DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
CONGRESS SALUTED.
Ood Hai Always Been on
Nation.
the Side of Thli
Tstr: "And the Lor.l opened tho yi rf
the ynunir mnn, and tin anw, nnd. hhold.
thn nionntnlii was full nf hnr. nti 1 chariot
of fire round abnut Ell-thn." II Klncsvl.. 17.
The American Conijr I assembling:.
Arriving nralnaly arrive I are the rnpriv
"ntatlvi of nil unction of this blovol
land. Let tin wolcom tliom with rayrs
and hnn llrtinn. A noblor croup of nr-n
nnvor Mt)trl Washington than those who
will to-morrowtako th'Mr pianos In the 8n
at Chamber and tns ilouso of Upronta
tlvns. Whether thoy Pom" alone or loave
thlr famtlloa at th homestead far away,
may tho h!fHlna of thi Eternal Ood bi upon
thorn! Wo Invito thra to our ohurohos, an t
tognthor they In political phpr' and we In
religion oir.'ln will kIvh tho coming
months to ennltloratlhn of tho host lntrts
of this country which Ood ha blossod so
much in tho past that I purpose to show you
anl show thm, en Jnr a I may now roach
their wr or to-morrow their ce through the
printing pre, that Ood will bo with thorn to
nlp thorn m In thn text Ho 11 11 o J the moun
tain with help for Elisha.
An it coat England many regiment and
f J, 000,000 a year to loop wifely a truubln
tome captive at 8t. Helena, no tho king of
Byrla sends out a whole army to capture one
tnlnlter of religion porhap M.OW mon to
take Elisha. During the night tho army ol
Hyrlan cam" around the village of rotbsn,
where the prophet wax staying. At "arlv
davbrenk th- mnn servant of ElUtta rushed
In andoal l. "What shall w lo? There 1
whole ar'Tiy oomo to dtrov you! We
miwt rtle! Wo must !lo!" Hut Elisha waa
not scared a bit, for he looked tip and saw
the mountain all around full of super
natural forces, and he know that if thor
were M.000 Hyrlan against him there were
100,000 angels for him. and In answer to the
prophet's prayar in behalf of his afTrlghtod
man servaut the young man saw It too.
Uorios of fire harnesse.! to chariot of lire,
and drivers of Ore pulling reins of tiro on
bits of Are. and warriors of fire with brand
Ished eword of (Ire, an I the brilliance of
that morning sunrise was eclipsed by the
galloping solondors of the celestial caval
cade. "And the Lord opened the eyes of
thn young mm. and he saw, and behold the
mountain wa full of horo and chariots of
Ore rouu l about Elisha." I speak nt the
upper forces of the text that are to fight on
our side as a Nation. If all ths low levels
are filled with armi l threats, I hav.i to toll
you that the mountains of our hope an I
courage and faith are full of the bortoj aud
jhariots of divine rescue.
You will notlco that tho divine aquiptge is
always represented as a chariot of lire.
Eznkiel and Isaiah and John, when thny
nomo to describe thodivlnoequlpane, always
represent it as a wheeleJ. n harues.so 1, an
upholstered conflagration. It Is not a char
tot like kings nu I conquerors of earth
mount, but an organlzo I and campr.vssel
(Ire. That means purity, justice, chastise
ment, deliverance through burning esinn-M.
Chariot of rescue? Yes, but a chariot of fire.
All our National dLsenthrallmeuts have bean
through scorching agonies and rod disasters.
Through tribulation the in llvldual rise.
Through trlbulntlon Nations rise. Chariots
of rescue, but chariots of (Ire. Hut how do I
know thnt this divine tvjuipasce is on thn side
of our Institutions? I know it by the history
nf the last 119 years. Tho American Revolu
tion xtnrtod from the pen of John Hancock
in Independence Hall In 170. The colonies,
without ships, without ammunition, without
guns, without trnlned warriors', without
money, without prestige. On the other Hide,
the mightiest Nation of the earth, the larg
est nrinlee. the jr-andost navlus and the
most distinguished oomminjerj. and re
sources iiiex'haUMtiolts ana nearly all Na
tions adv 7baek them op lnthe fljhf.
iJltP.enslty. ..
..use oi tb Amorloan colonies, which
e 1 at r.ero, dropped still lower through
. quarrelling of the general, and through
:he jealousies at small succossos, and through
Vim wlulers whl oh surpassed all pre locessor
in di'pth of snow and horrors of congeat
ment. Elisha surroun lo 1 by th3 whole
Hyrlan army did not serm to be worn oil
than did the thlrtnnn colonics encompassed
an't overshadowed by foreign assault. What
dc'l led the CMitet u pur favor? The upper
fores, the iiTW ar.files. The Or.'m nnd
White Mountains of New Englan I, the
Ifiglilan Is along tin Hu Isou. the mountains
of Virginlu, all tho Appalu'hian ranges
were full of re.enforcjvuents, "w'lb'U the
vou 114 man Washington si by faith, nnd
ills men endured tho frox-m feet, an! the
gangrened wounds, mil the exhausting
hunger, and the long march bcause "the
Lord opened the eyes of the young man, and
he saw. and, behold, the mountain wis full
of horses aud chariots of lire round about
ElNhn." Wiishiugtou himself was a mlr.i -lo.
W hat Joshua was in snore I history the llr.st
American President was in peeular history.
tlnu-anl otln-r men excelled him In
different things, but he ixelWi tlie:n all in
roundness and completeness of character.
Tli t world nover saw his like, and probably
aever will so his like again, b.Miuse tuum
probably never will bo another such ex
igency. He was let down a divine inter
position. He was from Ood direct.
I do not know how many can real thn
history of those times without admitting tho
contest was decided by the upper fore .is.
Then In 111. when our Civil Waroponei,
many at the North an I at tho South pr
ooiiti'iil It National suicide. It wis not
courage against cowardice, it was not wealth
against poverty, it was not largo States
against small States. It was heroism against
heroism, it was the resources of many gen
erations ngainst the resources of generations,
it was the prayer of tho North against the
prayer of thu South, it was ouo-lmlf of the
Nation in armed wrath meeting tho other
half of the Nation in arm-id in llgna'.ion.
What could come but extenuation?
At the opening of the war the commander-ln-ehlef
of the United Statue forces was a
ninn who had been great in battle, but old
age had come, with many infirmities, and be
tin 1 a right to Uietui. II) could not
mount a horse, uud he rodo on the battle
tl.'l l in a carriage, asitiug thu driver not to
Jolt it too much. During tho most of the
four years of the oontwt on the Southern
Hide, was a man in midlife, who had in his
veins the blood of many generations of
warriors, himself oue of the heroes of
Churubusco and C'crro O irdo.Controras and
Chapultene?. As the years passe i on nnd
the scroll of carnage unrolled there came
out from both sides aherolHm.und.a strength,
aud a determination that the world bad
never seen marshaled.. And what but ex
termination could conio when Philip
Hherldnn ami Stonewall Jackson met, and
Nathaniel Lyon and Sidney Johnston rode
tu from North aud South, aud Orant nnd
Lee, the two thunderbolts of battle, clashed?
Yet. we are a Nation, nnd yet we are at
peace. Earthly courage did not decide the
conflict. The upper forces ol the text tney
tell us there wa a br.ttle fought above the
clouds on Lookout M ountain, but tuuro w.w
something higher than that.
Attain, the horses aud chariots of Ood
came to the rescue of this Nation In lH7ti, at
the close of a Presidential election famous
for feroolt v. A durker cloud yet settled down
upon this Nation. The result of the election
was lu dispute, and revolution, not between
two or three sections, but revolution in every
town and village nud city of the United
States seemed Imminent. Thn prospect was
that New York would throttle New York, and
New Orleans would grip New Orleans, and
Uoston. llostou. and Savannah, Havannuh
and Washington. Washington, . Bouiu aid
Mr. Tllden waseleoted. others said Mr. Hayes
was elected, and how near we came to uni
versal mansaere some of us guessed, but Ood
only knew. I ascribe our escape not to the
houtv and righteousness ol infuriated pott'
ticiaua, but I ascribe It to the upper forces
of the text. i;uanou ot mercy ronea in, una
Enough the wbueU wore not bear J and tut
flash was not on, yet all thrrniah th mono
tarns of the North, and the South, and the
Eat, and the West, though the hoofs did not
clatter, the cavalry of Ood galloped by. I
tell yon Ood Is the friend of this Nation. In
tho awful excitement at the massacre of Lin
coln, when there was a prospct that greater
laughter would open upon this Nation, Ood
hushed the tempest. In the awful excite
ment at the time of Oarltnld's assassination
Ood put His foot on the nock of the cyclone.
To prove Ood is on the side of this Nation I
argue from the lat eight or nine great Na
tional harvests, and from the National health
of the last quarter of a century, epidemics
very exceptional, and from the great revi
vals of religion, and from the spreading of
tho church of Ood, and from tho eontinnnt
blossoming with asylums and reformatory
Institutions, and from nn Edeni.atlon which
promises thnt this whole land is to be a para
dise, where Ood shall walk.
I am encouraged more than t can tell you
as I see the regiments wheeling down the
sky, and my Jeremiads turn Into doxologiee,
and thnt which was the Oood Friday of the
Nation's crucifixion becomes the Easter
morn ot its resurrection. Of course Ood
work through human Instrumentalities, and
this National betterment is to come among
other things through a scrutinized ballot
box. Ry the law of registration It Is almost
Impossible now to have Illegal voting. There
was a time you and I romember It Tory
well when droves ot vagabonds wandered
up and down on Election Day, and from
poll to poll, voted here, and voted there,
and voted everywhere, nd thore was
no challenge, or It there were,
it amounted to nothing, beoause
nothing could suddenly be proved npon
the vagabonds. Now, in every well or
ganized neighborhood, every voter Is
watched with severest scrutiny. It I am In
a region where I am alio we 1 a vote, I must
tell the registrar my name, and how old I
am. and how long I have resided In the
State, and how long I have reside 1 in the
ward or the township, and If I misrepre
sent fifty witnesses will rlan and shot me out
from thehallot box. Is not that a great ad
vance? And then notiod the law that pro
hibits a man voting If he hu bet on the elo
tlon. A step farther needs to be taken nnd
thnt man forbidden a vote who has offered
or taken a bribe, whether It be In the shape
of a free drink, or cash paid down, the
suspicious cases oMIgelto put their hand on
the lli ble and swear their vote In If they
vote at all. So, through th sasred chest ot
our Nation's suffrage, redemption will come.
Ood will mvs this Nation through an
arousod moral sentiment. Th ire has never
been si) mti"h discussion of morals and Im
moral. Men, whether or act they aiknowl
edgo what is right, have to think what la
right. We havj men who have bad their
hands In the public treasury the most of
their lifetime, stealing all thny could lay
thnlr hands nn, discoursing eloquently about
dishonesty in public servants, and mon with
two or thr.J9 families ot their own preaching
eloquently abiut too bsnutles of th seventh
commandment. The question of sobriety
nnd drunkenness Is thrust In the fase of this
Nation as never before and takes a part in
our political contest. The question ot Na
tional so'orioty is golngsobsrdspoctfullyaad
deferentially hoard at tho bar of every LsgiS
latur l, and every House ot BjprJS'iuatlVA,
nn I every State Senate, and an omnipotent
voico wiu ring down the sky and aero this
land and bvi' aaln, saying to tlms3 rislu?
tide of drunknness which threaten to wholm
homd nnd church an I Nation, "Thus far
shalt thou oorae, but no farther, and bora
shall thy proul wayai bi st il l," :
I have not In my mind a shadow of dls
heartment a large as thn shadow of a house
fly's wing. My faith Is in the upper forces,
the upper ar.nlC3 of the text. Ood is not
dead. The chariots are not unwhcelel. It
you wonld only pray mora and wash yaur
eyes In thn cool, bright wator fresh fram the
well of Christian reform, it would be said ot
you, as of this one of the text. "The Lord
openod thn eyes of tho young man, and he
saw. and. behold, the mountain was full ot
horses and chariots of fire ro'tnd a1
Elisha." Jbi..lJS22
When the irmv of Antiaouus went into bit.
tie. his soldiers were very much d!courged,
. ,hev rushed up to the general and said
to him, T'D n't you see we have a tew forces
and they have ao many?" And the soldiers
were affrighted at th- amallnnu of their num
ber an 1 thn grjatness of tho onmny. Antl
gonus, their eommau lor, straightened him
self up and said, with indiguation und vehe
mence, "How many do you reckon mo to
ha?" And whin we soe the vast armies ar
rayod ng.iinst the caus? of sobriety it
may so.UJtlnios bo vary discouraging, but I
ask you in making up your estimate of the
forces of righteousness t ask you how many
do you re -k in the L ir 1 0 1 1 Almighty to bo?
He Is our commander. The Lord of II vsts is
Mis nam". I have the best authority for say
ing that the chariots of Oi I lira 23,0)0, and
the mountains nr i full of them.
H ivo you any doubt about tho neel of tho
Christian religion to purify and maked'V! nt
American politics.' At every yearly or
qiialrenulal elwtloii we have inthls oountry
groat manufactories naiiufaetories of lies
an I tli'y nrj run day aud night, and they
turn out half a dozen n day, all e Ulpped nnd
r aly for full s illing. Largs lies and small
lies. Lies private an 1 lies public and lies
prudent. Lies cut bias and lies cut diag
onal. Ling Umbel lies and lies with double
back actiou. Lies complimentary and lies
defamatory. Lies that some people believe
and lies that nil thn penile believe, ni l lies
that nobody believes. Lies with humps like
amels, and scales like crojo lllos, m l necks
ns long as storks, un I foot as swift as an an
telope's, and sting like a t iers, uies raw
nnd seallopo I nn I panned nn I stewo I.
ruwllng lies nnd Jumping lies and soaring
lies. Lie with attachment screw and nif
tier and braiders and rea ly wound bob
bins. Lies by Christina people who nover
He except during elections, an I lies by peo
ple wivi always lie, nut U-iat luoaisoives in a
'residential campaign.
1 confess I urn ashamiu to nave a foreign
er visit this country In su di times. I should
think he would stand dar.ol, lit uanj on til
pocketbook, and darn not go out nights.
What will the nun ire is oi tu lusands ot lor-
Igner who conn hens to live think of us.'
What a disgust thoy must have for tho land
of their adoption. Thn ouly good thing
about it is many of then cannot understand
the English laugniige. Hut I suppose thn
German aud Italian aud Swo dish and French
papers translate it all and po Idle out the In
fernal stuff to the subscriburs.
Nothing but Christianity will ever stop
such n lload of in ioeoncy. The Christian
religion will speak after awhile. The bil
lingsgate and low scandal through which we
wa le every vear or every lour years must
bo rebuked by that religion which speaks
from its two great mountains trom tne one
mouutalu lutoulng the command, "Thou
shalt not boar false witness against thy
nulirhbor. and from the other mount mak
ing plea for kindness aud blessing rather
than cursing. Ye, we are going to have a
National religion. There are two kind ol
National religion. The one is supported by
the State, an 1 Is a matter ol human pontic.
and it ha great patronage, and underit men
will struggle for prominence without refer
ence to qualifications, und its archbishop is
supported ty a salary oi co.uuu a year, ana
there are great catneurai. witn an ma ma
chinerv of muslo and oauoulcaU. and room
for a tnousauu people, yoi nn numenou oi
11 ftv people, or twenty people, or ten or two,
We want no suin religion as inni, no bucu
National religion, but we want this kind ot
National religion the vast majority oi tne
noon e converted and ovuugouzo j anl "inea.
they will manage the secular as well as the
religious.
Do vou sav that this is impraoticame.' no.
The time is coming Just a certaluly U3 there
Is a O d, aud that this is His nook ani mat
Ho ha thOHtrongtnniidtue honesty to luiuii
His promise. Oue of the anuieut emperor
used to pride himself on performing that
which his counselors said was impossinie
and I havato tell vou to-day unit man a im
possibles are God's uaslet. "Hath He aald
and shall He not do it? Hath He command
Oil. and will He not bring it to pass?" The
Christian religion is ooinlug to take oa
session of every ballot box, of every school
bouse, ol every home, of every valley, of
every mountain, ot overy aoreof our Nation-
al domain. This Nation, notwlthstandlni
all the evil Influences that are trying to de
stroy It, I going to live. . . ,
Never alnce. according to John Milton,
when "sat an was hurled headlong flaming
from tho ethereal skies In hideous fuln and
combustion down." have the power of dark
ness been so determined to -win this oontU
nent as now. What Jewel It Is a Jewel
carved In relief, the cameo of this pis net! On
onosldeofus the Atlantic Ocean, dividing
us from the womout Oovornments of Eu
rope. On the other side the Pacific Ocean,
dividing u from the snperstitlrns of Asia.
On the north of us the Aretij Rea, which is
the gymnasium in which the exolorors and
navigator develop thoir courage. A eont'
noijt 10,500 miles long, n.OM.OOJ square
mllc. and all ot It but one-seventh capable
of rich cultivation. One hundred millions of
population on this continent of North and
South America 110,003,0.10. and room for
many hundrsd millions more. All flora and
all fauna, all metals and nil precious woods,
and all grain and all fruits. Thn Appa
lachian range the backbone, and the rivers
ganglia carrying life all through nnd out
to the extremities, Isthmus of Darien,
the nnrrow waist ot giant conti
nent all to bo nn 'or one Oovernment,
and all free, and all Christian, and the scons
of Christ's personal rnlgn on earth if. accord
ing to the expectation of many good people,
no shall at Inst sot no Hi throne In this
world. Who shall have this hemisphere,
Christ or satan? Who shall have the shore
of her inland anas, the silver of her Nevada,
the gold ot her Colorado, the telescopes of
her observatories, the brain of her universi
ties, the wheat of her prairies, the rice of her
savannas, the two great ocean beaches the
one reaching from Baffin's Bay to Tlorra dnl
Fuego, and the other from Bering Strait to
Cape Horn and all thn moral and temporal
and spiritual and everlasting Interests of a
population vast beyond all human compnta
tlon? Whoshall have the hemisphere? You
and I will decide that, or help to decide it,
by conscientious vote, by earnest prayer, by
maintenance of Christian Institution, by
support of great philanthropies, by putting
body, mini ana tout nn the rignt side ot an
moral, religious and National movements.
Ah. It will not make anr difference to ysu
or to ms what become of this continent, a?
far asearthlv comfort Is concerned. All we
will want of It will be seven font by three.
an t that will take in the largest, and there
will be room and to spare. That la all nf
this country we will neel very soon tin
youngest of us all. nut wi have an anxiety
about the welfare and the happiness of the
generations that arm coming on, and It will
be a gran t thing if. when the archangel's
trumpet sonnds, we And that our sepulchre.
like the one Joseph ot Arimathea provided
for Christ, Is lnthe midst ot a garden.
One of the seven wonder of tho world wa
thi white marble watch tower of pharos of
Egypt, flostratus, the architect and sculp
tor, after building that watch tower, cut his
name on it. Then ho covered it with plaster,
and to pleas the king he put the monarch's
name on the outside of the plastering; and
the stor.ns boat and the ns dashed in their
fury, and they washed off the plastering, and
thny washed It out, and thny washed it down,
hilt the na,-ne of Bostratn was dnnp cut In
the Imperishable rock. 8 j a?r)M the fae
of this Nation there hav. Ineu a great rnany
names written, a?rs our flnanjss, aifov
our religions, namis worthy ot r 'membrane.
PuTies written on the arohitei.ur.i of our
chur;anj, and our schools, and our asylum,
aal our homnsof moMy, hut Clod is thn ar 'hi
tot of this eontinnnt, nn I IIiwiii tha ajalp
tor ot nil It grandahrS, aal 1oq5 aflir
through the w ish nf the agas nr thj tejb
est of coujunas all other ba nl inall bs
ohlttnrAtQl tM djylnj slgnV.urj and dlvjpi
name will DebrightlrTlfi l brightor as tin
millenniums go by, an I thn world shall
son
has
that the Oo I who ma le
this continent
redojmej t by III grau tnra All lt or
row and from all Its crimes, --w.-'5
Have you faith In such a thing A that?
After nU the chariots hayebenn unwhoelol.
an i attor All the war chariot have been
Erippiod, the chariots whloh Elisha saw oa
tne morning ot pis pern win rou on in tri
umph. Jollowelby all the armies of heaven
on whit horses. Gol could do It without
. but He will not. Tho weakest of us.
the faintest of us, tht smallest brained nf
us, shall have a part In tho triumph. We
may not have our nam, llko the name ot
Sostratus, cut In Imperishable rock and con
spicuous for centuries, hut we shall bo re
mernoerol In a bettor place than that, von
In the heart of Him who came to redeem
sand roloem the world, nn 1 our names
will tm seen close to tho signature of His
wound, for, n to-lay He throws out His
nrm to us. Ho savs, "ilehoPi, i nnv.i
raven time on the palms of My hand. By
the mightiest of nil agnutlns, thn potency of
prayer, I beg you seek our National wel
fare.
Homo time ngo thirn wero 4,011.010 letters
n the ,ei letter putolleo In this city lct-
rs that had lost their way mt not one
prayer ever itlrecte t to tan neart ot uo i mis-
arrie 1, Tim wav is ail clear tor tun ascenr
f vour sunpllcations hoavenwarl in behalf
f this Nation. II ifore thn instal o invnunl-
atlon was so eav, anl long ego on a rock
100 feet high on thn coast of England there
was barrel fastened to a post, an I In great
letter on thn sldo of thn rock, se it could be
seen far out to sea, wero tho words "Post-
fjlce," and when ship came by a
oat put out to tano am mien iec-
ors. And so saero I wer tnoo an.
osits or affection in that barrel that no lo ck
was ever put upon thnt barrel, although it
contained messages for America and Eu
rope aud Asia and Africa an 1 all the Islands
ot tho sea. Many a storm tossot sailor,
omoslck, got message of kindness by that
rock, nnl many a homestead heard gool
news from a boy long g inn. Would that all
the height of our National prosperity wero
n Interchange of aymn.athios nrayor go
ngup meeting blessing coming down, pos
tal celestial, not by a storm struck rock oa
wintry coast, but by the Hock of Ages.
BELIEVES HE IS A VAMPIRE.'
Hallucination ot a Houth Dakota Man
Who Kills Cattle for Their Hlood.
Tim cattle men on the range west of
Pierre. South Dakota, tell a ghastly story ot
madman who tor some tunn has oeea
roaming over the reservation, killing cattlo
with hlsna'tel hauls to suck their blool,
nnd In some oases oven attacking men.
No one seems to know who thn mau is nor
xaetly bow long ha has been wandering
about the ranges. He was Hrst soon some
four or live week ago. nu l repeat ej. at
tempt have been ma le to capture him. hut
thus far without success. He is sai l to labor
under the hallucination that he Is a vampire,
nud his actions oertalnly bear out this hy
pothesis. How he manage, without a wea-
Con ot any kind, to kill the oattlo on which,
e live Is a mystery. When found after he
has left them the animal appear to have
been seized by the hea ls, borne to the ground
by main strength an 1 torn to piece by the
teeth aud nails of the lunatic
A HERO BROUCHT HOME.
Ills P.ewarJ for Saving the Lives of Others
l'roved Ills Own Death.
The east-bound passenger train on tha
Pennsylvania Railroad made an unusual atop
two tulles west of Delphos, Ohio. Just H
year ago a young farmer named Eiwarl
Carnahan was going home from Delphos. It
was a dark night and Carnahan stumble
aud tell over a broken rail. He securol a
lautern and watched until the next train wa
due aud succeeded in nagging it. The com
pany was grateful to the young man and
effered him a position. He thought ho would
like to become au engineer nud with this la
view the company made bim a tlruinan.
At Mouroeville, Ind., he was thrown
beneath the wheels and killed, and the stop
lust west of Delphos was to put off the life-
ion remain oi ine young mau, wno a soon
year ago had saved a number of lives at the
same spot.
The Conquering Japs.
Japanese manufacturers Are reaching after
tne market w me t wiea diaios.
81NO YOUR BONO,
Take the old world as yon find lt
, ' Drift alongt
Blight or blossom never m'lnd lt .
Blng your song!
Pee that sky, ot dark or blue?
Oood Lord bent It over you!
Bee the sunlight stroamln' through
Blng your song!
Take the old world as you And It a
Drift along!
With the rainbow rose bind lt
Blng your song!
For the daisy falls the dowt
From the rose love wrosts the rnej
Oood Lord made the world for you-
Blng your song!
-F. I Stanton.
A. RACE FOR A LIFE
N 1S- I tr as flrat
mate of the Moni
co, one ot the Bed
line, and then one
of the beat go
ing boats in the
Atlantic, servioo.
1 had ran across
(tvtaile the ship was
in dock) from Liv
erpool to my home
near Doncaster to
see my sister, Fat
17, before ncr marriago. Hue was en
gaged to young Lieutenant of the
name of liupert Howling, the nephew
and heir of old Jonathan Howling, m
wealthy, eocontrto oountry squire in
Yorkshire, and it was not only a good
match for her, but Ropert, whom I
had knowa from childhood- we were
at school togethor was one of the
heartiest and moat genuine fellows
you'd find in a dav's walk.
When I arrived at DoncasUr I waa
surprised to find things all in ao up
roar. Old Rowling had, it seemed,
taken some offence at an innocent but
misunderstood remark of Rupert's, and
bad flown into a terrible passion,
swearing he would disinherit him.
Rupert, who was a high-spirited young
cheap, gnro the old man a bit of his
mind, and thoy had a violent quarrel,
which ended in Mr. Rowling turning
his nephew out of tho houso and for
bidding him ever to show his faoe
thero again. That was on Thursday,
a fortnight before my visit.
On the evening of the quarrel Ru
pert called on my sister and .told her
of what hnd taken place, and they
agreed to postpone the. .wedding for
the present? Ue then left, as he start
ed, for London, whero he was due to
joip his regiment on the foUowin
Saturday. ' 'ZZ
The nestmornini (Friday ever
body'Va startled at hearing that old
Jonathan Bowling had been found
dead in a'plnntation on his estate. He
was lying faoe downward, and had ev
idently been shot in the back by some
one, the ballet having penetrated to
the heart and killed him instantly;
and, on a medical examination, it was
ascertained that the murder for such
it doubtless was must have been
committed on the previous night, for
death had taken place many hours be
fore the body was found,
The fact of the quarrel between the
deceased and his nophew was already
public property, and suHpicion at once
pointed to Rupert as thoprobablo cul
vrit. Tho police soon ascertained
Rupert's movements, which showed
that he had called on Patty, as I have
stated, nud that he caught the next
expross for London, the time between
bis leaving Tutty and tho starting of
the train giving him plenty of oppor
tunity to commit thd crime had he
been so minded ; and, moreover, his
road from my bister's to tho station
took him nlongsido the plantation in
which his nucle's body was found.
The Jjoudon detectives were put to
work, and they ascertained that Ru
pert nuu a revolver 01 tne same cali
bre as tho shot found in old Howling s
corpse, ana tne upsuot was mat ne
was arrested and brought before the
innghtratcs at Doncnbter.
The assizes were just approaohing,
and, when I arrived on the scene,
Rupert stood committed for trial on
tho charge of murdering his nncle.
I could do nothing to help him, bnt
went to the assize town and saw him
in prison. Ue denied all knowledge
of the crime, swearing to me that he
was absolutely innocent. I believed
htm, but the evulonoe was overwhelm
ing. The station master at Doncoster
spoke of Rupert's rushing into the
station in a great flurry, and looking
very upset ; and the revolver, which
ho admitted he had not used for some
dayst had one chamber empty. Many
other things, trivial in tbemselves,but
awfully black when put together, were
brought out at tho trial, and before I
left I had heard him found sruiltv by
the jury and sentenced to death by
the Judge. It all seemed like a ghastly
dream.
I was due to return to my ship, the
Monico, and 1 bade Rupert goodby.
I don t mind telling you that I sobbed
like a child. I shouldn't have felt it
so if I could have done anything, even
to try and help him, but I was per
fectly powerless.
My sister, of course, was in a terri
ble way, and I hardly liked leaving
her, but my whole future depended
on my keeping my position in the Red
King line, so 1 wrenched myself away
nd was on board the Monico the next
morning.
We sailed the following day, whioh
was a Wednesday, and the last thing I
neara before leaving ijiverpool was
that poor Rupert's execution had been
fixed for Thursday in the next week.
We had a heavy cargo of goods and
a lot of passengers, but, I tell you,my
heart seemed heavier when we started
on that voyage than the ship, cargo,
passengers and all.
The Monico was considered a fast
vessel at that time. She generally
took just over seven days to do the
passage, and we were due in New York
on the Wednesday evening before,
Kupsri exoouuon.
ill
Everything went well till the Mon
day afternoon, when one of the steer
age passengers, man of the name of
(Jbarles Cappermole, fell down a
hatchway, breaking his back and re
ceiving internal injuries, from whioh
the doctor said he was bound to die
within four or five hours. It was very
sad, of course, bnt couldn't be helped,
and although anything of the sort
puts a gloom over the ship, I was too
much engrossed in my own trouble to
think much of it. Bnt jnst after one
bell (6.30 o'clock) the Captain came
to me. '
"Sparton," he said, "you were tell
ing me about the trouble that your
sister s nance bad got into, it a a
most extraordinary thing, but this
man, Cappermolo, has been telling the
doctor a tale about his having shot his
father's landlord in Yorkshire, and
that he believes this accident is a
judgment on him. I have seen Lim,
and be says the name of the man he
murdered was Bowling, whioh is the
name yon mentioned, I think, and if
yon will come with roe to the hospital,
where the poor wretch is lying, yon
can hear his yarn for yourself."
I waa thunder-struck. I got the
third officer to take my place for a
short time, and hurried off to the side
of the injured man.
His statement was somewhat ram
bling, bnt with the help of a clergy
man, who was a passenger, we redooed
it to writing in a tangible shape, and
it was about something like this:
"I, Charles Cappermole, lately re
aiding at Marten's Hole, near Don-
caster, Yorkshire, bnt sow a passen
ger ot board the steamship Monico
(Capt. Marner) in mid-Atlantic, having
mot with an aocident by falling down
anatenway, and being, as I well
know, within a short time of death, do
make this solemn statement and de
clare the same to be true, so help me
UOd.
"I am a farm laborer, and nntil re
cently was living with my father and
mother at Marten's Hole, where my
father rented a small farm under Mr.
Jonathan Rowling. The same farm
had been in the possession of my fath
er all his life, and of his father before
him, and it was our whole living.
"Mr. Jonathan Bowling had a disa
greement with my father lost year but
one, just before Michaelmas, about
aome neuges wnton be insisted my
father should renew, but whioh had
always beon replanted before that time
at the expense ot the landlord. My
lather refused to replant them at his
own expense, and 'Mr. Rowland gave
him noljoejj laiicheid.!
flucnaeimas inst. fluq ne subsijzaontly
Llarnjjjjy pnreutTana mysblf out of
theTStfnTmihe middle of winterT
er was in ft yery feeble
and delicate state of health, and the
eviction caused her death, and my
father, being broken-hearted and
ruined, was compalled to go into the
workhonse. " t
"I determined to emigrate to Amer
ica, and, with the resistance of a
benevolent societr. I obtained nr
passage money and outfit and enough
cash in my pocket to prevent my be
ing turned back as a pauper on land
ing in the United States. X booked
my passage on the steamship Monico,
but before starting on the voyage I
saw my fnthor in the workhouse. His
misfortunes had so shattered him that
he was dying, and exasperated and
filled with indignation, I determined
to be revenged on Mr. Rowling, who
had been the cause of my mother's
and my father's deaths, and my ruin
aud emigration.
"I had bought a revolver to take
with me, and, tramping to Doncaster,
I laid in wait for Mr. Rowling on the
evening of Thursday, the 24th of May
last. I knew that it was his habit to
walk through the plantation, which
adjoins a lane called Danks's lane,
evory night between 8 and 9 o'clock
his purpose being to see if any rabbit
snares had been laid by poachers
and I hid myself behind some bushes
in this plantation, close to the path.
presently heard footsteps, and di
rectly afterward I saw Mr. Rowling
walk along close beside where 1 was
hiding. As soon as he got post me I
stood up, and, aiming the revolver at
him, I shot bim in the back. He lifted
np his arms, and, with a groat cry,
fell, face forward, dead.
"It was noarly dark, and I crept out
of the plantaion into the lane without
anvone seeing me. I' walked that
night to Wakefield, along by-roads
well known to me, ar-d from thence,
on following days, to Huddersfield,
Ash ton, Manchester, Newton and Liv
erpool, from which port I was to take
passage to Now York.
"In Liverpool I beard tho murder
spoken of for the first time, and, to
my surprise, I found that Mr. Rupert
Rowling (Mr. Rowling's nephew) was
charged with it. I never thought for
a moment that they could find him
guilty ot the murder he had not com
mitted, and I took no steps to let the
truth be known. When I afterward
learned that he was convicted of the
mnrder and sentenced to death, 1
knew I ought to go back and own the
deed and save him, bnt I could not
bring myself to do so, and I went on
board the Monico, well knowing that
I was leaving behind me an innocent
man to be hanged for the murder I
had committed. The revolver ' with
which l snot Air. Howling is in my
box. All of wnich is true, as I da
dare."
Cappermole signed this statement,
and the clergyman, ' the Captain, the
dootor and myself witnessed it, and
shortly after five bells (10.30 o'clook
at night) Cappermole died, being bur
ied at sea the next day, Tuesday.
I had been melancholy and de
pressed, without hope before, but
now began my anxious time.
Cappermolo s statement was of no
use unless I conld got the knowledge
of it to the authorities in England in
time to stop my friend Rupert's execu
tion on Thursday morning, and it waa
a rtoe against time. We were, in
ordinary eonree, doe at New York on
Wednesday afternoon about 4 o clock,
which would be about 9 o clock
At
night in England. We had favorsbl
weather and had made good way, and
if we kept on we should be in on time.
if not before; but on Tuesday morn
A .
ing we ran into a uonse log, ana our
course was impeded and the engine-
were slowed down.
I sought the Captain, and told hint
exactly what .was depending on oar
not losing time. He was a fine fellov
was Captain Marner, and he fnlly
tyinpaimzea witn me. ve acDAted
the matter, and considered it all round
for a few minute. To go full stcatt
nhead was terribly dangerous, as th
lookout men could see no distance to
speak of, owing to the fog, bnt the
Captain at last determined to do it,
"I'll do it, Bparton," he cried.
feel that this man was sent on board
my ship, and injured so that he felt
himself dying and bound lo contest,
by Froviiienoe, and if I don't try soj
save Bupert Bowling I shall consider
that I have been the cause of his being
hanged- If 1 do try, and anything
happens to onr ship, then may God
preserve us 1"
To which I answered solemnl
"Amenf
- Bushing off to the chief engineer, I
briefly explained matters to him, aai
gave him the Captain's orders. Tb
engineer was a big, bard-headed
Scotchman, and gripping my hand ij
a grasp like a.vicP, he cried:
"I'll mak' the ship go, Robert. Bat
it'll be a bad thing for onything vf
run into, I m thinking. It will that
Well, we tore along through the fof
all day Tuesday. I was in a dreadful
state of mind. On the one hand I
was all anxiety to reach port in tio
to cable to England and stop tin
exeoution of Bupert, while, on the
other, we wore risking the lives of th
crew and some 250 passengers, to
noining 01 me snip ana cargo.
I didn't leave the deck for a moment
all day. I promised the Captain 1
would not leave a stone unturned to
insure the safety of the vessol. We
put three times the ordinary number
of men on the lookont, and kept fog
horning and whistling all day Icir.
bnt, by a merciful Frovidonce, trehiJ
a clear course. We only sighted 00
vessel, about midday, but 1 could not
discern what she wap. Toward nigh
the fog lifted and the stars shone. Mc
Qrotg, the engineer, now had thocoali
piled on at a fearful rate, and we shot
through the water like an arrow; bid
carlv next morning the wrctnhJ M
coio oa again.
f course, nearintr land
and tne risk 01 collision was everrl
minute more serious. We kept on oi
mad career. The passengers kne(
there was something queer aboni)
steaming so fast through a fog, bat II
answered them all
"Oh, we're all right. We're ononrf
usual track, and nothiug gets in os:
way."
This was true to some extent, bsi
the risk was enormous, and every miL
that we got nearer land I got jma
and more nervous.
However, to cut a long story abort.
we (rained New York Harbor at UX
on Wednesday afternoon, nenrlv ret
ning down an outgoing steamed
some twenty miles out, and which u
avoided by the skin of our teeth
As soon as we arrived 1 hurtieil
on shore, by the Captain's peruiifiio:
and hunted up the British Consul,
whom I dragged oil to the cable cos
ranv s office, and we sent a loint te
gram from bim and tne Uautuin to it-
Home becretary in London. 1
wired to the Governor of the jt
where Bupert was waiting cxecutiq
to Bupert himself, and to my titter
The messnce to the Homo ivcretn
was a long one ; I romomber it cost
about X3.
I waited at the cablo office for a
ply. It came within four hours, wbi
was pretty quick work, as my mess
would not reach London till about
o'clock at niaht. English tirao bei:
about five hours ahead of New YorJ
Bupert was respited till our crulcsi
eould be brought homo and inquird
into, and in loss than another montb
had the pleasure of shaking him
the hand as an acknowledged itiuote
her Majesty having, in the peel
liar fashion of the English law, tl
nlAMd to orant him a "free iarJo.
for an offence he had neverconimilM
However, all was right at lnht
nnrt anftpflndad to his nncle's iiropern
and married my sister Patty in Jul
course
But the two days following CapF
mole's confession were the most ail
ious time in my life. I was thorough
11 no At. and tlmmt nroatrata for S '
Afterward, which is savinir a great d
for a stronar-nervod sailor. --Tit-Bi-
A Tanned City.
Formerly it was not unooiumon
Irinrra ami Tinlllos to 1IAVI1 tt PUT'
their territory. But Wisinur, ind.
Qrand-duohy of Mecklenburg-Scb
in, on the Baltic Sea, probably snj"
the distinction of being the onlo
in Europe remaining so ruwnea
this day. Wismar has a populatioi
15.000, and belongs to Sweden
1648. In 1803 Sweden pawned it
the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg
1.258.1)00 Hamburir tholeru. tob
deemed in 1903. One hundred M
intnrnat at thrna Dor cent. Will B
anallail tha amnnnt dua in 1903
$27,000,000. ,
Cranberries iu Cholera.
Dr. Gorionskv declares that the!
of tha tinra and fresh iuice of
cranberries, given freely, either M
luted or with an equal port 1
is an exoellent means ot rolioviag H
tliirat unit nmit.inT nnculiar t0 "
era. In fifty cases, in which H
narootics failed to make the shg1-
impression, the cranborry l01"
am nil lint rnnnatnd dOD0S W
checked both vomiting aud B
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