Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 19, Number 49, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 16 February 1898 — Page 2

NOBLE MEN'AND WOMEN. Dr. Talmage Talks on the Religion of Ordinary People. v- v ■ ' . J ‘- 1 ”* ■ -**■ ■ ' Kpeonngr'ix'nt for the Unrecognized and Unrewarded—The Advantage of Ineonsplcuoußness—Groat Men From Humble Homes. • _____ In the fpllovving discourse Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage calls the roll of faithful men and women who have gone unheraldcd and unrecorded to their regard. The text is: Salute Asyncrttus, Phlegon, Hermas, PatrotMts. Hermes, Philologus and Julia. —Homans - ivt, 14-15. Matthew Henry, Albert Barnes, Adam Clark, Thomas Scott, and all the commentators pass by these verses' any especial remark. The other 20 people mentioned in the chapter were distinguished for something, and were therefore discussed by the illustrious expositors; but nothing is said about Asyncritus, I’Hlegon, Hernias, I‘atro-ba-s, Hermes, Philplogus and Julia. 'Where were they born? No one "knows. When did they die? There is mo record of their decease. For what vrere they distinguished? Absolutely nothing, or the trait of character would have been brought out by the •postle. If they had been very intrepid, or opulent, or hirsute, or musical of cadence, or crass of style, or in any wise anomalouss that feature would Jiave been caught by the apostolic camera. But they were good people, because Paul sends to them his s high Christian regards. They were ordinary people moving in ordinary sphere, Attending to ordinary duty and meeting ordinary resposibilities. What the world wants is a religion for ordinary people.' If there be in the United States 70,000,000 people, there are certainly not more than 1,000,000 extraordinary; and there are 419,000,000 ordinary, and we do well to turn our backs fora little while upon the distinguished and conspicuous peo|>le of the Bible and consider in our text the Seven ordinary. We spend too much of our time twisting garlands for remarkables, and building thrones for magnates, and sculpturing warriors •. and apotheosizing philanthropists. The rank and file of the Lord’s sol--diery needespeeial help. • The vast majority of people will never , lead an army, will never write a state constitution, will never electrify a senate, will never make, an important invention, will never introduce anew philosophy, will never decide the fain of a nation. You do not expect to; you do not want to. You will not be a Moses to lead a nation out of bondage. You will not be a Joshua to prolong the daylight until you can shut live kings in a cavern. You will not be a St. John to unroll an Apocalypse. You will not be a Paul to preside over an apostolic college. You will not boa Mary to mother a Christ. You will more probabfy be Asyncritus, or I’hlogon,”6r Hennas, or Patrohas, or Heroics, or Philologus. or Julia. Many of you are women at the head of households. Every morning you plan for the day. The culinary department of the household is your dominion. You decide all questions of diet. All the sanitary regulations of your ’house are under your supervision. To ■regulate the food, and the apparel •and the habits, and decide the thousand questions of home life is a tax upon brain and nerve and general health absolutely appalling, if there be no Divine alleviation. It does hot help you much to be told that Elizabeth Fry did wonderful things a mid the critninaLs at Newgate. It does not. help you much to be told that Mrs. Judson was very brave among the Horiiesian cannibals. It does not help you very much to he told that Florence '-Nightingale was very kind to the wounded in the Crimea. It would be better for me to tell you that tho Divine friend of Alary and Martha is your friend, and that lie sees all the annoyances and disappointments and abrasions and exasperations of an ordinary housekeeper from morn till night, and from the first day of the year until the last day of Hie year, and at your call lie is ready with help and ce-enforeemenU t 1 They who provide The food of the world decide the health of the world. You have only to go on some errand amid the taverns and the hotels of the United States and Great Britain to uppreeiateThe fact that a vast multitude of the human race are slaughtered l>y incomiM’teut cookery. Though a young woman may have taken, lessons iu music and may have taken lessons in painting, and lessons —iu astronomy, •he is not well educated unless she has •taken lessons in dough! They who decide the apparel of the world and the food of the world decide the endurance of the wori I. , . " Ail unthinking man may consider it a, matter of little importance tlieeaivs of tlie household and t lie economics.of domestic life—but 1 tell you the earth is strewn with the martyrs of kitchen | and nursery. The health-shattered womanhood of America cries out for a —Owlwho 1 the ordinary duties of housekeeping. The wearing, grinding, unappKviaie.d work goci on, but the same Christ who stood on the .bunk of -Galilee in the •early inorfling-and k indled the tire and | had the fish already cleaned and broil- ( ing when the sportsmen stepped ashore, ehiiled anti hungry, will help every other woman to prepare breakfast , I whether by her own hand or the huiid of her hired help. The Gods, who •made indestructible eulogy of llan®ah. who made a coat for Samrl,• -her- -*srm: and earned It ' tql the temple every yearn wi, 11. help every woman in preparing tbe family wumirobe. The God who opens the Bible l with the story of •nentj by the three augels on the plains t of Mamrc will h&lp everY wVinian to hospitality, howeter rare and einliarrassjng. It is high time that some of { the Attention wjj have been.giving to * the remarkable women of'theTJWk-J—----xemarkahle for tlieir virtue, or their ■want of it, or remarkable for tlieir

deeds —Deborah and Jezebel, and Herodjas and Athalia, and Dorcas and the Marys, excellent and abandoned —it is high time some of the attention we have been giving to these conspicuous women of the Bible be given to Julia, an ordinary womap, amid ordinary circumstances, attending to duties, and meeting ordinary responsibilities. Then there are all the ordinary business men. They need Divine and Christian help. When we begin to talk aoout business life we shoot right off and talk about men who did business on a large scale, and who sold millions of dollars of goods a year; and the vast majority of business men do not sell a million dollars of goods, nor half a million, nor quarter of a million; nor the eighth part of a million. Put all the business men of our cities, towns, villages, and neighborhoods side by side, and you will find that they sell less than a hundred thousand dollars’ worth of goods. AH those men in ordinary business life want Divine help. You see how the wrinkles are printing on the countenance the story of worriment and care. You can not tell how old a business man is by looking at him. Gray hairs at 30. A man at 45 with the stoop of a nonogenarian. No time to attend to improved dentistry, the grinders cease because they are few. Actually dying of old age at 40 or 50, when they ought to be at the meridian. Many of these business men have bodies like a neglected clock, to Which you come, and when you wind it up it begins to buzz and roar, and then the hands start around very rapidly, and then the clock strikes five, or ten, or 40, and strikes without any sense, and then suddenly stops. So is the body of that worn-out business-man. It is a neglected clock, and though by some summer recreation it may be wound up, still the machinery is all out of gear. The hands turn around with a velocity that excites the astonishment of the, world. Men can not understand the wonderful activity, and there is a roar, a buzz, and a rattle about these disordered lives, and they strike 13 when they ought to strike six, and they strike 40 when they ought to strike nothing, und suddenly they stop. Post-mortem examination reveals the fiict that all the springs, and pivots, and weights, and balancewheels of health are completely deranged. The human clock is simply run down. And at the time when the steady hand ought to be pointing to the industrious hours on a clear and sunlit dial, the whole mechinery of body, miuj and earthly capacity stops forever. Oak Hill and Greenwood have thousands of business men who died of old age at 30, 35, 40, 45. Now, vvliat is wanted ds grace—divine grace for ordinary business men, men who are harnessed from morn till night and all the days of their life — harnessed in business. Not grace to lose SIOO,OOO, but grace to loso $lO. Not grace to supervise 350 employes in a factory, but grace to supervise the bookkeeper, and two salesmen, and the small boy that sweeps out the store. Grace to invest not the SBO,OOO of net profit, but tkes3,soo of clear gain. Grace not to endure the loss of a whole ship load of spices from the Indies, but grace to endure the loss of a paper of collars from the leakage of a displaced shingle on a paper roof. Groce not to endure the tardiness of the congress in passing a necessary law, hut grace to endure tho tardiness of an errand boy stopping to play marbles when he ought to deliver the goods. Such a grace as thousands of business men have to-day—keeping 'them tranquil,, whether goods sell or do not sell, whether customers pay or do not pay, whether tariff is up or tariff is down, whether the crops are luxuriant -or a dead failure -calm in all circumstances and amid all vicissitudes. That is the kind of grace we want. Millions of men want it, and they may have it for the asking. Seine hero or heroine comes to town, and as tlie procession - J>nsses_ through the street tho business men come out, stand on tiptoe on tlieir store step and look at Home one who, in arctic clime, or in ocean storm, or in day of battle, or in hospital agonies, did the brave thing, not realizing that they, the enthusiastic spectators, have gone through trials in business life that are jiist as great before God, There ure men who have gone through freezing arctics and burning torrents, and awful Marengoes of experiences without moving five miles from their own doorstep. Now, what ordinary business men need is to realize that they have the friendship of that Christ who looked j after the religious interests of Matj thew, tlie custom-house clerk, and ! helped Lydia, of Thyatira, to sell the j dry goods, and who opened a bukery i and lishiuurket in the wilderness of | Asia Minor to feed the 5,000 who had come out on a religious picnic, and who counts the hairs of your head with us much particularity as though they were the plumes of a coronation, and wlm took tlie trouble to stoop down with His linger writing on the groiind, although the first shuttle of feet (fill iterated the divine eatigriipby, and who knows just how many locusts there were in the Egyptian plague, and knew just hod- immy- ravens were necessary- to supply Elijah's pantry by the brook ( beritli, and who, os floral commander, leads forth all the regiments of primroses, foxgloves, daffodils, hyacinths and lilies which ; pitch their tents -of beauty and kindle tlieir camp-tires of color around the hemisphere- that that Christ and that God know the most minute affairs of your business life and _U'2V i > .’Vl‘t' jjtvoilsi(l( i raUlii, undorsi uiHltng all the affairs of that woman who keeps a thread-and-necdlestore as well as all the. affairs of a Rothschild and a ~ Then "There are all tlie ordinary farmers. We talk about agricultural life, and we immediately sikmt off to talk about Cincimiatus. the patrician, who went from the plow to a high position, and after lie got through the dietatorsliip. in 31-days went-back again to the plow- ’ What encouragement is tlWtt to ordinary farmers? Tbe vast major-

1 ity of them—none of thWi will be patricians. Perhaps none of them will be senators. If any of them have dictatorships it will be over 40, 50 or 100 acres of the old homestead. What roev' w*vt is. gr<\ce .V> keep their patience while plowing with balky oxen,and to keep cheeful amid the drought that destroys the corn crop, and that enables them to restore the garden the day after the neighbor’s cattle have broken in and trampled out the strawberry bed and gone through the Limabean patch, and eaten up fthp sweet corn in such large quantities that they must be keptfrom the water less they swell up and dje. Grace in catching weather that enables them, without imprecation, to spread out the hay the tTxird time' although again, and again, and again, it has been almost ready for the mow. A grace to doctor the cow with a hollow horn, and the sheep with the foot rot, and- the horse with the distemper, and to compel the unwilling acres to yield a livelihood for the family, and schooling for the children and little extras to help the older boy in business, and something for the daughter’s wedding outfit, and a little surplus for the time when the ankles will get stiff with age, and the breath will be a little short, and the swinging of the cradle through the hot harvest field will bring on the old man’s vertigo. Better close up about Cincinnatus. I know 500 farmers just as noble -as he was. What they- want is to know that they have the friendship of that Christ who often drew His similes from the farmer’s life, as when lie said: “A sower went forth to sow," as when He built His best parable out of the scene of a farmer boy coming back from liis wanderings,, and the old farmhouse shook that night with the rural jubilee; and who compared Himself to a lamb in the pasture field, and who said that the eternal God is a farmer, declaring: “My Father is the husbandman.” Those stone masons do not warit to hear about Christopher Wren,the architect, who built St. Paul’s cathedral. It would be better to tell them how to * carx-y the hod of brick up tho ladder without slipping, and how on a cold morning with the trowel to smooth off the mortar and keep cheerful, and how to be thankful to God for the plain food taken from the pail by the roadside. Carpenters standing amid the adze, and the bit, and the plane, and the broad ax, need to be told that Christ was a carpenter,-with His own hand wielding saw and hammer. Oh. this is a tired world, and it is an overworked world, and it is an underfed world, and it is a wrung-out world, and men and women need to know that there is rest and recuperation in God, and in that religion wliich was not so much intended for extraordinai-y people as for ordinary people, because they are more of them.

The healing profession has had its Abercrombies, and its Abernethys, and its Valentine Motts, and its Willard Parkers; but the ordinary physicians do the most of the world’s medieining, and they need to understand that while taking diagnosis or prognosis, or writing pi'oscriptions, or compounding medicament, or holding the delicate pulse, of the dying child,'they may have tlie presence and the dictation of the Almighty Doctor who took the case of thi^madman, and, after He had torn oil his garments in foaming dementia, clothed him again, body and mind, and who lifted up tlie woman who for 18 years hud been bent almost double with the rheumatism into graceful stature, and who burned the scabs of leprosy into rubicund complexion, and iwho rubbed the numbness out of paralysis, and who swung wide open the closed windows of hereditary or accidental blindness, until the morning light came sti'eaming through the fleshly easements, and who knows all the diseases, and all tho remedies, and all the herbs, and all tho eutliollcons, and is monarch of phar-L. maey ami therapeutics, ami who has sent out 10,000 doctors of whom the world makes no record; but to prove that they are angels of mercy, I invoke the thousands of men whose ailments they have assuaged anti the thousands of women to whom in cries of pain they have been next to God in benefaction. Come, now, let us have a religion for ordinary people in professions, in occupations, in agriculture, in the household, in merchandise, in everything. I salute across the centuries Asyneritus, Phlegon; Hernias, Patrohas, Hermes, Philologus and Julia. Let us all be content with such things as we have. God is just as good in what lie keeps away from us ns in what He gives us. liven a knot may be useful if it is at the end of a thread. At an anniversary of a deaf and dumb usylutn, one of the cliildreu wrote upon the blackboard words as sublime as the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the "Divina Comedia,’’ all in one paragraph. The examiner, in the sign., of the "mute language, asked her: “Who made tho world?” The deaf and dumb girl wrote i+)4*m-t4tebtot*lcboardT “iTTtbebeglttning Godtoreuted the Heaven and the earth." The examiner linked her: “For what purpose did Christ come into the world?" 'l’lie deaf and dumb girl wrote upon the-—blackboard: “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." The examiner said to her, “Why were you born deaf und dumb, while I hear and speak?” She wrote upon the blackboard: -“Even so. Father, for so it seemeth.good in Thy sight.” Oh, that we might be baptized with a Tonteutod ! spirit. The spider draws poison out of a flower, the bee gets honey out of I a thistle: but happiness is a Heavenly ! elixir, and the contented spirit ex- i tracts it. not from the rhododendron of the hills, from the lily of tlie valley. A Model for SucccsH. I - Choose one model—Jesus Christ. He wlto,in developing character becomes Christly, achieves succc3s,—Rev. C.’ S. Warner, Methodist, Kausaf City, Mo.

IS NO LONGER MINISTER. Dupuy de Lome Undone by His Pen. Beslans Uli Mission Becsnse ofTn#* llcatlon of a Letter Written by „ Him Criticising President McKinley. Washington,Feb. 10*-Enrique Dupuy De Lome is no longer Spanish minister to the United States government. He cabled his resignation of the post to Madrid upon making the discovery that his letter to Senor Canalejas, reflecting upon President McKinley, had been published. To Assistant Secretary of State Day Senor De Lome admitted that he had penned the note, whereupon the state department wired Minister Woodford, at Madrid, directing that he demand from the Spanish government the recall of Senor De Lome. It is said that Senor De Lome will abandon the diplomatic service and seek political preferment in Spain. The affair will not in the least affect the relations between Spain and the United States; iu fact, the belief is that the minister to succeed De Lome, who will be in closer touch politically with the Sagasta cabinet and its reform plans, will effect more cordial relations between the two governments. Oe Lome’s Offensive Words. Minister De Lome’s letter, the discovery of which has caused the present sensation, was addressed to Senor Canalejas, the well-known editor of the Heraldo of Madrid. The portion which is looked upon as offensive reads: "The president’s message has unde-, celved the insurgents, who expected something else, and has paralyzed the action of congress, but I consider It bad. Besides the natural and Inevitable coarseness with which he repeats all that the press and public opinion of Spain has said of Weyler, It shows one what McKinley is—weak and catering to the rabble, and, besides, a low politician, who desires t 6 leave a door open to me and to stand well with the jingoes of his party.” Resignation Accepted. Madrid, Feb. 11.—At a meeting of the Spanish cabinet held 1 Thursday under the presidency of the queen regent, the minister of foreign nffairs, Senor Gullon, read a dispatch from Senor Dupuy De Lome, the Spanish minister at Washington, saying that the published letter to Senor Canalejas was written by him and that his position, consequently, had become untenable and he begged the government to accept his resignation. The cabinet decided to accept the resignation: of Senor Dupuy De Lome and the ministers subsequently met and decided to telegraph to Senor De Lome accepting his resignation and intrusting the first secretary with the conduct of the cun-ent affairs of the legation. Ills Recall Asked For. Washington, Feb. 11. —The state department Thursday morning gave out for publication tlie substance of the cablegram sent Wednesday to Gen. Woodford, our minister to Madrid, in reference to the De Lome letter. The statement is as follows: “There has appeared in public prints a letter addressed by the Spanish minister to Mr. Canalejas. This letter, the minister admits, was written by him. It contains expressions concerning the president of the United States of such a character as ’to end the minister’s usefulness as a representative of his government in this country. Gen. Woodford, therefore, was instructed at once to sny to the minister of state that, the, immediate recall of Mr. Dupuy De Lome is expected by the president." Incident Practically Closed. Washington, Fyb. 12.- The personal incident growing out of the publication of Senor Dupuy De Lome’s letter to Senor Canalejas may be regarded as settled. This has been brought about by the short cablegrams sent by Minister Woodford from Madrid, in which he states that the minister had resigned and his resignation had been accepted before he (Mr. Woodford) presented tlie request of the United States that he be recalled 1 . —; Feeling In Spnln. Madrid, Feb. 12.—The J.mparcinl, referring to the resignation of Senor Dupuy De Lome, says: “The government was wise to accept Senor De Lome’s resignation. Hte indiscretion has only occasioned the government vexation.” The premier, Senor Sagasta,said: “I was surprised at Senor De Lome's letter* for In all his communications, offieial and private, Addressed to the t*oVernment, he spoke respectfully of President McKinley. I regret De Lome's indiscretion and folly, for he has rendered Spain signal services at Washington. “There is no possible rea.sbn why the unfortunate incident should alter tRe relations between Spain and the United States, which are, and we hope will remain, cordial and friendly, nothing having occurred recently to mar them.” Jnitun Will Stick. Paris, Feb. 11. —Official advices received by the foreign office from Peking say Japan has notified China that she intends to keep Wei-Uai-Wei permanently. China, in notifying the Chinese ministers abroad to this effect, directs them to notify the powers also that, in view of this, no foreign loan is required, as the purpose of the loan was solely to pay the Japanese war indemnity. Japan Seeking a Loan. Vancouver, R. C., Feb. 11.—Lute advices say that Count Inouye, Japanese minister of finance, has in view the raising of n loan in the United States of from 100,000,000 to 150,000,000 yen through the instrumentality of Mr. Dun, e\-United States minister. ----- . i. t : I Favors the SlrlkrfiC ! ‘ Denver, Col./ Feb. 12. —The state board of arbitration rendered its decision Friday night on the questions In dispute between the miners and operators of the northern Colorado district. The board fouud in favor of the striking miners in every particular. Suicide of a Baron. El Paso. Tex., Feb. lb—Baron JTard-en-Ilickey, a Frenck ncbieipan. son-in-law of H. M. F.'agler. the Standard Oil magnate, who achieved fame by attempting to become prince of Trinidad, committed suicide in tßis city Thursday by swallowing morphine.

STOLEN IN HAVANA. How De Lome’s Famous Letts- Kell Into Wrong Hands. Philadelphia. Feb. 14.-The Press prints what it asserts to be the true version of the acquisition and pubucation of the letter tw Senor Canalejas. The authority cite for its authenticity is “a Cuban of the highest standing in the councils of his party” who receives his information “from headquarters in New York.” The story proceeds to say: “The letter was not stolen from the United States malls, but was secured by an agent of the Cuban junta in the post office at Havana, Don Jose Canalejas, to whom the letter was addressed, never saw the original. He did not know until eight days after the letter reached Havana that such a letter from Spain’s representative In Washington had been written him. De Lome wrote the letter in his private restdence in Washington, instead of at the Spanish legation. The paper, however, was marked with the official type and read In the corner ‘Legation de Espana.’ The same Inscription was upon the left-hand upper corner of the envelope. Senor de Lome did not mail the letter from his house. In fact, he had not quite completed it upon the morning it was written, and carried it to the legation, where it was first seen and noticed by a person who is in the employ of the embassy, acting in a subofficial capacity. The letter lay upon the desk of the minister In his inner office, the outer office being his place of reception to visitors. During an absence of half an hour from the Inner office of De Lome the clerk In question saw the open letter and read some # of it. "The next day this same person sent word to his Cuban associates in Washington to the effect that he had seen a letter from De Lome to Canalejas, in which President MfcKlnley was vilified and autonomy called a scheme. Several of the Cuban leaders got together and asked the employe of the embassy to secure the letter. They did not believe implicitly In his story, although he urged them to come Into the public print and make charges against De Lome. Because they did not have the letter In their possession, the leaders refused to say anything about It. The employe of the legation was urged to use all means In his power to secure the letter, although it was considered probable that the letter was already in the mails when the Cubans at the Hotel Raleigh were informed of its existence. "The clerk in the employe of Minister De Lome saw no more of the letter. His mem-ory-written abstracts were forwarded to New York, and it was quickly agreed that could possession of the letter he obtained and his statements proven to be true, the letter would be of incalculable value to thu Cuban cause, as substantiating what Cuban leaders had maintained regarding autonomy and the general Spanish policy, in official circles, toward this couhtry and its officers. Immediately words of warning and urglngs to be on the alert were sent to every Cuban who might be in a position to obtain track of or intercept the much-sought-for missive. "The letter reached Havana five days ■ after its postmark in Washington. An agent of the Cuban party who is- an emoloye of'ttte Spanish post office, knew that the letter was on the way, and when it came into his hands it was carried from the post office and a copy was made of it. Word 1 to this effect was sent to the Cuban leader in Jacksonville, Fla., who at once asked the secret Cuban Junta in Havana to secure the original letter—that a copy was not what was desired. The Havana post office clerk was not willing to do this at first, but afterward consented, as he was obliged to account for a certain number of letters to other employes of the department. The original was then taken, several blank sheets were substituted in place of the paper upon which De Lome had written, and the letter finally postmarked in the Havana office, and sent on Its ■ , „ ■ "Eight days from Its arrival in the Havana office, the sealed envelope, properly addressed to Senor Canalejas, was delivered at the Hotel Inglaterra. Senor Canalejas communicated almost Immediately with Minister de Lome, and for several weeks letters and cablegrams passed between the twOj but no trace of the letter could be obtained. Canalejas shortly thereafter left Havana, going to Madrid. "It is not explained why the letter was kept by the Cubans for several weeks before It was given out for publication. An informant, other than the person who gave the foregoing, but who is on the Inside in Cuban official circles, declares that the delay was occasioned by a desire on the part of the Junta to be assured absolutely that the writing was that of tlie Spanish minister, so that he might not have any chance to deny its authorship, and thus cause a reaction which undoubtedly would have been the result of the propagation of a fake." Washington, Feb. 14. —The 300-word cipher dispatch received from Minister Woodford Saturday night was translated at the state department Sunday, tTuT no iiitimation of its import could he secured from official sources. Assistant Secretary of State Day, who has been entrusted with the whole correspondence by the president, refused to discuss the message. He said merely that there was no development in the case which properly could be made public at this time. In one instance he supplemented this statement by the- Tib mark that the mere fact of informatioA being withheld is not to be taken as IS serious indication. Secretary Dajr dined at the white house, MrsDay still being out of town. Every effort to supplement Secretary Day’s statement with some information fron; the white house failed. To urgent appeals for something definite the president replied through Secretary Porter that the whole matter was in Secretary Day’s hands and that president-re-lied on him to handle the information for the press. It was stated at the white house, however, that there was no truth in the rutnorof a Censure upon Minister Woodford for allowing Dupuy De Lome to forestall him in presenting the application for the minister's recall. it could not be ascertained positively, whether or not ar. answer to Minister Woodford’s last dispatch has been sent. It is almost certain, however, that a reply has been drafted and that it was put it, cipher at the state department Sunday evening. Mr. Sidney T. Smith, chief of the diplomatic bureau, was at the department till afier nine o’clock. Special orders had been issued also to allow no one in the building without a pass. Sherry’s Liabilities. Milwaukee, Feb. 14.—A statement of the liabilities, of U*yry Sherry and the six companies in wtfteh he was interested gives the amount as $1,250,000, with nominal assets at $700,000. Mr. Sherry's personal liabilities are so2s;000, and in addition to this heJms indorsed the paper of his corporation foi $580,000 more. The assets to meet this are now estimated to be worth $350,000. Count Knlnoky Dead. Bninu, Feb. 14.—Count Gustav Siegmund Knlnoky de Koros-Patnk. formei Austro-Hungarian minister of foreign affairs, d!ed here Sunday afternoon.

)UR DEMAND IGNORED. 3paln Refuses to Apologize f or De Lome's Folly tier Cabinet Considers His Kesisnatibu 'aa®dent SWittoJaetiCK',-'• Declines to Halce a Disavowal —His Successor Named. Madrid, Feb. 15.—The cabinet met at five o’clock Monday afternoon and discussed the present state of the war in Cuba and the De Lome matter at great length, it was decided to publish a decree accepting the resignation or Senor Dupuy De Lome as minister at Washington and appointing Senor Louis Polo Bernabe as his successor. A decree will also be issued convening the chambers before the end of this month, so as to enable the eiection of the new cortes to occur on March 20. Senor Gullon, the minister of foreign affairs, informed the cabinet that United States Minister Woodford had just handed him a note referring to Senor Dupuy De Lome’s letter and to the meaning of several paragraphs in it. The note from Minister Woodford demanded that Spain should formally disavow the insults to President McKinley contained in Senor Dupuy De Lome’s letter to Senor Canalejas. The cabinet council, it is reported, decided unanimously to reply to Minister Woodford that Senor De Lome’s-spon-taneous resignation and the terms of the decree accepting it were considered sufficient satisfaction. It is understood that Minister Woodford received this intimation and dispatched a long cipher telegram to Washington. One of the ministers present said at the close of the council; “You may say.'openly, as coming from Senor Sagasta and from each of us, that we entirely condemn, in the most absolute manner, Senor De Lome’s letter. We are ashamed, grieved, and sorry thereat. The ministers feel more aggrieved than President McKinley can possibly be. We are honest men, who have been placed in a false position by a fool.” La Correspondeneia de Espana announces that owing to the international considerations involved the government lias taken steps to ascertain how and by whom Senor Dupuy De Lome’s letter to Senor Jose Canalejas was stolen. The Ciudad de Cadiz of the Compania Trans Atlantica, which has been fitted out as a cruiser w'ith ten guns, will probably arrive in Cuban waters before February 28 with a torpedo flotilla and tlie frigate Vitoria, a broadside ship of 7,250 tons. TSenor Louis Tolo Bernabe, whose appointment as'the successor of Senor Dupuy De Lome, was foreshadowed last Friday in these dispatches, is a son of Vice Admiral Polo, who formerly represented Spain in this country. Senor Bernabe is now engaged in a special department of the foreign ministry at Madrid defiling with commercial matters and consulates.] Madrid, Feb. 15. —El Liberal, commenting on the De Lome letter, says it was a private document of which the government misunderstood the text. It is semi-ofiieially stated that official claims eanot be founded on a private letter, that Spain acted rightly in accepting the resignation of Senor Dupuy de Lome and that the ministers declare that any claims whatever are inadmissible. New York, Feb. 15.—A dispatch from Washington says: It is announced at midnight at the white house that the Spanish government had made a satisfactory .apology -for the sentiments of the letter of De Lome. The announcement has been authorized that the unpleasant incident is now closed. Judge Day subsequently declared that the only new information in his possession was a press bulletin from Madrid that the cabinet decided to make the disavowal which had been requested by the United States. Paris, Feb. 15. —The Figaro says: “No state could make such aft-apology as the United States demands of Spain without the loss of all dignity. If the United States should attack Spain under such a futile pretext as the De Lome incident the whole of Europe would support the latter.” London, Feb. 15. The dispatches from the American correspondents of the morning papers tfll dwell on the serious aspect of affairs between the United States and Spain, but generally express the opinion that President McKinley’s influence, will be sufficient to avert a conflict. ' LOVE WAS THE CAUSE. Victim of Ghrystoph’s Ballet In lovra Dies—Murderer’s Reason. New Hampton, la., Feb. 15. —Clirystoph’s victim, Miss Minnie Bose, died Sunday night as a result of two pistol wounds inflicted last Wednesday. Popular indignation was so violent that a report was given out that Chrystoph had died Thursday from the effects of the two bullets he fired into his own breast after shooting the girl. He was in custody at his own home in the country; seriously though not fatally ■wounded. Immediately after the death of Miss Bose Chrystoph was brought to this city under,arrest, though the fact tvas not then" made known. Monday afternoon at the coroner’s inquest Chrystoph was held to answer a charge of murder in the first degree. In the jail Chrystoph spoke freely of the crime and described the details of the act. Os his motive he said he loved the girl so desperately and she was so firm in her refusal to listen that he determined to kill her and himself. . ’ • ;j • .•; "/• Dauntless Eludes Her Psrssers. Washington, Feb. 15. —The officiate of the treasury department have received information through Spaoish sources that the suspected filibuster Dauntless has succeeded in eluding tbe vigilance cf the government officiate at Savannah and has passed out of the harbor to b sea. The Dauntless is said to have a cargo of arms, ammunition and other supplies intended for the Cuban ins argents. The treasury "'department has notified the customs officers and revenue cutters along the coast to be oa the alert and detain the supposed fiU' buster if possible. i