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Less than one-half of our farms are
mortgaged.
A Chicago University teacher will
be known as “Mr.,” not “Prof.
Our Animal Friends has collected
statistics which show that 102 cases of
lockjaw resulted in th9 year 1891 from
docking horses’ tails.
Among the new postoffices estab¬
lished in Washington State, noted by
the Chicago Record, are Pysht, Quit
lagnette. Utsalnddy and Klickitat.
It is said in the New York Recorder
that until the year 1895, no colored
man ever served on a jury in Maine.
W. A. Johnson, of Bangor, is the pio¬
neer.
The Atlanta Journal remarks that
while illiteracy decreased greatly in
the South from 1880 to 1890, it in¬
creased in the States of Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey,
Michigan, Montana, Nevada and Wis¬
consin.
The Sioux Indians propose to raise
by popular subscription a fund for
the erection of a monument to their
Chief, Iron Nation, who died recently
on the reservation near Chamberlain,
South Dakota. Iron Nation had been
a prominent figure in Sioux affairs for
sixty years.
Queerer suit at law was never
brought than that of II. Magill against
the Osage Council. Magill was going
through the reservation when the In¬
dians caught and tied him, cut his
hair and held a war dance round him.
He sues for $10,003, and the Council
offers $500 to settle.
Scotch banks will at an early date
reduce the interest on deposits to one
per cent., the lowest ever paid. The
managers state that they are com¬
pelled to take this course because the
English banks are only paying one
half per cent. They also say that
they never experienced such difficulty
in reinvesting money.
A new language has just been added
to the Bible Society’s list, bringing
up the total number to over 320. This
time, as in some other recent in¬
stances, the new* version is for Africa.
It is a translation of the gospel of St.
Matthew into Kisukuma, the language
of the Basukuma people, whose coun¬
try lies immediately south of Lake
Victoria Nyanza.
The vaunted protection of the seals
in Alaskan water is a myth, in the
opinion of tho New York Mail and Ex¬
press. Secretary Carlisle reports that
121 i, 143 10:0 were weie killed iviueu. bv uj vela poia 0 ric ic sealers se.ucrs
last ye?.r. This statement has caused
a suggestion to be made in Congress
that the Government undertake the
slaughter of the remaining seals, esti¬
mated to number 450,000, and sell the
skins, which would be valued at $10,- ,
000,000 if properly cured, It is
strange that the two greatest Govern¬
ments in the world cannot protect the
seals. Possibly there is some reason
not apparent on the surface why this
18 SO.
Dr. C'hauncey M. Depew in a recent
interview in predicting lS95’s pro¬
gress in railroading, very pertinently
stated: i » Take, for instance, the New
York Central Bailroad. Our trains
might almost be termed flashes of
lightning, but their rate is not a cir¬
cumstance to the speed we are now
aiming at. Then there is the matter
of safety. I need not assure you that
the safety of passengers is the most
important thing a railroad man has to
with. This coming year -^0 expect to
attain what some people may consider
a chimera—namely, perfect freedom
from risk in the transportation of hu¬
man beings by rail. We have, we be¬
lieve, solved the problem, and that, I
should say, will make 1895 an un
equaled year in railroading. In the
far as in the near future, romantic
things are done, or are bein n I f pro
jected. A tunnel to tho summit of
the ,, Jungrrau T , is one oi , the ,, things . pos
sible. The Trans-Siberian Railway
and the South African line to Mashon
aland are two projects on the edge of
the future—the former already under
way—and J the poetry 1 J of railroading °
will be experienced in the new rush of
railroad building certain to ensue in
Japan when the Chinese war indemnity
is paid—which will certainly happen
in 1895.
REV. DR. TALMAGE
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
Subject: “New Ground.”
Text: “Lest I should build upon anothei
man’s foundation.”—Romans xv., 20.
After, churches with the help of others. I had built
three in the same city, and not
feeling called upon to undertake the super¬
human toil of building a fourth church,
Providence seemed to point to this place as
the field in which I could enlarge my work,
and I feel a sense of relief amounting to ex¬
ultation. Whereunto this work will grow I
cannot prophesy. It is inviting and promis¬
ing beyond anything I have ever touched.
The churches are the grandest institutions
this world ever saw, and their pastors have
no superiors this side of heaven, but there is
a work which must be done outside of the
awhile, churches, “Lest and to I that build work I join myself for
on another man’s
foundation.”
Tho church is a fortress divinely built.
Now, a fortress is for defense and for drill,
and for storing ammunition, but an army
must sometimes be on the march far outside
the fortress. In the campaign of conquering
this world for Christ the time has come for
an advance movement, for a “general en¬
gagement,” of the for massing the troops, for an
invasion enemies' country. Confident
that the forts are well manned by the ablest
ministry that ever blessed the church. I pro¬
pose, with others, for awhile, to join the
cavalry and move out and on for service in
tho open field.
In laying out the plan for Ms missionary
tour Paul, with more brain than any of his
contemporaries or predecessors or succes¬
sors. sought out towns and cities which had
not yet been preached to. He goes to Cor
nith, Jerusalem, a city mentioned for splendor and vice,
and where the priesthood and
sanhedrin were ready to leap with both feet
upon the Christian religion. He feels he has
a special work to do, and he means to do it.
What was the result? The grandest life of
usefulness that man ever lived. We modern
Christian workers are not apt to imitate
Paul. We build on other people’s founda¬
tions. If we erect a church, we prefer to
have it filled with families all of whom have
been pious. Do we gather a Sunday-school
clas3, we want good boys and girls, hair
combed, faces washed, manners attractive.
So a church in this city is apt to be built out
of other churches. Some ministers spend all
their time in fishing in other people’s ponds,
and they throw the line into that church
pond and jerk out a Methodist, and throw
the line into another church pond and brin ■ f
out a Presbyterian, or there is a religious
row in some neighboring church, and the
whole school of fish swim off from that pond,
and we take them all in with one sweep of
the net. What is gained? Absolutely noth¬
ing for the general cause of Christ. It is only
as in an army, when a regiment is trans¬
ferred from one division to another, or from
the Fourteenth Regiment to the Sixty-ninth
Regiment. What strengthens the army is
new recruits.
The fact is, this is a big world. When in
our schoolboy days we learned the diameter
and circumference of this planet, we did not
learn half. It is the latitude and longitude
and diameter and circumference of want and
woe and sin that no figures can calculate.
This one spiritual continent of wretchedness
reaches across all zones, and if I were called
to give its geographical boundary I would
say it is bounded on the north and south and
east and west by the great heart of God’s
sympathy and love. Oh, it is a great world.
Since 6 o’clock this morning at least 80,000
have been born, and all these multiplied
populations are to be reached of the gospel.
In England or in Eastern American cities
we are being much crowded, and an
acre of ground is of great value, but out
West 500 acres is a small farm, and 20,
000 acres is no unusual possession. There is
a vast field here and everywhere unoc¬
cupied, plenty of room more, not building
on another man’s foundation. We need
as churches to stop bombarding the
old iron clad sinners that have been proof
against thirty years of Christian assault, and
aim for the salvation of those who have
never yet had one warm hearted and point
blank invitation. There are churches whose
bu i ldillgs mi - ht be worth W °00, who are
not averaging „ five new converts a year and
doing less good than many a log cabin meet¬
ing house with tallow candle stuck in wooden
socket and a minister who has never seen a
college or known the difference between
Greek and Choctaw. We need churches to
get into sympathy with the great outside
world, and let them know that none are so
broken hearted or hardly bestead that they
will not be welcomed. “No!” says some fas¬
tidious Christian: ‘.‘I don’t like to be crowd¬
ed in church. Don’t put any one in my
pew.” My brother, what will you do in
heaven? When a great multitude that no
man can number assembles, they will put
fifty in your pew. What are the select few
to-day assembled in the Christian churches
compared with the mightier millions outside
of them?
At least 3.000,000 people in this cluster of
seaboard cities, and not more than 200,000 in
the churches. Many of the churches are
like a hospital that should advertise that it3
patients must have nothing worse than tooth¬
ache crushed or “run ankles, arounds,” but no broken heads,
no no fractured thighs.
Give us for treatment moderate sinnera, vel¬
vet coated sinners and sinners with a gloss
on. It is as though a man had a farm of
3000 acres and put all his work on one acre.
He may raise never so large ears of corn,
never so big heads of wheat, he would re¬
main poor. The church of God has bestowed
its chief care on one acre and has raised
splendid men and women in that small in¬
closure, but the field is the world. That
means North and South America. Europe,
Asia and Africa and all the islands of the
sea.
It is as though after a great battle there
were left 50,000 wounded and dying on the
field and three surgeons gave all their time
to three patients under their charge. The
major-general comes in and says to the doc¬
tors, “Come out here and look at the nearly
50,000 dying for lack of surgical attendance.”
14 No,” say the three doctors, “we standing there
and fanning their patients; have three
important oases here, and we are attending
them, and when we are not positively busy
“jfStfiffiSES
sin and sorrow, where millions have fallen
on millions, do not let us spend all our time
in taking care of a few people, and when the
command comes, “Go into the world,” say
practically: “No; I cannot go. I have here
a f ev? choice cases, and I am busy keeping off
the flies.” There are multitudes to-day who
have never had any Christian worker look
them in the eye, and with earnestness in the
accentuation say, “Come!” or they would
long ago have been in the kingdom. My
friends, religion is either a sham or a tre
mendous reality. If it be a sham, let us cease
to have anvthing to do with Christian as
sociation. If it be a reality, then great
populations are on their way to the bar of
God unfitted for the ordeal, and what are we
doing?
Iu order to teach the multitude of outsid¬
ers we must drop all technicalities out of our
religion. When we talk to people about the
hypostatic union and French encyclopedian-
Ism and erastiantsm and compiutenstanisre, understood
we are as impolitic and little as
if a physician should talk to an ordinary pa¬
tient about the pericardium and intercostal
muscle and scorbutic symptoms. Many oi
us come out of the theological seminaries so
loaded up that we take the first ten years to
show our people how much we know, and
the next ten years to get our people end to know find
as much as we know, and at the
that neither of us knows anything _ of as we
ought to know. Here are thousands sin¬
ning, struggling and dying people who need
to realize just one thing—that Jesus Christ
came to save them, and will save them now.
But we go into a profound and elaborate
definition of what justification is, and after
all the work there are not outside of the
learned professions 5000 neople in the United
States who can tell what justification is.
I will read you the definition:
. < Justification is purely a forensic act, the
act of a judge sitting in the forum, in which
theSunreme Ruler and Judge, who is ac¬
countable to none, and who alone knows the
manner in which the ends of His universal
government can best be attained, reckons
that which was done by the substitute, and
not on account of anything done by them,
but purely upon account of this gracious
method of reckoning, grants them the fall
remission of their sins.”
Now. what is justification? I will tell you
what justification is. When a sinner be¬
lieves, God lets him off. Oae summer in
Connecticut I went to a large factory, and I
saw over the door written the words, “No ad¬
mittance.” I entered and saw over the next
door, “No admittance.” Of course I entered.
I got inside and found it a pin factory, and
they were making pins, very serviceable, fine
and useful pins. So the spirit of exclusive¬
ness has practically written over the outside
door of many a church, “No admittance.”
And if the stranger enter he finds practically
written over the second door, “No admit¬
tance,” and if he goes in over all the pew
doors seems written, “No admittance,” while
the minister stands in the pulpit, pounding hammering
out his little niceties of belief, out
the technicalities of religion, making pins.
In the most practical, nonessentials common sense and way, the
and laying aside the
hard definitions of religion, go out on the
God given mission, telling the people what
they need and when and how they can get it.
Comparatively little effort as yet has been
made to save that large class of persons in
our midst called skeptics, and he who goes
to work here will not be building UDon
another man’s foundation. There is a great
multitude of them. They are afraid of us
and our churches, for the reason we do not
know how to treat them. One of this clas3
met Christ, and hear with what tenderness
and pathos and beauty and success Christ
dealt with him: “Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy
strength. This is the first commandment,
and the second is like to this—namely, thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is
no other commandment greater than this.”
Thou And the hast scribe said said the to Him, for “Well, there Master, is
truth, one
God, and to love Him with all the heart, soul,
and all the understanding, and all tho
and ail the strength, is more than whole
burnt offerings and sacrifices.” And when
Jesus saw that he answered discreetly Ha
said unto him, “Thou art not far from the
kingdom of God.” So a skeptic was saved
in one interview. But few Christian people
treat the skeptic in that way. Instead of tak¬
ing hold of him with the gentle hand of love,
we are apt to take him with the iron pinchers
of eeclesiasticism.
You would not be so rough on that man if
yon knew by what process he had lost his
faith in Christianity. I have known men
skeptical from the fact that they grew up in
houses where religion was overdone. Sun¬
day was the most awful day of the week.
They had religion driven into them with a
trip hammer. They were surfeited with
prayer meetings. They were stuffed and
choked with catechisms. They were often
told they were the worst boys the parents
ever knew, because they liked to ride down
hill better than to read Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s
Progress.” Whenever father and mother
talked of religion, they and drew down the cor¬
ners of their mouth rolled up their eyes.
If any one thing will send a boy or girl to
rain sooner than another, that is it. If I
had such a father and mother, I fear I should
have been an infidel. When I wasaboyin
Sunday-school, at one time we had a teacher
who, when we were not attentive, struck us
over the head with a New Testament, and
there is a way of using even the Bible so as
to make it offensive.
Others were tripped up of skepticism from
being grievously wronged by some man who
professed to be a Christian. They had a
nprtner in business who turned out to be a
first-class scoundrel, though a professed
Christian. Many years ago they lost all faith
by what happened in an oil company which
was formed amid the petroleum excitement,
there The company owned of no oil land, produced, or if they did
was no sign but the
President of the company was a Presbyterian
elder, and the treasurer was an Episcopal
vestryman, andone director was a Methodist
clas3 leader, and the other directors promi¬
nent members of Baptist and Congregational
churches. Circulars were gotten out telling
what fabulous prospects opened before this
company. Innocent men and women
who had a little money to invest, and that
little their all, said, “I don’t know anything
about this company, bat so many good men
are at the head of it that it must be excellent,
and taking stock in it must be almost as
good as joining the church. • i
So they bought the stock and perhaps re¬
ceived one dividend so as to keep them stri.ll,
but after awhile they found that the com¬
pany had reorganized and had a different
president and different treasurer and differ¬
ent directors. Other engagements or ill
health had caused the former officers of the
company, with many regrets, to resign.
And all that the subscribers of that stock had
to show for their investment was a beauti¬
fully ornamented certificate. Sometimes
that man looking over his old papers comes
across that certificate, and it is so suggestive
that he vows he wants none of the religion
that the presidents and trustees and direc¬
tors of that oil company profe33ed. Of
course their rejection of religion on such
grounds was unphilosophical and unwise. I
am told that many of the United States army
desert every year, aud there are thousands
of court martials every year. Is that
anything against the United States Gov¬
ernment that swore them in? And
if a soldier of Jesus Christ desert, is that
anything against the Christianity which
he swore to support and defend? How do
you judge of the currency of a country? By
a counterfeit bill? Oh, you must have pa¬
tience with those who have been swindled by
religious pretenders. Live in the presence of
others a frank, honest, earnest Christian life,
that they may be attracted to the same Sav¬
iour upon whom your hopes depend.
Remember skepticism always has some
reason, good or bad, for existing. Goethe’s
irreligion started when the news came to
Germany That of the 60,000 earthquake people at should Lisbon, Nov.
1, 1775. have
perished in that earthquake stirred and in the after
rising of the Tagus so his sympathies
that he threw up his belief in the goodness of
God.
Others have gone into skepticism from a
natural persistence in asking the reason why.
They have been fearfully stabbed of the in¬
terrogation point. There are so many things
they cannot get explained. They cannot un¬
derstand the Trinity or how God can be sor-
erelgn and yet a man a free agent, Neither
caul. They say: “1 don’t understand why
a Ljood God should have let sin. come into the
world. Neither do I. You say: “Why was
that child started in life with such disadvan¬
tages while others have all physical Ihoygo and
mental equipment?” I cannot tell.
out of church on Easter morning and say:
“That doctrine of the resurrection con¬
founded me.” So it is tome a mystery be¬
yond unravelment. I understand ail the pro¬
cesses by which men get into the dark. I
know them all. I have traveled with burning
feet that blistered way. The first word which
most children learn to utter is: “Papa, or
“Mamma, >1 but I think the first word I ever
uttered was: <( Why?” I know what it is to
have a hundred midnights pour their
darkness into one hour. Such men are not
to be scoffed, but helped. Turn your back
upon a drowning man when you have the
rope with which to pull him ashore, and let
that woman in the third story of a house
perish in the flames when you have a ladder
with which to help her out and help her
down, rather than turn your back scofittngly
on a skeptic whose soul is in more peril than
the bodies of those other endangered ones
possibly can be. Oh, skepticism is a dark
land. There are men in this house who
would give a thousand worlds if they pos¬ of
sessed them to get back to the placid faith
their fathers and mothers, and it is our place
to help them, and we may help them, tUrough never
through their heads, but always brought
their hearts. These skeptics, when
to Jesus, will he mightily effective, far more
so than those who never examined the evi¬
dences of Christianity.
Thomas Chalmers was once a skeptic
Robert Hall a skeptic, Robert Newton a skep¬
tic, Christmas Evans a skeptic. But when
once with strong hand they took hold of the
chariot of the gospel they rolled it on with
what momentum! If I address such men
and women to-day, I throw out no scoff. I
implead them by the memory of the good
old days, when at their mother’s knee they
said, “Now I lay me down to sleep,” and by
those days and nights of scarlet fever in
which she watched you, giving you the
medicine at just the right time and turning
your-piliow when it was hot, and with hands
that many years ago turned to dust soothed
away your pain, and with voice that you will
never hear again, unless you join her in the
better country, told you to never miud, for
you would feel better by and by, and by that
dying couch, where she looked so pale and
talked so slowly, catching felt her breath between
the words, and you an awful loneliness
coming over your and soul—by all that I beg you It
to come back take the same religion.
was good enough for her. It is good enough
for you. Nay, I haye a better plea than
that. I pleai by all the wounds and tears
and blood and groans and agonies and death
throes of the Son of (rod, who approaches
you this moment with torn brow, and lacer¬
ated hand, and whipped back, and sayin ■ *
.. Come unto Me, all ye who are weary and
heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Again, there is a field of usefulness but lit¬
tle touched occupied by those who are astray
in their habits. All northern Nations, like
those of North America and England and
Scotland—that is, in the colder climates—are
devastated by alcoholism. They take the
Are to keep up the warmth. In southern
countries, like Arabia and Spain, the blood
liquids. is so warm The tney are not tempted to fiery
great Roman armies never
drank anything stronger than water tinged
with vinegar, but under our northern climate
the temptation to heating stimulants is most
mighty, and millions succumb. When a
man’s habits go wrong, the church drops
him; the social circle drops him; good in¬
fluence drops him; we all drop him. Of all
the men who get off track, hut few ever get
on again. Near my summer residence there
is a life saving station on the beach.
There are all the ropes and rockets, the
boats, the machinery for getting people off
shipwrecks. One summer I saw there fifteen
or twenty men who were breakfasting after
having just escaped with their lives and
nothing more. Up and down our coasts are
built these useful structures, and the mari¬
ners know it, and they feel that if they are
driven into the breakers there will be apt
from shore to come a rescue. The
churches of God ought to he so many life
saving stations, not so much to help those
who are in smooth waters, but those who
have been shipwrecked. Come, let us run
out the lifeboats! And who will man them?
We do not preach enough to such men.
We have not enough faith in their release.
Alas, if when they come to hear us we are la¬
boriously trying to show the difference be¬
tween sublapsarianism and supralapsarian
ism, while they have a thousand vipers of re¬
morse and despair coiling around their im¬
mortal spirits!
The church is not chiefly for goodish sort
of men whose proclivities are all right, and
who could get to heaven praying and sing¬
ing in their own homes. It is on tho beach
to help the drowning. Those bad cases are
the cases that God likes to take hold of. He
can save a big sinner as well as a small sin¬
ner, and when a man calls earnestly to God
for help He will go out to deliver such a one.
If it were necessary, God would come down
from the sky, followed by all the artillery of
heaven and a million angels with drawn
swords. Get 100 such redeemed men in each
of your churches, and nothing could stand
before them, for such men are generally
warm-hearted and enthusiastic.
streets Furthermore, offer the field destitute children of the
a of work comparatively
unoccupied. The uncared for children are
in tho majority in most of our cities. Their
condition was well illustrated by what a boy
in this city said when ho was found under a
cart gnawing a bone and some one said to
him, “Where do you live?” and he answered,
“Don’t live nowhere, sir!” Seventy thousand
of the children of New York City can neither
read nor write. When they grow up, if un
reformed, they will outvote your children,
and they will govern your children. The
whisky ring will hatch out other whisky
rings, and grogshops will kill with their hor¬
rid stench public sobriety, unless the church
of God rises up with outstretched arms and
infolds this dying population in her bosom.
Public schools cannot do it. Art galleries
caunot do it. Blackwell’s Island cannot do
it. Almshouses cannot do it. New York
Tombs cannot do it. Sing Sing cannot do it.
People of God, wake up to your magnificent
mission! You can do it. Get somewhere,
somehow, to work!
The Prussian cavalry mount by putting
their right foot into the stirrup, while the
American cavalry mount by putting their left
foot into the stirrup. I don’t care how you
mouutyour war charger if you only get into
this battle for God, and get there soon, right
stirrup, or left stirrup, or no stirrup at all.
me unoccupied neldg are all around us, and
why should we build on another man’s foun¬
dation?
I have heard of what was called the
the “thunder Roman legion.” It was in 179, a part of
army to which some Christians
belonged, and their prayers, it was said, were
answered by thunder and lightning and hail
and tempest, which overthrew an invading
army and saved the Empire. And I would to
God that you could be so mighty in prayer
and work that you would become a thunder¬
ing legion before which the forces of sin
might be routed and the gates of hell made
to tremble. All aboard now on the gospel
ship! If you cannot be a captain or a first
mate, be a stoker or a deckhand, or ready at
command to climb the ratlines, Heave away
now, lads! Shake out the reefs in the fore
topsail! Come, O heavenly wind, and fill
the canvas! Jesus aboard will assure our
safety. Jesus on the sea will becaon us for.
ward. Jesus harbor. on the shining shore will wel.
come us into ‘‘And so it eama to
pass that they all escaped safe to land.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Queen* Victoria is something of a hy po .
ehondriae.
Fred. Douglass, for twenty-one years a
slave, left $200,000.
The Sultan of Turkey has sent a fine Da
mascus blade to Emperor William for a pres¬
ent.
Samuel Dan Horton, the distinguished
writer on financial topics, Washington, died, a few days
since, in a hospital at D. c.
Dr. Schweninger advised Prince Bismarck
to receive only a few deputations on April i
his birthday, and to meet the others on sub¬
sequent days.
The late M. de Giers, Russian Minister for
Foreign Affairs, was a Lutheran, and was de¬
scended from a Swedish family settled in Po¬
land. His public service extended over a
period of fifty years.
Lord Wolseley’s great claim to the re¬
spect of the British .army is that he has never
suffered a defeat. Like Lord Napier, in the
Abyssinian war, he went through the Soudan
campaign without a single reverse.
Cyrus A. Sulloway, who was elected as a
Republican to the next House of Representa¬
tives as the successor of Henry W. Blair, of
New Hampshire, has come out for silver. He
is the only memuer of the New England del¬
egation who lias yet taken that stand.
E. N. Morrill, the Governor of Kansas, is
one of the few survivors of those who fig¬
ured in the exciting Territorial politics of
Kansas. Thirty-seven years ago he was a ft ft
member of the Free State Legislature which
submitted the Lecompton constitution.
The Governor-General of Canada, Lord
Aberdeen, of has the offered late Sir to John provide Thompson’s for the main- two ]
tenance
sons until such time as they will be able to
look after themselves. The late Premier of
Canada left an estate of less than $10,000.
Judge Charles L. Benedict, of the United i
States District Court for the Eastern District
of New York, has decided to resign, as he ■
had always contemplated doing He when he I
reached the age of seventy. is now
seventy-one. He was appointed by President
Lincoln in 1865.
Miss Morton, sister of the Secretary of
Agriculture, is the only person prominently I
connected with the Administration who is
able to talk French to members of the Diplo- I
matic Corps, She lost her fortune indorsing I
notes of another brother, and was compelled I
to open a girl’s school in Detroit.
The Duchess of Devonshire is mistress of
eight magnificent country seats and town
houses in England, a chateau in France, a
villa in the Riviera, and has a daughter mar¬
ried to a man who bears three dukedoms—
Hamilton, Brandon and Chatelherault. She
herself has been twice led to the altar by a
Duke. Her ducal record is thus quite unique.
Alfons Czibulka, whose “Stephanie Ga¬
votte” has been played in almost every coun¬
try in the world, died of apoplexy recently
in Vienna. He was born in Hungary, and
began his musical career as an infant phe¬
nomenon, playing for several seasons in
Southern Russia. He wrote “Amorita,” Ball, and ’
the waltz, “Love’s Dream After the
which is still popular. Czibulka was only
fifty-four years old.
THE LABOR WORLD.
Chief Naval Constructor Wilson worked
in the Navy Yard when a boy.
Seven lives were sacrificed through the re¬
cent trolley strike in Brooklyn.
The New Jersey Assembly passed a bill
abolishing the State Board of Arbitration.
The convention in Columbus. 0hio, of the
United Mine Workers have adj burned sine
die.
The Galveston (Texas) oottorh mill oper
atives, nearly 500 strong, have gome out on s
strike.
Manchester, England, has votad, dollars through
its Town Council, a million for a
technical school. }
The Brooklyn Firemen’s Union* has fined
one of its members $5 for riding Ion \ a boy¬
cotted trolley car.
An effort is beine- made in Englamd to get
a State grant of $25,000,000 to tidi¥ over the
needs of the unemployed. I
San Francisco printers have statited a boy¬ be¬
cott against the Salvation Army W*ir Cry
cause the office is non-union. I
Arbitration for the settlement of labor
troubles is provided for in a bill : ,asset! by
the House of Representatives.
Investigation of the condition of Ohio
miners in the Hocking Valley slftows that
great distress generally prevails. 1
ing Bituminous Valley coal operators along tftne I >ombiaea Hock
Railroad in Ohio have
and agreed to stopi competition. I
road, President announced Norton, that of he tho would Brookhftp dftischarg* trolley
five old employes for each new one aft vaulted, j
While the London artisan works « iffy wr
four hours per week, the London s hop ? irl
works eighty-one hours. Efforts art i making least
to reduce the hours of the latter tc , at
twelve pier day.
The large shipbuilders, Harland , ^ Wolff. and
Belfast, Ireland, who built tho Majt Sek; Stic
Teutonic, pay riveters $7.54 per w>J W the
tern makers. and fitters $8.27 per week; pJ aters
same, $6.57 to $8. i
The city and suburban trolley sys] Item. | con¬
timore, Md., reduced the wages of the E
ductors cents a day, on the Lakeside ten cents extension hour! tj ic and nine the
or an
motormen to twelve cents or $1.20 d day. of
tho The Ancient New York County represent! dei [atives
Order of Hibernians ofl Offif
on account of so many members the inad
being out of employment it wouldl this
visable to celebrate St. Patrick's* pay
your by a parade. loft ft bre* e ,f
For fourteen months nearly bO k&fX
in eato St. which Louis, bought discharged several by the Brift bfl I
that city, have up reeeiviruH ,.
each been lift Kers’H
from a relief fund raised by the
tional Trade Union. fl
A strike among the building trij des 0U ^ York
buildings in course of erection in!
was declared in sympathy with fi
Electrical Workers’ Union. Thl
strikers of New York accepted mb] tl to o liege. J
President Seth Low, of Coin is Coi
the Rev. Dr. Rainsford and Mrs.
Shaw Lowell to try to mediate.
Curtailing the Force
On the 3d day of March, 1
gress created a joint commisfl
organize the accounting sy s
partments. business methods The in the exej ICt p
f Representatives commission! Dockery]
i *
souri; Richardson, of Tennl j
Dingley, of Maine, and
Cockrell, of Missouri; Jond
kausas, and Cullom, of Illinc m
Some Australian railways I
station masters.