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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN* PASTOR'S SUNDAY
SERMON
Subject: "American Seamen."
Text: "Behold also the ships?James
iii., iv.
If this exclamation was appropriate about
1860 years ago. when it was written concern
ing trie cruae nsmng smacKs tnac saiiea ajskb
Galilee, how much more appropriate in an
age which has launched from the dry docks
for purposes of peace?the Arizona, of the
Guion Line, the City of Richmond, of the
Inman Line, the ?gypt, of the National
Line, the Germanic, of tne White Star Line,
the Circassia, of the Anchor Line, the
Etruria, of the Cunard Line, and the Great
Eastern, with hull six hundred and eighty
feet long?not a failure for it helped lay the
Atlantic cable, and that was enough glory
for one ship's existence?and in an
age which for purposes of war
has launched the screw-sloops like
the Idaho, the .Shenandoah, the Ossippe, and
our ironclads like the Kalamazoo, the Roanoke
and tne Dunderberg, and those which
have already been buried in the deep like the
Monitor, theHousatonic,the Weehawken and
the Tecumseh, the tempests ever since sound- |
ing a volley over their watery sepulchres,
and the scarred veterans of war shipping that
have swung into the naval yards to spend
their last days, their decks now all silent of
the foet that trod.them, their rigging all
silent of the hands that clung to them, their |
port-holes silent of the brazen throats
that once thundered out of them. If
in the first century, when war
vessels were dependent on the oars that pad- I
.died at the side of them for propulsion, my '
text was suggestive, with how much more
emphasis and meaning and overwhelming
reminiscence we can cry out as we see the
Kearsage lay across the bows of the Alabama
and sink it, teaching foreign nations they had
better keep their nands off our American
fight; or as we see the ram Albermarle,of the
Confederates, running out and in the Roanoke,
and up and down the coast, throwing
everything into confusion as no other craft
ever did, pursued by the Miami,the Ceres,the
Southfield. the Sassacus, the Mattabesett, the
Whitehead, the Commodore Hull, the Louisiana,
the Minnesota and other armed vessels
all trying in vain to catch her, until Captain
Cushmg, twenty-one years, of age, ana his
men blew her up, himself and only one other
escaping; and as I see the flagship Hartford,
and the Richmond, and the Monongahela,
with other gunboats, sweep past the batteries
of Port Hudson, and the Mississippi flows
forever free to all Northern and Southern
craft, I cry out with a patriotic emotion that
I cannr t suppress if I would, and would not
if I could: ''Behold also the ships."
At the annual decoration of graves, North
aird South, among Federals and Confederates,
full justice has been done to the memory of
those who fought on the land in our sad contest,
but not enough has been said of those
who on ship's deck dared and suffered all
things. Lord God of the rivers and the sea,
help me in this sermon! So, ye admiral-:,
commanders, captains, pilots, gunners, boatswains,
sailmakers, surgeons, stokers, mess
mares anu seamt-u wi tui iialul-s, iaj u?j > uiu
own parlance, we might as well get under
way and stand out toward sea. Let all land
lubbers go ashore. Full speed now! Four
bells!
Never since the sea fight of Lepanto. where
three hundred royal galleys manned by fifty
thousand warriors, at sunrise, September 6,
1571, met two hundred and fifty royal galleys
manned by one hundred and tw'enty thousand
men, and in the four hours of battle eight
thousand fell on one side and twenty-live
thousand on the other; yea, never since the '
day when at Actium, thirty-one years before
Christ, Augustus with two hundred and
sixty ships scattered the two hundred and
twenty ships of Mark Antony and gained
universal dominion as the prize; yea,
since the day when at Salamis the twelve
hundred galleys of the Persians, manned by
five hundred thousand men, were crushed by
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yea, never since the time of Noah, the first
ship captain, has the world seen such a
miraculous creation as that of the American
Navy in 1861. There were about two hundred
available seamen in all the naval stations
and receiving ships, and here and there an
old vessel. Yet orders were given to blockade
thirty-five hundred miles of sea coast,greater'
than the wbole coast of Europe, and, besides
that the Ohio, Tennessee, Cumberland,
Mississippi, and other great rivers, covering
an extent of two thousand more miles, were
to be patrolled. No wonder the
whole civilized world burst into
guffaws of laughter at the seeming
impossibility. But the work was done, done
almost immediately done thoroughly, and
done with a speed and consummate skill
that eclipsed all the history of naval architecture.
"What brilliant achievements are
suggested by the mere mention of the name
of the rear admiials. If all they did should
be written, every one. I suppose that even the
world itself could not contain the books that
should be written. But these names have rewived
the honors due. The most of them
went to thsir graves under the cannonade of
all the forts, navy yards and men-of-war, the
flags of all the shipping and capitals at halfmast.
But I recite to-day the deeds of our naval
heroes who have not yet received appropriate
recognition. "Behold also the ships.'' As
we will never know what our national prosperity
is worth until we realize what it cost,
I recall the unrecited fact that the men of the
navy ran especial risks. They had not only
the human weaponry to contend with, but
the tides, the fog. the storm. Not like other
ships could they run into harbor
at the approach of an equinox, or
a cyclone, or a hurricane, becarsj
the harbors were hostile. A miscalculation
of a tide might leave them on a bar. and a
fog might overthrow all the plans of wisest
commodore and admiral, and accident might
leave them, not on the land ready for an
ambulance, but at the bottom of the sea, as
when the torpedo blew up the Tecumseh in
jauoue rsay, ana neany an on ooara perisnea.
They were at the mercy of the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, which have no mercy. Such
tempests as wrecked the Spanish
Armada might any day swoop upon the
guadron. I?o hiding behind the earthworks.
>o digging in of cavalry spurs at the sound of
retreat. Mightier than all the fortresses on
all the coasts, is the ocean when it bombards
a flotilla. In the cemeteries for Federal and
Confederate dead are the bodies of most of
those who fell on the land. But where those
are who went down in the war vessels will
not be known until the sea gives up its dead.
The Jack tars knew that while loving arms
might carry the jnen who fell on the land
ana bury them with solemn liturgy. <
and the honors of war, for the bodies of
tho9e who dropped from the ratlines into
the sea or went down with all on board under
the stroke of a gunboat there remained the
thark and the whale and the endless tossing
i>f the sea which cannot rest. How will vou
And their graves for this national decoration?
Nothing but the archangel's trumpet shall
reach their lowly bed. A few of them have
been gathered into naval cemeteries of
the land and you will garland tlie sod
:that covers them, but who will put
flowers on the fallen crew of the
exploded Westtleld and Shawsheen, a:id the |
suxuten ooutnneia, ana me >v inueiti ?con,.
Bullets threatening in front, bombs threatening
from above, torpedoes threateninc from
beneath and tho ocean with its reputation of
six thousand years for shipwreck lying all
V -around, am I not right in saying it required
a special courage for the ftavy?
It looks picturesque and beautiful to see a
war vessel going out through the Narrows,
sailors in new rig singing:
"A life on the ocean wave,
A home on the rolling deep!"
the colors gracefully dipping to passing ships,
the decks immaculately clean, and the guns
at Quarantine firing a parting salut). But
the poetry is all gone out of that ship as it
comes out of that engagement, its decks red |
with human blood, wheel-house gone, the |
cabins a pile of shattered mirrors and destroyed
furniture, steering wheel broken,
smokestack crushed, a hundred-pound
Whitworth rifle shot having left its
mark trom port to starboard, the 1
shrouds rent away, ladders splintered j
and decks plowed up, and suioke-biuskened
ana scaiaea corpses lymg among inose wuo
are gapping their last gasp far away from 1
home and kindred, whom they love as much
as we love wife and parents and children.
Not waiting until you are dead to put upon
your graves a wreath of recognition, this
hour we put on your living brow the garland
of a nation's praise.
Oh, men of the Western Gulf squadron,
of the Eastern CJulf squadron, of the South
Atlantic"'squadron, of the North Atlantic
squadron, of the Mississippi squadron, of the
Pacific squadron, of the W est India squadron
and of the Potomac flotilla, hear our thanks!
Take the benediction of our churches. Accept
the hospitalities of the nation. If we had our
way we would get you not only a pension but a
home and a princely wardrobe, and an equi
j page and a Lanquet while you live, and after
your departure a catafalque, and a mausoleum
ot sculptured marble, with a model of the
I ship in which you won the day. It is coni
sidered a gallant thing when in a naval fight
the flagship w.th its blue ensign goes ahead
up a river or into a bay, its admiral standing
in the shrouds watching and giving orders.
But I have to tell you. Oh veterans of the
! American navv! if vou are as loval to
Christ as you were to the GovernI
ment, there is a flagship sailing ahead of you
I of which Christ is the admiral, and" He
I watches from the shrouds, and the heavens
; are the blue ensign, and He leads you toward
I the harbor, and all the broadsides of earth
I and hell cannot damage you; and ye, whose
| garments were once red with your own blood,
shall have a robe washed and" made white in
the blood of the Iiamb. Then strike eight
bells' Hieh noon in heaven!
With such anticipation, O, veterans of the
American navy! I charge you bear up under
the aches and weaknesses that you still carry
! from the war times. You are not as stalwart
j as you would have been but for that nervous
I strain and for that terriflic exposure. Let every
I ache and pain, instead of depressing, remind
| you of your fidelity. The sinking of the Weei
hawken off Morris Island, December 6, 18Gi>,
was a mystery. She was not under fire. The
sea was not rough. But Admiral Dahlgren
from the deck of the flag steamer Philadelphia,
saw her gradually sinking, and finally
she struck the ground, but the flag still
floated above the wave in the sight of the
shipping. It was afterwards found that she
sank from weakness through injuries in previous
service. Her plates had been knocked
loose in previous times. So you have in
j nerve, and muscle, and bone, and dimmed
! eyesight, and difficult hearing, and shortness
I or breath, many intimations that you are
gradually going" down. It is the service of
twenty-three year's that is telling on you. Be
of good cheer. We owe vou ju3t as much as
though ycur life-blood haa gurgled through the
scuppers of the ship in the Rea River expedition,
or as though you had gone down with
the Melville off Hatteras. Only keep your
flag flying as did the illustrious Weehawken.
Good cheer, my boys! The memory of
man is poor and all that talk about the
country never forgetting those who fought
for it is an untruth. It does forget. Witness
how the veterans sometimes had to turn the
hand-organs on the street to get their families
a living. Witness how ruthlessly some of
them have been turned out of office that
some Dioat or a politician mignc tatce ineir
place. Witness the fact that there is not a
man or woman now under thirty,years of
age, who has any full appreciation of
the four years' martyrdom of 1861 and 1S65
inclusive. * But while men may forget, God
never forgets. He remembers the swinging
nam mock. He remembers the forecastle. He
remembers the frozen ropes of that January
tempest. He remembers the amputation without
sufficient ether. He remembers the horrors
of that deafening night when forts from
both sides belched on you their fury, and
the heavens glowed with ascending and
descending missiles * of death, and
your ship quaked under the reroil
of the one hundred pounder, while all the
gunners, according to command, stood on
tiptoe with mouth wide open lest the concussion
shatter hearing or brain. He remembers
it all better than you remember it, and in
some shape reward will be given. God is the
1 PAM APft T*rKA
utm ul an uiaoi/ci a, cuiu ivi muoo nuv uv
their whole duty to Him and the world the
pension awarded is an everlasting heaven.
Sometimes off the coast of England the
Royal Family have inspected the British
navy manoeuvred before them for that purpose.
In the Baltic Sea the Czar and Czarina
have reviewed the Russian navy. To bring
before the American people tne debt they
owe to the navy I go out with you on the Atlantic
Ocean where there is plenty of room,
and in imagination review the war-shipping
of our tnree great conflicts?1776, 1812,
and 1865. Swing into line all ye frigates,
ironclads, fire-rafts, gunboats, and
men-of-war! There they come, all sail
set and all furnaces in full" blast, sheaves of
crystal tossing from their cutting prows.
That is the Delaware, an old Revolutionary
craft, commanded by Commodore Decatur.
Yonder goes the Constitution, Commodore
Hull commanding. There is the Chesapeake,
commanded by Captain Lawrence, whoso dying
words were: ' Don't give up the ship;"
and the Niagara, of 1812, commanded by
Commodore Ferry, who wrote on the back of
an old letter, resting on his navy cap:
" We have met the enemy and they are
ours." Yonder is the flagship Wabash,
Admiral Dupont commanding; yonder, the
flagship Minnesota, Admiral Goldborough
commanding; yonder, the John Adams,
Admiral Stringham commanding; yonder,
the flagship Philadelphia, Admiral Dahlgren
commanding; yonder/ the flagship San
Jacinto, Admiral Bailey commanding:
yonder, the Carondelet, Admiral Wat he I
commanding; yonder, the flagship Black
Hawk, Admiral Porter commanding: yonder, ,
the flag steamer Benton, Admiral
Foote commanding, yonder the flagshij; !
Hartford, David Glascoe Farragut commanding.
And now all the squadrons of all
departments, from smallest tugboat to
mightiest man-of-war, are in procession, 1
decks and rigging filled with men who fought i
on the sea for the old flag ever since we were
a nation. Grandest fleet the world ever saw.
Sail on before all ages! Run up all the
[ colors! Ring ail the bells! Yea, open all
the port-holes! Umlimber the guns and load
and fire one great boardside that shall shake the
continents in honor of peace and the eternity
of the American Union! But I lift my hand
and the scene has vanished. Many of the
ships have dropped under the crystal pavement
of the deep, sea monsters swimming in
and out of the forsaken cabin, and other old
craft have swung into the navy yards, and
many of the brave spirits who trod their
decks are gone up to the Eternal Fortress,
from whose casements and embrasures may
we not hope they look down to-day with joy
upon a nation in reunited brotherhood '
At this annual commemoration I bethink
that most of you who were in the naval service
uurmg our lace war are now in the afternoon
or evening of life. With some of you
it is two o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock,
six o'clock, and it will soon be sundown.
If you were of age when the war broke
out, you are now at least forty-eight.
Many of you have passed into the sixties
and the seventies; therefore it is appropriate
that I hold two great lights
for your illumination?the example of Christian
admirals consecrated to Christ and their
country, Admiral Foote and Admiral Farragut.
Had the Christian religion been a
cowardly thiug they would have had nothing
to do with it. In its faith they lived an''
died. In our Brooklyn navy-yard Admiral ,
Foote held prayer meetings and conducted
a revival on the receiving
ship North Carolina, and on Sabbaths,
far out at sea, followed the chaplain
with religious exhortation. In early life on
board the sloop of war Natchez, impressed by.
the words of a Christian sailor, he gave his
spare time for two weeks to the Bible, and at
the end of that declared openly: 4 "Henceforth,
under all circumstances, I will act for God."
Hi3 last words, while dying at the
Astor House, New York, were: ''I thank
God for all His goodness to me." When he
entered heaven he did not have to run a blockiuic,
for it was amid the cheers of a great
welcome. The other Christian admiral will
be honored on earth until the day when the
fires from above shall lick up the waters from
beneath and there shall be 110 more sea.
"Oh, while Atlantic's breast
Bears a while Bail.
While sailor's flzht for right
And sweethearts wall,
Men will ne'er forget
Old heart of oak.
Farragat, Farrasut.
Thunderbolt stroke!"
According to his own statement Farragut
I was very looso in his morals in early manhood
and practiced all kinds of sin. One day
he was called into the cabin of his father,
who was a ship-master. His father said:
| "David, what are you going to be, anyhow?'
j He answered: "I am going to follow
the sea." "Follow the sea, said the
I father, "and be kicked about the
world and die in a foreign hosi
pital?" "No,*1 said David, "I am goin?r to
command like you." "No," said the father;
"a boy of your habits will never command
anything," and his father burst into tears and
I left the cabin. From that day David Farragut
started on a new lift?. Captain Pennington,
an honored elder of this church, was with
I him in most of his battles, and had his intimate
friendship, and he confirms, what I had
heard elsewhere, that Farragut was good and
Christian. In every great crisis of life lie
asked and obtained the Divine direction.
When in Mobile Bav the monitor Tecumesh
sank from a torpedo, and the great war-ship
Brooklyn that was to load the squadron
turned back, he said ho was at a loss to know
whether to advance or retreat, and he says:
"I proved: 'Oh. God, who wonted man and
fave him reason, direct me what to do. Shall
go on?' And a voice commanded me: 'Go
on,' and I went on." Was there ever a more
I touching Christian letter than that which ho
wrote to his wife from his flagship Hartford?
"My dearest wife, I write and leave this letter
for you. I am going into Mobile Bay in the
morning, if God is my leader, and I hope He is,
and in Him I place my trust. If He thinks it
is the proper place for me to die, I am ready
to submit to His will in that as in aLl other
things. God bless and preserve you, my
darling and my dear boy, if anything should
happen to me. May His blessings rest upon
you, and your dear mother, and all your sisters
and their children."
Cheerful to the end, he said on hoard the
Tallapoosa in the last voyage he ever took :
"It would be well if I died now in hnriiess."
The sublime Episcopal service for the dead
was never more appropriately rendered than
over his casket, and well did all the forts of
New York harbor thunder as. his body was
brought to our wharf, and well diti the
minute guns sound and the bells toll as in a
procession, having in its ranks the President
nt t.ViA TTnit-wl States and his cabinet, and the
mighty men of land and sea, the old admiral
was carried amid hundreds of thousands of
uncovered heads on Broadwav, and laid on
his pillow of dost in beautiful AVoodlavm,
September 30,amid the pomp of our autumnal 1
forests.
Ye veterans who sailed and fought under
him. ta ke your admiral's God and Christ for J
your God and Christ. After a few more
conflicts you too will rest. For the few remaining
"fights with sin, and death, and hell
make ready. Strip your vessel for
the fray; "hang the sheet chains orer
the sides. Send down the top-gallant
masts. Barricade the wheel. Rig in
the flying jib-boom. Steer straight for the
shining snore, and hear the shout of the great
Commander of earth and heaven as He cries
from the shrouds: "To him that overeometh,
will I give to eat of the tree of life which is
in the midst of the Paradise of God." Hoanna
I Hosanna!
HOUSEHOLD MATTERS.
How to Cleax Dresses.?Get fin
cents' worth of soap-bark from the druggist's,
(about a teacupfnl). For one
dress take half of it and steep in aboul
one quart of boiling water for aboul
half an hour or more; then strain through
a cloth.
For a silk dress, while the liquid is
warm, take a piece of white flannel and
dip into at intervals, and rub the silk ot
satin with it till it seems cleansed. When
done pull the material straight and hang
it to dry; do not iron either the silk or
satin. If the dress is very much soiled
use clean liquor to rinse it, but do not
use clear water for silk, or it will not
stiffen up well.
For a woolen dress, dip the part to be
cleansed or the whole of it, if needed,
into the liquor. This can be rinsed in
the same after washing, or in clear, warm
water. If very dirty put the dress to
soak in a tub in the liquor, with more
water added, before cleaning or washing.
The wollen goods should be pressed before
they are quite dry.
"Water in which potatoes have been
boiled will cleanse delicate-colored
woolen or worsted goods. The dresa
should be wet all over. Use no soap.
Rinse in clear, warm water. Press while
still damp. This will not. injure the
most delicate colors.
The liquor in which soap-bark has
been steeped, when used cold, is excel
lent for washing blue lawns that are I
easily faded. It should be washed with
more water than is used tor woolens.?
Farm, and Garden.
Recipes.
Scotch Cakes.?Stir together 4 pounds
oatmeal, 2 pounds wheat flour, 2 tablespoons
brown sugar, -J teaspoon soda and
1| pounds lard, adding sufficient water
to form a stiff batter. Roll thin, cut in
squares and bake in quick oven.
Candied Cherries.?Make a syrup
of two pounds of loaf sugar and a cup of
water, and boil until thick enough to
pull. Then remove to the side of the
range until it shows signs of granulation.
When crystals adhere to the spoon drop
in the cherries, carefully stoned, a few
| at a time, allowing them to lie in the
boiling syrup two minutes, and remove
I to a sieve set over a dish. Shake gently,
but long, and turn the cherries out upon
a cool, broad dish.
Meat a>*d Potato Puffs.?With two
eggs, well beaten, mix a sufficient quantity
of mashed potatoes to whip to a cream,
adding gradually a ciip of milk. Then
add flour enough to allow the mass being
| rolled out into a sheet, cut this into
squares, aqd in the centre of each lay a
slice of beef or mutton, well seasoned :
? -j -~u A I
Willi pepper HI1U sail, auu ijuiati i>u
mustard or catsup. Lay on this a slice
of ham of the same shape and size, fold
the paste into a triangular turnover,
Erinting the edges deeply, and fry in
utter to a nice brown. Wheu done lay
them on white paper for a moment to absorb
the grease and Berve hot.
; To Prepare Tripe.?In the first
I place, take some strong twine to sew it
up, with stitches about half an inch long,
then rinse it in three or four waters, take
about two quarts of air-slacked lime and
rub on to every part, and have ready a
pailful of nearly scalding hot water and
S pour on to it; turn it over a number of
times so every part will come in contact
with the hot water. In a few minutes it |
I will be ready to scrape, which should be
done with a dull knife. If any part
refuses to yield, put on a little more lime
| and hot water, rinse in two more waters
[ then 'cut it open and rinse again. Cut it
I in pieces six or eight inches square, and
let it soak a few hours, then take each
piece separately on to a meat board and
scrape and pick off all the superfluous
matter that may be on it, let it soak for
' " ^ 1 ^ " fl* a tt* o tnr
auout HITCH UilJS, UliaiJglLlg IUU namt
twice a day, and scrape and pick it each
I morning. Boil eight hours, changing
the water twice.
Appearance of Motion in Paintings.
The painter is also able to represent
motion by taking advantage of the unconscious
working of our preconceivcd
impressions. Looking at a masterly
marine landscape in the National Gallery
at Berlin one day, I could almost see the
Bhip rising and falling upon the waves,
and the waves themselves seemed to be
in motion as they swelled and swept by
the vessel. The painter had seized a
single instant in the succession, and had
so represented it as to call out the idea
of consecutiveness. The question arises,
How is the artist to illustrate motion, as
he often has to do, sav in such a case as
mar Ul rujliuiy luiuiug num, iu
we can at no instant distinguish the |
single spokes, but see only a confusion of
flying lines? It is clearly impossible for
liim to give the exact appearance of
motion. lie can only seize a given
instant or stage, and so manage that it
shall represent itself as the ellcct of the
preceding stage and the cause of the following
one: A sword-blow must be represented
at a decisive ]>oint, not at a
stage in the descent of the weapon, else
the illusion will be destroyed; a pendulum
in motion, not at the bottom of its
course, where it would seem to be at j
rest. In painting a galloping horse, no
stage of the exact motion is reproduced.
The instantaneous photographs have
demonstrated that; and also that, if the
artist should attempt a reproduction ot
the kind, he would give any but the effect
desired. He makes a more pleasing
and probable picture, having, however,
no counterpart in nature, in which
he does no violence to her, but, as Schiller
has said, "increases the nature that
is in nature,''?Podular Science Monthly.
TEMPERANCE.
Signs of Prosperity.
Where sputea grow bright;
And idle swords grow dull;
Where jails aro empty,
And -where barns are full;
Where field-paths aro N
With frequent i'eet outworn,
Law courtyards weedy,
Silent, and forlorn;
Where doctors foot it,
And where farmers ride;
Where age abounds,
And youth is multiplied;
Where noisonous drinks
Are chased from every place;
"W here opium's curse
No longer leaves a traceWhere
these signs are
They clearly indicate
A happy people
And a well-ruled state.
?From ti e Chinese.
A Story by John B. G?n>;n.
A young man once advised me to advocate
I pure moral suasion. At a meeting where
this young man was present I said to the
audiencc, pointing to him: "Some say we
ought to advocate moral suasion exclusively.
Now I will give you a fact. Thirteen miles
from this place there lived a wore an who was
a good wife, a good mother, a good woman."
I then related her story as she told it:
My husband is a drunkard; I have worked,
ri1u i1uijct1, uiiu pi txy cv?r uuu jl ixaui\sov ??tv up
in despair. Ho went away and was gone ten
days. He came back ill with tbj small-pox.
Two of the children took it, and both of them
died. I nursed my husband through his long
sickness?watched over liim night and day,
feeling that he could not drink again,nor ever
again abuse me. I thought he would remember
all this experience. Mr. Leonard kept a
liquor-shop about three doors from my house,
and soon after my husband was well "enough
to get out, Mr. Leonard invited him ia and
gave him some drink. He was then worse
than ever. He now beats me, and bruises
me. ... I went into Mr. Leonardo shop
Dne day, nerved almost to madntss, and said:
"Mr. Leonard, I wish you would, not sell ray
husband any more drink."
"Get out of this," said he. "away with you.
This is no place for a woman; cl'?r out."*
"But I don't want you to sell him any more
Jiink."
"Get out, will you? If yc>u wasn't a
woman I would knock you into the mic.dle of
the street."
' But, Mr. Leonard, please don't sell my
husband any more drink."
"Mind your own business, I say."
"But my husband's business ij mine," she
pleaded.
"Get out! If you don't I will put you out."
I ran out ana the man was very angry.
Three days after, a neigiioor came in ana
Baid: "Mrs. Tuttle, your Ned's just been sent
out of Leonard's shop so drunk that he can
hardly stand!"
"What! my child, who is only ten yea*8
old?"
"Yes."
The child was picked up in the street and
brought home, and it was four days before
he got about again. I then went into Leonard's
shop ana said: "You gave my boy,
Ned, drink."
"Get out of this, I tell you," said the man.
I said: "I don't want you to give my boy
drink any more. You have ruined my husband;
for God's sake spare my child," and I
went down upon my knees, and tears ran
down my cheeks. He then took me by the
shoulders and kicked me out of doors.
"Then," said I, pointing directly to my
friend, "young man, you talk of moral
suasion? Suppose that woman was your
mother, what would you do to the ma:i that
kicked her!" He jumped right of hin seat,
and said: I'd kill him! That's moral suasion,
is it? Yes, I'd kilT him as I'd kill a woodchuck
that had eaten my beans."
Now, we do not go as far as that; we do
not believe in killing or persecuting, but vrm
believe in prevention and Prohibition ?Prohibition
Bombs.
It Does Not Pay.
It does not to have pay the mother and
children of twenty families drossed in rags
fcnd starved into the semblance of emaciated
tcarecows, and living in hovels, in order that
the saloon-keeper's wife may dress in satin,
md her children grow fat and hearty, and
live in a bay-window parlor. It does not pay
to have ten smart, intelligent boys turned
into hoodlums and thieves to enable one man
to lead an easy life by selling them liquor.
It does not pay. to give one man, lor a trifle,
ft license to sell liquor, and then spend an
tnonnous amount on the trial of Tim McLaughlin
for buying that liquor and then
committing murder under its influence. It
Joes not pay to have one thousand homes
blasted, mined, defiled and turned into
hells of disorder and misery, in order that
ane wholesale liquor dealer may amass a fortune.
It does not pay to keep six thousand men
in the penitentiaries and hospitals, and one
thousand in the lunatic asylums, at the expense
of the honest, industrious taxpayers, in
order that a few rich capitalists may grow
richer by the manufacture of whisky. A
saloon keeper sold a drinking man one pint
of new rum, making fifteen cer ts clear profit.
The man under the influence of that pint of
rum, killed his son-in-law; and his apprehension,
confinement in jail, execu tion, etc., cost
the county more than one thousand dollars?
which temperate men had to earn by th?
sweat of their brow. It does not pay! The
loss sustained by society, moroily and financially,
the sorrow and suffering, the misery
and destitution, produced and augmented,
and what is infinitely a greater consideration
than all else, the destruciion of soul ana body,
the inevitable result of using and trafficing
in intoxicating liquors?these all attest the
truthfulness of the verdict?it ioes not pay!
Reader, it does pay to lead a temperate life;
to be an honest and upright Citizen; to exert
a pure and holy influence upon mankind and
to honor God by a righteous use of all His
gifts. We beseech you, then, for your own
soul's sake, and for the sake of suffering humanity,
"touch not, taste not, handle not,
the unclean thing."?Saratoga Eagle.
Liccnse in the Ifational Capital.
The American, of Washinj^ton, mentions
that the "Guardian League*' of that city
recently employed a man to vfsit some of the
saloons and pool-rooms, and ascertain how
many minors were in them. It says:
"The count was made during six consecutive
niehta. The man who did the countiug is
believed to be entirely reliable, and the figures
which he furnishes are startling. Tuesday
night he visited seven places, an-1 fouud
twenty-seven minors, of whom seven were
girls. Some of them were drinking and some
were drunk. Wednesday night live places
were visited, and nine minors were found,
of whom three were girls. Most of them were
under the influence of liquor. Thursday
night five places were visited and thirteen
minors found, of whom three were girls.
Friday night seven places were visited
and thirty-one minors found, of whom five
were girls. Saturday night eight places were
visited, and eighty-six minors were found,
all of whom were drinking and playing pool,
cards, and crap except eight. Sunday night
four places were visitiid, and one hundred
and two minors were found, most of whom
were drinking and playing pool. Total places
visitmi. thirtv-six: total number of minors
found, two hundred and sixty-eight, o? whom
eighteen were girls."
The national capital is under the exclusive
jurisdiction of Congress. With such a state
of things as the above extract shows in connection
with the liquor saloons of Washington,
it is obvious that, at least so far as the
District of Columbia is concerned, the drink
question is an important, urgent national
Suestion. .These, demoralizing saloons, the
estroyers of manhood and girlhood are tho
nation's saloons.?XuiUnuil Advocate.
"Prohibition Does Prohibit."
According to the testimony of the Governor
of Iowa, it appears that .Prohibition does
effectually and satisfactorily prohibit in
eighty out of the ninety-nine counties of that
State, and is partially enfored in the sections
expected from the general statement. This
means that in the rural regions the practical
abolition of the liquor trallic can bo maintained,
but that in the cities and larger
towns, notably along the Mississippi River,
the law is more or loss a dead letter. This
seems to be tho general experience with prohibitory
legislation. It is the story that
comes from Kansas, Maine, and Ktiode island,
and was the experience of Michigan. In
the latter State the result of the recent election
seems to have brought about a general
determination to revive the local option law,
and this will result in confining the liquor
traffic practically to less than a dozen counties.
In Georgia, under a local option law,
110 out of 137 counties have declared for Fro- ,
hibition, one of these being Fulton, in which
Atlanta, the largest city in the State, is situated.
The local option feature of the Illinois
license Jaw also works well, having resulted
in a large curtailment of the bar-room business
in the country.?Philadelphia Telegraph.
RELIGIOUS READING.
RecoricOed.
Till I learned to love Thy nam^
Lord, Thy grace denying,
I was lost in sin and shame,
Dying, dying, dying.'
Nothing could the world impart,
Darkness held no morrow;
.In my soul and in my heart,
j sorrow, sorrow, Borrow.
When I learned to love Thy name,
0 Thou meek and lowly,
Rapture kindled to a flame?
Holy, holy, holy!
Henceforth shall creation rin&
With salvation's story.
Till 11 i ;o with Thee to sing,
Glory, glory, glory!
?Pboebo Cary.
What Does Sin Menn!
Does sin always mean anguish, and
fear, and remorse? No. not always?
not always. Only as long as the light
of God is within the soul, and the voice
of God speaks to the man. That light
may he put out. Thai voice may be
silenced. And then a man shall come
to laugh a wild, untronbled laugh at
these things, flight and wrong have
ceased to mean anything. Love is lust,
and truth is but a name; and purity is
but a hypocrite who wears a white
robe, and friendship is only the disguise
of selfishness. Oh, better a thousand
times the- madness that raves at
the memory of sin, than that. The
eye that sees the truth is put out, the
ear that hears the voice of God, is
stopped. Then the soul can go untroubled,
unbardencd. There is a life
on earth so dark, so cold, so dead, so
'unconscious, so incapable of any moral
sense, that I would sooner crave the
very fires of hell to create within rae
some sense of right and wrong, than"
sink into that worst of deaths, that
deepest of damnation. No, no indeed,
that path cannot lcacl up to this blessed'
ness,?[|Iev. Mark Guy P.earse.
Con*fcrntlnn itnil Ulin'lnoii,
The essence ol true manliness lies in
living a life of true consecration to God.
Loyalty to our noblest impulses, loyalty
to our highest reason, loyalty to tha
clear intimations of conscience, are synonymous
with entire and ceaseless devotion
to the holy will of God. That
three-fold loyalty is necessary to the
cultivation of our highest manhood. We
have no means of developing now the
heroism of the days of chivalry. The
heroism which was fostered, in the midst
of imminent dangers, in eras of martyrdom,
or times of civil war, cannot be
our;). But one kind of heroism is possible
to us all?that of standing by God's
truth, God's work, Gods day, and
God's redeeming Son, no matter
what may be the consequences to ourselves.
All, whether saint or sinner, believer
or infidd, are agreed that we have hu- I
inanity at its climax in tlic life of Jesus
of Nazareth, and in that life we see the
will of the Christ entirely subordinated
to the will of his father, nay, the complete
blendinff of tbe two wills in one.
We see in that life a righteousness and a
burning hatred of sin which caused bad
inen to shrink from his presence, a gentleness
and bcnevolcnce which attracted
little children to his side, and a holiness
and mercifulness which caused penitent
men and women to kneel at Tlis feet in
blissful agony of woe mingled with
hope. Yet, great as He is, "the holiest
among the mighty, the mightiest among
the holy," lie is our example, our su???r?mnio
Oh thnt wff enuld pet
^/ICUIO WAUlU|/tV? - ?,, o - the
young men of this generation to believe
that New Testament Sainthood is
perfect manliness!
There seems to be an idea prevalent
that to be an out-and-out Christian, to
carry our religion into the business and
into the family, as much as into the i
chapel and the class-room, to give up all J
sins, all idolatries and all questionable j
things, about which wc have grave
doubts, not to be forever clamor- j
ing for our supposed "rights" and keeping
a sharp eye on "number one," not to
spend half our time in rubbing up to a
fine polish our miserable reputation and
self worship; but to go all lengths with
Christ, and for Christ,?it seems to be
thought by some that such a course will
make a man feeble and effeminate, and
unfit him for a nineteenth century business
life. But is it so? No; it is at
the devil's caricature of holiness you
have been looking, not the Bible portraiture.
Open the great Book! Read
the life of Samuel, judge and prophet;
read the story of Joseph, first the slave,
tben the ruler of Egypt; read the account
of Daniel, the praying, prime minister
of Babylon; read Isaiah and John
the Baptist, nnd the tender, mighty
and immortal Paul; were these men
weaklings, incomplete developments of
manhood??[The King's Highway.
) ight like a good scldier; and if thou
sometimes fall through frailty, take
again greater strength tfcau before,
trusting in thy more abundant grace;
and take heed of vain pleasing of thyself
and of pride.?Thomas a Kempis.
Social science brings to our view
branch of the divine government and the
methods of divine grace. These wc do
well to know, these wc must know, but
. t r ;Q mnro m/vicnrprl
tne Heart m v wist m
by the 11 than is the love of a parent by
he civil relations ha holds to his child.
?iPres. Bascomb.
"Sin Against tlio Strength of Youth." j
Unless one positively sees the thing done,
the young child's glass filled as a thing of
course, the father or the mother sitting by I
unconcernedly, or peradveuture rather eager
than otherwise that the child shall become |
acquainted with the use of wines as a part of
social custom and eminence?unless, we say,
one sees it done, it is difficult to believe that
parents so foolish and so short-sighted can be
in the world, or that Providence will intrust
to such the tender little souls and bodies that
they are doing, even although unconsciously,
their best to tarnish and destroy.?Harper's
Bazar.
Governor Martin says Kansas would to-day
give 103,000 majority for prohibition if again j
submitted to the popular vote.
t
! CHINESE MONEY.
A CHAPTER ON THE COINS AN?
CURRENCY OP CHINA.
The Only Native Coin a Copper
PIppp?MinM fnr f'nininrioah
?Foreign Money Used?
j Banking in Chiua.
I
Tlie only native coin of China is a copper
piecc called tsien; it is thin and circular,
rather more than an inch in diameter,
with a square hole in the middle for
the convenience of stringing. This is
stamped with the Chinese word meaning
current, and the name of the province
where it is made. Mints for coining cash
?as all small money is called?are established
in each provincial capital, undef
the direction of the Revenue Department
of the government. The coin should
consist of an alloy of copper, 50 parts;
zinc, 41?; lead, and tin, 2 parts:
and its standard weight should be 58
grains troy, but it has been reduced and
debased so that those pieces now
in circulation are generally under 30
grains in weight, and are mainly composed
of iron; and in spite of laws and
penalties, a large proportion of the coins
now current are coined by private individuals.
The value of this coin, if pure,
is about one and a third cents of our
coinage, bnt the rate of exchange for the ,
debased specimens usually current in
China varies in different provinces at
from 900 to 1,800 for a silver dollar.
The curious fact that neither silver nor
gold have ever been coined to any extent
in China is accounted for by S.
Wells Williams in his comprehensive
work on the Chinese Empire, "The Middle
Kingdom," by the statement that the
Government is not strong enough to restrain
counterfeiters, and not honest
enough, on the other hand, toissue pieces
j of uniform standard far a series of years
till it has obtained the confidence of its
subjects." Dr. Williams thinks that the
extension of foreign relations will in time
lead to the issue of a sound national currency.
There have been two attempts
during this century to issue silver coins:
?ome of the value of a tael?about $1.50
?were coined at Shanghai in 1856, and
in 1835 there was a large coinage of native
dollars, weighing, 417.4 grains, at
Fuhkien and Formosa td pay the troops,
but these pieces were either melted
or counterfeited to such an extent as
soon as they appeared that in a short
time they were wholly out of circulation.
At present the medium of trade in the
open ports is the forergn dollar, which is
imported in great quantities from Mexico
and the United States, and tnese are
used in all of the important operations
of commerce throughout the empire, but
are soon converted Into ingots, to suit
the curious national preference. Tho
mamam rvrv? /Mif f nn r>o ^ItAm
pui&uu [JttjJiiq tiium uui siuuqw tuciii
with a peculiar die, and after this has
been done several times the character of
the coin is injured, and the pieces are
then taken to be melted, refined, and
cast into ingots of bullion, which weigh
from five mace (about seventy-five cents) '
to fifty tael3 (about $75) and the larger
pieces are stamped -with the district
magistrate's title where they are made,
and the date, to verify them. (3old
bullion is cast into bars like cake* of India
ink in shape, each worth about $15,
or hammered into thick leaves. The silver
ingots, called sycee, in a pure state,
are from ninety-seven to ninety-nine per
cent, pure silver, but they are often debased,
and dollars are often counterfeited,
so that all classes engaged in trade have
biieir uiuuejr luspcuieu. UY rc^uiai CAI
aminers, called shroffs, who, by practice,
become so expert that by the sight alone
they can decide on the degree of
alloy in a piece of silver, though
usually they employ touchstone
j needles to aid them. All taxes and
duties are paid in svcee of ninety-eight
per cent, fineness, and the revenue department
licenses bankers to receive the
money, and pays them a small percentage
for becoming responsible for the purity
of all the bullion that they take in. Bank*
ing in China is carried on by private
parties altogether, since no charter or
warrant from the Government would insure
any confidence with the people. Private
bankers, however, pay certain taxes
to the Government. All these banking
houses issue notes, but over-issue is
checked by the supervision of clearinghouses
and by general lack of confidence
?founded on long experience of the
trick in ess of human nature?which restricts
the circulation of notes always to
the town and often to the street or
neighborhood in which the bank is situated.
This curtailed circulation ferves a
i good purpose in checking counterfeiting ]
of the bills, a9 in most cases a doubtful 1
t bill can be referred directly to the bank 1
whose name it bears. Such is the general j
apprehension of spurious notes, however,
that both law and custom in most cities *
give the person receiving a bank-note a
claim for a full day upon the person pay- 1
ing it to him, to be reimbursed should 1
the note prove counterfeit. ITong Kong ]
bills, however, circulate on the mainland ]
to very remote districts. In the 1
Southern provinces of the empire i
dollars circulate generally, and bank
notes are quite unknown. Twice in f
Chinese history the government has tried
the experiment of a paper currency. The ^
Mongol dynasty of .the thirteenth ccn- ,
tury issued an enormous amount of papei j
money. The great Kublai Khan, who <
at?rtf>d t.Tip snVipnift of hiivintr treasuie
with money that cost him nothing1,
thought that he had discovered the high*
est secret of alchemy and in his reign ot
thirty-four years issued $624,135,500.
His successors continued this manufac
ture, but at last the people began to object
to the sclicme and popular discontent
waxed to such an extent durinj? IOC
years of "fiat money" that the Mongul
kings found themselves expelled from
their native land in 13G8. The new
rulers were obliged to issue notes for a
time to carry on the business of the court,
but soon ceased to do so, and papei
money was entirely superseded by coi*
about the middle of the fifteenth century.
The Mautchu dynasty, which
came into power in 1645. never issued
any government paper until 1852, during
the Tai-ping rebellion. This currency,
however, being known to have no
basis of credit or funds, never circulated t
outside of the capital.? Mer-Occan. i,
Garibaldi's Widow. i
A correspondent writing from Italy c
says: "I was passing through Turin a b
few weeks ago and had the good fortune c
to be taken bj a friend to visit the b
Widow Garibaldi. Her home is situated c
in a modest and quiet street; the hum ](
from the leading thoroughfare can be but ^
indistinctly heard. Ilcr little sitting c!
room is full of memorials of her beloved
husband. The cabinets contain many a:
medals, crosses and orders, while the b
walls, on the occasion of my visit, were ji
hung with flags of historic renown. The ti
old lady appears to be wrapped up in a;
memories of the past, and her conversa- p
tion, turning on the career ol' the dead, h
bore, as was natural, a melancholy it
tinae." .... | (
NIGHT.
I stand where the moon's pale silver
Lies dreaming on the sea,
Across the waves in trembling lines
Of glittering filigree,
And where from heaven's far-off heighW
x ne stars iook aownon me.
The dense black foids of sleeping wares,
With slumberous, lengthened swells,
The crescent curve of murmuring sands
Dotted with gleaming shells,
And floating past in hollow tones
A ghostly sound of bells.
Far out a dusky vessel swings,
At anchor safe she rides,
And swaying chains clank mournfully
Against her shadowy sides.
Secure in Ocean's arms she rests,
Rocked by the pulsing tides.
The moon goes slow]j up the heights
Above the milky wayPale
Dian of the silver bow,
Who searches for the day;
Up, up through dusky midnight leagues;
Past flying cloud-shapes gray.
And overhead Orion waits
To usher in the dawn,
When sheer a-down the sable steeps
The lingering stars have gone;
And still, like silent soldiery,
TVia travoo maAn anH nn
Oh, night, as thou art beautiful,
Oh, night, as thou art grand,
Speak to my soul in whispers her*
Beside this quiet strand;
What means thy solemn mystery
That broods o'er sea and land?
?Ernest McOafisy.
PITH APPOINT.
Out of season?an empty pepper box.
To make a Roman punch, call him *
liar.? Winnipeg Siftings.
Kings ransom?"when their subjects got
after them.?Texas Si/tings.
One can always take pains by eating
green cucumbers.?Boston Gazette.
About the worst examples a boy meets
are those in the arithmetic.?Puck.
It is meet and drink that is depriving
many a family of food.?Omaha Bee.
Many are the men who would rather
dye than have gray whiskers.?Merchant'
Traveler. "
It is permissible to call Welsh news*
papers "The Prints of Wales."?Drake's
Magazine.
When is a frame bouse not a frame
house? When an earthquake makes it
rock.?Washington Critic.
Among the Zulus young people fight
and get married. Here they get married
and tight.?Texas 8if tings.
All men try to get the earth, but the
earth gets them. This is not a joke; it is
the grave truth.?Washington Oritic.
Old lady?"How often does this elevator
come down?" Elevator boy?' 'Between
the up-tripe, ma'am.?Tid-Bits.
A man who hunts rats may be called
a ratter, but a woman who hunts moths
i$ not necessarily a mother.?Springfidi
Union. ,
In the matter of speed there is a great
similarity between a flash of lightning
and a bit of unfounded gossip.?SL
Albans Messenger.
A lawyer may not be at all fastidious
in dressing, but no one likes to come out
in a new suit any better than he does.??
Merchant Traveler.
The rope-walker is not ordinarily a
despondent individual, but be seldom
lives long after losing bis position.?
Duhith Paragraphs.
Poetic Daughter?"Ah! would that I
had the wings of a dove." Practical
father?"H'm! get the legs they're
much better eating."?Tid-BHt.
At the primary school. Teacher?
"Victor, tell me what animal it is that is
most susceptible of attachment to man."
Scholar (after reflection)?"The leech,
monsieur.?French Paper.
Tired Reporter?"Mr. Shears, the man
you sent me to interview got mad." Abl?
Editor?"He did?" "And choked me."
"Ye powers!" "And kicked me dows
stairs." "Thelow-livingscondrel! Spell
his name wrong."?Omaha World.
Sick Husband?"Pid the doctor say
that I am to take all that medicine?"
Wife?"Yes, dear." Sick Husband?
"Why, there is enough in that bottle to
kill a mule." Wife (anxiously)?"You
had .better be careful, John."?Boston
Herald.
"What makes Mr. Pottleton so unpopular,
I wonder? He'<j a good looking
young man and quite inteligent." "Yea
but he writes poetry." "Well that isn't
% crime against society, is it?" "No.
But he insists on reading it to you, too."
?Town Topics.
Tommy (who wants to prove things
ihat he hears)?jMother, do you think our
oig dog Lion would save a little girl'a
ife if she fell into the water? Mother?
[ dare say he would, dear. Tommy (en;husiastically)?Oh,
then do frow Topey
n.?Harper's Young People.
The fourth finger of the left hand hu
rom the earliest date been used as a
vedding ring fiDger. The ancient belief
vas that a nerve in , this finger
a J:?1.1? rnv.?
vent Uiruutljr iu iuc ucan. mo
nodern belief is that the nerve leads
lirectly to the pocketbook, and Strang*
o say, after the ring is bought, tha
nodern terminus of that nerve is often
ighter than the ancient one ever could
lave been.?Jeweler's WeeUy.
"here is a man in our town, and he is wondrous
wise.
Vhenever he writes the printer-man he dotteth
all his i's;
Lnd when he's dotted all of them with great
sang froid. and ease,
le punctuates each paragraph, and crosses
all his t's.
Jpon one side alone he writes, and never roll*
his leaves;
Lnd from the man of ink a smile, and mark
"insert" receives.
Lnd when a question he doth ask (taught
wisely he has been,)
lo doth the goodly two-cent stamp, for postage
back, put in._ _
at. josepn aeraia.
The Picnic, the Beautiful' Picnic.
Now let us to the woodland hie, whers
rees their verdure wrap, for spring no
ongcr lingers in old burly winter's lap.
n picnic garb we'll amble forth and sit
ieneath the trees, and have our hides all
hopped and hacked with stings of bumle
bees. We'll gaily don our linen
oats, and thin seersucker pants, and sit
eside the gurgling stream, while o'er us
rawl the ants. We'll swallow picnio
imonade, to moisten down our grub,
'hich people make by soaking one
heap lemon in a tub. The guileless
:mon we shall eat, devour the clammy pie,
ad sit on bowls of custard while a tear
edims our eye. We'll tip the mustardt
1 the jam, "the pepper in the tea, and
j with all our might to show that w&
re filled with glee. Then let us to th?
icnic hie, our basket in our hand, and
omeward come filled up with woe and
:aves and dust and sand.?Atchinvm
Kas.) Gl/jbe. ?
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