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HAVANA HAS A HORROR.
an explosion at a firs costs
MANY LIVES.
Tfce Death List at Last Accounts
Numbered Thirty-four and a Fur
ther Increase Expected—Over One
Hundred People Injured—A Hard
ware Store the Ecene of the Blaze
and a Barrel of Powder the Cause
of the Disaster.
Havana, May IS.—At 11 o’clock last
night lire broke out in YasU’ hardware
store. In a short time the flames reached a
barrel of powder in the building and a
terrific explosion followed. The whole
structure was blown to pieces and thirty
four persons were killed. Among the dead
are four fire chiefs, Honors Mus-et Zenico
viech, Oscar Conill, Francesco Ordenez and
the Venezuelan consul, Honor Francesco
.Silva, who happened to be in front of the
building at the time of the explosion.
OVER ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE INJURED.
In addition to the killed Over one hundred
persons were injured.
The explosion caused the wildest excite
ment throughout the city, and thousands
flocked to the sceje of the disaster.
The governor general, the civil governor,
and all the principal authorities of the city
were promptly on the' ground and did
everything in their po#er to aid the injured
and calm the grief-stricken relatives of the
victims.
Several houses adjacent to the wrecked
building were damaged by the explosion.
TAKING OUT HUMAN LIMBS.
Gangs of men are at work on the debris.
Many human limbs have been taken from
the ruins.
Relatives of the missing persons supposed
to be in the ruins are 'gathered on the spot,
and as the bodies are brought out the scenes
are most distressing.
PRAISE FOR THE AUTHORITIES.
The conduct of the authorities is the sub
ject of universal praise. Tho highest offi
cials have incurred personal risk in conduct
ing the search for the dead and have offered
the use of their own carriages to convey
the injured to the hospitals. Senor Pasi,
proprietor of the wrecked hardware store,
has been arrested. It is feared that there
are soveral more victims in the ruins. Over
theaters and the chamber of commerce and
many other buildings flags are flying at
half-mast. Everywhere signs of mourning
are to be seen.
FORTY MULES LIFELESS.
Flames Raging in the Nellson Mine
Shaft at Bhamokln.
Shamokin, Pa., May 18.— The Neilson
shaft is on fire, having caught from the
burning timbers of the breaker destroyed
la-t Friday night. The lower levels are
filled with gas. Twenty-five mules at the
bottom are dead and nineteen on the top
levels will probably be suffocated.
ASSUMING A SERIOUS ASPECT.
At 10 o’clock to-night tho fire hadatsumed
n serious aspect. Fire is now in the No. 12
vein at a depth of 1,000 feet, but its extent
cannot be determined, as no one can visit
that level and return alive. Smoke and foul
air were noticed issuing from the air course
of the No. 12 level at 4 o’clock this after
noon.
The nineteen mules which were in the
750-foot level are dead.
boilers and fan destroyed.
Tho breaker fire destroyed the boiler and
one fan. To-day steam facilities were ob
tained and a fan started to ventilate the
mine, but it failed to drive out the gas in
the upper level. The mine is making gas
fast, and serious explosions will occur if it
reaches the fire. Late to-night it was de
cided to turn Carbon Run creek into
the shaft and drown out the Are, It will
take thirty-six hours to turn the creek, and
if the fire is in the locality in which the
mine foreman thinks it is it will be three or
four days before the water will reach the
fire. The gas and Are are so dangerous that
every precaution is being takon to prevent
loss of life.
yturbide not a pretender.
His Imprudent Letter Not Inspired by
the Monarchists.
Cut of Mexico, May 18.—Mexican pa
pers are giving undue importance to the
Yturbide incident. Yturbide is a young
man, a grandson of the emperor of the
same name, and is now a second lieutenant
in a cavalry regiment, with no official
standing, though he has some money, which
enables him to make frequent trip to the
United States. During bis last trips he is
reported to have said that he represented
the conservative party.
RUSHED INTO PRINT.
The local press took np tho matter, when
he, boy-like, to set matters straight, rushed
into print publishing a letter in El Tempo ,
a newspaper in which he critioised the gov
ernment. the liberal party and also Presi
dent Diaz, who is commander-in-chief of
the army, and for this he was arrested and
sent to the military prison, where he is
undergoing trial for complaining against a
superior officer.
NO PLOT back of it.
The authorities attach little importance
to the affair, though they are inquiring to
ascertain whether he was instigated by
others. So far, however, it appears
that he wrote the imprudent
1 e ,tu "'lhout consulting any one,
therefore the government is inclined
to deal leniently with him, particularly as
e claims that his ideas are purely repub
ncan, and that he never dreamed of a mon
‘ liis £tttorney, Senor Virdugo, claims
Jv' ev °h flf he is found guilty he can be
tenced to only one or two months im
prisonment.
DESERTION OF A BHIP.
Capt. Cranmer Tells of the Abandon
ing of Hia Schooner.
Philadelphia, May 18. —Capt. Cran
mer of the derelict schooner Annie E. Cran
mer has arrived here, having been landed
m New York with seven of his
crew yesterday. He says his ves
m' • all ed from Suffolk, Va., on
9/vwwX bound to New York, with
UUO feet of lumber. At 11 o’clock on tho
trr a she sprung a leak and con
uuod to take in water faster than the
pumps would pump it out.
morniug of May 15, accord
„ ,5,, t 0 Capt. Cranmer, tho vessel filled
nvm i ?. mo unmanageable, ami toward 9
i.ni.?® crew left her and were picked
up by tho schooner F. B. Miller. They be
thiTii 0 “{armed at the vessoi’s condition
at they fled without saving any of their
When Capt Cranmer
Br,a tl ! at kis vessel had been picked up
and towed into the Delaware he was greatly
surprised.
Three New Cardinals.
Rome, May 18.—At the next consistory,
Which will probably be held on June 18,
three bishops will receive cardinal’s hats.
, ,j£; Sarthon, vicar apostolic of Western
si,.,;!’ WIU h? transferred to Pekin in a
smular capacity.
Jttofning Sfcto#.
BISMARCK’S LOVE OF POLITICS.
An Epitome of the Interview of a
French Journalist
Paris, May 18. —The Matin publishes an
account of an interview had with the
French journalist, M. des Sou, who re
cently spent a few days at Friedrichsruhe,
and was entertained at dinner by the ex
cbancellor. The conversation was directed
principally to pobtical remiuiscences.
Prince Bismarck referred to his resignation
as a first-class funeral, but added that he
was quite alive still.
He did not understand the French law
compelling retirement from public service
at 60 or 65 years of age. He had been forced
to retire at 70, but he was too young to do
nothing.
LONGINGS FOR POLITICAL LIFE.
He was accustomed to politics, and now
felt the lack of political business. His
resignation was absolutely final. He de
fended himself against the charge of bar
karity in having caused the bombardment
of Paris. He declared that Germany would
never attack France or provoke France to
attack her. Germany well understood that
Russia would intervene to protect France
if attacked just as Germany would
aid Austria if Russia attacked her. He
professed high admiration for President
Carnot, M. do Freycinet and M. Constaus.
LABOR’S LOT IN FRANCE.
Delegates to the Berlin Conference to
Form a Permanent Committee.
Paris, May 18.—Paris delegates to the
national socialist conference of 1889 have
decided to form a permanent committee to
advance the eight hour movement. They
will form a league and ask all labor and
socialist organizations which took part in
the demonstration on Mayday to elect simi§
lar committees, to be connected with a cen
tral committee of Paris.
The parliamentary committee on the sub
ject of limiting the labor of women, girls
and children proposes that women and girls
between the ages of 13 and 18 shall work
not more than ten hours and shall not work
at night.
RU63IAN MANEUVERS.
Generals to Command Who Will be in
High Places in Case of War.
Vienna, May 18.—Russian maneuvers
on the eastern frontier will be held in Au
gust, and will last three weeks. Troop3 will
be drawn from Poland, Lithuania, Odessa,
Charkoff and Moscow, and will be
commanded by Gens. Gourko and Dragomi
roff, who will be designated for high com
mands in the event of war. All the railways
in the district will be placed under control
of the military authorities. The nuns in the
Catholic convent at Dumo have been
evictod and the nunnery converted into a
magazine.
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BRAZIL’S UPRISING.
The Populace Bound to Reject the
New Banking Laws.
Montevideo, May 18.—A telegram re
ceived here says that on the occasion of the
recent rising at Puerto Alegre, Brazil, the
troops, after firing a volley and killing and
wounding many, joined the citizens in de
posing tho governor.
Advices have been received confirming
the report of the disorders throughout the
province of Rio Grande do Sul. The popu
lace, it is stated, by force of arms if neces
sary, will reject the new banking laws of
Dr. Barbosa, the Brazilian minister of
finance.
Turney’s Debt to Russia.
Constantinople, May 18.—The torte
not yet replied to Russia’s claim for
payment of the arrears of the war indem
nity. M. Nelidoff, the Russian ambassador,
in an urgent note to the Porte, demands the
payment of the arrears from the new loan,
otherwise, he adds, Russia wiil reserve the
right to take further measures.
An Anti-Semitic Meeting.
Berlin, May 18.—An anti-Semitic meet
ing meeting was held at Halle to-day. at
wnich Deputy Sonnenberg was the princi
pal speaker. Rioting broke out between
the socialists and anti-Semitics, and the
meeting was dissolved by police. Socialists
stormed the platform, and a free fight en
sued.
A Bis Race at Paris.
Paris, May 18.—The race for Brand
Poule Desproducts, worth about forty thou
sand francs, was run to-day. It was won
by Baron A. de Schickler’s French bred bay
colt Puchero, by Perplexe, out of Japonica.
Yellow was second and War Dance third.
A Victory for Wiseman.
Berlin, May 18. —Advices have been re
ceived from East Africa that Mai. Wiss
man captured Mikandinan on May 14,
placing the whole coast from that place to
Eanzioar in the hands of Germans.
New Fields for Cotton.
London, May 18.—An attempt will be
made in the autumn to cultivate American
and other cotton in the Crimea and other
places on the Black sea coast.
HEAVY HAIL AT DUPONT.
Crops Badly Injured and People Prob
ably Hurt.
Dupont, Ga., May 18.—Between 5 and 6
o’clock this afternoon Dupont was visited
by the heaviest hail storm ever known in
the history of the town. The stones aver
aged from three-quarters to an inch in
thickness and au inch in length. W. F.
Robinson, au engineer of the Savannah,
Florida and Western railroad, gathered on
a plank six inches wide and three feet long
seven quarts of hail. Crops will be a total
ruin. The storm lasted between twenty
and thirty minutes. No loss of life has been
learned of as yet, but several were out in
the storm and it is feared that they may
have been hurt.
ASHLEY ASKS AID.
Food, Clothing and Money Wanted for
the Families of the Dead.
Wilkesbarre. Pa., May 18. —The bur
gess of Ashley issued an appeal to-day for
aid from the charitable public for the fami
lies of the miners killed in the disaster at
the No. 4 slope of the Hartford mine.
They solicit contributions of food, clothing
and money, which may be sent to R.
Thomas, Dooley,
of the borough council, or E. Lindermuth,
treasurer at Ashley, Luzerne county.
MURDER NEAR MILLEN.
Whisky and Gambling Lead to the
Killing of a Negro.
Millen, Ga., May 18.—Will Hall of
Burke county shot Lehman Burks of Ameri
cus to-day and instantly killed him, the
bullet passing through the heart. Both are
negroes. The difficulty occurred just across
the Ogeechee river, in Emanuel eounty,
near Millen. The negroes were gambling
and drinking bad whisky-, as is usually the
cause.
TALMACE OX LABOR WAR
HE URGES MEN TO DO AS THEY
WOULD BE DONE BY.
The Whole Hemisphere Involved in the
Fight —The Middle Classes in the
Country Dlminishing-Christianlty a
Peace-Maker that Will stop the
Conflict if Given a Chance.
Brooklyn, May 18.—The Tabernacle
congregation is atill worshiping in the
Academy of Music, but expects next Sep
tember to have the main auditorium of the
new tabernacle ready for use in the holding
of services. After tho usual preliminary
exercises this morning, Dr. Talmago
preached on “The Old Fight to be Settled,”
from the text: “Whatsoever ye would that
men should do to you, do ye even so to
them.’’ Matt, vii, 12. Following is the ser
mon in full:
• hundred and fifty thousand laborers
m Hyde park, Loudon, and the streets of
American and European cities filled with
processions of workmen carrying banners,
brings the subject of labor and capital to
™ front. That all this was done in peace,
and that as a result in many places arbitra
has taken place, is a hopeful sign.
Tne greatest war the world has ever seen
is between capital and labor. The strife is
not like that which in history is called the
Thirty Years’ War, for it is a war of
centuries, it is a war of the five continents,
it is a war hemispheric. The middle classes
in this country, upon whom the nation has
depended for holding the balauce of power
and for acting as mediators between the
two extremes, are diminishing, and if things
go on at the same ratio as they have for tne
last twenty years been going on, it will not
be very long before there will be no middle
class in this country, but all will be very
rich or very poor, princes or paupers, and
the country will be given up to palaces and
hovels.
The antagonistic forces have again and
again closed iu upon each other. You may
pooh-pooh it; you may sav that this trouble,
like an angry child, will cry itself to sleep;
you may belittle it by calling it Fourierism,
or socialism, or St. Simonism, or nihilism,
or communism, but that will not binder tho
fact that it is the mightiest, the darkest, the
most terrific threat of this century. Most
of the attempts at pacification have been
dead failures, and monopoly is more arro
gant, and the trades unions more bitter.
“Give us more wages,” cry the employes.
“You shall have less,” say the capitalists.
“Compel us to do fewer hours of toil in a
day.” “You shall toil more hours,” say the
others.” “Then, under certain conditions,
wo will not work at all,” say these. “Then
you shall starve,” say those, and the work
men, gradually using up that which they
accumulated in better times, unless there be
some radical change, wo shall have soon in
this country three million huDgry men and
women. Now, three million hungry people
cannot bo kept quiet. All the enactments
of legislatures and all the constabularies of
the cities and all the army and navy of the
United States cannot keep three million
hungry people quiet. What then? Will
this war between capital and labor be set
tled by human wisdom? Never. The brow
of the one becomes more rigid, the fist of
the other more clinched.
But that which human wisdom cannot
achieve will be accomplished by Christianity
if it be given full sway. You have heard
of medicines so powerful that one drop
would stop a disease and restore a patient;
and I have to tell you that one drop of my
text properly administered will stop all
these woes of society and give convalescence
and complete health to all classes. “What
soever would that men should do to you, do
ye even so to them.”
I shall first Bbow you this morning how
this controversy between monopoly and
hard work cannot bo stopped, and then I
will show you how this controversy will be
settled.
Futile remedies. In the first place there
will come no pacification to this trouble
through an outcry against rich men merely
becauso they aro rich. There is no laboring
man on earth that would not be rich if he
could be. Sometimes, through a fortunate
invention or through some accident of pros
perity, a man who had nothing comes to
large estate, and we see him arrogant and
supercilious, and taking people by the
throat just as other people took him by the
throat. There is something very mean
about human nature when it conies to the
top. But it iB no more a sin to be rich than
it is a sin to De poor. There are those who
have gathered a great estate through fraud,
and tnen there are millionaires who have
gathered their fortune through fore
sight in regard to changes in
the markets, and through brilliant business
faculty, and every dollar of their estate is
as honest as the dollar which the plumber
f eta for mending a pipe, or the mason gets
or building a wall. There are those who
keep in poverty because of their own fault.
They might have been well off, but they
smoked or chewed up their earnings, or
they lived beyond their moans, while others
on the same wages and on the same salaries
went on to competency. I know a man
who is all the time complaining of his
poverty and crying out agai ist rich men,
while he himself Keeps two dogs, and chows
and smokes, and is filled to the chin with
whisky and beer!
Micawber said to David Copperfleld:
‘‘Copperiield, my boy, one pound income,
twenty shillings and sixpence expenses; re
sult, misery. But, Copperfleld, my boy,
one pound iucome, expenses nineteen
shillings and sixpence; result, happiness.”
And there are vast multitudes of people
who are kept poor because they are the
victims of their own improvidence. It is
no sin to be rich, and it is no sin to be poor.
I protest against this outcry which I hear
against those who, through economy and
self-denial and assiduity, have come to
large fortune. This bombardment of com
mercial success will never stop this contro
versy between capital and labor.
Neither- will the contest be settled by cyn
ical and unsympathetic treatment of the
laboring classes. There are those who
speak of them as though they were only
cattle or draught horses. Their nerves are
nothing, their domestic comfort is noth
ing, their happiness is nothb g. They have
no more sympathy for them than a hound
has for a hare, or a hawk for a hen, or a
tiger for a calf. When Jean Valjoan, the
greatest hero of Victor Hugo’s writings,
after a life of sufferings and brave endur
ance, goes into incarceration and death,
the - clap the book shut and say, “Good for
him!” They stamp their feet with indigna
tion and say just the opposite of “Save the
working classes.” They have all their sym
pathies with Shylock, and not with Anto
nio and Portia. They are plutocrats, and
their feelings are infernal. They are filled
with irritation and irascibility on this sub
ject. To stop this awful embroglio between
capital and labor they will lift not so much
as the tip end of the little finger.
Neither will there be any pacification of
this angry controversy through violence.
God never blessed murder. Blow up to
morrow the country seats on the banks of
the Hudson, and all the fine houses on Mad
ison square and Brooklyn bights and Brook
lyn hill and Rittenhouse square and Beacon
street, and all the bricks and timber and
stone will just fall back on the bare head of
American labor. The worst enemies of the
working classes in the United states and
Ireland are their demented coadjutors. A
few years ago assassination—the assassina-
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, MAY 19, 1890.
tion of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr.
Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, in
the attempt to avenge the wrongs of Ire
land—only turned away from that afflicted
people millions of sympathizers. Tho
attempt to blow up the House of Commons,
in London, had only this effect: to throw
out of employment tens of thousands of
innocent Irish people in England.
In this country the torch put to the fac
tories that have discharged bands for good
or bad reason; obstructions on the rail
track in front of midnight express trains
because the offenders do not liko the presi
dent of the company; strikes on shipboard
the hour they are going to sail, or in print
ing offices the hour the piper was to go to
Sress, or in mines the day the coal was to be
elivered, or on house scaffoldings so tho
builder fails in keeping his contract—all
these are only a hard blow on the head of
American labor, and cripple its arms, and
lame its feet, and pierce its heart. Asa
result of one of our great American strikes
you find that the operatives lost $400,000
worth of wage 9, and have had poorer wages
ever since. Traps sprung suddenly upon
employers, and violence, never took one
knot out of the knuckle of toil, or put one
farthing of wages into a callous palm.
Barbarism will never cure the wrongs of
civilization. Mark that!
Frederick the (treat admired some land
near his palace at Potsdam, and he resolved
to get it. It was owner! bv a miller. He
offered the miller three times the value of
the property. The miller would not take
it, becauso it was the o A homestead, and he
felt about as Naboth felt about his vineyard
when Ahab wanted it. Frederick the Great
was a rough and terrible man, and he
ordered the miller into his presence; and
the king, with a stick in his hand—a stick
with which he sometimes struck his officers
of state—said to this miller: “Now, I have
offered you three times the value of that
property, and if you won’t sell it I’ll take it
anyhow.” The miller said, “Your majesty,
you won’t." “Yes,” said the king, “I will
taka it.” “Then,” said the miller, “if your
majesty does take it I will sue you in tho
chancery court.” Atthat threat Frederick
the Great yielded his infamous demand.
And the most imperious outrage agaiust the
working classes will yet cower before the
law. Violence and contrary to the law
will never accomplish auythiug, but right
eousness and according to law will accom
plish it.
Well, if this controversy between capital
and labor cannot be settled by human wis
dom, it is time for us to look somewhere
else for relief, and it points from my text
roseate and jubilant, and puts one hand on
the broadcloth shoulder of capital and puts
the other on the homespun-covered shoulder
of toil, and says, with a voice that will
grandly and gloriously settle this, and settle
everything, “Whatsoever ye would that
meu should do to you, do ye even so to
them.” That is, the lady of the household
will say: “I must treat the maid in tho
kitchen just as I would like to be treated if
I were down-stairs, and it were my work to
wash and cook, and swoep, and it wore tho
duty of the maid in the kitcheu to preside
in this parlor." The maid in tho kitchen
must say: “If my employer seems to me
-more prosperous tnan t, that is no fault of
hers; I shall not treat her as an enetny. I
will have the same industry and fidelity
down-stairs as I would expect from my
subordinates ir I happened to be the wife of
a silk importer.”
The owner of an Iron mill, having (taken
a dose Of my text before ItuvlDg homo iu
the morning, will go into his foundry, and,
passing Into what is called the puddling
room, he will see a man there stripped to
the waist, and besweated and exhausted
with the labor and t' a toil, and ho will say
to him: “Why.it seems to be very hot in
here. You look very much exhausted. I
hear your child is sick with scarlet fever.
If you want your wages a little earlier this
week, so as to pay the nurse and get the
medicines, just come into my office any
time.” -
After awhile, crash goes the money mar
ket, and there is no more demand for the
articles manufactured in that iron mill, and
the owner docs know what to do. He says,
“Shall I stop the mill, or shall I run it on
half time, or shall I cut down the men’s
wages?” He walks tho floor of his counting
room all day, hardly knowing what to do.
Toward evening he calls ail tho laborers
together. They siand all around, some
with arms akimbo, some with folded arms,
wondering what the boss is going to do now.
The manufacturer says: “Men, business is
bad; I don’t make twenty dollars where
I used to make one hundred. Somehow,
there is no demand now for what we manu
facture, or but very little demand. You
see, I arn at vast expense, and I havo called
you together this afternoon to see what you
would advise. I don’t want to shut up the
mill, because that would force you out of
work, and you have always been very faith
ful, and I like you, and you seem to like me,
and the bairns must be looked after, and
your wifo will after awhile want anew
dress. I don’t know what to do.”
There is a dead halt for a minute or two,
and then one of tho workmen steps out
from the ranks of his fellows and says:
“Boss, you have been very good to us, and
when you prospered wo prospered, and now
you are in a tight place and I am sorry, and
we have got to sympathize with you. I
don’t know how tho othors feel, but I pro
pose that we take off twenty per cent, from
our wages, and that when tho times get
good you wiil remember us and raise th*'in
agaiu.” The workmnn 1 >oks around to his
comrades and says: “Boys, what do you
say to this? All in favor of my proposition
will say aye.” “Aye! aye! aye!” shout two
hundred voices.
But the mill-owner, getting in some now
machinery, exposes himself very much, anil
takes cold, and it settles into pneumonia,
and ho dies. In the procession to the tomb
are all the workmen, tears rolling down
their cheeks, and off upon the ground; but
an hour before the procession gets to the
cemetery the wives and the children of
those workmen are at the grave waiting for
the arrival of the funeral pageant. Tho
minister of roligion may have delivered an
eloquent eulogium before they started from
the house, but the most impressive thing.,
are said that day by the working classes
standing around tho tomb.
That night in all tho cabins of tho work
ing people where they have family prayers
the widowhood and orphanage in the man
sion are remembered. No glaring popula
tions look over the iron fence of the ceme
tery; but, hovering over the scene, the
benediction of God and man is coiniug for
the fulfillment of the Chriatlike injunction,
“Whatsoever ye would that men should do
to you, do ye even so to them.”
“O,” says some man here, “that is all
Utopian, that is apocryphal, that is impos
sible.” No. I cut out of a paper this;
“One of the pleasantest incidents recorded
in a long time is reported from Sheffield,
England. The wagi's of the men in the
iron works at Sheffield are regulated by a
board of arbitration, by whoso decision
both masters and men are bound. For
some time past the iron and steel trad9 has
been extromel; unprofitable, and the em
ployers cannot," without much loss, pay the
wages fixed by the board, which neither
employers nor employed have the power to
change. To avoid this difficulty the work
men in one af the largest steel works in
Sheffield hit upon a device as rare as it was
generous. They offered to work for their
employers one week without any pay
whatever. How much better that plan is
than a strike would be.”
But you go with me and I will show you
—not so far off as Sheffield, England—fac
torles, banking bouses, storehouses ami
costly enterprises where this ChristUke in
junction of my text is fully kept, and you
could no more get the employer to practice
an injustice upon his men, or the men to
oonspire against the employer, than you
could get your right hand and your left
hand, your right eye and your left eyo, your
right ear and your left ear, into physiolog
ical antagonism. Now, where is this to be
gin I In our homes, in our store;, ou our
farms—not waiting for other people to do
their duty. Is there a divergence now be
tween the parlor and the kitchen? Then
there is something wrong, either in the par
lor or the kitchen, perhaps in both. Are
the clerks in your store irate agaiust
the firm? Then there is something
wrong, either behind the counter or
in the private office, or porhaps iu both,
Tho groat want of tho world to-day is the
fulfillment of this Christ-like
ttiat which be promulgated in his sermon
Olivetic. -All the political economists under
the archivolt of the heavens in convention
for a thousand years cannot settle this con
troversy between monopoly and hard work,
between capital and labor. During the
revolutionary war there was a heavy piece
of timber to be lifted, perhaps for some for
tress, and a corporal was overseeing the
work, and ho was giving commands to some
soldiers as they lifted: “Heave away, there!
yo heave 1” Well, the timber was too heavy;
they could not get it up. There was a gen
tleman riding by on a horse, and he stopped
and said to this corporal; “Why don’t
you help them lift? That timber is too
heavy for them to lift.” "No,” he said, “I
won’t; lam a corporal” The gentleman
got off his horse and came up to the place.
“Now,” he said to the soldiers, “all to
gether—yo heave!” and the timber weut to
its place. "Now,” said the gentleman to
the corporal, “when you have a piece of
timber too heavy for tho men to lift, and
you want help, you send to your ootn
mander-in-chief.” It was Washington!
Now, that is about all tbs gospel I know—
the gospel of giving somebody a lift, a lift
out of darkness, a lift out of earth Into
heaven. That is the gospol of helping
somebody else to lift.
“Oh,” says tome wiseacre, “talk as you
will, the law of demand and supply will
regulate these things until the end of time."
No, it will not unless God dies and tho bat
teries of judgment day are spiked, and
l’luto and Proserpine, king and queen of
the infernal regions, take full possession of
this world. Doyou know who Supply and
Demand aro? They have gone into part
nership, anil they propose to Bwindlo this
earth, and are swindling It. You
aro drowning. Supply and Demand
stand on the shore, ouo on one side, the
other on the other side, of the life-boat, and
they cry out to you: “Now, you pay us
what wo ask you for getting you to shore,
or go to the bottom 1” If you can borrow
$5,000 you can keep from failing in busi
ness. Supply and Demand say: “Now,
you pay us exorbitant usury, or you go
into bankruptcy!” Tbis robber-firm of
Supply and Demand say to you: “The crops
are short. We bought up all the wheat,
and it is in our bin. Now, you pay our
price, or starve!" That is your magnificent
law of supply and demand.
Supply and demand own the largest mill
on earth, and all the rivers roll over their
wheel, and into their hopper they put all
the men, women and children they can
shovel out of the centuries, and the blood
and the bones redden the valley while the
mill grinds. That diabolic law of supply
and demand will yet have to stand aside,
and instead thereof will come the law of
love, the law of 00-operatiou, the law of
kindness, tho law of sympathy, the law of
Christ.
Have you|no idea of the co ming of such a
time? Then you do not believe the Bible.
All the Biide is full of promises on this sub
ject, and as the ages roll on the time will
come when men of fortune will be giving
larger sums to humanitarian and evangel
istic purposes, and there will be more James
lionoxos and Peter Coopers and William E.
Dodges and George Feabodys. As that
time comes there will be more packs, more
picture galleries, more gardens thrown open
for the holiday people and the working
classes.
I was reading some time ago in regard to
a charge that had been made in England
against Lambeth Palace, that it was ex
clusive; and that charge demonstrated the
sublime fact that to the grounds of that
wealthy estate eight hundred poor families
had free passes, and forty croquet com
panies, and on the half-day holidays four
thousand poor poople reclin ou the grass,
walk through the paths and sit under the
trees. This is gospel—gospel on tho wing,
gospol out of doors worth just as much as
in doors. That time is going to come.
That is only a hint of what is going to be.
The time is going to come when, if you have
anything in your house worth looking at—
pictures, pieces of sculpture—you are going
to invito me to come and see it; you are
going to invite my friends to come and see
it, and you will say, “See what I have been
blessed with 1 God has given rae this, and,
so far as enjoying it, it is yours also.” That
is gospel.
In crossing the Alleghany mountains
many years ago the stage halted, and Henry
Clay dismounted from the stago and went
out on a rock at the very verge of a cliff,
and be stood there with his cloak wrapped
about him, and he seemed to be listening
for something. Someone said to him,
“What aro you listening for?” Standing
there on the top of the mountain, ho said;
“I am listening to the tramp of the foot
steps of the coining millions of this conti
nent.” A sublime posture for an American
statesman! You and I to-day stand on the
mountain-top of privilege, and on the Rock
of Ages, and we look off. and we hear com
ing from the future the happy industries,
and smiling populations, and the consecrate!!
fortunes, and the innumerable prosperities
of the closing nineteenth and the opening
twentieth century.
And now I have two words, one to capi
talists and the other to laboring men.
To capitalists: Bo your own executors.
Make investments for eternity. Do not be
like some capitalists I know who walk
around among their employes with a super
cilious air, or drive up to the factory fn a
manner which seems to indicate they are
the autocrat of the universe, with the sun
and the moon in their vest pockets, chiefly
anxious when they go among laboring men
not to bo touchod by the greasy or smirched
hand and have their broadcloth injured.
Bea Christian employer. Remember, those
who are under your charge aro bone of
your bono und flesh of your flesh, that Jesus
Christ died for them arid that they are im
mortal. Divide up your estates, or portions
of them, for the relief of the world, be
fore you leave it. Do not go out of the
world like that man who died eight or ten
years ago, leaving in liD will twenty mill
ion dollars, yet giving how much for the
church of God! How much for the allevia
tion of human suffering? He gave some
money a little while before he died. That
was well, but in ali this will of twenty mill
ion dollars, how much**One million? No.
Five hundred thousand? No One hundred
dollars? No. Two cents? No. One cent?
No. These great cities groaning in anguish,
nations cryiug out for the bread of ever
lasting life. A man in a will giving twenty
millions of dollars and not one cent to God I
It is a disgrooe to our civilization.
To laboring men: I congratulate you on
your prospects. I congratulate you on the
fact that you are getting your representa
tives at Albany, at Harrisburgti and at
Washington. This will go on until you will
have representatives at all the beadquar
ter*, and you will have full justice. Mark
that. I congratulate you al*o on the oppor
tunities for your children. Your children
are going to have vast opportunities. I
congratulate you that you have to work
and that when you are dead your children
will have to work. I congratulate
you also on your opportunities of
information. Piato paid $1,300 for
two books. Jerome ruined himself,
financially by buying one volume of Origon.
What vast opportunities for intelligence for
you and your children! A workingman
goes along by the show window of some
groat publishing house and he sees a book
that costs five dollar*. He says, “I wish I
could have that information; 1 wish I could
raise five dollars for that costly and beauti-*
ful book.” A few months pass on and he
f;ots the value of that book for fifty cents
n a pamphlet. There never was such a tlay
for the workingmen of America as the dav
that it is coming.
But the greatest friend of capitalist and
toiler, and the one who will yet briug them
together in complete accord, was bom one
Christmas night while the curtains of
heaven swung, stirred by the wings angelic.
Owner of all things—all the continents, all
worlds, and all the islands of light. Capi
talist of immensity, crossing over to our
condition. Coming into our world, not by
gate of palace, but by door of barn. Spend
ing his first night amid the shepherds.
Gathering afterward around him the fisher
men to be his chief attendants. With adze,
and saw, and chisel, and ax, and in
a carpenter shop showing himself
brother with the tradesmen. Owner
of all things, and yet on a hillock
back of Jerusalem one day resigning every
thing for others, keeping not so much as a
shekel to pay for his obsequies. By charity
buried in the suburbs of a city that had
cast him out. Before the cross of suoli a
capitalist and such a carpenter all men can
afford to shake hands and worship. Here
is the every man’s Christ. None so high
but he was higher. None so poop but he
was poorer. At his feet the hostile ex
tremes will yet renounce their animosities,
and countenances which have glowered
with the prejudices and revenge of centu
ries shall brighten with the smile of heaven
ns ho commands: “Whatsoever ye would
that men should do to you, do ye even so to
them.”
BIG HANDS AT DHAW POKER.
Senator Farwell'a Four Aces Beaten
by Senator Cameron's Straight Dia
mond Flush.
A quiet little game of poker, says a
Washington special of the 10th to the New
York Sun, was played in this city last
night by six distinguished gentlemen, each
of whom is well known as an expert. The
result of the gamo adds an interesting Inci
dent to the history of poker playing, and
was a subject of much gossip in the Senate
cloak room and other genteel resorts to-day.
There was nothing particularly remarka
ble about this game except the fact that
two of the players were pitted against
each other, and oach held ono of tne strong
est hands ever turned up in poker.
Tbo party met iu one of the well-known
uptown hotels, and the players were Sena
tors Quay and Cameron of Pennsylvania,
Farwoll of Illinois, the Hon. Dave I.ittler of
Springfield, ex-Pacific railroad commis
sioner, and ex-Henator Bewail of New
Jersey. It was a $lO limit game, and there
had l>een three raises before the draw, when
all the players went out except Senators
Cameron and Farweli. Mr. Cameron stood
pat, and Mr. Farwoll drew two cords. Then
the fun began.
The geutletnon who had withdrawn saw
that there was a fight ahead, and eagerly
scanned the faces of the rivals. The sym
pathy of the party was largely with Mr.
Cameron, for the reason that Mr. Farwoll
is reputed to be one of the best poker players
in the United States, and the very best in
Washington. During the post few mouths
lie has come off victorious in a majority of
the games he has played. His victims
included several of the gentlemen in last
night’s party, and they wore rather anxious
to see Mr. Cameron get satisfaction. They
were not disappointed.
When Mr. Farwoll saw Mr. Cameron
stand pat ho at once concluded that he was
blufilng, and he started iu to catch him. It
was Mr. Cameron’s bot and ho wo it to the
limit Mr. Farwoll saw him and Don bot
him again. Each saw that the other meant
business then, and they settled down to
work in earnest. Mr. Cameron continued
to bet and Mr. Farwoll continued to raise
him until the process had been repeated by
each of them ten times. Then Mr. Farweli
became compassionate, and dropping his
cards, said:
“See here, Don, I don’t want to carry this
thing any further. I iiave a hand hero that
is simply invincible, and it’s foolish fnr you
to buck against it. 1 don’t want to bet
further on a sure thing. Remember, I drew
two cards.”
Then the players all looked eagerly to
Mr. Cameron to seo what ho would do.
Don has great nerve and told Mr. Farwoll
to go ahead and play his hand for all it wa*
worth, but Mr. Farweli would not take
advantage of his colleague, and with the
remark that he did not want to rob a man,
he said: “I call you,” and carelessly threw
on the table four aces.
The gentlemen of the party who had
been in suspense all this time drew a sigh of
relief, and turned sympathizingly to Mr.
Cameron. Don did not need their sym
pathy. however, for he quietly spread out
before the astonished gaze of Mr. Farweli
a straight diamond flush, seven spot high.
Mr. Farwell’s only remark was: “Well,
I’ll bo If 1* 1 aud Mr. Cameron drew in
the pot, which contained a little moro than
three hundrod dollars. Every gentlemen
present expressed the utmost surpriso when
tney witnessed these two remarkable bands,
and each of them raid that in his long ex
perience as a poker-player he bad never
seen two such hands pitted against each
other. The same opinion was expressed by
all of the Wasbington poker-players who
gossiped about this noted game during the
day.
BWALLOWBD A DOLLAR.
Great Difficulty Experienced in Re
moving the Colo.
Athens, Ga., May 18.—About 12 o’clock
last night James Clemens, a prominent
young farmer, who lives just outside the
city, swallowed a silver dollar. Clemens
was lyinjj across a bed at his home and had
a dollar in his mouth. Being very tired, he
suddenly dropped oflT to sleep. He awoke
very soou afterward with a most excru
ciating pain, and it developed that he had
swallowed the money. He urose immedi
ately and came to the city to have the ob
stacle removed, but tho-task proved more
difficult than he first expected. He was
steadily growing weaker, and was Anally
removed to the residence of a friend in the
eastern part of the city.
LEFT IN ALL NIGHT.
Dr. W. A. Carlton soou appeared and en
deavored to draw the dollar from the throat
by means of an instrument, but owing to
the nervous condition of the patient ho was
forced to postpone the operation till to-day.
The money had passed down the throat and
lodged in the oesophagus. This morning the
doctor returned to his patient, accompanied
by Dr. John Gerdine. Clemens was placed
under the influence of ether and after a
difficult and dangerous operation the dollar
was brought up through the mouth.
Clemens is resting well.
4 DAn.Y flrt A YEAR. )
SCENTOACOPT. >•
( WEEKLY,I.SAYEAR )
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS.
BILVHR TO BE THE ABSORBING!
TOPIC IN THE SENATE.
Addresses in Memorlam of the Bate-
Representative Kelley to be Deliv
ered Tuesday—The First Three Days
In the Bouse to be Devoted to
Winding Up the Tariff Debate.
Washington, May 18.—Silver will be
the principal topic of discussion in the Sen
ate again this week. Senator Stewart has
given notice of his purpose to address the
Senate on this subject Wednesday.
Addresses in memorial!! of the late Repre
sentative W. D. Kelley of Pennsylvania
will be delivered Tuesday afternoon, and
Saturday will be devoted to the calendar.
These are the only probable interruption*
of the silver debate.
The naval appropriation bill will, it i*
expected, be reported early in the week,
but it will not be called up for action until
the silver question has been disposed of. If
the finance committee can find suitable
opportunity, the tariff bill will be taken np
in oommittee for consideration, so that an
early report may be made thereon to the
■Senate, but as the members of that com
mittee are all more or less interested in the
silver debate, it is doubtful if any progress
will be made on tbo tariff bill until after
the silver bill is out of the way.
|ln the House.
The first three day* of the week in the
Ilouso will witness the closing scenes in the
tariff detiato, which promises to become more
animated as the end draws near. It is the
present intention of the ways and means
committee to report the bill from commit
tee of the whole to the House Wednesday,
when the yea and nay votes, depending in
number upon the number of amendments
made to the bill, will be in order.
The wool sections are to be ’the subject of
attack again iu this way, and altogether the
proceedings promise to consume consider
able time unless the special rule reported
from the committee on rules to hasten a
conclusion is enforced.
The elections committee Intends to call
up the Alabama couteated election cose of
McDuflle vs. Turpin immediately after the
tariff bill is disposed of, and, as the report
of the committee in favor of tho contestant
involves reversion of on apparent majority
of B,OCX), a bitter resistance is apt to bo de
veloped.
The river and harbor people are also wait
ing the first opportunity to call up their
appropriation bill and get it through the
House.
REPUBLICAN ROBBERS.
More Democrats to be Unseated in)
Furtherance of their Scheme.
Washington, May 18.—The Gazette
says: “ ‘Thero are several more democratic
representatives with southern constituencies
wtio havo been marked for slaughter,’ said
a democratic member of tho elections com
mittee of the House. ‘Men who were elected
fairly, and against whom thero is no good
ground of contest. 1 puzzled my brain for
awhile to reach a conclusion as to the object
of turning these men out when the republi
cans have a working majority without their
votes. Their purpose ls plain} now, since
Speaker Reed’s Pittsburg speech, and since
intimations have been received from the
white house to the effoct that tho cam
paign must be run on the bloody shirt issue,
THEIR OBJECT.
“They will turn these men out and say
they did it because there were no fair elec
tions in the south, and can he none without
federal interference. It was not so long ago
that many republicans joked with oach
other about the fiery Foraker’s inflammable
utterances, and there was many a remark
made that “It is too late now for that kind
of talk.” But since the session opened with
the President’* message up to now
tbo feeling has gradually grown
that somothirig must be done to carry tha
next Houso nnd pave the way for 1892 in the
direction of federal oontrol of the elections,
and out of that grew tho necessity for
manufacturing facts to -justify the legisla
tion proposed. A number of democratic
congressmen will be sacrificed yet to this
necessity.’ ”
BYNUM’S DECORATION.
He, Bayne and Wilson Expect the In
cident to Help Re-elect Them.
Washington, May I&—Representative
Bynum’s decoration with Speaker Reed’s
censure will not necessarily make him
speaker of the next democratic house, but
it will re-elect him from the Indianapolis
district. The episode is, however, even
more valuable to Representative Bayne,
who wu feeling very shaky about ro-eleo
tion, but thinks now that he will get back.
Representative Wilson of West Virginia,
who, in view of the prospect that Steve
Elkins will contest his seat for the next
congress, would have liked to stand in Mr.
Bynum’s shoes, is expected to go for Mr.
Bayne to-morrow in much the same style
as Mr. Bynum. Mr. Bynum thinks the
censure was engineered by Speaker Reed to
got even with him partly us a piece of spit*
work.
CANADAY’B RESIGNATION.
Friends of the Aspirants (or the Place
Hard at Work.
Washington, May 18.— The senatorial
friends of the dozen candidate! for sergeant
at-arms of the Senate, except Senator Quay,
who is at Beaver, spent to-day in seeing
their colleagues in anticipation of a caucus
to-morrow to select Mr. Canaday’s successor.
Senator Quay’s absence is construed to mean
that he found out that ex-Treasurer Bailey,
his candidate, could uot get the place, but it
may possibly mean that Senator Quay, at
least, thought he was sure to get it.
Carlisle’s Return.
Washington, -May 18,—Senator-elect
Carlisle arrived this evening and was
warmly welcomed with congratulations.
He will not go to the Senate till he has
voted on tho tariff bill. He will make his
speech in tho Senate, where, in spite of the
fact that he is anew senator, he will have
charge of the opposition to the tariff bill.
Augusta Knights Off for Rome.
Augusta, Ga., May 18.— Capt. A. J.
Renkle and thirty-two men of the uniform
rank Knights of Pythias left here to-night
for the annual encampment and prize drill
of the order in Rome. Capt. Renkle is one
of the best soldiers in Georgia, aud carries
a well-drilled squad to compete for the S2OO
prize, which they confidently expect to
bring home.
Train’s Trip Around the World.
New Yobx, May 18.— George Francis
Train arrived this morning, ou his return to
Tacoma üboarc the Etruria. He was met
at quarantine by a party of friends and
transferred to the city, where he takes a
special train for Tacoma. He is in the best
of health.