for the eternal land of sunshine.. I wonder what is the car riculum in the College Inferno, where a man, having been prepared by enough sin, enters and goes up from frehman of iniquity to sophomiore of abmination, and on up from sopho more to junior, and from junior to senior, and day of_ graduation comes, and the diploma is signed by satan, the president, and all the professional demoniacs attest the fact that the can didate has been a sufficient time un der their drill and then enters heaven. Pandemonium, a preparatory school for celestial admission! Ah, my friends, while satan and his cohorts have fitted avast multitude for ruin, they never fitted one soul for happi ness-never. Again, I wish you further to notice that another chance in another world means the ruin of this. Now, suppose a wicked man is assured that after a lifetime of wickedness he can fix it all right up in the future. That would be the demoralization of society, that would be the demolition of the human race. There are men who are now kept on the limits of sin by their fear. The fear that if we are 'bad and unfor given here it will not be well with us in the next existence is the chief influ ence that keeps civilization from rush ing back into seemibarbarismn, and keeps semibarbarism from rushing back into midnight savagery, and, keeps midnight savagery from rushing back into extinction. Now, the man is kept on the limits of sin. But this idea coming into his soul, this idea of another chance, he says: "Go to, now I'll get out of this world all there is in it. Come gluttony and revenge and uncleaness and all sensualities, and wait upon me.. It may abbreviate my earthly 3ife by dissoluteness, but that will only give me heavenly in dulgence on a larger scale in a shorter length of time. I will overtake the righteous before long. I will only come in heaven a httle late, and I will be a little more fortunate than those who have behaved thpmselves on earth and then went Etraight to the bosom of God, because I will see more and have wider excursion, and I will come into heaven via gehenna, via sheol !" Hearers!I Readers! Another chance in the next world means free license and the demolition of this. Suppose you had a case in a court, and all the judges and all the attorneys agreed in telling you the first trial of it-it would be tried twice-the first trial would not be of very much im portance, but the second trial would decide everything. On which trial would you put the most expenditure? On which trial would you employ the ablest counsel? On which trial would you be most anxious tohave the atten tendance of all the witnesses? "Oh," you would say, "if there are to be two trials, and the first trial does not amount to much, the second trial be ing everything, everyting depending upon that, I must nave the most elo quent attcorney, and I must have all my witnesses present, and I will ex nend my money on that." If these men who are impenitent and wh are wicked felt there were two trials, and the first was of no very great impornce, 'and the second trial was the one of vast infinite importance~all the preparations for eternity would be post mortem, pest funeral, post sep ulchral, and this world would be jerk ed off into impemitency and godtess ness. Another chance in another world mneans the demolition of this world. Furthermore, my friends-for I am preaching to myself as well as to you; we re on the same level, and though the platform be a little higher than the pew, it is only for convenience, an d that we may the better speak to th epeople; we are all of the same p tform, and I am talking to my soul waile I talk to yours-my friends, why another chance in another world when we have declined so many chances in this. Suppose you spread a banquet and you invite a vast num ber of friends, and among others you send an invitation to a man who dis regards it or treats it in an obnoxious way. Da2ring 20 years you give 20 banuets, a banquet a year, and you invite your frie:.ds. and every time Iyou invite thlis :an, who disregards indigaity. After awlhile you move into a largtr house and nid more luariant surroundings, and you in vite your frienduk, but you do not in vite that man to whom 2o times vou sent an inviLtion to tha smaller house. Are you to blanie" You would only make yourself absurd before God and man to send that man anoth er invitation. Far 20 years he has been declining your offers and send ing insult for your kindness and cour tesy, and can he blame you? Can he come up to your house on the night of the banquet? Looking up and see iug it in a finer house, will he have any right to say: "Let me in. I de clined all those other offers, but this is a larger house, a brighter house, a more luxuriant abode. Let me in: Give me another chance?" God has spread a banquet of his grace batore us. For :85e days of every year since we knew the ditference between our right hand and our left he has invited us by his providence and by his spir it. Suppose we decline all these of fers and all this kindness. Now the banquet is spread in a larger place, in the heavenly palace. Invitations are sent wut, but no invitation is sent to us. Why? Because we declined all those other banquets. Will God be to blame? Will we have the right to rap on the door of he.en and say: "I ought not to be shut out of this place; give me another chance?" Twelve gates of salvation stauding wide for free admission all our life and then when the 12 gates close we rush ou the b'sses of Jehovah's buck ler, sa-ing, "ive me another chance !" A ship is to sail for Hamburg. You want to go to Germany by that line. You see the advertisement of the steamer's sailing. You see it for two weeks. You see it in the morning pa pers and you see it in the evening pa pers. You see it placarded on the walls. Circalars are thrown into your office telling you all about that steam er. One day you come down on the wharf, and the steamer has swung out into the stream. You say: "Oh, that isn't fair. Come back; swine up again to the docks. Throw the plank ashore that I may come on board. -It isn't fair. I want to go to Germany by that steamer. Give me another chanc." Here is a magnificent offer for heaven. It has been anchored within our sight year after year, and year after year. and year after year, and all the benign voices of earth and heaven have urged us te :et on board, since it may sail at ani ronent. Sup pose we let that opportunity sail away, and then we look out and say: "Send back that opportunity. I want to take it. It isn't treating me fairly. Give me another chance." Why, my broth er,you might as well go out and stand on the Highlands at the Navesink three days after the Majestic has gone out and shout: "Captain, com% back. I want to go to Liverpool on the Ma jestic. Come back over the sea and through the Narrows and up to the docks. Give me another chance." You might as well do that as, after the last opportunity of heaven has sped away, try to get it back again. Just think of it! It came on me yesterday in my study with overwhelming im pressiveness. Just think of it. All heaven offered us as a gratuity for a whole lifetime, and yet we wanting to rush-sgainst God, saying, "Give me another chance." There ought to be, there will be. no such thing as post humous opportunity. You see common sense agrees with my text in saying that "if the tree fall toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be." You see this idea lifts this world from an unimportant way station to a platform of stupen dous issues and makes all eternity whirl around this hour.Oh,my soul,my soul. Only one trial,and all the prepa ration for that trial to be made in this world or never made at all. Oh, my soul, my soul! You see this piles up all the emphasis and all the climaxes and all the destinies into this life. No other chance. Oh, how that intensi fies the value and the importance of this chance. Alexander and his ar my used to come around a city, and they would kindle a great light, with the understanding that as long as that light was burning the city might sur render and all would be well, but if they let that Eght go out then the bat tering rams would swing against the walls and there would come disaster and demolition. Oh, my friends, all you and I need to do to prepara for eternal safety is just to surrender to the King and Conqueror, Christ. Sur render hearts, surrender life, surren der every thing. The great light keeps burning, light kindled by the wood of the cross, light flaming up against the dark night of our sin and sorrow. Oh, let us surrender before the light goes out and with it our last ooprtuni ty of making our peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, my brother, talk about another chance, this the supernal chance. In time of Edward II, at the battle of Mussel brg, a private soldier saw that the Earl of Huntley had lost his helmet. The private soldier took off his helmet and went up to the Earl of Hluntley and put the helmet on his head.- Now, the head of the private soldier uncov ered, he was soon slain, while his com mander rode in safety through and out of the battle. But it is different in our case. Instead of a private of fering a helmet to an ear'le, it is the King of heaven and earth offering a crown to an unworthy subject, the King dying that we might live!I Oh, tell it to the points of the compasss, tell it to day and night, tell it to earth and heaven, tell it to all the centuries and all the millenniums that God has given usa magnificant chance in this world that we need no other chance in another ! A dream. I am in the burnished judgment hall on the last day. The great white throne is lifted, but the Judge has not yet taken it. While we are waiting for his arrival I hear the inmmortals in conversation. "What are you waiting for?" says a soul that went up from Madagascar to a soul that went up from Ameriea. The lat ter responds: "I was in America 40 years ago, and I heard the gospel preached, and I had plenty of Bibles in my house, and from the time that I knelt at my mother's knee in prayer until my last hour I had great oppor tunities, but I did not improve them, and I am here today waiting for an other chance." "Strange," says the soul just come no from Madagascar. "Strange. Why, I never heard the gospel call but once in all my life, and I accepted it, and I dont want an other chance." "What are you wait ing for?" says one who on earth had very feeble intellect to one who had great brain, and whose voice was sil very, and who had scepters of pow er-. "The latter replies: "I had great pav (e- On earth, I must admit, and I mastered languages, and I mastered libraries, and colleges conferred upon me lear-ncd titles, and my name was a synonym for eloquence and power, but somehow I neglected the matters of my soul, and I must confess to you I am here today waiting for another chance." Now, the ground trem bles with the advancing chariot. The great folding doors of the burnished hall of judge ment are thrown open. "Stand back," cry the ushers, "and let the Juidge of quick and dead pass thr-cgh." 1-e takes the throne, lHe looks off FROM JEST TO EARNEST. "I don't understand you at all," said Pierce Trevor to his friend Ralph Dewevx. "You talk as if I were a conun drum." "So you are! Now, look here, Dewey, let's have a clear comprehen sion of the matter. Do you love Fanny White?" "Well-yes-I rather think, on the whole, that I am a little taken with the sparkling brunette." " 'A little taken!' How very enthu siastic you are! And she, poor child,' is more than 'alittle taken' with you." "I flatter myself that you are righ t.' " Well, then, why don't you ask her to marry you?" "There it is," groaned Dewey; "you are all in such a hurry. Can't a man almire a girl without being brought to book for it the -very next day? I won't be hurried. When 1 get ready I'll ask Fanny to marry me. Are you sat i-,fiefd?" "Very far from it." "As iliss White is only your wife's cousin. I really don't recognize your right to catechise me!" "Does that.mean that I am to mind my own business?" Ralph laughed. "Construe it as you please-only pray dou't'bother me any lIe threw him:self lazily on the grass, flinging his cigar into the very heart of a cluster of wild flowers and mak ing an impromptu pillow of his arms, crossed underneath his head. "Sleep, then," said Trevor, a little contemptuously. "I can't afford to !'se the brightest hours of a- golden day like this." Oar hlero had not lain there many manutes, however, before the soft chlime of girl voices sounded through ,ie tiny bugles of summer insects and t he monotonous murmur of green boughs overhead. "Girls!" muttered Dewey: "can't a fellow be clear of 'em anywhiere? But t hev're on the other side of the copse, that's one blessing, and if I keep quiet they'll never beat up my ambush!" 'They were on the other side of the copse-three bright-faced girls in flut tering raiment. "It's so delightfully cool here," said Hildegarde Aymer, a fair blonde, as Saxon as her name. "And one can talk here, too," said Mary Bell. "At the hotel one is never certain of not being overheard." Dewey gave a silent chuckle at this. Fanny White, leaning against the twisted stem of the veteran wild grape vine, devoted her whole attention to her parasol handle. She was the prettiest of the three, with deep liquid brown eyes and hair black as the blackest jet, while her skin, just touched with the creamy tint that characterizes the creole, glowed carmine on her cheek. "Fanny, do let me try!" said Hilde garde. "It will be such a splendid joke, and your English adorer is so long in making up his mind." "But-but wnat will Capt. Aymer think?" "He'll be delighted; men always glory in a bit of mischief, and Kent is such a splendid actor." "Do, Fanny!" urged Mary Bell. "It will be just for all the world like the theater. Hildegarde's brother is to pretend to be desperately in love with you and you are to encourage his at tentions nntil that slow-moving Dewey is brought to the point. How I shall enjcy the progress of the situation." "But your brother must fully under stand the scheme," said Fanny, hesi tatingly. "Of course; sha'n't I explain it to him myself? There's not a bit of harm in it, and Mr. Dewey certainly needs some stimulus. Now, do consent! Kate will be here- this very evening." "She don't forbid it, Hildegarde," eagerly cried Miss Bell, "and all the world knows that silence gives con sent. Come, see how long the shadows~ are getting?" And the three graces fButtered down the hillside. Dewey rose to his feet and walked away also. "My dear little girls," said he, by way of soliloquy. "it's a very cleverly concocted little plan, but it won't work, and I've no doubt I shall enjoy it as much as Miss Bell proposes to do." And he laughed aloud to think how completely he should outgeneral his feminine adversaries. "l'l1 keep Fan in suspense for an other month. just to pay her for that!" he added, within himself. "I like the girl well enough, but for all that I won't~ be hurried into matrimony." Knowing what he knew, therefore, Mr. Dewey was not at all surprised that evening when he walked into the hotel drawing-room to see a stylish young man in the uniform of a captain sitting on the sofa and being very de voted to Miss White. "Let 'em work," said Mr. Dewey, and he sat down to play backgammon with a pretty little widow. Fannie watched him from beneath her eyelashes. "It doesn't produce any effect at all upon him-the brute!" said H ildegarde, who had expected to see the recreant lover brought to capitulating terms at once.. "That's because we don't put it on strong enough," said the captain. "Fanny-I may call you Fanny, mayn't I?" "Oh, certainly," said the little bru nette; "it's all in the play." "Well, then, Fanny, I think we ought to promenade through the halls arm in arm a little while, and if we were to whisper instead of speaking aloud-" Fanny laughed and consented, and the whole evening long she and the captain exchanged very commonplace remarks in very confidential whispers, wh ile M1r. De wey and the widow played backgammon serenely. "1 like this." said Capt. Kent to his sister, when Miss White had gone to her room. "She's the prettiest girl I ever.saw" "Oh, but Kent, you mustn't fall in love with her." "I shall not fall in love with her there's no danger," said Aymer, "but it's such fun! I'm so much obliged to you for suggesting it." Fanny cried herself to sleep that night. Dewey didn't seem to care a pin whether she flirted with Capt. Aymer or not. The next day she wvent .out horse back riding with the captain. Kent sat on his horse like a centaur and Fanny came back rosy as a whole bed of carnations. "Are you going with us to'the Cedar Falls to-morrow, Fanny?" asked Mr. Dewey that evening. "We said some thing about going together a week or so ago, didn't we?" Fanny was ready with her lesson. "Did we? I had forgotten; besides, I promised to go with Capt. Aymer." "With Capt. Aymner? Oh, well, all right, l'll take Julia Symington." Fanny's lips quivered, but IHilde garde shook her head at her, and she did nzot cal~l back the young English man, as had been her impulse. (apt. Aymer proved a most devoted cavalicr and Fanny half reproached herself that she had enjoyedI the day so muchl. "ts very wrong of me, sighed Fanny to Hlildegarde, her faithful contidante. the lat judgeo!-nt, come to the only judgment, aud one h1ash from the throne reveals each man's history to himself, and reveals it to all the oth Ers. And then the Judge says, "Di vide !" and the burnished walls echo it, ,Divide!*' -nd the guides angelic answer, "'Divide!' and the immortals are rushing this way and that, until there is an aisle between them, a uzreat aisle, and then a vacum, widening and widening and widening until the Judge looks to one side of'that vacuum and addresses the throng and says, "Let him that is righteous be right eous still, and let him that is holy be holy still." And then, turning to the throng on other side of the vacuum, he says, "Let him that i; unjast be un just stid, and let him that is filthy be filthy still." And then he stretches out both hands, one toward the throng on each side the vacuum, and says, "If the tree fall toward the south or toward the north. in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be!" Abd then I hear something j ir with a great sound. It is the closing of the book of judgement. The Judge as cends the stairs behind the throne. Tiie hall of the last assize is cleared and shut. Tne high court of eternity adjou rned forever. Human Holocaust in New York. NiEw YoRK, August 11.-There v as a fatal fire this afternoon in the build ings at -65, 467 and 469 Greenwich street, occupied by the A K. Warren electric repair works and a number of smaller lirms. In the excitement at tending the outbreak it was first re ported that at least 30 lives were lost. Some of those reported lost were after wards accounted for. The accurate number of victims will niot be known until the ruins aresearched. It is be lieved, however, that the death list will prove to be fifteen or twenty. While the firemen were lighting the flames the bodies of two victims could be plainly seen on the fire escapes. Five men and boys were injured while escaping from the burning buildings. They were taken to Iud son Street Hospital mangled and burned. What caused the fire is not known, but it is believed to have been started by an explosion. It is known that an explosion occurred a few min utes after the fire br.>ke out. The fire spread like a flash through the build ing, at No. 465, where the fire origi nated, and cut off the escape of many. The firemen who first reached the scene of the conflagration saw a num ber of men at the windows appealing for help, but before any attempt at rescue could be made they fell back exhausted by the heat and smoke and all are supposed to have perished in the fiames. Altogether there were about thirty-two men employed by. the Warren Company. There were fifteen on the Eixth, or top floor, elev en on the fifth, four on the fourth and two in the offices on the ground floor. From the stories told by those who claimed to have been nearby when the first alarm was given faces were seen at nearly every window. That at least four are dead in the ruins there can be no doubt, for their char red bodies lie exposed to view on the fire escapes of the third and fifth sto ries. Two others, one a girl, were seen to fall back into the flames, over come probably by the smoke before the fire touched them. Perfecting the Now Tie. BLYmHE, Ga., Aug. 13.--To old Richmond is due the honor of the so lution of the tie problem. Today our first two bales of cotton were ginned from the farm of Mr. P. B. Reece, the ties for one of them being supplied by Mr. W. E. Norrell, who has in a -very simple but practical manner set aside whatever objections there may have existed against the use of wire as a tie. By his simple device they are eas ily and quite as quickly ad justed and fastened as are the ordinary buckleed ties. All are agreed that the tie is a success, and are pleased that our town is to supply the much needed relief to our farmers. The cotton will go to Messrs. Garrett and Latimer, of your city, tomorrow morning. Fusion in Iowa. OYrruatwA, Ia., Aug. 13.-There has been complete fusion in Iowa between the Populists and Democrats. The Democratic convention yesterday named for electors at large Governor Horace :Boies and General James B. Weaver. Except Genei-al Weaver the other electors are all Democrats. The state ticket named was as follows: L. Karr (Dem.), secretary of state; G. W. Davis (Pop ), auditor; Joseph Reugnitz (lem ), treasurer; Hon. L R. Boiler (Dem.), for supreme court judjge; Amos Steckel (free silver Rep.), for railroad comnmissoner, long term; Thomas Denson for railroad commis sioner, short term. ___ Perished In a Glazier. PORT TowNSENI), Wash., Aug. 11. The steamer Willapa, from Alaska, brings particulars of the death of C. Kennah. a well-to-do-merchant of Mount Vernon, Wash. Kennah, with a party of tourists, was crossing a gla cier at Turnagain Arm.- A thin sheet of ice covered a crevasse, and it gave way, precinitating Kennah and an other man into a chasm, scarcely 3 feet wide. One was saved by his gun acting as a crossbar, but Kennah fell to the bottom, about 80 feet, and was tightly jammed in. Others of the par ty tied blankets together and attempt ed to pull him out, but he was so tightly wedged in that he could not be budged, and he froze to death in sight of his friends. Death Before surrender. KEY WEsT, Aug. 1.-Persons who have arrived here from Cubasay that General Bruno Zayas, the insurgent leader, committed suicide recently rather than surrender to the Spaniards. General Zavas and five members Of his staff were lunching in a small town in Havana province, when through the treachery of the proprietor of the restaurant the Spanish troops were no tiied. The building was surrounded. The Cubans refused to surrender and a desperate fight ensued. General Zayas was wounded and.his five com panions were killed. The last bullet in the general's revolver was fired into his own heart. Sixteen Spaniards were killed. As to the Wire Tie. CHARLEsTON, Aug. 1.-The board of directors of the cotton exchange met today and adopted the following resolution in regard to the bale of cot ton bound with wire which was sent here to be tested afew days ago: Resolved, that the bale received was tested and stood the strain of compress ing; that so far as the exporting of cotton bound wvith these wires is con cerned, this exchange cannot pass an official opinion in the absence of a majority of the exporters from the city, but as far as we can see at pres ent we think the cotton baled in this way will be received by the exporters, provided '.he cotton in ucompressed and is wired as the sample bale sent us for inspection. Robbed the Bank of 75,000. SAN FRAN(ISCO, Calt, Aug. 11.-IL has developed that. Harry K. Brown, exchange clerk of the Bullion and Ex change Bank of Carson, Nev., who left that city suddenly about two months ago, is a defaulter to a large extent. Hie robbed the institution in which he was employed of nearly $75, u00. lie is believed to in Mexico. ie left his wif~e and chilaren in Car sponded ilildegarde. "1-1 begin to b'e afraid he don't care for mne." "ife's a brute," asserted her friend: "and it will serve him right if you never look at him again. So the glowing midsummer swept b)v and Mr. I)ewey held aloof, hugging himself to think how he was outwitting the conspirators, though an occasional twinge of jealousy now and then passed through his mind. Presently there was a sore outcry among the allied forces. An order had come from the inexorable war depart meut and the captain must go some where on the frontier straightway. "The matter was beginning to get a little serious," he thought, "and just as soon as that confounded puppy gets away I'll make little Fanny a happy woman. .Naybe, though, it would be well to punish her for a few days longer." - "Oh, Fanny, Fanny, aren't von sorry?" sobbed Ilildegarde, clinging around her tall brother, whose face < was unwontedly grave. "Yes, Ilildegarde," said Fanny, "I am very sorry." Capt. Aymer looked penetratingly into her face. There were real tears quivering and sparkling on her eye lashes and the roses had all paled from her cheeks. "Fanny!" he said, impetuously. "is it 'rom your heart?" Fanny-silly little creature that she was-began to cry, and Hildegarde rushed forward. "Oh, Kent! You promised that-" "A man isn't responsible for his fate, and I have fallen in love with her," ex claimed the young officer. "Fanny, am I to love you in vain?" Fanny tried to laugh hysterically. "O-oi course; all tnms is only a part of the programme," she faltered. "By Jove, but it's not!" cried Aymer. "What was jest has become earnest. I love you, Fanny; I cannot leave you here to become the bride of that self-conceited puppy. Tell.me that I may hope!' Hildegarde seized both her friend's hands. "She loves you, Kent-she loves you. I can see it in her eyes!" she cried ex ultantly. "Stand aside, Hildegarde," said Aymer. "I have the first right here. She is mine now." And he took her tenderly to his breast. Yes-it was true that the little mor sel of acting had become strong, life- 1 long reality. Kent and Fanny had played at "lovers" until love, the shy rogue, crept into both their hearts with almost unperceived footsteps. "Are you happy, Fanny?" demanded the exigent army officer when all was settled and Hildegarde had gone to tell Mary Bell as a "great secret" how the little stratagem had ended. "Oh, Kent," whispered Fanny, "I never knew what true happiness was 1 before." And Capt. Aymer must have been unreasonable indeed not to be satisfied with the answer. He departed, carrying in his keeping the loving little heart of Fanny White. Ralph Dewey contemplated the de- I parture of Hildegarde's brother with ] no small degree of satisfaction. 1 "Now's my chance," he thought. "I 1 guess, on the whole, I'll not keep her in suspense any longer, poor child. I only wanted to let 'em see that I I wasn't to be coerced." Mr. Dewey proposed accordingly in due form that very day. "1 am very sorry, Mr. Dewey," said Fanny, looking provokingly lovely, "but-but I'm engaged." "Engaged?" "Yes-to Capt. Aymer." "Now, Fanny," said Ralph, argu mentatively, "where's the use of carry ing on this pretense any longer? Of ourse I know it's all a stratagem." "But it isn't a stratagem," said Fan ny, indignantly; "I love him and he loves me-and there's my ring." She held up a pretty finger as she spoke, whereon glittered a solitaire iamond. So Mr. Dewey found himself outma :euvered after all, and accordingly re reated in as good order as possible. while Pierce Trevor, Miss Bell, Hilde arde and all the rest returned aunan mous verdict of "Just exactly what e deserved."-N. Y. News. Killed and Wounded In Battle. T wenty-five years ago the great bat les of the Franco-German war were fought. That war of only I80 days cost ermany, in dead and maimed, ,055 of icers and 110,701 men. It appears al ost incredible now that within a few nonths 21,508 French officers and 7023, 08 French soldiers were made prison rs or compelled to disarm. -The lottery of honest labor, drawn y time, is the only one w~hose prizes re worth taking up and carrying ome. -Theodore Parker. Hon. G. D. Tillman op Bryan. Hon. George D. Tillman has given he Augusta Chronicle his opiaion of he Democratic nominee. C'ol. Till an is not a man to go wild over falsee ights, but is a good Judge of human ature, besides being a statemnan him self- He says: "During my career in Congress I pent sixteen winters in Washington, here :r carne in contact more or lessa ith nearly all the great men* of this ountry, and with many from foreign ountries; and while serving two years5 in Congresss with Bryan, he alwaysa ipressed me as being the greatest an I ever met, and as being just as i -ood ashe was great. As an oratorlI ave never heard but three men who ould be compared with him. They c ere Ben Hill, Blaine and Black burn. i e either knows everything or has uch a facility of reference to books t hat he can quickly get any in ormation he wants. His memo y is simply marvelous and he has uch an intimate knoweldge of mena that he-can read their characters at a g lance.~ He is always at work se ik ing knowledge, by reading. converda- g ion or reflection, and seems to look pon idleness as a crime. If he has t< ny small vice-chewing, smoking, c rinking, gaming, cursing, etc., I nev r discovered it during two years per-b onal and official intercourse with im, In fact, the man always ap eared to be conscientiously inspired, with enthusiasm to do good~ for others. e Yet he is a most devoted father, and acts more like a lover than a husband d twards his wife. In a few words, morally speaking, he is so well bal- b ned that he could not intentionally o a wrong thing if he were to try, and ti his intellect is so clear and strong v hat he~ always avoids evil as near as o tis human to do so. Therefore, I 8 hink Bryan will be president-be iause he ought to be, because he wasn born great, and because not even the presidency could -zonfer greatness b zpon him." DURL'G the last six years there bave been 43,902 homicides in this 0 outry, and averaging 7,317 per year. P ithin the' same period there have een 723 executions and 1,118 lynch gs. In the last year 10,500 persons t ere killed, whereas in 1800 there s< rre only 4,200 or less than htalf as st any. The figures prove the homici- ~ a crime is increasing at an alarming d rate. The ineffective administration n + criminal law is blamed for this p COTTON BADLY HURT. THE HOT WAVE WILL MATERIALLY LFSSEN THE YIELD. a V"y Important uile tin Isued by State Weather Observer Bauer Yester day-Information for Farmars and Others. COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 11.-Below is given the weekly bulletin of the :ondition of the weather and the crop )f the State. It is by far the gloomiest report that has been issued this year. rhis bulletin covers the weather and :roD conditions for the week ending Baturday, August 8, and in its prepa ration were used reports from one or more correspondents in each county >f the State. WEATHER. The temperature continued above the normal, but averaged 2 degrees !ooler than during the previous week, i5 last week and 83 this. The maxi num was 100 on the 7th. at Spartan burg, and on the 4th at B!eaufort; the minimum 66 on the 4th at Elloree, the 7th at Liberty, the 8th at Greenville. Weekly mean temperature for the State 83, approximate normal S. The rainfall was scattered with a ew heavy measurements, as follows: Dbarleston, 1.46; St. Matthews, 1.75; Yemassee, 2.40; Trial, 2.57; Long thore, 1.G; Elloree, 3.50; Beaufort, 1.80. Only 22 out of 44 reporting stations reported any rain, and at 9 the imounts were under nair an inch. rhis had no appreciable etfect og the :rops, as it dried almost as fa4 a it fell. There continues a plentiful sup ply of stock water. From all portions of the State comes the reports of deterioration in crop :ondition. due to the excessive heat ind want of rain, save in two locali Jies in eastern counties, where too much rain and excessive heat are the ssigned causes for the falling off. In i few of the western counties the inju ry has as yet been comparatively light, because scattered showers have con [ined the damage to brokien areas and the previous conditions were so very 5ood, but even there each day's heat ias a telling and irreparabie damaging dffect. Early corn is about all matured, and therefore safe, but late corn is suffer ng very much. The kernels seem to ;o harden before filling out, being lit rally dried up or parched on the ear. Aost of the fodder has been pulled and aved in good condition; in some :ounties this work is still going on, but the leaves are becoming almost too dry; they crumple and break in aandag. The hot weather has not njured corn, taken all together to any :onsiderable extent. Not a single report was received but that stated that cotton is failing. So general and extended is the injury lone by the heat and want of rain that ynly Sea Island cotton escaped, and that is ripening prematurefy it is thought. A few correspondents' reports are given in abridged form, as they terse ly show the condition and deteriora ion that the plant has suffered during the last week. The reports are given by counties. Berkeley-Cotton failing; too much rain. Newberry-Rust, scalding and hedding. Williamsburg-Failing very fast. Orangeburg-Failing, ex :essive heat, no ramn; opening fast. ihesterfield-Shedding leaves, forms mnd half grown boils. Darlington Blooms and forms falling off; open ing prematurely. Kershaw- Opening very fast, drying up. Greenville Dropping off of leaves and squares. B'airfield-On sandy land, has failed very much. Aiken-Parching and is. 2pening; (2) failing and opening very ast. Chesterfield-Opening prema turely and prospect reduced very much. Florence-In bad fix from :irought; (2) shedding leaves, forms mnd bolls; in spots cotton nearly all >pen. Clarendon-Needing rain; op mning, none picked. Edgefield-lin proved where rain fell, otherwise cut >f one-fourth; (2) growth stopped~pre mature opening, rust increaing. Pick ms-Turning yellow, casting off eaves and fruit, opening ra,pidly ; (2) growth stopped, shedding blooms and ,olls, greatly injured. Greenville )ontinued injury to cotton and corn; ;2 leteriorating very fast,some fields burn ng up. Atxoevlle-Shedding too free .y; greatly reduced prospects, except where good showers fell. Barn well loing back, looks like half a crop, >lant drying up; (2) very mnuch injur~ ~d, shedding, drying~ up in spots, open ng prematurely, growth, retarded;-(3) hedding, looks as if fire ran through t; (4) half cut off; (5) looks as if sing ~d by fire. Andersion-Crops suffered everely, especially cotton; (2) if it toes not rain cotton will be cut short; 3) dry rust, leaves, squares and bolls alling off.- Orangeburg-No im >rovement, late planting doing better han early; (2) casting otf fruit, rain vould not benefit some of it now. sumter-Failing on light lands, if ieat continues injury wi be extend d. Richland-Stopped gro wingc, well ruited but shedding too freely, great y reduced prospects. Marlboro ihedding very badly and farmers ex ,ect only half a croy; (2) shedding eaves, forms and staall boils, pros >ects very poor. Newberry-Shed ling leaves and shapes, opening pre naturely. Union-Shedding terribly, eaves and small bolls lost 25 per cent. n last three days. Oconee-Forms .nd small bolls dropping to large ex ent; (2) shedding both squares and eaves. Laurens--Heat affecting the he plant although with rain soon no >ractical injury would result. Lsn aster - Cannot possibly recover what tlost in past two weeks. York Mech day's continuation of heat ma erially reduces prospects, very poor ow. Summarizing the above, and the ortions of the report not quoted, it ppears that cotton has declined very ast, growth practically stopped, bolls ,pening prematurely, snedding leaves, arms and half grown oolls, anid that ilenty of rain would not help cotton ) recover and reach its previous ex ellent condition, except in a few >laces. Picking is as yet not active ,uti will soon become so. Tobacco cured nic-:ly during the reek, but the quality of the leaves ras reduced by tue heat. The crop is nly a fair one. Peas are sutfering from the heat and ryness. Cane cf var ious kinds is doing well, ut in places is ripening prematurely. Rice continues in excellent condi on. Beginning to ripen, and har estinmg begun. First barrel of "Raa oon" rice harvested on J Ay 30, near eorgeto wn. F'orage crop is a large one and is be ig secured in excellent condition. Rutabagas and turnips sown largely, ut d3 not germinate well on account f the dry soil. The past week was the most tryine ne for crops in general during t11e resent season. Mtabbed to Death LoNDOo, Aug. 11.-At the Novelty eatre last eveniug in a stabbing :ene, the spring dagger made for age uses failed to act, and an actor 'as stabbed to the heart so tbat be ied in a few minuter. The audience, ot knowing that an accident had hap ened, loualy applauded the actor 'hen he fell. oYA PW..DER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. gest of all in letavening strength. -Lat United States Government Food Report. ROnAL BAKIG POWDER CO.. New York City. A STARTLING L)ISCLOSURE. A Charge Made Against Gov. Evans. Which ae Denies. COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 14 -Since the campaign began, newspaper cor. respopdeinLs who have been going around with the aggregation have. heard a variety or more or less startl ing reports. . In many instances they have been assured that some compe tent witness would present himself at an bppertune moment toprpsent facts in such shape as to exclude the possi - bility of suedissful denial or evasion. But this evidence, 'whethef it. did not exist, cr because a dishrag was doing the part of a back bone forthe witnessea or that the disease known as moral cowardice has become alarmingly epi demic in South Carolina, these con r mations have failed to materialize. 4 The newspaper correspondents have been furnished' with the following statement of alleged facts? "Oa Staurday nignt of the. Marion meeting, Governor Evans returned home, arriving in Columbia about 10, and went directly to the mansion, where, at 11 o'clock, he was joined by a delegation of five German citizens of Charleston, viz: Wehman, Kroeg, Roesler and Stelling-the 'fifth, don't. know. This committee remained with. him till 2 o'clock and took the early,, morning train back to Charkston.... They went to Columbia on a written, invitation from the governor, who4 made this proposition: 'You orgaize a German club in the city of Chaales-' ton of 500 members who will- vote for me for ths United States senae. I. will guarantee the Germans of Char leston private dispenaries. In evi: dence of this Stelling has'_been can. - vassing the city in that inteyest, ahd none of these gentlemen will deny these facts, as it is too well known iu the city to admit of a denial. Web. man particularly, will admit it alh."' Gov Evans wasgiven'an opporturn ty to affirm or deny this report simaul taneously with its publication. He said: 'That is a lie. I have not seen those mea since the opening of the campaign. They did come to see me some days before the campaign opened and met ble at my office-the never were at my house. They asked me what I was going to do about Charles ton. I told them-as I said at the time of putting on the metropolitaa police--that if by that method I was unable to enforce the law, I would take it off and recommend to the leg islature some special la w for Charles ton. It would be foolish to continue attempting to enforce the law 'iri present machinery. if it is impassiblet' 0050o." If be had de sired to brade for Charleston's votes,.said the governos% he would have'done so long ago, wit. men who offered to deliver the goei and were able to do so- -and the gozer nor named two old line Charlvaton, ringster4 who had made him a psopeai. tion to deaL. So it seems that whethe - or nont Charleston has been reemn's bougni. or sold her votes have been on the,. market-offerded by her bosses for a. sta-.e.l consideration, jpst as the suf frage of ignorant laborer a, who caLn hardly make their wishes idligibe in Enghsb, are disposea of bym show~ foremen in the north,. or as th~e voles of communities of negroes used to be highest bidders in Radical days. It is certainly time foi:- a~new deal iin Chtar lestonu- State) .- The CatSna .Tie Fight. . The Columibia -State sgya~'the.ques tion of the utilityof. the: wire cotton tie as against 'thafat steel tie, now seems to be pretty tnoroughly settled:. A test of binding-a bale or two has also. been made in Georgia, and.~it proved even more satisfactory than that made in this State. ~Thiese :biales are to be, put through the' .Ntton -compress in. Augusta and will: probably be ,more. f.;:vorably comimenteil upon thauthoe pressed in Charleston, as the wire used - is larger and more flexible.' Thie ree olutions of the Charleston Cot'ta-ex change, p.ublished yeaterday, while, they are not exactly -w'ht. the advo cates of the wire tie would have lilked( to have mndicate what may tbe exect ed when - tbe cotton goes toa the. ports tied with wire.. .The crop is go ing to be short however, and~ the fautti era knew that-tbe buyers are not goinge to refuse to purchase th- cotoa AMI the same tinle they are ngo- ad ing the cotton to mar all any im proper shape. T one thing that. they are a uni n is -that they do not intend *the steel tie trust one, dollar; they havp determined to figbrt the trust to the bit ter end, let the tight cost what it may. Col D. P. Duncan, the manager of the State .Alliance er . change, in order to get a full supiply of the ties on the market iu the short est time possible, will leave tomorrow for the east. He goes on to v isit one of the largest wire manufacturingcon cerns in this country, which. has or fered special inducements on the kind of wire that the tests have proven to, be necessary. This company has of fered to put the wire up in neat bun-a dles, and will do anything that is deemed best in the making of a proper. catch or buckle. Col. Duncan will consult with the wire people and act at once. He hopes to have the ties in harid ready for sale in very short or der." Fusian in Washington. ELLENSBCR(I. Wash., Aug., 15.-The Democratic free silver and the Repub lican and Populist free silver couven - tions are in session in this city for the purpose of placing a fusion ticket in the field. Each convention has comn pleted its organization and committees have been appoin ted to agree upon the tarins of fusion. A telegram signed by the chairman of each convention was sent to Mr. B3raa last night, pro-~ mising him the electoral vote of the' state. The Democratic convention has elected William IL White of Seattle to succeed Hug Ii C. Walace of Taeo-' na, as a mnermbe, of the nationa&l conl nit tee PAu1ims lovers of i:orse udesh de .oured ruore tthau 20, L0 horses last rear. In 1894 the untaber was 21, 77, in 1878 it was 10,000Q, and in 18725 L,034. There are 200 riippohageous