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1'OL. Y. MXIN(4, CLAR1 EN.I)ON COUNTY, S. C., WED)NESDAY, APRIL .7 89 O 9 A WONDERFUL AGE Sermon by Rev. T. DeWitt TaV mage, D. D. The Nineteenth Century One of Wonderful Disasters and Wonderful Blessirgs The Christian Religion March iug Onward-An Eloquent Discourse. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage preached a se> mon at Kansas City, Mo., recently on "Wonders of Disaster and Blessing," his -text being, "1 will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth"-Joel ii., 30. The eloqu' divine spoke as follows: Dr. Cumming-great and gcod man would have told us the exact time of the fnlfinlment of this propnecy. As I stepped into his study in London on my arrival from Paris just after the French had surrendered at Sedan. the good doctor said to me: "It is just as I told you about France; people laughed at me because I talked about the seven horns and the vials, but I foresaw all this from tho Book of Daniel and the Book of Revelation." Not taking any such re sponsibility in the interpretation of the pas sage, I simply assert that there is in it sug gestions of many things in our time. Our eyes dilate and heart quickens its pulsations as we read of events in the third century, the sixth century, the eighth cen tury, tne fourteenth century, but there are more far reaching events crowded into the nineteenth century than into any other, and the last quarter bids fair to eclipse the preceding three-quarters. We read in the daily newspapers of events announced in one paragraph and without any special em phasis-of events which a Herodotus, a Josephus, a Xenophon, a Gibbon would have taken whole chapters or whole vol umes to elaborate. Looking out upon our time, we must cry out in the words of our text: "Wonders in the heavens and in the earth.' I propose to show you that the time in which we live is wonderful for disaster and wonderful for blessing, for there must be lights and shades in this picture as in all others. Need 1 argue this day that our titne is wonderful for disaster Our world has had a rough time since by the hand of God it was bowled out into space. It is an epileptic earth; convulsion after convulsion; frosts pounding It with sledge hammer of iceberg, and fires melting it with furnaces seven hundred times heated. It is a wonder to me it has lasted so long. Meteors shoot ing by on this side and grazing it, and me teors shooting by on the other side and grazing it, none of them slowing up for safety. Whole fleets of navies and argosies and flotillas of worlds sweeping all about us. Our earth like a fishing smack off the banks of Newfoundland, while the Etruria and Germanic and the Arizona and the City of New York rush by. Besides that, our world has by sin been damaged in its internal machinery, and ever and anon the furnaces have burst, and the walking beams of the moun tain have broken, and the islands have shipped a sea, and the great hnlk of the world has been jarred with accidents that ever and anon threatened immediate demoli tion. But it seems to us as if our century were especially characterized by disaster volcanic, cyclonic, oceanic, epidemic. I say volcanic, because an earthquake is only a volcano hushed up. When Stromboli and Cotopaxi and Vesuvius stop breathing, let the foundations of the earth beware. Seven thousand earthquakes. in two centuries re corded in the catalogue of the British as sociation. Trajan, the Emperor, goes to ancient Antioch, and amid the splendors of his reception is met by an earthquake that - nearly destroys the emperor's life. Lisbon, fair and beautiful at one o'clock on the 1st of November, 1755, in six minutes 60.0)0 have perished, and Voltaire writes of them: "For that region it was the last judgment, nothing wanted but a trumpet." Europe and America feeling the throb; 1,500) chim neys in Boston partly or fully destroyed. But the disasters of othe r centuries have had their counterpart in our own. In 161l2 Caracas was caught in the gr ip of the earth quake; in 1822, in Chili, 100,000 square miles of land by volcanic force uph eaved to four and seven feet of permanent elevation; in 1854 Japan felt the geoloaical agony; Naples shaken in 1857; Mexico in 1858; Medosa, the capital of the Argentine Republic, in 1861l; Manilla terrorire I in 1863; the Hawaiian Islands by such force uplifted and let down in 1871; Nevada shaken in 1871; Antioch in 1872; California in 1872: San Salvador in 1873; while In 1893 what subterranean ex citement! Ischia, an island of the Medi terranean, a beautiful Italian watering place, vineyard clad, surrounded by all natural charm and historical reminis cence; yonder Capri, the summer resort of the Roman emperors; yonder Naples, the paradise of art-this beautiful island sud denly toppled into the trough of the earth. 8,000 merry makers perish, and some of them so far down beneath the reach of human obsequies that it may be said ol many a one of them as it was said of Moses, "The Lord buried him." Italy weeping, all Europe weeping, all Christendom weeping where there were hearts to sympathize and Christians to pray. But white the nations were measuring that magnitude of disaster. measuring it not with golden rod like that with which the angel measured heaven, but with the black rule of death. Java, of the Indian archipelago, the most fertile island of all the earth, is caught in the grip of the earthquake, and mountain after mountain goes down, and city after city, until that island, which produces the healthiest bever age of all the world, has produced the ghast liest accident of the century. One hundred thousand people dying, dying, dead, dead. But look at the disasters cyclonic. At the mouth of the Ganges are three islands - the Hattiah, the Sundeep and the Dakin Shabazpore.. In the midnight of October, 3877, on all these three islands the cry was: "The waters, the waters !" A cyclone arose and rolled the sea over those three islands, and of a population of 340,000, 215,000 were drowned. Only those saved who had climbed to the top of the highest trees. Did you ever see a cyclone? No? Then 1 pray God you may never see one. I saw one on the ocean, and it swept us eight hundred -miles back from our course, and for thirty six hours during the cyclone and after it we expected every moment to go to the bot tom. They told us before wve retired at ninc o'clock that the barometer had fallen. but a1 eleven o'clock at night we were awakened with the shock of the waves. All the ligh:e out! Crash ! went all the life-bcats. Waters rushing through the skylights dowr into the cabin and down on the furnaces until they hissed and smoked in the deluge. Seven h'.ndred people praying, blaspheing, shrieking. Oui great ship poised a moment on the top of mountain of phosphorescent fire, and ther plunged down, down, down, until it seemned as if she never would -again be zighted. Ah you never w 'nt to see a cyclone at sea But I was in Itinnesota, where there wa one of these c ,clones on land that swep1 the city of Rochester from its foundations and took dwelling houses, barns, men women. children, horses, cattle, and tosset them into indiscriminate- ruin, and lifted rail train and dashed it down, a mighitiel hand than that of the engineer on the all brake. Cyclone in Kansas, cyclone in Mis souri, cyclone in Wisconsin, cyclone In Illinois. cyclone in Iowa. - Satan. prince of the power of the air, never made such cy clonic disturbances as he has in our day. And am I not right in saying that one of the characteristics of the time in which we live is disaster cyclonie' But look at the disasters oceanic. Shall I call the roll of the dead shipping? Ye mon sters of the deep. answer when I call your names. Ville de Havre, the Schiller, City of Boston, the Melville, the P.e--ident, the Cim bria. But why should I go on calling the roll when none of them answer. a-.d the roll is as long as the white scroll of the Atlantic surf at the Cape Hatteras breakers! If the oceanic cables could report all the scattered life and all the bleached bones that they rub against in the depths of the ocean, what a message of pathos and tragedy for both beaches! In one storm eighty fishermen per:shed off the coast of Newfoundland. and whole fleets of them off the coast of En gland. God help the poor fellows at sea. and give high seats in Heaven to the Grace Darlings and the Ida I ewises, and the lifeboat men hovering around Goo, win's Sands and the Skerries. The sea, owning three-fourths of the earth, proposes to capture the other fourth, and is bombarding the land all around the earth. The moving of our hotels at Brighton Beach backward one hundred yards from where they once stood, a type of what is going on all arouni the world and on every coast. The Dead :ea rolls to-day where ancient cities stood. Pillars of temples that stood on hills geologists now find three quarters under the water or altogether sub merged. The sea, having wrecked so many merchantmen and flotillas, wants to wreck the continents, and hence disasters oceanic. Look at the disasters epidemic I speak not of the plague in the fourth century that ravaged Europe and in Moscow and the Neapolitan dominions and Marseilles wrought such terror in the eighteenth cen tury, but I look at the yellow fevers, and the choleras, and the diphtherlas. and the scarlet fevers, and the typhoids of our own time. Hear the wailing of Memphis, and Shreveport, and New Orleans, and Jacksonville, of the last few decades. From Hurdwa-, India, where eve- y twelfth year three million devotees congregate, the caravans brought the cholera, and that one disease slew eighteen thousand in eigh teen days in Bossorah. Twelve thousand in one summer slain by it in India, and twenty-five thousand in Egypt. Disasters epidemic. Some of the fine-t monuments in Greenwood and Laurel Hill and Mount Auburn 0e to doctors who lost their life battling with Southern epidemic. But now I turn the leaf in my subject, and I plant'the white lilies and the palm tree amid the nightshade and the myrtle This age no more characterized by won ders of disaster than by wonders of bless ing. Blessing of longevity; the aver'ge of human life rapidly increasing. Forty years now worth four hundred years once. Now I can travel from Manitoba to New York in three days and three nights. In other times it would have taken three months. In other words, three days and three nights now are worth three months of other days. The average of human life practically greater now than when Noah lived his 950 years and Methusaleh lived his %9 years. Blessings of intelligence: The Salmen 1'. Chases and the Abram Lincolns and the Henry Wilsons of the coming time will not be required to learn to read by pine knot lights, or seated on shoemaker's bench, nor will the Fergusons have to study astron omy while watching the cattle. Knowledge rolls its tides along every poor man's door and his children may go down and bathe in them. If the philosophers of the last cen tury were called up to recite with our boys at the Polytechnic, or our girls at the Packer, those old philosophers would be sent down to the foot of the class because they failed to answer the questions I Free libraries in all the important towns and cities of the land. Historical alcoves and poetical shelves and magazine tables for all that desire to walk through them or sit down at them. Blessings of quick informa tion; Newspapers falling all around us thick as leaves in a September equinoctial. News three days old, rancid and stale. We see the whole world twice a day-through the newspaper at the breakfast table, and through the newspauper at the tea-table, with an "extra" here and there between. Blessing of gospel pr ,clamation: Do you not know that nearly all the missionary so cieties 'tave been born in this cent ury! and nearly ali the Bible societies, and nearly all the great philanthropic movementsf A sec reta- y of one of the denominations said to me the other day in D~akota: "You were wrong when you said our denomination averaged a new e'turch every day of the year: t' ey established nine in one week so you are far within the truth." A clergyman of our own denomination said: "I have jus' been Out e tablishing mission stations." I tell you Christianity is on the march, while infidelity is dwindling into imib'cility. While infide'.ity I; thus dwindling and drooping down into imb-ellity and indecency, the wvhee-l of Christianit~y is making about a thousand revolut'oons in a minute. All the copies of Shakspeare, and Tennyson, and Disraeli and of any of the ten most pop ular writers of the day, less in number than the copies of the Bible going out from our printing presses. A few years ago, in six weeks, more than two million copies of the New Testament purchased, not given away, but purchased because the world wvill have it. More Christian men in high of~cial posi tion to-day in Great Britian and in the United States than ever befor-'. Stop that falsehood g< ing through the newspapers-I have seen it in twent y-that the judges of the Supreme Court of the United States are infidels ex cept one. B:y personal acquaintance I know three of them to be old-fashioned evangelical Chr istians, sitting at the holy sacrament of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I supipose that the majority of them are staunch believers in our Christian rel-gion. And then hear the dying word of Judge Black, a man who had been Attorney General of the United State;, and who had been Secretary of the United States, no stronger lawyer of theo century than Judge Black-dyinig, his aged wife kneeling by his side, and he uttering that sublime and teuider prayer: "O0 Lord God, from wvhom I derivcl my existence and in whom I have always trusted, take my spirit to Thyself and let Thy richest blessing come down upon my Mary." The most popu lar book to-day is the Bible, and the mighti est ins' itutien is the church, and the greatest name among the nations, and more honored than any other, i.s the name of Jesus. Wonders of self-sacrifice: A elegyman told me in the Northwest that for six years he was a missionary at the extreme north, lving 403miles from a p st-ofl", and some times he slept out of door. in winter, the thermometer sixty and sixty-five below zero. wrapped in rabbit skins woven to gether. 1 said: "Is it possible? You do not mean sixty and sixty-five degrees below zero !" He said: 'I do, and I was happy." All for Christ. Where is there any other being that will rally such enthusiasm! Mothers sewing their fingers off to educate their boys for the gospel ministry. For nine years no luxury on the table until the course through grammar school and col lge, and thcogical seminary, be completed. Pooir widow putting her mite in the Lord's treasury, the face of emperor or president Impreged upon the coin not so conspicuous as t hblnod with which she warned it. Millions of good men and women, but more women than men, to whom Christ is every thing. Christ first, and Christ last, and Christ forever. Why, this age is not so characterized by invention and scientific exploration as it is by gospel proclamation. You can get no idea of it unless you can ring all the church bells in one chime, and sound all the organs in one diapason, and gather all the congrega tions of Christendom in one Gloria in Excel sis. Mighty camp-meetings. Mighty Ocean Groves. Mighty Chautauquas. Mighty con ventions of Christian workers. Mighty gen eral assemblies of the Presbyterian church. Mighty conferences of the Methodist church. Mighty associations of the Baptist church. Mighty conventions of the Episcopal church. I think before longthe best investments will not be in railroad stock or Western Union, but in trumpets and cymbals and festal decorations, for we are on the eve of vic tories wide and world uplifting. There may be many years of hard work yet before the consummation, but the signs are to me so en couraging that I would not be unbelieving if I saw the wing of the apocalyptic angel spread for its last triumphal flight in this day's sunset; or if to-morrow morning the ocean cables should thrill us with the news that Christ the Lord had alighted on Mount Olivet or Mount Calvary to proclaim uui ver:al dominion. 0 you dead churches, wake up! Throw back the shutters of stiff ecclesiasticism and let the light of the spring morning come in. Morning for the land. Morning for the sea. Morning for emancipation. Morning of light and love and peace. Morning of a day i' which there shall be no chains to break, no sorrows to assuage, no despotism to shatter, no woes to compassionate. 0 Christ, des'onud! Scarred temple, take the crown! Bruised hand, take the scepter! Wounded foot, step to the throne! Thine' is the kingdom." These things I say because I want you to be alert. I war.t you to be watching all these wonders unrolling from the heave:ns and the earth. God has classified them. whether calamitous or pleasing. The divine purposes are harnessed in traces that can not break. and in girths that can not slip, and in buckles that can tnt loosen. and are driven by reins they must answer. 1 preach no fatalism. A swarthy engineer at one of the depots in Dakota said: "When will you get on the locomotive and take a ride with us!" "Well," I said, "now if that suits you?" So I got on one side the locomotive and a Methodist minister, who was also invited, got on the other side, and between us were the engineer and the stoker. The train started. The engineer had his hand on the agitated pulse of the great engine. The stoker shoveled in the coal and shut the door with a loud clang. A vast plain slipped under us and the hills swept by, and that great monster on which we rode tremblkd and bounded and snorted and raged as it hurled us on. I said to the Methodist minister on the other side of the locomo tive: "My brother, why should Pres byterians and Methodists quarrel about the decrees and free agency' You see the track, that firm track, that iron track; that is the decree. You see this engineer's arm? That is free agency. How beautifully they work together. They are going to take us through. We could not do without the track, and we could not do without the engineer." So I rejoice day by day. _Work for us all to do, and we may turn the crank of the Christian machinery this way or that, for we are free agents; but there is the track laid so long ago no one remembers it, laid by the hand of Almighty God in sockets that no terrestrial or satanic pres sure can ever affect. And along that track the car of the world's redemption will roll toithe Grind Central depot of the millenni um. I have no anxiety about the track, I ai only afraid that for our indolence God will discharge us and get some other stoker and some other engineer. The train is going through with us or without us. So, my brethren, watch all the events that are going by. If things seem to turn out right, give wings to your joy. If things seem to turn out wrong, throw out the anchor of faith and hold fast. There is a house in Lond on where Peter the Great of Russia lived awhile when lhe was moving through the land incognito and in workman's dress, that he might learn the wants of the people. A stranger was visit ing at that house recently. and sawv in a dark attic an old box, and he said to the owner of the house. "What's in that box !" The owner said. "I don't know; that box was there when I got the house, and it was there whent my father got it. We haven't had any curiosity to look at it; 1 guess there's nothingt in it." "Well," said the stranger, "i'll give you two pounds for it." "WVell done." The two pounds are paid, and recently the contents of the box were sold - to the Czar of Russta for fifty thousand dollars. In it the lathing nmachine of Peter the Great, his private letters and documents of va'ue be. yond all monetary consideration. A nd here are the events that seem v-ery insignificant and unimportant, but they inc-ase treasures of divine providence and eternities of mean ing which after a white God will demon strate before the ages as being of stupeudJ ous value. As near as 1 can tell from what can see there must be a God somewhere aboute. When Titans play quoits they pitch mountains: but who owns these gigantic forces you have been reading about the last two months! Whcs s hand is on the throttle valve of the volcanoest Whose foot sud denlyv planted on the footstool makes the continents iuiver! God! God! He looketh upon t he mountains and they tremble. He. touceth the hills and they smoke. God! God ! I must be at peace with Him. Through the Lord Jesus Christ this God is mine and He is yours. I put the earthquake that shook Palestine at the crucifixion against all *the down roekinigs of the centuries. This God on our side. we may challenge all the centuries of time and all the cycles ofi eternity. Those of us wvho are in mid-life may well. thank (;od that we have sceen so mlany wvon drous things, but there are people here to day who will see the twentieth century. Things obscure to us will be plain to you yet The twentieth century will be as far ahead of tap nineteent h as the nineteenth is ahead of the eighteenth, and as you car icature the habits and cust ms and ignor ance of the past, others will caricature this age. Some of you nay live to see thme shim mering veil betweerr the material anid the spiritual world lifted. Magnetism,. a word with which we cover up our ignorance, will yet be an explored realm. Electricity, the fiery courses of the sky, that Benjamin Franklin lassoed, and Mor-se and Bell and Edison have tried to control, will become completely manageable, and locomotion will be swiftened, and a world or piractical knowledge thrown in upon the race. Whether we depart in this century, or whether we see tile open gates of a more wonderful century. we n~ ill see these things. It does not make much difference where we stand, but the higher the stand point the larger the prospect. We will see them from Heaven if we do not see theum from earth. 1 was at Fire Island, L. I., and went up in the cupola from which they telegraph to New York the appromach of ves sels hours before they comec into port. IThere is an opening in the wvall, and the oprtor puts his teles5cope through that op ning and looks out and sees vessels far ouet a ea While I was talking with him. he went up aid looked out. He said: "We are expecting the Arizona to-night." I said: "Is it possible you know all these vessels? Do you know them as you know a man's face!" He said: "Yes, I never make a mistake, before I see the hulks I often know them by the masts; I know them all. I have watched them so long." 0, what a grand thing it is to have shiph telegraphed and heralded long before they come to port, that friends may come down to the wharf and welcome their long absent loved ones. So to-day we take our stand in the watch tower and we look off and through the glass of inspiration or Providence we look off and see a whole fleet of ships coming in. That is the ship of Peace, flag with one star of Bethlehem float ing above the top gallants. That'is the ship of the church, mark of salt wave high up on the smoke-stack, showing she, has had rough weather, but the Captain of salva tion commands her and all is well with her. The ship of Heaven, mightiest craft ever launched, millions of passengers wait ing for millions more, prophets and apos tles and martyrs in the cabin, conquerors at the foot of the mast, while from the rigging hands are waving this way as they knew us, and we wave back again, for they are ours; they went out from our own households. Ours! Hail! Hail! Put off the black and put on the white. Stop tolline the funeral bell and ring the wedding an them. Shut up the hearse and take the chariot. Now the ship comes around the reat headland. Soon she will strike the wharf, and we will go aboard her. Tears for ships going out. Laughter for ships coming in. Now she touches the wharf. Throw out the planks. Block not up that gangway with embracing long lost friends. for you will have eternity of reunion. Stand back and give way until other millions come on. Farewell to sin. Farewell to struggle. Farewell to sickness. Farewell to death. All aboard for Heaven! BOOKS AND READING. Under No Consideration Surrender Your Own Honest .Judgment. Desultory habits of study are not to be commended; but I do not advise you to pur sue any systematic courso of reading, be cause I am looking upon reading, for the moment, not as an exercise but as a rec reation, and I fear lest, if it were reduced to a rigid and regular system it should become a wearisome task. I would have you om nivorous o f books; devour all thegco I books that you come across; your life will cer tainly not last long enough to leave you time for the temporary ones. However warmly you may admire a par ticular author, do not permit yourself to lose the consciousness of fallibility. Do not accept as gospel what any man, how ever great, says or writes. Never make a blind surrender of your own judgment, either to the author whose writings you affct or to the society which for the time sets him up as an idol. There Is a fashion in these things which is very like affecta tion. Yesterday the rage was for Carlyle; to-day it is for Matthew Arnold or Herbert Spencer; to-morrow it may be for some as yet undiscovered literary planet. Do not let yourself be swept away by the stream. Form your own judgment on the best ma terials you have and do not hesitate mod estly to express your own preference or dis like, even if it be out of harmony with the popular sentiment of the moment. "Books are a guide in youth, and an en tertainment for age. They support us ender solitude and keep us from becoming a burden to ourselves. They help us to for Zet the crossness of men and things, com pose our cares and passions and lay our disappointments asleep. When we are weary of the living we may repair to the dead, who have nothing if peevishness, pride or design in their car.visation." Notes for Boys. ASTRONOMICAL FIGURES. The Number of Meteorites Falling In the Earth's Atmosphere Daily. Observations of falling stars have been used to determine roughly the average number of meteorites which attempt to pierce the earth's atmosphere during each twenty-four hours. Dr. Schmidt, of Athens, from observations made during seventeen years, found that the mean hourly number of luminous meteors visible on a clear moonless night by one observer was four teen, taking the time of observation from midnight to one a. m. It has been further experimentally shown that a large group of 'bsmrers who might include the whole horizon in their observa tions would see about six times as many as are visible to one eye. Prof. H. A. Newton and others have calculated that, making all proper corrections the number which might be visible over the whole earth wvould be a lit tle greater than 10,000) times as many as could be seen at one place. From this we gather that no less than t0. 03,000 luminous meteors fall upon our planet daily, each of which in the dark clear night would present us with the well known phenomnenon of a shooting-star-. This number, however, by no means repre sents the total nnnber of mninute meteorites that enter our atmosphere, because many entirely invisible to the naked eye are often seen in telescopes. It has been calcu lated that the number of meteorites, if these were included, would be increased at least twenty-fold: this would give us 400, 000,03 of meteorites falling in the earth's atmosphere daily.-J. Norman Lockyer, in Harper's Magazine. Detective Skill and Blunders. Detectives are oftener over than under rated. The detective business is like any other calling. It requires application and constant push and energy. It is not so much keenness as bull-dog tenacity that goes far toward making the successful de tective. The day has long since passed when a detective is regarded as a sort of supernatural being with an all-seeing eye, from whom it is impossible for the culpr-it to escape. The fact of the matter is, that the commission of crime nowadays rarely goes unpunished Qwidg in a great measure to the system employed in tracing criminals and the joint action of the authorities all over the coun try, or, one might say, the world. Crime generally 1 aves its stain somewhere, and give any faithful offcer a c-e and he will, in the maijority of cases, get his man. Where there is nothing to start on it is different. But the chief requi site is industry and untiring effort to suc ceed. Genius can be utilIzed, but hard work accomplishes most.-St. Louis Globe-Demo -He who makes the best of every thing is sure to have the best all the time. No mat ter what happens to him that will be to him practically the best. lHe wvill look upon it as such, and such it wvill be in fact. Such a man will at all times be on good ternis with Providence. The bright side of li fe will be before his eye with its good cheer.-N. Y. Independent. -Sonme peole speak as if hypocrites were contined to religion, but they are every where; people pretending to wealth when they have niot a sixpence, assuming knowl edge of which they arec ignorant, shamming a c-ulture the~y are far remiioved from, adopt ig opinions they do not hold.- -Rev. Albert WHITE HOUSE HELP. THE PRESIDENT ENGAGES LORD SACK VIl.LES ENGLISH SERVANTS. Trouble Over the Color Line and the Clothes Line-The Imported Servants Felt that the Administration Owed Them Some Recognition on Account of the Murchison Letter. WASHINGTON, April, 8-As the tenan of the White house President Harrison finds that he cannot choose his own do mestic servants and hire his own cook with the same freedom which he was in the habit of exercising as Citizen Harri son in Indianapolis. It is only during the winter months, the fashionable sea son, the season of entertainments, that a high-class chef de cuiie is needed at the White House. During the long summer months an old colored aunty adequately presides over the coppers and wrestles with the pots. Paul Resal, Mr. Cleveland's chef, is still in charge at theExecutive Mansion, but the time has come to make a change. Even if Mr. Cleveland had remained master of the While House, the old colored woman would be coming along about this time to take the place of the high-class cook During Mr. Cleveland's term both the chef of the winter and the colored aunty of the summer season were en gaged through John F. Chamberlain, the well-known resfautrateur and epi cure, and Mr. Chamberlain. who is known throughout the country as one of the best judges of such things, is authority for saying that not even in the time of the exquisite Arthur were the entertainments at the White House put up in better style than under President Cleveland. Leaving the official end of the President's duties out of the ques tion, Mr. Chamberlain has no hesitation in expressing the opinion that there never was a ['resident who managed the social end of the White House with greatar skill or finer taste, and at the same time all was done economically. Whether he will show equal style or achieve the same effect, it is quite evi dent that President Harrison intends to imitate that feature of Mr. Cleveland's management, which usually comes un der the head of economy. He had been in the White House only a few days when he determined to dismiss the en tire domestic organization which the Clevelands had left there. An unusul ally fine opportunity was offered him to make a complete change and get no less distinguished a body of servants than those who were stranded and left on their beams ends in Washington when Lord Sackville, the last British Minister, was forced to bid farewell to the American capital. The domestic servants at the British Legation are at tached to the Minister and not to the Legation. The Secretary may stay though the Minister go, but if the Minis ter goes the cook, and steward, and hall porter and coachman, and all the other domestics get left unless they art taken along, which happens only oucE in a while. Lord Sackville brought his own serv ants with him from Europe, just as he brought his carriages and his plate. He took most of his carriages and his plate with him, but the servants he left be bind. When the action of this govern men left these servants without an em ployer, they thought they had a claim upon the President or Uncle Sam or somebody. They offered their services to Mr. Cleveland. but Mr. Cleveland told them they had better wait until Mr. Harrison came to the White House, be cause then they would have a full Presi dlential term before them. They waited. and as soon as President Harrison came they preented themiselves, setting forth their own merits and also the grounds upon which the former servants of Lord Sackville had a right to expect some recognition from the Republican Presi dent elected at the close of that cam paign in which the Murchison-Sackville correspondence played such a conspicu our art. Mr. Harrison gave ear to the appliation of the Sackville servants the more readily because he sawv they were a very superior lot of domestics, well trained to the ways of an aristocratic household, and, moreover, they were willing to engage for much less than American wages. They came to this country at European wages, and they have never since ventured to seek any thing better. Through the new steward of the White House, M!r. Zieman, whom President Harrison hrought from Chicago, a bar gain was struck and Lord Sackville-s ervants, from cook to chambermaid, from butler to coachman, were all en gaged to serve President Harrison at the white House, the service to begin as soon as the old servants, one by one, could be disposed of. U'nfortunately for President Harrison the steward began by3 discharging M1r. Cleveland's colored laundress and putting in her place the white laundress from the British Legation. The substitu tiol of white for black caught the eve of some watchful newspaper corre spondent, anti immediately the press of the country was in such a state of agita tion about the color line and the clothes line of the White House that a halt had to be called. No more of Lordl Sackville's retaiiers have yet entered upon active duty at the White House, butt they ex pect to reach the p)romised land pretty soon, and if not they will want to know the reason why. 'Thev have the Presi dent's engagement in their possession and they wilt expect him to stand by it. War Ships at Samoa. WAsHiNGToN. April 10.-It is authori tatively stated at the Itepartment of State ton day that the three treaty pow er coicerned in Samoan aflfair's-Eng land, iermanv and the United States have reacd an tiiderstanding, by the terms of which they will each keep but one war v'essel at Samoa pendmng the terminaioni of the Berlin conference. The vessel to be seiit there by the United States will be the Alert, a 1,u00-ton ship now at Honolulu. The German corvette Sophie, now on her way out from Zan zibar, will represent German interests, while Englanid will doubtless order the Calliope to return to Samoa from Syd ney, or will replace her if she was ma erally amma by the hurricane. AT THE MERCY OF THE WAVES. Terrific Experience of the Steamer Chat tahoochee on the Voyage from Savan nah to New York. NEW \oRK, April 10.-The steamer Chattahoochee arrived from Savannah to-day. The vessel was three days over due, and came up to her pier in a bat tered condition. One. hundred and thirty-five passengers quickly quitted the vessel, glad to once more reach terra firma. While off Body Island Saturday morning, twenty-four hours after leav ing Savannah, the Chattahoochee en countered the heavy gale which proved so disasirous in Southern ports. A hail storm was met and the deck was at one time covered with pieces of ice to a depth of two feet. The gale raged all day with increasing violence. On Sun day morning at 5:20, while the pas sengers were rocking in their berths, a giant wave broke over the deck, carry ing away a section of the bulwarks and smashing in the side of the saloon. An other and another wave followed, flood ing the saloon and the long tier of sleep ing berths. The passengers awoke, panic-stricken, to find themselves in several feet of water and more potring in. Women and men rushed from their staterooms, crying. Many ran around like maniacs. Others made a rush for the life preservers and tried to make their way on deck. Captftin IDaggett aid his officers tried to calm the passen zers, but with small success. For two days many of the pissengers were on their knees in prayer. The captain stopped the engines Sun dav, and the vessel was allowed to drift for forty-eight hours. He used all the oil on board in an effort to break the combings of the waves. It was not un til Monday at 10 o'clock that the engines were again started. The ship had rifted 200 miles cut of her course. The ves-el has several holes in her bow and part of the bridge is carried away. The port side, from stem to stern. is splintered and washed. Great damage was done below. Five of the state rooms are completely de molished. Nearly all of the crockery and glassware was smashed, and six big mir rors were ruined. The waves were so high as to reach up to and break the thick glass ventilators on the upper deck and pour down the smokestack. Captain Daggett says that it was the worst gale he ever experienced, and that during the whole two days his vessel was in the utmost peril. His officers and crew worked to repair the damage done and protect the passengers. There were eighty-six cabin an-1 forty-nine steerage passengers, thirty of whom were women. They I were in a badly exhausted condition when landed, many being unable to walk. One lady was unconscious and was taken away in the cab. The Chattahoochee was to have sailed again for Savannah to-morrow, but will have to go into dock for repairs, and the City of Savannah will take her place. After the gale the Chattahoochee passed a dismasted brig and bark, both in distress. Late Monday night she came across a lightship adrift. She steamed around the latter four times and offered assistance, but it was re fused. What Answer! The Cincinnati Comm ercial Gazette, the leading Republican organ of Ohio, edited by a man whom President Harri son recently nominated for Minister to ermany, "opens the record" of the Re pblican Senators who voted against his onfirmation. Of Senator Evarts it says that as Sec etary of State he "threatened the Diaz overnment in Mexico with non-recog ition at the hands of the United States uless Gen. Diaz would agree that cer tain railroad grants that had been made y the Juarez government to railroad friends of Mr. Evarts in New York hould be confirmed to them. It further harges that "the knowledge of the methods by which the Republipan cau cus in New York was said to have been purhased to support Mr. Evarts's elec tion to the Senate was held over bis head by Coal-Oil Democrats to compel him to ote, as he did, in opposition to an in vestigation of the Payne corruption." Senator Plumb is confronted with an extract from a report of a committee of the Forty-third Congress implicating him, when a provost marshal in the army, in the "robbery" of a citizen of Missouri of live stock, billed at $6.50, but for which he was to receive only $150, and actually received nothing. Senator .Ingalls's hostile vote is at tributed to the fact that "a fellow-feel ing makes us wondrous kind," his own election having been "tainted by bribery and corruption," with the same defense as Senator Payne's--that "he didn't know of it." Senator Teller is cha-ged with having signed and issued in the closing hours of his term as Secretary of the interior " patents for an enormous quantity of unearned railroad land," with reinstat ing swindling pension attorneys and with holding as Senator "relations to the lobby." Senator Dawes escapes with a revival of his alleged connection with the Credit Mobilier scandal. These charges are not "Democratic mud-throwing." They are Republican accusations of Reptiblicans. A Senate p~roprly' sensitive to the character of its members would take notice or some of them. What answer wvill this Senate make?--N. Y. World1. Boulanga 's Fair Captive. One of the clearest evidences which the world could possibly have of the character of General Boulanger is furn ished by that gentleman's relations with the gushing Duchess d'Uzcs. In and ot of public life he flaunts his influence over her with the most brazen effrontery. She must go with him when he rides, icompany him when he walks, or run afteir him'when he takes to his heels to escae from danger. A moral move ment with him as its head may justly enough excite the smiles of honest meni nd women. -Philadelphia Enquirer. General Longstreet's Residence Burned. ALANrA, Ga., April 10.-General James Longstreet's residence in the Eastern portion of. Gainesville was deC msyed byie en sterda. Loss $10.000. SOUTHERN SPOILS. THE PRESII)ENTS PO11CY IN REGARD TO APPOINTiENTS TO OFFICE. Self-Constituted Leaders of the G. O. P. Need Not Apply-Young Men, Pro gressive Men, and White Protectionists to be Given a Showing-A Southern "Leader" Squelched. WASHIs;ToN, April 11.-The Star this evening prints the following: "The President's policy with relation to Southern appointments has been made clear to Southern office-seekers here, and there is not a little unavailing discon tent. He has declared- his intention to select none but men who have the re spect of their neighbors and who are intelligent and capable. He wants to recognize young men and progressive men, who can do the party good and will not act merely as clerks for the party because of. what they can get out of it.. Any distinguished and capable man, who is Republican in principle, whether so by aN owal or not, may be seleeted for appointment. The idea is to get rid of self-constituted leaders, who bring the party into disre pute and to let down all the barriers that keep white protectionists out. It is reported that the President spoke very plainly to a Southern "leader" who called with a delegation lately to see about the apportionment of the patron age of his State. The same leader had been there many times before, and was assuming to control the patronage of his State. "Now," the President is re ported as saying, after listening to-him for a moment, "you have been here sev eral times, and I have heard .you. I know you. Mr. , and know of you very well. 1 do not think you are the sort of man to distribute the patronage of that State." CURRENT NOTES AND COMMENTS. A brass band of twenty-eight stout lunged players from England is march ing through Maine, with a view to re viving interest in the Salvation Army, and will next swoip down on Massachu setts. A young woman of Ridgeway, Canada, has had the banns of matrimony be tween herself and two of her lovers read in the parish church, the clergyman having decided that she is free to choose between them at the altar. The school banking system was intro duced in the public schools of Long Island City. L. I., about three years ago and already the pupils in the nine schools have $10,791.95 to their credit. Last week's deposit amounted to $230.41. John Yager and George Shultice of Three, Rivers, Mich., enlisted together during the war, served in the same com pany, fought in the same battles, came home together and last Saturday morn ing both died within an hour of each other. The appropriations made by thelate Congress for the erection of public buildings have been unusually large, running up to nearly $10,000,000, which. however, was less than one-quarter of the sum asked for by members on ac count of the government building inter est.. The magnificent building which the Woman's Christian Temperance Union proposes to erect in Chicago will cost $800,000. It will be eleven stories in height, and it is estimated that its rental will be about $20,000 a year. It will be known as the Temple of Temper amee. . Many of the large stove foundries at Albany and Troy, N. Y., are reported o be wholly or p)artly closed, Iton is so much cheaper at tbe West and South that the stove industry of Albany and Troy appears t' he a thing of the past. Hundreds of skilled workmen are idle. In Wai, N. II., a big six-pound cat saw an owl in a tree and decided to eat it. So it scrambled up the tree, and, after a short, sharp fight, fell to the ground dead. The owl's big claws hadl been too much for it. The bird was captured, and was found to measure six feet from tip to tip of its extended wings. The latest use of photography is to make a cannon ball take a picture of its own wabblings. An arrangement some thing like a camera is placed in the forward end of the projectile, and when it is fired directly at the sun, the light traces lines upon the sensitive plate, from the direction of which it can be told whether the projectile has kept in one position or has wavered to and fro during its flight. Trains Thrown Down a Mountain. The West-bound overlan5i passenger train on the Atlantic and Pacific Rail road was in collision oni Sunday after noon with the East-bound passenger train, near Peach Springs, Arizona, 109 miles beyond the Needles. The trams, drawn by two engines each, met on a sharp curve on a high embankment and came together with a fearful crash, de molishing the engines and throwing them down a bank into a stream, and carrying three or fonr cars with them. One engineer jumped on the wrong side and fell down a rocky steep S0 feet. He was fearfully bruised and internally in jurel. The'rest of the trainmen and passengers escaped serious injury, but were badly shaken up. A laborer steal ing a ride'on the platform next to the tender was crushed to death. A Liberal Allowance. Miss Marcellite Garner, daughter of the late William T. Garner, tne New York millionaire, who was drowned im his vacht a ftew years ago, is now livig in Paris. Recently the Supreme Court of New York, at her request. anpro ptiatedl $Q5,O00 a year from the income of the estate for her personal expenlses. This is because she said that it cost her $l,00 a year for dresses alone.. Rumored Attempt to Kill the Czar. Pats, April 11.-A rumor prevails on the Bourse that an attempt has been made upon the life of the Czar, but no onti rmat ion of the rumor has been re eived in any gutarter in Paris wyhich would be likely to b~e promptly iinfor'med in -.-ae on tttempt to kill His Majesty.