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I H UM It' Property Consumed in Knoxville to Value of $1,200,000. AN EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE. ' Tilt Longeit and Handsomet Block of Houses In the City Destroyed-. Several Persons Badly Injured. At Knoxville, Tenn., Thursday the most disastrous fire ever experienced in that city occurred. The entire block between Union aud Reservoir streets, Son Gay street, with the exception of the McGhee building, on the one end, the largest and handsomest block in the city, is a mass of ruins, and the loss is estimated at nearly a million dollars. Several people were slightly injured, the most serious being Joe McMillin, who had a leg broken. The flro was discovered about 4 o'clock in tho wholesale grocery store of the McNulty Grocery 'Company by a a porter of tho Knox Hotel, which adjoins the grocery. A general alarm was tinned in aud all tho local tiro comi>uuies were soon on the scene. Tho efforts proved futile, however, and the flames spread rapidly. Among tho heaviest losers arc: Daniel Briscoe & Co., wholesale dry goods; Kterohi Brothers, wholesale and retail furniture; Marble City Hat Company, wholesale hats; A. 1*. Laher Dry Goods Company; Haines & Co., wholesale shoes: S. B. Newman & Company, printers; Cullen, Newman & Company, printers; W. W. Woodruff & Company, wholesale hardware; Henncger, Doyle Jfc Company, wholesale hats and shoes; Hanford, Chamberlain Albers, whole- 1 sale drugs; Knox Hotel and the Mo- 1 Nulty Grocery Company. 1 Many smaller establialimets, among them three livery stables in rear of tho i burned block, were destroyed. i An explosion of dynamite in Wood- 1 I'll ff'd ahnGm?\<1 ? ?? I luu n uui vtnmo ovmc niumciuvi uvui J 1 window in (lay street. { A portion of the Chattanooga fire department was seut for, and on arrival rendered valuable assistance. Among thoso injured in the fire were j W. H. lveppart, formerly city editor of 1 Journal. After assisting five men to escape he jumped from the third story 1 of the Knox hotel to the roof of tho actJoining building. Ho is badly but not i at ally hurt. Joe MoMillen, traveling man; jumped from second Btory, leg broken. ' James Hogan, barkeeper Knox hotel, jumped from third story to roof adjoin- ] lug bnildiug; both legs badly spruined. John Bogle, Morgan county, rescued ! from third story of Knox hotel, proba bly fatally burned. J. M. Loop, Salisbury, N. C., jump- ! od, seriously injured. C. L. Hudson, clerk in Knox Hotel, 1 jumped, ankle broken. John McDaniel, jumped, bodly in- ' jured. It is believed that tho total loss will amount to about SI,200,000. The in- ' surunce will be about one-half. 1.".......,.11.. "Of the 52 quests who wero J aslocp iu tlio Hotel Knox, when ' the fire hroko out. only 85 have ! been accounted for. The register was j destroyed and it will perhups never bo known how many lives perished. Charred remains have been found in different localities of the ruins. J An almost correct estimate of the losses and insurance has boon secured. It is as follows: Total loss, $1,811,000; total insurance, 9014,SOU.70. Many of f the Arms burned out have secured . < temporary quarters and the wholesale | i houses especially have never stopped t tilling orders. t PRECAUTION AGAINST ACCIDENT President and Vice President Go to j New York In Separate Trains. Arrangements aro being completed at i Washington for convoying the officials of the legislative, executive and judicial ' departments of tho governmout to New York April 27th, to witness the Grant monument dedication ceremonies, i President MeKinley and his party will ' travel on the Pennsylvania road, whilo Vice-President Hobart and his friends will ?o by the Baltimore A Ohio. This division nas been arranged to provide against possible aoeident and to make sure that the President and VicePresident shall not be both incapaclated and the machinery of the government thns even temporarily upset. BAD FOR TIIK UNIVKRSITY. Over Haifa Million of Its Funds Tied Up or Lost. I levelopments have strengthened the belief that the affairs'of the (iloho Savings hank, which closed its doors recently in Chicago, 111., are in much worso shape than the directors aro willing tojadmit. In addition to $140,000 in cash belonging to tho University of Illinois, which is tied up in the suspended institution, endowment bonds to the value of $-400,000, also the property of tho Univeritv of Illinois, aro missing. This much is admitted by the president, Mr. McKay, to the board of trustees of tho university. No Material Change. The latest reports from tho Hooded districts show no material chnu{*o in the situation. There has been a st#adv Not. Seriously Hurt. At St. Augustine, Fla., W. J. Bryan addressed fulW 8.000 persons from the piaza of Sna TSaroo Hotel. His theme was good government and the money <l?estioii, the freo coinage of silver being advocated as strongly as over. At the close of his speech, hundreds of people flocked around him and so great was the strain that one section of the piuzza 40 feet square fell through, precipitating 400 people to the ground bolow, a distance of 20 feet. No one was seriously hurt, but a score of ladies and gentlemen received bruises and sprains. Mr. Bryan was picked up unconscious, but he was not seriously hurt. FIFTY-FIFTH CONUKES8. Jteport of the Proceedings from D?i to Day. SENATE. Monday. ?In the Senate Allen's reso lution in behalf of General Ruis Rivera, i leader of the Cuban army, who is U be tried by drrumhead court and shot, kvas passed. It places upon the Presilent the dirty of making a protest to ipain. A bill introduced by Chandler. x> enable merchants, manufacturers ana nthers to maintain prices and make profits was unanimously -passed. A joint resolution wss introduced by Bate, ,Dem,) of Tennessee, and was passed inanimously, authorizing the President o direct the surgeon general of the Maine Hospital Bureau to distribute all ivailable supplies of tents, blankets, bod and medicines, and to purchase mch further supplies as may be necessary for the relief of the sufferers by the Mississippi floods. 'Tuesday.?In the Senate Morgan and Flail had quite a lively passage on the Juban question, which was brought .1 A 1 M_. * tuuut uy morgan caning up ins resolution recognizing tho existence of a date of public War in Cuba. Earle Dem.), of South Carolina, on behalf of he new Senators, .asked for u re-organization of the Senate committees so as to give representation to those not nowplaced upon any committee, but the -esolution was not acted upon. The remainder of the day's session was given to debate on the bankruptcy bill. Wednesday.?Tho President's mesiago asking for relief was read iu the Senate and was followed by the introluction and passage of a joint resolution appropriating $1 SO,000 for that purpose. Before this action could be communicated to the House a joint resolution was received from that body, appropriating $200,000 for the name purpose and including the Rod River of tho North, in the territory to bo aided. This House joint resolution was iwmeliately passed by the Senate?action on he other one, and on Mr. Bates' joint resolution on Monday, being reeonsidjred and annulled. Morgan continued bis speech in support of extending beligerant rights to both sides in the Cuban resolution. Thursday.?Morgan resumed argument on liis resolution declaring that a date of war exists in Cuba. April 2(>tli vas made tho day for the re-organization of the Senate committees. The Jeuate Adjourned until Monday. HOUSE. Saturday.?The House passed the joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to transport in suitable American vessels, which he shall oliarter, contributions of the people of the United States for the famine stricken in iuiiin, auer wuicn me Mouse adjourned until Wednesday next. Wednesday.?The House was in sosuon au hour at which time it passed the joint resolution appropriating $200,000 lor the relief ot flood sufferers in the Mississippi valley, And enjoyed a little sensation sprung by Simpson (Pop.), of Kansas. The relief resolution was introduced by ('etchings (I)em.), of Mississippi, and was agreed to unanimously. Walker (Hep.), of Massachusetts, and Caution (Hep.), of llliuois. criticised the appropriation, however, the latter hoping that it was the Inst that would be necessary because of the failure of the States to put themselves into a position where they could constitutionally take care of their own people. Walker gave notice that ho would iu the future, object to the passage of any ?imilav resolution, believing it to he debasing in its effects upon the recipients. House then adjourned unti Sa'nrday. Til K COURT ST I LP 1)1 VIDU1). Hclver and Gury vs. l'ope and Jones la tlic Oconee Olspensary Case. The Supreme Court recently decided mother important and record breaking ase. Christian, of Oconee, was conacted of keeping liquor on his premiles for his own use, which did not bear lie stamp of the commissioner and was lot bought from the dispensary. The court was divided, Justices Popo uid Jones deciding with the cirouit judge, from whose rulings the appeal R-us taken and chief justice and Justice liary held that Judge Townsend was , iVroilL' and voted niminxt lorn Under the rules the opinion of tho lower court hohls when the Supreme L'ohrt is divided. Chief Justice Molver stated the case. The defendant was found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of $100 or go oil tho chain ?ang for three months, for having in his possession two and onebulf gallons of corn whiskey which had no Stute tump on it. On this judgment an appeal was taken to tho Supreme Court of the State. lie concludes by saying "inasmuch as this opiuion was originally prepared before tha recent d?ijunaa of tho Hu preme Court of tha United States in Donald vs. Scott, 145 T S 08 was announced I desire to avail myself of the opportuuity now presented of adding that it seems to be absolutely necessary to adopt tho oonolusion which 1 have reached in order to avoid a conflict with the decision of the Supreme Court of tho United States, which it must he conceded is a final arbiter of all questions involving a construction of the constitution of the United States." Justice Gary concludes by saying: "A construction contrary to that which we pluce upon the act would even make a ntau a violator of tho law who took a drink of whiakoy unless it cauio from tho dispensary." Justices Pope and Jones hold that the question is one of construction merely. "It is simply our duty to declare the law. We have nothing to do with its wisdom or its severity." They hold thero was no error in charge appealed from olootion for turner anu ( cdur ?prings townships April 24. Kelp Oolne Promptly. Tlio first warrant on tho treasury under the appropriation of #200,000 for the benefit of tho Mississippi and Tied river Hood sufferers, lias passed tho accounting officers. It was for #80,000, and will ho followed by others as rapidly as use can bo made of tho monoy. Cyclone Visits Alabama. A cyclouo devastod portions of Pale county, Ala., Friday. A Mrs. Powers " om r-anoM falling timbersof hor house nu<l hill~d. BILL ARP'S WEEKLY LEHER. BAN DOM REMARKS ON THE Dlfttt*. LET TARIFF BILL. '"MUDSILL HAMMOND" IS QUOTED. It Wm He Who First Bald "Cottoa U Kind"?William Bm? a Prophecy Beta* F? Milled. In my last letter I said that I did not know who first said "cotton is king." This admission of my ignorance seems to have surprised and awakened some of my Carolina friends and now I know from many sources that ex-Qovernor Hammond said it in a speech in the United States senate in 1858, during the debate on the admission of Kansas. It was a great speeoh, for he was a great man. It was a states right speech such as Calhoun might have made, and in it he said: "No, pir, you dare not make war on cotton?cotton is king. Until lately the bank of England was king,but laBt fall she tried to put the screws upon our cotton crop and was utterly vanquished?cotton is king." That speech gave much oftense at the north and won for him the title of "Mudsill Hammond," for in it he said: "In all social systems there must be a class to do the drudgery of life?a class requiring but a low order of intellect and bnt little Akill. This class must have vigor, docility and fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other and higher class which leads progress, refinement and civilization. This inferior class constitutes the very mudsills of society and of government, and you might as well attempt to build a house in the air as to build except upon the mudsills. Fortunately for the south, she has a race adapted to that purpose. We call them slaves?a word discarded by ears polite?but you have a similar class at the north. Yes, you have it?it is there, it is everywhere, it is eternal." I remember how the northern press scarified him for his mudsill speech, but he spoke the truth and it is still the truth, and more so for the mudsills are more numerous now in proportion to population. Almost everybody in this region is a mudsill, and if that Dingley tariff bill becomes a law the masses will all be mudsills for the privileged and protected classes. Hje common people of a nation can n?v?r prosper un<ler a protective tariff until a ma < can lift himself up by the straps on his boots. Only tlio protected will prosper and they are but a small class compared with the unprotected. Even Mr. Atkinson, the Boston statesman, 1 the only class wno are fulfilling des- | tiny, for the Lord said to the man, "by the sweat. of thy fat'e shall thou eat bread." Tea, I am a mudsill right now, and if it ia a cur.se it brings a blessing with it. I work hard at manual labor and get all over in a sweat of perspiration, as Cobe Hays, and I feel proud of my day's work, and Mrs. Arp gets off her matronly dignity and walks out to see what I have done and condeaconda a f6w remarks of approbation. That satisfies me till next morning, when I work some more before breakfast?work makes mo forgot to brooa ovor littlo troubles and it gives mo a good appetite and my food digests and I sleep better and snore less and don't ery out with the nightmare. It is a blessed privilege to be a mudsill, a horny-handed son of toil, for it seenres good health and brings a man nearer to his Creator, for he was made out of dirt and unto dirt he must return. Adam worked in a garden ami so do I. Eve stepped around and smiled on ? ' ? - Adanji while he toiled and so doee Mrs. Arp (smile on me. So let the tariff roll on. It won't affect what I raise in mhr garden, I reckon.?Bill Arp in Atlahta Constitution. BtTim BY TBMBDBUl The Convention With Great Britain | I Unanimously Sanctioned. a/triumph for arbitration. Tin TpilWl.l.n Oontm* Knthmlaatln. ally ApproTM th? Trtnty NatotUtod | Thramh the Good Ottcaa of tho United [ Itetw to Settle by Arbitration the Lone* | Standing, War-Threatening Dispute. ' Gaaaoas, Venezuela (By Cable).?The Congress ot Venezuela has tiuanlmously and enthoaiaetloally ratified the Outana boundary arbitration treaty with Groat Britain whloh was negotiated by the United States. The measure was first read to the House lot Representatives last Friday, when Senor 'Avanguren spoke eloquently in its favor. The aeoond reading was without Inoldent. It oame up on third reading Monday, and after a speech by Sonor Brleeno the House oted for the treaty unanimously, amid great eheering and onthuslasto demonstrations of gratitu le to "Unole Sam." The treaty was unanimously ratified by the Senate also. President Oresno's signature to the dooument olosed the Venezuelan Inoldent. REVIEW OF THE FAMOUS INCIDENT. The Provisions of the Treaty and the Arbitration Commissioners. Washinotoit, D. O. (Special).?The treaty between Great Britain and Venezuela whloh, aooordlng to the foregoing special oable despatch has been ratified by the Venezuelan Congress was virtually the result ot the action of this Government, and was, In faot, preceded by a note or protoool whloh embodied the terms of1 the treaty, the note being signed by Mr. Olney, then Seoretaryof State,and Sir Julian Paunoefote, the British Ambassador, on November 13, 1896. The Anglo-Venezuelan treaty, after long deliberation by the British Premier and the Washington State Department, was framed, PIlESIDKSr CRK8PO, OF VKNF./.UEI.A. and was signed la Washington on February 2 last by the British Ambassador and the Venezuelan Minister, Senor Andrado. The treaty, having been ratified by the Venezuelan Cougress. only awaits the sanction of the British Parliament to become operative. Its reception in Venezuela was at first the reverse of hopeful, many antagonists of the Orespo administration uttering fulminations against its provisions, which, It was said, wero conceived moro for tho benefit of the United Status and Great Britain than for the country most deeply inierostod, Ope of the most striking attacks upon the treaty in Venezuela was made by Senor Miohelena, before the breaking olT of diplomats relations between the two countries Venezuelan Minister to tho Court of St. James. Senor Micholenn directly impunged the motives of the United States In aiding in the framing of the treaty. Tho most important tonus of th ? genoril Anglo Venezuelan arbitration treaty for tho settlement of the Guiana boundary dispute ore the provisions relating to the appointment of the tribunal and tho clnuso giving the limit of occupation which must decide claims. The arbitration tribunal is to bo composed f five members, of whom four have been apointed. According to the articles of the convention lis sessions are to be held in Paris, in whlohoity it must meet within sixty nfter briefs have been prosonted by the .hall decide the'fluvJhe tlm0 ln wh!ch nonths. , | The arbitrators already chosen are Chief Justine Fuller linri Assnntatn Just too Brewer. I of the United States Supreme Court, for Venezuela, and Right Honorable Baron Hersohel ana Sir Richard ilenn Collins for Great Britain. The vital point of the treaty, the rule to govern the disposition of the territory in dispute, is the fifty-year clause. According to this provision ndverse holding for halt a century will entitle the occupant to undisturbed posseasion, tho ordinary rulos of evidence to be applied in establishing title. General Sehoflald it Father. At St. Augustine, Flo*. Mrs. Seltofield presented Jjieutonant-Qonoral John M. Sohofleld, United States Army (retired), with a lino healthy girl baby. General Sehofield was retired eighteen months ago on account of the ago limit. Hois now sixty-six yours _old. Mrs. Sehofield, who is now thirty-two years of age. was formerly Miss Georgia Kilbourno, of Keokuk. Iowa. The Sohollelds | have been married six years. Money Order Increase. The money order business of the Now York Postofflce amounted to $108,000,000 in 18%. This was an increaso of $5,000,000 ovor 189-5. Superintendent Kllicott says that this increase is continuing. To-day the money orders amount to raoro than they and the postal orders combined did In 1891, and the foreign money order business, from Germany especially, is becoming very much greater. The ('resident's Decoration Day. President McKlnley and all the members of the cabinet havo accepted invitations to participate in tho dedication of the battlo monument at West Point. N. Y., on DecoraHon I).iv. Tho mnnnmont wjlm built hv prlvatesuhsorlptlon, and is intended to commemorate the deeds of officers and soldiers of the regular establishment who lost their lives in the Civil War. A Mnssachusefts minister lias declined to receive $1,000 inerense in Ids salary and the congregation is about evenly divided as to whether this indicates remorse of conscience or lunacy. HI. wsni. ? ? ; The Noted Washington Divine's Sunday Subject, Tkxt: "I exhort, therefore, that, first of all, suppHoatlons, prayers, intercessions and Riving of thanks De made for all men, for kings and for all that are in authority."?I Timothy, 11., 1. That which lx>ndon is to England, Paris to Franoe, Berlin to Germafiy, Homo to Italy. Vienna to Austria. St. Petersburg to Russia, Washington is to the United States republic. The people who live here see more of the chief men of the Nation than any who live anywhere else between Atlantic and Pactfio oceans. If a Senator or Member of the House of Representatives or Supreme Court Justloe or Secretary of the Cabinet or representative of Foreign Nation entera a public assembly in any other city, his coming and going are remarked upon, and unusual de ference Is paid to bim." In this oapitnl thero are so many political ohleftalns in our ohurohes, our streets, our halls, that their comlbg and goiug make no excitement. Tbo Swiss seldom look up to the Matterhorn or Jungfrau or Mont Blano, hooause those people are used to the Alps. So we at this capital are so accustomed to walk among mountains of official and political eminence that they nre not to us a groat novelty. Morning, noon and night we meet the giants. But thero Is no place on earth where the importauoe of the Paulino injunction to pray for those in eminent place ought to be better appreciated. At this time, when our public men have before them the rescue ol our National Treasury from appalling doflcits, and the Cuban question, and the arbitration question, and in mnny departments men are tnklng Important positions whloh nre to them new and untried, 1 would like to quote my text with a wnole tonnage of emphasis?words written by the soarred missionary to the young theologian Timothy. "I exhort, therefore, that, first of all, supplications. prayers, intercessions and giving ot thanks bo made for all men, for kings and for all that are In authority." If I have the timo and do not forget some of them before I get through, I will give you four or five reasons why the people of tho United States ought to make earnest and continuous prayer for those in eminent place, f First, because that will put us In proper attitude toward the successful men of the Nation. After you have prayod for a man you will do him jnstlce. There is a bad streak In human nature that demands us to assail those that are more successful than ourselves. It shows Itself In boyhood, when the lads, all running to get their ride on the back of a carriage, and one gets on, those failing to get on shout on the driver, "Cut behind!" Unsuccessful men seldom like those who in an* rt?n?rfmnnt oni>..oa??>.l The cry 19. "He la a political accident," or, 1 "Ho bought his way up," or, "It just happoued bo," anil thoro is an impatient waiting for htm to come down more rapidly than ho wout up. The best cure for such cynicism is prayer. Aftor we have risen from our knees we will , be wishing the official good instead of evil. We will be hoping for him benediction rather than malediction. If ho makes a mistake, , we will call it a mistake instead of malfeasance in office. And, oh, how muoh happier wo will be, for wishing one evil is diabolic, but wishing one good is saint, ly, is angelic, Is godlike! When the ; I Lord drops a man Into depths beyond which there is no lower depth, he allows him to be , put on an investigating committee with tho , one hopo of finding something wrong. In gt-neral assemblies of the Presbyterian j church, in conferences of the Methodist j church, in conventions of the Episcopal ] church, in House of Representatives and Senate of the United States, there are men , always glad to be appointed on the committee of malodors, while there are those who \ are glad to be put on tho committee of 1 eulogiums. After you have prayed, in the words of my text, for all that are in authority, you will say, "Brothreu, gentlemen, Mr. Chuirmau, excuse me from serving on the committoo of malodors, for last night, just before I prayed for those in emiuent positions, I road that chapter in Corinthians about chnrity which 'hopotli all things' and 'thinketh 110 evil.'" Tho oommittoe of malodors is an important committee, but I hero now declare that those are important for its work who have, not in spirit of conventionally, but in spirit of earnest importunity, prayed for those in high position. 1 cannot help it, but 1 do liko a St. Bornnrd bettor than a bloodhound, and I would rather ben humming bird among honeysuckles than a crow swooping upon Held carcasses. Another reason why we should pray for those in Gminent place is because they have suca multiplied perplexitb-s. This city at this timo holds hundreds of men who nre expectant of preferment, and United States n nil bags ns nover before are full of applications. Let me say I have no sympathy with either tho utterod or printed sneer at what are called "ofllce seekers." If I had not already received appointment as minister plenipotentiary from tho high court of heaven?ns every minister of the gospel has ?and I had at my back a family for whom I wished to achieve a livelihood, there is no j employer whoso service I would sooner so?*k , man olty, state or United Htates Govern- * ineiit. To use Governments nre the promptest ? in their payments, paying just as well in J hnrd times as in good times and during sum- ? mer vacation as during winter work. Bo- , sides that, many of us have been paying ?. and wuird?wj>nd state and Nation for years > of Government the O Sted for the protection to us for the honest suppon '"iihrod B rendered it. Ho I wish success to all earnest ' and competent men who appeal to city or State or Nation for a place to work. But how many men in high place in city and State and Nation are at their wits' end to know what to do, when for some plaees thero are ton applicants and for others a hundred. Perplexities arise from the fact that citizens sign petitions without reference to the qualifications of tho applicant for the places applied for. You sign the application becnuso tho applicant is your friend. People sometimes want that for which they have no qualification, as wo hear people sing "I want to bo an augel" when they offer tho poorest material possible for angelhood. Boors waiting to be sent to foreign pnlacos as embassadors, and men without any business qualification wanting to be consuls to foreign ports, and illiterates, capnble in or.o letter of wrecking all the laws of orthography and syntax, desiring to be put into positions whore most of the work is done by correspondence. If divine help is in .intr ..I,,,... In ll<n urnrlil it iu In ,u ..UJ J/...W ...? "? ?) " ? those places whore patronage is distributed. In years gone by awful mistakes have been made. Only God, who made tho world out of chaos, could out of tho crowded pigeon" holes of public men develop symmetrical results. For this reason pray Almighty God for all those in authority. Again, prayer to God for thosein authority is our only way of being of any practical service to them. Our personal advice would be to them, for tho most part, nn impertinence. They have all the facts as we cannot have thom; and they see tho subject in all its bearings, and wo can bo of no help to them except through the supplication that our text advises. In that way we may lie infinite re-enforcement. The inightest thing you can do for a man is to pray foi him. It the old Bible be true?and if it is not tme it has been tho only imposition that ever blessed the world, turning barbarism into civilization and tyrannies into republics?I say, if the old Bible l,o truo, God answers prayer. You may get a letter and through forgetfulness or Inek of ttmo not answer it, but Ood never gets a genuine letter that he docs not make reply. Every genuine prayer is a child's letter to his Heavenly Father, and he will answer It, nnd though you may get many letters from your child before you respond some tiny you say: "There! I have received ten letters from mv daughter, and I will answer thoin all now and at oucc, and though not tn Just the way that she hopes for I wilt do it in tho best way. end though she asked me for a sheet of music I will not give It to her. for I do like the music spoken of, bnt I will send her a deed to a house and lot, to be here forever." So Ood does not In all eases answer In the way those who sent the prayer hoped for, but He in all eases gives what Is asked for or something better. Bo Erayers went up from the North and t^e outh at the time of our Civil War, and they were all answered at Gettysburg. Tou cannot make me believe that God answered' only the Northern prayer*, for there were 6st as devout prayers answered south of aeon and Dixon's line as north of It, and. God gave what was asked for. or something as muoh more valuable as a house and lot are worth more than a sheet of music. There Is not a good an Intelligent man between the Gulf of Mexloo and the St. Lawrence River who does not belteve that God did the besfe thing possible when He stood this Nation down in 1865 a glorious unity, never to be rent until the water* of the Ohio and the Savannah, the Hudson and the Alabama, are licked up by the long, red tongues of a world on Are. Yea, God sometimes answers prayers on a large scale. In worse predicament nation never was than the Israelltish nation on the banks of the Red Sen, the rattling shields and the clattering hoofs of an overwhelming host close arter them. An army could just as nnallv 4l*- 111 ^ * ... J nnuulllluUKU IUII AIIIIU11D UOB1D irOD Mew York to Liverpool as the Israelites sould have waded through the Red Sea. You need to sail on its wator to realize how big It is. How was the crossing effected? By prayer. Exodus xlv.. 15: "And the Lord said unto Moses: Wberofore oriest thou unto Me? Hpeak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward"?that Is, "Stop praying and take the answer." And then the water began to be agltnted and swung this way and that way, nnd the ripple became a billow, and the billow ellmbod other billows, ind now they rise into walls of sapphire, and Invisible trowels mason them Into firmness, uid the walls become like mountains, topped ind turretod and domed with crags of crysal, and Qod throws nn invisiblo chain around the feet of thoso mountains, so that they are obliged to stand still, nnd there, right before the Israolitish army, is a turnpike road, with all the emerald gates swung wtde open. The passing host did not even get their feet wet. Tney passed dry shod, the bottom of the sea ns hard as the pavement of Pennsylvania avenue to New York's Broadway or London's Htrand. Oh, what a Gtod they had! Or I think I will change that and say, "What a Ood we have'" What power puis it hands upon astronomy in Joshua's tlmo and mnde the sun and moon standstill? Joshua x., 12, "Then spoke Joshua unto the Lord." Prayer? As a (riant will take two or four great globes, an 1 in astounding way swing them thi9 way or that, or bold two of them at arm's lengt h, so the Omnipotent does as He will with the great orbs of worlds, with wheeling constellations and circling galaxies, swinging easily star around star, star tossed after star, or sun and moon held out nt arm's length and perfectly still, as in answer to Joshua's prayer. To Qod the largest world is a pebble. Another reason why we should obey the Pauline injunction of the text and pray for all that are tn authority Is that so very much of our own prosperity and hnpplness are involved in their doings. A selfish reaBon, you say. Yes, but a righteous selfishness, like that which leads you to take care of your own health and presorve your own life. Prosperous government moans a prosperous people. Damaged government meaus a damaged poople. We all go up together, or we all go down together. When we pray for our rulers, wo pray for ourselves, for our homes, for the easier trntn Ing of a livelihood, for bettor prospoots for our children, for the hurling of these bard times so far down the embankment they can never ollmb up again. Do not look nt anything that pertains to public interest as having no relation to yourself. We are touched by all the events in our nntlonnl history, by the signing of the compact in the cabin of the Mayflower, by tho small ship, the Halt Moon, sailing up the Hudson; by tho trenty of William Penn, by the hand that made the "Liberty bell" sound its first stroke, by Old [ronsidos plowing tho high seas, and, if touched by all the events of past America,oertnlnly by nil the events of the present day. Every prayer you mnko for our rulors, if the prayer bo of the right stamp and worth anything, has a rebound of benediction for your )wn body, mind and soul. Another reason for obedienco to my text i# that the prosperity of this country Is coming, and we want a hand in helpiiq^on its touting. At any rate I do. It is a matter of lonest satisfaction to a soldier, after some ?reat battle has beon fought and some great victory won, to bo able to say: "Yes, I was here. I was in tho brigade that stormed hoso heights. I was In that bayonet charge hat put tho enemy to flight." Woll.tho day will come when all tho flnnnclnl, political ind moral foes of tills republic will bo drivon >ack ami driven dowu by tho pros|>ot?itles hat are now on their way, but which come vlth stow trend and in "fatigue dress" when vo wnnt thorn to tnke "tho double quick." 3y our prayers wo may stand on the mounnln top and beckon thorn on and show them i shorter cut. Yea. in answer to our prnyirs the Lord God of Hosts may from tho high leavens command them forward, swlftor hnn mounted troops ever took the field nt Syinu or Austerlltz. That was beautiful and appropriate at tho aying of tho cornerstone of tho extension of ho Capitol, fifty-eight years after the cornertone of the old Capitol had boen laid. Yet ho cornerstone of our Republic was first aid in 1776 and nt the re-establishment of ur National Government was laid again in 865. But are wo not ready for tho Inying f tho cornerstone of a bronder and higher rational life? Wo have as a Nation rocelved o much from God. Do we not owe new onsecratlon? Are wo not rea ly to become Uo-uuuui.^y, n i. " ?2fw-lavJn?? vlrve not ready for such a cornerslAn^ fj >u.. Yhv not now lot it take place? With long iroccssion of prayore, moving irom the north ind the south, the oa-t and tho west, lot tho iceno bo made august beyond comparison. The God of nations, who hath dealt with is as with no other people,will president the lolomaizatlon. By the square and the level ind tho plumb of the everlasting right let :he corner stono bo adjusted. Let that cor. nerstone bo the masoning together of the two granito tables on which the law was written when 8inal shook with the earthquake, and inside thnt cornerstone put tho u.rmnii nn tlm mnnnl mill A scroll containing tho names of (ill tho men nud women who have fought and prayed and tolle<t for tho arood of this nation, fro n the first martyr of the American Revolution down to tne last woman who bound up a soldier's wounds In tho field hospital. And let some one worthy to do so strike tho stone three times with tho gospol hammer in the name of God the Father, God tho Hon and God tho Holy G iost. Then let tho building rise, ono wall laved by the Pacific ocean and the other washed of the Atlantio, until its cap-done shall be laid amid the shouting of nil nations, by that time as tree as our own divinely founded, divinely constructed, and divinely protecto 1 republic, the Inst throne of oppression having fallen flat Into the dust and the last shackle of tyranny been hung up in museum as a relic of barbaric ages. The prayer that the great expoun ier wroto to be put In the cornerstone at the extension ot the Capitol I ejaculato as our o*~rn supplication. "God save the United Htates of America," only adding the words \rith which Robert South was apt to close his sermons, whether delivered before tho Court ut Christ-Church chapel or in Westminster Abbey, at nnniversary of restoration of Oliver Cromwell atnid the worst tomposf that ever swept over England: "To Qod bo rendered and ascribed, as Is most due, all praise, might, majesty and dominion, both now and forever. Amen." Hold Kittle Crnsnder. Six-year-old Edith Miller, who was overcome by grief at seeing a neighbor wantonly kill a eat by stamping it under his foot, appeared In the Long Island City Podce Court as a witness against the offender and caused his conviction