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Canadian Free Press.
CANADIAN',
TEXAS
James Russell Lowell will sail for
home on Nov. 22
The new Lord Major of London ia a
Ian-maker named Whitehead.
Mulhall has broken the world's
swimming record in £ngiand. He
swam 1,000 yard? io 14 min. 17} sea
It is said that the late Alexander H.
Stephens during his lifetime educated
150 boys and fifty girls, giving them
all a collegiate education.
Eir press Frederick is greatly
pleased with Sir Morell Mackenzie's
book and has written a letter of nearly
twenty pages to tell him so.
Mrs. Lanotrt told an Omaha re-
porter that she loved nothing better
than to attend to her household duties
and that she delights in doing her own
clothes mending.
Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes will
preside at the annual meeting of Wo-
men's Home Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, at Bos-
ton, earlv next month.
Says a foreigu correspondent: •The
Crown Prince "of Germany is a dear
little fellow six years old. with fair
?kin, hair and coloring generally, and
full of life and intelligence.1'
General Lord Wolseley is trou-
bled with insomnia. Q s nervous sys-
tem has doubtless been injured by his
effort to sustain the oppressive dignity
required of "England'souly General"
The London Academy speaks en-
thusiastically of the merits of James
Whitcomb Riley's book of poems, "Old-
Fashioned Roses." It says among
other things, that "it can hardly bo
denied that the average of American
books of verse is higher than the En"-
ish."
A brother of the late ex-Marshal
Bazaine is still living in France. He
is an engineer, and has two sons who
are promising young officers in the
French army. They have been author-
ized to add their mother's name to
their father's, and are given in the
army list as Bazaine-Hayter.
Mrs. Maria Louise Genet Van
Rennselaek, widow of Cornelius V an
Rennselaer, who died at Greenbush,N.
Y,, last week, at the age of eighty-six,
was the daughter of Edmond Charles
Genet, known in history as "Citizen
Genet," ambassador to this country
from the first French Redublicin 1793.
One afternoon last week as the
Prince of Wales was walking across
the Place de la Concorde, Paris, he
met General Boulanger. They never
speak as they pass by, as they have
never been presented to each other.
They looked at each other sharply,
however, and passed on their ways
musingly, _
The late. Lord Sackville was not
popular in England. He was attached
to the household of Queen Victoria,
and was a great favorite with her. He
was always fighting with his neighbors
after he became owner of the Knole
estates about rights of way, etc.
After his wife's death he became a
hypochondriac, and was constantly
under the influence of morbid delu-
sions.
Bazaine's children all r eturned
with their mother to Mexico except
the eldest who shared his meager pay
with his miserable father. A brother
of Bazaine's still lives in France. He
is an engineer, and his two sons are
promising officers in the army. The
young men have obtained permission
to assume their mother s family name,
Hayter.
The quarrel of the doctors over the
death of the late German Emperor
Frederick has a tendency to discredit
medical science. It shows that there
is not so much science in the treat-
ment of disease as laymen are apt to
suppose. The ablest talent obtainable
was of course employed, but the
diagnosis was as uncertain as that of
any other mysterious death. Added
to the ordinary difficulties in the deter-
mination of this case was one of na-
tionality, and this has doubtless made
the feud more bitter. The many Ger-
man doctors are arrayed against Dr.
Mackenzie, the English physician em-
ployed at the instance of the emperor's
wife, the present emperor's mother.
Miss Braddon (Mrs. Maxwell) is
just fifty years old and has written just
fifty novels. She objects to having her
portrait published.
Senator Charles B. Far well has
a collection of 10,000 books, and is
said to have the finest theolegical
library in the west
The Prince of Wales recently visited
Professor Pasteur and witnessed a
number of operations for the preven-
tion of hydrophobia.
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The interior of Africa is still har-
rassed by kidnapers and slave dealers.
It is estimated that SOlOOO persons
yearly are stolen from their homes.
Until within a few years a lively ex-
port trade has been carried on, bnt
since that has ceased the kidnaped ne-
groes must find a market in their own
continent Large numbers are brought
by Arabs and set to work on the large
plantations they have started for 300
miles on the Congo river. If the Con-
go region is to be devoted to this style
of civilization, it might as well have
been left in barbarism. The products
of this region under unpaid labor will
enter into competition with those of
1mi mid labor oí oar southern Atate*
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FROM DIVINE LIPS.
An Eloquent Scriptural Flow in
Which a Point is Made.
The Rev. Talmag* on "Satan on His Trav-
elsM—His Satanic JBlajesty Tours in all Lo-
calities Sprinkling His Crude Loath in Div-
ers Places-A Conversation is Held Be-
tween the Diety and Sheol's Master in
Which the A mighty is Informed That the
Devil is an Earthly Pedestrian, St&
Special to The Kansas City Timet.
Brooklyn, Not. 11 The throngs In and
around Brooklyn Tabernacle are on the in-
crease. As an evidence of the demand for
Dr. Talmage's work two hundred and fifty
thousand copies (250,000) of his forthcoming
subscription book, "The Pathway of Life,
have been bought from tbe Historical Com-
pany by Messrs. B. F. Johnson & Company,
of Richmond, Virginia, although the retail
prices are from three dollars and a half to fire
dollars a copy, in the history of literature no
book has had such an advanced sale.
At the Tabernacle this morning the Rev.
T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., took for the
subject of his sermon: "Satan on His
Travels." His text was, Job 1-7: "And the
Lord said unto Satan: Whence comest thou!
Then Satan answered the Lord, and said:
From going to and fro in the earth, and from
walking up and down In it."
In 1672 was printed the largest book ever
published, namely, two huge volumes or near
Ave thousand pages in small type, the author
Joseph Caryl. It was a commentary on this
Book of Job. When it look a year for the
journey from England to India, the son of
the author of this commentary started for
India, leaving his father writing on his book,
aud was gone for years, and when he came
back to England still found his father writing
on it 1 never saw the commentary, but I do
not wonder at its size because there is no end
to the interest of the Book of Job. I am not
surprised that Goethe, the unbeliever, took
from this wonderful book the opening of his
drama "Faust," and the Mcphistopneis of
tbe great German was only the Satan
of Job. It seems that one day in
heaven Gcd was on His tnrone ana an-
gels and messengers came to report on their
differeut missions. I suppose one angel said:
"I was out among the stars and I saw one of
them burn down." Another angel, I imag-
ine, said: "I was off on a stellar excursion
and was present at the birth of a new world."
Another angel, I think, said: "I was jour*
neying five hundred million miles in the wild-
erness of intensity and I saw a meteor run
down a planet." Another augel: "I was off
and helped at the inauguration of a race of
beings amid the mountains and valleys of
that mighty world in the South-east part of
the heavens." But while these good and
great spirits were making their retorts a
ghastly, grizzly, hideous monster from some
miry, sulphurous, filthy world, came into the
palace without wiping his feet, and God ask-
ed him where and bow he had been occupy-
ing himself, and this greatest scoundrel of the
universe made reply with blazing effrontery,
and instead of acknowledging any of the
mischief he had been doing said be
had heen an earthly pedestrian
and had lived a sort of circumambulatory,
peripatetic life. And the Lord said unto
Satan: Whence comest thou) Then Satan
answered the Lord, and said: From going
to and fro in the earth and from walking up
and down in It"
This monster of my text has a great variety
of names. You know that notorious villians
are apt to take a variety of names. Arraign-
ed in Paris for burglary a man will give one
name, arrested in ¡áan Francisco for arson he
will give another name, imprisoned at Mon-
treal for murder he will give auother name.
So this creature of my tex; has many names.
He is culled in sacred and profane literature
Abaddon, Apollyon, Ahrimanes. ¿aniel, As1
modeus the revenging devil, Beelzebub the
sovereign of devils, Lucifer the brilliant devil,
Diabolus the despairing devil. Mammon the
money devil, Pluto the fiery devil, Baal the
military devil, Meresin the plaguing devil.
He is called the father of lies-and has for hia
children and grandchildren and great-grand-
children alt lalsehoods, deceptions, frauds,
swindles, slanders, backbitings and subter-
fuges. All men of good sense, whether en-
lightened by the Bible or in heathendom,
have noticed tbat there are baleful aud male-
ficent influences abroad that have not their
origin in tbe human race, and demonology is
as certain as angelology. The sword of Para-
celsus was thought to have a demon in the
hilt aud there is no * a demon in every sword
hilt The ancients supposed the air was filled
with sylphs and satvrs and sirens and gnomes
and vampires and salamanders and undines
and hobgoblins. Tbe Talmud says Adam's
first wife was Lillis and that their children
were all devils. Two or three hundred years
ago a demonographer gave the names of am-
bassadors of evil which he thought Satan sent
to different couutries J Mammon, ambassabor
to England; Belphegor, ambassador to France\
Martinet, ambassador to Switzerland; Rim-
mon. ambassador to Russia; Thanniz, ambas-
sador to Spain; Hutgin, ambassador to Italy;
and that there was a princess of devils by the
name of Proserpine. But what was mere
guess work of mythology or superstition has
een made clear by divine revelation, We
find that there is somewhere a monarch of
all wickedness. He has a throne of power
and courtiers and armies and navies and ma-
chinery of evil vast as the round world. He
is tbe supervisor of all mischief and what he
cannot do himself he delegates others to do,
and as each one of our race is supposed to
have a guardian good angel, I have to doubt
tbat every human being has a besieging ma-
lignant spirit nagging his footsteps and try-
ing to make him think wrong and act wrong,
an especial devil of fraud or a devil of avarice
or a devil of uncleanliness or a devil of poor
health, and as in my text the spirits are rep-
resented as to the Lord so I have no doubt
the evil spirits report to 8atan, who is the
enemy of the whole human race, and who has
a celerity that makes flight around tbe world
the matter of a second, and.who marshals on
his side the forces volcanic, atmospheric, epi-
demic, geologic, oceanic and cyclonic. "And
the Lord said unto Satan: Whence comest
thou) Then Satan answered the Lord
and said: From going to and fro In the
earth and from walking up and down In it"
Satan began bis attack on this world long
before Adam and Eve were created. While
I believe the Bible record that the wor]fl was
fitted up for man's residence in one week, I
believe also the geological record that tbe
world was previously for hundreds of thou-
sands of years going through great changes.
The lumber for tbe house tbat was to be built
In a Meek for our first parents may have been
hauled to the spot a million years before.
This Prince of the Power of the Air has been
trying for all that-million years to demolish
and use up this world. The record is on tbe
rocks. He tried to drown it with universal
waters. He tried to burn it up with
universal fires. Then he tried to freeze It
into ruin, and covered it with universal
glacier. And for ages he kept this world be-
fore our first parents occupied it in parox-
ysms and convulisons, and the
remains of those strugglers 1 have
seen, and you have seen in muse-
ums, or if with geologist's hammer you
have gone down into the stone libraries of
the mountains. Tea, after the famous Bible
week the world had been fitted into a Para-
dise for the home of our sinless ancestors.
Satan comes into the Garden of Eden, not
through the gate of foliage and upright in
posture, but crawls in under the bushes a
snake, and having despoiled our first parents
goes to work to ruiu Paradise,.and does the
work so thoroughly that one who recently
visited the site of tbe ancient garden between
the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates says the
place is a desert not a flower, and the ground
so poor tbat nothing but some date-trees
grow there, and the miserable villagers from
nearby are not so well covered up with their
rags as Adam and Eve were covered up with
their innocence. So you see the Father of
lies for once told the truth when the Lord
said onto him: Whence comest thou) and
Satan answered the Lord and said: "From
;oing to and fro in the earth, and from walk-
ng up and down in it."
Ic my text we have Satan on his travels,
and I am going to tell you some of the routes
he is apt to take. On his wsy down from the
palace where he reported, himself in answer
to the Question: Whence comest thou! tbe
first range of mischief he may be expected to
take Is the air. It was not a witticism or a
slip of the pen when Paul in his letter to the
Ephesians called Satan the "Prince of the
Pouer of the Air." I think it means that
Satan works through conditions of the atmos-
phere. The West wind is full of angela, tbe
East wind is full of devils. Satan spreads
abroad his black wings and hurricanes and
euroclydans and Caribbean whirlwinds
and equinoctials are hatched out He
takes the miasmas that float up
from swamps and hatches them
into typhoid fevers. He takes tbe cold blasts
and hatches them into pneumonia snd rheu-
matisms and consumptions. Not only has he
power in the upper air where highest clouds
float, but power over the lower air which we
breathe, and as we breathe nineteen times a
minute and take io three hundred and fifty
cubic feet of air in every twenty-four hours
sn4 much of this air «Sects the arterial cjr*
ic
culation, you see whst opportunities the
Prince of the Air has of contaminating and
despoiling and demoralizing a man. Through
atmospheric influence he clouds tbe disposi-
tion and rasps the nerves and covers the best
of people with religious despondency, as in
the case of Edward Payson and William Cow-
per and that beloved apostle of Evangelism,
James W. Alexander. His great delight is
to have the air of churches Vitiated and in
that way dulls the preacher and stttpifles tbe
people and sees to it that tbe atmosphere of
not more than one out of a hundred churches
is fit to breathe, and whole congregations
Sabbath by Sabbath are asphyxiated. Tea.
he is worthy of the title St Paul gave him i
"Prince of the Power of the Air."
Another route he is apt to take la through
domestic life. There is no greater sport for
him than eonjugal quarrel. It does not make
any difference how long the marriage ring
has been on the finger of the right band, be
will try to pull off the signet He says to tbe
husband: "What a plain wife you have com-
pared with what she once was? Don't you
see tbat tbe color has gone out of her cheek
and there are several wrinkles about her
temples and a sprinkling of frost on her
locks! Besides that, you have advanced
in intelligence while she has stood still
or gone back. How hard it is tbat you
should be chained to such dullness
and imbecility 1" Then he turns and says to
the wife: "That man neglects you, you have
a right to be jealous. He likes his cigar and
his club and anything and everything better
than you. Why not get a divorce! Marriage
is only a civil contract anyhow and not a
divine alliance. Let me have that ring. It
means nothing and you might as well give it
tome." The ring is handed over to Satan
and he tosses it up and down like a plaything
over tbe mouth of perdition and says: "I
will hand it back, only Jet me have it a little
while." And be keeps tossing tbat ring wltn
all its sacred memories higher up and further
out tossing and catching, tossing and catch*
ing St until one day you clutch for It crying:
"Give me back my ring I" but lo, it has drop-
ped into the yawuing gulf and you suddenly
find who has been pitching and catching the
ring, and you cry out: "Whence comest
though?" and be answers: From going to
and fro in tbe domestic life of the city and
from walking up and down in it; tbat is all."
There are thousands of marriage relations
strained almost to the breaking, and I com-
mend to all men and women who
are restless in the present marriage
state that they resume the old-time
courtship and take as much pains to
make themselves agreeable as they did five or
ten or twenty years ago, before the wedding
march announced to the flushed and flutter-
ing crowd that tbe bride and groom were
coming. According to the statistics of Pro-
fessor Dikes, in one year in moral New Hamp
shire there were 241 divorces; in temperate
Maine, 478 divorces; in good old Massachu-
setts, 600 divorces, and in the New England
of "steady habits," 2,113. In one couuty of
Illinois 830 divorce suits were begun in one
year, and in many places it seems as if a new
arraugement had been made of the command-
ments, and instead of ten there are only nine,
the seventh commandment haviug been left
out When you see how many husbands and
wives are parted by law, and know of so many
who would like to dissolve conjugal partner-
ship, do you not come to the conclusion that
Satan is engaged in mighty industries?
Another route that SAtan is apt to take in
his active travels is tbe factories and other
establishments where capital sits in the office
or counting room and a good many hands of
laborers are busy among wheels ana
spindles and fabrics. On this visit
he will first step into the manu-
facturer's office and finding the owner and
proprietor of the great establishment all
alone with his correspondence and his ac-
count books, says to him: "You are not mak-
ing as much money as vou ought. You fur-
nish all the brains. Were it not for your
enterprise this establishment would not bo in
existence. These men and women in your
employ are of very commoa mould. Their
appetite is coarser and they do not need the
luxuries you require. Their comfort and
happiness'are of very little importance. Put
them down on the very verge of starvation
and take all tbe profits Into your, own posses-
ion, and if they do not like it teli them to go
where they Can do better." Having done
his work in the counting room Satan steps
right out among the workmen. He says:
"You work too many hours and vou do your
work better than It needs to be done. You
are serving a bloated bondholder anyhow.
He has no right to have anymore than you
have. Why should he ride and you walk?
Why should he have tenderloin steak and vou
salt pork? Capital is the enemy of labor.
Let labor be tne sworn foe of capital. Whv
don't you strike and bring him to termsl
Wait until he has a large order to fill by con-
tract and then he cannot help himself. Go
all together, without a moment's warning,
and tell him you are going to stop. If he has
more resources tban you know of and persists
in going on and getting new men, give them
a volley of brickbats or put a little dynamite
in bis office and biow him and his factory up
up With the same explosion." Look out
here on the night sky I Great fire some-
where. What is itf The night is cold and
Satan has made a big bonfire of that factory
to warm himself by. The capitalist has lost
heavily and the workmen and
their families are without bread and
clothing. "Whence comest thou, Satan?"
"From going to and fro amoug employers and
employes and from walking up aud down
among them. Ha! Ha! I was the only one
who made anything out of tbat strike. Wbat
a splendid flre aud lots of smoke! Ha! Hal I
like smoke."
Another route Satan is apt to take in bis
active travels Is through the merchantile es-
tablishments. He steps in and savs to the
clerks: "How much salary do you get? Is
that ail? Why, you can't live on that! You
have a right to enough for a livelihood. A few
quarters out of the money draper will never
be missed, or here aud there is a remnant of
goods you could take home without being
found out. Or you cou'd change those ac-
count books a little and you could make that
figure eight a naught and that figure five a
three, and if you do not feci exactly right
about doing that you can some day pay it
back, which you can do perfectly easy. Don't
feel like running the risk? Well then you
can't go to the theatre and you can't go on
that round with tbe boys and you will have
to wear that plain coat whereas you could
have your overcoat fur lined, and take board
at a tip-top place and walk amid plush and
tapestries positively Oriental. While you are
making up your mind I will just go through
the different parts of this great commercial
establishment and trv every one from tbe
wealthy firm down to the errand boys." The
result of tbat Satanic visit is that one of the
partners has drawn so much out of the con-
cern that the whole business Is crippled and
a bright and promising boy is sent home to
his mother in disgrace and a young man is
In jail for embezzlement. Three lives ruined
and three eternities. Whence comest
thou, Satan? "From going to and fro
among merchantile houses and from walking
up and down among them. I like to ruin
splendid fellows and blast parental hopes,and
of all the liquors that I ever tasted fill my
glass with a brewing of agonizing tears.
Come! let us click together tbe rims of our
glasses to the overthrow of tbe fifty thousand
young men I ruined last year! Huzza!" Sa-
tan would rather have one young man than
twentv old ones. If he would win the septu-
agenarians and the octogenarians he could
do but little harm with them. But ne says:
"Give me a young man, especially if he be
bright generous aud social."He sees the young
men haye for good or bad been tbe mightiest
influence in this world. Hernando Cortes
conquered Mexico at thirty-two. Gustavus
Adoiphus became immortal in history so early
that he died at thirty-eight. Rapheal the
most famous of painters died at tbirtv-seven.
William Pitt was Prime Minister of England
at twenty-four. Jesus Christ completed his
earthly life at thirty-three. Five years in a
young man's life are' of more power for good
or evil tban the last fifteen of an old man's
life. So Satan is especial greedy for young
men, and in going to and fro In the earth be
has especial temptation for tbem.
Another route tbat Satan on his active
travels ia apt to take if for the despoiling of
the people's souls, it does not pay him
merely to destroy the the bodies of men and
women. Those bodies would soon be gone
anyhow; but great treasurers are involved in
this Satanic excursion. On this route he
meets a man who is aroused by something he
has seen in the Bible and Satan says: "Now
i can settle all that; the Bible, is an imposi-
tion; It has been deluding the world for cen-
turies; do not let it delude you. It has no
more suthoritr than the Koran of
the Mohammedan or the Shaster of the
Hindoo, or the Zenda-Vesta of the Persian 1'*
He meets snother man who is hastening
towards the kingdom of God and says: "Why
all this precipitation! Religion is right but
any time within tbe next ten years will be
soon enough for you. A man with a stout
chest like yours and such muscular develop-
ment need not be bothering himself about
the next world." Bat Satan ' saya nothing to
him about the fact tbat tbe professor who
gave his whole life to the study of health and
could lift more pounds tban anv American
died at about forty, and tha another learned
man who proved conclusively tbat if we ob-
serve the laws of health we need never die,
expired before he got his. book on that sub-
ject published. 8atan meets another man
who has gone through a long course of
profligacy and is beginning i o ira/God for
forgiveness, and Satan says to ihe mac:
"xou are too late, the Lord "will uothglp «neb
gets, continental earthquakes, and world-
wide disasters are to him a p
an
a wretch as you, you might as WeD braes op
and fight your own way through.1' And u
with a spite and an acuteness and a velocity
tbat have been gaining for six thousand
years, he ranges up and down baffling, disap-
pointing, defeating, afflicting, destroying the
human race. Through his own hand or
delegated infernalism he has pursued and
hurt us all, and cursed every heart and cursed
every home and cursed every nation and
cursed every continent He has instigated
every war. He has rejoiced in every pesti-
lence. He has stsrted every groan. He has
pressed out every sigh. He has hurled every
shipwreck. Lazarettoes, Insane asylums,
commercial panics, plagues, destroying
nquak
perfect glee.
Can vou look upon the Communism and
the Mormonlsm and tbe Mohammedanism
and the wide sweep of drunkenness
and fraud and libertinism, the Franco-Ger-
man war and Crimean war, the North and
South United States war, and rivers of blood
flowing across 'coutinents of misery into
oceans of wretchedness, without realizing the
power of tbe Evil One, who reported to the
Lord Almighty, and when asked: Whence
comest thou? answered: "From going to and
fro in the earth and from going up and down
in it"
But blessed be God! I may substitute an-
them for requiem and Hallelujah Chorus for
tbe Dead March in Saul. The New Testa-
ment says: "The Son of God was manifested
tbat he might destroy the works of the devil."
It prophesied that an angel would come down
from heaven with key and chain and incar-
cerate and shut up the old dragon. It says
that Christ came to "destroy him that bad
the power of death—tbat is the devil." And
from the way Christ drove tbe devil out of
those possessed by him until he was glad to
hide under tbe bristles of tbe swine of Gadara
and from other violent ejectments, we know
that there is in existence a power a million-
fold mightier than the diabolic. The old lion
of death shall go down under the stroke and
roar of the "Lion of Judah's tribe." Tea,
my text shows tbat Satan was compelled to
report to the Almighty and give account of
himself. When God said to him: ''Whence
comest thou?" he was forced to answer.
Wbat means that Scripture which says that
Christ shall bruise the serpent's head? If
you have ever killed a snake the passage
ought to be plain to you. Tou see this old
serpent, the devil, has crawled across the
nations, poisoning whole generations and
leaving its trail on everything; but after a
while it will be cornered, and hissing and
writhing in rage and with crest lifted and
forked tongue shot out it will make
flnal attack on Christ, and Christ will
advance upon it, and lifting his omnipotent
foot that foot strong enough to crush a
world, lifting tbat foot right over the head of
the reptile, will put down his heel with a
crushing power that shall leave the monster
bleeding and mashed, never to hiss again or
bite again or shake bis old rattle again.
Thank God be has already received a stun-
ning blow. Hear you not the rumbling of
tbe Christian printing presses and the whirl-
ing of the Gospel chariot wheel? As many
souls have been added to the Christian
Church in the last eighty years as in the
previous eighteen centuries and that is a
ratio of increase acclamatory with gladness.
Tbe kingdom is coming, and I am so sure of
It that I do not propose to fret and worry be-
cause it has not already come. I may jump
to get on a boat that is going off, but I do
not propose to jump for a boat tbat is coming
in. Tbe sharp attacks of infidelity and sin
are a good sign that especial blessing is com-
ing in showers over all the earth. Flies bite
sharp just before rain.
If we do nots ee the full consummation our
children will sec it. In tbe time of the
French Revolution a great procession of bovs
carried through the street a banner with the
inscription: "Tremble tyrants; we shall grow
up!" Though we may fail to do our duty
there is a rising generation being pospelized
and coming -by tbe hundreds of thousands
from our Sabbatli-scbools and Christian
homes who might properly have on their ban-
ners: "Tremble, ye powers of darkness and
sin; for we are growing up!" We may not
amount to much in ourselves, but if we put
ourselves in the right place we can
do great exploits. Two put under
two make only four; but placed
beside two make twenty-two. Tet
what you and I most need is power to drive
back this Apollyon, this Asraodeus, this Ah-
rimanes from our hearts and lives. And we
can do it not by our own strength but by di-
vine power afforded, for here is a passage em-
blazoned with encouragement which says:
"Resist the devil and he' will flee from you."
Remember it is no sin at all to be tempted.
The best and the mightiest have been tempt-
ed. Milton describes a toad squat at the ear
of Eve. The sin is in surrendering. Do not
feel so secure in vourseif as to think you can-
not be overthrown. How do you account for
the fact that there are so many old men in
Sing Sing and Auburn and the other peniten-
tiaries, serving out their protracted sentences
for frauds committed in middle-life or ad-
vanced ages, although their early life had
been good, and nothing bad been suspected
of them until at fifty or sixty years of age the
whole land was struck dumb at their forgery
or embezzlement The clock in the steeple
of old Trinity Church striking the hours aid
dot remind the recreant Wall-streeter of the
passage of time that would soon bring ex-
posure to and doom. The explanation is that
Mephistopheles, Apollyon, Satan got in his
work at that time. The man was not natu-
rally bad. He was as good as any of you are,
but Satan witb whole battalions of infernáis
swooped upon him unawares. Look out for
the wiles of the devil, not only those of you
who are young but the middle-aged and
the old. Outside of God you are not safe
a moment. But yield not to dishearten-
ment. If we put our trust in God our best
day8 are yet to come—days of victory, days of
song, days of heaven, and the best days of
righteousness in all the earth are yet to come.
As tbe ten thousand men of Xenophon'sarmy
when they came to the top of Mount Theches
and saw the waters on which they were to
sail to their homes, the soldiers with clapping
hands and waving banners all together shout-
ed:
"The sea; the sea!" So we to-day In our
march toward our heavenly home come up to
the top of the mountain of holy anticipation
and look off upon oceans of light and oceans
of glory and oceans of joy; and thrilled as we
have never been thrilled before we clap our
bands and wave our gospel ensigns and cry
one to another and shout up to the respond-
ing and re-echoing heavens: "The sea; the*
seal"
She Was Thoughtful of Him.
Bride (of a mouth)—My husband
seems to be out very late to night.
Maid—Yes'm; it's after 11 o'clock.
••Mercy on me! Do you suppose he
could have met some former sweet-
heart, aud "
••No, indeed mum. The butler
tells me your husband is at the club
having a good time with his bachelor
friends, and 1 think, ma'am, you ought
to do something about it"
"Why, of course. How thoughtless
I am! Get me tbe box of phosphorus
from the cabinet"
"Dearie me! You ain't going to com-
mit suicide!"
••Suicide! You must be crazy. Tm
goins: down to the front door to rub
phosphorous on the keyhole."Philadel-
phia Record.
New to tfye Business.
He was a rew conductor on his first
trip.
As the car passed the corner a hand-
somely dressed young woman nodded
her head graciously.
The new conductor tipped hia hat
with the utmost politeness, and turn-
ing to a passenger on the platform,
said:
"How's that for a mash, eh?"
"She wanted you to stop the car,11
replied the passenger.
••B'gosh," exclaimed the new con-
ductor, "I never thought of that It
may turn out a smash instead of a
mash."—Epoch
Might Haye Been Worse.
Mrs. Hendricks: "I read an account
in the morning paper of such a sad
occurrence. An eagle snatched a baby
from its nurse's arms and carried it
oft"
Mr. Oldboy (who is not fond of
babies): "It might have been sadder,
Mum. What if the eagle had failed to
get away with the baby!"—Epoch.
"It's a cold day when I get left,** said the
summer straw hat, as It cuddled up snugly In
the dust on top of the wardrobe.—Puck.
A COMPLETE UPHEAVAL
Tiie bricklayers' assistant i
hot winter,^ Yontort QmrtU.
to haye a
THE REPUBLICANS WIN THE BATTLE.
General Harrison Leads the
Van.
The Democracy Wheeled in Air and
Stretched Their Vans in Vain.
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The following table shows the electoral vots
according to the most reliable information at
hand:
' for harrison:
Electoral Votes. Majority.
.orado........................ 3 ^001
California. 3 5, OOC
Connecticut 6 ],50C
Illinois 22 5,00C
Indiana***" 15 5,000
Iowa.................. ...... .13 ih,00C
Kansas. 9 60,000
Maine 6 23,00C
Massachusetts. 14 30,00C
M ichigan .13 12, OOC
Minnesota. .'7 20, OOC
New York 36 15,OOC
Nebraska 5 20, OOC
Ncvadi........................ 3 lo!
New Hampshire 4 2,00C
Ohio. 23 25,00C
Oregon 3 3,00C
Pennsylvania 30 80,00C
Rhode Island 4 4,00C
Vermont. 4 25,00C
Wisconsin 11 15,OOC
West Virginia 6 5,00C
Total 254
FOR CLEVELAND.
Alabama 10 55,00C
Arkansas 7 25,00C
Delaware 3 5,00C
Florida 4 2,OOC
Georgia 12 25,OOC
Kentucky 13 40,00G
Louisiana 8 IS,00(
Maryland 8 10,OOC
Missouri 16 25,OOC
Mississippi 9 33,OOC
New Jersey 9 8,0üC
North Carolina 11 2t),00C
South Carolina 9 35,00C
Tennessee 12 18,00C
Texas 13 120, OOC
Virginia ia 6,00C
Total 14^
RECAPITULATION.
Tor Harrison 254
For Cleveland 147
Whole number of electoral votes 401
Necessary to elect 201
Terribly Hacked.
London, Nov. 9.—The mysterious White-
chapel woman murder fiend has added an-
other victim to his list. At 11 o'clock thi?
morning tbe body of a woman cut into oicces
was discovered in a house on Doyle street,
Bpitalfields.
The appearance of the remains was fright-
ful, as tbe mutilation was even greater than
in the previous cases. The head had been
levered and placed beneath one of the limbs
after tbe ears and nose had been cut oft. The
body bad been disemboweled and the flesh
torn from tbe thighs. Many of tbe organs
were missing. The skin had been torn off the
forehead and cheeks. One hand had been
pushed into the stomach.
The victim, like all the others, was a pros-
titute. She was married and her husband
was a porter. They had lived together at
spasmodic intervals- Her name Is believed to
have been Lizzie Fisher, but to most of the
habitues of the haunts sbe visited she was
known as Mary Jane. She bad a room in the
house where she was murdered, but carried a
latch key, and no one knows at what hour she
entered last night, au<l probably no one saw
the man who accompanied her. Therefore, It
is hardly likely that he will ever be identified.
He' might easily have left the house at any
time between 1 and 6 o'clock this morning
without attracting attention..,
The doctors who examined'the remains re-
fuse to make any statemeut until the inquest
is held. Three bloodhounds belonging to
private citizeus were taken to the place
where the body lay and placed on the, scent
of the murderer, but they were unable to
keep it fqr any great distance, aud all.bope
of runnirig the assassin down with their
assistance will have to be abandoned.
The murdered woman told a companion last
evening that she was without money and
would commit suicide if she did not obtain a
supply. It has been learned that a man,
respectably dressed, accosted tbe victim and
offered her monev. They went to her lodg-
ings on tbe second floor of tbe Dorset street
house. No noise was heard during the night
snd nothing was known of the murder until
the landlady went to the room earlv this
morning to ask for her rent. Tbe first thing
she saw on entering the room was the woman's
breasts and viscera lying on the table. Dor-
set street is short, narrow and is situated
close to Mitre square and Han bury street.
The murder which took place in Spitalfields,
White's district, this morning, is undeniably
a continuation of the series which was for a
while interrupted for want of opportunity or
inclination. In this case tbe murderer work-
ed leisurely, as is made evideut bv the fact
that the killing was done in a room fronting
on the street on a ground floor,, and within a
few yards of a temporary rolice station,
whence officers issued hourly patrol the
district. Although tbe Metro1 litan police
system is not yet discredited, t) bloodhound
theory is entirely thrown out sii e the mur-
der was not discovered until 10 •'clock in the
morning, while the streets were teeming with
people, and the traffic was going on uninter-
ruptedly.
General Sir Charles Warren was early on
the scene and told a reporter that all tbe pre-
caution in tbe world could not prevent the
work of such murderers. The sole chance re-
maining to tbe police, be said, was to catch
them red hand 3d, and the change of tactics
increased th: difficulty. In the open air,
where the kil ng has been done, the chance
of their apprei -nsion was slight, but in the
:ase of an indoor murder such as the last, tbe
dope of arresting the perpetrator was almost
barren of fruition.
The brutality of tbe mutilation to which
the last body was subjected surpassed all tbe
others. In tbe room to which the corpse was
¡aken chunks of flesh and portions of tbe vis-
:era were strewn upon the floor and tbe dls-
scting table, and tbe stomach of one of the
iurgeons gave way at the spectacle.
Saline County Affray.
Swbet 8prinos, Mo., Nov. 7.—At the
neighboring town of Blackburn John Cain,
colored, was shot and instantly killed yester-
day by Dave Hancock, white. The trouble
grew out of a polical discussion.
In this city a young man, a son of Eli
Smith, living east of town, was repeatedly
stabbed by Lockett Johnson, a negra Jobu-
lon fled but was captured bv a nosse led by
City Marshal Beatty, W. T. Hall and others,
and narrowly escaped lynching. Smith's in-
juries will probably result fatally.
At Blackburn tne trouble originated on the
farm of Watson, tbe negro wishing to speud
the entire afternoon at tbe polls at this place
and when refused permission violently at-
tacking Hancock with an iron bar and injur-
ing him considerably. Hancock endeavored
to sboot him with a pistol, but it missed fire
and the negro took it from him and come to
town and was followed by Hancock and upon
bis refusal to give up the pistol was shot
twice—once in the side and once in the
bresst. _T.
Australians May Tet Revolt.
Brisbane, Australia, Nov. 8.—The pre-
mier hss sent a cable dispatch to tbe Queens-
land agent in England saying tbat tbe ap-
pointment of Governor Blake of New Found-
land to the governorship of Queensland has ex-
cited general anger and wonder. Ex-Premier
Griffith agrees with tbe premier in condemn-
ing tbe appointment. Last month tbe gov-
ernor urged tbe English government especial-
ly to submit tbe name of tbe proposed new
governor before tbe appointment was made.
Lord Knubford reported tbat it was impos-
sible to allow colonial ministers to share tc
the responsibility for tbe nomination.
Bold Attempt at Abdnctlon.
* Cincinnati, O., Nov. 8.—Some unknown
man last night knocked at the door of tb«
room occupied by Mrs. James P. Kelly, over
her husband's saloon, on Central avenue, and
when she opened it bound a hscdkerchiei
saturated with doroiorm quicKiy over bet
face and seized and was bearing ber toward
the rear stairway, when she caught a bel:
rone running to the saloon and rang it vio-
lently. This frightened tbe abductor and be
dropped her and fled. Kelly fo <nd bis wife
unconscious on tbe floor and sb was in tbat
state more than an hour. No w is known,
except an anonymous letter rec< red by Kelly
pretending to warn him of ueslgns bv t
wealthy Frenchman who had seen Mrs. Keily
on the street aad had determined ty get bei
away Iron Ctecfaaati, .. I
DOTS AND DASHE&
Editor Dana of the New York Sun sailed
for France recently, while on another vessel
outbound were six missionaries for India.
Ersstus T. Teft, a leading wholesale man
of New York city, died leaving a fortune of
several millions.
The republicans of 8alina, Kan., celebrated
by firing off cannon and rockets and a grotes-
que parade.
Safe blowers destroyed W. E. Wagner's safe
in Moberly, Ma, and secured $100 in caah.
At a recent session of tbe conference of
Methodist bishops in Boston was principally
taken up with questions of law. Bishop
Nowman made a good report for Missouri
and Illinois and Bishop Goodsell for Iowa.
Harvard^ football team beat the Wesleyan
college teim at Cambridge, Mass., 32. points
to 0.
Tbe students in tbe universities of Msdrid,
Ssragossa and Seville, Spain, paraded re-
cently denouncing the conservatives but did
not attempt any violence.
! Tbe London Times has appealed from the
decision of Judge Kinnear of Edinburgh in
the Parnell libel suit.
Tbe duty on wheat flour Imported into
Portugal has been lowered from 30 to 24 rels
per kilogramme.
! A conference is to be held in London No-
vember 22 to consider the project of a cable
from British Columbia to Australia.
The rumor that the emperor of Germany
had assented to the betrothal of his sister to
Prince Alexander of Battenberg is semi-
officially denied at Berlin. ^
The weather In Germany has been very
cold for some time and lovers of skating have
for several days been enjoying the sport in
Berlin, v
i
Negotiations for a Turco-German treaty
have been concluded and a draft on tbe con-
vention has been submitted to the sultan.
The first through express from Paris arrived
in Constantinople tbe other day.
The duchess of Cambridge, one of the most
noted peeresses of England, is dying.
Henry Pattit's new play, a melodrama as
! usual, was produced at the Princess theatre,
London.
The mayor of Sligo, has been sent to pris-
on for six months as an ordinary criminal for
violation of the crimes act.
Paul Phillipson, a New York commission
merchant,has failed with unknown liabilities
and assets.
A man and a boy were crushed to death in a
coal mine near McDonald, Pa., by a fall of
slate.
■ The glass factory at Wellsboro, Pa., was
destroyed by fire, causing a loss of $49,000.
Lord mayor's day parade in London was
devdld of the pageantry and was a very tame
affair.
Andrew Rocsser's saw and grist mill at Sis-
ter Bar, Wis., was destroyed by fire. Loss
$40,000".
An unknown man committed suicide by
jumping into the Niagara river. His body
was carried over the fails.
A section of the wall of St Ifary's infirm-
ary, St Louis, Mo., fell creating quite a panic.
No one was liurL
The Liverpool St. Leger was won by Lord
Calihorpe's Toscano and the great Lanca-
shire handicap by P. Reufrew's Lisbon.
Tbe amount of the new Russian loan is re-
ported to be £20,000.000. The Barings and
tbe credit Lvonaise are the chief members of
the syndicate.
The Manitoba authorities propose to ap-
peal to the British government against the
manner in which the Canadiau government
has treated them.
Ed. Hall, a striking switchman of Crestón,.
Ia.„ was shot and killed by Charles II. Hus-
ton. a scab Q engineer in a quarrel in a bil-
liard saloon. t
By a collision between freight trains near
Pueblo, Col., oue man was killed and botb
trains wrecked. One bad broken down snd
the other ran into it before a flagman could
be sent back.
The southwestern immigration snd develop-
ment society held a meeting'at Augusta, Ga.,
and etected D. B. Loveman of Tennessee
president and J. L. Bass of Rome, Ga.,
secretary and treasurer.
The Northwestern passenger association is
said to have (ompletely collapsed because of
quarrels among the roads. The general man-
agers are now figuring on an agreement cov-
ering all the roads in the west
Jacob Wellauer's wholesale grocery, Mil-
waukee, Wis., was damaged aud bis stock
ruined by fire. Loss, $100,000.
By a rear end collision at Fishkill, N. Y.,
between a freight and an express train, a
passenger car was wrecked and oue woman
killed.
Alexander Ilogeland, president of the
Boys' and Girls' National home and employ-
ment association, has issued a circular re
questing ministers of every denomination to
preach one sermon November 18 on tbe work
of the association.
Edward C. Carrlgan. member of tbe Massa-
chusetts state board of educatiou and & lead-
ing lawyer of Boston, died on a train near
Saihla, Col., recently.
The steamer Saginaw, which recently sail-
ed from New York to Ilayti, carried a large
quantity of war materials for the Haytlen in
surgents.
Moriarity, a Boston man, arrested at
Queenstown, Ireland, with a revolver snd
cartridges in his possession was fined $25 by
the Irish magistrate.
Three delegates from the Mormon colony at
Lee's Creek, N. W. T., have gone to Ottawa,
Ont, to secure a townsite at their colony
which now uumbers 125 souls.
A report comes from a town in Alsace-
Lorraine of a conflict between the German
military authorities and the French sympa
thizlng populace. It is said tbat tbe people
threw vollers of stones at an officer and tbat
be was compelled to draw bis sword in order
to defend himself.
Philip Baer, at New York, aged 28, a sales-
man, tried to board an elevated train after
tbe gates were closed and was caught between
the cars and tbe station railing, fell to tbe
street and was killed. He was hurrying to
join his family at a ball—a ticket to which
was found in his pocket.
A colored boy has been arrested for crush-
ing the skull of J. Bettis, at Kansas City,
Ma
In tbe Prussian election, 133 conservatives,
64 free conservatives, 8 ceutreists, 87 nation-
al liberties and 29 free liberals were elected.
It is reported in Berlin tbat the czar will
visit Germany in the spring.
A ferry steamer was sunk in a collision at
Calcutta and sixty parsons were drowned. *
Tne secretary of tbe treasury has accepted
$2,100 of 4% per cents registered at 108>£.
Fire In Chicago destroyed Mdran & Henley's
packing house and 500 tierces of lard. Loss
$40,000.
Tbe Russian government notified the porte
tbat should t*b< divorce of King Milan of Ser-
via cause troubles which would lead to the
occupation ot Servia br Austria, Russia
would consider herself released from ber ob-
ligation.
in Jacksonville, Fla., thirty-four new cases
of yellow fe sr and three deaths from the
disease were reported tbe other day.
Four miners were buried in a shaft near
Plaid City, Clay county, Alabama, and when
rescued one was dead and the other three
fatally hurt
A well-dressed corpse was found near Kan-
sas City, Ma, in sn advanced stage of de-
composition. Suicide tbe supposed cause.
The Freeman's Journal asserts tbat all the
dynamiters in prison in the United Kingdom
have been approached by emisaries of the
Times who informed them tbat the govern-
ment would grant tbem llbertr if tney would
give testimony for the Times before" tbe Par-
nell commission. AH refused to accept free-
dom at such a price.
A reservoir at Montresux on Lake Geneva
used to work an electric railway burst re-
cently destroying numerous houses and
drowning many people, Seres bodies keve
been recovered. j
A COLLISION ON THE DEEP.
Steamers Come * Together With
Terrifio Force.
The Stern of the Salty Floater is Picked Up
and Carried Away Quite Suddenly—Fogy
Weather the Main Cause of the
Eta
Steamers In Collision.
r
New York, Nov. 11.—The Cunard
ship Umbria, which sailed from New
for Liverpool at 10:30 o'clock yesterday
!ng, ran into and carried away the stem oí
the Fabre line freight steamer Iberia off Long
Branch at 1:10 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The Umbria's collision bulkhead wss partlsl-
ly crushed above the water line and the
Iberia was run aábore and her crew of thirty
men were taken.aboard the Umbría. Tha
Umbria, though her injurses are not serious,
was brought back to ber dock, arriving about
noen to-day. Her captain, McMickan, gives
tbe following particulars of the accident;
Tbe Umbria had slowed down on sccount of
a thick fog encountered soon after dismissing-
ber pilot at Sandy Hook. At 1:10 p. m. s whis-
tle was beard, apparently from tbe starboard
bow, when the captain, wbo was on the bridge,
ordered the engines stopped eutirely. Almost
immediately after this was done a
steamer came out of tbe fog directly
across the Umbria's bows, headed north.
The Umbria's engines were at>3nce reversed
at full speed, but ber headway carried
ber on and she struck the stranger on tha
port quarter, carrying away a portion of her
stern. Tbe boats* were lowered and the Um-
bria's injuries ascertained. Meanwhile the
steamers had drifted apart and were out of
sight of each other about fifteen minutes.
\\ ben tbey encountered each other agsin tha
first officer of tbe disabled vessel came
aboard. He said tbe steamer was the Iberia
of the Fabre line, with fruit and other goods
from the Persioh gulf, Captain Saneloss snd
s crew of thirty men. Her machinery hsd
broken down and sbe had been lylnc
to, making repairs for thirty houre
and had just got under waj
when the accident occurred. 8he vrss a
steamer ot about 1,000 tons, belonging to
Marseilles and carried no passengers. Her
officers were French and the crew -Arabs,
Greeks and of mixed nationalities. The Um-
bria bad on board 215 cabin paasengera, #7
intermediate and 429 steerage. There waa
great excitement among them, but tbe good
management of tbe officers prevented a ssr-
ious panic. Among those on board were
Thomas Baring, the banker, Edward Cooper
•the earl of Norbury, Mayor John Boyd
Thacher of Albany, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Alex-
der and the Hon. Boyd Winchester, UnlfesA
States minister to Switzerland.
The Umbria was but slightly injured and
came back to tbe dock merely as s precau-
tionary measure. All the marks she bore of
the ugly wound sbe gave tbe Iticria were a
queer triangular ragged hole in ber collision
bulkhead, in its largest dimensions about six
feet by three feet The hole is just sbaft of
tbe extreme bow, and its lowest point shout
five feet above tbe water line. This is on tbe
starboard 6ide. A small hole through whlcls
a swallow might fly was also puncbr.d in the
plate on the port side directly opposite. The
hole appeared to have been made by the re-
volving 6crew of the Iberia.
When the Uiflbria crashed into the Iberls,
tbe crew of tbe latter bccame panic stricken
and with one accord some rushed for the
small boats while others prepared to leap
from the side into the sea, preferring the
chance of being run down by a steamer and
drowned to tbe certain death that awaited
them if aboard when the big ship should go
down. Captain Sanglo^s shouted to tbem te t
resume their places, but frenzied and shriek- |
Ing with fear, they paid no heed to him. Be*
iug in a moment tbat desperate measures
were necessary be seized a belaying pin aad
draw lug his revolver leaped over tbe rail
where some of the crew were struggling
among themselves like madmen to be first ia
a boat "The first man to desert tbe shlo
lies,y he shoated and drove tbem back at the
pyint of tbe revolver, 'l hey all became quiet-
er when the Umbria came alongside. Before
.the crew began to leave on tbe Umbria's host
captain announced his determination to re-
main on Ms own ship, hut w hen be called on
his own crew for volunteers to remain with
him none answered and he concluded to'go
jrith the rest.
Probably for Dlackmatl.
Des Moixxs, Ia., Nov. 8.—Tbe Associated
press vestcrday sent out a dispatch from Dea
Molues very seriously reflecting upon
Chairman Hunter of tLe democratic state
committee, charging him with bribing voters.
A special telegram from Corning, Mr. Hub-
ter's home, signed by a prominent republican,
zives tbe true facts in tbe case, as follows:
"West, who filed tbe affidavit against Hunter
and wbo claimed to have been bribed, is
ivuowu here as a worthless vagrant, who has
been behind tbe bars several times for
thieving and other crimes, üas no standing
whatever and would be impeached by a major-
ity of republican business men of Corning.
Mr. Hunter, when Informed of the filling of
this affidavit, immediately returned here and
gave bonds for his appearance. Tbe whole
matter is without merit of foundation and is
condemned by the better claas of cltisens,
regardless of party affiliations. So far as
West is concerned it Is considered a black-
mailing scheme. When this case comes UD
for bearing an abundauce of evidence will ha
forthcoming that he was hired to do this, aa
tie made a statement on the street in the
morning that he put up a job on somebody to
make some monev out of it. He sent Ilunter'a
friends word'during tbe afternoon of election
jay tbat if he would send him $50 he would
leave town."
Dynamite Explosions In Paris.
Paris, Nov. 7.—A dynamite bomb was ex-
ploded in tbe registry office of the Rue
Boucher last evening and another bomb wss
•xploded in tbe registry office of the Rue
Francaise. Much damage was done st both
place^ hut no oue was hurt
«k.
Feero Outrages In Raleigh.
Rai.eigh, N. C., Nov. 8.—Yesterday morn-
ing negroes "burned the bouse of the chair-
man of the democratic county committee and
to-day tbey broke into a railway warehouse
and took a number of dynamite cartridges.
Tbey are incited bv white men aad serious
trouble is feard. The military are in' charge
of the city.
A Race Riot fn VI rein la.
NoaroLK. Va., Nov. 7.—In Portsmouth to*
night four hundred negroes marched through
the streets singing "Hang Grover Cleveland
on a Sour Apple Tree." They encounted a
party of whites and a free fight occrued, be-
tween forty and fifty pistol shots being fired
and three white men wounded, two of them
seriously. The negroes were finally dispersed
and the city is under military protection. One
hundred special policemen have been sworn
in -to preserve order aa more trouble is aatlct*
pated. Both classes are well armed. Y
81c ull Crushed.
Kansas CrTr, Ma, Nov. 7.—The TUnm
says: John V. Bettis, colored, proprietor of
tbe Metropolitan hotel barbar chop, was
struck in tbe bead witb a stone at Eighteenth
and Oak streets at 4:30 o'clock yesterdsj
afternoon and bis skull crushed in. Ha is
now lying at the point of destb st his homsk
1714 Troost avenue. Bettis left his shop si
3:40 o'clock to go to dinner snd to
tbe polls on Eighteenth street to
vote. He was followed by s very fine
pointeraog which was sent him by a friend,
and as he neared Eighteenth and OaK st
two colored men made an attsck on the
Bettis protested and they turned on
both of them striking him with their
One of tbem picked up s large stone
threw it at blm with terrific force, strikiac
him just above tbe left eye sad
crushing In his skulL Tbe stricken ™rw
dropped like a log and lav prostrate up-
on the- sidewalk until Dr. Middleton came
along, placed bim fn bis buggy and took him
to bis home at 1714 Troost avenue. Other
surgeons were summoned, a consultation
was held and It was agreed tbe wounded msn
hsd a very small show to recover. An at-
tempt was made, however, to save his life b
removing the broken particles of his skull.
After the operation the patient rested <
At 3 o'clock this morning it was
be had not one chance in a hun-
dred to recover. As soon as Bettis* ss-
eailants saw what they bad done they rsa
•wsy end were lost in the crowd before ft be-
came known tbat Bettis was injured. a Mr.
Hyder, however, witnessed tbe affair and ree>
ognized one of the assailants suiScleatl/j ~
give an accurate description of him to tbe •"
lice. The officials sre making th<
vestigatlon of tbe case and are confident 1
will cause his arrest early this morning.
Bettis waa one of the most highly reap,
and best known colored men in tbe city
ing been proprietor of tbe Metropotttaa ,*
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Harm, L. V. Canadian Free Press. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 16, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 14, 1888, newspaper, November 14, 1888; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183676/m1/2/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.