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,v HORROR of anew kind
an EXPLOSION ON a TRAIN BLOWS
17 HOUSES TO ATOMS.
Eight Persona Perish in the Fire that
Follows— Thirty Peojile More or Less
Seriously Injured— Twelve Cars Torn
to Splinters The Monetary Loss
$75,000.
Mount Carmel, Pa., May 6.—Between
[0 ami H o’clock last night a terrible ac
•ident occurred on the Philadelphia and
'heading railroad between this place and
locust Gap. Freight train No. 67, consist
ngof seventy-five cars, bound for Wil
lamsport, became disconnected by the
jreaking of a coupling and the engine and
iree cars ran half a mile before the crew
liscovered that the train was divided. The
list section awaited the arrival of the
ecomi at the foot of a heavy grade, and
wo brakemen, losing control of section two,
t dashed into the first section, causing an
xplosion in the the third car, which was
oadei with Dupont powder.
WHERE TIIE HORROR COMES IN.
At the scene of the accident the railroad
uns along a steep hill, at the bottom of
finch stood two rows of houses occupied
ivthe Philadelphia and Reading Coal and
ron Company’s employes. On the hillside
lood a little cottage occupied by Johu
Jnimi and his family of four children, two
joys and two giris. The force of the explo
io’n wrecked the buildings,seventeen in all,
md the stoves set fire to the ruins.
EIGHT BURNED TO DEATn.
Quinn and his two little girls were burned
Dashes. Tho two boys escaped with burns.
Simon Kerwick’s family consisred of
(ary and Willie Cavanaugh, adopted chil
iren, aged respectively 8 and 14 years:
)atiiel Kerwick, aged 8 years, Alice Ker
rick, aged ii L and his wife and anew born
abe. Mr. Kerwick carried his wife from
lie burning building, but the children were
urued to death.
THIRTY INJURED.
Thirty persons were injured, the most
eriously lining: „
Mas. Miles Dougherty, leg broken,
iruised and cut.
Mrs. Matheas, mother of Mrs. Dough
rtv, cut, bruised and hiternally injured.
Mart, daughter of Mrs. Miles, neck cut
ad bruised.
Andrew McElee, right eye destroyed
ad neck cut.
John Doni.an, left hand amputated and
ut about the limbs.
Mrs. Patrick McManus, injured by
lissiles.
Mrs. Simon Kerwick suffering from a
bock. Her condition is serious.
Several of the injured were sent to
tinersport.
In all twelve cars were destroyed and
eventeen houses with their furniture.
All the windows in the Locust Gap
lurches and schools were broken and the
b iis blown off.
In Mount Carmel largo store windows
rero broken.
The total loss is estimated at $75,000.
Wrecking crews have the road open again
or travel.
PLANS OF CONGRESS.
he Elver and Harbor BUI May Be
Passed—Tariff Talk.
Washington, May 6.—The proceedings
a the House of Representatives during the
resent week promise to be a repetition of
lose of last week, with a change in the
mne-s of the speakers. The only break in
be tariff debate that appears to be among
he possibilities is contingent upon the
uccess of the effort which is now being
nedo to secure sufficient support for the
iver and harbor biil to insure its passage
by the House to-morrow uuder a suspension
at the rules. Chairman Blanchatd has
rranged to he recognized to make a suitablo
notion, but he will do so only upon assur
mce of success.
IN THE SENATE.
In the Senate the laud grant forfeiture
bill holds its right of way in the morning
hour and the animal industry bill and copy
tight biil have the rights of way after 'i
D’clock
The pensi in appropriation bill is likoly to
be reported during the week but it will
probably not be pushed to the front for con
sideration unless tho unfinished measures
• ready pending are disposed of earlier than
seems likely to be the case. The North Dakota
nil still awaits a favorable opportunity lor
discussion, but can bo mentioned only as a
possii ility lor the coining week. Consider
sble time is likely to be spent in secret ses
sion.—first upon the Chinese treaty, and
when that measure is disposed of upon the
fisheries treaty.
BELL TELEPHO sE LITIGATION.
4 Possibility That the Supreme Court
will Reopen the Case.
Washington, May 6.—Tho petition fora
rehearing in the telephone suit, so far as
* Drawbaugh issue is concerned, will be
■ri in the Supremo Court to-morrow by
aiker C. Chandler, Senator Edmunds,
■stmaster General Dickinson, and the
i'T counsel for tho Drawbaugh interest
3 f'wd the brief. As Judge
nsPh' r , WI . n °t have taken his scat
an ,;,r Justlce l, y next Saturday, when the
iiliL r “H 0n "ould in due courso bo on
a'km ’? the oonr t, the court, since it
anH ! t S for th term 0,1 Monday, May 14,
( 48 Justice Gray cannot act on account
fam i ar 3® holdings of Bell >stock in his
am.liol’i 110 . ,lecis > v e vjto on tho
Lumon tll | l , wil ’ lie cast Ly Justice
inuv tv,’ W ° las never heard the Case, and
> ben dole vote to have it reheard. It is
tho t l ll,l ' a ! ls B jsro that Justicj Mathews, or
li-T' "_?*-hoi' Justices who votod to sustain
Vishil. ° rif y before, may no:, doom it ad
iho ■! l H ‘ o, ' e ' l tho case if the petition
uiv .' Mas "" a hle grounds for doing so. In
tonniMj < ? urt w °uld not lav likely to
j u ,i ' t'‘ date for rehearing tho emo before
uu &s fuller is seated as Chiof Justice.
ATHIRST.
only Thre e Btatoa Where There Haa
Been too Much Rain.
ashinoton, -May 6.—Tho weather crop
1111 tailed by tho Signal Office says:
llrl "g the past week tho woather has
•s cm "i? V i“ r<l b ,p> tor growing crops in Min
is- u J ''h°ta and Nebraska, wiiore seed
# nn ® n temporarily suspended, owing
sun k-'*'" u ' avy rajns - 1,1 Illinois, Mis
("ati, ~‘"‘ s ' u '.’ Arkansas and Louisiana the
rowie ,“ tts generally favorable, and
UrinvH, uru PA have probably improved
outhV 1 Mississippi, Alabama,
' cr o V,“ olinn , a, . ld *'“-’ r th Carolina, rain
lltUuuvKi ,180,led for n! l growing crops.
J hn usual amonnt of rain
eim, „ n ,10 > Indiana Kentucky and
UUlnHl 'ous and well distributed
ktek . 00 'j urr I ln g in those State during tho
Slut n?fS dou httoas resulted in improve
<ll,. An*. oro P conditions. In the Mid
states the weather has been
fruit , n ,i, or nU growing crops, including
And farm work is progressing rap-
FULLER'S CONFIRMATION.
Edmunds Inclined to Delay Action
Out of Spite.
Washington, May 6.—At its meeting to
morrow, the Senate Committee on Judici
ary will consider the nomination of Mel
ville W. Fuller to bo Chief Justice of the
United States. Mr. Edmunds is disposed
to delay action because his recommendation
of Minister Phelps was not heeded. He
says the nomination must take the usual
course, including reference to a sub-com
mittee, but be will not be able to delay it
long. A favorable report will speedily be
made. The nomination is simply
unexceptionable. Everything fjhat Las
been said to those members of
the committee who do not know Judge
Fuller by the men who do, Republicans
and Democrats alike, has been in the high
est degree complimentary. Tho Senate
will probably confirm the new Chief Jus
tice this week. The Supreme Court is in
reaess till Monday of next week, when he
w " probably take his seat on the bench.
The court will then adjourn for the term.
EDMUNDS AND THE FISH,
The Executive Session Proceedings to
be Reported.
Washington, May 6.—The Edmunds
majority report against the fisheries treaty,
and the Morgan minority report in favor of
it, having been formally read, in the next
meeting of the Committee on Foreign Rela
tions, they will be formally presented in the
next succeeding executive session of the
Senate. The Senate will proceed as soon
as possible to consider thorn, devoting suc
cessive days to their consideration in execu
tive session. Mr. Hoar’s resolution providing
that the official stenographer of the Senate
shall take down tbe proceedings on this
treaty in the executive sessions to make
public subsequently so much of them as is
deemed advisable, will be adopted, so that
the report and the speeches for and against
may be gotten before the country. The
treaty will be rejected by a strict party
vote.
BISHOP FOWLER ON SIN.
It is Only Punished on Account of the
Demands of the innocent.
New York, May 6. —All of the five gal
leries and the mammoth lower floor of the
Metropolitan Opera House were crowded
this afternoon at a mass meeting of Metho
dists, given under the auspices of the New
York City Church Extension and Mis
sionary Society. The meeting was opened
by Rev. Dr. Ensign McChesney, of St. Paul
M. E. Church, on Fourth avenue. The ser
mon was preached by Bishop Charles
H. Fowler, D. D., L.L. D., of San Fran
cisco. He spoke of tho death of Jesus
Christ to save mankind. He said that it
was the coarsest and most brutal cruelty to
punish the innocent for the guilty, but
Christ died to save the world.
SIN HAS NO RIGHTS.
“Sin,” he continued, “is not punishable
on its own account, not because of its de
merits, and there is nothing in justice mak
ing it neeossary to punish sin, because it is
sin, but it is punished because
of the demands of the innocent.
Sin has no right, not even the
right to be punished. Righteousness com
mands justice. Law must have the sanction
of a penalty, otherwise it will be only ad
vice.” In conclusion. Bishop Fowler said
that Christ was exempt from penalty in
dying to save tho world. Groups of clergy
men about the opera house discussed w ith
great interest these views of the Bishop
after the close of the meeting.
A TAR HEEL TERROR.
His La3t Murder so Cruel That He is
Riddled Beyond Recognition.
Raleigh, N. C., May 6.—A special to
the News and Observer from Washington,
N. C., says: “Yesterday evening Thomas
Frazier, an employe of Joshua H. Cox, an
extensive lumberman of that place, entered,
the store of Cox and demanded liquor,
which was refused. Cox then left the store
and started off, when Frazier picked un a
double-barrel gun loaded with buckshot
and fired both charges into Cox’s back, kill
ing him instantly. Frazier fled, blit was
caught ana placed under a strong guard, as
fears of violence were entertained. During
the night a crowd of masked men took him
from the prison, bound and gagged him,
carried him to tho scene of the murder and
fired tho contents of numerous weapons
into his body, literally riddling him and
mutilating his body beyond recognition.
Frazier was a desperate character, having
already co omitted several murders.
DYING IN THE SWAMPS.
The Lowndes County Rioters Paying
for 'lheir Lawlessness.
Montgomery, Ala., May 6. —Two ne
groes who were in the fight at Sandy Ridge,
Lowndes county, on Friday, are reported
to be fatally wounded, no hopes being
entertained of their recovery. The
wounded men were taken to the swamps
bv their friends, and only ono of
them has been seen by any white
man. Their names are Kit Webb
and “Shack” M ans. Bob Meriwether is
reported to bo iu the swamps wounded.
The five ringleaders gave thomselves up
to-day, saying their followers have gone
back on them since tho visit of the military
Friday and Saturday. None of the negroes
are dead.
Evonnesa of the Tariff Debate.
Washington, May 6.—The time of the
general debate on the tariff bill hast boon so
equally distributed that there is only eight
minutes difference between the sides.
Twenty-six hours and forty minutes have
been occupied by the friends of the bill, and
2*l hours and Mi! minutes by its opponents.
Eight days remain, it there are r>o inter
ruptions the debate will closo Tuesday week,
Mr. Carlisle speaking last, preceded on
Tuesday by Mr. Hud, an I on Monday by
M. P. Breckinridge and Mr. McKinley.
All the time during the coming six days has
been assigned to different members. The
many other applicants, who had to be de
nied, will have to get leave to print.
Elver and Harbor Prospects.
Washington, May 0 —Chairman Mills
will move to-morrow that the House con
tinue the tariff debate. Chairman Blanch
ard will oppose this with a motion to pass
the river ami harbor bill under a suspension
of the rules. Mr. Blanchard tried to gi t
Mr. Mills to give way for this motion, but
Mr. Mills refined on the ground that the
river and harbor Mil was too big to be put
through the House under n suspension of
the rules. Mi'. Blanchard has soot a
printed appeal to every memlier of tho
House to vote with him to-morrow. Ho
think*he will get almost all the Republican
votes and enough Democratic votes to give
him two-thirds.
All Play and No Study.
Hanover, N. H., May o.—The Dart
mouth faculty have deluded that the stu
dents must drop foot ball, base ball or gen
eral athletics, because of the excessive
amount of time and money reaui*d to
conduct them all.
A CIRCUS TRAIN WRECKED.
One Man Killed Outright and the En
gineer Apt to Dio.
Pittsburg, May 6.—A spocial from Steu
benville, 0., to the Pittsburg Dispatch,
says: “At 1 o’clock this afternoon a terri
ble calamity occurred on the Cleveland and
Pittsburg railroad, about three miles above
this city at McKanua station. As the train
of Miller & Freeman's circus was passing
this point through a deep oijt, known as the
Backbone, it met a landslide which threw
the engine and live cars from the track, pil
ing them up in a confused and broken mass.
The cars are badly broken and will likely
be burned, while the engine is turned over
and lies directly across the track.
HORRIBLY SCALDED.
A. H. Stillwell, of Wellsville, 0., the en
gineer, was terribly scalded, and it isfeared
that lie has received internal injuries.
Elmer Ellsworth, of Columbus, 0., a
colored cook, was killed outright.
Tiie passenger coaches, containing the
performers, were uninjured, as were also
the cars containing the horses.
The train was running at a speed of
twenty-five or thirty miles an hour, and the
shock was terrific.
The escape of the passenger and horse
coaches was miraculous.
The cars containing the wagons and other
paraphernalia are complete wrecks, and
their contents cover the track.
Fireman Stillwell saved himself by jump
ing.
For the past two weeks workmen have
been removing overhanging rocks in the
cut. They loosened the dirt and allowed it
to fill up the track.
BISMARCK SURE OF PEACE.
Boulangerism Not Considered a Source
of Danger.
Berlin, May 6. —It is stated that Prince
Bismarck expressed to Carl Schurz his posi
tive conviction that the peace of Europe
would be maintained. The Chancellor said
he thought that the reinstatement of Gen.
Bogandovich by the Russian government
afforded no ground for apprehensions. He
was confident that the Czar’s word would
prove more powerful than that of Gen.
Ignatieff and his partisans. With regard
to France the Chancellor said that the dis
turbance of peace through any Boulanger
adventure was out of the question. On
this point he spoke with such emphasis that
Mr. Schurz gathered that Prince Bismarck
desired that his views, which were so much
at variance with those of the press, should
lie made known. Mr. Schurz has gone to
Hamburg. He will return here in June.
EMPEROR WILLIAM’S DECORATIONS.
St. Petersburg, May 6.—Gen. von
Schweinitz, ihe German Ambassador here,
has returned to the Czar the Russian dec
orations worn by the late Emperor William,
in accordance with the latter’s desire. The
Ambassador acknowledged the high dis
tinction conferred upon the wearer. The
Czar was greatly moved bv this mark of
cordial attachment of the dead monarch.
FRANCE’S EASTERN SQUADRON.
Shanghai, May 6.—The French eastern
sqadron has been ordered to rendezvous at
Yokohama and there to await sealed orders
from home.
POLITICS IN FRANCE.
Result of the Municipal Elections—
Boulanger’s Book.
Paris, May 6. —Municipal elections were
held throughout Frauce to-day.
In Nnutes twenty-four Conservatives and
nine Republicans were returned, replacing
twenty-four Republicans and nine Conseva
tives.
In the Javel quarter of Paris Chanviere
(Revolutionary Socialist) was elected.
The League of Patriots has issued a man
ifesto in which Gen. Boulanger is styled the
leader of the National party.
Copies of the first installment of Gen.
Boulanger’s work on the German invasion,
which will be brought out next Tuesday,
are to be distributed gratis throughout
France. In the preface to his work Gen.
Boulanger again sets forth the Bou'angerist
policy, and slates that the object of bis
book is simply to draw a profitable lesson
from the events of 1870.
The salient point of the preface is the
General’s advocacy of the right of the army
to have a voice in the question of peace or
war.
FREDERICK FEVERISH.
His Breathing Difficult and Rapid—The
Day Tolerably Quiet.
Berlin, May 6. —Tho Emperor was fever
ish during last night. He was frequently
disturbed by increased discharge of pus.
His temperature rose to nearly 39*. By
morning it had fallen to 3T.9", but the Em
peror felt exhausted and the doctors ad
vised him not to leave his bed. To-day
there has boon no discharge of
pus and the patient has had
a tolerably quiet day. His face
lias a fairly healthy color and his eyes are
bright, his breathing, however, isdifticult
ana rapid. The Emperor is always pleased
when he makes himself understood by signs
an and whistiers. He Amis writing irksome.
Tho Empress has recovered from her at
tack of neuralgia. To-day she drove to
Berlin to visit Empress Augusta.
ANOTHER ABSCESS BREAKS.
Berlin, May 6, 11 p. m. —Another ab
scess has broken in tho Emperor's throat.
HUNDREDS KILLED BY HAIL.
Delhi and Moradahad Visited by Dis
astrous Storms.
London, May 6. —Dispatches from India
announce that Delhi and Moradahad havo
been visited by disastrous hail storms.
About 150 persons have been killed. The
hail stones wore flat and oval in shape, and
some of them weighed os much as two
pounds. At Kaeobati, iu Bengal, twenty
persons were killed, 200 were severely in
jured, and 2,000 huts were destroyed.
Mr. Pendleton Out of the Hospital.
Berlin, May o.—Mr. Pendleton, tho
United Slates Minister, has fully recovered.
He left the hospital at Wiesbaden yeste -
day and is residing at the hotel of the “Four
Bcasous,” awaiting tho arrival of h’s family.
Brazil’s Emperor 111.
Rome, May o.—The Tribune says the
Emperor of Brazil is seriously ill at Aldan.
The Enqieror is feverish and doctors have
been summoned from Home and Naples for
consultation.
The Rescript Condemned.
Dublin, May o.—All the league branches
of Limerick have condemned the papul re
script.
Eastman Etchings.
Eastman, Ga., May 6.—The people look
with general favor and encouragement upon
a movement to start another newspaper in
Eastman.
At a temperance convention yesterday
C. B. Parker mid D. T. Daugnty wore
elected as delegates to the Btate Temper
ance Coavenlion, to meet is Atlanta on
May 8.
SAVANNAH, GA„ MONDAY, MAY 7, 1888.
A PROFITLESS BARGAIN.
THE FOLLY OF LOSING THE SOUL
TO GAIN THE WORLD.
Rev. Talmage Talks to the Bargain-
Makers of His Congregation The
Imposlbility of Obtaining a Good Title
to the World—Death Don’t Walt for
Write of Ejectment.
Brooklyn, May 6.— At the Tabernacle
to-day Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage
announced as the subject pf
his sermon “Loss and Gain,” and his text
was: “What shall it profit a man, if he
shall gain tho whole world, and lose his own
soul?”—Mark \aii, 36.
lam accustomed, Sabbath by Sabbath,
to stand before an audience of bargain
makers. There may' be men in all occupa
tions sitting before me, yet the vast ma
jority of them, lam very well aware, are
engaged from Monday morning to Satur
day night in the store. In many of the fain
iliesof my congregation, across tho break
fast table and tho tea table are discussed
questions of loss and gain. You are every
day asking yourself: “What is the
vaiuo of this* What is the value of that?”
You would not think of giving something
of greater value for that which is of lesser
value. You would not think of selling that
which cost you ten dollars for five dollars.
If you had a property that was worth fif
teen thousand dollars, you would not sell it
for four thousand dollars. You are intelli
gent in all matters of bargain-making.
Are you as wise in the things that pertain
to the matters of the soul? Christ adapted
his instructions to the circumstances of
those to whom he spoke. When ho talked
to fishermen, ho spoke of the Gospel not.
When he talked to the farmers, he said; “A
sower went forth to sow.” When he talked
to the shepherds he told the parable of tho
lost sheep. Aud am I not right when speak
ing this morning to an audience ma le up of
bargain-makers, that I address them in tho
words of my text, asking: “What shall it
profit a man, if he shall gain tho whole
world, and lose his own soul?”
I propose, as far as possible, to estimate
ami com pare the value of two properties.
First, i havo to say that the world is a
very grand property. Its flowers are God’s
thoughts in bloom. Its rocks aro God’s
thoughts in stone. Its dew-drops are God’s
thoughts in pearl. This world is God’s
child —a way r ward child indead; it has
waudered off through the heavens. But
about eighteen hundred and eighty-eight
years ago, one Christmas night, God sent
out a sister world to call that wanderer
back, and it hung over Bethlehem only long
enough to get the promise of the wanderer’s
return, and now that lost world, with soft
feec of light, comes 1 reading back through
the heavens. The hills, how beautiful they
billow up, the edge of the wave white with
the foam of crocuses! How beautiful tho
rainbow, the arched bridge on which heaven
and earth come and talk to each other in
tears, after the storm is over! How niniblo
the feet of the lainp-lightors that iu a few
minutes set all the dome of the nignt ablaze
with brackets of fire! How bright tho oar
of tho saffron cloud that rows across the
deep sea of heaven! How beautiful the
spring, with bridal blossoms in her hair! 1
wonder who it is that beats time on a Juno
morning for the bird orchestra. How
gently the harebell tolls its fragrance on
the air! There may be grander worlds,
swarthier worlds, larger worlds than this;
but I think that this is a most exquisite
world—a mignonette on the bosom of im
mensity! “Oh,” you say, “take my soul?
give mo that world I lam willing to take
it in exchange. 1 ain ready now for tho
bargain. It is so beautiful a world, so
sweet a world, so grand a world I”
But let us look more minutely into tho
value of this world. You will not buy
property unless you can get a goo 1 title to
it. After you have looked at tne property
and found out that it suits you, you send an
attorney to tho public office, and he exam
ines the book of deeds, and tlio book of
mortgages, and the book of judgments, and
the book of liens, and ho deciitos whether
tiie title is good before you will have any
thing to do with it. Tnoro might be'a
splendid property, and in every way ex
actly suited to your want; but if you can
not got a good title, you will not tako it.
Now, I am here this morning to say that it
is impossible to get a good title to this
world. If I settle down upon it, in the very
year I so settle down upon it as a perma
nent possession, I may bo driven away from
it. Aye, in five minutes after I give un my
soul for thb world I may have to port'with
the world; and what kind of a title do you
call that? There is only one way in which
I can hold an earthly possession', and that
is through the senses. All beaut ful sights
through the eye, but the eye may be blotted
out; all captivating sounds through the ear,
but my oar may be deafened; nil luscious
ness of fruits and viands through my taste,
but iny taste may bo destroyed; all appre
ciation of culture and of art through my
mind, but I may lost my mind. Want a
frail hold, then, I have up in any earthly
possession!
In courts of law, if you want to get a man
off a property, you must serve upon him a
writ of ejectment, giving him a certain
time to vacate the premises; but when
death comes to us and serves a writ of
ejectment, he does not give us one second of
forewarning. He says: “Off of this place!
You have no right any longor in the posses
sion.” Wo might cry out: “I gave you a
hundred thousand dollars for that pro
perty;” the plea would bo of no avail. We
might say: “Wo have a warrantee deed for
that, property:” tho plea would be of no
avail. Wo might say: “Wo have a lien
on that store-house;” that would do us no
good. Death is blind, mid he can not see a
seal, and can not read an indenture. So
that, first and last, I want to tell you that
when you propose that I give up my soul
tor the ivorla, you can not give me the first
item of title.
Having examined tho tillo of a property,
your next question is alxmt insurance. You
yould not he silly enough to buy a largo
warehouse that could not possibly be in
sured. You would not have anything to
do with such a property. Now, I ask you
what assurance can you give mo that this
world is not going to b • burned up* Abso
lutely none. Geologists tell us it Is already
on fire; that, the heart of the world is one
great living coal; that it is just like a ship
on fire at soa, tho flames not bursliug out
because tho hatche.s are kopt down. And
yet you propose to palm off on me, in re
turn for my soul, a world for which, in tho
first place, you gave no title, and iu the
second place, for wldch you can give no
insurance. “Oh,” you say, “the water of
the oceuus will wash over all the land and
put out tho fire.” Oh, no. There are in
flammable elements in the water, hydro
gen and oxygen. Call off tho hydrogen and
then the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans would
blaze like heaps of shavings. You want
ine to take this world, for which you can
give no possible insurance.
Astronomers have swept their telescopes
through tho sky, and have found out tout
there have been thirteen worlds, in the last
two centuries, that havo disappeared. At
first they looke I just like other worlds.
Then they got deeply red—they were on
fire. Then they got ashen, *ho wing they
were burned down. .Then they disappears I,
showing that even the ashes w ere scatle ed.
And it the geologist be right in his proph
ecy, then our world is to go In the same
i way. Aud yet you want nte to exchange
| ltiv soul for it. Ah, no; it is a world that
iis burning now. Suppose you brought an
insurance agent to look at your property
for the purpose of giving you a policy upon
it, and while ho stood in front of the
house he should say: “That house is on tire
now in tho basomeut.,” vou could not get
any insurance upon it. Yet you talk about
[ this world as though it were a sale invest
ment, as though you could get some insur
ance upon it, when down in the basement
it is on lire.
I remark, also, that this world is a prop
erty, with which everybody who has taken
it as a possession has had trouble. Now, 1
know a large roach ot land that is not built
on. I ask what is the matter, and they
reply t hat everybody who has had anything
to do with that property got into trouble
about it. It is just so with this world;
everybody that has had anything to do
with it . as a possession, has been in perplex
ity. How was it with Lord Byron* Did
he not sell his immortal soul for the purpose
of getting tho world? Was ho satisfied
witn the possession? Alas! alas! the poem
graphically describes his ca e when it suys:
“Drank every cup of Jov, .
Heard every trump of fame;
Drank early, deeply drank.
Drank draughts which common millions
might nave quenched,
Then died of thirst, because there was no
more to drink.’’
Oh, yes, ho had trouble with it; and so
did Napoleon. Alter conquering nations
by tho force of tho sword, lie lies down to
die, His entire possession the military boots
that ho insisted on having upon his foot
while he was dying. So it has been with
men who had better ambition. Thackeray,
one of the most genial and lovable souls,
after ho had won the applause of all intel
ligent lands through his wonderful genius,
sits down in a restaurant in Paris, looks to
tho other end of the room, and wonders
whose that forlorn and wretched face is;
rising up after a while, he finds that it is
Thackeray in tho mirror. Oh, yes, this
world is a cheat. Talk about a ninn gain
ing the world! Who ever gained half of
the world? Who ever owned a hemisphere?
Who ever gained a continent* Who ever
owned Asia? Who ever gained a city?
Who ever owned Brooklyn? Talk about
gaining the world I No man ever gained
it, or the hundred-thousandth part of it.
You are demanding that I sell niy soul,
not for the world, but for a fragment of it.
Here is a man who has had a large estate
for forty or fifty years. He lies
down to die. You say; “That man
is worth millions and millions
of dollars.” Is he? You call up a sur
veyor, with Ids compass and chains, aud
you say: “There is a property extending
three miles in one direction and three miles
in another direction.” is that the wav to
measure that man’s property? No! You
do not want any surveyor with his compass
and chains. That is not the way you want
to measure that man’s property now. It is
an undertaker that you need, who will
come and put his finger in his vest pocket
and tako out a tape line, and ho will meas
ure five feet nine inches one way and two
feet and a half tho other way. That is
the man’s property. Oh, no, I forgot;
not so much as that, for ho does not own
even the place in which he lies in the ceme
tery. The deod to that belongs to the
executors aud the heirs. Oh, what a prop
erty you propose to give me for my soul!
If you sell a bill of goods, you go into the
counting room, and say to your partner:
“Do you think that man is good for this
bill? Cun he give proper security? Will
he meet this payment?” Now, when you
are offered this world as a possession, I want
you to test tho matter. Ido not want you
to go into this bargain blindly. I want
you to ask about the title, about the insur
ance, about whether men have ever had
any trouble with it, about whether you can
keep it, about whether you can get all, or
tho ten-thousandth, or one hundred thou-
Kjiiitit.il part of it.
There is the world now. I shall say no
morp about it. Make up you mind for
yourself, as I shall, before God, have to
make up my mind for myself about the
valuo of this world. I cannot afford to
make a mistake for my soul, and you can
not afford to make a mistake for your soul.
Now let us look at the other property—
the soul. We cannot make a bargain with
out seeing tlio comparative value. The
soul! How shall I estimate the value of it!
Well, by its exquisite organization. It is
the most wonderful piece of machauism
ever put together. Machinery is of value
in proportion as it is mighty and silent at
the same time. You look at the engine and
the machinery in the Philadelphia Mint,
and, as you see it performing its wonderful
work, you will lie surprised to find how
silently it goes. Machinery that roars and
tears soon destroys itself; but silent machin
ery is often most effective. Now so it is
with the soul of man. with all
its tremendous faculties—it moves in
silence. Judgment, without any racket,
lifting its scales; memory, without any
noise, bringing down ull its treasures; con
science taaiug its judgment-seat without
any excitement; the understan ling and the
will all doing their work. Velocity* ma
jesty, might; but silence—donee. You
listen at ihe door of your heart. You can
hear no sound. The soul is all quiet. It is
so delicate an instrument that no human
hand can touch it. You break a bone, and
with splinters and liandag s the surgeon
sets it; the eye becomes inflamed, the apoth
ecary's wash cools it; but a sole off the
track, unbalanced, no human power can re
adjust it. V.’ith one sweep of its wing it
circles the universe, and ovei vaults the
throne of God. Why, in tho hour of death
the soul is so mighty, it throws uside the
body as though it were u toy. It driv s
hack medical skill as impotent. It breaks
through the circle of loved ones who stand
around the dying couch. With one leap, it
springs beyond star and moon and sun, and
chasms of immensity. Oh, it is a soui
su|erior to ail material things! No (Irecan
consume it; no floods cun drown it; no rocks
can crush it; no walls can impede it; no
tune can exhaust it. It wants no bridge on
which to cross a chasm. It wants no plum
met with wiiich to sound a depth. A soul
so mighty, so swift, so silent, must be a
priceless soul.
1 calculate tho value of the soul, also, by
its capa ity for happiness. How much joy
it can get in this world out of friendships,
out of books, out of clouds, out of the sea,
out of flowers, out of ten thousand things;
and yet all tho joy it has here does not test
its calamity. You are in a concert before
the curtain hoists, and you hear the instru
ments preparing- the sharp snap of the
broken strl g, the scraping of the bow
across the viol. “There is no music in that,”
you say. It is only getting ready for the
music. And ad the enjoyment of the soui
in this world, tho enjoyment wo think is
real enjoyment, is only preparative; it is
only antieipative; it is only the first stages
of the thing; it is only the entrance, thebe
ginning of tbut which shall be the orchestral
harmonios and splendors of Uie redeeme i.
You cannot test the full power of the soul
for happiness In this world. How mum
jlower the soul has hero to find enjoyment
in frleridshqis! hut oh, the grander friend
ships for the soul in the skies! How sweet
the flowers hero! but how much sweeter
they will be there! I do not think that
when flowers die on earth, they die forever.
I think that the fragrance of the flowers is
tho spirit tieing wafted away into gloiy.
God says there are palm-trees in heaven
and fruits iu heaven. If so, why not the
spirits of the dead flowers' In the sunny
valleys of heavea, shall not tho marigold
creep? On the hills of heaven, will not the
amaranth bloom? On the amethystine walls
of heaven, will not jasmine climb? “My
beloved is come down iu his garden to
gather lilies.’’ No flowers in heaven?
Where, then, do they get their garlands for
the brows of the righteous?
Christ is glorious to our souls now, but
how much grander our appreciation after
awhile! A conqueror comes back after the
battle. He has been fighting for us. He
comes upon the platform. Ho has one arm
in a sling and the other arm holds a crutch.
As he mounts the platform, Oh, the enthu
siasm of the audience I They say: “That
man fought for us, and imperilled his life
for us;" and hoiv wild the huzza that fol
lows huzza! When the Lord Jesus Christ
shall at last stand out before the multitudes
of the redeemed of heaven, and we meet
him face to face, and feel that he was
wounded in the head, and wounded in the
hands, and wounded in the feet, and
wounded in the* side for us, methiuks we
will be overwhelmed. VVe will sit some
time gazing in silence, until some leader
amid the white-robed choir shall lift tlio
baton of light and give the signal that it is
time to wake the song of junitee, and all
lieavon will then break forth into: “Ho
zannul hozanna? hozanna! Worthy is the
Lamb that was slain.”
1 calculate further the value of the soul
by the price that has been paid for it. In
St. Petersburg there is a diamond that the
government paid two hundred thousand
dollars for. "Well,” you say, “It must
have lieeti very valuable, ortho government
would not have paid two hundred thousand
dollars for it.” I want to see what my soul
is worth, and what your soul is worth, by
seeing what has been paid for it. For that,
immortal soul, the richest blood that was
ever shed, the deepest, groan t hat was over
uttered, all the griefs of earth compressed
into one tear, all the sufferings or earth
gathered into one rapier of pain and struck
through his holy heart. Hoes it not imply
tremendous value?
I argue, also, the value of the soul from the
home that lias been fitted up for it in the
future. One would have thought a street
of adnmant would have done. No; it is a
street of gold. One would have thought
that n wall of granito would have
done. No; it is the flatno of sardonyx ming
ling with the green of emerald. One would
have thought that, an ixioasional doxology
would have done. No; it is a perpetual
song. If the ages of heaven marened in a
straight line, some day the last regiment,
perhaps, might pass out of sight; but no,
the ages of heaven do not march in a
st raight line, but in a circle around about
the throne of God; forever, forever, tramp,
tramp! A soul so bought, so equipped so
provided for, must be a priceless soul, a
majestic soul, a tremendous soul.
Now, you have seen the two properties
—the world, the soul. One perishable, the
other immortal. One unsatisfying, tho
other capable of evor-increasing folicity.
Will you trade? Will you trade even? Re
member, it is the only investment you can
make. If u man sell a bill of goods worth
live thousand dollars, and he is cheated out
of it, ho may get five thousand dollars
somewhere else; but a man who invests his
soul, Invests all. Losing that, he loses all.
Saving that, he saves all. In the light of
my text, it seems to me as if you were this
morning offering your soul to the highest
bidder; and I hear you say:' “What is bid
for it, my deathless spirit? What is bid for
it?” Satan says: “I’ll bid the world.”
You say, “Begone I that is no equivalent.
Sell my soul for the world? No! Begone.”
But there is someone elso in tho audience
not so wise as that. He says: “What is
bid for my immortal soul?” Satan says:
“I’ll bid the world.” “Tho world? Going
at that, going 1 Gone 1” Gone forever!
“What is tho thing of greatest price,
The whole creation round?
That which was lost in Parodies,
That which la Christ is found.
“Then let us gather round the cross.
That knoivledge to obtain;
Not by the soul's eternal loss.
But everlasting gain.”
Well, there are a great many people in
the houso who say: “I will not sell my
soul for tho world. I And the world is an
unsatisfying portion.” Wlmt, then, will
you do with your soul? Borne one whispers
here: “I will give iny soul to Christ.”
Will you? That Is the wisest resolution
you ever made. Will you give it to Christ?
When? To-morrow? No; now. I con
gratulate )'ou if you have come to such a
decision. <)h, if this morning tho eternal
spirit* of God would comedown upon this
audience, and show you the vanity of this
world, and the immense importance of
Christ’s religion, and tho infinite value of
yourown immortal souls, what a house this
would be! wlmt an hour this would be!
what a moment ttds would be! Do you
know that Christ has bought your soul?
Do you know that lie lias paid an infinite
price for it? Do you know that he is
worthy of it? Will you give it to him
now ?
I was reading of a sailor who had just
got ashore, and was telling about his last
experience at sea. He said: “The time
I crossed the ocean we hod a terrific time.
After we had been out three or four days
tho machinery got disarranged, and the
steam I*!gan to escape, and the captain,
gathering the people and the crew on dock,
said: ‘Unless someone shall go down and
shut off that steam, and arrange that ma
chinery at the peril of his life, wo must all
bo destroyed.’ He was not willing to go
down himself. No one seemed willing to
go. The passengers gathered at one end of
the steamer waiting for their fate. The
captain said: ‘1 give youa last warning. If
there is no one hero willing to imperil his
life and go down and fix tlmt machinery we
must all bo lost.’ A plain sailor said: ‘l’ll
go, sir;’ and he wrapped himself in a
coarse piece of canvas and went down,
and was gone but n few raiments,
when tho escaping steam stopjmd,
and the machinery was corrected.
The captain cried out to tho pa-sengers:
> All saved I Dot us go down below and see
wlmt Ims become of the poor fellow.’ They
went down. There he lay dead.” Vicarious
suffering! Diodforall! Ob, do you sup
pose that, thoe people on the ship ever for
got, ever can forget that floor fellow?
“No!” they nay; “it was through his sacri
fice that I got, ashore.” The time came
when our whole race must die unless some
one should endure torture and sorrow and
shame. Who shall come to the rescue?
Bluill it bo one of the seraphim? Not one.
Hiutli it he one of the cherubim? Not one.
Blinll it be a:> inhabitant of some pure atid
unfallsn world? Not one. Then Christ
said: “D>l I come to do thy will, O God;"
and he went down through the dark stairs
of our sin and wretchedness, aud mi-sery
and woo, ami he stopped tho peril, and lie
died thut you and I might he fro*-. Oh, tho
love! oh, too endurance! oh, the horrors of
the sacr.ttc-il Hhall not our souls this morn
ing go out toward him, saying: “Lord Jesus
Christ , tak *my soul. Thou art worthy to
have it. Tnou hast died to save it.”
God help you this morning rightly to
cipher out this sum in Gos|s-I arithmetic:
“ What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain
tile whole world, and lose his own soul?”
Burning of a Barn.
Blackshkar, Ga.. May fl.—The barn of
W. G. Brantley was burned to-night about
10:30 o’clock. The barn was about 75 feet
from the dwelling with several small build
ings between, ami but for the promptness
of tbe citizens to respond to'the alarm it
would have been impossible to have saved
his house. Mr. Brantley .Is unable to ac
count for the lire.
J PRICE JlO A YEAR. I
I 5 CENTS A COPY, f
OFF ON A SIX DAYS’ TRAMP
FIVE THOUSAND PFOPLE RALLY
TO SEE THE START.
John L. Sullivan Disappoints the
Crowd by Not Being Present to Start
tho Race—Jack Qempsey Gives tho
Word—Betting Lively Cartwright
the Favorite.
New YoftK, May 6.—The great six-day
walk for the w orld’s championship opened
at Madison Square Garden to-nigbt under
most favorable auspices. The beautiful
weather drew thousands of spectators, and
tho scenes within and without the great
garden were something unprecedi nted in
the history of walking matches in this city.
Long before the hour of throwing open the
doors of the garden to the public crowds
had collected around the entrance, and tho
neighboring streets were lined with people
nuxiouslv waiting the hour of admis
sion Promptly at 9 o'clock tho
publio were admitted and tho rush
in the building for a few minutes
was alarmingly great. A police captain
was present with a detail of 100 policemen.
In the first half hour 3,000 people entered
the building and at 10 o’clock 5,000 were
present.
A DRAWING CARD.
The announcement that John L. Sullivan
would start the contestants was a drawing
card for tho management. The crowd
sought him for an hour, but in vain. Their
disappointment was tempered bv the pres
ence of “Jack” Demjisey, who glided
tlirough the crowd accompanied by a
phalanx of admirers. He was held in |e
serve to start the race if Sullivan did not
put in an appearance. The track is ia
splendid shape and brilliantly light,id.
A concert by tho Sixty-ninth Regiment
Band preceded the starting of the race.
The contestants’ quarters are palatial as
compared with the huts allotted the men in
the last event of the kind here.
BETTING LIVELY.
The tietting was somewhat animated.
Kelly and Bliss, bookmakers, were laying
50 to 1 that Cartwright will not surpass
Albert’s record.
Base ball players wore present in force.
Manager Barnie, of Baltimore, and seven
members of the team, Manager Powers with
half a dozen of tho Jersey City club,
Manager Lem Baldwin of the Binghamp
ton club, and a dozen other members of the
New York and Brooklyn clubs formed a
big delegation.
In another knot of spectators were Pat
Hhoody, Will lace Ross, Julos O’Brien, of
Buffalo, and several out of town sports.
FIRST ON THE TRACK.
The first competitor to appear on the
track was Cartwright, who made the cir
cuit of the track at 11:40 o’clock enveloped
iu a long English ulster. Ho passed before
the sjioctators almost unnoticed before mid
night. “Old Sport” Campana, at tired in
his track costume, came upon the track and
was greeted witli wild applause. He was
followed by Herty and ex-Champion John
Hughes, and at three minutes past 12 o'clock
tho pedestrians wore all on the track.
STARTINO THE RACE.
At that time Jack Dempsey vaulted over
tho railing into the track to start the race
instead of Sullivan. Ho was introduced by
Manager O’Brien, who said:
“John L. Sullivan promised me faithfully
that ho would lie hero to-night to start this
race. It is not my fault that he is not here,
and I regret the disappointment very much,
for I never promise anything unless I in
tend to do it. As Mr. Sullivan is not here
I have asked Mr. Jack Dempsey to start the
race.” Dempsey bowed and immediately
shouted "Gol”
GUBanERO OKF FIRST.
Guerrero was first away, with Campana
at his heels and Dillon Hughes and Cart
wright close up in tho order named.
The following are the starters: Dan Herty,
of Boston; John Hughes,of In land; George
Littlewood, of England; Frank Hart
(colored), of Boston; JPeter Panchot,
of Buffalo; George Cartwright, of
Englamf; Gus Guerrero, the Mexican;
George Noremac, D. Burns, Peter Golden,
E. C. Moore, Samuel Day, D. Dillon, Peter
Napoleon Campana, George Connor, Peter
Hegelmati, Christopher Faber, James Maun
ders, Thomas Cox, Robert Vint. James
Mc-Kvery, Normau Taylor, E. Albert. A.
Newhart, He-sterlino. William Nolan,
August Slein. E. Bhroder, F.J A. Prater,
Sergeant Kuawer, J. C. Adams, Charles
Russell, C. B. Graves, Robert Peach, T.
Tilly, A. Kline, W. Moslaugor, W. Hendig,
J. Bullivan, J. Duffy, George Howard, H.
Williams, Al. Coughlin and C. H. Drake.
THE SCORE.
New York, May 7, la. m.—At 1 o'clock
this morning the score stood;
Milt*.
Littlewood 9
Hertv 8
Cartwright 9
Guerrero •
Hughes H
Dillon 7
Hart V
Panchot 6
Hegel man 8
Noremac 7
Connor 8
Vint 8
Cox •
Golden 8
Newhart 7
It was expected that Albert,Fitzgerald and
Rowell would enter, ami it was disappoint
ment to many when their names did not
appear on the list. At 11:45 o’clock the
garden was jammed by ail eager, jostling
crowd, and outside their were hundreds
struggling for admission. There were a
large number of ladies In the boxes and
retail- ved seats.
New York, May 7. 1:30 A. M.—The score
now stands:
Mile*
Herty 19
Littlewood 13
Cartwright IS
Guerrero 13
Hughes 19
Dillon 11
Hart 11
Hegelman 11
Connor 13
Vint. II
Cox 13
Golden H
Newhart 18
PRIDE OF THE PRINTERS.
Distinguished Representatives of tho
Craft to Banquet Mr. Childs.
Philadelphia, May B.—ln honor of ths
occasion ami in order to show thejr appre
ciation of George VV. Childs’ friendship for
printers, tho ex-del.gates of the Interna
tional Union, who have forniod an associa
tion in this city, are making elaborate
prepar itious for a banquet to be hold on
the evening of Mr. Childs’ birthday. It has
been sought to gather the distinguished
printers of the country and representative
men of the <-ity together to make the affair a
success. Already acceptances liave been
received from six Congressmen, Hons.
John M. Farauhar of . Buffalo, Amos
Cummings of New York, J. H. Gal
liuger of New Hampshire, John Nichols of
North Carolina, Thomas R. Hood of Wis
consin, and Thomas L. Thompson of Cali
fornia. Mr. John H. Oberly has also ac
cepted, as also ha* that veteran printer,
Hon. Biinon Cameron.