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TBRIEX HOLDS HIS OWN.
UcMACKIN DENOUNCES THE IRISH
PATRIOT’S ACTION.
The Central Union’s Stormy Ssssion—
McMackin Doesn’t Want the In
dorsement of the Better Classes'
Resolutions Censuring O’Brien
Adopted—Mr. O’Brien’s Side of the
Story- *
New York, June 5.—A stormy session of
he Central Labor Union was held to-day.
fohn McMackin made an address denounci
ng Mr. O'Brien tor his action in refusing to
ittend the mass meeting last night. Mr.
ileMackin declared he did not seek the
ihainnanship, that he had done and would
lo nothing to disgrace the eonildonce re
used in him by the labor party. He would
lot bow either at the command of the ec
clesiastical power or at that of corrupt poli
ieians. If Catholics were to be controlled
>v a foreign power it would be a good cause
or the sneer that they were not citizens.
3e continued: “We have no war to
nake against the church, but we
lave a struggle to carry on against
hat power in the church which would prop
ip a system of society that degenerates
nanhood to a condition of poverty and de
cadence. It has been said that the better
:lass of society do not indorse Dr. MeGlynn,
Hit the name ‘better class’ is not a pass
>ort to heaven. Rich men of all classes are
ilways ready to unite with the ecclesiastical
lower to condemn those whom they dare
lot, meet face to face. Our war is not with
•eligionor nations, but with corrupt wealth
md -power.” Resolutions were adopted
ensuring O’Brien for his actions.
MR. O’BRIEN SPEAKS,
The following is from an interview with
Hr. O’Brien to-day:
“I was astonished to see it stated from
he platform at Union Square last night
hat I had scored out a resolution referring
n Dr. MeGlynn. Asa matter of fact no
uch resolution was.ever submitted to me.
The resolutions submitted to me contained
io" allusions to Dr. MeGlynn’s case.
The ' resolution read from the stand
sas never, in any manner, communicated
lo me. The only reference to Dr. MeGlynn
liiroughout the whole course of the com
imnication between the committee and
r.yself was a statement that Dr. MeGlynn
vas to he present and speak, and I did not
ippose that arrangement, as I had not the
imallest objection. I have, therefore, now
:o complain, both that this resolution was
-’pt from my cognizance, and that the
wle should have been put under the
alse impression that I had seen and erased
t. As to the insulting suggestion that I
as captured by the Tammany Hall or any
ither politicians, I can only say that if any
American politicians had been guilty
Di the remotest attempt to influ
ence ray judgment in the direction of
erring American party interests 1 should
have known how to resent it. I should
have resisted any attempt to compromise
Hir course in the interest of any other
political section in America, at least as
warmly as I felt obliged to resist the at
tempt to identify us with any particular or
ganization by which the labor parade was
Eonducted.”
HENRY GEOROE'S PROMISING SOCIETY.
Nearly 4,000 people attended the meeting
nf the Anti-Poverty Society in the Academy
if Music to-night, and many were turned
iway from the doors. Lewis F. Post ore
ailed, and Dr. MeGlynn was the principal
speaker. During the course of his reimrks
lesaid: •
DR. FIERY WORDS.
“It was a great mistake for the advisers
of Mr. O’Brien to keep him from appearing
on the platform with Mr. McMaokin. Mr.
O'Brien probably did not know who John
McMackin was, but bo knows to
day- What Mr. O’Brien ought to be
ashamed of was the erasing of the resolu
tion that land belongs to the people. Mr.
0 Brien is a landlord at heart himself. It
i-only a question of a small percentage be
tween Mr. O'Brien and Lord Lansdowne.
That resolution about coercion, about
Italy and other countries got into print
through Mr. O’Brien himself. When our
friends discovered that, they could do noth
ing with Mr. O'Brien they determined to
fo on and give him a dose of coercion about
Italy. They said were going to send
t.teir own greeting to Ireland and not what
Mr. O’Brien thought.
OLD WORLD GRIST.
Suicide of Two Americana Reported
at Monte Carlo.
London, June s.—Two officers, said to
have belonged to the United States army
and navy, respectively, committed suicide
at Monte Carlo to-day.
THE AMERICAN JUMPER ABROAD.
Lawrence Donovan, who jumped off the
Brooklyn bridge, to-dnv jumped from the
London bridge into the Thames. He in
tends to jump off the Clifton snsjiensiou
lan jf e the highest bridge in Eng-
WEDDING IN HIGH LIFE.
Berlin, Juno s.—The Countess Magde
ima v°n Moltke was married to Franz Len-
M'Ti, the distinguished German portriat
*j*hiter, at Breskan, yesterday. Field Mar-
Lial \on Moltke was one of the wit
nesses of the ceremonies, and at the rocen
tion which followed he proposed the health
01 the couple.
THE PARIS GRAND PRIZE.
I aris, June s. — The race for the Grande
nx of Paris was won bv Fenetereuse, The
naron second and Kraliatoa third. The
citing was fifteen to one against the
inner Merryhampton, who won the
ngush Derby, was a favorite at two to
one.
WILL RESIST EVICTION.
Davitt Urges tho People to Resist Evic
tion to the Last.
Dublin, June 5. Michael Davitt ad
|r ved a Nationalist met ting to-day; lie
"e,s in urged the people to offer tho utmost
lance to eviction and to retake posses
ti"M </ their bouses when they hod
f l ' ll Pvi ‘’td. Ho declared jt was the duty
' manhood to assemble and rebuild the
’mus.-s that hail Wn razed. Cure should
8 takon, he said, that pocuni
> and generous assistance should
, f K lv on during the incarceration
M>el ‘V/'T' l * l ' B ar| d their family. He
eir rr, thllt ' H u, “* opened to carry
... , !" l'J'Mi of camtmigu upon a more
rt!., 1 „ 'x*sls. and promised to subsen bo
u,, ■ 'le expecte<l within six weeks tIDO.-
witi l vn ". 1 I* sulicril)<l in Ireland, anil
'‘’"flits £1.000.000 would be col
throughout the civilized world.
ROAST MISSIONARY.
Dr - Roid, of lowa, Killod and Eaten by
African Cannibals.
t Noixes. la. , June fi. News has been
e P * a *" M ftn *on, Calhoun county, in
tiiar ! te ’ l!ult Rov - Dl ’- Reid, who left that
j,'” r ft 1 winter to become a tvjssionary In
K ■' 'ttfLck. we' Struck, too,'af. eaten by
*<. Struck OU ton of UK anil I.^
Si)c JStrfnina
YELLOW JACK EPIDEMIC.
Two More Cases—Wise Decision of the
Board of Health.
Key West, Fla., June 5.—T. C. Cragiu
died of yellow fever at the hospital last
night, making five deaths so far. There
were two new cases to-day. The Board of
Health has declared the fever epidemic, and
w dl 110 t any longer insist on removing the
patients to the hospital. This action will
probably be very beneficial, as many cases
occur in private houses, where the patient
can have comforts and-nursing not to be
found ift the hospital. The fact of moving
the patients itself nearly always proves fatal.
REFUGEES TO BE LOOKED AFTER.
Jacksonville, Fla., June 5. —Latest
advices from Key West to-night are that
the Board of Health has declared the
fever epidemic, Two new cases this morning,
>i. V\. Atkins, the manager of the cable
office, and Charles Cohen, of Wicker &
Cohen. One death is reported, one Elliott,
a carpenter. A sailboat loaded with refu
gees left to-day for some part of the Indian
river.
NOT A G- A. R. INVITATION.
Originated and Carried Out by the St.
Louis Citizens’ Committee.
St. Louis, June 5. —At the regular meet
ing of the Citizen’s Executive Committee,
having in charge the preparations for the
entertainment of the Grand Army of the
Republic during the encampment here next
September, the whole matter of how and by
whom President Cleveland was invited to lie
present, which has caused something of a
commotion lately, was fully discussed, and
a resolution adopted stating that the Citi
zens’ Committee is not in any way repre
sentative of the Grand Army, and
that it has no authority from the
Grand Army. During the discussion it
was clearly shown that the idea of inviting
the President to visit St. Louis during the
encampment originated with and was
carried out by the < ltizens’ Committee and
by the citizens of St. Louis, and that the
Grand Army had nothing to do with it.
RUSHING WATERS.
A Waterspout Bursts Over Oberlin,
0., Doing Great Damage.
Cleveland, 0., June s. —At Oberlin this
afternoon, during a thunder storm, much
damage was done by a cloud-burst, or water
spout. When the storm was at its height
an immense volume of water came down
suddenly, swelling to a raging torrent the
little creek which flows through the town.
The stream rose several feet within a few
minutes,flooding the streets,filling the cellars
and in many cases driving the inmates to
the upper stories of their houses. One house
was floated from its foundations, and great
havoc was played by the water in the "lum
ber yards. Three hundred feet of the Lake
Shore railroad track was washed away, and
one passenger train stopped. The flood sub
sided almost as quickly as it came. It is
impossible to tell now the amount of dam
age. '
A TRIUMPHAL TOUR.
Cork Sends Complimentary Resolu
tions to Mr. Gladstone.
Swansea, June 5. —On returning from
church to-day Mr. Gladstone was met by an
immense crowd escorting a deputation hear
ing an address from the citizens of Cork.
Mr. Gladstone made no formal speech, but
(hanked the Sheriff of Cork, who beaded
the deputation, for the kind wishes expressed
in the address. He added, “The Irish Pro
testants need r,ot fear persecution at the
hands of their Catholic fellow-countrymen
in ease autonomy was obtained.”
profitable boycotted farms.
Cork, June s.—The Cork Defense Associ
ation announce that they are cultivating
the boycotted farms to the extent of GOO
acres, at a profit to the laborers who seek
their employ.
LIQUOR AT THE HOTELS.
Test Cases to be Made by the New York
Hotels.
New York, June s.—To-day Capt. Wil
liams, of the police department, with wit
nesses, proceeded to the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
the St. James Hotel, and the Gilsey House,
where they were served with wine. The
three test eases were the beginning of the
fight ns to the legal right of the hotels to
serve liquors to their guests on Sunday.
One hotel on the American, and two on the
European plan, were chosen. Capt. Wil
liams will now swear out warrants and
Tuesday afternoon, doubtless, the waiters
will be arraigned.
A HEARTLESS ROBBER.
Discovered After Six Years of an Un
suspected Business Life.
Chicago, June s.—William Murray, a
saloon-keeper, was arrested last night;,
charged with being one of the gang of
masked burglars who six years ago broke
into the house of Allan Fairbanks, at
Wheaton, and by holding lighted matches
to the feet of the inmates compelled the dis
closure of where £IO,OOO in government
bonds were concealed. Murray was safe
until a day or two,ago, when he attempted
to sell one of the bonds..
THE PRESIDENT RESTING.
No Pishing Sunday, But Planning Im
mensely for Monday.
Prospect House, N. Y., June s.—To-day
has been one of complete rest for the Presi
dent and his party. To-morrow the fishing
will be resumed, when it is proposed to
make a roundabout journey by the boats and
several “carries’ - through the chaifl of lakes
anil ponds to th- westward, reaching Sara
nac Lake again by the wav of Fishing creek.
Lunches will bo taken along and eaten at
some attractive snot, on the journey.
COTTON PROSPECTS GOOD.
Promise a Yield Not Equalled in tho
Last Three Years.
Memphis, June s.—The cotton report of
the Memphis district, embracing Tennessee,
North Mississippi, North Arkansas and
North Alabama, shows the cotton stands
much better than last. year. The outlook is
much more promising t han for three years
past . Taken as a whole, the rqiort is most
favorable and the promise of an abundant
yield was never brighter.
C. P. JOHNSON RETURNS.
Sells To-Doy From New York and Will
Settle Matters at Sanford.
New York. June It.— C. P. Johnson, the
contractor from Sanford, Fla., was ar
raigned to* lay in tin- Police Court, charged
with obtaining money under false pretences
from people ui Sanford, He was arrested
as he stopped off the Savannah steamer on
her arrival here. The accused was willing to
return to Florida, and in company with his
wit# and a 4t>bc<Jti Yah* will sail to-morrow.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, JUNE (i, 18S7.
WEEKLY CROP BULLETIN.
Sufficient Rainfall and Good Weather
in Nearly all Sections.
Washington, June 5, —During the week
ending June 4 the weather has been cooler
than the average in all the agricultural dis
tricts east of the Rocky Mountains. In the
Ohio and the Lower Missouri val
leys, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia,
and North Carolina and the east
portion of New England, the de
ficiency of the temperature for the week
ranged from ’3s* to od" or a daily average
of about 5’ cooler. The temperature was
slightly in excess of the normal in Oregon
and Northern California, when in Central
and Southern California it was about the
average.
The temperature for tho season from Jan.
I to June -i differs but slightly from the
normal temperature in the Northern States
and in the Southern States bordering on the
Atlantic coast, while the average daily
excess in the cotton region ranges from U to
3*.
During the week the rainfall has been
generally in excess in the States east of the
Mississippi river, and in Louisiana, Eastern
Texas, Southern Missouri and Eastern
Kansas. Slight deficiencies of the rainfall
for the week are reported in the Upper
Mississippi valley, Minnesota, lowa,
Dakota and Nebraska, but numerous
and well distributed showers occurred
throughout the grain regions of the North
west, which appear to have affected the
crops in those sections favorably. The cot
ton region has been favored during the
week by an excess of rainfall, ranging from
one to two inches in Northern Louisiana,
Northern Alabama, North and
South Carolina and Georgia. Although
t here is a large seasona 1 deficiency of the
precipitation in these States, these recent
rains appear to have been very beneficial to
the crops, owing to their timely occurrence
and favorable distribution. The weather
apparently proved favorable for the grow
ing cro];s. Needed rains have occurred
throughout the wheat and corn regions, ex
cept a portion of Illinois, lowa and Mis
souri, where-slight rains were received only.
The general rains and the cool weather in
the hay and the tobacco regions in the
States on the Atlantic coast and in the Ohio
valley are reported as favorable. The
weather was apparently favorable for all
growing crops throughout the South,
although reports from some sections of
Tennessee and Mississippi show that the
crops were injured by hail in some sections.
AFTER THE SESSION.
Closing of Tallahassee's Superb Hotel
—Meeting to Aid the Exposition.
Tallahassee, Fla., June s. —Only a
few of the members of the Legislature re
mained in the city to-day, and the offices in
the capital were deserted and perfect quiet
reigned supreme on the scene that a week
ago was all bustle, confusion and excite
ment-.
The printing during the last days of the
session was so voluminous that the journals
of the last day have not yet been completed
and the publication of the Floridian was
delayed two days because of the general
rush of work in the State Printer's office.
Many additional printers were employed,
but it was impossible to keep abreast with
ail the work required in so short a time.
. The Leon Hotel closed yesterday after a
prosperous season of five months. Hun
dreds of visitors were its guests during the
last few months, and it is placed among the
leading hotels in the South.
' There will be a meeting of the citizens
here to-morrow in the interest of the Sub-
Tropical Exposition at Jacksonville.
PROSPECTS FOR FARMERS.
Reports From One Hundred Different
Sections Indicate Prosperity.
Louisville. June 5. The Courin--
Joumnl will publish to-morrow special re
ports from over one hundred counties in
Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Indiana,
Alabama and Mississippi relative to the con
dition of farming operations. The recent
drop in the prices for leaf tobacco has resulted
in many Kentucky producers abandoning its
cultivation for this season. Indications
point to the crop not exceeding 60 per cent,
of last year’s. Thirty rep- am- from Georgia
agree in the belief that the cold weather
ruined the fruit there. The wheat harvest
is in progress and the grain Is said to be
good. The farmers of the Empire State of
the South are giving more attention to the
breadstuff's than formerly, and in manv
sections improved agricultural machines
have been introduced. In the aggregate
the news from Alabama, Mississippi and
Indiana is ifavorable to the farmers. Yhe
general situation is chewing, and there
seems to be excellent prospects for a paying
crop.
A STORM SWEPT CIRCUS.
Burning Oil and a Panic Causes the
Loss of Many Lives.
Berlin, June s.—During a circus per
formance at Neschen last evening a storm
arose anil a portion of the roof of the circus
structure was blown off. The pendant
lamps on the roof were broken'and the
blazing; oil poured down upon the
heads of the people below. There were
2,000 people present, and a fearful
panic arose. In the midst of the
tumult one of the lightly built walls of the
structure fell in, and the whole building im
mediately collapsed. A large number of
persons were burned and many trampled to
death, and -'!00 others were injured.
BLOODTHIRSTY APACHES.
A Band of Twenty Red Devils on the
War-Path.
Benson, Ari., June s.—William Diehl
was killed by the Indians Friday sixty mile#
from hem The military havt; gone in pur
suit. The Indians are undoubtedly the
Apaches who left San Carlos lust week and
who number twenty in all. T hey are sup
posed to Ire heading for Mexico.
A LEGAL ERROR.
A Big Cattle Concern Flic Wrong
Papers, Causing Attachments.
Cheyenne, June s.—The Swan Brothers,
the celebrated cattle dealers, whose failure
was recently announced, only filed trust
deeds of their property instead of a schedule
of the assets and liabilities, and in con
aequenoe a number of suit -in attachment
have been brought against the firm.
GRAND RACE IN PROSPECT.
Trlckett and Beach to Row for the
World’s Championship.
Sydney. N. K. W.. June s.—Trickett, the
•Mirsinan. has challenged Beach for a contest,
for tin- championship of the world, and
Beach has a< -|ted.
A Yaqui Chief Delivered to Mexico.
Benson, Ari.. Junes.—Anashario Cura,
the Yaqui chief who served under the
famous Cajciuo in the late Yaqui war. is in
shackles mi his way to Guaymas. He was
captured in Tucson and was surrendered to
tho Mexican authorities. He is charged
with the murder of a Mexican. The agent
says Cura will be shot when he reaches
.Guayma--- . -•--
STILLING THE TEMPEST.
REV. TALMAGE TELLS HOW CHRIST
QUIETED THE STORM.
The Lesson Taught by His Power Over
the Raging Waters- The Necessity of
H\o Presence in all Undertakings and
Enterprises Not Always Smooth
Sailing for Those Who Follow the
Faith.
Brooklyn, June 5. —The Rev. T. DeWitt
Talmage, D. D., preached in the Tabernacle
this morning a sermon entitled: "The Tem
pest.” Service began with the exposition of
apprepriate passagos of Scripture, after
which the great congregation sang the
hymn:
“Heaven is my fatherland,
Heaven is my home.”
The text was Mark iv, 3G-iK>, describing
Christ stilling the tempest. He said:
Tiberias, Galilee, Gennesaret- -three names
for the same lake. No other gem ever had
so beautiful a setting. It lay in a scene of
great luxuriance; the surrounding hills high,
terraced, sloped, graved, so many hanging
gardens of beauty, the waters rumbling
down between rocks of gray and red lime
stone, flashing from the nills and bounding
into the sea. On the shore were castles,
armed towers, Roman baths, everything at
tractive and beautiful; all styles of vegeta
tion in shorter space than "In almost any
other space in all the world, from the palm
tree of the forest to the trees of rigorous
climate.
It seemed as if the Lord had launched one
wave of beauty on all the scene, and it hung
and swung from rock and hill and oleander.
•Roman gentlemen in pleasure boats sailing
the lake, and countrymen in fish-smacks
coming down to drop their nets pass each
other with nod and shout and laughter, or
swinging idly at their moorings. O, what a
wonderful, what a beautiful lake! It seems
as if we shall have a quiet night. Not a
leaf winked in the air; not a ripple dis
turbed the face of Gennesaret; but there
seems to tie a little excitement up the beach,
and we hasten to see what it is, and we find
it an embarkation.
From the western shore a flotilla pushing
out; not a .squadron, or deadly armament,
nor clipper with valuable merchandise, nor
piratic vessels ready to destroy everything
they could seize; but a flotilla, bearing mes
sengers of life, and light, and peaoe. Christ
is in tho front of the boat. His disciples are
in a smaller boat. Jesus, weary witn much
speaking to large multitudes, is put into
somnolence by the rocking of the waves. If
there was any motion at all the ship was
easily righted; if the wind passed from star
board to larboard, or from larboard to star
board, the boat would rock, and by the
gentleness of the motion putting the Master
asleep. And they extemporized a pillow
made out of a fisherman’s ec at. I think no
sooner is Christ prostrate, and Ills head
touched the pillow, than he is sound asleep.
Tho breezes of the lake run their flngei-s
through the locks of the worn sleeper, and
the boat rises and falls like a sleeping child
on the bosom of a sleeping mother.
Calm night, starry night, beautiful night.
Run up all the sails, ply all the oars, and lot
the large boat and the small boat glide over
gentle Gennesaret. But the sail ore say
there is going to be a change of weather.
And even the passengers can hern - the
moaning of the storm, as it comes on with
great stride, and all the terrors of hurricane
and darkness. The large boat trembles
like a deer at. Lay among the clangor of the
hounds: great patches of foam are flung
into the air; the sails of the vessel loosen,
and the sharp winds crack like pistols; the
smaller boats like petrels poise on the oliff
of the waves and then plunge.
Overboard go cargo, tackling and
masts, and the drenched dis
eiples rush into the back part
of the boat, and lay hold of Christ, and say
unto Him: “Master, oarest Thou not that
we perish?” That great personage lifts His
head from the pillow of the fisherman’s
coat, walks to the front of the vessel and
looks out into the storm. AIJ around Him
are the smaller I mats, driven in the tempest,
and through it, comes the cry of di owning
men. By the flash of the lightning I see the
calm brow of Christ as the spray dropped
from His beard. He has one word for the
sky and another for the waves. Looking
upward He cries: “Peace!” Ijookiugdown
ward He says: “Be still.”
The waves fall flat on their faces, the
foam melts, the extinguished stare relight
their torches. The tempest falls dead, and
Christ stands with His feet on the neck of
the storm. And while the sailors are bailing
out the boats, and while they are trying to
untangle the cordage, the disciples stand in
amazement, now looking into the calm sea,
then into the calm sky, then into the oabn
Saviour’s countenance, and they cry out:
“What manner of man is this, that even
the winds and the sea obey Hint?”
The subject in the first place impresses
me with trie fact that it is very important
to have Christ with the ship; for all those
bouts would have gone" to the’bottom of
Gennessi-et if Christ had not been present.
Oh, wliat a lesson for you and for mo to
learn! We must always have Christ in the
ship. Whatever voyage wo undertake, into
whatever enterprise wo start, let us always
have Christ in the ship. Many of you, in
these days of revived commerce, are start
ing out in new financial enterprises. I bid
you good cheer. I)o ail you can do. I)o it
on as high plane as possible. You have no
right to lie a stoker in tho ship if you can
Ik- an admiral of the navy. You have no
right to lie a colonel of a regiment
if you can command a brigade;
you have no right to be engineer
of a boat on river banks, or near the coast,
if you can take the ocean steamer from
New York to Liverpool. All you can do
with utmost tension of body, mind and soul
you are bound to do: but oh! have Christ in
every enterprise, Christ in every voyage,
Christ in every ship.
There are nu-n here who ask God to help
them at the start of great enterprises. lie
ha , been with them in the oast; no trouble
cun overthrow them; the storms might
come down from the top of Mount Hernion,
and lash Gennesarct into foam and into
agony, but it could not hurt them.
But here is another man who starts out in
worldly enterprise, and be depends upon the
uncertainties of this life. He has uo God to
help him. After awhile the storm rsinw,
awl tooses off the masts of the ship; be puts
out his lifeboat, and the longboat: the sner
iff and the auctioneer try to help him off:
they can't help him off; he must go down:
no Christ in the ship. Here are young men
just starting out. in life. Your life will Ixi
made up of sunshine and shadow. There
may Ik- in it Arctic blasts, or tropical torna
docs; 1 know not, what Is before you. hut !•
know if you have Christ with you all shall
be well.
You may seem to get along without the
religion of Christ, while everything goes
smoothly, hut after a while, when sorrow
hovers over tho soul, when the waves of
trial dash elear over the hurricane dock,
and the dicks are crowded with piratical
disaster*—oh, what would you do then
without Christ in the ship! Young man.
take God for your )>ortion. God for your
guide, Goil for.yoiir help: then all is well;
ullj is well for time, all shall be well forever.
Blessed is that men who puts in the Krd
hid trust. He shall never Ik- confounded.
But my subject also impresM# -Me with
the fact that when people start to follow
Christ they must not expect smooth sail
ing.
These disciples got into the small boats,
and I have iu> dount they said: “What a
beautiful day this is' What a smooth sea!
What, a bright sky this is! How delightful
is sailing in this bivtt! and as for the waves
under the keel of the boat, why, they only
make the motion of our little boat the more
delightful.” But when the winds swept
down, and the sea was tossed into wrath,
then they found that following Christ was
not smooth sailing. Ho you have found it:
so I have found it. Did you ever notice the
end of the life of the apostles of Jesus
Christ? You would sav if ever men ought
to have had a smooth life, a smooth depart
ure, thou those men, the disciples of Jesus
Christ, ought to have had such a departure
and such a life.
St. James lost, his head. Bt. Philip was
hung to death on a pillar. Ht. Matthew
bad his life dashed out with a halbert. St.
Mark was dragged to death through the
streets. Bt. James the I .ires was beat en to
death with a fuller's club St Thomas was
struck through with a spear. They did not
And following Christ smooth sailing. Oh,
how they were all tossed in the tempest!
John Huss in the tire; Hugh McKail iu the
hour of martyrdom; the Albigenses, the
Walden ses, the Scotch Covenanters—did
they find it smooth sailing!
But why go to history when I can come
into this audience to-day and And a score of
illustrations of the truth of this subject..
That young man in the store trying to serve
God, while his employer scoffs at Christi
anity, the young men in the same
store antagonistic to the Christian
religion. teasing him, tormenting
him about his religion, trying to
get him mad. Thev succeed in getting
him mad, saying; “You're a pretty Christ
ian." Does this young man find it smooth
sailing when he tries to follow < 'hrist? Here
is a Christian girl. Her father despises
the Christian religion; her mother despises
tlie Christian religion; her brothers and
sisters scoff at the C'hristain religion; she
can hardly find a quiet place in which to
say her prayers. Did she find it smooth
sailing when she tried to follow .Jesus
Christ? Oh, no! all who would live the life
of the Christian religion must suffer perse-
cution; if you do not, find it in one way you
will get it in another way.
The question was asked: “Who are these
nearest the throne?” and the answer came
book: “These are they who came up out of
great tribulations; great flailing, as the
original has it; great flailing, great pound
ing—“and hail their relies washed and made
white in the blood of the Lamb.” Oh, do
not be disheartened! Oh, child of God take
courage. You are in glorious edmpanioh
ship. God will see you through all those
trials, and lie will deliver you.
My subject also impresses me with the
fact, that good people sometimes get very
much frightened.
In the tones of these disciples as they
rushed into the bark part, of the boat, I find
they are frightened almost to death. They
say: “Master, rarest Thou not that we
perish?” They had no reason to be fright
i nod, for Christ was in the boat. I suppose
if we had been there we would have been
just as ami'll affrightnned. Perhaps more.
In all ages very good people get very
much a (frightened. It is often so in our
day an<l men say, “Why, look at the )>ad
lectures; look at the Spiritualistic societies;
look at the various errors going over the
Church of God; we are going to founder;
the church is going to perish; she is
going down.” Oh, how many good people
are affrightened by iniquity in our day,
and think the church of Jesus Christ is
going to he overthrown, and are just as
much affrightened as were disciples of ray
text. Don’t worry, don’t fret, as though
iniquity were going to triumph over
righteousness.
A lion goes into a cavern to sleep. He
lies down, w-ith his shaggy inane covering
the jiaws. Meanwhile the spiders spin a
web across the mouth of the cavern, and
say: “We have captured him.” Gossamer
thread after gossamer thread is spun until
the whole front of the cavern is covered
with the snider*’ web, and the spiders say;
“The lion is done; the lion is fast,.” After a
while the lion ha* got through sleeping; lie
rouses himself, he shakes his mane, he
walks out into the sunlight; lie does not
even know the winders’ web is spun, and
with his voice lie shakes the mountain.
So men come spinning their sophistries
and skepticism alsmt, Jesus Christ. He
seems to he sleeping. They sav: “We have
captured the Lord; He will never come
forth again upon the nation; ('hrist is cap
tured forever. His religion will never make
any conquest among men.” But after
awhile the lion of the tribe of Judah will
rouse himself and come forth to shake
mightily the nations. What's n spider’s
web to the aroused linn? Give truth and
error a fair grapple, and truth w ill come off
victor.
F.ut there are a (treat many good people
who get affrightened iu other respects; they
are affrightened in our day aliout revivals.
They say: “Oh! this is a strong religious
gale; we are afraid the Church of God is
going to he upset, and there are going to Is:
a gnat many people brought into the
church that, are going to he of no use to it.,’’
and they arc affrightened whenever they
sec a revival taking hold of the churches.
Ah though a ship captain with five thou
sand bushels of wheat for a cargo should say,
some day, coming upon deck: “Throw
overboard all cargo;” and the sailors should
say; “Why, Captain, what do you mean?
Throw over all tile cargo?” “Oh,” says the
Captain, “we have a peck of chaff that has
got into this five thousand hushejsof wheat,
and tlie only way to get rid of the chaff is
to throw ail the wheat overboard.” Now,
that, is a great ikvii wiser than the talk of a
great many Christians who want to throw
overboard all the thousands and tens of
thousands of souls who are the subjects of
revivals. Throw all ovartioard because they
are brought into the kingdom of G<sl
through great revivals, because there is a
peck of chaff, a quart of chuff, a pint of
chaff! I -ay,-let them stay until the Last
Day; the Lord will divide the chaff from the
wheat.
DO not lie afraid of a great revival.
Oh, that these gales from heaven might
sweep through all our churches! Oh, for
such days ah Richard Baxter saw in Eng
land and Robert McClieyne saw in Dundee.'
Oh, for such days as 'Jonathan Edwards
saw in Northampton! I have often heard
my father tell or the fact that, in the early
part;ofifthiscentury a revival broke out at
Somerville, N. J., anil some people were
very much agitated about it. They said:
“Oh, you arc going to bring too many peo
ple into the church at once,” and they sent
down to New Brunswick to get John Liv
ingston to stop the revival.
Well, there war no better soul in all the
world than John Livingston. He went and
baikedat the revival; they wanted him to
stop it. He stood in the pulpit on the Mali
linth, and looked over the solemn auditory,
and lie said: “This, brethren, is in reality
the work of God; beware how you try to
stop it.” Anil he was an old man, leaning
heavily on hia staff —a very old mart. Ana
he lifted that, staff, und took bold of the
small end of the staff, and began to let it
fall very slowly through between the linger
arid the thumb, and he said: “Oh, thou im-
I mutton t. thou ail tailing now -failing uwav
from life, falling away from |*-aw and
heaven, falling as certainly os that cane is
falling through my hand—fulling certainly,
though js'i haiis falling slowly. ’ And too
cw*: key! on^aUkiiUk. Utfk'MteU Jybfi jaw*#-
audience was overpowering, and men saw
a type of t heir doom, as the cane kept falling
and falling, until the knob of the cane
struck Mr. Livingston's hand, and he clasped
it, stoutly and said: “But the grace of God
can.stop you. as I stopped that! cane;” anil
then there was gladness all through the
house at the fact of pardon and peace and
salvation. “Well,” said the |ieoplo after the
service, "I guess you bad better send Liv
ingston home; be is making the revival
worse.” Oh, for the gales from heaven, and
Christ on board the ship! The danger of
the church of (!od is not in revivals.
Again my subject Impresses mo with the
fact that Jesus was God and man in the
same living. Here Ho is in the back part of
the Ixiat. Ob, how tired He looks; what
sad dreams He must have! Look at His
countenance; lie must lie thinking of the
cross to come. Look at Him, Ho is a man—
liono of our bone, flesh of our flesh. Tired,
He falls asleep; lie is a man. But then I
tiiiil Christ at the prow of the boat; I bear
Him say: “Peace, be still;" and I see the
storm kiieeling at His bet, and the tenniests
folding their wings in His presence; He is a
/• „ I
God.
If 1 have sorrow and trouble and want
sympathy, 1 go and kneel down at the hack
part, of the boat, and say: “O, Christ!
weary one of Oennesaret, sympathise with
all my sorrow , man of Nazareth, man of the
cross?’ A man, a man. But if I want to
conquer my spiritual foes, if I want to get
the x ietorv over sin, death, and hell, T come
to the front of the boat, and I kneel down
and 1 say: “0, Loid Jesus Christ, Thou
who dost hush the tempest, hush all my
grief; hush all my temptation, hush all my
sin." A man, a man, a God, a (Bid.
I learn once more from this subject that
Christ can hush a tempest.
It did seem as if everything must go to
ruin. The disciples had given up the idea
of managing the ship; the crew wore en
tirely demoralized; yet Christ rises, and He
puts His foot on the storm and it crouches
at His feet. Oh, yes! Christ can hush
the temiiest.
You have had trouble. Perhaps it was
the little child taken away from you—the
sweetest child of the household, the one who
asked the most curious questions and stood
around you with the greatest fondness, and
the sjiaile cut down through your bleeding
heart. Perhaps it was an only son, and
your heart Ims ever since twen like a deso
lat eil castle, the owls of the night booting
among the falling arches and the crumbling
stairways.
Perhaps it was an aged mother. You al
ways want to her w ith your troubles. Hhe
was in your home to welcome your children
into life, and when they died she was there
to pity you; that old hand will do you no
more kindness; that white lock of hair you
put away in the casket, or in the locket,
didn’t look as it usually did when she
brushed it away from her wrinkled brow in
the home circle or in the country church.
Or your property cone, you said: “I have
so much bank stock, 1 have so many gov
ernment securities, I have so many houses,
I have so many farm*"—all gone, all gone.
Why, sir. all the storms that ever tram
pled tneir thunders, all the shipwrecks hove
not lieen worse than this to you. Yet you
have not been completely overthrown.
Why? Christ hushed tho tempest. Your
little one was taken away. Christ says: “I
have that little one in rriy keeping. I can
care for him ns well as you can, better t han
you can, 0 bereaved mother!” Hushing the
tempest. When your property went away
God said: “There are treasures in heaven,
in hanks that never break.” Just bushing
the tempest.
There iseiiia storm into which we will all
have to run. The moment when we let go
of this life, and try to take hold of the next,
wo will want ull the grace possible. Yon
der I see a Christian soul rocking on the
surges of death; ail the powers of darkness
seem let out against that soul—the swirling
wave, the thunder of the sky, the shriek or
the wind, all s*>em to unite together: but
that soul is not troubled; there Ts no sigh
ing, there are no tears; plenty of tears in
the room at the departure, but he weeps no
tears, calm, satisfied, peaceful; all is well.
By the flash of the storm you see the har
bor just ahead, and you are making for that
harbor. All shall lie well, Jesus hashing
the tempest.
“ Into tbe harbor of Heaven now we glide;
We're home at last, home at last.
Softly we drift on Its bright, silv ry tide.
We're home at last.
(dory to ltod! all our danger* arc o'er.
We stand secure on the glorified shore;
(dory to (tod; we will shotil evermore,
We're home at last.
PROPHECIES ABOUT PLAYS.
The Rule is They Don’t Amount to a
Great Deal.
New York, June 4.—Sometimes 1 doubt
if any man can judge of the success of a play
by reading it. “Jim, the Penman,” which
is one of the most pronounced hits of the
Englisii speaking stage, was hawked about
London for years before any manager could
be induced to produce it, It had every
chance too, for its author, Sir Charles
Young, was well known to all of the English
stage people, and was on good terms of jx-r
--sonal friendship with the more prominent
and influential London managers. Despite
all tiie influence that he could bring to ls-ar
on them, they refused to bring out this piny ■
until he was enabled to secure a manager
against, loss. Then the drama was produced,
and it is still •♦inning to the biggest houses iu
London.
The play was given to Mr. A, M. Palmer,
manager of the Madison .Square Theatre, to
read before its London production. Mr.
Palmer is one of the shrewdest and most
cultivated of American managers. He
takes ri'ks, too, but ho was afraid to do
“Jim, the Penman,” and it was shelved.
Then it \ made ita big London bit and Mr.
Palmer brought it out here. It will prob
ably outrun flu; records of the “Two Or
l4isns'’aml "Hazel Kirke.”
"The Highest Bidder” began its career at
the Lyceum heavily handicapped. The
play, as was well understood, was written
for the elder Hothom by Maddixon Morton
and Robert Reece, ftothern never had
much confidence in it. Winter, of the
Tribune , who had read it, predicted a fail
ure for its present production. George
Clarke, the actor, who also conversant, with
the [day, wns also sure of its coming disaster.
William J. Florence nt one time eontem
nlafrsl it, so did the lot-- John T. Raymond;
both saw nothing in it and abandoned it.
At the rehearsal.! at the Lyceum Theatre
everything untoward happened that aroused
thssuiTstiU<in of the actors against its suc
cess. Then kind friends found there were
thirteen letters In the name of the title, the
young star, the theatre and that of Its mana
ger. Mr. Daniel Probman. This was fol
lowed by several letters predicting failure.
I have seen a nunilier of them. Here isonp.
It shows how people who have nothing to do
sometimes enjoy themselves by trying to
make others unhappy.
New York, May, i! 18S7.
51k. lusiki. Kroman The comedy which you
are to produce at the Lyceum to-morrow night,
namely, ‘ The Highest*Holder," will be a fail
ure
The only thing that will save It will be If either
Mr. Hot bent or Mr. LeMoyne make a hit in Ills
respective part. ,
Mr Vn 1 t 1 1|) not tea tunes— fat his |rt. as
he ts fitted more foramelodrama than anything
else. Yours Lniljt (.'oknell.
Deepite all this the play even during the
hot weather is the greatest success ever
known at the Lyceum Theatre and it sjieaks
wttiUvi JL-. Fryitl l -Tiiijfr.igauguraJUjjU. g , J
PRICE l i YEAR. I
5 CE\TB A COPY, f
CUTTING BOBBING IT.
HIS ANXIETY ABOUT HIS $50,000
CLAIM AGAINST MEXICO.
No Response Made to Hie Communica
tion About the Matter-His Claim
Considered Absurd -The Commis
sion Has No Power to Suspend th
Long and Short Haul Clause—The
Complaint Against the Central.
Washington, Juno s.—The State D
pertinent is in receipt of a eomnumicati' >n
front A. X. Cutting, of El Paso, Tex., ask
ing what has been done about his claim ol
fciO.lKX) for imprisonment and for damage#
against the government of Mexico, which
he presented to our State Department
shortly after his release by Mexico lust
summer. No response has been made to
him, for the reason that none is believed to
he necessary. His claim is prepos
terously absurd. He ought to hav#
l>eou satisfied with his release, which would
never have occurred had it not lieen for the
vigorous interposition of Secretary Bayard.
Cutting's attempt to secure a money in
demnity from Mexico for damages which
he did not suffer (for S9O would reimburs#
him at the most generous estimate of hi
losses! simply interferes with the negotia
tions which Secretary Bayard is conducting
with a view to the establishment and recog*
nition of the principle’contended for bv Him
in the Cutting controversy, that Mexico
has no right to try American citizens for
alleged offenses on American soil. Secre
tary Bayard has no doubt that eventually,
this desirable end may lie accomplished.
LONG ANn SHORT HAUL CLAUSE.
Chairman Cooley, of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, has gone,
home to Chicago for a brief visit. The de
cision of the commission on the request for
the permanent suspension of the long any!
short haul clause of tho interstate commerefc
act will not lie announced until aftei
hts return. There is room to believe thal
the commission will, in it* decision, staid
that it has no power to make a. general sus-g
pension of the clause as to any particular!
section of the country, •or am
to any particular railway sys
tern, but, only to make a suspension,
in a part icular Aase when the necessity for
it is conclusively established. There must
lie an issue joined between the railroads and
some other party or parties on which the
commission can pass as a court. There tsj
of course, no limit to the matter of speoiaH
cases which may thus tie made exceptions
to the general rule.
THE COMPLAINT AGAINST THE CENTRAL. I
The Interstate Commerce Commissions
ha* not formally considered
the complaint of William id
Council (cnlorea). of Alabama, against this
Georgia Central Railway Company, bufl
there is good reason to infer from wliat thfl
individual members of the commission havfl
said about the case that, if the facts are afl
stated In Council’s petition, the commlssiod
will.decide In his favor. “All pasaengerj
who pay first-class fare must '*> l&VfjkSt rid
i lass at n immolation,” said on • pf the CmM
missioners to-day. .
A STORY ON FRANK If
His First Effort bn the Stage Was Not
a Great Success.
New York. June4.—Of Frank Mayo, the l
well-known actor, a good story is now go
ing the rounds of Newspaper Row. In hia
extreme youth, say callow 17, he was seized
with the stage disease. A tall, loose-jointed
country boy. who had scarcely ever stepped
foot into a playhouse, he found it a hard
task to enter Thespian ranks; but after a
world of trouble succeeded in having him-1
self enrolled among the “supers” of a Ban
Francisco theatre. Junius Brutus Booth, j
that firry genius, was holding the board* In
some clnssic drama, and Mayo was one off
the noble Roman mob who rush in and out <
of the stage to quick music and the stage *
manager’s oath. On the eventful evening
of his tti-st appearance Mayo's fellow “supelr {
determined to make a sensation, and did.;
They dressed the luckless youth in a man- ’
nor never before seen in the history of the
drama. The right sido of his body was
classic Latin in decoration and dress, lielmot, I
leather cuirass and belt, bare leg and foot
and corded sandal; the left side Pawnee
warrior, ochre-daubed cheeked, eagle's
feather, dirty buckskin blouse, trouser and
moccasin, scalping knife, tomahawk and
hanging scalps hv the aide. He was kept in
the background by the wags until the rue
cante, ami then ols-dient, to the instructions
he had received rushed with a wild
war whoop at thn head of the fifty super
numeraries down toward the footlights.
There was nn ominous pause. Booth and
play where forgotten and then came a hur
ricane of laughter, cheers and yells. Booth,
not seeing the cause of the singular out
break, was at first mystified. Hr turned
and save Mayo. It took loss than a minute
for the infuriated star to kick, actually kick,
the hapless aspirant from the stage through
the door into tbe street. He returu—ya
find that the damage hat ail been doneSTh#
remainder of the evening saw
formative. Whenever the mob
was ev|ii heard liehind the scones t
quet tittered and the gallery howled. Tfii
curtain rung down fifteen minutes earlier,
there was no recall anil Booth wenttohif
hotel swearing vengeance njhiii the villait
or villains who had concocted what seemed
to him a hideous plot to undermine hia re- *
nutation. Poor Mayo in the street was
heart-broken. At one blow, or kick, his
dramatic ambitions had beeij ruthlessly
shuttered forever. Aud this, added to the
ignominy of his exit, ho wrought upon him
that for op hour he cried in the dark alley
way like a schoolgirl for her first fault.
When the theatre was out he sneaked into
the dressing room to change his clothes. He
was there confronted by tne manager. Id a
voice broken by rage and laughter the lat
ter said:
“Look at hern, yonng fellow! There’s
your half dollar. Booth says he won’t play
if he sees you around iny more. Ho get!
But it wasn’t your fault altogether. You’re
a gory I fellow und here’s a note to the mana
ger on the next square. He’ll give you a
better job than here.” *
"Mayo in surprise took the coin and an
swered:
“Well, If the success of the house depends
on a question between me and the star of
course I’ll resign in his favor.”
Ten years afterwards Mayo was the mana
ger of the largest theatre in Boston and was
playing Booth tus his leading star of the sea
son. William E. 8. Kales.
another tp.ain robbed.
Texas Train Robber* Get Another
Good Haul -No One Hurt.
Fort Worth, Tex., June 6.—The Texas
and Pacific express train was robbed by four
masked men eight miles west, of here last
night. The sunt of $1,300 was taken from
the express car ami three registered letters
from the mail car. The passengers w-qa*-
not motoated.
Pontifical High L'aee Celebrated.
New York, June 5 Gibbon
celebrated a pontifical mass_at the