Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 36, Plymouth, Marshall County, 14 March 1896 — Page 3

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CHEERING THOUGHTS

REV. DR. TALMAGE CONFIDENT THAT AMERICA IS FOR GOD. lie relieves That ThU Continent Was lit ferred To in Kevclation uml I'rcktnts a Glowing I'lcturc of Our Tu Jure Possibilities ami Prospects. Sermon at the Capital. T.'.'is discourse presents a sublime theme aim! is of national importance, and coining from Um capital of th- nation must have i stirring M t throughout the land. Dr. Ta ana ire chose for his text Bevelatioii :xi!:.. 11, "And I beheld another beast !!. !r.g up out of the ear:!i. aud he had two li'-ms like a lamb, and he n:ike as a dragon." I America mentioned in the Bible? I .earned ami consecrat- 1 nir. who have .ra-iifil the inspired books of Daniel ami ;. -!ati : more th:i:i I have ami under.::ir. 1 them hetter a give ii saying that the l-.j.ar-l mentioned ia ; he 15: Me meant ; i.i, anl the l ar meant Medo-lVrsia, mi th" lion meant Uaby!o:i, and the heasr o:' Hi.' text coming n: oit of the earth v. n t-vo lt'.r.'is like a Iamb and the voice : -a dragon means our country, because iui! ng other reasons it seemed to come up of the earth when Columbus diseov-e----.i it, and .'t has been f r the most part M : er.ee, like a Iamb, unless assaulted by f !:; foe, in which case it has had two 2i-r:!s .strong and sharp, ami the voice of n dragon lud i'ii.iih to make all nations li'-.;r the r.;ir of its ind:g:i i tion. Is it rean :. :l'!c to supple tliat God would leave ;;: from the prophecies .it' Iiis book this x;,- !e western hemisphere'.' No. no. "I !.(! I another beast oiinini up out of the earth, ami he had two horns like a lamb, lc spake as a dragon." Germany for scholarship. 1'nglanl for ru.-.vafaetnries, rranc-' for manners, Ugypt for aiiti-p.ities, Italy for pictures, but America for God. America for Cod. T tirt with the cheering thought that tie- most popular book oa earth to-day is th- Bible, the most popular institution on earth to-day is the church, and the most jx.pular name on earth to-day is Jesus. High: from this audience hundreds of men and women would, if need be, march out and (lie fur him. Am I too confident in saying "America for God?" If the Lord will help me, 1 yv.ll show the strength and extent of the Icr.jc iino of fortresses to be taken and give Tua lay reasons for saying it can be done a:.d will be dune. Let us decide in this battle for God whether we are at Bull Bun er at Gettysburg. There is a Fourth of .luiyi-m way of bragging about this country, and the most tired and plucked bird that ever Hew through the heavens is the American eagle, so much so that Mr. Gladstone said to me facetiously at Ilawardeu, "1 hear that the li.sh in your American lakes are so large that when oae of them is taken out the entire lake is j.r.-eptibly lowered," and at a dinner given in Paris an American offered for a e- r.:iia' nt. Ih re is to the United States bounded on the north by the aurora Irrealis, or; the south by the procession of t:o- e juinoxes. Mil the east by primeval lt:iO- ard on the west by the day of judgluvat." The effect of such grandiloquence is t discredit the real facts, which are tremendous they need no garnishing. lhe worst thing to do in any campaign, tn'.iitary or religious, is to underestimate ar. euemy. and I will have no part in ta a attempt at beiittlemenr. Th.s land t be taken for God. according to :I-.sel. the statistician, has 1I.LT.Uh'? tn '..in- rnib-s, a width and a length that !!:: but the Omniscient can appreciate. 1.. it r'ur.'pes '.ut together, and capable of Ir-idiug and feeding, as ir will hohl and f .-. according to Atkinson, the statistician. iL' tip- world continues in existence n::d doe.-, i.ot rua aful of some other worM or get consumed by the tires already :r:,:i:g in the cellars of the planet capai. say, .f holding and feeding more j than 1,001 :im.iHw inhabitants. For yon j u. r.-meml.er it must he iicöl tor (Jod as v r ii is lal en f r God. and the last .".sm,"'i'.tn() i;. habitants ninr not be abo.v .1 swamp the religion of the first ."oo,('N).o0. Xut nuieli use in taking the f,.rtrst if we cannot hold it. It must be l?'-!d until the archangel's trumpet bids living a u J dead arise from this foundering '.ua't. A Natioii'n Mornin;;. '. Ao; -mint remember it is only about 7 o'.loek in the morning of our nation's ;:". Great cities are to Hash and roar j n:nor:g what are called the "Bad Lands" of the Dakotas and the great "Columbia J'laitis" of Washington State, and that on vaih we juttour schoolboy lingers oa the frip, and spelled out as the "Great Amcr-j'-fcu desert," is, through systematic and '.nsinamntir.g irrigation, to bloom like 'hatsw orth park and be made more, prodnetive than those regions dependent upon uncertain and .spasmodic rainfall. All those regions :ik well as those reginos alr -fitly cultivate.;'. t J be inhabited! That v a a .sublime thing said by Henry Ciay Avhlit crossing the Allegheny Mountains nad be was waiting for the stage horses to 1o rested, as he stood on a rock, arms fo'iO-ij, looking off into the valley. :miI s..a:i one said to him, Mr. Clay, what wire yctw tliinking about?" lie replied. "I im li.ilening to the oncoming tramp ..f the ?"!tur generation of America." Have' you laid our home missionary scheme n f-'ich n infinit inle of scale? If the work if bringing one ..iil to God is so great, an l.fMXi.OOO.o) 1,. capture.l? In this . ..uritry, already planted and to be overcome, paganism has built its altar to Brahma, and the Chinese are already Earning inem-e in their temple, and Mohammedanism, drunk in other davs With the red wine of human bluod at Luekiiovt and Cawnpnr, and now fresh frmn the diabolism in Armenia, is trying to get n f.Klhold lit-re. and fruai the minarets of Ifr mosiiues will yet mumble her bljsjih"m!es, saying. "God is great, and M1; am med is his prophet." Then there are :w aster multitudes with no religion M ail. They worliip no (Jod. thoy live wirti i.o consolation, and they die with no !i. e No star of peaei- points down to the iii.mip'i in whieli they are born, and n prajer is utleretl over the grave info which tl i y .ink. Tio-n there is ab-oholisni. its pi; d up deinijolins rind beer barrel :m I h g--l.eads of liery death, a barricade hi'li in 1 J .ng a.H the Alleghanios and Itockh-s and tS'arr.i Nevadas, pouring forth day arid i::ght their ammunition of wretelu diu ss niid rt'nc. "ln-n a Germ an wants to f;ike i arii.k, he takes beer. When an Lngii- alean wants to take a drink, he take u'e. When a Scotchman wants to take a ilr.nk, he takes whisky. But when an American wants to take a drink, he takes anything .J.o can lay bis hands on. . I'tvatjr of statistics to tell how much

money 1 spent In this country for rcm and ho a- many drunkards die! But who wiii give us the statistics of. how many hearts are crushed under the heel of this worst demon of the centuries? How many hopes blasted? How many children turned out on the world, accursed with stigma of a debauched iincestry? Umil the worm ot the distillery becomes the worm that never dies, and the smoke of the heated wiae vats becomes the smoke of the torment that ascemleth up for ever and ever! Alcoholism, swearing not with hand uplifted toward heaven, tor from that direction it can et no help, but with right hand treteh"l down toward the perdition from whi'-h it came up swearing that it will not e.Mse as long as there ar. any homesteads to despoil, any magnificent m"!i and women to destroy, any immortal souls to damn, any more nations to balk, .my more civilizations to extinguish. Vickcl and Lazy. Then there is what in America we :a'.I socialism, in France communism, and in Bussia nihilism the three names for one and the same thing and having but two doctrines in its creed: First, there is no (Jod; second, there shall be no rights of property. One of their chief journals printed this sentiment, "Dynamite can be made out of the dead bodies of capitalists as well as out of hogs." One of the leaders .f communism left inscribed on his prisoa wall, where he had been justly incarcerated, these words: "Whoa once you are dead, there is an end of everything. Therefore, ye scoundrels, grab whatever you can, :dy don't let yourselves be grabbed. Amen!" Qhcre are in this country hc.'Jreds of thousands of these lazy scoundrels. Honest men deplore it when they ranriot get work, but those of whom I speak w ill not do work when they can get it. I tried to employ one who asked im for money. I said, "Down "in my cellar I have some wood to saw, and 1 will pay you for it." For a little while I heard the saw going, and then I heard it no more. I -went down stairs and found the wood, but the workman had disappeared, taking for company both buck and saw. Socialism, communism and nihilism mean "too wicked to acknowledge God and too lazy to earn a living," and among the mightiest obstacles to be overcome are those organized elements of domestic, social and political ruin. There also are the fastnesses of infidelity, and atheism, and fraud, and political corruption, and multiform hydra headed, million armed abominations all over the land. While the mightiest agencies for righteousness on earth are good and healthful newspapers and good and healthful hooks, and our chief dependence for intelligence and Christian achievement is upon them, what word among the more than 1(0,00) words in our vocabulary can de; ribe the "work of that archangel of mischief, a corrupt literature? What man, attempting anything for (Jod and humanity, has escaped' a stroke of its filthy -wing? What good cause has escaped its hinderment? What other obstacle in all the land so appalling? But I cannot nt.me more than onc-htlf the battlements, the bastions, the intreuchments, the redouMs, the fortifications, to be stormed and overcome if this country is ever taken for (Jod. The statistics are so awful that !f we had nothing but the multiplication vib'.e and the arithmetic, the attempt t evangelize America would be an absurdity higher than the tower of Babel before it dropped on the plain of Shinar. Where are the drilled troops to march against these fortifications as long as the continent? Where are the batteries that can be unlimbered against these walls? Where are the guns of large enough caliber to storm these gates? Well, let us look around and see, the first of all, who is our leader and will be our leader until the work is done. A Great Leader. Garibaldi, with 1.0O0 Italians, could do more than another commander with 10,oim Italians. Gen. Sherman, on one side, and Stonewall Jackson on the other, each with lo.iHtO troops, could do more than some other generals with -0.00& troops. The rough boat in which Washington crossed the icy Delaware with a few halffrozen troops was mightier than the' ship of war that, during the American revolution, came through the Narrows, a gun at each porthole, am! sank in Hell Gate. Our leader, like tnost great leaders, was born in an obscure place, and it was a humble home, about live miles from Jerusalem. Those who were out of doors that night said that there was stellar commotion and music that came out of the clouds, as though the front door of heaven had been set open, and that the camels heard his

first infantile cry. Then he came to thej fairest boyhood that mother was ever proud of, and from 12 to 00 years of age was off in India, if traditions there are accurate, and then returned to his native land, and for three years had his pathway surrounded by blind eyes that be illumined, and epileptic patients to whom lie gave rubicund health, and tongues that he loosed from silence into song, and those whose funerals he stopped that he might give back to bereaved mothers their only hoy., and those whose fevered pulses he had restored into rhythmic throb, and whose paralytic limbs lie had warmed into healthful circulation pastor at Capernaum, but llaming evangelist everywhere, hushing crying tempests and turning rolling seas into solid sapphire, and for the rescue of a race submitted to court room tilled with howling miscreants, and to a martyrdom at the sight of which the sun fainted and fell back in the heavens, and then treading the clouds homeward, like snowy mountain peaks, till heaven took h'm back again, more a favorite than he had ever bec-u; but, coming again, be is on earth now, and the nations are gathering t his standard. Following him were the Scotch covenanters, the Theban legion, the victims of the l.n.'!'iii Haymarket, the l'iedmontes mTerers. the pilgrim fathers, the HtigucLots and uncounted multitudes of the past, jeip.ed by aU.nt dMUMN ) of the prescht, and with the certainty that all ir.tio'is shall bu..a at Iiis chariot wheel, 'be forth, the iii.m.h under his f-ct. and the mars of heaven for his liara -the itiii'hty !-ad'r, be .f Drumclog. and I'.olliw. il Biidge, ami Bannockhurn, and the ..oo wh whelmed Spanish armada, "(,'om:i g up from IMom. with dyed garments lrotu Uozrali, traveling in the greatness of hi- strength, mighty r save." and behind wh-mi w fall int, line to-day and mar h in the campaign that U to take America r..r :.!. llosanna! Ilosanua! Wave all the palm branches! At his feet put down your silver and your gold, as in heaven j on will cat before him your coronet. A HI ii pcndoiiH J tonic. With such a leader do you not think we can do it? Say, do you think we can? Why, many ramparts have already been taken. Where is American slavery? Gone, and the South, as heartily as the North, prays, "IVace to its ashea." Where ia ben

tial polygamy! Gone, by the fht of th United States Government, urged on by Christian sentiment, and Mormonism, baring retreated in 1S.10 from Fayette, N. Y., to Kirkland. O., and in 1ST.S retreated to Missouri, and in 1S1( retreated to Salt Lake City, now divorced from its superfluity of wives, will soon retreat into the Pacific, and no basin smaller than an ocean could wash out its 'tollulions. Illiteracy going down under the work of Slater and Pea body funds and Sabbath schools of all the churches of all denominations! Pugilism now made unlawful by congressional enactment, the brutal custom knocked out in the first round! Corruption at the ballot box, by law of registration mid other safeguards, made almost impossible! Churches twice as large as the old ones, the enlarged supply to meet the enlarged demand! Nihilism, getting a stunning stroke by the summary execution of its exponents after they had murdered the policemen in Chicago, received its death blow from the recent treaty which sends back to Bussia tho blatant criminals who had been regurgitated on our American shore The very tilings that have been quoted as perils to this nation are going to help its salvation. Greut cities, so often mentioned as great obstacles the center of crime and the reservoirs of all iniquities are to lead in the work of gospcli.ation. Who give most to home missions, to asylums, to religious education, to all' styles of humanitarian and Christian institutions? The ities. From what places did the most relief go at the time of Johnstown Hood, and Michigan tires, and Charleston earthquake, and Ohio freshets? From the cities. From what place did Christ send out his twelve apostles to gospelize the world? From a city. What place will do more than any other place, by its contribution of Christian men and women and means, in this work of taking America for God? New York city. The way Paris goes, goes France. The way Berlin goes, goes Germany. The way IMinburgh goes, goes Scotland. The way London ges, goes Fnglaud. Tho way New York and a couple other cities go, goes America. May tiie eternal (Jod wake us up to the stupendous issue! Another thing quoted pessimistically is the vast and overtopping fortunes in this country, and they say it means concentrated wealth, and luxuriousness. and display and moral ruin. It is :.uy observation that it is people who have but limited re

sources who make the most splurge, and 1 ask you, Who are endowing colleges and theological seminaries? Did you ever hear of Peter Cooper, and James Lenox, and sainted William L Dodge, and the Lawrences, Amos and Abbott, while I refrain from mentioning living benefactors who, quite as generous and Christian, are in this assembly at this moment planning what they can do in these days, and in their last will and testament in this campaign that proposes taking America for God? The widow's mite, honored of tho Lord, is to have its part in this continental capture; but we must have more than that, and more right away. Many of the men that expect to get the blessing for bestowing the widow's mite will not get the blessing. In the first place, they are not widows, and in the next place, they have no "might." A Grand Assimilation. The time is coming hasten it. Lord and 1 think you and I will see it, when, as Joseph, the wealthy Arimathacan, gave for the dead Christ a costly mausoleum, the allluent men and women of this country will rise in their strength and build for our King, one Jesus, the throne of this American continent. Another thing quoted for discouragement, but "which I quote for encouragement, is foreign immigration now that from Castle Garden we turn back by the first poor ship the foreign vagabondism we are getting people the vast majority of whom come to make an honest living, among them some of the bravest and the best. If you should turn back from this land to Furopo the foreign ministers of the gospel, and the foreign attorneys, and the foreign merchants, and the foreign philanthropists, what a robbery of our pulpits, our court rooms, our storehouses and our beneficent institutions, and what a putting back of every monetary, merciful, moral and religious interest of the land! Tins commingling here of all nationalities under the blessing of (Jod will produce in 7." or 100 years the most magnificent style of man and woman the world ever saw. They will have the wit of one race, the eloquence of another race, the kindness of another, the generosity of another, the aesthetic taste of another, the high moral character of another, and when that man and woman step forth, their brain and nerve and muscle an intertwining of the fibers of all nationalities, nothing but the new electric photographic apparatus, that can see clear through body, mind and soul, can take of them ac adequate picture. But the foreign population of America is less than one-eleventh of all our population, and why all this fuss about foreign immigration? Eighty-nine Americans to eleven foreigners! If eighty-nine of us New Jerseymen. or eightynine of us New Yorkers, or eighty-nine of us Ohioans, or eighty-nine of us Georgians, or eighty-nine of us Yankees, are not equal to eleven foreigners, then we are a starving, lilliputian group of humuneuli that ought to be wiped out of existence. Uwcfnl Weapon;-. But now what are the weapons by which, under our omnipotent leader, the real obstacles in the way of our country's evangelization, the 10.000 mile Sewastopols, are to be leveled? The first columliad. with range enough to sweep from eternity to eternity, is tho Bible, millions of its copies going out, millions on millions this the monarch of hooks, that has made all the difference between China and the United States, between Africa and America; a lNok declaring in every style of phraseology that all nations are to be converted, and does not that include our nation? The thunder of the bombardment is already in the air, and when the last bridge of opposition is taken, and the last portcullis of satan is lifted, and the last gun spiked, and the last tower dismantled, and the last charge of 'iniquity shall have Ix-cn hurled hack upon its hauuehes, what a time of rejoicing! ('apt. K bid's quadrant, or one of his quadrants, or at least an ancient quadrant bearing his name, s in tho possession of n family at Itorklaud, Me. It is more than "o years old, an I oears I be name and address of the London maker. Part of It Is of Ivory, now dark brown with ago. Th? natno Captain Kbld" Is engraved on the metal part of the Instrument. There is this difference between happiness and wisdom; be that thinks himself tho happiest man, really Is so; lmt bo who thinks himself the wisest man, Is generally the greatest fooL

LET TJS ALL LAUGH.

JOKES FROM THE PENS OF VARIOUS HUMORISTS. flcasant Incidents Occurring the World Over Sayings that Are Cheerful to the Old or Young Funny Selections that You Will Lnjoy. Crafty. He What is that, dear? She-Angel food. I made it myself. He-YotiM better rat dear. You're the only angel in this bouse. Boston Transcript. Absurd Mistake. "Maria!" lie said, nervously. :is be sat straight up in bed, 'there's a man in the houso!" "William." she responded, "you are very silly. Those are iny bloomers hanging over ili; back of a chair." Washington Evening Star. Other Opinions Not Kequircd. Mr. W -miliar.; Do you like the young man who is paying attention to your daughter Mary? Mr. Warrington What difference does that make? Mary dors.-South-bridge (Mass.) .Journal. A Single Sticker. Ho i who lias been trying to get rid of her maiden aunt for the last bouri Your aunt reminds me of the Defender. She--Defender, why ? lie -Because she is a single sticker. -Brooklyn Life. Both Love the Kitty. "Herald." said Mrs. Bulsiver, "when you talk in your sleep about Hie kitty it always wakes baby up. She just dotes on a kitty." "So do I." answered Mr. I. grateful for his escape. Detroit Free Tress. The Kapidity of Fashion. f'.V "i1 " O ----- "Then if this is tho bat that suits madame, I will send it to her." ".No, imb od! 1 mean to put it on at once. By the time you could send it to ine the fashion would have changed." Killing las-ion. I Wa! !tb i x'f you would only show Mr. Tapleigb (absent-mindedly No trouble to show anythin-, miss, rven if you do not inte nd purchasing to-day. Exchange. On the. Strand. Britisher I lave you any grand ducal halls in America? ( otbamite- Mi. yes; some. The last ducal haul was ten millions cash. I oall that grand, don't you? Now York World. Modest ('.futility. Hungry Hank -They say it hain't good form to keep right up with the fashions. Tattered Timmy I know; and it's a mighty lucky thing for fellers like us!Exchange. Uvcrylmdy (lot Out. "How did you get Bort ly out of your whist club did you ask him to resign V" "No. wo didn't like to do that, but wo all resigned except Borrly and then we all got together and formou a now club." Harper's Bazar. Mother of Love. MayWhen .lack likened Belle to Venus do you suppose bo intended to retloct on her morals? Jack Ob. no; be simply meant that she was old enough to be the mother of love. Bay City Chat. At His Funniest. "Your friend is an actor, isu't he?' "Yes." "Very nnuising fellow." "Yes, off the stage." Exchange. Mutter of Dimension. Manager We want a kiss in it. Playwright Yes, sir. A four-act kiss or just a curtain-raiser? Detroit Tribune. A Natural Result. Teacher Tell me, John, what becomes of the man who neglects his ;oul and gives bis entire attention to Ids body ? John He grows fat. Exchange. A Home Truth. i ist: t a v. Irate Stcpfather-l can't think whore you learn such manners. You don't see tne sibling down the balusters and turning somersaults In the hall! Punch.

Tflcr Frerogati rt. Prank As this is leap jear I will trouble you. Miss Florence, j help me on with my coat. Florence Certainly, and I will stuff your sleeves iu with pleasure Detroit Free Press.

Kefiiscd to Walk. "Why did you refuse young Stingyman V" "He asked me to walk through life with him." Detroit Free Press. The Kcason. Bilby Do all you chaps at this bank have to give bonds': Kilby Yes. Bilby To keep you from running away': Kilby Oh. no; to keep the money from running away. Exchange. After the Marriage. ran The Wife My! but you were embarrassed when you pronounced the marriage vow! The Husband What do you expect? It was the lirst time. I will do better the second. Had Not the Couturc. Mrs. Watts I am afraid you don't love work. Dismal Dawson 'Deed I do, mum, but I am so bashful. Indianapolis Journal. Common Fault. Pipkin I got this typewriting machine on trial, but I'm going to take it bac;. Potts-What for Pipkin It doesn't spell correctly. Excba nge. Professional Courtesy. Tho casual visitor of the bland disposition leaned over the shoulder of the regular humorist. "So you're the man who sees the funny side of everything":'' he chortled. "Yes," the police reporter hastened to say. '"lie even sees the funny side of his own jokes." Cincinnati Enquirer. Philology Versus Finance. Professor Is "dude" short for anything? Pupil Yes; for carfare usually. Excba nge. They Knew Its Need. "My good man, I never sent for joti to tune my piano." "No. madame, it was the people next door." London Pick-Me-Up. His Favorite Featnre. "Say," said the watchdog to his friend, the goat, "which of your interesting features are you charmed with?" "My browse," answered the goat as he absorbed another mouthful from tho clothesline. Detroit Free Press. Dialogues iu the Air. "What is love?" "A fresh egg." "Marriage?" "Hard-boiled eggs." "Divorce?" 'Scrambled eggs." New York Times. Lack of Culture. Harry What girl was that you bad in tow last evening? Willy (indignantly) What you are pleased to call tow is usually spoken of by people of culture as blonde tresses. Boston ( I lobe. A Disappointed Patriot. "Well, after all. we won't have war with England!" "So it seems and it's completely ruined me!" "Kuinod you?" "Yes; I was Just preparing to stay at home and write a history of It!" Atlanta Constitution. A Back SI up. Patient Say, doctor, that's a whopping bill you sent me. Doctor I'm not iu this business for my health. Patient No. nor for mim either, I judge, by the way you are working me. Exchange. Later On. Tea eher So, (leorgio, you wore named after Jorge Washington, were you? Young (leorge Yes'm; sometime after. Boxbury (Jazetle. Their Choice. "How does Winters manage to keep the wolf from the door?" "He doesn't. He gave violin lessons but his family said they preferred tho wolf." Detroit Free Pret.

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J. H. M'VICKER DEAD.

Veteran Theater Manager Puccumba to a Recent Apoplectic stroke. J. H. McVicker, the nestor of American theater managers, died at his hoiui in Chicago Saturday afternoon from the effects of a strok.! of apoplexy alxoit a m o u t !l ag During the tv Weeks following i lie shock Mr. M c V i e ker improved and it wa believed that his tine constitution would enable him t resume bis us-u.-il activity, but advance! years J. U. m VU Kl.i:. WOreainst him. Mr. McVicker bad been a prominent theater manager for nearly half a century. He was born in New York iu lv'"' of Scotch-Irish parentage. His fathci died when he was a child. As a young riaii he became a printer, la ISSo, while in New Orleans, he decided to take to the stage, lb went to Chicago in 1SS and since has made that eily bis houi". In Js.'.l he purchased the riuht to Dan Marble's plays and became a star. He went to Kagland and was well received there. Bui Mr. McVicker was determined to become a manager, and in 1S-"T be Imiit what was christened "The New Chi ag: Theater." It was opened Nov. Ö of that year. The enterprise 1 e s- thoroughly identified with the yor.ag pr.pri'w-Vi that MeVicker's Theater became its name and MeVicker's Theater it remains. Mr. McVicker himself appeared, as Cousin Ant In " The Bough Diaaiond" on the opening night, and was greeted by an enthusiastic audience. During the war the theatet continued to divert the public mind witb th" hest talent the dramatic held afforded. In 171 Mr. McVicker rebuilt bis theater. He opened in August of that yeai and assumed the lending role in the comedy "Extremes." The Chicago tire destroyed the playhouse, hut in 1 STL it was rebuilt for the second time. In 1SSÖ t lie theater was remodeled and was again burned to the ground Aug. "V.. IS'.n. Mr. McVicker was visiting in the East. l"ion the receipt of the dispatch announcing his loss he determined upon the immediate restoration of his building for the fifth time. SPAIN AND UNCLE SAM. We Have a Material Interest in the Prosperity of Cuba. Alphonso Nil I.. King of Spain, is in th tenth year of his age. The country is governed by his mother, the jueen regent, Maria Christina. The legislative power is in a Senate and the cortes. About onehalf the Senate is elected. The cortes consists of 4." I deputies, chosen by citizens of years of age who pay taxes. The population of the country is about 1S,Ministers have been defeated and censured several times during the past year, but have imt resigned. Cuba has been the chief cause of political and financial excitement during the year. Although represented in the national Legislature by ten Senators and thirty deputies, it in practically without voice at Madrid. The present insurrection, now more than a year iu progress, is supported by two classes of the people radicals who want separation and independence, and aut ea-eniMs-. or home rulers, who would be fcatistied with tho same relation to the erovvn that Canada has t-j that of Great Britain. Four years ago. on ministerial assurance of a home rule measure, tho radical Cuban party became quiescent. Broken faith at Madrid revived -it. and the ranks of the radicals were largely recruited from those oi the home rulers made desperate by disappointment and deception. After sturdy lighting, in which the infurgeats proved themselves fully a match for the a'o'est generals and the 11 wer of the army of Snaia. tiny proclaimed the Cuban Bepubiic i:i August last. t be composed of !ive S;ates. In September the home rulers s. -;; a petition to Madrid through Marsha! Campos, begging selfgovernment on eo?iservative lines, and assuring the i n that this concession Would d:s..e the rebellion. The only answer was the recall of Campos and substitution of him with Weyler, whose policy is under.-' I to be thoroughly Crom iveiiia ii. If he cannot soluble be will extirpate. If Cuba will not submit to he ruled le Spain, it will be destroyed. Weyler. if necessary, will make a desert of the island and call it IVace. Thoposjj-oti of the Government of the United States is one of extreme delicacy. The money loss to American trade ahme in eonseue:ico of the rebellion is a grave injury. In IVU exports of merchandise from the United States to Cuba reached a value of S17.1o.s;;ö. Last year the value feil to Sli. JpsjCil. American imports from Cilia in 1MH reached the value of )7tUl.".i::i : last year the total fell to The Tinted States, therefore, have a direct and material interest in the destiny and prosperity of this island. Far above this interest is the interest of humanity. It is intolerable to the public .sentiment of the United States that slaughter and pillage, due to political oppression, shall go oa iiidctinilely at our very doors. Thrf struggle Cub i is making for civil and political liberty is identical with the struggle the founders of the republic of the United Slates made against the selfishness and oppress-. mi of the riM ii of Great Britain. Thanks to the friendly aid of France, that struggle was brought the more speedily to an end. The struggle in Cuba ought to be brought to an end by the friendly aid of the I'nited States. Chicago TimeHerald. Sparks from the Wires. Three hundnsl tons of armor plate ha been shipjM'd by the Bethlehem Steel Company to IJnsva. Al Spink's play. "The Derby Winner." has hern sohl to George Munsoii, a baseball writer, Y,ao has been its advance a'eid. The Brazil Government has declined an offer from Bio Janeiro bankers of a loan of fl.Hi.iMH .SÖ.MK.mHh to counteract the fall of exchange. Health ( Mlicer Ilouth's ultimatum to tho ice companies at Didutli. Minn., lias had the desired effect. All of the companies have gone out over a mile from shore to secure ice. Oliver Karschbauni. the Bl-yctir-old son of a farmer near Osgood, Ind.. while cutting trees, was struck on the head by a falling limb, crushing his skull and killing his instantly. A futile attempt was made to rob th safe of the county treasurer at Creede, Col. Bobber worked the combination, but roch red nothing, daX) having bea reuioTed to the bank.

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