Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1891 — Page 3

NEED A TIGHTER GRIP.

Frisky, Fretty, Fickle Youth Given Some Fatherly Advice. Toting Men Should Have a Stout Grasp on the Bible If They - Would be Fortified Against Satan and Sin. Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Brooklyn last Sunday. Text: II Samuel xxiii, 10. He said: My friends, in this Christian conflict we want a tighter grip of the Gospel weapons, a tighter grasp of the two-edged sword of the truth. It makes me sad to see these Christian people who hold only a part of the truth and let the rest of the truth go, so that the Philestines, seeing the loosened grasp, wrenjh the whole sword away from them. The only safe thing for us to do is to put our thumb on the book of Genesis and sweep our band around the Book until the New Testament comes into the palm, and keep on sweeping our land atofmd the Book until the tips of the fingers clutch at the words: /-In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” T I like an infidel a great deal better than I do one of these namby-pamby Christians who hold a part of the truth and let the rest go. By miracle God preserved this Bible Just as it is, and it is a Damascus blade. The severest test to which a sword can be put in a sword factory is to wind the blade around a gun barrel like a ribbon, and then when the sword is let loose it flies back to its own shape. So the sword of God’s truth has been fully tested, and it is bent this way, and that way, and wound this way and that way, but it always comes back to its own shape. Think of it' A Book written eighteen centuries ago, and some of it thousands of years, ago, and yet in our time the avelwge sale of this Book is more than 20,000 copies every week, and more than 1,000,000 copies each year. I say now that a book which is divinely inspired and divinely kept and divinely scattered is a weapon worth holding li tight grip of. Bishop Colcnso will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the five books of Moses, and Strauss will come along and try to wrench out of your hand the miracles, and Renan will come along nnd try to wrench out of your hand the entire life of the Lord Jesus ' Christ, and your associates in the store, or the shop, or the factory, or the banking house, will try to wrench out of your hand the entire Bible; but in the strength of the Lord God of Israel, and with Eleazar's grip, hold onto it. You give up the Bible, you give up any part of it, and you give up pardon and peace, and life in heaven.

I see hundreds,perhaps thousands, of young men in this audience. Do r. be ashamed, young man, to have the world know that-you are a friend of the Bible. This book is the friend bf all that is good, and it is the sworn enemy of all that is bad. Do pot take part of it and throw the rest away. Hold on to all of it. There ire so many people now who do not know. You ask them if the soul is nimortal, and they sav; “I guess it s, I don't know; perhaps it is, perhaps it isn't.” Is tho Bible true? “Well, perhaps it is. and perhaps it Isn’t; perhaps it may be figuratively, and perhaps it may be partly, and perhaps it may not be at all.” They desifige ,whaljhey call the Apostle creed; but if their own creed were written out it would read like this: “I believe in nothing, the maker of heaven and earth, and in nothing Which it hath sent, which nothing was born of nothing,and which nothingwas dead and buried and descended into nothing, and arose from nothing, and ascended to nothing, and no*w sitteth at the right hand of nothing, from which it will come to judge nothing. I believe in the holy agnostic church and in the communion of nothingarians, and in the forgiveness of nothing, and the resurrection of nothing, anti in the life that never shall be. Amen!” -That is the creed of tens of thousands of people in this day. If you have a mind to adopt such a theory I will not. “I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jeeus Christ, and in the Holy Catholic church, and in the communion of saints, and in the life everlasting. Amen.” Oh, when I see Eleazar taking such a stout grip on the sword in the battle against sin and for righteousness. I came to the conclusion that we out ought to take a stoutei- grip of God’s eternal truth, the sword of righteouness.

As I look at Eleazar's hand I also notice his spirit of self-forgetfulness. He did not notice that the hilt of the sword was eating through the palm of his hand. He did not know it hurt him. As he went out into the conflict. He was so anxious for the victory he forgot himself, and that hilt might go ever so deeply into the palm bis hand, it could not disturb him. “His hand-xilave unto the sword.” Oh my brothers and sisters, let us go into Christian conflict with the spirit of self abnegation. Who cares whether the world S raises us or denounces us? What o We care for misrepresentation, or abuse, or persecution in a conflict like this? Let usf forget ourselves. That man who is afraid of getting his hand hurt will never kill a Philistine. Who cares whether you get hurt or not if yuc get the victory? Oh, how many Christians there are who are all tho time worrying about the way the ( world treats them. They are so tired, they are so abused and they are fco tempted, when Eleaxar did not think whether he had a

hand, or an arm or a foot. All be wanted was victory. We see how men forget themselves in worldly achievement. We have often seen men who, in order to achieve worldly success, will forget all physical fatigue and all annoyance and all obstacle. Just after the battle of Yorktown, in the American revolution,, a musician, wounded, was told he must have his limbs amputated; and they were about to fasten him to the surgeon’s table —for it was long before the merciful discovery of anaesthetics. He said: “No, don’t fasten me to that table, get me a violin.” violin was brought to him and he said: “Now go to work as I begin to play,” and for forty minutes, during the awful pangs of amputation, he moved not a muscle nor dropped a note while he played some sweet tune, Oh, is it not strange that with the music of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and with this grand march of the church militant on the way to become the church triumphant, we cannot forget ourselves and forget all pang and al! sorrow .persecution and all perturbation.

We know what men accomplish under woaldly opposition. Men do not shrink back for antagonism or for hardship. You have admired Prescott’s “Conquest of Mexico,” as brilliant and beautiful a history as was ever written; but some of you may not know under what disadvantages it was written —that “Conquest of Mexico—for Prescott was totally blind, and he had two pieces of wood parallel to each, fastened, and totally blind, with his pen between Those pieces of wood he wrote the stroke against one piece of food telling how far the pen must go in one way, the stppke against the other piete of wood telling how far the pen must go in the other way. Oh, how much men will endure for wordly knowledge and for worldly success, and yet how little we endure for Jesus Christ. How many Christians therejiro.thatgoaroundsaying: “O my hand, my hand, my hurt hand; don’f’you see there is blood on my hand, and there is blood on the sword?” while Eleazar, with the hilt imbedded in the flesh of his right hand, does not know it. L What have we suffered in comparison with those who expired with suffocation, or were burned, or were chopped to pieces for the truth’s sake? We talk of presecution of olden times. There is just as much presecution going on now in various ways. In 1849, in Madagascar, eighteen men were put death for Christ’s sake. They were to be hurled over the rocks, and before they were hurled over the rocks, in order to make their death more dreadful in anticipation, they were put in baskets and swung to and fro over the precipice, that they might see how many hundred feet they would have to be dashed down, and while they were swinging in these baskets over the rocks they sang: “Jesus, lover of my soul, let me to Thy bosom fly.” Thea they were dashed down to death. Oh, how much others have endured for Christ, and how little we endure for Christ. Wc want to ride to heaven in a Pullman sleeping car, our feet on soft plush, the bed made up early so we can sleep all the way, the black porter of death to wake us up only jn time to enter the golden city. We want all the sur* geons to fix dur hand up. Let them bring on all the lint and all the bandages and all the salve, for our hand is hurt, while Eleazar does not know his hand is hurt—“ His,, hand, clave unto his sword.”

As I look at Eleazar’s hand I come to the conclusion that he has done a great deal of hard hitting. I am not surprised when I see these four men —Eleazar and his three companions—drove back the army of the Philistines, that Eleazar’s sword clave to his hand for every time he struck an enemy with one end of the sword the other wounded him. When he took hold of the sword the sword took hold of him. Oh, we have found an enemy who cannot bo conquered by rose-water and soft speeches. It must be sharp stroke and 9 straigbt thrust. Thero is intemperance, and there is fraud, and there is gambling, and there is lust, and there are ten thousand battalions of iniquity, armed Philistine iniquity. How are they to bo captured and overthrown? Soft sermons in morrocco cases laid down in front of an exquisite audience will not do it. You have got to call things by their right name. We have go to expel from our churches Christians who eat the sacrament on Sunday and devour widows’ houses all the week. We have got to stop oui’ indignation against tho Hitties and the Jebusites and the Gergishites, and let those poor wretches go, and anply cur indignation to the modern transgressions which need to be dragged out and slain. Ahabs here. Herods here., ‘Jezebels here. The massacre of the infants here. Strike for God so hard that while you slay the sin the sword will adhere to your own hand. I tell you, my friends, we want a few Johrt Knoxes and John Wesleys in the Christian church to-day. The whole tendency is to refine on Christian work. We keep on refining on it until we send apologetic word to iniquity wc are about to capture it, and we must go with sword silver chased and presented by the ladies, and we must ride on white palfrey under embroidered housing, putting the spurs in just enough to make the chargor dance gracefully, and then we must send a missive, delicate as a wedding card, to ask. the old black giant of sin if he will not surrender. Women saved by the grace of Gotf and on glorious mission sent, detained from Sabbath classes because

their new hat is not done. Churches that shook our cities with great revivals sending around to ask some demonstrative worshiper if he will not please to say “amen” and “hallelujah” a little softer. It seems as if in our church we wanted a baptism of cologne and balm of a thou-, sand flowers, when we actually need a baptism of fire from the Lord God of Pentecost. But we are so afraid somebody will criticise our sermons, or criticise our prayers, or criticise our Religious work, that our anxiety for the world's redemption is lost in the fear that we will get our hand hurt, while Eleazer went into the conflict ‘jjmd his hand clave unto the sword.”* But I see in the next place what a hard thing it was for Eleazar to get his hand and his sword parted. The muscles and the sinews had been so long grasped around the sword he could pot drop it when he proposed to drop it, and his three comrades. I suppose, came up and tried to help' him* and they bathed the back part of the hand, hoping the sinews and muscles would “Hjs. hand clave to the sword.” Then they tried to pull open the fingers and to pull back the thumb, but no sooner were they pulled back than they closed againJ_“and_fiOand“ clave unto the sword.” But after a while they were successful, and then they noticed that the curve in the palm of the band corresponded exactly with the curve on the hilt. “His hand clave unto the sword.”

_ You and I have seen it many a time. There are in the United States-to-day many aged ministers of the Gospel, They are too feeble now to preach. In the church records the word opposite their name is “emeritus,” or the words are, “a minister without charge.” They were a heroic race. They had small salaries and but few books, and they swam spring freshets to meet their appointments. But they did in their day amightjg work for God. They tootc off more of the heads of Philistine iniquity than you could count from noon to sundown. You put that old minister Of the gospel now into a prayermeeting or occasional pulpit or a sick room where there is some one to be comforted, and it is the same old ring to his voice and the same old story of pardon and peace and Christ and heaven. His hand has so long clutched the sword in Christian conflict he cannot drop it. “His hand clave unto the sword.” I preach this sermon as a tonic. I want you to hold the truth with ineradicable grip, and I want you to strike so hard for God that it will react, and while you take the sword, the sword will take you. _ O, my friends, when the battle of life is over and the has come, and our bodies rise from the dead, will we have on us any scars of bravery for God? Christ will be there all covered with sears. Scars ou.the brow, scars on the hand scars on the feet, scars all over the heart won in the battle of redemption. And all Heaven will sob aloud with emotion as they look at those scars. Ignatius will be there, and he will point out the pl ace where the tooth and the paw of the lion seized him in the Coliseum, and John Huss will be there, and he will show where the coal first scorched theefoot on that day when his spirit took wing of flame from Constance. McMillan and Campbell and Freeman, American missionaries in India, will be there—the men who with -th.eir-MLV.es_and_children^went down in the awful massacre at Cawnpore, and they will show where the daggers of the Sepoys struck them. The Waldenses will be there, and they will show where their bones were broken on that day when the Piedmontese soldiery pitched them over the rocks. And there will be those there who took care of the sick and who looked after the poor, and they will have evidences of earthly exhaustion. And Christ, with His scarred hand waving over the scarred multitude, will say: “You suffered with me on earth, now be glorified with me in heaven,” and then the great organs of eternity will take up the chant, and St. John will play: “And these are they who came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and tnado white in the blood of the Lamb.”

Slept All Night in a Cold Bath.

Chicago Tribune. Nine hours of sleep in a bath tub fitled with cold water is the novel escapade of a New York traveling man at the Plankinton House, Milwaukee. The gentlemen is tho representative of a champagne house, and a tour among his own customers Sunday night resulted in his getting an oversupply of his own ware. Returning to the hotel about 11 o’clock, he concluded to take a cold bath io hopes 6f refreshing himself, Filling the bath tub adjoining his room with cold water, he was soon in it. immersed up to the neck, and with his head lying upon the sloping end of the tub he fell asleep. In that position ho remained until 7:30 next morning, when a bell boy aroused him. Nino hours in the cold water had shriveled up his hands and feet and stiffened his joints; until ho could hardly move, but a few hot drinks soon revived him. While he admits that it is a most'effectual wav of sobering up, he thinks it altogether too dangerous. “If I had got my head under the water,” he said to tho clerk, “you would have had a sensational suicide on your hands and nothing could have proved that I di 1 not intenjl to tako my own life.” He Baid that during tho night hejjad dreamed that ho was shipwrecked in the Arctic ocean anjl he was swimming around among the ice bergs.

CHICAGO HONORS GRANT.

Unveiling of a Fine Monument to Him in Lincoln Park. One Hundred Thousand People Witness the Imposing Ceremonies. -* ’ The masmificont equestrian statue of Gen. U. S. Grant, in Lincoln Park Chica-" go was unveiled on the 7th in tho presence of 100,000 people. The scene is vividly pictured Iu the daily press. A dispatch says; The enormous crowd, unnoticed though it appeared that one moment, formed nevertheless’an extraordinary pageant,including in its marvelous bulk and brilliant array not only high civil and military dignitaries of Nation, State and city, but those also gathered from far and near who were closest to the General’s personality, the wife who stood by him for years, and the veterans of his original regiment, the famous old Twenty-first Illinois Infantry, with the identical colors, unfurled at his _first headquarters’ tent. The orator of the day was worthy the occasion, distinguished like his subject in camp and council, the stalwart-looking soldier jurist Gen. 'Walter Q. Gresham. ' An impressive hush fell on tho thousand as General Gresham, facing the lake, stepped.forward to the edge of the temporary platform erected at the base of the monument. Atjhis. juncture the spectacle, in its magnitude and picturesqueness, was a reminder of some vast conception of Gustave Dore. On either side in tiers, up the green slope behind tho speaker*; distinguished guests to the number of 500 had been given place Among them Mrs. General Grant, her white hair showing beneath her widow’s bonnet, was the cynosure of thousands of eyes, Massed to the front of tho platform and to the im. mediate fight and left, in one immense solid square, leaving no vacant ' inch of driveway or were close upon twenty thousand uniformed men-glittering infantry, cavalry and artillery—both regular and militia, grizzled veterans of the Grand Army of tho Republic, bright plumed Knights of Pythias and seemingly countless similar organizations. Back of all these, separated on the one side by the narrow but mile long lagoon or regatta course there swarmed over the wide, far stretching stone beach and esplanade to the water edge a veritable locust cloud of the general public—old men and young, women and children, and every one intent on the proceedings as if their lives depended on the outcome. Beyond this living panorama could be seen in leviathan evolution through the choppy waves an imposing flotilla of nearly two hundred vessel. Three abreast was the order of the marine display, and a noble sight it was as the squadron made its way along almost within hailing distance, all decorated in regulation style. From the bow to stern up over tho mast tops there hung a line of fluttering flags. On the inside, next to the shore, tho tugs small yachts and little passenger steamers were rangedNext, the United States steamship Michigan in the lead, were tho other armed government craft—the trim looking Johnson from Milwaukee and tho beautifa Fessenden, of Detroit. Then came the sturdy Chicago fire boats, and to thejßeaward the great lake carriers, mammoth, pulling, black hulled diners and gracsfifl white schooners breasting forward like harbingers of peace. As they churned along the lake shore tho picture was causing a constant manifestation of enthusiasm among the spectators. Leading up to thissuperb culmination in Lincoln Paik, the day had been a memorblc one for Chicago. Three miles distant at Lake Front Park, on the. edge of the business district, the largo parade had formed along Michigan avenue, north and south from the Auditorium. Maj. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, United States army,commanded the procession in person. Traffic was practically suspended by the whole city, but particularly in the wholesale quarter through which lay the beginning of the paradethe scene everywhere was one of martial snlendor. Up and down the uniformed lines, marshals and aids charged upon prancing steeds, giving and'*-receiving orders, hurrying in line companies, with arms flashing and trappings blazing, while the strains of music, the rattling of drums, thecoininandingcall of the bugle and the swaying of a thousand gorgeous flags and banners added to thtffenjoyment of an innumerable mob of spectators. Every available roof and window was crowded, and the sidewalks were simply impassable. General Miles from his charger, gave tho word and the shart) command rang along thd line “march!” Perhaps never in the history of the city has there been so gallant a display. First came General Miles, bls chief of staff, Gen. Stockton and his aides. Along the line of march inspector Sell lack had thrown a file of sturdy policemen, and they had all tliey*could do to beat back the pushing, eager crowd. The first division, composed of five hundred pollce. jnado a fine, appearance, but the second division, Gen. Charles Fitzsimmons leading, was the popular one with the crowd. Tho American soldier has never been conquered, and as ho tramped tho pavements to-day he did not seein conscious that ho ever would beT~The regiment of the Fifteenth United States infantry was in line In tho division, as was also the regular artillery and regular cavalry from Fort Sheridan and the Illinois National Guard, Infantry and cavalry. Tho third division, under the direction of Col. James A. Sexton, was altogether of veterans and was heartily cheered. It represented tho societies of tho Army of tire Tennessee, Army of the Cumberland and Army the PotomacGen. Ducat headed tho tourth division, carriages of distinguished guests, four abreast, conspicuous among whom were Secretary Noble, Gov. Buckley of Connecticut, Gov. Fifer of Illinois, Senator John Sherman, Henry Watterson. General Horace f’orter, Gen. E. S. Bragg. Mrs. Gen. John A. Logan and Gen. Daniel Butterfield. TheG. A. R„ with empty sleeves and tattered flags, marshaled by Geu. Horace Clark, cam* next, thirty-

four Chicago posts In line, with others from elsewhere in Illinois besides Wis-. cousin,Michigan and lowa commanderies Following in the sixth division under Col. William Hale Thompson, were the Sons of Veterans, and the Society of ex-Confed-cratcs. The latter were almost two hundred in number, marching in honoroftho great Union General. They wore gray soft hats, white neckties, a Southern flower In their button holos, and each carried a cane wrapped with the national colors, They were cheered ail along the line of march. The seventh and last division was made np of civic societies commanded by Col. M. D. Birge, the patriotic order Sons of America, junior order United American Mechanics, the order of Scottish Clans, the county Democracy the Orangemen, postoffice clerks and carriers, Uniformed Rank colored Knights of Pythias, society Nordsjirnan, the Danish veteran society, the Uniformed Rank Royal Arcanum, and other organizations Judge Walter Q. Gresham was the orator of the day.

DEATH OF MR. SMITH

“Stick Close to Your Desk and Never Go to Sea, And You May He a Ruler of the Queen’s Navee”—Sketch of His Life. A London cable of the 7th says: The Rt. Hon. William Henry Smith. First Lord of the Treasury. Wai den of tho Cinque Ports, and the Government leader of the House of Commons, who had been -ill for some time past, suddenly suffered a relapse on the 6th and died in the afternoon. The Rt. Hon. William Henry Smith,son of Mr. H. W. Smith, of the Strand and Bournemouth, Hampshire, bookseller, publisher and news agent, was born in Duke street, Grosvenor square, London, June 24, 1825. Ac was educated at the grammer school of Tavistock, and became in due course a partner of the well-known firm in the Strand. Regarding his antecedents, the Rt. Hon, W. H. Smith was perhaps the most successful English public man of to-day. His father kept a small news stand in an obscure and disreputable street, but rose in the world by establishing a newspaper booth ata railroad station, which was the beginning of a business now worth $250,090 a year. Mr. Smith is popularly reputed to hav left a fortune of about $10,000,000. Wm. 11. Smith is an instance of rare political fidelity. He was Secretary of the Navy, dr First Lord of the Admiralty, as the post is in England. He was one of Disraeli’s discoveries, and his administration was about the only one that reflected credit upon that Ministry. His rise was a surprise, and a not altogether agreeable one, to the high cast members of the Tory party. He began life as a news vender. His fine business abilities soon made much of a narrow opening. At the time of his death he controlled all sale of newspapers and periodicals on every railway in tho British isles. He controlled the circulation of all the great journals to some extent, and hence was a power. In July, 1865, he unsuccessfully contested Westminister in the Conservative interest, but his candidature was renewed with success in November, 1863, when he defeated Mr. John Stuart Mill. In 1874 his popularity was such that lie ran ahead of all his fellows, and was returned at the head of tho poll. Upon his apppointment as Secretary of War it became necessary that ho should bo re-elected, and there were rumors that the Liberals would leave no stone unturned to defeat him. When, however, the election did take place, Juno 29,1885. lie was returned without opposition. In 1874 he was made Financial Secretary of the Treasury, serving in that capacity until August 8, 1879, when he was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and a Cabinet minister. This promotion gave rise to the fanciful conceit of Sir Joseph Porter, K. C. 8., in Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera of “Pinafore.” of which the couplet, “Stick close to your desk aud never go to sea, And ypu may bo the ruler of the Queen’s navee, ’ directly applies to William Henry Smith. In this position he succeeded the late Mr. Ward Hunt. He adored Beaconsfield and was a tower of strength to that eccentric statesman. His riches were counted on in every close constituency to cany tlie minIstry through, and until the tidal wave came in 1880 he rarely failed to pull his partisans through. Like most English members he was a poor speaker. There was considerable surprise manifested when Disraeli retired that ho didn’t send Smith up to the Lords as a peer. He has held the following appointments: Financial Secretary to the Treasury, 1874-7; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1877-80: Secretary for War.’ 1835. On the rest gnation of Lord Randolph Churchill Mr. Smith vacated, the War Office and assumed the leadership of the House of Commons as First Lord of the Treasury. As a mark of her especial favor and as a reward for his services Her Majesty conferred upon Mr. Smith the office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. At a reccnJhneeting of ex-soldiers held at Indianapolis to consider a plan to erect a monument to Gov. Oliver P. Morton, in the southwestern part of tho State House grounds, resolutions eulogistic of Morton and favoring the plan were adopted, and a call issued requesting expressions of opinion. Communications may be addressed to O. D. secretary of the committee.

Seth Coffman, a dairyman near New Albany, was attacked by a vicious bull and.dangerously gored. Cigarette manufacturers say there are more cigarettes sold in Texas than in any other two States in the Union. In San Antonio one retail firm alone has a standing order for 100,000 cigarettes a week, and this is frequently doubled. Fifteen bunthousand cigarettes of one brand alone are sold in San Antonio every month in tho year, and the total sales of cigarettes amount to about 2,000,000 a month. The cigarette smoking of the Mexicans in the city is not included in this estimate, because they buy tobacco and paper . and make their own cigarettes. Emil Paffrath, a Texas farmer was fined SSO by the Recorder at San Antonio a few days ago for stealing water from ari irrigating ditch belonging to the county. The farmer frankly admitted the offence and cheerfully paid the fine, remarking that he just had to have water to save his vegetable crop, and the Lord had sent no rain. He told the Recorder he considered it a good stroke of business, because the violation of the ditch ordinance was wortu $l5O to him in that Instance and M was still SIOO ahead of the court.

PABNELL THE NEXT.

Suddea'Death of the Unthroned King. Great Britain and Ireland Startled by th* Announcement—Brief Sketch of His Life Great Britain and Ireland were startlei on the 7th, by the utterly unlocked for an* nouncement that Charles Stewart Parnell* ■ the noted Irish leader, died suddenly th# I previous evening, at his home in Brighton. It has been well known that Mr Parnell has.not enjoyed the best of health for years past, and it has been noticed and widely commented upon that since the O'Shea divorce developements becam# ». matter of public notoriety, and since political trouble came upon him, that the great Irish member of parliament had grown thinner and that he had perceptibly aged in appearance. But nobody expected to bear of his death and no inkling as to his illness had reached the newspapers. His death is said to have been hr* directly (file tcFa chll 1 which at first wa# not regarded as being of a serious nature, Mr. Parnell however, grew worse, and a physician was called in with the result that the patient was ordered to take to his bed. This was on Friday last, and from that time Mr. Parnell’s strength failed, and he the disease which caused the death of the Irish leader is not made known. Telegrams received from Dublin and other towns in Ireland the principal towns in England unite in reporting that the death of Mr. Parnell has caused the greatest sensation among his supporters, principally on account of the sudden manner in which he died. In Dublin the tatelrish leader's supporters are in great consternation. Mr. Parnell was educated altogether in Engand, and was a studeut of Magdalen, Cambridge. He was almost typically English in manner and appearance. In 1874 o became high shernt of Wicklow, and' was beaten in an effort to enter Parliament Next year be was returned for county Meath in succession to John Martin, and for one year took no part in the work of the House. He became gradually more prominent until in 1878 he was elected president of the Home Rule Confederation iu place of Mr. Isaac Butt, He was subsequently elected to represent the city of Cork. He displayed remarkable ability; both as a parliamentary debater and & tactician, and as an organizer in the interest of the Irish Home-rule party. Ha> identified himself with the tenant farmers of Ireland in the struggles with absenteeism and high rents, and was chiefly instrumental in forming and sustaining the Land League of 1879-80. In December, 1879, Mr. Parnell made a visit to the United States with the design of interesting the Irish-American population in the cause of the land league. While in this country he lectured before several State Legislatures, and finally before tho House of Representatives at Washington. The honor of addressing this branch of Congress had been previously conferred upon but three persons—Lalayotte, Kossuth and the Bishop England, of Charleston. Upon his return home he became better in his attitude toward the landlords and the government, and it was charged that I ftils led to disorder iu Ireland. From this charge he was subsequently vindicated, I In November, 1889, informations were laid , by the Irish attorney general against Mr. Parnell and other members of the Land i League executive. The trial ended in a disagreement of the jury. r lx» the opening of the session of 1881 tho government brought in a coercion bill and to that measure as well as to the arms bill, Mr. I Parnell and his colleagues offered an obstinate onnosition prolonged over seven weeks. Feb. ua y 3. he and thirty-four of his followers, were removed by the ser-g’ant-at-arms for causing obstruction in the House of Commons. Land league demonstrations followed the passage of tho land act and the government proclaim* fd the laud league to be an illicit association and Mr. Parnell issued the “no rent” manifesto. Mr. Parnell remained in Kilmainham jail until April, 1882, when he was released on parole in order to attend the funeral of a relative. He was formally released May 2. ThtmTbllwefftfieresignation of Mr. Foster and Lord Cowper; the Piuenlx Park murders and tn# the stormy debates on the crimes** biH. _ In, these scenes and the subsernrent. organization of the National League in 1883, ar.3 Parliment ini 188 -•>, A f. rumen wa», t'j# most coi splcuous figure. On the cisso u-, tion .of parliment he returned backed by eighty-five members. It was to meet thi 4 situation that Mr. Gladstone prdtosed home rule, in which he was supported by Mr. Parnell and the whole strength of his party. The sensation growing out of tho Parnell commission and the Times libel spit are of too recent occurrence to need special mention hero. Misfortune overtook Mr. Parnell in public notice of his relation to Mrs. O’Shea,whom ho recently married. The attitude of Mr. Gladstone and the Irish bishops compelled his deposition as an Irish leader. And since that time there has been a bitter strife between him and the newly-found leaders of the Irish party. It was a fight against great odds so far as he was concerned, and his' ultimate defeat was inevitable. Thestrafn' and worry of this doubtless had much to do In breaking down bis health. Coupled with the announcement on the 7th that Mr. Parnell died on the previous r.ight came the news that Sir John Pope Hennessey, member of Parliament for North Kilkenny, was also dead. Sir John Pope Hennessey, it will be remembered, immediately after the exposure in th# O’Shea divorce case in December, 1890, contested the North Kilkenny election, backed up by Mr. Parnell’s opponents,' and defeated the Parnellite candidate, Mr. Vincent Scully, by 1,147 votes. This wasj a great, and possibly the greatest test of strength between the Parnollltes and Me-' Carthylies, and the defeat of Mr. Scully no doubt counted fora great deal la, th# , future serie# of disaster# which befell the Irish leader.

Death in the Cigar.

A celebrated European specialist for diseases of the throat, nose, and ear asserts that tuberculosis is making alarm ing progress among cigar smokers. He does not attribute this to the use of tobacoo, but to the manner in which cigars are manufactured. Rolling the tobacco leaf is a craft, that require* neither strength nor intelligence, consequently in this branch of the operation it is usual to find male and female operatives who ano we ifc and diseased, and who. In consequent)! of their infirmities, are economical employees. Most of them suffer trim scrofula or tuberculosis. They cough, and often rive the finishing touch to « cigar with their lips