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WORDS TO CONGRESS. REV. DR. TALMAGE ON "SEFORE THEY ADJOURN." He Wats Some Things Done and Some More Undone-A Grand and Hopeful Sermon of Interest to National Legis lators. WASHINGTON, May 10,-Never was a timelier or more appropriate sermon than that preached by Rev. Dr. Tal mage this morning. The subject was, "Before They adjoarn," having refer ence to the early dissolution of con gress, and the text selected was Psalns cv, 22, "And teach his senators wis dom." Senators in this text stand for law makers. Joseph was the lord treasur er of the Ezyptian government, and, among other great things which he did, according to my text, was to teach his senators wisdom, and if any men on earth ought to be endowed with wisdom it is senators, whether they stand in congresses, parliaments or reichstags or assemblies or legisla tures. By their decisions nations go up or down. Lawmakers are some times so tempted by prejudices, by sectional preferences, by opportunity of personal advancement, and some tirmes what is best to do is so doubtful that they ought to be prayed for and encouraged in every possible way, in stead of severely criticised and blamed and excoriated, as is much of the time the case. Our public men are so of ten the target to be shot at, merely because they obtain eminence which other men wanted, but could not reach, that more injustices are hurled at our national legislature than the people of the United States can possibly imag ine. The wholesale belying of our puclic men is simply damnable. By residence in Washington I have come to find out that many of our public men are persistently misrepre sented, and some of the best of them, the purest in their lives and most faith ful in the discharge of their duties. are the worst defamed. Some day I want to preach a sermon from the text in II Peter: '"They are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, whereas an gels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not." So constant and malignant is this work of depreciation and scandaliza tion in regard to our public men that all over the land there are those-who suppose that the city of Washington is the center of all corruption, while, what with its parks, and its equestrian statuary, and its wide streets, and its architectural symmetries, and its love ly homes, it is not only the most beautiful city under the sun, but has the highest style of citizenship. I have seen but one intoxicated man in the more than six months of my resi dence, and I do not think any man can give similar testimony of any c th er city on the American continent. The gavels of our two houses of na tional legislature will noon fall, and 'ournment of two bodies of men as ented, as upriht, and as patriotic as ever graced the capitol will take place., h two or three unfortunate outbreaks which you have noticed on ly make more conspicuous the dignity, the fraternity, the eloquence, the fi delity, which have characterized those two bodes during all the long months of important and anxious deliberation. We put a halo around great men of the past because they were so rare in their time. Our senate and house of representatives have five such men where once they had one. But it will not be until after they are dead that they will get appreciated. The world finds it safer to praise the dead than the .living, because the departed, hay ing a heavy pile of marble above them may not rise to become rivals. But before the gavelh of adjourn-' ment drop and the doors of Capitol bill shut there are one or two things that ought to be done, and let us pray -God that they may be accomplished. More forcibly than ever before con grs has been implored to acknowl edge God in our constitution. The Methodist church, a church that is al ways doing glorious things, has in its recent Wilmington conference re quested our congress to amend the im mortal document, which has been the foundation and wall and dome of our United States government, by insert Ing the words, "Trustingn mAlmighty God." If that amendment is made, it will not only please all the good peo ple of the country, but will please the heavens. Tt was only an oversight or a mental accident that the fathers who made the constitution did not insert a divinely worshipful sentence. They all, so far as they amounted to any thing, believed in "God, the Father Almighty, the Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only begotten . Son." The constitution -would have been a failure had it not -been for the divine interference. The members of the convention could agree on nothing until, in response to Benjamin Franklin's request that the meetings be opened by prayer, the Lord God was called on to interfere and help, and then the way was cleared, and all the states signed the document, a historical fact that all the rat terriers of modern infidelity can not bark out of existence! I know *that there was an exception to the fact that the prominent men of those times were good men. Tom Paine, a libertine and a sot, did not believe in anything good until he was dying, and then he shrieked out for God-s mercy. And Ethan Allen, from one of whose descendants I have received within a few days a confirmation of the incident I mentioned in a recent sermon, as saying to his dying daugh ter that she had better take her moth er's Christian religion than his own in fidelity. The 'article sent me says: "The story has been denied by some of the Allen family, but the Bronson family, some of whom were with the dying girl, affirms that it is substantially true. In such a matter one confirma tion is worth more than many deni als." So says the article sent me. There is no doabt that Ethan Allen was the vulgarest sort of an infidel,' for, sitting in a Presbyterian church, his admirers say he struck the pew in front of him and swore out loud so as to disturb the meeting, and no gentlemlan would do that. I do not wonder that some of his de scendants are ashamed of him, but of course they could not help it and are, not to blame. But all the decent men of the Revolution believed in God, and' our American congress, now assem bled, will only echo the sentiments of the fathers when they enthrone the name of God in the constitution. We have now more reason for inserting that acknowledgment of divinity than our fathers had. Since then the continent has been peopled and great cities from the Atlantic to the Pacific built, and all in peace, showing that there must have been supernal super visal Since then the war of 1812, and ours the victory ! Since then the great financial prostrations, out of which :we came to greater prosperity than anything that preceded. Since then sanguinary 1862. 1S63, 1864 and 1865, and notwithstanding the fact that all the foreign despotisms were planning for our demolition, we are a united people, and tomorrow you will find in both houses of congress the men who fought for the north and the south, now sitting side by side, armed with no weapon except the pen, with which they write home to their con stituents who want to be appointed postmasters. The man who cannot see God in our American history is as blind of soul as he would be blind of body if he could not at 12 o'clock of an unclouded noon see the sun in the heavens. As a matter of gratitude to Almighty God, gentlemen of the American con gress, be pleased to insert the four words suggested by the Methodist con ference! Not only because of the kindness of God to this nation in the past should such a reverential inser tion be made, but because of the fact that we are going to want di'ne in terposition still further in our national history. This gold and silver question will never be settled until God settles it. This question of taritf and free trade will never be settlea until God settles it. This question between the east and west, which is getting hotter and hotter and looks toward a repub lic of the Pacibc, will not be settled until God settles it. We needed God in the 120 years of our past national life, and we will need him still more in the next 120 years. Lift up your heads, ye everlasting gates of our glo rious constitution. and let the King of Glory come in ! Make one line of that immortal document radiant with om nipotence! Spell at least one word with thrones! At the beginning, or at the close, or in the center, recog nize him from whom as a nation we have received all the blessings of the past, and upon whom we are depen dent for the future. Print that word "God" or "Lord" or "Eternal Father" or "Ruler of Nations" somewhere be tween the first word and the last. The great expounder of constitution sleeps at Marshfield, Mass., the Atlantic oc ean still humming near his pillow of dust its prolonged lullaby. But is there not some one now living who, in the white marble palace of the nation on yonder hill not ten minutes away, will become the irradiator of the con stitution by causing to be added the most tremendous word of our English vocabulary, the name of that being before whom all nations must bow or go into defeat and annihilation "God?" Again, before the approaching ad journment of our American congress, it ought to be decidedly and forever settled that no appropriations be made to sectarian schools, and that the court ship between church and state in this country be forever broken up. That question already seems temporarily settled. I wish it might be complete ly and forever settled. All schools and all institutions as well as all de nominations should stand on the same level before American law. Emperor Alexander of Russia, at his Paterhof palace, asked me how many denomi nations of religion there were in Am erica, and I recited their names as well as I could. Then he asked me the difference between them, and there I broke down. But when I told him that no religious denomination in America had any privileges above the others he could'hardly understand it. The Greek church first in Russia; the Lutheran church first in Germany; the Episcopal church first in England; the Catholic church first in Rome; Mo hammedanism first in Constantinople. The emperor wondered how it was possible that all the denominations in America could stand on the same plat form. But so it is, and so let it ever be. Let there be no preference, no partiality, no attempt to help one sect an inch higher than another. Wash ington and Jefferson, and all the early presidents, and all the great statesmen of the past, have lifted their voice against any such tendency. If a school or an institution cannot stand without the prop of national appropriation, then let that school or that institution go down. On the other side of the sea the world has had plen ty of illustration of church and state united. Let us have nene of the hypo crisy and dsmoralization Lorn of that relation on this side of the Atlantic. Let that denomination come out ahead that does the most for the cause of God and humanity, men, institutions and religions getting what they achieve by their own right arm of usefulness and not by the favoritism of govern ment. As you regard the welfare and perpetuity of our institutions keep politics out of religion. But now that I am speaking of na tional offairs from a religious stand point I bethink myself of the fact that two other gavels will soon lift and fall, the one at St. Louis and the other at Chicago, and before those national conventions ad journ I ask that they acknowledge God in the platforms. The men who construct those platform are here this morning or will read these words. Let no political party think it can do its duty unless it ac knowledges that God who built this contient and revealed it at the right time to the discoverer and who I as reared here a prosperity which has been given to no other people. "Oh," says some one, "there are people in this country who do not believe in a God, and it would be an insult to them." Well there are people in this country who do not believe in com mon decency, or common honesty, or any kind of government, preferring anarchy. Your very platform is an in slt to them. You ought not to re gard a man who does not believe in God any more than you should regard a man who refuses to believe in common decency. Your pocket book is not safe a moment in the presence of an atheist. God is the only source of good gov ernment. Why, not, then, say so and let the chairman of the committee on resolutions in your national con ventions take a penful of ink and with bold hand head the document with one sigafcant "whereas," ack knowledging the goodness of God in the past and begging his kindness and protection for~ the future. Why, my friends; this country belongs to God; and we ought in every possible way to acknowledge it. From the moment that, on an October morning in 1492, Columbus looked over the side of the ship and saw the carved staff which made him think he was near an inhab ited country and saw also a thorn and a cluster of berries (type of our his tory ever since, the piercing sorrows and cluster of national joys) until this hour our country has been bounded on the north, soutni. east and west by the goodness of God. The Huguenots took possession of the Carolinasin the name of God. William Penn settled Philadelphia in the name of God. The Hollanders took possession of New York in the name of God.- The pilgrim fathers settled New England in the name of God. Preceding the irst gun of Bunker Hill, at the voice of prayer all heads uncovered. In the war of 1812 an officer came to General Andrew Jacltson and said, "There is an unusual noise in the camp; it ought to be stopped " Gen eral Jackso said, "What is the noise?". Tne ollicer said. "It is the voice of prayer and praise." 'Ohen the gener al said: '"God forbid that prayer and praise should be an unusual noise in um encampment. You had better go and join them." Prayer at Valley Forge. Prayer at Monmouth. Pray er at Atlanta. Prayer at Scuth Moun says some infidel, "the northern peo ple prayed on one side and the south ern people prayed on the other side, and so it did not amount to anything." And I have heard good Christian people confounded with the infidel statement when it is as plain to me as my right hand. Yes, the northern people pray - ed in one way and the southern peo ple prayed in another way, and God answered in his own way, giving to the north the re-establishment of the government and giving to the south larger opportunities, larger than she had ever anticipated, the harnessing of her rivers in great manufacturing interests, until the Mobile and the Tallapoosa and the Chattahoochee are southern Merrimacs, and the unroll ing of great southern mines of coal and iron, of which the world knew nothing, and opening before her op portunities of wealth which will give 9:) percent more of affluence than she ever possessed, and instead of the black hands of American slaves there are the more industrious black hands of the coal and iron mines of the south, which are achieving for her fabulous and itnimagined wealth. And there are domes of wl ite blossoms where spread Eh- whire tants, And ttiere are plows in the track where the war wagons west, And there are songs where they lifted up Rachel's lament. Oh, yor. are a stupid man if you do not understand hov God answered Abraham Lincoln's prayer in the White House and Stonewall Jackson's prayer in the saddle, and answered all the cathedrals on both sides of Mason and Dickson's line. God's country all the way past, God's country now. Put his name in your pronunciamen tos; put his name on your ensigns, put his name on your city and state and national enterprises; put his name in your hearts. We cannot sleep well the last sleep until we are assured that the God of our American institutions in the past will be the God of our American institutions in the days that are to come. Oh, when all the rivers that empty into Atlantic and Pacific seas shall pull on factory bands; when all the great mines of gold and silver ana iron and coal shall be laid bare for the nation; when the last swamp shall be reclaimed, and the last jungle cleared, and the last American desert Edenized, and from sea to sea the continent shall be occupied by more than 1,200,000,000 souls, may it be found that moral and religious in fluences were multiplied in more rap id ratio than the population. And then there shall be four doxologies coming from north and south and east and west, four doxologies rolling to ward each other and meeting midcon tinent with such dash of holy joy that they shall mount th throne. Ard heaven's high arch resound again With peace on earth, good will to men. I take a step farther and say that before the gavels of our senate and house of representatives and our polit ical conventions pound adjournment there ought to be passed alaw or adopt ed a plank of intelligent helpfulness for the great foreign populations which are coming among us. It is too late now to discuss whether we had better let them come. They are here. They are coming this moment through the Narrows. They are this moment tak ing the first full inhalation of the free air of America. And they will con tinue to come as long as this country is the best place to live in. You might as well pass a law pro hibiting summer bees from alighting on a field of blossoming buck wheat, you might as well prohibit the stags of the mountain from coming down to the deerlick, as to prohibit the hunger bittten nations of Europe from coming to this land of bread, as to prohibit the people of England, Ireland, Scot land, Italy, Norway, Sweden and Germany, working themselves to death on small wages on the other side the sea, from coming to this land, where there are the largest compensa tions under the sun. WVhy did God spread out the prairies of the Dakotas and roll the precious ore into Colora do? It was that all the earth might come and plow and 4:ome and dig. Just as long as the' centrifugal force of foreign despotism throw them off just so long will the centripetal force of American institutions draw them here. And that is what is going to make this the mightiest nation on the earth. In termarriage of nationalities! Not cir cle, intermarrying circle, and nation intermarrying nation. But it is going to be Italian and Norwegian, R~ussian and Celt, Scotch and French, English and American. The American of 100 years from now is to be different from the American of today. German brain, Irish wit, French civility. Scotch firm ness, English loyalty,Italian aesthetics packed into one man, and he an A meri can! It is this intermarriage of nation alities that in going to make the Amer ican nation the greatest nation of the ages. But what are we doing fcr the moral and intellectual culture of the 500,000 foreigners who came in one year, and the 600,000 who came in another year, and the 800.000 who came in another year, and the 1,000, 000) who are coming into our various American ports? What are we doing for them? Well, we are doing a great deal for them. We steal their baggage as soon as they get here. We send them up to a boarding house where the least they lose is their money. We swindle them within ten minutes after they s'et ashore. We are doing a great dea for them. But what are we doing to introduce them into the duties of good citizenship? Many of them never saw a ballot box; many of them never heard of the constitution of the United States; many of them have no acquaintance with our laws. Now, I say, let the government of the United States so commanded by one political party or both politic-al parties, give to every immigrant who lands here a volume, in gcod type and well bound for long usage-a volume containing the Declaration of Inde pendence, the constitution of the Uni ted States and a chapter on the spirit of our govei'nment. Let there be such a book on the shelf of every free libra ry in America. While the American Bible society puts into the right hand of every immigrant a copy of the Holy Scriptuers,, let the government of the United States, commanded by some political party, put into the left hand of every immigrant a volume instruct ing him in the duties of good citizen ship. There are thousands of foreign ers in this land who need to learn that the ballot box is not a foot stool, but a throne-not something to put your foot on, but something to bow before. But whether members of the nation al legislature or delegates to one of the national conventions or private citizens, let us cultivate Christian pa triotism. Oh, ho w good God has been to us as a nation! Just open the map of the continent and see how it is shaped for immeasurable prosperities Navigable rivers, more in number and greater than of any other land, roll ing all sides into the sea, prophesy ing large manufactories and easy com merce. Look at the great ranges of mountains, timbered with wealth on on the top and sides an d metaled with wealth underneath. One hund red and eighty thousand square miles of coal. One hundred and eighty thousand square miles of iron. Thie iron to pry out the coal. The coal to forge and smelt the iron.- The land is contoured that extreme weather hardly ever lasts more than three days-extreme heat or extreme cold. Climate for the most STEPHENS ON SILVER. The ;re;it Comno-1er Was in Favor of its Free Coinage. We priirt belo a characteristic let ter from Ai-xm Jr 1 Stephens, writ ten .J:tnuarv 26, 1882. It states the silver quetimn slain language, and tells tiih whole story in a few words. This letter was w-itten before the first ekection of Mr. Cleveland, when all Democrats were supposed to be unani mous in their condemnation of the criie of 1873: National Hotel. Washington, D. C., Jan. 26, 1882. Mr U D. Barrows, Los Angeles, Cal. My clearSir:-Your letterof the 14th instatt with ieclcsed slips was received this eveuing. Allow me to thank you for it. The subject is one of the grav est that now occupies the attention of Congress and the thinking men throughout the United Sttates. The reason that silver bullion has been de preciated since 1873 in this country is that Congress in Fe bruary, 1873. struck silver from the lists of money in the United States. The moment that this act of Congress was passed gold was made the only standard of values in this country. That was a great error and was attended with infinite mis chief in the United States. In 1792 Mr. Hamilton and the patri otic statesmen of that day recognized in our coinage the bimetallic system of money; that is, he and they recognized silver as money as well as gold at the ratio of about sixteen parts of silver as equivalent to one of gold. Under this regulation and coinage we were pros prous in 1S73. When silver was de prived of its debt-paying power as an equivalent to gold at the ratio stated, silver in the markets of the world was at a premium over gold. It is useless to go into reasons why this ehange was adopted in our system or by what unseen hands it was effected. The true policy of this country is to return to the system of our fathers. If the gov ernment should now, as it ought to, re trace its steps and provide for the free coinage of silver as it does of gold and make 4121 grains of standard silver equivalent to 25 8 10 grains of gold, then silver would immediately return to its original dignity in the markets of the world in purchasing and debt paying power. This is the real func tion of money and in this country this equality in this function at the ratio stated should be maintained. The debts and bonds of the United States provides for payment in gold or silver coin at the then standard value; it was a great wrong to the taxpayers on whom rests the payment of the pub lic debts to strike silver from the list of money as was done in 1873. It was that blow which changed the value of the property of the United States. More than half of the money of the world at that time consisted of silver. The whole amount in the world in 1873 was estimated at $8,000, 000,000, of these .4,500,000,000 were silver and >3.500,000,000 were gold in round num bers. Tne ruinous consequences which attended this bad act of administration were seen in the failures of mercantile houses and business men amounting to more than half the public debt of the United States withia the last nine years. Now, I am for the free coinage of silver bullion just as of gold. Gold and silver should be put upon a perfect equality as of 3 ore in the ratio of 16 to 1. This would not only add to the value of real estate and all sorts of property in the United States, but it would greatly encourage and stimu late tbe mining of silver in this coun try. In my view all the gold and sil ver that can be produced, to our mints should be alike. The coin should be kept in the vaults of the treasury and etificates giren in all cases where certificates are preferred. These coin certificates should be the currency of the country, it would be the best in the world. In this age we do not wish to burden with the weight of either gold or silver in the ordinary business transactions extending to distant laces in the county, but we do want a paper curreney which is redeemable at the will of the holder in coin dollar for dollar.- Bank bills which are so common in use are only p~romises to pay in coin and are often issued in amounts of t wo and sometimes to three for one of the coin in the vaults; but under the plan advocated by me the certificates would :in no case rep resent anything but dollar for dollar. I haven't ti-ne to say more to you now. I will barely add that the pres ent depreciation of silrer bullion and of the silver standard dollar arises sole ly from the degrada ion of silver by act of Congress in 1873. Let Congress declare, as it oaght to. that 412k grains of standard silver is and shall be equivalent to 25 8 10 grains of gold in its purchasing and debt-paying power, and instantly silver will be on a' par, if not above par, compared with gold. To increase the quality of silver in the present dollar of 41L2k grains up to 180 grains, to mnake it equivalent to the present currer.t value of 25 8 10 grains >f gold would be a great wrong to the laboring masses in the Union whose ~axes have to :neet the public debt; the ollers of the public debt at the time hey received the bonds received them ander the express stipulation that they ~vere to be paid in United States coin, ~old or silver, at its then standard alue, and all that is wanting to make old and silver equal, to make 4t2k rains of silver equal ina the markets of he world to 25 8-10 g:>ld, is for Con ~ress to put silver back on the list of noneys of the United States as it was n 1873. I have lately made a report to e House of Representatives upon our ~oinage, in wiich I urge not only the 'estoration of silver to its debt-paying >o wer, but also the adoption of metric :o~nage appli-:able alike to gold and ;ver. I will send you a copy of this n a few days when it comes from the ress. Yours truly, ALEX. H. STEPHENS. A Drop too Much. BUFmLo, N. Y., May 15.-T wo men ere killed at the Ellicott Square >uilding today. They were Gus Pur ly and Val Johley. Both men were voring at the bottom of an elevator hafr.. Other workmen engaged at the op of the shaft, ten stories un drop ed a steel ja~ek weighing 40 pounds nd an iron bolt weighing five pounds. 'he jack struck Purdy on the head, 'racturing his skull, and the bolt frac ured Johley's skull. Both men ex )ired shortly after being removed to be hospital. Till man in Florida. GAIxsvILu:, Fia., May 11.-Sena or Tiliman addressed an audience of bout six hundred people in the court iouse here today on the financial ques ion. He spcke for about two hours md some parts of his speech were re :ived with vociferous applause. His -emarks were along the same line as hose made in the West and elsewhere. le denounced Cleveland and Carlisle nd referred to John Sherman as the arch fiend of hell,'' who had caused nore sufferir gthan any man on earth. Kil ted by Lightning. NonFoLK, May 14.-T his morning etween 3 and 4 o'clock, during the errific electrical storm which raged in his vicinity, a large frame houss sit ated on the farm of T. J. Cramer,i bout a mile and a half this side of )cean View, on the county road, was] ruck by lightning and burned to the ~round. T wo of its occupants perish !di the finmas1 part bracing and favorable for brawn and brain. All fruits. All minerals. All harvests. Scenery displaying au tumnal pageantry that no land on earth pretends to rival. No South American earthquakes. No Scotch mists. No English frogs. No Ervp tian plagues. The people of the Uni ted St.ates are happier than an people on earth. It is the testimony of every man that has traveled abroad. For the poor more sympathy. For the industrious more opportunity. Oh, how good God was to our fathers, and how goodC-od has been to us and our children. To him-blessed be his glo rious name. To him of crcss and tri umph be consecrated the United States of America. There are three great reasons why you and I should do our best for this country-three great reasons: Our father's graves, cur children's birth right. When I say your fathers' graves. your pulses run quickly. Whether they sleep in city cemetery or country graveyard, their dust is very prtcious to you. I think they lived well and that they died right. Never submit to have any government over their tombs other than that gov ernment under which they lived and died. And then this country is our cradle. It may have rocked us very roughly, but it was a very good cradle to be rocked in. Oh, how much we owe to it. Our boyhood and girlhood, it was spent in in this blessed country. I never have any patience with a man who talks against this country. Glo rious place to be born il, and a glori ous place to live in. It has been our cradle. Aye: It is to be our children's birthright. You and I will soon be through. We will perhaps see a few more spring blossoms, and we will perhaps see a few more summer har vests, and we will perhaps gather a few more autumnal fruits, but we are to hand this government to our chil dren as it was handed to us-a free land, a happy land, a Christian land. They are not to be trampled by despot ism. They are not to be lacerated by cruelties. They are not to be fright ened by anarchies. We must hand this government to them over the bal lot box, over the school desk, over the church altar, as we have received it, and charge them solemnly to put their life between it and any keen stroke that would destrov it.. And thou, Lord God Almighty, we put, with a thousand armed prayer, into thy protection this nation. Re member our father's bleeding feet at Valley Forge; remember Marion and Kosctusko; remember the cold, and the hunger, and the long march, and the fever hospital; remember the fear ful charge at Bunker Hill; remember Lexington and Yorktown and King's Mountain and Gettysburg; remember Perry's battle on the lake, and Hamp ton Roads, where the Cumberland went down; remember Washington's prayer by the campfire; remember Plymouth Rock, and the landing amid the savages; remember Independence hall, and how much it cost our fathers to sign their names; remember all the blood and tears of three wars-1776, 1812, 1S62-and more than all, remem ber the groan that was mightier than all other groans, and the thirst that stung worse than all other thirsts, and the death that was ghastlier than all other deaths, the mount on which Jesus died to make all men happy and free. For the sake of all this human divine sacrific3, 0 God, protect this nation. And whosoever would blot it out, and whosoever would strike it down, and whosoever would turn his back, let him be accuresd. Go home today in high hopes of the future. The Eternal God is on the side of this nation. Our brightest days are yet to come. ie hath sounded forth the trumpet that will never call retreat, ie is sifting out the hearts of men before the judgment seat, Be swift, my soul, to answer him, be jubi lant mzy feet' Our God is marching on. ANOTHER RIVER TRAGEDY Eleven Lives Lost-sunk in Less Than Five Minutes. VICKSBURG, Miss., May 11.-One of the most terrible disasters of recent years occurred last night about 25 miles below this city. The tow boat Harry Brown of Pittsburg upward bound from New Orleans, exploded her boilers at 11 o'clock. The boat was a complete wreck and sunk in less than five minutes. Eleven lives are known to have been lost, including Pilot Norman X. Dravo; G. W. Barns ley, steersman; Wmn. Dougherty, chief engineer; Tom Judge and Wil liam Wilson, firemen. The bodies of First Mate William Fitzsimmons, sec ond Mate Geo. Keirn and Win. Kel ley, lamp trimmer, were recovered and brought to this city by the steamer Wash Honshell, which fortunately was in sight of the Brown at the time of the accident. The survivors and also the wounded were brought to this ity on the Honshell. Six of the o111 cers sgd crew of the Harry Brown are in the marine waid of the Vicksburg hosoital, as follows: Captain John E. Keirn, master, se iously injured Win. Cramme, car pen ter, leg broken; John Hardy, badly scalded and otherwise seriously in juredg Don De laney, second engineer, badly scalded and other wise seriously injured internally, Pilot Dravo, who was lost, was of Pittsburg. The tow boat Honshell was so near the scene when the explosion occured that her vawls were lowered at once and were promptly manned and saved rmany lives that would have been lost if it had not been for the pompt ser Captain Keirn, the master of the Brown, a-iso seriously injured remained on the afterpart of the cabin roof of he Brown, where he had been blown by the explosion. This portion of the] abin floated off from the hull as it sank. K-eirn and Pilot Dravo were in the Brovn's pilot house when the ex losion occcurred. Captain Keirn states that it would be impossible for1 any one to tell how many of the crew ;er-ished, as the darkness prevented any one seeing anything. -He said it eemed to him that the hull went down in less than a minute Captain Keirn ays that he has no blame to attach to any one, as the cause oi the explosion will never be known, as the chief en ineer, Wm.- Dougherty, who was on atch, was lost. The Harry Brown was built in 18S2 and wvas owned by the big coal firm of Brown & Co. Oi Pittsburg. The boat was in perfect order, and had just laned boilers at Ne w Orleans. Cap-1 ain Keira says she was running at er usual speed, under no special pres ] ure. The boat carried a list of 4Soli- 1 ers and cre w, all white. She had in ow six barges and two fuel boats. JKilled by the Indians. HERMOSILLO, Mex., May 1.-Ad ric-s from Ures in the southern part f the State say that John Lenoir and orest Mosse, two young men who eft Nogales, Ariz., two months ago. o walk to Guatemela. were killed by he Yaqui Indians. B~oth wvere Amer cans. Not Euouigh Silver.1 WELLUNGToN. Kan., May 14.-The 1 Summer National bank closed its doors1 his morning. Abe ILraniaman is its: resident. The comptroller was- noti aed. No statement of liabilities is iven out, but it is believed the depos itor will be protcted. A HIGH HANDED SCHEME. How the Gold>ugs Expect to Control the Convention. The Chicago Record, which is a gold-standard, independent paper wi.1 Republican leanings, prints the foll' iug portentous editorial: "The leaders of the silver forces in Illinois will not be playing very good politics if they give their opponents a plausible pretext for taking a con;est ing delegation to the national conven tion, for it is by means of contesting delegations that the gole-standard men feel assured of their ability to control the convention. "Two opposiaz delegations already have been selected in Nebraska. A contesting delegation is looked for from Texas. where the silver men have control of the party machinery. From present indications the gold standard men are likely to take an opposiig delegation to the national convention from Illinois. According to custom in case the delegates from these three States, number 94, will have nothing to sayabout the temporary organi:sa tion or about their own right to seats in the convention. With contests from these three States the gold stand ard men are to control the convention at the start, with the result that they can decide contests to suit themselves, thus securing control of the permanent of ganizaticn. "There is little doubt that anti slver delegations will be sent from Ccn.ecti cut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan. Minnesota, New Hampshire, N-V Jersey, New York, Pennsylvnnia, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wiszon sin, with a total of :333 votes. The gold-standard men feel confident also of securing the delegations from O;hio and Kentucky, which will make 410 votes. Leaving Illinois, Texas and Nebraska out of consideration, -he remainino delegates in the convention will num ber 402, among which are the delegates from Indinna and s:ome other States whom the gold standard men hope to capture. According to these figures, a silver delegation from either Illinois or Texas might give the con trol to the white metal men. But op posing delegations from both these States, as well as from Nebraska, which would prevent the silver delega tions therefrom having any voice in the temporary organization, would leave the control of the convention in the hands of the gold-standard men, and enable them to outline the policy of the party. "So important is this matter that the fight of the convention is likely to come over the settlement of contests, and it is not improbable that the bolt, if there is to be a bolt, will come im mediately after the question has been passed upon by the convention. "In Nebraska the factional fight dates back two years. during which time there have been two separate par ty organizations. In 1S94 Mr. Bryan wanted to be elected United States senator. In order to secure for him the support of the Populist members of the legislature the Democratic con vention placed the names of the Peo pie's party candidates for State offices on its ticket instead of making separ ate nominations. Democrats who ob jected to this arrangement put ap a ticket which they labeled the straight Democratic ticket. It is this faction which will bring a gold-standard de legation to the Chicago convention. In this connection it is significant that Secretary Sheerin of the national com mittee, in furnishing The Record with a list of the delegates from Nebraska, gives the names of those composing the gold-standard delegation ani not those, selected by the free silver wing of the party ." How to Extinguish Fire. An intelligent physician said to me a few days ago, "I think I can give you a good item," and I replied that I was always on the lookout for useful information, Hie then said that he had studied the subject very carefully, and was convinced that it would be well for every house to keep its own fire extinguisner, and it could be easily done. it would certainly he invalu able to persons living in the country and far removed even from neighbors. The doctor then told me that he would give me the exact recise of the solu tion now used in the fire extinguishers now being offered for sale: Take twenty pounds of common salt and ten pounds of sal amimoniac, (muriate of ammonia, to be had of any drug gist) and dissolve in seven gallons of water. When dissolved it can be bot tied and kept in each room in the house, to be used in an emnergency. In case of a fire occurring, oue or two bottles should be im-nediately throwu with force into the burning plac-e so as to break them and the fire wil:. cer tainly be extinguished. This is an exceedingly simnple price:;s, and. eer tainly worth a trial. We~ gi ve ir hop. ing it may prove succeisful to anyv who may take the trouble to try t Cut His tie ad ofr. EDGEFIELD, May 13- A fewt days ago~ a white man named Gary Dorn and a negro got into an alternation nar Donisville in this county. Theyv fought with axe, an~d Dora boke the negro's arm witri the ticst blo~v. cut him on the arn, then kne:cked him in the head: and after lhe was down chopped of bis head. Tri a jus tic Abe Gilchrist acted as co. oner and decided that it was justifiable homi cide, and turned thbe prisoter loose. - State. Expe-lrd fromt Cuba. HavanA, May 7.-James Crecelmian. correspondent of the New Ydrk World here, and Freder-ick WV. L-awren~ce, corresnondent of the Journal of Neav York. have been expe-lled f:on the island on the grounid that the r hive caluminiated Captaiu Gez:ral- We le?r, the gover inent aind the armyv and have attributed insurgeuts' crirms t the Spanish army. They have been ordered to leave Cuba by the first steamer sailing._______ A Cruel Coward. BERLIN, May 14.-The Vossische Zeitung publishes a dispatch from Constantinople which says that owing to the sultan's fear that he will b~e as rassinated, as was the shah of Persia, 200 Armenians have been arrested in the city during tne last few days. It is credibly stated that the prisorners have been duly tortured. Ex-SEN. Kellogg of Louistana, a delegate to the St. Louis convention, says that if the St. Louis convention refuses to recognize silver and if the Chicago convention follows suit. the~re will be a third or silver ticket in the field, and it is his belief that the elec toral college will fail to elect, and that would throw the election in the House of Representatives. In such a con tingency he believes that enough States could be secured to elec'. the silver man. He counts on the entire South with the possible exception of M4aryland. ______ S. Frightful St orm. S'r P~tMis.,May 15.-Reports ndicate that perhaps $100,000 worth >f propert:y was destroyed in Western Wisconsin by a great storm, which raged there all last night. The-re were :loudbursts at Colfax and Bloomer ind great damage done. Many build ings were undermined. At least twen ty bridges are reported washed out in Western Wisconsin. TO DO CREDIT TO HERSELF. The South Will Fill the Large-st Bi .4ny that Can be Secured. AU;STA. May 13 --The crr-vniza, tiou of exhibits for the Southeri States exposition at (.hicago is. pro:-eding rapidly. The followinri gr l ex hibits have b-en deeded upon, to show the uroducts of the entire south. F.rest Products-In charge of Prof. B. E. Fernow, chief of division of for estry, United States agricultural de partment. Mineral Products-In charge of Dr. David T. Day, United States geologi cal survey. Fibers-Probably in charge of C R. Dodge of the United States agricultu ral department. Each of the foregoing will occupy at least 10,000 square feet. A great feature will be made of cotton, cotton prod acts and processes of manufacture, which will require about 20,000 square feet. It will comprise the earliest and most improved machinery and every variety of cotton fabric. It is expect ed that this department will be under the direction of a widely known ex pert and prominent inventor of cotton machinery. The tobacco section will be planned under the advice of Dr. H. P. Battle, director of the United States experi ment station. Raleigh, N. C., and Prof. C. F. Vanderford, secretary of the United States experiment station, Knoxville, Tenn., both of whom are eminent authorities on tobacco cul ture. P, of. W. C. Stubbs, director. United States sugar experiment station, Ne w Orleans, has been requested to super vise the sugar exhibit. With these gentlemen will be asso ciated Prof. J. A. Holmes, State geol ogist of North Carolina, who has the best existing southern collection of minerals and forest productions; Prof. Yates, State geologist of Georgia; Messrs. Roche, Nesbitt, Lane and Stone, commissioners of agriculture of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. A conference of these and other gentlemen will be held in Washington probably Saturday or Monday, when preliminary plans for arrangement and division of space will be submit ted and final plans adopted by them. These plans are now being drawn by Architect C. A. Maxwell of Augusta. They provide for 12 States, and allow 10,000 square feet for each, and an equal amount for general exhibits and railroad displays. Applications for space now entered aggregate about 115,000 square feet. C. D. Parker, who had a prominent part in the installation of the govern ment displays at Atlanta, will proba bly be appointed chief of installation for the south. Louisiana and Texas are waking up. In response to urgent letters, ex-Sena tor Walsh will probably visit those States next week to assist in organiz ing them. It is now certain that they will not be left out, despite the inca pacity and inaction of their nominal committeemen who have done nothing to forward the work. Etficient work is in progress in Kentucky and West Virginia and Chicago can rely upon it that the south will fill the biggest building that can be secured. Emling at Clemson. CLEMSON COLLEGE, May 13.-P. N. Lindsay shot and fatally wounded W. D.. James, foreman of the farm at this place yesterday. The shooting occurred at the stockade, where the convicts of whom Lindsey is in charge are domociled. The shooting occur red at abou~t 2 o'clock. There has been bad feeling between the two men for some time, occasioned, it is said, by a difference of opinion in regard to the management and disposition of the convict labor. .Ican say that I know the convicts are well provided for, and they themselves seem to appreci ate the fact. It seems that on Sun day last there were some words ex changed between the two men during the course of which James re marked that he (Lindsey) had report ed him (James) to the authorities, and that he would get even with him. Lindsey remarke'd that he had report ed him and that he did not wish to have any disturbance about the matter. After a few more words they parted. Yesterday at about 2 o'clock James went to the stockade and during alter cation brought on by his using some abusive language, was shot three times; once in the abdomen and twice in the head. This is the testimony of the only eye-witness (a convict.) Lind sey was sittingin a chair in his office when the quarrel first commenced and arose to meet James, who advanced up on him from the door. It was just as James entered that the shooting be gan.- Lindsey immediately after the shooting surrendered himself to Sher iff Doutbit of this county, who hap pened to be on a visit to the college. James wounds are fatal. He is no w suffering from peritonits and the e nd is near. Both are men of families and the affair has been a source of deep re gret to the authorities and the inhab it ants in general. James died at 7:13 this evening.-State. Daring Bank Robbery, SPRINGFIELD, Ill., May 14.-The most daring bank robbery which ha ever occurred in this part of Illinoi was perpetrated at noon today at Buf falo, thirteen miles East of this city, the cashier being bound and gagged and $11,000 carried off by the robbers. The Bank of Buffalo is owned by A. A. Pickerell & Co. This noon, two masked men entered the bank, just as Carl Kloppenburg, the cashier, was ocking up the safe preparatory to go ing to his dinner. K oppenburg was the only person in the bank at the ime. The robbers seized him from behind, bound and gagged him and then took all the money in the bank, imounting to $11,000. Win. P. Daw ton, who entered the bank some time later, saw Kloppenburg lying on the loor bound and released him. Kiop penburg could give but a meager de icription of the robbers. It is thou ght :hey are experts at the business. The :ountry has been scoured by mnounted nen without success. wreck Near Savannah. SAVnNNAH, May 11.-The no:-th 2ound New York and Florida Linmited Express on the Florida Central Penin ;ula Railroad was thrown from the ;rack at Anderson, a small station ten mles south of here today, by a mis alaced switch. The entire train, with ~he exception of the body of tne en ine, was derailed and rolled over an mtbankmnent. One child was killed id 26 people were injured, none of hem fatally. Vote Thiwmselves Clerks. WASHINGTON, May S. --After several ears' discussion and as many unsuc ~essful attempts, the house voted 130 ol108, to place themselves on an equali y with the3 senate in respect of the natter of providing themselves with :lerks the year round, instead of for he sessions of congress only. It was iot until 1893 that the house went even io far as that. 5hoit from A mbush. AIKEN, May .-Thirtecu miles a crth of here today, J. R. Quattlebaum tfarmer, was shot from ambush whilet >lo wing: lie was shot in the back by ome unknown person. The body was liscovered by a boy who took his din ier to him. POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of all in leavening strength. -Latest United tates Government Foodl Report. ROYAL BAKING POWDER Co.. New York City. 'DINED WITH THE GOVERNOR. Mark Twain's Story of the Old Salt Who Knew Gov. Russell. Mark Twain told a capital story capitally the other day. which he said had never been in print, but which deserves to be if for no other reason than to allow it to fall into the hands of the self-appointed managers of tlw embryo presidential boom of its hero. It was on the ship coming home from Europe at the entertainmnlt given in aid of poor sailors that Mr. Clemens re called the tale in response to the en core demanded after he read a selec tion from his own writings. Naturally he turned to the sea and seafolk for inm.niration. This was the story, rowbed perforce of all the inimitablb features of the.telling peculiar to Mark Twain in his happiest mood. when the words drawl their slow length along. fairi!y floating in their humor, which is frequently far more in the style of utterance than in the matter itself. Ile had the tale from an old salt he met once en route to Havana. The old salt, who was a Nantucket fisherman and for many years master of a craft of his own, was reminiscing about the queer characters and odd ex periences he had encountered first and last in his day. Shortly before the Nantuciceter and Mark Twain came across each other the old captain, just home from a long voyage, together with the mate of his vessel, had gone up to Boston to see the sights. Among them they concluded to take a lun cheon at a swell hotel just to see what a swell hotel was like. After many meanderings they fetched up at the Tremont house, now soon to be no more, and got fairly seated at one of the tables in the main dining-room. While they were waiting for their best suhstitute for plum duff they noticed that a great deal of attention was be ing paid to a gentleman who had just coen in. accompanied by two ladies. They were so impressed by this that the captain asked his waiter who the im portant personage was, and he learned that he was the governor of Massachu setts. When he named the governor the captain's memory Was stirred, and. with his seaman's love of dramatic ef fects, he turned to his mate and "bet a fiyer" that he'd go over and shake hands with the governor. 'The mate bet a fiver he "dassent." But the captain wasn't daunted; he added that he was ready to bet another flver that the governor would not only shake hands with him but would ask him to dinner. The mate accepted this wager. too, and the captain "gave a hitch to his trousers," which is a trick all sea men "larn," and got up. In telling the story he said he almost felt ready to lose his wager after he started, but he didn't want to make a fool of himself, as he went over to the governor's table and made his best bow and said: "How do you do?" The gov ernor said: "Ihow do you do?" too, but went on to say that he wasn't able to place the face, and so on. The captain had his pedigree all ready; it consisted of his own name and the name of his vessel. The mate, who was looking on, saw a change come over the face of the governor, and waiters and all were much surprised to see the stated digni tary leave his chair at a step, grasp the hand of the queer-looking old codger andl shake it vigorously. The captain was asked at once to sit down and hare sone luncheon. but he said he couldn't, as he'd left his mate over aft there. " Well, go get your mate," said his ex cellency: "-there's room for all of us; if there isn't we'll have room made; here, waiter-" The upshot of it was that the first lady in the IBay state and her sister and his excellency, the governor, and the eaptain and his mate ate together in peace and harmony and a flood of old-ti:ne memories, and the mate. lost his two firers. The governor was Wil l iamn E. Russell, M1assachusetts' "boy" governor, who filled the executive chair with 'his democratic presence so well that he filied it for three years in that proverbially republican state.-N. - Y. Commercial Adlvertiser. Honor-i Were Easy. Some say the Scotchi people have no appreciation for humnor. This is hard ly true-at least there are exceptions. Mlany years ago Lord Harry Broughamn and1 Rev. Dr. Thomas Chalmers. two warm friends, met on the street * ,a-m inurh mOn. of them dropped his cane and both stooped simu'ta~neously to pick ii up, with the result that their heads came tog hler- with a resounding whack. "El:. but that made my head ring," sa i.l Ir. Chalmers. "T'hat's a sign it's empty," respond ed Lord Bfrougham. "Did'na yours ring?" asked the doc tor. "No," said the great advocate. "Weel," responded Chalmers, " that's a sign it's crackit."-Chicago Chron icle. __________ nlow to Keep Plates Hlot. One of the latest adaptations of electric heating is the electric "hot plate," for keeping food hot duriner dinner. The metal plate is electrically heated before being brought to the table; but should it be necessary t< renew the heat a plug is inserted at the side of the plate, connection is made with a socket on the table and the current is kept on as long as needed. A L w~ form of hot plate for kitchen use has three disks fitted in a row into a stand, electrical connection being established by a socket under each plate. The stands are nickel plated and the plates are each eight inches in diameter.-N. Y. Sun. 17ow He Judged Character. "So yo'u want a situation?" said the business man. "Yes, sir." replied the applicant. "H~um-d:o you ever go fishing?" "Occasionall-." "When were you fishing last?" "Day before yesterday." "C'atch an~ythinig?" "Not a thingr.' "You can come to work next Mon lay if you like. If you keep on telling the truth like that you may be a part ner in the firm one ei these days."