Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 22, Number 33, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 24 October 1900 — Page 6

LESSONS OF COMFORT. Talmage Draws a Text from Rescue of Joash. The House of David Saved from Extinction by Jebosheba's Heroic Deed—Work of Soul Suvluir. ICopyrlght, 1900, by Louts Klopscti] Washington, Oct. 21. In this discourse on a neglected incident of the Bible Dr. Talmage draws ■ome comforting lessons and shows that all around/ us are royal natures that we may help deliver. The text is 2 Kings 11:2, 3: “Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of .Ahaziah, took Joash, the son of Aliaiah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain, and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain. And he was with her hid in the house of the Lord -six years.” Grandmothers are more lenient with their children’s children than they were with their own. At 40 years •of age if discipline be necessary chastisement is used, but at 70 the grandmother, looking upon the misbehavior of the grandchild, is apologetic and -disposed to substitute confectionery for whip. There is nothing more beautiful than childhood. Grandmother takes out her pocket handkerchief ■and wipes her spectacles and puts them on and looks down into the face of her mischievous and rebellious descendant and says: “I don’t think he meant to do it. Let him off this time. I'll be responsible foFhis behavior in the future.” My mother, with the -second generation around her, a boisterous crew, said one day: “I suppose they ought to be disciplined, but I can’t do it. Grandmothers are not fit tp bring up grandchild Ten.” But here In my text we have a grandmother of a different type. I have been at Jerusalem, where the occurrence of the text took place, and the whole scene came vividly before me while I was going over the site of the ancient temple and climbing the towers of the king’s palace. Here in the text it is old Athaliah, the royal murderess. She ought to have been honorable. Her father was a king. Her husband was a king. Her son was a king. And yet we find her plotting for the extermination of the entire royal family, including her own •grandchildren. The executioners' knives are sharpened. The palace is red with the blood of princes and princesses. On all sides are shrieks and hands thrown up and struggle and death groan. No mercy! Kill, ikill! But while the ivory floors of the palace run with carnage and the whole land is under the shadow of a great horror a fleet-footed woman, a clergyman's wife, Jehosheba by name, • stealthily approaches the imperial nursery, seizes upon the grandchild 'that had somehow as yet escaped massacre, wraps it up tenderly but in haste, snuggles it against her. flies down the palace stairs, her heart in her throat lest she be discovered in this compassionate abduction. Get her out of the way as quick as you can, for she carries a precious burden, even a young king. With this youthful prize she presses into the room of the ancient temple, the church of olden time, unwraps the young king and puts him down, sound asleep ns he is and unconscious of the peril that has been threatened, and there for six years he is secreted in that church apartment. Meanwhile old Athaliah amacks her lips with satisfaction and thinks that all the royal family are dead. But the six years expire, and it is time for young Joash to come forth and take the throne and to push back into disgrace and death old Athaliah. The arrangements are all made for political revolution. The military come and take possession of the temple, swear loyalty to the bov Joash and stand around for his defense. Seethe sharpened swords and the burnished shields! Everything is ready. Xow Joash, half affrighted at the armed tramp of his defenders, scared at the vociferation of his admirers, is brought forth in full regalia. The scroll of authority is put in his hands, the coronet of government is put on his brow, and the people clapped and waved and huzzaed and trumpeted. “What is that?” said Athaliah. “What is that sound over in the temple?” And she flies to see, and on her way they meet her and say: “Why. haven’t you beard? You thought you had slain all the royal family, but Joash has come to light." Then the royal murderess, frantic with rage, grabbed her mantle and tore it to tatters and cried until she fonmed at the mouth: “You have no right tp crown my grandson. You have no right to take the government from my shoulders. Treason, •treason!”

While she stood there crying that the military started for her arrest, and she took a short cut through a back door of the temple and ran through the royal stables, but the battleaxes of the military fell on her in the barnyard, And for manjr.a day when the horses •were being unloosened from the chariot after drawing oin young .Toash the fiery steeds would snort and rear passing the place as they smell the place of the carnage. The first thought I hand you from this subject is that the extermination of righteousness is an impossibility. When a woman is good, she is apt to be very good, and when she is bad she is apt to be very bad, and this Athaliah was one of the latter sort. She would •exterminate thelast scion of the house of David, through whom Jesus was to come. There was plenty of work for embalmera and undertakers. She would cleave the land of all God fearing and God loving people. She would put An end to everything that could in anj-

wise interfere with her Imperial irlminality. She folds her hands and says: "The work is done. It is completely done.” Is it? In the swaddling clothes of that church apartment are wrapped the cause of God and the cause of good government. That is the scion of the house of David. It is Joash, the God worshiping reformer. It is Joash, the friend of Uod. It is Joash, the demoralizer of Baalitisli idolatry. Bock him tenderly, nurse him gently. Athaliah, you may kill all the other children, but you cannot kill him. Eternal defenses are thrown all around him, and this clergyman’s wife, Jehosheba, will snatch him up from the palace nursery and will run down with him into the house of the Lord, and there she will hide him for six years, and at the end of that time he will come forth for your dethronement and obliteration. Well, my friends, just as poor a botch does the world always make of extinguishing righteousness. Superstition rises up and says: “I will just put an end to pure religion.” Domitian slew 40,000 Christians, Diocletian slew 844,000 Christians. And the scythe of persecution has been swung through all ages, and the flames hissed, and the guillotine chopped, and the Bastile groaned, but did the foes of Christianity exterminate it? Did they exterminate Alban, the first British sacrifice, or Zwingli, the Swiss reformer, or John Oldcnstle, the Christian nobleman, or Abdallah, the Arabian martyr, or Anne Askew or Sanders or Cranmer? Great work of extermination they made of it. Just at the time when they thought they had slain all the royal family of Jesus some Joash would spring up and out and take the throne of power and wield a very scepter of Christian dominion. Infidelity says: “I will exterminate the Bible,” and the Scriptures were thrown into the street for the mob to trample on, and they were piled up in the public squares and set on fire, and mountains of indignant contempt were hurled on them, and learned universities decreed the Bible out of existence. Thomas Paine said: “In my ‘Age of Reason’ I have annihilated the Scriptures. Your Washington is a pusillanimous Christian, but I am the foe of Bibles and churches.” Oh. how many assaults upon that word! All the hostilities that have ever been created on earth are not to be compared with the hostilities against that bodk. Said one man in his infidel desperation to his wife: “You must not be reading that Bible,” and he snatched it away from her. And though in that Bible was a lock of hair of the dead child—the only child that God had ever given them—he pitched the book w,ith its contents into the fire and stirred it with the tongs and spat on it and cursed it and said: “Susan, never have any more of that damnable stuff here.”

How many individual and organized attempts have been made to exterminate that Bible? Have its enemies done it? Have they exterminated the American Bible society? Have they exterminated the British and Foreign Bible society? Have they exterminated the thousands of Christian institutions whose only object is to multiply copies of the Scriptures and spread them broadcast around the world? They have exterminated until instead of one or two copies of the Bible in our houses we have eight or ten. and we pile them up in the corners of our Sabbath-school rooms and send great boxes of them everywhere. If they get on as well as they are now going on in the work of extermination, I do not know but that our children may live to see the millennium. Yea, if there should come a time of persecution in which all the known Bibles of the earth should be destroyed, all these lamps of life that blaze in our pulpits nnd in our families extinguished, in thp very day that infidelity and, sin should be holding jubilee over the universal extinction there would be in some secret closet of a backwoods church a secreted Bible, and this Joash of eternal literature would come out and come up and take the throne, and the Athaliah of infidelity and persecution would fly out of the back door of the palace and drop her miserable carcass under the hoofs of the horses of the king’s stables. You vSinhot exterminate Christianity! You cannot kill Joash! The second thought I hand you from my subject is that there are opportunities in which we may save royal life. You know that profane history is replete with stories of strangled monarch* and of young princes who have been put out of the way. Here is the story of a young king saved. How Jehosheba. the clergyman’s wife, must have trembled as she rushed into the imperal nursery and snatched up Joash! How she hushed him lest by his cry he hinder the escape! Fly w ith him, Jehosheba! You hold in your arms the cause of God and good government. Fail, and he is slain. Succeed. and you turn the tide of the world’s history in the right direction. It seems as if between that young king and his assassins there is nothing but the frail arm of a woman. But why should w e spend our time in praising this bravery of expedition when God asks the same thing of you and me? All around us the imperial children of a great King. They are born of Almighty parentage and will come to a throne if permitted. But sin, the old Athaliah, goes forth to the massacre. Murderous temptations are out for the assassination. Valens, the emperor. was told that there was somebody in his realm who would usurp his throne and that the name of the man who should be the usurper would begin with the letters T. H, E, O, D. and the edict went forth from the emperor’s throne: “Kill everybody whose name begins with TANARUS, H, E, O, D." And hundreds were slain, hoping by that massacre to put an end to that one usurper. But sin is more terrific in its denunciation. It matters Dot how you spell your name, you come under its knife, under its sword, under its doom, unless there be some omnipotent relief

brought to the rescue. But, blessed be God. there is such a thing as delivering a royal soul. Who will snatch away Joash? Can you imagine any sublimer work than this soul saving? That was what flushed Paul’s cheek with enthusiasm; that was what led Munson to risk his life Amid Bornesian cannibals; that was what sent Dr. Abeel to preach under the consuming skies of China; that was what gave courage to Phocas in the third century. When the military officers came to put him to death for Christ’s sake, he put them to bed that they might rest, while he himself went out and in his own garden dug his grave and then came back and said: “I am ready.” But they were shocked at the idea of taking the life of their host. He said): “It is the will of God that I should die,” and he stood on the margin of his own grave, and they beheaded him. You say it is a mania, a foolhardiness, a fanaticism. Bather would I call it a glorious self-abnegation, the thrill of eternal satisfaction, the plucking of Joash from death and raising him to coronation. The third thought I hand to you is that the church of God is a good hiding place. When Jehosheba rushes into the nursery of the king and picks up Joash, what shall she do with him? Shall she take him to some room in the palace? No, for the official desperadoes will hunt through every nook and corner -of that building. Shall she take bim to the residenc* of some wealthy citizen? No; that citizen would not dare to harbor the fugitive. But she has to take him somewhere. She hears the cry of the mob in the streets; she hears the shriek of the dying nobility; so she rushes with Joash unto the room of the temple, into the house of God, nnd there she puts him down. She knows that Athaliah and her wicked assassins will not bother the temple a great deal. They are not apt to go very much to church, and so she sets down Joash in the temple. There he will be hearing the songs of the worshipers year after year; there lie will breathe the odor of the golden censers; in that sacred spot he will tarry, secreted until the six years have passed and he come to enthronement. Would God that we were all as wise as Jehosheba and knew that the church of God is the best hiding placet Perhaps our parents took us there in early days. They snatched us away from the world and hid us behind the baptismal fonts and amid the Bibles and psalm books. 0 glorious inclosure! We have been breathing the breath of the golden censers all the time, and we have seen the Lamb on the altar, and we have handled the vials in which are the prayers of all saints, and we have dwelt under the wings of the cherubim. Glorious inclosure! When my father and mother died and the property was settled up, there was hardly anything left. But they endowed us with a property worth more than any earthly possession because they hid us in the temple. And when days of temptation have come upon my soul I have gone there for shelter, and when assaulted of sorrows I have gone there for comfort, and there I mean to live. I want, like Joash, to stay until coronation. O men of the world outside there, betrayed, caricatured and cheated of the world, why do you not come in through the broad, wide-open door of Christian communion? I wish I could act the part of Jehosheba to-day and steal you away from your perils and hide you in the temple. How few of us appreciate the fact that the church of God is a hiding place! There are mney people who put the church at so low a mark that they begrudge it everything, even the few dollars they give toward it. They make no sacrifices. They- dole a little out of their surplusage. They pay their butcher's bill, and they pay their doctor’s bill, and they pay their landlord, and they pay everybody but the Lord, and they come in at the last to pay the Lord In His church, and frown as they says “There, Lord, it is. Send me a receipt in full and don’t bother me soon again.” There is not more than one man out of a thousand that appreciates what the church is. Where are the souls that put aside one-tenth for Christian institutions—one-tenth of their income? Where are those who, having put aside that one-tenth, draw upon it cheerfully? Why, it is pull and drag and hold on and grnb and clutch, and giving is an affliction to most people, when it ought to be an exhilaration nnd a rapture. Oh, that God would remodel our souls on this subject and that we might appreciate the house of God as the great refuge! If your children are to come up to lives of virtue and happiness, they will come up under the shadow of the church. If the church does not get them, the world will.

Church of God, be a hiding place to all these people! Give them a seat where they can rest their weary souls. Flash some light from your chandeliers upon their darkness. With some soothing hymn hush their griefs. Oh, church of God, gate of Heaven, let me go through iti All other institutions are going to fail, hut the church of God—its foundation is the Rock of Ages, its charter is for everlasting years, its ke’ys are held by the universal Proprietor, its dividend is Heaven, its president is God! Sure as thy truth shall last, To Zion shall be given The highest glories earth can yield And brighter bliss of Heaven. God grant that ail this audience, the youngest, the eldest, the worst, the best, may find their safe and glorious hiding place where Joash found it—in the temple! Not Headquarters, “What did her father say?” “He said he couldn't understand why I came to him—all his property was tn his wife's name.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer.

LOSS TO THE NATION. Hon. John Sherman, the Venerable Statesman, Is Dead. The Sad Event Occurred Just at Daybreak on Monday in Washington —Proclamation by the Presi- -*■ dent—Hie Career Washington, Oct. 23. —Hon. John Sherman, former representative in the house, for a long term a member of the senate, and twice holding cabinet positions, died at his residence in this city at a quarter before seven o’clock Monday morning, in the seventyeighth year of his age. His death had been expected for some days, and loving friends gave him their unremitting care and attention to the end. Proclamatloii by the President. The president Monday afternoon issued' the following proclamation: "DEATH OF HON. JOHN SHERMANBy the President of the United States of America. "A Proclamation—To the People of the United States: In the fullness of years and honors, John Sherman, lately secretary of state, has passed away. "Few among our citizens have risen to greater or more deserved eminence in the national councils than he. The story of his

EX-SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN T. SHERMAN. public life and services is as it were the history of the country for half a century. In the congress of the United States he ranked among the foremost in the house and later in the senate. He was twice a member of the executive cabinet, first as secretary of the treasury and afterwards as secretary of state. Whether in debate during the dark hours of our civil war, or as the director of the country's finances during the period of rehabilitation, or as a trusted councillor in framing the nation’s law for over 40 years, or as the exponent of its foreign policy, his course was ever marked by devotion to the best interests of his beloved land, and by able and conscientious effort to uphold Its dignity and honor. Ills countrymen will long revere his memory and see in him a type of the patriotism, the uprightness and the teal that go to molding and strengthening a nation. "In fitting expression of the sense of bereavement that afflicts the republic, I direct that on the day of the funeral the executive offices of the United States display the national flag at half-mast and that the representatives of the United States in foreign countries shall pay In like manner appropriate tribute to the Illustrious dead for a period of ten days. "Done at the city of Washington this twenty-second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand and nine hundred and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and twenty-fifth. (Seal) "WILLIAM M’KINLEY. "By the President: JOHN HAY, "Secretary of State." Tle Stfiteninan’s Career.

John Sherman was 7S years of age. He was born at Lancaster, 0.. and when he was six years of age his father died. In the spring of 1837 he set out to do something for himself, and obtained the position .of Junior rodman with the engineer corps working on the Improvements of the Muskingum river. When 19 he went to Mansfield to study law with a brother. He was prepared for practice before he was 21 and practiced law actively until he was elected to congress in 1854. Sherman and Colfax happened to enter public life together. They were both delegates to the national convention in Philadelphia, which nominated Zacharlah Taylor in 1848. During that summer Mr. Sherman was married to Miss Cecelia Stewart, the only daughter of Judge Stewart, of Mansfield. He was president of the first republican state convention held in Ohio, which met In 1855 and nominated S. P. Chase for governor. Mr. Sherman took his seat In the Thir-ty-fourth congress six years before the war. In the Thirty-fifth congress he made a number of able speeches and became much interested In the finances of the country. He was elected to the United States senate In 1861 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Chase. Made Secretary of Treasury. Mr. Sherman can almost be called the author and tne founder of the financial policy of the republican party. President Hayes made Mr. Sherman his secretary of the treasury because he knew him to be the.foremost financier of the age. Returning to the senate on the close of his term In President Hayes’ cabinet, Mr. Sherman took up the work of active legislation again, and for 16 years more was one of the leaders of the body In which he had previously spent other 16 years of usefulness. Mr. Sherman again resigned from the senate in March. 1897, to accent the most Important position in the gift of President McKinley, the secretaryship of state, from which he retired in April, 1898. While secretary of the treasury in President Hayes' cabinet Mr. Sherman set himself to the task of providing a redemption fund to meet the resumption demands on the date already fixed by the senate. He sold 60,000,000 of 4V6 per cent, bonds to the Rothschild syndicate at 109 V&. The business of the country began to adjust Itself on the assured basis of specie payments after January 1, 1879. During the four years he was at the head of the treasury department he refunded nearly $850,000,000 of the public debt, making a saving In annual interest of nearly $15,000,000 per annum. Fifty Killed. London, Oct. 23.—^'According to the St. Petersburg 1 correspondent of the Daily Express, 50 persons were killed and many others terribly scalded by a boiler explosion on board the steamer Eugenia, running between Tomsk and Barnaul. Honored Their Empress. Berlin, Oct. 23.—The birthday of Empress Augusta Victoria, who was born October 22, 1858, was generally observed Monday throughout Germany. The kaiser presented to her an excellent oil portrait of her deceased mother.

UNITED STATES IN LINE. Palter Identical with British-German Alliance Expressed In Note te France. Washington, Oct. 23.—1 tis authoritatively stated that the United States government views with distinct favor the principles enunciated in the AngloGerman agreement relating to China, and that a formal response to that effect will be made at an early day to the invitation extended to this government to accept the principles of the agreement. The German charge d’affaires, Count de Quadt, had a conference with Secretary Hay Monday afternoon, presenting officially the text of the AngloGerman agreement, Including the invitation to the United States to accept the principles therein recorded. Mr. Hay expressed his satisfaction at what had been done, saying he felt it to be in complete harmony with the policy this government had pursued, both as to the maintenance of unobstructed commerce in China and the territorial entity of the empire, and adding that a formal reply would be given id a day or two. Count de Quadt was gratified these assurances, and left with the belief that there was such a harmonious understanding on the general principles involved that the concurrence of the powers was near at hand. Before receiving the official invitation from Germany, Mr. Hay had been fully advised of the agreement, and had gone over it with care with the president. This was the more necessary, owing to the president’s departure for Canton Monday night. The result of these deliberations is summed up in the statement that the government views the Anglo-German agreement with favor. It is also probable that some attention has been given to the draft of the American reply. It is .ikely to be in the form of a note of approval, rather than any formal adherence to the alliance, but this is said to be merely a matter of detail.

About the only serious question which has arisea as to the American reply was on clause three of the An-glo-German agreement. This states that in case of another power making use of the complications in China in order to obtain territorial advantages, German and Great Britain reserve the right to reach a preliminary understanding on the eventual step to be taken for the protection of their interests. This is open to the construction of being a threat against other powers, and there was no desire on the part of officials here to give American adherence to anything in the nature of a threat. It is probable that the American reply will not go beyond accepting the principle that German nnd Great Britain have a right to agree between themselves as to their eventual course. But there is not likely to be anything which will commit this government to accept the eventual agreement. In short, the third clause is interpreted to apply only to Germany and Great Britain, there being no invitation extended to other powers to join them in a preliminary understanding regarding the eventual step to be taken. Berlin, Oct. 23.—Although no formal answers have yet been received from the powers regarding the Anglo-Ger-man agreement. Count von Buelow, the imperial chancellor, has been assured by the diplomatic representatives here thnt their governments will readily accede to the agreement. This ia not surprising, because, as a high government official pointed out Monday, the agreement contains only what had been declared in principle by each power involved in the present Chinese imbroglio. The agreement, which may be considered as Count von Buelow’s entree into his new office, is interpreted ns another diplomatic victory for him. It is now asserted that the Russian ambassador to Germany, who was the first whom Count von Buelow told nbout the agreement—he giving him ornl explanations tending to show that its point was not directed against Russia —gave assurances amounting to a declaration that Russia would join in the agreement. Berlin, Oct. 23. —The inspired organs declare in chorus that the agreement is not aimed at any power, and least of all Russia. They point out the importance of Great Britain's protection of the Yangtse region, where Germnny’s trade could he ruined unless the principle of the “open door” were maintained. BANK ROBBED. Burglar* Blow Open the Safe of an Orearon Institution anil Steal *3,000. i Boise, Idaho, Oct. 23.—A special to the Statesman from La Grande, Ore., says: The First national bank at Union, was blown open Monday morning between two and three o’clock. Nitroglycerin was applied, to the door of the vault. The shock blew open, the doors, and broken particles passed through the front of the building. The robbersthen appeared to have attempted to pry open the safe, hut fled, on the approach of citirens who had sounded the alarm. No arrests were made, although the men were seen walking away. The loss is abouts3,ooo. Given n Life Term, Davenport, la., Oct. 23. —George Steffens, a stranger arrested in this city last summer for assaulting an eight-year-old girl, was convicted of the crime last week, and was sentenced by Judge Bollinger Mondny to imprionment for life In the penitentiary at hard labor. Drlnii Much Golf. San Francisco, Oct. 23.—The barkentine Morning Star arrived Monday, 22 days from St, Michaels. Beside her 85 passengers the steam barkentine carried $1,000,000 worth of gold dust from the mlnea ot Dawson. •

TALKS OF THE STRIKE. . PNilieit Mitchell Sara the peete for aa Early Settlement Are Mrlsht. Hazleton, Pa., Oot. 83. President Mitchell, oi the United Mine Worker*, in an interview, said that if all the companies will notify their employe* that an actual advance of ten per cent, will be guaranteed till April 1, and that the sliding scale will be abolished, he believed 1 the terms would be accepted by the mine workers. President Mitchell said: “The prospect of an early settlement of the coal strike Is becoming brighter. Soma of the operators have not yet posted notices signifying their willingness to fall In line either with the Reading company or with the proposition made by the Lehigh Valley company In the Hazleton region. It all of them notify their employes by post- ) lng notices or otherwise that an an actual advance of ten per cent, will be paid each mine employe and guarantee Its continuance until April 1, together with ths abolition of the sliding scale, I believe that the terms would be aocepted by the mine workers. The reduction In powder from $2.7S to $1.50 has confused the minds of the ■pliers, but some of the operators, have so fully explained how contract miners could receive the full advance of ten per cent, as well as all other employes that I believe that this obstacle can be overcome." Although, as President Mitchell says, the outlook for an early settlement of the strike is bright, it is difficult to make a prediction aa to when the end trill come. Some of the coal companies are showing a disposition not to issue a second notice guaranteeing the payment of the ten per cent, increase in wages until April. Among these are the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western and the Delaware & Hudson, the officials of which companies are reported to have declined to issue a supplemental notice. The labor leaders, however, hope that the companies will in some Way make known that they will guarantee the payment of the advance until April 1. President Mitchell appeared quite cheerful when he made the announcement as above, and his manner indicated 1 that the time is near at hand when all the anthracite miners now on strike shall return to the mines. A* soon as all the notices guaranteeing the payment of the advance until April - 1 are posted, President Mitchell will J call a meeting of the national executive board, at which it is believed the strike will be declared off. The largest labor demonstration ever held in this city took place Monday, when nearly 7,000 miners paraded the streets. In a carriage at their head tode President Mitchell, who received an enthusiastic ovation all along the line of march. The thousands of miners accompanied by their families came to the city from every mining town in the region to view the parade. Besides the minera from this vicinity, there were 150 men in line who had tramped 18 miles over the mountains from the Panther Creek valley. They, with McAdoo miners, who are famed throughout the coal fields for their perseverance in marching and closing collieries, were the heroes of the parade. Three bus loads of the marching women of McAdoo and 190 small breaker boys dressed In their working clothes and with lighted mine lamps in their caps were at the head of the line, immediately behind the earriages containing the United Mine Workers’ officials. Many mottoes expressing the sentiments of the strikers were carried in the procession. President Mitchell reviewed the parade at the end 1 of the route, after which a mass meeting was held, at which President Mitchell was the principal speaker. He said the strikelwas in such a peculiar position that it was hard to outline just what the result would be. He believed the time was not far distnnt, however, when every mine would be in operation and that the men now had practically won the strike. Wilkesbarre, Oct. 23. Discontent among the striking miners of the Wyoming valley is growing and unless the strike is settled soon they will be hard to control. A majority of the men are willing and anxious to go to work, and if President Mitchell should call the strike off to-day, even with the powder question unsettled,, he would receive more credit from his followers than to allow the contest to drag on with the chance of losing in the end. The strikers say they are well organized now and they can afford to wait awhile before demanding other concessions. But, in the opinion of many, aij prolongation of the strike will mean only a repetition of history. They say the companies will starve the men out the same as they have in other strikes, and then when they do return to work it probably will be at the old wages and without the union back of them. Mayor Nichols, of this city, say* trouble will follow if the strike continues. He is seriously considering a proposition to arm the police force with guns, so that they will be able to cope with a mob should they be called upon to quell a riot.

To Remove Wreck of the Maine. Washington, Oct. 23.—Gen. Leonard Wood, governor general of Cuba, snw Secretary Long Monday and recommended that steps be taken to remove - the wreck of the baittleship Maine from Havana harbor, as it occupies a great deal of space which could’ be utilized y to advantage. He said he thought the wreck would have to be taken up piecemeal instead of being raised as a whole. anests of Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 23.—Gen. Joseph Wheeler and Lieut. Hobson were the guests of Atlanta Monday, the occasion being Veteran*’ dtoy at the Southern inter-state fair. A parade composed of various military and civic organizations escorted the guest to Exposition park, where Gen. Wheeler spoke during the afternoon. Solelle of a Convlei. Leavenworth, Kan., Oct. 23.—Samuel Lewis, a colored wife murderer and life convict in the Kansas state penitentlary, committed suicide Monday, b f \ drinking a solution of oaustio soda.