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DIVISION OF SPOILS. REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A JOY OUS SERMON. The Earth Will Be MLade to Blo~som and the World Will Be Evangelized-Wealth Will Be Egalized and Poverty Be Known No More In God's Kingdom. WASHLGTON, May 3.-This sermon of Dr. Talmage is radiant with coming rewards for all welldoers. Many of the disheartened will rally after read ing it. He chose for his sub)ject "The Division of Spoils." the t- xt seit-lcd being Isaiah liii, 12, "lie shall divide the spoil with the strong." In the Coliseum at Rome, where per secutors used to let out the half starv ed lions to eat ue Christians, there is now planied the figure of a cross. And I rejoice to know that the upright piece of wood nailed to a transverse piece has become the symbol not more of suffering than of victory. It is of Christ, the conqueror, thati my text speaks. As a kingly warior. haviirj subdued an empire, might divide tae palaces and mansions and cities and valleys and mountains amnonit his oth cers, so Christ is going to divide up all the earth and all the heavens among his people, and you and i will have to take our share if we are strong in faith and strong in our Christian loyalty, for my text declares it, "He shall di vide the spoil with the strong." The capture of this round planet for Christ is not so much of a job as you might imagine, when the church, takes off its coat and rolls up its sleeves for the work, as it will. There are 1,600,000.000 of people now in the world, and 450,000.000 are Christians. Subtract 450,000,000 who are Chris tians from the 1.600,000,000. and there are 1,150.000,000 left. Divide the 1,150,000,000 who are not Christians by the 450,000,000 who are Christians, and you will find that we shall have to average less than three souls each, brought by us into the kingdom of God, to have the whole world redeem ed. Certainly, with the Church rising up to its fill duty, no Christian will be willing to- bring less than three souls into the kingdom of God. I hope and pray Almighty God that I may bring more than three. I know evangelists who have already brought 50,000,000 each for the kingdom of God. There ar3 200,000 people whose one and only and absorbing business in the world is to save souls. When you take these things into considera tion and that the Christians will have to average the bringing of only three souls each into the kingdom of our Lord, all impossibility vanishes from this omnipotent crusade. Why, I know a Sabbath school teacher who for many years has been engaged in training the young, and she has had five different classes, and they aver ages seven to a class, and they were all converted, and 5 times 7 are 35 as near as I can calculate. So that she ht her three into God's kingdom and d32 to spare. My grandmoth er prayed her children into the king dom of Christ, and her grandchildren, and'Ihope all her great-grandchildren for God remembers a prayer 75 years old as though it were only a minute oladso she brought her three in the kingdom of God and had more 'than 100 to spare. Besides that, through the telephone and the tele graph, this whole world, within a few years, will be brought within compass .of ten minutes. Besides that,,omnipo tence, omnipresence and omniscience are presiding in this matter of the world's betterment, and that takes the question of the world's salvation out of the impossibilities into the possibili ties, and then out of the possibilities into the prbbliis and then out of -the prbailities into the certainties. Th bulig of the Union Pacific rail road from ocean to ocean was a great er unaertaking than the girdling of the earth with the gospel, for one en tergrise depended uipon the human arm while the other depends upon almight ness Do I really mean all the earth will surrender to Christ? Yes. How about theuninviting portions? Will Green -land be evangelized? The possibility is that atra few more hundred brave lives are dashed out among the ice bergs that great refrigerator, the polar region, will be given up to the walrus' 'and beer, and that the inhabitants will come down by invitation into tolera ble climates, or those climates may soften, and as it has been positively demonstrated that the arctic region 'as once a blooming garden and a fruitful field thoseregions may change climate and again be a blooming gar den and a fruitful field. It is proved beyond controversy by German and American::znntists that the arctic re gions were the first portions of this world inhabitable. The world hot be yond human endurance, those regions were of course the first to be coo] enough for human foot and human lung. It was positively proved that the arctic region was a tropical cli mate. Professor seer of Zurich says the remain2s of fiowers have been found in the arctic region, showing it was like Mexico for climate, and it is found that the arctic was the mother region from which all the flower- de scended. Professor Wallace says the -remains of all styles of animal life are found in the arctic regions, including those animals that can live only in warm climates. Now that arc..ic re ion, which has been demonstrated by fora and fauna and geological argu ment to have been as full of vegetation and life as our Florida, may be turned back to its original bloom and glory, or it will be shut up as a museum of crystals for curiosity seekers once in a whl ovisit. But arctic and antarc tic, in some shape, will belong to the Redeemer's realm. --What about other unproductive or repulsive regions? All the deserts will beirrigated,the waters will be forced up to the great American desert between1 here and the Pacific by machinery now known or yet to be invented, and, as< great Salt Lake City has no rain and1 could not raise an apple or a bushel of1 wheat in a hundred years without ar tificial help, but is now throug-h such means one great garden, so all the un productive parts o1 all the continents will be turned into harvest fields and orchards. A half dozen De Lesseps will furnish the world with all the ca nals needed and will change the course of rivers and open new lakes, and' grea t Sahara desert will be cut up into farms with an astounding yield of bushels to the acre. The marsh will be drained of its waters and cured of its malaria. I saw what was for many years called the Black s.wamp of Ohio. itschief cropschills and fever, but now by the tiles put into the ground to car ry off the surplus moisture, trans formed into the richest and healthiest of regions. The God who wastes noth ing, I think, means that this world,1 from pole to pole, has come to perfec tion of foliage and fruitage. For that reason he keeps the earth runniug: through space, though so many fires I are blazing down in its timbers and so many meteoric terrors have treatened to dash it to pieces. A.s soon as the I earth is completed Christ will divide it up among the good. The reason he does not divide it now is becau~se it is not done. A kind father will not divide the apple among his children until the apple is ripe. In fulfillment of the New Testment 'C omise, "The meek shall inherit the earth," and the prt- ise of the Oid Testament, "He shall divie the spoil with the strong," the world will be apportioned t) those worthyv to loss-SS it. It is not s) now. In this coimtry, canabh- of (ho'd n, feediru clothing and sle1 e-in" L 2'0,0.o Ut eople and w h"r e we have onl l'. t.0.t 0 ihabi taints, we ihav e 2 010, 0i ; who cauilot get honest work. and with ti ,r fami lies an agg eaion of .U,000,0 that are on the verg' of star -ation. Some thing wrong, no-t certainly. In some way there will be a ne,. apportinu meat. Maui of t "mi:ijuaire estates will crack to n.e- o. the dissipations of grandchilidfe n ad 'he disolve into tL ps~essin of 't 5UasCS, who now 1has -,au ' ner . .at. yo s v, tiill become of the expensive and -laborate buildings now devoted to deb oi ;ig amusements? They will become sciols, art galleries, museums, gyumnasi'aimls and churches. The world is aiready getting disgusted with many of these auusemn' nts, and no wonder. What an importation of unel-an th-atrical stuli we have with in the li few years had brought to our shores: Aua professors of religion patronizing such things: Having sold out to tie devil, why don't you deliver the goods and go overto him publicly. bcdv, mind and soul. and withdraw your name from Christian churches and say, "Know all the world by these presents that I am a patron of u:.clean ness and a child of hell " Swvorn to be the Lord's you are perjurers. If you think these offenses are to go on forever, you do not know who the Lord is. God will not wait for the day of judgment. All these palaces of sin will beconie palaces of righte ousness. They will come into the possession of those strong for vir tae and strong for God. "He shall divide the spoil with the strong." China and Africa the two richest portions of the earth by reason of me tals and rare woods and inexhausti ble productiveness, are not yet divided up among the good because they are not ready to be divided. Wait until all the doors that Livingstone open( d in Africa shall be entered, and Bishop Taylor, with his band of self support ins missionarie. have done their work, and the Ashantis and Senegam bians shall know Christ as well as you know him, and there shall be on the banks of the Nile and the Niger a higher civilization than is now to be found on the banks of the Potomac or the Hudson. Then Christ will divide up that continent among his friends. Wait until China, which is half as large as all Europe, shall have devel oped her capacities for rice and tea and sugar among edibles, and her amethyst and sapphire and topaz and opal and jasper and porphyry among precious stones, and her rosewood and ebony and camohor and varnish trees among precious woods, and turned up from her depths a half dozen Pennsylvanias of coal and iron, and 20 Nevadas of silver, and 50 Californias of gold, and her 500,000,000 of people shall be evangelized. Then the Lord will di vide it up among the good. If my text be not a deception, but the-eternal truth, then the time is com ing when all the farms will be owned by Christian farmers, and all the com meice controlled by Christian mer chants, and aH the authority held by Christian officials, and all the ships commanded by Christian captains, and all the universities under the in structioni of Christian professors; Christan k-ings, Christian presidents, Christian governors, Christian may ors, Christian common council. Yet what a scouring out! What an up turning! What ademolition! What a resurre'ction must precede this new apportionment ! I do not underrate the enemy. Jul ius Cxsar got his greatest victories by fully estimating the vastness of his foes and prepared his men for their greatest triumph by saying, "Tomor-. row King Juba will be here with 30, 000 herses, 100,000 skirmishers and 300 elephants." I do not underrate the vast lorces of sin and death, but do you know who commands us? Je iovahjireh. And the reserve corps behind us are all the armies of heaven and earth, with hurricane and thun bolt. The work of the world's redemp tion is going on every minute. Never so many splendid men and glorious women on ~the side of right as today. Never so many good people as now. Diogenes has been spoken of as a wise an because he went with a lantern at noonday, saying he was looking for an honest man. If he had turned his lantern to ware himself he might have iscovered a crank. Honest men by the ten thousand ! Through the inter ational series of Sunday school les sons the next generation all through hristendom are going to be ?wiser than any generation since the world stood. The kingdom is coming. God can do it. No bousewil e with a cham ois cloth ever polished a silver tea snoon with more ease than Christ will rub off from this world the tarnish nd brighten it up till it glows like eaven, and then the glorious appor tionment! for my text is re-enforced y a score of other texts, when it says f Christ, "lie shall divide the spoil with the strong." ''But," you say, "this is pleasant to think of for others, but before that ime I shall has passed up into an other existence, and I shall get no ad antage from that new apportionment.' Ah, you have only driven me to the other more exciting and transporting onsideration, and that is that Christ is going to divide up heaven in the same way. There are old estates in the celestial world that have been in the possession of the inhabitants for thousands of years, and they shall remain as they are. There re old family mansions in heaven filled with whole generations f kindred, and they shall never be riven out. Many of the victors from arth have already got their palaces, nd they are pointed out to those new v arrived. Soon after our getting :tiere we will ask to be shown the ipostolic residences and ask where Ioes Paul live and John, and sho wn he patriarchal residences and shall av, "Where does A braham live or acobi' and shown the martyr resi lnes and say, "Where does John luss live and Ridley?" We will want a see the boulevards where the chariots >fconaueriors roll. I will want to see he gadea where the princes walk. e will want to see Mar ie row, where landel and Hrn anid Mozart and jiarles Wesley e.d Thomas Hastings nd Bradburv have their homes, out f their windows, ever and anon, rol ug some snatch of an earthly oratorio r hymn transported wvith the comn oser. We will want to see Revival terrace. where White field and Nettle ton and Parson and Rowland Hill and Oharles Finaney and other giants of SOUl reaping are resting from~ their al most sapev- atural labors, their doors om t report themselves. But brilliant as the sunset and like the eases for num ber are the celestial homes s.et to be awarded when Christ to you and mn2ions of others shall di vide the spoil. What do you want tuer. You sh al have it. An orchard There it is-12 mannrer of I ruits, and fit every mtoath. Do you want river ,eey'Tal-e your t4noice on the bans of the rirr in longer. wider, deper roll than D~auvbe or Amazon or Mi.=sissippi, if mingled in one, and emptying into the sea of glass, nin eld with tire. Do you want your your father and mother, without the stil or the stoop, and your children in a dance of immortal glee. Do you want a throne? Select it from the i1,000 burnished elevati.>ns Do voi want a crown. Piek it out of that nountain of diamoned coronets. Do you want your old church friends of earth arouud you' Begin to hum an old revival tune, and they will Ilock from all quarters to revel with you in sacred reminiscence. All the earth for those who are on earth at the time of continental and piantery distribution, and all the heavens for those who are there That heavenly distribution of spoils will bea surprise to many. Here en ters heaven the soul of a man who took up a great deal of room in the church on earth, but sacrificed little, and among his good works selfishness was evident. Ile just crowds through the shining gate, but it's a very tight squeeze, so that the doorkeeper has to pu:1 hard to get him in and this man expects half of heaven for his share of rophies, and he would like a nionop oly of all its splendor, and to purchase lots in the suburbs, so that he could get adsantange of the growth of the city. Well, little by little he gets grace of heart, jus, enough to get him through, and to him is given a second hand crown, which one of the saints wore at the start, but exchanged for a brighter one as he wont on from glory to glory. And he is put in an old house once occupied by an angel who was hurled out of heaven at the time of Satin's rebellion. Right after him comes a soul that makes a great stir among the celestials and the angels rush to the, scene, each bringing to her a dazzling coronet. Who is she? Over what realm on earth was she queen? In what great Dusseldorf festival was she the cautra trice? Neither. She was an invalid who never left her room for 20 years, but she was strong in prayer and she prayed down revivalafter revival and revival and pentecost after pentecost upon the churches and with her pale hands she knit many a mitten or ap pet for the poor, and with her contri vances she added joy to many a holi day festival, and now with those thin bands so strong for kindness and with those white lips so strong for supplica tion she has won coronation and in thronement and jubilee. And Christ said- to the angels who have brought each a crown for the glorified invalid: "No, not these; they are not good enough. But in the jeweled vase at the right hand side of my throne there is one that I have been preparing for her many a year and for her every pang I have set an amethyst and for her every good deed I have set a pearl. Feteh it now and fulfill the promise I have gave her long ago in the sick room, "Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown." But notice that there is only one Being in the universe who can and will distribute the trophies of earth and heaven. It is the Divine Warrior, the Commander In Chief of the Cen turies, the Champion of Ages, the Universal Conqueror, the Son of God, Jesus. You will take the spoils from his hand or never take them at all. Have his friendship and you may defy all time and all eter nity but without it you are a pau per, though you had a universe at your command. We are told in Rev elations that Jacob's 12 sons were so honored as to have the twelve gates of heaven named after them-over one gate of heaven Naphtali, over an other gatA of heaven Issachar, over another Dan, over another Gad, over another Zebulon, over another Judah, and so on.- But Christ's name is writ ten over all the gates, and on every pannel of the g-ates and have his pardon, have hiis help, his intercession him atonement, I must, or be a I orlorn wretch forever My Lord and my God, make me and all who hear me this day and all to whom these words shall come, thy re pentant, believing, sworn, consecrat ed and ransomed followers foraver. What a day it will be! This entire assemblage would rise to its fat if you could realize it, the day in which Christ shall, in fulfillment of my text, divide the spoil ! It was a great day when Queen Victoria, in the midst of the Crimean war, distributed medals to the soldiers who had come home sick and wounded. At the Hors guards, in presence of the royal fami l, the injured men were caried in or came on crutches Colonel Trwbridg, who lost both feet at Inkerman, and Captain ~Sayer, who had the ankle joint of his right leg shot off at Almna, and Captain Curra, his disabled limb spported by a soldier, and others maimed and disfigured and exhauasted -and with her own hand the queen ave each the Crimean medal. An - what triumphant days for those sold :iers wnen, farther on, they received the Freneh medal with the imperial agle, and the Turkish medal with its representation of four flag-France, urkey, England and Sardinia-and beneath it a map of the Crimea spread ver a gun wheel. An what rewaras are suggested to all readers of history >y mere mention of the Waterloo edal, and the Gold Cross medal, ad the medals struck for bravery in ur American wars. But how insig ificant all these compared with the ay when the good soldiers of Jesus hrist shall come in out of the bat tles of this world, and, in the pres ece of all the piled up galleries of he redeemed and the un fallen, Jesus, ur King, shall divide the spoil: The ore wounds the greater the inheri ance. The longer the forced march he brighter the trophy. The more errible the exhaustion the more glo rious the transport. Not the gift of a rilliant ribbon or a medal of brass of silver or gold, but a kingdom in which we are to reign for ever and ever. ansions on the eternal hills. Domi ions of unfading power. Empires of nending love. It was a great day when Aurelian, the Roman emperor, came back from his victories. In the front of the pro ession were wild beasts from all ands, 1,600 gladiators, richly clad; vagon loads of crowns and trophies resented by conquered cities, among Lhe captives Syrians, Egyptians. Gotbs] and al3, Sarmnatians, Franks, andi ~enobia, the beautiful captive queen,1 foot in chains of gold that a slave 1 ad to help her carry, and jewels un ler the weight of which she almost sainted, and then came the chariot of, turelian drawn by four elephants in orgeous caparison and followed by he Roman senate and the Roman ~ry, and from dawn till dark the ( rocesson was passing. Rome in all aer history never saw anything more 1 nagnificent. But how much greateri Lhe day when our Conqueror Jesus.1 ~hal ride under the triumphal arches< f heaven, his captives, not on foot, at ia chariots, all the kingdoms ofi arth and heaven in procession, the rmies clestial on white horses.t lubigartilleryv of thunderbolts: do.e ain to be unlimbnered. King 1 si a line, centuri's in line, saintly, 1 herubic, seraph,' rarelic splenI dors in line, anid Chrnists-ated on one i great rolling" hosanna *made outL of i halleluia bs of all' worlds. vhall cryi halt to the procession. An not for-i getting even the holes~ t in all the reach of his omnipresence hie shall ritse ad then and there, his work doue nd his glory consummated. proceeJ, mid an ecstacy such as neither mor tal nor immortal ever imagined, to di vid the nnil. SWUNG INTO ETERNITY, HOLMES PAYS THE PENALTY FOR HIS BLOODY WOR K. meets )eath Galnly -history of His 3Iany Crimes-.A Mania For Confession- The Most Prominent of Modern Criminals. PmL.DEA'iuA. May 7.-Murderer Hrman WV. Mudgett alias I. II. Holmes, was hanged this morning in the county prison for the killing of Benj. F. Pitezel. Toe drop feil at 10:12 o'cloct and 20 minutes later he was pronounced dead by the prison of ficials, Dr. Sharp and Dr. Butcher. The execetion was in every way en tirely devoid of any sensational feat ures. To the last he was self possess ed and cool, even to the extent of giv ing a word of advice to Assistant Su perintendent Richardson as the latter was arranging the final details. He died as he had lived, unconcern ed and thoughtless apparently of the future, even with the recollection still vividly before him of the recent con fession in which he admitted the kill iu of a score of persons of both sex es and in all parts of the country. He refused everything and almost his last words were a point blank denial of any crimes committed except the death of two women at his hands by maiuractic. Of the murder of sever al members of the Pitezel fanily he denied all complicity, particularly of the father, for whose death he stated' he was suffering the penalty. Then. with the prayer of the spiritual atten dants still sounding in his ears and with a few low spoken words to those about, the trap swung, and beyond a few incidental post mortem details, the execution which culminated one of the worst criminal stories known to criminology was eim;ed. Herman W. Mudgett, better known as H. H. Holmes, was one of the most ccnspicuous criminals of modern times and if the 'murder confessions' which he has written can only partially be believed, he was without a peer as a blood-thirsty demon. His recent in genious "confession," wherein he claimed to have killed 27 persons was disapproved, partly at least, by the up pearance of several of the so-called victims; but Holmes' object in making the "confessiou" was realized-the ob taining of a sum said to be $7,500 and which amount is said to have been settled upon the criminal's 18 year-old son. While the "confessions" have served to increase the sensationalism of the case, the only capital crime for which Holmes had to answer was the killing in this city, on September 2, 1S94, of Benjamin F. Pitezel, his fel low-conspirator. The murder was committed in the dwelling, No. 1316 Callowhill street. Holmes' conviction of murder in the first degree, the affir mation by the Pennsylvania supreme court of the verdict and the recent re fusal of Governor Hastings to grant a respite are so well-known that a narra tion of these facts is unnecessary. Holmes was captured in Boston, Mass., in the latter part of 1894, by Owen Hanscom, the deputy super intendent of police, upon the strength of a telegram from Fort Worth, Tex , where he was wanted for horse steal ing and for other charges of larceny. At that time officials of the Fidelity Mutual Life association, of Philadel pia, were hot on Holmes' trail for de frauding the concern out of $10,000 in connection with Pitezel's death, the latter being insured for this amount, and as the accused believed horse stealing to be a high crime in Texas. he voliluntarily confessed to Deputy Superintendenmt Hauscom to ths insur ance fraud. He did not, for a moment dream that he was then suspected of the murder of Pitezel, and he came to Philadelphia without requisition pa pers. He expresed a willingness to be tried here on the conspiracy charge in preference to that of horse stealing t Fort Worth. Before leaving Bos ton, Holmes made this confession to Mir. Hanscom: "When I concluded it was time to arry out our scheme to defraud the nsurance company, I secured a 'stiff' n New York and shipped it in a truuk o Philadelphia I turned the check for the trunk over to Pitezel on the Sunday nearest the 1st of September. [ instructed him how to prepare the :ody, ano in three hours we were on ur way to Ne w York. T wo days af er the payment of the money I saw Pitezel in Cincinnati. I took the hree children to that city, where the father saw them Pitezel agreed to go outh, and he took one child, Howard. [ took the two girls to Chicago bed ause I had business there. We all et again in Detroit. Pitezel took the cildren and went to South America. During all this time Mrs. Pitezel kew her husband was alive, but she id not know he had the children. If he was aware of that she would insist hat the crecked business be wound up ight away. In ordtr to keep Mrs. Ptezel away from her husband I had o tell her that he was here and there, raveling from one city to another-" This was the first of a number of al eged admissions that Holmes subse tuently made, In fact he acquired a enchant for making "confessions" ~hat surprised the authorities. The nsurance officials had good ground or believing Holmes had mur-dered ~itezel and tne three children, so when ;he prisoner arrived in Philadelphia te was urged to make another " con ession." And he did so without auy esitation, but it varied somewhat rom the one he made in Boston. It raphically narrated how the body as substituted for Pitez-l in the Cal owhill street house, and its identifica *ion by Alice Pitezel as that of her ather a week after ward. Holmes also elated how the money was received rom the insurance company and its ubsequent division between Mrs. Pite el, Jeptha D. Howe, the St. Louis awyer and himself. It was in this 'confession'' that .Holmes accused owe of receiving $2,500 for his share a the transaction. Howe was indict-1 d for conspiracy, butirecently the case gainst him was dropped. Soon after Holmes was brought to hiladelphia, Detective Guyer visited im in the county prisonin relation to he finding of the body at 131'3 Callow till street on Septemoer 4, 1890. Af er an hour's conversation with the vily Holmes the detective emerged 'roma the prison with a "confession" rhich the accused said that the body vas not that of Pitezel, but was sub tituted to defraud the insurance cm ay. A week later Holmes honored ~uver with another "confession." "Mr. Guyer," he said. "that story I old you about the substituted body is iot true. It is the body of Benjammt ' Pitezel, but I did not mur~der hini r his children. On Sunday mornins: eptembuer 2, 1 found Fitezei dead a the third story of the CallowhiliI treet house. I found a note in a bot le telling me th at hie was tired of life d had finally decided to commit sui ide. He requested mec to look after e insurance imonecy and take care of s wife and family. I t hen Iixe-d up he body in the position it was found. hese children you speak ofare- adl 'ight. They are with Minnie Will uns in London. I gave Howard to innie Wiliam~ns in Detroit and T sent klice and Nellie to her from Toronto. ney met Miss Williams in Niaoara 'alls, andl sailed for Europe from New 7ork." Betwveen this time and his rial for conspiracy to defraud the in- I ed guilty, Holmes made many other "confessions," but they differed very little fr.>n those already given. Each timne he pretended to tell the truth, hut he seduluusv avoided doing so. Nobody, believed what Holmes said about 1itezel, and he would not say unvtning about the children, except that they were all right. In his many iaterview with Dis t-ct Attorney Graham, Holrn s ter .isted that the three missing Pitezel children were with Minnie Williams in London. He even persuaded Mr. Grahn to have an advertise:nent in the shape of a cipher puzzle inserted in a Nt:v York paper, for the purpose of bringing Minnie Williams and the little Pitezels back from Europe. The distric: attorney placed little faith in what Hllimes told h-m, but the adver tis-meut was published as a sort of last and hopeless effort. When the bodies of Nellie and Alice Pitezel were unearthed in Toronto, Holmes denied having killed them. When Howard's charred bones were located in a superannuated stove in Irving ton, Ind., Holmes calmly denied any kaosvledge of the lad's death. When tae murders of Minnie Williams and her sister were discovered, Holmes said Minnie killed Nancy in jealous frenzy, and he bried the body in L-ake Michigan. He vigorously de nied having put Minnie to death so as to secure her property. The disap pearance of Enily Cygrand was trac ed to Holmes, but the criminal said he knew nothing of the girl's fate. The partially consumed bones that were fouad in the Chicago "castle" are known to be those of some of Holmes' victims. About the last time that Holmes was taken to the district attorney's office to "confess," Mr. Graham lost patience with him. Holmes gave a repetition of his pic turesque falsehoods. He actually gave the district attorney a veritable "jolly" about the Pitezel family and Minnie Williams being still alive. The scene that ensued was extremely dramat c. Mr. G:aham said: "Holmes, you are an infernal lying murderer. I will hang you in Phila delphia for the murder of Bsnjamin Pit-zel." Holmes' nerve was still with him and he said: "I defy you. You have no evi dence to prove me guilty." Mr. Graham looked with disgust and determination at Holmes, and said: "You will surely hang in Philadel phia for murdering Benjnr.in Pitezel" Tne trial and conviction followed. The district attcrney endeavored to prove during the trial, through De tective Guver that Holmes also killed the Pitezel children, but Judge Arnold, before whom the case was tried, de clared this to be irrelevant. Guyer hag' "nearthed the murder of the chil dren after a prolonged investigation and the commonwealth was prepared to prove that Holmes also committed these crimes. Holmes embraced the Catholic faith when it became evidnt to him that he must hang. and Rev, Father Dailey ministered to his spirit ual wants. Throughoat the trial and subsequent imprisonment, this arch criminal maintained a nonchalance that was remarkable. Herman Web ster Madgett was born in Gilmanton, N. H., May 16, 1860. Value of Farm Animnals. According to statistics published by the Department of Agriculture at Washington, says the Iron Age, the aggregate value of farm animrals in the United States has declined very materially in recent years. At the present time the value of these animals is $755,-580, 597 less than it was in 1893. The decline is m re particularly ob servant in the case of horses. Taking the five years from 1890 to 1896, it is shown that horses increase in number until 1893. In 1892, however, their value began to fall off, and in 1895 it was not quite half that of 1892, show ing an aggregate decline in this respect of about $500,000, 000. This deprecia tion is attributedin the main to the in troduction of trolley cars and byci eles. The high cast of fodder, howev er, after recent seasons of drought, is also given as a contributing cause. The value of mules since 1890 has fall en nearly $80,000,000, or not far from half the total existing value of these animals in the United Sates. On the other hand, milch cows have increas ed in number, while the average value of these animals has advanced steadily within the past few years. The in crease in the value of miuch cows last year, as compared with 1894, is $1,300, J00. Oxen and other cattle decreased in numb~ers more than 2,000,000 in 1895, while their value increased on an aver ages $1 So a head in the same period. A. decline is noted in the numbers and value of sheep in the last three years, die decrease in value aggregating tbout $60,000J,000, and the falling off na numbers of these animals last year :>eing nearly 4,000,000. Swine, in 1895, declined 3 per cent ia number rnd 15 per cent in aggregative value, he total decrease in the value of s wine n 1895 being nearly $33,i00.000. It s expected, however, that the enor nous corn crop of last year will have favorable effect upon the next state nent of farm animals, the tendency ,o an increase in numbers and value >eing already observable --Times and Jemocrat. Another Advance Made. The Keeler cure has been i ntrod uced nto the St. Agnes Hospital. Baltimore, dd. Tne good Sisters realize that in he Keeley cure is found the only hope or those addicted to the liquor and norphirae habits, and have matte a ~ontract wvith the Keely Institute of dIaryland by which the Keeley treat nert shall be administered at their hos ital by regular physicians instructed >y Dr. Keeley. This is another argu nent proving that the Sisters of Char ty occupy the front place in the care >f the diseased and in the service of utfering humanity. The treatment v'as adopted four years ago by the ;uited States government and is used t the National home. Proving so ef icacious the treatment is now given t Fort Leavenworth Post, to the ofli ;ers and enlisted men of the regular .rmy. During the past two years the states of Maryland, Minnesota, Colo 'ad-o, Louisiana, N..rth Dakota, Wis Onsin and others have by legislative nactments provided that indigent iquor and morphine babitues be given he treatment. The Keeley Institute of South Caro mn continues its good work at Co umbia, and any information desireu aay be had by addressing that insti-1 ute or drawer 27. Expenled from Cnba. HJavan, May 7.-James Creelman, orrespondent of the New York World ere, and Frederick W. L-twrence, orrespondent of the Journal of New Jork-, have been expelled froma the sland on the ground that they have alumniated Captaiu Genieral Weylecr, he~ govern:nenut and th~e army, and rave attributed insurgents' crimes to he Spanish army. They have been rdered to leave Cuba by the first teamer sailing-. D~oed of a Fierud. MaDRID. May 6.-At Alosno, pr-ov nce of Hluelva, last evenring, some niscreant set fire to a building in I 'hich a dance was in progress. SixI ersons were burned to death and b nany were injured in onseqnce.o A SOLEMN WARNING. SENATOR VEST DENOUNCES 1 HE DOMINATION OF OFFICEHOLDERS. Uule the Chica;:o Couventiun Is Untram melled by the Power of Federal Patron age, He 1 ili Not Regard It as Democrat Ic-Investigation Ordered. WASHINGToN. May 7.-By the decis ive vote of 51 to 6, the Senate today inaugurated an investigation, to be conducted by the Senate Committee on Finance, into the facts and circum stances connected with the sale of United States bonds by the Secretary of the Treasury during the last three years. The six adverse votes were cast by Senator Caff.ry of Louisiana, Faulkner of West Virginia, Gray of Delaware, Hill of New York, Mitch. eli of Wisconsin and Palmer of Illi nois. all Democrats. The resolutions directing the investigation is very ex plicit. The debate had been animated, and at times sensational, throughout the early hours of the day. Mr. Palmer's oppositi->n to the resolution and his reference to "snap conventions" brought on a heated colloquy with Mr. Vest and Mr. Cockrell. "I suppose this resolution." said Mr. Palmer, "because I regard it as an illegitimate means of procuring material to affect and inflame the public mind." The Senator went on to say that he did not suppose any.Senator, excel.t possibly the Senator from South Da kota (Pettigrew,) questioned the inte grity of the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary's judgment. perhaps, might be disputed; the correctness of his acts might be questioned, but there was no question of integrity involved. Mr. Palmer reviewed the platform ut teranc s of the parties. Citing the old adage, "the world do move.." Mr. Pal mer said the country had moved since the platform declarations of 1892 and it was evident that the financial planks at Minneapolis and Chicago would not satisfy the people in the coming elections. In mentioning Mr. Cleve lind's return to the White House in 1893, Mr. Palmer said the President had called to his aid "that able states man, that pure and honest man, J. G. Carlisle." Mr. Palmer asked if free silver would bring about a fifty cent, sixty cent, seventy cent, eighty cent or ninety cent dollar. Mr. Butler, (Poo. of North Carolina) said he would answer the question by reading from a speech by Senator Hill, known as the Elmira speech. He was proceeding to read at much length Mr. Hill's early views on the metals, when Mr. Palmer refused to yield no longer, saying: 'I asked a plain, distinct question, to which I have received a great amount of wind, and I decline to yield further." At another point Mr. Palmer refer red to the cowardice of candidates for the Presidency and for Congress in not being specific in their financial views, and in this connection t he Sen ator had an article read from the desk arraigning Governor McKinley for his "-Janus-faced" attitude on finance. "And yet," added Mr. Palmer, "all indications point to the fact that the subject of that criticism will be the Republican candidate for the Presi dency." A Senator across the aisle whisper ed to Mr. Palmer the substance of 'the bulletins from the Indiahapolis con vention, whereupon Mr. Palmer add ed: "In fact I understand that the opposition to him has broken down." Mr. Palmer was drawn into a hot colloquy with the two Missouri Sena tors, Mr. Vest and Mr. Cockrell. The former wanted to know what Mr. Pal mer meant by a reference to "snap conventions" favoring silver. "I mean," replied Mr. Palmer, "the conventions held last year in Missou ri and Illinois." "What was the 'snap' feature of the Illinois convention?' "An unnecessary convention is a 'snap' convention," declared Mr. Pal mer. "These conventions were called to commnit the Democracy in advance to the free silrer dogma." Mr. Cockrell answered sharply that the Missouri convention was one of the most representative gatherings ever held. It was called because the Remocracy was being misrepresented and an attempt made to commit it to gold. Mr. Vest declared that the Missouri convention was a response to the peo pie. The people led and, added Mr. Vest, "the people assembled in con ventions and any man who tries to stop them will be crushed. Manhood and decency will no longer permit us to stand here and be accused of ad vocating 'unsound mcney,' and of as sembling 'snap' conventions." At this point Mr. Vest branched off into a sensational recital of personal history. He spoke of the order just made public by which this adminis tration extended civil service reform. [t was one of the tenets of this school that the patronage of the governrnent shall not be used to influence politics. Mr. Vest went on to tell of the Presi lents removal of United States Dis trict Attorney Beuton of Missouri. When he (Mr. Vest) first read this tnnouncement he started immediately ~or Washington and asked "His Ex :eliency" what had led to the perpe :ration of this outrage, the rem- val >f a man of unimpeachable character tnd ability. The President bi-ought yut a neuapaper paragraph. charging Dolonel Benton with pernicious ae ivity. He had shown the charges to >e unfounded and the Preside'nt was ust enough to revoke the order, after ~iving to the public a letter openly ecturing Colonel Benton against any >articipation in politics while serving he government. Mr. Cockrell interruo ted at this point o0 ask as the recent Michigan Demo ~ratic conv-ention at Detroit, dcclaring ' hat Federal officials had gone theret is delegates instructed for siiver and 1ad voted against silver, I Mr. Vest, proeeding, said lie referred s o the President's letter to Colonel :enton warning~ him aginst 'dabbling' s a poliiles because thisa administration ~f late had giv en its whoi le influence1 mad power to i luenc-e the p >iticail entimuentof the people, t' in fluence i hese so-called "anap" conventions.t dir. Vest referred to the Nebraska con - rention, where hesaid " otlice holders, n: >ostmasters, collectors of internal r e renue, their lungs filled with the air 'a vhich came from the treasury.," wer-e a necontrol. The Senator spoke of Cabi tet othicers speaking about the country mud added that he had - not he-ard a vhisper of crituscismn fr-om '-His Excel encv.' Mr. Yest next turnel his attention to se hie recent Miciian Demiocrtic State ti :ouven'ion, reading fromt an article V efriten by on'e of the delegates who 'w tad participated "ini that shameful ti eene -The article detailed the action o if -a dcidrs" and "traitors, who F tad been instructed for sil-er and ti -ote-id against it. The Senator satid nte ai p1d mnyn letters from menU of high E~ tandJing including somelt of ths lx :hosen to the national con vecntion, w letailing the circumstances of the at lichigan convention as a "shoin and i lisgrace~ to -American public hfe." Af- C er further denunciation of the influ- M~ nee hrouwrht to bar on ennnventions. fe Mr. Vest closed with a startling de laraiion as to his own position. "I am a delegate to the nationsl c >v en tion," said he, "an unwjiling' dele gate, chosen by my people, aid I ser'v notice now that if that conventioi at Chicago is to be made up of office hol ders, to stifle and prevent the expres tion of the will of the people, then it is no Democratic convention to me. The Democratic party is the party of honorable expression, not of Federal patronage." PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. -Mollie-"Do you like trolley par ties?" Dollic-"I just love 'em. You know I'm engaged to one; he's a mo torman."-Yonkers statesman. -After the Summer. - Iinks - "Where did you spend your vacation?" Links-"I didn't spend it. My wife and daughter spent everything else I had, and I thought I'd better save something."-Detroit Free Press. -liellefield-I say that the laws ought to be made stronger." Bloom field--"I don't know that I quite com prehend your meaning." "Well, as the lawvs now stand, even comparative ly week people can break them." l'ittsturgh Chronicle-Telegraph. -At a picnic given the waifs of ('hi eago a plate of tarts was passed to two little urchins, evidently chums. One, whose mouth was too full for ut t' ranee. and plate too full for even an extra tart, shook his head; not so his neighbor, who added the tart to his pile of goodies. In a few minutes num ber one had so reduced his plate that he asked for the refused dainty, when he was told they were gone. Where upon his little friend was heard giving him this philosophical advice: "The time to take tarts, Bob, is when they're a-passin':"-I arper's Bazar. --One day, when the late Lord Bea consfield was walking in his grounds at Ilughenden Manor, he was accosted by a well-known parishioner noted for his ready wit. It being winter time, and the weather unusually severe, the villager, after paying his respects to his lordship, commenced to make an appeal for a little help. "Ilow often have I told you to be careful and pre pare for a rainy day?" "Ah: that's right enough: so I did, my lord," said the ready-witted villager; "but then who thought of seeing all this snow and hard frost?" This ready retort had the desired effect.-household Words. -"Bridget, I want a pound of steak, a bag of salt, two ounces of pepper, a loaf of bread and a pound of butter. D.) you think you can remember them all, or shall I write them down?" "Sure, man, I kin regmember one by the other. When I hey bread, I know I want butter, and when I have steak, I want pepper and salt." "All right. Go, and don't be long." Bridget was not lone. She was back in a very short time; but with an empty basket. "Why, where is the dinner, Bridget?" "I couldn't remimber wan of them, mam." "Why, I thought you could re member each article by the one before it." "Faith, mam, I had nothing to remimber the furst one by." THE CUNNING BRONCO. Traits of This Hardy Little Rover of the Western Plains. A few words about this hor::c-+he horse of the plains. Whether or no his forefathers looked on when Montezu ma fell, they certainly hailed f~rom Spain. And whether it was missiona ies or thieves who carried them north ,ard from Mexico, until the Sioux heard of the new animal, certain it lso is that this pony ran wild for a :entury or two, either alone or with iarious red-skinned owners: and as he ;gatnered the sundry experiences of wvar and peace, of being stolen, and of being abandoned in the snow at incon enient distances from home, or being ridden by two women 'and a baby at once, and of being eaten by a bear, his wvide range of contretemps brought im a wit sharper than the cetreet rab's, and an attitude toward life more blase than in the united capitals of Europe. I have frequently caught im- watching me with an eye of such ai'donic depreciation that I felt it luite vain to attempt any hiding from im of my incompetence; and as for urprising him, a locomotive cannot do t, for I have tried this. He relishes utting a man in absurd positions, mnd will wait many days in patience o compass this uncharitable thing; mnd when he cannot bring a man o derision, he contents himself vith a steer or a buffalo, helping the man to rope and throw these nimals with an ingenuity surpassing ny circus, to my thinking. A nunm >er of delighted passengers on the ansas Pacific railway passed by a ~lxican vaquero, who had been sent ut from Kansas City to rope a buffalo s an adlvertisemlent for the stock ards. The train stopped to take a ook at the solitary horsem a fast to a mufalo in the midst of the plains. ose, who had his bull safely r'opedc. touted to ask if they had water on le train. "\We'll bring you some." aid they. "Oh, I come get," said lhe: nd jumping off he left his accomn ilished pony in sole charge of the buf alo. Whenever the huge beast strug ~led for freedom, the clever pony stiff ned his legs and leaned back as in a ug of war, by jumps and dodges so nticipating each move of the enemy hat escape was entirely hopeless. 'hie boy got his drink, and his em loer sent out a car for the buffalo, ihich was taken in triumph into Kan as City behind the passenger train. ~'he Mexican narrated the exploit to is employer thus: "Oh, Shirley, when he train start they all give three reata big cheers for me, and then :ey give three mnucha bigger cheers r the little gray hoss'"-Owen Wis-' er, in Iharper's Nagazine. Take Time. Let us take time for the good-by iss. We shall go to the day's work ith a sweeter spirit for it. Let us .ke time to speak kind words to those -' love. By and by, when they can .0 lo'nger lhear us, our foolishness will . em more wise than our best wisio. et us take time to be pleasant. Tfhe ali courtesies, which we often omit eause tbey are small, will some day a ~ok larger to us than the wealth hich we have coveted or the fame r which we have struggled. Let us t ike time to get acquainted with our milies. TIhe wealth you are aceumn-' ating ma~y be a doubtful blessing toe e son who is a stranger to you.t our beautifully kept house, busyt other, can never be a home to the ~ughter whom you have no time to Will Join the 31ethodist". CLEVELAND, 0., May 5.-A profound nsation ha~s arisen in the Ch urch of e Immaculate Heart of the Bmessed irgia Mary uIndependent Catholic) ich was orgauzed ini this city about ree years ago and has been presided ~er by Father A. F. Kolaszewski. ther Kolaszewski and his three ousand Poiish parishioners desire to IV themselves with the Methodist n >sopal Church. Although Father alaszewvski refuses to say anything ate'ver concerning the ac:ion, the t-ment as to his desirine' to ally mseif witn the Methodist Episcopal rc cabe of the Methodist General Con-1 . ence.i Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of all in leavening strength. -Latest United States Gocernment Food Report. ROYAL BAKING PoWDER Co., New York City. AMONG THE APACHES. An Arizona Miner's Experience with the Indiana. How He Rescued a Mother Squaw and 11er Twin Babies from Death at the Hands of 11er Super stitious Tribesmen. Superstition forms the greater part, Of the Indian's character," said John Elwood the other day. There are few people that are in closer touch with he Indians. and especially the .\paches, than Jack Elwood. as he is familiarly known through the Rockies. .lack is a character. Early in the '60s .Taec went west to California. His ortane did not come at once, and inally Jack drifted back toward the and of the rising sun. lie finally :Inded in Arizona, and for years has een one of the best-known pros pectors in that territory. lie lives at ihenix. and is getting almost too old. one would think, to keep up his efforts t uncover a fortune. but it would not be safe to tell Jack Elwood that. In tie latter part of the 'SOs Jack had an. -xperience while crossing the plains (t led to his close relations with tb:. .Aaches. and since then he has beets e of the few who have the friend :hio and confidence of this band of warriors. - 'Ilow did I get my great stand-in. w ith the Apaches?' Well. I'll tell you, I hardly know." continued Elwood. ! sort of g'rew into their confidence, an have shared it more or less since hout 1SSG. 'Long in January of that :.ear I had an occasion to get pretty in imately acquainted with the Apaches. In Phoenix in a back ',t. lct stands a little adobe house. It ii off by itself and its occupants have no communior. with any of their neighbors. It-is the !ome of an Indian by the name of .!clo, who, with his wife and two chil d en, live a quiet and solitary life. Tney, like all Indians, are clannish. .:er do not want to associate with the o::tside world and have little or noth ing to (10 with their own people. I am about the only one who ever gets in side the threshold of that little adobe cottage. From its doorway to the east can be seen in the distance 'Four Peaks,' with their summits covered with snow. Bectween Phoenis and these mountains is a broad desert. "Early in January, 1886, I wa~s cross ing that dlesert with a team- ,It is quite a trip, and the valle'y is quite warm even in January. It is necessary to carry water across this plain, and I had a goodly supply in a barrel cn the wagon. Everything was going along in good shape until nearly noon. when an accident resulted in the loss of every drop of water we had. It was impos sible to proceed far without water, and yet to remain there would be-equally as serious. We di:1 our best. 'Long in the evening I waspicked up by a band of A paches in an almost exhausted con ition. They gave me water, and one. young couple who seemed to be supe rior to the others in intelligence fed. ne. I, however, did not have my full: senses. 'Ihe terrible strain on a dry lkali plain without water and in a >urning sun was enougn to turn any >ne's brain. I want to tell you. "Indians are superstitious. illogsz ~na childish to a degree of which no. :ivilized man has any conception. This v-as to my advantage. They thiought nc insane, and as they regard one out if his natural mind as something su ~ernatural and to be revered they reated me with the greatest kindness. Idid not trust the Indians, and hence rhen I began to recover my mental alance I tried to give no outward evi lence of this fact and wandered among hlem in a solitary and speechless man er. I was shamming to get away all hxe time. "A fe w days after my arrival at camp .win boys were born to the young wife if the Indian who had fed me and ::redl for me. 'This is not any more icommon among the Indians than isewhere,. and, although the red man ;)passionately fond of children, yet he appearance of twins and a crazy man (as they thought me) forebode bem evil, andi the medicine man said hat Mrs. Melo wvas a witch. and Z be .nd her infants must b.sa~ ficed. lelo pleaded for his wife, without rail. She did not attempt to escape. was ncot vet able to understand the adian language, and it was sonme time fore I was aware of what troubled 17v young friends. Already the dance ad commtencedl. and only- a few hours emained before the. mother and her ildren would be burned. I made my eape, and succeeded in renching the gency. Hlere, with much trouble, I cured a detaxchmeait off cavalry, and ~d themi back to the Indian camp. I ad no hope of tbeing in time; but, >rtunately. the chief had eaten some lIng that (lid not agree with him, and e sacrifice was postponed a few hours. 'hen we rode up the noise of the beat g of tom-toms and the singing of ancers drowned out the sound of our pproach. In the distance we could e the young wife and her two chil rcn being driven into her Thack, and xe warriors, with burning firebrands, radually closirng in to ignite the fun al pile. At this moment we were di >vered, anti the dance was brough a standstill. The presence of t ~oopers was sufficient. I persuad e&o and his wife to return to Phoe ith me. TIhey have lived there sin ad aided me in gaining knowledge .e customs of the Apaches. "-Cni ter Ocean. RussIan Proverbs. Mny familiar proverbs of the Ru~ to popl hav a ynical ilavof. Here a little gro~up of them: Words are not arrows, but they fey rther. A fter the figh t. there are lots of brave n. The bread of others is sweet Sent a lout at your table and he will t his feet on it. The rare visitor is a joiiy companion. le who rous. sins once; he who is hued, sas ten times. Pure goldi makes itself known, even