Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 11, Number 13, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 19 June 1889 — Page 2

A PLACE FOR ALL. Bermon by Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D. Our Flrxt Duty Is to Find Our Npliera, and Our Heronil Duty Is to Keep It— lty So Doing Many Troubles May Be Averted. Tho subject of Dr. Talniage’H recent discourse wan: “People Who Have Lost Their Wti.v. ’’ He took for his text the .nineteenth ▼wee t-ho IweArty-firot-e-bapter of <>- esiti. "And God opened her even and she saw a well of water, and she went and flllod the bottle' with water and gave the lad drink.” 'The preacher said: Morning breaks upon Beer-sheba .There Is an early stir in the house of old Abraham. There has been trouble among the domestics. Htigar, an assistant In the household, nnd / herson, a brisk lad of sixteen years, have Become impudent and insolent, and Sarah, the mistress of the household, puts her foot down very hard, and •ays that they will have to leave the E remises They are packing up now. AbrSam, knowing that the journey before his servant ahd her son will be very long and across des late places, in the kindness of his heart sets about putting up some bread and a bottle with water in it. It is a ▼ery plain lunch that Abraham provides, hut 1 warrant you there would have been enough of it had they not lost their way.

,“GpU lib with you!” said old Abraham as lie ggve tliu/iUhidi to Ibjgar and stood:many ciianVsfilu how tpic sTmiim ‘cehiTiff-rfllfi’’ the AuMfc 'l-' stfinuiso j.— - , bounded away ffiTTutf-L_. .’Lj SlWays like a change. Poor Ishmaei! He has no’idea of the disasters that are ahead of hint Hagar gives'one long, lingering look on the familiar place where she had spent so many happy days, each scene associated with the pride and joy, of her heart! —young Ishmaei. \ ,'l The scorching noon comes on. The air Is stifling and moves across the desert with insufferable suffocation. Ishmaei, the boy, begins to complain and lies but Hagar rouses him up, saying nothing about her own weakness or. the sweltering heat; for mothers can endure any thing. Trudge, trudge, trudge. Crossing the dead level of the desert how wearily and slowly the miles slip. A tamarind that seemed hours ago to stand only just a little ahead, inviting the travelers to come nufier its shadow, now is as far off as,ever, pr &eqmingly so. Night drops upon the.desert, and-the travelers are pillowlessf" Islunael, very weary I suppose, instantly falls asleep. Hagar, as the shadows of. the night begin to lap over each other—Hagar hugs her weary boy to her bosom 1 and thinks of the fact that it is het fault that they are in the.-'desert. A star looks out and every falling tear it kisses with a > sparkle. A wing of w ind comes over the hot earth and lifts the locks from trie fevered brow of the hoy. _Hagar sleeps fitfully, and in her dreams travels over the weary day, and half awakes her son by crying out in her sleep: “Ishmaei! Ishmaei!” And so they go on, day after day and night after night, for they have lost their wav. N’p path in the shifting sands, no sign in the burning Bky. The sack empty of the flour, the water gone from the bottle. What shall she do? As she pifts her fainting Ishmaei under a stunted shrub of the arid plain she sees the bloodshot eye and feels the hot head and, watches the blood bursting from the cracked tongue, and there is a shriek in the dosert of Heer-sheba: “We sbalb dio- we shall diet” Now, mriKiother was over made strong enough to hear her son dry in vain for a drink. Heretofore she had cheered her hoy by promising a speedy end of the journey, even smiled upon him when lie felt desperately enough. Now there is upthlng to do but place him under a shrub andJethim die. She had thought she would sit there and watch until the spirit of her boy would go away forever and then* she would breathe out her own life on his silent heart., but as

the boy. begins .to claw liis tongue til agony of thirst and 'struggle in -distortion and beg his mother' to, slay him she cun not endure the spectacle. She puts him under a shrub and goes off a bow shot and begins to weep until all the desert seems sobbing and her cry strikes clear through the heavens and an angel of God comes out on a cloud and tttoks down upon the appalling grief and cries: “Hager, what afieth jtheeV” She iooßsi7ffarrtrflre ; s( ; es theangel pointing to iftjinll t>f w'nittori wluifn- she fills Mlb""t}lTfOlf l for the lad. Thank God! Thank God! 1 learn from this Oriental scene, in the first p'ace, what a sad, thing it'is when peo-, pie do not know their place, and get too proud for tlieir imsiness. Hagar was an assistant in that household, hut she wanted to rule there. Slid ridiculed and jeered until her son, Ishmaei, got the same tricks. She dashed out her own happiness and threw Sarah into a great fret; and if she had Rtaiil much longer in that household she would have upset" Abraham’s equilibrium.- My friends, onehalf of the trouble' in. the ’ world to-day comes ’from the fact that people do not Know their place; or, finding their’place, will not stay in it When we come into the world there is-always a place ready for us. A place for Abrgham. A place for Sarah. A place for Hagar. A place for Ishmaei A place for you apd a place for me. Our • first duty is to find our sphere; . our second is to keep it We may be bum to® sphere far off from the one for wlnch God finally intends us. Sextuswas Uoru on low ground and was a swineherd ; God called him up to wave a scepter. Ferguson spent his early days in looking after the sheep; God hailed him up to look after stars und be.a shep. herd watching, the flocks’ of light off the hillside of Heaven. Hogarth began by engraving pewter pots; God raised him to stand in the enchanted realm of a painter. The shoemaker’s bench held —Bloomfield t r a little while., but God called him to sit in the chair of a philosopher and Christian scholar. The soap-boiler of London could not keep bis son in that business, for God bad decided thijtljawley.waa to be onc of the greatest aßWoironiers iu Kugland. On the other hand, we may be born in a sphere a little higher than that for which God intends us. We’ may be born lu a castle, and pi ay in a costly conservatory and feed high-bred pointers and angle for gold-fish in artificial ponds and be familiar yet God may have fitted us ib* / a carpenter shop or dentist's forceps or a weaver’s shuttle or a blacksmith's forge. The great thing is to find just the sphere for which God intended us, and then to Occupy that sphere and occupy it forever. Here is a man God fashioned to make a plow. There is a man God fashioned to make a constitution. The man who makes the plow ( is just as honorable .as the man who makes the constitution, , provided he makes the plow as well as the other man makes the constitution. There is 4 woman who whs made to fashion a robe, and yonder is one intended to be a queen anil wear it It seems to the that lu the ond-case as in the other >God appoints the sphere; and the needle is Just as respectable in His sight as the scepter. Ido not know hut that the world Would long ago have been saved if some of the men out Os the ministry were iti it, and sowe-of those Who are in it were out oh it

I really think that one-half of the world may be divided Into two quarters—those wfi,o have not foot'd their sphere, and those who, having found it, are not willing to stay there. How many are struggling tor a position a little higher than that which God intended them. Tbe bondswoman wants to be mistfess. Hagar keeps crowding Sarah The small wheel of a watch which beautiful y went treading Its golden 1 pathway wants to he the balance-wheel, aud the sparrow, with chagrin drops into the brook because it can not, like the eugle, cut a circle under the sun. In the Lord's army we all want Brigadier-Oenerals. Tho sloop ■ esywr ■“More-mast, umre-tfnmegffi -more c*n~ vas. Oh, that I Jvere a topsail schooner, or a full-rigged brig, or a Cunard steamer!” And so the world’is filled with cries of discontent because we are not willing to stay in the place where God r put ,us and intended us to be. My friends, be not too proud to do any thing God tells you to do. For the lack of u right disposition in this respect the world is strewn with wandering Hagars and lshmaebj. God has given each one of us a work to do. You carfy -a scuttle of coal up that dark alley. You distribute that Christian trtfet. You give ten thousand dollars to the missionary cause. You, for fifteen years, sit with chronic rheumatism, displaying the beauty of Christian submission. Whatever God calls you to do, whether it win hissing or huzza; whether to walk under triumphal arch or lift the sot out bf the ditch; whether it he to preach orjjiEwujcost or tell some wan-

dprer of the street the mercy of. the Christ of Mary Magdefbne; whether it K iV wcave a . garland _ l SwVtJR <’ nii: taiigTeily>uX3‘x,! „ ,>„<■ -..rtstre'e..

.cut up/Hio of your old dresses to fit her out for the sanctuary—do it, and do it right away. WEether it be a brown or a yoke, do not fidget. Everlasting honors upon those who do. their, work, aud are contented in the sphere in which God has put them; while there is only wandering and exile and desolation and wildorness for discontented Hagar and Ishmael. , Again: I find in this Oriental scene a lesson of sympathy with woman when she goesforth trudging- in tfif desert -What a great change it was for this Hagar. There was the tent aud all the surroundings of Abraham’s house, beautiful and luxurious no doubt. Now she is going out into the hot sands of the desert. Oil, what a change, it was! And in our day wo often see the wheel of fortune turn. Here is someone who lived in the very bright home of her father. She had every thing possible to administer to her happiness. Plenty at the table. Music in the drawing-room. Welcome at the door. She is led forth into life by someone who can not appreciate her.' A dissipated soul comes and takealier out in the desert Iniquities blot out the lights of that home circle. Harsh words wear out her spirits. The high hope that shone out over the marriage altar while the ring was being set and the vows given and-* the - benediction pronounced have all faded with the orange blossoms, and there she is to day. biokenhearted, thinking of past joy aud present desolation aud coming anguish. Hagar in the wilderness! Here is a beautiful home. You can not think of any thing that can he added to it. For years there has not been the suggestion of a single trouble. Bright and happy children till the house, with laughter aud song. 'Books to read. Pictures Jo look at Lounges to rest on. Cup of domestic joy full and running over. - Dark night drops Pillow hot Pulses flutter. Eyes close. And the foot whose well-known step on the .door-sill brought the whole household out at eventide crying “Father’s con,ling”-will never sound bn the door-silt again! .A long, deep grief plowed through alj, that lightness of domestic - life.'' Paradise lost! Widowhood! Hagar.in the wilderness! Ho\V often it is.we see the weak arm of woman conscripted for this battle with the rough world. Who. is she, g6ing down the street in. the early morning, pule with exhausting work,-not; half slept, out with the slumbers of lust ought, tragedies of suffering written all over her face, her iusterless eyes looking far-ahead, as though for- the ’eoininjf of some other trouble? Her parents called her Mary or Bertha or Agnes on the day when they held her up to the font, and the . Christian minister sprinkled on tho infant’s name is chanced now. I hear it in the 1 see it in the figure of the faded calico. I find it in the -lineaments of the woe-bogono c.qqiiy tenanoo. Not Mary nor Bertha nor but Hagar iii-the wilderness. May God have mercy upoirw,oman in her toils, her struggles. her hardships, her desolation, and may the great heart of Divine sympathy inclose her forever.

Again: I find in this Oriental scene the fact that, every mother leads forth tremendous destinies. Ybu. say: “That isn't an unusual srmie, a mother leading her child Ity the hand ” Who is it that she is leading? Ishmael, you say. Who is iuael? A great nation is to |>e founds cd; a nation so strong that it is to stand for thousands of years against all the armies of the world. Egypt and Assyria thunder against it, but in vain. Gaul us brings uj> his army and his army is smitten. Alexander decides upon a campaign, brings,up his hosts, and dies. For a long while that nation monopolizes the learning of tho world. It Is the nation of the Arabs. Who founded it? Ishmael, the lad that Hagar led into the wilderness. She had no idea she was leading forth such destinies. Nor does any mother. You pass along the street and sea - pass boys and" girls who will yet make the earth quake with their influence Who is that boy at Sutton Tool, Plymouth, England, bares ooted, wading down into the slush and slime until his-hare foot comes Upon a piece of glass, and ho lifts it bleeding and painstruck “That wound in the toot decides that he be sedentary in his life, decides that hp be a student That wound by the glass iu the foot docidos that he Shall be John Kitto, who Sap.!) provide the'best religious, encyclopedia the world has ever had provided, and, with his other writings as’we 11, throwing a light upon the word 3)1 God such as has come from no other man in this century. O mother, mother, that little hand that wanders over your face may yet be lifted to hurl thunderbolts of war or drop benedictions, 'The little voice may blaspheme God in' the- grog-shop or ojrj -“Fort \vUrd!'; to the Lord’s hosts as they go out for their las victory. My mind to-day leaps thirty years ahead, and I see a merchant prince of New York. One stroke of his j>en brings a ship out of Canton. Another stroke of his pen brings a .ship into Madras. He is mighty in all the money markets of world. Who is he? He site to-day beside you in the Tabernacle Mv mind leaps thirty years forward from this time and I find myself in ..a relief association. A great multitude of Cbristaln women have met together for a generous _ purpose. There is one woman in t;hat crowd who seems to have the confljien.ee of all the others, aud they all look up to her for her counsel and fpr her prayers. Who is she? To day you will find her in the Sabbath-school, while the teacher tells- her of that Christ who

olothed the i aked aud fed the hungry and healed the sick. My mind leaps forward thirty years from now and l find myself in' an African jung. Md there is a missionary of ths Cross addressing the natives, and theli dusky countenances are irradiated with the g.ud tidings of great joy and salvation Who is he? Did you not hear his voice to-day lu the first song of the service f, My mind leaps forward thirty years from now, and I fluff myself looking through the wioket of a prison.' I see a face scarred with every crime. His chin 'on his open palm,, his elbow ’qu his. knee—a picture ol despair. As I open the wicket he startr -and-T “hear ' Trtl’“ ehWn clank. The jail-keeper tells me that he hus been in there now three times. First for theft, then for arson, now for murder. He steps upon the trap-door, the rope is fastened to his neck, tho plank fails, his body swings off Into etefnity. Who is he and where Is he? To-day playing kite on the city commons. Mother, you ure to-day hoisting a throne or forging a chain—you are kindling a star or digging a dungeon. I learn one more lesson from this Oriental scene, aud that is that every wilderness has Hagar and Ishmael. gave up to die. Hagar’s heart sank within her as she heard her child crying; “Water? water! water!” “Ah,” she says, “my darling, there is no water. This is a desert" And then God’s angel said from the cloud: “What aileth thee, Hagar?” And she looked up and sawvjiiip pointing to a well of water, where she filled the bottle for the lad. Blessed be God that there is in every

wilderness a well, if you only know Uow to find it—fountains for all these thirty scaur to-day. Oif thgr on shat great '•iav<rf.yj*>#iiyr, <hmys . ' to me and . i jKll tliesejbther fountains you find

are mere mirages of the desert. Paracelsus, you know, spent his time in trying to find out of life—a liquid which, if taken would keep one perpetually young in this world, and would change the aged back again to youth. Os course, he was disappointed. He found not the elixir. But here 1 tell you to-day of the elixir of everlasting life bursting from the “Bock of Ages,” and that drinking that water you-shall never get old, and you will never be sick and you 'will never die. “Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters.” Ah, here is a man who says: “I have been looking for that fountain a great while, but can’t find it.” And here is someone else who says: "I believe all you say, but I have been trudging along in the wilderness, and can't' find the fountain.” Do you knovV' the reason? I will tell you You never looked in the right direction. “Oh, you say, “I have looked everywhere. I have looked north, south, east and west and I haven’t found the fountain.” Why, you are not looking in the right direction at all. Look up where Hager looked. She never would have found the fountain- at all, but when she heard the voice of the angel she looked up and she sawtlje finger pointing' to' r the supply. And, oh, sovil. if to-duy, with one earnest, intense prayer, you would only look up to Christ, He would point you down toithe supply in the wilderness. “Look unto me, all ye ends of the earth, and he yo sayed; for I am God, aud there is none else.” Look! look! as Hagar looked * Oh, coine to-day to the fountain—the fountain open for sin and uncleanness. I will tell you the whole story in two or three sentences. Pardon for all sin. Comfort for all trouble. Light for all darkness. And every wilderness has a well in it. A MARINER’S RUSE. ■' - - N.... •: - . ' . • How Captain Downing Punished a Tribe of Bloodthirsty Savages. Tears ago Captain Downing had command of the United States sloop-of-war Yandalia, and was cruising in the South Pacific Ocean A French merchant vessel, fit \yhich were two American citizens, engaged in traffic at the tihie in New Zealand, was driven ashore on the rocky coasTof-Chat-hum Island, and ail her crew murdered by the natives, The Captain of a Dutch trader, who had. witnessed the butchery, but’had been unable to render assistance, brought information of the fact to tho Bay of Islands, where the Vandalia lay. Captain Downing set sail at once, aud upon reaching, Chatham Island, distant some three hundred miles from New Zeeland, he he also found traces of ther slaughter; but., the" murderoiiWhattves had fled into the! rocky fastnesses of the interior, and he , could not catch them, ~Thoy had seen his ship coming in. and had recognized it as a man-of-war. ,-i Downing knew; that it would bo unless, as well as dangerous, to lead his men on the chase into-the tangled wilds of the island, and aftqr cruising awhile up and down the forbidding coast,he sailed away. Two days afterward he fell in with a Yankee whaler—the llodney Far we 11, of New Bedford—and entered into an arrangement with her commander for hoodwinking tho Chatham islanders. Captain Downing transferred his whole crew—a hundred and eighty men—on hoard the whale-ship, with plenty of small-arms and ammunition, leaving a few of his ojttcers, with the whaler’s crew, to take care of the Yandalia. and once more made sail for Chatham Islaiul, which he reached just in the edge of the evening, aud cast anchor in the small bay of the village. On the" following morning a few of the natives ventured off in a canoe; but Down ; , iug did not allow them to come on board. He exposed just enough of his men to keep up his character as a whalemau, and no more. He gave to these visitors a few trinkets, however, and made them understand that lie wanted to get wood and water. They returned to tho shore, and two hours later a large war canoe came off, with fifty men in it, aimed with spears and bows. Downing allowed this delegation to board him, though he well knew they had come for the purpose of murder and robbery. The tussle which followed was severe, and a dozen of the rascals were shot down beffrfe' ttfe'feSnX'ere tfYercfittie. Btfttlifiy WSitß" finally conquered, and Among the prisoners was the chief, of the island. Once’ more on hoard Ills own ship, with his prisoners safely in irons, Captain Downing feturned to the Bay of Islands, where ho found a French frigate. It had been a .French ship which the Chatham savages had ravaged, and to the tender mercies of the officers of th'e frigate the American commander resigned his captives. —N. Y. Ledger. Sambo as a Dialectician. On a sleeping car, recently, the colored porter neglected to notify the writor of a Btation where he .desired to stop till the ■ca:s were well'tinder way, and thereupon the colored gentleman was roundly lectured for liis reiiiissness of duty. The porter was evidently now in his duties but he was not so fresh as a dialectician as hi* appearance would indicate. . “les,” ho said, indignantly, “you talk to me that-er-wav, because 1 am a poll nigger, gttten sls a month. _Ef I was a white man gitten s.*>,ooo year you would he as perlite about It as a: basket er chips.” As that was directly in the line of our own way of thinking there .was nothing further- to be said..— Interior. * *V

DASHED DOWN A GRADE, An Excursion Train Hi lrol*ni. with Happy Children aud Their Relatives and Teachers, Is Wrecked, ' Causing a Los* of Seventy 1,1 vet. Dubt.ix, June ISL —A train containing an excursion party of 1,300 jiersous, principally Methodist Sunday-*choQl children and their "* touchers and relatives, hae been wrocked near Armagh. LoNtm.N, JutuoLS.—The absorbing toplmof conversation in London is the tefnole railway disaster in Ireland. At 11 o'olock last night the dead numbered seventy-two, with alinbta a certainty that others among the large (lumber of injured will die. This makes the!disaster the greatest railway korror thav has ever been known in the United Kingdom, with the possible exception of the memorable Tay Bridge disaster, by which seventy-four persons lost their lives. Dublin, June 13.—The railroad accident near Armagh Is without a parallel In the history of railroading in Ireland. The train carrying the Sunday-school excursion bound for the popular little seaside resort Os Warren’s Point was made up of two sections, and fully 1,300 children and Yheir relatives and teachers were on board. This train, a short distance out of Armagh, was ascending a steep grade to a bank that rises to a height of fifty feet, when the engine of the rear section gave out and was unable to draw

the hehvy train. .. In some way which is not now clearly understood several of the rear -wrs bccttttte ttetabtfetf'ti*>iii rthe-i*a.lia< es YBtflfai ‘inYstaVteS7d*ft ii fbg'SfchuggWKik J ft. few friii at aierrific rate of speed, wife t He 1

brakes * either utterly useless, or, from negligence on the part of the guard, without jiroper- attention. Had the track on the level just below the grade been clear for any considerable distance, the detached cars might have Tost their momentum and the accident that followed been averted, bui, unfortunately, the regular train from Armagh followed just behind the renr section of the excursion train, and with the locomotive of this train the detached cars came into coilisipn with terrific force, wrecking'the locomotive as well as the cars themselves. The scenes at the wreck immediately after the accident were heartrending in the extreme. The rein section of the exc.ur sion train, from which the ill-fated cars had become detached, was stopped after pro-' ceeding but a short distance and the passengers as well as those of the forward section soon ran back to render what assistance they could to those of the little children in the wrecked cars, where maimed and mangled bodies still showed symptoms of life. The dead and the dying , Jittle ones were scattered in inextricable qtmfusion among the jagged timbers and /twisted iron work Os the wreck, and th@ groans, of the imprisoned sufferers lijinglml in an awful din with the shrieks of / their ; more fortunate companions who stood by powerless to affrM assistance. People from the .surrounding country flocked to the scene and set to work to remove the victims from the wreck, Physicians were summoned from Belfast and other points and attended to the wants of the injured, while the (|ead were taken from tiie ruins as fast as possible and placed in rows upon the grass. The engineer, fireman and guard of the rear section of the excursion train, and the traffic manager’s clerk were arrested, charged with causing the accident, and ro.manded without bail. The manner in which the doomed coaches came to be (detached from the train of which they formed a part seems at this hour to be unexplained. It is asserted that they were deliberately uncoupled by a train hand when it was found that the engine could not pull the entire train any further. However this may be, there is bo doubt that tho disaster is primarily due to obseffite appliances, the brakes being'the old-fashioned hand-brakes, with worn links. As soon as the people in the detached cars saw what had happened and began to realize their danger they tried to escape from their perilous position through the doors of the coaches, but found them locked. Even the forlorn hope of a leap for life from the flying train was denied them, and nothing was left but to await the swift and certain death to which they were rushing headlong. 1 , When f ww&'tl'pcrttair of the train saw the detached coaches slid--4figel@wtr4iw-gFmlo ■fhey-started-ltt-’ pursurt in the hope of reaching the cars in time to recouple them to the train, and, so save them from destruction. They forced the train down the steep ineline in pursuit of the runaways at break-neck speed, and for a short instance was very close upon the doomed coaches, but they were too late. The shock came with the jiursiiing train 3:*) yards away. A3.1 was over and theV engineer had barely time to stop-liis train to prevent its crushing headlong with its load of human freight upon the, frightful wreck. There is scarcely a family in Armagh that had not a member on the ill-fated train, aud the excitement in that city is intense. The embankment from which the coaches were hurled by the collision is seventy feet high, and both engines and cars were almost ground to powder by the shock of the collision anti the terrible plunge from the embankment which followed. There were many touching scenes after the work of relieving the sufferers was begun, and the children in many cafces bore thdir severe injuries with great patience and fortitude. There are many cases in which whole famflies were killed. A private in the Dish Fusileers who was in one of the detached, coaches got out upon the foot-plate before the earn - had attained a very high speed, and, foreseeing the danger, seized four of the chi dreu and dropped them from the coach, saving their lives. He offered to do the same Rervice for the others in the coach but they were frighteriedywind drew away from him aud perished in the wreck. Immense crowds visited thh wreck dur ing the day. Dr, By an, who isY nt the head siouists belonged, Is one of the ;nost prominent Methodists in Ireland.f The train cori"sisted of fifteen carriages. The children paraded the streets of Armagh boarding the train, and there was general merry-making on the part of the whole town before the start. Most of those killed were about 30 years of age. There were few very young children. There were seventy two killed all told, of whom sixtyfour have been so fur identified. Two Hundred Men nt Corydon Execute Two Murderous Burglars. IN’pianapoi,is, Did., June 13.—0n Friday night near Coiydon, Ind., James Deavin and Charles Tennyson attempted to burglarize the residence of James LeMuy. L|w May resisted gnd was shot through the body and dangercfUsiy but not fatally wounded. A niece of Mr. Le~ May also received a slight wound. The men were arrested in New Albany and afterward transferred to Corydon, the county seat of Harrison County. Since their arrival at Corydon threats of lynching have been prevalent, and at 3 o’clock this morh'Dig a mob gathered, took Deavin aud Tennyson from jail and hanged them to the Gorydon bridge.

QRINNELL’S GRIEF. Fir. Destroy. For^* Uttte City. buildings, chiefly "UHiden, wer j Grinned Wednesday. at from Bo.<Wo to buildings were partly insured, l h I of Treat A Co.’s elevator wu- Bred t U.. p. m. by a spark fromapas* nif ,! k ri-rsaf rs £*£ business building south of Fourth aven and oast Os Mail, street was on Are. Goo were rapidly carrlecT to the park, aed ti e militia truurded them. Efficient utd was Shed by the Grinneil. Marshalltown and Brooklyn fire companies. The insurance is pluoed at roui • UOO to $40,000. Goods worth $->O,000 wore- rescued and stored In the park. Governor Larrabee has received a dispatch asking him to order oiit a militia company to guard thesei goodß and hus replied tliut the sheriff has tho authority to call upon the troops. Much damage was done in moving goods and by watei. The insurance is mostly in Eusteru companies. Bebuilding will begin at ono* The buildings burned were in the busineM part of tbe tow a They include the follow-

i n <r; „ '•* j Treat & Co.’s elevator, A. A. Foster & Cos. s . waraliQUK tor. Hi:iTiil t . liral • DlH^em nU > .. -.. “STvW'T'wi ’ - -kv, tosh & Co.’s gloVefactory, Chamberlains

meat-market, Wlieelpck’s insurance office. Art Seaman’s restaurant, the Merchant’s National Bank, the post-office, Harry Mitchell’s barber-shop, A. Mclntosh & Cos. s general store- ,H. P. -Sroctor’s Jewelry store, the telephone -office, S. W. Bartlett’s meat -markeV—J~ —G. Johnfoa A Cos s drug store, the Metropolitan. • bakery, William & Schropp’s shop, P,aimer & Bartlett's grocery, Mrs. Iron’s millinery store. Buck & Thomas' hardware store, W. P. Hingdon s shoe store, Bomor Bros.’ hardware store, A. H. Heald’s flour store, N. D. Soper's clothing store, Jenkins' harness shop, Eastman’s haimess shop and Nelson & Powell’s grocery. Grinneil was devastated by a oyclone seven years ago, about seventy-five houses being blown down and forty people killed. FOREST FIRES RAGINO. Superiou, Wis., June 13. —A terrible fire is sweeping the fores:s south and west of here, and unless the weathbr soon changes the loss will be enormous. ADeady over s■>oo,ooo worth of pine! has been destroyed. The districts tributary to the Nemadji and St. Louis rivers in Wisconsin and Minnesota are suffering terribly., The smoke from the ourning districts is obscuring the sun and rendering difficult the entrance of vessels into the harbor. Much of the pine on the Cloquet reservation is already wiped out A strong wind is blowing from -the southwest and rural villages are threatened with destruction. The fire is raging from the St Croix to Northern Pacific J unction Two Hakboks, Minn., June 13.—Forest fires havo been raging with renewed aot vity all day along the Don Bange laiDoad in every direction. THE EARThT GAVE WAY. Coal Mines at Wilkesbarre, Pa., Cava In Many Costly Buildings in the Heart of the City Threatened with Collapse. Wilkesbarre, Pa., June 12.—The roof of the Hollenbeck mine, operated by the Lehigh A Wilke barre Coal Company, caved in Wednesday morning with a terrible crash. The men and mules were gotten out safely and there was no loss of life. This disaster also affected the Hillman vein mine, operated by private individuals. Both mines are badly damaged, and it will take months to repair the Hollenbeck mine. There are big crevices in Madison'street within three squares of the court-house, and much gas is escaping and fears of an explosion are entertained. Tho cave-in is considered a very disastrous one in its effect, much valuable property on the surface being damaged. It is learned that five acres are affected. The cracks can now be traced 1,800 feet along Main street, beneath hundreds of houses, many of them being costly residences. The Hollenbeck, employed 800 men,"and the Hill vein 400, most dfulflcn billlffiT’lfrbWirOTlil Si Wigk. V''"■' ——— £ GALVIN S. BRiGE GHOSEN. Elected Unanimously Chairman of the National Democratic Committee. New York, .lime. 43. - The National Democratic Committee met Wednesday and upon the nomination of Judge McHenry, of Kentucky, seconded by Senator Gorman, of Maryland, Calvin S. Brice, of Ohio, was unanimously elected chairman to succeed the late ex-Senator Barnaul, of Connecticut, and Carlos French resolutions eulogizing, the late chairman, and Senator Gorman spoke at length upon the good qualities of the dead leader, after which the resolutions ' were unanimously adopted. Secretary S. P. Sheerin, of Indiana, made an address on the death of Captain Francis W. Dawson, of South Carolina, and presented resolutions testifying to the high esteem in which he was held by-the committee. These were also adopted unanimously. The other business of the meeting was the acceptance of Carlos French as Connecticut's representative on the committee and D. M. Haskell for South Carolina horrofTln china. The .Big City of La ClioW Almost Entirely Wiped Out by Eire - Ten Thousand Lives Said to Have Been Lost. San FrancisCo, June 13.—The steamex City of Pekin, which has just arrived from Yokohama and Hong Kong, brings thilng* that the Shanghai Mercury of' May 10 published news received from its correspondent at Chung King, who writes that Lu Chow, a city- of some importance in Szecfiuen,' situated on the Upper Yang flagratiou broke out on the evening of the eighth day of the third moon und burned furiously till the tenth. Seven out of the eight gates of the city are said to be destroyed, and the loss of life burned and trampled to death-ia.es-timated at not less than 10 f OOO. Lu Cliow is a city that receives large quantities of Manchester goods, and native merchants at Han Kpw aud Chung King will suffer much by this calumity. —y • • A FALLING SCAFFOLD. It Caupedv tbe Death of a Bricklayer In Chicago, While Eight of His Fellows ' “(Were Badly Hurt. ' (Chicago, Juhel3.—The scaffolding in the ptftfer house in course of construction for the new West side cable road fell from overweight yesterday afternoon, carrying with it a dozen or more bricklayers, one of whom was killed and eight were badly injured. The jatter were conveyed to the hospitaL, The scaffolding was thirtv-five feet high and Vas too lightly constructed lor the quantity of building material placed upon It

YARM AND HOUSEHOLD. —Nobody evor aowa too many kind* of gr&e noed on land to 1m employed in grazing. Keep the surface of the oorn-field mellow, let the season bdyet or dry. —Rural Now Yorkor. —The best soil for an orohard Is a clay loam. It should he thoroughly pulvorlxed by frequent harrow lug when a now orphard Is to be set. —Balanced food rations for cattle give Incredulous or skeptical farmers some dogreo of respect for the ton. hlugs of chemistry after practice has shown tholr ottlcacy In milk production. —ln hog pastures whore a mdvable fence is used, so as to change tho hogs and thus prevent waste of the clover from tramping down. In a fair season an aero of clover will furnish forage for ton shoats. A common mistako of farmers i* 1n neglecting homo comfort and adornment,” says one of tholr number, '•Run the*pigs out of the front yard and keep them out; catch a few ideas of landscape gardening; make a lawn

in front of your house; repair and put | ordronml TrttttUTi'tMfl.’; ' have mvcsirgating-(juTc'.-Lj ...'VTaniUotGrtYill the COmpo-

sitlqn of wheat which appear to.be due to differences, of season ahd Climate. They to have found that the highest proportion of albuminoids and gluten is present in that grain which has been matured rapidly. Anchqvy Toast—Mix -'over the’ fire une ounce of butter with the .wellbeaion yelks of twQ eggs, a teaspoonful of essence of anchovy and one of champagne. When quite hot and thick (it must' not ; boil) pour it on some rather thick slices of hot toafet and set it in the oven-for two or three minutes to soak. Serve very hot. —Vegetable Pie. —Scald some Windsor beans; cut into dice young Carrots, turnips, artichokes’ bottoms, lettuce, mushrooms, celery and parsley, with green peas; onions and spinach may be added if liked. Stew the vegetables partially in gravy, and 'season with pepper and salt. Trim the edges of a dish with parsley; put in the vegetables; pour the gravy over this, cover and bake.’ Cream or milk slightly thickened with flour and butter may bomsed instead' of%ravy. —The old fashion of making bags of ribbon joined together with fancy stitching is again revived. All the ribbons with pearl feather or lace edges are useful for this purpose, and silk and velvet look well together. Such bags have a base of velvet-cov-ered cardboard about five inches square, and are made of ten stripes of ribbon lined with a contrasting color. Some very gay bags combine several hues, and they are the most useful because they are equally well adapted To aceompan y any frock. GREEN FODDER CROPS. Valuable Suggestions Offered By Prof. * Thomas Shaw, ot Ontario. The followinginterestingstatements on this subject are from the pen of Thomas Shaw, professor of agriculture in the Ontario Agricultural College at Guplph: The attention of the farmer of the Dominion has never been sufficiently drawn to the great advantages that flow from the growtiuof an abundant = Supply bTgreen ihoa • W&: tEe- stock of the ..fiirm Im. this. climate of shor-t and of oftentimes' dry summers and stern winters, which forever forbid the successful growth of permanent pastures of the European order and on the European plan, it will doubtless prove in the future, the great resource of the farmer who is bent upon sustaining the fertility of his land through that best, of all sources, stock keeping. Some of its advantages’are: 1. It effects a saying, in land to the extent of enabling the farmer with but fifty acres to raise more beef, mutton; milk, butter or cheese than t the one with one hundred acres who pays no attention to the grolvtD of green fodders. 2. It effects a great saving in fences, one of the largest items of outlay on a farm. • 3. It secures a marked saving in food, arftl of animal muscle, in their not having to search for it. 4. It increases the quantity and quality of the manure to the extent of at least one-half of all that is made during the pasturing season. 5. Its effects upon the health and condition of the animals is beneficial, since the supply of food is uniform and sufficient, and they are free from annoyance, worry and expbsure. 6. It greatly Increases the quantity ana quality of the milk, butter and beef product. J- It very’ much enhances, in the aggregate, the fertility of the soil. , 8. It larg.ely obviates the necessity of summer fallowing, through its antagonism to weed growth. 9. It would prove a boon to the cotter, whose one cow must needs pasture on the highway. 10. In conjunction with th'e .silo it provides green food for the stock all th,e year, hence every farmer alive to his own best interests will grow a greater or smaller proportion of green fodder every year.' The only objections that can be urged against it are: 1. That lack of exorcise will impair the health of the stock—an objection that will be answered in a succeeding bulletin. 2. Ihe extra labor involved, which, howeve’r, is abundantly compensated by the increased returns.—Country Gentleman. '