Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 15, Number 11, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 31 May 1893 — Page 2

MOSES AND MIRIAM. IA Day of Rejoicing in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. If We Never Shouted Victory Till We Got Clear Through the Struggles of Life We Would Never Shout At AllDr. Talmagc's Sermon. This was one of the greatest days in the history of tlie Brooklyn tabernacle. The music, instrumental and congregational, was of the most joyous type: the hymns, the prayers and . the sermon fWcre eelebrutive of the entire extin-•gv.i-hment of. the floating debt of $ 140,JOflo, accumulate:! from the disasters which required the building of three dmmense churches, Text, Exodus xv, So. -1: “And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in flier hand, and all the women went out at iter her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them: ‘lring ye to the Lord, for lie hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.” Sermoni/.ers are naturally so busy in petting the Israelites safely through the parted Red sea and the Egyptians submerged in the returning waters that but little time is ordinarily given (to what the Lord's people did after (they got well up high and dry on the tycach. That was the heacli of the Red ®ea, which is at its greatest width two 'll and red miles and at its least width twelve miles. Why is the adjective *‘red ,? used in describing this water? It is called the Red sea because the mountains on its western coast look as though sprinkled with brick dust, and ,the water is colored with red seaweed fend has red zoophyte a inbred coral. This sea was cut by the keels of Egyptian, Rluenician and Arabic shipping. It was no insignificant pond or puddle on the beach of which my text calls us to stand. I hear upon it the sound of a tambourine, for which the trimbrcl was only another name—an instrument of music made out of a circular hoop, with pieces of metal fixed fin the sides of it. which made a jingling sound, and oyer which hoop a pi'TO of parchment was distended, and 1 his was beaten by the knuckles of the performer. ’"The Israelites, standing on the beach of the Red sea. were making music, on their deliverance l'rom the pursuing ! Egyptians, and l hear the Israelitish ; men with their deep bass voices, and I j 1 bear the timbrel of Miriam as she leads tin* women in their jubilee. [Rather lively instruments, you say, for religious service, the timbrel or tambourine. Hut I think (iod sanctioned it. And'l rather think we ' will have to put a little more of the festive into our religious services and drive out the dolorous and funereal,' mid the day may come when the tiinibivl will resume its place in the sanctuary. Hut that which .occupied tin* attention of all the men and that Israelitish host was the celebration of their victory. They had crossed. They had triumphed. They were "free. More wonderful was this victory and defeat thap wh**n the heists of Ujjjdmrd overcame the hostsof Salad in at Azotus, than when at Bannockburn Scotland j was set free, than when the Earl of Northumberland was driven back at Branham Moor, than when at the battle of Wakefield York was slain, than when at Hosworth Field Richard was left dead, than when the Athenians under Miltiades at Marathon put the Persians to flight, for this victory of my text was gained without sword or catapult or spear. The Weapon was a lifted and prostrated sea. “And Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them. Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the aea.”

Brooklyn tabernacle to-day feels much as Moses and Miriam did w hen they stood on the banks of the Red sea after their safe emergence from the i waters. By the help of fftod and the | generosity of our friends here and elsewhere our $140,000 of floating church debt js forever gone, and this house, which, with the ground upon which it stands, represents $410,000, I this day reconsecrate to God tlie Father, God tlie Mon and God the Holy Ghost. A stranger might ask how could this church get into debt to an amount that would build several large churches? My answer is. Waves of destruction, stout as any that ever rolled across the Red sea of iny text. * Examine all the pages of church history and all the pages of the world’s history and show me ah organization, sacred or secular, that ever had to build three great structures, two of them destroyed by fire. Take any of your biggest life insurance companies, or your biggest store houses, or your biggest banks, or your biggest newspaper establishments and let them have to build three times on the same foundation, and it would cost them a struggle if not demolition. My text speaks of the Red *:ca once crossed, but one Red sea would Tint have so much overcome us. It was with us Red sea after Red sea. Thrqjp Red seas! Yet t</-day, thanks be to God, we stand on the shore, and with organ and cornet in absence of a timbrel we chant. •'Sing ye unto the Lord, for He had trilimped gloriously; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.” Rut why the great expense of this Structure? My answer is the immensity, of it and the firmness of it. It cost over $34,000 .to dig the-cellar before one stone was laid, reaching as the foundation does from street to street, and then the building of the house was constructed in a way. we are told by experienced builders who had nothing to do with it, for durability of foundation and wall *uch as characterizes hardly any other building of-this city. To the day of your death and mine, and for our children and grandchildren after us, it will stand here a house of God and a gate of Heaven. For me personally this Is a time of jgladness more than tongue, or pen, or type can ever tell. For twenty-/>ur

years I had been building churches In Brooklyn and seeing them burn down, until I felt I could endure the strain no longer and I had written my resignation as pastor and had appointed to read it two Sabbaths ago and close my work in lirooklyn forever. I felt that my chief work was yet to be done, but that I could not do it with the Alps on one shoulder and the Himalayas on the other. Hut God has interfered and the way is clear, and I am here and expect to be here until my work on earth is done. Why should I want to go away from Rrooklyn? I have no sympathy with the popular sentiment which defames bur beloved city. Some people make it a part of their religion to excoriate and belittle the place of their residence, and there has bycn more damage, 'financial and moral, done to our city by tljiis hypcrcritieism than can ever be estimated. The course of our city has been onward and upward. We have a citizenship made up of hundreds of thousands of as good men and women as inhabit the earth, and I feel honored in being a citizen of Rrooklyn, and propose to staj' hero until I join the population in the Silent City out yonder, now all abloom with spring flowers—sweet types of resurrection! My thanks must be first to God and then to all who have contributed by large gift or small this emancipation. Thanks to the men, women and children who have helped, and sometimes helped with self sacrifices that I know must have won the applause of the heavens. If you could only read with me a few of the thousands of letters that have come to my desk in The Christian Herald office, you would know how deep their sympathy, how large their sacrifice has been. “I have sold my bicycle and now send you the money,” is the language of one noble young man who wrote to The Christian Herald. “This is no dead son’s gift to me, and 1 have been led to send it to you,” writes a mother in Rhode Island. A blind octogenarian invalid in York, Ha., sends bis in} to and his prayer. Thanks to all the newspaper press. Have you noticed how kind and sympathetic all the secular newspapers have been, and of course all tin* religious newspapers, with two or three nasty exceptions? You say that sometimes newspapers get things wrong. Yes, but which of us does not sometimes get tilings wrong? If you want to find.a man who has never made a mistake, do not waste your time by looking in this pulpit. Thanks to the editors ami reporters and publishers. Gentlemen of the Brooklyn and New York printing press, if you never report anything else that I say, please to report that.’ Yes, I see you are getting it all down. . Asa church we from this day make new departure. We will preach more instructive sermons. We will offer more faithful prayers. We will do blitter work in all departments. We will in the autumn resume our lay college. We will till all the rooms of this magnificent pile with work for God ami suffering humanity. More prayers hiLYc been offered for this church, on both sides of Ihc sea; than .for any church that lias ever existed, and all those prayers will be. answered. Clear the track fertile Brooklyn tabcimacle! “Sing ye to the|Lor<l, for lie hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider hath He thrown into the sea.” But do you not now really think that Miriam of my text rejoiced too soon? Ho you not think she ought to have waited till the Israelitish host got clear over to Canaan before she, struck her knuckles against tin; timbrel or tambourine? Miriam! You do well to have the tambourine ready, but wait a little before you Y.ou are not yet through the journey from Egypt to the Promised Land. You will yet have to drink out of the bitter water of Marah, and many of your army will eat so heartily of the fallen quails that they will die of colic, and you will at the foot of Sinai he scared with the thunder, (gnd there will be fiery serpents in the way and many battles to light, and last of all the muddy .lordan to cross. Miriam! I have no objections to the tambourine, hut do not jingle its hells or thump its tightened parchment until you are all through. Ah, my friends, Miriam was right. If we never till we got clear through thestruggles of this life we would never shout at all. Copy the habit of Miriam and Moses. The moment you get a victory celebrate it. The time and place to hold a jubilee for the safe crossing of the Red sea is on its beach and before you leave. It is awful, the delayed hosannahs, the belated hallelujahs, the postponed doxologies, the trains of thanksgiving coining in so long after they are due. It is said, do not rejoice over a revival too soon; the new members might not hold out. Do not thank God for the money you made to-day, for tomorrow you may lose it all and more. Do not lie too grateful for your good health to-day, for to-morrow you rnay get the grip. Do not be too glad a!>out your conversion, for you might fall from grace. Do not rejoice too soon over a church’s deliverance, because there might be disasters yet to come. Oh, let us have no more adjourned gratitude! The time to thank God for a rescue from temptation is the moment after you have broken the wine flask. The time to thank God for your salvation is the moment-aftcr-thafirst flash of pardon. The time to be grateful for the comfort of your bereft soul is the first mornept of Christ’s appearance at the mausoleum of Lazarus. The time for Miriam’s tambourine to sound its most jubilant note is the moment the last Israelite puts his foot on the sand on the parted inland ocean. Alas, thatwhim God’s mercies have such swift wings our praises should have such leaden feet! Notice that Miriam’s song in my text had for its burden the overthrown cavalry. It was not so much the infantry or the men on foot over whose defeat she rejoiced with ringing timbrel, but over the men on horseback the mounted Jroops! 4 'The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.” There £• something terrible In a cav-

alry charge. You see it is not Hlr ft soldier afoot, thrusting a bayonet r striking with a sword, using nothing but the strength of his own muscle and sinew, for the cavalryman adds to the strength of his own arm the awful plunge of a steed at full gallop. Tremendous arm of war is the cavalry! Josephus says that in that host that crossed the Red sea there were 50,000 cavalrymen. Epanrinondas rode into battle with 5,000 cavalrymen and Alexander with 7,000. Mai< borough depended on his cavalry’ for the triumph at Blenheim. It was not alcoe the snow that despoiled the French annios in retreat from Moscow, but th-t mounted Cossacks. Cavalrymen dec’.dcd the battles of Lcnthen, and Leipsic, *tnd Winchester, and Hanover court house, and Five Forks. Some of you may have been in the relentless raids led on by Forrest, or ‘Chalmers, or Stuart of the southern side,,or Pleasanton, or Wilson, or Kilpatrick, or Sheridan of the northern j side. The army saddles are the thrones of battle. Hurricanes in stirrups are the cavalrymen. No wonder that Miriam was chiefly grateful that the Egyptian cavalrymen, pursuing the Israelites down to midway the Red sea. were unsaddled, unstir* ruped, unhorsed. Miriam struck the center of the tambourine with the full force of her right hand when she came to that bar of the music, “The horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.” Ah, my friends, it is mounted troubles that we most fear. The little troubles we ean endure —the cinder in the eye, the splinter under the nail, the thorn in the foot, the social slight, the mean fling, the invidious comparison or the remarks that snub. The annoyances and vexations on foot we ean conquer, but alas for the mounted disasters, the bereavements, the bankruptcies, the persecutions, the appalling sicknesses that charge upon us, as it were, with uplifted battleax or consuming thunderbolt of power. There are those among my hearers or readers who have had a whole regiment of mounted disasters charging upon theiri. Tint fear not. The smallest horsefly on the neck of Pharaoh's war charger, passing between the crystal palisades of Hie upheaved Red sea, was not more easily drowned by the falling waters than the 56,000 helmcted and plumed riders on the backs of the* 50,000 neighing and caparisoned war chargers. And I lujvc totell you, O child of God, that the Lord, who is on your side now and forever, lias at his disposal and under his crnnniund all waters, all winds, all lightnings* all time and all eternity. Come, look me in the face while I utter the word God commands me to speak to you, “No weapon formed against you shall prosper.” Don't throw away your tambourine. You will want it assure ns you sit there and I stand here, and tlie tune you will yet play on it.whether standing on beach of time or beach of eternity, will be the tune that Miriam played when she cried, “Sing ye to the Lord, for He hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and 11 is rider hath Ho thrown into the sea.”

I expect to have a good laugh with you in Heaven, for tin* Hilda says in Litke, sixth chapter, twenty-first- verse, “Blessed are ye that Weep now, for vc shall hmgh.” We shall not spend all eternity psalm singing, but sometimes in review of the past, as Christ says, we shall laugh. There is nothing wrong in laughter. It all depends on what you laugh at, and when you laugh, and how you laugh. Nothing, it see ins, will more thoroughly kindle our heavenly hilarities after we have got ipsido the pearly gate than to see how in tins world we got scared at things which ought not to have frightened us at all. Row often we work ourselves up into a great stew about nothing! The Red Bea before us may be deep,und the Egyptian cavalry behind ms may l>e well mounted, but if we trust the Lord wo will go through no more hurt by the water than when in boyhood we rolled our garments to the knee and barefoot crossed the meadow brook on the old homestead. The odds may seem to ho all against you, but I guess it will be all right with you if you have God on your side and all the angelic, cherubic, seraphic andarchangeliekingdoms. “If God be for you, who can be against you?” Lay hold of the Lord in prayer, and you will go free, as did Richard Cecil with £2O of missionary money in his j saddlebags, and the highwaymen.grabbed- Ida horse by the bridle and told him to deliver, and he prayed to God for safety, and suddenly one of the robbers said: “Mr. Cecil, I once heard you preach. Boys, let tlie gentleman go.” j But let me criticise Miriam a little for the instrument of music she employed in tire divine scjvice on tho sandy beach. Why not take .some oth- 1 or instrument? The harp was a sacred instrument. Why did she not take 1 that? Tho cymbal was a sacred insTru- 1 ment. Why did she not take that? The trumpet was a sacred instrument. Why did she not take that? Amid that | great host there must have been mu- 1 ! sical instruments more used in religious service. No. She took that which she liked the? best and on which j she could best express her gratulation j over a nation’s rescue, first through the retreat of the waves of the Red sea, ! and then the clapping of the hands of I their destruction. So I withdraw my criticism of Miriam. Let every one j take her or his best mode of divine worship and celebration. My idea of : Heaven is that it place where w© j ! can do as we please and have every- , thing we want. Os course we will do | nothing wrong and want nothing liana- 1 fui. I —Found Ilis .Field at Last.—First ! Thespian—How can that man Spouter , look so prosperous, I wonder! Ho made J ! such a horrible failure last season, that i ihe had to leave the stage. Second ! • Thespian—Why, you see, my boy, he’s ; running a School of Acting, now.— ~uck , • . - ! —The Difference Between Them.— Ted—T hear he left his wife. Do you know the cause of the separation? Ned , —At present it is the Atlantic ocean, j —Judge. •

A HOOSIER TRAGEDY. Chrl. Haberkus Murders Hla Aged Wife at Itoanoke, I ml—Altar Batting Fire to Ilia Itealdenca Ha Cuta Hla Own Throat. Huntington, Ind., May 29. At midnight Saturday night in Roanoke, a village in this county, Christopher llaber* kus .murdered his wife, set fire to his house and killed himself. Huberkus was 75 years old and his wife 70. Mrs. Haberkus had been sick In bed for several months. During all that time Haberkus refused to allow a physician in the house, claiming he could take care of her himself. She was a Catholic and he was not, and he objected to Catholic women calling upon her. Saturday two. of the church women did call. He abused them, and after they left, it is supposed, he and his wife had trouble over it. Haberkus at once sharpened a huge knife on a grindstone in the yard. At midnight, while liis wife was asleep, ho entered her room and with one stroke nearly severed her head from her body. Then he set lire to the bed, left tiio room and locked the door. He went upstairs through a trap door, securely fastening it down. He th*o set fire to the furniture upstairs and then killed himself by cutting his throat. When the lire was discovered the ineu outside were afraid to attempt to enter because Haberkus was known to be revengeful and to have a variety of firearms in the house. Finally the door was broken down and the people entered. They were in time tcysave the dead body of she woman from the ilai&es. When an attempt was made to go upstairs they found the door blockaded and immovable. A young man climbed a tree in the yard and by peeping into a window he saw the body of Haberkus lying on the floor. The head and feet were at that time burned off. Haberkus had several boxes of cartridges in the house and the heat discharged them. For a few moments it sounded like the rattle of musketry. Fully 500 cartridges exploded, hut nobody was hurt. After tin* lire the remnants of two muskets and four large revolvers were found in the ashes, showing that Haberkus was well supplied. For a time the theory of double murder prevailed, but tliut was disproved when it was found that the house had not been robbed. Haberkus had dug a large hole under the house, which was covered by a trap door in the floor. In that hole lie kept a number of wine jugs and. this morning a jar was found there containing twnfern cans, in which were over s2o9.in gold ahd silver. If is known that Haberkus gold and silver, but a few days ago lie said he had buried a lot, of- it. Haberkus was always eccentric. Ho never threatened' to kill his wife, but always said if she died lie would sit, on her grave one night and hill himself tho next day. Several years ago lie dug a grave in his back yard for himself. Whenever he had trouble with anyone lie would era,wl into the *rnve and lie then* for hours until his wife on some other person induc'd him to leave it.. He also had a coffin in the open grave for a long time, hut; a few week's ago he removed it to the house, where it was burned witii him. He was of a very revengeful nature. If a neigh hoy’s chicken strayed upon his lot lie, not only killed it hut heat if;* to a jelly with a club or stamped it to pieces.

ENDED THE STRUGGLE. Out of .Money and Ktii]>loyin<‘iit, F. IT. MiliMira, Hon of the Faiuorm Jlllml Cliuj*Jjtiit of Coujcre**, Kills IJluiHclf In Ills Dcrtpoiidcncy. (‘iiK'Aoo, May 29.—F. 11. Milburn, son of tlie blind preacher, W. 11. Milburn, for many years pastor of the house of representatives, cut his own throat Sunday afternoon at the Saratoga hotel on Dearborn street. He was dead when* discovered. His dentil was evidently carefully planned and consummated with most sensational details. It evidently followed immediately upon the receipt of a letter from his father at Jacksonville, 111., refusing him further remittances of money because he had been given money enough and denying him entrance to tho paternal roof and still urging him to earn his own livelihood. Upon receiving this letter young Milbimi seems to have given, up at once all .thought.of life and to have begun his preparations to end his existence. A Jacksonville fill.) dispatch* says that Chaplain W. 11. Milburn was inexpressibly shocked upon learning of tho suicide of his son. Me stated that tho young man, who was about 30 years old. had led. rather a wayward and reckless life, and was addicted to tho habit of drinking, and but recently had taken the gold cure at Denver. In tlie pa*t the old gentleman has often been asked for assistance and as often has rendered it, but realized that being blind, in his old age, and with Limited means, he could no Linger contribute to the support of a man in robust health and with amplo facilities for making a livelihood. He therefore refused further financial aid. Klchw Failure. CifiCAGMy May 29. —Tfite firm of Weaver, Getz & Cos., one of the largest and most important hr the coad bush ness in < aicago. lias turned ali of its assets, including its mines and coal yards, over to I). V. RuringhMft. of tho Puri ngtorx- Kim ball Brick company, for the benefit of its creditors. Mr. Weaver estimates the liabilities at about £.'>oo,01)0, arid assets at about $750,000. collection.** and a close money market are the causes assigned Sor the failure* FARM NOTES. I.p.rn salt and piaster arc auxiliary fertilizers. Clstvsn aids materially to keep di/wn ; tho weeds. Co.vsiDEn jour market us well as yon crop. | Dbcayiso organic matter In th® soil I gives warmth. j l)u rKTu:.N-T kinds of grasses do not do I well in meadows. ' Every kind of-food Is relished by some kind of stock. It is the raising .of poor crops that impoverishes the average farmer.

HERO OP THE CONFEDERACY. The Remain* of the Latrf Jefferson Davie Disinterred at New Orleans—Thousands View the Casket Before Removal to tbs Final Resting Place at Richmond, Va. New May 29.—Early Saturday morning the body of Jefferson Davis, in its copper receptacle, was transferred to a magnificent oak casket with heavy brass trimmings. The cedar coffin in which the originally rested was returned to the vault and it was closed with the marblo •lab upon which was the sac simile of the signature of Jefferson Davis, and it will remain in that condition us long as the tomb of the army of northern Virginia stands. The transfer was made early and privately at thp family request. The body was naturally decomposed, but was in fair preservation and the face recognizable. A guard of the Army of Northern Virginia veterans remained at the tomb all day. At 3 o’clock a mounted escort of Army of Northern Virginia veterans arrived, and shortly afterwards the escort conducted tin* casket in a closed hearse to the Memorial hull, which was reached at 5:10 p. in., and here the casket was received in silence by the United Confederate veterans, placed upon un oak catafalque and exposed to public view. The ceremonies Sunday were marked by an absence of enthusiasm and were as simple as the funeral of an humble citizen, barring the military display. A fringe of people lined the sidewalks und uncovered heads were the order of the day while the pageant passed on its measured march to the train in waiting to receive the casket. Thousands had viewed the casket on the catafalque in Memorial hall. There were humble hoq.ll els laid on the bier, the silent testimonials of those who could afford no more costly tribute of their love and respect. It was 4:30 o'clock p. in. when the stream of visitors was cheeked. Only the gray-haired and gray-clad veterans who formed the guard and the escort, public officials, distinguished visitors and the Davis family remained in tho hall when the ceremonies were nbcuf. to begin. The narrow limitsjof the little building were unequal to the accommodation of a crowd, and many who 7 had fought and hied for the south wen; denied the privilege pf/participating in tin* services around the bier.

Gov. Foster entered the hull loaning on the arm of Gen. Stephen I). Lee, aiid behind came Lieut. Gov. Parlange and leading ligjtts in the ranks of the veterans. /They gathered on the platform, mingling with the Richmond committee, who wore the confederate uniform in honor of the occasion*. In a few mil.utos there was a parting of the ranks of the throng in the hall and Miss AVinnie Davis, leaning on the arm of Mr. Ambrose McGinnis ami fidlowed by her sister, Mrs. Hayes, passed Up to the platform. Bot.li ladies were dressed in black. Then the cere rum lies began. These consisted of an address by Onv. Foster. Y'iec President Gilmore of the Army of Northern Virginia read the order of Mrsi Davis for the removal of the body and the letter of Mayor Ellison, requesting the Army of Northern Virginia to ’deliver the body to Gen. Glynn. Then Rev. A. Gordon Blakewell, who had served all through the four years of bitter war and who worrit confederate chaplain's hat. came for- ■ ward*a.ml led the audience in prayer, the members of the Davis family standing with the rest of those who were present. When the prayer was concluded sturdy veterans raised the casket from its resting place aiid bore, it out the hall and down the stairs to the funeral ear in waiting amid the strains of dirgeful music. The funeral car was the same that was used on the day of the funeral of Mr. Davis in this city. A guard of honor was selected from the escort and was immediately put upon duty, and then the public was permitted to pay Its respects and to take a last fond farewell of the remains. The procession reached the train at Gp. in. and it was nearly 8- before the party got under way. The train is made lip of a locomotive and tender,) baggage ear, an ordinary coach, the funeral ear, ftnir a private car. IRON HALL TO RESUME.. Tlie New Supreme Hitting Outlines th Work iff the Heecnt Convention.. Lndianai'oljs, Ind., May 29.-— The new officers elected at the supreme siting of the Order of the Iron Hall here last week have prepared a long circular announcing the reorganization and assuring members that proper depositories for the funds will be established in. each state, and tihat a revised constitution and by-laws will be adopted at the adjourned session in July, so that the supreme justice will no longer hare absolute control as in the past. The order now has assets aggregating $2,250,000 and a nkember•hip of 02,00 th t - D*th of Dictator. Lk xi no ton, Ky., May 29.— The 30-yvar-old trotting stallion Dictator is dead. He was a full brother bo Dexter, 2i07V4, and cost his owners, H. C. McDowell & Son, this county, $25,000. lie sired many great trotters and pacers, among them the phenomenal gelding Jay-Eye-See, 2:10 trotting, 2:00‘4 pacing. He also sired Nancj Lee, dam of Nancy Hanks, 2:04, ilia champion trotter, and Director, tie# champion pacing stallion. Old agr caused bis death. Km 1 11 I’Hftlm Iloid. I Hhi sskls. May 29.—A letter received from Rascid Bon Mohammed by the governor of Falls leaves lot tie doubt that Emin Rasim, the noted explorer, if* dead. The latter says that an Arab chief named, Said Bin Abed, in journeying toward Unioro and Wadelai, met Emin Rasha and his, expedition, in a hostile manner. A severe battle ensued, and the fight tastjed sos three days Emin Rasha and his followers were defeated and took to flight. Said Bin Abed and his victorious follow* ers overtook Emin and captured and killed Mm together with U bis people.

1 OPEN ON SUNDAY. Over 100,000 Persons Visit Jackson Park to View tho Beauties of the World's Fair—The Si ghtseers Admitted to All of' the Structures Nave the Government. Fifteen State ami Some Foreign Build* Ings -A Quiet, Orderly Crowd. Chicago, May 29.—Tlie world’# fair was open to the public Sunday. The attendance was big. 11 did not go anywhere near the figures which had been estimated, but it went far above the daily average. Saturday night it was anticipated that there would be between 200,000 and 300,000 persons in attendance. The count after 11 o'clock at night showed that 09,028 tickets had been sold at the gates. Add to these 3,751 children’s tickets and the estimate of Mr. Tucker that 3.000 tickets were purchased down-town and the total of paid admissions foots up 70,379. The admissions on passes swelled tho total to more than 00,000. It >vus a leisurely, pleasure-seeking crowd. The people strolled around and viewed the beautiful sights to be seen on every hand. But live arrests were made during the day. There were no accidents reported. Gatekeepers reported that the most noticeable thing in the crowds which kept their turnstiles clicking was the presence of thousands of family parties. Fathers and mothers, their children with them, brought, great lunch baskets and came to spend the day in Jackson park. t < Several of the Columbian guards said that most of tlie visitors seemed to be people who had not been to the exposition before. They did not know the names of the buildings and asked questions which showed that they were new to the grounds. Those who wore hunting for some particular points of interest sedmed to favor the Art palace, the Manufactures building and Midway plaisancc. It was hard to find what had the most attraction for the people. ‘Everything had to them the charm of novelty. From the south pond to the lake shore on the north, where the foreign‘ buildings stand in column, the crowds were almost equal in density. When Sousa’s Marine band commenced to play sacred music in the north stand before the Administration building, 20,000 people were quickly massed on tlie plaza and there during the day was perhaps the chief center of activity.

Through the Manufactures building, where most of tin* great exhibits Aver© thrown open, there was a continuous, stream of people. The German section, crowned with its stately bronze, was especially crowded, and about some of the splendid produets of German looms and potteries the people scented to linger with almost reverence. They peered, also, into the French Section, and looked at the stiff lies and great vases with wide open eyes. I To many, the children especially, the i Fisheries building was a great 'attract I tion, and there was a const an tly changing crowd in and about, it. Leaving I the Fisheries the course of many wan 1 across to the Wooded island and dowu 1 through Die flower beds, riotous with 'color, to |be" Grand basin. Kl'ectrb*- . ity building opened its magic to many, who looked oil ' its wonderful display of electric; ! effects with amazement. Agricultural ' hall and the palace of machinery were which fm week flay a is filled with the roar of great engines, was comparative silence. The palace of fine arts, stretching its impressive front along' the north lagoon, was tilled all day o with ])eople who wandered about amid its masterpieces with rapt attention. Thel 'nited States Government building was closed tight as a drum, and not even a flag was displayed. Although thousands sought the naval pier no one was admitted to the. battleship, and the life-giving station was closed to visitors lor the day. The Woman’s building was open in all its departments, but nothing was sold, and the souvenir spoons, badges and paper-flower booths were covered with sheeting. None of the machinery was running except the engines and dyaamos of the electric plant and the big pumps 1 that supply the fountains and service mains. Eighteen of tint state buildings welcomed the pub* ; lie, fifteen barred their doors and : seven were not near enough completion to take any action that would indicate observance of the day. With but on© ■ exception eastern state buildings wereclosed. On the other hand the west, : except in three instance, kept open, house. The buildings of the following: states were closed: Indiana. MaHftfi'thtiftcUs, I < Rhode Inland, New J©rey. Maryland, Connecticut, i New Hampshire, Virginia, Nort.)i Dakota, South Dakota, Louisiana, Mlhmo'jH, \ Peucsylvania, New York, Delaware, The following were ’kupen” states and I territories: j 111 Laois, California, . j Wisconsin, Colorado, j Michigan, Maine, i lowa. Idaho, i Montana, Kansas, Nebraska, Washington, Wfaie-Hota, Florida,* Arizona, N* m Mexico, Ohio, Wy tuning, Great Britain locked the doors of I Victoria house. The only sign of life al>out the pretty building was th© union I jack flying from the flagstaff. Canada, ! New South Wales and East Indiit fol- ; lowed England 1 ?* action and shut their doors. j Sweden threw open her doors for the - fret time, giving the public access to 'i the galleries of the Swedish house. Thousands of Scandinavians climbed the broad stairs which lend to the upper floors of the quaint structure. Fall a Thousand Feot, Tarbobouoh, N. C., May 29.—Mrs. Steele, an aeronaut, had a thrilling experience Friday. She had made an ascension and was 1,000 feet la the air when the balloon caught ! fire. She tried to cut loos© the para- | chute, but was unable to do so, and I as. the flames spread the balloon began to descend swiftly. Mrs. Steele kept : her scat in the parachute and as she j neared the earth she was enveloped in smoke from tho fire above her. She strut& the ground so violently that she was reijfcierod unconscious, out later on I recovered, i t