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"Higher crltloism'' says that this book Of Solomon's song la a lovo scene, a forlorn mai'len slghine fof her beau. If so, it is an andean anl oebauehed utterance inserted In tho pure word of God and is not fit for jommon reading. My opinion is that it is an Inspired ode sotting forth tho feeling of Christ toward the church and of the churoh toward Christ. Christ is the bridegroom, and tho church is the bride. The same words we can utter to-day truthfully, whether in rerard to the church of God In general or this church in particular, "Behold, thou art fair, my love." Tho past week has been one of prolonged congratulation for that we have for twenty flvo years been permitted to associate with each other in the relation of pastor and peo ple. When I came to Brooklyn, I found a email hand of Christian disciples Who from various causes hal become less and less Until they stood upon tho very verpre of extinction its a church, and the question was being agitated from time to time whether it would be possible to maintain a ehurch life longer. Indeed, had not those men and women been consecrated nnd earnest, they would have surrendered to the adverso circumstances. They marshaled a congregational meeting, mi l k'athoriiiff UP a" the forces possible they ?a-t nineteen votes for a pastor, all of which I am happy to have received. It was not t'irough any spirit of personal courage or reckless adventure that I was led from one of tho warmest and most congenial pastorates in Philadelphia that a man ever enjoyed to this then most uninviting field, but it was the feeling that God had called mo to the work, and I was sure Ho would see me through. 1 have thought that it mlerht be profitable to us to state briefly what kind of a church we havo been trying to establish. in the llrst place, I remark that we have been trying to build here a Christian church distinctively such in other words, a church where we should preach the Lord Josus Christ and Him crucified. My theology is all gone into five letters Jesus. Jesus, tho pardon of all offenses. Jesus, tho foundation for all structures. Jesus, tho balm for all wounds. Jesus, the eve salve for all blindness. Jesus, the guide through all perplexities. Jesus, tho hope for all dis couragements. Wrongs, Jesus, tho reform for all I have faith to believe that there is more drop of tho bloo 1 of Jesus the woes of the world than power in one Christ to cure in an ocean full of human quackery. Jesus is the grandost note in any minstrelsy. He is trie ririRiitest gom in any crown j height overtopping all height ; tho centre of every circumference ; the circumference to every centre; the pacifier of all turbulence; the Umpire of all disputes. Jesus, Jesus ! At His table all nations are to 6it. Around His throne all worlds are to revolve. He is to bo tho irradiation of the universe. Jesus, Jesus ! It is that truth that we have tried to preach in this Tabernacle. Do you ask more minu'ely what we be lieve? I can tell you. We have no dry, withered, julccless theology. We believe in God, tho Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, the deliverer of tho distressed, the home for the homeless, tho friend for the friendless. We beliov9 in Jesus Christ, able to save to tho uttermost, pardoning the Kuiity, imputing His righteousness to the believer. We believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter, the sanctifler, choerina; up the heart in life's ills and kindling bright lights in every dark landing place. We be lieve that tho whole race is so sunken in sin that nothing but the omnipotent arm of God can ever lift it out. We believe In grace--froo grace, sovereign grace, triumphant grace, eternal grace. We believe in a Bibla authentic in its statements, immaculate in its teachings, glorious in its promises. We bellevo in heaven, the abode of the righteous, and in holl, the residence of thosa who are soul suicides of their own free choice refusing the di uin mercy. We be lieve in the salvation of all men who accept Christ by faith, bo they sprinkled or im mersed, worship they in cathedral or in log cabin, believe they in Presbyterianism or Episcopacy, dwell thc3' under Italian skies or in Siberian snowstorms, be they Ethiopian or American. All one in Christ. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, on the way to heaven. We built this Tabernrclo for tho purpose of sotting forth these groat theories of the gos pel of the Son of God. Would that we ha 1 been more faithful in the pulpit I Would that wo had been more faithful in the pew I remark, further, that we have tried here to build a church distinctively unconven tional. Instead of asking, as some people are disposed to do, how other people do it, Wi have askod the question how people do not do it. Imperious custom has decided that churche3 shall be angular, cheerless, g'.oomj-, unsympathetic, forgetting that what men call a pious loom Is impious, and that that church has tho best architecture where the people are the most comfortable, and that that is the most efficient Christian ser vice whore the people are made most sick of sin and most anxious after Christ and heaven. And so we called the architects together for our first church building and said "Give us an amphitheater" that is, a largo family circle, gathered around a ilreplace. For many years we had felt that an amphi theater was the only proper shape for an audience room. The prominent architects of tho cour.try said: "It cannot bo done. You need a church building." And so wo had plan after plan of churchly buildings presented, but in due time God sent a man who grasped our idea and executed it. So far from leing a failure, it satisfied our want, and till our three churches were built on tho amphitheatrleal plan, and scores of churches all over the country have adopted tho same plan. And, my brethren and sisters, we fail in our work just in proportion as we try to bo like other churches. Wo beliove that God in tended every church, like every mau, to be individual, gathering up all its peculiarities und idiosyncraoies and hurling them all to ward some good and grand object. In other words, no two churches ought ever to be just alike. Here is a church, for instance, whose object is to prcparo philosophers and artists and critics for heaven. God speed them in the difficult work ! Here Is a church, on the other hand, that proposes to briug only tho poor into the kingdom of Jesus Christ, look ing not after tho rich. God speed such a church in its undertaking ! But there is a larger idea that a church may take bringing in the rich and the poor, the wiso and the ignorr.nt, the high and the low, sothat kneel ing beside each other shall bo the man faring sumptuously every day and tho man who could not net his breakfast. God speed such a church ! Oh. mv friends, we need to break away from slavery to ecclesiastical custom. We dare not sing if anybody hears us. We dare not preach uuless we have rounded off our sentences to suit the criticism of the world. We dtire not dress for church until we havo examined the fashion plates and would rather stay at home than appear with a coat or a hat not sanctioned by custom. When will the day of deliverance come to tho churoh of God, when, instead of a dead religion laid out in state on a catafalque of pomp and in sincerity, we shall have a living, bounding, sympathetic, glowing Christianity? I remark, further, that we have tried here to build and to conduct a cheerful church. While, as you know, we have not held back tire terrors of tho law and the sterner doc trines of tho gospel, we have tried in this houso to present to this people th 3 idea that tho gladdest, brightest, happiest ihiag in all tho universe is the Christian religion. There is so much trouble in the world. Business, men have so many anxieties. Toiling men have so many fatigues. Orphans have so many desolations. For God's sake, if there be any bright place on earth, show it to tlumi . Let tho church of Jesus Christ be the most cheerful spot on earth. Let me say that I do not want anybody to come whining around me about the Christian religion. I have no faith in a religion made up of equal parts of wormwood, vinegar and red pepper. If the religion that is presented to us be a depression, we will get aloug better without it. If it be a joy, let it shine out from your face and from your conversa tion. If a man comes to my houso to talk of religion with lugubrious countenance and manner full of sniffle and dolorousne3s, I f jel like'sayinfr to my wife, "You had bettr lock up the silver before he steals some thing." I havo found it an invariable rule that men who profess faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, priding themselves at the same time on their sanctimoniousness, always turn out badly I never knew an exception while thoso who are the most consistent, the most useful and the most consecrated havo perfume In their conversation and heaven in their face. The happiest Christians that t have ever known have been persons from sixty to eighty years of age. By that time people pet over the shams and the pretenses of Society and have no longer any patience with anything like imposture in religion. O Christian, how dare you be gloomy? Is not God yont Father? Is not Jesus Christ your Saviout? Has not your path all through life been strewn with mercies? Are you insensible to the fact that there are glories awaiting you in the better land doxologiesof celestial worship, eternal chorals, tearless eyes, songs that resound under arches cf strength and hosannas that clap their hands at tho foot of the throne? Is it nothing to you that all tho hills of heaven are radiant with the facos of thos-i who have gone up from you and who are wait ing for your coming, ready to keep with you eternal holiday? Is ther.j nothing in songs that never cease, In hearts that n ;ver ache, in splendors that never die, to make you glad? Then' take no more mercy at the haa I of thy God! Give back the marriage riuirof lovo that Jesu3 put on your finger inthedav of your espousal ! Plant no moro of tho flowers of heaven whero thero ought to be nothing but nettles and nightshade ! We try to make this church a cheerful church. A man on Saturday afternoon stands in his store anil says: "How shall I meet those obligations? How can I end urn this new disaster that in coming upon me?" He goes home. Sabbath morning finds him in tho houso of God. Through the song, through tl'3 sermon, through the prayer, th -. Lord Jesus Christ says to that man : "O man, 1 nave watched thee. I havo soen all thy struggles. It is enough. I will soe thee through. I will stand between thee and thy croditors. I Will mako up In heaverriy treasures what you havo lost iu earthly treasures. Courage, man, courage ! Angels of God, I command you to clear the track for that man ; put your wings over his head with your golden scepters strike for his de fense 5 throw around him all the defenses of eternity." What Is the consequonce? That business man is strengthened. He gojs to the store next day feeling that God is with him and ready to deliver. That samo Sunday thero is a poor old wo man in the church hearing the gospol. Oh, how shrunken she is ! She wears the same dress she wore twenty ytsars ago. How fade l it is and now out of date ! Sho sits and listens as well as she can. Her eyes are so dim she cannot see half way across the church. Her ear is so imperfect that she can only catch occasionally a note of the psalm or a word jf the preacher. Some ono sitting next to her gives her a book and finds the placo for her. Sho says, "Thauk you, miss ; thank you." She holds tho book close up to her eyes and with a voico all full ot tromor sings : Josus, lover of my siul, Let me tr Thy bosom fly While tho billows near mi roll. While tho tenmest still is hiX Hide m, O my S ivlou r, hide, Till the storm of life is past. Safe Into tho h-savon guide Ob, rece vo my soul at last. And Jesus says to hor, "Mother, arc you weary?" And sho says, "Yes, Jesus, I am rery tired." Jesus says, "Mother, are you poor?" And sho says: "Yes, I am very poor. I cannot sew any more. I cannot knit any more. I am very poor." Jesu says to her, "Mother, would you like to rest?" She says, "Yes, Lord ; that is wh it I want re?t." "Courage, mother." says Jesus. "I will seo thee through." Sho goes home. The next morning in tho tenement hoUsa some one dwelling on another iioor comcsto her room and knocks. No answer. Tho door is opened. She is dead 1 The night before the chariots of God halted at that pillow of straw, ant Jesus kept IIi3 promise. He said that He would give her rest, and Ho haa givn hor rest. Glory be to God for the height, the depth, the length and the breadth of such Christian comfort ! Ob, that we might have such joy as that which inspired the men at tho battlj of Leuthen ! They were singing a Christian song as they went into battle. A gener.il said to the king, "Shall I stop thoso people singing?" "No," said tho king. "Men that sing like that can fight." I would that we had a singing church, a joyful church, a ju bilant church, a comforting church, for then we would have a triumphant church. I remark, further, that wo have hero tried to build a church abreast of the times. It is all folly for us to try to do things the way they did fifty or 100 years ago. We might as well bo plowing with Elijah's crooked stick, or go into battle with Saul's armor, or prefer a canalboat to an express train, ns to be clinjrlng to old things. What wa most noe 1 now is a wide awake church. People who are out in the world all the week, jostling against this lightning footed century, come into the church on the Sabbath and go right to sleep unless they havo a spirited service. Men engaged in literary callings all tho week, reading pungent, sharp writings, can not be expected to come and hear our eccle siastical humdrftm. If a man stay at home on Sundays and roads the newsoapers, it is because the news papers are more interesting. Wo need, my brethren, to rouse un and ntop hunting with blank cartridges. The church of God ought to be tho leader, tho interpeter, tho inspiror of the age. It is all folly for us to bo dis cussing old issues arraigning Nero, hang ing Absalom, striking tbe Philistines with Sham gar's ox goad when all around about "us are iniquities to be slain. Did I say that the church ought to bj abreast of tho times? I take that back. Tho church of God ought to be ahead of the times as fur in advance as the cross of Christ ii ahead of all human invention. Taul was 1000 years ahead of tho day in which ho lived. The swift footed years that have parsed since Luther died havo not yet co:uo up to Luther's grave. Give iniquity 4000 years tho start, and tho feet of Cnristianuy ure so nimble that if you will but givo it full swin-r it will catch un and pass it in t.vo bounds. The church of God ought to ue ahead of tho times. I remark, further, that we have tried hero, in tho lovo and fear of God, to build a church that would bo characterized by conversions. I have heard of very good people who could preach on for fifteen or twenty years and see no conversions, but yet have faith. It takes a very good man to do that. I do not know how a man can keep his faith up if souls are not brought to the Lord Jesus Christ. That church that does not bHng men and women to t ho feet of the Saviour is a failure. I wire not how flno the building, or how sweet the music, or how eloquent tho preaching, or how elegant tho surroundings It is a lauure. The church of God was mado for just one thing to get men out of the world into tho kinL'.iom of heaven. The tendency in churches is to spend their time in Riving fine touches to Christians alreadv polished. We keep our religion too much indoors and under shelter, when it outcht to bo climbing the rocks or hewing in th forests. Then It would be a stalwart re ligion, a robust religion, a religion able to digest the strong meat ot the wora, insieaa of being kept on the pap and gruel ot spir itual invalidism. It is high time that we threw off the Sunday clothes of siokly senti mentality end put on the working dress ot an earnest, active Christianity. Here is Brooklyn, hero is New York, here are the United Stat as, hero is the whole world to be converted. It is 1394 years si nee Christ came, and yet Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America are still unevaogelized. More people born every yeai into the world than are born into the king dom ot God. At that rate I ask anyone who can do a simple sum in arithmetic to calcu late when this world will bo brought to Jesus. At that rate, never, never, never! And yet we know that it is to be brought to Christ. But the church will have to change its tact and take a wider sweep with the gos pel net than it has yet takeD. I believe that the great mass of the people are now ready to receive the gospel if we give them a chance. A boy goes along the street at night and sees a fine house beautifully lighted up an ! hears music, and he says, "I wish I was in there, but I have not been invited," and so he passes on. Here is the churoh of Goi, lighted np with festivity and holy mirth, and the world passes along outside, hears the mnslc and sometimes wishes it was inside, but savs that it is not invited. Oh, invite the world to come In ! Go out into tho highways and hedges. Send a ticket of Invitation printed in these words, "Come, for all things are now ready. Some years ago 200 men were buried inthe Hartley colliery of England. The Queen of England from her throne telegraphed, "L there any hope for the mn?" After awhile the answer came over tho wires : "No hope. They are dead." Here is a whole race buried in sin and darkness and woe. The question that thrills up to the throne of God to-day is, "Is there any hope for the men?" Answer ing intelligence comes back from the throne of God, thrilling through the world's dark ness, thrilling through tho World's . woo : "Yes. Hope for one, hope for all ! Whoso ever will let him come. Aud the spirit and the bride says, 'Come. And lt him that ia athlrst come." We have had conventions all over the country discussing tho subject, "How Shall the Great Masses ha Brought to Christ?' They havo passed splendid resolutions at the close of the meeting a long list of eight, ten or fifteen have been read, and then the pre siding officer ha? said. "All those in favor-of the resolution for ttie conversion of the world, purifying the cities and redeeming tho masses and making everything all right say aye." "Aye, aye !" sny a thousand voices. "All opposed no." "The ayes have it." There, the whole world is couwrlod ! Ah, we do net seem to get along by such a pro cess. If this world Is ever to be brought to God, It will not be by the handful of ministers we have in this country. It will be by the great musses of Christian men and women dis charging their duty. If the private church membership ol this country would put on their armor and go forth, I believe that in fifteen vears the wholo land would be re- flfomool for Christ. Would God that all the peoDlo were prophets ! I am never afraid to hear a man say that he is goinir to preach. If he cannot preach, people will not go to hear him. If he can. he has a message from the Almighty, and I would havo him deliver It. Look out how you interfere with him. Since we have been together as pastor aud people how many have been promoted to the glories of heaven? They died sweetly, calmly, as only Christians can die. They have put down the staff of their pilgrimage. They have taken up the palm of the victor. The Lord Josus has swung His arm through this church a good many times. He has been up tnd down all these aisles. He has taken tho little children tho dear little children. He came down into the garden to gather the lilies and the aged as well. One who sat right here, so that when I used to preach I could almost put my hand on his heau, when I camo back from my summer vacation was gone. Oh, how tho glories of heaven shone around that old man's face as ho sat here Sabbath after Sabbath ! Gono now. nappy spirit. Happy with all those Who have passed tho flood. One army ot the living God To His command we bow, Part of the host nave crosse 1 th3 fl )Ocl, And part are crossing now. I thank you for all your kindues3, for ah four sympathy, for all your prayers for me ns pastor. It is a sorrow to me that I am to be absont even for a few months. I have worked to the full extent of physical, mental and spiritual endurance for this church. Now we start out on our twenty-sixth year. How many of us will close it here I know not. But, living or dying, let us cling to Christ, Oh, that all the people would love Him ! I wish that I could take this aud ieuce this morning and wreath it around the heart of my Lord Jesus Christ ! Oh, He is such a dear Saviour! Ho is such a loving Jo3Us! He is so precious ! He is all the world to me. Ho i3 heaven to me. He washel away my sins. He comforted me in days of darknes-i and trouble. He is mine. Oh, bles33 i Jesus ! Sweetest sound I ever heard or ever expect to hear is Thy name I My closing prayer this morning 13 that God will havo morcy on the dying popula tion of our great cities, an I that the wliole earth will put on bridal array for the coming ot the Lord, liido on, Kin Josus , ride on ! Blessed be the Lord Goi ot Israel, from everlasting to everlasting, aud let (he wnole earth be tilled with His glory ! Amaa and amen 1 PROMINENT PEOPLE. Gkobob Gotjtj) fa a telegraph operator. Th King of Italy eats only one meal a day. The Duke of Edinburgh can speak seven modern languages. Zola Is the most popular French novelist, with Dandet a good second. The Governor of New Zealand has just been compelled to pay a fine for fast driving. The late Dr. Brown-Sequard, the celebrat ed French specialist, wa3 the son of an American. Tmr. flmwn Prince ot Bulgaria, aged four weekspia already Honorary Colonel of two regiments. The Prince of Wales is the owner of one of the worst slum districts in London, and refuses to purify it. Booby makes the shortest prayers that have been heard In the House of .Representatives ior yeara. Canoeb of the larynx has laid hold of Humbert of Italy, and the sad end of that monarch cannot be far off. Queen Victoria, it is said, when she is in doubt about a word, writes it so illegibly that a possible mistake i3 hidden. Thhee United States Senators were born In foreign lands McMillan in Canada, Pasco in England and Walsh in Ireland. The citizens of Raleigh, N. C, have ap pointed a committee to raise funds for a monument to the late Senator Zebulon B. Vance. Tit willow of nonrv Ward Beecher is said to be in great financial straits, and it is re ported that her friends are taking steps to raise a fund for her benefit. Mhwttht. Garcia, member of the first opera hoard In New York, is livlnir In London, where he still gives singing lessons. He is eighty-nine years old. The little Queen of Holland is very popu lnr nnrl nhn has become, if anvthinff. even a greater favorite by being photographed in the typical peasant costume 01 nor country, The millionaire of the United States Navy la Rfilil to be Commodore Georare E. Perkins. Tn the armv the wealthiest man is General Vnlson B. Sweitzer. who is also a famous cavalryman. Frank Hatton is the fifth cabinet officer appointed by President Arthur to pass over to the majority. Frelinghuysen, Folger, Timothy O. Howe and Benjamin H. Brewster were the others. One of Madame Patti's trials Is the mania aoom to cherish for havlnor her adopt their children. She declares she receives hnnirAi!j nf offers of babies for adoption in the course of the year. A becent visitor describes Tolstoi, the Russian novelist, ns follows : "He wears a full peasant's smock, a belt round his waist, and has meiancholv. deep-set eyes, coarse gray hair, and thoughtful, wrinkled brows. Conosessman MoCleary. of Minnesota, is the sohoolmaster of the House. He was for manv vears a professor of political scienca in the Minnesota State Normal School, and has written a number of schoolbooks that are widely used. The cause of Senator Stockbridge's death is thought to be the nervous shook he sus tained by being knocked down and dragged soma distance bv a Chicago cable car last summer. The apparent injuries at the time were trifling, but it is said that he was never himself alterwara. Peffeb, of Kansas, Is the Senator who affects the Greatest luxurv in nis classes. He wears a pair of eold-rimmed spectacles, and keeps besides, on the lapel of his coat, a pair of gold eye glasses, fastened to a gold ciasn ana attacnea to a coia cuaiu ium, heavy enough to attract attention. Wtlmam Stkinitz. the chess champion, is in New York under medical treatment for in somnia. Emanuel Lasker, who is contend ing with him for the chess championship ot the world, is a native of Prussia an i is now only twenty-six years old. He began playing ches3 when he was twelve years of age. His career as a phe&omenal player be gan in 1889. The cat owners of New York City are hastening to secure protection for their pets. They have to buy a f 2 collar from tho Society tor the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. RUIN CAUSED BY STORMS. A GREAT DOWNPOUR IN WIS CONSIN AND MINNESOTA. Rains Do Half a Million Dollars' Dam age Many Rridges Washed Away and Railroad Traffic Paralyzed Towns Flooded and the Wheat Washed Out ot th Ground. Half a million dollars will scarcely cover tho damage done by the late groat storm which raged for a day and a night in Min nesota and Western Wisconsin. The downpour of rain was the greatest ever known in that section of the North west, and in many places was as destructive as a waterspout. The damago was greatest alon the St. Croix, Eusrallee and Chlpp?,wa Rivers, where the rise in the waters was so rapid that bridges could not resist it, nnd dozens ot them were washed away. In sev eral places, also, dams were washod our, and tho swift flowing flood did large dam age to business property. Tho first death list luciudod live, ono twins killed by lightning near Anoka. Minn., aud another near New Richmond, Wis. A wo man and two children were drowned in the Eugallee River, near Spring Valley, Wis. Railway traffic was in a state of paralysis all day, because of the bridges and washouts in the tracks. Reports from tho farming dis tricts indicated that the loss to tho farmers would be very large. On rolling land tho rainfall was so hoavy as to wash out the tender young wheat. Hundreds of acres of grain were reported ruined in Goodhue, Washington, Pine and Benton Counties. The potato planters of Chicago County also reported serious loss. At Stillwater rain fell in solM stieets iront 11 o'clock o. m. until 8 o clock a. m., ana the damage done amounted to at least $ 100,- 000. At St. Cloud one of the results of the de luge was the drowning of two men. Johu Mooney and Andrew Swanberg, in attempt ing to cross a rivulet on horseback in the town of Mindon, Benton County, lost their lives. The water was twelve leet deep, ana their horses became mired in the muddy bottom, throwing off their riders. At Anoka tho Rum River rose tweivo inches. There was no mail or train on any road all day. Thero were washouts in all directions. At Sauk Rapids. Minn., the heaviest rain of the season, accompanied by hail, centred. The Northern Pacific tracK suiierea Daaiy, all bridges between Rice's ami Clear Lake being washed out. At Bloomer a dam, sawmill, planing mill, bridges, houses and six million feet ot logs were carried away. In that city great damage was done to streets, bridges and the railroad companies. The Wisconsin Central tracks from Stanley, Wis., to Chippewa Falls, a distance of thirty-five miles, have been washed out. Not a pioco of track half a mile in length was loft. Chippewa Falls suffered the loss of five bridges, cutting off traffic with tho Omaha road and causing the loss of the gas works. Chippewa City, six miles north of Chippe wa Falls lost a sawmill, dam, barns and lumber yards, and the city was completely wiped out, together with 6,000,000 feet of logs. The Chippewa River was ten feet above low water mark. It was reported that the Littlo Falls dam and the Flambeau dam had given way. At River Falls, Wis., the heaviest storm ever known there occurred. The river roao fully twenty feet, and four bridges were crushed and carried away in a few minutes. The residence of Swan Brolander was car ried away, but he, with his wife and several small children, were rescued through the bravery of citizens. The dam of the Prairie and Greenwood mills was carried out, the largo starch factory owned by S. J. Mealey, of Monticello, Minn., was entirely swept 11w.1v. and also Foster Brothers saw mill. Thirtv thousand dollars will not cover the loss to the city. At Downing, Wis., rain flooded the town No lives were lost, but the damage to prop erty reached well into the thousands. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Pueblo, Col., is to havo a bicycle messen ger service. Coal has advanced in Chicago Irom $J.7o to f 4 per ton. Danes and Russians are starving in East ern Colorado. Tt is estimated that about 3200 lives were lost in the Brazilian rebellion. jiptv k tn hnvA an exposition in 1895 at Hyogo, the old capital of tho empire. There is a ministerial and financial crisis in Argentina, and business is paralyzed. In tha southern part of Maine tho outlooK lor tr o nay crop tnis summer is cxceiiem. f tho oasf-firn counties of Soot- land mice have played havoo with the grass, A professional wolf poisoner is employed Dytne Montana biock. utuwers assuuinuuu. m Arravisnn Axnrlnn tn Eurona this vear promises to be unprecedentedly large. rn fM-oaf fim in Now .Tp.rsev burned over 2000 acres and damaged 250,000 wortn or J. XI IU jut, w w - - property. Farmers in the Panhandle 01 iexa3 are Ti.inrinT n. larger acreage of cotton than i ..." r- 1 1 ' ever beiore. tv. lfi nrnilni'Unn In Montana during the past three montus nas ueuu uuuuio of last year. New York City uses 100,000 Dutch bulbs pvorv vpar for decorating its parks, at a cost of S 17 a thousand. William Mittenoohf, of Chicago, tried to v.- i,4rr,aalf hAAnnun h could attain no higher rank than corporal in tho Coxeyite army. nn1irA(l that the Encr XKSL. a)A x - " ' , , . ' ' i;K lnnmiarpn ana 11 hn usml exclusively in nil the Roman Catholic cathedral churches in America. The American straw hat is now in great Amnr.A n i?n,riun,l tho London made art! cle being, like most English manufactures, heaw and ugly. The policy of coercion in Schleswig-Hol-zifoir. ta tn 1.0 ab.-.ndoned. the conquered H.,i,i,a iwvinff boon assimilated with tho German Empire. An International Exhibition of Horticul ini-n nn.i fruit- fMilt'.ira is to be held in St, Petersburg, Russia, from September 22 to November 12 next. a rtTTST of wind blew open the door of an Ma i-Tc-mai house, and wafted a girl five il into 11 kettl"! of boiling water. Che was fatally scalded. BRAZIL'S DEFIANCE. The Portuguese Minister In Rio Given His Passport. Information has been received from Rio Janoiro, Brazil, that Minister Paraty, Por tugal's representativo at the Brazilian capi tal, received his passports from President Peixoto's Government. Brazil also with draws its Legation from Lisbon, Portugal. The grounds on which the Brazilian Gov ernment bases its action in causing the rup ture between the two Powers are the Portu guese interference in the Brazilian revolu tion and the general unfriendly attitude of the European country toward the South American Republic. The Portuguese corvette Albuffnerque put into the harbor of Bio Janeiro with her ma chinery broken down. The vessel was u.so short of coa'. Senhor Vianna de Lima, the Brazilian Min ister at Lisbon, received instructions from his Govornment at Rio Janeiro to sever all diplomatic relations with the Government ot Portugal. He was ordered to withdraw from Lisbon with his staff. according xo oinciai 4 ngnsu statistics, the annual mortality per thousaul of so -diers is 180 at Sierra Leone ; at Jamaica, 121 , Bermuda, 28 ; Gibraltar, 21 ; Malta and Canada, 16; Western Cape Colony, li Eastern Cape Colony. 9. THE NEWS EPITOMIZED. Eastern and Middle States. FiTEthousand persons attended the first f.art of the civic celebration of tnesuvor ju:n ee ot the Rev. Mr. T.ilmago'a pastorate in the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Tabernacle. Members of the Board investigating the armor plate frauds adjonrnel indefinitely and left Pittsburg for Washington, Richard Croker made a formal announce ment to tho chieftains of Tammany Hall, New York City, of his final and absolute re tirement from the field of politics. He also resigned as a member of the Executive Com mittee and as Chairman of the Finance Com mittee of Tammany Hall ; John McQuade, a contractor, was selected to take hi place. Howard J. Pcoslet. Under Sheriff of West Chester County, Nw York, shot and almost instantly killed Joseph Schnellbach, who had shot and assaulted his sister-in-iaw, Mathilda Schwelling, in Scarsdale, N. Y. Tip. the unrulv live-ton elephant of Cen tral Park, New York City, who had murdered eight men, was kilie l by tne aiimiuistrauon of five ounces of potassium cyanide. His death was calm. Burglars and highwaymen are spreading terror among the residents ot New Jersey towns. Members of the armor plate fraud board will hereafter hold their sittina In Tittsburg, Penn., instead of inside tho Carnegie works. Mrs. Cleveland, wife of the rresidout, with her two children, arrived safely from Washington at the home of her mother. Mrs. rerrine, in Buffalo, N. Y.. whero she will make a short visit before going to liuzzara s Bay. The General Term at Tough keepsie, N. Y.. affirmed Judge Barnard's order puuishme; McKane for contempt. Tho hearing of the appeal from McKane's conviction was post poned until June 18, when it will bo heard In Brooklyn. "Dink" Wilson, the murderer of Detec tive Harvey, of Syracuse, was executed by electricity at Auburn, N. Y. Willie Mahan, of Newark Valley, N. Y., wa3 killed and a dozen persons hurt in a wreck on the Auburn division of tho Lehigh Valley Railroad. Five women rrbm Moody's school, in Northfleld, Mass., wore driving down a steep hill when the harness broke and their hoise ran away. All tho women were thrown from the carriage. The youngest, Miss Blood, struck an iron grating and was instantly killed. South and West. Sanders and his 400 Commonwealers, with, their seized Missoni". Pacific train, fur rendered to a posso of United States Deputy Marshals at Scott City, Kan. Two Marshals were shot during a fight with Coxeyltes in Washington State. The Secretary of the Navy and a party of experts while in San Francisco, Cal., exam ining the Monterey found blow-holes in her plates. The great Pullman Palace Car Works, Pullman, 111., were closed by a strike of tho men for higher wages. While Mrs. E. S. White, tho wife of a painter, was sitting in her home at Houston, Texas, discussing with a neighbor her pend ing divorco suit, her husband walked in and and shot her deal. He then mortally wounded himself. Two train-seizing Commonwealers were wounded aud 120 captured at Yakima, Wash. Four who loft Yakima in a boat were drowned. A Commonweal commander named Palisley was shot dead at Rocklin, Cal., by a con stable. The 450 Commonweal prisoners who surrendered to United States Marshal Noily at Scott City, Kan., went iu camp at Topeka with tents furnished bv Governor Lewel ling. The Portland (Oregon) army dwindled from COO to 40. TnE torpedo boat Eric3son waa launchod at Dubuque, Iowa. Chief Justice George P. Raney, of tho Florida Supreme Court, sent his resignation to the Governor of that State. No reasons were made public for this action. The bodies of two young Englishmen, W. M. Rogers and W. McDonald, were found in Harq uhala Desert, sixty miles from Phceuix, Arizona. The men were prospectors, and perished from thirst while attempting to cross forty miles ot desert on loot. Much damage to property was done by the bursting of a dam in Montana. Mayor Hoikins and Health Commissioner Reynolds issued a proclamation to the pub lic, reouiring every ono in Chicago to be vaccinated. Hooan, the leader of tho train-seizing Commonwealers in Montana, was sentenced to six months in jail, while his forty-two fol lowers were sentenced to sixty days each. The Coxeyltes overpowered a United States Marshal ot Idaho at Montpcuer, Wyoming, and captured a Union Pacific train, on which they went Last. The General Assembly at Baton Rouge, La. , elected Senator Donelson Caffery for the long term as United States Senator, be ginning March 5, 1895. Senator Caffery was appointed by the Governor to nil the va cancy caused by tho death of Randall Leo Gibson. Wyatt Tate, tho noted Monroe County (Ala.) desperado, was shot and killed in that couuty by Murdock Fountain, a young farmer. Washington. Chairman Wilson returned to Washington much improved in health. The cruiser New York was ordered to join the San Francisco at Bluefleld3 to protect American interests, the situation having ba como serious. The President nominated Charles D. Wal cott, of New York, to be director of the Geo logical Survey, vice John W. Powell, re signed. Professor Walcott lives in Utica, N. Y. Hehas been Chief Geologist of the Sur vey. Recent advices from Hawaii received by the State Department say that Japan is de manding the franchise for her subjects iu the islands, and that Hawaii is resisting the demand, and may appeal to Uncle Sam. The President, accompanied by Secretaries Gresham and Carlisle and Commander Ev ans boarded tho lighthouse tender Maple and' sailed down the Potomao on a fishing trip. Coxey's army removod from Washington to Camp Liberty, in Maryland. The Government has begun to take pro cautionary aeasures against tho admission of yellow rer into the country. Tbe Republican Senators decided in caucus on the Tariff bill that each should vote as ho pleased. Considerable excitement wa3 caused in the House of Representatives by a colored man, Matthew A Cherry, in the public gal lery The man arose and addressed the Speaker, saying that if tho Coxey bill was not passed the White House, Treasury and Capitol would be destroyed by thunder and lightning. Tho Speaker directed the door keeper to remove tho man, which was done with some difficulty. John Y. McKane's appeal for a habeas corpus was overruled by the United States Supremo Court. Foreign. General Andre Avelino Caceres has t,een elected President of Peru. General Cacere3 was President from 1886 to 1390. The Government ordered the German war ships now in Brazilian waters to proceed nt once to Samoa. The delegates elected to the Hawaiian Constitutional Convention favor annexa tion. The cholera is spreading with alarming rapidity in the districts of Warsaw. Koveno, Plotzk, Badom, Podolia and Kleff. Russia. Although exceptionally aareful preventive measures have been taken it is generally feared that the epidemic will be as serious as in 1893. Mexico is cutting down salaries in her ef fort to get money enough to pay the interest on her foreign gold debt. Twochildren of a poor widow in Vienna, .Austria, drowned themselves in the D-nube because they felt they were a burden. Five German war ship3 will be at Apia shortly, but even this force is considered in- sufficient to protect German interest at Samoa, an 1 tne colonial p-irty aro asking that a battalion of marine infantry be sent there immediately. In a bloody battle n-vr the city of Smta Ana, Salvador, tho Government army d feated tho rebel.. In tho battle six fi-W.l officers and seventy-four men wero killed, and one hundred and eighty woun.iod aa l taken prisoners. One man was killed and severil Iniurol In a fight between Catholics and Orangemen nt Portadown on tho liawn.ln Ireland. raise Bismauck's) sciatica grew worse.. and his journey to Varsin was postpone 5. The Italian Chamber of Deputies approved the war budget by a majority of nine, after a stormy debate. The small Argentine steamer Thyni, car rying 350 tons of wheat, collided with the Italian steamer Remo, from Genoa, off S.ui Pepro, Klo Grande do Sul, Brawl. ThoThyra went down almost Immediately, and seven of her crew were drownod. A KK.VKKK earthquake shook Mloko, in tno Bismarck archipelago. Nearly ali the dwell ings were lovelltvl to the ground. Miss'in aries and traders suffered heavy losses. LATER NEWS. Euoene Brady, a maniac, killod i.i? and mother, agod sixty-five, at Albany, N. Y. attempted to kill four other persons. With knives in his hands he ran wildly about the streets cutting right and left, assaulting every one ho met. Frost over New York State and Massa- chusetts damaged fruit liods and strawber ries. Ico formed at Monticello, N. Y. A successful test of armor pinto for the Monaduock, Purltau and Malno was made at tho Bethlehem (Penn.) Iron Company's proving ground. Bishop Littletoun's twenty-fifth anniver sary of his office was held In the Cathedral in Garden City, Long Island, N. Y. . and the presentation of the pastoral staff was a most imposing affair. The eighth Brooklyn Handicap, a mile and a quarter, worth 17,000 to tho winner, ?'50H) to t ho second horso and f 2000 1 0 t ho t hlr.l , wad run over the Gravosend (N. Y.) race course, in tho presence of over thirty thousand peo ple. It was won by Frod Foster's four-year-old chestnut colt, Dr. Rico, ridden by Fred Taral, with Byron McClolland's threvyoar old chestnut colt Henry of Navarre, ridden by A. Clayton, second, and Oneck Stable's bay colt Sir Walter, ridden by Doggett, third. Tho time was 2.07,'. Jacob S. Coxey, tho originator of tho Commonweal, was nomlnatod at Canton by the Populists for Congress from the Eight eenth Ohio District. Judqe Miller denied tho motion for a now trial in tho cases of Coxey, Browne and Jones, tho Commonwealers, and ordered tho defendants to appear for sontenco. The excess of Government expenditures over receipts for tho ten and a half months of tho fiscal year to dato Is $70,000,000, thu round figures standing : Receipts, $257,000, 000 ; expenditures, $327,000,000. Tailor Dowe's bullet proof armor was subject to further tests, a few days since, at Spandau, Germany, with satisfactory re sults. The Brazilian Congress unanimously ap proved President Peixoto's action In sever ing diplomatic relations with Brazil ; it was believed in Lisbon that the trouble would bo amicably settled. The levy of uu extra nssossment of $525 In Philadelphia by the Supreme Council of tho Order of Tonti was followed by an ap plication there for tho appointment of a re coiver for tho Order. Tho complainunts al lego that in a year honco tho obligations of tho Order will amount to about $7,500,000( and that its assets will not exceed $2,000,00!?. tv nnvilions and other buildings ol 111" r Jones's Wools, a ploasuro resort iu New York City, and three blocks of surrounding houses were burned and fifty horses roasted to death, causing a possible loss of over $700,000. Two men were killed and two hurt by a cavc-ln in the Owensburg (Ind.) tuniiel The Naval Inspection Board severely crill- !aiJ.,i tho enninmont of the new cruiser Vjij' jy a,j.vy -j l- Marbloheal. Charges that money was offered by a lobbyist to Senators Kyle and Hunton tor their votes on tho Tariff bill may bu invedti gated. Count Rabat, Portuguoso Minister to Brazil, turned over the archives of his lega tion to tho British Minister In Rio Janeiro. ... A t a at... Ambassador IJayard lnumnion u m" British Government the desiro of tho Ad ministration to withdraw from tho Samoan agroecmnt. The United States Consul-Gencnd, Will iam Haydcn Edwards, died at Berlin, Ger many, of brain fever. Ho leaves a widow and two children. The burial took place nt Potsdam. Mr. Edwards was appointed from Ohio, and had been for almost seventeen years in the service of tho Stato Department. A MATRICIDE. Tho Terrible Double 'rlm oT n De spondent New Yorker. Charles Hamsmuller, a shndemaker, who lived With his mother, Lena Samsmullor, at C41 East Twelfth etreet. New York City, killed his mother a few nighls ago. Then he killed himself. She was more than ninety years old. He Was fifty. They had lived together in East Twelfth street : about nino years. Charles was to all appearances devoted to his mother, as s'ie was to him. He had bem out of work for some time, but he had money in the bank and theM was money in the house, ho far an could be learned, there was no excuse ror the crime. He probably was despondent lie cause he was out of work, and Was not con tent to die alone. Mrs. Hamsmuller was weak from age, and sho had not been out of her houso for more than a year. Her apartments were on tho second floor of the rear frame tenement. She Was so feeble at timo3 that she wasn t able to get around to do her housework, and then sho would send in to Mrs. Annie Bolcn. the housekeeper, and Mrs Bolca wc:iM clean up and do the cooking for lier. Kha did it willingly and without pay, for Mr?. Hamsmuller Was a kind-hearted old tciot and everybody in tho neighborhood ii!cd her. ACRES OF FLAME. Half a Million Loss In Ships, Houses, Coal and Lumber. Fire which raged along the water front at Pawtucket, R. I., did a fearful amount ef lamagc. All the coal nnd lumber yards in that place have been destroyed. Also a two masted schooner and four dwelling houses. There is great damage to shipping espe cially. The loss will reach $500,000 to $750, 000. It Is supposed that the Llaz-3 was started by a tramp In one of the big lumber yards. Many aerts were burned over. A BIB BLAZE IN BOSTON. THE HEART OF THE CITY SWEPT BY FLAMES. The Fire Started by Hoy I'uder th JScaU tu the HasehaU Ground -Acres of House Ditroyrd tnl i!H0 People Matlellomrlrss -The. Loss Over One Million Dollars. By the torch of an lucendtary over a mill ion dollars' worth of property in lumen. Ma.. . was lai I In ashe. over five bun lrl families of the mo lium aud poop-r olase consisting of over 2ixW people, were mad' homoWa, and many ot them who had timet.: save u portion of their household furni turo slept that nU'ii in th" op mi air. guard ing all that they ha 1 In the w,rl l, u !l lt 8.W1 Park and In open lots, which w"r. lit ernlly piled nU feet high with furniture of very description. Women with tnts In their arms nn-l little children hul lle l close together Iwid only the sky for a roof nnd the few mattrewsm saved from the burned tene ments for a Uil. and no prospect ot a break -flint In the morning. In lew than throe hours twelve u.-rm .( territory wore burned over. I he Im-ol.rWI grand Maud and bleachers, a large nonooi house, nn engine house and Kit v, Ion an I twelve brick building were dintroved. The Keonnd of the aeries of lall gaim twoon the Bostons and Baltimore lia-l liegun before S5IK) spectators. Nettled by the dc hvtt of the previous day, the champions were playing lall for all they were worth, and running Ikwkm in a way mat mreaiewi i- carry everything Is'fore them. Only 2' inning hud Uen played, and the Baltlmores wen to take their turn at bat in the last part of the third Inning, when tho content was interrupted by flames that could Is boon ris ing from the right Held bleacher. Tho cause of tbl was that Home Hinall U from Koxbury wiw a pile of chips and hav ing under tho taoball Htrin-ttire, applied a match and then l ft t watch the effect f their work. moment afterward the fire had Hp read to Kueh an extent that the Imy liocamo frightened at the unexpected result of their folly ami run away. The occupants of the bleacher, foollngthn warmth under them, jumped from their seats and tried to extinguish the flame by tearing the rubbish and scattering It, but the Maze re fii.se I to ls oxtlliguUhod. Kxciteincnt on the lall ground was im mense, for the llaine were beyond control lieforo the 351)0 spectators had time to rall.o their peril. At llrst it was regarded a a joke. The spectators began to get Impatient that such a little Hani" should stop play, and impatiently cried, "May bull? May ball!' With the rapidity of a prairie lire, the lames rushed along, taking in everything of an Inflammable nature they encountered. The ballplayers ran out toward the scene but It was not long bofur.t they were forced back The heat was so Intense that the spectators who had been driven Into the left Held comer began to make their way out of the grounds through a hole in the centre field fence. Those who managed to get a view outside of the fence saw a magnillceiit night as the massive towers tottered and fell. The ball players little dreaming that there would be anything more than a brief Inter ruption, found that it was a cao of hustle to get their belonging out in time. Captain Nash wa ono of the last to leave, und it had got pretty hot before he had made Ids exit. Captain ltobinson, ol the Bait ImoreH, was also IlloW to iret out. A nuinls r of women fell on the ot r.'ot from hheer exhaustion and had to be carried Into the various houses in the vicinity. Some of those women are in a delicate con.liliou, aud physicians wore summoned from all parts of thoeiyto assist should their service l re quired. Th" street with full of carts carry ing off furniture, and coufuMon rdginxl uu pretne. A few minutes past (i o'clock a woman was soon coming from a house on t'alnit street, with her clothe all on tire. She made a frantic rush from the strcottowardtho rope, when Patrolmen Green and Lewis, of Sta tion No. I, caught hor in their arms, roth! her In the street nnd thereby saved hr life, us she eH.;.i.ed with only a few slight burns. A woman on Burke stris-t, wringing her hands, shrieked; "Where are my ehll drenV" Near at hand were Charles W. Hat on and a Mr. Cusick, of Rrooklinc, who had U'ii .iltending the ball game. They Instantly sprang tolhe riwue of thu little ones in a bulling bull. ling. Mr. Cusick brought out three and Mr. Kalon hived two. Tiny wont through elomls of smoke In order to do this and with peril to their lives. The children were turuM over to the woman in the street, who took care of them. Michael Welsh, entered his home to sav Rome ticrso nal effects, but tho building haf iguitco and the Harnett hprea-l so rapidly that his escape w is completely cut off. He rushed to the roof of tho building, und when enveloped in flame jumpvl to the ground, about ttiirty feet, lie landed on his foot, but was severely Injured internally, and was picked up In a Hemi-oonsoiou con dition and taken to the City Hospital, whore it was disoovor.xl that In addition to Internal injuries, ono of the small bono of his leg was broken. One mau was seized with paroxysms of fear when the lire lgnito-1 his home, aud tho result of the attack wart eomuloto prostra tion, no was rendered insensible an 1 was taken to the hospital. By (I o'clock the lire had crossed fremont to Cal -ot street, and w.ui Ixyonl the tontrol of the firemen. Again and again the gallant fire lighters mode a stand and Kuro, thou sands of gallons of water upon the lUtm. but still they swept on, and It ne.-me l n If nothing could stop them. Shortly af ter C o'clock Boveral Moamers arrival from Lynn, Halem, Beverly. I'.ne.k line and Lawrence, and every effort was made to stop the fire nt Cabot street. Cut If could not !o checked, an 1 not until II ha I burned from Cabot half w.iy through to Warwick street and north to Burk-- Mr-of, was the limit of the burne I distri'-t on the southwest hide of the ball grounds ro.iohei'. While the firemen were at work onthi-' side the fire was spreading from Walpole htreet toward Milford pln the south went lde of the ball grounds, and Iu half an hour all tho buildings on this blo--k were In ruins. It burned on until it reached Kug gl street at one point, consumed the houses on lioth side of Chap l street an I laid low the tru' tur-s on Sudbury stns-t. At Rugglo Street on thu wort and Cabot Mreet on the southeast tho fire wa practi cally stopped, and at 7..W it was under con trol nnd in no danger of bproadlng further. On the northwest side of the ball grounds the tracks of the Old Colony Railroad pre vented tho conflagration from hpre.-vlin ,' iu that direction. The fire was an unusually hot one and ono of the hardest to fight in the history of the Boston department. Three engines had to bo abandoned because of the heat. After the conflagration was under control tho grounds of the Boston baseball team wero thronged with thousands of arixlout sightseers. The familiar gran I stand was no longer there. Nothing remained but the iron work a mass of smoldering ruins and a single pillar of brick. Looking toward Tromont and Cabot streets, one vast waste of fallen walls ami smoldering ruin. met tho gaze. Many West End street railway em ployes were burned out and hundreds lost all their effects. On tho streets, just without the burned (ILstrict, goods were Htrewn in every direc tion. Many outfits of entire households were hopelessly mixed up with goo It from neighlrortng house, and many who owned goods created stirring scene In their ef forts to recover tholr lost property. Women holding little children frantically looked for relatives without success, and In many cases women were carried off by officers in a fainting condition. Tremont street, torn distance otseveral hundred yurds was strewn with wreckage, broken coiU of West End street railway trolleys, and feed wire, bed ticklnsT and bun-lre-ls of feet of hose burn 1 to a crisp. Rivers of water covered th ) street, and on one side were three abandone I Are engines, twisted Into an almost unrecog nizable shape. BS1
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