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THE MORNING NEWS. I
I Established 1850. Incorporated 1888. >
A J. H. ESTILL, President. \
FIRE HAS A SUNDAY FEAST
THB OSWELL BUILDING AT BIR
MINGHAM IN A BLAZE.
Eeveral Firms Burned Out at a Total
Loss of $60,000, with Only Partial
Insurance A Six-story Furniture
Factory Gives Detroit Its Largest
Illumination Since 1380.
Birmingham, Ala., March 9. —Fire this
morning gutted the Oswell building on
street. It was occupied on the
ground floor by Oswol’s undertaking es
tablishment, the Misfit Clothing Company,
and McGuire Ward’s saloon. The upper
stories contained a large hall where public
meetings were held, and another ball where
the Odd Fellows, Typographical Union, and
other societies met, and rooms occupied by
Drs. Davis & Davis, and a number of sleep
ing apartments.
THE LOSSES.
The loss of everything in the building is
nearly complete.
Mr. Osweil owned the building, which
was valued at $3,000, and his stock
amounted to some $15,000 more. He bad no
insurance.
The Misfit Clothing Company carried $O,-
Cooinsurance
R. E. Jones’ job office, in the second
story, is a total loss; insured.
The Odd Fellows lost all their records
and regalia of the local lodge, the state
grand lod re, and also of the grand encamp
ment. This loss is irreparable. No value
can bo put upon it, except that the tangible
proper! y lost by the local lodge was worth
about $15,1100.
THREATENED TO SPREAD.
The Are at onetime threatened to spread
to some highly valuable adjacent buildings,
and did burn the roof from one before it
could be checked.
The origin of the Are is ascribed to a gas
jet left burning in the Misfit Clothing Com
pany’s tailor shop.
Tho total loss is something over $OO,OOO.
A SCORCHER AT DETROIT.
Detroit, Mich., March 9.—Fire was dis
covered this eveniug in the rear of Gray &
Baffy’s six-story brick fnrniture factory on
Congress street, west. The fire was on the
fifth floor and before the department got to
work had gained great headway among
very dry materials. Although a general
alarm was turned in soon after, the flames
spread rapidly to the roof and then down
ward until the roof and upper floor foil,
carrying the fire to the ground.
TAKES A CHAIR FACTORY.
The Carroll & Hunt Chair Company
establishment on the west went next, and
the Ostler Printing Company and the
Carroll cigar manufactory, occupying two
numbers on the east, followed. At mid
night the fire was under control, but was
still burning furiously. This is the largest
fire Detroit has experienced since the D. M.
Ferry seed store fire in January, 1886,
when the loss ran int > millions. The total
loss is esti oated at s2so,ooo,which is partly
covered by insurance.
The burned buildings were the property
of Senator Janies McMillan and valued at
$70,000.
MANACLES AND FILTH.
A Bad State of Affairs in the Kansas
City Workhouse.
KansasCitt, Mo., March 9. —The charge
made by Alderman Ford concerning the
frightful condition of the prisoners co in
fined in the workhouse is found to be truel
Two reporters of the Times investigated
the matter yesterday and they find that
about seventy-five male prisoners are
crowded into n rrow and filthy cells, reek
ing with vermin, and not provided with
sanitary regulations. Men are constantly
manacled with shackles weighing from five
to thirteen pounds, and are therefore pre
vented from bathing. Two of the prison
ers said they had not taken a bath for two
months.
TALL MEN IN SHORT CELLS.
Many of the cells are 5 feet long and in
some of them are confined men 6 feet tall.
Over these seventy-five prisoners there are
two guards. The guards say that on ac
count of the desperate character of the men
it is necessary to shackle them to prevent
their escape so 1< nig as they alone have to
guard them and they remain in
their present quarters. The building
is of wood and the partitions are thin. The
committee anpoluled to investigate the mat
ter w;il report at to-morrow’s council meet
ing. It is thought likely that anew brick
prison will be erected provided with proper
sanitary regulati ns and a sufficient nrmber
of guards to watch the prisoners to do away
with the shackles.
FIERCE FIGHTING IN FORMOSA.
Two Hundred Chinese Soldiers Led
Into an Ambush and. Slain.
San Francisco, March 9. —Advices from
China by the Bteamer Belgic state that the
aborigines of Formosa banded themselves
together and < Sored such determined op
position to the Chinese troops that were
trying to quell the Formosa riot that the
commander of the Chinese forces, after 200
of his men had been led into an ambush
and all but ten slaughtered, gave up the
campaign against the rebels and opened
friendly negotiations with them.
THE NATIVES PACIFIED.
The natives, on receiving promises of
large concessions, ag oed to abandon their
hostile attitude toward the Chinese authori
ties. Brigandage, however, is still ram
pant.
The French and Chinese telegraph lines
will soon be connected at Mongtsze, on the
Touquin-Chiuese frontier.
HEBREW YOUNG IIEN’3 SOCIETY.
The Organization Modeled After the
Young Men's Christian Association.
Baltimore, Md., March 9. —About 500
young men of the Hebrew faith gathered
together this afternoon and organized them
selves into a Hebrew Young Men’s Ass cia
tion. The first president is Mr. Martin
Lenmayer. Nearly every rabbi in the city
approved of the suggestion of the organiza
tion, and the membership embraces attend
ants upon every synagogue. In so far as
practicable the news cioty is established
upon the plan of the Young Men’s Christian
Association.
An I .vontor Drowns Himself.
Kichmond, Va., March 9.—The body of
W. C. V. alter, a railway signal l ventor of
this city, wa-. found floating in the canal to
day. Mr. Walter crowned himself yester
day. His mind is kuowu to have been af
fected.
Taulbee'a Ufa Ebbing Fast.
Washington, March 9.—Ex-Congress
man Taulbee o uitiunos to grow more and
more feeble and his hold on life moie and
mote iiretarious. He is worse to-night
than he was yesterday, and death may
come before m ruing. His recovery now
would be almost mi.muulous.
JEofninn
A DEAD CHILD.
It la Deft on a Car Beat by a Prominent
Woman Who is Missing.
A\ ichita, Kan., March 9. —At the union
depot, about 11 o’clock to-day, a Santa Fe
brakeman noticed a bundle on a car sent
and also remembered that the bundle for
some miles, as the train came in from the
north and west, had been nursed by a
woman and a young man, apparen’ly
her son. He had supposed it was a poodle
dog, and, seeing the w man and son were
off the train, supposed they had left it
by mistake, and ho picked it up hurriedly
to take it within the depot. As he rushed
out of the car ho noticed it did not feel like
a pet dog, and removing the shawl as he
hastened along was greatly surprised to find
that he held in his arms the corpse of a
child. He immediately made the fact known,
and the trainmen immediately commenced
to look for the woman and young man. The
boy was picked out and in an instant placed
under arrest, as he was taking a hack to
leave.
Some of the passengera in the car wore
summoned by the authorities to hold over
for information. The corpse and young
man wore taken to the coroner's office. One
of the passengers detained, as well as some
citizens, recognized the young man as Otto
Burkett of Kingman, fit y mi es west. After
some questioning he admitted his name and
later, breaking down, said the woman with
him was his mother, Mrs. I)r. P. J. M. Bur
kett of Kiugman, who is sister of D. L.
Green, a promi nent man here, and the sister
of the wife of Hon. H. C. Sluss of this city.
The young man claimed to know nothing of
where she was, and the authorities, city and
county, aided by a detective agency, com
menced to look for her. They called on all
the relatives in the city and nothing could
be learned of her.
Later on all stations for some miles were
wired a description, and outgoing trains
watched. At 10 o’clock to-night absolutely
nothing had been heard from her. Tho
coroner's inquesS was postponed until to
morrow in order to gain time to make the
arrest. It was believed by some that she
was being held by relatives somewhere, in
order to savo her from the jail to-night. The
young man says he and i is mother have boon
to California, and were returning homo.
While on the coast they took the child from
a hospital, and it died twenty miles
from the city, and not wanting to he put to
any trouble they left it in the car, thinking
the authorities .would take charge of the re
mains, and they wouid not bo put to any
expense. He also makes.tue statement that
the child belonged to a friend, and they
were to care for it a few weeks, and that it
was only < ne mouth old, refusing in the la t
stateme t to give the name of the friend or
where they came in possession of it. He is
in a safe cell at the jail. A passenger says
that be noticed the woman and young man
were very nervous for 100 miles, talking in
a whisper. No one saw w hat was in t.. 0
bundle.
The city physician, with four others, ex
amined the corpse, and report that indica
tions are that the child was starved to
death. One of the physicians says death
may have resulted from strangulation.
Shortly before 11 o’clock to-night the au
thorises called at the residence of D. S.
Green, brother of Mrs. Burkett, and de
manded to be informed of her whereabouts.
He consented to give tho information, and
said she had been held at his home, the in
quest being put off until to-morrow, fearing
she would be taken to jail. She then told
the officers the same story told by the boy.
Owing to the prominence of her brother,
and as a result of a pledge from him, she
was allowed to remain at his residence over
night.
NO MORE FUN WITH MARTIN.
He ia N ow One of the Favorites W ith
the Correspondents.
Washington, March 9. —The newspaper
boys have about got through having their
fun with Martin of Texas. Anybody know
ing him soon fiuds out what a thorough
good fellow he is, and that his qnaintness of
speech and dress are but a reflection of an
unconventional but none the loss genial
character. It is a foolish notion rf some
people that a provincial diaieot is a sign of
illiteracy. Mr. Martin is an educated gen
tleman of good family, inherited means,
and skilled and successful in the praclice
of law. He was a member of
the Texas Senate before the war
and the youngest man who ever sat in that
body. v He entered the confederate service
as a private in the Fourtli Texas regiment,
a corps d’elite, and never saw his home or
missed a fight for four years. After the
war he became both planter and lawyer,
and in the latter capacity served a term as
district attorney. He is the most popular
man in his district, and can come to con
gress as long as ho wants to do eo. The
Texas delegation in congress is full of strong
men in one way or another, anil all of them
have marked individuality of character.
AT THE MERCY OF THE WAVEa
Two Men Adrift in a Dory Almost
Maddened by Their Sufferings.
Gloucester, Mass., March 9.—The
schooner Blanche, which has arrived from
the Grand Banks to-day, had on board
Edward Fogerty and William Wilson, mem
bers of the crew of the schooner Nellie G.
Thurston, who were picked up in a dory.
They went adrift Feb. 27 while attending
trawls during a thick fog. The weather
continued thick for five days. Their
feet, hands and tongues also became
swollen, and they lay in the dory
ad praved for death to relieve their suffer
ings. They had three raw fish in the dory,
winch they tried to eat, but were made
sick. They became delirious, and had about
made up their mitids to j uinp overboar i and
end their sufferings when the Blanche
rescued them.
MACON MENTION.
Mrs. Lamar’s Daughter Dead—An Al
leged Rascal In the Tolls.
Macon, Ga., March 9.—The wife of Capt
E. E. Park died here from nervour prostra
tion at 7 o’clock last night. She was a
daughter of Gen. W. 8. Holt, formerly
president of the Southwestern railroad,
whose widow married L. Q C. Lamar.
There is a prospect of the erection of a
weaving mill in Macon, to co t iIOO.OOO.
There is none in the city now and it has long
been needed.
Thomas A. Curran was arrested here this
afternoon for rascalities alleged to have
beeu committed in Columbus and Buffalo,
Ala. He was followed to Macon by Miss
Lizzie DeLoach, a young woman of Colum
bus, who is one of his alleged victims.
ALL ABOUT AUGUSTA.
Mrs. Bertllng Found—Burial of the Fal
len Beauty—A Corpse on the Street.
Augusta, Ga. , March 9. —The lady found
in Augusta last night proves to be Mrs.
Berthng of Athens, who wandered from
home several weeks ago. Her husband came
for her to-night. .. .
Gail Montague, the member of the demi
monde who committed suicide Saturday,
waffbiiried this morning. A minister con
duced the services, ad a number of cbris
tin ii la J es attended.
To-night an unknown negro was found
iicl on Campbell street. Death resulted
from natural causes.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1800.
LIVING LIFE OVER AGAIN
TALMAG3 BAYS MOST PEOPLE
WOULDN’T CARS TO DO IT.
He Thinks it Would be a Stale and
Stupid Experience—Heartaches that
One Wouldn’t Care to Undergo a
Second Time—Heaven Would be Just
that Much Farther Away.
Brooklyn, March 9.—The Rev. T. De-
Witt Tahuage, D. D., preached in the
Academy of Music, Brooklyn, this morn
ing, to an overflowing congregation. After
expounding appropriate passages of Script
ure he announced his subject to be:
“Would You Like to Live Your Life Over
Again?” His text was Job ii., 4: “Ail that
a man bath will he give for his life.” He
said:
That is untrue. Lhe Lord did not say it,
but Satan said it to the Lord, when the evil
one wanted Job still more afflicted. The
record is: “So went Satau forth from tho
presence of the Lord and smote Job with
sore boils.” Am! Satan has I een the author
of ail eruptive disease since then, and he
hopes by poisoning the blood to poison the
soul. But the result of the diabolical ex
periment which left Job victor proved the
falsity of the Satanic remark, “All that a
man hath will he give for his life.” Many
a captain who has sto >d on the bridge of the
steamer till his pasaeugeis got off and
he drowned; many an engineer who has
kept his l and on the throttle valve or his
foot on the brake uatd the most of the train
was saved, while bo went down to death
through the open draw-bridge; many a
fireman who plunged into a blazing house
to get a sleeping child out, sacrificing his
life in the attempt, and thousands of
martyrs who submitted to fiery stake and
knife of massacre, and headman’s ax and
guillotine rat .er than surrender principle,
proving that in many a case my text was
not true, winn it says: “All tiiat a man
hath he will give for his life."
But Satan's falsehood was built cn a
truth. Life is a \ ery precious, and if we
would not give up ail there are many things
we would surrender rather than surrender
it. We see how precious life is from the
fact that we do eve ytuing to prolong it.
Hence aii sanitary reg lation c ,;all study of
hvglene, all fear of draugnts, ad water
proofs, ail doctors, ail medicines, aii strug
gle in crisis of accident. An admiral of
the British navy was court-msrtiaiod for
turning bis ship around in
time of danger and so dam
aging the ship. It was proved against him.
But when his time came lobe heard he
said: “Gentlemen, I did turn the ship
around, and admit that it was damaged,
but do you want to know why I turned it?
There vras a man overuoard. and 1 w anted
to save him, and I did save
him, and I co stder the life
of one sailor worth all the vessels of
the British navy." No wonder he was
vindicated. Life is indeed very pre
cious. Yea, there are tiiose who deem
life so precious they would like to rq eat it,
they would like to try itsg.in. They would
like to go back from’seventy to sixty, fro n
sixty to fifty, from fifty to forty, from forty
to thirty, from thirty to twenty. I purpose
for very practical and useful purposes, as
will appear before I get through, to di-cuss
the quesiion we have all asked of others,
and others have again and again asked of us,
w uld you like to live your lire over again ?
The fact is that no intelligent and right
fearing man is satisfied with his past life.
We have all made so many mistakes, stum
bled into so many blunders, and said so
many things that ought not to have been
said and done so many things that ought
not to have been done, that we can suggest
at least ninety-five per cent, of im
provement. Now would it not be grand if
the good Lord should say to you: “You
can go back and try it over again. I will
by a Word turn your hair to brown
or black or golden, and smooth all the
wrinkles out of your temple and cheek, and
take the bend out of your shoulders, aud
extirpate the stiffness from the joint aud
the rhqum tic twinge from the foot, and
you shail be twenty-one years of age and
just what you were when you reached that
point before.” If tho proposition were
made I think many thousands would ac
cept it. That feeling caused the ancient
search for wbat was called the foun
tain of youth, tile waters of which
taken would turn the hair of the octo
genarian into the curly locks of a boy,
and, however old a person who drank
at that fountain, he would be young again.
The island was said to belong to the group
of the Bahamas, but lay far out iu the ocean.
The great Spanish explorer, Juan Ponce de
Leon, fellow voyager with C dumbus, I have
no doubt felt that if he could discover that
fountain cf youth he would do as much as
his friend had done in discovering America.
So lie put out in 1512 from Porto Rico and
cruised about among the Bahamas in t eareh
of that fountain. I am glad ha did not
find it. There is no such fountain.
Bun if tuera were and its wa ere wore
l ottlde up aud sent a broad at a thousind
dollars a bottle, the demand would be
greater than the supply, and many a man
who has come through n life of usefulness
aud perhaps sin to old age, would be
shaking up the potent liquid, and if beware
directed to take only a teaspoonful after
each meal, would be so anxious to make
sure work ho would take a tablespoonful,
a..d if directed to take a tablespoonful,
would take a glassful. Bat some of
you would have to go back fur
ther than to twe.ty-oue years of
age to make a fair start, for
there are many who manage to get
all wrong before that period. Yea, in order
to get a fair start some would have to go
back to the father a.d raotbe and g-t them
corrected; yea, to the gran fatner aud
grandmother and have their life c irrected,
lor some of you are suffering from bad
hereditary iuflueuces whioli started a hun
dred years ago. Well, if your grandfat her
lived his life over i gam, and y ur father
lived bis life over again, ana you lived your
life over again, what a o.uttered up place
this world would be, a place fll.ed with
miserable attempts at repairs. I begin to
think that it is better for each gem ration
to have only one chance, and then fo them
to pass off and give another generation a
chance.
Besides that, if we were permitted.'to liv e
life over again, it would be a stale and
stupid experience. The zest and spur and
enthusiasm of life come from the fac that
we have never been along this r ad before,
and everything is new, and we are alert for
what may appear at the next turn of the
road. Suppose you, a man in mid-life or
old age, were, with your present feelings
aid large attainments, put back into
the thirties, or the twenties, or into
the teens, what a nuisance you would
be to others and what an unhappiness
to yourself. Your contemporaries would
not want you and you would aot want them.
Things that in your previous j mrney of
life stirred your healthful ambition, or gave
you pleasurable surprise, or led you into
happy iuierr. gation, would only call fortn
from you a disgusted M Ob, ps aw!” You
would b blase at 30 and a m.santtirope at
40, aud une durable at 50. The most man
- stupid thing imaginable would
be a second j • urney of life. It is
amusing to hear people say: “I
would like to live my life over
again, it 1 could take my present experience
and know lodge of thing* back witn me and
begin under those improved auspices.”
W by, w hat an interesting buy you would
be with your present attainments in a
child's mind. No one would want such a
boy around the house. A philwopher nt
30. a scientist at 15. an archaeologist at 10
and a domestic nuisance all the time. Ati
oak crowded into an acorn. A Rocky
mountain eagle thrust back into the egg
shell from which it was hatched.
Besides that, if you took life over again,
you would have to take its deep sadnesses
over again. Would you want to try again
the griefs and the heartbreaks, and the
bereavements through which you have
gons? What a mere that w o shall never
be anlled to suffer them ngaii! We may
have others bad enough, but those old ones
never again. Would you want to go
through the process of losing your father
again or your mother again or your com
panion in life again or your child
again? If you were permitted to stop
at the sixtieth milestone or the
fiftieth milestone or tho fortieth mile
stone and retrace your steps to the
twentieth, your experience would be some
thing like mine one day last November in
Italy. 1 walked through a great city with
a friend and two guides, aud there were in
all the city only four per-ons, and they
were those of our own group. We went up
and down the streets; wee .teredthe houses,
the museums, ihe temples, the theaters. Wo
examined the wonderful pictures on the
walls and the most exquisite mosaic on
the floor. Iu the streets were the doep
woru ruts of wagons, but not a wagon in
the city. On the front steps of mansions
the word "Welcome,” in Latin, but no
human being to greet us. The only bodies
of any of the citizens that we saw were
petrified and in the museum at the gates.
Of the thirty-five thousand people who
once lived in those homes and wor
shiped in those temples and clap;>od
in those theaters, not one left! For
eighteen hundred years that city of
lVmpeit had been buried before modern
exploration scooped out of it the lava of
Vesuvius. Well, he who should be permit
ted to return on the pathway of his earthly
life and live it over again would find as
lonely and sad a pilgrimage. It would lie
an exploration of the dead past. The uld
school house, the old church, the old home,
the old [day ground either gone or occupied
by others, and for you more depre sing
than was our Pompeiin visit iu November.
Besides that, would you want to ri k the
temptations of life over again? From the
fact that you are here I conclude that
though in mauy respects your life may
have been unfortuna e and uncousocrated
you have got on eo far tolerably well, if
nothing more than tolerable. As for myself,
though my life has been far from being as
consecrated as I would like to have had it,
I'wouid not want to try it over again, lest
next time I would do worse. Why,
just look at the temptations we have
all passed through and just look at the
multitudes who have gone completely
under. Just call over the roll of your
schoolmates and college mates, the clerks
who were with you iu the same store or
bank, or the operatives in the same factory
w ith just as good prospects as you, who
have come to complete mishap. Some young
man that told you that he was going to be
a millionaire and own the fastest trotters
on Westchester turnpike and re ire by tee
time he was 35 years cf age, you ilo not
hear from for many years, and know
nothing about him until Eomo day be
comes into your store and asks for five
cents to get a mug of beer. You, the good
mother of a household and all your chil
dren rising up to call you blessed, can re
member when you were quite jealuuifof
the belle of the village who was so traus
’cendently fair and popular. But while you
have these two honorable and queeuly
names of wifo and mother, she became a
poor waif of the street, and went into
the blackness of darkness forever. Live
life over again? Why, if many of
those who are now respectable were
permitted to experiment, the next
journey would be demolition. You got
through, as Job says, by tho skin of t e
teeth. Next time you might not get
through at all. Satan wouid say: “I
know him now better than 1 did before, aud
have for fifty years been studying his weak
nesses, and I will weave a stronger web of
circumstances to catch him next time.”
And Satan would concenter his forces on
this one man, and the last state of that
man would be worse than the first. My
friends, our faces are in the right di
rection. Better go forward than back
ward, even if wa had the choice. The
greatest disaster I can think of would bo
for you to return to boyhood in 1390. O,
if life were a smooth Luzerne or Cayuga
lake, I would like to get into a yacht and
sail over It, not once, but twice—yea, a
thousand times. But life is an uncertain
sea, and some of the ships crash on the ice
bergs of cold indifference, and some take
fire of evil passion, and some lose tbeir bear
ings and run into tho skerries, and some
are never heard of. Surely on such a
treacherous sea as that 0.. e voyage is
enough.
Besides all this, do you know if you could
bavo your wish and live lito over again it
would put you so much farther from re
union with your friends in heaven? If you
are in the noon of life or tiie eening of life
you are not very far from the golden gate
at which you are to meet your transported
and erapsradi-ed loved ones. You are now,
let us say, twenty years or ten years or one
year off from celestial conjunction. Now
suppose you went back in your earthly
life thirty years or forty years or
fifty years, what an awful post
ponement of the time of reuuonl It
would be as though you ware going
to San Francisco tuagieat banquo , and
you g'it to Oakland, four or five miles this
side of it, and then came back to II b okeu
or Harlem to got a he;ter start; as though
you we e going to England to bo crowned,
aud having come in si<bt of the mo m ains
of Wales, you put back to Sandy Hook in
order to make a bet er voyage. Tho further
on you get iu life, if a Christian, the nearer
you are to the renewal of broken up coia
pansionship. No; tho wheel of time
turns in the right direction, and it
is well it turns so fast. Three hundred
and sixty-five revolutions in a
year and forward, rather than three hun
dred and sixty-tivo revolutions in a year
and backward. But hear ye! hear yol
while I tell you bow you may practically
live your lifeover again aud bo all the better
for it. You may put Into the remaining
years of your life all you have learned of
wisdom iu your past life. You may make
the oomiiig ten years worth the precod
ing forty or fifty years. When a man
says he would like to live bis life over
again because he would do so much
better, and yet goes right on living as
he has always lived, do you not see
be stultifies himselft He proves that
if he could go back he would do almost the
same as be has done. If a man eat green
applas some Wednesday in cholera time aud
Is thrown into fearful cramps and say* on
Thursday: “I wish I had b eu more prudent
in my diet; oh, if I could live Wednesday
over again,” and then on Friday eat* apples
Just as green, he prove* that it would nave
been no advantage for hi u to live Wedi.ee
day ove- again. Audit we. deploring our
past life and with the idea ot
improvement, long for an opportunity
to try it over agai i, yet go
on maxing the t .me mistake* and commit
ting to* same sins, we only demonstrate
that tba rspeti i on of our existenoe weald
afford no improvement. It was green ap
ple* before, audit would be gram apple*
over again. As soon as a ship captain
strikes a rock iu the lake or sea he reports
it, and a buoy is swung over that reef, and
marines henceforth stand off from
that rock. And all our mistakes
in the past ought to lie buoys warn
ing us to keep in the right chan
nel. There is tio excuse for us if we split
on the same rock where we split bef ore.
Going along the sidewalk at night where
excavations are being made, we frequently
see a lantern on a framework, and we turn
aside, for that lantern says, keep out of this
hole. Aud all along tne pathway of life
lanterns are set as warnings, and by the
time we come to mid-life we ought to know
where it is safe to walk aud whore it is un
safe.
Besides that, we have all those years been
learning how to be useful, ami lu tho next
decade we ought to accomplish more for
God, and the cnurch, aud the world thau in
auy previous four decades. 'The host way
to atone for past indolence or past trans
gression is by future assiduity. Yet you
often find Christian men wiio wore not con
verted until they were forty or fifty, as
old age comes on, saying: "Well, my work
is about dons ami it is time
for me to rest." They gave forty
years of their life to satau and the world, a
little fragment of their life lo God, ad
now they want to rest. Wlieiber that
belongs to comedy or tragedy I say not.
The mau who gave ono-half f his earthly
existence to tho world and of the remaining
two-quarters one to Christian work and the
other to rest, would not, 1 suppose, got a
very brilliant recaption iu heaven. If there
are any dried leaves in heaven they would
be appropriate for his garland; or if
tliere is auy throne with broken steps
it would be appropriate for his coronation;
or auy harp with relaxed string it would bo
appropriate for his fingering. My brothe ,
y. u give uiue-tenths of your life to sin and
.Satan and then got c inverted, and then rest
awhile iu sanctified laziness, ami thou go up
to cot your heavenly reward, and
I warrant it will not take tbe
cashier of the royal hanking house a
great while to count out to you all
your dues. Ha will not ask you whether
you will have it in bills of largo denomina
tion or small. I would like to put one sen
tence of my sermon in italics, and have it
underscored, and three exclamation points
at the end of the sentence, and that sentence
is t .is; As we cannot live our lives over
again, the nearest wo can come to atone for
the past is by redoubled holiness and indus
try in the future.
If this rail train of life has been detained
and switched oil’, and is far t>obiud the time
tabl, tho engineer for the rest of the way
must put on more pressure of steam and go
a mile a minute in order t > arrive at the
right time and place under the approval of
the conductor and directors.
As I supposed it would be, there are
multitudes of young people listening to this
sermon on whom this subject has acted
with the force of a galvanic battery. With
out my saving a word to them, they have
soliloquized, saying: “As one cannot live
his life over again, and 1 can make only
one trip, I must look out and make no
mistakes; I have but one chance and I
must make the most of it." My young
friends, I am glad you made this application
of the sermon yourself. When a min
ister toward the close of his sermon says:
“Now a few words by wav of application,”
people begin to look around for their hats
and get their arm through one sleeve of
their overcoats, and the sermonic applica
tion is a failure. lam glad you have made
your own application and that you are re
solved, like a quaker of whom I read years
ago, who, in substance, said: “I shall bo
along this path of life but once, and
so I must do all the kindness i can and
all the good I can." My hearers, the
mistakes of youth can never lie cor
rected. Time gono is gone forever. An
opportunity passed tho thousandth part of
a second has by one leap reached the other
side of a great eternity. In the autumn
when the birds migi ato,youlook up and see
tho sky black with wings and the docks
stretching out into many leagues of air,
and so to-day I look up and see two large
wings in full sweep. They nre followed by
a flock of three hundred and sixty-five, and
they are the flying days. Each of tho
flying days is followed by twenty-four,
and they are the flying hours, and each of
these is followed by sixty, and these are the
flying minutes. Where did this great fl -ck
start from? Eternity past. Where nre
they bound? Eternity to come. You
might as well go a gunning for the quails
that whistled last year in flie meadows, or
the robins that last year car ded in the sky
as to try to fetch down and bag one of the
past opportunities of your li/e. Do not say,
“I will lounge now and make it up after
wards." Young men and boys, you can’t
make it up. My observation is that those
who in youth so wed wild oats, to tho ond of
tneir short life sowed wild oats, and that
those who st irt sowing Genesee wheat
always s>w Geneseo wheat. And then the
reaping of tho harvests is so different.
There is grandfather now. He has lived to
old age bacausa hi habits have been good.
His eyeßight for this wo id bus got some
what and m, but his eyesight for heaven 13
radiant. His hearing is not so acute as it
once was, and he must bend clear over to
bear what his little grandchild save when
she asks him what he lias brought for her.
But he easily catches the music raised from
supernal spheres. Men passing in the
streets take off their hats in reverence
and women say: “What a good old man
he is.” Seventy or eighty years all for God
and for making this world happy. Splen
did! Glorious! Magnificent! Ho will have
hard work getting into heaven because
those whom he helped to get there will till
up and crowd the gates to tel! him how
glad they are at his coming until he says:
“Floase to stand back a little till I pas -
through and cast my crown at the feet of
him whom having not seen I love." Ido
not know what you call taat. I call it the
harvest of Genesee wheat.
Out yonder is an an very old at forty
years of age, at a time when he ought to be
t.ouyant as the morning. He got bad habits
on him very early, and those habits have
become wors*. He is a man on fire, on fire
wit.u alcoholism, on fire with all evil habit),
out with the world and tho world out wit i
him. Down and falling deeper. His
swollen hands in his threadbare pockets
and his eyes fixed on tue ground, he posses
through tbe street, and the quick step of an
iunocent child or the strong stop of a young
man or the roll of a prosperous car
riage maddens him, and he curses so
ciety aud he curses God. Fallen sick with
no resources, he is carried to the almshouse.
A loathsome spectacle, he lies all day long
waiting for dissolution, or in the night rises
on his cot and fights apparition of what he
might have bee i, and of what he will be.
He started life with as good a prospect a)
any man on the American continent, but
there he is,la bloated carcass waiting for the
shovels of public charity to put him five
feet under. dje has only reaped what
he sowed. Harvest of wild oats! “There
is a wav that seemeth right to
a man, but the end thereof is death.”
You g man. as you cannot live life over
again, however you may long to do so, be
sure to have your one life right. There is
in this august assembly I wot not, for we
aro made up of ail sections of this land and
from many lands, some young ma i who
has gone away from borne and par baps
uuder some little spite or evil persuasion of
uuother, and hit parents know net where
he it. My son, go home! Do not go to sal
Don't go to-night where you may be tempted
to go. Go home 1 V our father will be glad
to see you and your mother. I need not '
tell you how she feels. How I would
like to make your parents a present of their
wayward boy, repe.itant and in his right
mud. I would like to write them a letter
aud you to carrv tho letter, saying: “By
the blessing of Givi on my sermon, I intro
duce to vou one whom you have never seen
before, for he has become anew creature in
Christ Jesus." My boy, go homo
and put your iired head on the bosom
that nured you so tenderly in your
childhood years. A young Scotoa
inan was in 1 attic taken c iptive by a band
of Indians, and he learned their language
and adopt, and their habits. Years oas-ed ou,
but the ol.i Indian chief never forgot that
he had in his possession a young man who
did not belong to him. Well, one day this
tril of Indians came in sight of the Scotch
regiments from whom this young man had
been cap.ured, and the old Indian chieftain
said: “I lost my s>n in battle, and I
know how a fattier feels at the loss of a
son. Do you think you' father is
yet alive?" Tho young man said: “lam
tho only son of my fatter, and I hope ho is
still alive.” Then said the Indian chieftain:
“Because of the loss of luy • >u this world
is a desert You go free. Heturn to your
countryman. Revisit your father, that he
may rejoice when he sees tbe sun rise in the
morning and the trees blossom in the
spring. So I say to you, young mart, cap
tive of way wardness and sin, your Father
is waiting for vou. Your mother is wait
ing for you. Your sisters are waiting for
you. God is watting for you. Go bomel
to home!
BONOhED BY HIS EMPEROR.
Von Bcettichur Decoratod With the
Order of the Black Eagle.
Berlin, March !).—To mark the anni
versary of the death of his grandfather,
Emperor William 1., the emperor to-day
sent un aide-de-camp to Herr von Boettlohor,
minister of the interior, with a decoration
of the Order of tho Black Eagle. Accom
panying tho decoration was a letter in the
emperor’s own handwriting, in which he
associates honor with the memory of the
late emperor, to whom he refers as tho pio
neer of the social reform movement, which,
he says, he has resolved to pursue with all
persistence. In all bis effort* to carry out
tho desired reforms the emperor says he has
found Heir v.u Boetticher his main sup
porter, and he further expresses his warm
acknowledgment of the minister’s services
to tile state, assures him of his full con
fidence and appreciation, and says he hopes
the bestowal of tho decoration will spur him
on to further work in the same cause. The
incident is much remarked in connection
with rumors that Herr von Boetticher will
succeed Prince Bismarck in the ollice of
chancellor.
THE MAUSOLEUM DEDICATED. .
Tho imperial mausoleum at Charlotten
burg was dedicated to-day. The route to
tho tomb was lined with sight-seers, who
res|iectfully uncovered their heads us the
imperial party passed on its way to attend
the ceremony. The services were of an im
pressive character. They were conducted
by Court Chaplain Koegel. Tbe Knights
of the Black Eagle were preswut, headed
by Count von M' ltke. Prince Bismarck
was absent. Before returning to the palace
the emperor and members of his family
placed wreaths npou the coffins of William
aud Augusta, which were completely hidden
from si,tit by the quantities of frosti flower*
that were heaped upon them.
FRANCE AT THE BODES.
The Radicals and Socialists Hold Their
Own On the Kecond Ballots.
Paris, March o.—Elections were hold in
a number of districts to-day for members of
the Chamber of Deputies.
In the first district of Toulouse M. Leigue,
radical and socialist, received 5,392 votes,
and M. Susini 3,305.
In the second district M. Calvinhac, rad
ical and socialist, who was unseated by the
Chamber of Deputies some time ago, re
ceived 4,396, M. Lubat, conservative, 6,134.
and M. Sirwin, opportunist, 4,063. Second
ballots are necessary.
M. Loreau, who was unseated for Gien, is
re-elected, receiving 7,033 against 7,334 for
M. Portalis.
M. Delabay, conservative, has been re
elected for Cblnon; M. .Muller, conserva
tive, for L iches; and M. GuUlemant, repub
lican, for Fonteuay Lecomte.
SIBERIA'S HUMAN HYENAB.
London’s Radicals Hold a Mass Meet
ing as a Protest.
London, March 9.—Two thousand radi
cals and socialists mat in Hyde Park to
day to protest against the Siberian out
rages. Mr. Burris, the labor agitator, was
the chief speaker. He denounced tho out
rages, and called upon tbe English govern
ment to use its influence with Hus-no to pre
vent a recurrence of such acts of cruelty.
Michael Davitt, Mrs. Besant, and other
promised speakers failed to attend the
meeting.
FRANOR’a ROW IN AFRICA.
Tbe Situation Unchanged—Editors Ad
vocate Vigorous Me’.sure*.
Paris, March 9.—Ad vices from M. Bayol,
the French agent on the west coast of Af
rica, dated yesterday, are to the effect that
the position in Dahomey is unchanged.
Republican papers approve M. Ehenne’s
proposal of vigorous measures against the
king and people of Dahomey, but nre op
posed to curryi g the war into the interior.
Pope Leo and Labor.
London, March 9.—The Chronicle learns
that Germany is treating with the Vatican
with a view to representation of tbe pope at
the Berlin labor c inference. The fact that
Italy will send delegates to the conference
proves an obstacle in the path of the German
government.
A By-Election in Germany.
Berlin, March 9.—Herr Braeger, who
was elect* I to the Reichstag from Varel
and fr >ra the First district ol Berlin, has
decided to sit for Varel, thus nec s-it iti g
a by-election In Berlin. Ilerreu Hiuzspeter
and Meyer will be candidates.
Parnell to Hue a Paper.
London, March 9.— Mr. Parnell will
prosecute the Exeter Gazette for publishing
the first forged letter priu ed in the Time*
iu its articles on "ParneUism and Crime,”
and copying the Times' art.cles day hy day.
Hung Herself With a Handkerchief.
Norristown. Pa., March 9.—Annie
Chorno, wao was indicted with John
lit-rdaroseu for the murder of her husband.
John Chomo, at Potiatown last November,
committed suic da in her coil to-day by
hanging hsts-lf with a silk handkerchief,
which she tied to n bar of the cell door.
Herderoseu was acquitted yosterday.
No Break la tbe Leveea.
New Orleans, March O—A special to
the Times-Deiiworut from Gr euvbie, kliis.,
sy: "Reports leoeived to-night by tele
phone from every part of the levee district
are to the effect that the leveoe are still all
right,"
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I WEEKLY. 1.38 A YEAR. I
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS.
DOLPHTO MAKE ANOTHER SEARCH
FOR THE SENATE'S LEAK.
Blair’s Great Free-for-All Talking
Match May Again Take tbe Floor
and Reach a Vote Government
Loans on Beal Estate to Come Up
as a Proposition.
Washington, March 9.— The uncertainty
surrounding the disposition of the quo tions
raised by the 'recent consideration of execu
tive session matters makes it imjiossihie to
forecast with any degree of accuracy the
work of the Senate for this week. Senator
Dolph’s committee will to-morrow resume
the interrogation, under oath, of members
of the Senate respecting their connection
with the “leaks” in the post, and tho report
of their discoveries may precipitate another
discussion similar to that of last week. So
much of the time of the Senate was taken
up with that discussion that the Blair edu
cational Dili was not disposed of, and
it still heads the calendar as the
unfinished business. Very general
f.eiing exists in favor of closing the debate
this week and of taking a vote on the hill if
possible. But that may not ho secured
until a week from to-mo r jw. Mr. Higgins
.f Delaw vc is announced tarn speech in
favor of tlio bill Monday, and Mr. Evarts
will close the debate in support of the
measure.
Montana’s senatorshii’.
The report of the committee on privileges
and elections on the Montana case is likely
to be made this week, but the debate that
must ensue will not begin until the Blair
bill is out of tho way.
Tho urgent defleienev appropriation bill
will he reported from the committee on
appropriations this week, and its considera
tion urged at the earhost possible moment.
HHenator Stanford has announced his in
tention to offer a resolution to-morrow in
structing tbe finance committee to investi
gate anil report upon the expediency and
desirability of liie government loaning
money upon real estate mortgages at a
nominal rate of interest—l or 2 per cent,
per annum—retaining the right to call in •
certain proportion of the loans when occa
sion demands.
In the morning hours the Oklahoma town
site hill may be considered, and further pro
gress made in tbe execution of the order to
dispose of tho public building and bridge
bill on tbe calendar.
In the House.
The work of the House this week will
probably tie devoted principally to adding
new stars to the national flag. The District
of Columbia committee will occupy to-mor
row in the disposition of measures relating
to local nff drs, and after that the Oklahoma
I ill will betaken up a; and pas-.ed upon finally
as far as the House is concerned. Tnen, ac
cording to notice already given, the terri
tories eommitt o will present for the con
sideration of the. House the bill to admit
Wyoming as a state of the union, and this
will i e followed by the Idaho bill, if any
time remains.
The committee on elections desires to call
up tho contested election ca e of Mudd vs.
Compton, from Maryland, hut will only do
so according 1 1 the present arrangement if
it can bo done without interfering with the
statehood bills already mentioned.
FEDERAL GERRYMANDERING.
Tbe McComas and Hoar Bills Undergo
ing Careful scrutiny.
Washington, March 9.—Much study
and thought are being given to the consti
tutional question as to whether congress
has the power to rogulate tho districting of
states. The McComas aud Hoar bills are
being carefully scanned by mem tiers of
both parties. Mr. McComas bos expressed
his opinions on tho subject t > the effect
that re! reseutation in congress should not
bo affected by the shifting of majorities in
the states. The majority of the democrats
in the House point to Stephen A. Douglas,
able expounding of the constitution on this
point, in which he insisted that the power
the constitution gave to oongross was
merely permissive and could only be exer
cised if the legislatures failed to make soma
provision for the election of national rep
resentatives.
altogether too ingenious.
The McComas hill is a most ingenious
measure, and it is predicted that its very
ingenuity is sufficient to defeat it. The
points that the Wickham and Hoar bill left
unprotected are carefully covered by num
berless paragraphs preceded by“in case.”l’he
clerk of the House is given almost limitless
power in the preparation of the roll. The
confusion resulting from tbe passage of
this measure would be great, particularly
in Ohio and Maryland, for whose benefit
the bill was framed.
DAKOTA’S DESTITUTION.
Clara Barton Raises tbe Red Cross on a
Mission of Mercy.
Washington, March 9.—Miss Clara
Barton, president of the American National
Association of the Rod Cross, has been in
vestigating statements concerning suffering
and destitution existing among the pioneer
settlers of Nortn and South Dakota, with a
view of aiding those in need of help. 3U
has ascertained that there is urgent neces
sity for immediate action, and appeal!
tojfthe public for cadi subjo.-ipc.oss
largo enough to meet every emergency.
Bhe has information that there are at least
5,<;00 people dependent, and many more
who, though they have provisions for them
selves. n -ed feed for their stock. H. T.
Helgeson, state commissioner of agricul
ture, Grand Forks, N. D., will dutnbuts
all the funds sent to his address.
A WIDOW’S CLEVER SCHEME.
Bhe Has Her Marriage Contract An
nulled to Secure an Estate.
Ottawa, March O.—A case probably
without precedent in the local courts is b
fore the court in Montreal. The widow o)
tho late Fabieu Drapeau of the firm oi
Drapoau & Saviguac, made application t<
the superior oourt to havo the marriage
contract with her lato husband annulled.
Bhe had married Mr. Drapeau iu 1866,
when but a minor, and tbe marriage con
tract, though approved by her parents, was
not signed hy them, nor were they present
when the two contraoting parties signed it.
That oont.act provided for a separation at
to property. During the years of theii
marriage Mr. Drapeau accumulated wealth,
and at his death left property worth ovei
IIOO.OUO.
According to the marriage contract tin
lUW.OUO went entirely to bis relative*. Is
support of her petition to have that c at
tract declared null, she argued througi
counsel that, being a minor wuen elguiu|
that ooutract, her father was neoessarllj
required to bs pi eseot at the time and u
rauly it by his signature. The court upoeW
her pretension ai.d annulled the man ig>
contract, with tbe effect that toe widow B"e
can claim 060,000 as her share.