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TALMAGUS SERMON. CHARACTERISTIC AND ELOQUENT SERMON BY REV. DR. TALMAGE. He Takes For ifis SibJect Promn 0onquest to Coqueest-Is 4lIatituty IRetr. grad Ing and the 1ible Losing its Hold?-An Encouraging 0lacourse. B ROOKLYN, Mfarch 18.-In the Tab. ornacle today llev. Dr. Talrage preach. ed a most elcquent and characteristically vlgorus sermon in refutation of the oit renewed assertion of the enemies of re - ligion that Christianity is retrograding and the Bible losing Its hold upon the hearts and consciences of men. The subject ot the discourse as announced was, "From Conquest to Conquest,12 the text being taken fLom Amos ix, 13, "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord that the plowman shall overtake the reaper." Picture o a tropical clime with u sea son so prosperous that the harvest reaches clear over to the planting thme, and the swarthy husbaundman swinizn.g the sickle in the thick grain alnost lfels the breath ol' the horseson his shoulders the horses hitched to the plow preparing for a new crop. "Behold the days conic saith the Lord, that the plowman shai overtake the reaper." When is that? That is now. That is this day when hardly have you done reaping one har - vest before the plowman la getting ready for another. I know that many declare that Christ ianity has collapsed; that the Bible is an obsolete book; that the Christian church Is on the retreat. I will here and now show that the opposite of that is true. An Arab guide was leading a lecich infidel across a desert, and ever and anmon the Arab' uide would get down i the sand and pray to the Lord. It disgusted the French infidel, and after awhile its the Arab got up from one of his prayers the Infidel said, "How do you know there Is any God?" and the Arab guide said: "How do 1. know that a ani an d a.camel passed alot our tent last night? I know it by the footprinta in the sand. And you want to know how I know whether there is any God. J9ook at that sunset: Is that the footslop of a man?" And by the same process you and I have conic to understand thm this book is the footstep of a God. But now let us see whether the Bible is a last year's almanac. Lot us see whether the church of God is in a Bull Run retreat, muskets, cantceus and haversacks strewing all the way. The great English historian, Sharon Turner, a man of vast learning and of great ac curacy, not a clergyman, bul. an attor ney as well as a historian, give this over whelming statistic in regard to Christi anity and i regard to the number ot Christians in the diflerCt coitul Ies. In the ficst century, 500,000 Christians; in the second century, 2,000,000 Christ. lans; In the third century, 5,000.000 Christians; in the fourth century, 10,000 000 Christianp; in tho filth cenLury, 15, 000.000 Christins; in theisixth century, 20,000,000 Chriltlano; in the Ceventh century, 24,000,000 C(hristiani; in the eighth century, 30,000.000 Christians; In the ninth century, 40,000.000 Christ: ians; in the tenth century, 50,000 000 Christians; in the eleventh century, 70,. 000,000 Christiane; in the twelfth ccon tury, 80,000,000 Christians; in the thtir teenth century, 75.000,000 Christimns; in the fourteenth century, S0,000,000. Christians; in the I'lfteenth century, 100. 000,000 Christian a; in the m-x teenthii cen tury, 125,000,000 Christitans; in the seventeenth century 155.000,000 Christ lans; In the eighteenth century, 200,000, 000 Christians--a deccadence, as you oh serve, isj only one century auint more than made up in [he following centuries I while it is the usual comaputation thiai there will be, when [ho record of theC nineteenth is mlade up, at leiat 300,000, 000 Christians. Poor Christianit3 ! What a pity it has no friends! Ilow lonesome it, nust be!V Who will take it, out of the poorhiotuse V Poor Christi knitVl Three hundred mill- (I lions in one century. In a few wceks of a the year 1881 2,500,000 copies of the New Testament distributed. Why, the earth Is like an old castle with '20 gates c and a park of artillery ready to thunder down every gate. La.ry anide all Christ endom and see how hecathendomi is he. lng surrolinded and honeycombed and attacked by thuIs nll conqluering gospel. At the beginning of this century there were only 150 missionaries. Now there are 25,000 missionaries and native help era and evangelists. At the beginninmg of thIs century there were only 50,000 heathen converts. Now thero are 1,750, 000 converts from heathendomn. There is not a seacoast on the planet, but the battery of the gospel is planted and ready to march on north, south, east, west. You all know that the chief work of an army is to plant [lie batter-C ies. It may take many days to plant the batteries, and they may (to all their Work in 10 mInutes. Tihiese batteries are .being planted all alon~g the seacosts and m all nations. It may take a good while to plant them, and they may do all their Work in one day. They .will. Nations are to be borni in a (lay, But just come back to Christendom andl recognize the 1 fact that (luring the last 10 years as many people5 have connected thiemselves I with evangelical churches as connected themselves with the churches in the first 1 50 years of this century. C So Christianity is falling back, and the ai Bible, they say, is becoming an obso- C lete book. I go into a court, and where- C ever I find a judge's bench or a clerk's h] desk I find a Bible. Upon what book b could there be uttered the solemnity of C an oath? What book us apt to be put C in the trunk of the young man as lie leaves for city life? The Bible. What n shall I find in nine out of' every ten t homes ini Brooklyn? Th~e Bible. In r nine out of every ten homes in Christen- d dom? The Bible. Voltaire wrote [lie o prophecy that Ithe Bible in thue nine- r teenth century would become extinct. t The century is nearly gone, and as there Ib have been more Bibles pubbishedl In the I latter part of the century than in thus a former prt of the century do you think t the Bible will become extinct in ther next six years? 1 have to tell you that the room in which Voltaire wrote that prophecy was - cro'wded from floor to ceiling with Bibles1 from Switzerland. Suppose the congress of the United States ~should pass a law that thoro should be no more Bibles printed in America and no mnore Bibles dIt there are 40,000,000 grown lateI the United States, there would 00lOO,O00 people In an army to put down euch a law and defend their right to read the Bible. But suppose the congress of the United States should - . wako a law against the reading or pubh-. c4ti9o of any other book, how many peojile would go out on such a crusade? Could ao ge 4 ,00,000p to go t aud rik ehr yies In donee of~ Ikspar' tragedies or nl on's J racts, or Macauley's "History of Eng. and?' You know that there are a thousand non who would die in defense of this aebk where there is not more ,han one man who. would die in do. onso of any other book. You try to usult my common sense by tell. ng me the Bible is fading out ftom the world. It is the most popular book >f the century. How do I know It? I now it just as I know in regard to other books. How many volumes of that book are published? Well, you say, 5,. 000. How many copie3 of that book are published? A hundred thousand. Which is !he more populai? Why, ot course the one that has 100,000 circula tion. And if this book has more copies abroad in the world, it there are five times as many Bibles abroad as any other book, does not that show you that the most popular book on the planet to da, is tho Word ot God? "Oh," nay people, "the oburcli is a collection of hypocrites, and it is losing its power, and it is fading out from the world." is i? A bishop of the Meth. cdist church told me that that denomina. tion averages two new churches every oay of the year. There are at least 1, 500 new Cbristian churches built in American every year. Does that look as though the charch were fading out, as though it were a defunct institution? Which institution stands nearest the hearls of the people of America today? I do not care in what city, ot what neigh borhood you go. Which institution is it? L it the postofict? Is it the hotel? Is it the lecturing hall? Ah, you know it is not. You know that the institution which stands nearest to the hearts of Lihe American people is the Christian church. If you have ever soon a church burn down, yiu have seen thousands of peoplo standing and looking at it-poo. ple who never go into a church-the tUars raining down their cheeks. The whole story is told. You may talk atout the church being a collection of hypocrites, but when the diphitheria sweeps your children oil whom do you send fot? The postmas ter, the attornev general, the hotel keep. er, alderman? No, you send for a minis ter of this Bible religion. And if you have not a room in your house for the eb. scquies what building do you solicit? Do ),ou any, "Give me the finest room in the hotel?" Do you say, "Give me that theatex?" Do you say, "Give me a place in that iublic building where I can lay my (lead for a little while until we say a prayer over i,?" No. You say, "Give us the house of God." And it there is a song to be sung at, the obsequies whatdo you want? What ioes anybody want? "The Marseillaise" bymil "God save the (Queen?"P Our own grat national air? No, They want the hymn with which they sang their old Christian mother into her last sleep, or they want sung the Sabbath school h mn which their little girl sang the last. Sabbath afternoon she was out before she got tiraL awful sickness which broke your heart. I appeal to your com mon eense. You know the most endear ing institution Ol earth, the most popu lar instiution on earth today, is the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The inldols say, "Infidelity shows its success from the fact that Itis every where accepted, and it can say what it will." Why, my friends, infidelity is not half so blatant in our day as it was mn the days of our fathers. Do you know that in the days of our fathers there were pironounced ilidels in public au.i I thiority, andfthey could get any political C poitiou? Let a man today declare him- r ielf antagonistic to the Christian relig- ~ on, and what city wants him for may- r >r, what state wants him for governor, .vhat nation wants him for president or or king Let a man openly proclaim c uimself' the enemy of ouriglorious Chris- sa iamity, and lie cannot get a majority of h 'otes in any state, in any city, In any p ounty, in any ward of America. V 1)0 you think that such a scene could I e enacted now as was enacted in the r< anys of Uobespierre, when a shameless b oman was elevated as a goddess and b ras carriedl in ai golden chair to a cathe-n ral, where incense was burned to her ti ud peCople bowed down before her as a ivine being, she taking the place of the lible and God Almighty, while in the t orridor of that cathedral were enacted a uch scenes of diunkenness and debauch- ( ry and obsceni',y as have never been d nitnesslec? Do you believe such a thing 011(l ossibly occur in Christendom to. al ia'i? No, sir. The p~olice, whether of Y L'aris or N<ey York, would swoop on it. e I know iictdelity makes a good deal h >i t alk ini our day. It is on the princi )le that if a man jumps overboard fromd Cunard steamer lie makes more ox ~itemnent than all the 500 people that t tay on the decks. But the fact that he e amps overboard-does that stop the r hip? L oes that wreck the 500 passen :ere? It makes great excitement when c maii iumps from a lecturing platform t ir frora the pulpit into infidehity. But d ioes that keep the Bible and the church I rom carrying their millions of passen ecrs into the skies? Th'iey say-these men-that science is vercoming religion in our day, They ook through the spectacles of the ifdel icientists, and they say: "It is impos ible that this book can be true. Peo >le are finding it out. The Bible has 'j ot to go overboard. Science is going i o throw it overboard.'' Do you believe d hat the Bible's account of the origin of 1 fe will be overthrown by infidel sci- c ntists who have 60 different theories t bout the origin of life? If they should C ome up in solid phalanx, all agreeing t a one sentiment and one theory, per aps Christiamity might be damaged, ut there are not so many differences of 3 pinion inside the church as outside the f hiurch.* People used to say: "There are so I1 iany different denominations of Chile- t ans. That shows there is nothing In Y aligion." I have to tell you that all ii enominations agree on the two or three 0 r four radical doctrines of the Christian t iligion. 'They are unanimous in regard 3 Jesus Christ, and they are unanimous 0 regard to the divinity of the Scriptures. I low is it on the other sideo 11 split up. Yo'u cannot find b wo of them alike. *Oh, it makes a ne sick to see these literary fops goiag i long with a copy of Darwin under one o' rm and a case of transfixed grasahop- o' >cra and butterflies under the other arm, ai .eling about the "survival of the fittest" n md Huxley's protopl~asm and the nebu- 1B lar hiypothesilI The fact is that some naturalists, just al as soon as they find out the difference it between the feelers -of a wasp and the UI borns of a beetle, begin to patronize the W Almighty, while Agassiz, glorious Ag- 01 sssiz, who never made any pretensions ao being a Christian, puta~ his feet on the loctrine of evolution and says, "I see ~hat many of the naturalists of our day a ire adopting facts which do not bear I >bsezvation or have not passed under >bslervation." These men warring with I iach other-Darwin warring against ti riamarche, Wallace warring against t~ Dope, even Rerschel denouncing FAr guson. They do not agree about 'anything. hey do not agree on embryology; do not agree on the gradation of the species. What do they agree on? Herschel writes a whole chapter on the errors of astronomy. La Place declares that the moon was flot put in the right place. le says that if It been put four times farhter from the earth than it is row there would be more harmony In the universe, but Lionville comes up jusu in time to prove that the moon was put in the ri ht place. Iow many colors woven into the light? Seven says lsaao Newton. Three says David Brewster. How high is the aurora borealis? Two and a halt miles says Lias. One hundred and sixty. eight miles says Twining. How far is the sun from the earth ? Seventy-six million miles says Lacalle. Eighty-two million miles says Humboldt. Ninety million miles says Henderson. One hundred and four million miles says Mayer. Only a little difference of 28 - 000,000 miles! All split up among themi. selves, not agreeing on anythiag. They come and say that the churches of Jesus Christ are divided on the great doctrines. All united they are in Jesus Christ, in the divinity of the Scriptures. While they come up and propose to render their verdict., no two of them agree on that verdict. "Gentlemen of the - jury, have you agreed on a verdict?" asks the court or the clerk of the jury as they come in after having spent the whole night in deliberating. If the jury say, "Yes, we have agreed," the verdict is record ed. But supposo one of the jurymen says, "I think the man was guilty of murder," and another says, "I think he was guilty of manslaughter in the sec ond degree," and another man says, "I think he was guilty of assault and bat tery with intent to kill," the judge would say: "Go back to your room and bring in a verdict. Agree on some thing. That is no verdict. Here these infldel scientists have im - paneled themselves as a jury to decide this trial between inildelity, the plain tiff, and Christianity, the defendant, and after being out for centuries they come in to render their verdict. Gen tlemen of the ury, have you agreed on a verdict? No,no. Then go back for another 500 years and deliberate and agree on something. There is not a poor, miserable wretch in the Tombs court tomorrow that could be con lemned by -a jury that did not agree :n the verdict, and yet you expect us Lo give up our glorious Christianity to please these men who cannot agree on inything. Ab, my friends, the church of Jesus Jhrist, instead of falling back, is on the dvance. I am certain it is on the ad- I rance, O Lord God, take thy sword a rom thy thigh and ride forth to the rictory. 2 I am mightily encouraged because I I Ind among other things that while I his Christianity has been bombarded d lor centuries infidelity has not destroy ad one church, or crippled one minis- I Aer, or uprooted one verse or one chap- I er of all the Bible. The church all the s Lime getting the victory, and the shot 9 md shell of its enemies nearly exhaus- v bed. t I have been examining their ammu aition lately. I have looked all through ;heir cartridge boxes. They have not I ,n the last 20 years advanced one new deA- They have utterly exhasted ~heir ammunition in the battle against ~he church and against the Scriptures, while tihe sword of the Lord Almighty s as keen a t ever was. WIe are just ~etting our troops into line. TIhey are C oming up in companfes, and in regi- I lents, and in brigades, and you will C ear a shout after awhile that will V take the earth quake and tihe heavens e' nig with "Alleluiai" It will be thia, a LLorward, the whole line1" 't And then I find another most en s muraging thought in the fact that the a~ tcular printing press and pulpit seem irnessed in the same team for the h roclamation of the gospel. Every ~ tall street banker tomorrow in New aI ork, every State street banker tomor. t w in Boston, every Third street n mnker tomorrow in Phi ladelphia,every s nuker in the United States and every aerchant will have in his pocket at ~entise on Christianity, a call to re entance-10, 20 or 80 passages of t~ eriptures in the reports of sermons reached throughout these cities and y aroughout the land today. It will be li a in Chicago, so in New Orleans, so ini ' harleston, so in Boston, so in Phila- t: elphia, so every where. c I know the tract societies are doing 1< grand and glorious work, but I tell e on there is no power on earth today k qual to the fact that the American n rinting press is taking up the sermons rhich are preached to a few hundred ti r a few thousand people, and on Men- 'v ay morning and Monday evening, in 0 he morning and evening papers, scat- a bring that truth to the-millions. What ti thought it isi What an encourage- ti lent to every Christian man Isa Besides that have you noticed that uring tbe past few years every one of *3 he doctrines of the Bible came under u iscussion in the secular pressy Do you p *ot remember a few years ago when h< very paper in the United States had ti ~n editorial on the subject, "Is There t uch a Thing as Future Punishment?" s t was the strangest thing that there ti hould be a discussion in the secular e apers on that subject, but every pa- a er in the United States and in Chris- ii endom discussed, "Is There Such a p ~hing as Retribution?" I know there ii rere small wits who made sport of the it iscussion, buLt there was not an intel- ti gent man on earth who, as the result o: fthat discussion, did net ask himself ti hie question, "What is going to be my e' ternal destiny ?" So it was in regard a e Tyndal's prayer gauge. T About 12 years ago, you remember, ol tie secular papers discussed that with 01 xst as much earnestness as the reli- ir ious papers, and there was not a man tE i Christendom who did not ask him- tI sif the questions: "Is there anything i prayer ? May the creature impress nr 1e Creator ?" Oh, what a mighty fact, tt hat a glorious fact-the secular print- hi ig press and the pulpit of the church C ! Jesus Christ harnessed in the same 11 sam I Then look at the international series tt Sunday school lessons. Do you know n tat every Sabbath between -3 and 5 1i clock there are 5,000,000 children study- ir ig the same lesson-a lesson prepared 'a ir the leading minds of the country U id printed in the papers-and then n Les subjects are discussed and given n rer to the teachers, who give them 1i rer to the children, so whereas once- ii 4d within our memory-the children Y bbled here and there at a story in the g Ible, now they are taken through ' om Genesis to Revelation, and we n all have 5,0000children forestalled n r Christianit. My soul is full of er. al tation. I fee as if I could shout-I ti Iil shout, "Allelula. the Lord Gocd d unipotent reignethl" Then you notice a more significant act, ifyuhave talked with people on ita te subject, that they are getting die- O< tistlewith philosophy and science st a matter of comfort. They say it C Des not amount to anything , when at au have a dead c'ild in the house. ht hey tell you when they were sick and yt 10 door of the future seemed opening e: le only comfort thmey could find was in ni the gospel. People are having demoi strated all oyer the land that aciem and- ,hilodphy cahnot solace' tI trouble and woos. of the world, an they want som1 6Other religion, an hey are takigg hristianity,'the ot symp hetic elton Loat ever can into th worl. You just take your scientiflc cons4 lation into that room where a mothi has lost her child. Try In that caH your splendid doctrine of the "suryivi of the ilttest." Tell her that child (ie because it was not woith as much t the other children. That Is your "sui vival of the fittent." Go to that dyin matn and tell him to pluck up courag for the future. Use your tramn condental phraseology upon hin Tell him he ought to be cor confident in the "great to be," and th "everlasting now," and t.he "eterna what is it." Just try your transcend entalism, and your science on him. Go to that widowed soul and tell he it was a geological necessity that he companion should bo taken awa from her, just as in the course of thi world's history the megatheriunt had to pass out of existence, and then yot go on in your scientific consolatior until you get to the sublime fact tha 50,000,000 yeari fron now we ourselvel may be scientific specimenson a geolo gical shelf-petrilled specimens of ax extinct human' race. And after you have got all thougi with your consolation, if the poor af flicted soulis not crazed by it, I wil send forth from this church the plain est Christain we have, and with one half hour of prayer and reading 0o Scripture promises the tear will be wiped away, and the houe from floor to cupola will be floodei with the calmness of an Indian sum mer sunset. There is where I see th triumph of Curiatianity. People aro dissatisfied with everything else. Thel want (od. They want Jesus Christ. Talik about the exact scluces; then is only one exact science. It It not mathematics. Taylor's logarithm, have mauy imporfcetions. The Frenct metric system has many imperfections The only e. act scince is Christinanity -the only tiring under which you car appropriately write, "Quod etat demon strandum." You tell we that two and wo make four. I do not dispute it but it is tiot so plain that two an twc make four as that the Lord God Al might-y made this world, and for a mar the sinner he sent his only begotten ion to die. I put on tLe witness stand to tesiify n behalf of Christianity the church in earth and all the church in heaven iot 50, not 1,000, not 1,000,000, but all ,he church on earth and all the re leemed in heaven. You tell me James A Garfield wag naugurated president of the United tates on the 4th of Maach, 1881. IHow lo I know it? You tell me there were 0,000 persons who distinctly herad his naugural address. I deny that he was naugurated. 1. deny that his inaugur Ai address was delivered. You ark vhy. I lid not see it. I did not he0 t. But you say that there were 20,01t ersons who did see and hear him. a ay .1 cannot take it anyhow; I did nor ea and hear him. Whose testimony vill you take? You will not take my estimony. You say: "You know noth ng about it. You were riot there. Let is have the testimony of the-20,000 iersons who stood before the capitol md heard that magnificient inaugural vhy of course that 1s as your common 'ense dictates. Now, here are some men who say hey never seen Christ crowned in the eart, and they do not believe it is ever one. Thebre is a group of men who iy they have never heard the voice of hrlst. They have never heard the Dice of God. They do net belie~vo it rer transpire or wvas ever head-that tything like it ever occurred. I point 20, 100,000 or 1,000,000 people wvho ~y: "Christ was crowned in our hearts fections. We have seen him and' it him ini our soul, and we have heard is voice. We have heard it in storm id da.1kness. We have heard it again ad again." Whose testimoty will you ,ke'? These men who say they have ot heard the voice of Christ, have not ~en the coronation, or will you take to thousands and millions of Chris ans who testify of what they sa w ith their own eyes and heard w ith loir Own ears? Yonder is an aged Chris tian after 50 ears experience of the pow er of gocd ness in his soul. Ask this man hethier, when he be buried his dead, in relhgon of .Jesus Christ was not a >nsolation. Ask him if through the >ng years of his pilgrimage the L'rdl ver forsook him. Ask him when he ioks for ward to the future if ho has ot a paece, and joy, and a consolation te world cannot take away. Put his istimony or what lie has seen and hat lie has felt opposite,the testimony l' a man who says ho has not seen niyi hing on the subject, or felt any. ling on the subject. WVili you take 10 testimony of people wvho hatve not ien or people who have seen ? You say mnorphia puts one to s'leep. 'on say in time of sickness it is very seful. I deny it. Morphtia never uts anybody to sleep. It never al vlates pain. You ask me wvhy I say lat. I have niever tried it. I never ok it. I deny .that mnorphia is any mothinlg to the nerves or any quiet in mes of sicaness. I deny that morphia ver l)'tt anybody to sleep. Bunt here ce 20 persoan who say they have all ut the s'oothing effects of a physici an's 'escribing morphine. WVhose testimony ill you take-those who took the med inn or my testimony, I never having kenl the medicine? Here is the gospel .1usus Christ-an anodyne for all 0ouble, the mightiest medicine that rery camne down to earth. Here is main who says: "1 dont believe in it. here is no power, in it." Here are her people who say: "We have foutnd it its power and know its soothi ng fluence. It has cured uts." Whose stimnony will you take in regard to is healing medicine? I feel that 1 have convinced every an in this house that it is titter folly take the testimony of those who we never tried the gospel of .Jesus birist in their own heart and fe. We have tens of thousands of itnesses. I bl~oieve you are ready to bke their testimony. Young man, (1o at be ashamed to' he a friend of the ible. Do not put your thumb your vest, as young men ametimes do and swagger about lking of the glorious light of the neteenth century and of there being a need of -a ilble. They have the ght of nature in India and China and ai al the dark places on earth. D~id )n ever hear that the light of nature ive them comfort for their trouble ? hey have lancets to cut and jugger iuts to crush, but no comfort. Ah, Ly friends, you had better stop your topticism. Suppose you are putt in his crisis: Ob, father, your child Is pinal What are you going to say her ? Colonel Ethan Allen was a famous fidel in his day. Is wife was a very insecrated woman. The mother in. ructed the daughter in the truths of iristianity. The daughter sickened id was about to die, and site said to ur father': "F'athter, shall I take aur instructionnor slAalI I take mothi 's itistruction ? I am golog to die >w.1 must hiav ths, matter danidea," - That man, who had been loud in b a infndelity, said to his dying daughte e "My dear, you had better take yo d mother's religion." My advice is t: d same to you, 0 young man-you hi y better take your mother's religo 0 You know how it comforted her. Y( know what she said to you when 1 - was dying. You had better take yo r mother's religion. i A 4ilck Oompitny, d COLUMBIA, 8. C., March 17.-The 5 appeared a few days ago in The 8ta an account of the location, by tb g State's fertilizer Inspectors,'of a Iarg 0 amount of fertilizers in Marlboro coui - 'ty, near the North Carolina line, 1 . which the South Carolina tax tags ha not been affixed. The oflcers wi came across the fertilizers,thought thf I the North Carolina company could I held liable for the violation of the law of this State. But the company was tc r sharp; Had it delivered the * stuff i r Sonth Carolina to the purchasers the r it would have been lie.ble. But instea of delivering it, It got the South Car lina Farmers, who live near the line, t L come across to the factory with the: I wagons and the fertilizers were thu delivered in North Carolina. The farn 3 era brought the stuff in themselves, ar - if the btate gets its tax i will have I I collect it from them. Governor Tilima says the company simply duped an footed the poor farmers of this %Stal into breaking the law. The State wil I however, try to collect the tax from ti farmers, who have the fertilizers I their possession.-State, AAdviee to a Girl. George W. Childs onc'3 said to a gi from the vest, who went to him wit - letters and the hope of getting suft! ent influence to do something in ti arable field of journalism: "Little wc man, if you can do something, go ahea and do it. The world is hungry fc somethihg new. It is an omnivorou creature, but it wants a change cor stantly. Keep as quiet as you car Keep out of men's ways as much a you can, for it is trespassitig to go o private property. Keep yourself i good health, good spirits and go clotnes, and don't try to be a good fe low or one of the boya. Save halt c your earnings. Go to church. Be ag reeable, but reserved, and if some bor able Iran offers you his name an his protection give it all up, marry hir and devote your energies to homemak ing. The business world is no place fo a woman. It is a rough place, ani people have to get rough to succeed I it. I know hundreds of gentle wome1 inbusiness, but they always seam t me like going fishing in a dress sui and white glovers. Exquisite fabric are not intended for rough and r ead wear." A Juvenile Outrage LEXINGTON, ICy., March 18..-2 couple of precocious youths had a minis ture lynching bee here last night. Mr John Parrott, who lives at Forest Hill found his 12-year old son dangling fror the limb of a tree, swinging to a rop which encircled his neck. ' Blood wa gushing from the boy's nostril and ear and he was in a (lead taint, The fathe cut the rope and by applying restora. tives soon had his son In a c~neclou siate. The boy said that two compan ions, one of wiiom was Dan blavin, be came enraged at him for some triflin< occurrence, and seizing him procured rope, and( after fastening a noose oni placed it aroundi his neck. They ther throw the rope over a tree and yanket him up in ros~i lynchmng style. The rope was tied to the trunk of the tree and the boy left hangiag. Mr. Parrott procured warrants for the boys' arrest. Tiliman In Washington. WASIIINGTON, March 19.-Govern or Tiilman, of South Carolina, arrrived in Washington this morning for the purpose of conferring with the officials of the national Government on the liquor seizure in South Carolina by Federal oficials. A conflict of jurisdic. Lion has arisen between the United States internal revenue officers and Governer Tillman's constables,and it ia to settle this quettion, which is a high ly important one, that he has come here. He called at the Treasury De. partment this morning, but as- neither Secretary Carlisle nor Commissioner Miller was in Governor Tiliman had te (leter the matter until tomorrow. A Vendetta. B.IRMINGitAM, ALA, March 21.--In a genetal fight between the Cobb and King farmilies at Three Notches, Ala this Morning Jhon Cobb's throat was cut and he died in a few minutes. Brad Kir~g anid his brother Dave were badly wounded. Warrants were issued foz the entire King family, consisting of the l ather .and three sons. The fight was the result of an old feud, and is the fourth murder in ten days ia Bullochi Conuiy.. ___ BUT We - - ric nifc * W E MEIJ, PEA NO Roliable, Durable, MusIcally Per because best, We can save you m * tImes. Write us. Mention this pa LUTDD.EN Souathern MYuslec U DENSI "THE WORLD'S GREA THEC MACHIN T he On1 F4ORt TYPEJWRITECRS AT THE 8' "NO MACHINE COULD' BE ANY BETTER. 1T;ii PEIRF4ECT." privave statement of one of the Judges. Responsible Oouni J. W. Gib QENERAL AGNIl f is a to Gen. rano Msarion. r, WASliTNGTOt,' March 21.-The very ir serious illness of Senator Colquitt of ie Georgia, froma a second attack of paral. Ld ysis yesterdayat his residenee in this n. city was referred to in Chaplin Mil mu burn's opening prayer this morning. is "Hearken to our earnest cry, 0 Lord.' ir hie prayed, "in behalf of our beloved friend and brother, the Senator from Georgia. Stretch forth thy hand and draw him back.to the duties of life of re this world, so that he once more may to tuce his place in this chamberitnd re W ce the hearts of all who know and ,e ove him." There was very little rou 1- tide morning business; and after it was ,o disposed or, the unobjeted to bills on d the calendar were tken up. Among to those paseed 'Were the following: Sen Lt ate bi l appropriating $10,00o for im provemqn ner road to the Nation ISj al coe agry nerPensacola, Fla. Sen 0 ate bil k the restoration of the books a of the Beaufort' Library Soqlety, of i Beaufort,8. C. It proflde fot the da. d plication from the ibrary of Congr~s - of books equivalent in number and o value to repace those taken by a Unit. r ed States officer in 18629 and Isubse. Ia quently destroyed by fire. Senate bill apropriating $4 000 for an equestrian d atue to Genera Francis Mar in, of ,o the Revolutionary army, in Columbia, n S. C. Twenty-five bifl in all were d passed, and at 2 p. m., the unfinished e business-wai taken up, being the Sea l, ate bill to simplif the form of deeds of te conveyance, true and release of land r in the Dirtrict of Columbia. No action was reached on the bill, which still re mains the unflnjshed business; and af ter a short executive session, the Sen I ate at 5:80 adjourn.ed until tomorrow. - In a Quandary. e WASHINGTON. March 21.-The pres I- sure being brought to bear upon Presi d dent Cleveland in regard to the ac r tion he shall take upon the Bland seig a niorage bill Is not confined to Senators - and Representatives, for he is in rcceipt of letters and,telegrams from all pections of the country upon the subject, and, I contrary to the belief that seems to pre d vail, a very large maority o1 these com [. munications urge him to exercise the f veto power, Many of the most emphatic - of the letters la their urgency for - a vet are from Baltimore, New Orleans, [l Richmond, Va, St. Louis, Charleston, a S. C., and other Southern cities and rep - resent board of trade and leading busi ness. Similar communications have been received from the cities of Chicago, Pittsburg, Allegheny City, Detroit., Boston, New York Philadephia, Roches ter, N. Y., and Provicence, R. I. The prevailing sentiments contained in these appeals are the expression of an apprehension that should the bill' ber come a law there would result a loss of confidence in the credit of the Govern meat a fear that the goldwould be drained from the treasury, and a feeling that the Government would be unable to main tain the parity between gold and silver, thus placlng,its financial status on the same footing with Mexico, the South American reputbhcs and India. Likely to Escape. COLUMBrA, S.C., March 17.--r he State has already called attention to the act that the late Legislature, hav ing put a proviso in the new act that the various county boards of commissioners of the several counties should meet be fore the end of January and fix the lice nses upon peddlers and sewing machine agents, made It impossible for the con tv boards to comply with the law. The Richiand board did not meet within the speclfied time, and it is ascertained that not a single boird in the State did either all holding their meetings subsequently. .The act declares all other acts on the same line, repealed, and hence It is ab- i solutely impossible to charge the old lic'ense fee, which, by the way, was nev er collected, so far as known. The new fee as fixed by the county boards ap peari on Its very face to be filegal, and those whom the law aftact claim that they cannot be charged anything at all. It is understood that one of thb biggest con cerns in the United States, which is af-- 0 fected by this law, Intends to bring a test case in the courts as soon as possi- f ble. Something interesting along this line may be expectedl in a few days. It looks as if those whom the law was in tended to reach will escape the payment d of a'i~y license at all.- Stats. Ra~nged. COnARLESTON, March 10.-Jerry H~or beck was hanged in Berkele county jail yard this morning for th murder of Bob Hrzel, a constable, last spring. Early this morning, the prisoner at tempted to commit suicide and succeed in gashing his neck and wrist wIth a piece of tin, but he was discovered in time and he was quickly rivived and hanged. He died poeting that he had killed the constable In self-defnse. INP NY$150 "TPANS"--NONClEQU. l ANPA MS'ALLY VALUEE . mean the Pianos so glaringly adver under "Grand Offes," "Factory a," "Agents' Profits Saved," for 5150, . I 190, and misrepresented as "Mag nt," 'Best Made" ','Same as Sold at. >y liegular Dealers." S.--NOT TIY PANE~. feet-Only 1225 1260. 1300-Cheapest Dney. Spcially easy terms for-eioe per. - ' Bo BAT ES ue avanh, gGa LVIORE. TEST TYPEWRITER." ECTHAT TOOK y A war d . ] ['ATE FAIR, NOVEMBER!8, 1893. THlE ONLY . AWARD b El WAS3 ALSO MADE TO US b b fi y Agents Wanted. bes &; GCo., OOLUMBIAh O; 5.j' JRarAnQDR Wanted. AiUSTIN, Texas, Mlarch7,-The two Btatq executive committees of the two Deruocratlo kactions will meet in Dallas Mcnday to bring about harmony in the party in Texas, and to fix a date and lace for the next meeting 4.0f the State 4 emocratic convention. Froaiuent Delpocrats from both factions will from this city, and Governor Hogg will. leave to-morrow to do what he can do about creating harmony and uniting the parties. It Is recognized that unity must be secured or the State Treasury may rall into the hands of the Populists, and be brought to the condition of Colo. rado and Kansas. A strong eflort Is beingt made here and all over the. State to have Frank Jones head the Populist ticket this year, and he has accepted an invitation to make a sreech here next Saturday. 0ADCETT PAYS THE FREIGH1 Why "ay Extreme Poes for Goods! eand for Palalogue and See What Yes Can Saul .4. 9 $69 $~ q37 au-lo 'Iarant ,eodi to Lip a ~ rgan or 'oney re ~~ I da ofoA r O r i cond stin g of.ora, oAir. ROel tug Chtir, DIan and 2 ide Uhitrs -worth $45. Wll delivem it to your depot for $1 3 .-- --- .. * ..Thia.No.* - - ware, winl -e vrbe deliver -rre to yhot prtice ;. oh ouporael 0L2. ell-en - aWTh~ r e la r p r eo fthIa rh ua cue is ~ y Bugg A $6O PIANe. 0 ouee atfourde In N freigtt pa for M o nug e. Beta, L.P.PADGETT" :f.G. kachinery Commission -----. With a view to ulutual advantage, w Svite all parties who intend buying ma. Llnery to correspond with us befo're plac ug their orders. We are confident or out bility to save money to our customers, t -u nly ask the opportunity ol' proving thes let. Besides machinery or all kinds1 w Cal largely In IBuggies, Wagons, anft. otherw Sioles. Wire to us. W. H,.ibbes Jr., & go, COLUMBIA, S' C. as-THlE a n 1Tozer For AgricuL - tural and Gin oral Plantation We have earni tion as the best on tne market. For Simplicity, Durability and. Esonomyl In fean ater THn To'ZIR Hla no Equal. $| Immirt'I 0 I iMe E 10E LE NON ILS AW IL. Ri1 Patr*n Rc ilr a nyasnl mcie ht ilce' al n ois ie edyfrmre >r80.6 SawM e S n u thevarabl Iicioners aDeoace Miller from aws, PBaing Machine tand will klaind Spial dioutsh rierad for arket COLU BIA.8;..