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ZENAS THE LAWYER REV. DR. TALMAGE PAYS A HIGH TRi BUTETO THE B\R. He Treats Profession of Law Froni a Moral and Religious Stacdpotnt-Un ties of the Christian Lawyer-Mary Temptations. Dr. Talmage's sermon Sunday hud a spe cial interest for lawyers. and all why epect to be lawyers. and all who are the frau ' lawyers. His text was Titus iii. 1 'ri Zenas the lawyer.' The profession of the law is here intro duced, and within two day- in the Capital City :303 young men joined it. and at this season in various parts of the land other hundreds are taking their diplomas for that illustrious profession. and is it net appropri ate that I address such young men from a moral and religious standpoint, as upon them are now rolling the responsibilities of that calling represented in the text by Zenas the lawyer. We all admire the heroic and rigorous side of Paul's nature, as when he stands coolly deliberate on the deck of the coru ship while the jack tars of the Mediterran ean are cowering in the cyclone: as when he stagis undaunted amid the marbles of the palace before thick necked Nero, surround ed with his 12 cruel lictors: as when we fid him earning his livelihood with his own nee dle, sewing haircloth and preaching the gos pelin the interstices; as when we tind him able to take the 39 lashes. every stroke of which fetched the blood, yet continuing in his missionary work: as when we find him. regardless of the consequence to himself, de livering a temperance lecture to Felix, the government inebriate. But sometimes we catch a glimpse of the mild and genial side of Paul's nature. It seems that he had a friend who was a barrister by profession. His name was Zenas, and he wanted to see him. Perhaps he had foa med the acquaint ance of this lawyer in the courtroom. l'er haps sometimes when he wanted to ask some question in regard to Roman law he went to this Zenas the lawyer. At any rate he had a warm attachment for the man, and he pro vides for his comfortable escort and enter tainment as he writes to Titus, -Bring Zenas the lawyer." This man of my text belonged to a pro fession in which are many ardent supporters of Christ and the gospel, among them lack stone, the great commentator on English law, and Wilberforce, the emancipator, and the late Benjamin F. Butler, attorney gener al of New York, and the late Charles Chaun cey, the leader of the Philadelphia bar, and Cheif Justices Marshall and Tenterden and Campbell and Sir Thomas Moore. who died for the truth on the scaffold, saying to his aghast executioner: Pluck up courage, man, and do your duty. My neck is very short. Be careful, therefore, and do not strike awry." Among the mightiest pleas that ever have been =ade by tongue of barrister have been pleas in be lAf of the Bible and Christianity, as when Daniel Webster stood in the supreme court at Washington pleading in the famous Girard will case, denouncing any attempt to educate the people without giving them at the same time moral sentiments as "low, ri bald and vulgar deism and infidelity;" as when Samuel L. Southard of New Jersey, the leader of the forum in his day, stood on the platform at Princeton college commence ment advocating the literary excellency of the Scriptures; as when Edmund Burke, in the famous trial of Warren Hastings, not only in behalf of the English government, but in behalf of elevated morals, closed his speech in the midst of the most august as semblage ever gathered in Westminster hail by saying: "I impeach Warren Hastings in the name of the house of commons, whose national character he has dishonered: I im peach him in the name of' the people ef In dia, whose rights and liberties he has sub verted; I impeach him in the name of human nature, which he has disgraced. In the name of both sexes, and of every rank, and of every station, and o' every situation in the world, I impeach Warren Hastings." let, notwithstanding all the pleas which that profession has made in behalf of God, and the church, and the gospel, and the rights of man, there has come down through the generations among many people an ab surd and wisked prejudice against it. Sc long ago as in the time of Oliver Cromwell that lawyers might not errter the parliament house as members, and they were called "sons of Zeruirh." The learned Dr. John son wrote an epitaph for one of them in these words: God works wonders now and then. - Here lies a lawyer, an honest man.: Two hundred years ago a treatise was is sued with the title, "Doomsday Approaching With Thiunder and Lightning For Lawyers.' A prominent clergyman of the last century wrote in regard to that profession tnese words. "There is a society of men among us bred up from their youth in the art of proving, according as they are paid, by words multiplied for the purpose that white is black and black is white. For example, if my neighbor has a mind to my cow, he hires a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me. I must hire another ]awyer to defend my right, it being against tll rules of law that a man should speak for himself. In pleading they do not dwell upon the merits of the cause, but upon cir cumstances foreign thereto. For instance, they do not take the shortest method to know what title my adversary has to my cow, but'whether the cow be red or black, her horns long or short, or the like. A fter that they adjourn the cause from time to time and in 20 years they come to an issue. This society likewise has a peculiar cant or jargon of their own, in which all their laws are written, and these they take especial care to multiply, whereby they have so con founded truth and falsehood that it will rake 12 years to decide whether the field left to me oy my ancestors for six generations be longs to me or to one 300 miles off." I say these things to show you that there has been a prejudice going on down against that profession from generation to genera. tion. I account for it on the ground that they compel men to pay debts that they do not pay, and that they arraign criminals who want to escape the consequernces of their crime, and as long as that is so, and it al ways will be so, just so long there will be classes of men who will affect at any rate to despise the legal profession. I know not how it is in other countries, but I have had long and wide acquaintance with men of that profession-I have found them in all my parishes, I tarried in one of their oflices for three years, where there came real estate lawyers, insurance lawyers, criminal law. years, marine lawyers-and I havo yet to find a class of men more genial or more straightforward. There are in that occupa tion, as in all our occupations, men utterly obnoxious to God and man. But if I were on trial for my integrity or my life, and I wanted even handed justice administered to me, I would rather have my case submitted to ajury of 12 lawyers than to a jury ofl12 elergymen. The legal profession, I believe, has less violence of prejudice than is to b found in the sacred calling. There is, however, no man who has more temptations or graver responsibilities than the barrister, and he who attempts to dis charge the duties of his position with only earthly resources is maing a very great mis take. Witness the scores of men who have in that profession made eternal shipwreck. Witnees the men who with the law of the land under their arm, have violated every statute of the eternal God. Witness the men who have argued placidIly before earthly tribunals, who shall shiver in dismay before the Judge of quick and dead. Witness Lord Thurlow, announcing his loyalty to earthly government in the sentence, --if I forget ty earthly sovereign, may God forget me." and yet stooping to unaccountable mieannesses. Witness Lord Coke, the learned and the reek less. Witness Sir George McKenzie, thec execrated of all Scotch Convenanters, -o that untithis day, in Gray Friir chur yard, Edinburgh, the chilarmu wh' through the bars of the tomb, erring Bloody Mackenzie. come out ify: dr Lift the sneck and draw the r No other profession more e-stere of God to deliver them in their tec ates to comfort them in theirtr .to ai them in the discharge of their duty. Whl I would have you bring the merchant tc Christ, and while I would have you bring the farmer to Christ, and while I would a . w' sr o much as t esarede e a i reat, by so muucht . 1 tlus and safe u y " eg.::e e.ients. I do not e a 0 years of age who e li- to has not been af wsuit. your name is as r'u-t have legal protection. *o.r invaded. and the o,":;, :1u-t :re -: ti lish it. Your patent is frnr iae. u:n, and. you must make the of :ing :n'tufacturer pay the p'inalty. Your tri:-ers are taken, and the thief must be ar'eheunied. You want to make your will. ant vou dL not want to follow the example of those who, for the sake of saving '100 frogt an attorney. imt:peril 5'2.'t'.i t, and keep the genertiaon following for I years cuarrelimug about the estae, until it is all ex hausted. ct ate stru:c at l an assassin, atnd you mut invoke for hi.. the penitentiary. All cla--es of "ersons in ccuirae of time be com:e clients. and therefore they are all in terested in the morality and the 'hri:an iategrity of the legali professiogn. "liriug Zenis the lawyer But how is an atttrney to decide as to what are the rinciples by which he should conduct himself in regard to his clients. On one extreme Lord Brouh in will appear, say itmc: "The Innocence or guilt of your client is nothing to vou You are to save your client re": :diesa of the torment, the suttering, the destruction of all others. You are to know btNt one man in the world-your client. Y: 11 are to save h"n though you should bring your country into confusion. At all hazards you toast save your client.'' So says Lord itroucha::. But no right minded lawyer could adoot that sentiment On the other extreme Cicero will come to you and say. .-You must never plead the cause of a bad man,'' forgetful of the fact that the greatest yillain on' earth ought to have a fair trial and that an attorney cannot be judge and ad vocate at the same time. It was grand when Lord Erskine sacrificed his attorney general shio for the sake of defending Thomas Paine in his publication of his book called "The Rights of MIan," while at the same time he. the advocate, abhorred Thomas Paine's irre ligious sentiments. Between these two op posite theories of what is right, what shall the attorney do:' God alone can direct him. To that chancery he must be appellant, and he will get an answer ' an hour. Blessed is that attorney oetween whose office and the throne of God there is perpetual. rever ential and prayerful communication. That attorney will never make an irreparable mis take. True to the habits of your profession you say. "Cite us some authority on the sub ject." Well, I quote to you the decision of the supreme court of heaven, "If any lack wisdom, let him ask of God. who giveth to all tmen liberally and upbr..ideth not. and it shall be given him. What a scene is the office of a busy at torney: In addition to the men who come to you from right motives, bad men will come to you. They will otler you a large fee for counsel in the wrong direction. They want to know from you how they can es cape from solemn material obligation. They cotue to you wanting to know how they can fail advantageously for themselves. They come to you wanting to know how they can make the insurance company pay for a de stroyed house which they burned down with their own hands. or they come to you on the simple errand of wanting to escape payment of their honest debts. Now, it is no easy thing to advise set tlement, when by urging litigation you could strike a mine of remuneration. It is not a very easy thing to dampen the ardor of an intiamed contestant, when you know through a prolonged lawsuit you could get from him whatever you asked. It is no easy thing to attempt to discourage the suit for the breaking of a will in the surrog te's court because you know the testator was of sound mind and body when he signed the document. It requires no small heroism to do as I once heard an attorney do in an office in a western city. I overheard the conversation when he said, "John, you can go on with this lawsuit, and I will see you through as well as I can, but I want to tell you before you start that a lawsuit is equal to a fire." Under the tremendous tempta tions that come upon the legal profession there are scores of men who have gone down, and some of thenm from being the pride of the highest tribunal of the state have become a disgrace to the Tombs courtroom. Every attorney, in addition to the innate sense of right, wants the sustaining power of the old fashioned religion ot Jesus Christ. "Bring Zenas the lawyer." There are two or three forms of tempta tion to which the legal professian is espec ially subject. The first of all is skepticism. Controversy is the lifetime business of that occupation. Controversy n'ay be incidental with us, but with you it is perpettual. You get so used to pushing the sharp question '-Why?" and mtaking unaided reason supe rior to the emotions, that the religion of Jesus Christ, which is a simple matter of faith and above human reason, although not contrary to it, has but little chance with some of you. A brilliant orator wrote a book on the first page of which he announc ed this sentiment. "An honest God is the noblest work of tman:" Skepticism is the mightiest temptation of the legal profession, and that man who can stand in that profes sion, resisting all solicitations to infidelity, and can be as brave as George Briggs of 31assachusetts, who stepped from the gnt bernatorial chair to the missionary conven tion, to plead the cause of a dying race; then on his way home from the convention. on a cold day, took off his warm cloak and threw it over the shoulders of a thinly clad missionary, saying, "Take that and wear it; it will do you more good than it will mte," or. like Judge John MceLean, who can step from the supiremne court room of tihe T'nited States on to the anniversary platform of the American sunday School utnion, its most powerful orator, deserves cngratulation and encomiumn. Oh. muen of the legal profession, let inc beg of you to quit asking questions in regard to religion and begin believing: The mighty men of your profession. Story ::nd Kent and MIansfield, became Christians. not through their heads, but through their hearts. "Except ye become as a little child, ye shall in no wise enter the kingdom of God." If you do not become a Christian, U man of the legal profession, until you can reason this whole thing out in regard to God and Christ and the immnortality of the soul, you will never become a Christian at all. Only believe. "Bring Ztnaa the lawyer.'' Another nmighty temptation for the legal profession is Sabbath breaking. The trial has been going on for 10J to 15 days. The evididence is all in. It is Saturday night. The judge's gavel falls on the desk, atnd he says. "Crier, adjourn the court until I10 o'cek MIonday morning.'' On MIon day morning the counselor is to sum up the case. 'hosands of dollars yea, the reputation and life of hi- client may depend upon the suc cess of his plea. Ilow will he spend the in tervening Sutnday? There is not one lawyer out of a htundred that can withstand the tenptation to break the Lord's day under such circumstances. and yet if he does he hurts his own soul. What, my brother, you cannot do before 12 o'clock Saturday niht, or after 12 o' clock Sunday night G;od does not want you to do at all. Besides that. you want the 24 hours of Sabbath rest to give you that electrical and magnetic force which will be worth more to you before the jury than all the elaboration of your case on the sacred day. 3My intimate and lament ed friend, the late Jugde Neilson, in his in terestig re:::1niscences of Rxufus Choate, that dutring the last case that gentleman tried ir New York the court adjoured fro: Friday until M1onday on account of the ill ness of Mir. Choate. But the chronicler says that on the intervnieng Sabbath he saw Mr. Choate in the old Urick church listening toRev.1i)r. Gardiner Springer. I do not know whether on theL following day Rufus Choate won hts cause or lost it, but I do know that his S a- mic rest did not do hiu any hartm. Er ery l.'wye~r isentitled to one -lay>' rest out ofseneu I' het surrenders thtat. he rob: tree-God, hiis owtn -'ut and his client. L"d Cu-'lereagh and Sir The-uas Romilly wre th lea ter- of the bar in their day'. Theybothdie s.ucide. Wilberforce ae t~s o "'"ei aerac''tion of intellect on :o :sm :L the were unzitermittent itn Ici ""' m:-'i they never rcstedi On Sin v.' --o'r fe low :Id Wilberforce in rea1 tcot rah:"ar fellow, it was :ie !:lemy , "We tudo not proerlyus keeptheLeri hy al tc reot of the week .' n'pp an' "rsuce 'a~'li my worldly Iemploymnen'. I quote today from" then highest statute bath day to keep it holy." The lezal gen ;leman who breaks that statute may seem for a while to be advantaei. but in the 1,in= run the mnen who observe this law f t;oi will have larger retainers, v -ter itiene'. greater protessional sutccess th:an those men who break the statute. Obervance of the law ctf Gel pays not only spiritually anu eternally, but it rys in hard tiellars of iik hilts. Another power:ui temuptation of the legal rofession is to artitici:l stimulus. \o one excet't titose who have :teldressed audec itows about the nervous exh:iti-ion that stuetiues conle, afterward. Tte te'pta'n to troug driuk approaeltes the legal p'rofes sion at that very lpoint. Thlen, a Trill is Comt-J ing on. Tartuh the ia 'ventilate i court room the Earrie:er's hen h hs been de' pressed fr days and for weeks, iHe watts t I r::ly iis enlergy. Hie is :empte.1i to r~esort toi artircial stir:hitu It is e'ither'to :.:t e upb or let hi. .elf down :aat this temipt:tttin cote- upo htn. The :lower et the .::ericu har. riinl in rputattioti ind ruined in e-tate. i1 in his :eI-t u:u:nent: "Thi- is the en 1. 1 an dying on a horrow ed bed, covered with ai orrowed ;heet, in a house 1,ult by public charity. lb:ry te unier that tree in the niddle of the eieh. thai: I nay not ie crowded. I a'.wiys have been crowded. Another powerful temptation of the leal prufession is to alow tae aP orbing duttes of the profession to shut out tioughts of the great future. You know very weil that you who have so often tried others will after awhile be put on trial yourselves. Death will serve on you a writ of ejectment. and you will be put off these earthly premises. Oa th':t day all the atlfiirs of your life will be presented in a "bill of particulars." No certiorari from a higher court, for this is the highest court. The day when L)rd Exeter was tried for high treason; the day when the house of commons moved for the impeach ment of the Lord Lovat: the days when Charles I and toeen Caroline were put upon trial: the day when Robert Emmet was ar raigned as an insurgent: the day when Blen nerhasset was brought into the courtroom because he had tried to overthrow the Uni ted States government, and all the other great trials of the world are nothing com pared with the great trial in which you and I shall appear, summoned before the Juidge of quick and dead. There will be no pleading there '-the statute of lituitations,' no "turning state's evidence." trying to get off ourselves while others suffer, no 'moving for a non suit." The case will come on inexorably, and we shall be tried. You, my brother, who have so often been advocate for others, will then need an advocate for yourself. Have you selected him, the Lord Chancellor of the Universt': If any man sin, we have an advo cate-Jesus Christ the righteous. It is un certain when your case will be called on. "Be ye also ready." Lord Ashburton and Mr. Wallace were leading barristers in their day. They died about the same timue. A few months before their decease they happened to be in the same hotel in a village, the one counsel go ing to Devonshire. the other going to Lon don. They had both been seized upon by a disease which they knew would be fatal, and they requested that they be carried into the same room and laid down on sofas side by side that they might talk over old times and talk over the future. So they were carried in, and lying there on opposite sofas they talked over their old contests at the bar, and then they talked of the future world, upon which they must soon enter. It was said to have been a very affecting and solemn in terview between Mr. Wallace and Lord Ashburton. My subject today puts you side by side with those men in your profession who have departed this life, some of them skeptical and rebellious, some of them peni. tent, childlike and Christian. Those were wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever, while these others went up from the courtroom of earth to the throne of eternal dominion. Through Christ the advocate these got glorious ac-' quittal. In the other ease it was a hopeless lawsuit-an unpardoned sinner versus the Lord God Almighty. Oh, what disastrous litigation: Behold, he comes: The Judge, the Judge, the clouds of heaven, the judicial ermine, the great white throne, the judicial bench, the archangel's voice that shall wake the dead, the crier, "Come, ye blessed; de part ye cursed:" the acquittal or the con demnation. "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were opened." Coming south. The Chicago News says the latest colonization enterprise was organized in Madison couinty, Ind., and some fifty families from there will go to Southern Alabama this fall. The members of the company are well to do and fairly prosperous, as farmers in this section invariably are. There is little doubt but that the extension of transportation facilities in this country has considerably modified Northern agricultural puruits. Now the people of Northern cities are sup plied with vegetables and fruits of All kinds from Southerr points, and by the time the Northern farmer has an opprtuityto put his own products oth maket the demand for them has passed and the earlier grown pro ducts from the South meet the de mands, so that the Southern producer is always a little ahead of the North erner at his own door. This has prac tically destroyed all lighter branches of agricultural industry at the North and increased the heavier, more bar - densome and less remunerative sort. The Right Kind of Stuff. The Rock Hill Herald say Mr. T. H. Spence. who graduated at Davidson college, is in the city. Mr. Spence is a "man with a history." He came from Belamer~a, county Antrim, Ireland, about 10 years ago, being at the time 19 years old. He engaged in the blacksmith's trade in Lancaster for several years, and was known around as the best workman any where in the country. By the money thus obtain ed he has put himself through school and college, winning the Bible prize at the Presbyterian high school and the orator's tiedal and a Bible prize at Davidson. Too Much Pain Killer. Five Indians, including Chief Wee Su,, are dead at Matines Point, on Mle Lacs Lake, and teveral others are exnected to die, as the result of dringing pain killer, hair oi!, and other preparations containing alcohol. The Indian payment has been going on there and the red skins gorged themselves with this stuff whic'h was brought from trading posts. Indian riders are scourin~g every part of the reservation to bring the band together at the point, and serious trouble may result, as the red skins think Agent Malone is to blame for the deaths ann if whiskey can be gotten there is no telling what will happen. SoUd for rree silver. The Ohio Democratic State conven tion has nominated Horace L. Chap-' man for Governor, ex State Senator Meville C. Shaw for Lieutenant Gov ernor and a full State ticket. It was a free silver convention throughoait. and there was not a dissenting voice~ to the declaration for the free and un limited coiarge of silver at the ratio of 1U to:, without the co-operation of any other nation; and the name of Wiiliami J. Bryan was mentioned in soeway by every speak~er as the only sure way of bringing a chorus of ap plaute. ______ Flew swifter that' the WInd. Eleven of 13 carrier pigeons releas ed by Mr. A. L. Fogg of the Adam?s Epress company,' Cinc'innati, on a' recent morning at 7 o'clock reached their destination, Oil City, Pa., at 5 :20 p. m. on the same day making' their average speed while on the flight 9d5 yards per minute, or at the rate of one nulec in 1.S6 minutes. The dis tance by air line is :300 miles. Anota er of the birds arrived some time lator, but the thirteenth has not yet1 [ben heardfrm NO TAX O 1M D 1KANTV SENATCR TILMAN' SC-E E RE J.C F' 'Y THE SENATE. in HU: Specch in rapport of 'he P:11 SerP tor Triinan Said it waK Time to Do Sonething to Pro'ect Aeirican La bor. After tedious corsiderelion of the L.ritf bill throughc'ur Taisdav tmeSen sie vwourd up v ish a half hour of ey u a'rusing colcqiy bet-peen e Ti!_ of .uth Carclina at2d C n1 r of N: Hsrr pshire. The' fcr ..r h prop-cd an amend mert to the tariff bill providir g SiCO htad tax on immi rants and a restric .cu ';-airst all those not com in: to the United Stacs to ben:me cit zTS. Mr. Tiilmar of South Carolina c s reCo: i2]Zed for a s :tch in sunecrt cf the amer0drr cu' o the bi:: "That there shall be collected a head tax of $t10 on ali 7emigrants coming to the United S.ates by land or water. "That it s'l be a rmiscemeanc-r, pnishahbe by tine or imprisonment, f. r any alie - who dos no: intend to bece an _-erica ci'z n, or who retairs his citizenship i : a ft reign country, to enter the United States for the purpose of engging in any me chanical trade or mnas pl labor within the borders thereof; urovided that this section and the one i:uinediately nre ceding shall only remai of force un til silver shall he admited to cur mints for coinae" ai the ratio of 16 to 1, on the same corndition with gold." Mr. Tillain spoke of the rapid spread of pauperisn, i *howl by tne statistics of the jails and prisons. It was time, he said, to keep platform promises, to do sometking for labor, to keep bac'k the half mil'!on immi grants arriving annually and to place a value en A mericanu citizrtship. 'To soli it et - itc a head.': suggest ed Mr. Chandler, i.'onicaiiy. "Oh. if the Senatcr wants a collo quy at m- he can hare it before I get Lrough, answered Mr. Tillman. Mr. TUl an spcke of the miserable condition of the coal miners of Penr svlvania, and read from ofliial re ports, saying many of the miners ivere compelled to lire like beasts. "And this." exclaimed Mr. Tillman, derisively, "when Senators were fram ing thcir laws for the protection of American labor and American indus try." Mr. Q :ay rerrarked that the report from which Mr. Tillman read was made by a Republican committee ap pointed by a Republican legislature. "And I am asking a Republican Congress to protect these people against cornpetition," declared Mr. Tillman. "Will you do it ? Dare ycu do it? or will you be sstisfied with giving labor lip serv:ce ?" He gave the extent of the slum ele ment in New York, Bltimore, Chica go and other cities, and said that showed where the big Republican ma jorities came from last year. The Senator dealt more in statistics than usual. although he added the characteristic vehemence of voice and gesture to his remarks. He closed with a gloomy prediction that if the tide of immigration was not turned back the country would be torn by revolution and bloodsahed and a repe tition of the Paris commune. Mr. Chandler briefly responded to the South Carolina Senator, and asked wh twas that the immigration bill passedb Republican majorities in the last Congress bad been defeated ? "Because your Republican Presi dent, Grover Cleveland, vetoed it,' shouted Mr. Tillman, amid laughter. Mr. Chandler protested againzt hay ieg Mr.Cleveland designated a Repub lican when the Senator from South~ Carolina (Tillmnan) had joined other Demncrats in electing that President as a Democrat. "Yes," observed Mr. Tillman, while the the galleries roared, "I ask for oiveness for that, and I promise, sc $elp me God, I'll never do it again" Mr. Chandler went on to say thai the failure of the only recent amend ment to the immigration laws was de featen oy a Democratic President. "And the Senator should have turned the tinos of his pitchfork on Grover Cleveland and left the Repub lican party for another day," contin ued the Senator in droll tones. Here Mr. Tillman insisted on setting himself straight on Grover Cleveland. and in spite of protests he prcceeded rapidly to assert that in 1892 he went to the national conventien at the head of the South Carolina delegation, af ter the State convention bad declared Mr. Cleveland to be a "prostitu'.e of Democracy." Mr. Chandler here interposed a pro' est, and with mock seriousness con vulsed the Senate by refusing to yield longer. "I cannot permit," he said, "such language ageinst the President of the Snsto'r's Party." He would yield only in case this benator adopted "his usual courteous and rervecitful style tow'ard the late Presiden t." Mr. Tillma~n started to review the circumstances of his suppori, of Mr. Cleveland. The Senator said the South Carolina deleg-ation had voted aainst Mr. Clev'eland up to the time of the national convention, being four vears in advance of their brethren of the South in learning his character. But afer he was nomnina ted, South Carolina accepted thre result, havin narti'cipat"od in the convention, ano cave MrC Cleveland one of the biggest majoriti s inl the history of the State So that if there was prostitution of h shg oilice, exclaimed M r. Tillman, he blame rested on the President in. diially and not on those bound by party ties. who had supported him. "zn "ow," cnclude~d Mr. Tillmnan, as he rock his seat. "I hone the Sena tor will not twit trae againi for having made a~ foolof mnyself once." Mr. Chandler, z~ntinuing his mock serousrmanner, insisted that now that the p-e.;ident w.as gone, thre memabers of the Democratic party were respon eile for all h:s acts, good andi bad. The Senator w~as speedily involved in anctoer collcquy wEth ir. Tillmna , drinlg which the S'uth Carolina Sen aor r'eferred to Mr. Charndier as"you." 'I must obj-et to tbis unpariza mentary action," inter posed Mr. Chan der, "as tbe Senator's direct use of 'you' frirhtens me more than he is aware of." "I have no pitchfork," cslied back Mr. Tillman, who added that he re cgnized Mr. Chandier's purpose to ridicuile him. The vote wa~s then taken on Mr. Tilman's smendments, anid they were rejected, :3 to 4S. The three votes in the :rtrni'e were Butler, @~ay and Timan When Mr. (QWay voted for the amendr meuts there was ai hearty laugh, in which the Seznators j-ined. Paying in Kiind. A farmer, having lost some ducks, was asked by the con osel for the pris oner accused of stealig them to die scribe their peculiarity. After he had done so the counse rmarked. "They can't be suca a rare breed as I have some like them in my vard." "That's very likely," said the farmer. "These are not the only ducks of the same sort I've had stolen lately. "-Mark TLmon's .Tet Book. The itadel Acstemy. A s. vial dispatch to the State from andern o";s 't com-mencement ex c:ss ,of te iIe-1 A':demy we'e imi intht ti onWeesdy.The Fhr () La tir ,, pe:::mdc the exerci:cs wi: 11rave- r wh.an Cal Asburv Cowar"d, the .uperintendent in a few wel chosen s-nter ces explained tae uresse.ce of the South Carolina Mili tar" academy cadets in Anderson and in a very appropr&te manner intro ni ced the 'on. Jor+uA H. Ludson, to whom he refe: red as soidier, scholar, jurist-js name is enshrined in the t t~rt ' of the peoile This distin: gi.ed gentlemas deliveed an ad dr pracucIl in its imp,>r., full of oed seseand dLv'iCe to you. men ....in exlee walis and entering ur-c the duties of life. The address ;a : wll received, and the fact that J dge Hudaon delivered it, is a sumi ci:: iuarntee. tat what was said wa.s :.ortn preservin?... S. Bartlett of tce gradua an clas, cadet lieutenaot, 1:ry el:vered an oration, his subjct being "The Prcress of Invention in the ' 5t0 Yeats" He was followed by R D. Epps, cadesptain, who de l v red the valfdictory to the class, Fight is Lefre U>. Shall We Win :' Colenel Cowerd thed pre sected the class to General Iagood, wuo by direction of the board of visi tors, coierred the diplomas. The fol r g a list of the graduates in al phatticed order: Bartiess. Coward, Deat, Dick, DuBce, Epp-us, F isb urne, H .hns, Hor 4)n, H. Langley, Mazack, ScEiry, McLeod, Stokes, Terrell, B. Tillman Colonel Coward, on behalf o the odicers of the academy, the Soard of visitors and the cadets, ex pressed his appresciation of the cordial welcome gi en them and the courtesies shone them. The exercises were closed with the benedicton. July Weather. The following data concerning July weather, covering a period of 26 years, have been compiled from the Weath er Bureau records at Charlaston: Tem .erature-Mean or normal tem cerature, 82 degrees; the warmest monia was that of 1,75, with an ever age of 85 degrs; the coldest month was that of 1675. with an average of 79 degrees; the h!ghessot temperature was 101 deg rees on July 12, 1889; the lowest temp-rature was 61 deg:ees on July 10, 1891; average date on which first "killing" frost occurred in au tumn, November 27.h; average date on which last "killing" frest occurred in spring, March 2nd. Precipitation-Average for the month, 7.70 inches; averane number of days with .01 of an inch or more, 12; tlhe greatest monthly precipitation was 13.74 inche;, in 1874; the -least monthly precipitation was 1.05 inches, in 1875; rine greatest amount of precip itation recorded in any 24 consecutive hours was 5.14 inches, on July 14, 18:8. Clouds and weathsr-Average num bar of clear days, 8; partly cloudy days, 16; cloudy days, 7. Wind--The prerailie wiads have been from the Southwest. 34 per cent; the highest velocity of the wind was 33 miles, from the northeast, on July 27. 1393. Five Possal Clerks Drowned. Seven coffns were forwarded to St. Louis Saturday from Misouri City. They cmtained the remains of victims of Saturday night's wreck on the Wa bash road. A correct list of the dead is as follows: J. W. Mills. postal clerk, St. Louis. 0 M. Smith, postal clerk, St. Louir. Gustave A Smith, postal clerk, St. Louis. Charles Win ters, postal clerk, St. Lmuis. F. W. Brink, postal clerk. St L->uis. Ed ward Grinerod, baggageman, St. Louis. Charles P. Greaseley, brake man, St. Louis. The conductor of tbe train, G. C. Copeland of St. Louis, who appeared last night among the dead, is still alive. He was removed this morning to the railroad hospital at Moberly, with a fractured skull and several broken ribs. He lingers be t ween life and death, but the surgeons express a hope that he will- recover. Conductor Copeland was supposed to be dead when taken from the wreck, and his body, with a handkerchief over the face, was ranged in a row with the seven dead. A few minutes later some one observed a sizn of life and he was quickly transferred to a stretcher and given every possible at tention. Of the 19 others injured, not one is in a critical condition. Among them all there is not one broken limb, though many of them were thrown three-quarters of the length of the cach in which they were ridizng. Disbanded. The Columbia State siys at their meeting in th~eir armory one night lsst week the Richland Volun teers disbanded on account of the findirg of the~ court of inquiry 'and the order of the sovernor or dering the dismissal of Private Fish burne and the reprimnanding of Priv ate Dunning. When the company had a.ssembled Private Dunning re turned his gun, accoutrements and uniform to his captain. He no longer desired to remaain a member of tae ccmpany. This was the signal of an outuarst of feeling. Almost to a man the company declared iui favor of dis banding. _______ Took Mtorphine. A dispatch from Union. S. C., to the Columbia State says R. W. Har ris, a promainent citizen of that place, .ttmmed suicide there Monday by takird 30 grains of morphine. Mr. Harris is postmaster at Union, and has held that oiliie for the past four years. It seems that he retired to his room about 8 o'clock and immediately s-vallowed the morphine, and was found by his wife about half an hour later. Doctors were immediately sum moned and used every me:.ns in their oo wer to save his li'e, but tue chance seetrs hopees. He is sinking fast, and will no doubt be dead in a very short time.T ~ &e~gs Tern torm in Goga A special fro~m Dakocta, Ga., says: Moudav afternoo" a severe storm of wind s;nd rain struck~ this city. L'ghat ningsruck the convict stockade,com oletlvteari ng it p. T wo convicts, sam Prestoi of Clay coanty and Sol ts of Webster county, were h iled i*sely thirteen more were hurt. somen~ of thi n badly crippled. Two othe~r c'nvics mnade their escape and 'ave r:'ot ;et te~m captured. A great dea cf timiber was blotvn down and the teleohone wires are all down. There was some hail but it did very itte damnage. The News and Courier says the ad vance agent of prosperity ought to visit St. L~uis when he goes West tids week. His presence appears to be needed there. A woman 63 years old was discov ered in a half starred con. diami.nathe city; a ihw diays ago. Sh~e hlad L ecL itryingi to earn a living by maaking jeanls trousers at 15 cents a dozen. B3y the hardest labor she could earn only 8 cent-sa day. Let Thomn Amone. 'The work of the storm in tearing down electrie wires," says the Topeka Capital, "and the accident to Jenie &dutton cail to mind the extreme cau txan which should be exercised ou such an occasion. Any wire w7hich is, found dauzling should be avoided, for it may be crossed with a live wire. The only sa.'e way is to let all wire. however innocent looking, severely "B--K:S IS WILLING " Ex.SenDaor I:by R1 ady to Run for Utte d tat" -erator. The !iambia Pegistr savs that Sen:ser Irby rectly 7, li r'. r hi n self thus in that eity : " fhe Reform mnoveent. of which I was a nae-nber in IS.}O. was si.non pure, genuine Democratic organ zatio .. pledging it self in writing to surnit all of its de mands to the decision of that paty, and furtLe'- 'ledgirgits L:o or to abide its result U r)u thi exores; cnditvin the Demccrats :i te State turned the machinery of the party over to the iesdTrs of the R-W i u.ovemet*. T e meanh rs of it R 'o-rn ;rgan'ztion behv d ir l- ' t " their cs'),e was right ard just, -mdr k y see no resson to cange thtir minds Lox. While the people were att work and unsus pact1ng, they have ber b~trayed An attempt is being made to deliver them into the hands of tneir enemy who fought them from the beginning until nov:. To consummate this treachery, they have precipitated a canvass on the State in the hottest and busiest months in the year, when the result of the o:imary, which has been called, at most, is merely a suggestion to the L-gislature which meets in January, 1898. There is no ekction foliowing this primary. It cculd have been heid ,f the conver i nce of the people had teea consulted as ia'e as December, wnen all could have heard the discus sion and participated in the primary withcut the least inconvenience. In short, the enemies of the Reform mcvement expected a drag race. In that. they are going to be mistaken. It looks as if the colors of the t form movement are trailing in the dust, and no one is willing to take them up and bear the brunt of battle. The peo ple are as firm in their convictions as in 1890, and those who expect an ab ject surrender of the Reform forces, will certainly be disappoiuted." "But. Senator," interposed the repor ter, "are you going to mske the race?' To this Col. Irby replied very signifi canily: "It does not suit me to re enter poli tics for many reasons. I will gladly yield to any true blue Reformer, but if he ddes not appear, I will do so, let consegences be what they may." In connection with this, it may be! stated that the report that Senator Irby and Gov. Evans had buried the hatchet is true. They met yesterday at the Grand Central and had a long and pleasant chat, and many of the" visitors who called were quite surprised to see the erstwhile political enemies getting along so swimmingly. What to Teach Boys. A philosopher has said that true ed ucation to boys is to teach them what they ought to know when they be come men. 1, To be true and to be genuine. No education is worth anything that does not include this. 2. To be pure in thought, language, and life-pure in mind and in body. 3. To be unselfish. To care for the feelings and comforts of others To be generous, noble and manly. This will include a genuine reverence for the aged and for things sacred. 4 To be self reliant and self-help ful, even from childhood. To be in dustrious always, and self supporting at the earliest proper age. Teach them that an idle life of dependence on oth ers is disgraceful. When a boy has learned these four things, when be has made these ideas a part of his being-however poor, or ho wever rich-he has learne:i the most important things he ought to know when he becomes a man. He Won the Priz. The late Bishop Selwyn delighted to tell the following incident in his varied experience: While bishop of Lich field, he was walking one day in the black country, and obser ving a group 'of colliers seated by the roadside in a semi-circle which a brass kettle in front of them, he had the curiosity to inquire what was going on.- "Why, yer honor," replied a grave looking member of the group, "it's a sort of wager. Yon kettle isa prize for thie Melo w who can tell the biggest lie, and I am the umpire." Amazed and sh ocked, the good bishop said reprov ingly: "-Wny, my friends, I have never tod a lie that I know or since I was born." There was a dead silence, only broken by the voice of the um pire, who said in a deliberate tone: Give the bishop the kettle !" wmU be Hang II caaght. A bold and dastardly attempt to criminally assault a young lady of Anderson by a mulatto fiend 18 or 20 years old, bearing the name of Chris Uarris, was made Monday mcrning in broad daylight about 9 o'clock- The home of the young lady is on the out skirts of the city; she ana her sister were alone. The lady assaulted went to the garden.- The negro was watch ing from the rear of the gar den and entrir~g hastily he seized the lady and attempted to throw her down, but' being of dne pbysique, she resisted effectually, screamed for help and the degro tied. The quiet of the city is but the foreboding of th&e storm which will break in terrible fury when the fiend is cantured and the affair made public. ________ Duck With a Hen's Head. IA freak of nature has appeared in the carnyard of Constable Georgie Hock, of Metropolitan avenue, East WiliasbugN.Y., in the share ofl a duck with a pertect hen's nead on its body. The frea1k is about eight inches high, a foot long, and a month old. It waeadles around in duck fashion on web feet, and looks at you cu'i of hen's eyes s-t in a heu's head, resting on a herns neck. The bird's body is white, and its neck mottled gray, like that of any ordinary barn yard hen. Hock has refused an offer of $150 from a dume museum manager of New York City, and says if i: is worth $150 to them it is worth $200 to him, and that he will keep it as a curi osity. _________ Wil NM Re~primand watte. The goverreor S~Aturday iss'ued the. folowingt order anent. the court of in quiry. " -The report of the court of inquiry and record of its proceedings will be at the p-roper time transmitted to the general assembly for such ac tion as that body may deemn proper, with reference to the ad jitant and in spect'r gener-a. who in tnis State is a constitutions~i o dcer: and it is ordered, nrst, that Private Fishburne, of the Richland Volunteers, be discharged from the military service of the State; second, that the captain of the Rich land Volunteers publish an order repri manding Private Dunning of said company for leaving ranks without peraussion. Announcement of the resignation of Dr. Charles Manly frm the oiice of president of Furman urLIversity, which he has filled with ability and success since 1881, has occasioned much' surprise. The xe~ign.'tiou of Dr. Man iv is due to a friener iv iherence 'oc teen him and tie' trustees. For ear-s he has supplemnemed his salary by serving the churehes at Seneca a::d Beliou. The trustees at a recent :neeting passed a resolution rc questing that. he give all his time to ine umn versity. Thereupon, he promptly A Big Scandal in Alken. Aiken has on hand a first class sen sation. The News nd Courier car r&pdfnt -t that place says during the tter pirt of May a man and wo man riving tieir nams As Mr ard Mrs M. I. Turner a'rrived in Aiken from Jacksorvilie, Fla, and rented the Harnmordcottage. Turner claimed to have sold out his rmerchantile busi ness in Jacksonville, and was corntem. plating going in business at Aiken. He brought with him a pair of fine horses, a buggy and wagon, and in addition be and his wife each had a bics cle. As Mrs Turner had been pay ly raised in Ai'en and is well co c:cted there, the couule was well re c-ived, ard ::,me of Aiken's hest peo pbl cdlled upou them. Shortly after tur-ir arri1al the chief of police receiv ed a let'er from a Mrs. Mary F. Pa no, of Jacksonville, Fla., stating that her husband, Kinstantice Pano, bal sold out his steck of goods tw ; ek before 'etter dated June 3) ror one thousand dellars, and had takar, ore thousand doliars in cash belor~ging to her. a lady's diamond rin, two hers es, uzgy aind delivery wagon, and had ran off with a woman that bad come f rom Aiker'. S. C. This wcman: had ben in Jacksonville sev-ral times, and had passed unrer diti-rert aliases first as Miss Flossie Davis, alias Miss M.ry Jamnson, alias Mrs M I Turner, and the chief was atk-d to look cut for them. The chief wire ed that tr.e parties were at Aik-n, and Thursday night Mrs. P:+no arrived on the 10 o'clock train. Frid -y m'r:i o L sne employed M. B. Wcedirad and sworn out a warrant against Turnrcr and ne was arreste d while out trkiu a bicycle ride He admitted that Mrs. Pano was his lawful wife and that tne woman he was ii ing with was not. He was very penitent and was willing to grant whatever he might demand. Mrs. Parno we ulk not see nin. but she slid she woila >e satisfied if he wound return htr fiv Lundrid dollars of the money be hid takef the horse and bugey acid the dianond ring. He readilv c nse tt d t, do this, and Mrs Pano signed an agreemrent reless n- him from al! further obii-ii 2ns She s:a s- :e does not ,ant to nrestcute tne imn ror do's she ever' want to liv - with hi agaio. but sue wanted her p-')perty Paao is a Gre-k. Mayor Wod card has givre P io and his cwmpani:n notice to lev the city at o'c,. whici th'y will no doubt do withcu: fartrer notic?. Tnis asifir has crea-ed a pro f. u d sensation in Aiken. A Sad Accideut. The town of Aiken was der ply sad dened on Tbured iy mornicg by a very std accident, which cost one of the but ard most popular young nvn of that city hs life. About nve c-'eleck Thursday morning Mr. Wade Hamp ton E ison was assisting in plhcinz some freight cars on the side track at Aiken ar d acting is capacity of s wit -h man. He was riding the pilot and fr n some cause not yet ascertained, he fell c-fo and across the trace and was instintly cut in two, through the middle b; the train of cars which passed over him. The engiaear said he roticed hiao while on there but did not see him fall, but felt the j lting and junping and stopped the train and round him in this mangled con diu:on. Young E lison was just of age and hsd been in the service of the Sou- h Carolina and Gcorgi i railroad for abcut three years. It is said the young man had to work on the day ran and night run also, makir g 16 to 17 hours a day. He thus becam sleepy and unconscious and fell off and tbat death was scarcely fe-It by in. Nevertheless the coroner was teegraplt d for and arrived at once end set to work to hold the inquest. Tne coroner's jury in the inquest ren dered a verdict that the young man came to his death by being run over by engine 44 while his duty for the South Carolina and Georgia railroad was being performe d. Ber ke1 le' Sanday Schools. The Berkeley County International Sunday-school Association was organ ized at Pinopolis on June 24, at John's Baptist Church- Under the circumn stances, the call for the meeting not having been given much publicity, the attenance was fairly goad. Tne interest shown in the Sunday school work was encouraging and the out look for the Association is thought to be excellent. A local association was first formed, to be known as the Pinonc lis association. Tbis was officered as follows: L IF. Murray, president; J. G. Stevens, vice president; J. B Mor risson, secretary. The constitution governing a county asssociation was then read and adopted and the fol lowing offibers were electei: A. J. Jones, presdent; H G. Sheridan, secretary; J. A. Harvey, assistant secretary. Executive committee, R. B. McR~>y, J. B. Mxrrison and F. W. Danzier. The vice prasident will be appointed by the executiv'e c >mmittee. Tne delegates to the State Convenation are as follows: J S. Cannor, J. B. Morrison a nd T. S. R asseli. The asso ciation then ad journed subject to the call of the executive committee. Mabkes a Good thing Oat of Bonay. The Rock Hill Herald s ays Mr. M. Simpkius, of Cata wbs Junction, is a very successul "all around" farmer: but his bee farm is Proportionately the best investment he has yet made. His apiary contairns about 100 hives at his home at Catawba, and another of 50 hives at his place on F-sbine creek. Last year he obt~aine.1 3 000 piads of delicious honey, which tinds a ready sale at 12) cents per pound. Mr. Simpson he-s a patent machine for separating the honey from the comb, extricating every drap (f the syrup and leaving the camb i.. .. not a cell being broken. When relAiced in the nive the b.:es commence to refill hem immtediately. Got Damager. At Asheville, N. C., Wedae;'o the United States court gave El H a a verdict for $8.500 damages again->t George W. Vander bil t. Severn '-ea rs ago Hunt was a trave'ir We-a and while at Asheville he 3:ot hiL ieg troken 'by a piece of s~one blown out an excavation that was being made for Varderbilt. He brought suit for damages to the amount of $20,0C0. The case has just bceen encluded with the result above stated. M r. Hunt is well satistied with ti -. m-- dict, arnd only hopes that the case i: not go to the supreme court. Mr. H- w" now holds a pcsition as salesman i:.- ja.ar. bia. Theater Fire. Since 1797 there have been 1,100 theatre fires with 10,000 fstas i-s ac cordir.gz to tir. S.:ca' "br-s i.'. PA lie Esternia~;tnts.' j3cat i,uohmed. Of these 462 tor k place in t oe United States, 133 in G:-at Britain and 101 in Germany, Frat es having nearly the~ sae numbier. L indon has had thir v five tires and Paris twenty-eight. Umt of :313 thieatr-es destrcyed by fire, ota half were barned witnina ten years .fter tey were constructes, forty of thim within the first year. where I4 L? Aegin Saturday the seting Chainan of true United States Sen-ate ini the course of his pray-er to the advent c-f prosperity, saying: "We thank Th e for the signs of returniing prosper.:y and that the long and wide-spread de POWDER b ~ A!solutely Pure. Celebrated for its great leavening strength and healthfulness. Assures the food against alum and all forms of adulteration common to the cheap brands. ROYAL BASING POWDER CO., NEW YORX. The sweet Girl G:aduate. The ever fascinatingseason of school commencemen's is now upon us and the graduates of both sexes, with their severe tasks le'aind them and the world before them, are enjoying a well-ea-ned breathing spll and pre paring for the momentous day when, bercre their assembled friends, they will receive their diplomas. the girl graduate, to whom all the world bows in homage, is an especially interesting object at this season, and some thoughts on the subject by that clever writer, Edward W. Bok, may not be out of place at this time. Addressing himself directly to graduates of insti tutions of learning-to those whose schcol oays are ov r -Mr. Bok says: ",.A girl reaches one of the most im portant times of her life when, with ner school days behind her, she steps cu: upon the threshold of a new p ase of life. What is she to do? She has the power of knowledge within 1:er. How will she use it? It is not an easy decision this The home, when she returns to it, seems small in comparison with the college halls. The life of her parents seems a bit orecise and circamscribed compared to the hours of girlish companion ships in college. She fee's just a lit tLe shut in, cramped. Sue longs to put her knowledge to some use. But is what direction? How? Commou duties seem hardly worth to her! It is a noble trait in a girl, when, re turning home from college, she re alizes the necessity for bread winning, and feels impelled to put her knowl edge to use. Under such conditions a girl has not much choice. Her duty is very clear to her. But where thede sire for a career opens itself before agirl irom an absorbing ambition, thent is hat the road opens before her, and two diverging paths appear. Tne desire is to do something in the world is ever laudable. But sometimes a young woman is apt to misconstrue the 'something' aLd to see the wrong world. And here, unless she is very careful, the young woman just out of college, and standing on the thres hold of a new life, may make her gravest mistake. "The author of a wonderful little claasic for girls 'What is Worth WhileV'-shows the g reat danger which besets the young woman wno allo as some intellectual ambition to be substituted for the simpler duties of life. Ambi;ion is n many ways the most deadly foe to a young woman's character. An intel lectual ambitiont draws many agirt away from her true place in life, and makes her a cold, unloved and un helpful woman, instead of a joyous affectionate and unselfish blessing to home and friends. We need not try to annihilate ambition, this. writei goes on to say in her clear way, but let us keep it within bounds, let us see to it that it holds a just proportion to our lives We need not let our talents lie idle, nor neglect to make the most of them; there is a place a and grand work for them all. But let us keep their development forever subordinate to simple human duties usually to be found at homre " A Convert to Bryan. T be opposition to Bryan sought to mak~e a great deal out of the selection of Bailey, of Texas, as leader of the Democratic minority in congress. It was claimed that Bailey was opposed to Bry an, and the promotion of Bailey as leader of the Demccratic party in. congress was a pronounced de feat for Bryan. Though it is true that Bryan was not in the race, and therefore Bailey's election or defeat could not fairly be called % triumph or defeat for Bryan, nevertheless much was made of it by the anti-Beyan press. In the light of that fset the interview which Mr. Bailey has given to the press after his return fromi the con gressional fight in Mssour i has more ;han ordinary inaterest ldere is what sir. Bailey says about Me Bryan, now: "Mr. Br yan is id-niied with the Chicaso pl-atcro and x'ir the issues of 1895, indissolubly. N'> man can so fully represent that plath rn in 1900 4s tI2e cacodidate o' ta~ Ci':ago con vent'on of last Jily. In my judt mnent his renomjiusnion is a foregoce conclusion. Mr. Bryau is a better Democrat now than he was when he was ncmainated. I differ from him in many 0! his earlier opiniorns and con victions, but since his nomination he has k.-pt Limself in everything he has 1id and Lone s rictlyv witni ' the linta ens of the Cuie ceo plat%rm, and thlat platfcrm i- g'ood ert u !h fnr me or Vy othe' De~xor-r t, stand on. Ai.esi \i B-van it' e:te-ed con iress x y arsago se as a triff spec ialist , i sudies havi:ng been confin ed largej to economic questions. Siuce mwen he has broadensa out im mnfsely, atnd I kaow of no man who more fully represents the popular :dea of pure Demecescy than he does. He is a ti ue American, a patriot, and a reao whorn the D<:mocres of the country isel thiat they can :rast. Yes, Bry an e' ill be the nomince, the plat form will be x e-adopted, and the peop'.e will win." It is very clear from the foregoag that if Mr. Bailev hi :any redi dfi er -uce with Mr. Bryan he has found tney are not popular, and he has changed his mind. Of course it. is more pleasicg to our personal vanity to say that itne other feo Las broad ened than to admit that we have, and if Mr. Bailey prefers to make it ap pear that the mountain has come to Mahomnet, why it is a pleasing delusion that can? do no harm. Tne only point worth making is that if ay differenc es ever existd betw-een these two brainy young Demccrats, they no longer- exist, and Demccrats are get ing ready to present a solid front when the next light comes. Crusthed by U ock. T wenty-six miners have been killed by a fall of rock in the Labrar mines, in the province of A tacama.