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fUBTUI IN (1MB ~ All Other Business Laid Aside in the fll Senate to Discuss Cuban Affairs. si 1 f b WAR BILL IN THE HOUSE. ~f : Senator* Daniel, Frye and Teller Declare That if They Uacl Their Way Warships Would Be Sent Forthwith to Havana to Compel Kespect lor American Citl | zonship?Gen. Lee A*ks for Warships. Washington, D. C. (Spocial).?Such pasI iionate debate was heard in the Senate on Thursday, coupled with such extraordinary j demonstrations in the crowded galleries and f such dramatic personal exchanges between the conspicuous figures of the Senate, as to ^ make the day one of the most memorable in ? {he annals of the upper branch of Congress. 5 Ouba was the theme, ani seemed to stir all /he pent-up emotions of months. It brought / ?hnnf- thfi romnlete disdacement of ap BBW propriatloa bills, threatening their failure BW und the advancement of the Cuban Question |S to the very front of Senate business. It dis- "" closed, also, that the resolution demanding si( of Spain the immediate and unconditional pi' V release of Julio Sanguily?the imprisoned Bi ^ ^ Cuban who claims American citizenship? Ca A^^having on a test vote secured the right of fill SH^Bway, would bo resisted by protracted debate, pr The Allen resolution for sending battle n^^Hjhips to Cuba came up soon after the Senate Mi ^^J^Topened at 11 a. m? and Mr. Allen severely o'( arraigned Spain for cruelties against women Pr and children. Mr. Morgan, who reported As the resolution for the immediate release of th HHJIB Banguily, followed in a speech, reciting the Pr breach of treaty rights in Sanguily's case, pb Mr. Daniel, of Virginia, In a fervid plea for dr 3anguily, stirred all the latent passions of wl HlH the Senate. He vigorously denounced Span- do flfflKg Ish outrages to American citizens and insults to American officials, de CARRYING WOUNDED IN8URGEN When Mr. Hale (Me.) sought to interject m< BHGs^B4uestions Mr. Daniel stated that he would All Hffig^Vjrield in due time whether It be to the organ fe* of the Captain-General of Cuba or of the sic Queen of Spain, or of any one else. In view hii of Mr. Hale's attitude on the Cuban ques- to tion, the meaning was unmistakable. Per- all tonal feeling wasquieted, however by mutual te< explanations. gl: HH This was followed by a series of explosive incidents, culminating with a ringing decla- bo F ration oy .sir. jeryo mm u uv uuu uu> >v?/ t? warship would 9tart forthwith for Havana, qu This 3ent a thrill through tho crowded pal- Co leries, which broke out into long continued ye and vociferous applpuse, which the Vice- tw President tried vainly to restrain. Mr. Mills pe exultantly declared that the galleries were mi filled with American citizens, who had a right th to express their feeling. ill Speeches followed in quick succession la from Mr. Lodge, Mr. Teller, Mr. White and in Mr. Sherman. The latter earnestly sup- of Sorted the Sanguily resolution. With the Pi ub.in resolution placed directly before the at Senate on a vote, Mr. White, of California, th took tho floor in opposition, speaking throughout the afternoon. At 6 o'clock the wl Senate took a recess until 8 p, m. for a con- sti tinuance of the contest. tri The Senate uallerios were crowded to the wi fullest capacity at the night session, in anti- br cipation of a continuance of the exciting Bi Cuban debate, and possibly of decisive ac- a < tion. At 8 o'clock, when business was re- th sumed several minor bills were passed and the Indian appropriation bill was taken up by unanimous consent, but with the understanding, as insisted upon by Mr. Hill, that this did not displace the Sanguilly resolutions. The Cuban question was not again brought up in a direct form. FOR A DECLARATION OF WAR. 00 to Congressman Sulzcr Proposes to Open Hostilities With Spain at Once. Washinoton D. C. (Special.)?Mr. Sulzer he <N. Y.) offered In the House on Thursday a ne bill ''declarinc war between the Kingdom of ab Spain and her colonies and the United to States of America and their Territories." w< HPhmnncnro n>nrk nci "Resolved, That war be declared to exist w! between the kingdom of Spain and her eol- in onies and the United States of America and to their Territories: and that tho President is flr authorized to use the whole land and naval force of the United States to carry the dc same into effect, and to i33ue to private Pi armed vessels of the United States commis- Jo sions or letters of marque and general re- St prisal, in such form as ho may think proper and under tho seal of the United 3tates, At aeainst the vessels, goods and effects of the in Government of the said kingdom of Spain T1 and the subjects thereof." bi v-> n !? fli x uo mcasuic iciuiua IVJ IUO vaiuuiulee oa Foreign Affairs. rLEE ASKS FOR WARSHIPS. D Determined Attitude of the American Consul licneral In Cuba. New Yoke, N. Y. (Special).?The Herald publishes the following dispatch sent by Consul General Lee to the State Department: m <l01ney, Washington: CI "Have demanded release of Scott, Ameri- '] can citizen, who has been kept in prison and pi iacomunioado without due process law th eleven days. fo "Trust you appreciate gravity situation pi and are prepared to sustain me. pi "Must have warship immediately. How m many ships have you at Tampa, Key West of and "Southern waters, and are you prepared CI to send them here should it become neces- Ci sary? ac "I cannot and will not stand another Ruiz ti< murder. Lee, Havana." id SANCU1LY PARDONED. Xho Spanish Minister Receive* the News pt From Madrid. . Washington, D. C. (Special).?Senor de to Lome, the Spanish Minister Resident at hi Washington, states that he has received an it; official cablegram from Madrid, Spaiu, that the Crown Regent has signed the pardon of Sangully. The further statement is made that this action was taken by the Spanish Cabinet last week, and will be published officially in the Madrid newspapers. The ^1 telegram conveying this information to Senor re do Lome is signed by Tetuan, the Spanish ot Minister of Foreign Affa rs. Ji Prominent People. Ambassador Bayard has received thousands of invitations to dine before he leaves England. Six months' fishing and six mouths' wrltC ing is the annual programme of William Black, the novelist. m William Waldorf Astor is said to own 4000 . houses in New York City, and his estimated yearly income is $6,000,000. It is said that Dr. Nansen, the Norwegian CE explorer, is muoh annoyed when he sees himself referred to as a Swede. fo Garret A. Hobart announced that he would give up, March 1, all business offices hold by m him whioh might hamper him in hta pr'V'c P< duties as Yioe-President. la BRYAN AS A LECTURER. tie Kc^nt Candidate for the Presidency speaks In New York City. William J. Bryan, of Nebraska, made his :st public appearance in New York City ace the defeat of him and his oause in the residential campaign last fall. The occa WILLIAM T. BRYAN. >n was the first of a series of lectures to be iren uuder the auspices of the New York metallic Association, and the place waa irnegie luusitvnau. j.ue uuuau >v?? won le.1, and as a lecturer, therefore, Mr. Bryan oved to be a very strong attraction. rhe first outburst of enthusiasm was when r. Bryan appeared on the stage, at 8.30 slock, escorted by H. M. McDonald, the esident of the New York State Blmetallio sociation. He looked well, very well, to ose who followed him in his fljjht for the esidoncy and saw how he was draining his ysical resources then. He did not wear a ess suit, but the familiar cutaway coat, th a low waistcoat, a wide-rolling, turn>wu collar and a lawn tie. His lecture was in the main an appeal of a iliberate style to his hearers to study the , TS TO A CUBAN HOSPITAL. mey question as one in which they were , personally interested, but he presented s- figures or stock arguments for their conleration. He laid the greatest stress on 3 statements that there was no use trying disgui39 the fact that the fight for bimetlism was a fight between whatjbe designai as "the capitalistic classes and the strugIng masses." Mr. .Bryan spoke sarcastically 01 tne asted solicitousness ot the advocates of|the Id: standard for the laboring men and loted Mr. Blaine, Mr. Sherman and Mr. irlis'.e to prove his contention that for ars a breach had been widening beeon capital and the mass of the iople. He said that the "struggling asses" were the none and sinew of e Government. This, he said, was ustrated at the time of President Clevend's message on the Monroe doctrine durg the Venezuelan dispute, when the mass the people, he said, stood back of the esident, and criticism for his aggressive titude only came from tnose who directed e nnanciai,policy or ms Administration. After the lecture Mr. Bryan shook hands Itn hundreds of men nnd women upon the age. When he left the hall by tho rear enince he found Fifty-sixth street blocked ith a crowd that was oheering, while a ass band played "Hail to the Chief." Mr. yan waved his hat at the crowd, entered carriage and drove back to the Hotel Baroldi. MOB BURNS A HOUSE, tlzens In West Virginia Oil Fields Set Fire to a "Speak Easy." ; Intelligence has just reached Sisterville' . Va., of a calamity in tho interior of the unty, by which four persons are reported have lost their lives and several were inred. In the oil fields there has been a disorderly >use and "speak easy" running, and the sighbois decided to get rid of the objectionile characters. The mob at first attempted tear down the house, but as this was slow jrkatorch was appltod. The inmates made no attempt to set out aile the crowd was tearing down thebulldg, and it is said four of them were unable reach tho street after the place was set on e. Those reported to have been burned to iath in tho fire arc: Stella Woods. oJ ttsburg; Anna Johnson, of Columbus; ihn Jackson, of Pennsylvania, and Frank ewart, of Indiana. The men were both workers in the oil .1 ,1^ of Mm ~ r 4.U.V nlAAn ;iua auu at IUU tiuiv? ui. IUO mu >vcio oioupg in their room over the "speak easy." le names of the persons who were seriously irned cannot be learned, but it is knowD at there were five or six of them. FOR A COLD STANDARD. elcgates From Many States Organize a National Non-Vartisan League. Delegates from nearly all the eighteen ates that have gold standard associatloni et at the Chamber of Commerce, New York Ity, and completed the organization of b National 3ouud Money League" on a nonirtisan basis. The announced object o) ib league is me continuance 01 me flirts made during the last camlign for the education of the peoe to a realization of the necessity foi aintainingthe gold standard. The maiD flee of the league is to be established at licago, *ith a branch office in New York ity. A constitution and by-laws were lopted after debates that proved the intenDn of the league to light the lree sllve; ea. A Court Rebukes a Governor. A. Goodwin, whe was fined and imrisoned for contempt of court and pardoned r Governor Culberson, of Texas, will have serve his sentence, the Court of Appeals iving decided the Governor had no authory in tho matter. Semite Cuban Resolatlon. A resolution was passed in the United ates Senate demanding all correspondence (latlnu to American prisoners in Cuba. An :her resolution was introduced deznundinp alio Sanguilly's release. The Labor World,' New York is to have a labor temple. America contains 200,000 machinists. Denver (Col.) firemen's wages will be cut. Pittsburg, Penn., has 1000 union stogi< akers. London music halls regularly employ jout 12,000 people. Indianapolis, Ind., has a new union o1 invassers and agents. Seven Knights of Labor assemblies will be irmed at Cleveland, Ohio. The Kansas Senate has passed a bill to ake it unlawful for any company or cor^ration to prevent employes belongiDgto ,bor organizations. I i COmZ RAIDING MATANZAS. T>?? Pan..^?i1 Vpami C Clara. Genera! Gomez is raiding Mataczas ] ince in all directions. The Cubans, under their local chief, fc a big battle near Santa Clara City on ' day, in which seventy Spaniards wore 1 and the troops were forced to retreat. Fondevlela's column has returnei Guanabacoa with the loss of sixty me: of 200 in the column. Julio Sanguily was released from pi upon the receipt of the cable message Madrid announcing that the Queen of ? had pardoned him. .Sangnily Released. Julio Sanguily, the alleged Amerioan zen who was twice sentenced to impr ment for life oq the charsre of being a r which charee was never proved against was released from prison at Havana, C fho Onnpn Rftcr-nt hiivlner nardoned much tothe chagrin of those who wore in mental in bringing about his convict He at once left the Cabanas Fortress, m he toad been confined awaiting the resu his appeal against his sentence, and st: for his home. He started immediately the United States with his family, trav by way of Tampa, Fla. It is reported he haa promised never to return to Cub HALF A MILLION MISSINC. Retiring Treasurer of Nebraska PI Under Arrest. Joseph Bartley, retiring Treasurer c State of Nebraska, who failed to turn something over $500,000 to his successor arrested at Lincoln on a warrant swon by Attorney-General Sraythe, who had t Bartley until Saturday to transfer money. , Bartley said he could not got the m in so short h Cime, and at once arrant have his bond at the time the warrant served. It was signed by a large numb prominent citizens for ?200,000. * The ex-Treabiirer has been prominei commercial and political circles of the I for twenty years. He was a banker b< being elected Treasurer. The complaint charges that he misaj priated in all $537,762.93 in various sum! from various funds. The mo3t flaf specific charge is that of failinc account for a warrant for 8200,000 is by special appropriation of the Lep ture to replace in the school that amount stolen by Charles Mosher, I dent of the Capital National Bank of atnU 4 r. ? ^ ^ U ?V,n !??.! Ir. Dnn wiu, ? uu in xi u ? m mo oiuua L nun x vu. tiary for the theft ot that and other s Bartley took his arrest coolly, and wa once released. SILVER GIFT FOR STEVENSON Senators Present a Service to the Retl Vice-President. Vice-President Stevenson wa3 prere with a maRnlilcent silver service b. Senate at his apartments in the Norma: Washington. A parchment testimi signed by every Senator accompanied service. The presentation speech was made bj Hoar, followed by Mr. Gorman. Sei Blackburn, of Kentucky, representing State in which the Vice-President was I made a short speech, as did Senator Cul representing the Stute from which the1 President comes. Mr. Stevenson re| briefly, and was deeply moved Dy the t tiful tribute of his associates of the past years. Each piece in the service bears an ins tlon which praises the "Vice-President o United Stutes and President of the So: 1893-1897," for his "strict impartiality, failing courtesy and unsurpassed wis and discretion In the discharge of his office." TEN I.IVIS PAY FOR AN INSUL Fearful Battle at a Dance la Tanc Mexican Town. An insulting remark addressed by a y< man to a young woman at a dancing j in Tancol, Mexico, led to a desperate : between all the men at the dance. When the smoke of the fight had cle away it was found that ten men were 1 dead in the room and fifteen others seriously wounded. The fighters used knives, pistols and c and the affair continued several hours, the ones still uninjured were completed hausted. Several of those killed and wounded well known and highly respected young af the town. Shocking Death of a Girl. Lulu Belle Hurst, sixteen years old, shot and instantly killed at Boston. SI by John P. Conley. Conley who was acquainted in tbe family, was sitting b( her on a sofa, when, without warninc placed a revolver at the girl's foreb Bring, blowing the top of her head off. deed was done in the presence of the i girl's twolve-year-old sister. Conley irrested. He says it was an accident. American Armor Succeeds Abroad The Bethlehem (Penn.) Iron Companj received from Russia particulars of a ressful test there of the company's aj plate. The tested plate was one repre3et 1500 tons of Harveyized nickel steel armor for the Russian battleshin Rosti' all of whioh will now be accepted. The < pany has received a oontract for makin,shaftings and engine forcings for twc cruisers for the Japanese Government Boundary Commission's Report. President Cleveland's Boundary Con sion reported without declaring tho divisional line between Venezuela and Bt Guiana, arbitration havlnr, been dec upon by the two Nations most intere: The report shows the great amount of y involved in the task of the body, aud h< was successfully met. Senate's Sunday Session. The United States Senate at a Sundaj sion passed tho Sundry Civil Approprii Bill, with various amendments, inclu one to restore to the public domain the I in several Western States set apart as f reservations by a recent proclamation o President. Torpedo Boat No. 6 is Named. The Secretary of the Navy decided to the new United States torpedo boat, kr as No. 6, the Farragut, in honor of the r hero. The Farragut is now at the Waal ton Navy Yard. Big Copper Find in Washington. News of the discovery of the richest per deposit ever found was brought to kane. Wash., by Paul Gaston, a well ki mining man. He shows samples of th< taken from the ledge whioh assayed as as ninety per cent, copper and 816 in | Some of the samples were pure native per. Mast Not Disturb Political Meotinj The North Carolina Legislature has ei ed a law making it a mis Jemeanor to wil disturb or interrupt any political mei lawfully assembled, tho penalty to be tl duys' imprisonment or $50 fine. Minor Mention. The now White Star Line steamer Oc? will be 704 feet long and 17,000 gross nage. France and England have demande Spain redress for outrageous treaimei their people in Cuba. Americans in London will celebratf 400th anniversary of the discovery of ft America by John Cabot. Twenty-four carloads of armor plate Russian battleship were shipped a few ago from Bethlehem, Penn. The Alabama Legislature has enact law whioh exempts cotton factories here to be built in the State from taxation foi years. ' WHAT CONCRESS 113 DOING. The Fortifications bill was passed and amendments to the Monetary Conference bill L rov- vrero ooncurred in. Members of Congress will receive no milenicht aire for thn extra session of Conere39. the rues- *aw authorizing it only for the regular , sessions. ailed _t _ The President sent to Congress the comrl to Plete rePort of the World's Columbian Ex? uout position commission. The report is extremely voluminous, the typewritten pages filling live rison larK0 boxesfrom Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, secured the Spain passage of a joint resolution through the House providing tha t a copy of the Congressional Record shall be furnished, upon application, to each newspaper correspondent., The President transmitted to Congress a citi- communication from the Secretary of State igon- accompanying reports from the United he| States diplomatic and consular officers on him' passport regulations of foreign countries, !uba,' Mr. Cummines, from the Committee on. him. Library, reported favorably to the House the* stru- appropriating 3100,000 to aid in the erecions, tlon of a monument, at Fort Greene, Brookrhere 17?- in memory of prisonship martyrs of the it of Revolutionary War. irted Paintings, statuary and bologna sausages r for were, at a meeting of the Republican memeling bers of the Ways and Means Committee, that taken from the free list ani placed on the a. dutiable list. The duty in each case was fixed at twenty-five per cent., ad valorem. The bill introduced at the desire of the wholesale tea merchants off New York by Senator Hill and Representative Quigg laced passed by Congress. Exact standards are to be fixed and Inspectors appointed to prevent if the the lmPorttltion of unwholesome or impure teas. over The House Committee on Military Affairi , wa? decided to report favorably a bill to authori out ize the Board of Managers of the National rjven Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers to ' tue establish a branch in Vermillion County, Illinois. An appropriation of $200,000 is 0Q oarried by the bill. 3d to As a resuic or tne proposition Deiore tne was Legislature of Utah to place a statue of er of Brigham Young in Statuary Hall of the Capitol, Mr. Barrett (Rep., Mass.) presented it in to the House a bill amending the Sundry State Civil Appropriation bill so as to provide that sfore do statue snail be placed in Statuary Hall until accepted by a joiut resolution of Conjpro gre3S. 3and The House cf Representatives passed a bill ;rant providing for the adjustment of labor f to troubles between carriers of Interstate Cornsued merce and their employes. It requires the fisla- Commissioner of Labor and the Chairman of fund the Interstate Commerce Commission, in 'resi- 3ase of trouble between a railroad company Lin- and its employes, to make an effort to settl i Iten- It by conciliation. Failing .in this, a board ams. of arbitration is to take hold of the matter, is at both parties to be bound by its award. M'KINLEY'S CABINET. I. Statement: of the Portfollon Generally As* ring signed to the Members. With the unnouncement that Cornelius N. inted Bliss, of New York City, would be appointed the Jccretary of the Inferior, the Cabinet oi ndie, President McKinley is complete. Mr. Bliss anial ? ?? 3UDR j CORN'ELICS 5. BLISS. >artv 0pht w&s born In Fall River. Mass.. In 1833. Early In life ho entered upon a mercantile career, . in which he has been unusually successful. '^rea He is the senior member of the New York yln? dry poods firm of Bliss, Fabyan & Co. Mr. wero Bliss has taken a prominent part in Repub. . lioan politics, both city and State for years, n ti! ^ut ^ never before held office, except the anul honorary one of member of the Pan-Araeri^ ex* can Conference. He was chairman of the New York Republican State Committee in were ta-raoa i??? hA?n Trnnaurfir of the mea Republican National Committee. As completed by Mr. Bliss's appointment the list of Cabinet members is as follows: Secretary of State?John Sh erman, of Ohio. Secretary of the Treasury?Lyman J. G age, was of Illinois. [ass., Secretary of War?Russell A. Alger, of ,, Michigan. , | j Secretary of the Navy?John D. Long, of , he Massachusetts. ' j Attorney General?Joseph McKenna, of The California. dead Postmaster General?James A. Gary, of Maryland. Secretary ol Agriculture?James Wilson, of Iowa. Secretary of the Interior?Cornelius N, I. Bliss, of New York. r has sue- CYCLING NOTES. rmor Bicycles aro no longer luxuries; thoy are sidl aece33it'ejl> 7jr,v Connecticut has 80,000 wheslmeu, and 48,coin 000 are said to be voters. < the A pood many of this year's lamps are tilted. > big with danger signals behind. Over 122,000 por3ons visited the recent bicycle show in New York City. Advertising by way of bicycles is forbidden by law in Liverpool, England. IEQ13Manufacturers expect to sell twiceas many true bicycles this yenr as they did last. itish Durinc the last two years in Ensland over sided 8100,000 was invested in the cvele trade. St6(l " vork Holland Imported bicycle* last yeiir to the jt value of 2,500,000 liorins. This is not such a bad showing for such a small country. A bicycle manufacturer in England is oow giving to every buyer insurance policies against death, disablement or loss of wheels, r ses- ?'ther by t helt or fire. ition *u t'10 Argentina Republic a law has been pissed forbidding wc men to ride bicycles in public. It is stated that the law was enaads a.;ted to protect the owners of public vehicles, orest . . ,. . . (f t^0 The percentage of incrtxise in division membership la^t year was as follows: Pennsylvania, 147; Illinois, 101; New Jersey. 90; North Carolina, 11; Massachusetts, 61; Connecticut, 54; Wisconsin, 46. and Missouri 34. i call A prominent English physician says relalown tivetobiko riding: "Sly belief is that the . sources of danger are in: first, fast riding; laval second, hill climbing; third, high gears. An imS* occasional sprint is uot only not injurious,but most exhilarating." An English paper has this list of suggestions for cycliug gymkhanas: Asachel race, cop- a lamp-lighting race, an eye-shut ra-;e, chungSpo Ing clothes, drawing pigs, three-arm rice, bowling a hoop, lighting matches, battledoor 3 ore and shuttlecock awheel. high C- W. Roberts of Boston introduced in the jold. Massachusetts Legislature ;t bill to puulsh cop- bicycle thieves. 1c makes the theft )f a wheel valued at $10 or more a State prison offense, the term being not less than one rs. year nor more than five. act. Only five percent, of the bicycle riders In f 11 Italy are women, according to the report of ' the Consul at Venice; but ho says that the Jtin'j; "swell set" there have taken to cycling, and hirty that the deop-seated prejudice ajjainst women taking part in athletic sports is vanishing. He says that if American manufacturers will supply wheels of three grades for about 657.30, $86.85 ani 8115.80, they can And a sanlc good market for thom. ton Sermon by Telephone. it of Several hundred member? of tho Coast Guard along the New Jersey shore heard a i the sermon delivered by the Rev. Mr. Shermer forth without leaving their respeative posts. The clergyman spoke at Stone Harbor, repeating for his words through a telephone to the next station. The guards there passed it along, and it made the entire circuit a Pittsburg Get# FHty Cont Oaa. r tan Pittsburg is to have illuminating gai at fifty centa per thousand feet \ REV. DR. TALMAGE. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTKD D1VINK. Subject: '-"Wings of Seraphim." Text: "With twain he covereil his face, ami with twain he covered his feet, and with twain ho did fly. "?Isaiah vi.. 2. In a hospital of leprosy Rood King Uzziah bad died, and the whole land was shadowed with solemnity, and theological and prophetic Isaiah was thinking about religious thincs. as one is apt to do in time of great national bereavement, ami forgetting the presence of his wife and two sons, who made up his family, he has a dream not like the dreams of ordinary character, which generally come from indigestion, but a vision most instructive, and under the touoh of the hand of the Almighty. The plnce, the ancient temple?building grand, awful, majestic. Within that temple a throne higher and grander than that occupied by any czar or sultan or emperor. On that throne, the eternal Christ. In lines surrounding that throne, the brightest celestials, not the cherubim, but higtfferthan they, the most exquisite and radiant of the heavenly inhabitants-the seraphim. They are called burners because they look like Are? lips of fire, eyes of Are, feet of Are. In addition to the features and the limbs, which suggest a human being, there are pinions which suggest the Hthest, the swiftest, the most buoyant and the most aspiring of all unintelligent creation?a bird. Each seraph had six wings, each two of the wings for a different purpose. Isaiah's dream quivers and flashes with these pinions, now folded, now spread, now beaten in locomotion. "With twain he covered his feet, with twain he covered his face, and with twain he did fly." The Drobability is that these wings were not all used at once. The seraph standing there near the throne, overwhelmed at the insignificance of the pE?hs his feet had trodilen as compared with the paths trodden by the feet of God, ami with the lameness of his locomotion amounting almost to decrepitude as compared with the diylne velocity, with feathery veil of angelio modesty hides the feet. "With twain he did cover the feet." Standing there, overpowered ty the overmatching splendors of God's glory and unable longer with the eyes to look upon them and wishing those eyes shaded from the insufferable glory, tne pinions gather over the countenance. ''With twain he did cover the face." Then, as God tells this seraph to eo to the farthest outpost of Immensity on message of light ana love and joy and get back before the first anthem, it does not take the seraph a great while to spread himself upon the air with unlmagined celerity, one stroke of the wing equal 10 10,000 leagues of air. "With twain he did fly." The most practical and useful lesson for you and me, when we see the seraph spread ing 1113 wings over me leet, is mo tessou ?i humility at imperfection. The brighest angels of God are so far beneath God that He charges them with folly, the seraph so far beneath God and we so far beneath the seraph in service we ought to be plunged in humility, utter and complete. Our feet, how laggard they have been in the divine service! Our feet, how many missteps they bave taken! Our feet, in how many patbs of worldliness and folly have they walked! I sound the praises of the human foot. With that we halt or climb or march. It is the foundation of the physical fabric. It is the base of a God poised column. With it 1 ho warrior braces himself for battle. With It the orator plants h'mself for eulogium. With it the toiler reaches his work. With it the outraged 3tamps his indignations, its loss an irreparable disaster, its heaith an invaluable equipment. If you want to know its value, ask the man whose foot paralysis hath shriveled, or machinery hath crushed, or surgeon's knife hath amputated. The Bible honors it. Especial care. "Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone," "He will not suffer thy foot to be moved," "Thy feet shall not stumble." Especial charge, "Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God." Especial peril, "Their feQt shall slide in due time." Connected with the world's dissolution. "He shall .set one foot on the sea and the other on the earth." Give me the history of your foot,and I will give you the history of "your lifetime. Tell me up wbat steps it hath gone, down what declivities iind in what roads and in what directions, and I will know more about you than I want to know. None of us could endure the scrutiny. Our feet not always in paths of God, sometimes in paths of worldliness. Our feet, a divine and glorious machinery for usefulness and work, so often muking missteps, so often going in the wrong direction. God knowing every step, the patriarch saying, "Thou settest a print on the heels of my feet." Crimes of the hand, crimes of the tongue, crimes of the eye, crimes of the ear not worse than crimes of the foot. Oh, we want the wings of humility to cover the feet! Ought we not to go into self abnegation before the all searching, all scrutinizing, all trying eye of God? The seraphs do. How much more we? "With twain he covered his feet." All this talk about the dignity of human nature is braggadocio and sin. Our nature slarted at the hand of God regal, but it has been pauperized. There is a well in Belgium which once had very pure water, and it was stoutly masoned with stoue and brick, but that well afterward became the centre o? the battle of Waterloo. At the opening of the battle the soldiers with their sabers compelled the gardener, William von Kylsom, to draw water out of the well for them, and it was very pure water. But the battle raged, and 300 dead and half dead were flung into the well for quick and easy burial, so that the well of refreshment became the well of death, and long after people looked down into the well and they saw the bleached skulls, but no water, ao tne numan soui was a well of good, but the armies of sin have fought around it and fought across it and been slain, and it has become a well of skeletons. Dead hopes, 'lead resolutions, dead opportunities, dead ambitions. An abandoned well unless Christ shall reopen and purify and fill it as the well of Belgium uever was. Unclean, unclean. Another serapnic posture in the text. "With twain he covered the face." That mean* reverence Godward. Never so much irreverence abroad in the world as to-day. You see it in the defaced statuary, in the cutting out of figures from fine paintings, in the rhipping of monuments for a memento, in the fact that military guard must stand at the grave of Lincoln aud Garfield, and that old shade trees must be cut down for firewood, though fifty George P. Morrises beg nrv.ii.afhafi.a6 -inH f h or na I la LUC wuuuiuru iv imj nvo. uuu %*+,%*. v?>.u a corpse a cadaver, aud that speaks of death as going over to the majority, aud substitutes for the reverent terms father and mother '"the old man" and "the old woman," and llnds nothing impressive in the ruins of Baalbec or the columns of Karnac, and sees no difference in the Sabbath from other Jays except it allows more dissipation, and reads the Bible in what is called higher criticism, making it not the word of God, but a good book with some fine things in it. Irreverence never so much abroad. How many tak? the name of God in vain, how many trivial things saii about the Aimichtv! Not widing to have God in the world, they roll up an idea of sentimentality and humanitariani?m and impudence aud imbecility and call it God. No wings of reverence overthe face, uo taking off of shoes on holy ground. You can tell from the w:iy they talk they could have made a better world than this, and that I he God of the Bible shocks every sense of proprietry. They talk of the love of God in a way that shews you they beliuv it does not make any difference how ba laman is here he will come in at the shiniug gate. They talk of the love ot God in a way which shows you they think it is a general jail delivery for all the abandoned and the scoundreliy of t:.e universe. No punishment hereafter for any wrong Joue here. Reverence for sham, reverence for the old merely because it is old, reverence for stupidity however learned, reverence for incapacity however fluely inaugurated, I have none. But we want more revcrenco for God, more reverence for the sacraments, more reverence for the Bible, more reverence for the pure, more reverence for the good. Reverencfa characteristic of all great natures. You hear it in the roll of the master oratorios. You see it in the Raphaels and Titians and Ghiriaudaois. You study it in the architecture of the Aholiahs and Christopher Wrens. Do not be fllppaut about God. Do not joke about death. Do not make fun about the Bible. Do not deride the Eternal. The brightest and mightiest seraph cannot look unabashed upon Him. Involuntarily the wings aome up. k'With twain he covered his face." Who is this God before whom the arrogant and intractable rel'iae reverence? There waa an engineer by the name of Strasicrates who was in the employ of Alexander the Great, and he offered to hew a mountain in tne shape of his master, the emperor, tne enormous flt?ure to hold in the left hand a city of 10,00i) inhabitants, while in the right hand it was to hold a basin large enough to collect all the mountain torrents. Alexander applauded him for his Ingenuity, but forbade the enterprise because of its costliness. Yet I have to tell you that our King holds in one hand all the cities of the earth, and all the oceans, while he has the stars of heaven for his tiara. Earthly power goes from hand to hand from Henry I to Henry II and Henry III, from Charles I to Charles II. from Louis 1 to Louis II and Loul<? III, but from everlasting to everlasting is God. God the first, God the last, God the only. He has one telescope, mUU mkUU ? it.1 UJ- X vKiiu. wuiun no sees everyimiiK?ins umuia* cience. He has one bridge, with which he crosses everything?his oronlpresencp. He has one hammer, with which he builds everything?his omnipotence. Put two tablespoonfuls of water in the palm of your hand, and it will overflow, but Isaiah indicates that God puts the Atlantic, and the Pacific, and the Arctic, and the Antarctic, and the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea, and all the waters of the earth in the hollow of His hand. The fingers tho beach on one slde.the wrist the beach on the other. "He holdeth tne water in the hollow of His hand." As you take a pinch of salt or powder between your thumb and two fingera, so Isaiah indicates God takes up the earth. He measures the dust of the earth, the original there indicating that God takes all the dust of all the continents between the thumb and two fingers. You wrap around your hand a blue ribbon five times, ten times. You sav it is nve hand breadths or it is ten hand breadths. So indicates the prophet God winds the blue ribbon of the sky around His hand. "He meteth out the heavens with a span." You know that balances are made of a beam suspended in the middle, with two basins at the extremity of equal heft. In that way what vast heft has been weighed! But what are all the balances of earthly manipulation compared with the balances that Isaiah saw suspended when he saw God putting into the scales the Alps and the Apennines and Mount Washington and the Sierra NevadasV You see the earth had to be ballasted. It would not do to have too much weight in Europe, or too much weight in Asia, or too much weight in Africa or in America, so when God made the mountains he weighed them. The Bible distinctly says so. God knows the weight of the great ranges that cross the continents, the tons, the pounds avoirdupois, the ounces, the grains, the mlllegrnms?just how much they weighed then and just how rau h they weigh now. "He weighed the mountains in 3cales and the hills in a balance." Oh, what a God to run against! Oh, what a God to disobey! uu, waac a uoa to aisnonur: ua, wum a God to defy! The brightest, the mightiest angel tnkes no familiarity with God. The wings of reverence are lifted. "With twain he covered the face." Another seraphic posture in the text. The seraph must not always standstill. He must move, and it must be without clumsiness. There must be celerity and baauty in the movement. "With twain he did fly." Correction, exhilaration. Correction at our slow gait, for we only crawl in the service when we ought to fly at the divine bidding. Exhilaration in the fact that the soul has wings as the seraphs have wing3. What is a wing? An instrument of locomotion. They may not be like seraphs' wing, they may not be like birds' wing, but the soul has wings. God says so. "He shall mount up on wings as eagles." We are n^ade In the divine iciaga. and God has wings. The Bible says so. "Healing in His wines." "Under the shadow of His wings." "Under Whose wings hast thou come to trust." The soul with folded wing now, wounded wing, broken wing, bleeding wing, caged wing. Aye, I have it now! Caged within bare of bone and under curtains of flesh, but one day to be free. I hear the rustle of pinions in Seagrave's poem which we some-" times sing: Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings. I hear the rustle of pinions in Alexander Pope's stanza, where he says: I mount, I fly. 0 death, where is thy victory? Oh, people of God, let us stop playing the fool and prepare for rapturous flight. When your soul stands on the verge of this life, and there are vast precipices beneath and sappnirea uomes aguvo, wuiuu ?a/ win ? vu. fly? Will you swoop, or will you soar? Will you fly downward, or will you fly upward? Everything on the wing this day bidding us aspire. Holy Spirit on the wing. Angel of the New Covenant on the wing. Time on the wing, flying away from us. Eternity on the wing, flying toward us. Wings, wings, wings! Live so near to Christ that when you are dead people standing by your lifeless body will not soliloquize, saying; "What a disappointment life was to nlm! How averse he was to departure! What a pity it was he had to die! What an awlul calamity!" Rather standing there mty they see a sign more vivid on your still face than the vestiges of pain, something that will indicate that it was a happy exit, the clearance from oppressive quarantine, the cast-off chrysalis, the molting of the faded and the useless, and the ascent from malarial valleys to bright, shining mountain tops, and be led to say, as they si and there contemplating your humility and your reverence in life and your happiness in death, "With twain he covered the feet, with twain he covered his face, with twain he did fly." Wings, wings, wings! 'A NEW FRUIT PEST. Attacks Orange* and Lemons and Hat Created Alarm Among OrchprdUts, on^Jan nt A. nflOT nfwt. which is making great havoc among the oranges and lemons shipped to the East from Southern California, is receiving investigation by Professors of the Agricultural College at the State University. The new pest has been found to be a form of fungus, but whether it is an entirely new variety remains to be proved by further examination. Professors Woodworth and Bioletti have tne investigation in charge. The new disease has appeared so suddenly that growers in the South have not had time to ship many samples of the fungus to Berkeley. Samples of the pest as it attacks the lemons are all that have thus far been received. None of the specimens ot the orange blight have boon examined, though the Professors feel confident that the same form of fungus has attacked both fruits. The appearance of the new disease upon the surface of the lemons varies with the duration of time that the fruit has been off the trees. Tho disease was tlrst noticed in the East, where California fruit bore large, repulsive red blotches that made the fruit unsalable. In the shipping houses in Southern California the fungus appeared during the past few weeks as a brown or gray patch of discoloration. At first it was passed without comment bv the shippers, but when the returns from Eastern shipments showed whole carloads sold at an immense sacrifice an account of the new disease, then the alarm was sounded in tho California orchards, and now every Southern orchardist is anxiously awaiting the results of the investigations at Berkeley, which shall determine whether the future prospects of the Southern citrus belt are to be permanently endangered bv the unsightly fungi. In some instances Enstern reports show that 'the disease even destroys the flesh of the fruit, rendering it absolutely unfit for food. BUYINC DOLLAR HORSES. Kentucky Fanner Fatten* His Hog* on Equine Flosh. Every imaginable kind of horse save a good and serviceable one is taken to Georgetown, Ky., on court days to be traded off. Frequent trades are made for twenty-flvo cents to boot and many amusing sights are witnessed on "jockey row." as it is called, lu connection with this trading in worn-out horses a new industry has sprung up. A man Irom Woodlord County was iu the trading crowd buying all the horses ha could get for 51 per head. He kills thorn, feeds the flesh to hi9 hogs, sells the hides and bont*s and ilnds it profitable. Whenever he buys a horse for a dollar and he can sell it for two he lets it go, otherwise it is fed to the hogs. Tho Emperor's Sarcasm. While taking his daily constitutional with the Empress in the Thiergarten, Berlin, Emperor William of Germany passed a laborer, who stared at him but did not salute. His Majesty turned, called upon tho man to halt, and then, touching his hat insanitary fashion, said: ''My man, if you do not wtsh to salute your Emperor, at least you might pay proper respect to the Empress." Then, turning on his heel, the Emperor left the man standing in a state of considerable astonishment. P' =jb&===' i 'temperance BACCHUS DETHRONED. ' ' -' This sober cup Of which we sup, A. thousand times surpasses The ruddy bowl That staius the soul A nl sense-depriving glassast With Wanton smile, It won't beguile Its most devoted lover; Nor leave him sunkDegraded?d rn n k? His senses to recover. With us then sup, Disdain the cup, Whero er you chance to flud it, That offers bliss To those who kiss, Lut leaves a sling behind it. Shall we in lays Old Bacchus praise Aad join his noisy revel Which brings wit down . . . Till, with the clown The wise man's on a level? Ah no, my boys, For purer joys Fair temperance shall bring us, Whose joys refined ft e'er leave behind Au after-though to sting us. With 11a lhan ann " *vu ug IUVU Disdain the cup, Where're you chance to Had it. That offers bliss To those who kiss, But scatters death behind it ' < THE ORE AT DESTBOYER. Drunkenness is still so common that 00' caslonally temperance workers feel Inclined to despair. It may be worth while to glance at the history of our drinking customs, for without some knowledge of cau3eswecatt' uot hope to remove effects. It would be a poor explanation of a tree that said nothing of its roots. Drunkenness is a deadly tree with many roots, deep and old. Starting with the early British inhabitants ot this country (England), we find they knew how to make three forms of strong drink?(1) metheglin, or mead, which is made from honey; (2) ale. whloh Is made from grald; (3) cider, which is made ot innlua Art aIM K iof afI n n nin^Arna airs aF these Britoas: ''Their ordinary drinlc was water. Upon extraordinary occasions they drank a kind of fermentel liquor made of barley, honey or apples, and when lntoxi- ' catnd never failed to qunrrei." The British had houses, in whl^h traveler# miffht find shelter for themselves and their horses. These were really inns. ? The Romans entered Britain in 43 and remained about 359 years. They introduced. wine to the natives, and the use of the signboard, which wa3 a bush. After the Romans withdrew, the Saxons conquered a great part of the island. They were great drinkers, and often got drunk upon mead, which an old poet describes as "a friend to tho lips aud a foe to the life." We can scarcely understand new the savage, coarse brutality of those Saxons. On one occasion they proposed to make a treaty of peace with Vortlgern by a feast. The Saxons made their British cuests drunk. and each drew his kulfe and killed his man!. Throe hundred British nobles are said to havd been slain in a state of intoxication on chat occasion. The Danes male inroads next upon ttie Saxon3. The Danes were, it possible, more terrible drunkards than the Saxons themselves. We know from various sources to what a - : dreadful state the country was reduced by drunkenness. In 669 a synod was held by the bishop. St. David, to enact new canons, so as to repress drunkenness. These fiinons more than thirteen hundred years ago spoke in no uncertain way. They decreed; "He who forces another to get drunk out of hospitality must do penance, as / if he had got drunk Himself: but he who, out of hatred or wickedness, in order to disgrace <Jr mums, uiuors, luruea luclu iu uiuut, must do penanoe as a murderer of souls." About four hundred years later the great Duustan found time to devise the peg-tankard, In order to stop drunkenness and quar* rleing. But it failed. This brings us praotically to the time of William the Conqueror, and here we may pause. Clearly drunkenness is no new thing. It , is not only as old as England, but It is a part of English custom and character. It got Dossession of our forefathers, when their ii choice of beverages was very small, and wnen scientific knowledge of food and drink V had not come to them. This scourge of drunkenness arose frcai man's need of something to drink, and it spread by his carelessness and Ignorance, till it became the giant custom which cameo destruction everywhere. Our great lesson from this very brief oatline is that drunkenness must be fought by these homely means which provides for man's wants and change our social customs, no less than by moral enthusiasm and religious . faith.?Rev. Dennis Bird. TO THE MODERATE DBIUKEB. Presuming that you believe vou are not . destitute of some influence in the world, we would urge upnn you a brief appeal. It may be you regard yourself in no danger from the power of appetite which has vanquished thousands before you. Perhaps you have thus far passed unharmed by that foe which has blasted the hopes and happiness of so many of your fellows. But have you never thought that watchful eyes are fixed upon your example? Perhaps you are a young man. Are there none among your acquaintances in whom your example is subverting moral principles and leading the way to the, ; drunkard's grave? Perhaps you are a father. .* <* ' Is the eye of your little one cast toward you' as you quaff your dally or occasional dinner glass? Are you aware that for that child yott may be laying a foundation for a miserably life and death? Do you love your famiffix ? Is your love evinced by introducing a prtaciple which may result in temporal lalrfmy and final ruin to the members of that family? May you not live to see your folly perpetrated in those who bear your image, and see it, too, rioting in their destruction? If yoa "sow to the wind," can you complain if you' "reap the whirlwind?"?National Temperance Advocate. TBICXS OF THE TBADE. The Manchester (England) City News tag published soma startling revelations, showing the trick- to which brewers and publl* cans resort to encourage the Sunday trade. It says: "Sunday is the great day for pushing the drink business. Sweets, oranges, cakes, apples, etc.. are given to children. Cigars are given to adults. Threepenny-bits are plaoed in a certain numoer of the pots of liquor. M - ?1 Kofli. niimna Qmnilntlnff AU CALL a UUII Ql mo udoi j/uui[/a| *?*? " W often to fifty per cent more liquor than is asked or paid for,1 is another inducement. 'At some places all the pint pots are refilled free, while at other places a gallon or two " gallons are contributed by the bartender for the company in which to drink his health.' ** The truth of those statements may be assumed, as they have never been denied. The City News roundly charges the brewers with . beiug responsible for these grave moral ana legal offences. k TECE GiyTLEXAW. "I was in England one time." says Mr. Moody, "and was invited out to dinner. The host asked me to drink one and another of his seven kinds of liquors. I refused again and again, until dually I saw the young lady sitting next to me beginning to get oonfused and thick in her words, owing to tne influence of liquor, and I said, 'This is no place for me,' and asking to be excused, I went upstairs. The host was very indig> nant, aud followed me to flud out what was the matter. I finally told him and he said, 'You're no goutiemau.' ' "Well, I don't want to be if I have to get drunk in order to be one.' " ALCOHOL SHOttTENS LIFE. People who drink the stan lard moderate <lo3e of alcohol in whisky, w.ne or beer, taking it twice daily, are never free from alcohol. It requires twenty hours for a moderate dose of liquor to bo eliminated from the system. From the insuraucestandpoint, continues Dr. L. E. Keelev. alcohol "shortens life" if drum: in any quantity whatever. The daily use of a moderate quantity has a greater eff i .'t to shorten life than the periodical use of au excessive quantity. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. The beer consumed in the United States last year would fill a canal ten feet deep, fifty feet wide au l fifty miles lonj. A