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' Blow High. I
Blow higb, ye winds of God, blow high.
And sweep the black clouds front the sky, 1
'And all the foul air that has birth | ,
I In the low places of the earth,
l StvoAn thpm flWftV !
^ ""T ^
Blow high, ye winds of God, blow high;
And all that causeth men to sigh,
Sin-cursed oppression, heartless wrong,
However old, however strong,
Sweep them away! *
Blow high, ye winds of God, blow hi ?h,
The scornful sneer, the shameful lie, ,
The reckless tampe-ing with doubt
The foul within, and white without, ,
Sweep them away I 1
Blow hrgh, ye winds of God, blow high;
And all that causes men to die,
The gateways leading down to hell, :
Where men their souls for whisky sell.
Sweep them away.
A Prayer for the Country.
Almighty God, who in the former time i
leddest our fathers fcrth into a wealthy i
place, and didst set their feet in a large 1
room, give thy grace, we humbly be- c
seech thee, to us their children, that we t
may always approve ourselves a people c
mindful of thy favor and glad to do thy c
will. Bless our land with honorable in- s
dustrv. sound learninir and pure manners, i
Defend our liberties, preserve our unity, j
Save us from violence, discord and con- c
fusion, from pride and arrogancy, and [
from every evil way. Fashion into one {
happy people the multitudes brought c
hither out of many kindreds and tongues.
Endue with the spirit of wisdom those ?
whom we intrust in thy name with the t
authority of govcrnancc, to the end that o
there be peace at home, and that we *
keep our peace among the nations of the J
earth. In the time of our prosperity, i
temper our self-confidence with thank- r
fulness, and in the day of trouble suffer 1
not our trust in thee to fail. All which [
we ask for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. e
Mfe Everlasting. t
A /loor mother lav dvinjr. For vears ^
.fc*. WVW4 M.VMV. J ?J O" j m
past that hoary head had been the crown- '
ing glory of home. In all the affairs of 8
family life her advice had been deemed t
precious ; for had she not sought the s
wisdom that cometh down from above? j t
and the confidence reposed in her judg- j
ment was but the evidence of the guid- 1
ing h<tnd. Through the trying period of J
young maternity, a? through the ripor J
years of motherhood, and when at length j,
others now matured had assumed the 1;
burdens it had been hers to carry, and age 8
had siivcred the locks and diminished the ?
physical vitality, her trust in the dear lie- g
aeemer had deepened and strengthened, e
ur\naflA in rhnprfnl uwQiir- t
UUHi} WilU IU\/ UJ/VJVIV, VMVV?.M, .-vr^?..
ance, she could say, "I Jcnoto whom I have ?
believed." Never had she appeared more r
beautiful than while waiting the sum- t
mons to come up higher. Her children, t
to the fourth generation, had gathered c
around the bedside. The tenderness and c
love shown there were but the ripened j
fruit of her own planting in the years ?
gone by. Grandmother was loved, be- ?
cause mother had first been the all in all. s
As the last words were spokon to each in t
turn, in the realization that the parting <3
would be for a little while only, one, c
Surprised at such calmness in the very ?
face of the King of Terrors, exclaimed:? e
"Why, this is not like death/''1 "Death!" t
Said the departing saint, as a new light j
appeared to gleam in the dying eyes, and r
a momentary strength w;is imparted, c
" death ! why this is life everlasting ! " *
In a few moments the spirit had re- '
turned to Gxl who gave it ? the reality ^
of the Christian hope, the comfort of a s
childlikc trust in Him who has promised *
us all things, both for this life and that c
to come! ^
" Jesu?, thou Prince of Life, n
Thy chosen cannot die; b
Like thee they conquer in the strife, *
To reign with thee un high!" a
?Irene, jj
LHtl? Amy.
Rev. M. G. Mann, in tha Presbyterian n
Some Missionary, relates the following ! 6
" incident in connection with the work ?
among the Indians at Chehaiis, Washing- g
ton Territory: e
"The old hereditary chief, Se-cenna, *
ha3 a blind wife, a blind old sister, and [
a girl, about twelve year3 of nge, dying e
of consumption. This l.'ttle sickly child t
was the one who should lead them?the r
whole family?to Christ. Little Amy ^
nvd to come to the Sundav-school. and f
gladly listened to thestory of the Gospel, a
She desired to be baptized and to be re- 8
ceived into the church. She seemed so f1
very happy. Then she would lead her f
blind mother to church, and, becom'ng r
a faithful and regular attendant, she be- 1
Came converted, and, rising to her feet 1
told all the people how the Lord Jesus
had opened her eyes so that she now sees t
beyond the veil, and I baptized her in o
the presence of a )ar<;e congregation, J
who were visibly affected. She, in s
token of her submission to her Lord and s
Master whom she promised to follow and t
?bey, knelt down to receive baptism. j1
"When I first met this woman, over a year {j
ago, in her small yet tidy hut, she was in y
the act of trying on a partially finished t
calico dress, which she herself had made J
for her little daughter. I asked her in c
Chinnook who cut and baisted the dress, j
She answered that she herself did it s
all, while Amy threaded the needles for c
her. The dress was, as I saw afterward, &
not only a good tit, but also lined. The ?
little girl then brought this old blind e
aunt, perhaps ninety years old, to church I
as often as the weather would permit, |
until her (the girl's) failing strength for- [
bade her to come any longer. The old j
woman finally wished to accept the I
strong arms of Jesus to be her support '
in her declining years, and, believing in J
him and yielding herself up to him, sl:e e
was baptized last Sunday before the i
church. I shall never in my lifetime r
forget the sight and the feeling as I saw ^
the aged disciple, led by the hand of the j
elder, come forward, telling the people i
what led her to become a Christian, of 1
her trust in God, and as she knelt to re- *
ceive baptism with uplifted face, she c
seemed to see Ilim who sitteth on the ,
great white throne, who would soon give 1
her a never-ending second-sight.
"The old chief told me, as I made them J
all a visit the same Sunday afternoon,
that he himself would resist no longer:
his people were all becoming Christians
and he would follow next. Proud of his
ancestry and the old traditions of which
he was the bearer and exponeut, he hesitated
to own that lie was conquered by
Him before whom every knej shall
bend, to proclaim Him Lord of all."
It has been the custom of the New
Orleans daily newspaper publishers
to take back from the retailers the unsold
copies of their papers. This has
been stopped recently, because the
publishers found that they were being
robbed. Several dealers Had estaolished
routes on which they rented the
papers at reduced rates instead of sealing
th8m. They delivered the papers
in the morning, gathered them up in
the evening, and returned them as un?olrt
copies.
OR TULMAGE'S SERMON.
MEASURED BY YOUR OWN YARD
STICKS.
[Prear.hed at Ashevills, N. C.J
Text: "With what measure ye mete, it
ihall be measured to you again." Matthew
k ii. 3.
In the greatest sermon ever preached?a
sermonabout fifteen miuutes'long, according
:o the ordinary rate of speech?a sermon on
" 'M: ciffinrr
/lib illUUUk Ul uii>ro, kuct i I OU, UOl ,
tvhile He spoke, according to the aucient
node of oratory, the people were given to
inderstand that the same yard stick that
:hey employed upon others would be em>loyed
upon themselves. Measure others by
i harsh rule, and you will be measured by a
:arsh rule. Measure others by a charitable
ule, and you will be measured by a charitable
rule. Give no mercy to others, and no
nercy will be given to you. "With what
neasure ye mete, it shall be measured to you
icrain."
There is a great deal of unfairness in the I
rriticism of human conduct. It was to smite
;hat unfairness that Christ uttered the words
>f the text, and my sermon will be a re-echo
>f the Divine sentiment. In estimating tho
nisbehavior of others wo must take into con- |
iideration the pressure of circumstanres. It
s never right to do wroug, but there are de- ]
;rees of culpability. When m?n misbehave !
>r commit some atrocious wickedness we are |
lisposed indiscriminately to tumble them all
iver the bank of condemnation. Suffer they
>ught and suffer they must; but in difference
>f decree.
In the first place, in estimating the misloin<i
of others we must take into calculation
he hereditary tendency. There is such a
hing as good blood and there is such a thing
is bad bloo:l. There a e families that have
ladamoral twist in thjm for a hundred
"ears back. They have not be?n careful to
;eep the family record in that regard. There
lave been escapades and maraudings and
couudrelisms and moral deficits all the way
;ack, whether you call it kleptomania or
>yromania or dipsomania, or whether it be
n a milder form and amount to no mania at
dl. Tho strong probability is. that the pres- I
nt criminal sta:ted life with nerve, muscle
lud bone contam nate 1. As pome start life
vith a natural tendency to r.obility anl gen rosity,
and kindness anl truthfulness, there
ire otners who start life with just the oppoite
tendency, and they are born liars, or
x)rn malcontents, or born outlaws, or born
iwindbrs.
There is in England a school that is called
he Princess Mary School. All the childrea
n that school are the children of convicts,
rhe school is supported by high patronage.
! had the pleasure of being present at one of
heir anniversaries in 1879, presided over by
he Earl of Kintore. By a wise law in Engand,
after parents have committed a certain
tumber of crimes and thereby shown themelves
incompetent rightly ta bring up their
bildren, the little ones are taken from under
>ernicious influences and put in reformatory
chool.s where all gracious and kindly influ
iUv to auaii LU uiuu^iib upuu tuuiu. v/i wmao
he experiment is young and it has got to be
lemon stra ted how large a psrcenta^e of the
ihildron of convicts may be brought up to
espectability and usefulness. But we all
mow that it is more difficult for ch ldren of
>ad parentage to do right than for children
>f good parentage.
In this country we are taught by the Declaration
of American Independence that all
>eople are born equal. There never was a
greater m'srepresentation put in one senence
than in that sentence which implies
hat we are all born equal. You may as well
ay that flowers are born equal, or trees are
> >rn equal, or animals are bora equal. Why i
loe3 one horse cost $100 and another horse I
ost $.*0,030? Why docs ons sheap cost $10 I
md another sheep *500? Difference in blood.
rVe are wise enough to recogni/o the ditFernce
of blood in horses, in catt'.e, in sheep,
>ut we are not wise enough to make allownce
for the difference in the human blood,
low I demand, by thj law of eternal fairLess,
that you be more lenient in your critiism
of those who were born wrong, iu
vhose ancestral line there was a hangman's
mot. or who came from a tree the fruit of
rhich for centurios has been gnarled and
rorm-eaten. Dr. Harris, a reformer, gave
ome marvelous statistics in his story of
rhat he called '"Margaret, the mother of
riminals." Ninety years ago she lived in a
illage in Upper New York State. She was
lot only poor, but she was vicious. She was
ot well provided for. There were no almsiruses
there. The public, however, somewhat
looked after her, but chiofly scoffed at
nd derided her, pushed her further down
a her crimes. That was ninety years ago,
'here have been 623 persons in that anestral
line. 203 of th3in criminals. In one
ranch of that family there wero twenty,
nd nine of them have been in
state Prison, and nearly all of tha
there have turned out badly. It is estinated
that that family cost the County and
state $100,0 0, to say nothing of the propi
ty they destroyed. Are you not w.lline,
s sensible people, to acknowledge that it is~a
earful disaster to b i born in such an au?asral
line? Doe3 it not make a great differnce
whether one descends from Margaret,
be moth r of criminals, or frcm some
nother in Israel? VFhather you are the soa
if Ahab or the son of Joshua.' It is a very
liffereut thing to swim with the current
rom what it is to swim against the current,
is some of you have no doubt found in yojr
ummer recreation. If a mai find himelf
in an ancestral current where
here is good blood flowing smoothly
rom generation to generation it is
lot a very great credit to him if
ie turns out good and honest aud pure and
loble. He could hardly help it nut sud>ose
he is born in an ancestral line--in a
lereditary line?where the influences have
?een bad and there has been a comin; down
iver a moral declivity, if the man surrender
o the influences he will go down under
he overmastering gravitation unless some
uperaatural aid be afforded him. Now,
ueh a person deserves not your excoriation,
iut your pity. Do not sit with the lip curled
a s orn, an i with an assumed air of angelic
nocen *e, looking down upon such moral
irecipitation. You had better get down on
our l:nees and first pray Almighty God for
heir rescue, and next thank the Lord that
ou have not been thrown under the wheels
>f 1 hat Juggernaut.
In Great Britain and in the United State3,
n every generation, thore are tens of thouaud*
of persons who are fully developed
riminalsand incarcerated. 1 say, in every
;eneration. Then, I suppose, thore are tens
if thousands of persons not found out in
heir criminality. In addition to these there
ire tens cf thousands of persons who, not
;ositively be.-oming crimina's, nevertheless
lave a criminal tendency. Anyone of all
hose thou-and.s by the grace of God may
>ecome Christen, and resist the ancestral inluence
and open a new chapter of behavior;
,4. .1.- ;ii ?i. ? ?>
iuu tuo vo&b majority ui uieiii win nub, aau
t becomes all men. professional, unproessional.
ministers of religion, judges of
?urts, philanthropists and Christian workers
to recognizo the fa' t that there are these
Vtlautic and Pacific surges of hereditary evil
oiling on through the centuries.
I say, cf coursj. a man Can resist this tenlency,
just a* in the ancestral line mentioned
n th3 first chapter of Matthew. You see
n the same line in which there was a wicked
.tehob am and a desperate Manasses, there
ifterward came a pious Joseph and a glori>us
Christ. But, my friends, you mu-it recoglize
the fact that these influences go on from
generation to generation. I am glad *o
enow, however, that a river which has proluced
nothing but miasma for a hundred
niles, may, after awhile, turn tin wheels of
'actories and help support industrious and
virtuous populations: and there are family
ines which were poisoned that are a beneliction
now. At the Last Day it will be
'ound out that there are men who have gone
;lear over into all forms of iniquity and
ilunz?l into utter abandonment, who, before
they yielded to the first temptation, reiisted
more evil than many a man who has
seen moral and upright all his life. But
supposirg now that in this age when there
it- a so intiuy gooi people that 1 coiue .own
int> this audience and select the very best
man in it. I do no: mcau the man who would
style himself the best, for probably he is a
hvnocrite: but I mean the man who before
God is really the best. I will take you out
from all your Christian surroundings. I will
tike you back to boyhoo 1. I will put you in
a deprave 1 home. I will put you in a prodie
cf iniquity. Who ii that ben-ling
over that cradle? An intoxicated mother.
TVho is that swearing in the next
i 5om! Your father. The neighbors come
in to talk, and their jokes are unclean. There
is not in the house a Bible or a moral t-eatise,
but only a few scraps of an old pictorial.
After a while yau are old enough to get out
of the cradle, and you are struck across
the head for naughtiness, but never in any
kindly manner reprimanded. After a while
you aro old enough to eo abroad, and
you are sant out with a Dasket to steal.
If you come horns without any spoil, you
are whipped until the blood comes. At
fifteen years of age. you go out to fight your
own battles in this world, which seems to
care no more for you than the dog that :
has died of a fit under the fence. You are i
kicked and cuffed an 1 buffeted. Someday, i
rallyinz your courage, you rosenf; some i
wrong."A man says: '"Who are you? I know
who you are. Your father had free lodgings |
at Sing Sing. Your mother, she was up for i
drunkenness at the Criminal Court. Get out i
of my way, you low-live 1 wretch?" My ]
brother, suppose that had been the history of <
your adven% and the history of your early I
surroundings, would you "have been the I
Christian man you are to-day, seated in this i
Christian assembly. I tell you nay. You I
would have been a vagabond, an outlaw, a i
muraerer on me scauoui aioumg iur ;uui
crirao. AU tho;e considerations ou?ht tc
makeu3 merciful in our dealings with th>
wandering and the lost.
A^aiu, I have to remark tint in our estimate
of the misdoings of p ople who have
fallen from high respectability and usefulness
we mu^t take int> consideration the conjunction
of circumstances. In nine cases
out of tan a man who goes astray does not
intend any positive wrong. He has trust
fund--. He risks a part of these funds in investment.
Hi says; "Now, if I should lose
that investment I have of my own property
five timo3 ai much, and if this investment
should go wrong I could easily make it up: I
[ could five times make it up." With that
wrong reasoning he goes on and makes the
' investment, and it doe3 not turn out quite so
I well as he expected," and he makes another
| investment, and, strange to say, at the same
time all his other affairs get entangled, and
all his other resources fail, and his hands are
tied. Now he wants to extricate himself. He
goes a little further on in the wrong investment.
He takes a plunge further ahead,
for he wants to save his wife and children,
he wants to save his home, he want* to save
his memb?rship in the church. He takes one
more plunge and all is lost. Some morning
at 10 o'clock the bank door is not opened, ana
there is a card on the door signal by an officer
of the bank, indicating that there is
trouble, the nam i of the defaulter or the defrauder
heals the newspaper column, and
huudreds of men say: "bood for him:"
hundreds of other men say: 'Tm glad he's
found out at last;" hundreds of other men
say: "Just a? I told you;" hundreds of other
men say: ''We couldn't possibly have been
tempted to do that?no conjunction of circumstan
e * could ever have overthrown me;" /
and there is a superabundance of indigna- f.
tion but no pity. The heavens full of light- t
ning, but not one drop of dew. If God ?
treated us as society treats that man we s
would all have been in hell long ago! Wall t
for the alleviating circumstances. Perhips 1
he may have been the dupe of others. Be- p
' fore you let all the hounds out from their t
"""" i *< ? maul ?nl tear that man. find ir
oat if he hai not been brought up in a (1
commercial establishment where there was' i
a wrong system of ethics taught J |
find out whether that man has not! t
an extravagant wife, who is not satisfied! 1
with his honest earnings, and in the tempta-' t
tion to p'ease her he ha) gone into that ruin s
into which enough men have fallen, and by ?
[ the saina temptation, to make a procession of] i
many mile*. Perhaps some 9udden sickness! f
may have touched h s brain, and his judg- s
ment may be unbalanced. He i3 wrong?he <
| is awfully wrong,and h> must be condemned, c
I but there may be mitigating circumstances, t
Perhaps under the same temptation you ^
might have fallen. Toe reason some men do j
[ not steal X),000 is because they do not get ]
a chance! Have righteous indignation youi t
must about that man's conduct, buj j
temper it with mercy. But you siy: "I amj ^
so sorry that the inno:ent should suffer.'^ j
Yes, I am to j?sorry for ths widow* and orphans
who lost their all by that defalcation, j j
I am sorry, als >, for ths business men, tha j
honest business men, who have had their <
affairs all crippled by that d3falcatioa. I s
am sorry for the venerable bank President to $
whom the credit of that bank wa3 a matter (
of pri le. Yes, I am sorry, also, for that man l
Vi - 'I * '? J: .
wno orou;;at u;i me u?u?au??j ,
sacrificed body, mind, soul, reputation, g
Heaven, au:l went into th)blacknesi of dark- ,
ness forever.
You defiantlj'sav: "I could not be tempted
in that way." Perhaps you may be tested
after awhile. God has a very good me-nory.
and he sometimes seem* to say: 4*Thi3 man
feels so strong in his innate power and goodHiss
In s.hall be te3ted: he is so full of bitter
l'nve -tivs against that unfortunate,it shall be
shown now wh^thor he has tin powsr to
stand." Fifteen yeaps go by. The wheel of
fortune turn3 several times, and you are in a
crisis that you never coal i bavo anticipated.
Now.all the powers of darkness come around,
and they chuckle, and they chatter, and they
say: "Aha! here is the oil fe'low who wai
so proud of his integrity, and who
bragged he couldn't be overthrown by
temptation, and was so uproarious in his
demonstrations of indignation at the defalcation
fifteen years ago. I.et us see. God lets
the man go. God, who had kopt that man
under His protecting care, lets the man go and
try for himself the majesty of his intigrity.
God let ing the man go, the powers of darkness
pounce upon him. I see you some day ,
in vour office in great excitement. One of two
things you can do. Be honest, and be pauperised,
and have your children brought home
fro:u school, your family dethroned in social
influence. Tne other thin?r is, you can s-t?p a j
little aside from that wh'rn is right, you can
only just go ha f an inch out of the proper path, i
you can only take a little risk, and then you .
have all your finances fair and right. You
have a large property. You can leave a for- ?
tune for your childron and endow a college t
and build a public library in your native
town. You halt and wait, and halt and wait I
until your lips get white. You decide to ,
risk it. Only a few strokes of the pen now.
Bat oh. how your hand trembles, how ]
dreadfully it trembles! The die is cast. <
By the strangest and most awful k
conjunction of circumstances anv ona t
could have imagined, you are prostrated. ,
Bankruptcy, commercial annihilation, ex- '
posure, cri ne. Good men mourn and devils (
hold carnival, and you see your own name at .
the head of tho newspaper column iu a whole *
congress of exclamation points; and while ]
you are reading the anathema in the report
jrial and editorial paragraph, it occurs to I
you how much this story is like that of the t
defalcation Hf teen years ago. and a clap of
thundershp.kes the window-sill, saying: "With 1
what measure ye mete, it shall be measured j
to vou again!"
You look in another direction. There is ?
nothing like an ebullition of temper to put a. ,
?non tn rtisadvantage. You. a man witb.
calm pulses and a tine digestion and perfect, i
health, can not understand how anybody
should be c apsized in temper by an infinitesimil
annoyance. You say: ' I couldn't be f
unbalanced in that way." Perhaps you smile
at a provocation that makes auothir man 1
swear. You pride yourself on your imper- j
turbabilitv. You say with your manner, ,
though vo'u have too much good taste to say J
with your words: "I have a great deal more J
sense than that man has; I have a great deal .
more equipoise of temper than that man has; '
I never could make such a puerile exhibition ]
of mvsalf as that man has made."
I My'brother, you do not realize that that '
I man was born with a keen nervous organize|
tion; that for forty years he has been under
u depleting process; that sickness and trouble
have been helping undo what was left i
of original healthfulness; that much of his
tim: it has been with him like Qling saws: <
that his nerves have come to be merely? ,
tanjle of disorders, and that he is the mos?
pitiable object on earth, who, though he is ,
very sick, does not look sick, and nobody
sympathizes. Let me see. Did you not
say that you could not be tempted to j
an ebullition of temper? Since September ,
you come home from your summer watering;- 1
place, and you have inside, away back i:a <
your liver or spleen, what we call in our dtvr
malaria, but what the old folks called chills '
and fever. You take quinineuntil your ears |
are first buzzing beehives and then roaring ,
Niagaras. You ta'.ce roots and herbs, you take
everything. You get well. Hut the next day i
you feel uncomfortable, and you yawn, and
you stretch, and ^-ou shiver, an I you coil- '
Bume, and you sutler, vexea more inau you \
can tell, you can not sleep, you can not eat,
vou can not bear to see anything that looks |
happy, you go out to kick the cat that is ,
asleep in the sun. Your children's mirth
was once music to you; now it is deafening.
You say: "Boys, stop that racket!" You
turn back from June to March. In the family ,
and in the neighborhood your popularity is 1
Bo per cent. off. The world says: "What is |
the matter with that disagreeable man?
What a woe-bogone countenance! I can't
bear the sight of him." You have got your <
pay at last?got your pay. You feel just as
the man felt?that man for whom you had '
no mercy, and my text conies in with inar- j
velous appositeness: "With what measure ye
mete, it shall be measured to you again." '
i In the study of society I have come to this j
conclusion?thnt the most of the people want
to be go->ri, but they do not exactly know '
how to make it out They make eiou jh gond <
resolutions to lift them into angelhood. The
vast majority of people who fall are the vie- 1
tims of circumstance; they are captured by |
ambuscade. If their temptation should mT
come out in a regimen t and tig ht them in a | {;
fair field they would go out in the strength,
and the triumph of I)avid against Gohah.
But they do not see the giants and they do
not see the regiment. Suppose temptation
should come up to a man and iiay: "Here is J
alcohol: take tnree tablespoonfulsof it a day, Qjj
until you. get dependent upon it; thjn after
that take half a glass three times a day, until st&l
you get dependent upon that umount; then -ea
eo on increasing the amount antil yoa are \
saturated from morning until night and from ries
aight until morning." Do yon suppose any __e
man would become a drunkard in that way\ f
Oh, no! Temptation comes and says- "Take IS a
these bitters, take this nervine, take this aid ovc
So digestion, take this uighfc-cap." The vast
majority of men and women who are de- 186
itroyed by opium aud by rum f rst take them jajj
is medicines. In making up your dish of
jriticism in regard to them, take from thn stw
wctoi- tho mint, nf sweet oil and not the cruet tnn
>fcayenne pepper. Be erusy cm them. Do |
pou know how tliat physician, that lawyer, be I
;hat journalist becameftho vict im of dissipa;ion?
Why, the physician was kept up
light by night on professiona 1 duty. Life lice
ind death hovered in the balance. His nerv- anc
)us system was exhausted. There came a
;ime of epidemic, and whole families were
jrostruted, and his nervous strength was
?one. He was all worn out in the service of <]
;he public. Now he must bra?o himself up.
STow he stimulates. The life of this mother, 'ro:
;he life of this child, the life of this father, 0f
;he life of this whole family must b; saved,
tnd the lives of all these families must be WCT
saved, and he stimulates, and he does it again
md again. You may criticise his judgment, 1
jut remember the process. It was not a sel- yea
ish process by which he went down. It was ' rcai
i magnificent generosity through which he
Jell. That attorney at the bar for weeks has last
>een standing in a poorly ve atilated court- Qf
nnm. lintoninc *n t.ha testimony and contesting
in the dry technicalities of tho law, and tim
low the time has come for him to wind u*>, r
ind he must plead for the life of his client, ?
ind his nervous system is all gone. If dre
le fails in that speech then his client ,
Irishes. If he can have eloquence 1
jnough in that hour his client is savei. He dre
itimulates. He must keep up. He says; "I <
nustkeepup." Having a lar^e practice you ?Da
;ee how he is inthralled. You may criticise sioi
ii3 judgment, but remember the process. Do . .
lot be nard. That journalist has had ex- es
wArb Wa Haq tft fnll
iaiUVlU,^ 1IUUU?qUV "Win. ??? ? ,w.4
eport speeches and orations that keap ,
rim up till a very late hour. He has ciai
jone with much exposure working no mo;
(ome case of crime in company with a .
leteative. Ho sifcs down at "midnight l0U:
:o write out his note? from a memorandum gro
icrawled on a pad under unfavorable circumitances.
His stren^th is gone. Fidelity to
;he public intelligence, fidelity to his own the
ivelihood, demands that he keep up. He , .
nustkeep up. He stimu ates. Again and
igain he does that, and he goes down. You gtri
nay criticise h is judgment in the matter, but ,
rnve mercy. Remember the process. Do ttle
lot be hard. bas
My friends, this text will come to fulfill- i
nent in some cases in this world. The evc
luntsman in Farmsteen was shot by some W'a;
mknown person. Twenty years after the
on of the huntsman was in the same forest, con
tnd he accidentally shot a man, and the man Qnl
n dying said: "God is just. I shot your
athor just here twenty years ago." A bishop an':
aid to Louis XI. of France: "Make an iron [ow
;age for all those who do not think a? we
lo?an iron cage in which the captive can OCO
leither lie down nor stand straight-'p." It twe
vas fashioned?the awful instrument of punshmsnt.
After awhile the Bishop offender rac
Louis XI., and for fourteen years he was in are
hat same cage, and could neither lie down
lor stand up. It is a poor rule that will not mo'
York both ways. "With what measure ye Bna
nine, lb suau I/O moosuicu iaJ 7UU ugum, ; .
"Oh, my friends, let us ba resolveil cosold ,cst
es.? and pray more! That which in the Bible lec
3 used a? the symbol of all gra-io'i* influ- ,
jnces is the dove, not the por cupine. Wo may Q0U
;o uuskillfully manage the life-b.mt that we j\c
'hall run down tho?e whom we want to res*
:ue. The first preparation for Christiau use'uln^ss
is warm-hoarted common sense, prac;ical
symoathy for those wham wj want to
lave. What headway will we make in the T
Tudgment if in this world we have been hard
>n those who have gone astray' What h?advay
will you and I tnake in the last Gr.'at no ]
ludgment, when we must have mercy or per- maJ
sh? The Bible says; "They shall have judgnent
without mercy that sho weth no mercy." has
[ see the scribes of Heaven looking up into ?jrji
lie face of such a man, saving: "What!
r*ou plead for mercy, you, who in all your vicl
ife never had. nny mercy cn your fellows? p0V
Don't you remember how hard you were in
rour opinions of those who wera astray J Don't 80n
fou remember when you ought to have given fora
i helping hand you employed a hard heel.' .
Hercy! You must misspeak yourself tioi
tvhen you plead for mercy here, j-jfl
llercy for others bat no mer^y for you.
l>ook," says the scribes of heaven, "look at Jt I
hat inscription over the Throne o'fJulg- ,jen
nent, the Throne of God's Judgment" Sue .
t coming out letter by letter, word by word, it a
sentence by sentence, until your startled vison
reads it and your remorseful spirit apjropriate3
it: "With what measure ye mete, dea
t snail be measured to you again. Depart,
re cursed!"
aire
get
About sir months ago, says a Wash- cjjj|
ngfon correspondent, a man giving hia citj
iame as James Eustaue secured nn an(]
ludience with Secretaiy Lamar. He j3 a
isked the Secretary if he remembered to t
laving lost a pocketb ook containing g
lotea and money to the amount of sev- inSJ
jral thousand dollars in 1874, while a for
Representative from Mississippi. The 0f
3ecretary replied that he did. Eustace v/iv
.hen said: "Do you further remember run
;elling the fincler of ihe pocketbook evil
,hat if he granted a favor he would not
lave to call upon you in vain ? Well,
[ am the man to whom you made that 1
>romise. I have beon unfortunate in I
lince then and need employment bad- ten
y." The Secretary told him to report am<
or duty the following morning, and whi
jave him a placo on the laborers' roll pco
it $840 a year. The incident found its to.
voy into print, and came to the knowl- get!
idge of James M. Martin, of Spring- ban
ield, Mo. Last week Secretary Lamar sarn
eceived a letter from Martin denounc- diai
ng Eustace as; an impostor. He said of t
Eustace was one of his neighbors, and co1'
lad often heard him tell the story of 9l,d
inding the Secretary's money and the ern
latter's promise. Eustace has received gct
uis dismissal from the department. aPP
pro
-uousiN uen~ jj olsom is in Umaha m01
ooking alter the Folsom estate in that Plc'
:ity, which is worth from $350,000 to a^.a
6300,000. The Omaha Bee reports him *
is thinking of hiring a secretary and .
tceping a scrap-book. "Some of these ^
paragraphs are very funny," said Mr. mc<
Folsom, "but the one that accuses me 9U^
)f wearing a scarfpin as big as a half
lollar with a red rooster with green
cathers is a monstrous exaggeration.
L'ou can say 'officially' that I have too ^
nuch taste to wear a scarfpin of that of 8
n'ze. Hero is the pin. You will see T
hat it is no larger than a ten-cent call
>iece, and ia simply a Florentine mo- p
iaic."
The natives of Now Britain, an island 1
in the Pacific, hare a custom of caging sub
their daughters until they reach the tioa
marrying age. This plan saves a deal
3f trouble and expense, as may be seen alee
it a glance. There are no elopements j
in New Britain, and there are no bank- trvj
ruptcies by reason of heavy demands \a'r
for spring bonnets. In fact, 1;he na- <juc
tives make very parsimonious use of pay
clothing, wearing but a narrow cloth trea
about their loins, They would make woi
splendid cigarette photographs, phi
IMPERANCE' DEPARTMENT. 1
Due to Drink. pr
rhe author of "Our Criminals and
ristianity," Mr. W. M. F. Round,
tes that in the State of New York last
,r we had in prisons, jails, penitentia- c
i, and other penal institutions an aggate
of 15,690 persons, and that this
,n increase of thirty-three per cent.
r the estimated criminal population of D
0, while in the same period th3 popu- leys
on of the State ha* increased but *j"!'
>ut twenty per cent. At least three- i^l
rfchs of this criminal aggregate may rose
traced directly or indirectly to strong cen1
ak. As a factor of crime the liquor ?00|
nse system is a "success."?Temper. a gj
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c? aatvwoc, _______________ aic
frac
Results of Local Option. tion
["he Atlanta Cona'.itutim gives notes hot)
m some of the Prohibition counties ^ei
tll6
Georgia, as follows: Prohibition 8ka(
at into effcct in Pierce County on y0ic
ril 1, 1880, or six years ago.) ;The is ft
r previous, the total valuation of
I estate for the county was $544,283; era|
; year it wa3 $795,680, or an increase li^s,
over sixty per cent. At the same boai
e, the county tax has been reduced m*r
aa fifty-two and one-half on the hun- pQtJ
d to thirty-five cents. The county 8i0D
Tee from debt, and has several hun- find
d dollars in the treasury. The mer- se^v
,nts, citizen?, and Board of Commislers
of Hartwell, in Hart county^ bin,
;ify, over their signatures, to the oth<
owing facts: '-The morals and ao- outl
. habits of the people have been ,
t remarkably improved. The relig- whi
9 sentiment among the people has mor
wn in strength acd influence. e:irr
3 farm-houses in our county hear *3 *(
a^e
marks of improvement, and every- c?n
ly is by ccmmon consent united and labc
ving for the interest and progress of *
county. The trade of our own town
improved, and is growing better OQ i
ry day. The money that was once and
itcd for liquor is now spent for home or o
lforts." Eighty business firms of La at 5
nge unite in this testimony: "The i?*nj
is said prohibition would ruin our of si
n, but since its adoption alout $150,- a da
have been permanently invested;
nty new houses now going up, no
ant stores or residences, and our town plcn
atly improved. Our people unani- whe
js as to good done by it morally and
ncially." The Clerk of the Court
ifies that the list of signatures to this the
laration includes all tie business- sion
ses in the city, with frffo or three
eption3.? Christian StaUnmnn.
as t<
at t]
Effects of the Traffic. ja w
Te find that all drinking is dangeroui sari(
ven "moderate''drinking. There is earn
aabit that so insensibly steals upon a
l and makes him its slave. The grave P Qr
uncounted thousands of ''moderate" ]ar t
ikers who died of rum?base, abject wit!
;ims of the terrible thirst which over- hobrered
them. To the body it is a poi.
It ruins the nerves, it enfeables the wor]
in, i: d st oys the stomach and digaa ?g<
i; it poisons the liver, it destroys the tipp
neys; it bloats and disfigures a man, Re.C(
uins his skin by blotching and reding
it. It shortens life, even where cite,
oes not kill outright. To the moral mac
ure, it is equally as great an evil. It
dens all sense of right and wrong. mjn
inflames the passions, and leads ner
>ctly to crime. It makes a man for- The
his duty to his parents, hi* wife, his 8erv
[dren; it destroys his usefulness as a Pr?|
.en, a3 a contributor to the wealth
[ natural prosperity of the nation. It the
n evil to a man, and no less an evil are !
he State. It is the most potent factor '
illing our jails and penitentiaries and '
me asylums. It increases our taxes afte
all these things, and for the support a sti
almshouses filled with the helpless
cs and children of these victims of j
i. It is evil to all, and nothing but flam
.?Toledo Blade. A
9too
Decreased Consumption.
accn
here has bein a decrease of revenue
ihe United Kingdom during the last occt
years of some ?4,500,090 in the belo
Pitt
>unt received from the tax on spirits,
ich is interpreted to mean that the
pie drink less liquor than they used year
If they should stop drinking a'totier,
the National Treasury would be
krupted in short order. If, at the ajn?
le time, the consumers who buy In- witl
a opium should reform, the finances that
he Hindoo end of the Empire would
apse. If the use of tobacco sli ;u!d CQaj
denly ccasc also, Her Majesty's Go/- year
ment would scarcely know whereto thel
its next meal, so to sneak. It thus are *
of s
ears that Eng'and's public financial
sperity depends mainly on what some rp]
ralists would call the vices of her ] co- are
We de not live in an edifice duri
pted for the throwing of stones in ness
i particular, but we are not quite oo
ly oil as England. As it is rather a re5p
icult matter for her to make ends sensi
;t now, temperance reform becomes a thin;
ject of some importance to the budstatesmen.?
World.
brca
Temperance Notes. seas<
roncral Neal Dow is writing a history J?J'S
.lcoholic prohibition. ^ '
'he W. C. T. U. has rightly been
ed "organized mother love." an(j
'rancis Murphy ha3 planned a blue of
xm campaign in Iowa in September. The;
of p
he SweJish Riksdag has granted a of p
sidy of 8,000 crowns for the prom)- the
i of tcmpcrauce by means of literature
' 11_ A!.A ?Afo r\f flm nan nf
ling wiiii tuc cxiutio ui kuv u<iu mui
>holic liquors. they
'he boycotters in New York are now
ng their hand at boycotting a particubrand
of brer. If thev could be in- .
:ed to boycott beer altogether, and at j
tho beer money into the household The
isury or the saving> bank, their spleen this
lid be turned to good account.? cent
ladclphia Record. ..... f0 p
FHE COAL MINER.
1VATIONS AND PLEASURES O
ANTHRACITE WORKERS.
; Houses They Live In?A Miner
Outfit?What they Earn?Preparing
for a Blast?Miners'
Amusements.
ottcd along the hillsides.and the va
of the anthracitc area of Pennsylv
says a Scranton letter to the Phil
>hia Times, are thousands of mode
e homes, around whose porches tl
s are blooming and in whose adj
; gardens the truces of industry ar
d taste are visible in these gold<
9. Some of these dwellings are on
ngle story, but the majority'of the
two stories high. They are co:
ae buildings, crected for accommod
. rather than comfort, jet combimr
l, and around the doors of many <
n and under the friendly shade
fruit trees that throw their co
iows across the walks are heard tl
;cs of children, whose merry pratt
ital to anarchism and all other isr
; aim at the destruction of love at
le and hope and religion. As a ge
thing, the miners have large fan
, and while their tables do n
st of many of life's luxuries, th
lage to get a moderate share of su<
stantial fare a? pork and cabba^
itoes and beefsteak, with an occ
al pie. The majority of them no
. it a difficult matter to feed ther
es and their families. It requires i
11 degree of tact, at the present ra
earning, to pay the monthly sto
3, to say nothing of clothing and tl
er necessities of life. Ana yet tl
put of coal is large.
f hen business is briBk seven or eigl
rs constitute a miner's working da;
le the laborers work ten hours <
e per day. On full time a min
is from |2.50 to |2.75 a day, and .
irtunate just now if his earnings av?
$1.25 to $1.50. Under favorable c:
istances, and with pienty of work,
?rcr earns $1.75 a day generally, b
ioes not earn much more than 75 cec
y at present. The men employed <
it is called "the day shift" general
o work at 7 o'clock in the mornin
those employed in the mines at nigl
n the "night shift," begin their tas'
o'clock in the afternoon. The fo<
the miner and his family general
jists of plain, substantial fare, mc
ome kind being used invariably on
y. Much of this meat is bacon <
oulder," which is bought because
leaperthan "butchers'meat." This
staple article of diet and it is su;
lented by bread, potatoes, cabbagi
in in season, and a good deal of sa
and cheese. These constitute tl
q articlei of food on a miner's tabl
when work is steadier and paybetl
love of luxury extends to an occ
al C:\ke or pie. Some of the miner
ough they are the exceptions to tl
eral rule, are so fortunately situat<
) be able to raise their own pork, ar
leir tables meat is not as scarce as
ith those who depend for the necc
?s and comforts of life on their slend
ings.
he miner's outfit requires in Ihe fir
e a coarse suit of clothing. If tl
king place is wet an oilea suit sim
0 that worn by sailors n essentia
1 a broad sou'wester hat and hea^
nailed boots. The hat is general
rided with a place for holding tl
p in front while the miner is
k. The miner also must have a dn
merally six or seven feet long at
ed with about six inches of stec
ent inventions have improved on th
litive method of making room f
blast that brings down the anthr
, and a patent augur does duty
ly places at present for the cumbe
e drill aud is much handier. Tl
it of the miner includes an oil-can,
ing-lamp, wicks for the latter, a di
pail and a pail for coffee or wate
blasting materials consist of powd
ed in twenty-five-pound kegs or '
)ared cartridges. When the form
>ed the miner makes up his ov
ges and uses water-prcof paper fi
purpose. The ready-made cartridji
supplied in fire-proof cases.
I preparing for a blast a steel need
it five or six feet long is inserted
charge, wh:ch is tamped clos
r which the needle is withdrawn an
raw or squib inserted in the ho
i made for the purpose of ignitin
explosive. In gaseous mines toucl
bs are employe J to fire the blas^as
e would be specially dangerous.
II these fine points must be unde
d by the miner to carry on his woi
:essfully; but, careful as he is, grei
dents that startle the country and fl
?!e communities with woe sometim
ir. -To this class of mining horro
ng the disasters at Avondale, We
ston and Nanticoke, all of compar
ly recent occurrcnc?, and the Carboi
mine "cave-in'' of nearly thirl
s ago, which is still remembere
dly by some of the older miners <
Lackawana Valley. A disaster thi
s twenty or forty precious lives at
le swoop is naturally rcmembere
1 terror, but the miscellaneous deatl
are caused bj' fall of roof and e
ions of fire damp in a single year ai
less appalling. The death list in tl
regions is te;ribly augmented evei
by the fatalities in the mines, an
ong array of widows and orphans wl
;hus suddenly depiived of the meai
upport is something pitiful to coi
ilate.
le pleasures in the life of the mini
of a primitive sort. Occasional!
ng the dramatic season he may wi
one of the many plays that travel <
comic opera. He likes a goc
ire or speech and has a good deal <
ect for the man who can talk commc
3 backed by conviction. As agencr
the hard-working class of m<
frankness. They don't apprecia
licity or the political diplomacy th;
?s the word of promise to the ear ar
ks it to the hope. In the plcn
>n tbe miner, if he has the time, ci
himself most. He believes in simp
sures and will take a glass of bei
sionallv unless he is a strict tempe
man. There :<s not a great deal <
king among rue nuucn mcav um<
ji good many of them arc mcmbe
various tempcrancc organization
f keep a close watch on the progrc
nblic questions and the movemen
ablic men and are careful readers *
newspapers. Many of the mine
g the Lackawanna Valley own tl
: homes they live in and if work wi
e abundant they would be happy, i
are a thirfty, industrious class, an<
e generous almost to a fault, are n<
ny means extravagant.
few months ago a paper was start<
Ieber, Ark., and named O/i, Pahai
salutatory was: "I'll monkey wil
thing awhile.?The Editor." R
ly it expired, and here is its dyir
>: "Valedictory: The monkey ceas
erform."
' ' ' ' . '' '
Qnicksllrer.
Quicksilver forms a part of a soft, rodt
rock called cinnabar, composed of mercury
and sulphur. The cinnabar i?
* crushed and exposed to the heat, when
the metal, in form of vapor, passes into
a vessel suitable for the purpose, wher?
it is cooled. Then, being reduced to it*
liquid state, it is pure and fit for use.
When men working in the mines heat
. the rocks, the quicksilver will sometimes
roll out in drops as large as a pigeon's
egg, and fall on the ground in a million
sparkling globules. It said to be very
a_ beautiful against the dark, red rock;
giibicnug every wiicre wuu mis iiviug
8t silver," while every crack and crevice is
ie also filled with it.
a. Just as wood floats on water because ifc
l(j is lighter, so large stones thrown into a
;n kettle of mercury would float on top, it
is so much more heavy a substance than.
jq the stone. 3y
There are only four important localia.
ties where it is obtained?California,
Peru, Austria, and Almaden, in Spain.
0?f The nearest mines to us arc those in Cal0f
ifornia. The mines in Peru were dis0\
covered in a curious manner. Cinnabar,
kP when ground very fine, makes a beautiful
[e red paint. The Indians used this to orng
nament their bodies on great occasions;
1(j This caused the couhtry where they lived
n. to be examined, and the cinnabar was
jj. found. The Romans used this paint
hundreds of years ago in decorating their
By images. It is of great value now in oar
jjj times, and we call it vcrmil'.ion.
c This wonderful quicksilver is very usea'_
ful in separating metals from the rocks
lW to which they cling. The rocks aro
n. crushed fine, sifted, and washed until
10 as much of the gold and silver is removed
te as possible. Then it is placed in a botre
tie with the quicksilver, which seems to
absorb it at once, separating it entirely
he from every particle of sand or rock. If
the metal to be cleansed is gold, you
will see a yellowish mass of a sort Of
.. paste or amalgam. This is heated, and
the mercury or quicksilver flies away,
leaving behind it Dure cold.
Although mercury is so useful in many
,r_ ways, it is also a deadly poison, and its
jr_ vapor so dangerous that in the search fora
it many persons have lost their lives.
Not many years ago the mines of Aualtg
tria took fire, and 1,300 workmen were
3n poisoned, many of them dying in conjy
sequence; snd the water used to quench.
? the flame9, pumped into a river near by,
caused all the-fish in the river to die.
tg Have you ever seen mercury carried
J(j about? It is put in sheepskin bags and
]y cast iron bottles. It is so heavy that
instead of an ordinary cork, an iron
cc stopper is used?screwed in!
3r Sometimes these bags do sad havoc, aa
fj in the case of a storage of several in the
j3 hold of a ship bringing it to this couap.
try. fome of the bags leaked. Everyg
body on board wa3 poisoned. Every
l't bit of metal was covered with a silver
1C coating of quicksilver. _ w
e'r McClellan and Barnside.
a- Among the accounts from various
st points of view of the Battle of iridic
ericksburg, in the Century, is one by
?d General B. N. Couch, from which we
id quote as follows: "Toward evening, oa
it the 8th of November, 1862, at Warrens
ton, McClellan rode up to Burnside'a
er headquarters to say that he had been.
relieved of the command of the army.
,.t Burnside replied:
^ 'T am if ia Ka/3 VAW
10 JL am uua?u aw 10 i/au |yw**vj j
(j. very, very!'
4 'It was j ust at dark. I had dismounted,
^ and, standing there in the snow, was
k, superintending the camp arrangements of
jg my troops, when McClellan came up with
at his staff, accompanied by General BurnlU
side. McClellan drew in his horse, and
l(j the first thing he said was:
I " 'Couch, I am relieved from the com;s
mand of the army, and Burnside u mj
or successor.'
a_ "I stepped up to him and took hold of
iQ his hand, and said: 'General McClellan,
I am sorry for it.' Then, going around
lje the head of the horse to Burnside, I
a said:'General Burnside, I congratulate
n- y?u-'
,r "Burnside heird what I said to Gene'r
eral McClellan; he turned away his head,
jn and made a broad gesture as he exer
claimed:
rn " 'Couch, don't say a word about it.*
or "His manner indicated that he did
eg not wish to talk about the change; that
he thought it wasn't good policy to do
]e so, nor the place to do it. He told mo
afte;war4 that he did not like to tako
c the command, but that he did so to keep
icj it from going to somebody manifestly
je unfit for it. I assumed that he meant
Hnnifpr Thosft of us who were well
a acquainted with Burnside knew that ha
a was a brave, loyal man, but we did not
think he had the military ability to comr_
mand the Army of the Potomac,
.jj "McClellan took leave on the 10th.
at Fitz John Porter sent notes to the corp?
HI commanders, informing them that Moe3
Clellan was going away, and suggesting
r3 that wc ride around with him. Such a
gc seen? as that leave-taking had never
been known in our army. Men shed
? tears and there was great cxcitement
among the troops.
$ "I think the soldiers had an idea that
McClellan would take care of them;
wouldn't put them in places where they
a would be unnecessarily cut up; and if a
general has the confidence of nis men ha
1S is pretty strong. But officers and men
_ were determined to servo Burasida
re loyally." _______
f? The Shyiuff Horse.
d Why does a horse shy ! asks tne L.\veto
SfO'k Journal. Became he see? some13
thin": which he does not unders"and, and
i- is filled with a greater or less degree of
fear, something as the boy feels when he
er shys at tha burying-ground and goes
l_ around to keep clear of it. It may be
? some new or unusual object that the
)r horse sees, or it msy be an imperfect view
l(j of it. Even a familiar objei.t, if it comes
to view suddenly and unexpectedly wilt
m cause a horse to shy or jump, just as aa
aj unexpected object or sound causes a
;n nervous person to start. When a person
[e is so startled, how much would it imat
prove the matter to be scolded at or given
lCj a cut with the whip? Just as much a?
jc the same treatment would in the case of
a. the horse. Harshness only aggravates
je the matter. The more the norse is
er scolded and whipped the more nervous
__ he gets, and every time he passes the
0f place where the fright and whipping cccurred
ho will recollect the unpleasant
rs affair, and he will begin to prick up his
s ears, and fidget, ready for another jump.
sj Give him the lines and he will go by in a
f.. hurry. The proper way is never to strike
or scoici a norse mat ia aiui ntn ?
rs ened. Speak to him coolly, calmly and
lc kindly: give him time to see and collect
-t3 his scattered senses, and make him feel
ig that you are his friend and protec.or.
3 When he sees that all is right, there is an
end to all further trouble. We have
seen a horse refuse to cross an unsafelooking
bridge, but when the driver took
him by the bits and walked ahead, the
id horse cautiously followed. Ne>.t timo
o! he required no coaxing or urging to cross
th tho bridge. He might nm been whip-e<l
c- into it t.t first, but was not tfcc milder
ig course, although a little trouble, the betes
ter one? The horse showed hi8 confi|
deuce ia the driver ever afterward.