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PASSFO RS OR SR 7t SALVATION THE THEME OF REV. DR. to TALMAGE'S SERMON. us TC Only One Being That Ever Lived Was Will- hE ing to olve Up Heaven For Perdition. 01 Says the Preacher. and That Was the SP Divine Peasant. th WASHECGTON, Nov. S.-Clear out cf p the ordinary style of sermonizing is this remarkable discourse of Dr. Tal- th mage which we send out today. His t text is Romans ix, 3, "I could wish 10 that myself were accused from Christ m for my brethren, my kinsmen acord- pi ing to the flesh." cc A tough passage, indeed, for those a] who take Paul hterally. When some o. of the old theologians declared that , they were willing to be damned for a the glory of God, they said what no w one believed. Paul did not in the co text mean he was willin r to die for- ti: ever to save his relatives. He used e hyperbole, and when he declared. "I y could wish that myself were accursed U from Christ for my brethren, my kins- tb men according to the flesh," he meant a, in the most vehement of all possible s ways to declare his anxiety for the fo salvation of his relatives and friends. cl It was a passion for souls. Not more CE than one Christian out of tnousands bs of Christians feels it. All absorbing hi desire for the betterment of the physi- t cal and mental condition is very com- ai mon. It would take more of a mathe matician than I ever can be to calcu- fr late how many are up to an anxiety W that sometimes will not let them sleep i night and morning for the efficiency W of hospitals where the sick and wound ed of body are treated, and for eye m and ear infirmaries, and for dispensa ries and retreats -bere the poorest vi may have most skillful surgery and fc helpful treatment. Oh, it is beauti- le ful and glorious this widespread and yl ever intensifying movement to allevi- M ate and cure physical misfortunes. t May God encourage and help the w thousands of splendid men and wo- Ia men engaged in that work! But all d< that is outside of my subject today. Ie In behalf of theimmortality of a man, w - the inner eye, the inner ear, the inner yl capaci for gladness or distress, how c( few feel anythinz like the overwhelm- fc ing concentration expressed in my et text. Rarer than four leaved clovers, d( rarer than century plants, rarer than b] prima donnas, have been those cf al whom it may be said. "They :had a passion for souls." You could count ti on the fingers and thumb of your left hand all the names of those you can recall who in the last-the eighteenth h --century were so characterized. h: All the names of those you could re- a call in our time as having this passion t for souls you can count on the fingers a, and thumbs of your right and left r hands. There are many more such cc consecrated souls, but they are scat- cc tered so widely you do not know tc them. Thoroughly Christian people tc by the hundreds of millions there are ei today, but how few people do you st know who are utterly oblivious to everything in this world except the re- C demption of souls? Paul had it when a< he wrote my text, and the time will come when the majority of Christians t, will have it, if this world is ever to be lifted out of the slough in which it has been sinking and floundering for near 19 entrie,_and betterment had bet- e 1e9einwt myself and yourself. e When a committee of the .Society of Friends called upon a member-~m- ai primand him for breakirgAOde small n, rule of the socie . .a member re- o Plied: "I a ream, in which all ex th ~ dshad assembled to plan st me waf to have our meeting house ti eaned, for it was very filthy. Many hi propositions were made, but no con- a clusion was reached until one of the ax members rose and said, 'Friends, I it 'thnk if each one would take a broom ~ andsepimmeditely aoundhiisown st seat, the meetinghouse would be ha clean.'" So let te work of spiritual ri improvement begin around our own soul. Some one whispers up from the ~ riht hand side of the pulpit and says, m Will you please name some of the ai persons in our times who have this ir passon for souls?" Oh, no! That C would be invidious and imprudent, es and the mere mentioning of the names m of such prsons might cause in them ~ spirita pride, and then the Lord cc would have no more use for them. sl Some one whispers up from the left ol hand side of the pulpit, "Will you tc not, then, mention among the people hi of the past some who had this passion el for souls?" Oh, yes! Samuel Ruther- o~ ford, the Scotchman of 300 years ago sa -his imprisonment at Aberdeen for m his religious zeal, and the public burn- ox ing of his book, "Lex Rex," in Edin- f: burgh, andhis unjust arraignment for high treason and other persecutions, w purifying and sanctifying him so that y his works, entitled "Trial and Triumph Ii of Faith" and "Christ Dying and ol Drawn~ Sinners to Himself," and, w aoe ,his 215 unparalleled letters ri showed that he had the passion for w souls; Richard Baxter, whose "Para- qi phrase of the New Testament" caused ai him to be dragged before Lord Jef- he fre r, who howled at him as "a ras- be cal 'and "sniveling Presbyterian" and cc imprisoned him for two years-Baxter, ni writing 168 religious books, his "Call to the Unconverted" bringing- un- si counted thousands into the pardon of pa the 1, and his "Saints' Everlast- ar in opening heaven to a host in- h: numerable; Dichard Cecil; Thomas A. tc Kempis, writting his "Imitation of at Christ" for all ages; Harlan Page, se Robert McCheyne, Nettleton, Fmnney nm and more whom I might mention, the as characteristic of whose lives was an in overtowering passion for souls. A. es B. Earl, the Baptist evangelist, had it. st I. S. Tnskip, the Methodist evangelist. ta Jacob Knapp had it. D~r. Bachus, de president of Hamilton college, had it. ox And when told he had only half an w hour tolve said: "Is that so? Then se take me out of my bed and place me p upon my knees and let me spend that m time in calling on God for the salva- fr tion of the world." And so he died ce upon his knees. Then there have been or others whose names have been known at only in their own family or neigbor- ai hood, and there you think of one. px What unction they had in prayer ! th What power they had in exhortation ! cr If they walked into a home, every ct. member of it felt a holy thrill, and if d they walked into a prayer meeting the to dullness and stolidity instantly van- se ished. One of them would wake up a fi. whole church. One of them would o1 sometimes electrify a whole city. n But the most wonderful one of that P characterization the world ever saw sis or heard or felt was a peasant in the a~ far east, wearing a plain blouse like lo an inverted wheat sack, with three se openings-one for the neck and the 0 other two for the arms. His father a l11 wheelwright and house builder and pe given to various carpentry. His pe mother at first under suspicion because m of the circumstances of his nativity, to and be chased by a Herodic mania out d< of his native land to live awhile under di the shadows of the sphinx and pyra- w - of Gzen, afterward confounding w e speople of Jeruisalemn, then stop- tb pin the paroxysm of tempest and of' tL mad. n. His path strewn with slain th~ and catalepsies and ophithal- n<u ,iasfigured on one mnountainx,s paing' n another mountajin, dy- of gmnoth mountaia and ascend-a )st beautiful beng whose feet ever icied the earth. Tel us, ye deserts io heard our Saviour's pr'ayer. tell ye seas that drenche.l him witl ur surf: tell us, ye multitudes who ard him preach on deck, on beach. hillside; teU.1 us, Golgotha, who ard the stroke of the hammer on the ikeheads and the dying groan in at midnight that dropped on mid on, did anyone like Jesus have this ssion for souls ? But breaking right in upon me is e question, How can we get some ing of this Pauiine and Christly nging for saved iimortalities I swer, by better appreaciating the 'olongation of the soul's existence ,mpared with everything physical id material. How I hope that sur on will successfully remove the cat act from that man's eye It is such sad thing to be blind Let us pray hile the docor is busy with the deli ie operation. But for how long a ne will he be able to give his patient esight f Well, if the patient be 4 ars of age, he will adid to his happi ss perhaps 50 years of eyesight, and at will bring the man to 90 years, d it is not probable that he will live long. But what is good eyesight r 50 years more as compared with ar vision for the soul a billion of turies : I hope the effort to drive ck the typhoid fever from yonder )me will be successfull. God help e doctors : We will wait in great tiety until the fires of that fever are tinguished, and when the man rises m his pillow and walks out, with at heartiness we will welcome him to the fresh air and the churzh and siness circles. Le I, thirty years of e, and if he shall live sixty years ore that will make him ninety. But at are sixty years more of earthly gor compared with the soul's health r a ouadrillion millenniums -a mil nitim, as you know, a thousand ars? This world, since fitted up for an's residence, haz existed about six nasand years. How much longer ill it exist? 'We will suppose it shall st as much longer, which is very >ubtful. That will make its exist ce twelve thousand years. But hat are or will be twelve thousand ars compared with the eternity pre ding those years and the eternity llowing them-time, as compared to ernity, like the dror of the night w shaken from the top of a grass ade by the cow's hoof on its way ield this morning, as compared with editeranian and Arabian and Atlan and Pacifc watery dominions'? I see the author of my text seated in e house of Gaius, who entertained .m at Corinth, not far from the over Lnging fortress of Acro-Corinthus, id meditating on the longevity of e soui and getting more and more ,itated about its value and the awful k some of his kindred were running ncerning it, and he writes this letter taining the text, which Chrysos m admired so much he had it read him twice a week, and among oih things he says those daring and rtling words of my text, "I could ish that myself were accursed from rist for my brethren. my kinsmen, cording to the flesh." Another way to get something of .e Pauline longing for redeemed im ortalities is by examining the vast achinery arraiged to save this inner td spiritial a That mnhn y started f. i-evolve on the edge of erden of Eden, just after the cy Gn of sin prostrated the sycamores d tamerisks and willows and will >t cease to revolve until the last soul earth shall get rid of its last sin and Lter the heavenly Eden. On that upendous machinery for soul saving .e patriarch put his hand, and prohet s hand, and evangelist his hand, and ostle his hand, and Christ his hand,. id almost every hand that touched became a crushied hand. It was the ost expensive machinery ever con ructed. It cost more to start it and L cost and will cost more to keep it Lnning than all thle wheels that ever ade revolution on this planet. That achinery -turned not by ordinary otive power, but by force of tears id blood. To connect its bands of fluence made out of human and ristly nerves with all parts of the .rth millions of good men and wo en are now at work and will be at ork until every wilderness shall be' me a garden, and every tear of grief all be a tear of joy, and the sword divine victory shall give the wound the old dragon that shall send him wlng to the pit, the iron gate anging against him never agamn to >en. All that and infinitely more to e tne soul. Why, it must be a tre endous soul-tremendous for good tremendous for evil, tremendous r happiness or tremendous for woe. Who is that young woman on the orst street in Washington, New ork or London, Bible in hand and a te package in which are small vials medicines, and another bundle in bich are biscuits ? How dare she ik herself with "those roughs," and here is she going ? She is one of the teens of heaven hunting up the sick Ld hungry, and before night she will ye read Christ's "Let not your heart troubled" in eight or ten places, and unted out from those vials the right amber of drops to ease pain and given P~ut on the left side of the largest eet of paper that ever came from per mill a single unit, the figure 1, d how many ciphers would you Lye to add to the right of that figure exoress the soul's value, each cipher dig tenfold? Working into that heme of the soul's redemption, how any angels of God, descending and cending'. [How many storms swoop g on Lake Galilee- IIow many rthquakes opening dungeons and riking cataclysms through moun ins, from top to base. What noon y sun was put on retreat. What anipotence lifted and what Godhead ~s put to torture. All that for the ul. No wonder that Paul, though ssessing great equipoise of tempera ent when he thought what his iends and kindred were risking con rning their souls, flung aside all his dinary modes of speech, argument d apt simile, and bold metaphor, d learned allusion, as unfit to ex ess how he felt, and seiziing upon e appalling hyperbolism of my text les out, "I could wish myself ac .rsed"-that is, struck of the thun rbolts of the omnipotent God, sunk unfathomed depths, chained into rvitude to Abaddon and thrust into races whose fires shall never burn tt-if only those whom I love might > and forever be saved. Mind you, ml does not say, "I do wish." He ys, "I could wish.'' Even in the :ony he felt !or others he did not se his balance. "I could wish my If accursed." I could, but I do not. 1y one being that ever lived was eraly willing to give up heaven for rdition, and that was the divine asant whom I mentioned a few mo ents ago. lIe was not only willing exchange dominions of bliss for minions of wretchedness, but he d so, for, that he forsook heaven, Etness the stooping star and all those ho saw his miracles of mercy, and at he actually entered the gatso e world of perpetual conilagration e Bible distinctly declares. Ie "d >t say vtith Paul, "I could, " uch id, "I will, I do," and for the so Im h- descended into hieii. In tis~ last half of the last de'-uode o tm-e in :e 1hurcihes is very low, and :LLEcpietv wouldspoil if it were not h on ice. And, taking thinz a e. a re, ordinary Christians will nver reach the point where the out -y of Paul in the text will not seem extravaganza. The proprieties in most of the churches are so ixed that all a Christian is expected to do on Sunday is to get up a little later in the morn ing than usual, put on that which is next to his best attire-not the very best, for that has to be reserved for the levee-enter the church with stately step, bow his head, or at any rate shut his eyes in prayer time, or close them enough to look sleepy. turn toward the pulpit with holy dullness while the preacher speaks, put a 5 cent piece -or if the times be hard a 1 cent piece -on the collection platter, kind of shoving it down under the other coin so that it might be, for all that lthe usher knows, a $5 gold piece, and then after the benediction', go quietly home to the biggest repast of all the weei. That is ali tbe majority of Chr'stians are doing for the rectificition of this planet, and they will do that until, at the close of life, the pastor opens a black book a' the head of their casket and reads: "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. They rest from their labors and their works do follow them." The serse of the ludicrous is so thoroughly developed in me that when I hear these Scripture words read at the obsequies of one of the re ligious do nothings in the churches it is too much for my gravity. "Their works do follow them." What works? And in what direction do they follow them-up or down: And do they fol low on foot or on the wing? And how long will they follow before they catch up? More appropriate funeral text for all such religious dead beats would be the words in Matthew xxv, S: "Our lamps are gone out." Oae would think that such Christians would show at least under whose ban ner they are enlisted. In one of the Napoleonic wars a woman-Jeannette by name - took her position with the troops and shouldered a broomstick. The colonel said, "Jeannette, why do you take such a useless weapon into the ranks?" "Well, she said, "I can show, at least, which side I am on." Now, the object of this sermon is to stir at least one-fourth of you to an ambition for that which my text pre sents in blazing vocabulary namely, a passion for souls. To prove that it is possible to have much of that spirit, I bring the consecration of 2,990 foreign missionaries. It is usually estimated that there are at least 3,0100 missiona ries. I m.ake a liberal allowance and admit there may bi 10 bad missiona ries out of the 3,000, but I do not be lieve there is one. All English and American merchant1 leave Bombay, Calcutta, Amoy and Peking as soon as they make their fortunes. Why? Because no European or American in his senses would stay in that climate after monetary inducements have ceased. Now the missionaries there are put down on the barest necessities, and most of them do not lay up $1 in twenty years. Why, then, do they stay in those lands of intolerable heat and cobras and raging fevers, the thermometer sometimes playing at 1:D and 140 degrees of oppressiveness, 12,000 miles from home, because of the unhealthy climate and the prevailing immoralities of those regions compell ed to send their children to Egland or Scotlrnd or America, probably never to see themr again' 0 blessed Christ. Can it be anything but a pas sion for souls? It is easy to understand all this frequent depreciation of for eign missionaries when you kno w that they are all opposed to the opium traffic, and that interferes with com merce, snd then the missionaries are moral, and that is an offense to many of the merchants-not all of them,but many of them-who, absent from all home restraint, are so immoral that we can make only faint allusion to the monstrosity of their abominations. food to a family that would otherwise have had nothing to eat today, and taken the measures of a dead child that she may prepare for it a shroud -her every act of kindness for the body accompanied with a benediction for the soul, You see nothing but the filthy street along which she walks and the rickety stairs up which she climbs, but she is accompanied by an unseen cohort of angels with drawn swords to defend her,and with garlands twisted for her victories all up and down the tenement house districts. I tell you there was not so much ex citement when Anne Boleyn, on her way to her coronation, found the Thames stirred by 50 gilded barges, with brilliant flags, in which hung small bells rung by each motion of the wind, noblemen standing in scar let, and wharf spread with cloth, and all the gateways surmounted by huz ning admirers, and the streets hung with crimson velvet, and trumpets and cannon sounding the jubilee, and Anne, dressed in surcoat of silver tis sue, and brow gleaming with a circlet o rubies, and amid fountains that poured Rhenish wine passed on to Westminister hall and rode in on a caparisoned palfry, its hoofs clattering on the classic floor, and, dismounting, passed into Westminister abbey, and bet ween the choir and high altar was crc wned queen, amid organs and choirs chanting the "Te Deum"-I say there was not much in all that glory which dazzles the eyes of history when it is compared with the heavenly re ception which that ministering spirit of the black alley shall receive when she goes up to coronation. When she goes in, what welcome on the riv-1 er of life, its banks of pearl lined with: splenders seraphic and in temples of1 of eternal worship, whose music is commanded by swing of archanglie scepter and before the throne sit those who nave reigned a thousand years1 but have just begun their dominion. Poor Anne B3oleyn, in two years after] that pageant, lost life and throne by one stroke of headsmnac, but those who1 on earth have a divine passion for: souls shall never .lose their thrones.< "They shall reign forever and ever." But, after all, the best way to culti-1 ate that divine nassion for souls is to: work for their sailvation. Under God< save one, and you will want right1 away to save two. Save two and you will want to save ten. Save ten, and you will want to save twenty. Save twenty, and you will want to save a hundred, and you will want to save every body. And what is the use of talking about it when the place to be min is here and the time is now ? And while you pray I will in one minute tell all there is of it. Full pardon for the worst man on earth if he will be lieve in Christ, whose blood can in stantly wash away the foulest crimes. ull comfort for the most harrowing listress that ever crushed a human be ing. At your first moment of belief, t process by which the whole universe f God will turn clear around for ycur eternal advantage. For the mere asking, if the asking be in earn st, and you throw everything into hat asking, complete solace and help ulness for the few years of this life, ud then a wide open heaven, which y-ou can reswh in less time than it akes to pronoju !W' th at imperial word, lshing with all joy that an infin te G.od knows lbox ,' o below-heav In this world (Goda never does his jesi.. He~ can hang on the horizon I -arder mornings than have cver yet ]. :eu kindled, and rainbow the sky < arched, and attuue the oceans to more maj-stic doxologies than have ever vet been attuned; but as near as I can tel!, and I speak it reverently, heaven is the nlace where God has done his best. He can build no greater joys, lift no mighiier splendors, roll no lof tier anthems, march no more imposing processions, build no greater palaces, and spread out and interjoin and wave no more transporting magnificence. I think heaven is the best heaven God can construct, and it is all yours for the serious asking. How do you like the offer: Do you really think it is worth accepting? If so, pray for it. Get not up from that-pew where you are sitting, nor move one inch from where you are standing, before you get a title for it, written in the blooi of the Son of God, who would have all men come to life present and life everlast Ing. If you have been in military life you know what soldiers Call the "long roll.' All the drums beat -it because the enemy is approaching, and all the troops must immediately get into line. What scurrying around the camp and putting of the arms through the straps of the knapsack and saying goodby to eomrades you may never meet again: Some of you Germans or Frenchmen may have heard that long roll just be fore G;edan. S,'ne of you Italians may have heard that long roll just be fore Bergamo. Some of you northern and southern men may have heard it just before the battle of the Wilder ness. You know its stirring and sol emn meaning, and so I sound the long roll today. I beat this old gospel drum-that has for centuries been call ing thousands to take their places in line for this battle, on one side of which are all the forces beatific and on the other side all the force demoni ac. Hear the long roll call, "Who is on the Lord's side:' "yQuityourselves like men." In solemn column march for God and happiness and heaven. So glad am I that I do not have to "wish myself accursed" and throw away my heaven that'you may win your heaven, but that we may have a whole convention of heavens-heaven added to heaven, heaven built on heaven. A nd while I d well upon the theme I begin to experience in my own poor self that which I take to be some thing like a passion for souls. And now unto God, the only wise, the only good, the only great, be glory forever! Amen. An American Policy. The one point Mr. Bryan empha sized in his tour was that America should decide her own financial policy and not be forced to take such as for eigners force on us. The New York Evening Post, the most "English" of all our papers and the least American, is candid enough to give figures which prove that Mr. Bryan was overwhelm ingly endorsed by the native born Americans. The Post finds that: The whites have among them only about 1 per cent. of people of foreign par entage in North Carolina, between 3 and 4 in South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, and between 4 and 5 in Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas. about 15 in Florida, 19 in Texas and 26 in Louisana. In the section as a whole the foreign vote is very small, Z.-d in no one of these last threa has it ever been a controll in elenent. Turning to the States that voted for McKinley and the gola standard, the Post finds: In New England persons of foreign parentage constitute from about 23 per cent. as the population in Maine to 56 in Mas sachusetts and 59 in Rhode Island, in New York about 57, New Jersey 50 and Pennsylvania 37, about 35 per cent. in Ohio, 44 in Iowa, 50 in Illi nois, 55 in Michigan, 6t in South Da kota, 73 in Wist~onsin, 76 in Minneso ta and 79 in North Dakcta. In discus sing this matter the Woild says edi torially: The Post demonstrates that the "ignorant foreign vote" rolled up the honest-money majorities, almost saved Nebraska and made up the lar gest part of the overwhelmed minori ties in Kansas and Missouri. "The foreign metropolis of Missouri went for sound money by a large majority. It was the native Americans wao car ried it the wrong way. Wherever the native American population predomi nates, the Post concludes, there the free silver craze was craziest, "while the largely foreign-born North went overwhelmingly right." How to Get Rid of Stuzsnps. The stumps of trees left in fields in tended for cultivation not only mar the beauty of the fields, but seriously incommodes farm operations. All stumps, roots and grubs should be re moved from the soil where the land is cleared, because it is economy of time and labor to do so. The land can be cultivated more thoroughly, and la bor-saving machinery employed in planting, cultivating and harvesting the crops. T wenty years ago, lHon. Alfred Colquitt, President of the Agricultural Society of Georgia, urged the farmers of the State to get rid of stumps without delay, and sug gested a cheap, simple and effective way of doing so. The only appliance required were a shovel, a little dry kindling and a sheet iron cylinder large enough to slip down over the larger stumps, the top coned shaped, ad terminating in a collar in which oe or more lengths of six or eight inch stove pipe may be fitted. A hole is dug between the roots on one side :f the stump, and partially under it, large enough to start a fire with the kindling. After the fire is started, the iron cylinder is slipped over the stump, the stovepipe is added, and the ar rangement acts as a stove, burning the stump out completely. If the stumps are old and dry, and the wea ther dry, the stumps will burn with >ut the addition of the cone-shaped op andl stovepipe. if the stumps are ~reen, a half gallon of kerosene oil poured over the stump an hour- before lighting the tire will facilitate mail ers very much; but the top and pipe, eting as a draught, will do more, and ~ause it to burn down in the roots. This method is gaining great populari y in England and France. We call the ttention of our farmers to it, as the listinguished Geor-gian advocated it ~wety years ago. Fatal Saloon Fight. LEDVILLE, Col.-, Nov. 12-A fight >ccurred in a saloon at an early hour oday, in which five men were scabbed md~ one at least will die. The injured re: Stephen F"rankowit z, wound fa :ai: Jerry Dormnondy, wound serious; oseph Austerman, badly cut; .John ackson, badly cut; unknown man, wounecd serious. Fifteen or twenty en were engaged in the affray, which wvas an outcome of the miner's strike. : party of Austrianis who wer-e em 2loyed in the smelter-s were followed nto the saloon by a crowd of strikers, wio called them selbs. The Austrians -esented this and a light began. Suichlet of IBrIdegroomx. ArsTIN, Texas, Nov. 11.-Frank Eamilton, for years a promineut bank 3r here, took mo:rphine this afternoon wvithi suicidal intent and died this even ng. Up to a few months ago lie was member of Rlaymond & Co., bank .ng house, and is well known to New ork bankers. He took an active part .n the instruction of the Austin dam, n which he lost much money. He vas married Monday night to a Miss Darrie Gray, of this city, his first wife aaving died two years ago. D~espon lency over losses is supposedJ to have THE DINGLEY BILL. A M aimur;! Th-tt Mav i P.,nd at the Coming Session. An absorbing topic of speculation amon politicians at this time, says the Washington Star, is whether the "Dingley bill- of last session is likely to be passed at the coming session 0! Congress, as a preliminary step in the march to Tard a general revision of the tariff at a possible extra session of Congress. The Dinigley bill was passed by the House the day after last Christmas, the House remaining in session dur ing the usual holiday recess. The Senate committee on finance, in the followirg February. reported the Dinley bill to the Senate with the tariff feature stricken out and a free coinage of silver clause inserted in lieu, together with a paragraph re deeming and cancelling all national bank notes of a denomination less than $10. and providing for the redemption of United States notes in silver dollars and the reissue of the notes. The Senate did not pass the bill. The provisions of the Dingley bill was explained in the following ex tract from the report to the House which accompanied the bill: "Your committee have not under taken a general revision of the tariff on protection lines, as a majority hope can be done in 1897-98, not only be cause they know that such tariff legis lation would stand no chance of be coming a law, but also because general tariff revision would require many months; and the need is more revenue at once. We believe, however, that this need of more revenue is so great that a simple measure increasing all duties of the dutiable list, and taking from the free list of the present tariff a few articles that were always on the dutiable list until August27, 1894, and which have always been important revenue producers, and limiting the operation of such legislation to about two years and a half-until the pres ent deficiency of revenue is overcome -ought to receive the approval even of those who do not favor protective duties on patriotic grounds; and that the fact that it may incidentally en courage the production of many arti cles that we require at home instead of abroad will not be regarded as a ground of opposition under present circumstances. "In framing the bill submitted for your consideration it has been neces sary, if action was to be taken prompt ly, to resort to a considerable extent to a horizontal raise of duties, for the reason that it would have required months to deal with each article sep - arately. Horizontal dealing with tar iffs cannot be justified in ordinary times, but in such an exigency as ex ists now-so serious that the President felt it his duty to send us a special message of extreme urgency-and es pecially for a limited time, it is not only defensible, but is the only alter native. "But while we have presented in the bill reported a horizontal increase of 15 per cent. of existing duties on all the schedules but two, which is an ad dition of less than 8 per cent. to the average ad valorem rate, givia about $15,000,000 ren' rrom that source. yet n-j ihan $25,000,000 of the $40, l0000 which it is estimated this bill would add to our annual revenue will come mainly from wool, which is tak en from the free list and given a mod erate duty, and from manufacturers of wool, which are given a compensa tory duty equivalent to the duty on wool, which is always necessary when a duty is placed on wool, in order to give the wool grower the benefit and make it possible to manufacture wool ens at home. "The bill reported by your commit tee proposes to 'make the duty on im ported clothing wool 60 per cent. of the duty imposed by the Act of 1890, which would give an equivalent of six and six-tenths of a cent rer pound on unwashed wool, or about 40 per cent. ad valorem. This reduction from the duty of the Act of 1890 has been made becsuse the restoration of the full duty in that Act might seem to be too great a change from the present law to those whose co-operation it is necessary to secure in order to have any legislation, and not as a measure of what might be done when all branches of the governmenr are in harmoniy with the majority of the House on protection lines. The duty on manufactnres of wool is increased by a specific duty equivalent to the duty on wool. -'The dulty on carpet wools is left at the 32 per cent. ad valorem, where it was placed in 1890. This is a purely revenue duty, as we raise very few carpet wools. "Such lumber as was placed on the free list by the Act of 1890, without the slightest justification, is restored to the dutiable list,but,with a duty of on ly C0 per cent, of the :duties provided by the Act of 1890--givmng an equiva lent of only about 15 per cent. Such a reduction from the low rates of 1890 is .iustified only on the ground that the object of your committee has been to frame a bill mainly on revenue grounds, in the hope that it would se cure the approval of those in oflicial places whose co-operation is essential to legislation, and who may be sup posed to feel that in such an exigen'-y as now exists the public necessity must control. Believing that such an inccrease of revenue as is now proposed is essential as a first step in the restoration of con fidence and the restoration of the Treasury toa sound condition.and that other legislation to be proposed to this end cannot be effective without ad equate revenue to meet the expendi tures of the governamen t, your com mitee recommend tne passage of the accompanying bill, to temporarily in crease revenue to meet the expenses of government anid to provide against a deficiency.'" Terrible ExplIosion. TroalsoN, Nov. l:.-Tnis morning at 8 o'clock the 50-horse po wer boiler at Jixe McDufle mills, owned and op rated by 1. W . Shields, exploded with terrific force, completely demolishing the engiue house and scattering f rag mets of iron and brick a quarter of a mile in all directions. Gordon E. Wall, the engieeand a colored fire man wvere in the house at the time and both men miraculously escaped with their lives. Mr. Wall was blown through the door of the engine room into the middle of the street and the fireman was completely coveied with the ruinis of- the building. A small negro girl standing near was blown 1 feet against a church, and received injuries from which she will die. The African Methodist church, a large building recently erected, was com pletely demolished by the explosion, and it is now a mass of ruins. A schoolhouse for the colored people, tuo feet away, was likewise complete ly destroyed. The wrecked boiler shot about 150 feet in the air and fell near the residence of Professor Gibson. The explosion was heard for miles around and the wonder is that no more lives were lost. The cause of the explosion is not known, but the presumption is that the blowoff valve refused to work. The loss and damage to property of Mr. Shields will run up into the thous ands. The doctors now say that Mr. Wall and the fireman will recover, but the negro child is now in a dying The state Must iav. CH ARLESTON, S. C., Nov. 11.-Infor mation was received here today tha Judge Nathan GoIr. sitting in th United States court of appeals in Rich mond, had handed down a decision ii the notorious Cantini dispensary cas< which went up from Charlestaon oi an appeal taken by the attorney gen eral of South Carolina. The cout o appeals affirms the decision of th< lower court giving Anania Cantin 3,000 damages frcm the State and a the same time some very sharn lan guage is used regarding Attornei General Barber. The court says i was doubtful whether it should no have taken steps against the attorne: general for uselessly delaying justice While an actual threat is not contaia ed in the language of the decision there is a decided reproof for the at torney general of the State. The casi has been in the courts fcr three years During the month of O)ctober, 1893 constables visited the establishment o Antonia Cantini, a citizen of the city and seized a quantity of liquors upor the pretext that he was violating th dispensary law. In the seizure of th< liquor considerable damage was don to Cantini's premises. Cantini sough the legal services of Maj. Theodore G Barker, and Judge H. S. P. Bol ger and an action was brought fo: the damages sustained and was imme diately entered in the United States cir cuit court. After elaborate argumen on both sides the jury decided that the State was responsible for the damag< inflicted and awarded Cantini the sun: of $3,00u. Subsequently, Attorne] General Barber appealed from the ver dict of the court and the case went ul on a demurer of the circuit court o appeals. The case was heard on Ma3 the 5th, 189G. Attorney General Bar ber appearing for the State and Ma jor Barker for Cantini.-Greenvill News. Between Two Fires. Political gossip today had it tha Senator Thurston, the golden star o the Republican party in Nebraska was in a queer position and that thi Republican party was also locate( much like the tramp who saw the far mer coming toward the apple tree ani knew that the bulldog was alread3 sitting below. The wires, it is said are being kept very warm betweer Canton and Omaha and the party leaders are doing some figuring that i as intricate and complicated as a 13-15 14 puzzle. Senator Thurston is said tc be wanted in the cabinet-and h( wants to get into the cabinet. On the other hand, his vacant chair in the senate would have to be filled; the legislature of Nebraska would fill il and the man whom the Nebraska leg islature-heavily free silver-woulc send to Washington would to a cer tainty be W. J. Bryan. The Republi gan party wants Thurston, yet it shiv ers at the idaa of Bryan. implacable unresting, fulminating in a senate al ready balanched toward Democraci and where every added Democraic vot4 would count most tremendously. Con sequently there is much diversion ;mes sages fly to and fro; Mr. Thurston, ru mor has it, has already accepted tho portfolio of secretary of state and the D, nocracy is gaining a big chunk o consolation over the dilema in whicl the Republicans find themselves in volved. The Proper Policy. Sas F~ascisco, Nov. 12.-Can gressmnan Newlands of Nevada, tem porary chairman of the St. Louis Sil ver party convention, was interviewcc by a Chronicle reporter with referenci to the policy which should control the silver men from the mining State! during the comine session. Mr. Newlands said: "I~ believe that we should accept the verdict of the coun try. The Republican party claimet protection and the Democratic part3 8ilver to be the paramount issue. Th< people have declared in favor of pro tection and have given the Republi can party a contract for the restora tion of prosperity. It should be al lowed to carry out any reasonable tariff policy without obstruction. Il it brings prosperity, we will all be con tent; if it does not we will all know some other remedy is required, and by the process of eliminatian will comi down to the only radical cure, name lv, full restoration of silver as a money mietal. The people have spoken anc have declared for protection, and I d( not think any obstruction should be opposed to the popular will. Let taritJ legislation be enacted immediately, and we will have a chance at the next Congressional election, and if nol then, at the next Presidential electiorn to test the sentiment of the country or the silver question, unembarrassed by tariff." flurder in Greenvmle. GREENVILLE, S. C., Nov. 10.-This morning about 9 o'clock, in Dunklir Township. ten miles below Greenville, Thomas W. Austin shot and instant ly killed J. B. Beeco. A year ago Beecc moved from Piedmont to the Austin neighborhood. Mr. Austin allege~ that improper relations existed1 bet ween Beeco and Mrs. Austin, an~ ordered Beeco to leave the neighborhood and never return, under the penalty of death. Beeco had not beeni seen in the neighborhood since, until this morning, when he and his father drove up to Austin's store, which is part of his residence. lHe called Mr. Austin. The later saw him, grabbed his double-barrel shotgun, which was loaded with buckshot. ran out to the buggy and emptied the fist load into Beeco's breast, and as he tell fired the other load into his head. Austin came to the city this afternoon, bringing the gun which he used, and surren dered to the Sherill. lie is now in jail. Austin is 52 years old, his wife 40 and Beeco 25. Austin is not con sidered stong-minded. lie is said to be of a jealous disposition, and at one time was thought to be insane. The Beeco side of the case has not yet been learned. Threatnzed Hellio;ger. A IEN, Nov. 10.-Your correspond ent learned last night that the words threatening Solicitor Bellinger's life had been standing out in black and white ever since the week of the Brox ton Bridge trial. And this morning I went down to the passenger station and found as reported, the words: "Duncan B~ellinger be shot yet,"~ on the margin of a picture which sits on the mantlepiece. These words seemed to have been made by a well educated person, but in a disguised manner. While there is not much attention given to the words and while they do not say much, yet when connected with the Colleton county case, the riot t the campaign meeting anl their being placed there at the term of court that the case was tried, and, as it seems, in a threatening manner, why should we naot ask the quiestion, who id the writing and for what purposes -State. ________ A Fatal )ilstake. AmKEs, Nov. 10.-Mr. John Taylor. 2 years of age,was killed by the~ Coast Line train due at Montmorenci at 3::8 his afternoon. He was standing on he main line looking at the Richard on U-uards who were fixing to leave for Columbia on the 4:30 train, lie eidently thought he was on the side rack. His body was badly bruised and his neck broken. Mr. Taylor ived about two miles out of Montrao THE YORK COUNTY SENS'\T!ON. Th Ie .ragic rarnfioation of a Noted Mur. der Trial. Yol.vtLLE, S. C., Nov. 1l.-There was :nother big sensation in the Reese IAndviron-Luckie murder trial today. Mrs. Anderson swore that she alone is responsible for the death of Charles T. Williams. After several witnesses were examined this mnraiog, Mrs. t Anderson was called, and on the stand - she said that Charles T. Williams wrote her several notes during the 6th t of February, asking to be allowed to t call. She refused to see him. That night he came anyway and entered her room. She presented a pistol and told him to leave. He backed out of the room, and she followed him to the street in her stocking feet. Then she thought to frighten him, and fired her pistol at random, in a different direc tion from the one she thought he had taken. At the first shot the weapon I jumped and the ball struck the ground so close to her feet that she was appre- h hensive of shooting herself. She then took the pistol in both hands, in order to hold it more firmly, and fired two more shots. It was not until next day that she heard of the terrible result, and she was terrified. Reese and Dan Luckie told stories that corroborated what Mrs. Anderson had to say, but all of the witnesses were badly tangled on cross-examination. The defense intrcduced in evidence the pistol with which Mrs. Anderson alleges she did the killing. Along with this the pros ecution introduced the bullet that had n been taken out of the dead man's body, together with a bullet that had been forced through the barrel of the pistol. It is claimed that the two bul- n lets show diterent rifling. All the q evidence is now in and the argument c will be ccmmenced tomorrow. 1 CONVICTED AND SHOT. YORKVILLE, Nov. 12.-Sensation ci upon sensation! Reese attempted to c: run tonight when the jury brought in their verdict, and Deputy Scoggins shot him. s The jury in the Reese-Williams ri murder case at 9 o'clock tonight re- b turned a verdict of guilty as to Marion a] R. Reese and Daniel F. Luckie, with c, recommendation to mercy, and not P guilty as to Ellen Anderson. Reese b appeared cool and collected, and told 01 your reporter that he would ask for a M new trial. fC Colonel Youmans had entered on t' the minutes of the court a motion for a new trial. li As Deputy Sheriff R. L. Scoggins r( was returning to the jail with Luckie ei and Reese at 9:40 o'clock Reese at- to tempted to escape while just opposite ti the Presbyterian church. Deputy T Scoggins called to him to "halt" and v then fired. The ball struck Reese in n the center of the back of the head, v knocking him down, and Scoggins h secured him. Luckie was taken on to r the jail. Reese was carried to Dr. . Walker's oflicee, and there Drs. Brat ton, White and Walker probed for A the ball. The ball had ranged up- A ward and did not penetrata to the C brain. The wound will not prove C fatal. C It is said that s'ome parties followed D the deputies and Luckie to the jail, and F there was talk of shooting Luckie. G The verdict meets with the approv- I( al of the public. The public is famil- Il iar with the case but here is a short j, summary. On the 61th of last Febru- It ary Chas. T. Williams was found dead on the streets of Blacksburg. An g m iquest disclosed facts suspicious as to L Reese and Luckie. They left immedi- N ately after the verdict of the coroner's y jury, but returned and delivered y themselves on the 19th of June. No y trial was had until this term of court, y all of the defendants being out on bail. At the trial the State made out ~ a strong case of circumstantial evi dence. Mrs. Anderson took the stand ~ and said that she had been intimate ~ with Williams, but had broken off; N that he attempted to force his way in N her house and she dre w her pistol on him. As he ran she fired up the N street, intending only to frighten him ~ but killed him. Reese and Luckie c said they left.to save her.-State- c saved aTrain. CrNcimNTr, 0., Nov. 11.-A special s from Washington, Ind., says a tramp s saved an express train from being T wrecked by dynamite a short distance r east of Mitchell, Ind. The story is that the tramp about 1 a. m. found ~ enough dynamite and nitro glycerine x placed on the track to blow the engine to pieces as soon as it struck it. Ha;" ing no other mode of signalling he v ran to the nearest switch, tore off the v lamp, and returning signalled the ap proaching train. As he was doing so he was shot at by the wreckers and was found unconscious by the train men. The officers of the Baltimore & ei Ohio Southwestern are inclined tod doubt the tramp's story as they have 1, no information of his being wounded Il nor of his having shown any dyna- se mite. IHowever, they have ordered C bicod hounds to the scene and will in- I vestigate the matter, is splendid Oi'ersi Madle Bryan. J Messrs. Siegel, Cooper & Co., the 55 big New Yor'< and Chicago merchants, TJ have made a liberal offer to Mr. Wil- in liam Jennings Bryan. They say in in their telegram: 'You have so thor- irn oughly demonstrated your ability in D in the present campaign we would sc like to know if you would accept an th offer of twenty-live thousand ($25,000) is dollars a year to manage a law de- ho partment in our store." Mr. Bryan has declined the offer as follows: si "During the next four years I expect th to devote as much time as possible to cl: the advocacy of bimettalism, and a therefore cannot conside~r the proposi- fe tion made by you. I a -oreciate the o confidence whic-h your oifer implies." in Mr. Bryan has also received an oiler to of fifty thousand dollars a year to de liver a series of lectures. fr< fo. Opening the Camxpalan. h S10ux FALLs, S. 1)., Nov. 10.- -3en - co ator Pettigrew opened the campaign of If 19001 last night and addressed nOr' of ne the largest audiences evyer gathered in pa this city. It was anr .:mened as the be- dit ginning of the bimetallic fight of four Ai years hence. The Senator said that ye he would render McKinley every aid wt possible for him to demonstrate that se. the tariff was what ailed the country, nu but wanted to put hi, '- on record Sp by saying that he w. :s resist every section of a tarif f bll that provided for a tarity on auy article e "itrol led by a triust. This created a s- sation, w and the demonstration that ;.dowed th was tremendous. The Senator ' neiv- ca ed a great reception at the close of iis nc speech. th SEATm., Wash., Nov. 10 .-A boom Ui has been started here for Win. J. ye Bryan for United States Senator from of this State. The silver fusionists will in control the senatorship. The conrsti- a< tution of Washington provides that to er be eligible to the oflice the candidate shall merelv be an "inhabitant" of the State at the~ time of his election, so ] that the fusion majority could elect glh Mr. Bryan without any trouble. we Richard Winsor, Sr., tihe populist o'c leader in Washington, and James see llamilton Lewis, democratic fusiomst arr and member elect of congress, are ri- me val candidates for tihe senatorship and mne Mr. Bryan has bee~n suggested as a Ge compromise. m' OYAI, POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. i-hest of all in leavening strength. -Lteit United States Government Ioodl 1i&port. RoYA, BAKING POWDER CO., New York City. GREAT GAINS FOR SILVER. lie Gold MXjority In the House Reduced From 1:5 to 55 by the Ele ction. It strikes the Boston Herald that t'ue free coinage movement was ever weaker than it is -.t this mo ent." It strikes us that this is a mis ke. Superficially at least the move ent appears certainly broader and ominally stronger than before in re mt years, and its depth depend entire upon further financial and commer al developments. It will vary ac rdingly, becoming deep and strong business depression continues. or iallow and weak as business activity ses. Ilitherto the movemeht has en factional within the two parties, id hence bound down by old party nservatism and the strength of old rty ties. Now it has burst these nds. and its first appearance in the en field free from all those entangle ents has certainly been impressive ir what is in fact a new political ven re. Compare the Democratac and Popu tic strength in the next house of presentatives with that in the pres it house. We gave a comparative ble soon after the election, based on e returns so far as then heard from. e later returns reveal still larger sil r gains. Counting Populists in the ext house as Democrats-there is no ry little to distinguish them-We vo the following dispositlon of rep sentatives by parties: 54th Congress. 55th Congress. Rep. Dem. Rep. Dem. labama.'...... ...S .. 9 rkansas ........ 6 .. 6 alifornia...... 6 1 3 4 olorado........ 1 . .. 2 onnecticut.... 4 .. - .4 elaware ...... 1 .. .. 1 orida........ .. 2 .. 2 eorgia..........11 11 aho..........1 .. 1 linois......... 21 1 17 5 diana...... 13 .. 9 4 wa........ 11 .. 11 entucky ... . 5 6 4 7 ouisiana...... ...6 ..6 ane......... 4 .. 4 -- aryland. ..3 3 6 . assachusetts... 12 1 12 1 ichigan...12 .. 10 2 innesota...7 .. 7 - ississippi........7 .- 7 issouri .......) 5 3 12 ontana......1 ., .. ebraska ......a5 . 2 4 evada.,. .. .. .. 1 ew Hapmshire 2 .. 2 . ew Jersey.... 8 . 8 . w York...28 .6 29 5 orth Carolina. 4 3 3 6 orth Dakota.. 1 .. 1 - io ...... ...19 2 15 6 regon.......2 .. 2 . mnsylvana.. 28 2 27 3 hode Island.. 2 2 2 3 th Carolina. .. 7 -- 7 uth Dakota.. 2 .. 2 . mnessee ...4 6 2 8 exas......... 1- 12 1 12 tah.... .....1 ..-- 1 ermo'nt......2 .. 2 . irginia. ... 1 9 2 8 ashington ..2 . .. 2 est Virginia.. 4 .-4 isconsmn...4 .. 4 - yoming.. 1 .~ . Totals...246 104 206 151 T wenty-two of those in the Demo atic column were elected as Populists vided by States as follows: Alabama California 2, Colorado 1, Illinoi's 2, diana 1, Kansas 5. Michigan 1, Mis uri 1, Montana 1, Nevada 1, North trolina 5, Washington 1. The Popu t strength in the present house (not clucted included in the above table) seven. All save two or three of the 1 Democrats a. d Populists in the ;th house were elected as silver men. us a Republican majority over al! the present house of 135 has changed to a Republican majority of only 55 the new house. But as many of the imocrats in the present house are nd money men, and very few of e Republicans free silver, the gain even larger than the Republican As it is also uricertain whether the ver men will not hold control of. senate, their small . ..s-in-tIrst amber are mor .-tnar ofrset by the ins in the Qer. Altogether, there re, they will present in the next con ess a far more formidable showing numbers than they have been able make in the present congress. Pt we borrow no trouble whatever )u this fact. As we have said be re, the life* of the movement all ngs on the industrial and business ditions of the immediate future. the present revival in busi s activity holds on and ex ads, the silver movement will appear quietly and completely. d if the depression of the past three ars should continue the movement uld become threatening if its repre tatives in the next congress did not mber a quarter of what they do ring field Republican. In Spanish H ond uras, warmST, Nov. 10.-J. Berrien alker, the absconding casbier of i Port Royal railway, has been lo :ed in Spanish Honduras. There is existing extradition treaty between ,s country and that, and consequent though discovered there, he can legally be brought back to the iited Sates. It was further learned terday that a near and dear friend Mr. Walker's has spent several days Augusta last week trying to etfect ompromise in order that Mr. Walk :ight return there. Burgiars Shot, 3AnmL, N. Y., Nov. 12.-- One bur r was shot to death and another s wounded and captured at 2 lock this morning in Elba, Gener county, while they were resisting -est, after entering W. A. Hlundre Lrk's general store. The wounded n is in jail and says his name is