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DEMOCRATIC NORTH WEST. NAPOLEON, O. FEBRUARY 8, 1894. mmm 1 HI k i Has made many friends. : Why? Because it is the: i best and cheapest lini-; :t mentsold. It kills pain I : iSflLYflnOIIOIL; I is sold by all dealers fr2Sc saoetKatas are vovtty cnasp imtte m tions ot food articles, boot take then. I at mi on Ratlins Salvatum Oil, or jrou will be dissppoinled. PUPW UNflr luas, Tse Srest Tseaeee Vntll AstlaeUr-friotlOCt. at ae Sealer. AT THE TABERNACLE. MEV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON A VISION OF HEAVEN. Til Eloquent Preacher Speaks of Impres sions of Heaven What Ha Saw In a Dream A Glowing Description The Lesson and the Exhortation. Brooklyn, Feb. 4. IntheBrooklynTab . -ernacle this forenoon the hymns, the Scrip ture lesson and the prayers, as well as the sermon, were about the future world more than about this world. Rev. Dr. Talmage took for his subject "A Vision of Heaven," the text being Ezekiel i, 1, "Now it came to pass as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar that the heavens were open ed, and 1 saw visions of God." Expatriated and in far exile on the banks of the river Chebar, an affluent of the Euphrates, sat Ezekiel. It was there he had an immortal dream, and it Is given to us in the Holy Scriptures. Be dreamed of Tyre and Egypt. He dreamed of Christ and the coming heaven. This exile seated by that river Chebar had a more wonderful dream than you or I ever have had or ever will have seated on the banks of the Hud son or Alabama or Oregon or Thames or Tiber or Danube. But we all have had memorable dreams, some of them when we were half asleep and half awake, so that we did not know whether tbey were born of shadow or sun light; whether they were thoughts let loose and disarranged as in slumber or the imag ination of faculties awake. . A BEAUTIFUL DREAM. Such a dream I had this morning! It was half post 5, and the day was breaking. It was a dream of (iod a dream of heaven. Ezekiel had his dream on t he banks of the Chebar. I had my dream not far from the banks of the Hudson. The most of the sto ries of heaven were written many centuriet ago, and they tell ns bow the place looked then or how it will look centuries ahead. Would you not like to know bow it lookt now? That is what I am going to tell you. I wastherethis morning. I have just got back. How I got into that city of the sun I know not. Which of the 13 gates I entered is to mc uncertain. But my first remembrance ol the scene is that I stood on one of the main avenues, looking this way and that, lost in raptures, and the air so full of music and redolence and laughter and light that I knew not which street to take, when an angel of God accosted me and offered to show me the objects of greatest interest, and to conduct me from street tostreet, and from mansion to mansion, and from temple to temple, and from wall to wall. I said to the angel, "How long hast thou been in heaven?" and the answer came, "Thirty two years, according to the earthly calen dar." There was a secret about this angel's name that was not given me, but from the tenderness and sweetness and affection and interest taken in my walk through heaven, and more than ell in the fact of 83 years' residence the number of years since she ascended I think it was my mother. Old age and decrepitude and the tired look were all gone, but I think it was she. You see, I was only on a visit to the city and had not yet taken.up residence, and I could know only in pari . I looked in for fewmomentsat the great tempie. uur onuiani ana loveiy scotch es sayist, Mr. Drummond, says there is no church in heaven, but he did not look for it on the right street. St. John was right when in his Patmosic vision, recorded in the third chapter of Revelation, he speaks of "the temple of my God." I saw it this morning the largest church I ever saw, as big as an the cnurones ana catnedrals of the earth put together and it was thronged. Oh. what a multitude! I had never seen so many people together. All the audiences of all the churches of all the earth put togeth er would make a poor attendance compared with that assemblage. There was a fashion in attire and head dress that Immediately took my attention. The fashion was white. All In white save one. And the headdress was a garland of rose ana my ana mignonette, mingled wltn green leaves culled from the royal gardens and bound together witb bands of gold. And I saw some young men with a ring on the finger of the right hand and said to my accompanying angel, "Why those rings on the ringers of the right bands?" and I was told that those who wore them were prodigal sons and once fed Bwine in the wilderness and lived on husks, but they came home, and the rejoicing father said, "nit a ring on bis hand." , V THE CELESTIAL STOBT. But I said there was one exception to this lash ion of white pervading all the audi torium and clvur up through all the nai leries. It was the attire of the one who presided in that immense temple the chiefest, the mightiest, the loveliest person in all the place. Ilischeoks seemed to bo flushed with infinite beauty, and his lips were eloquence omnipotent. But his attire was of deep colors. They suggested the carnage through which he hod passed, and I said to my attending angel, "What is that crimson robe that he wearsf" and I was told, "They are dyed garments from Bozrah," and "He trod the wine press alone." Soon after I entered this temple they be gan to chant the celestial litany. Itwasun- like anything I had ever heard for sweet ness or power, and I have heard the most of the great organs and the most of the great oratorios.' l said, to my accompanying an : gel, "Who is that standing yonder with the harp?" and the answer was, "David." And - I said, "Who is that sounding that trum petf" and the answer was, "Gabriel." And ' I said, '' Who is that at the organ t" and the answer was, "Handel.1 -ij And the music Mr. Albert Favorite, of Arkansas . nitir rcn wishes to clva our readers ; tbe benefit of bis experience with colds. .He flays: "1 coiuntcieu a. com cnri.v last spring that .settled on my lunge, , .nil hail harrilv rARnvorad from It whnn I caught another that hung on all sum- xner ana ien me wuu ubob.uik cougn which I thought I never would get rid - T hod naad Phamhorlnln's (Inno-h Kennedy some fourteen years ago with mucn success, ana conoiuaeu to try u again,. When 1 had got through with ' mnA hnlfla mv nnnch had left me. and I have not suffered with a cough or mid sine. I have recommended It to . nthera. and all sneak well of It. 5ft cent bottles for sale by 1). J. Humph roueo on nil ii cant to ooxoiogy extoll ing Christ himself, when all tha worship- era lower down and higher op, a thousand galleries of them, suddenly dropped on their knees and chanted, "worthy is tbe Lamb that was slaiu." Under the overpowering harmony 1 tell back. I said: "Let as go. This U too much for mortal ears. I cannot bear tbe overwhelming symphony." Hut 1 noticed as I was about to tarn a war that on the steps of the altar was something like the lachrymal, or tear bottle, as I had seen it in tha earthly museums, the lachry mals, or tear bottles. Into which the orien tals used to weep their griefs and set them away as sacred. But this lachrymal, or tear bottle, instead of earthenware as those tbe orientals used, was lustrous and fiery, with many splendors, and it was towering and of great capacity. And I said to my attending angel, "What is that great lach rymal, or tear bottle, standing on the step f the altarf" and tbe angel said: "Why, do you not knowr That is the bottle to which David, the psalmist, referred in his fifty- sixth psalm when he said, 'Put thou my tears into thy bottle.' It is full of tears from earth tears of repentance, tears of bereavement, tears of joy, tears of many centuries." And then I saw how sacred to tbe sympathetic God are earthly sorrows. As I was coming out ol tbe temple I saw all aV-ng the pictured walls there were shelves, and golden vials were being set np on all those shelves. And I said: "Why tbe setting np of those vials at this timer They seem just now to have been filled," and tb' attending angel said, "Tbe week of prayer all around tbe earth has just closed, and more supplications have been made than have been made for a long while, and these new vials, newly set up, are what the Bible speaks of jts 'golden vials full of odors, which are tbe prayers of Baints.' " And I said to tbe accompanying angel, "Can It be possible that tbe prayers of earth are worthy of being kept in such heavenly shape?" "Why," said the angel, "there is nothing that so mores heaven as the pray ers of earth, and they are set up in sight of these infinite multitudes, and, more thau all, in tbo fight of Christ, and he cannot forget tbem, and they are before him world without end." MEETING THE SAINTS. Then we came out, and as the temple is always open, and some worship at one hour and others at other hours, e passed down the street amid the throngs coming and go ing from tbe great temple. And we passed through a street called Martyr place, and we met there or saw sitting at the windows thesoulsof those who on earth went through fire and flood nnd under sword and rack. We saw John Wicklif, whose ashes were by decree of the council of Constance thrown Into the river; and Rogers, who bathed his hands in the fire as though it bad been wa ter; and Bishop Hooper and McKail and Latimer and Ridley and Polycarp, whom the flames refused to destroy as they bent outward till a spear did the work, and some of the Albigensea and Huguenots and con secrated Quakers who were slain for their religion. They had on them many scars, but their scars weie illuminated, and tbey had on their faces a look of especial tri nmph. Then we passed along Song row, and we met some of the old gospel singers. "That is Isaac Watts," said my attendant. As we came up to him he asked me if the churches on earth were still singing tbe hymns he composed at the house of Lord and Lady Abney, to whom he paid a visit of 88 years, and I told him that many of the churches opened their Sabbath morning services with his old hymn, "Welcome, Sweet Day of Rest," and celebrated their gospel triumphs witb his hymn, "Salva tion, O the Joyful Song!" and often roused their devotions by his hymn, "Come We That Love tbe Lord." While we were talking he introduced me to another of the songwriters and said, "This is Charles Wesley, who belonged on earth to a different church from mine, but we are all now members of the same church, the temple of God and the Lamb." Audi told Charles Wesley that almost every Sabbath we sang one of his old hymns, "Arm of the Lord Awakel" or "Come, Let TJs Join Our Friends Above," or "Love Di vine, All Love Excelling." And while we were talking on that street called Song row Kirk White, the consumptive college stir dent, now everlastingly well, came up, and we talked over bis old Christmas hymn, "When Marshaled on the Nightly Plain." And William Cowper came up, now en tirely recovered from his religious melan; choly and not looking as if he had ever in dementia attempted suicide, and we talked over tbe wide earthly celebrity and heavenly power of his old hymns, "When I Can Read My Title Clear" and "There Is a Fountain Filled With Blood." , HEALTH IN HEAVEN. i And there we met George W. Bethune ol wondrous Brooklyn pastorate, and I told him of how his comforting hymn bad been sung at obsequies all around the world- "It Is Not Death to Die." And Toplady came up and asked about whether the church was still making use of his old hymn, "Hock of Ages, Cleft For Me." And we met also on Song row Newton and Hastings and Montgomery and Horatio Bonar, and we heard floating from window to window snatches of tbe old hymns which .they started on earth and started never to die. v "But," say some of my hearers, "did you see anything of our friends in heaven?" Oh, yes, I did. "Did you see my children there?" says some one, "and are there any marks of their last sickness still upon themf" I did see them, but there was no pallor, no cough, no fever, no languor about them. They are all well and ruddy and songful and bounding witb eternal mirth. They told me to give their love to you, that they thought of you hour by hour and that when they could be excused from the heav enly playgrounds they came down and hov ered over you, and kissed your cheek, and filled your dreams with their glad faces, and that they would be at tbe gate to greet you when you ascended to lie with them forever. "But," say other voices, "did you see our glorified friends?" Yes, I saw them, and they are well in the land across which no pneumonias or palsies or dropsies or ty phoids ever sweep. The aroma blows over from orchards witb trees bearing la man ner of fruits, and gardens compared with which Cbatsworth is a desert. The climate is a minirKng of an earthly June and Octo ber, the balm of tbe one and the tonic of the other. The social life in that realm where tbey are is superb and perfect. , No controversies or jealousies or hates, but love, universal love, everlasting love. And they told me to tell you not to weep for them, for their happiness knows no bound, and it is only a question of time when you shall reign with them in the same palace and join with them in tbe same explora tion of planets and tbe same tour of worlds. But yonder in this assembly is an up turned face that seems to ask how about the ages of those in heaven. "Do my de parted children remain children, or have they lost their childish vivacity? Do my departed parents remain aged, or have they lost the venerable out of their nature?" Well, from what I saw I think childhood bad advanced to full maturity of faculty, retaining all the resilience of childhood, and that the aged had retreated to midlife, freed from all decadence, but still retaining the charm of the venerable. In other words, It was fully developed and complete life ol all souls, whether young or old. - A GLORIOUS GIFT. Some one says, "Will you tell us what most impressed you in heaven f I will. I was most impressed with the reversal of earthly conditions. I knew of course that there would be differences of attire and resi dence in heaven, for Paul had declared long ago that souls would then differ "as one star different from another," as Mars from Mercury, as Saturn from Jupiter: But at every step in my dream in heaven I was amazed to see that some who were expected some who were expected to be low down were high up. You thought, tor instance, that those born of pious parentage, and of naturally good disposition, and of brilliant faculties, and of all styles of attractiveness will move In the highest range of celestial splendor and pomp. No, nol I found the highest thrones, the brightest coronets, the richest mansions wens occu- Cl by those who bad reprobate father or mother, and who inherited the twisted natures of 10 generations of miscreants, and who had compressed in their body ail de praved appetites and all evil propensities, bat tbey laid hold of God's arm, they cried for especial mercy, tbey conquered seven devils within and TO devils without, and were washed in the blood of the Lamb, and by so much as their contest was terrific and awful and pro: ix their victory was consum mate and resplendent, and tbey have taken places immeasurably higher than those of good parentage, who could hardly help be ing good because they bad 10 generations of preceding piety to aid them. The steps by which many have mounted to the highest places in heaven were madi out of the cradles of a corrupt parentage. When I saw that, I said to my attending angel: "That is fain that is right. The harder the struggle, tbe more glorious the reward." Then I pointed to one of the most colon jaded and grandly domed residences in all the city and said, "Who Uvea there?" and the answer was, "The widow who gave two mites." "Ani who lives there?" and the answer was, "The penitent thief 'to whom Christ said, 'This day sbalt thou be with me in paradine.' " "And who lives there?" I said, and tbe answer was, "Tbe blind beg gar who prayed, 'Lord, that my eyes may be opened.' " Some of those professors of religion who were famous on earth I asked about, but ao one could tell me anything concerning Ihem. Their names were not even in the city directory of tbe New Jerusalem. Tbe fact is that I suspected some of them bad not got there at all. Many who bad 10 tal ents were living on the back streets of heaven, while many with one talent bad residences fronting on the King's park and l back lawn- sloping to the river Clear as Crystal, and the highest nobility of heaven were guests at their table, and often the white horse of him who "hath the moon inder his feet" champed its bit at their doorway. Infinite capsize of earthly condi tions! All social life in heaven graded ac cording to earthly struggle and usefulness as proportioned to talents given! As I walked through those streets I ap preciated for the first time what Paul said to Timothy, "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him." It surprised me beyond description that all the great of heaven were great sufferers. "Not all?" Yes, all. Moses, him of the Red sea, a great sufferer. David, him of Absalom's unfilial behavior and Ahithophel's betrayal, and a nation's dethronement, a great sutterer. Juteklel, him of the captivity, who had the dream on the banks of tbe Chebar, a great suffer er. Paul, him of the diseased eyes, and tbe Mediterranean shipwreck,and the Mars Hill derision, and tbe Mamertine endungeon ment, and the whipped back, and the head man's ax on tbe road to Ostia, a great suf ferer. Yea, all the apostles after lives of suffering died by violence, beaten to death with fuller's club, or dragged to death by mobs, or from tbe thrust of the sword, or by exposure on barren island, or by decap itation. - , All the high up in heaven great sufferers and women more than men Fellcitas and St. Cecelia and St. Agnes and St. Agatha and St. Lucia and women never heard of outside their own neighborhood, queens of the needle, and the broom, and the scrub bing brush, and the wash tub, and tbe dairy, rewarded according to how well they did their work, whether to set a tea table or govern a nation, whether empress or milk maid. ,i I could not get over it as in my dream I saw all this, and that some of the most un knowns earth were the most famous in heaven, and that many who seemed the greatest failures of earth were the greatest successes of heaven. And as we passed along one of the grandest boulevards of heaven there approached us a group of per sons so radiant in countenance and apparel I had to shade my eyes with both hands be cause I could not endure the luster, and I said, "Angel! do tell me who they are?" and the answer was, "These are they who came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb!" THEN HE AWOKE. My walk through the city explained a thousand things on earth that had been to me inexplicable. When I saw up there the superior delight and the superior heaven of many who had on earth had it hard with cancers and bankruptcies and persecutions and trials of all sorts, I said: "God has equalized it all at last. Excess of enchant ment in heaven has more than made up for tne aencits on eartn." "But," I sold to my angelic escort, "I must go now. It is Sabbath morning on earth, and I must preach today and be in my pulpit by half post 10 o'clock. Good- by," I said to the attending angel. "Thanks for what you have shown me. I know I have seen only in part, but I hope to return again through, the atoning mercy' of our Lord Jesus Christ. Goddby." Then I passed on amid chariots of salva tion, and along by conquerors' thrones, and amid pillared majesties, and by windows o! agate, and under arches that had been hoist ed for returned victors. And as I came to ward' the walls with tbe gates, the walls flashed upon me w jb emeralds and sap- pblres and cliiTsopr.4efl and amethysts un til I trembled tinker the glory, and then I heard a IkjIc shove and a latch lift and a gate swing, aiul they were all of pearl, and I passed out loaded, with raptures, and down by worlds lower and lower and lower still, until I came within sight of the city of my earthly residence, and until through the window of my earthly home the sun poured so strong upon my pillow that my eyelids felt it, and In bewilderment as to where I was and what I had seen I awoke. CONCLUSIONS DRAWN. Reflection the first: The superiority of our beaven to all otber Heavens. Tbe Scan dinavian heaven: The departed are in ever lasting battle except as restored after being cut to pieces. They drink wine out of the skulls of their enemies. The Moslem heav en as described by tbe Koran: "There shall be houris with large black eyes like pearls bidden in their shells." The Slav's beaven; After death the soul hovers six weeks about the body and then climbs a steep mountain, on the top of which is paradise. The Tas manian's heaven: A spear is placed by the dead that they-may have something to fight with, and after awhile they go into a long chase for came of all sorts. The Ta- hitian's heaven i The departed are eaten up of tbe gods. Tbe native African heaven: A land of shadows, and in speaking of the departed they say, "All is done forever." The American aborigine's beaven: Happy hunt ing grounds, to which the soul goes on a bridge of snake. The philosopher's beaven Made out Of a thick fog or an infinite don't know. But hearken and behold our heav en, which, though mostly described by fig ures of speech In tbe Bible and by parable of a dream in this discourse, has for its chief characteristics separation from all that is vile, absence front all that can dis comfort, presence of all that can gratulate. No monctcins to climh. no cbnacia tr - Physicians Say So. The only way to cure salt rheum, eczema. DiniDlf. bolls, blollusand ul cers is by the use of Dr. David Kenne dy's Favorite Remedy. "Iusid num bers of so-called blood purifiers, write c Mrs. Belinda Hodsdnn, of Haverhill, N. H., without benefit, until I began to take favorite Kennedy. Aimougu suffering from an ulcerated sore leg, rew ootties entirely cured me." zt bridge, no nigbt to Illumine, no (ears to wipe. Scandinavian beaveo, Slav's hearea. Taamaalan beaven, Tahitian beaveo, Afri can heaven, aborigine's heaven, scattered into tamenesa and disgust by a glimpae of St. John's heaven, of Paul's heaven, at Christ's heaven, of your heaven, of mj heaven! Reflection the second: You had better take patiently and cheerfully all pangs. affronts, hardships, persecutions and trials of earth, since if rightly born they Insure heavenly payments of ecstasy. Every twinge of physical distress, every lie told about you, every earthly subtraction if meekly born, will be heavenly addition. If you want to amount to anything in heaves and to move in its best society, you must be perfected through suffering." Tbe only earthly currency worth anything at the gate of heaven is ths silver of tears. At the top of all heaven sits ths greatest, suf ferer Christ of tbe Bethlehem caravansary and of Pilate's oyer and terminer and of tbe Calvarean assassination. What ha endured, oh, who can tell. To save oar souls from death and hellf . Oh, ye of the broken heart, and the disap pointed ambition, and the shattered for tune, and the blighted life, take comfort from what I saw in my Sabbath morning dream. Reflection the third and last: How de sirable that we all get there! Start this moment with prayer and penitence and faith in Christ, who came from heaven to earth to take us from earth to heaven. Last summer a year ago I preached one Sabbath afternoon in Hyde pork, London, to a great multitude that no man could number. But I heard nothing from it un til a few weeks ago, when Rev. Mr. Cook, who for 22 years has presided over that Hyde park outdoor meeting, told me that last winter, going through a hospital in London, he saw a dying man whose face brightened as he toldvbim that his heart was changed that afternoon under my ser mon in Hyde pork, and all was bright now at his departure from earth to heaven. Why may not tbe Lord bless this as well as that? Heaven as I dreamed about it and as I read about it is so benign a realm you cannot any of you afford to miss it. Ob, will it not be transcendectly glorious after the struggle of this life is over to stand in that eternal safety? Samuel Ruth erford, though they viciously burned his books and unjustly arrested him for trea son, wrote of that celestial spectacle: The Ring there in his beauty. Without a veil, is seen; It were a well spent journey. Though seven deaths lay between. The Lamb witb his fair army Doth on Mount Zlon stand. And glory, glory dwelletb In Immanuel's land. La Grippe. During the prevalence of the Grippe the past season it was a noticeable fact that those who depended upon Dr. King's New Discovery, not only had a speedy recovery, but escaped all of the troublesome after effects of the malady. This remedv seems to have a peculiar power ln-eftecting rapid cures not only In cases o' La Grippe, but in all Diseas es of Throat, Chest and Lungs, and has cured cases of Asthma and Hay Fever or long standing. Try it and be con vinced. It wont disappoint. Free Trial Bottles at D. J. Humphrey's Drug Store. Young Murderer. Columbus, O., Jan. f J. Oliver John son, the 14-year-old boy murderer of Stanley Hott, aged 5, was found guilty of manslaughter. The Puzzle Solved. Perhaps no local disease has puzzlei' and baffled the medical profed"i more than nasal catarrh, wlill- ml Immediately fatal It is among !' "ihi nauseous and disgusting 111k im H -h is heir to, and the records show vrv few or no cases of radical cure ofc.hn in to catarrh by anv of the many niodrs of treatment until the Introduction of Ely's Cream Balm a few years ago. The success of this preparation has been most gratify) Dg ana surprising. No druggist is without it. Murdered, Not Accident. Indianapolis, Jan. 80. The coroner has turned np evidence that Edward Thornton and daughter, supposed to have been asphyxiated by gas, were murdered. The case is very mysteri ous, and attracts a great deal of atten tion. . Mr. C. F. Davis, editor of the Bloom fleld, Iowa, Farmer, says: "I can recommend Chamberlain's Cough Rfimeriv In all snfforprs with colds and croup, I have used itin my family for the past two years and nave found it the best I ever used for the purposes for which it is intended. 50 cent bot tles for sale by D. J. Humphrey, lm Good All the Tear. An excellent thing to do at the beginning of a new year is to pay your debts. It is also an excellent thing to do all througl the year. Chicago Tribune. "Gentle As The Bummer Breeze." 'I'd rMtiprtakeathrashingany time Ilia ii n ilme i.f i-liN," groaned a patient to whom the tlnulor lias prf-cribed physic. "I'd as lief be sick with what ailt me now, as to be sick with tbe pills." "1 don't think you've taken any of the nills I iirerribe' or you wouldn't dread the prescription so, laughed tbe doctor. "I never use the old, inside twisters you have in mind. 1 use Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They always make me think of a part of au old hymn ' .mild and lovely, Gentle as the smmer breeze.' The best thing of the kind ever in vented. No danger of their making you sick. You'll hardly know you've taken them. I wouldn't use any otner In my practice." . ;. i Tin Hotel Cleric. "Did you ever think why every hotel of fice faces the entrance?" queried a veteran clerk for the reception of guests. "Well, it isn't mere accident, I assure you, but the main idea of the arrangement is to give ample opportunity for the clerk to study the people who come into the house. Every stranger is uu understudy, and to make just one mistake in 'sizing' him up might meau serious trouble. There is the man who should not be trusted for a room if he Is without a ti-uuk. "Then there is another who can stand double rates for the rooms and is sure to want a bath, while another will never wish to bother with such lavatory nonsense as can only be found in u tub. There is the man who wants tbe cheapest room in th house and is willing to ut up with annoy ance to get it Another has u I iterary genius and will burn gas with uu open hand, and you want to get hint la a room with but one jet. V -"-. "All these peculiarities the clerk is sup posed to divine, and iu order to do it 'by sight' be wants to get a view of the guest from the time he enters tbe door til I he reaches tbe counter, for you can tell char acter by a mau's swing or appearauce a lit tle way off that could not so well be detect ed when he is within a foot of you. 'Takes brains to be behind a desk?' Well, I Just tell you, you have it now1. It does take brains, and not aloue a diamond sblrtpln, as some unsophisticated people think." Washington Mews. v. v !NCLE SAM IEILED. :UR DEMANDS EMPHASIZED WITH 6HOT AND SHELL. Admiral Da Oama Olvea to Caderttaasl Thai Oar Mnetsul Vessels Mast Mot Be Flrea On He Is Bald to Have Sarraa derad Great Kxeitesaent at Rio. Rio Janbiko, Jan. 80. The American bark Julia Rollins, Captain Eiehne, from Baltimore, and the American schooner Millie J. H., Captain 8uttis, from New York, were fired on by the insurgents during a night foray last week. Ad miral Da Gama, the commander of the Insurgent forces here, visited Rear Ad miral Benham, commander of the Amer ican squadron, and was emphatically told that tbe insurgents must at onee abandon the idea that they could with impunity fire upon American vessels. Admiral Benham asserted that Amer ican ships Weald He Protected by his fleet no matter in what part of the harbor they might happen to be. Admiral Da Gama protested against this decision, but finally apparently yielded the point.' On Saturday the American hark Amy, Captain Black ford, from Baltimore; the American bark Good News, Captain Myrick, also from Baltimore, and the Julia Rollins gave notice that they were going to the Saudre Piers. Admiral Da Gama learned of this and notified Benham that if the three vessels attempted to go to the piers referred to He Would Fire on Them. Admiral Benham at once replied that the vessels would go to the piers if they wanted to and that he would send the Detroit to protect them. If the Detroit could not furnish sufficient protection, every vessel of the American squadron would be employed in the work of pro tection. , Early Monday morning five insurgent tugs and armed merchantmen proceeded to the place where the American vessels were lying at anchor and hovered about them, apparently waiting for them to get under way, when they would fire up on them. There was great activity displayed on board the American warships, and soon the sharp . tones of the boatswain's whistle could be heard piping the crews to Clear the Ships For Action. At 5 o'clock the Detroit hoisted her anchor, and with shotted guns steamed on beside the insurgent warships Tra- jano and Guanabara. both of which were lying close to the Good News. As the Detroit took np her position, a shot from the Guanabara was fired at the Good News. The Detroit at once fired a 6-pound shot across the bows of the Guanabara, whereupon the latter vessel replied with what is supposed to have been a blank cartridge. The Detroit then turned one of her guns upon the Guanabara and sent a small shell into her stern post and was on the point of delivering a broadside at the insurgent ship when the Guanabara signaled that she would stop firing. Willing to Surrender. In the meantime an American citizen, G. - M. Rollins, who has acted as the ai;ent of Admiral Da Gama in the arbi tration negotiations, had visited all tiiree of the American merchantmen, and offered to have them towed at the expense of the insurgents, if they would not go to the piers. This the captain of the merchantmen agreed to. This arrangement was reported to Ad miral Da uama on Doora ms mash: the, Liberdade. He then said: "It is too late. The glass is broken. I must yield to. this foreign fleet of superior force. I will resign and give my sword tAJ UTO AU1C11UUI RU1UUW, Later in the day Admiral Da Gama called a council of his officers, expecting that all of them would seek an asylum on board the American fleet, but the younger officers would not yield. It was stated at tne council tnat Admiral Hen ham had offered Admiral Da Gama and his officers asylum on board of the American warships. How Will It All End? What the final result of the trouble between tbe fleets will be is not known, but there is one thing evident to every body, and that is that the American merchant vessels will be protected in everv nart of tbe bav. Admiral Benham said Monday night that Admiral Da Gama, by his failure to surrender, had lost an easy way out of his trouble, lie added: ".However, that is nothing to me, bat we have es tablished our principle." SAID TO HAVE SURRENDERED After a Sharp Engagement With an Amer ican War Teasel. London, Jan. 80. Dispatches re ceived here from Rio Janeiro, dated Jan. 80, say that at 10 o'oclock Tuesday morning Admiral Da Gama, having opened lire upon one of the American warships, a sharp engagement followed with the result that Admiral Da Gama surrendered. " The Herald's Aecnnnt. New York, Jan, 80. The Herald's Rio cable says: While boats from an American mer chantman were running out lines Mon day morning in order to haul their ship np to a wharf the rebel warships Trajano and Uuanabara fired a shower of bullets at them. Admiral Benham promptly signaled the Detroit and she at once strained toward Aiore, clearing for action as she came, and warning the rebel ships that Admiral Benham would not permit any Interference with the ships flying the American flag, thus upholding Minister Thompson's views, previously stated. Tbe United States cruiser New York also cleared for action and steamed close to the Aouidaban and Tamandare. where she dropped anchor, while within an hour the rest of the American war ships had called their crews to quarters. It is now inferred that the English are ready to join in any vigorous course, and it is believed that Admiral Ben ham's action will result in another con ference of the foreign naval command ers for a man of concerted action. . Admiral Da Gama has already been informed that lighters loaded with American merchandise will be pro tected and that American vessels must be allowed to go to and from any part of the harbor without being fired upon, ana that if a bombardment is to be begun at any time 48 hours notice must be given bv either side in order that foreign mer chantmen may go out of the line of fire. , The Cobras island garrison again fired f'reral rounds into the city, Monday, causing considerable damage. 8ltaatlon Most Critical. Bubnos Athes, Jan. 80. It is report ed here that the situation of affairs at Rio. Janeiro Is most critical. Heavy firing is reported, and it is said that the United Statt war vessels have been engaged with the result that Ad miral Da Gama is said, by one, report to have surrendered, and according to another report to have withdrawn his ships from the immediate neiijhbor- nooa or tne city or Kto J uneiro. loose sensational reports are not vet confirmed, but there seems to be no doubt that serious events are happening at Rio Janeiro and that the American admiral has taken energetic steps to pro tect American interests. As this dis- Sstch is being sent a report reaches here tat Admiral Da Gama is a prisoner in the hands of President Peixoto. It it also rumored that the insurgent man-of-war fired upon the American fleet and that the latter returned the shots. Not Known Who Fired First. Washington, Jan. 80. It is under stood here, though official correspond ence can not be secured, that firing hat taken place in Brazil between Admiral Benham and the insurgents. Who fired first can not yet be learned. It is posi tively known that the situation is seri ous and even critical. Has Da Oama Surrendered T London, Jan. 80. The Rothschild banking house received a dispatch from Rio Janeiro Monday saying that - Ad miral Da G&nia has surrendered. AGAINST STATE CONVENTIONS. Senator Sherman Sajs Tbey Are Repre sentative of Nothing. Washington, Jan. 80. Senator Sher man, in an interview, emphatically ex presses himseaf in favor of the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. He favors taking that power out of the hands of the state legis latures. Said he: "The abuse of nominating conven tions has becomo very great, fcobody is paid to go to them; they are not repre sentative of ajiything. The people could elect their United States senators over the choice of conventions. Look there. in my district of Ohio. Mr. Harter is going to resign at the threshold of his career and move to Philadelphia. 1 know what niU him. He has failed to satisfy the officeseekers." AGAINST CATHOLICS. A. P. A. Committee Demands That None lie Put on Kansas City Tickets. Kansas City, Jan 80. A committee of the A. P. A. called on the Democratic city committee and made a formal de mand that no Catholics be allowed placed on the city ticket at the election this spring. The committee took the matter under consideration, but no one believes it will accede to tbe demand. A similar demand is to be made on the Re publicans. INJUNCTION NOT GRANTED. Knights of Labor Can Not Prevent ths Issuing of Donds. Washington, Jan. 80. Judge Cox of the district supreme court declined to grant the application of the Knights of Labor to compel Secretary Carlisle to show cause why he should not be en joined from issuing $50,000,000 of bonds as proposed in his recent bond circular. Peckuam Pnt OA. Washington. Jan. 80. The Peekhain nomination hes been postponed by the senate judiciary committee for one week. it appears tnat tne mends of Mr. Peck ham said that they were not ready to take action i t this meeting. "Shot at a Wedding Reception. Cleveland, Jan. 80. At the wedding reception at the residence of Henry Mayer, 94 Astor avenue, Annie Cowan was accidentally shot by Louisa Mayer, who was playing with small rifle. The bullet lodged in Miss Cowan's brain, and she will die Strength and Health. If you are. not feeling strong and healthy; try Electric Bitters. ir "La urippe" has left you weak and weary. Use Electric Bitters. This remedy acts directly on Liver, Stomach and Kidneys, gently aiding inoseorgans to perform tneir functions. If you are afflicted witb Sick Headache, you will And speedy and permanent renei oy taking jciecmo Hitters, urn trial will convince you that this Is the remedy you need. Large bottles only 50c. at D. J. Humphrey's Drug Store. 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Corbett says he is ready and anxious to meet Peter Jackson. He looks on Fitisim mous' challenge as a bluff. Another revolution is announced in HaytL . Tha pope Is said to be preparing to issue an encyclical on Catholic Poles in a tone conciliatory toward Russia. Ths pensions appropriation bill as re ported to the house calls for $151 ,651,570. Crimea and Casualties. The two Daniels brothers shot and killed tbe two Mine brothers near Center Point, Ark. Ths Daniels were also probably fa tally wounded. Escaping gas from a pipe connecting with a stove killed C. B. Tarbell and wife of St. Paul. Leaking natural gas resulted in an ex plosion in tbe home of Professor Wstson at Ridgeville, Ind. Tbe house was dam aged and Mrs. Watson badly burned. Colorado had a severe buzzard all day Sunday. Four girls were killed by a snowslide at White Bird, U. T. Reuben Whipple, 16, and Tony Gish, 17, drowned near Uniontown, Ind., while skating. ' J George Kpplnig, 10, of Cincinnati while skating broke through the ice and was drowned. Two negroes entered the Chesapeake and Ohio depot at St. Albans, W. Va.,and stole 600 tickets. One was captured, the other escaped. Their names are unknown. Fires. Mills building, Lynn, Mass., burned. Loss, 133,000. Bath, Me., hod a $500,000 fire in the busi ness portion. The American Cereal company's mills at Akron, O., burned. Incendiary. Loss, $150, 000; insurance half. Holden's Opera House and two stores adjoining, Palmer, Mass., burned. Loss, $00,000; Insurance, $30,000. Personal. It Is stated that tne emperor has deferred his visit to Friedrichsruhe until April 10. Prince Bismarck's birthday. In the dip lomatic circles it Is now accepted as proba ble that Count Herbert Bismarck will be appointed ambassador to Austria-Hungary in the place of Prince Keuss, who has re signed. Foreign. F. A. Crandall of New York is booked for public printer. 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