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BY THE SKIN OF HIS TEETH.
Talmage Discourses on Job and Nar
row Escapes.
The Differences, of {Opinion About the
Famous Biblical Passage Thou
sands of Men Make Just as Narrow
Escape for Their Soul—Paul Ex
presses the Same Idea in His “Saved
as by Eire.”
Brooklyn, July 29.—Rev. Dr. Talmage
has selected as the subject for his sermon
for to-day through the press: “Narrow
Escapes,” the text being taken from Job
19: 20, “I am escaped with the skin of
my teeth.”
Job had it hard. What with boils, and
bereavements, and bankruptcy, and a
fool of a wife, he wished he was dead;
and Ido not blame him. His flesh was
gone, and bis bones were dry. His teeth
wasted away until nothing but the
enamel seemed left. He cries out, “I am
escaped with the skin of my teeth.”
There has been some diflerence'of opin
ion about this passage. St Jerome and
Schultens, and Doctors Good, and Poole,
and Barnes, have all tried their forceps
on Job’s teeth. You deny my interpre
tation, and say, “What did Job know
about the enamel of the teeth?” He
knew everything about it. Dental sur
gery is almost as old as the earth. The
mummies of Egypt, thousands of years
old, are found to-day with gold tilling in
their teeth. Ovid, and Horace, and Solo
mon, and Moses wrote about these im
portant factors of the body. To other
provoking complaints, Job, I think, has
added an exasperating toothache, and,
putting his hand against the inflamed
face, he says, “I am escaped with the
skin of my teeth.”
A very narrow escape, you say, for
Job’s body and soul; but. there are thou
sands of men who make just as narrow
escape for their soul. There was a time
when the partition between them and
ruin was no thicker than a tooth’s ena
mel ; but as Job finally escaped, so have
they. Thank God ! thank God!
Paul expresses the same idea by a dif
ferent figure when he says that some peo
ple are “saved as by tire.” A vessel at
sea is in flames. You go to the stern of
the vessel. The boats, have shoved oft
The flames advance; you can endure the
beat no longer in your face. You slide
down on the side of the vessel, and hold
on with your fingers, until tne forked
tongue of the fire begins to lick the back
of your hand, and you feel that you must
fall, when one of the lifeboats come back,
and the passengers say they think they
have room for One more. The boat swings
under you—you drop into it—you are
saved. So some men are pursued by
temptation until they are partially con
sumed, 1 but after all'get off—“saved as
by fire.” But I like the figure of Job a
little better than that of Paul, because
the pulpit has not worn it out; and I want
to show, if God vfill help, that some men
make narrow escape for souls, and
are saved as “witjb the sk<n of their
teeth.” • ' ** * • 4
It is as easy for »om« people to look to
the cross as for you to look to this pulpit.
Mild, gentle, tractable, loving, you ex
pect them to become Christians. You go
over to the store and say, “Grandon
Joined the church yesterday.” Your
business comrades say, “That is just
what might have been expected; he al
ways was of that turn of mind.” In
youth, this person whom I describe was
always good. Be never broke things. He
never laughed when it was improper to
laugh. At seven, he could sit an hour in
church, perfectly quiet, looking neither
to the right hand nor to the left, but
straight into the eyes of the minister, as
though he understood the whole discus
sion about the eternal degrees. He never
upset things, nor lost them. He floated
intp the kingdom of God so gradually
that it is uncertain just when the matter
was decided.
Here is another one, who started in life
with an uncontrollable spirit. He kept
the nursery in an uproar. His mother
found him walking on the edge of the
house roof to see if lie could balance him
self. There was no horse he dared not
ride—no tree he could not climb. His
boyhood was a long series of predica
ments; his manhood was reckless; his
midlife very wayward. But now he is
converted, and you go over to the store
and say, “Arkwright joined the church
yesterday.” Your friends say, “It
is not possible! You must be Joking!”
You say: “No; I tell you the truth.
He joined the church.” Then they
reply: “There is hope for any of us
if old Arkwright has beedme a Chris
tian!”
In other words, we all admit that it is
more difficult for some men to accept the
gospel than for others.
I may be addressing some who have cut
loose from churches, and Bibles, and Sun
days. and who have at present no inten
tion of becoming Christians themselves,
but just to see what is going on; and yet
you may find yourself escaping, before
you hear the end. as “with the skin of
your teeth.” Ido not expect to waste
this hour. I have seen boats go off from
Cai>e May or Long Branch, and drop their
nets, and after a while come ashore, pull
ing in the nets without having caught a
single fish. It was not a good day. or
they had not the right kind or a net. But
we expect no such excursion to-day. The
water is full of fish; the wind is in the
right direction: the gospel net is strong.
O, thou, who didst help Simon and An
drew to fish, show us to-day how to cast
the net on the right side of the ship!
Some of you, in coming to God, will
have to run against sceptical notions. It
is useless for people to say sharp and
cutting things to those who reject the
Christian religion. I cannot say such
things. By what process of temptation,
or trial, or betrayal you have come to
your present state, I know not. There
are two gates to your nature: the gate of
the head and the gate of the heart. The
gate of your bead is locked with bolts
and bars that an archangeol could not
break, but the gate of your heart swings
easily on its hinges. If 1 assaulted your
body with weapons you would meet me
with weapons, and it would be sword
stroke for sword-stroke, and wound for
wound, and blood for blood; bvt if 1 come
and knock urt the door of your house, you
open it, and give me the best seat in your
parlor. If I should come al you to-day
with an argument, you would answer me
with an argument; if with sarcasm, you
would answer me with sarcasm; blow for
blow, stroke for stroke; but when I come
and knock at the door of your heart, you
open it and say, “Come in, my brother,
and tell me all you know about Christ
and heaven.”
Listen to two or three questions: Are
you happy as you used to be when you
believed lu tne truth of the Christian re
ligion? Would you like to have your chil
dren travel in the road in which you are
now traveling? 'i ou had a relative who
professed to be a Christian, and was
thoroughly consistent, living and dying in
I SAVANNAH WEEKLY NEWS,
MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS.
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the faith of the -M you not
like to live the same quiv. 1 die
the same peaceful death? I recfc/. J a let
ter, sent me by one who has rejected the
Christian religion. It says: “I am old
enough to know that the
joys and pleasures of life are
evanescent, and to realize the fact that it
must be comfortable in old age to believe
in something relative to the future, and
to have a faith in some system that pro
poses to save. lam free to confess that I
would be happier if I could exercise the
simple and beautiful faith that is pos
sessed by many whom I know. lam not
willingly out of the church or out of the
faith. My state of uncertainty is one of
unrest. Sometimes I doubt my immortal
ity and look upon tho deathbed as the
closing scene, after which there is noth
ing." What shall I do that I have not done?”
Ah! skepticism is a dark and doleful land.
Let mo say that this Bible is either true
or false. If it be false, we are as well off
as you; if it be true, then which of us is
safer?
Let me also ask whether your trouble
has not been that you confounded Chris
tianity with the inconsistent character of
some who profess it. You are a lawyer.
In your profession there are mean and
dishonest men. Is that anything against
the law? You are a doctor. There are
unskilled and contemptible men in your
prefession. Is that anything against
medicine? You are a merchant. There
are thieves and defrauders in your busi
ness. Is that anything against mer
chandise? Behold, then, the unfairness
of charging upon Christianity the wicked
ness of its disciples. We admit some of
the charges against those who profess
religion. Some of the most gigantic
swindles of the present day have been
carried on by members of the
church. There are men in the
churches who would not be trusted
for five dollars without good collat
eral security. They leave their business
dishonesties in the vestibule of the church
as they go in and sit at the communion.
Having concluded the sacrament, they
get up, wipe the wine from their lips, go
out. and take up their sins where they
left off. To serve the devil is their regu
lar work; to serve God a sort of play
spell. With a Sunday sponge they expect
to wipe off from their busines slate all the
past week’s Inconsistencies. You have
no more right to take such a man’s life as
a specimen of religion than you have to
take the twisted irons and split timbers
that lie on the beach at Coney Island ai a
specimen of an American ship. It is time
that we drew a line between religion and
the frailties of those who profess it.
Do you not feel that the Bible, take it
all In all, is about the best book that the
world has ever seen? Do you know any
book that has as much in it? Do you not
think, upon the whole, that its influence
has been beneficent? I come to you with
both hands extended toward you. In one
hand I have the Bible, and in the other I
have nothing. This Bible in one hand I
will surrender forever just as soon as in
my other hand you can put a book that is
better.
To-day I invite you back into the good,
old-fashioned religion of your fathers—to
the God whom they worshipped, to the
Bible they read, to the promises on which
they leaned, to the cross on which they
hung their eternal expectations. You
have not been happy a day since you
c not be happy.a-minute
rtnou sWinFback.
Again; There may be some of you who,
in the attempt after a Christian life, will
have to run against powerful passionsand
appetites. Perhaps It is a disposition to
anger that you have to contend against;
and perhaps, while in a very serious
mood, you hear of something that makes
you feel that you must swear or die. I
know of a Christian man who was once
so exasperated that he said to a mean cus
tomer, “I cannot swear at you mysell for
lam a member of the church; but if you
will go down stairsuny partner in business
will swear at you.” All your good resolu
tions heretofore have been torn to tatters
by explosions of temper. Now there is
no harm in getting mad if you only get
mad at sin. You need to bridle and sad
dle these hot-breathed passions, and with
them ride down injustice and wrong. There
are a thousand things in the world that
we ought to be mad at. There is no harm
in getting red hot if you only bring to the
forge that which needs hammering. A
man who has no power of righteous indig
nation is an imbecile. But be sure it is a
righteous indignation, and not a petu
lanoy that blurs, and unravels, and de
pletes the soul.
There is a large class of persons in mid
life who have still in them appetites that
were aroused in early manhood, at a time
when they prided themselves on being a
“little fast,” “high livers,” “free and
easy,” “hail fellows well met.” They are
now paying in compound interest for trou
bles they collected twenty years ago.
Some of you are trying to escape, and you
will—vet very narrowly, “as with the
skin of vour teeth.” God and your own
soul only know what the struggle is.
Omnijiotent grace has pulled out many a
soul that was deeper in the mire than you
are. They line the beach of heaven—the
multitude whom God has rescued from
the thrall of suicidal habits. If you this
day turn your back on the wrong and
start anew God will help you. Oh, the
weakness of human help!" Men will sym
pathize for awhile, and then turn you off.
if you ask for their pardon they will give
it, and say they will try you again; but
falling away again under the power of
temptation they cast you off forever. But
God forgives seventy times seven: yea,
seven hundred times; yea, though this be
the ten thousandth time he is more ear
nest, more sympathetic, more helpful this
last time than when you took your first
misstep.
if, with all the influences favorable
for a right life, mon make so many mis
takes, how much harder it is when, for
instance, some appetite thrusts its iron
grapple into the roots of the tongue, and
pulls a man down with hands of destruc
tion ! if under such circumstances, he
break away, there will be no sport in the
undertaking, no holiday, enjoyment, but a
struggle in which tae wrestlers move
from side to side, and bend, and twist,
aud watch for an opportunity to get in a
heavier stroke, until with one final effort,
in which the muscles are distended, aud
the veins stand out and the blood starts,
the swarthy habit falls under the knee of
the victor—escaped at lust as with the
skin of his teeth.
The ship “Emma,” bound from Gotten
burg to Harwich, was sailing on, when
tho man on the lookout saw something
that be pronounced a vessel bottom up.
There was something on it that looked
like a sea-gull, but was afterward found
to boa waving handkerchief. In the
small boat the crew pushed out to the
wreck, and found that it was a capsized
vessel and that three men had been digging
their way out through the bottom of the
snip. When the vessel capsized they had
no means of escape. The captain took
his penknife and dug away through the
planks until his knife broke. Then an old
nail was found, with which they attempted
to scrape their way out of the darkness,
each one working until his hand was well
nigh paralyzed, and he sauk bac»c faint
and sick. After clong and tedious work,
the light broke through the bottom of the
ship. A handkerchief was hoisted. Help
came. They were taken on board the
vessel and saved. Did ever men come so
near a water}' grave without dropping
into it? How narrowly they escaped—
escaped only “w-lth the skin of their
teeth ”
There are men who have been capsized
of evil passions, and capsized mid-ocean,
and they are a thousand miles away from
any shore Os help. They have for years
been trying to dig their way out. They
have been digging away, and digging
away, but they can never be delivered un
less now they will hoist some signal of
distress. However weak and feeble it
may be, Christ will see it, and bear down
upon the helpless craft, and take them on
board; and it will be known on earth and
in heaven how narrowly they escaped—
“escaped as with the skin of their teeth.”
There are>others who, in attempting to
come to God, must run between a great
many business perplexities. If a man go
over to business at ten o’clock in the
afternoon, he has some time for religion;
but how shall you find time for religious
contemplation when you are driven from
sunrise until sunset, and have been for
five years going behind in business, and
are frequently dunned by creditors whom
you cannot pay, and when, from Monday
morning until Saturday night, you are
(lodging bills that you cannot meet? You
walk day by day in uncertainties that
have kept your brain on fire for the past
three years. Some, with less business
troubles than you, have gone crazy. The
clerk has heard a'noise In the back count
ing-room, and gone in, and found the
chief man of the firm a raving maniac;
or the wife has heard the bang of
a pistol in the back parlor, and gone in,
stumbling over the dead body of her hus
band—a suicide. There are in this house
to-day three hundred men pursued,
harassed, trodden down and scalped of
business perplexities, and which way to
turn next they do not know. Now, God
will not be hard on you. He knows what
obstacles are in the way of your being a
Christian, and your first effort in the
right direction he will crown with suc
cess. Do not let satan, with cotton bales,
and kegs, and hogsheads, and counters,
and stocks of unsalable goods, block up
your way to heaven. Gather up all your
energies. Tighten the girdle about your
loins. Take an agonizing look into the
face of God, and then say, “Here goes
one grand effort for life eternal,” and
then bound away for heaven, escaping
“as with the skin of your teeth.”
In the last day it will be found that
Hugh Latimer, and John Knox, and
Huss, and Ridley were not the greatest
martyrs, but Christian men who went up
incorrupt from the contaminations and
perplexities of Wall street, Water street,
Pearl street, Broad street, State street,
Third street, Lopibard street and the
bourse. On earth they were called
brokers, or stock-jobbers, or retailers, or
importers; but in heaven Christian he
roes. No fagots were heaped about their
feet; no inquisition demanded from them
recantation; no soldier aimed a spike at
their heart; but they had mental tor
tures, compared with which all physical
consuming is as the breath of a spring
morning.
I find in the community a large class of
men who have been so cheated, so lied
about, so outrageously wronged, that they
have lost everything. In a werld
where everything seems so topsv.-tur> y ?
they "do novstfci a-*x thefc "
They are confounded and frenzied, and
misanthropic. Elaborate argument to
prove to them the truth of Christian
ity. or the truth of anything else, touches
them nowhere. Hear me, all such men.
I preach to you no rounded periods, no or
namental discourse; but I put my hand on
your shoulder, and invite you into the
peace of the gospel. Here is a
rock ou which you may stand firm,
though the waves dash against it
harder than the Atlantic, pitching its
surf clear above Eddystone lighthouse.
Do not charge upon God all these troubles
of the world. As long as the world stuck
to God, God stuck to the world; but the
earth seceded from his government, and
hence all these outrages and all these
woes. God is good. For many hundreds
of years he has bAen coaxing the world to
come back to him; but the more he has
coaxed, the more violent have men been
in their resistance, and they have stepped
back and stepped back until they have
dropped into ruin.
Try this God, ye who have had the
bloodhounds after you, and who have
thought that God had forgotten you. Try
him, and see if he will not help. Try him,
and see if he will not save. The flowers
of spring have no bloom so sweet as the
flowering of Christ’s affections. The sun
hath no warmth compared with the glow
of his heart. The waters have no refresh
ment like the fountain that will slake the
thirst of thy soul. At the moment the
reindeer stands with his lip and nostril
thrust into the cool mountain torrent, the
hunter may be coming through the
thicket. "Without crackling a stick under
his foot, he comes close by the stag, aims
his gun, draws the trigger, and the poor
thing rears in its death-agony and falls
backward, its antlers, crashing on the
rocks; but the panting heart' that drinks
from the water-brooks of God’s promise
shall never be fatally wounded and shall
never die.
This world is a poor portion for -your
soul,oh businessman. An eastern king had
graven upon his toinb two fingers, repre
sented as sounding upon each other witn
a snap, and under them the motto, “All
is not worth that.” Apicius Coelius
hanged himself because his steward in
formed him that he had only eighty thou
sand pounds sterling left. All of this
world’s riches make but a small inheri
tance for a soul. Robespierre attempted
to win the applause of the world; but
when he was dying, a woman came rush
ing through the crowd, crying to him,
“Murderer of my kindred, descend to hell
covered with the curses of every mother
in France!” Many who have expected
the plaudits of the world have died under
its Anathema Maranatha.
Oh, find your peace in God. Make one
strong ~puir for heaven. No half-wav
work will do it. There sometimes comes
a time on ship-board when everything
must be sacrificed to save the passengers.
The cargo is nothing, the rigging nothing.
The captain puts the trumpet to his lip
and shouts, “Cut away the mast!” Some
of you have been tossed and driven, and
you have, in your effort to keep the world,
well-nigh lost your soul. Until you have
decided this matter, let everything else
go. Overboard with all those other anx
ieties and burdens! You will have
to drop the sails of your pride,
and cut away the mast! With one earn
est cry for help, put your cause into
the hand of him who helped Paul
out of the breakers of Melita, and who,
above the shrill blast of the wrathiest
tempest that ever blackened the sky’ or
shook the ocean, can hear the faintest
imploration for mercy. I shall conclude,
feeling that some of you, who have con
sidered your case hopeless, will take
heart again, and that with blood-red
earnestness, such as you have never ex
perienced before, you will start for the
good land of the Gospel—at last to look
back, saying. “What a great risk I ran!
Almost lost, but saved! Just got through,
and no more! Escaped by the skin of my
teeth.”
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, JULY 30, 1894.
BELLE PLAINE’S BIC BLAZE
Over 60 Buildings and Business Con
cerns Burned Out.
The Loss $450,000 With Insurance of
slso,ooo—The Local Firemen Un
abls to Cdpe With the Flames Suc
fully—Only One Hotel Left Stand
ing—No One Killed and but Few In
jured.
Belle Plaine, la., July 29.—The cry of
fire was heard throughout the town late
yesterday afternoon. The citizens soon
had the fire apparatus out, but owing to
the engines steaming slowly the flames,
which had started in the roof of a livery
stable and were fanned by a strong west
wind, had leaped across the street
into the business part of the
city, were soon beyond the
control of the firemen. It was impossible
to stop the spread of the flames with the
apparatus on hand, and telegrams were
sent to Cedar Rapids and Tama, but by 9
o’clock the business portion of the town,
with the exception of three buildings, was
in ashes.
OVER SIXTY BUILDINGS BURNED.
In all over sixty buildings and business
concerns were burned out, with a loss of
$450,000, with ' $150,000 insurance. The
largest are as follows: » Greenlee opera
house. Herring hotel, Sweat & Rusk,
hardware; J. G. Blue, dry goods; W. ‘H.
Burrows & Co., clothing; Van Meter &
Co., drugs; R. Nicholson, groceries; W.
F. Donovan, boots ana shoes; C.
P. Hosmer, hardware; B. A.
Turnbull, restaurant; Nichols & Marr,
drugs: T. Lawrence, dry goods; Citi
zens National Bank, A. A. Selden & Co.;
tailors; J. W. Keeler, livery; Hartman
Grocery Co.; Swertheim, clothing: Swift
&Co., drugs; H. Shelp, dry goods; L.
Grissman, dry goods; W. P. Hanson,
hardware, in the opera house; Chi
cago and Northwestern passenger depot
and offices; J. P. Herrin, lumber.
Several dwellings and their contents
were also destroyed.
The Burley is the only hotel left stand
ing, and it was saved only by a fortunate
change of the wind.
So far as known no one was killed and
but few injured.
This is a severe blow to Belle Plaine and
it is a grave question whether it will be
rebuilt completely.
FULTON STREET HAS A FIRE.
A Building at the Corner of Gold
Street Gutted.
New York, July 29.—The building at
the southwest corner of Fulton and Gold
streets, and numbered from "82 to 88 Ful
ton street, was gutted by fire this after
noon. This buildW; was occupied
by various firms® including two
manufacturers of <®chemicaljq articles,
some of which largely to the
: Vy tb <• ba.-Op
sent out in bringing
twenty-five engines and two water tow
ers to the scene. After about two and a
half hours’ hard work the firemen suc
ceeded in getting the fire under control.
The loss will amount to about $150,000.
The following were burned out: Mondot
& Aiken, restaurant and saloon; S. Bernd
son, dealer in patent medicines; A. Pell
<fc Co., drapers and tailors; Lehmaiere
& Bro., steam printers; the Wedlo Jour
nal composing room; A. Lounsbury, man
ufacturing jewelers; Fairchild Bros. &
Foster, manufacturers of digestive fer
ments and Charles Schmelze, litho
grapher.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
DISTILLERS IN A BAD BOX.
An Attempt to Dodge Taxes May End
in Confiscation.
Baltimore, Md., July 29.—Four thous
and barrels of whisky may be confis
cated by the federal government as the
result of an attempt to avoid the payment
of $4,000 or $5,000 taxes, says a morning
paper. It is alleged that a local distill
ing firm a few days ago made applica
tion for the release from a government
warehouse of 4,000 barrels of whisky.
The sample barrels which the gauger
tried showed only a fraction above proof,
and he became suspicious. Other bar
rels were found to vary far from thesam
ples, and always at a much higher show
ing. The gauger, becoming satisfied that
the sample barrels had been “doctored,”
to avoid the payment of the higher tax,
reported the case to Collector of Internal
Revenue Vandiver, and he, it
is stated, yesterday laid the
case before Secretary Carlisle. If the
secretary orders the collector to exact the
highest penalty fixed by the revenue laws
for violations, one of the largest dis
tilleries in the Baltimore district will be
closed, its product now in bond confis
cated and sold by the government, and
the owners rendered liable to fine and im
prisonment.
IDA WELLS IN GOTHAM.
The Negro Lecture ss Still Harping on
the Lynchings.
New York, July 29.—Ida Walls, the ne
gro lecturess, spoke to an immense audi
ence to-night at the African Methodist
Episcopal church on Sullivan street. It
was her first public appearance since she
returned from England, where she has
been for the past six months delivering lec
tures on lynchings in the south. The
English people, she said, were astounded
at the cruelty perpetrated by American
whites upon the southern negroes. She
declared that the negro is not free to-day;
that he has been deprived of the power of
the ballot and does not dare demand jus
tice. In conclusion she said: “AU we
ask is that what is crime and law to the
white man shall be crime and law to the
negro.”
SHOT BY A SENTINEL.
One of the Militiamen at Pullman
Wounds a Man in the Arm.
Chicago, July 29.—Private Chambers of
Company B spiUed the first blood last
night in the Pullman campaign. He shot
a man who was walking through the
Michigan freight yards at Kensington.
The usual command to halt was
given three times, but the intruder
did not stop. Private Chambers fired one
shot in the air, and followed it by another
that struck the man in the right arm,
just below the shoulder, and came out
near the wrist. At the hospital he gave
his name as P. Kenne. He is a Dane,
formerly employed in the packing house
at Hammond, and told Surgeon Adams
that he did not understand what the
sentinel’s command to halt meant.
LIGHTNING PLAYS HAVOC.
Onb - Man Killed and Several Persons
Shocked in Berkshire.
Pittsfield, Mass., July 29.—After an ex
cessively warm morning, this city was
visited by a succession of severe thunder
storms, which killed one man, shocked
several others and wrought havoc gener
ally.
At Thomas Island, Onota Lake, George
B. Castle, aged 28, was ihstantly killed,
and Charles Johnson, Henry Wagner and
Lena Wagner were terribly shocked.
These four, with Castle’s wife and Mrs.
Samuel Williams, have been camp
ing for six weeks and were to
break camp to-night. Shortly be
fore 6 o’clock Castle, Johnson.
Wagner and Miss Wagner went out
under a large pine tree, twenty feet from
the cottage. The storm broke suddenly,
a flash of lightning struck the tree and
all four fell to the ground. Castle was
instantly killed and the other three were
rendered unconscious. Johnson recovered
in an hour and the others will come out all
right in time. Castle was a well-known
grocer, and married.
Lightning struck, a shed at the fair
grounds in the upper part of the city,
under which Mary Sturtevant and
Charles Urquhart had taken refuge, and
both were rendered unconscious and will
be laid up for some time.
Another bolt struck Pierce’s block, on
North street, breaking windows and do
ing other slight damage. A double house
at the junction, owned by Henry Noble
and occupied by George Bridge, was also
struck, a large hole being torn in the roof,
but the occupants were not harmed.
TEARS UP A STEEPLE.
Norwich, Conn., July 29.—Lightning
struck the steeple of the Broadway
Congregational church in this city at 12
o'clock this noon. The steeple is i9B feet
high, and a big slice 3 feet yvide and 60
feet in length was torn out of it. The
falling bricks crashed through the roof
and made a hole six feet in diamater in
the center. A pedestrian was slightly
injured by the falling bricks.
FRANCE’S NEW LAW.
The Anti-Anarchist Measure Failed
to Cover the Colonies.
London, July 80.—The Paris corre
spondent of the Daily News says: “It was
discovered the last day of the debate in
the Chamber on the anti-anarchist bill,
that the colonies had been overlooked in
framing the measure. Many jurists as
sert that consequently the law is not ap
plicable there. Premier Dupuy intends
to apply the law to the colonies by de
cree. This is regarded as a rather bold
step.’’
PROSECUION FOLLOWS PRAISE.
Many men have been prosecuted in the
larger cities for having spoken well
of Santo Caserio, the murderer of
President Carnot. Some of them
have beerf* condemned to severe
punishment, although they were proved
to be merely drunken babblers. A few
have been acquitted. All had jury trial,
but those awaiting trial for the same
offense will be tried before magistrates
di a&ordhnco with. the provisions of
the anti-anarchlst law.
A NEW WEEKLY PAPER.
Rains Continue Plentiful in Wilcox
County.
Abbeville. Ga., July 29.—A stock com
pany composed of the best citizens of
Abbeville has been formed to publish a
weekly newspaper here. The Weekly
Reporter, like its predecessors, having
been, to say the least, unsuccessful arid
unprofitable. The new paper will prob
ably start on its (career about Aug. 8,
backed by sufficient capital to insure its
success.
The People’s Steamboat Line have put
on double crews, and the boats will run
day and night in future.
The question of bonding the town to
erect a system of water works and for
other improvements is being agitated just
now. ,
Copious rains continue to visit this sec
tion.
A Murderer Still at Large.
Dotiglas, Ga., July 29.—The negro who
in cold blood killed another at Ashley’s
still on July 25 is still at large. Colored
Detective Frank Evans has just "got back,
and says he has every reason to know
that the murderer is at Sessoms, but that
he is being assisted to keep clear of the
officers. It does seem that those whose
business it is to use every effort to cap
ture this red-handed murderer are very
tardy—so much so, that it is causing gen
eral comment of dissatisfaction. If no
more effort is made than in this case,
murderers and cut throats will do as they
please without fear of the consequences.
John Sutton, a young white man of Ber
rien county, was put in jail here to-day
under a charge of assault with intent to
murder.
Our primary came off yesterday. Mr.
Fussell as yet has no opposition in the
democratic ranks.
ACQUIRED TASTES.
American Diplomats Bring Home
Foreign Accents and Appetites.
From the Washington Post.
When ex-United Sates Senator Palmer
of Michigan, who went over to Spain to
serve for a brief period* at Lisbon in a
ministerial capacity, returned to Wash
ington, after an absence of a vqry few
moons, he wittily asked some of his for
mer associates in the Senate chamber to
excuse his foreign accent. The future
president of the world’s fair commission
had really brought back nothing but his
Yankee dialect: yet nearly all of Uncle
Sam’s diplomats come home with some
habit acquired in foreign lands. Minister
Denby, for instance, who has resided con
tinuously in China for the past ten years,
will pine during his present stay in the
land of his nativity for certain dishes
dear to the palate of Mongolian epicures.
Consul General Mors, in" his year’s so
journ in Paris, has learned to love the se
ductive cigarette. “Very few Euro
peans,” said he to a Post reporter,
“smoke cigars. In London the short
stemmed pipe is universal, but in Paris
all lovers of the weed indulge in cigar
ettes. the thick, fat sort that are incased
in fine white paper, and are filled with to
bacco of quite a different flavor from that
in this country. Not one man in a thou
sand smokes a cigar. 1 suppose, for the
reason that good cigars are rather dear on
the other side.”
When Traveling,
Whether on pleasure bent or business,
take on every trip a bottle of Syrup of
Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and effect
ually on the kidneys, liver and bowels,
preventing fevers, headaches and other
forms of sickness. For sale in 50-cent
and $1 bottles by all leading druggists.
Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup
Company only.—ad.
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS.
An Agreement on the Tariff Bill
Looked For.
Washington, July 29.—Tho torrid heat
is aiding the tariff compromisers. The
extremists find their obstinacy wilting
with their shirt collars. Senator Jones,
who has held tho laboring oar on the
tariff bill on the Senate side ever since it
left the House, is fairly confident that an
agreement of some sort will be reached
this week. Whether the debate, which
will then follow, will be brief or indefi
nitely protracted, will depend entirely
upon the nature of the report presented
by the conferees.
Omitting the tariff bill from the calcu
lations as to what may take place, there
is every indication that the end of the
week will see all the appropriation bills
safely opt of tho way. Mr. Cockrell,
chairman of the senate committee on ap
propriations, expects to get the sundry
civil bill—that vehicle which carries ev
erything not otherwise provided for—out
of the committee room by Monday night,
to be reported Tuesday morning. He will
call it up at once for consideration. He
then expects to have the deficiency bills
in such shape that he can follow the sun
dry civil bill with.it when needed. This
will complete the appropriation bills, and
leave the Senate free to discuss the tariff
or to threaten adjournment if delays are
Interposed.
It may be that the Chinese treaty will
get its day in court, but there does not
appear to be much interest in treaties
just now, and this particular treaty seems
to have more active enemies than friends.
IN THE HOUSE.
Drifting is the only word that will now
accurately describe the condition of af
fairs in tne House Qf Representatives. All
of the business which the managers feel
it is in any wise or essential for
record purposes to pass at this session of
Congress has already been disposed of
and they are now simply waiting on
the conference committees to give them
an opportunity to settle the differences
between the two branches over those
measures upon which the House has al
ready once passed. No programme has
been arranged for the next week, further
than that Wednesday will be devoted to
tho Moore-Funston contested election
case from Kansas. Mr. Moore is a demo
crat seeking to get Mr. Funston’s seat,
and the majority of the committee have
reported in his favor.
A meeting of the committee on rules
will be held Monday morning to decide
what committees shall hav6 the sessions
of Monday and Tuesday for the consider
ation of business. The Indian and naval
committees will probably be the favored
ones. The other days in the week will
be apportioned later, if it shall then be
found desirable to continue the policy of
parcelling out the time.
The programme is always subject to In
terruption by conference reports, and
there are six appropriation bills, besjde
the tariff bill, which are likely at any
time to •zpmo in arf-d vary thepneyscilß v .,
SHOT WHILE IN HIS OAB.
An Engineer Murdered on the Eastern
Illinois.
Danville, 111., July 29.—Shooting at non
union men in the Eastern Illinois yards
at Danville Junction, is a pastime of al
most nightly occurrence. Joseph Byrnes,
an engineer, was shot last evening and
died from the effects of the wound at noon
to-day, at St. Elizabeth’s hospital. His
engine was crossing Fairfield street, when
a man standing on the sidewalk but a few
feet distant, deliberately tired four shots
out of a revolver into the cab of the en
gine. The first shot struck Engineer
Byrnes in the side, and after passing
through the lung, passed down into the
abdomen. The murderer walked away
and escaped.
BILLS AGAINST CHICAGO.
Railroads Ask the City to Pay for
Losses Caused by the Strike.
Chicago, July 29.—Large bills for dama
ges and destruction of railroad pro per tv
by the strike rioters are now coming in to
the city hall. J. T. Brooks, secretary and
vice president of the Pittsburg, Cincin
nati and St. Louis railroad, has printed a
bill which aggregates $449,691. The
largest item is $401,691 for 729 freight
cars destroyed, and forty-two damaged.
Eighteen thousand dollars is charged for
lading seventy-four cars.
The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago
has presented a bill of $21,347. The
largest item is for fourteen, freight cars
destroyed and fifty-eight damaged.
Mayor Hopkins smiled when shown the
bills, and merely remarked: “Wait until
we get through with them.”
NEW YORK A BAKE OVEN.
The Mercury Climbs Up to 93!/ s o —One
Death and Many Prostrations.
New York, July 29.—After a miserable
night of torture and sleeplessness, the
inhabitants of this city arose this morn
ing for another day of agony.
At 6 o’clock a. m. the thermometer had
succeeded in mounting to 76°. and during
every minute of every hour fro pi then un
til a cooling breeze sprang up late in the
afternoon, it kept up an industrious ad
vance until It had reached 93%°
at 3 o’clock. That was the of
ficial figure made from the reg
ister high up on top of the
sheltered weather bureau, where there is
always a breeze, no matter what may be
the condition below on the street. ’ But
down on the street the thermometers
register over 10u° in the shade. Three
deaths were recorded as resulting from
the heat and a large number of prostra
tions.
St. Petersburg’s Cholera Record.
St. Petersburg. July 29.—There were
seventy-nine fresh cases of cholera here
yesterday and forty-nine deaths. The
epidemic is abating somewhat.
A Good Appetite
Always accompanies good health and an
absence of appetite is an indication of
something wrong. The universal testi
mony given by those who have used
Hood’s Sarsaparilla, as to its merits in
restoring the appetite and as a purifier of
the blood, constitutes the strongest rec
ommendation that can be urged for any
medicine.
Hood’s Pills cure all liver ills, bilious
ness, jaundice, indigestion, sick headache.
25c.—ad.
I WEEKLY, (2 TIMES-A-WEEK) $1 A YEAR. ) ._
4 5 CENTS A COPY. >NTO
( DAILY, $lO A J Ot7 «
HIS OAB.
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WISCONSIN’S FIERCE FIRES.
A Hundred Miles Square of Forest Un
der a Canopy of Smoke.
Three Relief Trains Roll Into the De*»
olate Town of Phillips—Twenty -five
Hundred of Its Inhabitants Fugi
tives in the Forests and Nearby Vil
lages—Gov. Peck and His Staff On
the Scene.
Phillips, Wis., July 29.—At daybreak
this morning a dense smoke covered an
area of forest for a hundred miles square,
and the country was desolute. Fire
swept this litle city. More than 2,500
persons have fled into the forests or to
the villages near by. The town this
morning was a heap of riling and
the smoke was so dense that
the headlight of a locomo
tive could not be seen fifty
feet away. Three relief trains reached
Phillips soon after 6 o’clock this morning.
One was in charge of Gov. George W.
Peck and his staff. The second came from
Stevens Point in charge of Frank
Lamoreax and Crosby Grant, and
the third from Marshfield in
charge of Maj. H. W. Upham, the
repubican nominee for governor. As
soon as he arrived, Gov. Peck called his
staff together and saw to the work of un
loading the provisions. A warehouse
was opened in one of the few buildings
that was left. Through the dense smoke
Gov. Peck started out on a tour
of inspection. He soon found
two heavy walls of masonry which
marked the place where the two banks
had stood. On inquiry it was learned
that the vaults of the banks contained
$52,000, and Gov. Peck immediately swore
in a dozen men to guard the money in the
vaults. They were armed with Winches
ter rifles and ordered to remain on duty
in two shifts day and night.
763 BUILDINGS BURNED.
The loss by the great fire in its entirety
is difficult to estimate. Out of 800 build
ings in the town, only 37 remain. B. W.
Davis of the Davis Lumber Company es
timates the total loss at *1,500,000, with
scarcely half of the full amount insured.
The Davis Lumber Company lost $500,000,
but is fully insured.
The next largest loss is that of the
Fayette-Shaw Tannery Company, operat
ing one of the largest tanneries in the
United States, The tannery was de
stroyed with its stock, aggregating a, loss
of nearly $200,000.
The Blatz Brewing Company of Mil
waukee had a distributing depot here,
which was destroyed with a loss of
13,000.
There is no way of estimating the num
ber of lives lost in the fire, and even after
forty-eight hours have passed, no one can
be found who ventures an opinion of the
loss of life. The people who tied before
the wave fir.c became scared and can
give nfftycc-. ktibwn Writ s* Steen 1
persohs perished on a raft that burned in
the bayou. A bridge crossed the "bayou,
and when the supports of this were
burned away it fell. Women and chil
dren were crossing at the time and some
must have perished.
The charrtd body of Anton F. Lentzer
can be seen in the wreck of a brick chim
ney. The man was attempting to carry
his trunk from a burning dwelling when*
the brick chimney fell on him, crushing
out his life.
CHILDREN RUSH INTO A DEATH TRAP.
As the tire swept toward the bridge a
number of children were seen to take
refuge in tho big lumber yard. Their
cries were heard by others who fled to
ward the water, but the children have
never been found.
Os the sixteen persons who lost their
live* on the raft that burned in the bayou,
eight are yet in the water. The body of
Frank C. Liss, a machinist, was found
under a pile of drift-wood at noon to-day.
The bodies of his wife and children wero
recovered afterward. Dynamite was ex
ploded all day in the bayou, and a num
ber of bodies were raised by this means.
Jim Lock’s body was brought to the sur
face. He was the but her who was
drowned with his child in his arms.
THE STORY OF THE RAFT.
The true story of this ill-fated raft has
never been told. Tho only man who tells
a comprehensive of the horror
is Joseph Bolten, a lumberman. He was
standing near a boat house when a num
ber of women and children came toward
him. There were three or four men fol
lowing. They went to the raft and
attempted to push it from the shore
when it cauaht fire. Some jumped into
small boats and others remained on the
raft. All these perished. As the boats
were overloaded they sank. The raft
burned to the water’s edge.
Gov. Peck discovered that a saloon out
side the city limits was opened and sev
eral ‘men had become intoxicated. Tho
governor ordered the sheriff to close the
saloon.
A temporary jail was made by appro
priating an empty box car.
The local relief committee has issued a
statement to the public thanking the gen
erous citizens of the state for their
liberal contributions.
RUNNING IN ALL DIRECTIONS.
Wausau, Wis., July 29 —News from the
country is that the forest fires are run
ning in all directions and destroying
much property. All day long the sun
has been obscured by dense smoke, but
this city is in no immediate danger.
TWO MORE BODIES FOUND.
Stevens Point, Wis., July 29.—Late
this afternoon two additional bodies were
taken from the bayou at Phillips, making
ten in all.
STRUCK AGAINST A CUT.
The 300 Employes of a Chicago Firm
Quit Work.
Chicago, July 29.—The 300 employes of
H. Wolf & Co. of this city, dealers in no
tions, which are sold to peddlers through
out the west, went on strike last night
when the proprietors notified them of a
cut of $3 in their sl2 a week wages. They
have been compelled to work three hours
every Sunday morning for nothing, and
have received 15 cents for working until
11 o'clock three nights every week in a
badly ventilated basement. The firm
said the extra gratuitous labor was de
manded by the hard times. The em
ployes did not see the consistency of the
claim.
Tanlongo Jury Condemned.
Rome, July 29.—The entire press con
dems the jury that acquitted Tanlongo.
The trial is regarded as a farce, and no
body hesitates to say that Tanlongo wm
saved by political interference.