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PRAISE FOR GREECE . REV. DR.TALMAGE ONASUSJECTOF WORLDWIDE INTEREST. He Shows What We 0we the GreekA--l Deb, In Lanuage, Art. Heroi~in aud MedicIno-The Beat Way to Pa.%y the Debt WsaHSOT0o, March -l -A Dr. Talmage's sermons are published on both sides the ocean, this die ~-xarse On a subject of worldwide interest w-;. attract universal attention. ,Ils ,rxt was Romans i, 1. "I am debtor b:1t to the Greeks and to the barbarians." At this time, wheni :h.t behemoth of abominations. Mohaitnedanism, after having gorged itsef on the car casses of 100,000 ArmenuanS. is trying to put its paws upon one of the fairest of all nations, that of the Greeks, I preach this sermon of sympatuy and protest, for every intelligent persou on this side or the sea, as well as the other side, like Paul, who wrote the text, is debtor to the Greeks. Tne present crisis is emphasized by the guns of the salied po"vers of Earope, ready to be unlimbered against the Hellenes, and I am asked to speak out. Paul, with a master inteill-ct of the ages, sat in brilliart Corinth, tile great Acro-Corinthus fart-ss fro in ing from the height of 1,6S- feet, and in the house of Gaius, where he was a guest, a big pile of money near him, which he was taking to Jerasalem for the poor. In this letter to the R mans, which Chrysostom admirea so mach that he had it read to him twice a week, Paul practically says: "1. tne apostle, am bankrupt, I owe what I cannot var, but I will pay as large a percentage as I can. It is an obligaton for what Greek literature and Greek scau.ure and Greek architecture ana. Greek prowess have done for me. I will pay all I can in instalments of evangei ism. I am insoleent to the Greeks. Hellas, as the inhabitants call it. or Greece, as we call it, is insinAficant in size, about a third as large as the state of New York, but what it lacks in breadthit makes up in height, with its mountains Cylene and Eta and Taygetus and Tymphrestus, each over 7,000 feet in elevation, and its Parnas sus, over 8,000. Just the country for mighty men to be born in, for in aI lands the most of the intelleciual and moral giants were not born on the plain, but had for cradle the valley between two mountains. That coun try, no part of which is more than 40 miles from the sea. has made its im press upon the world as no other na tion, and it today holds a first mort gage of obligation upon all civilized people. While we must leave to statemanship and diplomacy the set tlement of the intricate questions which now involve all Earope and in directly all nations, it is time for all churches, all schools, all universities, all arts, all literature, to sound out in the most emphatic way the declara tion, "I am debtor to the Greeks." In the first place, we owe to their language our New Testament. All of it was first written in Greek, except the book of Matthew, and that, writ ten in the Armxan language, was soon put into Greek by our Saviour's brother James. To the Greek lan guage we owe the best sermon ever preached, the best letters ever writtea, the best visionsever kindled. All the parables in Greek. All the miracles in Greek. The sermon on the mount --"'4 Greek. The story of Bethlehem ano' Golgotha and Olivet and Jordan banks and Galilean beaches and Pau line embarkation and Pentecostal tongues and seven trumpets that mounded over Patmos have come to the world in liquid, symmetrical, pic' turesque, philosophic, unrivalled Greek, instead of the gibberish lan guage in which many of the nations of tlke earth at that time jabbered. Who can forget it, and who can ex aggerate its thrilling importance, that Christ and heaven were introduced to us inthe language of the Greeks, the .language in which Homer had sung and Sophocles dramatized and Plato dialogued andSocrates discoursed and Lycurgw legislated and Demosthenes thundered his oration on "The Crown?" Everlasting thank to -God that the waters of life were not hand ed to the wcrld in the unwashed cup of corrupt lnugsfrom which na tions had been drinking, but in the clean, bright, golden lipped, eme-ald handled chalice of the Hellenes Lened Curtius wrote a whole vol ume about the Greek verb. Philolo gists century after century have been measuring the symmetry of that lan guage, laden with elegy and-phillhpic, drama and comedy, "Odyssey" and "Iliad" but the grandest thing that Greek language ever accompiished was to give to the world the benedic tion, the comfort, the irradiation, the salvation, of the gospel of the Son of God. Far that we are indebted to the Greeks. And while speaking of our philolo gical obligation let me call your at tention to the fact that many of the intellectual and moral and theologic al leaders of the ages got much 0i their discipline and effectiveness fromr Greek literature. It is popular tc scoff at the dead languages, but 50) pei cent, of the world's intellectuality would have been taken off if througl learned institutions our young mer had not, under competent professors been drilled in Greek masterpieces Hesiod's "Weeks and Days," or th~ eulogium by Simonides of the slair in war, or Pindar's "Odes of Victory,' or "The Recollections of Socrates, or "The Art of Words," by Corax, o: Xenophon's "Anabasis." From the Greeks the world learne< how to make history. Had there bee: .no Herodotus and Thucydides ther< would have been no Macaulay or Ban croft. Had there been no Sophocle: in tragedy there would have oeen n( Shakespe Had there been n( Homer there would have been n< Mitton. The modern wits, who ar< now or have been put onth divine mision of making the worl( laugh at the right time, can b: traced back to Aristophanes, th Athenian, and many of the jocositie that are nlow taken as new had thei suggestions 2,300 years ago in the 5 comedies of that master of merriment Grecian mythology has been the rieb est mine from which orators and essay ists have drawn their illustrations an< painters the themes for their canvas and although now an exhausted mine Grecian mythology has done a wor! that nothing else could have accom plished. Borcas, representing th ncrth wind; Sisyphuas, rolling the ston up the hill, only to haye the sam .thing to do over again; Tantalus. wit: fruits above him that he could nc reach; Achilles, with his arrows Icarus, with his waxen wings, flyin, too nearthe sun; the Centaurs, ha! man and half beast; Orpheus, witI his lyre; Atlas, with the world on ni back-aLl there and more n.v- helce literature, from the graduate' spoe on commencement day to R a ' u ao ate's calogium on Danie Westr Dartmouta. Tragedy an-d coug were born in the festivals of Dion; sins at Athens. The y-ric and e-eeri. and epic poetry of G reece aear before Christ has its echces in Tennysons, Longfellows and Br:y ants of 1,800) and ip) year's afte farmhouseoday ~iA-nricaor r.arope That CC -. : r ae7 empioy P2e - o a:d si-, I am deD hU t C - S. Te e: s s-PauL hai got much of i oarical power of expressioa r on .i ees. That he had studied ther itrature was evidett when, sanding in the oresence of an audi e"ce of reek scholars on Mars hill, whi'c overlooks A!.hens. he dared to e fr n one of their own G:e k poets, either Cleanthus or Aratus, de elaring. "As certain alsu of your own uoets have said. 'For we are also iis offspring.'" And he mad acrUrate a aotation. Cleanthus, one of the poets, having written: For we thinej :Tnri: :ir;: ael: n And Araths, one of their ow Poets, had written: I: was rather a rinv thnz for Paul to attempt to 4 1ye te2mpraneyusl fro a poem i a I forign Lo his and befre G-e siolars, bat I Paul did i: wi Ar stvnerin ana then acknowd zed a frthe mos! distinzaished audien'w on the planet his indebtedness to the Greeks, crying out in his oration. "As onae of youC own poets has said. FurthermorC. all the civilizl-d world. like Paul, is indebted tothe Greeks fo: architecture. The worli before the time of the Greeks ia!. bailt monoliths obliisks, cromlechs, sp'niaxes and pyramids, bat th2y were mostly monumental to the dead whom they failed to memorialize. We are not certain even of the names of those in whose commemoration thq pyramid; were built. Bat Greek arcaitec'ure di. most for living. Ignoring Egyp tian precedents and borrowing noth I ing from other nations, Greek arzhitec ture carved its own columas. sEt its own pediments, adjnsted its own enta blatures, rounded its on molding and carried out as never before thi three qualities of right building. called by an old author -'rmitas, ulits, v'enstas'-namely, firmness, useful ness, beauty. Although the Parthe non on the Acropolis of Athens is only a wreck of the storms and earthquakes and bombardment of many centuries, and although Lord Elgin took from one side of that building, at an ex pense of $250,00. two shiploads Of sculpture, one shipload gong down in the Mfediterranean an. the other ship load now to be fouad in the British museum, the Par:.teann, though. in coparative rains, has been an itspira tion to all architects for centuries past and will be an inspiration all tne time from now until the world itself is a temple of ruin. Oh, that Partienon: One never gets over having once seen it. But what must it have bren when it stood as its architects, Ikitnos and alikrates, built it out of Penteloan marble, white as Mont Blane at noon day and as overwhelming. Heigh above hight. O vertopping the augua and majestic pile and rising from it roof was a statute of Pallas Promachas in bronze, so tall and fiashing that sailors far out at sea behold the plum! of her helment. Without the aid of the eternal God it never could hav been planned, and without the aid or God the chisels and trowels never could have constructed it. There is not a fine church building in alt the word, or a properly constructed court house, or a beautiful art gahlery, or an appropriate auditorium, or a tastefua home, which, because of that Patrthe non, whether its style or some other style be adopted, is not directly or in directly a debtor to the Greeks. But there is another art in my mint -the most fascinating, elevating anc inspiring of all arts and the nearest tc the divine-for which all the worle owes a debt to the Hellenes that wil never be paid. I mean sculpture. A least 650 years before Christ the Greeki perpetuated the human face and forn in terra cotta and marble. What : blesing to tne human family that mer and women, mightily useful, wh< could live only within a century may be perpetuated for five or six or ter centuries! How I wish that som<' sculptor contemporaneous with Chris1 could have put his matchless form it marble ! But for every grand exqui site statue of Martin Luther. of Johr Knx. of William Penn, of Thoma! Chalmers, of Willington, of Lafayeta of any of the great statesmen or eman cipators or c-or qierors wno ador: your parks or fla t~ie niches of you acaenies, you are cebtors to th< Greeks. They covered the Acropolis they glorifi-:d the temples, the: adoned the cemeteries with statues some in cedar, some i-a ivory, some u silver, some in gld, s~m~ in size din Iinutive and syne ia Ui'e colosal IThanks to Paidiae, who worked a~ stone- to Clearcas, who worked it Ibroxe; to Dontas, who worked iu Igo! and to a.1accient chisels of comn nenostion. Do you not realize tha for many of the wonders of sculptur we ar8 .leoors to the Greeds? YBa, for the science of medicine,th great ert of healing, we must tnanl the Greeks. There is the immiorta Greek doctor, Hippocrates, who firs ooened the door for disease to go ou and health to come in. Hie first se forth the imoortance of cleanlines: and sleep, making the patient befort treatment to be washedand take slu~n br on the hide of a sacrificed beast He first discovered the impoortance o thorough prognosis and diagnosis He formulated the famous Oath] ( Hippocrates which is taken by physi cans of our day. He emancipate< meiiefrom superstttion, enmpiri cism adpriesteraft. He was thb father of all the intirmaries, hospital and medical colleges of the last 2 cenries. Ancient medicament an< surgery had before that been anatomi cal and physiological assault and bat ter, and lone after the time of Hip pocrates, the Greek doctor, where hi 'heoies were not known, the Bibl oeaks of fatal medical treatmen when i says. "In his disease L souht not the Lord, not to the physi cans, and Asa slept with his fathers. An we read ina the New Testamaent C the D0or wou2an who had been treate v 'nc moetent doctors. who aske large fees, where it says, "She ha sufered many things of mnany piy - cians and had spent all that sh e ha1 Iand was notning better, bat ratte grew worse." For our glorious s::ier of medicine and surgery-:noresa lime than astronomy, for we a more to do with disease tzan with2 tb stars: more beautiful than botany, i ebloom of bealth in the chieer of wif Sand child is worth more to us thsan al tthe roses of the garden-for th! tgrandest of all sciences. the seience nealing, every pii:o sr o: recovered valid, every ward of American an Earoean hospital may well cry ou "ThahaGod for oldDr. Hippocrate Ilke' Paul am indeboted to t Fatstermere all the world is obl gae o Haelas more than it can eve prfit s-oics n the cause of i evndcra. 2medEarope to~i - a. ot tte hikiat the Greek di n: liht. seremay be falli' o ana devst.---'s and tempoora deeats, anif G Lreece :s right allE: rOpe cannot bat ncr -do.vn. Thie otLe nations, before they saos thepa At that T i m in Greek council of wa-, lve generals were for beginainz th-t battle and tiie were against the Oili maachus presid-d a the eunci! of w\ar, had the deciding vote, and Miltades addressed hin sayin I: ox- re:sts wlihvn alm ch.is. e-ither to enslave 'At-s, or, by I insuring her freedom, to wia ycurs-ef' animrtalIty o7 a) to 1p7 sinc the Athenians r - p were taey in sucn darcer as t'er in at .,bis momaent. I' t':ev a h knee to -iese Medes. they are to be given up to Hppis, and you knowv what theY will taen have to s'. r. but if A-riens c >nes victorious ou' o' this cxtest srie has it in her po.-r to bec-me tae irst city of Gree-e Your voe is to decide whether we are to join btue or not. If we do not bring on - t presently, sC:nu a-Co3s inrigu will ute A:hen. an .he city will b bet.riyed to tt-ldes bti we :i-at be,re hr-e a' av :ing rotten in st.e of ATh.ns I believe tht rvda h oswil: give fair Ki and no ar V1 are able to get tie b:est W in :a1t en TUat won the vote f Calli ti. and soon the battle ope ai d in lull ran the men of M'tids e up on the Persian hosts, s ".2 sons of Greec: rie for the 'ree dom of your cyatry! Strike for the fretdom of your children and your wives, for the shrines cf yoar fathers' gods and for the sepalcher's of yoir sires-" Wnile onlY 19) Greeks fell 6,A), Persians lay dead upona the fieldi, and many of the Asiatie hosts who took- to the war vessels in the harbor were consumed in the shipping. Per sian oppression was rebuked, G(recian liber:y was achieved, the cause oF civ iiiution was advaneeI, and the west ern world and all nations have feit the heroies. Had there oeen no Mil tiades there might have been no Washington. Also at Tnermiopyan 3)3 G:eeks, along a road only wide enough for a wheel track between a mountaia and a marsb, died rather than surrender. HLd there occa no Therm-phe there might have been no Banker Hil. The ecao of Atheniia and Spartaa neroics was heard at the gates of Luzkno w, and Sevastop.l, and Binnockb'irn, and Lexiagtoa, and Gettysburg, E ag lisa Magna CaartU, and Declaration of Amerian Indepeadeace, and the song of Rert B iras, entitled "A Man's a Man for A:i Tnat," were only the long condaued reverberation of wha'* was said auI djae 2- centuries before Ia that little kingdoa that the powerS Of Eu'.e are now imposing upna. G:eeu laving again and again showa tat 10 inea in the right are straniger :xn 1U men in the wrong, the heroi .f Leonidas and Aristides and Tae-n tccles will not cease their mision a l the last man on earth is as free as od made him. There is not on eit r side of the Atlantic to day a repablic that cannot trathfally employ the words of the text and say, "I am debtor to the Greeks." Bat now comes the practical ques tion, How cmn we pay that debt or a part ot it? For we cannot pay more than 10 per cent of that debt in which Paul acknowledged himself a bank rupt. By praying Almighty God that he'will help Greece in its present war with Mohammedanism and the con certed empires of Europe. I know her queen, a noble, Christian woman, her face the throne of all 'oeneficience and loveliness, her life an example of noble wifehood and motherhood. God help those palaces in these days of awful exi.enec: Oar American senate did well the other day, when, in that capitol building which owes to Greece its columnar impressiveness, tney passed a hearly resolutioa of sympa thy for that nation. Would that aha who have potent words that can be heard in Earope would utter them now, when they are so much needed' Let us repeat to them in English what they centuries ago decLared to the world in Greek, "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Another way of partly paying our idebt to the Greeks is by higher appre ciation of the learning and self sacri fice of the men who in our own land stand for all that the ancient Greeks stood. While here and there one comes to public approval and reward on salary disgracefully small. Tne scholars, the archaeologists. the ar tists, the literati-:nost of them live up three or four fiights of stairs and by small windows that do not let in the full sunlight. You pass them every day in your streets without any recog nition. Grub street, where many of the mighty men of the past sutfered, is long enough to reach around the world. No need of wasting our sym pathy upon the unappreciated think ers and workers of the past, though Linnaeous sold his works for a single ducat, though Noah Webster's spell ing b-ook yidlded him more than .his dictionary, though Oorreggio, the reat painter, receiving for long con SItnned work payment of $39, died from overjo'y; tnough when Gold smith's friends visited him they were obiged to sit in the window, as he head but one chair; though Samuel Boyse, the great pOet, starved to death; though the author of "H adibras" died in a garrot, though "Paradise Lost" brought its author oaly $25 cash down, with promise of $5u more if the sale warranted it, so that $75 was all that was paid for what is consider ed the greatest poem ever written. Better turn our attention to the fact that there are at this moment hun dreds of authors, painters, sculptors, architects, brain workers, without bread and without fael and without competent apparel. As far as you can afford it, buy their sculpture reach their books, purchase their ictures, eccourage their pen. their pencil, :neir chisel, their engraver's knife, their architect's comoass. The warld calls them " bok worm " or "Dr. Dryasdust," but if there had been no bookworms or dry doctors of law and science anid theelogy there would have been no Apocalyotic angel. They are the Greeks of our country and time, and your obligation to them is intiie. B at there is a better way to nay the-n. sud that is by their personal sal vtinon, which wiil never caie to -them through books or through learn .11ed uresentation, because in literature and intellectual realms they are mas Cters. Tney can outargue, outquote, otdgmatize you. Not through the gate -of the head, but through tine gate of the heart, you may capture them. When men or learning and might are brought to G-od, they are brought by Ithe simplest story of what religion can a do for a soul. Tney have ?ost esii dren. Oh. tell themn how Christ comn forted you when you lost your bright i boy or blue eyed giri: They have found life a straggle. Oh, teli tnem .how Christ has he:ped you all the way C enrou'2 They are in bewilderment. Uh eltemwt o many hands - comes tne :uz of war," bu: when a Swarn rLearted Christian meets a man wno needs pardon and symipathy and comfort and eternal jif-: trnen comes Svictory. If you can, ov some inei L- Ident of self sacriies, i-rng tot such r scholarly men and womieni wva - Crst nas done for :neir eternal res Demrshene e qince and Homeric imaeery wjuld tali a kindly heart thro may. nceed. A gentlemau of t -ds me the statement of what oeuned a fexr days ao amnonz the raines British Columbia. 1: mshat Frank Conson and Jem u were down in the narrov shaft a 7in. They had loaded an iron SU ckewh coal. and Jim Hems ,tanding abcve zround, was lie bucket up by windlass, when the windlass broke, and the loaded backe: was descending upon the two miners. Then Jim Hems woith, seeing what must be certain dth to the rainers beneath, threw hiaisef aainst the cogs of the whir m1g windlass. and though his IIesh was torn and his bones were broken he stopped the whirling windlass and arrsted the descending bucket and sA':ed the lives of the tvo miners be neath. The superintendent of the mine :lew to the rescue and blocked ,ne machinery. When Jim Hems worth's bleeding and broken body was put on a litter and carried hoqte ward and some one exclaimed, "i, tis is awful:" he replied, "Oh, what's the difference so long as I saved the boys: What an illastratton it was of suf fering for others, and what a text from which to illustrate the behavior of our Christ, limping and lacerated and broken and torn and crushed in the work of stopping the descending ruin that would have destroyed our souls! Try such a scene of vicarious suffering as this on that man capable of overthrowing all your arguments for the truth, and he will sit down and weep. Draw your illustrations from the classics. and it is to him an old story, but Leyden jars and elec tric batteries and telescopes and Greek drama will all surrender to the story of Jim Hemsworth's "Oh, what's the difference so long as I saved the bovs?" "Then,if your illustration of Christ's self sac-ifice. drawn from some scene of today, and your story of wha Christ has done for you do not quite fetch him into the right way, jus; say to him. "Professor-doctor-jadge, why was it that Paul declared he was a debtor to the Greek .' And ask your learned friend to take his Greek Test ament and translate for you, in his own way, from Greek into English, the splendid peroration of Paul's ser mon on Mars hill, under the po wer of which the scholarly Dionysius sur rendered-namely, "The times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commandetn all men everywhere to repent, because he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained, whereof he hath given assurance unto all men in that ne hath raised him from the dead." By the time he has got through the translation from the.Greek I think you will see his lip tremble, and there will come a pallor on his face like the pallor on the sky at daybreak. By the eternal salvation of that scholar, that great thinker, that splendid man, you will have done something to help pay your indeb:edness to the Greeks. And now to God the Son and God the Father and God the Holy Ghost be honor and glorydominion and victory and song, world without end. Amen. Hard Times andTemperance. One of the notable effects of the bard times which we have been going through f or several years past is to be found in the reduced consumption of intoxicatants. It' is claimed by the bicycle enthusiasts that the increas ing use of bicycles has conducted largely to this result but the Ameri can Grocer says the "hard times have contributed to a notable diminuion in the use of all kinds of beverages particularly spirits." The Grocei shows by figures that "the consump tion of alcoholic stimulants has not increased, while the use of the mildei beverag es has barely been steady.' The facts which lead up to this con clusion are interesting. In 1892 and 1S93 the consumption of spirits pei citizen was 11 gallons. of wine nearly half a gallon, of beer 15 gallons. while in 1896 the average consumption of spirits was but one gallon, of wines one quart and of beer 15 gallons. The American Grocer does not con s:der that the increase of the whiskey tax from 90 cents to $1.10 has had any iniluence in reduicing the consump tion of spirits. The ofiicial reports show that our 71,263,000 people it 1896 consumed 71,051,877 gallons of spirits, or no more than 58,tS0,00( people consumed in 1SS7. As aboul 11,000,000 gallons of spirits ar-e annu ally used in manufactures, according to The Grocer, the quantity actual y used as a beverage is about 60,.000,00L gallons. Barrooms make sixty drinks out of a gallon, and get at the lowest calculation about $1.50 for it. The nation's whiskey bill in 1896 was. therefore. $27u,000,000, as agains1 $400,000,00)0 in 1893, when the con sumnption was 101,000,000 gallons. The government lost $14,000 of reve nue by the decreased consumption. The drinking of beer has increased very largely in this country during the past 20 years. The consumputio per citizen 2J years ago was but si~x and a half galions. as against Efteen gallons in 1890 . The total c onsump tion of beer in 1890l was 1,CS0,t26,165 gallons. on which the government re eived a revenue of. $33,139,141. The aggregate amount of the nationa. beer bill is estimated at $541, 963, 348. Wine is little used by our people. It 1887 we produced 27,706,000 gallons and imported 4,018,000 gallons, where asii19G we produced but 1-4,599,00t. gallons and imported 4.101,000 gailone -a large decrease. Tne nation's bill for wise in 1S96 was $19,730,000. The total cost of our alcoholic beverages tr that year the Grocer places at $S61, 693,S32, so-ne 14),000,00-0 less than ii 1892. There has been-a marked failing ot in the per capita consu~mption of cof fee. in 159G the people i eis estimated drank 962,0SS, 692 gatlon of ct ma~de frum 4S1,U41,34t pouads of the berries and costing $120.261,0cG. The average consumption was 9.01 pound: 'n 1n92 and 8.04 pounds in 1S90. O0 'm th consumption in the latter yeai is piaced at 40.7Q1,00J gallons, mad~ from '3,30.000 pounds of tea import ed at a raail e ast of $31.171,4S2. Co co 1asiported to tie extent o. 930: - orth, much of whica wa. usdfrcrfectionery. The agg~re u-t dri bili of the nation, alcohic aud non alcoisoiic, is tiguredat5 V1l.120.00, or $14.31 per citizen. T-i Ami.;an Gracer is convinced tha prospertt ve 1-ease-s tnle use oi sumu lain nd intoxicating- drines as il N\oRFoLK. March 31.--There wern ine eeattemn at incendiarisar in Portsmomh as night. These, fol 10wing the grea: conlagration o: '-anday morn'ng th-at swept away -arge portion of th~e city, htave thro'wr' ttiemiutnts :nto suen a aervou: state t'at sleeo is a'mos: im'oassibie. Tepo ic la t nigh' diseovered h "::emo'd in::endiairism in time to nre ven' repetton of the calamiy 0: uSasy The mayor todav issue~i poc aus onlerig a reward o: orth conviction of an:. perso: LET US H E A SHARE. to ass, a t are uico real invest ments in p-grie'iu:-a pursuits. or that arerc laorers are a pr) Cd of :e s:.nd that the chief mission o' b&'t is to conserve the in T*'ret of u-cturers and money. Upon thisesgr;cultura! lands stand the foundations of our R -public, and the people who cultivate them consti tute a law-abidin,. hard-working, economizinz, prudent and taxpaying portion of our citizens, whose rights should be recognized and whose wrongs must o remeced. This bill discrimrinates against the raw products of the section which I in part represnt, and I shall under take to point out its ineq.aities and demand fair play. In fact, this dis crimination does not stop -it' the manufacturer of the Est, but extends to the products of raw material in the West. Tuis condition is the result no doubt of a vigorous contest on the part of the Western agriculturists for a reciprocity of these privileges, while the South was made the vIctim be cause of the demand on the part of her representatives for free raw materials. In this respect the South has been c~nsidered fair game for the balance of the country and plundered as a consequence at every turn. I will cite a tew flagrant in stances of this character. Oar navy needed a coaling station in the Pacitle Ocean and one was secured in Hawaii. Did our Government tay for it in money No. indeed. It simply gave Hawaii the privilege of importing raw produc:s free into this country And what were these products? Sugar, rice. bananas. etc., all of which were produced only in the South. To such an extent has this been carried that Senator Sherman declared we had paiJ .1S,.000,000 for a misera ble little coaling station: while the late Senator Dolph stated that a fair duty upon ali imports from Hawaii would have paid 12 for every acre of land in these islands. The South has been asking for free raw- materials, and here is a case in point where its request was granted - 400, 00), 000 pounds of sugar and 5,000,000 pounds of rice came into this country last year duty free from Hawaii. Does anyone imagine that a tenth part of this amount either in wheat, crn, cloth or other manufactured articles could have been imported in this man ner without a loud protest from theE ast and West? The South in this instance was plundered the majority of its rep resentatives advocated free raw ma terial and were in consequence barred frdm making any objections. RICE COMPARED WITH HAY. I will take the Southern product of rice in this connection and compare it with the Northern product of hay and potatoes. This country produced in 1S95 297,:237,370 bushels of potatoes and imported 127,976 bushels. It produced the same year 47,07S,541 tons of hay and imported 247,897 tons. The per cent of imports on productions is almost too small for calculation, being about one-half of 1 per cent, In 1895 we produced 168, 665,440 pounds of rice and imported 219,564,320 pounds. In other words, we imorted 50,889,SSO pounds more rice than was produced in the entire South. We find potatoes prote::ted by a duty of 25 cents per bushel, and hay $4 per ton, while Southern rice receives but 1i cents per pound. This unequal per cent of importation proves conclusively a want of reciprocity in tariff duties upon these products. There are millions of acres in the South that will produce rice if it can be made remunerative. sCGAR AN~D CORN COMPARED. Following out this idea I will com pare the sugar with the corn of the North and West. Under the present bill corn is protected by a duty of 15 cents per bushel, and 20 per cent ad valorem under the Wilson bill of 1893. In 1895 the corn crop amounted to 1,212,779,052 bushiels with imports amounting to 16,575 bushels. One small train load of corn would re pre sent the total imports for 1S95. In 1894, with four hundred million more corn produced, the imports were only 2,000 bushels. Comparatively speaking the imports of corn amounted to nothing. During the year 1895 there was pro. duced 729,392,56L nounds of cane suggar and 37,617,076 gallons of mo lasses. During that year 3.574 510. 454 pounds of sugar and 15,075,879 gallons of molasses was imported. The duty on sugar is 4U per cent ad valorem, and on molasses from 2 to 4 cents per gallon. In this case there was five times as much sugar imported as produced, and nearly one-half as much molasses. I shall not attempt to go into details or bring for ward any theories in con nect ion with this comparison, but sim ply say that there is something radi cally wrong as this showing discloses and the burden as usual falls upon the South. When, on the one hand, we find no corn being impnorted,_ and on the other more than a score or nations sending their sugar to our shores the conclusion must force itself upon everyone that a grave in justice is be ing perpetrated, and a fair reciprocity does not exist. If raw sugar received the same fostering care from the gor enent as the manufacturers of New England it would require but a few years for the South to produce all the sugar we consume. But the present bill by means of its diterentiai duty largely favors the reniners at the ex pense of the producers. Mr. Speaker, is it not time for some reresentative from the Cotton States to'stand on the floor of this House and deend the interests of the cotton panter? Should not a reciprocity of nrotection for his toil be demnanded! Why shoul~d the wheat grower be pro teced against his near neighbor, and the coton planter left to be plunder ed by the whole world i In my oin on it's an outrage and should no longer be permitted. The amendments wich I will propose, placing d.ruty o 2' cents per pound on all imnp'ed cotton, ad 2 cents per pound on un caned rice, are buat simple justice to I ou ac me to~ wccept my amend ment .or a duty oa raw cotton, then yoshould, i: justice, strike out tromn 'hisblio aies on the manufactured aticle. This woul1d reduce the price o co'ton goods and thereby increase teir consumpon. ad as a result the orice. of raw cotton would be increas d by re'ason o' inras- demand. The prouts of the manufacturer are enn-ed us as muach by free rawv miseial s byhig dut-y on the ni ished product But, Mr. Speaker, a have seen enough' and heard enougn in the co-n~iutes room and elsewier to know tnat no duty win1 be !imposed on raw coton, bec.ase it w-alidI crease at least the price of long st-ap and thereov lessen the profits of tn Ne-v Engisnd millas. The mills using this cotton are siLtatd entirely. in Ne ngad The people producisZ thiscottn e in thie South. This is qte salin to ouweigh argument and justi'ce.I LN~L) I wil nake u' one more cuspar: soa an tht etwee wheat and cot ton, th~e two great money crops ot this country. Lai 1S35 te wneat crop 1amounted to 3t>0.2'7,410 bushels,while t.e imots ta ye was 1AS38 29 Tn' a:. Lo con.e :-OdCed in 1----5 was 5 tb 149 ads. Tne iocrXs of etndr heame be w cn th.at the per -.:afimorts in rhet was o nlI ab ) I trd of :he per ei of impr a cotton. Te :Kie bil of 8.0 4 V !heat a protection or 25 c,-.:s r cushel, and the : Ison bil o' 1 1 per cent ad valorem1. it iArdlV Uecessary for me to say that cttn is ar.d has been on the free list. While the importa tion of wheat does nct ecer to ia crease, the impirts of c tton are rcak ing rapid s:rides. While t-ie bulk of wheat iroorta tican co:ncs fro:u Cainada and British Columbis. no less than iifteen differ ent countries are s-nding rav cotton to our shores. The imports of raw cotton have increased from 3,924.531 pounds in 1,S7 to 55 3350,520 poundi in 1S%. It is a mistake to assume thal all te cotton imported Is long stanle. Out of the imports of 1896 but 43 574, 76,. nounds came from Egypt, leaving nearly twelve million pounds to be seut from other sections. It is safe tc infer that ah of this is not long staplE cctton. Just how muei is short stapl( I have been unable to ascertain. Eh the amount what it will. it is a dangei signal that should not remain unno ticed. SOUTH ASKs JUSTICE ONLY. Mr. Spaaker,the people of the Soutl are entitled to this consideration They have the right to demand equa; and exact justice with other secton. at the hands of Congress. It i unfair unwise and Un-American t compe them to bear more than their share o the burdens of government- This in. ocrtation of raw cotton strikes at th very vitals of the one great industry of the South. It is a standing menace to the cotton planter which but few seem to realize. Fifty five millior pounds of cotton is not far from 120, 000 bales. This represents the produc of nearly, if not quite, 20,000 average farms. It also represents the incom of more than 100,00u of the people oJ my section. If the manufacturers ol the East and the farmers of the Wes1 are to be protected against the paupei labor of other countries, have not thE people of the South a right to demanc a similar safeguard? Is it fair to asli the people of the South to submit tc certain conditions which the E ist anc the West refuse to endure? I have made no distinction in regard to the different kinds of cotton, since the3 are all affected by these imports. 11 by reason of this duty .ong staple cot ton should be excluded, much of thE land now used in producing short sta ple would be used in producing thE long staple. This would lessen thE crop of short staple and increase it price. In this indirect manner thE grower of short staple would be bene tited. It is assumed by some that thes duties on wheat, corn, oats, barle3 and other products of the North anc West does not increase their price. If that be true, why are these dutie. imposed? Are such duties placed up on the statute books to deceive? Ar they intended as bribes to the North era and Western farmers from the cunning manufacturers of New Eng 'and. Mr. Speaker,if the duties upon agri cultural products of the North anc West shoald be eliminated from this bill it would be voted down by this House. I am led to believe that the disasters that overtook the wool grow ers because of the Wilson bill, which made his product a free raw material, together with the promise of a protec tive duty by the Republican psarty, was one of the potent factors whici compassed the defeat of the Demo cratic party in the late election. The wool grower of the West is nat. urally with us on the paramount issue and the time is not far distant, when he will repudiate the miserable "see saw" sophistry that this bill discloses, of legislating higher prices by a tariff, and forcing lower prices wi:.h a singlE gold standard ;he will then unite witb the other producers of raw material in driving you from place and power. Ii the agricultural products of tae North and West are to be favored by nation al legislation, in the name of justice and fear dealing, let the agricultural products of the South receive similai consideration. Let the statute bookl of our country disclose a record oi equality and reciprocity to all sectionl and for all the people. The South is worthy of this action at your hands, It stands today as the most availablE portion of this great nation, wherE capital and development can be madE profitable. It is rich in resour::es, rict in the variety of its products, and pos sesses the best labor in the world. Il seeks no advantages, and only askl an equal chance with other sections of the country. Mr. McLaurin's speech was the even of the day in the House, because of ith able advocacy of the doctrine of pro tecting Southern "ra w materials" and especially cotton. As the first of th< new Diocratic members of the ways and means committee. all of whoat hold this doctrine, to address the House, Mr. McLaurin received espec ial attention, and-many congratlation: not only on the argument he made, but also on the admirable way it which he parried the interrogations with which it was attacked. Agriculturai Education. CLE~tsoN CoLLEGE, March 3u -Thu trustees of Clemson College at their recent meeting decidided to continul the work of holding farmers' institutes Arrangements have already beei made to hold institutes at the follow ing places: At Greer's, in April; a Fairvie w, Greenville County, May the 1st.; in Caester County, April 15-16 in Newberry County. August .14. These institutes will be held with out cost to the community. Members of the College facalty who are expert: in the various lines of agriculture chemistry, horticulture, dairying anc veterinary science, will be present Every county in the State has the right to at least one institute. In or der that arraneents may be madt to cover as mu ch groundi as possibl wi the leas ex-us to .the College pates wisng isttutes5 itel in thel. co muit s'hould address, as at Il t'*isau Cllege, S.C. 1:strbution -takei H-im. Wr,.s \ -,. Mis. March 31-J X. Holingshaead, the white farme: wh. o wvas one of the leaders in the cel ebrated Cambiss lynching case u Washin::ton last year, and whc whlen arrested turned &:ate's evidence anurought about t ne conviction of number' of his neighbors and thi -lgh: Irom the neighborhood of sever a dcozen others who participated in the lneUice, was assasssinated in h dwelling near here, last night. He~ h uauressed andi was preparing t.: et into oed. when an unknown per on outside his window tired a lad 0. ucaso t into his body, killing ha~ intantiv. His death wil be a rehie: to some atift of his former nei;brs. BEL.mJz :r. C. March n.-Th, cided'to reduce tne rovalty to -25 ceult per ton on~ river rock. Tire reduciioE oes into elect on A12ril ist. Coosan~ i as 35,Cu tons on ha~nd and wants thE reduction to affect sales so as to pu nr o n part with oth e compDanies. S.AND N2W CO'TO-Sc I iterejo Ing V!osIng Exe-rclei of Charl.-ston 11 .d i.1 Co irge. CI. i.EsTo0N, Ap-ril 1 -The six y eighta aniuAl esstrencement or ine Medicsa College of South Caroi:r,a was he:d tonight at the Academy of Music in the presence of one of the largest and most representative audi ences ever assembled in the building. A number of the friends of the grad uates from out of the city were pres ent to witness the closing exercises of the venerable institution. The exer cises were simple in their charactei. but most impressive and interesting. A pleasing programme, interspersed with musical selections nad been ar ranged, and was followed, to the pleasure of every one in the house. On the stage were seated the orator of the occasion. Prof. E. A. Alderman, president of the University of North Carolina. the boards of trustees, the faculty, the graduates in medicine and pharmacy, a number of well St known physicians and citizens and specially invited friends of the gradu- te ates. The exercises were opened with a prayer by Rev. A. Toomer Porter, D. D.: then followed the annual report and address of the dean, Prof. Francis L. Parker, M. D The duty of con ferring the degree of medicine and pharmacy was imposed upon "on. T Chas. H. Simonton, president of the board of trutees. The graduates of medicine stepped up to Judge Simon- t( ton and received their sheepskins in the following order, as their names were called; E. M. Brailsford, Charles ton; L. L Bell, Elyville, Ark.; R. H. t Bryson, Ora, L urens county; D. E. h Connor, Bowman; L. B. Clark. Charleston; W. H. DeSaussure, Jr., Charleston; T. H. Ellis, Hartsville: W. D. Ferguson, Laurens; A. T. Gaillard, Charleston; Henry Horl beck, Charleston; Douglas Hamer, Laurinburg, N. C.; H. P. Jackson, f Laarleston; J. W. Jervey, Charleston; M. K. Mazyck, Charleston; C. H. May, YorkVille; R. W. Montgomery, Sam ter; C. R. Peeples, Estill; T. M. Schar- C. lock, Charleston; R. C. Stoney Monck's Corner; W. G. Stevens. Chester; J. W. Wessinger, Ballen tine, Lexington county; H. H. Wy man, Aiken; W. P. Webb, Rock-ing ham, N. C.: Wm. Weston, Columbia; H. A. Willis, Cottageville. The honor roll in medicine was then read as follows: J. W. Wessin ger, M. K. Mezyck, Henry Horlbeck, H. Wyman, W. D. Ferguson and H. P. Jackson. The graduates in pharmacy next re ceived their diplomas; B. A. Graham, Charleston; R. A. Lindtey Charles ton: W. L. Lockwood, Charleston; H. P C. Kellers, M. D., Charleston; J. C. e Searson, Allendale. R. L. Lindley g and J. C. Searson were the honor men in pharmacy. Dr. Manning V Simons presented the college cup to . Dr. J. W. Wessinger in an eloquent and chaste speech. The medal for the best examination in pharmacy was . then presented to Mr. R. A. Lindley by Dr. John Forrest.-State. i Jary Beforms. A bill of considerable importanee 0 which became a law at the last session e: of the legislature is unknown to nine men out of every ten. It is a refrom or improvement in the jury system of 9 the State and is given below in full." It provides: "'That during the last U term of the court of general session for each county in the year 1897 six of the grand jurors then in service shall t be drawn in the manner now provided by law for the empaneling of petit ' jurors in criminal cases, who shall 0 serve as grand jurors during the next succeeimng year. Section 3S further provides: "That the clerk of the court of general ses sions in each county in the year 1898 and each succeeding year thereafeter,I not less than 15 days before the corn mencemnent of the court in the said year, shall issue writs of venire facias in each county for 12 grand jurors toh be returned to that court, who, to gether with the six grand jurors for0 whose ' selection provision has herein been made, shall be held to serve att each term thereof throughout said. ~ year and until another grand jury is selected and empaneled."' Section 38S provides: "That at thed end of each succeeding year thereafter during the last term of the court of general sessions held in each county for such year, six of the grand jurorst then in service shall be drawn as here.-t inbefore provided, who together with 12 grand jarors selected in the man ner herein prescribed, shall constitute the grand jury for said year. served Him Right. Woman suffrage counts for some-1 thing out in Kansas. The women are t learning something abou: polities, and they are making use of that in- ~ formation. A case in pmint is illus trmated by a story fromn Kansas City. v There was an election in Kansas Cit y a few days ago for mayor. and Mr. B. L. Short who, it was generally sup posed would win hands down, was defeated by less than thirty votes.0 The reason of his defeat is said to be his alleged treatment of Miss Sadie Persons. He had been engaged to Misc Parsons for 12 years. Finally he J agreed with her as to the date upon v wnich th'e marriage was to take place, b and within two days afterward mar- a ried another woman who had but re- S cently been divorced from her hus- fi band. Miss Parsons told all about the affair at the time, and when the city b election came on the story was reviv- S ed and industriously circulated among d the women of Kansas City. Tae wo- a men did not vote against Sor-~t solidly, but enough of them voted gainst him1 to ensure his defeat, and his treatment of Miss Parsons is the only reason o that isassigned. This is what may i be termed practical politics. an it is it creditable to the ladies that they a.od c, by their sister when it came to vog. v They treated Short exactly right. _ _ C EgN oSXc , Fia , March :;3 -A u soop owned by John Constantine of F St. Andre ws' Bay, loaded with oysters and enrocute here. capsized in a squall a fewv miles oif this port ts morning, I and eight jives were lost. Constan- I tine, the owner, and P m Motes con- g stituted the cre w, and <. . -omen and IP tive children were on tte .t WXhen ~ the squall struck the sloop, se wom-en and cniidren were placed m me cabin ~ and the hvatches were fasten. h Jon. T The furious waves sweet o.e the heavily laden craft and in a fe i in utes foundered and sank. The wo men were sisters of Motes, ami. one of' Moe esat the whee, and? w.z .inie j saothat the vessel was siakog ne ouane tht hatch ad sceind one of b hius51siers andL a chld Tne oters did not get out of the cabin befro'he boa sank. Tae woman and child cung j ing and pshed them oai Tney both sn .rom sigh. bu: Motes succeded ' in reaching tuie hatch do3or, whicha was iloatinL. ad after being tossed about for mayv hours was thrown upon the beach beo v Fort Barrancas, where he - was recied a:- Lieutenant Marsh of the First Artitiery and Surgeoi: Geoc as of the Navy Yard. Constaatine. tne t wo women and five children vwere lost. Motes was completely exhaut- a Absolutely Pure. Celebrated for its great 'eavening re".gth and healthfulness. Assurei the od acainst alum and all forms of adul. ratioa common to the cheap brands. OYAL BAKING POWDER CO , XW YORK. AN OPEN LETTER . Which Remarkable Inconslatencles of a Paper are Exposed. > the Editor of The Register: I see you take issue with Congress an McLaurin upon his proposition give cotton planters equal rights ider the law with the wheat grower; -d others. You claim that it gives ie cotton planter special privileges, id is therefore a violation of time >nored Democratic dcctrines. If all other industries have special rivileges, how is the cotton planter to ep eve-n with the others unless the Me rights are extended to him? Your paper owes its present influ ice and is getting most of its profits om special privieges in the way of >vernment printing. Have you de ined to accept special privileges be Luse all the other newspapers in the ate do not get them? It would seem, Mr. Elitor, that you ant all the special privileges from e farmers you c in get, but are will ig to grant them none in return. our paper in order to increase its rculation, advcoated the demands of e Alliance, sub-treasury and all, ith the special privileges to the far er of borrowing money from the >vernment at 2 per cent. You s gal wed that. Was it because you thought you could never be called upon to support ? When you are confronted by a actical proposition to help the farm "you kick." You say it will do no >od. How do you know; has it ever been ied? It will certainly do no harm. rhat other concrete practical propo Lion bas been made in behalf of the Lrmer? None. What do you propose? low on in the same old way, allow g him to be robbed. McLaurin says a is unalterably opposed to protec on; that the protected industries of e east have been robbing the balance the country,and we should demand act and equal privileges under all ws. - This is a fair proposition. Mr. itor, if you wera on principal op sed to the free school system, yet hen that system was once fastened on the community by law, you ould not fail to send your children the school and taxe all the advan ges that you could. You are forced pay your share of the taxes and hether you approve of the principal not, you have a perfect right to ur share of the benefits. This is all eLaurin claims. Oh, no, rMr. Ediitor, the "worid do ~ove." It is an age of progress. Coy ed with printer's ink, and never see g the glorious noonday sun except rough the smoky pain; of the win w, you may not be aware of the et, but the farmers of this country* ve been educated for ten years to e doctrines of "equal rights," and if ~her classes have special privileges, ey intend to have tnemn too or know e reason why. ~Mr. Editor, irrespective of whether e price of Allen long staple or Sea land cotton would be raised by this, ty or not, as a matter of principal, cLaurin is right, and I am sorry to e you arrayed on the other side, and fine The State and The News and ourier, old ancient enemies, fairer the f:.rmers than you are. The cotton ties and bagging, the ows, hoes, hamestrings and every ing the farmer uses in making cot n is protected, and yet you opDoSe i principal the same protection being ven to cotton. Wheat is protected from Canada and >und with free t wine, yet you leave e cotton planter to be plundered by super labor of Egypt and South merca. What about the Wilson ~il? The South Carolina delegation ted for it solidly. Did you raise ur voice on "principle" to protest rainst protection for wheat and corni h, Mr. Editor, your liver must be t of gear. Daniel J. Bradham. Manning, March 31, 1897. Admitted to Bail. AIres, S. C., Marah 31.-Solici tor William Taurmnond, wh killed . G. Harris in Eitgetield, appeared ~fore Judge Aldrica here to day oa >pliation fo:- bait. He was repre nted by Mr. J. H. Timcan of Eige id, while Solicitor Belliager ap ared for the State. Tne matter of ail was practically pro for:na and the licitor was released after Judge A[ rich had heard the statemeats of tne ~torneys Lzuknown. CaRuLESTON, S C., April 2 -An her body, that of a white mao, was )uund in fne C.>oer Rivar this morn ig, at the foot of Galhoun s:reet. The roner held an intj est, bat there as no one to identiy the body, and o particulars as to how the man me to be drowned. Tne bod y was ken to the morgue and later, if stilL 2identified, will be baried in the tter's Field. Another steamer Sunak. Mcs Ga., April 2.-A special o Hilton, Ga.. to day to the Tele -oh sas The steamship Griggs, "ing oetween Columbus, Ga., and palce1a. Fia., went down near oward' L lAnding early this morn ig. She was entirely sionierge.. e Engineer and four negro deck ads were drowned. T he loss on e cargo and boat is not kno wn. A Defaulter suicides. NEW OuLiEANS, April,2.- Ihis mora .g the body of tne man who c~nm-mt d suicide at nis hotel in this city t Monday evening was identitied his brother as taat of Frank D ~eger, the defaulting secretary of the utual Assurance Society of V irginma. is brother, F. V. Steger, claimed the ~mains and will hare them shipped Richmond. La.txr:. La., April 2.-Tne -asec orthers were execated aere at :11 p. mn., in the presenee of 3,000 -ox.i? Tnere was mnuett interest .aniestes but no disorder. Alexis d, Eres Branc murdered Simon magaad. a merchant at Scott, a year