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A GREAT SACRIF REV. DR. TALMAGE ILLUSTRATES THE ATONEMENT. Ho Explains the Theory of vicariona Sac rfice-The Blood of Christ-Cases of Suo stitution-Life for Life-Frquence of Suffering for Others. WASHINGTOss March 2L--From many conditions of life Dr. Talmage, in this sermon, draws graphic iliustra tions of one of the sublimest tneories of religion-namely, vicarious saen - flee. His text was Hebrews ix, 22, "Without shedding of bland is no re mission." John G. Whittier, the last of the great school of Anieric -m poets that made the last quarter of a century brilliant, asked me in the White moun tains, one morning, in which I had given out Cowper's famous hymn about the "fountain filled with blood,' "Do you really believe there is a liter al application of the blood of Christ tothe soul?" My negative reply then is my negative reply now. ,The Bible statement agreEs with all physicians, and all physiologists, and all scientists. in saying that the blood is the life, and in the Christian religion it means sim ply that Christ's life was given for our life. Hence all this talk of men who say the Bible story of blood is disgusting and they don't want what they call a "slaughter house religion" only shows their inc ipacity or unwil lingness to look through tne figure of speech toward the thing signfied. The blood that on the darkest Friday the world ever saw, oozed or trickled or poured from the brow, and the side, and the hands and the feet of the il lustrious suffrerer, back of Jerusalem. in a few hours coagulated and dried up and forever disappeared, and if man had depended on the application of the literal blood of Christ there would not have been a soul saved for the last 18 centuries. In order to understand this red word of my text we only have to exercise as much common sense m rehgion as we do in everything else. Pang for pang, hunger for hunger, fatigue for fatigue, tear for tear, blood for blood, life for life, we see every day illustrated. The act of substitution is no novelty, al though I hear men talk as though the idea of Christ's suffering substituted for our suffering were something ab normal, :omething distressingly odd, something wildly eccentric, a solitary episode in the world's history, when I could take you out into this city, and before sundown point you to 500 cases of substitution and voluntary suffering of one in behalf of another. A 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon go a mong the places of business and toil. It will be no difficult thing for you to find men who, by their looks, show you that they are overworked. They are prematurely old. They are hast ening rapidly toward their decease. They have gone through crises in bus ness that shattered their nervous sys tam and pulled on the brain. They haveLa shortness of breath and a pain in the back of the head, and at night an insomnia that alarms them. Why are they drudging at business early andlate? Forfun? No;itwouldbe difficult to extract any amusement out of that exhaustion. Because they are avaricious? In many cases no. Be cause ineir~own personal expenses are lavish? No- a few hundred dollars would meet all their wants. The sim ple factis the man is enduring all that fatigue and exasperation and wear and 'fear-.o keep his home prosperous. There 'is an invisible line reaching from that store, from that bank, from that shop, from that scaffolding, to a qturaene a few bloola c~y a few miles away, and there is the secret of that busines endurance. He is sim pl the champion of a homestead, for whic he wins bread and wardrobe and education and prosperity, and in such battle 10,000 men fall. Of ten busines men whom I bury, nine die of overwork for others. Some sudden disease fiudsathemn with no power of resistence, and they are tone. Life for life, blood for blood. Substitu tion! At 1 o'clock tomorrow morning, the hour when slumber is most unrnter ruipted and most profound, walk amid the dwelling houses of the city. Here and there you will find a dimi light because it is the household custom to keep a subdued light burning, but most of the houses from base to top are as dark as though uninhabited. A merciful God has sent forth the arch angel of sleep, and he puts his wings over the city. But yonder is a clear light burning, and outside on thre win dow casement is a glass or pitcher containing food for a sick child. The food is set in the fresh air. This is the sixth night that mother has sat up -with that sufferer. She has to the last point obeyed the physician's prescrip tion, not giving a drop too much or too little, or a moment too soon or too late. She is vy anxious, for she has buried three chidren with the same diease, and she prays and weeps, each prayer and sob ending with a kiss of the pale cheek. By dint of kindness she gets the little one through the or deaL. After it is all over the mother is taken down. Brain or nervous fever sets in, and one day she leaves the con valescent child with a mother's bless ing and goes up to join the three in the kingdom of heaven. Life for life. Substitution! The fact is that there are an uncounted number of mothers who, after they have navigat ed a large family of children through all the diseases of infancy and got them fairly started up the flowering sloe of boyhood and girlhood, have oystrength enough left to die. They fade away. Some call it con sumption, some call it nervous pros tration, some call it intermittent or malarial indisposition, but I call it martyrdom of the domestic circle. Life for life. Blood for blood. Sub stitution! Or perhaps the mother lingers long enough to see a son get on the wrong road, and his former kindness becomes rough reply when she expresses anxie ty about him. But she goes right on, looking carefully after his apparel, re membering his every birthday with some memento, and, when he is brought home, worn out with dissipa tion, nurses him till he gets well and starts him again and hopes and ex pects and prays and counsels and suf fers until her strength gives out and she falls. She is going, and atten dants, bending over her pillow, ask her if she has any message to leave, and she makes great effort to say some thing, but out of three or four minutes of indistinct utterance they can catch but three words, "My poor boy:" The simple fact is she died for him. Life for life. Substitution! About 36 years ago there went forth from our northern and southern homes hundreds of thousands of men to do battle for their country. All the poetry of war soon vanished and left them nothing but the terru2e prose. They waded knee deep in mud; they slept in snowbanks; they marched till their cut feet tracked the earth; they were swindled out of their honest ra tions and lived on meat not fit for a dog; they had jaws all fractured, and eyes extinguished, and aimbs ,shot away. Thousands zof inem cried for water as they lay dying on the field the night after the battle and got it mot The we homesick and re eived no messae -ri, ti oe ones. They ditd in rcS. t,:scs, in ditches, the bzr of te samer I heat the onlV a,,'ut on theirl bsqisNoo i t indnte God. who h.en mrythiog, knows the ten-t.u'andh part of the lengtb and brtitnr *:' depth a ad height of the sazish n :.northern andsouth era ids. hy did these fa thers leave teir chldren and go to the fr.t, va v-hy did these young met. postpoirg the marriage da start oLt into the rrobabilities of never cuig back ' IFor the curtry they., died. Life for i e. Blood for blood. Substi tu tion!U But we need not o-o :o far. What is that monument in Greenwood: It is to the docrs wh hoho fe ina the southern epidemic . Why go Vere there not enough sick to be attended in these northern latitude'? Oh, yes! But the dje:or puts a fe-'r medical. books ia his valise and some vials of: medicine and leaves his patients here: 1a the hards of other physicians and. takes the rail train. Before he gets to the infected regions he passes crowded; rail trains. regular and extra, taking the flyinz snd atfrighted populations.i He arrives -n a city over which a great horror is brooding. He goes from: couch to couc, feeling of the pulse and studying symptoms and prescrib ing day after day, night after night, until a fellow pnysician says: "Dcci tor, you: had better go home and rest. You look miserale." But he cannot rest while so many are suffering. On and on, until some morning finds-hinj in a delirium, in which he talks of home, and then rises and says he must go and look after those patients. H4 is told to lie down, but he fights his at tendants until he falls back and weaker and weaker and dies for peo ple with whom he had no kindshipi andfar away from hisown family' and is hastily put away in a stranger' tomb, and only the fifth part of a newspaper line tells us of his sacridcee, his name just mentioned among fiv4 Yet he has touched the farthest heig1Nt of sublimity in that three weeks of humanitarian service. He goesstraiglbt as an arrow to the bosom of him whb said, "I was sick, and ye visited me.;" Life for life. Blood for blocd. Sub stitution. In the legal profession I see the same principle of self sacrifica. In 1846 William Freeman, a pauperized and idiotic negro, was at Auburn, N. Y.. on trial for murder. He had slain the entire Van Nest family. The foaming wrath of the community c uld be kept off him only by armed constables. Who would volunteer to be his counsel? No attorney wanted to sacrifice his popularity by such an ungratefli task. All were silent, save one, a young lawyer with feeble voice, that could hardly be heard outside the bar, pade and thin and awkward. It was William H. Seward, who saw that the pris. ner was idiotic and irresponsible and ought to be put in an asylum rather than put to death, the heroic counsel uttering these beautiful words: "I speak now in the hearing of. a people who have prejudged the pri soner and condemned me for pleading in his behalf. He is a convict, a pau per, -. :egro, without intellect, sense or e notion. My child, with an affec tior.nte smiile, disarms my careworn fcC er its frorn whenever I cross my tnreshod. The beggar in the street oblige m.. to give because he says, 'God bless you!' as I pass. My dog caresses me with fondness if I will but smile on him. My horse recognizes me when I fill his manger. What re wr d, what gratitude, what sympathy and affection can I expect here? There the prisoner sits. Look at him. Lok at the assemblage around you. Listen to their ill suppressed censures and tenr exca ?t and tenl me where among my neighbors or my fel low men, where, even in his heart, I can expect to find a sentiment, a thought, not to say of reward or o~f acknowledgment, or ever of recogni tion! Gentlemen, you may think of this evidence what you p lease, bring in what verdict you can, butlI assever ate before heaven and you that to the, best of my knowledge and belief, the' prisoner at the bar does not at this moment know why it is that my sha dow falls on you instead of his own." The gallows got its victim, but the post mortem examination of the poor creature showed to all the surgeons and to all the world that the public was wrong, that William H. Sewara was right, and that hard, stony step of obloquy in the Auburn courtroom was the first step.of the stairs of fame up which hie went to the top, or to within one step of the top, that last denied him through the treachery of American politics.- Nothing sublimer was ever seen in an American court room than W illiam H. Seward, with out reward, standing between the fury of the populace and the loath some imbecile. Substitution! In the realm of fine arts there was as remarkable an instance. A bril liant but hypercriticised painter, Jo se.h William Turner, was met by a volley of abuse from all the art gal leries of Europe. His paintings, which have since won the anplause of all civilized nations-"The Fifth Plague of Egypt," "Fishermen on a Lee Shore In Squally Weather," "Calais Pier," "The Sun Rising Through Mist" and "Dido Building Carthage" -were then targets for critics to shoot at. In defense of this outrageously absed man, a young author of 24 years, just one year out of college, came forth with his pen and wrote the ablest and most famous essays on art that the world ever saw, or ever will see-John Ruskin's "Modern Paint ers." For 17 years this author fought the battles of the maltreated artist, and after, in poverty and broken hearted ness the painter had died, and the public tried to undo their cruelties toward him by giving him a big fu neral and burial in St. Paul's cathe dral, his old time friend took out of a tin box 19,000 pieces of paper contain ing drawings by the old painter, and through many weary and uncompen sated months assorted and arranged them for public observation. People say John Rluskin in his old days is cross, misanthropic and morbid. Whatever he may do that he ought not to do, and whatever he may say between now and his death, he will leave this world insolvent as far as it has any capacity to pay this author's een for its chivalric and Christian de fense of a poor painter's pencil. John Ruskin for William Turner. Blood for blood. Substitution: What an exalting principle this which leads one to sutier for another! Nothing so kindles enthusiasm, or awakens eloquence, or chimes poetic canto, or movesnations. The 'prir ci ple is the dominant one in our religion -Christ the martyr, Christ the celes tial hero, Christ the defender, Christ the substitute. No newv principle, for it was as old as human nature, but Inow on a grander, wider, higher, deeper and more world resounding sae. Th shepherd boy as a chamn hegiant of Philistine b'raggadocio in the dust, but here is another David, who, for all the armies of churches militant and triutuphtnt, hurls the Goliath of per.dinou into defeat, the crash cf his brazen armor like an ex posion at Hleil Gate. A braham hadI a God's command agreed to sacrifice Ihis son Isaac, and the same God just in time had provided a ram or the other Isaac bound to the altar, and no hand to arrest the sharp edges of l ration and death and the urtiverse shivers and qiakes and rcoils and gioans at the horror. All good men have for centuries been trying to tell who this substitute was like, and every comparisoo. in spired and uninspired. evangelistic, prophetic' apostolic and human falls short, for Christ was the Great U3like. Adam a type of Cerist because he ,cme directly from God, Noah a ty pe of Christ bec ause he delivereJ his own fa:kily from the deluge, Melchisedec a type of Christ because he had no nredecessor or succssor, Joseph a tvpe of Christ because he was cast out b'y his brethren, Moses a type of Christ because he was a deliverer from bondage, Samson a type of Christ b 'ause of-his strength to slay the lions and carry cif the iron gatle of impos ibiity..Solomon a type of Chris: in the aliuence of his dominion, Jonah a ty'ef Christ because of the stormy sea in which he threw himself. for the res cue of others, bt pu together Adam and Noah and Melchisdzc and Jcseph and Moses an d Joshua and Samson and Solomon and Jonah, and they would make a fagmeht of a -Christ, a quar ter of a Christ, the half of a Christ or the tiilflinth part of a Christ. He forsook a throne and sat down onEis o'wn fobtstool. He cime from the-to.of glory to the bottom of hu miliation and changed a circumference seraphic for a circuiferance diabolic. Once waited on by angels, now hissed -at 'by brigauds. From afar and high up he came- dwn st el-ters swifter than ty ; ty stirry th'r"nes, himpi yopplustrous; past larger worlds to smailer worlds; down stairs of treasen-a,- 'and from cloud to cloud.awd through tree tops and into cauePrtall, -to thrust his shoulder under our burdens and take the lanc es of pain* tarough his vitals, and wrappeahimself .n all the agonies whti %Ye dlv Tor o&i iisdoings, and stoton fhAd plitting decis of a fournderidg *Vesel amid drehching surf of the sea, and passed midnights on %he monatains amid wild beasts of prey,. and stoqd at the point where all earthly and'infeinal hostiles charged on hima atonc a with their keen sabers -our substitute! When did attorney ever end are so mtieh for a pauper client, or physician forthe patient in the lazaretto, or or mother for the child in membran ous .oup, as Christ for us, as Christ for you, as Christ for me? Shall any man or woman or child in this audi ence who has ever suffered for anoth er-fiiid it hard to understand this Christly suffering for us? Shall those whose sympathies have been wrung in behalf of- the unfortunate have no aporeciation of that one mo ment whici was lifted out of all ages of eternity as most conspicuous when Christ gathered up all the sins of those to be redeemed under his one arm I and all his sorrows under his other arm and said: "I will atone for these under my right arm and will heal all those under my left arm. Strike me with all thy glittering shafLs, 0 eter nal j astice! Roll over me with all thy surges,, ye oceans 9f sorrow!" And the thunderoolts struck him from above, and the seas of trouble rolled up from beneath, hurricane after hur ricane, and cyclone after cyclone, and then and there in the presence of heaven and earth and hell-yea, all worlds witnessing-the price, the bit ter price, the transcendent price, the a wful price, the glorious price, the in finite price, the eternal price, was paid that sets us free. That is what Paul means, that is what I mean, that is what all those who have ever had their heart chang ed mean by "blood." I glory in this religion of blood. I am thrilled as I see the suggestive color in sacrament al cup, whether it be of burnished silver set on cloth immaculately white or rough hewn from wood set on table in log hut meeting house of the wilderness. Now I am thrilled as I seg the 4ltars of ancient sacrifice crimn sahL with the blood of the slain lamb, rid Leviticus is, to me .not so much e Old Testament as the New. Now I see why the destroying angel, pass ing over Egypt in the night, spared all those houses that had blood sprin &led on their doorposts. Now I know what Isaiah means when he speaksof "one in red apnarel coming with dyed garments from Bosrah," and whom the Apocalypse means' when it des crbes a heavenly chieftain whose "vesture wras dipped in blood," and what Peter, the apostle, means when he speaks of the "precious blood that cleanseth from all sin," and what the old, worn out, decrepit missionary Paul means when, in my text, he cries, "Without shedding of blood is no remission." By that blood you and I will be saved or never saved at all. Glory be to God'that 'the hill back of Jerusalem was the battlefield on which Christ achieved our liberty. The most exciling and overpower ing day of one summer was the day I spent on the battlefield of Waterloo. Starting out with the morning train from Brussels, we arrived in about an hour on that famous spot. A son of one who was in the battle, and who had heard from his father a thousand times the whole scene recited, accom panied us over the field. There stood the old Hougomont chateau, the walls dented and scratched and broken and shattered by grape~hot and cannon ball. There is the well in which 300 dying and dead were pitched. There is the chapel, with tne head of the in fant Christ shot off. There are the gates at which for many hours Eng lish and French armies wrestled Yonder were the 160 guns of the Eng lish and the 250 guns of the French. Yonder the Hanoveriaai hussars fled for the woods. Yonder was the ray ihe of Ohain, where the French cav alry, not knowing there was a hollow in the ground, rolled over and down, troop after troop, tumbling into one awful mass of suffering, hoof of kick ing horses against brow and breast of captains and colonels and private sol diers, the human and the beastly groan kept up until the day after, all was shoveled under because of the n~alodor arisirng in that hot month of June. "There," said our guide, "the high land regiments lay down on their fa ces waiting for the moment to soring upon the foe. In that orchard 2,51( men were cut to rieces. Here stood Wellington with' white lips, and up that knoll rode Marshal Ney on his sixth hcres, five having been shot un der him. Here the ranks of the French broke, and Marshal Ney, with his boot slashed of a svword, and his and blood, tried to rally his troops as lhe cried. 'Come and see horra mar shal of France dies on a battle-leid:' From yonder dir-ection Grouchy was expectedi fojr the French re enforce Iment, but ne camne not. Around those woods Dlucher was looked for to re enforce the E aglish, and just in time Ihe came up. Yonder is the field where INapoleon stood, his arm through the reins of the horse's bridle, dazed and insaane, trying to go back." Scene frm battle that went on from 25 minutes to 13 o'clock, on the 1&th of Ju~ne, until 4 o'clock, when the Eng lish seemed defeated and their comn mander cried oJL: "Boys, can you think of giving way.! Remember old England:"and the tide turned, and at 8 o'clock in the Evening the man of Old Two Hundred Thousand, turn-d away with broken heart, and the fate of centuries was decidel. No wonder a great mound has been reared there, hundreds of feet high-a mound at the expeLse of millions of d-llars and many y ears in rising and cn the top is the ;reat Belgian lion of bronze, and a grand old lion it is. Bat our great Waterloo was in Palestine. There came a day when all hell rode up, led by Apollyon, and the captain of our salvation can'ront ed them. The rider on the white horse of the Apocalypse going out against the black horse cavalry of death, and the battalions of the demo niac. and the nvrmidons of darkness. From 12 o'clock at noon to 3 o'clock in the afteracoa the greatest battle of the universe went on. Eternal desti nies were being decided. All the ar rows of hell pierced our chieftaia, and the bzttleaxes struck him, until brow and cheek and shoulder and hand and foot were incarnadined with oozing life, but he fought on until he gave a floal s'roke, and the commander in chief of hell and all his forces fell back in everlasting ruin, and the vic tory is ours. And on the mound that celebrates the triumoh we plant this day two figures not in bronze or iron or sculptured marble, but two figures of living light, the lion of Judah's tribe, and the lamb that was stain. AN ARMY OF EMPLOYES. Th Uaited State3 His a MXamm'.th Pay Roll to Foot. The civil service commission has orepared a report, which has been presented to Congress, and will be is sued in a few days, showing that there are 178,717 people in the employ of Uncle Samuel, not including those in the military and naval service, and that they receive as compensation for their services annually the enormous sum of $99,5S9,27. Of the total num ber of persons employed in the civil service 91,609 are unclassified and are not subject to examinations for ap pointment. Tne total number in the classified service, who cannot be dis charged without good cause and can not be appointed without competitive examination, is 87,108 Of the clas sified service 4,120 are examining sur geons for pensions. Tne remainder are divided by salaries as follows: $720 or less......... .....19,745 40orless................ 8,617 $900 or less......... 1,666 1,000 orless..............10,605 $1,200 or less.......... .18,179 $1,400 or less................... 6,770 $1,600 or less...... ........ 4,701 $1,800 orless. ..... 4,701 $2,000 oil'ess................... 1,570 $2,500 or les.....1,131 More than $2,500.............. 510 The unclassified service consists of 65,725 fourth-class postmasters, 8,S50 laborers, 5,570 persons whose salaries average less tian $300 annually, 4,230 clerks in second, third and fourth-class postoffices, 2,061 Indians and 4,818 persons whose appointments are con tirmed by the Senate. In addition to these are private secretaries and confi dential clerks, cashiers in customs and postoffices, deputy cllectors of customs and internal revenue, deputy postmasters, marshals, attorneys and assistant attorneys, employes in the quartermaster's department of the army, custodians of military reserva tions, clerks in Congress in the liber ality of Congress. commissioners of various kinds, special agents, superin tendents of national cemeteries, etc., amounting in all to about 700. The following table shows the di vision of the employes of the govern 1ment under the various departments, and the total compensation paid to each department: Executive office, 21, $35,200. Civil service commission, 62, $19, 340. State Department, 122, $144,980. Treasury Department, 15,163, $11, 971,227. War Department, 14,967, $9,951, 699.62. Department of justice, 704, $1,344, 909. Postoffice Department, 8,465, $3, 826.458.38 Navy Department, 1,252, $1,322, 399.53. Positions registered under navy de partment regulations, 5,063, $3,835, 754.58. Interior Department, 9,713, $8,081, Pension examining surgeons, 4,120, $633,600. Department of agriculture, 2,241, $1,713. 565.70. Department of labaor, 95, $127,320. Commission of fish and fisheries, 183, $180,440. interstate commerce commission. 142 $195,020. Smithsonian Institution, 292, $2-13, 716.16. L'.brary of Congress, 39, $51,720. Superintendent State. War and Navy building, 25, $24.920. Postotlice servic 3, 104,811, $3S,665, 025.10. Government printing ser vice; 2,852, $2509,830.97. Custom house service, 5,103, $6, 333,027.36. Internal revenue service, 3,281, $3, 298 266.S1. Total exe'cutive civil service United States, 178,717, $99,59,827 2. Young Harmon Pardoned. Comlanaz, March 22.-Governor El lerbe to-day granted a full pardon to young A. M. Harmon of Lexington who last summer shot young Cal Caughman to death at Lexington for seducing his sister. The trial created great public interest and public opin ion was very much divided as to th-e justiaication of the killiag. Harmon who is the son of the proprietor of the Lexington Dispatch was tried at the fall term of court, but despite the ef forts of eminent counsel he was con victed and recommended to the mercy of the court. He was sentenced by Judge Buchanan to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. An appeal was taken to the supre-ne court which is still pending. Governor Ellerbe bas es the pardon on netitions, signed by the majority of the people of the coun ty endorsed by the majority of the trial jurors and the trial judge. Kissed the Pope's Foot. ROM1E, March 25.-The Pope's mass in the throne room of the Vatican today was attended by one hundred visitors, of whom thirty were Ameri can pilgrims, mostly clergymen from New ork, Massachusetts, Connecti cut and New Jersey, conducted by Father Throop. After mass the Pope, seated in front of the altar,.permitted the iigrims to kiss his foot, address ing to each a few words, which trans ated by Father O'Connell, rector of the American College. To REMovE KNKS .-A machine for taking the kmnks out of the hair of negroes has been invented by Robert Rhodies, of A tlanta, Ga. The inven ton is an ingenious one, made of steel in thie shape of a comb. A rod fit inside the ~comb, by which it is heated sufficiently to straighten out the hair when it is being combed with out danger of burning the hair or causing it to fall. The '-kink" re mover is given the high sounding name off Rhodes' Patent Combination Hair Straightener, Comb, Scalp Clean FAMILY OF FIVE SLAIN. AFTER THE GHASTLY DEED, THE HOUESETON FIRE. A Mysterious lhurder -A Neighbor Dicov. er; the Fire and Goes to O'y Fliid the Charred Bodies--No Clew L4t. NA.SMvILLE, March 24.-Particulars of what appears to have been a horri ble and brutal murder were received here from Paradise Ridge early this morning. Jacob ade, one of the old est and best known farme-s of the ridge settlement, his wife, his daugh ter and son, and a little daughter of Henry Moirer were probably murder ed and their bodies cremated in Ad's house, which was burned to the ground. The theory of murder is strengthed by the fact that all of the bodies were founad in the same room, but scattered around over the soace occupied by this room. It was thought that the old man was killed for his money, as he was known to be well to-do, and always kept a supply of money on hand, but whether this be true cannot be positively stated now, as the old man's money, or at least the ashes of what was once a big roll of money, has been discovered in the ruias of the house. The dead are: Jacob Ade, Mrs. Ja cot Ade. Lizzie Ade, aged 20 N ears; Henry Ade, aged 13; Rosa Moirer, aged 20. Jacob Ade lived 15 miles from this city near the Cheatham county line. The house sits back half a mile from what is known as the old Clarksviile turnpike. It was a 1-story frame dwelling with five rooms-two rooms in front with a hallway between and three rooms running back forming an L. Old man Ade and his wife usually ccoupied the first room in the L just in the rear of the front room or par lor. There was only one bed in this room. It wasin this room that all the bodies were found. Tne first indication of the tragedy was discovered at 10 o'clock last night by Justice Simpson, who lives half a mile from the Ade place. There was a sick man at Mr. Simnson's house, and about 10 o'clock Mr. Simpson went out to get some water for the man, when he saw that Ade's house was on fire. He at once rode over to the scene and found the house in ruins. Finding no one near, Simp son's suspicions were aroused. and upon closer inspection he saw the bodies of several people in the ruins. He went to work at once to rescue the bodies and succeeded in getting four of them out. These proved to be the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Ade, Miss Liz zie Ade and Miss Rosa Moirer. After this Mr. Simpson rode around notified a number of the neighbors, and in a shnort while quite a crowd collected about the ruins. Henry Ade, the 13 year old son of Mr. Ade, was also missing, but his body could not be found. It was first thought that he had escaped to the woods, but a further search of the ruins of the house this morning dis closed his body. The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Ade, Miss Lizzie Ade and Henry Ade were burned to a crisp. The head and limbs were were burned off, and in fact only a small mass of flesh and bones remain ed. The old man and his wife were more horribly burned than the others. The body of Rosa Moirer was not burned so badly as the others. The little girl's legs were burned off, one arm was raised over her head and the hand of this was gone. A portion of her skull was missing, but the brain, which was exposed and the skin on her face was only partially burned. This fact gives further evidence in support of the theory of murder, bo'me of the people believe that pos sibly while tbe other members of the family were being murdered this child escaped and was not killed until after the house had burned awhile, when the body was thrown into the fire. The fact that a part of the skull is gone and the rest of the head perfect with the skin of her face only badly burned, lends weight to the theory that she was knocked in the head, probably with an axe. One handless arm was .raised over her head and it may be that in trying to protect her self she threw up her arm and the hand was cut off by the same hiw which tore away a part of her skuil. The blow paralyzed her muscles and the arm remained in this protecting position after death had ensued. The purpose of the murder was at first thought to be robbery, but if this be correct the murderer was ill paid for his horrible crime. In searching the ruins of the house this morning, an oyster can was found under the place where a closet once stood in Mr. Ade's sleeping room. In this can the remains of what was evidently a large roll of money was found together willh four silver dollars which had been melted so that they were sticking together. Mr. Ade's neighbors knew that he kept his money in this closet. He was in the city Monday. While here he told Jerry Matthews that he had $2,000 and he did not know what to do with it. Mr. Matthews advised him to deposit it in the Fourth Na tional bank. Mr. Ade did not say he had the money with him. Sheriff Sharp was r' 'titied of the crime early this morning and he with several deputies went to the scene and they are now working on the case. Dis posing of the robbery theory, it is very hard to find a motive for the horrible crime, as Mr. Ade was a very popular man and well liked by all his neighbors. The only enmity which might have existed between him and any of the people living in that sec tion was that which resulted from a charge he made against a man who was arrested in Cheatham county a few days ago, charged with stealing hogs from Mr. Ade. This man was tried before a magistrate in Cheatham county and bound over to the circuit court. There is, however, no evidence agairnst this man which would in any way connect him with the murder. Mr. Ade was 60 years old and had lived in that community for 25 years. The Bermuda Cleared. WasHIsGTON, March 26.-The Sec retary of the Treasury has authorized the Collector of Customs at Fernandi na, Fia., to issue clearance to the sus pected filibuster Bermuda now at that port, These instruction were issued upon receipt of an affidavit made by the captain of the Bermuda pledging himself not to attempt to enter any Cuban port, or to take on men or arms to be transferred to another ves sel on the high seas, or to do any oth er act in violation of the laws of the United States. Two Souls Ma~de Hlappy WAsmsarToN, March 24.-The Pres ident has nominated Bernard Bettman of Ohio, to be Collector of Iuternal Revenue for the first district of Ohio; and Chester H. Brush of Connecticut, to be Recorder of the General Land Ofice. Our drinkers spe-nd $1,000,000 annu ally for liquor and starve for bread. This $4,000,000 spent for drink annu ally covers the value for one year or all the bread bakery products of the United States, all the slaughtermng and meat packing, all the cheese, but Iter and condensed milk, all the boots, T[LiA1& A PLIN TALK. crescE -o3 1 PaG A FE Four on 'he Mont-ry; 6 on the MU nadnoc:S o to- New York; 4 on the Amphitrite, 3 oa the Terrr;r: 3 on the Oregon, 3 Olyupia: 6 on the Indiana; 4 on the Massachu setts, and so on. You were asked t) cooperate with the House and to have those plates takea cIT and teste.d before the Gov ernment paid for them, and you would not do it. Why aid you not do it? .A pause.1 Do not everybody answer at once, laughter] especialily you peo ple who think I am shandering the Senate. Why did you V;t do it? If w' get iUto a war wir Spain or anybody else a-nd those ships of ours go out to meet an honestly construct ed vessel of equal strengh a shot from one of thcse vessels plunging through one of these spongy plates which have been plugge up would send our American vessel with 600 or 800 men to the bottom of the sea b; the frauds perpetrated by these pets of the Sen ate. Then what wili your responsi bility be? Now, are you ready to continue these monopolists in their grab game of looting the Treasury at will? You can only help it by authorizing the construction of a plant which will make armor for the Government in case these monopolists will not sub mit to a decent price. Our cmmittee tells you that $300 will allow them 33 per cent profit, while the Secretary of the Navy, in order to reach $400, has to give them 50 per cent profit and $10 a ton bonus. Why should you not reduce the price to $300 and say, "Now, you rob ber rascals, if you do not come here and take this work at a reasonable price, we will make it ourselves, even if it costs $500 or $300 a ton." ,We would at least have then the satisfac tion that the money that is spent would go to the common laborers and mechanics and the "men in blouses," who are going into the ditch with my friend from Pennsylvania (Ur. Qaay), or, I believe, he is to go into the aitch with them. (Laughter.) Now, my friend, if you do not vote to fix the price at $300. we will know that you do not mean to go with them. The eight-hour law and the red tape in connection with Government ad ministration in conducting its own af fairs is such that it costs the Govern ment more. But let us distribute the benefit among the masses and not con centrate it upon these two pets, the Carnegie Company and the people at Bethlehem, who have had a rich, rich, rich reward for their "patriotism" ten years ago in going into the manu facture of armor so that Americans could have a navy constructed by Americans out of American material. You are face to face with it, gentle men; you can not dodge it. Tnatis the situation. This committee comes here and says that these frauds were perpetrated, and they proved it by the admissions of Carnegie and you did nothing about it, would not even investigate. Car negie was fined but the fine was re mitted. The two plants were in col lusion, and the Secretary of the navy said so before the committee, and I as an humble member of that committee directed all the inquiries I put to them to bring out the fact that they to day are practically one corporation. They did not deny it. That is the situation. You can not help yourselves from tak ing whatever they offer, unless you do now allow the government to make its own plant. I would not say buy any plant, because there are only t wo for sale-they are the only two in the country-and we open the doors to buy what we paid for to these people, and we were ask-ed to give them two dollars for every one the plant cost. They have got it; they have got the title- and now you say "We will buy it." I would rather build a new one. And henest man who resents robbery and rascality and stealing would rath er build a new one than let these thieves have their own way. I would sooner see them become useless if the Government enters into the manufac ture. That is my position. I am not afraid to get up hera and say what I think and what I believe when you give me facts like these to base my be lief on. Nobody from Connecticut or anywhere else is going to terrorize me. I am not thin skinned. I am not afraid of being secused of stealing if I did vote for the subsidy for the Southern mail last night. You men who have been here so lonz, who are so friendly, so loving and kind in your consideration toward the great wealthy combinations-you are the men wnlo have to face the alternative of voting for a decent reduction in the price of armor and giving us a way out by allowing us to construct a plant if these people will not csme down to a decent rate; you have got to vote one way or the other. You have voted for these people in the past without regard to public opinion, and I dare say you will vote that way to-night. The .old guard never surrenders. But there is a young man in the Senate from West 'Virginia, a weakling, a suckling. like myself, who feels his inability here to get in touch with the business of the Senate, and sits here and sees things ground out; and you get up and quarrel like schoolboys or like geese over some little pitiable $10,000 or $5,000 or $3,000 proposition, and you slide through these millions like greased lightning [laughterl; you do not even discuss them; you do not even ventilate them. Here is one that the Naval Committee brings to your attention. We prove these charges; we prove not only that they are rob bing the Government, but that they are practicing fraud upon the Govern - ment in the manufacture of armor, Iand they have not been punished for it. Will you stop it or will you not? Will you allow the Government to go into the business of manufacturing armor if the Government must pay these people twice what the armor is worth? I went down to Bethlehem. I fol lowed that thing through from the ore at the beginning to the dnished plate at the end. 1 saw how many men were at work; I saw the machin ery; I saw tne entire output and how it ws hand led; and I do not believe Scosts $2u0 a ton to make it. I am ready to take an oath to that, and oth ers of the committee think so, too. But the Naval Committee tries to be harmonious. We come here with what we think is a reasonable propo sition, a liberal proposition, to give these people $300 a to-n, and it is left for theSenate to decide now whether we shall reduce the price to $300 or will allow the G-overnment a way out by giving it an opportunity to make its own armor if it can not buy it at that price. Mr. President, I have only to say in conclusion that I would be glad if somebody would ask some question about this, for I have probably forgot ten some points about it. Mr. Stewart. I would ask the Sena tor the cost of the same kind of armor in other countries: Mr. Tiliman. We found o-.t thal. all the armor manufacturers in the -earld are int the same combination that these t wo American concerns are-the Creu sot people in France, the Gerna mandfacturere, and the Eaglish are all together, each robbing their own Govrnment all in a nile So that if you go abroad, you will only get on the other prong of taie fork You do not want to go abroad. I would rath er ra7 the American workaten $iO a day itr six hours' work, :nd let this moey be distributed aunoag tle masa-ts, than allow it to go iaL) th, pcckets of the c.mbination nere. Lit us do the Government business through Government agencies, and then these combinations against the Government will be in vain. (To Mr. Q aay, who had risen.) No x I am ready for the Senator, who is the blouse Senator. (Laughter.) I am afraid he is not with the workingman. I know how he is going to vote. Mr. Quay--There is no difficulty about toe way I am going to cast my vote on this question; but I merely desire to ask tne Senator from Soutli Carolina whether I understood him to say that this amendmeZ proposing to limit the cost to $300, comes from the Naval Committed and is offered by the authority of that c)mmittee? Mr. Tillman-It comes in this way. The Senator from New Hampshire and all of the committee, except fourwere in favor of fixing the limit at $300, but out of consideration for the other members of the cmmittee, and with a desire, as we thought, to be reason able and to get some action-m'nd you, we have got to run the gantlet of the House, and everybody Eno is how the trusts are fortified in that end of the capital at this time, with the gag law in full force and eff.ct, with every man manacled and unable to obtain the eye of the speaker or get a chance to say a word, unless Je crawl around on his belly like a worm -for a free American Representative in Congress has got to crawl around like a whipped cur to obtain recogni tion. You can not do anything over there; and unless the Senate rises to its duty and protects the people, then the steal goes on. The majority of the committee are in favor of $300 a ton. Mr. Qay-But they aid not direct this amendmeat to be offered on the flor of the Senate. Mr. Tillman-We did not direct it. Mr. Q ay-That is all I want to know. Mr. Tillman-We did not direct, it because we knew that we had to pass the gantlet of the great moguls of the Appropriations Committee, and we proposed to come in here, where we would have a better chance, and ask you gentlemen to give us some cou sideration. Let the Naval Committee take charge of the Navy, instead of you gentlemen of the Committee on Applopriations managing it, because we do know more about it than you do, although you are all-wise and have been here long enough to have wisdom die with you whenever you go out of here. (Laughter.) Tiliman and McKinley. The feature at the White House to day was the visit of Senator Ben Till man, of South Carolina, says a Wash ington dispatch of Thursday. The senator was on hand a few min utes before 1 o'clock. Arthur Sim mons, the colored doorkeeper at the entrance to the president's room, did not know who he was at first, and, on learning, collapsed. Surprise showed in his good natured black face. So soon as it was 1 o'clock, Simmons has tened to invite the South Carolina itchfork man to enter. President McKinley had ascertained that the senator was waiting and promptly sent word to have him ad mitted. The South Carolina man was ore of the first men to talk with the pres'Aent, and they had a chat of ten miuts apparently of great interest to each ether. The president inquired how the sen ator liked his work and whether they were quiet enough for him; also de siring to know if the prongs of the pitchfork were sharpened. Then the president mentioned the extra session of congress and expressed the opinion that the passage of a tariff bill would do much to brighten things up in the country. "Well, we will see what it will do," said the 'South Carolinian. "I know that the patient is very sick. We will try your physic and if that does not cure him then we will have to try ours, which I think is the only thing which will cure him." It is needless to say that the sena tor's remedy is free silver and the president fully understood him. The two men parted with mutual pleasant words. It is a well-known fact that Senator Tillman hated ex-President Cleveland so much that he never spoke to him during his last term and never went to the White House. A Ghastly Find. NEW YoRK, March 22.-The Crom well line steamer Creole. Captain Gag er, from New Orleans, arrived at her dcck about 11 o'clock this morning. bringing news from the ill-fated st'amer St. Nazaire. Captain Gager reports that on March 21., in lat 36:1.7, long. 74:30, he nassed a boat full of water. Shortly af ter ward he deter mined to ascertasa if possible what it was, and turned about for an in vestigation. On reaching the boat he found it contained six dead bodies, one of them supposed to be that of a woman. A hook was made fast to the beat's bow and when she was pulled up the bodies washed out into the sea. They had apparently been held fast by the seats of *he boat, as they were crowded un der them. It was noted by thne Creole's mate that t wo of the small boatt pas sengers were colored- In the boat was found a woman's slipper, a child's sock, some clothing, a nursing bottle and several kettles of fresh water, which was found to be iai p d condi tion. There was also found a smnall quantity of bread. The boat was an old wooden one and bore the ruono gram of the Compagnie Ge-urale Trans-Atlantique No. 3. It was 4'out 40 feet in lengtnaand could carry ,.uut 40 passengers. Faita1 Iiler Explosion. HIARTsvILLE, March 25 -Q kite a serious accident occurred auout 10 miles west of this place near Lynch's river on Monday. It seems that some men were getting ready to saw lum br, and the negro who was managing the engine was trying rM get on a good head of steam, when : b iler b irst and pretty thorouguzy demolished everything nearby. The fireman was seveely wounded, and died y-.terday morning. His wife who hop ed to be near the boiler, was fearfat, -ald ed, anac it is reported that she ia aiso dead. No other person was seriousiy ijur'ed. It is said by one who ras been to cae place simee the acetient vorarr ed tht efragmensts of t:rur L off trees ar shells used to u&; in war No New Tragedy. W.xsmGToN. March 25.-Ne ;v Yo:k poers contain the statement that tne boat belonging to the svrededI steamer St. Nazaire, which w4as pieked up by the steame~r Cele, is trLe same one fromn whizh Cap:ain Berri and his three comapaniJ.as w'ere rescuted by the schooner iiidt. Taie Captain says he left 6i boaies an the boat. Tnat was the n-noer of corpses that floated out of 1he boat wnen i; was hoistedi out of the water. Ii was ooat No. 3 and that was Capt. Berri's boat, so that the Cre le finrd disosned no new trag-edy. Ki0 POWDER Absolutely Puter.; Celebratad for Its. 'great leaveniag strength and healthfulness.. Assuke the food against alum and all forms of at1. teratioa common to the 'cheaO braiffs. ROYAL BAKIN6 PowDr co, N . OUR PEOPLE INDIGNANT At the Commutation of he Sexttanie* of Treasurer .Copesr Miurder Last Friday was the day set for'he execution of Dan C. 9-Irphy,. e murderer.of Treasurer 0 bes, but'on Thursday afternoon Sheriff D akes re ceived a Letter from the plivate secre tary of Governor Ellerbe stating tdat Murphy's sent'ence had beancmmut. ed to life imprisonment, and-enedgs ing the necessary paperstoia the case. Wnen the action of the Governorin the case became known the people'%e came very indignant,' asthe' ber whelming opinion id thW'diuty is that Murphy is guilty of the ctiie, and that he should have been eeent ed. The dissatisfaction amout*1jn dignatioa, and the general opinion is Governor Ellerbe has been humbugged and has made a mistake. The Courts are criticised, and many, remark.ttiat it is no wonder that lynch law is so often resorted to in the-State, and. it is undoubtedly true that if Murphy.had been in Orangeburg at the time ot $he commutation he would never have lived to serve one minute of his sen tence. There is no doubt about the Rayv.E. E. Murphy, upon whose testimony the Governor based his action,-baing a native of this county and a relativgof DanC. Murphy, their father'a.bsing first cousins. From the testimonyof the one time preacher it will be seen that he denies being any -relati to Dan C. 'Aurphy, which statement can be easity disproved. As the Orange burg correspondent of the News and Courier says if the testimony of-4he Rev. Mr. Murphy, raised that grave doubt in Governor Ellerbe's mip, it would not have been a difficultmat ter for the Governor to have fonnd witnesses dnough in Orangeburg County to have set him straight. Again, it is not understood. here how the testimony -as to the -guns spoken of before Governor E11itrbe could have been of any advantage to Murphy. He owned both. guns.-and could have done the killing with ei ther gun. As to his claim that he cduld not bring any of his wituesses. to the :trial, or wasinany way hamperd in his defence, it is a matter of record that before his trial he informedithe officers in charge of him that if they would write to certain people ini Flor ida they would testify that tie was in Florida at the time the murderwas committed, but upon communisating with the parties he men'tioned'they rpied that he had beern with them at a: totally different time. 'Why Dan Murphy did not request-that the R ev. E. E. Murphy of Augusta;r. be om. municated with and brouit hare as a witness when he was beia - rid is a question the people. of the county are very naturally asking. From the above and other. facts no confidence is placed here inthe so-" called after discovered tetintoniy of the so-called retired preacher. ,No one here ever heard of him in the case'un til Carroll canme on the saane with this manl. As to his stafement that Murphy was at his hou-se in Augusta on the day of the killing and.tnie eyen ing before, there is the evidence of Murphy himself on that. subecg.e stated to prominent ettizens ofbi place that he was overoniat'r, which was near the scene oft theanur der, and that it took him from Thurs day afternoon to Monday moring to get to Sycamore, in Barnwell'Cdiaty. It was also shown at tahe trial' that Dan Murphy was in Syc tmore on Monday, and that he ha'd only left the neighborhood of the murder on 'Sat urday. The evidence adduo d .t the trial was clear on all of these pomnts, and it has never been 'claimed -thiat he was in Augusta or 'elsewhere 'other than in the swamps or hiding 'out in the woods at that time. In rke face of all this here comes the Rni'. Mr. Murphy 'with his little tale about Dan's being in Augusta oa the day of the murder and so impressed it con the Go rernor that that innosent s Na~llow ed it whole . We heard all the evide~c: brought out in the trial or Murphy and the na ture of that testimony was sacti as to comel us to comne to.. the conclu son that he was guilty 'and tnar the jury brought in a righteous verdict. Tne so-called at Ler disca vered evideuce does not adtect our belief in the 'gutit of Mug~hy one bit. Tarn it~ o you pase and it is of the fianniemt. 'i mot incredita ble nature, . ,aud Governor El1erbe allord househ be deceived by it is past timiiag out. -Times and Desmocrat. Pretty Ri ,mance: CAwFoRDsVlLEE, Ind., Marc'n $6 -Just before leaving for tne West six weeks ago John Wamnpler~narried Miss Mollie Roberts, a suggosyd or pan girL Wnile making a tour of t?e lead mines section of Misouri last 'eek Mr. W'ampler writss icatu LL rau across a James -Roberts,. a watay miner, who turns out to os his father in-law. Roberts went W'est -t#enty years ago, leaving his infant daughter with relatives in 1l1inois, aiad str-uck it rich. After that he began looking for ns daughter, but the reIiies had died and removed, and althoug'h le nad spent thousands of dollar he ~cld never find a trace of ner. He was grea ly overjoyed at the anex ec:ed reunion ini Aissour t an4'sho e ed his g ratitude by presenting his daughter with $50,000 in cash as a w'edding gift. A Disastrous nere. LAwRENCE, Mass., March 22 -The worst tire tnis city hias ever a~nown siace the burning of the Washingt-ia Miils, six years ago, completely dis' tanled the Gleason building, one ot tie best business biocks in L awrenlce, early today and resaite~l ia tae injury o: eignat persons aad the 1J5 of proP erty valued at $L00,000. i'0e ia jred are: Jonai Bwertar, left leg injured, serece barns; ales. Jon" Bo 'ering, left side ij&Ael an-i rios serious buras; V'iiiisaif U'at4ghler, bal buand; D'raard Glisader, ov eroiC oy smione and seriousy burn ed; . A. Hunter, slight barns. Most of tf-. hmr are now in the hospital