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A FURIOUS GALE
SWEEPS TEE NORTH ATLANTIC
COAST DOING GREAT DAMAGE.
Bummer Resorts Wiped Out —Coney Island a
Mass of Wrecked Buildings—A Num
ber of Vessels Wrecked.
New York, August 24.—A heavy gale
with rain in torrents struck this vicinity
last night, giving none of the usual warn
ings. The weather was very sullen up to
about 11 o'clock. Then a slight breeze
sprang up and within ten minutes a tull
fledged cyclone was blowing, bringing
with it a deluge of rain that made a new
record. Then- were nearly four inches, of
rainfall on the record for September 22d
ami 23d, ISS2. but last night s rainfall
exceeded four inches. Cellars and base
ments along West and South streets- the
river fronts—were Hooded ami much dam
age to goods was caused. Trees all over the
citv were uprooted or stripped of theii
branches. Central park suffered heavily
in this way- Brooklyn also suffered greatly
in Prospect park and on the shaded streets-
Yachts, rowboats ami small crafts ot al
kinds were driven ashore by the hundred
in neighboring waters. Then* was an ex
traordinary high tide and as both shorts
of Long Island sound ami the south shot. <
Long island are dotted with harbors well
fill 'd with pleasure emits, the L oss a
these was verv heavy. Comparatively snail
loss of life is reported, owing to the late
ness of the hour at which the storm broke.
Lives Lost nt Asbury I’ark.
The greatest calamity to life was at
Asburv Park. N. J., where the fishing
schooner alary F. Kelley, of -Xew Yoik,
blew ashore and was wrecked in flout < t
the town. The captain, mate, steward and
one sailor were drowned. Tin- steward was
d,owned in his gail-y. Seven members o
the crew were saved by three gr.es s and
1 ,e proprietor of the < olumbia hotel, who
were out on the beach in the storm. They
wore \V. Harvey Jones, the proprietor;
VT-ilier and Malcom I Hckeusoii, ol t’hila
delphia. and a Mr. Laid, of Alabama.
They saw iTie wreck, ami securing ropes
threw them from the board walk to thoves-
Hol On* nmn was rescued through tne
efforts of Horace AV. Boardman, aged
fomteen years, of Camden. N. .1.. who
succeeded in throwing a rope to him.
Tiie loss at Salisbury Park will bo $35,-
Otio and as much at Orange (.rove
r» irir.g the (height of the storm a policeman
found the body of a dead man lying in a
peddler’s wagon in west Brooklyn. Ihe
• . the wagon was *'teu with water
and the bo<iT ‘Was floating around. He
Imd probably gone to sleep there.
The Boston mails were six hours hire
in arriving today . The delay was occasioned
bv a washout on the Xew York and N'exv
Haven road at .Mount Vernon. X. Y.
The mails from other places were from one
to two hours late on account of last night s
rain.
The Beach Full of Wreckage.
The damage to Coney island resorts will
undoubt 'dly reach far into the hundred
thousands. From Norton’s Point, <>n the
westerly end of the island, to Point Breeze.
ol _ the extreme east, the beach is lull of
wreckage and a scene of disaster is pre
sented which tells the story of the terrible
iii -bt far better than could any words.
Neighboring towns in New Jersey suffer
ed in the same manner as Long Island.
The mountain streams that had been dry,
are rushing torrents today.
i*'.it; 11 teen Drowned.
The fishing schooners Empire State, with
a crew of ten men, and Ella .M. Johnson,
with a crew of eight men, went down last
r.ight off Manasquan, on the Jersey coast,
and all on board were lost. These two ves
-c'ls were in company with the schooner
< ocorua last night at midnight when the
storm struck them and after beating around
all night in some of the worst weather
knn’.vii off the coast ams "‘Ob
survivor of the throe.
The storm struck the three vessels .about
midnight, and at 1 o’clock the Johnson dis
appeared. About half-past 1 o clock, as
near as «-an be calculated. Captain Perry
and First Mate Joseph Francis, of the
Chocioriia. were swept overboard. Tile
lights of the Empire State disappeared im
mediately afterwards, and at daybreak her
masts were seen projecting out of the water
ab >ut h roe feet
'rhe steamer Eggleston Abbey, from Car
diff, put in here for repairs, (in August
22d. >he ir. s im/i from some wreckage
George 11. I’pton. one of the crew of the
fishing schooner .Mary Lizzie, of Portland.
Me., which foundered at ’.I o’clock a- m
on August 21st, he having been ni the
water thirty-three hours. The rest of tiie
crew six in number, one of whom was
his brother had perished, I’pton having
se'ii them go down after the schooner sank-
The Mary Lizzie was struck by a heavy
squall which hove her down on her beam
ends, when the wind shifted and a hFavy
wave driking her. she sank in five minutes.
Ashore
Southampton. East End < f Long Island.
•August 24. About It o’clock this morning
tin It adinz Railroad ('ompany’s steam col
lier, I‘aniaer . of Philadelphia, low.ng the
barge Lykens Valley was wrecked off this
p . • Both x • ---el.-. wont to pieces. Tile
barge had a crew of live men and all were
<i >w Ti:e steamer had --ix ui-'ii washed
ashore, three alive and ihrec deal.
it.H.lh I ,looted.
The Columbia hotel at Belmar, on the
New Jersey coast, was unroofed by last
n ahi’s storm and 2<M> guests wore badly
i Ji ■oo 1. hot no one w .is hurl .
The mammoth hotel at Spring Lake, the
house has several hundred
guests. N’o worse harm came to them than
a great fright and a wetting. A great many
o' lb-. , ou try roads in New Jersey are im
pass;la . o . account ot fallen trees. Four
b' fire! boats and small pleasure crafts in
(’ariiies bay. Long Island, were destroyed
am from one spot of the Atlantic high
lands twenty yachts can be eounied. all
b own upon the beach and in various stages
Os wreckage.
Long Branch suffered heavily in chimneys,
forth houses ami tin roofs.
i iii: uni st: of kitkesen tatiyes
Will Vote on the Repeal Bill and It Will
Certainly I'asn.
Washington. August 27.—(Special. )-
Senator .Morgan returned from Europe yes
terday. lie has been in Paris several
months representing the government be
fore the Behring sea commission. In an
interview given out by him last night he
nays the Sherman law should be repealed
et once, but expressed the opinion that
legislation favorable to silver should go
with the repeal.
By the enthusiastic free coinage men this
is taken to menu that the Alabama sena
tor will advise the silver men of tin* sen
ate to refuse to allow action until the
unti-silver men agree upon substitute leg
islation favorable silver to go with repeal.
But the conservative .silver mon take an
entirely different view of it. They do not
believe that Senator Morgan will lie a par
ty to any dilatory proceedings, but will
consent to a square fight and allow the
majority to rule.
That would mean the passage of the
Voorhees bill by the senate for there is
no longer any doubt but that the uncon
ditional repeal side of the question has
gained a small majority of that body. Sen
ators who have never failed to vote for
free coinage whenever they have had the
opportunity, will now under pressure from
the administration vote against free coin
age, on the grounds that it will be better
for the country not to delay the repeal of
the .Sherman law by a long contest over
the adoption of a free coinage substitute.
They will hold as Senators Hill and Voor
hees have advised in their recent
speeches, that we must have bimetallism
but that it Should not belmixed up with the
contest to repeal the Sherman law. It.
would only tend to delay action to relieve
the present financial panic. The voting
commences in the bouse at noon tomorrow.
The final vote on the passage of the Wil
son bill will hardly be taken before 4
o’clock .in the afternoon. All the votes
on free coinage and the ratio must come
before this. There will boa roll call on
each, and as each roll call consumes half
an hour, the final one will be late in the
afternoon. The majority against free
coinage or any of the ratios is not expected
to be less than thirty. The YY ilson bill is
expected to pass by about seventy major
ity .
How the (Irorelmis Will Vote.
The Georgia delegation will not vote ns
a unit on the repeal of the Sherman law
or the free coinage substitutes tomorrow.
I have polled the delegation. 1 hey will
vote as follows: Messrs. Lester. Lawson.
Black and Russell will vote for all the
ratios; if they are voted down, for the
Bland-Allison law and if that is defeated,
for the Wilson repeal bill.
Mr. Cabaniss will vote against all the
amendments and for unconditional repeal.
Mr. Turner will vote, for free coinage at
the 20 to 1 ratio only and for the Bland
law and for repeal.
Messrs. Tate. Maddox. Livingston, ami
Moses will vote for all the free coinage
amendments, for the Bland-Allison law and
against repeal.
Mr. Moses is. however, inclined only to
vote for the 1G to 1 ratio. as he does not
believe in an increased ratio.
F;. W. B.
Secretary Quincy Resigns
New York. August 27- A special to I’he
Times from Toston says Josiah (jumey
mailed a letter to President Cleveland Fri
day night in which he tendered his resig
nation of the oilice of assistant secretary
of state.
Mr. Quincy's letter to President ('leve
land sets forth, in the first plnee, the ex
igencies of the Bay State campaign- Mr.
Quincy then declares that his own loyal
ty, his sense of what is right, his natural
pugnacity and his belief that the best, in
terests of the democratic party in Massa
chusetts will be served by his taking the
chairmanship of its state committee, leads
him in his decision. Ami so he writes:
“I resign my place as-assistant secretary
of state.”
RILLED ON THE RAIL.
Frightful Accident to a Manhattan Beach
Train -Sixteen Lives Lost.
Long Island City, L. L. August 2G- —A
frightful accident occurred tonight at Hie
Bushwick junction of the Long Island
railroad. A Rockaway train ran into
the rear of a Manhattan Beach train
about 11:25 o'clock, telescoping several
ears. Sixteen dead have been taken
from the xvreck, and their bodies are now
lying in Haveinayer’s tin shops at Laurel
Hill, which have be -n converted into a
temporary morgue. It is now estimated
that the number of injured will reach in
the neighborhood of thirty-five or forty
people, many of whom it is believed will
die
'l'he injured are being conveyed to the
Long island City hospitals as fast as the
ollieials can remove them. A carload has
already bism dispatched. A number of
surgeons were summoned to the scene,
and these are busily engaged extending
temporary relief to the injured.
Further Particulars i>t the Wreck.
Long Island City, L- 1., August 27. —
An accident that cost the lives of fourteen
people occurred shortly after midnight this
morning in the little village of Berlin,
in the township of Newton. The Izong
Island train that left Manhattan beach at
11:15 o’clock, wtts overtaken by the train
that left Rockaway bench, tit teen minutes
earlier. In tho frightful collision that
ensued the two rear ears of the five that
made up the Manhattan beach train wore
demolished ami the middle car was over
turned. Hardly one of the scores of pas
sengers abroad these three ears escaped
unhurt.
Seventeen persons were injured includ
ing Aaron W. Einstein and August Jacob
son. of New Y ork, who xvill probably die-
Impaled by (lie 'limbers.
There were «ti\e ears in the Manhattan
beach train, in all. ten cars. 'l'lie Rock
away train plunged in md plowed its wax
v,t.- thio' cars were maimed ami mangled
horribly and their shrieks of pain were
awful. ’I lie Rockaway engine was wreck
ed. Its smokestack was carried away;
its huge boiler resembled a pincushion from
the timber of t.he wrecktxl ears sticking
into it. I poll these timbers were hu
man beings impaled, jsome dead and others
gasping their last. High up on the top
lay the dead body of a man yet unidenti
fied. 1 pon one of the timbers was im
paled the body of Mr. Oscar Dietzel.
twenty-nine years old. of ?xo. 122 East
One Hundred and Fourteenth street. New
York city. I pon another was the body of
Sidney Einstein, a boy, thirteen years old,
of Fifty-eighth street. New York.
The scene of the wre -k was horrible,' the
dead and wounded lying among the mass of
wreck upon am! beyond i <e-1 racks. Every
thing was showered with the blood of the
dead ami wounded, ami the cries of the
wounded were heard above the hissing of
steam and the calls of the frantje train
men .
Ciiiimi of (he Accident.
General Manager E. R. Reynolds and
Superintendent YV. H. Blood, were at the
scene early. I hey stated that the cause
of the accident was still unknown; that it
was a question of veracity between the
towel- switchman. Nutt and Engineer Con
eriie, of the Rockaway train. 'l’he latter
had reported that a heavy fog prevailed at
the lime which was very dense. He declared
that signals were set at safety, indicating
a clear road, anj ho went ahead without
reducting speed. Suddenly Fireman Robert
Brice, his companion, exclaimed:
“My God! there is a train ahead.”
Looking ahead he saw through the mist
the two red lights that always hang at the
rear eml of a train ami declares that he
immediately reverse,] his engine and put
on the steam brakes. Then be and Fire
man I •rue jumped for their lives. When
the wrecked engine was examined this
morning his statement as to the reversed
lever ami steam brakes was found to be
true. The only remaining question was
as to whether he or Nutt was right about
the danger signal. This morning it was
set at danger and Nutt insisted Umt it had
remained so <>very since he set it to warn
Engitiei r (loncrite.
General Manager Reynolds and Super
intendent Blood took all these statements,
and will hold a rigid investigation
Revised List of the Head.
Theodore Gracven. who was severely injur
ed. died this rfte.-uoon. making the list of
<1 -ml Sixteen. All th,- bmli-'s lmw« I .<n blent
find. The revised list of the dead is as fol
lows :
I’t'l'K. ('olesha A., fifty five years old. edi
tor 'l’he Spirit of the Times, instantly killed:
taken to hi.-, home, X’o. .’lO West Fifty-first
.stiret.
DIEBEL. Mrs. Maggie, twenty nine years
old, instantly killed.
DIETZEL. (isi-a:-. fortj- years old. New
Y’irk, both figs crushed; died in tiie hospital
today.
DITTMA.X’. Mortirm'r. thirty years old. New
York, died before tiie doctors arrived at the
wri < k.
DICKHOFF, John forty-five years old.
New York, a partner in the liquor rectifying
film of E. E. Ersing A- Co , on X’o. 47 Front
street: died in the hospital.
DICKHOFF. Mrs. John ('., forty-five years
old, Xew York, wife of the liquor merchant
who was killed.
THOMAS, twenty-three years old. of Long
Island ( ity. both tegs broken and concussion
of the brain; died in the hospital this juurn
ir.g.
GRA’EVE.X. Mrs. Theodore. New York,
identified by a friend of the family.
GItILLET. Alexand -r. thirty-five years old.
of No. 51 West Twenty-seventh street, died
in Abennan's factor; he has a family in I’tiila
delphia .
HY’NDI.ANDS. James G.. thirty years old,
one of the extra Saturday xvniters at the
Manhattan Beach hotel; identified late to
night .
NEWMAN”. Richard, about thirty-eight
years old. of New York, one of the extra Sat
tirday waiters at the Manhattan Beach ho
tel.
STEIN. Max-, thirty-eight years old. a Itook
keeper. New York; identified late tonight by
his employer.
I’HELAX”. Joseph M.. address unknown, an
actor known on the stage as George Fielding,
who played last- season with the DeWolf
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUIIONt ATLANTA. GA. TUESDAY. AUGUST 29. J. 893 :
Hopper Company; Identified by his brother,
Edward riiclan.
EINSTEIN, Mrs. Bertha, of Nexv York.
EINSTEIN, Samuel, thirteen years old,
instantly killed,
A Collision on the Harlem Rond.
Brewster, N. A”.. August 20. —A head-end
collision occurred today near Dykesnian sta
tion on the Harlem rilßroad. The trains
were a northbound express and a south
bound accommodation. For some reason
that xvill never be known the accommodation
did not await the coming of the express on
a sidelrartr near Dykeman’s station, the
Harlem road having but one truck above
White Plains. The express •flashed on nt a
speed of fifty miles an hour. YY'lien the ac
commodation train was sighted “down
brakes” was whistled, but too late. The
two locomotives came together with ferritic
force, completclv wrecking I hem both ami
also wrecking tiie first passenger car on the
sonllibonnd train 'l’he killed are:
DANIEL roNETTERE, engineer.
ELLIOTT YVH.T.iAMS. engineer.
BERT WILLIAMS, fireman.
MISS N'Ef.LIE REED, aged nineteen years,
of this place. ,
All were badly mangled. (Miss Jleed was a
daughter of Judge 11. H. Reed, of this place,
and was considered the belle of the village.
Tiie Injured were:
J. A. BANKS, trainman, scalded.
HERMaNCE DEY’ITT. salesman. Pough
keepsie. scalp wound and prostration..
1,. MTNF.GAN JAMES baggage master,
badlv bruised. , , .
Tratiic north is completely blocKod ami
hundreds have visited the scene of the dis
aster.
Accident On the B- & <>.
(’olumbus, O-. August 2G— At 6 o'clock
this morning a Baltimore ami Ohio freight
train was derailed at Black Rh’k, ne.t!
Newark, wi-.ile running at a high rate
of speed. The engine ami several cars
were piled up in « huge mass ol wreckage-
Fireman S. C. Stoneburner. ot Newark,
was terribly scalded, awl will die. ( ttilej
Mitchell, a friend of Stoneburiier. who
was on the engine at the time, was crushed
to death.
I.ARGE FIRE IN CHICAGO.
Two Hundred and Fifty Houses Burned-
Thousands of People Homeless.
Chicago, August 24.—Fire broke out at.
5 o'clock this afternoon in South < he-ago
in a three-story brick building, corner Nine
ty first street and Superior avenue. _ A
gale was blowing and the flames <inicKly
swept through five blocks to the lake. Most
of the buildings destroyed wer frame
dwellings occupie.l by employes ot the
large steel mills of the Illinois Steel < om
panv. The rapidity of the spread of the
lire" caused a panic. The entire district
is erowtled with itnflaiumable material im
mense lumber yards. livery engine in the
south side of the city that could be spared
was sent into the threatened .territory ami
also the big fire boat. Yosemite. Ihe tin
was under control at 9 o clo-k tn tin
evening Two hundred and fitly houses wer(
burned and 7.000 people were uiade home
less. The money loss Is estimated at u
million dollars.
I he Burned District.
The burned district is north of the river
where Ninety-second street opens out into
Calumet harbor, protected both on the not th
ami south by government piers. Between
the river and the district in which the flames
eriginatel extend the immense lumber
vanls and lumber docks along the ( alumel
river awl the harbor. These are just south
of the Western Indiana and Rock Island
and Pacific railways. The Baltimore awl
Ohio railroad, running north and south be
tween Ore awl Ontario avenues, marked
at its beginning the western boundary of
the fire. Two squares from the origin of
the fire to the north are the immense shops
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railway Com
pany. The burned territory is just north
of the business portion of Chicago and xvas
given up almost exclusively to residences,
but the Sunday Creek Coal Company, with
one hundred tons of coal were included in
the destruction.
CUT HIS WIFE’S THROAT.
And Then Plunged the Razor Into His Owu
Baltimore, Md., August 26. —A ghastly
double tragedy was enacted in. northeast
<’>h 'Spring alley, ent his wife's throat from
ear to ear awl then drew the bloody fazor
across his own throat. The woman was
dead when discovered lying in the gutter
in front of her residence. Reed was still
alive, but died at Johns Hopkins hospital
at (>:.”0 o’clock this morning. The eleven
year-old son of the couple, John Reed, said
he was lying on a lounge in the front room
of the house and his mother was sitting in
a rocking chair when his father entered in
an intoxicated condition. The boy was
sent after milk by bis father, but finding
the store closed, returned home. As he
reached the house, he said, his mother
came running out. with her throat cut and
blood dropping over her clothing and fell
in the gutter in front of the house. His
father, he said, was in the front room with
a. razor in his hand. The boy says he
ran with the pitcher awl struck his father
over the head, breaking the pitcher. His
father then ran out and gashed his moth
er's throat again. Running through the
house into the yard the man plunged the
razor into his neck.
Reed had been out of work for three
xveeks and he had been on a spree most of
that lime. A box of “Rough on Rats,”
found in his pocket, led to the belief that
the man intended to poison iiis entire fam
ily. The couple had been married about
fourteen years and five children are left
orphans by the double tragedy. By some
it is stated that Reed's motive was jeal
ousy. inflamed by drink, and that ho had
threatened several times to kill his wife.
DR. EMORY” HEARD FROM,
He YY as in Milledgeville Saturday with Mri
Turner.
Milledgeville, Ga., August 27. —(Special.)
Dr. Emory and Mrs. Turner, the Opelika
romancers, spent last night in this city.
Mrs. Turner is here tonight, while Dr.
Emory left in a carriage today and will
take the train for Atlanta tonight.
The news was intimated here this morn
ing but: such cautious steps had guarded
every movement of the couple that it was
by the closest, kind of xvork that anything
could be learned. Dr. Emory, in his part
ing with Mrs. Turner, today, hade her go
back to her husband, and this is her future
intent ion.
She appears very repentant at having left
him. and says that she wants to return.
She is still afraid for her whereabouts to
be known, and says that she is afraid to
meet her husband. She insists that only
one criminal act has stained her rela
tionship awl her association with Dr.
Emory, and she insists that her only rea
son for staying xvith him is on account of
the fear of her husband. She appears very
penitent, awl is anxious for a reconcilia
tion of affairs with Mr. Turner.
•
Josiah Morris & Co. Will Open Again.
Montgomery, Ala., August 27.—Two
weeks ago the famous banking house of
Josiah -Morris & Co., made an assign
ment. Two immense meetings of credi
tors were at once held, expressing unlimited
confidence in the bank managers. As a
result, a committee was appointed to se
cure consent of depositors that assignees
surrender the trust and that the bank be
reopened. 'l’he liabilities were .$l.G00.0<>():
assets, about $.”,(>00,000. Every depositor
interested in the large line of liabilities
lias signed the agreement by which time is
given to the bank to pay up its indebted
ness and the assignees have turned the
bank, assets, etc., over to the firm, and
the bank door will be reopened in tin
morning, and business resumed.
Cholera Kavagem in Kiiflsia.
St. Petersburg. August 24.—A supplement
ary ofliebil cholera report issued today gives
the following statistics of the ravages of the
disease in the affected governments during
the past xveek: Orel, new cases 047. deaths
213: Cossacks of the Don. new cases 498,
deaths 202: Koorsk. new cases 290. deaths
103; Viediuiir, new cases 150. deaths 52; Lotn
za. new cases 52. deaths 22; Moscow, new
cases 72. deaths 24; V'iatka, new eases 47,
deaths 22; Voronezh, new eases 39. deaths 22.
•'Doing Splendid Work.”
From The Sylvania. Ga.. Telephone.
'l’he Constitution is doing some splendid
work to keep democracy from going wrong
and intends “holding her nozzle against tiie
bank till every galoot's ashore.”
A BOTTLE OF TEARS
WAS THE UNIQUE SUBJECT OF DR.
TALMAGE’S SERMON.
His Text Was from the Psalms Which
Tells of the Bottle of Tears Used by
thel Ancients in Their Burials..
Brooklyn, August 27.—Rev. T. DeYVitt
Talmage ehoxe a unique theme as his sub
ject for today, namely: "A Bottle of Lears
the text selected being Psalms üb:b, lut
thou my tears into thy bottle.
Hardly a mail has come to me sot twenty
vears that has not contained letters say
in«' that my sermons have comforted the
waiters of those letters. 1 have not for
this summer nor for twenty years spoken
on the platform of any out-door meeting,
but coming down 1 have been told by hun
dreds of people the same thing, bo 1
think 1 will keep on trying to besa bon
of Consolation.”
The prayer of my text was pressed olfi |
of David’s soul by innumerable calamities. ;
but it is just as appropriate for the dis '
tressed of all ages. Within the past
century travelers and antiquarians have
explored the ruins of many of the ancient
cities ami from the very heart of those
buried splendors of other days have been ,
brought up evidences of customs that long
ago vanished from the world. brom
among tombs of those ages have been
brought up lachrymatories or lachrymals,
which are vials made of earthen ware.
It was the custom for the ancients to catch
the tears that they wept over their dead m
a bottle and to place that, bottle m the ;
graves of the departed and we have many’
specimens of the ancient lachrymatories, .
or tear bottle in our museums.
YVheli on the way from the Indy land our |
ship touched at Cyprus, we went back into |
th.- hills of that island and bought tear- I
bottles xvhich the natives had dug out of
tluo ruins of the old city. There is nothing
nfire suggestive to me than the tear-bottles
w ceil 1 brought home and put among my
c fjosities. That was the kind of bottle
ti ' my text alludes to when David erics,
“Flit thou my tears into thy bottle.
The text intimates that God has an inti
mate acquaintance and perpetual remem
brance of all our griefs and a vial or lachry
matory' or bottle in which he catches and
saves our tears, and I bring to you the con
dolence of this Christian sentiment. Why
talk about grief? Alas the world has its
pangs and now while I speak there are
thick darknesses of soul that need to be
lifted. There are many who are about to
break under the assault of temptation and
perchance, if no words appropriate io their
case be uttered, they perish. I come on
no fool’s errand. Put upon your wounds no
salve compounded by human quackery, but.
pressing straight to the mark, I hail you
as a vessel mid-sea cries to a passing craft,
“Ship ahoy!” and invite you on board a
vessel which has faith for a rudder and
prayer for sails and Christ for captain
and heaven for an eternal harbor. Cath
erine Rheinfeldt. a Prussian, keeps a boat
with which she rescues the drowning. When
a storm comes on the coast and other peo
ple go to their beds to rest she puts out in
her boat for the relief of the distressed
and hundreds of the drowning has she
brought safely to the beach. In this life
boat of the gospel 1 put out today, hoping
by God’s help to bring ashore at least one
soul that may now be sinking in the bil
lows of temptation and trouble. The tears
that were once caught in the lachryma
tories brought up from Herculaneum and
Pompeii are all gone and the bottle is as
dry as the scoria of the volcano that sub
merged them, but not so with the bottle
in which God gathers all our tears.
First. I remark that God keeps perpetu
ally the tears of repentance. Many a
man has awakened in the morning so
wretched from the night’s debauch that he
n... ....ci i - - ... >,t, ■ - tl . u a'mi ’iinrfi
to s'ep into the fight. He grieves, not about
Ins misdoings, but only about its consequen
ces. God makes no record of such weep
ing. Os all the million tears that have
gushed as the result of such misdemeanor
not one ever got into Go l’s hot
tie. They dried on the fe-
: )r wer, ‘ down bv
the bloated hand, or fell into the red winc>
~s <’«"’<• fiffain to the lips, foaming
with still worse intoxication. Bui when
a imm is sorry for his past and tries to do
better—when he mourns fiis wasted advan
tages and bemoans his rejection of God’s
mercy, and cries amid the lacerations of
an aroused eonsemne for help out of his
terrible predicament, then God listens'
then heaven bows down: then scepters of
pardon are extended from the throne; then
his crying rends the heart of beavenlv com
passion; then his tears are caught in'God's
bottle.
You know the story of Paradise ami the
I ert. I. think it might be put to higher
adaptation. An angel starts from the throne
ot God to find what thing it e:in on the
earth worthy of being carried back to
heaven. It goes down through the gold
and silver mines of earth, but finds noth
"J’l’fLy of transportation to the Celes
tial City. It goes down through the depths
of the sea, where the pearls lie. and finds
nothing worthy of taking back to heaven.
But coming to the foot of a momitain it
sees a wanderer weeping over his evil ways.
The tears of the prodigal start, but do not
fall to the ground, for the angel's wing
catches them, and with that treasure speeds
back to heaven, (rod sees the angel com
ing. and says. ‘‘Behold the brightest gem
of earth, and the brightest jewel of heaven
—the tear of a sinner's repentance.”
Oh! when I see the Heavenly Shepherd
bringing a lamb from the wilderness; when
1 hear the quick tread of the prodigal has
tening home to find his father, when I see
a< sailor boy coming on the wharf and
hurrying away to beg his mother's pardon
for long neglect and nnkiudness; when I
see the houseless coming to God for shel
ter, and the wretched and the vile, and
the sin burned, and the passion-blasted ap
pealing for mercy to a compassionate God,
I exclaim in ecstasy and triumph: "More
tears for God’*-bottle!”
Again, God keeps a tender remembrance
of all your sicknesses. How many of you
are thoroughly sound in body? Not one out
of ten! 1 do not exaggerate. The vast ma
jority of the race are constant subjects of
ailments. There is some one form of dis
ease that you are particularly subject to.
You have a weak side, or back, or are
subject to headaches, or faintnesses, or
lungs easily’ distressed. It would not (tike
a very strong blow to shiver the golden
bowl of life, or break the pitcher at the
fountain. Many of you have kept on in
life through sheer force of will. You
think no one can understand your distress
es. Perhaps you look strong, and it is
supposed that you are a hypochondriac.
They say you are nervous as if that were
nothing! God have mercy upon any man
or woman that is nervous! At times you
sit alone in your room. Friends do not
come. You feel an indescribable loneli
ness in your sufferings: but God knows;
God feels; God compassionates. He counts
the sleepless nights; He regards the acute
ness of the pain; He estimates the hard
ness of the breathing. While you pour out
the medicine from the bottle, and count the
drops, God counts all your falling tears. As
you look at the phials, tilled with nauseous
draughts, and tit the bottles of distasteful
tonic that stands on the shelf, remember
that there is a larger bottle than these,
which is tilled with no mixture by earthly
apothecaries, but it is God's bottle, in
which He hath gathered ail our tears.
Again: God remembers till the sorrows
of poverty. There is much want that never
comes to inspection. The deacons of the
church never see it. The comptrollers of
almshouses never report it. It comes not
to church, for it has no appropriate ap
parel. It makes no appeal for help, but
chooses rather to suffer than expose its
bitterness. Fathers who fail to gain a live
lihood, so that they and their children sub
mit to constant privation; sewing-women,
who cannot ply the needle quick enough to
earn their shelter and bread. But whether
reported or uncomplaining. whether in
seemingly comfortable parlor, or in damp
cellar, or in hot garret. God's angels of
mercy are on the watch. This moment
those griefs are colleeteil. Doxxn on
the back street, in all the alleys, am u
shanties and log cabins, the woi’k '
Tears of want— seething m £-.11 not
or freezing in winter s cold— they . 11 J •
unheeded. 4’hey are jewels b i 1
casket. They are pledges lot p l ' l ‘ / >IU
pathy. They are tears for God s bo tl<
Again, the Lord reserves the
brance of all paternal anxieties Ya■ s■ i
a man from the most 1 » I f ‘ uu V us 1 S nf Go
ings step out into the kingdom ol G .
lie Ims heard no sermon. He mis
eeived no startling providential
What brought him to this mxx nm •
This is the secret: Go! looked oxir th
bottle in which he gathered the tears of h
people and he saw a parental t<at m tint
bottle whicli has been lor lofty years un
answered. He said. ‘‘Go to now and let
me .-inswer that tear!’ and lorthxvith Hu
wanderer is brought home to
this xvork of training childrqu lor (’O' l - . 11
is a tremendous work. Some people tlitnh.
it easy. They have never tried it. A
child is placed in the arms of the young
parent. It is a beautiful playjliing. You
look into the laughing Y oit> examine
the dimples iu the feet. Y"’i xvonder ar
its exquisite organism. Beautiful plaything-
But on some nightfall as you sii rocking
that little one a voice seems to lull straiaht
from the throne of God saying,
child is immortal! The stars shall die,
but that is an immortal. Suns shall grow
old xvilh age and perish, but that is an
immortal!"
Noxx- 1 know xvith many- of you this is the
chief anxiety. You earnestly xvish. your
children to grow up rightly, but you imd
it hard xvork to make them do as you Wish.
You check their temper. You correct their
waywardness: in the midnight your pilloxx
is wet xvilh xveeping- You have wrestled
with God in agony for the salvation of your
children. You ask me if all that anxiety
has been ineffectual. 1 answer: No. God
understands your heart. He understtiuds
how hard you have tried to make that
daughter do right, though she is so very’
petulant and reckless; and what yains you
have bestoxved in teaching Illati on to xvnlk
in the path of uprightness, ,lr ugh he has
such strong proclivities for dissipation. I
speak a cheering word. God In ar I every
counsel you ever offered him. God has
knoxvn all the sleepless nights you li.-iv ■
ever passed. God has seen ex’ery "sinking
of your distressed spirit. God remembers
your prayers. He keeps eternal ord of
your anxieties, and in his lachrymatory,
not .sui'h as stood in ancient tomb, but in
one Hull gloxvs and glitters beside the throne
of God. ho holds all those exhausting tears.
The grass may be xfank upon your graves ami
the letters upon your tombstone defaced
with the elements before the divine re-
i spot ■ * will come: but he xxho hath declar
ed, “I xvill boa God to thee, ami to thy
seed, after thee,” will not forget: and some
■ day. in fie.-iven. xvhile you are ranging the
fields of light, the gales of pearl xvill swing
back, and garlanded with glory, that long
wayward one will rush into your out
stretched arms of welcome ami triumph.
The hills may depart am! the earth may
burn, and the stars fall ami lime perish,
but God will break his oath ami trample
upon his promises never! never!
Again, Ged keeps a perpetual ronn'm
i brnuce of all bereavements. These arc the
I trials that, cleave the soul, ami throw the
! red hearts of men to bo crushed in tiie
xvine-press. Troubles at th ■ store you may
leave at the store. Misrepresentation ami
abuse of the world you lease on the
street xx’iioro you found iiiein. Ihe law
suit that xvould sxvalloxx- your honest ac
cumulations may be loft in the court-room.
But bereavements are home troub’es. ami
there is no escape from them. You will
! see that vacant chair. Y'our eye will catch
at the suggestive picture. You cannot fly
the presence of siu'h ills. You go to
Switzerland to get Gear of them*, but more
sure-fooled titan the mule that takes you
up the Allis, your ti®bles climb to the tip
top. and sit shivering on the glaciers. You
may cross the seas, but they can outsail the
swiftest kI earner. You may take earn van.
'ami pul out across the Arabian desert, but
the-r f dlov. you like a sinmon. armed with
miffn tatvo. oth rm',.' mill . "/MV- Ul.iuo.nvr,-'
from the roof ot the great cavern. They
stand behind with- skeleton fingers to push
you ahead. They stand before you to
throw you back. I'liey charge upon you
with gleaming spear. i hey seem to come
hap-hazard, scattering shots from the gun
of a careless sportsman. But not so. It
is good aim that semis them just right;
for God is the archer. This summer many
of you xvill especially feel your grief as
vou" go to places where once you were ae
companied by those who are ggne noxx. Y our
troubles will follow you to to seashore,
and will keep up with the lightning ex
press in which you speed away. Or,
tarrying at home, they will sit beside
you by dry. and whisper over your pil
ioxx night after night. 1 want to assure
vou that vou are not left alone: and that
"our xxeeping is Icard in heaven. You
will xtauder among the lulls ami say.
“I n this hill last year, our boy climbed
xvith great glee, ami xvaved his cap from
the top;" or. "This is tile place xx'here
our little girl put flowers iu her hair, and
looked up in her mother’s face. ’ until
every drop of blood in your heart tingled
with gladness, and you thanked God
wiih a thrill of rapture: ami, you look
around as much as to s.uy: \\ ho da.'hed
out that light? Who filled this cup with
gall? What blast froze up these foun
tains of the heart?" Some of you have
lost your parents within the last twelve
months. Their prayers for you are end
ed. You take up that picture, ami try
to call back the kindness that once look
ed out from those old. wrinkled faces,
and spoke in such a tremulous voice;
ami you say ii is a good picture, but all
the xvhile yon feel that, after all. jt does
nut do justice; and you xvould give al
most anything you would cross the sea.
you xvould walk the earth over —to hear
just one xvord from those lips that a few
iiioiitlis ago used to call you by your
first name, though so long you yourself
have been a parent- Now, you have
done your best> to hide your grief. You
smile xvhen you do not feel like it. But
though you max’ not deceive the world, God
knows. He looks down upon the empty
cradle, upon the desolated nursery, upon
the stricken home, ami upon the broken
heart, ami says: “This is the way I thresh
the wheat: this is the way I scour mx
jewels! Cast thy burden on nix arm ami
1 xvill sustain you. All those tears 1 have
gathered into my bottle!”
But what is the use of having so many
tears in God’s laclirymatory? In that
great casket or vase, xvhy does God pre
serve all your troubles? Through all the
ages of eternity, what use of a great
collection of tears? 1 do not know
that they will be kept there forever- I do
mil know but licit in some distant age of
heaven an angel of God may look into
the bottle and find it as empty of tears
as the lachrymals of earthenware dug
up from the ancient city- Where have
the tears gone io? What sprite of hell
hath been invading God’s palace, and
hath robbed the laehrymatories? None-
These were sanctified sorrows, and those
tears were changed into pearls that are
now set in the crowns and robes of the
ransomed. 1 walk up to examine this
lheavenly coronet, gleaming brighter
than the sun, ami cry, "From what river
depths of heaven xvere those gems gath
ered?” and ti thousand voices reply,
"Those are transmuted tears from God’s
bottle." I see scepters of light stretched
down from the throne of those who on
earth xvere trod on of men; and in every
scepter point, and inlaid, in every ivory
star of golden throne, I behold an in
describable richness and luster, and cry,
"From xvhenee this streaming light—
these flashing pearls?” and the voice of
the elder before the throne, anil of the
martyrs under the altar, ami of the hun
dred and forty-four thousand radiant on
the glassy sea, exclaim, "Transmuted tears
from God’s buttle.”
Let the agek of heaven roll on—the story
of earth’s pomp and pride long ago ended":
the Koh-i-noor diamonds that make kings
proud. Hie precious stones that adorned
Persian tiara and Hamed in the robes of
Babylonian processions, forgotten; the Gol
conda mines charred in the last conflagra
tion; but firm as the everlasting hills, and
pure as the light that streams from the
throne, mid bright as the river that flows
from the eternal rock, shall gleam, shall
,hC “
muted tears ol <'■’<>, * lachrymatory
Meanwhile, Jet tm 1 . hand
ol' 111-aven slaii<n c ’"''. ;ve ,‘'«i|. : l oil Bet no
.-oilman vraek 11. ■ o[l [be stl . p
n.r.in.l ..ml
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“That is v.hat Hie Psalmi-st spok.. o
strike up this silver.x cl.ini' • f-t.-es.
YVJmrefore'ciimfort one another with these
words.”
"CLING TO GERMANY”
YVastl.e Advice G.ven by Bismarck to UH
I rlci.ds wl.oY istu it Dini IGcent.y.
Berlin, August 23.—Prince Bismarck is
still taking the walers at Kiseengen. 11
Sunday last a party of i< h > 'j l llls 11 u , __
from the Thuringia district, m centi.it n
many, arrived at. Kissetigen lor the pniposu
of paving their respects to the aged c.-
chaneellor. This parly, upon their al ' l '‘ v ‘\ l ;
were joined li\ SUO of the peop.e visiting
Kisseiigen, ami together they proceeded i'>
the villa occupied by I’rinee Bismarck and
presented an address to him. in xreply to
this address Prince Bismarck dwelt strongly
upon the subject of German unity, lie
said: ,
“Since IS7I v.’e Inive beiui (‘oinpariilivel.y
nndirUurb<‘d by our French neighbors, whom
providence placed where they are lor the
purpose of keeping us awake. 'lbe days
have long gone by when France regarded
a campaign in Germany a sort of pleas
ure excursion. France knows xvcll enotign
now what we are made of. We must gix'e
up harping and cavilling at the present
state of things with the object of making
11 ".x- .-ti-raiigements. I refer to the semi
ollici.'il utteranceis directed toxvard the at
tainment of a ‘greater Prussia.’ The na
tional liberals in ISIS had a cut and dried
plan of Illis sort. In creating the unity of
the empire 1 sought ;o preserve everything
that was in any way compatible therewith.
"The enthusiastic demonstrations 1 have
received in the German states, outside oi:
Prussia, have proved that my policy xvas
right. To those Prussians who arc uot
content and who wish to put everybody
else in their pockets, 1 say: ’Y'ou are real
partieuhirists. You do not recognize Ger
many’ outside of Prussia.' 1 am sorry to
see iu the decline of my life the principles
of the constitution being undermined by
people who are trying to procure the < en
traiization of the anp"rial power. Do you
believe it won! 1 be an .-i.lvantagc if the
eight princes of Thui-itigia were replace 1
by an imperial governor? A German elingi
to his dynasties and the dynasties, t >,
cling to Germany. All accusations against
mo are pure inventions. If I wished to
combat the present govornm -ill 1 would
make a tour of Germany ami summon pop
ular assemblies everywhere ami threeli out
all I had in my heart against the govern
ment. Mx; heart is no murderer's don. I
have not learned to IJ’. even as a diplomat.
The people noxx- begin to see xvhat 1 meant:
throe years ago <Jien I said here that the
constitution ought to be the first object of
"1 observe that the post of imperial chan
cellor has been sepaxated from the presi
dency of the Prussian council of ministers.
1 also observe that at the recent confer
ence of the finance ministers of the several
slates at Frankfort the jiresidcnt’s chair
xvas occupied by the secretary of the impe
rial treasury, who is a subordinate bureau
crat. Tliis js unconstitutional. The em
peror and the chancellor are only the exec
utive organs of the bun lesrath and reieh
stag. Neither of them lias a right to at
tempt more than to publish the laxvs en
acted by those bodies. The chancellor
ought to linx-e influence in the bundesrath
only by’ moans of Prussian votes. If anart
therefrom he tak's tie lead and his socre-
I a' I,’!”.?.;’.’.],’nio
results, which must be opposed \n end
must.be put to this system. The consiit'u
and lix-i'r. nojgh' ° S an ‘’
to see it meddle.l wit hi “ Exvrybmb”mn''
do xxdiat ho can to direct our policy j nt „
the right path. All the districts ought to
be more active in this respect. The na
Donal entise ought to be the first item' of
every federal legislature.”
Prince Bismarck concluded hv declartno
that he had spoken out of the' fullness of
his heart. He had, he said, no connection
with any- newspaper. Tie paid his debts
in the same coin as he was paid.
A Whole Family Drowned.
Jefferson City. Mo.. August 20. At Bonnet
Mills, on tie- Missouri river, twelve nii“><
east of this city. Mrs. Foster™, her two chil
dren and her sister were drowned last ni-lit
They were moving from one side of the river
to the other and most of the goods having
been taken across the little family were fol
lowing in a skiff, which was overturned. None
of the bodies have been recovered.
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