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1 J. H. c-STILL President. |
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WE AND OUR NEIGHBORS
the visit to boston brings out
bomb opinions.
The Delegate from Bolivia Admits
Our Reputation for Hospitality Well
Earned— Senor Zlaya Advises the
United States to Inspect the Coun
tries to the South of Us—Mr. Davis
Advocates a Transcontinental Rail
way.
Boston, Mass., Oct. 6.—The delegates
to the International American Congress
left their hotel this morning about church
time and went to the city docks, wiere tney
were met bv the mayor and a committee of
the board of aldermen and escorted to Deer
Island, where the correctional institutions
of the city are located. In the reform
school chapel about 330 of the boys, uni
formed in blue, went through singing and
other exercises. Luncheon was served and
some speeches were made. Mayor Hart
welcomed the party, and Dr. Siiva of Vene
zuela and Senor Calderon of Colombia re
sponded.
a Bolivian’s appreciation.
Senor Velarde of Bolivia followed. He
said lie was glad that his government had
accep'ed the invitation of the United
Suites to take part in the congress, and was
plea-ed that he had beeu chosen to repre
sent it. In his judgment the congress
would be the starting point of a great
movement which would take au important
piace in the history of the Amer
ican continent. His people were well
(ft.posed toward the people of the United
States, a d every advance which had for
its bject the establishment of closer rela
tions would meet with prompt a.id hearty
res; onse. As f r the reception which had
been accorded the delegates, he wished to
say that, although they had heard that the
Americans were a hospitable people, yet
their highest expectations had been ex
ceeded.
WE MUST VISIT OUR NEIGHBORS.
Senor Zelaya, of Honduras, said that the
government a id people of Hondu as, and
indeed the people of ail Central America,
were deeply interested in the congr ss
and expected most import mt results irom
its deliberations. He would give the Am or
ican people one piece of advice, which was
that as the people of Centra America had
sent their representatives here to witness
tie greatness of the United States, so
should the people of the United States
inform themselves about their southern
neighbors. They would fitid the people as
good hearted as themselves; not so far ad
vanced industrially, but with a country so
ab unding iu natural wealth andresources
as to justify examination, which would
surely lead to broadening of the relations
between the people of North and South
America.
A TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILWAY.
Mr. Henderson and Mr. Davis of the
United States delegation responded, the
former in a witty vei >. The latter spoke of
the necessity for the cultivation of closer
trade relat.ons, and to ihia end dwelt upon
the importance of the construction of a
railroad which would actually cross tne
isthmus and traverse the continent in s 1
strong an embrace that there would be no
opportunity for intervention by European
countries.
A DRIVE AROUND THE HUB.
When t o speocues were concluded the
party returned to Boston. In the afternoon
the excursionists were driven around
Boston, through the suburbs and
past Harvard university. Among the
interesting points were Longfellow s
home and the great elm under which Wash
ington assumed command of the American
army. At du-k the party alighted at the
home in Brookline of John L. Gardiner, a
director of the Chicago, Burlington ad
Quincy railroad, where they were enter
tained, returning later in the evening to the
city.
CONGREGATIONAL CONGRESS.
The Race Issue to be Thrust Forward
from Georgia.
Boston, Mass., Oct. 6.—Next Wednesday
the national congress of the Congregational
churc.ies of the country will begin its tri
ennial session in Woreester. One of the
most Important questions to come before it
is the race issue, which will be presented
from Georgia. The Georgia Congregational
Association has been recognized as
the congregational body of the
•t®*®. i his association is composed
of fifteen small churches of colore people,
wruch are under the care of the American
Missionary Association. The Congrega
tional Methodist conference, an older body
than the Georgia Congregational Associa
tion, isdesirou3 of recognition, and as they
u' e , Beat delegates, the question arises
whether two distinct bodies snail be recog
nized in one state solely because of race
prejudice.
BUFFERING AT JOHNS I’OWN.
Cold Weather Makes Evident the Bad
Management of the Relief Fuads.
Johnstown, Pa., Oct. o.—Wi h the ther
mometer about the freezing point there is a
great deal of suffering here these nights by
people who are improperly sheltered and
poorly clothed. The relief money which
was intended to supply their necessities,
0n “ f' fl id at once, will now c >me too
.0 oe properly applied in providing
if a . n . st flie blasts of winter. The
that was on hand
f * ei . the commissary department
*ut down has been transferred to tae Red
nIT. 60ciety > tiy whom it will be distrib
to the need v.
'•ere 1 ave been a great many deaths
to 6 7 lthia the l ast week, aud most of
have been superinduced by ailments
iri=n> o i te u * a tlw 1“ the Red Cross
; r tal there are now twenty-two cases of
tnn id fever, most of the patients being
“Augers in town.
NEW ORLEANS’ MUSIC HALL.
rhe c °mer-Stone of the Big Building
.. Laid.
Jew Orleans, La., Oct. 6,—The cere-
J ty of laving the corner-stone ot Music
’ la >v hich the coming Saengerfest will
e took place this evening in the pres
ale of a large concourse of citizens. The
were preceded by a procession
, aa< * military organizations.
ay buildings along ths line of
” ere handsomely decorated. The
iv nro 88 n° sktedof addresses in German
wii *'taas aid in English by Judge
‘ , ’ lioVf e. and vocal contribution s by
! Vlsiti hg singing societies. Jacob
r Is, ,J5 er ’ PJ@*lent of the Saengerfest,
oeremonie*. This hail ben
msfi te ?u WIU have a seating capacity of
.... the auditorium and 1,800 on the
Bnow at Lockport.
■is i S r? UT ' • fJo-t. 6.—Snow fU here
reat]v° r i Um * 10 a of six Inches,
iuTstv r dama K‘"B "bade and fruit trees,
“torn cou turned three hour*.
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POWD33LY ON THE ROSTRUM.
Sunday Closing and Shorter Hours of
Labor Advocated.
Chicago, 111., Oct. 6.—Five thousand j
people were present at a meeting in Central
Music hall this afternoon, the feature of
which was to be an address by General
Master Workman Powderly, of the Knights
of Labor. The gathering was remarkable
for its cosmopolitan character and emhtisi
as ic fee ing. Sunday closing of salooi.s
was the topic announced for discu-ston.
Mr. Powderly was greeted with a tempest
of applause such as is seldom given to any
man.
HIS REMARKS TO THE POINT.
His remarks on Sunday closing were em
phatic and p >inted enough to elicit repeated
outbreaks of applause from even the most
radical of his hearers. Mr. Powderly will
spe ik to-morrow night at Hamilton, Out.
He will then go to Scranton for a few days
to ork upon his report to the general
assembly, which meets in Atlanta iu four
weeks.
A COMING CONFERENCE.
On Oct. 14 Mr. Powderly will go to Phil
adelphia to hold a conference with the
chiefs and secretaries of the federation of
labor unions. “They insist,” said Mr. Pow
derly, in an interview this evening, “that
wa shall present the eigbt-h >ur question to
the general assembly. We have our views
on this question and they have theirs.
OBJECT OF THE CONFERENCE.
“The object of our coufere ice is to learn
just what they want. The general assembly
is wilting to discuss the question, hut a
strike will not i.e recommended. Possibly
I should not attempt to speak for the
Knights of Labor, but 1 know this is the
feeling. I believe in a shorter day; I have
been quoted on that enough to make it
plain. But it will never be done by strikes.
Arbitration is all that can bring it about.
Asa matter of fact, I see the federation is
itself already hedging iu this matter iu the
circulars that they are issuing tuat say a
general strike is not contemplated.”
FINANCES OF THE KNIGHTS.
Regarding the alleged financial straits of
theKnightsof Labor, Mr. Powderly said:
“We are clear of debt, we have a balance
in the treasury and we shall hold a general
assembly iu a few weeks at which each
delegate will receive his expenses, and then
we will have mouev left. Our condition is
better than e> er before.”
SLUGGED AND BOBBED.
St. Louis Toughs Who Did Up a Busi
ness King isll a Queer Story.
St. Louis, Oct. 6.—Capt. D. P. Slattery,
president of the Merchants’ Elevator Com
pany, and a prominent and wealthy citizen,
lies at his home iu a fashionable quarter of
the city unconscious from a brutal beat
ing received at an early hour this morning;
his face scarcely reeoguiza.de, and an ugly
hole in the back of his head, while his
pocketbook, containing about S4O, his
diamond ring and diamond stud, valued at
$1,500, and a valuable gold watch, are
missing.
A SALOON-KEEPER’S STRANGE STORY.
Edwin Klos erman, who keeps a saloon
grocery on O ss aveuue, tells this story. He
lives over his store, and says that uis wife,
shortly after 1 o’clock, was startled by a
strange man without shoes, hat or coa ,
walking toward her bed. He and his bar
tender were attracted by the noise, and
Klostermau says he nit the man, who turned
out to be Mr. Slattery, with the palm of
his hand, and then turned him over to a
friend named Alexander Hunt.
HUNT USED HIM UP.
Hunt took Slattery out and beat him
brutally. AU this time Slattery, they
soy, uttered not a word. A crowd gathered,
and some assert that tney saw limit take
the diamond stud from the captain’s tie.
S attery was then dragged to a police sta
tion, wuere he was immediately recognizod.
Hunt v Klosterman and others were arrested.
Slattery is in a very dangerous condition.
A CLAN-NA-GAEL split.
The Executive Committee Divided
Over a Proposed Convention.
Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. li—Four mem
bers of the executive committee of the
Clau-na-Gael, who represent the Cronin
faction as opposed to the nationalist faction,
have issued a call fo a convention of all
the camps throughout the country. The
call is signed by Luke A. Dillon and
O’Meagher Condon of this city, James
Tierney of New York and Mortimer Scan
lan of Chicago.
THE CONVENTION PROHIBITED.
There are nine members of t e executive
committee, five of whom are nationalists,
and who, therefore, have control. T esc
five have come out in a counter circular,
forbidding ca ups to send delegate! to the
proposed convention, as the call, they
allege, is unauthorized and illegal. The
purpose of the convention is stated to be for
the reorganization of the order.
MEXICO'S INDIAN WAR.
The 24th Infantry Off For the Scene of
the Conflict.
City of Mexico, Oct. 6.— The Twenty
fourth infautry left to-day by rail for
Senorato to take part in the Yaqui cam
paign. More troops will follow and earnest
work will be then begun. Gen. Cervantes,
department co r.mander of Benora, arrived
to-day. He states that the situation is
dangerous. Geu. Diaz informed the cor
respondent of tho as-ociaTed press that the
catULaicrn against the Indians in Yucatau
would be prosecuted vigorously next season
and that the lands there would be opened
up to settlement.
MONTANA DEMOCRATIC.
The Legislature and the Governor
Both Safe.
Helena, Mont., Oct. 6.— The latest re
turns give a democratic majority of 7 on
joint ballot in the legislature, with 1 in
doubt, which may increase the majority to
9. In several counties the vote is very
close, but it is not thought the official
canvas* will make auy material change.
Toole, the democratic candidate for gov
ernor, ha* a majority of about BoOL Carter,
rep., for congress, has a majority of about
1,200.
GERMAN DAY AT BT. LOUIB.
The Landing of the immigration Pio
neers Celebrated.
Bt. Louis, Oct. 6. —German day was ob
served here to-day with a will, and the
landing of the pioneers of German immigra
tion was honored by a most harmonious re
union of all citizens of German descent,
regardless of religious creed or jpolitical
party. On many nous s the American aud
German colors were blended iu harmonious
profusion. It is estimated that 30,000 mon
were in the parade.
Damage at Vera Cruz.
City of Mexico, Oct. 6,—Considerable
damage was and >ue m Vera Cruz harbor by
the recent storm.
i! SAVANNAH. GA., MONDAY. OCTOBER T. 1889.
OUR COMING EXPOSITION
TALMAGE TAKES IT AS THE SUB- !
JSOT OF HIS SERMON.
_
“Shall it be Made a Blessing or a
Curse?”—The Reverend Gentleman
Announces Before the Opening of
His Sermon That He Has Been
Granted Two Months Leave of Ab
sence for a Visit to the Holy Land.
Brooklyn, Oct. 6.—The Rev. T. DeWitt
Taimage, D. D., preached in the Tabernacle
: his morning on the subject: “The Coming
World’s Fair, Shall it be Made a Blessing
or a Curse?” His text was Ezekiel xxvii,
13: “They traded in thy fairs."
[After announcing his subject Dr. Tal
mage said: “With the hearty consent of
the elders and trustees of this church, I
leave on Wednesday morning, Oct. 30, on
the City of Paris for the Holy Land, Pales
tine, to ta gone about two m >nths. I am
sure all my congregation wiU unite with
the officers in giving t.ieir consent when I
tell you why I go. First, my object is edu
cational to myself and congregation. I
want to see the places associated w ith our
Lord’s life and death. 1 believe I can make
my pulpit work far mire efficient when I
have ssen with my own eyes Bethlenem,
and Nazareth, and Jerusalem, and Calvary,
and all the other places connected with the
Savior’s ministry. Those places cannot
be visited healthfully in the summer and in
time of usual vacation. What I learn and
see, you will learn and see when I come
back. My second reason for going is that,
I amjwriting ‘The Life of Christ,’ and I can
be more accurate and graphic when I have
been an eye-wicuess of the sacred place.”
Among the places at which Dr. Taimage
will probably preach during this extended
trip ai e Rome, Jerusalem, Nazareth, Bethle
hem, Bethany, Samaria, Joppa, Athens and
Corinth, and Mr. Louis Klopsch, the rever
end gentleman’s press agent, has perfected
such arrangements as will enable him to
promptly and regularly report this exceed
ingly interesting series of discourses for the
columns of this paper.]
After making t.ie announcement of his
proposed visit to the Holy Land Dr.
Taimage proceeded with his sermon, as
follows:
Fairs may be for the sale of goods or for
the exhibition of goods on a small scale or
a large sc ,le, for county or city, for one
nation or for all nations. My text brings
us to the fairs of ancient Tyre, a city that
is now extinct. Part of the city was on au
island, and part on the mainland. Alex
ander, the conqueror, was much embar
rassed when he found so much of the city
was on an island, for he had no ships. But
his military genius was not to be balked.
Having marched his army to the beach, he
oi dared them t > tear up the city on the main
land and throw it into the water and build
a causeway 300 feet wide to the island. Be
they took that part of the city which was
on the mainland, and with it built a cause
way of timber and brick ands one, on
which his army marched to the capture of
that part of ,he city which was on the
i land, as though a hostile army should put
Brooklyn into ihe East river, and over it
march to the capture of New York. That
Tyriati causeway of ruins which Alex
ander's army built is still there, and by
alluvial deposits has permanently united
the island to the mainland, so
that it is no longer an island but a oromon
tory. The sand, the greatest of all under
takers for burying cities, having covered
up for the most part Baalbec md Palmvra
and Thebes and Memphis and Carthage and
Babylon and Luxor and Jericho, the sand,
so small and yet so mighty, is now gradu
ally giving rites of sepulture to what was left
of Tyre. But, oh, what a mag liflce it city it
once was! Mistress of the sea! Qlem of
international commerce! All nations cast
ing their crowns at her feet! Where we
have in our sailing vessels benches of wood,
she had benches of ivory. Where we have
for our masts of ship sails of c >arse canvass,
she had sails of richest embroidery.
The chapter from which my text is taken,
after enumerating the richest countries in
all the world, says of Tyre: “They traded
in thy fairs.” Look in upon a world’s fair
at Tyre. Ezekiel leads us through one de
partment aud it is a horse fair. Under-fed
and over-driven for ages, the horses of
to-dav give you no idea of the splendid
animals which, rearing and plunging
and snorting and neig ling, were
brought down over the yla ik of the
ships and ied into the world’s fair at
Tyre until Ezekiel, who was a minister of
reiigi in, and not supposed to k iow much
about horses, cried ou in adiniratijn:
“They of the house of Togarmah traded in
thy fair< with horses.” Here in another
department of that world’, fair at Tyre,
led o i by Ezekiel the prophet, we find
everything all abinze with p ecious stones.
Like petrified snow are the corals; like
flagmans of fallen sky are the sap
phires; and here is agate a-blush with
all colors. Wh.t is that aroma we
inhale? It is from che t) of cedar
which we open, aud find them filled wit.)
allsyiesof fi.bric. But the aromatics in
crease as we pass down this lane of enchant
ment, and here are cassia and frankincen.-e
and balm. Led on by Ezekiel the prophet,
we come to an agricultural fair with a dis
play of wheat from Minnith and Pannag,
rich as that of our modern Dakota or Michi
gan. And here 1) a mirioralogical fair, with
speeiraensof iron and silver and tin and lead
ad gold. But halt, for here is put pie,
Tyrian purple, all tints and shades, deep
al ost unto the black and bright aim -st
unto the blue; waiting for kings and queens
to order it made into rob3 f r coronation
day; purple not like tout which is now
made from the Orohflla weed, but the ex
tinct purple, tne lost purple, which the
ancients knew how to mane out of gaste
ropod mollu ks of the Mediterranean. Oh,
look at tbo.-e ca-ks of wine from Helbon!
See those s iow banks of wool from the back
of sheep that once pastured in Gilead. Oh,
the i ewijde lncr riches and variety of that
world’s fair at Tyre I
But he world has copied these Bible men
tioned fairs in all succeeding ages, arid it has
had it. Louis tbo Sixth fair at Dagobert,
and Henry the First fair on Bt. Bartholo
mew’s day, and Hungar.au fairs at Pesth,
and Easter fairs at 1-oipsic, and the Scotch
fairs at Perth (bright was the day when I
was at one of the u), and afterward came
the London world’s fair, and the Now Yoi k
world’s fair, and tne V' .enua world’s fair,
and the Parisian world’s fair, and it has
beeu decided tnat, In com nemora
tion of the disc ivery of America in
1492, there shall be held iu this country in
1892 a world’s {air that shall eclipse all pre
ceding national expositions. I say, God
speed the movement! Surely the event
commemorated is worthy of all the architect
ure and mu.ic and pyrotechnics and
eloquent and stupendous planning and
m notary expeudi urs and congressional
appropriate which the mo tsa guina
Christian patriot has ever dreamed of.
| Was any voyage that the world ever heard
|of crowned with noi an arrival as
Ithat of Columbus and his men? After they
had beeu encouraged for tbs last few days
by flight of laud birds and 11 ating branches
of red berries, and while Columbus was
dow i in the cabin studying the sea chart.
Martin Pi son, standing on dok ad look
ing southwest, cried: “Laid! Land!
Land!” Aud “Gloria in Exveisis” was sung
in raining t art on all tne thr -e ship-i o 7
the expedition. Most a-.pr priate
and patriotic and Christian will
be a commemora.ive world’s fair .
in America in 1893. leaving j
to others the discussion as to • e site of suc.i
exposition, and 1 wonder not that some five
or six of our cities are struggling to have it, I
for it will givs to any cit to which it is
assigned an impulse of prosperity for a bun- ,
ded years—l say, leaving to others tile !
selection of the particular locality to be j
t has honored, I want to say some thi gs i
from the point of obr stkn par.ri >tism
which ought to be said, and the earlier the
better, that we get thousands of people
taikiug in the right direction, and that will
make healthful public opinion. 1 lieg you
to consider pi ayerfully what I feel called
upon of God as an American citizen and as
a preacher of righteous iess to utter.
My first suggestion is that it is not wise,
as certainly it is not Christian, to oontlnue
this wide and persistent atte opt of Ame i
can cities to belittle and depreciate other
cities. It has been going on for years, but
now the spirits seem to culminate
in this discussion as to where the world’s
fair shall be held, a style oi dis
cussion which has a tendency to
injure the success of the fair as a'groit
moral and patnotio enlerpr.se, after t e
looality has been decided u-vm. Tnere
is such a thing as healthful rivalry between
cities, but you will bear me out in saying
that there can be no good to come from the
uncanny things said about each other by
New York and Chicago, by Chicago and
St. Louis, by St. Paul and Minneapolis, by
Tacoma and Seattle, and all th ough the
states by almost everv two proximate cities.
All cities, like individuals, have their virt
ues and their vices. All our American
cities should be our exultation. What
churches! What public libraries!
What asylums of mercv! What academies
of mu-ic! What mighty men iu law and
medicine and art and scholarship! What
schools and college, and u liversities! Wiiat
women radiant and gracious ami an im
provement on all the generations of women
since Eve! What philanthropists who do
not feel satisfied with t eir own charities
until they get i. to the hundreds of thou
sands and the millions! What “God’sacres”
for tne dead, gardens of baiutv and palace,
of marble for those wh ..sleep the last il>..pl
Now stop your slander of American ci ties. Do
you say they are the centers of crime a id
poii ical corruption? Please admit the ia t
that they are the centers of intelligence
und ge erosity and the initr.iue-t patrons
of architecture and sculpture ami painting
aud music and re ervoirs of religious influ
ence for ali the con meat, It will be wed
for the country districts to cease talking
against the cities, and it will be well for
the city of one locality to stop taUing
against the cities of other h .call ins. New
York will not get the world’s lair by de
preciating Chicago, and Chicago will not
get the world’s fair by bombarding New
York.
Another suggestion concerning the com
ing expositio i: let not the materialistic ad
monetary idea overpiwer the moral aud
religious. During tha: exposition, the
first time in all their lives, there will b •
thousands of people from other lands who
will see a country wit out a state reiigi n.
Let us by an increased harmony among
ail denominatio s of religion, impress
other nationalities, as they come here
that year, witn the superior advantage
of having all denominations equal in
the sight of government. All the rulers
and chief men of Europe belong to t e
state religion, whatever it may be. Ai
thou h ur last two presidents have beeu
Presbyterians, the previous oue was ail
Episcopalian; and the two previous, Meth
odists; and going further back in that line of
B resident*, we find Martiu Van Buren a
•u ch Reformed; aud J >h t Quincy Adams
a Unitarian; and a man’s religion in this
country is neither hi ae mice uor advantage
in the m ttnr of political elevation. Ail
Europe needs that. All the world new Is th .t.
A man’s religion is something between
himself and his God, aud it must not,
directly or indirectly, be i iterfered with.
Furthermore, during that exposition,
chiistiau civilization will confront bar
barism. We shall as a nation have a greater
opportunity to make au evangelizing im
pression upon foreign uationadiies than
would otherwise be afforded us iu a quarter
of a century. Let the churches of tue city
where the exposition is lie and bo open every
day, and prayers be offered and sermon
preached and doxologies sung. In the less
loan t ree years between this and that
world’s convocation, let us get a i>a tism
of the Holy Gh st, so tha tne six months
of that world’s fair shall be fifty Pemeoo.ts
in oue, and i.,s ead of 3,000 co iverted, as ii
tbefo-mer Pentecost, hundreds of thousands
will be converted. You must remember
that tne Pent*' ost mentioned in the Bade
occurred w hen there was no printing pres*,
no books, no Christian oamphlete, no r
ligious newspapers, ad yet the influence
was tremendous. How many nationalities
were touched? The aco <unt says:
“Parthiana aud Medes and Elamites,” tnat
is, “Phraygia and Pauiphylia,” that is,
the we-teru countries; |>eople fr mi
the eastern countries; “Cvrene and
strangers of Rome, Oetos and
Arabians,” that is. the Southern countries;
but they were all moved i.y the mighty
spectacle, lusiead of the sixteen or eighteen
tribes of people reported at that Pentecost,
all the chief nations of Europe aud As.a,
North and South America, will be repre
sented at our world’s fair in 1892, and a
Pentecost here and then would uieuo the
salvation ot the wound world.
But, you say, w-* may hive at that fair
the pe q leof all lands and all themaoiiin ry
for gospelization, t.e religtoiis printing
presses and lie elm chBS, but, all that would
n t make a Pentecost; we must have Ood.
Well, you can have uhn. Has he not been
gracioutlv wai iug* and nothing sta ds in
the way but our own unbelief and indolence
and sm. May G and break dow i the bar
riers! The grandest opportunity for the
evangelization of all nations si ice
Jesus Christ died on the croes
will lie the world’s exposition of
1892. Uod may take u* out uf the harvest
field before that, but let it be known
throughout Christendom hat that year,
between May and November, will be the
mountain of Christian advantage, the
Alpine aud Himalayan h.gbt of opp >r
tu dty overtopping all others for sal
vation. Instead of the slow proc
ess of havi g to send the g pei
to other lands by our owu Amer
ican missionaries, who have difficult toil m
acquiring the foreign language and then
must contend! w *tb foreign prejudices,
what a g and thi ig to have abie u.diu
flce .tial foreigners oonvorted during tielr
visit iu America and then have them return
to their native lands with the glorious
tidings! Oh for au overwhelming work of
grace, for the year 1892, that work begin
ning in the autumn of 1889!
Another opportu ity, if our public men
see it, aud it is the duty of pulpit aud print
ing ores* to help them to see it, will be the
cadi g at that time au i place of a great peace
c litres* for all nation-. Toeooavemi>. I
f representatives irota tue governm-nt* of
North and Bomb Amori -a, iw at Wasb
ingt >u, is ouly a type of what we may nave
on a va*t and a world wide scale at the
international exposition Of 1392. By
cue stroke the g.-rgoa vt *<ur might
be slain and buried i deep that neither
trumpet of human dispute or ot arch
angel’s blowing c >ui l reiur ecr it. Wiiui
the ias: Napoleon caiioi sue i a congress or j
i,a ions many did not respond, and those
that did respond gathered wondering wiiat
trap that wily .os royer of the French I
republic am! the builder of a French mon
archy might spring on them. But what if
the most popula govern -eut on e irth—l
mean the United States government—
should practically say to all nations:
O the American continent in
1893, we will hod a world’s fair,
and all nations will send to it specimens of
their products, tneir man ifactn es au , their
arts, and -ve invite ali iho g .vsru uonts of
Europe, Asi i a id Africa to send represent
atives to a peace cou vend >n hat snail be
held at tae same time aid piace, aid that
shall establish an international arbitration
commission to whom shill be referred all
coutrov -rsies between natio i aid nation,
their decision to be ii ia!, and so al) nations
would be re ieved from the expense of
sta ding armies and naval equipments, war
ha vi ig been made an everlasting impossi
bility.
All the nations of the earth worth con
sideration w ul i come to it mighty me i of
England and Germany and Franco and
Russia, and all the other grea nationali
ties; Bismarck who worsnips the Lord of
hotts, and Gladstone who worships the God
of pea e, and ii >,danger, who wore ups him
self. The fact is tiia the nations are sics
of drinking out of the chalices made ut of
human skulls and filled with blood.
The United States government is the
only government in the whole world
that Could successfully call such a congress.
Suppose France suould call it, Ganna iy
would not c me; or Germany sb mid cull it,
Frauce would not come; or Russia should
call it, Turkey not come; or Engla ul
should call it, nations long jealous of her
overshadow!, g power iu Europe would not
come. America, in favor wi b all
n itionalities, standing out iudepc cl
out uid alone, is the spot, and 1893
o'ill bo the time. May it please
the.Presi ie ,t of the United States, may it
please tua Secretary of State, may it ploasn
the cabinet, may it please the Senate and
Hon e of Represeata.ives, mav it please the
printing presses and the churches ami tile
people a ho lift up and put down our Amer
ica . rulers.
To tli mi I make this timely arid solemn
and Christian appeal. Do you not think p o
ple die fast eu mg i wi hour t..i, wholesale
butenory of war? Do you not think we ia i
trust to p .cuuionias and consumption an.l
ap iplexies and palsies and yellow fe
vers aud Asiatic ch .leras ihe work of
killing them fust enough* Do you not
tui ik that tne g eed,, wide o,ien jj iws of
the grave ought to b atisfled if filled by
natural causes with hundreds of thousands
of c rpses a year? Do you not think we
can do something be ter ' ith men than
to dash their i.fe out against casements or
blow them into fragments by torpedoes or
se <1 them out into the world, where they
nee 1 all their faculties, footless, armless,
eyeless? Do you not tbiok that wo non
might be npp Anted to an easier place tuan
the edge of a grave tre icb to wring their
pale linuds and weep ut their eyesight in
widow 00l ud cuiidles.uess? Way, the
last glory has go e out of war.
Tnere wai a time ■> non it and nnanded that
quail y which we all admire—namely,
courage —for a man had to stand at the hilt
of his sword when the po nt pierced the
foe, ad while he was slaying an ther the
other might slay him; or it was ayouet
charge. Bu now it is cool and deliberate
murder, and clear out at sea a bombshell
can ha hurled m.les away into a city, or
while tnou ands of private soldiers, who
have no interest iu the contest, for they
were conscripted, are losing their lives, their
general may sit smo.ing oue of the
best Havana ci ars after a dinner of quail
on toast. It may he well enough for gradu
ating studen s of colleges on commence
ment day to orate about the poetry of wa ,
but and > not talk ab >ut the poetry of wa
to the men of the federal or confederate
armies who were at t e front, or to soma of
us wuo, as me nuen of the Christian co n
mission, saw the ghastly hospitals of A i
tietam aud Hagerst >wn. An! you may
worship the Lord of hosts; I worship the
“Gidof Fence, who brought again from the
dea I our Lord Jesus Christ, that great
Shepherd of sheep.”
War is an a'cursed monster a id it was
born in the lowest ca ern of peiditiou, an i
1 pray that it may speedily descrnd to thi
place from which it arose,its last sword aid
s udd aud musket rattling on the bottom
of the red-hot marl of hell. Le; there be
caded a peace convention for 1892, with
de.egato* sent by all tne decent govern
ments of Christendom, aud while tney aro
in ses i m, if you should some night go out
uad look into t ie sky ahove the exposition
hull tings, you may find that the old gallery
of crystal, tuat was taken down after the
Bethlehem authe n of eightee i centur.es
ago was hung out, is rebuilt again in the
Ciouds, and the same an relic singe s are
returned with he suite li rettos "f light to
chant “Glory to G and in the highest, and ou
earth peace, good will to men.”
AgiU i, I suggest in regard to the world’s
fair that, while anpr- >prmte places are pre
pared for ail foreign exnibi s, we make no
room for the importation of foreign vice).
A uerici has onougn of its own, aud we
ueod no new instaiiine its of that kind.
A world’s fair will bring all kinds of neopie,
good aud had. The gi oi wo mu t prepare
to welcome, the had we mint pre, aro to
g tun. The attempt will agai i be made in
1892, as in 1876, to break up our American
Sabbatns. That attempt was made nt the
Fniladelphia Ceu eu iai, but •' ns defeated.
Tne American Sibbath is the best kept
Bah a.ii on earth. We do not want it
broken down, and subs i uted iu tbo place
thereof the B usssls Sibbath, the Vieuua
Babhat J, the Bt. Fot rsburg Bahbath or any
of the fore.gu Balibath), wmch are no Sab
baths a ail. i think the Lord is i> re than
generous in asiing only Hr y-two days out
of the 365 for ins service. You let the Sab
bath go aud witn it wid go your Bioie, a .and
alter that y <ur librtie<, and y ,ur children
or your graud-ohiidren will be here in
America u .and r a despotism as b and as in
those lands where hey turn the Lord’s Day
lulo wassail and frolic.
Among those who come there will be, as
at other exposition), lordly people who will
bring their vices with them. Among the
dukes and duchesses and princes and prin
cesses of other lands are some of the best
men aud w<.men of ail the earth. Remem
ber Earl of Kin to e, Lord Cairns aud Lord
Bbaftesbury. But there is a snobbery and
flunkeyism in American society
tuat runs after a grandee, a
duke, a lord or pri ice, tuougb he may bs
a walking lazaretto and his breat i a
plague, ft m ke< the fortune of s..rne of onr
queen- of society to dance ouecouilon witu
one of these princely lepers. Borne people
cannot get their haU off quick eaoug.i
when they see such a foreign lord approaun
iug, and they do not cire for tne
mire into which they drop their knees
as they b>w to worship. Let no splen
dor of pedigree or any pomp and para
p ernaiia of circumstance make him at
tractive. There is omy one eet of ton com
mandments that I ever heard of, and no
c<ass of men or wo on in all the world are
excused from obedience to tuose laws writ
ten by finger of l,guttling o i the granite
surface of Joan gfiaai. Surely we nave
enoug i American vice) without n lu g
any draft) upon E r >.>oan vice for 1893.
Bv tUi* Sermon I would have the nation
made aware of its opportunity a m get
ready to improve it, and of otae peril* and
get ready to combat them. I rejoice to
believe that the advantages will overtop
everything in that worlds fair. What an
iutr dnotion to . acu otuor ot communities,
of states, of republics, of empire, of
zones, of hemispheres! What, do irs of
information will tie s • uog wide open
for the hoys and girl now ou ihe
threshold! What nu.ional and inter
national education! What crowning
of Indus ry w.tusbeaveiof grain, and wiiat
itnpe iai robing of hor with embroidered
faoriosl What scientific apparat s! Wiiat
telescopes for the infinitude above and
uiicroaoop -s for the infinitude b neatli, aud
iust. utnenta to put natue to ihe torture
until sho tells her last seer t! Wh it a dis
play of too muuilloeneoof the G and who has
grow i enough boat to make a loaf of
good bread large enough f r tbo hutna i
race, and enough cotton to stocking every
feo , and enough timber to shelter every
head, making it manifest that it is not
God’s fault, but either man’s oppression or
indolence or dissipation, if there be auy
witboutjsupply.
Under the arc >es of the chief building of
that exposition let capital and labor, too
long estranged, al lasi tie married, each
t aking tub mil of each in pledge of eternal
fidelity, while repra enta ions oi all oati ms
sta id round rejoicing at the nuptials, aud
saying: “Wont God hath joined toget er
lot nut man put asu dor.” Then shall the
tlir n >dy of tae ueodlowomau no longer be
heard:
Wor!,-, work, work!
Till the brain begins to swim;
Work, work, work!
Till the eyes are heavy and dim.
Seam and gusset uni hand,
Hand and gusset and seam.
Till over tne buttons I fall asleep,
And sew them ou in a dream.
0, Christian America! Make ready for
the groin Inst expositi >n ever seen under the
su 1 Have Bibles enough bo md. Have
o iurci.es enough established. H ve scien
tific halls enough endowo i. H ive printing
presses enough set up. Have revivals of ie
ligi >u enoupii iu fud blast. I believe you
will. “Hosanna to the Bon ot Davidl
Blessed is lie that oometii in the name of the
Lord.”
T i ough the harsh voices of our day
A low, sweet prelude finds its way;
T rough clouds of doubt ami creeds of fear
A light is break! ,g calm and clear.
That song of love, now low and far,
Erelong shall swell from sta to star;
That light, the breaking day, which tip*
The golden spired Apocalypse 1
BEHuING BEA TROUBLE.
The Price of Bealuklns Will Not Be
Apprec .bly Higher.
(Copyright
New York, Oct. s.—“No; the prioe of
sealski s will not be appreciably higher
this year than last. In Bp<te of the numer
ous seizures by the revenue cutters in Beh
ring sea, the quantity brought to market
will be fully equal to that of a year ago.
Trices will tie firm. Last year sealskins
rose 20 per cent. This yoar the increase
will tie maintained."
This was the statement of Mr. Russak,
the oldest and largest dealer in furs m the
country. Mr. Ru -s it makes a siieclalcy of
seal fur a id is a leading authority in tne
trade. The As ora went oul. of the fur
trade many years a ;o, and the successors of
tho great firm of A. T. Stewart are no
1 nger fact -rs in the market. The trade,
wbicn represents a capital of $130,-
000,000 in the enure country
one half of which is prob
ably in snals—has been practically revolu
tl mized within tne last ten or twelve years.
Since the de elopment of the vad retail
caravansaries in the largo American cities,
similar to tnoso of Frauce and E iglaud,
the leading ret tiers have dipped into the
wholesale trade and now the seal marke;.
may be said to tie about evenly divided
between the wholesaler and the snopkee,>er.
Million) of -kins are tak in every season and
many thousands of tons of shlppi ig aro
used In tli ir capture. Since steamers have
gone into tun seal fisheries, tue catch nas
greatly increased. The seaso i loses from
the first of .uaroh to the cl eof May, be
tween which dates the different varieties,
including the harp seal, the hooded seal,
the square-flipper and too dotard, are taken,
tue two last being the most v.ilua de. Tne
true fur seal is the most northern ursine,
or son b-ar, wtiich abounds in
the Frlbylotf islands in Behr
i g sea. A gro t rendezvous is
St. Faul’s and Bt. George’s islands,
where the rookeries are sometime* known
to harbor several millions at a time. Dur
ing tins mmt i and the next they an prae
tic illy valueless, as tney are then shed .ing
their fur. The se Uskiu trade is practically
controlled, os far as the ea*:, is concerned,
by four mon—aith tig i there are pro .ably
no less tuau 100 largo dea ers, wholesale
and retail, engaged actively in it. The
general opinion iu the trade is that no ad
vance will ns made in prices this season, and
that tho ladies will be able to purcha e
their winter wrapping) at tuo prices tuat
prevailed a year ag ■. In spite of tho fact
that fashion has decreed that the bustle
must go, the ealski i cloaks and jackets
designed for 1890 havo ail been made with a
view to fitting the bustle. Tue result is
that tho designers and manufacturers
everywhere find thomselves compelled to
alter their goods to conform to the new
style.
ERIN’3 TENANTS’JLS AG da
Parnell’s Views as to Its Aims and
Methods.
London, Oct. 6.—Mr. Parnell has written
I. 1 Mr. Bexton, asking him to act as hi* rep
resentative at the couve itlon oil the open
ing of the new tenants’ defense league in
Tipperary, and to lay his view* before the
convention. He say* that his health will
not pe-mit him to cron the cha i
nel. He advises that the movem-mt
be limited to defensive ac.ion.
Special regard, be says, must tie paid to
these points: First, the duty of protecting
tenan s against tne landlord oonspirsov,
thus insuring to tenants the benefits which
parliament lutenied; second, assertion of
,be rights of freedom of speech ad of pub
lic meeting; third, vindication of the right*
of tenants to tho same facilities for com
bining and organizing that have been
secure 1 to English workmen by the trados
union enactment.
THREE MEN BURN.UD TO DEATH.
Three Others Injured by Leaping from
the Flames.
Winona, Miss., Oct. 6.—J. A. Thomas,
J. L. Lawtey aud Lon Crouch, merchants
of Webster cou ity, aud Paul Will
iams, a farmer of Okubbeba oounty,
were burned early this mnr *ing
by a Are which destroyed the restaurant of
R. E. Lotts. Tue men were asleep a; the
time. Three others were b idly injured by
j urn pi .g to tue ground. The loss is about
*6,0X1. j.
Negroes in a Rumpus.
Wayohos.), Ga., Oct. 6.—A rumor ban
reached uers from Fee am of a riot be
tween two opposing factious of negroes at
K. last u ght. Pistols were u*ed ad
two utgroe* were severely wounded. There
is no fui ther inteUigence, except that peace
liffrf restored.
, DAILY, MO A YFAR. J
J 3 CENTS \ COPY. V
] WEEKLY tl JB A YEAR. I
BOULANGER'S DAY GONE.
THE SECOND BALL .T3 ALPO DIS
ASTROUS FOR HIS PaBTY.
Many of H!b Former l ieutenants No
Longer l ver Mention HU Name-
Parts ifxoitod and the Boulevards
Crowded, But No Serious Disturb
ance Reported Anywhere.
Paris, Oct. fi.—Re-hallo's were taken
to-day i.i the district* in which the recent
e!eo ions for members of the Chamber of
Deputies were without result. The weather
was li ie, and a boat of electors presented
themselves at the polls. The voting in
Paris proceeded in perfect quietness, there
being no incident worthy of mention.
DESERTING BOTH,ANGER.
The followers of Bou anger are deserting
him. M. Laguerre and other former B >u
langiets have ceased to meution the gen
eral’s name, styling themselves only revis
ionists.
It s estimated that two-thirds of the 183
constitue cies which ball.itted to-day hive
gone republican. The co iservatives calcu
late upon t e return of two of their candi
dates ii Paris.
All the me iibers of the national commit
tee will confer with Geo. Boulanger la
London on Tuesday nxt, prior to his de
parture for the isle of Jersey.
Tne votes in some of the districts were as
follows:
First .Heine Distriot—Yves-Cuvot, min
ister of putilia works, 6,U3; Turquet, Bou*
langlst, 4,517.
Ninth Heme District—Burger, republican,
6.136; Andrieux, revisionist, 4,867.
Eleventh Berne District—Fioquet, repub
can, 5,384; Niout, Boula gist, 3.308.
Eighteenth Heine District—La. sent., Bou
langisi, 3.6-W; LFo t, republican, 3,214.
Iu the First district of B .rdeaux, Cuicha,
Boula igist, is elected. The Second district
also returns a Boulaugist.
A CLOSE RACE.
In the Fifth Seme distr.ct Naquet, Boul
a gist, leceivod 4,830 votes, ami Bourne*
vil.e, the outgoing republic in, 4,745.
In the Eiguth district, Mann, c mserva
tivea ul Boulaugist, defeated a well-known
deputy.
Iu the Fourth district, Barodet aud Chas
saing, republican <, def ated Manervol and
Tine -ho, B •ulangist*.
In the Ninth district, Emile Frey defeated
Berry, conservative.
Iu Belleville, Dumay, socialist, received
5,584. and Rochefort 4,054.
In Bordeaux, Jourde, Boulaugist, has
oust-d Faure.
11l Li le, Verquin, republican, has beaten
the Boul ingisf, candidate.
Lyons h is elected three republicans.
The boulevards here were animated this
evening. Crowds parado I the streets shout
ing partisa i cries. Mounted guards kept
the people moving.
The total returns for Paris show the elec
tion of 22 republicans and 14 Boulangisis.
A BIG VICTORY.
The return" from 153 districts show the
election of 108 republicans aud 45 anti
renublica a.
It is reu .rted that a split has occurred
between Oe . Boul mger and Count Dillon
because of the former’s a sertion that u bar
gain with the conserva ives had caused the
loss of si'ats to the Bo dangist*.
Tho Boulangists have obtained nearly
half of the repi esentation of Paris, and
m.n/ of the anti-iepublicans elected are
pledged to a rovisi a p dicy. T e Bou
lu gists ti died 2 .9,(100 votes In Pans, a loss
of only 35,1X10 since January.
RUSSIA AND EUROe* fil’d PEACH.
A Denial That the i zar la Making
Warlike Preoarationa.
Bt. Petersburg, Oct. 6.—There has
beau no impoitant increase recently in tha
ofTectiv" force of the Russian army, nor
have any measures been taken to meet an
out. reak of hostilities. The resources of
the govern ueut are already sufficiently
strong to provide for thecou try’s security.
Far from warlike enterprises being contem
plated, the Ge manophile party at court hats
renewed its endeavors to bring about a
friendly understanding between Germany
and Russia, and the nope is eutertaiued
that the czar’s coming meeting witn Empe
ror William and Prince Bismarck will lead
to a rapprochement between the two coun
tries. Ihe Russian National party, how
ever, is trying to neutralize these efforts
t .rough and uni ant official influences, and
is also making an energetio campaign in
Biavopbile newspapers.
BIHMAKCK PROMISES PEACE.
Paris, Oct. 6.—The Berlin correspond
ent of ihe Journal des Debats asserts that
Prince Bismarck, i . receiving the president
of the wood-workers’ congress, said: “The
foreign situation is so peaceful that you
may set to work without the slightest fear.
It wa* not always so. Not long go
Engia and stid hesitated wheth r to act a a
mere bull or fat ox chewing a cud. To-day
her resolution is taken, and I can assure
you that the main euance of peace is
certain."
A CYCLONE IN SARDINIA.
Thirty Persons Killed Out of 100
Burled In Debris.
London, Oct. 6.—A terrible hurricane
has visited the island of Sardinia. One
hundred persons we e buried in the debris
of buildings shattered by the storm and
thirty persons were killed.
ITALY ALSO STRUCK.
Rome, Oct. t>. —The province of Cagliari
h s been ravaged by a terrific stor u, iu
which <l4O bouse* v. ere <ie troyed. Sixteen
perso s were killed and 100 were injured.
The town of Cagliari sulfered severely.
SUICIDE OF A COMMONS ft.
W. T. Robertson Cuts His Throat in a
Fit of iu3anity.
London, Oct. 6.—Sir William Tindal
Robertson committed suicide at Brighton
to-day by cut'ing his throat. Tne deceased
represented B igbton in the House of Com
mons. In politics he was a conservative.
He was blind, and served on the royal
commisdon fur inquiring into the condition
of the blind. He took bis life in a fit of in
sanity.
A Reprieve 1 hat Came Too Lata
Madrid. Oct. 6.— The government yes.
terday granted a reprieve to a murderer
condemned to be executed at Ossuuj. There
was some delay in transmit ing the reprieve
wnen they reacj. and he prison
the sentence of death had been carried out.
Fleasburg’a Harbor Laborers Strike.
Berlin, Oct. 6.—The harbor laborers at
Fie sburg have gone on st. me. Many
vessels rs.naiu unit e ted. and the chamber
of commerce ha* asked the comma, der of
the local garrison to send SuJkii.rs to do the
work of tae st. liters.
To Fouod a Catholic University.
Br.RN*, Oct. fi.—'Hie eounoi of sta'e of
the canton of Fribourg has voted v.i&u.OcO
franca to found a Catamite univeraity.
