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CANADIAN,
TEXAS
TALMAGE.
Ancient and Modern Spiritual'
ism Contrasted.
When the late D. TL Locks,
••Nasby," of the Toledo Blade, was
alive, he took particular pride in the
fact that none of his buildings had ever
been damaged by tire. It is a singular
fact that since his death three of the
best edifices erected by him in Toledo
have canght fire, and in each instance
at the top of the building.
A carpenter at Imlay City, Mich., I
having some spare time last week, he
went to his workshop and proceed to
make a handsome toolchest When it
was finished he invited some friends in
to inspect his production, and then
started to move it to another room,
when be discovered that it was six
inches wider than the doorway.
In the Days of Yore, According to Biblical
Lore, Wizzards Galled the Dead Forth.
In concluding a paper in Science up-
on the question whether forests in-
fluence rainfall or not, Henry Gannett
says: 4it seems idle to discuss further
the influence of forests upon rainfall
from the economic point of view, as
It is evidently too slight to be of the
east practical importance. Man has
not yet invented a method of controll-
ing rainfall.
n
Rev. Dr. Harcourt, of San
Francisco, Cal., recently delivered a
sermon on intemperance. Upon the
edge of the pulpit he placed seven
bottles containing samples of liquor
from seven different saloons. The
preacher then proceeded to give his
hearers the results of a chemical
analysis of the samples which he had
personally conducted.
Dr. Julius Pohlman thinks the
reason why our teeth decay so fast is
because we do not use them enough,
and, like other organs that are not ex-
ercised, they tend to atrophy. Our
teeth become weak because unused to
hard work. The author warns mothers
and nurses not to give the children
soft food if they would have them
have good teeth; in other words, make
them eat their crusts,
Dr, Renk of Munich has been experi-
menting on the utility of the electric
light, from a sanitary standpoint, in the
National Theatre of Munich. He found
that the electrio light had hardly any
influence on the deterioration of the airf
whereas the gaslight raised the tem-
perature of the room, deprived the air
of its oxygen, and rendered it injurious
by increasing the carbonic acid, especi-
ally in the higher regions.
More than 200,000 bird skins are
new contained m the Natural History
Museum at South Kensington, London.
A recent acquisition is the collection of
18,000 specimens made by the late Mar-
quis of Twceddale. This was present-
ed by Capt W. Ramsay, the naturalist's
nephew, who has included in his gift
the Tweeddale library embracino* near-
•* O
ly 3,000 ornithological volumes,many of
them very rare and valuable.
The highest peaks in northern
Europe, with their heights in feet from
the laiest determinations, are thus giv-
en by Prof. Mohn Galdhoppigeon;
South Norway, 8,399; Glitier Tind,
8,379; Snehaetten, 7,566; Oraefajokull,
6.457; Suhtclma, Northern* Norway,
6,178; Petermann's Spitze, East Green-
land, 11,418; Beerenburg, Jan Mayen,
8,350; Mount Misery, Bear Island, 1,785;
Hornsund Tind, Spitzbergen, 4,560;
Richthofen Monut, Franz Joseph Land,
5,184.
Chamois skin that is washed in
water becomes stiff and harsh. But it
can be washed and yet remain soft and
pliable by the following method: Use
a weak solution of soda and ¡warm
water, rub plenty of soft soap into the
leather, and allow it to soak for two
hours, then rub it sufficiently and rinse
in a weak solution of warm water,
soda, and yellow soap. If rinsed in
water only it will be unfit for use when
dry. After rinsing wring it out in a
rough towel and dry quickly. Then
pull it about and brush it well.
In an article on "Feeding for Fat
and Lean" Prof. Manly Miles writes:
Corn meal as the exclusive food oi
growing animals is undoubtedly defi-
cient in ash constituents, and my ex-
perience has been that when feeding it
alone the most satisfactory of develop-
ment of bone and muscle has been
obtained when the pigs bad access to
some bone ash, leached wood ashes, oi
other similar mineral matters. It is
likewise a common practice among
farmers of my acquaintance to pro-
vide some mineral "relishes" for their
pigs when their food consists largely oi
corn. This addition of mineral con-
stituents to the food seems to favor the
normal growth of muscle as well as
bone by increasing the general meta-
bolism of the organs of nutrition.
Ths Clydesdale horses of Scotland
and the shire horses of Great Britain,
nndoubtedly have a common origin,
says The Breeder's Gazette, and there
is a very great similarity in their con-
formation in general. Prior to the for-
mation of the stud books for the re-
spective breeds some ten years ago,
there was undoubtedly very much in-
tercrossing and commingling of blood
between the two breeds, which tended
to create the uniformity of type, but
during the last decade the general
tendency has been to regard the breeds
as entirely distinct; and doubtless for
many generations prior to that time
many breeders in England and Scot-
land discouraged cross-breeding, or the
mixture of what has for several genera-
tions been regarded by many person's
as distinct breeds. It is almost an
exact duplicate of the dispute which
exists in reference to the French
breeds of draft-horses. As in the one
case, , so in the other, there is a great
Modern Mediums, However, Simply Work
for Lucre and Are Tried in the Oonrts
for Their Brazen Mendacity.
In All Ages There Have Been Necromancers,
Sorcerers and Astrologers—The Exhuma-
tions from the Unseen "World-God Thinks
so Severely of Them that He Never Speaks
of Them But With Livid Thunders of In-
dignation.
Special to the Kansas City Times.
Brooklyn April 29—After the Rev. T.
DeWitt Talmage, D. D., had in his well-known
manner expounded the Scriptures, the multi-
tude of people who throng the Tabernacle
and all through tbe entrances, packing every
available space of standing and si tting room,
united in singing:
"Salvation! let the echo fly
The spacious earth aroand,
While all the armies of the sky
Conspire to raise the sound."
Dr. Talmage announced his subject: "Mod-
ern Spiritualism." He took for his text:
"Behold, there is a woman that hath a fa-
miliar spirit at En-dor, And Saul disguised
himself, and put on other raiment, and he
went, and two men with him, and they camc
to the woman by night; and he said, I pray
thee, divine unto me the familiar spirit, and
brine me him up, whom I shall name unto
thee."—I Samuel xxv iii. 7, 8. Following is
the sermon in full:
I have recently become a spiritualist At
least so some of the journals of that belief
declare. This, together with the fact that
"medium " are now being tried in the crim-
inal courts, setting millions of people to make
Inquiry in regard to communication between
this world and the next, leads me to preach this
sermon.
Trouble to the right of him, and trouble to
the left of him, Saul knew not what to do.
As a last resort, he concluded to seek out a
spiritual medium, or a witch, or any-
thing that you please to call her—at
any rate, a woman who had communication
with the spirits of the eternal world. It was
a very difficult thing to do, for Saul had
either slain all the witches, or compelled
them to stop business. A servant, one day,
said to King Saul: "I know of a spiritual
medium down at the village of En-dor!" "Do
youi" said the king. Night falls. Saul, put-
ting off his kingly robes, and putting: on the
dress of a plain citizen, with two servants,
goes out to hunt up this spiritual medium.
It was no easy thing for Saul to disguise him-
self, for the tallest people in the country only
came up to his shoulder, and I think from the
strength of tbe man and the way he bore him
self, he must have been well proportioned. It
must have been a frightful thing to see a man
walking along in the night eight or nine feet
high. I suppose, as the people saw him pass,
they said: "Who is that? He is as tall as
the king"—having no idea that in such a
plain dress there really was passing the king.
Saul and his servants after awhile reach the
village, and they say: "1 wonder if this is
the house;" and they look In and they see
the haggard, weird and shrivelled up spiritual
medium sitting by the light, and on the
table sculptured images, and divining rods,
and poisonous herbs, and bottles, and vases.
Thev say: "Yes, this must be the place." One
loud rap brings the woman to the door, and
as she stands there,holding the candle or lamp
above her head and peering out into the dark-
ness, she says: "Who is here?" The tall
king informs ner that he has come to have his
fortune told. When she hears that, she
trembles and almost drops the light, for she
knows there is no chance for a fortune-teller
or spiritual medium in all the land. But Saul
having sworn that no harm shall come
to her, she says: "Well, who shall I
bring up from the dead?" Saul says:
"Bring up Samuel." That was the prophet
who had died a little while before. I see her
waving a wand, or stirring up some poison-
ous herbs in a cauldron, or hear muttering
over some incantations, or stamping with her
foot, as she cries out to the realm of the
dead: 'Samuel! Samuel!" Lo, the freez-
ing horror I The floor of the tenement opens,
and the grey hairs float ud, and the forehead,
the eyeB, the lips, the shoulders, the arms,
the feet, the entire body of dead Samuel,
wrapped in sepulchral robe, appearing to the
astonished group, who stagger back and hold
fast, and catch their breath, and shiver with
terror. The dead prophet, white and awfnl
from the tomb, begins, to move his ashen
lips, and he glares upon King Saul, and cries
out: "What did you bring me up for? Why
did you break my long sleep? What do you
mean King Saul?" Saul, trying to compose
and control himself, makes this stammering
and affrighted utterance, as he says to the
dead prophet: "The Lord is against me, and
I have come to you for help. What shall I
do?" The dead prophet stretched forth his
finger to King Saul and said: "Die to-mor-
row 1 Come with me into the sepulchre. I
am going now. Come, come, come with me!"
And lo! the floor again opens, and the feet of
the dead prophet disappeared, and the arms,
and the shoulders, and tbe forehead. The
floor closes. Nothing is left in the room but
Saul and tbe two servants, and the spiritual
medium, and the sculptured images, and the
divining rods, and tbe bottles, and the vases,
and the poisinous herbs. Ü, that was an
awful scene!
I learn first from this subject that Spiritu-
alism is a very old religion. It is natural
that people should want to know tbe origin
and the history of a doctrine which is
so widespread in all the villages, towns,
and cities of the civilized world, get-
ting new converts every day—a doc-
trine with which many ^of you are already
tinged
Spiritualism in America was born in 1847,
in Hydesville, Wayne County, New York,
when one night there was a loud rap heard
against the door of Michael Weekman; a rap
a second time, a rap a third time; and all
three times, when the door was opened, there
was nothing found there, the knocking hav-
ing been made seemingly by invisible knuck-
les. In that same bouse there was a young
woman who had a cold hand passed over her
face, and there being seemingly no arm at-
tached to it, ghostly suspicions were excited.
After a while Mr. Fox and his family moved
into that honse, and then every night there
was a banging at the door and one night Mr.
Fox said: "Art you a spirit?" Two raps,
answering in the affirmative. "Are you tan
injured spirit?" Two raps, answering in the
affirmative. And so they found out as they
say, that it was tbe ghost or spirit of a
pedlar who had been murdered in that house,
many years before, for his five hundred dol-
lars. Whether the ghost of the dead pedlar
had come there to collect his five nundred
dollars, or his bones. I cannot say, not being
a Spiritualist; but there was a great racket at
the door, so Mr. Weekman dec! ared, and Mrs.
Weekman, and Mr. Fox, and Mrs. Fox, and
all the little Foxes. The excitement spread.
There was a universal rumpus. The Hon.
Judge Edmonds declared, in a book, that he
h ad actually seen a bell start from the too
shelf of a closet, heard it ring over the peo-
ple that was standing in the closet; then,
swung by invisible hands, it rang over the
people in the back parlor; and floated through
the folding doors to the front parlor, rung
over the people there, and then dropped on
the floor. N. P. Talmage, Senator of the Unit-
ed States, afterwards Governor of Wisconsin,
had his head completely turned with spirit-
ualistic demonstrations. A man as he was
pxuring along the road, said that he was lift-
ed up bodily, and carried toward his home
through the air, at such great speed he could
not count the posts on the fence as he passed;
and as he had a handsaw and a square in his
hand, they beat, as he passed through the air,
most delightful music. And the tables tip-
ped, and the stools tilted, and the bedsteads
raised, and the chairs upset, and it seemed as
if the spirits everywhere had gone into the
furniture business! Well, the people said:
In this country;
friend.
years ago we tina in our text a
Spiritualistic seance.
Nothing in the Spiritualistic circles of our
day has been more strange, mysterious, and
wonderful than things which have been seen
In the past centuries of the world. In all the
ages there have been necromancers, those who
¡ consult with the spirits of the departed;
charmers, those who put their subjects in a
mesmeric state; sorcerers, those who by tak-
ing poisonous drugs see everything and hear
everything and tell everything; dreamers, peo-
ple who in their sleeping moments can see
the future world and hold consultatiou with
spirits; astrologers, who could read a new dis-
pensation in the stars; experts in palmistry,
. who can tall by the linea in the palm of your
' hand your origin and your history. From a
ye on Meant Parnassus, we are told, there
iurnnure nusmess: weu, iuc yevy
"We have got something new In this c
it is a new religion." O no. my
Thousands of years ago we find in our
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was an exhalation that intoxicated the
sheep and the goats that came anywhere aear
it, and a shepherd approaching it was thrown
by that exhalation into an excitement in
which he could not foretell future events
and hold consultation with the spiritual
world. Yea, before the time of Christ the
Brahmins went through all the table-moving,
ail the furniture excitement which the spirits
have exploited in our day; precisely the same
thing over and over again, under the manipu-
lations of the Brahmins. Now do you say
that spiritualism is different from these? I
answer, all these delusions I have mentioned
belong to the same family. Tiiey are exhu-
mations from the unseen world. What does
God think of all these delusions? He thinks
so severely of them that he never speaks of
them but with livid thunders of indignation.
He says: "I will be a swift witness against
the sorcerer." He says: "Thou shalt not
suffer a witch to live." And lest you might
make some important distinction between
Spiritulism and witchcraft. God says, in so
many words; "There shall not be among
you a consulter of familliar spirits, or wiz-
ard, or necromancer; for they that do these
things are an abomination unto the Lord."
And He says again: "The soul of those who
seek after such as have familiiar spirits, aud
who go whoring after them, I will set myself
against them, and he shall be cut off from
among his people." The Lord Al-
mighty, in a score of passages, which I have
not now time to quote, utters His indigna-
tion against all this great family of delus-
ions. After that be a Spiritulist if you dare!
Still further: We learn from this text how
it is that people come to fall into Spiritualism.
Saul had enough trouble to kill ten men. He
did not know where to go for relief. After
awhile he resolved to go and see the witch of
En-dor. He expected tnat somehow she
would afford him relief. It was his trouble
that drove him there. And I have to tell you
now that Spiritulism finds its victims in tbe
troubled, the bankrupt, the sick, the bereft.
You loose your watch, and you go to the
fortune-teller to find where it is. You lose
a friend, you want the spiritual world opened,
so that you may have communication with
him. In a highly-wrought, nervous, and dis-
eased state of mind, you go and put yourself
in that communication. That is why I hale
Spiritualism. It takes advantage oi one in a
moment of weakness, which may come upon
us at any time. We lose a friend. The trial
is keen, sharp, suffocating, almost madden-
ing. If we could marshal a host and storm
the eternal world, and recapture our loved
one, the host would soon be marshalled. The
house is so lonely. The world is so dark "*he
separation is so insufferable.
But Spiritualism says: "We will open the
future world, and your loved one can come
back and talk to you." Though we may not
hear his voice, we may hear the rap of his
hand. So, clear the table. Sit down. Put your
hands on the table. Be very auiet. Five
minutes gone. Ten miuutes. No motion of
the table. No responso from the future world.
Twentv minutes. Thirty minutes. Nervous
excitement all the time increasing. Forty
minutes. The table shivers. Two raps from
the future world. The letters of the alpha-
bet are called over. The departed friend's
name is John. At the pronunciation of the
letter "J," two raps. At the pronunciation
of the letter "O," two raps. At the pronun-
ciation of the letter "H," two raps. At the
ronunciation of the letter "N," two raps,
'here you have the whole name spelled out.
J-o-h-n, John. Now, the spirit being present,
you say: "John, are you happy?" Two raps
rfve an affirmative answer. Pretty soon the
band of the medium begins to twitch and
toss, and begins to write out, after paper and
ink are furnished, a message from'the eter-
nal world. What is remarkable, the depart-
ed spirit, although it has been amid the
illuminations of heaven, cannot spell as well
as it used to. It has lost all grammatical
accuracy and cannot write as distinctly. I
received a letter through a medium once. I
sent It back. I said: "Just please to tell
those ghosts they had better go to school and
get improved in their orthography." Now,
just think of spirits, that the Bible represents
as enthroned in glory, coming down to crawl
under the table, and break crockery, and ring
tea-bells before supper is ready, aud rap the
window shutter ou a gusty night Is there
any consolation in such poor, miserable work
compared with the thought that our departed
Christian friends, got rid of pain and lan-
guishing, are in the radiant society of heaven,
and that we shall join them there, not in a
stifled and mysterious half-utterance, which
makes the hair stand on end and the cold
chills creep the back, but in au unhindered
and illimitable delight
"And none shall murmur or misdoubt.
When Gud'stfreat sunrise linds us out."
Yes, my friends, Spiritualism comes to
those who are in trouble and sweeps them
into its delusions. Saul, in the midst of his
disaster, went to the witch of En-dor. The
vast majority of those who have gone to
spiritual mediums have been sent there
through their misfortunes.
I learn still farther from this subject, that
Spiritualism and necromancy are affairs of the
darkness. Why did not Saul go iu the day?
He was ashamed to go. Besides that, he
knew that this spiritual medium, like all her
successors, performed her exploits in the
night The Davenports, the Fowlers, the
Foxes, the spiritual mediums of all ages,
have chosen the night or a darkened room.
Why? The majority of their wonders have
been swindles, and deception prospers besj
in the night
Some of the performances of spiritual med-
iums are not to be ascribed to fraud, but to
some occult law that after awhile may be de-
monstrated. But I believe that now nina
hundred and ninety-nine out of every thou-
sand achievements on the part of spiritual
mediums are arrant and unmitigated hum-
bug. The mysterious red letters that used
to come out on the medium's arm were found
to have been made by an iron pencil that went
heavily over the flesh, not tearing it but so
disturbing the blood, that it came upin great
round letters. The witnesses of tbe seances
have locked the door, put the key in their
cket, arrested the operator, and found out,
y searching the room, that hidden levers
moved the tables. The sealed letters that
were mysteriously read without opening, have
been found to have been cut at the side, and
then afterwards slyly put together with gum
arabic; and the medium who, with a heavy
blanket over his head, could read a book, has
been found to have had a bottle of phosphor-
ic oil, by the light of which anybody can read
a book; and ventriloquism, anil legerdemaiu,
and slight of hand, aud optical delusion ac-
count for nearly everything. Deception be-
ing the main staple of spiritualism, no won-
der it chooses the darkness.
You have all seen strange and unaccount-
able things in the night Almost every man
has at some time had a touch of hallucina-
tion. Some time ago, aftar I had been over
tempted to eat somethiug'indigestible before
retiring at night after retiring I saw the
president of one of the prominent colleges
astride the foot of the bed, while he demand-
ed of mc a loan of five cents! When I
awakened I had no idea it was anything super-
natural. And I have to advise you, if you hear
and see strange things at night to stop eat-
ing hot mince pie and take a dose of billious
medicine. It is an outraged physical organ-
ism, enough to deceive the very elect after
sundown, and does nearly all its work in the
night. The witch of En-dor held her
seances at night; so do all the witches. Away
with this religion of spooks.
Still further: I learn lrom my text that
Spiritulism is doom and death to its disciples.
King Saul thought he would get help from the
"medium;" but the first thing that he sees
makes him swoon away, and no sooner is he
resuscitated than be is told he must die.
Spiritualism is doom and death to everyone
that yields to it It ruins the body. Look In
upon an audience of spiritualists. Cadaver-
ous. Weak. Nervous. Exhausted. Hands
clammy and cold. Nothing prospers but long
hair—soft marshes yielding rank grass. Spir-
itualism destroys the physical health. Its
disciples are ever hearing startling news from
the other world. Strange beings crossing the
room in white. Table fidgettv, wanting to
get its feet loose as if to dance. Voices
sepulchral and onmlous. Bewildered with
raps. I never knew a confirmed Spiritualist
who had a healthy nervous system. It is in-
cipient epilepsy and catalepsy. Destroy your
nervous system and you might as well be
dead. I have noticed that people who are
hearing raps from the future would have but
little strength left to bear the hard raps of
this world. It is an awful thing to trifle with
one's nervous system. It is so delicate—it is
so far-reaching—its derangements are so ter-
rible. Get the nervous system a jangle, and
so far as your body and soul are concerned,
the whole universe is a jangle. Better in our
ignorance experiment with a chemist's retort
that may smite us dead, or with an en-
gineers' « steam boiler that may blow us
to atoms, than experiment with the nervous
system. a man can live with only one lung
or with no eyes, and be happv, as men have
been under such afflictions; but woe be to the
man whose nerves are shattered. Spiritualism
smites first of all, and mightily, against the
nervous system, and so makes life miserable.
I indict Spiritualism also, because it is a
social and marital curse. Tbe worst deeds of
licentiousness and the worst orgies of ob-
scenity have been enacted under its patron
age. The story is too vile for me to tell. I
will not polute my tongue nor your ears with
the recitaL Sometimes the civil law has been
evoked to stop the outrage. Families innum-
erable have been broken up by it. It has
pushed off hundreds of young women into a
life of profligacy, it talks about "elective af-
finities,*' and "affinltal relatione" and "spirlt-
- l «ud adopta the whole vocabulary
—
—
—
of free-lovism. In one of its public journals fl
declares "marriage is the monster curse of
civilization." "It is a source of debauchery
and intemperance." If spiritualism could
have its full swing, it would turn this world
into a pandemonium of carnality. It is an
unclean, adulterous, damnable religion, and
tbe sooner it drops into the hell from which
it rose, the better both for earth and heaven.
For the 6ake of man's honor and woman's
purity, I say let tbe last vestage of it perish
forever. I wish I could gather up all the rapa
it has ever heard from spirits blest or damned,
and gather them all on its own head in one
thundering rap Of ann ihilation!
I further indict Spiritualism for tbe fact
that it is the cause of much insanity. There
is not an asylum between Baugor and San
Francisco which has not the torn and bleed-
ing victims of this delusion. Go into any
asylum, I care not where it is, and the presid-
ing doctor, after you have asked him; "What
is the matter with that man?" will say:
"Spritualism demented him;" or "What is
the matter with that woman?" he will say
"Spiritualism demented her." It has taken
down some of the brightest intellects. It
swept off into mental midnight judges, sena-
tors, governors, ministers of the Gospel, and
one time came near capturing one of the
Presidents of the United States. At Flush-
ing, near this city, a mau became absorbed
with it forsook his family, took his only
fifteen thousand dollars, surrendered them to
a spiritual medium in New York, attempted
three times to put an end to his own life, and
then was incarcerated in tba State Lunatic Asy
lum,where he is to-day a raving maniac. Put,
your hand in tie hand of this witch of En-dor
and she will lead you to bottomless perdition,
where she holds her everlasting scene. Many
years ago the steamer Atlantic started from
Europe for the United States. Getting mid-
ocean the machinery broke, and she flounder-
ed around day after day; and week after
week, and for a whole month after she was
due people wondered, and finally gave her upb
There was great anguish in the cities, for
there were many who had friends aboard that
vessel. Some of the women in their
distress, went to the spiritual mediums, and
inquired as to the fate of that vesseL The
mediums called up the spirits, and the rap-
pings on tbe table indicated the steamship
lost, with all on board. Women went raving
mad, and were carried to the lunatic asylum.
After awhile one day a gun was heard off
Quarantine. The flags went no on the ship-
ping, and the bells of the churches were rung.
The bovs ran through tbe streets,crying: "Ex-
tra! The Atlantic is safe!" There was the
embracing as from the dead, when friends
came again to friends; but some of those pas-
sengers went up to find their wives in
tbe lunatic asylum, where this cheat of iafer-
nal Spiritualism had put them. A Aran in
Bellevue Hospital, dying from wounds made
by his own hand, was asked why he tried to
commit suicide, and he said: "The spirits
told me to." Parents have strangled their
children, and when asked why they did it, re-
plied: "Spiritualism demanded it." It is
the patronizer aud forager for the madhouse.
Judge Edmonds, in Broadway Tabernacle,
New York, delivering a lecture in behalf of
Spiritualism, admitted in so many words:
"There is a fascination about consultation
with the spirits of the dead that has a tend-
ency to lead people off from their right judg-
ment, and to instil into them a fanaticism
that is revoiting to the natural mind."
I bring against this delusion a more fearful
indictment: it ruins the soul immortal.
First, it makes a man a quarter of an infidel;
then it makes him half an infidel; then it
makes him whole infidel The whole system,
as I conceive it,is founded on the insufficien-
cy of the Word of God as a revelation. God
says the Bible is enough for you to know
about the future world. You "say it is not
enough, and there is where you and the Lord
differ. You clear the table, you shove aside
the Bible, you put your hands on the table,
and say: "Now let spirits of tbe future
world come and.tell me something the Bible
has not told me." And although the
Scriptures say: "Add thou not unto
His words, lest He reprove thee, and thou be
found aliar," you risk it, and say; "Come
back, spirit of my departed father; come
back, spirit of my departed mother, of my
companions, of ray little child, aud tell me
somethings I don't know about you and
the unseen world." If God is ever slapped
square in the face,it is when spiritual medium
puts down her baud on the table, invoking
spirits departed to make a revelation. God
has told you all you ought to know, and how
dare you to be prying into that which is none
of your business? You cannot keep tbe
Bible in one band and Spiritualism in the
other. One or tbe other will sliu out of your
grasp, depend upon it.
Spiritualism is adverse to the Bible in tbe
fact that it has iu these last days called from
the future world Christian men to testify
against Christianity. Its mediums call back
Lorenzo Dow, the celebrated evangelist, the
Lorenzo Dow testifies that Christians are
idolators. Spiritualism calls back Tom Payne,
and he testifies that he is stopping in the
same house in heaven with John Buuyan.
They call back John Wessley, and he testifies
against the Christian religion which he all his
life gloriously preached. Andrew Jackson
Davis, the greatest of all the Spiritualists,
comes to the front and declares that the New
Testament is but "the dismal echo of a bar-
baric age," and the Bible only "one of the pen
and ink relees of Christianity." They attempt
to substitute the writings of Swedeuborg, and
Andrew Jackson Davis, and other religous
balderdash, in the place of this old Bible. I
have in my house a book which was used in
this very city in the public service of Spirit-
ualists. It is well worn with much service I
open that book, and it says: "What is
our baptism? Answer; Frequent ablutions
of water. What is our inspiration? Plenty
of sunlight. What is our prayer? Abundant
physical exercise. What is our Jove-feast?
A clear conscience and sound sleep." And
I find from the same book that the chief item
in their public worship is gymnastic exercise,
and that whenever they want to rouse up
their souls to a verv high pitch of devotion
they,sing page sixty-five: "The night has
gathered up her moonlit fringes;" or page
6ixteeu: "Come to the woods, heighoJ" You
say you are not such a fool as that; but
you will be if vou keep on in tbe track you
have started.
"But," says some one, "wouldn't fit be of
advantage to bear from the future world?
Don't you think it would strengthen Chris-
tians? There are a great many Mater ialists
who do not believe there are souls; ibut if
spirits from the future world should knock
and talk over us, to they would be persuao ed."
To that I answer, in the ringing words oi' the
Son of God: "If they believe not Moses and
the prophets, neither will they be persua-ded
though one rose from the dead."
Now I believe, under God, that this6erm on
will save manv from disease, insanity, an d
perdition. I believe these are the days of
which the apostle spake when he said: "In
the latter times some shall depart from the
faith, giving heed to seducing spirits." I
think my audience, as well as other audienc-
es in this day, need to have reiterated in their
bearing the passages I quoted some
minutes ago: "There shall not be
among you a consulter of famil-
iar spirits, or wizard, or necromancer; for
they that do these things are an adomination
unto the Lord;" and "The soul that turneth
after such as have familiar spirits, I will set
myself against them, and they shall be cut off
from their people."
But I invite you this morning to a Christian
stance, a noonday seance. This congregation
is only one great family Here is tbe church
table. Come around the church table, take
your seats for this;great Christian seance, put
your Bible on the table, put your hands on "
the top of the Bible," and then listen,
and hear if there are any voices com-
ing from the eternal world. I think there
are. Listen! "Secret things belong unto the
Lord our God, but things that are revealed
belong unto us and to our children." Surely
that is a voice from tbe spirit world' But before
you rise from this Christian seaucí, 1 want
you to promise me you will be satisfied with
the Divine revelation until the light of the
eternal throne breaks upon your vision. Do
not sit down at table-rappings, either in sport
or in dead earnest Have your tables so well
made, and their legs so even, that they will
not tip and rattle. If the table must
move, let it be under the offices of industrious
housewifery. Teach your children there are
no ghosts to be seen or heard in this world
save those wh!ch walk on two feet or four,
human ci beastiaL Remember that Spiritual-
ism at the best is a useless thing; for if it
tells what tbe Bible reveals it is a
superfluity, and if it tells what the
Bible does not reveal, it is a lie. In-
stead of going out to get other people to
tell your fortune, tell your own fortune by
putting your trust in God and doing
tbe best you can. I will tell your fortune:
"All things work together for good to them
who love God.'* Insult not your departed
friends by asking them to come down and
scramble under an extension table. Remem-
ber that there is only one Spirit whose dicta-
tion you have a right to invoke, and that la
the holv, blessed, and omnipotent Spirit of
God. Hark i He is rapping now, not on a
table or on the floor, but rapping on the door
of your heart, and every rap is an invitation
to Christ and a warning'of judgment to come.
O, grieve Him not away. Quench Rim not
He has been all around you this morning;
He was all around you last night He haa
been around you all your lives. Hark! There
comes a voice dropping through the
roof, breaking through the window, filling all
this house with tender and overmastering in-
tonation, saying; **My spirit shall aot alwayi
strive."
A TEBBIBLE DEATH.
After a Week of Feartul Suf-
fering,
T. M. Turner, of Kansas City, Dies of Gland-
ers Contracted from His Horse—The Cele-
brated Conway Double Murder Recalled,
Etc.
Died of Glanders.
Kansas Citt, Mo., April 28.—The Times
says: If there be any who are still of the opin-
ion that Thomas M. Turner was guilty of tbe
murder of Mrs. Catherine Conway and her lit-
tle daughter Kate, and that he should have
been punished therefor, they may now pos-
sess their souls in peace. Early yesterday
morning, after a week of fearful suffering.
Turner's soul went before a higher court than
the one that declared him innocent here.
He died of glanders, one of the most loath-
some diseases known to medical science, con-
tracted one week ago last Sunday. Turner
was doctoring a horse afflicted with the glan-
ders, and for a remedy blew salt from his
mouth into the animals" nostrils. Either in
this way, or what is more probable, by get-
ting some of the virus into a slight wound
apon his hand, be became inoculated with
the poison and his death was the result. Tbe
only watchers by the sick man's bed when
life went out were his son-in-law, James Rai-
ney, aud Chales McCahou, a young man who
has been in Turner's employ and who now has
charge of his business. According to them
his last moments were quiet and peaceful.
The subject of the Conway murder was not
broached during his illness by himself or any
of his attendants. Dr. Bowker, who attended
Turner and whs is a firm believer in his inno-
cence, says that his mind at all times seemed
free from any burden, and that he died in full
possession of his faculties and the knowledge
that he was to die.
Turner lived in a little two-room house at
2011 Nineteenth street. The neighborhood is
a quiet one, and yesterday as the remains lay
in a rather handsome casket in plain view of
the street, there was nothing about the prem-
ises to indicate that anything unusual had oc-
curred. Few neighbors entered the house.
Xhey had heard that the disease was a con-
tagious one and they stood in wholesome
dxead of it Shortly after 4 o'clock, in a
drtenchiug rain, the undertaker arrived and
the remains were conveyed to Union cem-
etery, where they were interred without
an\r attendant ceremonies. This was in ac-
cordance with Turner's expressed wish. A
singular story in connection with the Conway
murder was related to a Times reporter yes-
terday by a lady who lives very near the Tur-
ner :" sidence. She says she had been away
from, home the afternoon of the killing and
enly "beard of it on her return. That night
ebe 'dreamed that Turner was the murderer,
¡and so wrote her husband. This was before
'üurnier was arrested.
The Conway murder occurred at Eighteen-
th anal Oak streets October 23, 1885, and on a
c bain, of circumstantial evidence Turner was
v ery nearly convicted of the crime. Mrs.
C'onwiav and her daughter Katie were found
dt*ad.at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the day
altowe mentioned. The body of the mother
wt s lying across the bed with her skull
enished in and the little girl was cling-
ing? face downward to her mother's breast,
tht s -crimson blood m atting her pretty brown
hai r and.hiding a murderous wound on the
sld( s .of her head.
Tbie alarm was given and the authorities at
once went to work on the case. John D. Con-
wav, .the husband and father, was a milkman
and it t the time the murder was supposed to
have «iccurred was driving to his farm south
of We stport. Turner was also a milkman
and hi id been purchasing milk from Conway,
the de livery being made at the latter's house.
On thi i day of the murder Turner was seen
leavinj ? the premises about 1:45 o'clock In
the afj .ernoon to make his daily rounds. Late
in the evening a coupling pin such as is used
to con P'e cars was found in the rear of the
premia es. One end of the pin was covered
with b lood and hair, showing that it was the
instrument with wbich the deed had been
comnUtted. It was learned that Turner had
on siyveral occasions used a coupling pin as a
hitch tng weight This could not be found
after the murder. He was arrested, and,
after a hotly contested trial, acquitted. Tur-
ner protested his innocence, denied having
used a coupling pin for a hitching weight, and
claime d that the only ground of suspicion
against * him was the fact that he was in the
rear y ard on the afternoon of the murder.
He insl sted that he knew nothing of the deed
until he heard it on the streets.
Turner was a widower and lived almost the
life of a miser in the little frame cottage,
There is a romantic closing in the lives of the
parties connected with this tragic history that
may have so me bearing on its fearful end.
Mrs. Conwaj-, whose maiden name was Cath-
erine Banting, was an attractive girl and
while quite y oung she was engaged to a young
man, a miliar, at her old home, Osborne, Kan.,
Thomas Tucner, too, loved Miss Banting, and,
during a temporary absence of the young
miller, he wrote a letter to her purport-
lug to be from her lover that bad the
effect of breaking off the e igagement. Tur-
ner then sought Miss Bautiug's hand but his
suit was uncessful, 6he finally marrying Con-
way, then a railroad contractor. The young
Miller and Mrs. Conway afterward discovered
the fraud that had separated them, but it was
too late ftor a reconciliation. The only effect
was to convert a dislike into a hatred on the
part of the woman toward Turner.
Regaining Strength.
Berlin, April 26.—A bulletin issued this
morning says: "The emperor slept well last
night His fever is very slight and his gen-
eral condition begins to improve.
At noon the temperature was 38° Celsius
and his appetite is improving and bis general
condition was satisfactory.
During the day the emperor was out of bed
four hoürs and his temperature was almost
normal. His sense of taste, which he lost
during the critical period, has returned, and
this is regarded as an exceptionally favorable
sign. He seems better in every respect
The physicians are of the opinion tha t tbe
crisis has passed.
The emperor to-day discussed affairs of
state with General Von Schellendroff and Von
Albedyll. Profs. Bergmann and Levden sign-
ed to-day's bulletins. Prof. Leyden, on talk-
ing of Dr, Mackenzie to a friend, said that no
doctor could have treated the emperor in a
more humane or skillful manner.
A Mining Town All In Ashes.
Dead wood, Dak., April 26.—Central City
vas destroyed by fire early this morning, not
st store or shop being left standing and 130
buildings burned and fifty families left home-
lesflL Deadwood Is sending them food. Tbe
loss is $250,000, insurance $25,003. Lead
City and Deadwood firemen assisted, but lack
of water prevented saving the town. Both
sides of Main street; from Saw Pit to Gold
street are in ashes. The Fairview quartz
mills were destroyed. Merchandise and house
hold goods are piled up all over the sides of
the mountains. No one was Injured. Central
Cltv is a mining town two and a half miles
west of Deadwood with a population of 1,000.
It ships about $100,000 worth of bullion
monthly.
Chemical Paint Works Rained.
Natick, Mass., April 26.—Tho chemical
paint factory of Henry Woods, Sons <fc Co.,
at Lake Crossing, was destroyed by fire this
morning. The fire originated 1n the pack-
ing room and Is said to have been due to com-
bustion of turpentine. The loss was over
$150,000, but is said the insurance covers the
loss.
High Water in Manitoba.
2 Winnipeg, April 27.—Tbe water in tbe Red
river at Shelkirk is still rising. Tbe railroad
track has been badly washed. The steamer
Marquette was spilt in two by ice and an Ice-
landic family had a narrow escape from
drowning. Great quaitities of lumber have
been carricd away.
Parnell Confident.
New Yore, April 26. —Harry Fredericks,
the London correspondent of the Times,cables
.his paper a long interview with Parnell on the
Irish situation. He quotes the Irish leader as
saying that the Irish people are bound to dis-
obey the illegal coercion law and holding that
such laws can have no moral sanction. As to
the prospects of some immediate change, Mr.
Parnell is not sanguine. He says: "From all
the indications afforded bv the by-elections
it la evident that at the next general elections
those electors who abstained from voting in
1886 and thereby returned the tory govern-
ment with 100 majority will, in the main, vote
to restore Mr. Gladstone to power with about
a similar majority. But as to when the op-
portunity of a general election will come is a
question. The time is only just approaching
in which it will be possible to test the cohe-
sion of the liberal union iats to their tory
alike, lie government, are either
!
i
The Gattling gun company, with
of £800,000 subscribed in London, has
formed with the object of
business of the gun trust in the
turely pluming themselves on the unoppeasá
second reading of the local government bilL
This measure depends on a multitude
of details and the battle ground
of these will be in committee. But
whether or not we succeed is upsetting the _
government this year over the local govern- ¡ hemisphere. Earl De Gray haa been
ment bill or some other question,, it must be chairman of the company.
remembered that the final result of the
restoration of a parliament to Ireland is as-,
sored beyond a doubt For an event of such
magnitude which has now become the certain ,
pacific prospect of a year or two wc can
surely afford to have a little patience.
Although tbe pause may seem to be long, it is
essential and valuable." I have said a period ,
of waiting was an advantage to us. It is edu-
cating and will educate the people of Great
Britain. Men who in 1885 followed Mr. Glad-
stone in his great measure front belief in tbe ¡
man, now follow him as well from belief iu !
the cause. In Ulster this improvement is
noticeable. I believe from all I hear that if sn
election were to take place now we should
make a net gain of three members there.
ga
Lord Randolph Churchill's speech was the
hardest blow this government has yet receiv-
ed and it will have far reaching results in the
country. These results, toward which events
are shaping, must be In our favor. Let ui
wait alertly and sit still in patience and see
what they are."
A Negro Uprising.
Birmingham, Ala., April 24.—When the
citizens of Bessemer left their homes this
morning they found the dead body of a 150
pound negro suspended from an oak tree in
the center of the town, placarded:
"Our mothers, wives and daughters must
and shall be protected. Bessemer's Best."
The fact of the negro's removal, however,
was not news to mauy of those who looked
upon his dead body. It was accomplished
about midnight last night by a masked mob
after they bad dragged him through tbe
town shouting: "Lynch him," "string him
up."
Handy Posey was the negroe's name,and his
offense was an attempted outrage on Mamie
McKinney, a 12-vcar-old white girl, adopted
daughter of a mechanic living just out of the
town, whose surname she bore. The assault
took place at McKinney's home last Friday
afternoon, but the girl broke from. Posey's
grasp in time to save herself, and McKinney,
who had been attracked to the spot by her
cries, gave chase to him and caught him Iu
the heart of the town, where he was turned
over to the police.
The matter of lynching the prisoner was
mooted that night but was left in abeyance
waiting better proofs of bis identity .
Saturday several negroes were ranged in
front of the girl and she unhesitatingly
pointed to Posey as her assailant Plans
The American flint glassworks strike, i
been settled at a conference at New York
and the factoriea will resume work Monday;
Twenty surviTors of the great Sultana ex*
plosion of April 26, 1865, in which 1,700
Ion soldiers lost their lives, held a reunion at.
Hillsdale, Mich., Thursday night
Lionel E. Brown, aged 17, a young English-
man, committed suicide at Wingate, N. M.,.
by shooting himself in the head.
is' known.
Three Indian Territory murderers,Owen D..
Rill. George Moss and Jack Crow, were
h&nged at Fort Smith Friday. -
B}- the explosion of a gasoline stove at To-
peka. Mary McLaughlin, aged 6, daughter Of
James McLaughlin, and Annie Evans, aged
19, wet* bunred to death.
It is n"ported that a sleeper on the Chicage
express 6 ° the Burlington road jumped the
track near Orleans, Neb., Fridsy morning and
that one a'*Q was killed and five seriously
wounded.
The total ntt.*11^ of failures in the United
States from Jam'"""J 1 to date is 3,736 against
3,807 in 1S87.
In tbe parliament "*1^ election in Mid Lan-
arkshire, Scotland. F* 'day, the Gladstonlana
gained sixty-eight and v^e conservatives eight
votes.
Prince Bismarck has declined the title of
duke on the ground that he is .Q°t in position
to support the diguity.
The Queen of England haa returned te
Windsor castle, safe and sound, after her con-
tinental trip.
The Servian ministry resigned Friday
morning, but a new one was at .once formed.
Advices from Vienna say an English syndi-
cate is trying to buy the imperial .garden in
tbe Prater, with the intention of electing a
place of amusement. The garden is ¿be pri-
vate property of the emperor aud his brothers.
Two agents of tbe syndicate had an interview
with the emperor, who said he would *?lve
them a definite answer within a fortnight
Tbe property is valued at £50,000.
The Berlin Post, referring to a statement
that tbe czar has replaced General Bogdan-
ovitch iu his former position in the Rus-
were laid forthwith to make way with him, 1 pian service, recalls his endeavor to arrange
but he was so well guarded at the lockup that
it was not thought advisable to try to take
him.
taken from the marshal'S home.
Yesterday, however, the marshal, thinking
his house would be the safest place for tbe
prisoner over night took him there, and it
was from there that the avengers took him
last night The mob made the marshal and
the two policemen of the town go along with
them and see the work well done.
Mamie McKinney sav6 she was in the yard
Friday afternoon when Posey came by and
asked, "Have you seen any horses around
here?" She said she had not but tbe negro
lingered, and finally she asked him what be
wanted. He approached her from behind and
seized her about the waiste and said he'd kill
her if she made any noise and threw her to
the ground, but she screamed lustily and
finally broke away from him.
Outrages seem to run in the Posey family,
Hardy, who was 21 vears old, was a younger
brother of Wesley Posey, who raised such a
racket here in December, 1S83, bv a similar
attempt on a 5-year old white child when half
of the Second Alabama regiment was re-
quired here for nearly a week to protect him
from the populace. He was convicted under
guard of the troops and sentenced to bang
but tbe supreme court remanded tbe case be-
cause he was denied a change of venue and
awaiting trial in an adjoining county be died
in jail here
neoroeb in full control.
Birmingham, Ala., April 25.—Word camc
from Bessemer about miduight that the ne-
groes. in resentment of the lynching of Hardy
Psoey, bad risen against the whites and the
municipal government and to-night liad fired
the town in several places. A special train
was made up and sent down loaded with de-
tachments from the city military companies,
several deputy sheriffs and a sauad of police-
men and a good supply ot arms. Another
detachment of soldiers and a good posse of
other good citizens will go down on the 2:40
train.
London Gossip.
London, April 25.—The Chronicle announ-
ces the approaching marriage of Mr. Joseph
Chamberlain to Miss Endicott, who met and
formed an attatebment to tbe Birmingham
statesman during his visit to the United
States.
The Duke of Cambridge, commander in
chief, was before a select committee of parlia-
ment yesterday. He said that 11,000 addition-
al men were required to place the army on a
sound footing. He thougnt it wa6 impossible
to reduce the millitary estimates, because
with au army of volunteers it was
nece8sary!to make tbe service attractive. In
Germany this was not necessary, because mil-
itary service was compulsory, and the cost per
soldier there was much Jess than in England.
He further expressed great dissatisfaction
with tbe equipment and armament of the
forts.
A dispatch from The Hague says the
Deutsche parliament will meet on May 1.
The Rio Tinto mine has declared a dividend
of 17 shillings, instead of 10 shillings as was
expected. The announcement of the dividend
caused a raise in tbe price of Rio Tinto
shares.
i ?
Berlin Flashes.
Berlin, April 2a,—Count Herbert Bismarck
has simply been promoted to the rank of min-
ister of state, and not to that of minister of
affairs, as previously reported.
The dock laborers at Hamburg struck to
day, leaving the commercial traffic of the
city at a standstill, pending a settlement of
the differences between employer aud em-
ployee.
Dragged by the ITair.
Columbus, O., April 25.—As Miss Etta
Pinney was driving a spirited horse through
the streets of Dublin, a suburb of Columbus,
last evening, the animal took fright and rao
away. Striking an obstacle, tbe lady was
thrown out in such a way that her hair,
which came loose, caught and wound around
the hub. In that position she was dragged
about thirty yards
a Franco-Russian alliance and savs it thinks
that his reinstatement indicates a rcucwal "bf
ascendancy of Count Tolstoi,whose influence
last year tended toward an immediate rupr
ture with Germany.
Queen Victoria has taken her departure
from Berlin. Bofore leaving the castle the
queen bade tbe emperor an affectionate fare-
well. The emperor expressed a hope to see
ber again in better times.
A New York dispatch says "Albert Griffin,
chairman of tbe anti-saloon republican na-
tional committee, reports numerous letters
received from senators, congressmen, gover-
nors and other leaders, including several
whose names are being considered in connec-
tion with the presidency, strongly indorsing
tbe movement to commit the party openly
against the saloons."
King John of Abyssinia bas reopened ne-
gotiations for the conclusion of peace be-
tween Italy and Abyssinia.
A Paris dispatch says that at a meeting of
tbe Patriotic league the group of action ap-
proved the proposal that the league should
issist the movement of the revision of the
constitution. A reorganization committee
was appointed with M. Paul Deroulede aa
president
Tbe bank of Antlgo, Wis., was robbed of
$6,000 by some unknown person who went in
at tbe back door while the cashier wae at
dinner.
It is officially announced that Count Her-
bert Bismarck has been appointed Prussian
minister of state and of foreigu affairs.
The Ohio G. A. R boys are in camp at
Toledo
Prairie Arcs are raging in Dakota and Mani-
toba.
The British parliament refused to pass the
Irish county government bill to second read-
ing.
The machine shop and pattern shop of the
Delaraatcr Iron works In New York were de-
stroyed by lire, involving a loss of $100,000.
Tbe reports of rioting at Bessemer, Ala.,
are positively denied.
The secretary of the treasury accepted ten-
ders of bonds to the total amount of $2,840-
000, made up as follows: Registered 4a, $300,-
000 at 126, $90,000 at 125%. $50,000 at 125;
registered 4%s, $2,000,000 at 1073*, $4)0,000 at
107
Tbe stories of Blaine's ill health ire repudi-
ated. His son Walker says his father went to
Europe on a pleasure trip and not for health.
At Kokomo, Ind., Thomas Rousch shot his
wife and Charles Marks, her paramour.
William Bullock, in Wayne county, N. Y.,
6bot his wife four times with a revolver, kill-
ing her instantly, he then placed the weapon
to his own head, and flred, iflicting a fatal
wound. Jealousy was the cause. Three
children, aged from 9 to 18 years, survive. '
Three thousand shoemakers are on a strike
in Berlin.
A Nogales dispatch say6 a pitched battle
between Mexican troops and Yaqui Indians
took place in Sonora a few days ago, result*
ing in the defeat of tbe Indians with seven-
teen killed aud a large number wounded.
The Mexicans had one man killed and sever*
al wounded.
Unknown parties effected an entrance tc
the Catholic church at Roseland, Neb., and
destroyed everything within reach, including
ing the sacramental alter and tbe robes.
Tbe French minister of marine has asked
the chambers of deputies for a credit $62,000,-
000 francs for defense works at Brest, Cher-
bourg and Toulon.
Judge Samuel D. Lecompte, one of tbe
prominent figures in Kansas during the excit-
ing times immediately preceding tbe rebell-
over a stony street at a . ... , , ,r w m ,
frightful speed. The shafts breaking, releas- ■ , i i*"8" ^ Mo.,^Tuesday atjtbe
ed tbe horse. It was necessary to remove tbe
wheel and take it home with the unfortunate
young lady, as her hair was matted with the
oil and dirt so that it could not be unwound.
It is thought Miss Pinney is not fatally injur-
A Monarchy Predicted.
Paris, April 24.—At a recent gathering of j brains,
his adherents the Comte de Paris said: "The
situation is a grave one and must be met
with sang froid, for it was inevitable. As 1
predicted in 1887 internal disputes have
stricken with powerlessness tbe wasteful,
residence of bis son, J. T. Lecompte. The
funeral will take place Thursday at Leaven-
worth, Ksn.
Count Herbert Bismarck has been appoint-
ed German minister of foreign affalra.
At Cooper, Tex., B. E. Boydston shot Miaa
Lulu Frazier fatally and then blew out hie
Tbe young lady is 16 years of age and
was engaged to Boydston and thev were to
have been married last Saturday night but
she postponed the wedding and the shooting
was the result
A Bangor special says "Mr.
O. M. Shaw, of
persecuting republican government It is dis ! End hotel, Bar Harbor, who lately
credited at Lome and in Europe it bas no force.
Tbe radicalism in affairs bas been disor-
ganized in favor of universal suffrage, and
France, weary of such a style of government,
yearns for deliverance. Tbe monarchists
have not waited for the present crisis in order
to demand a revision of tbe constitution. 1
myself inscribed it on their programme. But
it is my duty also to tell them that this move
ment will exhaust itself lnfutility, and that
France will be led into the gravest dangers
should she believe that a name alone, what-
ever it may be, can constitute a settlement to
give the settlement of which demand a re-
vision, not from divided assemblies, where
they are in a minority, but from tbe country
itself, consulted in a lawful manner. At tbe
decisive hour it will be understood that this
settlement must be a monarchy, such as 1
have defined it, and to tbe restoration of
which I dedicate all my efforts."
The senate to-day discussed the military
bilL M. DeFreycinct defended tbe commit-
tee's proposal to establish a three year's serv-
ice as sufficient to provide enough soldiers for
the defense of tbe country.
General Billot supported the'proposal in ita
substantial points, at tbe same time express-
ing confidence in the existing army.
M. Buffet regretted that tbe superior coun-
cil of war had not been consulted. He pro-
posed that the question be referred back to
the committee. This proposal was rejected
Marshal Canrobert criticised the three
years' service clause as tending to produce
militia and not soldiers.
Hie committee on revision of the constitu-
tion has decided to hear M. Floquet's views
on tbe subject and to ask him when he wi£
present the propoeal and what points It will
returned from Florence, says Mr. Blaine told
blm that on account of ill health, be would
not be a candidate for president Mr. Shaw
is a republican and an intimate friend of Mr.
Blalnp."
Another antl-Boulangerlst manifestation
has been made in Paris—a party of students
burning Boulanger in effigy.
Burglars attempted to break into the store
of PetroBros., at Silver Lake, Kan., the other
night and one of the gang was shot by Jeff
Petro, a 15-year-old son of the proprietor
The ball entered the right side, ranging down-
ward, and lodged near the spine. Tbe wound
Is likely to prove fatal. The burglar gave
his name as Louis Adams of Cleveland. O
and said be had two accomplices. He is only
18years old. '
The American steamer San Pablo, Captain
Reed, from San Francisco, March 24, via
Yokohama for Hong Kong, la a total loaa. Her
crew haa arrived at Shanghai.
Near Cabooi, in Texas county, Ma, a i
named Likens crushed the heada of hie
children, a boy and a girl, aged respectively
9 and 11 years, with an ax and then cut hfa
own throat with a pocket knife. He exnired
in ten minutes. .
The American ahip Continental,
Gilkey, from New York, December 8L
Calcutta, a ahora at Palmyraa point haa
come a total wreck. Her ci -
James Van Rensaalaer of
claims to own the land «i which
MarkvMicfc,ct*ife
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