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j the morning NEWS, 1 •J Established ISSO. Incorporated 1888. J. | i. H. ESTILL, President. J 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. —■—■—— . 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.