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I SUMMARY OF CONGRESS.
The Senate.
84th Day.?Mr. Call introduced a joint
osolution to appropriate $10,000 for an inestigation
of tne cause nod best methods of
uring and preventing yellow fever by Dr. I
aul Giblir and other competent persons....
Ir. Sawyer reported back the House bill to
1 crease the maximum of internaonal
money orders from $30 to
100, and it was passed....
be Military Academy Appropriation bill
as takqn up, amended and passed....
he Fension Appropriation bill was passed
1 k ~ annvAnnofinn r\9
I. II tut. UUO auiouuiucuw?v|/itn?ivu vt,
1,003 for rent of pension agencies....The
late passed the District of Columbia Apipriation
bill with amendments and
ed for a conference with the House.
.Mr. Krve reportod back the House bill
the establishment of a lightship, with fog
ials, at Sandy Hook, N. J., at a cost not
eeding fOU.UOO, with an amendment maka
similar provision for Great Round
>al, near Nantucket, Mass., and requiring
construction of the ships to be let to the
est responsible bidders and that the ships
Duiit in American shipyards. The amendit
was agreed to, the bill passed and a
ference with the House asked....
i Senate then proceeded to the considtionof
the bill to declare unlawful trusts
: combinations in restraint of trade and
[taction, but reached no conclusion. An
jndment offered by Mr. Hoar was agreed
Mr. Piatt offered an amendment, mak- j
the law apply whether the principal
the trust resides in the United States
in a foreign country. The bill, as
>nded, was ordered printed as well as
peodmz nmendm?nt8 It was voted to |
for a conference with the House on the
Is bill and the Senate substitute....Mr. |
e reported the Consular and Diplomatic
)ropriation bill, and gave notice that he
lid call it up at an early date. It conis
the appropriations for Samoa.
th Day.?The Senate spent the entire
upon a discussion of the question whether
present Envoys Extraordinary and
isters Plenipotentiary to the Court
St. James, Germany and Rus- J
and to the French Republic should
aised to thj rank of Ambassadors or uot,
and after devoting live Hours to me discussion
it was not able to reach a decision....
Mr. Regan introduced an amendment to the
Sherman Anti-Trust bill. It is in the nature
of a substitute An amendment reported
by the Senate Committee on Appropriations
was agreed to, inserting an item of $3000 for
i Consul-General at Apia, Samoan Islands
....On motion of Mr. Blair the Army
Nurses1 Pension bill was taken up by the
3enate, amended and passed. It allows a
pension of $25 a month to all women nurse9
luring the late war.
36th Day.?The Senate resumed considsration
of the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation
bill, trie question being on Mr.
Gibson's amendment to make the title of the
ministers to France, Germany, Great Britain
and Russia "ambassadors," and it was
^nally adopted by a vote of 26 to 24....It
eras decided to discus* Samoan affairs with
open doors, and Mr. Sherman made a long
speech on the controversy....Mr. Manderson
e ported a proposed amendment to the Suniry
Civil bill appropriating $40,000 for the
>reparation of a site and the erection of a
jedestal for an equestrian statue of General
Sheridan in the city of Washington.
37th Day.?The Senate resumed consideration
of the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation
bills, the Question being the
amendments affecting tne Samoan Islands.
At the conclusion of Mr. Reazan's speech on
that subject the Senate went~into executive
tession on the British extradition treaty.The
Bxecutlve session lasted until 6 o'clock.
The House.
88th Day.?Secretary Endicott sent to the
House a report from Lieutenant-Colonel Gillespie,
Corps of Engineers, of the results of
a survey ior a ship channel between Jersey
Citv and Ellis Island, New York Harbor,
ana for a ship channel between the deep water
of the Hudson River and Ellis Island....
The Sundry Civil Appropriation bill was
considered. An amendment was adopted,
providing that the name of every person
whose portrait is printed on Government
jecorities shall be pnnte.i under the portrait
The appropriation for repairs of lighthouses
was increased from >300,000 to $33d,000, and
Mr. Randall offered an amendment appropriating
1150,000 for the purpose of investigating
the extent to which the arid region
?n be redeemed by irrigation.
37th Day.?The Speaker laid before the
House the Mills Tariff bill with the Senate
substitute therefor, together with the re
a nest ot tbe senate ior a conrerence. iur.
Reed moved to concur in the Senate substitute.
Mr. McMillin raised tbe point of order
tbat tbe substitute must first be considered
in Committee of the Whole, and Mr.
Milis the point that it must be referred to
tb9 Committee on Ways and Means. Mr.
Reed advocated the immediate consideration
of the Senate measure. Mr. Mills and Mr.
McMillin submitted the points of order
which they had held in reserve; and the
Speaker decided that unier tbe rules
the bill must be referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means, so the
bill, with the Senate amendment went to
tbe Committee on Ways and Means....
The Ford immigration report was recommitted,
and tbe committee was given leave to
report at any time.... Representative Hemphill,
reported favorably a bill proposing to
secure 2500 acres along the line of Rock
Creek to be used as a public park. Tbe bill
appropriates $1,500,000 Mr. McCreary
reported tbe Edmunds resolution, declaring
the sense of the Government
of the United States in respect of tbe
connection of European Governments with
inter-oceanic canals at tbe Isthmus of Darien,
in Central America.
88th Day.?The senate roncurrent resolu
fcion was agreed to providing for the .oint
meeting of the two houses of Congress on
Wednesday, February 13, for the purpose of
counting the electoral vote....Tne House
considered the Sundry Civil bill. The pending
amendment appropriating $250,000 for
investigating the best method of irrigating
the aria region was agreed to....Mr. McComas
offered an amendment which was agreed
to appropriating f50,000 for the education of
children of school age in Alaska, without
reference to race... .Mr. Springer introduced
his Omnibus bill providing for an enabling
act for the admission of rhj Territories of
Arizona, Idaho and Wyoming as States of
the Union Mr. Stone introduced a resolution
providing that Congress shall attend the
Constitutional Celebration in New York
city.
39nr Day.?The Housa in Committee of
the Whole discussed the Sundry Civil Appropriation
bill. The appropriation of #500..00
was made for the new library building.
The House finally passed the Sundry Civil
Appropriation bill Mr. Clardy reported
favorably a b.ll for the establishment in the
ricinity. of the wreck of the steamer Oregon,
it the entrance to New York harbor, of a
ightsbip with a steam fog signal at a cost
lot to exceed $60,000....Mr. Cothran reported
favorably a resolution authorizing
;he President of the United States to take
luch measures as in his judgment may be
lecessary to promptly obtain indemnity
!rom the Venezuelan Government for the
njuries, losses and damages suffered by the
Venezuelan Steam Transportation Company
>f New York... Mr. Morrow introduced a
oint resolution requesting the President to
Insist on the restoration or atrairs on toe oa- |
noan Islands as they existed at the time of I
he convention between representatives of I
Sermany, Great Britain and the United
States, and to take necessary steps to proect
American rights there.
<0eh Day.?The Oklahoma bill wa3 brought
o the attention of the House by Mr.
Springer, of Illinois, with a motion to go
ato Committee of the Whole for its
onsideration. The motion was agreed to.
Ir. Dockery, of Missouri, being assigned to
iceside over the committee.
FRATKIOIDAL JOKE.
John Newcomb Killed by flit
Brother for a White Cap.
When John Newcomb, who lived in
?ueen Anne's County, M'JL, reached his
lome on a recent night and rapped at th( I
oor, Casper, his brother, who was in thi
^Houve, inquired who was th ire. John reM"1
am a White Cap, and have come after
PM Casper, not recognizing his brother's voice,
^Hrocnred his shot gun, and returning to tha
H|oor said to the supposed White Cap:
Hb "If you don't come in and tell who you art
(Swill shoot you."
H He then partially opened the door, and put
^ >at>arrel out of the opening, when it was
and a struggle ensued for its possesM
thu-io^ the struggle Caspar Neweorab
Balled the trigger ana the weapon was dis^Kxarged,
the load entering John Newcomb'i
SKtre^aad causing death to follow in law
TEMPERANCE.
Saloon-Keepers' Song;.
We set our traps, and whisky is our bait;
So come on, boys, and meet your deadly
fate.
We take your money: in exchango we give
A mournful home and fewer hours to live.
If want should shade your homes, and drink
the cause,
i Point-, tn t,h? shameless meu who make the
laws.
But high license som? do aver and say
Heals up the wounds and mends the murky
way:
We do not count the graves of those who fell;
^he more we pay, the more we have to sell.
License for lawful crime should teach you all
Whence comes the wrong when men are seen
to fall.
But "Liberty," that sacred theme of ours,
Urings restless thought and many sleepless
hours:
Ah! when we cannot murder youth and age
Liberty takes wings and flies away in rage.
? Wallace Alygatt, in the Pione<rr.
From the Internal Revenue Report.
The annual report of the Commissioner of
Int?rnal Revenue, portions of which were
given to the press some weeks ago. has just
iome iu completed iorm from the Public
| Printer. It contains some interesting facts,
many of which would probably sui prise the
average reader not especially familiar with
the mysteries of whisky and tolacco manipulation.
The opponent of the use of intoxicants
will be interested to know, for instance,
that the amount of spirits manufactured
in the United States last year was only
a little over half of that manufactured in
the year 18S1.
He will not be particularly happy, however,
to know that the total was considerably
over 71,000,000 gallons, or considerably more
than a gallon apiece for every man. woman
and child in the United States. Under this
head of "spirits" are included grape brandy,
1 1 ?I"'-1-" urlit'oL-v ruin.
UUU1UUU " IIIOA. 7 , Ijw ~ ,
gin, high wines, pure, neutral or
cologne spirits and a miscellaneous column
which carries 13,000,000 gallons. The largest
quantity of any of these varieties is the pure
neutral or cologne spirits, of which there
were o0,0o0,000 gallons made last year, 'lhis
is a pure alcohol so abso.utely neutral and
colorless and tasteless that it wili take any
sort of flavor and can be made by the expert
mixer into any kind of flavor he may want.
He cnn by judicious coloring and mixing
and flavoring make gin, or brandy, or rye
wnisky, or bourbon whisky, or rum out of
it. So the production of neutral or cologne
spirits has steadily increased in th9 past
decade, while that of high wines has just
as steadily decrease i. Ten years ago the
amount of high wines made was about
double that of the neutral or cologne spirits.
In the last year the amount of neutral spirits
was nearly thirty times as .much as the
amount of high wines.
New England is the great rum-producing
field of the United States. Nearly all the
rum distilleries of the United States are
located in Massachusetts. The amount of
rum produced iuthe United States was nearly
2,OOu,OUO gallons and in its manufacture '-io,000,000
gallons of molasses were used. It is
largely exported, about half of that of last
year having been shipped from the ports of
Boston and New York. Cultured Boston
sends it out mostly to the natives or Arnca,
w here it counteracts largely the labors of the
missionaries sent thither from this country.
The shipments from the port of Boston to
Elmina, Africa, last year, were 304,000 gallons:
to Grand Bassan, Africa, 136,000 gallons;
besides some shipments to Central
America, Liverpool, England; Constantinople
and Alexandria, Egypt.
The average Kentuckian will be saddened
to know that the taste for bourbon whisky
abroad seems to be lessening. Last year there
were only shipped abroad about 100,000 gallons
of this article, against considerable over
200,000 gallons in the preceding year. The
large bulk of spirits shipped abroad goes in
the shape of alcohol and neutral spirits,
which can be utilized in most any form desired
after reaching its destination.
The average tobacco chewer and smoker
will perhaps be interested in some of the disclosures
ot a little table which covers cnly a
couple of pages in the voluminous report,
and which shows that of the tobacco worked
up into chewing and smoking material last
[ year there were used 8,000,1)00 pounds of
scraps, 4,500,000 pounds of stems, and over
9,000,000 pounds of "other materials," whatever
these mysterious articles may be. This
may not be a very pleasant thought to bring
to the attention of the average smoking or
chewing individual as bo is about indulging
in his lavorite pastime, but if he finds it unpleasant
he must blame the awful Commissioner
of Internal Revenue for making the
facts public.
The report shows that there are nearly half
a million dealers in manufactured tobacco,
and that 160.587 persons paid special taxes as
retail liquor dealers last year.?New York
Granhic
A Daily Occurrence.
A millionniro?? hr?WnP3 flAVA
Aiuvug U1VUV* u uaus.wMM.. ? - - __ _ ?
in recent years become conspicuous. How
their wealth is accumulated by impoverishing:
the poor is well illustrated by the Holyoke
(Mass.) Transcript, which in a late paragraph,
headed "Meat or Beer," says: "On a
recent cold morning the very smallest size of
a small boy went into a market and asked
for five cents' worth of salt pork. It was
portioned out, and then the child showed two
cents more, and said it was for a soup-bone.
The bone was produced, and as the raarketman
handed it to the child, who was barefooted.
though snow and ice were on tho
ground, he observed that he held in one hand
a large pail, and inquired what be was to get
in it. 'Beer,' said the small boy. To fill that
pail with beer would cost fifteen conts,which
was double the sum appropriated for the
family's food that day. This happens daily,
and, of course, the father doesn't work."
1 here is. of c ourse, great need of temperance
missionary labor in such a family; but the
State, also, in the interest of economy, morality,
and the general public welfare,should
interpose its rightful authority and close out
the Drewery and beer-vender.?National
Advocate.
Barnnm's Startling Proposition.
P. T. Barnum, the great show man, has
made the following startling proposition:
" I will undertake to give bonds for the fulfillment
of a contract that if the city of Philadelphia
will stop selling liquor, and give
me as much as was expended for her
liquor last year, to run the city next year;
1 will pay all the city expenses; no one shall
give taxes; there shall be no insurance on
property; a good dress suit shall be given to
every poor man, woman, boy and girl; all
the educational expenses shall be paid; a
barrel of flour shall be given to every needv
and worthy person, and I shall clear a half
million or a million dollars by the operation."
Temperance News and Notes.
The man who did not break his bottle inteuds
to break his pledge.
Man is about toe only animal who "draws
in his horns" through his mouth.
Is it right to build churches to save men,
and license shops that destroy them.'
A "Prayer Alliance"' for the extinction of
the saloon has been organized in Erie County,
Penn.
The Harverian Society of Great Britain
estimate-? that fourteen per cont. of mortality
among adults in the United Kingdom is due
to alcohol.
Experiment?A laboring man tries to support
a latnily and a saloon at the same time.
Kesult?The saloon gets the support, and the
family gets?left.
Alcohol is not only unattractive, but violently
repulsive to the uncoriupted s.-nse of
taste, and that repugnanco is not limited to
the instincts ot the human race.
I-ast New Year's Day a couple of men in
Seattle, Washington Territory, tiled bonds
of each, binding themselves not to
drink intoxicating liquors during lfcSlt. This
kind of swearing off is s.rious.
What good has the liquor-seller clone'" j
asked a public speaker. "Can anybody
think of one whom the liquor business hits
benefitedThe silence was broken by some
one crying out: "The grave digger."
States making the largest actual decrease
in liquor dealers during the past year are in
the order named: Pennsylvania, Uhio, New
York, Missouri, Minnesota, Kansas. Louisiana
and Iowa, though this actual decrease
is by no means equivalent to the proportionate
decrease as compared with tLe total
number of dealers, nor is it always accompanied
by a decreased production of intoxicants.
The great African traveler. Dr. Livingstone,
leaves this valuable testimony: "J
have acted on the principle of total "abstinance
from all alcoholic liquors during more
than twenty years. My individual opinion
is that the most severe labors or privations
may be undergone without alcoholic stimulations,
because those of us who have endured
the fciost bad nothing else than water, and Dot
tiwa^s enough of that,"
M ' r CUiij..V-y
RELIGIOUS BEADING.
Tis Easy to Labor.
'Tis easy to labor with hope as our guide,
To beckon us onward and brighten the
way;
To strengthen the heart till all foes are
defied,
And strengthen the arm till all work is as
play.
Tis easy to conquer when friends us surround,
Ever swoet words of comfort to spealc in
our ear;
To keep doubt away that else darkly had
frowned,
And keep from our vision the phantoms of
fear.
But what when the sweet star of Hope that
did guide
Is hidden by clouds that it may not dispart?
And what if the comforting friends at thy
side
Stand silent or croak with the doubt in thy
heart?
Oh! give me the heart that through silence
of friend
May walk in the light, or with darkness
may cope;
Oh! give me the heart, which, if need, to the
end
May even fight on in the hope of a hope.
Yes, bravely strike forward, though left In
the dark,
Still keeping tho course that it held through
the light;
Yea, strike and koep striking, lit but by the
spark
Which its brave, ceaseless strokes bring out
of the night.
?Courier Journal.
Building.
Be careful how you build. Let nothing go
to form your character that will not make it
better and stronger. Let each brick be an
honest one, and let it be laid carefully, with
an earnest purpose to make of yourself a
good, noblo man or woman. If already poor
material has entered into your character,
seek divine help to remove it. Get out every
bad piece, every worthless habit. You
jannot afford to have only an ordinary, much
less a weak, charactcr. While building see
that you build of first-class material. You can
build but one character in a lifetime, and it
is to be yours for eternity; so make it tho
verv best possible. But no character can be
ouilt of the best material unless we go to the
Bible l'or it, nor built in the best way unless
under tho direction of Jesus, the Master
ouilder. Gathering your material irom me
Word of God, laying eveiy portion with the
trowel of prayer and under tne direction of
Jesus, the great Master, your character will
be one that will stand all trials, pas; all tests,
and remain through eternity well worth the
lifetime it took to ouild it.?Forward.
Duty of Giving.
The Comruitteo on Systematic Beneficence,
appointed by the Presbyterian General Assembly,
sends the following to The Church
<11 Home and Abroad: "The old-time
method of a collection, picking up what is
carolessly dropped in the box, will no longer
serve the purpose. A dollar means much less
to the giver today than it once did, and on
the other hand it is worth more to send the
Gospel. The people arc to give dollars where
uow thoy give pennies. God has given us
the ability. It involves, in many cases, less
self-denial to give a dollar than a generation
ago it did to give a penny. Tne duty of
giving is the great duty, because it is the
great need of the Church. It is not something
that, if wo are very good, we
may properly expect will be done. It is
duty. Every man ought to give. It is an
appeal to the conscience, not the heart. Love
to the Lord will mako it easy and delightful;
but every Christian is bound to ask and answer
the question, How much ought I to
give? What is my duty? Ho who goes to
fhf? Word cf God'will Und that every man's
duty is at least one-tenth, and more "as God
prospers him.
A Mother of 3Ien.
Years ago a family of four?a father, a
mother and two sons?dwelt in a small houso
situated in the roughest locality of the rocky
town of Ashford, Conn. Tho family was
very poor; a few acres of stony land, a dozen
sheep and one cow supported them. The
sheep clothed them, ana the cow gave milk
and did the work of a horse in ploughing and
harrowing; corn bread, milk and Dean-porridge
were their fare. The father being laid
aside by ill health, the burden of supporting
the family rested on the mother; she did her
work in the house and helped
the boys do then work on the
farm. Once, in the dead of winter,
one of the boys required a new suit of
clothes; there was neither money nor wool
on hand. The mother sheared the halfgrown
fleece from a sheep, and in one week
the suit was on the boy. The shorn sheep
was protected from the cold by a garment
made of braided straw. The family lived
four miles from the "meeting house," yet
every Sunday the mother and ner two sons
walked to church. One of these sons became
the pastor of a church in Franklin,
Connecticut, to which he preached
for sixty-one years; two generations
wentfoith from that church to make the
world better. The other son also became a
minister, and then one of the most successful
of college presidents; hundreds of young men
I wow? mrmlHaH hv him
That heroic Christian woman's name was
Deborah Nott; she was the mother of the
Rev. Samuel Nott, D. D., and of Eliphalet
Nott, D. D. LL. D., president of Union college.?j.V.
Y. Observer.
Lend a Hand.
There is a sublime order in human life as
well as in the universe which surrounds and
sustains it; an order which comprehends all
needs, co-ordinates all action, and provides
for all growth. The chemical relations of
matter are but imperfect types of the delicacy,
the multiplicity, and the inclusiveness of
moral relations. All things which men
touch through any sense, by any thought, in
any act, distil some moral quality and react
either for good or ill. We are played upon
by influences too many for our comprehension,
too delicate for our observation, too
far-reaching for our foresight. When we
seem to be sacrificing things most precious
to us we are often receiving them Dack in
some finer and imperishable form: when we
seem to be working solely for others we
are often serving ourselves in the highest
and noblest way.
Doing for others, bearing the burdens of
omens uiuemujuig uuireives wiui ine struggles
and labors of others, help mightily in
the working out of our own lives. It is wise
to drop resolutely our difficulties at times, to
turn aside abruptly from the questions which
we are trying to answer; it reinvigorutes the
soul and gives the mind a new grip on the
perplexing problems. Mathematicians carrying
on extended calculations sometimes
find themselves forced to clear their minds of
figures and betake themselves to some other
occupation or amusement; wheD the mind
has recovered its tone the tangles of the problem
are swiftly straightened out.
Every life needs a large and noble
diversion from its perplexities and
cares; needs a catholic sympathy with
others to preserve it from selfishuc&s; a
steady and hearty co-operation with othei-s
to give its own work breadth nnd solidity.
No sane man lives for himself; sooner or
later a life wholly self-centered loses its
soundness and becomes distorted and diseased.
The two elements of self-development
and care for the interests of others
must be kept in equipoise if harmony, symmetry
and largeness of character are to be
| sccured and maintained.
Not to be ministered unto, l ut to minister,
I was the aim of the divinest lifo ever lived
"mongmeu.?Christian Union.
Barnum's Startling Proposition.
IJ. T. Barnum, the great show man, has
made tho following startling proposition:
' J will undertake to give IjOi.us for il:o lulfillment
of a contract tt-at i' toe city of Philadelphia
will stop seilmg liquor, and give
mo as much as was expended for her
liquor last year, to run the city next year;
1 will pay all the city expenses; no one shall
give taxes; there shall be no insurance on
property; a good dress suit shall be given to
every poor man, woman, boy and girl; all
the educational ox peases shall h-3 pud; a
barrel of flour shall be given to every needy
and worthy person, and I shall clear a half
million cr a million do.lars by the operation."
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BEV. DR. TALMAGE.
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THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY
SEUSION. > ^5
Subject: "Slanders Against Religion
Answered."
Text: "And I took the little book out of
the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was
'? ?' 0.11W Ann?i<? /111/i rut Anon
as I had eaten it mu belly was bitter. And
He said unto me: Thou must prophesy
again before many peoDlei, and nations,
and tongues, and kings.*?Rev. x., 10-11.
Domitian, the Roman Emperor, had in bis
realm a troublesome evangelist who would
keep preaching, and so he exiled him to a
barren island, as now the Russians exile convicts
to Siberia, or as sometimes the English
Government used to send prisoners to Australia.
The island I speak of is now called
Patmos, and is so barren and unproductive
that i-is inhabitants live by fishing.
But one day the evangelist of whom 1
speak, sitting at the mouth of a cavern on
the hill-side, and perhaps half asleep under
the drone of the sea, has a supernatural
dream, and before him pass as in panorama,
time and eternity. Among the strange
things that he saw was an angel with a
little book in his hand, and in hi*
dream the evangelist asked for
this little book, and the angel gave it
to him, and told him to eat it np.
As in a dream things are sometimes incongruous,
the evangelist took the little boOk
and ate it up The angel told him beforehand
that it would be very sweet in the
mouth, but afterward he would be troubled
with indigestion. True enough, the evangelist
devours the book, and it becomes to him a
sweetness during the mastication, bnt afterward
a physical Ditterness.
Who the angel was and what the book was
no one can telL The commentators do not
agree, and I shall take no responsibility of
interpretation, but will tell you that
it suggests to me the little book
of creeds which skeptics take and chew
up and find a very luscious morsel
to their witticism, but after a while it Is to
them a great distress. The angel of the
church hands out this little book of evangelism,
and the antagonists of the Christum
Church take it and eat it up, and it makes
them smile at first, but afterward it is to
them a dire dyspepsia.
All intelligent people have creeds?that is,
favorite theories which they have adopted.
Political creeds?that is theories about tariff,
about finance, about civil service, about
government Social croeda?that is, theories
about manners and cwioms and good neighborhood.
^Esthetical creeds?that is theories
about tapestry, about bric-a-brac, about
styles of ornamentation. Religious creeds?
that is, theories about the Deity, about the
soul, about the great future The only being
who has no creed about anything is the
idiot. This scoffing against creeds is always
a sign of profound ignorance on the
part of the scoffer, for he has
himself a hundred creeds in regard to other
things. In our time the beliefs of evangelistic
churches are under a fusilade of caricature
and misrepresentation. Hen set up
what they call orthodox faith, and thev rake
it with the musketry of their denunciation.
They falsify what the Christian churches believe.
They take evangelical doctrines and
set them in a harsh ar.u repulsive way, and
put them out of the association with other
truths. They are like & ? ?ad anatomist, who,
desirintr to tell what a i&iua is, dissects a hu
man body and hangs up in one place the
heart, and in another place the two lungs,
and in another place an ankle bone, and says
that Is a man. They are only fragments of
a man wrenched out of their God-appointed
places.
Evangelical religion is a healthy, symetrical,
well-jointed, roseate, bounding life, and
the scalpel and the dissecting knife of the In*
Udel or the atheist cannot tell you what it Is.
Evangelical religion is as different from
what It is represented to be by these enemies
as the scarecrow which a farmer puts in the
cornfield to keep off the ravens is different
from the farmer himself.
For instance, these enemies of evangelism
say that the Presbyterian Church believes
that God is a savage Sovereign, and that He
made some men just to damn them, and that
there are infants in hell a span long. These
old slanders come down from generation to
generation. The Presbyterian Church believes
no such thing. The Presbyterian
Church believes that God is a loving and just
Sovereign, and that we are free agents.
"No, no; that cannot be," say these men who
have chewed up the creed and have the consequent
embittered stomach. "That is impossible;
if God is a Sovereign, we can't be free
agents." Why, my friends, we admit this
in every other direction. I, Dd Witt Talmage,
am a free citizen of Brooklyn. I go
when I please and I come when Iplease, but
I have at least four sovereigns. The Church
court of our denomination; that is my
ecclesiastical sovereign. The mayor of this
city; he is my municipal sovereign. The
i Governor of_Nevr_ York; he is my_State
sovereign. The Jrresident or toe United
States; he is my national sovereign Four
sovereigns have I, and j'rt in every faculty
of body, mind and soul I iim a free man. So,
you see, it is possible that the two doctrines
go side by siae, and there is a common-sense
way of presenting it, and there is a way that
is repulsive. If you have the two doctrines in
a worldly direction, why not in a religious direction
1 If I choose to-morrow morning to
walk into the Mercantile Library and improve
my mind, or to go through
the conservatory of my friend at Jamaica,
who has flowers from all lands
growing under the arches of glass, and who
has an aquarium all asquirm with trout and
gold fish, and there are trees bearing
oranges and banamas?if I want to go there,
I could. I am free to go. If I want to go
over to Hoboken and leap into a furnace of
an oil factory, if I want to jump from tbe
Rlatform of the Philadelphia express train,
! I want to leap from the Brooklyn Bridge,
I nay. But suppose I should go to-morrow
and leap into the furnace at Hoboken. who
would be to blame ? That is all tlwre is
about sovereignity and free agency. God
rules and reigns, and He has conservatories
and He has blast furnaces. If you want to
walk in tbe gardens, walk there If you
wane to Jeap in tne rurnaces, you may.
Suppose now a man had a charmed key
with which he could open all the iails, and
he should open Raymond Street Jail and the
New York Tombs and all the prisons on the
continent, in three weeks wnat kind of a
country would this be? all the inmates
turned out of those prisons and penitentiaries.
Suppose all tne reprobates, the bad
spirits, tne outrageous spirits, should be
turned into the New Jerusalem. Why, the
I next morning the gates of pearl would be
found off hinge, the linchpin would be gone
out of the char.ot wheels, the "house
of many mansions" would be burglarized.
Assault and battery, arson,
libertinism and assassination would
reside in the capital of the slcies. Angels of
God would be insulted on the streets. Heaven
would be a dead failure if there were no
great lock-up. If all people without regard
to their character when they leave this world
ro right into glory?X wonder if in the
temDle of the sties Charles Guiteau and
John Wilkes Booth occupy the same pew!
Your common sense demands two destinies!
And then as to the Presbyterian Church believing
there are infants in perdition, if you
will brin? me a Presbyterian of good morals
and sound mind who will say that he believes
there evur wiw n hahy ir tbe lost world, of
ever will be, I will make him a deed to the
house I live in and he can take possession
to-morrow.
So the Episcopalian Church is misrepresented
by the enemies of evangelism. They
say that church substitutes forms and ceremonies
for heart religon. and it is all a matter
for liturgy and genuflexion. False
again. All Episcopalians will tell you that
the forms and creeps of their church are
worse than nothing unless the heart go with
them
So also the Baptist Church has been misrepresented.
The enemies of evangelism say
the Baptist Church believes that unless a
man is immersed he will never cet into
heaven. False again. All the Baptists,
nrmmnniAn Vlft
UIU3D U'JiaUJUlllUU UI1U u^/uu t ? ?
lieve that if a man accept the Lord Jesus
Christ bo will tx? saved, wbatber bo be baptized
by one drop of water on the forehead,
or be plunged into the Ohio or Susquehanna,
although immersion is the only gate by
which one enters their earthly communion.
The enemies of evangelism also misrepresent
the Methodist Church. They say the
Methodist Church believe* tbat a man can
convert himself, and that conversion in that
church is a temporary emotion, and that all
a man has to do is bo kneel down at the altar
and feel bad and then the minister pats him
on the back and says: "It is all right," and
that is all there is of it False again. The
Methodist Church believes that the Holy
Qhost alone can convert a heart, and in tbat
church convention ii an earthquake of conviction
and a sunburst oI pardon. And as to
mere "temporary emotion," 1 wish we all
had qigrfl of the ''temporar? emotion" which
luted Bishop Janes and Matthew Sim peon
for a half century, keeping them on fire (or
God nntil their holy enthusiasm consumed
their bodiesi
80 all the evangelical denominations are
misrepresented. And then these enemies of
evangelism go on and hold np the great doc*
trines of Christian churches as absurd, dry
and inexplicable technicalities. "There is
your doctrine of the Trinity," they say.
T<Absurd beyond all bounds. The idea that
Were Is a God in three persons. Impossible.;
If it is one God He can't be three,and if there
are three, there can't be ona" At the same
time all of us?they with us?acknowledge
trinities All omnn^ ti? Tv(nl*v in ntm
make-up?body, mind, soul Body with
which we move, mind with which we
think, soul with which we love. Three,
vet one man. Trinity in the air?:
light, heat,. moisture?yet one atmosphere.
Trinity in the court room?three juc&es on
the bench, but one court Trinities all around
about us, in earthly government and in
nature Of course, all the illustrations are
defective, for the reason that the natural
cannot fully illustrate the spiritual But
suppose an ignorant man should come up to
the chemist and say: "I deny what you say
about the water and about the air; they are
not made of different parts. The air is
one; I breathe it every day. The water
is one; I drink it every day. You
can't deceive me about the elements that
go to make up the air and the water." The
chemist would say: "You come up Into my
laboratory and I will demonstrate this whole
thing to you." The ignorant man goes into
the chemist's laboratory and sees for himself.
He learns that the water is one and
the air is one, but they are made up of
different parts. So he** ia a nan who
says: "I can't understand the doctrine of
' the Trinity." God says: "You come up here
Into the laboratory after your death, and
you will see?you will see it explained, you
will see it demonstrated." Tne ignorant
man cannot understand the chemistry of the
water and the air until he goes into the la
boratory, and we will never understand tne
Trinity until we go into heaven. The ignorance
of the man who cannot understand the
chemistry of the air and water, does not
change tne fact in regard to the composition
of air and water. Because we cannot understand
the Trinity, does that change the fact?
"And there is your absurd doctrine about
justification by faith," say these antagonists
who have chewed up the little book of evangelism,
and have the consequent embittered
stomach?"justification by faith; you can't
explain it" I can explain it It is simply
this: When a man takes the Lord Jesus
Christ as his Saviour from sin, God lets the
offender off. Just as you have a difference
with some one; he has injured you, ho apologizes,
or he makes reparation, you say:
"Now, that's all right, that's all right" Justification
bv faith is thin; A man takes Jesus
Christ as his Saviour, and God says to the
man: "Now, it was all wrong before, but it
is all right now; it is all right" That was
what made Martin Luther what he was.
Justification by faith, it is going to conquer
all nations.
' There is your absurd doctrine about regeneration,"
these antagonists of evangelism
say. What is regeneration ? Why, regeneration
is reconstruction. Anybody can understand
that Have you not seen people
whn ara oil moHa ntroF nrroin Kr trtma
wonderful influence ? In otber words,
they are just as different now from
what they used to be as possible. The old
Constellation, man-of-war, lay down here
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Famine came
to Ireland. The old Constellation was fitted
up, and though it had been carrying gunpowder
and oullete it took bread to Ireland.
You remember the enthusiasm as the old
Constellation went out of our harbor, and
with what joy it'was greeted by the famishing
nation on the other side the sea. That is
regeneration. A man loaded up with sin
and death loaded up with life. Befitted.
Tour observation has been very small indeed
if you have not seen changes in character
as radical as that
A man came into this church one night,
and he was intoxicated, and at an utterance
of the pulpit he said in a subdued tone:
"That's a lie." An officer of the church
tapped him on the shoulder and said: "You
must be silent, or ycu must go out" The
next night that stranger came and be was
converted to God. He was in the liquor
business. He resigned the business. The
next day he sent back the samples that had
jnst been sent to him. He began to love that
which he hated. I baptized him by immersion
in the baptistry under this platform.
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XV KU|(U .^m?l J ?? VI1UWU mm Ji.
he would return to bis former business.
He decliiie.1 it. He would rather
suffer with Jesus Christ than be prospered
in the world. He wrote home a letter
to his Christian mother. The Christian mother
wrote back congratulating him, and said:
"If in the change of your business you have
lack of means, come home; you are always
welcome home." He told of his conversion
to a diosolute companion. The dissolute
compinion said: "W ell. if you have become
a Christ an. you ha I I etter go over and talk
to that dying zirl. She is dying with quick
consumption iii that nouse." 'lhe new convert
went there. All the surroundings were
dissolute. He told the dying girl
that Jesus would save her. "Oh," said
she, "that can't be, that can't be! What
makes you think aof" "I have it here in a
book in my pocket," he replied. He pulled
out a New Testament She said: "Show it
to me; if I can be saved, show it to me in
that book." He said: "I have neglected this
book as you have neglected it for many
years, ana I don't know where to find it, but
T know it is somewhere between the lids."
Then he began to turn over the leaves, and
strange and beautiful to say, his eye struck
upon this passage: "Neither do I condemn
thee; go and sin no more." She said: "It
isn't Dossible that is there!" "Yes,"
he said, "that is there." He held it up
Deiore ner u^iug evea, uim auu zkuu;
"Oh, yes, I see it for myaelf; 1
accept the promise: 'Neither do I condemn
thee; go and sin no more.'*' In a few hoars
her spirit sped away to the Lord -that gave
it, and the new convert preached the funeral
ermon. The man who a few davs before
had been a blasphemer and a drunkard and
a hater of all that was good, he preached the
sermotu That is regeneration, that is regeneration!
If there are any dry husks of
technicality in that, where are they? All
made over again by the power of the grace
of God.
A few years ago a ship captain came in here
and sat yonder under tne gallery. He came
iu with a contempt for tne Church of God
and with an especial dislike for Talmage.
When an opportunity was given he arose
for prayer, and as he was mora than six feet
high, when he arose for_prayer no one
aoaDtea that ne arose! mac Dour ne Decame
a Christian. He went out and told the
ship owners and the ship commanders what a
great change had been wrought in him, and
scores and scores have been brought to God
thr.ough his instrumentality.
A little while after his conversion he waa
on ship off Cape Hatteras in a thick and prolonged
fog, and they were at their wits' ends
ana knew not what to do, the ship drifting
about hither and thither, and they lost their
bearings; and the converted sea captain
went to his room and asked God for the salvation
of bis ship, and God revealed it to
him while he was on his knees that at a certain
hour, only a little way off, the fog would
lift; and the converted sea captain come
out on the deck and told bow God beard his
prayers. He said: "It is all right, boys, very
soon now the fog will lift," mentioning the
hour. A man who stood there laughed
aloud in derision at the idea that God would
answer prayer; but at just the hour when
God had assured the captain the fog would
lift therd came a flash of lightning through
the fog. and the man who had jeered and
laughed was stunned and fell to the deck.
The fog lifted. Youder was Capo Hatteras
lighthouse. The ship was put on the right
course, and sailed on to the harbor of safety.
"When in seaport the captain spends most
of his time in evangelical work. He kneels
down by one who has been helpless in the
bed for many months, and the nert day she
walks forth in the streets well. He kneels
beside one who has long been decrepit, and
he resigns the crutches. He kneels beside
one who had not seen enough to be able to
read for ten years, and she reads the Bible that
day. Consumptions go away, and those who
had diseases that were appalling to behold
come up to rapid convalescence and to complete
health. I am not telling you anything
second-handed. I have had the story from
the lips of the patients in this very bouse,
those who were brought to health of body
while at the same time brought to
God. No seoond-hand story this. 1 have
heard the testimony from men and
women who have been cured.
You may ca,'J it faith-cure, or you may call
it the power of God coming down in answer
to prayer; I do not care wuac you call it; it
is a fact. The scoffing sea captain, his4ieart
full of hatred for Christianity, now becomes
a follower of the meek and lowly Jesus, giving
all the time to evangelical labors, or all
the time he can spare from other occupations.
That is regeneration, that is regeneration.
Man all made over again.
" There is your abaurd doctrine of vicarioui
sacrifice," say these men who hive
chewed up the little book of creeds and have
the consequent embittered itpmacti "Vicari
, Lv.
ons sacrifice ! Let every man suffer for him elf.
Why do I want Christ to suffer for me I
I'll suffer for myself and carry my own bardens."
They scoff at the idea of vicarious
sacrifice, while they admire it everywhere
else except in Christ. People see its beauty
when a mother suffers for her child. People
see its beauty when a patriot suffers ior his
country. People see its beauty when 4 man
denies himself for a friend. They can see
the beauty of vicarious sacrifice in every one
but Christ.
A young lady in one of the literary institutions
was a teacher. She was very reticent
and retired in her habits, and she formed
no companionships in the new position she
occupied, and her dress was very plainsometimes
tt was very shabby. After a
while she was discharged from the place for
that reason, but no reason was given. In
answer to the letter discharging her from
the position, she said: "Well, if I have
failed to please, I suppose it is my own j
fault" She went here and there for employment,
and found none, and in desperation
and in dementia she ended her life by suicide
Investigation was made and it was found
that out of her small means she bad supported
her father, eighty years of age, and was paying
the way for her brother in Yale College
w?*y wj too ministry. it
was found that she had no blanket on
the bed that winter, and she had no fire
on the very coldest day of all the
season. People found it out, and there was
a large gathering at the funeral, the largest
ever at any funeral in that place, and the
very people who bad scoffed came and looked
upon the pale face of the martyr, and all
honor was done her; but it was too late.
Vicarious sacrifice. All are thrilled with
such instances as that. Bat many are not
moved by the fact that Christ paid His poverty
for our riches, His self-abnegation for
our enthronement, and knelt on the sharp
edges of humiliation that we might climb
over His lacerated shoulder into peace and
heaven.
Be it ours to admire and adore these doctrines
at which others jeer. Oh the depths
of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge
of God! How unsearchable is His wisdom,
and His ways are past finding outl Oh
the height, tbe depth, the length, the breadth,
the infinity, the immensity, the eternity of
that lovet Let our earnest prayers go out
in behalf of all those who scoff at these doctrines
of grace. When the London plague was
raging in the year 1665, there was a hotel
near ihu chief burial-place that excited much
comment England was in fright and bereavement
The dead carts went through
the streets day and nieht and the cry:
"Bring out your dead!'' was answered by
tbe bringing out of the forms of the
loved ones, and they were put twenty
or thirty in a cart, and the wagon? went
on to the cemetery; and these dead were
not buried in graves, but in great trenches,
in great pits- in one pit eleven hundred and
fourteen burials I Tne cartj would come up
with their great burden of twenty or thirty
to' the mouth of the pit, and the front of tbe
CATC waa UlMXi aau mo utmu auuii iukj tug pn,.
All the churches in London were open for
prayer day and night, and England waa in
great anguish. At that very time at a
hotel, at a wayside inn near this chief
burial-places, there was a group of
hardened men, who sat day after
day and night after night blaspheming God
and imitating the grief-struck who went by
to the burial-plaoe. These men sat there day
after day and night after night, and they
scoffed at men, and they scoffed at women,
and they scoffed at God. But after a while
one of them was struok with the plague, and
in two weeks all of the group were down in
the trench from the margin of which they had
uttered their ribaldry. My friends, a greater
plague is abroad in the world. Millions have
died of it. Millions are smitten with it now.
Plague of sin, plague of sorrow, plague of
wretchedness, plague of woe. And consecrated
women and men from all Christendom
are going out trying to stay the plague and
alleviate the anguish, and tnere is a
group of men la this country base
enough to sit and deride the work.
They a:off at the Bible, and they scoff
at evangelism, and they scoff at Jesus
Christ, and they scoff at God. If these
words shall reach them, either while they are
sitting here to-day, or throngh the printingpress,
let me tell them to remember the faro
of that group in the wayside inn while the
plague spreads its two Dlacit wings over cue
doomed city of London. Oh, instead of being
scoffers let us be disciples! ''Blessed is
the man that walketh not in tho counsel of
the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of
sinners, nor Bitted in the seat of the scornful."
Levi
P. Morton's place at Rhinebeck,
on the Hudson, was originally
purchased from the Indians in 1686 by
Gerrit Aartsen, Arrie Eoosa, and Jan
Elting. In 1702 it was sold to Hendrick
Heermance, the son-in-law of
Aartsen, who left it to his son-in-law,
Jacobu3 Kip. It remained in the Kip
family until 1814, when it was sold to
Maturin Livingston. It passed through
several other hands, until it was purchased
by William Kelley, of New
.York, who added 1,000 acres to it,
spent a fortune on it, and whose heirs
,at his death sold it at a sacrifice to Mr.
'Morton. Mr. Morton has also spent a
[fortune in improving it, and it will be,
( when completed, one of the costliest
!in the United States.
What a sad thing it is that those who
admire other people's work, or appreciate
their heroism, are so often silent
about it until the work and the struggle
are over. The praise is such a grim
mockery when it is uttered above the
folded hands and the placid brows, as
"numb as Dante's own." The great need
of the day is more marble monument
in life and less after it.
Twenty years ago there were ninetytwo
lightning-rod factories in the
United States. To-day there are but
three, and those doing a trifling busi-f
ness. The lightning-rod wa* the biggest
humbug of the nineteenth centurv.
?
S. S. MontaNo, County Auditor of
Los Angeles, Cal., joined the Salvation
Army, and shook dulcet tinklings from
a 1 1 1^
a tamoourme, juso ueuauat) u? was sauguine
that Cleveland would be the next
President.
From recent archadogical discoveries
it appears that the Romans, at tlid
height of their civilization and splendor,
had no system of street lighting.
No trace of anything of the kind has
been discovered.
The St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald says
it has a reporter on its staff who has j
been shot twice, stabbed once, cut with j
a razor, and hit with a bludgeon, ami
yet is always on deck for business.
A Nebraska man has just di??d from
the bite of a mule, says the Cartilage
(]\Io.) Democrat. It adds: This is
the first actual proof we have that the
mule's bite is as deadly as his sting.
Experimenters at Manhattan, Kan.,
have discovered that the use of salt on
wheat fields will greatly increase the
yield. It is also announced that salt
will kill potato bugs.
Canada's trade with England* has
fallen off about $4,000,000 during the
last ten months, while the aggregate
trade of the country has slightly inoceasecL
,
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POPULAR SCIENCE ~ ^
The movement of glaciers in summer if'
four times that made in winter.
Bars of wrought iron will expand or ,
contract 151200th of their length for
each degree of heat.
One ton of coal is capable of yielding
an amount of force equivalent to that of
six and two-thirds mon.
The tooth with which young cobra?'
cut their way through the egg is shed a*
soon as it has served its purpose.
There is no material, according to the
best fire insurance authorities, that can
be used for construction equal to brick. .. y >.
The new electrolytic treatment of copper
solutions in Spaiu results in seventyeight
per cent, pure electrolytic copper.. It
is a startling fact that from one-third
to one-half of all persons born Into the
world die before reaching the age of five
years. '%
In testing forty-two boys between nine ' .
and sixteen yean of age for color-blindness
not one made an error in matchinz
the colors. (JU ,
The preservation of rails ia u#e is due
to the formation of magnetic oxide produced
by the compression of the rust oat
the metal. .. , . i?c.
As the moon revolves around (he earth,
it also makes just one revolution on "iter- '-1
axis, thus keeping the same side always^*
toward the earth.
A French subterranean river has been* ^
explored for a mile or more by M. Martel, ?
who derives from his investigations a .
theory of the origin of canons.
Dr. Kruss, a chemist of Munich,, has a
succeeded in decomposing cobalt and.; .1
nickel, both of which have hitherto been ,
supposed to be elementary substances, it'Choose
such a place for emptying '*"
carboys, or any other containers of acid; *'
as will suffer the least injury should ^he
vessel be broken, or any of the' aci<Tl}e
spiUed.
Professor Avrton estimates that the
power wasted at Niagara Falls exceeds. . ,
that which could be produced by .to* :*..>
anuual consumption of 150,U0U,00utonS:\.
of coal. ... ?
The microscope often reveals impuri- -1
ties in diamonds, Darticles of organic*!*
matter and bubbles of gas being common.
Quartz, chlorite, pyrite, hematite ,J; \
and topaz have also been seen.
The scientist Leuwenhock says that
he bad oftea compared the size of the 4
thread spun by a full grown spider . $
a hair from bis beard, and estimates umblJlu
it would require more than lOti spider, ? .
threads to equal the diameter 01 tho ? ,
hair. " ujtr.,
The latest things in torpedo boats in J
France is the Gymnotsy a submarine **?'
craft propelled by electricity. She can ** "
be driven under water at a fair rate of
speed, and in her latest trial made a - run*'
of 1700 feet when submerged to a depth *
of twenty-live ieet. A half hour is the ,*'
longest time she has thus far remained ; *L
under water.
There is strong evidence that wood
subjected for a certain length of tlme'.to V.'J
the heat of steam pipes may eventually
reach a state of carbonization, when^ t 4
with the addition of moisture, expostfre
to a draught of air or under thointht-'
ence of friction caused by expansion and
contraction of the pipes, it may break
into dame.
It is said the largest gun in the British
Navy is capable of throwing a projectile
weighing 17,000 pounds at a velocity of
over a mile in four seconds, the
momentum being equal to that of 517,213
tons of metal falling one foot It re
quires 370 pounds of powder to fire this ,
shot at this velocity, so any one versed
in the prices of steel and saltpetre can
calculate the cost of every shot that these .
guns will throw. It will be found to be
about $1000.
England's Ancient Wild Cattle.
The ancient wild cattle of England,
known as the Chillingbam race, having
been supposed to have contributed to
some extent to the blood of the existing
Shorthorn breed. These cattle are
white, but have red ears, and it is exceedingly
curious to see these peculiar
marks appearing in America to this day
upon the common native cattle in some
parts of the Southern States. If this i* %
not an example of atavism or the reappearance
of ancient peculiarities inherited,
and if it does not point to or
suggest some connection between this
ancient race and the present stock,what*, >
is it? But an interesting circumstance
in regard to this ancient breed is a cross
rcpflntlv m?rlp n. wild rnwand A
pure Shorthorn bull of a white color.
The produce of this cross is a half-breed
steer that was exhibited at the recent
Smithtield (England) Fat Cattle Show
by the Earl of Tankemlle, tfye proprietor
of the cattle and of Chillingham
Fark, where they have been kept for
more than 900 years. The result of the
cross has been another ateer and three
heifers, upon which another cross has .
been made with a view to infuse the new ^
blood in the Shorthorn stock.? New Fork
Times.
A Man With Two Hearts.
' The Mercer County (N. J.) Medical
Society devoted the better part of its
session on a recent afternoon to the examination
of Win, Eing, the colored
man who is said to have two hearts. He
is about forty-five years of age. Tha
examination proved that he has a divided
heart, such as is found in the lower
animal kingdom.
The heart beats are perceptible on both
sides, excepting that the sound is less
perceptible on the right than oa the left.
He claims to be able to drop his ribs
like a set of double-action window
blinds, but this was done, it was
lw his rnntrnl of the oblicue.
transverse and rectus muscles. He
claims that he can change the locality of
his double heart, but this was pronounced
a piece of jugglery, ttie result
of long practice. lie caused his hearts,
pulse and temple to cease beating for a
period of sixty seconds, and the
physicians pronounced it a successful
ellort. King was in the county jail
for being drunk and disorderly. He
announces that his mother discovered
his double heart when he was six months
old.? Cincinnati Enquirer.
I'ps and Downs in One Man's Life*
It is wonderful what changes of fortune
come to an energetic man iu >.'ew
York city. One day, some time ago, I
met an acquaintance who had a large
store, where he did a paying business.
A. few months later I met him again.
He asked for a small loan to buy his
breakfast. He had indorsed notes for a
friend who had failed, and had become
bankrupt, ^till later I casually rau
against him when tie had just finished a
contract for building water works for a
country town, and was reveling in
wealth. When I next saw him his
finances had again run down to nil, and
he was in desperate straits for money.
But his lucky star rose again, and I
heard of him building a railway for some
capitalists. The last time I saw him he
had just finished a block of apartment
houses uptown and had a large bank account.
-New Tvrk Star, i