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CORONET wins the race.
TO ™S. DAraT '
Parage Made in 14 Dai* 19 Hours
„ ihl 3 Minutes Actual Time The
TVeilher so Tempestuous That Ouly
}0 Miles Were Made in 48 Hour, atone
stage of the Voyage.
NKW York. March 27.-The yacht
rjronet arrived off Queenstowff at 11:30
Yclock this morning- Nothing has been
seen of the Dauntless. The Coronet
passed the winning point under a lull
press of canvas, with the wind west north
west and fresh.
Mr Bush, owner of the Coronet, says
be*will challenge the Dauntless to race
back to this port.
encountered gales.
London, March 27.—1 u passing the
given line, Roche’s Point, the victorious
.aebt fired five guns, and her time was at
once taken by the Secretary and members
of the Royal Cork Yacht Club, who had
teen on the lookout for her arrival. Toe
club then hoisted a signal announcing
trWloronet’s arrival, the various stations
answering the pennant. The wind was
blowing bard and the Coronet entered
rork harbor in spanking style with all
sail set and hugging tho western shore.
From tbe start to tde finish tbe Coronet
experienced strong gales with tremen
hlius seas. On Tuesday and Wednesday
last she hove to for several hours each
bay and made onlv ninety miles In forty
ei^hthours. Her average run during the
passage varied from 230 to 250 miles a day.
Tire Coronet people believe that tho
Dauntless will be twenty-four to thirty
hours later in arriving. Capt. Anderson
savs the weather was the worst he ever
experienced in all his I*4 Atlantic
voyages.
STATISTICS OF THE VOYAGE.
Queenstown, .March 27.—TheCorone t
arrived at 12:41 o’clock this afternoon.
The apparent time occupied in the pas
sage is 14 days, 23 hours, 34 minutes and
it; seconds, and tbe actual time computed
on tbe Greenwich basis is 14 days, 10
hours, 3 minutes and 14 seconds. The
whole number of nautical miles sailed is
2,949. Tbe longest day’s run is 291.5
miles, made Saturday, March 20, and the
soonest 38.8 miles, made Tuesday, March
22. The weather was uncommonly tem
pestuous, even for this season of the year.
So less than seven heavy gales contrived
to keep tbe sea in a ferment for eleven
days of the trip, and for two days the
weather was so severe as to make the
ijuestion of the yacht’s living through
them somewhat doubtful.
BEHAVED SPLENDIDLY.
She behaved splendidly, however, in all
sorts of weather, and proved herbelf one
of the stanchest, if not one of the fastest
vessels of her type all iat. No accidents
happened to any of the sailors despite the
great risks they were compelled to
undertake at times. With the exception
of three torn sails and a little broken
tackle everything on board tbe boat was
in as good shape when the anchor was
dropped off Queenstown as when it was
raised off Tompkinsville, Staten Island.
It is thought that a much quicker pas
sage might have been made had Capt.
Crosby carried more sail.
ON THE SAFE SIDE.
On several occasions when the wind
was light but the sky threatening he was
v* ry cautious, and his judgment was con
trolled largely by the barometer, wblob
vas much of the time below 29 and eel
■m above "0, the normal height in the
ajude traversed. The course made was
”tle woie northerly than was thought
Ifobut lottunately no icebergs or field
I. tore encountered. Tue number of
Wj'US on board tho Coronet was 29, in
• a ..ng 16 sailors, 0 officers, tile steward,
•fa, mess boy and 6 guests. The officers
Ve: Captain, C. I’. Crosby: navigator,
,y. C. Anderson; males, \v. A. Whii
l’dt and otto PuDrson; boatswain, Au
-2 Bergbolm.
A* THE FIRST SUNDAY OUT.
tf’hf Coronet’s first Sunday at sea was
forked, as were seven of the ten suc-
Rf>,'ding days, by gales which came from
ei northeast soon alter midnight, Al
(j ’jßj l fairly moderate, it was accompa
j(ju bv a strong bead sea, which made
r>e yacht labor heavily. Waves fre
,uently broke over the bows, but she
ode It out well under close-reefed fore
and mainsails and jib, and averaged teu
miles an hour on the course throughout.
mis early were tho sea-going qualities ot
'h,m^ r ? Uet ,r ' e<l- B!ie proved herself as
a8 a cork. 'The weather con
heavy until Monday at midnight,
when the wind died a way.
the second gale.
frm! r ‘,hL i ’ Ueßd#y mor “ in * Dio wind arose
hlpw . northeast and by daylight it
H e Stan G * fiodlstance traveled from
Land uni*?. bu . ndaJr 000,1 was “ 48 miles,
Lmin l °-r Moii ! lu >’ 10 Tuesday noon 244
KeVsi. 1 n? ar ? la id night Tuesday night
1L wit o S " Ll , l HllLl tl,e W,,1 <1 shifted to
Riles un'a !v'1 da - v ,lle Coronet made 185
I Wednesday 216 miles, bring-
Rj.i-. . ’ lallt uue 41:25 and longitude
[serieg O ('onrri U i oHt temtic storm ul the
Iwas n,?t n . on St ’ day. It
■the bai„mof Xt,ec f Hd ’ lor ttiu Indicator on
|lownwarrt° l *fn W , lose l cndcucy liad been
I Th BREAKING OF the storm.
tiumgh'tYi? rSt dov “, lu ‘ ,etl Hoon a(ler
Res with t h •’ B<iualiß froni the south-
Krui r 0 U r,VI - ruin - Tho wind was
■outlast 00UHU k' variously from
luallr settle,l”?, U 1 ‘ W f? t a,1(1 south, but
Ro o’clock nt , , "’ tl ,h ‘‘ southwest. At
Rkverv h ~., ! "!". rni,l ß >’ began clow-
Rtcome'a hurrieSl* by U ">°“ 11,0 Btorm had
fttj vt‘locMtv* r uut * two hours lutor
■ffimatVd ,t} . t 01 f l,e ‘nd was
Kmr, it vrim u eighty miles an
Bents kmc. a*i Kra , na battle of the ole
■oveswere aim,!, ? elaom w ‘Hiessed. The
B rla cewa 9 |'is ,i WOUlU *'" high. Their
B' : th! i , a '1 lnto snow-white foam,
Kotn,. r tL. ivum ” , r " 8l! higher than
Bray, wil w carried u off in udeuge
B" like siahs!,, “ ' riV ‘ n I,llo one’s laoe,
B'-'kbs. 0 800108 uf fine-pointed
■ The rr,o K ' ,AK o,r THK "'IND.
Bngcd pea”* , of .f!'* v ' hul Was Rite a nro-
Ktnce whh $•, H,u * lliC roticin
flash of ' ,, , ed b -)’ a,J occasional
H test for SOB mall V' , Thlß waß a
- shni?( “ lmal aa the Coro-
B\ Hie,l as if V" tU ° tro HK> 1 of the sea
last hP'h W!,v, - H ’ Which Were
lor<Mrv W* her. Under
Bye wind ir i!!'H" W . ;,K I' l ' l ng*<l along
' 0 the iM'eal ° f 1,1110 ku i>tS, aild
■Liver her ,v " f w t,T break-
M,rf„i,v weathered the siorm
BedMA ?? W,Tn DKAl
lurv ,;r l .° l ch’/'k in tii H evening
B' Increasing , hurrionne seemed
i „ ‘ lI, V , m ?' diminishing
■>" woutd' 1 no!“ rll l' 1 „ U1,, t "*'•
loiig,. r j| , . held together
and not being" Tn? tUrou Khsiioh a
eln “ w ill lug to jeopardize
his own life and the lives of those on
board by running at night w’here it was
reasonable to suppose there were ice
bergs, decided to lay to until the storm
had ceased. A favorable opportunity
offering when the crests of the waves
were momentarily exceptionally far
apart, the vessel’s head was brought
around toward the wind. Held in this
position, under only a reefed fore-trysail,
she could make little progress in any
direction.
AGAIN UNDER WAY.
At midnight the wind and sea had mod
erated considerably and ihe schooner was
again got under way, running before tbe
wind under a reefed fore-trysail and fore
staysall. Tho yacht’s position on Thurs
day noon was latitude 41:27 and long!-
tude 50:03, having traveled 211 miles
since the previous noon. The weather
Friday and Saturday, March 18 and 19.
began with light breezes,and in the after
noon there were gales, though
moderate compared with Thurs
day's big blow. Saturday was a red
letter day, tour vessels being sighted.
The first, was a westward-bound Inman
liuer, which passed three miles to the
southward about 9 o’clock in the morn
ing, and which answered the Coronet’s
international code number. An hour
later a ship with all sails set passed
northward at 11 o’clook. An east-bound
Star steamer carrying the Spanish flag
came from the south. She came along
side, reducing her speed, and quite a con
versation was carried on through the
burgee pennants and square code flag.
At 3 o’clook tn the afternoon an eastern
bound steamer passed north, but too far
distant to speak. The day’s run as com
puted Friday noon was 135 miles. Satur
day noon the day’s run was 225 miles, and
the position was latitude 43:47 and longi
tude 42:35:15.
SWINGING IN A CIRCLE.
The theory that storms swing around
in a circle was thoroughly proved by the
Coronet’s experience on the second Sun
day, when she ran through a revolving
gale which was nearly as terrific as that
of March 17. The wind first came from
the souteast about 3 o’clock in the morn
ing, and blew at the rate of seventy miles
an hour until 7 o’clock that evening,
when It moderated. At 7:3oo’c!oek hardly
a breath was stirring. Half an hour later
there was a light breeze from
the northwest, and at 9 o’clock
there came a hurricane from
that direction. Tbe cross sea, created
by the contrary winds, buffeted the yacht
like a chip in a mill race. Her position
t noon was latitude 45;20 and longitude
39:04. The distance traversed was 179
miles. Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day winds were ahead and the yacht
made slow progress, covering only 508
miles between Sunday noon and Wednes
day noon.
PASSING A NORTH GERMAN LLOYD BOAT.
Monday afternoon she passed a North
German Ldoyd steamer, and exchanged
signals. Late Thursday afternoon a good
sailing breeze arose from the southwest,
continuing witn more or less regularity
throughout Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
giving opportunity for rapid progress.
During that time the Coronet logged as
high as fourteen knots. Mizzen Head,
on the southwest coast of Ireland, was
sighted at6:27 o’clock Sunday morning,
and at 7:40 o’clock Fastnet light bore
north-northwest, nine miles away. The
yacht was then bowling along
under all her light sails at the rate of
twelve knots an hour. The weather was
clear and w arm. At 8:57 o'clock Galley
Ilead was abeam, and then the Cork pilot
boat Columbine hove in sight. At 10:08
o’clock, when tbe yacht was abreast, of
Seven Heads, Pilot Robert Welsh came on
board with the newstnat the Coronet was
tbe first to arrive aloug the coast and
into the harbor. Scores of vessels of all
sorts were passed. All dipped their eu
signs to the winner, and the crews of all
cheered. At 1:30 o’clock the Coronet’s
anchor was dopped off the Cork \ r acht
Club house.
OTHER OCEAN RACES.
The fastest passage ever made
by a yacht across the Atlantic was
made by the schooner-yaebt Sappho,
which once crossed from Sandy Hook to
Cowes in less than tblrteeu days. And
she did that without racing, but ol course
had lavoring weather throughout. The
two ocean yacht races which pre
ceded this one were both accom
plished in less than fourteen days. In
December, 1860, when the Henrietta,
Yesta and Fleetwing raced from Sandy
Hook to Cowes lor |3O,UOU a side, the
Henrietta, which won tho raoo, and was
sailed by Capt. Samuels, who now sails
the Dauntless, made the trip in 13 days,
21 hours and 55 minutes. The Vesta,
which was the seoond yacht, was about
an hour behind, and the Fleetwing an
hour behind the Vesta.
In the race of 1870 between the Cam
bria and the Dauntless, from Damn’s
Hock on the Irish coast to Sandy Hook,
tbe time of the Cumbria, wnicb was the
winner, was 13 days, 2 hours and 27
minutes. Again the closeness ot the race
was a matter ot wonder, as the Daunt
less arrived less than two hours later.
HAMI’I’ON INMTITU IK.
ICfTorts Heing Made to liaise a Par
tial Kudo which i Fund.
New York, March 27.—The trustees
and Irleuds of the Hampton Normal and
Agricultural Institute at Hampton, Va.,
are trying to raise a partial endowment
lund of $500,000, and to assist In the at
tempt a largely attended meeting of
the institution was held this after
noon at tho Broadway Tabernacle.
The object of the school is to
train teachers tor tbe negro and Indian
races. A meeting was also held at Bt.
George’s church in the evening. On
Tuesday evening a meeting will be held
in Chickering Hall, over which Dr. Ros
well D. Hitchcock will preside. Rev.
Dr. Paxton, I). Willis James, Gen. S. C.
Armstrong and Rev. H. B. Frissell will
address the meeting, and it is expected
that Gen. John 15. Gordon will speak
also. On Sunday morning another meet
ing will taue placo In Dr. Robinson’s
church. _____________
A Dynamite Plot in lepaiii.
Madrid, March 27.—Rumors current
during the past two daya of tho discovery
of a dynamite conspiracy have been con
firmed by the arrest of many persons con
nected with the plot. Among the pris
oners aio several palace officials, tuo
palace armorer anil u relative ot u well
kno eii Ministerialist Deputy. The
deputy alluded to will question the gov
ernment in Congress to-morrow with
reference to tho affair.
Nufta’s i.evolutionists.
Sofia, March 27.—The trial at Dub
nit/.a of persona charged with being Im
plicated in the late uprising is ended. Of
the prisoners five were sentenoed to death
sizty-oue to imprisouineut and eight ac
quitted.
Burglars at Starke.
Starke, Fla., Alaroli 27.—Expert
burglais craoked two safes here last
night, eocuring $2,400 worth ol negotiable
properly and cash.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1887.
NOAH’S TRIP IN THE ARK.
TALMAGK PICTURES THE FA
MOUS UIIUifCAIi VOYAGE.
The Ancient Man honking Upon the
Shipwreck of a Knee—All the Present
(veneration Warned to Hurry Into the
Ark of Salvation—The Pierced Side of
Uhrixt ltd Door
Dks Moines, la., March 27 The Rev.
T. De Wilt Talmage, I). D., preached in
this city this morning to a vast congrega
tion. His text was Genesis, vii., 1:
“Come thou and all thy house into the
ark.” The eloquent preacher said:
We do not need the Bible to prove the
Deluge. The geologist’s hammer an
nounces it. Sea shells and marine forma
tions on the top of some of the highest
mountains of the earth prove that at some
time tho waters washed over the top of
the Alps and tbe Andes. In what way
the catastrophe came we know not;
whether by the stroke of a comet or by
flashes of lightning, changing the air into
water; or by a stroke of the hand of God,
like the stroke of the ax between tbe
horns of the ox, the earth staggered. To
meet the catastroptie, God ordered a
great ship built. It was to be without
prow, lor it was to sail to no shore. It
was to be without helm, for no human
hand should guide it. It was a vast
structure—probably as large as two or
three Cunard steamers. It was the Great
Eastern ol olden time.
The ship is done. The door is ODen.
The lizards crawl in. The cattle walk
in. The grass-boppers hop in. The birds
fly in. The invitation goes forth to Noah:
“Come thou and ail thy house into the
ark.” Just one human family embark
on the strange voyage, and I hear tbe
door slant shut. A great storm sweeps
along the hills, and bends the cedars until
all the branches snan in the gale. There
is a moan in the wind like unto the moan
of a dying world. Tbe blackness ot tbe
heavens is shattered by the flare of the
lightnings that look down into the waters
and throw a ghastliness on the face of the
mountains. How strange itiooksl How
suffocating the air seems! Tbe big drops
of rain plash upon the upturned faces of
those who are watching the tempest.
Crash! go the rocks in convulsion. Boom!
go the bursting heavens. Tho inhabi
tants of the earth, instead of fleeing to
house top and mountain top, as men have
fancied, sit down In dumb, white horror,
to die. For when God grinds mountaius
te pieces, and lets the ocean slip its cable,
there is no place for men to fly to. See
the ark pitch and tumble in the surf,
while from its windows the passengers
look out upon the ship-wreck of a race,
and the carcasses ol a dead world. AYoe
to the mountains! Woe to the sea!
I am no alarmist. When, on Sept. 20,
alter the wind has for three days been
blowing from thenortheast, you prophesy
that the equinoctial storm Is coming, you
simply state a fact not to be disputed.
Neither am 1 an alarmist when 1 say
that a storm is coming, compared witn
which Noah’s deluge was but an April
shower; and that it is the wisest and
safest tor you and for me to get safely
housed tor eternity. The invitation that
went forth to Noah sounds In our ears:
“Come thou and all thy house into the
ark.”
Well, how did Noah and his family
come into the ark? Did they climb in at
the window, or come down tbe roolf No;
they went through the door. And just
so, if we get into tbe ark of God’s mercy,
it will be through Christ the door. Tbe
entrance to the ark of old must have been
a very large entrance. We know that it
was, lrom the fact that there were
monster animals in the earlier ages;
and, In order to get them into the ark two
and two, according to the Bible state
ment, tho door must have been very wide
and very high. So the door into the
mercy of God is a large door. We go in,
not two by two, but by hundreds, and by
thousands, and by millions. Yea, all tne
nations ot the earth may go in, ten mil
lions abreast.
The door of the ancient ark was in the
side. So now it is through the side of
Christ—the pierced side, the wide open
side, the neart side—that we enter. Ah,
the Roman soldier, thrusting his spear
into the Saviour’s side, expected only to
let the blood out, but he opened the way
to let all the world in. O what a broad
gospel to preach 1 If a man is about to
give an entertainment he issues one or
two hundred invitations, carefully put
up and directed to tbe particular porsons
whom he wisues to entertain. But God
our Father makes a banquet, and goes out
to the front door of heaven and stretches
out bis hands over land and sea, and,
with a voice that peneirates the Hindoo
jungle, and the Greenland ice-castle, and
Brazilian grove, aud English factory,
and American home, cries out, “Come,
for all things are now' tvady.” It is a
wide door! The old cross has been taken
apart and its two pieces are stood up for
the door posts, so lar apart that all the
world can coine in. Kings scatter treas
ures on days of great rejoicing, ho
Christ, our King, comes and scatters the
jewels of heaven. Howland Hiiisaid that
he hoped to get into heaven through the
crevioes of tbe door. But he was not
obliged thus to go in. After having preach
ed the gospel in hurrejr Chapel, going
up toward heaven, the gate-keeper cried:
“Lilt up your heads, yeeverlasting gates,
and let this man come in.” Tbe dying
thief went in. Richard Baxter and Rob
ert Newton went in. Europe, Asia,
Africa, North and South America may yet
go through this wide door without crowd
lng. 11 o, every one 1 all conditions, all
ranks, all people. Luther said that this
truth was worth carrying on one’s knees
from Romo to Jerusalem; but I think It
worth carrying ail uruund
all around the heaveus.4(l^^ ,
loved tho world that Hu gave His onlv be
gotten Son, that whosoever believeih in
Him should not perish, but have everlast
ing life.” Whosoever will, let him coine
through Ibo large door. Archimedes
wanted a fulcrum on which to place his
lever, and then he said that be could
move tho world. Calvary is the fulcrum,
and the cross of Cbust is the lever; and
by that power all nations shall yet be
lilted.
Further: It is adoor that swings both
ways. Ido not know whethw the door
ol the ancient ark was lifted, or rolled on
binges; but this door ol Cnrist opens both
ways. It swiuus out toward all our
woes; it swings in toward the raptures of
heaven. It swings in to let us in; It
swings out to let our ministering ones
oomeout. All are one in Christ —Chris-
tians on earth and saints in heaven.
“One army of the living God,
At hla command we now;
Part of the host have crossed the flood.
And part are croaatng uow.”
Swing in, O blessed door! until all the
earth shall go in and live, bwing out
until all tbe heavens come forth to cele
brate tbe victory.
But, further, it is a door with fasten
ings. The Bible says of Noah: “Tho
laird shut him in.” A vessel without bul
warks or doors would not be a safe vessel
hwld in. When -ftmm and his family
heard the fastening or the door of the ark
they were very glad. Without those doors
were fastened the first heavy surge of the
sea would have whelmed them; and they
might ns well have perished outside ibo
ark as inside the ark. “The Lord shut
him in.” Ob, the perfect safety of the
ark! The surf of the sea and tho light
nings of the sky may be twisted into a
garland of snow and fire —deep to deep,
storm tostorm, darknesstodarkn*‘ss; but
once In the ark, all is well. “God shut
him in.”
There oomes upon the good man a
deluge of financial trouble. He had his
thousands to lend; now he cannot borrow
a dollar. He once owned a store in New
York, and had brauon houses in Boston,
Philadelphia and New Orleans. He
owned lour horses, and employed a man
to keep the dust off his coach, phaeton,
carriage and curricle; now he has hard
work to get shoes in which to walk. The
vroat deep of commercial disast r was
broken up, and fore, and aft. and across
the hurricane deck, the waves struck
him. But he was safely sheltered from
tbe storm. “The Lord shut him in.” A
flood of domestic troubles fell ou him.
Sickness nud bereavement came, Tbe
rain pelted. The winds blew. The heav
ens are aflame. All the gardens of earth
ly delight are washed away. The loun
lains of joy are buried fiiteen cubits deep.
But, standing by the empty crib, and in
tho desolated nursery, aud in
the doleful hall, once a-ring
with merry voices, now silent
forever, he cried: “The Lord gave, the
Lord hath taken away; blesood be the
name of the Lord.” “The Lord shut him
in.” All the sins of a lifetime clamored
for his overthrow. The broken vows, the
disaonored Sabbaths, the outrageous
profanities, the misdemeanors of twenty
years, reached up their hands to the
door of the ark to pull him out. The
boundless ocean of his sm surrounded
his soul, howling like a simoom, raving
like an euroolydon. But, looking out of
tbe window, be saw his sins sink like
lead into the depths of the sea. The
dove of heaven brought an olive-branch
to the ark. Tbe wrath of the billow only
pushed him toward heaven. “Tue Lord
shut him In.”
The same door-fastenings that kept
Noah in keep the world out. I am glad to
know that when a man reaches heaven
all earthly troubles are done witn him.
Here he may have had it hard to get bread
for his latnily; there he will never hunger
any more. Here ho may have wept bit
terly ; there “the Lamb that is in the midst
of tne throne will lead him to living foun
tains of water, aud God will wipe uway
all tears from hts eyes.” Here he may
have hard work to get a bouse; but in ray
Father’s house are many mansions, and
rent day never comes. Here there are
death-beds, and coffins, and graves; there
no sickness, noweary watching, no chok
ing cough, no consuming fever, no chat
tering cnill, no tolling bell, no grave. The
sorrows of life shall come up and knock
at the door, but u(Admittance. The per
plexities of life shall come up and knock
on the door, but no admittance. Safe for
ever. All the agony of earth in one wave
dashing against the bulwarks ot the ship
of celestial light shall not break them
down. Howl on, ye.winds, and rage, ye
seas! The Lord—“the Lord shut him in.”
O, what a grand old door! so wide, so
easily swung both ways, and with such
sure fastenings. No burglar’s key can
pick that lock. No swarthy arm of hell
can shove back the bolt. 1 rejoice that I
do not ask you to come aboard a crazy
craft with leaking hulk, and brosen helm,
and unfastened door; but an ark fifty
cubits wide, aud three hundred cubits
long, and a door so large that tbe round
earth, without grazing the posts, might
be bowded in.
Now, if tbe ark of Christ is so grand a
place in which to live, and die, ancl
triumph, come into the ark. Know well
that the door that shut Noah tn shut the
world out; and though, when the pitiless
storm came pelting on their
beads, they beat upon the door,
saying: “Let me in! let mo ini”
the door did not open. For 120 years
they were invited. They expected to
come in; but the Antediluvian said:
“We mustcultivaie these fields; we must
be worth more flocks of sheep and herds
of cattle; we will wait until wo get a
little older; we will enjoy our old farm a
little longer.” But meanwhile the storm
was brewing. The fountains of heuven
were filling up. Tbe pry was being placed
beneath the foundations ot the great
deep. The last year had come, the last
month, the last week, the last day, the
last hour, the last moment. In an awiul
dash, an ocean dropped from the sky, and
another roiled up from beneath; and God
rolled the earth ana sky into one wave of
universal destruction.
80 men now put off going into the ark.
They sav tney will wait twenty years
first. They will have a little longer time
with their worldly associates. Tney will
wait until tbey get older. They say: “You
cannot expect a man of my attainments
and of my position to surrender myself
just now. But bsfore the storm comes I
will go in. Yes, I will, i know what 1
am about. Trust me.” After awhile, one
night about 12 o’olock, going borne he
passes a scaffolding as a gust of wind
strikes it, and a plank falls. Deadlanu
outside the ark! Or, riding in the park,
u reckless vehicle crashes into him, and
bis horse becomes unmanageable, and be
shouts, “Whoa! Whoa!” and takes an
other twist in the reins, and plants bis
feet against the dashboard, and nulls
back. But no use. It is not so much
down the avenue that, he flies as ou
tho way to eternity. Out of tin
wreck ol the crash bis body Is drawn, but
his soul is not picked up. It fled behind
a swifter courser iuto the great future.
Dead! and outside the ark! Or, some
night be wakes up with a distress, that
momentarily increases, until bo shrieks
out with pain. The doctor* come in. and
tbev give him twenty drops, but no re
lief’; forty drops, fifty drops, sixty drops,
but no relief. No time for prayer. No
time to read one of tho promises. No time
to got a single sin pardoned. The whole
house is aroused in alarm; the children
screiun; the wife faints; tne pulses lail;
the neart stops; tho soul flies. Oh, my
God! dead, and outside thu ark.
1 have no doubt tnut derision kept
many people out of the ark. The world
laughed to sue a man go In, and said:
“Here is a man starting lor the ark.
Why, there will be no deluge, if there
Is one, that miserable ship will not weath
er It. Aba! going Into the ark! Well,
that is too good to keep. Here, fellows,
have you heard the news? This man is
going’iuto the ark.” Under this artil
lery of scorn tho man’s good resolution
perished.
And so thero are hundreds kept out by
tho fear of derision. The young man
asks himself: “What would they say at
tho store to-morrow morning if 1 should
become a Christian? When! go down
to Hie club bouao tbey would shout:
‘Here comes that now Christian. Sup
pose you will not have anything to do
witn u* now, Suppose you are praying
now. Get down on your knees and let
us hear you pray. Come, now, give us a
touch. Will not do it,eh? Pretty Chris
tian you are.’” is it not the leer ut be
ing laughed at that keeps you out of the
kingdom of God? Which of thoso scoru
ers will help you at the lasi ? When you
lie down on a dying pillow, which ot
them will be there? In the day of eter
nity, will they bail you out?
My friends and neighbors, come in right
away. Come in through Christ, tho wide
door—the door that swings out toward
you. Come In. and be saved. Como and
be happy. “The spirit and (tie bride say.
come.” Room in tho ark! Room iu the
ark!
But do not come alone. Tho text in
vltesyouto bring your family. “Come
thou and all thy house.” that means
your wile and your children. You cannot
drive them in. If Noah had tried to drive
the pigeons and the doves into tho urn,
he would only have scattered them. Some
parents are not wise about these things.
They make iron rules about Sabbaths,
and they force the catechism down tho
throat, as they would hold the child’s
nose and force down u dose of rhubarb
and calomel. Y'ou cannot drive your
children into the ark. You cau draw
your children to Christ, but you cannot
oneroe them. The cross was luted, not
to drive, but to draw. “If 1 be lifted up,
1 will draw all men unto me.” As the
sun draws up tho drops of morning dew,
so tbe Sun of Righteousness exhales the
tears of repentance.
“Come thou and all thy houss into tbe
ark.” Bo sure that you bring your
husband and wire with you. How would
Noah have felt tf, when he heard ibo raiu
pattering on tho roof of the ark, he knew
that his wife was outside in the storm?
No; she went with him. And yet some
of you are on tho ship “outward-bound”
lor heaven, lint your companion is un
sheltered. Y"ou remember the day when
tho marriage ring was set. Nothing has
yet been able to break it. Sickness came
and the finger shrank, but tho ring staid
on. The twain stood alone above a
child’s grave, and the dark mouth of the
tomb swallowed up a thousand hopes;
but the ring dropped not into the open
grave. Days of jioverty oame, and the
Hand did many a bard day’s work, but
the rubbing of the work against tbe ring
only made it shiue brighter. Shall that
ring ever be lost? Will the iron clang of
the sepulchre gate crush it lorever? 1
pray God that you that who
have been married on earth may
bo together in heaven. Oh 1 by
tbe quiet bliss of your earthly home, by
the babe’s cradle, by ail tne vows of that
day when you started life together, 1 beg
jou to see to it that you both get into the
ark.
Come in, and bring your wife or your
husband with you—not by fretting about
religion, or dlug-donuing them about re
ligion, but by a consistent life, and by a
compelling prayer that shall bring tbe
throne of God down into your bedroom.
Better live in the sinallesthouse in Brook
lyn and get into heaven, than live fifty
years iu the fiueet house on .Madisou
square, and wake up at last and find that
one ot you, for all eternity. Is outside the
ark. Go home to-night; lock the door of
your room; take up the Bible and reud it
together, aud then Kneel down and com
mend your souls to Him who has w atched
you all these years; and, before you rise,
there will be a fluttering of wings over
your head, angel crying to angel: “Be
hold they pray!”
But this does not incluao all your
family. Bring tho ohiidren too. God
bless toe dear children. What. would our
homes be without them? We may have
done much for them. They have done
more for us. What a salve tor a woundwd
heart there is in the soft iialin of a child’s
hand! Did harp or flute ever have such
music as there is in a child’s “good
night?” From our coarse, rough life, the
angels of God are often driven back; but
who comes into the nursery without feel
iug that angels are hovering around?
They who die in infancy go into glory,
but you are expecting your children to
grow up in this world, is it not a ques
tion, then, that rings through all tho cor
ridors, and windings, and heights, aud
depths of your soul, what is to become of
your sons and daughters lor time and for
eternity. "Ol” you say, “I mean to see
that they have good manners.” Very
well. "1 mean to dress them well If I
have myself to go shabov.” Very good.
“1 shall give them an education, and i
shall leave them a fortuue.” Very well.
But is that all? Don’t you mean to take
them into the ark? Don’t you know that
thu storm is coming, and tnat out ot
Christ there is no safety? no pardon? no
hope? no heaven?
How to get them in? Go In yourself,
if Noah had staid out do you not suppose
that his sons, Shem, Hain and Japhet,
would have staid out? Your sons and
daughters are apt to do just as you do.
deject Christ yourself, and the probabil
ity is that your children will reject Him.
An account was taken of the religious
condition of families In a certain dis
trict. In the families of pious parents
two-thirds of the children were Chris
tians. In tbe families where the parents
were ungodly oniy one-twelfth of the
cmldren were Christians. Responsible
as you are for tbelr temporal existence,
you are also responsible for their eter
nity. Which wav will you take them?
out into the deluge or into the ark ? Have
you ever made one earnest prayer for
iheir immortal souls? Wnat w’lll you
suv in the judgment when God asks:
“Where is George, or Henry, or Frank,
or Mary, or Anna? Where are those
precious souls whose interests X commit
ted into your hands?”
A dying son said to his father: “Father,
you gave me an edneation and good man
ners, and everything that the world oAild
do for me; but, father, you never told me
how to die, and now my soul is going out
in tbe darkness.”
Go home and erect alamily altar. You
may break down in your prayer. But
never tuiud. God will lake wlial you
mean, whether you express It Intelligibly
or not. Bring all your House into tho ark.
Is there one soil whom you have given up?
Is he so dissipated that you have stepped
counseling and praying? Give him up?
How duro you give him up? Did God
ever give thee up? Whilst thou hast a
single articulation of speech left, cease
not to pray for the return of that prodi
gal. Ho may even now be standing on
the beach at iiong Kong or Madras, medi
tating a return to his tattler’s house.
Give him up? Never give him up. Has
God promised to hear thy prayer ouly to
mock thee? it is not too late.
In Ht. Paul’s, London, thero Is n
whispering-gallery. A voice uttered most
feebly at one side of the gallery Is heard
distinctly at tbe opposite side, >t great, dis
tance off. So, every word of earnest
prayer goes all around the ourtb, and
makes heaven a whispering-gallery. Go
into tue ark—not to sit. down, but to
stand in tbe door, and call until all tbe
family come in. Aged Noah, where fs
Jupbet? David, whore is Absalom?
Hannah, where is Samuel? Bring them
in through Christ tbe door. Would it
not he pleasant to spend eternity with
our fumities? Gladder than Christmas
or Tbuukegivlng festival will be the re
union if we got all our family into the
ark. Wbloh of them can we spare out
of heaven ?
Ou one ol the late steamers there were
a lather and two daughters journeying.
They seemed extremely poor. A benevo
lent gentleman stepi>ed up to the poor
man to proffer some farm of relief and
1 said, “you seem to be very poor, sir.”
“Poor, sir?” replied the man. “If there's
a poorer man than me n’troubling the
world God pity both of us!” "I will take
one of your children and adopt it, if you
say go. 1 think it would be a great relief
to you.” “A what?” said the poor man
“A relief. “Would it be a relief to have
: the hands chopped off from the body, or
the heart torn from the breast ? A relief,
indeed! God ba good to us! What do
you meau, sir?”
However many children we may have,
we have none to give up. Which, of our
families, can we afford to spare out ol
heaven? Gome, father I Gome, mother!
Gome, eon! Come, daughter! Gotne,
brother! Gome, sister! Only one step,
and we are in. Christ, the door, swings
out to admit us; and it is not the hoarse
ness of a stormy blast that you hear, but
the voice of a loving and patieut God that
addresses you, saying: “Gome thou and
all thy house into the ark.” And there
may the Lord shut us in.
SAVED r.Y \ MIRACLE.
A Woman heaps from a Train,
Dragging Her Mot tier AVlth Her.
Providence, 11. 1., March 27.—1n the
parlor car Pequot on the-Shore line train
from New York, which was due in this
city at 3:55 o’clock to-day, were Mrs. L.
Mendall, 72 years of age, Miss Jessie
Thurston, her daughter, both of Portland,
Me., and Walker G. Porter, 80 yoars old,
Mrs. Koudall’s grandson. These passen
gers were on their way to Portland from
Jacksonville, Fla. The train was going
at tue rate ol forty-five miles an hour on
a down grade. When the train was ap
proaching Norwood. six miles from here,
Miss Thurston came out of the toilet
room, whither she bad been followed by
the cider lady, and suddenly opened the
door of ttie car and went out ou the plat
form.
LEAPS FROM THE TRAIN.
The next instant she leaped from the
train. Her mother had kept dose to her,
and when she realized the intent of her
daughter she seized her by the skirts and
was dragged off the train. An alarm was
given. 'The train was backed and, to the
surprise of all, the two women were
found alive and aoparently uninjured in
the saud of the road-bed. It was found
that Mrs, Kendall's right arm was broken
in tour places aud her bead bruised, but
though badly shaken up she is not con
sidered dangerously hurt. Miss Thurston
suffered no other injury than scratches on
her lace where she struck the sand. It is
said that the recent death ol a relative in
Florida had upset the youug woman's
mind.
SHOT HY BU KG Li AltS.
Ail Attempt to Arrest Murderously
Resisted at Baconton.
Macon, Ua., March 27.—Much excite
ment has recently been caused by numer
ous burglaries in this State. About a
dozen stores have been robbed in as many
different towns during the last two weeks.
Friday night Thomasville was visited.
The next morning two suspected
men took the tram for Albany,
were pursued and intercepted
at iiaconton, where Sheriff Hurst and a
deputy attempted to arrest them. They
instantly drew pistols and commenced
tiring. Hurst was struck in the breast
and seriously wouudod. The men es
caped to the woods, but will probably be
captured. They are well dressed persons
of good address and are thought to be
irom Ny York.
AYHEAX’S CONDITION.
The Reports from the (Slates Fa
vorable to a Good Crop.
Chicago, March 27.—The Farmers’ Re
view prints this week the following:
“Dry weather continues to prevail In
Kansas and in portions of Missouri,
which has caused some injury to winter
wheat, though very few serious reports
of damage arc mado except in the former
State. The tenor of the reports Irom Mis
souri, however, is still favorable for the
crop. Illinois’ reports continue to be
favorable, and the outlook Is still re
garded as very favorable lor a full aver
age crop. Reports Irom Wisconsin are
nearly all of a favorable tenor. Reports
from Indiana are equally divided as indi
cating lair to good urospects.”
RAHWAY’S HORROR.
The M order of the Unknown AVom
nn as Great a Mystery as Ever.
Rahway, N. J., March 27.—The ex
citement over the murder of the un
known girl, whose body was discovered
on the railroad track on Central avenue
in the western outskirts or the city with
her throat out from ear to ear, is greater
than yesterday. The morning traius to
day were loaded with persons who came
here to see the body. A large crowd
garnered about the building where the
body lay, which was viewed by at least
2,000 persons. All sorts of stories and
rumors in regard to the affair *ore circu
lated throughout the city, hut all of them,
when investigated, are round to amount
to nothing.
Judge Treat Head.
HritiNGFiKLP, 111., March 27.—Hon.
Samuel li. Treat, Judgo of the United
Stales District Court for the Southern
district, died at his residenoo In this city
at 2 o’clock this afternoon. He was ap
pointed to the United States bench by
President Fierce in 1854 and was 73 years
of age.
AV. R. Travers Dead.
New York. March 27. —W. R.Travers,
of this city, died In Bermuda on March
19. His remains were brought to this
city to-day on tbs steamer Drinooo, ac
companied by the members of his family,
wlio were with niin during bis illness in
Bermuda.
Fort Meade Fancies.
KortMkadk, Fla., .March 27.—Hun
dreds of bird plume hunters are out
among the “rookeries” slaughtering
white herons and egreltes. These plumes
arc used in trimming hats lor the “lair
queens of fashion.”
A rich deposit of phosphate has been
found along the banks of l’eace river on
the east side of town.
Ttie muon needed rain has come at last,
and now the truok growers are “all
smiles.”
J. W. Henderson bas a Chinese quince
in bearing,
E. It. Gbildera Is shipping new Irish
potatoes.
Dr. J. Thompson has watermelon vines
in bloom.
Dr. C. F. Marsh is eating new oucum
bers trom his vines.
G. llarblshire’s Jumaioa ginger patch
is looking tine. _
Magnolia trees arggin bloom.
The huckleberry drop promisee to be
large.
(PRICK SKI AVKAK.I
J 6 CENTS A COPY. J
STARVED ON THE SCOTIA,
A TERRIBLE SCRAMBLE FOR
FOOD AT CASTLE GARDEN.
TlifFamUhnd .Steerage Passengers Males
an Onslaught on the Lunch Counter a.
Soon as Lauded—Pood Given Tln m at
the Kxpenso of the Emigration Culti.
inissloners.
New York, March 27.—Five hundred
and nineteen of the Italian passengers of
the wrecked steamer Scotia arrived ou
the sea barge Haggerty, at Castle Garden,
late this afternoon. Tbe scene that fol.
lowed beggared description. They rushed
into tbe rotunda pell mell, shrieking and
howling for food like ravenous wolves.
They crowded around the lunch tables, '
climbing over each other and trampling
on helpless women and children. Pande
monium reigned supreme for lully an
hour. It is customary to register al!
enunigrants before they enter the rotuu.
da, but the red tape was broken on this
occasion by Supt. Jackson. •
OFFICERS OF NO AVAIL,
The force of the mass of people was so
great that the officers stationed to'J.eep
order were swept aside like straws. The
seetning mass could not be restrained
Mr. Jackson gave orders to give taem al!
tbe food they needed and charge it to the
Commissioners of Emigration. Then the
distribution of food began. It was im
possible to regulate the distribution.
Strong men crowded to the iront with lip
lifted arms aud their eyes starting irom
their sockets, crying in Italian, “Bread!”
“Bread!” The surging mob was uttany
uncontrollable. Women and children were
trampled on, crowded and pushed away,
THROWN TO THE OUTSIDERS.
The onlcers of the garden aided in the
distribution by throwing loaves over the
heads ot tbo nearest to the outskirts of
the crowd. Every time a loaf was fired
into the crowd twenty or more scram
bled, and in some cases fought to get it.
That dry bread was a luxury was evident
from the way the starving people gorged
themselves. In a short tune all the food
was gone except some bologna sausage.
The women and children were cared ior,
and miik and beer were added to their
portion. Outside the railing were t 42
passengers from the Etruria, 852 from
the Waesland and 660 from La Bretagne.
Nearly 3,000 people were in the rotunda.
A FRIGHTFUL babel.
The babel of tongues was frightful, as
the people were of all nationalities, Tbo
officials handled them well, keeping the
Italians separate. The gates outside the
garden was besieged with friends ami
relaiivesof the Scotia’s passengers. Some
affecting scones were witnessed. Agent
Terkuyle aud Interpreter Theilly
came up with the passengers on the
barge. The tug Luckenhaoh brought up
their baggage. Seventy more of the
Scotia people were brought to the garden.
They came overland from Patchogue
whore they had landed.
DE FUNIAK SPRINGS.
Interesting Exorcises at the Chau
tauqua—Robbers Arrested.
I)e Funiak Sfrings.Fla., March 27.
The Florida Chautauqua is still in ses
sion. Yesterday was one of the most
important days of this session. The pro
gramme included normal class recita-'
tions and processions by the smaller
girls and boys, from the age ot 3 up to
12. They aoted equally as well as well
trained soldiers oi several yeaiV expe
rience. In the afternoon a concert was
givon by the “Goshen Band,” of Indiana.
Two thousand people were in
attendance. The lecture last even
ing by Mr. Miller was
splendid, and he handled the most im
portant questions now agitating the
minds of the American people with such
Illustrations tnat tbe most ignoraut could
not lull to comprehend.
Last Saturday evening a strip of woods
surrounding the Jones plantation, one
mile south ol the city, was tired, and a
comlortabie two-story residence, just
completed, was burned, together with a
lot of fencing. Tue fire was evidently the
work of an incendiary. Mr. Jones loses
about $5OO and has uounsurance.
On tbe night of March 13 the postoffleo
building, used also as a jewelry and
drug store, was entered and robbed
of a few dollars in cash and several
pieces of Jewelry. The matter was kept
quiet and detectives were engaged to
look it up. Friday night a negro boy leit
on the east-bound train for Jacksonville,
but failing to have uiooev enough to pay
his faro to Chattahoochee offered iii
pawn some jewelry. The conductor
refused to accept it. but on his return
trip informed Dr. Allred (the druggist),
one of the proprietors, who with the aid
of tbe telegraph line soon had one of the
thieves arrested at River Junction. He
divulged the name ot his accomplice.
*ltotb of the prisoners are now under arrest
awaiting a preliminary trial to-morrow,
LOUISVILLE LEAVES.
Death from Measles—A Gang of Ne.
gro Burglars Run Down.
Louisville, (la., March 26.—Mrs. Bella
Jackson died yesterday evening at 9:30
o’clock from measles, tiho was taken
only about a week ago. She leaves two
young children. This makes the third
death here trom measles within the last
week. There are one ortwopersous now
critically ill.*
Shortly alter Christmas it was discov
ered that someone had entered the store
bousoof Mosers. Liner & Clark and help
ed themselves to several pieces of wear
ing apparel and what money was left In
tbe drawer. Nothing was said of it at the
time in hopes of being able to catch tbs
parties, but the losers were unable 10 ob.
laiu any clue. Last Saturday night the
thieves entered the store again, and being
less cautious tbsn before, left signs tUat
led to their disoovery. Henry Long (col
ored), a noted rowdy and worthless char
acter, was seeu the lollowing day with a
new suit or clothes on, tnat was
at once identified as one stolen
the night before. He was
at onoe arrested and confessed. Im
plicating two otner young sports. Lawson
Stokes and Bob Jones, also colored. Both
were arrested aud stolen goods found in
tbeir possession.
The store or Messrs. Slnqueheld. Abbot
& Stone was also broken into about a
month ago, but nothing was found to bo
missing, except a dollar or two in change
left in the money drawer.
Survivors of a Dismantled Bark.
London, March 27.—The Swedish bark
Britannia, Gapt. Larson, from Pensacola
Jan, 16 lor Amsterdam, whs abandoned
March 2. She had been dismantled, her
decks Had been swept and she was leak
ing. Three of the crew were washed over
board and drowned. The German brig
Latzburg, from Trinidad for Queenstown,
landed the survivora at Faimyuth.