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BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER IT, 1893;
tf UMBEK 47,
BEY. BE. TAIfiAUE,
THE BROOKLYN- T>r
BAY SERMON
Subject:. “Pompeii and Itiji Lessons.
Test^: “Thouhast made defented city
anon.”—Isaiah sx?., 2. j 5
A flash, on th(wn'<gm awy greeted Us as we
lete A.e rail train at Naples, Italy. "What was
the strange illumination? It was that wrath
of many centuries—Vesuvius. Riant son of
an earthquake. Intoxicated; mountain ol
Italy. Father of many consternations. A
•volcano, burning so long, and yet to keep on
burning until, perhaps, it mar be the verv
torch that will kindle' the last, -
and set all the world on Are. It eclipses in
violence of behavior Cotopaxi and iEtna and
i Btromboli and Krakatoa. Atfjul mystery.
Funeral pyre of dead cities. Y Everlasting
paroxysm of mountains. It Teems like a
chimney of hell. It roars witi fiery remin
iscence of what it has done andf with threats
of worse things that it may yetao. I would
not live in one of the villages a; its base fora
present of all Italy
On a day in December, IK* it threw up
shes that floated awav hunriiVfa
ashes that floated away hundfAls and hum
-4seds. of miles and dropped in Constantino
ple, and in the Adriatic sea I and on the
Apennines, as well as trampl ig out at its
own foot the lives of 18,000people. Geo
logists have tried to fathom it.fmysteries,but
the heat consumed the irou intruments and
drove back the scorched anf blistered ex
plorers from the eindery ipd crumbling
brink. It seems like the asyllm of maniac
elements.
At one time far back its iop had been a
fortress, where Spartacus fqght and was
surrounded and would have sen destroyed
had it not been for the gipevines which
clothed the mountainside frch top to base,
and laying hold of them Je climbed hand
under hand to safety in the [alley. But for
centuries it has kept its fuijace homing ns
•>» saw it that night on ousirrival in Novem
ber wV.i»9,
Of course tde next dajr we started to see
so ne of the work wrought by that frenzied
mountain. “AH out for Pompeii!” was the
cry of the conductor. 1 And now we stand by
the corpse of that dead city. As we entered
the gate and passed bqtween the walls I took
oil my hat, as one naturally does in the pres
ence of some imposing obsequies. That city
had been at one time a capital of beauty and
pomp. The home of grand architecture, ex
quisite painting, enchanting sculpture, unre
strained carousal and rapt assemblage.
high wall twenty feet thick, tbree-fourths of
it still visible, encircled the city. Of those
walls, at a distance of only 100 yards from
each other, towers rose for armed men who
watched the city. The streets ran at right
angles and from wall to wall, only one street
excepted.
In the days of the city's prosperity its
towers glittered in the sun; eight strong
gates for ingress and egress; Gate of the
Seashore, Gate of Herculaneum. Gate of
Vesuvius being perhaps the most important.
Yonder stood the Temple of Jupiter, hoisted
at an imposing elevation, and with its six
Corinthian columns of immense girth, which
6food like carved icebergs shimmering in the
light. There stands the Temple of the
Twolve Gods. Yonder see the Temple of
Hercules and the Temple of Mercury, with
nitars of marble and bas-relief, wonderful
enough to astound all succeeding ages of art,
an d the Temple of iEsculapius, brilliant with
sculpture and gorgeous with painting.
Yonder are the theatres, partly cut into
surrounding hills, and glorified with pic-
1 ured walls, and entered under arches of im
posing masonry, and with rooms, for capti
vated and applaudatory audieuees seated or
standing in vast semi-circle. Yonder are the
costly and immense public baths of the city,
with more than the modern ingenuities of
Carlsbad. Notice the warmth of those an
cient topidariums, with hovering radiance
of roof, and the vapor of those caldariums.
with decorated alcoves, and the cold dash of
their frigidariums, with floors of aeafie and
: tnfefmh
Steftoily tnfefminglod hues,
and walls upholstered with all the colors of
the setting sun, and sofas on which to recline
for slumber after the plunge.
Yonder are the barracks of the celebrated
gladiators. Yonder is the summer home of
Sallust, the Roman historian and Senator,
the architecture as elaborate ns his charac
ter was corrupt. There is the residence of
the poet Pansa, with a compressed Louvre
and Luxembourg within his walls. There is
the home of Lucretius, with vases and antiqui
ties enough to turn the head of a virtuoso.
Yonder see the Forum, at the highest place
in the city. It is entered by two triumphal
arches. It is bounded on three sides by
doric columns.
Yonder, in the suburbs of the city, is the
home of Arrius Diomed, the mayor of the
suburbs, terraced residence of billionaire-
dom, gardens, fountained, statued, colon
naded, the cellar of that villa filled with bot
tles of rarest wine, a few drops of which
wore found 1800 years afterward. Along the
streets of the city are men of might and
women of beauty formed into bronze that
many centuries had no power to bedim. Bat
tle scenes on walls in colors which all time
cannot efface. Great city of Pompeii! So
Seneca and Tacitus and Cicero pronounced
Stand with mo on its walls this evening of
August 23, A. D. 79. See the throngs pass
ing up and down in Tyrian purple and gir
dles of arabesque, and necks enchained with
precious stones, proud official in imposing
toga meeting the slave carrying trays a-clink
with goblets and a-smoke with delicacies
from paddock and sea, and moralist musing
over the degradation of the times passes the
profligate doing his best to make them worse.
Hark to the clatter and rataplan of the hoofs
on the streets paved with blocks of basalt
See the verdured and flowered grounds slop
ing into the most beautiful bay Of all the
earth—the bay of Naples.
Listen to the rumbling chariots, carrying
convivial occupants to halls of mirth and
masquerade and carousal. Hear the loud
dash of fountains amid the sculptured water
nymphs. Notice the weird, solemn farreaoh-
ing hum and din and roar of a city at the
close of a summer day. Let Pompeii sleep
well to-night, for it is the last night of peace
ful slumber before she falls into the deep
i slumber of many long centuries. The morn
ing of the 24th of August, A. D. 79, has ar
rived, and the days roll on. and it is 1 o’clock
in the afternoon. “Look!” I say to you,
standing on this wall, as the sister of Pliny
said to him, the Roman essayist and naval
commander, on the day of which I speak, as
she pointed him in the direction in which 1
point you.
There is a peculiar cloud oa the sky; a
spotted cloud, now white, n&w blaek. It is
Vesuvius in awful and unparalleled eruption.
Now the smoke and fire and steam of that
black monster throat rise aud spread, as, by
my gesture, I now describe it. It rises, a
great column of flery, darkness, higher and
higher, and then spreads out like the
branches of a tree, with midnights enter-
wrapped in its foliage, wider and wider.
Now the sun goes out, and showers of
pumice stone and water from furnaces more
than seven times heated, an 1 ashe3 iu aval
anche after avalanche, blinding and scalding
and suffocating, descend north, south, east
nnl west, burying deeper and deeper in
mammoth sepulcher, such as never bofore
or since was opened, Stabim, Herculaneum
and Pompeii. Ashes ankle deep, girdle
deep, chin deep, ashes overhead.
Out of the houses and temples and thea
tres and into the streets and down to the
beach fled many of the frantic, but others, il
not suffocated of the ashes, were scalded tc
death by the heated deluge. Aud then came
heavier destruction in rocks after rooks,
crushing in homes and temples and theatres.
No wonder the sea receded from the beach as
though in terror, until much of the shipping
was wrecked, aird no wonder that when they
lifted Pliny the elder from, the sailcloth or
which he was resting, uader-the agitations oi
what he had seen, he suddenly expired.
For three days the entombment proceeded.
Then the clouds lifted, and the cursing of
that Apollyon of mountains subsided. For
1700 years that city of Pompeii lay buried
and without anything to /show its place of
doom. But after 1700 years of obliteration
a workman’s spade, digging a well, strikes
some antiquities which lead to the exhuma
tion or;the city. Now walk with me through
some of the streets and into some of the
houses and amid the ruins of basilica and
temple and amphitheatre.
From the moment the guide met us at the
gate on entering Pompeii that day in No
vember;. 1889,'until he left us at the gate on
our departure, the emotion I felt was inde
scribable-for elevation and solemnity..and
sorrow and awe. Come and see the petri
fied bodies of the dead fonnd in the city, and
now fb the mnseums of Italy. ' About 460 of
those embalmed by that eruption have been
recovered. ' Mother and child, noble and
serf, merchant and beggar, are presentable
and natural after 1700 years of burial. That
woman was foiled Clutching her adornments
when the storm of ashes dhd fife began,, aud
for 1700 years sho continued to clilrch f hem.
There at the soldiers’ .barracks afe sixty-
four Skeletons of brave men who faithfully'
stood guard at their post When' the. tempest
of olnders began, and after 1700 years Were,
still found standing guard. There is the
form of gentle womanhood impressed upon
the hardened ashes. Pass along,-and. here
we see the deep rats in the basaltic pave
ments worn there by the wheels df the chari
ots of the first century. There, over the
doorways and in the porticoes, arc Works of
art immortalizing the debauchery fif a City,
which, notwithstanding all its splendors,Was
a vestibule of perdition.
Those gutters ran with the blood of the
gladiators, who were prizefighters of those
ancient times, and it was sword parrying
sword, untiJ, -With one skilful and stou;
plunge of the sharp edge, the mauled aud
gashed eombataUt reeled over dead, to be
carried out amid the huzzaS df enraptured
spectators. TVe staid among those snggestive
scenes after the hour that visitors are usually
allowed there and staid until there was not a
footfall lo he heard within all that city except
our own. Up this silent street and down that
silent street we wandered. Into that win
dowless androofless home we went and came
out again onto the pavements that, now for
saken, were onee thronged With life.
And can it be that all Up and down these
solemn solitudes, hearts more than 1800
years ago ached and rejoiced, and feet shuf
fled with the gait of old age or danced with
childish glee, and overtasked workmen car
ried their burdens, and drunkards staggered?
flu that mosaic floor did glowing youth elasb
hands iu marriage vow, and cross that
threshold did pallbearers carry the beloved
dead, and gay groups once mount those now
skeletons of staircases?
While I walked and contemplated the city
seemed suddenly to be thronged with all the
population that had ever inhabited it, and I
heard its laughter and groan and Unclean-,
ness and infernal boast as it was on the 23d'
of August, 79. And Vesuvius, from the mild
light with which it flushed the sky that sum
mer evening as I stood in disentombed Pom
peii, seemed suddenly again to heave and
flame and rook with the lava and darkness
and desolation and woe with which more
than eighteen centuries ago it submerged
Pompeii, as with the liturgy of Are aud storm
the mountain proclaimed at the burial,
“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.”
My friends, I cannot tell what practical
suggestion comes to your mind from this
walk through uncovered Pompeii, but the
first thought that absorbs me is that, while
art and culture are important, they cannot
save the morals or the life of a great town.
Much of the painting and sculpture of Pom
peii was so exquisite that, while some is kept
on the walls where it was first penciled, to be
admired by those who go there, whole wagon
loads and whole rooms full of it have been
transferred to the Museo Borbonico at Na
ples, to bo admired by the centuries.
Those Pompeiian artists mixed such dura
bility of colors that, though their paintings
were buried in oshe3 and scoriffi for 1700
year/, and since they were uncovered many
of them have remained there exposed to the
rains and winds and winters and summers
130 years, the color is as fresh and vivid and
true as though yesterday itjuul passed from
the easel. Which of our modern paintings
could stand all that? And yet many of the
specimens of Pompeiian art show that the
city was sunk to such a depth of abomination
that there was nothing deeper. Sculptured
and petrified and embalmed abomination.
There was a state of public morals worse
than belongs to any city now standing under
th'esun.
Yet how many think that all that is neces
sary is to cultivate the mind and advance the
knowledge and improve the arts. Have you
the impression that eloquence will do the
elevating work? Why, Pompeii had Cicero
half of every year for its citizen. Have you
the idea that literature is all that is neces
sary to keep a city right? Why, Sallust, with
a pen that was the boast of Roman litera
ture, had a mansion in that doomed city. Do
you think that sculpture and art are quite
_ ^sufficient for the-production of good morals?
Then correct your delusion by examining
the statues in the Temple of Mercury at Pom
peii, or the winged figures of its Parthenon,
and the colonnades and-arohes of this house
of Diomed.
By all means have schools and Dusseldorf
and Doro exhibitions and galleries where
the genius of all the centuries can bank it
self up in snowy sculpture, aud all bric-a-
brac, and all pure art, but nothing save the
religion of Jesus Christ can make a city
moral. In proportion as churches aud Bi
bles and Christian printing presses and re
vivals of religion abound is a city pure and
clean. What has Buddhism or Confucianism
or Mohammedanism done in all the hun
dreds of years of their progress for the ele
vation of society? Absolutely nothing.
Peking and Madras and Cairo are just
what they were ages ago, except as Christi
anity has modified their condition. What is
the difference between our Brooklyn and
their Pompeii? No difference, except that
which Christianity has wrought. Favor ail
good art, but take best care of your
churches, and your Sabbath schools, and
your Bibles, and your family altars.
Yea, see in our walk through uncovered
Pompeii what sin will do for a city. We
ought to be slow lo assign the judgment of
God. Cities nre sometimes afflicted just as
good people are afflicted, and the earthquake,
and the cyclone, and the epidemic are no
sign in many eases that God is angry with a
city, hut the distress is sent for some good
and kind purpose, whether we understand
it or not. The law that applies to individ
uals may apply to Christian cities as well,
“All things work together for good to those
that love God.”
But the greatest calamity of history came
upon Pompeii not to improve its future con
dition. for it was completely obliterated aud
will never be rebuilt. It was so bad that
it ueeiledto bo buried 1700 years before even
its ruins were fit to be uncovered. So Sodom
and Gomorrah were fllled with such turpi
tude that they were not only turned under,
but have for 'thousands of years been kept
under. The two greatest cemeteries are the
cemetery iu which the sunken ships are bur
ied all the way between Fire Island aud
Fastnot Lighthouse, and the other eemotery
is the cemetery of dead cities.-
I get down' on my knees and read. the
epltapheology of a long line of them. Hera
lies Babjdou, onee called “the hammer of
the whole earth.” Dead and buried under
piles of bitumen and broken pottery and
vitreiied brick. And I hear a wolf howl and
a reptile hiss as I am reading this epitaph
(Isaiah xiii, 21), “The wild beast of the
desert shall be there, and their house shall
bo full of doleful creatures.”
The next tomb I kneel before in this cem
etery of cities is Nineveh. Her winged lions
are down, and the slabs of alabaster have
crumbled, and the sculpture that represented
her battles is as completely scattered as the
dust of the heroes who fought them. Per
haps I put my knee into the dust of her Sar-
danapalus as I stoop to read her epitaph
(Zephaniah ii., 14,) “Now is Nineveh desola
tion and dry like a wilderness, and flocks lie
down in the midst of her; all the beasts of
the Nations, both the cormorant and the bit
tern, lodge in the upper lintels of it.” And
while I read it I hear an owl hoot and a
hyena laugh.
The next entombed oily I pass has a monu
ment of fifty prostrate columns of "gray and
red granite, and it is Tyro. The next se
pulcher of a great capital is covered with
scattered columns and defaaed sphinxes and
the sands of the desert, and it is Thebes. As
I pass on I find the resting place of Mycena,
a city of which Homer sang, and Corinth,
which rejected Paul and depended upon her
fortress, Acrocorinthus, which now lies dis
mantled on the bill, and I move on in this
cemetery of cities, and I find the tomb3 of
Sardis and Smyrna and Persepolis and
Memphis and Baalbek and Carthage, and
here are the cities of the plain and Hercu
laneum and Stabia and Pompeii. Some of
Shem have mighty sarcophagus and hiero
glyphic entablature, but they are dead and
buried never to rise.
But the cemetery of dead cities is not yet
filled, and if the present cities of the world
forget God and with their indecencies shock
the heavens let them know that the God who
on the 24th of August. 79, dropped on a eity
of Italy a superincnmbrance that staid there
seventeen centuries is still alive and hates
sin now as much as He did then and has at
His command all the armament of destruc
tion with which He whelmed their iniquitous
predecessors.
It was only a few summers ago that Brook-
lyn-and New York felt an earthquake throb
that sent , the people Affrighted-into the
streets and that suggested that there are forces
of nature now suppressed or’ held in cheek,
which easier, than a child in a- nursery
knocks down a row of block houses could
quietest Sabbaths on the continent and the
hestorderandthe highesttone of morals of
any eity that I know of, is now . having
brought into os near neighborhood as Coney
Island carnivals of pugilism as- debasing as
any of ,the gladiatorial interests of-Pompeii;
What a precious crew that Coney Island Ath-
. the mercy of the Lord continued to our
American cities. .
It amazes me that this city, which has the
letic Club is, Under-, whose auspices these
orgies are enacted! What a degradation to
the- adjective“athletic,” which ordinarily
suggests health and-muscle developed. for
useful, purpose.?- Instead of calling It /an
a thief ie club they might better style it “The
Bnfflan Club’ For Smashing the Human
- Visage,
Vile men are turning that Coney Island,
which is one of the finest watering places on
all the Atlantic coast, into, a place for the
oflSaouring Of the earth'to congregate, the
-low horse jockeys and gamblers, and the
pugilists and the pickpockets, and the bloats
regurgitated from the depths of the worst;
wards of these cities. ' Thqrinvite,delegates
from universal loaferdom to' come to their
carnival'of knuckles. But; I do not believe
that the pugilism contracted for and adver
tised for next Decembor will take place in
our neighborhood.
Evil sometimes defeats itself by going one
step too-fur. You may drive the hoop of a
barrel down so hard that it breaks. I will
not believe that the international prize fight
will take plaoe on Long Island or in the State
of New York until I see the rowdy rabble
rolling drunk off the ears at Flatbush avenue
and with faces hanged and cut and bleeding
from the lmbrating scene. Against this in
fraction of the laws of the State of New York
I lift solemn protest. The curse of Almighty
God will rest Upon any community that con
sents to such an outrage. Does any one
think it cannot be stopped, and that the con
stabulary would be overborne? Then let
Governor Plower send down there a regiment
of State militia, and they will clean out the
nuisance in one hour.
Warned by the doom of other cities fhat
have perished for their ruffianism, or their
cruelty, or their idolatry, or their dissolute-
'ness, let all our American cities lead the right
way. Our only dependence is on God a 1 ’
Christrian influences. Politics will do no(
ing but make things worse. Send politics
moralize and save a city, and you S'
smallpox to heal leprosy or a carcass to?'
lieve the air of malodor. For what pof,,.
will do I refer you to the" eight weeks of
stultification enacted at Washington by our
American senate.
American polities will become a reforma
tory power on the same day that pandemoni
um becomes a church. But there are, I am
glad to say, beuign and salutary and gra
cious influences organized in all our cities
which Will yet take them for God and right
eousness. Let us ply the gospel machinery
to its utmost speed and power. City evan.
gelization is the thought. Accustomed ns
are religious pessimists to dwell upon statis
tics of evil and dolorous facts, we want some
one with sanctified heart and good digestion
to put in long line the statistics of natures
transformed, and profligacies balked, and
souls ransomed, and cities redeemed.
Give us pictures of churches, of schools,
of reformatory associations, of asylums of
mercy. Break in upon the “Misereres” of
complaint and despondency with “Te
Deums” and “Jubilates of moral and re
ligious victory.” Show that the day is com
ing when a great tidal wave of salvation wiU
roll over all our cities. Show how Pompeii
buried wifi become Pompeii resurrected.
Demonstrate the fact that there are millions
of good men and women who will give
themselves no rest day nor night until cities
that are now of the type of the buried cities
of Italy shall take typo from the New
Jerusalem coming down from God out of
heaven. Ihai .the advancing morn.
I make the same proclamation to-day that
Gideon made to the shivering cowards of his
army, j* “Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let
him return and depart early from Mount
Gilead.” Close up the ranks. " Lift the gos
pel standard. Forward into this Armaged
don that is now opening and let the word
run all along the line : Brooklyn for God!
All our cities for Godl America for God!
The world for God! The most of ns here
gathered, though bom in the country, wifi
die in towu.
Shall our last walk be through streets
where sobriety and good order dominate, or
grogshops stench the air? Shall our last
look be upon eity halls where justice reigns,
or demagogues plot for the stuffing of ballot
boxes? Shall we sit for the last time in some
church where God is worshiped with the
contrite heart, or where cold formalism goes
through unmeaning genuflexions? God save
the cities! Righteousness is life; iniquity is
death. Remember picturesque,- terraced,
templed, sculptured, boastful, God defying
aud entombed Pompeii!
Orientals at the Fair.
Among the young people who are vis
iting the Columbian Exposition this
summer are a Javanese baby, three Chi
nese boys of from two to six years, a
pickaninny from Dahomey, a dancing
Soudanese baby,-ft little Bedonin girl
who dances in the Arab encampment, a
pappoose or two in the Indian village,
and a half-dozen Egyptian boys who
belabor the tiny gray donkeys in the
Cairo Street. As the readers of Young
People have already guessed, these-boy3
and girls did not visit the fair to see the
curious things in the wonderful white
buildings, but to be a part of the show.
They are there to be looked at, not to
look, and they are among the most in
teresting of all the exhibits.
The black baby lives in the Dahomey
village, which is supposed to look as if
it had been picked up in Africa and set
down in Chicago. In some respects it
certainly does resemble the hot country
about which Mr. Glave lias told us dur
ing the past years The ground is sandy
enough and the sunshine hot enough for
Sahara, and the reed-thatched huts
which line the high board fence surround
ing the village are uncomfortable enough
in appearance to satisfy the most enthu
siastic explorer. In the middle of the
village is a larger hut, open at the sides
and covered with thatch, and in this hut
the dwellers of the Dahomey village
dance the wir-dnnee of their native
country every hour or two for the enter
tainment of the white people who stroll
in to see them. All of these men and
women are hideous in their gay calico
clothing, with strings of teeth and
strange-looking bits of stone and metal
hanging about their necks and dangling
from their arms and ears. But the pick
aninny is as ounning as'most other babies
are. When I saw him he was sitting in
a puddle of dirty water with no clothing
on to get soiled, watching his mother
and an older brother scouring two or
three brass and silver rings with a bit of
rag and a handful of sand. The little
fellow wanted the rings play, with, and
when he found that he could not have
them, he set up a howl that sounded
veiy much like a white boy of two years
crying because he could not have a por
celain clock or a circus wagon to play
with,—[Harper’s Young People.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FRO.H
VARIOUS SOURCES.
A Pastoral—A Woman’s Definition---
The Reason—Answered—Dodged
- ■" Sanctum Pleasantry—A Land-
- . lubberly Explanation, Etc.
a 10 . L
Now dips-and sways the laden grain.
The.haycocks dot the mead',
Thro’leafy shades a golden rain ^
Sprays fern and lissome reed. ■:ij
One snowy cloud; like ermine rag, ,
Floats calmly o’er the scene, W j
While yet the sleek potato bug ’ /
Doth browse on Paris green. - , j
, —Atlanta Journal.
.ANSWERED.
Brown— ‘ ‘How often have I tolj. you
not to play ball in the house?”-.
Johnny—“Every timeyou’vejcnught
me at it. ’’—.Judge. ' i
stag
A WOMANS DEFINITION.
Ethel—“Emma, what, is'
party?”
Mrs. Knowitall—“A phrty where a
lot of men get together and stagnate
for the lack of women) .dear.”—Puck..
DODGED./
Briggs—“What | did § you tell your
wife when yon got home so late Tues
day night?”
Braggs—“I toldiher she was the
sweetest woman in theworld.”—In
dianapolis Journal. j .
THE REASON,” j
Jasper—“I understand now *why
there is an eagle with outspread wings
on so many of our coins,;
Jumpuppe—“Why?” f
Jasper—“It is to-^teach us I that
“You will require careful treatment
under my personal supervision for
about two months before you-are’-able
to resume your labors in the bank.”.
“Doctor, you'are fooling yourself.
I am not Smith the banker, but Smith
the street car driver.”
‘Is that so ? Well, my good fellow,
I don’t see what -you came to. me for.
There_is nothing the matter with you
except that you are '-not a banker.”-—
Texas Siftings.
HARDLY EQUAL TO IT.
,4 You say you can write shorthand?”
said the eity editor. .
“I can, sir, ” replied the applicant
for a job. “When it comes to short
hand I don’t knuckle down- to any
body.”
“Have you had any experience in re-:
porting a meeting?” . . ;
“Lots of it. I can take a full report
of the proceedings in shorthand and
put it in shape for the printers after
ward. That’s child's play for me. ”
“Report any kind of meeting, can
yon?”
“Tos, sir.”
“H’m!’.’ said the city editor,
there is a sort of convention at
Saddler’s Hall in the next block. You
may go and report the proceedings.
Write the speeches out in full. ”
The applicant for a place on the city
editor’s, staff took his note hook and
went away. And he never came back.
When he got to Saddler’s Hall he
found he had been sent to report the
proceedings of a convention of deaf
mutes. —New York Mercury.
money flies. ’’—Truth. '
LANDLUBBERLY EXPLANATION.
“What do nautical people mean by
‘tacking?’ ” said one girl ^o another.
“Don’t yon know that?
“Not exactly.”
“Why, tacking—er—taekin;
ing on the bias.”—Life.
{JiM sail-
■
SANCTUM PLEASANTRY. 1
“So this is your idea of wit, /eb? !
said the editor, as he read Mfagg’s,
jokes. - i
“Yes, it is,” said Wagg. ;
“Well, the idea is certainly^ origi
nal;-” said the editor.—Puck. F
IN TRAINING.
‘Charley proposed toi mejlast night,
and I accepted him. ”
“Why, he proposed to. me (yester
day-”
‘Indeed? Well, he did it so pret
tily that I was sure he.had rehearsed
several times:”—Puck."-. :
IT TAKES NERVE.
“I can’t pay this bill, doctor. / It’s
exorbitant. I’m no better-than I was
either.”
“That’s because you didn't-/take my
advice.”
'Ah—well—of course, if|l didn’t
take it, I don’t oweyoufor it. Thanks.
Good morning.”—Tit-Bits, j
* /
WORSE THAN AN EPIDEMIC, j
When your practicing j friend
across the way has learned how’to play
the coronet ho will entertain the
whole neighborhood,” said ''Mrs.
Brown.
“Yes,” said Mrs. Jones, “bnt by
that time there won’t be any neigh
borhood here. ”—Texas Siftings. • u
ENLIGHTENED.
Jones^ (doing a little preliminary
sparring before announcing his ap
proaching marriage)—“Now, Brown,
you’re a friend of mine. Tell me can-,
didly, why did you get married?”
Brown (savagely)—“Because I was a
dod-rasted, half-baked, idiotic lunk
head !”
(Jones decides to say ‘nothing.) .<
TRANSFERRED.
Park Lane—“What do you think of
this ready-made .suit, old man? Since
I got married, yon know, I .have got
to be economical. 1 ”
Baxter— “Of course. “But you
don’t mean to say.- you have given up
your tailor?”
Park Lane—“Oh, no. Mv wife has
him' now?”—Clothier and)Furnisher.
THE HORSE KNEW.
Watts—“I tell you, old man, I saw
the most remarkable exhibition of ani
mal intelligence to-day that could be
imagined. ”
Potts—“What was it?”
Watts—“A bridal party ‘ started
from the house across the street from
where I live and one of the horses
attached to the carriago threw a shoe.
Now, what do you think ofjthat?’’—
Mercnrv. {
Judge Gary Nominated.
A Chicago special of Friday says j
Judge Gary, who presided at the trial
of the Haymarket anarchists, was
placed at the head of the republican
judicial ticket for re-election. The
democratic convention some days ago
declined to endorse him, and instead
named for the place on the ticket Ed-
ward'Osgood' Brown; the single taxer
who took a prominent part in the
movement for-the pardon of Fielden,
Schwab and Neebe. Judge Gary’s re-
nomination by the republicans was by
acclamation'. v
Riotous Strikers. .
A cable dispatch from Paris says:
Striking coal miners started riots
Monday evening at-Levin, in- the de
partment of - Pnsh-de-Galois, and a
Drucort, in the department .of JJnre-
In both the military and police qnick-
' " —-sed the crowds. Nobody was
ininredu
.
A CORDIAL GRIP. f
Stokes— ‘ ‘The president- ofyour com
pany seems to take quite an interest in
you now.”
Clarkly—“What makes you think
so.”
Stokes—“I notice he has fallen into
the'habit of shaking hands with yon
when he comes into the office in the
morning.”
Clarkly— “ Yes; he thinks it’s cheaper
than raising my salary.”—Life.
y Some Quaint Epitaphs.
In an article on quaint epitaphs, the
London Funeral Directors' Journal
says: The following in Penrith Church
yard is refreshing in these days of de
ceit, on account of its candor:
“Here lies the man Richard and Mary his
wife;
Their surname was Pritchard, and they lived
without'strife.
The reason was plain—they abounded in
riches;
They had no care nor pain, and the wife wore
the breeches.”
The owner of this inscription, now
resting in Hebburn Churchyard, was
probably a democrat, and had seme
little opinion of himself:
“This humble monument will show,
Here lies an honest man,
You Klnga, whose heads are now as low,
Rise higher if you can
John Dale was a courageous man.
This is the epitaph over his reinains in
Bakewell Churchyard, Derbyshire:
“Know posterity that on the 8th of April,
in the year of grace 1737, the rambling re
mains of John Dale were, in the eighty-sixth
year of his pilgrimage, laid upon his two
wives:
This thing In life might raise some jeal
ousy;
Here all three lie together lovingly.”
. One epitaph in Ilfracombe Church
yard shows faith .
““Weep not for me, my friends so dear,
I am not dead, hut sleeping here,
My debt is paid, my grave is free,
- And in due course you’ll come to me.”
Not far from this' we have an exam
ple of quiet self glorification:
“Here lies a kind and loving wife
A tender nursing mother—
A neighbor free from brawl and strife,
A nnftprn fnr nil ntliaK ”
SEWS »
And .Presented Iu Pointed and Reada
ble Paragraphs. -
A pattern for aU others.
Evidently marriage was not a failure
in this case.
What follows was formerly on a
tombstone in St. Thomas’s Church
yard, Salisbury:
“Here lies three babes dead as nits.
God took them oft in agie fits.
They was too good to live wi’ we,
So he took ’em off to Jive wi’ ’ee.”
Who dares to utter the foul slander
that it requires a surgical operation to
get a joke into the head of a Scotch
man? Let him or her cast an eye over
the following, and then sit silent for
ever. It is on a gravestone in Stone
haven Churchyard:
“The place whaur Betiy Cooper lies
Is here or here aboot;
The place whaur Betty Cooper lies
There’s neen can fin’ it oot ;■
The place where Betty Cooper lies
There’s neeu on earth can tell,
Till at the resurrection day,
When Betty tells hersel’.”
The Wild Cossacks.
The wild Cossacks, living away down
in the southernmost part of the Rus
sian Empire, spend most of their time
harassing the Turks. They are pecu
liarly savage in appearance. Their
uniform is the Cossack coat, full
trousers, scarlet undercoat hooked up
to the neck, big boots and, as an orna
ment, they wear a bourka, a circular
cloak made of coarse felt with long,
shaggy hair on one side of it. This
cloak is big enough to cover~the rider
and much of the horse. The most
distinctive point in their dress, how
ever, is the cylindrical hat of black
astrakhan which they wear at all
seasons. The top is of cloth or velvet.
They form part of the Russian cavalry
and live principally on plunder,-steal
ing, during their raids into Turkey,
anything they can find, from a chicken
to a child.—St. Louis Republic.
ANTICIPATING THINGS.
The youth approached the father
with more or less trepidation.
“So,” said the old gentleman, after
the ease had been stated, “you want to
marry my daughter ?”
“Not any more than she wants to.
marry me,” he Replied,.hedging.
“Sho hasn’t saiS anything to me
about it. ”
“No, because she’s afraid to. ”
‘ ‘Aren’t you afraid sir, more than
she is?” said the father, sternly.
The youth braced up. "
.“Well, perhaps I am,” he said, “but
as the head of our family, I’ve got tb
face it and set the pegs,” and the-old
mOY> CTYrtlo/l ■ or* fT COVO Tvso nr\-r\ r>4-
man smiled and gave his consent.—
Detroit Free Press. -
WHAT ATr.ETl SMITH. ;. ..
A plainly dressed man, who intro
duced himself as Mr. John Smith,
walked into a doctor’s office in a Texas ; there;
town and, having explained his symp
toms, asked the doctor hew long it any
would take to cure him. Tie doctor,
who had treated the visitor vith every
possible courtesy, replied j
Electricity and Windmills.
The electric motor in country houses,
or on a farm, may be used with a
windmill and the storage of power
produced applied to sawing wood,
chopping feed and countless other
outside purposes; possibly before long
it will run. the mowing machine and
the cultivator, and fake the place oi
horses and many men. But, most and
best of all, it can be used now for
lighting a house from.top to bottom,
in every closet, and dark place, with
.perfect safety, with a soft, daylight
lustre; the wiring costing an average
of $2.50 a light in the first place; and
the current costing no more than gas.
What more there is for electricity to
do in the house remains to be seen,
hut apparently it is going to take;fhe
place of the fabled brownie, and make
work easy find, life twice as pleasant
there. —iCongrogationalist. '•
Cold Booms the Optician’s Trade.
' Cold snaps are a great thing for op
ticians.. .Sudden changes in the tem
perature from'heat to extreme cold
often causes the glass in spectacles to
crack, as 'it trodden upon. Then it
also has a bad effect upon the frames, -
and wearers of, aids to the eye-sight
are often startled by having their spec
tacle frames suddenly fall-ajiart at the
bridge. A man accustomed to wear
ing glasses is utterly lost without
:es dizzy after a short
ices nausea and Buffers
of inconveniences. Of
minute his glasses break he
the
'urnal.
Advices • of Wednesday state that
Prince Bismarck continues to improve.
N-The flint glass workers at Pittsburg,
Pfi. , struck Wednesday.
Six persons were drowned by the
upsetting of the Orkney islands mail
boat Wednesday.
James Houston; for many years gen
eral manager of the Associated Press
in the . United States, died in New
Tork Tuesday.
A general strike of the American
-flint glass ■ workers has been'ordered.
This action is the result of the glass
trust declaring that all factories would
be' operated by non-union men:
The entire republican ticket in In
dianapolis was elected Tuesday by a
majority not exceeding. 1,500. The
average democratic majority two years
ago was about the same.
The British steamer Memnon, load
ed with 2,000 bales of cotton, took fire
Tuesday. The compartments were
flooded with water, . The extent of
ge will not be known until the
cotton is brought out.
A special of Tuesday from Paris
says: Count Ferdinand DeLesseps is
hourly expected to breathe his last. All
hope of improvement has been given
up, and it is believed death can be
delayed by the native tenacity of his
constitution. He is not expected to
live till daylight.
Advices of 'Wednesday from Buenos
Ayres, state that filthoiigh the rebel ar
my in the province df Santa Fe,has dis
banded, small parties of rebels still make
life and property unsafe in the rural
districts. Fora week they have been
plundering and killing foreign settlers
in Santa Fe.
Word was received Tuesday from
Tnskahoma, I. T.„of a terrible triple
murder which occurred about forty
miles west of that city. The victims
were Choctaws. Governor Jones says it
was the result of the late political trou
bles and the men killed belonged to
the Jones faction. Particulars are un
obtainable at present.
A dispatch of Wednesday from'Terre
Haute, Ind., states that orders have
been given by the managers of the
whisky trust to start operations in the
distillery at once at a capacity of 3,200
bushels a day, about half the full ca
pacity. Other distilleries in the trust
nre starting up, and a demand for the
product is said to be strong.
A relief train of six freight cars,
provisions and supplies for the fever-
stricken town of Brunswick, Ga., left
Jersey City, N. J., Wednesday morn
ing on the Pennsylvania railroad via
Washington. It will reach its desti
nation in about three days. The train
carried a large amount of flour, sugar
and other staples, as well as tea, cof
fee, delicacies and medicines.
A London cablegram of Tuesday
says: The government has received a
dispatch from Bio de Janeiro announ
cing that one of the forts in the bay
surrendered to Admiral de Mellos.
The dispatch adds that the city of Rio
de Janeiro remains quiet in spite of
the fact that several shots from the
guns on board the rebel ships, sup
posed to have been fired at the forts,
fell into the city.
The Evening Record, a paper which
appeared in San Francisco, Tuesday,
the first time, and about the reliabili
ty of which nothing is known,
prints a story to the effect
that the territory of Lower
California has been purchased from the
republic of Mexico by a syndicate of
American and English capitalists, who
propose to annex the peninsular to
the United States. The alleged au
thority is William Wrendon, an En
glish capitalist.
A Des Moines, la., special of - Wed
nesday says: The state convention of
the Farmers’ Alliance of this state has
adopted resolutions, favoring anti-op
tion bill and the Conger lard bill, A
resolution favoring the free coinage of
silver and another favoring the free
coinage of American silver, were vot
ed down by decisive majorities. The
money resolution as adopted, favors a
sound and stable currency of sufficient
volume for the business of the coun-
try.
After taking 5,182 ballots, the first
judicial democratic convention in ses
sion at Baltimore ended the deadlock
Tuesday by nominating-as chief judge
Henry Page, of Somerset, and associ
ate, Henry Lloyd, of Dorchester. The
convention started to work two months
ago. It web made up of sixteen dele-,
gates and representing four counties.
Each county had a candidate. The
counties paired off, made combinations,
and every vote stood eight to . eight.
The political, leaders, headed by Sena
tor .Gorman, are credited with being
instrumental in breaking the deadlock.
The number of ballots ; taken breaks
all records.
The annual meeting of the Western
Union Telegraph Company was held;
at New York Wednesday. The report,
which was a very favorable one, was
well received by tlie’Targc number; of
stockholders present. The old board
was elected with the exception of-the
following persons: Norvin'Green, Jay
Gould, Fred L. Ames, Henry Weaver,
who died dhring the year, and Erastns
Wyman, who declined re-election,, and
Sidney Shepard, who resigned in favor
of his son: The places of the above
named were filled by: the election: of
John JncobAstor, Oliver Ames, George
Bliss, ■ Louis Fitzgerald, 0. Sidney
-T "R Yon TlrPVY
Shepard■ and J. B, Van Every.
Religious Convention.
great _ ■ _ _
in the world’s congress was the evan
gelical alUanee which opened at Chi
cago, Monday morning, and partici
pating in the proceedings are Rev. 0.
H. Carter, the famous social reform
divine of New - York eity, Prof. Henry
Drummond, Endinburg, and other
famous men in religious circles. Over
two thousand representatives of the
evangelical bodies.participated in the
inaugural session, and the attendance
for the entire week bids fair to bo very
TRADE TOPICS.
Report of the Past Week’s Business by
Dun & Co.
It is difficult to detect any signs of
improvement. While there; has been
some addition to the number of manu
facturing establishments and the num
ber of hands at work during the past
week, it is becoming painfully clear
that the orders obtained do not suffice
to keep employed at'full time even;
the limited force at present engaged.
Reports from other cities' disclose a
distinct'check in business. There is,
on the whole, less activity and less
confidence'regarding ;the future than
there was a week ago, and thiB is in
many-cases attributed- to the uncer
tainty regarding the monetary future
which The delay in the senat e causes.
The stock of money in New York
banks has increased rapidly, and the
retirement of clearing house ..certifi
cates at New York and at other cities
shows a great improvement in the
monetary situation.
There-'is not ns much encouragement
as might-be desired in ' the industrial
reports for the week; An' increased
number of establishments is reported
in Operation, but the sagging of prices
in print cloths and some other cotton
goods, and in the more important pro
ducts of iron aud steel,, discloses great
ly retarded business. The demand for
iron products is, on the whole, less
satisfactory than it was. a week ago.
Steel billets are selling at Pittsburg
for $18 per ton, and there,is practical
ly no demand for rails.
In the manufacture of wool there is
still a remarkahble hesitation and
the demand for consumption is much
restricted, so that the purchases of
wool at the principal market, notwith
standing some speculative buying,
have been only 2,626,995 pounds,
against 6,727,400 for the same week
last year. The movement of wheat
has been fairly large and the price has
declined about two cents, while corn
has also yielded about one cent.
Cotton is 1-4 cent higher, with other
distinctions in crop prospects, and
pork products are also somewhat
higher—pork,. 75 cents per barrel,
Oil has advanced sharply, and after
some reaction closed 2 cents per barrel
higher than a week ago. It is possible
that the surplus currency in circula
tion has the natnral effect of stimulat
ing speculative activity. Happily, the
changes thus far have not diminished
the exports of products, which con
tinue fairly large.
Failures continue to decrease
number and importance, though not as
much as hoped. The number reported
for the United States for the past week
was-320, against 184 for the same week
last year, and in Canada 45, against 36
last year. The disposition to include
all banking and financial failures with
those of commercial and manufactur
ing concerns during the past year, has
led -to estimates which do much injus
tice to mercantile interests.
TO THE NORTH.
Governor Xorlhen Writes a Letter Tel
ling of the Horrors of tlie Plague.
Governor Northen has written a let
ter to the people of^the north to be used
by Mr. T. J. Palmer, of Brunswick,
who is going through the north and
east to get subscriptions for the Bruns
wick; sufferers. The following is' the
govm-noFs letter:
I understand iliat Mr. T. J. P.,liner, of
Brunswick,®aboutiq go to the north and east
on business, and that whiie-thero he will, by
reqnest, present tho'niatter ol* the dire d : stress
of Brnnswiclc before the people . of those sec
tions, to the end that some help may be render
ed the suffering people of that community. |
The story of the suffering and distress in
Brunswick as told in tlie-daily press, lias not
been exaggerated, lhe half has not been
told. The citizens remaining in the piagne-
stricken town are shut in by strict sanitary
cordon and areunable to leaye the place and
unable to snpport themselves,' as there is no
money, no business, no food in the
city. Starvation faces the enlirc popnlaiion.
Frost the only hope, is several months distant,
and while the people of this s ate have been
generous, the means of subsistence sent to tho
city have been inadequate and are being rapid
ly exhausted daily. .
Unlees something is done lo king to the
speedy relief of.these unfortu ate people, star-,
ration and death from bad food or from want
of foo l will add their horrors to ’ the devasta
tion of the plagne. It would be a work of pro
found charity if (he people of the entire coun
try, realizitig-tbe destitution aud . snffering of
their fellow c’tiz -ns_in Brunswick, would come
to their relief and- aid science arid the self-
sacrificing devotionofnnraes in rescuing, this
cityfromappai'cntde'slxuction.'
I should,bo glad to know that soma mover
menthoking to this end.is started among onr
fellow citizens of the north and east. Respect
fully, W. J. Norther,
’ Governor of Georgia.
COMMENDING THEIR SENATORS
Citizens of Memphis Hold a Meeting
in Defense of Silver.
Following on.ihe heels of the recent
action of the joint meeting of the
Merchants’ -anil Cotton exchange at
Memphis that condemned acrimo
niously Senators Bate and Harris, of
Tennessee, for their attitude on the
silver.bill, now in; the senate/a largely
attended mass meeting of leading citi
zens of Memphis and Shelby county .
was held Thursday night to discuss the
silver-question. " ^
After lengthy speeches a committee,
consisting of ex-Oongressman Qasey
Young,. Col. M. C. Galloway, E. W.
Carmack, Holmes Cummins, Thomas
Holmes, - H. D. Greer and J. J. Du-
puy, was appointed, who submitted
lengthy resolutions eulogistically en-
dorsing.the senators named and com
mending them: for their faithfulness
and firmness in defense of silver.
Some of the speeches were especial
ly bitter in their denunciation of Pres
ident Cleveland, who. was character
ized as -a s’ave driver, cracking- hie
whip over the backs of the senators
and representatives in congress. The
meeting was composed almost exclu
sively of democrats,
j WILLING TO GO BACK.
■E
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The Strikiug L. & >’. Shop Men Ash
ton Re-instatement.
The striking shop men of the Louis
ville and Nashville road at Decatur,
Ala., realize that they have lost and
are now desirous of getting back into
their old places. Local officials of the
Louisville and Nashville company are
advised that the attorney of the com
pany at Decatur was called on Friday
night by the chairman of the shop
strikers, who said that the men were
willing to go back to work at the re
duced Scale of wages. The proposition
was also made that if taken back tbe
strike of the shop men on the entire
system would be declared
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS;
Tie Drift of Her Progress and Pros
perity Briefly Noted.
Happenings of Interest Portrayed In
Pithy Paragraphs.
The Clarksville, Tenn., Farmers’
and Merchants! bank went into liqui
dation Tuesday. Depositors will be
paid in full.
~ Thirty-five new cases of yellow fe
ver and two deaths was the official re
port of the Brunswick board of health -
for the twenty-four hours ending at'
noon Tuesday.
No new cases of yellow fever were
reported at Jesup, Ga., Wednesday,
and no change has occurred in affairs
since last report. All the sick are im—
proviug as rapidly as can be expected.
An organized body of sixty-five
men arrived at Delrio, Texas, Tuesday
on a freight train on which they said
they had come through from Califor
nia without paying fare. At each_
town on the road they were fed and
they practically controlled the train.
They claimed to he mechanics and
miners on their way to Alabama, where
they expect to find work.
The 70th annual session of the Hol-
ston conference of the Methodist Epis
copal chnreh south, whose territory
embraces East Tennessee, southwest-
Virginia and north Georgia met at
Knoxville, Tenn., Wednesday morn
ing, for a week’s session, Bishop W.
W. Dnncan, of South Carolina, pre
siding. Three hnndred and fifty min
isters and delegates are in attendance.
A Middlesborongh, Ky., dispatch
says: Middlesborough’s water works
were placed in the hands of a receiver
Wednesday, James A. Chapman being
named. The works were built in
boom times at a cost of half a million
dollars, bnt the slow growth of the
town and the failure of the steel plant
to run, caused the waterworks to be
run at a loss. The liabilities are un
known.
A wreck occurred on the Mississippi
Valley road Wednesday morning at
Laplace, twenty miles above New Or
leans. The accident happened at 6
o’clock, when the track was covered
with a heavy fog, and it y°s . difficult
for the trainmen to see fat -anead. A
southbound freight ran into a num
ber of cars standing on the main track.
Seven or eight freight cars were de
molished and passenger traffic was de
layed. Two of the crew were badly
injured.
A New Orleans dispatch says: Offi
cer. Toole had his throat cut some
weeks ago in a patrol wagon by a des-
pera.te Italian whom he had arrested.
The case of the Italian was fixed for
trial Thursday. Wednesday night
Toole was assaulted and beaten, after
being waylaid and probably fatally
injured. It is believed that the Mafia
‘is again at work, and that it was the
purpose of the Italian’s friends to
murder Toole in order that he might
not .be- able to- testify against their
countryman.
A STORM ON THE COAST.
I
A Repetition of the Disasters of August.
27th Apprehended.
A Savannah special says: The West
Indian" storm which reached; here
Thursday morning and has been blow
ing a gale of forty to sixty miles an
hour all day continued to increase in
fury, but up to dark had not done any
very great damage right in the city.
The storm was reported at Titusville,
Fla. , Wednesday night and then had
slightly northwest direction. .
The City of Augusta, -which left New
York Wednesday, will meet the storm
off the North Carolina coast in about
the same latitude that" the Savannah
was struck by the last storm. There
are eighten vessels in the Tybee roads
and ait quarantine, and the chances are
that if the gale continues they will all
be wrecked, .as in the case of the last ,
blow.- All the vessels in port are seek
ing places of refuge.
FEARS FOR THE SEA ISLANDS.
No reports have been heard from
any of the sea islands, but the pros-
pect is that the storm will undo all
that has been done; for them, in tho
way of shelter and that they will be as -
had or worse off than they were be
fore. No reports of any fatalities have
yet been received.'
SEVERE AT JACKSONVILLE.
This gale at Jacksonville is said to ,
have been the worst they have had
there since 1881: Brunswick also got
the brunt of it, but the amount of
damage .there has not yet been learned.
A Charleston special of Thursday
night- says: The West Indian- cyclone -
is on us. The wires are going- down
to the southward and there is'trouble
to the northward. At this writing tho
wind is blowing in great gusts at from
forty to forty-five miles an hour.- No
damage has been, done except the
wrecking of telephone and electric
-light wires.- "
Three tides have been hanked up,
and at midnight it is expected, unless
the wind shifts around to the south
west, that the eastern, southern nnd
western portions of the city will be
under waiter. Neither of the Clyde ,
steamers due Thursday have, arrived.
At this hour it looks like a repetition
of the cyclone of August.
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ALTGELD ENDORSED
In His Action Pardoning the H -
market Rioters. I Jg|
A Chicago special says: ThatVhe
democracy support Governor Altgeld
in the pardon of the. anarchists, and
his denunciation of Judge Gary, was
publicly demonstrated at the county
convention AVednesday, When it
reached Judge Gary’s name for re-
nomination, ex-Judge Moran, one of
the most respected juristsjn tho city, .
was howled down and threatened with
personal violence when he
Gary’s name.
Chicago Day at the Fair.
Monday was Chicago day at the
World’s fair. The fair officials estimate
World;
the'attendance at 725,000. .
pie were killed while goin
ing from the fair, while the
record at 6 o’clock
less than
hours