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AT THE TABERNACLE.
The Testimony of Jesus Christ-*
and His Witnesses.
Dr. Talmawe I J oints Out There Is
No Intelligent Explanation
Os the Gospels Save to Accept Them as
Litoral Truth—Wild Attempts
at Evasion.
Brookia A ppi 30. In the Tabernacle
this forenoon th'' large audience listened
vit.h rapt Attention ton powerful discourse
by Rev. Dr. Talmage, who chose for his
. object. “Over All Forever,” the text se
lected being Bomans ix, 5. "Christ came,
who is over nil.”
For 4,000 years the world bad been wait
ing for a deliverer -waiting while empires
rose and fell, Coinpierors <'.rme and made ;
t.he world worse instead of making it bet I
ter; still the < nturies watched and wait' I. |
They looked for him on thrones, looked for i
him in palaces, looked for him in imperial
robes, looked for him at-thehend of armies. |
At last they found him in a barn. The cut- .
tie stood nearer to him than tile angels, for j
the former were in the adjoining stall while I
the latter were in Iho clouds. A parentage
of pedantry. No room for him in the inn,
because there was no one to pay the hotel
expense. Yet t lie pointing star and tbe.’in
geiic < antata showed that. >avan made tip
in appreciation of his worth what the world
lacked. “Christ came, who is over all, God
Ide-tsed forever. Amen.”
THE CENTL'AL AND VITAL Tr.t’TH.
But wiio is t his < 'hrist, who came? As to
the difference between different denomina
tions of evangelical Christians! have no
concern. If J could, by the t urning over of
my band, decide whether all the world shall
at last be Baptist or .Methodist or Congre
gational or Episcopalian or Presbyterian,
J would not Vim my hand. But there .'ire
doe! tines which are vital to the soul. If
Christ be not a God, we tire idolaters. To
t his ( hrist illogical quest ion I devote myself
this morning and pray God that we may
think m ight and do aright in regard to a
question in which mistake is infinite.
I suppose that the majority of those here
today assembled believe the Bible. It re
quires as much faith to be an infidel as to
be a < .‘hristian. It is faith in a different di
rection. The Christian has faith in the
teachings of Matthew, Luke, John, Paul,
Isaiah, .Moses. The infidel has faith in the
free thinkers. We have faith in one class of
men. They have faith in another class of
men. But as the majority of those—per
haps all of those here assembled-are will
ing to take the Bible for a standard in mor
nls mid in faith J make this book my start
ing point.
I suppose you are aware that the two gen
erals who have marshaled the great armies
against the deity of Jesus Christ are Strauss
and Renan. The number of their slain will
not. be counted until the trumpet of the
archangel Sounds the roll call of the resur
rection. Those men and their sympathizers
saw that if they could destroy the fortress
of the miracles they could destroy Chris
tianity, and they were right. Surrender
the miracles, and you surrender Christian
ity. Tite great German exegetesays that nil
the miracles wore myths. The great French
exegete says that all the miracles were leg
ends. They propose to take everything
supernatural ftom the life of Christ and
everything supernatural from'the Bible.
They prefer the miracles of human non
sense to the glorious miracles of Jesus
Christ.
VAIN IMAGININGS OF INFIDELITY.
They say there was no miraculous birth
in Bethlehem, but that, it is all a i'andit'iil
story, just like the story of Romulus said
to have been born of Rhea Silvia and the
god Mars. Tin y say no star pointed to the
manger; it was only the flash of a passing
lantern. They say there was no miraculous
making of bread, hut that it is the corrup
tion of the story that Elisha gave 20 loaves
of bread to a hundred nten. They say the
writ er never t umed int o wine, but t hat it is n
corruption of the story that the Egyptian
plague turned the water into blood. They
say it is no wonder that Christ sweat great
drops of blood; he had been out in the
' might air and was taken suddenly ill. They
riv there were no tongues of fire on the heads
ufWw disciples at the Pentecost; that there
waXonly a great thunderstorm, mid the
air was full of electricity which snapped
ii.id fl™ all around about the heads of the
AisciiSes.
Ti.< J- say that Mary and Martha and
Christ felt, it important to get up an excite
ment, for the forwarding of their religion,
mid so they dramatized a funeral, and Laz
arus played the corpse, and Mary and Mar
11a played the weepers, and Christ was the
tragedian. 1 put it in my own words, but
Hi Is is t lie exact meaning of their state
ments. They say the Bible is a spurious
book, written by superstitious or lying n.en,
p icked up by men who died for that which
tin v did not believe.
' Now, I take back the limited statement
whi. ii 1 made a few moments ago, when I
unld it tequires as much faith to lie an in
lldel as to be a Christian. It requires a
thousandfold more faith to be an infidel
than to be a Christian, for if Christianity
demai'd that, the whale swallowed Jonah,
then skepticism demands that Jonah swrtl
l.wed the whale! 1 can prove to you that
Christ was God not only by the snpernat
l Ural appearances on that Christmas night,
but by what inspired men said of him, by
what he says of himself and by his won
■ derful achievements. “Christ came, who is
: bver all.” Ah, does not that prove too
much? Not over the Ca’sars, not over
Frederick, not over Alexander the Great,
not over the Henrys, not over the Louises?
Yes. Pile all the thrones of all the ages
together, and my text overspans them as
easily as a rainbow overspans a mountain
top. “Christ- came, who is over all.” Then
he must be a God.
BY THE WORD OF BIS POWER.
The Bible says that all things were made
by him. Does not that prove too much?
Could it be that lie made the Mediterra
nean, that he made the Black sea, t hat lie
milde the Atlantic, the Pacific, that he
made Mount Lebanon, t hat he made the
Alps, tlie Sierra Nevadas, that he made the
hemispheres, that he made the universe’
Yes. The Bible says so, and lest we be too
stupid to understand John winds up with
a magnificent reiteration and says, “With
out him was not anything made that was
made.” Then he was a God.
Tle Bible says at the name of Jesus
eve y knee shall bow. All heaven must
con e down on its knees. Martyrs on their
km ‘S, apostles on their knees, confessors
on t heir knees, the archangel on his knees.
Bes ire whom—a man? No. He is a God’
The Bible says every tongue shall confess—
Bornesian. Maylayan, Mexican, Italian,
Spanish, Persian, English. Every tongue
■shall confess. To whom? God. The Bible
says Christ the same yesterday, today and
forever. Is that characteristic of human
ity? Do we not change? Does not the
body entirely change in seven years? Does
not the mind change? Christ the same yes
terday, today and forever. He must be a
God. ’
Philosophers say that the law of gravita
tion (decides everything, and that the cen
tripetal and centrifugal forces keep the
worl® from clashing and from demolition.
But Paul says that Christ’s arm is the axle
on which everything turns, and that
kanrt the ■socket in which everv-
ttimg is si t. julira me woiua, “ti/mwmiEg
—upholding all things by the word of his
power." Then he must be a God.
THE SAVIOUR’S OWN WORDS.
Then look ut what Christ says of himself.
Now, certainly every one must understand
himself better than any one else can under
stand him. If I ask you where you were
born, and you tell me, "I was bom in Ches
ter, England,” or "I was born in Glasgow,
Scotland,” or “I was liorn in Dublin, Ire
land,” or “I was born in New Orleans, the
United States,” you being a mini of integri
ty, J should believe you. 1 f 1 asked you how
many pounds you could lift and you should
say you could lift 100 pounds or 200 pounds
or 300 pounds, I should believe you. It is a
mutter personal to yourself. You know
better than any one else can tell you.
If I ask how much estate you are worth
and you say SIO,OOO or SIOO,OOO or $.’>00,000,1
believe what you say. You know better
than any one else. Now, Christ must know
better than any one else who he is and what
be is. When I ask him bow old he is, he
says, "Before Abraham was, 1 am.” Abra
ham bad been dead 2,028 years. Wils Christ
2,028 years old? Yes, he says he is older
than that. “Before Abraham was, I am.”
Then Christ says, “I am the Alpha.” Alpha
is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, and
Christ in that utterance declared, “I am the
Aof the alphabet Os the centuries." Then
he must lie a God.
Gan a man lie in a thousand places at
once? Christ says he is in a thousand
places at once. “Where two or three are
gathered together in my mime, there am I
in the midst of them.” This everywhere
utiveness, is it characteristic of a man or of
a God? And lest we might think this ev
erywlieroiitiveness would cease he goes on
and he intimates that he will be in all the
cities of the earth—he will be in Europe,
Asia, Africa, North and South America the
day before the world burns up. “Lo, lam
with you alway, even unto the end of the
world.” Why, then, he must be a God.
Besides that he takes divine honors. He
declares himself Lord of men, angels and
devils. Is he? If he is, he is u God. If he
is not, he is an impostor. A man comes int o
your store tomorrow morning. He says: “I ,
am the great shipbuilder of Liverpool. 1 I
have built hundreds cf ships.” Be goes on
to give his experience. You defer to him ■
as a man of large experience and great pos-1
sessions. But the next day you find out i
that lie is not the great shipbuilder of Liv-;
erpool; that, he never built a ship; that he
never built anything. What is he then ? An i
impostor. Christ says he built this world;
lie built all things. Did he build them?:
If he did, he is a God. If he did not, he is
an impostor.
EARTHLY IMPOSTORS. * ;
A man comes int o your place of business,
wit h a Jewish countenance and a German
accent, and says: “I am Rothschild, the
banker of London. I have the wealth of i
nations in my pocket. I loaned that large
amount to Italy and Austria in their per
plexity.” But after awhile you find that
he has never loaned any money to Italy or
Austria; that he never had a large estate;
that he is no banker at all; that he owns
nothing. What is he? An impostor.
Christ says be owns the cattle on a thou
sand hills; ho owns this world; lie owns the
next world; he owns the universe; he is the
banker of all nations. Is he? If he is, he
is n God. Is he not? Then he is an im
poster.
A man enters the White House at Wash
ington. He says: “I am Emperor William
of Germany. lam traveling incognito., I
have come over here Jw IVCTeatum ams
pleasure. I own castles in Dresden and Ber
lin.” But the president finds out the next
day that he is not Emperor William; that'
he owns no castles at Berlin or Dresden;
that he has no authority. What is he? An ■
impostor. Christ says ho is the king over
all. the king immortal, invisible. If lie is, '
he is a God. If ho is not., he is an impostor.
FOOLISH THEORIES OF UNBELIEF.
Strauss saw that alternative, and ho tries
to get out of it by saying that Christ was
sinful in accepting adoration and worship.
Renan tries to get out of it by saying that
Christ—not through any fault of his own,
but through the fault of others—lost his
purity of conscience, and he slyly intimates
that dishonorable women had damaged his
soul. Anything but believe that Christ is
God. Now, you believe the Bible to be
true. If "you do not, you would hardly
have appeared in this church. You would
have gone over and joined the Broadway
Infidel club, or you would go to Boston and
kiss the foot of the stat ue of Thomas Paine.
You would hardly come into this church,
where the most of us are the deluded souls
who believe in a whole Bible and take it
all down as easily as you swallow a ripe
strawberry.
I have shown you what inspired men said
of Christ. I have shown you what Christ
said of himself. Now, if you believe the
Bible, let us go out mid see his wonderfl
achievements—surgical, alimentary, ma
rine, mortuary. Surgical achievements!
Where is the medical journal that gives any
account of such exploits as Christ wrought ?
He used no knife. He carried no splints.
Ileemployed no compress. Heinade no pa
tient squirm under cauterization. He tied
no artery. Yet behold him! With a word
he stuck fast Malchus' amputated ear. He
stirred a little dust and spittle into a salve
and with it caused a man who was born
blind and without optic nerve or cornea
or crystalline lens to open his eyes on the
sunlight. He beat music on the drum of
the deaf our. He straightened a woman
who through contraction of muscle had
been bent almost double for well nigh two
decades. He made a man who had no use
of his limbs for 38 years shoulder his mat
tress mid walk off.
Sir Astley Cooper, Abernethy, Valentine
Mott stood powerless before a withered
arm; but this doctor of omnipotent surgery
comes in and lie sees t he paralytic arm use
less and lifeless at the man’s side, and
Christ says to him, “Stretch forth thine
hand,” and he stretched it forth whole as
the other. He was a God.
THE MIRACLE OF THE LOAVES.
Alimentary achievements! He found a
lad who had come out of the wilderness
with five loaves of bread for a speculation.
Perhaps the lad had paid 5 pennies for the
five loaves and expected to sell them for 10
pennies, and so he would double his money.
Christ took those loaves of bread and per
formed a miracle by which he fed 7,000
famishing people, and I warrant you the
lad lost nothing, for there were 12 baskets
of fragments taken up, and if the boy had
five loaves at the start I warrant you he
had at least 10 at the close.
The Saviour's mother goes into a neigh
bor's house to help get up a wedding party.
By calculation she finds out that the amount
of wine is not sufficient for the guests. She
calls in Christ for help, and Christ, not by
the slow decay of fermentation, but by a
word, makes 130 gallons of pure wine.
Marine achievements! He turns a whole
school of fish into the net of men who were
mourning over their poor luck until the
boat is so full they have to halloo to other
boats, and the other boats come up, and
they are laden to the water’s edge with the
game, so that the sailors have to be cautious
in going from larboard to starboard lest
they upset the ship.
Then there conies a squall down through
the mountain gorge, and Gennesaret, with
long locks of white foam, rises up to battle
it, and the boat drops into a trough and
ships a sea, and the loosened sails crack in
the tornado, and Christ rises from the back
part Os the boat and conies walking across
the staggering ship until he comes to the
prow, and there he wipes the spray from
his brow and hushes the crying storm on
THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE, MAY 3. 1893.
the knee of hiisomtdpotence. Who wrestled
down that euroclydon? Whose feet tram
pled the rough Galilee into a smooth floor?
HE CANIUIME THE DEAD.
Let philosophers and anatomists go to
Westminster abbey and try to wake up
Queen Elizabeth or Henry VIII. No hu
man power ever wakened the dead. There
is a dead girl in Capernaum. What does
Christ do? Alas, that she should liave died
so young and when the world was so fair!
Only 12 years of ago. Feel her cold brow
and cold hands. Dead, dead! The house
is full of weeping. Christ comes, and liA
takes hold of the hand of the dead girl, and
instantly her eyes open, her heart starts.
The white lily of death blushes into the
rose of life and health. She rushes into the
arms of her rejoicing kindred. Who woke
Up that death? Who restored her to life?
A man? Tell that to the lunaticsin Bloom
ingdale asylum. It was Christ the God.
But there comes a test which more than
anything else will show whether he was
God or man. You remember tiiat great
passage which mJ’s, “We must all appear
liefore the judgment seat of Christ.” The
earth will be stunned by a blow that will
make it stagger in midheaven, the stars
will circle like dry leaves in au equinox, the
earth will unroll the bodies, mid the sky
will unroll the spirits, and soul and flesh
will come into incorruptible conjunction.
Day of smoke and fire and darkness and
triumph. On one side, piled up in galleries
of light, the one hundred and forty and
four thousand—yea, the quint illions —of t he
saved. On the other side, piled up in gal
leries of darkness, the frowning, the glar
ing multitude of those who rejected God.
BEFORE THE ETERNAL THRONE.
Between these two piled up galleries a
throne, u high throne, ft throne standing on
two burnished pillars— mercy—a
tbrone so bright you had better hide your
eye lest it be extinguished with excess of
vision. But it is nn empty throne. Who
will come up and take it? Will you?
“Ah, no!” you say. “I nm but a child of
dust. I would not dare to climb that
throne.” Would Gabriel climb it? Hi
dare not. Who will ascend it? Here comes
one. His back is to us. He goes up step
above step, height above height, until lie
reaches the apex. Then ho turns around
and faces ail nations, and we all see who it
is. It is Christ the God, and all earth, and
all heaven, and nil luell kneel, crying: "It
is a God! It is a God!” Wo mutttail ap
pear Ixifore the judgment seat of Christ.
Oh, I am so glad that it is a divine being
who comes to pardon nil our sins, to com
fort all our sorrows. Sometimes our griefs
are so great they are beyond any human
sympathy, and we want Almighty sympa
thy. Oh, yc who cried all lust night be
cause of bereavement or loneliness, I want
to tell you it is an omnipotent Christ who
is come.
When the children are in the house and
the mother is dead, the father has to be
more gentle in the home, and he has to take
the office of father ami mother, and it seems
to me Christ looks out upon your helpless
ness, and he proposes to lie father and mot Il
er to your soul. He comes in the strength
of the one, in the tenderness of the other.
He says with one breath, “As a father
pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth
them that, fear him,” and then witli the
next breath ho says, "As one whom his
mot her comforteth, so will 1 comfort you.”
De you not feel the hush of the divine lul
laby?
Oh. put your tired head down
heaving bosomdi vilw-CUBI wliili
he’piits lus arms around you and say s: “O
widowed soul, I will be thy God. O or
phaned soul, I will be thy protector. Do
not cry.” Then he touches your eyelids
with his fingers and sweeps his fingers
down your cheek anil wipes away all the
tears of loneliness mid bereavement. Oh,
what a tcuder mid sympathetic God has
come for us! Ido not ask you-to Iqy hold
Icf him. Perhaps you are not strong enough
i for that. Ido not a»k you to pray. Per
i haps you are too bewildered for that. 1
only ask you to let go and fall back into
the arms of everlasting love.
Soon you and I will hear the click of the
latch of the door of the sepulcher. Strong
men will take us in their arms and carry ns
down and lay us in the dust, and they can
not bring us back again. I should be scared
with infinite fright if I thought I must stay
in the grave, if even the body were to stay
in the grave. But Christ will come with
glorious iconoclasm and split and grind up
the rocks and let us all come forth. The
Christ of the manger is the Christ of the
throne.
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"WAR TO THE KNIFE”
Between the State ot South Carolina and
the Railroads,
Columbia. S. C., May I.—lt is “war to
the knife" between tile State of South
Carolina and the railroads. Concerning
Receiver Chamberlain's proposition to
' arbitrate their differences Governor
Tillman said today:
“1 think the State of South Carolina
has courts of law to settle all such ques
tions. She will no,, urbritrate with any
body' about tuxes. As to threats and
bluffs about punishing sheriffs, we will
see them out as we have already done."
lu regard to the ease of Sheriff Nance,
of Abbeville, who apologized to the
court, the Goveruor said the State
would not stand up to Nance. Com
menting further, the Goveruor said:
'•Nothing was intended to come out
of tins scheme. This proposal is the
quintessence of insolvenee coming from
tiie source it does. The South Carolina
road warned to pay its taxes in re
pudiated bomls ami after waiting a
whale year the legislature agreed to
take the taxes without interest rather
Hum repeal the charter. We are neither
defenceless nut' without resources with
which to continue the fight. We will
certainly cotiuue until the end is reached.
If the means used will destroy the
credit of the roads they will have them
selves to blame. The next move will
be made very shortly.”
A TRAFFIC CONFERENCE.
Columbia. May 1. —Railroad trafl'i
managers, representing every road in
the state will have a conference with
the railroad commission tomorrow. Ths
managers want the rates raised on cer
tain classes of freight. They have not
yet indicated what action they will ask
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(Continued from page 3.)
Vine* are climbing around the railjt>g>
butterflies and 'birds are flying over
head. the feathered songsters are warb
ling in glee, and the . growing flowers
tiiat ure here in profusion seem to lie
giving out their sweetest fragraneg. I p
here is a big do 1 show, and a collection
of toys of different nations, iiniF here
tiie little ones stand and drink tlieir
milk and eat tlieir cake and candies,
unmolested by careful mothers or aus
tere aunts. If this morning's expert
iem-es are any criterion, the children's
building is destined to be one of the
most, popular ;> aces on the grounds.
The funds necessary for its .erection and
furnishing were contributed by the wo
men of tiie various states ?>f the Union,
pie exiiosition authorities not being
asked for u solitary cent.
WORLD’S CONGRESSES.
Gatherings that Will Shupe the Course of
Civilization for Years.
Chicago, May I.—While the inaugural l
ceremonies were iji progress at Jackson ;
Park this morning the Memorial Art i
Palace, located on Lake t Front Park |
within n couple of minutes walk from
the business center of the city, and
which has been erected at a cost of six
hundred thousand dollars, two-thirds |
contributed by the Art Ir.stitue of Chi- i
cago, and the balance by tiie directory of j
the Exposition, was receiving its finish- ■
ing touches, uiid this afternoon it was '
thrown open for the inspection of visi- I
tors from at home and abroad. Under I
the roof of tliis magnificent pile there
will be held this summer the
greatest series of world's con
gresses that has ever been
idanned, such a bringing together of peo
ple of every clime ns‘a few years ago
would liave seemed chimerical aud bor
dering on the impossible. The leading
idea of this feature of the Columbian
Exposition, which is under the d’rection
and control of a sub administration
designated as the World's Congress
Attxilliary, is to assemble the leaders of
human progress from the civilized globe,
not only for the purposes of mutual ac
quaintance and the establishment of fra
ternal relations, lint to review the
achievements that have already been
made in the various departments of en
lightened life, to resume in eacli con
gress tiie progress of tiie world in tiie
department concerned, to formuate dec
larutions on the living questions of the
day that demand the urgent attention
of all those interested in the social and
the niqral amelioration of mankind, ami
to promulgate suggestions concerning the
practical means by which further pro
gress may made, and the prosperity and
pence of Hie world and humanity ad
vanced. Commencing on the 15th of
the present month and continuing until
tiie hisit day of October, and possibly
later, Chicago will be the scene of nine
teen of these gatherings.
Many of tiie congresses, however, on
the principle of :• ivlieel within a wheel,
will be subdivided. Under the head of
agriculture for instance, 'there will be no
less than nine distinct assemblages, iu
tiie department of religion twenty-four,
in that of leinnerec.ee ten .—AUs'LVtTir'r
rfotal of one hundred and
fifty separate and distinot conferene >s.
and the magnitude of the undertaking
may be gathered from the fact that any
where from one thousand to three thou
sand individuals are expected to partici
paite in each and every conference. Al
ready the books of the Attxilliary record
acceptances from over one hundred thou
sand distinguished people of the United
States, and of one-fifth that number
from England and the continent. Arch
bishops and bishops, scientists, states
men, pliilosnphers. men and wottn-ii
whose mimes will live in history for their
aehievments in the fields of commerce
and finance, medicine, art. music and
literature, education, science and philoso
phy: reprosentiiitive workers in behalf of
tiie progress of women, the leading lights
of the daily, weekly and monthly reli
gious and secular press, workers in the
temperance cause, representing all the
total abstenanee socities in existence,
bankers and financiers, board of trade
operators, merchants, insurance special
ists. representatives of colleges and col
lege fraternities, educators of deaf, the
dumb and tiie Wind, civil and mechani
cal engineers, jurists and lawyers, as
tronomers, and geologists, electricians,
and meteorologists, lenders in the world
of labor organizat’jons, devotees of so
cial and economic science, ministers and
laymen of all faiths from tiie evangeli
cal to the Moliammedan, advoeates of
Sunday rest, health officers and agricul
turists. and soon through an almost end
less list, will gather-fneni the four quar
ters of the universe, eacli in their re
spective section, and consider the ques
tions that particularly relate to the par
ticular sphere in which they live and
move and have their being. It would
seem impossible that this program could
!>e successfully carried out. under one
roof, but the structure which was open
today has uot only two auditoriums,
each ivith a seating capacity of two
thousand, but also thirty-three halls, and
six large committee rooms. It will there
fore be practicably for forty-one Confer
ences with' an attendance upon each
ranging from three thousand to five hun
dred to be in session ait the same time.
The old reliable remedy for cough,
cold croup and sore throat. Dr. Bull’s
Cough Syrup, should be kept in every
home. -
NO REBELLION REPORTED.
Washington, May 2. —The state de
partment is ignorant officially of the
reported insurrectionary movement in
Cuba. Nothing bearing on the subject
was received by the department from
the Spanish legation in Washington
for several months and no recent com
munications concerning the matter have
come from tiie United States diplomatic
»r consular offices. Assistant Secretary
Adee believes the movement is nothing
more than a renewal ot the banditti sys
tem which offers many opportunities in
the wild and unsettled portion of the
island.
A PLUCKY CONDUCTED
Washington. May 2.—Albert Watts,
the Wayne county desperado, attempted
to kill Conductor Jones, who runs the
passenger train on the Menova division
of the Norfolk and Western road, while
the train was at Ferguson station, but
the plucky conductor made him desist
in his efforts. Watts’ friends, who are
rough, tried to take the train and made
threats that they would. The company,
therefore, have Disced guards on the
sam» and will give the gang the best
of !• should thev endeavor at any time
to carry out their intentions.
CARPENTERS STRIKE.
Richmond, Va.. May I—Tiie union
•arpenters employed on the new cham
ber of commerce building quit work this
morning because non-union men were
employed. It is believed that the ser
vices of the latter will be dispensed with
md the work pushed to completion.
FOR SICK HEADACHE
Use Horsford’s Acid Phosphate.
Dr M W. Gray, Cave Spring. Ga., says:
“I have used if wl,h P er feet success In
habitual sick headache."
Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov’t Report
1 Powder
ABSOWTE??/ EWS
TKANSPOKTATION.
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The Evolution of the Modern Locomotive
from the Itnife Cart.
Chicago, May I—All colors save white
have been excluded in the decoration of
all the World's Fair building save one.
Tlrnt exception is tilie Transportation
Building. On its exterior and interior
every color in the spectnuu was brought
into requisition, and these, with a profu
sion of gold leaf, liave produced mi ef
fect as beautiful and artistic ns it is
striking. The chief attraction, however,
is not the building itself, but tiie ex
hibits wibch it contains, illustrating as
they do, every successive step in the evo
lution of modern transportation facili
ties, from the rude cart z to the modern
locomotive and ithe ocean greyhound.
A chronological arrangement lias been
pursneil which simplifies tiie tusk of tak
ing in the scope of the cxlilbit. From
the original “plank stringer” tramway,
laid in England in IbGO. the visitor pass
es by the successive developemeuts of
"way leaves” used in 1738, the iron
soantlings of 1708, the first cast-iron
rails made iu 17.80. and the first tram
way in tiie United States, built iu 1809.
At tliis point in the journey the visitor
reaches the era of steam, for it was in
1785 that Watt completed ids model of
the steam motor. From this begins a
series of old locomotives, leading up to
the monster English engine which oc
cupies a position of honor as the biggest
yet built. To give a description, how
ever, of all tiie locomotives on exhibi
tion. each of which illustrates a distinct
step in advance, would occupy columns
and then be incomplete. It. is enough to
say that every newly discovered princi
ple is illustraited by the engine or au
exact v reproduction of tiie engine iu
which it was first utilized.
Next iu importance to the railway
section is the street ear exhibit which
includes tiie cable ear system, from the
original car built in San Francisco to
the modern plants of New York aud
Chicago.
Every kind of road vehicle, too, front
the pneumatic-tire bicycle to the heaviest
truck, is also present to speak for its
particular merits, and even the flying
machines and airships,, are represented
by models aud charts, details of con
struction and colored prints.
Tuktn as a tvhole the Transportation
exhibit is au epitome of the labor and
thought pf hundreds of years. Standing
in one part of tiie building The visitor
G-rH',"rb -Klf extents and purposes, be in
the middle of the seventeenth century.
A few steps in one direction will take
Uitu back a hundred years and an equal
ly short journey will transport him into
the atmosphere pf tiie ii’iietceiitli cen
tury. For perfection and consistency of
nrrangeiueut the exhibit is arevelation
to those who are accustomed to look
upon nn exposition as an indiscriinimtte
jumble for the inspection of the thou
sands.
In 1850 “Brown's Bron.hlal Troches"
were introilueed, and their success as a
enre for Colds, Coughs, Asthma, and Bron
chitis has been unparalleled.
STRIKING AT HOMESTEAD.
Pittsburg. May 2.—Y’esterday fifty
skilled workmen in the 33 inch Warn
mill of the Carnegie Steel Works at
Homestead threw aside their tools and
quit work on account of a reduction
from 37 to 2G cents per ton.-'The whole
town is excited. Former union men look
upon the trouble as :y victory for them.
It is said they intend returning to work
to get even with the present strikers
who accepted their positions last sum
mer.
TAXING THE TURF.
Richmond. Va.. May 2.--Tiie lower
branch of tiie city council lias passed an
onllnance fixing the license for turf ex
changes at $4,500. It is believed tins
will practically shut off their reopening
in this city.
THE THREE C’S. SOLD.
Chnrlestoß, May 2. —The Charleston,
Cincinnati and Chicago railroad wais
sold at private auction today under a
decree of the United States Court, to
Charles E. Hellier of Boston. Muss.,
representing bondholders, for 5550.01 XL
A certified cheek of S2S,O<X) was put up
to bind the purchase.
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MAKItIAGE IN NEW YUItY. y
Miss Katharine 1 ronholm Wedded to Mr
J. I). Abraham*.
New York. April 27.—The marriage
of Miss Katherine Trenholht, second
daughter of William L. Trenhohu, who
was comptroller of currency in Presi
dium CleveL'iiul's first adtninistration,
to Jeese D. Abrahams cahhier of the
Southern National Bank, was celebra
ted tonljtht at the home of the bride's
father. No. 2*io west 72d street. - Tiie
marriage ceremony was performed by
Rev. Delnncey Townsend, assistant min
ister of the Protestant church of All •
Angels. The I.ride was attended by her
sister. Miss Constance Trenholm, ns
maid of honor ami by six bridesmaids
who were Miss Lizzie Walter, of Sav>;
anuah, Ga., Miss Helen Trembolm.
sister; Mi - Georgie Gibbs, of Norwalk,
Conn., Miss Irene Macbeth, of Washing
ton; Miss Emily Hazard and Miss Flor
ence Trent dm. "f South Carolina, all
cousins of the bride.
Samuel Maddock, of Washington,
acted as best man. The I ushers were
!■’. DeForcst Simmons. John Phipps, of
Morristown; A. Alexander Macbeth and
.liili.in Thornbey. of Alexandria. Va.;
Dr. J. T. Thornbey, George 11. Holmes,
Joseph Loiter. S. W. Ferguson and Sam
uel Wright, of Washington, and the
bride’s brother. Jul'en Trenholm. The
reception which followed the ceremony
was for the relatives and a small num
ber of intimate friends.
MRS. CLEVELAND ILL.
She Had to Leave the Dolphin and Go to
Washington.- > !
New York. April 27. —Mrs. Cleveland t
left suddenly for Washington this aster
n > >n. She was taken ill on tile Dolphin '
while the Presidential bout was mak- \
ing the reviewing tour. /
As soon as the Dolphin anchored at/
Ninety-sixth street Mrs. Cleveland
I’ost.master General Bissell. Mrs. Wi
-ell and Secretary Thurber were take*.
aslioi-e in the launch :md driven to the
Victoria hotel. Mrs. Cleveland appeared
pale, but was not violently ill. It was
deemed best that she should not attempt
to attend the ball. ,
Mr. ami Mrs. Bissell with the Presi
dent’s secretary accompanied Mrs.
Clevtliind to Washington. Au exagger
ati <1 rumor of Mrs. Cleveland's illness
bei aine current and many inquiries wers_-
made at the Victoria.
Washington. April 27.—Mrs. Cleve
land arriv'd at tin- White House shortly .
before midnight tonight.
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MUST GO TO CHURCH.
Amherst, Mass., April 27.—The Am
herst faculty today issued a stat' mint
That after consideration they had dieid
tlrnt it was unwise to
'set asiil" a systefh whose
results upon the whole have been so
thoroughly good, mid that consequently
the present, plan of required attendance
at religious services will lie continued.
Undergraduates have for several years
deinnnded a change lint tile professor’s
statement is directly intended as an an
swer to tli-‘ petition recently cireulnti'd,
and very generally signed b.v the stu
dents asking immediate abolishment of
compulsory church attendance. The
faculty’s statement is very, decided, in
tone and apparently ends the matter.
GRANT’S BIRTHDAY.
■pOiMiulelpliia,' Penn.. April 27.. The .
seventy-second anniversary of the bi'Jj
lof General Grant was observed here thW
I'Viniing by the i nion League. Tla- oluill
tonight had among its guests General <).■
(I. Howard whose corps held Cemeteryj
Ridge at Gettysburg, and General James I
Ismgstreet, who comm:’ ndctl the right!
wing of Lee’s army :it the same battle.l
In addition to Gem*r:il Longstreet, the/
Confederacy was represented by G«mer-Y
al William Mahone, of Virginia, General/
E. P. Alexander, of Georgia, and el>»
qiient Breckenridge, of Kentucky. E:|
Secretary of the Navy George M. Re.i
sin and Admiral Daniel Aninn-n repil
sented the Blue Jackets of the Nort><