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RUIN AND THEN RESTORATION.
TA!.MA«K» lesson fhom the
UEBIILDING OF JERUSALEM.
More Done For the World by the
Moonlight Ride of Nehemiah Than
by All the Other Earthly Agencies
at Work at That Time— -Intensity
of Church Affection the First Les
son Taught-.Xehemiah a Specimen
of linsy nnd Triumphant Sadness.
Washington, April 4.—From the weird
and midnight experiences of one of ancient
times Dr. Talmage, in this sermon, draws
lessons startlngly appropriate. His text
was, Nehemlah 2: 15: “Then went I up in
the night by the brook and viewed the
wall, and turned back, and entered by
the gate of the valley, and so returned.”
A dead city is more suggestive than a
living city—past Rome than present Rome
—ruins rather than newly frescoed cathe
dral. But the best time to visit a ruin is
by moonlight. The coliseum is far more
fascinating to the traveler after sundown
than before. You may stand by daylight
amid the monastic ruins of Melrose Ab
bey, and study shafted otlel, and roSetted
stone and mullion, but they throw their
strongest witchery by moonlight. Some
Os you remember what the enchanter of
Scotland said in the “Lay of the Last
Minstrel”:
Wouldst thou view fair Melrose aright,
Go visit it by the pale moonlight,
Washington Irving describes the Anda
lusian moonlight upon the Alhambra ruins
as amounting to an enchantment. My
text presents you Jerusalem In ruins. The
tower down. The gates down. The walls
down. Everything down. Nehemlah on
horseback, by moonlight looking upon the
ruins. While he rides, there are some
friends on foot going with him, for they
do not want the many horses to disturb
the suspicions of the people. These peo
ple do not know the secret of
heart, but they are going as a sort of body
guard. I hear the clicking hoofs* of the
horse on which Nehemlah rides, as he
guides, it this way and that, into this gate
and out of that, winding through that
gate amid the debris of once great Jeru
salem. Now the horse comes to dead halt
at the tumbled masonry where he cannot
pass. Now he shies off at the charred
timbers. Now he comes along where the
water under the moonlight flashes from
the mouth of the brazen dVagon alter
which the gate was named. Heavy-hearted
Nehemlah! Riding in and out, now by his
©id home desolated, now by ttys defaced
t ( -m>ple, now amid the scars of the city
t*:>t had gone down under Ik. Uering-rajn ?
and conflagration. The escorting party
knows not what Nehemlah means. Is he
getting crazy? Have his own personal
sorrows, added to the sorrows of the na
tion, unbalanced his intellect? Still the
midnight exploration goes on. Nehemlah
on horse-back rides through the fish gate
by the tower of the furnaces, by the
king'll pool, by the dragon well. In and
out, In and out, until the midnight ride is
completed, and Nehemlah dismounts from
his horse, and to the amazed, and con
founded and incredulous body-guard, de
clares the dead secret of his heart when
he says: “Come, now, let us build Jeru
salem." “What, Nehemlah, have you any
money?" “No." “Have you a.ny kingly
authority?" “No.” "Have you any elo
quence?" "No.” Yet that midnight,
moonlight ride of Nehemlah resulted in
the glorious rebuilding of the city of
Jerusalem. The people knew not how the
thing was to be done, but with great en
thusiasm they cried out: "Let us rise up
now and build the city.” Some people
laughed and said it could
*not be done. Some people
were infuriate and offered physical vio
lence, saying the thing should not be done.
But the workmen went right on, stand
ing on the wall, trowel In one hand, sword
in the other, until the work was glorious
ly completed. At that very time in Greece,
Xenophon was writing a his
tory, and Plato was making
philosophy, and Demosthenes was
rattling his rhetorical thunder: but
all of them together did not do so much
for the world as this midnight, moon
light ride of praying, courageous, home
sick, close-mouthed Nehemlah.
My subject first Impresses me with the
Idea what an Intense thing Is church af
fection. Seise the bridle of that horse
and stop Nehemlah. Why are you risk
ing your life here in the night? Your
horse will stumble over these ruins and
fall on you. Stop this useless exposure
of your life. No; Nehemlah will not atop.
He at last tells us the whole story. He
lota us know* he was an exile in a far dis
tant land, and he waa a servant, a cup
bearer in the palace of Artaxerxes Long
imanus, and one day, while he was hand
ing the cup of wine to the king, the king
•aid to him, "What is the matter with
you? You are not sick. I know you must
nave some great trouble. What is the
matter with you?” Then he told the king
how that beloved Jerusalem was broken
down; how that his fahter's toJub had been
desecrated; how* that the temple had been
dishonored and defaced; how* that the walls
were scattered and broken. “Well," says
King Artaxerxes, "what do you want?"
“Well.* said the cup-bearer Nehemlah,
“1 want to go home, I want to fix up the
grave of my father. I want to restore
the beauty of the temple. I want to re
build the masonry of the city wall. Be
aldcs, I want passports so that 1 shall
not be hindered In my journey. And be
sides that,” ns you will find In the con
text. “I want an order on the man who
keeps your forest for just so much timber
as 1 may need for the rebuilding of the
City." "How long shall you be gone?"
•aid the king. The time of absence is
arranged, tn hot haste thia seeming ad
venturer cornea to Jerusalem, and in my
text we find him on horse nack. In the
midnight, ridiftg around the ruins. it u
through the spectacles of this scene that
we discover the ardent attachment of Ne
hemlah for sacred 'Jerusalem, which in
all ng«s has been the type of the Church of
God. our Jerusalem, which we love juat
as much as Nehemlah loved his Jerusa
lem. The fact Is that you love the church
of Go. I so much that there Is no spot on
earth SO sacred, unless it be your own '
fireside. The church has been to you so ■
much comfort and illumination that there
is nothing that makes you so irate as to I
have It talked against. If there have been I
times when you have been carried into j
captivity by sickness, you longed for the
church. our holy Jerusalem, just as much j
as Nehemlah longed for his Jerusalem, and
the first day you came out you came to I
the h«m*e of the Lord. When the temple
was In ruins, like Nehemlah. you walked '
around and looked at it, and in the moon- ’
light you stood listening if you could not I
hear the vvtce ©x the dyad urgag, the I
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psalm of the expired Sabbaths. What Je
rusalem was to Nehemlah, the Church of
God is to you. Sceptics and infidels may
scoff at the church as an obsolete affair,
as a relic of the dark ages, as a convention
of goody-goody people, but all the impres
sion they have ever made on your mind
against the Church of God is absolutely
nothing. You would make more sacrifices
for it to-day than any other Institution,
and if it were needful you would die in its
defense. You can take the words of the
kingly poet as he said: “If I forget thee,
O Jerusalem,.let my right hand forget her
cunning." You understand in your own
experience the pathos, the hoine-sickness,
the courage, the holy enthusiasm of Ne
hemiah in his midnight moonlight ride
around the ruins of his beloved Jerusa
lem.
Again, my text impresses me with the
fact that, before reconstruction, there
must be an exploration of ruins. Why was
not Nehemiah asleep under the covers?
Why was not his horse stabled in the mid
night? I<et the police of the city arrest this
midnight rider, out on some mischief. No.
Nehemiah is going to rebuild the city, and
he is making the preliminary exploration.
In this gate, out that gate, east, west,
north, south. All through the ruins. The
ruins must be explored before the work of
reconstruction can begin. The reason that
so many people in this day, apparently
converted, do not stay converted is be
cause they did not first explore the ruins
pf their own heart. The reason that there
are so many professed Christians who in
this day lie and forge and steal, and com
mit abominations, and go to the peniten
tiary, is because they first do not learn
the ruin of their own heart. They have
not found out that “the heart is deceitful
above all things, and desperately wicked.”
They had an idea that they were almost
right, and they built religion as a sort of
extension, as an ornamental cupola. There
was a superstructure of religion built on
a substratum of unrepented sins. The
trouble with a good deal of modern theol
ogy Is that instead of building on the
right foundation, it builds on the debris of
an unregenerated nature. They attempt
to rebuild Jerusalem before, in the mid
night of conviction, they have seen the
ghastliness of the ruin. They have such
a poor foundation for their religion that
the first northeast storm of temptation
blows’ them down. I have no faith in a
man’s conversion if he is not converted
In the old-fashioned way—John Bunyan s
way, John Wesley’s way, John Calvin’s
way, Paul’s way, Christ’s way, God’s way.
A dentist said to me, “Does that hurt?”
Said 1, "Os course It hurts. It Is in your
business as in my profession. We have
to hurt before we can help.” You will
never understand redemption until you
understand ruin. A man tells me that
some one is a member of the church. It
makes no Impression on my mind at all. I
simply want to know whether he was con
verted In the old-fashioned way, or wheth
er he was converted In the new-fashioned
way. If he was converted In the old-fash
ioned way he will stand. If he was con
verted in the new-fashioned way he will
not stand. That is all there is about it. A
man comes to mo to talk about religion.
'The first question I ask him is, "Do you
; .ft «.l yourself u« be a sirmerW Ur 3a,>, <
"Well, I—yes," the hesitancy makes me
feel that that man wants a ride on Ne
hemlah's horse by midnight through the
ruins—in by the gate of his affections,
out by the gate of his will; and before
he haa got through with that midnight
ride he win drop the reins on the horse's
neck, and will take his right hand and
smite on his heart and say, “God be merci
ful to mo, a sinner;" and before he has
stabled hie herse he will take his feet out
of the stiirups, and he will slide down on
the ground, and he will kneel, crying,
“Have mercy on me, O God, according to
thy loving kindness, according unto the
multitude of thy tender mercies; blot out
my transgressions, for I acknowledge my
transgressions, and my sins are ever be
fore thee.” Ah, my friends, you see this
is not a comyllmentary gospel. That is
what makes some people so mad. It
comes to a man of a million dollars, and
Impenitent n his sins, and says, “You’re
a pauper.” It comes to a woman of fair
est cheek, who haa never repented, and
says, “You’re a sinner." It comes to a
man priding himself on his independence,
and says, "You’re bound hand and foot
by the devil." It comes to our entire race
and says, “You’re a ruin, a ghastly ruin,
an illimitable ruin.” Satan sometimes
says to me, “Why do you preach that
truth? Why don’t you preach a gospel
with no repentance in it? Why don’t you
flatter men’s hearts so that you make
them feel all right? Why don’t you preach
a humanitarian gospel,with no repentance
' in it, saying nothing about the ruin, talK
ing all the time about the redemption.’’
I say, "Get thee behind me, satan." I
would rather lead five sou’s into safety
than 20,C00 into perdition. Thfc redemption
of the gospel is a perfect farce if there
is no ruin. “The whole need not a physi
cian, but they that are sick." "If any one,
though he be an angel from heuven,
] reach any other gospel than this," says
the apostle, "let him be accursed.” There
must be the midnight ride over the ruins
before Jerusalem can be built. There
muai be the clicking of the hoofs before I
there can be the ring of the trowels.
Again. My subject gives me a speci
men of busy and triumphant sadness, if i
there was any man in the world who had
a right to mope and give up everything as I
lost. It was Nehemlah. You say, "He was
a cup-bearer in the palace of Shushan, I
and It was a grand place.” So it was. The
hail of that palace was two hundred feet
square, and the roof hovered over thiHy
slx marble pillars, each pillar sixty feet
high; and the intense blue of the sky, and
the deep green of the forest foliage, and
the white of the driven snow, all hung
trembling in the upholstery. But, my
friends, you know very well that fine ar
chitecture will not put down home-sick
ness. Yet Nehemiah did not give up.
Then when you see him going among
these desolated streets, and by these dis
mantled towers, and by the torn-up grave
of hie father, you would suppose chat he
would have been disheartened, and that
he would have dismounted from his horse
and gone to his room and said: “Woe is
me! My father's grave is torn up. The
I temple is dishonored. The walls arc brok
len down. I have no money with which
I to rebuild. I wish I had never been born.
Il wish I were dead.” Not so says Nehe
m'ah. Although he had a grief so intense
that it excited the commentary of his
I king, yet that penniless, expatriated Ne
hemlah rouses himself up to rebuild the
city. He gets his ]>ermisslon of absence.
He gets his passports. He hastens away
to Jerusalem. By night on horseback he
rides through the ruins. He overcomes
the most ferocious opposition. He arouses
I the piety and patriotism of the people,
■ and in less than two months, namely, sis-
I ty-two days, Jerusalem was rebuilt.
I That's what I call busy and triumphant
I sadness.
My friends, the whole temptation is with
II you when you have trouble, to do just the
opposite to the behavior of Nehemiah,
■ and t.tat is to give up. You say: “1 have
I lost my child and can never smile again."
J Vou say: “1 have lost my property, and I
j never can repair my fortunes," You say;
I “I have fallen into sin. and 1 never <an
I start again tor a new life." If Satan can
i xuakc i'ou Ivrxu uiai roo| '
you keep it, he has ruined you. Trouble
is not sent to crush you, but to arouse
you, to animate you, to propel you. The
blacksmith does not thrust the iron into
the forge, and then blow away with the
bellows, and then bring the hot iron out
on the anvil and beat with stroke after
stroke to ruin the Iron, but to prepare it
for a better use. Oh that the Lord God.,
of Nehemiah would rouse up all broken-j,
hearted people to rebuild. Whipped, be ’
trayed, ship-wrecked, imprisoned, Paul
went right on. The Italian martyr Alge
rius sits in his dungeon writing a letter,
and he dates It, “From the delectable or
chard of the Leonine prison.” That is
what I call triumph and sadness. I knew
a mother who buried her babe on Friday
and on Sabbath appeared in the house of
God and , Ssld: “Give me a class; give me
a Sabbath school class. I have no child
now left me, and I would like to have a
class of little children. Give me real poor
children. Give me a class off the back
street.” That, I say, Is beautiful. That
is triumphant sadness. At 3 o’clock every
Sabbath afternoon, for years, in a beau
tiful parlor in Philadelphia—a parlor pic
tured and statuetted —there were from ten
to twenty- destitute children of the street.
Those destitute children received religious
instruction, concluding with cakes and
sandwiches. How do I know that that
was going on for sixteen years? I know
it in this'way. That was the first home in
Philadelphia where I was called to com
fort a great sorrow. They had a splendid
boy, and he had been drowned at Long
Branch. The father and mother almost
idolized the boy, and the sob and shriek
of that father and mother as they hung
over the coffin resound in my ears to-day.
There 'seemed to be no use of praying, for
when I knelt down to pray, the outcry in
the room drowned out all the prayer. But
the Lord comforted that sorrow. They
did not forget their trouble. If you
should go any afternoon into Laurel Hill,
you would find a monument with the word
“Walter” inscribed upon it, and a wreath
of fresh flowers around the name. I think
there was not an hour In- twenty years,
winter or summer, when was not a
wreath of fresh flowers around Walter’s
name. But the Christian mother who sent
those flowers there, having no child left,
Sabbath afternoons mothered ten or twen
ty of the lost ones of the street. That is
beautiful. That Is what I call busy and
triumphant sadness. Here Is a man who
has lost his property. He does not go to
hard drinking. He does not destroy his
own life. He comes and says, “Harness
me for Christian work. My money’s gone.
I have no treasures on earth. I want
treasures in heaven. I have a voice and
and a heart to serve God.” You say that
that man has failed. He has not failed—
he has triumphed!
Oh, I wish I could persuade all the peo
ple who have any kind of trouble never to
give up. I wish they would look at the
midnight rider of the text, and that the
four hoofs of that beast on which Nehe
mlah tjode might cut to pieces all your dis
couragements, and hardships, and trials.
Give up! Who is going to give up, when on
the bosom of God he can have all his
troubles hushed? Give up! never think of
glvinp- up. y°M borne down with poy
■■ t. «> ?" A chilfl was to ar.u' holding »her
hand In the darkness of a
ti-nfmie'nt mSfiSe, and some one coming In,
the little girl looked up, while holding her
dead mother’s hand, and said, "Oh,
I do wish that God -had made more
light for poor folks.” My dear, God will be
your light, God will be your shelter, God
will be your home. Are you borne down
with the bereavements of life? Is the
house lonely now that the child Is gone?
Do not give up. Think of wha.t the old
sexton said when the minister asked him
why he put so much care on the little
graves in the cemetery—so much more
care than on the larger graves, and the
old sexton said, “Sir, you know that ‘of
such is the kingdom of heaven,’ and I
think the Savior is pleased when he sees
so much white clover growing around these
little graves." But when the minister
pressed the old sexton for a more satis
factory answer, the old sexton said, “Sir,
about these larger graves, I don’t know
who are the Lord’s saints and who are
not; but you know, sir, it Is clean different
with the bairns." Oh, if you have had
that keen, tender, indescribable sorrow
that comes from the loss of a child, do not
give up. The old sexton was right. It Is
all well with the bairns. Or, if you have
sinned, if you have sinned grievously—
sinned until you have been cast out by the
Church, sinned until you have been cast
out by society, do not give up. Perhaps
there may be in this house one that could
truthfully utter the lamentation of an
other:
Once I was pure as the snow, but I fell—
Fell like a snowflake, from heaven to
hell—
Fell, to be trampled as filth in the street-
Fell, to be scoffed at, spit on, and beat;
Praying, cursing, wishing to die.
Selling my soul to whoever would buy,
Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread,
Hating the living and fearing the dead.
Do not give up. One like unto the Son
of God come to you to-day, saying, “Go
and sin no more;” while he cries out to
your assailants. "Let him that is without
sin cast the first stone at her.” Oh! there
is no reason why anyone in this house, by
reason of any trouble or sin, should give
up. Are you a foreigner, and in a strange
land'! Nehemiah was an exile. Are you
penniless? Nehemiah was poor. Are
you homesick? Nehemlah was homesick.
Are you br-uien-hearted? Nehemlah was
broken-hearted. But Just see him in the
text, riding along the sacrlleged grave of
his father, and by the dragon well, and
through the tish gate, and by the king’s
pool, in and out, in and out, the moonlight
failing on the broken masonry, which
throws a long shadow at which the horse
shies, and at the same time that moon
j light kindling up the features of this man
til you see not only the mark of sad rem
iniscence, but the courage and hope, the
enthusiasm of a man who knows that Je
rusalem w»” oe rebuilded. I pick you up
| to-day, cu: of your sins and out of vour
I sorrow, and I put you against the warm
heart of Christ “The eternal God is thy
refuge and underneath are the everlasting
arms.”
SURVIVORS OF THE STEAMERS.
The Rodiea of the Three Drowned
From the GriKgn Not Recovered.
Columbas, Ga.. April 4.—The steamer
Queen City arrived this morning, having
on board the passengers ,and crews of the
wrecked steamers City of Columbus and
Griggs. AU are in good shape.
The bodies of Engineer Waterbury and
the two negroes drowned on the Griggs
have not been found. Capt Long will go
down o» the Queen City to-morrow, car
rying coffins for the bodies when found.
Another Wnxhout on the G. and A.
Columbus, Go,. April 4.—There is anoth
er washout on the Georgia and Alabama
road a few miles south of Columbus. A
wrecking train left for the scene to-ntght,
and it is not known when trains can go
through. There is also a bad washout on
the Central's Buena Vista line, eight miles
from town. Relief trains have been sent
PUI oa belli roadts to bxuig iu passengers.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1897.
TURKEY SENDS OUT A THREAT.
WITHDRAWAL OF THE
TROOPS IN CRETE DEMANDED.
The Note Said to Have Alreaxly Been
Presented <0 the Government at
Athens—Business Bron&ht to a
Standstill nt Constantinople by the
Uncertainties of the Political Sit
uation—Scheme of Autonomy For
Crete Agreed on by the Represen
tatives of the Powers.
Constantinople, April 4?— The porte has
prepared a note to Greece demanding the
withdrawal of the Greek troops in Crete.
The note declares that in the event of the
demand being refused the port will hold
Greece answerable. It is stated that the
note has already been presented to the
government at Athens.
The political outlook is so decidedly un
certain that business in Constantinople
has come to a complete standstill. A gen
eral feeling of uneasiness prevails and as
a result prices at bourse display a down
ward tendency. In local stocks yester
day there was a heavy decline all round.
The diplomats here have telegraphed to
their respective governments the broad
lines of the scheme of autonomy for Crete
upon which they have agreed. The details
of the plan have not been divulged and it
is probable that nothing definite concern
ing them will be known until the powers
pass upon the scheme.
London, April 4.—The Canea correspond
ent of the Daily News, telegraphs to that
paper a description of the fighting that
took place yesterday on the peninsula of
Akrotirl. He says that about 4,0C0 Mos
lem irregulars streamed along the road
from Canea to Suda. They passed the in
ternational forces and were in full view
of the foreign warships. They began as
cending the hills toward the insurgent
positions and no effort was made to stop
them. Two thousand of them were armed
but the others were without weapons. The
unarmed Moslems were driving donjseys
and carrying baskets.
A story had circulated that the admirals
were going to allow the insurgents to re
move inland and the Moslems intended to
pillage their houses after they had gone.
The insurgent fighting force at Akrotirl
numbers only about 7CO men. When the
Moslems were within two hundred yards
of the insurgent lines a parley was held
by the leaders. What passed between
them is not known.
Su-J<ii'c;y oth MfMg l .. there w®re al-
‘Sust concS-r‘juc'*\’olkys. tfi!* ifT-"
surgents had the advantage and drove the
Moslems down the hills. The latter rallied,
and, making a fierce charge, drove the
Christians from their forward posts,
where a Turkish flag, which is still wav
ing, was planted. A moderate* estimate
places the killed and wounded on each side
at fifty. 4
Maj. Bor, who is in command of the gen
darmerie, and two Italian officers ascend
ed the hill and parleyed with the Mos
lems, trying to stop the fighting. Several
of the warships had loaded their guns
and were about to shell the Moslems,
when they saw Maj. Bor and the Italian
officers. They then refrained from firing,
fearing that they would hit them.
A heavj’ rain stopped the firing between
the Christians and the Moslems, and the
latter returned to Canea.
Orders had in the meantime been given
that they be disarmed when they arrived
at the city gate. The first few, when
they reached the gate, had their arms
taken from them. After a short rest
these men returned along the Suda road
and warned their approaching comrades,
who hid their arms. Consequently only
a few were obtained. /
Seven hundred rifles that were distrib
uted by the governor remain in the town.
Despite the orders that have been given
by the admirals, the Turkish officials re
fuse to liberate three Greeks, who tare
prisoners at Akrotirl.
While various reports concur that a
blockade of Greece will be established
immediately, the Chronicle’s Athens cor
respondent telegraphs that it has again
been adjourned for several days, while M.
Hanotaux, the French foreign minister,
produces a mysterious plan. The dis
patch adds that a diplomat assured King
George yesterday that there was no im
mediate prospect of a blockade, and he
begged his majesty not to take action un
der the belief that a blockade was immi
nent. Nobody has the slightest idea of
what the hitch is in the so-called concert
concerning the blockade.
The Times w’lll to-morrow publish a dis
patch from Canea, saying that only fif
teen Moslems were killed and several
wounded in yesterday’s fighting. The loss
of the insurgents Is placed at six killed
and eleven wounded.
Canea, April 4.—The work of disarming
the Bashi-bazouks who took part in the
sortie Saturday against the Christians
who were retiring from the peninsula of
Akrotirl began to-day.
A number of gendarmes went to the
village of Kaleini. where many of the
Turkish irregular troops are living, and
demanded the surrender of their arms.
The Bashi-bazouks were defiant, and
boldly refused to give up their weapons.
As a result the European troops were
summoned, and they surrounded the vil
lage. Parleying with the Bashi-bazouxs
went on for an hour before any material
impression was made on them. Finally
they consented to give up.their weapons,
which they did with very bad grace.
Much time was occupied in the process of
disarming them.
At other places European troops mounted
guard at the. town gates to prevent the
Bashi-bazouks leaving and hiding their
arms outside the town.
A proclamation was issued declaring all
those who withheld their arms would be
shot, but this failed of the desired effect,
as only about 100 rifles were yielded. It is
known that fully 200 more are still tn pos
session of their owners and strenuous ef
forts will be made to get them.
The Insurgents have exploded a dynamite
cartridge under one of the walls of the
fort at Kissamee.
St. Petersburg. April 4.—The semi-offi
cial Journal de St. Petersburg gays: “The
aggrtfigivd provocative attitude
Greece continues to maintain with such
deplorable obstinacy forces the powers,
much against their have recourse
to a blockade of the Gulf of Athens.
"Whatever the result of a conflict so
wantonly provoked, the powers would
never consent to the aggressors ever de
riving the slightest advantage therefrom.
The complete agreement of the powers re
mains unalterable, and they would, in the
event of disturbances, created by Greece,
know how to localize and if need be, sup
press them.”
Athens, April 4.—M. Zaimls, president
of the Boule, the single Greek legislative
body, recently sent to Mr. Gladstone a
message of gratitude for the stand he
has taken in behalf of Greece and the
Cretan Christians. In his message, M.
Zaimis said: “All your glorious life has
been full of combats for justice and lib
erty. Now that the Hellenic nation has
risen to fight.in favor of Crete, which is
bathed in blood, you come to uphold the
rights of an oppressed race.”
Mr. Gladstone’s reply to this message
was made public here to-day. He says:
“My tract was not written to confer a
favor on Greece, but to discharge a sol
emn duty contributing to redeem my coun
try from any risk of dishonor wnich would
have occurred by placing ourselves in an
tagonism to the high interests of justice
and freedom. My opinion is that if the
Greeks continue discreet and the Cretans
firm, their reasonable self-assertion will
carry the day, and the powers, if they
should be so unwise as to take a hostile
part, be both discredited and defeated."
The guilds and other public bodies here
and at the Piraeus have arranged to ho>d
a big demonstration on Tuesday next,
the Greek independence day. They have
offered to turn over to the government
all their funds, amounting to nearly 1,000,-
000 drachmas. They have invited the
other towns of Greece to make a similar
display of patriotism and give all the
financial aid possible to the authorities,
in order to enable the latter to continue
their preparations to maintain the rights
of Greece.
ANGRY CLOUD OVER ANATOLIA.
Maßsncre of Armenians at Hadjin
Now Feared.
Constantinople, April 4.—lt is reported
here that disorders have occurred at Kurji,
In the vilayet of Bitlis. It is stated several
Armenians were killed, but no further de
tails are given.
The ambassadors have called the atten
tion of the the fears that are en
tertained that there will be a massacre of
Armenians at Hadjin in Anatolia, which
place escaped the fury of the Turks and
Kurds during the previous massacres.
When the several districts of Anatolia
were being ravaged by Turks some months
ago, the Hon. A. W. Terrell, the Ameri
can minister, warned the porte that the
Un|ted States government w’ould' demand
the head of the governor of the Hadjin
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American iady missionaries who were lo
cated In Hadjin. Mr. Terrell has now re
newed his warning and has demanded that
a troop of soldiers be detailed to guard the
residences of the missionaries.
A Christian governor was appointed for
the vilayet of Hadjin three months ago,
but he has not yet arrived at his post
UTAH’S TR AIN ROBBERY.
A Mnn Sappoxetl to He the Leader of
the Bandits Arrested.
Nevada City, Cal., April 4.—James True,
who is supposed to have been the leader
of the gang of bandits which held up the
Union Pacific passenger train near Uin
tah, Utah, on Oct. 14 last, and obtained
several thousand dollars, was arrested
here yesterday by the sheriff of Nevada
county, and will be turned over to the
federal authorities.
The Uintah hold-up was one of the
boldest in the history of railroad rob
bery, from the fact that there seemed to
be but one man concerned in it, and chat
the train was gone through from one end
to the other. The amount taken from
passengers and from the express cars
could never be fully ascertained, although
it was known to be large, but it was posi
tively known that $2,400 was obtained from
four pouches of registered mail matter
that was carried off by the bandits.
Inspector George H. Waterbury of the
Denver postal division was detailed on the
case, and has been working on it ever
since the robbery. His suspicions fell on
True, who was discharged from the Union
Pacific service a few weeks before the
holfl-up and who disappeared immediate
ly afterward, but not before ho had dis
played more money than he was ever
before known to possess.
COPPINGER CONTENTED.
lie Does Not Care to Be Transferred
to St. Paul.
Omaha, Neb., April 4.—Gen. Copp’nger,
replied yesterday to the telegram from
the war department, asking him if he de
sired a transfer from the command of the
department of the Platte to the depart
ment of Dakota with headquarters at St.
Paul. Gen. Coppinger replied that he had
no desire to leave his present command.
Gen. Coppinger said yesterday that he
was perfectly satisfied with his present
command and personally desired to remain
here, but of course, was subject to the or,
ders of the war department.
EARTHQUAKES FOR MEXICO.
A Noted Astronomer »nd Prophet
Makes the Predictions.
Guanajuato, Mex„ April 4.—Juan N. Con
treras, the noted astronomer and earth
quake prophet has made the following
prognostications:
Earthquakes will occur during the first
two weeks of April in the zone comprising
Vera Crus and Mexico, and in Oaxaca,
Guelro and Colima, on April 10. Heavy
northers will blow at Vera Cruz and Tam
pico from the sth to the 7th. with a possi
bility of rain from the 12th to the 14th.
Earthquakes are also announced for the
second halt of April, superseded by heavy
gales and rains along the Gulf coast.
FLED FROM FIRE.
Thirty Families Driven Out of Their
Homes at Hoboken.
New York, April 4.—Thirty families liv
ing in the four-story frame tenement
houses at 111. 118, 115 and 117 Madison
street. Hoboken, were driven from their
homes by fire early this morning. The
fire raged five hours, and the houses were
practically gutted. All the occupants got
out safely, and only three families left
their household goods. The loss Is estl
xaawd at about fc.v.Wk
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M’I€INLE> W "COMMUNION.
The President at the Services at the
Metropolitan Church.
Washington, April 4.—President McKin
ley took his first communion f at the Metro
politan church at the 11 o’clock service
to-day, Bishop Hurst officiating.
It was the regular monthly communion
service, but the fact had been widely pub
lished that the President would partici
pate and a great crowd was present to
witness the ceremony. There were more
people in the church than on any day
since the first after March 4.
After the pews were filled, chairs were
brought up from the Sunday school room
until the aisles were nearly filled. In
the rear of the church visitors were forc
ed to stand.
> The President arrived promptly at 11
o’clock with George Morse of California.
With Dr. Johnston and Bishop Hurst
participating in the service were Dr. Dor
chester of Christ church, Pittsburg; Dr.
Ames, of the Deaconesses Home, Dr.
Brown, Dr. Baker, the celebrated traveler,
and Dr. Croissant.
Dr. Johnston read the first prayers, ask
ing a blessing on the President. He also
prayed for a return of prosperity.
Bishop Hurst’s text was from Galatians
111, 28: “There is neither Jew nor Greek,
bound nor free, male or female, for ye
are all one in Christ.”
The President and Mr. Morse received
with the second thirty at the rail. There
were 300 communicants. Many of those
present left the church after the President
received communion, but he remained to
the end of the service.
CUT HIS THROAT IN A PARK.
Sensational Suicide of a Doctor From
Dubuque at Chicago.
Chicago, 111., April 4.—Dr. J. H. Walton,
a physician of Dubuque, la.,
committed suicide in a sensational man
ner in Lincoln park this afternoon.
He was walking along one of the drive
ways with a friend, when suddenly he
drew a razor from his pocket and cut his
throat, dying in a few minutes. Dr. Wal
ton arrived in the city this morning in
company with Dr. S. S. Lindsay, also of
Dubuque, both men registering at the
Palmer house. ,
Shortly before noon they walked out
together to view some of the points of
interest In the city and about 1 o'clock ar
rived at Lincoln park. The drive ways
were thronged with vehicles and bicycle
riders. Many persons were walking and
the seats throughout the park were filled.
Almost up to the very moment Dr. Walton
took his life he had been talking pleas
antly with his companion.
Suddenly he walked rapidly ahead, and
as the razor flashed in the sunlight a
went up froni many throats. The
'hst waß by a large number of
personswno nfTh gone to the park to enjoy
the beftutiful spring weather, but almost
before Dr. Lindsay or any of the horrified
spectators could reach him the physician
expired.
Dr. Lindsay knows no cause for Dr. Wal
ton’s act. He believes, however, that the
man was suddenly seized with insanity.
MURDERERS HELD I P AS*MARTYRS.
Bia Crowd at the Funeral of the
Men Handed nt Santa Fe.
Santa Fe, N. M., April 4. —The funeral
of the four Borrego assassins was held
this morning at 7 o’clock from the cathe
dral, and the promise of the dead men’s
friends that it would be a demonstration
calculated to impress the people that the
men were unjustly hanged—at least,
three of them—was verified. Never be.
fore in Santa Fe’s mortuary history had
such a large number of people attended
the last services to the dead, which par
took in a great measure of a political
character. The cathedral vras jammed
with people, and at the close of the ser
vices the procession that followed the
bodies to the grave was the most preten
tious ever witnessed here.
To-morrow morning at 7 o’clock, a
requim mass will be sung. Among those
who attended the funeral was Jose Bor
rego, a young brother of two of the de
ceased, and who is serving a two-year’s
sentence in the penitentiary for assault
with intent to kill, Gov. Thornton having
granted him permission to go under guard.
It is admitted now evep by their friends
that Frank Borrego killed ex-Sheriff
Shavez, aided bj* Plpolito Vigil, ex-chief
of police, who was subsequently killed by
the sheriff’s possee, but the other three,
they claim, died martyrs.
EDWARD G. DOHERTY DEAD.
He Wan In Command of the Party
That Captured John Wilkes Rooth.
New York, April 4.—Edward G. Doherty,
for several years an Inspector of pave
ments in the department of public w’orks,
died at his home in this city Saturday.
Mr. Doherty was born in Canada. He
served in the union army. On April 25,
1865, he was in command of the party
which captured John Wilkes Booth and
David E. Herold, the former the assas
sin of President Lincoln and the latter
Implicated in the plot, at Garrett’4 farm,
near Pleasant Valley, Va.
BIG CARGO ENTERS NEW YORK.
The Pennsylvania Crouse* the Bar
Drawing 20 Feet of Water.
New York, April 4.—The Hamburg-Amer
ican steamer Pennsylvania, which arrived
this evening from Hamburg brought 13,-
200 tons of cargo and drew twenty-nine
feet of water crossing the bar, probably as
heavy a draught as ever entered the port,
although deeper-laden vessels have left
here. The Pennsylvania had a large mis
cellaneous cargo, including 60,000 bags of
sugar. There were also on board 931 pas
sengers, all told.
HUNTER STILL HAS HOPES.
Looks For the Election of Another
Republican Senator.
Frankfort, Ky., April 4.—To-morrow’s
senatorial ballot will probably be a formal
affair, as many members are away and
will not return until Tuesday. It Is the
belief of Dr. Hunter's friends that he will
■withdraw if he falls of election Tuesday
or Wednesday. Dr. Hunter is hoping that
a republican will be elected in the late
Senator Salyers district, thus placing him
within one vote oC election.
Mondays!
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THURSDAYS|
TUG SEIZED AS A FILIBUSTER.
CONTRADICTORY STORIES AS TO
the justice of the act.
One Report Is to the Effect That the
Spanish Spies Have Caused the
Government to Make a Mistake.
Another Says the Tug Was Caught
Without Having Lights Out anil
Acting in a Suspicions Manner.
Arms and Munitions Reported Run
Up the St. Mary’s River For Safety.
Fernandina, Fla., April 4.—The Vesu
vius arrived here late last night from
Jacksonville and in coming over the bar
spoke the tug Alexander Jones of Wil
mington, and took her in charge and
brought her to this port. An officer has
been placed aboard of the tug and Capt.
J. J. Atkinson of the Jones has protested
and has left the tug in the government’s
hands and notified ths officials that he
would hold them responsible for every
minute he was detained by them, as he
holds contracts for work in this harbor
which he was on his way here to do. She
belongs to the Wilmington Pilot Associa
tion.
It is thought in official circles that thia
boat was to have taken an expedition out
from here last night, but there are no
signs and no arms or men have been found
in the vicinity.
It is also rumored that the representa
tives of the Spanish government have
made a big mistake.
The Vesuvius is still in port and has the
port well guarded against anything of a,
filibustering nature.
The tug Alexander Jones is lying at the
railroad docks with her steam very low.
Jacksonville, Fla., Ap’-ll 4.—A telephone
message from Fernandina to the Times-
Union states that the tug Alexander
Jones was brought in there late last night
in charge of an officer from the cruiser
Vesuvius. The government vessel came in
to-day. The tug was reized on Cumber
land sound on suspicion of being a filibus
ter, but as nothing suspicious was found
on her, she was held on the charge of
violating the navigation laws, being with
out lights when seized by the Vesuvius.
The cruiser was out all night and her
appearance spoiled a large expedition that
was ready to sail from that place.
The tug Panama was lying at the dock
there at midnight with several barges load
ed with arms and ammunition alongside.
When the Jones came in they took alarm
and went up the St. Mary’s river and hid
so that when the Vesuvius came in sho
found nothing suspicious on the tug. As
the tug was fired up and had a big lot of
coal on, she was viewed with suspicion.
The Jones had a lot of coal on, It is said,
and a very large crew for so small a ves
sel.
U.n ngton, 4S—tt "!§' stated
here to-night that upon the arrival of the
steamer Laurada here last Sunday, Capt.
Hughes, her commander, went to Phila
delphia, where, after a consultation with
well known ship brokers, of that city, he
took charge on Monday of a vessel, name
unknown, lying in the Delaware between
Chester and Wilmington, awaiting a com
mander. The vessel passed down the
river the same afternoon. Cuban sympa
thizers here say the vessel carried axcar
go of rifles and dynamite and thirty men,
who will Join the insurgent forces in Cuba.
SESSION (IF THE SUNDAY SCHOOLS*
Convention nt Waycross Brought tot
a Clone.
Waycross, Ga., April 4.—The annual con
vention of the Twenty-seventh District
Sunday School Association closed this af
ternoon with a mass meeting of children
in charge of R. B. Reppard of Savannah,
at the First Methodist church.
The second day’s session opened this
morning at the Presbyterian church with
a song and praise service by C. C. Buch
anan of Waycross, the new president of
the association. Prof. E. A. Pound, su
perintendent of the Waycross public
schools, made an able address at 10 o’clock
on the Bible.
Miss Lucy Twltty, daughter of Presid
ing Elder P. S. Twltty of this city, and
whose sweet soprano solos have delighted
audiences in Savannah, Waycross and
Brunswick and other cities in the state on
various occasions, sang a beautiful solo
that was highly enjoyed.
The convention then adjourned until
this afternoon, and the congregation at
tended the morning services at the First
Methodist church. The union choir, rep
resenting the Methodist, Baptist and Pres
byterian churches, opened the service
with singing.
Rev. W. H. Scruggs of the Baptist
church offered prayer and Rev. R. A.
Brown of the Presbyterian church read
the scripture lesson.
Rev. J. W. Domingos of the First Meth
odist church made some announcements
and affectionately invited all the churches
and people to attend the union gospel
meetings this week at the Baptist church.
Rev. Dr. E. W. Oaks, the Irish evan
gelist who is conducting the meeting at
the Baptist church, and is working in be
half of missions in Korea, preached an
earnest missionary sermon, after which a
collection was taken for the Korean mis
sions. The children’s mass meeting this
afternoon was largely attended and Mr.
Reppard entertained and instructed the
children in his characteristic way. AH the
children brought bouquets of flowers and
the assemblage was beautiful and impres
sive.
AUSTRIA’S CABINET REINSTATED.
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The Emperor Declines to Accept the
Reslgna tions.
Vienna, April 4.—The cabinet crisis that
was brought about by the resignation on
Friday of Count Badeni, the prime min
ister and the other members of the min
istry, has been ended by Emperor Francis
Joseph, who refused to accept the resigna
tions of his ministers. After conferring
with the emperor Count Badeni and his
colleagues decided to attempt to carry on
the government, despite the fact that they
bad found it impossible to maintain a lib
eral majority in the new Reichsrath. The
emperor, therefore, again confirmed the
whole cabinet.
Flour Mill and Store Burned.
Honesdale, Pa., April 4.—Kimble’s steam
flouring mH! and J. S. O’Connors store
and dwelling were destroyed by fire to
day. The lose on Kimble’s establishment
is ISS.&M. and on O'Connor’s $30,000. The
property. is partially insured.