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SHE)INGJ (t ) Ui WITHOUT T THERE IS NO REM;SE1ON ACCORDING TO SCRiPTURE. TLC Ety. Dr. Ta:n mn P.e-chas n, E'r queLt and ConvircizLg sarnon F0 . - Well Known Text-Parg for Pa'l. 1- -3* for Blocd ar d Life -r L. The radical theory c \dagty s: set forth by Dr. Tala' a e :s dis course, ard remar :s ces o self sacrifce sre hr. 11ori1'2 tration. The tm .i . x, 2 "Without shed d o re mission." John G. Whitt-er . t of the great Echool of e- pcets that made the last qn-.r of unims century brilliant askea me in the White mountains one mornirg after prayers, in which I bad given out Cowper's fa mous hymn about "the fountain filled with blood." "Do ycu really believe there is a literal application of the blocd of Christ to the scuT' My negative reply then is my negative reply now. The B.ble s'atemnent agrees with all phy sicians and al physiolo gists and all scientists in say ing that the bicod is the life. and in the Chris tian religion it means imply that Christ's lire was given for cur life. Hence all this talk of men who say the Bible story of blood is disgusting and that they dont want what they cal4 a "staughter house religion." only shows their incapacity or unwil lingness to lotk thrcugn the figure of ipeech toward the thing slgrifid. The olood that on the darktst Friday the world ever saw ocz-a ter tricaled or poured from the brow, and the side, and the ha. d,. and the feet of tae il lustrious suff-rer back of Jerusalem in a few LOArz caulated anti dried up and forever disapp-eared, and if man had de:et.de'd o. the apphlcation of t e literai blooo of Uzrist there would Lot nave been a soui saved for the last 18 centui:s In order to uiderstand this red word of my t-xs we only have to ex ercise as a u.i ca)ma-Lon seuse in reli gion as we do in everyt.ing else. Pang for pang, hungtr for huxnger, fatigue ior iangui tea.r for tear, bloow for bc d, lre for life, we see every day llus~rtnd Tne act of sub stitution is no novely, ahhough I hear men task as theugn the idea of Cr-rist's suff rmg sujzututed fur our Buff ring were somaaLn1 g aOnormal, sometaing ai:treasogiy odd, some thing wildly tc:entrie, a solitary epi sode in the worla's hi::tiry, when I could take you cu. into twis city and before suW aown pui.L you to 500 cases of subtution and voluntary suffer ing of one in behalf of anotner. At 2 o'clock toamurro w afternoon go among the places of business or toil. It will be no dffiulc thing for you to fAnd men who by their looks show you that they are over worked. They are prematurely old. Tney are has tening rapialy towards their decease. They have gone through crises in business that shattered their nervous system and pulled on tne brain. They have a shortnmss of breath and a pam in the back of tzte head and at night an insomnia that alarms them. Why are they drudging at busimess early and late? For fan? No. It wculd be difficult to extract anty amusement-cu. of that exhaustion Because they are avaricious? In many cas'es no. Be cause tfleir' own personal expenses are lavishi No. A few Isundrea dollars would meet all their wants. The sim ple fact is the man is enduring all that fatigue and examperation and wear and tear to keep nis nomne pros perous. There is an invisible line reaching from that store, from that bank, from that shop, from that scaff olding, to a quiet scene a fewa blocks, a few miles away, and there is the se cret of that business endurance. He is simply the cnamupion of a home atead, for which he wins bread and wardrobe and education ann prosperi tand in such battle 10.001) men rail. Of ten thousand men whom I bury nine die of over work for others. Some sudden disease finds them with no power of resistance, and they are ge.ife for life! Blood for blood! Al 1 o'clock tomorrow morning,the hour when slumoer is most uninter rupted and nrofound, walk aii the dwelling houses of the city. Here and there you will find a aim light, be cause it is the household custom to keep a subdued light burning, but moat of the-houses f rom base to top are as dark as thougn unin hasited. A merciful God has sent forth the archangel of sleep, and he puts his wings over the city. But y onder is a clear light burning, and outside on a window casement a glass or pitcher containing food for a sick ciild. The foodisaset in the fresh air. This is the mixth night ta mother has set up with that suffer. Sne has to tne last point obeyea the physician's prescrip uon, not giving a arop too much or too little or a moment too soon or too late. Bhe is ver. anxious, for sne has1 buried three children witn the same disase, and snle prays and weeps,each prayer andt suo ending with a kla of the pale cheek. By dmnt of kmndness mhe gels the litle one tnrough the Lr deal. A ter it is all over LLe mother is iakena daiwn. Brainl or nervous fe ver sets in, ana o..e Caay sti- leaves the convalescent coilai w ani a motner's blessing andi goes up to~ joini the three departed ones iu tne ?Ingaom 0 heaven. Lue b r life ! $iuo.tituuoa ! The facL ia that tnere are as ucount ed numoer of mutai re wuo af ter they have navigateai a largc hamuy of cani dren throuxtn all t-. dw~c.ee of in fancy and got tnaeL is:rly started upi the fibwering sl.ee o: oyhood and girlhood have only ssrensta1 enugn~ left to die. Iney r ade a say. Samie cadl it consumptIOn, aorne cad it Lec~ vous prostratben, somei caL it inter mnittent or malarial indsposition, but I call it mariyd ram of tae domestic circle. Ltfe for Lf=! B.oou for bioA! Substitution Or pernaps a mt zer lingers long enough to see a son gzet on the wrong road, and his former kindness becomnet rough reply when she ex tpresses aux iety about him. But sne goes rigni on, looking carefully after nis appa rel, rememoering his every birthday with some memento, and when he ii rought home worn out with dsripa on nurses him till he gets weil and starts him again and hopes and prayt and counsels ann suffers until hei strength gives out ana she fails. She is going, and attendants, bending over her pillow, ask her if she has any message to leave, and she makes great effort to say sozening, but out of three or four miutes of indistinct utterance they caa catea but three words, "My poor buy :" The sim ple fact is she died fcr him. Life for life ! Substitution i About 3Syears ago there went forth from our nothern an d scut t ern nomes hundreds of thousands of men to do battle. All the poetry a. war soon vanished -ndl left theun nothing but the terribe prose. They wadeai knee deep in ui ud. They slept in snow hannca They mareced till their cut feet tracked the earth. They were swindled out of their ihones: rations and lived on meat not i fcor a dog. They had jaws fractured arnd eyes ex tinguished and limbs shot away. Thousands of them cried for water as they lay on the tifflt 'he night after homesick and received no message frcm their l-r' d ones. They died in barns. in bushes, in di'ches. the buz zards of the summer beat the only at tendants on their obsequies. No one but the iuinite GCod, who knows every thing, knows the len thousandth part of the length ard breadth and depth and heig bt of anguish of the northern ind southern batt fields. Why did tLese fathers leave their children atd go to the front, and why did these yourg men, postponing the marriage day. start cut into 'he nrobabilities of never coming bacil . For a principle they died. Lfe for lfe! Blood for blood! Substitutio ? But we need not go so far. What is that monument in Ihe cemetery? It is to the dcctors who ftell in the south era epidemics. Why go? Were there not encugh sick to be attended in these rorthern latitudes? (), yes; but tne doctor puts a few medical books in his valise, and some vials of medicine, and Raves his patients here in the hands of other physicians and takes the rail train. Before he gets to the infected regions he passes crowded rail trains, regular and extra, taking the flying and affrighted populations. He arrives in a city over which a great horror is brooding. He goes from couch to couch, feeling the pulse and studying symptoms and prescrib ing day a'ter day, night af ter night, until a fellow physician says: 'Doc tor you bad better go home and rest. You look miteable." But he cannot reit while so many are suffering. O and on, until some morning finds him in a delirium, in which he talks of home, then rises and says he must go look after the oatients. He is told to lie down but he fights his attendants until he falls back and is weaker and dies for people with whom he had no kinship and far away from his ovn family and is hastily put away in a stranger's tomb, and only the fifth part of a newspaper line tells us of his sacrifice-his name just mentioned amorg five. Yet he has touched the farthest height of sublimity in 'uat three weeks of humanitarian services. He goes straight as an arrow to the bosom of him who said. "I was sick. and ye visited me". Life for lifel Bicod for blood! Substitution! All good men have for centuries been trying to tell whom this substi tute was like, and every comparison, inspired and uninspired, evangelistic, prophetic, avostolic and human, falls shori, for Christ was the Great Unlike. Adam a type of COrist, tecause he came directly from God: Noah a type of Christ, because hr delivered his own family from deluge; Oelchisedec a type of Christ, because he bad no prede decessur or successor; Joseph a type of Cnrist, because he was cast out by his brethren; Moses a type of Christ, be cause he was a deliverer from bond age; Joshua a type of Christ, because he was a conqueror; Sampson a type of Christ, because his strength to slay the lions and carry df the iron gates of imposibilitv; Solomon a type of Christ in the afflience of his dominion; Jonah a type of Christ, because of the stormy sea in which he threw himself for the rescue of others, but put to gether Adam and Noah and delechise dec and Joseph and Moses and Joshua and Solomon and Jonah, and they would not make a fragment of a Chrst, a quarter of a Christ, the half of a Christ or the millionth part of a Christ. He forsook a throne and sat down on his own footstool. He came from the top of glory to the bottom of hu miliation and changed a circumfer ence seraphic for a circumference dia bolic. Once waited on by angels, now hissed at by brigands. From afar and high up he came down, past meteors, swefter than they ; by starry thronts himself more lustricus past larger worlds to smaller worlds, down stairs of firmament and from cloud to cloud and through treetops and into the camel's stall, to thrust his shoul der under our burdens and take the lances of pain through his vitals, and wrappei himself in all the ago nies which we deserve for our misdo ings and stood on the splitting decks of a foundering vessel amid the drench ing surf of the sea and passed mid nights on the mountains amid wild beasts of prey and stood at the point where all earthly and infernal hostili ties charged on him at once with their keen sabers-our substitute! When aid attorney ever endure so much for a pauper client or physician for the patent in the lazaretto or mother for the child iLn membraaous croup as Christ for us and Christ for you and Christ for me! Shall any mtn or woman or child in this au dience who has ever suffered for an other find it hard to understand this Christly suffering for us? shall those whose sympathies have been wrung in behalf of the unfortunate have no ap preciation of thent one moment whicn was lifted out of all the ages of eterni ty as most conspicuous, when Christ gathered up all the sins of those to be redeemed under his one arm and all their sorrows under his other arm and said: "I will atone for these unaer my right arm anti will heal all those under my left arm. Strike me with all thy gittering shafts, oh, eternal justice! Rall oVL .ie with all thy surges, ye oceans, of sorrow." And thunderbolts struck him above, and sne seas of trouble rolled up from be neath, hurricane after hurricane and cyclone after cyclone, and then and there in presence of heaven and earth and hell, 3 ea. all worlds witnessing, the pr ice, -,he bitter prics, the trans cendent price, tne awful pric;, the glorious price, the infinite price, the eternal price, was paid that sets as free m'at is what Paul means, that is' what I mean, that is what all those wno have ever had their heart cha.nge d mean oy "biood" I glory in this re lhaion of blood! I am tnrilled as I see the suggestive color in sacram-ntal cp, wnether .t be of burnisnee silver set on cloth immtaculately white or rough hewn from wood set on table in log hut meeting house of the wil derness. Now I am thrilled as I see the altars of ancient sacrifice crimson witn the blood of the slain lamn, and Leviticus is to me not so mucth the Old restament as tne Newn. No w I see why the destroying angel passing over Egypt in tnle night spared all those houses that had blood sprinkled on their doorposts. Now I know what Isaiah means when ne Epeaks of "odae in red apparel coming witn dyed gar ments from Bszrah," and whom tne A pocaly pse means when it describes a neavenly chieftain whose "vesture was dippe d in blood," and what Jann he apostle means when he speaks of the "precious blood that cieanseth from all sin," and what the old, worn out, decrepit missionary Paul means when, in my text, he cries, 'Without shedding of blood is no remission." By inlat blood you and I will be saved -or rnever satved at all. In all the ages of the wur~d God has not once ardoned a single sin exc::pL through ne Saviour's expiation, and he never will. Glory be to Goud that the hill back of Jerusalem was the battlefield on which Christ achieved our liherty:! It was a most exciting day I spent on the nattlefield of Waterloo. Start ing out with the morning train from Brussels, Belgium, we arrived in about an hour on that famous slot, A son of one who was in the battle, and who had heard from his father a thousand times the whole scene recited, accom panied us over the field. There stood the old Hougomont chaeau, the walls shatter(ta by granso: c?.e: ball. Tnere is the we it dying and dead were pitch d There is the chapel with :he 1i a, of ii e in fant Christ shot off. Thr- :7-e the gates at which for many hours English and French rmies wresti. Yonder were the 160 guns of 'he g r mid the 250 gut s of tih French YuLder the Haroverian 1us:ar !fled r tie woods. Yonder was the iaine of ObSic, where the Frerch cavary. roz no there was a holow in -he --rour rolkd cver aLd doii, troo1 fr troop, tum.bli iro x k, I ' m a:sn of sutferi- g, 1.oof of hiking orses Egainst brow ard b-at o ps and coionels arcd priva!- sol- e I uman and the 'reasty gr I,,;) until the day af er all ws o under because of the mal.do-i in that bot month of Jur. "There," said cur guid i land regiments lay down 7n th-ir faces waiting for the mcment to siring jp.)n the fce. In that orchard 2,0U, men were cut to pieces. H-re stood Weil ington wilh wHite lir.s, qnduj that knoll rode Marsbal Ney en h:s sixh horse, flie having tetn shot under him. Here the ranks ihe French oroke, and Marshal N--y, with his boot slashed o a swcrd, a d hs hat off and his face covered with pawCer and blood. tried to rally fis troops -s he cried, 'Come and see ho w a marshal of French dies on the bault-field From yonder direction GrL.uchy xas expected for the Fre. ch re enforce ment, but he came n :t Arn rid those wocds Bluch'r was looked fir tore enforce tae Eagli-h, aud jus. i 1i - e he came up Yor.der , te fi-ld where Napoleon s-cod, his arm. through the reins of the horse's bridle. dazed ar d insane, t. y ing to go baci" Scene of a battle that went on from 25 minutes to 12 o'cleck- on the IS- r f June uniil 4 o'clock, when the E_.-ish seemeddefeated andtheirco-unarder cried out: "B ys, ycu et't thinik of giving way? Rememberolo E:la;d !" And the tices turnea, and at 8 o'clacs in the evening the man of des-in., who was called by bis troops O.d f1o Hundred Thousat d, turnec away wih broken heart, and Lne fat o: c:nituries was decided No wonder a great mound has bsen reared there. Taert cam- a dlay wzen all hell rode up, ltd by A-ci you, and the captain of our salv.aun cunfronit ed them alone. The rider on the white horse of the Apocaly pse going out against the black ho!s3 cavalry of death, and the hattalions of the de moniac and the mermidens of dark ness. From 12 o'cluck at noon to 3 o'clock in the afte-acon the greatest battle of the uLiverse wrnt on E.er nal destinies were bei- g decided. All the arws of hell pier_'d our Chief tain, and th- battleax:-s struck him, until brow and check and sncu!aer and hand and foot were incarnadinrd with oczing lif-,' but he f:ught en until he gave a fni. stroke witn sword from Jehovah's buckler. and the coi mander in chief of ell and all his forces fell back in everlasting ruin, and the victory is ours. And on the mound that cel'brates the triu-nph we plant this day two fgures, not in bronze or iron or sculp.ured marble but two figures of living light, tbe Lion of Judai's tribe and the Lamb that was slain. DIX!E IN NEW YORK Five Thousarnd Engage in Ilild Cheers When ic is Flayed. There has been lively scenes in the theatres of late when the "Star Span gled Banner." was played, but none of them equalled the extraordJinary demonstration of last night at the Metropolitan Opera House vrhen Sousa's band played the national anthem and then swang into "D:ie " It was Sousa's last concert the house was tacked with an audience that made even the top gallery black with a dense crowd. Ithbad been announc ed that Sousa's "Tne Stars atnd Stripes Forever" would be given during the e.veing and thsat the prin cipals 'and chorus members of the De Wolf Hop per and the "Bride Elect" companies would take part with the band. The auience had come with the idea of "letting itself loose" when the proper tire came, but they did not wait for the advertised number, but caught at the first opportunity that presented itself. In response to an encore call af:er a suite played by the band -M.usa gave a medley of such airs as -Yankee Dao die" and the house was fairly on fire with enthusiasm in an instant. Me o began to beat time with their feet and pound canes, while a rattle o' applause that grew louder and louder almost drowned the music. When Sousa finished there was a roar of cheers from the ac-use and the band at once began the "'Star Spangle d Banner." In an instant the ext:.r audience, from orchestra rails to tojp gallery, sprang to their feet, a w irn wd of cheers gcing up, and hats, handkerchiefs and caxues oxing waved in the air. During the playing o: t1-e enfir iece the demons'trauun k- p: up an-d when it came to a co~nciasi.:n sit a itne final crash of music from tin bad the scene beggared description. An encore wasdenmanded, bat~ju.st'C) calmly waiting quiet before he urd go on. Tnen, wvnen he c-.uld oc u. ard, he said: "Ladies and genlenien, it seems ais thougn the only atp-aroag~e e' c.;rt that I can give in inese d.ays is Juhn ny Get Your Gan," out tuere's anoitm e air we all wil etnear tong ht,' and turning to flis baud, the nr.usicia s wung into "Dixie." If there had been~ orderly enthu.siasax before there wa, oedl.,:n ie'~ .jje no ', and while mae cueers rie- up as neart ly as ever tnere ourst ffrjou crtiliyi a h~uand thrjats tae fan3 - r:om. yell. It came from all parts of tne nouse. For q~mite a tune Lfms c~'.tnu ed, men ana womeu j >i:.1ag in me unroar, the ladi..s 1-aiag out of mane boxes and wavmng their nauuker cnies while mhe soutstra air we played. The aumdienc2 ha-d ha:Jiy qotere. when a man in one of ine h.xc I An ed over the rail and yeiled -- nu says we are n'ot ready I or wr I'and the house went wuld agaia, fra another combinaun of ' o0 cheers" and "rebel yus.' The som one in the orcoestra jung 'Jd t?mc te ise and called for mires encers for *Oar flag and ouar c:>uaitry, m~e rioru and the scu.h-VWee all : e~ :yI'as the previous scene was re-ea :1d. Wen --Tne 8:ars and $.r9:s" wn: sung there was stifl an-)Uer demi;n straioa and taej :! ? na~ad Lir:L and hoarse iodtveds to'uk tUxea sevs home.-Ne e Y ark Lier til. AN anonymxouc te> gram r: cently snt to Caunt de Wa de. v. n - esides n Hungary, notified him that he might expect a visit from two ':rr ar, woo would call ution hia- u:.d r pretence of being in:'revce OZL-ts Te caliers arrive d, and wcre amm~-t. d: bt it turned cut tha -"er 'e~ ":; bna-fide agents of ti e 'v York cmpany, a nd t aat the e.r.: ra neen sent by a reval ::ae: -EN. LEE WELCO1ED FRIG;D W. H NGTON ELECTRIFIED V, I P,0 R 0 1 CFI F. rnu (P housards G.et te S uttern Ch'e*t an a it e Nat:onal osp1ta. W1oe N'ame is Uprn Eve*y Lip 1'rp etelentel !tcents & t I e iatae D. partment. Consul General Le arrivEd in W-shir.uton on Tuesday of JLst we( k from Havana. He was met at the r aiboad station bv a large and enthu istic crowd, and when he stepped from the train be was greeted with a tr nWldus cutburst of applause Women waved their hardkerchiefs and men their hats and ailcogether the demonstration was a rotab'e one. L-Me before the hour set for the arri val f te train the crowd began to gather. It fifled the station. The general occupied the last car in his train and whea it was known that it had reached the station there was a tremendous rush to get a lock at him. By the time he was ready to alight ne crowd was so dense about the train that even with the assis'ance o' a platoon of police it was with diffi culty he reached the platform. Sv, er..1 personal friends of the generad, among them a i umber of :adies press ed :orward and inally succeeded in grasping him by the nand. One or ibe ladies pre'.ent-d him with a bou q let of roses tied toge'.ber bts ribbons 4 the nationail colors and bearing a tiny Coxnfederate battle flag. Imme dia'iely the cowd began to cheer, ana rcuua after ruund of applause greeted nia as he walked slowly and unov ered down the long platform of the s'a.ion. On reach ig the B street en taince Gen. Lee entered a state de pr.tment carriage and was driven rapidiy up the avenue to the state de p artiment. News tbat 3en. Lee was on his way to the state department spread rapidly and when the carriage drew up at the south front of the building a big crowd was assembled. A rousing cnetr went up as Gan. Lee stepped from the venic.e, bowing right and left, hurried into the building. The cnters had apprised the clerks and ottifr employes in the big building of nis coming and there was a wild rush fur the state department corridor. Clerks left their desks without leave, fii aers of the army and navy joined in the rush and for the time being tne di-cipline of ne building was relaxed. [he crowd lined up in front of the elevator shaft, leaving a lane from the door to mne s-cretary's , IR:e. As the elevator came .o a stop and the consul general stepped out a scene occurred unprecedeutcd in the history of Lhe great building.' Hat in hand Gen. Lee passed ito the corridor and some one said, "Now, boys," aud three rousing cheers went echomg down the lons halls. Then there was another outburst and people poured forth from every room. The cheering caused intense excitement, and it was some moments before quiet could be restored. Gen. Le5 bowed to the crowd, and as he reaihed the door uf decretary fnerman's -_ flie turned and bowea again. Then the door closed on hiu. and the throng dispersed. After a few minutes the consul gen eral emerged acompanied by Secre tary Sjerman and Assistant rsecretary Day. The three entered a carriage and were driven to the White House, Gen. Lee gettng another ovation on his way over. Mrs. L::e din not come to Washington witn sne general, leav ing tLoe train at Quaantico. At the Wnite House the partsy was Ehown at once to sne library, where the chief executive accorded a hearty reception to the consul general. The only per sons present at the meeting were the Presicient, Secretary Sherman, Assist-1 ant tiecretary Day and Gen. Lee. Sec retary Snerman remained with the others for about half an hour and tnen returned to the state department. Al ter being with the President fully an hour, Judge Day and Gen. Lee took their departure, the latter going to his hotel. An immense Crowd, aug. mented. by a number of ladies who at tended Mrs. Mc~inley 's reception, was on the portico when the two came do wn stairs, and Gen. Lee was given a tremendou' ovation. As the car riage was being driven away some one fastened a U)uoan flag to mne front of toe vehicle and this was sne cause of addiional enthusiasm. LEE MAKES A SPEECH. Tha ovaion tat Iuiiowed Consul General Lee, since he set foot on American soil. on his return from tiauanaa, culminated Tuesday night in Wasnington in wnas was in many Way s one 01 tne must remarkable de LmonLsrations the city has ever seen. From the moment he alighted in the rairoaai stationL in tne anternoon he was surrunded by a cheering crowd tnat fooiowen nin to the state aepan& ment, anid the spectacle of army and navy ufiiers awa government em y?UCS cueeritug outsiae tnle very door i Like Utig athe stcretary of state .vas wnoihy unpreceaented in sae nis ury ul that staid department. As a gns tue Li-3 turriea out in tnousana.s vnsen a strenade was given dien. Lee t nis notel and stood Ior hours in te aigreeL waiting a gliumpjse of him. The nignlt demonstration was almosL as quick and .upreamedauated as taat #z?n nad grceIed ea n. L..a athe ue pJuJ riad s.aie uepartmens rue United diates marine oauu nad been securd ioui tae Oarracts and tue deventy drS regliment uoano, unsder the leader sup uf Praf. Fancemdi, iurLmerly cin aisesor ult ne maerine tiana, camue over fram Ne w Yura on an aster.oon train. iXue' croocn cassemhoic vituuut caing and oy 8 u'ciocK was 5,000 strong in tae r.treets aaout tfne Saoteaaam awtei snere Gen Lee is quarwerea. lielure the close is Was twice that ,.ize. 1t was aiter 9) o'clock Oetore he apearr.d on one ul LLCnesal corner oaicouzca, atccompLn?e.1 uy a cam.Liu sor the bUion Veteranks legiou and te (.Lniederate Vc terans associarijn, .aien wYas jointly ia carge of the if ir. Ine OSu.us struct up Lthe"ta jsangied BAnner" and there was a -urst uf fire worss fromi the Ieignbar :nhouses while moo.uads or red, white and biue ligants llaised at intervals a.oug tne street, tarowing the crowd on the balcony into srnarp reliel arainst a bacaground of flags. T'ne r >w'd yelled itself hoarse, calling for Lee and dema~ndinig a speeca. Tne moe'ch was brief and so much broken ny applause that sne crowd caugut .robaolv little more than its general drift. Gan Lee said: "After all tne spaeches I have been forced to mike in the past two days I can hardly nope to make myself heard .>rer this reat gathering. I ca only .auce you that such a great demon sration seems to me out of all pro por uon to the simple fact of my humole presenca here, and I am frank to say I don't see that I deserve it, having only triai to do mry duty as an Ameri.can, where circumstances placed me." Tne crowd broke out afresh and hre were yells: "Chat's it."' "That's what you diid." Uea. Lee cniiaued: I have to thank yeu heartily for ~his splenldid endorsement of roy, course.~ It is a thing that can hardly eme to a mran mere that once in al life time and it moves ire more than I! "You rein e'. T -itv rick,' cried a Inm in ii. c-owd, :d ten omc one y'elled "War, tight," and the cheering drowned everything else. "I have not come *o talk war," cmn tinued Grn Lee, -but if war comes, in a few days or a few years, the pres ent crisis has proved that it will find us a united people and only the con test v;ill be as to who can carry t-e flag fartherest and fastest." "There is one thing in cnnclusion. I want to thank my good New York friends who have come so promDtly to tbe front tonight. 1, is only another ev'd-cce that New York is ready as she has baen in the past to stand by Virginia. and if the Iial comes I ca i assure you all tihst Virginia will bk found standing shoulder to shoulder with New York." The ip aking and music was fol lowtd by a very buief reception to which a few score gained admittance in tbe rooms of R-presentative Con nell. of Pennslvania, from whose bilcony Gen. Lee had made his ad dress. W -,Y kE I ION'T CARE. A Western tage Driver Who Mt t With His Ma-ch. As we k ft Sar.dy Gulch for Rising San there were six male passengers to g, by the stage, and the route was over the mountains and ful of chan ces of disas er. The driver came out for breakf.st ss soon as the stage was ready, and looking about ou the pas sengers he selected a small, paleraced rian and invited him to climb up be side him. While the pale faerd man was climbing the driver whispered to the rest of us: "I picked him out in order to scare him to death. You fellows will see a beap of fun before we've gone ten miles!" T vo minutes west of the gulch the road made a sudden turn with a sheer fall of a tusidred feet down to Wild Cat creek, and the driver pat hij hor ses at toe gallop and said to the pale faced man: "We may get around all right, or we may fetch up down below. Hold yer breath and say yer prayers I" The passenger made no move and did not change ccuatenance. and after making the course all right the driver rather indignantly demanded: "Didn't YOu see that the off wheel run within a foot of the edge of the precip:ce!" "It ran within six inches, sir!" was the reply. Beyond the curve was a down grade of a mile, and with a yell and a flour ish of his whip the driver urged his horses to a dead run. The five of us inside had to hang on for dear life, and every half minute the lumbering stage seemed bound to go over. Alongside the driver the pale-faced man smoked a cigar and seemed to enjoy the race. When it was finished and we were climbing the hill beyond the driver growled: "Did ye know that if we'd struck a rock we'd all been dead men in no time?" ' Of course." "And ye wasn't prayin't" "Not at all." Three or four miles further on the driver tried his man with another curve. In his determination to make a. close call of it one wheel ran off the edge of the precipice, and only a sud den effojrL of the horse saved the coach. We were flung in a heap and frightened half to death, but the man beside the driver never lost a puff of his cigar. When things were safe the driver turned on him with: "That surely was the brink of the grave." "Guess it was," was the quiet reply. "The clussest shave you will ever have till the last one comes." "Yes.Y "Bee here, now, what sort of a crit ter are youI" was the query. Don't y ou know 'nuff to git sheart?' "Nothing has happened yet to scare me." "But mobbe ye want me to drive plumb over a precipice a thousad reet high?"' "If you conveniently can. The fact is, I catme iff up here intending to commit suicide, and if you can dump the whole of us over some cliff you'll oblige me." A SCENE IN THESENATE. vilman Embraces En raaer atter H a Pei oradoun on tae caban Qaetlton One day last week while the Uaited States Senate nad under consideration the Cuoan matter Senator Foraker Loek up tne questuon of the responai bility tor the Main disaster, and closed wito a brilliant perora.ion: "Tne time, I repeas, for diplomacy has passed. Tnt, time for action has come. Let the d.uunng, the xnesitat ing, the pposing go to the rear vraile tne virile, srong minded, patriouc liberty loving masses of the Ames ican people, co.uing from all sections and all pitraults and avocations of ile ral ias one man around our gallant army and ziavy, and taking tne fbag of our coutntry carry it on to trium pat victory. (3applause in tnle gal Ieries.) "A victory, Mr. President, for civil iuiun over oarbarism; a vioctory jo: ne nignt and t.apaciy oi wan to gov era nsseli; a victory for the western nemispnlere; a victory for freecam and nsosrty and independence, a vic tory wortny tne descencients orflneroic men wnlo acaleved our own indspeu ence ans~d wormny of the followers of tiuse necroic mner wno nave since pre served and perpe~tated our pric~iess nerisage." (apptause in tne gal erico.) senator Fairakex was warmly c.2n graLusated by nenators and desatr l'imanaf inrew nis arm aDoat the OAvahn and augaed nian frantucally. Ab-ut the Ese, The upturned eye is ty pical of de votion Wide open e.yes are indicative of rasnlets. rue ese is really a self adjustable Side-olancing eyes are always to be disrus .ed. Tne eyes shoull not be used in weak ness or sickness. Brown eyes are said by occulists to be the strongest. Small eyes are commonly s ipposed to indicate canning Near sighted people almost always have prominent eyes. Tne proper distance between the eyes is tne width of one eye. There are from four to six grains of aqeus humnor in the eye. fne downcast e-;e nas in all ages ben ty pical of modesty. Manny eyes supposed to be black are ony a deep crange brown. Eyes in ra pid and coastant motion bet'.ken anxiety, fear or care. People of melancholic temperamient rarely have blue eyes The eyes of ilsh and birds are roaind, with no angles at the corners. The chamleon is altrost the cnly reptile provided with an eyelid. The deer really weeps, its eye being provided with lachrymal glands. Whenever blue occurs in the iris itis generally the predominant color. Eyes with long, sharp corners, in d'.cate great discernment and penetra ion Homer attributed a protruding eye to Juno. H-- called her the ox eyed T4 ro. WEATHER BULLETIN. Ir DEALS W.TH THE DAMAGE CONE BY THERECENT FROST. EWfects 'binaghont the S :: i Full Srn maiy cf 1h- R-o tis Made to Head:jasa: term by th e Locel Obqvr'e-- a-' -- ard El ewhre. Tne followice is the first of the weekly bulletins of the weather bu reau for the crop s-qon oF 1898. It was iniu-d on the 13h instant ard deals with the recent frost: The weatber during February was steadily ecol and dry, the rainfall amountirg to only 24 per cent. of the normal for the State. The actual rainfall averaged 5.46 inches less :han the normal during January and Feb ruary, and the deficiency was further increated, in places only, during March, but has been considerstiy re luced by tne generous rainfall of April up to ciate, which baq brought he total amount since March 1st about eqial to the normal for this :erild. These conditions were favorn.ble for tne preca'ation of lands during Feb ruary and March, wb:ch worc pro zressed rapidly and is now about ten :ays in advance of its usual stage for this date, with fields practically all readv tor corn and cotton. Even bot tom lands that are usually too wet to be Dlowed until May have been in good condiion for working. Plant ing of the saaple crops was in advabce )f the season up to the beginning of April, since then the cnol w( a-ber and heavy rains have relard-d this work, specra'3y over the western portions )f the State, where the ground was rozen hard on tvo mornings. Tne temperature for the week aver aged 8 drgrees per d-y below the nor mal, with a mean of 52 for the State. The range of temperature was be .ween 83 on the 5-h at White Hall and ?5 on the 7th at Central. Ice formed on the 7th as far east as Eampton county, while in the more westerly portions the ground was frczn. Thin ics was noted on the 3,h in the western counties. Frost cccurred on four mornings, but that on the 7;h was general and :amaging over the entire State, se vere enough a!ong the coast to mate rially ij ure karden truck, corn and iatton that was up. but not hurting rruit. Throughout the contral coun ties fruit escaped unhurt except over limited areas where peaches and p ums were badly damaged Through nut the northern and ex.reme we stern border ccunties, where the tempera ture fell to rrom 3 to 7 degrees below freezing, it appears to be the excep tional localities where peaches and plums escaped Grapes, apples, pears and the several varieties of wild fruits ard berries appear to be unhurt; wheat and oats only slightly hurt in a few localities; corn, beans, tomatoes, and melons, where up, considerably in jured. The rainfall was copius over the reater portion of the State during the week, an d very evenly d'stributed, ranging in amounts from 0 85 inch to 2.83 inches. The average of all reports is 1 41 while the State normal fcr the same period is approximately 0 70. San day's rainfall does not show in the ab ve averge except from t wo stations. There is now plenty of moisture in the ground for the present needs of growing crops, and in places over the west central portions of the State farm work is delayed by the wet con dition of the soil. There was less than a rnormal amount of sunshine during the week, and winds were cold northerly or northeasterly. Vegetation of all kinds made but, little if any gro wth during the weel as the temperature fell below the ac tive growiug p:oint, each night, over a larga portion of the tate. Owing to the favorable weather during March farm work is well ad vanced and corn has been planted in portions of the State, being practicalJy finished for, early corn over the more easterly portions. Muon that was up was injured by frost, the damage was especially se ;ere in Horry county. The u:.ual amount of replanting is necessary on account of crows and aut worms, the !a-ter giving mv c'i rrouble in places during the cooul weather. Corn tnat had been recent ly cultivated was badly hurt by the rost, whsile fields near by that had not been workcd were untouched. Cotton planting has made consider able progress over the eastern coun ties, while little has been planted aver the western portions on in the ex treme north::ast, but the preparation >f lads is well advanced and indicates that about the same area will be put in :ottont as last year. As but little :otton was up, zne daa-age by fro:t wvas slight. &ea island cotton is up in nany places ania looking well. Rice planting is ell advanced, ua ssual1s so in tne lo wer rice districts, while in the Georgetown flair progress aas be e.? made. Tobac plants are plentiful and .arge for the season; very little trans ilanting has been donse y et, owing to .ne cool weathier. OAts are looking very promising, :XCept in portions of the southeast::rn ~uusties, waere it was too dry during tne winter. Frost apparently did not aurt much, if at all, simpl3 checked ts rapia gr owth. The same is true of wheat, although wheat in places turn d slightly yesla w. As neitner wheat sor oaits had oegun to "j int" at the ime the must severe Inast occurred, .hey will not be materially hurt by the ~reeze. Melons, where up, were badly fr st :d and garaen truck ia general suffer ed more or less in all portions o' the tate, even in tne coast truck distric-.s, where frosts in April are very rare. P~asturage start-:d to grow very well ni Marcn, but latterly nas been rather scant. G-ardens very backward gen :raily, a~ttho ugh instances are rep ort ~d of remarkably early maturity. [Larhe shipments are beiog made from tne Cnarlestun district of straw berries, near~s, peas andi potatoes. J. W. Bauer, Section Director. Columbia, 8. C. Note-Correspond--nts will please nail sueir reports so they will rea':h ;his office by Mondays. The SpAiard; Did I:. Consul General Lee was before the senate committee on foreign relations >n Wednesday. He said that ta his pinion tnere was no room to doubt :hat the deotruction of the vessel was Jue to Spantsn agerncies. "D)o you :nean the Spanisn auithorities in Cu iai" He was asked by a member of .e committee. '1 mean the Spanish fli-iais," he replied, '-but not O-en. Blanco. I t'ink some of the Oticials were cognizant of the plarns to destroy the vessel but I do not believe tunt the Captaia Gieneral zas." Biots in eseo. According to a dispatch from Madu id there was a big revolutioniary iemonstration at Valencia Friday. [Large crowds assembled, a red 11ag was dispiay ed and the Mlarsellaise was ruag. t he police d ispersed the people ,u ean'nec h, rd tiag ' A 0S 1F SONS OF '.'ET ENANS Go i. UUbatn 1xpaies Ob.iects and Pur p -se of 0 -gar1zstioe. To the Sons of Conrederate Ve tans of South Carolina: In many sections of the State the fact of the <xistence of, and the pur poses ard aims of the organization called "tuited Sons of Confederate Vtterais," are not known, and hence not understood and appreciated. There fore I vail myself of the friendly kird nezs of the rewspapers to lay nefore you these tave-s, and to invite your coooeration in the work in which we are engaged. Th' purposes we have in vf--w are, briefly stited: ro unite iD one general federation, through the mt dium of iocal camps. all the de sctncaSits of those who served in the army or navy of the Confederate States To collect and preserve all irforma tion, Yecords, re ports, :erEonal remi nisetcss, and ah the data of every kind soever, which will throw, light upon, and defeLd the justice of the cause of the soutn, to tne end that a f ir and truthful history of that epoch may be written. To this same end to receive from the survivors c f the war the story of their services, tbeir experiences, their ob servations, and to put them in endur ing Iorm, for preservation and future use. To aid old and indigent veterans. To helo in building monuments that sbadl perpetuate the fame of the Con federate soldier and sailor; and do hon o - to the devoted and patriotic women of that pericd of the war. To see that Memoz ial day is properly observed, in honor (f the dead heroes of the COnfederacy. To assist in carrying on the work of a like nature in which the United Confederate Veterans are engaged, aLd when death has called them to answer their last roll call, to take up and comp'ete that work. It eces without say ing~that an cr galization having such objects and aims must appeal with invincible force to the reverence and pride of the de see ndants of those, who won imperish able renown on the field of battle; and which honorable fame unscrupulous writers of so called history are seeking to wrest from them by misrepresenta t on. and false statements. As heirs to their glorious record, and their proud names, can any one of us doubt that it is his duty in these premiEei to enlist in the ranks of an order wnich has for its primary ohject the defense of the name of these old warriors? I h ve found tt at whenever it has been practicabie to gain an audience cf the Sons of Veterans, and to lay before them these considerations it has not been at all dfficult to organize camps. In the tope of reaching many such readers I am writing this communica tion. The order is growing rapidly.in all of the old Co federate 8tates. Its growth in this division, South Caroli na, has been grbt fying, but ithas not been all that we had hoped for. The number of camps in it has increased from sx to twenty-seven, within less than a year, and there are a number f others in process cf organization. At this particular time we are very anxious that this work of organization be pushed in every city, town and hamlet in the State. The annual con vention of this division will be held in Charleston on the 27th instant, and I earnestly desire that every section of the State, every county, every com munity, should be represented in that convention,ibecause many questions. vitally affecting in the I ture progress and course of the order in taiis divia ion, and at large, will come up for so lution and .settlement and should be d~scussed and te.:ided by those who are no w, and will be hereaf ter. inter ested inj the manner of their setlc ment. Moreover, I want the y oung men to meet tuere the old veterans of the State and draw inspiration from lis tening to the tales of their daring, their deeds and their suffering. Aside from these considerations, it will be a charming time to visit Charleston, waich wihl t e in its holi day attire ol roses and azaleas for the delectation of visitors. Tne railroads have given exceptionally low rates of t -avt 1. The generous and warm hea-t ed people of the city, famed for hos pitauity , will spare no paine, nor ex pense, nor attention to make the hap piness of visitors comple te. Pubice meetings, speechts by distinguished veterans, parades, excursions on the water, music, dancing, fiowners, all will lena charm, ir ace and bau y to tt e occasion. 1 am often asked, what are the steps necessary to be taken to effect the or ganization of a camp? The matter is very simple. It requires at least ten sons of veterans to organize a camp and obtain a charter. Only the de scendants of those who served in the army or navy of the Confederacy to the close of tne war, or weru hunora bl~y aiscenarged are eligible to member ship~. When those nave assembled who intend to join the mneeing should be catied to order, and its oby ct stat ed. ?nereupau a motion aunould be made to orgamza a camp of Boda of Confederate Veterans. The next step is to adopt a name. Taen appoint a committee to prepare a constitution and by la ws, wnmen commitee should at once write Mr. Rooe:t A. Smnytn, comander in cniof, U S. V., Charles Lon, 8. C, for tne necessary papers Ana the meeting when adjourned saould Ce aoj ,ucaed to an early day, fixed, to neceive the report of tnis comnmittee. A~ committee should be apoiu'.ed to verify the applications or tae charter memb::rs. When the cjmet..ee on co..a i min reports, elect othiers, and a spear r, and apply t.> une commander in cnies .tor a coar ter, accompanying .the applicatio. wunL M, Lfne cnarter fee. Tihe Iccal camp tiues may be fixed at iny sud agreed up,>n. Usually the) ..re 50 cents inu&Liation fee, and 50 c.nos an nual dues. The only other dus are ten cents per capita per annum t, general rund, and 5 cents per capita per annum Lo the divisto~ uuidna. .n 5 cens per capita munt be paid before 1 tse camp can be presented in the con vention. ?nese per capita taxes are usually pa~id out of the 50 cents camp dats1 I have tried to sta e ;is bek fiy as the nature of toe case e old aamrnit, the sa. in; teatu:es of our g eintion, its purposes, and its work. i now, 8:ns of S auch Carolmna V t -rans. I a .ptai t o y ou by y our prid i ances try. oy the priceless heritage o glor. your anctators gave you, and o.g ycur patriutic duty to prosperity, to ral~y to our assistance in this gtar. under .akin y. T ..- tirue is shir. tie'ore 'he meeti.:g ot the conventiUo on Lt.'.- I . pril, Dat by p-ompt and enthusiastic w'rk e-ery iace in the State may have a camp formed and delegates serl tto that convention. So mote it be. Snce:elyyours, M. L BONEAMX, t Commnan~diag S. C. Div.sion U. S. C. 3 V Otil.bl. H. ii W\A2NS, Aujyant GCL. uniet ortSff. Auten S. C., April. 12, 1898. Hlavm.r h-st every thig worth fight iag for in he recent elections, the Re p-iolicans are boasting mightily over their "sweeping dec.ory" in Rhode Island. Wnen R spuoiieans lose Rhodee T and ain m he aciv.lized nation Royal make, thc food pure, whole30ome aud detcius NGYPC bAKIN0 POWDER Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAKING POw-ER CO., NEW YORK. TMt CRUt:L y 1 r . Five Bandr e -1 Tn'ear n - rr rd Bloodsk ed. Well may all nations in this centu ry stand appalled at the story told by Senator Proctor of the horrible con dition of the inhabitants of Cuba. 0! no other nation save Turkey alone could such stories be tcld, bat the Spain of the Sixteenth centt.ry in Eu - rope and America is the Spain of to. day, brutal. bigoted. ignorant and ob stinate. What is said now of Spain in Cuba has been told of Spain at bome, of Srain in the NetherlaLds, of Spain among the American Indianrs, the ages change Spain not the least. Commerce passes her by; the ages of science and discovery do not enlighlea Spain and Wey ler of 1898 is the legitima'e suc cessor of Torquemada and cf tne Duke of Alva. Motley tells us that during the 18 years of Torquema-la's administration of the Inquisition, 10 220 ir lividuals were burned alive, and 97 321 were punished with infamy, coLfiscation of property or perpetual imprisonment, so that this one friar des royed 114,401. families. Naturally when Charles V proposed to establish the Spanish inquisition in the Net.herlands, the Netherlands re volt ed In the Netherlards Alva organi: d the Council of Blocd. Here is Motley's description of its work. "Thus the whole country became a charne'house; the death bell tolled hourly in every village; not a family but was called to mourn for the dear east relatives, while the.. survivors stalked listlessly about the ghosts of their former among the wrecks of their former homes. The spirit of the na - tion, within a few mon; h; af er the ar rival of Alva, seemed hopelessly bro ken. The blood of the best and bravest had already stained the Ec.f ld; the men to whom it had been accustomed to look for guidance and protection were dead, in prison ox exile. The scaffolds, the gallows, the fut.eral pyres, which had been sufficient in or dinary times furnished no w an entire ly inadequate machirnery for the in cessant executions. Columns and stakes in every street; the door posts. of private houses, the fencers in the fields were laden with human car-. casses, strangled, burned. btheaded. The orchards in thbe country bore on many a tree the hideous fruit of hu man bodies." This is the story of the Spaniard in Europe; it is reproduced when we read of the Spaniard in Mexico and Peru "Indians," says Fiske, in writing of Peru "Indians were slaughtered by the hundred, burned alive, impaled on sharp stakes, torn to pieces by blood hounds. In retaliation for the murder of a Spaniard it was thought- proper to call fifty or sixty Indians and chop their heads off. Little children were flung into the water to drown with ess concern than if they had been puppies. In the mingling of sacre d. ideas with the sheerest deviltry, theren was a grotesqueness fit for Lhe peniei of Dure. Oince in honor of Christ ar~d his twelve apostles, tbiey hsanged 13 indians in a row at such a height tnat. their toes could just touch the ground and then pricked them to death with heir sword points. taking care not to ill them quickly." l'he story is too well- known atd too horrible to be repeated at further ength. It is the same bloody record. af brutality from beginning to end ; a, itory in which Spain is ever the foe og :ivilization, of huumanity of free done, and the apostle of bigotry, cruelty ana fespotism. As Spain was then, so is she today n Cuba; more feeble, it is true, but be :ause feeble, more cruel. Sne sees lower slipping from re-e-, and ab :lings to it witn the tenacity of itt sptir. Let Spain and Turkey re main to blot ;he map of Europe ir Euro,>e ' iih lave t so, but toe ime has coane to close he history or S-ain in the Ne-w Wor ja ifter five hundred years of almost mint.rrupted savagery and blocd hed. ________ A GOOD STAR T. 3*mbe-rg County tie:, Bez Older tiaters a Wo:thy Exampe. The Ccunty of Bamberg held i's irst court last week arAd strange t.)o e ate a white man w as c mnvict; d cf( nurder. A white maa namnea Zis, i tt was convicted of toe mnurder of nother white man azmd senterted to. >e hung. The court ruum w as jamed dlnost to suffocation fa om. '.ne oeg n aing to the close of the case ai d the ceenest interest waS Itaken oy the ipectators. Z.ssett waschiargd wit a gang to he house of his allegeat paramuur, ifrs. Mattie Giii, near Oiar, in Bm n.rg cQ.inty, inJanLuary of tas ear. shlere he tound 8:ark and Piu a Wilk in, tso ycuag men 17 anu 19 y ears ld, resnectively, anu fanicyug ta ;ney were allieniating Et IS. G.ia's at ections from him, sact them? bot:a town without pro vocation er warnin and imnmediately fled he country jak :ompaoy with Mrs. Gill. TLey wne e substquently arrested ini Caaraa oni bfad placed in jxit there, Mrs G i >=ing cnarged as acc.oory to tue :i~ne. Z.asett appealed Lain gf~ ovr ior ann asked protection~ when the neriff of Bamberg went for aim, rear ng that if he was carried back to Bin-. erg he would bs lyncaed oy friends f Wilson. Feit Yo~ rThirE ty Me 4. Miller's Sumney to wni pa J.r- mU t Norriston., Ea., was d~cose~I oy he explosion of tifteen tas of gove rre nent powder Fria niorning. The hcck was felt for thirt v mnaes. Near >y d wellings were wrecked. No cas alies.,__________ Tas: war dpartmo" reu'r s saGW hat taere are inthTe United Sutt ten aillion men of military age, of which lumber two-thirds are available for ervice in the armyi. L %iuth Caro ina there are 15,0 i *a ien 75 per ent. are avaiiaoOe a d e nd be con antrated in .48 hours.