Newspaper Page Text
dumtiio murniin imiedo i Mi 1 LiUD AillUM HlllimiO. Sanguinary Conflicts Between Two Factions in Pennsylvania. AN OUTCOME OF THE STRIKE. Two Furious Fights in Which Gnns, ; Axes, Knives and Other Weapons , Were Used?At I-east Nine Men Fatally Wounded, and Forty More Injured? { Many Ringleaders I'ut Under Arrest. | Girardville, Tenn. (Special).?At least nino men received fatal injuries and possi. bly two score others were more or less seriously wounded in a bloody riot here lato at night and early in the morning. The battle was the outcome of a quarrel over the Hazelton troubles. Thirty-six men aro known to have beo wounded and about fifty more are being se. creted by their friends, who fear that they will be sent to jail. Twelve of the ringleaders were brought before Justice Elias Kissinger, and ten before Justice H. B. Johnson. All were charged with assault with intent to kill, housebreaking, and rioting, and were held in heavy bail for court. Many more warrants have been issued, but have not been served as yet. Dr. Charles Schlesmau attended to twenty-two of the wounded, nine of whom, he says, will din. Drs. William Monogham and Joseph Donaghue attended to fourteen others, and how many the other physicians cared for is not known. Several hundred Polanders board at William Culacabbage's hotel on Second street. Joseph Cavendish is proprietor of a hotel at the east end of town, where several hundred more Polanders make their headquarters. Bad blood has always existed between them for a long time and the recent strike troubles at Hazleton embittered them still more. Culacabb8ge, it is charged, and his followers to the number of several hundred, arming themselves with guns, revolvers, knives, axes, and clubs, marched to Caven dish's Hotel, where several hundred of their enemies were celebrating pay day. Tne Cavendish men ascertained that their foes were marching on them and arming themselves hurriedly awaited their arrival. After a demonstrative march the Culaoabbage contingent arrived and immediately stormed the saloon. Then a bloody battle ensued. The men fought like demons; the shooting was fast and furious; axes, knives, clubs, and other weapons were used with deadly effect. The battle lasted almost an hour, when the Culacabbagtfgang was routed, leaving their wounded behind. Everything in the house was smashed, and the floors were strewn with wounded men. The walls were bespattered with blood aDd shreds of human flesh. Aftar the ronted rioters had returned to their headquarters the Cavendish men armed themselves to the teeth and marched to their enemies' rendezvous, where a battle still bloodier than the flrst ensued. The police force and the constables of the surrounding region were called to the scene, , but were unable to cope with the rioting horde, who continued hostilities until 1 morning. The townspeople did not sleep a wink all i night, and while they watched the progress ( of the flght during the night thoy made no attempt to interfere. The residences of many citizens were damaged, and several i outsiders were wounded. i CLAIMS A CENTURY OLD. Pennsylvania Farmers Called to Pay 81,000,000 to the State. In accordance with the provisions of a new law many Pennsylvania land owners are now being called upon by the State to pay over about $1,000,009 in cash owing to the Commonwealth for over 100 years, and they are much perturbed. The debt is upon lands bought from the State, part payments on which only had been made. Every county in the State is concerned. 8chuyfkill County owes 823,000; Lehigh, $20,000; Chester, $50,000; Lancaster, $70,000; Lebanon, $10,000; Montgomery, $10,000, and so on. The forefathers of famous old Daniel Boone's father and grandfather, who bought lands from Pennsylvania, lying along the Tulpehocken Creek, Berks County, failed to pay a cent of the purchase money, and all this must be paid by the present innocent owners of the lands, amounting to quite a sum. It must either be paid in fifteen days, or it will be a lien upon the property. Tho father of Daniel ] Boone bought 160 acres in Cumree town- \ ship, near Reading, but paid nothing on it. ] Abraham Lincoln's ancestors also bought many acres in 1790, but they paid every , penny, spot cash, for all the land they bargained for. Hundreds of farmers feel like , contesting these century old claims, but the lawyers say that they had better pay them, as with the accumulating interest after < awhile the claims will be so high that they j can't pay at all. In some cases nearly every dollar of the j farmer's profits for the season will be re- i quired to pay this indebtedness. | I A FARMER'S AWFUL CRIME. Murders His Wife and Six Children and Gives Himself a Fatal Wound. John Boecker, a German farmer living ' eight miles from Carroll, Iowa, murdered | his wife and Ave children and fatally j wounded his eight-year-old son, Henry. I Afterward the fiendish or demented man 3ent a bullet into his own head, inflicting a fatal wound. The family were prosperous \ Germans and, as far as is known, lived i happily. No motive for the tragedy has ! b?en disclosed. Boecker's victims are his i wife and these children: Caroline, aged | fourteen; Christine, aged nine; Henry, aged ! eight; Lizzie, aged six; John, aged" three, i | and an infant. Cultivation of Sugar Beets. From reports received on experimental j growths, Secretury Wilson, of the Agrlcul- j tural Department believes that sugar beets can be cultivated successfully in nearly all the States of the Union. " Rhode Islander Choked to Death. Michael Hennessy, aped about sixty years, choked to death while eating sup- j per, at his home, in Central Falls, R. I. A I piece of meat lodged in his throat. Sixteen Killed by a Boiler Explosion. Sixteen persons were killed and several I Injured by the explosion of a boiler in a ! sugar factory at Botfalu, in Hungary. Two Couple* Lout in a Squall. William Philips, Jr.. eighteen years old, of Swampscott. Mass; Patrick C. Horgan, | eighteen; Bessie Corcoran, eighteen, and Sadie Flynn, seventeen, all of Lvnu, were | drowned while sailing in the harbor at the formpr nlncfl. A Mexican Town Deluged. Terrific ruins have caused great damage . on the Pacific slope of the sierra Madros. ; A torrent of water swept down from the , mountains upon the town of Catulelero, I Mexico, washed away many of the build- * intra, aud drowned ten persons. Prominent People. The Countess of Ancaster ha* started, in ' London, a crusade against the modern ] dance, which she thinks is degenerating into a mere romp. D.L. Moody, the evangelist, will lead a revival in Philadelphia durinir the comini* winter. Miss Stelln Strait.'of Fort Scott, Kan., has been nominated for County Register of Deeds by the Bourbon County Republican Convention. Tho office is one of the best , paid in the county. Mabande Dube, a student of Wilberforce College, Ohio, is a Zulu. Two of his broth- j ers are also in this country, and the three 1 are preparing themselves for the work of I enlightening their countrymen. i'. V' I A NATURAL BONESETTER. Professor John Atkinson, n Noted English* mnn, nt Work in New York. Professor John Atkinson, bonesetter, has come to this country from England to set the bones and cure the deformities of the afflicted. Asa bonesetter he claims to have no equal. He says he Is not a doctor nor a anrffeon. but iust a man who has studied bones and joints ami the best ways of treating them, until ho is able to move them back into their normal form when they havo been displaced or injured. Atkinson has the most powerful pair of hands in the world. They may not have the greatest amount of crude strength, although the feats he can do by his mere grasp are no mean ones, but he claims they arc at iea?t the best trained and most capable hands in I I9&I ^ i PK0FE8S0H ATKINSON. the world for manipulating human bodies. All of Atkinson's work is done by the simple use of his hands, He has no instruments and uses no appliances or remedies. When a patient comes to him he examines him carefully, and then rubs and pushes his muscles and bones into place. Atkinson's career began when he was a boy and bad an opportunity to watch the famous bonesetter, Hutton. For a long time he devoted himself to healing animals, work which had to be done without putting patients to bed and without their taking care of themselves. Then he applied the knowledge he had gained to the treatment of human beings. Professor Atkinson has two homes in London, at one of whioh he receives the poor gratuitously, and at tha other of which he receives his rich and aristocratic patients. Among those he has cured have been the Duchess of Sutherland, George Lambton, Prince Henry of Pless, Duke Ernst Gunther of Sohleswig-HolsteiD and Lord Hyde. At the request of a New York newspapei Professor Atkinson is treating free ol charge all the mained and the halt who are brought to him at a public hall in the metropolis. GENERAL TRACY NOMINATED. Chosen the Republican Candidate Fei Major of Greater New York. The Republican City Convention nomln. ated Benjamin F. Tracy, ex-Secretary of the Navy, for Mayor of Greater New York; Ashbel P. Fitch, the present Incumbent, for Controller, and R. Ross Applaton for President1 of the Council. Seth Low rejeived forty-nine votes for Mayor. The ; 4. GEXEBAL BEXJAMIK F. TBACT. Wends of Senator Piatt were in full control. The platform reaffirms the St. Louis National platform and condemns Tammany Hall. General Tracy appeared before the sonvention and accepted the nomination. FIVE MINERS SUFFOCATEa Overcome by "Black Damp" in a Pennsylvania Mine. Five men met a horrible death from 'black damn." the after accumulation of a j Eire, in the Jermyn No. 1 mine near Rendliam.Penn. The dead are Isaac Watkins, Ire boss; William Thompkins, Joseph 3mlth, John Gallagher and William Franklin. oompany men. The bodies of all but Watklns were dis:overed by a man who went dovpn Into the mine with supplies to combat the fire. The men who lost their lives represented jne "shift." They went on duty at 3 o'clock, ind nobody knew of their death until the iiscovery of the lifeless bodies. Not a man in the party survived to tell t^e story. In the case of each body the head pointed toward tne shaft, indicating that they had jroped and struggled toward the shaft and [resh air, while suffocation was overcoming :hem. KILLED AT A RAILROAD CROSSING, Two Children and Their Driver Meet a ; Horrible Death. Maud Baldwin, six years old, and George 1 Baldwin, twelve years old, children of j Robert L. Baldwin, overseer of J. Edward | A.ddicks's farm, near Claymont, Pcnn., with | the driver of their wagon, Mytoo Dobriski. ! were instantly killed by a train. The horse j was also killed and the wagon was torn to splinters. Dobriski had started to the home of Mr. Addicks. They reached the railroad crossing at Carrcroft just as the express train for Philadelphia was due. It is believed that Dobriski thought that tho train had passed, for he drove on the tracks. The horse and carriage were hurled into tho air, and the occupants of the vehicle were thrown out and terribly mangled by the wheels of the train. New Jersey Constitutional Amendment* Defeated. The three proposed amendments to the Constitution of New Jersev. voted uDon at a special election, have been defeated by majorities estimated at from 10,000 to 19,000. Interest centered ia the anti-gambling amendment. The amendments restricting the powers of the Governor, and i permitting women to vote at school elections went down with it. A light vote was cast. Fifty-Seven Frog Farms. Fifty^even froff farms are said to be in Fucce^siul operation in the United States. Killed on Their Wedding Trio. The bodies of two victims of the recent | wreck on the Colorado Midland, Denvei ? ?,1 r: ? T>o :l,1 /" ?! I auu uiuuui: iiuiti'juu at tn^biu, v^ui have been identified a9 those of Elmer E. Black, for many years an engineer on the Pennsylvania Railroad, and his wife, formerly Miss Wilson, of Derry, Ponn., to whom he was married on August 25. The two were on their wedding tour. Three Killed on a Ilundcar. During a heavy fog a handcar was struck about three miles from Zanesville, Ohio, by an inspection train and three men were killed and two injured. They were section men coming into the city *ut- nr-i?io eoiTr\ui7Cn i nc nicvvo tn wiim&4.w, Waflhinirton Item*. President JIcKinley and his party have returned to Washington from their trip to Massachusetts. Fire entirely destroyed the central power J station of the Capital Traction Company in j Washington. Adjoining buildings were j jutted. Tho total loss is estimated at j ?500,000. 8enator Wilson, of Washington, says that J a scheme of government for Hawaii had | already been considered by several Senators. Secretary Wilson will ask Congress for a large appropriation for tho Bureau of j Annual Industry, the Farmers' Bulletin? i and the Weather Bureau. It is said in Washington that the purchase of Cuba from Spain by the islanders will flmirn lareelv In the negotiations to be I carried on at" Madrid by Minister Woodford, looking to a termination of the war. Domestic. BECOBD OF THE LEA.OUE CLUBS. Per Per Clnbs. Won. T,o*t. c*. | rinb<?. Won. T.mt. ct. Boston ..92 38 .703 Wash'n.. 59 70 .457 Bait 99 38 .701 Chicago .57 71 .445 I N'w York.82 47 .636,Pittsb'g ..56 71 .441 ! Clncln'ati74 54 .573 Philad*a..54 76 .415 I Cleverd..69 59 .540 Louisv'le 51 74 .403 Brooklyn 60 70 .462 St. Louls.23 109 .219 j The Massacllnsetts Republicans, at their | State Convention in Boston, renominated ! all their 8tate officers, with Governor Walcott at the head of the ticket, and endorsod the St. Louis National platform. Mrs. Clara Gray was kjlled and Mrs. Roslna Nelson and two children were seriously injured by a Long Island Railroad train, which ran them down as they were driving across the track at 8prlngfleld. The farmhouse of A. L. Gordon, at Alma, Neb., was burned and three children perished in the flames. They wore left In the house by the father, whowent to the barn. | Gordon was dangerously burned in his I efforts to save his children. A quarantine train which left New Or- | leans over the Southern Pacific Railroad ] with Dr. Gulteras, United States Marine Hospital expert; Dr. Carter, of the Marine Hospital service, and Dr. Olllphant, President of the Loulsana Board of Health, to hold a conference with the health boards of the towns and parishes of western Louisiana, was stopped by an armed mob at I Itayne, in Acadia parish, and compelled to I return to New Orleans. Rutland-McEnery, a planter of Ouaclta I Parish, La., a nephew of United States Senator McEnery, was shot and mortally J wounded near Monroe, La., by Jim Turner, a colored cian. McEnery at the time was | looking for Wash Ferren, another oolored I man* who had assaulted two white girls. Turner was shot and killed by McEnery. A three days' session of the National Irrigation Congress was held in Lincoln, Neb. Every Western 8tate was represented. A slight (all from a wagon killed Samuel Lewis, of Slatedale, Penn. He was twenty years old and weighed 315 pounds. According to Assistant Engineer Knight, of Peary's ship, evidences of cannibalism were discovered In Lieutenant Greeley'* camp at Cape Sabine by a landing party. A factional fight In the Massachusetts Democratic State Convention at Worcester was won by the silver element. under the leadership of George Fred Williams, who afterward was nominated for Governor for the third time. The Chicago platform was [ Indorsed. President McKinley drove from North ' Adams. Mass., to Williams College, where., he held a reception. The first annual conference of the Mayors | and Councllmen of the United States, CanAda and Mexico has just been held at Co- 1 lumbus, Ohio. About 400 delegates attended. George M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navj i under President Grant, died at his home in Trenton, N. J. He was born at Belvldere, N. J., In 1829. Forest fires have destroyed fifty-foui ! square miles of timber in South Dakota. \ The boiler of a locomotive on the Northern Central Railwav, near Harrisburg, Penn.. exploded, killing the engineer and wounding the flremaD. Steamships that have reached New Yorfe | report many wrecks in the path of the recent storm along the Atlantic coast. The | steamship Egremont Castle brought in the i Captain and orew of the bark Carrie. L. ; Tyler, rescued at sea. r Free silver Democrats of Greater New Fork have nominated Henry George for Mayor upon a platform which reaffirms the principles of the Chicago Convention, j Resolutions repudiating the nomination ol i Mton B. Parker for Chief Judge of the j Court of Appeals by the Democratic State I Committee were also adopted. The Versailles (Ind.t Grand Jury failed ! to indict any one for the lynching of five j men at that place. The Governor has de- i termined to take up the investigation. Two distinct earthquake shocks were felt ! in the eastern part of Maine. At Shamokin, Ponn., Arthur May shot to i death his sweetheart, Miss Cora Kaseman, ! and then took bis own life by sending two j builets into his head. Raymond Benham, a colored man, was j taken from jail at Hawsville, Ky., by a j crowd of 800 men and lynched. He had assaulted a young girl. Seven workmen were attacked by rob1 j bers and thrown from a moving train near | Trenton, Mich., four of them receiving serious injuries. ForeJsrn. The Spanish Cabinet has resigned. The I Queen accepted the Ministers'resignations, ' bat asked General Azcarraga, the Premier, i to continue in office until a solution of the | crisis could be found. Horatio David Davies,Conservative mem- ! ber of Parliament for Chatham, has been j chosen Lord Mayor of London, to succeed , Sir George Faudel Phillips in November. A (Ire at Manila, chief city of the Philippine Islands, destroyed many public build- j lngs, Involving sreat pecuniary loss, and I resulted In a panic in which a large nura- 1 ber of persons were burned to death, j trampled upon or otherwise seriously in- J jured. A plague search party has besa mobbed at Igatpuria, India. Four members of tho ; party, including a surgeon, were severely i wounded. Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria has ! forbidden the prosecution of Count Ba- j denyi, the Austrian Premier, for his recent I duel. It has just been m^de public that an elaborate plot to kill the Czar and Czarina j of Russia was concocted during their re- j cent visit to Warsaw. The conspirators j Clug a tunnel, wmcu.ieu to cub ruyiti ensue, but were discovered. More than 120 arrests were made. The British forces razed the villages and towers of rebel tribesmen on the African frontier. Anarchists were arrestod in Madrid and a number of bombs seized. President Barrios, of Guatemala,has put a price of 8100.000 on the heads of the In- j surgent leaders, Prospero Morales and Manuel Fuentes. A Yukon expedition, with the Canadian Minister of the Interior at Its head, loft Ottawa for the Klondike country. A line of nirships through Western Canada to Klondike is talked of at Ottawa, where an airship is to be built. A public meeting in Athens called upon ?he Greek Cabinet to renew the war with Turkey rather than accept the peace treaty. | Barrios, the Dictator in Guatemala,.had Juan Aparacio, the wealthiest exporter and importer in Nicaragua, put to death. Arrangements have beun completed for | the cession bv Italv of Ivassala. Abvssiuia. , to Great Britain. FEAR A SHEEP DISEASE. \ "Watch to Bi? Kept on Animal* Froi? New Brunswick. Information has reached the Treasury Department that the disease known as "sheep scab" exists in the Province of New Brunswick, and as a precaution against its , introduction here, the Collector of Custoins at Bangor, Me., lias been directed to ; require ,tho examination by a veterinary inspector of the Department of Agrieul- j ture of all shflep imported into the Bangor j District and those found to have the disease aro to be ex<$gdod. I / AUSTRIAN PREMIER IN A DUEL | Count Badenl Wounded by Dr. Wolff, th* German Nationalist Leader. A pistol duel was fought In Vienna S between Count Badenl, the Austrian Premier, and Dr. Wolff, the German NaC tionalist leader. Smooth-bore pistols were used, and the conditions w*to that three shots were to ba exchanged simultaneously at twenty-flva paces. Count Badunl was wounded on the first j ti fire, but not seriously. The bullet entered | n the right wrist and came out above the el- a bow. 1 //f^i I :peemibb badejti. '< ^Wounded in a duel with Dr. Wolff, Ger- ^ Ill till iCUUtJi. Ill bUC AUSbliau uubuiu^ug.y ^ ^ The meeting grew out of Insults ad- ? Iressed by Dr. Wolff to the Premier during I* a session of the Unterhaus, involving a ?{ charge of "rascality." Dr. Wolff fought a duel with swords on May 8 with Herr Horica, a Czech member n of the Unterhaus, as a result of violent t? scenes in the House between the Germans b( and Czechs, in which personalities were ex- {1 changed. Count Badeni was formerly Governor of Gralicia. He is a young and able Pole, but 7( very little known, even in Austria, until he f{ wa3 unexpectedly called upon to form a Cabinet in September, 1895, when he as- ^ sumed the duties of President of the Coun- j Jil of Ministers and Minister of the Interior. J His r.obility dates back only to his father. His mother's brother, a Count Mier, married the famous German actress, Anna Wierer, who eventually left her large for- ^ iune to her two nephews, Count Casimtr Badeni, the present Premier,and his younger ~ brother, OCEAN RECORD SMASHED. lD n< (few Steamnhlp Kaiser "Wllhelm Dei ^ Grosie a Marine Marvel. Th3 Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, the larg- fli jst ocean steamship afloat, arrived off st 3andy Hook Lightship Sunday evening at m ).05 o'clock, having broken all records for ta the 'Western passage from Southampton- G It was the maiden trip of the Kaiser, and us she not only justified the great hopes that hi were entertained for her by her builders h< and owners, but exceeded them in the d< bargain. She* crossed the Atlantic in Ave di lays twenty-two hours and forty-five iu minutes, lowering the time between ports as one hour and forty-six minutes. 6b The previous record held by the American sL Line steamship St. Paul was six day3 thir- as hr.nno minnt.as St Not only has the big ship beaten the ba 3outhampton record, but she has also to su the credit of her maiden trip the fastest fcb 3ingle day's run. On the nautical day end- Ed Ing at noon Sunday she reeled ofT 564 knots, ct exceeding by two knots the fastest day's be run by the steamship Lucania. at OHIO VILLAGE FIRE SWEPT. Pi .'wo Men Lone Their Liven and Seven Wl Other* Are Hurt. fi>? The village of Bainbridge, Ohio, has been he scene of a disastrous Ore. An entire ae iquaro, containing most of the prominent of juslness hou'ies, several handsome restlences and the Mothodlst Episcopal Church, ^ vas entirely destroyed, and two prominent af, nen lost their lives in an explosion which rpj jccurred in the drug store of W. P. Beards- ^ pa The fire was; started In a barn In the, rear pc >f Perril Brown's general store by two lit- mi :le bovs who were playins: with matches.. er The flames spread rapidly. In the midst of "1 :he excitement a terrible explosion oc- ar jurred in the drug store, and Mr. Beards- nc ey, who was trying to save some ot his nc oroperty, lost his life. His brother-in-law, ec Thomas Higgins, who went to his rescue, was unable to get out, and was burned to w< ieath, while s;evon other men were more or pi less injured, but none fatally. ov iti TWELVE MEN KILLED. d< gc Miners Burled Alive by the Caving In of w, a Mine in Mexico. tb The San Pedro Mine in tho Corralltoe ?1 group, twelve miles from El Paso in jj Mefxico, caved in, killing twelve men. The jn unfortunates were buried alive under pi thirtv feet of rock and dirt. The San Pedro is one of the oldest mines w of the group and rich with silver. It is the cc property of th9 wealthy Corralitos Com- j" pany, the principal stockholders of which Cl reside in New York. President Gerry, of 3? the Rio Grande, Sierra Modre, and Pacific ai Roads, aDd J. Higgins, both of New York, are stockholders. ?a If the mine was not timbered the Mexican Government would impose a heavy fine on the company on account of the 8' wholesale killing. INDIA'S GREAT ACCIDENT. J 150 Persons Killed in the Hailroad Smash- b( Up in Southern India. Details of a railroad disaster on the line q running between Bangalore and Mysore in j g) India show that 150 persons were killed, j T Seventy others escaped death, but fourteen j ^ of them were seriously Injured. I fo. A train ran in^.o a demolished bridge and i sc dashed into the river, the boiler of the en- j glne exploding, and blowing the engineer and fireman to atoms. The five cars behind the engine plunged into the flood and most of those who lost their lives were ei drowned, though some were crushed be- hi tween Ihe shattered cars. 0' "Winter Pronpect For Gold Seekers. p! District-Attorney Bennett, of Alaska, ! tl says the lives of many gold seekers at* j ^ sure to be lost la Whlte Pass this winter. F h bl Lives Lost in a Kusalan Kiver. fc Tk/* otnomor AHmfrn.1 r^Prvftla whtah 0! plied upon the Ufa and Bielaya rivers, In j p1 the government of Ufa, Eastern Russia, has tl been Durued near Ufa. There were 200 pas- y, sengers aboard, and a large number of m tbem jumped overboard and were drowned, a; \ few were burned to death. b G Thirty PrisonerH Sh;?t In Mexico. h Several days ago thirty professional crtm. | " lnals who had been conflned in prison at j 9( San Luis, Potosi, Mexico, for some time | h were escorted to a poiut on the Mexican ! ri Central Railroad aud all were shot tc death, j Ri Dlnastrou.q Flood* in China. h The Toi-Po River in China has over- Q Mowed its banks, causing disastrous lloods c] Many pooplo were drowued. si Liibor v? orid. I e Japanese carpenters get eighty cents a b day. j w In Germany some machinists get $11 o > , week. j Boston has a Chinese laundrymcn's . tj union. c The International Typographical Union ' b is worth ='27,000. j d A United States District Judge has declared unconstitutional a law ol San Matfto | k City, Cal., prohibiting Chinese laundries, j )R. TA1MAGES SEEMON. i 1 UNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED ? DIVINE. | i acred Music, Its importance, Power and Influence In the Cause of Christianity?A Singing Church Is a Successful Church?Obstacles to Overcome. Text: "It came even to pass, as the rumpeters and singers were as one, to lake one sound to be heard In praising nd thanking the Lord."?Chronicles v., 3. The temple was done. It was the very ? horus of all magnificence and pomp, plendor crowded against splendor. It was he diamond necklace of the earth. From he huge pillars crowned with leaves and owers and rows of pomegranate wrought ut in burnished metal down even to the ongs and snuffers made out of pure gold, verything was as complete as the God dlected architect could make it. It seemed ,s if a vision from heaven had alighted on he mountains. The day for dedication ame. Tradition says that there were In nd around about the temple on that day 00,000 silver trumpets, 40,000 harps, 40,000 imbrels and 200,000 singers, so that all lodern demonstrations at Dusseldorf or loston seem nothing compared with that, .s this great sound surged up amid the . recious stones of the temple it must j ave seemed like the river of life dashing gainst the amethyst of the wall of heaven, 'he sound arose, and God, as if to show , hat He was well pleased with the music ^hich His children make, in all ages, j ropped Into the midst of the temple a t loud of glory so overpowering that the . fficiating pciests were obliged to stop in le midst of the services. . There has been much discussion as to j here music was born. I think that at the eginning, "when the morning stars sang jgether and all the sons of God shouted >rjoy,"the earth heard the echo. The . loud on which the angels stood to celerate the creation was the birthplace of t >ng. Ttte stars that glitter at night are . nly so many keys of celestial pearl on r hich God's Angers play the music of the t jheres. Inanfmate nature is full of God's ;ringed and wind instruments. Silence ^ self?perfect silence?is only a musical t sst in God's great anthem of worship. rind among the leaves, Insect humming in , le summer air, the rush of billow upon . aaoh, the ocean far out sounding its everisting psalm, th& bobolink on the edge of b io rorest, tne quau wnisiung up irom tne , rasa, are music. While visiting Blackwell's j iland I heard, coming from a window of le lunatic asylum, a very sweet song. It as sung by one who had lost her reason, S ad I have come to believe that even the t eranged and disordered elements of naire would make music to our ears if we ? aly had acuteness enough to listen. I t ippose that even the sounds in nature ^ lat are discordant and repulsive make armony in God's ear. You know that you P ay come so near to an orchestra that the >unds are painful instead of pleasurable, id I think that we stand so near devastat- t: ;g storm and frightful whirlwind we can- t Dt hear that which makes to God's ear and b te ear of the spirits above us a music as ^ )mplete as it ts tremendous. n I propose to speak abou^ sacred music, c rst showing you its importance and then n ating some of the obstacles to its advance- I ent. c I draw the first argument for the lmpor- P ,nce of sacked music from the fact that * od commanded it. Through Paul he tells o ) to admonish one another in osalms and s' ri rru.A?/.k n f uiua auu spiritual ~ 5 cries out, ".Sing ye to God, all ye king- c, >ms of the earth." And there are hun- tl eds of other passages I mlgnt name, prov- tl g that it is as much a man's duty to sing P i it is his duty to pray. Indeed I think n ere are more commands in the Bible to ? ag than there are to pray. God not only f< ;ks for the human voice, but for the in- t< ruments of music. He asks for the cym- si il and the harp and the trumpet. And I ^ ippose that in the last days of the church o e harp, the flute, the trumpet and all the " siruments of music that have given their lief aid to the theater and bacchanal, will d i brought by their masters and laid down d the feet of Christ and then sounded in tl e church's triumph on her way from suf- tl ring into glory. "Praise ye the Lord!" w raise Him with your voices. Praise Him d Ith stringed instruments and with or- a ins. v I draw another argument for the import- f< ice of this exercise from the impressive- h sss of the exercise. You know something ^ what secular music has achieved. You a: iow it has made its impression apon gov- o nments. uoon laws. UDon literature.UDon S! aole generations. One inspiring national p r is worth 30,000 men as a standing army, tl lere comes a time in the battle when one w igle is worth 1000 muskets. In the earlier h irt of our Civil War the Government pro- n ised to economize in bands of music, and S any of them were sent home, but the gen- t< als in the army sent word to Washington: B fou are making a very great mistake. We p e falling back and falling back. We have y it enough music." I have to tell you that Is i nation" or church can afford to severely y onomize in music. R Why should we rob the programmes of tl arldiy gayety when we have so many ap- s] opriate songs and tunes composed in our 1< ?n day, as well as that magnificent inher- " mce of church psalmody which has come )wn fragrant with the devotions of other tl merations?tunes no more worn out than a hen our greatgrandfathers climbed up on w em from the church pew to glory? Dear t d souls, how they used to sing! And in ii ose days there were certain tunes mar- ft 3d to certain hymns, and they have lived cl peace a great while, these two old peo- 0 e, and we have no right to divorce them. ? 5rn as we have been amid this great o ealth of church music, augmented by the si impositions of artists In our day, we ought si >t to be tempted out of the sphere of o iiristian harmony and try to seek uncon- a crated sounds. It is absurd for a million- tl re to steal. < li Many of you are illustrations of what a' w ,cred song ean do. Through it you were I' ought into the kingdom of Jesus Christ. du stood out against the warning and ar- li imen: of the pulpit, but when, in the s veet words of Charles Wesley or John c ewtou or Toplady, the love of Jesus n as sung to your soul, then you sur- t indered as an armed castl*that could not s j taken by a host lifts its window to listen n i a harp's thrill. u There was a Scotch soldier dying in New c rleans, and a Scotch minister came in to t Ive him the consolations of the gospel, s ho man turned over on his pillow and a lid, "Don't talk to me about religion." e hen the minister began to sing a familiar a ymn that was composed by David Dicken- c >n, beginning with the words: p Oh, mother dear, Jerusalem, " When shall I come to thee? He sang it to the tune of "Dundee," and r irerybody In Scotland knows that, and as i e began to sing the living soldier turned t i'er on his pillow and said to the minister, s Where did you learn that?" "Why," relied the minister, "my mother taught mo t lat." "So did mine," snld the dying sol- ? ier, and the very foundation of his heart ? as upturned, and then and there he yielded j imself to Christ. Oh. It has an irresisti- ? lo power! Luther's sermons have been irgotten, but his "Judgment Hymn" sings t a through the aares and will keep on slngig until the blast of the archangel's truin- . et shall bring about that very day which ' le hymn celebrates. I would to God that arvnrrc /-if enlirntinn AH J u wuuiu mac ?.u iwv s lessages from heaven, (or just as certainly | ? 3 the birds brought food to Elijah by the ? rook Cherith so these winged harmonies, J, od sent aro flying to your soul with the / read of life. Open your mouth and take 0 hungry Elijah! ? I have also noticed the power of sacred I ; )ng to soothe perturbation. You may ]*' ave come in here with a groat many woriments and anxieties, yet perhaps In the j nging of the first hymn you lost them all. 1 ? ou have read in the Bible of Saul, ami j 'I ow he was sad and angry and how the boy i li 'avid came in and played the evil spirit ! t ut of him. A .Spanish king was mclan- j f; lioly. The windows were all closed. He ' it in the darkness. Nothing could bring d Im forth until I'ranoli came and dis- | t nursed music for three or four days to I ii lm. On the fourth day ho looked up and v opt and rejoiced, and the windows were v lirown open and that which all the splen- n ors of the court could not do the power o f song accomplished. If you have auxie- j <1 ,t\s mm wornmoiu*, iry mis uviivcui> bam upon them. Do not sit down on the b tink of the hymn, but plunge in, thut the < ' evil of eare may bw brought out of you. 1 It also arouses to action. Do you not 1 now that a singing church is always a <riumpliant church? If a congregation is I llent during the exercise, or partially i . ^ . ' rtlept, it is the silence of death. I. whan ;he hymn is given out you hear the faint ium of here and there a father and mothsr in Israel, while the vast majority are lilent, that minister of Christ who is preilding needs to have a very strong constl'TlUnn \t Via rl nan r* nf r?af fha / * V> i 11 o TTa It UU VAV/UO UVfc wuu vuiuni uo leeds not only the grace of God, but lerves like whalebone. It Is amazing how lome people \?th voice enough to disjharge all their duties in the world, when :hey come into the house of God have no roloe to discharga this duty. I really beieve that if the church of Christ could rise up and sing as it ought to sing, where ve have 100 souls brought into the kingiom of Christ there would be 1000. How vas it in olden time? Cajetan said, 'Luther conquered us by his songs." But I must now speak of some of the jbstacles in the way of the advancement of ;his sacred music, and the first is that it aasbeen impressed into the service of satan. [ am far from believing that music ought uways to De positively religious, iveanea irt has opened places where music has' icen secularized, and lawfully so. The Ira wing room, the concert, by the gratiflca;ion of pure taste and the production of larmless amusement and the Improvement >f talent, have become very forces In the idvancement of our civilization. Music las as much right to .laugh in 8urrey gardens as it has to pray in St. Paul's. In he kingdom of nature we have the glad Iflng of the wind as well as the long meter >salm of the thunder. But, while all this 3 so, every observer has noticed that this irt, which God intended for the Improvenent of the ear. and the voice, and the lead, and the heart, has often been im>ressed into the service of error. Tartini, he musical oomposer, dreamed one night hat satan snatched from his hand an nstrument and played upon it something rery sweet?a dream that has often been ulfilled in our day?the voice and the nstruments that ought to have been demoted to Christ captured from the church ind applied to the purposes of sin. Anptner obstacle has been an inordinate ear of criticism. The vast majority of >eople singing in church never want anylody else to hear them sin?:. Everybody s waiting for somebody else to do nls duty, f we all sang, then the Inaccuracies hat are evident when only a few sing rould be drowned out. God asks you to lo as well as you can, and then if you get vvHaK a? Irnan tnnAnfl Hma XT A uu ?i.uug pibuu ui aooj; nxvug bimu uo rill forgive any deficiency of the ear and mperfection of the voice. Angels will not augh if you should lose your place lit the ausical scale or come in at the close a bar ehind. There are three schools of singng, I am told?the German school, the talian school and the French school of ingiag. Now I would like to add a fourth chool, and that is the school of Christ, 'he voioe of a contrite, broken heart, alhough it may not be able to stand human riticlsm, makes better music to God's ear | han the most artistic performance when he heart is wanting. God calls on the easts, on the cattle, on the dragons, to raise Him, and we ought not to be behind he cattle and the dragon3. Another obstacle In the-advancement of his art has been the erroneous notion that nls part of the service could be conducted y delegation. Churches have said: "Oh, rhat an easy time we shall have! The llnister will do the preaching, and the hoir will do the singing, and we will have othing to do." And you know as well as that there are a great multitude of hurches all through this land whore the eople are not expected to sing. The rhole work Is done by a delegation of four r six or ten persons, and the audience are [lent. In such a church iu Syracuse an Id elder persisted in singing, and so the ' hoir appointed a committee to go and ask ie elder if he would not stop. You know iat.in many churches the choir are elected to do all the singing, and the great iass of the people are expected to be silent, nd If you utter your voice you are intersring. In that ohurch they stand, the >ur, with opera glasses dangling at their Ide, sinKlng "Rock of age3, cieft for me," 'ith the same spirit that, the night before n the stage, they took t&elr part In the Grande Duohesse" or "Don Giovanni." My Christian friends, have we a right to elegate to others the discharge of this uty which God demands of us? Suppose j iat four wood thrushes propose to do all ie singing some bright day when the roods are ringing with bird voices. It is ecided that four wood thrushes shall do II the singing of the forest. Let all other [ olces keep silent. How beautifully the )ur warble! It is really fine music. But ow Ions will vou keep the forest still?. rhy, Chxist would come into that forest ad look up, as he looked through the lives, and he would wave his hand and ly, "Let everything that hath breath raise the Lord," and keeping time with le stroke of innumerable wings, there ould be 5000 bird voices leaping into the armony. Suppose this delegation of lusical performers wore tried in heaven, uppose that four choice spirits should try > do the singing of the upper temple, [ush, now, thrones aud dominions and rincipallties! David, be still, though ou were the "sweet singer of jrael!" Paul, keep quiet, though ou have come to that crown of rejoicing! ichard Baxter, keep still, though this is le "Saints' Everlasting Rest!" Four pirits now do all the singing. But how >ng would heaven be quiet? How long? Hallelujah!" would cry some glorified [ethodist from under the altar. "Prhise le Lord!" would sing the martyrs from mong the thrones. "Thanks be unto God, ho giveth us the victory!" a great multiude of redeemed spirits would cry?myr- j ids of voices coming into the harmony | nd the 144,000 breaking forth into one ac- ! lamation. Stop that loud singing! Stop! I 'h.no. They cannot hear me. You might | s well try to drown the thunder of the sky j r beat back the roar of the sea, for every j Jul in heaven has resolved to do its own j inging. Alas, that we should have tried i n oart-.h thu* whlnh we cannot do in heaven, J nd, Instead of joining all our voices in ie praise of the most high God, delegat- j lg perhaps to unconsecrated men and ; romen this most solemn and most delight- j ll service! Music ought to rush from the audience j ke the water from a rock?clear, bright, ! parkling. If all the other part of the hurch service is dull, do not have the msic dull. With so many thrilling things o sing about, away with all drawling and tupidlty, There is nothing mp.kes me so ervous as to sit in a pulpit and look off on j n audience with their eyes three-fourths ) losed and their lips a ways shut, mumbling I ho praises of God. During my recent ab- i ence I preached to a large audience, and j .11 the music they made together did not qual one skylark. People do not sleep at ! , coronation. Do not let us sleep when we ome to a Saviour's crowning. In order to a ! iroper discharge of this duty let us stand i ip, save as age or weakness or fatigue ex- ! uses us. Seated in an easy pew we can- ! lot do this duty half so well as when, upight, we throw our whole body into it. jet our song be like an acclamation of vieory. You have a right to sing. Do not urrender your prerogative. We want to rouse all our families upon his subject. We want each family of our ongregation to be a singing school. Chlldm petulance, ?bduracy and intractability ? ' i it hrtrl mnrp sinffinffin IUUIU MD SUUbllbU U llv ^ 0 he household, aud then our little ones rould be prepared for the great congregaion on Sabbath day, their voices uniting rlth our voices in the praises of the Lord, ifter a shower there are scores of streams hat come down the mountain side with oices rippling and silvery, pouring into I me river and then rolling in united trength to the sea. So I would have all ; he families in our church send fortii the i oice of prayer and praise, pouring it into j he great tide of public worship that rolls | n and on to empty into the great, wide | leart of God. Never can we have our j hurch sing as It ought until our families j ing as they ought. ! ; There will be a great revolution on this J ! abject in all churches. God will come own by his spirit and rouse up the old ; villus and tunes that have not been more ; ban half awake since the time of our grand- i iithers. The silent pews in the church will : reak forth Into music, and when the con- ! h?<? Snhbnth dav i ' here will I)i1 a great i10St 0f voices rushing | ; uto the harmony. My Christian friends, if i re have no taste for this service on earth chat will wo ilo in heaven, where they < 1 ,11 sin;? and sin# forever? 1 would that 1 : ur singing to-day might be like the S.itnr- | lay night rehearsal for the Sabbath morn- j ug in the skies, and we might begin now, I iy the strength and by the help of Goil. to j lischnrge a duty which none of us has fully j lerformed. And now what more appro- \ ; riate thing can I ilo than to give out the j ' ioxology of the heavens, "Unto Him who ! lath loved us and washed us from our sins I < n His own blood, to Him be glory forever!" j t 1SH the first umbrella" wsi Just 147 Tears Ago Jonas Hanway CarBH rled One in London Streets. The umbrella is a comparatively modern feature of European civilizax won. In 1750 Jonas Hanway, a Quaker, first went through the streets of London carrying an umbrella. Three years from now, in 1900, it -will be meet to celebrate the seaquicentennial of this most useful implement. As this is an age of celebration it ifl not likely that so good an opportunity will be missed. Already in London they are discussing the proper manner of doing homage to the umbrella. Mr. Hanway was a man of strong character, but it required all his courage to brave the London crowd with his strange rain shield. The inhabitants of that great metropolis received him with jeers and even more subflfftnfial morlro nf ^iaonnrAral TOnt. he -was imperturbifble, and in consequence of his example the umbrella came very rapidly into general use. Hanway had traveled much in the East, and there he had noted the great benefits derived by the natives from the umbrella, both as a protection against the sun and rain. The East, with its infinitely older civilization, had been familiar with this as with so many other useful articles at a time when Europe was in the wildest savagery. Umbrellas were known to the Egyptions, and were certainly used oy the ancient Hindoos. The umbrella is mentioned in a poem of Sakuntala, written in the sixth century, and it figures in various bas-reliefs among tuo muovau auuiptuioo uiauuvoicu ujr Sir Henry Layard. The Chinese "Book of the Rites of Tcheon," printed about the year 300, containing a ,1 description of a veritable gamp. And it is on record that when the son of the then Emperor of China was captured in the second Tartar invasion, he was made to carry the umbrella of the Tartar chief when he went out hunting. The parasol was invariably carried by the high-bred dames in anoient Greece, and a white parapluie was borne by the priestesses of the goddess Athene in the annual Scirophoria. Tho fashion migrated also to Bome, where the umbraculum carried by the women, and even by some of the men, was made of leather, and could be opened and shut. This fact is mentioned by Martial, Juvenal and Ovid; while the latter also speaks of "a golden umbrella which warded oil t&e keen sun." In Siam the umbrella has always been regarded as a mark of distinction, and M. de Loubere, in his work on that country, tells us how the use of the umbrella was only granted to certain of the King's subjects. The King was invariably protected in his progresses by an umbrella, appearing i as if three separate protections had been monnted on one stick, one over the other. Tavernier speaks, in his "Voyage to the East," of the throne . of the Great Mogul being supported on either side by an umbrella. The princes of the Mahratta provinces in ^ ' > India bore the title of Chatrapati (Lord of the Umbrella): while in Ava, > - - - * i ?ii 0 it. L to this present day, tne tiue 01 we ruler is "King of the White Elephaht and Lord of the Twenty-four Um- ( brellas."?New York Journal. . An Eccentric Rothschild. Baron "William Rothschild, the present representative of the great family of bankers in Frankfort, Germany, is a very eccentric man. He is a recluse. He lives within himself, and does not seem to enjoy the sooiety of his fellow-men. His habits are those of an anchorite. No monk of the middle ages was more scrupulous about his religious duties or more abstemious in his diet. Baron William observes all the Mosaic injunctions. He takes his own cook and cooking utensils wherever he goes, and has his food prepared according to the strictest Jewish regimen. He will never sit at the same table with a Christian, , nor partake of food from whioh a Christian has eaten. He is always very courteous, and even deferential . in his manners, bat if he is in the same room with a Christian who is standing Baron Bothsohild will sit down. If the Christian sits down he rises. In the plain little offioe where he receives those who have business with him there is only one ohair. The entire furnishings of the room would not bring $5 at auction. He has the same desk and other furniture that was used by his father and grandfather, and I was informed that he has written with the same quill pen for more than forty years, but that may be an exaggeration. He has, however, worn the same hat for nearly a quarter of a century, and it is said that he buys a new suit of clothes every fifth year. This is not due to parsimony, becftufla Baron Boihschild's residences are numerous and palatial, he has a host of servants, fine horses and carriages, and his family fare sumptuously every day. He is very generous, and gives to several men of his race more money every year as a charity than he spends for his own comfort. His wants are few. It is his pleasure to live simply, and he enjoys his own society more than that of other men. ?Chicago Record. Changes In tho Type of B?ce?> Some astonishing changes in the physical type of races as a result of intercourse with foreigners have been pointed out by M. Alber t Gauttard ' 1- t>il U.*? flrtnJatw io me xreucu i,iuuu^iu^uiu uvu>vV. The Japanese, who since the revolution of 1868 have been rapidly adopting European modes of life, are losing the eccentricity of their eyes and the prominence of their cheek bones, while recently born children have less flattened noses than their ancestors, with a skin not so yellow. Europeans settling in Japan, on the other hand, gradually lose the rosy color of their skin, and tend to acquirc an eccentricity in the eye. Another instance is reported by Adhemar Leclere, who J| has observed in Cambodia a striking V change in his countrymen, the French J residents soon beginning to acquire Ll- - A - ? nf fllfi IXitJ l^B nuu IUO ^aiu ? \ Original Golf. The game of golf is said to have been invented in ancient times by a lonely shepherd who had nothing better to do than to knock round stones into a rabbit hole with his crook.