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1 ESTABLISHED 18S0. I
1 J. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor. (
ANEW PERIL AT CHICAGO
THE BELT LINE MEN MAY STRIKE
AT ANY MOMENT.
A Fire Brand Thrown Among Them In
the Shape of a Letter From the Presi
dent of the Chicago and Eastern Illi
nois Road—The Burlington Road Ob
serves the Sabbath.
Chicago. April I.—The prospects of an
immediate tie-up of the Belt Line added a
graver aspect to the railroad situation this
evraiing than at any time since the strike of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and firemen cf the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy. Every railroad entering Chicago
depends almost entirely upon tho Belt Line
as a means by which the interchange of
freight is to be conducted with any
other roads. Practically every railroad
track stretching from Chicago is intersected
by the Belt line, and there has been a
general feeling from the start that the
issue of the struggle might be swayed one
way or the other by the attitude of the
Belt line officials and the men in their
employ. The latter have all been among
the staunchest allies of the Brotherhood,
while the management of the Belt Com
pany have apparently sought as far as pos
sible to maintain a position of so-called
neutrality.
A FIRE BRAND.
Anew face was put on affairs when some
time yesterday Gen. Porter, President of
the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad,
sent a strongly worded letter to John B.
Carson, President of the Bolt Line.
The Eastern Illinois Company hold a con
trolling interest in the Belt corporation,
and Gen. Porter's letter demanded formally
and explicitly that: “The Belt Line trans
fer cars for every railroad and individual in
exactly the same manner, and that any and
all employs that do not choose to do their
whole duty, and the same duty toward
any one car or railroad company or individ
ual as another shall beimmedially dismissed,
and no employe shall in any way be allowed
to handle any particular car that will not
handle every other car in the same way.”
President Carson replied, assenting to
Gen. Porter’s letter.
TO STAND BY THEIR GUNS.
A meeting of the employes of the Belt
line was held at which the whole subject
was earnestly debated. It was currently
reported this evening that the Belt men de
cided to stand by their guns and see
whether the company would dis
charge them en masse. No provocation
for an extension of the strike was given to
day by the Burlington company. Whether,
as alleged, it was for the purpose of resting
the new men, or that there was no business,
or that it being Sunday and many tnen idle
danger of a riot was increased, their cer
tainly was no attempt in any quarter to
handle Burlington cars, even in the Burling
ton’s own yards.
ST. PAUL BUSY.
The managers of the Milwaukee and St.
Paul road pursued exactly the opposite
course. They made most strenuous efforts to
keep things moving, and as a result it is prob
able that tne strike on the St. PaiU.wili cul
minate to-morrow in a renewal of The strike
on the Pau Handle. A train was got in
readiness so that to-morrew an attempt can
be made to transfer St. Paul freight to the
Pan Handle, and as the employ es of the lat
ter were pledged to support the St. Paul
strikers there is little doubt that they will
refuse to handle the freight and a strike
will ensue.
EIGHT ENGINEERS AT WORK.
Eight switch engines were at work in the
St. Paul yards to-day and cleared the
blockade at Union street and another at
Western avenue. Four freight trains were
started to Milwaukee, and the suburban
passenger service was got into much better
shape than on • Saturday. Large crowds of
sight-seers were scattered along the tracks
and on the viaducts throughout the day,
but there was no attempt to riot.
A stormy meeting of the St. Paul
strikers was in progress during the after
noon. A majority of the engineers and
firemen are said to have favored returning
to work on the terms offered by General
Manager Miller, While tho switchmen and
brakeinon insist on standing out. Without
reaching any conclusion an adjournment
was taken until to-morrow morning.
THE FORT WAYNE MEN.
The Fort Wayne men are fully determined
not to handle any “Q” cars and may refuse
to have anything to do with St. Paul trans
fers. Saturday night Foreman Behein, of
the shops, asked every engineer to go to
Sixteenth street after a train,but all refused.
Saturday, when the engineers, firemen and
switchmen quit work, the hands in the
shops were told that they might go home.
LAKE SHORE HANDS RESTLESS.
The firemen, engineers and switchmen
employed by tho Lake Shore are dissatisfied
with affairs and may not wait until election
day to go out. The switchmen, it will be
remembered, were set to work during the
big sfrike. It is now known that the Switch
men’s Union has offered to take them in
the union and thus square the differences
that have existed for nearly
two years. For this generous
offer on the part of the union,
the Lake Shore switchmen have at out de
cided to not handle any more “Q” oars. In
the stock yards the switchmen employed by
the stock yards company are finding anew
deal to play against.. Usually the Wabash
road takes Milwaukee and St. Pau! cars
from Hammond, Ind., and at the stock
yards turns them over to tho Michigan Cen
tra Iroad.
SWITCHMEN OBJECT.
Yesterday as usual a train was brought
in and the switchmen objected to tho
Michigan Central handling tee cars. Com
mittees were appointed by the switchmen
to wait on the stock yard officials. The
committees failed to do anything, and the
men refused to handle St. Paul cars. The
dissatisfaction among the stock yard men
"as communicated to the men employed by
flie Chicago and Eastern Illinois and with
the Lake Shore road they are simply waiting
for their turn t > step out. Wednesday has
Icon settled upon as the day, and unless
’here is a decided change the men employed
"n the Lake Shore, Chicago and Eastern
bhrmj-: and Louisville and New Albany will
8o out.
AN ULTIMATUM AT KANSAS CITY.
Kansas City, Mo., April L—The
’"itch engineers and firemen of all the
reads entering the city, with tho exception
' f the Burlington, had a meeting late Sat
urday night, at which they resolved that
alter 12 o’clock noon, Monday, April 2,
’ -y would refuse to handle any Burling
ton cars of freight, except it be' live stock
~r perishable freight, which has been
B urted previous to that hour. A commit
tee of the engineers and tirumen of each
• ad called on the superintendents to-day
and notified them of the order.
TO STRIKE AT MILWAUKEE.
Milwaukee, April I.—The switchmen
employed in the yards of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul Company, la tlii> city,
held a largely attended meeting to-nigiit
and formulated a demand, to be presented
to the General Manager,‘that no “Q” freigut
ffijje Motnim Ifetogi.
shall be handled by the road under any eir
cumtanccs. In the event the demand is not
complied with, they will quit work at 11
o’clock to-morrow morning. The engineers
thus far have taken no action, but threaten
to follow the example of the switchmen.
LOOKING FOR A TIE TP.
Indianapolis, April I.—There is a pros
pect that the engineers, firemen, brakemen
and switchmen of the Ohio, Indiana and
Western road will strike here at midnight.
The ground of complaint is that the
company hauls “Q” sleepers. So far as
known at present the strike will be confined
to the Ohio, Indiana and Western men at
this point, but there aro indications tuat a
general tie up of all the roads leading w est
from here will take place within three days.
STILL AT WORK.
Indianapolis, April 2, 12.10 a. m.—The
anticipated strike on the Ohio, Indiana and
Western did not take place. A joint meet
ing of the Brotherhood engineers and fire
men, and switchmen was held, addressed
by Mr. Bixby, Secretary of the Grievance
Committee at Chicago, and resolutions
were passed pledging moral and financial
support to the Chicago strikers. It is
thought the met will strike some time
Monday.
A STRIKE AT ST. JOSEPH.
St. Joseph, Mo., April I.— All the freight
brakemen on the Kansas City, St. Joseph
and Council Bluffs road struck to-day at 11
o’clock. They assign as a reason danger to
their lives in working with “scab’' engi
neers.
PITTSBURG’S PROMISE.
The Western Strikers Will Be Aided
Through Thick and Thin.
Pittsburg, Pa., April 1. —Representa-
tives of all the lodges of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers in the Pittsburg
division held an important meeting this
afternoon at their hall, on Butler street.
The business was to discuss the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy strike, and also to
consider reports relative to the
strike among the Pittsburg and Fort
Wayne employes. The meeting was well
attended and lasted at,out four hours. The
chairman on opening the proceedings, re
quested the meeting to deal first with the
rumored strike of the Pittsburg and Fort
Wayne freight engineers, firemen and
switchmen. In a few minutes it was
stated that no strike on the line
named had taken place, nor would
any occur. Information was tendered to
the effect that the report of the strike was
false, and was intended to do harm.
TO STAND BY THE WESTERNERS.
The Western strike was then taken up
and every representative warmly supported
the strikers. After an interesting discus
sion it was agreed to support the Burlington
strikers through thick and thin.
A circular signed by S. E. Hoge, chair
man of the strikers’ committee, replying to
statements of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy officials, was then
read. The circular, which has been
sent to every lodge of engineers in the
country admits that the strikers demand
pay based upon the number of miles run,
but it is claimed that comparisons made
justify all their demands. This evening an
official of the local lodge stated tfiat the
strike would not reach Pittsburg, but
that there will be such a general stoppage
on Western lines within a few days that no
livestock or other freight from west of
Chicago can be forwarded to Pittsburg,
It will all be stopped at Chicago.
PRINTERS LOSE A FIGHT.
The Men at Louisville Obey the Man
date of the Union.
Louisville, Ky. , April I.—The printers’
strike here, both against tho job and news
paper offices, was to-day declared off, and
the men will go to work wherever they can
get a chance. Many of them will secure
permits and go back to their old places in
what are now non-union offices. The let
down was caused by a letter from Presi
dent Aimi'on, of the International
Union. He enclosed $5OO, which
he said was the last contribution
the Louisville strikers would get.
He said that the Executive Com
mittee consider'd the strike unwise
and unless the local union stopped it
he would do so himself. After reading the
letter, President Higgins of the local organ
ization declared the strike ended. The
Courier-Journal and Times, with job
offices, have long since been fully manned.
Type-setting machines are run regularly.
Tlie■other job offices are well supplied.
LABOR*AND THE BALLOT.
The Old Parties to be Deserted at
Birmingham.
Birmingham, Ala., April I.— The labor
organizations of this city and county mot
in convention yesterday and adjourned at
11 o’clock last night. They resolved to
cut loose from the old parties
and nominated a full county and
legislative ticket. The Knights of
Labor, Wheel Alliance, trades unions nnd
nil other societies, aggregating thirty-five
different organizations in Jefferson county,
were represented. The delegates pledged
themselves and their respective organiza
tions to aid and support the action of the
convention. Tho Democratic County Con
vention will assemble here on Saturday
next. ,
FIRE IN THE TRIBUNE BUILDING.
The Files, Manuscript and Valuable
Papers Destroyed.
New York, April I.—Fire broke ont in
the offices of the Homer Lee Bank Note
Company, on thceighth floor of tho Tribune
buildinp at 4 o’clock this morning, and,
despite the sunposed fire-proof floors, made
its way to the floor above. On this floor are
located the rooms of the reporters and city
editor of the New York Tribune. Tlie firemen
were proigfCly summoned, but before their
arrival the fire had destroyed the files,
manuscript and valuable papers in tho
Tribune office, which cannot well bo ro
pl ioed. Within half an hour the Are was
extinguished, hut the loss is estimated at
$6,000. The cause of the fire is unknown.
SWALLOWED UP BY THE SEA.
A British Steamer Lost on the Rocks
Off China.
Han Francisco, April I.—Advices from
China received by steamer City of Rio do
Janeiro slate that the Bristish steamer
Swallow was wrecked Feb. 22 off Naoma
Island, between Swallow and Shanghai.
The vessel struck on some rocks and sank.
The Captain and a number of the crew and
passengers saved themselves by clinging to
tho rigging, but thirty-one passengers who
put off from the steamer in small boats are
supposed to be lost. The body of tho en
& inner, who wan one of tiio occupants of the
oats, was recovered.
David N. White Dead.
Pittsburg. April I.—Hon. David N.
White, formerly editor of the Pittsburg
Gazette and founder of the Republican
party, died at his home at Hewickley, Pa.,
at 1:45 o’clock this morning. The deceased
was 63 years of age.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, APRIL 2, 1888.
CONGRESS IN A CLOUD.
The Exact Lino ot Business for the
Week a Little in Doubt.
Washington, April I. —Although the
Committee on Rules has mapped out a pro
gramme for the government of the House
proceedings during the week, its publica
tion has given rise to so much dissatis
faction among many committees which
have been left out of the arrangement that
it is extremely doubtful if it
will be adhered to. The indications
are that the week will witness
many struggles for precedence on the floor
among the committees.
If opportunity offers to-morrow, an at
tempt will be made to pass, under a suspen
sion of the rules, a few public building bills,
and Mr. Crain’s proposed constitutional
amendment to change tho dates for the
meeting of Congress and the inauguration
of t he President.
The Appropriations Committee has deter
mined to press to passage, the pension and
District of Columbia appropriation bills, and
if these measures are called up they will
practically consume the week, as a number
of speeches may be expected ou tho tariff
and other public questions, under tho broad
license of “general debate” on appropria
tion bills.
IN THE SENATE.
In the Senate Mr. Palmer’s bill to create
a Bureau of Animal Industry and Mr.
Platt’s bill for the admission" of South
Dakota, are mentioned as possible
subjects of attention during the
coming week; but as the members
of both political parties are expected to
hold caucuses on Monday morning, no one
feels warranted in expressing an opinion as
to what the Senate is likely to do. Every
thing depends upon the action of the cau
cuses in regard to the motion now pending
in the Senate to recommit the bond bill,
which is the unfinished business.
MILLS GAINS SIX VOTES.
The Louisiana Men Granted a Conces
sion on Sugar.
Washington, April I.—The tarjff bill
will probably not be reported to the House
until Tuesday, because the minority of tho
Ways and Means Committee may not finish
their report in time to present it at to-mor
row morning’s meeting.
At a conference last, night between the
Louisiana delegation in the House and the
majority of the Ways and Moans Commit
tee the former represented to the latter that
the real effect of the proposed changes in
the sugar schedule provided for in the ma
jority bill, would be a reduction of from 35
to 45 per cent, in the duties on sugar. They
thought it would be more reasonable
to leave the color line of sugar
where it is—that is, No. 13 Dutch standard,
and then make a horizontal cut of 15
percent. If tin's were done they said they
could support the bill, which they were
very anxious to do. The majority of the
committee considered the proposition favor
ably, and the change will be made. This
will take six votes from Mr. Randall and
put them under the bill at one stroke.
CRAIN’S CHANGE.
Mr. Hoar Will Help Him In the Senate
if He Wins in the House.
Washington, April I.—Mr. Crain, of
Texas, will ask the House to-morrow to
pass his resolution changing the day of tho
meeting and adjourning of Congress to Jan.
1, immediately after the election, and inau
guration day to April 30. He thinks lie
will have a majority for it. He counts on
Henry, Cabot, Lodge and Patrick A. Col
lins, who supported Mr. Hoar’s resolution
changing inauguration day, to support his.
He has reached an understanding with Mr.
Hoar, so t hat if the resolution passes the
House it will also pass the Seriate.
SHERMAN'S SEARCH.
His Agents in the South Find It Hard
To Pick Up Delegates.
Washington, April ].—Senator Sher
man’s Senatorial rivals for the Presidential
nomination are rejoicing over reports of
failure on the part of his agents in the
South in their search for delegates. The
trouble seems to be that those agents are
tho men whom ho appointed to office when
lie was Secretary of the Treasury, prepara
tory to the campaign of 1880, and that tho
other Republicans fear that if Senator
Sherman should succeed in being nominated
and elected, his agents would be the only
men rewarded with joy.
CLEVELAND’S CLEAN SWEEP.
Roswell P. Flower Sees no Signs of
Opposition Anywhere.
Washington, April I.— The President
has not expressed a preference as to who
shall be nominated for Vice President at
St. Louis this year.
Roswell P. Flower, who was Gov. Hill's
candidate for the New York vacancy on the
Democratic National Committee, was here
to-day. Ho said he saw no signs of opposi
tion to President Cleveland anywhere.
HEAVEN CLOSED TO HEATHENS.
Charleston Clergymen Father the As
sertion.
Charleston, S. C., April I.—Something
of a sensation was created here to-day by
the publication in the A’eu's and Courier of
the views of leading local clergymen on the
fate of the heathen after death. Eight
clergymen were interviewed, repre
senting the Methodists, Baptists, Episco
palians Unitarians, Presbyterians, Hebrews
ad Roman Catholics. The question asked
was: “What is the fate of the
houther. after death 1 “The Mothodi-t
Episcopal, Unitarian, Catholic and Jewish
clergymen express the opinion as promul
gated by the late Pope Pius IX. that those
who are" invincibly ignorant of tho truths
revedled by Christ, or of the teaching of
the true church, and who faithfully observe
the divine natural law, aided by tho light, of
reason and the grace of God, may lie saved.
Dr. Thomson, Scotch Presbyteriun, ex
presses the opinion that all who die without
conversion, heathen or Christian, are
damned.
Dr. Brackett, Presbyterian, thinks that
the heathen will lie judged by their own
conscience*, but doubts their salvation un
less ci m verb* i.
Dr. Ford, Baptist, expresses the opinion
that there is no salvation out of Christ, and
that God has done enough to leave the
heathen without excuse.
The publication of these views has created
quite a sensation in religious circles and tho
discussion promises to lie warm.
Easter at Jacksonville.
Jacksonville, Fla., April I—Easter
services were held in all the churches here
to-day. The floral decorations were very
elaborate in most of them, and special ser
vices were arranged.
St. Andrews Episcopal church (the Bishop
Young Memorial) at East Jacksonville, was
dedicated to-day with impressive core
monies by Bishop Weed. The oburch was
crowded.
ONLY A FADED FLOWER.
TALMAGE DRAWS A PATHETIC
PICTURE f’ROM REAL LIFE.
The Widow’s Treasure Wet by a Tear
From tho Flood-Gates of Memory-
Martin Luther Had a Flower on His
D6sk as an Inspiration—Bright Beau
ties That Share Our Joys and Sor
rows.
Brooklyn, N. Y., April I.—Tho plat
form and galleries of the Tabernacle were
this morning profusely decorated with flow
ors. On the previous evening tho church
had been open to prepare the decorations
for which the congregation had boon in
vited to bring flowers.
The immense audience room is not large
enough to contain the people on ordinary
occasions; it must be left to the imagina
tion to suggest the throngs, both inside and
outside the church on this great festal
day.
The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., took
for his text Luke xii. 2S: “if then God so
clothe the grass, which is to-day in (ho fieid,
and to-morrow is cast into the oven; how
much more will he clotho you?” He said:
The lily is the queen of Bible flowers.
The rose may have disputed her throne in
modern times, and won it; but the rose
originally had only five petals. It was un
der tho long-continued and intense gaze of
the world that tho rose blushed into its
present beauty. In the Bible train, cassia
and hyssop and frankincense and myrrh
and spikenard and camphire and the rose
follow the lily. Fourteen times in the Bible
is the lily mentioned, only twice the rose.
Tho rose may now have wider empire, but
the lily reigned in the time of Esther, in
the time of Solomon, in the time of Christ.
Cmsar had his throne on the hills. The
lily had her throne in the valley. In tho
greatest sermon that was ever preached,
there was only one flower, and that a lil y.
The Bedford dreamer, John Bupyan, en
tered the House of the Interpreter, and was
shown a cluster of flowers, and wus told to
“consider the lilies."
We may study or reject other sciences at
our opt ion. It is so with astronomy, it is so
wit li chemistry, it is so with jurisprudence,
it is so with physiology, it is so with geology;
but the science of liotany Christ commands
us to study, when He says: “Consider the
lilies. ” Measure them from root to tip of
petal. Inhale their breath. Notice the
gracefulness of their poise. Hear the whis
per of the white lips of the Eastern and of
the red lips of the American lily.
Belonging to this royal family of lilies is
the lily of the Nile, the Japan luy, the Lady
Washington of the Sierras, the Golden
Band lily, the Giant lily of Nepaul, tho
Turk’s Cap lily, the African lily from the
Cape of Good Hope. All these lilies have
the royal blood in their veins. But I bike
the lilies of my text this morning as typical
of all flowers, and this Easter day, garlanded
with all this opulence of flora' beauty,
seems to address us, saying: Consider the
lilies, consider the azalias, consider
the fuchsies, consider the geraniums,
consider the ivies, consider the hya
cinths, consider the heliotropes, consider
the oleanders. ’’ With differential and grate
ful and intelligent and worshipful souls,
consider them. Not with insipid senti
mentalism, or with sophomoric vaporing,
but for opand and practical and everyday,
and, if need be, homely uses, consider them.
Tho ft >were are the angels of the grass.
They all have voices. When the clouds
speak, they thunder; when the whirlwinds
speak, they scream; when the cataracts
speak, they roar; but when the flowers
speak, they always whisper. I stand here
to interpret their message. What iiave you
to say, O ye angels of the grass, to this wor
shipful multitude?
This morning I mean to discuss what
flowers are good for. That is my subject:
What are flowers good for?
1. I remark, in the first place, they are
good for lessons of God’s providential care.
That was Christ’s first thought. All these
flowers seem to address us to-day, saying:
“God will give you apparel and food. \V e
have no wheel with which to spin, no loom
with which to weave, no sickle with which
to harvest, no well-sweep with which to
draw water; but God slakes our thirst with
the dew, and God feeds us with tho bread
Of the Sunshine, and God lias apparelled us
with more than Solomonic regality. Wo
are prophetesses of adequate wardrobe. If
God so clothed us, the grass of the field,
will ho not much more clothe you, U ye of
little faith?”
Men and women of worldly anxieties,
take this message home with "you. How
long has God taken care of you? Quarter
of the journey of life? half the journey of
life? thoe-quarters the journey of life?
Can you not trust liirirtbe rest of the way?
God does not promise you anything like
that, which Ihe Roman Emperor had on his
table at vast expense—five hundred night
ingales’ tongues—but he has promised to
take care of you. He has promised you tho
necessities, not the luxuries—broad, not
cake. If God so luxuriantly clothes the
grass of the Held, will he not provide for you,
his living and immortal children? He will.
No wonder Martin Luther always had a
flower on his writing desk for inspiration.
TUr ugh tho cracks of the prison floor a
flower grew up to cheer f’icciol i. Mungo
Bark, the great traveler and explorer, hail
his life saved by atl aver. Ho sank down
in the desert to die, but seeing a flower near
by, it suggested God's merciful care, and he
got up with new courage and traveled on
to salety. I said the flowers are the angels
of the grass I add now they are the
evangels f the sky.
ll—lf vou insist on asking me tho ques
tion: \Vi.*t are flowers good for? I re
spond, they are good for the bridal,'day. Tho
bride must have thorn on her brow, aiid she
must have them in her hand, Tho marriage
altar n ust lie covered with them. A wed
ding without flowers would lie as inappro
priate as a wedding without music. At
such a time they are for congratulation and
prophecies of good. Ho much of the jiath
way of life is covered up with thorns, wo
• night to cover the beginning with orange
bios -oms.
Flowers are appropriate on such occa
sions, for in ninety-nine out of a hundred
cases it is the very best thing that could have
happened. Tho world may criticise and
pronounce it un inaptitude, and muy lift its
eyebrows in surprise and think it might
suggest something better; but the God who
sees the twenty, forty, flfiy years of wedded
life before they have lieguu arranges all for
the I test. Ho that flowers, in almost all
cases, are appropriate for the marriage day.
The divergences of disposition will become
correspondence*, rtcklessness will becomo
prudence, frivolity will he turned into prac
ticality.
There has been many an aged widowed
soul who had a carefully locked bureau, and
in the bureau a box, and in the box a folded
paper, and in the folded paimr a half-blown
rose, slightly fragrant, discolored, care
fully pressed. She put it there forty or
fifty veins ago. On the anniversary day of
her wedding she will g i to the bureau, she
will lift the box, she will unfold the paper,
and to her eyes w II tie ex|ioeed the na.f
blown bud, and the memories of the rust
will rush Ufion her, and n tear will drop
upon the flower; and suddenly it is trans
figured, and there is a stir in the dust of the
aiither, ami it rounds out, and it is full of
life, and it begins to tremble in the proces
sion up the church aisle, and the dead music
of a half century ago comes throbbing
through the air; and vanisheii faces reap
pear, and light hands are joined, and a
inaniy voice promises: "1 will for better or
for worse,” and the wedding march t hunders
a salvo of joy at the departing crowd; but
a sigh on that anniversary day scatters the
scene. Under the deep-fetched breath, the
altar, the flowers, the congratulating groups
are scattered, and there is nothing left but
a trembling hand holding a faded rosebud,
which is put into the paper, and then into
the box, and the box carefully placed in the
bureau, and with a sharp, sudden click of
the look the scene is over.
Ah, my friends, let not tiie prophecies of
the flowers on your wedding day be false
prophecies. Be blind to each other’s faults.
Make the most of each other's excellencies.
Above all do not both get mad at once! He
member the vows, the ring on the third
linger of the left haud, and the lienediction
of the ealla lilies.
ill. If you insist on asking me the ques
tion: What are flowers good for i 1 an
swer, they are good to honor and comfort
the obsequies. The worst gash ever made
into the side of our poor earth is the gash of
the grave. It is so deep, it is so cruel, it is
so incurable that it needs something to
cover it up. Flowers for the casket, flowers
for the hearse, flowers for the cemetery.
What a contrast between a grave in a
country churchyard, with the fence broken
down and the tombstone aslant, and the
neighboring cattle browsing amid the mul
lein stalks, and the Canada thistles, and a
June morning in Greenwood, the wave of
roseate bloom rolling to the top of the
mounds, and then breaking into foaming
crests of white flowers all around the pil
lows of dust. It is the difference between
sleeping under rags and sleeping under an
embroidered blanket.. We want old mor
tality with his chisel to go through all the
graveyards of Christendom, and while ho
carries a chisel in one hand, wo want old
mortality to have some flower-seed in the
palm of the other hand.
‘Ob,” you say “thedead don’t know; it
makes no difference to them.” I think you
are mistaken. There are not so many
steamers and rail trains coming to any liv
ing city as there are convoys coining from
heaven to earth; and if there be instanta
neous and constant communicat ion between
this world and the better world, do you not
suppose your departed friends know what
you do with their bodies! Why has Goil
planted “golden rod” and wild flowers in
the forest and on the prairie where no
human eye ever sees them? He planted
them there for invisible intelligences to look
at and admire, ami when invisible intelli
gences como to look at the wild flowers of
the woods and the tablelands, will they not
make excursion and seethe flowers which
vou have planted in affectionate remem
trance of them?
When I am dead, I would like to have a
handful of violets—any one could pluck
them out of the grass, or someone could
lift, from the edge of the pond a water-lily
nothing rarely expensive or insane display,
as sometimes at funeral rites where the dis
play takes tho broad from the children’s
months, and clothes from their backs, but
something from the great democracy of
flowers. Rather than Imperial catafalque of
Russian Czar, I ask someone whom I may
alive helped by Gospel sermon or Christian
deed to bring a sprig of arbutus or a handful
of China asters.
it was left for modern times to spell re
spect for the departed and comfort, for the
living in letters of floral Gospel. Billow of
flowers, meaning rest for the pilgrim, who
has got to the end of his journey. Anchor
of flowers, suggesting the Christian hojie
which we have as an anchor to the soul,sure
and steadfast. Cross of flowers, suggesting
tho tree on which our sins wore slain.
If I had my way, l would cover up all
the dreamless sleepers, whether in gnlden
handled casket or pine box, whether a King’s
mausoleum or Potter’s Field, with radiant
and aromatic arboresconee. The Bible says
ir. the midst of tho garden there wns a
sepulcher. I wish that overy sepulcher
might be in the midst of a garden.
IV. If you insist on asking me tho ques
tion: What are flowers good for? 1 answer
for religious symbolism. Have you ever
studied Scriptural flora? The Bible is an
arbetum, it is a divine conservatory, it is a
herbarium of exquisite beauty. if you want
to illustrate the brevity of the brightest
human life, you will quote from Job: “A
mao ccmeth forth as a flower and is cut
down.” Or you will quote from tho Psalm
ist: “As the flower of the field,so he perish
etb; the wind passeth over it, and it is
gone.” Or 3011 w ill quote from Isaiah:
“All flesh is grass, and the goodliness thereof
is as the flower of tho held.” Or you will
quote from James, tho Apostle: “As the
flower of tho grass, so bo passeth away.”
What graphic Bible symbolism!
All the cut flowers of this Raster day will
soon be dead, whatever care you take of
them. Though morning and night you
baptize them in the name of the shower,
the baptism will not he to them a saving
ordinance. They have been fatally wounded
with tho knife that cut them. They are
bleeding their life away; they are dying
now The fragrance in the air is their de
parting and ascending spirits.
Oh yes! flowers are almost human. Bot
anists tell us that flowers breathe, they
take nourishment, they eat, they drink.
They are sensitive. They have their likiss
and dislikes. They sleep, they wake. They
live in families. They have their ancestors
and their descendants, their birth, their
buri'il, their cradle, their grave. The
zephyr rocks the one, and the storm digs
the trench for the other.
Tho cowslip must leave its gold, tho lily
must leave its silver, the rose must leave its
diamond necklace of morning dew. Du t
to dust. 80 wo come up, we prosper, wo
spread abroad, we die, as tho flower—os
the flower!
Change and decay on all around I see;
O Thou who changest not, abide with me?
Flowers also afford mighty symbolism of
Christ, who compared himself to the an
cient queen, the lily, and tho modern queen,
tho rose, when ho said; ‘Tam the rise of
Sharon anil tho lily of the valleys.” Redo
lent like tho one, humble like the other.
IJke both, appropriate for tho sod who
want sympathizers, and for the rejoicing
who want banqueter's Hovering over tho
marriage ceremony like a wedding bell, or
folded like a chaplet on the pulseless heart
of the dead.
Oh, Christ, let tho perfume of thy name
be wafted all around the earth —lily and
rose, lily and rose—until tho wilderness,
crimson into a garden, and tho round earth
turn into one gt eat bud of immortal Uwutv
laid against the warm heart of God. Snatch
down from tho world's banners eagle and
lion, and put on lily mid rose, lily and rose.
But, my friends, (lowers have no grander
use than when on Raster morning we cele
brate the reanimation of Christ from the
catacombs. Ail the flowers of to-day spell
resurrection. There is not a nook or corner
in all the building but is touched with the
incense. The women carried splcos to the
tomb of Oilr Ist, and they dropped spices all
around about the tomb, and from (hose
spices have grown all the flowers of Raster
morn. The two white-rolied ang'ls that
hurled tho stone away from the door of the
tomb, hurled it with such violo' ce down
the hill that it crashed in the door of the
world’s sepulcher, and millions of the stark
and dead shall come forth.
However labyrintbian the mausoleum,
however costly the sarcophagus, however
architecturally grand the necropolis, how
ever beautifully parterred the family
grounds, we wont them all broken up by
the Lord of the resurrection. The forms
that we laid away with our broken hearts
must rise again. Father and mother—
they must come out. Husband and wife—
they must come out. Brothers and sisters
—they must come out. Our darling chil
dren—they must come out. The eyes that
with trembling lingers wo closed must open
in the lustre of resurrection morn. The
arms that we folded in death must join
ours in erab ace of reunion. The beloved
voice that, was hushed must be returned.
The beloved form must come up without
its infirmities, without its fatigues—it must
come up.
Oh, how long it seems for some of you,
Waiting—waiting for the resurrection.
How long I bow long! I make for your
broken hearts to-day a cool, soft bandage
of Easter lilies. Last night we had come in
the mails a beautiful Easter card, on the
top of it a representation of that oxquisite
flower called Hie “Trumpet Creeper,” and
under it the inscription: "The trumpet
shall sound, and the deal shall be raised.”
I comfort you this day wit h the thought of
resurrection
When Lord Nelson was buried in St.
Paul’s Cathedral in London, the heart of ad
England was stirred. The procession passed
on amid the sobbing of a nation. There
wore thirty trumpeters stationed at, the
door of the Cathedral, with instruments of
music in hand, waiting for the signal, and
when the illustrious dead arrived ni the
gates of St. Paul Cathedral, these thirty
trumpeters gave one united blast, and then
all was silent. Yet the trumpet did not
wake the dead. He slept right on.
But I have to tell you, what thirty
trumpeters could not do for one man ono
trumpeter will do fornll nations. The ages
have rolled on. and the clock of the world's
destiny strikes nine, ten, eleven, twelve,and
time shall lie no longerl
Behold the archangel hovering. He takes
the trumpet, points it this way, nut its lips
to Ins lips, and then blows one long, loud,
terrific, thunderous, reverberating and
resurrectionary blast. Look! Look! They
rise! The dead 1 The dead 1 Koine coming
forth from the family vault. Home from
the city cemetery Koine from the country
graveyard. Hero a spirit is joined to its
body, and there another spirit is joined to
another body, and millions of departed
spirits are assorting the bodies and then re
clothing themselves in forms now radiant
for ascension.
The earth begins to burn—the bonfire of
a groat victory. All ready now for the
procession of reconstructed humanity !
Upward and away I Christ leads and all
the Christian dead follow, battalion after
battalion, nation after nation. Up, up!
On, on ! Forward ye ranks of God
Almighty 1 Lift up your heals, ye ever
lasting gates, and let the conquerors come
in ! Resurrection! Resurrection 1
And so 1 twist all the festal flowers of
this church with all the festal flowers of
chapels and cat hedrals of all Christendom
into oije great chain, and with that chain I
bind the Easter morning of IKSy with tho
closing Easter of the world’? history—
Resurrection I May the God of peace that
brought again from the dead our Lord
Jesus, that great shepherd Jof the sheen,
through the blood of the everlasting cov
enant, make you perfect in every gooa work
to do his will.
FRANCE’S PORTFOLIOS.
De Freycinet will Accept that of For
eign Affairs.
Paris, April I.— M. Floquet, M. DeFrey
einet and M. (loblet, conferred together this
afternoon and met again at a iate hour to
night. It is stated that they arraigned the
composition and principal points of the
programme of the new Cabinet. M. Do
Freycinet, it is slated, declined to assume
the office of Minister of War, but agreed
to take the foreign portfolio. ,
It is probable that M. (loblet will become
Minister of Education; M. Lockroy, Minis
ter of Commerce; M. Floquet, Minister of
the Interior.
MM. Clemenceau and Pelleton are con
vinced that the Boulanger agitation will
subside if the Chamber supports M. Flo
quet in ;i radical policy, but it is believed
that M. Flonuet is trying to combine the
Opportunist and Radical elements.
BISMARCK’S BIRTHDAY.
Congratulations and Presents Show
ered on the Chancellor.
Berlin, April 1, —To-day was the 73rd
anniversary of Prince Bismarck’s birthday.
By noon the Chancellor Imd received fully
S(H) congratulations, telegrams and notes
of congratulations and gifts of
flowers poured into the nalace the
whole day. The Magdeburg regineent,
which had been especially sent in honor of
the occasion, serenaded the Chancellor.
Emperor Frederick sent Col. Broesigko
personally, and Count von Meckendoff in
behalf or himself and the Empress con
jointly to congratulate Prince Bismarck.
The Empress sent, Prince Bismarck a
bracelet with her own and the Emperor's
initials in diamonds and autograph letter as
a souvenir of the occasion. The Crown
Prince dined with Prince Bismarck and hi*
family and toasted his host in an appro
priate speech.
FREDERICK 111. OUT DRIVING.
Dr. MacKenzle Shares In the Ovation
Given His Malesty.
Reri.lN, April 1. —The Emperor and
Empress revisited Berlin to-day to attend a
family gathering and dinner in honor of
the birthday of the Duke of Max Meln
ingen.
Prinoe Bismarck received numerous call
ers, among whom were the Crown Prince
and Grand Duke of Baden.
Emperor Frederick drove out to-day in a
closed carriage. He was greeted by thous
ands of persons who had assembled to see
his majesty.
Dr. Mackenzie again fully shared in the
ovati n On Friday he dined with Prof.
Helmholtz and other leading scientists of
Germany. I)r. Bamberger gave him an in
vitation to dine with him Saturday.
SPAIN’S MURDEROUS SHOT.
Portuguese Prevented From Saving
23 People From a Shipwreck.
London, April I.—The bark British
Princess has been wrecked off Caminha.
Portugal. Twenty-three persons were
drowned. It is reported that the Spanish
customs officers prevented the saving of a
number of livos by firing upon a Portu
guese lifeboat which had gone to the rescue.
Hungary's Disasters.
Vienna, April I.—Several more villages
in Hungary have been flooded and the in
habitants are starving.
At Hethrurus 120 houses have been burned
and 700 pel-sons rendered homeless. Two
lives were lost in the flames. The villages
of Mezo, Berensg and Hundsdorf have also
lioen destroyed by flro.
Sweden’s Parliament Closed.
Copenhagen, April I.—The session of
the ltigsdag was closed by the King, who
has decreed the provisional budget.
j PRICE *lO A YEAR. I
1 6 CENTS A COPY. (
WOMEN AS THEOLOGIANS
SEVERAL LEARNED ADDRESSES
BEFORE THE COUNCIL.
Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Takes “Science and Religious Truth”
as a Text—lsabella Beecher Hooker
Declares Herself a Christian Splrltu
alist—The South to be Organized.
Washington, April I.—An invocation
by Mrs. John P. Newman and the singing
of a hymn by tho entire audience opened
tho afternoon exercises of the International
Council of Women to-day.
Matilda Joslyn Gage spoke on "Women
in the Early Church,” and was followed by
Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, whose
text was "Science and Religious Truth.”
She said that science shows that every
thing follows its own laws and tend
encies; that thus nature can go on
progressively working out her own
destiny. Science has not shown that these
innate processes arose by chance or sponta
neously. Did they begin with time itself,
as details of one rational scheme devised by
tho original intelligence! This question she
answered in the affirmative. An absolute
being, she continued, could add nothing to
itself; it might voluntarily forego unlimit'd
use of some of its own power;
might establish for this power limited
and related methods in which it could be
exercised in a jointly conditioner! series of
endless changes. Any least group of such
interiorly related changes, making one in
divisible system of dependent, continuous
motions and emotions, might constitute
persistent, created being. Such being must
begin its Hrst, relative activity. It, is a
group of equal actions and reactions, arising
at once in space, time and sentience; its
feelings, conscious or sub-conscious,
like its motions; in the very nature of
both as conditioned, is on-going double
sided progress, which can only cease with
annihilation of its atomic constitution. On
this theory endless personality, with its
steadily increasing experiences, remembered
or not remembered may, when aided by
adopted outside co-workers, attain to dis
tinct self-consciousness. In conclusion Mrs.
Blackwell claimed that this theory is veri
fied by the facts of science—that all known
physical processes are more easily and com
prehensively explained and are much more
simplified and reduced to a common syste m
of activities by this hypothesis than by
any other yet proposed.
A CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALIST.
Addresses were also made by Elizabeth
Boynton Harbert and Isabella Beecher
Hooker The latter stated her faith as that
of a Christian spiritualist and her creed,
briefly, as belonging: First, in the first great
cause- the Creator; secondly, that the pains
of (he life to come are to be abbreviated or
lengthened according to the deeds done in
this body. In her plan of salvation she
took in Jew, Christian, Pagan and Gentile
alike.
The next speaker, Elizabeth G. Stuart,
announced herself a humanitarian, and her
text waS, “The [lower of thought in its re
lation to the body.”
Addresses by Ednah Cheney and Miss
Francis Willard and the singing at a hyrna
closed the afternoon exercises.
MRS. BRIGGS' OIKT.
The evening and closing session of the
Council opened with prayer by Mary H.
Hunt, of Boston.
Miss Anthony announced that Mrs. Olivia
Briggs had given a square of ground known
as Maple square for tho foundation of an
institution for the highest spiritual, moral,
industrial and political education of girls.
Mrs. Fuelda Wallaisi made an address,
and was folio ed by .Mrs. Htanton, who
made the closing address. Bhe said the
Council had boon a great success
and showed that women were ready for
concerted She said the letters re
ceived from different, countries showo.l uni
versal interest in the council. She com
pared the great interest taken by the press
in the present council with that of forty
years ago, and said the result must be of
lasting importance. A plan of action is to
be devised for suffrage work in the South
ern Slates, which have as yet had neither
conventions nor lectures.
TWO CLERGYMEN KILLED.
Both Struck by a Train While Walk
ing on the Track.
Reading, Pa., April I.—Rev. Clayton
Mummn, of this city, and Rev. John Con
nard, of Denver, Lancaster county, Penn
sylvania, while walking on the tracks of the
Pennsylvania and Schuylkill Valley rail
road thisufternoon near Bushong’s furnaoe,
were struck by a passenger train. Rev.
Mumma was almost instantly killed and
Rev. Connard was so badly injured that he
died nt 7:30 o’clock this evening in the
Reading Hospital. At the time of the
accident they were watching a train on
the Reading road cross the Lebanon Valley
bridge, ami di i not notice the approach of
tho Pennsylvania train. Rev. Connard
preached his initial sermon in tho Mennon
ite church here this morning, and was to
have taken up his residence here next week.
Ho was married and leaves a wife and seven
children He was about 47 years of age.
Rev. Mumma was about 85 years of age.
Roumania n Premier Resigns.
London, April 1. —A dispatch from
Bucharest says: “Premier Bratiano has
tendered his resignation. Prince Ghika
has been summoned to form a Cabinet.”
The same dispatch says tnat the Russian
Legation in Bucharest has been burned. No
particulars are given.
King John Rejects Italy's Terms.
London, April I.—A dispatch from Mas.
sowah says: "King John, of Abyssinia, has
sent a vague letter to the effect that he can
not conclude a treaty of peace upon the
conditions offered by Italy. It is probable
that no further negotiations will bo entered
into.”
Death of an Arctic Explorer.
Berlin, April I.—Dr. J. Bessels, the aro
tlc explorer, who noted as physician on the
American ship Polaris, in 18< 1. has died at
Stuttgart, of apoplexy.
The Sugar Conference.
London, April 1. — The International
Sugar Conferauco will reassemble in Lou
don April ft.
Denmark’s Ministry Overthrown.
Copenhagen, April I.—The Danish Min
istry has been overthrown on the financial
bill.
A Tramp Killed by a Train.
Hardeeville, 8. C., April I.—A young
man, supposed to be a tramp, was run over
at Yeinnssee last night. He was put off of
train No. 7H, and evidently attempted to
board the same train as it moved off, and
fell. The wheels passed over both of his
arms, crushing ono of them fearfully. He
was found lying beside the track by a
freight train conductor, and gave his name
as Martin Haley. He said he was from
Illinois. He died at 8:30 o’clock this morn
ing. The Coroner will bold an indue*t.