Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 27 January 1893 — Page 2

DR. TAI.MAGE’S SERMON.

IMAGERY OF THE APOCALYPSE

INTERESTED.

Thu F»nmt»tlon» and the Twclr* ffomlwflil Stones - Ancient NupontDlons About the Amcthyml-And Till* La But the Outr.l<l© or llonfon.

Tli© Wall of llonvon. Dr- Taltnage's subject was "The Wall of ilnavcn,” and his text, Revelation jtxl, 10, "The foundations of the wall of the city wen) garnished with all manner of precious stones." Shall I t o frank and toll you what aro my designs on you to day? They aro to niako you homesick for Heaven; to consolo you concerning your departed Christian frionds by giving you somo idea of the brilliancy of the scones in which they now commingle; to give all who lovo tho Lord a more elevated Idoa as to where they aro going to pass the most of tho years of their existence, and to set all tho indifferent and neglected to quick and Immediate preparation, that thoy may have it likewise. Yea, it Is t*> induce many of our young -people to study a volume of God that few ever open, but without somo nequaintaince with which it is impossible to understand tho itilde —I mean the precious stones, their crystallization, their powers of rofraetion, their cleavage, their fracture, their luster, their piiosphoresenco, their transparency, their infinity of color and shape, and what thoy had to do with the welfare and doom of families and the destiny of nations—aye, tho positivo revelation they make of God himself. My text stands us in tho presence of the most stupendous splendor of the universe, and that is the wall of Heaveu, and says of its foundations that they are garnished with all manner of precious stone*. All the ancient cities had walls for safety, and Heaven has a wall for everlasting safety. You may say that a wall made up of all manner of procious stones is figurative, but you cannot undeistand the force of the figure unless know something about the real structure and color and value of the precious stonos mentioned. Now, I propose this morning, so far as tho Lord may help me, to attempt to climb not the wall of Heaven, but the foundations of the wall, and I ask you to join me in the attempt to scale some ' of the heights. We shall only get part of the way up, but better that than to stay down on the stupid level where the most of us have all our lives been standing. Wo begin clear down at tho bottom and where the wall begins. Tho Jasper Wall. The first layer of the foundation, reading all around the city and for 1,500 miles, is a layer of jasper. ludeed there is more of jasper in the wall of Heaven than of any other brilliant, because it not only composes a part of tho foundation, but makes up the chief part of the superstructure. The jasper is a j congregation of many colors. It is brown, it is yellow, it is green, it is vermilion, it is red, it is purple, it is black, and is so striped with colors that much of it is called ribbon jasper. It is found in Siberia and Egypt, but it is rare in most lands and of great value, for it is so hard the ordinary processes cannot break it off from the places where it has been deposited. The men boreholes into the rock of jasper, then drive into these holes sticks of dry birch wood, and then saturate the sticks and keep them saturated until they swell enough to split the rock, and the fragments are brought out and polished and transported and cut into cameos and put behind the glass doors of museums. Thejportraitsof Roman Emperors were cut into it. The finest intaglio overseen is in the Vatican Mnseum. the head of Minerva in jasper By divine arrangement jasper adorned the breastplate of the high priest in the ancient terapla j But its most significant position is; where it glows and burns and darkens and brightens and preaches from the lowest stratum of the wall of Heaven. I Glad am I that tho very first row of stones In the wall of Heaven is jasper of j many colors, and If you like purple it is purple, and if you like brown it is brown, and if you like green it is green, and if you like ocher yellow it is ocher yellow, and if you like vermiliion it is Vermillion, and if you like black it is black. It suggests to me that Heaven is a place of all colors—colors of opinion, colors of creed, colors of skin, colors of taste. The Blue Sapphire, , But we must pass up in this inspection of the foundations of the great wail of Heaven, and after leaving the jasper the next precious stone reached is sapphire, i and it sweeps around the city 1,500 miles, : All lapidaries agree in saying that the sapphire ot the Bible is what we now call lapis lazuli. Job speaks with emotion of j "The place of sapphires,” and God j thought so much of this precious stone that he put it in the breastplate of the hTgli priest, commanding, "The second , row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, aud ! a diamond.”

The sapphire is a bluje, but varlesfrom faintest hue to deepest ultramarine. It is found a pebble in the rivers ol Ceylon. It is elsewhere In compact masses. Persia and Thibet and Burmah and New South Wales and North Carolina yiefd exquisite specimens. Its Lluo eye is seen in the valley of the Rhine. After a burial of thousands of years it has been brought to sight in Egyptian monuments and Assyrian cylinders. At Moscow and St. Petersburg and ! Constantinople I have soen great masses i of this sapphire, commonly called lapis lazuli. The closer you study its veins tho-morc enchanting, and I do not wonder that., the sapphire is called into the foundation of the wall of Heaven. It makes a strong stone for the foundation, for it is the hardest of ail minerals except the diamond. Sapphire based on jasper, a blue sky over a fiery sunset. St. John points to j li.it) .Revelation and says, “The second, ‘ sapphire,’’ and this suggests to me that though our earth and all its furniture of mountains and seas and atmospheres are to collapse and vanish wo will throughout ail eternity have in some wav kept tho most beautiful of earthly appearances, whether you take this sapphire of the jefQnd layer as literal or figurative. The deSj) blue of our skies and the deep blue of our soas must not, will not, t)o* forgotten. If a thousand years after the world has gone to ashes you or I want to recall how tho earthly skies looked in ■a summer noon or the midocean in a . calm, we will have only to look at the second row of tho foundation of tho wall , of Heaven. Oh, I aurso glad that St. John told us about It! "Tbesecotid, sapphire!”'While wo are living in sight of that wall spirits whOahave come from other worlds and •who have never saw our earth will visit wis, and we will visit thorn, and Some time we will be in converse about this earth when It was yet afloat aud aswiug, and we shall want to toll them about how il looked at certain times, and then it wil’ boa great object lesson for all eternity and we will say to our visitor from soirn other world, as we point toward the wai of Heaven, "it looked like that strainn ol foundation the lowest.” John twenty-first chapter and ninotoeiit] verse, "Tho second, sapphire.” CUalctHlouy and Emerald. A step higher and you come to cha codony, another layer in the fouudatio of the wall and running 1,500 iplb around the Heavenly city. Chalcedon; Translucent. A divine mixture of agati

and opals and cornollans. Striped with white and gray. Dashed of pallor blushing Into rod and darkanlng Into purple. Iceland and the Hebrides hold forth beautiful speclinons of chalcedony. But now wo must make a swift ascent to tho top of the "foundation wall, for we cannot minutely examine all tho layers, and so, putting ono foot on the chaloodony of which we have been speaking, we spring to the emerald, and we are ono-tlilrd ot the way to the top of the foundation, for the fourth row Is emerald. That, I would judge, is God’s favorite among gems, because it holds what seems ovidont Is his favorite color on earth, the green, since that is the color most widely diffused across all tho earth’s continents —the grass, the foliage, the everyday dross of nature. The emerald! Kings used It as a seal to stamp protiunctamonLos. Tho rainbow around the throne of God is by St. John compared to it. Conquerors havo considered It the greatest prize to capture What ruthlessnoss when the soldiers ot Plzarro pounded it with their hammers! Emeralds have had much to do with the destiny of Mexico. Five of them wore presented by Cortez to Ills bride, one of them cut into tho sliapo of a rose, another into the shapo of a trumpet, another Into the shape of a bell, with tongue of pearl, and this presentation aroused tho jealousy of the throne and caused tho consequent downfall of Cortoz. But the dcDths of the sea were decorated with those emeralds, for In a shipwrock they wont down off the coastof Barbary. Napoleon wore an emerald at Austerlitz. In tho Kremlin museum at Moscow there aro crowns and scepters and outspread miracles of emerald. Ireland Is called the Emerald Isle not because of its verdure, but because it was presented to Henry II of England with an emerald ring. Nero had a magnifying glass of emerald through which ho looked at tho gladiatorial contests at Rome. But hero are 1,500 miles of emerald sweeping around the Heavenly city in ono layer. Sardonyx ami Sardlos. • But upward still and you put your foot on a stratum of sardonyx, white and red, a seeming commingling of snow and fire, the snow cooling the tiro, the fire melting tho snow. Another climb and you reach the sardius, named after the city of Sardtus. Another climb and you reach the chrysolite. A specimen of this, belonging to Epiphanus, in the Fourth century, was said to bo so brilliant that whatevor was put over to conceal it was shone through, and the Emperor of China has a specimen that is described as having such penetrating radiance that it makes the night as bright as the day. A higher climb and you" reach the beryl. Two thousand years ago the Greeks used this procious stone for engraving purposes. It was accounted among the royal treasures of Tyre. The hilt of Murat’s sword was adorned with it. It glows in the imperial crown of Great Britain. Luther thought the beryl of the heavenly wall was turquoise. Kaliscb tuought it was chrysolite. Josephus thought it a golden colored Jewel. The wheels of Ezekiel’s vision flamed with beryl and were a revolving fire. The beryl appears in six sided Drisms, and is set iu seals and intaglios, in necklaces and coronets. It was tho joy of ancient jewely. It ornamented the affluent with eardrops. Charlemagno presented ittohis favorites. Beautiful beryl. Exquisitely shaped beryl! Divinely colored beryl! It seems like congealed color. It looks like frozen fire. But stop not here. Climb bigber and you come to topaz, a bewilderment of beauty and named after an island of the Red Sea. CNinb higher and you come to ehrysoprasus. of greenish golden hue and hard as flint. Climb hither and you reach the jacinth. named after the flower hyacinth and of reddish blue.

The Fable ol the Amethyst. Take one more step and you .reach the top, not of the wall, but the top of the foundations of the wall, and SL John 2ries out, "Tho twelfth an amethyst!” This precious stone when found in Australia or India or Europe stands in columns or pyramids. For color it is a violet blooming in stone. For Us'play of light, for its deep mysteries of color, for Us use 3 in Egyptian, in Etruscan, in Roman art it has been honored. The Greeks thought this stone a preventive of drunkenness. The Hebrews thought it a source of pleasant dreams. For all lovers of gems it Is a subject of admiration and suggestiveness. Yes, the word amethyst means a prevention of drunkenness. Long before tbe New Testament made reference to the amethyst in the wall of Heaven the Persians thought that cups made out of amethyst would hinder auy kind of liquor contained therein from bccoralpg Intoxicating. Rut of all the amethystine cups from which the ancients drank notone had any such result of prevention. For thousands of years the world has been looking in vairi for such a preventive amethystine cup. Staggering Noah coultj not lind it. Convivial Ahasuerus driving Va>hti from the gates could not find tl- Xabal breaking the heart of beautiful Abigail could hot find it Belshazzar, the kingly reveler, on the night that the Chaldeans took Babylon could not find IL Notone of the millions of inebriates whose skulls pare the continents and pave the depths of tbe sea could find it. There is.no such cup. Strong drink from hollowed amethyst imbrutes the same as strong drink from pewter mug. It Is not the style of cop j wo drink out of, but that which the cup ! contains, which decides the helpful or j damning result oi the beyerage. All around the world last night and ! to-dav, out of cups costlier than amethyst, men ami women have been drinking their own doom and tbe doom of their children for this life and the next.' Ah, it is the amethystine cups that do the wildest and worst slaughtei! The smash of the til thy goblets of the rummerles would hmg ago have taken place by law, hut the amethystine chalices prevent—tbe chalices out of which legislatures and Congresses drink before and after they make the laws. Amethystine chalices have been the friends of intoxication instead, of its foes. Over tbe fiery lips of the amethystine chalices is thrust the tongue us that which bitelh like a serpent and stin eth like an adder. The Hebrew SupenittUon. But standing upon the topof this ame- j thystine layer oi the foundation of the I wail of Heaven I bethink myself of the ! mistake that ( many of the ancient Hebrewp made when they thought that tbe amethyst was a producer of pleasant dreams. .!usV.wear a piece of amethyst over your ie-iirt or put It under your pillow, ;lnd vou would have your dreams filled with everything beautiful and entrancing. No, no. The style ot pillow wfU Tiot deceits the character of the dream. The oniy recipe for p!ea«ant | dreams is to da right and think right I when you ar" wide awake. Condition* I of physical disease may give a good mtu nightmare, h it gmat) physically well, if j lie behave himself aright, wiil. lid tie j troubled with bad dreams. Nebuchadnezzar, with eagle’s down j under his head a id Tyrian onrp.e over j it„ struggled wan a oad dream that made him shrh-K out for the soothsayer- and i astrologers to conje and interpret it. Pharaoh, amid the marble palaces of Memphis, was confounded by a dream in which lean cows ate up the fat,.eo*> and tho small ears' of corn devoured the i seven large ears, and awful famine was i prefigured. Pilate’s wite, amid cloud* 1 ms richest uphoUtery. had a startling s dream because of which sba seat a roes-

sage Hi hot haste to a courtroom to keep her husband from enacting a Judicial outrage. But Jacob, at Bethel, with a pillow of mountain rock, bad a blissful dream of the ladder angel dossoinlng. Bunyan, with his bead on a hard plank of Bodford jail, saw the gates of tho eelostlal city. 81 John, on the barrenest island of tho .Egean Sea, In h-ls dream heard trumpets and saw cavalrymen on white horses aud a new Heaven arnj a now earth No amount of rough pillow can disturb the night vision of a saint, and no amount of amethystlno charm can delecato tho dream of a mlscroaot But, somo ono will say. why have you brought us to this amethyst, the top row of the foundation of tho Heavenly wall, if you aro not able to accept tho theory of tho ancient Greeks, who said that tho amethyst was a charm against intoxication, or If you aro not willing to accept the theory of tho ancient Hebrews that tho amethyst was a producer of pleasant dreams? My answer Is, I have brought you to tho top row, the twolfth layer of the foundation of tho heavenly wall of 1,500 miles of circling amethyst to put you in a position where you can get a new idea of Heaven; to lot you see that aftor you havo climbed up twelve strata of glory you aro only at the base of tho eternal grandeurs; to let you, with enchantment of soul, look far down and look far up, and to force upon you the conclusion that if all our cllmblng'has only shown us tho foundations of the wall, what must the wall itself be? and if this is the outside of Heaven, what must the luslde be; and If all this is figurative, what must tho reality be? Oh, this piled up magnificence of the Heavenly wall! Oh, this eternity of decoration! Oh, this opalescent, floroscent, prismatic miracle of architecture! What enthronement of all colors! A mingling of the blue of skies, and the surf of soas, and the green of meadows, and the upholstery of autumnal forests,and the fire of August sunsets. All the splendors of earth and Heaveu dashed into those twelve rows of foundation wall. All that, mark you, only typical of the spiritual glories that roll over Hoaveti like the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans swung in one billow. Do you not see that it was impossible that yon understand a hundredth part of the suggestiveness of that twenty-first chapter of Revelation without going into some of the particulars of the wall ot Heaven and dipping up somo of its dripping colors, and running your eye along some of its woDdrouscrystalizatlons. and examining somo of the frozen light in its turquoise, and fooling with your own finger the hardness of its sapphire, and shielding your eyes against the shimmering brilliance in its beryl, and studying the 1,500 miles of emerald without a flaw’ Yet all this only the ontside of Heaven, and the poorest part of the outside; not the wall itself, but only the foot of the ifvall, for my text says, "The foundations of tho wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones.” Oh, get down your harp if you can play one! Get down a palm branch if you can roach one! Why. it makes us all feel like crying out with James Montgomery: Whan «baU these eyes thy Heaven built walls Aud pearly gates behold? Oh, my soul! If my text shows us only the outside, what must the inside be? While riding last summor through the Emperor’s park, near St. Petersburg, I was captivated with the groves, transplanted from all zones, and the flower bods—miles this way and miles that way —iucarnadined with beauty, and the fountains bounding in such revel with tbe sunlight as nowhere else is seen, I said; "This is beautiful. I never saw anything like this before.” But when I entered tbe palace and saw the pictured walls, and the long line us statuary, and aquariums afloat with all bright scales, and aviaries a-chant with bird voicbs, and the inner doors of the palace wore swung back by tbe chamberlain, and I saw the Emperor and Empress and princes and princesses, and they greeted me with a cordiality of old acquaintanceship, I forgot all tbe groves and noral bewitchment I bad seeu outside before eutrance And now 1 ask, if the outside of Heaven attracts our souls to-day, how much more will be the uplifting wheu we get inside and see tbe King in bis beauty and all tho princes and princesses of the palaces of amethyst? Are you not glad that wo did not stop in our ascent this morning until we got to the top round oT tho foundation wall of Heaven, the twelfth row, the amethyst Perhaps the ancient Hebrews were not, after all, so far out of tho way when they thought that the touch of tbe amethyst gave pleasaut dreams, for tie touch of it this hour gives mo a very pleasant dream. Standing on this amethyst 1 dream a dream. 1 close my eyes and I sec it all. We are there. This is Heaven! Not the outside, but the inside of Heaven. Wtth wbat warmth of welcome our long ago departed loved ones have kissed } us. My! How they have changed In looks! They were so sick 'when they went away, and now they are so weiL Look! Ycnder is the palace of our Lord the King. Not kept a moment outside we are ushered into tho throne-room. Stretching out His scarred hand He says, “I have loved tbee with an everlasting loye,” and we respond, "Whom have I in Heaven but thee?” Children in Heaven. But, look! Yonder Is the playground of the children. Children do not want a throne. A throne would not fit a child. There they are on the playgrounds of Heavtrp—the children. Out of the sick cradle of earth they came Into this romping mirth of the eternal playgrounds. I clap my hands to cheer them in the glee Yonder are the palaces of the tnartvrs, and before their doorway tbe'flowers, crimson as the bloody martyrdoms through which they waded up luto glory. Yonder Is Apostolic row, and the highest turret is over the home of Paul. Here is Evangelist place. Yonder are tbe eoncert halls In which tbe musicians of earth and Heaven are taking part—Handel with organ, and David with harp, and Gabriel with trumpet, aud four, and twenty 1 eiders with voices. And an angel of God says; "Where shall I take yon? On what street of Heaven would ycf» like to live? What celestial habitation would you like to occupy?” And I answer: "Now that I have got Inside tbe wait made up of all i "manner of precious stones l do not care j where you put me- Just show me where imy departed loved ones are. I have j seen tbe Lord, and next I want to see | -them. '“But here are those with whom I tolled In the Kingdom of G6d on earth. They are front my old parishes at Belleville arid Syracuse and Philadelphia and Brooklyn, and froir many places on both sides the sea wbere I havo iiecn permitted to work with them and for them. Give them tbe best places you can find. -J will help steady them as they mount the thrones. 1 will .help you burnish Hi (Hr coronets. "Taka these, iny old friends, to as C'si'i rooms as you can get for them In • lire houseof inany mansions, and with windows looking out upon the palace ot the great King. As for myself, anywhere in Heaven is good pnoitah for rao. Hallelujah to the Lamb that was slain.” But I awakffi in the ecstacy of tho moment my foot slipped from tho layer of amethyst, that so called producer of dreams, and In the effort to catch myself the vision vanished. And. io, It was hut 1 i’a dream! . j’ 'tuitz.— W* never knowhow a woman keeps 1 from freezing to death in winter

DIED IN FLAMING OIL TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR ALTON, ILL. Coßlslon of a PMaengwr with an on Train Causes a Flro anil an JCiploslon—Spectators Standing Near the Soouu When the Tank Oars Ge Up. A Borne of Horror.

Ten pore one were killed outright, flvo more have eince died, and nearly a hundred were fatally or seriously in.ured in a railroad wreok at Alton III.) Junction and the series of exp o9ons that followed it The fast thiough train known as the Southwestern 1 mlted on the Big Four Road collided with a train or loaded oil tank cars at the Junction with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy. The eng.neor of the passenger, Webb Robb, of Muttoon. 111., did not see the danger until it was too late to avert the aeoldint, but ecu ageously throw on the air brakes, sluok to his engine an 1 was killed In the orosh. Fireman White jurapod Just before the engine etruok ami eavod his lire. Tho other los es of life and injuries camo with the explosion of the oil tanks that followed si on after the other disaster. The total list of dead is as follows; XVhub Boss, Mattoon, 111. HIRAM COBNBt.Ius. lowa. Edvard Miller, Alton Junotton. TWO UNIDENTIVIBD MKN. William hhattuck. Upper Alton, m Henry Penning, Wann, 111. Willib McCarthy, Alton. 111. John Locke, Alton. Edward Maithin, A1 on. Daniel Haßers, Alton.Tnnotion. William Mantz, Fosterburg. ill. Charles Utt, Alton. W. H. Miller. Alton. Charles Parris, Alton. John Wilkinson, Alton. Os these all but the first six died of lheir injuries after being removed to the hospital at Alton, except I tt, W. H. Mllier and Vantz, whoso dead bodies were found near the scene ot the wreck the following morning. The fatady Injured aro: Orro Hagwan, Alton. John Fred. Alton. Joseph Hermann. Alton. Henry Pilgrim, Alton. John Luttrbll, Alton. William B. Richardson. Alton. David Richardson, Alton. A. T. Frazer, St. Lonis. Frank Barth, Brantford, Ont. Frank Soullin, Alton. John Burke, Alton. tag) William Milleb, Alton Junotion. Murray, Upper Alten. ROTOFP, Upper Alton. How the Disaster Came. The accident is the most disastrous known in railroad history in the part of the country in which it occurred. An open switch was tho original cause of the great sacrlti eof life. The limited passenger ran through it* crashed into the freight aud the wreck caught Are. in an incredibly short time the freight train was a mass of flames. Fear of an explosion from the oil tanks prevented any attempt Jo save them. The wrecking train ca ce up from Fa9t St. Louis, but could do little or nothing. Half a dozen sw.tch engines were run out from Alton to clear the yards. Traffic on both the Big Four and Burlington was entirely suspended and a special train was made up on the Chicago and Alton to carry the belated passengers to St Louis. A few minutes past 12 o'clook there was a light explosion of one tank which scattered the debris on all sides, setting fire to the stock yard 9 inclosures. This one blow-up caused the impression that the danger from explosions was passed, and tho throng of by-standers rushed in to save the stock yards from destruction. A minute later there was a deafening report that shook the earth for half a minute and spread a sheet of seething, burning oil in all directions For tho e within the circle of a hundred yards there was no escape. Some of them were struck dead by pieces of flying iron and sco; fts of them were knocked flat on the ground. Their clothing caught fire from the spreading flames and was burned from their bodies. Those who could rise did so and ran hither and tither making frantic appeals for help. Some of tho sufferers ran to the nearest water and plumred in. Others ran through the fields, and a few of them wero still missing at last reports. • ' An utter panic fo’lowed for a time after the explosion, and those whn were not ser.ously or fatally injured cotild do nothing to help the less fortunate. When they finally recovered their senses they set about with a will to relieve the sufferings of the men whose t.esh was cooking on their b nes. Two barrels of linseed oil were taken from a grocery store and applied to the wounds by several physicians who were summoned to the scene. Every house in the little village was turned into a temporary hospital, and eveiy doctor in Alton and. its vicinity was summoned. Ko« Was liolled to Death. The burns nnd bruises of all of the injured were tr< ated as last as the physicians could attend to them and the bodies of those who were bur.ed in the wreck were extricated as fast as they could be reached in safety. Webb Boss, the brave engineer who lost his life, leaves a widow ami six children at Mattoon. The fireman jumped from the cab just in time to save himself irom the crash. '1 he crew of the fre ght train also saw the passenger engine in time to escape from the caboose, which was dr.ven to splinters. Boss body when found was pinned in between the boi er and tender and covered wiih oil from the burning tank. He was literally boiled to death. The Southwestern limited, which crushed into the freight, was running out of St. Louis about thirteen minutes behind time. To make this up she was go ng at a speed of nearly fifty miles an hour. The passengers were feariully jolted when the collision came, hut none of them wero seriously hurt. The force of the collision s >lit two oil barrels wide open and the oil immediately caught ire. An eye witness says that the flames shot fully fifty feet in tho air. The passenger engine, the freight caboose and several of the oars were completely destroyed. The passenger cars, however, wt re beyond the reach of the fames, and were not lniured except by the wrecking they received In the collision. No accurate estimate of the flnancisl loss can now be given, but it will doubtless greatly exoeod SIOO,tOO. HE CALLS IT ROBBERY. Conduct of Somo Labor Organ*** oo ”* De " nounced hy .Indue Haker. A number of Lake Erie and Western strikers were before Judge Baker, ot the United States District Court, at lndi inai oils, charged with contempt, in huvinu interfered with tho movement of Gains afior the Court hud enjoined them from such action. Four of the men pleaded guilty, some of the others stool trial, and others have not yet been brought in. “In this case, said (lie Court to the prisoners, “the evlden e shows that a number of men belong to a sec'et labor organization whose aipi is by force, violence nnd terrorism to compel employers to submit their business, thuir property, their means of livelihood to the arbitrary demands of the association. In their secret oath-bou' d assemblies they determine for themsbives on terms they will work for others. They reiuso those who are not members ol their association the opportunity to labor. Those who will not submit have no more option about carrying on their business than has the belated traveler when the highwayman presents a revolver. > lf they compel submission, it 14 -4i v L -■ ■ G:i. .'r, , ■!

is robbery, Theso combinations are Infinitely worse than isolated violations of the law, in that they touch general disregard and contempt of law. They teach the fantastic aud monstrous dootrlno that a man who is hired to labor, and Is paid for his work, hns some sort of equitable r.ght In the property of his employer together with u right of perpetual employment- I want It to he understood, so tar as this oourt Is ooncorned, that such ofiensos will not be deeme I trivial, and that the law oannot be violated with impunity by any combinat on of won. It ought to bo blazed on tho mind of eVbry man | who belongs to a labor organlzu’lon that, while it is lawful and < omm< ndable to organize for legitimate and peace!ul purposes, it iB criminal to organize for tho Invasion of the rights of others to en.oy life, liberty and property." ___ NEBRASKA BANK FAILURE. The State Trea»nrer Suld to He Involved to the Extent. of H9.t0.000. At Lincoln, Neb., the startling announcement of the failuroof tho Capital National liauk w.is made late Sunday night, and with it camo the announcement that tho State Treasurer was caught In tho crach In the sum of $250.Oiip. This news spread rapidly and caused much excitement. The lolluro is a bad one. Tho dt p sits amount to [ about $825,001’, and oi this amount between $175.0)0 ami $J iO.ocO are State lunds. for wh oh the bond of the Treasurer will be liable. Cashier It. C. Outcolt s ated that, the ausots would protect the depositors, but there is gr. at doubt expressed as to the correctness of tills statement. Bank Examiner Griffith demanded the books ot the bank. Ho began examining them at once and soon discovered that something wts wrong. A large sum of cash was missing, nnd the bank officials could not account lor it. All they cou'.d say was that it had been sto en. The sum is said to reach $21)0,001). A meeting of the bankers of tho city was immediately held to discuss the situation. It was feared that the trouble would pree pltate a run on some of the other bunks, and one of the first s things done was to make arrangements to prevent it. The Omaha banks wero called on and they immediately responded by sending a repres nta’ive on a special engino to assure the bankers there thit every courtesy wou'.d be extended and that alt needed assistance to meet any run that might take place would be forthcoming. TOILERS AFTER "f HE CHINESE. An Effort Making to Expel Them from the Principal Cities of Montano. Efforts which promise a success are making In Montana cities to drive out the Chinese. .About a year ago labor organizations of Butte, Anaconda and Missoula waged wnr against employment of Chinese and threats of boycott w* re ma,de against citizens employing them in any capacity or patronizing Chinese laundries or restaurants. Since then the fight has been kept up by labor unions. Two weeks ago, in Anaconda, a citizens’ mass mealing was held, with the result that a committee of citizens, not members of labor unions, was appointed to help drive out the Chinese. Already all but one Chinese res aurant have been closed and bait the laundrymen have gone out of business and are leav.ng town. In Butte the same policy is being pursued with telling results, and Chinese are leaving by dozens. No vlolen eis resorted to, but the majority of citizens have determined that the Chinese must go. Men who aro known to patronize dries or restaurants will m*t be cmplowed in city works nor by many of the large mining and mercantUe companies. Since the movement of Butte and Anaconda has decreased one-third. ENCOURAGING FOR SILVER MEN Republican Senators Will Not Push a Repeal Bill Thl< Session. A Washington special says; The postponed Republican Senatorial caucus whlc.lv was called to meet at the residence of Senator Sherman was sbinowhat disappointing, to the Senators who had been instrumental in having It called, because it failed to secure the attendance of a quorum, t onsequently the gathering partook rather of tho nature of an informal conference than of a representative caucus. If there had been any serious intention of pressing tho sliver repeal question to an issue that intention speedily disappeared under the discouraging circumstances, and after a brief expression of individual views on the subject it became .evident that no agreement could’ba reached that could by any possibility secure the adhesion of all or n. arly all the Republican Senators. So the subject wus dropped by mutual it was made apparent that the question of silver repeal will to’be ma o a party issue during the remainder es the Congress. CANADA’S FOREIGN TRADE. Statement of Her Commerce for the Pa»t Fiscal Year. The annual statement of the trade j and navigation of the Dom nlon for tlft fiscal year ended June JO has been issued. Compared with tho prev.ous year, which was the best business period in a decade, the exports show an increase of 15.71 per cent., and the imports actually taken for consumption an increase of 3 per cent. Based upon the e figures, the aggregated trade increased 0 per cent over the previous year, while if the total imports and exports be taken into account the result shows an increase from $218,381,934 in 1891 of 241,359.433, equivalent to a growth to $22,984,509. The exports and imports were $113,963,375 and i 116,778,74 <, respectively. Exports to the United States last year declined $1,160,658, the volume being $18,988,027. Exports to England increased $10,826,Ot 0. The Imports from the United States were $53,137,572. Will Interest Live Stack Men. The Senate Committee on Commeroo, through Mr. Vest, Saturday, reported favorably upon a bill creating a new bureau in the Department of Agriculture. The bill, which was introduced at the beginning of the present session, provides tor a “Bureau of Information and Statistics Concerning Live Stock." Under Its provisions the Secretary of ■ Agriculture is directed to establish stations for the collection of statistics and information in Texas, New Mexico, Ariolorado, Indian Territory, K ansas, Wyoming, Nebraska. South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, M nnesota, lowa, Missouri, Arkansas, \Msoonsin, Illinois, lentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, and Indiana regarding the amount of live stock to bo shipped, the produc- | tion, and other advantages of locality In each State to be considered In estab- ' fishing stations. Tirp latest theorist whose yearning eye turns toward tho north pole prov poses to reach the spot by following the wild animals of the Arctic back to Symsonla. An expjorer with a firm grasp upon the tail of a polar bear, urging the animal to greater speed, would be something new to science, and doubtless, in the end, ! would add much to the happiness of Ate- aa.nltr nFAMH hfiOP . 'fr -i-’-—j

JUST GLANCE OVER THIS INDIANA LEGISLATURE.

AND ASCERTAIN ALL THE LATE INDIANA NEWS. A Catalogue ol tho Wtak'i Important Oeeurronooo Throughout tho Stato— Flro*. AooltUnU. Crlutoa, gulcldoa. Etc. Minor State Item*. Samuki. C. Rodkxy near Rusbvlllo, was split open by a treo falV+ug on him. I Tit* Northern Indiana Teachers' Association will meet In Lafayette tho last of March. i TirroN County Is kicking to have a Circuit Court formed of Tipton and Clinton Countios. # Jamks Jrwki.l, an ex-convict shot George Jones at Jeffersouvillo. Jones will probably die. Grave robbers stolo the corpse ot Miss Emma West, an 18-vear-old girl who dlod recontly at Brazil. L. 0. I’AUKKK, Liberty, has secured a patent on manufactured gas widen is undergoing satisfactory tests. John SciiAwnitUT, a Muncle welner wurst peddler, road dlmo novels nnd as a result shot his mother. Sbo will live. As unusually large meteor Is reported j to havo passed over Noblesvllle. bursting and lightlug up tho country as a bright flame. The Infant child of William Sonnenburg of Wanatah, was scalded bv tho overturning of a coffee-pot, from tho effects of which It died. Thieves entered the resldenco of J. W. Field, two miles from Windfall, and carried the farmer’s trousers out, taking SSO from the pockets. The fraino residence occupied by Edward Ninglo at Muncle, and ownod by William Reed, was destroyed by fire on account of careless handling ot natural gas. / A Valparaiso young woman went into a jewelry store and said that a certain lady had sent her to get two rings. Now the Jewolcr Is looking for tho woman. t- Judge Baker of Indianapolis, has Issued an order restraining the men from hindering tho moving of cars in tbo L. E. <& W. yards at M inclo, where a strike of switchmen Is now on. Mrs. Rebecca Mitten of Wabash, died of old agA at tho home of her daughter, Mrs. Frank'piUman at Twelve Miles, Cass County, aged 83. The remains will be interred in Wabash.

R. O. Crandall an old physician of LaPorto, died of apoplexy. His body was found lifeless in a cutter by a countryman, tho Doctor’s horse traveling unguided toward homo. Richard Zins, a young member of ono of the most prominent German families in Evansville, was sued by Miss Maggie Shrewsberrv for breach of promise. She was givon a verdict for $3,000. An advertisement for a school teacher in a Southern Indiana paper reads: "He must boa man sound In body and intellect; not afraid to use tho rod. Wages $lO per month and board around.” Mrs. Barnes, wife of Thomas Barnes, a farmer near Windfall, was seriously If not tatally burned. Her clothing took fire and she ran out and threw herself in the cccp snow, putting out the flames. Da Stick of Albany, Ind., who was struek in tbe yards there by an L. E. & W. engino and almost killed, received judgment for $4,000 against tho railway company at Portland. The company will appeal the caso. David Stoner tbe oldest settler in La Porte County, oted of old age, at 90 years. He was the wealthiest man and land-owner In the county, and heaviest tax-payer, owning 3,000 acres of choice prairie farms in Wolla Township.

Skvbral relics of antiquity have been found on $ large hill near Huron, where a group of seven mounds can easily be traced at the top, With an obscuro winding path leading to a cave below. The central tumutous, where tbe relics wero found, has a double circular wall, and was probably used for sepulchral purposes. Farmers from various parts of Carroll County report that quails aro dying by the thousand. The earth being covered with snow and the streams frozen up, they can get neither food nor drink. Many farmers are feeding tho quails. Unless this is done generally over tho State the birds will be almost entiroly obliterated this winter.

A meeting was held at Valparaiso to organize a driving circuit, embracing the towns of South Bend, LaPorto, Plymouth. CrO-wn Point, and Valparaiso. E. S. Beach of Valparaiso, was chosen President, and W. O Mcllelson of Crown Point, Secretary. The dates established so far are: Valparaiso, Sept. 19; La Porte, SepL 26; Crown Point, Oct. 3; South Bend and Plymouth to bearrangod later. The boiler at tho Kelly-Motz hominymlll, Muncie, exploded, badly demolishing tho engine-room. It is thought that tramps entered the engine-room and turned on tho natural gas to keep warm, and went off and loft it. The boiler spilt In two and did $3,000 damage, with no insurance. The company moved the mill to Muncle from Indianapolis, where it was formerly operated. If any persons wore in the engine-room at tho time they are buried deep below tho debris. Gov. Matthews has appointed Major Irvin Robbins as Adjutant General and Samuel M. Compton as Quartermaster General. Both gentlemen are residents of Indianapolis, and are prominently connected, with Grand Army circles of the State. Major Robbins being at present Adjutant General ot the State Department During his military career he served three months in Company F, Seventh Indiana Regiment, atterw&rd enlisting with tho Ono-hundrcd-and-twenty-third. In this regiment he arose to tho rank ot Captain, and at tho closo ot the rebellion had earned the title of Major. Qnartermaster General Compton, has an honorable military record, which he gained as a soldier of Battery K, First Regiment Indiana Heavy Artillery, and with which regiment ho served five years. A young daughter of Andrew Welch of Seymour, was instantly killed by befhg caught between two O. &M. cars 1 whllo on her way to school. A Law-and Order League haq boon organized at Wabash, with the following officers: President, L. O. Dale; Vice Presidents, Rev. C. E Morgan, Charles Little, Daniel Splker, A VY. Lamport and Calviu Cowgill; Secretary, Mrs. M. H. Kidd; Treasurer, A. J. Ross. Ten thousand dollars have been subscribed as a fund for prosecuting violators ot the law, especially the liquor laws. Us this fund not more than 5 per cent. I? to I bo collected annually on assessment. Anderson experienced another ter- ' rifle explosion of natural gas tho other 1 day. Tbo treacherous fluid which liad ! been accumulating In tho cellar of IlenI derson’s drug store, on tho south side of 1 tho public square, let loose. Tho shock was felt several blocks distant. James Kelly and Charles Connor wero standing in front of the building over the grating which covered the entrance to tho cellar. Roth were lifted fclirh Into the air and blown a dlstanco of twenty feot into the streot Connor escapod with sow bruises, but Kelly was seriously Injured. ; a large gash on his head, a broken nose, cut hands and the skin burnt frbm his . face constituted bis injuries. Tbe front ' of the drug store was demolished-' - *tv -\* V ' f i' ■*'

• January 16.-—Prison South affairs occupied tho attention of both houses to day. In the Senuto a letter was read from Mr. Fatten, referring to the. charges of mismanagement aud cruelty to convicts sprung upon him from Republican sources, and asking au investigation. Mr. Patton also said: "Believing that tho charges emanate from a spirit of malice aud revenge, and for tho purpose ot putting into execution a threat to defoat tho Prison Directors for re-election, and to bring tho prison management into dlsgraco, and that an offort is being made by designing politicians to give those charges a political coloring for political effect only. I domaud that thoy be made specific and that I ho rurnished with a copy of the same, together with the names of tho accusors, so as to bn ablo to act advlsodly In the premises." The debate drifted along through the morning session and was resumed after noon. The matter of an investigation was finally referrod to the regular committee ol the Prison South. The communication of Warden Patton to the House, similar In tone to that laid before tho Senate, was backed bv a resolution Introduced by Representative Ader of Putnam, reciting tbe charges which have found their way into print and referring the same to the Committee on tho Prison South, with full power to act. The committees will act jointly In tho prlsou Investigation. The bill looking to placing appointments of prison directors, boards of bcncvolont Institutions, &c.,, into tho hands of the Chief Exccutlvo, saw light to-day. It was Introduced in tho House by Cullop of Knox. It Is wide-sweeping In Its provisions. Tbo Uovornor is given power of removal for causo, and he is made practically responsible for tho management of tho State Institutions. Another matter exciting attention was a resolution by Mr. Tlppen of Tipton, calling for a joint commltteo to correspond with other State Legislatures and endeavor to prepare a bill subjecting foreign capital loaned In tho Slates to taxation. Ik the Senate Tuesday. David Turple was nominated and elootod United States Senator by a vote of 33 to 4. Ho was nominated by Senator Kern and soconded by Senators McLean and Griffith. Mr. Fairbanks was nominated by Senator Loveland, who read Bonator Wlshard’s speech, ho being sick. Senator Hobson seconded nnd Sonator Booril made a very credltablo maidon effort In behalf of Fairbanks In the House the ceremony of placing in nomination candidates for United States Senator was made the special order of IX o’clock. The special order being cullod. Mr. Cullop presented tbo name of Senator Turpie, which was soconded by Honcb, Cravens, and Johnson. Tho name of Hon. Charles W. Fairbanks was presented by Mr. Lindermuth and seconded by Morens RSulzer and Mr. Meredith. Tho vote resulted—'Turpie 64,Fairbanks 36. Summary—Turpie 90, Fairbanks 50. A few minor bills wore k.lied by adverse committeo reports in both Houses. Among them wus ono to amend tho colobrated ‘ Provoke" law, which queer statute was left as it is. An offort to ruah Judge Elliott’s Appellate Court Bill through tho House Baled, but votos enough awre recorded for it to pass it when it cDnios pp regulurly. It has been amended so usftp leave the term of life of tho court eix first of the usury bills reducing tho legal rate of interest to 6 per cent came up and was killed. At 12 o’clock Wednesday, both branches of the Gonoral Assembly mot in the hail ot the House of Representatives to eanvass tho vote for United States Senator, east yesterdny. Lieutenant Govornor Nye presided. Tho journals ol both branches relative to tho Senatorial proceedings of yesterday wore road nnd the vote being tabulated, showed 98 votes for Turpie. nnd 50 votes for Fairbanks. Mr. Turpie having received a majority of the votes cast was declared duly ejected a Sonator from Indiuua for a period of six years, commencing on the 4th day ot Ma-ch. 18%. There was important legtsla’ibn in both Houses. A bill passed tho House prnct caily legalizing labor unions, and it did so without 'provoking debate. This provides that any employer , discharging an employe bocause he is a mombor of a labor organization or refusing to employ him for the same reason, shall bo subjected to u fine of SIOO and Imprisonment in tho County Jail for six months. Tho Senata passed tho bill making tolograph companies responsible for uumagos both to tho senclor and the i eooiver iu case ot nogligenco in delivering a mo wage. Many new bills wero int odui-oJ in both Houses during tbe diiy. among thorn one in the Sonate appropriating $50.0!)0ln aid of the National (K A. R. Encampment to be held in Indianapolis in September next Both Houses adjourned until 10 o’clock Thursday, owing to the (loath of Ex-President Hayes.

In tko Uouso. Thursday. a bill enabling tho City Council of Indianapolis to vote an appropriation of $75,000 for the entertainment of tho National Encampment of the Grand Army passed with only two votes against it The Committee on Agriculture reportod in favor of the adoption of tho fippen bill providing for tho taxation of foreign money loanod in lha State on tarm mortgages. The report was adopted. The committee recommended tho passage of the Montroux bill providing penalties for fraudulent nurapry agents. Koportad iptod. v h The committee reportod in favor of killing four dog bills, and the repert was adoptod. Tho Committee on Temperanot reported in favor of the passage of the Grosser: bill requiring porsons taking out u Government liquor license to take out also State, county, and city Ueonses. Tho bill is aimed at houses of ill-rumo and gambling-houses, and Is demanded by the saloon-keepers of tho State. The report was adopted. In the Senate the roll of Senntors was called for bills on second reading and a number of tho measures wore passed to engrossment. The most important one was that by Senator McLean, which proposes to restore to the Governor the power to appoint members of Boards of Dirootors and Trustees, of which Governor Hovoy was do- •> prived. The bill was made the special order of next Tuesday at 2 o'clock. The Senate Committee on World's Fair applied a stufTod club to tho proposed junket of the whole Indiana Legislature to Chioago to sec tho Worlds Fair buildings. Tho committee reporting upon tho invitation oxtended rocommandod that it be so eptod by the Standing Committee on World's Fair, but that it was inadvisable and unnoiessary , for tho whole Legislature to go. Tne report was adopted. The subjoctof fees and sa arlos reoeivod n large share of attont on in the Senato Friday. The discussion was prooipitated by reports from tho Foe and Salary Committee upon a numhbr of bills, nil of which were recommended for indefinite postponement The special committee to whom tho matter wus reforrod. have prepared a bill rudlstrieting the Sta'e for judicial purposes. Tho number of districts by this measure has beon reduced from fifty-four to foi t . -four, and tho districts have boon as nearly equalized as possible with roforence to tho amount-of j business done. It is olaimed for tho bill that “ it will save ten Circuit Judge; and ton Prosecutors. whoso salaries would oust, tho State $30,(00. Senator Loveland presented a pet t'.on, a With nearly 12.000 signatures, asking such amondmonttc thaolectton law as will per- - - mit all political parties representatives on M Election Boards. In tho House, Mr. Deerv of the Labor Committee, reported favorably upon Mr. Suchauck’s bill for tho protection ot Union labels, and tho report, was adoptod. The committee favored the Wilson hill to shorten the hours oflabor; also tho killing of the Heitch and Thornton hills to prevent the discharge of employes for membership in labor organizations, asimilar moasury having already passod the House. Mr. Ador's bill empowering the State Board of Agriculture to hold 240 acres of land got through by the skin of its teeth. The bill passed by a vote of 51 to 81. Two repo’tsoonie from the Committee on Ways and Means oa Mr. Van Bn kirk’s bill to appropriate $3,(K)3 to mark tho position of Ind ana troops at Gettysburg, The majority report, presented by Mr. Culiop, was for killing the bill. Tho minority report, presontod by Mr. Henoh, fare od the passage of tho bill after giving tho House an op. norlttnitv to amend it. The maiontv runort