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N 3 I f II: "Nil V H 0 VOL. XX I V. NO. 25, BOLIVAR, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1889. SUBSCRIPTION: 81.00 Per Year. 0 vU ik ! THE WOULD AT LARGE. feuramary of tho Daily News. CONGRESStOKAL. Ia? the Senate on the 28th A petition was presented from citizens of New Mexico against Its admission as a Slate. The credential of ftenator-elect Butler (S. C.) were presented. A Wll for the construction of bridges across the Missouri river near Leavenworth, Kan., and Kansas City. Mo., past-ed. The Army Nurses Pension bill also passed. It allows a pension of 125 per month to women nurses dur ing the war (under certain conditions and lim itations). The Diplomatic bill was then taken tip and Senator Gibson's amendment to Insert the word "Ambassadors" instead of "Ministers Extraordinary," etc, as applied to France. Great Britain, Germany and Kussia was under discussion until adjournment In the House the Senate bill passed increasing the pension of soldiers or sailors who have lost both hands to 100 per month. The Senate Joint resolution for meeting February 11 to count the elect oral vote was concurred in. The Sundry Civil bill was taken up, Bna, pending debate on an amendment appropriating J5.'t.ooi for the educa tion of children iu Alaska without reference to race, the House adjourned. Ijr tho Senate on the 2flth a LIU passed authorizing the Secretary of u to deliver to any soldiers' home "to obsolete serviceable cannons suitable for firing salutes." A resolu tion was adopted calling on the Secretary of the Navy for a statement of the expenditures for construction and repair of vessels, and the Senate took up the Diplomatic bill, the question being the amendment making the title of Minis ters to France, Germany, England and Russia 'Ambassadors," which was after a long debate adopted by a close vote When the amendment la regard to Samoa was reached the Senate went Into executive session. When the doors were opened Senator Sherman made a state ment in regard to the S.imoan trouble, after which Senator Dolph obtained the floor and the Senate adjourned In the Hoiiic a petition of 1S.000 citizens of Ctuh against admission as a State was presented. The Sundry Civil bill was further considers! sad the bill passed. The bill for the better protection of the fur, seal and salmon fisheries of Aia-ku was ravorably reported and the House adjourned. The credential of Senator Plumb, re elected from Kansas, were presented in the Senate on the Moth. After adopting a resolution calling on the Secretary of the Treasury for a statement of the amount In the sinking fund to the credit of the Union Pacific and Central Pa ciflo roads on February I, etc.. the Senate re- suaned consideration of the Diplomatic bill, the question being on the nmendment affecting tae samoan Islands, and the o.uei.lion was under debate at adjournment When the House met Mr. Springer (III.) moved to go into Committee or the Whole on the Oklahoma bill. which was agreed to, the pnding amendment being that of Mr Payson (III.) that the pnvt leges and rights of honorably discharged soldiers to maue homes on public lands shall not be impaired but extended to all public lands opened to settlement tinder this bill. The amendment was finally agreed to in committee with the understanding that a vote should bo taken in the House. Several otner amendments were made, and the com mittee rose and reported the bill tt the House. Mr. Payson's amendment was agreed to; yeas 114, nays lit. I'endlng further consideration the House adjourned. IBB credentials of ftena'or-e'ect Hig-s-ins (Del.) were presented in the Senate on the 81st. The House amendments to the bill in creasing the pension to ex-soldiers who had lost both hands were concurred in. After the passage of several private bills consideration of the Diplomatic Appropriation bill w as re sumed, the pending question being the Samoan amendment makUig an sppropri ilton to protect American interests, which was finally agreed to. The amendment raising to the rank of Am bassadors the Ministers to England, Franoe, Germany and Russia were defeated and the 'bill passed. The British Extradition treaty was considered iu exorutive session. . ...Many petitions for Sunday rest were pre sented in the House and Saturday. February S. was set apart for eulogies on the late Rep resentative Hurries, of Missouri. The Okla homa bill came up as the special order. The vote by which the soldier's homestead amend ment had been adopted was reconsidered and the clause declaring that the rights or soldiers shall not be Impaired by the passage of the bill was agreed to. The second clause extending the rigtit of homestead entry on the lands to soldiers (under existing laws) was defeated j-enaing rurtner consideration the House ad journed. In the Senate on February 1 the House amendments to the Frnate bill for the admis sion or Moutu Dakota were non-concurred In and a conference asked. Senator Snulsbury onerea a resolution, which was agreed to. In structing the Foreign Relations Committee to Inquire Into the condition of affairs la the Bamoan Islands and report as soon as practica ble what measures nrn necesaiy to protect American Interests. Senator Chandler's resolu. lion as to claims of naval ofllcers for arrears of pay for mileage, etc., was discussed and laid asuie. renator Sherman presented, a letter rrom the Secretary of the Navy with copy oi tne lormni cession of the harbor of PasTO-P.igo to the United States by the Samoan uovernment, which was referred. After an executive session ttee Senate adjourned un til Monday In executive session the British Extradition treaty ws rejected) In tho House the conference report on the bill to create the Department of Agriculture was agreed to. The Diplomatic bill, with Senate amendments, was referred. The Oklahoma bill was men taKen up and arter a futile attempt at filibustering was Dually passed by a vote of 1" ayes to lii-J nays. The remainder of the esion was occupied in Committee of the Whole. An evening session was held for the consideration of private rusion claim. WASHINGTON NOTES. Consul Black has Iteen recalled from Buda-Pesth. His offense consisted In writing protective theory articles in Hungarian paper published in New York. He was a "left-over" official of the pre vious Administration. TDK American Shipping and Industrie League met in Washington on the 80th with General Joseph Wheeler, of Alabama, lit the chair. General Pitkin, of Louisiana, was the pi iucipal speaker. The great vault constructed in the north court of tho Treasury Department build Ing at Washington for Ihe storage of silrer coin haw beet found to be so damp as to rot the caitva bags in which the silver is stored and consequently 40,000 large woodeu boxes have teen ordered in hich to store $HO,000,txK). General Joseph Wheeler, of Ala bam a, was elected president; Charles S. Hill, of Washington, secretary, and Aaron Vanderbilt, treasurer, of the American Shipping and Industrial League at Wash ington on the .list. Tm total receipts of the Patent Office the past year were ft. 119,51(1 and the total expenditures J-!174,10?. There were 20,420 original patents issued dining the year. Tu Agricultural Appropiatton bill com pleted by the House Committee on Agri culture proposes an appropriation of tl. 630,010 as compared with estimates of $1 686,160 and an appropriation for the pre ent year of $1.7132ti. Heeds In the future will not be distributed to Congressman but to (Stale agricultural experinaen stations. Utonoi we xt worth Ghat has been ap pointed receiver of the North River Suga; - .Kenning Company, of New Yoik City, th charter of which was confiscated because it belonged to the great trust. THE German Minister at Washington has stated that the part of the proclamation declaring war against Mataafa bavin reference to fore, skiers will b modified The demand of the German Consul that Mataafa hand over Ihs Government to Germany has b?en withdrawn. Indian Akt Oakn has issued In truciions lor an who have not proper permits and for all intruders to leave the Chickasaw Nation w.thin thirty days. This order is aimed chiefly at the non-citizens who are now holding cattle in the Chicka saw Nation and who refuse to pay the cattle LmX of !l per ttsd per mouth. Tfi public dbt statement showed a decrease duraj January of 1 1 2,21t,'i. The Senate Committee on Miiitaiy Affair has reported favorably tho bill to j. lace Oeneia! V. S Co n .jn oa the te trad list with tUe muWof Bi igadier-Ueu-traX TUB KABT. CosaiDKRABLE rioting was reported over th street car strike In Brooklyn, jr. Y-, on the 28th. Thousands of angry men as- ailed the police escorting new men to the stables. The man who was killed on the first night of Ihe strike was a member of the famous Adams family of Massachu setts, who was in reduced circumstances. One of the parties arrested has confessed to aiding in throwing him out of the loft. A kchbeii of factory girls who haa re placed the strikers at Higgins' carpet factory at New York were attacked re cently on leaving the works by a crowd of men and women and severely handled, some of them having most of their cloth ing torn off, and the men being hurt by bricks and other missiles. Several arrests were made. About five thousand employes of the street car lines of New York struck on the 20th. Considerable rioting followed the attempt to run car. An Italian on his way to work at the stables was set upon and stabbed, supposed fatally. The police, however, acted with mose energy than did the police in Brooklyn, and a number of cars were enabled to get through. C B. Burt & Co., lumber dealer of Williatnspoit, Fa., have assigned with $23,000 preferences. Tk liabilities are over $100,000 and the assets about $40,000, TnB case of boodle Alderman Cieary, which the New York City courts were un able to try, has been sent to Browne County. N. Y. A large wooden block in Gloucester, Mass., was destroyed by fire the other morning. The loss was 4-X,000. Caftaix John Is. Tire, formerly or tne United States army, was thrown from a carriage in South Ilarrisburg, ra, the other night and instantly killed. The engine bouse and coal breaker ol the Northland colliery, Ashland, Pa., one of the largest in the State, were destroyed by fire recently. It is stated that Annie Eisenhart, the head nurse at the hospital at Camden, N. J., who was found terribly cat and beaten, nflicted the injuries on herelf while temporarily insane. All but one Cuban cigar manufacturer of New York City have acceded to the de mands of their men for more pay. Three deaths and four cases of small pox are reported in the poor-nouse oi Onondaga Coimly, N. i.. Governor Ueavor, of Pennsylvania, has signed the joint resolution submitting to I rote of the people the proposed amend' ment to the Constitution prohibiting the sale or manufacture of intoxicating limiors. William A. Slattert has transferred to the Norwich (Conn.) Academy $50,000 as a permanent fund, the interest of which is to be used in defraying the expenses of the Slattery memorial and musenm. Thb high school building in Johnstown, N. Y.t was destroyed by fire the other night, causing $16,500 loss. Next day the east wall of the building fell, killing one fireman and badly injuring another. Fire the other morning in the four-story building at ff)3 East Third street. New York, occupied by building contractors. Graham & Hons, resulted in estimated losses of $73,000. The fire also extended to the private dwellings opposite. THE WEST. James A. Draper, one of the proprietors of the Empire soap works of bt. Louis, disappeared last week while on his way East to visit his father at Pawtucket, rw L. Word has been sent to police headquarters that his traveling bag has been found on the steamer Rock Island, of the Stoning- ton line. It is now believed that he com mitted suicide by throwing himself over board in the sound. The Grand Opera House at Duluth, Minn., and adjacent buildings were burned on the 2ith. Loss, $200,000, George W. Dohnfr & Co., dealers in glassware and crockery, at 184 and 186 Wabash avenue, Chicago, have made voluntary assignment. The company's liabilities are $12,000, and the assets the same. The Grand Opera Hous3 at Duluth, Minn., and adjacent buildings were burned on the 2Sth. Loss, $200,000. The wall of the burned Opera House at Duluth, Minn., fell on an adjoining building and killed a merchant named Chamberlain. Another man was supposed to be in the ruins of tho crushed building, which immediately took fire. Jonjf E. Sullivan, county clerk of Ma rlon County, Ind. , has failed in his private business. He claims that the expenses of the campaign two years ago bankrupted him. It is reported from Chamberlain, Dak, that the Indians from the Lower Brule and Crow Creek agencies are preparing petitions to be sent to Washington asking that the lands be opened to settlement. Seven residences, two livery stables and two business houses were destroyed by fire at Marietta, O., the other morning Loss, $40,000. Two school children named French ware froceu to death twelve miles eastof Hitch cock. Dak., during a recent cold snap. They had attempted to reach home with an elder sister unaided and were out all night. When discovered the two children were dead and the sister badly froseu. A stromi auti-Pinkerton police bill has been introduced in the Illinois Legislature by Representative O'loole. The Phelps-Clunie recount in the Fifth California district has resulted in fixing the majority lor tJlunie, Democrat, at IX). An epidemic of typhoid lever is raging In Lake v lew and other suburbs along the Michigan lake shore to the northward in the direction of Edgewater, near Chicago. Mrs. Meckis Rawbo.v, the wife of the millionaire banker, who in opeu court shot his lawyer nearly to death was acquitted on the ground of insanity at Chicago on the 80th. The latest phase of the fight between Governor Church and the Dakota Legis lature Is the proposal that the Legislature repeal the laws creating the offices of Auditor, Treasurer, Attorney-General and liailroad Commissioner. The lockout of the 2,000 miners near Spring Valley, III., has ended in a victory for the companies, the men conceding the right of their employers to hire and dis charge men as they pleased. Colonel Proutt, the veteran Kansas newspaper man, died in Topeka on th 81st. He was born iu New York Stat July 31, 1S3. and set type in the Herald o Freedom office at Iawrenee, Kan.f at the time Preston B. Plumb was foreman. The National Furniture Manufacturers Association at its aunual meeting at Grand Rapids, Mich., refused strongly to or ganlie a trust. John E. Sullivan, county clerk f In dianapolis, Ind., who failed for $75,000 re cently is missin?. and is supposed to be in Canada. His flight was occasioned by the discovery that gbe had issued fraudulent warehouse receipts,, for large consign ments of poultry, produce, etc THE SOUTH, Six prisoners sawed their way out of the jail at Gainesville, Tex., recently. One of them, charged with murder, gave himself up later. The Arkansas Legislature In joint con vention hs elected Senator Berry to suc ceed himself by a vote of 103 to 14 for Powell Clayton. Joseph Coleman, a negro, set fire to th house of his wife's parents near Little Rock, Ark., the other uigbt, and when his wife ran out he shot her through the bead. In the West Virginia Legislature on the 1st two more fruitless ballots were wast for Uuited states Senator. Keuna was ; w ithlii lo voles vf whining. : A"? beiok- ! bn.-u?9 sratue of Odiieral Stonewall Jai Wsou. to cost So.yH), cai I bMn nidsred, for Lexiilgton. Va Johw M. Clattoh, brother of Powell Clayton, and one of the most prominent Republican leaders in the Southwest, was assassinated recently at his boarding house in Plummersville, Ark. Da. Charles P. Burns, of Baxter, Ark,, well known in the southern part of the State, was shot and killed the other night by Deputy Sheriff Childers, who had gone to the doctor's house to arrest him on a warrant. The doctor had resisted arrest and drew a pistol on the officer. The warehouse of the Graniterille (S. C) Manufacturing Company, containing 2,433 bales of cotton, was destroyed by fire recently. Loss $100,000, insurance $90,009. It. It. Jacksoit, president of the Farm ers' Alliance of Georgia and a leading candidate for Governor, has been forced to resign because of charges of usurpation of power. The cattlemen of Western Texas hare formed an organization to oppose the Mills bill and to endeavor to secure pro tection for live stock, bides and pelts against foreign competition. GKXKBAI. The leading lard refiners have resolved to brand their product in future as "com pound" lard because of the criticisms con cerning the branding of it as "refined." The Chinese imperial astrologers declare that the recent fire in the Emperor's palace atPekinwasan evil omen intended as a warning against the approach of Western inventions. As the result of this declara tion an Imperial decree has been issued prohibiting the further extension of the Tien-Tain railway. Sir Charles Tupfeb visited the Paris Exhibition building recently. He ex pressed regret that there were no Canadian exhibitions. Samoa advices received from Auckland, N. 2L, on the 30th, say that the Germans have declared war against Mataafa, and that probably all the Samoans will join against the Germans. Five of the crew cf the British ship Sir Walter Raleigh were drowned off Bou logne, France, recently, by the wrecking of the vessel. - - The Paris correspondent of the London Times says he is amazed at the number of people who were formerly waverers, who are now proclaiming themselves boldly as Boulangists. This fact dominates all others and must be faced boldly and be energetically grappled with.' The Neue FreiePresse, of Vienna, has been confiscated for circulating the report that the Crown Prince was shot at Mier ling. The death of Crown Prince Ruaolph was caused by a rupture of the cardiao walls, with an effusion into the pericar dium. According to the latest reports from Hayti, President Legitime's forces have captured five insurgent towns. Twenty steamers are now detained at Glasgow, Scotland, .by the strike of the seamen and firemen. The National Committee appointed to Inquire into the late British naval maneuvers 6tte that the ships, with a few exceptions, are unsuitable for modern warfare indeed deficient and that the existing fleet is unfit to command the seas against an enemy. It is stated in Paris that the Austrian Crown Prince was shot by the husband of a lady who was staying at the Mierlin chateau. The French Chamber of Deputies passed a vote of confidence in the Floquet Minis try on the Slst by 300 to 200. It is officially announced that negotia tions are nearly completed by which the east bound business of the Gould South western system will be directed over roads operated by the Richmond Terminal Com pany. The National District Assembly of ma chinery . constructors, molders, pattern makers, and boiler makers have decided to withdraw from the Knights of Labor. During riots at Tipper ary, Ireland, on the 1st, nine civilians and thirteen police men were injured. Business failures (Dun's report) for the seven days ended January til numbered 332, compared with 342 the previous week and 2i9 the corresponding week of last year. IT was officially announced in Vienna on the 1st that the late Crown Prince Ru dolph had committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. On a of the reported causes of the act was that, hav ing seduced the sister cf one of the ..Aus trian Princes, he had been given the alternative of fighting a duel or commit ting suicide. - The express war which had brought rates in many cases below the actual cost of transportation, is ended, an agreement having been signed by the- presidents of the several -companies by which the rates existing in all competitive business pre vious to May 1, lSSti, are re-established. XII 15 LATEST. An unknown disease, similar to diphthe ria, is epidemic in the northern part of Desha county, Ark., and quite a number of persons have recently died front the malady. This sickness has been prevailing there for the past month. Reports come from Webster county. Ky., of a strange and fatal disease. Doctors have been unable to do anything for the afflicted and have never agreed among themselves as to what the disease is, Physician's first pronounced it cerebro spinal memingitis, but later on they called it.iwterl fever, the victims rapidly turn ing black after deaiii. ' ' -: Ulysses Myers, of Tulvllle, leun., was .-cldentlv shot and killed on "the 2d. He was chopping wood and a pistol dropped from his pocket. As it fell he struck it with the ax and one chamber exploded, the ball nassine up. went through the heart, causing instant death. The following postmasters were ap pointed on the 2d: Tennessee Frank. M. Lincoln, Ethridge: James G. Haggard, Wavnesboronzh: J. W. Arnetfc, Hall Hill. Mississippi L. A. Mitchell, Guntownp H fl. Butler. Knoxville. Arkansas J. B. Harper, Bnford; 8. E. Carlock, Coleman; J F. Johnston, Powers. A woman by the name of Sarah Ivey, living near Marville, Ark., attempted to blow open a padlock with powder, having lost the key. She poured some powder lino the lock and then placed a chunk of fira near the powder. It exploded, and burned her seriously around the face aud almost destroyed the sight of one of her yes. The supervising architect of the treasury has selected from among the lots offered for the site of the new public building at Birmingham, Ala., that of W. S. Brown, J. Lockwood, Ignatius Pollock aud W. H. Graves, who offered a lot on the corner or Second avenue and Eighteenth street, for $5: ,ooo. It ia authoritatively announced that President Cleveland will return to the State of New York to reside on tl;e expira tion of bis term of office, aud wi!l, on March 5, resume the practice of his profes sion In Nw York City. 'Martha Frailer, a 16-year-old girl, was roasted to death in bed at Warrior, Ala., on the 2d. Her clothing caught fire from a stove and she jumped in the bed with the hope of extinguishing the flame, but to no avail. 'Tun legislative appropriation bill, as completed by the Senate Committee, in creases the salary of th President's pri vate secretary from $,2i0 to $5,000. A fire at Grasiteville, S. C, oa the 1st destroyed the warahousa of the Granite ville Manufacturing Company, contaitiiuij bales of cotton. Loss, $100,0'X) insur ance, vxvwo. A MODIFICATION. The German Proclamation Putting For eigners Under Martial Law In Samoa Withdrawn. Washington, Feb. 2. The President yesterday sent another Samoan message to Congress. The paraphrase of a note to Minister Pendleton is as follows: "Mr. Bayard instructs the Minister of the United States at Berlin to inform the German Govern ment that advices from Apia state that the German Consul had declared Germany to be at war with . Mataafa and Samoa to be under martial law. Mr. Bayard informs Minister Pendleton that the German Minister at this capital under instructions from Prince Bismarck had already acquainted this Government of the declaration of war by Germany against Mataafa and had ac- olipanied the notification with the state ment that Germany would of course abide by the agreements with America and En gland touching Samoa and preserve under all circumstances the rights of this Govern' ment established by treaty. But, in view of the advices from Apia, Mr. Bayard in structs Mr. Pendleton to say that this Gov ernment assumed that the German officials In Samoa would be instructed carefully to refrain from interference with American citizens and properly there since no dec laration of martial law could extend Ger man jurisdiction so as to include control of Americans in Samoa. Such a pretension could not be recognized or conceded by this Government." Count Arco Valley to Mr. Bayard under instructions from the Prince Chancellor, Februarvl: "As a state of war was de clared against Mataafa the commander of the German squadron issued a proclama tion by which the foreigners established in Samoa were subject to martial law. international law would to a certain ex tent not prevent such a measure, but as Prince J5ismarck ts of opinion that our military authority has gone too far in this instance the military commander has re ceived telegraph orders to withdraw the part of the proclamation con cerning foreigners. In. negotiating with Mataafa our Consul at Samoa has asked that the administratiion of the islands of Samoa might ba temporarily handed over to him. which demand not being in conformity to our previous prom ise regarding the neutrality and inde pendence of Samoa, Mr. Knoppe has been ordered by telegram to withdraw immedi ately his command." The. papers relating to the harbor of Pago-Pago, which Senator Sherman an nounced in the Senate that he had received from Secretary Bayard, are of interest in view of the prominence' given at present to Samoan affairs. A letter from Mr. Goward to Assistant Secretary Rives, dated January 31, 1S&P. says that the four persons signing the in strument giving the United States the port of Pago-Pago were , appointed , as commissioners on behalx of the Samoan authorities ia view of. the fact that they were individual owners of property along Ihe shore of the harbor at Pago-Pago. Continuing, the letter says: 'In my opinion this instrument might be regarded as transferring to the United States title to the laud. At the time I was not author ized or prepared to accept.au absolute title iu fee simple, not knowing how far the United States Government desired to proceed in the matter. For that reason the phraseology employed was that used in the treaty, leaving thereby the inter pretation of the same to the Department. Goat island was solectad as the place for raising the flag commemorating this event in consideration of the fact that it com manded a view of the whole harbor with the intention of not confining the United States Government in its selection to any particular part of the shore for use as a coaling station during the period covered by the language of the treaty, viz. : ten years or more." LABORING LADIES. Wright's Report on the "Working of America. Women Washington, Feb. 2. Carroll D.Wright, Commissioner of the Department of Labor, has submitted a report which relates en tirely to the subject of "working women in great cities." Three hundred andforty- two distinct industries in twenty-two representative cities have been investi gated, and the report shows that the work ing women in the great cities are practic ally girls, the average age in all cities comprehended being 22 years and 7 months. The highest average is found in Charles ton, S. C. 25 years and 1 month; the low est in St. Paul 21 years and 5 months. It is found, however, that the concentration is greatest at tba age of 18, there being of the whole number interviewed 1,569 of that age.- The general average at beginning work is 15 years and 4 months, the highest average being 17 years and 19 months and the lowest 14 years and 7 months the for mer at San Jose, Cal., and the latter at Newark, N. J. The average period during which the women have been engaged in their present occupations is four years and nine months, and of tho 17,427 women in volved 9,-10 are engaged in their first trial at earning their own living. Of the whole number 14,120 are native born. In the foreign born, Ireland is most largely rep resented, and Germany next, having 775. Of the native born, 12,904 had foreign born fathers and 12,4 6 foreign born mothers. A great ma jority of the women are single. the number being 15,387, only 745 being married and 1,038 widowed. The working women,' says the report, are, as a rule, single women, fighting their industrial fight alone. Tbey are not only supporting themselves, but are giving their earning largely to the support of others at home. Of the whole number ua dec consideration 9,181 not only work at their regular occupations, but assist in the" - housework at home, the total number liv ing at home being 14,918. That is to say a very large proportion of the working women in the great cities are under home influence. More than half of the who! 8,754 gave their earnings to the home iffe and contributed to the general support; 4,267 paid board at their own homes; and only 701 received board at tha hands of their families. The average -number Of persons in the families of working women. is 5.25, each of which has on an average, 2.48 workers. m " English Cabinet Changes. Dublin, Feb. 2. The Freeman's Journal states that Lord Salisbury is negotiating ! with Lord Hartington with a view to Ihe latter becoming Prime Minister, Salisbury to retain the office of Minister for Foreign Affairs. Right Hon. W. H. Smith, Gov ernment leader in the House of Commons, is to be elevated to the peerage. Wtfhlt PleiMMMl. Wichita, Kan.. Feb. 2. The report of the passage cf the Oklahoma bill by 4b House was received herewith grtat rejoic ing and soon became the sole topic of eon-v versatioa. (everybody seemed delighted with Ihe present status of the bill. m a a The Brooklyn Strike. Brooklt. N. Y-, Kb. 2- Four of Dea con Richardson's cars were run in Brook lyn yesterday morning without any ma terial interference from strikers. Five hundred and fifty policemen were on band to subdue possible outbreaks. Ten rounds men were on each car. Rails were found to have been torn up on Fifth aTenue, but this was qu'ckly remedied. Pratt, Kan.. Saflfera by ti.-. Pratt. Kau., Feb. 2 At 11:30 o'clock iast night a fire broke out ca Maiu street, n-ext dear ooith cf Wi'.son Sc Weaver's Batik, aud tiiJije priueipal Lu-i;ies -bouses weie des ioyeii The probnb! loss W 1;), (HM. i n hi e is under control. OPENING OKLAHOMA. The Sprin e Bill Passes the House Com- 1 pllment! rj Tributes to the Friends of th Measure Aacceaa Follows a Brief Skir- ' mtsh. : i . - Washixgtow, Feb. 2. Oklahoma was won in the House yesterday in the final passage of the Springer bill by a majority of 46 votes. . The opponents of the measure fought with desperation to the last,, availing themselvea of " every rossible parlia mentary device' to delay the final vote: It : was stated last night by old members of Congress that no great measure of legisla tion for the last thirty years has been so stubbornly fought in all its stages as has the Oklahoma bill. The cattle syndicates have maintained a large lobby here for four years to resist all legislation looking to the opening of any part of the Indian Territory. To General James B. Weaver, of Iowa, who inaugurated the effort to open Okla homa to settlement at the first session of the Forty-ninth Congress, the people Of the country owe a great debt of gratitude. His labors for the bill have been incessant. When at the present session the measure was smothered by the : tactics of its enemies . a the House, Congressman Weaver threw himself into the breach and by a struggle of four continuous days re stored the bill to life and secured for it the consideration which resulted in Its pas sage. - . Not less untiring and conspicuous have been the services of Mr. Springer, who has led the fight with consummate skill and with unswerving faith io-its success. With a knowledge ot the complicated rules of the House second to no other member and profoundly convinced of the necessity and justice of the proposed legislation, Mr. Springer deployed b.is forces to the best- advantage and every point of attack, was successfully covered. Ready in debate and full of resources and Information, tha opponents of the bill found in the chair man of the Territorial Committee a friend of the people who could not be driven from his position. The zeal and ability with which Con gressmen Warner, Heard and otners.of Missouri, Perkins, Peters aud Ryan, -o( Kansas, and Strubeland Holmes, of Iowa, have advocated the bill can not fail to be highly appreciated by the constituencies they so ably represent, and by the country at large. : ; The amendments adopted by the House, ' relating to town sites, applies ' substan tially the provisions of chapter 8, title 33 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, entitled reservation and salefof town sites on the public lands. ' Several other amendments were adopted, but none of them change the original bill in any es sential particular, i The bill will probably reach the Senate by Monday. The. probable outlook for early and favorable action in that body ia very promising, but no efforts should! be spared by the friends of the measure in all parts of the country to secure such action. Many Senators are now pledged to sup port the bill and telegrams and letters are already coming in asking that prompt action may be bad in the Senate so that Oklahoma can be opened to legal settle ment during the present season. l -- It is but just to add that a goodly pota tion of the credit of success in passing the Oklahoma bill through the House Is due to the efforts of Hon. Sidney Clarke, Captain Couch and Colonel Crocker, who have labored in and out of season for the ad vancement of this great measure. ; A brief skirmish between the friends of the private calendar and the adherents of the Oklahoma bill in the House yesterday resulted in a victory for the latter, and that measure was taken up for considera tion, the pending1 question being on tha motion of Mr. Sprinter to, table the mo tion of Mr. O'Ferrall, of Virginia, to recon sider the vote by which the House .Thurs day rejected the minority substitute.. The motion to table was carried yeas. 133, naya 114. " ' ' , i. ' The question then recurred on the pas sage of the bill, pending which Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, entered dilatory motions to adjourn and take a recess but refraiaed from making the point of no quorum and allowed them to be voted upon a division. But Mr. Cheadly, of Indiana, proved mora inexorable and brought proceedings to standstill by demanding the reading of the engrossed bill; the bill was not en grossed and the clerk stated that It would require an hour or more to perform the work, but while various propositions were presented to kill time and allow the clerks to engross the bill Mr. Cueadle relented and withdrew his demand.' .- -- ' The bill then-passed yeas 148, hays 103. THE PRINCE SUICIDED. The Crown Prince of Austria H filed Him self Rather Than Meet the Angry Brother of a Wronged Wamsiu j: Z- - ; . Vienna, Febw 2. It is officially an nounced that Crown Princj Rudolph com mitted suicide by shooting himself in the head. The weapon used" was a -revolver, CAUSE OF THX 8TJTCIDE. London. Peb. 2. The Pall. Mall Gazette says It is privately-informed that Rudolph committed suicide because it was optional with him to take his own life or tight a duel with the brother'of a Princess whb is a member of one of tha highest Austrian families, and whom he had mined. . When concealment was no longer pos sible the Princess confessed to her. brother, who gave Rudolph the-altemattve of com mitting suicide or fighting a -duel.. . , : ' The Pall Mall Gazette further says that the doctors who were summoned refused to sign a -certificate to the effec that Rudolph's death was due, Jo apoplexy; aad that a great scene ensued. , Oil of the doctors told the Ne Fret Pre the real facts, which that paper published. I'Ht-onMt Appropriation. " tVABHlNGTOK, Feb. 2L--The Post-office . Appropriation bill, as completed by Ihe House Committee 6n Post-offices and Pt-road;- proposes a total appropriation of ;0,r0." 444. This total is $216,t$ less than the estimates and 43,73.-210 more than the' appropriation for the current year. The most interesting feature of the bill is the provision for a classification of salaries of post -office clerks. The committee has de cided not to undertake any legislation during (his Congress in the direction of a reduction of the rates of compensation for railway mail carriage. . m "' i Cars Running. . New York, Feb. 2. At noon yesterday all the companies who braved the strikers on the first day and ran their cars despite the strong opposition offered, had their roads in almost complete running order, and that without any efforts oa the part of the strikers to prevent tbem. The Fourth avenue line ran quite a number of cars to the City Hall and back; making pretty good time. The Forty-second Street Company . ran their cars across town oa regular time. The Dry Dock, East Broadway and Battory railroad are running oars on the Grand street- ;ros torn Hue under three omutei headway.' m m , , Sullivan's Flight. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 2. John 12. Sullivan, county "chsk, who failed, for 75,000 last Tuesday, Is missing from the city and is supposed to be in Canada. His flight was occasioned by ths dis covery that he had issued fraudulent warehouse receipts for large con signments of poultry, produce, etc., which he was supposed to have iu his out side business. Tha amount of these Is not known, but C&Qiitv Treasurer Loftia, whom Huilivau owed jil, 000, has $9,000 of them. Bull'.van's confidential clerk, und book-keeper, Thomas O'Neill, who wiote the receipts, is also tmss'.ag. Stiilivta1 office has teu turned over to ths chief deputy ai -1 landsman, WT. K. Sprpule. . TALMAGE'S SEBMON. A BIsoouraa oa Answers to Elan- ders Against Religion, The Enemies af ErsnielUm Rsbsked- The Regenerating Influences of tha RelifTion of "Jesus The Fate v - of . the Sceptic . . The following sermon on "Slaadera Against" Religion Answered" was deliv ered by Rev. T. DeWitt Taimago at the Brooklyn Tabernacle. His text was; And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up. and tt was in my mouth sweet as honey; and as soon as I had eaten it y belly was bitter. And he said unto me. "Thou must prophesy again before many peo ples, and nations, and tongues, and Kings." Kevel.a.tiona, x, 10-11: " 1 Domitian, the Roman Emperor, had In his realm a troublesome evangelist who would keep preaching, and so he exiled him to a barrea island, as new the Rus sians exile convicts to Siberia, or as some times the English Government used to send prisoners to -Australia. The island I speak of is now called. Patmos, aud is so barren and unproductive that its inhab itants liv by fishing. - ..... But one day the evangelist - of whom I speak, sitting at the mouth of a cavern on the hillside, and perhaps half asleep un der the drone of the sea, has a supernat ural dream, and before him pass, aa In panorama, time and eternity. Among the strange things that he saw was an angel with a little book in his.hand, and in bis dream the evangelist asked" for this little book, and the . angel gave it to him, and ; told him tr eat it up. As in a dream things are sometimes incongruous, the evangelist took the little book and ate it rip. The angel told him beforehand that it would be very sweet in the mouth, Imt afterward ho would be troubled with in digestion. . True enough the evangelist devours the book, and it becomes to him a sweetness duriagmastication, hut after ward a physical bitterness. - - ; Who the angel was and what the book i was no one can-tell. - The commentators : do not agree, and I shall take no respon sibility of interpretation, but will tell you that it suggests to me the little book of creeds, which skeptics take ..and chew up and find a Very luscious morsel to -their, witticism, but after awhile it is to them a great distress. The angel of the church hands out this little book of evangelism, ; and. the- antagonists of .'the Christian church take it and eat it up, and it make them smile at first, but afterward it is to them a dire dyspepsia. . All intellectual people have' creeds that is, favorite theories which they have adopted. - Poticarcreeds -that Is, theo ries about tariff, finance, about civil sev ice, about government. Social creeds that is," theories about manners and cus toms, and. good neighborhood. , Isthet ical creeds -that is, theories about tapes try, about brie-a-brac, about styles ol or namentation. . . Religious . creedsthat is, theories about the Deity,, about the soul, about the '- great future; The ' i only ,.i being who has no ; creed about any thing ia the idiot. This scoffing ; against " creeds is always a sign of profound Ignorance on the part of the scoffer, for he has himself, a hundred creeds in regard to other things. In our times the beliefs of evangelistic churches are under a fusillade of, caricature and misrepresentation! Men set up what they call orthodox faivh, and then they rake it . with . the muketry- of their " denunciation.-' They falsify what the Chris tian churches believe. '- They" take evan- gelican doctrines and set them in a harsh an repulsive way, and shut them out of the association witn otner trutns. iney are like a mad anatomist who, desiring to tell whataman is, dissects a human. body and hangs up in, one place "the heart, and in another place the two- lungs, and in an other place an ankle bone, and says that is a man. They are only fragments of a man- wrenched out of their God-appointed places. " ; Evangelical religions a healthy, sym metrical, well-jointed, roseate, bounding life, and the scalpel and the dissecting knife of the infidel or the atheist can not tell you what it is. .Evangelical religion is as different from what it is. represented to be by these enemies as the scarecrow which a farmer puts., in - the cornfield to keep off the ravens ' different from the farmer himself. - - For instance these enemies of evangel ism say that the Presbyterian Church be lieves that God is a savage sovereign, and that He -made seme men to amn'them, and that there are infants in. hell a -span Ion?. These . old slanders come down from generation to generation;' The Pres byterian church' believes no- such thing. The Presbyterian church believes that God-is a loving and just sovereign, and that we-are free agents.. 4i"No, no; that can not be' say these men who have chewed up the creed and have' the' conse qmsn embittered stomachs. "That ia im possible. If God'lsa'Soverelgn we can't b-a free agents." Why, my friend, we admit thWin every other direction. L-De.Witt Talmage, am a free citizen of Brooklyn, I eo when I please and I come when I please, but I have at least four sovereigns. The church court of our denomination: that is mv ecclesiastical sovereign. The mayor of this city; he is my municipal sovereign. The Governor or mew i ort; he is mr State sovereign. The President of the United States ; he is , my- Rational sovereign. Four sovereigns have I, and vet in evert" faculty of body, mind" and soul I am a free" man. So, you see, it is possible that the two doctrines go sid by side, and there is a common-sense way of presenting it, and there is way mat ia repulsive. If you have the two doctrines In s. worldly direction, why not in a t elirioas directfoB? -I choose to morrow morniner to walk . into the Mercantile Library" and improve mv , mind. or; i -m K9 . through the conservatory of mv friend from Jamaica, who has flowers fforii all lands growing under the arches f. firla9, afid who has an aquarium all asquirm with front and gold fish, and there are trees Dearing oranges and bananas if I wanted to go there I oould. I am. free to go.. If 1 want to go over to Hobokenrand lestp into the furnace of an oil factory; if . I want t Jump from the platform of a Philadelphia express train; if I want to leap from the Brooklyn Bridge, 1 may. But suppose I should go to-morrow and leap into the furnace at Hobokeiw who would be to blame? ,That is all there is about sovereignty and free agency, God rules and relgns,and.H has conservatories and He lias blast furnaces If yori want to walk in. the gardens, walk there. H you want to leap in.th furnace you may. . . Suppose, now, a man had ft-f harmed key with which he could open all the jails', and he should open Raymond Street, jail-and the J?ew York'Ttttsbs, and all. the prisons on the continent. In. three weeks what kind of a country, would this be? All the inmates turned out of these prisons and penitentiaries. Suppose all the repro bates, the bad spirits, the ontrageous spirits, should be turned into the Sew Jerusalem? Why, the next morning the ratea f pearl would be found off the hinse, the linchpin would be gone out of the chariot wheels, the "house of many mansions" would be burglar ized. Assault aud battery, &ron, HbertibUm aud assassinatiou would f e&Ule in the capital of the skies. Augels of God woelJ be lusultfad on tJUe etreet- Heavea would be a dead failure if ther ere n9 great bjkuy. ; If all peepZe itb bet regard to their .-kti-att?r '4 l 1'. srortrl en 'riffht into glory - worker if: in " the ' temple' of' the .ties tTharles Gultean and John Wilkes Booth occupy the same pew? Your common sense demands two destinies. And then as to the Presbyterian church believing there are infants in perdition, if you will bring me a Presbyterian of good morals and sound mind who will say that he be lieves there ever was a baby in the lost wotid, or ever will be, I will make him a deed to the house I live in, and he can take possession to-morro w, So the Episcopalian church is misrepre sented by the enemies of evangelism. They say that church substitutes forms and ceremonies for heart religion, and it i3 alia matter of liturgy and genuflexion. False again. All Episcopalians will tell you that the forms and creeds of their church are worse than nothing unless the heart go with them. So, also, the Baptist church has been misrepresented. - The enemies of evan gelism say the Baptist church believes that unless a man is immersed he will never get into Heaven. False again. All the Baptists; close communion and open communion, believe that if a man accept the Lord Jesus Christ he will be saved, whether he be baptized by one drop of water on the forehead, or be plunged into the -Ohio or Susquehanna, although im mersion Is the only gate by which one enters their earthly communion The enemies of evangelism also mis represent the Methodist church. They say the Methodist church believes that a man can convert himself, and that con version in that church is a temporary emotion, and all that a man has to do is to kneel down at the altar and feel bad, and then the minister pat him on the back and says, "It is all right," and that is all- there is of it. False again. The Methodist church believes that the Holy Ghost alone can convert a heart, and in that church conversion is an earthquake of conviction and a sunburst of pardon. And as to mere "temporary emotion," I wish we all had more of the "temporary emotion" which lasted Bishop Janes and Matthew Simpson for a half century, keeping them on fire for God until their holy enthusiasm consumed their bodies. So all the evangelical denominations are misrepresented. And then ! these enemies of evangelism go on and hold up the great doctrines of Christian churches a absurd, dry and inexplicable technic alities. "There is your doctrine of the Trinity," they say; "absurd beyond all bounds. The idea that there is a God in three rersons 1 Impossible. If it is one God He can't be three, and if there are three they cant be one." At the same time all of us they, with us acknowl edge trinities all around ns. Trinity in our own make-up body, mind, soul. Body with which we move, mind with which we think, soul with which we love. Three, yet one mesu. Trinity in the air light, heat, moisture yet one atmos phere. - Trinity in the court-room three judges of the bench, but one court. Trinities all around about us, in earthly government and in nature. Of course, all the illustrations are defective, for the rea son that the natural can not fully illus trate the spiritual. But suppose an ig norant man should come up to a chemist and say: "I deny what you say about the water aud the air; they are not made of different parts. The air is one; I breathe it every day. The water is one ; I drink it every day. You can't deceive me about the elements that go to make up the air and the water." The chemist would say: "You come up into my laboratory and I will demonstrate this whole thing to you. The ignorant man goes into the chemist's laboratory, andsees for himself. He learns that the water is one and the air is one, bat they are made up of different parts.. So here is a man who says : "I can't understand the doctrine of the Trin ity.' God says: "You come up here into the. laboratory after death, and you will see you will see it explained, you will see it demonstrated." The ignorant man can not undecstand the chemistry of the water and the air until he goes into the labora tory, and he will never understand the Trinity , until we go into Heaven. The ignorance of the man who can not under stand the chemistry of the air and water does, not change the fact in regard to the composition of eir and water. Because we can not Understand the Trinity, does that change the fact?" And there is your absurd doctrine about justification by faith," say these an tagonists who have chewed up the little book' of evangelism, and have the conse quent embittered stomach "justification by faith; you can't explain it." I can ex plain it. It is simply this: When a man takes the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour from sin, God lets the offender off. Just as you have a difference with some one, he has injured you, he apologizes, or he makes reparation, you say: "Now, that's all right, that's all right." Justification by faith is this: A man takes Jesus Christ as his Saviour, and God says to the man: .Now. it was all wrong before, but it is all right now ; it is all right," That was what" made Martin Luther what he was. Justification by faith, it is going to con quer all nations. A man came into this church One mgut and he was .intoxicated, and at an utter ance of the pulpit he said in a subdued tone: "That's, a lie." An officer of the church tapped him oa the shonlder and said: "You must be silent or you must go out." The next night that stranger came and he was converted to God.. He was in the liquor business. The next day he sent back the samples that had just been sent him. He began to love that which be hated. 1 baptized him by im mersion in the baptistry under this plat form. . A large salary was offered him if he would return to his former business. He declined it. He would rather , suffer with Jesus Christ than be prospered in the world. He wrote home a letter to his Christian mother. The Christian mother wrote back congratulating him, and said: "If in the change of your business you have lack of means, come home; you are always welcome home." He told of his conversion to a dissolute campanion. The dissolute companion said: , "Well, if yoa have become a Christian, you had better go over and tslk to that dying girL She is dying' with quick consumption in that house." The new convert went there. All the surroundings were dissolute. He told the dying girl that Jesus would save her. ' "Oh," said she, "that" can't be, that can't be. What makes you think ho?" "I have it here in a book in my tocket," he replied. He pulled out a New Testament. She said: "Show it to me, if I can be saved, show it to me in that book. He said: : "I have neglected this book as you have neglected it for many years, and I don't know where to find it, but I know it is somewhere between the lids." Then he began to -turn - over th leaves, aud strange and beautiful to say, his eye struck Upon this pa sage "Neither do" I condemn thee; go and ma na more." She said: "It isn't possible that is there I" "Yes," he said, "that is there." He held it up before her !dying eyes, and she said: "Oh, yes, I see it for myself; I accept the promise; 'neither do I rondemn thee; ro and sin no more.' " In a few hours her spirit sped sway to the Lord that gave it, and the new convert preached the funeral sermon. The man who a few days before had been a blas phemer and a drunkard and a hater of all that was rood, he preached tne sermon. That is regeneration, that is regeneration If there ate any dry husks of technicality in urhr thev? All made over utMiin hv h iwwer of the irrai-e ot Ood. A few years ago a ship -ajtai cjlu lu here aud at yonder uuUt-f me gisciy. He. tUi in with a coutetr-it ir the Cburfh of God aud with an eec.al d.s-!ieror'iV.-tts. cisportualty wa giveu, he arose for prayer, and a he was more than six feet high, woes lie arose for prayer, no one doubted that he arose. That hour he became a Christian. He went out a ad told the ship owners and the ship commanders what a great change had been wrought in him, and scores and scores have been brought to God through his instrumentality. A little while af tea his conversion be was on ship o l Cape Hatteras in a thick and prolonged fog, and they were at their wits' ends and knew not what to do, the ship drifting about hither and thither, and they lost their bearings; and the con verted sea captain went to his room an asked God for the salvation of his ship and God revaaled it to him while he was on his knees that at a certain hour, only a little way off, the fog would lift; and ths converted sea captain eame out en the deck and told how God heard his prayer. He said: "It is all right, boys, very soon now the fog will lift," mentioning the hour. A man who stood there laughed aloud in derision at the idea that God would answer prayer; but just at the hour when God had assured the captain the fog would lift, there came a flash of lightning through the fog, and the .man who had jeered and laughed was stunned and fell t' the deck. The fog lifted. Yonder wai Cape Hatteras light-house. The ship w put on the right course, and sailed oak. the harbor oi safety. When in seaport the captain spendd most of his time in evangelical work. He kneels down by one who has been help less in the bed for manv months, and the next day he walks forth in the streets well. -He kneels beside one who has long been decrepit, and he resigns the crutches. He kneels beside one who had n-t seen enough to be able to read for ten years, and she reads the Bible that day. Cera sumptions go away, and those who had diseases that were appalling to behold come up to rapid convalescence and to complete health. I em not telling you any thing second handed. I have had the story from ths lips of the patients in this very house, those who were brought to health ot body while at the same time brought to God. No second-hand story, this. 1 have heard the testimony from men and women who have been cured. You may call it faith-cure, or you may call it the power of God coming down in answer to prayer ; 1 do not care what you call It, it is a fact. The soof&ng sea captain, his heart full of hatred for Christianity, now becomes a follower of the meek and lowly Jesus, giving all the time to evangelical labors, or all the time he can spare from other occupations. That is regeneration; thai is regeneration. Man all made over again. "There is your absurd doctrine of vi carious sacrifice," say these men who have chewed up the little books of creeds and have the consequent embittered stomach. "Vicarious sacrifice ! Let every man suffer for himself. What do I want Christ to suffer for me? I'll suffer for myself, I'll carry my own burdens." They scoff at the idea of vicarious sacrifice, while they admire it everywhere else ex cept in Christ. People see its beauty when a mother suffers for her child. Peo ple see Its beauty when a patriot suffers for his country. People see its beauty when a man denies himself for a friend. They can see the beauty of vicarious sac rifice in every one but Christ. A young lady in one of the literary in stitutions was a teacher. She was very reticent and retired in her habits, and she formed no companionship in the new position She occupied, and her dress was very plain sometimes it was very shab by. After awhile she was discharged from the place for that reason, but no reason was given. Iu auswer to the let ter discharging her from the position she said: "Well, if I have failed to please, 1 suppose it is my own rint riie vi it here aud there for employment but found none, and in desperation and dementis she ended her life by suicide. Investiga tion was made and it was found that out of her small means she had supported her father, eighty years of age, and wes paying the way for her brother in Yale College on his way to the ministry. It was found that she had no blanket on the bed that win ter, and the had no Are on the very coldest day of all the season. People found it out, and there was a large gathering at the funeral, the largest ever at any fu neral in that place; and the very people who had scoffed came and looked upon the pale face of the martyr, and all honor was done her; but it was too late, vicari ous sacrifice. All are thrilled with suoh instances as that. But many are not moved by the fact that Christ paid His poverty for our riches, His self-abnegation for our enthronement, and knelt on the sharp edges of hutniliati on that we might climb over His lacerated shoulder into peace and Heaven. Be it ours to admire and adore these doctrines at which others jeer. Oil, the depths of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of Ood! How unsearcha ble is His wisdom, and His ways are past finding out! Oh, the height, the depth, the leupth, the breadth, the infinity, the immensity, tho oCernity of that lovel Let our earaest prayers go out iu behalf of all these 'who scoff at these doctrines of grace. When the London plague was raging, in tne year Wfi, there was a hotel near the chief burial place that excited much comment- England was in fright and bereavement. The dead carts went through the streets day and night, and theory: "Brinqf out tha dead:" was an swered by the bringing out of the forms of the loved ones, and they were pu twenty or thirty in a oart, and the wsgons went on to the cemetery, and these ieau were not burled in graves, but iu great trenches. In great pits, in one pit eleven hundred and fourteen burials. Ihe carts would come up with their great burd ?n of twenty or thirty to the nmitu of tho pit, and the front of the cart was lifted and the dead shot into the pit. All the churches in London were open for prsyer day and night, and Englae.d was in a grt at an- guDsh. At that very time, at a uotei, at a wayside inu near the chief burial place, there was a group ot hard ened men, who sat day after day aud night after night blaspheming Ood and im itating the grief -struck who went by to the burial place. These men st there day after day aud night after night, and they Kcoffed at men. aud ther seofi'sd at God. But after awhile one of thera was struck with the plague, and in two weeks all of the group were down In the trench, from the margin of which they hud ut tered their ribaldry. My friends, a greater plague is abroad iu the world. Millions have died of it. Mlllioc i are smitten with it n-w. Plague of in, plague of sorrow, plague of wretched ness, plague of woe. And consecrated women and men from all Christendom are goin.r out trying to stay the plague nd al leviate the angnihh, and there U a group of men in this country base .nongh to sit and deride the work. They i ;off at the Bible, and they scoff at evuu jelism, and they scoff at Jesus Christ, and they scon at God. If these word shall reach them, either while they are sitting here to-day, or through the printinsr-pr-s, let me tell tbem to remember the fate of that group ia the waysi'le inn while the plasrae sprfad its two black win? over the doomed city of London. Oh, instead of beirg scoffers let us be dudp'esl "Blased is the man that walket;. not in the counsel of the uugodly, nor standeth In tie way of sinners, nor aittct a in th seat of the scornful." Wife "I was o annoyed to-day, my dar, to Had t:ie of uiy picturea di3layu iu a pbotojrvuphtfria fehop window." Uufjband "Why tiMu'tyou go ujvht.aira aud ta'.I Liiu to taku it out?" Wire "I di.:'..r?, I itlJr.'t thiuk of ttiat: abd, beid. 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