The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, October 03, 1887, Image 1

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( ESTABLISHED I*so. I ] J. H ESTILL, Editor mid Proprietor ) ST. LOUIS’ NOT LI) GUESTS. SERVICES TTENDED AT THE PRES BYTERIAN CHURCH. No Demonstration Made by the People Out of Deference to the Day-The Botanical Gardens Visited in the Afternoon -The Evening Spent at Home. Bt. Louis, Oct. 2. —At, Vendovarter place, before the mansion of Mayor Francis, where President and Mrs. Cleveland are quietly resting, a crowd collected early this morning to catch the first glimpse Of the city’s guests. Shortly after 10 o’clock Mr. Cleveland and his wife, accompanied by Mayor Francis and wife, appeared and were driven to the Washington Avenue Presby terian church. In the street and near the church many people had assembled, hut a way was easily made through the crowd, and as the party passed to the door of the church the specta tors uncovered their heads, but. made no other demonstration. The auditorium of the church was crowded. As the Pr%ident passed down the aisle many of the congre gation rose. A pew in the front centre of the auditorium was accorded the Presiden tial party. SOUTHERN SYMPATHIZERS. The churrli is situated on the corner of Washington and Compton avenues. The society of the church was formed in 1804 by Dr. J. H. Brooks, D. D., the present pastor. The congregation had strong Southern sym pathies, and a rupture with the Northern assembly sufficed to give the church the name of the Southern church, but the char acter of the members has gradually changed, and the church's affiliation is now' distinctly with the Northern Presbytery. There were no special arrangements and the usual service was conducted without change. The musical programme was noted for its simplicity, and was given by the regular choir. After a few preliminary announce ments Rev. Dr. Brooks read his text from the eighth chapter of the Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans, 31st verse: “Whatshall we then sav to these thihgs, if God be for us who can lie against us.” The pastor confined himself strictly to his text, and alluded in no manner to the President ex cept in his closing prayer, when he invoked the usual divine messing on the chief exec utive of the country. At the close of the service the President was escorted from the church immediately, the congregation re maining in their seats to allow easy egress. The party were driven to Mayor Francis’ residence, where dined, and at 3 o’clock took a drive to Henry Shaw’s famous botanical garden, returning early. The evening was passed quietly at the Mayor’s home. The Presi dent and Mrs. Cleveland appeared consid erably fatigued from the trip, but are rap idly recuperating. The splendid weather and warm atmosphere was marred for a little while to-night by a heavy shower, but during the day the sun shone brightly most of thp time, and the prospect for fine weather is good. EX-CONFEDERATES TO TURN OUT. Chicago, Oct. ‘A—The ex-Confederate Association of Chicago, has unanimously decided to participate in the escort tendered to the President on Wednesday next. They will turn out 150 men. IN BEECHER’S PULPIT. Rev. Dr. Joseph Parker Delivers a Memorial Discourse. New York Sept. 3. —The Rev. Dr Joseph Parker, of the City Temple, who is to pronounce the eulogy of Henry Ward Beecher in the Brooklyn Academy of Music Monday night, preached to-day in Ply mouth Church, Brooklyn, in the pulpit where his friend stood for forty years. The subject was “Not Here, but Risen.” The sermon,which was delivered without manu script, was largely a memorial discourse, several sympathetic references being made to the dead pastor. Telegrams were re ceived by Dr. Parker while he was in the pulpit from his people in London, sending t heir good wishes. With Dr. Parker in the pulpit was Dr. Beecher's former helper, the present acting pastor. Rev. S. B. Halliday, 1). D. The church was never more crowded. Every inch of space was occupied. Had it been twice as large it would have been tilled. The people were formed iu line on the street by policemen and admitted only as fast as the ushers could seat them. Long before the bell ceased its call to worship, the church was filled. In the pastor’s pew. No. 91, three seats from the pulpit, sat Mrs. Beecher and Mrs. Par ker. COAL MINERS STRIKE. They Demand an Advance in Wages of 12 1-2 Cents Per Ton. Springfield, 111., Oct. 2.—-The miners in the Springfield district are out on a strike for an advance of wages to H7W cents per ton. Their wages have been about 55 cents per ton. Over 1,500 men are now out. Tia miners at Pittsburgh have also struck. No reports have been received from Barclay and Dawson, but the miners say the men at those towns will follow tho lead of those at Riverton, who are out. Two organizers have gone to the southern part of the State to bring on a strike there if the Columbus scale is not granted, and they expect to make the stoppage of work general. The miners claim that the wages do not afford them support for themselves and their families, and that the operators are selling coal to the railroads and other large consumers at ruinous prices, ami cutting wages to the verge of starvation to make up the losses. RETURN OF THE BEAR. A Murderer Rnd Seized Sealer3 Given Into Custody. San Francisco, Oct.. 2.— The United States revenue cutter Bear arrived from Alaska last night. She arrived at Oun alaska from St. Michaels Aug. 24, and gave Frank Fuller, the murderer of Archbishop Seghers, into the custody of the United States Marshal. On the same date the Bear seized the British sealing schooner Ada with 1,1100 skins, and the American schooner Allie T. Alger, with 1,00 skins. A few days later the American schooner Handy with 1,700 skins was seized. All of the vessels were turned over to the United States Marshal at Ounalaska. The report from the Arctic a month ago that the Bear was leaking badly appears to have had some foundation, as it was neces sary to have men at the pumps nearly all the time during the trip down from Oun alaska. _ Saloons Close on Sunday. Chattanooga. Oct. 2. —Asa result of the prohibition agitation and the close vote at the recent, election the saloons of this city have taken a voluntary pledge to refrain from doing business on Sunday, and have invited the authorities to aid them in carry ing out the provisions of the law. Not a aloon was open in the city to-clav. She JUofiiinij ffeug>. CLIMATE AND CROPS. The Agricultural Bulletin of the Sig nal Office Washington, Oct. A—Following is the weather crop bulletin issued by the signal office: During the week ending Oct. 1 the weather has been cooler titan usual in all theagricul tural districts east of the Rocky Mountains, the average daily temperature ranging from 3' to 6" below normal in the central valleys except from Virginia to Florida, where the temperature was but slightly below the normal. The temperature for the season from Jan 1 to Oct. 1 was slightly below the normal on the Atlantic const and from New England westward to the Missouri valley, and it was slightly warmer than usual in the Ohio and Central Mississippi valleys, and generally throughout the Southern States, the average dally excess or deficiency, gen erally amounting to less than 3°. the rainfall. The rainfall for the week has been in ex cess throughout the greater portions of the cotton and tobacco regions, and over the whole region from Ohio westward to Mis souri and lowa. In the regions that have suffered most from drought, covering the greater portion of Illinois, Southern In diana. Eastern lowa and the greater por tion of Missouri, the rainfall for the week has been largely in excess. Less than the usual amount of rain fell along the South Atlantic coast, in Northern New England Western New York, Nebraska and the northwestern portions of lowa. A large deficiency in rainfal 1 for the season continues in the cen tral valleys, but this deficiency has been re duced during the week in the wheat and corn regions of the Northern States. Over the greater portion of the cotton region the deficiency has exceeded ten inches. In the tobacco regions of Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee the deficiency in the rainfall for the season generally amounts to less than five inches, except in the extreme western portion of Tennessee and Kentucky, where the deficiency in rain for the season exceeds 10 inches. The only States reporting an excess of rainfall for the season are Pennsylvania, Maine, South ern New York, the Western portion of Kansas and Nebraska, Northern Texas and Colorado. COTTON PICKING. During the week the weather has been favorable for harvesting cotton in the States west of the Mississippi and in the extreme eastern portion of the cotton region, while cool weather and heavy rains have affected this ami other growing crops unfavorably in Mississippi. Freshets occurred in the northern portion of the tobacco region of the Ohio valley and along the Atlantic coast as far south as Vir ginia, which probably resulted in some injury to the crops. These freshets were announced and warnings were issued by this office, giving timely notice of their ceour rence. The rains which have occurred during the week in the winter wheat regions will prove of special value, as the sowing of wheat was delayed in that section, owing to the contin uance of the drought. This bulletin is discontinued, with this issue, until the beginning of the next crop year. BOND PURCHASES. The Old Adage of Money Makes Money Practically Illustrated. Washington, Oct. 3.—The statement prepared at the Treasury Department in re gard to the purchase of bonds under the cir cular of August, inviting proposals for the sale of four and a half per cent, bonds, and under the circular of Sept. *33 offering to buy four anil four and a half per cent, bonds at a fixed price, shows that the total amount of bonds purchased under the first named circular was $11,585,300, on which a premium, including accrued inter est, of $994,978 was pa id. Had the bonds been allowed to run to the date of maturity, interest to the amount of $3,153,(530 would have accrued thereon. The redemption re sulted in a saving to the government of $1,157,053. The total amount of bonds purchased un der the September circular up to the i-lo.se of business yesterday, was $9,850,950, of which $4,070,400 were 4's per cents., and $5,180,550 4 pel’ cents. The premiums paid on those bonds, including accrued interest, was $1,088,951, which is $3,300,901 less than would have been paid out as interest had they been allowed to ma ture. The interest to accrue to the maturity of the loan on the bonds pur chased is stated at $4,989,913, of which $840,073 is credited to four and a halfs, and $4,149,340 to the fours. The statement is summarized as follows: Total amount of bonds purchased (face value) $31,433,300; total amount of premium paid thereon, $2,083,939: total amount of savings to ma turity of loans $4,458,013. PULPIT THUNDER. Rev. John P. Newman Thinks the An archists Have Lived Too Long. Washington, Oct. 2. —An unusual scene occured as the Metropolitan Methodist Epis copal church to-night when Rev. John P. Newman, in a sermon on “Infidelity,” referred, in se vere terms, to the Anarchists. “Could any American citizen,” he said, “ten years ago have imagined the circulation of a petition to pardon those whose hands are red with the blood of the defenders of the pub lic peace and safty. What is back of this Anarchy, this dare devil movement on the part of those villains who ought to have been hung long ago?” At this point many of the audience rose to their feet, dapped their hands and with a loud demonstration announced their ap proval of the minister’s words. HORSEWHIPPED AT A DEPOT. A Negro Editor of Chattanooga As saulted by a Mail Carrier. Atlanta, <4a., Oct. 2. —R. H. Carter horsewhipped Henry Wilson, editor of a newspaper publised in Chattanooga, in the dejxit to-day. A short time ago Wilson pub lished an article in his paper charging Carter, who is a mail carrier of the Atlanta post office, with having criminal relation* with Mary Hunt of the Hunt-Gnrdner scandal. Carter wrote Wilson asking for a retraction which letter Wilson paid no al teiition to. To day while Wilson was in the depot enroute to Augusta for the purpose of getting married Carter assaulted him with a horse-whip, injuring him badly. Wilson received several gashes in his face and had his heaver newly cut in two by a blow from the whip. Both parties were wrested, but gave bond. Wilson left later in the day for Augusta, where he will meet his intended bride. The participants in the difficulty are colored and stand high where they are known. Bell Willing to Race Again. New York, Oct. 2.—Mr. Bell, represen tative owner of the Thistle, to-day stated that he would he glad to enter the Thistle in anv regatta in which the Volunteer was entered, as he thought it would be a sat is faction to both Gen. F'aine and himself to see the two boats pitted against each other once more. SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, OC TOBER 1887. THE PRINCE OF HEAVEN. HOW HE LEFT HIS BRIGHT REALM TO SAVE A FALLEN WORLD. Rev. Dr. Talmage Thinks There Are Many Inhabited Worlds Among the Stars A Vivid Picture of His Idea of Heaven Christ’s Great Sacrifice in Descending to Earth. Brooklyn, Oct. 3. —The capacity for a still larger audience has been made at the Brooklyn Tabernacle An adjoined lecture r<H>m has been built so that during the week it is used by itself, hut on the Sabbath it is thrown into the main auditorium and filled by those sitting or standing. Notwithstand ing the enlargement the crowds that go away not able to get inside the building are greater this fall than ever before. To-day the pastor explained appropriate passages of Scripture. Prof. Browne rendered upon the organ the First Sonata in D Minor, Rit ter. The text of the sermon was from 11. Corinthians, viiL, 9: “Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor.” Dr. Talmage said: That all the worlds which on a cold win tor’s night make the heavens one great glit ter are inhabitantless, is an absurdity. Philosophers tell us that many of these worlds are too hot, or too cold, or too rare fied of atmosphere for residence. But, if not fit for human abode, they may lie fit for beings different from and superior to our selves. We are told that the world of Jupiter is changing until it is almost fit for creatures like tne human race, and that Mars would do for the human family with a little change in the structure of the respira tory organs. But that there is a great world swung somewhere, vast beyond im agination, and that it is the headquarters of the universe, and the metropolis of immen sity, and has a population in numbers vast beyond all statistics, and appointments of splendor beyond the capacity of canvas, or poem, or angel to describe, is as certain as the Bible is authentic. Perhaps some of the astronomers, with their big telescopes, have already caught a glimpse of it, not knowing what it is. We spell it with six letters ami pronounce it Heaven. That is where Prince Jesus lived nineteen centuries ago. He was the King’s son. It was the old homestead of eternity, and all its castles were as old as God. Not a frost hail ever chilled the air. Not a tear had ever rolled down the cheek of one of its in habitants. There had never been in it a headache, or a sideache, or a heartache. There had not lieen a funeral in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. There had never in all the land been woven a black veil, for there had never been anything to mourn over. The passage of millions of years had not wrinkled or crippled or bedimmed any of its citizens. All the people there were in a state of eternal adolescence. What floral and pomonic richness! Gardens of tier petual bloom and orchards in unending fruitage. Hail some spirit from another world entered and asked, what is sin ' what is bereavement I what is sorrow* what is death' the brightest of the intelli gences would have failed to give definition, though to study the ques tion there were silence in Heaven for half an hour. The Prince of whom I speak had honors, emoluments, acclamations, such as no other prince, celestial or terrestrial, ever enjoyed. As He passed the street the inhabitants took off from their brows gar lands of white lilies and threw them in the way. He never entered any of the temples without all the worshipers rising up and bowing in obeisance. In all the processions of the high days He was the one who evoked the loudest welcome. Sometimes on foot, walking in loving talk with the humblest of the land, but at other times He took chariot and among the twenty thousand that David spoke of His was the swiftest and most flaming: or, as when John described Him, He took white palfrey with what prance of foot, and arch of neck, and roll of mane, and gleam of eye is only dimly sug gested in the Apocalypse. He was not like other princes, w aiting for the Father to die to take the throne. When a few years ago an artist in Germany made a picture for the Royal Gallery representing Emperor Wil liam on the throne, and the Crown Prince as having one foot on the step of the throne, Empero. William ordered the picture changed, and said: “Let the Prince keep his foot off the throne till I leave it. ” Already enthroned was the heavenly Prince side by side with the Father, What a circle of dominion! What myrmidons of admirers! What unending round of glo ries! All the towers chimed the Pritire's praises. Of all the inhabitants, from th<w centre of the city, on over the hills and clear down to the beach against which the ocean of immensity rolls its billows, the Prince was the acknowledged favorite. No won der my text says that “He was rich.” Set all the diamonds of the earth in one sceptre, build all the palaces of the earth in one Al hambra, gather all the pearls of the sea in one diadem, put all the values of the earth in one coin, the aggregate w ould not ex press his affluence. Yes. Paul was right. Solomon had in gold six hundred and eignty million pounds, and in silver one billion, twenty-nine million three hundred and seventy-seven pounds sterling. But a greater than Solomon is here. Not the millionaire, but the quadrillionaire of heaven. To de scribe his celestial surroundings the Bible uses all colors, gathering them in rainbow over the throne and setting them as agate in the temple window, and hoisting twelve of them into a wall from striped jasper at the base to transparent amethyst in the capstone, while between are green of emerald, and snow of pearl, and blue of sapphire, and yellow of topaz, gray of chrysoprasus, and flame of jacinth. All the loveliness of landscape in foliage, and river, and rill, and all enchantment aqua marine, the sea of glass mingled with tire as when the sun sinks in the Mediterranean. All the thrill of music, instrumental and vocal, harps, tmm|>ets, doxologies. There stood the Prince, surrounded by those who had under their wings the velocity of mil lions of miles in a second, ricii in love, rich in adoration, rich in power, rich in worship, rich in holiness, rich as God. But one day there was a big disaster In a department of God’s universe. A race fallen! A world in ruins! Our planet the scene of catastrophe! A globe swinging out into darkness, with mountains, and seas, and islands, an awful centrifugal of sin seeming to overpower the beautiful cen tripetal of righteousness, and from it a groan reached heaven. Such a sound had never been heard there. Plenty of sweet sounds, but never an outcry of distress, or an echo of agony. At that onegroan the Princerose from ail the blissful Oircumjacence, and started for the outer gate, and descended into the night of this world. Out of what a bright harbor into what a rough sea! “Stay with us,” cried angel after angel, and potentate .after poten tate. “No,” said the Prince; "I cannot Btnv; I must be off for that wreck of a world. I must stop that groan. I must hush that distress. I must fathom that way. I must redeem those nations. Farewell, thrones and temples, companions cherubic, seraphic, archangelic! Excuse this absence, for 1 will come I wok again, carrying on my shoulder a ransomed world. Till this done 1 choose earthly scoff to heavenly ac clamation. hikl a cattle-Den to a Vines palace, frigid zone of earth to atmosphere of celestial radiance. 1 have no time to* lose, for hark ye to the groan that grows might ier while I wait. Farewell! Farewell!” “Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, .yet for your sakes He became poor.” Was there ever a contrast so overpower ing as that between the noonday of Christ's celestial departure and the midnight of his earthly arrival? Sure enough, the angels were out that night in the sky. and especial meteor* acted as escort, but all that was from other worlds, and not from this world. The earth made no demonstration of welcome. If one of the great princes of this world steps out at a depot cheers resound, and the hands play, and the flags wave. But for the arrival of this missionary Prince of the skies not a torch flared, not a trumpet blew, not a plume fluttered. All the music and the pomp were overhead. Our world opened for Him nothing better than a barn door. The Rajah of Cashmere sent to Victoria a bedstead of carved gold and a canopy that cost seven hundred and fifty thousand dol lars, hut the world had for the Prince of heaven anil earth only a litter of straw. The crown jewels in the Tower of London amount to fifteen million dollars, but this member of eternal royalty had nowhere to lay His head. To know how poor He was, ask the camel drivers, ask the shepherds, ask Mary, ask the three wise men of the East who afterward came there, young Casper and middle-aged Balhasar and old Melchoir. To know how poor He was examine all the records of real estate in all that Oriental country, and see what vineyard, or what house, or what field he owned. Not one. Of what mortgage was He the mortgagee ( Of what tenement was He the landlord ? Of what lease was He the lessee* Who ever paid Him rent* Not owning the boat on which He sailed, or the beast on which He rode, or the pillow on which He slept. He had so little estate that in ordered pay His tax He had to perform a miracle, putting the amount of the assessment in a fish’s mouth and having it hauled ashore. And after His death the world rushed iu to take an inventory of His goods, and the entire aggregate was the garments He had worn, sleeping in them by night and traveling in them by day, bearing on them the dust of the highway and the saturation of the sea, Paul in my text did not go far from Pitting the mark, did he, when he said of the mis sionary Prince: “For your sakes He became poor ?” The world could have treated him better if it had chosen. It bad all the means for making his earthly condition comfortable. Only a few years before when Pompey, the General, arrived at Brindisi he was greeted with arches and • costly column which cele brated the twelve million people whom he bad killed or conquered, and he was allowed to wear his triumphal robe in the Senate. The world had applause for imperial butch ers, but buffeting for the Prince of Peace. Plenty of golden chalices for the favored to drink out of, but our Prince must put His lips to the bucket of the well by the road side after He had begged for a drink. Poor* Born in another man’s barn and eating at another man’s table, and cruising the lake in another man's fishing smack, anil buried in another man’s mausoleum. Four inspired authors wrote of His biography, and innum erable lives of Christ have lieen published, but He composed His auto biography in most compress way. He said: “l have trodden the wine-press alone.'’ Poor in the estimation of nearly all the prosperous classes. They called Him Sabbath-breaker, wine-bibber, traitor, blasphemer, and ransacked the dictionary of opprobrium from lid to lid to express their detestation. I can think now of only two well-to-do-men who espoused His cause, Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea. His friends for the most part were people who, in that climate, where ophthalmy or inflam mation of the eyeball sweeps ever and anon as a scourge, had become blind, sick people who were anxious to get well, and troubled people in whose family there was someone dead or dying. If Ho had a purse at all it was empty, or we would have heard what w as done with the contents at the post mor tem. Poor? The pigeon in the uove-cote, the rabbit in its burrow, the silk worm in its cocoon, the bee in its hive is better pro vided for, better off, better sheltered. Aye, the brute creation has a home on earth, which Christ has not. If on windy days the raven Gambol ilk** a dancing skiff, Not the less he loves his haven On the bosom of the cliff, if almost with eagle pinion O'er the Alps the chamois roam, Yet he has some small dominion Which no doubt he calls his home. But the Crown Prince of all heavenly do minion had less than the raven, less than the chamois, for he was homeless. Aye, in the history of the universe there is no other in stance of such coming down. . IVho can count the miles from the top of the throne to the bottom of the cross? Cleopatra, giv ing a banquet to Antony, took a pearl worth a hundred thousand dollars, and dissolved it in vinegar nnd swallowed it. But when our Prince, according to the evangelist, in His last hours took the vinegar, in it had been dissolved all the pearls of His heavenly roy alty. Down until there was no other depth for Him to touch, troubled until there waste other harassment to suffer, poor until there was no other pauperism to torture. Billions of dollars spent in wars to destroy men, who will furnish the statistics of the value of that precious blond that was shed to save us* “Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes Ho became poor.” Only those who study this text in two places can fully reach its power, the holy land of Asia Minor nnd the holy land of heaven. How 1 should like some day to taken drink out of Jacob’s well, and take a sail on Galilee, anil read the Sermon on the Mount while standing on Olivet, and sec the wilderness where Christ was tempted, and be sonic afternoon on Calvary at about 3 o'clock, the hour at which closed the cruci fixion, and sit under the sycamores and by the side of brooks, and think and pray at xmt the poverty of Him who came our souls to save. But you and I will probably be denied that, and so here, in another continent and in another hemisphere, nnd in scenes as different as possible, we recount as well we may how poor our heavenly Prince became. And in the other holy land above wo may all study the riches that He left behind when He stai-ted for earthly expedition. Come, let us bui gain to meet each other at the door of the Father’s mansion, ci* on the bank of the river just where it rolls from under the throne, or at the outside gate. Jesus got the contrast by exchanging that world for this; we will'get tt by exchanging this world for that. There and then you will understand more of the wondeiN of ths grace of our Lord Jesus Christ who, “though lie was rich, yet for your sakes became poor.” Yes, grace, free grace, sovereign grace, omnipotent grace. Among the thousands of words in the language there is no more queenly word. It means fi-ce and unmer ited kindness. My text has no monopoly of the word. One hundred nnd twenty-nine times does the Bible eulogize grace. It is a door swung wide open to let into the pardon of God all the millions who choose to enter it. John Newton sang of it when he wrote: “Amazing grace, how sweet, the sound Thai saved a wretch like me!" Philip Doddridge put it Into all hymnolo tv when he wrote: •'Grace, 'f is a charming sound, Harmonious to the car: Heaven with the echo shall resound. And all Hie world shall hear.'’ One of John Runyan's great books is en titled “Alwnmding Grace." “It is all of grace that I am saved” has been on the lips of hundreds of dying Christians. The boy Sammy was right when, being examined for admission into church membership, he was asked: “Whose work ivos your salva tion .'"and he answered: “Part mine and part God's.” Then the examiner asked: "What, part did you do, Sammy?" and the answer was: “I opposed God all 1 could, and he did the rest!” O the height of it, the depth of it, the length of it. the breadth of it, the grace of God! Mr. Fletcher hav ing written a pamphlet that pleased the king, the king offered to compensate him, and Fletcher answered; “There is only thing 1 want and that is more grace.” Yes, my blood-bought hearers, grace to live by and graco to die by. Grace that saved the publican, that saved Lydia, that saved the dying thief, that saved the jailer, that saved mo. But the riches of that grace will not he fully un derstood until heaven breaks in upon the soul. An old Scotchman, who had been a soldier in one of the European wars, was sick and dying in one of our American hos pitals His one desire was to see Scotland and his old home, and once again walk the heather of tho Highlands, and hear the hag pipes of the Scotch regiments. The night that the old Scotch soldier died, a young man, somewhat reckless but kind hearted, got a company of musicans to come and play under the old soldier’s window, and among the instruments there was a bag pipe. The instant that the musi cians began the dying old man in delirium said: “What’s that, what’s that? Why its the regiments coming home. That’s the tune, yes, that’s the tune. Thank God, I have got home once more!” “Bonny Scot land and Bonny Doon,” were the last words he uttered as he passed up to the Highlands of the better country. And there are here to-day hundreds homesick for Heaven, some because you have so many bereavements, some because you have so many tempta tions, some because you have so many ail ments, homesick, very homesick, for the fatherland of Heaven, and the music that you want to hear now is the song of free grace, and the music you want to hear when you die is free grace, and forever be fore the throne of God you will sing of the “grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, though he was rich, for your sakes became poor!” Yes, yes; for your sakes! It was not on pleasure excursion that He came, for it was all pain. It was not on astronomical exploration, for He know this world as well before He alighted as afterward. It was not because He was compelled to come, for He volunteered. It was not because it was easy, for He knew that it would be thorn, and spike, and hunger, and thirst, and vo ciferation of angry mobs. For your sakes! Wipe away your tears To forgive your wrongdoing, to companionship your loneli ness, to soothe your sorrows, to sit with you by the new-made grave, to hind up your wounds in the u£lv battle with the world and bring yon homo at last, kindling up the mists that fall on your dying vision with the sunlight, of a glorious morn. For your srlies! No; 1 will change that. Paul will not care, and Christ will not cure if I change it. for I must get into the blessedness of the text myself, and so Isay: “For our sakes!” For we all have our teniptations, and be reavements,and conflicts. For our sakes! We who deserve for our sins to he expatriated into a world as much poorer than this earth was poorer than heaven. For our sakes! Bui what a fruitful coining down to take us gloriously up. When Artaxerxes was hunt ing, Tirebazus who was attending him showed the king a rent in his garment. The king said: “How shall I mend it?” "By giving it to me,” said Tirebazus. Then the king gave him the robe, butcommanded him never to wear it, as it would lie inap propriate. See the startling and comfort ing fact, while our Prince throws off the habit he not only allows us to wear it, but commends us to, wear it,, anil it will become uk well, and for the poverties of our spirit ual state we may put on the splendors of heavenly regalement. For our sakes! O, the personality of this religion! Not an abstraction, not an arch under which we walk to behold elaborate masonry, not an ice-castle like that which Empress Elizabeth, of Russia, over a hundred years ago ordered con structed, winter with its trowel of crystal cementing the huge blocks that had been quarried from tin’ frozen rivers j>f the north, but a father’s house with a wide hearth, crackling a hearty welcome. A re ligion of warmth and inspiration, ami light, and cheer, something we can take into our heart s, and homes, and business, recreations, and joys ami sorrows. Not an unmanage able gilt like the galley presented to Ptole my. which required four thousand men to row, and its draught or water was so great, that it could not come near the shore, but something you can run up any stream of annoyance,"however shallow. Enrichment now, enrichment forever! Right about face, for you are going in the wrong direction. While you are in a fa vorable mood for it, enter into life. Here and just now decide everything that makes for peace and heaven. Agassiz says that he has stood at one place ih the Alps where he could throw a chip into the waters in one direction, and it would roll on into the Ger man ocean, or he could throw a chip into the water in another direction, and it would reach the Black Sea by the Danube, or lm could throw a chip in another direction and it would enter the Mediterranean by the Rhone. How far apart tho Medi terranean, and the Blac-k Sea, and the German Ocean I Standing to day on this Alps of Gosiiel privilege, you can project your soul into right cur r nts, and it will roll on into the ocean of 1 jlt, or project it in the wrong direction, and’it will roll into the sea of death. But how far apurt the two distances! May God help us to appreciate more and more the mo mentous meaning of our text! The seven wise men of Greece were chiefly known each for one aiiothegm; Solon for the say ing: “ Know thyselfPerimider lor the say ing: “Nothing is impossible to industry;" Chilo for the saying: "Consider the end;” Thales for the saying: "Suretyship is the precursor <>f ruin.” And Paul, distinguished for a thousand utterances, might, well afford to tie memorable for the saying: "You know the grace of our 1 /Oj’ii Jesus Christ, that,, Hi-.ugh he was rich, yet for your sakes be came poor, that ye through His poverty might be rich.” Cardinal Gibbons at St. Paul. St. Paul, Oct. 3.— Hundreds were una ble to gain admission to the cathedral this morning when Cardinal Gibbons preached upon "Charity.” The Cardinal left for Portland, Ore.’ this aftrrnoon, accompanied •bv Bishop Brandet, of Montana, Bishop Marty, of Dakota, and Dr. Chapelis, of Washington^ Labor’s Political Successes. Cincinnati, Oct. 3.—The Workingmen’s party, at the election yesterday, elected the Treasurer in Covington and most of their ticket in Newiiort. In Covington the Demo crats elected their nominees with two ex ceptions. An Earthquake at Smyrna. Smyrna, Oct. 2.—Another earthquake was felt here last evening. No damage was done. ALICE FREEMAN. Her Resignation of the Presidency of Wellesley Female College. New York, Oct. I.— Mias Alice Freeman, whose resignation from the Presidency of Wellesley is giving the trustee - ' of that in stitution so much disturbance, is a woman of 22, more than ordinarily endowed with good looks and with an unfailing charm of manner. She is somewhat above medium height, with a very graceful figure. She Ims an abundance of dark brown hair, a forehead broad rather than high, a clear complexion with a glow of red under the healthy skin; regular features, ami large, brown, steady eyes that are, perhaps, the secret of her charm. She dresses quietly always, but with a great deal of taste, her dresses seeming, though without apparent effort, aforiginaiity, to belong to her and not to be imagined on anyone else. Miss Freeman is a woman in earnest or she wouldn't suit New England, lmt she is not in earnest in exactly the over eager New England way. She has a Western bree/.iness and poise about her that has carried her easily through more work than is comforta ble for the nervous Boston type. , Miss Freeman entered Michigan Uni versity when she was a girl of 17. The strong institution at Ann Arbor has always been liberal to women, but it was less so then than now. She had something like a dozen or fifteen classmates of tile sox feminine, who had some difficulty in mak ing themselves feel quit'* at home in the class room with more than ItSO men. The handful of girls felt themselves on trial as it were. Faculty and students alike were divided upon the question of their welcome. Nobody eared to go the length of insisting on the exclusion or women, but a good por tion of the young men would have liked the college bettor with no gowns about and felt some encouragement in their position from the attitude of the Eastern men among the professors. Olney, the mathematician; Winchell, the geologist; the President, and some others were sturdily on the side of the girls, however, who—-conscious of tbe sentiment for and against them—were put on their mettle to prove their right to the place their title to which was in such dis pute. They worked hard ono and all, keep ing each other up to concert pitch and looking out for one another’s health, w ith a solicitude born of the importance they attached to it. There was an esprit de corps among them that kept their ranks solid, their courage high, t hat insisted on the liest work each was capable of, but made oxer eiseand plenty of sleep to keep them in working trim a prime duty. ()f course the girls took honors. Miss Freeman ranking high in mathematics especially Of course they made friends and helped forward co-education in Michigan University where the presence of women is now so much a matter of course that when the school celebrated its fiftieth anniversary this summer all the doctors of the medical alumni cheered when Dr. Lucy M. Hall, recently resident physician at V assar, took her seat as presiding officer of their semi centennial gathering. Miss Freeman’s father, who helped his daughter through school cordially, was not a wealthy man,and during the latter part of her course she taught preparatory classes in Greek and Latin to pay her bills. After graduation she continued to teach, first in a high school, afterward in the preparatory school of the college She was 124 when she went to Wellesley a: professor of history. She was a close student and already widely read in political science. She brought life and energy to the young school, and to those who knew her and it, it was no sur prise when, two years later, now six years ago, she was ask ixl to be its President. She was a young woman for such a place, 'lb only, but the difference her regime effected in Wellesley was perceptible atone. Beef steak for breakfast was the Hi st of her rules, and beefsteak was only one of the innova tions that made what had been a hotbed of invalids one of the healthiest schools in the country. She did away with the constant gong ringing that, made the girl students nervous, she simplified the housework re quired of them, and was able to exact more study and a higher grade of scholarship, while yet making rosy cheeks and bright eyes almost universal where break-downs had been common before. It is not too much to say that the spirit of the school became entirely change''. There used to be a tale that Mr. Durant lectuied a student for buying a nosegay for a teacher instead of sending the pennies it cost to the foreign missions. Under Miss Freeman the atmos phere became healthily clear, though the girls were never wanting in good works, organizing entertainments for the inmates of the Woman's Reformatory at Hherburn, when such diversions were permitted on holidays. Alice Freeman was an ambitious student. .She is a strong woman, witli a well balanced head, a rare administrative faculty and a singular womanly ebartn. As Prof. Palmer’s wife, she will not hide her light under a bushel, but it will shine as brightly as before. SOCIALISTS ON TOP. Chicago Sends a Fire-eating Delegation to Minneapolis. Chicago, Oct. 2.— “ We are in the hands of the Socialists,” said a prominent Knight of Labor delegate to the Trade Assembly to day. The Morgan resolution which was carried in the assembly to-tlay, was a fair test of the Conservative and Socialistic strength. The complexion of the Chicago delegation to the Minneapolis convention is decidedly Socialistic. District 24 sends four delegates, George Schilling, Charles Stib, Robert Nelson and John Muhoney. The first three are ultra-Socialists, and Reib lias in his possession a set of resolu tions condoning the crime of the Anarchists mid demanding commutation of sentence. These resolutions will be sprung upon the convention at the eleventh hour. Master Workman Quinn, of New York As sembly No. 41*, has been enlisted in support of th> Seib-Schilling-'Nelson resolution. The Morgnn resolution referred to was a resolution introduced by Thomas Morgan in the Trades Assembly to-day asking that 20,000 copies of the extract from last year’s almanac be printed. The extract conveys the idea that all wealth is produced by latior. Hillsborough’s Official Vote. Tampa, Fla., Oct. 2.— Hillsborough voted Sept. MO on the prohibition question. The county is wet by a very small majority. Right. precincts give an aggregate wet ma jority of M 44, and twelve precincts gave an aggregate dry majority of 312. No election in the county was over more bitterly con tested by botnparties. Ladies worked hard at the polls. Their influence was certainly felt, and hut for the fact that the colored and Cuban vote of Tampa went to the Anti- Prohibitionists, success would have crowned their efforts. Fell From a Lofty Window. New Yokk, Oct. 2.—Mis. W. W. Wool soy, wife of a wealthy planter of Aiken, 8. C., fell from a third-story window of Dr. Spier’s Medical Institute, in Brooklyn, this morning, and died a few hours later. Death of a Legislator. West Point, C4 a., Oct. 2.— -Hon. M. H. Hart, Representative of Troup county, died last night at his home five miles north of West Point i PRICE #lO A Y EAR. I I S (K.VTfi A COPY, f STANLEY IS STILL SAFE. THE NATIVES HAVE NOT OPPOSED THE EXPEDITION. Only the Difficulties Natural to the Exploration of a New Country Im peding Hia Progress—Tippoo Tib'a Revlctuaiing Expedition Not Yeß Started at Last Accounts. Ht. Paul tie Loan no, Oct. 2.—Accord ing to the last news received at Boma from the Upper Congo Stanley was pushing for ward and the only difficulties he met with were the natural olwtaclesof the country. getting on high land. Aliout July 125 the expedition had ascended the Aruwhimi to the elevated country lielonging to the Mabodi District. The river becoming too narrow, they left the rafts, and the men for several days had to carry a double burden of provisions. The steel whale boat was carried past the narrows and agaia launched. TO TAKE A REST. Stanley calculated that upon arriving at the summit of the table lands giving shape to the basin of the Aruwhimi, the expedi tion would halt two days for rest and would establish a camp there, to be garrisoned by twenty men, with a European officer. ’The districts traversed were tranquil and little difficulty was experi enced in obtaining provisions from the • natives. The progress of the expedition averaged twenty kilometres daily. Tippoo Tib, in his last message, wrote that, he was still at his post at Stanley Falls awaiting reinforcements. ERIENDLV CHIEFS. He had gained the good-will of several neighlioring chiefs. Owing to the dist orbed state of tbe country Tippoo Tib could not, as he had agreed to, organize a revictualing caravan to dispatch direct to Albert, Nianza, but he intended to do so as soon as possible. Disquiet continued between Stanley Falls and the confluence of the Arawhimi and the Congo and many villages had been pil laged. It is believed that the garrison which Stanley left at Yalhunga has been forced to interfere to maintain order in the neighborhood. BISMARCK AND THE POPE. An Effort to bo Made to Strengthen the - Peace of Europe. Paris, Oct. 2.— The Obsermteur says it believi* that Prince Bismarck has submitted to the Vatican and Quirinal proposals re garding the Roman question, which will shortly ho carried into effect, and that it is in consequence of these proposals that Hig Crisni has gone to Freidrichsruhe. The interview, it says, will hoof great inter state importance. NOT TO PREPARE KOR WAR. Rome, Oct. 2. — The Tribune says that Prince Bismarck’s invitation to Sig. Crisp! for a conference at, Freidrichsruhe was couched in terms that were friendly to the former Minister and flattering to Italy. Sig. Crispi had a conference with King Humbert and then accented the invitation. IH i journey, th< Tribune says, affords much satisfaction to Italian statesmen. The Italic says the interview is important, hut not unexpected, as Italy has lately entered into an alliance with Austria and Germany on an equal footing with tbe two empires, and in view of Count Kal nokv'h meeting with Prim e Bismarck it is only natural that Sig. Crispi should confer with the Chancellor in turn. The Italic believes that the interview is intended to strengthen the peace of Europe and not to prepare for war. The fie forma denies that the obiect of Sig. Crispi’* viUt to Prince Bismarck is to conciliate the Vatican. TORIES DENOUNCED. 10,000 People at Tower Hill Denounc® the Coercion of Ireland. London, Oct. 2.—A mass meeting which was attended by 10,000 persons was held to day at, Tower Hill. The police seized the placards announcing (he meeting, and de manded the names of the promoters of the demonstration. Speeches were made from six platforms. The shakers condemned the government’s Irish poliey and the conduct of the police at Mitchellstown. Appropri ate resolutions were put and carried, A strong force of police were present, but their services were not needed, as the proceedings were orderly throughout Turkey’s Proposal to Russia. Constantinople, Oc|. 2.— The Porte, in its note to Russia, suggested that Turkey and Russia each appoint a commissioner of princely rank to govern Bulgaria for three months and to convoke anew Sobranje for the election of a Prince. It is reported t’iat the Russian government will not reply to the note until the Czar returns toSt. Peters burg, but that Russia will not disfavor the proposal, because, while waiting, events may change the situation. A Curate Murders a Vicar. London, Oct. 2.— At midnight last night Rev. Mr. Cooper, curate or CretinghaiM, Suffolk, murdered Vicar Farley. He en tered the Vicar’s bedroom and cut his throat with a razor. He then fled, hut sub sequently returned and was arrested. Mr. Cooper has been quite unpopular in Creting ham, and this fact, it is believed, unsettled his mind. Morocco’s Sultan Dead. Madrid, Oct. 2.—Advices from Tangier say that, the Sultan of Morocco is (lead. The Ibf ria announces that Spain will send troops to the Spanish jjossessions in Morocco to enforce the status quo in the event of any of the powers intervening. A Diplomat’s Life Attempted. Athens, Oct,. 2. —An attempt, was made to-day to murder the Turkish Minister. Federal Point’s Wife Murderer. FalatKA. Fla., Oct. 2.—lsaac Brown, the Federal Point, wife murderer, was sent this morning to the Chattahoochee Insane Asylum on order of Judge Finley. Drs. Stransz and Cowgill examined Brown Wednesday, and pronounced him insane. Brown talks rationally on all subjects, ex cept about his wife. He says her murder was righteous, rle made some resistance to accompanying the asylum attendant, saying he was as sane as the Sheriff. Criminal Carelessness. West Point, Ga., Oct. 2. -To-day an in quest was held over the remains of “Doc” Heard (colored) who died last night, from the effects a pistol shot tired Friday afternoon by Perry Davidson (white). The shooting was unintentional and the verdict was criminal carelessness. It is reported that Davidson lias left the county. Shenandoah Collieries. Shenandoah, Pa., Oct. I.—All the col lieries in this run, made their first pay to day under the two weeks pay Uw, At each of the Reading collieries S per cent, was collected for the benefit of the striking miners of the Lehigh region*.