Pike County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 37, Petersburg, Pike County, 3 February 1892 — Page 1

PIKE COUNTY DEMOCRAT IS8UBD BVJfiRY WB0HB3DAY. TERMS OR SUBSCRIPTION: ffotoaa jwar. c* M > ««•««• • <> INVARIABLY IN ADVANOft. AUTBBrnnu U1|Ih S**1 w “**•)• «* «»»««•»•—-jb'm BacA addition*! luertion.. M Allboral redocttoa bi4« on Iftirllwnii tkiaa, (tz ud twelve !**•! aa* Tratulenl R»H (via advaim. — SSB

UL CAIi J. T. Physician and Surgeon, PETERSBURG, INC. . MrOfflee in Bank building, Unit floor. Will Mtoqnd at office day or night. T*urc» B. Pom. d»witt t(. Chappell. POSEY A Cgj£&ELL, Attorneys at Lawf PKTfBABUBe, ISO. v £ . .’a- ' 4 Will practloe la all the courts. Special attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the ofltoe. dVOfflce— On flrst floor Bank Building. B. A. KIT. 8. G. DAVBSrOBT. ELY A DAVENPORT, LAWYER, Petersburg, In®y^' 49‘Ofllce over J. R. Adams <t 8ob*s drug store. Prompt attention giveki to ail business. K. P. nciunioit iu H. Tatlob RICHARDSON A TAYLOR, Attorneys at Law, Petersburg, Inbi. Prompt attention given to all business. A Notary Public constantly in the office. Office In Carpenter Building, Eighth itnd Main. DENTISTRY. DR. WOODRY,

Surgeon Dentist/ PETERSBURG, INB. Office over J. B. Young’s 8tore, Main Street. ^yrOfltce hours from 9 o’clock a. m. to 4 o’clock p. m. W. H. STONECIPHER,

Surgeon Dentistf PETERSBURG, IND. Office In rooms6 and 7 In Carpenter BuildIn*. Operations first-class. AU work war- , ranted. Anaesthetics nsed for painless ex- ' traction of teeth. GEO. B. ASHBY, ATTORNEY AT LAW PETERSBURG, IND. Prompt Attention Given to nil Business. 49-Office ovSr Barrett A Son's store. L H. I.A MAR, Physician and Surgeon Petersburg, Isd. van practice In Pike and adjoining connties; Office In Montgomery Building. Office hoars day and night. _ 40-Diseases of Women and Children a specially. Chronic and difficult eases solicited.

THIS PAPER IS OK FILE IK CHICAGO ARB IEW YORK „ ' AT thk offices or A. R. KELLOIfi HEWSMPER €0. TRUSTEES* NOTICES OF OFFIL'E DAT. N^WB&Krsarii'isffa Clsy township »* Union on EVERY SATURDAY. business on no ^ EVERY STAURDAY, To transact business connected with the oflM erf truatee Of Doelihart township. All persons basins buslnest with smd office will please take notlee. - J. S. BARRETT. Trustee. NOTICE Is hereby siren to all parties eonearned that I wnibe at my residence. EVERY TUESDAY™ H To attend to busineas connected with tbe t of Trustee of Monroe township. GKORUE GRIM, Trustee. N' OTICE Is hereby given that I will be at EVERY THURSDAY .To attend to business connected with the office of Trustee of Dognn eownshlp. SW Positively no busineas transacted ex•mi on ngoc days. on » gnjU! SIBK> Trustee.

THIS WOULD AT LAittrJfi Summary of the Dafly New* WASHINGTON NOTTS*. Thk cabinet spent two hours discussing Chili’s apology. A difference ol opinion developed ns to the propriety of socepting the offer without modification. The general feeling in Washington was that Cblii’s proposition had ended all danger of war. Whitelaw Rub, the United States minister to Fran- e was reported contemplating resignation in carder to resume his journalistic work. The state department it is understood has been advised to this effect. Chaibmav Blount, of the foreign affairs committee, has announced for Ur. Blaine that the Chilian trouble is at an end. Chilian Minister Pereira’s note was said to have been especially strong in its expressions of good will. 8kcsstart Noblx has sent a formal notice to the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Irdians that under their agreement with the government ratified by congress March 8, 1891, fee has extended the time in which they may make selection of their allotments to February fit. D. E, Ravins, of Washington, has been elected president of the National Farmers’ Alliance, defeating President Powers, of Nebraska. Adolph D’Allemand, of Nebraska was elected secretary and treasurer. Secretary Noble has ordered the five agents now In the field to proceed at once to the allotment of lend to the Cheyenne end Arapahoe Indians in the western part of the .Indian territory. It is the secretary’s purpose to have everything in readiness possible for the opening of 3,000,0® acres of surplus lands on or about April 1 next. The salts filed against the estate at the late Senator Plumb, of Kansas, was the topic of conversation at Washington reoentiy. The amounts involve! are 5347,290.75 and 513,000. The first was for stock in a Virginia railroad and the seoond was money dne for overdrafts on the American Security & Trust Co. It was ’ thought the suits would be settled out of court and no testimony taken. Gur. Bavx appeare 1 before a subcommittee of the house appropriation committee and asked for an appropriation for pensions > for the next fiscal year of 5144,930,000. Thb democratic members of the hor.se ways and moans committee have decided to attack various obnoxious features of the - McKinley law in separate bills.

THE EAST. Mr. CusvKL^tD is reported to have prepared a letter of withdrawal from polities, but to hare withheld it at the request of friends who are now studying the New York situation. A New York city towboat and four scows with 135 men on board are either drifting on the ocean amid a wild gale or are all lost. The boat was disabled. Borne, Scrymkr A Co.’s great oil works at Elisabeth port, N. J., were destroyed by fire tho other night Loss $300,000. T«R Manhattan club of New York city gave Senator Hill a reception and banquet on the night of the 36th. Senator Stanford's two-year-old colt Baby McKee, full brother of Arioo, was sold at auction in New York for $25,000. A party of business men interested in western land irrigation met at New York on the 3Tth for the purpose of forming a combination and establishing a general headquarters in that city for western irrigation companies. The New York senate finance committee has decided! to report favorably the bill appropriating $300,000 for the state’s exhibit at tihe world’s fair. It is announced that the Alliance Insurance association has reinsured with the Phoenix of Brooklyn its outstanding risks, amounting to about 860,000,

UUvL A sensational rumor was current on the New York stock exchange that Egan had been killed, hut it could not he traced to any respectable source. When the rumor was brought to the attention of the state department officials at Washington they laughed and pronounced the rumor “absurd. * A. Peabody.& Co., diamond dealer' of New York, who lost a trunk ol diamonds by theft in the west, have failed with $75,0*0 liabilities and *70,000 assets. Four miners were killed and seven fatally an<f nine badly Injured by an explosion of dualin near Hazelton, Pa. Four of the eighteen men on the tag Webster and dumping boats, blown to sea the other day from New York, have been rescued. There is no trace of the others. A Philadelphia & Reading coal engine blew up at Newcastle near St Clair, Schuylkill county, forty miles north of Beading. Ihe other morning. Five men were instantly kilted, the engineer, David Zeigler, Fireman N. Baul, and Jacob Turner, Jack Wintergreeu and Henry Sands, brakemen. The bodies were horribly mangled. On< has not yet been found Sixty New York democratic leaden held a conference on the night of the 80th and entered vigorous protest! against the holding of the state eonvention February 88. Fire the other night burned a whole business block in Jeanette, Pa. Th< loss on the block burned was *65,000. A Mount Pleasant, Pa., telegram stated that United States Revenue Of fleer Mitchell and nineteen depntiei had left for Jones’ mills in the mount sins to captors a desperate gang 01 moonshiners and Officers Harrow and Marshall had returned with five prison ere. They surrounded the moon shiners and captured two Audi equipped illicit distilleries. The moon shiners were taken unawares and quietly surrendered. The distilleries were destroyed. Seventeen officer! are still in the mountains and expect U capture the other members of Hie gang la a collision near Mahoney City

INDIANA STATE NEWS. vr*. Gobdon, of Anderson, was held lip »nd robbed of 850 by footpads. B azklwood district school, was act afire and horned down. Eubiko a dance near Madison Jim Bubo 1*4 rb are tearing New Harmony wid e open. Tkb coroner is looking into the Indianapolis horror. A largk agricultural works may soon be built at Ft Wayne. Hkiuiah Radke, a bachelor, fiftyfour years of age, was found dead, hax.ging from a ladder in the rear room of his residence in Laporte. He was a gardener. ' ■ '

A nother Charley Koos Has turned up in l?t Wayne. A. doctor has r double-headed calf on exhibition at Union City. Samuel Chahey and William Wiggle were lamping a heavy blast in a mine netr Brasil, when the bar struck a piece of flint making a spark that exploded the charge and perhaps fatally in j arod both men. The Indianapolis ministers denounce the carelessness of the owners of the burned institute. A South Bend undertaker will supply male, female or mixed quartets at funerals, as desired. Has. Wm, Walker, of Evansville, han recovered her child, which was kidnajied by its father four years ago Twenty-two hundred cases of la grippe have been reported at Princeton this month, and fifty deaths. Thomas Leinihan, a well-to-do shoemaker, was run down by a Big Four freight train, at Lafayette. His body was dragged two squares and cut to pieces. Kew Albany poker-players, oontsrollers and gamblers of all. grades, have fled to the woods. ’Cause why, the grand jury is in session. Harry West, of Indianapolis, was fired at by an unknown assassin. Hiss JOsib McDonald,of Wabash,deserted by her husband, went insane. A drunken glass-blower named Oliver Williams, cut his wife'sthroat at Dunkirk. Hiss Lucy Campbell, a Tipton school teacher, was badly cut by a coon while hunting. Craweordsyille will have a new depot Three new factories are talked of for Elwood. Pans Yuw, a Wealthy Chinaman of Indianapolis, and Ida Morton, also of Indianapolis, and daughter of wealthy parents, were married in Chicago, the other night. Mbs. McClain, wife of Rev. T. B. McClain, of Milton, is said to have been invited to write the poem for Indiana for thq World’s fair. Michael O’Brien, a brakeman on the Nickel-plate railroad, while in a somnambulistic state, stepped out of a sec-ond-story window atmsbourding-house at Ft Wayne, the other night and landed on the frozen ground twentyfive feet below. His skull was fractured, and he died that afternoon. Henry E. Perkins, the oldefst miner in the county, was killed in the Jumbo mine .hear Brasil, by falling date. He was crushed into an unrecognisable Theodore Cox, a well-known character about Marion, was rnnJown by a freight ear on the Pan-handle switch and fatally^-injured. He was intoxicated. S

william lewis, one or neiaware county’s most prominent farmers, died at his home near Smith fluid, at the age -of 81 years. Mr .Lewis was extremely wealthy, his estate being rained at £300,004, which will be divided among fire children. Tax stock of El J. Scott & Co., who hare been running an alliance and farmers’ mutual dry goods store in Greenfield for some months past, was seised by creditors. J. Tucker, a Veedersburg lumber man, got drunk and fired at several people in an Indianapolis hotel, thinking he was in Chili. Indiana wool growers in session at Indianapolis protest against a reduction in tile price of wool. Jab. Gough, a blacksmith, at Circlerille, near Tipton, was working at his forge, when the fire exploded and blew off his right arm. It develops that an Indianapolis undertaker has been selling bodies to medical colleges, while funeral services were held over empty coffins. Richmond couneilmen declined to pass an ordinance forbidding free street car passes Indianapolis bas a poultry show. Josiah Brandon, an Anderson miser; died and quite a sum of money was found secreted in his bed. Wm. Spangler, of Dillsboro, cured his grip with a bath of lye water. It took off all his hair and skin. A slick woman worked Tipton people for considerable money by representing as herself haring;been put off a train. A conscience-stricken burglar wrote to Kirk Woefenberger, at Wolkerton, telling him where to And his stolen papers It was too cold at Farmland a few days ago, for factories to run, the boilers all being fro sen up Boyd Lynville, aged 88, died at Muncie. 'He had bent a resident of Delaware county since 182ft Miss Ida Neff, aged twenty, also died in Muncie at about the same hour. At Indianapolis an electric motor car collided with a hack driven by Joseph Rinear, tearing the carriage to pieces Rinear was thrown under the motor and fatally crushed. District School No. 8, in Union township, Bartholomew county, John J. Cochran, teacher, has been closed indefinitely on account of the prevalence

WHITE-WINGED PE^ fi&GBiBl The Ominous War Clouds A] ently All Dissipated. \ Another pip or Chfli-Tho Latter Is All W« Coaid Ask. f • Washington, Jan. 89.—The presMf. sent the following special messaged accompanying correspondence tU p— gross; Tits MESSAGE. o' T J

To TH* SettATB AND HOUSI ON *rras:' 1 transmit herewith Additional cd spondence between this gpvernment and government el Chili, consisting of a note of Montt, the Chilian minister at this Hr. Blaine, dated January 23; a reply bf*V | “ | ' - “ and a d» Blaine thereto, dated January »,_ patch from Mr. Egan, Our minister at Santiago, transmitting the response of Mr. Pereira, the Chilian minister of foreign affairs, to the note of Mr. Blaine of January. »1, which was tecelrad by mo on the Mtk instant. The cote of Mr. Montt tu Mr. I January *3, Was not delivered at i partment until after U o’clock, meridian, of the ftth, and was not translated and its receipt notified to me until late in the afternoon of that day. The response of Mr. Pereira to oor note of the 21st withdraws, with acceptable expressions of regret, the offensive note of Mr. Matte of the Uth ultimo, and also the request for the recall of Mr. Egan. The treatment of the incident of the assanlt upon the sailors of the Baltimore is so conciliatory and friendly that I cm of the opinion there a a good prospect that the differences growing But of that serious affair can now be Adjusted upon terms satisfactory to this government, by the usual methods and without special powers from congress. This turn in the affair la eery gratifying to me, as I am sure it will be to the congress and our people. The general support of the efforts of the executive To enforce the just right of the nation in this matter has given an instructivo and useful illustration of the unity and patriotism of our people. Should it be necessary I will again communicate with congress upon the subject Bre» Aiim Harrison. Washington, D. C., Jan. 88, UK. THE CORRESPONDENCE. v The first document was Chili’s answer to the ultimatum of the 21st Inst, dated Janunry 25, and received at the state department at 9 a. m. January 26. It is as follows: Santiago, Jan. 28, 1888. To Blairs, Washington—I have to-day received tho following reply to my note of the 23d Inst.: Sis—The undersigned has had the hoporto receive your excellency's communication dated 23d test, received in this department the 23d, and the duly authenticated copies ofthe instructions which the honorable secretary of state of Washington has sent to your excellency by cable nnder dates of thaftattaut and the 23d of October, 1881. In the Instructions of the 2lst test the honorable secretary of state informs ytfflr excellency that his excellency, Mr. Harrises, after carefully examining all that has been submitted to him by the government of ChiM with respect to the event which occurred in Valparaiso on tho evening of tho 18th of October, and taking into consideration tho testimony of the offloers and crew of the vessel, the Baltimore, and of others who witnessed the event, has arrived at the foltewing conclusions: First—That with regard to that assault there baa been no change whatever made to the character give a to it by the first report of the event, to wit: Tint it was an attack upon the uniform of the navy of the United States, which had its origin and motive in a feeling of hostility towards that government and not in any account of the individual sailors belonging to it. Second—That the public anthoritlee 8f Valparaiso evidently did not do their duty In protecting those sailors, and that a part of the police and tome Chilian soldiers and sailors rendered themselves guilty of unprovoked assaults on tho sailors of tho United States before and after the latter were arrested, and that he hellers* that Biggin was kilted by the police or the soldiers; and .

iniru—-inai ne is consequently compeiea to carry the question back to the state in which it was placed by the note of the Honorable Mr. Wharton dated October 23d, and to ask for suitable satisfaction and some adequate reparation tor the injury done the government of the United States. The honorable secretiry of state, Mr. Blaine, resists that the government of Chili has not, (Tom the very first, appreciated the gravity of the question raised, and that it has attributed to it no ot her importance than that of an ordinary quarrel between sailors, adding that no government which respects itself can consent to civil or military persona employed in its service being maltreated or killed in a foreign territory on account of resentment for acts which it may have committed, or which may be imputed to It, without requiring adequate rejwratloa. The Honorable Mr. Blaine, la this connection, recalls the fact that the govament of the United States have voluntarily recognised this principle, and has acted accordingly when any injury has been committed by its people against anyone holding an official position of a foreign country, in consequence of acts which had aroused resentment. In such cases the United States has never sought words of little weight or ambiguous meaning in order to make reparation, hat has condemned such acts in vigorous and energetic terms, and has never refused to give other adequate satisfaction. The honorable secretary of state, Mb. Blaine, states, moreover, that it is not bis intention to discuss the details of the incident of October, but only to set forth the conclusions at which his government han arrived. The honorable secretary of state aays: “We have given every kind of opportunity to tbe government of Chili to offer explanatory or extenuating circumstances, and we have given due consideration to the fact that the government of Chili, during a great part of the thus which has elapsed since the lftth of October, has been in a provisional situation.” He then adds that he is diredied by his excellency, Mr. Harrison, to aay that he has been competed to take notice of tee instructions sent by Mr. Matte, minister of foreign affairs, to the Chilian minister in Washiniton, under date of December U, because, although they were not officially communicated to his government, they received the greatest possible publicity, and that, consequently, he demands the immediate withdrawal of the slid instructions as to those parte which he considers offensive, and adequate sattafa& tion, in order that the diplomatic rateHons hatween the two nations may not he interrupted. Without any intention of opening a discussion as t o the facts referred to by the communication, which I have extracted, and confining to the first part of the instructions of the honorable secretary of state, the undersigned must state to your excellency the regret with which the government of Chili, sees that excellency, the president of the United itnv | reason to continue to regard the ' of October as an attack censed by a feeling towards the uniform of the nary of the United States. The unfortunate occurrence took place on a sudden, in a district where the sailors of the vessels lying in tlie hay of Valparaiso are in the habit of assembling, without distinction of nationality. Frcm the nature of the incident it would he impossible to provo that there was no doubt as to tree special oanse which served as its • ” bat the j

in what shape It should be made. The undersigned wouldremisd you, referring to the codduet of the Valparaiao authorities, that it ajipears from the prpliininuiy examination that they sent without delay to the scene of the conflict all the forces at their disposal belonging to the special guard of the tnteadencia and to the police. Swanson, Cose, Kieholb, Darony, Hopiea, Cunningham, WiUiama, Talbot, Halter*. Hodge, Bntler, etc., seamen belonging to t$kBaltimore, stated to the interpreter of that vessel that the object of the police in arresting .them was to. shelter them ftesn any attempt to attack by the excited people. The undersigned think* that the action of the police in this matter should be considered with due allowance for the civil war which had recently been brought to a close. The body was not yet properly organized, ncr did it have the force that was re^ quired to pnt down a disorder t}f suchproprrf1 thms iB a short time. In this connection it is proper to recall the words nsed by the honorable secretary of state at .Washington in bis note addressed to the Marquis Imperial!, and bearing date of May at, 18M: ^

“There is no government, however civilised it I may be, however great mar be the -vigilance displayed by its police, and however severe its criminal code may be, and however speedy and inflexible may be its administration of justice, , that can guarantee its own citizens against violence, growing ont Of individual mlllceat U stldden popular tnmttlt;” * This was precisely the stthaUim ot the administrative authorities at Valparaiso on the occasion ot the occurrence which took place in October. The undersigned hopes that the foregoing will convince the honorable secretary of state that the government of ChiH attached dno importance to the question now under discussion; that it doee not fora moment hesitate to condemn, in vigorous terms, the act committed on the 16th of October, or to offer such reparation as fe just, and that it has not neglected the opportunity to express these sentiments before now, since on various occasions, and through the plenipotentiaries ot both countries, it has forwarded explicit declarations on the subject to Washington. The undersigned takes the liberty to recall that five days after he had takett chugs of the department iff fbtetgti relations, he addressed to the minister of Chiit in tile United States a telegram which, in the part relating td this matter, says: “Kxinesa to the United States government What has already been stated, adding all the data that are known, in the most correct and amicable form; express to the United States government very sincere regret on account of this unfortunate incident, which, although, and (not) strange in the ports of the world, this government doubly laments, owing to its sincere desire to cultivate friefthip with the United States." W If the United States government should not accept the foregoing explanations as satisfactory, notwithstanding that the judicial authorities bold toe guilty parties responsible for tbs disorder of October IS, tbs undersigned most recall the circumstances that the government of Chili) through the medium of its minister th Washington) has expressed the desire to submit an]) misunderstanding (dispute) to decision by arbitration by any power or tribunal which may be indicated to it; and) in fact, arbitration was suggested in conference with the minister of ChiH in Washington on the 80th of December, when the government of the undersigned declared its good will and its resolve to accept arbitration after the final judgment which would not be further delayed many days in furtherance of its purpose to give a speedy solution to the incident in most friendly terms. The government of the undersigned called upon its minister for a definite reply on the 11th instant, and on the 13th Minister Montt reported that, notwithstanding certain observations made by the American state department with respect to the opportuneness of resorting to arbitration, be had nevertheless agreed with the honorable Hr. Blaine that, if any divergence of views or disaccord should supervene after the verdict of the judge ot Valparaiso, such controversy would yield to arbitration. The undersigned hastened to declare that he would fully accept such an agreement, tor which reason the government of Chili deems that the case has arisen for submitting to arbitration, in terms as ample as those above indicated, any difference ot views which it may have with the government of the United States concerning the incident of the Baltimore.

There is, therefore, submitted to the honorable secretary of state of the department of foreign relatione, in Washington the designation of either the supremo court of Justice of the United States or a tribunal of arbitration to determine the reparation which Chili may bare to make for that lamentable occurrence. As for the dispatch addressed under date of the 11th at December to the Chilian minister in Washington by the minister of foreign relations of the provisional government, the undersigned submits that there could no* be, on the part of tbe government of Chili, the purpose to inlUot any offense upon the government of the United States, with which it desires ever to cultivate the most friendly'reiatkma. Consequently the undersigned, deploring that in the telegram there were employed, through an error of Judgment, the expressions which are offensive in the judgment of your government, declares,in fulfillment of a high duty of oourtesy and sincerity toward a friendly nation, that the government of Chili absolutely withdraws the The undersigned trusts that this frank and explicit declaration, which confirms that which had already been made to the honorable secretary of state in Washington, win carry to the mind of his excellency (Mr. Harrison) and his government that the people of Chill, far from entertaining a feeling of hostflitv, has the Brely desire to maintain the good and cordial relations which up to the present time exist n the two count! lua a declaration which is made without reservation in order that it may reoatre such publicity as your government may deem suitable. With regard to fits suggestion made touching the change of tbe personnel of your legation, to which tbe instructions of thehonorablo secretary of state refer, it is incumbent upon the undersigned to declare that the government of Chili win take no positive step without the accord of the United States, with which it desires to maintain itself in friendly understanding. The undersigned brings this already king communication to a done in tbe assure he has thereto set forth everything I tolly satisfy your government. The ment of CMH cherishes the conviction that the relations with the government of the United States should he sincerely and cordially majn- ‘ r the shelter of that that good of tbe facto and on the appreciation to he given declaration* made Sn eitt explanation his tion in the words ot the yon have quoted^ to finds its inspirathe govia not diswhkh your With sentiments of -ass m Fore*. 8an Aktohio, Tex., Jan. 99.—A dispatch was received here last evening from Del Kio, T«t, in now on *ho head of an* army of from 4,600 to 5,000

TALMAGE’S SERMON. An Important Half Hour in Heaven's History. Thirty Minutes at SUenes — Dmtmi an JE rentful and AeUve Place—The Triumph* and Victories to ha Dr. Taimage delivered a sermom at the Brooklyn tabernacle recently from the following text: There was silence in Hearen about the space of half an hour.—Revelation vita., 1. The bnsiest place in the universe is Heaven. It is the center from which all good influences start; it is the goal which all gobd results arrive. The 151* ble represents it as active with wheels and wings and orchestras, and processions mounted or charioted. Bat my text describes a space when the wheels ceased to roll and the trumpets to sound and the voices to chant. The riders on the white horses reined in their chary* ere. The doxologies were hushed and the processions halted. The hand of arrest was pnt upon all the splendors. “Stop, Heaven!” cried an omnipotent voice, and it stopped. For thirty minutes everything celestial stood still. “There was siienee in Heaven for the Space of half an hour.” From all we can learn it is the Only time Heaven ever stopped. It does not stop as other eities for the night, for there is no night there. It does not stop for a plague, tat the inhabitant never says: “I am sick.” It does not stop for bankrupts, for its inhabitants never fail. It does not stop for impassable streets, for there are no fallen snows nor sweeping freshets. What, theta, stopped it for thirty minutes? Crotins an Prof. Stuart think it Was at the time Of the destruction of Jerusalem. Mr. Lord thinks it was in the year 311, between the close of the Diocletian persecution and the beginning of the ware by which Constantine gained the throne. Bnt that was all a guess, though a learned and brilliant guess. I do not know when it was and I do not care when it was, bnt of the fact that snchan interregnnm of sound took place, I am certain. “There was silence in Heaven for the space of half

an nonr." And, first of all, we may learn that God add fill Heaven then honored silence, The longest abd Viidest dominion that ever existed is that over which StilfneSs Was queen. For an eternity there had not beUil a sound. Worldmaking was a later-day occupation. For unimaginable ages it was a mate universe. God was the only being, and, as there was no one to speak to there was So utterance. But that silence has beejaall broken np into worlds, and it has Rcome a noisy universe. Worlds in upheaval, Worlds la congelation, worlds in conflagration, worlds in' revolution. If geologists are right (and I believe they are) there has not been a moment of silence since the world began its travels and the crashing* and the splittings and the Uproar and the hubbub are—«*«r te when among the snpCrnals a voice cried: “Hush!” and for half an hour Heaven wasstUl, silence was honored. The full power of silence many of us have yet to learn. We are told that when Christ was arraigned: “He answered not a word.” That silence was louder than any thunder that evet shook the world. Ofttimes, when we are assailed and misrepresented, the mightiest thing to say is to say nothing, and the mightiest thing to do Is to do nothing. Those people who are always rushing into priat to get themselves right accomplish nothing but their own chagrin. Silence! Do right and leave the results with God. Among the grandest lessons the world has ever learned are the lessons of patience taught by those who endured uncomplainingly personal or domestic or social or political injustice. Stronger than any bitter or sarcastic or revengeful answer was the patient silence. The famous Dr. Morrison, of Chelsea, accomplished as mneh by his silent patience as by his pen and tongue. He had asthma that for twen-ty-five years brought him out of his couch at two o’clock each morning. His four sons and daughters dead. The remaining child by sunstroke made insane. The afflicted man said: “At this moment there is not an inch of my body that is not filled with agony.” Yet, he was cheerful, triumphant, silent. Those who were in his presence said they felt as thongh they were in the gates of Heaven. Oh, the power of patient silence! Eschylus, the immortal poet, was condemned to death for writing something that offended the people. AH the pleas in his behalf were of no avails until his brother, uncovered the arm of the prisoner and showed that his hand bad been shot off at Salamis. That silent plea liberated him. The loudest thing on earth is silence if it be of the right kind and at the right time. There was a quaint old hymn, spellod ip the old style, and once sung in the churches:

Tbe race is sot forever got By him who fastest runs; Nor the hsttel by those peopeU Thst shoot with the longest guns. My friends, the tossing sen of Galilee seemed most to offend Chris* by the amount of noise it made, for He said to it: “Be still!” Heaven has been crowning kings and queens unto God for many centuries, yet Heaven never stopped a moment for any such occurrence, but it stopped thirty minutes for the coronation of silence. “There was silence In Heaven for the space of half an hour.” Learn also from my text that Heaven' must be an eventful and active place from the fact that it could afford only thirty minutes of recess. There have been events bn earth and in Heaven that seemed to demand a whole day or whole week or whole year for celestial consideration. . If. Urotius was right, and this silence occurred at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, that scene was so awful and so prolonged that the inhabitants of Heaven eould not have done justice to it in many weeks. After fearful hoslegement of the two fortresses of Jerusate m—Antonio and Bipjdcna—had been going on for a long while a Roman soldier mounted on the' shoulder of another

sand people So cm cloister were consumed. There wew one million one hundred tfctmsasad dead, according to Josephus. Grotius thinks that this was the cause of silence in Heaven for half an hour, it Mr. Lord was right, and this silence ursa daring the eight hundred and forty-four thousand Christians suffered death from sword mad fire, and banishment and exposure, why did not Heaven listen throughout at fcsast e»e of those awful years? Hoi Thirty minutes! The fact is that the celestial programme is so crowded with spectacle that it dan afford only one recesa ini all eternity, and that for a short space While there are great choruses in which all Hrtivaa can iom, each soul there has s> story of Devine mercy peculiar to itself, and it must be a solo. How lisn .Heaven get through with all its rce/Stetirea, with its cantatas, with all its grand marches, with alMte victories? Sterility is too short to utter all the praise. In my teat Heaven spared thirty urinates, but it will never again spare cue minute, in worship In earthly churches, when there are ihany to take part, we have to counsel brevity, sat How will Heaven get on rapidly enough to let the one hundred and iortv-four thousand get' through each with his own story, and then the one hundred and fortyfour million, and then the one hundred and forty-four billion, and then the one hundred and forty-four trillion. Hot only are all the triumphs of the psst to he commemorated, but all the triumphs to come. Not only what we know of God, but what we will know of Him after everlasting study 61 the Deific. If my tent had said there was silence in Heaven for thirty days I would not have bse« startled at the announcement, but it indicates thirty min

utes. why, there wal be so many friends to bunt up; so many of the greatly good and useful that we will want to see; so many of the inscrutable things of earth we will need explained; so many exciting earthy experiences we will want to talk over, and all the other spirits and all the ages will want the same that there will be no more opportunity for cessation. How busy we will be kept in having pointed out to ns the heroes and heroines that the world never fully appreciated—the yellow-fever and cholera doctors, who died, not flying from their posts; the female nurses who faced pestilence in the lazarettos; the railroad engineers who stayed at their places in order to save the train though they themselves perished. Hubert GoPin. the master-miner, who, landing from the bucket at the bottom of the mice, just as he heard the waters rush in, aad when one jerk" of the rope would hare lifted him into safety pttt a blind miner who wanted to go to his sick child in the bucket and jerked the rope, for him to be pulled up, crying: '•‘Tell them the water has ^wilT^ ^^iQ^hererid of the right gallery;” and then giving the command to the other miners till they digged themselves so near out that the people from the outside could come to their rescue. The muititndes of men and women who got no crown on earth, we will want to see when they get their crown in Heaven. 1 tell you Heaven will have no more half hours to spare. My subject also impresses me with the immortality of a half hour. That haH houn mentioned in my text is more widely known than any other period in the calendar of Heaven. None of the whole hoars of Heaven are measured off, none of the years, none of the centuries Of the millions of ages past, and the millions of sgss to come, not one is especially measured in the Bible. The half hour of my text is made immortal. The only part of eternity that was ever measured by earthly timepiece was measured by the minute hand of my text. Oh, tho ^half hours! They decide everything. I am not asking what yon will do With the years or months or days of your life, but what of the half hours. Tell me the history of yonr half hours, and I will tell you the story of yonr whole life in eternity. The right or wrong things yon can think in thirty minutes, the right or wrong things you can say in thirty minutes, the right or wrong things you can do in thirty minutes are glorious or baleful, inspiring or desperate. Look out for the fragments of time. They are pieces of eternity. It was the half hours between shoeing horses that made Elihu Burritt the learned blacksmith, the half hours between professional (mils as a physician that made Abercrombie the Christian philosopher, the half hoars between his duties aa schoolmaster that made Salmon P. Chase chief justice, the half hours between shoe-lasts that made Henry Wilson vice-president of the United States, the half hours between canal-boats that made James .A. Garfield president The half-hour a day for good hook* or bad hooks; the balfhous a day for prayer or indolence; the half-hour a day for helping-others or blasting others; the half-hour before

you (JO to DUSineSQ, SBC sue u»i-uuur after you >«tarn from business, that makes fee di.Terenoe between the scholar and fee ignoramus, between tha Christian and the infidel. between fee saint and the demon, between triumph and catastrophe, between Heaven and hell. The moat tremendous thing of yonr life and mice were certain half hours. The half hoar when in fee parsonage of a country minister I reeolred to bocome a Christian then and there; fea halt hour when Tt decided to become a , preacher of the fiospal; fee half hoar when Lfirst realised feat my son was dead; fee hsuf hour when I stood on fee top of ray house in Oxford street and aaw our church bam; fee half hour in which 1 entered Jerusalem; fee half hoar in which I tsceuded Mount Calvary; fee half hour In which I stood on Mar* bill; the half hoar in which the dedicatory prayere* this temple was made, and about tea or fifteen other bad! hours, are fee chief times of my life. suggests a way of m feat we ©an. better wont “eternity” much is sa unmeusg feat we could feat word, the Bible • Wo-shiy; ‘‘ftw ever #■ i*atf,te-“Fe<‘ ever, siw) $■ " stn< OBi that arable not uses and ever.’ and ever?” I

multitudes try con punUrg aolil are those <vhose bear! that they ijet no aatii tra, and they feel like saying, as a gw* ttomr.u ht Hudson, N. Y., said, after hearing ine speak of the mighty chorus ol Heaven: "That must he a great Heaven, hot what will become oi.’ my poor head?” Yes, thin half hour st my text is still experience. “There was silence in Heaven for half an hour.” You wUl find the inhabit* ants all i.t home Enter the King’s palace aaci lake only a glimpse." for we have only thirty minutes for all Heaven. "Is that vesaa?" ••Yea” Just undtr the hair along the forehead is the mark of a wound made by a bunch of twisted brambles, and Hia foot on the throne has on the round of’\Hls Instep another mark of a wound made by a spike, and a scar on the palm of the rifft hand, and a scar on the palm of the left hand.v But what a countenance ! What a smile! What a grandeur! What a loveliness! What an overwhelming look of kindness and grace! Why, He looks as if He hgd redeemed a world! But come on for oar time is short* Do yon Me that row of palaois? Tint is the Apostolic Bow. Do yen sue that long reach of architectural glories? That is Martyr Row. Do y on see that immense structure? That is the biggest house in Heaven; that is "the House of Many: Hue sions." Do yon see that wall? Shade your eyes against the burning splendor.’ for that is. the wall of. Heaven, jasper at the bottom and amethyst at the See this river rolling through the hee*f. of the great metropolis? That is top river concerning which those who oboe: lived on the hanks of the Hndsoni jif the Alabama, or the Rhine, or the Shannon, say: "We never saw the like of this for clarity and sheen.” That hrthe chief river of Heaven—so blight,' W’ wide, so deep But you ask: "Where are the asylums for the old?” I answer: "The inhabitants are all young.” ••Where are ths hospitals for the lame?” “TMigr are all agile.” “Where are th«inflr»a*i ries for the blind and deaf?” “They ell see and hear.” "Where are the

O JWJFI are all multi-mill are r the inebriate there in no sale phi re and sec those streets, built by the A universe into hornet hold o:E which sorrow __ out of whoeeWlndows faces, with earthly sickness, now eund with immortal health, me go in and see them,” you von cau not go ip. are tlsose there who never consent to let'' you out again. Yon say: “J>t stay here in this place w never, sin, where they -nes where they never part” NO, -.—„ time Is short, our thirty minutes are most gc®e. Come onl We must back to earth before this half ho " heavenly silence breaks up, for in , mortal state yon can not endure pomp and splendor and resona— when this half hour of silenoe is ended. The day will come when you can — Heaven in fnll blast, but not I am . now only showing yon at the dullest half hour of a eternities. Come on! There isthing in the celestial appearance which makes me think that the half hour of silence will soon be over. Yonder are the white horses being bitched to chariots, and yonder are seraphs fingering harps as if about to strike them into symphony, and yonder are conquerors taking down from the blue balls of Heaven the trumpets of victory. Remember, we are mortal yet, and can not end the full roll of heavenly and can not endnre even the Heaven for taore than half an Hark! the clock in the tower of B begins to strike,'and the ended. Descend! Come back! down! till your work is dope, der a little longer your burdens, a little lpuge* your battles. 1 little your griefs. And then Heaven not in its dul" in its mightiest pm taking it for thirty world without men.

But how will you spena U»e hour of your heavenly citizens you hare (tone in to stay? Ai prostration before the throw ship of Him who made it poi you to g«t there at all, I thinl of your first half-hour in Be be passed in receiving ward, if you hane been fa have a strangely beautiful b taining the pictures of the struck by the Englifh gore* honor of great battles; the* pinned over the heart of the heroes of the army, on great < the royal family present, and