Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 15, Number 52, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 14 March 1894 — Page 2

UNAPPRECIATED ACTS. Rev. Dr. Talmage Talkß Upon Apparently Trivial Things flint Frequently Lead to Great Result®— Tlio Conversion of l'aul and tle Means L'sed in Its Accomplishment—Other Instances. While absent, on a visit to the south Rev. T. DeWitt Talfringe made selection of sermons to be sent out to his '"''great congregation throughout the world of newspaper readers. The following discourse is based on the text: Through a window In a basket I was let down by the wall.—ll Corinthians, x 1.. .33. Damascus is a city of white and glistening architecture sometimes called “the eye of the east,” * sometimes “a pearl surrounded bv emeralds,” at one time distinguished for swords of the best material called Damascus blades, and upholstery of richest fabric called damasks. A. horseman called by the name of Paul, riding toward.this city, had been thrown from the saddle. The horse had dropped under a flash from tiie sky, whicli at the same time wasso bright it blinded the rider for many days, and 1 think so permanently injured his eyesight that this defect of vision became the thorn in the flesh he afterward speaks of. lie started for Damascus to butcher Christians, but after that hard fall from his horse he was a changed man and preached Christ iii Damascus till the city was shaken to its foundation. The mayor gives authority for his arrest, popular cry is: “Kill him! Kill him!” The city is surrounded by a high wall, and the gates are watched by the police lest the Cilician preacher escape. Id any of the houses are built on the wall, and their balconies projected clear over and hovered above the gardens outside. Ttrwas-custom-ary to lower baskets out of these balconies and pull up fruits and flowers from the gardens. To this day visitors at the monastery of Mount Sinai are lifted and' let down iri baskets. Detectives prowled around from house to house looking for l’aul, but his friends hid him now in one place, now in another. He is no coward, as fifty incidents in his life

demonstrate.. Rut he feels his work is not done yet, and so he evades assas- ( sination. “Is that preacher here?” j the foaming nfob shout at one house ; door. c “Is that fanatic here?” the po- j lice shout at another house door. Some- | times on the street incognito he passes through a crowd of cl inched fists, and sometimes he secretes himself on the house-top. At last the infurf- j ated populace get on sure track of him. They have positive evidence that he is i in the house of one of the Christians.'the balcony of whose home reaches over I the wall. “Here lie is! Here he is!” j The vociferation and blasphemy and j howling of the pursuers are at the 1 front door. They break in. “Fetch j out that gospelizer, and let us hang ! his head on the city' gate. Where is he?” The emergency was terrible. Providentially there was a good stout basket in the house. Paul's friends fasten a rope tci the basket. Paul steps into sit. The basket is lifted to the edge of the balcony on the •wall, and theil while Paul holds on to ; the rope with both hands his friends lower away, carefully and cautiously, slowly but surely, further down and further down, until the basket strikes the earth and the apostle steps out, and afoot and alone starts on that famous missionary tour, the story of which has astonished earth and Heaven. Appropriate entry in Paul’s diary of travels: “Through a window in a basket was I let down bv the wall.” Observe, first, on what a slender tenure great results hang. The ropetnaker who twisted that cord fastened • to that lowering basket never knew bow much would depend on the strength of it. How if it had been broken and the apostle’s life had been dashed out? What have become of the Christian church? All that magnificent missionary work in Pamphylia. Cappadocia, Galatia, Macedonia would never have been accomplished. All his writings that make up so indispensable and enchanting a part of the New Testament would never have been written. The story of resurrection would never have been so gloriously told as lie told it. The example of heroic and triumphant endurance at Philippi, in the Mediterranean euroclydon, under flagellations and at his beheading would not have kindled the courage of ten thousand martyrdoms. But the rope holding that basket, how much depended on it! So again and again great results have hung on what seemed slender circumstances. Did ever ship of many thousand tons crossing tlie sea have such important passenger as had a boat of leaves, from tuff rail to stern only three or four feet, the vessel made waterproof by a coat of bitumen and floating on the Nile with the infant lawmaker of the Jews on board? What if some crocodile should crunch it? What if some of the cattle wading in for a j drink should sink it? Vessels of war sometimes carry forty guns looking through the portholes, ready to open battle. Rut that tiny craft bn the Nile seems to be armed with all the guns of thunder that bombarded Sinai at the law-giving. On how fragile craft sailed how much of historical importance. The parsonage at Epworth, England, is on fire in the night, and the father rushes through the hallway for the rescue of his children. .Seven children are out and safe on the grounds, but one reffr'ains in the consuming building. That one wakes, and finding his bed on fire and the building crumbling, comes to the window, and two peasants make a ladder of their bodies, one peasant standing on the shoulders of the other, and down the human ladder the boy descended—John Wesley. If you would know how much depended on that ladder of peasants ask the millions of Methodists on both sides of the sea. Ask their mission stations all round the world. Ask the hundreds of thousands already ascended to join

their founder, who would have perished but for the living stair of peasants’ shoulders. 1 An English ship stopped at Pitcairn island, and, right in the midst of surrounding cannibalism and squalor, the passengers discovered a Christian colony of churches and schools and beautiful homes and highest style of religion and civilization. For fifty years no raissionaary and no Christian influence had landed there. Why this oasis of light amid a desert of heathendom? Sixty years before a ship had met disaster and one of the sailors, unable to save anything else, went to his trunk and took out a Bible which his mother had placed there, and swam ashore, the Rible held in his teeth. The book was read on all sides until the rough and vicious population were evangelized, and a church was started, and an enlightened commonwealth established, and the world’s history has no more brilliant page than that which tells of the transformation of a nation by one book. It did not seem of much importance whether the sailor continued to hold the book in his teeth or let it fall in the breakers, but upon what small circumstance depended what mighty results. Practical inference: There are no insignificances in our lives. The minutest thing is part of a magnitude. Infinity is made up of Infinitesimals. Great things an aggregation of small things. Bethlehem manager pulling on a star in the castein sky. One book in a drenched sailor’s mouth the evangelization of a multitude. One boat of papyrus on the Nile freighted with events for all ages. The fate of Christendom in a basket let down from a window on the wall. What you do, do well. If you make a rope make it strong and true, for you know not how much may depend on your .workmanship. If you fashion a boat be water-proof, for you know not who may sail in it. If you put a Rible in the trunk of your boy as lie goes from home, let it be heard in your prayers, for it In ay have a mission.as far-reaching as the book which the sailor carried in his teeth to the Pitcairn beach. The plainest, man’s life is an island between two eternities—eternity past rippling against his shoulders, eternity to come touching his brow. The casual, the accidental, that which merely happened so, are parts of a great plan, and the rope that lets the fugitive apostle from the Damascus wall is tin* cable that holds to its mooring the ship of the church in the northeast storm of the centuries.

Again notice Unrecognized and unrecorded services. Who spun that rope? Who tied it to the basket? Who steadied the illustrious preacher as he stepped into it? Who relaxed not a muscle of tin* arm or dismissed an anxious look from his face until the basket touched th 6 ground* and discharged its magnificent, cargo ? Not one of their names has come to us, but there was no work done that, day in Damascus nor in all the earth compared with the importance of their work. What if they had in their agitation tied a knot that could slip? What/ if the sound of the mob at the door had led them to say: “Paul must take care of himself, and we will take'care of ourselves.” No. no! They lurid the rope, and in doing so did more for the Christian church than any thousand of us will ever accomplish. Rut God knows and has made eternal record of their undertaking. And they know. llow exultant they must have felt when they read llis letters to the Romans, to the Corinthians, to the Galatians, to the Ephesians, to the Philippians, to the Colossians, to the Thessalonians, to Timothy, to Titus, to Philemon, to the Hebrews, and when they heard how lie walked out of prison with the earthquake unlocking the door for him, and took command of the Alexandrian corn-ship when the sailors were nearly scared to death, and preached a sermon that nearly shook Felix off his judgment seat. I hear the men and women who helped him down through the window and over the wall talking in private over the matter, and saying: “How glad lam that we have effected times others' ir.av get—the glory of Paul’s work, but no one shall rob us of the satisfaction of knowing that we held the rope.” There are said to be about sixty-nine thousand ministers of religion iri this country. About fifty thousand I warrant came from early homes which had to struggle for the necessaries of life. The sons ot rich bankers and merchants generally become bankers and merchants. The most of those who become ministers are the sons of those who had terrific struggle to get their everyday bread. The collegiate aiid theological education of that son took every luxury from the parental table for eight years. The other children were more scantily apparelled. The son at college every little while got a bundle from home. In it were the socks that mother had knit, sitting up late at night, her sight not as good as once it was. And there also were some delicacies from the sister's hand for the voracious appetite of a hungry student. 1 The years go by, and the son has been ordained and is preaching the glorious Gospel, and a great revival comes, and souls by scores and hundreds accept the Gospel from the lips of the young preacher, and father and mother, quite old now, are visiting the son of the village parsonage, and i at the close of a Sabbath of mighty blessing father and mother retire to their room, the son lighting the way and asking them if he can do anything to make them more comfortable, saying if they want anything in the night just to knock on the wall. And then all alone father and mother talk over the gracious influence of the day, and say: “Well, it was worth all we went through to educate that boy! It was a hard pull, but we held on till the work was done. The world may not know | it, but, mother, we held, the rope, didn’t l we?” And the voice, tremulous with 1 joyful emotion, responds: “Yes, father;

we held the rope. I feel my work Is done. Now, Lord, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen. Thy salvation.” “Pshaw!” says the father, “I never felt so much likte living in my life as now. I want to see what that fellow is going on to do, he has begun so well.” Once for thirty-six hours we expected every moment to go to the bottom of the ocean. The waves struck through the skylights and rushed down intotlib hold of the ship and hissed against the boilers. It was an awful time; but by the blessing of God and the faithfulness of the man in charge we came out of the cyclone and we arrived at home. Each one before leaving the ship thanked Capt. Andrews. I do not think there was a man or woman went off that ship without thanking Capt. Andrews, and when, years after, I heard of his death, I was impeled to write a letter of condolence to his faniily in Liverpool. Everybody recognized the goodness, the courage, the kindness of Capt. Andrews, but it occurs to me now that we never thanked the engineer. He stood .away down in the darkness amid the hissing furnaces doing his whole duty. Nobody thanked the engineer, but God recognized his heroism and liis continuance and his fidelity, and there will be just as high reward for the engineer who worked out of sight, as the captain who stood on the bridge of the ship in the midst of the howling tempest. Come, let us go right up and accost those on this circle of heavenly thrones. Surely they must have killed in battle a million men. Surely they must have been buried with all the cathedrals sounding a dirge and all the towers of all the cities tolling the national grief. Who art Thou, mighty one of Heaven? “I lived by choice the' unmarried daughter in a humble home that I might take care of my parents in their old age, and I endured without complaints all their querulousness and ministered to all their wants for twenty years.” Let us pass on round the circle of thrones. Who art thou, mighty one of Heaven? “I was for thirty years a Christian invalid, and suffered all the while, occasionally writing a note,of sympathyfor tho.se worse off than I, and was general confidant of all those who had trouble, and once in awhile I was strong enough to make a garment for that poor family in the hack lane.” Pass on to another throne. Who art thou, mighty one of Heaven? “I was the mother who raised a whole family of children for God, and they are out in the world, Christian merchants. Christian mechanics Christian wives, and I have h;ul full re wared of all my toil/’ Let us pass on in the circle of thrones. “I had a Sabbathschool class, and they were always on my heart, and they all entered the kingdom of God, and I am waiting for their arrival.”

Rut who art thou, the mighty one of 1 Heaven on this other throne? “In time ; of bitter persecution % owned a house in Damascus, a house on the wall. A man who preached Christ was bounded ; from street to street, and I hid him j from the assassins, and when I found i them breaking in my house, and I | could no longer keep him safely* I advised him to flee for his life, j aryl a basket was let down over the j wall with the maltreated man in it, and ; I was.one who helped hold the rope.’ I And I said: “Is that all?” and he an- * swered: “That is all.” And while I j was lost in amazement, I heard a strong voice that sounded as though it might i once have been hoarse from many ex- j posures and tri&mphant as though ] it might liave belonged to one of the martyrs, and it said: “Not .many mighty, not many noble are called, but God hath chosen the weak things of the world to'confound the things which are mighty, and base things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to naught things which are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.” And I looked to see from whence the voice came, and lo! it w as the very one who had said: “Through a window in a basket was I let and own by the wall.” Henceforth think of nothing as insignificant. A little thing may decide your all. A Cunarder put out from England for New York. Tt was well equipped, but in putting up a stove in the pilot box a nail was driven too near the compass. You know how that nail would affect the compass. The ship’s officer, by that distracted put the hip two hundred miles off her right course, and suddenly the man on the lookout cried: “Land, ho!” and the ship was halted within a few yards of her demolition on Nantucket shoals. A six-penny nail came near wrecking a Cunarder. Small ropes hold mighty destinies. A minister seated in Roston at his table, lacking a word be puts his hand behind his head and tilts back his chair to think, and the ceiling falls and crushes the table and would have crushed him. A minister in Jamaica at night by the light of an insect, called the candle-fly,is kept from stepping over a precipice a hundred feet. F. W. Robertson, the celebrated English clergyman, said that he entered the ministry from a train of circumstances started by the barking of a dog. Had the wind blown one way on a certain day, the Spanish inquisition would have been established in England; but it blew the other way, and that dropped the accursed institution, with seventy-five thousand tons of shipping, to the bottom of the sea, or Hung the splintered logs on the rocks. Nothing unimportant in your life or mine. Three ciphers placed on the right side of the figure “1” to make a thousand, and six ciphers on the right side of the figure “1” a million, and our nothingness placed on the right side may be augmentation illimitable. All the ages of time and eternity affected by the basket let down from ft Damascus balcony! —The Rible, as a whole, Is the bent treatise on sound and successful ness principles and practice that call be consulted by anyone.

FOR HOME RULE. Lord Rosebery Will Adhere to Mr. Gladstone's Plans. The New British Premier Outlines HU Policy and Incidentally Attacks the House of Lords In a Speech. LIBERALS PLEASED. London, March 14.—The opening ol parliament was accompanied by a declaration from Lord Rosebery which Bets at rest all suspicion of his attitude toward home rule and the house of lords. At a meeting of liberals in the foreign office at noon the premier outlined in terms of great earnestness and directness a policy with regard to Ireland which will satisfy the most exacting home ruler, while his characterization of the house of lords was sufficiently hostile to disabuse the minds of the chamber of all hope of a reconciliation between commons and peers. The declaration is received on all sides among the liberals with unbounded enthusiasm. The fear that Lord Rosebery would lay aside the home rule bill and make terms with the peers was not confined to the radicals. It existed throughout the liberal ranks and was heightened by the good natured and rather hopeful reception accorded to Lord Rosebery by the unionist newspapers. No allusion was made to the home rule bill in the speech from the throne, but the omission was more than atoned for by the address in the foreign office. Lord Rosebery was wildly applauded. His opening remarks were in reverential allusion to Mr. Gladstone. He declared that no assertion of policy was needed, w *’VVe stand where we did,” he said. The. liberal party was bound to home rule by ties of honor and affection. The policy would be definitely pursued. As for the lords, he was becoming convinced that “with the democratic suffrage which wo now enjoy, a second chamber constituted like the house of lords is an anomaly." It had become a “great tory organization at the beck and call of a single party leader.”

In the house of lords Lord Salisbury dwelt upon the omission from the programme of any reference to international legislation, and 'especially marked the absence of the home rulo question. That, he said, was an issue of the highest importance and ought not to have been laid aside for other subjects. Lord Rosebery said the government did not desire to evade or shirk the question of home rule for Ireland, but explained that it had not been mentioned in the queen's speech because it would not be introduced during this session. "Lord Salisbury,” the premier said, “wants to appeal to the country. We are not afraid to appeal to the country when we think the time is ripe, but y(’e shall never concede to this hereditary assembly the right to force a dissolution.” Referring to Ireland the premier said the present satisfactory condition was due to remedial measures and the promise of home rule. Os course the decision rested upon -England, but lie believed the conversion of England to home rule would not be a difficult task when the Irish people showed by their conduct that they were worthy of it. In conclusion, Lord Rosebery said that Ireland would never be contented until she had obtained home rule.

BRAZIL’S WAR ENDED. Seelug the Hopelessness of Ills Cause, Da Gama Tries to Make Terms. Rio Janeiro, Brazil, via Galveston, Tex., March 14.—Admiral Saldanha da j Gama has sent a message to President j Peixoto offering to surrender his fleet j and cease fighting. He terms, ' which were to Include immunity for | himself and all connected with the revolution. After dispatching his message containing the terms on which he was willing to surrender Admiral da Gama sought safety. lie requested an asylum on board the Portuguese man-of- 1 war Mindello, which is in the harbor. The Portuguese commander received him, and the rebel admiral is now on board that vessel. After getting on board he modified his terms and asked that himself i and his officers be permitted to leave j the country and that the lives of the privates be spared. Nothing has been heard of Admiral Mello, with the Aquidaban and Republica, since he successfully ran past the forts It is thought he is now in the south, probably off Santa Catharina or Parunagua. The circumstances which led to Admiral da Gama’s offer to surrender were no doubt the preparations for a decisive fight which had been made by President Peixoto. President Peixoto had issued an official decree announcing that at noon to-day all the government batteries would open fire on the rebel ships in the bay as well as upon Fort Villegaignon and Cobras island. Warning had been given to the citizens to leave the city and seek shelter outside the range of the rebel guns. With the Republica and Aquidaban somewhere out at ..sea and the loyal navy guarding the entrance to the harbor to prevent their return or the escape of the hemmed-in rebel ships the enemy was at a great disadvantage, ani the general sentiment was that even if President Peixoto did draw their fiercest fire upon the capital he was justified in doing so under the circumstances. Wheat Ixjw.it Kver Known. New Yobk, March 14. -May wheat made anew low record Monday afteinoon, declining to 02 6-10 cents, or l-10th below the previous lowest record. Tho weakness was the result of heavy liquidation both here and in the west, and the total transactions for the day were over 10,000,000 bushels, the biggest day’s business done in a long, time. No failures are reported. Two Hoy. Drowned. Bellevue, la, March 14.—Michael AltlfiliSh and John Kegler, 16-year-old ! boys, wcroilrowned while crossing the 1 river here,

RESULT OF LOW PRICES. Larg. Wheat Grower. Bolding Th.lv Crop.—Grain Fad to Hogs. Washirqtojt, March 18.— The statistical returns of the department of agriculture for March consist principally of estimates of the distribution of wheat and corn, the amounts remaining in farmers’ hands, the proportion of merchantable corn and the average prices of both the merchantable and unmerchantable The returns of correspondents of the department throughout the gTeat wheat surplus states indicate anew factor in the consumption of wheat, | Viz., the feeding of wheat to hogs and I other stock, a fact due, as declared, to i the unprecedentedly low prices, the j claim being made that this mode of ' disposing of the cereal is profitable as compared to marketing it for human food. The returns also indicate that a con- ; sidcrable proportion of the wheat now | in farmers’ hands comes from crops j prior to that of 1893, and especially i from the crops of 1891-’92. Such stocks | have been held principally by large growers. Some damage to such stores is reported from Michigan and Washington. The indicated stock of wheat in farmers’ hands is 114,000,000 bushels or 28.8 per cent, of the volume of the crop of 1893. This is nearly 21,000,000 bushels less than the estimate for March 1 last year and nearly 20,000,000 less than the average of the past eight years. The amount remaining in farmers’ hands in the eleven principal wheat growing states is about 73,000,000 bushels, or 03.8 per cent, of the amount in producers’ hands in the country af. large. The corn in producers’ hands, as esti- I mated, aggregates 580,000,000 bushels, or 30.4 per cent of the crop of 1893. This proportion is less than for any year in the past five, except that of 1891, The aggregate of corn in farmers’ hands in the surplus states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, loiva, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska is 01.1 per cent of that in farmers’ hands in the entire country, being in quantity 300,000,009 bushels. The proportion of merchantable corn is 85 0 per cent, of a present average value of 34.9 cents per bushel. The unmerchantable averages 82.2 cents per bushel.

HEAVY FAILURE IN lOWA. 4. K. Morin Company of Cedar llapidf Forced to Suspend. Cedar Rapids, la., March 13.—The J. R,—Moran company, with a capital stock of $90,000, extensive egg’ dealers and owners of six creameries near here, has failed, a local hank securing an attachment for SB,OOO. The total local liabilities are $14,000, assets SOS ,000. The failure is due to the inability of tlie stockholders, who live in lioston, to furnish more money. The linn recently lost $20,000 by damage to eggs in storage. It is reported that the liabilities may aggregate $200,000, involving Morse, Smith & Cos., 6f boston, which firm owns the entire stoeic of the Morin company. A couple of years ago the company branched out into the wholesale fruit trade, which it is understood has not been profitable, and indirectly lias caused a heavy IO3S. The fruit and eggs were stored in adjoining rooms, with double nailed iron partitions, yet the flavor of lemons was carried through and contaminated about fifty car loads of eggs, or 000,090 dozen. The eggs were sold at a heavy loss. In addition to this a large quantity of eggs were in store belonging to other parties. on which the company had to stand the loss, entailing a total loss of SBO,OOO.

FOURTEEN WERE HURT. An Accident at the Midwinter Fair Which May licetilt In Death. Sail Francisco, March 13.—At the midwinter fair grounds Saturday night a stage coach with twenty persons on board overturned while going around a corner at a rapid rate. Fourteen persons were injured, of whom three women and four men were seriously hurt The coach was one belonging to the “ ’49 mining camp," and the entire party were employes of the camp. The coach was returning from a trip around the grounds, and, in the absence of the regular driver, a young man named William West held the reins over the four spirited horses. In making a sharp turn the king pin broke; the coach came to the ground with a heavy jolt and then toppled over. Three of the dancing girls received painful cuts about the head. Two men were buried beneath the overturned vehicle and received internal injuries. T. J. Weston was probably fatally hurt The driver escaped unharmed, but vanished from the scene shortly after the accident and has not been seen since.

CARRIED OVER A DAM. Disaster to a Ferryboat at Fort Ferry, Fa.—One Life Lost. Pittsburgh, Pa, March 1.8 The ferryman at Port Perry, on the Monongahela river near Braddock, started across the river with Jacob Brown and Thomas Orr, workmen at Duquesne, as passengera Avery heavy fog prevailed and the ferryman lost his bearings. The boat with its occupants was carried over dam No. 2, just below Port Perry. The ferryman, whose name is not known, was drowned. Brown and Orr clung to the overturned boat and were rescued at Braddock, half a mile down. They were almost exhausted and are in a very critical condition. WORL D'S FAIRPALACES. Bidders Offer a Total of 415,601 for Twenty Buildings. Chicago, March 18. —Proposals for the purchase of the world’s fair buildings were opened in the rooms of the South park commissioners Saturday. Nineteen bids were received by 1 the board, seven of which were rejected because not accompanied with the required SI,OOO certified check. The largest bid received was that of the World’s Fair Wrecking, Salvage and Warehousing company, which, In the total for twenty buildings bid upon, amounted to (15,001,

POISON IN THE MEDICINE. A Sad Tragedy Enaeted In an Ohio Town —Mother and Daughter Dead. Pomeroy,o., March 13.—Mrs. Thomas H. Holmes, who took a large dose of extract of colocynth to prove that she had not poisoned her daughter, died Friday night. The daughter died, from poison and the mother was 'accused of having administered the fetal dose. She denied the charge, claiming the medicine was for liver trouble. To deiponstrate that she was acting in good faith she took two spoonfuls of the dreadful stuff. She lived a week. An autopsy was held on the remains pf Mrs. Holmes, revealing the fact that her stoipach had been destroyed by some powerful drug and that she had Congestion of the lungs, either of which would have proven fatal. The official investigation will not be completed for several days, but It is now believed by the coroner that the death of mother and daughter cannot be traced to any criminal source. He states that investigation shows that the daughter, Mrs Joseph Matßews, took an overdose of the alleged liver medicine prepared and used by her father, under misapprehension that it would more speedily relieve her trouble, and that she died from the effect in two days. She took the medicine of her own volition. The mother, Mrs. Holmes, took a double dose of the same preparation of her own accord to allay gossip and to prove the drug harmless and to place the blame on Dr. Rowley. The body of the daughter is not yet exhumed. Dr. Rowley, who treated Mrs. Mathews after she took the drug and whom Holmes charged with having administered poison in pills by accident, is vindicated by the post mortem, as he did pot treat the mother. The funeral of Mrs. Holmes was attended by nearly the entire populace within 3 miles, aggregating IjOOO people.

DIED TO SAVE OTHERS. Ilnrolc Self-Sacrlllce of Two I.aborers la a’ Cement Kllu, Kingston, N. Y., March 13. —Through a heroic attempt to save the lives of fellow workmen, Thomas Dunleavy and Edgar von Uasbeck lost their lives at Hickory Rush, near this city. The Lawrence Dement company’s kiln was lighted, and cement-rock had been dumped on the burning coal. l’atrick liurke injudiciously went down about 11 feet into the kiln to level off the stono through which the coal gas waa percolating, and he had hardly got intp tlie kiln when lie was overcome. W. A. Vandeinark, engineer of the hoister at tlie top of the kiln, saw liurke fall, and with a rope he climbed down a ladder into the kiln to assist Burke. After tying the rope around Burke, Engineer Vandeinark was also overcome, and Henry Pin, Thomas Dunleavy and Edgar von Uasbeck, who were at tlie top, went into the kiln and attempted to rescue their fellow workmen. The coal gas was dense and the men worked heroically and Burke and Vandemark were gotten out safely. Dunleavy'and Von Uasbeck, however, were not so fortunate in getting out, for before they could reach the top of the ladder they fell back dead. Henry Ikh was carried into the air and to his home, and it is thought he will die. Dunleavy and Von Uasbeck were unmarried.

FULL OF HOPE. Queen Lit Still llellevrs That She Will Be Restored. Honolulu, March 3, via San Francisco, March 13.— Since the last steamer a reporter has succeeded in interviewing the ex-queen, who has hitherto refused to discuss matters bearing on the Hawaiian situation with any but tried and trusted friends. Liliuokalani would not discuss the questains pertaining to the formation of the new government here, and she declined to express any opinion as toi whether the Hawaiians would ultimately rebel, though she did sayi “Our subjects are probably more patient than any other people in the world, and for that matter we have counseled them to be peaceful and await results. ” * * . She was asked if she still had faith in restoration. In reply she said: “Os course we anxiously await news by every steamer, as you may Imagine, but we have now the same faith in the triumph of justice which we have had from the outset—that Is, we have the greatest faith lu the American nation and In Mr. Cleveland particularly. Wo have no better means, however, of knowing what will be done than the public at large, for we depend wholly on the newspapers for Information. It has been widely published in America and elsewhere that our Interest in the case is wholly personal. Os course we have naturally a deep personal interest at stake, but you may say that we are deeply sorry on account of our patient native people, many of whom have lost employment by the overthrow. ”

KILLED WIFE AND SELF. Jealousy Causes a Double Tragedy on a Train at Fast Alton, IIL Alton, 111., March 13. —Marion T. Hkoats shot his wife and then himself Sunday night on the Big Four train at East Alton. Both are dead. Skoats was a stonecutter by trade and was a widower when he married his wife, who was a widow. Both had ungovernable tempers and were jealous of each other. The wife had been in Bt, Louis with her daughter and was fol* lowed by the husband. While on tho way home and changing cars at East Alton Stoats suddenly said: “We wIU settle this matter quickly and right now,” and fired the shots which ended both their lives. KILLED IN THE MOUNTAINS. Snowsllde Overtakes Two California Travelers Near Etna Hills. San Francisco, March 18.— John Peters, a packer of Etna Mills, and Rudolph Junklns, a miner of Weaverville, Trinity county, were caught and killed in a snowslida near the summit of Salmon mountain,; on a trail between Sawyer’s Bar and this place. John Hah-ls, a mail-carrier who accompanied them, barely escaped with his life. He brought the news, and a rescuing party was aen% out and the bodies wersrecovered