OR. TALMAGE'S SUNDRY SERMON.
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE.
Subject: Life's Stormy Way--It is Kough
Sailing Without Christ in the Ship—
He Smooths the Pathway For Those
Who Trust in Him.
[Copyright 1800.1
WasHINGTON, D. C.—Dr. Talmage, who
is now in Europe preaching to immense
congregations in the great cities, sends
this sermon, in which he describes the
rough places of life and indicates the best
means of getting over them and shows how
many people fail to understand their best
blessings; text, Mari iv, 39, “And He
arose and rebuked the wind, and said unto
the sea, Peace, be still.”
Here in Capernaum. the seashore vil-
lage, was the temporary home of that
Christ who for the most of His life was
homeless. On the site of this village,
in ruins, and all around this lake what
scenes of kindness and power and glory
and pathos when our Lord lived he 1
can understand the feeling of th- immor-
tal Scotchman, Robert McCheyne, when,
sittingon the banks of this lake, he wrote:
It is not that the wild gazelle
Comes down to drink thy tide,
But He that was pierced to save from hell
Oft wandered by thy side.
Graceful around thee the mountains meet,
Thou calm, reposing sea,
But, ah, far more the beautiful feet
Of Jesus walked oer thec
I can easily
tour of the country that
understand from the co
bounds this lake
ke
in Christ's time
luxuriance; the
raced, sloped,
gardens of beauty.
tles, anned towe Roman baths, ever)
thing attractive and beautiful—all styles
of’ vegetation in smaller space than in cl
most any other space in the world, from
the palm tree of the forest to the trees of
rigorous climate. It seemed as if the
Lord had launched one wave f beauty
on all the scene and it hun nd swung
from rock and hill and oleander. Roman
entlemen in pleasure boats ailing this
ake, and countrymen in fishing smacks
coming down to drop their nets pass each
other with nod and shout and laughter ox
swinging idly at their moorings. Oh, what
4 beautiful scene!
It seems as if we shall have a quiet
night. Not a leat quivered in the air, not
a ripple disturbed the face of Gennesaret.
But there seems to be a little excitement
up the beach, and we hasten to sce what
it is, and we find it an embarkation. From
surrounding
groved; so many
On the shore were cas-
be not disheartened! Take courage. You]
are in a glorious companionship. God |
will see you through trials, and He |
will deliver y |
My subject !
not that we perish?”
to be frightened
boat. I suppo
would have been Ju
Perhaps more. In
ple get very much af
so in our day, and 1
at the bad lectures.
effors going over the
are going to founder
to perish. She is
many good ple are A
iquity in our day and think the
Jesus Christ is going t
and are just
the disci
don’t
to trit
fact that good !
ened. In the 16s « |
they rushed into ti i
boat I find they are !
death. They say, ° |
|
iad been there we
much affrighted.
ges very good peo
righted. Tt is often |
: look |
f God €
» church is going
lawn.” Oh, how |
ed Ly in
church of
text! Don't wor:
spider's 1
lion is de
while the :
He rouses himself. |
walks out into the i
even know the sj and |
with his roar he So
men come sninni sir sophistrie: and
skepticism about . s Christ. He scens
hey sa e have cay |
He will never come forth |
yzain upon the nation. Christ is overcome |
forever. His rel will never make any
cc est among men. after awhile |
mau L
the Lion of the tribe of Judah will rouse
Himself and come forth to shake mightily
the nations. What's a spider's web to the |
aroused lion? Give truth and error a fai
rapple, and truth will come off victor. i
Do not be afraid or a great revival. Oh,
that such gales from heaven might sweep
through all our churches! Oh, for such
days as Richard Baxter saw in England
md Robert MceCheyne in Dundee!
Oh, for such days as Jonathan Edwards |
saw in Northampton! 1 have often heard |
the western shore a flotilla pushing out;
not a squadron of deadly armament, nor
clipper with valuable merchandise, nor
piratic vessels ready to destroy everythir
they could seize, but a flotilla, bear
engers of ht and life and peace.
t is in the stern of the boat. His
disciples are in ‘he bow and amidships.
Jesus, weary with much speaking to large
multitudes, is put into somnolence by the
rocking of the waves. If there was any
motion at all, the ship was ez
if the wind passed from s a
board, the boat would rock and, by the
gentleness of the motion, putting the Mas-
ter asleep. i
low made out of a fisherman's coat. I
think no sooner is Christ prostrate and
His head touched the pillow than He is
sound asleep. The breezes of the lake run
their fingers through tl.
sleeper, and the boat rises and
a sleeping child on the bosom of
ing mother.
Calm night,
night!
oars, and let the large boat and the small
boat glide over gentle Gennesarvet. 3
the sailors say there is going to be a
change of weather. And even the
sengers can hear the moaning of the storm
as it comes on with great stride and al
the terrors of hurricane and darkness.
The large boat trembles like a deer at bay
among the clangor of the hounds; great
patches of foam are flung into the air:
the sails of the vessel loosen and in the
strong wind crack like pistols; the smaller
boats, like petrels, poise on tne chffs of
the waves and then plunge. Overboard
go cargo, tackling and masts, and the
drenched disciples rush int: thé back part
of the boat and lay hold of Christ and say
unto Him, ‘‘Master, carest Thou not that
falls
a sleep-
starry night, beautiful
we perish? That great personage lifts | vas an only son. and your neart has ever
His “head from the pillow of the fisher- | qince been like a desolated castle. the owls
man’s coat, walks to the front of the ves- | of the night hooting among the fallen |
sel and locks out into the storm. All| qpches and the crumbling stairways, Or
around Him are the smaller boats, driv
ery of drowning men. By the fl
lightning 1 see the calm brow of Chris
the spray dropped from His beard.
And they extemporized a pil- |
locks of the worn |
Run up all the sails, ply all the |
But |
0 | all your property swept away
in the tempest, and through it comes the : nro) 3 i
sh of the
2% | houses: 1
He | al gone.”
THE SHIP SUBSIDY BILL
| duce Republicans to postpone the con-
MEASURE HAS BADLY DISCO NCERT
ED THE DEMOCRATS.
In Attempting to Make Party Capital
Out of the Shipping Bill They Show
Themselves to Be About Evenly Di-
vided For and Against It.
The Democratic leaders in Congres
have been making elaborate prepara-
tions to make the shipping bill a cam-
paign issue. They have attempied to
terrorize the Republicans into aban-
donment of the bill at the present ses-
sion at least. It is not known how
much the foreign shipping lobby is
willing to contribute to the Demo-
cratic camp: fund if the bill's con-
sideration is deferred until the short
Postponement, say the for-
eign shipping lobby, means the bill's
session.
defeat.
A $200,000.000 a year business is the
stake. If Democratic threats of fili-
bustering are effective enot to in-
sideration of the shipping bill, the for-
eign shipping y free trade
allies and Democratic dupes will each
have ecairied their point.
Democratic success up to this time
ix the more amazing, as their own
diso
mization on this question is dis-
closed. It would be imagined that
they would be united in opposition to
the bill, if intending to make a cam-
n issue of it. Just the reverse is
tlic case. They ¢ about evenly di-
vided for and inst i. This is
the two minority reports
shown by
that have been filed by the Democratic
members of the House Merchant Ma-
rine and INisheries Committee. The
first report tiled was signed by Mes
William Astor Chanler, of New York; |
my father tell of the fact that in the early | John H. Small, of North Carolina, and |
part of this century there broke out a or Joseph I. Rausdell, of Louisiana
vival at Somerville. N. J.. and some peo- | hety v emer 3
ple were very much ted about it. Their report advocates government aid
They said: “You are going to bring too | and opposes free ships. Their sug-
ne Doone Jae the elreh Li one ested amendments to the bill are not
he on on te on | of a character to seriously minimize
vival. Well. there was no better soul in | its effectiveness.
all the world than John Livingston. He | The other four Democratic members
went and looked at the revival. They | of the House Merchant Marine and
wanted him to stop it. He stood in the} Lo. oo 20 3 :
pulpit on the Lord's day and looked over | Fisheries Committee who signed the
the solemn auditory and he said: “This, | other report are Messrs, John I. Fitz- |
brethren. is in reality the work of God. | gerald, of Massachusetts: Marion De- |
Beware how you stop it.” And he was | Vv a aya 1
an old man, leaning heavily on his staf | I of California; Thomas Speight, |
| a very old man. And he lifted that staff | of sippi, and William D. Daly, of |
| and took hold of the small end of the staff |
wind began to let it fall slowly through be- |
tween the finger and the thumb, and he
| said: “Oh. thou impenitent, thou art fall- |
| ing now i from life. falling away
| from peace and heaven, falling as certain- |
{ ly as that cane is falling through my hand
{
| 3
| —falling certainly, though perhaps falling
| S
slowly And the cane kept on falling
through John Livingston's hand. The re-
| ligious emotion in the audience was over-
| powering, and men w a type of their |
| doom as the cane kent falling and falling,
| until the knob of the cane struck Mer.
| Livingston's hand, and he clasped it stout- |
ly and said: "But the grace of God can
{ stop you as 1 stopped that cane.” and |
| then there was gladness all through the |
| house at the fact of pardon and peace and
| salvation. “Well,” said the people after
the service, ‘I guess you had better send
| Livingston home. Ie is making the re-
{ vival worse. Oh, tor gales from heaven
| to sweep all (he continents! The danger
f the church of God is not in revivals.
| I learn once more from this subject that
| Christ can hush a tempest. It did seem
| as if evervthing must go to ruin. The di
ciples had given up the idea of inanaging |
the ship: the crew were entirely demoral-
ized; vet Christ rises. and the storm
rouches His feet. Oh, ves. Christ can
hush the tempest! You have had trouble.
| Perhaps it was the little child taken away
| from you—the sweetest child of the house-
| hold. the one who asked the most curious
| questions. and stood around you with the |
and the spade cut down
Perhaps it
greatest fondnes
through your bleeding heart.
|
vou said:
“I had so much bank stock; I had so many
Government securities; 1 had so
had so manv farms—all gone,
Why. sir. all the storms that
many |
Their support
in effect advocates free |
Their report, said to have been
written by an attorney of the foreign
steamship lines, is largely an attack |
upon the only American steamship line |
zed in the ansatlantic trade.
"The odium attaching to the Demo- !
who the battle of
for lobby in Con-
gress, and who advoeate the purchase
of ships built abroad, instead of their
construction in the United States, pre-
is them in a very sorry figure.
| They will he infinitely more bus
opposes
subsidies and
ships.
«
crats
| the
are
gn sl
in
defending their own attitude on this
question than they can be in assailing
«..it of the
Republicans and a large
contingent of their own party associ-
The newly appointed U. S. marshal for Hawaii is a resident of Oak Park, IIL
He was born in New York State, but removed to Illinois early in life.
many years prominent in Illinois politics.
Removing to Springfield, in 1873 and 1874 he
From 1869 to 1873 he was editor of
was secretary of the State Senate, and later editor of the Springfield Stalwart.
suburb of Chicago, and was for four years inspector of the Chicago postoffice.
editor of a Chicago daily, but for the past six years has been private secretary to Senator Cullom.
made several trips to Hawaii with the Hawaiian commis
Park, a
the city
Ray has
islands and their people.
DANIEL A, RAY.
the Bloomington Pantagraph.
ioners, and
He is Mr. Daniel A. Ray, for
In 1880 Mr. Ray moved to Oak
He was for a short tire
Mr,
with the
is thoroughly familiar
be regarded the country over as a
Democratic free trade, foreign ship-
ping victory — will make it all the
easier for them to defeat action at the
next session, and all the harder for
Republicans to secure favorable ac-
tion.
The opportunity of a generation is
| within the grasp of the Republican
leaders in Congre ss 7if they have the
| courage to grasp it by passing the
| shipping bill before adjournment at
this on.
PORTO RICANS PLEASED.
aes. The Democratic leaders had |
| made desperate efforts to prevent ¢
| public disclosure of their differences,
| wut the courage of nearly one-half of
| the minority made further conceal-
ment of their condition impossible,
The Democratic members of the com-
| mittee whe advocate government aid
by independently filing thelr report
| in advance of the submission of the
other minority report, forced the sign-
|
|
ers of the latter to lamely limp last
into the public eye. Their hopele
| division shows how utterly impossible
| it will be for them to make a success-
I ful campaign issue of the
| question.
| If Democrats
attack a
IS on as my snd another JoF { ever trampled with their thunders. all the | aided shipping, Democrats’ who have
& Ss ooking pwi : e c 3 shipwrecks. have not tsp hia :
ace!” Looking cownward, He sa : SH “5 : 2h n £1 cl BD, ie er thon : 8 | tae best of the argument may be quot-
Ti orn » ' 2 0 you. on have not heen complete- 5 3 = s
“Be still!” The waves fall flat on their | Jy ‘overthrown. Why? Christ nh «ped in answer. Republican ammuni-
faces, the foam melts, the extinguished | [ave that little one in My keeping. I ean | tion with which to refute Democratic
ps relight .heir torches. The tempest | care for him as weld as vou «an. better | & ticle of This charactor a 1
fills dead, and Christ stands with His than vou enn, O hereaved other!” ash. attacks of this character need not be
foot en the neck of the storm. And while | the tempest. When ent used—it is furnished by the more hon-
the sailors are baling out the
boats and
away, God said,
est and courageous of the Democr:
while they are trying to untangle the cord- | jy heaven in banks { > | themselves
age the disciples sc 1d in amazement, no : x the tempest | 10] prem 3 :
looking into the calm sea, then into the Fiero Is ane tor oly: which we will I'his is 2 situation which seems al-
cahn sky, then into the calm Saviour’s | a)] have to run. The moment when we | IOSt providential for the united Re-
countenance, and they cry out, “What | jot go of this world, and try to take hold | publicans. They seem to be assured
manner of a man is this, that even the | of the next we will want all the grace pos- | of the votes of a
winds and the sea obey Him?’
The Jabject, in the first place, imu esse
me with the fact tha
to have Christ in the ship. for all those
hoats would have gone to the bottom of | oy.
it is very important | of Jarkne
mder I see a Christian soul rock-
All the powers
| sible. Y
ing om the surges of death.
ecem let out ¢
-the
the shriek of
BSS inst that soul |
irling wave. the thunder of the | gidy bill,
the wind, all seem to | 3
large contingent—
| possibly one-half of the Democrats in
the House in favor (r the ship sub-
if it is brought up for pas-
SB Cnrasares 3 his had not been present. | unite tog Jut that soul is not | SA8€e Dow. Such an opportunity has
On, whats Lesson for vou and fog me, (6 | fond ed” Tin ix io lina there auc | MOC been presented na generation
hater cates we str lor wl Leming Dlonty of fears ¥ the zoom 2% fhe and may never again occur so favor-
always have Christ in tue ship. All you | usted ond pe acolls fo 2 Sham able.
i 0 Avia paiont torsion of boy, oi | flash of the storm vou see the harbor ju The same situation exists in the Sen-
2 : + Os | ahead, and you are making for that har- | gre. The Democrats
have Christ in every enterpris:
There are men w. > ask God’s help at
the beginning ct great enterprises. He
has been with them in the past; no
trouble can overthrow them; the storms
might come down from the top of Mount
Hermon and lash Gennesaret into foam
into agony, but it could not lurt
them. But here is another man who starts |
upon the uncertainties of this life e
has no God to help him. After hile
the storm comes, tosses off the masts of
the ship; he puts out his litel oat and the
ongbeat; the sherifi and the auctioneer
try~“to help him cff; they can’t help him
"off; he must go down; no Christ in the
ship. Your life will Le made up of sun
shine and shadows. "here may be in it
awctic blasts or tropic
know not what is before 3
if you have Christ with you an
well. You may seem to ‘get alor
out in worldly enterprise, and he depends
He
you, but I
]
Ul be
ith
out the religion of Christ while everything |
y when |
goes smoothly, but after awhile,
sorrow hovers over the soul, when the
waves of trial dash clear over the hurri-
cane deck, and thz decks are crowded with
piratical disasters—ol, what
do then without Christ in the stn? ie
God for your portion, God for your guide,
rod for your help; then ali is well; all is
well for a time; 1 shall be well forever
Blessed ig that man who puts in the Lord
his trust. He shall never be confounded.
But my subject also impresses me wit
the fact that when people start to follow
Christ they must not expect smooth |
ing. These disciples got into the small
boats, anc have no doubt they said
“What a beautiful day this is! How
lightful is sailing in this boat! And as
for the waves under the keel of the boat.
tornadoes; 1]
know |
would nm
bor. All
pilot.
Into the harbor of heaven now we glide;
Ve're home at last, home at last.
| Softly we drift on the bright, silvry tide;
{ We're home at last.
| Glory to God, all our dangers are o'er;
| We stand secure on the glorified shore!
Glory eo God, we will shout evermore,
We're home at last.
shall be well. Jesus Leing our
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
| Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, will | tial
|
visit Queen V
William Rockefeller has
cessfully operated upon ior
tis.
| President, Eliot, of Harvard, is fc
toria in September.
been suc-
appendici- |
there ave unable
to prepare, m less present, a mi-
| nority report in opposition to the ship
| subsidy bill. It is tverl and publicly
| known that a number of Democrats
| will speak and vote for the bill.
at all hazards, is the effect it will
have upon their party followers that
will surely result from the discussion
in the Senate of the ship subsidy hill
at this session, to disclose a substan-
nt of their own party as-
in advocacy and voting for
counting
sociates
that bill.
If Republicans can be coerced, intim-
1dated or cajoled into postponing the
> | consideration of the ship Subsidy biil
make another tour he Wes his | :
why another tour of the West th | at the present session, the Democrats
S Cr 3 +
The wperor of Austria is supplied | may be able to conceal their own
| with a private newspaper, which he |W ikness in divided opposition to the
reads every day.
Congressman Gilbert
of Tennessee
ship subsidy bill in the Senate. A lit-
| tle incident has clearly demonstrated
has some literary ability, and has writ-| this, and shown the desperatign or
ten some very fair humorous verse. the Democratic leaders.
“ha a1 r 1 1
Jose ph $ hambe rlain Smones bl “* | The Chairman of the Democratic Na-
drinks strong tea and never . . rl he
exercise of anv kind when he | tional Committee. In his pe at the
avoid it. " filing of the Chanler-Small-Ransdell
Roberts is one of the best | report, sent for these genflemen and
swordsmen in the British army. He is| began to angrily upbraid them as trai-
the lance, and in| tors to their pariy, so the report goes,
prizes throug and he told them that by their ill-
timed exhibition of independence and
honesty they had sacrificed a splendid
shipping |
government |
British Consul There About the Only
Man Who Wants Free Trade.
A privato letter received from an
American in Porto Rico indicates that
talk of the hardships predicted to fall
upon the Porto Ricans following the
| enactment of the tariff and civil gov-
ernment laws for the island is moon-
| shine. In his letter he says:
| “The people here, irrespective of
| caste or condition, hail the passage of
the Foraker bill with the greatest de-
light, and are now beginning to pre-
pare for a revival of business and
| good times. There seems to have been
ja very grave misrepresentation of
facts made in the United States con-
| cerning the wants of the natives and
business men of this island in so far
as it relates to the tariff. It is a mis-
taken idea that free trade is wanted
here. On the contrary the merchants
“9 out of every 100) want a small
tariff in preference, and in fact did not
at any time object to the 25 per cent.
first talked of. They are bright
enough to prefer a small indirect tax
to a heavy direct form of taxation. to
raise the revenues necessary to con-
duct the government of the island.
About the only ones desiring the ben-
efit of free trade are a few foreigners
like Mr. Finley, the British consul at
San Juan, who have bought up all the
sugar and tobacco in sight at a low
figure. and have been holding the same
in anticipation of a free entry to the
States. thereby enabling them to re-
invest-
alize more largely on their
ment.”
What
the Democratic leaders desire to avoid, |
Yearl Button Industry.
Pearl button-making was first made
possible in the United States by the
McKinley tariff of 1892. Of course
the industry was nearly destroyed by
the free-trade Wilson bill of 1894. Af-
ter further protection w given the
| industry by the Dingley tariff of 1897,
the eighth biennial report of the Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics for the State
of Towa says:
“A remarkable development of the
business was witnessed in 1898, ne less
than thirty-six factories being estab-
lished during the first six months of
that year
Seven towns in Illinois and six in
Towa are centers of button-making. It
supports an important fishery, and as
the report
“Besides the people thus directly
connected with the business, many
others in more than a score of towns
are benefited, including merchants,
machinists, boatmen, draymen and
transportation companies.”
says:
| Deméeratic free trade will kill the
pearl button business, throw lots of
people out of employment and injure
local trade and transportation.
| The Tariff That Pays.
|| A tariff for revenue only may gen:
why, they only make the motion of our Wink
little boat the more delightful.” But | Had issue upon which the Democrats could
when the winds swept down and the sea | Ione a . , : : }
1 nv is the ave att publicans the
was tossed into wrath, then they found | monarch sth have Repub ! mn. hi |
that following Christ was not smooth sail- | cause of his mental derangement. coming I'he Democratie
ing. So you have found it; so I have| |] Verne lives at Amie 1 Chairman, so it said, was rendered
fang it ti x i of the lif { he a fine villa, with a larg when he was very
id you ever notice the end oO ede] 1 wiete re \ «
? . viet ’ len the quietest street. He 1 y SAYS .
of the apostles of Jesus Christ? You qe €. gic i told by Messrs. Chanler,
would say if ever men ought to have had
# smooth nite, a
those men, the disciples of Jesus Christ,
ought to have had such a departure and
such a life. St. James lost his head. St.
Philip was hung to death on a pillar. St.
Matthew had his life dashed out with a
halberd. St. Mark was dragged to death
through the streets. St. James the Less
was beaten to death with a fuller's club.
St. Thomas was struck through with
spear. They did not find following C
smooth saili Oh, how they'!we
to in the tempest! John H
fire; Hugh Me: Kail in the hour of
dom: the All ;
oc
yigenses, the aldenses
Scotch Covenanters—did they find it
smooth sailing? But why go into history
when we can draw from our own mewu.ory
illustrations of the truth t
A young man in a
God, while his employer sc
tianity; the young men in the 1
antagonistic to the Christian religion,
teasing him, tormenting him about his re-
ligion, trying to get him mad. Th
ceed in getting him mad and sav, “You'r
a pretty Christian!” Does that your
man find it smooth sailing when he
store try
ey suc-
to follow Christ? Or you remember a
Christian girl. Her father despi we |
isti religion: her mother despises
the Christian religion: her brothers and
sisters scoff at the Christian religion; sh»
can hardly find a quiet place in which to
say her prayers. id she find it smooth
sailing when she tried to follow Jesus
smooth departure, then |
| is of French extraction.
‘0 years old, and his chiei
going to the theater and
i walk.
nme
ng
| Queen Victoria's
la very lar 1
| seven sons and c
| had thirty-two ch
{ dren, and there t
grandchildren, making a total of sev-
enty-three descendants.
Piet Cronje, the famous Boer general.
| His ancestor,
{ Pierre Crognet or Crosnier, was a
| French refugee who left France owing
to the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes. Cronje is a Dutch phonetic
J 1
| spelling of the French name Crognet
| or Crosnier.
| A Link in the Past.
ander Capperton, who died
Mrs
in Kirkhili, Scotland, the other day, |
.| was one of the few links connecting
the present with the time of
Scott.
ir Walter
She entered his service when
sixteen, and remembered hearing his
heavy footfall on the stairs at five
every morning when he came down for
his buttermilk and porridge.
| with him when he died and received a
lock of his hair from Mrs. Lockhart,—
|
Christ? Oh. no! All who would live the Philadelphia Press.
life of the Christian religion must suffer
persecution. If you do not find it in one
way you will get it in another way. But
Automobile omnibuses cost as high as
$12,00¢
| and that they were q
|
|
She was |
Small and Randall that he had no an-
thority to denounce their action; that
the Democratic party had not declared
itself on this subject in its last na-
tional platform; and that in any event
| they were decidedly opposed to
| dragging of the shipping question into
partisan politics. They told him that
the shipping question was a busivess
proposition—a commercial question,
| and of great and pressing national
importance; that they so considerad it,
e ready to de-
fend their position at any time.
very favorable circum-
Republicans to defer
In these
stances, for the
nection on the ship subsidy bill until
Democratic National Convention
ean be whipped into adopting an ex-
pression in its next national platform,
opposing Government aid for the up-
| building of American shipping, will
| make it infinitely more difficult than
| ver for court patriotic
| Democrats to support the measure. It
i means to gravely imperil, if not actu-
ally defeat, its final passage.
The prestige of Democratic suceess
In compelling the Republicans to de-
| fer action at this season on the ship
[armies bill—since postponement will
iSeous 4
the |
crally be classified as a tariff that
| doesn’t produce enough revenue--
| either for the National Treasury or
the wage earner. Note the following
statement of customs receipts:
Annual
Average.
Under.
President Harrison. ...
| President Cleveland 55,1
| President McKinley ..... 177,99: 4
The Wilson bill of perfidy and dis-
honor extended into the McKinley pe-
riod, but customs revenues are now
rapidly increasing and the castoms re-
| ceipts of the fiscal year which ends
next month will be above §£225.000,000.
Western YWool Values.
Oregon wool prices are interesting
| as the following values, at which the
same staple grades were sold in that
State, show:
High. Low. Average.
Year. Cents. Cents. Ceats.
1894........ 6 §
1895... 101-6
1896. ..... 8
1897. even ee. 10%,
1.1898... 13
914 131%
three years, on a
pounds, there has
1899. 2
During the last
clip of 15,000,000
been an average gain of half a million
dollars to the farmers of Oregon every
year. :
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
A Weekly Review of the Happenings Through-
out the Labor World in This and
Other Countries.
The strike of the Union Street Rail-
way men in Kansas City has been de-
clared off.
About twelve hundred workers in
gas fixture factories in New York City
are on a strike.
Child labor in North Carolina mills
has decreased fifty per cent. in the
past three years.
Yellow pine timber is getting scarce,
and southern sawmills are now run-
ning two-thirds time.
All the street railway employes in
Hanover and Cologne, Germany, have
struck for higher wages.
English labor statistics show that
270,000 workpeople obtained advance in
wages during April, while pay of 3300
was decreased.
City gardeners, who have been or-
ganized as a local assembly of the
Knights of Labor, have fixed upon $75
a month as the prevailing rate of wages.
Then million dollars’ worth of build-
ing improvements are tied up as a re-
sult of the labor troubles in Chicago,
and the advance in prices for building
material.
Robert P. Burt, aged ninety years, the
oldest locomotive engineer in Ameri-
ca, died at Beloit, Wis. He first ran
an engine from Plattsville to Susque-
hanna, Penn., and ran the first engine
across the bridge at Poughkeepsie.
The union machinists oi Philadelphia
have decided to demand on Labor Day
this year that their employers shall re-
duce the hours of labor from ten to
nine a day, with a minimum wage of
twenty-eight cents an hour. Where
their demands are not granted they will
strike.
All union laborers and teamsters em-
ployed in rebuilding the street railwa
system at Decatur. Ill., have struck be-
cause the Milwaukee firm having the
contract, contrary, it was said, to agree-
ment, had discharged union men and
employed non-union men from outside
towns.
There are 1.500 persons upon the
German Emperor's list of employes, in-
cluding 350 woman servants, who are
engaged in looking after the twenty-two
reyal palaces and castles that belong
to the crown.
An Illinois man has patented a guitar
which can be taken apart for storage in
a trunk, the neck portion being attach-
ed to the end of the sounding body
by a bolt and thumbscrew, with the up-
per portion of the keyboard overlapping
the face of the body to form a rigid
connection.
All over the west Japanese laborers
have within a few moriths begun to re-
<
railroads as railroad laborers in shovel
gangs and in some instances they are
being employed in roundhouses and
shops. They are employed almost ex-
clusively in orchards, gardens and hop
fields, in sugar beet, orange and prune
culture, in salmon canneries and are
gradually being put in the places of
white miners in coal mines.
The State labor commissioner of
West Virginia, Mr. Isaac V. Barton, in
his biennial report, just issued, states
that 500 manufacturing establishments
reporting to him were employing on the
first of January 40,221 hands, against
28,334 hands on January 1, 1897.
A Un que | ailway.
Construction work on a unique rail-
is in progress at Macon, Mo. The
cing the 1m-
AMiniatur
way
title of the corporation md
provements is the Blees §
Rapid Transit Company. It will oper-
ate a line a mile long in Mrs. F. W
Jlees’ park, under a duly recorded fran-
chise by the owner. ‘The officers are:
Frederick Blees, president and motor-
man. aged 13; Albin Blees, vice presi-
dent, aged 10; Roy Denslow, secretary,
aged 13; Willie Blees, treasurer, aged 9;
Raymond Kirsch, assistant superintend
ent, aged 13. The company is capital-
ized at $10,000, and every share of the
handsomely lithcgraphed stock has been
aken.
8
The Climate of Manila.
Manila’s climate is almost identical
with that of San Juan de Puerto Rico,
and is comparable with that of the Gulf
States during the warmer portion of the
year. It seems less trying to most peo-
ple, however, than July and August ev-
»
en in Washington and Baltimore, Dbe-
cause the climate is equally one. Hav-
ing no sudden changes to fear, men
can, and habitually do, dress in the light
est of underclothing, wearing over it
only thin, unlined duck coat and trous-
ers, and inasmuch as the variations of
temperature are small, people presently
become accustomed to the warmth.
At a fune of a girl of 16 in New
York City recently eight young misses,
her schoolmates, dressed in white and
carrying bunches of lilies of the valley,
acted as pall-bearers.
At Miles, Mont., the saloonkeepers
have petitioned for permission to close
on Sundays. They need the rest.
MINES AND MINERS.
Coal Discoveries in Washington— Wonderful
Formation in Tennessee Coal Field.
Work Progressing in Kansas.
The daily output of the Jenny Lind
mine of the Western Coal and Mining
Co., near Fort Smith, Ark, is over
1,300 tons.
It is reported that since the 1st of
January over 0,000, tons of coal have
been shipped from the Birmingham,
Ala, district to New Orleans and the
lower Mississippi.
The Tennessee coal field is a solid
belt, extended northeast to southwest
across the State, some 150 miles in
length, varying in width from 50 to 75
miles, and comprising 5100 square miles
of territory.
Four miners were entombed for 12
days in the Matsuyasu colliery in Japan
lately. They did without food all the
time, and for most of the time without
light, and were none the worse when
dug out.
Two new discoveries of coal are re-
ported near Whatcom, Wash. One at
T.ake Samish, showing ten feet in width
of good quality and near the Great
Northern railroad. East of the railroad
near Van Zandt, another promising dis-
covery has been made.
N. F. Thomas & Sons have just
opened up a new vein of coal on the
property of the South Pittsburg City
Company, in the point of the mountain
overlooking South Pittsburg, Marion
place white labor as section men on |
county, Tenn. The vein is ten feet 3
inches in thickness, and is the most
wonderful formation ever discovered in
the coal fields of that section.
The shaft of the Carr coal mine at
Ieavenworth, Kan., is now down to a
depth of nearly twenty-five feet. Hard
rock has been struck and nearly twelve
| feet of the strata of limestone has been
| penetrated. The drilling which is be-
{ing done by hand goes rather slowly,
| but the compressed air engine will be
| put to work as soon as it can be se-
| cured.
| The Monongahela River Consolidated
|
|
|
Coal & Coke Co., Pittsburg, Pa., has
decided to replace the wooden barges
now used for coal transportation with
steel ones as soon as possible. It is un-
| derstood that the river combine is
looking for a site to establish a plant
for building the barges. To replace the
1400 craft now in service will require
about $4,000,000.
At St. Joseph, Mo., the drill which is
being used at the intersection of the
Platte and One-Hundred-and-Two riv-
{ers passed through a thin vein of coal
{at a depth of 325 feet. The vein struck
!is supposed to be the Lexington vein,
| and is too thin for practical mining pur-
ses. The company backing the en-
terprise feel very much encouraged, and
it is believed that the Leavenworth vein
will surely be found.
BE EE ee —e.
EWSY GLEANINGS.
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Bubonic plague has broken out afresh
at Alexandria, Egypt.
Coal prices in the Saxony and Saar
districts of Germany have advanced.
There are 5207 motor cycles in
France on which the annual tax has
been paid.
The American Consul at Marseilles
reports that trade in France was in-
creasing.
| United States consuls have been in-
structed to make reports on trusts in
Germany.
The astronomers at Griffin, Ga,
failed to secure any photographs of the
recent eclipse.
The new Russian cruiser Variag is
considered by naval experts the best
of her type afloat.
Germany is trying to secure interna-
tional agreement for a close time for
fishing in the North sea.
Roasting peanuts on the street has
been found to be against the law by
the enthusiasts in the anti-noise cru-
sade in Chicago.
Owing to the stubborn resistance of
the sultan the cities of the west coast
of Morocco are still without tele-
graphic connection.
In view of the contemplated prohibi-
tion law in Winnipeg, the liquor men
are asking the government for $2,000,-
000 compensation for loss of business.
Postmaster General Smith has stated
that there was no regulation forbidding
postal clerks to contribute to a fund for
securing legislation.
The citizens of Erie, Penn., are plan-
ning the building of a monument to
Captain Charles V. Gridley, of the flag-
ship Olympia, in the battle of Manila
Jay, whose body is buried there.
Baron von Rheinbaben, Prussian
minister of the interior, has issued an
order forbidding the Prussian provin-
cial authorities hereafter to grant a
change of name to Jews, reserving to
himself the right to grant such privi-
leges.
An electric road will in a short time
be in operation between New York and
Boston and another from the eastern to
the western boundary of Ohio.
The finest looking people of Europe
are the Tziganes, of gypsies, of Hun-
gary. en
the worl
tunity you cannot afford to pass.
its manufacturers.
——p———
its construction is unnecessary.
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(ESTE STATE HENS COMESE
Bois—Father and Son Drowned—Fortune
for Westmoreland County People.
These pensions have been granted:
Josiah Newman, Butler, $8; Nancy Lee-
per, Pine Grove Furnace, $8; Ann
er, Blairsville, $3; Mary
Bennett, $8; Aaron Bell, Lawrence, $8;
Levi Stepp, Worthington, $8; John W
McMullen, Osceola Mills, $10; Jacob
Hull, Spring Church, $8; James O.
Lewellen, California, $10; Eugene E.
Wilson, Canton, $14; Thomas Jones,
dead, Bradys Bend, $6; Sidney Sample,
New Castle, $6: Henry Graffuys, Shiloh,
ael Blose, Hillsdale, $12; Martha G.
Cadwell, Huntingdon, $8; Agnes For-
rester, Prospect, $8; Sarah E. Boyce,
Troy, $12.
Last fall Clara, the 10-year-old daugh-
ter of George W. Hixon, met with a
frightful accident while playing about
her father’s mill near Emmaville, Ful-
ton county.
revolving belt, her sunbonnet
caught, the loose hair entangled and a
from her head. She was sent to a hos-
pital in Philadelphia, where skin-graft-
ing was resorted to. So successful and
skillful was the work performed that the
with a new scalp.
Two thousand people attended the an-
nual reunion of Cooper’s Battery at Mt.
Jackson Friday. There were in
neighborhood of 50 survivors of the bat-
tery present.
The following officers were elected far
the reunion which will: be held June 8,
next, at the same place: President, Cap-
tain J. H. Cooper: secretary, Lieutenant
can. Lieutenant Gardner was selected
to give the oration.
While fishing in the Ohio river the
11-year-old son of i
fell in the river. His father, sitting
near, plunged into the water after the
boy. Neither could swim. Two hours
later their bodies were found a few
rods below the point where they disap-
peared. Mr. Breitenstein was 42 years
of age, and had been a resident of Econ-
omy since he was 12 years old. He
came direct from Germany.
Five thousand people assembled at
the DuBois Driving Park Friday to hear
the contest between the bands belong-
ing to the Western Pennsylvania and
New York Band Tournament Associa-
tion. First prize went to the McDonald
band, which made a score of 92 out of
a possible 100 points. The other four
awards went to the Logan Band, of Al-
toona; Keystone Band, of Reynolds-
ville: Glen-Campbell and Osceola
Bands, in the order named.
Rev. Wm. Tunstall, of Altoona, whe
gained some notoriety last winter by
eloping with a girl and nearly freezing
to death on the mountains, has been ar-
rested on information of the girl's fa-
ther, William Ritz, on a charge of ab-
duction. He claims to have been mar-
ried to the girl, and produced a mar-
riage certificate from a minister in New
York.
Daniel A. Brisbin, a resident of West-
moreland county, now in Great Britain,
writes to relatives that John Hoy, late-
ly deceased and a grand uncle of the
Hoy, Brisbin and Greenwalt families of
this county, ‘had leit a fortune estimated
at $7,000,000, in which the Westmore-
land heirs, being the nearest kin, would
share.
The large lumber mills of James Cur-
ry & Sons, in Paint township. Somerset
county, about four miles south of
Windber, were totally destroyed by fire.
The loss is between $30,000 and $40,000;
insurance, $20,000. The origin of the
fire is unknown. The owners will re
build at once.
Burglars broke into the office of the
Pennsylvania railroad and Adams Ex-
press Company at Brockwayville, Tues-
day morning and demolished the same
with a charge of glycerin. They secur-
ed $200 and several valuable express
packages. Shots were fired at the flee-
ing culprits.
John Carmack, a fireman, employed
at the air shait of Youghiogheny shait
of the Penn Gas Coal Company, at Ir-
win, met a horrible death Monday even-
ing. While at work he was either
struck by the fan or accidentally lost
his footing, and fell to the bottom of
the shaft, a distance of 180 feet. When
found he was mangled beyond recogni-
tion.
The Beaver Valley Traction Com-
pany, the People’s Electric Street Rail-
way, of Rochester, the College & Mo-
rado railway, and the Beaver & Van-
port electric railway have passed into
the hands of capitalists who will unite
all the interests under one manage-
ment. New cars will be purchased and
new tracks will be built.
John Wick, Jr., president and chief
owner of the Ford China Company,
Ford City, and of the Wick China Com-
pany, Kittanning, which combined, are
the largest manufacturers of fine china
in the country. \W. D. Keyes, formerly
secretary of the Ford China Company,
and others, are arranging to start a
large plate glass business at Ford City.
State Treasurer Barnett says he will
not begin the distribution of the public
school appropriation before September
Meanwhile the State will receive in-
terest on the funds.
Davia KR. Hindman, of Reidsburg
Clarion county, was instantly
Tuesday by the falling of a rafter which
was being placed in position in his new
barn at that place. He ‘had just finish-
ed a term as county treasurer and was
prominent in politics e leaves a
wife and four children.
The long established banking house
of P. Bentel & Co., at Freedom, and |
the Freedom National bank, which was
recently organized, have consolidated
and the new organization will be known
as the Freedom National bank.
Twenty-four drivers at the new Lari-
mer mines of the Westmoreland Coal
Company, at Irwin, struck Monday.
The trouble arose, it is alleged, over
the company wanting them to break in
Italians as drivers. The mines are run- |
ning as usual. |
Iondon now has two electric sub- |
yays—the City and Waterloo Railway |
and the City and South London Rail-
way.
Of the 285,056 buildings in Philadel
phia, 258,685 are dwellings.
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For Sale by Harry McCul
Pritchard, Shire Oaks, $3; Sarah Weav- |
] S. Greaser, |
$12; Emma A. Jones, Bradys Bend, $8; |
Emma Schaeffer, Kittanning, $8; Mich- |
In an unguarded moment, |
while stooping down under the rapidly |
was |
moment later the entire scalp was torn |
girl will be brought home in a few days |
the |
Hon. John O. Stewart, |
deputy State superintendent of public |
instruction, was the speaker of the day. |
James A. Gardner; treasurer, John Dun- |
Breitenstein |
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THE NATIONAL GAME.
{| Catcher Robinson leads St. Louis in
| batting.
Duggleby is the best pitcher in the
i Atlantic League.
Selee says one umpire is enough if
he works hard enough.
Beckley, Irwin and Barrett are Cin-
cinnati’s best run-getters.
Dunn, of Brooklyn, is one of the few
pitchers who do not wear a glove.
Keeler leads the Brooklyns and
Doyle the New Yorks in stolen bases.
Wagner has more hits to his credit
than any two men on the Pittsburg
team.
It is claimed in St. Louis that Jones
is pitching better ball than any twirler
in the League.
McGinnity, of Brooklyn, uses an un-
derhand delivery oftener than any
other League pitcher. .
It's largely a poor pitching depart-
ment that has kept the New York nine
so far down the line.
Doheny, of New York, has the most
puzzling drop ball of any left-hand pitch-
| er in the land, but he hasn't good con-
| trol.
McGraw, of St. Louis, is being hit
by pitched balls in most every game.
| Some pitchers claim that he is wearing
| armor. .
“The coming crack catcher of the
League is Chance, of Chicago,” Harry
Pulliam s. "He is a big man, fine
| thrower, fast and nice batter.”
| President Hart, of Chicago, says the
| double-umpire system has spoiled the
| present members of the League staff,
| and has showed up the game all around.
The story that the professional ball-
players are going to form a ynion and
| ix a scale of wages, which ‘they will
submit to the club owners, has again
appeared.
There is no shortstop in the I.eague
who plays the game better in any or all
departments than Davis, of New York.
His fielding and batting are far above
par.
"H ON THE BOERS.
HE DEPLORES GREED OF THE
BRITISH EMPIRE.
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History, Ihe
Memorable
Says, Shows No
Fight Than the Present
Victory Over Boers Will
Be a Moral Defeat. v
More
War—Says
Prof. Goldwin Smith, who gave up
a place in British politics and also a
position in Oxford University in order
that he might live in Canada, has re-
cently returned from a European trip
and has given his views on the Boer
war.
“None of my English friends,” he
says, “has ever doubted what would
be the issue of a war in which the en-
tire forces of the British Empire were
opposed to those of a population not
half as large as the population of Liv-
erpool. The Boers have put into the
fielil decrepitude and childhood. They
hare no reserves. We shall win, and,
having won, we shall, too, probably,
reap in the judgment of posterity a
measure of the same glory which we
reaped by the burning of Joan of Are.
‘We shall be fortunate if we escape the
guilt of opening an era of unscrupu-
lous rapacity and violence which might
throw back for a century the progress
of moral civilization.
“A civilian can have nothing to say
about this dispute as to the conduct of
our generals. The generals were dis-
tinguished men. The British soldier
has shown his wonted valor. Canadian
and Australian have fought gallantly
at his side. Our military administra-
tion seems also to have really done
well and put into the field with strik-
ing rapidity an unexpected amount of
force. But besides the difficulties of
the country, we have encountered in
our enemy a moral force on which we
did not reckon and which escaped the
discernment of Cecil Rhodes. We have
encouraged in its greatest intensity
that enthusiastic patriotism which
turns the sluggard’s blood to flame,
Can history show a more memorable
fight for independence than that made
by the Boer? Does it yield to that
made by Switzerland against Austria
and Burgundy, or that made by the
Tyrolese under Hofer? The Boer gets
no pay; no comforts and luxuries are
provided for him by fashionable soci-
ety; he can look “orward to no medals
or pensions; he vcluntarily endures the
utmost hardships of war; his disci-
pline, though unforced, seems never
to fail. Boys of sixteen—a correspond-
ent at the Cape tells me even at four-
teen—take the rifle from the hand ot
the mother, who remains to pray for
them in her lonely home, and stand be-
side their grandsires to face the mur-
derous artillery of modern war. A
newspaper correspondent the other day
saw a boy of sixteen lying mangled
on the field, and sayin ‘It does not
hurt much; only I am so thirsty.
Rude, narrow minded, fanatical in
their religion, these men may be; so
were the old Scotch Calvinists; so
have been some of the noblest wild-
stocks of humanity; but surely they
are not unworthy to guard a nation.
“Ax on shoulder the Boers twice
went out to make for themselves a
home in the wilderness where they
rilled | right to take it from them?
might live their own life. Who had a
. Her Brit-
annic. majesty-did not create Africa,
There is too much truth in the saying
that this is the second Jameson raid.
It makes me sad to think into what
hands my country has fallen.”
A Flying Postal Service.
There are several small islands in
the Pacific ocean that belong to Eng-
land. A vessel was wrecked during a
storm on one of these islands, and it
was necessary to get word to Auckland,
Carrier pigeons were used. They car-
ried the messages and brought return
messages. This success led to the buy-
ing of a large flock of carrier pigeons,
who were trained for the work on these
islands. Each bird can carry four
messages, each written on paper of
a certain quality and size. When four
messages are ready, a bird is sent off,
Each message costs either one shill-
ing or sixpence.
private property.
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