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THE WILMINGTON MESSENGER, TUESDAY JANUARY 28, 19. WAenrxcTo, Jan. 2C From an tin- visual standpoint Dr. Talmage In this Insmnrco of tho .luff. 4-ti liscourse looks at the duties and trials rhlch belong to the different decades )f hnmnn lifpr tPTt Penlmo ti 1ft r ' " years and ten:"- I The seventieth milestone of life Is Jbere planted a3 at the end of the jour ney. A few go beyond it. Multitudes iiever reach It. The oldest person of modern times expired at 1G9 years. A jGreek of the name of Straviride lived to 132 years. An Englishman of the name of Thomas Parr lived 152 years. iBefore the time of Moses people lived 50 years, and If you go far enough ack they lived 900 years. Well, that s necessary, because the story of yre world must come down by tradi- jtlon, and it needed long life safely to jtransrnit the news of the past. If the jBeneratlons had been short lived, the tetory would so often have changed lips hat It might have got all astray. But fter Moses began to write it down and archment told It from century to cen- ury It was not necessary that people live so long in order to authenticate the events of the past. If in our time people lived only twenty-five years. that would not affect history, since it is ut in print and Is no longer dependent n tradition. Whatever your age, I will oday directly address ypu. and I shall speak to those who are in the twenties, the thirties, the forties, the fifties, the sixties, and to those who are in the sev enties and beyond. First, then. I accost those of you who are In the twenties. You are full of expectation. You are ambitious that s. If you amount to anything for some kind of success, commercial or mechan ical or professional or literary or agri cultural or social or moral. If I find some one in the twenties without any sort of ambition, I feel like saying: "My friend, you have got on the wrong Planet. This Is not the world for you. (You are going to be in the way. Have you made your choice of poorhouses? fr . .tit - t- .Li. . wuu win iiccr uuie iu pujr lor )uui (cradle. Who is going to settle for your board? There is a mistake about the fact that you were born at all." Advice to the Trrentfea. But. supposing you have ambition, let ine say to all the twenties, expect every thing through divine manipulation, and then you will get all you want and , something better. Are you looking for wealth? Well, remember that God con trols the money markets, the harvests, the droughts, the caterpillars, the lo custs, the sunshine, the storm, the land, tne sea, ana you win get weaun. i'er aps not that which is stored up In the )anks. in safe deposits, in United States securities, in houses and lands, but rour clothing and board and shelter, md that is about all vou can annro- fcriate anyhow. You cost the Lord a jgreat deal. To feed and clothe and shelter you for a lifetime requires a big kum of money, and if you get nothing more than the absolute necessities you get an enormous amount of supply. Expect as much as you will of any ind of success, if you expect it from the Lord you are safe. Depend on any other resource, and you may be badly chagrined, but depend on God and all will be well. It is a good thing in the crisis of life to have a man of lariro jneans back you up. It is a great thing jto have a moneyed institution stand be hind you in your undertaking. But it 3 a mightier thing to have the God of heaven and earth your coadjutor, and you may have him. I am so glad that jl met you while you are in the twen ties. You are laying out your plans, hnd all your life in this world and the next for five hundred million years of fvour existence will be affected bv those plans. It Is about 8 o'clock in the ! morning of your life, and you are just starting out. Which way are you go ing to start? Oh. the twenties! I Twenty" Is a great word in the Bi ble. Joseph was sold for twenty pieces of silver; Samson judged Israel twen ty years; Solomon gave Hiram twenty jcltles; the flying roll that Zeonariah " saw was twenty cubits; when the sail ors of the ship on which Paul sailed .sounded the Mediterranean sea. It was twenty fathoms. What mighty things have been Cone In the twenties! Rom ulus founded Rome when he was twen ty; Keats finished life at twenty-tive; Lafayette was a world renowned 'soldier at twenty-three; Oberlln ac complished bis chief work at twenty-seven; Bonaparte was victor over 'Italy at twenty-six; Pitt was prime minister of England at twenty-two; Calvin had completed his Immor tal "Institutes' by the time he was twenty-six; Grotius was attorney gen eral at twenty-four. Some of the mightiest things for God and eternity have been done In the twenties. As long as you can put the figure 2 before the other figure that helps describe your age I have high hopes about you. Look out for that figure 2. Watch its continuance with as much earnestness as you ever watched anything that promised you salvation .or threatened . you demolition. What a critical time the twenties! While they continue you decide your occupation and the r principles by which yon will be guided; you make your most abiding friend -ships; you arrange your home life; :you fix your habits. Lord God AI- vtaightjj for Jesns Christ's Bake, hate incrcr on an tne men and women In the twenties! . The Waitlne Ace, : Nnrt I accost those In the thirties. Ton are at an .age when yon find what a tough thing It Is to get recognized and established in your occupation or profession. Ten years ago you thought all that was necessary for success was to put on your shutter the sign of phy sician or dentist or attorney or broker or agent and you would have plenty of business. How many hours you sat and waited for business, and waited In vain, three persons only know God, your wife and yourself. In commer cial life you have not had the promo tion and the Increase in salary ycu an- tlcfpated. or the place you expected to occupy In the firm has not been va- occupy rated. The produce of the farm with which you expected to support your self and those depending on you and to pay the interest on the mortgage has been far less than you anticipated, or the prices were down, cr special ex- penses for sickness made drafts on your resources that you could not have ' expected. In some respects the hard est decade of life Is the thirties, be cause the results are generally so far . behind the anticipations. It Is very rare indeed that a young man does as : did the young man one Sunday night , when he came to me and said, "I have ' been so marvelously prospered since I came to this country that I feel as a matter of gratitude that I ought to ' dedicate myself to God." Nine-tenths of the poetry of life has been knocked out of you since you came Into the . thirties. Men In the different profes sions and occupations saw that you were rising, and they must put an es toppel on you or you might somehow stand in the way. They think you must be suppressed. From thirty to I forty is an especially hard time for j young doctors, young lawyers, young ! merchants, young farmers, young me- chauics, young ministers. The strug- gle of the thirties is for honest and ; helpful and remunerative recognition. But few old people know how to treat : young people without patronizing them on the one hand or snubbing them on the other. Oh, the thirties! Joseph j stood before Pharaoh at thirty; David was thirty years old when he began to reign; the height of Solomon's temple was thirty cubits; Christ entered upon his active ministry at thirty years of age; Judas sold him for thirty pieces of silver. Oh, the thirties! What a word suggestive of triumph or disas ter! Your decade is the one that will prob ably afford the greatest opportunity for victory because there is the great est necessity for struggle. Read the world's history and know what are the thirties for good or bad. Alexander the Great closed his career at thirty-two; Frederick the Great made Europe tremble with his armies at thirty-five; Cortes conquered Mexico at thirty; Grant fought Shiloh and Donelson when thirty-eight; Raphael died at thirty-seven; Luther was the hero of the reformation at thirty-five; Sir Thil ip Sidney got through by thirty-two. The greatest deeds for God and against him were done within the thirties, and your greatest battles are now and be tween the time when you cease ex- pressing your ase by putting first a figure 2 and the time when you will cease expressing it by puttin j2 UlOli t cr ti ret o figure 3. As it is the greatest time of j you wise above your juniors. Now, un the struggle, I adjure you, in God's der tne accumuiated light of your past name and by God's grace, make it the greatest achievement. My prayer is for all those in the tremendous crisis of j the thirties. The fact is that by the . way you decide the present decade of , your history you decide all the follow- ing decades. J The Decade of Discovery. Next I accost the forties. Yours is j the decade of discovery. I do not mean ; the discovery of the outside, but the discovery of yourself. No man knows ' himself until be is forty. He overesti- i mates or underestimates himself. By that time he has learned what he can do or what he cannot do. He thought he had commercial genius enough to become a millionaire, but now he is satisfied to make a comfortable living. He thought he had rhetorical power that would bring him Into the United States senate: now he Is content if he can successfully argue a common case before a petit jury. lie thought he had medical skill tbat would make him a Mott or a Grosse or a Wlllard Par ker of a Sims; now he finds his sphere Is that of a family physician, prescrib ing for the ordinary ailments that af flict our race. He was sailing on In a fog and could not take a reckoning, but now it clears up enough to allow him to find out his real latitude and longitude. lie has been climbing, but now be has got to the top of the bill. and be takes a long breath. lie is half way through the journey at least and be is In a position to look backward or forward. He has more good sense than he ever had. He knows human nature, for he has been cheated often enough to see the bad side of it, and be has met so many gracious and kind ly and splendid souls be also knows the good side of it Now, calm your self. Thank God for the past and de liberately 6et your compass for anoth er voyage. You have chased enough thistledown; you have blown enough soap bubbles: you have seen the un satisfying nature of all earthly things. Open a new chapter with God and the world. This decade of the forties ought to eclipse all its predecessors in worship, in usefulness and In happi ness. The Reaping; Are. My sermon next accosts the fifties. How queer It looks when In writing your age you make the first of the two figures a 5. This is the decade which shows what the other decades have been. If a young man has sown wild oats and be has lived to this time, he reaps the harvest 'of it in the fifties, or If by necessity he was compelled to OTertoil in honest directions he Is called settle tip with era c tin- nature some- Ume during the fifties. Many have It V1 in life tbat xhe? are cenarians at fifty. Sciaticas and rheu matisms and neuralgias and 'vertigos and insomnias have their playground in the fifties. A man's hair begins to whiten and, although he may have worn spectacles before, now he asks the optician for No. 14 cr No. 12 or No. 10. When he gets a cough and Is al most cured, he hacks and clears his throat a good while afterward. O ye who are In the fifties, think of it! A half century of blessing to be thankful for and a half century subtracted from an existence which, in the most mark ed cases of longevity, hardly ever reaches a whole century. By this time you ought to be eminent for piety. You have been In so many battles you ought to be a brave soluier. You have made so many voyages you ought to be a good sailor. So long protected and blessed, you ought to have a soul full of doxology. In Bible times In Canaan every fifty years was by God's com mand a year of jubilee. The people did not work that year. If property had by misfortune gone out of one's pos session, on the fiftieth year it came back to him. If he bad fooled it away, It was returned without a farthing to pay If a man had been enslaved, he ! naa iu will tui CLLUtULll'UlCU. J 1 1 Lllll- i pet was sounded loud and clear and long, and it was the trumpet of Jubilee. They shook hands, they laughed, they congratulated. What a time It was. xnai niuetn year: Ana ir unaer tne oia , dispensation it was such a glad time. under our new and more glorious dis pensation let all who have come to the fifties hear the trumpet of jubilee that I now blow. That was the allusion made by Mr. Toplady, the great hym nologist, when he wrote: Blow ye the trumpet, blow The gladly solemn sound; Let all the nations know. To earth's remotest bound. The year of jubilee Is come; Return, ye ransomed sinners, home. Te who have sold for nought Tour heritage above Shall have it back unbougnt. The gift of Jesus love. The year of jubilee has come; Return, ye ransomed sinners, home. At Threescore. My sermon next accosts the sixties. The beginning of that decade is more startling than any other. In his chron ological journey the man rides rather smoothly over the figures 2 and 3 and 4 and 5, but the figure G gives bim a big jolt. He says: "It cannot be that I am sixty. Let me examine the old family record. I guess they made a mistake. They got my name down wrong in the roll of births." But, no, the older brothers or sisters remember the time of his advent, and there Is some rela tive a year older and another relative a year younger, and, sure enough, the fact is established beyond all disputa tion. Sixty! Now your great danger is the temptation to fold up your facul ties and quit. You will feel a tendency to reminiscence. If you do not look out, you will begin almost everything with the words, "When I was a boy." But you ought to make the sixties more memorable for God and the truth than the fifties or the forties or the thirties. You ought to do more during the next ten years than you did in any thirty years of your life because of all the ex- i perience you have had. You have com mitted enough mistakes in life to make j experimenting, go to work for God as never before. When a man In the sixties folds up his energy and feels he nas done enough, it is the devil of indolence to which he is surrendering, and God generally takes the man at his ord and iets him die right away. His brain, that under the tension of hard work is active, now suddenly shrivels, Men, whether they retire from secular or religious work, generally retire to the grave. No well man has a right to retire. The world was made to work. ! There remaineth a rest for the people of God, but it is In a sphere beyond the j reach of telescopes. The military charge that decided one of the greatest i battles of the ages the battle of Wa terloo was not made until 8 o'clock in ; the evening, but some of you propose , to go into camp at 2 o'clock in the aft ernoon. At the Harbor Month. My subject next accosts those in the seventies and beyond. My word to them is congratulation. You have got nearly if not quite through. You have safely crossed the sea of life and are about to enter the harbor. You have fought at Gettysburg, and the war is over here and there a skirmish with the remaining sin of your own heart and the sin of the world, but I guess you are about lone. There may be some work for you yet on a small or large scale. Bismarck of Germany vig- 5"us in the eighties. The prime min- Ister of England strong at seventy-two. Haydn composing his oratorio, "The Creation," at seventy years of age. Isoc- rates doing some of his best work at seventy-four. Plato busy thinking for all succeeding centuries at eighty-one. Noah Webster, after making his world renowned dictionary, hard at work un til eighty-five years old. Rev. Daniel Waldo praying in my pulpit at one hundred years of age. Humboldt pro ducing the inimcrtal "Cosmos" at sev enty-six years. William Blake at six ty-seven learning Italian so as to read Dante in the original. Lord Cockburn at eighty-seven writing his best tre;i tise. John Wesley stirring great audi ences at eighty-five. William C. Bry ant without spectacles, reading in my house "Thauatopsis" at eighty-three years of ace. Christian men and wo men in all departments serving God after becoming septuagenarians and . octogenarians nnd nonagenarians prove that there are possibilities of work for the aged, but I think you who are pass- ed the seventies are near being through. How do yen feel about It? You ought ! to bo Jubilant, becanse life is a tremen- dous struggle, and if you hae got ' axrotssh respectably and usefully yon ou&ht to t eel like people toward the close of a summer day seated on the rocks watching the sunset at Bar Har bor or Cape May or Lookout mountain. I am glad to say that most old Chris tians, are cheerfuL Daniel Webster visited John Adams a short time before his death and found him In very In firm health. He said to Mr. Adams: -I am glad to see you. . I hope you are get ting along pretty well." The reply was: Ah. sir. quite the contrary. I find I am a poor tenant, occupying a house much shattered by time. It sways and trembles with every wind, and what Is worse, sir, the landlord, as near as I can make out, does not intend to make any repairs." An aged woman sent to her physi cian and told him of her ailments, and the doctor said: "What would you have me do. madam? I cannot make you young a sain." She replied: I know that, doctor. What I want you to do Is to help me to grow old a little lon ger. The young have their troubles before them; the old have their trou bles behind them. You have got about all out of this earth that there Is In It. Be glad that you, an aged servant of God, are going to try another life and nmiil hpttpp RnrrotinrUrfa Sfor fviV. , back and look ahea(L Q m the seventies and the eighties and the nineties, your best days are yet to come, your grandest associations are yet to be formed, your best eyesight is yet to be kindled, your best hearing is yet to be awakene(L your greatest speed Is yet to be traveled, your glad dest song is yet to be sung. The most of your friends have gone over the bor der, and you are going to join them very soon. They are waiting for you; they are watching the golden shore to see you land; they are watching the shining gate to see you come through; they are standing by the throne to see you mount. What a glad hour when you drop the staff and take the scep ter, when you quit the stiffened joints and become an Immortal athlete! But hear, hear; a remark pertinent to a!l people, whether in the twenties, the thirties, the forties, the fifties, the six ties, the seventies or beyond. The Need of AH Ace. What we all need is to take the su pernatural Into our lives. Do net let us depend on brain and muscle and nerve. We want a mighty supply of the supernatural. We want with us a divine force mightier than the waters and the tempests, and when the Lord took two steps on bestormed Galilee, putting one foot on the winds and the other on the waves, he proved himself mightier than hurricane and billow. We want with us a divine force greater than the fires, and when- the Lord cool ed Nebuchadnezzar's furnace until Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego did not even have to fan themselves he proved himself mightier than the fire. We want a divine force stronger than wild beast, and when the Lord made Daniel a lion tamer he proved himself stronger than the wrath of the jungles. There are so many diseases in the world we want with us a divine Thysi- cian capable of combating ailments. and our Lord whtn on earth showed what he could do with catalepsy and paralysis and ophthalmia and demen tia. Oh, take this supernatural into all your lives! How to get it? Just as you get anything you want by appli cation. A man got up In a New York prayer meeting and said: "God is my partner. I did business without him for twenty years and failed every two or three years. I have been doing business with him fcr twenty years and have not failed once." Oh. take the super natural into all your affairs! I had such an evidence of the goodness of God In temporal things when I entered life, I must testify. Called to preach at lovely Belleville, in New Jersey, I entered upon my work. But there stood the empty parsonage, and not a cent had I with which to furnish It. After preaching three or four weeks the officers of my church asked me if I did not want to take two or three weeks' vacation. I said, "Yes," for I had preached about all I knew, but I feared they must be getting tired of me. When I returned to the village after the brief vacation, they handed me the key of the parsonage and asked me if I did not want to go and look at it Not suspecting anything had hap pened, I put the key into the parson- &ge door and opened it. and there was the hall completely furnished with car pet and pictures and hatrack, and I turned Into the parlors, and they were furnished the softest sofas I ever 6at on and Into the study, and I found it furnished with bookcases, and I went Into the bedrooms, and they were fur nished, and into the pantry, and that was furnished with every culinary ar- aml the gpieeboxes were filled. and a flour barrel stood there ready to be opened, nnd I went down Into the dining room, and the table was set and beautifully furnished, and Into the kitchen, and the stove was full of fuel, and a match lay on the top of the stove, and all I had to do In starting house keeping was to strike the match. God inspired the whole thing, and if I ever doubt bis goodness all up and down the world call me an ingrate. I testify that I have been in many tight places, and God always got me out and be will get you out of the tight places. But the most of you will never reach the eighties or the seventies or the six ties or the fifties or the forties. - He who passes into the forties has gone far beyond the average of human life. Amid the uncertainties take God through Jesus Christ as your present and eternal safety. The longest life Is only a small fragment of the great eternity. We will all of us soon be there. - ' Eternity, how near It rolls! - Count the vast value of yvor souls. - Beware snd count the airrul cost . ' What they hare gaffed 'Whose souls . : .: , . are lost.' . ,v ' -" ' : ; '- ' v : tCepyrlsbt. 1SC2. Louis Elopsci, W. T.J GDysposD ofltF Th9 agony you suffer alter mting. t-at lecllnj? of fullness, fiatulcnco wlna on the stomach) and belch In? is caucd by decay of undigested ?. food which forms a gas that distends the walls of the stomach and ex erts a pressure against all the internal organs. The eating of more food forces out part of th $:as and causes belchin. Jct take a UtUo Kodol Dyspepsia Ccp-e. Jt will relieve tou at once. It never fills to pe'mai!eatl7 cure, the worst cases or indigestion and dyspepsia. "i suffered tintoM p.-ns from indigestion which were always worse af ter cat ir. Two boulcs of Kodcl Kysfefsia Cu uKinade me a well mar aud life nuwccctns worth living. Peter Sherman, No. Stratford, N.n. - D4 can't help fousti do yoco good Prepared by E.C DeWltt & Qx, Chicago. The tl. boUo contain 2H Uces the 30c tlaa. - - The farorite household remedy lorcouh-s culds, croup, bronchitis, grippe, throatand lung troubles is CMC niNUTE Cough Cure It cures quickly. It. R. BELLAMY. , CONCESSIONS TO CUBA RECIPROCITY HEARINGS BEFORE THE HOUSE COMMITTEE. LOUISANA SUGAR PRODUCERS Arjrue Aicalimt Slaking Any Coacea. niun to Cnban the Injury of Oar Onrn People Hnfcatced la the Same Industry Conditions n Cuba and In the Sonth After the Civil War J Compared The Luitter Asked for o Concession) Then. Washington. January 23. The Cuban reciprocity hearings before the ways and means committee today were de voted chiefly to the cane sucar inter ests of Louisiana who are opposing the proposed concessions to Cuba, on the ground that it will cripple the sugar production of that btat. A number of the large planters and manufactures of the state were present and the al lied Interests of beet tuear and tobacco, which are similarly opposed to conces sions to Cuba, also wer numerously represented. The opening statement In behalf of the Louisiana interests, were made by J. D. Hill, of New Orleans, an exten sive planter. He pointca out that there was no need of making an appeal in behalf of Cuba, as the island was gifted by nature so as to prcauce sugar at ex ceedingly low rates, which could enter into fair competition with the rest of the world. He compaied the status of Cuba with that of the south after the civil war and showed that the south had worked out its own salvation with out making appeals foz special favors. Already hundreds of millions of dollar? had been invested In sugar production in Louisiana and the Industry, -was still far short of Its full capacity. He urgec that this industry should not be sub Jected to foreign competition which would seriously injure. It not destroy it. Mr. Hill asserted that the sugar trust was behind the Cuban movement and presented statistics to show that the re sult of concessions to Cuba would make the sugar trust the real beneficiary, constituting that organization a colos sal monopoly in Cuh.i. Ex-Governor Warmolh. of Louisiana, made a vigorous speech, opposing con cessions to Cuba. It was a proposition, he said, from the "syndicates and gran dees of Cuba who ha l tne cheek to come before an American congress and ask that the industries of our people shall be destroyed so that thev could make money out of our merchants." He referred to General Wood's activ ity in the movement which indicated. Governor "Warmouth said, that Gov ernor Wood had become infatuated with Cuba and his Sranish associates. This might be a par; of the governor general's duty, but the speaker said it had not improved th credit of Amer icans at the banks. . At the afternoon session the speakers were James W. Post, of the New Or leans board of trade, and J. S. Farr. Thomas S. Wilkinson, George W. Nott and D. D. Colcott. of Louisiana, all of whom opposed Cuban concessions. During the examination of Robert Oxnard, of San Francisco, Representa tive Long presented a letter from John D. Spreekels. the CaLtornia sugar pro ducer, stating that the beet sugar in dustry could stand a small cut on raw scgar. but not on refined sugar. Mr. Oxnard declined to discuss the state ments In Mr. Spreckeis' letter. BILL FOR A RECEIVER For the Suspended Atlanta Danlc of Commerce. Atlanta, Ga.. January 23. The bill asking for a receiver for the Atlanta BarJc of Commerce was filed In. the su preme court today by Robert J. Lowery, president of the Lowery nation al bank. The Bank of Commerce has not been actively engaged in bus iness for several months and the bill is filed to compel an accounting by those having its affairs in charge. Colonel Lowerv alleges in the bill among other things, that a shortage of $12,800 was discovered in the accounts of a book keeper and that no steps were taken to protect stockholders against the loss Judge Lumpkin issued an order re straining M. L. and W. A. Bates, the largest stockholders, from disposing of the assets of the bank, and set the case for January 29th Regarding the charges in the bill, M. L. Bates said: "The depositors have all been paid in full with the exception of less than $400. Every stap taken by the officers has been authorized and assent ed to by the stockholders. Shortages like those of McLean, the bookkeeper, and others occur under the best bank management, and 1 do not see why we as officers hould be made to lose more than our proportion." - POSTOFFICB AXD STORE ROB3ED Harelars Sareefnl Work: in Two Sath Carolina Villas. Due "West. S. CL. January 23. Be tween five and six hundred dollars in money and stamps were stolen from th postoffice here this morning. A stor at Donalds. 8. C a few miles away, was also burglarized of 03, the robbers escaping in a stolen bUZ7. i-tafc yea -GaS. A MYSTERIOUS MURDER THE VIOLENT DEATH OF ONE OF ST. LOUIS WEALTHIEST CITIZENS ASSAULTED IN A BATHHOUSE Found Vneoasclons aad With llraA Crushed In the Vista Turkish Bat. house, of Which lie Waa the Owner. . A DIoodr Hammer and Valaahle Jevrelrjr L'oaad Secreted The A ear . Attendant Trli Conflicting Storlea. -Ills Arrest Follows. St. Louis. January 23. A. Dean Coop- r. treasurer f the Graham Paper Com-r-any. died here today an the result of : injuries sustained In a mysterious man ner while in the Vista Turkish bath es tablishment at No. 351S Franklin ave nue last night. William A. Strother,. the colored man In charge of the bath, who tells conflicting stories about tho affair, is under arrest and a diamond ring worth $1,500 and a valuable pin belonging to Mr. Cooper, have been . recovered from their hidding place In the cellar of the bathhouse. Mr. Cooper's Injury consisted of a fractured skull. A sled ee hammer cov- red with blood was also found In the cellar and taken possession of by the police. Strother made a statement to the po lice to the effect that about midnight a. boy brought Mr. Cooper a note which . he refused to answer. The boy went away and soon after a man and two, women, entered. When he returned from the cellar where he had gone to. fix the fires, Strother says he found Cooper on the couch unconscious. Strother later told the police that the two women and a man who had called . to eee Mr. Cooper, came In a carriage. . He said that he had admitted them to the cooling room and had returned to the basement. He did not know, he said, when they departed. Strother also said that two colored, women Josie Houston and Florence -Banks, had visited him in the basement, earlier List night. Erastus Fountain, janitor of the Vista, block, says that the two women were in Strother's company at 9:30 o'clock when, he made his last visit to the premises. The police say that there 1h no other, evidence than Strother's statement to. prove the visit of two women and a. man to the bathhouse. A. few minutes after midnight Theo dore Cooper, known as "Tod" Cooper, son of A. Dean Cooper, answered the door bell at the family residence No. 3173 Washington boulevard. Strother was at the door. "Your father ham. been hurt." said the negro to young. Cooper. ,He's over at the bathhouse now." Without stopping to question the man. closely Cooper hurried to the Vista, block. In the cooling room of the bath house, on a cot in the middle of the long compartment, he found his lather- covered with a sheet. Doctors were immediately called and; the police notified. The. latter made an v..AnXAH.lA I .i . a ... . a . inesuBaiwn uiiu uiscuverea loe Diooow stained hammer. Young Coooer told. the police that the ring usually worn by tils father was missing and they made another search, finding the ring and pin in the cellar. Strother stoutly maintains his inno cence. Fountala. the Janitor, was tak en to the police station, tut was released. alter telling about the presence of the two colored women in the bath, house when he left. The women were arrests ed and closely questiontd by tha police "Tod" cooner stated to the police. that his father had practically closed a deal for the sale of the bathous property which he owned and that th transfer was to have been made today. Mr. cooper waa considered one of the wealthiest men in St. Louis. Developments In connection with tho murder as the day progressed were aeo satlonal Ln the extreme. It becam known that Strother wa In need. T money. X5o0 or more, to recLaim his home from mortgage sal. Brother. however, meets, thin with, the state ment that Mr. Cooper, whom tut had known and served for a long time- had promised to save his home for bim. Questioned as to why Mr. Csmei should do thhv the negro told a sensa tional story of. the alleged true charac ter of the plaxe of which he had h-en the trusted custodian and the-story waa in ome aegrte corroborated by a state- meat from the police that they had been mining secret investigation and were going to raid and close up the place Strother stoutly maintains his Inno cence, but the police are entirely confi dent mat they have the right man in. custody. SUMMONED, TO TVU1TC II O CSC Secretary f- Md Solicitor Hsmm la Conference With th PreatdeajU Washington. January 23. Secretary Long and Solicitor Hanna of the navr department, were eummased to the White house today by PresJdiat Roweevelt and detained there nearly cn hour in private conference. No state ment can be obtained as to the subject under consideration, but It to believed that this was the appeal of Amtra Schley, left with the preheat a -lew days ago by his counsel England's first official announcement regarding her ptrvate attitude toward the United States lust previous to cr during the Spanish war was yesterday made In the hessa cf ccssscna. - V