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EECEEATIONS.
Does Dancing Occupy Too Much
Place in Modern Society.
Th# Question Considered in a Recent
Sermon In Brooklyn Tabernacle
bj Rev. T. Dewitt Tal
mage, D. D.
text of Dr. Talmage’s sermon on the
Subject “Does Dancing Occupy Too Much
Place in Modern Society?’' was from
Matthew xiv.,6: “When Herod’s birthday
was kept the daughter of Horodias danced
before them and pleased Herod.'** Follow
ing is the sermon;
SALOME’S DEMAND.
It is the anniversary of Herod’s birth
day. The palace is lighted. The high
ways leading thereto are ablaze with the
pomp of invited guests. Lords, Captains,
merchants, Princes and the mightiest men
of the realm are on the way to mingle in
the festivities, The tables are filled with
all the luxuries that royal purveyors can
gather spiced wines and fruits and rare
mec.cs. The guests, white-robed, annointed
and perfumed, take their places. Music!
The jests evoke roars of laughter. Riddles
are propounded; repartees indulged; toasts
druuk; the brain befogged. \Wit gives
place to uproar and blasphemy. And yet
they are not satisfied. Turn on more light.
Live us more music. Sound the trumpet.
Clear the floor for the dance. Bring in
Salome, the graceful and accomplished
Princess.
i The doors are opened, and in bounds the
dancer. Stand back and give plenty of
room for the gyrations. The Lords are en
chanted. They never saw such poetry of
motion. Their souls whirl in the reel and
fcound with the bounding foet. Herod for
gets crowA and throne—every thing but
the fascinations of Salome. The magnifi
cence of bis realm is as nothing compared
with that which now whirls before him on
tiptoe. His heart is in transport with
Salome as her amis are now tossed in the
air and now placed akimbo. He sways
with every motion of the enchantress. He
thrills with the quick pulsations of hc»
feet, and is bewitched with the posturing
and attitudes that he never saw before—
ia a moment exchanged for others just as
amazing. He sits in silence before the
whirling, bounding, leaping, flashing
wonder. And when the dance stops and
the tinkling cymbals pause and the long,
loud plaudits that shook the palace with
their thunders had abated, the entranced
monarch sweats unto the princely per
former: “Whatsoever thou shalt ask of
me I will give it to thee, to the half of my
kingdom.”
i ’the fate of the plain speaking.
r Now there was in prison a minister by
the name of John tho Baptist, who had
made much trouble by his honest preach
ing. He had denounced the sins of the
King and brought down upon himself the
wrath of the females in the Royal family.
At the instigation of her mother, Salome
takes advantage of the King’s extrava
gant promise and demands the head of
John the Baptist on a dinner-plate. There
is a sound of heavy feet and the clatter of
Swords outside of the palace. Swing back
file door; the executioners are returning
from their awful errand. They hand a
platter to Salome. What is on the platter?
A new tankard of wine to rekindle the
mirth of the Lords? No! It is redder
than wine and jostlier. It is the ghastly,
bleeding head of John the Baptist! Its
locks dabbled in gore. Its eyes set in the
death stare. The distress of the last agony
in the features. That fascinating form
that just now swayed so gracefully in the
tlance bends over the horrid burden wi h
out a shudder. She gloats over the blood;
and just as the maid of your household
goes hearing out on a tray the empty
glasses of the evening’s entertainment, so
she carried out on a platter the dissevered
bead of that good man, while all the ban
queters shouted and thought it a grand
joke that in such a brief and easy way
they had [freed themselves from such a
plain-spoken, troublesome minister. What
could be more innocent than a birthday
festival? All the Kings from the time of
Pharoah had celebrated such days, and
why not Herod? It was right that th*
palace should be lighted and the cymbals
should clap and that the royal guests
should go to a banquet; but before the
rioting and wassail that closed the scene
of that day every pure nature revolts.
THE QUESTION OF DANCING.
I am not going at this time to discuss
Ihe old question, Is dancing right or
wrong? but, Does dancing occupy too much
place in modern society ? And in my re
marks I hope to carry with me the affec
tions of all thoughtful people. Whatever
you may think of the amusement, you
must admit that from some circles it has
crowded out all opportunity for intellect
ual conversation, and made the condition
of those who do not dance, either because
they do not know how or are not in suffi
cient health to endure it, or because they
must conscientiously decline, very uncom
fortable; you must admit also that with
many it has ceased to be a recreation aDd
become a dissipation. With many it has
become such an over-fatigue that you cam
understand the bewilderment of an edu
cated Chinaman, who, standing in a bril
liant house where for many hours the
dance had been going on, asked the
■wealthy proprietor: “Why do you not let
your servants do that for you?” Further
more, it will be admitted by all reasonable
people that whatever they may think of
the old-fashioned square dance and many
of the processional romps, in which I can
see no evil; the round dance is adminis
trative of harm, and deserves to be hurled
out of respectable circles. I am, by natu
ral temperament and religious theory, ut
terly opposed to the position of those who
are horrified at every demonstration of
mirth and playfulness In social Hfe, and
who seem to think that every thing, de
cent and immoral, depends upon the style
in which people carry their feet. On the
•ther hand, 1 can see nothing but ruin,
the ball-room, which have despoiled thou
sands of young men and women of all
that gives dignity to character or useful
ness to life.
Dancing has been styled “the graceful
movement of the body adjusted by art to
measures or tune of instruments or of the
voice.” All nations have danced. The an
cients thought that Pollux and Castor al
first taught the practice to the Lacedae
monians: but, whatever be its origin, al!
climes have adopted it. In other days
there were festive dances, and funeral
dances, and military dances, and “media
torial” dances, and bacchanalian dances.
Queens and Lards have swayed to and
fro in their gardens; and she rough men
of the backwoods have in this way roused
up the echo of the forest. There seems to
be something in lively and coherent sounds
to evoke the movement of hand and foot,
whether cultivated or uncultivated. Men
passing the street unconsciously keep step
to the music of the band; and Christians in
church unconsciously find themselves keep
ing time with their feet, while their soul is
uplifted by some great harmony. Not only
is this true in cultivated life, but the red
men of Oregon have their scalp dances,
and green corn dances, and war dances.
The ancient fathers, aroused by the inde
cent dances of those days, gave emphatic
evidence against any participation in the
dance. SET Chrysostom says: “The feet
were not given for dancing, but to walk
modestly; not to leap impudently like
camels.” One of the dogmas of the an
cient church reads: “A dance is the
devil’s possession, and ho that entereth
into a dance entereth into his possession.
The devil is the gate to the middle and to
the end of the dance. As many passes as
a man makes in dancing so many passes
doth he make to hell.” Elsewhere old dog
mas declare: “The woman that singeth
in the dance is the princess of the devil,
and these that answer are his clerks, and
the beholders are his friends, and the
music are his bellows, and the fiddlers are
the ministers of the devil; for, as when
hogs are strayed, if the hogsherd call
one, all assemble together, so the devil
calleth one woman to sing in the dance or
to play on some instrument, and presently
all the dancers gather together.” This
wholesale and indiscriminate denuncia
tion grew out of the utter dissoluteness of
those ancient plays. So great at one time
was the offense to all decency that the
Roman Senate decreed the expulsion of
all dancers and dancing-masters from
Rome.
Yet we are not to discuss the customs of
that day, but the customs of the present-
We can not let the fathers decide the
question for us. Our reason, enlightened
by the Bible, shall be the standard. lam
not ready to excommunicate all those who
lift their feet beyond a certain height. I
would not visit our youth with a rigor of
criticism that would put out all their ardor
of soul. Ido not believe that all the in
habitants of Wales, who used to step to the
sound ot the rustic pib-corn, went down to
ruin. 1 would give to all of our youth the
right to romp and play. God meant it, or
He would not have surcharged our nature
with such exuberance. If a mother join
hands with her children, and while the
eldest strikes the keys, fills all the house
with the sound of agile feet, I see no harm.
If a few friends, gathered in happy circle,
conclude to cross and recoss the room to
the sound of piano well played, I see no
harm. If a company of people, all of
whom are known to the host or hostess as
reputable, move round the room to the
sound of musical instruments, I can see no
harm. I for a long while tried to see in it
a harm, but I never could and probably
never will. I would to God men kept
young for a greater length of time. Never
Since my schoolboy days have I loved so
Well as now the hilarities of life. What if
we have felt heavy burdens and suffered a
multitude of hard knocks, is it any reason
why we should stand in the path of those
who, unstung by life’s misfortunes, are ex
hilarated and full of glee?
God bless the young! They will have to
live many a day if they want to hear me
say one word to dampen their ardor or
dip their wings or to throw a cloud upon
their life by telling them it is hard and
dark and doleful. It is no such thing.
You will meet with many a trial; but,
speaking from my own experience, let me
tell you that you will be treated a great
deal better than you deserve. Let us not
grudge to the young their joy. As we go
further on in life let us go with the re
membrance that wo have had our gleeful
days. When old age frosts c vcks and
stiffens our limbs let. us not cote up the
way, but say: “We had our good times;
now let others have theirs.**’ As our chil
dren come on let us cheerfully give them
our places. How glad will Ibe to let them
have everything—my house, my books, my
place in society, my heritage! By the
time we get old we will have had our way
long enough. Then let our children come
on, and we’ll have it their way. For thir
ty, forty or fifty years we have been
drinking from the cup of life; and we
onght not to complain if called to pass the
cup along and let others take a drink.
SINFUL INDULGENCES.
But while we have a right to the enjoy
ments of life, we never will countenance
sinful indulgences. I here set forth a
group of what might be called the dissipa
tions of the ball-room. In some communi
ties these dissipations continue all the
year, while they do the chief work in sum
mer at the watering-places, and therefore
the subject has made wide application.
They swing an awful scythe of death. Are
we to stand idly by and let the work goon,
lest in th 6 rebuke we tread upon the long
trail of some popular vanity? The whirl
pool of the ball-room drags down the life,
the beauty and the moral worth of cities.
In this whirlwind of imported silks goes
out the life of many good fam lies. Bodies
and souls innumerable are annually con
sumed in this conflagration of ribbons.
This style of dissipation is the abettor of
pride, the instigator of jealousy, the sacri
ficial altar of health, the defiler of the soul,
the avenue of lust and the curse of the
town. The tread of this wild, intoxicat-
Lag, heated, midnight d tuu* UHL
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GA.. THURSDAY, APRIL 30. 1885.
moral hearth-stones of the city. The phy
sical ruin is evident. W hat will become of
those who work all day and dance all
night? A few years will turn them out
nervous, exhausted imbeciles. Those who
have given up their midnights to spiced
wines and hot suppers, and ride home
through winter’s cold, unwrapped from the
elements, will at last be recorded suicides.
There is but a short step from the ball
room to the gsave-yard. There are con
sumptions and fierce neuralgias close on
the track. Amid that glittering maze of
ball-room splendors, diseases stand right
and left and balance and chain. A
sepulchral breath floats up amid the per
fume, and the froth of death’s lip bubbles
up in the champagne. Many of the bright
est homes are being sacrificed. There are
families that have actually quit keeping
house and gone to boarding, that they
may give themselves more exclusively to
the higher duties of the ball-room. Moth
ers and daughters, fathers and sons, find
ing their highest enjoyment in the dance,
bid farewell to books, to quiet culture, to
all the amenities of home. The father
will after awhile, go down into lower dis
sipations. The son will be tossed about in
society a nonentity. The .daughter will
elope with a French dancing-master. The
mother, still trying to stay in the glitter,
and byjevery art attempting to keep the
color in her cheek and the wrinkles off her
brow, attempting, without any success, ab
the arts of the belle —an old flirt, a poor
miserable butterfly without wings.
BEAUTIFUL OLD AGE.
If any thing on the earth is beautiful to
my eye it is an aged woman; her hair
floating back over the wrinkled brow, not
frosted, but white with the blossoms of tho
tree of life; her voice tendor with past
memories, and her face a benediction. Tho
children pull at grandmother’s dress os
she passes through the room, and almost
pull her dbwn in her weakness; yet she
has nothing but a cake or caudy or a
kind word for the little darlings. When
she goes away from us there is a shadow
on the table, a shadow on the hearth and a
shadow in the dwelling. But if any thing
on earth is distressful to look at it is an old
woman ashamed of being old. What with
artificial appliances she is too much for
my g-avity. I laugh, even in church,
when I see her coming. One of the worst
looking birds I know of is a peacock after
it has lost its feathers. I would not give
one lock of my mother’s gray hair
for fifty thousand such caricatures
of old age. The first time you find these
faithful disciples of the ball-room dili
gently engaged and happy in the duties of
the home circle send me word, for I would
go a great way to see such a phenomenon.
These creatures have no home. Their chil
dren unwashed ; their furniture undusted;
their china-closets disordered; the house a
scene of confusion, misrule, cheerlessness
and dirt. One would thiuk you might dis
cover even amid the witcheries of the ball
room, the sickening odors of the unswept,
unventilated and unclean domestic apart
ments.
These dissipations extinguish all love of
usefulness. How could you expect one to
be interested in the aileviatious of the
world’s misery, while there is a question
to be decided about the size of a glove or
the shade of a garment? How many of
these men and women of the ball-room
visit the poor, or help dress the wounds of
a returned soldier in the hospital? When
did the world ever see a perpetual dancer
distributing tracts? Such persons are
turned in upon themselves, and it is very
poor pasture.
The gilded sphere is utterly bedwarflng to
intellect aud soul. This constant study of
little things; this harrassing anxiety about
dress; this talk of fashionable infinitesim
als; this group that simper and look as
kance at the mirrors and wonder, with in
finity of interest, “how that one geranium
leaf, does look;” this shriveling up of
man’s moral dignity until it is no more ob
servable with the naked eye; this taking a
heart, that God meant should be filled with
all amenities, and compressing it until all
the fragrance aud simplicity and artless
ness are squoezod out of it; this inquisi
tion of a small shoe; this wrapping up of
mind and heart in a rutile; this tumbling
down of a soul that God meant for great
upliftings. I prophesy the spiritual ruin
of a,ll participants in this rivalry.
Have the white, polished, glistening
boards ever been the road to Heaven?
Who, at the flash of those chandeliers, hath
kindled a torch for eternity * From the
table spread at the close of that excited
and besweated scene, who went home to
say his prayers?
THE DANCE OF DEATH.
To many, alas! this life is a masquerade
ball. As at such entertainments, gentle
men and ladies appear in the dress of
Kings or Queens, mountain bandits and
clowns, and at the close of the dance
throw off their disguises. So many all
through life move in mask. Across the
floor they trip merrily; the lights sparkle
along the wall or drop from the ceiling—a
very cohort of fire! The feet bound,
gemmed, hands stretched out, clasp
gemmed hands. Dancing feet respond to
dancing feet. Gleaming brow bends low
to gleaming brow. On with the dance I
Flash and rustle aud laughter and im
measurable merry-making! But the
languor of death comas over the
limbs and blurs the sight. Light*
lower 1 Floor hollow with sepuchral
echo. Music saddens into a wail. Lights
lower! The maskers can hardly now be
seen. Flowers exchange their fragrance
for a sickening odor, such as comes from
garlands that have lain in vaults of cem
eteries. Lights lower! Mists fill the room.
Glasses rrfttle as though shaken by sullen
thunder. Sighs seem caught among the
curtains. Scarfs fall|from the shoulder ol
beauty—a shroud! Lights lower! Over
the slippery boards in dance of death glide
jealousies, disappointments, lust, despair.
Torn leaves and withered garlands only
half hide the ulcerated feet. The stench
of smoking l&mpwicks almost quenched.
Choking damps. Chillness. Feet still
Hands folded. Eyes shut- Voices hashed.
Lights eutl
LION AND BEAE.
England Renews Her Demand on
Russia.
The Prospect for a Peaceful Outcome Is
Not Encouraging.
London, April 2C.--Tbe Cabinet council
lasted nearly four hours yesterday. Im
mediately after the rising of the Cabinet a
long dispatch was sent from the Foreign
Office to St. Petersburg, repeating the de
mand for a military inquiry on the spot
into the circumstances of General Koma
roff’s attack on March <lO, on the Afghans.
This demand was made when the news of
the battle was first received, and Russia
said she must awn it the report of
General Kornaroff. When that report
was received it was forwarded to En
gland without comment, thus intimating
that Russia considered it an all-sufficient
answer. There is little doubt that Mr.
Gladstone and his immediate advisers sin
cerely desire peace, if it can be maintained
without too great a sacrifice of National
pride, and they have now enlisted a power
ful female influence on their side. The
fair pleader for peace is the Duchess of
Edinburgh, who is the only sister of the
Czar of Russia, and who is said to have
written a most imploring letter to her
Imperial brother, begging him to
prevent a war with England.
In the meantime the Duchess
is all ready to start at an hour’s notice for
Coburg, in which her husband will some
day be the ruler, as he is the l’riuce Royal
m Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as well a Prince
of England. If the Duchess is compelled,
by a declaration of war, to seek an asylum
in Coburg, she will be accompanied by her
son and three daughters, who range from
ten to six years of age, but not by her
husband, who is a Real Admiral in
the British Navy, and who is said to be
eager for war. The Duke appears to be
lieve that war is inevitable, and recently
expressed the hope and belief that he
would be ordered on active duty next Sat
urday. The cable news correspondent in
Bombay, telegraphs that in that city war
is considered a certainty. Large numbers
of men and immense stores of guns, am
munition and provisions are being col
lected with all possible haste. There is no
abatement of the vigor with which
troops and supplies are being
pushed forward to Quelta, on
the Afghan frontier, and,' indeed,
this movement has received a distinct im
petus since it became evident that Russia
was determined upon seizing Herat. The
patriotic feeling among the native leaders
is intense, and a combination of rich Ze
mindars, or feudatory ‘land-holders under
England, has offered to contribute eighty
lacs of rupees (about $3,088,000) toward the
expenses of a defensive war against Russia.
Snow-Slide in Colorado.
Leadville, Col., April 26. —Eleven men
working in Homestake Mine, onHomestake
Mountain, were buried in a snow-slide. A
Bpecial train left here with a rescuing par
ty. Arriving at the point nearest the
mine, the party was met by a crowd of ex
cited miners,who informed theiff hat it was
useles-i to attempt to reach
through the wilderness of soft snow, even
with snow shoes, at that time of day. The
party returned to Leadville, and will repeat
the trip early in the morning, when it is
hoped the snow will bear the weight of
men.
Denver, Col., April 26.—A large rescu
ing party left Leadville early this (Sun
day) morning the scene of the snow
slide atftiomestiSe Mountain, and is now
working with desperate earnestness to
reach victims. Up to dark this evening
two bo lies were reported recovered. The
fate of the other buried miners will proba
bly not be known before some time
Monday, as a great mountain of snow
must first be removed. It is feared that all
have perished. Homestake Mountain is
one of the highest in that part of the State.
The side of the mountain on which the
mine is located is very precipitous. The
great avalanche must have litterally fallen
upon the cabin of the unsuspecting miners,
crushing it to atoms.
United States Troops Withdrawn.
New York, April 26.—The following
dispatch was received here to-day: Pan
ama, April 26.—A1l troops withdrawn
from this city last night. Consequences
can not be foreseen, but that there will be
serious trouble on the arrival of Colombian
troops, due here to-night, is certain.
General Aizpuru has proposed to the com
mander of the United States forces here to
withdraw his forces to a station of the
Panama Railroad Company, General
Aizpuru guaranteeing the security
of the -city. General Aizpuru,
however well disposed, will not
be able to prevent the destruction of prop
erty and life. Barricades are being erect
ed in the streets, and sand-bag defenses
are being constructed on the Balcony Bar
racks. This shows the insurgents are de
termined to fight in town. The native feel
ing here is strong. It is considered cruel
for the United States forces to occupy the
town and then withdraw, leaving the peo
ple helpless and the city in control of a
lawless mob.
He Wasn't Invited.
Jamaica, L. 1., April 26.—Mary Duryea
was married to Julien Sazey, of Wood
Haven, to-day. Frank Lann, an admirer
of the bride, was not invited to the wed
ding. He fired three shots through the
window, one of which took effect in the
bride’s leg. He was arrested.
Fever Epidemic.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., April 26.—An epi
demic resembling typhoid fever is ranging
in Plymouth, three miles from here. There
are upwards of sixty eases. Fifteen deaths
occurred to-day and thirteen yesterday.
The disease is due to the bad sanitary con
dition of the town.
THE AMERICANS IN CHARGE.
General Aizpura and His Ministers Prisoners
in Panama—Onr Troops Hold the City.
Panama, April 24.—The insurgents erect
ed a strong barricade this afternoon, en
tirely enclosing the Central and South
America Cable Company’s office, and great
preparations were being madojfor a fight.
Seven hundred troops loft Buena Ventura
under General Vila this morning at 1
o’clock, being towed in a hulk by a Colom
bian gunboat, and on a schooner towed by
a canal company tugboat. The attack
would have taken place immediately
on the arrival of these troops,
Sunday night or Monday morning, but at
half-past two o’clock this afternoon the U.
S. forces appeared on the scene, as if by
magic, three taps of the drum being the
signal by which they started. Three columns
entered the city and had full possession ia
about ten minutes, knocking down the bar
ricades as they passed through the streets.
At the call of the bugle the Colombian
Guards withdrew into the cuartels. This
splendid coup (le main has undoubtedly
prevented another disaster similar to that
at Colon. Company “A,” under Captain
Meeker and Lieutenants Denny and Wood;
Company “B,” under Captain Fagin;
Company “C,” under Lieutenants Turner
and Fillette, with a battery in chcrge
of Midshipman Seymour, are guard
ing the various streets and
wharves. Company “E,” Lieutenants
Berryman and Sutton, are guarding the
cable office. One company was left in
charge of the barracks. General Aizpura
and his ministers were captured. When
Aizpura was arrested he fainted several
times, and fell into the street and acted
hysterically when taken to the Consulate.
He is held prisoner to-night at Shuber’s
Hotel. The troops are in good health. At
five o’clock this evening Captain Cochrane,
Company C, arrived from Colon. He said
he traversed the entire length of the city
this evening with three marines, ahd found
the people so paralyzed that they made no
demonstration, offensive or otherwise, res
idents gathered in groups, whispering, and
silently crowding balconies. The marines
continue under arms, and are spending the
night in the city. At this hour, 10:30
o'clock, all his quiet.
COMMERCIAL CONVENTION.
An Important National Gathering to be
Held at Atlanta, Ga., May 19, 20 and
Sl—Circular Issued by the
Executive Committee-
Programme.
Atlanta, Ga., April 22.—The citizens of
Atlanta having determined to invite dele
gates to a National Commercial Conven
tion, to assemble in this city on the 19th of
May next, H. L. Kimball, Chairman of the
Executive Committee having the matter in
charge, has issued a circular explaining the
objects of the convention and giving the
following programme:
1. The convention will be composed of dele
gates to be selected, as follows: Every local
body organized for general commercial, and
not for special private purposes, shall bo en
titled in this convention to the following rep
resentation: Each association having fifty
members or less, shall be entitled to one dele
gate: associations having more than fifty
members, shall have one other delegate for
each additional fifty members; to be appoint
ed by the association. Any city or town of
two thousand inhabitants not having an or
ganized body as above, shall be entitled to one
delegate, and towns of over two thousand in
habitants shall have one other delegate for
every additional five thousand inhabitants.
Delegates to be appointed by the Mayor or
Chief Magistrate. Tho Governors of each
State shall be eligible as delegates, and each
State shall bo entitled to two additional delo
gates-at-large,- to be appointed by the Gov
ernor.
2. There are to be eight National delegates,
to be selected by the Executive Committee.
3. All delegates shall present credentials
under seal from their respective constituen
cies ; said credentials shall certify the number
of delegates to which the constituency is en
titled.
4. The subjects to be considered shall be:
(1) Commercial and Reciprocity treaties be
tween the United States and foreign coun
tries. (2) A National Bankrupt law. (3) The
compulsory coinage of silver. (4) Railway
transportation. (5) Such other questions
touching National, financial and commercial
interests, as the convention may deem proper
for discussion and action.
Very favorable rates of passenger trans
portation to this convention are given by
the different railroads, and it is the pur
pose of the committee to arrange as far as
possible to give the delegates on the two
days of the week after the adjournment of
the convention excursions to places of in
terest and importance.
THE TELEPHONE.
A Good Move In the Right Direction.
The Indiana Legislature has just passed
a bill limiting the rental of telephones in
that State to $3 per month, with a reduc
tion of fifty when two or more are
used by the same firm. The telephone has
become public necessity, but it is in the
hands of a powerful monopoly who have
become enormously rich within a short
time from the burdensome tax they have
imposed upon the people. New inventions
have been quickly bought up or outlawed
by the use of immense capital, thus leaving
the public still to suffer. There seems to
be but one. way by which the people
can be * protected, and that is by State
legislation, and the example of Indiana
should be quickly followed by every other
State. Three dollars per month will af
ford the telephone company a big interest
upon the investment, while they are
now exacting the euormons tariff of
$8 to sls per month. It is time to stop it,
and it is to be hoped legislators will afford
their constituents the needed relief without
loss of time. _
More Trouble in Panama.
Colon, April 23.— Trouble is imminent in
Panama. Aizpuru has issued a proclama
tion against Americans. Their pickets
have been fired on. One hundred marines
have been ordered to reinforce Hey ward.
Refugees are leaving the city. Aizpuru
has 800 men. He will probably remain
quiet until the arrival of the Government
corps, which tu e embarking at Buenaven
tura,
VOL II.—NO. 9.
P LEU RO-PNEUMONIA.
Animals Known to be Infected to be
Slaughtered at Once and Their Car
eusses Hurled or Burned—The
Government, to Pay the
Damages.
Washington, April 22.—The First Com
ptroller having decided that the Commis
sioner of Agriculture can legally use the
pleuro-pneumonia appropriation, to pay
for such animals ns it may be found neces
sary to kill in order to stamp out an infec
tion, Commissioner Colman has prepared
a set of rules to govern the action of the
department in this regard, and has tele
graphed a copy of them to Governor Mar
madtike, of Missouri, asking him to advise
by telegraph of his acceptance of the plans
and methods prescribed therein. The rules
will be submitted to the Executives of
other States for acceptance. They are as
follows:
“Whenever the Chief of the Bureau of Ani
mal Industry shall be satisfied and shall re
port to the Commissioner of Agriculture that
contagious pleuro-pneumonia or other dan
gerous infectious or eonimunicable disease
exist in any State or Territory, and is liable
to spread from such State or Territory into
any other State or Territory, the Commis
sioner of Agriculture will designate one or
more officers or employes of suid bureau,
whose duty it shall be to proceed
immediately to tho locality where
such infectious or communicable disease
is reported to exist, and to there establish
quarantine regulations topreventthe spread
of said disease, or to assess the value of any
animal or animals which it may be found
necessary to destroy in order to extirpate
said disease and to employ both measures,
if necessary, for the extinction of the sutne.
It shall be the duty of such officers or em
ployes detailed for the purposes aforesaid,
to report to the Commissioner of Agriculture
the number of cattle they have found it
necessary to destroy, with names of their
owners and the assessed value of said cattle;
and suid officers or employes shall de
liver to said owner or owners certifi
cates of the number of cattle so killed and
the assessed value thereof. Upon receiving
said report the Commissioner of Agriculture
shall examine the same, and if he approves
the proceedings of said officers or employes
and the assessments made by them, he may
order the payment of t he amount so assessed
to the respective owners of the cattle de
stroyed, and if he shall disapprove the
amount so assessed he may order payment
to such owners of such cattle as he may
doom just and reasonable compensation for
said cattle.
“It shall also be the duty of the said officers
or employes to cause the carcasses of ani
mals found necessary to be destroyed to be
burned, buried or otherwise disposed of; and
the cost of such disposition of said carcasses
shall also be reported by them to the Com
missioner of Agriculture, and the amount,
if approved, will be paid out of the fund ap
propriated for such purposes. If, in
the opinion of said officer or employes
so detailed tho spread of such infec
tions or communicable disease can be pre
vented by the quarantine of the animals In
the locality where such disease is reported
to exist, then a quarantine shall be effected,
the cost of the same also to be reported to
the Commissioner of Agriculture, aud, if ap
proved by him, the same to be paid out of
the fund hereinbefore named. Rules govern
ing the details of slaughter and quarantine
will be prepared immediately.”
VERY WARLIKE.
Russian Troops Pushing to the Front—
England Preparing for War—Sweden
Preparing for Its Own Defense—
The Danish Army to be Mob
ilized for Emergencies.
Vienna, April 23.--A dispatch from
Odessa to the Political Correspondence
says twenty-two thousand troops will be
dispatched immediately to reinfore General
Komaroff. The dispatch also says that
other levies are under orders and that the
Russian army in Turkestan in a few weeks
will number sixty thousand.
St. Petersburg, April 23. Novae Vre
mya states that fifty-three iwar vessels
and several dozen torpedo boats will soon
be at the disjiosal of the Government at
Croustadt. The whole Russian press Ms
clamoring for the seizure of Herat by Rus
sia.
Odessa. April 23. —The painful suspense
over the Afghan frontier dispute has para
lyzed business here. The huge granaries
are almost empty. The inhabitants are op
posed to a war, but fear that it is inevita
ble.
London, April 23.— The Admirality has
ordered n number of new type of gun-iioat
to be built as rapidly as possible. The ves
se's will be armed with light shell guns for
the purpose of destroying torpedo boats.
They will be capable of steaming one thou
sand miles without recoiling.
Copenhagen, April 23.—A rumor is cur
rent here that the army will lie mobilized,
and that a strong squadron will be held in
readiness in case of emergency.
Shanghai, April 23.—The Russians are
pushing forward their defenses on the Pa
cific Coast.
Vienna, April 23.—Information which
has been received here from St. Petersburg
political circles creates a great sensation.
It is to the effect that the only condition on
which peace can be assured is that Eng
land shall acknowledge the complete neut
rality of Afghanistan, and the extinction
of English influence on the Ameer’s coun
try. In this case only, it is said, is a peace
ful understanding between England aud
Russia possible. This demand on the part
of Russia has been communicated as an
ultimatum to London.
London, April 23,—Sweden is busy with
military preparations. The Gothland mili
tia is being mobilized. King Oscar has ar
rived at Stockholm, and has held a Cabinet
Council.
Terrific Snow-Storm.
Denver, Col., April 24 Reports from
mountain towns within a radius of fifty
miles of this city, which are just arriving,
report the recent snow fall the heaviest for
eighteen years. The Colorado Central
Railroad was blocked, and is just begin
ning to gettraius through. Some damage
is reported by the crushing of light struc
tures. It is rumored that about three Hun
dred cattle drifted into a hole north of
Fort Collins and perished.
Eloped With Two Men.
Easton. Pa., April 24.-Mrs. John Berk
ley. a bride ol two weeks, who was married
under the name of Lizzie Londenberg,
eloped early this morning with two young
men. said to be from Philadelphia. One of
them, Herbert Archer, appears to haei
been a former suitor of Mrs. Berkley’fc