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OG, KING OF BASHAN.
DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ABOUT THE
Lessons )rawn from the DibleI Recital
of the Encounter of the IUraelites with
tlie Eleven Foot IIenthon Warrior--A
BROOKLYN, March 13.-Dr. Talmage
gave another illustration this morning
in his sermon at the Tabernacle of hie
wonderful power of drawing useful, prac.
tical lessons from an obscure text,
which, to the ordinary mind, seemee
incapable ot yielding any spiritual edifi.
cation. The text was Deuteronomy iii,
11: "Only Og, ktng of Bashan, re,
mained of the remnant of giants; behold
his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; h
it not in labbath of the children of Am
mon? Nine cubits was the length there
of and four cubits the breadth of it."
The story of giants is mixed witi
myth. William the Conqueror was sai
to have been of overtowering altitude
but when in aftertime his tomb wai
opened his bones indicated that he ha(
been physically of only ordinary size
Roland the Hero was said to have bec
of astounding stature, but when his sep.
ulcher was examined his armor ww
found only large enough to fit an ordi.
nary man. Alexander the Great ha(
helmets and shields of enormous size
made and left among the people who
he had conquered, so as to give the im.
pression that lie was a giant, althoujI
lie was rather under than over the usual
height of a man. But that in other dayE
and lands there were real ginnts is aui
thentic. One of the guards of the Duk(
of Brunswick was eight and a half feel
high. In a muscuin In London Is ti
skeleton of Charles Birne, eIght feel
four inches In stature. The Epiiieroi
Maximin was over eight feet.
Pliny tells of a giant inme feet higl
and two other giants nine and a hal
feet. So I am not incredulous when I
come to my text and find King Og
giant, and the size ofhis bedstead, turn
ing the cubits of the text Into feet, th(
bedstead ot Og, the king, iust hav(
been about thirteen and a half feet long
.udging from that the giant who occu
pied it was probably about eleven feei
in stature, or nearly twice the averag(
hunian size. There was no iced ol
Rabbinical writers trying to account foi
the presence of this giant, King Og, a,
they did, by saying that, he came dowi
from the other side of, the flood, beim
tall enough to wade the waters besih
Noah's ark. or that he rode oi the toi
of the ark, the passeigers inside the ar,
daily providing him with food. Tier
was nothing superliatural about, hii
Ile was simply a monster in size.
Cyrus and Solomon slept on beds o
gold, i-td Sardanapalus had 150 hwd,
steads of gold burned up with him, bu,
this bedstead of' my text, Was of iron
everythiing sacrificed for strength to ihI
this excessive avoireduipois, this Alp o
boie and flesli. No wonder tIs couch
ws kept as a curiosity at Rtabath, ant
people went, from far an I near to see it,
just ats now people go to niuseums to
behold the armor of the aicients. Yot
say what a fighter this gianit., King 0g
must have been. No doubt of It. I sup
p)ose the size of his swordI and brearst
p)late corresp)ond(ed to the size (of his bed
stead, and his stridhe across thie battle
tieldl and t,he f'ull stroke of his arm imus
have been alipalling. With an armie<
host lie comes (downi to <h ive hack thi
Israelit.es, who are miarchiing oin fron
Egypt to Canaan.
We have no particulars of' the battle
but I think the Israelites trembled wvhse
they snw this monster of a man miovint
dlown to crush theni. Alas for the is
tachites! WVill theIr troubles nevel
cease? WVhat can men five and a hal
feet high (10 against this warrior o
eleveii feet, and what can short swordh
(10 against a sword whose gleam imus
have been like a flash of liglhtringy Tin
battle of Edrei openedl. Moses and hi:
army met, the giant and IIs army. Thll
L'>rd of' Ilosta descended into the fight
and the gigantic stridhes that Og ha<
made when advancing inito the batti
were more than equaled b)y the giganti
stri'les with which lie retreated,. liuzz
for triumphant Israel! Sixty fortifie<
cities surrendered to thenm. A lai.d o
indescribable opulence conies iinto thiei
possession, aif all that is left, of th<
giant king is the Iron bedstead. "Nin
cubits was the lenizth thereof and four
cubits the breadth of it."
That man has been thirty yeai's faith
fhilly in attendance uipoin chuirchies an<
prayer meetings and Sunday schools
and putting himself among intense re
ligious associations, iIe may have hii
uinperfections, but, lie is a ver'y goo<
man. Great is his religious statun'e
The other mani has been f'or thirty year:
among influences intensely worldlly, ari<
lie has shut himself out from all othe
influences, and his religious stature ii
that of a dwarf. No man ever has beei
or can lie indlepeitent of his sur'roundi(
igs-social, intellectual, moral, rehg
ions. The Bible indicates the leiigth o
the giant by the length of' his bedstead
Let no man say, "I will be good,'' aiit
yet keep evil surroundings. Let no mil
say, "I will be faithful as a Chiristiaii,'
and yet consort chiefly with worldjings
You are proposing an everlasting i.n
From the fact that ('s bedstead wn!
thirteen and a halt teet long, I conclud<
the giaiit himself was about eleveni feel
high. But let no one by this though
be indluced to surrendler to unfav'orabia
environments. A man can make hii
own bedisteadl. Chiantr'ey andic IIuir
Miller were born stein masons, but thi
one became an immortal sculptor anci
the other a Christian scientist who0s<
name will r,ever (lie. Turner, the p)ainit.
er, in whose praise .John Rtuskfii expend
ed the greatest geniuis of his life, was
the son of a barber who adver'tised 'a
penny a shave.'' D)r. Prideaux, one of
the greatest scholars of all tune, earned
his way through college by scouring
pots and pans. The late Judge Bradley
W9rked his owni way up from a charcoal
burner to the bench of the supremec
court of the United States. Yes, a man
can decide the size of his own bedstead,
NotIce furthermore that even gianti
must rest. Such enormous physical en.
dowment on the part of King Og mighi
suggest the capacity to stride across al
fatigue and omit slumber. No. ie re
quired an iron bedstead. tUlants muns
rest. Not appreciating that fact, hiow
many of the giants yearly break down
Giants in business, giant. In art, glanti
In eloquence, giant. In usefhiness. Thlej
live not out more than half their dlays
They try to escape the consequence 4)
overwork by a voyage across the sea oi
a sail in a summer yacht, or call on phy.
sicians for relief from insomnia or res
toration of unstrung nerves or the arrest
of apophexhes, when all they need is
what tni giant of my text resorted to
ana iron bedstad.
Tie only case of accident to sleep M
mentioned In the Bible was when Eutv- V
chus tell from a window during a sermon t!
of Paul, who had preached until mid
nighit, but that Was not so muchi a con- 'I
dealittiou of sleep as a censure ot lo"g I
serions. More scep is what the world I
wants. Economize in everything but c
sleep. William 11. Seward, the re- t
nowned secretary of state, in the midst 1
of his overmastering tolls longed for the r
capacity to rest, writing in his memo- t
randum book, "1 have never found but 4
one invaluable recipe for having a good <
nght's rest, and that is to have been I
restless and sleepless the night be!ore..
When President John Quincy Adams I
and the distinguished Josiah Quincy I
went to hear Judge Story lecture on law i
to his students, and when invited to sit i
beside the judge and both fell asleep, l
the judge appropriately pointed to them
and said to his students, "Behold the
evil efl'ets of early rising."
In Bible times, when people arose at 4
the voice of t.he bird, they retired at the I
time the bird puts his head under his I
wing. One of our national sins is rob- I
bery of sleep. Walter Scott was so I
urgent about this dit,y of slumber that,
whei arriving at a hotel wherf there
was no room to sleep in, except that in i
which there was a corpse, incluired if i
the deceased had died of a contagious t
distaso, and, when assiur-ed he had not, I
took the other bed in t,be room and fell I
into protounidest slumber. Those of i
small en(hitrince must ce -tainly require <
rest if even the giant, needs an iron tied- i
Notice, furthermore, that God's pei
ple on the way to Canaan need no .e I
surprised it they confront some sort of a
giant. 1IN(l not the Israelitish hosthad I
trouble eniugh alread3? No! RIed sea
not enouglih. Water tain Ine not enotwh.i
Lon, marcihes not enough. oppositio,
by eneiiiies of ordinary stature not
enotigh. They niutneed 0g. tihe giant
of the iron heilsteud. "Nime ctbhl:-s was
tihe lengli thereof am' 11our cuibits the
breadth of it.'' Why not let these Is
raelites go sioot,ily into ('anlaant with
out this gi pTganti oppsition? Oh, they
needee Lo lia'Ve their comirage and ftith
1tirtier tested and developedt! Amid
blessed tihe iman who, in onur time, ill
his march toward the Promised Land,
does no. ineet mnore than one giant. D ho
not ronclude that oul are not on tihe .vav
to Canaan because of this obstacle.
As well miglit time Isriaelites conIlde
they were not. on the way to the Protimii
ed L'ind tecaise they iet 0., lie giant.
Stanling in your way is some evil pro
pensity, some social persecutionl, solli
businless i118iOrt tine, sOlme physical dis.
t 'uss. N ot. oie ti you i lit meet a 4 'iatit
who would hke to heW you II twail.
I livb 1' 1.111 vn feet ehI s Og ha kenis
the sky :i(l the raltik of his buckl i'r
st1uns the viu. li-it yot are -oilng to -vt
the vielory, ati;[dihe I Iriclites. In te i
[nie, (if tihe (;()d (t Moses anmid Dlavid'
.md .1tlsiua :amld 'tal, charg on him, i
anmd )O(i wi leave his V;Arcass inl ithe
widernesm. u wait a battlc sh1;.ut!
lake tlit Nitth %ihh Davil, tIe live
tooter-, assa:xled (',11iath, thle ine 1.>otur;
whtiL thit -!utaL riled, with stiglinm con
teritpt bot!h in inaiimer atid iiitutiatioi,
"Came to m0. anl I will give thy lie-th
unto the 1)., Is of tlt! aira toa t i the
beast of tIe ilibl, and David looked
up1) It tihe monte Of la'gadalo ad i
detiatily rephtled: "Thout conit to e in
thaf. dandl with a spear, an
. ithi a shieldl; built I come toi thee in the
name oif the Loriid oi I losts, the G oila I
tthe ar'mies ol Israel, whinil thou hmast
de lied. Th'lis iday wil th Ie l 4ord delhveri
thee unto mine hmaind; iad I wilf smite
thiee and1 tatke tthine head1( tri-im thee, anmd
I will give the ca:casses oft the host, i.i
the I'tiittsttnes this day unto the fowls
of' the air and to the wild beasts of the
earth that alt the earth may know thalit
there is a Godl in Isra'tel."'
of .Then Dvid, with probably three swis
oftesling about, las head, got, it into
sutliiient minomlt.n andl let Ily t,ill Li,he
eraiiinim oit thle giant, broke ini a3d lie
tell, andl I)avid leaped oni his carca ss,i
one toot, on his chest and the other on
his head, and that was thle last on die
Ihie.hen, I have made til m' imind(
thatt we witl have to fight all the way up
to the promiisedl land. I use< i) to think
that allet awhile 1 woulid get int.o a time
where it would lbe smooth andi easy, but
th:e tinme idoes not, come anid it will never
tcomei in this wor'ld. By the time King
Og is useid up so tbat lie cannot, get into
his ironi heiistead, some other' giant6 of
Sopplositioni looms upj to dlispmute our wVay,
r et us st,op looking foir an easy time
aiii make it a thirty y'ears' warU, or a
.Sixty 3 earsi' wair, or at hundreid years'
I warl, it we live so long.
, Must I be carriedl to the skies
- Oni ilowery' bds1 iof entso,
SWhile othiers fought to win the prize0
And sailed through buloodty seas'
,I)o you kniow the name of the biggest,
in giant that 3(1ou enn piossibly niet--and
I y~oui will meet him? iIe is not eleven
- eet high, tbut oneW hundred feet high,.
SHis bedlsteai:d is as8 long as the conttment.
SHis nameilL Is D)oubt. hIis common food
is infidel baooks anil skeptical lectur'es
anil ministers who do not, kiiow whether
1 thme Bible Is inspired at all or inspired
in spots, and Chtristmnns whio are more
I inflidel thani Christian. You will never
reach the Promised L andl unless you
slay t,hat, giant. Kill D)oubt or Do'ubt
wilt kill you. hlow to overcome I his
gianmto Pray for faith, go with peple
who have faith, rend everything t.hat,
eiicouirage s aithi, av'oid as you wouild ship
nfever aiil Sitmallaox t,he people whlo lank
In thIs battle ag~ainst, King Og use niot
for weapons time (rutch of' a liimpinmg
Christian or the sharp jien of a contrmo
Iversia list, taut the swordi of truth. w hih
is the wordl of' Godl. Th'le word "'It"' is
umiade up ol the same number of letters
'as the word "'0,"' andi it, is jiust aslbigta
giant. Itf the Bi ble be true. II' tihe soid
tibei imoriitil. If Chris t be0 Goil. I f 0our
belief' and. behavior heie d ecidhe our
future dlestimiy. II. I1f. If. I liate
that wiord( "It.'' Noah Webster says it
is a comijunction; I sy it is anl armiiedl
gint. Satian breatthed upon01 it a curlse
when lie said to Chirist, "'If thiou be time I
Son of' God.'' What a dastardly and in 4
famous "'It.'' Aeainst that giant, "It"''
harl. ,oh's "'I know'' and Paul's "I'1
know." "I know that my Redeemer
liveth."' "I know in whoin I have be- t
lieved." Down with the "It" and ump
with "I know."
Oh, ;,hat giaint Doubt, is such a cruel -
giant! It, attacks many ini the last, hour.
It, could not let a' y mother alone even ini
her dying moment,s. After a life of holi- 1
ness andl consecration such as I never I
heard of' in any one else, she said to my I
father, "Father, what If, after all, our
prayers and struggles should go fort
nothing." Why could she not, after allC
the triais and sicknesses and bereave-I
ments of' a long life and time Initrmities of
old age, be allowed to go evithmout such
a cruel stroke from Doubt, the glams?
Do you wonder I have a grudge against,
the old monster? If'I could I would give
him a bigger bounce than Satan got
,hen, hurled out of heaven, the fir-it
ilng he struck was the bottom o perd
Another ipression from my subjet:
he. march ot the church cannot, be im
eded Iby i i) utic Ayposition. That
.raclitish4 host led'oll by Mosei was the
hurch, and when Og, the iant (him of
lie iron bedstead), camie out agamtst
u with amother liost,-a fresh host
gainst one that, seemed worn out--thing
nust have looked bad for Israel. No ac
ount is given of *,he bed.tead of Moses,
Xeept that one in which lie first slept
he cradle of aquatic vegetatioll on the
4ile. where the wile of Cheaephres, the
iug, found the floating babe and, having
1o child of her own, adopted him. Moses
f ordinary sizo gainiist 04 ot extraordi
iary dimenslons. Besides that Og was
>acked ill) by sixty fbrt.Lfied cities.
Sioses was backed up seeni ly by noth
n1, but the desert that had worn him
Imd his army into i group of undisciplin
Ad and exhauisted strag-lers. But, the
[sraelites triimpelid. I t you spell the
iame of' O: backwark you turn it into
,Ie word "Go," and Og was turned
ackwaid and made to go.
With 0's downifill all the sixty cities
urrendered. Nothilg Was left, of' the
,iant except his iron bedstead, was kept
it a muisetm at Rabbath to show how
all and stout Ie o1CO WaIs. So shalil the
ast gianlit of opposition inl tile church's
nar:h Ruccu ni. Not sixty cities cap- I
ured, but ill the cities. Not only on i
)me( side ol .Jlordan, but on both sides of
ill the rivers. 'T'le day is comig. Hear
I, all ye who are doIng something lor
lie conquest, of the world fbr God and
he truth, the ,ime will come tyhen, as I
,hure was nothing left of 0-, the gailt, I
a)m the iron b.(stvad ku lit at 1tabbalt I
is a curiosity, thcre wi:l be nothin. left
> O,e iats 'il tnuitv except somie
hinl'i for the relici hunters to examine.
Wlici of the giants will be the last
lain I kiow not, but, there will be a
usetmn somewhere to iiol the relics
if what ti-y o(ce were. A rusted
I-ord will be uling i.;- --t he only reh
f the giant of War. A delli1joli
,hte only I-lic ol the g iant of I lebration. I
X roulette ball---the only reflie of' ti li
iant, of tlaz. ird. A I i tured certili
"Itv of wvatered stock -tht oily relic of
he irtant. o'Slock I,ambling. A broken
itkit--the. olf'. relic of' the giarit of I
Nsat-!Ssilatioi. A y -ilo %copY of Toli
alillt -tlie only relic of the giant. of
'1beliel. And thal, mu111seti will do
or I lie later ages of the world what, the
ron bedste.d I W RabbatIi did f'or the I
;arli(,r agvs. Do % ot not See it, MAkes
ill the di ff1erence in the world whither
ve art fightlitg on towari a isirable
lelI-at or towid a 1inal vicorl y r
Al I lie W il, )r.)llSt S prophosy t lie I
a atter, Mat o I Vlit V you who are 1 he
roops oft (nid, ;ail I holigh 1i1141y things
're4 <iark hoo, liLmA \ XIert I review
he( arhvb torvilblhl. anld I give yout
he wa.t( hw11%(rd whil-b Marltill 111thl r
-rog-laitl.t.d, " fl' Lol d of llosis ",
i'( rd .f o ls' '' atil I cry out tx
l11 l"gy vith 0 iver CoIlilntil atf the'
I t l,f D httir, " lt od al "v ; lt
li. v1v;nltis bo s'-atterl (." . lako allf
hlk rp ra I ' f I he w%o431 i's t-vanl
1lzitionl. the llaf01 it h I -I I ll
.'d Nl;a,y Molt litt, I he %ns%ouris who
.uItr preachiing ill B0lih:1i:Lnd tot
vin yv:ars wiutoill V0n1nVt when "Oll
Nktd wi nit t wv n old iL.. to have I
-1t th-Ili by way I gift from ill,nland, .
1i, "S1,11d ;I s.om inu ioti scivice, Iori
Swill be -urely mee(-ed;' atit :ire
'nouglt tilie (-xpecteI ingithf1e1Ing I
milny souls wals laized ali th e toini
ituilion serv ice airrivsed ini t iime to cele
irat Ict. A proprialtel-y did thalt miiis
ogrppih waIs rEtluested:
\ly allmtini is thie savage breast,
Where dar-kness reignls and teiple!tsi wrect,
Without onic ray or lighit.
l'o write the nainie of .Jesiis thiere
Andit poiint, tto woilds both brtighit andt fair,
Xn wre the Ntavage bowedCt in pirayer,
Is moy supreme tdelighit.
WVhatever your work antd whetrever
ou work for God--forward! Yt'u in<
our wauy anld I iii liy way. With pluc1k
ight on with soiiethinrg of the strength
>t 'Thomas T1roiitidige, ws'ho it, Inkelr-1
mantiii had oneO leg shot off and thle loot
>f t he oilier Itg, arid when they piropos
d1 to carry him11 oil thle field, i eptied:
No, I (It hot miove iiiitil the batitle isI
wonit." Wihatevver lbe thle rock1 ig of the I
:liuireb or state, have the calmness of
he aged womnli .in ani eairthrijtmake that I
rightened everybotly else, and( it, I
vhien asked if she wais not afraiid, said,
'No; I am glad that I halve a God who 1
an1 sha~ke' thle world ." Wh lethier your
isork be fto teach ai Sabbath class, or<
I tirse an1 invsalid, or reformn a wandi(er
e'r, or train a household, or bear I he I
:itietouisness o1 sen3lility3, (ir chieeri the I
flihartened, or 1lead a soul to Christ,
know that by fidelity you may help
biastenl the timne whlen the wvorld shall
bie sniowt d under with white lily aind<
incairnad inedl with1 retd rose.
Anid 1now 1 hargain wit,h you that we 1
will comle bac1k somlei day t rtomi our sit
persltefllar abtile to see how the world
looks when it. shall1 be fully empair-'
heailed, its last shacleI broKen, its last
desert gardenized, its last giant of ini
iqutity decaOlpitaited. Andf when we
land, mnay it lhe somewhere near this
spot of earth where we have together
toiledt andi struiggled for' the kingdom
Lif God, and( hiuay it be abioiit tis hour
in the high noon1 or somse glorious Sab
bath looking inito the uipti ued faces
if sonme great audtienice radhflmt wit,h
fioliiiess andit tritiiliuph.
Itto Neck Wasi iirokenu.
SiPtIA RTN i:n'o1, S. C., March i-f. - -It
is seldomi ihat a i Iwelve inch faill proves
fat al to ai per soni but this is the distiimee
vichel G eorgt- Wihit e, ai negro boy, fell
iin Saturtday inight , and h-y the t all his
icek wals hiroheni. Geoorge was emiplov.
d lat Iiower's Ii very st able, on E,ast
huriiiebh st reet , ts dr i vter, antd I ogt ther
4vithI .1lohn inltey, a simaIll whliteI boy,
ilso ian li emlltee a''lt t he staibles. was
p lay in . on t he ; :tvemueii juiist beltow thei
~ttnlt's, andh dirtect Iy ini Iratit of avt hi'e
arroin. It steeme titIhat tho 'boys
ve l atninItg tihemsilves b0Iy iirowi tn g
og onie I hi own by~ .lhn l'iinity, (George'
White fell frtom thet paiviemrnlt inito Ithe
utter an d iieveir a1rose. lie wsa; pic(k ed
here exainLed. It. was thoutght bieforer
he exam inaittiont halt th rl'iock I birown
ty Ftilt'y ti i thle woi'k, but It thorough
xainatliioni 0t thle negrot's btody
bowed t,hat t here wi-rue iio bruiises anid
lie ottly aiilmln waiI s fte b roken teck.
inle'y wias arreste ii ioiielldiaitely afteor
lie negro fell lund put in jail, but the
oronler's jury 10ould see no reason why
ic shoukdt be hed, and( hie wals freed.
- Collimtbia Retgtste'r.
Aut it Shoulde tIe.
'Th)PEKA, Ktan., MarlIchi 12.-It hats
>eeni practically dlecidedi by the leading
)emocrats of Kansas not to put ai 'res
dlential electoral ticket int the field antd
upport tht People's party elet'toral
icket. A fuitoni wvill also beteffected<
tfn State (ofices an[d Conigressmanl-at- I
arge. Thefl Demnocrats will have two
mt of seven Congreassmen. Thie corn
>itnatlon will extend down to the leg - I
slative and county offices. D)emocrat
imd Alance headters claims that this i
Will wipe out the Rhepublican party In I
Kansas. The same tactics are to be
uned in Nerasknta ana te n.ak,tas
MINERS ENTOMBED ALUVE.1
IGH I FUL COLLIERY DISASTER IN
kne litidred or MoroeA M1em ne Wolioen
1eitveel toe llave Met Their leatlh in
th lie ptim-Terriblu Mmee -tu aud
About the Mine,.
DRUsSELLs, March l1.-A fright[ul
'olliery disaster has oqcurred at An
lerlues. Threo hundred miners are
mtoibed in the pit, and a series of ex
Alosions have apparently cut off all ac -
wess to the men. An at nempt has been
iade to reach the imprisoned miners,
)ut s) far without success. The ex
plorcrs have beei beaten back by the
'oul fuimes. The shafting and ventila
ion are destroyed.
Three feniale miniers hava been res
medit, and it seems aliost certain that
ill the rest are dead. Intense excite
nent prevails, and thousands are Ilock
ng to the place, which is one of the
ending mining centers of Beigium.
'he scenes at the pit mouth are most
)athetic, a multitude of people bewail
ng their relatives, stippose.l to have
perished iii ie inine.
Dispatches trom Charleroi this even
ng state t hat four otllicials of the corn
)tny owing the mine at Anderlues left
or thescene of the explosion this alter
loon. Machinery for keeping down the
vater in the mine and facilitating the
vork of hoisting out the wreckage has
lready bien shippeo. The Govern
ient is receiving bulletins of the pro
,ress of the work at the shft, and has
ent a reprt seitative to the spot to as
crain the facts for use in at in vestiga
ion of the c:tises of the aecideat, and in
Aacing the responsibility for it.
King Leopold has contibuttd 5,0X)
riaiies from his private purse to the
epinior.ry support (if the fatinitts of
niners already known to have been
:illed. [lundrttds of ien ant women
roin nearby villages have gat hered near
he moutl i of the pit, and aro campi ng
rotind bonfiri s. watching the progress
if the work of rescue. Families and
eLt tves of t he 2t or more mien have
r1ide th-ir hoie in thw [itel(1s ftor the
ight, a a re coking their me -is over
penf-:r lires, %a t- io get the 4'arliest
1ws trmil thost. ill-Pristnetl by the
hatti'led - haft.
The place ;t which I tie vxplosioni oc
11r ti i i lit secini g:tIlery,5W0 yardc
elow the snilaco, and thedep-th is diffi
ilt and .olhinere. run'ers have
,'k-n ICt twitn tHree 1i1mCs itI a cage.
l'hn'ii half %;wayv 'sowii on the fir.it tri)
1hv forther caving i'a Ot the shaft.
rigifenit Ihlivm, and they returned
'ive ol the ten mn refused togo down
gain,ai the min- was ll.ioiling rapidly,
hivy ;Autt, a114t loosvled sides of the
haft, hlio-alened t.o 1all iin and biry
hit m. The otlier live inade te eo Ytcoiui
ip anti reac~hedt the inteuth of1 the
e-coind gallery. l'hey fouand a few mnen
lit) werei niea:rest t he shaft whein the
rst exloii occtiuired. These iiners
tad to r-ut fo r t heirI ive's, buLt tint!beein
muig'ht at the enitranice bcy fallinig timi
ceis. All had berokent hones, and three
A ere so lirmily lodged in the wreck that
lie ru sculing p.iriy (lared nott wait to
~tricate thet. l-'ive of thme wounded
vetrte brought uip ton ihe secondt trip, anid
ive dead were brought upl ont the third.
Tihe rescuetd mnen say that t went v-tiv~e
>f the mi nters still i nprisoned ar~e wo
nein. '[here are about 200) in all still
o lie acecounted for. It is thought that
hose nieart'st the lirst cavec-in in the
rallerv mal:y he rescued n!ive. 'iThose
iirithtest fromt t he entrance of Ithe
~allery have t pr'obably been suilocated
~efore ti u, antd if nott will die before
hey caln hbe reatche<(.
I he wak has been set back twvice
his evenling by the caving of great
)tlocks of soil and stone Irtom the sides
>f the wrecked shaft, anid since the
hird trip nio volunteers for the work of
-escute could ho h ound. 'The sutperinten.
lent ot the mine has twice gone down
00 feel,,t.t has returnrid, s-tying that
he chances would be fouir to one against
tim, if he' went lower.
Thele dtead will number at~ least 100,
mdt probably 150. A bout. 400 members
1f the htlillets of the missing mnen will
~amp in th lie hlds around the shaft all
ugh t. A bout tiftLy of the 300 men in
he gallery at the time of the first ex
>losion got out by t.he second( shalt.
Late tis evening ano'ther r-escue
>ai ty dl'eCnded the scene of the explo
iOn in the mine. 'l'hey cleared away
he dlebris at the eni tnce of the gal
cry and found twenity-hive dead bodies,
ive ot tthei women. Most of the bod
i-s were terribly miut iliated. Ot.hers
hlowed but few fractures of the limits,
tenth tainting bien c'aiusedt apparently
y sulfiocation. 'Thei resaute party re
urnied atid are still at work in the gal
les calatiity increases itt horror. 'The
pit is no)w burning, and smnoke and
bonetis batr the searchers in their work
d restcue. it Is feared now that not
tess I hatt 240) mi nuns hiave perished, in
-htidm rg a large niuumber of wotnen, of
who lt)uihere weure mnaiv employed in
hie itninet. King Leo'tpold is infoirmed
miutly oh t he situation at Antderlues.
It is noi)w hel ieved that all those not rts
'tetd yes!terdlay were killted at the Itine
>f thle ex plosion, or dit'd soon alter.
Nevettrthi-tess, the frientds anid rela
a ves persist ini hoping that some may
taye escapjedu by3 tak inzg refulge inl somei
vonrkinrg perttct ed [romn the e'ffect of'
h.e tephionsitr. ~N obotlyi shares thtis be
ief, honi evcter, t'xcepjt te lam ilies of Ite
eri arid wtomen'i who are int the pit.
i'hiere is no dtoutiI thant I stse who were
tot de-sItoyedl by the t-xplosioni were
sui lfcatedI by Ih e fuilteS ori d1rownled in
wtateir which in)vadedl various lportions
31 t.he intne.
imecemn in Conim gretss hav'ee unlder con
iuderat ion a programl designedt to
itvatnce t he interest of the Alliance.
l'hiey propose t) estaldishi an Atti
nice Congressional camtnipaign comn
nittee on about the SamEiO basis as
tie commuittees which loo0k ttler
tie mter'ests of the Ilepublican
ind D)emocratic parties. 'The pro
ram comntemplates the establish
nnti of a bureau to supply documents
mrnt to htavet charge of the assignitienit
if speakers, also the establishmnt, ol a
tationral niewspaper inl Washitngtoni.
l'hese and other projects were discuss
'd at a meeting of t,be Alliancemen
teld at the house of' Ilepresenitative
hVatson of Georgia. But before decis
ye atiton is taken, as conference with
e held wilth Mr. Tatubeneck of St.
Gois who Is the national representa
lye of this arty.
A Iturglar Killedt.
The postoilleo at 1anibera was bur
glarized on last Saturday night ail
robbed of all the ca in it money
draweii aid a ir tered package
wl.ich had becu i during Et
day. The burglars entered through e
front window of the oifice and ther
forced their way through the general
delivery window and went out througl:
the rear of the building. The amouni
taken was about $43. It is said tha
there was a laige amount of money it
a tia- box l ing oi the counter, whiel
was untouched. Tlhere is no clue as 1.(
who the robbers are, except that th
postmaster has buspicions and ha
Town Malishal Cave working up tht
case. The suspect left here fo
Charleston freely spending money, an
was followed by the marshal on thi
next train. Thirty dollars of thi
money was recovered Sunday night b,
Policemen Cave and Jones. Tne housi
of the suspected burglar was searche(
and the money was found secreted un
der the bed. This seLtles the guilt or
it colored man, an ex-convict, who lefl
for Charleston Sunday night.
Thu Bamberg correspondent of thi
State, from which journal the above ii
taken, under date of March 14, sayi
Town Marthal Wiley Cave shot an(
killed Jako Samuels, colored, last nighi
about 12 o'clock. It was the sequel t<
the postollice robbery of Saturday night
an account of which appears above
The only witnesses to the shooting weri
Postmaster Varn and Mr. Y. C. Jones
An inquest was held Monday by Tria
Justice lowe, and from the evidenci
of the three witnesses and the principal
which is corroborative, the followinj
After Mr. Cave recovered $30 of th4
stolen money from Samuels's house h
tholight it possible that Samuels wouh
return during the night to secure hit
money, and t equested Postmaster Vart
and Mr. Y. C. Jones to accompany hin:
to make the arrest. After they hat
bevn at tihe house about an hour Sam
uels turned up, only to be surprised ant
arrested. iIe broke down at once ant
acknowledged that he robbed the post
ellice, and gave up all the money hi
The three men then brought thel
captive down the railroad toward thi
guard house, when Samuels sudIt-ul5
turned and asked what they were going
to do with him. Mr. Varn told hirr
he would go to Sing Sing. At thi
Samuels imade a break for liberty, bul
the mnarshal, who was too alert for him
wheeled and shot him within three feet
of ths body and fired twice miore. ThE
negro fell dead, the last ball piercing
hiis heart and causing instant death.
The verdict of the jury was that th(
deevasm cmne to his death by a pistol
shot wound irlicted by Wiley Cave
Trial Justice Iowe committed Mr
Cave to jail to await trial at the nexi
term of court,. Public opinion differ,
as to whether Cave was justifiable or
El .ct ropote..
Why sufler with sickness or disease
10hen you can be so eaily and quickll
cured without medicine by the use o
II AWTHoitN. FLA., June 23, 1890.
Rev. M. 11. Houston, Nashvilla; 'enn.
Dear Brother: Yours of June 20th re
eeived. I have had almost twa years' ex
perience with the Electropolse, and mus
say it far surpasses even skillful medics
tion; and I have treated more than tw<
hund1(1redl cases of various diseases with
marked success. 1 have broken chills ana
fever of several weeks' duratIon In froni
one night to three ights. It Is inmpossibh
to have chills while using the poIse proper
13'. I hav'e treated more thtan 13 cases o:
fever, the majorIty being typhoid-malaria
curing thecim in from two hours to fou
days. Diarrhoea, dysentery and cholera
nmorbus I have cured In from one hour t<
eiftht generally. Rheumatism In fron
three hours to three days. in one casenmak
lng the patient throw away hIs crutcher
and atraighten his dteformed lImbs In fom
hours, and one more day's treatueint made
a perinanent cure- it In beyond doubt the
greatest remedy God has p)ermitted us ta
know, Th'le Instruments are now place<
all around rme, andt I am treating people
day andl night. It Is giving me influence
he re as noth ing else can. My cotidence
in the treatinment Is almost unbounded; Il
cures p)romp)tly andI permanently, I wvil
mark a few certificates inm the enclose.
circulars of cures effectedI by myself. T1he
cert.ificates of' cures in FlorIda could hi
madte much stronger than given in thme clir
lBy all means put the treatment Into ti
hands of our mIssIonarIes for their p rotec
tlon amd Iiluence, that lIke our Saviou
they may go forth preachIng and healing
thme people. Yours fraternally,
C. N. MORiROW.
A 40 page book, describing treat
ment an.d cor taining testimonIals froi
all s'ections' and for the cure of all dia
eases, mailed free on applIcation, Ad
ATLANTrIC EL[ECTlOOISE CO.
222 King St., Charleston, S. C.
A Fight WVith Robb,eru.
E Aca LEm. PAss, Texas, March Il.- Wor<
has just reached Eagle Pass of an at
tempted robbery and a murder nea
D)urango. Mr. Blrittain, of Las Vaca
mines, left D)urango city on the nigh
of February 29 for the mines, sorne sev
enty miles oif. lie hamd with him $10,
000 in Mexican silver in a safe in hi
wagon. This fact became known te
six desperate characters and they wen
a few miiles out on thme road to Las Va
cas before dhaylight amnd lay In aumbusl
for Mr. Brittain. TJhe .lirittain part;
consisted of four p)ersonls, heavily armi
ed, and when the amnbushed bandit
saw the teams they at once charge<
upon them, using pIstols and Winches
ters freely. Tlhe others, however, mad<
vigorous resistance, while hurrying
into Constancia, and though one o
their number, Antonio Castana, wai
killed. the others with the treasure
made safe ent ry into) Constancia. T1he
robbe's, finding pursuit useless anc
dlang';roums, turned~ towaird i)urango anc
haav not been caught.
i'ut in ai Coln,d Rtonin, to Di.
hitUFI Am, March 1.-The threi
mmon.hs' old babe of a man name<
Carnier of Spring Brook was attacke<
last night by diphtheria. Instead o:
calling a (doctor Carner sent for "Moth
ce" itronson, a midwife. She told the
parents t here was no hope of saving the
litt le one, and they might as well puti
ini a coldh roonm where it could die easily
A ccordingly the child was put in a roon
w here there was no lIre. "Mother
itronson ordered all the windows an
dloors opened so the baby could hay
the full benefit of the freezing atmosp
here, while she and the ignorant parent
sat mt another room htugging the stov
an:l listening to the infant's plalntiv
cries. For three days thte child's,vitalit:
kept it alhve, bu't it died last night.
Killed Mani and Wif.
DAl n, LNO'TON, S. C , March 14.-Ys
terd;my two negroes got into a diflcult;
ini to wn. One went to the other's homn
and h lId under the barn with his gun
W hmen the other, whose name Is Stroth
er, reached home his wife came out t<
help him out of the wagomi. The at.sas
sin, whose name Is not known, tIred
and hit both man and -woman. Botl
will die. The shooting oc'curred twelvi
miles from t.own.
Talbot & son,
E NGINJIES, J10ILEX,
COTTON SEED OIL MACHINERY,
and all kinds of
CORN AND WHEAT MILLS
'JURBINE WATER W11EELs,
WITi RAi'E FEED,
r BELT AND VAlt1AlIlE
* IMPROVED I)OGS,
AN) t;F'r WORKS
AND T131ER GUAGERS,
h,aduated to sixteenth of an inch $200 to
;600: Brick Machinery and Wood
Working Machinery a specialty.
Planing Machines $200 and upwards.
Drying Kilns for Brick and Lumber.
Every yard should have one.
Plans and drawings for construction fur.
We sell the10 highest grade of Machinery
and at low prices.
V. C. BADHAM,
COLUumJA, S. C.
FadIel fays the Frett.
A GREAT ORIEE THAT MAY NOT AoA
[ BEREPEATED, 80 DO NOT DELAY,
"STRIKE WHILE THE IRON 18 HOT."
Write for Catalogue now, aind say wha
paper yousaw this advertisement in.
member that I sell everything thi.
gL es to furnishing a home-manul actur.
ing some things and buying others in tht
largest possible lots, which enables iu tt
kwipe out all competition
1HERE ARE A FEW OF MY bTAR'
A No. 7 Flat top Cooking Stove, fui
size, 35x17 inch oven, fitted with 21 piece
of ware, delivered at your own depol
all freight charges paid by me, f;i
only Twe4ve Dollars.
Again, I will sell you a 5 hole Uookii.
Range 13x13 inch oven, 18x26 inch top, tit i
ted with 21 pieces of ware, for T liR
TEEN DOLLARb, and pay the i reight to
DO NOT PAY TWO PRICES FOR
V OUR UOODS.
I will send you a nice plush V'arlor suit,'
walnut frame, either in colbiuation or
banded, the most sty lish colors for :.50,
to your .ai lroad station, freighi paid.
Iwill alsohsoll you a nlice Bedrouwiv., uitt
0onsisting of Bureau with glatsi, I ingli
head Bedstead, 1 WabhlStalid, I (tre
table, 4 cane seat chairs, I cane .seat and
back reeker all for iu.5u, and pay iroiyh
to your depot.
Or I will send )ou an t!legAUL isedroom
8uit with large glas, I II inArlic op, ir
-03u, and piay treiglit.
Nice wintuuw shado ou zipi iu roi wi 4 ou i
I E.nuttau1a geanwta1r a .tiau-:12::. 4.0
Wtanul lounge, .0
) 1ace curtais pe window, .U
1 iuanniot descrite! Cver3 thing~ 1in a :'iua&li
Iadvertiseinent, bt,ti4' haVO ii itie . alte
I containing 22,600u leet 01 hnt rou, wiLl:
ware houses ant l:wity Duu tilg i nLherj
- parts of A.ugusta, inaking in li then int-'
'gest business o tis iui undter one mu
I aemient in the bouttliern states. I noe
sLornsand warehouses~ are cru wded withi
. he choicest prouuetions oftu Li.,st lco
ries. My cattalo (ut contatuing iiIustaut,Ins
- -,ay Whereii you 51aw t,is autUV t:.:i,imt. 1 ,
aI 1ji teight. Adure~.s,
3 L. F. PAiJIETT,
3 Proprietor l'adge,tt's I!ujulture, b'love
3 and Carpet blto,
I !.110-1112J Br ad bt riee, A U(GU bT A,. OA.
TY PEW RIT ER S
E XCH A N GED.
S aElT prpad LiietAyingre
Gontals by Wh eithe rs
- F Rm~s'FIEN D""S senic
WILL D eared ttin iment d fogr
ifen of rMoerzad Chled. ino
c ontat tsesltimon ia als. o
Ft Senthy ex es igreeipt are co.rn-e btl
It NI)PAN RSh,PoreItor,
Lifea.t of Mther .n Chl....o
THE MUTUAL LIFE
Insurance Company i New York
RICHARD A. McCURD' , PRESIDENT.
Statonut for thj year end ing Decomaber 81,1891
Assets - - $5, ,138 8
Eeserve on Policies (American
Tablo 40/o) - - $146,968,892 0f
LlabiliticR other than Beerve, 6071840 6
Surplus,- - - - - 12,010,907 16
Receipts from all sources, - 7t34,734 1
Payments to 1'olley.1olders, 18 25,711 86
E se asenmed and renewed,
194,470 policies, - - - 607,171,801 00
Risk. in force, U2,607 policies,
amounting to - - - 03,73,461 06
NoTH.-The above statemenit shows a large increase
over the business of 1890 in amount at risk, new bisinesa
assumed, payments to policy-holders, recei ps assets and
surlus ; and includes as risks assumed only the number
an amount of policies actually issued and paid for in
the accounts of the year.
THE ASSETS ARE INVE11TED AG FOLLOWS: -
Real Estate and Bond N crtgago
Loans, - - - - - -81,345,640 48
United Slates Bonds ani other
Securities - - - - 57,66111455 78
Loans on CoRateral Recur-les, 10,.28,903 go
Cash in Banks anti Trust, Coupa.
nes at interest, - - - 6,070,153 03
Interest accrued, Vremluts De
ferred, etc., - - - - r,200,085 49
I have carefully examined tha foregoing statement
and fiud the samne to be correct.
A. N. WATEItoUSE, Auditor.
From the Surplus a divileId will bo apportioned
REPORT OP THlE B1LMII',KG COXEITTER.
OMloe of The Ntual Life Insu.anco Company of Now York.
January 25 189&
It a meeting of tho Board of Trusio of this Company, hold on the
23d day of December, ultiimo, the undersigned wcr appointed a Con
inittee to examine the annual statement for the y,ar ending December
31, 1891, mad to verify the same by ctimparison with the assets of the
The 6mmittee have carefully performod the duty assigned to th
and hereby certify that tho statement is in all partionlaraeorrect, a
that the assets specified therein are in poshission of the Company.
In maling this certificate the Comnittee bear testimony to the hio
Character of te investments of tho Company and ex res their appre
bation of the system, order, and acourecy with wi theaccounts i
Touchon hay bwa kept, and the business in general is transoted.
H. C. VON PoST, RosURT SEWELL,
GEORGE BLIsS, J. H. HERRiCm,
JULIEN T. DAVIES, D. C. RosN0ose
JA8. 0. HoLoEN.
ROBERT A. GRANNISS, VICE-PRESIDENT.
WALTKR R. G:L.arru, - Genral Manager.
FREDERIC CROMWM.LL, - - - Treasurer.
EMORY MCCLIuOCIC, . - Actuary.
OUNTY Ak4 ENTS.
Abbevillo, ; Cieter, 11. G.
Mellwainl; Fairfield, I]. G. Mcllwatin;
Pickens, --------; F_oe nee;
Edgelield, Geo MI. Lake; Ieil.ley, W. S.
laWtl & Son; 11almt i ;-V. N. ileyward;
WMlliamisbutrg, N. MI. .16hnson; Lautrens,
M. T. 813mp1son;. Kershalw, E4. 3.Cantey.
GernanI & 1yatt, (eneril Agents, Co
lumbia, S. C.
I. .. ~ LAMMJIt
.uiU AN . n.Poraos
-M 7 IE WORKMEN
SOlth ~ ~ 1cr aalllala ileWo
douthern Stae to senr satsfatio5
Amria uad'Iaia t ale Work. ayt. At,
M OWJNSUlM IAIU,&C.
? tSen Statries ta)l 14001uforatiton I
Amprica an d It0lia Mi WorA. A U