Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1891 — Page 3

LACKING IN ONE THING.

IMMORTAL STRENGTH THE BELIEF IN RELIGION. Christ’s Love Essen tial-HU Hand Smooths •ho Wrinkles ot Care—Dr. Talmage's Sermon. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at New York and Brooklyn Sunday and Sun day night Text: Mark x., 21, ’One thing thon lackest” He said: I suppose that that text was no more appropriate to the young man of whom I have spoken than it is appropriate to a great multitude of people in this audience. There are many things in which you are not lacking. For instance, you are not lacking in a good home. It is, perhaps, %o more than an hour ago that you closed the door* returning to see whether it was well fastened, of one of the best homes in this city. Neither are you lacking in the refinements and courtesies of life. You understand the polite phraseology of invitation, regard and apology. You have on appropriate apparel, I shall wear no better dress at the wedding than when I come to the marriage of, the King’s Son. ' Neither are you lacking in worldly success. You have not made as much money as you would like to make, but you have an income. While others are false when they say they have no income or are making no money, you have never told that falsehood. You have had a livelihood. Neither are you lacking in pleasant friendship. You have real good friends. If the scarlet fever should come to your house to-night, you know very well who would come and sit up with the sick; or, if death should come, you know who would come in and take your hand tight in theirs with that peculiar grip which means, “I’ll stand by you,” and after the life has fled from the loved one, take you by the arm and lead you into the next room, and while you are gone to Greenwood they would stay in the house and put aside the garments and the playthings that might bring to your mind too sevoroly your great loss. . Friends? You -all have friends.~

Neither are you lacking in your admiration of the Christian religion. There is nothing that makes you so angry as to have a man malign Christ. You get red in the face, and you say: “Sir, I want you to understand that though l am not myself a Christian, I don’t like such tilings said as that in ’ my store,” and the man goes pff,_givIng you a parting salutation, but you hardly' answer him. You are provoked beyond all bounds. Many of you have been supporters of religion and have given more to the cause of Christ than some who profess His faith. There is nothing that would please you more than to see your son or daughter standing at the altar of Christ taking the vows of the Christian. It might be a little hard on you, and might make you nervous and agitated for a little ~Khiievtratytrawoiitdbß‘TiraTi“enotrgh to say: “My child, that is right. Go on. lam glad you haven’t been kept back by my example. I hope some day to join you.” You believe all the doctrines of religion. A man out yonder says: “lam a sinner.” You respond: ‘ -So am I.” Some one says: “I believe that Christ came to save the world.” You say: “So do I.” Looking at your character and your surroundings. I find 1,000 things about which to congratulate you; and yet 1 must tell you in the Ibve and fear of God, and with reference to my last account: “One thing thou lackest.” You need, my friends, in the first place, the element of happiness. Some day you feel wretched. You do not know what is the matter with you. You say; “I did not sleep last night; I think that must be the reason of my restlessness;” or, *‘l have eaten something that did not agree with me, and I think that must be the reason.” And you are unhappy, Omy friends, happiness does not depend upon physical condition. Some of the happiest people I have ever known have been those who have been wrapped in consumption, or stung with neuralgia, or burning with the slow fire of some fever. I shall never forgetone man in my first parish, who. in excruciation of body, cried out: “Mr. Talmage, 1 forget all my pain in the love and joy of Jesus Christ. I can’t think of my sufferings when I think of Christ.” Why, his face was illumined. There are young men in this house who would give testimony to show that there is no happiness outside of Christ, while there is great joy in his service. There are young men who have not been Christians more than six months who would stand up to-night, if I should ask them, and sav in those six months they have had more joy and satisfaction than in all the .years of their frivolity and dissipation. Go to the door of that gin shop to-night, and when the gang of young men come out ask them whether they are happy. They laugh along the street, and they jeer and they shout, but nobody has any idea that they are happy. I could call upon the aged men In this house to give testimony. There are aged men here who tried the world, nnd who tried religion, and they are willing to testify on our side. It was not long ago that an aged man arose in a praying circle and said: “Brethren. I lost my son just as he graduated from college, and it broue my heart; but I am glad now he is gone; he is at rest, escaped from all sorrow and trouble. ’ And then in 18.57 I lost all my property, and you see I am getting old, and it is rather hard upon me; but I am sure God will not let me suffer. He has not taken care of me for seventy-five years now to let me drop out of his bands.” I went into the room of an aged man, his eyesight

nearly gone, his hearing nearly gone, and what do ypu suppose he was talking about? The goodness of God and the joy of religion. He said: “I would like to go over and join my wife on the other side of the flood, and am waiting until the Lord calls me. lain happy now. and shall be happy there.” What is it that gave that aged man so much satisfaction and peace? Physical exuberance? No; it is all gon. Sunshine? He canot see it. The voice of friends? He cannot hear them. It is the grace of God. That is brighter than sunshine, and that is sweeter than music. If a harpist takes a harp and finds that all the strings are broken ! but one string, he does not try to play ! on it. Yet here I will show you an j aged man, the strings of whose joy are i all broken save one,and yet he thrums i it with such satisfaction, such melody that the angels of God stop the swift stroke of their wings and hover about the place until the music ceases. Oh, religion’s ways are ways of pleasants ness and all her paths are peace. And if you have not the satisfaction that is to be found in Jesus Christ, I must tell you. with all the concentrated emphasis of my soul: One thing thou lackest I remark agaih that you lack the element of usefulness. Where is your business? You say it is No. 45 such a street, or No. 260 such a street, or No. 800 such a street. My friend, immortal. your business is wherever there is a tear to be wiped away or a soul to be saved. You may, before coming to Christ, do a great many noble things. You take a loaf of bread to that starving man in the alley; but Tie wants immort.nl bread. You take a pound of candles to that dark shanty. They want the light springs from the throne of God, and you can not take it because you have it not in your own heart. You know that the flight of an arrow depends very much upon the strength of the bow, and I have to tell you that the best bow that was ever made was made out of the cross of Christ; and when religion takes a soul and puts it on that, and pulls it back and lets it fly, every time it brings down a Saul or Goliath. There are people of high social position, and large means, and cultured minds, who, if they would come into the kingdom of God, would se the city on fire with religious awakening. Oh, hear you not the more than million voices of those in these two cities who are uncovered? Voices of those who in these two cities are dying in their sins? They want light. They want bread. They want Christ. They want heaven. Oh, that the Lord would make you a flaming evangel. As for myself, I have sworn before high heaven that I will preach this gospel as well as I can, in all its fullness until every fiber of my body, and every faculty of my mind, and every passion of my soul, is ex haused. But we all have a work to do. I can not do your work, nor can you do ray work, God points us out the place where we are to serve, and yet are there not people in this house who are 30, 40, 50 and 60 years of age. and yet have not done the great work for which they were created? With every worldly equipment: "One thing thou lackest.”

Again? you lack the element of personal safety. Where are those people that associated with you twenty years ago? Where are those people that, fifteen years ago, used to cross South Ferry, or Fulton Ferry, with you to New York? Walk down the street where you were in business fifteen years ago, and see how all the signs have changed. Where are the people gone? How many of them are landed in eternity I can not spy, but many, many. I went to the village of my boyhood. The houses were all changed. I passed one house in which once reside useful lite, and he is in glory now.—ln the next house a miser lived. He devoured widows’ houses, and spent his whole life in trying to make the world worse and worse. And he is gone—the good man and the miser both gone to the same place. Ah, did they go to the same place? It is an infinite absurdity to suppose them both in the same place. If the miser had a harp, what tune did he play on it? Oh, my friends, I commend to you this religion as the only personal safety. When you die, where are you going to? When we leave all these scenes, upon what scenes will we enter? When we were on shipboard, and we all felt that we must go to the bottom, was I right in saying to one next me: “I wonder if we will reach heaven if we do go down to-night?” Was I wise or unwise in asking that question? I tell you that man is a fool who never thinks of the great future. If you pay money you take a receipt. If you buy land you record the deed. Why? Because everything is so uncertain.you want it down in black and white, you say. For a house and lot twenty-five feet front by one hundred deep, all security; but for a soul, vast as eternity, nothing, nothing? If some man or woman, standing in some of these aisles should drbp down, where would you goto. Which is your destiny? Suppose a man is prepared for the future world, what difference does it make to him whether he goes to his home today or goes into glory? Only this dlfererence; If he dies he is better off. Where he had one joy on earth. He will have a million in heaven. When he has a small sphere here, he will have a grand sphere there. Perhaps it would cost you S6O, or SIOO, or $l5O to have your physical life insured, and yet free of charge 1 offer you insurance on your immortal life, payable, not at vour disease, but nojv and to-morrow, and every day and always. I apply my subject to several classes of people before me. First to that great multitude of young people in this house. Some of these young men are in boarding houses. They have but social advantages. They think that no one care' for thel’ - souls. Many of them are on small salaries,

and they are cramped, and bothered perpetually and sometimes their heart fails them. Young man. your bedroom door on the third floor, you will hear a knocking. It will be the hand of Jesus Christ, the young man’s friend saying: “O, young man. let me come in: I will he ; p the, I will comfort thee I will deliver th .” Take the Bible out of the trunk, if it has been hidden away. If you have no courage to lay it on the shelf the table, tike that Bible that’Was given to you by some loved one,-take it out of the trunk and ' lay it dowu on the bottom of the chair then kneel down beside it, and read ' and prey, and pray and read, untill * all your disturbance is gone, and you (feel th at peace which neither earth ; nor hell can rob you of. Thy father’s I God, thy mother’s God, waits for the, O young men! “Escape for thy life!” Escape now! ‘•One thing thou lackest!”

But I apply this subject to the aged —not many here—not many in any assemblage. People do not live to get old. That is the general rule. Here and there an aged man in the house. I tell you the truth. You have lived long enough to know that it cannot satisfy an immortal nature. I must talk to you more reverentially than I do to these other people, while at the same time I speak with great plainness. O father of the weary step, O mother, bent down by the ailments of life, has thy God ever forsaken thee? Through all these years who has been your best friend? Seventy years of mercies! Seventy years of food and clothing! O, how many bright mornings! How many glorious evening hours you have seen! O father, mother, God has been very good to you. Do you feel it? Some of you have children and grandchildren; the former cheered your young life, the latter twine your gray locks in their tiny fingers. Has all the goodness that God has been making pass before you produced no change in yo ir feelings, and must it be said of you. notwithslanding all this: “One thing thou lackest ”

Hear a plain talk about the heavenly. Do you know it will be wor e for prosperous man, if you reject Christ, and reject him finally, that it will be worse for you than those who had it hard in this world, because the contrast will make the discomfiture so ■mueh more tippgfttng,-Au IheMieart rounds for the water brook, as the roe speeds down the hillside, speed ’hou to Christ. Escape for thy life, look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountains lest thou be consumed! I must make my application to another class of persons—the poor. When you cannot pay your rent when it is due, have you nobody but the landlord to talk to? When the flour is gone out of the barrel and you have not ten cents with which to go to the bakery. and your children are tugging at your dress for something to eat. have you nothing but Ihe world’s charities to appeal to? When winter comes, and there are no coals, and the ash-barrels have no more cinders,who takes car , of you? Have you nobody but the overseer of the poor? But I preach to you a poor man’s Christ. If you do not have in the winter blankets efipugh to cover you in the night, I want to tell you of Him who had not where to lay His head. If you lie on the bare floor, I want to tell you of Him who had for a pillow a hard cross, and whose foot-path was i,he streaming blood of His own heart. Oh, you poor man! Oh, you poor woman! Jesus understands your casc_altogether. Talk it right out to Him tonight. Get down on your floor and say ‘Lord Jesus Christ, Thou wast poor and lam poor. Help me. Thou art ■<ch now, and bring me up to Thy riches.” Will He? You might ,p,s well think thatlk"mother " would take the child that feeds on her breast and dash its life out as to think that God would put aside roughly those who have fled to Him for pity and compassion. Yea, the prophet says: “A woman may forget her suck’ng child, that she should not havecompassion on the son of her womb, but I will not forget thee.” So you and I meet on the sea of life. We come and we go. Some of us have never met before. Some of us will never meet again. But I hail you across the sea. and, with reference to the last great day and with reference to the two great worlds. I cry across the water: “Whitherbound? Whither bound?” I know what service that craft was made for, bit has thou thrown overboard the compass? Is here no helm to guide it? Is the ship at the mercy of the tempest? Is there no gun of distress booming through the storm? With priceless treasures—with treasures aboard worth more than all the Indies—wilt thou never come up out of the trough of that sea? Oh Lord God, lay hold of that man! Son of God, if Thou wert ever needed any where. Thou were needed here. There are so many sins to be portioned. There are so many wounds to be healed. There are so many souls to be saved. Help, Jesus! Help,Holy Ghost! Help, ministering angels from the throne! Help, all sweet memories of the past! Help, all prayers for our future deliverance! Oh. that now, for this the accepted time and the day of salvation you would hear the voice of mercy and live. Taste and see that the Lord is gracious.

In this closing moment of the service when every thing in the house is so favorable, when everything is so still, when God Is so loving, and heaven is so. near,drop your sins and take Jesus. Do not cheat yourself out of heaven Do not do that God forbid that at the last, when it is too late to correct the mistake, a voice should rise from the pillow, or drop from the throne, uttering just four wo?da—four sad, annihilating words: “Ono thing thou lacke&t.’ There were committed in the United Stales last year 4,290 murders and there were 102 legal executions.

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

■ ' : ' • Brigham Young’s eighth wife is dead, A bank at Atckinscn, Kansas, failed on the 28th. The flying machine made a brief but successful trial trip at Chicago on the 80th. A Union Pacifictrain, bearing troop ß from Pin e Rfd ge, was wrecked at Florence’ Kan., and two soldiers killed and twelve others injured. .. , It is reported that a natural gas trust is being formed, and that the action of the gas company at Columbus, 0., recently in shutting off the supply oh the plea that the wells were exhausted was part of a scheme to extort higher prices from consumers. The American Federation of Labor held a session at New York on the 28th. Secretary Evans produced the circular which Mr. Powderly issued recently, requesting all labor organizations to send delegates to a conference to organize a third party In conjunction with the Farmers’ Alliance. It was decided to pay no attention to thircir cuter, “for the reason that it is unwise for a labor organization to meddle with poli* tics." _ _ : _ Fifty citizens of Holt, on the border of the Red, Lake reservation, have sent the following urgent dispatch to Governor Merriam: “The Chippewa Indians around here have begun dancing and will soon be on the warpath; therefore we desire help, and want soldiers to come to our assistance to defend our homes, wives and children. Weapons and ammunition must also be sent at once, so we may have something for our defense, so that they may not shoot us down like animals.” Rev. J. Sette, missionary among the Indian, tribes around Lake Winnipeg and Manitoba, writes that camps of Indians hunting on the east side of Lake Winnipeg, not very far from Bloodvein river, near Doghead, were visited by a band of wo’ves, about 100 in number. They attacked the camps, and killed many Indians, and devoured them. One Indian cudgeled and killed twenty wolves; another Indian climbed up a tree with his gun, and shot down twenty. One got upon a stage which was not very high, and the wolves got him down, and devoured him. There is a great panic among the Indians in that quarter. The Indians say there are no

deer, consequently the wolves are mad with hunger. The Bureau of American Republics has received a letter from a leading merchant in Brazil, who writes as follows: “Almost everything made in America is good for this country. Glassware is wanted badly, particularly big tumblers, water sets and small liquor glasses, knives and forks, all kinds of tinware, hardware, tools and notions of every kind, cotton sheeting,prints and light weignt woolen goods. In fact, I can only say tuat I do not know what will not sell. We want paper and stationery of every kind, varnishes, felt, shoes,wooden ware, gloves and blank books. We have recently had the largest shipment of mans ufactures from the United States ever landed here, and although the prices charged were enormous, they met with a wonderfully quick sale. Lamps which are sold in New York at S 5 cents were sold here at $3 net, and 1 disposed of two hundred in a couple of days. If I were in business in New York instead of Rio de Janeiro I would do a big trade throughout all the provinces of Brazil. It only wants some of the New York wholesale firms to go for this market, and before long our people would regularly go there for their supplies.” FOREIGN. Charles Broadlaugh, the noted English radical and infidel, died at London on the 36th. Advices from Massowah, on the Red sea, state that a terrific storm, followed by floods has caused enormous damage throughout the island of Massowah. Over one hundred persons lost their lives.

INDIANS AT CHURCH.

Spotted Elk and -Other Chiefs Reco.ves an Ovation {Vein the Bon Ton. A remarkable scene was presented at the Congregational church, Washington, immediately after the services closed on the Ist. It was a levee to a number of the Sioux Indians who participated in the Wounded Knee slaughter, recently. Just before Dr. Newman read his text one of the interpreters from Pine Ridge, now in the city with the blood-thirsty braves of the Sioux nation, entered the church, followed by Spotted Elk, the long-haired, fat and sleek chief, who was prominent in the recent outbreak. Behind him came “Major” Swords, tall, middle-aged, straight as an arrow, with short hair and an air of nervousness. Then came Spotted Horse, whose name has appeared in some way connected with the principal engagements in the Pine Ridge campaign. The congregation was very large, numbering probably 1,000, and in a body it turned its head toward the savage visitors, then rose to its feet. The choir misted a few bars of the anthem. It was some minutes before there was quiet No sooner was the benediction pronounced than occurred a jam in the direction of the Sioux. It required fifteen minutes for them to wend their way through the crowd. Old men, young men, women and Children flocked around, and extending their trembling hands, said, “Howdy ” The braves enjoyed the sensation, and for once showed their teeth and. responded. “Huw!” In the large vestibule and classroom, which Were made one, the big three followed the interpreter and a formal reception was held. In the immense auditoriun , where the levee was begun, Dr. Hiss ehotf, the blind organist, with the elephantine instrument, made so much good ' music (remembering, doubtless, that “mu* sic hath charms to soothe tbe savage breast'’) that tbe Indians were bewild- I ered, and the interpreter feared they ! might become excited and raise the war- j hoop. | It was a sigl t worth seeing and going miles to enjoy—the three Indians ranged off in line, true Washington fashion, ini the center of the prayer-meeting room of one of the leading churches of tbe National capital, receiving the attentions of the people. Congressmen and Senators, their wives and daughters, were among tha gazer*. Tho Indians, less than a fortnight

I since were prowling around Pine Ridge ( trying to cut some white man’s throat To- ! day they were the heroes of the capital. It was a proud moment Tor them, and when the women innocently inquired whether Spotted Elk was a man or woman, withou t noticing hia untutored garb, Old Spot smiled, rubbed his hands together and looked as tboughhe would enjoy taking a few hundred of the fine wigs about him What the moral effect upon the savages the worship of them will have was,considered by statesmen a serious problem.

SHOT DOWN IN THEIR CABIN.

Faur Negroes Kill'a and Five Severely Wounded in Walker County, Alabama. Four negroes were shot dead and five others severely wounded, three of them perhaps fatally, at Carbon Hill mines, in Walker county, Ala., last Friday. The offense of the dead and wounded ‘negroes thus far ascertained is that they took the places of white miners during the strike, and when the strike was settled the company would not discharge them. The negroes were surrounded while asleep in their cabin and shot down before they could escape or offer resistance. White miners are suspected of the crime,-batr there seems no evidence against any of them, as at last accounts no arrests had been made. The wounded negroes say the men who shot them down were white, but they are unable to identify any of them. It is believed another deadly conflict be* tween white and colored miners will take place. Repeating rifles and cartridges in large numbers have been ordered by both sides. It is reported that the officers o' the company operating the mines have announced that they Will all protect colored miners in the territory. Thisjnay pr even further bloodshed, but it is doubtful. A very bitter feeling is said to exist between the white miners aud the negroes who were put to work during the strike. The ! shooting of nine of tbeir number has raised I the other colored men to the fighting point. The men shot all worked together and oc« cupied the same cabin at night. About midnight it was surrounded and the doors and windows broken open, and, as they leaped out of bed,a storm of bullets poured in upon them. None of the negroes was armed, and they were all shot down inside their cabin. Telegraphic advices received later from the operator, at Carbon Hill, say, “Wil 1 i Murray, a white miner, shot and instantly killed .Tames Guttery, a woll-be-haved negro, last night, st Galloway. The negro lay where he fell until this morning, when he was buried by the Mayor.” Although it is not so stated, tlrs appears to be a continuation of the troubles of Friday night when the negroes were attacked in their cabins. It is this last development which caused Governor Jones to send troops from this place. Mr. Robert Galloway, one|of the owners of the mines at Carbon Hill, Ala., said to a reporter, on the Ist, in regard to the reported troubles at the mines: “Thesecut rages are the work of an element that knows no law, that has terrorized that par of Walker County for the past three years and has no regard for human life. The powers of the county officials seem limited. but the time has come for the State of Alabama to crush out this class.

ANOTHER PARTY.

The F; M. B. A., of Nebraska, to Nominate a Presidential Candidate. The F. M. B. A., of Nebraska, at Omaha, on the 28th adopted tue following plat form: W.iereas, Owing to the oppression that has been neaped upon us by monopolists, . capitalists, trusuand combines, we believe it is time for action, and I Whereas, The National Farmers’ Allij ance, in convention assembled, does most empnatically declare against the present systetud government as manipulated by the Congress of the United States and t’ae pf the legislatures of the several States; therefore, We deciare in favor of bolding a convention on Feb. 22, 1892, to dx a date and place for the holding of a convention to •nominate candidates for the offices ot' Presideutand Vice-president of the United States. We declare that in the convention to be held Feb. 22, 1892, that the representation shall be one delegate from each 7 State in tbe Union. r Resolved, That we .avor the abolition of all national banks and the surplus funds be loaned to individuals upon land security at a low rate of interest. • Resolved, That we are unalterably in favor ot the Australian ballot law. Resolved, That we demand the fores closure of mortgages that the government holds on railroads. Resolved, That we discountenance gambling in stocks anushares. Resolved. That this is an administration of tbe people, and ip view of that fact the ’ President and Vice-president of the United States should be elected by popular vote instead of by an Electoral College. Resolved, That the farmers of the United States largely outnumber auy other class of citizens they demand the passage of Uws of reform, not us party measures, but for the good of the government. Resolved, That the Alliance shall take no part as partisans in apolitical struggle as kffiliatiug with Republicans or Democrats. Resolved, That the National Farmers’ Alliance demands that the interstate com merce law be so amended and enforced as to allow all railroads a reasonable income on the money invesied, and we demand that the mortgages ou tbe Union and Ceu. tral Pacific railroads be foreclosed at once and the roads taken charge of by the government and run in tbe interest of the people, with a view to extending both lip. » to the Eastern seaboard. Resolved, That we favor tbe free and un limited coinage of silver, and that the volume of the currency be increased tofc.,o per capita. We further demand that all paper money be placed on an equality with gold Resolved, That we, as land owners,pledge ourselves to demand that the government allow us to borrow moneyfiom the United States at the same rate of interest as do tbe bunks. Resolved, That all mortgages, bonds and shares of stock should be assessed at tbe face value. Resolved, That Senators of the United , States shall be elected by vote of the poop’e. Resolved, That laws reg rding tholiquor t traffic should be so amended as to prevent ' endangering the morals of our children and destroying usefullness. I Resolved, That w« favor the passage of the Conger lard bill. | Resolved, That, we believe that womeu ' have the pame rights a- their husbands to holo properly, and we are in sympathy with any law that will give our wives, sisters and daughters full representation at the polls. Resolved, That our children I should be educated for honest labor, and that agricultural colleges should be established in every State. Resolved, That wo favor a libera’ system for pensioning all survivors of the lau war. .

DEATH OF WM. WINDOM.

Bu<fd«n Demise While Attending • New Fork Banquet. < The Hon. William Windom, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, died Thursday night at 10:05 o’clock in the banquet hall at Delmonico’s, where he was a guostof the New York Bo >rd <Mt Trad* and. Transportation. His had been the first toast of the evening. He finished his response, had seated himself, swooned at once, and died almost immediately. Every effort toresterehirn was mad ', but in vain. He died of heart d'sease. The great assemblage at once dissolved. Mr. Windom had been the only speaken and the sentiment to which he responded was “Our country’> prosperity dependent upon its instruments of commerce.”

This was to have been anight of feast* ing and flow of soul at Delmonico’s. The New York Board of Trade and Tr (asportation was to sit at its nineteenth annual dinner and the great gold hall was bright with light and color. And feasting there was, happy and unrestrained, but death sat, too, at the board and the only that flowed out was that of the nation’s financial head. His spirit fled away at the close of his speaking, which was the firs* of the night and the last. The unseen guest had silently followed the feasters’ shadow, darkened all the brightness of the place, and those who came to speak went away hushed and grave. The dinner, which began at 6 o’clock, was completed shortly after 9 o’clock' Mr. Windom,introduced by Judge Arnou>’ who acted as toastmaster, arose to speaa. being the first speaker of the evening. He responded to the toast: “Our country’s prosperity dependent upon its instruments of commerce.” He finished his speech at 9:55 o’clock p. m. It has been remarked that he was reading it off hurriedly from the printed copy, going faster and faster as he neared the end, and at the last he had requested the audience not to applaud. - Then the Secretary sat down quietly,too quietly, many thought, in his seat, and Toastmaster Judge Arnoux arose to intros duoe ex~Secretary of State Bayard as the next speaker. He began a short speech, but had not proceeded far when Mr. Win, dom gave a sh irt, sharp moan of anguish and fell back in his chair. His.face grew purple. His lower limbs stiffened and stretched out of their own accord, appare ntly, under the table. His eyelids opened and shut, spasmodically, but there was no gleam of intelligerice In the eyes, Which were rapidly losing the luster of life. A cry went up from those sitting near theguests’s table, and every eye was turned toward the man whose voice had jus* aeased upon the air. Mr. Windom had col' .apsod in his chair and was falling to the door. His face was ghastly and a cry of horror arose from the late festive banquet*, its. There was an immediate rush upon the part of all toward Mr. Windom's chair out several doctors, who were present at. 4he dinner, gut there first and drove the, ithers back. i

Dr. Robinson bent down, thus making' t close examination of the prostrate form, liscovered that the beart’was yet beating,, tnd with the assistance of Judge Truax, 'Japtain Snow and one or two others lifted aim to bis feet deathly pale. He was car« tied into the room behind the banquet ball ind everything was done to resuscitate Jim. Messengers were hastily dispatched 'or electric batteries, and as many us four were applied to bis body, which was rap-' .dly growing cold. For six minutes the alectric shocks were applied incessantly, >ut without succees. ; Judge Arnoux on retiring with the un conscious man bad announced that MrWindom baa < nly fainted and it. was not .bought by those remaining that it was so ■erious as it proved to be. Wt.e« it was jfficially announced that the Secretary was dead Secretary Tracy at once went to the nearest telegraph office and s nt a message to Pressdeut Harrison informing aim of tfienunHmely"evenTancTrequestin g jhn to communicate with Mrs; Windom. The news caused a shock to the President and members of the Cabinet, and the widow and daughter of the dead Secretary were completely prostrated. AU the members of the Cabinet, tbe r wives and the President were attending a musicaj entertainment at the home of Mr.Wunamaker, wh-re the news was received. By a ruie the Windom family were induced to eturn home, when the sad news was conveyed to them. William Windom was born in Belmon' county, Ohio, May 10, 185. He received an academic education; afterward be studied law at Mt. Vernon, O.,and was admitted to the bar in 1-SJ. He was made prosecuting attorney in 1552, which position he held until 185.., wnen ho removed to Minnesota. Soon after bis arrival in that State Ue became identified witn politics and in a short time became a very prominent figure in the ranks of tbe Republicans. In 1859 he was elected to tbe House of Representatives. Ha serv-id as a member of the comm it' ee on public lands. In the Thirty-seventh Congress be served on the committee on public expenditures; in the Thirty-eighth as chairman of the committee on Indian affairs and of tbe special committee to visit the Indian tribes Of the West in 186 i»; in the Thirtyninth he was one of the comini't-e ou the death of President Line tin; was again chairman of tbe committee on Indian affairs qud chairman of a special committee on the conduct of the commissioner of Indian affairs. He was also a delegate to the Philadelphia “Loyalist convention” in 1866. He was re-elected to tiie Fortieth Congress, in K 0 he was appoint'd Senator from Minnesota to fill an unexpired term ana Was subsequently elected to the Senate for the term that ended in 18,7. in 1817 he was re-elected for tbe term ending in 1881, but re .igned in March, ISsS io accept tho portfolio of tho Secretary of the Treasury in President Garfield's cabinet, On the acces ion of President Arthur ho retired from the cab net and was re-elect-ed to the Senate to till 'he vacancy caused by his own rest, uat’o i. For the ’ive years after he hud left tie Senate Mr. Windom made New York bis headqu irters, giving hisatlention tohis law prac: ice and other busines <, having little or nettling to do with Minnesota politics. In IN-9, niter Senator Allison had dec ined the post of Secretary of tho Tn asnr.v, tendered him by President elect Harris m, Mr. Windom, was broirirht forward as a prominent Western man ac.p,aintt'd with finances. and was appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Harrison, in which capacity be lias curved -■ver since.