Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 46, Plymouth, Marshall County, 18 April 1896 — Page 2

THE INDEPENDENT.

PLYMOUTH, INDIANA. FOR A NEW BUREAU. PROPOSED CHANGEIN AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT. TJrjrel by Many Colleges Awful lie suits of a Fireworks I'actory Ilxploedou at Chicago Ohio Train Wrcckcrw Fail in a Fiendish Plot. In Interest of Science. Senator Proctor, chairman of tin Coinmit ice on Agriculture, was ant loricd hy that committee ti provide lor a direcmr-in-ehief of the scientific bureau of the Agricultural 1 epa rtment. The question has been before oii'mittee T.r s:ne time, ai.il t In propriety ..f the change has been urged hy ;i!nnt all the ngricult ural niücp's in tin country, as well as by 'many other in -tituti ins of !;;ir:i i iiir. Tin bureaus which would i" ;i!:icci under the clMr;'!' of the prop, sed direcior include tin v. cat her bureau, the bureau of animal industry, ami about fifteen divisions of tho department engaged in technical ami tscieiititie investigations. Ctider tin- present system the general charge of this work Las hem . i!iia 1 to the Assistant Secicinry. DEATH IN THE BLAST. Chicago Fireworks Factory Clows Up, Killing Two and Taiming r.'ar.y. With ail explosion liiat llooh the country for miles around one of the b-rildings of the Chicago I'ircvvo! ks Company a: Orosso l'oint blow ni a! ml S o'clock "Wednesday morni ig. kiKmg t' persons, fatally wounding tu an-! terribly injuring ix others. Tin employes, most of whom were girls under age. had seam-!.'.' Ifen at work an hoar when the accident occurred. Vhat caused tlie explosion is not .'ml probably never will lie known. The girls were werking briskly ami merrily 1 1 1 ii.ir witli o:,e jiimtlier. when suddenly a teirible rear was heard, and tin walls of the liuiMing. v. h'u h is mio of twelve similar ones. f -'I oat ward, while the roof came eaieening t ! . . n . crushing the poor victims to ;!ie iloor. A minute later another explosion followed, which inerei fully raised the ro.r from the dying nnd f:t i lit in vr. anil with feeble limbs ;ind agonizing crh-S the wounded crawled out. some of them, forgetful of their own jiwfui pMghi. dragging the inure helpless o;ie willi them. The work for the season nt the establishment began hut a few w-eks :ij:it. ;M:d only two of lite twelve buildings were i:i a so. ESCAPED AM AWFUL WRECK. Dastard'y Attempt to Throw a Limited Express from t!ie Track. A dastardly attempt to wreck tin- limited express train on the Cleveland and Pittsburg I'oad was made before daylight, near the soufher: limits (.f Cleveland. A rolling mi!! :i.p!..ye on his way to Work discovered mid removed the obstruction just in lime ;. avoid a terrible xvreek. Two he.-ivy railroad ties hail heen idaeeil from rail to rail on the tracks and heavy ties v. ere also placed parallel with tin rails on t he out ide. Scarcely had the ohstraetion Loo:i !-c:i;..,el when the limited thundered hy at tie rale of fifty miles an hour. Holmei a Cood Liar. Insurance Inspector llary. of tlie Fidelity .Mutual Life Company, of Philadelphia, in whicii Ilo'.nie.-' victiui. IMtxel. y:is insured, nays Holmes did n 1 commit nl! the murders he roiifessed to. Kale Iarke is in Omaha. lr. I'nssell in Mie!iigan. Anna Va:i Tassell in Arkansas lixitl Kohcrt Latimer in Chica-M. Jertrude Conner did not die for six weeks after leaving Chicago for Iowa. Escape of Fojr Convicts. Four lonjx-term convicts escaped from the Northern Indiana S'ate prison. Six convicts were in the conspiracy to escape, hut two V.eakelicl at the critical moment. Their confederates then hound and avved them, p.mmlin;; them until they were insensiMe. The four then secured citizens clothes, spücod two holders, ami M-aie! the walis. J. Milton Turner Cisab'ed. J. Milton Turner. ex-Minister to Liberia, lawyer and politician of national fame, although a cohired man. does not, apparently, poss. Ss a tliick skull. lie is now lyin at the Sf. Louis city hospital with a hroken sconce, the result of a Kerimmaire with Iiis step-daughter. w!io lroke a iilc!ier over 1.1s head. Wai Who Tickled IngaMs Sane. .Tohn C iriis. th" man who was heat to the insane asvium at Toj eka. Kan., hy an Atchison Coui'ty jury fi r 1 i k 1 i : ir exSenator I rival's tiie !i;:-; of tlie li'-ck. lias ht en discli ;r.L'ed i.V !m Verdict of mother jury, vhh-h deehireJ him ane. Mr. Inalls was sh-k. a., 1 was not a witness. Will Ma!e Thousands Idti. At a lueejin-r of ihe ;?:.ur;: Window i!ass Association a:.d the Western Window !ass Ass: !:! tio:s. h id ij Indianapolis, it was decided, ov.iii- to the ;r!ut in t!i: i;arket, to eins., down every window irla.ss factory in the country May J'.. Pack Ing Houre; Destroyed. Fire l.roke o it early Tm-sday n.orniii.ir in the lar-:' pickini; houses of the Michigan lleef and Provision Company. Ietroir, and speedily destroyed the huildinjrs. Xm estimate of the !o-s has heen made. Death in a Coiliery. Py an explosion in a colliery at WillTiiinton. near Durham, ei-iit miners are known to have heen killed ami it is believed eighteen persons in all will lose their lives through tlie disaster. Pearl Bryan Suspect Dismissed. When the case of William Wood, charged as an accomplice in the attempt to procure a criminal operation on Pearl l'ryan, was called at Piucinnati. the proseeutiii-; attorney said the State had no evidence to warrant a trial, and .ludc 're-r dismissed the case. Murderer Cheats the Callows. Charles Morris, the confessed murderer of Mr. and Mrs. Douthetts, committed su'.cide nt Xenia, Ohio, hy cutting his throat when told to get ready to x to Columbus to Lar..

TALM AGE'S 5EEM0N.

SHOWS JOSEPH'S LIFE TO BE FULL OF PRACTICAL LESSONS. It Illustrates the Fact that You Cannot Keep a ioo:l Matt Down and that the World In Compelled to Honor Christian Character. The Life of Joseph. Tliis sermon of Pev. Ir. Talma jre is full of stirring ami practical lessons f r all. Washington has many men who, like the hero of the texts, started from almost nothing and rose to h:li place. The texts chosen were: (Jenesis xxxvii.. JS, "They drew and lifted up .Joseph out of the pit and soil Joseph t.j the Ishmaelites for !' pieces of silver." Genesis xlv.. 1!. "II is governor over all the land of Kjrypt." Von cannot keep a p d man down. Clod has decreed for him a certain pjint of elevation. He will hrin. him to that though it cost him a thousand worlds. You sometimes find men fearful they will n : he propt rly appreciated. Every man c -.:nes to he valued at just what he is worth. Y.u cannot w rite him up, and you cann t write liim d nvn. These facts are powerfully illustrated in my subject. It would be an insult to suppose that you were not all familiar with the life of Joseph how his jealous brothers threw him into a pit. but fceeim; a caravan of Arabian merchants trud-jin.ir a lorn; on their camels, with frph-es and rums that loaded the air with atMina, sold their brother to these merchants, who carried him down into LVypr; Joseph there sold to Potiphar. a man of inlluence and ollice; how by Joseph's integrity he raised himself to hi.irh ps:tion in the realm until, under trie false charge of a vile wretch, he was hurled into the penitentiary: how in prison he commanded respect ami confidence; how by the interpretation ,,f Pharaoh's dream he was freed and became the chief man in the realm, the Pismaivk of his century; how in the time of famine Joseph had the control of a mauni'iic; storehouse which he had lilh-d during seven years of plenty: how when Iiis brothers, who had thrown him into the pit and sold him into captivity, applied for crn he sent them home with tiie beast of burden borne down under the heft of the cr:i sacks; how the sin against their brother which had so long been hidden came out at last and was returned by that brother forgiveness and kindness, the only revenge he took. You see, in the first place, that the world is compelled to h nor Christian character. Potiphar was only a man of the world, yet Joseph rose in his estimation until all the a Hairs of that great house were committed to his charge. From his servant no honor or confidence was withheld. When Joseph was in prison, he soon won the heart of the keeper, ami. though placed there for being a scoundrel, lie soon convinced the jailer that he was an innocent and trustworthy man, and. released from close conlinenienr. he became general superintendent of prison affairs. Wherever Joseph was placed, whether a servant in the house of Potiphar or a prisoner in the penitentiary, he became the first man everywhere and is an illustration of the truth I lay down that the world is compelled to honor Christian character. There are those who affect to despise a religious life. They speak of it as a system of phlebotomy by which tlie man is hied of all his courage and nobility. They say he has liemeaned himself. They pretend to have no more confidence in him since his conversion than before his conversion. Utit all this is hypocrisy. There is a great deal of hypocrisy in the church, and there is a great deal of hypocrisy outside the church. It is impossible for any man not to admire and confide in a man who shows that he has really become a child of God and is what he professes to be. You cannot despise a son of tlie Lord God Almighty. Of course we have no admiration for the sham of religion. KeligioiiH. Pretense. I was at a place a few hours after the ruffians had gone into the rail train and demanded that the passengers throw up their arms, and then these ruffians took the pocket hooks, and satan conies and suggests to a man that he throw up his arms in hypocritical prayer and pretension, and then steals his soul. For the mere pretension of religion wo have abhorrence. Kedwald, the king, after baptism, had an altar of Christian sacrifice and an aJtar for sacrifice to devils, and there are many men now attempting the same thing half a heart for God and half a heart for the world and it is a dead failure, and it is a caricature of religion, and the only successful assault ever made on Christianity is the inconsistency of its professors. You may have a contempt for pretension to religion, hut when you behold the ercciiency of Jesus Christ come out in the life of one of his disciples all that there is good and noble in your soul rises up into admiration, and you cannot lielp it. Though that man he far beneath you in estate as the Fgyptian slave of whom we are discoursing w as beneath his rulers, by an irrevocable law of your nature Potiphar and Pharaoh will always esteem Joseph. When Ihidoxia, the empress, threatened Chrysostom with death, he made the reply. 'Tt-ll the empress 1 fear nothing but in." Such a scene as rhat compels the admiration of the world. There was something in Agrippa and Felix which demanded their respect for Paul, the rebel against government. I doubt not they would willingly have yielded their ollice and dignity for a thousandth part of that true heroism which beamed in the eye and beat in the heart of that unconquerable apostle. Paul did not cower before Felix. Felix cowered before Paul. The infidel and worldling are compelled to honor in their hearts, although they may not eulogize with their lips, a Christian lirni in persecution, cheerful in poverty, trustful in losses, triumphant in death. I find Christian nen in all professions and occupations, and I find them respected and honored and successful. John Frederick Oherlin alleviating ignorance and distress; Howard passing from dungeon to lazaretto with healing for the body and soul; 1'Iizaheth Fry going; to the profligacy of Newgate prison to shake its obduracy as the angel came to the prison at Philipp!, driving open the doors and snapping loose tlie chain, as well as the lives of thousand of followers of Jesus who have devoted themselves to the temporal and spiritual welfare of the race are monuments of the Christian religion that shall not crumble while the World lasts. Persecution Reveals Hcroinm. We learn also from this story of Joseph that the result of persecution is elevation. Had it not Icon for bis Njing sold into

Egyntian bondage ty his malicious brothers and his false imprisonment Joseph never would have become a governor. Everybody accepts th promise. "Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven," but they do not realize tlie fact that this principle applies to worlJJy rys well as spiritual success. It is ttue in all departments. Men rise to high official positions through misrepresentation. Public abuse is all that some of our public mm have had to rely upon for their elevation. It has brought to them what talent and executive force could not have achieved. Many of those who are making great effort for place and power will never succeed, just because they are not of enough importance to be abused. It is the nature of men that is, of all generous and rcas nable men to gather about those who are persecuted and defend them, and they are apt to forget the fault of thos,i who are the subjects of attack while attempting to drive iack the slanderers. Persecution is elevation. Helen Stirk. the Scotch martyr, standing with her husband at the jil. ne of execution, said: "Husband, let us rej ice to-day. We have lived together many nappy years. This is the happiest time of all our life. You see we are to be happy together forevt r. Be brave now be bravo. I will r.ot say 'Good jiightl to you, for we shall so in be in the kingdom of our Father together." Persecution shows the heroes and heroines. I go into another departim-nr, and I find that those great denominations of Christians which have been most abused have .plead the most rapidly. No good man was ever more violently maltreated than John Wesley belied and caricatured and slandered, until one day he stood in a pulpit in Loudon, and a man arose in the audience and said. "You were dr;:nk last night." and John Wesley said: "Thank God. tic whole catalogue is now complete! I have been charged with everything but that." His followers were h toted at and maligned and called by every d testable name tiiat infernal ingenuity could invent, but the hotter the persecution tiie more rapidly they spread, until you kn w- what a great host thv have become and what a tremendous force for God and the truth they are wielding all the world over. It was persecution that gave Scotland to Presbyterianism. It was persecution that gave our land f:r! to civil liberty and afterward to religious freedom. Yea, I might go farther back and say it was persecution that gave the world the great salvation of the gospel. Tlie ribald mockery, the hungering and thirsting, the unjust charge, the ignominious death, when all the force of hell's fury was hurled against the crosn. was the introduction of that religion which is yet to be the earth's deliverance and our eternal salvation. The state sometimes said to the church, "Come, take my hau I. ami I will help you." What was the result? The church went hack, and it lost its estate of holiness, and it became ineffective. At other times the state said to the church, "I will crush you." What has been the result? After the storms have spent their fury the church, so far from having lost any of its force, has increased and is worth infinitely more after the assault than before. Bead ail history, and you will lind that true. The church is far more indebted to the opposition of civil government than to its approval. Tin tires of the stake have only been the torches which Christ In id in his hand, by the light of which the church has marched to her present glorious position. In the sound of racks and implements of torture I hear the rumbling of the gopel chariot. The scaffolds of martyrdom have been the stsirs by which the church mounted. Sin Exposes Itself. Learn also from our subject that sin will come to exposure. Iong, long ago had t'hoso brothers sold Joseph into Egypt. They had made the old father ttelieve that his favorite child was dead. They had suppressed the crime, and it was a profound secret well kept by the brothers. But suddenly the secret is out. Tiie old father hears that his son is in Egypt, having been sold there by the malice of his

, own brothers. How their cheeks must have burned and their hearts sunk at the flaming out of this long suppressed crime. The smallest iniquity has a thousand tongues, and they will blab out exposure. Saul was sent to destroy the Canaanites, their sheep and their oxen, but when he got down there among the pastures he saw some fine sheep and oxen too fat to kill, so he thought he would steal them. Nobody would know it. He drove these stolen sheep and oxen toward home, but stopped to report to the prophet how lie had executed his mission, when in the distance the sheep began to bleat and the oxen to bellow. Tlie secret was out, and Samuel said to the blushing and confused Saul, "What meancth the bleating of tie sheep that I hear and the bellowing of the cattle?" A'n, my hearer, you cannot keep an iniquity still. At just the wrong time the sheep will bleat and the oxen will bellow. Achan cannot steal the Babylonish garment without being stoned to death nor Arnold betray his country without having his neck stretched. Look over the police arrests. These thieves, these burglars, these counterfeiters, these highwaymen, these assassins, they all thought they could bury their iniquity so deep down it would never come to resurrection, but there was some shoe that answrred to the print in the soil, some false keys found in their possession, some bloody knife that whispered of the death, and the public indignation and the anathema of outraged law hurled them into the dungeon or hoisted them on the gallows. Francis I., king of France, stood counseling with his officers how he could take his army into Italy, when Ameril, the fool of the court, leaped out from a corner of the room and said, "You had better be consulting how you will get your army back," and it was found that Francis I., and not Ameril, was the fool. Instead of consulting as to the best way of getting into sin, you had better consult an to whether you will be able to get out of it. If the world does not expose you, you will tell it yourself. There is an awful power in an aroused conscience. One Mighty Plan. Learn also from this subject that there is an inseparable connection between all events, however remote. The universe is only one thought of God. Those things which seemed fragmentary and isolated are only different parts of that great thought. How ar apart seemed tJiese two event Joseph sohl to the Arabian merchants and his rulcrship of Egypt, yet you tee in what a mysterious way God connected the two into one 'lan. So the events are linked togetl ou w ho are aged men look back a' together a thousand things in " it once seemed isolated. f ain of events reaches f Men to the cross of he

kinscbtn ot hraren. There is a teTatitn betwrta the smallest insect that hums in the fx.'jcmcr air anJ the archangel on hii thron. God can trace a direct ancostrtl line rom the blue jay that this spring well build ita ne.st in the tree behind the to some one of the flock of birds which With a whir and dash of bright wings went cut to sing over Mount Ararat. The tulips that bloom in the garden this spring were nursed by the snowllakes. Tho farthest star on one side of the universe could not look toward the farthest star on the ether side of the universe and say, "Yoi; are no relation to me," for from that bright orb a vjice of light would r;nacross the heavens, responding. "Yes, yes, we are sisters." Nothing in God's universe swings at loose ends. Accidents are only (tod's way of turning a leaf in the book of his eternal decries. From our cradle to our grave there is a path all marked out. Each i vent in our life is connected with every other event in our life. Our I )sses may be the most direct road to our gain. Our defeat and our victory are twin brother. The whole direction of your life was changed by something which at the timo seemed to yuu trilling, while some occurrence which seemed tremendous affected you but little. God's plans are magnificent bey .nd all comprehension. lie molds us and turns and directs us. and wo know it not. Thousands of years are to him as the llight of a shuttle. The most terrific occurrence does not make God tremble. The mst triumphant achievement docs not lift him into rapture. That one great thought of God goes out through the centuries, and nations rise and fall, and eras pass, and the world changes, but God still keeps the undivided mastery, linking event to event and century to century. To God they are all one event, one history, one plan, one development, one system.

'.rcat and marvelous are thy works. Lord God Almighty! I was years ago in New Or icans at the exposition rooms, when a telegram was sent to tlie President of the Fniied States, at Washington, and we waited some fifteen or twenty minutes, and then tiie President's answer came back, and then the presiding officer waved his handkerchief, and the signal was sent to Washington that we were ready to have the machinery of the exposition started, ami the President put his finger on the electric button, and instantly tiie great Corliss wheel began to move rumbling, rumbling, rolling, rolling. It was overwhelming, and Iö.ihmi people clapvu and shouted. Just one linger at Washington started that vast machinery, hundreds and hundreds of miles away, and I thought then, as 1 think now, that men sometimes touch influences that respond in the far distance, forty years from now, fifty years from now, 1.hm years I nun now IJKMt.iMMi years from n-.v one touch sounding thr ugh the What of the Future? We also learn from this story the propriety of laying up for tlie future. During the seven years of plenty Joseph prepared for the famine, and when it e.une he had a crowded storehouse. Tho life of most men in a worldly respect is divided into years of plenty and famine. It is seldom that any man passes through life without at least seven years of plenty. During those seven years your business bears a rich harvest. You scarcely know where all the money comes from, it conies so last. Every bargain you make seems to turn into gold. You contract few bad debts. You are astonished with large dividends. You invest more and more capital. You wonder how men can bo content with a small business, gathering in only a few hundred dollars, while you reap your thousands. Those are seven years of p'enty. Now Joseph has timo to prepare for the threatened famine, for to almost every man there do come seven years of famine. You will be sick, you will be unfortunate, you will be defrauded, there will be hard times, you will be disappointed, and if you have no storehouse upon which to fall back you may be famine struck. We have no admiration for this denying oneself all personal comfort and luxury for the mere pleasure of hoarding up, this grasping, grasping for the mere pleasure of seeing how large a pile you can get, this always being poor because as soon as a dollar comes in it is sent out to see if it can find another dollar, so that it can carry it home on its back. We have a contempt for all those things, but there is an intelligent and noble minded forecast which we love to see in men who have families and kindred depending upon them for the blessings of education and home. God sends us to the insects for a lesson, which, while they do not stint themselves in the present, do not forget their duty to forecast the future. "Go to the ant, thou sluggard. Consider her ways and be wise, which, having no guide, overseer or ruler, providcth her meat in the summer and gathereth her food in the harvest." Now, there are two ways of laying up money. One r.f these is to put it in stock and deposit it in bank and invest it on bond and mortgage. The other way to lay up money is giving it away. He is the safest who makes both of these investments. There are in this house men who if they lose every dollar they have in the world would be millionaires for eternity. They made the spiritual investment, but the man who devotes none of his gains to the cause, of Christ and looks only for his own comfort and luxury is not safe, I care not how the money is invested. He acts as the rose if it should say, T will hold my breath, and none shall have a snatch of fragrance from rue until next week; then I will set all the garden alloat with my aroma." Of course the rose, refusing to breathe, died. But above' all lay up treasures in heaven. They never depreciate in value. They never are at a discount. They are always available. You may feel safe now with your $1,KH) or ?i:.(00 or SlU.OoO or $20,000 income, but what will such an income be worth after you are dead? Others will get it. Perhaps some of them will quarrel about it before you are buried. They will be so impatient to get hold of the will they will think you should be buried one day sooner than you are buried. They will be right glad when you are dead. They are only waiting for you to die. What then will all your earthly accumulations be worth? If you gathered it all in your bosom and walked up with it to heaven's gate,, it would not purcla.se your admission, or if allowed to enter it could not buy you a crown or a robe, and the poorest saint in heaven would look down at you and say, "Where did that pauper come from?" "May we all have treasures in heaven. Amen! There is perhaps no time at which we are disposed to thlflk so highly of a friend as when we lind him standing higher than we expected In the esteem of others.

FOB COAST DEFENSE.

SENATOR SQUIRE URGES A LICERAL APPROPRIATION. Points Out Possible Danger to Property Worth $10,OOlMUt,OOi)-Iefcii-tivc Works Now llxistiu Arc 1 1 1 C t i liable of I?csit itiK Mod rn Artillery Fleets Alone Not Suflfic ent. "National defenses" was the subject .f Senator Squire's speech in the Senate Tuesday, and, as a preliminary to a more detailed discussion of the topics, the Senator sail, in part: "What an absurd spectacle has the Congress ,,f the I'nitod States presented during the present session by its persistent talk in favor of the intervention by the Fnited States in behalf of Cuba and Venezuela. How cheap is ail this talk, sincere though it may be on many occasions. Every man who has informed himself o:i the subject of national defenses, knows that, as a nation, we are not in condition to undertake war or suffer war. We can talk loud and long, and profess sympathy, pass resolutions, and make believe j i'urselves that we are actually taking a hand in the diplomatic affairs and international juetious of great moment; but those who are not self-deceived by egotistical glamour, and. who knew the facts, arc perfectly aware of the painful truth that this demonstration is mere talk and bluster and vapid sentiment, or. at most, it is a sympathy that is easily satisfied with merely verbal expressions." In closing the Senator expressed the hope that the bill providing for the expenditure of ."ssi .( k iO.i m m for sea-coast defenses v-ouM bo adopted without serious modification. FATHER'S MAD DEED. Misanthropic Chicagoan Kills His Three Children and Commits Suicide. Into the hearts of his three little children, the smallest only a baby. J4hn Lehman, of West Hod street. Chicago, sent successive bullets Tuesday. Then, after a futile attempt to hang himself, Lehman tired a bullet into his own heart. Not poor, not dependent in fact, prosperous for one in his station in life -Lehman was moody and pessimistic. II! feared to grow old and become a pa up r; life was only a wearisome grind, hu thought, and the little ones would probably grow up to the same hardships and toil, possibly to want life wasn't worth living, anyway; it was better they should all go. That was about what John Lehman had long thought, though he was chary in expressing too volubly his gloomy ideas. Probably, judging from Lehman"., ideas of things in general, ho thought In was doing the babies and himself a kindness. ADVISED BY RUSSIA. Porte Rescinded the trades by Consent of the Czar. The thorough ventilation which the action of the Sultan toward the missionaries in Asia Minor has received has had decidedly boneticial effect. The Cniied States charge d'affaires, John W. Kiddie, has received a written assurance from tho Turkish Co eminent that Itev. Ceorgo 1'. Knapp, the American missionary recently expelled from Ilitlis, will be delivered to the Cnited States consul at Alexandria. It Is further stated that the Sultan's irade providing for the expulsion of other missionaries from Asia Minor has been repealed, and. for the present at least, the missionaries need not anticipate any further trouble. It is understood that in both of these cases the Sultan h:: acted upon the advice of the Kassian ambassador. SPAIN WONT ACCEPT. Spanish Fremier Has Had a Letter from President Cleveland. A dispatch from Madrid to the Pall Mall Cazette says; "Senor Canovas del Castillo (the Spanish premier!, is ill and cannot lie interviewed. His relatives, however, confirm the existence of a communique from President Cleveland. Iiur. in the present state of public feeling, it will be impossible for the (lovernment to accept his offer. "Matters are very complicated and. while the Covcrntncnt will do everything in its power to avoid a quarrel with the Cnited States, it will prefer to light rather than lose Cuba through foreign pressure. The coming Cortes will grant Cuba every reasonable franchise to be enjoyed under the Spanish Hag." WON BY THE CATTLEMEN. Judgment for $53,000 for Spreading Texas Fever Is Affirmed. Charles I labor and 1-1 "J other cattlemen in Lyon. Chase and other counties in Kansas, who banded together to prosecute the Missouri. Kansas and Texas Kailroad Company. Hosier Ilms, and Hrogan ec Sons for shipping Texas cattle into the grazing country and spreading disease among their stock, won their case in the Supremo Court. The case was tried in the District Court of Lyon County, where the cattlemen obtained a verdict for Sön.Iiiii! damages, including interest. Dreibund Is Renewed. A dispatch from Venice says that 11mperor William and King Humbert, at their conference Saturday, decided to prolong the Dreibund until l'.hrj. the present agreement including an offensive as weil as a defensive clause. Rear-End Collision. Ity a roar-end collision of two freight trains on the Cascouade bridge on the Missouri Pacific near Sedalia. Mo., four tramps wer,. m,.re or less seriously hurt, and one span of the bridge torn down. Big Dlazc in Cotham. The building at New Vork occupied hy C. A. AulTmordt A: Co.. one of the largest importers of silks, plushes, dress goods and kid gloves, was burned Tuesday. Two firemen were badly injured. The blaze was one of the fiercest the city ever saw. and the financial loss foots up a million. Ordered Back to Turkey. An imperial irade has been issued commanding all Turkish students now abroad to return to Turkey. The object of this order is to prevent these students from joining the young Turk movement. Death of a Clind Deaf Mute. Oliver Caswell died at his residence a Conanieut, near Newport, K. I., Monday night. Dickens, in his "American Notes." devoted several pages to him. Oliver Caswell was. perhaps, the most widely known blind deaf mute in the country.

TRUMPET CALLS. Ham's Horn Sounds a Warning Noto to the Uu redeemed.

iiiiKiiv i: it L,. V lives, iu xi r 1 e r fo;::: i hy Iookti;:; ti:':--:- ir. II. e: v c r o w n La s A Wi. u n J n .'.; .. I..i.,I. m nt- " it viii hill. ' 0 " I:: 1" ision os troys ir.oro souls than 1 v .' evil. There are i.o vacath l ia the dt vil's service. While the s.'tloon do. r :-- - ev rv i:o::;e ;s ?. danger. At. ..H,r:u::i:y to do go.-, i i- a chni.co to wulu with Christ. Some sj :.( rds giw :2'st r.ro TO the fattest heep. To shake hands with s.,;. people is a -;:il to n t"-'jit:i!cc. When the saloon dies. devil will put o;: 1 p inouni'uiu Death v. ill change i,:;: y:; oinel'rgs. b'.tt not !i:r ehnr.uct-.T. Let the Wicked l.ohi : . ;itU t i e devil will l the tow::. Keüg'ori pure and ti;: i. .i! d has ;;s naiuc written u its fa. . The I.onl's army tiov- ! a Lnflo '.(cause it was too s: i t!'. Cod will in t Miiilo v. :: ;: while wo are frowning upon a Joe':: Live for Christ nr.! y will soon know thai he has died !..r ; .. The foot ti nt is poi-r 1 : -.van! tho 1'it lu-ver gets to rest a ! . We will never lind the . s heavy if WO take Up t h" nllC Co. ;V. !;s. No i;;;iü can make n v: o:g it: vestment vh will give as ;. .: . ets. The ehnreh member v.-';., versr.iies J-Loitldift talk very n.r. h in ::',in-!,. The greatest thing :r : . -silde for Its !0 u is The Thing" C...I -v.,;, y dola . Men drift toward tl;o .::. at lirst. They never go to timet him . :i the r;:n. Whoever does a vro;.g ;'..;:g tooiay will have to do another o:m o-ma ; w. The i:. an who lives tralv for himself roks Lis ('od and wTo;:g. I. is neighbor. Tl.e tiling that hurts the d-'vil, is l.ot So HiUeil o'jr i ofessi i nu- j.rao t H e. As seen as sonn- timn Cirir Ltn.ds on go!., they become s-.,iU; Idilid to their own g . Cive man power of a::.v kind, ai.il by it ase he will show what lie is iloihg with Christ. Cnh'ss the face is s -r i;';;e a !!int against ail sin the do..:-of :i: heart will open to any sin. When a man with friliiant gifts plunges into sin ho go.-s i jier than a common man could g.. Cive a man withou: lev power to move a mov.ntuiii. and i: -.rill always move it the wrong; way. A skeptic is a man w h ; loses all the windows and then Mam s ted beeaitso he Las to live in the d;;r';. The man who enters -.'. a lifo of deceit will sK n be aid" T lie and steal without Imrting his eon.. ; m e. Tho prodigal did :ui :.ir as w 11 r.s the swine he fed. They . :!d Jill tl.eiaselves with husks, bar i.o r-riM not. When n man makes r.u his mind that lie will d as he please, ir will net I e an l our before he will :o something tc please the devil. Most Irregular. A certain knight of the .-'ml in a flov Irnment ollice once upon a 'iaie asked for a week's leave that Im .night go to bury his father. This was rowdily granted. -V day or two a f' a :d there arrived a visitor who w:imi :o sec Mr. A . the orphan. Mr. A s rmef. explained that he was m to be seen in fact, he had gone away to bury Lis father. "Put." said the sträng":-, i am the young man's father." "Well, replied the ctf. a man of few words. "I don't kmr.y anything about Mr. A s private n'airs I only know he has gone to bur - y-ai." At the end of the w--i- , .;' moarni ig Mr. A returned. looking very disconsolate. When :tsh-i hy his ea'ef how lie fared, he pn!i- I very long fa e and said In had tim melancholy satisfaction of - ..,g th- last rites properly performed, ami so on, adding that of course he :'. ery ih-op-ly r. the subject, be; ;h: no do jbt time would lighten the I. -ad of ids atllii'tion a little. "Ah." -replied the ?.:!: r '1 can sympathize with you! I 1 ; ;ny father when I was a young :m;a. When vom lose your father you i..e your best friend. I hadn't the d".iure of your poor f.-ther's net piain mime during Lis lifetime: but he called her a few days nfter Iiis death, and I had a short conversation with him. Now this was most irregular; and my object in sending for you was this when Uvl tl.o poor old gentleman dies. d . if you possibly can. arrange to have him buried and be 'back here to meet him in .-aso he calls ajraiu. That's all. Cood morning." Pxit Mr. A , not an outwardly sad. dor, but n much wiser man. Oscillation of Tall Chimneys. The extent or degr-v ,f -;he sciaMon of tall -.-hiiuueys may bo exactly taken by a close observation of tho shadows they cast upon the ground. An instance to the point is that of a chimney 11Ö feet high ami 4 feet 5u diameter externally at the top. near Marseilles. Trance, the osci IIa t ions of which were observed by tin shadow during a high wind to attain a maximum of over twenty iuohos.