What the Well-Knotf Divine Has to
v : Say on the Ioor Question.
Subject oT 0conrit Th Old ti ht
to be Settled." -
Tiixt: "THidifremr t trouW . Vidt men
.sAould do o idU, do ye ven so unto them."
Matt. vii.v 13. . , ,
' L ToJdrod and fifty thouiand laborers
Hydfc Park, London, and the streets ot
AitfeTican and European cities filled Vita
recessions of workmen earning banners,
. .rings the subject nt hSbat and Capital to,
, the front.- That all thus Was dona in peace,
and that as a. tmA in many places, arbitra
. has place; is a hopeful sign.
The grcwfe&t war the, world has ever seta
1 5s btwjfc capital and labor. V The Ktrife is
liRSa that which in history is tailed the
rhiHy Years' War, for it is a War or cen
, JltH'tes, it is a war of ths ftve continents, it
... a war hemifipherkWKrhe nuddle classes
.in this country, ufton whom the nation has
I V.-l V. VL SW-
. and for aetftig as . mediators between the
. itwo fcxtremes, are diminishing; and if
things Co on at the same ratio as they have
Vor (he last twenty years been going on, it!
' not be very long before there will be no
Middle class in this country, but all will be.
very rich or very pvor, winces or paupers,
Ann I. . w.tl I. - J. . . . 1
vuts vuuu u-jr vrui oe given up io p&iuces
and hovels,
, The antagonistic ' forces have again and
again closed in upon each other. You may
JxXfli pooh it; you may say that this trou-
, like an angry child, will cry itself to
fcfcep; you may belittle it by calling it Foui
rierism, or Socialism, or St. Simonism, or
Nihilism, or Communisnv but that will not
hinder the fact that it is the mightiest, the
darkest,, the most terrific" . threat ' of this
century. Most o the attempts at pacifi
cation have been dead failures, and monoo-
( toly isniore arrogant and the grades unions
'mere bitter.' "Give us more wages," cry the
stoployes. "You shall have teas," says the
pitalists. : J'C6mt)el us to do fewer hours
-of toil in a day," 'You shall toil more
hours," say the others. Then, under cer-.
tain conditions, we will not work at all,''
say these. ' Then you shall starve," say
those, and the workmen gradually using up ,
that which they accumulated in better times, '
unless there be some radical change, we shall
fcava soon in this country three million '
tisangrymen and women. ' Now, three mill
3n hungry people cannot be kept quiet. All'
.'the enactmeuts of legislatures ana all the j
. constabularies of the cities, and all the army ;
and navy of the United States cannot keep
three million hungry people quiet. What :
then! Will this war between capital and j
flabor be settled by human wisdom? Never , l
The brow of the one becomes more rigid, the '
Bit of the other more clinched. - . . :
i But ; that which : human : wisdom cannot '
achieve will be accomplished by Christian-:
ity if it be given full sway. You have heard
of , medicines so k powerful that , one drop i
would stop a disease and restore a patient,
and I have to tell you that one drop of my,
.text properly ; administered will stop' all ! '
these woes of society and give convalescence ;:
ind complete health to all classes: "What-
twever ye would that men should do to you,
do you even so to them." I shall first show;
ye this morning how this controversy be
tween monopoly and hard ' work cannot be',
stopped, and then t will show y u,how this
controversy will be settled.. . V; ,
Futile remedies. In the first place- there,
will come no pacification to this trouble!
through an outcry against rich men merely
because they are rich. There is no laboring
tnan on earth that would not be rich if he
coaldbe. Sometimes through a fortunate in-;
vention, or through some accident of pros-;
toerity, a man who had nothing comes to
large estate, and we see him arrogant and;
supercilious, and taking people by the throat
just as other people took him by the throat.
There is Something very mean about
human nature when it comes to the top.
But it is no more a siu to bo rich than it is a
sin to be poor. There are those who have
gathered a great estate through fraud, and
then there are millionaires who have;
gathered their fortune through foresight in'
regard to changes iu the markets, and
through brilliant business faculty, and every
dollar of their estate is as honest as the
dollar which the plumber gets for mending a
pipe, or the mason gets for building a wall..
There are those who keep in poverty because,
of their own fault. " They might have been
well off, but they smoked or chewed up their
earnings, or they lived beyond their means,
whole others on the same wages and on the
came salaries went cn to competency. I1
know a man who is all the time complaining
of his poverty and crying out against rich
men. while he himself keeps two dogs, and
chews and smokes, and is lilled to the chin
with whisky and beer f
. Micawber said to David Copperfield:;
VCopperffeld, my boy, one pound income,.
Iweuty shillings and sixpence expenses, re-
suit, misery,: But Copperfleld, my boy, one
pound income, expenses nineteen shillings
and, sixpence; result, happiness," 4 And there!
ve vast multitudes of people who are kept
poor 'because they are the victims of their
wn improvidence. It is no sin to be rich,;
and it is no sin to be poor, I protest against
this outcry which I hear against those who,!
through economy and self-denial . and)
tssiduity, have come to large fortune. This
bombardment of commercial success will
never stop this controversy between capita 1J
and labor. ........
Neither will the contest be settled by
cynical and unsympathetic . treatment of;
the laboring classes. There are those who
speak of them as though they were only cat.
tie or draught horses. Their nerves are
rtothins. their domestic comfort is nothing.
1 hey have no more sympathy for them than
a hound has for a hare, or a hawk for a hen,',
or a tiger for a calf. When Jean Valjean.i
the srreatest hero of Victor Hugo's writings,!
after a life of suffering and brave endurance,
goes into incarceration and death, they clap;
the book shut and say. "Good for him !" They
ftamp their feet with indignation and say!
just the opposite of "Save the working'
classes." They liava aU their sympathies
with Shylock, and not with Anouio and1
Portia. They are plutocrats, and their feel-(
ings are infernal. They are filled with irrita-v
tion and irasciDility on this subject. To stop.
this awful imbroglio between capital and 1
labor thev will lift not so much as the lip end
of the little finger.
Neither will there be any pacification of
this angry controversy through violence.
God never blessed murder. Blow up to
morrow the country seats on the banks of.
the JJudson, and all the tine houses on Madi
fon Squarfj . and Brooklyn Heights and
and Brooklyn Hill and lUttenhousa Square
and Beacon street, and, all the bricks and
timber and stone- will Just fall back on the
bare head f American labor, ; The worst
enemies of the working classes in the United
State and Ireland are their demented co
adjutors. A few yeara ago assassination
the assassination of. Lord Frederick Caven
dish and Mr.yBurke in Phoenix Park, Dub
lin, Ireland, iu th attempt to avenge the
wron'TSot Ireland only turned away from
'that afllictel pennle millions of sympa
thizers. The nttenint to IjIow up the House
of Commons, m L mdoii. had only this effect:
To throw oni oi employment. ia-iib iin
sands of inuocoui Ji'ii'li people in Enjrlan-J. ,
Jo this country the tomi put to the iao
lories that hnvo discharged hands tor good
or bad reason: obstructions on the rail track
in front of inidniirht exnre. tram's because
the offenders doiiot likn tlid . f resident of the
company;strikM 01) shipboard the hour they
were goig A sail, or in printing offices the
hcuf tlie paper was to go to press, or in mines
iRe day the coal was to bo delivered, or on
house scaffoldings so the builder fails in
keeninc bis contractual! these are only a hard
blow on the head of American labor, and
cripple us arms, and lame its lcr, and
pierce its heart. Asa result of one of our
great American strikes you Md that, tha-
onerativea lost four hundred thousand dol
Jars' worth if wages-, and have hod poorer
wages evefvsiiice. Traps sprung suddenly
upon employer, and violence, never took
'one knot out of i he knuckle of toil or put
I - M 1 , .
one mrining oi wages into a callous palm.
Barbarism will nevar cure the wrongs of
civilization.' Mark that I . .'
: Frederick the Great admired some land'
near ms paiace as rotsaam and he resolved
to Set it. It was owned h v a.mil 1pi Hi of
fered the miller three times the value of the
property.. The miller would not take it, be4
o uuo jiu nomesieaa, ana .; ne ieit
aooui, ic as naooth felt aBouis Bis vineyard.
""u iuu wnutea it-. . r reacricK tne lreat
wm a rough Rod terrible man,and he-ordered,
wio muier into nis presence; and the June.
With a stick in hia h.i.. .
h ouv4 mm vraiua
e sometimes struck bis officers of state said
to this miller: - "Now, I . have offered you
three times the value of that property, and
if you won't sell it I'll take it anyhow." The
.uier aaiu ;;xour Majesty, you won't."
j "Yes," said tha King, "1 will take it
"Then," said the miller, "if your Majesty
uw wmo ik j. wjh bus yon in ta& cnancry
court." At that threal VtnAerite thA
yielded his Infamous demand. And the most
imperious outrage fcgaihSt ! the working
Classes Will vet cower before th ViZ
lence ahd contrary to the Iftw will never ac-
compiisn anythmg, but righteousness and ac
cording to law will accomplish it.
Well, if this controversy between capital
and labor cannot be settled by human wis
dom, it is time for us to look somewhere else
for relief, and it points from my text roseate
ana UDuant. ana puts one hand on the
broadcloth shoulder of capital, and puts the
other hand on the homespun covered ' shoul
der of toil, and says, withaoica that will
grandly and gloriously settle this and settle
everything. "Whatsoever y wonld that
men should do to yoo, do ye even so id them.',
unat is, tne laoy ot tne household vwiU say:
"I must treat the maid in the ki tW -in-. .
I would bke to be treated if I weredown
. stairs, and It were my wc'k to wash; and
cook, and sweep, and It wera the duty of the
maid in the kitchen to preside in the parlor."
Ihe maid in the kitchen must say: "If my
employer seems to be more prosperous than
I, that is no fault of hers; I shall not treat
her as an enemy. I will have ? the same in
dustry and fidelity downstairs as I would ex
pect from my subordinates if I happened to
oetaewueoiasuK importer."
The owner of an iron mill, having taken
a dose of my text before leaving home in the
morning, will go into his foundry, and, pass
ing into what is called the puddling room,
he will see a man there stripped to the waist,
and beswoated and exhausted with the labor
and the toil, and he will say to him t " Why,
it seems to be very hot in here. You look
very much exhausted. 1 her your child is
sick with scarlet fever. If ySu want your
wages a little earlier thi3 weak, so as to pay
the nurse and get the medicines just come
into my office any time."
' After awhile, crash goss the money mar
ket, and there is no' more demand fcr the
articles manufactured in that iron mill, and
the owner does not know what to do. He
says, "Shan I stop the mill, or shall I run it
on half time, or shall I cut down the men's
wages?" He walks the floor ot his counting
room all day, hardly knowing what to do.
Toward evening he caUs all the laborers to
gether. They stand all around, some with
arms akimbo, some folded arms, wondering
what the boss is going to do now. The manu
facturer says: "Men, busiuess is bad; 1 don't
maice twenty aouars wnere I used to make
one hundred. Somehow, there is no demand
now for what we manufacture, or but very
little demand. Youse9, 1 am at vast expense,
and I have called you together this afternoon
to see what you would advise. I don't want
to shut up the mill, because that would force
you out of work, and you have always been
very faithful, and I like you, and you seem
to like me, and the bairns must be looked
after, and your wife will after awhile want a
new dress. I don't know what to do." -.
There is a dead halt for a minute or two,
and then one of the workmen steps out from
the ranks of hi fellows and says: . "Boss,
you have been very good to us, and when
you prospered we prospered, and now you
are in a tight place, and I am sorry, and we
have got to sympathize with you. I don't
know how the other3 feel, but I propose that
we take off twenty per cent, from our wages,
and that when the times get good you will
remember us and raise them again." r Tha
workman looks around to his comrades and
says: "Boys, what do you say to this? All
in favor of my proposition will say ay."
"Ay I ay! ay!" shouted two hundred voices.'
But the mill owner, getting in some new
machinery,1 exposes himself very much, and
takes cold and itsettle3 into pneumonia and
he dies. In the procession to the tomb are
all the workmen, tears roUing down their"
cheeks and on upou tne ground; but an Hour
before the procession gets to the cemetery the
wives and children of those workmen are at
the grave waiting for the arrival of the fu
neral pageant. The minister of religion may
have delivered an eloquent euloputn before
they started from the house, but the most
impressive things are said that day by the
working classes standing around the tomb.
' That night in all the cabins of the working
people wtiere they have family prayers, the
widowhood- and the orphanage in the man
sion are remembered.; No glaring popula
tions look over the iron fence of the ceme
tery; but hovering over the scene, the bene
diction of God and man is coming for the
fulfillment of the Christ-like i injunction,
" Whatsoever ye would that men should do
to you.'doye even so to them."
"Oh." says some man here, "that is all
Utopian, .thnt is apocryphal, that is im
possible." No, I cut out of a paper this:
''One of the pleasantest incidents recorded in
a long time is reported from Sheffield, Eng
land. The wages of the men in the iron
works at Sheffield are rogulated by board
of arbitration, by whose decision both
masters and men are bound . For some timo
past the iron and steel trade has been ex
tremely unprofitable, and the employer can
not, without much loss, pay the wages fixed
by the board, which neither employers nor
employed have the power to change. To
avoid this difficulty, the workmen in one of
the largest steel works in Sheffield hit upon
a device as rare as it was generous, They
offered to work for their employers oneweefc
without any pay whatever. How mwih
better that plan is than a strike would be."
' But you go with me a nd I will show you
not so far off asSheffleld,England factories,
banking houses, store bouses, and costly en
terprises where this Christ-Uke injunction of
my text is fully kept, and you could bo more
get the employer to practice . an injustice
upon his men, or the men toconspire against
the employer, than you could get your right
band and your left hand, your right -'eye and
your left eya, your right ear ani "your left
ear, into physiological antagonism. Now,
where is this to beziu? In our honias, in our
stores, on our farms not waiting for othei
people to do their duty. 13 ther- diverg
ence now between the parlor an 1 the
kitchen?' ineu there is bour.'
wrong,
. either In the parlor or the kitchen; perhaps
in Dotn. Are tne clems in your store irate
against the. firm? Then there is something
wrong, either behind the counter, or in the
private office, or perhaps in both.
The great want of the world to-day is the
fulfilment of this Christ-like injunction,
that which He promulgated In His sermon
Olivetio. All the political economists un
der the arehivaift of the heafena id conven
tion ,for a tliodsaild years cannot settle
this controversy between mdriopoly and hard
work, between capital arid labor;- During
the Revolutionary war ttteT was a heavy
piece of timber id be 'lifted; perhaps for
some fortress, add a corporal was overseeing
the work, and fie was giving commands
to some soldiers as they lifted: "Heave
away, there! yo heave!" -: Well, the timber
was too heavy; they could not get it up.
There, was a gentleman riding by on a
horse, and he stopped and 6aid to this cor
poral, "Why. don't you help them lift?
That timber is too heavy for them to lift.'
''No," he said, I won't; I am a corporal."
The gentleman got off his horse and CAtne tip'
to the plftCft "No;" he said to the soldiers;
"all together yo heave P'. and the timber
went to its place. "Now," said the gentle
man to the corporal, "when you ha ve a piece
of timber too heavy for the men to lift, and
you want help, you send to your Commander
; in-Chief." It was Washington! Now, that
is about aU the gospel I knowthe gospel of
giving somebody a lift, a lift out of dark
ness, a lift out of earth into heaven, That
is the gospel Of helping sdmebddf else td lift.
V "Ohy1' Says some wiseaerey -talk as yod
wiilj the law of demand " and supply will
reg-ilate thesd things Until the end of
time;" No-, it will ridfc unless God dies
and the batteries bf the judgment day are
spi&Bd. and . .THico and rroserpin?. King
and queen of the infernal regions, take full
possession of- this world. Do you know
who Supply?, and Demand are They have
gone into, parnership, and they propose to
swindle this earth and are swindling it.
You are drowning. ;. Supply and Demand
stand on the shore one on one side, the
other on the other side of the life boat, and
they cry out to you; i'Now, you pay us
what wo ask you forgetting yad td shore, or
goto the bottom l" , If yod cad borrow $5(X)0
you can keep irom tailing in business. - Sup
ply Add Demand say: "Now, yod pay us ex
or bitadt iisdrv or voii ord - iritd bdnkrmitev !"
This robber firm of Supply and Demand say
to you:. 'The crops are short. We bought
up all the wheat and it is in our bin. Now,
you pay our price or starve !" t- That is your
magnincent law or supply and demanq.
'"Supply and Demand own theTargesTf mill
on earth, and all the rivers roll over their
wneei, and into their hopper they put all the
men, women and children they can shovel
out of the centuries and the blood and the
bones redden the valley while the mill grinds.
That diabolic law of supply and demand will
yet have to stand aside, and instead thereof
will come the law of love, the law , of co
operation, the law of kindness, the law of
sympathy, the law of Christ;
HaVejTJti fid idea of the coming of such a
time? Then youdd riot believS the Bible.
AU thd Bitiie Is fuU df promises rid this sub
jeet Arid as the ages rdU on the time will
come when men of fortune will be giving
larger sums to humanitarian and evange
listic purposes, and there will be more
James Lenoxes and Peter Coopers and Will
iam E. Dodges and George Peabodysi As
that time comes there will be more parks,
more picture galleries, more gardens thrown
open for the noliday people and the work
ing classes. .-
I was reading come time ago, in regard to
a charge that had been made in England
against Lambeth palace, that it was exclu
sive; and that charge demons trated the
sublime fact that to the grounds of that
wealthy estate eight hundred poor families
had free pass9a,and forty croquet companies, '
and on the half day holidays four thousand
poor people recline on the grass, walk
through the paths, and sit under the trees.
That is gospel gospel on the wing, gospel
out oi doors wortn just as mucn as in doors.
That time is going to come,
That is only a hint of what is goinz to be.
The time is going to come when, if yoti have
anything in your house worth looking at-
pictures, pieces or sculpture you are going
to invite me to come and sae itt you are go
ing to invite my friends to come and see it,
and you will say, "Se9 what I have been
blessed with!, God has given me this, and,
so far as enjoying it, it is yours also. " That
is gospel.
In crossing the AUeghany Mountains,
many years ago, the stage halted, and Henry
Clay dismounted from the stage and , went
out on a rock at the very verge of the cliff,
and he stood there with .his cloak wrapped
about him, and he seemed to ba listening lor
something. Some one said to him: "What
are vou listening for?" Standing there, on
the top of the mountain, he said: "I am
listening to the tramp of the foot
teps of the coming millions of ' this
continent." A sublime posture ior an
American statesman! You and I to-day
stand on the mountain top of privilege, and
on the rock of ages, and we look off, and we
hear comiaz from the future the happy in-
dustriejVjand smiling populations, and the
consdejffod fortunes, ana the innumerable
prosper lies of the closing nineteenth and
oDtJuIiff twentieth century. .
v. Ana now I have two words, onj to cap
italists and the other to laboring men.
To the capitalists : Be your own executors.
Make investments for eternity. Do not be
like some capitalists I know who walk
around among their employes with supercil
ious air, or drive up to the factory in a manner
which seems to indicate they are the auto
crats of the universe with the sun and moon
in their vest pockets, chiefly anxious when
they go among the laboring men not to be
touched by the greasy or smirched hand and
have their broadcloth injured. Be
Christian employer. Remember those
who are under your charge are bone of
vour bone and flesh of your flesh, that
Jesus Christ died for them, and that they are
immortal. Divide up your estates, or por
tions of them, for the relief of the world
before you leave it. Do not go out of the
world like that man who died eight or ten
years ago, leaving in his will twenty mill
ion dollars, yet giving how much for the
church of God? How much for the allevi
ation of human suffering? He gave some
money a little while before he died. That
was well; but in all this will of twenty
million dollars, how much? One million ! No.
Five hundred thousand? No. One hundred
rloUars? No. Two cents? No. One cent?
No. These great cities groaning in anguish,
nations crying out for the bf ead of everlast
ing life. A man in a wUl'giving twenty
millions Of dollars and not one cent to God !
It is a disgrace to our civilization.
To laboring men: I congratulate you on
your prospects. I congratulate you on the
fact that your are getting your representa
tives at Albany, at Harrisburg, and at
Washington. This wiU go on until you will
have representatives at all the headquarters,
and. you will have full justice. Mark that, t
congratulate you also on the opportunities
for your children. Your children are going
to have vast opportunities. I congratulate
you that you have to work and that when
you are dead your children will i have to ?
work. I congratulate you also on yopr op
portunities of information. Plato paid,
one thousand three hundred dollars
for two books. Jerome ruined " himself, i
financially, by buying one volume of Origan,;
What vast opportunities for intelligence for
you and your children ! A workingman goes
along by the show window of some great pub
lishing house and, be sees a book that costs 1
five dollars! He says, "I wish I could have
that information: I wish I couid raise five
dollars for that costly and beautiful book."
A few months pass on and he gets the value
of that book for fifty cents in a pamphlet.
There never was such a day for the working
men of America as the day that is coming.
' But the greatest friend of capitalist and
toiler, and the one who will yet bring them
together id complete accord, was born one
Christmas night While the curtains of heaven
swurigj Stirred by the wings angelic. Owner
bf all thingsall thd continents, ttU worlds,
and all the islands Ot light. Capitalist f
immensity;, crossing bvei to our con
dition. Cdming intd our vvprld, riot
by gats of palace, , but by door Of
barn. Spending His first night amid
the shepherds. Gathering afterward around
Him the fishermen to be His chief attend
ants. With adze, and saw, - and chisel, and
ax. and in a carpenter sho- showing Him
self brother with the tradesmen. Owner
of all things, and yet on a hillock back of
Jerusalem one day resigning everything
for dtllerS,- keeping" ndt sd much as a shekel
to pay for His obsequies;' By charity
buried in the suburbs of a city that' had
cast Him out. Before the cross of such a
capitalist, and such a carpsnter,; all men
cau afford to . shake hands and worship.
Here is the every man's Christ. None so high
but He was higher. None so poor but He was
poorer.' At His feet the hostile extremes will
yet renounce their animosities, and coun
tenances which have glowered with the prej
udices and reveuge of centuries shall
brighten with tne smue oi neaven as ne
'commands: "Whatsoever y Would that men
Jthould do to you, dd yd even so to them."
AfeOUT NOTED PEOPLE.
The first woman to apply for admission W
the bar ot the Mipreme Court of Michigan, is
juissi'iora-y. i looms, oi Ann ArDor. .
Ex-Senator Sawyer, of Alabama, now
earns his daily bread as a second-class clerk
in the war Department at Washington.
A. S. Mubfhy, keeper of the Greek An
tiqiuties in the British Museum, and one of
i . r . L -1. 1 . s T-i .
ine joreinoet ttrtiuwiugisig in Europe, is now
ih America, j '
Professor Forster, of Bfeslau, has had
300 eases of affected eyesight due to disturb
f nce of the circulation caused by wearing
ight collars. , -
h r Prof. Boone, of Indiana University, sayi
that of 6,500 theological students in the
United States, less than one-fourth are college
graduates. ' ,
Ex-Goverxor Lowrt and CoL WiHiam
II. McArdle are engaged in the preparation
of a history of Mississippi,- from its earliest
settlement to the present time. . ..
Edwin Stevens, the newly-appointed Con
sul to Pernambuco, was major oi theSeventy
eventh Illinois during the war. He was five
years Consul at Ningpo; China,
Charles Neglet, who succeeds Mr. Ben
hington,bf West Virginia, as consul to Rio
Grande do Sol, Brazil, is dne of the proprie
tors of the Hagerstown (lid.) Ironworks. .
'Hon. David Dudley Field, of :New
York, heads the delegations of the American
Peace Society to the Universal Peace Con
gress at Westminster Hall, London, July 14-19.
, Mr. William L. Alde the late consul
general of the United States for Italy, has re
ceived from the King of Italy the cross of
Cavaliere della Corona d'Jtalia in recognition
of his kindness to Italians.
"My Son," said Senator Brown, of Georgia,
to a reporter who asked him if he was, as re
ported, worth a million collars; "my son, a
million dollars is a mighty big lot of money,"
and that was all he would say.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, who is now
seventy, declares that his sight is growing
feeble, and the fatigue of writing is wearing
upon him, and he must hereafter place all or
his correspondence, except that of old friends,
In his secretary's hands.
'John O.Hart, of County Clare, Ireland,
an aged author, publicly acknowledges the
receipt of an annuity, donated by George W.
Childs, to the end that "the declining years of
the writermay be free from care and anxiety."
Mr. Hart is the author of "Irish Pedigrees'
The monument to the late Mr. Hendricks, of
Indiana, designed by K. II. Parks, consists o(
a pedestal twenty-one feet high and a bronze
statue thirteen feet in height. Dorio columns
stand at the corners of the pedestal. In niches
on the sides are figures of History and Jus
tice. .; .
MRS. Mary Miller, of Western Pennsyl
vania, probably the wealthiest colored woman
in the country, died the other day. Her in
come was $200 a day. Four years ago she,
owned a barren piece of ground, but there
was oil beneath its surface which made it oil
right. , . , .
Senator Evarts' living expenses are esti
mated at $100,000 a year.' He has three houses
which be keeps open all the time one at New
York, one at Washington and one at Windsor,
Vt. In each he has a library almost a dupli
cate of the other two filled with the best ;
works of law. historv. political economv.
poetry and prbse fiction. The Senator likes
his comfort, and his ambition and satisfaction
are to live like an English gentleman, on a
luxurious and liberal scale, without any re
gard to the petty economies of life.
a justiceInsulted.
He Draws a Revolver, but I Himseli
Shot III Assailant Stabbed.
A light took place at Odom, Ga., between
Justice W. H. Aspinwall and G. Odom, after
whom the station is named. The men have been
unfriendly for several months. Odom de
clared, In the presence of Jmrtice Aspinwall,
that he would not appear before him in a case
in which he had been garnisheed. The Jus
tice asked Odom to withdraw the remark.
Odom refused to retract Aspinwall drew his
pistol and told Odom thst if he did not recall
his insulting words he would kill him.
Odom sprung at the Justice, took his pistol
away from him, and shot him dangerously m
the head. After being wounded the Justice
pulled out a knife and stabbed Odorii twice in
the left breast, near the heart. At this point
the onlookers interfered. Both men then
started for their respective homes to secure
their Winchester rifles. Friends, however,
have since prevented their meeting, but more
violence is sure to follow. .
WHISKEY INCARRIAGES.
Bar-rooms on Wheel In Kansas The
Original Package Dodge.
The dealers in original packages are be
coming more and more bold and defiant in
Topeka. Six of them hired three carriages.
In the rear seat of each two of the saloonmeu
placed themselves. Oh the opposite seat they
placed kegs of beer, and grouped around them
original packages of whiskey, brandy and
wine. On the seat beside the driver, was
placed a keg of beer, and on top of it a foam
ing glass of the beverage. Thus equipped,
they drove through the principal Btreets of the
city, and finally halted at the entrance of the
capitol grounds and under the very shadow
of the state-house. There they offered for
mleto the slate officers passing in and out,
their original packages. Secretary of State
Alien became so enraged that he telephoned
to the chief of police to arrent the wiloonnteii
for disturbing the peace. ' At the nppnw.lj of
iV e I'.u-oata the ttiiooa jpen drove sway,
THE NEWS.
Judge Hindman, of Nevada, Iewa, declares
thatnotwifhstandiiigthedecision of the United
States Supreme Court, no. one has a right to
keep a place for the sale of liquor in that state.
-A mad dog caused a panic in a publio
school in Burlington, Iowa. David Ransey,
of New York, visited his wife, from whom he
had been separated, and shot her ih the neck.
Abram Bogardus, formerly superinten
dent of mails in the jtoffice at Rochester, N.
Xh pleaded guilty to secreting letters, and was
Sentenced to three years' imprisonment
The township of Harford, in Susquehanna
county, Pa., celebrated the one hundredth an
niversary of its organization. J. Monroe
Shellenberger, the lawyer of Doylestown, Pa.,'
whose forgeries and other criminal escapades
caused a general ensation, , was sentenced to
twenty-two years in the penitentiary.- Rev;
bi P. P. Robinson, of the Mecklenberg Pres
bytery, was reinstated by . the Southern Gen
eral Assembly, which also declared In favor of
temperance reform. Colonel Joseph A.
Broaner, a prominent educator and principal
owner of the Asheville Female College, died
at Asheville, N. The failure of the east
ern railroads to stop the payment of commis
sions is causing a war in rates between Chicago
and New York. i-The Democrats had no op
position in the Norfolk cjty election, and Frank
Morris was elected mayor. The State Bank
bf Middle Tennessee, located in Lebanon, has
made an assignment for the benefit of credi
tors. The liabilities ar? about $90,000 and the
assets $65,000. ' : ,r:-
The Southern Presbyterian Assembly d
tided to meet next time at Birmingham, Ala.
The anniversary meetings of the various
national Baptist organizations began in New
York. -Rev. Dr. Atticus G. Haygood, of
Sheflield, Ala., and Rev. Oscar P. Fitzgerald,
of Nashville, Tenn, were elected bishops of
the Southern Methodist General Conference.
The union of mine workers is investigat
ing the ruioterous fatal accidents In the Wy
oming mining region, and will bring suits
against the superintendents for manslaughter.
Rev. Martin L. Frich . was deposed from
the Reformed Church ministry at Womejs
dorf,XPa.; on charges of falsehood and theft
A 6treet car in Camden, N. J., was struck
and demolished by a. railroad train, and John
WalMs, the driver, killed -and several passen
gers hurt The death sentence of Streit
Fobs, of Hardy county, W. Va., for the crime
of rape, has been commuted to life-imprisonment-
William Thompson, an Adventist,
of Wiehltaj JCs., who believed the world was
nearing an end, attacked bis wife and daugh
ter with a butcher knife.- A farmer named
Tucker, with his two children a girl and a
boy was jowing on ft small lake near Stan
ton, JJeb.t wheti the; boat overturned and the
three were drowned. -It. E. Harvey, a noted
mining expert, died at Dultith, Minn. Far
mere in Illinois pronounce the ontlook for
wheat very discouraging.- Capt Melveffl
Grindle and hia . brother, Frederick, were
drowned by the capsizing of a boat off" Sandy
Point, Me.- A stabbing affray, in which
Charles Eberbard was probably fatally wound
ed and John Carr and William Davis were
seriously cut, occurred in Chicago, Pete De
vitt, a notorious tough, doing the cutting.
Rosanna Rosila, the wife of an Italian, stab
bed to the heart another Italian boarder, in
the defence of her honor, in a New York tenement-
Ludie Danielson, aged twelve, and
Alexander Anderson, aged seventeen, of Man
chester, N. H, were arrested, charged with
torturing a playmate by sticking pins into his
flesh and pouring hot water on him. Black
leg has appeared among cattle in sections of
Schoharie county, N. Y. One farmer at Sharon
Hill Jacob L. Kitts lost seven cows in a
week. The rapid spread of the direase causes
great alarm. ' ' ' ".
In a runaway accident at Plainfield, N. J,
Uiss Marion Duniont and Miss Mollie Law
rence were thrown from a carriage and seri
ously injured. Lawyer Clinton P. Reynolds,
of New York, who was shot by the angry son
of a client, died of his wounds. Polly Crowl
Carlisle, who, when a baby, had been bounced
on the knee of George Washington, died at.
Detroit Crazy with drink, Barney Benson
knocked Jerry Sweeny down in Chicago, and,
kneeling on the prostrate man, fired two bul-
beta through his heart. The remains of
President Garfield were removed from the
public vault iu the Cleveland Cemetery to the
cryptin the monument The Massachusetts
law prohibiting the sale of liquor over publio
bars went into effect in Boston, and is regarded
as a huge joke by the saloon-keepers. By
the breaking of an emery wheel at McCor
mick's Reaper Works in Chicago, one man
was killed and three others badly hurt
Heavy rainstorms in Pennsylvaniaand North
ern New York along the line of the Northern
Central Railway caused numerous landslides.
Richard Vaux, Democrat, of Philadelphia,
was elected to Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Samuel J. Randall.
Ludwig Marquardt, an artist, aged twenty
eight years, of Philadelphia, attempted to
murder his wife and committed suicide.
STRUCK AN ICEBERG.
A S(ramh!p'a Collision at Midnight
Ton of Ice on Deck.
The British freight steamer Beacon Light,
from Shields, England, arrived at New York,
and reports a thrilling experience in a colli--sion
with a gigantic iceberg. At midnight of
the 13th the vessel was going under half
speed, an account of a dense fog that prevailed.
The fog was so dense' that objects con Id not
be neen at a ship's length. Extra lookouts
had been posted, but suddenly a hnge mass
emerged from the heavy blanket of fog, and
appeared directly before the vessel. A colli
won was inevitable. The helmsman endeav
ored to turn the. vessel one side, but only par
tially succeeded. The vessel struck the ice a
glancing blow, breaking in the bow. Mbhscs
of if tumbled down, and ctove in the fore.
him;?, TV.i Ktcanirr soraped along the sub
iiHTced part of the iceberjr.
Tl l orn von ninety jVet high aid s.x
liun.Jrc l Jor,;. Thu collision occurred in lats-tu-ie
ii IfivtuJe?'.
THB BL0T7 WAS YHBMBLli
A ' Guilty Lawyer's Agony in Ea-
ceiving Sentence.
Glren Twenty-two Tears by Judge
Who Had Been His Warm Friend
. . Like Crazy Man. -
J. Monroe Shellenberger, the lawyer whose
forgeries and otheri criminal Napa4c
flight recpntlvrsiisfvf Kttchawidtreadaensa-
tion, was sentenced by Judge Yerkes at Doyles
town, Pa., to undergo an imprisonment of
twenty-two years at hard labor in the Eastern
Penitentiary. There were seventees billsof
dictment against the prisoner, covering the
crimes of forgery and , wbeiatlemeiit The
ordeal of entering the court-rootn proved too
much for the once-popular and talented law
yer, who, as district attorney of Bucks county,
had made his brilliant reputation at the bar
of this very court When ne entered the dock
he shrank from the gaze of hia former friends
and kept his head bowed. ' Congressman
Robert I'ardly, who came from Washington to
assist in his defense, sat at one of the tables.
As the bills of indictment were read loud groan
and sobs came from Shellenberger. His coun
sel entered the plea of guilty in each case.
Shellenberger at times acted like a madman"
He opened hia handkerchief and threw it over
his head, rubbing his head and face with it,
and nervously snook the railing of the dock
with his hand and foot Eventually he leaned
his head forward on the rail and buried it in
his arms, rocking himself on the seat like a
person suffering irom acute pain. At one time
Shellenberger groaned so louoT and sobbed
with such anguish, that the judge, in aner- ,
vmifi start rtf it u v titlri tha 4tatrtt ftttiipnpv to .
hasten his work and get it over. , . N -;
After all the indictments were read and
plea of guilty was entered in each case, wit
nesses were called to show the character and
extent of Snellen berger's rascalities. Several
witnesses testified, and as the testimony was
brought out bearing upon the most aggravated
and unpardonable cases of rascality and de
ceit, Shellenberger rocked himself violently in
the dock, tossed his head, moved his hand -about
like a wild man, and cried aloud. ,
: J udge Harmau Yerkes, an old-time personal .
acquaintance, and a professional and political
associate of tne prisoner for many years, pro
nounced the sentence of the court ; ' '
It was anticipated that he would give Shel
lenberger a heavy sentence, but nothing like
what he gave him was looked ton
The Judge drew himself up and addressed
the prisoner in a low, husky voice, in which '
there seemed a slight tremor of emotion. -Shel-lenberger
never raised bis head, but went on
groaning and weeping violently. Finally, the
words drnnned frnm ih .In Hire's linn:
"Twenty-two yeara of solitary confinement,
with hard labor."
Shellenberger gave a groan of anguish anl
almost sank to the floor. The scene cached
quite a commotion, i ne okw seeruea to stun
the prisoner. It was necessary to partly carry
him from the court-room. ,
The sentence watt discussfcd by the farmers
and the people in Doylestown on every side
Nothing like it was ever heard of in Bucks '
county.. While pity seemed, to have been'1
awakened in some- quarters by the prisoner's
exhibition of anguish in the court-room, the"
general run ofolu farmers, who reflected upon
what Shellenberger had been doing for years
seemed to think it was just ' ( '
THE METHODISTS SOUTH.
Rev. Dri. Haygood and Fitzgerald elOi
ted BUhop. Sketches of tne BUhopa'r
The Methodist Episcopal South ' GeneraJ.
Conference , at St Louis, elected. Rev. Dr.'
Atticus G-Haygood, of Sheffield, Ala., bishop
on the firut ballot, and Rev.' Dr. Oscar F
Fitzgerald, of Nashville, Tenn., bishop on the
fourth ballot . ,
AfWr some preliminary business, Bishop
i-.Bii a:.. o:n . i t j . i. -
vji an un i j , me icoiuujg uuici, ttuicu tua
special order and requested the delegates to
enter upon the election prayerfully, and with a
due sense of the importance of the occasion.
Q IHE KEW BISHOPS. V- 1 s t .
ens Green Haygood Was born in tWat
kinsville. Ga. November 19, 1839. He war
graduated at Emory College, in-that State in
1859, and licensed to preach in the Methodist
Episcopal Church the same year-. In 1870-'75
he edited the Sunday-school publications of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South, sod
in 1876 was elected president of Emory Col- '
lege, where he remained eight years. - lie waa
appointed general agent of the. "John F.
Slater" fund in 1883 for the education of the
colored youth in the Southern States, and has
Bince devoted himself to that work and to
efforts for the progress of the negro race. In
1878-'82 he edited the Wesieyan Christian
Advocate. Emory College conferred on him
the degree of D. D. in 1870, and the South
western University of Texas that of LL. D. in
1884. Dr. Haywood is the author of "Goer
Send," an essay on missions : "Our Children,"
"Our Brother In Black," "Close the Saloons,"
and "Speeches and Sermons." He also edited
"Sermons by Bishop Pierce." -He received
to-day the largest majority ever given , in the
election of a ; Methodist Bishop. He is the
second man in the history of American Metho
dism who has been elected to the bishopric
twice, having declined the first of the office,
Joshua Soule being the first. Dr. Haygood is
not a member of the General Conference, and
his elevation to the episcopacy under all the
circumstances by one of the most represen
tative religious bodies in the United States is
very significant ;
Dr. Fitzeerald has for twelve vears past
been editor of the Nashville Christian Ad vo-
cate, the organ of his church. He has seen '
service in the West, having been for years a
leader . among the Methodists of California.
He is a native of North Carolina, of Irkh
extraction, and is a genial gentleman and
popular writer. His books have obtained a
wide circulation, and under his administration
the Christian Advocate has advanced from a
circulation of 7,000 in 1878 to 30,000 subscri
bers in 1890.
fHREE WRECKS ON THE RAIL
A -
Only One Nan wa Killed In the Lot
A Circna Mixed p.
A serious head-end collision occurred on the
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway,
one mile east of Dedham, Iowa, between the
flyer and a work train. The engines were
damaged, the baggage car badly wrecked and
five fiat cars derailed. Fireman H.G.Day,
of the work train, was killed, and BagrrHpe
roan C. 11. White summed a broken ankle.
Nashua, X. II. At 3 A. M. RobUm,' cir
cus train, en rente to Epping, wht're it bh
show, was wrecked near the junction of ihe
Nashua and Uochter, and Bn.stonand Lowell
Road. One i-.'ir full of carriage juuiptd the
track, and the rp-t of the train pilftl up in
total wreck. Tl-.n Joss to Ilob'Mns Mill he
licit vv.
K a n i i Cf!fcfLXi0.r Tho limited incomir :
train Cktaw Kftnsw City was rn
into by h freighi irmia bM miles east of t
ntv. A h!.cper nd a dining car were uitc!'
but pruie of .jjifl oponptotg were seno.u"''
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