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DR. TILIAGE'S SERMON. SHALL WE HATE ANARCHY AND REBELLION IN AMERICA? Text: "The earth was without form and Toid, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."?Geuesis L 2. Out in space there hung a great chunk of rock and mud and sand and shell, thousands of miles in diameter, more thousands of miles in circumference, a great mass of ugliness, confusion, distortion, uselassness, ghastliness and horror. It seemed like some great commons on which mashtd-up worlds had been dumped. Poetry and prose, scientist and Christian, all agree in calling it chaos. That was the ugly, unshapely egg out of which Our beautiful world was hatched. God bent over that anger and turmoil of elements J1 : J >. * n? rv uu UC&iilU. AtlUUI/lU VI CttU, )UU onoj and lie down there. Pacific Ocean, you go and sleep there. Mount Washington, you tand sentinel here. Mont Blanc, you put on your coronet of crystal there. Mississippi, you march there, and Missouri, you marry it there." God took up in His almighty arms the ro::k and the mud and the sand and the hell and ilo Leave 1 it and He rolled it and He indented it and He divided it, and He compressed it into shape, and then He dropped It in four different places, and the one deposit wa< Europe, and another deposit was Asia, and another deposit was Africa, and the fourth deposit was America, North tod South. In other words, "the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." Well, now, that original chaos was a type of the anarchy into which so iety is ever and fcnou tempted to plunge, (iod'said: "Let there be light of order, light of law, light of sympathy, light of justice, light of love." An anaichical voice said: "No, no: let there be darkness, let there tie cuttbroatery, let there, be eternal imbroglio, let there "be chaos." That social confusion, that moral chaos is the condition into which a great many supposed our land was to be pluuged because of the overhanging contest between Capiial and Labor. Dur ing the past three months, aye during the last live years, the intelligent people of this country have been askinc: "Are we eoins to have anarchy and bloody revolution in America ?" Thousands Of voices have auswered in the aflirmative. I answer this morning in the negative. There may be, as there have been, outbursts of popalar frenzy, but there will be no anarchy, for the Church of Christ, the grandest and mightiest institution on earth,'will come out In the name of the Eternal God, and putting one hand on the shoulder of Capital ana the other hand on the shoulder of Labor, will say: "I come out in the name of the God who turned chaos into order to settle this dispute by the principle of justice and kindness. Now, I command that you take your hands off of ach other's throats." The Church of God is the only impartial institution on this subject, for it has within its borders capitalists and laborers.and it was founded by the Christ who was a carpenter, and therefore has a right to speak for all laborers; and who owns this world and the solar system and the aniverse and has, therefore, a right to speak for capitalists. As an individual I have a right to be heard ou the labor question. My father was a farmer and mv grandfather was a farmer and they toiled for a living. I have not a dollar in the world that I did not rarn by the sweat of my brqw aud I owe no man anything. if I Iiave forgotten any obligation, ana you will meet me at the foot of the pulpit when I come down,I will settle it on the spot. I purpose to say all I have thought or felt on this subject, anil without any reservation, and I only ask of you that you pray God that I may be divineiy directed in this impartial series of Sabbath morning discourses; and I also ask that you receive what I have to say in silence, and without either approval or disapprobation in sound. When I say there will be no anarchy in this country I do not want you to think that I anderestimate the awful peril of this hour. The tendency has Ik-en toward chaos and toward anarchy. Excited throngs causing disturbances in nearly all our great cities: rail trains hurled over the rocks; workmen beaten to death in the presence of their wives and children; faithful policemen exhausted by vigilance by day and vigilanc-e by night; in some cities the military called out; thousands of people asking: "What next;" A great earthquake with one hand has taken hold of this continent at the Pacific bea<-h, and with the other hand has taken hold of the continent at the Atlantic beach, and has shaken it, and til agricultural and manufacturing and commercial and literary and artistic and moral and religious interests have been mightily shaken. I look across the water and I find part of Belgium one great mob. Russia and Germany and Austria keeping the people quiet by standing armies that are eating the life of those nations. Ireland at peace to-dav only l>ecau.se it anticipates Hmie Rule and the triumph of Gladstoneism. The quarrel betw een Capital and Labor is hemispheric, aye, it is world-wide, and every man must admit that the tendency has been towaid Anarchy. Now, my friends, one way in whic h we are to avoid anarchy is to let the people know what anarchy is. Show us the hole that we may st'er clear of it. Anarchy is the abolition of all rights of property. It is every man's hand aiainst every other man. It is making your house, your store, your honest e<tate, your home, your fnm:ly mine?and mine yours It is arson, rapine, murder, lust and death triumphant. It is he!l let loose on earth, and sooietv a combination of devils incarnate. It is the overthrow of everything go>d, and it is the coronation of everything infamous. It means no law, no' rights, no defence, no family, no church, no peace, no happiness and no God. That is anarchy. Now, who wants it in this country ?. Let us look at the old dragon. Let me take one square and scrutinizing look at him before we allow him to put his foot on this continent The people want to know what anarchy is, and then they will rise up, all the good people of the United States, and in conjunction with the officers of the law, city officers, stjue officers, national officers, . we shall command peace, and have peace unive sol. and peace all the time. within si> months there will in this country be a better state of feeling between Capital a d Lab r than there ever has been, because tuey ..a. e learned as never before, they have had it demonstrated that they are absolutely dependent on each other. Meanwhile I" give three words of advice to the laboring classes . of America so far as my words may reach them. My first word of brotherly counsel to laborers is to those who have work now. Stick to it. Do not under the turmoil of the present excitement give up your employment with the idea that something better will turn up. Becaus* you do not like the line of steamers on which you sail, do not jump overboard in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Those railroad men, those mechanics, those carpenters, those masons, those clerks in stores, those employes in all styles of business who give np their work, probably give it up for starvation. I would say to this class of laborer! In your factory, in your foundry I know him, I know him to be an industrior man;"his family are starving to death; giv him a p'ai-e: I'll take it as a personal favc if yon will help this man into some kind c business where he can suoport his family. I There is hardly a respectable man in thi hcuse who has not written such a letter a that. Nigh two million. Now, my advic j t> those nigh two million is that for the sup | port of themselves and their families. Hie; I s?o up and take the va-ated places. Nearl; i two million strong. That is my sentiment Full liberty for all men to strike who wantt< strike, and full liberty for all whi waut to take their places. (Applause.) Hush You will be green hands for a while, but yoi will not be green hands long. For those wh< have resigned their places perhaps other oc en notions will open, for we are just openin< fie outside door of this continent. This con cinent can support eight hundrod million peo pie, and there is room in this country so tha every man shall have a livelihood, a hom< and a God. So you see, while som< are in depair about the times, I an not scared a bit. This tempest is | going to b# hushed and Christ is goinf to put His foot on it as He did on asritatec Galilee. As at tbe beginning, chaos is goin^ to turn into beautiful order as the spirit o] God moves upon the face of the waters. Bui j here is a word that I would like to say in th( I hearingof the American peop'e, especially ir the hearing of those who toil with hand anc foot. Your first step toward light and toward the betterment of your condition, oh workmen of America, is in your assertion ol your personal independence from all dicta' tion of other workmen. You are fret | men. We fought to get our freedoir A?re in America. You are tree men. Lei ! no man or organisation come between you 1 and your personal rights. Let no organiza j tion tell you where you shall work, where you shall not work ; when you shall work, I wh-n you shall not work. If a man wants tc j belong to a labor organization let him have full liberty to do so. If a man wants to stay nut of a labor organization let him be just ai { free to stay out. You are yourown master, ; Let no man put a manacle on your wrist or on your hiart. I belong to a labor or panization, a ministerial association, thai mejts once a week. I lovo all the members, We can help each other in a hundred ways, But when that ministerial association shall j come and tell me to quit work here because | some brother minister has b en badly treated j in Texas (Laughter), I will tell that miais terial association :"Get thee behind me. Satan.' I (Laughter). I may have a right to leave my j work here; for some reason I may saytc I this people: "I am done, I will work "for you | ao longer; good bye, I am going.' But 1 I have no ri|4ht Sunday mornings and ; Sunday nights to linger around the ! door of this church with a shctguu to intimidate the man who comes to take my place. I may leave my work here and still be a gentleman; but when I attempt to interfere with the man who comes to take my place then I become a criminal,and I deserve nothing bettor than the thin soun in a tin bowl in Sing Sing Penitentiary. There is one thought that I wish every newspaper man in America would put at the head of a column, and which every laborer would put in his memorandum book and paste in his hat? the fact that there are in the United States 12,000.000 earners of wages. There are about 600,000 of them that belong to labor organizations of various styles. My j theory is, let the 000,000 who belong to the organizations do as they please. Let the 11,> I 400,000, who do not belong to labor organiza I tions, do as they please. But there is no law of God or man, or common sense, or commoi justice that will alljw 600,000 men, who dc bolong to labor organizations, to dictate tc 11.400.000 men who do not belong to them, I Freedom for those inside organizations, I Freedom for those outside. Isow, when | we shall emerge from this present unhappi j ness, as we shall emerge, Labor and Capital will mar.'h shoulder to shoulder, and thej j will have broken some tyrannies that need ! to be broken. Labor in this country has twc tyrannies to break?the capitalistic tyranny and the tyranny of fellow workmen; and when American labor can do that it will be j free. Mr. Powderly is right and Mr. Irons j is wrong. The old tent maksr had it right j ?I mean Paul?when he said: "The eye I cannot f-ay to the hand, I have no need | of the?." That is one of the most skillfully ; put things I ever read, by the old tenl j maker. "Th? eye cannot sav to the hand, J | have no need of thee." What if the eye should j say: -'If there is aught 1 despise, it isthos< ' four fingers and a thumb; I can't bear th< ! sight of you; you are of no use anyhow; gel j out of my way;" Suppose the hand shoulc j say to the eye: "I am boss workman; yoi couldn't get along without me; if there i; anything! despise, it is the eye seated undei the dome of the forehead doing nothing bu! 1 look.'-' Oh, you silly eye, how soon yoi ; would swi:n in death "if the hand die 1 / \l? **/M* oil Uf VionrJ ViAn JLIUU aupjiUl 4/ JWU. V/u, J WU oi*4j uuuu, T soon you would be fumbling round in th< darkness if the eye did not give you a lantern That is the first thin? to lie understood it this country?that Labor and Capital are ab solutely, entirely dependent on each other, You go into a large factory. A thousand wheels, a thousand bands, a thousand levers ! a thousand pulleys, and all controlled by oni great water wheel, but all tho part: of the machinery in some way re lated to all the other parts. That ii human society. A thousand wheels, a thou sand levers, a thousand pullie*, all controllec by the wheel of divine providence, but al the parts related to each other. Dives can not kick Lazarus without hurting his owx foot. They cannot throw Sbadrai li into t furnace without getting their own face! scorched and blackened. That which smite! Capital smites Labor, and vice versa. Poin back into history and wherever you fine Capital largely prosperous you find wage large; wherever you find wages large yoi find Capital prosperous. When Capital de j nounces Labor it is th? eye cursing thi i hand. When Labor denounces Capital it i the hand cursing th9 eye. The Capitalist of this cojntry are for the most part success ful laborers, and among all the styles ol work and in all the shops you will find mei who were capitalists. In other words, the) are all the time crossing over. Men who ar< capitalist; a:e becoming laborers, und mer who are laborers are becoming capitalists It is not any great Niagara suspension bridg< over the chasm; it is only a step. Woulc God they would shake hands while they pa js If the capitalist in this house would draw hii glove you would see a broken Soger nail the scar of an old blister, a stiffecec finger joint. Nearly all the capitalists o: to-day are successful laborers. Nearly al ^l-? !?%/w viancno f\p a mnpi/io on bUO KI ??l('Pllutuu'u6 UUUXJ V4 xiiuciivu Ui^ conducted by men who set type or were en gaged in book binding. Nearly all the mei who own carriage factories used to sandpa j j>er the wagon wheel to get it ready for th< painter. Peter Cooper was a gluomaker anc he went on until he glued together an im mense fortune, ana he established tha princely institution, the Cooper Institute which has mothered 500 such philanthropies in the United States, and I nevei pass it without saying within myself ' What a magnificent monument that mai built to himself and to Christian charity.1 ; The laborers of this country have no create] j friend, because Peter Cooper practically sak to every laboring man in thi? country: l'Di I you want your boy to have a splendid educa I tion? If you do send him up to my Institute I it will cost you nothing." An elder of thi church was some time ago walking in Green | wood and saw two young men puttinj i flowers on Peter Cooper's grave. H j thought: "Why they must be friend j or relatives of the old man.' j But aft?r a while he got into conversatioi 1 with them, and they said: "No, we are no i relatives, but we were poor boys, and we go I our education from Peter Cuop r, and tha I is the reason we put flowers ou his grave. If the people who were blessed by that glo ! rious old man should put flowers on his grave they would be mountain high. Abram Vai Nest was a harness maker in Now York Year after year he stood at the bench. H had lar^e success. He told me many time I he thought he made the best harness ii New York. He went on and gathered i ! large fortune, on 1 he distributed hundreds o I thousands of dollars to the poor, to iiibl i so'-iof.ies, tract societies, humantarian so j oietics. No poor mau ever asked help o | Abram Van Nest but bo gave it. I neve ! shall forget one night when I. a greei ; country lad, called on him, and after spend j inz the evening he accompanied nio to th dour and said: "De Witt, here is $-">0 to bu; bocks with, but don't say anything abou it." And I never did until the old man wa dead. So they are all the time crossin) : over. Do you kuow who will bo the million aires of the twentieth century? They are, ii this last fourteen years of the ninete9ntl century, with foot on the shuttle, hand on th. pickaxe, or doing some kind of hard manua work. Do you kuow out of that class an coming the poets, the oiators, tha philan throphists of the world* Henry Clay, th Demosthenes of the American S3nate, wa the mill boy of the Slashes; Hugh Miiler, : quarryman at Cromartic. Scotland; Colum bus, a weaver: Arkwright, a barber; Haw ley, a soap boiler: Bloomfield. the gloriou theologian, a shoemaker: and Horace Greeli started life in New York with $10.75 in hi who have work, not only sti^k to it in thesf times of excitement, but make this c hange Go a little earlier to your place ol work and do your work better thai you ever have done it before with more intensity and more earnestness Let additional assiduity chnra -terize you That is my first word of advi<o to those wh( have work. My second word of advi e is t< those who hive had work but have resignet it. The best thing for you. and the best thing for everybody istr> go back immediately. D< not wait to see what others will do. You fet on board he train of rational prosperity efore it starts, for start it will, and start soon, and stai t mightily. We have a reporl of tin strikes of last year, wind says there were forty-five genera strikes in the State of New York; 177 sho| strikes; successful strikes, ninety-seven strikes lost, thirty-four; strikes pending ai the time the statistics were made, fifty-nine strikes compromised, thirty-two. So thai we have enough facts before us to philosophize a little and to make up a good opinion Now, do you want to know who of all the laborers will make the most out of these strikes? I can tell you, and I will tell you. The laborers who will make the most out of these strikes will be the laborers who go to work first. My third word of brotherly counsel for the laboring men of this country is to that class of men who have for months and perhaps for years been unable to get work. Before this great trouble began there were nearly 2,000,000 out of employment in the United States. 1 have been busy much of the time during the past ten years in trying to get people work, and so have men in all communities and professions. The one business has been to help other Deople get work and you and I can hardly tell how many letters of commendation we have written, such as: "Give this man work in your store, - *'? _ _ r < r; pocket They are crossing over? ta the laborer to become the capitalist' e and the capitalist to become the, ,r laborer, and I this day wavea flag of truce be>f tweeu them. There is going to be vast im? provement in affairs when we shall realize 5 that the old tent maker was right when he s said: "The eye cannot say to the nand I have 0 no need of thee." " >. There is also going to come a great alleviay tion on this subject by co-operative institute tions. I am not referring now to labor organisations, I am not referring to trades j unions, but to that plan by which laborers j put what money they can save in an 1 onterprise and conduct it themselves, j It lias passed beyond experiment. 3 Do not say it is experiment. In England , and Wales there are now 705 co-operative in, stitutions, with 300,000 members, with a cap? ital of $14,000,000, doing a business one year ? of $57,000,000. The first experiment in this t country was the Troy Co-operative Foundry 9 which had large success and went on long 3 enough to demonstrate possibilities. But ! there are scores and hundreds of these co-or>, erative institutions, and they are going to ao ' 4. 4. rr 1 - k-..? r vast iiuproveiuouu iubjt uuve vcsxac^i [to be an experimeat or a r mere theory. Thomas Hughes, the most j brilliant friend of the laboring men in Engt land, says the co-operative institution is the j path out of these trouble-. Lord Derby and , John Stuart Mill gave half their lives to the [ discussion of those subject*. Sir Thomas . Brassey said in the English Parliament cooperation is the one and only solution of this I question. It is the sole path by which the laboring classes as a whole, or any large ( number of them, will ever emerge from the , hand-to-mouth mode of living and set their . share of the rewards and honors of our ad[ vanced civilization. The principle was . illustrated in Ireland, where a traveler left the , mail coach and saw a workman standing up ( to his waist iu the water repairiug a dam, a > mill dam. He said to this workman: "Why, t you seem to be alone?nobody to watch you." r The workman replied: ''I am all alone, I i watch myself." "Where is your stewardf" , "We have no steward." "Where is your master#" "We have no master." "Why, who sent you?" "The committee." "Whose i committee!" "Well, I belong to an ( association and we elect certain members as a committee and they [ regulate this whole thing. We belong to the , new system of labor, the new system of aa[ sociation, the co-operative method." But you ask me if sometimes these eGorts have nnt. Iionn n fnilnrnJ Oh. vfis: all erpat move > ments have been a failure at the start. The , application of steam power a failure, electric telegraphing a failure, railroading a failure I at first: but afterward the chief success of [ the century. Co-operative 1 institutions will , go on to larger success. You say?some one t says to me: "Why it is absurd to" talk about - laborers who cannot get enough wages [ to support thomselves and their families, putting their surplus into an institution of this kind." My reply is, that if you will put into my hand the money which during the last five years has by the laboring classes of America been spent for rum and tobacco, I will establish a co-operative institution mightier than any monetary institution in America. There will also bo alleviation of this whole subject when employers find the importance [ of telling their employes just how matters stand. You know a? well as I do that here is the difficulty in a great 1 many establishments?while the laborers are > at their wits' ends tho capitalist isal^o. Mow ho shall pay the reiit, how he shall meet the - taxe , and how he shall keep the machinery ' going. Meanwhile the laborer thinks this i man is rolling up a largo fortune. It cannot > be so at all in that rase. The vast majority > of the capitalists of to-day are not making out of their investment 10 per cent.,nor 9 per cent., nor 8 per cent., nor 7 per cent., nor 6 i percent., nor 4 per cent., nor 3 per cent. Lab< rat it's wits'ends because of small wages [ Capital at it's wits' ends. 1 know there are ex ceptions. There are great anacondos that are I swallowing down everything. Iam not re? forring to them. I am referring to the great; mass of capitalist'. Now do you not thiuk it I would alleviate this matter if the capitalist > should s-ay: "I'll explain this whole matter ? " TU/??n in ? ? l'mmnnao omnnnf i | IU II1V JUfU. 1 UV1 V ? (1U luimiuou umvu..v v? , ; common sense abroad in the world. There i is an iiumenso amount of good, kindly feel[ ing. I do not l>elieve there would be one r strike, wher<} there are ten strike?, if it were ; the universal plan that capitalists should let [ their laborers know just how matters s and. I I had a friend who had a thousand men in J his employ. Some years ago when there ? were strikes often I said: "How do you get t along?' He said: "Very well." "I suppose I you had strikes?"' "Oh, no; I never have any." i "Never have auy? What do you mean*" 5 "Well," he said, "I call my men together r every little while and say: 'Boys, let us tee t how matters stand. Last year I made so i much. This year you see" we are making I less. I "want to know what you think r about it, what you think vour wages ought i to be and what I ought to get on my invest. meat: for, hoys, you know I have got everyi thing in this thing aud I have got to keep it * going. I want you to tell me, looking over the whole atl'air, what your wages ought to I be, and what mv interest on the investment , ought to be. We are always unanimous, and i my men would die forme." But suppose j s a "capitalist acts with supercilious a;r, i Vnc: fymt-nrv AS though he I wero the autocrat of the universe, the sun and tho moon in his vest po'-ket, chiefly anxious lest some greasy or smirched hand should touch his French broadcloth. That man will find his awful ! mistake. In the vast majority of cases I believe there would be but little or no trouble if the men who own immense establishments fairly and frankly told their employes all about it. Then there is going to come great alteration of this through the religious influen.-e which is to be brought upon the country. Why is it that in this country we have nothing less than a penny, white in China they have the money they call cash put on threads and put around the neck, and this cash?it takes ten. fifteen, twenty of them to make a penny? The only difference is that which is made by Christianity. Heathenism depresses everything; keeps everything down. Christianity enlarges everything; lifts people up You go through a community where infidelitj is abroad and controlling everything: wages are down, and employers are "hard on theii laborers. Let the religion of Jesus Christ? . the old fashioned religion?dominate a coms muuity. and you will find the employers , kind and the wages good,comparatively. Th? 1 religion of Jesus Christ is a democratic ref ligion. It teaches the employer that he ii 1 brother to all the operators in hi* mill, born 3 of the same Heavenly Father, redeemed bj . the same superaal Christ, to lie down in th? i same dust. Not much chance to put on airs . in the s-epulcnre, or at the judgment. The 3 engineer in a New Englaud factory gets j sleepy. He does not watch the steam gauge. . Then there is a wild thunder of explosion, in t whi 'h the owner of the mill ia billed and oue of the poor workmen in some part 3 of the faccory. Th9 two slain men . come up toward the eate of Heaven. . The owner of the mill knocks at the j gate. Thecehstial gatekeeper says: "Who is I there?" He says: "I owned a mill at Fall r Fiver: there has been a great explosion j there and I lost my life; I came up here and 3 I expect to enter heaven." "What right . have you to enter heaven?" says the celestial . gatekeeper. The other says: 'T was a great s' man down there and I employed 200 hands." . "Employed two hundred hands, did you? , How much of the grace of God did you erng ploy?" "Nothing." "Stand back, you canf not enter here." Right after him ? comes this poor laborer who was slain br the same accident. He knocks at t the gate. Tin gatekeeper says: "Who is t there?" He says: "I am a workman; Icame t uo from Fall River: I was poor there; there ? wai a great accident there: I lo->t my life; I want to entor heaveu." What right have * you to come h ;re to the gate of heaven?" ' "Well, I havo no right in myself: I was a bad man once; I did a thousand things I ' oue;ht not to have done: I used to curse and swt-ar when I hurt my hand or foot at the s U.x*- I ft i-ln'ninff moccpticrpr rOTTlB from this gate to our world ta help unci save . it, ami I found him and told him all about it: I confessed the whole thinz, and he _ told nie to come up here, and he told me also ? that if I was halted at the gate I nee 1 only r show his name written on my hand or written 3 on my forehead." Then there is a great rat. tling of pulleys, the gates hoist, and ho en0 ters into coronation. In the one case the y man had agreat funeral; in theothercase the t man had a small funeral. Tho man who had s a large funeral, however, had no Christ with T him. The other man had accepted Christ as ? his Saviour. Tho religion of Jesus Christ is ' a democratic religion, ifou cannot buy your way into heaven, and you cannot be so poor that anybody will dare to shut you out. If . the gatekeeper, smitten with a sense of injus? tice,should halt and stop and try to keep you, all Heaven would fly from their thrones " crying: "Let him in." I have the best authority for saying that Godliness is profitable * for the life that now is. It pays employer " and it pays employe, this religion of Jesus f Christ, and it is going to settle forever and * forever this dispute. The time is going to come when the hard hand of toil and the soft ' hand of the counting room will clasp. They will clasp in congratulation, and they will clasp in the glorious millennial bour. In that glorious millennial hour the hard hand of toil will say: "I plowed the desert into a garden;" and the soft hand of i the counting room will say: "I furnished the ' seed with which the ground was sown;" and the hard hand of toil will say: "I threshed ( the mountains;" and the soft honl of tho counting room will say: "I paid for the flail;" and the hard hand of toil will say: "I ] pounded tho ?pear into a pruning-hook;" ] and the soft hand of tho counting room: "I signed the treaty thai: made the thing \ possible. ' Then Capital and I>abor shall lie J -? i:? i 4.1? l x. n urawii uogerner? tut; iiuu auu tuo miuu, mo leopard and tho kid, and there will be nothing ;! to hurt or de.-.troy in all God's holy mount, tor the mouth of the Lord bath spoken it" j tebperancTdepartment. Her Story. j My story, marm? Well, really now, I haven't ? much to say; But if you'd come a year ago, and then again to-day, * No need of words to tell von, marm., what < your own eyes could see. j Of what the tem perance cause has done for my dear John and met ^ A year ago we hadn't flour to make a loaf of i bread, ( And many a time these little one went sup- { perless to bed; Now, look into the larder, marm; there's s sugar, llour and tea, i And that is what the temperance cause has i done for John and me. He used to walk along tho streot looking so < ineun unu low, As if he hardly dared to meet the friends he used to know; But now he looks them in 'the face,and wtdks off bold and free. And that is what the temperance cause has done for John and me. The children were afraid of John; his coming stopped their pla.y, But now when supper-time is o'er, and the table cleared away, The boys all frolic round hi3 chair, and the baby climbs his knee, And that is what the temperance cause has done for John and rae. A year ago these little boys went strolling down the street, With scauty clothing on their backs, and nothing on their feet; But now they've shoe? and stockings, and good clothing as yon see, And that is what the temperance cause has done for Johu and me. Oh, those long, long days are o'er, of sorrow and of pain! The children have their lather back, and I my John again. Oh, pray excuse uiy feeliDgs, marm, 'tis only joy to see How much the temperance cause has clone for my dear John and me! Grciff In The Capitoll. A contributor to the Herald of Hcvlth, 1 who for thirty years ha<> had an office, in the Capitol building in Washington, says: ( "The power of intoxicating liquors in ] the Capitol at Washington daring the < 'fifties,'and no doubt long before, was 1 treated not ns a matte* of toleration, to be winked a: by the authorities, but as a J matter of course. Grog was considered i as necessary to legislation then as a com- j pass in navigating a ship. It was stored in the committce-roomu and offices of the ( Capitol, in packages large and small, in ] the private bottles of members, in demi- 1 johns and jugs of various calibres, and ( in larger arsenals of supply. In the 'last nights' of Congross liquors were j served copiously in the main offices, and i luxurious spreads of lunches and suppers ( were to be found there and in some of the leading committee-rooms, and open ! free of cha:rge to officers, members, t and attaches of the House and Senate, to J say nothing of the lobby :nob, which was : always present, mvitcu or uninvueu, on j such oocasions. A general debauch t seemed to be the dying throe of an ex- s piring Congress. Thi9 disgraceful prac- 1 ticc waa abolished during the administra- ^ tinn of Speaker Colfa.x. But, notwith- ] standing the rule against providing 1 liquors in the restaurant of the Capitol, it was, peril ips is, served as tea in opaque ] cups and mug? to avoid detection or too ] public notoriety. In truth, the evil is c scotchcd, but not killed. It still grows t and thrives in the secret places of the 1 Capitol, shedding baleful influence litce ] deadly nightshade. Hut the heroic tern- ! perance advocates continue to grub away j c at it every session, with a hopeful pros- ! J pect of uprooting it for all time. I "If the unrecorded annals of Congress | ( and State Legislatures could be published, c what instructive and shameful pages they * would furnish." ^ c Drinking and Apoplexy. <= The Irish World presents to its readers j the following wholesome lesson concern- ? ing alcohol and apoplexy: 1 "It is the essential nature of all wines J and spirits to send an increased amount a of blood to the brain. The first effect of ^ taking a glass of wine or stronger form c of alcohol is to send the blood there I faster than common. Hence the circula- * tion that gives the red face. It increases ^ the activity of the br.iin, and it works a faster, and so does the tongue; but as ( the blood goes faster than common to ? the brain, it returns f.-uster, and no imme- | * diate harm may result. But suppose a < c man keeps on drinking; the blood is sent ) t to the bruin so fast ir. large quantities o that, in order to mak*) room for it, the * arteries have to chargo themselves. They | increase in size, and, in doing so, they l press against the more yielding, flaccid T veins which carry the blood out of the r brain, a.id diminish the sizes of the porcfi e ?the result being that the blood is not ? only carried to the arteries of the brain v faster th::n is natural or healthful, but in n prevent .*d from leaving it as fast a; usual, * Hence a double set of causes of death are 11 in operation. Hence a man may drink j, enough brandy or other spirits in a few s hours, or even minutes, to bring on u " fatal attack of apoplexy. This is being; " literally dead drunk.1' Temperance Notes. Prohibition is in such favor in Georgia t that 115 out of 137 counties have adopted s it, under the local option law. P \_me wno nas figured it ull up says two n drinks of whiskey cost a pound and a hall of beefsteak; two beers, a dinner ofmutton-chops; one cock :ail, an egg plant or head of cauliflower. "What will yo^ I) take, Charlie?" stands for a nice oyster- t stew for the whole family on Sunday 1 morning. "Set 'em up again!" mean:! t: sugar in the house for a month. ? p J.*." V ;S .\_y, . . RELIGIOUS READING. Beyond. 0 city fair, immortal, bright! Whose visions float across our sight; 3 treasures of the heart that lie Beyond the reach of human eye. Beyond what seems to U3 the best Lies His deep thought in which is rest Beyond despair, Hope dawns from sorrow, [n heaven's ever bright to-morrow. Beyond the doubter and the doubt, fhe truth of God stands boldly out. Beyond this life, Infinity? Where the river meets the sea. Hartford Times. To You I The spring is upon us. The air is redo ent of the odors ot the new vegetation ind is vocal with the song of birds. The ivintcr is past. It was long and cold and lard; but it is gone. New life appears jn every field and on every tree. "We look forward to a season of growth. It is gratifiying to know that during :he past winter, there have been a great nany persons who have come out of the larkness o sin into the light and joy of he gospel. Are you one of them ? If 10, we wish you great joy. "VVo are glad ,vith you that the time of physical cold less was the time of spiritual warmth. But perhaps?and we fear this is the ;ase with you?you have been unmoved >y the quickened reilgious life about you. it least your own heart remains as cold md hard as the frozen clod. Is it so ? Vlust you say that you have no interest n these things? Your friends, your rela,ives, husband, wife, brother, sister, have jeen led to accept of Jesus as their Saviour. You havo no interest in these hings! That means that you are ready, and icliberately, to choose eternal separation "rom them. For you are deciding that rou have no interest in your eternal wellseing. You do not put the matter to yourself thus plainly. But, as you must confess when you look at your course lonestly, this is what it means. Dear friend, must this remain true of rou? While the awakening life of the ipring is stiring in every blade of grass ind fluttering leaf, must your heart rcnain li\e the frozen earth or the leafless ;rce, a symbol of death ? "While others lave arisen to newness of life, will you emain dead in trespasses and sins ? While it is spiritual spring, holding forth ;he promise of the summer all about you, ire you content that your heart should lie in the icy clasp of spiritual winter ? Oh, friend, why will you die ?- -American Messenger. The Christian Law ot Drcsi. A. correspondent asus us wnat is xnc Christian law of dress, referring us to Peter 3 :4, and 1 Tim. 2 : 9. "If these lirections," she says, "arc to be followed iterally, it is wrong for a woman to friz )rcurl her hair or to wear ornaments of jold or jewels, though pearls only arc nentioned. If it means all this, should lot the whole of one's style of living be ncluded?house and grounds, furnishngs, equipage and everything." Let us say at first, as explicitly and emphatically as possible, that the Bible s not a book of statutes or rules, by >vhich we are to govern the details of )ur lives. Our correspondent herself unconsciously points out the utter inadequacy of the Bible for this purpose : it forbids pearls, but not diamonds ; it nentions articles of d res , but not arti:lcs of furniture. If the texts to which ihe refers are to be interpreted as statltes, one's dress might blaze with dianonds, and, one might ride in a carriage ind lour, with out-riders and liveried iervants, disregardful of all claims of the suffering poor, and still not violate the aw. The Bible is a book of general Drinciples, not of specific rules ; and ;hose utterances in it which seem like tpecific rules are to be regarded only as lliiefrntinrm nf rrrpnt. nrinrinlns. This is leccssariiy characteristic of any book inended for all peoples and all times. Principles arc eternal ; but the methods 'or their application change. Now, the general principal is that all ve possess we hold as trustees?received it the hand of God, and to be so used in lis service and for the good of his chiliren. Any one who actually believes his principle cannot spend any large iroportion of her time or any large projortion of her means in any form of selfndulgence. The strength of her life ivill be spent in doing good; the strength )f her money will be spent in the service >f love. Doubtless a great deal of time s wasted by Christian people in considxation of dress; but the tendency of :ivilization and culture is clearly in the >thcr direction. In the 17th century j he cavaliers dressed in colors, and the 1 jentlemen probably spent almost as much ime in matching colors to their own :omplexions as do the inveterate lady hoppers of our own day. Now the genlcmcn dress in sober colors?blacks, >rowns and grays. The street costumes if ladies appear to be following along a -t ?:i? inL' ui smuiiir uvuiuliuu^ uuu us uira ;rows simpler, attention to and thought ibout it will grow less, and more time .nd thought will be left to higher hemes. It is not possible to Iraw an absolute line?to for- < >id pearls and permit sapphires; ( o forbid diamonds and permit j ipals. The Christian woman should rencmbcr also that no institution renders i . higher service to the community than a ! )nristian home; that culture and refine- ] nent are seen in furniture and dress as j veil as in books and conversation; that i urniture and dress arc themselves edu- 1 ators. A bald and barren room tends ' o make a bald and barren character; an 1 stentatious, luxurious and showy home 1 ends to make a vain and enervated char- [ cter; a cultured, tasteful home tends o nroducf r?iinement in character. Them I s one sharply defined line winch should 1 lever be transgressed in attire. No or- ' lament, whether it be of diamond or of | ;lass, ought to Dc worn tor tnc saKe oi stentation; and none which is worn for he sake of its intrinsic beauty, need be ( vrong if its value is proportioned to the , leans of the wearer. Whatever minis- | ersto life is, or at least, may be, legiti- s uate? whether it be life of muscle,blood i ir brawn, or the life of the intellect, < magination, motion, taste, sentiment or j piritu.vl nature. Whatever ministers to i | nere self-indulgence, whether of body < r oi pride and vanity, can never b? j ight. I ?? < The Woman's Christian Temperance * inion in Manchester, N. II., lias pre- j ented the Mayor and Aldermen with a < etition. signed by over 1,200 church- < icmbers, requesting that the laws against ltcmoerance be enforced. J ?? I A National Temperance Hospital has een recently opened in Chicago under ' he auspices of the Woman's Christian 'emperance Union, for the non-alcoholic reatmcntof all diseases common to hos- j ital treatment. ] * * - -?* .?? : ? ' - - - - POPULAR SCIENCE. The simplest way in which to measure the rate of plant growth is to mark lines wjth jet black India ink on roots growing on wet filter paper. There will be found to be marked variations of growth, even when all necessary conditions are seemingly the same. Perhaps these depend oa inheritance. Mahogany and other rare valuable woods are dug up from muck beds on the estate of Captain J. C. Patterson, at Pensacola, Fla.,Prof.Yon Filkenhasser.of Norway, who has examined this wood mine, states that the woods referred to are suitable for furniture, and the specimens examined are fully 5,000 years old. The ornamental Pisonia grandis of Australia has seeds like an elongated barley corn, which are corered with a very sticky gum. This adheres to the legs ana learners ot wingea creatures coming in contact with it, and makes the plant a natural bird-catcher, no less than a hundred birds having been known to be captured by one tree in Victoria. The quantity of poison conveyed in the fangs of venomous snakes appears to be very small, but of very powerful quality. Dr. Vincent Richards, of Bengal, mentions a krait which quickly killed three men and seriously poisoned a fourth, by bites given in rapid succession. He estimated that the reptile carried eight grains of liquid venom in its poison glands, which are smaller than those of the cobra. Every living, active part of a plan^ contains a certain amount of water* From many juicy parts ninety per cent, of water can be expelled by drying; many green leaves hold from seventyfive to eighty, while from seeds which we call "dry," it is sometimes possible to drive off about ten per cent. Part of this water is so intimately combined with the plant structure, that, if it is once expelled, it cannot bo again taken up in such a manner as to restore the plant to its former condition. While malaria has its ordinary habitat in low-lying regions, it may under favorable conditions exist at great elevations. On the Tuscan Appenines it is found at a height of 1,100 feet above the sea; on the Pyrenees and Mexican Cordilleras, 5,000 feet; on the Himalayas, 6,400 feet; ? At- - n?ln cAft /aa4. OH (I1C 131ULLU Ul V^UJIUU, UjUVV ICUl/, auu 011 the Andes, 11,000 feet. At present, the elevation of entire security has been thus approximated for various plaoes: In Italy, 400 to 500 feet; in California, 1,000 feet; along the Appalachian chain of the United States, 300 fept; in the West Indies, 1,400 to 1,800 feet. In any of these regions, however, malaria may drift up ravines to an indefinite height. A most remarkable instance of the extension of the geographical distribution of a species is found by Mr. J. J. Walker, of the British navy, in a certain beautiful butterfly. Starting from its original home on the American continent, where it is common from the Hudson's Bay territory to the estuary of ilie iuo ae ia jriam, tins uuueru) uuo been spreading, under our observation, into very remote regions. Crossing 2.350 miles of ocean to to the Sandwich Islands, it rapidly and steadily continued its course over the whole breadth of the Pacific and far into the Malay archipeligo. Southward and westward it has appeared in New Zealand and Australia. Eastward it has reached the West Indies, the Azores, and within the last ten years has even made its advent in the British Isles. John Wilkes Booth's Grave. The b^dy of Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, was buried in this building (the old Washington penitentiary). It was given out at the time that it had been ulaced on a gunboat and taken down the river and thrown overboard. The fact was that after its arrival here it was taken inside the penitentiary walls. After an unsatisfactory attempt made to dig a grave in a cell the body was buried in the old storeroom, only a few feat from the present front door of General Gibson's house. After the capture of the other conspirators the upper part of the east end of the building was fitted up as the hall for their trial, the cells in which they were confined being in the female portion of the prison. O'Laughlin, Arnold, Spangler and Dr. Mudd were taken from this place to the Dry Tortugas. The bodies of Payne Atzerodt, Heroic! and Mrs. Surratt were buried near the scatloia on wnicn tney were executed on July 6, 1865, just south, of the deputy warden's residence. Subsequently Captain Wirtz, of Andersonville notoriety, was also buried here. The bodies were all afterward removed to one of the storehouses of the Arsenal, and in the early part of 1869 were removed again. Booth's remains were taken to Baltimore, the remains of Atzerodt and Payne to Glenwood, Mrs. Surratt and Captain Wirtz to Mt. Olivet, and Herold to the Congressional Cemete ry.?Washington Slar. Danger From Dirty Bank Notes. Owing to the withdrawal of $1 and $2 National Currency and United States Treasury notes from circulation, there is _t 1 ? very nine 01 sucu paper tuncutj m mt market. What there is shows such evidences of use as to make the notes almost disgusting. To handle dirty and greasy currency is to court danger from disease. Y"et such are the annoyances from the carrying of heavy silver coin that persons seize a$l or $2 note with eagerness, no matter how dirty it may be. In banks it is said the countins of dirty bank notes ' ^ -i n is olten attenaea wiin uauger. rcrauus who have to pay off a large number of iand< say that it requires a vehicle to ;art the coin to the paymaster's office, ind merchants have to use wagons to :<>nvev the coin to the bank of deposit. They are both glad to get small notes; pet such has been their c ondition lately ;hat it hns bi-en deemed unsafe to use or :rarry them.?New York Mail and Express. Life Among the Arabs. The Arabs live almost entirely on dates ind a coarse kind of bread, and they Irink little else than water. It is seldom that they partake of animal food. If a stranger of any importance pays them a nsit a kid is killed and cakes are baked. Sometimes, on grand occasions, a camel !s slain, and then the whole family or :ribe assemble to partake of the dainty. The Arabs usually take a flesh meal before an arduous journey, and give a por:ion of it to their steeds. Bice and camjl's milk boiled together U a favorite iish; so are dates, bread and butter and Tiilk, made into a paste and eaten hot. But dates and bread are the staple articles )f food. The Arabs use coffee in large quantities, and smoking is universal. Knives and forks are never used. The people eat with their lingers, washing :heir hands before the meal begins. The nen usually feed apart from the women. They take two meals only?breakfast ind dinner. Thirty-five eggs were swallowed at a sitting by a young man who participated in an egg-sucking contest at Bedford, Iowa. _j . FORT SUMTEET. " | EVENTS THAT FOLLOWED THE FALL OF THE CITADEL. How theRemnantft of the Garrison Were Transferred to a Federal Vessel?A Night on a Confederate Steamship. In describing the events which followed the surrender of Fort Sumter and the privations to which the remnants of the garrison were subjected, Captain James Chester in an article in the Washington Star says: W(t were not expected on board the Isabel; at least, no preparations had been made for our reception. Many, perhaps most, of the crew were absent from tne ship, and the boilers were absolutely cold. It would be impossible to get up steam so as to take us to. the fleet, then Lying outside the bar, before dark; and after dark the obstructions in the channel and the absence of all lights and beacons made navigation ra raac narDor impossible. There was no help for it. We must remain on board the Isabel until morning. This piece of news hardly raised a complaiut, but the next almost a mutiny ?not against our own officers; there was no danger of that. It was the officers of the Isabel that were in danger, and the %gj news that created it was: "There is nothing to eat on board the ship." To men who had not been living very sumptuously for some time?in fact had not had a square meal for weeks?this was alarming news indeed, and created a profound sensation. But it was disbe1 lieved. "It's a lie!" shouted the spokesman of a party. "Let us find out if there is anything to eat on board." These remarks were made to some half dozen men who had assembled near the galley, and as the speaker finished he picked up 'M an axe, with which some one had been spliting kindling wood, and stiuck it into the head of a barrel standing near. ? ;1| The barrel contained potatoes, not a few of which found their way into the soldiers' pockets, and were eaten raw soon afterward with great gusto. Meantime our own officers had learned of the affair, and one appeared upcn the scene and said some sharp words on the subject of order. These were listened to with respectful attention, and as the speaker wound up hislecturq with: "I'll see what can be done for you and if there is anything to eat on board this ship you shall have it," smiles of satisfaction spread over the half dozen hungry faces which constituted his audience, and the group quietly dispersed. And the men did get hot coffee and, I think, boiled potatoes that night. It is perhaps unnecessary to add that the officers of the Isabel had no intention of starving the soldiers of Suuiter. The remark:' 'There is nothing to cat on board the ship," was the reply of the steward to the o der of the Captain to prepare supper for the men; and it only meant that he could not prepare supper for so many passengers without going to market. The night on board the Isabel was a miserable one. The men, poorly clad and blanketless?their underclothing had been used as cartridge-bags and many of their blankets had beeu burned?slept . about the deck wherever they could find . warmth or shelter. The lee side of the smokestack was the favorite place. There r3l the raw, fog-laden wind was warded off, and the grateful heat radiated from the funnel of the steamer seemed solid comfort to the half-clad men, but only a few could enjoy it at a time. The remainder huddled un in nooks, or. stamping round . ,(fM the deck, chattered anathemas "against the ship, 'or futile wishes to be back ? ngain in Sumter. It was a long and" 'jgn dreary night, but dawn appeared at last. When coffee had been served and drank, and the fog had cleared away, the winch began to click the anchor up, and everybody brightened at the sound, and men . $8 shook hands with men without apparent cause, and all felt that they were now going home. The palmetto flag was flying at the peak as the steamer started down the bay, and at the fore was the stars and stripes, fouled in the halyards. And Sumter, . ^Jg changed past recognition, like a beauty who had had the smallpox recently, frowned her farewell upon us as we passed, and Moultrie, with a queer, distorted face and swollen head, swathed to via the eyes in sand bags, seemed to saj: "Forget me not," and everybody stood apart, and silence was maintained untit * i? on. we nearea inc unr. men ovnuvt- ' faces, saddened for a moment, brightened up as they turned toward the fleet and saw so many sailor-faces watching :&? their approach, and waiting to give them a right royal welcome. The Powhatan ,/JiJi saluted first, and as the last gun was fired a crowd of sailors scrambled up aloft and gave three hearty cheers for Major Anderson and his men. By this time we had passed the Powhatan, pleased with our greeting, when a fresh salute, fired by the Pawnee, began, and ended aa on board the Powhatan. Ana then the saucy Harriet Lane, standing "off and on," as Captain Cuttle would have said, took up the tale and rounded. off the three-fold royal welcome.' We now approached the largest vessel , of the fleet, which proved to be the Bal- J tic, a chartered transport of right royal dimensions, and to her the Isabel made fast, and Ma lor Anderson was passed on board and then the officers one by one. The sailors then took charge of everything and seemed to know exactly what to do. A hammock was prepared and swung from the yardarra, and before the soldier men could guess its purpose it was lowered awav until it rested on the deck ol til? isauui. ana ourwuuuucu, uuo bv 0:10. were lifted on it and hoisted up and hauled in. and stowed away in hospital with such gentleness that had they slept when the work began they never would have known how it occurred. A Correction. Henry Farnham, who was for years City Marshal of Bangor, kept a store in W'inthrop a long time ago. One day a f disreputable fellow came into Farnham's store and said: "Mr. Farnham, a man just told me that you told him you would not trust me as far as you could sling a cat by the tail." 4'I didu't say that," said Farnam, gravely. "I thought you didn't," continued the fellow, 4,and I told the man so." "No," added Farnham, "that is not what I said. I told him I would not trust you as far as I could sling a bull aphill by the tail!"?Lewitton (Me.) Journal. ' Eternal Fitness. A sailor for sea, And a spinster for tea, A lawyer for talk aud a soldier for fighting; A baby for noise, And a circus for boys, And a typewriter man to do autograph writing. A banker for chink And a printer for ink, A leopard for spots and a wafer for sticking; A crack base ball flinger, An opera singer, A shot gun, a mule and a choir for kicking. ?Burdette. ' :>A / '. **'. siSi ? :