Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 10, Number 47, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 13 February 1889 — Page 2

SERVING THE PRESENT. - ■ ■ . Bermon by Rev. T. De Witt' Talmasre. D. D. Our Own Day anti Generation—Oaring for tike ltoilios and for the Souls of Our Fellow Helngn-Beyiuuiiig with Ourselves. The subject of Hr. Talmage’s rceeut sermon was “Our Own Generation,” and bis text was taken from the thirty-sixth verse Os the thirteenth chapter of Acts: “David, after he had served his own generation by the will of Uod, fell on sleep.” The preacher (aid: That is a text which has for a long time been running through my mind, but not until now has it been fully revealed to me. Sermons have a time to be born as well as a time to die, a cradle as well as a grave. David, cowboy, and stone stinger, and fighter, and czar, and dramatist, and blank verse writer, and prophet, did his best for the people of his time, and then went and laid down on the southern hill of Jerusalem In that sound slumber which nothing but an archangelic blast can startle, “David, after he had served Ids own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep.” It was his own generation that he lmd nerved; that Is, the people living at the time he lived. And have you ever thought that our responsibilities are chietly with the people now walking abreast of us? There are nboutj four generations to a century now, but' in olden time life was longer and there was, perhaj>s, only one generation to a century. Taking these facts into the calculation, I make a rough guess and nay there have been at least one hundred and eighty generations of the human family. With reference to them we have no responsibility. We can not teaeli them, we can not correct their mistakes, we can not soothe their sorrows, we can not heal their wounds. The sepulchers are deaf and dumb to any thing we might say to them. The last regiment of that great army has passed out of sight. We might halloo as loud as we could, not one of them would avert his head to sec what we wanted. I admit that I am In sympathy with the child whose father had suddenly died and who in her little evening prayer wanted to continue to pray for her father, although he had gone into Heaven and no more needed her prayers, and looking up into her mother's face, said: “Oh, mother, I can not leave him all out. Let me say: ‘Thank God that I had a good father once, so I can keep him in my prayers.’ ” But the oue hundred and eighty generations have passed off. Passed up. Passed down. Gone forever. Then there are generations to come after our earthly existence has ceased, perhaps one hundred and eighty generations more, perhaps one thousand generations more. We shall not see them, we shall not hear any of their voices, we will take no part In their convocations, their elections, their revolutions, their catastrophes, their triumphs. We will in no wise affect the one hundred and eighty generations goue or the one hundred and eighty generations to come, except as from the galleries of Heaven the former generations look down and rejoice at our victories, or as wo t may by our behavior start influences, good or bad, that shall roll on through the advancing ages. But our business is, like David, to serve our own generation, the people now living, those whose lungs now. breathe, and whose hearts now beat. And mark you, it is not a silent procession, but moving. It is a “forced march" at twenty-four miles a day, each hour being a mile. Going with that celerity, it has got to be a quick service on our part or no service at all. We not only can not teach the one liuudred and eighty generations past and will not see the one hundrod and eighty generations to come, but this generation now on the stage will soon bo off, and we ourselves will be off with them. The fact Is that you and I will have to start, very soon for our work or it will be ironical and sarcastic for any one after our exit to say of us, as it was said of David: “After ho had served his own generation by the will of God, he fell on sleep." Well, now, let us look around, earnestly, prayertully, and in a common-sense way, and see what we can do for our own generation. First of all let us see to it that, as far as wo can, they have enough to eat The human body is so constituted that throe times a day the body needs food as much us a lamp needs oil, as much as a locomotive needs fuel. To meet this want God has girdled the earth with apple orchards, orange groves, wheat fields and oceans full of fish and prairies full of cattle. And notwithstanding this, I will undertake to say that' the vast majority of the human family are suffering either for the lack of food or the right kind of food. Our civilization is all askew on this subject aud God only can set It right. Many of the greatest estates of to-day have been built out of the blood and hones of unrequited toil. In olden timc3, for the building of forts and towers, the inhabitants of Ispahan had to contribute seventy thousand human skulls, and Bagdad ninety thousand human skulls, and that number of people were slain so as to furnish the skulls. But these two contributions added together made only one hundred and sixty thousand skulls, while into the tower of the world's wealth and pomp and magnificence have been wrought the skeletons of uncounted numbers of the half-fed populations of the earth-millions of skulls. Don’t sit down at your tablp with five or six courses of abundant supply and think nothing of that family in the next street who would take any one of those five courses between soup and almond nuts aud feel they were in Heaveu. The lack of the right kind of food is the cause of much of the drunkenness. After drinking what many of our grocers call coffee, sweetened with what many call sugar, and eating what many of our butchers call meat, and chewing what many of our bakers call bread, many of the laboring classes feel so miserable they are tempted to put into their nasty pipes what the tobacconist calls tobacco, or go into the drinking saloons for what the rumsellers call beer. Good coffee vould do much in driving out bad run: Adulteration of food has got to be an evil against which all the health officers, and all the doctors, and all the ministers, and all the reformers, aud all the Christians need to set themselves in battle array. How can we serve our generation with enough to eat? By sitting down in embroidered slippers and lounging back in an arm ohair, our mouth puckered up around a Havana of the best brand and through clouds of luxuriant smoke reading about political economy and the philosophy of strikers? No! No! By finding out who in Brooklyn.has been living on gristle and sending them a tenderloin beefsteak. Seek out some family who through sickness or conjunction of misfortune have not enough to eat and do for them what Christ did for the hungry multitudes of Asia Minor, multiplying the loaves and the fishes. Let us quit the surfeiting of ourselves until we can not choke down another crumb of cake and begin the supply of others’ necessities We often see on a small scale a recklessness about the welfare of others which a great warrior expressed on a large soale

when his officers were dissuading him from a certain campaign, saying “It would coat two hundred thousand lives,” replying with a diabolism that can never be forgotten: “What are two hundred thousand lives to me?” v So far from helping appease the world's hunger there aye those whom Isaiah describes as grinding the faces of the poor. You have seen a farmer or a mechanic put a scythe or an axe on a grindstone whUe someone was turning it round and round, and the man holding the axe bore on it harder and harder, while the water dropped from the grindstone, and the edge of the axe, from being round and dull, got keener and keener, and the mechanic lifted the axe, glistening and sharp, and with edge so keen he must cautiously run his finger along lest while examining the implement he cut hts hand to the bone. So 1 have seen men who were put aguiust the grindstone of hardship, and while one turned the crank another would press the unfortunate harder down and harder' down until ho was ground away thinner and thinner, his comforts thinner, his prospects thinner and his face thinner. And Isaiah shrieks out: “What mean ye that ye grind the faces of the poor?” It is an awful thing to be hungry. It is an easy thing for us to be in good humor with all the world when we have no lack. But let hunger take full possession of us and we would all turn Into barbarians and cannibals and fiends. I am glad to know that the time Is coming —God hasten it—when every family in the round world will sit down at a full table, and it will be only a question between lamb and venison, or between partridge and quail on toast, and out of spoons made out of Nevada silver or California gold the pastries will drop on tongues thrilling with thankfulness bocauso they have full enough. I have no idea God is going to let the human race astay in Its present predicament. If the world winds up as It now is it will he an awful failure of a world. The barren places will he Irrigated. The pomoiogists, helped of God, will urge on the fruits. The botanists, inspired of the Lord, will help on the gardens. The raisers of stock will send enough animals fit for human food to the markets, and the last earthquake that rends the world will upset a banqueting table at which are seated the entire human race. Meanwhile, suppose that some of the energy we are expending in useless and unavailing talk about the bread question should he expended in merciful alleviations. I have read that the battle field on wldoh more troops met than on any other in the world’s history was the battle field of Leipsie—l(lo,ooo men under Napoleon, 350,000 men under Schwarzenherg. No no. The greatest mid most terrific battle is now being fought all the world over. It is the struggle for food. The ground tone of the finest passage in one of the great musical masterpieces, the artist says, was suggested to him by the cry of the hungry populace of Vienna as the King rode through and they shouted: “ Bread! Give us bread!” And all through the great harmonies of musical academy and cathedral I hear the pathos, the ground tone, the tragedy of uncounted multitudes, who, with streaming eyes and wan cheeks and broken hearts in behalf of themselves and their families are pleading for bread. Let us take another look around to see how we may serve our generation. Let us see as far as possible that they have enough to wear. God looks on the human race and knows just how many inhabitants the world has. The statistics of the world's population are carefully taken in civilized lands, and every few years officers of the government go through the land and count how many people there are in the Uujted States or England, and great accuracy is reached. But when people tell us how many inhabitants there aro in Asia or Africa, at. best It must be a wild guess. Yet God knows the,exact number of people on our planet and He has made enough apparel for each, and if there be fifteen hundred million, fifteen hundrod thousand, fifteen hundred and fifteen people, then there is enough apparel for fifteen hundred million, fifteen hundred thousand, fifteen hundred and fifteen. Not slouchy apparel, not ragged apparel, not insufficient apparel, but appropriate apparel. At least two suits for every being on the earth, a summer and a winter sidt. A good pair of shoes for every living mortal. A good coat, a good hat, or a good bonnet and a good shawl, aud a complete masculine or feminine outfit of apparel. A wardrobe for all nations, adapted to all climes, and not a string or a button or a pin or a hook or au eye wanting. But, alas! where are the good clothes for three-fourths of the human race? The other one-fourth -'nave appropriated* them. The fact is there needs to be and will be a redistribution. Not by anarchistic violence. If outlawry had its way it would rend and tear and diminish until, instead of three-fourths of the world not properly attired, four-fourths would be in rags. I will let you know how the redistribution will take place. By generosity on the part of those who have a surplus and increased industry on the part of thoso suffering from deficit. Not all, but the large majority of cases of poverty in this country aro a result of Idleness or drunkenness, either on the part of the present Butt'erers or thetr ancestors. In most cases the rum-jug is the maelstrom that has swallowed down the livelihood of those who are in rags. But things will change, and by generosity on the part of the crowded wardrobes and industry and sobriety on the part of the empty wardrobes there will he enough for all to wear. God has done His part toward the dressing of the human race. He grows a surplus of wool on the sheep’s back, and flocks roam the mountains and valleys with a burden of warmth intended for transference to human comfort, when the shuttles of the factories reaching ail the way from the Chattahoochee to the Merriinac shall have spun and woven It And here come forth the rocky mountain goat and the cashmere and the beaver. Here are the merino sheep, their origin traced back to the flocks of Abrahamio and Davtdio times. In white letters of snowy fleece God has been writing for a thousand years His wish that there might bo warmth for all nations. While others are discussing the effect of high or low tariff, or no tariff at all on wool, you and I had better see if in our wardrobes we have nothing that we can spare for the shivering, or pick out some poor lad of the street and take him down to a clothing store and fit him out for the winter. Don’t think that God has forgotten to send ice and snow because of the wonderfully mild January aud February. We shall yet have deep snows and so much frost on the win-dow-pane that in the morning you can not see through it; and whole flocks of blizzards, for God long ago declared that winter as well as summer shall not cease, and between this and the spring crocus we may all have reason to ory out with the Psalmist: “Who can stand before His cold?” Again, let us look around and see how we may serve our generation. What short-sighted mortals we would be if we were anxious to clothe t only the most insignificant part of a man—numely, his body—while i&e put forth no effort to clothe and feed and save his soul. Time is a little pieo9 broken off a groat eternity. What are we doing for the souls of this present generation? Let mo say it la a generation worth

saving. Most magnificent men and women are in it We make a great ado about the improvement in navigation, and In locomotion, and in art and machinery. We remark what wonders of telegraph, and telephone, and stethoscope. What improvement is electric light over a tallow candle! But all these improvements <ue insignificant compared with the Improvement in the human race. In olden times, once in awhUe, a great and good man or woman would come up, and the world has made a great fuss about it ever since, but now they are so numerous we scarcely speak about them. We put a halo aliout the people of the past, but 1 think if the times demanded them it would be found we have now living in this year 188!) fifty Martin Luthers, fifty George Washingtons, fifty Lady Huntingtons, fifty Elizabeth ITys. During our civil war more splendid warriors in North and South were developed in four years than the whole world developed in the previous twenty years. I challenge the four thousand years before the Hood and the eighteen centuries after the flood to show me the equal of charity on a large scale of George Feabody. This generation of men and women is more worth saving than any of the one hundred and eighty generations that have passed off. But where shall we begin? With ourselves. That is the pillar from which we must start. Prescott, the blind historian, tells us how Pizarro saved his army for the right w'hen they were about deserting him. With his sword he made a long mark on the ground. He said: "My men, on the north side are desertion and death, on the south side is victory; on th# north side Panama and i>overty, on the south side Peru with all its riches. Choose for yourselves; for my part I go to the south.” Stepping across the line one by one, his troops followed and finally his whole army. The sword of God’s truth draws the dividing line to-day. On one side of it are sin and ruin aud death, on the other side are pardon and usefulness and happiness and Heaven. You cross from the wrong side to the right side and your family will cross with you, and your friends and your associates. The way you go they will go. If we are not saved, we will never save any one else. How to get saved? Be willing to accept Christ, and then accept Him instantaneously and forever. Get on the rock first and then you will he able to help others upon the 'same rock. Men aud women have been saved quicker than I have been talking about it. What, without a prayer? Yes. What, without time deliberately to think it over? Y'es. What, without a tear? Yes. Believe! That is all. Believe what? That Jesus died to save you fronksin, and death, and hell. Will you? Do you? You have. Something makes me think you have. New light has come into your countenances. Welcome! Welcome! Hail! Hall! Saved yourself, how are you going to save others? By testimony. Tell it to your family. Tell It to your business associates. Tell it every where. Wo IfeJlt successfully preach no more religion and will successfully talk no more religion than we ourselves haye. The most of that which you do to benefit the souls of this generation you will effect through your own behavior. Go wrong, and that will induce others to go wrong. Go right, and that will induce others to go right. When the great centennial exhibition was being held In Philadelphia, the question came up among the directors as to whether they could keep the exposition open Sundays, when a director, who was a man of the world, from Nevada, arose and said, his voice trembling with emotion and tears running down his cheeks: “I feel like a returned prodigal. Twenty, years ago I went West and into a region where we had no Sabbath, but to-day old memories come back to me, and I remember what my glorified mother taught me about keeping Sunday, and I seem to hear her voice again and feel as I did when every evening I knelt by her side in prayer. Gentlemen, I vote for the observance of the Christian Sabbath.” And he carried every thing by storm, and when the question was put: “Shall we open the exhibition on Sabbath!” it was almost unanimous, “No,” “No.” What one man can do if he does pght, boldly right, emphatically right! What if we could get this whole generation saved! These people who are living with us the same year and amid the same stupendous events and flying toward the future swifter than eagles to their prey. We can not stop. They can not stop. We think we can stop. We say: “Come now, my friend; lot us stop and discuss this subject,” but we do not stop. The year does not stop. Tko day does not stop, the hour does not stop. The year is a great wheel, and is a hand on that wheel that keeps it revolving, and as that wheel turns it turns three hundred and sixty-five smaller wheels, which are the days, and then each of these three hundred and sixty-five wheels turn twenty-four smaller wheols, which are the hours, and these twenty-four smaller wheels turn sixty smaller wheels, which are the minutes, and these sixty smaller wheels turn sixty more smaller wheels, which are the seconds, aud they keep rolling, rolling, rolling, mounting, mountnig, mounting, and swiftening, swiftening, /swiftening. O God! if our generation is going like that and we are going with them waken us to the short but tremendous opportunity. I confess to you that my one wish is to serve this generation, not to antagonize it, not to damage it, not to rule it, but to serve it. I would like to do something toward helping unstrap Its load, to stop its tears, to balsam its w'ouuds, and to induce it to put foot on the upward road that has at its terminus acclamation rapturous, and gates pearline, and garlands amaranthine, aud fountains rainbowed, and dominions enthroned and coroneted, for I can not forget that lullaby in the closing words of my text: “David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep." And what a lovely sleep it was. Unfilial Absalom did not trouble it. Ambitious Adonijah did not worry it. Persecuting Saul did not harrow it. Exile did not till it with nightmare. Since a red-headed boy amid his father's flocks at night he had not hnd such a good sleep. At seventy years of age ho lay down to it. He has had many a troubled sleep, as In the caverns of Adullam or In the palace at tho time his enemies were attempting his capture. But this was a peaceful sleep, a calm sleep, a restful sleep, a glorious sleep. “After he had served his generation by the will of God he fell on sleep.” Oh! what a good thing Is sleep after a hard day’s work. It takes oil the aching out of the head und all the weariness out of the limbs and all the smarting out of the eyes. From it we rise In the morning and it is anew world. And if we, like David, serve our generation, we will at life's close have most desirable aud refreshing sleep. In it will vanish our last fatigue of body, our last worriment of mind, our last sorrow of soul. To the Christian’s body that was hot with raging fevers, so that the attendants must by sheer force keep on . the blankets, It will be the cool sleep. To those who are thin-blooded and shivering with ague, it will be the warm sleep. To those who, because of physical disorders, were terrified with night visions, it will be the dreamless sleep. To nurses, and doctors, and mothers who wore wakened almost every hour of the night by those to whom they ministered or over whom ther

watched, it rill be the undisturbed sleep. To those wh o could not get to bed till late at night one must rise early in the morning and before getting rested, it -will be the long sleep. Away wit all your gloomy talk about departure froi i this world. If we have served our generat on it will not be potting out Into the breakers; it trill not be the fight with the kii g of terrors; it trill be going to sleep. A friend writing me from Illinois says that Rev. Dr. Wingate, president of Wake Fores j College, North Carolina, after a most useful life, found his last day on earth his happiest day, and that in his last moments he seemed to he personally talking with Christ, as friend with friend, sayihg: “Oh, how delightful it is. I knew you would be with me when the time came, and I knew it would be sweet, but I did not know t would be as sweet as it is.” The fact wss he had served his generation in the gos* el ministry, and by the will of God he fell on sleep. When, in Africa, Majwara, the servant, looked intc the tent of David Livingstone and found him on hts knees, he stepped back, not wishing to disturb him in prayer, and some time after went in aud found him in the same posture, and stepped baofc again, but after awhile went In and touched him, aud lc the great traveler bad finished his last journey, and he had died in the grandest ;md mightiest posture a man ever takes —on his knees. He had served his generation by unrolling the scroll of a continent, and by the will of God fell on sleep. ' Grlmshaw, the evangelist, when askei how he felt in bis lost moments, responded: “As happy as I can be on earth and as sure of glory as If I were in it I have nothing to do but to step out of this bed into Heaven.” Having served his generation in successful evangelism, by the will of God he fell on sleep. In the museum of Greenwich Hospital, England, there is a fragment of a book that was found in the Arctic regions amid the relics of Sir John Franklin, who h;ul per, ished amid the snow and ice, and the leaf of that hook was turned down at the words: “ When thou passest through the waters I will he with thee.” Haviug served his generation in the cause of science and discovery, by the will of God he fell on sleep. Why will you keep us all so nervous talking about that which is only a dormitory and a pillowed slumber, canopied by angels’ wings? Sleep! Transporting sledp. And what a glorious awakening! Y'ou and I .have sometimes been thoroughly bewildered after along and fatiguing journey; we have stopped at a friend’s house for the night, and after hSurs of complete unconsciousness we have opened our eyes, the high risen sun full in our faces, and before we could fully collect our faculties have said: “ Where am I? Whose house is this, and whose are these gardens?” And then it has flashed upon us in glad reality. And I should not wonder if, after we have served our generation and, by the will of God, have fallen on sleep—the deep sleep, the restful sleep—we should awake in blissful bewilderment and for a little whlje say: “Where am. I? Wbat palace Is this? Who hung this upholstery? What fountains are these tossing in the light? Why, this looks like Heaven! It is! It is! Why, there is a building grander than all the castles of earth heaved into a mountain of splendor; that; must be the palace of Jesus. Aud, look there, at those walks lined with a foliage more beautiful than any thing I ever saw before, and see those who are walking down those aisles of verdure. From what I have heard of them, those two arm In arm must he Moses and Joshua, him of Mount Slnal and him of the halting sun over Ajalon. And those two walking arm In arm must bo John and Raul, the one so gentle and tho other so mighty. And those two with the robes as brilliant as though made out of the cooled-off flames of martyrdom must he John Huss and Hugh Latimer. But I must not look any longer at those gardens of beauty, but examine this building In which I have just awakened. I look out of the window this way and that and up and down, and I And It Is a mansion of Immense size In which lam stopping. All Its windows of agate and its eolonades of porphyry and alabaster. Why, I wonder if this is not the house of “many mansions” of which I used to read? It Is, It is. There must be many of my kindred and friends in this very mansion. Hark! whose are those voices? whose are those bounding feet? I open the door and see, and lo! they are coming through all the corridors and up and down all the stairs, our long-absent kindred. Why, there is fatter, there is mother, there are the children. All w r ell again. All young again. All of us together again. And as wo embrace each other with the cry, “Never more to part! never more to part!” the arches, the alcoves, the hallways echo and re-echo the words, “Nevermore to part! never more to part!” Then our glorious friends say: “Come out with us aud see Heaven.” Aud, some of them bounding ahead of us and some of them skipping beside us, we start down the Ivory stairway. And w r e meet coming up one of the Kings of. ancient Israel, somewhat small of stature, but having a countenance radiant with a thousand victories. And as all are making obeisance to this great one cf Heaven I cry out: “Who is he?” and the answer comes: “This is the greatest of all Kings of Israel. It is David, who, after he had served his generation by the will of God, fell on sleep.” THE MOONS OF MARS. Singular Coincidences That Are a l’uzzle to Astronomers. It was announced months ago that Aspah Hall had discovered at Washington, on the 11th and 17th of August, two satellites of Mars, their diameters being, as it seemed, not greater than ten kilometers, and their times of revolution around their central planet being shorter than had beon observed in any similar case. The outer moon, named Daimos, was said to perform its revolution in 301$ hours, and the inner one, Phobos, in hours. M. E. Dubois read somo days ago a paper on this subject befo e the French Academy of Sciences, iri which he pointed out that such celerity wag quite at variance with the theory of the movements of the celestial bodies in space, according to whieh no satellito performs its rovolution around its principal more quickly than the latter revolves around its own axis. M. Dubois inclines to the opinion that the moons of Mars are two of the planetoids which have such anomalous r.nd seemingly varying orbits He thinks that, in one of these aberrations, they came so near to Mars thajj they were caught and detained within its sphere of attraction. Asa faot, one of those planetoids, /Ethra, has so very eccen: ric an orbit that it comes very near Mars. On the 11th of September, 187(5. it came within 9,000,033 m les of Mars and has not since been seen. But even at that nearness the attractive force of Mars would bo many thousand times less than that of the sun; so wo must bo prepared to admit some extraordinary planetio disturbances before we could imagine the transformation of one of these planetoids into a satellite of Mars. Still, the disappearance of iEthra and the discovery twelve years afterward of the two moons of Mars aro singular coincidences. —London Times.

STATE INTELLIGENCE. The Legislature. Indian apous, Feb. 8. —Senate—Senator Harner offered a resolution reciting that inasmuch as the public press had charged that exCounty Clerk John E. Sullivan had absconded with money belonging to the State Insane Hospital, a committee of five be appointed to investigate the condition of the fund of the institution. The resolution was referred to a committee without discussion. A bill was introduced providing for establishing a State Department of Geology and Natural Resources, under the charge of a director, to be eleoted by the General Assembly, who shall have power to appoint a State Mino Inspector, Oil Inspector and a Natural Gas Inspector. General Grose introduced a civil service bill. House —ln commemoration of “ground-hog day" a member offered a resolution that a special committee of five be appointed to investigate and report “as to whether, when the ground-hog emerges from his winter quarters and sees his shadow, he does or does not return again into seclusion, and there remain for a period of six weoks.” Several membors of the House desired that this much mooted question be forever settled, and after repeated attempts to transact business the House adjourned until Monday. Indianapolis, Feb. 4.—Senate—There was not a quorum present this morning, consequently no atterap* was made to transact important business. Reports from committees were received, and the House bills were considered on second reading. Among the Senate bills favorably reported upon was oue providing that a man shall be entitled to a divorce from his wife in case she has been incurably insane for ten years. The afternoon session of tho Senate was devoted to a discussion of the Barrett bill against trusts. The only member who openly opposed the bill was Senator Burke, of Clark County. Ho fought it on the ground that it would ruin ti e manufacturing interests of the State. House—The House passed to engrossment a bill giving the Indianapolis school board authority to issue $850,000 worth of six-per-cent. bends. Bills on second reading was the order of the day in the House, and quite a number of measures, nearly all unimportant, reached agreement. The only bill that met with any oppostion was one taking the appointment of State Geologist out of the hands of the Governor and giving the General Assembly the authority to fill the office. A resolution was passed instructing the Speaker to appoint a committee of five to investigate the books of the Insane Asylum, and ascertain whether ot not John E. Sullivan, the defaulter, had embezzled any of the institution’s funds. Sullivan had the contract for furnishing the supplies of the institution. Indianapolis. Feb. 5. —Senate. —The Senate was in session just six hours to-day. A number of bills were advanced on the calendar. The Senate passed the bill making Hamilton and Madison Counties a separate judicial circuit, and also a bill creating a Superior Court in Elkhart County. House.—The bill providing for the election of five Supremo Court Commissioners by the General Assembly passed by a party vote. The minority opposed the bill on the ground that it was unconstitutional. The bill as passed provides that the duties of the commissioners shall bo purely ministerial, and that the Supreme Judge shall not be bound by anything the commission may do. The House also engrossed the hill providing for a board of control for Indianapolis, the members to be elected by the General Assembly; and tho bill providing for separate boards, of trustees for each of tho State’s benevolent institutions. Both of these bill* were opposed by the minority, who argued that the benevolent institutions should be removed from politics. A bill creating a State Board of Charities reached engrossment also by the unanimous vote of tho members. Indianapolis, Feb. 6 Over one-third of the members of the General Assembly were out ot their seats to-day, they having gone to visit the various educational institutions of the State. The House could not secure a quorum during the entiro day, and the Senate numbered barely a quorum. The Senate passed two bills of importance. One was Senator Taylor s “White Cap” bill, making it riotous conspiracy for three or more persons to combine togothor for the purpose of doing any unlawful act while wearing white caps or being otherwise disguised, and fixing a penalty of a line of $8,030 and imprisonment in the State prison for not more than ten nor less than two years. The second bill was one by Senator Johnson, providing that the death penalty shall be performed in the Stato prison, and that no one shall be present at the execution but the hangtfian spiritual adviser and relatives of the condemned man. 5 iNDiANAroLis, Feb. 7.—Senate—The Andrews election bill was called up for consideration on tho second reading, and 17 sections were acted upon. -The bill contains sixty-six sections and embraces about all the provisions of tho celebrated Australian election system, except that as regards the printing of the ballots and designating the candidate to be voted for. Tho bill is a decided simplification of the Australian method. It is thought the bill will reach engrossment in a day or two, and be sent immediately to the House, where its passage is regarded as assured. This is considered the most important measure that has occupied the attention of tho Indiana Legislature for a generation. The bill repealing the statute which prohibited a legally becoming a surety or guarantor or%imy bond or contract, was passed to-day. House.—The House devoted its session to discussing the contested election ease of Peyton, Democrat, vs. John, Republican, from Spencer County. John had a plurality of 38, but Peyton charged the discovery of 34 illegal votes cast for John, and the latter was unseated by a vote of 50 to 47. Five Democratic members voted with the Republicans. Indianapolis. Feb. A— Senate.— Th,e Senate continued consideration of the new election bill and reached the thirty-third section. It is estimated that the new system will necessitate an additional expenditure of about $50,000 each election. The House and Senate mot in joint session to elect a State Librarian. The Democratic caucus nominee. Jacob P. Dun. Jr., and the Republican caucus nominee, Mrs. Virginia C. Meredith, of Wayne County, were placed in nomination. Tho ballot resulted—Dun 81, Mrs. Meredith 64. House—Mr. Adams (Republican) presented a resolution charging that absconding County Clerk Sullivan had been selling magotty butter to the trustees of the Insane Hospital at more than the market price of good butter; also that tho employes of the hospital have been guilty of indecency aud immorality; that it-is a matter of general information, so tar as tho tax-payors of the Stato are concerned, that John E. Sullivan, an escaped thief and defaulting ofliolal ot Marion County, was furnishing to tho trustees of the Insane Asylum provisions under contract, etc., and proposed that a committee bo appointed to investigate. Tabled by a party vote. Bills passed: Placing the city of ludianapolis under the immediate control of the Legislature; for the protection and relief of railway employes. A bill was introduced to make it unlawful to "troat ’ in saloons. Geo. W. Van skiver, aged seventy- two; has bean sentenced to twoyears’lmprisonment in penitentiary for forgery./ An in'dictment has been found, at Indianapolis. against John A. Moore, the defaulting agent for the Connecticut Mutual Insurance Company. Bloomington has organized a stock company, with a capital of SIOO,OOO, to prospect for natural gas. A twelve-year-old boy named Vanbuskirk. was drowned while skating near Wabash. A wreck occurred on tueL., N. A. Sc. C. R. H. at Oakland. A brakeman was killed, and a con luctot seriously injured.

GAVE Us THE STR GGLE. An Overwhelming Defeat for Organised Labor In the Street-Gar St- kee la New York and Brooklyn. N*w York, Feh. 7.—The :reat streetcar strike is over. After an attempt lasting just eight days to coerce V e companies and annoy the public, the representatives of the strikers, shortly before midnight, voted the struggle a failure, and the men will return to their old places as far as these have not been filled with competent men. This decision is a wise one. The strike has been a failure almost from the start, and nothing would have been gained by keeping up the fight for a month or longer. The“ lesson has been a costly one to the strikers The loss in actual money to the strikers during the eight days’ struggle amounts to a little over SIOO,OOO, and to the companies about (250,000. Some cars are running on all the surface roads, and on nearly all of them the full number are running. The reserve police are still kept on duty, and the patrol wagons are still in readiness, but the officers have been withdrawn from most of the cars. The striker' are pouring back to the depots in search of work. Generally speaking th > roads ar glad to have their old hands, if they come as individuals. The roads are unanimous in refusing to employ any man who cornea as the representative of a union organization. The Second avenue line are taking all the old men back. The Broadway line are receiving no applications from new men. On all the lines the men who are given work have to sign a paper to the effect that they are not, and will not be, subject to the order of any labor organization. The result will be that there will not be a union car line in New York. This course was adopted by the Third avenue line on the last preceding strike, and they were able to run all during the recent strike. The Knights of Labor appear to be fully conscious of the disastrous defeat they have sustained. Brooklyn, Feb. 7.—The striking drivers and conductors of the Richardson lines signed an agreement last night to apply for re-employment as individuals on Mr. Richardson’s terms and take their chances, the company retaining the new hands, but filling vacancies with the old men. The stable men will not be taken back on any terms. The roads will resume operations-to-day. BAYARD CONSENT^. The Proposition or Bismarck for a Conference In Berlin on the Samoan Question Agreed To. Washington, Feb. 7. —Secretary Bayard has notified the German Minister at Washington that his Government accepts t’ne proposition for a resumption at Berlin of the conference begun in Washington in 1887 in regard to Samoa. It is thought that it will not be necessary to send a special commissioner to Berlin to represent this Government in the Samoan conferences, as the United States Minister there can carry on the negotiations. If it should be deemed necessary to formulate a treaty between this country, England and Germany, a commission would probably have to be appointed. New York, Feh. 7.—The Herald Washing, ton correspondent telegraphs the following statement which he says was dictated by Secretary Bayard for publication. It will be noticed, the correspondent adds, that Secretary feayard lets it be known that he consents to the German proposition that the Samoan negotiations shall be removed from Washington to Berlin: With the resumption at Berlin of the amicable conference, in accordance with the proposal of Prince Bismarck, and which Is acceptable to this Government, there seems little ground to doubt that V. peaceable and permanent settlement of all the questions ot native rights iu Samoa as well as the rights of the, ,threec.treaty powers, will be attained. But further than to comment In terms of general approval on the good temper shown by Count Bismarck In relation to the United States, and the resolve to keep all the questions Involved in the atmosphere ot diplomatic settlement. It is more respeotful to Congress that Mr. Bayard's communications should be first laid before them and in that way be made public." LOST AT SEA. An Unknown Vessel Sank and AH On Board, About 100 In Number, Believed to Have Been Drowned—Five Victims of a Shipwreck off: Cape Hatteras. London, Feb. 7.— The bark Largobay, for Auckland, has arrived at Spithead In tow in a sinking condition. Her captain reports that on Monday night the Largobay came into collision with an unknown steamer off Beachy Head and that the lattor sank. Several of the bark’s crew are confident that the steamer carried passengers and estimate the number of persons on board of her, including her crew, was at least 100. Their fate is unknown. The steamer went down within eight minutes after the collision. death on wintry seas. New York. Feb. 7.—The schooner James E. Kelsey, Captain J. Whealton, Jr., arrived at this port Wednesday from Wilmington, N. C., having on board the seoond mate, John Christmas, and two seamen, F. Anderson and J. Roach, sole survivors of the crew of the schooner Allie R. Chester, from New York, which struck in a gale on the outer edge of Diamond reef, eleven miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, January 20. The captain of the Chester, Thomas Ingersoll, First Mate Wells, the cook and two seamen were drowned. DEATH IN THE BLIZZARD. Two Men Feriah in Michigan—lntense Cold Throughout the Northwest., Detroit, Mich., Feb. 7.—lntensely cold weather prevails here, and reports seem to indicate that much suffering is being occasioned by. it. Fred Close, a street laborer, was frozen to death Tuesday night at Bay City. George Lutes, of Ogeman Springs, was caught on his way home by the blizzard and fatally frozen. The thermometer is SO below zero at Marine City and still falling. Sand Beach, Mich., Fob. 7.—A blizzard from the northwest has been blowing for two days. The mercury is at zero. The air is full of fine frozen particles and it is almost impossible for man or beast to move. Twenty inches of snow has fallen, but it is heaped in drifts by the gale, and all travel and business is suspended. • m -♦ SCARED TO DEATH. 1 A New York School-Girl Dies com Fright Occasioned by an Advent' re with a Scoundrel. New York, Feb. 7.—Fannie loore, aged 11 years, was stopped on the s ,reet January 24, while going home fror school, by a well-dressed man, who insulted her and declared that he was “Jack the Ripper.” The child was terribly frightened, and on seeing the effect of his words the man fled. Fannie was delirious when sho. reached home, and brain fever set in, from which she died Monday. The polio* are endeavoring to find the stranger. He is said to have interfered with a number of school children in a similar manner.