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THE CLEVELA
R\j JOBS It. OLKX.
VOL. ill.
DR VOTED TO THE MINTN 0, A ORICUL TURAL AND EDUCATIONAL TNT&rfSTa Of CLEVELAND, WHIT Hi OOUNTT AND NORTHEAST OEOR0IA.
CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY, DA* FRIDAY, JANUARY ID, 18»4.
NO. 3.
KEY. DR. TALMAGE.
THK BROOKLYN HI VINK'S SUN
DAY SKRMOXi
Subject: “The llreml Question.' 1
Tkxt : “TV have the poor nlwayt frith
you."—Matthew xxvi., 11.
Who said that? The Christ who never
owned anything during His earthly stay. His
cradle niul Itls grave were borrowed. Every
Agile ate Was from some one els*’s tree.
Every drop of water Ho drank was Irom
some one else’s well. To pay His personal
tax. which was very small, only :il V cents.
He had to perform a miracle and make a
fish nay it. All the heights and depths and
lengnts and breadths of poverty Christ meas
ured in His earthly experience, and when
He comes to speak of destitution He always
sneaks sympathetically, and wlmt He said
then is as true now—“Ye hnvo the poor al
ways with you.”
For 0000 years tin* bread quest ion has been
the active and absorbing question. Witness
the people crowding up to Joseph's store
house in Egypt. Witness the famine in sn-
marln and Jerusalem. Witness the 7000 hun
gry people for whom Christ multiplied the
loaves. Witness the uncounted millions of
people now living, who, 1 believe, have
never yet had one full meal of healthful and
nutritious foot! in nil their lives. Think of
the 854 great famines in England. Think o!
the 35,000.IKK) people under tho hoof of
hunger voar before hist in Russia,
lire of the Nile to overll
hoTfam slides Its victims—claret, champagne,
port, cognne. whisky, tom and jerry, sour
mash, on and down until it is a sort of mix
ture of kerosene oil, turpentine, toadstools,
swill, essence of the horse blankets and gen
eral nnstinesa. With its red sword of flame,
that liquor power marshals its proces
sion. and they move on in ranks long
enough to girdle the earth, and the pro
cession is headed by the nose blotched
nerve shattered, rheum eyed, lip bloated,
soul seorehed Inebriates, followed by the
women, who, though brought up In comfort
able homes, now go limping past with aches
and pains and nailor and hunger and woe,
followed by their children, barefoot, un
combed, freezing, and with a wretchedness
of time an l eternity seemingly compressed
in their agonized features. “Forward,
march!” cries the liquor business to that
army without banners. Keep that Influence
moving on, and you will have the poor al
ways with you. Report conies from one of
the cities, were the majority of the itilmbi-
tnnnts are.out of work and dependent on
charity, yet last year they spent more in that
city for rum than they did for clothing and
groceries.
Another warranty that niy text will prove
true in the perpetual poverty of the world is
j the wicked spirit of Improvidence. A vast
■number or people have such small incomas
that they cannot lav by in savings bank or
life Insurance one cent a year. It takes every
farthing they can earn to spread the table
and clothe the family and educate the chil
dren. and If you blame such people for ini-
providenee you enact a cruelty. On such a
salary as many clerks and employes and
many ministers of religion live, and on such
wages ns many workmen receive, they can-
fail- ' n °L * n twenty years, lay up twenty cents.
I But you know and I know many who have
In the eleventh century left those regions j TOmpotcnUncomss, au l could provide sotne-
I .ml.
Plague of ruts In Madras I’r wldency. Plague
of mice in Essex. Plague of locusts in China.
Plague of grasshoppers in America. Devas
tation wrought by drought, by deluge, by
frost, bv war. by hurricane, by earthquake,
by comets flying too near the earth,by change
In the management of National finances,
by luileful causes Innumerable. I pro
ceed to give you three or four reasons why
my text is merkodly nu i graphically true in
thi
1894.
The first reason we have always the poor
with us is because of tho perpetual overhaul
ing of th'» tarih' question, or. as I shall call
It, the tarifttc controversy. There is a need
•for such a word, and so I take the responsi
bility of manufacturing It. There are millions
ol people who aro expecting that the present
Congress of the United States will do some
thing one way or tho other to end this dis
cussion, but it will never end. When
1 was five years of age, 1 remem
ber hearing my father and his neigh
bors In vehement discussion of this very
question. It was high tariff or low tariff or
no tariff at all. When your great-grandchild
dies at ninety years of age, It will probably
be from over-exertion in discussing the
tariff. Ontheduy the world is destroyed,
there will bo three men standing on tho post-
oflb'e steps—one a high tariff man,
another a low tariff man. nnd tho other a
free trade man—each one red in tho faoo
from ex'dtod argument on this sub
ject.. Other questions may get quirfod, tho
Mormon question, tho silver question, the
pension question, tho civil service question.
All questions of annexation may com** to
peaceful settlement by the annexation of isl
ands two weeks’ voyage away and the heat
of their volcanoes conveyed through pipes
under tho sea made useful in warming our
continent, or annexation of tho moon, de
throning tho queen of night, who is said to
bo dissolute, and bringing tho lunar popula
tions under tho influence of our fre • institu
tions ; yen, nil other questions, National and
International, may bo settled, but this traffic
question never. It will not only never bo
settled, but it can never bo moderately quiet
for more than three years at a time, each
party getting into power taking ono of tho
four years to fix it up, and then tho next
party will fix it down, Our finances cannot
get well because oi too many doctors. It is
with sick Nations ns with sick individuals.
Hero Is a man terribly disordered ns to his
body. A doctor is called in. nnd ho admin
isters a febrifuge, a spoonful every hour.
Bat recovery is postponed, nn-ltho anxious
friends call in nnother doctor, nnd ho says :
“What this patient woods is blood lotting :
now roll up your sleeve!” and the lnnv»t
flash' s. But still recovery is postponed, nnd
a homeopathic doctor is called in, and he
administer? some small pellets nnd says:
“All tho patient wants is rest.”
Recovery still postponed, the family say
thnt such small pellets cannot amount to
much anyhow, and an allopathic doctor is
culled in, and ha says, “What this patient
wants Is calomel and jalap.” Recovery still
postponed, a hydropathic doctor Is called in,
nnd ho says: “What this patient wants is
hot and cold baths, and ho must have them
right away. Turn on tho faucet and get
ready tor the shower bath*. ’ Recovery is
still postponed, an obvitria doctor is called
in, and no brings all tho schools to boar
upon the poor sufferer, nnd tho patient, after
n brave struggle for life, expires. Wlmt
killed him? Too many doctors. And that
is whnt is killing oor National flnamvs. My
personal friends, ri.«voland nnd Harrison
and Carlisle and McKinley and Sherman, ns
talented and lovely and sploudhl men as
walk tho earth, all good doctors, but their
treatment of our languishing finances is ho
different that neither treatment hasa full on-
portunlty, ami under tho constant changes it
la simply wombrful that the Nation Htill
lives. Tho tariff question will never bo set
tled because of the fact -which I have never
any one roeognt/e, but
j»nrdoned
whnt for tho future, who live up to
dollar, and when they dlo tholr chil
dren go to the poorhouso or on tho
street. Bv tho time tho wife gets tho
husband buried, she is in debt to the under
taker and gravedigger for thnt which she
can never pay. While the man lived he had
his wine parties and fairly stunk with
tobacco, and then expired, leaving his family
upon the charities of the world. Do not
sen i for me to come and conduct the
obsequies and rend over nucha carcass the
beautiful litugv, “BleSSOtl are the dead who
dteln the Lord,” for, Instead of that. I will
turn over the leaves of tho Biblo to 1
Timothy v.. 18. where it says : “If any pro
vide not for his own, and especially for
those of his own house, he hath denied the
faith, nnd Is worse than an infidel,” or I w'll
turn to Jeremiah xxii.. 19. where it says,
“He shall be burled with tho burial of an
n<»s. drawn nnd cast forth beyond the gates
of Jerusalem."
L cannot imagine any more unfair or
meaner thing than for a man to get his sins
toned nt tho Inst minute, and then go to
live in a mansion, and go riding
about in a golden chariot over the golden
streets, while his wife and children, whom
he might have provided for, are hegglug for
cold victuals at the basement door of nn
earthly city. It seems to mo there ought to
be a poorhouse somewhere on the outskirts
of heaven, whore those guilty of such im
providence should bo kept for awhile on thin
soup nnd gristle instead of Hitting down at
tho K lug’s banquet. It Is said that tho churoh
is a divine institution, and I believe it. J tint
as certainly are tho savings banks and tho
life Insurance companies divine institutions.
As out of evil good often comes bo out of tho
doetrineof probabilities,calculated by Profes
sor Hughes and Professor Pascal for games of
chance, came the calculations of the proba
bilities of human life as used by life insur
ance companies, nnd no business on cart It is
more stabiegir honorable, and no mightier
mercy for the human race has been born since
Christ was born. Iiorod beyond ondurauco
for my signature to papers of all sorts, there
is one stylo of paper that I always sign with
a feeling of gladness nnd triumph, nnd that
In a paper which the life insurance company
requires from tho clorgyman after a decease
in hfs congregation. In order to the payment
of the policy to the bereft household, I al
ways write my name then so they can read
if. I cannot help but say to myself
“Good for that man to have looked
after his wife nnd children after
earthly departure. May ho have one of tho
beat seats In heaven !” Young man! Tho
day before or the day after you get married,
go to a life insurance company of established
reputation and get the medical examiner to
put the stethoscope to your lungs and his ear
close up to your heart with your vest off, and
have signed, sealed mid delivered to you a
document thnt will, in the case of your sud
den departure, make for that lovely girl tho
difference between a quoon and a pauper.
I hsve known men who have had an In-
corno of $3000. $1000, $5000 a year, who did
not leave one farthing to the surviving
household. Now, that man's death is a de
falcation, an outrage, a swindle. He did not
die ; he absconded. There nre 100,000 people
in America to-day a-hungerod through the
sin of improvidence. “But,” say none, “my
income Is so s nail l cannot, afford to pay the
premium on a life insurance.” Are you sure
about that? IT you are sure, then you have
a right to dep n I on the promise in Jeremiah
x• Ik , 11. “Leave thv fatherless children, 1
will preserve them alive, and let thy widows
trust in Me.” But If you are able to, remem
ber you hnv« no right to ask God to do for
your household that which you can do lor
them yourself.
For the benoflt of those young men excuse
a practical personality. Beginning my life's
work on the munificent salary of £S00 a year
an l a parsonage, and when tho call was
placed in my hands I did not kuow how in
tho world I would ever bo able to spend that
nt of motr-y. and I remember indulg
the fact—thnt high tariff Is best for M „ II10 I or mon- y. and i remember muuig-
people and free trade is best for oth- i*. This ! "• » ' ! ™ out wM \ Umt ,f ,n 1 , * ht 1 not Ui \ U ' 1
tnrifllc controversy keeps business Mru info woridliness and prodigality by such an
through with uncertainty, nnd thnt
talnty results In poverty ari l wretchedness
for n vast multitude of people. 1 f t he eternal
gntj on this question could have been fash
ioned into loaves of bread, there would not
be a hungry man or woman or child on all
the planet. To the end of time, the words
of the text will be kept true by the tariff! •
controversy—“Ye have tho poor always with
you.”
Another cause of perpetual poverty is the
cause alcoholic. Toe victim does not last
long. IB* soon crouches into tho drunkard's
grave. But what about his wife and chil
dren? Hhe takes In washing,-when she can
get It. or goes out working on small wages,
because sorrow and privation have left her
Incapacitated to do a strong woman’s work.
The children are thin blooded nud gaunt
nnd pale and weak, slauding around in cold
room?, or pitching pennies on the street cor
ner. and munching a slice of unbuffered
bread when they can get It. sworn nt bypass-
ersby because they »l<> not get out of the
way, kicked onward toward manhood or
womanhood, for which they have no prep
aration, e- -.pt a depraved appetite and
frail constitution, candidates for aim-
house nnd penitentiary. Whatever
other cause of poverty may fail, tho saloon
may be depended on to furnish un ever in
creasing throng o? pauper*. Oh. ye grog
shops of Brooklyn nnd New York and of all
the cities v ye mouths of hall, when will ve
cease to ernunch and dev -ur? There is no
danger of the liquor business failing. All
other styles of business at times fail. Dry
goods stores go under. Hardware stores go
under. Grocery stores go under. Hnrue»s
makers fai!. druggists fad. bankers fail,
butchers fail, bakers fall, confectioners fail,
hut the liquor dealers n ver. It is the only
secure business I know of. Why tho per
manence of the alcoholic trade? Because,
in the first place, the men in that business,
if tight up for money, only have to put
into large quantities of water more strych
nine and logwood and nux vomica aud vit
riol and other congenial concomitants for
adulteration. One quart of the real genuine
pandemoniac elixir will do to mix up with
several gallons of milder damnation. B-sid-s
that,those dealers can depen i on an increa-u
of demand on tho part «>f their customers.
The rooreof that stuff they drink, the thir.-t
ier they are. Hard times, which stopoth
rplus of resources, aud at a time
arti<*l«'Hof food and clothing were hlabor
than they arc now, I felt It a religious duty
to g'*t my life insured, and I presented my
self nt an office of ono of the great compan
ies, and I stood pale and nervous lest the
medical examiner might have to declare
that I had consumption and heart
disease nnd a half dozen mortal ail
ments. but when I got tho document,
which I have yet iu full foroe, I felt a sense
of manliness nnd confidence and quietude
and re-enforcement, which is a good thing
for any young man to have. For tho lack of
that feeling there are thousands of men to
day in Greenwood and Laurel Hill and
Mount Auburn who might as well lmvo been
alive nnd well and supporting their families.
They got a little sick, and they w-ro so wor
ried about what would become of their house
holds in case of their demiso that their
agitations overcame the skill of the physi
cians. and they died for fear of dying. I
have for many years been such au ardent
advocate of Ilfo insurauee, and my sermon
on “The Crime of Not Insuring’’ has been
so long used on both sides of the sea by
the chief life Insurance companies that
som»* people have supposed that i received
monetary compensation for what I hnvosai l
and written. Not a penny. I will give any
man £100 for every penay I have received
from any life insurance company. Whnt I
have said and written on the subject has re
sulted from the conviction that these insti
tutions ore a benediction to the human rn-c.
! Rut. alas, for the widespread improvidence!
! You are now in your charities helping to
support the families of men who had more
income than you now have, and you can do-
I |*end on the improvidence of many for the
j truth of my text in all times and in al!
places, “Ye have the poor always with
you.”
i Another fact that you may depend upon for
perpetual poverty la the incapacity of many
tn achieve a livelihood. You can go through
any community and find goo 1 people with
more than usual mental caliber, wiio never
have been able to support themselves aud
their households. They are a mystery to u.»,
and we say. “I do not know what Jsthe
mailer of them, but there Is a screw isose
somewhere.” Some of these persons have
more brain than thousands who make a
splendid success. Home are too eanguiu
business, only increase thot business,ror men ; temperament, and they see bargains where
go there to drown their trouble?. They take there aro none. A common minnow
tho spirits down to keep their spirits up. is to them a gold fish, and a quail a tin-
Tbers 13 Inclined plaue down watch aico- | mingo, and a bllo i raulo on a tow&ath a Bu
cephalus. They buy when things aro high-
cat and sell wheu things are lowest. Komo
one tolls them of city Iota out West, where
the foundation of tho first house has not yet
boon laid. Thoy say, “Wlmt nn opportun
ity I " and they put down tho hard cash for
nn ornamented deed for ten lots under
water. They hear of si now silver mine
opened In Nevada, and they say, “What a
chance!" nnd they take the littlo money
they have in the savings bank nnd pay
it out for ns beautiful a certifi
cate of mining stock as was over printed,
and the only thing they will ever get out of
the investment is the aforesaid illuminated
lithograph. They aro always on the verge
of mlillouairodom and aro sometimes worried
ns to whom they shall bequeath tholr excess
of fortune. They invest in aerial machine*
or now inventions in perpetual motion, and
they succeed in what mathematicians think
Impossible, tho squaring of a circle, for they
do everything on tho square and win tho
whole circle of disappointment, They are
good bonnet, brilliant failures. They dlo
poor, nnd leave nothing to tholr families but
a model of some Invention that would not
work anil whole port folios of diagrams
of things impossible. I cannot help
but like thorn, because they are so cheerful
with great expectations. But their children
are a bequest to the bureau of city charities.
Others administer to the crop of the world’s
misfortune by being too uusuanneting.
Honest themselves, they believe all others
aro honest. Thoy are fleeced and scalped
and vivisected by the sharpers in nil styles
of business and ehoaied out ot everything
between cradle and grave, and those two
exceptions only because they have nothing
to do in buying either of them. Others are
retained for misfortune by inopportune
sickness. Just as that lawyer was to make
the plea that would have put him among
the strong men of the profession, neu
ralgia stung him. Just as that physi
cian whs to -prove his skill in ait epi
demic, his own poor health imprisoned him.
Just us that merchant must ho at the store
for some decisive and introductory bargain,
he sits with a rheumatic joint ou a pillow,
the room redolent with liniment. What an
overwhelming statistic would be the story of
men a id women and children impoverished
iiy sicknesses j Then the cyclones. Then
the Mississippi and Ohio freshets. Then the
stopping of too factories. Then the euroulios
among tho peach trees. Then the iuseetlle
devastation of potato patches and whoaL-
ftolds. Then the epizootics among tho
homes, and the hollow horn among the
herds. Then the ruins that drown out
everything, and the droughts that burn
up half a continent. Then tho orange
groves die under the white teeth of
the hour frost. Then tho coal strikes, nnd
tho iron strikes, and the mechanics' strikes,
which all strike labor hnrderthan theystrlke
capital. Then the yollow fever at Brunswick
and Jacksonville nnd Shreveport. Then tho
cholera at the Narrows, threatening to land
nt Now York. Then tho Charleston earth
quake. Then the Johnstown flood. Then
hurricanes sweeping from Caribbean Sen to
Newfoundland. Then them arc tho great
monopolies that gul.'oy tho earth with their
oppressions. Then there are the necessities
of buying coal by the scuttle instead of the
ton, and flour by the pound instead of tho
barrel, and so the injustices are multiplied,
la tho wake of all these are overwhelming
illustrations of tho truth of my text, “Ye
have the poor always with you."
Remember a fact that no one emphasizes -
a fact, nevertheless, upon which 1 want to
put the weight of an eternity of tonnage -
that the best way of iusuring yourself and
your children and your grandchildren
against poverty nnd all other troubles Is by
helping others. I am nn agent of the oldest
insurance company thnt was over established.
It is nearly 8000 yiwirs old. It has the ad
vantage of all the other plans of insur
ance—whole life policy, endowment,
Joint life and survivorship policies,
ascending and descending scales of pre
mium and tontine aud it pays up while
you live 'and it pays up after you are
dead. Every cent you give in a Chris
tian spirit to a poor man or woman, every
shoo you give to a barefoot, every stick of
wood or Jump of coal you give to a tireless
hearth, every drop of medicine you give to a
poor Invalid, every Htar of hope yov make to
whine over unfortunate maternity, every
mitten you knit for cold fingers, is a pay
ment on the premium of thnt policy. 1 hand
about 500,000.000 policies to all who will go
forth and aid IU•• unfortunate. There nre
only two or three lines in this policy of life
Insurance—-Bs. xll., 1, “Blessed is ho that
eonsideroth the poor ; tho Lord will deliver
him in time of trouble."
Other life hiHurnneo companies may fall,
but this eelewllal life insurance company
never. The Lord God Almighty is at the
head of it. nnd all the angels of heaven are
In its board of direction, and Its assets are
ail worlds, nnd all the ehnritnble of earth nnd
heaven are the beneficiaries. “But,” Hays
somo on»‘, “i do not like a tontine policy so
well, and that which you offer is more like a
tontine nnd to ho chiefly paid in this life."
“Blcsse I iw he that eonsidercth the poor ; the
Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.”
Well, if you prefer tho old fashioned
policy of life insurance, which Is not
paid till after death, you can be ac
commodated. That will be given you in tho
nay of judgment and will be banded you
by the right band, the pierced hand of our
Lord Himself, and all you do In tho right
spirit for the poor Ih payment on tho pre
mium of that life insurance policy. I read
you a paragraph of that policy: “Thou shall
the King say unto them on ills right hand,
•Como, ye blessed of My Father, for i was
hunger, d, and ye gave .Mm meat ;I wu* thirs
ty, and ye gave Me drink : i was a stranger,
and ye took Me in ; naked and ye clothed
Me.’ "
in various colors of Ink other life Insur
ance policies are written. This one I have
jest shown you Is written in only one kind
of ink, and that r**d Ink, the blood of tho
j cross. Bless*'d be God, that Is a paid up
1 policy, paid for by the pangs of the Hon of
God, and nil we add to it in the way of our
I own good deeds will augment the sum of
eternal felicities. Yes, tho time will come
when the banks of largest capital stock
I wiil go down, and the lire insurance
! companies will all go down, and
the life insurance companies will
nil go down. Jn the Inst great earthquake
all the cities will be prostrated, and as a
consequence all banks will forever suspend
payment. In the last conflagration the lire
insurance companies of the earth will fall,
for how could thoy make appraisement
of the loss on a universal fire? Then
all the inhabitants of the round world
will surrender tholr mortal existence,
and Uow could life Insurance companies
pay for depopulated hemispheres? But
our celestial life insurance will not be
banned by thnt continental wreck, or
Dint hemispheric accident, or that
planetary catastrophe. Blow it out
like a candle - the noonday sun! Tear it
down like wornout upholstery-thelast sun
set ! Toss it from God’s finger like a dew-
drop from the anther of a water Illy -the
o- an! Hcatter them like thistledown before
a 1 jihoolboy’s breath -the world ! They will
not disturb the omnipotence, or the com
posure, or the sympathy, or the love of that
Christ who said it once on earth, and will
say it again in heaven fo all those who have
been helpful to the down-trodden, and the
cold and the hungry, and the houseless, and
the lost. “Inasmuch as ye did it to thorn, yo
j did to Me! ’ ^
Bacteria in Animal Saliva.
I The saliva of dogs and cats is es-
; pecially rich in bacteria, that of tho
i latter containing a form which is sel-
dom observed and so fatal that rab-
' bits and guinea pigs inoculated with
1 it die in twenty-four hours. The
i (log’s saliva contains an even greater
number of bacteria, plus occasional
eggs of intestinal worms an l so on.
Those fond and loving women who are
prone to waste their caresses upon lap
dogs will be interested in this item.- •
Pharmaceutical Era.
THE WHITE CITY IN ASHES.
Raging Flames Amidst tt’ Peaces ot
’s Fir.
TIio Flro Starts III llio (V-snn noil Takes
Everything In Us I’allt.
A Chicago apodalsays.:* 'file World's
fair Pompeii enmo Mbiftlny might. A
rushing volcano of Uiino- —a huge
(lotliic architecture tirmbling into
chaos—bewilderod mobs fcf pedwe—nil
wero there, timlor n gryi\t st^wy sky
of Ttiiliim clearness, wiitr T<ak<g Michi
gan’s broail expanse a siWoml Mediter
ranean. A. fwfffe
Probably no move iiifcgnUte
terrifying spectacle hai-fvi r
noasod tliis aidu of the All
was long after dark whijli bell
pic, returning from trotk
homes in the suburbs along thi
railroad—familiar to ? Jiundii
thousands of world’s fn/jf vis
ticod a constantly enlarging cdMum of
lire nud smoke asccm'iug Hkjijvftrd iu
tho cast. "
“Tho world's fair is on flrilr was
tho cry, nud few indeed of thjtltnscin-
atod watchers from tlnA|'tiiy%.ynLdowh
alighted until tho fumoty* Kuf&uinl nt
the exposition grounds * was' mioho.l.
Tho last, half mile of tli^ jontyAy was
directly cast to the fair, so ^nt all
viow of tho blazing pleasure lionso of
the world was shut off for ft tin* com
pletely. Directly past llie flgci^P of tho
frightful lire of the cy^ntotag^ wnro-
liousc, where scores oUBuncu l<5t I heir
lives during the faii^|HKeds o%pccta'
tors hurried from tho tiffinfnlo the cele
brated court of hpu4L Tlftu-J, sud
denly, tho conllagrawni enmo into
view. Whirlwinds oUblazing embers
wero being carried frlKi theond of tho
court of honor furtlicX from the ad
ministration buildindThigh oVer the
mammoth roof of the liberal ails
building, the largest 'structure on
earth. The gront ponfon slntuo of tho
republic could bo socn lifting her lib
erty cap dctinutly aloft, through tho
elouds of smoke and ftamc.
Tho fire started in the Casino, just
enst of tho agricultural building nnd
south of the peristyle. Tho Casino was
quiekly devoured, nnd tho flames surg
ed north ou top of the’ peristyle and
dropping made a second line of liro
along the huso of the columns. Tho
flames then sprang through tho music
hall, which corresponds at the north
end of tho peristyle to tho Casino at
the south.
Through tho glass Hie buildings
could bo soon pieces falling like boul-
dorsin nu avalnnehe, crushing and
burning the Freuoli section and
threntoning to destroy tho ltiiNsiau aud
British sections. m
LinERAI, AIM'S HUinBiO DBSTIIOVr.il.
Tho (ire boats nnj engines ou tho
lake side had by tbtfBimo subdued the
flames iu the asiic^^Uhe peristyle and
in the lower eolon^Hi of the south
east side of tho lillBd arts building,
and hopes wore r®ed that tho lire
had been siibduod, nit shortly after
11:15 o’clock p. ™ tho flames got
beyond control way. up on tho top
promenade of tho liberal arts building,
and the main isle ot tlie building was
a mass of flumes, mining from the
blazing brands which came from
above,
fa nr, or tub rrnisivi.K.
Tho fire lind been burning less than
nil hour wliou a thunderous crush of
falling limber and a Iremeudous shout
from the 'browd "annoitucod the ool-
lapso of the periXjH* A moment later
another torriflo jfiSll from tho crowd
told that tho libfrallnrts building bad
caught liro and thMfthe whole exposi
tion was threatened)
Finally a great iron arch gnvo way
directly above tho ll 'ronoli wares and
falling heavily bnnod thorn beneath
tho burning pilg nrfd they they wero
lihnmlonuil. Back of tho French was
tho Japanese exhibit aud about it clus
tered a crowd of seared and frantic
Japanese. This, like many exhibits
; has not been released from bond
and goods could not bo taken from
the building. Under tho direction of
somo Japanese oflloials, tho wares were
carted to tho doors and there they
stood guarded by tho natives of the
flowery kingdom, who sorrowfully
awuited tho destruction that seemed
inevitable. All of the American ex
hibits had long ago been removed, but
the formalities of tho custom bouse
had detained tho goods of Iho foreign-
| ers.
All through tho grunt structure fran
tic exhibitors rushed, seeking the safu-
| ty of their goods. “Our hands are tied,”
] said ono. “Wo cannot remove our
! wares from t ho building. Wo in list
stand idly by nnd see them burn. We
can do nothing.”
Tho fire departin' .it fought with en
ergy and skill, but tho conditions wero
all against success. A llereo wind
came over the lake, flinging fiery em
bers everywhere and fanning tho
flames into tierce life with every mo
ment.
ESTIMATING THE I,OSS.
Opinions seemed to be general that
tho loss by water would lie even great-
| er than that by lire. The federal olll-
[ rials put tho maximum loss nt $1,0011,-
I 000. On the other hand, the estimates
made by the people connected with
! the local directory made the highest
figures 81,500,000 in the liberal arts
building.
Three days ago the number of pack-
; ages awaiting shipment in each biiihl-
i ing was:, Manufactures 1,97-1, Midway
| plaisanee 000, fine arts 700, woman's
810, mining, 1,830, electricity 107, ng
ricnltmal 1,800 and 15,000 aeullered
in other buildings, mulling a total of
about 24,000 paekuges. hess Ilian
14,000 packages had beenshippeil invny
j prior to December '-’lith Iasi. Most of
the goods remaining vo-d'o foreign ex
i hi bits.
REDWINE PLEADS GUILTY
Ami is Seiilencoil lo (lie IVnUeiilinry
for Six Years.
The Hcdwino embezzlement trial
nl Atlanta enmo to au nlirubt termina
tion Thursday afternoon. The mys
terious bombshell which i( was from
the first supposed that the defense held
in reserve amazed everybody. It was
a plea of guilty.
Tho circumstances surrounding Ibis
denouement were fully iu keeping
with nil tho other features of this re
markable ease. When the government
concluded it was a matter of general
remark that the outlook for tho pris
oner seemed brighter than had boon
deemed possible. Tho tangled affairs
of the bank, its deplorably loose meth
ods of doing business, the overdrafts
of its oflleials and tho difficulty of de
termining exactly what hint become of
its funds, all of which had been
brought out iu the evidence of the
prosecution, formed iu the opinion of
njuny a peg for a jury lo bang upon
amj talk of a mistrial was beard overy-
(wlicrc. This was assuming, of course,
that llodwine would put up some spe-
oiea of defense.
Thus lew, outside of, perhaps, (lie
inner circle, were prepared for what
happened. Indeed, certain things
make it doubtful whether even lted-
wine was prepared for it.
Colonel Hammond, of the defense,
addressed tho court, lie asked fora
final ruling upon his demurrer In the
first indictment, in reference to the
Thomas Cobb Jackson check of $5,000.
For the benefit of people who are not
lawyers it maybe Haid that a demurrer
is a plea Hint the facts charged, even if
true, do not constitute a ease. Judge
I’ardeo sustained the position. Then
Colonel Hammond dmnfouuded the
room full of listeners bv admitting iu
a few curt sentences that upon tlmtliree
other indictments the government had
established an unassailable ease and
requested the judge to enter a plea of
guilty.
livery face save Hedwine’s bore
traces of the excitement of tho mo
ment. lie glanced up and seemed
faintly interested, that was nil. No
one could have guessed from that im
passive countenance I bat the die bad
just been east that sealed bis fate,
ruined liis life nnd domnod him to a
felon’s chains.
The jury, under inslructions, re
turned a perfunctory verdict of guilty
ou indictments No. 8085, 8058 nnd
3004. They cover suhstantinlly the
same ground of embezzlement.
SIX YKAUS IN THE PEN.
Friday morning Hedwino was
brought into court to receive sentence.
Hie loft hand thrust, deep in liiH trous
ers’ pocket and Iuh thin 1 ipn with just
the ghost of a smile, ho stood up and
received the edict which sends him to
the penitentiary. Homo said that ho
took it like a man nnd others that it
was a disgusting exhibition of bravado.
The sonteneo was six years on each of
tho three indictments, but Judge Par-
dee ordered that they bo“served concur
rently." Under the law a judge can
make several sentences imposed id one
time either concurrent or cumulative.
Tim most famous example of a cumu
lative sentence is that of “Boss”
Tweed, who was convicted on somo
thirty-three indictments aud sentenced
on enoli, tho total being over one hun
dred years, one term beginning when
another was served. In a concurrent
setitenco tho different terms are served
at one and tho same time. Hedwine’s
being concurrent, it is really only six
years, otherwise it would bo eighteen.
WHAT THE SENTENCE MEANS.
Hedwine’s sonteneo of six years will
bo shortened to four years and six
mouths, under the two-third rule,
provided his conduct is good. He will
probably bo put to some light form of
liinnuu! labor as there is a superabund
ance of dorks in all northern prisons.
At, the Columbus, ()., penitentiary
where he will bo sent there is a system
of grades and a parole at the expira
tion of wlmt would lie the minimum
sentence, but these do not apply to
United States prisoners. Judgo Par
dee has iustruoted the marshal to take
Hedwino away at once.
MUST BE VACCINATED.
Nashville Makes nu Appropriation lo
Fight, Smallpox.
At n called session of the Nashville
city council Friday afternoon 85,000
was appropriated to lie used iu vacci
nating citizens generally and ill light
ing tho smallpox in other ways. An
other esse was reported during tho
day. This one iH a negro woman. All
tho seven eases are dose together nnd
w ill bo taken to the now pest-house ns
soon ns it is convenient. They nre
now guarded nnd the other inmates of
tho houses quarantined.
a i.enllicr Medal.
A Denver, C'ol., specinl of Thursday
says: Governor Waite has reccivod
this dispatch from Senator Stewart:
“4 believe, as n matter of law, a state
may make foreign coin n legal tender,
according to the pure metal of stan
dard value, and thnt n .Mexican dollar
might ho made a legal tender for its
face value.” Governor Waite line also
received by mail a leather modal of the
exact size of a silver dollar. On ono
side was this inscription : “To his ex
cellency, David Waite, in token of the
citizens of Colorado for his able decis
ion to act in opposition to their wishes
nnd best interests.” On the other side
were the words: “Colorado 57 cents.
Mexieol"
Blount (joes lo Washington.
Mr. Blount left Macon,Ga., Monday
for Washington whore ho goes lo tes-
tify in the Jlauujjajj invasligaliuu.
SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS.
The Drill of Her Progress and Pros-
IlnpiicnhiffB of Interest Portrayed in
Pithy Paragraphs.
Firo Wednetulny morning destroyed
tho Starr piano works at Richmond,
Va. Tho loss is $800,000 nnd tho in
surance $40,000.
A Nashville special of Thursday
says: Tho Natdiville, Chattanooga and
Si. Louis railroad lias a strike ou its
hands similar to that on tho Hender
son division of the Louisville and
Nashville a fow weeks ago, in that it is
unauthorized.
A Savannah spccinlsays: Receiver
Comer said Thursday that ho hail uot
sold tho $40,000 receiver’s certiorates
of iho Savannah and Atlantic railroad
in Now York, but ho declined to talk
further about them until he had made
his report to tho bondholders. Under
these circumstances, it seems that tho
rebuilding of the road will not. begin
soon.
The outlook at Ashland, Ky., is en
couraging. Thursday tlie blast furnace
of the Norton Iron works, resumed
with the puddling department to fol
low ami the nails already on. It has
been nearly seven years since tho en
liro plant was last in operation. The
run will last at least, six months, and
about six hundred men will be given
steady employment.
Robert P. Hofei, who roceutly re
signed ns cashier of the bank of Wayne,
nt Goldsboro, N. C., made an assign
ment there Wednesday, turning over
his property to his creditors. His lia
bilities nre estimated al $45,000. Ho
is one of the foremost citizens of
Goldsboro. The assignment was un
expected and caused a seUBatioil.
A Richmond, Vn., special says: In
the case of tho Norfolk and Western
railroad vs. Adams, Clements A'* Co.,
involving the rights of the railways or
ear service associations to have a fixed
charge for tho use of their ears every
day they remain unloaded after three
days notice of their arrival, the su
preme court of appeals, Thursday,
decided in favor of the railroad.
ShorifYMiddleton, of Duplin county,
N. 0., has served a summons on the
officers and directors of tho defunct
bank of New Hanover in tho action
begun against them iu tho superior
court of Duplin. The depositors of
tlie bank iu Dupliu aro the plaintiffs
and tho action is to recover from the
deposits in the bank amounting to
$30,000. 'Fho defendants are to an
swer February 19th.
A Knoxville, Tenn., special says:
Newspapers have had much to say dur
ing tho past year regarding the ru
mored resignation of the Hon. D. M.
Key, judge of tho United States dis
trict court for tho eastern division of
Tennessee. It was said ho would re
sign January 1st, but that dato has
passed and he is now holding court in
this city. Iu an interview Tuesday,
however, he gave out his intentions
positively.
At a mooting of tho stockholders at
Chattanooga the entiro paid-up stock
of the Chattanooga Steamboat Com
pany was transferred, without pecuni
ary consideration, to six share-holders.
The steamer City of Chattanooga and
her barges will be brought from River
ton, Ala., and put into commission at
once. This company uas organized
two years ago, with a capital stock of
$1,000,000, by 100 business men, who
subscribed $1,000 each.
A Denver special of Thursday says:
The senate special committee, to whom
was referred tho governor’s message,
have agreed upon their report. Thoy
declare there is no occasion for hold
ing an extra session aud recommend
nn adjournment. Upon tlie governor’s
Mexican dollar scheme they say they
are obliged to recognize the sovereign
authority of the government in all
matters of coinage and that tho sug
gestions of Governor Waite are not
practicable.
Different Kinds of Locomotion.
The different kinds of locomotion have
been studied chrono photographically by
Profeisor Maroy. In order to photograph
reptiles in motion, they must be placed
iu a sort of circular canal where thoy
can run ou indefinitely. Fishes Arc made
to swim iu a similar canal filled with
water illuminated from above, so that
they appear dark on a light ground, or
from below, so as to appear light on a
dark background. Some interesting
analogies may bo observed between sim
ple creeping and more complex move
ments. An cel and an adder progress in
the water in the same way; a wave of
lateral inflexion runs incessantly
from the head to tho tail, and
the speed of background propa
gation of this wave is only slightly
superior to the velocity of translation of
the animal itself. If tho eel and adder
are placed on tho ground, the mode of
creeping will he modified in the same
manner in the two speoies. in both tlie
wave of rept&tion will have a greater
amplitude, and this amplitude grows
more and more as the surface becomes
smoother. “In fishes provided with tius,
and in reptiles possessing feet, there re
mains, in general, a more or less pro
nounced trace of the undulatory motion
fj# reptatiou. .The gray lizard, when
photographed at tho rate of forty or fifty
exposures per second, exhibits this
clearly, aud also reveals the fact that tlie
mode of progression b.y means of tjie
feet is diagonal, and analogous to trot
ting. This gives rise t»» an alternation
of convexity and concavity in tho body
on each side."
McKinley Inaugurated. He—It make* mo a bcttdr rasn every
Governor McKini&y wan inaugurated i time I kin you, darling. Sho - Ob, my,
at (JolumbuH, Ohio, Monday. There I Charlie 1 How good you must be uotf.
iraji a largo military nu4 oivip pfuode. ! .-Iflrooklya Life.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
the Industrial Situation as Reported
for tho Past Week.
The review of tho industrial situation in the
South for tho pant week shown that no material
chango in industrial conditions has taken place.
Tho number of now industries in process of or
ganization continues to be abovo tlie average,
uulica'ing a prosperous statoof affairs, as com
pared with the paHt fow months. There can he
no doubt that tho tide of rovival in manufac
turing nnd mechanical nffatrn has fairly sot in.
It in shown by the increasing inquiry for ma
chinery of all kinds, by tlie formation of now
co-partnerships arid companies, by the enlarge
ments of existing plants, and by the growing
demand for sites for factories and industrial
plants. Honthern merchants and southern
hanks aro in a good condition, and an adjust
ment of tho pending tariff question is only
needed to ensure renewed prosperity.
Thirty-three new industries wero estab
lished or incorporated during tho weok,
together with oight enlargements of manufac
tories. Tho following are among the promi
nent new industries: Tho Arctic Ico and Stor
age Company, of Wheeling, W. Va., i capital
f 500,000, organized by Peter Wolfty and associ
ates; tho Potomac Manufacturing Company,
of Alexandria, Va., oapital 130.000. by A. J.
Smith and others; tho Columbia Glass Com
pany, of Wheeliug, W. Va-, capital $800,000,
by M. F. Strung and others, and the Blacks
burg Phosphate Guano Company, of Blacks-
burg, H. 0., by T. B. Gautir amt associates.
Tho Btoninglon Brick and Tils Com
pany, capital $90,000, has been organiz
ed, * at Natchez. Miss.; tho Shreveport,
Manufacturing Company, capital stock $50,-
000, at Shreveport, La., by II. H. Wheeler and
associates; tho Bantliern Dynamito and Power
Company, at Tallapoosa, Ga.. capital $50,-
000, by if. M. McBride uml others; tho Bridge
port Stovo Works, at Bridgeport, Ala., capital
$25,000, by R- J. bowman aud associates; the
Montgomery Basket nnd Woodenware Compa
ny, of Montgomery, Ala., capital $20,000, by
W. li Micou nnd others, ami the Helena Box
Factory, capital $10,000, of Helena, Ark., by
John J. llorner and others.
A brewery is reported nt Austin, Texas, a
barrel factory at Florence, Ala.; a canning
factory at Cleveland, Tenn.* a cotton mill at.
Augusta, Gu.jdyo works at Charlotte. N. C.;
a grist ^ mill at Birmingham, Ala.; a
foundry nnd machine Hhon at
Westminster. S. C., nnd an oil mill nt Florence,
H. C. Gold mines aro to ho developed nt An-
rtiria, Ga.; n slato quarry at Virgilina, Va.;
sugar refineries aro to be built at Evergreen
and Martinsville, La.; lumber companies have
lr. en organized st Charleston, K. C., Knoxville,
Tenn., and West Norfolk, Va., and haw and
planing mills are to bo built at Brewtou, Ala.,
Newborn and Homcrville, Tonn., an l Texar
kana, Texas.
The enlargements for tho week include a
brewery at Han Antonio, Texas; brick nnd tile
works at Houston, Toxin; gnn works at Ash-
villo, N. C.; cotton mills nt Anniston, Ala., and
Cuarleston, H. nud saw and pinning mills at
Waycross, Ga , 1 do.iton, N. C-, and Liberty, 8.
C.—Tradosmnu (Cnattauoogn, Tuna.)
A CAUSTIC REPLY
(K .lie Duval Club to Attorney-General
Lninnr of Floriiln.
The etntemont pul)li»lieil in tlie Chi
cago /ntcr-Oeran by Florida's Attor
ney General to tho effect that the Cor-
bett-Mitoholl contest could not postd-
bly be “pulledoff” within Iho borders
of his slide hnn elicited n caustic reply
from tho president of the Duval Ath-
lolio Club. Tho Attorney General’s
positive edict nguinst tlio light is met
by ns positive a statement from the
club that (lie contest will occur, and
occur in Florida at thnt. Hero is
whnt the club Buys in reply to tho At
torney Gcnornl:
“Attorney General Unninr, speaking
for himself nnd the governor, hnviug
declared in n letter to tho Intcr-Occan
of Chicngo thnt tho Oorbott-Mitchell
contest will not take plnce in Florida,
it in proper thnt wo inform the publio
that ueithor the attorney general nor
tho governor possesses any judicial
power nud to add that the state’s offi
cers, noting under the direction of the
executive, have refused to allow any
judicial determination by tho courts of
tho law which it is claimed the contest
will violate, nnd to thnt end have
cuiiscd the prosecution originated for
the purpose of testing the law to be
dismissed; nnd further, thnt the Exec
utive of tho state, possessing the con
stitutional prerogative of asking the
opinion of tho-highest judicial tribunal
of tho slate ns to the construction of
tho statute, lias declined to do so.
Tho public is hereby assured thnt the
contest will take place ns advertised;
that no plnns have boon formed or
steps taken, nnd none will bo, by
either tho govornor or tho attorney
gouernl, to stop tho contest, nnd tick
ets onn bo bought with tho confldeuco
thnt it will take place under the con
tract ns signed.
“Heniiy Mason, President,
“For tho Duval Athlotie Club.
DOLE A BLUSTERER.
lie Makes a Defiant Reply to Min
ister Willis’ Demauds.
Tho steamer Wavirmoo, which ar
rived nt Victoria, B. 0., Monday
night, brought advices from Honolulu
under dato of January 1st. On tho
10th of December, Minister Willis de
manded of tho provisional government
that it surrender to tho quoen. Pres
ident Dole replied, refusing to consider
this demand. Tho government is
keeping tho answer of Dole to Willis’
domnnds secret until it shall have had
timo tu roach tho president. The fol
lowing Buwmnry, however, has boon
obtained from good authority:
Dolo begins by noting that this is
tho lirst official communication this
government lias had intimating iu any
way tho policy of Prosidcnt Cleveland
toward Hawaii. By no action of this
government has any matter connected
with tho lato revolution been submit
ted to tho authority of the United
States. This is carefully argued. No
intimation has over boon made to tha
provisional government of anything
having been done or considered in tha
premises until tho alleged conclusion
of the president uow presented by
Minister Willis. Au exhaustive re
sume is given of the series of political
struggles leading up to the revolution,
including the acts of Kalakauka before
1887,and his obstructing uud dictating
legislation by Ailing the legislature
with ofliceholders.
Henhor Meudon, the Brazilian min
ister at Washington, Iiuh no informa
tion which would hcarout the dispatch
received in Paris from Bio de Janeiro
that President l’eixoto has resigned.
The departments nre also without in
formation respecting the Paris report
that Peixoto lias resigned.