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CLEANSU IN THE BLOOD DR.TtL AG- I LUSTRATES AN OLD -ESrAMENT SCENE. Freedom of Parnefid %oul -Rins That Only Blood Oan R',mAva -What We Are Taught by Birds of Ancient Sacrifice From a scene of old Dr Talmage in this sermon presents the old gospel under another phase; text. L-viticus xiv. 5 7: "And the priests shall cow mand that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vrssel, over runiDr water. As for living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the Ecarlet, and the hvssoD and shall diD them and the living bird in the blood of the -irdt hat was killed over the running water, and he shall serinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times and shall Dronounce him clean and shall let iheliving bird loo3e into the open fiid." The Old Testament to very many peonle is a great slaughter house strewn with the blood and bones and horns and hoo's of butchered animals. It cffends their sight; it disgusts their taste; it ac tua'lv nauseates the stomach. But to th. i, telligent Chrintian the Old Teitm-nt is a magnifient corridor throunn wbich Jesus advances. As he appears at the other end of the cor ricor we can only see the outlines of his charsctf r Coming nearer, we can descry the features. But when at last he sters upon the platform of the New Testament, amid the torches of evangelists and apostles, the orches tras < f heaven announce him with a blast of minstrelsy that wakes up Bethlehem at midnight. There were a great many cages of birds brought down to Jerusalem for sacifce-sparrows and pigeons and turtldoves. I can h ar them now whistling caroling and singing all arouudaoout the temple, when a leper was to be cured of his leprosy, n or der to his cleansing two of these birds were taken. One of them was stain over an earthen vessel of running water-that is, clear. fresh water-and then tbe bird was killed. Another bird was then taken, tied to a hyssop branch and plunged by the priest into the blood of the first bird, and then with this hyssop branch, bird tippled, the priest would sprinkle the leper seven timus, then untie the bird from the byssop branch, and it would go soaring into the heavens. Now open your eyes wide, my dear bre hern and sist, rs, and see that that flest bird meant Jesus and that the second bird means your own soul. There is nothing more suggestive than a cages bird. In the down of its breast you can see the glow of a -utr een climes In the sparkle of its eye %oucanseethe Lah of distant sea'. Iu its voice you can hear the sxang it !aarned in the w-ldwood It is a child of the sky in captivity. Now the drad bird of my text. caotured from the air, suggests the Lord Jesus, who came down from the realms of light and glory. He once stood in the sunlight of heaven. He was the favorite of the land. He was the King's Son. Whenever a victory was sained or a throne set up he was the erst to hear it. He could not walk incognito along the streets, for all heaven knew him. For eternal ages he had d welt amid tae migbty poputa tions of heaven. No holiday had ever dawnedon the city when he wasabsent. He was not like an earthly prince, occasionally issuing from a palace heralded by a troon of clanking horse guards. No; he was greeted every 'where as a brother, and all heaven was perfectly at home with him But one day there cams word to the palace that an insignidecant island was in rebellion and was cuttng itself to pieces with anarchy. I hoar an anel say: "Let it perish. The King's el is vast enough without the island The tributes to the King are large enough without that. We can spear it." 'Not so," said the Prince, the King's 3on, and I see him push out one day under the protest of a great compaoy. He starts straight for the rebellious island. He lands amid tiae ex'crations of the Inhabitants, that grow in violence until the malie of eart has smitten him, and the spirits of the lost world put their black wings over his dying head and shut the sun out. The hawks and vultures swooped upon this dove of the text, until head and breast and feet ran blood-until under the flocks and beaks of darkness ti~e poor thing perished. No wonder it was a bird st was taken and slaim over an earthen vessel of running water It was achild of the skies. It ty pifld him who came down from heaven in agony and blood to save our souls Blessed be his glorious name f orever! 1 notice also in my te-xt that the bird that was siain was a clean bird The text demanded that it should be. The raven was never sacrificed, nor the cormorant, nor the vulture. It must be a clean bird, says the text, sad it sugguests the pure Jesus-the holy Jesus Although he spent his boyhood in the worst village on earth, althiough blasphemies were poured into his ear enough to have poisoned any one else, he stands before the world a perfect Christ Herod was cruel. Henry VIII was unclean, William III was treacherous, but point out a fault of our King. Answer me, ye boys who knew him on the streets of Naza reth! Answer me, ye miscreants who saw him die! The skeptical tailors have tried forl.800 years tofind out one hole in this seamles grent, but thev have not found it. Te most in nious and eloquent infidel of this Sy in the lat line of his book, all of which denounces Christ, says, "All ages must proclaim that among the sons of man there is none greater than Jesus." So let this bird of the text be clean-its feet fragrant with the dew that it pressed, it beak carry irng sprig of thyme and frakincense, Its feathers washed in summer show era, O thou spotless Son of God, Im press us with thy innocence I Thou lovely source of true delight, Whom I unseen, adore. Unveil thy beauties to my sight, That I may love thee more. I remark, also, in regard to this first bird mentioned in the text that It was a defenseless bird. When the eagle is assaulted, with its iron beak it strikes likea bolt agamnstits adversary. This was a dove or a sparrow, we do not know just which. Take the dove or pigeon in your hand, and the peck iag of its beak on yeur hand makes you laugh at the feebleness of its as sault. The reindeer after it is down may fell you with its antlers. The ox after you thiak it is dead may break your leg in its death s:ruggle. The har pooned whale in ii last agony may crush you in the coil of the un wind ing ros.e But tbis was a drove or a sparrow-per ectly barmless, perfectly defenseless -ty pe of him who said, *'I have trod the winepres' alone, and there was none to help." None to help The murderers J'ave it all their own way. Where was the soldier in the Roman regiment who swung his sword in the aetense of the divine ma tyr? Did they put one drop of oil on his gashied feet ? Was there one in all that crowd mnarly and generous enou: b to stand up for hiud Were he .isacresats a. t ' cr~ss any more nte -Terre 1 witri in their 1ork og sig shcp drivimg a nail through a pine boardf Tne women cried, but there was no balm in their ta&i. None to help, none to help 0 my Lord Jesus, none to help. The wave of anguish 'ame up to the arch of his feet, came up to his knee, fnoated to his waist, rose to his chin, swept to his temples, yet none to help. Ten thousand times ten thousand angels in the sky ready at command to plunge into the bloody affray and strike bick the hosts of darkness, Tet none to help, none to help, On, this dove of the text in its last momen't clutched not with argry tal ors. It plunged not a savage beak It was a dove-helpless, defenseless. None to help. none to help. As after a severe storm in the morn irg you go out and fized birds dead on the snow, so this dad bird of the text makes me think of that awful storm that swept the earth on crucifixioa day, when the wrath of God, and the malice of man, and the fury of devils wrestled beneath the three crossres. As we sang jast now: Well might the sun in darkness hide And snut his glories in When Christ, the mighty Maker, died For man, the creature's sin. But I come now to speak of this sec ond bird of the text We must not let that fly away until we have examined it. Tne priest took the second bird, tied it to the hyssop branch and tnen plunged it in the blood of the first oird. Ab, that is my soul, plunged for cleasing in the Saviour's bloed. rhere is not enough water in the At lantic and Pacific oceans to wash away our smIallesi sin. Sin is such an outrage on God's universe that noth ing bu: blood can atone for it. Yu know the life is in the blood, and as the life has been forfeited, nothing could buy it back but blood. What was it that was sprinkled on the door posts when the destroyin angel went through the land I Bloo d.What was it that went streaming from the altar of ancient sacr.f doI BLood. Wnat was it that the priest carried into the holy of holies, mAing intercesion for the people I Biood. What was it that Jesus sweat in tnie garden c f *etase manef Great drops of blood. Wriat does the wine in the sacramental cup signify. Blood. What makes the robes of the righteous in heaven so fairI They are washed in the blood of the Lamb. What is it that cleanses all our pollution t The blood of Jesus Christ, that cleanseth from all sin. I hear somebody saying, "I do not like tulh a sanguinary religion as that." Do you thiuk it is very wise for the patient to tell the aoctor, "I don't like the medicine you have giv en me?" It he wants to h3 cured, le had better take the medicine. My Lord God has offered us a balm, and it is very toolish for as to say, "I don't like that balm." We had oetter take it and be saved. But you do not op pose the shedding of blood in other dirwcuons and for other ends If 100,000 men go out to battle for their country and have to lay down their lives for free institutions, is there any thing ignoble about that? No, you say, "gloricas sacr.fIce ratner." And is there anything ignoble in the idea that the Lara Jesus Christ, by the shedding of his blood, delivered not only one land out all lands and all ages from bondage, introducing men by millions and millions into the no erty of the sons of Goat Is tnere an) thing ignoble about Sat As tnxs second bird of the text was plunged in the oluod of the first Dird, so we must be wasned in the olooa d. Chrst or go poliuted forever. Let the water and the blood, From thy side a healing good, Be of sin the double sure, Save from earth and make me pure. I notice now that as soon as this second bird was dipped in the blond (I the first bird the priest unloosened it and it was free-free of wing and free of foot. It ould waet its beak on any tree branch it chose. It oould peck the grapes of any vineyard it chose. It was free; a ty pe of our souls after we have washed in the blood or the Lamb. We can go where we will We can do what w. wilL You say, "Had you not better qualify that?" No; for [ remember that in conver sion the will is changed, and the man will not will that which is wrong. There is no straitjaeket in our reli gion. A state of sin Is a state of slavery. A state of pardon is a state of emancipation. The hammer of God's grace knocks the hopples from the feet, knocks the handcufs from the wrist, opens the door into a land seape all ahimmer 'with ?baatains and abloom with gardeni. Ii is frsee dom. Iftamanbhas become a Christian, he Is no more afraid of Sinai. The thun ders of Sinai do not frighten him You have on some August day seen two thunder showers treet. One cloud from this mountain and another cloud from that mountain, coming nearer and neaaer together and responding to each otber, crash to crash. thunder to thunder, boom, boom! And then the clouds break and the torrents pour, and they sre emptied perhaps ito the ver same stream that comes down so rdat yozr feet that it seems as if all the carnage <f the storm bat te has been emptisd into it So In this Bible I see two a orms gather, one above Sinai, the uther above Cal vary, and they respond one to the other-flash to flash, thunder to thun der, boom, boom. Sinai thunders, "The soul that sinneth, It shall die." alvary responds, "Save them from oing down to the pit, for I. have found a ransoms." Sinai says, "Woe!l woe!" Calvary answers, "Mercy! mercy!" And then the clouds burst and empty their treasures into one torrent and It comes fiowing to ct feet,rs with the carnage of our L :rd, n which, If thy soul be p lunged, like the bird in the text, it shall go forth free-free!l Gen. Fish said that he once stood at a slave block where an old Christian minister was being sold. The auction er said of him: "What bid do Ihear for this man? He is avery good kind of a man; he i a minister." Some body said, "Twenty dollars'' (he was very old and not worth much), some body else, "twenty five," "Thirty" "Thirty five" "Forty" The agei Christian minister began to tremble. He had expected to be able to buy his own freedom, and he had just $70 and xpected with the $70 to get free. A~s the bids ran up the old man trembled more and more. "Forty," "Forty five," "Fifty," Fif ty five," "Sixty," "ixty-fire." The old man cried out, '-Seventy " He was afrai:1 they would out bid him The men around were transfixed. Nobody dared bid, and the auctionieer struck him down to himself-done ! But by reason of sin we are poorer than that African. We cannot buy our own deliveracce. The voices of death are b:dding for us, and they bid us down. But the Lord Jesus Christ comes and says: "I will buy that man. I bid for him my Bethlehem manger I bid for him my hunger on the mountain. I bid for him mv ach ing head. I bid for him my fainting heart. I bid for him all my wounds A voice from the throne of God says: "It is enougt Jesus has bought him." B-ught with a price. The purchase complete. It is done. The great transaction's done. I am my Lord's, and be is mine. He drew me, and Ifollowed on, Why is not a man free when he gets rid of hia sir:s! The sins of the tong u3 gone, the sins of action gone, the sins of the mind gon-. All Ihe transgres sions of 30 41. 50, 70 y esr3 gone-no more in the scui than the malaria thst iniated in the atmsphere a thousand years ago, for wben my Lird Jesus pardons a man be pardons him, and there is no half way work about it Here I see a beggar going along the turnpike road. He is wcrn out with disease. He is stitf in the joints. He is ulcered all over. He has rheum in his eses. Hf is sick and wasted He is in rags. Every time h- puts do wn bis swo)llen f-e te cries, "O- tae pair.!' H- fers a fountain by the roedside uEider a tre-, and he crawls up to that fountaio and says: "I must wash. Here i mty cool my ul cers. Here I my get rest." Be stoops down and scoops u: in the palm of his hands enough water to slake his thirst, and that is all gone. Then he stoops .iown and begins to wash his eyes, and the rh, u-n is all gone. Then ne puts in his swollen feet, aad the s -elling is gone. Then willing no longer to be only talf curea he plun ges in, and his wrole body is laved in the streaui, and ute gets upoa the bana well. Meantime the owner of th, nansion up yonder comes down, walking through the ravine witri his only son, and he sees the bundle of rags ano asks, " Wnose rags at e these I' & voice from the fountain says, *Those are my rags." Tnen says the master to his son, *Go up to the house and get the best new suit you can find ana bring it down." And ie brings down the clothes, and tne beggar is clothed in them, a. d he looks around and says: "I was filthy, out now I am clean. I was ragged, but now I am robed. I was blina, but now I see. Glory be to the owner of that man sion, and glory be to that son who orought me that new suit of clothes, and glory be to this founiain, where I have washed, and wuere all who will may wash and be clean I" Wnere sin abounded, grace doth much more abound. The bird has oeen dipped; now let it A.y away. The next thing I notice about this bird wheu.it was loosened (and this is the main idea) is that it flow away. Whicn way aid it got When you let a bird loose from your grasp, which way does it fly Up. Wnat are wings fort To ily wat. Is there anything in the suggestion of tne direction taken by tuat bird to indicate wnich way we ought to goI Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings, Thy better portion trace. Rise from the transitory things To heaven, thy native piaoe, We snuuld be going heavenward. That is ne suggestion But I know inat we nave a great many rawoacks. You nad them this morning perhaps You had Lhem yesterday, or the day oefore, and aitnutign you want to oe going heavenward, you are constant ly discouraged. Ba I suppose when nat biru went out of the priest's hands it went by inft.ctious-sometimes stooping. A bird does not shoot di rectly up, bat this is the motion of a bird. 81 the soul soars to ward God, rising up in love and sometimes de - pressed oy triaL IL does not always go in the direction it would like to go, out the main course is righ:, There is one passage in the B.ale which 1 quote oftener to myself than any other, "He kno wetn our frame, and he rememberenth nat we are ausi,." Tnere is a aegenOain Icetaaa whicn sa s tawhen Jesuts was a oy play aug with his cowarades one daOtiatui day he made oirds of clay, and as [ahese Dirus o; clay were standing upon the ground an o.ddaducce came alung, and ne was a.sgus:,ea at tne sport aa clashed the bards to pieces, out tne aegend says that Jeesus waved mas nazd aboy tue Oroten uirds, and taking wing hey went singing tieaven ward. Now that is a Laole among tae lceeLancers, but itis not a fabie tat we are dus. and tznat, the nana of arine grac: wavea over us once, we go ssaging so ward tne aaes. I wisn, my fniends, that we couad Live in a higher atmospaere la a man's whoie ilue ooj ict is to make ailars, no wall o ruuning againam LuOSe wno are maaSing dlollars. It 16. is nia whole Wie oojawt tO get applause, he wil run against mnuse wno are seeging appia.so. Bat if he rises hignrer mnan that he waa not o inter rupted in nis flagnt naeavenward. Wny cross that fL.ck of birds, fliaung up against tne oltio sky so high knam you can naraly see seem, not enange its course icr agire or tower. ?hey are above all oros.ruotioaa. So 3 would not have so of ten to change unii Cnri..ian course it w. lad i as signer atmospnere uearer Unrias, nearer th throne o1 God. Oh, ye wno have Deen washed in the biuod of Cnrist-ye who Dnave een loosed from the nyssop oran start heaven Ward Is may tie to some o you a long fitn. Lemplamionas may dispute your way, storms of De reavemenat and trouble may trike your soul, but God will see you tarougn. Butid not on the earth. det your af f ections on things aa heaven, not on tnings on earin. ?nis is a perisning wordi La flowers faae. Is fs.un ains ary up. Its promises Cheat. oes your affections upon Cnrist and eaven. I re joice, my dear breturen and sisters in Christ, tat the fLght will afmer awhnile be ended. Not al ways beaten or the storm. Not al ing on weary wings. There is a warm dovecot of eternal rest wnere we shall find a place of comfort, to the everlasting jray of our soul.O, they are going up all the time-going up from this church--going up from all the families and from all tne trae churches of the land, the weary doves seeking rest in adovecot. On, that in that good land we may all meet wnen our trials are over! we cannot get into the glorious pres enc- of our departed ones unless we have been cleansed in the same blood that washed their sins a way. I kno w this is true of all who have gone in, tnat they were plunged in the blood, th't tney were uloosed from the nays sop branch. Tnen they went singing into glory. See that ye refuse not him that as~esketh, for af they escaped not who refuse him that spakre on earth how much more shall not we es cape it we turn away fromn him urat speaketh from heaven. Sica of the war. A dispatch from Barcelona says: "All Barcelona is heartily sick of the war. The people regard it as merely a continuation of the Cuban war, which has paraly zed business for three years. Recently the government call ed upon the manufacturcrs of Barce lona voluntarily to contribute $60,000 for the defense of the town. ['hey replied that they had already paid most of the expenses of thbe govern ment and of the defenses of Spain, adding ; 'If the Yankee ad miral comes here, we shall invite him to dinner.' " Esteiaby oannibals. Mail advices received from Australia contain a b-tof accourt of the cannibal outrage in New Guinea. A number of native prisoners held at Mombare escaped and fled to the bush tribes in that neighborhood. The fugitivus gathered a str oog force and returned to Mombare, Tbey attacked a peace ful village below the polics camp, wnose people they suspected of treach ery, and carried off all the women. They captured and killed 18 men, 10 of whom they ate. CONDITION OF CROPS. TH EIG-4 TH WEt KLY WEATHER AND CROP BULLETIN ISUED. Wat Y..ang rops are D4ing W.zt the Obte-ve:a All Over the :ta C Repurtio Eesdq-arters - he If 'lat'en Cousoll d.t d. The fellowing is the weekly crop bulle:in of the 6outh Carolina section of the climate and crcp service, Uni ted S:ates departm-nt of agrizuiture, issued Tufaday by DirEctor Bsuer: The tem;ralure cowtin ud flieh du riLg the wtek, wnth duy t-mptrtu-e ragning betmeen 8' aid O tr., latver extreme was reachtd on the 28.h at a few places, 0-i the 29-I at many anud on twe 30.b q ii.e grnerally . The oight temperatures ranged be tween 54 anla 75 The m.nimum oc curred at Wainalla on lh- 25th. The mean temperature 0' the we-k was 78, the normal for the same period is ao u 74 Scautered showers, heavy in placr-s, but gvnerally liebt, occu-red on the 21 h, 25.n and 26tn. The weks rain a was unevenly diitrnouted In DArington, Florence, Meilboro, Hor ry, Giarendon, Marion, Sumter, Pick e. s and Greenville counties the rain 'all was in places quits heavy and nearly all portions o1 tnose counties received enough rain for the present needs of crops L Wilhamsburg, Sumter, Chester field. Orangeburg, Berkeley, Lancas ter, Ocinee, 3aamberg, Richland, New Oerry, Hampon, Charleston, Aiken and Cnester c aunties the rainfall was very partial a d rarely heavy enough to do much good, wtiis in Anderbon, Fairela, Greenwood, Edgefneld, L-ax ingon, Barnwell, Laurens, Kershaw, Union, York, Chester, Gaff uey, Spar tanburg, Aiken, Abbeville, Dorches ter, Hampton and Beaufort the show ers were light and widely scattered, and gava but little relief from the pre vauing drougns. In portions of An aerson, Abbeville, Greenwood, Aiken, Edefield and saiuda conaties no rain or measurable amount has fallea in from four to five weeks. Tne average * the measurements for the week is 0.70 and the approxi mate normal is 180 inches. Fourteen places reported measure meats of one inch or more, and 41 places reported measurements of less tnan one inch ranging between 0 03 and 0,91. In many sections wells are beginnmg to fail and streams are at extremely low stages. Tne records of former years encourages the belief and sustains the h aps Luat tLe drougnt wulsaon oe relieved Damaging hait siormas occurred in Bamaerg Greenville ad Spartanburg counties, and without doing any ap preciable damage in York and Sumter. Tnere was sligntly more than an average amount of brignt sunshine; the eeumated percentage for the State was 81 per ceut. of th- possiole. Tae winds were generally light, hot and dry westerly or sou*herly and variabie on two days. Wnere soowers fell to any extent, crops made rapta improvement, but waere the rainfall was ight or there was none, cropa made little or no growwa and even deteriorated, except cotton wnich made slight improve ment. The corn crop is in a very unsatis factory condicion over most of the Sate. In mine ssutheabt-rn counties toe stanais are very uneven winn some altis large enouga to tassel, and equally aa maay Nfaere the plants are eu. a fewe ines high. The same ir regutarity inasta;.d, prevaus over the entire S.ate. Cr;, bud and wire worms are damaging corn very mucn. Late planted and replanted corn slow to come up except where plenty o rain sel. Troo dry in most places to plant bottom lands. Some oat stuoble panted to corn. In northeastern coun ties corn is generally in fine condi tion. Corn has been well cultivated and flids 4re citan and free from grass Witing (luring the heat of the day. There was a general improvement in the condmton of coitone very shrgnt in tae counties and parts of couatues where urougth; rrevails, and marked where the rainitali was heavy enough to soak the ground. Cut worms have damaged cotton in many places Late planted and replanted fields not up yet in the~ western couaties the grouud being too dry for germination. Over taie eastern, east central and Pee Dee sections of the State cotton is doing Well, and chopping to stand. is about ditaed, while over the west ceatral north entral and western e~unties cotton is undersid, of irregular and incomplete stands, and much not yet uap, wnile chopping to stands is nut partly finished. Fields are clean and in fine tilth Sea island cotton looks miserable from tne i f cts of the prevailing drought. Wheat harvest has begun in a few localities and will be general by the 5thl of June Tneo prospects c atinue to indicate a large yield. Rust con fined to blades. Oats harvest has extended to the more western couaties and is nearly finished, for winter so wn, in eastern c >unties. Yields continue good, and on moist lands the yield is heavy. Spiing oats are either very poor or else complete failures owing to lack of rain at the right time. A few local ities report the crop not turning ouit well wail. other lccalities say it is the best crop in many years. The continued warm weather has improved rice, which is doing welL. Some grassy fields in Berkeley. There is danger of salt water reaching the rice fields on account of low stage of water in the rivers. Tobacco was greatly benefitted by the sho wers which visited a large por tion of the tobacca raising sections, but there is urgent need o: a general heavy rain for this cr-op Worms are already numerous and have damaged the crop to a slight extent. In Flor ence county bad stands are reported; else where stands are quite even and full. Field peas ara being planted on stubble lands and in with corn. There is much delay in setting s weetpotato slips, the ground being two dry although many slips were set during the week. In places enough rain fell for this work and some wa tered the plants by hand. Irish potatoes are not doing well. They need rain. Colorado beetles are nu -erous and destructive, in the nor therm counties. Durned at the tskaS. A special to the News frosa Shreve port, Ls., says: A taousand people gathered at Doyline, about 18 miles from here, to witness the burning at the stakes of William Street, a negro who attempted the assault and mur der of Mrs Parish. The crime was committed on the night of May 30. Street was 28 years of age. He con fessed the crime to a colored minister, but said a negro minister named John SR aodes was implicated. He was tied to the stake, and flames started at 1 o'clock. It was a sickening sight which lasted 10 minutes, when Street was a charredi mass. Well-known lawyers made speeches, warning the crowd of negroes that such crimes would not be tolerated in a civilized community. The woman whom Street: assaulhed is in a most critical condition and could not identify Street wnen caught until a doctor held open her VIGH PRiCE OF W4Ar. HOp o.tatve Etok-s on the ig Deia Made by Joe Leiter. Editor Washington Post: Yu bre usualty so acc irate when ycu invcke facts that I read with sur prise your attempted defente of "Ja" Leiter, and incidentally of opion gambling in yesterday's Post. You characterize as unspeakably wicked certain expressions of leading Knigbts o' Labor and othe rs which recently appeared in a New York paper. The unspeakable wickedness of the labor men apparently is only less in your estimation than that of the uume nition able paper ia publishing them. In your defense of the man and the method ycu spfeal to the facts, and charge those who bold cntrary views with deliberately deceiving the people as to the facts. Can the editor of The Poet be seri ous when he says L-iter has not speculated or gambled in futures or options? The merest tyro in the ex change methcds knows that his trar.s actions from start to finish were speculative turely, ad the viry essence of gambing. It is true, as you say, he "bought the actual wheat in the open market at the prevailing prices." But he bought it solely be cause it became necessary in order to win his outstanding bets. Tne esence of the transaction was like this: Leiter bet ten million dol lars. say, that wheat would go above 70 cents by a :ertain date, and the higher above the bigger would be 'Le stakes according to an agreed scale. He put up his stakes, and then wib all the power of unlimited m mney, he went to work to force the price above 70 centa in order that he m ght win his bets. The higher above 70 cents he could force it, the bigger would be bis winnings. By thimble rigging methods well known on the exchanges, he forced the price up to 77 cents. Then it occurred to him, if he could get control of the actural wheat, he could demand dlivery of actual wheat instead of the margins. In that event, his antagonists would have to come to him for wheat to fulill their gambling contracts, and so he could force the price up indetinitely. That is precisely what he did. He bought up all the wheat in the market -at what price I At the price he him self hal fixed by manpulating toe figures on the exchange Then what? Having control of tne actual wheat and of the gambling contracts as well, he actually forced Ine price up to $185 per bushel. And yet rhe Po.t ssys Leiter is not responsiole for tne niLher price of bread. Ho -vever we may dis agree about terms descrip~ive of those acts, there can be no ruboing out in fact that the price went up from 77 cents to $L85 aft er Leiter bought ac tual wheat, How, then, can rne Post say that "if the cost of wheat nas been increased, it is the result of natural causes over waicn no operator had or could have had the least :ontrol?" It is oegging the question to say that the increased price inures to the pro ducers of wheat. It is not only ua true, but disingenuous. Tais increase in price has taken place ia the maia since the producer parted witn nis pro duct. It is always so, not onliy in re sp:ct to wheat, bt in respect to cot on and every ocner sutj-:ct o! option gambling. But suppose the producers did ge. the benefit of toese gambling opera ions in tais instance Ht ins does taiat help the producers who had to sell last year and the year berore, and for ten years past, while tne marget was under control of tne "bears?" The Knights of Laoor are right "Jo" Leiter and his class, and the ex changes which make them possibse, should bs abated by la w. They per form no us::ful functions commeusurt ate with the evil they do. I have a bill pending before a ccm mictee of the tdouse whicn will ac.:om plish that purpose, and i the peopie woo are forced to pay more for oread, or go Jacking, by reason of these gain bling operations, will help, suca aous~es will not occur agatn. (Germa ay aau Russia nave legtiation for cue protec tion of the producers and consumers of bread and o;,aer agricultural pro ducts. Will this country be less con siderate of the masses? I nand yotu here with a copy of my bill and of my speeca thereon, and asux that you revie w your facts as weu as your opinion on tnis absor bing ques tion. J. WILLIAM ST OKS. House of Rupresentuves, May .30, 1893. ________ A BIG FAL.URE. a Aftlata Firm False for a Large AmounS. A dispatch from Atlanta says Juige Lumpkin, at 1 o'ciock Wean soay mnorning appointed Henry Wennousen temporary receiver f or tiae Muudy & Brewater company Vne fica faimea during the day for $160),000 amu mrt gages amounting to $105 43'2 .'ere rd in the clerk's odice agaiat tue comn pany . As a result of tue f aiure of Moody & Bre water, dimiley & Co, 158 Decatur street, ails. Iained for $7,500. G*ary 8 Bre wster, the ju.aior me Per of the tirm has lelt A ata, le aV tng notaiaug behnad bus a note to h:s partner, Mr. Jona T. Mooay, say .mg that on account of great losses, ise will remain out of town for a snort wnile. The assets of the company are estt mated at about $100,000, wane cae iLa bilities wi11 reaca $160 ,o00 a,:co:dul4 to the statement of Mr Moody. IL is said, on reliaole auenoricy, no we ver, inat the concern o wes money to tae amount of $350 000. It is said tae firm o wes $1510 u00 in Georgia alone. Las failure was caused oy apectaaon in cotton, waeac, ecocacs and tonuds. Mr. Bre wster, in tae note he le-ft Mr Moody, stated that he lost $52 00)0 in speculation in Atlanta anid $2J.Ll00 :a New York. Mr. Moody sai~a tooay that the firm alone has lost $60,000 ia speculauion in cotton and wnest. The firm had Dean in ouainess but three months and, wnile engaged in the wnoiesale dry goods o iCLue-5, opi erated under the fli iaa-nes o Moo.n & Brewster, Soutnern Facurie Gu~auo company, Mooa.y Loan and Bauut og company and F A. 8.nilse4 & .30 Mr. Smilley, wno has also Ia. lo, is a orother-in la w of Mr Moody. The failure is the largest that has ever' occarred in Atlanta. ?ne ase ts are hardly one-third wnat the liani. I ties are said to bo, and the credu-o-'s include people in all parts of thet Umi ced States, east of the R~cky Mouu tains. The bill for receiver, which has been filed, makes many allegations, and an amendment 1will be tiled tomorrowa morning, which is said to be of a sen sational character. The senior partner said tonight: "I do not believe that Mr. Bre ester is far away. He left, in my opinion, solely because he could not bear to face wnat he knew was coming. He left here Saturday nigat, alttnoughi I kne w nothing of the conditions of atfairs until Monday morning." Another A ppeaL. The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Mail says: "Spain has ad dressed another appeal to the powvers to intervene in the war, and Austria is prepared to accede, but only in con .itian wltk otker powe-s" THE H ONOR POLL. Mas*- Rwi o! the Yalmetto RHie2s. A, ker, 4. U. The foliowin ii the muster roli of tbe P :me to R iles, of A-ken. S. C , ncw C L. First reeiment, Scuth Carciina volunteers Co3131ISSIONED OFFICERS Claude E. Sa w-er, cp'ain, ia Xyer, Cr ioquepin, sil2e. Willis .1 Durca-, fi's s ieu'eant, pl:n-Er, Barnwell. sir gle. Jm.es A Wiii, secd lieutenint. s-.udent. 'Wfl:s-oo, sin2le NON CO313IISSIONED OFFICERS George P. Auley, first sergeait, fartmer. Aiken singale. Gecr e W. Nevils sicoLd tergeant, p tiian, Blackcville, single. Wihiim A. Collett, sergeant, mer chant Eigetield, single. Carroli D. Na7ce, sere eant, ttud ent, Cross HJU, single Williai R. Wright, sergeant, mer chant, BAm'oer, married. Ricbaid G. Stone, sergeant, lawyer, Greenville. single. Henr, A. Wright, corporal, mar chazrt, Binherg, single. Willia-n Pricher, corpora], fsrmer, Weirners, single. Adlen A. Perry, cirporal, carpenter Moonetta. single. Albert E HilJ, corporal, clerk, AlL Mont, Mich . singlej. J. s -pa E Harley. corporal, student Williiston, single. Mike H. Murray, corporal, conduc tor, Aikej. single. CUiarles H. Peeples, musician, far mer. Wnaley. single, L:ais H. Troath, musician, clerk, Williston, il. Lawbon K ~Gunter, artificer, car ptnter, Aiken, single; S.imuel 0olvan, waganer, nigb watenman, E let-field. single. PRIVATES John W. Airam, farmer, Whitmere signgle. O:rin Alexander, engineer. Eureka, Oao, single. Wya'.t Backins, railroader, Charles ton, bingile, Ja:epn A Bell, bookkeeper, Char leston, single. Alb-:rL S Barry, plumber, Charles toa, single. Josepn A. Best, farmar, Ulmer, single, Pnaraoh J. Bottom, manufacturer, R_ ckey. Neb.. single. Partiu3 D. Bro wn, laborer, Charles too, single. R per H Bassey, farmer, Modac, siligle. Henry Dempsey, blacksmitb, Hamp tonsiagle. Clarence Die, farmer, Batesburg, strgle isaac 0 Elmunds, salesman. New Y.irk, singte. Cnarles L. Ed wards, millman, Kill ian, single Munroe Fennel, farmer Sylvania, Ga , single. Eljti M. Free, farmer. Bamberg, single Ryerson S. Guess, student, Den m Arx, single. Joan . Hawkins, batcher, Green ville, single. Gideon C. Hair, constable, Willis on, singl-, George H. Hope, carpenter, D.n mark. single Edivard W. Hlzman, fArmer, Barn Well, single. Jahn H Holman brakemAn, Den markr, single. Joain J H~lmes, farmer, Suthber ry, N Y., siuele. James at Huist, telegrapher, John ston, singie. James J. Jeffcoat,painter, Barn well, single. Eu-est Jaines, miliman, Langley, single. Linton L. K-mnnedy, painter, Dan mar k, single. O.ti, R Kennedy, farmer, Aiken, single. Henry Kirkland, laborer, Aiken, single. Jones Leonard, brickmaker, Lex ingtou, N C , single. Jake L itt, mallman, Langley, sin gle Benjamin S. Moore, farmer, Bara well. single. John 3. Moore, farmer, Barnwell, single. Ratus R Moore, merchant, Barn weil, singie Charles F. Mann, millman, Rck Hill, single. Jrio. L Neece, labarer, Swansea, married. Robert Q Nevils, wago ier, Barn wyeli, singite Clitton Peake, farmer, Kersha w, single. William- Pearson, millmnan, Starr form P. 0 . icngle. William F. Perrin, clerk, Abbevi 11 single. Lawrence D Padgett, farmer Mont - morenci, single. Henry J. Price, Jr., farmer, McCor mick, single. James A. Price, farmer, Bamnberg, single. Joaeph G. Pri'.cher, sawyer, Wei mers, single John H . Prince, farmrr, Modoc, single. Joseph S R~ 3dd. miliman, Lungley, single. Jonn H Reese, millman, Aagusta, single. Henry L. Ra well, wheel wright, E Iko single Wade H. Sucker, farmer, S wansea, single. Wilson L. Sheridan, farmer, Holly Hill, single. Aloyed M,, Smnith, brick mason, Hop Mill No 2, N. C., single. Coke Smith, miliman, Crim, single. Charles G. Santag, farmer, Denmark single. Cnarles L. Stanbes, undertaker, Aiken, single. George S. Taylor, millman, 03er, bingle. William E. Turner, farmer, Cope, single. dq iire Usery, farmer, Beldoc, sin gle. Thomas M. Usery, farmer, Beldoc, single. James L . Whiting, milnan, Paco let, married. George Whittle, millman, Langley, single. Jann H. Wiggins, farmer, Peaks, single. moven M. Wig~ ns, farmer, Peaks, single. John Willia-as, farnier, Langley, Win. A. Wingard. printer, Aiken, single. Cats. T. Wisenan, builder, Elber ion, Ga., sirngle. WVm. M. Young, farmer, Camden, single. ________ Gone t , the Froznt. Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock the First Regimnent lef. Columbia for Ch'.canauga, where they will remain until tney are fully e gipped. It is likely tney will then oe sent to Porto Rico. B fare heaving Columbia the soldiers were made a parting address by Gov. Ederbe. It took fx r trains to carry the regiment. Four Liven Lost. Reports have been received Thurs day of great damage done by a torna do in D:K a b cunaty, M2.. causing the loss of four lives. The dead are: Wife and three children of Calvin Smith, living eight miles north west of M-msle. f PANIaRCS DESPERITE. Os.p als I) .rr. 8a33 Hiar cu's Men Wil Fight Like !av g-e. C.)'5i J. H Dorst has bcen doirg sonr- "trv darirg and dangerojs work for :he gover , mnt. says a Key West d pa-c. lie ha; zaien his ife in his hand a eczen times His instructions ve-e to assii: the UCahans i making e WastIo wt ice Ullited Sa.tesoi ciass rd t tna: te R-miington Rnd S;>riiet. r I 9, 'or wr:ie Ger. Go m: z. X . g -i :n. sten t ,. rt iuto r4,u- Bi o nr thi, wAs a niein grav-r wo i<. It Ass ascer ts.:I serau i. rifttf-c i;e -Urce W M~ w aa t~r><ano goceral~y. ab *. oat s r a fi.Cat Spain in ten'!i pu.tiae uO. j. giog from the evii-nce obiisate iap-.ain Dors; sns: "Sa intends filhting with the fe roeny 0 a ce U -y ago Tae cap:ur ed mar will receive about the treat mtLat acco:ded to captives by the Api~ches." He begs to dissipate the i-p-ession, if ary !uen be current, that it will ce any easy maL.tr to drive out Spain's s> d:ery. -Iris well, sals he, "to baar in mnd that Soain has in Cuoa between 60 0UO ana 75,000 soidiers, wnc have survived two epidrmics, and the bid food and worse sanitary arrangements of Spaxuth Darracks. Trese men re ligiously telieve tnat, if captured, tneir inroa-.s wil instantly oe cu.. Their superior ( ffi-ers tell them this, tne priests declare .nat it, is truC. lu tue drst two or three oattles these sci diers will fight with true Latin dee peration. Tne United States army go i g to Cuba may as well understanu that it business will be serious war. Tae native population will help us all it JAres Finally, tne sooner we be gin tne better. Tais talk about the terrors of tne ciimate is numbug of toe most arrant kind The water of Cuba is excellent, and the climate is a very good one. Those fellows who come here from Arizona will think the cnange simply heavenly." BG : ENSATION INCH ARLESTON Tne P.;ze Orew on a Spanlah Prlzs Ifrea In.o. Adispatch from Onarleston to the Augusta Cnroaicle under date of Juse 2 say: A big aensation is on in this city, caused by tne aleged firing of ceraiti members of the CaralinaYacht ciuu upoa tne 8panisa prizs bhip Ri%. rne tiring occured in the harbor jyst off tme Y-cat c:u ) aouse aad was j e turaeti oy tne seamen of t-he prize crew, woo taought an attack was ociul mad i on tieir vessel. Fortu nately no rnjary resulted to eitber party. The members of the Yacht club deny that iney nad a nlau in te affair and are highly indigaant because Lsy are caarged witn naving fired on tae steamer. Taey eay tae snoouing was done oy par.ies at the head of the Commercial wnarf, who are no- men oers of the club. Tae marshall anl saamen of the prize ship Rita say tMat tae tiring was done by members of the Sacat cla, as taeshots came from the c:uo house. re fire was returned from the por t battery of tue ship, but fortunately, tne guns were not trained directly on the ciuo nouse. Tne priza commis sruuers nave taken a nand in the mat ter and an inveaiugation witi be h:ld. Snould tnre fac be estaoliahed that the pr.z: snip was fired on by members ef tae yacat club One affair will take a se riou, turn and wili terminate unforsu nasely :or toe gulay parties. Tne Carolina Yacat ciub is compos ed of tae swell set of tne to wn, wno are also metnoers of tire St Cecela society . Tne affar has caused a gi eat sensation, owing to tire prominience of the pacties impl:cated, and some start ling developnienss are exected. Omeiers on Oar Ba: tleshps. Just at this time, when our eyes are fixed with ad miration upon the brave men who are illustrating the prowess of our navy, we should take advan tage of the opportunity wnich now presents itself to learn something of the internal organization of this ina portant branch of the governments Idefense. In the first place, we find on mak ine inquiry into the matter that naval illiiers are divided into t wo classes, viz, the line officers and the staff offic ars; the former consisting of those whe hold the various naval ranks from ensign to rear admiral, and the latter, consisting of specialists, such as engineers, chaplains and physici anrs. Under the head of line officers come rear admirals, commodores, captains, commanders, lieutenant cornmanders, lieutenants and ensigns Under the head of staff officers come engineers, physicians, paymasters. constructora, chap!ains, civil engineer and professors of mathematics. Of engineers, there are three grades, vfz., chief engineers, passed assistant en gineers and aisistant engineers; of physicians, there are five grades, viz, medical directors, medical inspectors surgeons, passed assistant and assist art surgeins;of paymasters there are fire grades, viz, pay directors, pay in speci ors, paymasters, passed assistant paymasters and assistant paymasters; of constructors there are two grades, viz, constructors and assistant con structors. On account of the intricate and ponderous mechanism of our modern battleships, great importance attaches to the skill and talent of the engineer. Men of ordinary experience and capa city cannot grapple with the responsi bilities of the posrni ro In order to invest the engineer a n b -.coper digni ty it is now proposed to uan him one of the line officers, with correspond ing and appropriate rank. This act of j .istice to the engineer mir t long ago have been performed, bu when the officers were first divided iu-> line and staff offcars, the engineer #nq not the important man on b ard which he has since becvrte Ther-e should be no delay in c-n cer:- ga o this worihy officer the d:gary which properly belongs to him Every citizen of the U nited States should be familiar with organization of the navy. Wnat the country owes to this department of service cannot be computed, but t -' d-abt is ic ircly less th an what it o- u that other great de partment. v.z , the a rmy. BAth alike have advanc d the glory of the nation's ensign. A Big Fire. A confisgration at Peshawer Ind ia, which was not mastered fcr 21 rsr~ destroyed 4 000 houses, dois~ dasmage to t'he ai ai -4 . .i e--- c re-o ruptes as $3J U.eJ ou L'n is supposed to be tire recard fire of India. Oi m pi a cap tian Dies. Tne na~vy department has received a cabiegram announcing the death at Kobe, Japan, Saturday of Capt. Charles V. Gridley of the cruiser Olympia, Admiral Dewey's flagship. Na particulars are given. MRs. Ri~bley D. Evans takes a live ly interest in toe navy. Her husband, "Fighxting Bob." commands the Iowa, her brother commands the Indiana, her son is on the Massachusetts, and her son in-la w is on the-Ne w Ycrk; arA she has two daughters who h ave voi unteered and are training for nursQs. the Royai is 4he highest grade baking powder known. Actual teats show It goes one. third farther than any other brand. POWDER Absolutely pure M N o RO A rCI A si. P*ERCO., tE* yOR,. We Are a- Wa'- Wir Lonat'es Under this caption the New Yoik Journal says perhaps one reason why we dont get on better in our war with Spain is that we fir d it difficult to realize that we a-e manotu7ring against a nation of lusatn s. Wey ler , the most important rt i i:arv mrember of the collection, nay j.r-t b, :n' e himself, but he as:umle-i isht aLIS 'oun. trymen are, for he tells them that tie right thing to do is to give bim an army of 50,000 men with which to in vade the Ua.ted States and suojagate the Yankees. I. would be disrespect ful to regard Mgr. Saer z de Urturi y Crespo, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, as a prelate not up to the aver age of Spanish intelligence, yet we learn that at a banquet given there the other evening to Admiral Cervera. His Grace delivered a speech in which he said: "It is LO' sufficient to be vic torious on the sea. Tne Spanish fig must float on t.e Capitol," meaning Washington. '.his unfortunate ec clesiastic, in common with the mass of Spaniards, is plainly under the dela. sion that it was Montojo and not Dewey who won at Manila, and that our other fleets have suffered disasters about which nobody outside of Spain and Cuba has heard. The course of low diet which i in store for Mgr. Saenz de Urturi y Crespo, Archbishop of blockaued Santiago de Cuba, may, by Heaven's grace, be the means of clearing his brain and restoring him to reason. But nothing can be, hoped for in the case of the demented Spani ards as a race. In their histories this war will remain a series of brilliant victories for them. Tneir mad chron iclers write only of vic.ories for mad readers. Gibraltar is still to Spain a Spanish and not a British possession. T.e C andid at ea. War or no war the politicians and candidates are Dound to have their in ning. No pledges have been fited as yet, oat tne Columbia Record says the foliowieg candidateS are likely to be in the race this sammer: . For Governor-Governor W. H. Ellerbe, Colonei R. B Watson, E. L. Archer, Joel B:uason, George D. Tlman and 0. L champer;. Lieutenant Goveraor -19. B M Sweeney and C. C Foatherstone. Secretary of Stae-D. H. Tomp kins, R. K. Cleveland, 9. R. Cooper and R R Hempnili. Cumptroder General-J. P. Dir ham and L. P. Eton. Attorney Genral-G. Duncan Bel inger, Cole L. Ble.'se, H. H E rans, George S. Mo wer, Knox Livingstone, U. P. Townsend and John T. Sioan. State Treasurer-Dr. W. H. Tim merman. Aujutant Genera:- J. Gary Watts, J. W. Fioyd and? Ren:-y T. Thompson. Superintendent of E jucation-T C. Robinson, W. A. Brown and E D. Smth Railroad Commissioner-B. B. Es' ans, H. R Thomas. J. W. Gray, N. H. Stanse 1, J. E Pettigre w, Calvin W. Garris. E. B. Berry and J. A. Sligh. Snerintendent of Penitentiary W. A. Neal, H. H. Czu n, D. J. Gri! fith. Some of these, however, are not strongly probable. Among the rath er d oubtful are Geo. D. T dlman and . L. Schumpert, for governor, and Henry T. thOmpsonl fo? adjutant generaL. None of the others is as certain as death and taxes, but they are about as certain as an uncertainty can be. This State in Osher Wara Now that war is upon us facts con cerning South Carolina's pla::e in previous wars may be worthy of notice and may also act as a spur upon the patriotism of any who may be lackiner in that estimable quality. In 1812' the six New Engla d States furnished, to be exact, 5 162 men, and the little and much-abused State of South Car olina furnishe d 5,696 or over 500 more than all of New Eagland. In that war the entire north furnished 58,552 and the entire south, with a smaller population, furnisbed 96 812 or not very far from double the number fully double ccnsidering the popula tion. In the Mexican war Massachusetts furnished 1 047 men and all the otber Ne w E->gland States furrnished 1,532. Plcky litte Souto Carolina furnished 5,262, or more than dcuale as many men as all of New Eig lard, while the entire north f urnished 23 054 men and the entire scuth furnished 43,630 men. The facts and fi.'ures are taken from the archives at Washington, "Thorns in the Flesh," page 209. History must not be perm:tt. d to record thet failure of South Carolina to furnish the q iota called for the present emergency. May the God of battles sh~ei!d our ga! lant braves, whether afbat or asbor',. is the prayer rising from many a bearr.. SoME time ago the Has'. Theodore J. Snaffer resigned the iar o a e 'a a Methcdist church in Brosw navil , Pa., to go to work in a rollinzs muil, soon became a boss roller, and h ~s j at been elected president of' the local branches of the Amalgamated Asscciation of Iron and S.eel wzrks in Ne' Yrk. MISS Clara Barton establiahed an: orphan asylum in Havana, over the entrance of which she had inscribed "Lee Orphan Asylum arad Sanitari um." After Lee left Havana Blanco showed his spite and at the same tine is smallness by having "Lee" erased. Lee will reciprocate by helping raises Blaco out of Havana THE PRughkeeps'e, N. Y , Eagle as~ serts that this country has now won ii e right to aive the PhuippicLe I,an.da a new name, and suggests that they sh uld be called Dewey Iclands here after, inasmuch as "we do not want any goxd American soil named after that old brute Pnilip of Spain. MR Arthur Sewa'l, of Bath, ne-, candidate for vice p-+-s'dent on the democratic ticket in 1S96 bas cfferea the ship Rbanoke, now at San Fran ico, to the governa e .t to transport troops. He says the snip can be tisttd up for about 2.500 men an~d 1 000 tots of freight. _____ THERE is no doubt now that Spain's flying squadron, comnposed of tour splendid cruisers and, two torn do boat destroyers, is imprisoned izn San tiago harbor. This fleet is in r ur opinion doomed to capture or destruc