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SKEPTICS ANSWERED.
Dr. Talmaire on Things That Are
Hard to Understand.
, TlioCrs-at inn rth World Consistent With
the TlHtiry or Srlenre-Other -Ma rial.
tun Tilings Spoken rm the Itible
I"ull Kxplaiutvl.
In a late sermon at Brooklyn Ev. T.
De Witt Tahuage discoursed on "Tough
Tilings the Bil!." and his text was
from 1! 1V'K-r Hi. 1(5: Iu which are some
things hard to ba understood" Dr. Tal
iiiji;o said:
Tut' Ititiie is tbo most common sense
Itook in all tho world. But there are many
things in it which require explanation. It
all depends on tho mood in which you
come to this grand old Look. You may
take hold of tho handle of the sword or its
sharp edge. You may employ on its mys
teries tho rule of multiplication or sub
traction. There are thin;;, as my text
nigRests. hard to La understood, but 1
shrill solve luius of them, hoping to leavo
upon all honest-minded people the lm
prcKsion that if four or Jive of them can lm
explained, perhaps they may all be ex
plained. Hard thing the first: The Bible says
the world was created in six days, while
grology says it was hundredsof thousands
of years in process of building. "In the
beginning, God created the heaven and
th earth." "In the beginning." Tnere
you t:an roll in 10.000 OJOyears if you want
to. There is no particular date given no
contest between science ami revelation.
Though tho world may have been in pro
cess of creation for millions of year, sud
denly and quickly, and in one week, it
may have been lilted up for man's resi
dence. Jiist as a great mansion m-iy have
been many years in building, and yet in
tie week it may be curtained and chan
di'lieicd and cushioned and uphoUteied
lor a bride and groom.
You tun not compelled to believe that
tho world was made in our six days. It
may not havo been a day of twenty-four
h'jiirs, tlio day spoken of in the lirst chap
ter; it may havo been (Jod's day. ami a
thousand years with Him arc as on j dny.
"Ami tho evening and tho morning were
the liist lny" God's day. "And the
evening and the morning were tho si-coml
day" (Jod's day. "Ami the veiling and
the morning weio the sixth dny" God's
day. You and 1 living in the seventh
day, the Kabbath of tho world, the day of
gospel redemption, the ginudest day of
all tho week, in which each day may have
been made up of thousands of years. Can
you tell me how a man can get his mind
and soul into such a blasphemous twist as
to won at that first chapter of Genesis, its
veises billows of light surging up from
b ipphire sens of gloiy?
The Bible represents that light was
created on Mondav, anil tho sin was not
cieated until Thursday. Just think ol it!
n book declaring that light was crmtod
thte days before the miii shone! Why.
don't you know tint heat ami olcetricity
emit light independent of the-un'r Besides
tint, when the earth was in pioeess of
condensation, it was surrounded by thick
vapors and the discharge of many vol
canoes in the piiuniiy period, and ail this
obscuiation m:iy havo himieied the light
of Hie sun fiom falling on the earth until
that T'nusd'iy morning. Besides that,
lnld ItieWsterand Hersehel, the nstiou
oiiier,iuiil all the moileni men of iheii o!as-,
agrto in the tact that the miii is not light;
th it it i- an opaque mas; that it is only the
candlestick Hint holds III? light, a pho
phoiesceut almospheie Hunting aiou id it,
ch'inging iiinl changing, so it is mil to lie
at all woiideied at that not until that
Tiiur.siiay moiuiug its light foil on tho
tilth. Beside thai thn locks in erystalli
7 itiou emit liuht. There is light from a
thoiisaml sin faces, the alkalies, for in
stance. This metallic bases emit light.
Theie a a lima in tlu history of the
world when there wr. thousands of
miles r I q.ii.l granite tltmiug with light.
Beside that it has been found that tin re
aieburn-d out 'cano's in other worlds
which, when tliev weie in explosion ami
nctiiitv. must have cast forth an insuffer
able light, throning a glare all over our
eaith. B-side that there are th aurora
borealis and the aurora auchalis.
.tiot lu-i hard thing: The story of the
d-luge and Noah's ark. They say that
t inn the recount there it must have ruined
.Nio leet ol water each day in ord-r that it
might l tilteen cubits above the hills.
They s:iy that the ark could not have been
huge enough to contain "two of every
soi t," for there won d havo been hundreds
of thousands urn! lmmlieds of thousands of
c-ieatures. They say that these creatures
would have come from all lauds and all
runes. They say there was only one small
window in the ink nnd that would not
have t,iven fresh air to keep the
an mills inside the ark ftom suffocation.
They sny that the nrk was tlti.illy
laudei on a mountain 17.0. II feet high.
They -ny they do not believe the
storj. Neither do 1. Theie is no such
story in the Bible. 1 will tell you what the
Bible storv is. I must miv that I have
changed inv mind in regard t some mat
ters which once were to me very mvste
i toils. The;- are no mote xmsterious.
This is the koy to the facts. This is the
story of an eye-witness. N:ih, his stoiy
in orporateil afterward by Moses in the
account. Noah described the scene just a
it appear "d to him Il -aw the flood and
hefntitom-d its depth. A far as eye could
reach e.eiy thing was coveted up, I ivm
Iiouzon to horiron. or as it says., "under
the whole heaven.'' lie did not refer to
tho Sierra Nevadas, or to Mount Washing
ton, for A'ueiica hud not lison discovered,
oi, if it had been discovered he could not
see as far ofT. lleisgiing tint testimony
of an eye-witness. Goil speaks after the
manner ol men when he ays every thing
went under, and Noah speaks after the
manner of men when ho -ays every thing
diil go under. An e-witiies. There is
no need of thinking that the kangaroo
leaped the ocean or that the polar bear
came down from the ieo. Why did the
ile.uge comer It en me for tlu purpose of
destroying the outrageous inhabitants of
the then thiu'y populated earth, nearlv all
the population, piobubly very near the
nrk b-fore it was la mebed. What would
have been the use of submerging North
and South Amnion, or Kurope, or Africa,
when they were not inhabited?
And as to the skept.eal suggestion that
in order to have ths water as deep as the
Bibestates.it must have rained tU feet
every day. I reply, the Bible distinctly
declares thnt the most of the flood rose
instoal of fallmg. Before the account
Mhere it sss "the windows of heaven
weie openetl." it says, 'all the fountains
Vof the great deep were broken np." All
yeologisU. agree m saying that there are
caverns in the earth tilled with water, and
they rushed foith. and all the lakes and
rivers forsook their bed. The fountains
of the great deep were broken up. aud
then the windows of heaven were o;eiied.
ell. then, another thing, in regard to
the sire of the ark. Instead of ln?ing a mud
scw, as some of these skeptics would have
Us understand, it was a magnificent ship,
nearly as large as the Great Eastern, three
times tho siss of au ordinary man-of-war.
At the t me in the world when shipbuild
ing was unknown. God had this vessel
constructed, which turned out to be almost
in the same proportions as our staunchest
modern vessels. After thousands of years
of experimenting in nava: architecture
and in ship carpentry, wc have at last got
up to Noah's ark. that ship leading all the
fleets of the world on all the oceans.
"But bow could yon get them into the
ark?" ask Infidel scientists. "How coald
they be induced to go into the ark! He
would have to pick them out aud drive
them in. and coax them in." Could aot
the same God who gave instinct to the an
imal inspire that instinct to seek for shel
ter from tho storm? However, nothing
more than ordinary animal instinct was
necessary. Have you never been in the
country when an August thundT.torm
was coming up and heard the cattle moan
nt the bars to get in and setn the af
frighted fowl go upon the perch at noon
day, and heard tho affrighted dog and cat
calling at the door, supplicating entrance?
And are you surprise 1 that in that age of
the world, wh-n there were fower places
of shelter for dumb beasts, at the mutter
ing and rumbling and flashing and quak
ing aud darkening of an npproaching
deluge, the animal creation camo moaning
and bleating to the sloping embankment
reaching up to the ancient Great Eastern
and passed in? I have owned horse and
cattie and sheep and dogs, but I never
had a horse or a cow or a sheep or a dog
that was so stupid it did not know enough
to come in when it rained.
And then, that ono window in the ark
which afforded such poor ventilation to
the creatures there assembled that small
window in the ark which exsites so much
mirthfulnessonthepartof infidels. I r they
knew as much Hebrew as you could put
on your little finger nail they would have
kno.vn that that word translated means
window course, a whole, range of lights.
Those ignorant infidel do not know a
window pane from twenty windows.
Then the infidels say that the ark landed
on a mountain 17,000 feet high, and that,
of course, as soon as the animals came
forth they would all be frozen in the ice.
That is geographical ignorance! Ararat
is not merely the name for a mount
ain, but for a hilly dis:rict, and it
may have been a hill 100 feet high, or.VK),
or 1,0 j0 feet high on which the ark alight
ed. Noah measured the depths of the
water above the hill, and it is fifteen
cubits, or twenty-seven feet.
Ah! my friends, this story of the nrk is
no moie incredible than if 3011 say to me:
Last summer I was among tho hills of
New England, and there came 011 the most
tetrific storm I ever saw, mid the whole
country was flooded. The waters came
up over tho hills, aud to save our lives we
got in a bunt on tho river, and even the
dumb creatures were so nfTrightoned they
came moaning and bleating until we lei
them in the boat."
AVe are not dependent upon the Bible
for tho story of the flood entirely. All
iig-sniid ull literatures havo traditions,
biokeu traditions, indistinct traditions,
but still tradit.ous. The old books of the
Persians tell about the fioud at tho time of
Ahriuiau, who so polluted th-t earth that
it hml to be washed by a great storm.
The traditions of the Chaldeans say that
in tho time when Xisuthrus was King
there was a great flood, ami he put his
family and his irionds in a large vessel
ami all outside of them weie dt-stioyed,
and after a while the birds went forth and
they came back ami their claws weie
tinged with mud. Lucian ami Utrid, cel
ebrated writer, who had never seen the
Itiblo. described a flood in the time of
D-ucalion. He took his friends into a
boat, and the animals cima running to
him in puirs. So all hands, and all ages,
and nil literatures, seem to have a biokun
aud indistinct tradition of a calamity
which Moses, here incorporating Noah'.s
account, so grandly, so beautifully, so at
cmately, so solemnly records.
My pinyer is that the God who created
the win hi may ere ite us anew in Christ
lesiis; and the God h undo light tluee
d iys before the sun shone nriy kindle in
our henit a light that will b un on after
1 10 sun has expired; and that the God
who ordered tht ark bin It and kept open
mine than li'Oyears that the antediluvians
might enter it for shelter, uriv giaeiously
incline us to accept the invitation which
this morning rose in music from the
throne, saying: ''Coma thou and all thy
house into the nrk."
Another hard thing to be understood:
The story that the -un and moon stood
still to allow Joshua to complete his vie
torv. lulbbd scientists declare that nu
impossibility. But if a man have liinln
aud strength enough to nrike a clock, can
he not start it and stop it, aud start it
again nnd stop it ngaiu? If God had
strength aud widotn to make the clock of
the universe, the great machinery of the
worlds, has he not strength enough mid
wisdom enough to start it and stop it, and
start it again aud stop it again? Or stop
ono wheel, or stop twenty wheels, or st p
nil the w heels? Is the clock stronger than
the c!ockmakei? D.tes the corn thresher
know more than the machinist? Is the
universe mightier than its God? But peo
ple ask how could the moon have been seen
to stop in the daytinir? Well, if you have
never seen the moon 111 the daytime it is be
cause you have not been a very diligent
observer of the heavens. Bjside that, it
was not necessary for the world liteiallv
to sto-i. By unusual refraction of the
sun's rays the dny might have ben pro
longed. So that, while the earth continued
on its path in the heavens, it figuratively
stoppetl. You iti'ist remember that these
Ilitile authors used the vernacular of their
own day, just as you and 1 say the sun
went down. The sun never goes down.
We simply describe what appears to the
hiiuiHii eye. Besides that, the world, our
woild. could have hteia'.ly stopped with
out throwing the universe out of balance.
Our world has two motions tho ono
aiound the sun ami the other on its own
axis. It might have stopped on its own
axis, while at the same iim? it kept cu its
path through the heavens. So tliTO was
110 need of stellar confusion because our
world slacken? I its speed or entirely
stopped in its revolution on its own axis.
Th.it is none of the business of Jupiter, or
Mars, or Mercury, ortatuin. or the Dippor.
Beside that, within the m-tnory of man
there have ben worlds that were bom
nnd that died. A few years ago astrotu
ers telegiapheJ, through the Associated
Press, to all the wot bl the astro.iomers
from the City of Washington that an
other world had been discovered. Within
a comparatively short space of time,
astronomers tell us thirteen worlds have
turned down. From their observatory
they notice first that the worlds look like
other wor!d. then they become a deep
le 1, showing they were on tire: then thev
became ashen, siiowing the.- were burned
donti; then they entirely disappeared,
showing that even the ashes were scat
tered. Now, 1 ay, if God can start a
world, aud win; a world, and destroy a
world, lie could stop one or two of them
without a great deal of exertion, or He
could by unusual refraction of the sun's
r.i.s. continue the illumiuation. But
infidel scientists say it would
hae been belittling for other worlds
to stop on account of such a battle. Why,
sirs, what Yorktovvn was for revo'uiion
ary times, and what Gettysburg was in
our civil conte't, and what Sedan was in
the Franco-German war. an 1 want
Waterloo was in the Natoleonic destiny
thnt wa this battle of Joshua against the
five allied armies of Gibeoa. It was that
battle that changed the entire course of
history. It was a battle to Jos hua as im
jtortaut as though a battle now should oc
cur in which England and the United
States and Franc and Gsraianv and Italy
and Turkey and Busna should tight for
victory or annihilation. However much
any other world, solar, lunar or stellar,
might be hastened ia its errand of light, it
would be excusable if it lingered in the
heavens for a little while and pat down
its sheaf of beam; and gazed on sach a
Armageddsn.
in the early part of this century there
was what was called the dark day. Soma
of these agei men perhaps remember it
It was known in history as the "dark
day." Workmen at boob went to their
homes and courts and Legislatures at-
Jooraed. oastroaosaers have ever
able to explain that dark day. Now, If
God can advance the night earlier than its
time, can He not adjourn the night until
after its time? I often oe 1 to bear my
father describe a night I think he said it
was in 1833 when his neighbors aroused
him in great alarm. All the heavenly
bodies seemed to be in motion. People
thought our earth was coming to its de
struction. Tens of thousand! of stars
shooting. No astronomoi s have ever been
able to explain that star shooting. Now,
does not your common reuse teach
you that if Gol could start and stop
tens of thousands of wor!d4 or meteors.
He could start and stop two worlds? If
God can engineer a train of 10.00) worlds
or meteors, and stop them without acci
dent or collision, can not He control two
carriages of light, nnd by putting down a
golden brake stop the moon? Under tbis
explanation, instead of beta.; skeptical
attout this sublime passage of the Bib! ft;
you will, when you read it, feel more like
going down on your knees before God as
you read: "Sun, s'and thou still above
Gibeun, and thou moon in the valley of
Ajalon."
Then there is the Bible statement that a
whale swallowed Jonah and ejected him
upon the dry ground in three days. If
you will go the museum at Nantucket,
Mais., you will llnd a whale large enough
to swallow a man. I said to the janitor,
wild's I was standing is the museum:
"Why it does not seem from the looks of
this skeleton that that story in tho book
of Jonah it so verv improbable, does it?"
O, no," he replied, "it does not." There
is a cavity in the mouth of the common
whale large enough for a man to live in.
There have been sharks fou id again and
again with an entire humiii body in
them
Beside that, the Bib!e says nothing about
a whale. It says, "The Lord prepared a
great tish;" aud there are scientists who
tell us that there were sea monsters in
other days that make the modern whale
seem very insignificant. I know in one
place in the New Testament it speaks of
the whale as appearing in the occurrence
I have just mentioned, j)Ut thewotdmay
just ns well be translated "sea monster"
any kind of sea monster. 1'rocupius says,
in the 3'ear ,V2. a sea monster was slain
which had for fifty years destroyed ships.
I suppose this sea monster that took care
of Jonah may have been one of the
gient sea monsters that could have
easily taken down a prophet, and
he could have lived there three days if
he had kept in motion so as to keep
tho gastric juices from taking hold of
him and destroying him, and at the end of
three days the monster would naturally
bo sick enough to regurgitate Jonah. Be
side thnt, my friends, there Is one word
which explains the whole thing. It snys:
"The Lord prepared a great fish." If a
ship carpenter prepnro a vessel to carry
Texan beeves to Glasgow, I suppose it can
carry Texan beeves; if a ship carpenter
pi epare a vessel to cm ry coal to one of the
Northern ports. I sit pposa it can carry coal;
if a ship carpenter prepare a vessel to
carry passengers to Liverpool, I suppose
it can carry passengers to Liverpool; and
if the Lord prepared a tisb to carry one
passenger, 1 suppose it could carry a pas
senger and the ventilation have been alt
right.
So all the strange things in the Biblo
can be explaiue 1 if you wish to have them
explained. And you can build them into
a beautiful aud healthful lire for your
hearth, or you can with them put your im
mortal interests into conll ignition. But
you had better decide about the veracity
of the BihV very soon. I want this morn
ing to caution 3011 against putting off
making up your mind about this book.
Ever since 177:! there has been great dis
cussion ns to who wns tho author of
Junius' Letters, those letters so full of
sarcasm aud vituperation anil power.
The whole English Nation stine.i up
with it. Mote than a hundred volumes
written to discuss the question: "Who
wns Junius?" "Who wrote the letters of
Junius?" Well, it is nu interesting ques
tion to discuss, but still, after all. it makes
but little practical difference to you ami
to me who Junius was. whether Sir Philip
Fiaucis, or Lord Chatham, or John Home
Tooke, or Borneo Wnlpole. or Henry
Grattan, or any one of tho orty-four men
who were seriously charged with the
authorship. But it is an absorbing ques
tion, it is a practical question, it is an
overwhelming question to you and to me,
the authorship of this Holy Bible whether
the Lord God of Heaven aud earth or a
pnek of dupes, scoundrels or impostors.
We can not afford to adjourn that question
a week or a day or nu hour, any more
than a sea captain can afford to say:
"Well, this is a very dark night. I
have really lost my Ix'arings; there is a
light out there. I don't know whether it
is a lighthouse or a false light on the
shore; I don't know what it is; but I'll
just go to sleep and in the morning I'll And
out." In the morning the vessel might lie
011 the rocks and the beach strewn with
the white faces of tho dead crew. The
time for that sea captain to And out about
the ligh house is before h goes to sleep.
O. mylrieuds, I want vou to understand
that in our de iberations about this Bible
w e at o not at calm anchorage, but we are
rapidly coming toward the coast, coming
with all thelurnaces ablnze, coming at the
rate of seventy heart throbs a minute, and
1 must know w hetlier it is going to be har
bor or shipwreck.
lwnssogladto read in tho papers of
the fact that the steamship E lam hal
come safely into harbor. A week before
the Persian Monarch, plowing its way to
ward the Narrows, a hundred miles out,
saw signals of distress, Itore down upon
the vessel, and found it was the steamship
E lam She had lot h-r propelter. She
hnd 2i pasengers on board. The merci
ful captain of thd Persiau Monrrch en
deavored to bring her in, but the tow line
broke. He fastened it again. I ut the sea
was tough and the tow line broke again.
Then tho night came on and the merciful
captain of th? Persian Monarch "lay to,"
thinking in the morning hs could give
rescue to the passengers. The morning
ing came, but during the night the steam
ship Ednm had disapiteared. and the
captain of the Persian Monarch brought
his vessel into harbor saying how sad be
felt becauso he could not give complete
rescue to that lost ship. I am glad that
afterward another vessel saw her and
brought her Into safety. Bat when 1 saw
the story of that ship Edam, drifting,
dnfting. drifting, 1 do not know where,
but with no .udder, no lighthouse, no bar-1-or.
no help, I said: "That is a skeptic,
that is an infidel, drifting, drifting, drift
ing, not kuowing where he drifts." And
then, when 1 thought of the Persian Mon
arch anchored in harl-ar. I said: "That is
a Christian, .that is a man who does all he
can on the way, crossing the sea to help
other, cent ug perhaps through a very
rough voyage into the harbor, there safe
and safe forever." Would to God that
there might be some one to-day who
would go forth and bring in these souls
that are drifting. In this assemblage,
how many a score shall I say, or a hun
dred, or a thousand? not qaite -certain
about the truth of the Bible, not certaia
about any thing. Drifting, driftiag,
drifting. O. how I would like to
tow them in. I throw you this cable.
Lny hold of that cable of the gospel. Lay
hold of ii. I invite you all in. The har
bor is wide enough for all the shipping.
Come In, O, you wanderers oa the deep.
Drift no more, drift no more. Cotae iato
the harbor. See the glorious ligbtboBse
of the gospel. "Peace on earth, good will
to men." Cone iato the harbor. God
grant that it may be said of all of yoa who
are bow drifting ia your unbelief as it
might have been said of the passenger of
the steamship Edans, and as it was saM
cearuries ago of the wrecked oora ship ef
Alexandria. -It case t bus that they aj
escaped safe to tattL
TRAOE REPORT.
Oaa's Weekly Reriaw Shows Less Oat
Than Might Have Ifcrca Espectett.
Kiw York. March 23 Dun's weekly
review of trade y: The signs of Im
provement in trade continue to increase
and, while in many important respects the
season has been unfavorable, there i leas
dullness and depression than und-r the
circumstances might have been expected.
Prices settle doAn steadily, the decline
for the week, in the aver igo of all com
modities having b-en about thrte-quar-ters
of 1 per cent, which trie speculat.ve
holders, but facilitates distribution.
From three-quarters of the ct.es report
ing, there comes signs of some im
proverivnt in trade, though it is nowhere
great, but moderate and gradual. The
outlook is generally thought favorable
and at New Orluau it is reported that
planting is under good headway, while in
Dakota and Minneiota preparation tor
seeding is a full imnth ahead of last year.
At Cleveland and soma other points bus
iness is considered better than last year,
but there is marked reaction at Pitts
burgh from the favorable tone of the past
few weeks; iron is lower, coke in less de
mand and complaints of the delay ef
spring trade are general.
At Philadelphia some improvement is
noted in the boot and shoe and the wool
trades but dry goods are in ordinary con
dition and collections are slow also at
Milwaukee. The Government report as to
wheat in farmer's bands helped a decline of
HN'cfroin which there was recovery of about
l.?c Thursday on the covering of shorts.
Exports continue insignificant with good
prospects for the coming crop to weaken
somewhat. Corn has declined l'fc in spite
of large export while pork products and
oats are substantially unchanged.
Cotton receipts and exports lotb con
tinue much beyond last years, and the
prtce of raw cotton has yielded Vc. A
light demand for coffee aud belief
of buyers that prices are un
warranted, cause a decline of only
a quarter for tho week, while raw
sugar Is strong and has advanced to ri.l3o
on considerable purchase by refiners.
Leather is still weak. Bubber is pressed
for sale at Wte forl'ura line.
The disclosure of au increase, in the
weekly output of pig iron causes weak
ness. It is halbivcd that stocks of unsold
pig iron mtist be rapidly accumulating.
Small sales of steel mils are repjrted for
27 at the mill. Tho price of copper is but
nominal, while lead is weak at sKk 70 aud
tin at fJO.Ui.
No disturbance has occurred in tho
money market, and rates are 1 i per cent,
lower, thetreasury having paid out J'- HM,
0O0 more than it has taken in fur the past
week.
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THE DOUBLE ALARM.
Burning ot 11 I!.ci"K Factory auil Death
of m Woman.
St. Iouts, March IM. At threo o'clock
yesterday afternoon a double alarm was
turned in for a tire in the Standnrd
bagging factory, on Stoddard avenue,
near Twelvlh street. The building had a
Srontage of 1".' feet on Stoddard avenuu
and ran bick about the same dirtauce.
The w hole concern wns a motley group of
old building, with very little lire protec
tion. Tho main structure in the center
was three stories high, topjied off with a
big modern ventilator. It was here thti
tiro started and owing to the inflammable
nature of the building and contents the
flames prend rapidly.
Immediately upon the cry of tire the
wildest panic ensued amongst tho tJO em
ployes, most of whom were g rls. A rush
was mnde for the narrow stairwnv. but
before half the numlier could escape tli"v
found themselves cut off by heat nnd
smoke, lint few men employed in the
building worked bravely and rapidly and
succeeded in leading the panic stricken
girls through the smoke nnd flames to a
place w here they could drop to the lot ad
joining the building and all were thus
saved with the exception of Ada Lebrecht,
who was found horribly burned.
Charles Gufron. n middle-aged man,
worked heroically in getting the girls out
of the burning building. He remained on
the third floor too long and when he turned
to go out found all means of escape cut off
save by tho window. He took his only
chance, jumped and wns terribly injured
by the full, but will not die. A man was
run over by a fire engine during tho ex
citement and badly Injured nnd was taken
away from the scene by friends before his
name could le lenrnrd. The pecuniary
loss by the fire is small.
Cirantral t'l.e I'arrfnns.
TorEKA, Kan.. March VS. Governor
Humphrey yesterdny granted five piirdoua
to persons who Lavo been serving sen
tences in the State penitentiary at Lriveli
wortb. One of these was James C Puey,
who was on September SS, ItssTi, convicted
of forgery and embezzlement and sen
tenced to eight years' imprisonment.
The Htate Board of Pardon, in recom
mending that Pusey be set free, refer to
the fact that be had Itotn a good character
before the embezzlement aud that the
crim was committed while there was a
great deal of m management in the af
fairs of the company. Pardons were also
granted to I). A. Warwick, of Sedgwick
County, doing two and one-half years for
cmherzlcmuiit. Ihe board find that his
conviction was due to a conspiracy; also
to Henry Williams, m for forgery in M ami
County, to Z. K. Hart, of Hodgeman Coun
tv, ami to Charles Knox, of Mitchell
County.
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A t'boctw Murder.
Mt'UKonKK. I. T.. March iM. Wilson Co
ley, a Choctaw lndlnn. left McAllister,
where he had received his part of the
Choctaw payment, to go to his hom- some
five miles distant. He did not reach bis
home an I his family, after waiting some
days became alarmed, bat could learn
nothing. Tuesday Aunt Scylla, an Indiaa
woman, while fishing in Handy creek.
found a dead man lying with his head ia
the creek and the body was Identified to
be that of the missing man and was takes
to his home. He bad been shot through
the lungs, the throat bad been cat front
ear to ear and the head had beea mashed
with some blunt weapon. A glove found
near the body has fastened suspicion upon
a negro named Sam Allen and he was ar
rested. es
Killed oa the L.
Kaxsas Crrr. Ma, March SI At 7:45
o'clock last night Alfonso Ellis, aged
forty-one, of the firm of Patten & Ellis.
Building contractors, was run over and
instant It killed by an engine oa the L
road at Fifth and Walker streets ia Kan
sas City. Kan. Mr. Ellis was on his way
from his residence to a butcher shop aad
attempted to cross the tracks behind a
north bound train when be was struck bv
-T
a train going south, knocking hiss under
the engine and horribly mangling his
body. The engine was thrown from the
track and the passengers considerably
shaken up. The train was running at a
moderate rate and eo other damage re
salted from the aecid-al
Ratine aad Beassvoleaee.
PtrrsECncH. Pa, March H A call has
beea Issued to the boiler manufacturers of
this and adjoining States to meet la this
city Tuesday, April la. to form as
organixation to be composed of the
leading manufacturers' of steam
boilers with a view to creating a
greater interest ia the masu fact
are of boilers of all kiads aad make the
see of the very best material compmlscry.
By doiag this the boiler makers expect
to decrease the ammber of explosieas Bad
establish a mialmam price, which will ie
ssue a reesoaable arcflt oa all boilers Uult,
that offeriag a premium far MBerfer atfm
STOCK ITEMS.
Cows which are expected to come hi
soon should have p'enty of fodder, bran,
roots aad such food, but none of a heating
character.
The 40,000, CW hogs raised in the coantry
are valued at J2JO.000.Oi). The MUlippi
valley claims to have raised tnree-flf tin
cf the number.
Water under foot is a great detriment to
sheep-growing, and hence ia wet seasons
the flock have to tie watched closely.
Foul foot is seldom known in a hilly
country.
The Stonewall Cattle Company, of Hn
Miguel County, N. M-, will remove thuir
entire herd of cattle to the Indian Ter
ritory, where they will l matured and
marketed as soon as possible.
Cattle stealing has bsn carried on to
such an extent in Karnes County. Tex ,
that the stockmen have met and organized
for the purpose of putting a stop to the
thieving and bring the guilty parties to
justice.
Young cattle which have been wintered
at the straw stack are quite apt to be
lousy. This should be seen to. and proper
measures used to clean out the parasites.
Applications of lard and kerosene o.l ill
do very well.
The horsemen of Saline and adjoining
counties in Missouri met at Marshall re
cently for the purpose of taking steps to
improve the breeds of horses. A perma
nent organ zntion was effected untler the
name of the Horse Breeders' Association
of Saline County.
Young colts will soon team to eat onts
when in stalls with their dams, aud an
excellent way to make the young lamb
grow is to keep ground oats, where they
can eat whenever they so desire, but the
food should Im so placed that the lamb,
can get to it while tho old sheep can not
reach it.
There is no doubt that when Devons are
as pTsis'ently and carefully put before
the public, as has leeT done for other
breeds by men of wealth, aid their g od
qualities well understood, tl.ey will stand
in tho front rank as the fanner's breed;
hardy, good rustlers, easv feeders am!
docile. Cor. Live-Stock Indicator.
Mmt of us make a mistake by fedngat
the wrong end of thi Ik g's existenc. We
don't get down to business in the hv f
feeding until a month or two lieforewe
sell him for pork. This Is nil wrong. The
main secret is In giving tho piggy a good
send-oir during the first two or three
mouths of hi txistence. During the first
week of a pig's life it Is quite important to
feed the sow so as not to start too great a
flow of milk, a handful of sh rts twice n
dav in less than half a pailful of warm
water lieing the best feed at the time.
Uuial New Yorker.
The increasing demand for sheep can le
attribute I to the low-priced cattle, cholera
among swine and the increasing demand
for mutton. The animal with the golden
hoof is fast assuming that exalted posi
tion on our Western farms to whi h Im Is
certainly entitled. Politician may dis
cuss whether or not it is necessary to hae
the sheep protected, by a duty. I say
protect tho sheup from dogs and wolves
and we will have at'tiinmi victory enough
for a lifetime, aud will lu the near future
make sheep husbnudry second to no othei
vocation. Iown Cor. Live-Stock Indicator.
FARM NOTES.
Throw your onion Meed into water nnd
use that which sinks.
Test tho garden seeds by sowing n few
pinches of each kind in a shnllow Ikx of
oil, which shuu d be kept moist.
Several f irmers near Wood Like, Neb ,
have formed a joint stock company nnd
propose buil ling a cn-nmery live mile,
south of that town. Ihe building will cost
aliout , and is to be completed in a
short tiiiM.
There nre two ways of artiflcally manur
ing the soil; one by the direct use of
chemical fertilizers; the other by feeding
farm nnlmals the foods that ore noli in
fertilizing elements, such ns ultiogen
phosphoric neid and potash.
The hot-bed for sweet potato plant
must not b; overlook? I. Now U the time
to have the Ud ready. I'su p rnty of
seed, ns there are manv diflkuitles to Im
encountered In icplaut ug, due to late
frosts thnt may hapKii and to cut worms.
A farmer living in Harper County.
Can., who has leen experimenting in
Kartir corn, finds it not Injured by t ,0 hot
winds, and also finds that his stock .eaves
all other kinds of feed for it. This year he
will try raising it as a substitute for ordi
nary brral stuff.
There will be no crop of out ns If tho
ground is not rich and well prepared, ami
butlittlo time remains ttefore th- onion
sets will Ite planted. After the sets twgin
to start they will not thrive if glass or
weeds grow among them. Ihey must be
clear of all obitncle.
if you dissolve bones by boiling them in
a strong potash lye and then ue dry earth
or leached ashi-s as an nbsorlient, you get
a fertiliz-r or compost rich In loth phos
phoric acid and potash. It will contain
also most of the nitrogen which was in the
lones. Farm and Home
A correspondent who hmbeen traveling
over the best portions of Kansas, reports
thnt there is less obi wh?attu Kansas than
for many Boastiis. All the mills are run
ning very light and many do ng nothing
M.lls in the Southern portiou of the State
are now importing wheat.
Some crops rrqu re an early tatt In
order to get ahead of the weed, and alt
to have mere time for growth. Among
such ar- carrots, parsnips ami Letts. (;t
the seed in the grutiud ns enriy a posi bl"
and keep the ji'ants fre from wds in
order to have them well under way be
fore summer.
The mnnngement of the Paris Exposition
hive s.jt apart space free of charge for the
proposed American exh-b.t cf Indian corn.
The Intention is to build a handsome corn
palace, in which the different k.nds of ccrn
will be exhibited. American cvoks la at
tendance will prepare corn fcr food in all
the various ways known to the Ameiican
housewife, and sample will h fresly
distributed to all who visit the exhibit.
The promoters of tbis display believe it
will prepare the way for a greatly in
creased demand for the American rsrral
In the Europ-an markets.
i
Notes.
An acre ia fruit, especially o! strawber
ries, will sometimes pay belter than &
acres of grain. It should pay lb- fencer
to have a sufficiency of fruit for his m
us alones
Cats are beyond qaestion the bt emp
to seed grass and clover with. Itisaoteo
much the crop as the conditio of th soil
and the t.me that favors te successful
growth cf gra-s. 0ta secures the very
best time, aad If thst crop is properly pre
pared for, it affords all the aesvesary con
dition of so. I.
When you Cad eegs with a thia sheil it
is a'taost a certain In Jicatioa that ths a&s
neest !its and ground bos.
The Lima Is cow improved so as to grow
in the bush fcrm instead of en poles. It
is known as the Bash Liau. a&d the es-eds
ire ssaalL
The loss frcm i&sect ravages l8 this
reentry may appear small, tat ProC
Riley estimates the annual damage a
high as SSO.M.O0a This is eeocsaotts.
and equals the entire prods ct of sesae eC
the cereal crop.
Ycosg poultry ef all knt eagfcx te he
well fed and cared far astil the feethera
get a good start to grewiag aad they are
aVe te pick mp a coeslderahje part ef their
livlag. Thea they caa be tsrae4 et
will largely take care ef themeelvse.
Makeahedfer kale. It is cms ef
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