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SUBJECT "WONDERS OF ATHENS.
. "Phe Sunday Sermon as Delivered by the
© Brooklyn Divine.
Tew: “While Paul waited for them wo.
Athens his spirit was stirred in him, when
he saw the city wholly given to tdolatry.)—
Acts xvil., 16, 2
-_It seemed as if mornin,
‘night was sl
slow!
three four o'clock; and
of dawn I called our party to
window upon that city to
d he was a debtor, and to’
which the whole earth is debtor for Greek
; ecture, Greek sculpture, Greek y.
Greek eloquence, Greek prowess ana on
. > They moinia in Athens we sauntered
; forth armed with g
1 most generous and lovel
detters from the Prestiefit of the United
States and his Secretary of State, and dur:
dng all our stay in that city those letters
‘caused every dopr and every gate and every
Zemple and every palace to swing open be-
Tore us. The mightiest Coen name’
son earth to-day is America.” The signature
- of an American President and: Secretary of
State will take a ‘man where an army could
mot. Those names brought us into the
ce of a most gracious and beautiful
~~ -®overeign, the Queen of Greece, and her
| cordiali
ty was more like that of a sister than
upant of a throne room. No formal
when monarchs are approached, but
a cordial shake of the hand
tions. .about our personal welfare
. our beloved country far away.
; is morning we pass through where
the Agora, the ancient market place,
cality where philosophers used to meet
disciples, walking while they talked,
1 aul, the Christian logician,
g many a proud stoic and got the laugh
ax i ent Epicurean. The
lace was the center of socigl and
ife, and it was the place where
oranomi who ruled the place could
ict” severe punishment upon offenders.
different schools of thinkers had dis-
cense head:
arket place was a space three hun-
dred and fifty yards long and two hundred
and fitty yards wide, and it was given up to
Ssif : chandise, and lounging and
All this you need to know
understand the Bible when it
ays of Paul, “Therefore disputed he in the
market daily with them that met him.”
“You see it was the best place to get an au-
mee, and if a man feels himself called to
h he wants pocile to preach to. But
we make our chief visits of to-day we
must take a turn at the Stadium. Itis a
little. way out, but go we must. The Sta:
in was the place where the foot races oc-
ul had been out there no doubt, for he
ently uses the scenes of that place as
8 when he tells us, “Let usrun the race
s set before us,” and again, “They do
btain a corruptible garland, but we an
orruptible.” The marble and the gilding
ve been removed, but the high mounds
which the seats were piled are still
‘there, The Stadium is six hundred and
Sighty feet long, one hundred and thirty feet
e, and held forty thousand spectators.
ere is to-dey the very tunnel through
which the defeated racer departed from the
adium and from the hisses of the people,
and there are the stairs up which the victor
Jeni to the top of the hill to be crowned with
urel.”
In this place contests with wild beasts
etimes took place, and while Hadrian, the
hat
i
emperor, sat on yonder height one tgousand
ts were slain in one celebration. But it
was chiefly for foot racing,and so I pro
to my friend that day while we were in the
Stadium that we try which of us could run
the sooner from end to end of | this historical
ground, and so at the wo ven by the
Jookers.on we started side by ger but before
; got tarough I found out what Paul meant
‘when He compares the spiritual race with the
race in this very Stadium, as he'says, “Lay
aside every weight.” My heavy overcoat
and my friend's freedom from such incum.
. brance showed the advantage in any kind of
a race of “laying aside every weight.”
We come now tothe Acropolis. Itis a
rock abo two miles in circumference at
the base and a thousand feet in eircumfer~
ence at the top and three hundred feet high,
On it has been crowded more elaborate
architecture and sculpture than in any
«ther place under the whole heavens,
Originally a fortress, afterward a econgree
gestion of temples and statues and pillars,
ir ruins an enchantment from which no
observer ever breaks away. No wonder
that Aristides thought it the centre of all
“#hings—Greece, the centre of the world.
Attica, the centre jof Greece; Athens, the
~wentre of Attica, and the Acropolis the cen:
~ fre of Athens. Earthquakes have shaken it;
Verres plundered it. :
Lord Elgin, the English Embassador at
Constantinople, got permission of the Sul-
_ ‘#an to remove from the Acropolis fallen
is ieces of the building, but he took from the
ding to England the finest statues, re
: 3 g A
Clie A storm overthrew many
wf the statues of the Acropolis. Morosini,
"the General, attempted to removes from a
iment the sculptured car and horses of
* Wietory, buf the clumsy machinery dropped
info a
azine where the Venetian guns
1 re that by explosion sant the
‘columns flying in the air and falling cracked
p splintered, But after all that tine and
sand war and iconoclasm have effected,
opolis‘is the monarch of all ruins,
ore it bow the learning, the genius,
. dt and all was lost.
~The Turks turned the buildin
Tea was tk
"Bad read so much ‘about it and dreamed so
_7annch about it that I needed no magician’s
wand torestore it.
..Abonewaveof my hand on that clear
© morning in 1889 it rose beforemein the glory |
had when Pericles ordered it and Ictinus
nued it and Phidias chiseled it and Pro-
es painted it and Pausanias descri
by sixty marble steps the prooyle,
Epaminondas i ob transfer to
8, but permission, I am glad to say,
be granted for the removal of: this
ural miracle. in the days when
‘would do more than a dollar now,
I ling cost two million “thrse hundred
thousand dollars. See its ‘five ornamental
Eales, the keys intrusted ‘an offi
for ‘only one day, lest the temp-
tation to go in. and misappropriate the
treasures be too great for him; itsceilinga
mingling of blue and: scarlet and green, and
fhe val & abloom with Fiotures attmost in
though ; ng. onder. is a temp!
40 a goddess ion : Cader Svithons
Wings? So juany of the triumphs of the
had been followed by defeat that the
wished in marble toindicate that
of Agrippa twenty-seven feet high
Square; 08 ik
indi kh wonder of all’ the
Parthe In days when money
more valuable than now it cost
undred thousand dollars.
grandeur, having f
-
3 Marathon; ehariot of night;
x ng; horses of the sun,
the fates, the furies; statue of Jupiter hold-
ing in his right hand the thanderbolt; silver
footed chair in which Xerxes watched the
battle of Salamis only a few miles away.
iL is the aolossal [ Satute of Minrya in
armor, eyes ol ¥ CO! stone, figura
of a Sphinx on Yd griffins by her side
(which are lions with eagle’s beak), spear in
one hand, statue of liberty in the other, a
shield carved with the battle scenes, and
even the slippers sculptured and tied on with
thongs of gold, Far out at sea the sailors
éaw this statue of Minerva rising high above
all the temples, glittering in the sun. Here
are statutes of.equestrians, statue of a lion-
ness, and there are the Graces, and yonder a
rse in bronze. .
There is a statue said in the time of
Augustus to have of its own accord turn
around from east to west and spit blood;
statues made out of shislds conquered in
battle; statue of Apollo, the expeller of
locusts; statue of Anacreon, drunk and
singing; statue of Olympodorus, a Greek,
‘memerable for the fact that he was cheerful
when others were cast down, a trait worthy
of seulpture. But walk on and around the
Acropolis and yonder you see a statue of
Hygeia, and the status of the Theseus fight-
ing the taur and the statue of Hercules
slaying serpents. No wonder that Petronius
said it was easiér to find a god than a man in
Athens, * Oh, the Acropolis! ~The most of
iis temples and statues made from the mar-
ble quarries of Mount Pentelicum, a little
way from the city.
I have here on my tables a block of the
Parthenon made out of this marble, and on
it is the sculpture of Phidias, I brought it
from the Acropolis, . This specimen has on
it the dust of ages and the marks of explo:
sion and battle, but you can get fromibt
some idea of the.delicate luster of the Acro-
lis when it was covered with a mountain
of this marble cut into all the exquisite
shapes that genius ould contrive
striped with silver ahd aflame with 1d.
The Acropolis in the morning light of thoss
ancients must have shone as though it were
an aerolite cast off from the noonday sun.
The temples must have looked like petrified
foam. | ho whole Acropolis must havs
seemed like the white breakers of the great
bcean of time,
But we cannot stop Ionger here, for there
isa hill near by of more interest, though it_
has not one chipof marble to suggest a
statue or a temple. We hasten down the
Acropolis to ascend the Areopagus, or Mars
Hill, as it is called. Tt took only about three
minutes to walk the distance, and the two
“ hilltops are. so near that what I. said in re-
ligious discourse on Mars Hill was heard dis-
tinctly by some English gentlemen on the
Acropolis. This Mars Hill is a rough pile of
rock fifty feet high. It wasfamous long be-
fors New Testament times. ;
The Persians easily and terribly assaulted
the Acropolis from this hilltop. Here as-
“sembled the court to try criminals, If was
held’in the night time, so that the faces of the
awyers who made the plea, and so, instaad
of ok trial being one of emotion, it must
have been one of cool justice. But there was
one occasion on this hill memorable above
all others. ;
A little man, physically weak, and his
rhetorie described by. himself as contempti-
ble, had by his sermons rocked Athens with
commotion, and he was summoned either by
writ of law or hearty invitation to come
upon that pulpit of rock and give a spec-
imen of his theology. All the wiseacres of
Athens turned out and turned up to hear
him. The more venerable of them sat in'an
are still visible, but the other people
swarmed on all sidesof the hill and at the
base of it to hear this man, wiom seme
called a fanatic, and others called a mad-
cap, and others a blasphemer; and others
styled contemptuously “‘this fellow.”
aul arrived in answer to the writ or in-
vitation, and confronted them and gave
them the biggest dose that mortals ever took.
He was so built that nothing could scare
god and the goddess, whose images were in
full sight; on the adjoining hill, he had not so
much regard for them as he had for the ant
that was crawling in the sand under his
feet. In that audience were the first orators
of the world, and they had voices like flutes
when they were passive, and like trumpets
when they were aroused, and I think they
laughed in the sleeves of their gowns as this
imsignificant man rose to speak.
In that audience were. Scholiasts, who
knew everything, or thought they did, and
from the end of the longest hair on the top
of their craniums to the end of the nail on
the longest toe, they. wers stuffed with
hypercriticism, and they leanad back with a
supercilious look to listen. As in 1889, I
stood on that rock where Paul stood, and a
slab of which -I brought from Athens by
consent of the queen, through Mr. Tricoupis,
the prime minister, and had placed in yon-
der Memorial Wall, I read the whole story,
Bible in hand,
‘What I have so far said in this discourse
was necesseary in order that you may un-
derstand the boldness, the defiance, the holy
recklessness, the magnificonca of Paul's
speech. The first thunderbolt he launched
at the opposite hill—the Acropolis—that
moment all aglitter with idols and temples.
He cries out. **God who made the world.”
Why, they thought that Prometheus made it,
that Mercury made it, that Apollo made it,
that Poseidon made it, that Enos made it,
that Pandrocus made it, that Boreas
made it, that it took all the gods of
the Parthenon, yea, all the gods and god-
desses of the Acropolis to make it, and
here stands a man without any ecclesiastical
title, neither a D. D., nor even a reverend,
declaring that the world was made by the
Lord of heaven and earth, and hence the in-
ference that all the splendid "covering of the:
Acropolis, so near that the people standing
on the steps of the Parthenon conld hear it,
was a deceit, a falsehood, a sham, a blasphe-
my. Look atthefaces'of his auditors; they
are turning pale, and then red, and taen
wrathful. There had been several earth-
quakes in that region, but that was the se-
verest shock these men had ever felt.
The Persians had bombarded the Acropo- |
lis from the heichts of Mars Hill, but thi
Pauline bombardment was greater and more
terrific. ‘**What” said his hearers, ‘have
we been hauling with many yokes of oxen for
centuries thesa blocks from the quarries of
| Mount Pentelicum, and have we had our
architects putting up these strusturesol uo-
paratleled splendor, and have wo had the
greatest of all sculptors, Phidias, with his
bed | men chiseling away at those wondrous pedi-
ments and cutting away at these friezes and
have we taxed the nation’s resources to the
utmost, now tobe told that those statues ses
nothing, hear nothing, know nothing?
h, Paul, stop for a moment and give
these startled and overwhelmed auditors
time to catch their breath! Make a rhetorical
pause! Take a look around you at the inter-
esting landscape, and give your Hearsrs tima
to recover! No, he does not make even a
eriod, or so much as a colon or semicolon,
ut launches the second thunderbolt right
after the first, and in the same breath goes
on to say, d “*dwelleth not in temples
made with. bands.”!. Oh, Paul! 1s not deity
more in the Parthenon, or more in ths The-
sem, or more in the Erechthsium, or mors
.in the temple of Zeus Olympius than in the
open air, more than on the hill where we are
sitting, more than on Mount Hymettus out
onder, from which the bees get. their
oney? “No more!” responds Paul, ‘He
awe eth not in temples made ith hardy,” ¢
ut sur the preacher on 8 pulpic o
A Mais Hil will stop now. . His au-.
dience can endure no more. Two thunder-
bolts are enough. No, in the same breath he
launches the third thunderbolt, which to
| them is more fiery, mora terrible, more de-
molishing than the others, as he cries out:
“hath made of one blood ail nations.” Oh,
Paul! you forget you are speaking to tho |
proudest and most exclusive audience in fhe
world, Do not 3 ro You
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gas blood all nations.” 5
2 that paragrap!
of the sermon. His auditors must let up
from the nervous strain. Paul has smashed
the Acropolis and smashed the national prids
of the Greeks and what more can he say?
Those Grecian orators, standing on that
place, always closed their addresses with
something sublime and climaéteric—a parors
ation—and Pgul is going to give them a
peroration which will eclipse in power and
majesty all that he has yet said. Hereto:
fore he has hurled one.thunderbolt at a
time; now he will close by hurling two
at once. The little old man, under the
wer of his speec straightened
imself up, and the stoop has gone out
° his shoulders, and he looks about
three reet taller than when he began; and
his eyes, which were quiet, became two
flames of fire; and hisface, which was calfn
in the introducti now depicts a whirl-
wind of emotion ashe ties the two thunder-
bolts together with a cord of inconsumable
courage and hurls them at the crowd now
standing or sitting aghast—the two thun.
derbolts of rrection and Last Judg-
ment. His closing words. were, *‘Because
He hath appointed a day in the which He will
judge the world in righteousness by that
man whom He hath ordained, whereof He
hath given assurancs unto all men in tha
He hath raised him from the dead. 3
Remember those thoughts were to them
novel and provocative; that Christ. the de-
spised Nazarene, would come to be their
judge, and they should have to get up out
of their cemeteries to stand before Him and
take their eternal doom. Mightiest burst of
elocutionary power ever heard. The ances-
tors of some of those Greeks had heard
Demosthenes in his oration on the crown,
-had heard Zschines in his speeches azainst:
Timarchus and Ctesiphon, had heard Plato
in his t argument for immortality of
the soul, had heard Socrates on his death-
bed, suicidal cup of hemlock in ha
his hearers in emotion too: great too bear;
had in the theater .of Dionysius, at the
foot = of the Acropolis (the ruins
of ifs piled up amphitheater and the
oor of its grehesta i sll i i
agedies of Aschylus an: o-
the pike Sots of these
s Hill or themselves ever
heard or witnessed such tornadoes of moral
power as that with which Paul now whelmed
his hearers. Ag those two thoughts of re-
surrection and judgment the audience sprang
to their feet. Some moved they adjourn to
some other day to hear more on the same
theme, but others would have torn the sacred
orator to pieces.
The record says, “Som mocked.” I su
pose it means that they mimicked the
solemnity of his voice; that they took off
"his impassioned gesticulation, and they eried
out: “Jew! Jew. Where did you study
rhetoric? You ought to hear our orators
speak! You had better go back to your
business of tentmaking. Our Lyeurgus
ew more in a minute than youn will know
in a month, Say, where did you get that
trooked back, and those weak eyes from?
al ha! You try to teach us Grecians!
What nonsense you talk about when you
Jpeak of resurrection and judgment. Now,
ttle old climb down the side of Mars
Hill and get out of sight as soon as possible.”
“Some mocked.” But that scene adjourned
fo the day of which the sacred orator had
Spoken the day of resurrection and judg-
ment. i
As in Athens, that evening in 1889, we
climbed down the pile of slippery rocks,
where all this had occurred, on our way back
to our hotel, I stood half way between the
Acropolis and Mars Hill in the gathering
shadows of eventide, I seemed to hear those
/| two hills in sublime and awful conversa. “I
am chiefly of the pasen said the Aropolis.
I am chiefly of the futures” replied Mi
Hill. The Acropolis said: “My orators are
dead. My lawgivers are dead. My posts
are dead. My architects are dead. My
sculptors are am a monument; of
the dead past. I shall never again hear a
song sung, Iwill never again see a column
lifted.
crowned : :
+ Mars Hill responded: “I, too, have a his-
tory. I had on my heights warriors who
will. never again unsheath the sword, and
judges who will never again utter a doom,
and orators who will never again make a
lea. But my influence is to be more in the
ture than it ever was in the past. The
words that missionary, Paul, uttered that
exciting day in the hearing of the wisest
men and the populace on my rocky shoulders
have only begun their majestic role; the
brotherhood of man, and the Christ of God,
and the peroration of resurrection and last
judgment with which the Tarsian orator
tlosed his sermon that day amid the mocking
crowd shall ft revolutionize the planet. Oh,
Acropolis! have stood here long enough
fo witness that our gods are. mo
ods at all. Your Boreas could not con-
oli the winds. Your Neptune could not
manage the sea. Your Asallo never evoked
a musical note. Your god Ceres never grew
% harvest. Your goddess of wisdom, Min-
-erva, never knew the Greek alphabet. Your
Jupiter could not handle the lightnings,
But the God whom I proclaimed on the day
when Paul preached before the astounded
assemblage on my rough heights is the God
of music, the God of wisdom, the God of
power, the God of mercy, the God of love,
_the God of storms, the God of sunshine, tha
God of the land ‘and the God of the sea, the
God over all, blessed forever.” :
Then the Acropolis spake and said, as
though in self. de‘ense. **My Plato argued
for the immortality of the soul. and my
Socrates praised virtue, and my Miltiades
at Marathon drove back the Persian op-
pressors.”. **Yes,” said Mars Hill, ‘your
Flato laboriously guessed at the immortality
of the soul, but my Plato, divinely in-
spired, declared it as a fact straight from
God. Your Socrates praised virtue, but ex-
pired as a suicide. Your Miltiades was br.vad
against earthly foes, yet he died froma
‘wound ignominiously gotten in after defeat.
But my Paul challenged all earth and all hell
with this battle shout, “We wrestle not
against flesh and blood, but againt principal
ities, against powers, against the rulers of
the darkness of .this world, against spiritual
wickedness in high places, and then on the
29th of June, in the year 68, on the road to
Ostia, after the sword of the headsman had
given one keen stroke, took the erown of
martyrdom.” : “
After a moment's silence by both hills
the Acropolis moaned out in the darkmess,
“Alas! as!” and Mars Hill responded,
of both hills became indistinct, and as I
passed on and away in the twilight I seemed
to hear only two sounds—fragment of
Pentelicon marble from the architrave of
the Acropolis dropping down on the ruins of
a ‘shattered idol,and the other sound seemed
to come from the rock on Mars Hill, from
which we had just descended. But'we were
by this timo so far off that the fragments of
sentonces were smaller when dropping from
marble on the Acropolis, and I could only
hear parts of disconnected sentences watted
on the night air—*“God who made the
world”—''of one blood all nations”’— “a;
pointed a day. in which He will judge the
world”—*‘raised from the dead.” 3
As that night in Athens 1 put my tired
bead on my pillow, and the exciting scenes
of the day passed throughimy mind, 1 thought
on the same subject on which, as a ROT: I
made my commencement speech in Niblo’s
Theatre on graduation day from the New
York University, viz., “The moral effects of
sculpture and architecture,” but further
than I could hava thought in boyhood, I
thought in Athens that night that the moral
effects of architecture anl sculpture depend
on what you do in great buildings after they
are put up, and upon ‘the character of the
men whose forms you cut in the marble,
Neal! T thought thay nicht what struggles
he ma went through in order that in
oar time the Gospel might have tull swing;
gud I thought that night what a brai
i t must be that could abso
ike him whom we hav
a rE
loot ie the Ponians, ho the :
herd of humanity? ‘‘Yes,” says Paul, *‘of
will never again behold a goddess
“Hegannah | Hoeannah 1M... Thon. the .woicss. |
Mars Hills than were the fragments of fallen
turous consideration it is that wie
same grace that saved Jal, we cone
front this great apostle, and shall have the
0] , amid the familiarities of the
be e, of asking him what was the greatest
occasion of all his life. :
He may say, ‘‘The shipwreck of Melita.”
He may say. ‘‘The riot at Ephesus.” He
may say, Ry last walk out on the road to
Ostia.” But, I think he will say, “The day
1 stood on Mars Hill addressing the indignant
Areopagites, and looking off upon the tower-
ing form ot the goddess Minerva, and the
majesty of the Parthenon and all the brill-
iantdivinities of the Acropolis. That account
In the Bible was true. = My spirit was stir
within me when I saw the city wholly given
#p to idolatry”?
Hopes and Fruits.
While some Democratic infants are
still burning verbal tar barrels over their
recent victory, more experienced and
shrewd men of that party confess not a
little alarm. To appreciate their feel-
ings it is only necessary to compare their
unhegitating assurances the week before
the election with the results as they
appear a week after.
In New York the Democrats had
clected Governor Hill by 19,000 plu-
rality,had a Legislature with two Demo-
cratic majority on joint ballot, and im-
agined they were about to fasten the
State impregnably in the Democratic
column. Their best men publicly predict-
ed 60,000 plurality, with both branches
of the Legislature sure, and then they
‘were to make a new apportionment and
redistricting, and pass other measures
which would leave the Republicans no
chance whatever. They actually have
part of their expected plurality for Gov-
ernor, but have not the Legislature, and
cannot carry any measure of partisan
character.
In Massachusetts they had elected a
Democratic Governor in 1890, by 9053
plurality, and the State Senate was a tie.
The Democrats were certain of re-elect-
ing Russel, and promised control of the
Legislature. The Governor is re-elected
by a much reduced plurality, but both
branches of the Legislature are largely
Republican. The loss on the popular
vote, the small plurality and the heavy
Republican gains in the Legislature show
that the tide here has turned against the
Democrats.
In Pennsylvania they had elected
Governor Pattison by 16,554 plurality,
and boldly predicted that they would
carry the State by a heavy majority this
year and gain largely inthe Legislature.
In everything they failed; the Logis.
lature is overwhelmingly Republican,
and the State gives more than 50,000
majority on the State ticket. gr
In Ohio the Democrats had elected
Campbell by 10,872 plurality, and had
carried both Houses of the Legislature,
with eight mujority on joint ballot, so
that they passed an infamous apportion-
ment and such other partisan measures.
as they pleased, and elected as Senator a
rich speculator from New York. The
new Senator, Governor Campbell and
their friends were certain of electing a
Governor, and ‘‘if McKinley should pall
through by a scanty plurality” they
would surely have the Legislature, elect
{ a Senator in place of Mr. Sherman, and
prevent the repeal of their gerrymander.
e result is that Major McKinley's
majority is somewhere about 20,000; the
Legislature is Republican in both
branches, and by something like forty
majority on joint ballot; one Republican
Senator, at least, will be elected, and
two if the United States Senate is un-
kind enough to ask where Mr. Brice
lives; while the Democratic gerry-
mander will never sgain cheat the
majority out of six or ant Representa-
tives in Congress.
In Iowa the Democrats had elected
Governor Boies by 1504 plurality, and
with the issue of prohibition to help and
the'rise of the Farmers’ Alliance to
divert the Republicans, were certain
that the Democratic majority would be
enormous, and the Legislature ready and
eager to abolish Republitan laws and
redistrict the State. . Governor Boies
‘was re-elected, but not by the majority
expected, while the Legislature is safely
Republican in both branches. :
It 18 not much that the hopes of
Democrats have been disappointed in
every one of these States. But there is
a clear turn of the tide. The five States
had been Democratic, and it was in-
tended to nail them down. Two of
them have given overwhelming Republi-
can majorities on all candidates; in two
others the personal popularity of leading
candidates alone saved scanty pluralities,
but the Legislature was lost and ‘the
hope of making them Democratic on
national issues; while in the remaining
Btate the Democrats carried their State
ticket by the neglect. of Republicans,
but failed to carry the Lagislature and to
get the power to take the State out of
the doubtful lst.—New York Tribune.
A ————— I VS ———————
CAPITAL AND LABOR DOINGS.
A Few Items of Interest to the Wage-~
TT Haraor and Others: Se
The Brilliant Iron Works at Brilliant, O..
employing 175 men, have closed down for
an indefinite period. It igsaid the mill is
out of orders. :
. About 400 miners in half a dozen bitumi
nous mines of Indiana, returned to work
Monday by permission of the officials of
their State organization. When the strike
began it was with the understanding that
ill should remain away from work until the
inereased scale was granted at all mines.
Within the last week a number of operators
have signified their willingness to accede to
the miners’ demands. The granting of per-
mission to the miners = who went to work
was probably to check the discontent of the
men who have nob been heartily in favor of
ihe strike, and to raise money for a relief
‘fund. ;
At Monte Carle there are 15 new, un-
marked graves of gamblers who have com-
mitted suicide. Soh Se
The Pittsburg job printers strike is still on
| but the offices are all running: with a fall
UNGLE ‘SAM'S LITTLE ARMY
i es.
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
Secreatry of War. Coast Defenses and
Enlistment of Indians.
In his annual report to the President, Sec-
retary Proctorsays: In theline of coast de-
fense, sites for fostifications have been pro
cured and engineering work has been begun
on batteries for mortars, and emplacements
for guns, at New York, Boston, San Fran-
cisco, Hampton Roads and Washington. Pro-
vision has already been made for the manu-
facture by the government of ninety-eight
breech-loading steel rifled guns of high power
and 100 more have been contracted for with
private manufacturers. A supply of sub-
marine ' mines and seventy-three 15-inch
mortars are also’ under construction.” For
the improvement of the enlisted force new
methods of recruiting have been abopted.
It is carried on more in small towns and
rural communities, and the recruits are held
on probation and their antecedents carefully
inquired into. The ration has been in-
creased by the addition of one pound of
vegetables daily. Soldiers are now entitled
to a discharge at the end of tbree yerrs of
faithful service, and are permitted to pur-
chase their discharge at any time after one
year. Summary courts have been establish~
ed for the speedy trial of petty offences
If the men desire it, competent officers
are assigned to defend them before courts
martial. Punishment under the articles of
war in time of peace have been defined and
limited. Sunday inspections and tattoo roll
havebeen abolished; schools and gymnasia
established. These, together with the spe
cific measures undertaken for that purpose,
have reduced the percentage of desertions to
a lower point than ever before in the history
ofthe army, and in the last year have
reduced the number of inmates in ou
military prisons over 20 per cent. In pur-
suance of a policy of. concentrating the
troops in large posts, about one-fourth of
the number of posts occupied have been
abandoned, and the reservations turned
over’ to the interior depart-
ment. The licenses of most posts
traders have been revoked. The enlistment
of Indians has been successfully undertaken.
The detail of officers to colleges has been in-
creased and new rules adopted, The rebel-
lion records have been published more rapid-
ly under increased appropriations and a re-
organization of the work. The military and
hospital records of the late war have been
brought together in the record and pension
division, the seftlement of pension claims
has been expedited, and the perservation of
these vaiunable records for effective use: is
well toward completion. When finished
600 clerks can be discharged or transferred
to other departments.
THE CROP)\REPORT,
Gensral Favorable/ Weather Matured
Corn.
The November crop report made public
by Secretary Rusk contains the following
interesting reports from State agents:
Pennsylvania—The temperature during
the month has been slightly below the
normal, and the rainfall has been about one
inch below the average. Killing frosts did
not occur till late in the season, giving an
opportunity for late corn to mature. In
some sections, however, the corn on being
husked does not prove to be as good as an-
ticipated, the ears nob being filled out as
well asis ‘usual when corn ripens earlier;
nevertheless there is little soft corm; it is
well dried and a fine erop.
Potatoes have to great extent ceased rot-
ing. The experience seams to be favorable
to letting Potatoes affected with the rot re-
main in the ground till they cease rotting be-
fore digging and storing. The potatoes that
are then good seldom rot in store. Tobacco
| that escaped storm and rust is of a superior
quality, but more than usual was thus in-
jured. if
Ohio—The weather has been most fayora-
ble for maturing the corn crop; and the per
cent of round merchantable corn promises to
be nearly up tothe full average. The reports
on the potato prospect continues encourag-
ing in every respect, except as.regards prices.
The apple prospect is not flattering on
account of the dropping off of the fall and
winter varieties. There is an abundance,
however, for home use. The growers are
ujilizing fallen fruit by “making it into
cider. By reason of a second growth in
certain sections grapes promise a good half-
crop, while pears are above a half-crop and
of excellent quality.
West Virginia—The average yield per
acre of corn is high. The cool, dry weather
of October was very favorable to late corn,
causing it to dry out well. It is being
cribbed in good condition. Grapes arenot a
full crop on account of the vines being in-
jured by frosts. Apples are an abundant
crop. Pears are below an averagé in many
localities owing to blight.
SR RE
CASH CARRIED AWAY,
An Italian Banker in Philadelphia Skips
: Out in the Night. .
Philadelphia, Nov. 21.—
skipped to-day with a big
funds of his confiding countrym¥g. He was
Giacinto Epifanio, and he conducted his
banking business in connection with a
steamship agency and a jewelry store on
Italian banker
tors. lament his disappearance, and the
amount of the cash carted away is variously
estimated at from 50,000 dollars to 75,000
dollars.
Very early this morning an Italian was
returning to his home in the bankers
neighborhood, carrying a good load of mac-
caroni and his native wine, when his be-
wildered eyes caught an extraordinary -pro-
cession issuing irom Epifanio’s front door.
Mr, Epifanio, Mrs. Kpifanio, Master Epi-
fanio and the three Misses Epifanio tiptoed
their way carefitily to the street, all carry-
ing fui soundies: Silently thew mayed un
Carpenter street. None of them have been
seen since, and the closed bank has been be-
gieged all day by defrauded depositors.
“Heavy Snows Impéding Railroad Traffic
Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 23—The cold wave
predicted by the Weather Bureau arrived on
schedile time, Tt struck here about 3 o'clock
yesterday morning and was accompanied by
a heavy fall of snow. Thésnow in Kansas
delayed all trains from one to three hours,
It stopped snowing about 4 o'clock = this
afternoon, This is one of the heaviest snows
ever reported in this section at this season
of the year, Le
Two Men Drowned.
Syracuse. N. Y., Nov. 21—Timothy Wood-
cock, a lock tender on the Oswego canal, was.
found drowned in the canal in this city, last
night. © The body was discovered by
three boys. A young man named Fisher
fell from an Erie canal boat at Jordan, last
boat at Rochester, and was on his wey to
this city.
en eel AA retin.
: A Serious Wreck in Nebraska.
. Fremont, Neb, Nov. 10—A collision oc:
“begin an evangelical crusade
Carpenter street. . Many hundreds of deposi- :
night, and was drowned. He! boarded the’
‘FOREIGN FRAGMENTS.
Interesting News By Cable Boiled Dowsl
to Brief Notes. ‘
Hordmeyer & Michaelsen, a firm of banio-
ers in Hamburg, have failed with lisbilitiese
amounting to 3,750,000 dollars. The
of the concern are only trifling. Both mess
bers of the firm have been placed under sss :
rest.
Natives of Buka, in the Cameroon coum
try in Africa, have attacked Captain Graven
reuth’s party and killed the captain and:
three blacks after a three-days’ fight, during:
which the Germans made a brave defense.
Two persons were killed and 10 injured by
an explosion of gas during a stereopticom.
exhibition in a church at Ilkeston, England,
or in the panic which was caused by the
accident. Two of .the injured had their
eyes destroyed and are likely to die fromm.
these and other wounds.
The influenza has reappeared in many
places in the southwestern part of Franee, %
and the disease is of a very severe type. Many
cases are also reported from: Paris. z
Hundreds of persons are dying daily [roms
influenza n the famine stricken districts and.
in thelarge towns in the south of Russia.
Terrible accounts of famine in Russia com~
tinue to reach the English newspapers
through indirect channels, but there is.
reason to believe that the worst has not beens
and never will be told. Prince Krapotkin,
who, as the leading Nihilist resident in Lon
den, claims to receive trustworthy news frome
every part of Russia, declares that ‘‘the
Russian pation is now “passing through =.
period of calamity wEich has had no pre-
dedent in history, not even in mediaeval
times.” et * Ra
Three persons were killed and seven injur-
ed by the collision of two passenger trai
near Galera, Italy, Saturday. Hi
Among the crimes recently committed bs
thestarving peasants in Russia was
strangling t6 death of a boy for his money,
amounting to 1 1-2 roubles. :
By an explosion in acoal mine near Essen,
Germany, 11 men were killed:
Messrs. Moodey and Sankey are at Edine
burgh, Scotland, and they have promised $s
throughoud:
England shortly. :
Influenza of a virulent type has appeared
in Perigeux and other towns in’ the depart
ment of Dordogne, France. ’
The financial institution at Wintertimms,
Switzerland, which suspended on Saturday,
and which caused a great panic, is the Credis
bank. :
A shocking crime was commiited a%
Letchfield-with-Crofton, England. A wo~
man murdered her three little girls by
cutting their throats from ear to ear and’
then committed suicide by cutting her owm:
throat. Sa
A Fearful Boiler Explosion.
. New Castle, Pa., Nov. 21.—By the exploss
ion of a boiler here at Fenton & Framptow
sawmill, William Duberry and Charles
‘Wilson were probably fatally injured, amd
Clifton Fenton and J. A. Stafford badly
hurt. Wilson was hurled 70 feet, one les
and one arm being broken and his body
terribly = scalded, The building | was:
demolished.
The Largest Lumber Cut A
Ine Minnesota lumber season is over su®-
the cut for the year reaches 444,713,252 feet:
207,211,000 shingles: and 97,697,600 Jail
This beats all records and exceeds the ost=
put of 1890 by 103,138,890 feet of lumbar,
903,500 shingles and 16,422,250 lath. 5
- MARKETS,
PITTSBURGH. 3 |
BUTTER—Creamery Elgin..$ 31 @% 32°
Country roll. ..... 20
CHEESE—New Ohio full cream 10
New York..... . 1
EGGS 25
POULTRY-—live Chickens, ¥ pr 60
live Spring per pair
: live Turkeys, ® I...
POTATOES—Choice per bu ...
SEEDS—Clover, western..
5 BRE
baBYHEE
BO bt
Jub hod 10 be G1
Mixed ear.........
Shelled mixed...
OATS— No.1 white......
2 white
RYE— No. ! Pa. aad Ohio......
FLOUR—Fancy winter pat’s.
Fancy spring
Clear winter. .... aves
Rye flour medssovess
HAY—No. 1 Timothy ......x.
Loose, from wagons...
MIDDLINGS— White
5
$USSSUSUEHNENAER SUEY
Mio BEERR sno
Bran
FRUITS—
Choi
assed esasnansrudtes |
ce. iii.
Grapes, Concord, per 1b
FEATHERS—Live Geese
ones
TALLOW—Country......
Cranberries .... z
Chestnuts
FLOUR—
WHEAT—No. 2Red.........
RYE-—No. 2
5
des
¥
wo S0
¥
WHEAT New No. 2. Red..
CORN-_No. 2, Mixed. .
OATS No: 2 White .
BUTTER Creamery Extra...
EGGS—Pa., firsts
3 UNURAY BMURANS SuBvRRY
hi
wig
CORN—Ungraded Mixed
OATS—Mixed Western. ....oee
BUTTER~—Creamery
EGGS—State and Penn......
LIVE-STOCK REPORT. 4
East Liberty, Pittsburg Stock Yards .
CATTLE. * : :
Prime steers... ivis.toes ire s8 4 T5005 BB
Bulls and dry cows 150to3 68
Neal calves... ....ciaiiiinviny D
Heavy rough calves......
Fresh cows, per head........
: 3 SHEEP.
‘Prime 95 to 100-1b_sheép...... $&
Common 70 to: 75-1b sheep.... 3
8, 4 sanvs svat bara rae,
*
curred yesterday between a freight and. af Corn X.
passenger The conductor and brake.