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mlmtI floods.
Business Interrupted and Homes Deserted
in Several States.
MILLS FORCED TO SHUT DOWN.
The Mononjjtliela Rlvpr a Kucin; Torrent-?Kullroad
Travel Interfered With
in Several Statee, and Much Damage to
Property Reported?Several Drowned
In the Overfl iwlnc Waters in Kcutucky
PiriSEfRo, Penn. (Special).?Tho usually
placid Monongahela P.iver is n raging torrent,
rushing onward with vast quantities of
wreckage and rubbish upon Its surface. The
landmarks of the stream are completely ob
literated by the volume and rush of the angry
waters, andihe locations of the various dams
are only traceable by the eddies. Throughout
the Monongahela Valley river traffic has
been suspended, and there is a general feeling
of apprehension. The rise was very
rapid. Along the river at many places railroad
tracks are covered by many feet of
water. Mills and workshops are partially
submerged and tht workmen nave been
^ driven from their benches'.
The greatest damage thus far repotted is
between JloKeesport and Pittsburg, where,
throughout tho distance, the shores are lined
with manufactories. A majority of these
< places were compelled to suspend operations,
and mu h loss ami damage will result. All
of the railroads in the Mononsrahela Valley,
with the single exception of the Monon
branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad, experienced
much difficulty in getting their passengers
through to their destination.
At CJlassport tbe river rose so rapidly thnt
the flr^a could Dot be drawn from the costly
mrnaces of the United Coke, O.is and Chemical
Company's plant, and, as these furnaces
are now partially under water, they will be
ba ily damaged, if not ruined.
At McKeesport the rise in the Monongahela
and Youghiogheny Rivers compelled
many people to move their household
goods by means of boats. The oity waterworks,
Dewee's Woods Rolling Mill, the National/
Rolling Mill, Cannon's Planing Mills
and all the coal yards are submerged.
It is expected that the loss in the Monon{vnliola
nnrl HKi'rt V-illacc rrill rt?Qr?h htin^roi^o
, H..OJC7 >?.?? ?V??KU UUUU.VU.'
of thousands of dollars.
RIVERS RISE RAPIDLY.
Losses Caused by the Flood in the State
of Kentucky.
Fbakkfobt, Ky. (Special).?Nearly all
streams in Kentucky are clear out of their
banks aad doing unmeasurable damage.
Several people have been drowned in various
parts of the State. Much stock has been lost,
fencing swept away, and other property almost
ruined. The streams all through the
mountains are higher than for years, and the
greatest damage is feared.
News comes from Pineville, Ky., that two
white men, while crossing a raging stream,
were drowned, and also a revenue officer,
who was in the mountains loosing after
moonshiners.
At Middlesborough, a cloudburst deluded
the locality, drowning James Charwell and
riunily. Charweli and his wife and four
children while eu route home from a neighbor's
in a wagon were caught in tho cloudburst
and all drowned.
Tho Worst Floo?l In Years.
Wheeling, W. Va. (Special).?The Kanawha
Valley is suffering from the worst
flood in years. Charleston is under water.
Members af the Legislature wnt to the State
iiuu-3c 1u uuuld, ul uu wlvi> jjwiu,
since the bar^nent is flooded and the fires
put out. Suffering among the poor is great,
and churcies and schools are filled with
those driven from their homes.
It is impossible to estimate the damage in
the upper part of Charleston. Business is
almost entirely suspended. Telephone connection
is broken. The postoffico now oc"
'pics an island.
Maryland In the Cabinet.
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JAMES A. GA?.Y, i
(Has a:ceptc l a por;'ol;o offered him by
Minor
ADDRESS TO S LVER REPU3LICANS.
Teller and IIin Associate* C.ill a Meeting
ol a Frorisional Xatiuual Committee.
Th>! Silver Republicans in the Senate and
House signeu an address to the people,which
whs made public at Washington, calling a
meeting of a "provisional National Committee
of the Silver republican parly" in
Chicago June 8 next, for the purpose of callins
h Nat onal Convention of Silver Republicans
aud those who will co-operato with
thetu ''until the gr? at monetary issue is
settled and settled right."\
Each State and Territory is asked to designate
a member of tho Provisional National
Committee, to represent it in all matters
preliminary to the calling of tho National
Convention. Charles A. Tow no. of Minnesota,
is namod Cnainnan of the committee
until a further crganization is elTeeted.
The address declares that th" Republican
pany has abauclonel the principles' u which ir
was founded an-l that the Silver Republicans
cannot follow "that party into a shameless
abandonment of American interests and the
tyranny of an alien m< nay system." It i3 announced
that the address is issued in response
to numerous inquiries requesting information
re^ardinjr party policy. It is
signed by Senators Teller, Dubois, Cannon,
Pettigrew, Mam le and Jones, and Representatives
To wne, Ilartman, Sbafroth and Allen,
of Utah.
"Secretary t<? tho President" Now.
The office of President's private secretary
has ceased to exist and from th s time on the
duties of the office will be discharged by tho
Secretary to the Pres'denf. Mr. Thurberis
the first officer to append this title to his
name. Tho change, wh ch was made in the
Legislative Appropriation act just approved,
has gone into ' fleet.
Mm. C!eve >in>! nt Princeton.
Mr-. Grover C evehnd. her mother, Mrs.
H. E. Perrin , an 1 her daughters, Ruth.
Esther an ! Marion, arr.vud in Princeton, N.
J., :*nd took pos -ssiou of tiie President's uew
home.
Aimivl :?t Curttions.
Senator Ellsworth introduced a bill in the
New York Legislature forbidding uewsjKiper
cartoons or the printing of pictures without
consent.
Convletcil of Filibustering.
Captain Hart, of the Laura la, wiis convicted
in Philadelphia of aiding a military
expedition agains; .Spain.
Hems o.' Interest.
The gold proiuct of tho world is rapidly
Increasing.
According to offlciul reports. thi plague in
India is abating
"THE NEWS EPITOMIZED
Waihineton Item*.
The bill 'o incorporate the International
Bank was favorably reported to the House.
The House Committee reported in favor of
removing General Smith, Commandant of
the Soldiers' Home at Leavenworth, Kan.
William J. Bryan appeared on the floor of
fhe nous* and was greeted by many of his
former colleagues.
In the Senate a resolution calling foi an investigation
of the death of Dr. Ru z in Cuba
was adopted.
In the House Mr. Grosvenor (Rep. Oliio,)
took occasion to denounc2 civil service reform,
and was roundly applauded bv Republican
members.
Secretary Oluey assured Senator Sherman
thnt there was noihing critical iu the relations
between the United Stales and Spain.
Senor de Lome guaranteed to Secretary
Olney that Dr. Ruiz's murderers, if there was
murder, shall be punished, and that if
insisted upon all Americans in custody in
Cuba shall be brought to Havana for trial.
A bill for the reorganization of the Consular
Service was reported favorably to the
House.
The Senate Committees made amendments
to the Sundry Civil Bill, adding nearly $750,00
to the appropriation.
The Senate passed a bill for a new system
of return postal card and envelope service.
The General Defl^ien^y bill, carrying an
appropriation of $8,433,937, was reported to
the House.
The House reversed the finding of its Election
Committee, and seated the contestant in
e TT _ _ 1.1 r./xrM Wrt
luo CK5U Ul XXUpKlU^t VS. XY.CUUCIU UVUi mo
Tenth Kentucky District.
Domestic.
The Gorman-American Bank of Tonawanda,
N. Y., shut its doors because of a
run and a State examiner was placed in
charge.
The flood at Pittsburg, Penn., is subsiding,
and it is believed that the worst is over at
Cincinnati, Ohio, and Louisville, Ky.
Two children of Mrs. Allen, of Washington
Park. Brooklyu, were left alone in the flat
while their mother went to call on a sick
friend. The younger child, aged three, set
Are to her clothes and was burned to death.
Her sister wa? fatally burned. The furniture
ignited and was destroyed.
At Tallahassee Fla., M. Nicholson, conricted
of the mur.ler of J. Duval, a livery
man, or .naaison, nn., in io?o,una sentenced
to bo hanged March 17, committed 9Uicide
by laudanum poisoning.
By the biggest ice deal known on the Penobscot
River, in Maine, for years, the Consolidated
Ice Company, of Nt-w York, has
acquired the bouse and harvesting plant of
the American Ice Company.
The Canndlan Pacific Railway Company
has place I with the Carnegie Company, at
Homestead, Pcno., an order for 65.000 tons
of steel rail?.
The People's Party, in convention at Chi??Poffaw
XI I-Tm Pflann OAn A f
uvunuaiou vauni ii. ii.wiiovu, uvu w?
Chicago^ murdered Mayor, for the same office,
which is to b? filled next April. Mr.
Harrison is the leading candidate of the free
silver Democrats for Mayor also.
The engine nn 1 express, mail and baggage
cars of Train No. 1 on the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad were thrown from the rails at
Glen Station, Ky., by running into awashout
caused by the extremely heavy rains. No
damage was done to the sleepiug cars. Mr.
Stout, the road master, was killed.
A despatch from Paris says that Dr.
Steinitz, the famous che^s player, is dead at
Moscow, Russia. About two weeks ago it
was announced that Dr. Steinitz was suffering
from a mental disorder and had been
placed in the Morocoff Private Hospital, at
Moscow. William Steinitz was born at
Prague, Bohemia, on May 14. 1836.
The family of Jacob Ciciez, of Cleveland
Ohio, was almost completely wiped out of
existence by fire. Eight persons were
burned. Jacob and Mary Ciciez, husband
and wife, were fatally burned, aad their
four children, who are all under six years
old, received injuries. Albert Jerno and
Joseph Jerga, boarders, were also badly
burned.
The Southern Pacific Railroad will pay
$150,000 to the State of Keutucky for its
charter.
Ferdinand May was arrested in New York
City charge 1 with defrauding a bank in
Strassburg, Germany, of over S200.000. by
lalsely representing that lie una soia ana
consigned to this country a large amount of
whulebone, on which thi bank cashed bills
of exchange. Ho was sent to Ludlow Street
Jail in dt-fau't of ?100,000 bail.
R. G. Dun A Co.. of New York City, in
their last weekly trade statement, gave a
decidedly encouraging revi;w of business
condition?.
At Pra:rieDu Chien, Wis.,ex-County Judge
and ex-Mayor C. E. Fuller committed suicide
by shooting himself. The suicide was due
probably to mental aberration.
Deer in the Green Mountains of Vermont,
were never more plentiful or in better condition
since their importation into the
State ten years ago l han during the present
winter, rne Tans 01 saow imvo uccu cum*
piirntively light, and in consequence the deer
have been wandering through the forests a?
during other seasons of the year.
The recent increase in incendiary fires in
New York City has aroused the Are officials
into raukinK a protest concerning the blanket
policies which are issued by flre insurance
companies wilhout any preliminary survey
of the property to be insured.
A resolution was introduced in the Senate
at Albany, N. Y., calling for an investigation
of the conduct of department stores.
The substitution of electricity for steam as
a motive power for the Brooklyn Bridge cats
will, it is stated, save *10,000 a year.
Captain Romeyn, of the Fifth Artillery,
stationed at Fort >I?Pherson, felled Lieutenant
O'Brien to the ground with a blow on
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IUB J'' W . J. IJJS IUUK |Jinvo IU luo v.V'UI.JV. VI I
dress Dannie.
At New Bloomfield, Peun., Dr. T. L. Johnston,
who a few weeks ago was convicted of
murder in the second decree for the killing
of Dr. Ge rtreS. Henry at Duncauuon, was
sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment in
the Eastern Penitentiary.
An unknown Italian woman was murdered
at Norwalk, Conn., and after tlie assassin
had inflicted sixteen terrible \vouu.1s he
placed the body on a railroad track, but it
was discovered, aud the police ar searching
for the murderer.
At New Brunswick, N. J., Elwoo<l Thompson,
twenty-nine years of age. shot and instantly
killed himself iu his home on Bald
win street. He leaves i wife and five children.
His suicide is attributed to worrj
over the disgrace brought upon him by hi.c
mother, who recently was convicted of keeping
a disorderly house.
The accounts of retiring State Treasure!
Joseph Uartly and State Auditor Eugene
Moore, of Nebraska, show a shortage of more
than half a million dol'ars.
Three burglars held up John Welsh ani'
his wife iu their road houie nearMenlo Park
N. J.
Catherine Selio, ol A'dene, N". Y., sacrifice J
her life in saving the lives of her brother.an
1 sisters when a lamp exploded.
At Iron River, Mich., the residence ol
Thomas Brosnowsky was burned an t two
children p rshoi in the flr>\
General Jobu C. Robinson, a veteran o'
the Civil War, died in his homo in Elmira
N. Y.
Floods in the Ohio IViver and its tributaries
caused preat damago to property.
Korelcn Note*.
The American, Scott, was released frorr
confinement incomunicado in a Cuban jai'
at the demand of United States ConsulGeneral
Lee.
A savage attack was made on Willinnr
Waldorf Astor by John Burns in tho British
House of Commons.
President Krneirer tins asked that tin
Hi?h Court of th-South Afr can Republic bt
placed uuder I he Volksra id, through fear o'
the plots of Cecil Rhodes.
James Fry, who murdered J. P. Shaw in p
bush llfteen miles Irom Emsdale, Canada, as
the result of a quarrel, has committed suicide
by shooting. Fry had given out that hf
would never be captured alive, aud had barricaded
himself in the house.
The Powers ordered Greece to evacuate
Crete within twenty-four hours. Kinj;
George replied that he would do so If the
autonomy of the island was guaranteed by
Europe.
France and Brazil have signed a protocol
refering their dispute regarding territorial
boundaries to arbitration, the President ol
the Swis.s Cot-foJeration to be the referee.
NINE KILLED BY A TRAIN. H<
Ml But One of a Familv Party Meet aa
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ineir ueain ai a orossiriff,
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A CHILD'S MARVELOUS ESCAPE, oil
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A Shocking Tragedy Occurs N'enr Chattanoogn,
Tenn.?Engine Crashes Into of
r
a Loaded Wagon ?An Infant Found
5ei
on the l'ilot of the Locomotive in the je]
Anns of Her Lifeless Little Sister, ?a
aci
Chattanooga, Tenn. (Special).?An ink ta[
coming passenger train on the Georgia Di- qq
vision of the Southern Railroad, bound from [nl
Atlanta, struck a wagon at a crossing four ini
miles east of this city at noon Wednesday. t??
Nine members of the family of W. J. Wood- f0,
ward, a farmer, living ten mlies from the 3ts
city, were killed, the only occupant of the w*
wagon who escaped being a three-year-old ??*
child. Virgil Woodward, who was rescued ac
uninjured from beneath the extension front 3. i
of the locomotive immediately after the ac- ^
cident. Those killed were: yyj
Mrs. Laura Woodward, aeed 44; George, a q0
son, aged 24; Josie Lee, a daughter, aged 22;
Mrs. Lizzie Woodward Montgomery, a married
daughter, ajjed 23; her son. aged two ^
months; Delia Woodward. as;ed 17; Daisy
Woodward, aged 10: Mary Woodward, aged i
12: Ada Woodward, aged 8. i
The family were en route to the city to
have a family picture taken, prior to the de- ;j0
parture of Mrs. Montgomery, who intended
fn laotrn fnr Klnrnnfft Aln_. to ioin her hUS?
band. The father an I eldest son had oome C
to the city eariier in the day. '0H
The wagon was drivtn by George Wood- ,
ward. The turnpike crosses the tracks just
beyond a curve. The train was running at lot
a speed of thirty-flve miles an hour, and just ak
as it rounded the curve, Engineer Laird saw ;he
the wagon filled with people crossing the ian
tracks. He sounded the whistle and the ;he
bell was rung. The driver seemed to grow ?oi
oonfused and. instead of pulling uo, he iD(
whipped his horses, apparently hoping to iee
cross before the train reached him. ne
The engineer reversed his lever, but tbo <
train's momentum was too great, nud it :he
struck the wagon squarely broadside as it p0j
was midway of the tracks. of i
Instantly the air was filled with bodies and ;0S
fragments of the shivered wagon. Seven of ^
the occupants were instantly killed and two
were so horribly mangled that they died in
four hours. The engineer is prostrated with i
grief over the tragedy, and for a timo it was
thought he would lose his mind. 21a
A striking feature of the cutastropho is g
that no limbs were broken, but in nearly 3ia
every oase fhe skulls of the victims were fr0
crushed to fragments, each body seeming to ;ttV
have described an ellpse through the air pro
and have fallen upon the head. for
Lizzie Montgomery descended on tho pilot jU|
of the locomotive and still held her two-year- Q0|
old sister, who escaped with a few scratches, p0j
and was the only oufe saved, in her lifeless
arms.
WASHINGTON'S NEW SENATOR.
Gr<
Ceorce F. Turner is a Prominent Itesldent
of Spokane. A
George F. Turner, the new United States kl<
Senator from Washington, is one of the most 'or
prominent men of Spokane, and has for lja'
many years been a Republican Ifvier in the 6
aas
an<
GEOROE F. TURNEK. I101
J a J{
eastern part of the State. Most of his bus!- /
ness luteresis are centered in the Trail Creek
mines and the development of adjacent c'v
properties. | ?&
GOVERNOR'S PALACE BURNED. \w
ou<
AH the Turkish ltecord*. Contracts, anti ten
so on Burned at Canea. a 1
\Vn
Fire was discovered at an early hour in the 30E
morning in the Governor's palace at Canea, all
Island of Crete, a building constructed of I
wood, .ind In h very short tirae the structure ^
with nil its contents was burned to the ,,a,
ground. to
Vice-Admiral Canevaro, of the Italian ^is
squadron, who is in command of the united
naval forces in Cretan waters, resided in the ae^
palace, which was guarded by a strong force fejj
of Italian sailors. The energetic efforts of
the British marines, who form apart of the
foreign force occupying the town, alone DA
saved the thickly populated district, in whi'-h
the palaoe is situated, from destruction. Do- Ha
tacnments of sailors from the warships in
the harbor wore landed, and rendered valuable
aid in lighting the flames. "
The lire destroyed the last vestiga of the for
machinery of the Turkish Government. All ?a(
of the records were consumed, as well as . .
contracts and financial, legal, an i munici- "al
. mull., rnq
Dill 'lOCUIUeUlS. Mlino mo wui.iv- v.1.0 ?uiu
ing the Moslem rabble set lire to several we
houses In the town and suburbs. to
Duriug the fire the Governor's safe fell Kl\
frorti the floor on which it stood Into the Un
ruins and burst opon. The sa!e contained 1
7000 pounds Turkish. The soldiers who had all
gathered about the burning building and ;el
were engaged in trying to extinguish the pai
flames, upou seeing the contents of the safe (
exposed, tried to steal the money, but wore in
prevented by the European officers, who Hi- Ap
reotodthe sailors un lor their co-nmand to his
fire a volley of blank cartridges at the
would-be robbers.
I
Philadelphia's Ambition.
The question is being mooted in Phlladol- 3tr
phla of removing the State Capital from H ir- 9x1
rlsburg to that city. Ri'
lo^
Five of a Family Dead.
August Hanson and his wife and Ave children,
living six miles from Oldhum, South *
Dakota, were found uucoiftcious, probably 'ot
from flax straw gas and smoke from their ch
stoves. The wifean l four children are dead, on
and Hauson is in a critical condition. One an
boy is recovering. be
Kxtra Session of the Senate.
The President issued a proclamation calliug
an extra session of the Senate to con- u ,
vone at 12 o'clock March 4. to receive such ;i
communications as may be received iron: :un
the incoming President.
Cj'cliiiff Notes.
Thfi statistician who asserts that the total
weekly rai'eage of alt the bicycle riders in lb
the world is !)!)0,0i)0,000 miles Ls nor likely to m
be contradicted. th
The bicycle dealers of St. Louis, Mo., are th
p anning the formation of a bicycle arcade. be
Several firms have already hirel buildings v?
In the selected location. W
Lady bicvclists have begun to utilize their
bicycles for ornamental purposes. When a
bicycle has had Its day it is dismemberod.
limb from limb, und the parts hung up on
the drawing room wall. On nails that once (l;
supported china brackets, over doors where r,
fans held position, all the remains of the old
cycles are displayed to view. t
TO PRESERVE THE FORESTS.
>w the I'rcsldent Celobruted Washlnc;ton'a
Birthday.
?resldent Cleveland celebrated the 165th
niversary of the birth oi the flrst PresiDt
of tho republic by issuing thirteen cxltive
orders which are far-roaching In
sir effect.
the recommendation of Sccrotary Frani
aud a Forestry Commission of the Nanal
Academv of Sciences, the President
nnd and promulgated thirteen proclamans
establishing thirteen additional forest
ervations, containing an aggregate area
21,379,840 acres.
L'he report of the Forestry Commission to
Jietary Francis, and his report to the Presiat,
give interesting and valuable inforition
noneornine this important Executive
In his report to the 'President, Secre y
Francis says;
'An appropriation of S25.000 was made by
ngress 'to enable the Secretary of the
tetior to meet the expenses of an
aestivation and report by the Nanal
Academy.of Sciences on the induration
of a National forestry policy
the forested lands of the United
ties, Under authority of this f.ct, and
th the approval of the Secretary of the In1or,
Professor Wolcott Gibbs, President of
i National Academy of Sciences, appointed
ommission, consisting of Professor Charles
Sargent.dirpctor of the Arnold Arboratum,
Harvard University; General H. L. Abbott,
ilted States Engineer Corps; Professor
lliam H. Brewer_of Yale University, Ar
Id Hague Ql ttte united states ueoiogicai
rvey, AlejAnder Agassiz. and Gifford Pinit,
the President of the Academy being erIclo
a member ot tho commission."
HANNA TO BE SENATOR.
vernor Buftlinell Will Nauie Him to
Succeed Sherman.
Governor Bushnell, of Ohio, gave out the
lowing statement to the press:
'It had been my intention to mako no mlncementln
relation to tho action I would
e la the mntter of an appointment to (111
i prospective vacancy In the Ohio reprobation
in the United State* Senate until
i vacancy actually existed, But on acmt
of the manifest Interest of the people
1 their dt>sire to know what will be done I
>m it best now to make the following state*
nt:
'When Senator Sherman resigD3 to enter
i Cabinet of President McKinley I will apnt
to succeed him Hon. Marcus A. Hanna,
Cuyahoga Countv, to serve until his sucsor
is chosen by the Seventy-third General
lemblycf the State. I trust this action
! meet with the approval of the people.
' asa s. bushnell."
t was not expected tho formal announcent
would be made before Senator Shern's
resignation was placed In hi-j hands,
lince George B. Cox. of Cincinnati, dereJ
for Chairman Hanna, the pressure
m other Republican quarters in Ohio in
or of the Cleveland man ha3 become very
nounoed. It not only became too strong
Governor Bushnell to run counter to.
: 90 strong that he oould no longer withd
a declaration of his Intention to apnt
Mr, Hanna.
GREAT POWERS SHELL CRETE.
tek Flag Lowered After Seventy Shot*
But Hoisted Again.
L fusillade having continued at Canea,
:ind of Crete, despite tne warnings of tho
iign admirals, the united squadrons bom.Inrl
rho insurant p.nmn outside of Canea.
imnrt flrin&r was heard in tbo hills to the
itwnrd. The reply of the Turks was feeble,
:l it was obvious that they must abandon
ilr positions if pres-ed. Their gun practice
>m the redoubt on the outer lines was
licrous.
Che chief Cretan position was a hamlet on
idgeof hills, 4000 yards from the flagship.
4.30 p. m. signals wore made to Her BritMnjesty's
ships Dryad; Earrier and Rolge,
together with one Italian, one Gern
and one Russian warship, to open Are
the Cretan position, where the Greek flag
9 hoisted some Jays ago.
?he British ships fired forty and the other
elgn i.hips thirty shell3 at he village and
ned the house heM by the Cretans. The
; was soon lowered, and tha order "cease
3" so mded aftBr ton minutes. Thereupon
) flag was rehoisted. The rocks around
re crowded with Cretans.
^he Turks, encouraged by the fleets, now
3ned a lively fu9itlad3, while the Cretans
re removing the wounded. The Cretans
1 not reply duri ag the whole performance.
8LONDIN DEAD.
e Ma i Who Won Fame by Crossing
Niagara on a Tight Hope.
Jlondin, the rope walker, died at his
ne, Niagara Villa, South Ealing, England,
aw days ago.
)n June 30. 1859, Blondin startled the
llized world by crosjfns Niagara Falls
a tight rope. Fifty thousand people
messed the feat, which had never
:n before attempted. During the folring
year Blondin repeated tho perili
journey nearly fifty times, and on Sepnbei
14, 1863, he made tho trip, carrying
man on bis back, before tho Prince of
ties. The latter,- when Blondin was praited
to him, exclaimed, "Thank God, it's
over!"
llondin's real name was Jean Francob d3
nvolet. He begin ropa-walking when
ir yoare old, and only a few months ag:>
re aa exhibition in London. Ho appeared
bo as active as over, and repwatod all of
ranrvelous feats on a ropa nearly one
ndred feet from tte ground. Blondin
yer used a safety not and said ho nevor
t fear on a rope.
lUGHTER FOR GENERAL HARRISON.
is I.right Bine Eyes and Weights Eight
Pounds anil a Hair.
["here is great joy at tho residence of
mor President Harrison, in Indianapolis,
1., for at 5.30 a. m. Sunday there camo a
>v eirl with bright blue eyes that strongly
emble the Harrison type. Tho baby
ichts eight pounds aud a half, according
Dr. Jameson, tho attending physician, and
res every indication of perfect health. Mrs.
rrison is doing nicely.
Phe finest woolon and cambric giIts and
sorts of b.\by requisites have been revod
at thi Harrison hotne during the
st fe .v weeks.
Jenoral and Mrs. Harr.son were marriod
St. Thomas's P. E. Church, New ?ork.
ril 6, 1896. Tho former President is in
> sixty-fourth year.
Mississippi and Missouri Overflow.
leavy rains in the valleys of tho Missouri
srer and its tributaries have floodel those
earns, and tho Mississippi is receiving the
tra volume of water to swell its own rise.
/or men are preparing ior an overflow of
viands.
Moslems Slain !ln Crete.
Dffl^ial reports from Crete say that the
;al number of Moslems, men, women and
ildren, who have baen killed in the prest
troubles on that island Is over 27.000,
d that twenty-five Moslem villages nuva
en pillaged anl burned.
Undeserved Pensions.
Tho President sent to tho Senate a veto of
private pension bill, accompanying it with
message criticising Congress for making
.d precedents by grantiug pensions wnere
ey wore not deserved.
Fur n New Department.
It was said at Washington tha"; a bill for
o establishment of a Department of Comurce
ami Manufactures would bo pushed
rough Congress at an early day, and that
a Cabinet member for the department had
;en selected in tho person of John H. Con>rse,
President of the Baldwin Locomotive
orks, at Philadelphia.
Nova Scotia's Finances.
The provincial estimates for the ensuing
ical year were3ubmiitod to thoNov.i Scotia
isrislaturo. The revenue for tho year is
tirnated at $839,099, and tha expenditure!
?S >5,033.
PRESENTED BY ALL TEXAS.
A Silver Service From tlie Lone Star State
to the Battleship of Her Name.
Ten thousand people witnessed the
presentation of the silver .service lo the
United State3 battleship Texas on the plaza
in front of the Bpnch Hotel at ttaiveston?
rnxas. Captain Glass, accompanied by his
officers, arrived at the wharf shortly after
1.30 o'clock p. m. They were followed by
the bluejackets and marines of the Texas,
and all were received find escorted bv the
local military to the Tremont Hoto1. where
they were met by Governor Culberson and
staff.
After the band had played "My County,
'Tis of Thes," "Dixie" and ''Yankee Doodle,"
Governor Culberson was introduced,
and In a brief and eloquent speech he expressed
the sincore appreciation of the people
at the hi(,h compliment which had been
paid the Stale by the Secretary of the Navy,
and as a slight token of that foiling commissioned
him to present a silver service
through Captain Glass to the battleship
named after the State of Texas-.
When the Governor finished, presentations
were made, embracing a Lone Star flajj, portraits
of Austin and Houston, a collection of
Texas histories and works by Texas authore,
and a small service of silver by various chapters
of the Daughters of the Republic. Captain
Glass responded in a happy vein. Cnp
imu VJltlOO WOO quiuuoMKk.v-..,. ?r I
At the conclusion of his remarks a guar I of
blue-jackets was formed around the silver
service, which consists of fourteen pieces of
sterling silver, weighing 1200 ounces aud
costing $5000.
CARY IN THE NEW CABINET.
The Maryland Man Announce* That He
Hat Been Salecteil.
Jamfis A. Gary, of Baltimore, MJ., has
been selected for the position of PostmasterGeneral
in Major McKinley's Cabinet and
has accepted. He authorized this announcement:
"Mr. McKlnley has tendered to me a
portfolio in his Cabinet. While it was not
/ioflnJ+alv aafflo/1 mMr?h nn? T mm namiPAii if*
will be one which I can accept."
Jame3 Albert Gary Is a widely known
manufacturer of Baltimore, Md., and has
been prominent in Republican politics
since 1870, when he was nominated
for Congress in the Fifth
Maryland District In 1879 the Republicans
nominated him for Governor. He
has been a Maryland delegate to every
National Convention of his pariy since 1872,
and from 1880 to 1896 represented bis State
upon the Republican National Committee.
Mr. Gary was born in Uncasville> Conn.,
in 1833. of English descent. He was taken
to Baltimore as a boy, and was educated at
Rock Hill Institute, Ellicott City, Md. In
1860 he was admitted to partnership in the
firm of James S. Gary & Son, manufacturers
of cotton duck, twills, etc., and since
CQ6 aetua 01 ijim miuur, iu ioiu, una uwu tut?
head of the firm. Ia business Mr. Gary has
been highly successful. Ha own? valuable
jotton duck mills in Howard and Baltimore
Counties, M l. He is also largely interested
In financial and other business corporations
in Baltimore.
CONGRESS OF MOTHERS ADJOURNS.
Its Three Day*' Meeting Proved a Success
From Every Standpoint.
The National Congress of Mothers, alter a
three days' meeting at Washington, has adt
^.1 f.,- In
juurnwu. xuo aucuunuco wi? itu iu
of expectation. Those participating as delepates
and spectators believe that the HonKress
is the beginning of a great movement
for the education of women in respect to
rearing their families.
The first Congress of Mothers has not only
had the support and encouragement of
those his:h in official circles, but of scientists,
educators and progressive thinkers
throughout the country. Many letters and
telegrams of sympathetic feeling have been
received.
At the closing session Dr. Mary Walker
tried to talk about dress reform. An animated
discussion eusued, and an officer
started to ejeot Miss. Walker, but was prevented.
Resolutions were adopted 'or a continuance
of a headquarters in Washington from
which articles relative to the progress of the
work will be sent to newspapers. A Congress
of Mothers will be held annually ic
Washington.
SPAIN WINS IN THE PHILIPPINES.
A Crushing Defeat of the Insurgents Re.
ported.
A dispatch from Manila, the capital of the
Phil!ppine Islands, says that the Spaniards
have won a brilliant victory over the insurgents,
and inflicted a crushing blow on the
rebellion.
The troops attacked the rebel stronghold
at Silang. whioh was desperately defended
by a large force of insurgents. The fighting
was without material advantage to either
aid a unfit fViA frnnnti wapa afnrm
the rebel position.
The oommand was obeyed with alacrity.
The rebels made a brief stand against the
ouTush of the troops, and then those who
wero able to do so fled precipitately in the
direction of Ymus, which is now the last
rallying point of the insurgents. The loss of
the troops is not stated, but the number 0/
rebels killed is placed at 500.
STEEL RAILS FOR EXPORT.
The Carnegie Company Gets an Order for
100,000 Tons From England.
Millard Hunsicker, representative of the
Carnegie Company, London, has forwarded
to his company in Pittsburg, Penn., orders
for steel rails for export to England amouat;
?1ft 1 nnft fnna Hna nt tha ndara lu fn*
IU? IW iVJyVVV IUU.7, VUU Wl VUW WIUW4J IJ IVt
25,000 ton3 forthe London au'l Northwestern
Uailroad. and a similar order is booked for
the London and Southwestern Rallroa l.
The other orders are smaller and are for
different roads. It is und rstood that soma
of them are merely first orders and largely
of the trial class. It Is also reported that the
company has just secured an order for about
11,000 tons of steel rails from the Government
of Japan.
Greece Defl.int.
A British gunboat turns! back a Greek
transport carrjlng reinforcements to Crete.
The act caused great indignation In Athens.
The Greek Government persists iu its defiance
of the Powors. Berlin newspapers denounce
Great Britain for its refusal to blockPiruaita
Thrt riimnr nf A mRQ4Hr?rfl
of 2000 Moslems at Sitia la oonflrmed.
Lonl Salisbury has sent a note to the
Powers favoring the granting of autonomy
to Crete. The Greek Government called out
army reserves and the National League
threatened to foment revolution in the Balkan
States if Crete should be taken awaj
Irom Greece.
Chief Ju?tlce Heavier Dead.
Chief Justice Mercer Beasley of the Su.
preme Court of New Jersey died Friday in
Trenton. 31ercer Beasley was born in Mercer
County, New Jersey, in 1815, and had
bBen Cnief Justice for thirty-three years.
His present term would not have expired
until March, 1899. Until very reeentlv he
did not show his great aije. His step wa3
(lrm and his eye3 bright, and but for tho
deep seams in his face any one would have
readily believed him to be a much younger
man than he was.
Out of the Common ltmi.
The Canadian Indian Famine Fund
amounts to j'5 ,000.
Two-thirds of the population of the Brit sh
Channel islands are ,'emale?.
An occasional wolf hunt varies tho
monotony of life in some parts of Illinois.
Mrs. Polly Cloud Graves, of Lexington,
Kv., has just celebratod her 100th birthday.
About 10,000 bale3 of tobacco are now
stored iu tho bonded warehouses at Tampa,
Fin.
In Paris it is estimated th;it there are no
less than 50,000 victims of the morphine
habit.
Hales of print cloths for a recent week at
Fall lUver, Mass., were the heaviast on
record.
The company which controls the amber
product of Prussia pays 3160,000 annually
v'or toe privilege.
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REV. DR. TALMAQE.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY TIIE
NOTED DIVINE.
Subjcct: "A Shattered Faith."
Text: "And soma oa broken pieces of the
eh'.p."?Acts jfxvll., 44.
Nover off Goodwin sands or the Skerries
or Cape Hatteras was a ship in worse predlca.
ment than, in the Medltermnean hurricane,
was the grain ship on which 276 pas.vju-ars
were driven on the coast of Malta, Ave miles
from the metropolis of that island, called
Uitta Vecchia. After a two weeks' tempest,
when the ship was entirely disabled and
captain and crew had become completely
demoralized, an old missionary took
command 01 trie vessel, tie was smaii,
orooked-backa.i and sore-eyed, according
to tradition. It wa3 Paul, the only
unscared man aboard. He was no more afraid
of a Euroclydon tossing the Mediterranean
sea, now up to the gates of heuven and now
sinking it to the gntes'of hell, than he was
afraid of a kitten playing with a string. He
ordered them all down to take their rations,
first asking for them a bles3tucr. Then he
insured all their lives, telling them they
would be rescued, anl, so far from losing
their heads, they would not lose so much of
their hair as you could cut off with one cli'-k
of the scissors?uay, not a thread of it,
whether it were srray with a#e or golden
with youth, -'There shall not a hair fall
irom ine neaa 01 any or you.
Knowing that they can never get to the desired
port, they make the sea on the fourteenth
night black with overthrown cargo,
so that when the ship strikes it will not
strike so heavily. At daybreak they saw a
creek and In their exigency resoived to make
for it. Aad so t!iey cut the ca'jles, took in
the two paddles they had on tho3e old boats
and hoisted the mainsail so that they might
come with such force as to be driven high
up on the beach by some fortunate billow.
There she goes, tumbllug towards the rocks,
now prow foremost,now stern foremost, now
rolling over to the starboard, now over to
the larboard; now a wave dashes clenr over
the deck, and it seems as if the old craft
has gone forever. But up she comes
again. Paul's arms around a mast, he
cries: "All is wejl. Go I has given mo
all those that sail with me." Crash
went the prow, with such force that it broke
off the mast. Crash went the timbers till the
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vessel. She parts amidships, and into a
thousand fragments the vessel goes,and into
the waves 276 immortals are precipitate 1.
Some ot them had been brought up on the
seashore and had learned to sw>m, and with
their chins just above the waves and by the
strokes of both arms and propulsion of both
feet they put out for the beach and reached
it. But alas for those others! They have
never learned to swim, or they were
wounded by the falling of the mast, or the
nervous shock was too great for them. And
others had been weakened by long seasickness.
Ob, what will become of them? "Take
that piece oi a rudder," snys Paul to oue.
"Take that fragment ot a spar," says Paul
to another. "Take that image of Castor and
Pollux." "Take that plank from i he lireboat."
"Take anything and head for the
beach." What a struggle for liie in the
breakers! Oh, the merciless waters,
now they sweep over the heaJs of m n.
women and children! Hold on there'
Almost ashore. Keep up your courage.
Remember what Paul told you. There the
receding wave on the beach leaves in the
sand a whole family. There crawls up out of
the surf the centurion. There another plank
comes in. witha lifeclingiugfast to it. Tlier^
auother piece of the shattered vessel, with
its freightage of an immorlal son!. They
must by this time all be saved. Yes: there
comps in last or ail, lor un uhu ooeu u?o sou- i
ing the rest, the old missionary, v-ho wrings
the w.iter from his gray beard and cries out,
"Thank God. all are here!"
Gather around a fire and call the roll.
Pan 1 builds a Are. and when the bundle of
sticks begins to crackle, and, standing and
sitting around the blaze, the passengers begiu
to recover from tbelr chill, and the wet
clothes begin lo dry. and warmth tejiins to
come into all the shivering passengers, let
the purser of the vessel go round and see if
any of the poor creatures are missing. Not
one of the crowd that were plunged into the
sea. How it relieves our anxiety as we read:
"Some on broken pieces pf the ship. And so
it came to pass that they escaped all safe to
land."
Having on previous occasions looked at
the other passengers, I conflue invsolf today
to an examination of those who came
In on broken pieces of the ship. Thero is
something about them that excites iu me an
intense interest. I am not so mucti interested
in those that could swim. They sot
ashore, as I expected. A tniio of water is not
a very great undertaking for a stromj swimmer,
or even two mil?8 are not. But I cannot
stop thinking about those on broken
pieces of the ship.
The great gospel ship is the finest of the
universe and can carry more passengers
than any craft ever constructed, and you
couia no mora wreck it than vou could
wreck the throne of God Alin'ghty. I wish
all ffc people would tome aboard of her. I
could not promise a smooth voyage, for ofttimes
it will be tempestuous or a chopped
sea. but I could promise safe arrival for all
who took passage on that Great Ea>teru, so
called by me because its comtnan lor came
out of the east, the star of the east a badge
of his authority.
But a vast multitude do not tako regular
pa-sage. Their theology is broken in pieces,
and their life is broken in pieces, nud thoir
habits are broken in pieces, and thetr word
ami spiritual prospects are broken in p'oces,
and yet I believe tbey are going to reach the
sninlng snore, ana I am encouraged oy rne
experience of those people who are spoken
of in the text, "Some on broken pieces of
the ship."
Oue object in this sermon is to encourage
all those who caunot take the whole system
of religion as we believe it, but who
really believe something, to come ashore on
that one plauk.
I do not underrate the value of a great
theological system, but where in all the
Bible is there anything that says
Believe in John Calvin and thou ahalt be
saved? or, believe in Arminius and thou
jUn!f ho cnva/t*} haliutra In avmul i"*P Finrh
and thou shait be saved? or, believo in tho
Thirty-nine Articles and thou shalt be saved?
A mau may be orthodox and eo to hell, or
heterodox and go to heaven. Tho man who
in tho deep affection of his heart accepts
Shrist is saved, and the man who does not
accept him is lost.
1 oelieve in both the Heidelberg and Westminster
catechisms, and I wish you all did,
but you may believe lu nothing they contain
except the od? idea, that Christ came to
save sinners, and that you aro one of them;
and you are instantly rescued. If you can
in An fhtt frrunH aM shin T UMllId
rat iter have you get aboard, but if you can
ouly flud a piece of wood as long as the humau
body, i r a piece as wide as the outspteai
humaD arms, and either of them is a
piece of the s, come in on that piece.
Tens of thousands of people are to-day kept
out of the Kingdom of God because they
caunot believe everything.
I am talkug with a man thoughtful about
his soul who has lately traveled through
New England and passed the night at Andover.
He says to me. '! cannot believe that
in this life thedesiiny is irrevocably fixed; i
think there will bo auother opportunity of
repentauce after death," lsaytohim: ''My
brother, what has that to do with you?
Don't you realize that the tnan who
wiits for another chance after death
when he has a good chance before death
is a stark I'ooiV Had not you batter tactile
plank that is throwu to you now
and head for shore rather thau wait for a
plank that may by invisible hands be thrown
to you after you are dead? Do as you please,
but as for myself, with pardon "for ail my
sins offered me now, and all the joys of time
and eternity offered me now. I iustantlv
tako til-m, rather than.run the risk of such
other ehauee as wise men think they can peel
oil' or twist out of a Scripture passage
that his for all the Christian centuries
been interpreted auother way." You say, "I
do not like Princeton theology, or New
Haven theology, or Audover thaology. I do
not ask you ou board either of these great
men-of-war, their portholes tilled with the
great siege guns of ecclesiastical battle, but
I do ask you to take the ono plank of the
gospel that you do believe in and strike out
for the pearl st-ung beach of heaven."
Says some other man, "I would attend to
religion if 1 was quite sure about, the t'oetrine
of election and free agency, but that
mixes me all up."' Those things used to
bother me, but I have no more perplexity
about them, for I 3ay to myself, "If I love
Christ and live a good, honest, useful life, I
X am elected to be saved, and if I do not
love Christ and live a bad life I will b^Hj
damned, and all the theological w-H
inaries of the universe oanuot make
any different." I flouudered a longwhlM^H
In the sea of sin and doubt, And it was as
rough as the Mediterranean on tho four-. I
teenth night, when they threw the grata M
overboard, but I saw there was mercy tee a fl
sinner, and that plank I took, and I havo
been warming myself by the bright fire on . ?
the shore ever since.
While I am talking to another man aboat
his soul he tells me, "I do not become a
Christian because I do not believe there la
any hell at all." Ah, don't you? Do All the
people of all beliefs and no belief at all, of
good morals and bad morals go straight to A
happy heaven? Do the holy and the de?
bauuhed have the same destination? At mid
nignt, id a uauway, iau owuet ui ?
hou9e and a burglar meet. They both
Are, and both are wounded, but the
burglar dies in flvo minutes, and the owner
of the house lives a week after. Will the
burglar be at the gate of heaven, waiting,
when the house owner comes in? WiJl the
debauchee and the libertine go right in
among the families of heaven? I wonder if
Herod is playing on the banks of the river
of life with the children ho massacred. I
wonder if Oharles Guiteiiu and John Wilkes
Booth are up there shooting at a mark. I
do not now controvert it, although I must
say that for such a miserable heaven I
have no admiration. Bat the Bible does nQt
say, "Believe in perdition and be saved."*
Because your theory of light is different'*,
from others do not refuse to open your eyes. <
Because your theory of air Is different you *
do not refuse to breathe. Because your \i
; theory about the stellar system is different (
you do not refuse to acknowledge the north v
star. Why should the fact that your theolo- '
giral theories are diffarent hinder you from,
acting upon what you know? If you have
not h whole ship fastened In the theological
drydocks to bring you to wharfage, you have '
at least a plank. "Some on broken pieces
oi rue snip.
"Bat I don't believe in revivals!" Then
goto your room, and all alone, with your
door locked, (rive your heart to God, sad
join some church where the thermometer
never gets higher than fifty in the shade. ( 1 ..
"Bat I do not believe in baptism!" Come
in without it ahd settle that matter afierA
ward. "Bat there are so many ip-[
consistent Christians!" Then come]
in and show them by a good example(
how professors should act. "IBat J don't**"""!
believe in the pid Testpjui^nt!" Then '
come in on the New. I don't like the
book of Romans." Then come in on Matthew
or Luke. Refusing to come to Christ,!
whom you admit to be the Saviour of thelost,
because you oannot admit other things.1
you are like a man out therein Chat Medltor*
ranean tempest and tossel in the HelltS'
breakers, refusing to oome ashore until he
[ can mend the pieces of the broken ship. X|
hear him say: l'I won't go in on any of these,
planks until I know In'what part of the
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amp lury uciuu^. nuru j. cau kov iuo niuu-j .
toss in the right place, and the sails set, and!
toat keel piece where it belongs, and that
floor timber right, and the ropes untangled,1
I will go ashore. I am an old sailor, and
know ail about ships for forty years, and aa'
soon as I can get the vessel afloat in good;
shape I will come in." A man drifting by oil
a piece of wood overnears him and says: "Yon1
will drown before you get that ship re-'
constructed. Better do aa I am doing. I
know nothing about ships, and never saw{ r
one before I came on board this, and I can-,
not swim a stroke, but I am going ashore on, /
this shivered timber." The man lh the'
offing, while trying to mend his ship, goes!
down. The man who trusted to the plans
is saved. Oh, ray brother, let your smashed*
up system of theology go to the bottom,! '
while you come in on a splintered sparf
"Some on broken pieces of the ship."
If you can believe nothing else, you certnirtUr
KuHawa In vlnoHrtiia anffarintf frtf Trmi!
see it almost every day in some shape. The;
steamship Knickerbocker, of the Cromwell';
line, running between New Orleans and Ne'Wj
York-, was in great storms, and the captaui1
and crew saw the schooner Mary D. Crattmer,
ol Philadelphia, in distress. Top
weuthercold, the waves mountain high, the
lirst officer of the steamship and four man
put out in a lifeboat to save the crew of thg
schooner, and reached the vessel an t
towed it out of danger, (he wind shifting so
that the schooner wa<* saved. But the fivs
men of the steamship coming back, tbeia
bo t ca sized, yet righted again itnd came
on, the sailors coated with Ice. The boat
capsized again, and three times upset and
was righted, and a line was thrown the poor fl
tellow?. but their hands were irozen so iney
could not grasp it, aud a great wave rolled *
over therj, and they w?mt down, never ?
to rise again till the sen gives up its
dead. Appreciate that heroism and Belt
sacrifice of the brave fellows all who can,,'
and oan we not appreciate the Christ who
put out into a more biting cold and into a
more overwhelming surge to bring us out o(
infinite peril into everlasting safety? The
wave of human hate rolled over him from'
one side and the wave of hellish fury rolled
over him on the other side. Ob. the thick*
uess of the night and the thunder of the
tempest into which Christ plunged for our
rescue!
Como in on the narrow beam of the cross.'
Let all else go and cling to that: put that'
under you, and with th^ ear&estnes3 of a
swimmer struggling for his life put out for
shore. There is a great warm lire of welcome
already built, and already many,
who were as far out as you are.
are standing in its genial and
heavenly glow. Tlio angels of God's t
rescue lire WUU1U ; UUl 1u>V iud ami %v
your hand, and thuykjow how exhausted
you are, and all the redeemed prodigals of
heaven are on the beach with new white
roho* to clothe all those who come In on
broken pieces of the s'aip.
My sympathies are for such all the
more because I was naturally skeptical,
disposed to question everything about
this lifo and the uext, and was in danger
of being far!her out to sea than any
of the 276 in the Mediterranean breakers,
and I wa? sometimes the annoyance
of my theological professor because I
asked so many questions. But I came
in oa aplanlr. I knew Christ was the Saviour
of sinnt'rs and mat I vrtis a sinner, and I got!
ashore, and I do not propose to go out on
llmt sen agaiu. I have not for thirty minutes
discussed the controverted points of theology
in thirty years, and duriog the rest of my
life Ido not urooose to discuss them lor
thirty seconds.
I would rathor in a mud scow try to
weather the worst cyclone that ever swept
up from the Caribbean, than risk my immortal
soul in useless and perilons discussions
lu which some of ray brethren in the minis* *
try are indulging. They remind mo of a "
company of sailors stauding on the Ramsgate
pier head, from which the lifeboats are
usually launched, aud coolly discussing the
different styles of oarlocks aud ho*7
deeo a boat ought to sot iu the water whiles
hurricane is in full blast and there are three
steamers crowded with passengers going to
pieces in the offing. An old tar, the muscles
of his face working with nervous excitement,
cries out: "This is no time to discuss such
thiugs. Man the lifeboat! Who will volunteer?
Out with her into thesurf! Pull, my
lads; pu 1 for the wreck! Ha, ha! Now
we have them. Lift them in and lay them
down on the bottom of the boat. Jack, you
try to bring them to. Put those flannels
around their heads and fee", and I Will Dull'
for the snore. God help me! There! Landedl
Huzza!" When there ar? so many struggling
in the waves of sin and lorrow and wretchedness.
let all else go but salvation for time
and salvation forever
You admit you are all broken up, one de- .
cade of your life goue by, two decades, three
decades, four tiecade?, a'half century,perhaps
three-qunners of a century, gone. The
hour hand and the mlnue hand of your
clock of life are almost parallel, aud soon it
will be 12 and your day nuded. Clear discouraged.
are you? I a Imit it ts a sad thing
to givo all of our lives that are worth anything
to sin and tho dev.l and then at
last make God a preseut of a first rate
corpse. But the past you cauuot recover.
Get on board that old ship you never will.
Have you only ono more year left, one more
month, one more week, one more day, one
more hour?como in on that. Perhaps if
[ you ifcx to heaven God may let vou go out
on some creat mission to soiue other world,:
where you can atone for your lack of service
in this.
I From many a deathbed I have seen
[ the hands thrown up in deploratioa
something like this: "My life has been k1
wasted. I had stood "mental faculties A
and line social position and great opportunity,
but through worldliness and neglect
all has gone to waste save thtsa
ew remaining hours. I uow accept ol
Christ and shall enter heaven through
J His mercy, but alas, alas, that when I might
I have entered the haven of eternal rest with
a full cargo, and been greeted by the waving
hands of a multitude in whose salvation
I had borne a blessed part, I must confess I
now enter the harbor of heaven on brokaq
pi ces of the ship."? ?J