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y^y ' ' - iifi stock mm NOTABLE DISPLAY OF HOR3I AND CATTLE AT THE FAIR f' The Most Important Exhibition ItJv Kind 'Ever Held in TU Country?Facts of Interest. Ahoi Aineriean and Foreign Breeds Horses. < The oxhibition of live stock at tlio Worlc Fair is notable in many particulars ana rnu bo acknowledged to be, taken all in all, tl most important one ever held in this countr It embrace?, beside horsss and cattle, she< and hogs, live stock appliances, incubato and other of the high-class accessories model farms. To begin with the horse says the Washington Star corresponden there is not a single breed of importani that has not some line specimens. Th< range from the heaviest shire, weighing vei nearly 2500 pounds, to the most diminutr Shetland pony, whit-h a strong man cou pick up and carry on his back?if it wou permit him to do so. The judging opened with a bunch of 8u folk punoh horses, a breed hitherto almo unknown in this country, although it is 01 of the oldest and best known of Englif heavy-weight horses. The exhibit was n< extensive, embracing but four stallions ov< five years old, and four mares of the san nge, beside several yearlings and colts. Or horeo came from Thorndale, Ontario, and a the rest aro owned in this country. The typ cal Suffolk punch is a large, heavily bui horea, very compact, with short neck an legs. The color is chestnut, and white iot and a "blaze face" are common. They at especially adapted for medium draft pu poses. Tho two besr of the stallions wei among the finest lookiu^ of all the horsesle into tho ring. Following the Suffolk punches came tl a# 4hn Pni-ohnmrn n-hinh oceunir JUUjjIUi, 1UV , Jr several days. There are sixteen or th? horses, covering stallions over five years ol< between four and Ave. under three, und< two and yearlings, and mares of tho san: age, besides suokling colts. A Rood many < the Percherons come from Canada, but tl majority are owned in Illinois, Iowa, Mich gan, Wisconsin and New York. In tb awarding of the prises one farm secure every first premium except in one sectioi The whole display is qu jte remarkable, an epeaks highly for American importers an breeders. It is hardly an exaggeration t aay that not even in France itself can one sc finer specimens of these princes of dra horses than are now shown at the World Fair. After tfce Percherons came the judging < the Clydesdale and Shires, and among tl latter is the largest horae in the Fair, ho < 2500 pounds. For the benefit of the unin tinted it may be stated that the largest hors< are usually found among the Shires, th 4^ ^ IBBI. AJf 2LZCTBCC LAUNCH LANDt! Clydesdale pressing them olo^sly, with th Percherons ihe lightest of the three. Th last-named, too, lack the heavy fetlocks tha are a distinguishing feature of the othe heavy draft breeds. - i j *-ii , j 4-u^ i rt. a siraugw urtjeu iuiiuwbu cue uiaib uvisc Into the stock pavilion in the Aaierico-Arat which is nothing more nor less than the pur etroin Arabian horse crossed with the Ameri -can breed. As even' horseman knows, bad of almost overj* high-bred horse in existenc la a foundation of the blood of t&e Arabiai horse. The Tereheroas with tirst-class pedi grees all go back to it. so does the runnini stock, so does the trottinp. aud it is a boas that the English Hackney, now one of th most popular of all horses, is but an evolu tion from Arabian blood. Further than this It is claimed with reason that American horse that are not bred at all. but have run wil lor generations, the tousjh broncoes that s often show great qualities of courage and on durance, are the offspring: of the Arabia horses that Cortex brought with him frot Spain and let loose on the American conti nent centuries ago. To-day the Americc Arab is a small-limbed delicately-forme horse, of wondertully beautiful proportions and with the keen. lnt?!tipent eye of ahuma being. Only four stallions over four yeai i old are shown, two coming from Long Islan and two from different stosk tarms in Wis oonsin. There are half a dosen mares an several colts. Arcogeth-n*. the display i rather an evidence of what can be done tha of what has been don?. Of thoroughbre Arabs rbemsolves there is also a most intei estinir bunch, and amoni; the Russian horse are several Russia-Arabs that are in a ger eral way, similar to the Amerieo-Arab. The exhibit of the Russian horses is itse one of the mo3t interesting of all. Washing tonians, remarks the Star correspondent will remember that the Secretary of the Ru; sian Legation several years ago appeare with a Russian droskv and two Russian trol ting stallions, which be drove on alternat days. These were the first ones ever seen i the neighborhood of Washington. They wei large-boned, stoutly built, about slxtee hands high and very fast trotters for a Ion distance. There are now shown at the Fa; a complete lino of these Russian horses.mo; of them being the property of the Gran Duke Dimitry and the Russian state adminis tration of studs. Several have been e> changed with Senator Stanford's Palo Alt farm lor American horses, so that the strai will have the benefit of a trial in this cour try. The chief oues ,?bown are the Orlo trotters, which are a strain bred by Cour OrlolT, of Russia. They are not, of coursf as fast as the American horses?none are,to that matter?but they are hardy, and ca keep up a rapid gait for a Ions time. Th two types are the light horses and the heav -ones, the former resembling somewhat ou ' own trotters. There is an exhibition also c Russian saddle hors'.'s, designed as weigh carriers. ' O* American saddle horses there is a fin display, and it is hardly necessary to say tin most ot them are bred in Kentucky, althoui; Missouri appears second with a sood shov Jng. xnero are uuue irutu unm * ^Virginia and Maryland, so famous for the saddle horses, have .?ent no specimens at al ' Of olher purely American breeds perhaj the most interesting is the strong cxhib made of Vermont Morgans. .So tnu-h h*a\ people beenbent up >n obtaining English ati jFrenoh horses of latf> years that many < them seem to have forgotten that Euglisl men themselves hav* bo-:i "Ompelled to a( mitthr.t for general purposes the Morga horse is a mat:h"ven lor th-ir famous Had ,neys. It is sa: Is factory, therefor.*, to s< .that thero are breeders why still cultivai jthem, for their worth continues to obtain general recognition. The stallions exhibit |numbcr in all thirty-eight and come fro farms in Illinois. Missouri, Kentucky, Ve mont, Virginia. West Virginia and Indian; There is also a fiat,- showing of mares ac colts. Tho Morgan and the English Hackney a npt to be competitor*. Of the latter thero iik full 11 disnlav as of the former, b several Canadian farms, as well as Amei can. show some fina specimens. When we ask to see the large coach hor we necessarily leave American breeds h bind, for the coach horse has been broug to a state of perfection in Europo far su passing anything to be found in this cou Uj\ In point ol fact, American horses er r brace saddle horses, road horses, trotters and runners, but of drausht horses and coach i horses all the breeds are European. Among the coach horses the breeds now most cultivnted are the French coach horse and the jS ! Cleveland bay. Both have strong represeni tation at the Fair. Among the former are , | fourteen stallions over five yoars old, fo;i7 ' j between four and flte, and ten und^r three. I Several stallions are shown with three of of j their colts, and the showing of mares is ex. j tensive. The Cleveland bays are not so nni merous, but among the stallions there are a 1 number of the best specimens, as well as of among the mares. A third breed of coach horses is shown in the German "coacher," which contains a numerous bunch. I's There is no barn of horses that id moro . constantly crowded than the one where the Shetland ponies may be found. The breeding of the fascinating little fellows has been y. rather extensive of late years, and in some jp cases quite profitable. Rich men seek after them for their children, and soma adults are rs not exempt from a weakness for them. There of are fifteen stallions shown, and they oome S, from New York, Michigan. Wisconsin, Misit, souri and Iowa. The iudtrinc. which has not 00 I yet taken place, will i'neludet earns of three iy I and four abreast. All the ponies shown are ry I good specimens. f? This completes a cursory view of the dif|j ferent breeds which have been competing for prizes. It will be noticed at once that the . show comprises for the most part the useful horses of the world, and is not a mere exhibit of fashionable cobs and hunters. There l.e is, indeed, no class of hunters, nor of cobs. The horses shown are all good, and as they 1)1 are nearly all owned by American breeders ^ they can truly be said to reflect credit upon 10 America. le ,11 i_ . A COTTON SEED OIL-MILL OK EXHIBITION. It Well toward the east end of the centra id aisle in Machinery Hall Is a working model, at one-quarter size, of a complete cotton seed re oil-mill. The full-sized mill will work 125 r- tons of cotton seed every twenty-four hours re and secure 5372 gallons of crude oil. It id forms one of the most complete exhibits in the building, for every detail is carried out to and every part is shown. The process ia id simple, when the seed comes from the pin 10 it is coated with lint or cotton fuzz. The 1, seed is placed in a linter. which entirely rejr moves the lint, leading the seed clean and le ready for the huller. This machine takes off jf the outside of the seed, separating it from le the fat or oil-producing kernel. The "fat" i- is fed into a hopper above a stack of five le rolls,- each 14 inches in diameter, 4 feet long id and 2000 pounds in weight. ifeea-Doarasare i i. so arranged that the seed in its downward I ;d course passes from one pair of rollers to the id lower pair in a zig-zag manner. o The seed is only crushed by the rolls and so it falls into a conveyor which lifts it to a ft large hopper having tour spouts over a set 's, of four heaters, which cook the seed. The heater has a steam jacket and a threejf pronged stirrer, which keeps the 3eed from io burning. The cooking process loosens it so )f that it will flow under pressure, for it will i- not come from cold seed. is After it is thoroughly cooked the seed ia ie conveyed into a receiver, where it is kept in * FKrpP I UM <Q AT A WORLD'S FAIR BUILDING. e warm until ready for the press. From the e receiver the hot seed is drawn to a "former" ,t and under pressure of 500 pounds to the r square inch made into cakes 12% inches wide, thirty-two inches long and 1% inches s thick. The cakes are then put into a hy>, draulic press, sixteen cases to a press, each e cake in a separate box. When all of the six . nrpHsns ;ir? filled the Dumns are started and k worked up to a pressure of 4000 pounds to e the square inch. This starts the oil and the a pressure is sustained for twenty-five or - thirty minutes, until all the oil that can be bt secured from the seed has run out. The it presses can obtain about ninety-Qve per e cent, of all the oil. i- When the press is loosened the cakes are >, removed. They are hard as rock and are s ground up into fertilizer. The crude oil is d tanked and shipped to the refinery. Large 0 quantities are shipped to Italy and Spain l- and there refined into "olive oil" for the n United States. The greater part of the oil is n made into lard, and recently it has been in i- great demand for culinary purposes. The h oil, also, has an important place in the ind dustrial arts, and the industry is growing to i, such proportions that a cotton-planter said n that in a few years cotton might be grown s for the seed alone. >- LIFE SAVING DBILL AT THE FAIB. ? The exhibits of the United States life sav18 ing service are especially Interesting to in1 land people. Those who live on seacoasts have r opportunities enough to familiarize themr" selves with the maneuvers, though, of course, there are thousands of them, too, who know l~ nothing of the service but what they read. )f The exhibitions are given on the shore ofthe J* lake just o?f the north end of the Manufac>" tures Building and are valuable illustrations ;> ofthe work and worth ofthe service, though they lack the impressive accompaniments of hurricane winds and mountainous waves. A mast is rigged up about 300 yards from c shore to do duty as a wreck, and a man n perched in the crosstrees is the person to be f saved. The lifeboat, mounted on wheels, is " I hurriedly drawn down the beach, hastily F launched and quickly rowed out to the mast ^ and back agaiu. In illustrating the use of the life line a small brass mortar is used. A (l bomb from this carries out a line that drops J" across the yardarm of the mast. The shipk" wrecked man pulls on this, and with it draws 0 out a big rope, which he fastens to the mast. a Thoss on shore then tighten it up and send out the "breeches buoy,"' which is something ' like a pair of butternut canvas trousers mounted on a hoop, and in this the man is '? hauled ashore. r 1 THE LABOR WORLD. y r. Boston has 1400 union eigarmakers. lt Lowell (Mass.) mills are starting up. Chicago leads the country in idle men. e There are 102.000 union railroad men. ljj Kaffir (Africa) servants have a union. _ Hoeoken, N. J., may ereat a labor temple. >1 Denver unions will try co-operative houso ir keeping. ' Pauper labor is reaching this country in droves via Canada. New York harness makers pay 3109 on the ,j d'iath of a member. )f Laundry workers will for.n a National i- union at Poughke?:psi?, N\ Y. A Nashville employer has enabled all his I n i hands to visit the World's Fair. | The closing of Lowell mills has almost do^ ; pletod the funds of lo^al pawnbrokers. ] a Louisiana planters have complained to the .,j | Governor about convict labor ' ompetition. m | 1 HERE IlftVb UCifU luus nvia iu uid jju^* r- lish mining districts ia Yorkshire and some ?. adjoining counties. Kl The office employes of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad have voluntarily offered to scale their wages down from ten to twenty ^ Per cent. .j. Central New York hops are being picked this year by respectable folks out of other se jobs, instead of by the usual collectloc of tramps and toughs. ht A movement Is on foot among influential ir- members of the International Plumbers' n- Union to establish a system ot life insurance n- In connection with the union. i tvir.irA.-i i. >02:'dt. A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE. President Cleveland Nominates Willlam B. Hornblower, of New York. President Cleveland has nominated William B. Hornblower, of New York, whose ^ in nkavo Ka A a I a | oth( |7VUiUU ID (^ITOU OMVTV) Irsj uoovviwtv Justice of the Supreme Court of the United m 0 States, vice Samuel Blatchford, deceased. C'DI William B. Hornblower was bora in Pater- 9-20 son, N. J., in May, 1851. He was a great Hl.? grandson of a signer of the Declaration of sect Independence. One of his unoles was the "Bi lnte Justice Bradley, of the United 8tates 8u- P* 11 preme Court. His father was. the late Rev. sect Dr. Hc'rnblower, of the Presbyterian Church. T An odd fact is that his father, after start- San ing out to become a lawyer, decided to be a fh? clergyman, and the son, who intended to be Tw< a preacher, entered the legal profession. of Mr. Hornblower was oducated at Prince- day ton, from arhich college he was graduated jn "de 1873, winning a prize in English literaturo. Thi In the following year he entered the law by office of Carter & Katon, in New York, and l?8 was admitted to the bar in the spring of foil' 1875. He entered the law firm of Carter, scei Hughes A Kellogg in 1876, remaining a mem- 1 berof it until January 1st, 1888, when he or- trai ganized the present firm of Hornblower, stat Byrne & Taylor. 935 In 1882 Mr. Hornblowor married a niece of Mai the late Judge Sanford, of New York City. attr She died several years ago, leaving two sons A and a daughter. tan Mr. Hornblower is but forty-two yoars of mai age, and is consequently the youngest Jus- sec' tico ever appointed with the exception of ^UI1 Judge Story, who was appointed an Associ- Plftj ato Justice at the age of thirty-two. hid Mr. Hornblower is President of the Prince- w^( ton Alumni Association, and is a member of An a number of prominent New York clubs. In viei politics he is a Democrat. the Am HFTT-THIBD OONOEESS. SS did -'.v- The Senate. and the 30th Dat.?Mr. Faulkner's amendment to ter( the Bepeal bill was Introduced. The event 0j t of the day's session was the delivery of a speech by Mr. Daniel against the passage of j, the Bepeal bill. It occupied four hours and sjee five minutes. Tho Senate then adjourned. . SIkt Day.?At 12.85 the Senate proceeded to the consideration of the Repeal" bill, and was addressed in defence of the bill by Mr. Lindsay, it being his first speech in the Senato, exoept some remarks of an obituary 8jja character. Other speeches were made by .p Messrs. Morgan and Higgins. Then the jjea Senate after a short executive session adjourned. ?"{ 32d Dat.?Mr. Voorbeee renewed his request to fix a day for a vote on the Repeal bill, but as the Silver Senators expressed their intention to debate the question, it was withdrawn. Mr. Allison then addreosed the Senate for throe hours on the Repeal bill. - , At the conclusion of his remarks, in accord- A ance with the order, the Senate listened to eulogies upon the late Leland Stanford, of California, and afterward adjourned. 33d Day.?Mr. Stewart offered amendments of 1 to the Wilson-Voorhees Silver bill, inviting floo Mexico, the South and Central American Re- pers publics, Hayti, and San Domingo to join the United States in a conference, to be held tllat within four months, for the purpose of adopting a common silver dollar of not more than 383.13grains, which shall be a legal tender for all debts, public and private. 'h?| Mr. Peffer's resolution directing tho Committee on Inter-State Commerce to investi- C0J} gato tpe recent train robberies came up and was not disposed of at 1.50. at which aBd hour the 8enato, in accordance with a special w,>3 order, headed by the Vioe-President and the w"e officers of tho body, left the chamber in order 6wel to attend tho ceremonies incident to the awa "... ?i?i ?OKO,? ?f tree; L'UIUUIUIIUU Ul IIIO UCUIOUUIHI nuuiTVioui; v? tho laying of the cornpretono of the Capitol. Kro' 34th Da it. ?After Mr. Squires ha4 intro- rust duced a new silver Hill and a resolution had Jf'S1 been agreed to giving Messrs. Beckwith and *"e 1 Mantle, recent contestants for seats in the acte Senate, $2000 to cover their expenses, "0U) Mr. Voorhees made another VHin at- ?ata tempt to get tho anti-repeal Senators to fix a date for closing debate. 8elv' Mr. Mills spoke in favor of the Repeal bill. totv Tho nominations of William B. Horn- ^usli blower, of New York, to bo Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and James J. Van j*issi Aien, of Rhode Island, to bo Ambassador to Italy, were received. ot 35th Day.?Mr. Voorheos attemptod to 1 apply firm measures in the debate on repeal, 'ore but Wiis unsuccessful. Messrs. George mas! and Gray spoke on the Repeal bill. sc cape The House. j^ec 29m Day.?Tho Democrats made an at- ^in fompt to report a bill to repeal the Federal lro,i! election laws. Filibusterers, lod by Mr. carr Burrows, prevented. ?r 30th Day.?For two hours the skirmish nuni flght over the Federal Election bill con- badl tinued. Then public business was suspended, and, under a special order, tho P:ire House proceeded to pay a tributo of re- ' 'v< spect to the memory of tho late J. Logan *n 01 Chlpmtin, of Michigan, and at 3.20 ad- ;OUB journed. ' Jam 31st Day.?The proceedings were a repeti- '\aUl tion of the proceedings of the previous two ttlcri days, with the siugle exception that the session was shorter and lasted but forty minntM Th? tactics adooted to koep out a report on the Federal Election Reponl bill were again resorted to, successfully. ~ 32<i Day.?The House assembled at 1.45 p. m. There were about 1'25 members in their scats. Prayer was made by Chaplain Had- p, da way, and the journal was read and approved. Then, pursuant to tho order of the 'ie Houso previously adopted, the Houso pro- cent ceeded in a body to attend tho cornerstone tj,p centennial celebration. 33d Day. ?The day was consumed in au 311111 attempt to secure a quorum to push tho If1* Elections bill. 34th Day.?Immediately after tho approval of the Journal, the light over the federal Election bili was resumed. Mr. Burrows . ? i iinnAna., m'tll hhnnult ftf m 11 f ft ?U UlUVtJU lUUIOpmr.!. IT..U I v. . . for reports. feuding this, Mr. Catchinga f (Miss.) presented :i rasolutlon from the j|J Committee on Utiles. l>ut before it ? wiis read Mr. Burrows raised the point that the resolution was not iu ^.aui order. The Speaker overruled the point of r !L order, and then the House was thrown into j* great confusion. Mr. Reed and the Speaker had some very bitter pussages, and then Mr. * Burrows appealed from tno decisiou, and ^ Mr. Fitch (New York) moved to lay the appeal on the table. Carried. A man namod Stronacb, in Banff, England, ? recently died at the age of *inoty-oight. . . ou had drawn half pay as an army officer for wrfl seventyjrears. haring boon retired is lfU& ahnl ' ..Li', IV. c ^ K i i JI : .owra. ^ c th A HOBRIBLE COLLISION. e, Qy Train Plows Through Bodies of th Sleeping Passengers. k? ine persons met death and a score of th srs were injured, several of thom fatally, , crash of trains on the Cleveland, Cinlati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad at gU p. m., near the little village of Manteno, su forty-eight miles south of Chicago. The do >nd section of train No. 45. which Is the na g Four Express" leaving Chicago at 8.10 tir q. , crashed into the rear end of the first w< ion. of he first section of the train, Engineer th lpili and Condnctor Tyner, pulled out of m; Illinois Central passenger station at 1 jlfth street, having a train consisting ati mail, two baggage ears, smoker, two is coaches, two Pullman sleepers, and a Bi ad," or empty coach in the roar, mi s train was immediately followed in its second section. Engineer Char- Bt< Ames, Conductor 'ub Eden, and was re owed closely all the way down to the th le of the catastrophe. The train register <:a Chicago bears a notice to all passenger fo; nmen that there is no water at Kankakee ce ion, hence it became necessary for Engine so to stop at the water tank just south of fu iteno to take a supply. To this stop is I ibutable the calamity. be s the first section hauled up at the water lei k Conductor Tyner sent his rear brake- re l back with a red light to flag the second th :ion, but before the flagman had got a tic tdred yards the second section could bo Bi Inly heard rapidly approaching, though of den behind a curve in the track, ur ;re a signal could not be seen, us instant later it dashed rapidly into yo iv. and seeing the frantic signals of pa flagman fromthe first seotion, Engineer m< 03 reversed his engine and applied tno air mi kes. Owing to the high rato of speed at Ei eh thq second section was running this sti not seem materially to check its speed, sb 1 * 1 n #onrfn 1 nraah i an 1USIHUI lOlCl, VTAIU U At.tM.AM* v?? rear oar was reduced to a mass of splin- Ui ;d timbers and twisted iron. The wreck kr he rear car was thrown high in the air, in Lng back upon the engine. Ju ho terrible impaot forced the forward jo per into the rear end of the day coach to ahead. This coach was filled with pas- i,a sere. The car plowed its way literally th >ngh the bodies of sleeping men and ha nen. The passongora in the rear train p0 iped with nothing more than a severe tic king up. he crash of the collision was plainly th rd in Manteno, and in a few minutes the te; dents of the village were upon the scene B0 orce. or wl CLOUDBURST IN SPAIN. 5 va Town Swept Away With Great Bi Loss of Life. ca lie town of Villa-Canas, in the province of ?olodo, Spain, has been devastated by oc ds. It Is positively known that sixty ions were drowned, and it was believed th the bodies of many others were buried dc er the rains of their homes. l's ie people are so stricken by the disaster they display no concern over the loss of o'l r relatives or property, and assistance th have to bo Riven to them until they resr Irom the blow. do eavy rains had fallen in the province, ch the town,which iaon rather low ground, an inundated. Tho waters from the hills, au re there had probably been a cloudburst, th pt down on the doomed town, carrying wc y almost everything in its path. Huge th s that had been torn bodily from the md swept along on the crest of the a]j ling waters, and were hurled with th titful violence against the houses in m( path of the onrushing tide. These trees m? d as battering-rams and carried th ?es before thom. So sudden was the ]jv strophe that the affrighted people no possible chance of saving them- t0j as. Men and women, awakenod by the an jring of their dwellings, frantically aD i9d to the windows and leaped out, only jgj a engulfed in tho water that was now ing and seething about the falling jra ?es. gr her houses were rapidly undermined by wj waters, and in many cases collapsed be- ^ their occupants could leave them. The ses of wreckage going down on the flood rei >me instances afforded a mean? of es- i tjr i to persons who would otherwise havo gc t drowned. Many men, women and chilI, clutching in tho darkness for any- I p0 that would support thom, grasped the j Ia! > and other floating wreckage and were j stl ied to places of safety. A large number I tr( ves were saved iu this manner. In :i | ber of ca3es the persons thus saved were j ?i y injured. j , te bodies of several woman who had ap- i -j ntly rnado heroic efforts to save them- < nc ;s and thoir children have been found. | aD ae place a handsome young woman was j _j d with an infant clasped to her with one DU 1, while with the other linnd she beld t!ie i of a little boy. All were dead, aud lre a wus not a mark upon rhcai. cei ' ^ , kn PHE HURRICANE'S WORK. , 6mu' !,h< gcon >Iagrnder'8 Inspection of St. ' tet Helena Island. Pri | evi issod Assistant Surgeon Magruder, of j vo Marine Hospital Service, who whs r?>- j is iv sent to Beaufort, 8. 0.. and among ' th| sea islands along tho const to take WH tary precautions against disease result- , of from the ti*v?ths of the coiotvd people by , ha r.?<:enr. hurricane, has made his first i caj ial report to Surgeon-General Wyman. j lrgeou Magruder snys that he has just . nleted a thorough inspection of St. He- p i lslan I. whore sixty-three wore drowned, . buried by the natives. There was uo u e of odor from the cemeteries. ^ t?ni tJT-is nrevalent in the section that ( ared most, and there was some diarrhoea, I "" <ed by bad water and improper food. All I wells yield brackish water. J J? e has ordered 100 cleaned and pumped j 9 until the water Is pure. Some sections I is island are Hooded from the closing of j ??.' main drains, and the water emits odor. I ingements have been made for starting a e of 130 men to begin the work of clean- Cfu: tho drains. "ol be oropa are almost completely destroyed. "P1 r hundred and flfty-two houses were ani eked. Tents will be used for temporary wo ier. f?c In; REY. DR. TALMAGE. L bj st; HE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- ?s DAY SERMON. ^ - Uj tu Subjcct: "Re-enforcement." r in ag Text: "Lord, increase our faith."?Luke fo rii., 5. of "What a pity he is going there!" said my ^ iend, a most distinguished general of the j>c my, when he was told that the reason for ^ y not being present on a celebrated day in j0 rooklyn was that on that day I had sailed r the Holy Land. "Why do you say that?" Gh quired some one. My military friend re- ba ied, "Oh, he will be disillusioned when he its amidst the squalor and commonplace de ones of Palestine, and his faith will be A< taken in Christianity, for that is often the sa suit." The great general misjudged the Pi ise. m. I went to the Holy Land for the one pur- or >so of having my faith strengthened, and fh at was the result which came of it. In all af ir journeying, in all our reading, in all our an sociations, in all our plans, augmentation m< ther than the depletion of our faith should In i our cniei aesire. it is easy enougn to wJ tve our faith destroyed. I can give you a to cipe for its obliteration. Head infidel in ioks, have long and frequent conversations Ith skeptics, attend the lectures of those Is itagonistio to religion, give fall swing to at me bad habit, and your faith will be so w< mpletely gone that you will laugh at the yc ea that you ever had any. pi If you want to ruin your faith, you can do gc more easily than you can do anything else, pi iter believing the Bible all my life lean see plain way by which, in six weeks, I could 0h ilist my voice and pen and heart and head w] id entire nature in the bombardment of the th irlptures and the church and all I now hold 0t cred. That it Is easy to banish soon and be rever all respect for the Bible I prove by e fact that so many have done It. They ge ;re not particularly brainy nor had special Qf rce of wilH but they so thoroughly accom- in ished the overthrow of their faith that they ai; ive no more idea that the Bible is true, or th at Christianity amounts to anything, than ^n ey have in the truth of the "Arabian Nights' yj, itertainments" or the existence of Don lixote's 'windmills.'' They have destroyed *h eir faith so thoroughly that they never will ,ve a return of it. pa Fifty revivals of religion may sweep over of e city, the town, the neighborhood where ey live, and they will feel nothing but a ent or expressed disgust. There are perns in this house to-day who 20 years ago ??' ve up their faith, and they will never re- 5" me it. The black and deep toned bell ot iom hangs over their head, and I take the . ,mmer of that bell, and I strike it three ^ aes with all my might, and it sounds, IF )e! woe! woe! But my wish, and the wish jla most of you, is the prayer expressed by 5; o disciples of Jesus Christ in the words of *' Y text, "Lord, increase our faith." The first mode of accomplishing this is to "J idy the Bible itself. I do not believe there an infidel now alive who has read the bio through. But as so important a docu- ? j 9nt needs to be road at least twice through ; order that it may be thoroughly under- Y? x>d, and read in course, I now offer $100 ward to any infidel who has read the Bible rough twice and read it in course. But I L, nnot take such a man's own word for it, "j r there is no foundation for integrity ex- " pt the Bible, and the man who rejects the urce of truth how can I accept his truthIneas? ft 8o I must have another witness in the caso ' fore I give the reward. I mu9t have the ? jtimony of some one who has seen him vc ad it all through twice. Infidels fish in j~ is Bible for incoherencies and contradic- S >ns and absurdities, and if you find their ble you will see interlineations in the book ., Jonah and some of the chapters of that . ifortunate prophet nearly worn out by much J, e, and some parts of II Samuel or I Kings t, u will find dim with finger marks, but the ,ges which contain the Ten Command- " ents, and the Psalms of David, andtheser- ? snon tne mount, and the book of John the rnngelist, will not have a single lead pencil ? roke in the margin, nor any finger marks P owing frequent perusal. The father of one of the Presidents of the , lited 8tates was a pronounced infidel. I j. lew it when many years ago I accepted his j vitation to spend the night in his home. 'n] ist before retiring at night He said in a v cose way, "I suppose you are accustomed read the Bible before going to bed, and re is my Bible from which to read." He , en told mo what portions he would like to .ve me read, and he only asked for those irtions on which he could easily be face* >us- k You know you can mako fun about anying. I suppose you couldtakethe last let- ? r your father or mother ever wrote and find 1 mething in the grammar or the spelling the tremor of the penmanship about ?y tiich to be derisively critical. The Internal " idence of the truthfulness ot the Bible is so Ighty that no one man out of the 1,600,000,- ~ 0 ot the world's present population or the V ster millions of" the past over read the J" ble in course, and read it prayerfully and refulJy, but was led to believe it. , John Murray, the famous book publisher Edinburgh, and the intimate friend of ? uthey, Coleridge, Walter Scott, Canning ? id Washington In'ing, bought of Moore, e poet, the "Memoirs of Lord Byron," and ey were to be published after Byron's ? lath. But they were not fit to be pul>ihed, although Murray had paid for tnem ? .0,000. That was a solemn conclave wheu ght of tho prominent literary people of E ose times assembled in Albemarle street f1 ter Byron's do&th to deoide what should be ne with the "Memoirs," whioh were g arged and surcharged with defamations tl d indelicacies. The "Memoirs" were read al d pondered, and the decision came that ga ey must be burned, and not until the last >rd of those "Memoirs" went to ashes did q, e literary company separate. m But suppose, now, all the best spirits of I ages were assembled to decide the fate of ^ e Bible, whioh is the last will and testajnt of our Heavenly Father, and these tjj jmoirs of our Lord Jesus, what would be tj, e verdict? 8hall they burn, or shall they gj e? The unanimous verdict of all is, "Let (j( em live, though all else burn." Then put Wl gether on the other hand all the debauchees 4,. d profligates and assassins of the ages, d their unanimous verdict concerning tho ble would be. "Let it burn." jD Mind you, I do not say that all infidels are wj imortal, but I do say that all the scrape- v0 aces and scoundrels of the universe agree tjj th them about llie Bible. jl.et me vote w?n 09e who believo in the Holy Scripture. Men gjj Ueve other things with half the evidence ^1 quired to believe the Bible. The dls- po iguished Abner Kneeland rejected the j ]0( ripture and then put all his money into an fja' terpriso for the recovery of that hocus 0r icu3 "Captain Kidd's treasures." Kneeland'g vc 1th for doing so being founded on a man'd itement that he could tell where thoso iasu res were buried from the looks of a ass oi water dipped from the Hudson ;U) ver. s,j The internal evidence of the authenticity ,ri{ the Scriptures is so exact and so vivid that t man, honest and sane, can thoroughly id continuously and prayerfully read them Ithout entering their discipleship. 80 ] it that intornal evidence paramount. Hov? lri I you led to believo in a letter you reIved from husbaDd or wife or child or ^ end? You know tho handwriting. Von owthe style. You recognize the spun- i wr int. When the letter comes, you do nof J mmon the postmaster who stamped it. and | na 3 postmaster who received if, and the let- ! ap carrier who brought it to your door J "0j> !>ve thatat is a genuine letter. The interna! J sll Idence settles it. and by the same process II can forever settle the fact that the Bible WM tho handwriting ani communication of I i infinite Go j. | L Furthermore, as T have already intimated, i io 1 may increas our faltlv by the testimony " ] others. Perl).ins we of lesser i>ra:'n may j nv been overcome bv superstition o~ j joled iuto ail .iiweptanw of ;i hollow prj- j is'on. So I wiil this moraine tern this j to; use into a courtroom and summon wit- j is 3ses, and you shall be tho jury, and I now j wi panel you for that purpose, and I will put J on the witness stand men whom all the 0D rid acknowledge to bestroui? intellectually d whose evidence in any other courtroom _u uld be incontrovertible. I will not call m0 the witness stand any minister of the on' spel, for he roijrht be prejudiced. There are two ways of takim; an oath in a irtroom. One is by putting the lips to the jle and the other is by holding up tho ^ ht hand toward iioaven. Now. as in this ; ;ia, :e it is the Bible that is on trial, wa will _? t ask the witness to put the hook to his _u s, for that would imply that the sanctity J divinity of the book in settled, and that me uldbe beggiugthequestlon. SoTshallask 0[ :h witness to lift tits liaa.d W*^5d heaven j ifflrmatluo. Salmon P. Chase, ohlef jostloe of the 9U-eme court of the United States appointed r President Lincoln, will take the witness ' and- "Chief Justice Chase, upon your \ ith, please state what you have to say about , e book commonly called the Bible." The , itness replies: "There came a time in my ie when I doubted the divinity of the Scripres, and I resolved, as a lawyer and judge, , would try the book as I would try anything , the courtroom, taking evidence for and ( fainst. It was a long and serious and pro- i und study, and using the same principles | evidence in this religious matter as I alays do in secular matters I have come to e decision that the Bible is a supernatural >ok, that it has oome from God. and that e only safety for the human race is to fol- i w its teachings." "Judge, that will do. ( 0 back again to your pillow of dust on the ' inks of the Ohio." Next I put upon the witness stand a Presl>nt of the United States?John Quincey I lams. President Adams, what have you to i y about the Bible and Christianity?" The 1 resident replies: "I have for many years ade it a practice to read through the Bible ice a year. My custom is to read four or I re chapters every morning immediately ' ter arising from my bed. It employs about ' 1 hour of my time and seems to me the 1 ost suitable manner of beginning the day. 11 4 DikU I L W1UU ii^UL BUOYOt WO Irugoiu. iu? JJiu 10, betber with reference to revelation, to his- 1 ry or to morality, it Is an invaluable and' I exhaustible mine of knowledge and virtue." Nflit I put upon the witness stand Sir 1 aac Newton, the author of the "Princlpia" 1 id the greatest natural philosopher ^the i arid has ever seen. "Sir Isaac, wnafhave < >u to Bay concerning the Bible?" The lilosopher's reply is, "We account the 1 sriptures of God to bo the most sublime lllosophy." Next I put upon the witness stand the enlantment of letters, Sir Walter Scott, and ben I ask him what he thinks of the place at our great book ought to take among ' her books he replies, "There is but one ' >ok, and that is the Bible." Next I put upon the stand the most famous 1 ologist of all time, Hugh Miller, an elder J Dr. Guthrie's Presbyterian church in Edburgh, and Faraday and Kepler, and they 1 testily to the same thing. They all say e Bible Is from God, and that the mightifist 1 fluence for good that over touched our 3rld is Christianity. "Chancellor Kent, what do you think of e Bible?" Answer: "No other book ever [dressed Itself so authoritatively and so j .thetlcally to the judgment and moral sense mankind." x "Edmund Burke, what do you think of the ( ble!" Answer: "I have read the Bible orning. noon and night, and have ever ' ice been the happier and the better man ' r such reading. ' Next I put upon the stand William E. Glad- , Dne. the head of the English government, id I hear him saving what he said to me in inuary of 1890, when in reply to his teleam, "Praycome to Hawardento-morrow," j sdsited him. Then and there I asked him to whether in the passage of years his faith the Holy Scriptures and Christianity was i the increase or decrease, and he turned >on me with an emphasis and enthusiasm ,ch as no one who has not conversed with ' m can fully appreciate and expressed by ice and gesture and Illumined countenance 9 ever increasing faith in God and the Bible id Christianity as the only hope of our lined world. "That is all, Mr. Gladstone, e spill.take of your time now, for, from the pbrts of what is going on in England just >w, I think you are very busy." The next man I put upon the witness utd is the late Earl of Kintore, and I ask m what he thinks of Christianity, and he plies, "Why do you ask qib that? Did you )t hear me preach Christ in the Midnight ission of London?'* "Oh, yes! I remem>r!" But I see many witnesses present toly in the courtroom, and I call you to the itness stand, but I have only a second of cne for any one of vou. As you pass along st give me one sentence in regard to Cnrisinity. "Under God it has changed my enre nature," says one. "It brought me from runkenness and poverty to sobriety and a )od home," says another. "It solaced me nen I lost my child," says another. "It ive me a hope of future treasures when my roporty was swept on Dy me last pauic, iys another. "It has given me a peace and itisfactlon more to me than all the world jside," says another. "It has been to mej ght and music and fragrance and radiant iticipation," says another. Ah! stop the! recession of witnesses. Enough! Enough! U those voices of the past and present have1 Jghtily increased our faith. Again, our belief is rt?-enforoed by arlfflological exploration. We must confess tat good men at one time were afraid of jologist's hammer and ohemlst's crucible id archfflologist's investigation, but now itelligent Christians are receiving and still cpecting nothing but confirmation from all ich sources. What supports the Palestine xploration Society? Contributions from lurches and Christian benefactors. I saw marks of the shovels of that exploring >ciety amid the ruins of ancient Jericho and il'up and down from the Dead Sea to eesarea Phillppi. "Dig away!" say3 the i iuroh of God, "and the deeper you dig the stter I like." The discovered monuments of Egypt have liseled on them the story of the sufferings f the Israelites in Egyptian bondage, as we nd it in the Bible?there, in imperishable ~r>* ooAroeAntatinnq of the slave, of the 'hips ana of the taskmasters who compelled le making of bricks without straw. Exumed Nineveh and Babylon, with their usty lips, declared the Bible true. Napolon's soldiers in the Egyptian campaign ried up a stone, which you may find in th^ iritish museum, a stone, as I remember it. Bpresenting perhaps two feet of letterej arface. It contains words in three lan? uafjes. The stone was the key that unlocked ie meaning of all the hieroglyphics of tomb! id obelisks and tells over and over again the me events which Moses recorded. The sulphurous graves of 8odom and omorrah have been identified. The renins of the tower of Babel have been und. Assyrian documents lifted from the nd and Behistun inseription hundreds of i ot high up on the rock echo and re-echo e truth of Bible history. The signs of the ne indicate that almost every fact of the | ble from lid to lid will find its corrobora>n in ancient city disentombed, or ancient ill cleared from the dust of ages, or ancient i >cument unrolled by archaeologist. I Before the world rolls on as f3r into the i entieth century as it ha9 already rolled ( to the nineteenth an infidel will bo a man | (10 does not believe his own senses, and the ] ilumes now critical and denunciatory of ( e Bible, if not entirely devastated by the | iok-worms. will be taken down from the , elf as curiosities of ignorauee or idiocy. | 1 success io the pickaxes and crowoars ana iwder blasting of those apostles of archasogical exploration. I like the ringing de- j ince of tne old Huguenots to the assailants , Christianity: "Pound away, you rebels! rnr hammers break, but the anvil of God's ; >rd stands." , How wonderful the old book hangs to- ! tber. It is n library made up of 63 books j d written by at least 39 authors. It is a , pernatural thing that they have stu:k to- | ther. Take the writings of any other 33 j thors, or any 10 authors, or any 5 authors. , d put them together, and how long would sy stay together? 3ooks of "elegant ex- 1 icts" compiled from mauy authors are I overbially short lived. I never knew one I eh book which, to use the publisher's s rise, "hnd life in it" for live years. ' Why is it that the Bible, made up of the t itings of at least 39 author.", has kept to- ' ther for a long line of centuries when the 1 tural tendency would have been to fly i art like loose sheets oi paper when a gust J wind blows upon them? It ist because God i u.*k them together and keeps them to- 1 ther. But for that Joshua would nave i .ndorad off in one direetiou. and Paul into * other, and Ezekiel into another, and H* kkuk into another, and the 33 authors in- i directions. t t'ut the writings of Shakespeare ami Tea- li son aad Longfellow, or any part of them,- S 'other. How Ion; would they stay to- f th.-:rV No book bindery could keep them f father, But the cannon of the Scripture i loaded now with the same ammunition 2 th which prophet and apostle loaded it. b Bring me all the Bibles of the earth into a e pile, and blindfold mes^that Iennnottell 0' v difference between dny and uight. and | j( t into mv hand any one of all th.it Alpine j funtain of saered books, and put my finger ^ the last page of <r.*nests and let me know . in i I " in fell you what is on the uext page t) latnely, the first chapter of Exodus; or . lilo thus blindfolded put my tinker on the v t chapter of Matthew and let me know it. 1 I will tell you what is on the next page jj tamely, the first chapter of Mark. In the r e of 500,000.000 Bibles there will be no option. In other words, the book gives i confidence by its supernatural adhesion writing to writine. ?ven the stoutest snip sometimes shifts its f, cargo, and that is what made oar peril the greater in the ship Greece of the National! line when the cyclone struck U8 off the coast of Newfoundland, and the cargo of Iron had shifted as the ship swung from larboard to starboard, and from starboard to larboard. Bat, thanks be to God, this old Bible shJp, though it has been in thousands of years of tempest, has kept its cargo of gold and precious stones compact and sure, and inalltho centuries nothing about it has shifted. There they stand, shoulder to shoulder, David and Solomon and Isaiah and Jeremiah and Eseklel and Daniel and Hosea and Joel and Amos and Obadiah andJonahand Mioahaad Nahum and Habbakkuk and Zephaniah nod Haggai and Zechariah and Malachl and Matthew and Mark and Luke and John and Faal and Peter, all there, and with a certainty of being there until the heavens and the earth, the creation of whloh is described in the flint book of the Bible, shall have collapsed, and the white horse of the oonqueror, described In the last book of the Bible, shall paw <h? dust in universal demolition. By that tr?si a rrtir faUk 4a na^anfAsaA/1 IUCUUVU9 illvb LUJ M?UU iO i. v^Ult/^vvVU* The discussion is abroad as to who wrote those book* of the Bible called the Pentateuch, whether Moses or Hllkiah, or Ezra or Samuel, or Jeremiah, or another group of ancients. None of them wrote it. Go4 wrote the Pentateuoh, and in this dajr M . stenography and typewriting that ought not to be n difficult thing to understand. Tte great merchants and lawyers, and editor* and business men of our towns and cities dictate nearly all their letters; tTiey onlf sign them after thSy are dictated. Tw prophet and evangelist and apostle w?*? Jehovah's stenographers or typewriter*. They put down only what Ood dictated; te signed it afterward. He hss been writing hit name upon it all through the vicissitudes at centuries. . ,, ) But I come to the height of my subject when I say the way to re-enforce our faith i? to pray for It. 80 the disciples in my text pot their abounding faith. ''Lord, increase oar faith." Some one suggests, "Do yoa really think that prayer amounts to anything'/" I might as well ask you, is there ? ' line of tolegraphio poles from New York to Washington, is there a line of telegraphic wires from Manchester to London, from Cologne to Berlin? All the people who hare sent and received messages on these lines know of their existence. 80 there are millions of souls who have been in constant com munication with the capital of the univers?, with the throne of the Almighty, with tte great Cod Himself, for years and years and years. Tljere has not been a day when supplies* lions did not flash up and blessings riiH not fliuih down. Will some icno ramus, who has never received a telegram or sent one, come and tell us that there la no such thing as telegraphic communication? Will some one who has never offered a prayer that was heard and answered come and teO as that there is nothing in prayer? It may not come as we expect it, but as sure as aai honest prayer goes up a merciful answer wilt come down. During the blizzard of four or five years' ago, you know that many of the telegrapfc wires were prostrated, and I telegraphed to? Chicago bv way of Liverpool, and the answer after awhile came round by another wldt circuit, and so the prayer we offer may come , back in a way we never imagined, and 11 w? ask to have our faith increased, although It may come by a widely different process than that which we expected, our confldenoe will surely be ausrmonted. Oh, put it in every prayer you ever mate between your next breath and your last gasp? "Lord, increase our faith"?faith In Chriot as our personal ransom from preaent guilt and eternal catastrophe; faith in the omnjpotent Holy Ghost; faith in the Bible, the truest ?Ar Trrlt+pn or nriflfad VUIUUIU Ol Oi UIVIHVVV* v* ?> r. r< or read ; faith In adverse provldenoes, harmonized for oar best welfare; faith in a judgment day that will set all things right which have for ages been wrong. Increase our faith, not by a fragile a4r ' ditlon, but by an infinitude of reouperatloo. Let us do as we saw it done in the country while we were yet in our teens, at the old farmhouse after -a long drought, and the well had been dried, and the cattle moaned with thirst at the bars, and the meadow brook had ceased to run, and the. gram withered, and the corn was ahrive!ed..up,J and one day there was a growl of thunder! and then a congregation of cloudsjOa tfee sky, and then a startling Hash, and'' then* drenching rain, and father and mother pot barrels under every spout at the corners of the house and set pails and buokets ami , tube and pans and pitchers to oatch as much as they could of the shower. Fori* many of our souls there has been a long'. drought of confidence and in many no fain at all. Let us set out all our affections, aB our hopes, all our contemplations, all oar prayers, to catch a mighty shower. "Lord, increase our faith." I like the way that the minister's widow *? v? /VM +VlA famltv (11(1 in liiuua s uuitr, nuw, anut ?uv being very unfortunate, her two sons were about to be sold for debt, and she had nothing in the house but a pot of oil, and at Ellsha's direction she borrowed from he*neighbors all the vessels she could borrow, and then began to pour out the oil intothosa vessels and kept on pouring until they were all full, and she became an oil merchant with more assets than liabilities, and when she cried, "Bring me yet a vessel," the answer came, "There is not a vessel more." So let us take what oil of fni' \ we have and use it until the supply shall be miraculously multiplied. Bring on your empty vessels, and by the power of the Lord God of Ellsha thejr shall be filled until tbey can hold no more ol. jubilant, all inspiring and triumphant faith. What a frightful time wvj had a .few days ago down on the coast of Long Island, where I have beau stopping. That arohangel of tempest which, with its awful wings, swept the Atlantic coast from Florida to Newfoundland did not soare oar region. A few miles away, at Southampton, I aiw the bodies of four men whom the storm had slain and tl^o sea had cast up. As I stood there among the dead bodies I said to myself, and I said aloud "These men represent homes. What will mother and father and wife and children say when they know this'/" 8ome of the victims were unknown. Only the flrjt name of two of them was found oat ?Chajploy and William. I wondered then and I wonder now if they will remain unknown andifaomp kindred faraway may be waiting for their coming and never hear of the rough way of their going. I saw also one of the three who had come in alive, but more dead than alive. The ship hud become helpless six miles ou*, and as one wave swept the ieck and went down on the furnaces till they hissed and went out the cry was, "Oh, my'God, we are lost!' Then the orew put on life preservers, on? of the sailors saying to the other, "We will meet again on tho shore, and, if not, well, we must all go sotno time," Of the twenty-three men who put on th? life preserver.-), only three lived to reach the beach. But what a s?eue it was as the good and kind people of Southampton, led on by Dr. Thomas, the great and good surgeon oi New York, stood watching the sailors struggling in the breakers. "Are you still alive?" shouted Dr. Thomas to one of them out in the breakers, and he signaled yes and then went into unconsciousness. Who should do ;he most for the poor fellow3 and how to resuscitate them were the questions that ran ap and down the beach at Southampton. How the men and women on the shore stood wringing their hands, impatiently waiting tor the sufferers to come within roach, ana hen they were lifted up and carried indoors ind waited on with as much kindness atm! wrapped as warmly as though they had been he princes of the earth, "Are they alive?" 'Are they breathing?"' "Do you think they vill live?" "What can we do for them?T* rvere the rapid and intense questions naked, ind so much money was ssnt for the clotting and equipment of the unfortunates that Dr. Thomas had to mtkea proclamation that 10 more money was ae ?ded. In other words, ill that day it was resuscitation. And this is the appropriate word for us hu morning is w ? stand and look off upon his awful 52a of doubt and unbelief on which madrods are this moment being wrecked, lome of them wer ? launched by Christian, arenta^e on smooth seas and with promisa or prosperous voyage, but a Voltaire cyclone truck them on one side, and n Tom Paiua yclono struck them on the other side, and a ad habit cyclone struck them on all sides, nd they have foundered far away from shore, *r away from God. and they have pone down rare washed ashore with no spiritual life ;ft in thorn. But, thank God. ther:? are many hero to-, ay with enough faith left to encourage us i the effort at th>?ir resuscitation. All hand* > the beach ! With a confidence in God that ikes no denial, let us lay hold of them I etch them out of th? breakers! Bring i?o?ol warmth and gospel stimulus and fjospel fe to their freezing souls! Kesuscitation! teauschation! "What's a limited monarchy?"! 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