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TALMAGE ON CHR|STMAS TIDE. ;
THE CHANT FROM THE SKY ON THE <
NIGHT JEM S WAS BORN.
Enconrnircment for All the Poorly ]
Started Born in the Manger nt
Bethlehem*—Moat of the World'* De- ;
liverers Born in Biu-n-Like Birth- 1
Pia.cea—Sympathetic Union With 1
Other World. Born in the Biblical 1
Manger.
Washington, Dec. 22.—1 n his sermon to- '
day, Dr. Talmage chose the universal ,
theme of the season—the Christmas-tide.
The text selected was, “Now when Jesus
was born in Bethlehem.” Matt. 2:1.
At midnight* from one of the galleries
of the sky a chant broke. To an ordin
ary observer there was no reason for '
such a celestial demonstration. A poor
man and wife—travelers, Joseph and
Mary by name—had lodged In an outhouse
, of an unimportant village. The supreme
hour of solemnity had passed, and upon
the pallid forehead and cheek of Mary
God had set the dignity, the grandeur, the
tenderness, the everlasting and divine sig
nificance of motherhood.
But such scenes had often occurred in
Bethlehem, yet never before had a star
been unfixed, or had a baton of light mar
shalled over the hills winged orchestra.
If there had been such brilliant and
mighty recognition at an advent in the
House of Pharaoh, or at an advent in the
House of Caesar, or the House of Haps
burg, or the House of Stuart, we would
not so much have wondered; but a barn
seems too poor a center for such delicate
and archangellc circumference. The stage
seems too small for so great an act, the
music too grand for such unappreciative
auditors, the window of the stable too
rude to be serenaded by other worlds.
It is my joy to tell you what was born
that night in the village* barn; and as I
want to make my discourse accumulative
and climacteric, I begin, in the first place,
by telling you that that night in the
Bethlehem manger was born encourage
ment for ail the poorly started. He had
only two friends—*thoy his parents. No
satin-lined cradle, no delicate attentions,
but straw, and the cattle, and the coarse
joke and banter of the camel drivers. No
wondw the mediaeval painters represent
the oxen as kneeling before the infant
Jesus, for there were no men there at
that time to worship. From the depths
of that poverty he rose until to-day he is
honored in all Christendom, and sits on
the imperial throno in heaven.
What name is mightiest to-day In Chris
tendom? Jesus. Who has more friends
on earth than any other being? Jesus.
. Before whom do the most thousands kneel
in chapel and church and oathedral this
hour? Jesus. From what depths of pov
erty to what hlght. of renown! And so let
all those who are poorly started rentem
ber th nr f’ey cannot be more ponrlv
more
ihiwClmlt. Let them look up to his ex
ample while they have time and eternity
to ’ , ~ ,
Do you know that the vast majority of
the world’s deliverers had barnlike birth
places? Luther, the emancipator of re
ligion, born among the mines. Shakes
peare, the emancipator of literature, born
in an 'humble home at Stratford-on-Avon.
Columbus, the discoverer of a world, born
in poverty at Genoa. Hogarth, the dis
coverer of how to make art accumulative
and administrative of virtue, born in an
humble home in ’Westmoreland. Kitto
and Pfldeaux, whose keys unlocked new
apartments in the holy scriptures which
had never been entered, born in want.
Yes, I have to toil you that nine out of
tdn of the world’s deliverers, were born in
want.
I stir your holy ambitions to-day, nnd
I want to tell you, although the whole
world may be opposed to you, and .Inside
and outside of your occupations or pro
fessions there may by those who would
hinder your ascent, on your side and en
listed In your behalf nrw the sympathetic
heart ana the almighty arm of One who
one Christmas night about eighteen hun
dred and ntaioty-five years ago wa®
wrapped in swaddlng clothes and laid
in a manger. Oh, what magnificent en
couragement for the poorly started!
Again, I have to tell you that in that
village barn that night was born good
■will to men, whether you call it kindness,
or forbearance or forgiven®®®, or genial
ity, or affection, or love. It was no a pert
of high heaven to send its favorite to that
humiliation. It was sacrifice for a re
bellious world. After the calamity in par
adise, not only did the ox begin to gore,
and the adder to sting, and the elephant
to smite with his tusk, and the lion to put
to bud use tooth and paw, but under the
i very tree from which the forbidden fruit
was plucked were hatched out war and
revenge and malice and envy and jeal
ousy end the whole brood of cockatrices.
But against that scene I set the Bethle
hem manger, which says, “Bless rather
than curse, endure rather than assault,”
and that Christmas night puts out vindic
tiveness. It says, "Sheathe your sword,
dismount your guns, dismantle your bat
teries, turn the warship Constellation,
that carries shot and shell Into a grain
ship to take food to famishing Ireland,
hook your cavalry horses to the plow, use
your deadly gunpoxyer in blasting rocks
and in patriot!*’ celebration, stop your
' lawsuits, quit writing anonymous letters
extract the sting from your sarcasm, let
your wit coruscate but never burn, drop
all the harsh words out of your vocabu
lary—'Good will to men? ”
"Oh," you say, “I can't exercise It; I
won't exercise it until they apologize; I
■won’t forgive them until they ask me to
forgive them." You are no Christian then
—1 say you are no Christian, or you are
a very Inconsistent Christian. If you for
give not men their trespasses, how can
you expect your Heavenly Father to for
?jve you? Forgive them if they ask your
orgiveness, and forgive them anyhow.
Shake hands all around. "Good will to
men.”
Oh. my Lord Jesus, drop that spirit into
all our hearts this Christmas time. I tell
you what the world wants more than any
thing else— more helping hands, more
sympathetic hearts, more kind words that
never die. more disposition to give other
people a ride and to carry the heavy end
or the load and give other people the
light end, and to ascribe good motives in
stead of bad, and to find our happiness
tn making others happy, •
Out of that Bothleh< m crib lot the bear
and the lion eat straw like an ox. "Good
will to men." That principle will yet set
tle all controversies, and under it the
world will keep on Improving until there
will be only two antagonists in all the
earth, and they will aide l»v side take the
jubilant sleigh-ride Intonated by the
prophet when he said. “Holiness shall be
on the boils of the horses.”
Again, I remark that born that Christ
mas night in the village barn was sympa
thetic union with other worlds. From
that supernatural grouping of the cloud
banks over Bethlehem, and from the
especial trains that ran down to the scene
I find that our world !< beautifully and
gloriously and magnificently surroundoi.
Ttie meteors are with ns, for one of them
ran to point down to the birth-place. Tne
heavena are with us. bet ause at the
thought of our redemption they roll hos
annas out of the midnight sky.
Oh, yea, I do not know but our world
may bo better surrounded than we have
sometimes imagined; and when a child is
born angels bring it. and wtv*n it dies an
gels take it. am! when an old man bends
under the weight of years angels uphold
him and when n heart breaks angels
soothe It. Angels in the hospital to take
care of the Mok. Angela In the cemetery
to watch our dead. Angels in the church
ready i© tty heavenward with th*' news
of repentant souls, Angels above the
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world. Angels under the world. Angels
all around the world.
Rub the dust of human imperfection out
of your eyes, and look into the heavens
and see angels of pity, angels of mercy,
angels of pardon, angels of help, angels
crowned, angels charioted. The world de
fender! by angels, girdled by angels, cor
horted by angels—clouds of angels. Hear
David cry out: "The chariots of God are
twenty thousand. Even thousands of an
gels.” But the mightiest angel stood not
that night in the clouds over Bethlehem;
the mightiest angel that night lay among
the cattle—the Angel of the new cove
nant.
As the clean, white linen was being
wrapped around the little form of that
child emperor, not a cherub, not a seraph,
not ah angel, not a world, but wept and
thrilled and shouted. Oh, yes, our world
has plenty of sympathizers! Our world
is only a silver rung of a great ladder
at the top of which is our Father’s house.
No more stellar solitariness for our world,
no other friendless planets spun out into
space to freeze, but a world in the bosom
of divine maternity. A star harnessed to
a manger.
Again, I remark that that night born in
that village barn was the offender’s hope.
Some sermonizers may say I ought to
have projected this thought at the begin
ning of the sermon. Oh, no! I wanted
you to rise toward it. I wanted you to
examine the cornelians and the jaspers
and the crystals before I showed you the
Kohlnoor—the crown jewel of the ages.
Oh, that jewel had a very poor setting!
The cub of bear is boro amid the grand
old pillars of the forest, the whelp of lion
takes its first step from the jungle of
luxuriant leaf and wild flower, the kid
of goat is born in cavern chandeliered
with stalactite and pillared with stalag
mite. Christ was born in a bare barn.
Yet that nativity was the offender’s hope.
Over the door of heaven are written these
words: “None but the sinless may enter
here.” “Oh, horror,” you say, “that shuts
us ail out!” No. Christ came to the
world in one door, and he departed through
another door. He came through the door
of the manger, and he departed through
the door of the sepulchre, and his one
business was so to wash away our sin
that after we are dead there will be no
more sin about us than about the eternal
God. I know that is putting it strongly,
but that is what I understand by full re
mission. All erased, all washed away, all
scoured out, all gone. That undergird
ling and overarching and irradiating and
imparadlsing possibility for you, and for
me, and for the whole race, that was
given that Christmas night.
Do you wonder we bring flowers to-day
to celebrate such an event? Do you won
der that we take organ and youthful voie6
and queenly soloist to celebrate it? Do
you wonder that Raphael and Rubens
and Titian and Giotto and Ghirlandaio,
and all the old Italian and German paint
ers gave the mlghtieat stroke of their ge
nius to sketch the Madonna, Mary and
her boy?
Oh!j now I see what the manger was.
Not so high the gilded and jewelled and
embroidered cradle of the Henrys of Eng
land, or the Louis of France, or the Fred
ericks of Prussia. Now I find out that
that Bethlehem crib fed not so much the
oxen of the stall as the white horses of
Apocalyptic vision. Now I And the swad
dling clothes enlarging and emblazoning
into an imperial robe for a conqueror. Now
I find that the star of that Christmas
night was only the diamonded sandal of
him who hath the moon under his feet.
Now I come to understand that the music
of that .night watt not a completed song,
but only the stringing of the Instruments
for a great chorus of two worlds, the
has*.to be carried ny earthly naliona „av
ed, and the soprano by kingdoms of glory
won.
Oh, heaven, heaven, heaven! I shall
meet you there. After all our imperfec
tions are gone, I shall meet you there. I
look out to-day, through the mists of
years, through the fog that rises from the
cold Jordan, through the wide open door
of soiid pearl to that reunion. I expect
to see you there as certainly as I see you
here. What a time we shall have in high
converse, talking over sins pardoned, and
sorrows comforted and battles triumph
ant!
Some at your children have already gone,
and though people passing along the
street and seeing white crepe on the door
bell may have said: “It is only a child,”
yet when the broken-hearted father came
to solicit my service, he said: “Come
around and comfort us, for we loved her
so much?’
What a Christmas morning it ■will make
when those with whom you used to keep
the holidays are all around you in heaven!
Silver-haired old father young again, and
mother, who had so many aches and pains
and decrepitudes, well again, and all your
brothers and sisters and the little ones,
haw glad they will be to see you! They
have been waiting. The last time they
saw your face it was covered with tears
and distress, and nallld from long watch
ing. and one of them I can imagine to
day, W’ith one hand holding fast the shin
ing gate, and the other hand swung out
toward you, saying:
Steer this way, father, steer straight for
me;
Here safe in heaven I am waiting for thee.
Oh, those Bethlehem angels, when they
went back after the concert that night
over the hills, forgot to shut the door!
All the secret Is out. No more use of try
ing to hidje from us the glories to come.
It is too late to shut the gate. It is
blocked wide open with hosannas march
ing this way and hallelujahs marching
that way. In the splendor of the an
ticipation I feel as if I wds dying—not
physically, for I never was more well—
but in the transport of the Christmas
transfiguration.
What almost unmans me, is the thought
that it is provided for such sinners as
you and I have been. If it had been pro
vided only for those who had always
thought right, and spoken right, and acted
right, you and I would have hail no In
terest in it. had no share in !t; you and
I would have stuck to the raft mid-ocean,
and let the ship sail by carrying perfect
passengers from a perfect life on earth
to a perfect life in heaven. But I have
heard the commander of that ship is the
i same great and glorious and sympathetic
i one who hushed the tempest around the
i boat on Galilee, and I have heard that all
the passengers on the ship are sinners
saved by grace. And so we hall the ship,
and it bears down this way. and we come
by the side of it and ask the captain two
I questions: "Who art thou? and whence?”
and he says: “I ain captain of salva
tion, and I am from the manger." Oh,
i bright Christmas morning of my soul’s
delight! Chime all the bells. Merry
I Christmas!
Merry with the thought of sins for
given,* merry with the idea of sorrows
i comforted, merry with the raptures to
, ooms. Oh. lift that Christ from the man
ger and lay him down in all our hearts!
We may not bring to him as costly a
present us the Magi brought, hurt we bring
; to his feet and to the manger to-day the
; frankincense of our joy, the prostration
of our worship.
Down at his feet all churches, all ages,
! all earth, all heaven. Down at his feet
the four-and-twenty elders on their faces.
Down the "great multitude that no man
can number?’ Down Michael, the archan
’ gel! Down all worlds at his feet and wor
| ship. “Glory to God in the highest, and
on earth peace, good-wiil to men!"
BLA7.K IT BALTIMORE.
An Explosion of lltnmiiiat Ina Gns
Kiartn the Fire.
Baltimore, Dec. 23.—An explosion of il
, ' lumlnatlng gas early this morning in the
■ cellar of No. 32 West Baltimore street
I caused a loss by fire of 350,000. Heidei
; berger A Co., clothiers, the occupants
i of the building, lost 320.000 on. stock. The
stock of Met'addvn A McKiwee, picture
frame manufacturers, at No. A». and Cush-
I ■ ing A Co., book-sellers, at No. ,M, were
i ■ each damage*!
> at No. 32. owned by the Johns Hopkin's
‘estate, wus damage*! about slxooo. Five
> i the other buildings The losses are al!
f I covered by insurimw.
DREAD A FIFTY-CENT DOLLAR.
SILVERITES TO BLAME FOR THE
FINANCIAL SCARE.
European Holders of American Se
curities Unloading Principally Be
cause They Fear the Country is to
Be Drained of Its Gold—Prepara
tions for the Christmas Festival
Occupy Most of the Germans—The
Winter to Be a Gay One in Berlin
Social Circles.
Berlin, Dec. 22.—Public interest in Ber
lin in the quarrel between the United
States and Great Britain has never been
highly strained, and bids fair to become
rapidly less, especially as regards
the political aspect of the ques
tion. On the other hand, how
ever, financial anxiety is on the in
crease. The operations on the bourse here,
in Frankfort and in Vienna on Saturday
showed a greater tendency to take the
situation seriously. It is true that noth
ing like a war panic prevailed, but the
operators obviously got the impression
that the financial position must become
much worse than it is, whatever may
happen, in relieving the political diffi
culty. The selling of American stocks on
the various German bourses proceeded ac
tively and a considerable number of bear
orders are reported to have been sent
to London. The selling movement
meanwhile is not that investors are
unloading, but it is largely confined to
speculative dealings, which seem calcu
lated to eventually draw in genuine hold
ers. The concurrence of the financial
press in the gloomy view of the monetary
prospects of the United States is giving a
great didal of assistance to speculators
for a fall. Responsible newspapers, like
the National Zedtung, predict a flow of
gold from the United States.
In regard to a tariff war between Ger
many and the United States, nobody af
fects to believe that anything of the kind
will occur excepting interested agrarians,
who have been hoping that such a war
would result in the formation of a strong
agrarian and protectionist ministry in
Germany.
The preparations which everybody is
making for Christmas, places to the na
tions at large, political and financial
events in the background. The members
of the imperial family have returned from
their tour through Burgher Fashion. The
emperor is enjoying himself in the bosom
of his family, and the life of the royalties
at the new palace at Postdam mirrors
upon a great scale most of the households
in Germany. On Christmas eve the big
gest event for the young princes will be
“Die Bescherung,” the giving of Christ
mas boxes. The distribution of gifts will
be made from a Christmas tree, of which
each prince will have one, their size vary
ing according to the ages of the ownera.
There will be a tree, too, for the little
princess, Visctotia Izmise, awd there will
also he trees fo* everybody in the hopse
hold, down to the kitchen servants. Apart
from domestic fetes, Berlin will be quiet
socially until the season commences, short
ly before the annual Ordensfest, which
will take place on Jan. 18, the twenty
fifth anniversary of the proclamation of
the German empire.
Chancellor Prince von Hohenlohe left
Berlin on Friday on his way to Bohemia,
to pass the Christmas holidays with his
eldest son. Prince Philip.
Among the hig’h society leaders of Ber
lin Prince and Princess Radzewill are the
only ones now here. The princess is “at
home” every day from 5 p. m. until in the
evening to intimate friends. Just prior
to the “Ordenfest” all of the grand seig
neurs will leave their country seats for
Berlin. The upper house of the Prussian
Diet will then begin its session and the
series of court balls will commence. Each
aristocratic set gives its own special func
tions, society clique is more pronounced
than ever, not having been modified in
the slightest degree under the regime of
Emperor William 11. Besides the regular
court circle there is the set of officers of
the First Guards, composed of members
of the old mediaeval princely families.
This set is so exclusive that it will not
mix even with the officers of the Garde
Du Corps. Then there is the Hohenlohe
circle, to which belong the Furstenbergs,
Schoenbergs, Hatzfeldts and other famil
ies of that rank whose name® are found in.
the Alamach D Gotha, and who look down
upon everybody outside of their set. Those
of the public official circle stand apart
from the court aristocrats, the various
cliques meeting only at great assemblies,
where the general world goes. Then,
again, the members of the haute finance
form a society by themselves, and so on
down. All of these circles Will be in full
swing of gaiety three weeks hence, mak
ing Berlin brighter and adding to the
prosperity of the tradesmen, and no com
plications in the east or the west menace
a blight upon a good season.
According to accepted reports the much
talked of letters that were in the posses
sion, of Baron von Hammerstein, the ab
eoonding ex-editor of the Kreuz Zeitung,
came into the possession of the socialist
leaders in the Reichstag through the Bar
on’s mistress, Flora Gaes. Fraulein Gaes
was left in indigent circumstances and
was obliged to leave her hotel because of
inability to pay her bills, the chamber
maids in the hotel holding her
trunks as security for some small
loans which she had contracted.
The Freisinnge deputies In the Reichstag
bought some of the letters from her, but
the socialists are in possession of seventy
of them signed by well known conserv
ative deputies and officials. Most of these
' letters are addressed to Baron Hainmer-
I stein, but some of them are addressed to
Flora herself. It is revelations not of
political scheming alone that these con
servatives dread, but the letters show va
rious examples of moral turpitude on their
part that they would go great lengths to
conceal. Baron von Stumm-Halberg, who
is himself clear of all suspicion, proposes
to as» ! st his embarrassed associates in
the Reichstag by moving a resolution
restraining the members from making
any oral disclosures in debates and pro
hibiting under severe penalties the pub
lication of any of ttae contents of the
! letters. Baron von Stumm also seems
very serious In his resolve to raise the
i question of the exclusion of the socialists
from the Reichstag on the ground that
they have violated the constitution in
receiving payment from party funds.
While Prince Bismarck was chancellor a
similar effort was made to repress the
socialists, but it was a failure.
The fizzle which Rector Ahlwardt has
made in his anti-Semitlcs campaign in
the United States has still further dis
credited him among anti-Semites here.
A meeting of the democratic anti-Semite
union, which was held yesterday, resent
ed the suggestion that in Rector Ahl
wardt’s tour of America he was acting
in any way in a representative capacity
and it was explicitly declared that his
trip was undertaken wholly without the
knowledge of the union.
The emperor has invited all of the
members of the Reichstag who sat in
the first session after the creation of that
body tn 1871 to be present at the castle
on Jan. 18, the twenty-fifth anniversary
of the proclamation of the German ern
| pire. It has been ascertained that of the
I original body, only thirty-five are now
alive and that out of thirty who formed
the memorable deputation to Versailles
• | upon the occasion of the proclamation of
I*' William 1 as emperor or Germany the
only ones living are the Duke of Ujest,
the Prince of Pless. Herren von Drest,
; | Von Romberg and Von Salze and Count
i Hoinpeach. The Bundesrath has three
members who were in the first session of
i the Reichstag and to these a special fete
I will be given on Jan. 18.
The ex-Empress Frederick will enter-
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1895.
tain Prince and Princess Frederick
Charles of Hesse on Christmas. Her
present entourage in Berlin is limited to
the household ladies of the Seckendorff ,
and Ruschachs families. Since her ar
rival here the ex-empress has been
very active in private charities
and has inspected the children’s homes.
She has also given several quiet evening
receptions, among her guests being Sir
Frank Lascelles, the British ambassador
to Berlin; Prof. Wagner, rector of the
University of Berlin, and a number of
other notables irf literature and science.
The results of the completed census of
Germany shows the population of the
empire to be 51,758,364, an increase of 2,329,-
894 over the census of 1890. All of the
States of the empire show increases.
The Vosslche Zeitung, in an article re
ferring to the financial panic in New York,
says: “The outcome is likely to prove
to be President Cleveland’s Sedan. The
economic position of* America is bad
enough now, but what will happen, in the
event of war?”
The North German Gazette expresses
fear that it will take at least a decade
for America to recover the confidence of
the politicians and financiers of Germany.
The emperor is suffering from a cold,
but his condition is not serious.
A report is in circulation that Count
Herbert Bismarck is about to obtain an
office in the Prussian ministry, but the
rumor is not generally believed in official
circles.
Dr. Barth, radical unionists member
of the Reichstag, has made a statement
that the emperor to a speech at Bres
lau recently, spoke of the-cowardly burg
herdom, from which nothing can be ex
pected in combating the socialists. Like
the story that the emperor is supporting
England in her quarrel with the United
States, this statement seems to be an in
vention based upon his majesty’s sup
posed prejudices.
PCHOMBUHGK'S LIFE STORY.
The Man Who Fixed the Bonndary
Once a Clerk in This Country.
Washington, Dec. 22.—An interesting
fact in connection with the famous Schom
burgk line, which has escaped observa
tion, is that the man who provided the
British government with that boundary
came to this country from Germany when
he was 22 years old, and after working
for some time as a clerk in Boston and
Philadelphia, became a partner in a
Richmond, Va., tobacco manufactory in
1828. The factory was burned and Schom
burgk drifted to the West Indies, where,
after unsuccessful ventures, his botanical
work attracted the attention of the Lon
don Geographical Society, and secured
means to explore the unknown region of
the Orinoco, where he traveled from 1833
to 1839, when he discovered the Victoria
Regia illy and numerous plants. This
work led the British government to com
mission him to suggest a boundary be
tween Venezuela and Guiana and to mAke
further explorations. The line was drawn
and he was knighted byxhe queen for his
services. Schomburgk, until his death In
1865, continued in the British consular ser
vice, but devoted himself to geographi
cal studies, being a member of the princi
pal American and European learned so
cieties.
STAND DY TRff TRENIDFAT,
N k *
Prof. Von Holtz’s Views Not Those of
the ‘University of UhlcaM*<j.
Chicago, Dec. 22.—Prof. von. Holtz of
the University of Chicago is being round
ly scored by the faculty sor k his recent ex
pressions against President Cleveland and
his attitude on the Venezuelan question.
The officers of the university fear Prof.
Holtz's opinion will be interpreted as an
expression of the sentiment of the uni
versity, which, in fact, is directly opposed
to that of the German student.
President Harper, Prof. Judson and Sec
retary Goodspeed have given out signed
statements, the following being Presi
dent Harper's: “The message and policy
of President Cleveland on the Venezuelan
question meet my earnest approval.
Whether the Monroe doctrine Is or is not
a part of the system of international law
is immaterial. It is a part of the settled
foreign policy of the United States.
Whether t'he President’s interpretation of
the doctrine in the present case can be
found in the phraseology of the message
of 1823 is mere pettifogging. His inter
pretation is a logical deduction from the
spirit and purpose of that message. The
United States cannot permit the forcible
extension of European territory on this
continent. That must be resisted by all
the means in our
PRAYERS FOR PEACE.
Rev. Dr. Parker of London Says
the Two Nations Must Be Friends.
London, Dec. 22.—Speaking at the City
Temple to-day, the Rev. Joseph Parker,
D.D., said: “Do not trouble yourselves
with the thought of war. There will be
no war. England and America cannot do
without each other. War would be sui
cide. We send to-day a message from our
hearts to our fellow Christians in
America. We must act in a spirit of mag
nanimity and concession. We miss Henry
Ward Beecher. He could and would have
spoken the word of reconciliation, I call
upon British and American Christians to
unite in prayerful counsel in the interests
of peace.”
Mr. Parker prayed in a similar strain,
the congregation giving a hearty amen
to his supplication.
i The Men’s Sunday Union, which is com
posed of the workers in the East End of
London, have adopted a resolution send
ing a hearty Christmas greeting to their
brother nation as an expression of their
! opinion that a war would be unnatural
I and un-Christian, and should be forever
impossible.
| UNCLE SAM CHEERED AT COLON.
; Colombians and Venezuelans Rail?
nt the Consulate.
Colon, Dec. 22,—There was a grand de
monstration last night at the American
consulate here, in honor of the United
States, for its attitude in support of the
Monroe doctrine. Many prominent Colom
bians and also Venezuelans, who either
reside or are visiting here, were present.
Much enthusiasm was manifested and the
American government was, through the
consul, heartily commended for the action
it has taken. The streets in the vicinity
of the consulate were filled with cheering
crowds.
POWDER FOR THE GOVERNMENT.
The Works nt Santa Crus Filling nn
Order for 123.000 Ponndn.
Santa Cruz, Cal., Dec. 22.—The powder
works here are rapiUy filling an order
for 125.000 pounds of government powder
ordered a month ago. Government con
tracts are frequently filled at the works,
but no order so large as the present one
has been received at this time of the year
The men are working night and day to
fill it. Whether thie rush has anything
to do with the war scare no one is pre
pared to say.
A Rc-mun Editor’s Deluaion.
Rome, Dec. 22. —The Popolo Romano,
commenting on the financial effect of
Preaident Cleveland's message on the Ven
ezuelan affair, says it is of the opinipp
that the common-sense of the American
people will punish the President’s impru
dent affrontecy.
CONGRESS TO PROVIDE CASH,
r
THE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE
TO PUSH ITS WORK.
Brief Amendments to the Tariff Law
to Be in Force Thirty Months to
Bring in $30,000,000 to $35,000,000.
A 3 Per Cent. Bond to Maintain the
Gold Reserve to Be Authorized.
The Tax on National Bank Circula
tion to Be Reduced.
Washington, Dec? 22.—For the first time
since the short session of the Forty
seventh congress, in the winter of 1882-83,
qongress will enter holiday week to-mor
row with the intention of sitting through
the season usually devoted to recess. The
occasion for this unusual zeal and devo
tion to public interests was President
Cleveland's message on Friday last, which
asked the congress not to take its usual
respite from labor at this season of the
year, but to remain and provide the leg
islation necessary to relieve the financial
situation of the government. The House
will enter upon this work promptly to
morrow, through its committees announc
ed on Saturday. The members of the
ways and means committee will meet at
11 o’clock and proceed as rapidly as may
be with the consideration and prepara
tion of a bill or bills to meet the condi
tion which confronts them.
The measure of relief which it is ex
pected that the commiittees will propose
will include, each in one bill or several,
as may be deemed most expedient, brief
amendments to the tariff law, not involv
ing general tariff revision, such amend
ments to expire at the end of thirty
months; authority to the Secretary of the
Treasury to issue a 3 per cent, bond as
a popular loan, to maintain the gold re
serve, and for no other purposes, with a
provision that the redeemed greenbacks
shall not be used to meet current expenses,
but be retained as long g,s necessary as
part of the redemption fund; authority
to issue to national banks circulating notes
up to par of the bonds deposited as se
curity therefor, and to reduce the tax on
national bank circulation, and authority
for the issue of certificates of indebted
ness to meet any temporary deficiency in
receipts until the revenue can be provided.
It is estimated that these proposed tariff
changes will add from $30,000,000 to $35,-
000,000 to the income of the government.
Although there is some criticism of' this
scheme from the republican side of the
committee, it is not likely to manifest
iteblf in any other form, and the proposi
tion will receive the united support of the
majority. One suggestion was that the
Reed substitute .for the issue of gold
bonds, made in the last congress when
financial schemes were being considered,
should be reported and passed.
While it is not probable that the com
-will be ready to report to the.,
House before Wednesday or Thursday at
the earliest, there will be no adjournment
for more than a day or tw 5 © at a time,
until the proposed -.relief shall have oeen
enacted.
Should this be accomplished this week,
the House will probably then indulge in
a three days receSte over the New Year
holiday.
In the meantime, the committee on
banking and currency will be at work, on
a bill to remodel the financial system of
the country, in the hope that it will be
ready for report to the House when busi
ness shall be regularly resumed in Jan
uary.
Although the Senate will be nominally
in session this week it is believed that
there will at no time be a quorum present.
A financial debate may be precipitated
Tuesday if Mr. Vest presses the resolu
tion for which he asked immediate con
sideration Saturday. This resolution di
rects the Secretary of the Treasury to
coin, the silver bullion in the treasury and
apply the silver dollars so coined to the
redemption of the treasury notes issued
in payment of the bullion under the Sher
man act. If the Senate should be in a
humor to permit t'he resolution to come to
a vote, it will surely pass, for the silver
men are In the majority by at least a
dozen, and, possibly, fourteen, votes.
The resolution of Mr. Butler, pop., of
North Carolina, directing the Secretary
of the Treasury to meet the obligations
of the government with silver, whenever
that money is of less value than gold, is
also on the table, and may be the subject
of a speech at any time.
It IS likely that the Senate will meet
ontly at intervals, for, as all legislation
relating to finance and the revenues must
originate in the House, until some meas
ure is sent over from the House, there
will be little occasion for the Senate to
remain in session.
Now that the holiday recess has fallen
through the republicans may urge the
democrats to at once fill their committee
lists, but there Is little probability of
this being done until the new year is
inaugurated. Taken altogether, the com
ing week in the Senate promises to be
unproductive, unless the unexpected hap
pens.
PORTO RICO TIRED OF SPAIN.
Steps Taken at New York to Organize
a Revolution.
New York, Dec. 22.—The Porto Rican
colony in this city held a meeting to-day
to discuss the organization of a Porto
Rican revolutionary party. Dr. J. K. Alio
Henna presided. Among the Porto Ri-
I cans present were Senors Terreforte,
Forest, Besosa, Figuervo, Castro and Me
li no.
Speeches were made reciting the wrongs
i to which Porto Rico is subjected sub
jected under Spanish rule and a junta
was organized with Dr. J. Julio Henna
as president, Juan Terreforte as vice
president, S. Forest as secretary, Gumer
sindo Rivas. Sotoro Figuervo and Manuel
Bosezo as the board of finances.
A committee was then appointed to can
vass the city for subscriptions. Those
present contributed SSOO for the cause.
COXEA EXPECTS NO CONFLICT.
The War Scare Only a Scheme to In
crease the Army and Navy.
Nashville, Tenn.. Dec. 22.—Gen. J. S.
■ i Coxey, whose whereabouts has caused
some newspaper talk during the past
few days, turned up unexpectedly In Nash
ville to-day. He came from the sooth.
In talking of the controversy with Eng
land he said there would be no war and
expressed the view that the whole matter
■ was simply a scheme on the part of Pres
ident Cleveland to increase the army and
navy and so maintain the control of the
money power by force.
RUSSO-AMERICANS READY.
Their National Society Ready to
Fight England.
Shamokin, Pa., Dec. 22.—John Glovra.
president of the Russian National Socie-
■ ty of the United State®, stated that at a
> meeting at the officers of that association
i last evening it was resolved to lend ail
’ ; aid possible to President Cleveland in
■■ case the United States became involved
i in war with England. There are .said to
i ! be over 200,000 members of the society In
■ . this country, many of whom are trained
J soldiers.
( WEEKLY 2-TIMES-A-WEEK $1 A YEAR 1
< 5 CENTS A COPY. I
I DAILY, $lO A YEAR. J
RISE OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
The Water Up 22 Feet at St. Louis
Since Thursday Night.
St. Louis, Dec. 22.—Since Thursday
night the Mississppi river at this point
has risen twenty-two feet, which is un
precedented in the same length of time.
The boatmen and dwellers on the river
bank were taken unawares, and the loss is
already very great. A number of shanty
boats were swept away. In one of these,
“Sandy Hook,” a dance was in progress
last night, and the revellers were not
aware of their peril until the boat struck
in a tree. The American bottoms are half
under and the loss of stock in consider
able. At 6 o’clock to-night the gauge
read twenty-four and one-half feet,
whereas Thursday morning it was only
two and a half feet.
Meager reports, due to breaks in com
munication, show that the flood covers
the Mississippi valley from the lowa line
to Cairo, His.
At Warsaw, Mo., the Osage river flood
ed the town, and the last dispatch was
sent oat by an operator perched on a
desk four feet high, while a boat was
moored to the door.
At Fairfield, on the Osage, the water is
waist hig’h in the stores, the tracks are
gone and no mail has arrived* since Tues
day.
At Taborville, the Osage was fourteen
miles w’ide, and a mill and all the bridges
were carried away.
In Union county, Joseph Eckert, a sur
veyor, went down with a bridge across
the Bourbois and was drowned.
The St. Louis mail reaches Carthage by
coming 220 miles around through Kansas.
All the small streams have but com
menced to pour their floods into the Mis
sissippi, and a repetition of the disastrous
floods of former years is predicted.
BUNCE’S SRUADRON.
It is to Be Joined by Battleships and
Its Departure Delayed.
Washington, Dec. 22.—Secretary Her
bert had a conference to-day with Rear
Admiral Bunce, commanding the North
Atlantic squadron, in regard to the sail
ing of that fleet for the West Indies and
nearby South American waters. The ad
miral was at the department Thursday
to receive verbal instructions preparatory
to the sailing of his ships, but owing
to the absence of the secretary in New
York, failed to get them. He was notified,
however, to meet the latter to-day for
a conference.
In the meantime a suspicion would like
ly attach at this juncture to the sailing
of the squadron for the vicinity of the
Venezuelan coast. Secretary Herbert, of
course, consulted with the President as
to the best line of action to be adopted.
The interview between the secretary and
the admiral to-day lasted for quite a
while, the latter having come on from
Fort Monroe, his squadron being anchor
ed in Hampton roads. The admiral was
originally given sailing orders for Satur
day last, but they were subsequently
amended, and it is learned to-night that
the time of the departure is indefinite.
The present composition of the fleet will
I <>© Hugmentf'i ~by the addition of the
Maine and possibly the Texas, both bat
tleships.
As the Texas will have to undergo an
other trip trip, and the Maii,.e is not yet
fully provisioned, it can be seen that the
sailing of the squadron will not be for
some time.
MACEO’S AIDE-DE-CAMP HERE.
He Bears Dispatches to the Revolu
tionary Leaders in New York.
Key West, Fla., Dec. 22.—Castro Pal
omino, aide-de-camp to Maceo, passed
through this city last night en route for
New York. He is the bearer of Important
dispatches to leaders in this country. He
reports that Maceo and Gomez are both
In Matanzas district with 14,000 well
equipped men. He says that the insur
gents had several engagements during
the past week, the most Important being
at Pomoguerra and El Flore® in the Cien
fugos district, both of which were favor
able to the insurgents. He also states
that both Gomez and Maceo entered
Mantanzas without meeting any opposi
tion from Spanish troops and that the in
surgents are anxious for an open battle,
being confident they can defeat the Span
ish troops.
Madrid, Dec. 22.—A dlspatcM to the
Heraldo from Colon, Cuba, says that
heavy firing has been heard in the direc
tion of Managua. It is believed that the
insurgents have entered the province of
Matanzas byway of Palmalo, after a
sharp fight with the government troops
under thee ommand of Col. Hernandez.
A TEA DEALER BURNED OUT.
Ten Thousiiud Chest® on Hund—The
Total I-ohm $ 100.000.
Cincinnati, 0., Dec. 22.—Fire this even
ing destroyed the five-story building at
214 Wall street, occupied by W. W.
Thomas, wholesale dealer in teas, spices,
etc. The entire contents of the building
were burned. Ten thousand chests of tea
was the principal stock on hand, all of
which was lost.
The loss will be SIOO,OOO. The insurance
will cover about 80 per cent. The firm
was the largest wholesale tea house in
the country outside of New York city.
The Cincinnati Scale Company and the
Howe Scale Manufacturing Company are
also losers to some extent by Water dam
age.
GOLD PILING UP AT CINCINNATI.
The Yellow Metal Pouring Into the
Sub-Treasury.
Cincinnati, Dec. 22.—G01d is pouring into
the sub-treasury at the rate of SIO,OOO *a
day, and the local reserve is increasing at
a rapid rate. The German National tele
phoned the sub-treasury that it was
ready to turn over all the gold it bad on
hand if wanted. The gold on deposit here
now Is only a little less than $2,000,00*).
A LAWYER SENT TO PRISON.
Two Years Given Him on Conviction
of Grand Larceny.
St. Louis, Dec. 22.—Jeff Storts, a lawyer
of this city, why has earned notoriety
by appearing as defendant to a score of
criminal charges, was "landed” in the
criminal court yesterday, where he was
convicted of grand larceny and sentenced
: to serve two years in the penitentiary.
Storts Is a good lawyer and was once a
member of the state legislature.
Coming to the Exposition.
Anderson, Ind., Dec. 22.—The Anderson,
Marlon and Muncie High School parties,
309 strong, left yesterday for Atlanta to
visit the exposition and the battlefields.
The purpose of the trip is to study the
south, and especially the battlefields, and
the party will be gone teh days.
T»4-o Steamers in CoHiaion.
London, Dec. 22.—The British steamer
Cayomono. Capt. Pope, from New Orleans
Nov. 29 for Antwerp has been in collision
with the British steamer Achilles, which
; was outward bound. The Achilles' star
board quarter was damaged and she re
turned. The Cayomono apparently sus
tained no damage.
MONDAYS!
-AND- I
THURSDAYS!
LONDON EDITORS ON THE WAR.
THE STANDARD PRINTS A CONCILI-
ATORY ARTICLE.
The Sober Second Thought of the
American People Counted on to
Avert a. Conflict Between the Na
tions—The London Times Still
Blowing in Savage Fashion.
London, Dec. 22.—The Daily News un
der the caption of “Sober Second
Thought,” will discuss the situation in
that light. It will say: “It would be
improper and ungenerous to attribute
the change of opinion to the chilling in
fluence of a financial panic on a people so
self-reliant and courageous as those of
the United States. They would never be
turned from any supreme object of pa
triotic effort by misgivings respecting
their own power. No American can have
stronger belief than we in the potency
of the great country and its people. It
is because we so strongly believe in the
power and will of the American people
that we rejoice in their rapid, change of
opinion.”
The paper then proceeds to blame Mr.
Cleveland and says that the sooner his
language is forgotten, the better it will
be for all parties, including himself. The
commission, it adds, will be regarded not
as an international tribunal, but as a
form of domestic inquiry designed for the
better information of the American peo
ple and their rulers. It may be positive
ly useless. Its very appointment is in one
sense an admission that the state de
partment believes that the Venezuelan
claims are exaggerated, and that no fur
ther action could wisely be taken until
Washington discovered some firmer basis
for negotiations than the shifty state
ments of the little military despot at Car
acas. It adds that there is every reason
to believe that the terms of credit and
standing propose a very different line of
demarkation from Venezuela.”
The Times will to-morrow say: “Al
though the reaction may not yet be tri
umphant, it is satisfactory to find that
Americans, whether they dislike us or
not, are hesitating to incur the guilt of
breaking the peace of the civilized world
for such a contemptible cause and in
vindication of claims repudiated by all
the nations of the old world. \
“President Cleveland's manifest inca
pacity to understand the effect of what
he w’as doing when he sent such a war
like message to congress has shattered
the confidence felt in him as a pillar of
sound finance and a mainstay of the pub
lic credit. The renewal, therefore, of his
proposals of current reform, after he him
self has made them impossible has dash
ed the hopes of his friends and set his op
ponents to work to turn his errors to ac
count. It is now clear that Mr. Cleve
land’s financial proposals have no chance
at all of passing.
“Deeply as we must regret that the j
controversy has arisen we can, at all
events, rejoice in the demonetrartion it
has afforded of the unity of our national
sentiment, and especially the attachment
of our Candian fellow subjects of the
crown. Good may come out of evil if
the incident should lead the Canadians
to strengthen their organization for de
fenab ■» V' ,o.d.non!“h üb-at- tome tc a-tra'-n
every ne<c to retairi that indisputable
command of the sea on which, tne em
pire depends,” . ■
- she will -ts tbs
names of the gentlemen suggested as
members of the Venezuelan high commis
sion are above suspicion for integrity, ex
perience and good judgment. Unhappily,
the body itself is in a diplomatic sense
hors de concours. Its findings will not
be recognized by Great Britain.
The Standard, taking its text from the
financial situation that has resulted front
President Cleveland’s message, will, in
its issue to-morrow, lecture the United
States on its economic policy. It predicts
that unless America abandons its pres
ent fallacies and dishonesties the day must
coma w’hen it will be neither able to bor
row or pay. This, it adds, would be only
an epfeode in the history of a great peo
ple, but the sufferings of a generation
having to bear the burden would be great
and memorial. It advises the United
States to fall back on the declaration of
Mr, Gladstone, “That only common sense
Is required.”
DISTILLERY FACTIONS AT WAR.
One Side Asks for a Receivership for
the Property.
Owensboro, Ky., Dec. 22.—Suit was
brought yesterday by the Fidelity Trust
Company of Louisville, executors of the
Callahan estate, against R. Monarch,
president of the Daviess County, Glen
more and Eagle Distilling companies, ask
ing for a receiver for the Daviess County
Company and making sensational charges
against Mr. Monarch. It is charged in
the petition that he set out deliberately
to defraud the minority stockholders ana
wlllfullj’ withdrew from the concern over
$1.00,000 since 1889 and appropriated It to his
own use.
The suit is the outcome of a disagree
ment between the Callahan and Monarch
Interests in the concern. Mr, Monarch
also owns the Glenmore and Eagle dis
tilleries, and it is claimed he had drawn
from the Daviess County Company for
the benefit of the other two concerns.
STEAMER SPREE SAFE.
The Vessel Reaches Southampton
Under Her Own Steam.
Southampton, .Dec. 22.—The North Ger
man Lloyd steamer Spree, which strand
ed on Thursday last on Warden Lodge,
near Totland bay, Isle of Wight, was got
off at 1:50 o’clock this afternoon. She ar
rived hero at. 3:40 o’clock under her own
steam, but assisted by tugs. She is mak
ing no water and has apparently sustain
ed no damage. She will go on the dry
dock to-morrow for examination. She is
already roehlpplng her boats and rear,
which were removed in order to lighten
; her. ' ■
AN ENGLISH STEAMER SUNK.
Five of Her Crew Drowned u» th*
Result of the Collision.
London, Dec. 22.—The British steamer
Alicia, from Middleborough for Bilboa,
has been sunk in collision with the British
steamer Nettley Abbey, from London for
Blvth. All the people on the Alicia, with
the exception of five, who were drowned,
were rescued by the Nettley Abbey. The
i latter vessel was somewhat damaged.
I The Alicia was an iron schooner-fig
ged. screw steamer of 907 tons. She. was
I built at Hartlepool in 1880, and was own
ed by R. M. Middleton, Jr.
A Papal Delegate to Mexico.
Rome, Dec. 22.—Monsignor Averadi, who
the Vatican a few days ago decided to ap
point apostolic visitor to Mexico, was to
day consecrated a titular bishop- He will
have no diplomatic relations with the
Mexican government, his mission being
solely to the clergy of Mexico..
A Hotel and Three Store* Iltirned,
Bluefield, W. Va.. JDec. 22.—The Central
hotel, Cohen’s clothing store, Tomney's
bakery and Evans & Thompson’s meat
market were destroyed by fire this morn
ing The total loss is $15,000. The Doily
; Telegraph plant, located in the same
I block, vias saved.
A Rebellion in China.
Pekin. Dec. 22.—The Dungan rebellion
has broken out. The rebels are now fight
ing among themselves.
NO 98.