He Is 4Not Likely to Rest Til !
the Fighting Is Over.
A FEW MORE POSTS TO BE TAKEN
Driving Off the Tuvalu mul Otis' Advance
the Work In Ilnnd Navy Departmen
JPcslrong That tor the Good of the Ser
vice the Admiral Tulco Care of HiniR.lf
and TnUo deeded Kent.
WASHINGTON , D. C. , March 11.
The statement can be repeated on the
authority of the' navy department that
Admiral Dewey will not be relieved at
Manila until he chooses to make appli
cation for such relief. So far he has
not given any intimation of a purpose
to apply for relief in the immediate
future xand from the few declarations
he has let fall the department has
every reason to believe that he does
not contemplate any such action.
Consequently there is no foundation
for the story that Admiral Schley or
any other admiral has been seelcted
to take command of the Asiatic sta
tion. So far as the navy department
is concerned the directing officials are
not only willing but anxious that
Dewey shall complete his task and
Ihey deprecate the circulation of such
stories as those alleging that he is
to be relieved , for the reason that by
constant reiteration the impression
$ might be conveyed to the admiral that
* , the department would like to relieve
* j him. In the case of a man of Dewey's
punctilious feeling the mere sugges
tion , if he had the slightest reason to
believe it had an official foundation ,
Avould be sufficient to induce him to
apply immediately for relief rather
than to embarras the department.
As Dewey himself fixed the limita
tion , of his stay by the length of the
task before him , it may be a matter
of interest to record the belief of
many naval officers that , after all , the
end is almost within sight.
Dewey has established himself in
Manila ; he has assisted in the taking
of Iloilo ; he has sent forces to Cebu
in connection with the army , also to
Negros ; the principal ports of the
Philippines have all been taken over
Jnto American possession in large part
through his co-operation with the
army . There remain only a few ports
of importance , notably Zamboango on
Mindanao and perhaps one of the
towns in the Sulu archipelago , to be
occupied. Expeditions are now mov
ing in these directions and that branch
ofthe - work will soon he closed up.
There will remain only two features
of the campaign to require Dewey's
assistance. First , and near af hand ,
is the driving off of the Ttagals , under
Aguinaldo , near Manila.
With Lawton landing this morning
at Manila with his reinforcements
and the other reinforcements expected
' in force
soon General Otis' movement
is near at hand. The navy will aid in
this. Ships can he placed in proper
positions on the shores of the bav of
Manila 'to command the country for
miles and by co-operation with the
army through the agency of the signal
corps the insurgents can he shelle-1
nut of the jungles many miles inland
by the warships.
The next and last feature of Dewey's
task will be the establishment of a
close blockade to prevent munitions
of war or supplies from reaching the
insurgents , providing there are any
insurgents remaining after Qtis and
Lawton have made their forward move.
When this has Keen done , when there
is nothing further in the way of fight
ing for the warships to do , it is be
lieved that then Dewey's task proba
bly will be regarded as finished by him
self and will be time for the navy de
partment to considder the question of
a successor to the commander of the
Asiatic station.
Admiral Dewey has been instructed
to prescribe his own uniform for the
rank to which he has been raised , al
though it is believed that he has not
given much attention to the matters
-of uniform of late. His flag is blue
"with four stars set in the shape of a
diamond. His uniform under former
regulations when the navy had an ad
miral would be four stars on his shoul
der straps , the end stars being on an
anchor. On his sleeve he would wear
two very broad bands of gold , between
which would be a band of yellow half
the width of the outside bands. The
bands on the sleeve would extend near
ly to the elbow. By a special act passed
in the closing hours Admiral Dewey
will receive the pay of the last gen
eral of the army.
Bryan Headed Homeward.
DALLAS , Tex. , March "ll. W. J.
Bryan completed his lecture tour at
Dallas today. He addressed a packed
opera house in the afternoon and
spoke to about 500 laboring men at
their hall tonight. His lecture was in
opposition to territorial expansion ,
.which he said would be checked by
the- American people lowering the
stars and stripes in Cuba , Porto Rico
and the Philippine islands. His tour
in Texas was in the nature of an ova
tion.
Court to Sit In Oninha.
CHICAGO , March 11. The army
court of inquiry regarding the beef
continued its work today at the stock
yards , investigating packing house
methods. It is expected that the tak
ing of testimony will occupy Satur
day and Monday and that the court
will leave for Omaha or Kansas City
Tuesday or Wednesday unless some
thing develops to make a longer stay
In Chicago imperative.
Influx of Japanese Laborers.
TACOMA , March 11. Labor circles
In the northwest are much agitated
over reports which are received with
general credence that hundreds of Ja
panese contract laborers are beinjj'
brought into Puget Sound cities. Ev
ery month from 500 to 1,000 Japanese
laborers are landed at Tacoma , Van
couver and Portland. Practically all
pass inspection. thevrequirements of
which are sound body-and$30in cash.
It is said that hundrjedS-Jpf , these men
are finding employment on various
railroad lines. * . - ' * '
'
CIVILIANS TO GOVERN.
If Illtarjr Government In Cuba Will Likely
He Replaced.
WASHINGTON. March 11. The ad
ministration is contemplating a
change in some features of the gov
ernment of Cuba. It is probable that
the military covernment will , to a
certain extent , be rcplnctvl by civil
government. The head of the govern
ment must of course continue mili
tary , but the change in contemplation
is to have civilian officers in place of
military men in the cabinet and sub
ordinate positions.
It is believed that experts in differ
ent lines , such as finance and revenue
and the management of much of the
general business of the island and of
the different municipalities , will get
along more smoothly than the army
officers , being brought up under strict
military discipline , hold not only the
statutes , but the army rules and regu
lations , as the guide in all things ,
while the civilian officers would hold
the statutes as the supreme guide and
endeavor to get along under them in
th& . best manner possible and with
more diplomacy than is possessed by
the army men.
It is not known whether the con
templated change has reached a point
further than discussion in the war de
partment and with the president , but
its advantages have heen pointed out.
and the authority of the government
under control of the military govern
ment has been determined.
Appeal to the Legislatures.
BUFFALO , March 11. The follow
ing telegram , signed by Mayor Diehl ,
as chairman of the board of direct
ors of the Pan-American Exposition
company , and by the proprietors of ail
Buffalo papers , has been sent to the
governors of all states , the legisla
tures of which are known to be in ses
sion. The governors will be commun
icated with by mail :
We earnestly ask your assistance
toward securing the passage of reso
lutions through your legislature ena
bling your state to erect buildings and
make an exhibit at the Pan-American
exposition , to be held at Buffalo on
the Niagara frontier in 1901.
The federal government has Appro
priated $500,000 , our state $ bjO,000.
Our citizens already rave raised ? 1 ,
500.000.
Your enabling act can be made con
ditional upon its being an enterprise
worthy of your state exhibit in your
discretion. Your early legislative ad
journment necessitates dispatch. Fur
ther particulars by mail.
Prize * for Deivey's Men
SAN FRANCISCO , March 11. Geo.
H. Holden of Washington , who re
turned from the Orient on the Hong
Kong ship Maru , has in his possession
1,100 claims of the officers and men of
Dewey's fleet for head money. The
claims are to be filed with the court
of claims in Washington for final ac
tion. The head money for Admiral
Dewey and his officers and men will
aggregate $187,500 , or $100 per head
for the 1,875 officers and en of Ad
miral Montejo's fleet. Th tze mon
ey for the officers and men under Ad
miral Dewey will amount to $400,000 ,
plus the salvage of three vessels re
cently raised. The money will be dis
tributed by the United States district
courts.
Speaking of Admiral Dewey Mr.
Holden said : "While somewhat wor
ried owing to the exacting duties and
responsibilities of his position , he said
his health was good. He looked fair
ly well , too. "
Agonclllo Still Expla'nlng.
LONDON , March 11. Senor Agon-
cillo , the agent of Aguinaldo , has re
covered from the effects of the expo
sure to which he was subjected
through the wrecking of the steamer
Laborador on February 1. in which
vessel he sailed from St. John , N. B. ,
for Liverpool.
Commenting upon the Associated
Press dispatch from Manila this morn
ing saying that rebel incendiaries en
tered the village of Pandacan last
night for the alleged purpose of ter
rorizing those of the inhabitants who
do not sympathize with the rebellion ,
Agoncillo said that if this were true
it means the Filipinos have advanc
ed within the American lines.
He added , however , that it is ab
surd to say Filipinos are attacking
or burning the place , as , he asserted ,
it is the center of the Filipinos' free
masons.
General Uliller to Retire
WASHINGTON , D. C. , March 11.
A change in the command of tb.3
United States forces at Iloilo will oc
cur on March 27 , resulting from the
retirement of General Marcus Miller ,
who on that date reaches the age limit
of 64 years.
General Miller is in the regular ser
vice , having been promoted only re
cently to the rank of brigadier gen
eral. If he were in the volunteer ser
vice his retirement would not be com
pulsory , a precedent to the contrary
haying been established in the case
of several other general officers who
held commands in the army during the
Spanish war.
IiivestigUInfr Army Frauds.
'CHEYENNE , Wyo. , March 11.
Major C. H. Hathaway of the United
States army is in the city , being en
gaged in investigating the charges
of fraud against the board that pur
chased the government cavalry horsss
here last spring. A number of horse
men with grievances have submitted
statements. The major says that
while some grounds for complaint
doubtless exist , as yet no evidence has
been secured that would justify the
charge of actual fraud.
of tlie Chcnro. ?
WASHINGTON , March 11 The
Chicago has been detached from the
squadron of Re.r Admiral Sairt son
and has sailed from Havana to Hamp
ton Roads. The Chicago Is to berome
the flagship of Rear Admiral Henry
L. Howison , who has been assigned to
command the South Atlantic station
in South America. This station was
abandoned at the beginning of the
Spanish war , the flagship at that time
being the Newark. It and two gun
boats were brought north to take part
In the war.
GENERAL. NEWS NOTES.
Judge Ambrose A. Ranney , former
congressman from the Third Massa
chusetts district and a member of the
law firm of Ranney & Clark , is dead
in Boston , aged 77 years. He servc.d
as a member of the Forty-seventh ,
Forty-eight.and Forty-ninth congress
es.
The officials of the navy department
are feeling grateful for the small meas
ure of relief extended by congress in
the increase of the force of enlisted
men , though the total is still inade
quate under sound practice for the
needs of the navy. Congress author
ized the increase of the force to 17,500
men.
men.A
A cablegram from General Otis , at
Manila , received in Washington , indi
cates the satisfactory and agreeable
reception accorded to the American
troops which recently landed at the
island of Negros. They were sent
there by General Miller , at loilo , in
command of Colonel Smith to take
fortnal possession for the United
States , which they did without trouble.
The welcome announcement was
made by the financial secretary of the
treasury , Mr. R. W. Hanbury , in the
house of commons , that the govern
ment has decided to introduce cotape-
tition in the telephonic service of the
country. He asked for a credit of $10-
000,000 as a starter in order to enable
the postofllce department to deveolp
the telephonic communication of Lon
don.
Miss Mary pooner , of Acushnet ,
Mass. , who has just celebrated her
105th birthday , is probably the oldest
woman in Massachusetts. She is entitled -
titled to the distinction of having lived
in three different towns without hav
ing changed her residence. By al
terations in the boundary lines of the
towns the Spooner homestead has been
first in New Bedford , then in Fairhs//-
cn , and finally in Acushnet.
The British Railway association has
arranged to send five prominent rail
way officials to the United States to
investigate the facts upon which the
government bases the bill compelling
the adoption of automatic couplings
a measure which would give the board
of trade power\five years from its
adoption , to compel Britsh railroads
to supply the whole of their rolling
stock with this device at an estimated
cost of 10,000,000.
A statement compiled in. the adju
tant general's office shows the number
of deaths from disease at Camp Thom
as. The figures are taken from the
muster rolls of each regiment or bat
tery. Upon these every death and its
cause is entered. The total deaths
from disease , from the first occupation
of the camp , the middle of April , to
its abandonment , the middle of Sep
tember , and including the four battal
ions which remained to January \ ,
were 341 , the percentage being a little
less than Vz of 1 per cent.
The plans for the three battleships
authorized by the naval appropriation
bill just passed are being worked out.
The battleships will be a thousand
tons larger than the Maine and Mis
souri class , though laid on almost the
same basis as the former , with a total
displacement of 13,500 tons , making
them by far the largest ships in tke
American navy and about equal in di
mensions to the best type of battle
ships now being constructed abroad
under the new practice. They will
carry four twelve-inch guns in turrets.
Although General Wade Hampton
is more than 80 yers old , he performed
a feat the other morning that proved
him to be still active and vigorous.
Discovering that the roof of his house
in Columbia , S. C. , was on fire , with
out permitting any of the household
to be awakened , he hastened out and
himself proceeded to climb to the roof.
Reaching the blaze , he managed to ex
tinguish the flames. It was not until
the breakfast hour that members of
the household were aware of the fire
or of the aged soldier's risky but ef
fective climb upon the roof.
Chief Justice Fuller rendered un
opinion sustaining the validity of the
state law of Arkansas , requiring rail
road companies operating in the state
to pay employes when discharge and
fixing a penalty for failure. The law
allows the amount of wages for sixty
days as such penalty. In the present
case Charles Paul , a discharsed day
laborer on the St. Louis , Iron Moun
tain & Southern railway , brought suit
for $21 , a part of which was on account
of penalty earned under the law. The
railroad company resisted the suit in
the state courts and in this court on
the ground that the law provided for
taking property without due process
of Ir.w and was therefore repugnant
to the constitution. The supreme
court of the state declined to accept
this view of the case and held the law
to be valid.
LIVE STOCK AXD PRODUCE.
Omalia , Chicago and Nevr Tork Market
Quotations.
OMAHA.
Butter Creamery separator. . . 20 a 2t
Butter Choice fancy country. 14 a 10
Eggs Fresh , per do/ 17 a 13
Chickens dressed perpound. . GJia 7
Turkeys , dressed 10 a 11
Pigeons live.per cloz iO a < 5
Lemons Per box 375 a 4 50
Orances Per box 2 50 a 3 T
Cranberries Jerscysperbbl. . . . GOO a G 25
Apples Per barrel 175 a 1 00
Hcney Choice , per pound 12&a 13
Onions Per bushel 70 a i5
Beans Handpicked navy 1 > a 1 40
Potatoes Per bushel , new GO a Co
Hay Upland perton > 00 a. G OJ
SOUTH OMAII.\ .
Hogs Choice light : ' . GO a 3 G5
Hogs Heavy weights H G"i a 3 70 -
Beef steers 331 a fi 15
Bulls 275 a 1 10
Stags I * 50 a 1 05
Ciiives " 00 a 5 50
Western feeders 2 75 : i 3 0.1
Cows 2 25 a 4 10
Heifers " 25 a 4 25
Stoclcers and feeders 3 OJ : i t 81
Sheep Lambs 100 a 4 65
Sheep Western wethers 4 15 a 1 25
CHICAGO.
Wheat No. 2 spring 00 a V2
Corn Per bushel : itt a : { GJ
Oats Per bushel 27 a 23
Barlev No , } 42 a 51
Rye No.2 ! > G a 50tj
Timothysecd. per bu 2 15 a 250
Pork Perowt ' . ' 20 a 9 25
Lard Per 1)0 pounds " > 20 a 5 22
Cattle Western fed steers 4 15 : i 4 70
Cattle Native beef steers . " : iO a 5 70
Hogs Mixed ; l 55 a 3 77
Sheep Lambs J Ot ) : i 5 On
i-neep Western Rangers ' - 75 a. i 00
NEW YOIIK MAUKirr.
Wheat No. 2 , red winter 88Jf a 87
Corn No. 2 45 a 40
Oats No. 3 34Ha 35
KANSAS CITV.
Wheat No. 2 spring GG a 07
Corn No.2 3. { a 33
Oats No.2 2Ha 29
Sheep Muttons : i f > o a 3 75
Hogs Mixed , 370 a 4 25
Cattle Stockers and feeder . . 4 00 a 4 50
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
'THE STAR WORMWOOD" LAST
SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
"There Fell a Great Star from Heaven ,
Burning a It Were and It Fell Upon
the Third Pnrt of the Klrerg , Etc. "
Her. 8 : IO.
Patrick and Lowth , Thomas Scott ,
Matthew Henry , Albert Barnes and
some other commentators say that the
star Wormwood of my text was a type
of Attila , king of the Huns. He was
so called because he was brilliant as
a star , and , like wormwood , he embit
tered everything he touched. We have
studied the Star of Bethlehem , and the
Morning Star of Revelation , and the
Star of Peace , but my subject calls us
to gaze at the star Wormwood , and my
theme might be called Brilliant Bitter
ness.
ness.A
A more extraordinary character his
tory does not furnish than this man ,
Attila , the king of the Huns. The
story goes that one day a wounded
heifer came limping along through the
fields , and a herdsman followed its
' ' - where
bloody-'tradron'the grass-to see
the heifer was wounded , and went on
back , further and further , until he
came to a sword fast in the earth , the
point downward as though it had
dropped from the heavens , and against
the edges of this sword the heifer had
been cut. The herdsman pulled up
that sword and presented it to Attila.
Attila said that sword must have drop
ped from the heavens from the grasp
of the god Mars , and its being given to
him meant that Attila should conquer
and govern the whole earth. Other
mighty men have been delighted at be
ing called liberators , or the Merciful ,
or the Good , but Attila called himself ,
and demanded that others call him ,
"The Scourge of God. "
At the head of seven hundred thou
sand troops.mounted on Cappadoclan
horses , he swept everything , from the
Adriatic to the Black sea. He put his
Iron heel on Macedonia and Greece and
Thrace. He made Milan and Pavia
and Padua and Verona beg for mercy ,
which he bestowed not. The Byzan
tine castles , to meet his ruinous levy ,
put up at auction massive silver tables ,
and vases of solid gold. When a city-
was captured by him the Inhabitants
were brought out and put into three
classes : The first class , those who
could bear arms , must Immediately en
list under Attila or be butchered ; the
second class , the beautiful women.were
made captives to the Huns ; the third
class , the aged men and women , were
robbed of everything and let go back
to the city to pay a heavy tax.
It was a common saying that the
grass never grew where the hoof of
Attlla's horse had trod. His armies
reddened the waters of the Seine and
the Moselle and the Rhine with car
nage , and fought on the Catalonian
plains the fiercest battle since the
world stood 300,000 dead left on the
field. On and on until all those who
could not oppose him with arms lay
prostrate on their faces in prayer ; then
a cloud of dust was seen in the dis
tance , and a bishop cried , "It is the
aid of God ; " and all the people took
up the cry , "It Is the aid of God. " As
the cloud of dust was blown aside , the
banners of reinforcing armies marched
in to help against Attila , "the Scourge
of God. " The most unimportant oc
currences he used as a supernatural
resource. After three months of fail
ure to capture the city of Aquileia ,
when his army had given up the siege ,
the flight of a stork and her young
from the tower of the city was taken
by him as a sign that he was to cap
ture the city ; and his army , inspired
with the same occurrence , resumed the
siege and took the walls at a point
from which the stork had emerged. So
brilliant was the conqueror in attire
that his enemies could not look at him ,
but shaded their eyes or turned their
heads.
Slain on the evening of his marriage
by his bride , Ildico , who was hired for
the assassination , his followers bewail
ed him , not with tears , but with blood ,
cutting themselves with knives and
lances. He was put into three coffins ,
.the first of iron , the second of silver ,
and the third of gold. He was buried
by night , and into his grave was
poured the most valuable coins and
precious stones , amounting to the
wealth of a kingdom. The grave dig
gers and those who assisted at the
Burial were massacred , so that it would
never be known where so much wealth
was entombed.
The Roman empire conquered the
world , but Attila conquered the Ro
man empire. He was right in calling
himself a scourge , but instead of being
"the 5courge of God , " he was the
scourge of hell.
Because of his brilliancy and bitter
ness , the commentators might well
have supposed him to be the star
Wormwood of the text. As the re
gions he devastated were parts most
opulent with fountains and streams
and rivers , you see how graphic my
text is : "There fell a great star from
heaven , burning as it were a lamp , and
it fell upon the third part of the riv
ers , and upon the fountains of waters ,
and the name of the star is called
Wormwood. "
Have you ever thought how many
embittered lives there are all about us ,
misanthropic , morbid , acrid , saturn
ine ? The European plant from which
wormwood is extracted , Artemisia ab
sinthium , is a perennial plant , and all
the year round it is ready to exude its
oil. And in many human lives there
is a perennial distillation of acrid ex
periences. Yea , there are some whose
whole work is to shed a baleful influ
ence on others. There are Attilas of
the home , Attilas of the social circle ,
Attilas of the church , Attilas of the
state , and one-third of the waters of
all the world , if not two-thirds of the
waters are poisoned by the fa' * Jg of
the star Wormwood. It is not com
plimentary to human nature that most
men , as soon as they get great power ,
become overbearing. The more power
men have the better , if their power
be used for good. The less power men
have the better if they use it for evil.
Birds circle round and round and
round before they swoop upon that
' '
which''they are aiming for. And if my
discourse so far has been swinging
round and round , this moment it drops
straight on your heart , and asks the
question , Is your life a benediction to
others , or an embitterment , a blessing
or a curse , a balsam or a wormwood ?
Some of you , I know , are morning
stars , and you are making the dawning
life of your children bright with gra
cious influences , and you are beaming
upon all the opening enterprises of
philanthropic and Christian endeavor ,
and you are heralds of that day of Gos-
pelization which will yet flood all the
mountains and valleys of our sin-ac
cursed earth. Hail , morning star !
Keep on shining with encouragement
and Christian hope !
- Some-of-you are evening stars , and
you are cheering the last days of old
people ; and though a cloud sometimes
comes over you through the querrul-
ousness or unreasonableness of your
aged father and mother , it is only for
a moment , and the star soon comes out
clear'n and is seen from all the
balcoii. , > f the neighborhood. The
old people will forgive your occasion
al shortcomings , for they themselves
several times lost their patience with
you when you were young , and per
haps whipped you when you did not
deserve it. Hail , evening star ! Hang
on the darkening sky your diamond
coronet. * *
What is true of individuals Is true of
nations. God sets them up to revolve
as stars , but they may fall wormwood.
Tyre the atmosphere of the desert ,
fragrant with spices coming in cara
vans to her fairs ; all seas cleft Into
foam by the keels of her laden mer
chantmen ; her markets rich with
horses and camels rom Togarmah ; the
bazaar filled with upholstery from De-
dan , with emerald and coral and agate
from Syria , with mines from Helbon ,
with embroidered work from Ashur
and Chllmad. Where now the gleam of
her towers ? where the roar of her
chariots ? where the masts of her ships ?
Let the fishermen who dry their nets
where once she stood ; let the sea that
rushes upon the barrenness where
once she challenged the admiration of
all nations ; let the barbarians who set
their rude tents where once her pal
aces glittered , answer the questions.
She was a star , but by her own sin
turned to wormwood , and has fallen.
Hundred-gated Thebes for all time
to be the study of antiquarian and
hieroglyphist ; her stupendous ruins
spread over twenty-seven miles ; her
sculptures presenting in figures of war
rior and chariot the victories with
which the now forgotten kings of
Egypt shook the nations ; her obelisks
and columns ; Karnac and Luxor , the
stupendous temples of her pride ! Who
can imagine the greatness of Thebes
in those days , when the hippodrome
rang with her sports and foreign roy
alty bowed at her shrines , and her
avenues roared with the wheels of pro
cessions in the wake of returning con
querors ? What dashed down the visIon -
Ion of chariots and temples and
thrones ? What hands pulled upon the
columns of her glory ? What ruthlessness -
ness defaced her sculptured wall and
broke obelisks and left her indescrib
able temples great skeletons of gran
ite ? What spirit of destruction spread
the lair of wild beasts in her royal sepulchers -
ulchers , and taught the miserable cot
tagers of today to build huts in the
courts of her temples , and sent deso
lation and ruin skulking behind the
obelisks and dodging among the sar
cophagi , and leaning against the col
umns , and stooping under the arches ,
and weeping in the waters which go
mournfully by , as though they were
carrying the tears of all ages ? Let
the mummies break their long silence
and come up to shiver in the desola
tion , and point to fallen gates and
shattered statues and defaced sculp
ture , responding : "Thebes built not one
temple to God. Thebes hated right
eousness and loved sin. Thebes was
a star , but she turned to wormwood
and has fallen. "
* * *
From the persecutions of the Pil
grim Fathers and the Huguenots in
other lands , God set upon these shores
a nation. The council-fires of the aborigines
rigines went out in the greater light
of a free government. The sound of
the war-whoop was exchanged for the
thousand wheels of enterprise and
progress. The mild winters , the fruit
ful summers , the healthful skies ,
charmed from other lands a race of
hardy men , who loved God and wanted
to be free. Before the woodman's axe
forests fell , and rose again into ships'
masts and churches' pillars. Cities on
the banks of the lakes began to rival
cities by the sea. The land quakes
with the rush of the rail car , and the
waters are churned white with the
steamer's wheel. Fabulous bushels of
Western wheat meet on the way fabu
lous tons of Eastern coal. Furs from
the North pass on the rivers fruits
from the South. And trading in the
same market are Maine lumberman ,
and South Carolina rice merchant , and
Ohio farmer , and Alaska fur dealer.
And churches and schools and asy
lums scatter light and love and mercy
and salvation upon seventy millions of
people.
I pray that our nation may not copy
the crimes of nations that have per
ished ; that our cup of blessing turn
not to wormwood and we go down. I
am by nature and by grace an optimist ,
and I expect that this country will
continue to advance until the world
shall reach the millennial era. Our
only safety is in righteousness toward
God and Justice toward man. If we
forget the goodness of. the Lord to this
land , and break his Sabbaths , and im
prove not by the dire disasters that
have again and again come to us as a
people , and we learn saving lesson
neither from civil war nor raging epi
demic , nor drought , nor mildew , nor
scourge of locust and grasshopper ; if
the political corruption which has
poisoned the fountains of public vir
tue , and beslimed the high places of
authority , making free government at
times a hissing and a byword in all
the earth ; if the drunkenness and li
centiousness that stagger and blas
pheme in the streets of our great cities
as though they were reaching after
the fame of a Corinth and a Sodom ,
are not repented of , we will yet sea
the smoke of our nation's ruin ; the pil
lars of our National and State Cap
itols will fall more disastrously than
when Samson pulled down Dagon ; and
future historians will record , upon the
page bedewed with generous tears , the
story that the free nation of the West
arose in splendor which made the
world stare ; it had magnificent possi
bilities. It forgot God. It hated jus
tice. It hugged its crimes. It halted
on its high march. It reeled under the
blow of calamity. It fell. And as It
was going down , all the despotisms of
earth , from the top of bloody thrones ,
began to shout : "Aha ! so would we
have it ! " while struggling and op
pressed peoples looked out from dun
geon bars , with tears and groans , and
cries of untold agony , the scorn of
those , and the woe of these , uniting in
the exclamation : "Look yonder !
'There fell a great star from heaven ,
burning as It were a lamp , and it fell
upon the third part of the rivers , and
upon the fountains of waters ; and the
name of the star Is called Worm
wood ! ' "
WITH APPENDICITIS.
She Suffered , bat Announced There "Was
a Cure In Sight.
A woman from near Sabatis came
into Lewiston after a doctor to go out
and visit her dau * er , who was ill
in bed , as she said , the other nignt.
The woman explained that once a week
as sure as a certain night came around ,
the daughter was taken ill and went
to bed with all the symptoms of appen
dicitis , as soon as supper time came.
The doctor didn't like going out to
Sabatis in the cold , but went. The
woman said that her daughter didn't
know that she was coming in after the
doctor. She had gone to bed and
locked the door of her room. When
there , the doctor warmed himself while AI
the lady went up to tell her daughter
that the doctor was there. In a little
while the woman came down , and ,
with a scared face , said that the door
was locked and she could not arouse
the girl. The doctor went up and tried
to shake open the door , but it would
not shake. So the father of the young
lady put his shoulder to the door and
forced it open. There was no one -
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the room , and the bed had not been
tumbled. That they were startled is
putting it light. They adjourned to the \
kitchen , and finally went out to search
for the girl. Nothing was found of
her , and the next morning they were
talking of it at breakfast time when
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down she came from the bedroom as
if she had been asleep in her bed all _
night. The consternation on their faces"
showed that she was found out , and
she confessed that she had been going
to dances once a week ; and that in
stead of being ill when she went to bed.
she went out her window , and in that
way found her way to the street , where
a beau waited for her. "But I am go
ing to be married now , and it will
not make much difference whether I
go to the dance with your consent or
not , " she said. Lewiston Journal.
MEXICO'S SIGN LANGUAGE.
Its Shading * and Suggestions Are Be
yond All Translation.
Mexico is a land of many tongues ;
but above the Indian dialects and
Spanish there is one universal lan
guage , the language of signs , says
Modern Mexico. It is the most ex
pressive of all ; the Mexican eye and
hand are eloquent members. It is
capable of infinite variation ; its shadings -
ings and suggestions are beyond all
translation. But there are certain ges
tures that have a fixed meaning , a sig
nification well understood to every na
tion and every tribe from Guatemala
to Texas. A general upward move-1
ment of the body , shoulders shrugged ,
eyebrows raised , lips pouted , the palms
outspread vary in meaning from "I
don't know and I don't care" to a most
respectful , "Really , sir , I do not under
stand you. " The index finger moved
rapidly from right to left , generally
before the face , means , "No more , " or
simply "No. " To move the right hand
palm outward from the body toward
another person means. "Just wait ; I'll
. " The index finger
be even with you yet.
ger on the temple , moved with a boring
twist means , "He's drunk. " The right
hand held to the lips three fingers
doubled , thumb and little finger erect ,
varies from "He drinks" to "Have one
with me. " To move the open hand
over the cheek in imitation of a razor
has reference to the idiom "playing
the barber" and means "to flatter. " All
four fingers and the thumb held points
together and moved toward the mouth
means "to eat. " The right hand held
before the face , the two middle fingers
moving rapidly , is a familiar saluta
tion.
Two commercial travelers were com
paring notes. "I have been out three
weeks , " said the first , "and I have
only got four orders. " "Tbat beats
me , " said the other. "I have been out
four weeks , and have only got one
order , and tbat's from the firm to coma
home. "