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' I \ 1-; * c~ .. y _________ ) IIS STEM FCIDEES The Stella Hits the Rocks in the tngiish Channel in a roe. SEVENTY GO DOWN TO DEATHJ!,.. Tlie Vessel Was Proceeding at Full Speed in a Dense Fog? lJnilers Explode, Kant ening the Enrt-Trujilc i'atn of Fasten* gers and Crew?Captain Heroically Sinks at Uis Post TVith the Ship. i Southampton, England (By Cabi*).?The J pnsseDger steamer Stella, plying between I this port and the Channel Islands, crashed ^ .mnn n.o Pncnuof Honks near the m "K"" Island of Aldernev, in a dense fog, and i foundered in ten minutes, her boilers exploding with a tremendous report a3 she i went down. It is estimated that about seventy per* sons wero drowned by the sinking of the 8tella. Tho Stella had on board more than 200 passengers who were going to spend ?a9ter in the Channel Islands. The captain, all the other officers, exoept tbe9econd officer, and most of the crow and many of the passengers sank with the Stella. A boat in charge of the chief officer capsized, and almost all its occupants wore drowned. A few of them were picked up by other vessels. Many most pathetic incidents are reported. In several cases men lifted their wives and children into the boats and then per-/ iahed themselves In their presence. One V wife who wus thus bereaved lost her rea ; son. The second officer of the steamer, who ?as among th^se re-c ted, says that a colf lapslble boat was launched full of people; feut he thinks she struck on the rocks. The Stella, which belongs to the London and Southwestern Railway Company, left Southampton at noon, conveying the first daylight excursion of the season to the Channel Islands. There were more than two hundred passengers ou board, and . the crew numbered thirty-five men. The weather was foggy, but nil went well until the afternoon, when the fog became uiost dense. At 4 o'clock the Cnsquet Rocks suddenly loomed up through the fog bank, and the steamer almost immediately afterward .-struck amidships. The Captain,seeing that the Stella was fast sinkintr, ordered the life boats to be launched. His Instructions were carried out with the utmost celerity, ; and the women and children were em- : s barked in the boats. Then the Captain | -orrlararl ? >!? mnn tr? lnnlr after themselves. I A. survivor states that he and twenty-five I others put off from the Stella In a small i boat. The sea was calm, but there was a j 1 big swirl around the rock3. When this j boat was a short distance away from the j wreck the boilers from the Stella burst ' with a terrific explosion, and the vessel j disappeared, stern foremost, In the sea. The last thing the survivor saw was the figure of the Captnln of the Stella, stand, Jug calmly on the bridge and giving his ?. last orders. Tbe Captain perished with ! his vessel, owing to the suction caused by the .sinking steamer being very great Indeed. The disaster is generally attributed to "the high speed at which the steamer was traveling in the fog. three men hanged. 'Two White* and a ?gro Expiate n Murder on the Same Scaffold. Bibxingham, Ala. (Special).?Thomas -Johnson and Richard Halo, wblte men, and Sam Rivers, a negro, were iianged at Troy a few days ago from j tbo same scaffold. On the night of j December 18 last three men entered ; the home of Mrs. Ira Myers, a i wealthy widow, near Josle, killed j ber- nud lier daughter-in-law, Mrs. E. Myers, with an ax, and robbed the place of ] 43000. Sam Cook, a farm overseer, who j 9iept in a back room, was aroused by the cries of the women and ran to tholr rescue. Ho wa3 knocked down and left for dead ?nd the house set allre. Cook recovered in time to drag out the t>odies of the two women, but the house was destroyed. Many arrests were made and lynching was threatened several times. Finally Sam Rivers, under arrest on suspicion, declared that Johnson and Hale, well-to-do farmers and nelghbors of iuo jx> cia nuiucu, yinuucu uuu oaov.ukvu i the murders. He said they came to bis house by night and hired him to go with them and watch while they committed the crime. All three were convicted. All of the condemned professed religion on the callows. The hanging was in private. Both white men leave families. CUBAN DELEGATES IN WASHINGTON, Secretary Utj Receives Them aa Private Citizen* Only. Washington, D. C. (Special).?Secretary of State Hay has received unofficial'y the ! delegates sent to Washington by the Cuban Assembly to obtain authority for the raising of a larger tum of money for the payment of the Cuban soldiers than the 83,000,000 offered by the United Slates and agreed to by General Gomez. Secretary Hay and the delegate* had a ] long conversation, at the close of which the { Secretary plainly and emphatically told them that the United States Government ! would not consider any proposition look- | log to the increase of the amount of money j agreed upon, nor would any action of the j Cuban Assembly toward issuing bonds be i indorsed. The delegates were received by Sdoretary Hay as private citizens, ana no official recognition will be given them. After the interview the Secretary informed ttio President of what had taken place, and Mr. SIcKinley gave his approval. ALASKAN EXPLORERS TO SAIL. The Government to Lay Out a Trail From Copper Klver to Eiigle City. Seattle, Wash. (Spoclal).?Captain Aber crombie Is in Seattle arranging tor the ! Alaskan expedition which will sail in a few j days on a steamer chartered by the Government. The first duty of tbe explorers I will be to care for tho scurvy stricken miners in the Copper Rivor country. The expedition will consist of about ?iguty men, including scieucmc raon irom | tbe Interior and Postofflce departments. The principal business of the expedition is I the construction of a trail from Copper Hirer to Eagle City, a distauce of 330 roiies, whleh U is expectod to complete this season, thus establishing au allAmerican route from tidewater to tbe Interior of Alaska. Russian Students' Disorder. In consequence of a renewal of the student disturbances at St. Petersburg tbe Russian Government lias closed tbe Uni- I varsity of St. Potersburg and dismissed ail j the students. At the same time an order | has been issued that all applications for < reinstatement must be made througu the j (nails. The Hawaiian Attorney General. Ilenry E. Cooper lias been appointed Attorney-General of Hawaii. His commission was delivered to him at Honolulu, and he was sworn in by Chief Justice Judd. Prominent People. The King of Italy is a confirmed vegetarian. Baron Curzon is the eleventh Viceroy of India since it was handed over to the Home Government in 1853. 8!r Henry Irving is the only living actor who has received honorary degrees at the universities of Cambridge and Dublin. He is about to have conferred upon him the doctor's degree at Glasgow University. Governor Roosevelt expects to visit Oklahoma to attend the meeting of the Eough Rider G. A. R., of Oklahoma, to be held In Guthrie In June. At that time a permanent organization ot the Rough Elders will be effected. c . . . ELECTIONS IN MANY STATES. Harrison is Again Chosen Mayor oT ChW liago. Defeating Carter and Altgehl by a Large I'lurallty. JONES,INDEPENDENT,WINS IN TOLEDO Dsmccra's Gain in Kbhigan, While Republicans Told Their Own in Ohio. Chicago (Special).?Carter H. Harrison was re-elected Mayor of Chicago by a total vote of 116,914 against 107,301 for Zina R. Carter, the Republican candidate, and 45,101 for John P. Altgeld, the Independent Democratic candidate, Harrison's plurality being 30,610. In the last Mayoralty election Harrison wa? oleoted by a vote of 148,000 against 50,342 for Sears, the regular Republican nominee, and 69.637 for Harlan, the Independent Republican. CARTER H. HARRISON*. (Ee-eiectud Mayor of Chicugo.) Tbe vote-from tbe wards shows that tbe Republicans have elected fourteen Aldermen and the Democrats nine. Tbe contest in several of the wards is very close, and the official count probably will be necessary to determine the result. Tbe City Council has been composed of forty-live Democrats and twenty-three Republicans, and the Democrats will without doubt retain a working majority. ? CITT ELECTIONS IN* OHIO. Sautuel IVI. .lone*, the Independent, Chosen the Executive Chief of Toledo. Cincinnati, Ohio (SneciaO.--Elections have been held in Ohio for municipal and township officers. While the local issues usually control these spring elections, there were other influences in some of the places. In Toledo Mayor Samuel M. Jones was re-elected, tbis time as un independent. The verdict of the polls shows he has the ponular affections. In Cleveland Mayor Robert E. McKisson rau for re-election. He is a bitter opponent ot tbe Ilunna wing of Ohio Itepublis?una nni-l woa mnrlrflil fnr almi qrlifar frnm the day of bis nomination. Abouf !)000 is the size of the majority under which he was buried by Democrats with the assistance of Republicans. Ills successful opponent is John H. Farley, Democrat, who ran 'gainst him two years ago und lost by 2500. His overwhelming defeat is regarded as ? areat victory of the H nna ItepuSj-cans over the Kurtz-Bushnell wing of the party. In Columbus the Gubernatorial race was an element in the election. The largest vote ever polled in a municipal election i was cast and the Ropub!ieau-s elected the entire ticket headed by Samuel J. Swartz ] for Mayor by pluralities averaging 1500. The Michigan Election*. Detboit, Mich. (Special).?The elections in Michigan did not show any marked clmnge in the general political complexion of the State, which is normally Republican, but 'it shows heavy Democratic gains in eom? of the larger cities, notably in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Saginaw, siackson and Kalamazoo On a generally liirht vote the Republicans iiuiu luuir unu iu iuo niiiftuni uuius auu throughout the rural districts. Circuit Judges were elected ia thlrty-slx judicial districts. Of these about two-thirds of the new Judges, who are elected for sir-year ' i.rms, are Republicans. Republican Victories in Tfisconsin. Milwaukee, Wis. (Speciil).?Municipal elections have been held in uenrly all the towns and cities in Wisconsin outside of Milwaukee. The Republluftns lead in the number of victories, wljllc In several towns , the Mayor and Council &?e of a different complexion. Democrats Generally Win in Texas. Houston, Texas (Special).?Municipal elections have been hold throughout the Stute. Only local questions were Involved. Democrats were generally successful. CUBAN ASSEMBLY CIVES UP. Orders the Army to JBe Disbanded and It Will Accept Our *3,000,000. Havana, Cuba (By Cable).?The Cuban Assembly met on Tuesday and finally decided to dissolve and to disband the Cuban Armv. thus removlncr one of the erraatast obstacles to the restoration of ponce aad , prosperity to the island. Hhortly after , meeting the Assembly adopted a resolution containing eleven articles, the substance of the first five of which follows: ~ After setting forth that the Assembly has decided that the army shall be definitely disbanded, the resolution orders the various Cuban chiefs to give to enoh soldier a certificate setting fortti bis services. Theflnancial delegate of the Assembly iu each province is also Instructed to give certificates to the soldiers. The troops are then ordered to su rrendor their arms to the chiefs, who will turn them over to the municipal authorities, who will deliver them to tbe Government of Cuba when it is established. Tbe chiefs are Instructed to issue orders to their troops for the laying down of their arms. One month will be given to all members of the nrray to present tbelr claims for titles *nd honors. On June 30 the Executive Committee of tbe Assembly will end the work. The last article says: "The Assembly is hereby dissolved." It was agreed by the Assembly to turn over to General Brooke acopy of "the Cuban Army payrolls so that he can distribute the $3,000,000 donated by the American Government for the Cuban troops. FILIPINO ARMY SCATTERED. General Otl* Says Inxurs;ents Are Returninc Hoine and Desire Protection. Washington, D. C. (Special).?The following cablegram from General Olid, dated Manila. April 3, was received at th'j War Department: "Present indications denote insurgont government in perilous condition; its irmy dofeated, discouraged and scattered, insurgents returning to their homos in jitiea and villages between, here and points dorth of Malolos, which our reconnoitring parlies l.ave reached, and desire protection of Americans. News from Visavan Islands mora encouraging everyday." KILLED FOR HIS SECOND MURDER. A Sheriff Shoots Clyde Matto.v, W'lioae Mother Once Saved His Life. Newkiiik, Oklu. (Special).?Clyde Mattox was shot and killed by the Sheriff at the farm of Frank Lowery, near here. Mattox had killed Lincoln Swinney, u ranchman, in a salcon light at Ponca City, and escaped. In 18'Jl he killed a negro at Oklahoma City, for which he was sentenced to death. His mother, Mrs. S. \V. Hatch, spent a fortune to save him, and succeeded in having President Cleveland commute bis sentence to life imprisonment. Last year she was Instrumental in securing his pardon from President *fcKlnley by appealing to him In paroAti HERR ROSE IS ACCOSED. Admiral Kaulz Declares His Proclan j o r:-u manon uauseu ine oarnuau 113m. A PACIFIC SETTLEMENT ASSURED. German Consul Publicly Stated That Our Admiral'* Manifesto Was Untrue? Germany, Great Britain and the United State* Appoint a Joint High CommU Ion With Power to Settle the Question. ^Vashixotos, D. C. (Special').?OfTlclal In* formation from Samoa show3 that the Gorman CoDSul-Genernl was at the bottom of the recent trouble in the Islands, resulting In the killing of an American marine and British sailors, and culminating in a bombardment of the followers of Mataafa by the American and British warships. Secretary Hay has rnado public an ofl rial dispatch from Dear-Admiral Kautz, received by tbe Navy Departmuut, and communicated to the State Department. It | fras dated Newcastle, N. S. W., March 30, and says: "Mataata people obeyed orders to leave government reservation. Since then have become aggressive, killing Private ftolloway and throe British sailors. Otir man killed guarding American Consulate. Ger- | man Consul-General issued Incendiary pro- J clamation saying that my proclamation was untrue and he should uphold provisional government. The British forces act in concert with the United States shel- I ling rebels where they can be reached." From this dispRtch it is believed that the | aotion of Mataafa'a followers in attacking J the Amerlcau and British guards was the | direct result of the Incendiary proclamation by the German Consul-Generul, and that, J to this extent the German government, through Its representative, is respoaaimo for the attack and for the subsequent bombardment. A Joint High Commission to settle the entire Samoan trouble has been agroed upon by the Governments, of the United States, England and Germany. The new plan has. been fully gone ovor by-Secretary Hay and the British and German Ambassadors here, and its essential details worked out. Each nation is to be represented by one member On the Commission. It is to have practically unlimited authority, without the necessity of referring its decisions back to the several Governments for approval. It is felt that by conferring such complete and flnai authority on tho Commission the danger of any further deadlocks and delays will bo obviated. The peaceful solution of this delicate question, which is full of possibilities of serious trouble, is regarded as a triumph of diplomacy and as furnishing the strongest kind of evidence of a desire on the part of Germany, as well as of the other two ...."-.i-o tnmnintniiiMmmosi <imloablfirela* tlons one wltli the other. KILLED HIS INDIAN FIANCEE. Jilted Yonac French-Canadian Followed tlie Morder With SnlcUle. Toledo,. Ohio (Special).? Jame3 La Blance, a young Froach-Canaaian, stabbed and klllod hl-j Indian sweetheart, Olga ro36amie, at Telee Point Ontario, early In the week, and then stabbed himself to tho heart. The point is on Felee Island, and during the winter monthsthelnhabltants are Isolated. The steamer American Eagle Jia.^Just arrived from the Island, bringlugthe story of the tragedy, which i3 pathetic and romantic. Lh Blance and the Indian girl were lovers, and last summer they plighted tueir troth, but when the young Frenchman went to call oa his sweetheart he learned that another, an American from 3nndusl'y, had filled his place in the maiden's heart. He was distracted. He induced the girl to take a walk with him, and when near "Lovers' Rock" he stabbed her, killlDg her Instantly. He then threw the maiden's body into the lake, and after stabbing himself fell Into the water after her. "Lover's Rock" Is a promontory famous throughout this seotlon oX the country. CONVICTED BY ONE WORD. CIiIcseo Man Spoil* HI* Defame by HI* An?vrer to the Prosecutor. Chicaoo. III. (Special).?'"Did you mean to kiii the tnan?" naked Assistant State's Attorney Crowe of Iche Oronatl, who was on trial before Judge Waterman, accusol of assault with intent to kill John Carevello. "Sure,!' promptly replied the prisoner. "That Is all," saldtho Prosecutor. "Oh, be did not understand the question," remarked Attorney Sullivan. "Did you understand what Mr. Crowe asked you?" continued Mr. Sullivau, addro3fliug h!s olient. "Sure," answered Oronati. "And you Intended to kill CareveUo?'' "Sure." The jury felt so "Mire" of the prisoner's euiit that it promptly returned a verdict tiring the punishment nt imprisonment in the penitentiary. Oronati stabbed CareuaiiA arhiin fha latter was writiutfat a table In liIs own house. The men quarrolod about money. TURKS FIGHT BULGARIANS. They Attach a Weak Outpoftt and fioth Sides Suiter Louse*. ViasrrA, Austria (By Cable).?A serious collision has taken place botween Bulgar* Ian and Turkish frontier guards at KozylAgob, between Jaraboll, Eastorn Boumolia and Adrianoptes on the banks of the Toonjn, flfty-six miles south of Jamboli. Tho Turks attacked a weak Bulgarian outpost; but the Bulgarians, aided by armed inhabitants, ropuland thoir assailants atter a four hour*' light. Both sides suffered losses of killed and wounded. The | lurks were seeking to socure a po3ltlo! hitherto held by the Bulgarians. SHOT DEAD FOR PRESIDENT LOU3ET. Pari* As?aA?ln Mistook M. Tourrct For the Freddent of France. Paris, Franco (By Cable).?A wealthy gentleman named Tourret was shot dead on tho Bols ae Boulogne by a man who mistook his victim for I'reaidout Loubet, to whom M. Tourret bore a striking resemblance. The murderer, whose namols Ozouf, and who iM thlrty-oight years old, Is thought to be insane. The assassin fired two bullets Into M. Tourret, who expired Immediately afterward. United State* Coinage In March. The monthly statement of the Dlroctor of the Mint, Rt Washington, show* the total coinage during March was #14,572,072, of which $12,176,715 was silver, f2,346,550 gold, and 443,801 minor coins. The coioagoor stanaara suver uonars uunag the month amounted to $1.1)00,801. Acetl Coup!* Die tli? Same Day. Mrs. Almira Kimball d 1 at Newburyport, Mass., a fow days a^o at the aso of eicaty-two. Her husband. Step lien Kimball, aged ei^hty-nino years, died four liours later. Tho couple had been married more than sixty years. Major Marchand in AbyAfttnia. Dispatciics received at Paris, France, from Ras Jlboutil, on the Rod Sea, say the Marchand expedition, from Fashoda, arrived, all weli, at Addis Ababa, the capital of Abyst-inia, on March 11. The expedition met with a warm reception from the Abys sinlans. Norway'* War Preparations. The Norwegian Government has lssueft an order prohibiting Swedish officers from Inspecting forts or witnessing the drlll'of troops in Norway, and has also decided to use on forts and war material certain moneys borrowed for railways. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. CuTiJect: "Significance of tlie Flowers"? They Bear Messages of Cheer to the Heart-sick and Despairing?'Their Ap proprlateness at Obsequies. Text: "If then God so olotlie the grass which is to-day in tbe field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, how much more will Ha clothe you, 0 3-0 of little laltb?"? Luke xii., 28. The lily is the queen of Bible flowersThe rose may have disputed her throne in modern times and won it, but the rose originally had only five petals. It was under the long continued and Intense gaze of the world that the rose blushed into its present ber.uty. In the Bible train, cassia and hyssop.and frankincense aod myrrh and spikenard and camphor and the rose follow the lily. Fourteen times la the Bible is the Jily mentioned; only twice the rose. The rose may now havo wider empire, but tbe lily reigned in the time of Esther, in thetimo of Solomon, in the time of Christ. Caasar had his throne on tbe bills. Tbe lily had her throne in the valley. In the greatest sermon that was ever preached there Anl? a?,a flr\on/1 + Vtaf a inV Tho I Bedford dreamer, John Bunyan, entered the house of the interpreter, and was shown a cluster of flowers and was told to "consider the lilies." We may study or reject other sciences at our option?it is so with astronomy, it is so with chemistry, it is so with jurisprudence, it is so with physiology, it is so with geology-rbut the science of botany Christ commands us to study when He says, "Consider the lilies." Measure them from root to tip of petal. Inhale their breath. Notice the gracefulness of their poise. Hear the wlisper of the white Hps of the Eastern and the red lips of the American lily. Belonging to this royal family of lilies are the Illy of the Nile, the Japan lily, the Lady Washington of the Sierras,the Golden band Illy, the Giant lily of Nepaul, the Turk's cap lily, the African lily from the Cape of Good Hope. All these lilies have the roval blood in their veins. But I take the lilies of my text this morning as typical of all flowers, and their voice of floral beauty seems to address us, saying, "Consider the Hlies, consider the azaleas, consider the luchsias, consider the geraniums, consider the ivies, consider the hyacinths, consider the* heliotropes, consider the oleanders." With deferential and grateful and intelligent and worshipful souls consider them. Not with insipid sentimentfilism or with sophomoric vaporing, but for grand and practical and everyday and, if need be, homely U3es, consider them. The flowers are the angels of the grass. They all have voices. When the clouds speak, they thunder; when the whirlwinds 9peak they scream, when the cataracts spenk they roar, but when the flowers speak they always whisper. I stand here to interpret their message. What have you to say to us, 0 ye angels of the grass? This morning I mean to discuss whet flowers are good for. That is my subject, "What are flowers good for?" I remark, in the ilrst place, they are good for lessons of God's providential care. That was Christ's first thought. All these flowers seem to address us to-day, saying, "God will give you apparel anA food." We hav?i no wheel with which to spin, no loom with which to weave, no sickle*-with which to harvest, no well sweep with which to draw water, but God slacks our thirst with the dew, and God feeds us with the bread of the sunshine, and God has appareled us with more than Solomonic regality. We are prophetesses of adoquate wardrobe. "If Cod so clothed us, the grass of tbe field, will He not much more clothe you, 0 ye of little faith?" Men and women of worldly anxieties, take this message borne with you. How long has God taken care of you' , Quarter of tbe journey of life? Half the t h#ao mi.-*.. jaii. juuruey Ui IJJO: iun juut- i ne.v of life? Can you not trust Him the rest of tbe way? God does not promise you unytblng like that which the Boman emperor ha<> on his table at vast expense?500 nightingales' tougues?but He has promised to take care of you. He has promised you the necessities, not tho luxuries?bread, oot cake. If God so luxuriantly clothes tbe grass of the field, will Ho not provide for yon, His living *nd immortal children? Ho will. No wonder Mnrt'n Luther always had a flower on bis writing desk for inspiration! Through the cracks of the prison floor a flower grew up to cheer Plcclola. Mungo Park, tbe great traveler and explorer, bad bis life saved by a flower. He sank down in tbe desert to die; but, seeing a flower near by, it suggestod God's merciful care, and he got up with new courage and traveled on to safety. I said the flowers are the angels of the grass. I add now they are evangels ot tho sky. If you ask me the question, What are Bowers good for? I respond, they are good for the bridal day. Tho bride must have them on her brow, ana sne musi have them In her hand. The marriage altar must be covered with them. A wedding without flowers would be as inappropriate as a wedding without music. At juchatlrae they are for congratulation ind prophecies of good. So much of the pathway of life is covered up with thorns, we ought to cover the beginning with orange blossoms. Flowers are appropriate on such occasions, for in ninety-nine out of 100 cases it is the very best tblng that could have happened. The world may criticise and pronounce it an inaptitude ond may lift its eyebrows in surprise and think It might suggest something better, but the God who 6ees the twenty, forty, fifty years of wedded life before they have begun arranges for the best. So that flowers, in almost all cases, are appropriate for the ?arria:;e day. The divergences of disposition will become correspondences, recklessness will become prudence, frivolity will be turned Into practicality. There has been many an aged widowed soul wbo had a carefully locked bu reau and In the bureau a box ana in too box a folded paper and in the folded paper a hall blown rose, slightly fragrant, discolored, carefully pressed. Sho put It there forty or fifty Jyears ago. On the anniversary day of her wedding sho will go to the bureau, she will lift tbe box. she will unfold the paper and to her eyes will bo exposed the half blown bud, and tbe memories of tbe past will rush upon her and 11 tear will drop upon the I flower and suddenly it is transtlgured, and there is a stir In the dust of the anther and it rounds out and it is full of life and it begins to tremble In the procession up the church aisle, und the dead music of a half century ago comes throbbing through the air, and vanished faces reappear and right hands are joined and a manly voice promises, "I will, for better or for worse," and the wedding march thunders a salvo of joy at the departing crowd, but a sigh on that anniversary day scatters the bcene. Under the deep fetched breath the altar, the flowers, the congratulating groups are scattered, and there Is nothing left bat a trembling baud holding a faded rosebud, which is put into the paper and then into the box aud the box carefully placed In the bureau, and with a sharp, sucidOn click of the lock the scene is over. Ah. my friend?, let not the prophecies of tbe flowers on your wedding day be false prophecies! Be blind to each other's faults. Make the most of each other's excellences. Remember the vows, tbe ring on the third finger ot the left hand and the benediction of the calla lilies. If you ask me tho question, What are flowers pood for? 1 answer, they are good to honor and comfort tbe obsequies. Tho worst gash ever made into the side of our poor earth Is tho gash of the j?r:ive. It is po deep, It is so cruel, It is so Incurable, that It needs something to cover it up. Flowers for the casket, flowers for the hearse, flowers for the cemetery. What a contrast between a grave iu a country churchyard, with the fence broken down ami the tombstono aslant aud the neighboring cattle browsing amid the mullein stalks and tho Canada thistles, and a June morning in Greenwood, the wave ot roseate bloom rolling to tho top of the mounds a l.fuiiUno Intn foam in IT CfeStS Of white flowers all uround the billows of dust. It is the difference between sleeping under rap^s and sleeping under nn orabroidered blanket. Wo want old Mortality with hiB chisel to go through uilthe graveyards in Christendom, nnd while he carries a chisel in one hand we want old Mortality to have some flower seed in the paim of the other band. "Oh," you say, "the dead don't know; it makes no difference to them." I think you are mistaken. There are not so many steamers and trahia coming to any living city, as ther9 are convoys eoralng frofl heaven to earth, and If there be Instant taneons and constant communication be? tween thla world und the better world, do you not suppose your departed friends know what vou do with their bodies? Whv hud God planted "goldenrod" nnd wild flowers In the forest and on tlie prairie, where no human eye ever sees them. Ee planted them there for Invisible Intelltgcnces to look at and admire, and when invisible intelligences come to look at the wild flowers of the woods and the tablelands, will thev not make excursion and see the flowers which you have planted la affectionate remembrance of them? When I am dead, I would like to have a handful of violets?nny one could pluck them out of the grass, or some one could lift from the edge of the pond a water Illy ?nothing rarely expensive, no Insane display, as sometimes at funeral rites, wbera tte display takes the bread from the children's mouths and the clothes from theii backs, but something from the great de< muuruuy ui Jiunoi?. Dauioi tuau lui^ciu catafalque of Russian Czar, I ask some one whom I may have helped by gospel sermon or Christian deed to bring a sprig of arbutus or a handful of China asters. It was left for modern times to spell re? spect for the departed and comfort for the living in letters of floral gospel, pillow of flowers, meaning rest for the pilgrim who has got to the end of his journey. Anchor of flowers, suggesting the Christian hope which we have as an anchor of the soul, sure and steadfast. Cross of flowers, suggesting the tree on which our sins were slain. If I had my way, I would cover up all the dreamless sleepers, whether in golden handled casket or pine box, whether a king's mausoleum or potter's field, with radiant or aromatic arbore3cence. The Bible says, "In themldst ol the garden there was a sepulchre." I wish that every sepulchre might be in the midst of the garden. If you ask me the question, What are flowers good for? I answer, "For religious symbolism." Have you ever studied Scriptural flora? The Bible is an arbcretum.lt Is a divine conservatory, it is a herbarium of exquisite beauty. If you want to illustrate the brevity of the brightest human life, you will quote from Job, "Man comech forth as a flower and is cut down." Or you will quote from the psalmist, "Astbe flower of the field, so he perisbetb;'the wind passeth over it and It is gone." Or you will quote from Isaiah, "All flesh is grass, and the goodliness thereof is as the flower oi the flold." Or you will quote from James the apostle, "As the flower of tbe grass, so he passeth away." What graphic Bible symbolism! Flowers also afford mighty symbolism ol Christ,who compared Himself to the ancient queen, tbe lily, and the modern queen, the rose, when He said: "I am the rose ol Sharon and the lily of the valley." Redolent like the one, bumble like the other. Like both appropriate for the sad who want f-ympathlzers and for the rejoicing who want banqueters. Hovering over tho marriage ceremony like a wedding bell, or folded like a cbaplet on tbe pulseless heart of the dead. Oh, Christ, let the perfume of Thy name be waftedjall around the earth ?lily and rose, lily and rose?until the wilderness crimson into a garden and the round earth turn into one great bud of immortal beauty laid against the warm heart of God! Snatch down from the world's banners easle and lion and put on lily and rose, lily and rose. But, my friends,flowers have no grander use that when on Easter morning we celebrate the reanimation of Cbri9t from the catacombs. The flowers spell resurrection. Ther* is not a nook or corner in all the building but is touched with the incense. The women carried spices to the tomb of Christ, and they dropped spices all around about the tomb, ana from these spices have grown ull the flowers of Efister morn. The two white robed angels that hurled the stone away from the door of the tomb hurled it with such violenoe down the hill that it crashed in the door of the world's sopulcher, and millions of dead shall come forH). i.owever labyrinthine the mausoleum, however costly the sarcophagus, bowevei architecturally grand the necropolis, however beautifully parterred the family grounds, we want them all broken up by the Lord of the resurrection. The forms that we laid away with our broken hearts must rise agaiD. Father and mother? they must come out. Husbands and wives ?they must come out. Brothers and sisters ?they must como out. Our darling children?thoy must come out. The eyes that with trembling Augers we closed must open in the lustre of resurrection mem. The arms that we folded in death must join ours in embrace of reunion. The beloved voice that was hushed must be' roturaed. The beloved form must come up without its infirmities, without its fatigues?it must come up. Oh, how long it seems for some of you! Waiting?waiting for the resurrection! How long! How long! I make for your broken hearts to-day a cool, soft bandage of lilies. I comfort yon this day with the thought of resurrection. When Lord Nelion was burled In St. Paul's Cathedral in London, the heart of all England was stirred. The procession passed on amid the sob'j'ng of a nation. There were thirty trumpeters stationed at the door of the cathedral with Instruments of music in band waiting for the signal, and when the Illustrious dead arrived at the gates of St. Paul's Cathedral these thirty trumpeters gave one united blast, and then all was silent. Yet the trumpets did not wake the dead. He slepp right on. ^ 1 * 1 ? ? *>*11 ? JDUl 1 11 tk IV IU ICU JUU YVUC1W kuutj uuui^/uiera could not do for one man one trumpeter will do for all nations. The ages nave rolled on and tbe clock of the world's destiny strikes 9, 10. 11, 12, and time shall be no longer! Behold the archangol ho#rlogl Be takes the trumpet, points it this way, puts its lips to his lips, and theu blows one long, loud, terrific, thunderous, reverberating and resurrectlonary blast! Look, look! They rise! The dead, the dead! Borne coming forth from the family vault, somo from the city cemetery, some from the country graveyard. Btere a spirit is joined to Its body, ana there another spirit is joined to another body, and millions of departed spirits are assorting the bodies, and then reclothing themselver iu forms radiant for ascension. The eurth begins to burn, the bonfire ol n great victory. All ready now for th? procession of reconstructed humanity! Upward and awayt Christ leads nud all the Christian dead follow, battalion aftw battalion, nation after nation. Up, up! On, on! Forward, ye ranks of God Almighty! Lift up your heads, ye everlast ing gates, and let the conquerors come tn! Resurrection! Resurrection! And so I twist all the festal flowers of the cbapels and cathedrals of all Christendom Into one great chain, and with that chain I bind the Easter morning of 1399 with the closing Enster of the world's history?resurrectiou! May the God of peace that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the covenant make you perfect in every good work to do His will! LEFT 51,100,000 TO THE NEEDY. Austin Hequest* Will Aiil Poor StadeoU and Agctl Persons In TVant. The will of Edward Austin, the Beacr>L street millionaire, who Bequeathed $1,100,000 to public charities, was admitted to probate by Judge McKlm in the Suffolk Probate Court, Boston. All parties legally concerned in his estate, including some from New York, assented to the probate, a compromise having been agreed upon with reference to objections made by some of the heirs. Amoug the public bequests are $500,000 to Harvard College, the interest ic lie apnllHi! to "needv meritorious students anil teachers to assist them in payment of tlielr studies;" to Massachusetts Institute oC Technology, $400,000; to RadclifTa College, 130,000; to Uonnoke Collogo, $30,000; to Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School, $30,000. ou the sumo lines. The will also gives f 10,000 to the bacteriology laboratory of Harvard Medical School and $100,000 to the New England Trust Company, the income to bo paid to "needy aged men and women who had beau in better circumstances in early life, but who have become in want when in old age." I2plAcoi>alians Raise 87S,000. A remarkablo educational meeting has taken place at the session of the mission conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which was held at Cameron, Mo. Seventy-two thousand dollar were pledged for education, a part of the twentieth century thank offering. Li Hang; Cliang to/Ketnrn to Power. It is reported at Pekln, China, that Li Hung OUang will soon return to Pekln. % . . " <" " t ' y:'t -r v>" ' ... THE SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESS i COMMENTS FOR APRIL 23. Lesaon Text: "Jesns tlie Way and thft Truth and the Life," John xlv., 1-14 ?Golden Text: John xlv., C?Commentary on the Leason. "Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in Me." Peloubet says, "In order to understand the meaning of the first verses of this chapter it is necessary to remove the veil which covers them by their separation from chapter i. Turn back to vii.. 31. Jesus reveals to His disciples that He is about to go away and leave them, and that they cannot follow him for the present. He shows Peter that, although he thinks he Is willing to go with his Master even to death, he is not yet willing or prepared, for before morning, he should deny bim three times. Doubtless all the disciples felt thw gloomy foreboding that thev also might fall if the brave Peter could not stand. There was treachery among their own number. Their enemies were many and fierce and strong. If the head of the kingdora went away what coald the disciples do? They could see only danger and disaster, and "darkness that could be felt." Then It was that Jesus comforted them with these cheering words, "Let not your heart be troubled." "In my Father's house there are many mansions; if It were not so I would have told you. I go to preparo & place for you." Of late, in certain sections, there has been quite a revival of the worn-out argument there is no heaven or hell in existence now. but that they will be created in the last great day. Those of us who believe that "To be absent from the body is to be truly present with the Lord," cheerfully and joyfully accept the teaching that our Father's houso is "both a 8tate and a place. It is whero God in some peculiar sense dwells, where He manifests most fully His goodness and Fatherly love, where His Klory most radiantly shines. The thought of the "many mansions" there, Godet says, may be derived from those vast Oriental palaces In which there Is an abode not only for the sovereign and the heir to the throne, but also for all the sons of the king, however numerous they may be. "And if I go and prepare a place foryou, I will come again and receive yen unto Myself; that where I am, thero ye may be also." The revised version reads, "I come again," which puts the promise In tho present tense. Of this Dr. Vincent says, "Not to be limited to the Lord's second and glorious coming at the last day, nor at any special coming, such as Pentecost, though these are all Included in the expression; it is rather to bo taken as His continual comInn an A nrnaon/tA hv frhtt Wfll V ftnlHf " ,Ub WUU J/4VWVUVV m* j " ?"V T-" Westcott says, "Chriet Is, In faot, from the moment of His resurrection, ever coming into the world and to the church, and to men as the risen Lord." "And whither I go ye know, and the way ve now. Thomas said unto Him, Lord, we know not whither Thou geest, and how can we know the way?" The disciples kneK,both the way and the jroal, if they would bht recall what they had heard their Master say both in publle and in private. "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life; no man cometh unto the Father but by Me." Jesus is the truth as well as the way, in Him "are hid all the treasures of wisdom." ?(Col. If., 3). Every great religion has its power in some one truth, or more, on which it is based. Find this central truth in each great religion, and you will have them summed up in the highest degree in Jesus Christ. IIT, ... 1 A I _ l/? 11 una ftuvswu xuu, jrn ouv/uiu uutu known My Father also; and from henceforth ye know Him, and hare seen Him." "The English word know represents two Greek words In the better text, which are not identical in meaning," so the proper rendering of the first clause of this verso w6uld be: "If ye had recognized Me?fully understood who I am?ye would have known My Father." After all these years our conception of the mystery of the Trinity is very dim, so it is not to be wondered at (even after Jesus said what He did to Thomas) that we read: "Philip salth unto Him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufflceth us. "Jesussaith unto him, Havel been so long with yoa, and yet host thou not lcnown Me, Fhtlip? He that hath seen Me bath seen the Father; and bow sayest thou, then, Shew us the Father? "Bellevest thou not that I am In the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself. but the Father that dwelleth in me, He doeth fhe work." The last part of the tenth verse in the revised version reads, "I speak not of Myself, but the Father abiding in Me doeth His works." "Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father In Me, or else believe Me for the very works' sake." In other words, Jesus said: "If ye cannot understand My words, at-least believe that I and the Father am one, on account of the works ye have seen Me do." "Verily, verily I say unto you. He that bellevetb on Me, the works that I do he oKrtll A/\ ntan* ortH (yranfAf wrtrlra fhun thpaa OUUI1 UU UI0V) HHVt 0 wv. w? I, W...M ? ..... shall he do, because I go anto My Father." The promise was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, when In one day the conversions were more than bad taken place in the whole three years of Christ's ministry: and many times since the power of Ood has been so wonderfully manifested in n spiritual sense or manner, that doubters have been compelled to admit that "He is the Lord," and even in our day the healing of the body by divine power has caused sinners to seek Jesus. "Because 1 go unto My Father." For thus (1) He became a spiritual king, reigning from heaven. (2) Thus He could send the Holy Spirit. (3) Because of His departure, He was no longer limited in His work to time and place, but was present with His disciples, all over the world. (4) By His departure He was exalted so as to touch the hearts of men, and draw all nations to Him in love, and thus fit them to be His instruments for doing these works. (5) His disciples were better fitted for tneir work, more confident and manly, better trained in every good work, by an invisible but ever-prosont Lord. "And whatsoever ye shall ask in My name, that will I do, that tho Father may beclorifled in the Son." Being led by tho Spirit will prevent our asking for anything that is not consistent with His will, and it will also enable us to ask for and reooive many temporal, physical and spiritual blessings thut we have never thought were In our Father's will. The one condition was that they should ask in patience and faith, for without this asking they would not be flt to receive. The object, the limit, and the result of their asking are found in the expression, "That the Father may be glorified in the Son." 4<r# ../v aKftii uaL> anwfhlnff In M" v nam A T XI y u 3UOI1 O0A UUJ fa iu MA J V | r will do it." SOUND WAVES PHOTOCRAPHED. Tliey Are Caught, Although Rapidly Moving Through Space. Proressor K. W.Wood, of Madison, Wis., has succeeded la making photographs of waves of sound in air. The sound wave Is the ornok of an electric spark, and It is illuminated aud photographed by means of the light of a second spark, which flashes between two magnesium wires of some distance bahiud the first, and at an Interval of about ono-ten thousandth of a second after the lirst spark. The sound wave is thus caught beforo it has got ou: of the Held of the Instrument, although moving with a velocity of 1000 feet a second. The wave appears as a thin circle of shadow with a light border, being simply a sectioual view of the rapidly diverging spherical shell of condensed air constituting tho sound wave. ;ly placing a glass plate near the point whore the wave starts the reflected wave or echo lias been photographed, which appoars as a circle with oqiwil but opposite curvature. These waves were observed by Topler, a German physicist, a number of years ago, but they have never been photographed before. Largest Block of Marble Ever Qoarrled. A block of white marbte, weighing over ... ?- i -I..J IT. ? I 110U.UUU pounds, lias u?ou quunau ut mm- i ble Hill, Gu. ... | /V JS A TEMPERANCE COLUMN-* ***** ... . ' m ' > ? THE DRINK E71C MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. The Saloon-Keeper's Song?An Appeal to Those Citizens Who. Look With Knsj ? II^> <k. Torrlhla UU. VVUipiM^OUVJ Vl'WM ?MV " cry Produced by Intemper?nce. ? * >~y & Give us i\ call! We keep Rood beer, Wine, brandy and whisky here. Our doors are open to boys n>d men, A.nd oven women, now and tlmn. We lighten their purse, we taint their brmitbs, ' yn We swell up the column of Awful deaths A.11 kinds of Crimea we sell for dimes, . , In our sugared polsou 90 sweet to taste. If you've monqj, position, or time tr wast#, Give us a calll Give us we'll dull your brains. We'll give you headaches and racking paina, We'll make you old when you yet art young, Pa I I An rt?11 ATtffnA JLV IIOO ftuu omuucx won uaiu JVWJ. We'll make you shirk from all usefof work, Make there and forgery seem fair play, And murder a pastime sure to pay, Olvo us a call! Glrftus a call! we are cunning and wise; We are bound to succeed, lor we advertise In the family papers, the journals tlxaf claim To be pure in morals and fak of fame. Husbands, brothers and sons will read Our kind invitations, and some will heed - J And give us a call; we pay tor all The space in the papers we occupy, And there's little In life that money won't buy If you would go down in the world, and not up, (f you would be slain by the snake i? the cup, Or lose your soul in the flowing bowl, If you covet shame and a blasted name, Give us a call! ' 'stll Are There Sucu Hen? It there are men who care not for th? body the brain or the soul of their fellowman, who can visit publlo penal and pauper institutions nnd asylums for the insane unci Idiotic, and look,' with easy complacency upon theLr terrible evidences of preventive misery?men whw standard of ^ uusiooss prosjromy is ro^nwoumu uy iu? revenue of some hotel barroom?whose estimates of real estate appreciation or ds* preclation are basei upon the available ' reutal, (or gin-shops, of shanties that no reputable business would occupy, it rent free?men who can think of no moral ot social happiness except as attained in the parlor of a fashionable liquor drinking club?men who measure the spiritual and 1 religious status o( the people by the risible piety of the average dally newspaper. Men who think that the implements and., institutions (or educating young men Into bummers and tramps are entitled to eqnal legal protection and encouragement to that accorded to public schools, and that homes, churohes and schools have no rights relative to the rum-shop other than the rights o( a gladiator minus decent protection (or u (air fight. Men who insist that their own facilities (or guzzling must not be Impaired no mattsrwhftt becomes ot starving and beaten wlrqsvsnd ohlldren, or of any of th? interests ofjjumanlty or gen- . ? ?ral prosperity?or men whose conception ot the duty of a citizen is represented is the ability to trade his influence in feehalt of protection to rum-shops, in ezphange ~ ? Tor their votes, If there be such men, our words will neither profit nor Interest them. They must await a special mauifestatlon of divine power and grace, before uny influence of mere human words can find entrance to their souls.?Natlonul Temper auce Advocate. Conquered by a Drinking Cap. ^ Alexander the Great, made nn imperial banquet at Babylon, ana though ha bad been drinking the health of guests all one night, and nil next day, the second night he bad twenty guests, and he drank the health of each separately. Then calling for the cup of Hercules, the giant, a monster cup, be filled and drained it twice, to show his endurance; but aS^ie finished the last draught from the cup-of Hercules, the giant, he dropped In a lit* from which ha never recovered. " Alexander who conquered Saitiis, and ronq^ered Halicarnassus and conquered A.sla, and conquered the world, could not conquer himself. And there is a threatening peril that this good land of ours, having conquered all with whom it has ever gone into battle, may yet be overthrown by the cup of the giant evil of the land, that Hercules of infamy? strong drink. Do not let the staggerinf embruted host of drunkards go into the next century looking for insane asylums, and alms houses, and delirium tremens, ?ud dishonored graves.?Bev. Dr. T. DeWltt Taimage. ' " No Rc?pect?r?of Home*. Former United States Senator Merrlman, 3f South Carolina, qaid: "I ,li?ve new drank or meddled with liquor I have seldom used it in my family as a medicine, and yet it has meddled with mo?it has made my boy a wandering vagabond, has broken my wife's heart. Yes, when I was nslecD. thlnklncr him at home in his bed. h* was being made a drundard in the barrooms ln.the city of Raleigh. What assurance, my friend, have you that this may not be repeated in yoar home? The saloon Is no respecter ^of homes. It Invades tha homes of love, of wealth and of Christian people alike, and knows no sympathy for tears, heartache and disappointed love. No, the saloon will not?does not?let you alone." Drinking or a Sheep. A farmer employed n mau. His new jand was addicted to drinking alcoholics. "John," said the farmer, "I'll give ye one o' my best sheep if .ye'll give up drinking while ye work for me." "It's a bargain." \'fi J. A grown son of the farrier said: "Pa, you give me a sheep, tao, If I'll not drink?1' "Yes." V The little boy said: "Pa, will you give me a sheep, too, if I'll not drink?" "Yes." ' The little boy said: "Pa, hadn't you bettar take a sheep?" "I'll try it." The old gentleman declared that he had made the best investment in sheep that season he had over made." ?? Sliota at tlio Rum Demon. Loot before you leap, the ditch may be Jeep. . A saloon keeper Is never so happy as when his spirits are steadily going down. Total abstinence is not a fad. With soma it is a necessity, with others a moans for self-sanctifloation. There are only sixteen breweries in Mexico, of whioh 'three are in the capital. The largest is in Monterey. The statement is made that as many die annually in England from drunkenness as in India from war, famine and pestllenc# combined. Often drunk, never sober, falls like leaves in October. The discouragements incident upon total abstinence work are more than made up for iu the thought tb.it there really is continual progress in the direction of temperance. On overy side we see ovidence of this fact. The home is the best school of temperance, and blest are the childreu who And In their home life an atmosphere of temperance, nnd who are accustomed from their earliest years to an attitude of hostility to driuk and its evil consequences. Drunkenness is midnight, moderation L? twilight, abstinence is daylig'?t. Ten per cent, reduction in lira insurance for total abstainers?total abstainers should agitate lor this concession in season and out. They have a right to reap the full benndt of their self-deDial. Hot drinks sarvoil in driif* storos ar? jjreat temperance agent*. the total abstainers declare. Hot toddios are no longer ilidlspensiiblu on cold night3 when every apothecary has sometbiup; waroi in soups, broths, coffee and cocoa decoctious and lemonade. The saloon is a life-wrecking station. Ir is not very strange that so many lives sroto pieces when the country legalizes 250,000 of these stations and permits thorn to do business for a share of the swns. . *' * " - <y - - i >?