TLAITSMODTH WEgl. HfeitAL,;, TUUKSDA Y JULY 19, 18S8.
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HAPPINESS AT HOME.
r.EV. DR. TALMACE DISCOURSES AT
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teiitiiunt I .reat Gain."
uisooklyv, July 15. The Kev. T. De
Witt Talmago, 1). I)., took for ) lis huI
j.Tt today: "In Good Humor with Our
Circumstances." Hi.s text was Hebrews
xiii, 5: "Ito content with Biicli thinTK na
ye have. " The great preacher's discourse
was as tollows:
If I should ask wmio one, "Where U
JWonUyn today?" he would fcav. "At
iSiilitoii IVach, or East Hamilton, or
Shelter Island." "Where i New York
today "At Lour Ihanch." "Where
I'iiiladelj.hia?" "Capo May." "Where
i.s Hoston?" "At Martha's Vineyard."
"Where is Virginia?" "At tho Sulphur
Springs." "Where the great multitude
ii-om nil parts of the land?" "At
Saratoga," the modern Uethesda, where
the angel of liealth is ever stirring tho
waters. lint, my friends, tho largest
multitude are at home, detained by
husmess or circumstances. Among
mem an newspaper men, the hardest
worked and the least coiniensated : city-
rail road employes, and feiry ri lantern.
sind tho police and the tens cf thousands
of clerks and merchants waiting for their
turn of absence, and households with an
invalid who cannot le moved, and others
hindered by stringent circumstances, and
the great multitude of well-to-do people
who stay at homo because they like
Jiome tetter than any other place, refus
ing to go away fcimply because it is the
i.-Lsiiion to go. u lien tiio express
wagon, with its mountain of trunks dl
rcieu 10 wie (.aisKius or xsiagara, goes
through tiie streets, we htand at our win
dow envious and impatient, and wonder
why wo cannot go as well as others.
Tools that we are, as though ono could
not be a3 happy at home as anywhere
else. Our grandfathers and grandmothers
had as good a time as we have, long Le
ft -re the first spring was bored at Sara
toga or tho first deer shot in the Adiron
dack. They made their wedding tour
to the next farm house, or, living in New
York, they celebrated the event by an
extra walk on the Battery.
Now tho genuine American is not
happy until he is going somewhere, and
the passion is so great that there are
Christian people with their families de
tained in the city, who come not to the
house of God, trying to give people the
idea that they are out of town; leaving
tho doorplato unscoured for the same
reason, and for two months keeping
the front shutters closed while they
eit in. the back part of the
house, the thermometer at ninety 1
My friends, if it is best for us to go, let
us go and !e happy. If it is best for lis
to stay at home, let us stay at home and
lie happy. There is a great deal of good
common sense in Paul's advice to tho
Hebrews: "Do content with such things
sis ye have." To be content is to bo in
good humor with our circumstances, not
picking a quarrel with our obscurity, or
otir poverty, or our social position.
There are four or five grand reasons why
wo should bo content w ith such things aa
wo La e.
Tho first reason that I mention as lead
ing to this spirit advised in the text, is
the consideration that tiie poorest of r.3
have all that is indispensable in life. We
make a groat ado atiout our hardships,
but how little wo talk of our blessings.
Health of body, which is given jn largest
quantity to those who have never been
lotted, and fondled, and spoiled by for
tune, we take U2 a matter of course.
Ivather have this luxury, and have it
nlons, than, without it, look out of a
palace window upon parks of deer
stalking between fountains and statu
ary. These people sleep sounder
on a straw mattress than fashionable in
valids on a couch of ivory and eagles'
down. Tho dinner of herbs tastes better
to the appetite sharpened on a wood
man's ax or a reaper's scyth.o than
wealthy indigestion experiences seated at
a table covered with partridge, and ven
Json, and pineapple. Tho grandest lux
ury God ever gave a man is health. He
who trades that oil for all the palaces of
the earth is infinitely cheated. We look
back at the glory of the last Napoleon,
Lut who would have taken his Versailles
and Lis Tuileries if with them we had
I een obliged to take his gout? "Oh, "
says some one. "it isn't the grosser pleas
ures I covet, but it is the gratification of
cn artistic and intellectual taste." Why,
my brother, you have the original from
which these pictures are Copied..
What is a sunset on a wall compared
with a sunset hyng in loops of fire on the
Leavens? What is a easpjjde silent on a
canvas compared with a caiscada that
makes the mountain tremble, its spray
ascending like the departed spirit of the
water slain on tho rock;? Oh, there is a
great deal cf hollow affectation about 3
fondness for pictures on the part of those
" -".ever appreciate tho original from j
which tin-taken. As though j
a parent should have no uguu .v .'a I
child, but go into ecstasies over its photo
graph. Bless the Lord today, O man ! O
woman! that though you may be shut
out from the works o' a church, a JBior
etadt, a Rubens, and a Raphael, you Btill
have free access to a gallery grander than
the IOuvre, or the Luxemburg, or tho
Vatican the royal gallery of the noon
day heavens, the King's gallery of the
midnight sky.
Another consider?; tic1? JssJjVg us to a
spirit cf contentment Is tho fact that our
happiness is not dependent uponcutwar4
circumstanced. You see people happy
and miserable amid all circumstances.
In a family where the last loaf is on the
table, and the last stick of wood on tho
fire, you sometimes find a cheerful con
lidencein God, while in a very fine place
you will see and hear discord sounding
her war whoop, and hospitality freezing
to detth in a cheerless parlor. I stopped
one day on Eroadway at the head of Wall
street, at the foot of Trinity church, to
eee who seemed the happiest people pass
ing. I judged from their looks
the happiest people v ore not those who
went down into Wall street, for they had
cn their Lrow the anxiety of tho dollar
they expected to make; nor the people
whocamo out of Wn!' street, for they
had on their brow the anxiety of the dol
lar they Lad lost; nor the people ivho
ewept by in splendid equipage, for they
met a carriage that was finer than theirs.
The happiebt person in all that crowd,
judging from the countenance, was tho
woman who hat at tho upplo stand knit
ting. I l.lievo real happiness oftener
lxk8 out of tho window of an humble
luuie than through the opera glass of tho
gilded box of a theater.
I find Nero growling on a throne. I
find l'aul singing in a dungeon. I find
King Ahab going to Ud at noon through
melancholy, while near by is Nabolh con
tented in tho jiossession of a vineyard.
Hainan, prime minister of Persia, frets
himself almost to death Ix-cause a poor
Jew will not tip his hat; and Ahithophel,
one of the greatest lawyers of l'.ible times,
t'irough fear of dying, hangs himself.
Tho wealthiest man, forty years ago, in
iNew iork, when congratulated over his
largo estate, replied: "Ah! vou don't
know how much trouble I have in takin
care of it." Ilyron declared in his last
hours that ho had never seen
more than twclvo happy days in
all his life. I do not lx-lieTve ho
had seen twelve minutes of thorough
satisfaction. Napoleon I said: "I turn
with disgust from tho cowardice and
selfishness of man. I hold life a horror;
death is rejHse. What I have suffered
tho last twenty days is leyond human
comprehension." hile, on tho other
hand, to show how ono may be happy
under the most disadvantageous circum
stances, just after the Ocean Monarch
had been wrecked in the English chan
nel, a steamer was cruising along in tho
darkness, when the captain heard a song,
a sweet song, coining over tho water.
and he boro down toward that voice, and
lounu it was a im istian woman on a
plank of tho wrecked steamer, singing to
the tuno of fat. .Martin s:
Jesus, lover of my soul,
lA-t me to thy bosom fly,
While the billows near me roll.
While the tempest still is high.
The heart right toward God and man.
wo are happy. Iho heart wrong toward
God and man, we are unhappy
Another reason why we should come
to this spirit inculcated hi tho text is the
fact that all the differences of earthly
condition aro transitory. Tho houses
you build, the land you culture, tho
places in which you barter, ai-e soon to
go into other hands. However hard you
may have it now, if you are a Christian
the scene will soon end. Pain, trial, per
secution never knock at the door of the
grave. A coffin made out of pine hoards
is just as good a resting place as one
made out of silver mounted' mahogany
or rosewood. uo down amoncr the
resting places of the dead, and
you will lind that though people
there had a great difference of
worldly circumstances, now they are all
alike unconscious. The hand that greeted
the senator, and the president, and the
king is still as the hand that hardened on
the mechanic's hammer or the manu
facturer's wheel. It does not make any
difference now, whether there is a plain
stone above them from which the trav
eler pulls aside the weeds to read the
name, or a tall shaft springing into tho
heavens as though to tell their virtue to
the skies,
In that silent land there are no titles
for great men, and there are no rumb
lings of chariot wheels, and there is never
heard tho foot of the dance. Tho
Egvptian guano which is thrown on the
fields in tho east for the enrichment of
the soil, is the dust raked out from the
sepulchers of kings and lords and mighty
men. O the chagrin of those men if they
had ever known that in the after ages of
the world they would have been called
Egyptian guano.
Of how much worth now is the crown
of Caesar? Who bids for it? Who cares
now anything about the Amphictvoni5
council or the laws of Lycurgus? Who
trembles now because Xerxes crossed the
Hellespont on a bridge of boats? Who
fears because Nebuchadnezzar thunders
at the gai.es of Jerusalem? Who care3
now whether or not Cleopatra marries
Antonv? Wlio crouches liefore Ferdi
nand, or Boniface, or Alaric? Can Crom
well r ussolve the English parliament now ?
Is William, prince of Orange, king of
the Netherlands? No, no! However
much Elizabeth may love the Russian
cro'.yn, she must pass it to Teter, and
Leter to Catherine, and joatheruio to
Paul, and Paul to Alexander, and Alex
ander to Nicholas. Leopold put the Ger
man scepter into the hand of Joseph, and
Philip comes down off the Spanish
throne to let Ferdinand go on, House -
of Aragon, house of Hapsburg, houso of
Stuart, house of Bourbon, quarreling
about everything else, but agreeing iii
this: "The fashion of tjjis world
passeth away." But have all these dig
nitaries gone? Can they ii-4- vo called
back? I have been in assemblages where
have heard the roll called, and many
aisiirtgabhed men have answered. If
should pall the roll today of some of ihoso
mighty ones who have gone, I wonder if
they would not answer. I will call the
roll. I will call the roll of the kings
first: Alfred the Great I William tha
Conqueror 1 Frederick HI Louis XVII
'5 p answer. I will call the roll of the
poets: ltobeit Sou they J Thomas Camp
bell! John Keats I George C'rabbe! Robert
Burns! No answer. I call the roll of
'ts Michael Ancelol Paul Veronese!
William Tumor Christopher Wren! No
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iuisw er, xl. es cioseu. juirs ueai. jjps
silent. Hands palsied. Scepter, pencd,
pen, sword, put down forever. Why
fchould we ptruggle for such baubles?
Another reason why we sliould culture
this spirit of cheerfulness is the fact that
God knows what is best for bis creatures.
You know what is best for your child,
j uu re not as liberal with
him as you ought to be. He criticises
your discipline, but you look over the
whole fieU, and vou, loving that child.
do what in your deliberate judgment a
best for lnnv
fathers. Sometimes Ida children think
that h. i w.i rn tH
not as liberal with thsra as he miirht be.
But children do not know as much as a
father. I can tell you why you aro not
Largely affluent, and why you have not
been grandly successful. It is because
you cannot stand flio temptation. If
your path had been smooth, you would
tiave dejended upon your own Burefootr
tdness; but God roughened that path, 60
you have to take hold of his hand. If
the weather had been mild, you would
liavo loitered along the water courses;
but at the first howl of the storm you
quickened your pace heavenward, end
wrapped around you the warm robe pf P
riaviouru righteousness. "What have
uone.-" says the wlieatshoaf to tho farmer,
1 im, imiuiuunc, iiiatuu w.av w
hard with your flail?" The farmer
tfliO, I ..IT.n .fly-.A flirt .t.a luit
uium-a iikj uiuwn, nut win ruiu uth.es oil
tho straw, and tho mill blown tho chaff
to tho wind, and the golden grain falls
down at the foot of the windmill. After
a while, the straw looking down from
the mow upon the golden giiun banked
up on either sido tho floor, understands
why tho farmer beat tho wheatsheaf
with the flail.
ho are those Ix-fore the throne? The
answer came: "These aro they who, out
of great tribulation, had their roles
washed and made white in tho blood of
tho Limb." Would God that we could
understand that our trials aro the very
best thing for us. If we had an appreci
ation of that truth, then wo bhould know
why it was that John Noyra, the martyr,
in the very midst of tho flamo reached
down and picked up ono of tho fagots
that was consuming him, and kissed it.
and said: "Blessed Ikj God for the time
when I was loni to this preferment."
They who suffer with him on earth shall
l-o glorified with him in heaven. Bo
content, then, with such things as you
nave.
Another consideration leading us to
the spirit of the text is tho assurance
that the Lord will provide somehow.
ill ho who holds the water in the hoi
low of his hand allow his children to
dio of thirst? Will he who owns the
cattle on a thousand hills, and all the
earth's luxuriance of grain and fruit,
allow his children to starve? Go out to
morrow morning at 5 o'clock into the
woods and hear tho birds chant. Thev
have had no breakfast, they know not
where they will dine, they have no idea
where they will sup; but hear the birds
chant at o o clock m the morning. "Bo
hold tho fowls of tho air; for they
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t-ow nui, neiiner uo inev reap nor
gather into barns, vtt your hear
enly Father feedeth them. Aro you not
much letter than they?" Seven thou
sand people in Christ's time went into the
desert. They were the most improvi
dent people ever heard of. They de
served to starve. They might have taken
food enough to last them until they got
uactt. Nothing did thev take. A lad.
who had more wit than all of them put
together, asked his mother that morning
for some loaves of bread and some fishes
They were put into his sachet. He went
out into the desert. Irom this provision
the seven thousand were fed, and the
more they ate the larger the loaves grew
until the provision that the boy brought
in one sacnti was multiplied so ho
could not have carried tho fragments
home in six sachels. "O," you say,
"times have changed, and tho day of
miracles has gone." I reply that, what
God did then by miracles, he does now
in some other way, and by natural laws.
"I have been young," said David, "but
now I am old: yet have I never seen the
righteous forsaken nor his seed begging
bread.'' It is high time that you people
m uic iitiiiiif; auoui wonuiy circum
stances, and who are fearing you are
coming to want, understood that the
oath of the eternal God is involved in the
fact that you are to have enough to eat
and to wear.
Again, I remark that tho religion of
Jesus Christ is tho grandest influence lo
make a man contented. Indemnity
against all fiuancial and spiritual harm !
It calms the spirit, dwindles the earth
into insignificance and swallows up tho
soul with the thought of heaven. O ye,
wio iiao ueeii going aooui ironi Place
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to place expecting to find in change of
circumstances something to give solace
to the troubled spirit, I commend you
ims morning 10 me warm nearted, ear-
nest, practical, common sense religion of
tho Lord Jesus Christ. "There is no
peace, saith mv God, for the wicked "
and as long as you continue ii your sin
you will be miserable. Como to Christ.
Make him your portion, and start for
heaven, and you will be a happy man
you will be a nappy woman
Yet, my friends, notwithstanding all
these inducements to a spirit of content
ment, I have to tell you this morning the
human race is divided into two classes
those who scold and thosa who get
scolded. Tho carpenter wants to be
anything but a carpenter, and the mason
anything but a rnascn, and the banker
anything but a banker, and tho lawyer
anything but a lawyer, and tho minister
anything but a minister, and everybody
wouia do iiappy u ne were only some
body else. The anemone wanta to be a
sunilayyer, and the apple orchards throw
down their blossoms because they are not
tall cedars, and the scow wants to be a
schooner, and the sloop would like to be
a scveniy-four pounder, and parents have
tho worst children that ever were, and
everybody has the greatest misfortune,
ana everything 13 upside down, or coiner
to be. Ah! my friends, you never make
any advance through such a spirit as
that. You cannot fret yourself up; you
may fret yourself down. Amid all this
gr.'ting of tones I strike this string of the
Gospel harp: "Godlines3 with content
ment is great gam. We brought nothing
iiKO the world, and it i3 very certain we
can carry nothing out; having food and
raiment let us therewith be content."
Let U9 all remember, if we are Chris
tians, that we are going after awhile,
v hatever be our circumstances now. to
have a glorious vacation. As in sum
mer we put off our garments and go
down into the cool sea to bathe, so we
will put off these garments of flesh and
step into the cool Jordan. We will look
around fPF Borne place to lay down our
weariness; and the trees will say: "Come
and rest under our shadow;" and the
earth will say : ' 'Come and sleep in my
; bosom;" and the winds will say:
("Hush! while I sing thee a cradle
hymn;" and while six strong men
carry US put to pur last resting place,
and ashes come to ashes and ' dust
l? Qst' "e.6t? V ecar,rea l
standing amid the broken sod, and a
lacerated brow bending over the open
grave, while a voice, tender with all af
fection and mighty with all omnipotence,
will declare: ? 'I am the resurrection and
the life; he that believeth in me, though
he were dead, yet shall he live." Com
fort Pno another with these words.
A southern woman who took a con
tract for splitting rails, and without help
of any kind cut and split 400 a week,
did not spend much time arguing upon
the proper position of woman. Sio had
a family to support, and worked up to
the full measure of her capacity.
I Fato of tho Widowers
ironi Patunluy's Uauy
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I .XVl'lill I U ItTfhUM 1 people Will TC-
member the nrtid, which appeared in
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1,1,3 l,al,l'r 1 ,vo ,SS,K-S P''Vious to this,
g'v"n udyiec to the gniss-widowers of
our city and also infoi min.r wive
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in hopes th.it they might nil return to
their hubbies, ns nn eye oyer tin in, of
late, was ncc ssarv. We notice ilmt r I
wife of a ccrhiin luini.-L r h;is already put.
in an appearance since the article np
peared, and no doubt several nior-, who
are visiting at u greater distance, will !
also be homeward bound when they
read the article which appeared in the '
Hkuw.d. It was only a sense of duty j
which prompted the reporter to give the j
congregation of grass-widowers, who re-
side among u,av.ay. Sever. 1 nf tin in have j
been interviewed since with the obj.-ct of
hearing their expressions on the matter
and to get their idea of the weight of the
penalty which will be inflicted when the
women appear. They were most of them
Unite brave when spoken L about the
matter, and none of them appeared to be
at all alarmed, judging from the How of
conversation from each. )ne would sav:
'My wife knows me well enough to
know that if that peace, you had in your
paper had any reference to to me in the
least, that it is et-!;r ,Vs . jr
has always trusted me in her absence and
is perfectly willing to do so at any tiin "
Why is it that such men as the nbow
speaker were the first ones to interview
the reporter, ami with an uplifted eain
iid knife drawn demand the poor
reporter, who knew he was in the right,
to falsely deny the stat nient that the
wives might not return. We fed duty
bound to stick to the statement, and we
are sure the grassy, idows at a distance
will do what is right and sanction the
statement. We learned of the arrival of
one of the wives already, and also that
one of the men who presented a bold
front, made an effort to keep on the right
side by being iu readiness, lie touk the
trouble to have a party and give her a
grand reception, p.nd it presented the idea
to us that it was for no other reason than
we mentioned. However, with all his
boldness, when it came to the critical mo
ment, h more excited man never was
known. He ordered ids cakes, icecream
and other refreshments. IJy thonce the
cake arrived at the house all nrhr, the
reason is, we suppose
thein himgelf and
that he carried
did nut order
them sent. The ice cream, he nor
any of his friends know where
it turned up. All he knows is
that the ice-cream did not show up at
the party. It is rep- rted that while his
excitement was at the highest pitch he
ordered the cream placed in a rig in
front of the shop where he ordered.
Tiie wagon belonged a ' uld Jul" who
did not find, the can and drove home.
Tl.is mn!,t it ,i!!i !.i.
T V 1 " ",m
11 uu SUlitinnii drove down
town, he making inquiries after the own-
ers, thinking it mioht niobablv 1
dyna
mite. We think the n-!i who would do
that, would 5,e excited more than a little.
We have not heard whether the bald-
headed end of a brooin haa been used yet
or not, hut f.o much we know of one of
the bold mr-n. We are anxiously await-
'"J? H'e arrival of another wife, and so
ire the widowers, wondering who the
first victim y,iil he.. Henry the VIII is
liable lo lie beheaded, and we trust he
may remember his failing before it is too
late.
"twenty-one Building: in Ruins
Besklemax, Neb., July 17. IJenkle
raan was visited by a cyclone last even
ing, and the rums of more than a score
of houses testify to its fury.
Yesterday afternoon was hot and sul
try. Towards evening the sky clouded
up very rapidly, and the sweltering citi
zens looked forward to a refreshing
shower. Others expressed some appre
hension on account of tiie peculiar ap
pearance of the clouds and prophesied a
wind storm. Neither classes were disap
pointed. The shower came, but with it
came a fiercer storm than any of the
weather prophets had bargained for. It
was about 7 o'clock when one of those
dreadful funnelled shaped c'ouds, which
have become so distressingly familiar on
these western prairies, was seen to form
southwest oi the city. Everybody rushed
for their cellars and dugouts. They had
barely got under shelter when the air was
full of flying timbers, The fine Presby
terian church just completed was torn
from its foundation as if it had been
built of pasteboard. The whirling visi
tation with a dreadful, roaiiug sound,
swept down through the city destroying
every thing in its path. One row cf
twenty frame houses, was wiped out ia a
shorter time than it takc3 to write it.
while all tha cellars in the business part
of town was completely flooded by a
chud burst which followed in the wake
of the other messenger of destruction.
As it was, no one was hurt, but had
the catastrophe taken place an hour later
with the church services m nrosress. the
loss of life would without doubt have
been appalling.
Large quantities of merchandise were
destroyed by the water, while reports
from the country say that in some sec
tions the hail destroyed crops completely,
nnd several horses and cattle are reported
killt d or drowned. The heavy rain ben-?
cfittcd all- crop?, which were almost
burned out by dry weather
Snuff, Sneeze, Wipe.
SinifT, bn.thei-, mnitr with run !
SimtT In tin- i.i rx.-nr.. In- Ir,.,. trjulaTv,
A I'lcvi-lnnd niiuir tor tlir l.-fi.i i,ialr.-.
A i lniriiiiiii Hinifl fm- the In:: bi.lmaii c,
A Mills' lull mi mi for t tie inlfi prt-t:tl e.
Sunt). lloln-M, Mill It wil'i -;ui- !
.sunn' la the presence of the to e tnulairc.
Sneeze, buillier-i. siieee with care !
MM-ee in th i,r, m-,i-c nt the free Iral-l-iire.
A mum uiini .sneeze torthe ureal liiovalie,
A (ieluocr.-.t Mire.f for the olliee .scckaiie.
A thiol parly Mit ee for the rum M llalie.
Siu-ee, hrottu-i!-, snece with rare !
Sneeze In the im-ccnce of llie free liailalre.
Inc. brothers, wipe with (ale !
W ipe in tiie preneni-e of tin live tnelulie,
A ( le elanil wipe villi I he ihensaL'e rare,
A '1 Inn man w i p.- with lo- baud an a ire
i'.ill Scott wipe with the biK dollairc.
Wipe, liiotl.ers, wipe with care!
Wmc in the pieseni-e of the free tr-daue.
.!an-iir.i t'oinier.
Firo Last Nisht.
The lire alarm was sounded l.i-t
night
" u 1 101 nicu nrought tl.-cuM-
..i i . . i . i i i . .
ous people iroin ail direct ions in omst.
No bia..'
was vi-iMe in ;uiv direction.
nnl nu ij-i ..i... ....... . . .1 ... 1 . t
. ...... ,,,, .jut i-niiiru hi hi; wiser man
anyone on the matter, the large crowd
stood looking for the Maze. It was dis
covered that a fire broke out in a tene
ment house belonging to Chaplain
Wright, which was occupied
by .Mr. Walt Scott and family. The R
II White hose cart of the second ward
was the fust upon the scene. Several of
the hook and ladder company took charge
of the hose e.-iit and when the hose
men
n,. v
can
r..,.,.,i il.,
lliCil U..K . ti.ifg.;
waggon and were soon
iiooiv ai.il ladder
with the other
company.
Nothing definite is known as to how
tho fire orginated. A thousand opinions
were made public in the crowd and nine
hundred ami ninety-nine nut of the thous
and, (us is general 'y the (a.-e) were too
absurd to be listened to for a second.
The citizens crowded around the house,
each one making himself so officious and
spouting oli orders so loud and rapid
that the duet of the fire department, if
ho had had a trumpet in his possession
that would break every glass in the
houses of the city with its blast, it would
have been impossible for him to have
given an Older to the firemen and made
himself understood. Where such a crowd
iuterfers with the duties of the chief and
firemen when perfoi ming their duties,
they bhould turn the nozzle on them for
the benefit of the directly interested peo
ple. When citizens know it to be the
duty ot the firemen to fight fires, why
will they work their unwelcome f tames
in among them and give orders.
If they had not done this last night,
we are sure so much damage would not
hayo been done with the water that was
complained of. Mr. Scott and wife had
been attending a sociable given at IheG.
A. II. hall and had just arrived at tho
house on their return as the f;re started.
Other damage than blowing the wind
ows out by the water nnd the burning 0f '
some of the wood work UD'lov the chim
ney, is not worth, mentioning.
Tne building is located on Hickory
street between $th and 9th. Many sup
pose the fire was caused by rats which
had got hold of some matches, as no fire
had been in any stove excepting the gaso
line steve for sometime. The house was
tloodc-d with water, and when the nozzle
was turned to the window, the glass of a
window in an adjoining houso was
broken, which brought a lady to the
door exclaiming that there was no fire at
her house.
DYNAMITE AND STRIKES.
Damaging Testimony Against De
fendant Eowfes--Traclng tho
Dynamite.
Chk aoo. July 13 A startling outline
of the case against members of the brother
hood of engineers and firemen, accused
of complicity in the huge dynamite plot
against the Chicago, Burlington -fcQuincy
road, was formerly presented in court to
day. The statement was made by United
States District Attorney Ewing, immedi
ately upon the arraingments of six of the
accused, Chief Bauereisn and his comrades
Goding, Wilson. Bowles, Broderick and
Smith. The presentment caused a sensa
tion amcig the crowd of railroad men,
lawyers and reporters that filled every inch
of the room in court. The statement of
the district attorney was apparently based
largely on the confession of one of the six,
Alex Smith. The latter sat apart from
the other defendants, and notwithstand
ing the efforts of his brother who was
present in court, doggedly declined to be
represented by the Brotherhood attorneys,
or have anytning to do with them. Af
ter Commissouer Iloyne had refused the
defendant's request for a separate exami
nation for each cf them, the district at
torney arose and in a matter-of-fact way,
without any attempt at decloiuatlon, re
cited the fa. ts ihA he proposed to prove.
He said that his evidence would show
that the dynamite cartridge that was plac
ed on the burlington tracks at Eula, 111.,
May 29, was put there by Bowles and
Smith and that all the other explosions
was caued bv the Brotherhood.
Quarantined Against Yellow Fever.
"Washington-, July IT. The marine
hospital bureau is informed of the arrival
at Ship island, a quarantine station on .
the Mississippi, of tha Norwegian bark (
Magnolia, from Uio J.-miero. The cap-1
tain and four cf her crew died from vel- !
low fever after leaving Rio Janeiro. The
vessel will be detained at the quarantine. ! er,
5 a Jake says it is hot, but coltl
weather is coming. He will tell
you something new about horse
blankets next week, but lie says
you ought to buy your horse a
5 sheet, cover, or fly net now.
Won't you buy this poor?iorse a
5A Clipper Fly Net?
5a Lap Dusters
rast Colon; will wtib.
5A Horse Sheets
Art mad up ftroB.
5a Horse Covers
Will keep 01i oil.
-UFly Nets.
Are tht lictt and troB(if.
For sale by all dealers.
Ask to sec them before you buy.
Copyrighted iZ'6'i, by Wm. Aykks & Sons.
ROBERT,. DONNELLY'S
wAaoiLr
AND
BLACKSMITH
SHOP,
Wogon, Buyyy, Macfrfne and Plow re
pairing, and general jobbing
at now prepared to do all kinds of repairing
ol larm and other machinery, nn there
Is a good lathe lu my shop.
PETER RAUEN,
hQ old Reliable Wagon Maker
nas taken charge ot the wagon sncp
lie ia well known as a
NO. 1 WORKMAN.
tlTift K I! S ft J f ft
Katie
irarr
HATH-V A C'TION H A. V-A NT
Dr. C- A. Marshall.
3
Preservation cf natural teeth a cpr clalty.
Ctcth txtracttfl u. it Until pain h; use nf J.nvgliiiig
(Jut.
All work warranted. Prices reasonable.
Fit7..;kh.i.i's rr.vrrsMoirrjf. Nki
DRS. CAVE & SMITH,
"Painless Dentists."
The ojil v Iieriti-f- in the t rnhf ruling thin
Sew System cf K.f niet i,m ;url I" i I i i 1 1 k 'Jeelll
without fain. Cur ;.nae-l h-tie is en
tirely free from
ci iiiOiior o Ji 3i o u i:t j iek
ASH IS AH-.OLUTKLY
Harmless - To - All
Tf-etli extracted and "rtinim teeth inserted
next day if .iesired . The preservation of the
natural teeth a specialty.
GOLD CROWNS, GOLD CAPS, BBIDGE WOBI.
The -----ini,,, I;l0ek. over
Badly Burned By Powder-
Fremont, Xeu., July 1C Two boys
named Herman and GriUin were badly
burned here this afternoon. They procur
ed a cifir box full of powder and while
playing with it aetidtntly ignited it. It
esploded and set fire to their clothing.
The Herman boy will probably die. They
were both eight years cdd.
Their Heads Came Together.
David City, Xtb., July 17 At an
evening entertainment giycu by sonio
young people in this town last week, a
young lady and a young gentleman in
hurriedly attempting to pick up a hand
kerchief struck their Leads together so
violently as to knock the voune ladv
1 nTr nnrl 1 r-f f li a In or, . .. . : .
dition fcr some time.. She was taken
home, and a physician who was called
sa'd tne acy na'-l sustained a roncusKsion
the bra51? of such a natur?."3 to make
, days ago, and she is not yet out of dang-
i