Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 4 October 1889 — Page 7

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DANCER FROM DELILAIiS.

Dr. Talmage Talks of "The Shorn Locks

of Samson."

Some of the Ways in Which Strong Men Get Their Locks Shorn—The Earth Filled with Carcasses of Giants—A Warning to Young

Men.

In his discourse of last Sunday in Brooklyn Tabernacle, Rev. T. DeVVitt Talmage spoKe most eloquently on the snares and temptations of life to a large audience. His text, was Judges XVI, 5. "Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to alBict him and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver." The sermon was as follows:

One thousand rounds, or about five thousand dollars of our money, were tnus offered for the capture of a giant. It would take a skillful photographist to picture Samson as he really was. The most facile words are not supple enough to describe him. He was a giant and a child the conqueror and the defeated able to snap a lion's jaw, and yet captured by the sigh of a maiden. He was ruler and slave a commingling of virtue aiiJ vioc, the sublime aud ridiculous sharp enougn to make a riddle, and yet weak enough to be caught in the most superficial stratagem honest enough to settle his debt, and yet outrageously robbing somebody else to get the material to pay it a miracle and a scoffing a crowning glory and a burning shame. There he stands, looming up above other men, a mountain of flesh: his arms bunched with muscle that can lift the gate of a city taking an attitude defiant of armed men and wild beasts. His hair had never been cut, and it rolled down in seven great plaits over his shoulders, adding to his fierceness aud terror. The Philistines want to conquer him, and therefore they must find out where the secret of his strength lies.

There is a woman living in the valley of Sorek by the uame of Delilah. They appoint her an agent in the case. The Philistines are secreted in the same building, and then Delilah goes to work and coaxes Samson to tell what is the secret of bis strength. "Well," he says, "if you should take seven green withes, such as the.v fasten wild beasts with, and put them around me, I should be perfectly powerless." So she binds him with the seven green withes. Then she claps her hands, and says, "They come—the Philistines!" and he walks out as though there were no impediment. She coaxes him again, and says, "Now tell me the secret of this great strength and he replies, "if you should take sonie ropes that never have been used, and tie me with them, Ishould be just like other men." She ties him witli the ropes, claps her hands and shouts, "They come— the Philistines!" He walks out as easy as he did before—not a single obstruction. She coaxes him again, and he says, "Now if you should take these seven long plaits of hair, and by this house loom weave them into a web, 1 could not get away." So the house loom is rolled up, and the shuttle flies backward and forward, and the long plaits of hair are woven into a web. Then she claps her hands, and says, "The.v come! the Philistines"

He walks out as easily as he did before, dragging apart of the loom with him. But after awhile she persuades him to tell the truth. He says: "If you should take a razor, or shears, and cut off this long hair, I should be powerless, and in the hands of my enemies." Samson sleeps, and, that she may not wake him during the process of shearing, help is called in. You know that the barbers of the east nave such a skillful way of manipulating the head, that to this very day they will put a man, wide awake, sound asleep. I hear the blades of the shears grinding against each other, and I see the long locks falling off. The shears, or razor, accomplishes what green withes and new ropes and house loom could not do. .Suddenly she claps her hands and says: "The Philistines be upon thee, Samson!" He rouses up with a struggle, but his strength is all gone! He is in the hands of his enemies! I hear the groan of the giant as they taivc his eyes out, and then I see him staggering on in his blindness, feeling his way as he goes on toward Gaza. The prison door is opened and the giant is thrust in. He sits down and puts his hands on the mill crank, which, with exhausting horizontal motion, goes day after day, week after week, month after month--work, work, work! The consternation of the world ia captivity, his locks shorn, his eyes punctured, grinding corn in Gaza. In a previous sermon on this character 1 learned some lessons, but another class of lessons are before us now.

Learn first how very strong people are sometimes coaxed into great imbecilities. Samson had no right, to reveal the secret of his strength. Delilah's first attempt to find out is a failure. He says: "Green withes will bind me," but it was.a failure. Then he says, "A new rope will hold me," but that- also was a failure. Then he says, "Weave my locks into a web and that will bind me," yet that also was a failure. But at last you see liowsheco:ixed toutof him. Unimportant actions in life that involve no moral principle may without injury be subjected to ardent persuasions, but as soon as you have come to the line that separates right from wrong, no inducement or blandishment ought to make you step over it. Suppose a man has been brought up in a Christian household and taught sacredly to observe the Sabbath. Sunday comes you want fresh air. Temptation says, "Sunday is just like other days now don t. be bigoted we will ride forth among the works of God the whole earth is his temple we will not go into any dissipations come, now, I have the carriage engaged ana we shall be back soon enough to go to church in the evening: don't yield to Puritanic notions you will be no worse for a ride in the country: the blossoms are out and they say everything is looking glorious." "Well, 1 will goto please you," is the response. And out they go over the street, conscience drowned in the clatter of the swift hoofs and the rush of the resounding wheels. That tempted man may have had moral character enough to break the green withes of ten thousand Philistine allurements, but he has been overcome by coaxing.

Two young men passing down this street corns opposite a drinking saloon with a red lantern hung out from the door to light men to perdition. "Let us go in," says one. "No, I won't," says the other "I never go to such places." "Now, you don't say you are as weak as that. h.y, hav^ been going there for two years and i*. hasn't hurt me. Come, come now, be a man. 1 you can't stand anything stronger, take a little sherry. You need to see the world as it is. I do«:t believe in intemperance any more than you. 1 can stop drinking just when I want to. You shall go. Now. coine right along." Persuasion has conquered. Samson yields to the coaxing an.i there is carnival in hell that night among the Philistines and they shout. "Ha! ha! We've got hiin." Those who have the kindest and most sympathetic natures are the most in danger. Your very disposition to please others will be the very trap they set. If you were cold and harsh and severe in your nature you would not he tampered with. People never fondle a hedgehog. The most sentimental Grecnlandcr never kisses an iceberg. The warmth and susceptibility of your nature will encourage the siren. Though strong as a giant, loo our, for Delilah's scissors. Samson, the strongest man who ever lived, was overcome by coaxing.

Again, this narrative teachos us the power of an ill disposed woman. In the portrait g.illcv of Bible queens wo^ find Abigail and Ktit.li :ind Miriam and Vn.shti and Deborah, but in the rogues' gallery of a police station you lind the pictures of woiwn as well as men. Uelibili's picture belongs to the rogues' gal'ery, but she had more power than all 'lalhtia anno I with sword and Sj oar, She could carry off the iron gates ol Sp//ison's resolution as eitsiiy as he shouldered the gates of Ga a. The force that 5 ad killed the lion which otied-ty pi uttered out fierce from the thicket utterly Kuecumbs to the silttcu net which Delilah

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weaves for the giant. He who had driven an army in riotous retreat with the bleached jaw bone, smiting them hip and thigh with great slaughter, now fails captive at the feet of an unworthy woman. Delilah in the Bible stands in the memorable company of Adah, and Zillalt, ahd Bathsheba, and Je. ebel, and Athaliah, and Herodhis.

How deplorable the influence of such in contrast with Rebecca ana Phoebe and Huldah and Tryphona and Jeptha's daughter and Mary, the mother of Jesus. \V hile the latter giitter in the firmanent of Gods word like constellations with steady, cheerful, holy light, the former shoot like baleful meteors across the terrific heavens. Ominous of war, disaster and death. If there is a divine power in the good mother, her face bright with purity, and unselfish love beaming from her eye, a gentleness that by pangs and sufferings and holy anxieties has been mellowing and softening for mauy a year, uttering itself in every syllable, a dignity that cannot be dethroned, united with the, playfulness that will not be checked, her hand the charm that will instantly take pain out of the child's worst wound, her presence a perpetual benedicton, her name our defense when we are tempted, her memory an outgushing well of tears and congratulation and thanksgiving, her heaven a palm waving and a coronal then there is just as great an influence in the opposite direction in the bad mother her brow beclouded with ungoverned passion, her eyes flashing with unsanctified lire, her lips the fountain of fretfulness and depravity, her example a mildew and a blasting, he name a disgrace to coming generations, her memory a signal for bitterest anathema, her eternity, a whirlwind and a suffocation and a darkness. One wrong headed, wrong hearted mother may ruin one child, and that one child, grown up, may destroy a hundred people and the hundred blast a thousand, and the thousand a million. The wife's sphere is a realm of honor and power almost unlimited. What a blessing was Sarah to Abraham, was Deborah to Lapidoth, was Ztpporah to Moses, was Huldah to Shallum.

There are multitudes of men in the marts of trade whose fortunes have been the result of a wife's frugality. Four hands have been achieving that estate, two at the store, two at the home. The burdens of life are comparatively light when there are other hands to help us lift them. The greatest difficulties have often slunk away because there were four eyes to look them out of countenance. What care you for hard knocks la the world as long as you have a bright domestic circle for harbor! One cheerful word in the evening tide as you come in has silenced the clamor of unpaid notes and the disappointment of poor investments. Your table may be quite frugally spread, but it seems more beautiful to you than many tables that smoke with venison and blush with Burgundy. Peace meets you at the door, sits beside you at the table, lights up the evening stand, and sin»s in the nursery. You have seen an aged couple who for scores of years have helped each other on in life's pilgrimage going down the steep of years. Long association has made them much alike. They rejoiced at the same advent, they bent over the same cradle, they wept at the same grave. In the evening they sit quietly thinking of the past, mother knitting at the stand, father in his arm chair at the lire.

Now and then a grandchild comes and they look-at him with affection untold and come well nigh spoiling him with kindness. The life currents beat feebly in their pulses and their work will soon be done and the Master will call. A few short days may separate them, but, not far apart in time of departure, they join each other on the other side the flood. Side by side let Jacob and Rachel bo buried. Let one willow overarch their graves. Let their tombstones stand alike marked with the same Scripture. Children and grandchildren will cotqe in the spring time to bring flowers. The patriarchs of the town will come and drop a tear over departed worth. Side by side at the marriage altar. Side by side In the long journey. Side by side in their graves. After life's fitful fever they slept well.

But there are, as my suojeci suggests, domestic scenes not so tranquil. IV hat a curse to Job and Potipbar were their companions, to Ahab was Jezebel, to Jehoram ts Athaliah, to John Wesley was Mrs. Wesley, to Samson was Delilah. While the most excellent and triumphant exhibitions of character we find among the women of history, and the world thrills with the names of Marie Antoinette and Josephine, and Joan of Arc and Maria Theresa and hundreds of others, who have ruled in the brightest homes and sung the sweetest cantos, enchanted the nations with their art and swayed the mightiest of scepters, on the other hand the names of Mary the first of England. Margaret of France, Julia of Rome and Elizaoeth Petrownaof Russia have scorched the eye of history with their abominations, and their names, like banished spirits, have gone shrieking and cursing through the world. In female biography we find the two extremes of excellence and crime.

Woman stin.ls nearest the gate of heaven or nearest the door of hell. When adorned by grace she reaches a point of Christian elevation which man cannot attain, aud when blasted of crime she sinks deeper than man can plunge. Yet am glad that the instances in which woman makes utter shipwreck of character are comparatively rare.

But. says some s.vnical spirit, what do you do with those words in Ecclesiastes where Solomon says: "Behold, this have 1 found, saith the preacher, counting one by ono to find out the account: which yet my soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have 1 found but a woman among all those have I not found?" My answer is that if Solomon had .behaved himself with common decency and kept out of infamous circles he would not have had so much ditticuit.y in finding integrity of character among women and never would have uttered such a tirade. Ever since my childhood I have heard speakers admiring Diogenes, the cynical philosopher who lived in a tub, for going through the streets of Athens in broad daylight with a lantern, and when asked what he did that for, said: "1 am looking for an honest man." Now I warrant that that philosopher who had such a hard time to And an honest man was himself dishonest. 1 think he stole both the lantern and the tub. So, when 1 hear a man expatiating on the weaknesses of women, I immediately suspect, him and say there is another Solomon with Solomon's wisdom left out. Still, 1 would not have the illustrations I have given of transcending excellency in female biography lead you to suppose hat, there are no perils iu woman's pathway. God's grace alone can make an Isabella Grah :m, or a Christine Alsop, or a Fidelia Fislr.e, or a Catherine, of Siena.t Temptations lurk about the brightest domestic circle. Jt, was no unmeaning thing when God set up amidst the splendors of his word the character of infamous Delilah.

Again, this strange story of the text leads me to consider somo of the ways in which strong men get their locks shorn. God, for some reason best known to himself, made tho strength of Samson to depond on the length of his hair when the shears clipped it his strength was gone. The strength of men is variously distributed. Sometimes it lies in physical development, sometimes in intellectual attainment, somemes in heart force, sometimes in social position, sometimes in financial accumlation and there is always a sharp shears ready to destroy it. Every day there are Samsons ungianted. I saw a young man start in life under the most cheering advantages. liis acute mind was at home in all scientific dominion. Ho reached not only all rugged attainments, but by delicate appreciation ho could catch the tinge of the cloud and the sparkle of the Wive and the diapason of the thunder, lie walked forth in life head and shoulders above ot.h rs in mental statue. He could wrestle wiih giants in opposing systems of philosophy and carry off the gates of opposing schools and smite the enemies of truth hip nnd thi .'h with groat slaughter. But he. began to tamper witii brilliant freo thinking. A odern theories of the soul threw ove:- him their bland sliment*. Skepticism was the Delilah that slior his loc off, and all tho Philistines of doubt and darkness and desoair were upon him. Hed.odina very prison of unbelief, his eyes out.

Far back in the country stricts—Just where I purposely oinit to say-there was born ono whoso fame wid last as long as

American institutions. His name was the terror of all enemies of free government. He stood, the admired of millions tiie nation uncovered in his presence, and when he spoke senates sat breathless under the spell. The plotters against good government attempted to bind him with green withes and weave his locks in a web, yet he walked forth from the enthrallment, not knowing he had burst a bond. But tioin the wine cup there arose a destroying spirit that cams forth to capture his soul. He drank until his eyes grew dim and his kuees knocked together atui his strength failed. Exhausted with lifelong dissipations, he went home to die. Ministers pronounced eloquent eulogiums, and poets sung, and painters sketched, and sculptors chiseled the majestic form into marble, and tho world wept, but everywhere it was known that it was strong drink that came like the infamous Delilah and his locks Were shorn.

From the Island of Corsica there started forth a nature charged with unparalleled eaei pies to make thrones tremble and convulse the earth. Piedmont, Naples, Bavaria, Germany, Italy, Austria and England rose up to crush the rising man. At the plunge, of his bayonets Bastilos burst open. The earth groaned with the agonies of liivoli, Austeriiz, Saragossa and Eylau. Five million men slain in his wars. Crowns were showered at his feet, and kingdoms hoisted triumphal arclus to let him pass under, and Europe was lighted up at the conflagration of consuming cities. He could almost have made a causeway of human bones between Lisbon and Moscow. No power short of omnipotent God could arrest him. But out of iha o^oan of human blooi there arose a spirit in which the conqueror found more than a match. The very ambition that had rocked the world was now to. be his destroyer. It grasped for too much and in its e.l'ort lest all. Ho reached up after the scepter of universal dominion, but slipped and fell back into desolation and banishment. The American ship, damaged of the storm, to-day puts up in St Helena aud the crew go up to see the spot where the French exile expired in loneliness and disgrace, the mightiest of all Samsons shorn of his locks by ambition, that most merciless of all Delilahs.

I have not time to enumerate. Evil as-! sociations, sudden successes, spend thrift habits, miserly proclivities and dissipation are the names of some of tho shears with which men are every day made powerless. They have strewn the earth with the carcasses of giants and filled the great prison house with destroyed Samsons, who sit grinding the mills of despair, their locks shorn and their eyes out. If parents only knew to what, temptations their children were subjected they would be more earnest in their prayers and more careful about their example. No young man escapes having the pathway ef sin pictured in bright colors before him.

The first time I ever saw a city—it was the city of Philadelphia—I was a mere lad. 1 stopped at a hotel, and 1 remember in the eventide a corrupt man plied me with his infernal a*-t. He saw 1 was green. He wanted to show me tho sights of the town. He painted the path of sin until it looked like emerald but I was afraid of him. I shoved back from the basilisk. I made up my mind he was a basilisk. I remember how he reeled his chair round in front of me and with a concentrated and diabolical effort attempted to destroy my soul but there were good angels in the air that night. It was no good resolution on my part, but it was the all encompassing grace of a good God that delivered me. Beware! beware! O young man!

There is away that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof is death. If all the victims of an impure life in all lands and ages could be gathered together, they would make a host vaster than that which Xerxes led across the Hellespont, than i'imour led across India, than Winiafti the Conqueror led across England, than AbouBekr lqd across Syria and if they could be stretched out in single file across this continent, I think the vanguard of the host would stand on the beach of the Pacific while yet the rear guard stood on the beach of the Atlantic.

I say this not because I expect to reclaim any one that has gone astray in this fear-, ful path, but because 1 want to utter a warning for those who still maintain their integrity. The cases of reclamation of those who have given themselves fully up to an impure life are so few, probably you do not know one of them. I have seen a good mauy start out on that road. How many have I seen come backJ Not one that. I now think of. It seems as if the spell of death is on them and no hu man voice or the voice of God catv break the spell. Their feet are hoppled," their wrists are handcuffed. They have around them a girdle of reptiles bunched at the waist, fastening them to an iron doom every time they breathe the forked tongues strike them and they strain to break away until the tendons snap and the blood exudes and amidst their contortions they cry out: "Take mo back to my father's house. Where is mother!" Take me home! Take me home!"

Do I stand before a man to-day the locks' of whose strength are being toyed with, let me tell you to escape lest the shears of destruction take your moral and your spiritual integrity. Do you not see your sanda beginning to curl on that red hot path? This day in the name of Almight God I tear off the beautifying veil and the embroidered mantle of this old hag of iniquity, and I show you the ulcers arid the bloody ichor and the cancered lip and the parting joints and the macerated limbs and the wriggling putrefaction, an I I cry out, Oh, horror of horrors! In the stillness of this Sabbath hour I lift a warning. Remember it is much easier to form bad habits than to get clear of them in one minute of time you may get into a sin from which all eternity cannot get you out.

Oh. that the voice of God's truth might drown the voice of Delilah. Come into the paths of peace, and by the grace of a pardoning God start for thrones of honor and dominion upon which you may reign, rather than travel the road to a dungeon where the destroyed grind in the mills of despair, their locks shorn and their eyes out.

"Tim" Campbell aud tho Statue. At last there is a new story about "Tim" Campbell, and, better still, a story which "Tim1' admits to be true, says" the New York Herald. It seems that toward the end of "Tim's" term in congress, last February, a select party of his constituents visited Washington and him. Ho showed them around in his best manner, gave them terrapin to eat, took them to see Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland, gracefully remarking, "Me and Grove came in together and me and Grove go out together pointed out to them all the distinguished men, and explained to them the remarkable objects of art in the capitol. "Tim" was never "stumped," although the allegorical paintings troubled him a good deal, until while visiting the hall of statuary in the capitol they arrived at the st tue of Fulton, contributed by the state of New York. Fulton is represented sitting in a chair contemplating a model of his steamboat, whose paddle-wheels stand out conspicuously. '•Who is that, Tim?" exclaimed Mr. Dovovan, the songster, "and phwat is he doinjr?" "Tim" couldn't tell, and he lootced puzzled. All watched him with interest, and he felt that his whole future reputation in tlie sixth assembly district depended upon his answer. In a minute his Irish wit came to his rescue: "Sure, I've forgot his name for the moment, but I can tell yez phwat it is. It is the statue of the man that invented roller-skates, and that's wan ov thim he has in his hand. See?"

Every one wns satisfied and tho procession moved on.

The two noblest things, which are sweet* noss and light*—Swift

A TRAIN TELESCOPED.

I'errible Accident with Unknown I.os* ot Lite, on tlie New York neutral Kail road.

Palatini Biudce, N. Y., Sept. 2S—2 a. in.—The St. Louis express, No. 5, which left Albany at 10 o'clock last night, met with a bad accidcnt about two miles east of here about midnight. The first section broke down aud stopped for repairs. The rear brakeaian was sent back to signal the second section, but, for some unknown reason, failed to perform his duty. The engineer of the second section says he did not see him and the first thing he saw was the lights of the first section directly in front. The first section was made up of the baggage, mail, express and three passenger cars, packed with people and a Wagner sleeper on the end. The crash was terrific. The section telescoped into the first section, knocking out the lights and plunging everything into darkness. Up to this hour four bodies have been taken out of the sleeper, and it is feared the total number of deaths will run up to twenty-five, and possibly more, as the car was full. It is difficult to get particu lars at this hour.

An Albany dispatch says: The first section of the train is usually made up of two ordinary coaches, two parlor cars and three baggage cars, while the second section seldom goes out with less than seven sleepers. A dining car serves dinner on the section to Albany, where it is dropped. This train travels over the Michigan Southern via Niagara Falls. It is a favorite with travelers on the Central, and the second section is entirely of vestibule cars. The schedule of running was forty miles an hour. It is said that three sleeping cars are in a shapeless mass. Many lives have been lost. There were fully three hundred people on board the two trains. Relief trains, with physicians on board, were summoned from this place and Utica. Engineer Worth, of the sepond section, was so badly injured that he is not expected to survive the night. He resides in Albany. 2:80 a. m.—It is now reported that between forty and fifty persons were killed. The first section was completely telescoped. The excitement is so intense that it is hard to get reliable reports.

A dispatch from Albany at 3 a. m., says: Authentic information received here says that four persons were killed, three men and one woman. Engineer Worth, of Albany, had both legs broken. He will be brought home this morning. Extra sleepers have been sent from here on train No. 20 for the transfer of passengers. One sleeper was telescoped and two other cars badly damaged. Superintendent Bissoll has issued orders that the injured be conveyed to hotels and taken care of."

THE FURNACE GAVE WAY.

A Frightful Furnace Accident in Car. negie's Steel Works at Braddock, Fa.

A frightful accident happened at Carnegie's Edgar Thompson steel works at Braddock to-night. Capt. W. R. Jones, general manager of the immense steel works, and a number of workmen were horribly, and perhaps fatally, burned. Physicians attending Capt. Jones cannot state Thursday as to his chances foe recovery. Furnace "C," one of the largest blast furnaces, gave way at the bottom and tons of molten metal, like water escaping from a reservoir, ran out. The furnace had not been working properly during the day, andJCapt. Jones called in the evening to see if he could not ascertain the causc. He was working with a number of men near the base of the furnace when the break occurred. In an instant flames of fire shot forth and hot metal exploded and fell like sheets of water. Tons of the molten metal poured out of the furnace, and that any person near the furnace escaped instant death is regarded as almost a miracle. Tue injured are: Capt. Jones, general manager, horribly burned. Michael Quinn. aged twenty-five, so badly burned that his flesh peeled off with his clothes. Ho can live only a few hours. John Mokake, badly burned about the body,but not fatally. Capt. Ned Quinn, burned about arms and chest will recover. Two or three other workmen, whose names could not be learned on account of their serious injuries and the excitement in Braddock, are in charge of the company's physicians and may not recover. Captain Jones is well known throughout the United States and Europe, wherever iron and steel are manufactured. He receives a salary of $25,000 per year and aper centage on the product of the large mill, making his income almost $50,000 a year. It was he who took 300 men to Johnston at his own expense a couple of days after the flood and remained there two weeks, directing the work of rescue. He is about sixty years of age.

.MINISTER PHELPS ALL RIGHT.

William Walter Phelps, Minister to Germany, presented his credentials to Emperor William, Thursday, and was cor dially received. Mr. Phelps delivered a brief but felicitous address which was responded to fittingly by the Emperor. Mr Phelps spoke of the unchanging and open ly cordial relations that had always existed between Germany and the United States. He would shirk no pains, he said, to strengthen that historic friendship. After reviewing the part taken by Germans in the struggle for independence, and the efforts of Germans siuco that time to promote the national welfare of America, he said he deemed himself especially fortunate to be accredited to the Emperor at a time when not tho lightest shadow rested upon a friendship which was the outcome of historical and natural development, and presented itself in the light of a necessity He hoped the second century would see this friendship so strong that the Germans who had found a home in America woulfi never have cause to fear that the interestof their new and their old fatherland would ever be other than one and indivisi ble. TheBmperor replied in English. He ex pressed pleasure at the appointment of Mr. Phelps, w^iose words had afforded him great pleasure. He did not doubt that Mr. Phelps's efforts would ever be successful. Prom youth the Emperor said he had greatly admired the vigorously advancing community of America, the study of whose hiltoqf of peace had always rxcited In him

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a special interest. Among the many eminent qualities of Americans, their spirit of enterprise, their sense of order, and above all, their inventive genius, attracted the attention of the world. Germans felt themselves the more drawn toward Americans because they ware closely connected with North Americans by ties of kinship. The prevalent sentiment of the two people was that of relationship, which could only serve to strengthen the cordiality between them.

A "NIGGER*'-HATBR.

Captain Kellogg, ot tlie Ossipee, Refuses, to Take Similiter Douglas to Hayti.

The United States steamer Dispatch arrived at Washington Friday evening for the purpose of carrying Minister Fred Douglas to Fortress Monroe, where he was to have taken the Ossipee for Hay tl, but Mr. Douglas will not sail in the Ossipee for his post at all. The commander of the Ossipee is Captain Kellogg. In Mr. Kellogg's make-up there is a very strong vein of animosity toward the negro race, and this caused the commander to emphatically refuse to carry Mr. Douglass on his vessel. He said that his officers did not care to associate with a colored man, and that he himself would absolutely decline to sit in the moss with a "nigger." He, therefore telegraphed to be released from the command of tho vessel, and his request has been granted. The command was transferredjto Lieutenant-commander Evans, who has suddenly discovered that the boilers of the Ossipee are in such a condition that he would not dare to take her to sea unless they shall first be thoroughly overhauled. Of course, the Navy Department cannot think of sending the officers of tho navy to sea in an unseaworthy ship and they are averse also to risking the life of the new minister to Hayti in such a vessel. The consequence is that the minister will not sail in the Ossipee, and as there is no other vessel which is immediately available he is to remain at Washington until the Kearsage can be made ready for sea. When this is done Mr. Douglass will sail in that vessel from New York.

Later advice is to the effect that Capt. Kellogg signified a desire to retire from the command of the Ossipee before it was known that Fred Douglass was to be conveyed to Lis post of duty on that vessel.

MARRIED AGAINST HIS WILL.

A Young Man Makes a Bargain With a Russian "Chad-Chin" and is Forced to Keep His Word.

A strange story was told at New York police headquarters, Sunday night, by two men about a young man, a friend of theirs, named David Kirchneroff, being forced into a marriage with a Russian .girl against his will. While the two men were looking for redress ait headquarters, tlie marriage ceremony "was being performed in the Golden Star Hall, No. 98 Hester street. The father of the newly-made wife is a cloak maker, and his name is Aaronson. Thinking, some time ago,that his daughter Rose should get married, he paid $100 to a "chad-chin" to get her a husband. The "chad-chin" got young Kirchneroff to fill the bill, and, it is said, gave him half of the money. The couple were made acquainted but soon the bridegroom-to-be manifested a coolness toward his fiancee. He made up his mind to leave the city, and tried to carry out the design on Saturday last. He went down Grand street towards the ferry, but was followed by Aaronson and the "chad-chin," who captured him on a Williamsburg ferry-boat, and bronght him back. He was taken to a house in Christie street, and kept there until Sunday under a guard of six men. Sunday night he was compelled to walk to the Golden Star Hall, den a suit of wedding clothes and go through his part of tho ceremonies. Rabbi David Falk, of No. 05 Canal street, officiated. It is not yet known what steps will be taken in the matter.

ROBBED IN MISSISSIPPI.

A Mobile & Ohio South Bound Passenger Train Intercepted.

The Mobile & Ohio south bound mail and passenger train was held up early Wednesday morning by train robbers at Buckatunna, Miss., a station seventy miles north of Mobile. Just before the train left Buckatunna, two men mounted behind the tender of the train, and climbing over, covered t.he engineer and fireman with their revolvers. The robbers were disguised with red bandanna handkerchiefs over tho lower part of their faces. The leader made the messenger dump the contents of the safe into a canvas sack, noticing that he was not closely -watched Dunning shoved some of the money aside, se that about $1,000 was hidden, the robbers getting $2,700. All this money belonged to the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company. Alongside the express car door was a pile of $70,000, Government money en route to Florida, which the robbers failed to notice.

Then the robbers made the expressman get out of the car and go with them to the mail car. They here secured several packages, the value of which is unknown.

LYNCHED FOR THEIR MONEY.

Two toulsville Men Murdered and Robl-d Under Guise of Punishing Them for an Offense.

Sheriff Buckanan, of Routh county arrived at Leadville, Col., Sunday evening, having in charge Joe Miller, who assisted in the murder of two hunters near the Wyoming line, some time ago. The case in which Miller is implicated is a rather peculiar one. Two men, Esclier and Adams, it vas supposed were lynched for slaughtering deer, in order to get their hides. The offense aroused considerable indignation, and eight men took it upon themselves to do the lynohing. One of the offiicers, after investigating the matter, sTiowedthat the whole affair was murder. Adams was hanging when found, with his feet just touching the ground, while Escher had been beaten with a club. Over |2,000, which Adams is known to have had In his possession, 1s missing, and it was plain the lynching was done in order to geV*Mrf inoney. Both Escher and Miller came West from Louisville, Ky., where their fiolke ore said to reside.

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Tho K. of L. Charged With Upholding the Wyandotte Train Wreckers.

It will be recollected that during the great strike on the Missouri Pacific rail road system in 1SSG a freight train was wrecked near Wyandotte, Kansas, and two of its crew killed, and that a number of Iv. of L. strikers were arrested, charged with the act. One of the arrested men, George Hamilton, was tried and acquitted, and the other cases were nolle prossed. Subsequently Mike Leary and Robert Geers, two of the arrested knights,brought suit against the Missouri Pacific company for damage for malicious prosocution a*i'l Friday depositions were taken in St. Louis in this case by B. P. Waggoner, of Atchison, Kas.,attorney for the Missouri Pacific These depositions are given by knights said to be more or less dissatisfied with the order, and it is alleged that, they show that the ordar took the Wyandotte train wreck era directly under its protection, and spent some $30,000 of its general fund in their defense also, that in a spirit of revenge over the failure of the strike, the Missouri car works at St. Charles,Mo., and the Yandalia freight depot in East St. Louis were destroyed by fire, and that a plan was devised to blow up the St Louis bridge by floating a dynamite laden barge against it, but this was not carried out. The names of the actors in these events were given, and it was stated that men much higher in the ranks of the knights knew much about these things. In view of these statements, it is said that Master Workman Powderly and Secretary Hayes, when they arrive in St. Louis next week, will be put through the affidavit mill, and that other members of the executive board will be compelled to tell what they know.

WASHINGTON NOTES.

President Harrison and family Thursday again took up their quarters at Washington.

Colonel Switzleu, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, at the request of Secretary Windom, has tendered his resignation to take effect October 13. Colonel Switzler was appointed from Missouri, in 1SS5, by President Cleveland.

Congressman Samuel J. Randall, with his family, is now, and has been nearly all summer, at Wallingford, Pa. Mr. Randal] is suffering again from his old enemy, the gout. He will, however, be on hand at the convening of the House.

The Chicago Heralu's Washington correspondent says it is definitely settled that Attorney-General Miller is to go upon the Supreme Bench. The appointment, it is thought, will be one of the first announced upon the assembling of Congress.

A special from Caldwell, O., gives what purports to be an authentic copy of a letter written from the Pension Office, September 19, to J. M. Dalzell, of Caldwell. The letter is marked "Confidential," and goes into Tanner's course as Commissioner with a defense of his course as to reratings, etfc., as before pubMshed. It was a matter of Secretary Noble's resignation or his own retirement, Tanner writes, and he thought it best to save the President embarrassment. The letter closes with the postscript: "I have written you with great freedom don't give me any cause to regret it by saying anything about th 'etter. It is to you solely."

POLITICAL.

Mississippi Republicans held a State Convention at Jackson Wednesday and nominated Gen. Clias. A. Chalmers for Governor, and a full State ticket. Sixty counties were repi'esented by "."4 delegates. B. K. Bruce was made temporary chairmail. The resolutions adopted endorse the administration of President Harrison in most eloquent terms, and the platform of the Republican party at Chicago in l.Sbb. The administration of the State Government was condemned as more extravagant, than under Republican rule. The management of the State Penitentiary was se verely assailed, and its long continuance was declared a disgrace to Christian civilization.

Massachusetts Republicans nominated J. I. A. Bracket for Governor and a complete ticket. The resolutious endorse President Harrison's administration and favor a protective tariff.

New York Republicans were regaled with a speech by Chauncey M. DePew. John I. Gilbert headed the ticket, receiving the nomination for Secretary of S^ate. President Harrison's administration was endorsed.

Maryland Democrats endorsed me St. Louis platform and declare against trusts

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for national and local reforms. L.^ ictor Baughmau was unanimously nominated for Comptroller.

About 100 delegates attended a convention of the Union Prohibitory League, a non-partisan organization, at Uarrisburg, Pa., Thursday.

A TRIUMPH OF GALL.

The Standard Oil C. mpany Claims to Literaily Own the Karth. jk

In a case on trial at Findlay, O., Friday the Standard Oil Company gav-3 an oxatuple of its far-reaching gall. The Standard seeks to restrain a railroad from passing over land on which it has oil and gas leases. The Standard people assume that when a farmer leases them lii« land for oil and gas purposes, he, by that act, relinquishes all control of his property, except foragricultui-al uses that he can not even lay out a race track upon it for his own use, or divide it into town lois, without first obtaining tho consent of the oil company that the fanner has no rights whatever in,on or about the promises, only such as pertain to purely agricultural pursuits that he cannot construct a roadway or drain a swamp upoi. his own lands without infringing upon the rights which the Standard company obtained when it secured an oil and gas lease upon his premises in short, the Standard oil company in this suit claims an absolute control of all lands upon which they hold leases for all usos, purposes and privileges other than those of purely agricultural character.