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( ESTABLISHED 1850. )
j J. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor. (
BAYARD IS KEPT BUSY.
A TALK ABOUT SEALERIES, FISH
ERIES AND FILIBUSTERS.
He Explains That Alaska Affairs Are
Not in the Jurisdiction of His De
partment-Criticism of His Course in
the Canadian Muddle Premature—
Pauble’s Trial.
Washington, Sept. IS.—With regard to
the statements published to-day alleging
that Secretary Bayard had telegraphed
“his officers’’ in Alaska to release the seized
sealers, and that the order had not t>een
executed because the Alaskan official was
not sure of the authenticity of the order,
Secretary Bayard said to-night that the dis
patch showed its incorrectness on its face.
Alaska is part of the United States, and
consequently the State Department has no
officers whatever there, asit has in foreign
countries. All its knowledge of
Alaska affairs comes through other de
partments of the government. The Secre
tary of State would give no order to an
Alaskan official nor receive information
from one except through the head of
another department,
NOT ORDERED RELEASED.
With reference to that part of the dis
patch and of other dispatches, which
allege that the release of the seized sealers
has been ordered, the secretary made the
following explicit denial of any knowledge
of any such order: “There has been to my
knowledge no order issued by the Presi
dent for the release of any of the
vessels seized this year, simply
because we have no knowledge of the cir
cumstances under which the vessels were
seized, and we only know that they are in
the hands of the court, and therefore will
be dealt with according to law. There were
three cases last year in which the President
saw fit to order the release of three vessels
seized August, 1886, but those are the only
cases thut I know of in which vessels were
ordered released. Teat occurred last year,
and the facts were made public at the time.”
ANNOYED OVER Til 1 FISHERIES.
The Secretary was somewhat annoyed at
the criticisms which had been made upon
his course with regard to the fisheries ques
tion, and particularly with reference to the
commission for a settlement. He said he
had made a proposal to Great Britain for a
settlement and that the proposal had been
made public some time ago. He did not
think the mere machinery by which the
agreement was reached on the basis of his
proposal of particular importance. He
could not hasten the publication of the
correspondence which had since taken
place. It would all be laid before Congress
in due time, and be made public, and would
show tbat his efforts had been to obtain an
honorable and fair settlement of the ques
tion.
NO ROW WITH CUBA.
Secretary Bayard said to-night that he
did not believe any international compliea
tions could result from the conviction of
Cirilo Pouble by the Cuban authorities.
Pouble v. as the t'ubau who returned to tbat
island immediately after obtaining his nat
uralization papers, and was arrested
for insurrectionary conduct during the ad
ministration of President Arthur. His
case had been diligently watched under
direction of the Department of State by
the United States Consul General to Cuba.
He had excellent counsel, and all the United
States could do was to see that he obtained
justice under the laws of Spain.
CLEVELAND’3 RETURN.
Both He and His Wife Greatly Pleased
With Their Trip.
Washington, Sept. 18. —The President
and party, consisting of himself and Mrs.
Cleveland, Secretary Bayard and Col. and
All’s. Lamont, arrived in Washington from
Philadelphia, about 3 o’clock this morning
in the special car of President Roberts, of
the Pennsylvania railroad. Carriages were
in waiting and the party immediately en
tered them and were driven to their several
home-.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland went
to the White House, where they remained
until the afternoon, when they drove out to
Oak View. They were much fatigued from
their constant round of receptions, though
highly delighted with the trip. They re
garded the celebration as a complete suc
cess and a great demonstration, and have
nothing but praise for their reception while
in the Quaker City.
The President will have to lot his right
hand rest for a day or two. hut he would
uot have been sateslicd if the commission
had not made arrangements for handshak
ing receptions. He wanted to see as many
of the people as possible Tile President will
lie busy now until he leaves on Sept, 20 or
80, preparing for his Western and Southern
trip. He will probably announce his pro
gramme this week. lie will go to St. Louis
first, then to the North west and then to At
lanta.
STATE CAPITAL SIFTINGS.
A Dollar a Milo for a Special Fast
Train—Tile Fire Chiefs.
Atlanta, Sept. 18. —A special train ran
from Montgomery to Atlanta, 170 miles this
afternoon in four hours with five stops and
a breakdown. Forbes Lydell, a prominent
merchant of Montgomery, had heard of the
dangerous illnes< of a child in Charlotte, and
usTthe special to catch the Air Line leav
ing hero at 0 o’clock this evening. Ho paid
a dollar a mile for the fast time.
Scores of Fire Chiefs from all over the
country reached here to-day and to-tiight
for the National Convention Tuesday. They
ore being well ontei tainod.
A ]>arty of fourteen newspaper men and
capitalist s from Northern and Eastern cities
arrived here to-night on their way to visit
the Tallapoosa mines.
REV*. HADDOCK’3 MURDERER.
The Jury Lets Him Off with a Verdict
of Manslaughter.
Hioux City, lowa, Sep:. 13.—A few mo
menu after 2 o’clock this afternoon, the ju
ry which went out at. ti:'!o o’clock,last even
ing, in the Haddock cac. of the State of
lowa against Fred Muncrath, Jr., brought
m the following verdict: “We the jury ibid
tbe defendant Fred Muncrath, Jr., guilty
of manslaughter, (signed.I G. R. McDou
gall, foreman.'’ The jury was pol ed, and
when eacji member was ank'sl whether this
Ills verdict, answered "yos.” The
extreme penalty for manalau rhter in lowa
is eight years in the penitentiary. The
judge announced that sentence would lie
pronounced Monday, Heptembor 20. The
prisoner received the verdict calmly. He
remotes at liberty on hi* lnd. It Is said
that the jury took but two ballots on the
question of guilt, tin* remaining Iwllots be
“ (J on the degree of guilt.
Observing New Year'* Day.
JA I KAORVii.ue, KI.A . Sept. 18,— Til*. He
brews in Jacksonville will observe the en
trance of their New Year by dosing all
tb*lr start* Mom lav.
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS.
Chief Arthur Addresses a Union Meet
ing at the Hub.
Boston, Sept. 18.—A union meeting of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers was held in the Boston Theatre this
afternoon for the purpose of expounding
the princles of the order and inducing those
outside of it to come in. The theatre was
filled and the Brotherhood was well repre
sented members coming from all parts of
the biute. Lieut. Gov. Bracket spoke of
tlio good the organization seemed to lie
doing and expressed his sympathy with it.
BENEFICIAL INFERENCES.
Grand Chief Engineer P. \V. Arthur of
the Brotherhood was introduced, and voci
ferously applauded. He spoek first of the
benifieial features of the order, and how it
aimed to organize men for mutual protec
tion, to obtain for the roads better men, and
a higher standard of work. It aimed, he
said, to secure sobriety among its
members above all tilings. Many
a man had been stopped
in his downward career by its influences,
kept in his position and made a sober
man. In regard to its insurance department,
he urged upon every brother to avail him
self of l'uS opportunities. The Brotherhood
had already paid out 82,159,01)0 to widows
and orphans.
its business features.
In regarding the business features of the
order, he would say that although regarded
first with distrust by railway managers, it
it was now approved of by' them, and he
had not met one in ten years who seriously
opposed it. On every road where
the Brotherhood was organized
there is what is known as a grievance com
mittee, to which nil t.r.; grievances of the
men are made known. It ought to be com
posed of cool-headed men and those longest
in the service of the road and known to the
officials. He was sorry to say it was not
always made of such men.
DUTY OF THE COMMITTEE.
It was the duty of this committee to lay a
grievance, if it was considered a just one,
before officials of the toads, starting with
the lowest and taking it in turn If not re
dressed from one, to the next higher, until
the general manager was reached. If he
failed to settle the difficulty the
Grand Chief Engineer was sent for, and he
seldom failed to hring about an arnicaSle
adjustment. Strikes were to be discouraged,
for there were no cases when parties could
be broug* it together that a settlement could
not be agreed upon. On closing he urged
the brothers to be honest, just and true to
their employers, and they would not fail of
suitable recognition.
NEWSPAPER NIMRODS.
They Fire at Each Other but Wound a
Byatander.
Charleston, S. C., Sopt. 18.—At Mount
Pleasant, a suburb of Charleston, to-day, a
newspajier controversy resulted in a shoot
ing affray between R. R. Royal and Theo
dore P. Gaillard. The former fired a pistol
twice. The latter fired a shotgun leaded
with buckshot once. Two buckshot struck
B. M. Royal, brother of R. It. Royal, in the
knee and side. The latter shot cannot be
found by doctors, who pronounce B. M.
Royal in a critical condition. R. R. Royal
and Gaillard were arrested and put under
bond.
The meeting was the outcome of a news
paper controversy between Theodore S.
Gaillard and Dr. E. M. Royal , chairman of
the County Commissionere of Berkeley
county, growing out of a letter which
was published on Sept. 2, signed ‘ Enquiring
Mind.” To this letter Mr. Gaillard pub
lished a commentatary on Sept. 5. On Sept.
7 Dr. E. M. Royal, Chairman of the Board
of County Commissioners for Berkeley,pub
lished a letter in reply, stating that Mr.
Gaillard was an ex-clerk of the
Board of County Commissioners, ox
deputy sheriff, ex-runner between
the Republican and Independent parties and
a disappointed officeseekor. This brought
forth a bitter rejoinder from Mr.Gaillard on
Sept. 14, charging Dr. Royal with squander
ing the tax payers’ money by means of jobs
and direct violation of the law. This re
sulted in the shooting to-day.
COERCION DEFIED.
Nationalists Meet at Bandon and 111-use
Two Reporters.
Dublin, Sept. 18.—In accordance with
the announcement, a meeting of Nationalists
was held at Bandon to-day. A government
reporter present was not molested, but
representatives of the Cork Constitution
and Illustrated London News were roughly
handled until the speakers on the platform
interfered in their behalf. Messrs. Brunner
and Hooper, members of Parliament, ad
dressed the meeting.
Mr. Balfour has returned to Scotland.
Archbishop Walsh in a letter to the
Dublin Express says that as the landlords
at their recent meeting failed to adopt a
manful attitude on the question of a con
ference betwoen the landlords and tenants,
ho fears that the opportunity to effect a set
tlement is now lost.
A ST. LOUIS PRIEST.
Mitchkllstown, Sept. 18.—At a public
meeting of the National League held here
to-day Father O’Leary of St. Louis,
was "introduced to the assemblage as a
clergyman who had sent tens of thousands
of dollars from America, to help
the cause in which the league was
engaged. The reverend gentleman an
nounced himself a believer in tho
doctrines of Henry George, and urged
that no rent should be paid. At the Chicago
Convention he had expressed his readiness
to become a chaplain in any army raised to
relieve Ireland from the slavery she was
enduring.
Mr. Condon, member of Parliament, dis
approved of Father O’Leary’s remarks, and
advised the people to continue in the consti
tutional path now pursued for the redress of
their grievance*.
NOT TIME TO DISARM.
The Ambitious Boulanger Makes An
other Incendiary Speech.
Paris, Sept. 18.—Gen. Boulanger, in an
address to the officors of his command after
the manieuvres by his corps ut Clermont
For rand yesterday, strongly urged the neces
sity of giving n wider exorcise of offensive
tactics, which wore proper to the French
army. He concluded his remarks ns follows:
“We have to-day more need than over of
the qualities of the warrior. No, the hour
has not yet been struck for tho disarmament
of the |ieople of old Europe. It is
madness to lielievo it, a crime to snv it, for
it points to peace at any price, as the goal
to which our country should aspire
and our enemies, who often appraise us at
our real value better than we uo ourselves,
know well that, we have not got as far as
that. More titan tliu, we must continue tho
work. It I* for France.''
Threat en ti Strike.
Chicago, Sept. IS. The conductors and I
drivers, to the number of 1,2(X), iu the em- j
.joy of the West Division Railway Com j
par,v, to-day decided to strike uuleee their j
demands for an Increase of |*l be granted j
hv Wediwwiav '
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1887.
HOW THE CROPS LOOK.
The Signal Office Takes a Glance Over
the Whole Country.
Washington, Sept. IS. —Following is the
weather crop bulletin isssued by the signal
office for the week ended Sept. 17.
During the woek ended Sept. 17, the
weather has lief n colder than usual from
Dakota eastward over the lake regin
to New England, the daily average
temperature being from 1“ to 3’ below
normal, it has been warmer than usual
from Gulf States to the Ohio valley, and
the interior of the South Atlantic States,
the daily average temperature being from
8* to 9° above normal; for Sacra
mento valley California, the daily
average temperature was from 8* to 5*
above normal. The daily average tempera
ture for the season from Jan. 1 to Sept. 17
has been in excess from the Ohio valley,
Tennessee and the interior of the Gulf
States westward to the Rocky mountains,
the daily average excess ranging from less
than Dto about -1\ The seasonal tempera
ture has generally been deficient in the
South Atlantic States and Upper Lake
region, the daily average deficiency being
about 1", excepting along Lake Superior,
where it varies from 2 s to 3’ below the
average.
THE RAINFALL.
During the week the rainfall has very
generally been slightly below the average
east of the Rocky Mountains, the greatest
deficiency being over one inch along the
South Atlantic coast. In the Middle At
lantic States it has been slightly above the
average rainfall. A large seasonal defi
ciency, exceeding ten inches, continues
throughout the Lower Mississippi valley,
and the greatm- portions of Illinois and
lowa, During the past month over 100 per
cent, of the usual amount of rain has fallen
in portions of New England, the lower lake
region, Western North Carolina, and the
Missouri valley, while loss thnn 50 per cent,
of the usual amount has fallen along the
South Atlantic and East Gulf coasts, the
Lower Mississippi valley, the Ohio valley,
a large portion of Illinois and East Mis
souri.
In the tobacco region of Tennessee about
50 per cent, of the usual amount has fallen
during the month, while in that Of Ken
tucky, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois from 10
to 50 per cent, of the usual amount has
fallen.
cotton short in MISSISSIPPI.
Reports from Mississippi indicate that the
weather lias been more favorable during the
past week, but with not enough rainfall and
the cotton crop will fall short.
From Tennessee the reports state that cot
ton is opening rapidly.
From North Carolina and South Carolina
the weather is reported favorable for cotton
picking.
It is reported from Minnesota that crops
have been harvested, and the conditions are
favorable for threshing.
In Kansas, that hot winds in the South
west portion injured late crops. Elsewhere
in Kansas rain benefited late crops.
In Missouri the weather was favorable to
pastures anil wheat seeding, except in the
central portion.
In Illinois seeding is progressing, but re
vived pastures are again failing.
In Indiana pastures are parched and wells
dry.
In Ohio the weather was favorable for
crops.
In Tennessee the drought is serious and
plowing is stopped.
In South Carolina crops are suffering
from (trough*
In North Carolina and New Jersey the
weather was favorable for crops.
In Massachusetts the weather conditions
were favorable, except for potatoes, which
are rotting.
Killing frosts have occurred during the
past week in the larger portions of Dakota
and Minnesota, the northern portions of
Wisconsin and Michigan, the northeastern
portion of New York and Northern Ver
vont, and light frosts in Wyoming, South
ern Dakota, Northern Nebraska, Southern
Michigan, Central New York, and the
greater portion of Maine.
ROPING IN TELEGRAPHISTS.
Dr. McGlynn and Henry George Ad
dress Them.
New York, Sept. ljj. —In response to a
general call for a mass-meeting of Tele
graphers, Linemen and other* engaged in
electrical pursuits about 200 persons assem
bled at Masonic Temple this afternoon.
Henry George, Dr. McGlynn, Frank Ferrall
and Louis F. Post were among the gentle
men to speak, and urge support of the
United Labor party’s ticket. Mr. George
asked telegraph men to work for the ticket,
and promised to send his paper to ail who
would let him know their addresses. “Work
with all your power,’ said Mr. George, and
when November, 1888 comes, you will have
messages to send around the world that will
gladden your souls.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
Henry A. Dusouebet was chosen secre
tary, and he read the resolutions. Those
declared that the telegraphers of this
vicinity believed that “their interest lies in
common with thht of the wage-working
masses;” that, at present, the employe is de
pendent upon “tho bounty, good will or
charity of the employer, as if he were not
an equal, free-born and independ
ent American citizen.” “Taxing land
to its full rental value” was
advocated, and because the United Labor
party favored this principle of “ justice, in
dependence and equal and natural rights.”
The resolutions approved the platform of
the Syracuse convention. The resolutions
also chose the naming of a representative
telegrapher to stump the State.
When the chairman put the question on
the adoption of tne resolutions, there was a
moment's pause. Then came a pretty gen
eral acquiescence, and tne adoption of the
question was announced.
Dr. McGlynn was heartily received. He
spoke at length. He ex)k>uuded the party’s
principles, and as soon as he got through a
general oxodus took place, before a speaker
to stump tho State was selected.
Cholera’s Horrible Work.
Rome, Sept. 18.—The cholera afflicting
the inhabitants of Messina is of the most,
violent character, death frequently ensuing
an hour after the attack. The mortality is
not confined to the town classes. Thpre Is
great misery among the people. Gravedig
gers refuse to pursue their calling until corn
lulled to bv tne troop*. The epidemic has
appeared in tbe prisons. The true state of
affairs has not yet been published. It la re
ported that many new case* of cholera nre
occurring in Rome dally.
Socialistic Activity.
New York, Sept. 18. —Tho Executive
Committee of the (Socialistic Labor party,
at a meeting to-day, iu ter mined at onto to
send out N[ial{"ri> to pro ent tli ■ doctrines
of the party with the purjswe of gathering
provincial citizen t Into the movement.
A Blaze in a BrlckjriVel.
Kktpokt, N, J. Sent, 18.— A portion of
Jacob 1/.ii Hard’s brick yard, at Union, was
burned to day. The lues is estimated at
I/sb very heavy Tb'-rc is no insurauoe.
Tbe uiiiiJi ot the flro is m.known.
GOOD MEN BOUND TO RISE
TALMAGE TAKES A LESSON FROM
THE LIFE OF JOSEPH.
The World Compelled to Honor Chris
tian Character—Elevation the Result
of Persecution— Sins Sure to Be Ex
posed-Lay Up For the Future.
Brooklyn, Sept. 18. —After being closed
for some weeks for improvements and en
largements, t he Brooklyn Tabernacle was
opened to-day. The same overwhelming
throngs were iu attendance as before. The
congregation sang, with great effect, the
hyum:
“Before Jehovah’s awful throne,
Ye nations bow with sacred joy;
Know that the Lord is God alone.
He can create, aud he destroy."
After explaining appropriate passages of
Scripture, Dr. Talmage took his text from
Genesis xli, 41: “And Pharaoh said unto Jo
seph : See, I have set thee over all tho laud
of Egypt.” Tho subject of the serman was
“The Prime Minister.” Dr. Talmage said:
You cannot keep a good man down. God
has decreed for him a certain elevation to
which he must attain. Ho will bring him
through though it coet Him a thousand
worlds. There are men constant ly in trouble
lest they shall not he appreciated. Every
man iu the end oomes to lie valued at just
what he is worth. How often you see men
turn out all their forces to crush one man or
set of men. How do they succeed! No
better than did the government tbat tried
to crush Joseph, a Scripture character upon
which we speak to-day. It would be an in
sult to suppose that you were not all familiar
with tho life of Joseph; how his jealous
brothers threw him into the pit, but, seeing
a caravan of Arabian merchants moving
along on their camels with spices and gums
that loaded the air with aroma, sold their
brother to these merchants, who carried him
down into Egypt; how Joseph was sold
to Potiphar, a man of influence ami office;
how by bis integrity he raised himself to
high position in the realm, until under tho
false charge of a vile wi etch he was hurled
into the penitentiary; how in prison lie com
manded respect and confidence; how by tho
interpretation of Pharaoh’s dream he was
freed and became the chief man in govern
ment, the Bismarck of the nation; now in
time of famine Joseph had tbe control of a
storehouse which he had filled during tho
seven years of plenty; how when his brot.hors
who had thrown him into the pit aud sold
him into captivity applied for corn he sent
them home with their beasts borne down
under the heft of the corn sacks; how the
sin against their brother, which had so long
been bidden, came out at last, and was re
turned by that brother’s forgiveness and
kindness, an illustrious triumph of Chris
tian principle.
Learn from this story in the first place,
that the world is compelled to honor Chris
tian character. Potiphar was only a man
of the world yet Joseph rose in his estima
tion until all tho affairs of that groat house
were committed to his charge. From this
servant no honors or confidence were with
held. When Joseph was in prison ho soon
won the heart of the keeper, and, though
plaited there for being a scoundrel. he soon
convinced the jailor that he was an innocent
and trustworthy man, and, released from
close confinement, he became a general su
perintendent ot prison affairs. Wherever
Joseph was placed, whether a servant iu
the house of Potiphar or a prisoner in the
penitentiary, he became the flr->t man every
where and is an illustration of the trutli I
lay down that tho world is compelled to
honor Christian character.
There are those who affect to despise a reli
gious life. They speak of it as a system of
phlebotomy by which a man is bled of all
his courage aud nobility, They say he has
bemeanea himself. They pretend to have
no more confidence in him since his conver
sion than liefore his conversion. But all
that is hypocrisy. It is impossible for any
man not to admire and confide in a Chris
tian who shows that he has really become a
child of God and is what ho professos to be.
You cannot despise a son or u daughter of
the Lord God Almighty. Of course half
and-half religious character wins no appro
bation. Redwald, the king of the Saxons,
after Christian biptism had two altars, one
for the worship of God and the other for the
sacrifice of devils. You may have a contempt
for such men,for mere pretension of religion,
but when you behold the cxcellancy of Je
sus Christ come out in the life of one of His
disciples, all that there is good and noble in
your soul rises up into admiration. Though
that Christian be as far beneath you in
estate as the Egyptian slave of whom we
are discussing, by an irrevocable law of our
nature Potiphar and Pharaoh will alwuys
esteem Joseph. Chrysostom when thro it
ened with death by End ix a, the Empress,
sent word to her saying: “Go tell her that
I fear nothing but sin.” Burti nobility of
character will always be applauded. There
was something in Agrippu and Felix which
demanded their respe t for Paul, tho rebel
against government. I doubt not they
would willingly have yielded their office
und dignity for tho thousandth part of that
true heroism which beamed in the eye aiul
beat in the heart of tho unconquerable
apostle. The infidel and worldling are com-
polled to honor in their hearts, though they
may not eulogize with thoir lips, it
Christian firm in persecution, cheer
ful in poverty, trustful in losses,
triumphant in dentil. I Hud Christian men
in all professions and occupations, and I
find them respected, and honored, and suc
cessful. John Frederick Oberiin alleviating
ignorance aud distress. John Howard pass
ing from dungeon to lazaretto with healing
for the body and the soul, Elizabeth Frye
coming to the profligate of Newgate prison
to shake down their obduracy as the angel
came to the pri*on at Philippi, driving open
tho doors ail'd snapping lochs and chains, ns
well as the lives of thousands of the follow
ers of Jesus who have devoted them
selves to the temporal and spir
itual welfare of the rare, are
monuments of tbe Christian re
ligion that shall not crumble while the
world lasts. A man in the cars said: "I
would like to become a Christian if 1 only
knew what religion is. But if this lying,
and cheating, and bod behavior among men
who profess to be good is religion. I want
none of it.” But, my friends, If lam an
artist in Rome and u man co nus to me and
asks w hat the art of painting is, I must not |
show him the daub of some mere pret rnder |
I w ill Lake him to the Raphaels and the j
Michael Angelo*. It is most unfair and |
dishonest to take the ignominious failures i
in Chriitlan profession instead of tho
glorious successes. Tho Bible aud ttie
church are great picture galleries filled with
masterpieces.
Furthermore: we learn from this story of
Joseph that the result of persecution is
alleviation. Had it not beeu lor his being
sold into Egyptian bondage by his malicious
brothers and his false imprisonment., Joseph
would never have boooiuo Prime Minister.
Kveryimdy accepts the promise: “Blessed
are they that are persecuted for righteous
ness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of
lienveti,” hut they do not realize the fact
that this principle applies to worl/Uy as well
as spiritual success It is true iu all de
partments. Had it not boon foi A7 whines,
who brought impeachment against Demon j
thenes, the immortal oration Do Corona j
would never have been delivered. M<n rise
to high political pool boas through uiisrepre i
Mentation and the ss-.iuit of tho public.
Public abuse 1* ail tbat some of <4r4
public men have had to rely upon for their
elevation. It has brought to them what
taim.t wad-exc.-ut-ive force coutil never have
achieved. Many of those who are making
grout effort for place and power w ill never
succeed, just because they are not of enough
importance to lie abused. It is the nature
of man to gather about those who are per
secuted aud defend them, and they are apt
to target the faults of those who are sub
jects of attack while attempting to drive
Dock the slanderers. Helen Stirk, a Scotch
martyr condemned with her husband to
death for Christ’s sake, said to her husband:
“Rejoice; we have lived together many joy
ful (lays, but this day wherein we must die
together ought to bo most joyful to us both.
Therefore I will not bid you good night, for
soon we shall meet in the heavenly king
dom.” By the flash of the furnace best
Christian character is demonstrated.
1 go into another department, and 1 find
that those grout denominations of Chris
tians which have been most abused have
spread the most rapidly. No good man was
ever more vilely maltreated than John
Wesley. His followers were hooted at and
maligned and called by every detestable
name that infernal ingenuity could invent,
but the hotter the persecution the more
rapid the spread of that, denomination, un
til you know what a great host they have
become and what n tremendous force for
God ami the truth they nre wielding all the
world over. It was persecution that gave
Scotland to Presbyterianism. It was perse
cution which gave our own. land first
to civil liberty and afterward to
religious freedom. Yea, I may go further
back and say it was persecution that gave
the world the groat salvation of the Gospel, i
The rilmld mockery, the hungering and
thirsting, the unjust trial and ignominious
death where all the force of hell’s fury was
hurled against the cross, wus the introduc
tion of that religion which is yet to lx. the
earth's deliverance from guilt and suffering,
aud her everlasting enthronement among
the principalities of heaven. The .State lias
sometimes said to the church: “Come, let
me take your hand and I will help you.”
What has been the result! The
church has gone back and has lost,
its estate of holiness and has become in
effective. At other times the State has said
to the church “I will crush you." What
has been the result? After the storms have
spent their fury, the church, so far from
having lost any of its forco, has increased
and is worth infinitely more after the as
sault than before it. Tho church is far
more iudebled to the opposition of civil gov
ernment than to its approval. Tho fires of
the stake have only been the torches which
Christ held in his hand by the light of
which the church has marched to her pres
ent position. In tho sound of racks and
implements of torture I hear tho rumbling
of tho wheels of tho Gospel chariot.
Scaffolds of martyrdom have lieentho stairs
by which the church has ascended. Aqua
f ortis is the best test of pure gold.
Furthermore, our subject impresses us
that sins will come to exposure. Long, long
ago had these brothel’s sold Joseph inti)
Egypt. They had suppressed the crime,
audit was a profound secret well kept by
the brothel’s. But suddenly tho secret is
out. The old father hears tllat his son is in
Egypt, having liecn sold there by tlie malice
of his own brothers. How their cheeks
must have burned and their hearts sunk at
tho flaming out of this suppressed crime.
The smallest iniquity lias a thousand
tongues, aud they will blab out an exposure.
Haul was sent to destroy tho Canaanites,
their sheep and their oxen But when he
got down there among the pastures ho suw
some line sheep and oxen too fat to kill,
and so he thought he would steal
them. He drove them towards homo, but
stopped to report to the prophet how well
he lmd executed his commission, when in
the distance the sheep began to bleat and
the oxen to bellow. The secret was out and
Bamuel suid to tho blushing and confounded
Saul: “What means the bleating of the
sheep that 1 hear and the lowing of the cat
tle?” Aye, my hearers, you cannot keep an
iniquity quiet. At just tho wrong time the
sheep will bleat and the oxen will bellow.
Acbun cannot steal the Babylouish garment
without getting stoned to death, nor Bene
dict Arnold bet ray his country without hav
ing his neck stretched. Look over the po
lice arrests, these thieves, there burglars,
these adulterers, those counterfeiters, these
highwaymen, those assassins. They all
thought they could bury their iniquity
so deep down that it would never
come to resurrection. But there was
some shoe that answered to
the print in tho sand, some false key* found
in possession, some bloody knifo that whis
pered of the deed, and the public indlgua
tion, and the anathema of outraged law
hurled hitn into tho Tombs or hoisted him
on the gallows. At the close of the battle
between the Dauphin of France und the
Helvetians, Burchard Mo ik me so elated
with the victory that ho lifted his helmet
to look off upon the field, when a wounded
soldier hurled a stone that struck his un
covered forehead and he fell. Bin will
always leave some point exposed, and there
is no safety in iniquity. Francis the
First, King of France, was discussing how
it was bast to g-t his army into Italy.
Amaril, the court fool, sprang out from the
corner and said to the king and his staff
officers: “You hart hotter Is; thinking how
you will get your army back out of Italy
after once you have entered.” fn other
words, it is easior lor us to get into sin than
to get out of it. WliitcHeld was riding on
horseback in a lonely way with some mis
sionary money in a sack fastened to tho
saddle-bags. A highwayman sprang out
from the thicket and put his hand
out toward the gold, when Whlteflold
turned upon him and said: “That
belong* to tho Lord Jesus Christ, touch it if
you dare.” and the villain fell back empty
handed into the thicket. O, the power of
conscience! If offended, it becomes God’*
avenging minister. Do not think tlint yon j
can hide any grant and protracted sin in
your hearts. In an unguarded moment it
will slip off of tho lip, or some slight occa
sion may for a moment sot ajar tins door of
hell that, you wanted to keep closed. But
suppose that, in this life you hide it and
you get along with that transgression burn
lug ill your heart,as a slop on fire within for
days may hinder the (linns iroin Imrstiug
out by keeping down tUe hatchways, yet at
last, hi tho Judgment, that iniquity will
blaze out before tho throne of God and tho
universe.
Furthermore: Iyarn from this Subject the
insennrabie con nation between all events,
however remote. Lord Hastings wan be
headed one year after he had caused the
death of the Qu nu’s children, in the very
month, the very duy, the very hour,
and the very moment. There is wonderful
orreision in the Divine judgment*. The
universe is only one thought or find. Those
things which seem fragmentary and isolated
arc only different parts of that one great
thought. How far apart seemed those two
event*—Joseph sold to the Ar'ibian mor
ciiants and the rulonthlp of Egypt, Yet
you sue in wiiat a mysterious way (rod con
nected tho two m one plan. Ho all events
arc linked together. You, who ere aged,
can look hack and group together a thorn
and things in your life that onon seemed
isolated (me undivided chain of events
reached from the Garden of islen to the
cross of Calvary, and thus up to heaven.
There Is a relation iietween the smallest, in
sect that hunts in tin* summer an arid
tho archangel on b.s throne ( rod can trnoe
a direct anuustral line from (be blue jay that
last spring built its nmtin a tree behind the
bouse, to some on* of that Hock of birds
which,when Noah hoisted the ark’s window,
with a whirl and dusk of bright wings, wont
out to sing over Mount Ararat. The tulips
that bloomed this summer in the flower lied
wore nursed of last winter’s snow flakes.
The furtherest star on one side the universe
could not look to the furtherest star on the
other side mid say: "You are no rolution
to mo;’’ for front that bright orb a voice of
light would ring acrosstho heavens respond
ing’ "Yes. yes; we are sisters.” Sir
Sidney Smith in prison was playing lawn
tennis in the yard and the ball flew
over the wall. Another ball containing
letters was thrown liuck, and so communi
cation was opened with the outside world,
and Sidney Smith escaped in time
to defeat Bonaparte’s Egyptian
expedition. What a small ao
cident connected with what vast
r<*sult! Sir Robert l’eel from a pattern he
drew on tho back of a pewter dinner plate
got suggestions of that which It'd to the im
portant invention by which calico is printed.
Nothing in (tod's universe swings at loose
ends. Accidents are only Gist’s way of
turning a leaf in the book of his eternal de
crees. From our cradle to our grave there
is a path ail marked out. Kacii event in
our life is connected with overy other event
in our life. Our loss may lie the most
direct road to our gain. Our defeats and
victories are twin brothel’s. The whole
direction of your life was changed by some
thing which at the time seemed to you a
trifle, while some occurrence which seemed
tremendous affected you but little. The
Rev. Dr. Kennedy, of Basking Ridge, New
Jersey, went, into his pulpit one Kabbah and
by ft strange freak ot memory forgot
(his subject and forgot his text mid in
groat embarrassment rose liefore his
audience, and announced tho circumstance
and declared himself entirely uunble to
preach; then launched fortii in a few earnest
wools of entreaty and warning, which re
sult's! in tho outoroukiug of the mightiest
revival of religion ever known in that State,
a revival of religion that resulted in
churches still standing, and in the‘conver
sion of a large number of men who entered
tlie Gospel ministry, who have brought their
thousands into the kingdom of (iod. God’s
plans are magnificent beyond nil compre
hension. He mould us, turns and directs us,
and we know it not. Thousands of years
are to Him but ob the flight of a shuttle.
The most terrific occurrence does not make
God tremble, and the most triumphant
achievement does not lift Him into rapture.
That one great thought of God goes oil
through tile centuries, and nations rise and
fall, and eras pass, and the world itself
changes, but God still keeps tho undivided
mastery, linking event to event and cen
tury to century. To God they are all one
event, one history, one plan, one develop
ment, one system. Great and marvelous
are Thy works, lsird God Almighty.
Furthermore, wo learn from this story
tho propriety of laying up for the future.
During seven years ot plenty Joseph pre
iisi’i and for the laiiiine, mid when it came he
fiiiil a crowded storehouse. The life of most
men in a worldly respect is divided into
years of plenty and famine. It is seldom
that any man passes through life without at
least seven yearn of plenty. During these
seven prosperous yearn your business bears
a rich harvest. You liardlv know where
all the money comes from, it comes so
fast. Every bargain you make Heems to
turn into gold. You contract few bad
debts. You are astounded with large divi
dends. You invest more and more capital.
You wonder how men can Is: content with
a small business gathering in only ithundred
dollars where you reup your
thousands. These are the seveu
years of plenty. Now, Joseph, is the time to
prepare for famine, for to almost every man
there do come seven years of famine. You
will be sick; you will be unfortunate; you
will lie defrauded; you will be disappointed;
vou will be old, and if you have no store
house upon which to full bark you may be
famine struck. We have no admiration for
this denying one’s self of all present coni
fort and luxury for the mere pleasure of
hoarding up, tills grasping for the mere
pleasure of seeing how large a pile you can
get, this always being poor and crump:*!,
because as soon as a dollar comes in it is
sent out to see if it can’t find another dollar
to carry home on its back : but there is an
intelligent and noble-minded forecast which
we lovo to see in men who have fiunilies
and kindred <lepeudont upon them for the
blessings of education ami homo. God (loads
us to the insects for a lesson, which
while they do not stint, themselves in the
present, do not forget their duty to forestall
the future: "Goto the ant, thou sluggurd,
consider her ways and bn wise, which,
having no guide, overseer, or ruler, pro
videth her meat in the summer and
gfttheretli h*r food in the harvest.” Now
there are two ways of laying up money;
the one by Investing it in stork ana deimsit
ing it in banks ami loaning it on bond ami
mortgage. The other way of laying up
money is giving it away. He is the safest
who makes IxitTi of these in vest menu. Hut
the man who <ievotes none of Ills gain to the
cause of Christ, ami thinks only of his own
comfort and luxury, is not safe. 1 don’t
care how Ins money is invested. Ho
acted as the rose if it should say: “I
will hold my breath and no one shall liavo a
snatch of fragrance from mo until next
week, and then 1 will set nil the garden
afloat with the aroma." The time comes
but having lieon without frugraneo for so
long, it has nothing then to give. Hut above
all lay up treasures in heaven. They never
depreciate in value. They never are at a
discount. They are always available. You
may feel safo now with your present yearly
income, but what will such an income lie
worth after you are deoil I Others will get
it. Perhaps some of them will quarrel
about it Is fore you are buried. They will
lio right glad that you arc deoil. They are
only waiting for you to die. What then
will all your accumulation lie worth if you
could gather it all into your bosom uml
walk up w.th it to heaven's gntef It would
not purchase your admission; or, if allowed
to enter, it wouid not buy you a crown, or a
robe, and the poorest saint in heaven would
look down anil say: “Wheredid that pau
jier come from *"
Finally: Learn from this subject that in
in every famine there Is a storehouse. Up
the loug row of building pil and to the very
roof with corn come the hungry multitudes,
and Joseph commanded that their sucks and
their wagons Isi 111 led. Tut- world bus I sum
blasted. Ut'erv green thing bus withered
under the tou'bof sin. From all continents
and islands ami zones conies up the groan of
dying millions. Over tropical spioe-grove,
and SilxM tan ico-lmt, and Hindoo jungle the
hliurlit bus fallen. The famine is
universal. But, glory Is? to God! there
is a great storehouse. Jesus
Christ, our older brother, this day bids us
ivirne in from our hunger and beggary, and
obtain infinite sup,die.) of grace euougn to
make us rich forever. Many of vou have
for a long while been smi',tn of the famine.
The world has not stilled the throbbing of
your spirit Your conoienuu sometimes
louies you up with such suddenness atid
strength thut it requires the most gigantic
oetormination to quell the disturbance.
Your courage qualms st the thought of tile
tuture. i iti, why will you tarry aiuid tile
blastings of tfic famine when such a glorious
storehouse Is open Xu God s mercy f
“Ye wretched. hungry, starving poor,
llelinl.t h royal fe ist,
Where mercy spread* her tsiunteous store
For rwy humble Kurtt.
''riw .Insur* itindi will) opfa arms,
Ha call*, H- bids you coma;
Guilt holds you hock atvl fau ijariu,
Hut mr. liwr* rat I* roota"
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LABOR IN BAD COMPANY.
SOCIALISTS SHOW THEIR POWER
IN GOTHAM’S MEETINGS.
A Resolution of Sympathy With th®
Condemned Anarchists of Chicago
Would Have Had Many Supporters
If It Had Been Put Before the Con*
tral Labor Union.
Nsw York, Kept. 18.—George A. Schil
ling, of Chicago, was present at the Central
lalmr Union’s meeting to-day, and was de
sirous of presenting the case of the con
di'inncd Anarchism to the body, with a
view of enlisting the Union’s labors in
half of the convicted, but interior disputes
pi-evented tho visitor from carrying out his
mission. Tho schism between the Progress! re
labor party (Socialists) and George jieople
broke out and caused a great uproar.
Mathew Barr, of the Tin, Sheet and Iron
Workers, presided. There were ahout 200
delegates present at the roll call. Mr.
Schilling was "a special guest.”
SYMPATHY FOR THE ANARCHISTS.
Before the mooting oiiened there was read
a letter .sign's 1 by a dozen representative
lalsir organization men, including Samuel
Gam|iera, President of the Federation of
Trades, and James E. Quinn, Master Work
man of District Assembly 49, Knights of
Isitior, expressing sympathy with the con
demned.
Delegate Johnson, of the Industrial
Isvtguo, arose, after tho transaction of soma
routine business, and staled that a commit
tee of one from Chicago desired to be heard
on n matter of great importance to the
working people of the entire countin'. Be
fore Mr. Johnson got through another del
egate claimed that a resolution that was in
the regular order had lean overlooked.
SOCIALISTS DUMBFOUNDED.
Mr. Johnson withdrew temporarily, and
the Socialists were dumbfounded to hear
Ed. Coughlin, of the Progressive Painters,
offer a resolution to the effect that th*
Central t,ahor Uniop should refuse to allow
its name to lie used by any political body.
The Socialists felt that the blow was
aimed at them, and the Ooorgites cheered
wildly. Disturbance reigned for nearly ten
minutes, when a motson to table tha
motion was declared lost amid vigorous op
|)OHltiOn.
OUGHT TO BE GLAD.
Mr. Emrich, of the Furniture Workers'
Union, at last got the floor and shouted that
tlm delegates ought to bo glad that, a politi
cal [iartv that would take tip tho principles
of tha'Central Labor Union had lieen
found.
Hugh Whorisky made a row by moving
the previous question, and Mr. Emrich
called him a coward for *o doing. “Your
position will not stand debate,” cried Mr.
Emrich.
The resolution was adopted by a vote of
fl 2to 44, whereupon the defeated Pro
gressive:. set up a cheer of defiance. Equally
hearty clieor# for tho United labor party
were given in response.
SCHILLING NOT HEARD.
Tho meeting adjourn'd without offering
a chance to Mr. Schilling to be heard. Mr.
Schilling afterward said that he was not
'llacoun.god by lh" rumpus, as he had been
assured that all the delegates were in accord
with his mission, that of “obtaining justice
for our friends in Chicago.”
“Cupt. Black.” Mr. tSoiiilling added, “will
coiue to New York from Ottawa on Tues
day, and we shall then have a conference
with Gen. Pryor and another gentleman
whose name I am not at liberty to give.”
A ROMANCE OF SIBERIA.
How a Ldarned Professor Became •
Wood Gutter In OC ,tral Asia.
A civil engineer, who hue just returned
from Central Asia, whore hesjiontsix years,
relates the following incident, rays an Odessa
Letter to the Isnvant Herald:—
The monotony of his residence in those re
mote provinces was broken by an occasional
hunting expedition into Silxiriu. On one of
these trapping exiieditions, which included
u younger member of the grand ducal fam
ilies, the [>arty were one evening belated in
a nine forest, at some distance from the day’a
bivouac. They were utterly astray. A
stentorian view halloo brought to the assist
ance and guidance of the party a wood-cut
ter - an old iimn of some thi ee-score year*,
with tangled locks, coarse kartau and bark
swatliod tect.
Under the old mnn's guidance the iiarty
found a rude hut, a charcoal Are and simple
cooking utensils. The engineer noticed that
tho old woodcutter, when unobserved.,
scanned his face rather attentively. He
Usik a qniot opjsirtunity of asking the old
inan if no observed in him any rescmbluna*
to someone he ha. i previously known. “A
very strotig resemblance,’’ was the reply.
“VVere you not some fifteen years ago a stu
dent of tho Rfchelevski Oymnase in
Odessa f" Tho engineer answered affirma
tively. “And do you not remember Prof.
r “Certainly; he was a man be
loved by every student, in his class. 1 shall
always remember kindly the amiable and
learned professor who disappeared so sud
denly and mysteriously from Odessa. But
what do you know of himf
The old wood-cutter for the first time
smiled; the heavy mustache and board had
hidden the lines of tho mouth in repose.
The young engineer had not forgotten the
peculiar sod sweetness of his old profes
sor's smile. The ragged and pictureaqaa
wood-cutter and the former learned prof
feaor of Hati-crlt and comparative philol
ogy we.re tho same. The rencontre was,
under the circumstances, naturally at once
lioth pleasing and painful to my friend, to
whose immediate and anxious inquiries the
old man replied sadly: “All God’s will, my
boy. As to the suddenness and mystery of
my disappearance from Odessa, the secret
[Kilicc might have explained. Nothing be
yond an unfounded suspicion of disaffection
to our Little Father and a preposterous
charge of disseminating a revolutionary doc
trine have sent me to this life-long banish
ment.
“But Ido not repine. I have sufficient
philosophy left to apply myself to the fell
ing of pine trees, with the same zest as that
with which 1 formerly delighted to pursu*
a knotty philological problem Am I nol
wise in my gen -..it.on and old age* I am
deprived of tl; sight and evinnanioiiship ol
old friends, but God gives me health and a
portion of contentment, ivly masters pay
mu with but few unkind words, god two
roubles per mensem. My old Odessa pupils
paid me six roubles an hour. But what of
thatf 1 have sufficient. Home old lueinoriee
draw tightly round the heart and m
infinite naiii. Then I swing my heavy adz
with greater force, sud endeavor to forget.
It 1* to me a jov to hsik upon the still
youthful face of my old pupil; hut do not
prills, my heart, child. I ask you not to
speak to me at tailing. You were alwaye
obedient. and you hear me. God keep youl
Good-by* f"
The old man would not allow my friend to
oonvey any messages to relatives or ao
quaintanciw, who, li<- said, had probably
forgotten bis existence, bikl he would not
disturb d<ad memories. How many other*
are there like tho old profeawr—uiMl, also
of ftirt ti, breeding, and brilliant ititeilwtUM
jmrl*, languishing out their lives in to*
di wtry wilds of dibaria for a Iso* loss sue-
UK ,1.11 f Tile -eflsctiim is --Cdeptiia.