“REV. DR. TALMAGE. BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON, Subject: “The Plague of Lies” THE Text: “Ye shall not surely die." Genesis fii, 4 That was a point blank lie. Satan told it to Eve to induce her to put her semicircle of white, beautiful teeth into a forbidden apricot or plum or peach or apple. He prac thoally said to her, “Oh, Eve, just take n bite of this and you will be omnipotent and | omniscient. You shall be as gods.” Just opposite was the result, It was the first le that way ever told in our world, It opened the gate for all the falsehoods that have ever alighted on this planet, [t introduced a lague that covers all nations, the plague of jes. Far worse than the plagues of Egypt, for they were on the banks of the Nile, but this on the banks of the Hudson, on the banks of the East River, on the banks of the Ohio, | and the Mississippi, and the Thames, and the Rhine, and the Tiber, and on both sides | of all rivers. The Egyptian plagues lasted | only a few weeks, but for six thousand years bas raged this plague of lies There are a hundred ways of telling a lie. A man'sentire life may be a falsehood, while with his lips he may not once directly falsify. There are those who state what is psitively untrue, but afterward say ‘‘may w” softly, These departures from the truth | are called “white lies;” but there is really no such thing as = white lie The whitest lie that was ever told was as | black as perdition. No Inventory of public crimes will be sufficient that omits this gi. gantic abomination. There are men high in church and state actually useful, self-deaying and honest in many things, who, upon cer tain subjects and in certain spheres, are not | at all to be depended upon for veracity. In- | deed, there are many men and women who | have their notions of truthfulness so thor oughly perverted that they not know when they are lying. With many it is a cule tivated sin: with some it seems a natural in firmity. I have known to have been born liars their lives extended from cradie Prevarications, misrepresentation honesty of speech appeared in their terances, and wore as natural to thers of their infantile disonses, and were moral eroup or tual scariatina many have been placed in circumstanc where this tendency has day by day hour by hour bean called to larger develop ment y from Attainment t attainmen » class until th have become re graduated liars The air of the city is filled with false They hang pendent from the chandel our finest resi a: they crowd the of some our t princes; they fill sidewalk fro me to brown st facing; th around the mec n from the end 's yardstick, and sit in the doors « all the fiction.” Bom wm.” You fuge, disguised pretense, {able lovey do wople who seemed ‘he falsehoods of to grave and dis first ut I as any a sort spir and » am might sion, FOIMANDCY, EVASH tion, misrepresentat , but as | am ig rani of anything to be gained by the hi of a God defying outrage under a lexi grapber’s blanket, Isl eall thorn what my ther taught n call them —lies, I shall divid agricultural, mer cantile, mechani clesiastical, and social lies First, then, I will speak we particularly agricultural. There is something in the perpetual presence of natural objects to make a man pure. The trees nover issue ‘false , Wheat flelds are always honest. Rye and cats never more out in the night, not paying for the plac they have occupied. Corn shocks never make false assignments. Mountain brooks are always “current The gold on the grain is never counterfeit. The sunrise bever flaunts in false colors. The dew sports only genuine diamonds. Taking farmers as a class, | believe they are truthful and fair in dealing and kind hearred. But the regions surrounding our do not always this sort of nr to our markets. Day by day there creak wagh our streets and about the market houses farm wagons that have not an honest spoke In their wheels or a truth tul rivet from toague to tailboard. During the last few years there have times when domestic economy has dered on the farmer's firkin either taxes, nor the high price of dry goods n the exorbitaucy of labor, could exouse much that has witnessed in the behavior of the yeomanry. By the quiet firesides in Westchester and Orange Counties 1 there may be sasons of deop reflection and hearty repentance Rural districts are a customed to rail at great cities as givea up to fraud and every form of unrighteousness but our o not absorb all the abomina tious. Our citizens have learned the import ance of not always trusting to the size and style of apples in the top of a farmer's bar rel as an indication of what may be found farther down, Many of our people are ac customed to watch and see how correctly a bushel of 5 is messured, and there are not raany bouesst milk cans Deceptions all cinster 3 halls wi cities sit down and weep over their sins, all the surrounding countries ought to come in and weep with themn. There is often hostility on the part of producers against traders, as though the man who rages He COrm Was nDaoessariyy more honorable than the grain dealer’ who pours it into his mammoth bin There ought to be no such hostility. Yet producers often think it no wrong to snateh away [10m the trader; and they say to the bargain maker, “You get your money easy.” jo they got it easy? [et those who in the quiet field and barn get their living exchange places with those who stand to-day amid the ex. citements of commercial life and see if they find so is very cany While the farmer goes to sleep with the assurance that his corn and barley will be growing all the night, moment by moment adding to his revenue, the merchaot tries to gO to sleep conscious that that moment his cargo may be broken on the rocks or dam aged by the wave that sweeps clear across | hurricane aesck, or that reckless specu. | lators may that very hour be plotting some monetary revolution, or the burglars be ing open his safe, or his debtors Seeing town, or his landlord raldag the rent, or | the fires kindling on the block t contaios | all his estate, Haag} Is it? God help | the merchants! It is hard to have the palms of the hands blistered with outdoor work, but a more dreadful process when through | meroantile suxieties the brain ls consumed, | In the text place we notice mercantile | lien, those before the counter and behind the | counter. I will not attempt to sify the | different forms of commercial Yalsshood There are merchants who excuse themselves | for deviation from truthfulness because of custom. In other and universality to a virtue, There have of those that ar gto cities sony] tae it hope cities « bow round e iis fil i : | commercial tracoeriod window, ane not #5 much as something to eat. Ag she began to revive in her delirium, she said, gas singly: “Eight cents! Eight cents! sight cents! 1 wish 1 could get it done; Tam so tired! I wish 1 could get some sleep, but 1 must get it done! Eight cents! Eight cents!” We found out afterward was making garments for conts apiece, and that she could but threeof them in a dav! Three cight are twenty-four! Hear it, men women who have comfortable homes! Some of the worst villains of the city are the employers of these women, They beat them Ih to the last penny, and try to cheat them out of that. The woman garments to work on, When the work is done it is sharply inspected, the most insignificant | flaws pitked out, and the wages refused, and | sometimes the dollar deposited pot given back. The Women's Protective Union re yortsa case where one of these poor souls, Inding a place where she could get more wages, resolved to change employers, and | for hear done, The going to work YOu are went to got her pay employer says ho leave me.” “Yes " she said, to get what you owe me” He made no answor, She said, “Are yon not going to pay me” “Yes " he said, “I will pay you." | and he kicked her down the stairs There are thousands of fortunes made in spheres that are throughout God will let His favor rest upon every pictured wall, every { the joy that flashos from the lights, and showers {rom the wusie and dances in the children’s quick feet, pat righteous, every scroll, | tering through the hall, will utter the con gratulation of mon and the approval of God A merchant can, to the last item, be thor ughly honest. There is neVer any need of falsehood. Yet how many will, day by day hour by hour, utter what they know to be wrong. Yousay that you are selling at le than o If so, it is right to say it But did wt you less than what you ask for it? If not, then you have falsified. Y say that that article cost you twenty-five dollars. Did it? 1f so, then all right. If it “A pa then that ox on | di hen you } {alsifled did not, then you have [aisiiied. Supnoe y Lr 5 up; an AJ “heating dows a purchaser un’ the goods You say that that article for which five dollars is charged worth more than four, Is it worth no re than four dollars Then all ri if it be worth more, and for the sake tting it for less than its value, you willfully de preciate it, you have falsified, You may call it a sharp trade. The rding angel writes it down on ponderous tomes of eternity, "Mr. Soa: erchant on Water win F sn re w- Y uld falsify h the A n rege than the Pyramids, and will reverberale tains of eternity wi throw on ' handkerchi that all silk? N answer, “It is all silk so. all t jut Then you have falsified lost by the falsehood i may live at Lynn or Doylestown « Poughkeepsie, if t that you have d franded bh when } nes shopping “ay tomer Winn Was it all #ilk was it partly « Moreover, tomer, & y odd righ he by that wn Would you dare to make an est how many falsehoods in trade were day teld by hardware men and clot joalers and dry goods ests and importers and Jewelers an 1 and hants and station tobaoconista? Lies about saddles buckles, about ribbons, about carpet gloves, about coats about shoe hats, abogt watches, about carriag books--about everything In the name of the Lord Go Almighty, | arraige : ¢ IerCial fruit ooml mer ra : place 1 notice of men welfare of the adn ty than art weir hand we must look for the bull that shelters us, for the garments that us, for the car that onrries us I widespread There fon of what is called Mascular ( ity,” but in iatter day f prosperity I think that the Christian muscolar. We have a right to those stalwart men of toll the highest possi ble integrity. Many of them answer all our expectations, and stand atthe front of r jous and philanthropic enterprises this class, like the others has in it those who Jack In veracity. They cannot ail ] times when the demand for labor is g is impossible to meet the deman public, or do work with that po and perfection that would at other times be waitilem } But there Ase a ling he in lorie tan rid’s ney wi is mucl hri a We nfluence the will be exoeet of % But that I have named the " be t 8 « mptaeas word man are mechani at any time work a whos y trust No prom more than There are mechanios who say that they will come on Monday, but they do not come unti Wednesday. You put work in their hands that they tell you shall be completed in ten days, but it is thirty. Theres have been houses built of which it might said that every nail driven, every foot of plastering every yard of pipe laid, every shingle ham mere, every belek mortared, could tell of falsehood connected therewith, There are men attempting to do ten or filteen pieces of work who have not the time or strengih t« do more than five or six pleces, but by prom ses pover fulfilled keep all the undertakings within their onwn grasp. This Is what they call “nursing” the job How much wrong to bis soul and insit to God a mechanic would save if he promised miy so much as he expected to be able to do, Society has no right to ask of you Impossi bilities. You cannot always calculate cor rectly, and you may fail beoause you cannot got the help that you anticipate. But now Iam apoariug of making of Can Nas a an« to an be put on the willful wromises that you know you cannot Keegy Jd you say that that shoe should be mended, that coat repaired, those bricks laid, that harness sewed, that door grained, that spout | fixed or that window glazed by Saturday, knowing that you il neither bo able to do it youself nor get anyons else to do jt? hors, before God and man you are a liar, You may say that It makes no particular | difference, and that if you had told the truth you would have lost the job, and that people expect to be di nted, but the ex. ctsa will not answer, is a voloe of thunder rolling among the drills and planes shoo lasts and shears which says, “All liars shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone.” soclesinstionl Hos—that ie of advancing purpose of Bo use in asking rminiag be be apt to tell you that the convert what the you made she { eight | make | times | and | must | deposit a dollar or two before she gets the | “and I am come | deo- | | to prosperous enterprises, As long ns a | chur is feeble, and the singing Is discord. [ ant, and the minister, through the poverty of the church, must go with a threadbare coat, and here and thore a worshiper sits in the ond of a pew, having all the seat to himself, religious sympathizers of other churches will say, “What a pity” But let a great day of prosparisy come, and even ministers of the gospel, who ought to be rejoloed at the large- ness and extent of the work, denounce and | misrepresent and falsify, starting the suspio- jon in regard to themselves that the reason | they do not lke the corn is because it is not ground in their own mill, How long before we shall learn to be fair in our religious eriti- clems! The keenest genio on earth are church jealousios. The fleld of Christian work is so large that there Is no peed that our hos handles hit Noxt I speak of social lies. This evil makes | much of society insincere. You know not { what to believe, When people ask you to | come you do rot know whether or not they want you to come. When they send thelr regards you do not know whether it is an ex- pression of their heart or an external civils ity Wao have learned to take almost every. thing at a discount. Word sent ‘Not at home,” when they are only too lazy to dress themselves. They say, ‘The furnace has just gone out,” when in truth they have had no fire in it all winter. They apologize for the unusual barrenness of their table when they never live any better. They decry their most luxurious entertainments to win =» shower of approval! They apologize for their appearance, as though it were unusual, when " mpg home they look just They would make you believe that some nice sketeh on the wall was the work of a master painter. “It was an heirloom, and once hung on the walls of a and a duke gave it to their grandfather,” When the fact is that painting was made by a man lown east.” and baked 0 as to make It look old, and sold with others for ten dol lars a dozen People will lie about nothing else will lis about a ture. Un a small income we make the world love that we are afll and our life { comes 8 cheat terfoit and a sham Few persons are really natural When 1 this I do not mean to altured man } It is right that we ; more admiration for the sculpture vi » than for the unknown bi { the qua Fr many circle rsit has driven viva fro is $y, ) onstle, who pe must bs isnt be % COU nVe HI 3 dig peled sha might Whenever thes pros wil K wy beck Te poor to be with witha HOOK «¢ naked her when sho was a part auntie was a sun besm Khe know As she g little shar r the most ane for than aay ry prayer, who the the Christmas eve 13 b to hx 2 TOrvinaay # in all She had tion Hive ! b peculiar notions, wh bad was to dressed well but her highest the grandest wn make you happy dressed well; was that of a meek and quiet spir in the sight of God, Is of great pr When she died you all gathered lovingly about ber, and as you arried her out to » Bunday-school class almost covers! t Mn with japon. eas, and the poor people stood at the end of with their me to their eyes of the wor was ab the maiden 0 thes, aris rity, wyck 8 ovey pr v at dance throw limipated life lean pass floor they trip mer. le along the wall or a rt of A The music charm he diamonds glitter The feet bound nmed bands stretched at clasped gemmed hands. Dancing feet respond to dancing Gieaming brow bends to gleaming ‘wow On with the fance! Flash and rustle and laughter and immeasurable merry making' But the langour of death comes ov Hmbe and blurs the sight Lights lower! Floor holl with sepul chiral echo. Music saddens into a wall, Lights lower! The maskers can hardiy now be seen, Flowers exchange their fragrance for a sick. ening odor, such as from garlands that have lain in vaults of cemeteries. Lights lower! Mists fill the room Glasses rattle as though shaken by sullen thunder Highs seem osught among the curtains. Scarf falls from the shoulder of beauty--a shroud! Lights lower! Over the slippery boards, in danoe of death, glide jealousion, disappoint. monte, lust, despair. Torn leaves and with ered garlands only half hide the nloared feet Lhe stench of smoking lamp wicks almost quenched. Choking damps. ( hilliness. Foot still Hands folded (yes shut, Voloes hushed. Lights out! ——— The Bandit Monkey. Monkeys in the East Indies are very bold and mischievous. An English resi. dent at Ahmedabad, in Guzerat, about three hundred miles north of Bombay, gives a droll instance of this, While taking a morning stroll he saw a small boy of twelve carrying a basket of the editable vegetable called *‘brin- jals" to his parents’ house for breakfast, In passing the house of ths local police. { man, this urchin was impudently attacked by a huge blue faced ape, which suddenly emerged from the trees, rushed on the boy, and seized two of the brin. als, The youngster's cries and screams brought out the constable with his stick. The monkey was too quick for him, and | leaping on the rool of his cottage began | to eat his i1l.gotten fruit with contemptu. ous gestures of scorn and defiance. Monkeys are a great pest in India, be- | cause they are privileged and protected | around Hindoo temples, one species the Radjakado--with a black beard, es- pecially being regarded as a descendant | of Hanuman, the fabulous monkey-god, an incarnation of Siva, whose a are related in the famous mythological romance of the “Ramayana,” where he commands an army of mon assisting the hero, Rama, to march through the forests of Southern India, to defeat the King of giants, to recover the ured wife of Rama, and to ver the Island of Lanka or Ceylon, New York Journal, DE Move rv foot or the OMmes - i sn— | and I will add to | chastised you wit | you with scorpions | the ginss, | before, she said, and she did | much of their toilet articles, | picked up a comb and combed her hair | which I had not been | some hairpins, and used them gener SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON MARCH 20, VOR | | Lesson Text: "Review Exercise the Past Quarter Golden Text: I Kings xviii, 80, of | Superintendent: Who succeeded Solomon as king? School: Rehoboam, his son, Bupt.: What appeal did the people make to Rehoboam? Hehool: They asked him to lighten burdens his father laid upon them, Supt, : What was Rehoboam's reply? School: My father made your he ¥. heavy, Jour yoke; my father also | 1 whips, but 1 will chastise | the Bupt.: What followed this reply? Behool: Ten of the tribes revolted and made Jeroboam their king Bupt.. What false worship did Jeroboam | establish? Hchool: He made two calves of gold, and sid unto the people, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods O Lerael, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt Supt to Ahab Bohool: As the Lord God of lsrasl liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word, Supt. : How did the Lord care for Elijah by the brook Cherith School: The ravens brought him bread and lesh inthe morning and ia the evening, and 36 drank of the brook Bupt + How did the Lord care for Elf jah at Zarephath® Behool: He commanded a widow woman thore to sustain him pt. What promise did the Lord make widow of Zarephath The barrel of meal shall not waste, fall, until the rain upon the What judgment did Elijah foretall sondeth What baa lowed the prayer of the $ THveaan to Al eked th blood, mites » bool: He went in there! floor upon them twain, and Lord” and stretched himself the ohild sneezed seven tithes : pete his eyes Supt. What message did Kaaman' Sobol: Go and wash in times, mind thy flesh shall come again and thou shalt be clean What {allowed his obadienos® s flesh came again like unto the flesh of a 1} , and he was clos Rupt i the king of Syria send to Dothan to take Elisha? Rehoo) He wan! thither 1 and chariots, and a great host: and they eume by night, and t Nupt. How was Elisha protected Behoo i the mountain was ta of fire round Rood fe and shut the prayel unto the upon him; and and the child Elisha send to Jordan to thee, sven; Eos com pmased the city ™ st of full about Heh horses and char Blisha Westminster Question — Where Woman's Yanity Is Seen. I went through the agony of having a Photogral h taken the other day, says a Now York letter, and was very much amused at some women who were there for the same purpose. It is at the photographer's that a woman's vanity way be seen in all strength and glory, for there is where she goes to have made a counterfit presentment of ! ] it 1s wersell, and if the counterfit is unlike wer by reason of being far handsomer, just so much more is she A young woman, wit prettily dressed, came to me and asked me if | had any powder. I answered no, mentally rejoicing that it was the leased. 1 blond hair, | truth, for with powder she would want a powder puff, She traveled about the room, and pretty soon I saw her powder. ing her face most elaborately before She had never been there not think And she She found a hand mirror, able to do, and vig ously. ously, I told ber her hair looked lovely, and she was delighted, It really did look pretty. I wanted to tell her that nothing would induce me to use combs, brushes, powder, puffs or hairpins that other persons bad used, but 1 refrained. The ultra fastidious are not the happiest in tho world. She | wanted a good likeness ; another woman there wanted an artistic pose, regardless of the likeness, 1 hope they may get what they want, The Differcnee in Flag Stones. Funny, fsn't it, about these flag stones? Did you notice? After the rain--you can see it most any rainy day some pana of the stone will be wet as can be, and other parts on the same level will be quite dry, as though Shey had been wiped with a just moist. Sometimes one flag will get your shoes all wet and the next will be a dry one. It's just a difference in the grain, that's all. This one is porous, and the water is all absorbed, and the next one olose-grained, and the water stays on top until it evaporates. | shrieking and walling as | BeWspAper, FOUR PERISH, Thrilling Scenes at a New York Tens ment House Fire, Terrible scones were enacted on a recent morning in the Hebrew district of New York City, In a fire that consumed the five story tenement on the southwest corner of Alien and Hester stroets, thres of a family of six, father and two daughters, perishe] miserably, Of the fifty-one persons in the house seven He dead or Ad This is the lst of the dead Barnett Jartar, fifty-six vears old, Polish Jew, tailor by trade, ill to death, Sarah his oldest daughter, nineteen yours old. burned to death. Betsy, the youngest daugh- tor, aged thirteen years, burned to death Philip Elschisky, aged thirty-four suffocated, The tenants, Hobrow tailors, with their families, roused suddenly to confront death | in its most terrible form, swarmed down the fire escapes on both sides of the building, they called their lost ones Ladders were them down, but ti lmned thrown up hastily to help soma, in the confusion and ENOoKe both wood and lad ders The iron rungs of the CHRCRPOS Ware turning white with heat when Max Gold. reached for them from the third floor and recoiled in 4 i at He stood in a window holding little children in his arms From the str throw Monsen iron fire sted his three sot the police yelled to him to He threw first one, ears, and Policeman Reyer Roma, t baby, 13{ years next in the arms of Pollo them down aged caught the boy old, was caught man Weis brabam, three ye od sawed ckly that th h swnon broke i fall, they were unable to eateh him. He heavily © and was picked fm ry pen, hie nthe pave in jure ! { jumped af he buliding was lost their all r row ighter and pet ver by the I» 4 ¥ [4 anks The arm that beld his mother was terribly burned, and his mother scorched & from head & was carried aw the ambulance with all sp» but the dal had ne hope Upon the four) Mariano Riviello, Italia house were Holirews, the windows on their is man and his little dang the girl suddenly stopped and stepped back into the snoke vas death The firemen on the it, and, steppid wer the = Cami “Cone back.” be this way ™ and g wd his room in the direct) Half way across he pearly smothered over the Soo I ooniid not leave It she said to the fire thrasting ns be velpsd My m The fireman window as TARY on ing bar ived ¢ family « ie All others In e firesnen had gai floor ™ Hers and helped the ter Bosse out, when ¥ { in there ladder knew 3 aller ny “Come back way across the wo ohild had gone e upon her, gasping, I's trunk shouted Zging a do man her. bye PROMINENT PEOPLE, ff Denmark is a ine plants Tux Queen I Prason paper Tug Sultan o in the World's Fa BisMancs has Quens Ln kaua on years old ITOK ALA the Hawaiian Guexenat, Manoxs town at the mouth of well County, Va Jomx DD. Rockereid hl Con pany has g educational ; Gronage Faas as agile and mus years ago, snd walks ener yy Horse and came of Italy amusement large and cholo at Mia raising affords the and profit hordes of them King and he has wm his estate Sexaron Peyvry been taught 10 set type ty oo t bows daughters are skilled iY. type writing and bookkeeping Grxrral DRoboRA DE Foxsgoa just beens elected President of the Brazilian Republic, is fifty seven years old. All his life sinoe hoyhood has been passed in the army Witiaax H. Macy the blind pom of Nantucket, Mase, isdend. He was a native of the Idand, and spent his sarily life at son in the whaling service, relinquishing it to Join the Union Army of 1862 James RB. Raxnpari, the author of “Mary land, My Maryland” bas bean for the last quarter of a century the editor of a Georgia He ix a writer of great power and originality snd a most scholarly man, James Gornpox Bexxerr, the proprietor is _ sugnt Das who has | of the New York Herald, is a naval veteran He was a Lieutenant, and commanded his | own yacht, which was armed and commis | sloned as a vessel of the United States Navy. Lany WiLLian Nevins, ons of the famosas beauties of Irish society, Is a handsome Spanish woman, with dark hair, dark eyes, and a clear olive complexion. Her face is sweet and expressive and she is very clever Cuxvarier Geonor 1. Ersomm, who took part in the battle of Waterloo, and formed a part of the guard of honor which welcomed 1 L sixteen yours later, is now, at the of pinely-seven, burgo master in the vi of Epinois les Binoche, Mus E. DE N, Sovrnwonrst, the novel - ] i in ¥ : i § i | i | | | | | | | rg DESTRUCTIVE FLAMES Fire in New York City Con. sumes Four Huge Buildings. | The Loss Estimated at Beveral Million Dollars, Two millions of dollars went up in fire and | smoke or sunk into watereoaked and pio. | turesqus wreck a fow nights ago in New | York City in a fire that swept from street to ! the stroot the bounded end of Hous- Bleecker by on block wires Blescker, | ton, Mercer, and Greene stroets The fire started in the sub-oceliar of the | Cohnufeld Building, at Bleecker and Greens | streets, and raged below the level of the side | walk for nearly an hour before 6 r. ¥., and | was permitted to get beyond the control of | the f remen. Later the ninestory structure went down like a houses of cardboard in the flames. Three adjoining buildings esught fire and were destroyed, and the loss of property exceeded §1,500,000 y building in which the fire originally | started was owned by Mendel Brothers, real estate men of Chicago, and occupled by Al fred Benjamin & Co., probably the largest manufacturers of fine ready made men's slothing in this country. It is a stock com pany, comprised of Isaiah Josefa, A. Hoch- wtader, Eugene Ben jamin, David Hochstader, snd, as special partners, Jesse and Bamusi 1osenthal. The first alarm was turned in st 520», »., a second at 5:25 and then three others fol owed in rapid succession. Engines came clanging from all directions to the scene and when Chief Bonner serived and saw the seriousness of the fire he sent out innumerable special calls for additional engines, until fnally the greater portion of those in the lower part of the city were at the spot At first it seemed as if the firemen would SAVE an easy victory over the flames. There was no appearance of fire, but a thick, bisck smoke poured out of the basement and rose in volu about as high as the mansard roof, them blew down in the streels again, making it an heroic task for the firemen to work at all Buddenly, with hardly a moment's notice, the Sames foroed the the ir na 30 hrough roof ay gh Then wnt, un nagnifl e fire 4d- The that wide as if the wilde nia a tn front i 3 Pied ar nd the Nremen had ar 10 save The f ¥ how WHE WUIQ Was 1 sly injured the bw Wall yen 4 ol : od ws the iis bricks in the fallen wall seemed to have leared of mortar Not for years has there been a fire in Now York by which the destruction was so com. The great corner building was as pletely destroyed as though not a finger had been lifted to oppose the progress of the flames. Nothing but the bare bricks and some portion of the iron covering of the walls remained Nearly the entire loss is covered by insur ance in many companies. Ope conservative estimate places the entire amount of damage at pot less than §8 000,000, ——— - SUCCEEDS HEARST. Charles N, States Senator Fr N Felton States Senator Ir ete ' Elected United m Califoraia Melton elected U ited the first The ballot on which be was elected Senator was the eighth taken Charles Was vn Lsiilornm i at Sacramento baad 1 joint ox Logisiature | eall stood: Estes, : wm. 4 Heaoock, 4; Blanchard [wenty-three Democrat voles wore cast for White Belore the vote was announced a number of changes were made to Felton, and finally it beoame a stampede which, when onoe be gun, was complete, and the ballot was an nounosd as foliows Esteo, 15: Felton, 78: Johnston 1 cock, 41 White (Democrat), 24 The convention then adjourned sine die, Charles N. Felton wes born in Erie County, N.Y. in 1532. He received an scademio eduoation, and in 1840 be went to California. He was then a poor boy, but he won is WAY to ame and fortune. After retiting from aclive business Mr. Felton became Assistant Treasurer of the Mint at San Francisco, and later the Treas urer. Ho was slected asa Republican to the XLIXth and Lah Congresses from the Vik California District, serviog from December 7. 1885 to March 4 1580. He is an extreme advocate of gold mono ialismn. Johns : i Ww 1 Hei OIL TRAINS COLLIDE. Seven Train Hands Killed by the En.
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