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? m ' * " *!? MOSqUITO COAST. SCENE OF THE INTERNATIONAL TROUBLE IN NICARAGUA. Interesting Story of the Origin of the Complications and History of the Mosquito Indians ? A Home in a Tree Top. /""VAPTAIN B. B. SEAT, United I / States Consul at Blueflelds, J Nicaragua, the scene of the recent international complications known as the Blueflelds case, has been in St. Louis, and gives the Republic some interesting facts about the origin of the trouble and of the history of the Mosquito Indians. Just four centuries ago Christopher Columbus and his men made their first landing on the American continent at a point on the shore line of the Carribean Sea. The great discoverer was greeted cordially by friendly Indiana -roVirt -arora dnmhfrmnriari at, flip first sight of pale faces and of the anchored sailing ships that rose and fell with the tide in the harbor. Columbns planted the cross on the land and took possession in the name of Queen Isabella. He named the point in Spanish, Cabo de Gracios a Dios, which freely translated mean "Thanks be to God." This Thanks-be-to-God point is located on the northern boundary of what is to-day known as the Mosquito | I ? VIEW OF Keservation, which is within the territorial limits of the Republic of Nicaragua. And the lineal descendants of the aborigines who received Columbus with open hospitality are to-day known as the Mosquito Indians. These descendants of the savages who received Columbus have now for over a quarter of a century been enjoying the blessings of a free government of their own. An attempt of a revolutionist to take away their liberties has thrown three nations into international complications ?Great Britain, the United States and the Republic of Nicaragua. This international trouble is familiarly known as the Bluelields case. In order to lead up to an intelligent understanding of the case the story of the Mosquito Reservation, its government and its people and its commercial industries must be told. Leaving the landing of Golumbus and the subsequent Spanish supremacy in the dim past and coming down to the beginning of the present century, it is found that the Mosquito Indians were living a quiet and inoffensive life in their squalid bamboo huts among the banana trees and the luxuriant vegetation that thrived under a tropical sun. Their wants were few and their habits Bimple, and sustenance was supplied by nature wkuout the asking. Their religious belief was a smattering of the old sun worship of the Incas. But eventually the Moravian missionaries came among the Mosquito Indians and brought the light^pf the Christian gospel and of civilization. Schools and churches and missions were soon scattered along the shore of the Caribbean Sea, and the Mosquito Indians became civilized, learned to speak English, built for themselves neat frame houses, acquired habits of thrift and industry to a certain degree apd worshiped the Christian God. But Ihe same old story of civilization, carrying with it turmoil and trouble for poor savages, was repeated in this instance. In the coarse of time the Republic of Nicaragua was formed, and in it was included tbe territory of the Mosquito Indians. This strip of country lies along the eastern coast of Nicaragua, and begins at the mouth of the Rama River, about thirty miles north of Greytown, which is the eastern terminns of the Nicaraguan Canal, and extends up the Rama River to its source, thence west and north to the Hueso River and down that stream to the soa, thence along the shore of the Caribbean Sea to Greytown, covering a distance of 200 miles in length with an average width of thirty-five miles. This strip of country was originally ' occupied from time immemorial by the Mosquito Indians and they protested against the attempt of the whites to control the territory. England, which is ever ready to mike conCM I Kh' EOBERT HEVEY CLARENCE. quests with a greedy hand, claimed a protectorate over the Mosquitoes for many years, but was never successful in making her claims good. England foiled in several attempts to settle disputed questions relating to this region by treaty with t^e United States, and then ?hft ftnrried favor with Nicaragua and made a treaty with the Republic in regard to the Mosquito country. The Republic of Nicaragua claimed to , have sovereign rights over the Mosquito country. This treaty between England and Nicaragua was made on January 28, 1860, at Managua. One of the provisions of the treaty was that the Mosquito Indians should have the right of governing themselves within the strip claimed by them. They could govern themselves according to their own customs and regulations, so long as they did not interfere with the sovereign rights of the Republic of Nicaragua and others in the district. The Nicaraguan Government agreed not to interfere with the local government of the Mosquitoes. But the Republic of Nicaragua was permitted to send a Commissioner into the Mosquito country to guard the interests of the Republic. After this treaty had been made the Mosquitoes S2t about to organize a local government of their own. The Mosquito Chief called all the head men of the tribe together, and also all the residents of Bluefields, a seaport town that had sprung up on the Caribbean Coast. The Chief appointed a general council of forty-three men which framed a constitution and organized a Government which, afler the model of a Republic, was divided into executive, judicial and legislative departments. This new Government went into effect on September 12,1861. & BLUEFIELDS. It has exercised all the municipal authority of the so-called Mosquito Reservation for thirty-three years. For twenty years after the formation of this local government the nnnnlnfinn nf tha AfnBnniin Roaprvn. i tion. consisted almost altogether of Indians and a class of native half-breeds who call themselves Creoles. They passed a sleepy, lazy, yet peaceful, existence and did nothing to develop the country. But a boom began in the reservation in 1881 and 1882. Enterprising Americans went down ' there from the United States and began the culture of tropical fruits. As the land was free from the many revolutions of the other Central American countries, these Americans did not hesitate to invest capital by obtaining leases to land from the Mosquito Gov- 1 ernment and opening plantations. The i culture of bananas proved to be profitable and an extensive commerce in that fruit and in cocoanuts was eventually established between that country and the United States. Gold was discovered and Americans invested cap- < ital in placer mines, and now about < $150,000 worth of gold dust is shipped < to the United States each month. The cutting and shipping of ma- ] hogany and other valuable woods and i also the India rubber trade developed < into an extensive commerce. In the gold, hardware and India rubber industries alone the Americans have invested $2,000,000 of oapital. Twelve 1 ?v -> ~~- MISSION IT ATX. years ago the commerce of the Mosquito Reservation amounted to nothing, and now the volume of trade amounts to 31,000,000 annually. Twelve steamships to-day ply between the port of Bluetields and the Southern ports of the United States, making twenty-four voyages each month. Two million bunches of bananas are exported annually, besides the large quantities of mahogany, gold dust, rubber and cocoanuts. and all to the United States. The United States send back in return 25,000 lialf-barrels of flour annually, basides large quantities of beans, lard, pork, beef, corn, rice and mauy other products. While enterprising Americans from 1882 to 1894 were developing these remarkable resources of the little reservation it 6eems that the local government established by the Mosquitoes in 1861 had gradually become corrupt in these latter days of prosperity. The hidden hand of British influence played a part in the control of local ! affairs. There are 2000 Mosquito Ini dians?men, women and children?on the reservation. Bluetields, the capital, which is located on the Caribbean Coast, has a mixed population of 4500. The large majority in the town are native Creoles, who are half-breeds of negro and Indian blood. There are 600 to 700 pure Jamaican negroes in the town, a small element of Indians and Spaniards, about 125 Americans and tweaty-five Englishmen and Germans. The Mosquito Government is con trolled by the following officials: The t chief and President ia Robert Henry <3 Clarence, a Mosquito Indian, twenty- c m ?i| 1 ; " ! * < a b- a "pap" wilderson's home. o ? t: two years old; the Vice-President is a si half-breed Indian of the name of Pat- C terson; the Treasurer is a German of the name of Burgenhagen, who is the h head man of the Moravian Church; the Attorney-General is J. W. Cuth- ci bert, a Jamaican who is as black as I coal, and who is a subject of Great ti Britain. The Supreme Court is com- tj posed of Stephen Hodgson, a native A Mosquito; John Taylor, a native of tl Colombia, South America, and John a r\ rtnlnrof] .Tflrr niPQTi tl V/. , " who is a British subject. J* Tfle officials control the Govern- A mental machinery. The revenues of tl the reservation are raised by duties t< on imports and an export duty on gold f< dust or fruit. It appears that the ri young Mosqnito chief and President, ij who is an intelligent young man with B an English education, is only a figure- fi head and is subservient to British in- e: fluences. This ring of mixed officials tl has collected the revenues for years, ii it is said, but has turned the large & part into its own pockets. The head c< man of the Moravian Church is Treas- tl urer and influences legislation for his B( interests. The British Attorney-General exerts a powerful influence over la the young chief. d This management of public affairs hi has long been unsatisfactory to the st American residents, who have really h developed the country. Numerous ii complaints were made against the pi Mosquito regime, and the general ir opinion existed that the local Govern- T ment would have to come to an end ai soon. "While this feeling was increas- u iug against the Mosquito regime ei General Carlos Lacayo came to Blue- tl fields as the Nicaraguan Commis- w sioner. He declared his intention of vr lirinirinrf ahnrif. a. r?fnrm in thfl lfM'ftl tt ? " Government, and in this purpose he ii met with the approval of the American ei residents and also many of the natives it The Americans recognized only the sovereignty of the Republic of tc Nicaragua over the reservation, any- is way, and were willing to aid General tl Lacayo as the representative of that ti Republic. ii Now came about the Bluefiolds inoident. Captain Seat was asked to m sxplain th9 cause of the trouble. Ao- tl cording to the Captain's story, it ap- < < pears that General Lacayo, on the a Dretense of nobilizine troops to de- tJ lend Nicaragua against the invasion c< of Honduranians, brought 150 soldiers Sc with him and occupied the town of ei Bluefields on the twelfth day of last 8( February. He immediately deposed w the local Mosquito Government and f< tl ? - ri , i) "? tl V **' ii ? ar BLUEFIELDS. h( proclaimed martial law throughout Ci ;he reservation. General Lacayo and ai lis army landed in Bluehelds with no ~ nore money in their pockets than jould be found among Coxey'a Comnonwealers. General Lacayo had a lecree issued, imposing an export luty of three cents per bunch on jananas, aud would not recognize the )utstanciing debt of th9 Mosquito Sovernment which was due American residents. General Lacayo, under ;he reign of martial law, forced every nerchant to pay the duties. The general was lining his pockets with wealth, aud ho concluded it was a good ;hing, and that he would play the role >f dictator for awhile. After martial aw had been declared the American ^ esidents presented a petition to W jreneral Lacayo, asking if their |l rested rights on the reservation would I je protected. The General refused to jive any assurances of such protec;ion, but, on the contrary, issued an>ther deciee, increasing the tax on Dananas, and another decree abolishing ;he English language and making the ~ iJpanish language the official language . )f the country, notwithstanding the *u 'act tnat it was an English-speaking . 0 jommunity. The country was under *n jayonet rule, and all property was in . langer of being seized as booty. All 1CI ausiness establishments were in danger of loss by the forfeiture of insurance policies. Armed sentinels stood qn it every street corner in the town and w< jassser6-by were challenged at the it. point of a bayonet. Armed men en- fif ered private residences at night unler a pretense of searching for con* ealed arms and ammunition, and aany assaults were committed. A eign of terror prevailed, and many nhabitants fled from their homes to he woods. On February 25, the British warship Jleopatra, Captain A. G. Howe, cast nchor at Bluefields Bluff, eight miles rom the town a and remained until th<3 7th, when she sailed . for Colon, but eft on shore fifty marines supplied rith arms and amir.unition. The Clepatra returned on March 4. On fn.mli K t.Via 'Minn'rfl.fmftn Rnldiprn rp ?v ired from Bluefields, in accordance rith an agreement between the British Jounsul and General Lacayo. The larines went aboard the Cleopatra nd sailed for Greytown the same vening. A police guard of twentyve men was left in the town by Laayo, however. On the niflht of March 6 a fight ook place between the Nicaraguan oldiers and, crowd of natives in Blueelds; forty shots wear fired, and wo of the soldiers were killed. The tritish Vice Consul, the American lonsular Agent and General Lacayo imself joined in a request that the tritish marines should come from the Sluff to the town and restore order nd quiet. The marines came down nd natrolled the town and restored rder, and they occupied the town unil March 17, -when the British warhip Canada arrived and relieved the 'leopatra. On March 20 the Canada 'ithdrew the marines, and two days iter sailed for Colon. Captain Seat says that the Anlerian residents at Blnefields feel that the Inited States Government should ike some action in the form of a reaty with Nicaragua, whereby merican interests would not suffer in le future by the dictatorial power of Nicaraguan Commissioner. During lie thirty-three years that the losquito Government prevailed the merican interests were acquired lere, but the right of the Mosqui vao Ia ijona 1 aoaflo onrl /irtnAoociftna fn yCD V\J JU7QUW iWHCbB MUU Wvmvvwwavuu ?V )reigners was never denied by Nicaigua until Commissioner Lacayo jnored the right since his arrival at luefields. The Americans at Blueelds feel that the "United States Govrnment could easily say to Nicaragua lat Uncle Sam would prevent British iterference in Nicaragua's internal [fairs, and in return ask special conussions for American citizens, so that le'r acquired interests will be presrved. The Mosquito Indians, during the kst twelve years that Americans have eveloped the country, have acquired abits of greater thrift in some inTUatt V* o T*A Vtntlf Knffn* )UUUCOi xucjr UdTO UUUV Vlti ouses, and they work industriously t the placer minds and on the fruit Lantationa The Mosquitoes are small i stature, and of heavy, stocky build, he squaws are not prize beauties, by ay means. These people are naturally iclined to be dull and lazy under the lervating effects of the climate, and ley are inoffensive and simple in their ays. They wear but littie clothing hile working on the plantations, but hen a Mosquito buck goes to town he lvariably wears an old pair of trous* :s and a red shirt. He is then dressed i .the .height of Mosquito fashion. One of the famous attractions in the >wn of Bluefields is an odd house that i located in a tree seventy feet from le ground. It was built by an eccen'ic Yankee, who is familiarly known i Bluefields as ".Fap" Wiiderson. That are known as ebo trees grow to loderate height and proportions in lat country. This tree furnishes exjllent hardwood lumber, and it bears nut, from which an oil is extracted iat is used for both lubricating and coking purposea Old Pap Wilder>n, by the aid of ingenious machin:y, sawed off an ebo tree at a point jventy feet from the ground, and ith the long trunk of the tree as a mndation constructed a house up in le air. The two stories of the house .se above the seventy-foot trunk of le tree. The house is reached by an levator that runs alongside the trgA, - ?i.? -'? it. _r_'* ? iu. ne center or me nouse rem/s uu nuu ee trunk, while supports run from ich corner down to the ground. So lis ingenious Yankee obtained from le ebo tree the lumber with which to aild his house on the trunk of an >o, and the ebo nuts famished him ith oil which he uses to lubricate the taring of his elevator and in cooking Is meals. A Salvation Army Leader. Mrs. Ballington Booth, the wife of sllington Booth and daughter-in-law : the founder of the Salvation Army, a pretty young woman, and prob )ly the most practical unristian to 5 found in the ranks of any religious ganization for reform work. She is :etty, has a remarkably strong, sweet spoeition, and is a wonderful leader id organizer, doing almost as much ork as her clever husband, besides ilping in the publication of the War ry and taking charge of her home id her three young children. She MRS. BALLIN'GTON* BOOTH. ,s done considerable missionary work the slums of the city, as well as Iding prayer meetings and conductg revivals, and writes a great deal r papers both in England and Ameri.?New York Advertiser. Death from tetanus was very infrelent during the Civil War, only two junded soldiers in 1000 dying from In the Crimean War the ratio was ty-eevea to 1000. RET. DR. TALMAGE. ? In 1 l'HE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN*DAY SERMON. tot Subject: '*Th? Generations.' texi Text: "One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.Eccleelaatea con L, 4. N According to the longevity of people In nnc their particular century has a generation been pas' called 100 years, or fifty years, or thirty vesl years. By common consent In our nineteenth int century a generation Is fixed at twenty-five Ing years. two The largest procession that ever moted is W0D the procession of years, and the ereatest ?,?i army that ever marched Is the army of gene- wer rations. In each generation there are about D0? nine full regiments of days. These 9125 days jg in each generation march with wonderful gatjj precision. They never break ranks. They never ground arms. They never pitch tents. (are They never halt. They are never off on fur- jn(, lough. They came out of the eternity past, e(j , and they move on toward the eternity future. ?eQ They cross rivers without any bridge or boats. gn(j The 600 immortals of the Crimea dashing into preJ them cause no confusion. They move as ^ rapidly at midnight as at midnoon. Their haversacks are full of good bread and bitter thin aloes, clusters of richest vintage and bottles ^at of agonizing tears. With a regular tread rjn? that no order of ' 'double quiok" can hasten or n 6\ obstacle can slacken, their tramp is on and 0i30 on and on and on while mountains crumble and pyramids die. "One generation passeth, goa. and another generation cometb." t0 This la my twenty-flfth anniversary ser- coa mon?1869 and 189$. It is twenty-five years aDl since I assumed the Brooklyn pastorate. A uJjn whole generation has passed. Three genera - (X)V Hons we have Known?that which preceded our own, that whioh is now at the front, and ^at the one-coming on. We are at the heels of our predecessors, and our successors are at our heels. Whai a generation it was that g01 preceded us! We who are now in the front regiment are the only onea competent to tell had the new generation iust now coming in sight who our predecessors were. Biography can- Q^r| not tell It Autobiography cannot tell It. Biographies are generally written by special 0Q6 friends of the departed?perhaps by wife or tlljn eon or daughter?and they only tell the good duc^ things. The biographers of one of the first p, Presidents of the United States make no reo- 30m, ord.of the President's account books, now in the archives at the Capitol, which I have day seen, telling how muoh he lost or gained I tlx dally at the gaming table. The biographers tlenr of one of the early Secretaries of the United the States never described the scene tdat day the < witnessed when the Secretary was carried spec dead drunk from the State apartments to his wor own home. Autobiography Is written by the The man himself, and no one would record for pree f future times his own weaknesses and moral fog deficits. Those who keep diaries put down ofp only things that read well. No man or wo- ente man that ever lived would dare to make full port record of all the thoughts and words of a ot p lifetime Wo who snw nnrt heard mnflh of Ai the generation marching just ahead of bool us are far more able than any book out to describe accurately to our successors who diffe our predecessors were. Very much like our- for 1 selves, thank you. Human nature In them and very much like human nature In us. At our reco time of life they were very muoh like we now ters are. At the time they were in their teens that they were very much like you are in your eooi teens, and at the time they were in their enoi twenties they were very muoh like you are field In your twenties. Human nature ROt an aw- are ful twist under a fruit tree in Eden, aad bigg though the grace of God does much to geri Btrlghten thlnrt every new generation has was the same twist, and the same work of pabl straightening out has to be done over again, unti A mother In the country districts, expact-" yeai ing the neighbors .at her table on some gala as n night, had with her own hands arranged ev- thai erythlng In taste, and as she was about to forn turn from it to receive her guests saw her 25,Oi little child by accident upset a pitcher all this over the white cloth and soil everything, and the the mother lifted her hand to slap the child, Go J but she suddenly remembered the time when mor a little child herself, in her father's house, forg where they had always before been used to dou candles, on the purchase of a lamp, which wor was a matter of rarity and pride, she took it r_ In her hands and dropped it, crashing Into cor(j pieces, and looking up In her father's face, cegg expecting chastisement, heard only the o{ j words, "It Is a sad loss, but never mind; fQUI you did not mean to do it." thls History repeats itself. Generations cjjU1 wonderfully alike. Among that generation that is past, as In our own, and as 1{ will be in the generation following us, those who 'd succeeded became the target, shot at by those who did not gucgeed. In those times, jl fl as in ours, a man's bitterest enemies were _.u. those whom he had befriended and helped. {Tntaa laatnnatao nnrf rovnncAfl WAPfl itiat M lively In 1869 as in 1894. Hypocrisy sniffled and looked solemn then as now. There was just as much avarice among the apple barreli as now among the cotton bales and among the wheelbarrows as among the if locomotives. The tallow candles saw the , same sins that are now found under the electric lights. Homespun was just as ?roud aa Is the modern fashion plate, JrTj wenty-flve years?yea, twenty-five centuries have not changed human nature a particle. I say this for the encouragement of thosj who think that our times monopolize all the ifP abominations of the ages. P'S* One minute n?ter Adam got outside of r paradise he Was just like you, 0 man! One Ject, step after Eve left tne gate shejyas Just like j?ar!i yW. 0 V5man! yyj the faults and vices are many tT?ej centenarians. Yea, the cities Bodom, GomoPran, Pompeii, Herculaneum, f?*0 Hellopolis and ancient Memphis were as much worse than our modern cities as you 1 might expect frc m the fact that tne modern cities have somewhat yielded to the restraints of Christianity, while those ancient to r cities were not limited in their abomlna- ditic tiOnS. -* "'** to p Yea, that generation whichpas3edofT with- iarg - ??* ? ?- " thAl. 1,0. I rtf n rn lut) ikbc iwboij-uvo yea re iiau iucu uo- ? reavements, thoir temptations, their Strug- wor gles, their disappointments, their successes, Aj their failures, their gladnesses and their fifth griefs, like these two generations now in how eight, that In advance and that following, com But the twenty-five years between 1369 and my ( 1894?how much they saw! How much they by y discovered ! How much they felt! Within we a that time have been performed the miracles shal of the telephone and the phonograph. From Bat the observatories other worlds have been be w seen to heave in sight. Six Presidents of Hi the United States have been inaugurated, this Transatlantic voyage abbreviated from ten fifth days to 5%. Chicago and New York, once nlng three days apart, now only twenty-four for i hours by the vestibule limited, wo aacu- arQu tional railroads have been built to the Pacific. Frai France has passed from monarchy to repub- My ] licanism. Many of the cities have nearly Cupj doubled their populations. During that I wi. generation the chief surviving heroes of the pres Civil War have gone into the encampment of Whj the grave. The chief physicians, attorneys, amo orators, merchants, have passed off the earth who or are in retirement waiting for transition. adm Other men In editorial chairs, in pulpits, in citie Governors' mansions, In legislative, Sena- k-nm torlal and Congressional halls. adv< There are not ten men or women on earth so ei now prominent who were prominent twenty- neSg five years ago. The crew of this old ship of poge a world is all changed. Others at the heJm, by n Dthers on the "iookout,"'others clltaoing th>i cust< ratlines. Time Is a doctor who, with potent are t anodyne, has put an entire generation into placi sound sleep. Time, like another Cromwell, in se has roughly prorogued parliament, and with turn lconoclasm driven nearly all the rulers ex- not s cept one queen from their high places. So as in far as I ooserved that generation, Jor the whic most part they did their best. Ghastly ex. and i ceptions, but so far as I knew them they did Ausl quite well, and many of them gloriously seev well. They were born at the right time, wan( and they died at the right time. They left i the world better than they found it. We are I ? Indebted to them for the fact that they pre- n^jo Eared the way for our coming. Eighteen men< undred and ninety-four reverently and ndhe gratefully salutes 18G9. "Ono generation Chlci passeth away, and another generation medi cometb." thins There aro fathers and mothers here whom has ?i I baptized In their Infancy. There is not to hp one person in thi3 churoh's board of session whet or trustees who was here when I came. Here any 1 and there In this vast assembly is one person see t who heard my opening sermon in Brooklyn, the I but not more than one person in every 300 cruel now present. Of the seventeen persons who ciple gave me a unanimous call when I came, only whee three, I believe, are living. Taj v But this sermon is not a dirge. It Is an hono anthem. While this world Is appropriate as than a temporary stay, as an eternal residence it depa would be a dead failure. It would be a Have dreadful sentence if our race were doomed day f to remain here a thousand winters and a worl< thousand summers. God ke?p3 us here just "^rk long enough to give us an appetite for the I and i rre?x. iratr-we MOT 6 eelestlal tent* lms we would not be able to' appreciate spoki bllM. It needs a good many rouga blasts shall iiia world to qualify as to properly eetl- tan<w te the raperb olimate of that good land 1 for tl ere It is never too oold or too hot, too I to ce ady or too glaring. Heaven will be more In m< is than to those supernal beings who were I rendi op omnfo/1 a)/itr a* ka*ann<i/l i ok/mv v* iuuij;iuu vt OlV/ik Ui UOICOYCU Ui UlOU QVUU lisappolnted. 80 yon may well take my And 1 t oat of the minor key and set it to some enfot e In the major key. "One genera- ten y 1 passeth away, and another generation done ieth." Am othlng can rob as of the satisfaction that serine ounted thousands of the generation just pat a t were convorted. comforted and har- tiont red for heaven by this ohurch, whether a pali he present building or the three preced- Just e buildings in which they worshiped. The my te great organs of the previous churches ?wa7 it down In the memorable fires, but the , 0,T1 tiludlnous songs they led year after year J? e not recalled or injured. There 6 no Tears 'er in earth or hell to kill a halleluiah, dirge: impossible to arrest a hosanna. What a * Bfaction to know that there are many nor si isands in glory on whose eternal wet going 1 this ohurch wrought mightily! Noth- Rfv.er oan undo that work. They have ascendthe multitudes who served God in that sight eration. That chapter is gloriously social ed. Bat that generation has left its im- or ssion upon this generation. ^ sailor was dying on shipboard, and he Oh, h [tohis mates: "My lads, I can only thew ik of one passage of Scripture, 'The soul n?ore : sinneth. it shall die.' and that keeDS 8teP 1 ;ihg in my ears. 'The soul that slnaeth, ?I1 f? lalldie.' Can't you think of something P'ate in the Bible to cheer me up?" Well, chare ore are ana, and they tried to think of 0h? n te other passage of Scripture with which ??n?? console their dying comrade, but they shall Id not. One of them said: "Let us call tion a :he cabin boy. His mother was a Chris- ^-nc , and I guess he has a Bible.*' The cabla part0' was oalled up, and the dying sailof pcrha 3d him if he had a Bible. He said "Yes,* Jr0,m he could not exaotly find it, and the dy- walk, sailor scolded him and said, "Ain't you betwe ?med of yourself not to read your Bible'?'' pluok he boy explored the bottom of his trunk t0 wa brought out the Bible, and his mother tashi< marked a passage that just fitted the 1 ig sailor's case, "The blood of Jesus E 1st, His Son, cleanseth from all sin." ba3 t helped the sailor to die in peace. 80 generation helps another, and good forth gs written or said or done are re pro- But sd long afterward. branc iring rne passing or tne last generation genei a peculiar events have unfolded. One genet prefie .While resting at Sharon Sprintjs, N. T., eteair Ink it was in 1870, the year after my set- electi lent In Brooklyn, and while walking Id porta park of that place, I found myself asking an th question: "I wonder if there is anj to ma ;ial mission for me to execute in thi9 God j Id? If there Is, may God show It to me!'" repen re soon came upon me a great desire tc Lord ich the gospel through the secular print- lag i> press. I realized that the vast majority by g eople, even in Christian lands, never plent; ir a church, and that it would be an op- y0u c unity of usefulness Infinite if that door 8ea. ubllcatlon were opened- bere : ad so i recorded that prayer in a blank conqi ? and offered the prayer day in and day will i until the answer came, though in a way sell, irent from that which I had expected, gone, t came through the misrepresentation office persecution of enemies, and I have to j rd it for the encouragement of all minis- be at of the gospel who are misrepresented, q0(j if the misrepresentation be virulent ?Het igh and bitter enough and continuous ere(j igh there Is nothing that so widens one's I vi UJOiULUC33 rto UUOIUD ujyu All( really doing the Lord's work. The havta ;er the lie told about me, the big- , the demand to see and hear what I really bran(j doing. From one stage of sermonio yon llcatlon t? another the work has gone on ing ' < 1 week by week, and for twenty-three 80mei s, I have had the world for my audience, ^y th< 0 man ever had, and to-day more so wm ^ 1 at any other time. The syndicates in- j^e g< 1 me that my sermons go now to about n 30,000 of people in all lands. I mention ^ he not In vain boast, but as a testimony to a; fact that God answers prayer. Would daagi I had better occupied the field and been w^h e conseorated to the work! May God ive me for lack of service in the past and ?<one ble and quadruple and quintuple my genet k in future. i this my quarter century sermon I rel the fact that side by side with the pro Ion of blessings have gone a procession is asters. I am preaching to-day In the Qq th church building since I began work In , city. My first sermon was In the old 10016 rch on 8chermerhorn street to an audi- On jchleflr of empty seats, for the church _if almost extinguished. That church filled overflowing, we built a larger church, Ab ch after two or three years disappeared ^I< ame. Then we built another qhurch, sh also in a line of fl9ry .succession dla- A r aareJ in the same way. Then w'e put up g325 building, and may it stand for many 1 s, a fortress of righteousness and a thouse for the storm tossed, its gates froze pded with vast assemblages long after we (;jian 3 ceased to frequent them! , e have raised in this church over Sl,? Q0U8< 300 for church charitable purposes dur- Thi the present pastorate, wnile we have (Jucer n, free of all expense, the gospel to hun- , Is of thousands of strangers, year by ? T r?"ortl with crratlfuda to God that for tl ng this generation of twenty-five years I m. Bmber but two Sabbaths that I have -1-"1 sposlUons. ^Alm6sra^anat?c on the sub- ever of physical exercise, I Imve made the -.o a with which our city Is blessed the m ns of good physical condition. A daily ounc< c and run in the open air have kept me jje ly for work and in good humor with all . , world. I say to all young ministers of t>acn< go??el, it is easier to keep good health beds i to regain it when once lost. The reason feren lany gSod men think the world is going ? uin is because tuelr own jjhydlcal con>n is on the down grade. No man ought A ? reach who has a diseased liver or an en- ja 8a: e<I spleen. There are two things ahead * -m s that ought to keep us cheerful in our ? k?heaven and the millennium. id now, having come up to the twenty- that milestone in my pastorate, I wonder gjjore many more miles I am to travel? Your pany has been exceedingly pleasant, O A j iear people, and I would like to march Asyk our side until thegeneratioo with whom in^p; ire now moving abreast and step to step i0 y,ec 1 have stacked arms after the last battle, cutle: the Lord knows best, and we ought to two k rilling to stay or go. ^ j( ost of you are aware that I propose nt time, between the cl09e or my twenty- -? year of pastorate and before the begin- Colui of my twenty-sixth year, to be absent hibiti i few months in order to take a journey ind the world. I expect to sail from San can 8 leisco in the steamer Alameda May 81. cards place here on 8abbaths will be fully oc- Brain ed, while on Mondays and every Monday twelv 11 continue to speak through the printing s In this and other lands as heretofore. Thi ' do I go? To make pastoral visitation ^ ng people I have never seen, but to pirn I have been permitted a long while to f'""11 inisier. I want to see them in their own its st< s, towns and neighborhoods. I want to table* iv what are their prosperities, what their ^robr (rsities and what their opportunities, and * . ilarere mv work and sret more adapted- fines, . Why do I go? For educational pur- shirt, s. I want to freshen my mind and heart . ew scenes, new faces, new manners and , ., oms. I want better to understand what fell a he wrongs to be righted and the waste He be w to be reclaimed. I will put all I learn Monc] rmons to be preached to you when I re, I want to see the Sandwioh Islands, e76 o: 10 much In the light of modern politics the ri ; the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ timiei h has transformed them, and Samoa those vast realms of New Zealand, and mcur ralia and Ceylon and India. I want to Yel rhat Christianity has accomplished. I Ttalia : to see how the missionaries have been I , about as livint? in luxury and idleness. other rant to know whether the heathen ra- unlesi ns are really as tolerable and as com- peopl iable ns they were represenled by their L / rents in the parliament of religions at AQe ago. I wnnt to see whether Moham- agree inism and Buddhism would be good digest js for transplantation in America, as it one i, igain and again been argued. I want ar the Brahmans pray. I want to test h"r the Pacific Ocean treats its (guests hetter than does the Atlantic. I want to The he woudrous architecture of India, and Pr<>due )elhi aud Cawnpore where Christ was during Ifled in the massacre of His modern dis- ounces s, and the disabled Juggernaut un- ounces iled by Christianity, and to see if the loss wa rhich iho Emperor Sha Jehan built in Mexico r of his empress really means any more :rQa*e<i the plain 9lab we put above our dear rted. I want to see the fields where (look and Sir Colin Campbell won the The i igainst the sepoys. I want to see the upper] I from all sides. How much of it is in vast I1 ness, how much of It is in light, what sotn* lible mean* by the "ends of the earth," highly jet myself ready to appreciate the ex- Pears a 3f the present to be made to Christ as m of In the Psalms. "Ask of me, and I give thee the heathen for thine inherli and the uttermost parts of the eartty ly possession," and so I shall be ready lebrate In heaven the victories of Chritf; )re rapturous song than I could hsvtf ered had I never seen the heathen dilations before they were conquered. 30 I hope to come f>ack refreshed, reeed atd better equipped, and to do In ears more effectual work than I have in the last twenty-five. a now, in tnis twenty-nrth anniversary >n, I propose to do two things?first, to garland on the grave of the generahat has just passed off and then to put n branch In the hand of the generation low coming on the field of action, for xt Is true, "One generation passeth , and another generation cometb." Oh. nany we revered and honored and loved i last generation that quit the earth! > fell at the time of their going, and 9 were sounded, and signals of mouraere put on, but neither tears nor dirg? amber veil told the half we felt. Their; left a vacancy In our aouls that has ' been filled up. We never get used to absence. There are times when the of something with which they were asled?a picture, or a book, or a garment,, taff?breaks us down with emotion, but ?r It simply because we have to bear It. ow snow white their hair got. and hov rlnkles multiplied, and the sight grew dim, and the nearlng less alert, and the nore frail, and one day they were gone I the chair by the fireside, and from the at the meal, and from the end of the ih pew, where they worshiped with us. ly soul, how we miss them! But let us le each other with the thought that we meet them again In the land of saluataind reunion. 1 now I twist a garland for that dei generation. It need not bo costly, Ss, just a handful of clover blossoms te field through whloh they used to or as many violets as you could hold ten the thumb and the forefinger, ed out of the garden where they used 1k In the cool of the day. Pat these old >ned flowers rigftt down over the heart lever again will ache, and the feet that iever again be weary, and the arm that orever oeased to toll. Peace, father! ), mother! Everlasting peace! All that le generation gone. : what shall we do with the palm ih? That we will put In the hand of the atlon coming on. Yours is to be the atlon for victories. The last and the nt generation have been perfecting the i power, and the electrio light, ana the Ic forces. To these will be added transtlon. It will be your mission to use ese forces. Everything Is ready for you iroh right up and take this world for md heaven. Get your heart right by itance and the pardoning grace of the Jesus, and your mind rijfht by elevatooks and pictures, and your body right Trmnnalnm And flald exercise, and 7 of ozone and by looking as often as ian upon the face of mountain and of Then start! In God's name, start! And Is the palm branch. From conquest to lest, move right on and right up. You soon' have the whole field for yourBefore another twenty-five years have , we will be oat of the pulpits, and tha s, and the stores, and the factories, and jenevolent institutions, and you will the front. Forward Into the battle! If be for you, who can be against you? hat spared not His own Son, but deiivHim up for us all, bow shall He not Him also freely give us all things?" 1, as for us who are now at the front, g put the garland on the grave of tha generation, and having put the palm h in the hand of the coming generawe will cheer each other in tbe remaln>nsets and go into the shining gate where about the same time, and greeted 9 generation that has preceded us we ave to wait only a little while to greet sneration that will come after us. And ,ot that be glorious? Three generations javen together?the grandfather, the ad the grandson; the grandmother, the iter and tbe granddaughter. And so wider range and keener faculty we realize the full significance of the text, generation passeth away, and another atlon cometh." CURIOUS FACTS. _ ly one man in 203 is a "sixr," ly 906 persons in 1,000,000 die 1 age. out fifty gamblers commit snicide jnte Carlo every year. are old volume of Chaucer brought in London a few weeks ago. iimo dogs thrive better on raw n meat, and without shelter, they do on cooked food and. id in a kenneL B ticker telegraph is being intro1 into many big apartments and ouses in London by the owners le benefit of the tenants. ; e "Cing of "Water Moon" is the given the largest gold nugget found in Australia. It was found 52; weighed 223 pounds and four *3' ^ y zekiah Morris, an eccentric'' jlor in Greentree, Wis., has seven in his house. He occupies a dift one every night and hag done iturgeOft Weighing 28o pounds, l ^ id, was landed by William Ely, alcott, N. Y., on Lake Ontario, a weeks ago. He used a set line was anchored about a mile off mtient in the Qneen Street Insane im, Toronto, Canada, has swai1 a large assortment of table ry. Late reports say that he has ;nives, one fork and two spoons i stomach. rianBraintree, of Victoria, British nbia, has a tame seal which ex3 extraordinary intelligence. It 0 through a military drill, count and coins and smoke a pipe. itree has had the animal for e years. 9 voracity of fish is remarkable, ge pike recently caught in an sh canal is said to have had in :>mach a child's tin toy wagon, a spoon, a short Roman sword, ibly lost by one of Ccesar's legiona hammer and a baby's flannel emarkable affliction recently be, shoemaker in Warsaw, Poland, icame blind in the left eye on a ay, regained the sight of that n Tuesday and became blind in ght eye. This alternation con1 for eight months and ended in able insanity. low corn meal is sold to tha ne of New York, though few s of the inhabitants consume it, 3, indeed, Southern-bred colored e retain their taste for corn pone. Italians make of it polenta, an able but soggy dish, beyond the tive powers of any stomach savo >ng inured to garlic and onions. tedfcced Sliver Production. Director of the Mint estimates the tion of silver in the United States the calendar year 1893 at 60.000.000 , as against a production of 74.993.412 during the calendar year 1892. Tne is greatest in Nevada, Montana, New and Utah. The production was inI in Colorado ani Arizona. A Winded Pest. acopolocher. the winged pest of the Mississippi Valley, has appeared in lantities on Lake Gambro, in MinneThe soopolocher is a water insect prized by the black bass. It only apt night In the full of the mooo