Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — Page 3

TAKES A NEW CHARGE

TALMAGE MOVES FROM BROOKLYN TO WASHINGTON. Installed as Co-Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Where President Cleveland Worships Gives Reason* for Accepting the Call. Sermon of Last Sunday. The iastallation of the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage as a co-pastor with the Rev. Dr. Byron Sunderland, of the First Presbyterian Church of Washington city, took place recently. The exercises were held in the evening. The moderator, the Rev. Mr. Allen, presided and put the constitutional questions. The First Church is the “President’s Church,” the worshiping place of the Presidient being thus familiarly known. Dr. Newman’s church, during the Grant regime, became very famous as the (General's place of prayer. The First Church is in an out-of-the-way place, a few blocks from the Capitol. ,Yearß ago the fashionable set moved away off toward the White House and left the plain little brick church to the care of surrounding boarding-houses and encroaching shops. Its life was languishing when Grover Cleveland, in 1884, discovered in the Rev. Byron Sunderland an old friend and took a pew in his church.

REV. DR. TALMAGE.

The calling of Dr. Talmage in September last was the result of an inspiration of Dr. Sunderland, who, for a generation, has been pastor. Dr. Talmage in giving reasons for changing the scene of his labors said: “I feel that this is a national opportunity. In Washington much of the intellect and thought of the country settles, not to Bpeak of the vast incoming and outgojng throng. Yes, I had that.in New York, but the work there was different, and I missed the warmth and support only to be found in parish work. The finger of Providence seemed to point to Washington, and Providence is always my guide. I had a number of other calls, or rather invitations, to consider. One of the greatest I had this summer was to go to London. Every inducement was offered me, but I felt Kiat for 200 years we had been Americans, and I could not live away from this country. Another opportunity was in connection with the Red Cross work. Twenty thousand dollars was raised and I was asked to take it to the suffering Armenians. I wished very much to undertake the task, and asked protection from the Turkish Government. It was very courteous to me, but, after asking what cities I should visit, they could only say: ‘Come to Constantinople and the money will be distributed from there for you.’ That was hardly the idea, you know, but to have started out without Government protection and all that money about me would have been simply an invitation to the brigands. If I had gone there it would not have interfered with my pastoral work, as I would have taken but two or three months.” Dr. Talmage preached his second sermon in his new pulpit last Sunday. If possible the audience was even lnrger than the previous Sunday. The subject was “The Disabled,” the text selected being I. Samuel, xxx,, 24, “As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.”. If you have never seen an army change quarters, you have no idea of the amount of baggage—twenty loads, fifty loads, 100 loads of baggage. David and his army were about to start on a double quick march for the recovery of their captured families from the Amalekites. So they left by the brook Besor their blankets, their knapsacks, their baggage and their carriages. Who shall be detailed to watch this stuff? There are sick soldiers, and wounded soldiers, and aged soldiers who are not able to go on swift military expeditions, but who are able to do some work, and so they are detailed to watch the baggage. There is many a soldier who is not strong enough to march thirty miles in a day and then plunge into a ten hours’ fight who is able with drawn sword lifted against his shoulder to pace up and down as a sentinel to keep off an enemy who might put the torch to the baggage. There are 200 of those crippled and aged and wounded soldier detailed to watch the baggage. Some of them, I suppose, had bandages across the brow, and some of them had their arms in a sling, and some of them walked on crutches. They were, not cowards shirking duty. They had fought in many a fierce battle for their country and their God. They are now part of the time in hospital and part of the time on garrison duty. They almost cry because they cannot go with the other troops to the front. While these sentinels watch the baggage the Lord watches the sentinels. How Battles Have Been Lost. There is quite a different scene being enacted in the distance. The Amalekites, having ravaged and ransacked and robbed whole countries, are celebrating their success in a roaring carousal. Some of them are dancing on the lawn with wonderful gyration of heel and toe, and some of them are examining the spoils of victory—the finger rings and earrings, the necklaces, the wristlets, the headbands, diamond starred, and the coffers with coronets and carnelians and pearls and sapphires and emeralds and all the wealth of plate and jewels and decanters, and th’e silver, and the gold banked up on the earth in princely profusion, and the embroideries, and the robes, and the turbans, and the cloaks of an imperial wardrobe. The banquet has gone on until the banqueters are maudlin and weak and stupid and indecent and loathsomely drunk. What a time it is now for David and his men to swoop on them! So the English lost the battle of Bannockburn, because the night before they were in wassail and bibulous celebration while the Scotch were in prayer. So the Syrians were overthrown in their carousal by the Israelites. So Chedorlaomer and his army were overthrown in their carousal by Abraham and his men. So in our civil war more than once the battle was lost because one of the generals was drunk. Now is the time for David and his men to swoop upon these carqusing Amalekites. Some of the Amalekites are hacked to pieces on the spot, some of them are just able to go staggering and hiccoughing off the field, some of them crawl on camels and speed off in the distance. David and his men gather together the wardrobes, the jewels, and put them upon the back of camels and into wagons, and they gather together the sheep and cattle that had been stolen and start bac-k toward the garrison. Yonder they oome! Yonder they come! The limping men of the garrison come out and greet them with wild huzza. The Bible says David Baluted them—that is, he asked them how they all were. M How la your broken

arm?" "How is your fractured jaw?" “Has the stiffened limb been unlimbered?" "Have you had another chill?" “Are you getting better?” He saluted them. - Garrison Duty. But now came a very difficult thing, the distribution of the spoils of victory. Drive up those laden camels now. Who shall have the spoils? Well, some selfish soul suggests that these treasures ought all to belong to those who had been out in active service. “We did all the fighting while these men staid at home in the garrison, and we ought to have all the treasures.” But David looked into the worn faces of these veterans who had staid in the garrison and he looked round and saw how cleanly everything had been kept, and he Baw that the baggage was all safe, and he knew that these wounded and crippled men would gladly enough have been at the front if they had been able, and the little general looks up from under his helmet and says: “No, no, let us have fair play,” and he rushes up to one of these men and he says, “Hold your hands together,” and the hands are held together, an he fills them with silver. And he rushes up to another man who was sitting away back and had no idea of getting any of the spoils and throws a Babylonish garment over him and fills his hand with gold. And he rushes up to another man who had lost all his property in serving God and his country years before, and he drives up some of the cattle and some of the sheep that they had brought back from the Amalekites and he gives two or three of the cattle and three or four of the sheep to this poor man, so he shall always be fed and clothed. He sees a man so emaciated and worn out and sick he needs stimulants and he gives him a little of the wine that he brought from the Amalekites. Yonder is a man who has no appetite for the rough rations of the army, and he gives him a rare morsel from the Amalekitish banquet, and the 200 crippled and maimed and aged soldiers who tarried on garrison duty get just as much of the spoils of battle as any of the 200 men that went to the front. “As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.” The impression is abroad that the Christian rewards are for those who do conspicuous service in distinguished places—great patriots, great preachers, great philanthropists. But my text sets forth the idea that there is just as much reward for a man that stays nt home and minds his own business and who, crippled and unable to go forth and lead in great movements and in the high places of the earth, dees his whole duty just where he is. Garrison duty is as important and as remunerative as service at the front. “As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.” Rewards are not to be given according to the amount of noise you make in the world, nor even according to the amount of good you do, but according to whether you work to your full capacity, according to whether or not you do your full duty in the sphere where God has placed you. Kacli as to His Part. Suppose you give to two of your children errands and they are to go off to make purchases, and to one you give $1 and to the other you give S2O. Do you reward the boy that you gave S2O to for purchasing more with that amount of money than the other boy purchased with $1? Of course not. If God give wealth or social position or eloquence or twenty times the faculty to a man that he gives to the ordinary man, is he going to give to the favored man a reward because he has more power and more influence? Oh, no. In other words, if you and I were to do our whole duty and you have twenty times more talent than I have, you will get no more divine reward than 1 will. Is God going to reward you because he gave you more? That would not be fair; that would not be, right. These 200 men of the text who fainted by the brook Besor did their whole duty; they watched the baggage, they took care of the stuff, and they got as much of the spoils of victory as the men who went to the front. “As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.” There is high encouragement in this for

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

all who have great responsibility and little credit for what they do. You know the names of the great commercial houses of these cities. Do you know the names of the confidential clerks—the men who have the key to the safe, the men who know the combination lock? A distinguished merchant goes forth at the summer watering place and he flashes past and you say, “Who is that?” “Oh,” replies some one, “don’t you know? That is the great importer, that is the great banker, that is the great manufacturer.” The confidential clerk has his week off. Nobody notices whether he comes or goes. Nobody knows him, and after awhile his week is done, and he sits down again at his desk. But God will reward his fidelity just as much as he recognizes the work of the merchant philanthropist whose investments this unknown clerk so carefully guarded. Hudson River RailToad, Pennsylvania Railroad, Erie Railroad, New York and New Haven Railroad —business men know the names of the presidents of these roads and of the prominent directors, but they do not know the names of the engineers, the names of the switchmen, the names of the flugmen, the names of the brakemen. These men have awful responsibilities, and sometimes, through the recklessness of an engineer or the unfaithfulness of a switchman, it has brought to mind the faithfulness of nearly all the rest of them. Some men do not have recognition of their services. They have small wages and much complaint. I very often ride upon locomotives and I very often ask the question, as we shoot around some curve or under some ledge of rocks, “How much wages do you get?” And I am always surprised to find how little for such vast responsibility. Do you suppose God is not going to recognize that fidelity? Thomas Scott, the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, going up at death to receive from God his destiny, was no better known in that hour than was known last night the brakeman who, on the Erie Railroad, was jammed to death amid the car couplings. “As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.” Unpretending Service. A Christian women was seen going along the edge of wood every eventide, and the neighbors in the country did not understand how a mother with so many cares and anxieties should waste so much time as to be idly sauntering out evening by evening. It was found out afterward that she went there to pray for her household, and while there one evening she wrote that beautiful hymn, famous in all ages for cheering Christian hearts: I love to steal awhile away.

Prom every cumbering core And spend the hours of setting day In humble, grateful prayer. Shall there be no reward for such unpretending yet everlasting service? Clear back in the country there is a boy who wants to go to college and get an education. They call him a bookworm. Wherever they find him—in the barn or In the house —he is reading a book. “What a pity it is,” they Bay, “that Ed cannot get an education.” His father, work as hard as he will, can no more than support the family by the product of the farm. One night Ed has retired to his room and there is a family conference about him. The sisters say: “Father, I wish you would send Ed to college. If you will, we will work harder than we ever did, and we will make our old dresses do.” The mother says: “Yes, I will get along without any hired help, although I am not as strong as I used to be. I think I can get along without any hired help.” The father says, “Well, I think by husking corn nights I can get along without any assistance.” Sugar is banished from the table, butter is banished from the plate. That family is put down on rigid—yea, suffering—economy that the boy may go to college. Time passes on. Commencement day has come. Think not that I mention an imaginary case. God knows it happened. Commencement day has come, and the professors walk in on the stage in their long gowns. The interest of the occasion is passing on, and after awhile it comes to a climax of interest as the valedictorian is to be introduced. Ed has studied so hard and worked so well that he has had the honor conferred upon him. There are rounds of applause, sometimes breaking into vociferation. It is a great day for Ed. But away back in the galleries are his sisters in their plain hats and their faded shawls, and the old fashioned father and mother —dear me, she has not had a new hat for six years, he has not had a new hat for six years—and they get up and look over on the platform and they laugh and they cry, and they sit down, and they look pale and then they are very much flushed. Ed gets the garlands, and the old-fashioned group in the gallery have their full share of the triumph. They have made that scene possible, and in the day when God shall more fully reward self-sacrifices made for others, he will give grand and glorious recognition. “As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.” Veterans In Work. There is high encouragement in this subject, also, for those who once wrought mightily for Christ and the church, but through sickness or collapse of fortune or advanced years cannot now go to the front. These 200 men of the text were veteran*. Let that man bare his arm and show how the muscles were torn. Let him pull aside the turban and see the mark of a battle ax. Pull aside the coat and see where the spear thrust him. Would it have been fair for those men, crippled, weak and old, by the brook Besor, to have no share in the spoils of triumph? I was in the Soldiers’ Hospital in Paris, and I saw there some of the men of the first Napoleon, and I asked them where they had fought under their great commander. One man said, “I was at Austerlitz.” Another man said, “I was at the Pyramids.” Another man said, “I was in the awul retreat from Moscow.” Another man said, “I was at the bridge of Lodi.” Some of them were lame; they were all aged. Did the French Government turn ofFrhose old soldiers to die in want? No; their last days were spent like princes. Do you think my Lord is going to turn off his old soldiers because they fainted by the brook Besor? Are they going to get no part of the spoils of the victory? Just look at them. Do you think those crevices in the face are wrinkles? No; they are battle scars. They fought against sickness, they fought against trouble, they fought against sin, they fought for God, they fought for the church, they fought for the truth, they fought for heaven. When they had plenty of money, their names were always on the subscription list. When there was any hard work to be done for God, they were ready to take the heaviest part of it. When there came a great revival, they were ready to pray all night for the anxious and the sin struck. They were ready to do any work, endure any sacrifice, do the most unpopular thing that God demanded of them. But now they cannot go farther. Now they have physical infirmities. Now their head troubles them. They are weak and faint by the brook Besor. Are they to have no share in the triumph? Are they to get none of the treasures, none of the spoils of conquest? You must think that Christ has a very short memory if you think he has forgotten their services. Fret not, ye aged ones. Just tarry by the stuff and wait for your share of the spoils. Yonder they are coming. I hear the bleating of the fat lambs and I see the jewels glint in the sun. It makes me laugh to think how you will be surprised when they throw a chain of gold over your neck and tell you to go in and dine with the king. I see you backing out because you are unworthy. The shining ones come up on the one side, and the shining ones come up on the other side, and they push you on and they push you up and they say, “Here is an old soldier of Jesus Christ,” and the shining ones will rush out toward you and say, “Yes, that man saved my soul,” or they will rush out and say, “Oh, yes, she was with me in the last sickness.” And then the cry will go round the circle, “Come in, come in, come up, come up. We saw you away down there, old and sick nnd decrepit and discouraged because you could not go to the front, but ‘As his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.’ ” Cheer up, men and women of unappreciated services. You will get your reward, if not here, hereafter. Oh, that will be a mighty day when the Son of David shall distribute the garlands, the crowns, ‘the scepters, the chariots, the thrones. And then it shall be found out that all who on earth served God in inconspicuous spheres receive just as much reward as those who filled the earth with uproar of achievement. Then they shall understand tH* height, the depth, the length, the breadth, the pillared and domed magnificence of my text, “As his part is that geeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff.”

Wolves.

Doctor Rae, the Arctic traveler, relates how wolves will take the bait from a gun-trap without danger to themselves by first cutting the line connecting the bait and the trigger. He says: “I may also mention what I have been told, though I never had an opportunity of seeing it, that wolves watch the fishermen who set lines in deep water for trout, through holes in the ice in Lake Superior, and very soon after the man has left, the wolf goes to the place, takes hold of the stick that is placed across the hole and made fast to the line, trots off with it along the ice until the bait is brought to the surface, then returns and eats the bait and the fish, if any happens to he on the hook. The trout of Lake Superior are very large, and the bait is of a size in proportion.” A dude in Philadelphia was turned out of the club to which he belonged because he paid his tailor’s bills two days after he got the detfcaa.

CLEVELAND AND CUBA

GROVER EXPECTS THE INSURGENTS TO LOSE. Attitude of the President in Hia Coming Message Will Be Conservative —Members of the Cabinet Are Now Very Busy Preparing Their Reports Capital City Chat. Washington correspondence:

THE members of the Cabinet are now very busy on their annual reports. .Mr. Adee, / the Second Assist- ' ant Secretary of State, who has 1 written the foreign f affairs portion of I the P r e s i d ent’s F*. message for a genPjjj erution, lias been buried for several •'i days in his room "V" building the fouujjrs dation for the rlfl President to erect [, a foreign poll cy. It is his annual duty to furuish a

brief, reciting events of importance that hare occurred in the civilized world since the last message to Congress was written and such facts relating thereto as may interest the President. It is understood that the message will be particularly strong'on the Monroe doctrine and conservative on Cuba, notwithstanding the opinions and predictions of the Hon. Don M. Dickinson. I have it straight that the President doesn’t expect the Cuban revolution to survive the winter. lie thinks it will be crushed out as soon as the weather will permit an active campaign by the Spanish army. Secretary Carlisle’s report, at the time this is written, has not been begun, although several bureau officers of the treasury are preparing material for it. The first copy of Secretary Morton’s roport is finished and is being revised. It will be longer than usuul, and packed with information of interest and value to farmers, live-stock growers, packers, fruit men, nnd particularly to those who are seeking foreign murkots for agricultural products. The report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue will show that the total consumption of beer in the United States for the last fiscal year, ended June 30, was 33,400,001 barrels, which was an increase of 191,000 barrels over the consumption of 1804, but a decrease of 353,211 barrels from the consumption of 1593. Therefore, it would appear that hard times have something to do with beer drinking. A barrel of beer in brewers’ measure contains 31% gallons. The people of the United Stntcs, therefore, drank 1,045,020,000 gallons of beer lust year. The largest consumption of beer in the United States was in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Wisconsin. The total sales in the city of Milwaukee alone were 2,000,000 barrels, or about one-sixteenth of the whole. Kansas is credited with only 0,000 barrels of beer. The report of the Secretary of the navy will be of unusual interest this year for the reason that it will contain a sort of review of the work of rebuilding the •American marine, which has now been practically completed upon the plans that were adopted at the end of the Arthur administration and the beginning of the Cleveland administration ten years ago. England Must Fight. It is the unanimous opinion among diplomats hero that England must fight or lose her foothold in the East, and that ever since the close of the Japanese war she has been seeking a pretext for descending upon China to counteract the success of Russia and restore her own prestige. It is believed to be the intention of Great Britain, sooner or later, to occupy Nanking, just as she seized and held Hong Kong forty years ago. Nanking is the greatest city in the interior of China and commands the commerce of the Yang ’tze, which is the greatest river and furnishes transportation for the most productive nnd prosperous portion of the empire. And ns soon as Russia takes possession of Manchuria, the northern province, and starts her railroad down the Liao-Tung Peninsula, John Bull will find an excuse to occupy Nanking and organize a provisional government of his own there, supported by a British fleet. It matters not what the pretext may be, England will demnnd exactions which the Chinese Government cannot comply with, and nothing but the combined powers of Europe can compel her to loosen her foothold when it is once obtained. Commercial disaster threatens England both in Japan and China. Those countries have been the largest and most profitable markets for British manufacturers, but her trade is decreasing rapidly nnd before many years Japan will supply the Asiatic market with almost everything it needs. The enormous increase of cotton factories in Japan and their rapid introduction into China will soon be felt by tho manufacturers of Manchester. Since the treaty of peace between Chinn and Japnn was signed four companies, with capital of not less than $1,000,000 each, have been organized in Shanghai to construct ,cotton mills; two in Nanking, ohe in Hankow and two more at Hong Kong, which will get their raw material from America and eat a great hole into the English |trade. It is true that three-fourths of the jcapital to be invested in these mills comes from England nnd is largely furnished jby the cotton manufacturers of that country, who realize the evolution in trade and will move their mills from Englnnd to Asia ns rapidly as they can. India has practically ceased to consume British cottons and is able to furnish almost her entire supply. Japan will be in the same situation within the next two or three years and China will follow rapidly after.

THANKSGIVING APPOINTED.

By Proclamation the President Names Thursday, Nov. 28. President Cleveland lias issued a proclamation designating Thursday, Nov. 28, as Thanksgiving Day. The proclamation follows; “The constant goodness and forbearance of Almighty God which have been vouchsafed to the American people during the year which is just past call for their sincere acknowledgment of devout gratitipie. To the end, therefore, that we may with thankful hearts unite in extolling the loving care of our Heavenly Father, I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart Thursday, the 28th day of the present month of November, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, to be kept and observed by all our people. On that day let us fdi-ego our usual occupations, and in our accustomed places of worship join in rendering thanks to the Giver of every good and perfect gift for the bounteous returns that have rewarded our labors in the fields and in the busy marts of trade; for the peace and order that have prevailed throughout the land; 5 for our protection from pestilence and dire calamity, and for the other blessings that have been showered upon us from an open hand. And with our thanksgiving let us humbly beseech the Lord to so incline the hearts of our people unto him that he will pot leave us nor forsake us as a nation, but will continue to us His mercy and protecting care, guiding us in the path of na-

tfonal prosperity and happiness, enduing us with rectitude and virtue, and keeping •Jive within u* a patriotic lor* for the free institutions which have been given to us as or.r national heritage. “And let us also on the day of our thanksgiving especially remember the poor and needy, and by deeds of charity let us show the sincerity of our gratitude. “In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. “GROVEII CLEVELAND. “By the President: “RICHARD OLNEY, “Secretary of State."

She Killed a Boy.

While public sentiment at the national capital cordially supports the action of tho Grand Jury of the District of Columbia in indicting Miss Elizabeth M. Flagler for shooting and killing Ernest Green, a colored boy, who was stealing pears from the premises of her father, there is a strong current of sympathy for the young lady running through all classes' of society. Ilor whereabouts at present are unknown to all except her family and intimate friends, hut it is believed that she is in Baltimore undergoing a course of treatment for nervous prostration brought on by the tragedy. It is net likely that the case will be brought to trial before January, and there is no necessity for her appearance in court until then. Miss Flagler is the daughter of Gen. D. W. Flagler, U. S. A., chief of the Ordnance Bureau of the War Department. She was born and reared in Rock Island, 111. She is tall, dignified and graeful, and has refined and pleasant features and

MISS ELIZABETH FLAGLER.

soft brown eyes. It is recalled that when the terrible rpsult of her recklessness was brought to her notice she was tho first to run to tho wounded boy's assistance, and she rubbed his hands and applied ice bandages to the bleeding wound. When Informed that the boy was dead she refused to believe the unwelcome truth and continued her efforts to revive him* The following day sho offered SSO, which had been set aside for her summer vacation, to the parunts of tho boy to defray the expenses of tho funeral. Some years ago, while living at Watertown, Mass., she was seized with pneumonia, from the effects of which she never fully recovered, and since which time she has been somewhat of an invalid. One of tho effects of the malady is an instability nnd ungovernable temper when urousOd, and to this is ascribed the unfortunate circuftistanco which will culminate in her trial for manslaughter.

Notes of Current Events.

Tho Secretary of War Ims relieved MaJ. Henry J. Nowlan, Seventh Cavalry, from duty at Fort Grant, Arlz., and transferred him to Fort Sheridan, 111. Anson is being held by the Kansas City (Mo.) police, charged with murdering Edward Illston, whose body waH found in a clump of bushes near Topeka. Mrs. Mary Frohmun, aged 70, living eight miles west of Nashville, Tenn., on her farm, was robbed of $1,500 by a masked man. She always cherished a hatred for banks and kept her cash in her, house. Commissioner General Stump, of the Immigration Bureau, says there is no reason to fear an influx of Japanese into tho United States, and denies that the alien contract labor law has been violated by them. Probably the most dramatic scene of the kind ever seen in a Brooklyn church occurred in the Lafayette Avenue Prosbyteriun Church on the occasion of the faroweli sermon of the Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage. At Elwood, Ind., the comb'fhation of local gas companies to prevent the establishing of pumping stations in the gas belt by foreign syndicates has been made effective, and the matter will be taken to court. Miss Bob Tausey Myers, daughter of the millionaire tobacco manufacturer of St. Louis, Ims succeded in marrying the man of her choice, Graham E. Babcock, of Coronado, Cal. • They eloped to Glenwood Springs, Colo. Hugh Woods, thd' best ball player In the Elwood (Ind.) team, in a spirit of bravado, on a wager, ate a handful of gum camphor. He became unconscious in a short time and remained in that condition over five hours. The new woman certainly has very lofty aspirations. Orders have had to be issued by the commanders of United States men-of-war that henceforth women visitors will not be permitted to climb up the rigging to the mastheads. Tho Buckley & Douglas Lumber Company let contracts at Manistee, Mich.; for the largest salt plant in tj»e United States. It will have a capacity of 2,000 barrels a day. Both tho grainer and vacuum pan processes will be used and a warehouse capable of storing 275,000 barrels will be built.

. At Dallas, Texas, it is said all members of the Dallas Artillery Company are to be dismissed from service in disgrace for refusing to turn out as escort to Gov. Culberson at the State fair. The trouble is the sequel to Gov. Culberson’s course in preventing the Corbett-Fitz-siminons fight taking place in Dallas. In the disbarment proceedings brought by J. H. Crist, district attorney of Santa Fe County, N. M., against T. B. Catron, delegate to the Fifty-first Cohgfefc's, and C. A. Spiess, his partner, the Jlew Mexico Supreme Court handed down an opinion dismissing the charges and holding the evidence for the prosecution untrustworthy.

Chill’s Aggressive Policy.

It is supposed by Some good judges of the course of affairs in Soufti America that Chili has an ambition to dominate the whole of that continent and that its alliance with Peru means a war with the Argentine Republic within a year. Chili possesses the mbst, serviceable army and navy In Spilth America, and Its aggressive dealings with its neighbors show that it is well aware of the fact. The Argentine congress recently held a secret session to consider the hostile attitude of Chill, and Brazil also is watchful of the growing Chilian military establishment

SHAKEN BY A QUAKE

TERRESTRIAL DISTURBANCE FELT IN MANY STATES. -i The Tremor Had an Eaat to West Direction, Turned Sleepers Ont of Bed, Shook Dishes Off of Shelves and Performed Other Antics. i Many Were Frightened. The central part of the United State* experienced a well defined earthquake ahortly after 5 o’clock Thursday morning. The shock and vibrations were felt in several States, the dispatches shewing that thd disturbance extended from Kentucky oU the aouth far into Wisconsin and Michigan, throughout Missouri, Illinois, 'Ohio, and Indiana, and even aa far as \yeat Virginia, where the shock was also perceptible. The shock nud vibrations were of but a few seconds, but created the greatest alarm, and in some instances terror among residents of some of the cities. There was no doubting the nature of the disturbance which shook buildings, slammed doors, rang door bells, and caused articles to topple from shelves, tables, and mantel pieces. In the telegraph offices of Chicago the vibrations were strongly manifested, and for a few minutes after the shock telegraphic communication was entirely suspended. Thousands of persons were awakened from their sleep by the shock. In the public library, on the tqp floor of the city , hall, books were shaken from the shelves, and in rnnny of the offices in skyscrapers similar circumstances were noticed. On the street the milkmen and the policemen feeling the unusunl commotion sought shelter in the belief that there was a possibility that one of the tall buildings might fall. The operators in the Western Union Telegraph room became nlanned and left the building. Clocks were stopped and windows rattled, but no serious damage was done. The shocks were not accompanied by any rumbling disturbance In St. Louis the trembling of the earth was so great that many clocks were stepped, dishes rattled, and at the powerhouses of the electric-car lines tho current was temporarily interrupted. At Indianapolis the shock was preceded by a rumbling noise. The shock wns from north to south, uml the vibration in threestory buildings was at least two inches. Many tall chimneys were damaged. Reports received state that the shock wns felt as far away us Arkansas and Kansas, and that the wave passed from west to east.

LINCOLN MONUMENT UNSAFE.

Parts of the Structure Thought te Have Been Murblc Are Brick. The Lincoln monument nt Onk Ridge Cemetery, near Springfield, which has for the lust twenty yenrs been admired by thousands upon thousands of people from all over the world, will huvo to" be torn down. It Is too far gone to be repaired, and, besides, its construction la such that it will not admit of repair. Instead of being u substantial pile of solid granite, us external nppeuruuecs would Indicatei it is a rickety structure of brick veneered over with slabs of granite. Thla is the verdict of State, trustees who have charge of the monument. During the last session of the General Assembly the pile was turned over to tho State, $.'10,000 wus uppropri-

THE LINCOLN MONUMENT.

ated for ropalrs, and a law passed making tho Governor, State Treasurer, nnd State Superintendent of Instruction trustees of the monument to care for it nnd make the much-needed repairs. When the trustees set about to arrange for the repairs they discovered that tho magnificent monument erected to the memory of “Honest Old Abo" was a sham and a fraud. What appeared to be huge blocks of granite were nothing but thin slabs laid over brick. “Tho Lincoln monument Is simply a shell,” said Governor Altgeld. “It Is a brick monument and has a veneering of granite slabs three inches thick. Thla veneering is coming loose, just as all veneering will.” “Can It be repaired?” was asked. “It would be impossible to repair that monument and make It permanent.” “The other two trustees and I feel that the great Btate oMUinois should have a monument to Lincoln that'll not a sham, but a solid structure, and that in order to get this, this brick and veneered monument should be taken down and in its stead build a monument of solid granite from bottom to top, so that it will last for all ages and require no attention from anybody. We have almost enough money to do this. However, the trustees do not feel like taking so radical a step unless they should be requested to do so by the surviving members of President Lincoin’s family.” The Lincoln monument was completed In October, 1874, nnd cost $200,500, which amount was raised by popular subscription.

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Tho Philadelphia cricket team'will tour England three months, beginning May 18, 1890. They will play twelve matches. John Woodward attempted suicide at Keosauqua, lowa. The knife was dull and at the sight of blood he lost his nerve and called for help. Elmer Hoiling, tho confidential man of the Marshall-Wells Hardware Company of Duluth, Minn., was arrested on a charge of embezzlement. A medal of honor has been awarded to Wesley J. Powers, late of Company F, One Hundred and Forty-seventh Illinois Yoiunteers, for distinguished gallantry in* action at Oostenaula River, Georgia, April 3, 1803. Mrs. G. W. Billings, of Ligonier, In<L, was found lying unconscious on the grave of her mother. She had attempted suicide by placing a cloth saturated with chloroform over her face and wrapping a shawl about her head, but will recover. Freight traffic mahagers of all but four of the railroads which had a membership in the Western trunk line committee met in St. Louis to make an effort to revive and reorganize that committee. Owing to the absence of the four representatives nothing was done. Now it appears that even the Texas, a second-class battle-ship, cannot be docked at New York without waiting for a big tide. Tnis has caused some speculation among naval officers as to what would occur If the ship met with an accident at sea and came into port in a sinking conditio -

RECORD OF THE WEEK

INDIANA INCIDENTS TERSELY TOLD, i ,1* Magnificent Apple Orchard Repro* duced from the Fruit Seed — Great Damage Done by Marsh FlreaStraage Cause of Injury. A Successful Experiment. Fruit-growers over the State will probably be interested in noting tho results of an experiment tried on Montgomery County by Tyre G. Whittington. Mr. Whittington resides near Waveland and on one of the first farms settled in that section. Upon this farm for many yenrs waa a magnificent orchard, which tradition -pnri«>rted hud its origiu in the kindly work of the historical “Johnny Appteseed,’’. of many years ago. The apples were splendid fruit, and their like was not borno by the moYe modern trees of nursery registry. , Several years ago, before the last few of the trees of this old orchard passed uway, Mr. Whittington gathered some of the best fruit and planted the seed. He carefully trained the tender sprouts, and wheu of the proper size he replanted a large orchard. As the trees were seedlings, his work was ridiculed by many, but Mr. Whittingteu maintained that all the tine orchards of early Indiana had a similar genesis, and that his would be a success. , This year has demonstrated that he wns eminently correct. The young orchard bore plentifully, and tho fruit is of u quality unsurpassed. The apples are lurge, perfect and of splendid flavor. There art; many varieties and most of them different from any known there before. Mr. Whittington states that the crosK-pollenUntion has brought out new varieties In his orchard. Those who have used only graftod trees are greatly atruck by the success of Mr. Whittington’s seedlings. Marsh Fires Again Raging. Marsh fires have again broken out in the Kankakee regions, und are raging with unrelenting fury. A dispatch says that the tire moved to the southeast at a rapid rate, burning over five acres of ground on an average every hour. Horses, wagons and presses and buildings have been cremated. Until this fresh outbreak the fire wus thought to have been checked and that there would be no further destruction of property. Singular Explosion of Cider. •T. V. Ayer, secretary of the Brazil Brick and Pipe Company, and ono of the most prominent citizens of the city, was seriously injured In u singular manner. Ho had bought some cider ami put It In a tin can. The futnlly drank of it, and It made them all sick. He went out to examine tho cider, and held u lighted match over tho hole in tho can, when it suddenly exploded with a loud noise. He was badly burned about the head and fnce, and it is feared that his eyes were destroyed. It is believed, however, ho will recover his sight.

A Now Reading Circle. The growing abundance of literature is making it more and more difficult to select and to read with profit, Long ago admirable reading courses were devised which served u doublo purpose—subjects nnd books were selected after a true educational plan and studies were helpfully directed. Often these courses were long and expensive, preventing people of small leisure und ineuus for reading from ncceptlng their good offices. Nearly two years ago a company of literary peoplo devised the Bay View Reading Circle, to serve whero tho others had failed, and Its short and low-priced course has become very popular. This yea/ tta circle makes « (q)Oclalty of England and aslronOtfiJ'" The course requires an average of less than half un hour dally, apd the bpqke, which muy bo bought anywhere, cost but sll. It is possible for every place to have a circle. Descriptive circulars of tho oourso and toiling how to orgunize can always ho procured from tho central office, which is located at Flint, Mich.

All Over the State. Joseph Hill, of Steubenville, Ohio; fell from u train at Blomingtou, losing a leg. He claims ho was pushed off by a brakeman. ,r >” At Logalisport George Hutton, 22 years old, of Marshall, Mo., fell in a fainting fit and he has been unconscious ever since. Ho is an inveterate cigarette smoker. His recovery is not probable. Charles Stonerock, 15 years old, living at Miumi, sustained fatal iujury while playing “shinny" In tho schoolyard during recess. One of his companions accidentally struck him ou the head with a heavy club, fracturing the skull. The sixty-third annual session of tho Indiana Baptist State convention was held at Terre Haute in the First Baptist Church. The Rev. S. C. Fulmer, of Elkhart, vice president, was chairman. Reports showed 585 churches in the State, 410 ministers, 58,000 members, 483 Sunday schools, with 85,010 pupils and teachers. The church property includes the college at Franklin, the grounds and buildings of which arc valued at $65,000, with an endowment fund of $225,000. During the past year SBO,OOO was contributed for salaries and other church expenses; $16,000 weut to missions, and $37,500 was otherwise expended. The largest crop of potatoes ever grown in Fulton Comity is being harvested. Until five years ago the farmers did not undertake the field culture of this popular tuber, and one seldom found a “patch" covering an acre. The first field planted contained oight acres, and was viewed by hundreds of people. It netted the owner SIOO per acre. The yield this year is a great surprise to the growers, many of whom reported in July that the crop was being ruined by the drought, and they are digging from 100 to 250 bushels per acre. Horae have been marketed where it only required from twenty to forty tubers to weigh a bushel. The price lias fallen to 25 cents a bushel, but the large yield makes it the bestpaying crop the farmers have harvested this season. At English triplets were born to Mr. and Mrs. Wesley McMuhel, two daughters and one son. The father has named the children Patience, Constance and Courage, saying that he, himself, will have need of these virtues. Joseph Brown, a miner, employed in the Brazil mine of the Jackson company, had gotten into tho cage to ascend from the mine, and, while the cage was in motion, his kit of tools caught in the machinery in some manner, drawing him between the cage and the wall of the shaft, crushing his body into a shapeless, bloody mass. The report is agala revived that silver in paying quantities lias been found in the Lick Creek hills in the southern portion of Wayne County. The Vein which has been uncovered is said to be nearly six feet in thickness, and samp tes. of the ore sent to Chicago for anal} sis is reported to have yielded SBO per &m. The widow of Knowles Shaw, composer of the familiar song, “Bringing in the Sheaves,” and other famouß melodies, is said to be living at Arlington in a destitute condition, and a movement is on foot to raise a fund for her comfort. Trustees have been appointed, of whom the Rev. John H. Mac Neil, pastor of the Rushville Christian Church, is treasurer.