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THX BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY
SERMON.
.Subject: "Does Religion Prolong
J \ Life ?"
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7^- Text : " With long life will I satisfy
| Aim."?Psalms xci., 16.
> Through the mistake of its friends religion
has been chiefly associated with sick beds and
graveyards. Ihe whole subject to many
i people is odorous with chlorine and carbolic
f acid. There are people who cannot pro '
nounce the word religion without hearing in
I it the clipping chisel of the tombstone cutI
ter. It is high time that this thing were
changed and that religion, instead of being
x represented as a hearse to carry out tne aeaa,
should be represented as a chariot in which
the living are to triumph.
Religion, so far from subtracting from
one's vitality, is a glorious addition. It is
sanative, curative, hygienic. It is good for
the eyes, good for the ears, good for the
pleen, good for the digestion, good for the
! nerves, good for the muscles. When David,
in another part of the Psalms, prays that religion
may be dominant he does not speak of
it as a mild sickness, or an emaciation, or an
attack of moral and spiritual cramp; he
speaks of it as "the saving health of all nations;"
while God. in the text, promises
longevity to the pious, saying; " n ith long
life will I satisfy him."
Tbefactis that men and women die too
soon. It is high time that religion joined the
hand of medical science iu attempting to improve
human longevity. Adam lived nine
nundred and thirty years. Methuselah lived
nine hundred and sixty- nine years. As late
i in the history of the world as Vespasian,
there were at one time in his empire fortyfive
people one hundred and thirty-five years
old. So far down as the Sixteenth century,
Peter Zartan died at one hundred and eightyfive
years of age. I da uOt say that religion
$ will ever take the race back to ante-diluvian
longevity, but I do say the length of human
life will be greatly improved
It is said in Isaiah: ''The child shall die a
hundred years old" f-'ow, if according to
Scripture the child is to be a hundred years
old, may not the men and women reach to
three hundred and four hundred and five
hundred? The fact is that we are mere
dwarfs and skeletons compared with some of
* the generations that are to coma Take the
African race. They have been under bondage
for centuries. Give them a chance and
they develop a Frederick Douglass or a Toussaint
L'Ouverture. And if the white race
shall be brought from under the serfdom of
sin, what shall be the body? What shall be
^ the soul? Religion has only just touched our
world. Give it'full power for a few centuries,
and who can tell what will be the strength
of man and the beauty of woman and the
-longevity of all.
My design is to show that practical religion
is the friend of long life. I prove it,
first, from the fact that it makes the care of
our health a positive Christian duty.
Whether we shall keep early or late hours,
whether we shall take food digestible or indigestible,
whether there shall be thorough or
incomplete mastication, are questions very
often deferred to the realms of whimsicality;
but the Christian man lifts this whole
Soblem of health into the accountable and
e divine. He says: "God has given me
. this body, and Ke has called it the temple of
the Holy Ghost, and to deface its altars or
mar its walls or crumble its pillars is a God
defying sacrilege."
He sees God 8 caligraphy in every pageanatomical
and physiological. He says:
"God has given me a wonderful body for
noble purposes."
That arm with thirty-two curious bones
wielded by forty-six curious muscles, and all
under the brain's telegraphy; S50 pounds of
blood rushing through the heart every hour,
the heart in twenty-four hours beating 100-,
000 times, during the twenty-four hours
overcoming resistances amounting to 234.003,000
pounds of weight, during the same
time the lungs taking in fifty-seven hogs.heada
of air, and all this mechanism not
more mighty than delicate and easily disturbed
and demolished
The Christian man says to himself: "If I
hurt my nerves, if 1 hurt my brain, if I hurt
any of my physical faculties I insult God and
call for dire retribution." Why did God tell
the Levites not to offer to him in sacrifice
animals imperfect and diseased/ He meant
. to tall us in all the ages that we are to offer
to God our very best physical condition, and
a man who through irregular or gluttonous
ating ruins his health is not offering to God
audi a sacrifice. Why did Paul write for his
cloak, at Troas? Why should such a great
as Faul be anxious about a thing so insignificant
as an overcoat? It was because
~ be knew that with pneumonia and rheuma*
QKm oe woiua not uo worm uoil as iuucu wj
God and the church as with respiration easy
and foot free.
An intelligent Christian man would consider
it an absurdity to kneel down at night
and pray and ask God's protection while at
the same time he kept the windows of his
bed room tight shut against fresh air. He
would just as soon think of going out on the
bridge between New York and Brooklyn,
I leaping off and then praying to God to keep
him from getting hurt Just as long as you
defer this whole subject of physical health to
the realm of whimsicality or to the pastry
r cook or to the batcher or to the baker or to
the apothecary or to the clothier, you are not
acting like a Christian. Take care of all
your physical forces?nervous, muscular,
Done, brain cellular tissue?for all you must
be brought to judgment.
, Smoking your nervous system into fidgets,
burning out the coating of your stomach
with wine logwooded ana strychnined, walkto
- ing with thin shoes to make your feet look
delicate, pinched at the waist until you are
' well nigh cut in two, and neither part worth
anything, groaning about sich headache ana
palpitation of the heart, which you think
came from God, when they came from youi
own folly.
What right has any man or woman to deface
the temple of the Holy Ghost? What is
the ear? Why, it is the whispering gallery
of the human soul. What is the eye? It is
the observatory God constructed, its telescope
sweeping the heavens. What is the
hand? An instrument so wonderful that
when the Earl of Bridgewater bequeathed in
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the wisdom, power and goodness of God,
Sir Charles Bel], the great English anatomist
and surgeon, found his greatest illustration
in the construction of the human
hand, devoting his whole book to that subject.
So wonderful are these bodies that
God names his own attributes after different
parts of them- * His omniscience?it is God's
eye. His omnipresence?it is God's ear. His
omnipotence?it is God's arm. The upholstery
of the midnight heavens?it is the work
Of God's fingers. His life giving power?it
is the breaoh of the Almighty. His dominion?"the
government shall be upon his
shoulder." A body so divinely honored and
*o divinely constructed, let us be careful not
to abuse it.
When it becomes a Christian duty to take
care of our health, is not the whole tendency
toward longevity? If I toss ray watch about
recklessly and drop it on ihe pavement and
wind it up any time of day or night I happen
to think of it, and often let it run down,
while you are careful with your watch and
never abuse it and wind it up just at the
> same hour every night and put in a place
where it will not suffer from the violent
changes of atmosphere, which watch will last
the longer? Common sens3 answers. Now
the human body is God's watch. You see
the hands of the watch, you see the face of
the watch, but the beating of the heart is
the ticking of the watch. Oh, be careful
and do not let it run down!
Again, I remark that practical religion is
a friend of longevity in the fact that it is a
protest against dissipations which injure and
destroy the health. Bad men and women
lire a very short life. Their sins kill them.
I know hundreds of good old men, but I do
sot know half a dozen bad old men. Why?
They do not get old. Lord Byron died at
Missolonghi at thirty-six years of age, himself
his own Mazeppa, his unbridled passions
-the horse that dashed with him into the
desert. Edgar A. Poe died at Baltimore at
thirty-eight years of age. The black raven
that alighted on the bust above his chamber
door was delirium tremens?
Only this and nothing more.
Napoleon Bonaparte live 1 only just beyond
midlife, then died at St. Helena, and one of
his doctors said that his disease was induced
by excessive snuffing. The hero of Austerlitz,
the man who by one step of his foot in
the center of Europe shook the earth, killed
by a snuff box. Ohf how many people we
have known who have not lived out half
their days because of their d ssipations and
indulgences! Now practical religion is a
protest against all dissipation of any kind.
"But," you say, ''professors of religion
w? have fallen, professors of religion have got
drank, professors of religion have misappro?riatei
trust funds, professors of religtyn
ave absconded." Yes; but they threw away
their religion before they did their morality.
II a man on a White Star line steamat bound
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for Liverpool in mid-Atlantic jumps overboard
and is drowned, is that anything
a?a;nst the White Star line's capacity to take
the man across the ocean' And if a man
jumps over the gunwale of his religion and
goes down never to rise, is that any reason
for vour believing that religion has no capacity
to take the man clear through? In the
one case if he had kept to the steamer his
body would have been saved; in the other
case, if he bad kept to his religion his morals
would have been saved.
There are aged people who would have
been dead twenty-five years ago but for the
defenses and the equipoise of religion. You
have no more natural resistance than hundreds
of reople who lie in the cemeteries today.
slain by their own vices. The doctors
made their case as kind and pleasant as they
could, and it was called congestion of tha
k""1" oAmafKmcf olea Ktif. fKn mnlrAfl nnfl
the blueflies that seemed to crawl over the
pillow in the sight of the delirious patient
showed what was the matter with him. You,
the aged Christian man, walked along by
that unhappy one until you came to the
go'den pillar of a Christian life. That is all
the difference between you. Oh, If this religion
is a protest against all forms of dissipation.
theD it is an illustrious friend of
longevity. "With long life will I satisfy
him."
Again, religion is a friend of longevity in
the lact that it takes the worry out of our
temporalities. It is not work that kills men,
it is worry. When a man becomes a genuine
Christian he makes over to God not only his
affections but his family, his business, his
reputation, his body, his mind, his soul?
everything. Industrious he will be, but
never worrying, becau'ie God is managing
his affairs. How can he worrv about business
when in answer to his prayers God tells
him when to buy and when to se 1; and if he
gain that is best, and if he lose that is best?
Suppose you had a supernatural neighbor
who*came in and said: ''Sir, 1 want you to
call on me in every exigency; I an your fast
friend; I could fall back on ?20,000,000; lean
foresee a panic ten years; I hold the controlling
stock in thirty of the best monetary institutions
of New York; whenever you are
in trouble call on me and I will help you,
you can have my money and you can have
my influence; here is my hand in pledge for
it" How much would you worry about
business? Why, you would say: "I'll do the
best I can, and "then I'll depend on my
friend's generosity for the rest."
Now more than that is promised to every
Christian business man. God says to him:
"I own New York and London and St.
Petersburg and Pekin, and Australia and
California are mine; I can foresee a pan.'c a
million years; I have all the resources of the
universe, and I am your fast friend; when
you get in business trouble or any other
trouble, call on me and I will help; here is
my hand" in pledge of omnipotent deliverance."
How much should that man worry?
Not much. What lion will dare to put his
paw on that Daniel? Is there not rest in
this? Is there not an eternal vacation in
this?
"Oh," you say. "here is a man who asked
God for a blessing in a certain enterprise,
and he lost Ave thousand dollars in it. Explain
that." I will. Yonder is a factory,
and one wheel is going north and the other
wheel is going south, and one wheel plays
laterally and the other plays vertically. I
50 to the manufacturer and I say: "0 manufacturer,
your machinery is a contradiction.
Way do vou not make all the wheels go one
way?" "Well," he says, "I made them to go in
apposite directions on purpose, and they produce
the right result. You go downstairs
and examine the carpets we are turning out
in this establishment and you will sea." I
go down on the other lloor and I see
the carpets, and I am obliged to confess that
though the wheels in that factory go in opposite
directions they turn out a beautiful result;
and while I am standing there looking
at the exquisite fabric an old Scripture
passage comes into my mind: ''All things
work together for good to them who love
God." Is there not rest in that? Is there
not tonic in that? Is there not longevity in
chat?
Suppose & man is all the time worried
about his reputation. One man says he lies,
another says he is stupid, another says he is
dishonest, and half a dozen printing establishments
attack him. and ne is in a great
state of excitement and worry and fume, and
cannot sleep; but religion comes to him and
says: "Man, God i3 on your side; he will
take care of your reputation; if God be for
you, who can be against you?" How much
should that man worry about his reputation?
Not much. If that broker who some years
ago in Wall street, after he had lost money,
sat down and wrote a farewell letter
to his wife before he blew his
brains out?if instead of taking out of his
pocket a piscoi ne naa tasen out a won reau
New Testament there would have been one
less suicide. Oh, nervous and feverish people
of the world, try this almighty sedative.
You will live twenty-five years longer under
its soothing power. It is not chloral that
you want, or morphine that you want; it is
the Gospel of Jesus Christ "With long life
will I satisfy him."
Again, practical religion is a friend of
longevity in the fact that it removes all corroding
care about a future existence. Every
man wants to know what is to become of
him. If you get on board of a rail train you
want to know at what depot it is going to
stop; if you get on board a ship you want to
know into what harbor it is going to run, and
if you shall tell me you have no interest in
what is to be your future destiny, I would in
as polite a way as I knew how tell you I did
not believe you. Before I had this matter
settled with reference to my future existence
the question almost worried me into ruined
health. The anxieties men have upon this
subject put together would make a martyrdom.
This is a state of awful unheal thiness.
There are people who fret themselves to death
for fear of dying.
I want to take the strain off your nerves
and the depression off your soul, and I make
two or three experiments. Experiment first:
When you go out of this world it does not
make any difference whether you have been
good or bad, or whether you believed truth '
or error, you will go straight to elory. ''Impossible,"
you say; ''my common sense as
well as my religion teaches that the bad and
the good cannot live together forever. You
give me no comfort in that experiment."
Experiment the second: When you leave this
world you will go into an intermediate
state where you can get converted
and prepared for heaven. "Impossible," you
say; "as the tree falleth so it must lie, and
I cannot postpone to an intermediate state
reformation which ought to have been effected
in this state." Experiment the third:
There is no future world; when a man dies
that is the last of him. Do not worry about
what you are to do in another state of being;
you will not do anyihing. "Impossible,"
you say; "there is something that tells me
slnofh im ?r?f. fho nnnonHir hilt thA nrftf
ace; there is something that tells me that on
this side of the grave I only get started, and
that I shall go on forever; mv power to
think says 'forever,' my affections say 'forever,'
my capacity to enjoy or suffer, 'forever.'
"
Well, you defeat me In my three experiments.
I have only one more to make, and
if you defeat me in that I am exhausted. A
mighty One on a knoll back of Jerusalem one
day?the skies filled with forked lightnings
and the earth filled with volcanic disturbances?turned
Hi3 pale and agonized face
toward the hmvens and said: "I take the
sins and sorrows of the ages into my own
heart. I am the expiation, Witness earth
and heaven anl hell, I am the expiation."
And the hammer struck him, and the spears
punctured hitn, an l heaven thundered: ''The
wages of sin is death!" "The soul that sinneth
it shall die!" "I will by no means
clear the guilty?1' Then there wa3 silence
for half an hour, and the lightnings
were drawn back into the scabbard
of the sky, and the earth ceased
to quiver, and all the colors of the sky
began to shift themselves into a rainbow
woven out of the fallen tears of Jesus, and
thore was red as of the blood shedding, and
thpre was blue as of the bruising, and there
was green cs of tho heavenly foliage, and
there was orange as of the day dawn. And
along the line of the blue I saw the words:
"I was bruised for the'r iniquities." And
alon* the Una of the red I saw the words:
' The b'.ood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from
all sin." And aloivg the line of the green I
saw the words: ''Tiie leaves of the tree of
life for the he-ilinj of all nations-"' And
along the "line of t!ie orange I saw the words:
" The day spring from on high hath visited
us."
And then I saw the storm was over, and
ihe rainbow ro3e higher and higher, until it
jeamei retreating to another heaven, and
planting one column of its colors on one side
the eternal hill and planting the other column
of its colors on the other side of the eternal
hill, it rose upward and upward, "and behold
there was a rainbow about the throne."
Accept that sacrifice and quit worrying.
Take tne tonic, the inspiration, the longevity
of this truth. Religion is sunshine, that is
health. Religion is fresh air and pure
water, they are healthy. Religion is warmth,
that is healthy. Ask all the doctors and
they will tell you that a quiet conscience and
pleasant anticipations are hygienio. I offer
you perfect peace now and hereafter.
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What do yon want in the future world?
Tell me, and you shall have it Orchards?
There are the trees with twelve manner of
fruits, yelding fruit every month. Water
scenery? There is the River of Life, from
under the throne of God, clear as crystal,
and the sea of glass mingled with fire. Do
you. want music? There is the oratorio of
the Creation led on by Adam, and the oratorio
of the Red Sea le<i on by Moses, and the
oratorio of the Messiah led on by St. Paul,
while the archangel with swinging baton
controls the one hundred and forty-four
thousand who make up the orcha?: ra.
Do you want reunion? There are your
dead children waiting to kiss you, waiting to
embrace you, waiting to twist garlands in
your hair. You have been accustomed to
open the door on this side of the sepulchre. I
open the door on the other side of the sepulchre.
You have been accustomed to walk in
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Jou the under side of tiie grave; the bottom
as fallen out, and the Ion?: ropes with which
the pall bearer let down your dead let them
clear through into heaven.
Glory be to Ged for this robust, healthy
religion. It will have a tendency to make
you live long in this worid, and in the world
to come you will have eternal life. "With
long life will I satisfy him."
TEMPERANCE
Watch the Boys.
They laid him down with happy smilea
In his tiny, curtained bed,
They gently smoothed the pillow fair
Where reposed his little head,
And loving words from every one
Gave greeting of joy to the first-born son.
They watched around him day by day,
Till the little limbs grew strong;
They taught in simple, childlike words
Of the ways of right and wrong,
And loving hearts kept record sure
Of each baby action so sweet and pure.
They laid him down, with faces grave,
In his coffin, cold and dread;
No loving hand to spread the pall
O'er the strangely silent dead,;
No word of hope?in speechless awe
They gazed on the face they should see no
more.
Far, far from home, in foreign soil,
He was hid from mortal eye;
No record of his life on earth,
But 'tis written up on high?
The story of a drunkard's shame,
His wasted life and his blighted fame.
?Marietta. A. CasselU
'A German Medical View.
At the recent Seventh Congress of Internal
Medicine, held at Weisbaden, Germany, in
connection with a discussion upon the use of
alcoholic liquors in medicine, Dr. Binz, of
Boon, acting as chairman, is reported as saying:
"In order to define our position as physicians
in our relation to the temperance and
prohibition societies, I would express myself
thus: All that I have said pertains to the
sick. The healthy man has no need of alcohol,
and if be indulges in ardent spirits ho
does this solely for his own pleasure and
his own risk I place alongside of the
whisky nuisance the beer nuisance. The
habit of taking alcoholic stimulants apart
from meals is a public evil from a sanitary,
economic, and intellectual point of view. The
inveterate beer-drinker Is as much undf/y the
dominion of alcohol as the brand/, ot
whisky-drinker, and the greater sinner ot
the two."
Marshall Parting with the Bottle.
A Congressional abstinence society was
formed and Marshall swore off drinking. He
made a speech before the Society which is
perhaps the most eloquent temperance effort
ever delivered in the Congressional halls,
though the sentence containing it is as long
as one of Senator Evarts' longest. It ran:
"I would not exchange the physical sensations,
the mere sense of animal being, which
belong to a man who totally reframs from
all that can intoxicate his brain or derange his
nervous structure, the elasticity with which
he bounds from the couch in the morning, the
sweet repose it yields him at night, the feeling
with which be drinks in, through hs
clear eyes, the beauty and tbe grandeur of
surrounding nature; I say, sir, I will not exchange
my conscious being as a strictly temperate
man, the sense of renovated youth,
the glad play with which my pulses now beat
a healthful music, the bounding vivacity
with which the life blood courses its exulting
way through every fiber of my frame, the
communion high which my healthful ear and
eye now hold with all the gorgeous universe
of God, the splendors of the morning, tbe
softness of the evening sky, the bloom, the
beauty, the verdure of the earth, the music
of the air and of tbe waters; with all the
grand associations of external nature reopened
to the five avenues of sense;no, sir,
though poverty dog me,though scorn pointed
its slow finger at me as I passed, though
want and destitution and every element of
earthly misery, save only crime, met my
waking eye from dav to day; not
for tne brightest and noblest wreath
that ever encircled a statesman's brow; not
if some angel commissioned by heaven, or
some demon sent fresh from hell to test the
resisting strength of virtuous resolution,
should tenjpt me DacK, witn au tne weaitn
and all thehonors which a world can bestow;
not for all that time and earth can give, would
I cast from me this precious pledge of a
liberated mind, this talisman agamst temptation,
and plunge again into tne dangers and
horrors which once beset my path. So help
me heaven, as I would spurn beneath my
very feet all the gifts the universe could offer,
and live and die as 1 am{ poor, but sober."
Notwithstanding this speech, however,
Marshall broke his pledge, and there is a mnn
still living at Washington who took care of
bim during some of his after-attacks of
delirium tremens. It is said that his first
drinking was caused by a disappointment in
love, ana it may have been that he would
have been a sober man had this not occurred.
?New York Sun.
Coffee Rooms.
It is said that many of the liquor dealers
in Philadelphia who have been refused
licenses by tne excise court have determined
to continue their places as milk and luncheon
shops. It would certainly seem as though the
closing up of fourteen or fifteen hundred
beer and "free lunch" resorts in one city
ought to leave some openings for a trade like
that now proposed. It is natural to suppose
that at least a few of the men who have
been in the custom of quenching their thirst
or satisfying their hunger in the saloons will
now turn for the same purpose to the more
convenient eating-houses. The saloons, however,
hold out certain inducements to wayfaring
men that the ordinary milk and
luncheon shops do not possesa The former
furnish not only food and drink, but they
furnish the refreshment of rest. The saloon
nnfiwnrs to its natron man v of the purposes
of a club-house, a place of rendezvous, o'f social
entertainment. He must patronize the
bar to- a greater or less extent, but
aftei that the privileges of the place are open
to him; be may read the papers or play cards,
or tell stories with his boon companions. The
restaurants do not offer these privileges to
their patrons. As soon as the latter have
completed the particular business on which
they came, they are expected to make way
for others. The restaurant does not hold itself
out as a place for anything else than the furnishing
of food and drink, and for this reason
it aces not; take the p1 ace of the saloon.
This leads us to the consideration of the question
whether some substitute can not be
found for the saloon which will include such
harmless and proper accompaniments as the
saloon may possess without its dangerous and
degrading ones. In England this question
has been answered very satisfactorily in the
establisement of coffee-houses, places that
combine the features of a restaurant with
those of an unpretentious but inviting clubroom.
It will be remembered that an attempt
was made about two years ago to introduce
a coffee-house system in New York,
modeled after the English plan. A com
mittee of prominent citizens was appointed
to take the subject under consideration.
After carefully looking over the ground
they came to the conclusion that the scheme
was not a practicable ono, and was therefore
dropped. In spite of this, however, we believo
that coffee houses are needed in our
I large cities to-day as much as they are in
England, and that in this way lies one of the
I most practical and effective agencies for the
overthrow of the saloon power. In a city
like New York, where there is always a large
floating population, where many are forced
to live amid the cheerless and forbidding
' surroundings of the tenements and lodging
| houses, some provision must be made for
| meeting the social needs oI the people. The
saloon meets them to some extent, and herein
lies a large part of its power for evil. Statistics
show that the coffee houses of England
have had a decided effect in decreasing
drunkenness and crime. We are confident
that like results would follow their introduction
here. In the establishment of an
American coffee house system there is an opportunity
far a large and noble philanthropic
effort?New York Obftrver.
RELIGIOUS READING.
Hii Care.
God holds tke key of all unknown,
And I am glad;
If other hands should hold the key,
Or If he trusted it to me,
I might be sad.
What if tomorrow's cares were here
Without its rest?
I had rather he unlock the day, *
And as the doors swing open say,
"My will is best."
The very dimness of my sight
Make? me secure,
For groping in my misty way,
I feel his hand?I hear him say,
"My help is sure."
I cannot read his future plan,
But this I know,
I have the smiline of his face.
And all the refuge of his grace,
While here below.
Enough; this covers all my want,
And so I rest:
For what I cannot he can see,
And in his care I soon shall be,
Forever blest.
VopUd/i Conversion on the lord'i
Oajr.
More than a hundred years have passed
since ayoung man in England, who belonged
to a pious family, but was himself, far from
God, was to find God by strange means.
He had been the child of many prayers, but
to all the entreaties of his pious mother
and others he answered by inwardly resolving
not to become a Christian. When he
and his mother were on a visit to Ireland, on
the Lord's day, they went to a place where a
good man was going to preach. He was
very earnest in his sermon, and put the
auestion to the unsaved present, whether
ley would give themselves to Christ or remain
' rebels? Every time the
young man said in his own heart,
'I will not yield, I ' will not
yield." His heart was hardened against
God's grace, and at the close of the sermon
it seemed to be harder than ever it had been.
When the sermon was finished, the minister
gave out a hymn. It begins:
"Come, ye sinnerc, poor and needy,
Weak and Wounded; sick and sore."
The congregation, stirred by the earnest
sermon, sung the hymn with their whole
heart. And what a sermon could not do,
the singing of the hymn did. It broke the
hard, unyielding heart. He found God and
gave himself to him. He lived to be an honored
preacher of the gospel He was Augustus
Toplady, the author of the great
hymn?
"Rock of Ages, cleft for me.
Let me hide myself in thee."
?[Exchange,
Trouble In Israel.
National sin had brought national punishment
and threatened national ruin. Elijah,
directed by Jehovah's spirit, had rebuked
both king and kingdom, by lockingthe heavers
with the hand of prayer. For three
years and six months no drop of rain or dew
had fallen. Those three years were mostly
spent in a bootless search for the weird Tishbite,
whom the Lord had hidden. At last he
meets the haughty, angry Ahab in the dusty
highway. "Art thou he that troubloth
Terpfll 7" Bnnrfcpri fh? lrlnc in &
paroxysm of rage. All unmindful of his sin
in leading Israel to worship Baal and Ashterotb,
which had brought this great calamity
upon the land, he was cursing the prophet
who had the courage to speak out in reproof.
With placid dignity the prophet repliea: "I
have not troubled Israel; but thou and thy
father's house, in tbat ye have forsaken the
commandments of the Lord, and thou hast
followed Baal," (L Kings 18: 17, 18). Who
was the cause of the trouble, the faithful
prophet of righteousness, or the unfaithful,
wicked, adolatrous monarch.
But history repeats itself. There are still
sinners in Zicn. These disturb the peace of
the church. Ar.d if any one, be he bishop,
pastor, or editor, says a reproving word,
straightway he is accused of "troubling Israel"
and "hammering the erring brethren,"
and so creating discord I Strange casuistry
this! It would be much better to repent
of the sins which disturb the peace of tho
church, than to 6cold and curse the prophets
who speak earnest words of truth on the
situation.?[Evangelical Messenger.
Any One bat XeiQi.
This sentiment was involved in the choice
of those Jews who, when asked by Pilate;
"Shnll I crucify your king?1' replied "We
have no king but Caesar." Tne boast of their
Talmud was, "Israel has no king but God."
Their submission to Caesar was forced. Fain
would they have broken his hated yoke.
Yet, so muca greater was tneir natreaoi
Jesus that they could answer Pilate as they
did. Meaning a lie, they spoke a truth. For,
casting off allegiance to God by rejecting his
Son, and acknowledging Caesar as their
king, they had chosen an earthly rather than
the heavenly ruler, and temporal in preference
to eternal blessings. With so sensual a
choice, Caesar was a fit king for them. Pilate's
question had brought Jesus and Caesar
into direct competition. Knowing their hatred
towards his emperor, the wily Roman
may have intended to force upon them this
humiliating choice. Be this as it may, their
answer expresses their purpose to submit to
any humiliation, rather than to own Jesus
as their king. Any one but Jesus?this was
the language of their hearts.
This spirit was again shown when Pilate
proposed to release, at their choice, either the
notorious criminal, Barabbas,or the faultless
Jesus. Pilate did not think it possible they
could make choice of so black a criminal
But he had not calculated the depth of their
hate towards the Christ, for no sooner had
he pointed to the latter and asked if he
should release him, than they cried out, "Not
this man, but Barabbas." Barabbas or Jesus
as a companion? Caesar or Christ as king?
These were the two choices that were given
these people, to test their spirit; and when
they proniptly decided for Barabbas and Caesar,
they showed that they were determined
to choose any one but Jesus.
This choice may seem shocking; and yet it
is paralleled by the moral disposition which
now denies or withholds allegiance from the
Christ. This may be seen by reflecting upon
some of Christ's requirements and the way
multitudes treat them. He calls upon all to
repent and trust in him for salvation; but
Satan tempts them to stand upon their personal
merit and they adopt the pleasing suggestion.
Or, though they may not realize
the fact, they turn away from Jesus, and
choose the leadership of Satan. Any one but
Jesus.
Jesus also offers himself to these as their
hope; Aut the world steps forward as his
competuV. A choice they must make: Jesus
or the world?which shall it be? A hope
whose anchor is cast in the sea of this life, or
that hope whose anchor is cast within the
veil, whither, as a forerunner, Jesus entered
for us? These rival hopes have contended
for their choico and with what result? Aiasi
the world has been chosen and the Son of
God stands before them as the rejected rival.
Any one but Jtsus.
In a word, Jesus has come to every one and
claimed His allegiance. The founder of a
spiritual kingdom and their rightful sovereign,
He has claimed the loyalty of all hearts.
Or He comes to all now, as He did to those
who first rejected Him. His claim to allegiance
now and then Is the same. Then It
was to acknowledge His kingly right to reign
supremely over souls. Now it is exactly the
same, Inen His claim to allegiance was reJ'ected
with the declaration, "We have no
:ing but Caesar." And how many now are
treating His claim in the same way? To an
earthly Cajsar, rather than to the heavenly
Christ, is their allegiance paid. And this
constant choice of submission to 6ome other
authority than to that of King Jesus car.
mean only this?anyone but Jesus. 0, tbat
(iod by His Spirit would make all the rejecters
of His Son to see the enormity of their
sin.? CPteligious Herald.
The Only Proper Attitude.
The quadrennial address of the Bishops delivered
at the M. E.Conference in New York,
dealt with the liquor traffic as follows: "The
liquor traffic is so pernicious in its bearings,
so inimical to the interests of honest trade, so
repugnant to the moral sense, so injurious to
the peace and order of society, so hurtful to
the home, to the church, and to the body
politic, and so utterly antagonistic to all that
is precious in life, that the only proper attitude
toward it for Christians is that of relentless
hostility. It can never be legalized
without sin. No temporary device for regulating
it can become a substitute for prohibition.
License, high or low, is vicious in
principle, and powerless as a remedy."
An Indian, who is "in love with American
firewater," has been arrested forty times at
Porjt Huron, Michigan, for drunkenness, L _
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QUAINT SANTA FE, j
OBJECTS OF INTEREST IN AN
OLD MEXICAN TOWN.
Old Adobe Structures Erected Before
America's Discovery?The
Remarkable Santa Fe TrailSpanish
Chiefly Spoken.
An Atlanta Constitution correspondent
sends the following graphic pen picture
of Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico:
When old St. Augustine, down in
Florida, was but a barren stretch of
sand and Mdendez was a child, Santa
Fe was a town of considerable importance,
although the face of a white man
had never been seen by any of the inhabitants.
There are now standing
Bome of the adobe structu.es. that were
erected here long before Christopher
Columbus was born, and, if the stories
of the old priests are to be believed, the
church of San Miguel was built before
Ferdinand and Isabella ascended the
Spanish throne.' When the Spaniards
came here, in 1582, they found a town
of four or five hundred inhabitants, which
was then, to all appearances, sereial
centuries old. Its altitude?G862 feet?
assured an equable climate the year
through, and the Indians who built the
town had cultivated the plateau on
which the city now s ands, and
made it fertile as well as beautiful.
As a rule, the North
American Indians were nomads, but the
Zuni, Moqui and Pueblo tribes were
more domestic in their habits, and they
built the first villages on the North American
continent. It is supposed that the
Zunis built Santa Fe and gave it the
name Pueblo, meaning "a settlement."
Frpm this the residents were called
Pueblo3, after a while taking this name
to distinguish themselves from the main
body of Zunis, who had moved northward
and founded the towns of Moqui,
Trinidad and Pueblo?the two latter in
Colorado. Between these Indian villages
were well beaten bridle paths, the unerring
instinct of the Indians having led
them to find the shortest and easiest
route through the Rocky Mountains, between
Raton and Trinidad. When the
Spaniards came here, in 1582, they were
greatly astonished to find a large adobe
structure?used by the Zunis for a council
chamber?and they straightway proceeded
to turn it into a church, calling it
San Miguel. This is the building which
still stands, and which is believed to be
the oldest structure in the United 8tates.
In 1880 the Indians came to the conclusion
that the Spaniards, who had
changcd the name of their city and had
seized their council chamber and turned
it into a church, were a sort of nuisance,
and they rose in rebellion against further
innovations. Finally, they masacred
every Spaniard whom they could lay
hands upon, burned the church saints in
the plaza, forbade the use of the Spanish
language, put aside the wives to whom
they had been married by Catholic ritea
and washed themselves in the river to
purify themselves from the baptism of
dwelling are such as one finds in At- ;
lanta's Peachtree street homes?beautl- '
ful pictures and statuary, imported carpets
and rugs, rare bric-a-brac and pot- \
tyies?everything that money can buy.
Of course, all this makes the change '
from the outside atmosphere of squalor
the more marked. Judge Thornton's !
home is but the type of hundreds of
others owned by wealthy Spaniards, '
Mexicans or Americans, who have settled
here because of this incomparable ;
climate.
Reference has been made to the old '
church of San MigueL Here ia to be
seen the bell cast in 1550, brought to 1
Mexico by Cortez and transported hither |
by Indian slaves from the City of Mexico
after Montezuma's power was no more.
Three of the altar pieces are over seven 1
hundred years old and were painted in '
Barcelona and sent hither through the
officers of the church in Mexico. From
the door of San Miguel starts the path to ;
Trinidad, hundreds of miles away; the
trail which so astonished the Spaniards,
away back in 1582 and which, as late as
1848, astounded the civil engineers who
surveyed it and gave it the name it has
since borne?the Santa Fe trail.
Antiquarians tell us that the Santa Fe
trail is one of the most remarkable pieces
of engineering of primeval origin. It ;
runs in the most direct possible line to
Trinidad and thence to Pueblo, near Denver.
Through the mountains the grades
have been chosen with such skill that,
notwithstanding the fact that more than
two hundred surveys have been made by
competent engineer's to find a better route,
no one has yet been able to find an easier
grade through the liocky Mountains than
was located by these nomads hundreds
and hundreds of years ago. The line is
so direct that ' 'the old Santa Fe trail"
has been followed closely in the build
ing of tne Atcnison, xopesa ana saota
Fe railroad, from Kansas City to the far
West.
Colonel A. B. Steele, an archrologist
of repute, says of the Santa Fe trail:
"When you see the old road from the
car windows you may reflect that you are
looking upon the unused paths of prehistoric
wanderers. The roads that lead
to Meccn, the sand-drifted highways of
the Sahara, the very footsteps of Christ,
are not more ancient." The old trail is
plainly visible, since it was the only
route for years to the Pacific coast and
soon became a broad well-worn road,
with stage houses at intervals and civilization
wherever such a thing was possible.
The Governor's palace, a long adobe
structure, a couple of hundred or more
years old, contains the territorial offices
and many choice relics, and, in addition
to this, there are two free museums and
curiosity shops by the score. The city
surrounds a piazza (pronounced plat-za)
a large square fenced in and covered with
grass and trees. There is no architectural
beauty except in the oapitol, a
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new building of brick (ind gra ttite, m|
yet rather bare looking. The territorial
legislature is composed principally of
men whose parents are Mexican, and the;
almost universal language is Spanish, all'
of which tends to make one forget he is
still in the United States.
The Climate of Siberia.
From George Kennan's account of the
"Plains and Prisons of Western Siberia?
in the Century we quote the following;
"It is hardly necessary to say that a
country which has an area of five and al
half million square miles, and which extends
in latitude as far as from the
southern extremity of Greenland to thei
island of Cuba, must present great diversities
of climate, topography, and vegetation,
and cannot be everywhere a barren
arctic waste. A mere glance at a map is
sufficient to show that a considerable
part of western Siberia lies further south
than Nice, Venice, or Milan, and that
the southern boundary of the Siberian
province of Semirechinsk is nearer thei
equator than Naples. In a country*
wbich thus stretches from the latitude;
of Italy to the latitude of central Green-'
land one would naturally expect to find,'
and as a matter of fact one does find,
many varieties of climate and scenery.'
In some parts of the province of Yakutsk
the mean temperature of the month of
January is more than 50 degrees Hbelow!
zero, Fahr., while in the province of
Semipalatinsklhemeantemperatureof the
month of July is 72 degrees above; and
suchxaaximum temperatures as 95 and! 100
degrees in the shade are comparatively
common. On the Tannyr peninsula, east
of the Gulf of Ob, the permanently
frozen ground thaws out in summer (p a
depth of only a few inches, and supports
but a scanty vegetation of berry bushes
and moss, while in the southern part of
western Siberia watermelons and canta;
loupes are a profitable crop, tobacco is
grown upon thousands of plantations,
and the peasants harvest annually morethan
50,000,000 bushels of grain. Thefact
which I desire esp9cially to impress
upon the mind of the reader is that Sibe*
fia is not everywhere uniform and homogenerous.
The northern part of the
country differs from the southern part
quite as much as the Hudson Bay Territory
differs from Kentucky; and it is asgreat
a mistake to attribute the cold and
barrenness of the Lena delta to the whole
of Siberia as it would be to attribute
the cold and barrenness of King
William Land to the whole of North
America.'
"To the traveler who crosses the
Urals for the first time in June nothing
is more surprising than the fervent heat
of Siberian sunshine and the extra*
ordinary beauty and profusion of
Siberian flowers. Although we had
been partly prepared, by our yoyage up
the Kama, for the experience which
awaited us on the other side of the
mountains, we were fairly astonished
upon the threshold of western Siberia
by the scenery, the weather, and the
flora. In the fertile, blooming country
presented to us as we rode swiftly eastward
into the province of Tobolsk, there
was absolutely nothing even remotely to
sucpest an arctic region. If we had
the church. Ia 1G02 the Spaniards re- j
captured the town, and since that time
they have had things pretty much their i
own way. To-day the city has a population
of 6500, of whom 5500 are Mexicans, '
many of whom do not understand a word '
of English. It is the only city of its i
size in this country without a steam en 1
giue in its limits. There are but few
frame buildings?everything is adobe. i
The aaobe house, or "doby," as it is 1
called, is familiar to all Western tourists, !
but it is seen at its very best here. The I
wealthiest people live ia structures i
which, from the outside, seem scarcely <
habitable, but withiu are cosy aud, ia |
many instances, luxurious. Judge
Thornton, a wealthy mine owner, has a i
"doby" house near the plaza, or public
quare. In the center of the building is .
a square court yard, filled with magnificent
flowers, with a fountain iu the
ceater. The doors of each apnrtmeot in [
the house open on the wide veranda
which runs around the court-yard, and
the effect is very charming. The walls J
of the building are nearly three feet in
thickness, giving opportunity for deep, ,
cushioned window seats. These thick
walls keep out cold in wiater aad heat !
ip the summer, aud there are, therefore,
but two fire-places iu the whole house? 1
for nsfi in the event of extraordinary 1
severe weather. The decorations of the ,
been blindfolded aod^transportcd to it
suddenly in the middle of a sunny afternoon,
we could never have guessed to
what part of the world we had been ,
taken. The sky was as clear and blue
and the air as soft as the sky and air of
California; the trees were all in full leaf;
birds were singing over the flowery
tncadows and in the clumps of birche3
by the roadside; there wtre a drowsy
hum of bees tad a faint fagrance of
Sowers and verdure in the air; and the- 1
sunshine was as warm and bright as that i
j f a June afternoon in the most favored :
part of the globe."
Romance of the Humble Cotton Seed.
The " Cotton-Seed Romance " is thua '
told by the Atlanta Constitution: Was
there ever a history, this side of Cinderella,
of the uprising of humanity like
that of the cotton-seed ?" For seventy
Fears despised as a nuisance, and burned
;>r dumped as garbage; then discovered
to be the very food for which the soil
was hungering, and reluctantly admitted
to the rank of ugly utilities. Shortly
ifterward found to be nutritious food for,
beast as well as soil, and thereupon treated
with something like respect. Oncei
admitted to the circle of farm husband"'
ries, found to hold thirty-five gallons ofl
pure <5il to the ton, worth, in its crude'
state, fourteen dollars to the ton, or
forty million dollars for the whole crop
of seed. But then a system was devised
for refining this oil up to a value of one
dollar a gallon, and the frugal Italians
placed a cask of it at the root of every
dive tree, and then defied the Boreal
breath of the Alps. And then experiencd
showed that the ton of cotton-seed wai
a better fertilizer and a better stock when
robbed of its thirty-five gallons of oil
than before. And that the hulls of the
3eed made the best of fuel for feeding
the oil-mill engine. And that the ashes
of the hulls scooped from the engine's
drift had the highest commeicial valu^
as potash. And that the "refuse" of the :
whole made the best and purest soapstock
to carry to the toilet the perfumes 1
of Lubin or Colgate. About this time
we began to spell cotton-seed with capi- 1
tal letters. And how it traveled abroad ,
in its various dresses I As meal-cakes it i
whitened the meadows of England with! <
woolly fieece3, and fattened the Britishj
cattle under the oaks; it sputtered on <
the stoves of the Dutch in lieu of lard;' [
it glistened in the cafes of Paris as olive
oils, under seals and signatures it coulq
not even pronounce to save its life, and .
from under the dikes in Holland it went :
forth to parade in all the bravery of butter
and butterine. In our own country i
it renewed the wasting strength of the J
Southern fields, and clad them with j
whiteness that would shame the fleeces
of England, or yellow that would pale ]
the fleeces of Argonauts. It knocked! ;
the Western hog into spots, and poured '
the Western lard out of the frying-pan
into the Are. Ana aooui mis iime tougress
jumped on to cotton-seed with both
feet, and proposed to check its further
career by a prohibitory tax. >
Ghonlish Practice of Egyptians.
A disclosure exceedingly uncomfortable
for the relatives and friends of the
English soldiers killed in Egypt has
been made by the captain of the Austrian
vessel Dub, -which arrived at Aberdeen,
Scotland, the other day, loaded with
bones for fertilizing purposes. The captain
said he had got his load from Alexandria,
and that the bones all came from
Cairo. He thought they were the bones
of giraffes, antelopes, etc., but he was
obliged personally to watch the loading
of his ship and reject complete human
skeletons that were brought to him.
The natives were very indignant at his
refusal to accept the bones of Christians,
and said it was their custom to dig on
battle fields and pull the bodies out of
shallow trenches. It has been found
that in spite of the captain's precautions
the cargo of the Dub contains the bones
of many English soldiers, the natives
having resorted to the simple method of
pulling tite skeletons to pieces, and presenting
them minus heads and hands,
when they found complete frameworks
to be unaccepted.?New Torlt Bun.
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i A WOMAN'S CRIME.
She Confesses to Murdering Her
Hnsband and Children.
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The Deed Committed to Obtain a
Small Sum of Insurance Money,
Mrs. Sarah J. Whittling, forty years old,
was committed to prison by Coroner Ashbridge,
at Philadelphia, after ahe had confessed
to deliberately murdering her husband
and two children for less than #400, for which
their lives were insured. The Whiteling
family consisted, besides the wife, of John
Wbiteiing, the husband, aged thirty-eight
years; Bertha, aged nine yean, and Willie,
aged two years and nine months.
The husband died March 20, and Dr. O. W.
Smith, who attended him, gave certificate
of death due to inflammation of the bowels.
On April 24 Bertha died, and Dr. Smith certified
that her death was due to gastric fever.
May 26 Willie died, and Dr. Dietrich, who
was called in after Dr. Smith had abandoned
the case, said death was caused by congestion
of the bowels.
John Whiteling's life was insured Cor $145
in the John Hancock Company. Be was
also a member of Hefd No. 2 Benevolent
Order of Buffalo*, which pays a death benefit
of f 35 to the widow. This money was collected
by Mrs. Whiteling immediately after
her husband's death. She insured Bertha in
the Hancock Company for $122. and WiUi?
was insured in the Prudential Insurance
Insurance Company for $17, and in the Hancock
Company for $30. The amount of
money received on the death of husband and
children was $399.
The fact of the three deaths at interval*-of
only one month was brought to the notice oC
Coroner Ashbridge, and after examining the
records in the Health Office he vras satisfied,
the case was one his office should investigate.
He communicated with Chief of Detectives
Wood, and Detective Oyer was detailed to
assist the Coroner. The bodies had all been
baried in one grave in Mechanics' Cemetery.
The Coroner ordered them to be ezhojned
for examination. Professor Leff man -made
an analysis of the parts given to him by the
Coroner and reported to Coroner Ashbriifge
that he found arsenio enough in tbe bodies
to cause death. Mrs. Whiteling was taken
in custody and locked up in the Central
station. She was closely watched to prevent
her from committing suicide. She
spent most of tbe day in praying and suffered
so from nervous prostration that fc
physician had to be oallea in. The Coroner
charged ber with killing her husband and'
children and told her to send for him when
she was ready to make confession.
Finally she made a full clear confenion to
the Coroner and was committed to Movamensing
prison. In her confession Mrs.
Whiteling says: "My only reason for poisoning
the children was that Bertha,
might not grow up to be a sinful
and wicked girl, as she had at various
times stolen pennies and once
a pocketbook from her teacher at school at
Hancock and Thompson streets. Bertha
acknowledged taking the pocketbook. She
told many bad stories. She was very sinful
for one so young, and I did not want her te
grow up and become a great sinner. My
little boy was sinless, and I poisoned
him because he was in the way.
1 could not go out to work, for there was no
one to-take care of him, and he was a burden
to me. Without him I could get along. Nowl _
know my children are angels in heaven and
I want to meet them there when I die."
OVEBBPH BY OBIOKETS, .
They Invade Algeria tn a Compact
Mass Twelve Mile* Long. ^
Late-reports from Algeria say that crickets
are advancing in a compact mass over
twelve miles long by six in breadth. A
panic prevailed in the province of Constantine.
Tb? Valley of Guelma been de- .
vastated by the crickets. The inaects resemble
but are not identical with either
locusts-or grasshoppers. Last year a warm*
of grasshoppers ravaged Algeria. This
year the crickets have taken their placet.
They spring like grasshoppers, but have a
more rapid and sustained flight They form
clouds, which shut out the light of the sun.
When they alight on the ground they destroy
every trace of vegetation. They sometimes
Call exhausted on the ground in such numbers
asjto cover it with a layer of dead bodies,
from wnfrk. jpestilential exhalations arise.
The railway trtnxhave been stopped by the .
insects between CoriStsntine and Batna.
THE LABOR WOULD,
EiaHTKKN rolling miles have shut down,
within a week. v
A union of photographer workmen ha*
been organized. .
The bill to establish a Department of Labor
has passed both Houses of Congress.
Pawtcckxt (R. L) mill operatives have a
co-operative store paying a large dividend.
The Montreal, Canada, building trades
nave aemanaea an lnuww w. t?
cent. in wagea
Th? Carpenters' Union claims a gain of
(4,000,000 a year from the advance in wages
in eighty cities.
The Adelaide Silk Mil] at Allentown, ^
Penn., employs 916 hands and pays out every
month $10,030 in wages.
Whe* the new industrial establishments
building in Anniston, Ala., are completed,
10,000 more men will be at work.
One ton of pig Iron is made for every nine
persons in the United States and one ton of
rolled iron for every twenty-five.
A horse-shoe manufacturing company
will erect machinery at Anniston, Ala., that
will turn out thirty horse-shoes every minute.
There are twenty mica quarries in Grafton,
Canaan, Orange ana Groton, N. H.',
that in the last-named town giving employ*
ment to seventy men.
The iron and steel production during the
past five months is reported at Pittsburg a?
110,000 tons, against 500,000 tons daring the
same period last year.
There are more than forty distinctive
trades represented in the Building Trades'
section of the Central Labor Union, with a
constituency of over 05,OX).
Pittsburg iron manufacturers have been'
asked to bid on 400 iron mail catchers to be,
supplied to the Post Office Department for the
year commencing July 1.
There are 2493 more members of Typo-,
graphical Union in London, England, than'
there are in the New York Union. The former
claim 6493 and the latter 4000.
Our Consul at Malaga, Spain, ordered a
stove from America, which at first was not
looked on with favor by tno natives, uuu
now they like it, and there is a great ory for
Btoves. i
Alexander Rostovt is the name of a la-'
boring in Bridgeport, Conn., who can speak
Russian, his native tongue, and German.
Hungarian, Hebrew, Latin, English and
Italian.
A Wonderful step in advance is about being
made by which Bessemer steel can be
made in a blast furnace. The company has
i capital of $1,000,000. It will make Bessemer
pig as cheap as ordinary pig-iron.
The Dutch workman works twelve, thirteen
and fourteen hours a day, and he does
lot turn out half of what an English worknan
does in that time. A poor diet and
iittle sleep lead to a state or low nervous
mergy.
The workmen on the great Eiffel tower in
Paris have struck, on the ground that th?
ligher they go, the greater the danger iv
There are 300 of them, earning on an averige
80 cents a day. If their wages are tq
ise with the tower, it will not go very much
,'urther. Applying
the torch, as the expression ia *
generally used, is an act not conducive to inlustrial
or any other honest interest, but tha^^M|
istial reault "was reversed recently at
ridere, N. J., when Minnie McCracker^fl|HH
)lied the torch which pet in operatioi^^^^^^H
-en furnace, which had been idi^^HH|BBB
rears.
Mr. James a
:ago, quietly stepped
i man
diced his ear off
member
away.
The body^^bimnhm
farmer