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All Other Business Laid Aside in the fll
Senate to Discuss Cuban Affairs. si
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f b WAR BILL IN THE HOUSE.
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: 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.
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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.
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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
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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'
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'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