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TBH ISKMI-WJtKKL MKSSKNGEK: FRIDAY, MA 5, lb9t. 3 A GREAT MAN FALLEN DR. TAIt?lAfsE EULOGIZES THE LATE JLSTICE FIELD One of the ?Iot Rotable Character of Our TlmenySVlione Life I Worthy of EmulatlouV Say the Pulpit Orator (Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1893.) One of the most most notable charac ters of our time is the subject of Dr. Talmage's discourse, and the lessons drawn are inspiring; text, II Samuel lil, 28, "Know ye not that there is a prince, and a great man fallen this day in Israel." Here is a plumed catalfalque, follow ed by King David and a funeral ora tion which he delivers at the tomb.Con cerning Abner, the great, David weeps out the text. More appropriately than when originally uttered we may now utter this resounding lamentation, "Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?" It was SO minutes after 6, the exact hour of sunset of the Sabbath day, and while the evening lights were bedng kindled, that the soul of Stephen J. Field, the lawyer, the judge, the pa triot, the statesman, the Christian, ascended. It was sundown in the home on yonder Capitol 11:11, as it was sun down m all the surrounding hills, but in both cases thr sunset to be followed bv a glorious sunrise. Hear the Easter anthems still lingering in the air, "The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall rise." Our departed friend came forth a boy from a minister's home in New Eng land. He knelt with father and mother at morning and evening prayer, learned from maternal lips lessons of piety which lasted him and controlled him arnid all the varied and exciting scenes of a lifetime and helped him to die in peace an octogenarian. Blot out from American history the names of those ministers' sons who have done honor to national legislature and presidential chair, and you would obliterate many of the grandest chapters of 'that his tory. It is no small advantage to have started from a home where God is hon ored and the subject of a world's emancipation from sin and sorrow is under constant discussion. The Ten Commandments, which are the founda tion of all good law Roman law, Ger man law, English law, American law are the best foundation upon which to build character, and those which the boy, Stephen J. Field, so often heard in the parsonage at Stockbridge were his guidance when a half century after, as a gowned justice of the supreme court of the United States, he unrolled his opinions. Bibles, hymn books, cate chisms, family prayers, atmosphere sanctified, are god surrounding a for boys and girls to start from, aiid if (jur laxer ideas of religion and Sabbath days anj home training produce as splendid men and women as the much derided Puritanic Sabbath and Puri tanic teachings have produced, it will be a matter of congratulation and thanksgiving. Do not pass by the fact that I have not yet seen emphasized that Stephen J. Field was a minister's son. Notwith standing that 'there are conspicuous ex ceptions to the rule and the exceptions have built up a stereotyped defamation on the subject statistics plain and un deniable prove that a larger proportion of ministers' sons turn out well than are to be found in any other genealogic al table. Let all the parsonages of all denominations of Christins where chil dren are growing up take the consola tion. See the star of hope pointing down to that manger! MEMBER OF ROYAL FAMILY. Notice also that our departed friend was a member of a royal family. There were no crowns or scepters or thrones in that ancestral line, but the family of the Fields, like the family of the New York Primes, like the family of the Princeton Alexanders, like a score of families that I might mention, if it were best to mention them, were "the children of the king," and had put on them honors brighter than crowns and wielded influence longer and wider than scepters. That family of Fields traces an honorable lineage back S00 years to Hubertus de la Feld, coadjutor of "Wil liam the Conquerer. Let us thank God for such families, generation after gen eration on the side of that which is right and good. Four sons of that coun try minister, known the world over for extraordinary usefulness in their spheres, legal, commercial, literary and theological, and a daughter, the mother of one of the associate justices of the supreme court. .Such families counter balance for good those families all wrong from generation to generation families that stand for wealth, unright eously got and stingily kept or wicked ly squandered; families that stand for fraud or impurity or malevolence; fam ily names that immediately come to every mind, though through sense of propriety they do not come to the lip. The name of Field will survive centu ries and be a synonym for eligrion, for great jurisprudence, for able Christian journalism, as the names of the Pha roahs and the Caesars stand for cruelty and oppression and vice. While parents cannot aspire to have such conspicuous households as the one the name of whose son we now cele brate, all parents may by fidelity in prayer and holy example have their sons and daughters become kings and queens unto God, to reign forever and ever. But the work has already been done, and I could go through this coun try and find a thousand households which have by the grace of God and blessing upon paternal and maternal excellence become the royal families of America. Let young men beware lest they by their behavior blot such family records with some misdeed. "We can all think of households the names of which meant everything honorable and con secrated for a long while, but by the deed of one son sacrificed, disgraced and blasted. Look out how you rob your consecrated ancestry of the name they handed to you unsullied! Better as trustee to that name add something worthy. Do something to honor the old homestead, whether a mountain cabin or a city mansion of a country parson age. Rev. David Dudley Field, though 32 years passed upward, is honored to day by .the Christian life, the service, the death of his son Stephen. INFLUENCE OF A GOOD FATHER. Among the most absorbing books of the Bible is the book of Kings, which again and again illustrates tbat, though piety is not hereditary, the style of parentage has much to do with the style of descendant. It declares of King Abijam, "He walked in all the 6ins of his father which he had done before him," and of King Azariah, "He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fa ther Amaziah had done." "We owe a debt to those who have gone before in our line as certainly as we have obliga tions to those who subsequently appear in the household. Not so sacred is your old father's walking staff, which you j iey is said to be one of the finest logi keep in his memory or the eyeglasses ' dans of the age, as much a Phocion as through which your mother studied the Emmett is a Themistocles, and Web Bible in her old age as the name they ster is as ambitious as Caesar. He will bore, the name which you inherited, not be outdone by any man if it is Keep it bright, I charge you. Keep it ( within the compass of his power to suggestive of something elevated in avoid it Come to Washington. It will character. Trample not underfoot that ; be a combat worth witnessing." The which to your father and mother was dearer than life itself. Defend their graves as they defended your cradle. Family coat of arms, escutcheon, en signs armorial, lion couchant. or lion dormant, or lion rampant, or lion com batant, may attract attention, but bet- ; ter than all Heraldic inscription is a family name which means from gener ation to generation faith in God, self sacrifice, duty performed, a life well lived and a death happily died and a heaven gloriously won! That was the kind of name that Justice Field aug- mented and adorned and perpetuated . a name honorable at the close of the ' eighteenth century, more honored now at the close of the nineteenth Notice also that our illustrious friend was great In reasonable and genial dis sent. Of 1,042 opinions he rendered, none were more notent or memorable. than those rendered while he was in I how God honors judges and court small minority and sometimes in a mi- j rooms until the thunderbolt of the last nority of one. A learned and distin- day shall pound the opening of the gulshed lawyer of this country said he great assize the day of trial, the day would rather be author of Judge Field's J of clearance, the day of doom, the dissenting opinions than to be the au- i iay of judgment. The law of the case thor of the constitution of the United ; on that occasion will be read and the States. The tendency is to go with the I indictment of ten counts, which are the multitude, to hink what others think, I Ten Commandments. Justice will plead to say and do what others do. Some- j times the majority are wrong, and it requires heroes to take the negative, but to do that logically and in good humor requires some elements of make up not often found in judicial dissent- er3 or. indeed, in anv class of men. There are so many people in the world them who are in Christ Jesus." Under opposed to everything and who display . the crowded gelleries of cloud on that their opposition in rancorous and ob- ; last dav and under the swaying up noxious ways that a Judge Field was ; holstery of a burning heavens, and need l to makft the negative reSDected ; while the Alps and Himalayas and and genial and right Minorities under j God save the world and save the church. An unthinking and precipitate "yes" may be stopped by a righteous and heroic "no." The majorities are not always right. The old gospel hymn declares it: Numbers are no mark that men will right be found; A few were saved in Noah's ark many millions drowned. HIS DISSENTING OPINION. to ; ' ! I The declaration of American inde- pendence was a dissentingopinion. The Free church of Scotland, under Chal- i mers and his compeers, was a dissenting movement. The Bible itself, Old Testa- j ment and ew Testament, is a protest against the theories that would have destroyed the world and is a dissenting as well as a divinely inspired book.The decalogue on Sinai repeated ten times "Thou shalt not." For ages to come will be quoted from lawbooks in court rooms Justice Field's magnificent dis senting opinions. .ouce mai our ascenaea iriena naa such a character as assault and peril alone can develop. He had not come to the soft cushions of the supreme court Notice that our ascended friend had "cih.ii iJiepiJius un (Jicri.ii 01. gum anu saluted all along the line by handclap ping of applause. Country parsonages do not rock their babes in satin lined cradle or afterward send them out into the world with enough in their hand to purchase place and power. Pastors' sal aries in the early part of this century hardly ever reached $700 a year. Econ omies that sometimes cut into the bone characterized many of the homes of the New England clergymen. The young lawyer of whom we speak today arriv ed in San Francisco in 184 with only $10 in his pocket. 'Williamston college was only introductory to a post gradu ate course which our illustrious friend took while administering justice and halting ruffianism amid the mining camps of California. Oh, those "forty niners," as they were called, through what privations, through what narrow escapes, amid what exposures they moved. Administering and executing law among outlaws never has been an easy undertaking. Among mountain- eers, many of whom had no regard for I human life and where the snap of pistol i and bang of gun were not unusual re- j sponses, required courage of the high- ry iw . , Behind a dry goods box surmounted by tallow candles Judge Field began ins juuiLiiti ca-ieer. wmii exciung scenes ne passeu xnrougn: An lniernai machine was handed to him, and inside the lid of the box was pasted his de cision in the Pueblo case, the decision that had balked unprincipled specula tors. Ten years ago his life would have passed out had not an officer of the law shot down his assailant. It took a long training of hardship and abuse and misinterpretation and threat of violence and flash of assassin's knife to fit him for the high place where he could defy legislatures and congresses and presi dents and the world when he knew he was right. Hardship is the grindstone that sharpens intellectual faculties, and the swords with which to strike effect ively for God and one's country. . The reason that life to so many is a failure is because they do not have op positions enough and trials enough or because they ignominously lie down to be run over by them instead of using them for stairs on which to put their foot and mount. Those "born with a gold spoon in their mouths" are apt to take their last medicine out of a pewter mug. Have brave heart in all depart ments.ye men of many obstacles! There is no brawn or character without them. The roughs glaring and growling around about the shed of a courtroom in Marysville, Cal., had as much to do with Judge Field's development as Mark Hopkins, the great Williamstown college president. Opposition develops courage. I like the ring of Martin Lu- - w - - o thers defiance when he said to the Duke of Saxony, "Things are otherwise pable of drafting sublime structure and ordered in heaven than they are at such magnificent sites on which to Augsburg." build, let not another year pass before HONOR OF THE JUDICIARY. we hear the trowel ring on the corner Notice also how much our friend did . VZJFLZ !im?le be occupied by the for th -hnnor nf the inrhVW t-l- TCT,o momentous scenes have been witnessed in our United States supreme court, on the bench and before the bench, wheth er, far back, it held its session in the upper room of the Exchange at New York, or afterward for ten years in the city hall at Philadelphia, or later in the cellar of yonder capital, the place where for many years the con gressional library was kept, a sepulcher where books were buried alive, the hole called by John Randolph "the cave of Trophonius!" What mighty, men stood before that bar pleading in im mortal eloquence on questions of na tional import! Edmund Randolph and Alexander Hamilton and Pinkney and Jeremiah Mason and Caleb Cushing and the weird and irresistable Rufus Choate and George Wood and Charles O'Connor and James T. Brady and Francis B. Cutting and men now liv ing just as powerful. How suggestive the invitation which William Wirt, the great Virginian, wrote his friend inviting him to yonder supreme courtroom: "Tomorrow a week will come on the great steamboat question from New York. Emmett and Oakley on one side, Webster and my self on the other. Come down and hear iS'f IVimaf'a tttVi rwl ctiil la l 1 and he will stretch all his powers. Oak- supreme court nas stooa so nign m. England and the United States that the vices of a few who have occupied that important place have not been able to disgrace it, neither the corruption of Francis Bacon, nor the cruelty of Sir George Mackenzie, nor the Sabbath resecration of Lord Castlereagh Have you ever realized how much God has honored law in the fact that all up and down the Bible he makes the judge a type of himself and em ploys the scene of a courtroom to set forth the grandeurs of the great judg' ment day? Book of Genesis, "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" Book of Deuteronomy, "The Lord shall judge his people. hook, or Fsalms, "God is Judge Himself." Book of Acts, "Judge of quick and dead." Book of Timothy, "The Lord the righteous Judge." Never will it be understood tne case against us, Dut our glorious advocate will plead in our behalf, for "we have an advocate with the Fath erJesus Christ, the righteous." Then the case will be decided in our clear- ance. 35 the Judge announces "There is n". therefore, no condemnation to Blount Washington are falling flat on meir iaces, we win De aDie to under stand the significance of those Scrip ture passages which speak of God as Judge and employ the equrtroom of earth as typical of the scene when all nations shall be brought into tribunal. ! To that highest of all tribunals Abra j ham Lincoln called our friend, but he ! lived long enough to honor the supreme court more than it had ever honored him. For more than 34 years he sat in the presence of this nation and of all nations a model judge. Fearlessness, integrity, devotion to principle, char- acterized him. No bribe ever touched his hand. No profane word ever scalded his tongue. No blemish of wrong ever marred his character. Fully qualified was he to have his name associated in j tne history of this country with the greatest of the judiciary. As at 12 o'clock day by day on yonder hill the gavel falls in the supreme court room and it is announced that the chief justice of the United States and the associate justices are about to en ter, and all counselors at the bar and all spectators rise to greet them, and tne officer with the words "Oyez oyez, oyez!" announces that all is now ready for a hearing and exclaims "God save the United States of America " so j x wisn we couia in imagination gather -v to "-"-x mvrac hiiu aave occupied mat high judicial place in this and other lands, and they might enter and after the falling of some mighty gavel had demanded attention we could look upon them Marshall, the giant of American jurisprudence, and John Jay of whom Daniel Webster said in com memoration, "When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself," and Rutledge and Cushing and Elsworth and Joseph Storey, called the "Walter Scott of common law, and Sir Matthew Hale and Lord Eldon and Lord Tenterden and Sir James Mcin tosh and Mansfield and the long line of lord chancellors and the great judges from both sides the sea--and after they had taken their places in our quickened imagination the distinguished cases of centuries which they decided might again be called on, after the assembled nations had ejaculated, "God save the ' united totates of America," "God save Great Britain," "God save1 the naL tions." , THE SANCTITY OF LAW. ; Ah, how the law honors and sancti- nes everything it touches! Natural law. , Civil law. Social law. Commercial Haw. Common law. Moral law Eccle- siastical law. International law. Oh. tne dignitv the impressiveness. the power of law! It is the onlv thine ho. iore wmch Jehovah bows, but he bows . before that, although the law is of his , own making. The law! By it worlds j swine:. Bv t.h fata. Aanti. ; decided. By it all the affairs of time and ail the cycles of eternity will be ; governed. We cannot soar so high or sink so deep or reach out so far or .so long as to escarp it. T io , ou wnicn tne Almighty sits. To in terpret law, what a profession! What a responsibility! What an execration when the judge be a Lord Jeffreys! What a benediction if he be a Chancel lor Kent! In passing, let me say that for this chief tribunal of our country congress should soon provide a better place. Let some of the moneys voted for improve ment of rivers which are nothing but dry creeks and for harbors which will never have any shipping and for monu ments to some people whom it is not at all important for us to remember be voted for the erection of a building worthy of our United States supreme court. John Ruskin, in "Stones of enice, calls attention to the pleasing fact that in the year 813 the doge of Venice devoted himself to putting up two great buildings St. Mark's, for the worship of God, and a palace for th administration of justice to-man. In its acPrr!Ciatiln. ofwhat is best let not t mt w - v -tl.XZ j uiu. nil ssucn granite i in our quarries and surh arit ueiuna au. with such granite uj. ine lana SERVICES FAITHFULLY PER FORMED. To have done well, all that such a profession could ask of him. and to have made that profession still more honorably by his brilliant and sublime life, is enough for national and inter national, terrestrial and celestial con gratulation. And then to expire beauti fully, while the prayers of his church -were being offered at his bedside, the door of heaven opening for his en trance as the door of earth opened for his departure, the sob of the earthly farewell caught up into raptures that never die. Yes, he lived and died in the faith of the old fashioned Christian re ligion. Young man, I want to tell you that Justice Field believed in the Bible from lid to lid, a book all true either as doc trine or history, much of it the history of events that neither God nor man ap proves. Our friend drank the wine of the holy sacrament and ate the bread of which "if a man eat he shall never hunger." He was the up and down, out and out friend of the church of Christ. If there had been anything illogical in our religion, he would have scouted it. for he was a logician. If there had been ln !t aiiyUlillff unreasonable, he would MML ml P ',1 Dowaro of the Doctors' Patchvork; You Can Cure Yourself at Home. rim The doctors are w&ojiy unaoie to get r;a ox this vile poison, aod only attempt to heal tip the outward appearance of the diseasethe sores and eruptions. This they do by driving the poison into the system, and endeavor to keep it shut in with their constant doses of potash and mercury. The mouth and throat and other delicate parts then break out ino sores, and the fight is continued indefinitely, the drugs doing the system more damage than the disease itself. Mr. H. L. Myers, 100 Mulberry St., Newark, N. J.. says: "I had spent a hundred dollars with the doctors, when l realized that they could do me no rood. I had large spots all over my bedy, and these soon broke out into running sores, and I endured all the suffering which this Tile disease pro duces. I decided to try 8. S. S. as a last resort, and was soon greatly improved. I followed closely your 'Direc tions for Self-Treatment,' and the large splotches on my chest began to grow paler and smaller, and before long disappeared entirely. I was soon cured perfectly and my skin has been as clear as glass ever since. I cured my self at home, after the doctors had failed completely." It is valuable time thrown away to expect the doctors to cure Contagious Blcod Poison, for the disease is be yond their skill. Swifts Specific S. S. S. FOR THE BLOOD acts in an entirely different way from potash and mercury it forces the Soison out of the system and gets rid of it entirely. Hence it cures the isease, while other remedies only shut the poison in where it larks foreTer, constantly undermining the constitution. Our system of private home treat ment places a cure within the reach of all. We give all necessary medical ad vice, free of charge, and save the patient the embarrassment of publicity. Write for full information to Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. have rejected it, because he was a great reasoner. If there had been in it anything that would not stand research he would have exploded the fallacy, for his life was a life of research. Young men of "Washington, young men of America, young men of the round world, a religion that would stand the test of Justice Field's penetrating and all ransacking intellect must have in it something worthy of your confidence. I tell you now that Christianity has not only the heart of the world on its side, but the brain of the world also. Ye who have tried to represent the religion of the Bible as something pusillani mous, how do you account for the Christian faith of Stephen J. Field, whole shelves of the law library occu pied with his magnificent decisions? And now may the God of all comfort speak to the bereft, especially to her who was the queen of his life from the day when as a stranger he was shown to her pew in the Episcopal church to this time of the broken heart. He changed churches, but did not change religions, for the church in which he was born and the church in which he died alike believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son, and in the communion of saints, and in the life everlasting. Amen. The body of our friend sleeps in tem porary resting place. Hearts over whelmed with grief cannot just now decide where that sacred and silent form shall hear the trumpet that wakes the dead. Three places are proposed. and all appropriate. Some say let it be in some God's acre near this capital. where the pillows of dust are already embroidered with spring flowers. How appropriate some cemetery near this city, which was so long his residence, and so near the place where he sat in judgment, holding evenly the balances that God put in his hand! It would be well for us sometimes to go out and read his epitaph and recall his virtues. Some say let him rest on the Pacific cirvrvo. TTa v. v. the new state and fitted himself for so erea.t Ami-nAnc jmH it wniri Ko. ko , ..u..v i-c.u- long, the Alleghanies and the Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas echoing the thunders of the rail train taking him to his last earthly home. But equally as appropriate is another proposal that he be put to rest amid the graves of father and mother and re nowned brothers and the New England friends of the family in the cemetery at Stockbridge, Mass. After a life of toil and" struggle he needs some quiet place. Old men who were his schoolfel lows would lean heavily upon the staff and watch as he was brought through the gates of the place in which they also will soon lie down to rest Far away from the jostle and contention and rush and activities of the great cities he would sleep the calm sleep of the Just. The hyacinths there would typify the resurrection, and the snows of winter banked there would suggest the robes made white in the blood of the Lamb. Goodby, my dear old friend of more than 30 years. Your words of personal encouragement and good cheer give me the right to offer words of com memoration. But I must leave to others his place of burial. This city might choose Rock Creek and Oak Hill, and San Francisco might choose Lone Mountain; yet if I had my choice I would say let it be the cemetery at Stockridge. He would be at home there and it would be a family reunited, but whatever be the place, let me sprinkle over the newly made grave this handful of heather from the Scotch highlands, in the hymn which the people of that land of 'Andrew Melville and John Knox are apt to sing on their way to the grave of some one greatly beloved: Neighbor, accept our parting song. The road is short, the rest is long. The Lord brought here, the Lord takes hence; This Is no house of permanence. On bread of mirth and bread of tears The pilgrim fed those checkered years. Now, landlord world, shut to the door: I Thy guest is gone forever more. Gone to the land of sweet repose, His comrades bless him as he goes. Of toil and moil the day was full. A good sleep now the night is cool. j Yea, village bells, ring softly, ring, tmxL in tne Diessea sabbatn bring Which from this weary workday tryst Awaits God's folk through Jesus Christ. ZTIaj- Day la Berlin Berlin, May 1. Despite the efforts of the social democratic leaders, May Day was but ' little noticed here. There were thirty five meetings in the city and suburbs, but they were sparse- ly attended and were without special incident tiful to let the whole nation bow at his eF: noining ueimue uas ui umuai, passing catafalque, a funeral reaching ; elicited. Private reports frorn Matan from ocean to ocean and 3,000 mile! ! Las sa7 at a ew EPt aYe p i There is not te tlighteit doubt thit tho doctors do more harm than good ia treating Contagions Blood Poison; many victims ox this loathsome disease would be much better ofT to-day if they had never allowed them selres to be dosed on mercury and potash, the only remedies which the doctors erer give for blood poison. AFFA1U IN CI OA Antouomr for the JluulclpalUle. Newspaper Attack ou Ciomez-Cu-bau EnlUtiiis lu 1oi Carlo Service "Havana. ADril 29. Senor Domingo Mendez Capote, secretary of th? gov ernment in Governor General Brooke's advisory cabinet, has notified the pro vincial municipalities that they are to have complete autonomy as far as elections are concerned, except in the choice of mayors, and their assistants and civil governors. La Discussion, in an editorial in to day's issue( continues its attacks upon General Gomez, expressing conuemua tion of his agreement with Robert P. Porter, who acted as President Mc TCinlev's snecial representative and whom the paper accuses of conspiring asrainst Cuban independence, lhe pa per characterizes the report made to SAfrofarv ntf the Treasury Gage as "hvDorcritical" and calls General Go mez a "vulgar demagogue, impelled by his enormous ambition and vanity and confounded by the immense promises made him Mail advices from San Nicola deny the existence of bands of outlaws in that district, declaring that the ru mors of outrages originated in the theft of a horse which receritly occur red there General Gomez and the consulting committee of Cuban generals agreed to day that when the Cuban troops are paid each soldier shall be given a sign- ed record of his term of service, to gether with a statement of the balance due him for such service, and a prom ise of payment by the first Cuban gov ernment one year subsequent Vo lis es tablishment Governor General Brooke is inquiring into the reported buyinpr of arms from the Cubans by agents of Colombia con piraitors. One or two cattle ships sail ! hence for Colombia ports and the sup- Tvositinn is 'that it was intended to ! smuggle small quantities of arms from ; here on these vessels. So far, howev- i t a i v. . , rtl : 1 1 .. are destined is not known There are doubtless some thousands of men here who are ready to enlist 'n any foreign service that promises good pay, and agents of Don Carlos are said to have long lists of men willing to serve In the pretender's cause. Colonel Duncan Hood, of the Second immune regiment, is so much better that he has been removed from his lodging to the military hospital. The smallpox quarantine against Key West has been raised. London Pre on Sltuatian at Manila London, April 28. All the morning papers contained editorials congratu ting the United States upon the pros pect of peace in the Philippines and complimenting the bravery and endur ance of the American troops, which have produced the much desired result Alll insist that the United States can not treat with the rebel government. All approve the demand of General Otis for an unconditional surrederand urge that he should be given full power and not be hampered by instructions from Washington. ifleKInley'a tteceptlon In Xew York New York, April 28. Cheers and the waving of hats greeted President Mc Klnley, Mrs. McKiniey and their party when they reached the Manhattan hotel at 5:30 o'clock tonight. The demonstration took place as the president stepped from his carriage. It came from a crowd that had been waiting nearly an hour to see the chief executive. A number of policemen guarded the entrance to the hotel and kept back the crowd. Heavy Seizure of Cigar Jacksonville, Fla., April 23. The de partment of internal revenue- has seized in this city within the last three daya 564,000 cigars bearing counterfeit stamps made in Lancaster, Pa. These seizures seem to be only the beginning in this district as the deputies are in vestigating the stocks of cigars in. every part of the state, but as yet no returns have been made from other cities in Florida, where it is believed that large numbers of cigars will be seized. Fatal Powder 71111 Explocion "Woodbury, N. J., April 29. The pow der press at the Dupont powder mill at Carney's Point, N; J., a few miles from here, exploded at 2 o'clock this afternoon, killing four men and in-lurine- three others. The explosion OC- j curred during an experiment with a j government giant torpedo. mEDELL AND 7IOOHE Portrait of Theme Judcea of Form Iay Preeuted to tbe Supreme Smallpox on thInrreaae Ugtitllec Utratlon for City Election t Messenger Bureau, Italeigh,. X. C, April 29. In the supreme court this morning life-sixe oil portraits of James Iredell and Alfred Moore were presented by. the North Carolina Society of tho Sons of the Revolution, Junius Davis, Ea.. of Wilmington, making the speech of presentation. It was la fine taste and was enjoyed by the audience, anions which were several state oflSclals, ex- Judges and lawyers and a number of ladies and prominent citizens. Among the latter was Charles E. Johnson, a great grand son of Iredell. The por traits were accepted by Chief Justice FiLircloth. They are the work of n North Carolina lady and form valuable additions to the fine collection already on the walls. Thrve thousand new spindles ar? be ing placed in the Raleigh cotton mUl. making the total 13.500. It is expected that the total increase in spindles in the state this year will exceed 150vO. Yesterday live smallpox patients i,na twvnty-three suspects were ent out to the rvsthouse and detention house. One was p. negro Jail prisoner. Today the Jail was disinfected thoroughly. One smalliox case was sent this morning to the pest house. There is only one white case, a lad named Sasser. who Is a mill hand and whose home s outside the city. was sent to the pest house today. Though the !oard )f health recommended compulsory vaccination, yet strango to say the city has never advised it. This was a m!s- takf. Revenue i-tTkers. last night captured an illicit distillery in Johnston county. A capture was made in Craven a few davs ag- and threo "moonshiners wer als. bapged. Their still was- on on island in a swamp and they were neatly trapped. The supreme court today heard nrgu- im-nt in the case involving title to the IjsitJon of kevpr of the capitol. Ef forts were made to have the agricul tural board title case argued today. but it was stated that it could not Ik heard before next Monday. The Inter-State Telephone Company has bought th. private line between Raleigh and Go'dsboro. For the city charter next Tuesday only 1.5Kt white and 5'H) negroes regis tered. The banks closed yesterday. ;i.llMAV AMI A.TIKII1CA .Tlutunl C'oucratiilatlou er the Pro posed luteriiatloual Cable Berlin. April 29. Emperor William has sent the following cablegram to President McKinley: "The imperial postmaster general has Just informed me that your excel lency has kindly given your consent to tLe landing of a new cable on the shorts of the (United States. This welcome nevrs will create unanimous satisfaction and joy throughout the German empire, and I thank your excellency most heartily for it. May the new cablo unite our two great nations more close ly and help to promote peace, prosper ity and good will among their people." President McKlnley replied as fol lows: "I have received with pleasure yonr majesty's telegram regarding tho Joining of the two continents by a dl- rect cable. It afforded me genuino cratification to give consent to the landing of this new cable on tne Bnorea of the United States and more so as I sav therein an opportunity to further the high mi Ion of international tele graphy In drawing closer the distant nations and bringing their peoples into more intimate associations In tbe in terests of the mutual advantage, good will an I amity. That tho now cablo will prove an additional bond between the two countries is my fervent wish ( hone." 1 1 ConiparUou of War Canaltle Washington, May 1. The circulation of the anti-imperialistic documents ad mitted to have been sent ut by Edward-Atkinson, of Boston, was official ly called to the attention of Poatmasttr General Emory Smith today and is now pending official action. In all probabil ity it will be taken up for discussion at tomorrow's cabinet session. A memorandum has been prepared at the war department, comparing the losses in the Spanish war- with the first year of the civil war. The aggre gate strength of troops employed dur ing the war with Spain was approxi mately 275.0)0, covering the p-riod from May, 1S98, t April. inclusive. Dur ing this tim. the death from all causes were 6.190. or 2Vi per cent. The mean strength for the first year of the civil war was 276.371, with an aggregate loss by deaths of 15,159, being a per centage of 6.8. Pigeon Nltootlng Philadelphia, May 1. Ilarold Money, of New York, today won the fifty bird match of the Philadelphia Oun Club, on the club's grounds at Ed lington. He missed but one blnl. HI father, Cap tain A. TV. Money, of the Carteret Gun Club. New York, was second. with Xorty-sevan kills, and Robert A. Welsh, also of ir.e Carteret Club, and H. Y. Dolan. of the Philadelphia Gun Club, pach killed forty-six birds and divided third money. E. L. Smith,-of the Pal metto Gun Club, Aiken, 8. C, killed forty-four. The conditions of the match were IjO entrance lee, the win ner getting 50 per ceut., second man SO per cent., third man 10 cent., and the remaining 10 per cent., going to the club. Clear weather favored the shooters, but it was not exactly suited to the sport. It was entirely too warm and this, together wrth the absence of wind, made the birds very tame.. Federal Circuit Court of Appeala Washington, May 1. The United. States supreme court today decided a case which has the effect of barring judges from participating In proceed-' ings In courts of appeals who have dealt with the same cases ia the lower courts. The case was that of Moran rersua Dillingham. The supreme court set aside the decree --f the court of appeals for the Fifth circuit oa the ground that Judge Pardee, of the circuit court of appeals, who had made an order in the case in the circuit court for the North ern District of Texas, participated lit ; the proceedings ra the higher court