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COMPAjST K1SWNB' Aafin ntonMiwaA Another Chari . By Dr. &ge. lAtnnrtnr Tim A Man is Known By Keep-The OUnt. of Grcat lrout God's People-Thjr Enemy to Con(l"?Jc. In a recent sermon at Brooklyn Rev T. De Witt Talinagc took i from Deuteronomy i.: r Ttnchn.ll. iiL 11. "n,7 Jff. remained ot the H.4IIJ, m- ,.. i.l. his tia.litonrl omio i3C ltwh - , remnant of giants, Ul-"" of iron; is it not in BabbatU of the children of Ammon? Nine cubits yas the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it" Talmage said- Tbe story " giants is mixed vith myth. AVUIiam the Conqueror was said to have been of over-toworing altitude, but, when in after time, his tomb was'opened, his bones indicated that he had been physically of only ordinary size. Roland the hero va said to have been of astoundingstature, but when his sepulchre was examined, his armor was found only large enough to fit an ordinary man. Alex ander the Great had helmets and .hields of enormous size made and left among the people whom he had con quered, so as to give the impression that he was a giant, although he was rather under than over the usual height of a man. Rut that in other days and lands there were real giants is authentic. One of the guards of the duke of Brunswick was eight and a Jialf feet high. In a museum in Lon don is the skeleton of Charles Birne, -eight feet four inches in stature. The emperor Maximin was over eight feet Pliny tells of a giant nine feet high and two other giants nine and a -half feet So I am not incredulous when-1 come to my text and find King Og a giant, and the size of his bcadstead, turning the cubits of the text into feet the beadsteai of Og, the king, must have been about thirteen and a-half feet long. Judging from that the giant who occupied it was probably about eleven feet in stature, or nearly twice the average human size. There was no need of Rabbinical writers try ing to account for the presence of this giant. King Og, as they did, by saying that he came down from the other side of the flood, being tall enough to wade the waters beside Noan's ark, or that he rodo on the top of the ark, the pas sengers insi le the ark daily providing him with fooi. There was nothing supernatural about him. lie was sim ply a monster in size. Cyrus and Solomon slept on beds of rgold and Sardanapalus had 150 bed--steads of gold burned up with him, but this bedstead of my text was of iron -everything sacrificed for strength to Jiold this excessive avoirdupois, this -Alp of bone and flesh. No wonder this couch was kept as a curiosity at Rab bath, and people went from far and near to see it, just as now the people .go to museums to behold the armor of ' the ancients. You say what a fighter this giant, King Og, must have been. No doubt of it I suppose the size of 1 his sword and breastplate corresponded to the size of his bedstead, and his stride across the battle field and the full stroke of his arm must have been appalling. With an armed host he comes down to drive back the Israel ites, who are marching on from- Egypt to Canaan. We have no particulars of the battle, but I think the Israelites trembled when they saw this monster of a man moving down to crush them. Alas for the Israelites! Will their (roubles never cease? What can men five and a half feet high do against this warrior of eleven feet, and what can short swords do against a sword whose gleam must have been like a flash of lightning? The battle of Edrei opened. Moses and bis army met the giant and his army. The Lord of hosts descended into the fight and the gigantic strides that Og had made when advancing into the battle were more than equaled by the gigantic strides with which he re treated. Huzza for triumphant Israel! Sixty fortified cities surrendered to them. A land of indescribable opu lence comes into their possession, and all that is left of the giant king is the .iron bedstead. "Nine cubits was the :length thereof and four cubits was the breadth thereof." Why did not the Bible give us the -size of the giant instead of the size of the bedstead? Why did it not indicate that the man was eleven feet high in stead of telling us that his couch was thirteen and a-half feet long? No doubt among other things it was to teach us that you can judge a man by hb surroundings. Show me a man's associates, show mo a man's books, ' show me a man's home, and I will tell you what he is without your telling me one word about him. You cannot only tell a man according to the old .adage, "By the company he keeps," dmt by the books he reads, by the pict ures he admires, by the church he at 'tends, by the places he visits. Moral giants and moral pigmies, intellectual giants and intellectual pigmies, like physical giants or physical pigmies, may be judged by their surroundings. That man has been thirty years faith ful in attendance upon churches and prayer meetings and Sunday schools, and putting himself amongintensely re ligious associations. lie may have his imperfections, but he is a very good man. Great is his religious stature. That other man has been for thirty years among influences intensely world ly and he has shut himself out from all other influences, and his religious stature is that of a dwarf. No man ever has been or can be indepsndent of his surroundings social, intellectual, moral, religious. The Bible indicates the length of the giant by the length of his bedstead. Let no man say: "I will be good," and yet keep evil snr Toundings. Let no man sav: "I will be faithful as a Christian." andyetcon sort chiefly with worldlings. You arc proposing an everlasting impossibilitr. When a man departs this li.o you can tell what has been his influence in a community for good by those who mourn for him and by how sincere and ' long continued are the regrets of his taking off. Thai may be no pomp or obsequies, and no pretense at epitaphe ology, but you can tell how high he was in consecration and how high in usefulness by how long is his shadow when ho comes to lie down. What is true of individuals is true of cities and nations. Show m the free libraries and schools of a city, and I will tell you the intelligence of its peo ple. Show mo its gallery of painting and sculpture, and I will tall you the artistic advancement of it3 citizens. Show me its churches, and I will tell you the moral and religious status of the place. From the fact that Og's bedstead was thirteen and a-half feet long, I conclude the giant himself was about eleven feet high. But let no one by this thought be induced to surrender to unfavorable environments. A man can make his own bedstead. Chantrey and Hugh Miller were born stone masons, but the one became an im mortal sculptor and the other a Chris tian scientist whose name will never die. Turner, the painter, in whose praise John Ruskin expended the greatest genius of his life, was the son of a barber who advertised "a penny a shave.'' Dr. Pridcaux, one of the greatest scholars of all time, earned his wa3' through college by scouring pots and pans. The late Judge Rrad lny worked his own way up from a charcoal burner to the bench of the su preme court of the United States. Yes, a man can decide the size of his own bedstead. Notice furthermore that even giants must rest Such enormous physical endowment on the part of King Og might suggest the capacity to stride across all fatigue and. omit slumber. No. He required an iron bedstead. Giants must rest Not apnreciating that fact, how man' of the giants yearly break down. Giants in busi ness, giants in art, giants in eloquence, giants in usefulness. They live not out more than half their days. They try to escape the consequence of over work by a voyage across the sea or a sail in a summer yacht, or call on physician for relief from insomnia or restoration of unstrung nerves or the arrest of apoplexies, when all they need is what this giant of my text re sorted to an iron bedstead. Let no one think becausehehasgrcatstrength of body or mind that he can afford to trifle with his unusual gifts- The commercial world, the literary world, the artistic world, the political world, the religious world, are all time aqnakc with the crash of falling giants. King Og, no doubt, had a throne but the Bible never mentions his throne. King Og. no doubt had a crown, but the Bible never mentions his crown. King Og, no doubt, had a scepter, but the Bible docs not mention his scepter. Yet, one of the largest verses of the Bible is taken up in describing his bedstead. Sd God all up and down the Bible honors sleep. Adam, with his head on a pillow of Edenic roses, has his slumber blest by a divine gift of bcautifut companion ship. Jacob, with his head on a pillow of rock, has his sleep glorified with a ladder filled with descending and ascending angels. Christ, with a pillow made out of the folJed up coat of a fisherman, honors slumber in the back part of the storm tossed boat The only case of accident to sleep mentioned in the Bible was when Eutychus fell from a window during a sermon of Paul, who had preached until midnight but that was not so much a condemnation of sleep as a censure of long sermons. More sleep is what the world wants. Economize in every thing but sleep. Notice, furthermore, that God's peo ple on the way to Canaan need not be surprised if they confront some sort of a giant Had not the Israelitifh host had trouble enough already? No! Red sea not enough. Water famine not enough. Long marches not enough. Opposition by enemies of ordinary stature not enough. They must meet Og. the giant of the iron bedstead. "Nine cubits was the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it" Why not let these Israelites go smooth ly into Canaan without this gigantic opposition? O, they needed to have their courage and faith further tested and developed! And blessed the man, who, in our time, in his march toward the promised land does not meet more than one giant Brethren, I have made up my mind that e will have to fight all the way up to the promised land. I used to think that after a while I would get into a time where it would be smooth and easy, but the time does not come and it will never come in this world. By the time King Og is used up so that he cannot get into his iron bedstead some other giant of opposition looms up to dispute our way. Let us stop looking for an easy time and make it a thirty years' war, or a sixty years' war, or a hundred years' war if we live so long. Must I be caricd to the sides On flowery beds of case, While others fought to win the prize And sailed throusn bloody seas Do you know the name of the big gest giant that you can possibly meet and you will meet him? He is not eleven feet high, but one hundred feet high. His bedstead is as long as the continent His name is Doubt His common food is infidel books and skep tical lectures and ministers who do not know whether the Bible is inspired at all or inspired in spots, and Christians who are more infidel than Christian. You will never reach the promised land unless you slay that giant. Kill Doubt or Doubt will kill you. How to overcome this giant? Pray for faith, go with people who have faith, read everything that encourages faith, avoid as you would ship fever and smatl-pox the people who lack faith. In tnis battle against King Og use not for weapons the crutch of a limping Christian or the sharp pen of a con troversialist, but the sword of truth, which is the word of God. The word "if" is made up of the same number of letters as the word Og," and it is just as big a giant If the Bible be true. If the soul be immortal. If Christ bo God. If our belief and behavior here decide our future destiny. If. If. If. I hate that word "if." Noah Webster iays it is a conjunction; I say it is an aimed giant Satan breathed upon it a curse when he said to Christ: "If Thou be the Son of God." What a dastardly and infamous "it" Against that giant "it" hurl Job's "I know" and Paul's "I know." "I know that my Redeemer livcth." "I know in whom I have believed." Down with the "if"' and up with "I know." O, that giant Doubt is such a cruel giant! It attacks many in the last hour. Another impression from my subject: The march of the church cannot bo im peded by gigantic opposition. That Israelitish host led on by Moses was the church and when Og, the giant, him of the iron bedstead, came out against him with another host a fresh host against one that seemed worn out things must have looked bad for Israel. No account is given of the bed stead of Moses, except that one in which he first slept tho cradle of aquatic vegetation oa the Nile, where the wife of Chcnephres, the king, found the floating babe and, having no child of her own, adopted him. Moses of ordinary size against Og of extraordi nary dimensions. Besides that Og was backed by sixty fortified cities, Moses was backed up seemingly by nothing but the d;ssrt that had worn him and his army into a group of undisciplined and ex hausted stragglers. But the Israelites triumphed. If you spell the name of Og backward, you turn it into the word "Go," and Og was turned backward and made to go. With Og's downfall all the sixty cities surrendered. Noth ing was left of the giant except his iron bedstead, which was kept in a museum at Rabbath to show how tall and stout he once was. So shall the last giant of opposition in the church's march succumb. Not sixty cities cap tured, but all the cities. Not only on one side of Jordon, but on both sides of all the rivers. The day is corning. Hear it all ye who are doing something for the conquest of the world for God and the truth, the time will come when, as there was nothing left of Og, the giant, but the iron bedstead kopt at Rabbath as a curiosity, there will be nothing left of the giants of iniquity except something for the relic hunters to examine. Which of the giants will be the last slain I know not but there will be a museum somewhere to hold the relics of what they once were. A rusted sword will be hung up the only relio of the giant of war. A demijohn the only relic of the giant of inebriation. A roulette ball the only relic of the giant of hazard. A pictured certificate of watered stock the only relic of stock gambling. A broken knife the only relic of the giant of assassination. A yellow copy of Tom Paine the only relic of the giant of unbelief. And that museum will do for the later ages of the world what the iron bedstead at Rabbath did for the earlier ages. Do you not see it makes all the difference in the world whether we are fighting on toward a miserable defeat or to ward a final victory? All the Bible promises prophesy tho latter, and so I cheer you who are tho troops of God, and though many things are dark now, like Alex ander, I review the army by torchlight and I give you the watchword which Martin Luther proclaimed: "The Lorfl of hosts!" "The Lord of hosts!" and I cry out exultingly, with Oliver Crom well at the battle of Dunbar: "Let God arise; let His enemies be scattered." Make all the preparations for the world's evangelization. Have the faith of Robert and Mary Moffatt, the mis sionaries, who after preaching in Bcchuanaland for ton years without one convert were asked what they would like to have sent them by way of gift from England, said: "Send a communion service for it will suroly be needed," and sure enough the expected ingathering of many souls was realized and the communion service arrived in time to celebrate it Appropriately did that missionary write in an album when his autograph was requested: My album is the savage breast Where darkness reiens and tempests wrest. Without one ray of light, To write the name ot Jesus there, And point to worlds both bright and fair, And see the savage bowed in prayer, Is my supremo delight. Whatever your work and wherever your work for God forward! Yon in your way and I in my way. With holy pluck fight on with something of the strength of Thomas Troubridge, who at Inkermann had one leg shot off and the foot of the other leg, and when they proposed to carry him off the field re plied: "No, I do not move until tha battle is won." Whatever be the rocking of the church or state, hava the calmness of the aged woman in an earthquake that frightened everybody else, and who, when asked if she was not afraid, said: "No, I am glad that I have a God who can shake the world." Whether your work bo to teach a Sabbath class, or nurse an invalid, or reform a wanderer, or print a tract, or train a household, or bear the querulousncss of senility, or cheer the disheartened, or lead a soul to Christ, know that by fidelity you may help hasten the time when the world shall be snowed under with white lily and incardined with red rose. And now I bargain with you that we will come back some day from our superstellar abode to see how the world looks when it shall be fully emparadised its last tear wept, its last wound healed, its last shackle broken, its last desert gardenized, its last giant of iniquity decapitated. And when we land may it be somewhere near this spot of earth where wo have together toiled and struggled for the kingdom of God, and may it bs about this hour in the high noon of some glorious Sabbath, look ing into the upturned faces of some great audience radiant with holiness and triumph. Torture. "Did you hear of tho horrible tortura Mrs. Gabble was put to yesterday?" "No. What was it?" "She had a tooth filled." "Fudge! That didn't hurt her much." "Didn't hurt her at all. but she had to stop talking for two hours," Brook lyn Eagle, A LAND SHARPERS. Hbarka Reaping a Harvest at the Rxpens or Old Soldier The swindling Schema Coming to Light. Washington, March 15. Letters from old soldiers in regard to the Chey- enne and Arapahoe lands are pouring in upon Missouri and Kansas Consress men. They show that unscrupulous persons are reaping a great harvest at the expsnsc of the veterans. The lat ter are being led to believe that b giving a power of attorney and a feo of $20, or thereabouts they can have filed for them a declaratory statement which will entitle them to enter ICO acres of this Chey enne and Arapahoe land auy time within six months. From the number of letters received here by congress men within the pastfew weeks it looks as if this new trick had been p!ayed upon hundreds if not thousands of old soldiers in the southwestern states. Said a Missouri congressman: "No such declaratory statements can bo filed now. The Cheyenne and Arapa hoe lands have not been allotted, much less thrown open to settlement. The acceptance of those fees on the under standing that the statements can be filed now is a great fraud." Many of the letters which have come are evidently inspired from a common source. They are in identically the same form, and call attention to the following clause in the Harvey b.ll pending for the opening of the Chey enne and Arapahoe reservations: "And personal settlement Ibn said Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservations shall be a condition precedent to entry thereon at the proper land office, and each set tler upen any of said reservations shall be allowed a period of six months after the settlement thereon in which to make such filing." The writers then go on to say that this will practically repeal the United States statute which allows old soldiers to file declaratory statements through an agent and have six months to make entry upon the land. In other words, the narvey bill stands in the way of the persons who are gathering in the S20 bills right and left in Missouri and Kansas and promising to file declara tory statements as agents for the old soldiers. 'COAL AND IRON SYNDICATES. Two ImmriMn fine .Merged Negotiations Fending For Some Time Successfully L'oa miinmated. New York. March 13. The negotia tions which have been pending for tho past two weeks for a combination of the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railway Co. with the Debardelban Coal & Iron Co. have been successfully consum mated. The capital of the Debardel ban company was 510,000,000 in stock and S3.030.000 in bonds; that of the Tennessee was So.000,000 in bonds, 51,000,003 in preferred stock and 59,000,000 common stock. That is to say, the two companies represented a capitalization of S19.030.000 in common stock, Sl.000.000 in preferred stock and 58,000,000 of bonded indebtedness. The capital stock of what may be termed the new company will be 517.000,000 common and Sl.- 000,000 preferred stock; 51.000,000 of this 517,000,000 will remain in the treasury. It will be seen that the joint capital stock has been scaled down, not increased. The Tennesseo Coal & Iron Co. at present owns 23,000 acres of coal and iron land, chiefly in Alabama, and has ten blast furnaces and 1,100 coke ovens. Its daily output is about 1,000 tons of pig iron and 0,300 tons of coaL The Debardel ban company represents the con solidation of a half dozen corpora tions. It at first absorbed the Besse mer Iron & Steel Co., then the Littla Belle and next the Eureka and the Henry Ellen. All this absorption has taken place within the last four years. This company owns 100,000 acres of coal and iron lands in the Warrior and Tehaba coal basins of Alabama. It has seven blast furnaces and 1,040 coko ovens. Its daily output is 700 tons of pig iron and 3,000 tons of coal. CHARGED TO GARZA. Twu iJodles Fonml Hanging Near tlie Mex ican Line Suppixed to llave Iteen the Work oi (iarza'n Men. Laredo, Tex.. March 13. A Mexican came into Laredo and reported a ghast ly find to the authorities. He says t.iat ! on last Monday while engaged in cut- j ting grass not far from LI Pato ranch, in Ensinal county, he came suddenly upon the body of a man hang ing to the limb of a mesquite. The bodv was that of a Mcxi an, about 30 years old. and apparently j had not been hanging more than twenty hours. The rope used was a small grass rope, which was well se cured to tho limb. On the ground not far from the body were several empty Winchester cartridges. The locality is a wild and unsettled stretch of country and several miles from the nearest ranch. The reason given by the Mexi can why he had not reported the mat ter wi that hCs master was absent from the ranch and he could not leave. Tie relation of this find had hardly beeti made when another reported the finding of another body hanging not many miles from where the first ono was located. Sheriff Renavides sent out immediately a deputy sheriff to in vestigate the affair. There is no clew yet as to whom these lawless acts are to be attributed, though there is an opinion" expressed that these hangings are the deeds of Garza's men, who thus seek revenge upon those Mexicans whom they suspect of havingaided and abetted the United States troops id hunting down Garza's revolutionists. Death of Grand Duke Luilwlg IV. Darmstadt. March 13. Grand Duko Ludwig IV. died at 1:15 yesterday morn ing. He was unconcious throughout the preceding part of the night. Three of hi daughters and Prince Ernst Lud wig. his heir, wore at his bedside at the time of his death. The city is in mourning. In the English quarter, where the grand dnke was especially popular, many houses are draped. A Prominent Republican of Texas ried. Austin, Tes., March li J. L lielL ; a prominent republican of thio state, is j dead. "He was well known in. "Washing I ton. DYNAMITE IN PARIS. Attempt to Wreck the Harrack of the Re publican Guard-Narrow Escape of Sol diers. Paris. March 10. It is very evident that the anarchists, or whoever it was who stole the dynamite cartridges from the Seine quarries, are endeavoring to inaugurate a reign of terror in this city, and. to judge from the consternation that prevai.s in certain quarter., it is also evident that they are succeeding. It does not, of course, follow that all the explosions that have recently oc curred were caused by these stolen cartridges, but there is no doubt that the anarchists have a large quantity of dynamite that the police in their raids have not succeeding in cap luring. At 1:-J3 o'clock this morning a terrific explosion occurred at the Lobau bar racks, occupicl by the "Republican guard," adjoining the Hotel de Ville. In a moment a scene of the wildest ex citement prevailed. The barracks aro occupied by S00 guards, but they were not all in the building. There were, however, a largo number of people in the barracks. Suddenly awakened by the tremendous roar and shock that seemed ti threaten the demolition of the structure, the men sprang through the windows, thinking that any mo ment the walls would come toppling down upon them. The people who were in the streets at that early hour hastened to the scene, and tho streets in the vicinity were soon filled with an excited crowd. Tho police at once began an investigation and soon learned that a dynamite car tridge had been placed upon the ledge of a window of the mess room, which is on the ground flour of the barracks. Pieces of the copper casing of the cartridge and bits of a fuse were found and these explained the methods the miscreants had employed. Uv the greatest good luck all the guards es caped without injury, and the only harm done was to the barracks and the buildings in the vicinity. Hundreds of windows were shattered and the walls of the barracks and other buildings bear traces of the explosion. Experts have been examining the fragments of copper found by the po lice and their investigation leads to the belief that the shell used was one of the melinite cartridges used by the army, but that the melinite had been removed and the shell filled with a specially prepared powder. A cabinet council was held this after noon at which President Carnot signed a bill introducing a clause in the penal code, making the wilful destruction of property bv means of explosives pun ishable with death. This clause will be introduced in the chamber of depu ties this afternoon. The frequency of anarchistic out rages of late has caused a general feel ing of consternation in Paris. It is be lieved that the anarchists will gain courage from their immunity from ar rest, for the police have not succeeded in detecting the authors of any of the explosions, and serious apprehension is felt regarding the action they may take on May day. WITHOUT THE PALE. Colombia. Ilayti and Venezuela to IJo Pro claimed Outside the Lines or ICeciproclty With This Country. Washington, March 16. In accord ance with the provisions of section 3 of tbe tariff act of 1890, known as the reciprocity section, on January 7 last Secretary Blaine informed the representatives in this city of Austria-Hungary, Colombia. Ilayti, Honduras. Nicaragua and Spain for the Phillipine islands and Venezuela that unless some understanding was reached as to a commercial arrange ment before March 15 the president would be compelled to issue his procla mation imposing the duties fixed in that section on sugar, molasses, coffee and hides, products of the countries named. A commercial arrangement with Nicar agua has already been published. It is understood that a similar arrange ment has been agreed upon with Hon duras and will be announced within a few days; also that Austrii-Hungary has made a definite proposition, as like wise Spain regarding the Phillippine isl ands, which give promise of early and satisfactory adjustment. This leaves only Colombia, Ilayti and Vene zuela subject to action under the tariff law, and to these countries the presi dent to-day issued his proclamation de claring the duties set forth in sec tion 3 in force as to sugar, molasses, coffee and hides imported from them. Separate proclamations of the same purport are issued to each country. The English Coal Strikers. London, March 10. The Times sng rractc tlint. lindins of roval engineers should be sent by the government to j keep the mine pumps working during . the contmuauce of the miner.-,' strike in order to prevent the destruction of valuable property and to -insure tho t people in the vicinity a supply of water. It declares that the condition of the people in the poorest part of the town is deplorable. Ali the young men without families depending on them are reckless in con sequence of the strike. The older men are more concerned as to the result of the contest and have entered the strug gle with reluctance. In Leeds the streets are full of idle", listless men. The men engaged in the saltworks in Cheshire have stopped work. Coal shipments from the Tyne are at a standstill in consequerjee of the miners holiday. Forty coal stealers are lying at the docks there unable to get cargoes. A I-athbed Confession. Chattanooga, Tenn.. March Id The story of a murder for the commission of which two slayers obtained but twenty cents in booty x made public through tho death bed confession of Rud Collins, ic Kancock county. His story is that he and Sterling Collins murdered an un- ' known traveling doctor a few years ago near their place of residence. Two years ago Sterling Collins and his mis tress were killed by a stroke of light ning while seeking shelter undpr a large tree on the very hill on which he and his brother had committed the murder. ON A TEAR. The Liquor Interest Excited Over a fro vision in tbe Pure Food Kill. Washington, March 10. Represent atives of the liquor interests have been, aroused rather suddenly to the impres sion that there is grave danger for them in the so-called pure food bill which passed the senate last week. They were at the capital yesterday in numbers, and were canvassing tho prospect of changes by the house. The bill has gone to the house committee on inter-state commerce. Mr. Hatch's committee on agriculture has a, similar bill, and before the chairman left for Missouri last week had al most finished consideration of it. Had Mr. Hatch been here he could probably have insisted" on the reference of tho senate bill to his committee, where it belonged. Since it has gone to the inter-state commerce committee that body has decided to hear interested parties. The temperance people see an opportunity to get in some work and have applied for a day before the com mittee. They have discovered simul taneously with the liquormen that tho bill which was primarily intended in the interest of pure food really puts a check on certain brands of whisky and wines. The bill prohibits any adulteration of "drink" as well as food which is calculated to lower the quality or strength and deceive the purchaser. It forbids mixing and col oring. It also strikes at faKe brands. The saving clause, which is all that stands between tho liquormen and who'esale condemnation of many of their products, is this: "Provided that an article of food or drug which does not contain any added poisonous in gredient shall not be deemed to bo adulterated." This clause the temperance peoplo will try to have amended to read in a. form much more sweeping against the liquor business as follows: "Provided, that an article of food or drug which docs not contain any added or mixed ingredient, deleterious or poisonous to health, shall not be deemed to bo adulterated." That would give wide latitude to reach tho handlers of liquors. The liquor lobby Ls up in arms to fight this, and defeat the whole bill, if possible. SHOOTS THREE AND HIMSELF. The 1'erpetrator a I'opulnr Itimlnet 3Iao or litlln, O. No Doubt limine. Tiffin, O., March 10. Walter A. Snyder, aged about 43 years, unmarried and one of tho most popular men in the city, this morning attempted tho life of Edward T. Naylor and Rurton W. Crobaugh, members of the firm by which he was employed, and that of Thomas Downey, a fellow clerk, and then, killed himself. He was no doubt in sane. Snyder entered the store as usual this morning and found the others already there. He made a pretense of desiring Naylor and Crobaugh to examine the contents of a box which he had just re ceived by express, and when they were at his side he shot them both, and then turned his revolver on Downey, who had entered to save the lives of tho others. All the men in the tragedy stand high in the community and business in thT city is practically suspended, while hundreds of people throng the street in front of the store where the bloody work was done. Snyder was a member of the Forty ninth regiment du-ing the late war and Naylor was with the Eighth Ohio. All save Snyder are married and havo families. TARIFF TALK TIME EXTENDED. The Vote on the Free Wool Illll Cannot lie Taken on the 21st. Washington. March 10. On account of the large number of members who want to speak on the tariff, the vote on the free wool bill cannot be ta.;en on the Slit. As the silver bill is tho special order for three days, beginning with thc22d,the tariff debate willbc cut off for that time and be resumed after the free coinage bill has been voted upon. It will last until the 1st of April or later. In the meantime, how ever, several appropriation bills will be'passed at interims in the debate. Mr. McMillin said this morning that there would be no delay in reporting; bills from the ways and means com mittee and that the tariff question would not delay the adjournment of congress. Hill In :lI8Ulpii. Jackson, Miss., March 1G. Several thousand people had assembled at tho depot in Meridian, Miss., this morning? when the train bearing Senator Hill and his party rolled into that city. Ho was received by themusicof bands and a salute of musketry from the ".Missis sippi Southrons," a military organiza tion of Meridian. Senator Hill was in troduced by Capt W. H. Hardy, chair man of the citizens committee in a few words of adnlation in which among other things he said: "To-day all eyes. are tnrned to him (Hill) as tbe great and wise leader, under- whose ban ner the democratic hosts of this country shall march to victory next November." The speech was cheered. Senator Hill spoke briefly on national political issues and was loudly cheered. He denounced the force bill and the billion-dollar congress and said tha people would pronounce against tha republican party in the coming elec tion. Senator Hill became the guest of Gov. Stone during-his stay in Jackson. A reception was held at the executives mansion at 12 o'clock, where the sena tor shook hands with a stream of visi tors for over an hour. A Subterranean 4tram. Plaisfielu, N. J., March 10. Tes have been made by the water compaajr here, whose driven we-lls at Nethc wood supply millions of barrels every day, to discover the source of supply. It has been found that the wells actu ally tap a vast underground river Sow ing from northeast to southwest direct ly under the city. Soundings havo been taken by competent engineers that prove tho existence of a stream ot extraordinary extent. It has a swift J current and sweeps over a bed of beau j tifully white, smooth pebbles. Th J quality of the water is ot tho rjuresU