Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 17 December 1892 — Page 4

(HE-MOTHER OF ALL.

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Talmaga Presents a Novel View oi th® Divine Love*

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I*t HMJ to Think of God Purely Sbuenllne—Divine Attributes Are naliint Also Md Hothtrlr.

B«\r. Dr. Talm&ge preached at rooklyn last Sunday. Subject? The Mother of All." Text, Isaiah vl.13. "As one whom his mother forteth, so will I support you.'' anid: ^be Bible is a warm letter of af?libn from a parent to a child, and there are many who seo chiefly a ijeverer passages. As there n.uy or sixty nights of gentle dew

Oil© summer that will not cause as iSch remark' as one hailstorm of all an hour, so there are those who re more struck by those passages f, theBible that announce the intonation of God than by those that nounce his affection. There may j\mei to a household twenty or fifty (tors'of affection during the year, they will not make as much extement in that home as one sheriff's it, and so there are people who more attentive to those passages mph announce the judgment of God nan .to, those which ..announce his et»y and his favor. iGpa is a lion, John says in the k,.of Revelation. God is a break-

Micah announces in his Drophecy. "d is a roclr. God is a king. But also that God is love. The text of this moaning bends Ith groat gentleness and love over who are prostrate in sitr and wuble. It lights up with compason.. It melts with tenderness. It eathes upon us tho hush of an ternal lullaby, for it announces that od is our Mother.

I remark, in the first place, that has a mother's simplicity of in,ruction. A father does not know Gw io teach a child the A C. Men ~d uOt...skillful in the primary department, but a mother has so much tience that she will tell a child for 8: hundredth time the difference beween F. and and between I and

Sometimes it is by blocks someby, tbe worsted work someJs by the slate sometimes by book. She thus teaches? the child dhasao awkwnr ness of condeension in. so' doing.. So God, our otter, stoops down to our infantteminds.

Though we are told a thing a thouand times and we do not understand heavenly Mother goes on, line ppn line, precept upon precept, ere a little and there a little. God

l-been teaching some of us thirty tears ana sonie of us sixty years one brd of one svllable, and we do not ow it yet—faith, faith When wo -"me.to that word we stumble, we .At, we lose our place, wo pronounce wrong. Still God's patience is not fkhausted. God. our Mother, puts US in the school of prosperity, and the figures are in sunshine, and we cannot spell them. God puts us in this school of adversity, and the letters are black, and wo cannot spell tnem. If God were merely a king he would punish us if he were simply a father he would whip us but God Is a mother, and so we are borne With and helped all the way through.

A mother teaches her child chiefly by pictures, if sha wants to set forth to her child the hideousness of a.quarrelsome disposition, instead of

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fiying a lecture on that subject she over a leaf and shows the child tfvo bovs in a wrangle, and savs,

Does not that look horrible If she wants to teach her child the awfulness of war she turns over the picture book and shows the war charger, the headless trunks of butchered men, the wild, bloodshot «y,e of battle rolling under lids of flame, and she Bays, That is war 1" The child understands it.

In a great many books the best parts are the pictures. The style may be insipid, the type poor, but a picture always attracts a child's attention. Now God, our Mother, teaches us almost everything by pictures. Is tho divine goodness to lie set forth How does God, our

Mother, teach us? By an autumnal picture. The barus are full. The wliettt stacks are rounded. The cattle are chewing the cud lazily in the sun.

Ke orchards are dropping the ripe iippins into the Ian of the farmer. The natural world that has been busy 411 summer seems now to be resting ill

great abundance. God wishes to set forth the fact that in the judgment the good will be^dlvided from the the wicked. How is it done? By a picture, by a parage—a fishing sceae. A group of hardy men, long bearded, geared for ..standing to the waist in water,sleeves rollOd up. Long oar, sun gilt boat

Mattered as though it had been a play pnate of the storm. A full net thumping', about with the fish, which have just discovered their captivity, the frorthless mossbunkers and the useful flounders all in tho same net. The ^fisherman puts his hand down amid tbe squirming fin?, takes out the Ktnossb tinkers and throws them into ytfee water and gather* the gdod tish flib.to the pail. So. says Christ, it pfcall be at the end of the world. The /pad he will cast away, and the good tie will keep.

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remark again that God has a toother's favoritism. A father some•!t»mes shows a sort of favoritism. iere is a boy—strong, well, of high a forehead and quick intellect. The father says, "I

will take that bov in­

to mjr firm yet,"or, "I will give'him (the very best possible education." ^rhere are instances where for the »bulture of this one all the others have fal

A sad

fivoritiajn. but

that is not the mother's favorite will tell }'ou her favorite. There is a child who at two years of age had a fall. He has never got oyer it. The scarlet fever muftled his hearing. He is not what he once was. That child has caused the mother more anxious nights than all the other children. If he coughs in the uight she springs out ot a bound sleep and goes to him. The last thiugshe does when going out of the house is to give a charge in regard to him. The first thing on coming in is to ask in regard to him. Why, the children of the family all know that he is the favorite, and says: "Mother, you let him do just as lie pleases, and you give him a great many things which you do not give us. He is your favorite." The mothers smile she knows it is so. So he ought to be, for if there is any one in the world needs sympathy more than another it is an invalid child weary on the first mile of life's journey carrying an aching head, a weak side, an irritated lung. So the mother ought to make him a favorite.

God, our Mother, has favorites. "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth"—that is, one whom he especially loves he chasteneth. God loves us, but is there one weak and sick and sore and wounded and suffering and faint? That is the one who lies nearest and more perpetually on the great loving heart of God, Why, it 'never coughs but our Mother—God— hears it. It never stirs a weary limb in the bed but our Mother—God —knows of it. There is no such a watcher as God. The best nurse may be overborne by fatigue and fall asleep in the chair but God, our Mother, after being up a year of nights with a suffering child, never slumbers nor sleeps. "Oh," says one, "I cannot understand all that about affliction!" A refiner of silver once explained it to a Christian lady, "I put the silver on the fire, and I keep refining it and trying it till lean see my face in it and then I take it out." Just so it is that God ke?ps his dear children in the furnace till the divine image may be seen in them, then they are taken out of the fire. "Well," savs some one, "if that is the way God treats his favorites, I do not want to be a favorite."

There is a barren field on autumn day just wanting to be let alone. There is bang at the bars and a rattle. of whiffletrees and clevises. The field says, "What is the farmer going to do with me now?'1 The farmer puts the plow in the ground, shouts to the horses, the colter goes tearing through the sod and the furrow soon reaches from fence to fence. Next day there is a bang at the bars and the rattle of whiffletrees again. The field says, "I wonder what the farmer is going to do now?" The farmer hitches the horses to the harrow and it goes bounding and tearing across the field.

Next day there is a rattle at the bars again, and the field says, "What is the farmer going to do now?" He walks heavily across the field, scattering seed as h^ walks. Ater awhile a cloud comes. The field says, "What, more trouble!" It begins to rain. After awhile the wind changes to the northeast and it begins to snow. Says the field, "Is it not enough that I have been trampled upon and drowned? Must I be snowed under?'' After awhile spring comes

out,

of the

gates of the south and warmth and gladness come with it. A green scarf bandages the gashes of the wheat field, and a July morning drops a crown of gold upon the head of the grain. "Oh," says the field, "now I know the use of tho plow, of the harrow, of the heavy foot, of the shower and of the snow storm. It is well enough to be trodden and trampled and drowned and snowed under if in the end I can yield such a glorious harvest."

When I see God especially busy in troubling and trying a Christian I know that out of that Christian's character there is to come some especial good. A quarryman goes down into the excavation, and with strong-handed machinery bores into the rock. The rock says, "What do you do that for?" He puts powder in: he lights a fuse there is a thundering crash. The rock says: "Why, the whole mountain is going to pieces." The crowbar is plunged: the rock is dragged out. After awhile it is taken to the artist's studio. It says: "Well, now I have got to a good, warm, comfortable place at last."

But the sculptor takes the chisel and mallet, and he digs for the eves, and he cuts for the mouth, and" he bores for the ear, and he rubs it with sandpaper, until the rock says: "When will this torture be ended?" A sheet is thrown over it it stands in darkness. After awhile it is taken out. The covering is removed. It stands in the sunlight, in the presence of ten thoasand applauding people. as they greet the statue of the poet, or the prince, or the conqueror. "Ah," says the stone, "now I understand it. I am a great deal better off now standing as the statue of a conqueror than I would have been down in the quarry." So God finds a man down in the qarry of ignorance and sin. How to get him up? He must be bored and blasted and chiseled and scoured and stand sometimes in the darkness.

But after awhile the mantle of affliction will fall off and he will be greeted by the one hundred an I forty-four thousand and tho thou sands of thousands as mors than conqueror. Oh. my friends, Go l. our Mother, is just as kind in our afflictions cs in our prosperities. God never touches us but for our good. If a field clean and cultured is better off than a barren field. if a stone

that has become a statue is "better off than the marble in the quarry, then the soul that God chastens may be His favorite.

I remark that God has a' mother's capacity for attending to little hurts. The father is shocked at the broken bone of a child, or at the sickness that sets the cradle on fire with fever, but it tak« the mother to sympathize with all the little ailments and bruises of the child. If the child have a splinter in its hand it wants the mother to take it out, and not the father. The father savs. "Oh, that is nothing," but the mother knows it is something, and that a little hurt is sometimes very great. So with God, our Mother all our annoyan are important enough to look at and sympathize with.

Nothing with God is something. There are no-ciphers in God's arithmetic. And if we were only good enough of sight we could see as much through a microscope as through a telescope. Those that may be impalpable and inflnitessimal 1o us may be pronounced and infinite to God. A mathematical point is defined as having no parts, no magnitude. It is so small you cannot imagine it, and yet a mathematical poiut may be a starting point for a great eternity. God's surveyors carry a very long chain. A scale must be very delicate that can weigh a grain, but God's scale is so delicate that he can weigh with it that which is so small that a grain is a million times heavier.

I remark further that God has a mother's patience for the eri ing. If one does wrong, first his associates in life cast him off if he goes on in the wrong way, his business partner casts him off if ho goes on, his best friends cast him off—his father cast9 him off. But after all others have cast him off, where does he go Who holds no grudge and forgives the last time as well as the first Who sits by the murderer's counsel all through the long trial Who tarries the longest at the windows of a culprit's cell Who, when all others think ill of a man, keeps on thinking well of him It is his mother. God bless her gray hairs if she be still alive, and bless her gray hairs if she be gone And bless the rocking chair in which she used to sit, and bless the cradle that she used to rock, and bless the Bible she used to read

ess me rnote sue usea to read

So God, our Mother, has patience

Even the sympathy of the church, am sorry to say, often doe3 not amount to much.

I want to say finally that God has a mother's way of putting a child to sleep. You know there is no cradle song liko a mother's. After the excitement of the evening it is almost impossible to get the child to sleep. If tho rocking chair stop a moment the eyes are wide open, but the mother's patience and the mother's soothing manner keep on until after awhile the angel of slumber puts his wing over the pillow. Well, my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, tho time will come when we will be wanting to put to sleep. Tho day of our life will be done, and the shadows of the night of death will be gathering around us. Then we want God to soothe us, to hush us to sleep.

Let the music at our going not be the dirge of the organ, or the knell of the church tower, or the drumming of a "dead march," but let it be the hush of a mother's lul'aby. Oh, the cradle of the grave will be soft with the pillows of the promises! When we are being rocked into that last slumber I want this to be the cradle song,

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one whom a

mother ccmforteth, so will I comfort you."

Not the Committee.

Detroit Tribune. It was a hideus night. The manner in which the wind soughed the trees settled the matter.

Now and then a drop of rain fell upon the dry leaves like a tear from the feverish eyes of a distressed nature.

It was a corker. The solitary horseman with a heavy military cloak started violently when fourteen shadowy figures leaped from the underbrush and confronted him with vawning shot-guns. "Your money,'' they shouted in hoarse, lawless tones.

The horseman drew himself to his full height. "Not a red cent," he exclaimed.

The leader of tho assailants strode forward. "Yield or die," he hissed. "What do you propose to do with the money?" sudcionly demanded the solitary horseman. ••••». "Buy bread."

There was a convulsive movement beneath the military cloak. "Then—"

The horseman's voice was wonderfully soft—"you are not the campaign committee soliciting funds?" "No." "Take what I have and welcome."

After some further interchange of civilities the rider put spurs to ins horse aud with a pleasant farowell disappeared.

The city of London covers 63. square miles. The Emperor of China orderj 200 pair of boots at a time.

There are thirty towns called Washington in America. Most papers in Germany are owned and edited by Hebx-ews.

The, St. Louis new water tower la said to be the world.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Mr. Blaine has recovered his health. Tho Mafia are still doing murderous deeds In Louisiana.

Four murderers were legally hanged at Louisville on tho 9th. Thousands of cattlo are said to be dying in New Me\ico on account of ho drout h.

A genulno case of mtiiigniint lepio.^y has frightened liaif of Detroit out of its senses,

New Mexico, Arizoua, I.rtali and Oklahoma are all clamoring for admission as •States.

Rich diamond fields are said to havn lieen discovered on the Snako river iu Idaho.

An effort is to be made to socuro Glad, stone as the orator on the occasion of the World's Fair opening.

Polly Fish, who has served i'3 years In New York State prison, was pardoned Dec. 9th, by Governor Flower.

Michael Burke, another of the participants in the murder of Dr. Cronin at Chicago, died at tho Joliet penitentiary on the 9th.

Dottie Crouso, aged five, whose mother is Mrs. Kostorlitz, a widow, is said to be Sn heir to the $20,000,000 of David Crouso, the Syracuse, N. Y., millionaire,

Postmaster-General Wannamaker has lent an order to tho Amorican Bank Note Company of New York, for three billion Columbian postago stamps, to be delivered in 1893.

Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme Court, will sail for Europe about th^29tl* of this month as one of tho arbitrators in the Bering Sea seal fisheries dispute.

Minnie Weeks, a twelve-year-old colored girl, jumped from a seventh story window atScranton, Pa., and was not Injured except in the dislocation of her shoulders.

Mrs. Charles Anderson, wife of a contractor at Fairbury, 111., died Thursday under Christian scienco treatment for a complication of disorders that puzzled the medical doctors.

Blood has been flowing down in tho Elk* horn mining region (W. Vu.) On the llth and 12th there were two murders, ono lynching, and an officer of the law mortally wounded.

Honry P. White, of Kansas City, Kan. has bought 1,0C0 acres of laud near that city on which he proposes to colonize all

ne8roes

p0,ptl'u^7,

for all the erring. After everybody else has cast a man off, God, our Mother, comes to the rescue. God leaps to take charge of a bad case. After all the other doctors have got through the 7 comes in. Human sympathy at such a time does not amount to much. ,. -pocketbookcontaining lady does not think she lost much in the 'exchange.

°f tho town into a self-^up-

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ii .L- ... The City Council of Champaign, III.. has rescinded the permits pranted lasfc spring allowing drug stores to sell liquor for medicinal purposes. Anew ordinance prohibits the sale of hard cider, heavenly"Physician

T1,i®ves

stole

the turkeys of a lady near

aan svmDathv at such ^shland,O., Thursday night, but dropped and lost a (80. The

Ono of the stockholders of the Milwaukee Street Railway Company, otherwiso knowu as the Villard syndicate, is Prince Bismarck, who has invested tho sum of 800,000 marks, or $50,C00 In the syndicate.

H. L. Cornell, a farmer living noar Clarksville, Tcnn., has discovered an In. dlan burial pluce on his property. Ovor two hundred skeletons, tomahawks, native uottery, etc., have been unoarthed,

Miss Van Norden, tho eldest daughter of bankor Warden Van Norden, a millionaire of New York, lias joined the Salvation Army and is a full-fledged salvation soldier. Tho Van Nordens is ODQ of the oldest families in New York.

Phil. D. Armour, tho pork piiekor, on the 12th, gave to Chicago the Armor Inllitute, an Institution similar to tho Drex- I el institute ut Philadelphia. In addiiiou Mr. Armour Kivc3 $1,400,000 Jfor itslmainteiiauco a total gift of ?1,500,000.

Resolutions of condolence and sympathy for tho family of the late .Jay Gould .vore adopted by tho Memphis Legislative I Council Thursday. During ouo of tho yellow fever epidemics at Memphis Mr Gould wired tho Howard Association to draw on lilin to an. unlimited oxtent, aud the association secured 810,000.

Capt. Samuol Smith, the murderer of George Nolan, the eleven-year-old boy, off Coronado Islands, last Friday morning.has made a full confession of tho crimo at San Francisco. lie says he brained the boy with a hatchet, afterward casting him Into tho sea.

A number of hailstones were brought into Breuham, Tex., Friday, which fell during the cyclone Tuesday. Although three days ola they weighed more than a pound, and when they fell imbedded themselves six inches In the ground. They penetrated roofs like cunnon balls, and a large amount of stock was killed. A lady was almost killed by one coming through tho roof of her bouse.

The expert accountant who has been a work on the books of the freight depart* merit of the Louisville & Nashville road a Cincinnati has discovered a shortage oi $45,000. Who is responsible for the dell, ciency has not been disclosed to a certainty, but suspicion attaches to the agent John C. McCourt, and tho cashlor, Georgo Shotweli. Both of them claim they aro in no way to blame for the shortage.

A startling story caine from Homestead, Pa., on tho 12th, to the effect that the Amalgamated Association had entered Into a horrid conspiracy to poison nonunion workmen by wholesale, by putting poison In tho water and food. Six mil workers are reported to be dead and many others are suffering from the effects of this alloged crime. The cook is said to have admitted that he was to get $5,000if ha could succeed In closing the mills, and has made, It is alleged, a full confession. A- few arrests aro said to have been made-

Florlan Waldeck, a defaulting cashier who recently fled from San Francisco leaving a shortage of $25,000, was brought back from British Columbia aud arraigued in court Friday. The fugitive would have escaped If ho had exorcised more care In his mako up. Ho dressed as a laborer, blackened his face and shaved off his whiskers, but ho forgot to stain his hands As he was going east In an immigrant train, with a gang of railroad laborers, ho happened to ralso his hand to scratch his head. A detective who wa9 passing saw hia hand, slender and whltoas a woman'sand nabbed Waldeck on the spot.

The sacred old air, "Jiaaror, My. God, to

Thee," was played on & piano Wednosdw evening by Miss Cora Bonner, of 1412 Oak street, Oolrznbus, O., while b.er mothor breathed her last In an adjoining roomMrs. Bender's death was a peculiar one and Coroner Faliey was notified to InsU* tuto an investigation. Sho had been a great sufferer from asthma, and was in the habit of taking morphlno to subdue her pain. At 4 o'clock Wednesday aflnrnoon she took an unusually large doju of the drug aud soou af'^rward went to bed. A ha I hour later she called her daughter, Cora, to the bedside and requested her to sing "Nearer, My God, to Thee." The young lady did not notice anything particularly strange about her mother's condition, and complied with the request. When she had finished playing Mrs. Bonner was doada Dr. Davenport, who was called in, pronounced it a case of accidental morphine poisoning, the supposition being that Mrs. Benner had made a mistake In the sizo the dose.

Mrs. Annio Tormey, widow of an Irish pioneer, who left noarly 1500.000 when he died, three years ago, has just tiled un insolvency petition, showing that she owes $179,701, which more than covers her assets. Sho lives at Pindle, Cal., on tho shoro, twenty-eight milas from San Francisco. As soon as Tormey was burled his wife and daughters started out to cut wide social swath. They thought nothing of spending f.'.OOO or $3,000 on a visit to the city, and tho result Is thoir bills for female finery ran up to $20.C0). Mrs. Tor* mey was also inveigled Into Investments and ono of her worst ventures was with Algretti, the candy maker,) who has invented a process of preserving fruit from decay. Algretti failed last week and his failure brought Mrs. Tormey's affairs to a crisis. Her preferred creditors are bet daughters, so tho money' lenders who aided her are apt to lose their money.

POREIQIM.

Typhoid fever In its most malignant form is raging in San Luis Potosi and other towns in Mexico.

Forty thousand workmen In the lockod out cotton mill district of England are said to bo in distressed circumstances.

RIOT CAUSED BY A WOMAN

Deadly Street Fight Between Graders and Italians at Wenatchee, Wash. „4(,

An Immoral Women Duirti Her ComptnIon fur More Luoky Gumblaruntl A Bow EIIIUH.

A terrible riot occurred at Wenatchee, Wash., Friday night, and for three hours the town was in control of a'mob of frenzied graders. Wenatchee is a town about one hundred miles west of here on the Great Northern Railroad. The trouble was started by the luck of a drunken gambler named Thomas Guilland. He worked on the Great Northern grade at intervals through the summer. About once In six celcs ho would quit work and come to Wonatchee to spond all his money on a wild carousal. So long as he had money he would visit French Annie's place, one of the toughest dives in the town, and spend nearly ail of his time with ono of its iiimutes, known hero as Susette. For tho lu*t month she had been living with Guissoppo Vaco, a faro dealer, who is a sort of king among the Italians hero, and is said to have boon driven from New Orleans for his part in tho Mafia murders.

Quilland quit work a week ago and camo to Wonatcheo. getting drunk the first night. In two days his money was gone, and he has been loafing since. Last night he was paid an old debt of $12, and about

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o'clock began to play craps and

drink whisky, no played in luck and quit the game with $240. He rroxt played poker, and about 11 o'clock started for Vaco's faro bank with nearly $2,003 in his pockets Here ho continued to play recklessly, iinally Guilland threw all his monoy on the table in a heap and bet on tho queen anJ ace. When his pilo was counted it was found to contain $5,030. Vaco took tho bet. Guilland won. Vaco paid, but it broko the bank.

Susette heard the news and started to the gambling room, saying sho was going to tho man who had luck. Vaco met her and would not let her pass. Guilland pushed hia aside, walking off with the woman. Before they had gone a block a dozen Italians, led by Vaco, surrouudod them, and while some attacked Guilland tho rest tried to carry away the woman. Guilland fought like a tigor, knocking down two or three with his flat before ba could draw his gun. The screams of tha woman brought a crowd of men from all sides, and bands of graders rushed to theii cpmrade's rescue. Vaco gave a pocuiiat whistlo and in a moment the street was filled with Italians, somo but half dressed and armed with knives, club3 and stones. The railroad mon gathered In a groupj with Guilland and tho: woman In the conter and began to rotreat slowly, firing as they went and calling foi help as tlioy full back. Other* joinod them and iinally thoy made a stand in front of a saloon. The Italians pressed them closely at first, and many fights occurred, but when the graders opened fire they gavo way until there was a space ol twenty feot between the two parties. Across this space stones, clubs, and brick bats flew in a regular sloud, those who were knocked down being carried to tha rear of tho mob. Three graders who bad been stabbed with long knives were car* rlod into tli^ saloon aud tho woman was spirited away in the darkness.

About toil minutes alter the graders had made thoir s-,and a band of twenty Italians chargod on them from the rear aud thoso at the other side closed in at tha time. For a moment it seemed as if tha railroaders would be wipod out, but tha hot tire forced tho Italians to fall back iu confusion. Before they could rally tha railroud men were reinforced by noarlj fifty men who came down a side street on the run. Tho Italians foil bick several blocks, carrying their wounded. Both parties gradually broke up into small hands and scattered through the town. The feud continued until dawn, when both parties scattered and got out of sight.

Tn the Alabama Legislature bills havr been tutroduend to tax dealers In cigarette} $. 00 a year, and to. prohibit the smoking of cizaretles In public places

POSTAL SERVICE.

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Fastmaster-G-eneral Wannamaker's Report.

Operation* of th* Departmeut and What I* Needed to tiring It Up to Ills Ideal.

The i'ostmoster-General's 'annual report to the President waj made public on the 5th. At the beginning Mr, Wannamaker meautions the chief developements of the year as follows:

Five million dollars added to the gross royenue, the deficit roducod nearly $1,000,000 money order offices Increasod twothirds, or from 10,070 to 16,639: eighty-two cities supplied with free delivery 2,700 now officos established, 263 otticos advanced to Presidential grade 10,760,000 miles of additional sorvico 1,598 now mail routes of new mail service established,embracing 8,.'0J miles of new sorvice ocean mail service extended, and six pneumatic tube services introduced, li appears that In the last four years 5,CSl new mall routes have been established, traversing 29.600 miles that the number of postollices has grown by over 8,6C0 the number of money order offices over 8,200, and the number of free delivery offices has almost doubled

The report discussed at length the foreign mail sorvice, the 60 per cent, increase in mouoy order offices, tho 50 per cent, increase in free delivery offices and various other advances that have boon made. On the free delivery tho Postmaster-tieneral says: "The experiments have related to villages, but It has been a dally service audit has cleared a profit. It Is easy enough, therefore, to say that the free delivery should be extended further and further and It ought to N) donewhother it pays a profit to the department or not. I believe fully that great advances coula be made in the direction of country free delivery by an evolution of the star-route servlco, and we would s*e free delivery to persons living along the highways traversed byvho star-route contractors with little If any Increased cost to the dopart* ment in a very few years."

In the matter of the collection of mail from letter boxes at house doors,Mr. Wannamaker says: "In Washington City, where the test of one of those boxes was made for a month, an hour or more per day was saved to the carrier, and iu St. Louis, where tho test of another one of these boxes was purposely made as hard as possible, it was found that there was actually no loss of time, and the postmas* tersof St. Louis and Washington promptly and unqualifiedly declared that the collection of mail from houses could be undertaken by tho present carrier forces. The work of introducing the house letter box is now vigorously under way."

The report closes with the following: "Mt ideal for the /mBrican postal service is a system modeled upon a district plan, with fewer offices.and those grouped around central offices and under thorough supervision. By this means at least twenty thousand offices can be abandoned that produce nothing to the department. In the place of every abolished non-money-order and non-registor offico might be put an automatic stamp selling machine and a letter box to receive mail. With the money saved should be Instituted a system of collection and delivery by mounted carriers, bicycles and star route and messenger contractors, and gradually spread the free delivery all over the country. The classes of postage should be reduced to three, and tho sale of postage to the world over to one eent for each half ounce, for the avorage weight of a letter is now three-e!i(hths of an otinco. I would Indemnify to the extent of $10 for every lost registered letter. "Tbo organization of the department should be permanent, Axcept in the cases of the Postmaster Genoral and the fourth assistant, and I would add throe new offices—a Doputy Postmaster General to be stationrd at New Yor\- a Deputy Postmaster General to be stationed at San Francisco, and a cont.rollerto be stationed at the department in Washington. All postmasters, presidential and tourlh class, and all omployes iu all branchos of tho dopartmont should liavo a specific term of four years, on good behavior, and their reappointment should be subject to the controller of the department, whose judgment should bo based on records. I would unify the work, hold it up by a strong controlling baud, reduce tho hours of almost, all enunlizo and udvance the pay, make the promotions in every branch for morit alouo, and retire old or disabled clerks, perhaps on a uenslon fund to bo provided by an annual payment of onehalf of 1 per cent, out of oach month's salary. "Postal telegraph and tolophono service, postal savingsdepositorios. pnoumatlo tubes or somo oloctrical device between city sub stations and main offices, ferries, railroad stations and central offices in all large cities should be employed without deluv. The erection oT iinmonse cost.lv buildings for posioffices ought to be stopped, and tho department, ouirht to bo allowed to expend a fixel sum of from $1,000,000 to $5,000 000 each year in tho orection of bulldinss upon a lixed plan, such as Postmaster-General Vilas recommended. 1 would grant larger discretion to the head of tho department to experiment with postal InvrnMons and fix stated periods in the order of business of the nouse and Senate postoffico committees to call upon the l'ostmastor-Goneral for Information and censure alike, at which time too. he could have an opportunity, within right limitation, to present postal subjects. It would modify the system of lines and deductions upon railroads, and establish a system of compensation basod upon speed—twenty, thirty forty, fifty, sixty mile an hour rates. By tills means railroad compensation would not cost any more, and we should soon be running mail trains between New York find Chicago in fifteen or sixteon hours, find botweon Now Yorlc and Boston f« four hours. Mall trains may move faster than any other trains. Tho question of pay is all that is to bo consideraJ."

A DECEMBER TORNADO.

Ono I.Sfa T.ost nnd Several Person* Fatally Injured by a Storm tn Texas.

Reports of a destructive tornado have been received from Nacogdoches county, Texas, Tuesday afternoon, about 3 o'clock a terrible wind swept around Egg Nogg valley, which Is two miles from Nacogdoclios. The wind blow with terrible velocity, sweeping everything before It. Hugo trees were blown about as so many matches. Honses, barns and fences were prostrated or blown complotoly away. So far as heard from only oue life has been lost, that of Frank Purlin. It Is feared that more fatalities aud casualties will be reported. A relief party has been formed at Nacogdochos to visit the stricken section.

A dispatch from Atlanta says that about 4 o'clock in tho afternoon a disastrous storm occurrod east of there, sweeping away farm houses and out buildings, and loaving death and geneiral destruction la its path. The residence of Samuel Mc* Adams was destroyed and he and three children fatally hurt. Ono child wa* found three hundred yards away, In a dying condition. Charles Lesev's gin house, with all its coatents, was destroyed. The house of Wes Dawson, colored, wa« deiuoIshed.aad several children fit tally la-