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% SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
Senate Sessions.
Eleventh Day.?On the opening day after
he holiday recess the Senate was called to
order by Senator Sherman, the president pro
tempore, who, after prayer and the reading
of the journal, laid before the Senate several
papers, including the credentials of John W.
Daniel, the newly elected United States Senator
from Virginia, which were read and
laid on the table Numerous bills !
were introduced, anions: them l?eing the
following: By Senator Morgan?To substitute
silver dollars in part in the place of gold J
coin and currency in several reserved fluids :
held in the treasury. By Senator Blair?To
provide for the erection of monuments in this
city to President Lincolu and General
Grant* similar to the Washington, to cost
$1,000,000 each; none but American citizens
i are to be employed upon this work. By Mr.
Logan: To provide for the adjustment of the
accounts of laborers, workmen and mechanic
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confer military rank on telegraph operators
in the military service. Also to create a coinmission
to inquire into the material, industrial
anil intellectual progress made
by the colored people since 1805....
A resolution offered by Mr. Hoar was at his
request, referred to the committee on foreign
relations, requesting the President to take
measures for revising and extending our extradition
treaties, so as to cover cases of embezzlement
and other breaches of trust. In
offering his resolution. Mr. Hoar made
special reference to the number of defaulting
bank officers who tried to
escape punishment by flight to Canada.
....Upon motion of Mr. Sherman a marble
statue of the late President Garfield, presented
to Congress by the State of Ohio, and now in
position at the capitol. was accented?Mr.
Edmunds' Utah bill came up, and Mr. Hoar
moved to strike out the section prohibiting the
exercise of suffrage by women in Utah. After
discussion the matter"went over to the next
day.
Twelfth Dat.?The chair laid before the
Senate a letter from the postmaster-general
complying with the call of a recent Senate
reflation in respect to the appointment of
pcstmastei-s in Maine alleged to have been
procured through the influence of S. S.
Brown, Chairman of the Democratic committee
of the Sonate. After debate
upon the matter by Messrs. Hale, Vest and
\ oorhees, the communication, on motion of
Mr. Hale, was referred to the committee on
civil service reform.... Mr. Gray called up
Mr. Beck's resolution of iuauiry regarding
the payment of customs uuties in coin, |
ancl the application of that, coin to
the purposes of the sinking fund, etc. Mr.
Gray said he would vote on it. Mr. Beck
made a speech favoring the suspension of
silver coinage, saving that if coinage were
now suspended silver might begot to a proper
relation with gold; and, in the opinion of the
best authorities in the world, we had now got
to a point in silver coinage beyond which it
was dangerous for us to go... .On motion of
Mr. Edmunds the Senate took up the Utah
bill, the pending question being on Mr.
Hoar's motion to strike out the section
that would disfranchise the women
of Utah. The vote on this motion resulted:
Yeas, 11; nays, 37. The section disfranchising
the women remains, therefore, a part of
the bill.... Mr. Blair, from the committee on
education and labor, reported favorably a
bill to aid in the establishment of common
schools?the same as the bill that passed the
Senate last Congress....Mr. George introduced"
a bill to prevent contraction in the
currency and to increase the circulation of
silver and silver certificate?.
Thirteenth Day.?Mr. Voorliees offered
as a substitute for Mr. Harrison's recent resolution
regarding the late administration of
the pension office a series of resolutions reciting
various allegations made by the present
commissioner of the fusion office against its
former administration, and calling for an investigation
in the truth of said allegations.
After debate with Mr. Logan the subject
went over for a day.... Discussion of the Ed
rounds anti-Mormon bill was resumed.
House Sessions.
Twelfth Day.?Upon the reassembling of
the House after the holiday recess the flood of
bills introduced just before adjournment continued.
In all, about i>00 bills were introduced
during the day, among them being the following:
By Mr. Cutcheon?A bill to reform
the civil service and to preserve the constitutional
distinction between the legislative
and executive duties by the organization
of a bureau of civil appointments.
Mr. Long introduced a bill for the repeal of
the Tenure of Office act and a bill providing
that the principal officer of each
* departmeut of the government be
given a seat on the floor of the House.
Mr. Buchanan introduced a bill for the repeal
of the tax on tobacco and the manufacturers
thereof: a bill creating a department
of agriculture,and Mr. Mitchell's Senate bill for
the retiring and recoining of the trade dollar.
\ Mr. Beach introduced joint resolutions providing
for constitutional amendments. One
to.give the comptroller power to change the
location or name of national banks and increase
their capital stock. One to raise the
statutes of limitations on debts of the United
States. One to give the President the power
to veto one or more items in the appropriation
bills. One to provide uniform laws on
marriage and divorce, and one to prevent the
giving or loaning of the public money for
private or corporation enterprise. A
constitutional amendment proposed by
'mr- \f1> a rlrwr. nrnvidpc thnf. nrpqiripnfcifll
electors shall be elected in every State on
the third Tuesday in October, and that no
other officers than Representatives in ConSess
shall be elected on the same day. Mr.
cAdoo also introduced a bill depriving of
~ the right of suffrage all polygamists or persons
who are members of organizations that
encourage other persons to commit bigamy.
Thirteenth Day.?The call of States for
the introduction of bills was resumed, 882
bills being introduced during the day, including
the following: By Mr. Seney?To
repeal the civil service act: to make share hoi- '
ders in national banks individually liable for
{ the debts of the bank; to retire trade dollars.
By Mr. Foran?For the restoration of wages
in the government printing office. By Mr.
Little?Reqairing national banking associations
to keep three-fourths of their required
reserves in coin of unlimited legal tender, at
least two-fifths of which shall oe in silver.
? By Mr. Kelley?For the further limitation
of the coinage of tha silver dollar.
It provides that until the free coinage
of both gold and silver full legal tender
shall be established at a common^ratio by the
leading commercial nations of Europe in concert
with the United States, the coinage of
silver dollars shall be limited to $1,000 in coin
during each and every year. By Mr. Scott
?To regulate the coinage of the silver dollar.
By Mr. Curtin?To equalize the }>ensions of
all utterly helpless pensioned soldiers. By
Mr. Randall?Providing for filling vacancies
in the office of President and Vice-President;
also proposing a constitutional amendmeut
giving the .President the power to veto
specific items in appropriation bills. By Mr.
% Tillman?For the free coinage of the silver
dollar.
Fourteenth Day?The rail of States was
resumed, and the following bills and resolutions
were introduced and referred: By Mr.
, Goff, of West Virginia?To repeal the internal,
revenue on- tobacco. By Mr. Price, of
Wisconsin?For the creation of a commission
on the subject of the alcoholic liquor
traffic. By Mr. Gifford, of Dakota?For the
admission of the State of Dakota. By Mr.
Voorhees. of Washington Territory?For the
admission of the State of Washington. By
Mr. Pulitzer, of New York?Providing for
the appointment of a board of commissioners
for Sew York harbor. By Mr. Symes, of
Colorado?For the unlimited coinage of the
silver dollar. By Mr. Dunham, of Illinois?To
establish a department of commerce. By
Mr. Anderson, of Kansas?To prevent unjust
discriminations by railroad companies, and
to subject them to the control of States; also,
prohibiting the use of railroad and other
passes and of telegreph franks by members of
Congress and the judiciary: also, to create
the postal telegraph of the "United States
The speaker announced the list of new House
committers.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Juvenile "Mikado" companies already
have .sprouted up.
"U and I" is the title of a new farce pro
du ed recently in Boston.
Queer companies and queerer plays are
tumbling all over the country.
Patti is said to have lost $15,000 by not
being able to keep her engagements in Holland.
Mr. J. H. Haverly is now quietly managing
a comic opera company in San Francisco.
Fai're, the great, French baritone, is on
the point of publishing a work on the art of
singing.
Mrs. Lakgtry has leased the Prince's
theatre. London, for six months, and opens
the new year with a new play.
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The Lore of God.
Glful in tho sunshine,
All tilings lift their voices
To tlio Giver oi good;
And the whole world rejoices
Because oi' the love
Ot tiie Father above.
Hearts sad with sorrow.
And hands that are weary,
Grow reattul in Gixl,
And are hopetul and cheery;
For ilia love will last,
When till else ahull be past.
Oh, wondeiful kindneas!
j lis inconstant never, ,
And (Joes not yiow lired, j
l>Uv endures all lcrever;
Mo love is so strou^,
Mo love lasls so long.
Who knows I lis IbrgivenoM
Will evermore render
A tribute ol praise;
lor llts love is so tender
Tiittt words luil to show
What our gratelul hearts know.
Then let all His eliiidreu
Rejoice wiiliuut measure;
'1 he gieat love ol Uoit
is our eulace anil treasure,
btuee lie holds us dear
V\ n.il is there to tear'
?Maiiamte Farninyham,
RELIGIOUS READING.
Do Kou Know Je*us !
I was walking hastily along a
crowded street wnen my steps were
suddenly arrested by a voice Oelnud
me uttenug the words, "iiir, do you
know Jesus?" For the tune aud
place it was a strange question. It
was hlgti noon, and many were
hastening to the Exchange near by.
it was in the centre of a biiay
thoroughfare through which hundreus
were pressing, each intent upon his
own particular errand. In the midst
of the temples of Mammon and of the
lL " ^ 1 hnnrH thtt
mings oi uis wuiauipcu, ?
I strange thrilling question, 4,?>ir, do
you Know Jesus?" Stranger still,
I when I turned to see the person who
uttered the words, 1 could not
fix upon any oae of the nuinoers behind
ine as the speaker. 1 did not i
j see, either, to whom it had been |
j spoken. If it had fallen from the
ciear sky above me it could not have
I had less of personality about it. The
air had borne it to my tar, but from
whom 1 could not discern; and the
words, so unusual in that place and at
that time, seemed to have become
doubly strange, that their speaker had
so quickly vanished.
1 turned ayvay and passed up the
street, pondering over the question
. which 1 had so mysteriously heard. I
thought of the declaration of Jesus
that "to know" him is "life eternal,"
and then I forgot the strangeness of
the query in the sense of its overwhelming
importance. I questioned
<mrr nn,n annl ?TV?o?- fknn frr?, ? W Tft.'lllS."
UIJ vnu ouLII, i/you uiuu anv ? ?
the eternal life? I applied it mentally
to those who passed me so hurriedly,
eager in their pursuit of present
good. One I reeognized as a shrewd
and practical financier. He knew
something of the secrets of the banKing-house.
He understood the vast
system of exchanges which spread
over our country like a network. He
coutd discourse fluently upon the
crisis and its causes. Did he know
JesusV If not, he had missed the
highest knowledge. He knew not
him in whom infinite treasures of
wisdom and grace are found.
I passed on further, and I saw a
well-known merchant ascending the
sttps of the Custom House. He was
an adept in his business, thoroughly
versed in all the departments of trade.
He knew the value of commodities at
a glance, and could predict the turn
ol markets, and speculate wisely upon
the changes in commerce made by the
manifold changes of the times. He
was an oracle in the counting-house
and on 'change. But did he know
Jesus? was my thought. In his cal
cuiauons mis ne ever computed tne
worth of Lis soul, or the value of
Christ's sacrifice offered for its redemption
? Did he know Jesus as his
Saviour, and heartily receive him as
his sacrifice before God? If not, what
was his acquired knowledge but a
guide for a lew years, to be utterly
useless when God should call him to
give up his possessions on earth.
Further on, I met another familiar
face. It was pale,and an air of abstraction
spread over it. The man oc
science was conning some new problem,
or pondering over some novel
facts. lie knew the laws by which'
the stars move and the waters flow.
He had analyzed and combined until
he understood many things in their
elements, and the processes by which
these elements were united in many
different forms. He knew the history
of the past, and could tell where the
mountains had been built up and seas
spread out. Did he also know Jesus?
That is the great question. Header, do
you know Jesus? Do you know his
power to save from sin and the fear of
iinnenriin? iudament? Do vou know
" ? O J O v
how free his mercy is? how full his
grace? You must know him, or perish.
You mu3t know him, or miss
eternal life.?The Presbyterian.
Men cling to Christ to-day as if it
was but yesterday that He had died for
them. When all other names carved
on the world's records have become
unreadable, like forgotten inscriptions
on decaying gravestones. His shall en- i
dure forever, deep graven on fleshy
tables of heart. Ilis revelation of
God is the lushest truth. Till the end
of time men wili turn to His lite for
the clearest knowledge aud happiest
certainty of their Father in Heaven.
There is nothing limited or local in
His character of works. In hi3 meek
beauty and gentle perfectness He
stands so high above us all, that today
the inspiration of His example
and the lessons of hi3 conduct touch
us as much as if he had lived in this
generation, and will always shine before
men as their best and most
blessed law of conduct. Christ will
not be antiquated till lie is outgrown,
and it will be some time before that
happens.?Alexander Maclaren, D. D.
A pamphlet by Mr. John Abbey,
which excited considerable interest in
England when published a few years
since, advocating the discontinuance of
intoxicants on the harvost field, was
widely circulated by a committee, and,
| as a result of this effort, many'farmers
have substituted a money payment for
the former beer allowance, to the general
satisfaction of masters and men. (
DR. TALIAGE'S SERIN.
LONG LIFE.
Text: "That thy days may ho lon? upon
the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee."
?Exodus xx., 12.
January 1SS0. Our old almanacs and
memorandums thrown aside aud everybody
impressed with the fact that we are opening
a new volume in the history of time, and
every sensible man and woman discussing the
length or the shortness of human life. Fidelity
to duty iu my text is represented as having
much to do with the length of our stay on
earth. By the mistakeof some of its friends religion
has been associated in the minds of many
with sick beds aud graveyards. The Whole
subject to them is malodorous with chlorine
and carbolic acid. They cannot pronounce
the word religion without hearing in it tho
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L'iipjjiujj; ui uiu uuisci vi uuu i/VJiuur> wuv ^uuwi .
Now, all this has got to be changed. People
are to understau<l that instead of religion
being a hearse to carry out the dead it is a
chariot in which the living are to triumph;
that religion instead of being a subtraction
from one's life is an addition; that it is sanative,
curative, hygienic; that it is good for
the eyes, good for the ears, good for the
spleen, good for the digestion, good for the
nerves, good for the muscles, good for our
entile organism. Certainly we ought to come
to some such realization as that. The time
has come when we cease to associate
religion with the day of our demise
and talk of it as though it were something
mortuary. How is it with the psalmist where
he comes to speak of the religion of Jesus
Christ as dominant in the earth? Does he
speak of it as a mild sickness, as an emaciation,
as an atfcick of moral and spiritual
cramp? No. He speaks of it as the saving
health, the saving health of all nations, anu
God in another place promises long continuance
in this world for the pious when He
says: "With long life will I satisfy him."
The fact is that men and women die too soon, i
and it is high time that religion strike hands
with medical science in the improvement of
the world's longevity. Adam lived 1)30 years.
Methusalah lived 1)69 years. As late in the
history of the world as the reign of Vespasian
there were forty-five people in his empire 135
years old. Coming on down to the sixteenth
century Peter Vartan died at 185 years. 1 do
not say that the conquest of religion in the
world will take the race back to antediluvian
longevity, but I do say that it will greatly
improve the length of life. In Isaiah we are
told that a child shall die 100 years old. Well,
if a cliild is to die 100 years old} will you be
surprised to hear that in that tune men and
women may live 400, 500, GOO years? I pro- :
nnsft tn show vou this moraine, as God mav 1
kelp me, that tho religion of Jesus Christ
is the friend of long Jife, and I prove it in
the lli-st place by the fact that the Christian
religion makes the care of our physical health J
a Christian duty. Whether we shall have
early or late hours, whether we shall cat food
digestible or indigestible, whether there shall
be complete or incomplete mastication,
are subjects which people are apt to relegate
to the realm of whimsicality, but
the Christian man takes the whoJe subject of
physical health into the accountable aud the j
divine. The Christian man says: "Here is
my body. God has called it the temple of j
the Holy Ghost, and if I deface its
altars or mar its walls, or crumble its
pillars, 1 am guilty of God-defyiug sacrilege."
The Christian man reads God's caligraphy in
every page anatomial and physiological. He
says to himself: "God gave me this body for
right and for noble and for great uses." My
arms has 32 curious bones wielded by 40 curious
muscles. My heart?3o0 pounds of blood I
rushing through it eveiy hour. My heart, j
beating 100,000 times every day. During those
24 hours my heart overcoming resistances
amounting to 224,000,000 pounds weight?
overcoming those resistances. My lungs,
your lungs, taking in every 24 hours 57 hogsheads
of air. And all this mighty machinery
under the telegraphy of the brain. The Christain
man says to himself: "Why, if I hurt my
nerves, if 1 hurt my muscles, if I hurt my
braiu, if I hurt any part of my physical or- j
ganism I insult my God and invoke dire
retribution; I cannot afford to do it." Why J
was it that the Levites were told not to offer
in sacrilice imperfect or diseased animals? It
was to impress all the ages of tho fact that
God would have us offer to Him our very best
physical condition. Why did Paul send for
his cloak to Troas? Why should so great and
good a man as Paul be botherea about a
cloak? Oh, he knew tbat with pneumonia
and rheumatism he would not be worth as
much to God and the church as he would I
with respiration easy and foot free.
No sensible Christian man would kneel
down at night and ask for .God's protection
and then keep the windows of his bedroom
tight shut against the fresh air any more than
he would go out on the East river and jump
off ancl ask God to keep him from getting
hurt. The whole question of physical nealth,
the intelligent Christian lifts into the region
of the accountable and tho divine. He says;
"All this physical organism, all the nerves,
the muscular, the bone, the brain, the cellular
tissue, my entire organism, I must give to
God and "answer in judgment as to what I do
with-it. Smoking the nervous system
into ~ fidgets. Eating off the coat
of the stomach with wine, logwood and
strychnine. Wearing thin shoes on a cold
day so as to have the foot look delicate.
Groaning about palpitations of the heart and
sick-headaches, which in some cases may come
from God, but in nino cases out of ten come
from our own folly or the devil. How dare a
man, how dare a woman deface this temple
of the Holy Ghost? What is the ear? It is
the whispering gallery of the soul. What is
the eye? It ix the observatory God constructed,
with its telescope sweeping the
heavens. What is the hand? An instrument
so wonderful that when the Earl of
Bridgewater in his last will and testament
bequeathed $40,000 for essays to bo written on
tho wisdom, power and goodness of God,
found in the human hand his chief illustration?imlfifd
devoted tho whole book to that
one organ. The human body so wonderful
that God has actually named His attributes
after different parts of it. His omniscience
?God's eye. His omnipresence?Gods ear.
HLs omnipotence?God's arm. The upholstery
of the midnight heavens?the work of His
Angers. His life-riving power?the breath of
the Almighty. His dominion?the government
upon His shoulder. How dare you and
I maltreat such a divine workmanship? If I
abuso my watch, and droo it on
trie pavement, and wind it up at all sorts ot
hours of the day and night, and ever and
anon let it run down, and you take good care
of your watch, and you keep it away from
violent atmospheric changes, and you wind it
up at the regular hour, which watch will last
the longer and do the best work? Your com- j
mon sense answers. Now, the human body I
is God's watch. You see the face of the
watch, and you see the hands of the watch,
but the beating of the heart is the ticking of
the watch, and you had better be careful how
you let it run down.
Agiun: religion, the Christian religion, is
the friend of long life in the fact that it's a
protest against indulgences and dissipations,
which shorten and destroy the health. Bod
men and women have short lives. That is a
general rule. I know hundreds of good old
men. I_do not know a dozen bad old men.
w hy? They do not get out. i nac is a general
rule. Lord Byron died at Missolongln, at
thirty-six years of age, himself his own Mazeppa,
his unbridled parous the horse on
which he dashed out into t le desert. Edgar
A. Poe died at thirty -eight years of age in
Baltimore, aud the raven that alighted on the
bust above his chamber door was delirium
tremens. ''Only this and nothing
more." Napoleon died a little after
mid life, and his physicians said
the only cause of his disease was excessive
snuffing, the hero of Austerlitz, the planting
of whose foot in the centre of Europe snook the
earth, killed with his own snuff box! But you
say: "Don't sometimes professors of religion
go wrong? don't professors of religion sometimes
get intoxicated, and professors of religion
misappropriate funds,and professors of religion
make complete shipwreck? Yes; but
they always throw away their religion before
they throw away their morality. Mark the
chronology. They always throw away their
religion before they throw away their morality.
Because a man jumps overboard
from a White Star Line steamer mid-Atlantic
?is that anything against the capacity of the
White Star Line to take a man safely to
Liverpool? Because a man jumps over the
eunwales of his relisrion and coos flown novpr
to rise, is that anything against the capacity
of the Christian religion to take a man clear
through safely? In the one case, if the man
had stuck to the steamer it would have been
the salvation of his body; in the other case, if
he had stuck to his religion it would have
been the salvation of his morals. There are
people in this house to-day who would have
been dead twenty-five years ago but for the
life-giving quality and life-preserving
honor of the Christian religion. You
started life side by side with some other
man. He had not the restraints of the
Christian religion. You have had them. His
body has been in Greenwood for years. The
physician made it easy with his friends and
said it was congestion of the brain; but the
snalccs that crawled through the room and
the blue flies that went over tho pillow showed
what it was. You and he came side by side
until you got to the golden pillar of the
Christian life. You went to tlio right. He
went to the left. That is the only difference j
between you and him. The self-preservative
power of the Christian religion! I tell you
Christianity is the mightiest of all the friends
of longevity.
Again: the Christian religion is the friend
of long life in the fact that it takes the worry
out of our temporalities. It is not work that
kills people; it is worry. When a man becomes
a real, genuine Christian he not only
makes over to God his affections, but he puts
in His hands his family, his property, his
reputation, his body, his mind, his soul?
every th ing. Industrious he will be, of course,
but he feels at the same time that God is
managing. How can a real Christian |
man worry about business when in an- i
swer to prayer God tells him when to buy
and when to sell, and if he gain that is bast,
and if he lose that is best. I know
scores of business men who are kept in complete
equipoise by the grace of God, and all
through the panics that have bothered other
men and flung other men, they have been
calm and imperturbed. Not because they
had any stronger nerves than other men, but
because they had God to help shem. Suppose
you had a superhuman friend and he
came to you and said: "Now, when you get
into any kind of trouble draw on me; I control
the" stock of thirty-five of the finest monetary
institutions of this country. I can fall
back at any moment upon $20,000,000*of resources.
If you get in any business trouble,
or any other kind of trouble, come
to me. You shall have my name,
my influence, my money." How much would
you worry? Not much. You would say: "I'll
do as well as I can and then my friend will
help me through." Now, God promises more
than that. He says: "look here, I own all
New York, Brooklyn, London, St. Petersburg,
Moscow?all the silver of Nevada, all
the gold of Australia and California?all tho
earth and all the heavens. Now, fall back
ujxm me when you have any trouble. I Will
see you through. And here I pledge you
eternal and omnipotent fidelity." How
much ought that man worry? Not much.
Where is the lion that would dare to put its
paw on that Daniel. Take the thermometer
and put it in Shadrach's furnace and it will
not go up to more than seventy-five degrees
Oh, what a tonic, what equipoise, wha'j
health, what long life in such a religion! But
vou say: "Here is a man who asked God's
blessing on a business enterprise and he lost
$5,000. Explain that." I will explain.it.
There is a factory and some of the wheels
turn to the north and some turn to the south,
and some work vertically and some work
laterally. I go into the factory and
I say: "Oh, manufacturer, your machinery
here is a contradiction. Why don't you make
all the wheels go one way?" He laughs at me
and says: "Why I make them go this way on
purpose. You go to our storeroom and see
the carpets we are turning out." I go into
the storeroom and I see tne exquisite work
all this machinery is making though some of
the wheels go this way and some go that way,
and while I am admiring the work an old
Scripture passage comes into my mind: "All
things work together for good to them that
love God." It does not make any different
whether they work this way, or that way;
they work together for good. So in regard
to a man's reputation. Somebody says you
are dishouest, somebody says you are a liar,
somebody says you are stupid. During the
course of one's life I think almost every man
gets misrepresented and gets persecuted.
Now, what are you to do? Fly about in excitement,
fuming and fretting, trying to
stop this and rushing in to get that corrected.
Is that the way? No. Hear the
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VO1C0 OI IjrCKl SiiyiUg \A) ) uu; uu i vm i^uuui
man, I am on ycur side." If God be for you
who can be asainst vou? I will see
you t&rougn. Don t worry.'
If that broker on Wall street, who,a few years
ago when he had lost all his money, sat down
and wrote a letter to his wife telling her he
was going to blow his brains out, had pulled
out of his pocket instead of a pistol a well-worn
new testament, there would have been one
less case of suicide. Oh, business man! as
near as I can tell about you, what you want
is not chloral, not morpliine, but the soothing
grace of God, and you can have it, and you
can have it now. And again. The Christian
religion is a friend of long-life in the fact that
it takes all corrodin?rcare away in regard to
our future existence. Every sensible man wants
to know what is going to become of him. If yon
take a rail train, you want to know into what
depot it will run. If you go on board a ship
you want to know into what harbor it will
sail. If you tell me that you have no interest
in your future existence I would in as polite
a way as possible tell you I did notlbelieve
you. Every person is interested in the
question of future existence. Until I got
that question of eternal destiny settled in
my own mind, it almost worried me
into unliealth. There are people, a
great many people who think ana worry so
much on these subjects, that if you would
put all their worriment together it would
amount to a martyrdom. I know people who
are so afraid of the thought that tney worry
themselves to death. iNow, lam going to
try on you three or four experiments to take
this strain off of your nervous system and to
take this depression out of your soul. Experiment
the first: When you go out of this
life, whether you have been good or bad,
whether you believed truth or error, you
will go straight to glory. You say, "that's
absurd. I can accept no such doctrine
as that. I know that roads going in opposite
directions cannot come out in the same place,
and I know, my common sense tells me, that
the good and the bad, the clean and the unclean,
the right and the wrong cannot be in
accord and eternal amity. I reject your experiment."
Experiment the second. When
you go out of this life you will go into an
intermediate state where you can get things
fixed up, and you can repent there, and you
can get converted there. "Absurd," you say,
"I accept no such doctrine as that. I
cannot postpone to a realm of which I
know so little, or know nothing, questions
that pertain to my life here and questions
that may be decided here. A bird in the
+WA in 4-Vktx VvticV* T haVA Jl.TI OTV
liailU xo nrui uu inu iu vuv mivhai a w -r
portunity now. I do not know about the intermediate
state. I reject your experiment."
Experiment the third: When you go out of
this life that will be the last of you. The
mind is only a superior part of the body, and
when your life on earth ends you end. Extinct.
Do not discuss what you will do in
the future state. You will not do anything.
When your earthly life ends your
entire lifo ends. "Absurd," says some
one. "There is something that tells
me that I am immortal. My power
to think says 'forever.' My affections say
'forever.' My capacity to enjoy or suffer
says 'forever.'" Well, you have rejected
three of my experiments. I have but one
more experiment; and if you reject that I am
exhausted. A mighty one on a knoll back of
Jerusalem one day, the heavens full of forked
lightning, and the earth with volcanic disturbance,
looked with His pale and agonized
face into the heavens, and said; "I take the
sins and the sorrows of the world
I in my heart. I am the expiation.
Witness heaven and earth ana hell,
I am the expiation." And the hammers
I struck Him, and the spears punctured Him,
and the clouds thundered "the wages of sin is
death. Tho soul that sinnetn it snau aie. 1
will by no means clear the guilty." For half
an hour there was silence. Then tho lightnings
withdrew their sword into the scabbard of
the sky, and the earth ceased to quiver, and
the colors all shifted until they formed themselves
into a rainbow woven by the falling
tears of Jesus, and there was the
blue that suggested the bruising, and
there was the red that suggested the
bloodshed, and there was tho gre>n that
suggested the leaves of tho tree ot life which
are for the healing ol' the nations, and there
was the orange that suggested tho dawn of
the morning, and along the line of the blue
were tho words, "He was bruised for our
iniquities," and aloug the lino of tho red I
saw the words, "the blood of Jesus Christ
cleanseth as from all sins," and along the line
of the green I saw "the leaves of tho tree of
life which are for the healing of the nations,''
aud along the line of the orange I saw "the
daysprinc from on high has visited us."
And while l look the rainbow rose higher
and higher as though it were retreating
to a higher heaven, and it planted one
column of color on one side the
eternal hill, and it planted the other column
of color upon tho other side of the eternal
hill, and still rose higher and higher and
higher until behold there was a rainbow
around the throne. My friends, take this
sacrificial religion. It is good for the body,
good for tho soul, good for time, good for
eternit}'. religion is sunshine and that is
healthy. Religion is fresh air and bright
water, and they are health. Any doctor will
tell you that a quiet conscience and pleasing
anticipation are hygienic. Take this
religion and I promise you peace
now and peace forever. What do
you want in the next world? Ask for what
you want and you shall have it. Orchards?
Why, there are the trees of life bearing twelve
manner of fruits and yielding fruit every
mouth. "Water scenery? Why, there is the
river from under the throne clear as crystal,
and the sea of glass mingled with fire. Do
you want music? There is tha oratorio of the
creation led on by Adam, and there is tho oratorio
of the Red. sea led on by Moses, and
there is the oratorio of the Messiah led on by
St. Paul, while the archangel with baton of
light controls the one hundred and forty and
four thousand that make up the orchestra.
Oh,' is not this a healthy anticipation? It
thrills me through and through and through,
and you sometimes open the door of the
sepulchre on this side. This morning I open
the door on the other side. You often walk
through the wet grass on the top of the
grave, but now I show you the bottom of the
orave. and I show vou the bottom has fallen
out of it, and the long ropes with which the
bearers let down tho dead lot them clear
through into heaven. Oh, what a robust nnd
healthy religion! It has a tendency to give
you long days on earth, and it promises in the
world to come eternal longevity.
TEHPEEABCEJEPAHTMEHT
The Tea Cents.
Virtue is no doubt its own reward
However bad fellows may mock it:
But a man feels a recompense deeper at times
If he had ten cents in his pocket
?Lynn Union.
Virtue may have its own reward,
But the recompense felt, we fear.
Will be swollen eyes and an aching head,
If he spends that ten cents for beer.
? Gorham Mountaineer.
What L'usiiness idea Think.
W. J. Spicer, superintendent of the
Grand Trunk railway, in his circular to
his employes of the road, saysr "You
have the lives of the public and the
8afetv of nersons and nronertv entrusted
i jt r w ?
to your care, requiring at all times the
utmost caution and vigilance in the
performance of your duty. Men subjected
to such temptations at any time
are safe only as total abstaiuers. The
"one gloss more" often has the effect of
making a man careless, sleepy and indifferent
to danger, if not worse, at a time
when ho most needs to have his senses
clear and wide-awake for his own and
others' safety."
The Central railroad of Georgia has a
rule prohibiting the use of intoxicating
i quors while on duty, and any employe
known to use them will be dismissed
from their service.
Mr. Nelson, a distinguished insurance
man, makes the following computations:
"A total abstainer, 20 years old, has the
chance of living till he is 64. A total
abstainer at 30 has the chance of living
till he is 64^. A total abstainer
at 40 has the chance of living
till he is 68}. A moderate drink_
er, 20 years old, has the chance of
living until he is 35?. A moderate
drinker, 30 years old, has the chance of
living till he is 44$. A moderate
drinker, 40 years old, has the chance of
living till he is 51 J. Probable no business
on the face of the earth is so mathematically
correct as the insurance business.
Its figures are not made up in the
; Interest of any church or party. They
are not the result of any temperance
1 fanaticism, but simply from cold business
calculation.
The American Express company ha9
decidcd to dismiss any and every employe
using intoxicating liquors. This
is a purely business arrangement. A
great corporation serving the public as a
conveyor of goods finds that its service
is impaired by any toleration of drinking
habits among its employes. When
will the greater' corporations, the city,
the State, the nation, learn the same
truth?
Some of' the more important railroad
companies will not permit their emnlovcs.
whether on or off duty, to drink intoxicating
liquors.
The superintendent of the Chicago
and Alton railroad, which has issued an
order to discharge all employes wto
drink, says whiaky has been found a
foe of railroading. It has caused the
loss of a great many lives and
much money. Railroad managers have
learned that a man who drinks is dangerous.
What Sensible Women Like.
Sensible women like sober men, and
they have good cause to like them.
Wives like sober hu3bands, because a
sober man can be reasoned with. A
sober man is more companionable than
an intemperate man. Sober men havo
self-respect, and self-respect is woman's
great hold upon men. Sobriety means a
comfortable home, a house of your own,
good clothes for parents and children,
evenings spent at home instead of in the
barroom, good health and the enjoyment
of life, and an elevatad view of human
responsibility.
A sober man is an honor to his wife
and children; and people who despise a
tippler, respect a sober man. A sober man
becomes a pattern to the young, an ornament
to society, a man in whom communities
take pride and wish there were
more like him. A sober man is appreciated
by his friends and family, and
even respected by his enemies, and his
reputation and good qualities grow with
hip years. On the other hand, the intemperate
man shows in his indulgences
a iarai,cusgraceiui weaicness 01 cuaracier;
and as the habit of intemuerance grows
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upon him, he becomes. wretched, degraded,
debased, and finally goe3 down
to ruin, dragging his whole family after
him.
Temperance Notes.
Mr. Shaw-Lefevre, ex-postmastergeneral,
said lately that there are 1,000,000
children in England who do not
attend school by reason of the poverty
of their parents. It may be added that
in half of these cases drink is the cause
of it.
A military correspondent of the Daily
Neia, now at Cairo, sends a report of a
conversation he has recently had with
Abdullah Bey Ismail, in the presence of
Colonel Hay. Abdullah Bey says: "The
law in the Soudan under the dervishes
now is, that any man who touches
spirituous liquors is to receive fifty j
strokes of the kourbash every morning I
for a week." j
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~~A FOE TO FAT.
HOW TO HEDUCE ONE'S SIZE
BY THE BANTING SYSTEM.
The Kinds of Fooil to be Avoided?
Not Quantity but Quality the
Cause of Corpulence
in People.
New York is a great place in which to
have friends and not see them for months.
A Tribune reporter realized this the other
day when he ran across a friend whom he
had not met in a year. Bnt the fact of
r?nt. lnpptinor rlwl not strike the newsnaner
man so oddly as the change in the other's
appearance. The friend was nearly five
feet nine in height, about 30 years old.
and apparently neither fat nor thin. He
was a man whom one would call simply
in good condition. That was singular
enough, for only a year or so before the
reporter had noted that his friend was
unpleasantly and ungracefully stout.
His fat seemed to settle in his waist
and cheeks. Now he was plump?nothing
more.
"Changed?" the friend repeated after
the reporter. "Yes, I should think so.
Decent looking kind of spectacle now,
although not pretty, of course! I'll tell
you how I did it. I made up my mind
I would no longer be so ungracefully fat,
and determined to try banting. I had
half starved myself before this, but it
had done no good. I concluded, therefore,
that it was not the amount of food I
ate, but the quality, so I changed my diet
and here I am."
"What LSxthe process?"
"I gave up sugar and all sweet things,
bread, potatoes, beer and sweet wines,
milk, butter and parsnips. That is, I
did so at first. I ate dry toast, underdone
beef, or any other kind of meat;
any kind of vegetables except potatoes
and parsnips, salads, fish, and, in fact,
anything I pleased except what was forbidden.
It was hard at first, of course,
and I don't believe I could have had the
nerve to give up sweet things and milk
entirely, but I compromised. I took
just enough milk and su^ar in my coffee
at breakfast to make it palatable, and
that little indulgence did not seem to
hurt me. I lost flesh rapidly.' Here are
the figures which I have in my pocket
memorandum?net weight, for I weighed
myself in a Turkish bath."
This was the table:
Before Bath. After.
Sept. 5 147% lbs. 147 lbs.
Sept. 12 115K 14454
Sept. 1!) 142# 141 %
Oct 10 137# 130%
Oct. 17 135^ "135
"You may think," continued the reduced
weight, s,that 147? net, or say 160
with one's clothes on is not too much
flesh for a man live feet eight and a
quarter inches tall. That is true?if the
fat were evenly distributed over one's
body. But when it was concentrated in
my waist and my cheeks it was very disagreeable.
In fact before I began this
system of diet I could not stoop comfortably
to button my shoes; as I could
not keep a valet that was a nuisance. By
October 17, 1884. when as you see I had
brought myself down twelve and a half
pounds. I was entirely comfortable.
Neither my cheeks nor my stomach were
puffed out. I reduced my waistband two
inches.
"During this time I did not change my
manner of life. I did not take much exercise
anyway, neither do I take cold
baths?both of which things are good to
reduce flesh, I am told. I don't suppose
I walked over three-quarters of a mile a
day and my daily bath is of a moderate
temperature. It was all in the quality of
the food I ate."
"What did you eat, anyway?"
"For breakfast, as I say, I compromised
on the coffee, and took dry toast,
beefsteak, eggs in any shape, and fruit
according to my taste. For luncheon it
was generally cold roast beef, dry toast,
and a lettuce salad with French dressing.
For dinner any kind of soup, lish, underdone
beef or mutton, with all vegetables
except potatoes and parsnips; a salad
with any kind of game; then fruit and a
cup of black coffee, with just a bit of
sugar in it.
"When I had come down to 135
pounds net weight I was satisfied, and I
have kept myself there ever since. Experimenting
with different kinds of forbidden
things convinces me that milk
and sugar, bread and potatoes breed
corpulence. Fat meat or butter, in my
case, makes no difference; or, at least no
great difference. And there are reasons
for not following the regimen of Banting
too closely. When I had brought myself
down twelve and a half pounds in six
weeks, from September 5 to October 17.
I began to have neuralgia in my head. I
had taken no cold and had not been worried.
It occurred to me that it might be
the change of diet. So I began to eat
butter and fat meat in moderation. The
neuralgia left me. Several times since I
have tried a strict adherence to the svs
tem, and the neuralgia has always returned.
So now I eat butter and fat as I
please. I also eat ice cream, or some
other sweet thing, for dessert twice a
week. But I weigh myself often, and
when I tip the scales at 1361 net I drop
the desserts entirely till I am back at 13o
pounds.1'
"A woman should always 'bant' under
a physician's care, and a man should let J
up on the severity of his self-denial as
soon as he feels bad. Here, by the way.
is Banting's table of what men should
weigh when they are neither too fat nor
too lean:
Stature?Feet, inches. "Weight?Pounds.
5. 1 1:21)
5. 2 12t?
5. 3 IS!
5. 4 1?>
5. 5 14i
5.IJ 145
5. 7 14S
5. 8 ...155
5.!? 102
5.11 174
G.O 178
4'It seems to me that this is altogether
too liberal an allowance of flesh, especially
when it is not distributed evenly
over the body but is concentrated near
the waist. A short frame is not intended
for heavy weights. Judging from my
own case I ought to be heavier than I am.
For a man live feet nine inches tall, Banting
would allow 102 pounds. If I
weighed 102 net I should be miserably
uncomfortable. Hut Banting himself was
so stout when he began to practice his
system on himself that anything like
these figures seemed to liim actually
syl'ph-like. Why, the poor man's stomach
was so big that he had to go down
stairs backward lest lift should tip forward
if he walked down in the usual
way, and he had to bandage his knees to
keep them from giving way under him.
It took him a year to reduce his flesh
forty-six pounds and his girth twelve and
a half inches. Then he was so happy that
he wrote a pamphlet for the benefit, of
mankind. He did a great thing for us
fat folks. And if he, with his live feet
five inches of stature and his 202 pounds
in weight, would not look ridiculous sitting
upou a pedestal, I should propose a
statue for this foe to fat."
"FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.
The spleen was once thought to be the
cause of laughter. y
It was in the olden time customary to
ratify an agreement by a bent coin.
A cubic foot of gold weighs 1,458 1-2
pounds troy, or 1.200 pounds avoirdu- ; |g
pois. It is warth $361,810.40.
Moles have been from time immemori- ?
al regarded as ominous, and special at- :i\ ^
tention has been paid by the superstitious
to their position on the body. "
In Lincoln county, N. M., near the
Pattos mountains, can-be traced what
were once the walls of a large city. In- , j|
side the walls are growing monster cedar ij|
trees, said to be thousands of years old. ?
Ordinary array signaling, by waving
flags or torches, can transmit only ten
words or so a minute, spelled out by letters;
but an adaptation of the Morse
telegraphic alphabet, now generally employed,
has more than doubled this rate
of speed.
Professor Wagner publishes analyses in
support of his conclusion that steamed 7$
potatoes are far more nutritious than
boiled ones. In the process of boiling
the vegetables, give up considerable portions
of nutritious salts, while they also 3
take up more water than when steamed,
and become proportionately weaker.
The belief in the supernatural authority
of monarchs is but a remnant of the
long-supposed ''divine right" of kings to "}
govern, which resulted from aconvic- .: ?.
tion that they could trace their pedigrees ?
back to the deities themselves. The notion
is by no means confined to either
civilized or semi-civilized tribes. The ig- ':4
norant serf of Russia believed that if tne -%
Deity were to die the emperor would ^
succeed to his power and authority.
The Hindoos say that chess was the invention
of an astronomer who flourished
several thousand years ago, and who was
possessed of supernatural knowledge and
acuteness. The Greeks claim that it was
the invention of Palamedesto beguile the
tedium of the siege of Troy. The Arab
legend is that it was devised for the in- V:j!
st ruction of a young despot by his tutor,
a learned Brahmin, to teach the youth - -T
how a king was dependent on his subioots
for safetv. - >
The business of painting* the huge Ijjj
signs upon fences and barns which as- *
sault the eye in all parts of the country
is in the hands of a few contractors in
New York and Chicago. One firm.
spends from $10,000 to $20,000 a year id
this way, paying from one and'a half , !
to two cents a square foot for the work. >.
The bigger the sign the better. Many
can be found reaching three hundred ;
feet in length, and the biggest of all (at
Newark. Ohio), is more than eight hundred
feet long and contains only one * p
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Method is the very hinge of business, v||
and there is no method without punctu'
Experience does take dreadfully high V |j
school-wages, but he teaches like no
A little praise is good for a shy temper;
it teaches us to rely on kindness of
others.
Compliments of1 congratulation are always
kindly taken, and cost one nothing
but pens, ink, and paper. . y
"Whatever you would have your children
become, strive to exhibit in your
own lives and conversation.
TTo +V?o + Vilnurc fho zinnia in nimrrpla hft
has nothing to do with, has no right to ;
complain if the sparks fly in his face. >. ^
'Tis an ill thing to be ashamed of one's '
poverty; but much worse not to make /;
use of lawful endeavors to avoid it.
Good nature and evenness of temper
will give you an easy companion for life; . ' ^
virtue and good sense an agreeable vy&l
friend: love and constancy a good wife ..
or husband.
The best rules to form a young man
are to talk little, to hear much, to reflect
alone upon what has passed in company,
to distrust one's own opinions and value
others that deserve it.
Try to be something in the world and
you will be something. Aim at excellence.
and excellence will be attained.
This is the great secret of success and
eminence. "I cannot do it," never accomplished
anything. "I will try" has
wrought wonders. t
A Washington Romance.
The widow of General Morgan L.
Smith died in "Washington recently.
She was once a reigning belle, but during
the last years of her life was knownI .
as the "Queen of the Lobby." Some Y
years ago a dark episode tarnished her
mimo nnH slip lnst her social nresticre.
A correspondent furnishes this queer incident
in her life:
There was an important railway case
pending in the supreme court about 1877,
if I remember correctly, the decision of
which was expected to seriously affect
the stock market, and so uncertain was
its nature that it was worth millions to
know in advance what it would be. Jay
Gould, it was said, was the only man
who had this information, and it was in
his possession a week before the opinion
was announced in court. How he got it
was a mystery that many were excited
about, and the justices of the
court were much chagrined.
The disclosure was afterward explained.
The justice with whose family
Mrs. Smith was so familiar wrote the
nnininn mid had the manuscrint at his
house. One afternoon when everybody
was out Mrs. Smith called and was permitted
to go to the library by the servants*
to look at some books. It is supposed
that by means of skeleton keys she
opened the desk of the justice and made
extracts from the opinion, which were at
once sent over to Mr. Gould. It is said
that lie paid her $50,000 for the information.
and it was worth many times that
amount to him. The truth of this story
cannot be asserted, but there was a very
abrupt termination of the intimacy between
Mrs. Smith and the judge's family,
and she was not received in society afterward.
Very little has been known of
her since. Her health was known to be
poor, and people who formerly knew her
have expressed pity when they saw her
on the street, but her usefulness as a
member of the lobby was over, and she
was considered as having forfeited the
respect of her friends.
A New Sort of Jewel.
The fashionable gem of the day in
Paris is the otidja. The oudja is simply
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:i cnariu xue virtue ox wunu nw m
fact that it is as old as the pyramids.
The oudja is made of a delicate parallelogram
of gold or silver, in which is seen
aii eve, elongated in form, from which
falls a tear and divides into smaller drops.
It serves as an ornament for charms,
brooches, pins, and especially bracelets.
A strange and inexplicable symbol, the
oudja was nevertheless at once adopted ,
by people of taste and elegance. la
Loudon it is creating a furor.?Jeweler*.
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