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SHERIM'S Bill1
His Proposed Compromise on the !
Silver Question.
The Government to Issue Certificates
for Silver Bullion.
Sen a to? John Sherman maile something of !
& sensation by introducing in the United
States Senate on the 28th anew financial proposition.
It is apparently intended as a compromise.
Judging by the comments passed
upon it, says a Washington dispatch to the 1
New Y ork World, it could command a ma- j
jority vote in the House and possibly in the j
Senate. It is hardly probable, says the dis- ;
patch, that the President would approve of i
any such measure. The bill as introduced by j
Mr. Sherman is as follows:
Be it enacted, etc.. That the coinage of the '
Silver dollar provided for by the first section |
of the act to which this is an amendment be '
discontinued from and after the passage of
this act.
Section 2. That the secretary of the treasury
is authorize ! and directed to purchase j
from time to time silver bullion in bars, not
less than nine-tenths fine, at the market price
thereof, not less than 2,000,000 ounces, Troy,
per month, nor more than 4,000.01)0
ounces troy per month and shall issue :
in payment therefore coin certificates !
of the" United States in denominations j
of not less than $10 each, corresponding with
the denominations of the United States
notes, and the bullion so purchased shall be
retained in the treasury for the security anil
payment of the same, and the amount of such
certificates at any time outstanding shall
not exceed the cost of the bullion purchased
by such certificates, ami the certificates
thus issued shall be receivable for customs.
taxes, and all public dues, and when so
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receivea may oe reissueu: uuu me seaciai >
of the treasury shall redeem in coin the said
certificates on their presentation for redemption
at the o3ice of tlie assistant treasurer of
the United States in the city of New York in
gums not less than *ol).
Sec. 3. That any holder of standard silver
dollars or gold coin of the United States or }
gold bullion, at its mint value, may deposit j
the same with the treasurer or any assistant j
treasurer of the United States in sums not
less than $10 and receive coin certificates
therefor similar in denomination and legal
effect to the certificates provided for in the
preceding question. The coin deposited for j
or representing the certificates shall be re- \
taiDed in the treasury for the payment of the i
same on demand. r
To a World representative Senator Sher- 1
man said: "The provisions of the bill are j
plain and speak for themselves. I believe it is
a good measure or I would not vote for it.
It is not perhaps exactly what I might
have wished, but I believe it is the best for
the country."
"Have you any idea how the bill will be received;
what chance it has of becoming a
law?''
"Not the least in the world. I have discussed
it with a great many people, but I do
not question whether a bill will pass or not.
If the measure is a good one I iutroiuce it."
"Was an exactlv similar measure ever pro
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posea in congress;
"I cannot say. The question has been discussed
in a hundred different ways. I believe
the World has opposed a continuance of silver
coinage and 1 l>elieve it favors a paper
circulation ba<ed on gold and silver. Well,
these are exactly the propositions contained
in the bill."
"What allowance is made in your bill for
fluctuations in the value of silver?''
"The government takes the chances. IS
issues certificates in payment for the bullion.
If silver increases in value the government
gains accordingly. If it declines, the government
loses."
"What will, in your opinion, be the effecS 1
of this measure if adopted?"
"I think it will maintain silver on a par
with gold."
Mr. Sherman said further that he was not |
an enemy of silver or of gold. We could not I 1
have too much of them. He did not know j
how the bill would be received by the business
men of .New York. He had not as yet pre- \
pared a speech on the silver question anil would
not say wnetner ne mtenaea to or
not. He did not know that the bill would at
tract enough attention. In answer to a ques- ;
tion as to whether he had been correctly
quoted of lat? as saying to a friend that ho ]
would not speak on the silver question because
the people of Ohio were in favor of sil- 1
ver coinage, he said: "I do not know all I may ]
ha^e said on the subject at various times, but; 1
I certainly never said that. That is not my '
wav of doinc: business." ]
LIVING A CENTURY. ?
William Waterman, 100 years old, lievs
at Oshkosh.
Polly Wilcox, of Hope Valley, R. I., has j
just celebrated her centennial birthday.
Harrisonville, N. J., boasts of two cen- i
tenarians, Bartholomew Coles and Michael ]
Potter. I
Christopher Mann*, of Independence, ]
Mo., disd recently aged 111 years. He was
born in Virginia in 1774.
Benjamin W. Bowdie's old slave, Nathan,
died recently at his home in Talbot county, ]
Mississippi ,aged 107 years. >
After living a century, Mrs. Elizabeth i
Thomas was killed recently while walking on :
4-I.SV of Pfinrfliiop P^TlTl I 1
ilic xaui u mu xtvwuiugj a vuu. t
Among the celebrants of the lODth birthday 1
of Jane Wilson, of Edgecomb, Me., were her 1
sister, aged ninety-four, and her three daugh- ]
ters, the eldest eighty-one years of age. '
Probably the oldest minister in the world j
is Thomas Tenant, of Vineyard township,
Arkansas. He was born in *1771. He is an .
itinerant Methodist preacher. j
At Wilson Creek, N. C., Mrs. Susan Phil- (
lips died receutly just as she was closing a (
century of life. She had thirteen children, j
sixty-three grandchildren, and sixty great 1
grandchildren. i
One of the most forcible and effective '
shouters in th;: Methodist church of Brown's '
bridge, Forsyth county, Georgia, is old i
Auntie Snroggins, who has enjoyed religion 1
for 94 years, and ii; now 104 years old. <
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Bli. TitlAGE'S BERMOfT
Clandestine Marriages asd Escapades.
Rav. Dr. Talma-rc's third of a series of discourses
on ''the Marrirge Rincc" was preached
at the Brooklyn Tabernacle from the following
text: "Stolen waters are sweet, and bread
eateii in secret is pleasant, but ho knoweth
not that the dead are there.''?Proverbs ix.,
17. I
The preacher said: The Garden of Eden !
was a great orchard of fruit bearing trees,
and there was large, round, ripe fruit, bushels
and bushels: but the horticulturist and his j
wife who had charge of the place got a hank- |
cring after the fruit of one tree simply be- ;
. * ?^fnH-iricr n bad streak i
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in human nature so that sometimes children
will want a thing: simply because they aro
forbidden it. If there be a company of visitors
in a house where, there are twenty rooms
and they may enter all tho rooms save one.
they have more anxiety to see what is in that
one mom than in the other nineteen, although
that one room were a garret and all |
the others were picture galleries. If in a district
of mineral springs there be twenty
fountains of water, but the proprietor has
fenced in one well for his own use,the visitors
are more anxious to taste of the water of that
one well than to drink of the other nineteen.
Solomon discovered this principle in human
nature and the disastrous result of it, and so
he wrote in my text: "Stolen waters are
sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant,
but he knoweth not that the dead are there." j
In this series of Sabbath morning sermons I
on "The Marriage Ring," I want this morning
to aim a point blank shot at clandestine
marriages and escapades. That ship coming
up through the "Narrows" of New York harbor
lias on it all the evidences of tempestuous
passage. Salt water mark to the top of the
smoke-stack. Mainmast, foremast, mizzenmast
twisted off. Jib-slieets and lee bow
lines gone. Captain's bridle demolished. Bulwarks
knocked in. Lifeboats off the davits, j
Main shaft broken. All the pumps working |
to keen the ship from sinking before it gets to j
wharfage. That is the institution ot marriage.
God grandly and gloriously built it
and launched it from the banks of the Euphrates
and it floated out on the seas for the
admiration and the joy and the happiness of.
all nations; but the waves of freeloveism
have struck it on one side and
the waves of Mormon ism have
struck it on the other side, and the hurricanes
of libertinism have struck it from all sides
until the old ship needs repairs in evenplank
and beam and bolt and spar and sail
and clamp and stanchion and transom. In
other words, the notions of modern society
must be reconstructed on the subject of the
marriage institution. "When those notions
in regard to the institution shall be reconstructed,
and the institution shall be put back
just as God built it, the world will be far on
toward resumption of paradisaical conditions.
Does any one ask the uso of a course of sermons
like this? The man or woman who asks
such a question either demonstrates ignorance
or guilt. New England, by many considered
the most moral part of this country, has 2,000
divorces a year. Massachusetts, the
headquarters of steady habits, one divorce to
14 marriages. The State of Maine, by many
suDooscd to be almost frigid in its proprie
ties, 478 divorces in a year. In Vermont the
swapping of wives is no rarity. In Connecticut
there are women who boast they
have been divorced three or four times.
Moreover, our boasted Protestantism is more
lax than Roman Catholicism on this subject.
Roman Catholicism allows only one excuse
for divorce, and that the excuse that Christ
admitted. Protestantism is admitting everything
and anything as an excuse. In proportion
as Protestants are numerous and
dominant in a community, divorce
is prominent. I have all the facts for the
substantiation of that statement, and I ask
you under such consideration if Protestantism
does not'need some toning up? Aye, this sacred
and divine institution of marriage is being
defamed and caricatured by clandestine
marriage and escapades. You hardly take
up a morning or evening newspaper but you
see the announcement of such an occurrence,
and where there is one case reported there are
fifty not reported because it is to the interest
of all the people to hush these things up.
There is not an hour of the night but its victims
are climbing down ladders and crossing
from State to State to get to a place where
there is greater laxity of law, and holding
the reception six months after marriage, for
the first time announcing the marital union
which took place half a year before, ministei-s
of religion, officers of the law, justices of the
peace, mayors of cities willingly uniting in
bolv marriage runaways from other States
and neighborhoods. The coach box and the
back seat of the princely landau in flirtation,
relegrams flashing across the country for
the arrest of absconding school misses who
jtarted off with an armful of books in the j
morning and took rail train to meet their
affianced. The snowdrifts of two weeks ago.
[ read, buried some of them. Thousands of
people in a marriage, the banns of which have
never been published. Precipitate conjugality.
Bigamy triumphant. Marriage
a joke. Society blotched all over with
putrefaction on this subject w hich none but
almighty God can arrest. "We admit that
there are cases of clandestinely and escapade
that are justifiable because of parental tyranny
or domestic conditions. There are parents
vvho are monomaniacs on this subject and
would keep their sons and daughters in celibacy,
and prohibit things which are all right.
There are parents who through absurd family
ambition demand that tho candidate for
marital preference shall have an equipment of
fortune, or have qualifications which they
have no right to expect, or which are simply
impossible." Children, in marriage are to
please themselves and not their parents. Given
good morals, means of support, appropriate
age. equality of social position, and parents
have no right to prohibit a marital union
which seems deliberate and a matter of the
heart. If the hand offered in marriage be
bloated by dissipation, if the life of the candidate
be one of debauchery, if he has no means
of support, if the match seems every way un02-2?
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the opinion of others to reinforce your own
opinion, and put all lawful obstacles in the
way; but do not join that number of parents
who through plutocracy of domestic crankiness
have caused so many elopem ents. I have
known of a few cases where marriage has
occurred under the fiery protest of parents
and the denunciation of the community,
and yet the marriage has been under the
blessing of God, for the results have been
beautiful and positively Edenic. Rov. Philip
Henry, a man distinguished all through
Christendom for piety as well as wisdom, said
to his children while diseussing this subiect:
"My dear children, please go and please
yourselves and you will not displease me."
iDuring our civil war a company had assembled
in Charleston. South Carolina, to
witness the marital union of Lieutenant De
Rochelle and Miss Anna, the daughter of exGovernor
Pickens, and just as the ceremony
was about to l>e solemnized a bombshell
fell through the roof, wounding nine
of the guests aud the bride
dropped dying. She was put upon a sofa,
and there she lav wrapped in her whito wed?
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Q1I12C roue, iicr ut'truuifu tvut-ciAd^ ao iiv?i oiuc,
and in two hours she oxpired. And there havo
been as bright marital unions as that proposed
which the bombshell of unreasonable
and outrageous parental indignation havo
wounded ami .scattered and slain. But while
I admit ail this,l have to declare that ninetynine
out of the 101), aye, 1)1)1) out of the 1,000
of all clandestine marriages and escapades
mean ruin for this life and ruin forever. A
young woman might just as well go out on
an East river dock and jump oft' expecting
her safety, thinking she could swim to the
other shore, or be picked up by ferryboat, as
to attempt it. In the case I speak
of the one that jumps into the river may be
able to swim to the other shore, and there is a
possibility sh? may be picked up by a ferryboat,
but the probabilities are all against her.
Take the newspaper accounts of escapades and
clandestine marriages for the last ten years,
and you cannot show me ten where they did
not mean poverty, abandonmeut, disgrace,
police court, divorce, death and hell. "Stolen
waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret |
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the dead are there." Satan presides
over the escapades. He introduces the
two parties, ho gets them to
pledge their troth, ho appoints a placo for
their meeting, he shows where they can find
officiating minister or 'squire, ho points out to
them where they can got railroad tickets, ho
puts them on board the express train, and
when they are going forty miles the hour
Satan jumps of? and leaves them in tho
lurch, for, while Satan has great genius for
getting people into trouble, he has no genius
for getting them out. Satan induced Jonah
to start for Tarshish when the Lord told him
to go to Nineveh, but provided no better
landing place for the recreant prophet than
middle of the Mediteranean sea. j
a?mamman??g?e
Truant marriages are to bo deplored in
the first place, because they are almost always
projx)sed by bad men. I think there is hard>
ly an exception to this in all your acquainl
tanceship. If a man has a good character he
I has something to refer to. He can say:
! "There is a list of the people that live in my
| village or neighborhood, or city; if you want
! to know about me ask them." But the hero of
I anescapade is almost always a bigamist, or
j libertine, or a drunkard, or a defrauder, or a
I first-class scoundrel of some sort. He
: has no reputation to lose. He has been
j in prison before, and he rather likes boarding
at public expense. He may dress in the
i height of fashion and be cologned and pomaI
turned and padded and diamond ripged and
| flamboyant cravated until he bewitches the
I eye and intoxicates the olfactories, but he is
j a double distilled extract of villany, moral
j dirt and blasphemy. Beware of him! "Stolen
waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is
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pleasant, our ne Knuwem uuu umu ~?? ,
are there." I think that the modern novel
has much to do with many escapades. "Would
a woman sit up half the night reading a novel
in which the hero and the heroine became acquainted
in the ordinary way and conducted
their friendship in the ordinary
style until after a while,
with the consent of parents a day was appointed,
and in the midst of a group of kindred
the vows were taken? No, no. It must
be flight and pursuit and narrow escape and
drawn dagger, and ending in sunshine and
parental forgivennessand bliss unalloyed and
gorgeous. The idea of the escapade is
planted in woman's mind by the cheap novel.
Ten cents' worth of unadulterated perdition.
And again, fugitive marriage and escapade
are to be deplored because they almost always
imply woman's descent from
one grade of society to another if
the man be the equal, or if he be the superior
there is no temotation to escapade. In nearly
ali the cases it is the descent of a woman from
one grade of societv to another. Observe this
inexorabie law. If a man marry a woman
beneath him in society he may lift her to any
eminence of prosperity to which he may
climb, but if a woman marries a man beneath
her in society she always goes down to that
level?always. There are no exceptious. It
is a law inexorable. Now, there are not many
women who can afford to debase themselves,
it. ,,?+ a stpfA rvf this American
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Union which does not furnish us an instance
where some woman brought up in affluence
and amid all luxuries unites her fortune with
some man who can make three dollars a day
if ho keeps busy. Now, there are a great
many men who ore as happy as a prince on
three dollars a day, bnt a man undertakes a
big contract when with an income of three
dollars a day he attempts to support a woman
who is brought ud in a home that cost $20,000
per annum. That conjunction of practicality
and extravagance, that marriage of ox
and eagle, almost always has this history:
The first year they are happy because its odd,
it is romantic, and it has the applause
of people who love outlawry.
The .second year they settle down into a perfect
dislike for each other. The third year
they apply for divorce, or more probably the
man becomes a drunkard or the woman a
blackened waif of the street. "Stolen waters
are sweet and bread eaten in secret is pleasant,
but he kuoweth not that the dead are
there."
Fraudulent espousals and sneaking exchange
of single life for married life are to be
deplored because they are always in defiance
of parental wisdom and forethought. Most I
parents.are wrapped up in the welfare of the j
child. If they oppose vehemently a marital
union, in nearly all the cases it j
is because they see for their i
daughter' in that direction only j
wretchedness. And yet there are those |
who scoff and deride any such protest on the i
part of parents. They "do not realize that '
parents had keener appreciation of the com- j
plete domestic demolition that comes from al- i
coholism in a young man; they do not realize j
that parents have keener appreciation of |
what a complete idiot a woman is who mar- j
ries a man who has not brains or industry to
support her. There is no bureau of statistics
that can tell how many women there are sup- j
porting themselves aud their hus- i
bands. If a husband became j
an invalid,it is beautiful to see the wife uncom- j
plainingly with needle, or pen, or yard-stick, I
or washing machine support the home. But
these great lazy masculine louts, who stand ,
around in a community with their hands in
their pockets, letting the wife with her weak
arm fight the battle of bread, need to be regurgitated
from society. When parents see
these things, thewire right in putting down
the brakes of sucn a long train of coming disaster.
They have too often seen the gold
ring that was put upon the bride's finger at1
the altar turned into the iron link of an iron
chain of domestic servitude. What a farce it
is for a man to take a ring which he
stole from his grandmother's cupboard, and
at the altar put it on the finger of the bride,
and he not a cent in the world, saying: "with
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mis ring i ILleu IVCU, nuu miu tin uir T?vfHU1J
goods I thee endow!" It is astonishing that
there are so many women who will marry
men without knowing anything about them.
No merchant or merchantess would sell a hundred
dollars' worth of goods on credit to a
1>erscn whose trustworthiness was not estabished.
No man or woman would buy
a house and lot on which there
were mortgages and leases and judgments
uncanceled. Yet there are every hour
of the day and every hour of the night
women entrusting their happiness in hasty
marrrages to men who are encumbered with
liens and judgments and first mortgage and
second mortgage and third mortgage of
evil habit. In nearly all the cases of escapade
it is the leaping over the barrier lifted by
parents in their good common sense and forethought.
; "Stolen waters are sweet, and
bread eaten in secret is pleasant, but ho
knoweth not that the dead are there." I do
not wonder so many parents under such
circumstances in conjugating the verb in
question pose from the subjunctive mood to |
the indicative mood, from the indicative
mood to the imperative.
Fugitive marriage is also to be deplored be*A
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cause it is generally m u'jcepuuu, uuu tuui< is
a vice corroding aud damning. You must
deceive your kindred, you must deceive society,
you must deceive everyone but God,
and Him you cannot deceive. Marriage is
too important a crisis in life to be decided by
sleight-of-hand, or a sort of ."jugglery
which says: "Presto, change! Now you
see her and no v.' you don't." Wait until circumstances
change. 'Better wait for years.
Time will remove obstacles. The candidate
for marital preference may get into occupation,
or trade or profession where he can
achieve a livelihood, or his habits may change,
or inexorable parents may be promoted to celestial
citizenship! Wait until the right time
comes. Have an hour appointed, stand at the
end of tke best room in tne house, a minister
of religion, before you challenge the world if
tlioi' L-nnw nnv rpaenn wliv t.tm fwnin chniild
not be married, that they state now that objection
or forever hold their peace, and then
starting out with the good wishes of neighbors
and under the halo of the divine sanction.
"When you can go out of harbor at
noonday, all flags flying, why try to run a
blockade at midnight. In view of all this I
charge you, if any of you are engaged in
clandestine correspondence, to quit it. If you
are accustomed to clandestine meetings at
ferry, or on street, or at the corner of the
woods, or at the skating-rink, or at the house
of a mutual friend, stop those meetings. Do
not havo letters come to you uuder assumed
names through the postoflice. Do not use
terms of endearment at the beginning of
letters and at the close, which you havo no
right to use. Engage in no correspondence |
that makes you nervous lest someone by mistake
open your letters. That young lady is !
on the verge of p?ril who gets letters she (Iocs
not show her mother. If you havo sensible
parents, if your father and mother are not
tools, take them into your confidence in all
matters of the heart. They will give you
more good advice in one hour tliau all the
world can give you in five years. They
have done so much for you, they
have prayed so much for you, they
aro all wrapped up in your interests.
Get their advice. They are the first friends
you ever had?you will never have any better
friends. And let parents revise and review
their opposition to any proposed marital
union and see whether that opposition is real- |
1 y fouuded on soino genuine wish for the
child's welfare, or whether it is some whim,
or notion, or prejudice, or selfishness string
against the law of nature and trying to make
Niagara run up stream. Mr. Pitt, prinio
minister of England, was always saying
wise things. Sir Walter Farquhar called
upon him one day in great perturbation!
Mr. Pitt asked him, "what is the matter/'
"Oil," said Sir Walter, "my daughter is about
to be united in marriage with a man far beneath
her rank." "Well," said Mr. Pitt, "is
he of a respectable family?" "Yes." "Is he of
good habits?" "Yes." "Is he of every way
estimable character?" "Yes." "Then, my
dear Sir Walter, make no opposition." The
advice was taken aud the result was as happy
as happy could be. Let all ministers of religion
and all officers of the law decline to
officiate at clandestine marriages and dec Una
to date marriage certificates back as all
of us are ask >d to do, and decline
to leave the date of a marriage c^rtift
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cate blankdest it be erroneously filled up. In
the State of New York let us have a law
passed which will make it here as necessary
I as in other States that a license be issued before
a couple can be united in holy marriage,
and then let the announcement be made beforehand
in the newspapers, just iis in New
England it used to be announced beforehand,
and is now in some ports of the
country, in <he churches, so if there be
any lawful protest it may be presented
in time, and we not be swinging buoys
over rocks after the ship nas struck
and gone down. And here I might as well
break the romance of escapade by quoting a
dozen lines from Robert Pollock, tne great
Scotch poet, in which he describes the crazed |
victim 01 ail escapaae:
"Yet had she many days of sorrow in the
world,
But never wept. She lived as always and
carried in her hand some withered
stalks
She gathered in the spring;
When any asked the cause she smiled and
said they were her sister's,
And would come and watch her grave wher
she was dead.
She never spoke of her deceiver?father
mother, home or child,
Or heaven or hell or God.
But still in lonely places walked and gazer
upon the withered stalks and talked U
them,
Until wasted and the shadow of her youth,
with woe too wide to see beyond, she
died."
But I turn an intenser light on this whole
subject, We have one thousand five
hundred lights in this building, and when
in the evening services, by electric touch
they are kindled, it is almost startling.
But I put this whole subject of clandestine
marriage and escapade under an intenser
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rible if you stand near enough to the tracks
to catch the glare as it passes, as it sweeps
around the horseshoe curve of the Alleghanies,
or along the sides of the Sierra
Nevadas. How far ahead, how steep down,
how high up it flashes, making instantaneous
revelation of mountain peak, and wild beasts
hieing to their caverns and cascade a
thousand feet tall in white terror, clinging
to the precipice. But under
an intenser light, swifter and more tremendous,
and more sudden, even under the headlight
of an advancing judgment day when all
the secrets of life will come out 1 plant this
subiect. I quote an overwhelming passage
of Scripture and put all the emphasis on the
word "secret." ''God shall bring every work
into judgment with every secret thing,
whether it be good 'or whether it be evil."
Oh, what a time it will be wten the cover is
lifted off of every home and off of every
heart. Iniquities that were so slight they escaped
all human detection will on that day be
as well known as the sins of Sodom and
Gomorrah unless the sins have been for
Ctirist's sake forgiven. All the fingers of
condemnation will point to it. Tho archangel
of wrath with uplifted thunderbolt will stand
there ready to strike out. All the squeanishness
and prudery of society which forbid almost
the mention of certain themes will be
past, and the man who was unclean and the
woman who was impure will stand under a
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?the whole story written on scalp and
forehead and cheek and hands and
feet, the resurrection body all aflame
and dripping with fiery disclosure,
and voices sepulchral and voices infernal
and voices celestial will cry: "Unclean,
unclean, unclean!" All marital intrigues,
all socret thoughts and all secret
action as plain as if all the trumpets spoke
it, and all the lightnings capitalized it and
all the earthquakes rumbled it. Ohl man,
recreant thy marriage vow; Oh! woman, in
sinful collusion, what then will become of
thy poor soul? Better repent and give up
your sin and turn to God. Pardon for the
chief of sinners if you ask in time?I say, if
you ask in time. Oh, I leave you to guess
what will be the chance of that man, who, on
earth lived in clandestine relations, on the
day when the very Christ who thought so
much of the marriage relation, that He com
pared it to His own relation with the church,
shall appear at the door of the great hall of
the last assize, and all the multitudes of
earth and heaven, and hell shall rise up and
cry out from the three galleries; "Behold,
the bridegroom cometh!"
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Muller, a German chemist, has fed
animals ten weeks with dry and with
steeped unground Indian corn. The
former showed an average increase in
weight of nearly seven pounds more than
the latter.
If we assume a moderate area and depth
of that portion of the globe covered by
the ocean, the quantity of salt that it contains
is estimated at six times the volume
of the Alps. Unlike coal, the supply of
which is being gradually exhausted,
marine salt is absolutely inexhaustible.
The first archajopteryx, the fossil remains
of the oldest-known bird, which
seems to form the "connecting link" between
birds and reptiles, was discovered
in the lithographic slate of Solenhofen
in I861. Another specimen, recently
found in the same locality, has been sold
for .$0,000 to the Berlin museum.
i ne interesting uisuuvcr^ uuo uuuu
made in Switzerland of a bright-green
moss growing on calcareous rocks 200
feet below the surface of Lake Leman.
No other moss has been known so far
under water, and how chlorophyl?the
green coloring matter?could have been
so richly developed in a place so remote
from the light is a jiroblem.
Somebody says in a London paper that
the highest velocity yet imparted to a
cannon ball is 1,025 feet per second,
equal to a mile in 3.2 seconds. The
velocity of the earth at the equator, due
to rotation on its axis, is 1,000 per hour,
or a mile in 3.6 seconds; thus, if a cannon
ball were fired due west and could maintain
its initial velocity, it would beat the
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suq ill us apparent juuiiicj? aiuuuu mv,
earth.
Tlie denticulated sting of bees, wasps,
and hornets, says M. Carlet, of Grenoble,
is charged by poison secreted by two
glands. The secretion of one of the
glands is acid and that of the other is
alkaline. The poison only produces its
customary effects when both of the fluids
are present in the wound, but the poison,
however, is ncid in reaction. Wasps
and hornets inject the venom by means of
a vesicle with contractile walls. In bees
the poison bag is not contractile, and
there is a kind of poison that works in the
fang like a syringe, so that the syringe is
charged and emptied at each stroke of
the syringe.
The humming of telegraph and telephone
wires, so often heard, is generally
considered to be caused by the wind.
Mr. R. W. McBride, of Waterloo, Ind.,
who specially studied the matter lor several
years 011 Jiis private wire, which had
a strong gift of humming, is satisfied that
the wind is not the agent; for he found
the sound more likely to be heard on a
dry, clear and calm evening than at any
other time. lie is also convinced that
the sound is not produced by electricity,
for he could detcct no signs of that agent
when the humming was going on, while
at times when the wire was evidently
charged there was no sound.
Climate, the lancct points out, was
fully appreciated by the Roman physicians
of the early ages as a remedy or prophylactic.
Thus in the terrible plague
that swept Italy in 188, the Emperor
Commodus, at the instance of his medical
advisers, quitted Rome, where the '
mortality was heaviest, for Laurentum, I
on the Latin shore. The dense laurel :
groves, from which the place took its j
name, emitted an odor which seemed to j
antagonize the pestilcnce, and suggested
to the Roman physicians the inhalation
of aronutic essences as a preventive for
those who could not leave the city. The
passage in Ilerodian (I., 12) from which
these facts are taken, is of much interest ;
to the historian of medicine.
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White as Snow.
From morning until evening
He sought for peace and restRest
for a weary spirit.
Peace for a troubled breast;
But vain was all his seeking
From dawn till set of sun:
His sins lay heavy on him,
And comfort there was none.
Then, in the gathering twilight,
He knelt him down in prayer,
And the stars shone in upon him,
And smiled upon him there;
And while he told his Father
Of sin as black as night,
The pure white snow fell softly
And hid the earth from sight
And when, in bitter sorrow,
He looked into the night.
Behold, the earth shone brightly,
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And the promise come to cheer him
And bring him peace: "Although
Your sins may be as scarlet,
They shall be white as snow!"
?George Weatherly, in the Quiver.
RELIGIOUS READING.
Sam Jonea on Riches.
I'd rather have for my son a good simple-minded,
God-serving boy, who could
go along and plow his corn straight, and
live an upright life, than be the father of
the most talented man that ever lived, if
he was a dissipated, red-nosed drunkard.
I'd rather have an honest fool than a
bright rascal. Hagar said: "Give me
not riches lest I be puffed, neither give
me poverty lest I be poor and steal."
Ah, how envious we all feel when some
millionaire dies and the will is read; he
leaves to this one a million and to that
one a million, and the other hundred
millions he divides between his two dear
sons, who will probably buy a palace in
hell with it.
I'd rather have the heritage my sainted
lather left .ne than all the riches ever
claimed by man. He didn't leave me a
dollar, but he said: "0, my poor, godless,
wicked, wayward boy, promise your
father that you will meet him in heaven."
When you die your wite won't sup a
$1000 bill into your shroud and say:
"Take this to pay your tolls across the
river of Death," and your son won't say:
"Father, you leave me half your money,
and you take the balance."
0, no; you'll just die and leave every
penny of it behind. And about your children.
Brother, you can't say that the
boy you love will not die a drunkard;
and, sister, you can't say the girl you
love will not marry a drunkard.
It is becoming a common thing for
daughters to disobey the counsels of
their parents. I hear that in some parts
of New York they have to lock up their
girls every night to keep them from stepping
off before morning, with possibly
the coachman.
B&b Ingersoll, the enemy of God, child
of Satan, has attacked everything in
heaven and earth, but you never heard
him say aught but good of his mother.
He never did that, and no man with the
instincts of a man ever did. In the
schools of to-day, at the fireside, in public
and in private, the great lesson taught
to children is how to make money, how
to get rich. I'd rather be a beggar and
enjoy God like a prince than be a prince
on earth and a beggar for God's mercy
in hell.
Another thing: When you are dead
and gone your children will talk about
you. They will say: "Why, father did
this, and mother did this, and I can do
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it, 100. li a mull nas money ne c;iu uu
as lie pleases. He can go up to heaven
(r down to hell, or he may run along on
the dead level if he doesn't slip off and
g> down.
The Fruits of the Change.
Mr. Abel Benson was a moral, upright
man, and one who gained friends among
the good and wise because of his excellent
disposition and intelligent mind.
Said the pastor of the church Mr.
Benson attended: "I became deeply interested
in the man, and was often
pained to see his disregard of the Sabbath.
He would go out from a Sabbath
morning service to take a pleasure ride,
and if his business at all called for it, he
would engage in it upon the Lord's day."
After a few years Mr. Benson became
a Christian and united himself with the
church. And now the change in his
outer life showed the change within his
heart.
At one time some of the machinery in
his place of business needed repairing,
and he went to a certain man to have the
work done.
"Now," said he, <fhow long will it
take you to do what is required?"
"Well, let me see," replied the other,
thoughtfully. "I can have it done by
Monday night by working all day Sunday."
"Not one minute's work on it upon
the Sabbath!" answered Mr. Benson,
earnestly. "My men will have to be
idle a little longer. But now I believe
God means what He says when He bids
us 'Remember the Sabbath day, to keep
it holy.' I formerly thought it was
/ight enough to labor on that day, but
not now. My opinions are all changed."
Ah, here was fruit; the Holy Spirit,
who cannot err, had taught the man.
Reader, has your profession of religion
been attended with a change of life?
"By thfeir fruits ye shall know them,"
and if the fruits do not appear, there
is reason to think the tree is not really
alive.
Ask that God may make the change
affect the whole character, and that your
good works may glorify Him.
Tliere is only one kind of joy in which
the soul is interested, and o*f which I
never become weary. This is the joy and
y\cc which the testimony of our adoption
by God brings with it. Oh! ye who
are afar off, believe it, there arc, yea,
there are in the life of the faithful Chrisnan,
not only minutes and hours, there
nre days, months and years, which ho
would wish prolonged to all eternity, and
he would not be weary of them. There
is a richness in these periods and a fulness
in them, a life and a stillness, an activity,
and a deep repose, and a shadiness
which fills the whole soul and which
no one can adequately understand, but
one who has felt them.?Tholuck.
He that uses many words for the explaining
any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish,
hide himself for the most part in |
his own ink.
There :u*e to-day in the United States
150 newspapers and magazines published
by men of color. The newspapers arc
issued weekly and the magazines quar
terly. The most conspicuofts anil influential
of these publications is issued in
New York, and has a weekly circulation
of 0,000 copies.
A good houskceper has two thorough
house-cleanings every year, one in the
spring and one in the fall: a good farmer,
two thorough barnyard cleanings at about I
the same tim* '
iMMBSkaBBBmDHBHHHHHMMMnHBn
TetroleuiwellsT
HOW THEY ARE IiOCATED AND
WORKED.
Testing New Territory by the "Belt
Theory" ?Erecting a Derrick
Above the Well-hole?Boring
for Oil?Use of Torpedoes.
Prospectors in selecting a promising
spot to test new territory are often inU
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uueiiceu uy a "ueit mcwij*, mou aur
vauced by a man named Angell. In a
general way .his idea has been verified
by experience. It proceeded upon the
hypothesis that oil lies in belts or pools
having a northeast and southwest trend,
sometimes called the "forty-five degree
line." In districts known to be oil-bearing
the wells are frequently located near
the boundary of the owner's property.
The 'object is to drain as much of his
neighbor's oil as ' possible, for there are
no partitions in the subterranean chambers
corresponding to the lines of surface
ownership. The driller's motto is "first
come, first served," hence there is generally
a race to see who shall first tap nature's
till.
When the exact spot for the well has
been determined upon, a well-hole is dug
about fifteen feet in depth, and if solid
rock is not reached, a wrought iron pipe
eight to twelve inches in diameter is
driven down to it. Above this is erected
the "derrick," a pyramidal structure of
heavy timbers, generally seventy-two feet
in height. At each side is located a fifteen
to twenty-horse power engine, which
operates a walking beam to which is attached
a heavy cable and the drilling ap
JJU1ULU3.
This consists of four parts. The up- |
per one is called the "sinker bar," about
eighteen ^feet in length; next come the
"jars," seven feet in length; then the
"auger-stem," about thirty feet long, of
three and one-fourth inch cold rolled
steel; and finally, at the end of this is a
"bit" three feet in length. Thus
equipped, steam is turned on, and the
ponderous weight of 2,000 to 3,000
pounds, alternately raised and dropped,
as in a pile-driver, drives the bit into the
rock at the average rate of sixty to one
hundred feet daily. After drilling
for some time the tools are hoisted
and a fresh bit is inserted. Meanwhile
a "sand pump," or "bailer," a
cylindrical tube with valves opening inward,
is dropped down the nole to remove
detritus or water. A "casing" is
fitted snugly to the walls of the well to
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KGep out me waiei j uuu w ucu ii< 10 uv,w.osary
to pump the oil, the well is tubed.
The tube is about two inches in diameter,
around which a rubber packer is inserted
just above the oil and gas bearing
rock. This cuts off the escape of the
gas, forcing it up through the tube, and
causing the well to flow. The bore of
the well varies from eight to six inches,
and its depths varies with the geological
formation, averaging perhaps 1,200 to
1,500 feet, and sometimes. reaching
2,500.
The cost of a well naturally depends
upon its location, depth, and character
of rock. The owner generally erects
the derrick, engine, and tank, at an average
expense of $1,500, and then contracts
with a driller to furnish the tools
and sink the well. This charge will
probably average sixty cents per foot.
It is perhaps safe to say that wells in the
larger fields average in cost from $2,500
to $3,000.
Torpedoes, which were first introduced
about 18G5, were received with distrust,
but are now in general use, and have become
a necessary part of the equipment of
a well. They are cylindrical tubes, varying
in size, but generally eight inches in
length and four in diameter, containing
fluid nitro-giycerine. These torpedoes
are carefully lowered into the wells and
nvnloded bv droDDincr a twenty-pound
cast iron weight upon them from above.
The explosion shatters the wall, giving a
greater exposure of surface to draw oil
from, thus stimulating the wells and increasing
their production. Though this
treatment hastens the exhaustion of a
well, it is believed by many that the
amount of oil obtained exceeds what
would be otherwire procured. At first
only five or six quarts of nitro-glycerine
were introduced, but now it is no unusual'
thing to employ 120 to 200 quarts of
glycerine, equal to 3,240 to 5,400 pounds
of gunpowder.?Harper's Magazine.
Binding gf Human Skin.
I Following the example of Mr. Joseph
Zaehnsdorf, who lately bound two
Elzevir editions in human skin, another
London binder has executed an order to
incase a copy of Hans Holbein's "Dance
in tVip R'imp <*hastlv inteoil
ui jutatu *i* VMW <?.?. 0 v u
ment, certainly a very appropriate covering
for this work These are not the
only instances, however, in which
the casing of the "human form divine"
has been utilized. In the library
at Mexboro house, near Methley, Yorkshire,
there was formerly two books, Sir
John Check's "Hurt of Sedition" and
Braithwait's "Arcadian Princess," both
bound in the prepared skin of Mary Bateman,
"the Yorkshire witch," who was
executed early in the beginning of this
century for murder; but these were
among those which disappeared during
the cataloguing of the library for sale,
when one of the former carls of Mexb'jrough
was in difficulties. Yet another
instance. "When the writer was last in
Paris ho was shown a small book by a
dealer, who solemnly avowed it was
bound in a portion of the skin of the notorious
Louvet de Couvray. and which he
valued at 1,00(3 fraucs, aiid for authentication
of which he produced along pedigree.?Pall
Mail GazeVe.
Stepping Stones to Success.
Learn your business thoroughly.
Keep at one thing; in nowise change.
Always be in haste, but never in a
hurry.
Observe system in all you do and undertake.
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth
doing well.
One to-dav is worth two to-morrows.
Be self-reliant; do not take too much
advice, but rather depend on yourself.
Never fail to keep your appointments,
nor to be punctual to the minute.
Never be idle, but keep your hands or
mind usefully employed, except when
sleeping.
Use charity with all; be ever generous
in thought or deed; help others along
life's thorny path.
He that ascends the ladder must take
the lowest round. All who are abovo
were once below.
Think all you speak, but speak not all you
think;
Thoughts are your own, but words are so
no more;
Where Wisdom steers wind cannot make vou
sink;
Lips never err when once she keeps the
door.
?Somerville Journal, j
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New York physicians say the opium j
habit is alarmingly on the increase in that
city.
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TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT. |
What Are We Going to Do?
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What are we going to do, sweet friends,
In the year that is to come.
To baffle that fearful fiend 01 death
Whose messenger is rum?
Shall we fold our hands and bid him pass,
As he has passed before, ,*
Leaving his deadly-poisoned draught
At every unbarred door?
What are we gping to do, sweet friends,
Still wait for crime ana pain.
Then bind the bruises, ana heal the wound,
And soothe woe again?
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.Lieu me nena son torture tne weary wue,
Still poison the coming child,
Still break the suffering mother's heart,
Still drive the sister wild?
Still bring to "the grave the gray-haired sire,
Still martyr the brave young soul, '
Till the waters of death, Lute a burning
stream,
O'er the whole great nation roll;
And poverty take the place of wealth,
And sin and crime and shame
Drag down to the very depths of hell
The highest and proudest name?
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Is this our mission on earth, sweet friends,
In the years that are to come?
If not, let us rouse and do the work
Against this spirit of rum.
There is not a soul so poor and weak,
In all this goodly land,
But against this evil a word may speak,
And lift a warning hand.
And lift d warning hand, sweet friends, \
With a cry for home and hearth,
Adding voice to voice, till the sound
sweep, '
Like rum's death-knell, o'er the earth,
And the weak and wavering shall hear,
And the faint grow brave and strong,
And the true and good, and great and wise
Join hands to right this .wrong.
Scientific Temperance Instruction
in Public Schools.
Thanks to the efforts of the crystalized
mother-heart of the nation, the "W. 0.
T. U., thousands of teachers have commenced
the systemetic teaching of scientific
temperance to millions of pupils in'
public schools. The work is new and
surrounded by environments caused by;
ignorance , prejudice and misrepresenta-'
tion. All this makes mistakes easy, but'
fatal. Never was there more need of
guidance by Divine wisdom, never was' * .
there a louder call to prayer. On the " ^
first Monday in September, commencing
in far east Maine, and following the
sun in his course to ''where rolls the Ore- .';
gon," the school-bell marshaled into ; .
rank a procession of school children
stretching across the continent. Let its
notes be also a call to prayer, to every
mother, every lover of children in America;
prayer that all the teachers may be
taught of God and endued with that
consecrated common sense which avoids
mistakes and chooses the wisest and best
methods. Let all parents show their interest
in this work and their personal
sympathy with the teachers who are
striving to teach temperance to children. .
Teachers will meet opposition and ridia?1a
fwnm A11I? finomioa? cViAltT
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you, as parents, stand by them; encourage
their hearts; strengthen their hands,
they will have great need of courage as
well as of wisdom, and that grace of the
lips which shall make their words like - '%
4'applesof gold in pictures of silver."
In view of the fact that this special
editorial "we" has spent her life in public
school work, it may not be considered
out of place for her to suggest here some
general principles which should govern
in temperance teaching.
1. Commence with simple, well-known.
effects of alcohol, like the staggering gait "
and uncertain movements, explain these
physiologically.
2. Proceed from undisputed effects, *. ; |
gradually, to those not so generally acknowledged.
3. State no fact for which you cannot
give unquestionable authority.
4. Avoid personal and political allusions.
vf.j
5. Remember your work is not to teach
the evils resulting from dram selling, but
the physiological effects of dram-drinkand
the use of narcotics.
6. It is entirely within your province
i to studv 'the effects of the drink habit
" .
upon the industries of the State, upon
crime, pauperism, insanity, idiocy, etc.
7. Adapt your teaching to the age and
intelligence of your pupils.
8. Proceed systematically and review
thoroughly.
9. Fix the fundamental facts in the
minds of even little children. You do
not know how long they may be with
you.?Exchange. . v
The Master Vice.
There is a prevalent belief that the consumption
of beer and light wines, as well
as the tempcrance agitation, has diminished
the quantity of liquor consumed;
but this is not so. Rccent figures show
that the consumption of liquor in the
United States has far outstripped the
growth of population. The number of
! crallons of liauor consumed vearlv has in
creased as follows: 1840, 71,000,000;
' 1850, 94,000,000; 1800, 202.000,000;
1870, 283,000,000; 1880, 503,000,000;
1883, G55,000,000. While the popula^"
tioa has only trebled in the last forty
rcar3, the consumption of liquor is nearly
ten times greater than it was in 1840,
and the amount of money expended in
its purchase shows a still greater proportional
increase. The annual expenditure
for liquor now exceeds $800,000,000.
These figures are appalling, and every
father of a family should do all in his
power to socially discourage and legally
prevent the^use of intoxieating drinks.
It is the master vice of our age and country.?DemorcsVs
Monthly. '
A Sure Cure.
We have heard of various cures for
drunkenness recommended for persons
| who are trying to cure themselves of
j drinking habits. Some of them are very
I bitter and bad to take. Here is one,
however, which is to be recommended at
all times, which is sure to cure if the person
has the will to stick to it. It i3
recommended by a doctor, and has an alj
most unpronounceable name. The doc'
tor says he has been keeping it for a
quarter of a century. It is Don'tdrinkalcoholatallatall.
Will you remember it?
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