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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-01
AN ELOQUENT DIVINE.
DR.. Burrill's Pulpit WorthiIy, Al
though Temporarily Filled.

Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, of Philadel-
phia, who is temporarily filling the pull
pit at Westminster Presbyterian church
of this city. made vacant by the resig-
nation of Rev. DR.. Burrill, preache d
yesterday morning and evening. Not
outstanding that many families and
members of the church occupying pews
have taken up their summer residence
at the lakes, the auditorium was filled
with an attentive audience. Mr.. Pierson
is somewhat above the medium height.
sparely built, and wears full. closely
cropped gray beard, and hair of shade
darker color, we'll combed back from a
full, classical forehead. He began his
sermon last night in pleasing voice,
which soon ripened into mellowed
eloquence. His delivery is easy and at
tractive, his language is rich and pure.
bearing evidence of being of wide and
scholarly reading. His themes were
homely and simple, and compar
atively free from doctrinal points.
He spoke, of the element of
hope, in human nature, and though
classic to an extent, his utterances were
mellow and warm, and held the closest
attention of the audience. His sermons
bore the impress of deep thought; his
sentiment, that Of one who would al
ways carry charity even into the camp
of his enemies. He does not seem to
possess the fiery, progressive spirit of
his predecessor, Rev. DR.. Burrell,
though equally as effe ctive, often IN a
differ ent WaY
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-01
A FEW OF 'EM LEFT.
Rev. III. Nj. Simmons Comment
Upon IngersoIFs Lecture Upon


Rev. I'll. Nj. Simmons Comment
Upon Ingersoll's Lecture Upon
Miracles"
Unitarian church yesterday morning.
delivered an interesting sermon in
which he dissected the recent lecture of
Col. r. G. Ingersoll upon myths and
Miracles" DIR. Sim mons took for his
discourse the title "Some Miracles
Left" Living in-the atmosphere of the
present, he said, people were not to
forget that from the dawn of history
the belief in miracles has been prac-
tically universal. In Egypt, Babylon,
ASSyria, long anterior to the writing
of the Bible, miracles were reported to
have. abounded. From incense-rising
Greece water was turned into wine at
the feasts. Tacitus, Livy, Herodotus
and Josephus were all believers in mira
cles. The stories of So-called profane
history are no longer believed. The
miracles of Jewish origin in the Bible
are believed not so much because of a
failure of comprehen sion of the infinite,
but because there is no proof that they
ever happened. In order to maintain
that there were ''sOme miracles left"
the speaker defined the word miracle,
his explanation of the word differing
materially from that of Col. Ingersoll.
who said that the difference between
myth and miracle was the difference
between ''idealization and counterfeit
between fiction and falsehood. DR..
Simmons accepted Webster's definition
of miracle to be ''a wonder, wonderful
thing" as the correct meaning of the
word. Surely, he thought we have many
wonderful things left. If we can no
longer believe in sun that stood still
on particular time, which never stands
still. which moves continuously, giving
life and light to man, it is still truly a
wonderful thing. If we can no longer
believe that few small loaves and
fishes were so miraculously increased as
to feed 5000 hungry people in Gal
lice, we can still behold the
wonderful work of nature in which
wheat and corn fields of the prairies
are multiplied into millions of loaves
of bread. With Emerson, DR.. III. M.
Simmons thought the word miracle, as
it has been generally understood, means
monster, which gives false impression.
All the modern miracles, OF wonders
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-01
BLOWN TO FRAGMENTS.
Four Men Killed in a Colorado
Tunnel.

GEORGETOWN. Col, May 31.-A ter
rlble accident was reported at an early
hour yesterday morning as happening
at the east end of the Atlantic Pacific
tunnel, property on KeIso mountain,
about eight miles from Silver Plume by
which four men lost their lives.
The names of the dead men are;
Harry Taylor, William Cougblin,
j.. Richardson and John Mulholland.
Ihey were employed at the breast of the
tunnel in loading poles. The tunnel is
very long and is worked by power drills,
SO they carry with them about seventy
i've pounds of dynamite or giant pow
der to compile the loading. Upon hear
ing the explosion search party was
organized, which found all four men
named had been literally blown
to fragments by premature
explosion of nearly 100 pounds
OF dynamite. How the blast was fired
and what peculiar circumstances caused
the awful fatality will never he known.
The accident was about $500 feet from
the mouth of the tunnel. The force of
the explosion tore great hole in the
wall OF the tunnel, and great quantity
OF rock blocked the way out of the res
culng party for time. A majority of
the stock of the Atlantic-Pa tunnel
is owned by Brick POmeroy.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-01
THE UNIVERSALISTS
To Hold Their Annual Convention
in MINNEAPOLIS Next Week.


in Minneapolis Next Week.
The UniversalistS of Minnesota hold
their twenty-sixth annual convention at
the Church of the Redeemer, beginning
Wednesday, June 10, and continuing to
Friday noon. 1t is expected action Will
be taken upon some important changes
in the bylaws. The convention will be
composed of its officers, ordained clergy
men in fellowship, four lay delegates
from each parish and four from each
Sunday school. Tie programme will
include sermon by Rev. NJ. II. Harris.
ID. D., of Chicago. and platform meet
ing, with speakers and addresses as fol-
lows: "The Church as a Light Re v.
George W. Shilling; ''The Church as a
Home" Rev; W. d: McGlauflIn; "The
Church as Power" Rev. w. S. Vail.
On the evening of the 10th to open
the convention a rece ption will be ten
dered the delegates by the Ladies' So
cial Circle of the Church OF the Re-
deemer, at which refreshments and i'm
promptu speeches will be in order.
The occasional sermon will be
preached by Rev. S. w. Sample, and
the communion service will be cele-
brated, Rev. J. ii. futile, d, D., and
Rev. Marion D. Shutter, conducting the
celebration.
The state Sunday school convention
of the state will be held in the same
CHI urch OH June 9, and an interesting
programme will be followed out.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-01
NURsERYMEN's CONVENTION.
The Programme for Three Days
Session of This Beneficial Body.

The sixteenth annual meeting of the
American Association of Nurserymen
is to be held at the West hotel, begin
ming Wednesday and continuing three
days, and the Minnesota State Horticul-
tural society will also meet at the same
time and place. The Nurserymen's as
ISOLATION is differed as follows:
President, S NJ. Emery, Lake City. MINI. :;
first vice president, j. Van Lindley, Pomona,
N. c.; secretary Charles A Green, Roches-
ter, N. Y; treasurer. A. II. Whitney. Franklin
Grove, n. Y; executive committee, Irving
Rouse, Rochester. \. Y; W. j. Peters, Troy,
o.; Franklin Davis. Baltimore. Md. :; marshal,
n. II. Although. Tadmor, o.
Wednesday morning the delegates are
to be welcomed by Mayor Winston and
Gov. Merriam. President S. M. Emery
will deliver his annual address in the
afternoon. There will be papers on
elements of Encouragement in Horti-
CULTURE" by Norman j: Coleman. st:
Louis, Mo-; "Short Greed on One Good
Way to Sell Nursery Stock" g. L..
Grant, Chicago, H.. editor American
Florist. The protective association will
meet in the evening, and Thursday
morning, after the place of next meet
ing has been selected and officers nomi-
mated for the next year, there will be
noon, including Rocky Mountain
Trees and Shrubs" Robert w. Furnas,
Brownville, Neb.; "Fun for the Boys, but
Death on the Frogs George S. jesse
Ign, Fredonia, n. Y; 1.-The Pioneer
Nurseryman." Col. c. L. Watrous, Des
Moines, To-. "Price of Nursery Stock, ~
Elmer Reeves, Waverly, To-; "Investi-
CATION and Fruit Growing in Dakota"
Oliver Gibbs Sr., Ramsey. S. D.; Out
look of PomologY in the Northwest"
j. S. Harris, La Crescent; The North
west as a Field for Nursery Extension
Work." Charles A. Keffer, Brookings.
S. D.; what Shall Be Done With Our
Surplus" ID. A. Porterfield, Traer, To-,
The officers will be elected Friday
morning, and then the addresses and
essays will be resumed with What l Do
Not Know About Nurseries" by Charles
W. Garfield, Grand Rapids, Mich; Re
duction OF Letter Postage George q.
Atwood. Geneva, n. Y; .Growing
EVergreenS for Protection on the West
ern Prairies," E. H. Kicker, Elgin, Ill. ;
''rransplanting and Pruning Ever
green's" Charles f. Gardner, Usage, 10. (:
introduction of New Fruits" II. S. Wi
ley, Cayuga, n. Y; "Suggestions to Tree
Agents." J. jenkins. Winona. O.; New
Fruits and Their Value" E. w. Reid,
DrlugepOrG. w., propagation or the
Apple for Western and Northern Orch
ards,' j. V. Gotta, Nursery, Ill. Friday
evening there will be other addresses
''Nurserymen and the Eleventh Cen
sus," by j. H. Hale; South Glastonbury,
Conn; Rocky Mountain Evergreens,'
G. S. HARRISON, Franklin, Neb. "What
the Government is Doing for Pomol-
ogy," II. E. Van Deman, Washington
"Growing and Managing of Evergreens
From the Seed" Charles f. Gardner,
Usage. 10.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-01
MINNEAPOLIS.
ADJUSTMENTS.

The last of the series of hypnotic en-
tertainments at the Bijou was given last
evening in presence of only a fair au-
dience. Tonight will be given the in
itial performance of the old-time play,
Uncle Toms Cabin.' This production
IS under the special management of
II. B. Thearle, and it is said to be the
most elaborate of any of the latterdaY
productions of the play. The Hyer
listers and the Nashville students are
features OF the presentation. A street
parade will be given by the famous col
ored Hussar band to-day at II a. m.
The Park Opera company at the
Iyceum theater presented THE Chimes
of: Normandy" last night to ali audience
that nearly filled the first two floors of
that place of amusement. With the adj
dition of two principals the Park COM
r.any would undoubtedly be the best
popular priced musical organization
that has ever been seen in this city. AS
1t stands now, the chorus would do
Justice to a grand opera organization,
and Alice Verona, who appeared last
night as Germaine, IS delightful
little actress with most pleas
Ing voice. She will be well
remembered as having made a
most pronounced success with the Viii
bur company some two years ago. The
tenor of the company did not sing last
nigh. The best male voice of the Park
company is Charles Huntington, who
has itch baritone voice of excellent
compass and range. and his SolO"l Am
Rover'' was encored three times last
evening. James Jones, as Gaspard has
been seen before i'll this character. and
is excellent. while the chorus was SIM
ply splendid. With but two additions to
The principals, the Park company will
lie one of the best, especially at cheap
prices, that has ever been seen in the
city.
Harris Boston Vaudeville company
opens tonight, the last week of the
regular season at the Pence. Matinees
will be given Wednesday, Friday and
Sunday. This is said to be one of the
9est companies on the road, with not
even an ordinary speciality on the pro-
gramme. The curtain rises at S:l5.
There will be no waits and the perform
ance will conclude by 1920.
The County Fair" closed the regular
season at the Grand last night. The
house will remain closed until Sunday
night. when the Park Opera company
will present ''FatinitZa," with strong
cast, special scenery and extra new
costumes. This will be the first presen-
Iation of this charming opera ever given
In this city at popular prices.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-01
INGERSOLL.
Rev. w. j. Lhamon Calls Him the
Theological Scavenger.

At the Church of Christ, Rev. W.. J
Lhamon, as his morning prelude, spoke
upon ''Ingersoll."
We like Mr.. Ingersoll. He is the
illogical scavenger. He carries away for
us vast deal of old theological refuse.
He rakes together the cast-otf rags and
well-picked bones of a half barborous
age in which real Christianity strug-
gled for its life. The colonel whistles
so merrily as he drives about in Tom
Paine'S old creaky cart that we rather
enjoy the music. To be sure he pliers
jewel now and then, but we must ex-
pect that of ScavengerS.
His sense of smell is marvelously
keen. He scents religious corruption a
long way off, especially when he is
financially in the lee of it. Only follow
him at 80 cents per head and you are
sure to find some ecclesiastical dead
thing. In this respect he is a genuine
king buZZard. Don't be alarmed if he
treadS down the grass and flowers where
he tears worn out, old. dead doctrines
to pieces. He and his fellows will take
their flight in due time. and the grass
and flowers will grow again all the more
vigorously for the clearance they have
made.
We admire the colonels courage. 1t
was the custom once in England to hang
up certain criminals with chains to
gibbets. These gibbets were placed
near the public ways, and the bodies
left indefinitely as warnings. They
were periodically tarred to keep out the
weather, and help them hold together
They became unpleasant and unsightly,
of course. Sensitive people avoided
them; superstitious people feared them.
SO the church has hung up some of its
creeds, and periodically revises them
that they may hold together somehow
Most of us avoid these gibbeted
creeds; some are in awe of them;
some revere them at distance.
But the colonel is brave; he walks up
and rattles the chain; he proves to the
world that the thing is really suspend
ed: he lifts up the tarred tatters that
surround the Wondering body and
peeps in; he declares the sight beauti-
full; he puts on pleased grin, and asks
us to look. No, thank you, colonel
Most of us are engaged with live mat
tiers, and we prefer not to look. You
will please keep on helping belated the
OlOgianS take care of those old things.
You have your work and we don't
envy you. Clean up our theological
door steps for us; slaush out our gut
ters; fumigate us if you think best.
Don't be afraid; you can't hurt us; if
there is anything about us you can kill,
it ought to be killed. Strauss has been
answered; Baur has been answered;
Voltaire has been answered; Robert
Elsmere was answered twenty-five years
before it was written. There is moth
ing more to be answered. You have
nothing new. Your grin is interesting !;
like that of Alice'S cat in Wonderland,
the grin remains sometime after the cat
has vanished. Please don't mar the
paint when you sweep our door teps.
Why is there so much boy about you?
You are naliciously miSchievous.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-01
ON LUCONNA ROCKS.
Story of the Loss of the Steamer
HOlme Eden.

SAN FRANCISCO, May S1.-The steam
ship Oceanic, from Hong Kong, brings
fuller advices of the loss of the British
steamer Holme Eden, Capt. Prentice,
which was lost on Luconna rocks while
on the way from Hong Kong to Shang-
hal. The vessel was from Antwerp
with general cargo. She left Hong
Kong April 49, On April IS, during a
thick fog, she ran broadslde on Luconna
rocks, and in half an hour the engine
room and after part of the vessel was
full of water. Two life boats were
launched and the crew, twenty-sx in
number, put off safely, losing, however,
all their effects. The boats stood by
until the vessel keeled over. whenit 1.-THE
captain gave orders to pull away. The
boats became separated at night, but at
noon next day the mates boat was
picked up by the steamer Myrmidon
and the captains boat by the Chinese
gunboat Chaowo. The men suffered
some from hunger and exposure. They
were taken to Shanghai.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-01

larity if not sure success, and often it is
not deserved. Success founded upon
good character is the only true success.
He thought that although the field of
action Of many persons was limited to
private life, and although one may
never say anything that would be re-
membered long, everyone could be
happy and do all in their power to
make others happy. The whole schools
were doing much to build foundation
for the future welfare of the ma.
ton. In them the children of for
eign parentage studied and played
and thus the foreign element would be
assimilated in the ever increasing
American spirit. He thought that the
most successful men of foreign nation
ality, were those who had brought them
selves out from the narrow ways of
their people, and had become patriotic
and would make all things American,
regardless of national distinctions.
What wise men had done, was what
public schools have done. A peep into
schoolroom should prove this to every
fair-minded person.
The president then followed with
some
Good Advice
to those of the class who should happen
to be placed in responsible government
positions, and TO those who might per-
chance at some time assist in making
the laws of the country He thought it
was foolish idea that some
people had that educated men
should not interfere with politics. 1t
was the duty of every citizen, women as
we'll as men. "rhe power of women is
caih hn ~
reason they haven't had suffrage i'm the
past is because they have never united
ly asked for it, because they have sup
posed that men had sense enough to
govern. When they want the ballot,
they will get it,"
The men who voluntarily died that
the nation might live. whose graves
were bat yesterday strewn with flowers
by grateful people, and whose total
self-sacrifice ought to-day to moderate
the sellishness of the living, heve left to
us the country in charge, to make a
place where all its people may dwell in
peace and happiness. And we shall
faithfully discharge this trust if in our
public administration of the govern
ment and in our intercourse with one
another we manifest, without regard to
race. or self, or party, that squirt which
fulhlls the law, Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as myself"
He closed his address with usual fare
well words directed to the class, all of
whom arose and stood with bowed heads.
Rev. DR.. Eli Corwin, of Chicago, pro.
nounced the benediction, after which
the graduates were showered with their
first congratulations but not the last,
for they will come each day until Thurs
day. To-day is field day, and there will
be exercises and sports both morning
and afternoon.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-01
BEN WILL GO SLOW.
The New Circu Judges Not to Be
Appointed Yet.

WASHINGTON, May 81. = President
Harrison has finally determ ined not to
appoint the nine new circuit court
judges until next December. He says
no member has yet been selected. Po-
litical belief, it is understood, will not
be the dominant requisite for appoint
ment to these positions. 1t is the inten-
ton of the president to select men for
these places of the highest legal ability,
and with the view of obtaining such
talent, the legal work of candidates will
be carefully scrutiniZed, and, wherever
it is possible, their briefs and printed
arguments before their respective su-
preme courts will be secured and sub
iected to examination. The ability and
legal acumen expressed in these docu-
ments will, therefore, have much weight
in assisting the president in reaching
his conclusions. This is taken as an
indication that, perhaps, there may be
Democrat appointed in one of the
Southern circuits. The appointment of
the five land court judges is looked for
confidently this week.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-01
ANOTHER HOT FIRE.
The Nelson Paper Mill Nearly
Destroyed by Fire--Loss,
$4,000.
President Northrop's Impress
Sive Words to the Class
Of 81.
A Han Falls Seventy Feet
From a Smoke
stack.
Pulpit Opinions OF Ingersoll--
The Nurserymen's Con-
vention.

The Nelson Paper company's mill,
corner Fourth avenue and Main street
northeast was discovered to be on fire
yesterday morning by the Waterman
shortly after o'clock. By the time the
fire department arrived the flames had
gained a good Roadway, and the new
portion of the building, in which the
machinery was located, was almost
destroyed, while the front por-
ton, which was formerly the old
Dorman bank, and which was occupied
as an Office, was badly damaged. The
fire was quite hot one, and Nelson &
Ienney'S saw mill adjoining was en-
dangered. Two dwellings also caught
fire from sparks, but were not damaged
to any extent. The department worked
hard, and by II O'Clock had the fire
about eXtinguished.
The loss is estimated at S25, 900, di-
vlded about as follows, as nearly as can
be estimated: On the building, IS, 600:
stock destroyed. $4,000; damage to ma
chinery, SIS, 900. The insurance amounts
to $4,000, $1,000 of which was on stock
III warehouse in another part of the
city, so the loss can be said to be ap-
proXlmately covered, although the de-
lay in rebuilding will be an additional
expense. The mill had been in opera
ton about ten years, and manufactured
strawboard, felt, building roofing and
coarse wrapping papers from rags and
straw. There were two machines, one
of which was valued at $4,000, and to-
gether with other apparatus there was
probably $4,000 worth of machinery IN
the building. To what extent 1t has
been damaged remains to be seon.
The origin of the fire is not known.
The night force left the building at a.
m, and state that the rubbish was care
fully swept away, and the fires wet
down. Nevertheless it is apprehended
that i'll some way spark got into the
dust and started the conflagration. The
Waterman came on at o'clock, and a
half hour later discovered the fire which
had even then gained a good start.