Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 11, Number 21, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 14 August 1889 — Page 2

THE DEMON DRINK. Sermon by. Rev. T. De Witt Talma are, D. D.. Intemperance an Executioner Into IV hose 7 Basket the Heads of Counties* Thousands of God’s Cli.ildren Have Fallen. The recent sermon of Rev. T. De Witt Talmuge was preached to a vast congregation. Taking for his text “Who slew all these?"—ll Kings, x:‘J—he preached a powerful discourse on “Drunkenness, the Nation's Curse.” The reverend gentleman •aid:

I see a long row of baskets coming up toward the palace of King Jehu. lam somewhat inquisitive to find .out what is in the baskets. I look in and I find the gory heads of seventy slain Princes. As the baskets arrive at the gate of the palace the heads are thrown into two heaps, One on either side the gate. In the morning the King comes outandhe looks upon the bleeding, ghastly heads of the massacres! Princes Looking on eitheP side the gate he cries out with a ringing emphasis: “Who slew_ all these?” We have, my friends, lived to see a more fearful massacre. There is no use of my taking time in trying to give you statistics about the devastation and ruin and the death which strong drink has wrought In this country. We are so hardened under these statistics that the fact that fifty thousand more men are slain or fifty thousand less men are slain seems to make no positive impression on the public men. Suffice it to say that intemperance has slain an innumerable company of princes-the children of God’s royal family; and at the gate of every neighborhood there are two heaps of the slain; and at the door of the household there are two heaps of the slain; and at the door of the legislative hall there are two heaps of the slain; and at the door of the university there are two heaps of the slain; and at the gate of this nation there are two heaps of the slain. When I look upon the desolation I am almost frantic with the scene, while I cry out: “Who slew all these?” I can answer that question in half a miEute. The ministers of Christ who have given no warning, the courts of law that have offered the licensure, the women who give strong drink on Now Year's day, the fathers and mothers who have rum on the sideboard, the hundreds of thousands of Christian men and women in the land who are stolid in their indifference on this subject—they Blew all these! 1 propose in this discourse to tell you what I think are the sorrows and the doom the drunkard, so that to whom I speak may not come to the torment. •Someone snys: “You had better let those nubjeets alone." Why, my brethren, we would be glad to let them alone if they would let us alone; but when 1 have in my pocket now four requests saying: “Pray for my husband, pray for my son, pray for my brother, pray for my friend, who is the captive of strong drink,” I reply, we are reudy to let that question alone when it is willing to let us alone; but when it stands blocking up the way to Heaven, and keeping multitudes-away from Christ and Hoaven, I dare not be silent, lest tho Lord require their blood at my hands. I think the subject has been kept back very much by the merriment people make •vor those slain, by strong drink. 1 used to be very merry over these things, having * keen sense of the ‘ludicrous. There was something very grotesque in the gait of a _<Jr!L!ikanl; It is not so now; lor I saw in one of the streets of Philadelphia a sight that changed the whole subject to me. There was a young man being led borne. He was very much intoxicated—he was raving with intoxication. Two young men were leading him along. The boys booted lh the street; men laughed; women sneered; but I happened to be very near the door where he went in-It was the door of his father’s house. I saw him go upstairs. 1 heard him shouting, hooting and blaspheming He had lost his hat, and the merriment increased with tho mob until he came up to the door, and as the door was opened his mother came out. When I beard her cry that took all the comedy away from the - Beene. Since that time when I see a man walking through the street reeling, The •comedy is all gone and it is a tragedy of Tears and groans and heartbreaks. Never anake any fun around me about the groTesqueuoss of a drunkard. Aias for his home! One of these victims said to a Christian man; “Sir, if I were told that I couldn’t get a drink until to-morrow night unless I had all my fingers cut off I would say: “Bring tiro hatchet and cut them off now." I have a dear friend in Philadelphia whose nephow came to him one day, and when he was exhorted about his evil habit Raid: “Uncle, -1 can’t givo it up. If there stood a cannon and it was loaded, and a glass of wine sat on the mouth of that cannon and I knew that you would fire it off just ns I came up and took the glass I would start, for I must have it” Oh, it is a sad thing for a man to wake up in this life and feel that he is a captive. He says: “I could lnjve got rid of this once,-but I can’t now. “T might have lived aii honorable life and died a Christian death, but. there is no hope for me now; there is nb escape forme.'. Dead, but not buried. lam a walking corpse. I am art apparition of what I once was. I am a caged immortal beating against the wires of my cage in this direction and iu that direction, beating against the cage until there is blood on the''wires and blood upon my soul, yet not aide to get ont Destroyed without remedy. a I go further and say that tho inebriate suffers from the loss of bis usefulness. Do you not recognize the fact that many of those who are now captives of strong drink only a little while ago were foremost in the churches and reformatory instltutions? Do youT not .know that •ometimes they knelt in the family circle? Do you not know that they prayed in public, and some of them carried around the holy wine on sacramental day? Oh, yes, they stood in the very front rank, but they gradually fell away. And now what do. you suppose is the feeling of such a man as that, when he thinks of his dishonored vows and the dishonored sacrament—when he thinks of what he might have been and of what he is now? Do such men laugh and seem very merry? Ah, there is, down in. Tho depths of their soul, a very heavy weight. Do not wonder that they sometimes see strange things andact very roughly in the household. You would not blame them at all if you knew what they suffer. Do not tell such as that there is no future punishment. Do not tell him there is no such place as hell He knows there is. He is there no\sj ' ~ l - . 1 go on and say that the inebriate suffers fronqthe loss of physical health.. The older men in the congregation may rfemember , that some years ago Dr. Sewell went through this country and electrified the people by his lectures in which he showed the devastation of strong drink upon the physical system. There were thousands of people that turned hack from that ulcerous sketch swearing eternal abstinence from ‘every thing that could Intoxicate ' , God only knows what the drunkard suf-

fers. Pa'n files on every nerve and travels every muscle and gnaws every bbne and burns with every flame and stings with every poison and pulls at him with every torture. What reptiles crawl over his creeping limbs! What fiends stand by his midnightpillow! What groans tear his ear! What horrorß shiver through his soul! Talk of the rack, talk of the inqulsltfbn, talk of the funeral pyre, talk of the crushing juggernaut—he feels them all at once. -Hove you ever boen in the ward of the hospital where these inebriates are dying, the stench of their wounds driving back the attendants, their voices sounding through the night? The keeper comes up and says: “Hush, now, be still. Stop making all this noise!” But it is effectual only for a moment, for as soon as the keeper is g6ne they begin again: “Oh, God! oh, God! Help! help! Rum! Give ms rum! Help! Take them off me! Ob, God!" And thon they Bhriek and they ravb and they pluck out their hair by handfuls and bito their nails into the quick, and then they groan Yind they shriek and they blaspheme and they ask the keepers to kill them. “Stab me! Smother me. Strangle me. Take the devils off me!” Oh, it is no fancy sketcii. That thing is going on in hospitals; aye, it is going on in some of the finest residences of every neighborhood on this continent It went on last night while you slept, and I toll you further that this is going to bo the death that some of you will die. 1 know it

I see it coming. Oh, is there any thing that will so destroy a man for this life and damn him for the life that is to come? I hate that strong drink. With all the concentrated energie< of my soul 1 hate it. Do you tell me that a man pan bo happy when ha knows that he is breaking his wife’s heart and clothing his children with rags? Why, there are on the streets of our cities to-day little children, barefooted,unwashed and unkempt, want on every patch of their faded dress and on every wrinkle of their prematurely old countenances, who would have been In churches to-day, and as well clad aB you are, but for the fact that rum destroyed their parents and drove them into the grave. Oh, rum! thou foe of God, thou despoiler of homes, tlwu recruiting officer of tho pit, 1 abhor thee! But my subject takes a deeper tone, and that is that the inebriate suffers from the loss of the soul. The Bible intimates that in the future world, if we are nnforgiven here, our bad passions and appetites, unrestrained, will go along with us and make our torment there. Bo that I suppose when an inebriate wakes up in this lost world he will feel-an infinite thirst clawing on him. Now, down in the world, although he may have been very poor, ho could beg or he could steal five cents with which to get that which would slake bis thirst for a little while; but in eternity where is the rum to come from? Dives could not get one drop of water. From what chalice of eternal fires will the hot lips of the drunkard drain his draught? No one to brow it No one to mix it No one to pour it. No one to fetch it. Millions of worlds then for the dregs which the young man just now siting on the sawdust floor of the restaurant. Millions of worlds now for the rind thrown out from the punch-bowl of an oafthly banquet. Dives cried for water. The inebriate cries for rum. Oh, tile deep, exhaustive, exasperating, everlasting thirst of the drunkard in hell! Why, if a fiend came up to earth for some infernal work in a grog-shop and should go back taking on its wing just one drop of that for which the inebriate in the lost world longs, what excitement it would make there. Put that one drop from off the fiend’s wing on the tip of the tongue liquid brightness just tench it, let the drop be very small if it only have in it the smack of alcoholic drink, let that drop just touch the lost inebriate in' the lost world, and he would spring to his feet and cry; “That is rum! aha! that is rum!” and it would wake up the echoes of the damned. “Give me rum! Give me rum! Give me rum!” In the future world I do not believe that it will be the absence of God that will make the drunkard’s sorrow; T do not believe that it will be the absence of light; I do not believe it will be the absence of holiness; I think it will be the absence of strong drink. Oh, “look not upon the wine when it is red, when it jnoveth itself aright in the cup, for at the last it blteth like a serpent and it stingeth like an adder.” But I want in conclusion to say one thing personal, for I do not like a sermon that hips no personalities in it. Perhaps this has pot had that fault already. I want to say to those who are the victims of strong drink that while I declare that there was a point beyond' which a man could not stop, I want to tell you that while a man can not stop in his own strength the Lord God, by His grace, can help him to stop at any time. Years ago I was in a room in New Y’ork where there were many men who had boen reclaimed from drunkenness. I heard their testimony and for the first time in my life tliero fiashod eut a truth I never understood. They said: “We were victims of strong drink. We tried to givo it up, but always failed; but somehow, since we gave' our hearts to Christ, He has taken carp *of us.” I believe that the time will soon come when the grace of God will show its power here not only to save man’s soul but his body, and reconstruct, purify, elevate and redeem it. I verily believe that, although you feel grappling at the roots of your, tongues an almost omnipotent thirst, if you will this moment give your heart to God He will help you by His grace to conquer. Try it. It is your last chance. I have looked off upon the desolation, Bitting under my ministry there are people in awful peril from strong drink, and judging from ordinary circumstances, there is not one chance in five thousand that they will get clear of it. I see men in this congregation of whom 1 must make the remark that if they do not —change —their course, —within ten years they will, as to their bodies, lie down in drunkards’.graves; and as to their souls, lie down in a drunkard’s perdition. I know that it is an awful thing to rfay, but I can’t help saying it. Oh, beware! You have not yet been eaptifred. Beware! As" ye open the door of your wine-closet to-day may that decantpr flash ont upon you “Beware!” And when you pour the beverage into the glasq in the foam at the top in white letters let there be spelled out to your soul; “Beware!” When the books of judgment are open and ten million drunkards come up to get their doom I want- you to bear witness that 1 to-day, in the fear.of God and in the lore of your-. soul, told you all affection and with' ail kindness to beware of that which has already exerted its influence jjpon your family, blowing out some of its lights -a premonition of the blackness of darkness forever Oh, if you could only hear this moment intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the head of the wine-cask the dead-mareh'of immortal souls, methinks the very glance of a winecup would make you shudder and the color of the liquor would make you think oPthff blood of the soul, and the foam Gn the top of the cup would remind —you of the froth on the maniac’s lip, and you would go home from this service and kneel down and pray God thatrather than jour children should be come captives of this evil hqb.t you would

like to carry them out some bright spring day to the cemetery and,put them away to the last sleep, until at the call of the south wind the flowers would come up all over the grave—sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God has a balm for such a wound; but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard’s sepulcher? - - ■ , t i, V ABOUT ILLUSIONS. History Proves That Sometimes It Is Well to Entertain Them. The world is positive in its opinions. When nihety-uine persons out of a hundred judge that certain ambitions in a neighbor are out of place, they do* not hesitate to Characterize those ambitious as illusions, and therq are those who believe that any seeming misconception which brightens life with brilliant promises should be summarily swept away. Such moralists urge that—no niatter how hopelessy gloomy orVinoongeuial a person’s life may be—the naked truth, or what they judge to be the truth, should be sought, without regard to consequences. They advise the repression of each inspiriting, “unpractical" wishwlitch would prove superior to the limitations of the present, and would paint the future with brilliant colors. They think that the youth in the morning of life should combat the high hopes and generous aspirations which lead him to encircle hi# manhood with fond possibilities of tho

greatest usefulness and success. In short, there are philosophers who condemn all desires which encourage men and womon to exertion to obtain objects apparently beyond their present horizon. Had the innkeeper’s son, Murat, never started on his historic journey to seek his fortuno he would never have become Marshal of France, King of Naples, and the foremost cavalry leader of the world at a time when military prowess ranked equal to civil genius Had the young Lioutenant of artillery, Bonaparte, been guided by the “let-good-enough-alone” philosophy, he never would have brought to three-quarters of Europe the principles of enlightened liberty embodied in the “Code Napoleon." Had the warrior, Andrew Jackson, placed his plucky hopes as low as his unpromising environment, he never would have placed his name in the foremost tiles of his country. Had the— But any reader of history can multiply such instances. —N. Y. Ledger. / INSPIRATION OF CHEER. Half the Hattie of Life Consists in Keeping Up a Cheerful Spirit. When depression comes and the clouds, when the spirit is loaded with deadening pain, all work becomes a drudgery, and life is a burden and difficulty; Whatever is done is carried on under compulsion, with a wish that it could he avoided, and a feeling of pleasure—if so mournful a kind of congratulation can be called a pleasure— That it is at; last completed. And even if—because there is will-power enough to drive it along, and favorable circumstances to make it successful - it will afford but little satisfaction, for the spirit will bo loaded with forebodings, and the mind be full of the prophecies of coming evil. If any good work be well done, it must be amid buoyancy and hope. With this experience, no matter how hard the task may bo, or bow unpromising, there will be energy given to it, and that facility of skill and tact that, unless the hindrances are invincible, will carry it through to a good end. Our religious work very often lags and fails, not because we are not iu earnest in it—per-

haps we expend unnecessary labor oh it—but because it is done under a cloud. Hope is wanting- There is no enthusiasm -no spring and eager onlooking and vision of inevitable accomplishment. But if the heart is bright, it will be able to go cheerfully through an experience, and nlso bear its disappointments, rejoice in its 'tribulations, and not only believe, but,know, that God makes all things work—together for good to those who love Him. It is not possible—not for ail of us—all the time. Moods are many, and we are liable to fall into dull ones betimes; but it ought to be a part of our effort to drive away the clouds, If possible, and turn to the beautiful and inspiring light.—United Presbyterian. THE LOGICAL OBJECTOR. A Wise Person Who Knows How to Take ■J All Zest Out of Did the reader ever happen to live’ in the same house with the logical objector? He is a very wise person, is the logical objector. His positions aro unanswerable. He is one of the seven men spoken of by Solomon' who can render a reason And, what is more, his reason is usually a good one. Notwithstanding all this the spectator, in making his waj' through the world, is carofui to keop as clear as possible of this wise person. The logical objector is never weary. He is readj' for you at every turn. You propose, it may be, to set out a violet root4n a certain spot. lie will bring up at least, half a dozen arguments for a spot six feet away. You suggest a morning stroll. He will make it as clear as°claylight that you had better attend to that little matter of business this morning and take the walk in the afternoon. Ya,u stir up the evening fire. He will prove to yon by all tho laws of physics that- you should have inserted the poker at a different point. Now, the spectator may accept tho wise conclusions of the objector, or he may resist 'them. Blit in either case his life Is made a burden to him. Nothing is more depressing than to have the lightest suggestion confronted by argument and discussion. It takes the zest out of pleasure. It is like drinking boiled water or breathingair that is filtered through flannel. IF is like the “don’t do this” and “don't do that” which brings such a pathetic wistfulness aud uncertainty to many a childish face. There are plenty of impulses in our natures which must be crushed—poor things! If there are any at all that are innocent and admissible, we beg you, dear objector, let them now and then have their way. —Christian Union. How to Spoil a Meal. An easy way to spoil the evening meal is for each membor to tell the sad talo of all that has gone wrong during the day. To mention the, disappointments and vexatious; to ‘tell of the slights that were endured and the that were given, and to lament over the results of this infelicitous combination of affairs, is enough to counteract the refreshing effect of all the good things with which tho’most generous and skillful housewife can load the tableT Better put this complaining off until some other time. What is the best time for It, it is hard to say. Perhaps an Indefinite postponement would be a happy thing for all concerned. Half the things that we gro in over to-night will right themsolves r before to-morrow night if w.e let them’, alone. Christian Standard. “If a man die shall he live -again?” inquired Job, in a moment of despondency and gloom. Yes, says the Bible, he will live again. Behind this answer stand the infinite power and unchanging veracity of God as the guaranty of its truth. The Bible answer Is M* answer to the question. That Is sufficient for faith, no niatter what may be the seeming destructiveness of death. What wo have to do is. to Jjeheve hat God says on the sub--tt—N. Y Indendent

FAIRS FOR 1880. State anti Independent. Alabama, B.rmingham Oct. 21-Nov. 2 Alabama, Eastern, Eufaula..:. ..Oct. 31-Nov. C American Dairy Show, Chicago.... ...Nov. 12-21 American Fat Stock Show, C'a!cago..Nov. 12-81 American Poultry Show, Chicago.... Nov. 12-81 American Institute. New York..Oct. 2-Nov. 80 American Horse Show, Chicago. .Oct. 30-Nov. 9 Arkansas, Pine Bluff ..Oot. 22-25 Bay State, Boston ....Oct. 7-18 Buffalo International, Buffalo, N. Y. Sept /hit California, Sacramento Sept. 9-21 Canada luduauwA xsaw, Tomato.... Sept. 9-21 Central Canada Fair, Ottawa... ~ ..Sept. 9-14 Colorado, Pueb10..... .. Oct. 8-9 Connecticut Meriden ... .... Sept. 17-20 Dakota, North, Grand Forks Sept. 17-21 Dakota, South, Aberdeen Sept. 23-27 Delaware, Dover Sept. 30-Oct. 5 Detroit Fair and Exposition, Detrolt.Sept. 17-27 - Georgia, Macon Oct. 23-Nov. 1 Illinois, Peoria.... j V..., ..Sept. 23-27 Indiana. Indianapolis.. Sept. 23-28 Inter-State Exposition, Chicago, 111. Sept, 4-Oct. 19 Inter-State Fair, Elmira. N. Y Sept, 17-;0 lowu, Des Moines Aug. 80-Sept. 0 J S. F. Ass'n, Trenton, N. J..... Sept. 23-Oot. 4 Kansas, Topeka Kentucky, Lexington < ....Aug.'27-31 Louisiana, Shreveport Oct. 8-14 Maine, Lewiston Sept, 10-13 Maryland, Pimlico .: Sept. 9-14 Massachusetts Horticultural, Boston. Sept. 17-20 Michigan, Western, Grand Rapids. .Sept. 23-27 Michigan, Lansing Sept. 9-13 Milwaukee (Wis.) Exposition Aug. 21 Oct. 5 Minneapolis Exposition Aug. 21-Sept. 28 Minnesota, Hamliue Sept. 6-14 Minnesota, Southern, Rochester... ....Sept, 2-7 Missouri, Sedidin Aug. 20-24 Montana Agrlc’l, M.n’l & Meehan. Ass’n. Helena.... Aug. 26-31 Nebraska, Lincoln Sept. 6-13 Nevada, Reno Sept. 30-Oct. 6 New England, Worcester, Mass.. Sept. 3-6 New Era Exposition, St. Joseph, M<> Sept. 3-Oct. 5 New Hampshire Grange,-Tilton Sept. 10-12 New Jersey, Trenton... Sept, 3:)-Oct. 4 New Mexico, Albuquerque. Sept. 80-Oct. 4 New Jersey, Wuvorly .... .: Sept. 16-20 New Y oik, Albany Sept. 12-10 North Pacific Indus. Ass’n, Portland, Ore Sept. 26 to Oct. 26 Ohio, ColumDus Sept. 2-7 Omaha, Omaha, Neb... Sept. 2-6 Ontario Provincial, London, Ont Sept. 9-14 Oregon, Salem . Sept. 16-21 Pennsylvania, Western, Washington Sept. 17-20 Piedmont (Ala.) Exposition Oct. 22-Nov. 10 Rhode Island, Prov dence Sept. 23-27 St. Joseph (Mo,) Fat Stock Show Sept. 20-Oct. 5 St. Louis, St. Sjjobls Oct. 7-12 South Carolina, Columbia .... Nov. 11-15 Southern Exposition, Montgomery, Ala. Nov. 5-15 Tennessee, Nashville ..Sept. 16-21 Texas International, San Antonio... ./"Nov. 4-16 Texas State Fair and Dallas Exposition, Dallas Oct. 15-27 Tri-State Fair, Toledo, O Sept, 0-13 Utah, Salt Lake City .. Oct. 2-5 Vermont, Burlington, Sept. 3-6 Walla Walla, Washington Ter...Sept. 30-Oct. 4 Washington and Idaho Fair Association,, Spokane Falls., tr Sept. 24-28 West Virginia, Wheeling Sept. %13 Wisconsin, Milwaukee Sept. 16-20 Wisconsin Industrial, Racine . Sept. 3-16 Wyoming, Cheyenne Sept, 17-20 SUDDENIV TAKEN. A Railway Smash-I p in New York—Three Persons Killed anti Seven Others Injured. Charlotte, N. Y., Aug. 12.—A collision occurred near Forest Lawn, on the Rome, Watertown A Ogdensburg railroad Saturday morning. The night express, bound west for Niagara Falls, ran into the Rochester train, which was backing down, telescoping four car3 of the train and killing three persons and badly injuring seven others. The person instantly killed was Miss Emma Ferrin, of St John, Mich., aged 23. Her father anti mother were on the train. Mr. Perrin was bruised and injured internally. Mrs. Perrin has her collar bone broken and otherwise injured. Andrew Tiffany, engineer of the steamer Hazleton, of Owego, was badly injured internally, and died soon after the accident Mrs.- Lewis Moore, of Gratwick, ~N. Y., bad her right leg broken; Lowell C. Browu, of Sherman N. Y., knee and left foot crushed. John Jay, of Oswego, died at the City Hospital from the result of his injuries. Qthers injured are: Miss Sarah H. Sweet, West Wolcott, hip injured; Frederick Bell, Cheboygan, Mich., compound fracture of left leg; Miss Louise Moore, Landstown, Canada, right leg broken.

MERELY A~TONIC. Dr. Hammond .Say* the Elixir Is Not Expected to Prolong Life or Renew Youth. Washington, Aug. 12.-Dr. Hammond, who has been much before the public recostly by reason of his experiments with Dr. Sequard’s “elixir of life,” took a great deal of the romance out of 'recent stories by an interview Friday night. He declared the sensatjonal publications about this new preparation have been outrageous lies, and that they were not authorized or justified in any way. He explained that the new remedy was believed to be in the nature of a tonic, which it was thought wou£l be beneficial especially to old people. lie denounced as foolish the story that it wa3 something which was going to prolong life indefinitely or restore old people to youth, or any thing of that sort. MARVEL'S REMARKABLE FAST. Fifty-Seven Day* Without Solid Food Is the Indianapolis Man’s Record. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 12.—This is the fifty-sevanth day of the fasting of Robert Marvel, aged 86. “I don’t think ho wilt live-much longer,’‘‘said Dr. Hasty Saturday morning. "Ho is shriveled up like a dried peach and is getting weaker. ’ But -even yet he shows some energy. He is not so ready to fight as he was formerly, but if he is handled muon ho will push ono away. He has not even taken any milk of late. During the whole time he lias taken three and n half quarts of milk. It is a remarkable ease. I have heard of nothing like it. Manj- can not believe the story, but neither the family nor I have auj r motive for misrepresenting the facts.” ARMOUR WON’T SELL. The Chicago Packer Refuses an Offer by an English Syndicate of #5,000,000 Hon us for His Plant. Chicago, Aug. 12.—Rumors having been afloat that P. D. Armour was negotiating for the sale of his business to English capitalists, he was asked what progress he had made In that direction. He replied; “None wljntover,” hut at the same time he admitted that it was not the fault of the Britishers that the deal had not been consummated. He said that the syndicate had practically offered him a bonus of J5.000.Q00, their option bid being that much in excess of what many people might be disposed to regard as a fair cash value of the property; He said such au offer could nojs induce him to give up.

KALAKAUA WAS MAD. HU Majesty of the Sandwich Islands Refused to Receive the United States Consul. ,-Tr— u Sax Francisco, Aug. 12.— Advices from Honolulu state that when W. H. Severance arrived In that city by the steamer Australia to assume his olfice as United States Con-sul-General his Majesty declined to give him an interview and also refused to accept him as Consul-General. The reasons given by his Majesty for his action are that Mr. Severance was dismissed from office as the Hawaiian Consul in San Francisca for .cause. His Majesty feels that Severance’s appointment marks a lack of courtesy ou the part of the Ignited States officials.

THE SIOUX RESERVATION. Ex-GovernW Foster Talk* About the Great Work of the Coinml*lon-The Land Acquired Excellent for Grazing Purposes, but Not Flr*t-Cla*s for Farmers. • Chicago, Aug. 1”. -Ex-Governor Foster, General Crook and Mnjot William Warner, the commissioners appointed to negotiate the opening of the Sioux Indian reservation in Dakota, afrfVSd in Chicago Saturday after their work with the Indians of the Northwest , f , „ : Speaking of the work of the commission, Chairman Foster says: “The Sioux District contains about 23,(1)0,030 t acres. In size It Is about the same as Indiana. It extends 400 miles across South Da- ■ kola north and south, and about thirty miles into North Dakota, with an average width of 200 miles. Os this the Government has secured 9,000,000 acres, or about that amount. The commission last CIJAIRMAN foster. year figured on H,600,000, but that was owing to a misapprehension -of last year’s commissioner. By the terms of tho treaty of ’63 we were to obtain the consent of three tourths of all male Indians over 18 years. There are 23,000 Indians on the reservation, and 5,600 of these are men. So, you see, that merely the clerical work of obtaining signatures, had all been willing, was not little. "The Indians are inclined to run about a great deal, and this gave us a vast amount of trouble. At no time did we have the requisite three-fourths at any meeting. I believe, but we would do the best we could with those present and leave the rolls wAh the agents. At other times the agency rolls would bp found imperfect, and new and unheard-of Indians would turn up after we thought we had the three-fourths eonsent. The opposition we met nearly everywhere was generally easily overcome, except at Standing Rock and Pine Ridge agencies. The first of these is Sitting Bulls tribe’s headquarters. It Is wonderful what reputations some of these lazy, dirty and insignificant Indians have in the East, Sitting Bull is known everywhere. On the reservation he Is one of the most insignificant of the chiefs.” Os the country Chairman Foster coulctnot be induced to say that the prospects for the farmers were the best. Hefsaid: “It is certainly good grazing country, and some of It is good for farming, but on the whole it is better for grazing purposes. Cattle can be fattened throughout the winter and it is just the country for sheep. Seventy-five per cent, of it, possibly I should say all of it is good grazing land; but, personally, I am not Impressed with the country as agriculturally inviting.” “What will be the effect of the opening of the country on the Indians?" “I only judge from the past. They have not been farmers or cared for the advantages of civilization, but of recent years they are gradually accepting both. Many of the old bands are broken up. At Santee three fourths of all the Indians signed their own names; they wear our clothes and draw no ..rations. They have already practically reached the stage of self support. The Riggs Industrial) School at this agency is a model. Catholic schools are found at all the agencies; the girls are learning to sew and to cook and the boys are rapidly learning trades. There is also a day school in each camp. The sale of the land will put the Government in a position to greatly help the Indians, but it must be with the aid of the best agents. I am convinced that the Indians aro capable of being greatly advanced, and with proper work I think tribal relations would be extinct In one generation. These agencies are no piace for mere offleeseekers, and when appointed the agents should be given full responsibility and power to select tneir own aids. I think we should give them schools aud plenty of them, and that any school off the agency is a mistake. The educating must bo done among tbem.” Chairman Foster says the reports of thousands waiting to enter the sew district are exaggerated. “A number are congregated at Chamberlain, but not thousands. I think the country should be surveyed this fail and opened next spring. I do not believe it can be opened before that time ”

THE REGATTA QLoatS. Some .Great Sculling on Lake Calumet at Pullman, 111.—Winner* of tlie Mississippi Valley Races. CnicAGO, Aug. 12.—Pilkington and Nagle, of the Metropolitans, are the champion double scullers for the ensuing year. The championship went by default Saturday afternoon, the bow oarsman of the Bayside crew, which rowed a dead heat with the Metropolitan• Fiiday, being unable to leave his bed. This fiasco closed the programme of the National regatta, and the remainder of the day’s events were under the auspices of the Mississippi Valley Association. The visitors were more thoroughly satisfied than on either of the other two days, as, with one exception, the races were three-quarters of a mile and return, leaving the oarsmen in fair view for nearly the whole course’Uand, in addition, the weather was delightful for aquatic sport. In the junior singles race Shea, of the Crescent club, won in 11 with Lovell (Nautilus) second. Lovell was the favorite in the bet-*' ting owing to his magnificent performance in the trial heat on Friday; Charges were made that he sold the race, and the association will make a thorough investigation of them. The race for junior doubles was won by the St. Paul club, with the Minnesota team second, time, ■ The Ataiantas defeated“the Toronto* In the .senior fouroared shell contjt!W;;' time, In the senior singles event Dennis Donahue came in first, with \V. S. McDowell a close second; 10:48%. The race for senior pair oars was taken by - the Garfield Beach entry, Detroit having been disqualified; time' 11:40. The Garfields were outrowed by the Detroits, who came in in 10:55, but failed to round the stake, and the Garfields entered a protest which was entertained. The senior doubles waß a walk -over for the Metropolitans. They had as opponents the Catlins and the Sylvans, but they made but a poor showing. The Mets crossed the line in 10:04 The closing content. that of six-oar barges between the Iroquois Pullmans and Westerns, of St Louis. The last named won in 4:34%, Iroquois second. The Mississippi Valley Association of Oarsmen oij Satqfday elected the following for the ensuing year: President, Moore, Moline; Vice-President, Gov"ernor Arthur L. Thomas, Salt Lake City; Secretary ahd Treasurer, E. C. Brown Chicago.

o The executive committee of the National Association of Oarsmen also met and elected the following officers! H. W. Garfield, Albany, President; Lyman B. Glover Chicago, Vice-President; W. H. Gibson Washington. Secretary, and H. K. Hinchman, Philadelphia, Treasurer. Rev. J. C. Bayliss, the Well-Known Methodist Editor and Divine, la Dead. Bay View, Mich., Aug. 13.— Bev. Dr. J, 0. Daylite, editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate, of Cincinnati, who came here two weeks ago to attend the Chautauqua meeting, died Saturday. His wife and son, Bev. Edward Bayliss, were with him at the last. * [Dr. Bayliss was born in England In 1825 and united with the church when he was 2? years old. He shortly afterward came to the United States, prepared himself for the ministry and began his labors first ip Ohio, then in Indiana, and after that preaching three years in Detroit From Detroit he went to- Cincin-, aati and filled the pulpit of the Walnut Hills Church-uutU elected editor of the Advocate in 1884.]-

LOST THE FIGHT. ♦ the Arbitrator* of the Troublo He tween the Miners and Owner* of the Coal Run Mine*, Near Strentor, 111., Fix the Priee to Be Paid at 78 1-8 Cent* Per Ton, a Practical Defeat for the Workmen. Chicago, Aug. B.— Seventy-two and a half cents per ton is the award of the arbitration board which wa3 adjusting the differences between the coal miners and operators of the Coal Bun mine near Streator. The miners were getting 81) cents up to last May. The company wanted to reduce the price to 70 cents. The miners refused to accept the reduction and the suspension of work followed. The arbitration committee decides practically in favor of the operators. Following is the text of the decision: “Chicago, Aug. 7.—The undersigned, J. e. Williams and Lyman J. Gage, two of the arbitrator* to whom were referred certain differences existing between the Coal Run Company and its miners, hereby unite in finding seventy-two and 1 one-half cents per ton to be the best and highest priee jpr mining coal That the "Coal Run Company can pay its miners consistent with a fair and reasonable return to itself on Its capital, and with the securing^-ors-a—reasonable share of the coal trade In >he natural market of the company; and we'’do therefore award that price to be paid to the miners of said company from thiß 7th day of August, A. D. 1889, to the Ist day of May, A. D. 1890. “William P. Rend, one of the arbitrators, declines to concur In this our award, believing that 77)4 cents'should be the price, and being willing to go no lower than 75 cents In compromise. “The foregoing award is made after careful consideration of all the evidence bearing on three decisive elements entering into the arbitration—namely: “1. Exhaustion of coal and depreciation of ylant. “2. Expenses other than wages to miners. “3. Selling price of coal. "And after mar.y and long conferences-be-tween the arbitrators, at which all three were present. Respectfully submitted, “Lyman J. Gage. “J. E. Williams.” The basis upon which the figures were arrived at was the price of #1.25 for coal on the car at Streator, which is the average price prevailing at present. Tho question now' is whether the coarmiuers will abide by the decision of the board of arbitration. They are in honor bound to do so, as their committee 'agreed in writing to submit the matter to arbitration and accept the result. Both Colonel Rend and Mr. Williams think there will be no further difficulty. In all probability this decision will carry with it the settlement of the troubles prevailing at other mines in Northern Illinois coal fields. DEATH IN* A YACHT. Three Children and One Man Perish in an Explosion at Buffalo. Buffalo; N. Y., Aug. B.—About 4 o’clock Wednesday afternoon bystanders near the boat-houses at the foot of Ferry street heard two explosions in quick succession from the boat-house just being built by L. B. Crocker, superintendent of the New York Central stock yards, in which hi3 pleasure yacht, the Cedar Ridge, was stored. Immediately following the explosions the boat burst into flames, which soon made a furnace of its ihterior. Simultaneously with the explosion two or three persons were thrown into the water as if from tho force of the discharge. Caleb Tolsma got a boat and picked up a young woman, Miss McLean, aged 28, from the water. She was badly burned and taken to the hospital. At this time the form of Mr. Crocker’s young son was seen standing on the beat’s deck against a background of fire, Another man named

Charles Sehweigels seized a pike pole and extended it toward the little fellow till it almost touched his breast; at the same time crying to him to grasp it and he would rescue him. But the little fellow seemed paralyzed and in a moment fell back into the fire and burned to a crisp before the horrified gaze of onlookers. Schweigel’s face was burned from his attempt to- rescue the boy. But now attention was directed to a carpenter clinging to a raft just over the blazing boat For a few moments he ;hung desperately on his perch, and then, as if stupefied by the heat and suffocated by the smoke, loosened his hold and dropped, another victim, into the furnace below. His name was John Eugenstein, 3b years old, married. He leaves a wife and five small children, ranging in age from 5 months to seven years. The other children of Mr. Crock*-, Leonard Leihuel, aged 9 years and lb months, and Ethel, aged 8 3 ears and 9 months, also perished in the flames. Another girl, Charlotte, aged 14, was blown* into the water and rescued therefrom qnd sent along with Miss McLean to the hospital. /.

The yachtjwas what is known as a naphtha launch, run! by naphtha for fuel. It is supposed that tjie accident was caused when the engineer lighted the match for ignition of the fuel by the explosion of some gas which had leaked out. The boat was of about fifteen tons,burden, and was bought by Mr. Crocker in New York and brought here last spring. It is a total wreck, not enough being left to make a diiiing-room table of. WANT THE" SHIP CANAL,. Resolutions Adopted at the Waterways Convention in West Superior. TYest Bupeeiob, Wia, Aug. B. At the Waterways convention Wednesday Hon. J. G. Keith* of Chicago, presented a comparison of the treatment by the Government of the water and rail routes. For the two railroad systems terminating in Duluth the Government gave 47,000,000 acres of land, worth 995,000,000, while for improving the outlet of Lake Superior the Govirnment gave] 750,000 acres and a total of H,022,000. The resolutions were then, presented by Dr. Edwin Ellis and unanimously; adopted. In substance they are as follows: j) | ■ . “Resolved , That.it is the sense of this meeting that the great and growing commerce on these waters demand that it is the duty of the United State 4 Government to tahe such steps as may be nefcessary to make a careful survey ■ of all these praters, and particularly the rivers and connecting waters; and "Hetolvfd, That it is the duty of the United .States to bear the expense of providing additional guards against accidents. “Kegolvtd, That we demand of Congress that a ship canal twenty feet in depth should be undertaken and constructed by the Government at as early a day as practicable through the narrows and rivers connecting the great lakes. ‘‘Btsolvnl, That the convention recommend that the harbors be deepened as rapidly as practicable so as to accommodate vessels drawing twenty feet of water.” Pennsylvania Republican*. H*Mtißßi7itd, Pa., Aug. a—The Pennsylvania Republican State Convention met here yesterdajf and nominated Henry K. Boyer, of PhilaHelphia, for State Treasurer. The platform adapted rejoices* in the victory of 1888, indorses the Administration of President Harrison and Governor Beaver, and expresses regret at the death of General Simon Cameron. . . ■ - t' ' —. : An Inceudlary’siWork. Ski.m*, Cat, Aug. a—An incendiary fire Tuesday afternoon destroyed three buildings in sls city occupied by thirty business' firms, and causing a loss of 175,000; insured for 932,000. The heavy fire walls of one building alone saved the entire business seotion from destruction.