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I F O times] z- A« 1 > ( THE MORNING NEWS. 1 Vlllj 44 J Established 1850. Incorporated 1888. >■ ’ ‘ 1 J. H. ESTILL, President. J 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. —— t— 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. | ?A?] 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.