Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

w REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "Shall America bo Re served for AmericansText: "And hath made of one blood all nations.'y?Acts xvii., 26. That is. if for some reason general phlebotomy were ordered, and standing in a row were an American, an Englishman, a Scotchman and an Ir shman, a Frenchman, a German, a Norweigan, an Icelander, a Spaniard, an Italian, a Russian and representatives of all other nationalities bared their right arm and a lancet were struck into it, the blood let out would have the same characteristics, for it would be red,complex, fibrine, globuline, chlorine and containing sulphuric acid, potassium.phosphate of magnesia and so on, and Harvey and Sir Ast!ov Cooper and Richardson and Zimmerman and Brown-Sequard and all the scientific doctor?-, allopathic, homeopathic, hydropathic and eclectic, would a~ree witn raui as, scanning on Mars Hill, bis pulpit a ridge of limestone rock fifty feet bijjh and among the proudest and most exclusive and undemocratic people of the earth, be crashed into all their . prejudices by declaring in the words of "my text that God had made "of one blood all nations." The countenance of the five races of the human family may be different as a result of climate or education or habits, and the Malay will have the projecting upper jaw, and the Caucasian the oval face and small moutli.and the Ethiopian the retreating forehead and large lip, and the Mongolion the flat face of olive hue, and the American Indian the copper-colored complexion, but the blood is the same and indicates that they all had one origin and that Adam and Eve were their ancestor and ancestress. I think God built this American continent and organized this United States Republic to demonstrate the stupendous idea of the text. A man in Persia will always remain a Persian, a man in Switzerland will always remain a Swiss, a man in Austria will always remain an Austrian, but all foreign nationalties coming to America were intended to be AmericansThis land -is the chemical laloratory where foreign bloods aro to be inextricably mixed up and race prejudices and race antipathies are to perish, and this sermon is au ax by which I hope to kill them. It is not hard for me to preach such a sermon, because, alm V nnAOQ trwKt r??m a tn this country about two hundred and fifty years ago, some of them came from Wales nnd some from Scotland and some from Holland and some from other lan'ls, aud I am a mixture of so many nationalities that I feel at home with people from under ?very sky and have a right to call them blood relations. There are madcaps and patriotic lunatics in this country who are ever and anon crying out: "America for Americans." Down with the Germans! Down with the Irish! Down with the .Tews! Down with the Chinese! are in some directions the popular cries, all of which vociferations 1 would drown out by the full organ of my text, while I pull out the stops and put my foot on the pedal that will open the loudast pipss, and run my fingers over all the four banks of ivory keys, playing the chant: "God hath made of one blood all nations." There are not five men in this audience, nor five men in any audience to-day in America except it be on an Indian reservawara ?Ah rloc^Qn^A^ frnrn fnrfticnflra if you go far enough back. The only native Americans are the Modocs, the Shawneas the Chippewas, the Cheroke?s, the Chickasaws, the Seminoles and such like, if the principle America only for Americans be carried out, then you and I have no right to be here and we had better charter all the iteamers and clippers and men-of-war and yachts and sloops and got out of this country a* quick as possible. The Pilgrim Fathers were all immigrants, the Huguenots all immigrants. Tho cradle of most every one of our families was rocked on the bank of the Clyde or the Rhine or the Shannon -or the Seine or tha Tiber. Had the watchword "America for Americans" been an early and successful cry, where now stand our cities would have stood Indian wigwams, and canoes instead of -steamers would have tracked the Hudson and the Connecticut; and instead of the Mississippi bring the main artery of the continent, it would have been only a trough for deer and antelope and wild pigeons to nirink out of. What makes the cry of "America for Americans" the more absurd and the more inhuman is that some in this country who themselves arrived here in their 'boyhood or arrived here only one or two I generations back are joining in the cry. Escaped from foreign despotisms themselves they say: "Shut the door of escape for others." Getting them selves on our shores in a lifo boat from the sh",>wreck saying: Haul the boat on the beach and let the rest of th? passengers go to the bottom! Men who have yet on them a Scotch or German or English or Irish brogue <?rying out, America, for Americans: Whatif the native inhabitants of Heaven, I mean the ?nge!s, the cherubim, the seraphim born there, should stand in the gate and when they see us coming up at the last should say: "Go back! Heaven for the Heavenian?:" Of course we do well not to allow foreign nations to make this country a convict colony. We would have a wall built as high as heaven and as deep as hell against foreign thieves, pickpockets and anarchists. We would not let them wipa their feet on the mat of the outside door of Castle Garden. If England or Russia or Germany or France send here their desperadoes to get clear of them. we would have these des peradoes sent back in chains to the places where they came from. We will not have America become the -damping place for foreign vagabondism. But you build up a wall at the Narrows before New York harbor, or at the Golden Gate before San Francisro, and forbid the coming of the industrious and hard working and honest populations of other lauds who want to breathe the air of our free institutions and get opportunity for better livelihood, and j it is only a question of time when i God will tumblo that wall flat on our I own heads with the red hot thunderbolt* of His omnipotent indignation. "Vou area father and you have five children. The parlor is the bast room iu your house. Yonr son Philip says to the other four children: "Now. John, you live in the small room in the end of the hall and stf.y there; * George, you live in the garret and stay there: Mary, you live in the cellar and stay there: Fannie, you live in the kitchen and stay there. I. Philip, will take the parlor. It suits me exactly. I like the pictures on tho wall. I like the lambrequins at the windows. 1 like the Axminster on the floor. Now, I, Philip, propose to occupy this parlor and 1 command you to stay out. The parlor only for Philippians." You, the father, hear or this arrangement and what will you do? You will get red in the face and say: ''John, roni3 out of that small room at the end of the hall; George, coma down out of tho garret; Mary, come up from the cellar; Fannie, come out of the kitchen, and go into the parlor or anywhere you Philirv for vour creedin^sa ami unbrotherly bahavior, I put you for two bours in the dark closet under the stair?." God is the Father of the human race. He has at least five sons, a North American, a South American, a European, an Asiatic and an African. The North American sniffs the breeze and he says to his four brothers and sisters: "Let the South .American stay in South America, let the European stay in Europe,let the Asiatic stay i:i Asia, let the African stay in Africa: but America is for me. I think it is the parior of the whole earth. I like its carpets of grass and its npholstery ot the front window, namely tho American sunrise, nd the upuolsiery oi the back window, namely the American sunset. Now 1 want you all to stay out and koep to your places." I am sure the Father of th9 whole human race would hear of it and chastisement would come, and, whether by earthquake or tinod or arought or heaven darkening swarms of locust and grasshopper or destroying angel of pestilence, God would rebuke our selfishness as a nation and say to the four winds of heaven: "'This world is my housa and the North American is no more my child than is | tho South American ana toe European and the Asiatic and the African. Ar.d 1 built this world for all the children, and the parlor is th ;ir3 and all is theirs.'' For, let ma say, whether ws will or not. the population of other lauds will come J here. There are harbors all the way from Baffin's Bay to Galveston, and if you shut fifty eates there will ba other 2ate3 unguarded. And if you forbid foreigners from coming on the steamers they will take sailing vessels. And if you forbid them coming on sailinR vessels they will come in boats. And if you will not let them come in beats they wiJl come on raft*. And if you will not a1.low wharfage to the raft they will leave it ? . T.' ' ' - ' ? ' . . \ V.- * # . -" Vv ' . * . outside Sandy Hook and swim for free America. Stop them? You might as vrell pass a law forbidding a swarm of summer bee3 from lighting on the clover top, or pass a law forbidding the tides of the Atlantic to rise when the noon puts under it silver grappling hooks, or a law that the noonday sun should not irradiate the atmosphere. They bave come. They are coming now. They will come. And if I had a voice loud snouzh to be heard across the seas J would put it to the utmost tension and cry: Fx?t them come' You stingy, selfish,shriveled up, blasted souls who sit before your silver dinner plate piled up with breast of roast furkoy incarnadined with cranberry, your | fork full and your mouth full and cramming down the superabundance till your digestive organs are terrorized, let th9 millions of your fellow-msn have at least the wishing bone. But some of this cry. America for A medians, may arise from an honest fear lest this land be overcrowded. Such persons had better take the Northern Pacific or Union Pacific or Southern Pacific or Atlantic and Charlotte air line or Texas and Santa Fe, aud go a long journey and find out that no more than a tenth part of this continent:' fully cultivated. If a man with a hundred acres of farm land should put all his cultivation on one acre he would be cultivating a larger ratio or nis inrm man uur nation is now occupying of the national farm. Pour the whole human race. Europe, Asia, Africa and all the islands of the sea, into America and there would be room to spare. All the Rocky Mountain barrennesses and all the other American deserts are to be fertilized, and as Salt Lake City and much of Utah onca yielded not a blade of grass, now by artificial irrigation have become gardens, so a nart. r?f this /v>nr.in<?nfc that now is too poor to grow even a mullein stalk or a Canada thistle, will through artificial irrigation like an i Illinois prairie wave with wheat or like a Wisconsin farm rustle with corn tassels. Beside that, after perhaps a century or two more, when this continent is quite well occupied, the tides of immigration will turn the other way. Politics and governmantal affairs being corrected on the other side of the waters, Ireland under different regulation turned into & garden will invite back another generati jn of Irishmen, and the wide wastes of Russia brought from under despotism will with her own green fields invite back another generation of Russians. And there will be hundreds of thousand? of Americans every year settling on the other continents. And after a number of centuries, all the earth full and crowded, what TVall nt-. thah fimi> enmn nitrht a Eantiier meteor wandering through the eavens will put its oaw cm our world and stop it, and putting its panther tooth in to the neck of its mountain range will shake it lifeless as the rat terrier a rat. So I have no more fear of America being overcrowded than that tho porpoises in the Atlantic Ocean will become so numerous as to stop shippiug. It is through mighty addition of foreign population to our native population that I think God is going to fill this land with a race of people 95 per cent, superior to anything the world baa ever seen. Intermarriage of families and intermarriage of nations is depressing and crippliug. Marriage outside of one's own nationality and with another style of nationality is a mighty gain. What makes the Scotch-Irish second to no pedigree for braiu and stamina of character, so that blood goes right up to supreme court bench and to the front rank iu jurisprudence and merchandise and art? Because nothing under heaven can be more unlike than a Scotchman and an Irishman ami thj descendants of these two conjoined nationalities, unless rum fliugs them, go right to the tip top in everything. All nationalities coming to this land the opposites will all the while be affianced, and French and German will unite and that will stop all the quarrel between them, and one child they will call Alsace and the other Lorraine. And hot-blooded Spaniard will unite with cool-blooded Polander and romantic Italian with matter of fact Norwegian, and a hundred and fifty years from now the race occupying this land will be in stature in purity of complexion, in liquidity of eye, in gracefulness of poiso, iu dome like brow, in taste, in intelligence and in morals so far ahead of anything now known on either side tb? seas that this last quarter or cne nineteenth century will seem to them like the Dark Ages. Oh, then how they will legislate and bargain and pray and preach and govern! This is the land where by the mingling of races the race prejudice is to get its death blow. How Heaven feels about it we may conclude from the fact that Christ, the Jew, and descended from a Jewess, nevertheless provided a religion for all races, and that Paul, though a Jew, ba cnme the chief apostle of tho Gentiles, and that recently Goa has allowed to burst in splendor upon the atteution of the world Hirscb, the Jew,who after giving ttn million dollars to Christian churches and hospitals, has called a committee of nations and furnished them with forty million dollars for schools to elevate bis race in France and Germany and Russia to higher intelligence and abolish, as he says, the prejudices against their race, these fifty million dollars not given in a last will aud testament and at a time when a man must leave his money anyhow, but by donation at lifty-five years of age and in good health, utterly eclipsing all benevolence since the world was created. I must confess there was a time when I entertained race prejudice, but thanks to God. that prejudice has gone, and i? I sat in chnpfh anH rut nne sido of ma there was a black man and on the other side of me was an Indian and before me was a Chinaman and behind me a Turk, I would be as happy as I am now standing in the presence of this brilliant audience.and I am as happy now as I can be and live. The sooner we get this corpse of race prejudice buried, the healthier will be our American atmosphere. Let each one fetch a spade and let us dia: its grave clear on down deeper and deeper till we get as far down as the center of the earth and half way to China, but no further lest it poison those living on the other side the earth. Th?n into this grave let down the accursjJ carcass of race prejudice and throw on it all the mean things that have ever been said and written between Jew and Gentile, between Turk and Russian, between English ani French, between Mongolian and antiMoneolian, between black and white, and put up over that grave for tombstone some scorched and jagged chunk of scoriae spit out by some volcanic eruption and chisel on it for epitaph: "Here lies the careas3 of one who cursed the world. Aged, near Bii thousand years. Departed this life for the perdition from whence it came. No peace to its ashasr* Now, in view of this subject, I have two point blank words to utter, one suggesting what foreigners ought to do for us, and the other what we ought to do for foreigners. First, to foreigners. Lay aside all apologetic air and realize you have as much right as any man who was not only himself born here but his father ana his grandfather and great-grandfather before him. Are you an Englishman? Though during the Revolutionary war your fathers treated our fathers roughly. i?n?iana lias more than atoned for that by giving to this country at least two denominations of Christians, the Church of England and the Methodist Church. "Witness the magniticeht liturgy of the one and the Wesleyan ha'.le'.ujahs of the other. An:l who shall ever pay England for what Shakespeare and John Milton and Woodsworth and a thousand other authors have done for America! Are you a Scotchman? Thanks for John Knox's Presbyterian ism; the balance wheal of all other denominations. And how shall Americans ever pay your native land for what Thomas Chalmers and Macintosh and Kcbert Burns and Christopher North and Robert McCheyne and Candlish and Guthrie have done for Americans! Are you a Frenchman? We cannot forget your Lafayette, who in the most desperate time of our American revolution, New York surrendered and our armies Hying in retreat, espoused our cause and at Brandy wiue and Monmouth and Yorktown put all America under eternal obligation. And we cannot forget the coming to tne rescue o? our fathers Ro;liambeau and his French fleet with six thousaml armed men. Aro you a German? We have not forgotton tiie eleven wounds through which your Baron De Kalb poured out his iife blood at the head of the Maryland and Delaware Troops in the disastrous battle at Carr.dcn, and after we have namud our streets and our cities and counties after him we have not paid a tithe of what we owe Germany for his valor and self sacrifice. And what about Martin Luther, the giant German who made way for religious liberty for all lands and ages I "Are you Polander? How can we forget your brilliant Count Pu'asKi, whose bones were laid in Savannah River after a mortal wound gotten whilo in the stirrups of one of the fiercest cavalry charges of the American revolution? But with no time to particularize I say: "All hail to the men and women of other land* who come here with honest purpose!" Renounce all obligation to foreign despots. Take the oath of American allegiance. Get out your naturalization papers. Don't talk against our instituticus, for the fact that you came here and stay shows that you like ours better than any other. If stfx ~.v;. V: you don't like them there are steamers go ing out of our ports almost every day, and the fare is cheap and, lest you should fce detained for parting civilti9s, I bid you good-by now. But if you like it here, then 1 charge you, at the ballot box, in legislative hall, in churches and everywhere be out and out Americans. Do not try to establish here the looso foreign Sabbaths or transcendentalism spun into a religion of mush and moonshine, or foreign libertinism or that condensation of all thievery, scoundrelism, lust, murder and perdition which in Russia is called Nihilism and in France called Communism and in America called Anarchism. Unite with us in making by the grace of God the fifteen million square miles or America on both sides the Isthmus of Panama the paradise of virtue and religion. My other word suggests what Americans ought to do for foreigners. By all possible means explain to them our institutionsComing here, the vast majority of them know about as much concerning Republican or Democratic form of government as you in the United State3 know about politics of Denmark or France or Italy or Switzerland, namely nothing. Explain to them that liberty in this country means liberty to do right, but not liberty to do wrong. Never in their presence say anything against their native land, for, no matter how much they may have been oppressed there, in that native land there are sacred places, cabins or mansions around whose doors they played, and perhaps somewhere there is a fhotr mnnM ll'lfA "tcVlATl lifft'lt IIIUV nuivu iuoj uvutvk unv| ?. toils are over, to be let down, for it is mother's grave, and it would be like going again into the loving arms that first held them, aud against the bosom that first pillowed them. Myl my! how low down a man must have descended to have uo regard for the place where his craille was rocked. Don't mock their brogue or their stumbling attempts at the hardest of all languages to learn. namely the English language. I warrant that they speak English as well as you could talk Scandinavian. Treat them in America as you would like to be treated if for the sake of your honest principles or a better livelihood for yourself or your family you had moved under the shadow of Jungfrau, or the Rigi, or the Giant's Causeway, or the Bohemian Forest, or the Franconian Jura. If they get homesick, as some of them are, suggest to them that God is as near to help them here as He was near tliem before they crossed the Atlantic, and that the soul's final flight is less than a second whether from the beach of the Caspian Sea or the banks of Lake Erie. Evangelize their adults through the churche3 and their children through the schools and let home missions and tract societies and the Bible translated in all the languages of these foreign people have full swing. Rejoice as Christian patriots that instead of beine an element of weakness the foreign people thoroughly evangelized will be our mightiest defence against all the world. The Congress of the United States recently ordered built new forts all up and down our American coasts, and a new navy is about to be projected. But let me say that three hundred million dollars expended in coast defense will not bo so mighty as a vast foreign population living in America. With hundreds of thousands of Germans in New York, Germany would as soon think of bombshellin? Berlin as attacking us. "With hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen in New York, France would as soon think of firing on Paris. With hundreds of thousands of Englishmen in New York, England would as soon think of destroying London. The mightiest defence ajainat European nations i3 a wall of Europeans reaching all up and down the American continent, a wall of beads and hearts consecrated to free government. A bulwark of foreign humanity heaved up all along our shores, re-enforced by the Atlantic Ocean, armed as it is with temptests and Caribbean whirlwinds and giant billows ready to fling mountains from their catopault, we need as a nation fear no one in the universe but God, and if found in His service we need not feat Mini, as six nunnrea imuiuu p'jvyie nui jci sit down at our national table, let God preside. To Him be dedicated the metal of our mines, the sheaves of our harvest fields, th? fruits of our orchards, the fabrics of our manufactories, the telescopes of observatories, the vo'um95 of our libraries, the songs of our churches, the affections of our hearts, and all our lakes becoma baptismal fonts and all our mountains altars of praise and all our valleys amphitheatres of worship, and our country, haviog become fifty nations consolidated "into one, may its every heart throb be a pulsation of gratitude to Him who made "of on? blood all nations" and ransomed that b!ood by the payment of the last drop of Hi3 own. In a Demon's Power. The physiological secret of that progressiveness of all stimulant passions, says Dr. Oswald, in the l oice, is the gradual increase Df the depressing reaction, which infallibly follows every abnormal irritation of the nervous system. The jaded nerves fail to respond to the spur of the wonted stimulus, while a mere and more irksome depression of tho vital spirit prompts the patient to relieve his torpor at any price?tco often the price of lifeloDg bondage, clinched by a more complete surrender to the power of the demon whose caressing embrace only secures a firmer hold upon the throat of his victim. Mild stimulants soon become insipid, and by * -'?' ? fho mnrn aegrees positively uimmiuiui, >u vuv and more decided appetite for stronger stimulants. Tho increasing exorbitance of that appetite thus not only constitutes a constant temptat on to worsj excesses, but also prevents the toper from retracing bis steps cn tbe road to ruin. There is, in that respect, a curious analogy between the intluen"e of moral and physical stimulants. Tho chief objection to mindtn.-laving passions is. perhaps, not their di[ reot temptation to acts of recklessness, but | the circumstance that their influence tends to annul tho attractiveness of less exciting enjoyments. Tbe historian Lecky. in bis reflections upon the moral aberrations of pagan Rome, traces tho decline of art and harmless pleasures to the indirect iniluonce of the gladiatorial games. '"To men wbo were accustomed to witness the fierce vicissitudes of deadly ccml at," he says, "any spectacle that did not elicit the strongest excitement was insipid. The idealized suffering of the stage became unimpressive to those who were habituated to the intense realism of the amphitht atre. All tho genius of a Siddons or a Ristori would fail to move an audience who had continually seen living men fall bleeding and mangled at their feet." The "Treating'' Custom. A bill has been introduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature making it a penal offence for any person to treat another with intoxicating liquor. If such a law at this could be enacted and enforced, it would do away :4L PrftKo. Wltri it Vabli UUIUUUbUl inpel uitt.u. jl * vwm bly nine-tenths of the victims of strong drink are drawn into the liquor habit by the custom of treating. It ia an idea quite peculiar to America, that the spirit of good fellowship and fraternal feeling finds its readiest and fullest expression in a call for "drinks for the crowd." It is quite generally regarded as a mark of a generous nature for a man to invite his friends to muddle their brains with some vile decoction of the drink shops, and an indication of a mean and petty spirit to refuse such invitations. Tt:e treating custom is, in short. one of the most subtle and powerful devices employed by Satan to lure men to destruction, but we doubt very much whether the custom can be directly legislated out of existence. The reform must come in another way. As long as the llction of respectability is kept up for the liquor traffic by making it a legal business, and gilded and fashionable saloons and bar-rooms are maintained under the sanction of the law, so long will the treating custom bo recognized as a social oMfcation. Withdraw from the drink-shops, high and low, the recognition of law, drive thein out of the light of day in company with the gambling dens and all their kindred iniquities, and the custom of inviting men to make beasts of themselves with drink will soon die out of itself for want of anything respectable to feed u{.on. An eli'ort is now being made to drive the saloons out cf rennsylvania with a prohibitory law, and if this eli'ort succeeds no anti-treating law will be needed.?New York Observer. A Karon a Tempcrancc /lavocateHere is a glory for temperance. Sir Morville \V. N. AVraxall, sixth Haronet of that nun;e, lias made temperance advocating his profession. Ho announces that he has as? sumed the post of t-'ecretary to the Tower Hamlets Temperance Mission, and will be glad to go to any part of the country lecturing, and, of course, collecting. Sir Morville, though an aristocrat, is not what you might call an out-and-out one. He was educated at a workhouse school in Brighton, served as a pawnbroker's assistant for some time, and then joined the army. Sir Morville declnres that he has l.een driven to preaih temperance by obsei ving the effects of drink in his own fumily, he and his collection of brothers having been educated at a workhouse aud his grandfather having died in a lunatic asylum after having lived in the sama workhouse for a long time.?-Yea; York Suik > *' ?r* . v'f - TEMPERANCE. I The Pablican's Till. L'st! to the cliok of the publican's till, As you pass by his glittering temple of sin, How impressive the sound, when you think of the ill That is being entailed on his victims within. Surrounding his spirit bar crowds may be seen, Old and young of both sexes, all eager to swill, Some smoking, some croaking, then bousing between, While they holp to replenish the publican's till. The till gets the proceeds of vice and of crime, And the hard earned wages of labor and skill, The pence of the poor, though they starve for the time, Are engorged in the maw of the publican's till. If the coins in the till had but voices to speak, They might tell tales of grief that would startle and thrill, Of hearts thac were broken, of homes wrecked and bleak, And of children starved through the pub ucan s mi. Tbo seeds so sown at the family board, \\ bile the perilous drink cup false lessons instill. Is fruitful of habits that lead to discord. By paving the way to the publican's till. If the young, who in kindness, are taught to sip wine, Could tho future forsea it might make their hearts cuill, For thousands to ruin go down the incline. And become human wrecks round the publican's tilL In the spring time of life, when all seerm bright and fa r, What visions of happiness many minds fill, Till awakened by suffering and sorrow, and care, Thev f\t:erience the fruits of the publican'i till Vast numbers drink daily, both women and men, As if duty compelled them a ta9k t? fulfil, They practice their "nipping" oblivious that then They nre swallowing disease round the publican's till Oh, how long shall the people submit to the chain Of the dreadful drink-demon, who bind? but to kill? ~ " " ~ " ?? ?J 4?A #maa. Let them strike on me yone suu Ik UD Li OCdom obtain, And stop their supplies to the publican's till ?Richard Cameron, in Temperance Record. A Costly Habit* i The laborer who pays the saloonist twentj cents per day, for four glasses of beer, or two glasses of whiskey, spends seventy-throe dollars annually for the beverage. With this money, as pnces now are, he could purchase six barrels of Hour, two hundred pounds of ugar, twenty-five bushels of potatoes, ten pounds of tea, and twenty-fivo pounds of coffee. So far as these several articles are < oncerned, the above amount would be an ample annual supply for a family of six I>ersons, perhaps a family of eight, parents and six children. Now, which had he I etter uso, the beer and whisky, or the groceries * Which would be economical and proof of real p.iternal affection? Suppose he belongs to the Knights of Labor, can he plead for a strike consistently so lonz as he worse than wastes soventy-three dollars? Must he not strike against the saloon before he can strike for higher wages, if lie would challenge the sympathies of thoughtful men? It was this thought that completely changed ? - ???i? v.* cho life ana purposs 01 a uwuium >.> folk Count)', Mass.. a few years ago. Ho was a very moderate drinker?stepped from his shop into a saloon near by only twico a day, and paid five cents each for two glasses of beer. "Over thirty dollars a year'." h j said within himself. "I could buy threo barrels of flour, five pounds of toa, ten pounds of coflfeo and fifteen bushdls of potatoes with 'that money." He too!c bis p-neilanl cast the figures on a piece of leather. ".Mv 'family need it, to," he thought: and the outcome of his thinking was: "I will never spend another cent for beer as long as 1 live:' and he never has. Was he not wise? Is there any disrount to made on his judgment/ None at ail. c-s pecially when the reader learns that his decision became an era to his family. From tlsu day, a laudable ambition, desire for Letter .education, love of books and journals, iration for higher social life, grow in tin Jfamily; and at the end of ten years, th members of it moved in the most intel.i ^ent and influential circles. There is nothing ilike a good, commanding idea to lift a ! father and his familv into a nobler life. And (this is what is needed, and all that is needed [in thousands of families in our land to-day. j The total abstinence idea is but one idea, ami :it may seem a small one to many men; but it is big enough and strong enough to save o : multitude of laborers whom nothing else can .;ave.?National Record. For His Boy's Sake. Henry W. Grady, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, said in an address: "1 assume lu heep uu luuu a vuilav.kuuu, . assume to judge for no man; I do not assume that I am better thau any man. but that I am weaker. Kut I say this to you, that I have a boy that is as dear to me as the ruddy drop? that gather about this heart. I find my hopes already centering in his little body, an'l I look to him to night to take to himself the work that, strive as I may. must fall unfinished at last from my hands. Now I know i hey say it is proper to tducate a boy at home; that if he is taught right at home he will not go wrong. This a lie to begin with, , but that don't matter. I have seen sons of some as good people as jever lived turn out badly. I ac'cept my responsibility as a father. The boy ! may fa'l from the right path as things now jexist. If ho does, I shall bear that sorrow iwithsuch resignation as I may, but I tell |you, if I were to vote to recall barrooms to 'this city when I know that it has prospered !in their absence, and that boy should fall !through their agency, I tell you?and this 'conviction has come to me in the still watches 'of the night?I could not, wearing the crowning sorrow of his disgrace and looking 'into the eyes of her whose heart be had ?iiroken?I could not, if 1 had voted to recall ;tbese barrooms, find answer for my conscience or support for my remorse. I don't know how any other father feels, but that is ,'he way Ifeel, if God permits ma to utter ihe truth." Temperance New? and Notes. Drink-shop3 in California increased in eight years from 14,000 to 31,COO. The estimated cost of the liquor traffic to the people of Ohio is $70,00 i,0JU a year. It is estimated that 3:2,000 families are homele s in London through intemperance. The amouut expended on intoxicating liquors in Ireland for the year iS37-SS was ?11,041,5!>S. A California paper fays alcohol makes two insane for each wtek-day and three for Sunday in that .State each year. A "boot-.'eg" traffic is said to be one of the devices resorted to i? some parts of Iowa to evade the prohibitory liquor law in that I State. Cardinal Manning has succeeded in perI suad.ntr H),0i0 persons, in London alone, to enroll themselves in his (Tenipcranco) League of the Cross. A lady of beauty an l refinement, the sister of oiid of the most famous lawyers in Mon" * * fin nlriasf, fnm Lrcai, aim a mu.iiuvi ui uuqu> ? ilies in Canada, was sent to an inebriate asylum ::i Chicago tho oilier day. The drink demon is impartial?lie piclvs bis victims from the top of the social ladder as well as from the bottom. Says a Comanche Indinn clergyman: "What we need is tho Bible taught in a pla n manner instead of tho whisky f'.ask. W'e want the Government to educate our children to be good and useful citizens of this country instead of drunkards. l et the Government appropriate more money for teachers of a good moral character and less for sf-a!p knives and guus." /J9AOO0J puoXeq so .Co siq paiimj pun 'Xrtsiq.u 5jubj[> 'suotuBduio) stq qj(a\ jso.ij b p;.iq ^ q^Baq aq ^ -jedsoQ oq? Snsq.jvaJd o% J|<"? -uiiq pa)0A0p eq puu Xjait^ua etuBoaq sajfe sijj -stretjsuqo *on?J stq qat? Sutjoota wtbjd v piaq' uii-jsiaqo eqx ^objbibo jo; no p?)Bjado sa?a Jieqj pBq?uaqjroq b puB uoiii.uqo b?Aioqo-ooji ?b U3UiBUtq3 om^ u-b3u(1{) [{b joj eiqbigojd bj s?nj|co9? RELIGIOUS READING. "On Great Waters." The ship has crossed tho harbor bar, And leaving home and friends afar, Sails forth beneath the evening star. "With prayer of watchers left behind, It sails before the springing wind: Strong is the bark, and God is kind. 0, baby souls, sent forth from heaven, To you the sea is also given? A weary struggle to be striven! Ye toD have left tho light of home For warring winds and waves?to roam Across a dreary waste of foam; And what shall be the end for ye? Dark shipwreck in the midmost sea? Or triumph to eternity? Fear not; for if ye brave the blast With God's own colors at the mast, The haven will b sure at last. ?Arthur L. Salmon in Good Words. Studies of Conscience. The studies rf conscience, furnished b> Shakespeare in his Ma-beth and Richard m., and by Hugo in his "Les Miserables," are Signinconciy surpiemo tea ironi anomer point of view. Inspector Barnes of New York is not a genius, but a detective, and in speaking of methods with a reporter the other day, he sdd: "The great lieutenant of every police officer is that mysterious thing calle 1 conscience. Yet let a man try to deceive himself and lie to hi ns.-lf about himself, and that something comes knocking up against the shell of his tody, and thumping on his ribs with every heart-beat, and pounding on his skull until bis head aches and he wishes he were dead, and groans in agony for relief. It is the same conscience that makes a criminal 'give himself away,' if one only knows how to awaken it or stir it into activity. I never let a man know for what he is arrested. He may have committed a dozen or more crimes of which I know nothing. If I lock him up alone and leave him to the black walls and miilftr nr\ncrn rtna ir\* nr fniir white iie pictures the possible punishment due him for all his crimes, ho comes presently into my hands like the soft clay in the hands of the potter. Then he is likely to tell me much more than I had ever suspected." Awake! "Awake, thou that s'.eepert, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light P' Awake before, the archangel trump crJl on thee to awake. Shake off your spiritual slumber before you be called on to shake off your mortal coil. Lift up your eyes, even now, to the Saviour lifted up for you, that you may not have to lift them up at last where there is no Saviour to look to. Sav not, "If I am asleep, I am not responsible." You are not in this sense asleep. You are responsible; for you are an agent rational, intelligent, moral, voluntary unfettered, and free. You are respans ble, lor God loves you; Jesus has died for you; the Holy Spirit is now striving with you; a full and free salvation lies at your hand; and a lide of saving influence has all along been sett ng in upon you, and se.'king ingress into j-our mind and your heart. You are responsible; for, if you believe man, you can believe God; you can give that attention to the Bible which you lavish on the things of time; you can think upon your soul's salvation with the same faculties that you exert on your bu-iness or plea-ures; and if you ore reluctant to do so, this is not your misfortune, re 1 ember, but your damning AnrnlfO fl'OM fllAll llVP Vfl LillUC. Anuao, vhci^ vuvu u.vvj/w. , dead! Hoar the life-giving voice of the Son of God?hear, and your soul shall live. Flee in time from the wrath to come. ''0 earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord I"? Dr. Guthrie. Silent Forces. The late Dr. Alexander Clark thus beautifully illustrates the efficacy of silent forces: Workmen in stone quarries sometimes find a very hard kind of rock. They pick little grooves for the iron wedges into the flinty j^ck. And yet, once in a while thoy fail to divide the solid mass. The iron wedges and sledges prove useless, and the workmen wonder at the stubborn rock. There is another way. The iron wedges are removed from the narrow groove'. Then little wooden wedges of a very hard flbro are selected. Now you begin to shake your heads and think: "Well, if iron wedges will not do, how is it possible for wooden wedges to bo u-ed succe sfully?" Just wait until we ex! plain. The sharp, well-made wooden ! wedges are first p t jnto water. They are I then inserted into the grooves tightly, while wet, and water is k pt in ihe grooves, and no sledge is needed to dr ve them. They would break under thj severe blows of the Vinmmoi- Rut. tlm Tvnrtfmpn inst let the wedges alone. They will do what the iron Yailed to do. How so? The damp wood swells. The particles must have room enough to enlarge. And thj granite heart of the rock cannot resist this silent influence. In a little wliilj the solid rock parts from top to bottom, and the workmen's will is accomplished. It is so, o'ten, in other tbiogs; what noLso and visible effort fail to do, some quiet power when applied will surely achieve. Teachers may remember this fact in mechanics, and manage some stubbo u natures by the application of Hie sil-nt fo ces. The iron and tha sledge hammers often fail, but tears, prayers, and a patient example under God never fail. Our Public Schools. In the current number of the Presbyterian Review is a clear, forcible and able article upon the question, "Are our Public Schools Godless?" The reply is, First, Not by their origi \ The American school of ou~ fathers was in its aims, exercises and text-books a Christian school. Suci in tha historical sens) is tha "American Public School." "The motive which urged our fathers to the establis ment of schoo's, was prof ssedly drawn from religion.' For nearly two centuries. no one lisped the id*a that a godless school was the logical outcome of a Christian free State. Secondly. They a:e no1: Godless by any constitutional or statutory requirenun1-. Long tfter the constitution went into opera* ' ' * M x o?ir?T\rtpf r\f uon tne power 01 uixuliuu iui mo v religion in the Protestant form was actually exercised in somo of the States. That power still exis s and might be exorcised by any State to auy extent and in favor of Christianity or any other religious system. The author of the articl , Rev. H. D. J nkins, D. D., thinks it is high time to come to a halt in yielding to the domand for Godless public schools, and that tr e last parley is now in progress. He clcses with the remark, "One thing is absolutely certan, C ristianity is ever increasing in power, and, iu the long run, will never tolerate the absurd and aggressive cla ms of modern iufidelity. The system of public schools must bo hold, in its sphere, true to the claims of Chris ianity, or they must with all other enemies of Christ, to the wall." 'Tis but a short journey across tho isthmus of now.?Dovee. If in the day of sorrow wo own God's presence in the cloud, we shall find Him a so in the pillar of fire, brightening and cheering our w ay as the night conies on. Those who retire from tho world on account of its s 11 and peskii es , must not forget that tliay have yet to keep company with I a person who wants just as much watching |4 as anybody else. o?v* 1 il.-n rvovFnmac thrt V- IirihUUU gim-L-3 ill u imu |>V> , more they are pressed the sweeter tiny smell. Like stars that shino brightest in the dork; like trees that are shaken; the deeper root they take, the more frit, t they bear. Dismantled His Saloon. During a recent lovival meeting al Arkansaw Village, l'ippin County. Wis.. William Manierea. a saloon keeper, rose and w.th tears streaming down his cheeks doc'ared that he ha I been mado to see his ?in? iind would no li nger sell liquor. Followed by a curious crowd he went to his saloon, where, with tho assistance of a Methodist clergyman, he smashed up his bar and hilliard-tables and poured his whisky and bt or into the streets. Mr. Manierea tben cal ed the crowd into Ihe dismantled saloon and held a prayer-meeting. He then posted up tho following notice: 'lo My Friends: Having beon led to sea the error of ray ways 1 have cleared out n>v rah on l us ness. 1 am determined by the grace of God to lend an upright and Chrisi.rnn Hfpunrt havepurchased a stock of flour." ?Chicago Times. FIFTIETH CONGRESS A Synopsis of the Work Done In Its Two Sessions. The Becord Broken as to Bills Introduced, Vetoed and Passed, The Fiftieth Congress baa broken the record as to the number of bills introduced, the number passed and the number vetoed. The number of bills and joint resolutions introduced has been in round numbers I 17,000, nearly 25 per cent greater than in ! any other Congress. The number of bills I introduced in the House was 12,(550, and in the Senate 4000. Of this number about half of the House bills hare been acted upon by i committees, the number of committee reports upon bills being 4140, though in many cases several bills of a similar nature are covered by a single report. The number of Senate reports is 2630. Joint resolutions of Senate ana House, which have the same bearing on bills, number 400. The number of bills and joint resolutions which have become laws during the Fiftioth Congress is about 1400, or a little les3 than in ru?i? oant nf th? pntirfl uumbor intro duced; of these nearly one-third were public acts, the remainder being private pension bills, etc. Preeident Cleveland vetoed during this Congress 150 bills, aud allowed over 300 to become laws without his signature. His total number of vetoes during his term are about 300. The number of days of actual seasion of this Congress is 316, which is in excess of any , other Congress, and its long iiession exceeded > in length that of any Congress which proceeded it. Among the important measures which have been presented bat failed to become laws are the Tariff bill, the Tobacco Tax Repeal bjll, Coast Defense bill, Postal Telegraph bill, Inter-state Telegraph d II, Woman's Suffrage bill, Dependent Pensions bill, Educational bill, bill to forfeit railroad land grants. Freemen's Bank bill, International Copyright bill, and the resolution to tax compouud lard and other adulterated food products. Two important treaties which were reJ'ected were the Canadian Fisheries and the British Extradition conventions. Congress also passed bills to pension Mrs. Sheridan, Mrs. Logan, Mrs. Frank A. Blair and to retire General Kosecraus. Some of the more important House bills which have become laws are: For a conference of South and Central American nations in Washington in May next; to divide the great Sioux reservation in Dakota; the Scott Chinese exclusion act; providing for the taking of the eleventh census; to limit the hours of labor of letter-carriers; creating a Department of Agriculture; to establish a Department of Labor; to create Boards of Arbitration for settling strikes; for the increase of the maximum amount of international money-oraers n um $50 to $100; providing for an appraiser's warehouse in New York and providing for deposits of the savings of seamen in the Unit*! States Navy. By far the most important of the Senate bills enacted into law has been the Omnibus Territorial Admission bill, bv which North and South Dakota, Washington and Montana Territories may acquire Statehood. Other Senate bills placed on the statute books are as follows: To incorporate the Nicaragua Canal Company; to provide aid to State Homoj for the support of disabled soldiers: to prohibit the coming of Chinese laborers into the United States; to change ths time of meeting of the Electoral College; to enable the Presidentto protect the interests of the United States at Panama (a similar measure with reference to Samoa was included in the Naval Appropriation bill); to protect the Alaska seal and salmoa fisheries, and directing the Secretary of the Interior to investigate the practicability of constructing water-storage reservoirs in the arid region. ma milan'abdicates. Servians Despot Surrenders the Crotvn to His Son. King Milan, of Servia, has issued a decree formally abdicating the throne in favor of his son Alexander, who will reign under toe title of Alexander L The decree appoint* M. Yovan Ristich and Generals Protitch and i Belimarlcovic regents during the minority of Alexander, who is thirteen years old. After a solemn service to celebrate the proclamation of the Kingdom, King Milan returned to the Palace, where he received the congratulations of the Ministers, diplomats and others. The King addressed the assemblaga He then silently shook hands with all present and went into an adjoining room, where, in the presence of the Cabinet and State Council, Milan, in a voice choked with motion, read the ukase announcing his abdication. He then gave a cheer for the new King, all present joining with enthusiasm. King Milan will remain commander-in-chief of the army during his son's minority. Milan L, King of Servia, is the fourth of the Obrenovic dynasty founded by the leader of the war of insurrection against Turkey early in the century. He was born in 1854 and succeadei to the throne in 183S after the assassination of his uncle, being crowned at Belgrade in IS?* His reign j roved a stormy one. MUSICAL AHD DEAMATIC. Mrs. Langtry is going to London. Lawrence Barkeh is worth f 725,000, Helena Modjeska was born in Poland In 1844. ^ Henry Irving has just reached his fifty litou J tQi . Patti, it is said, bos lost certain notes of her voice. Clara Morris was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1S40. Sarah Bernhardt will not visit America again until 1800. Madrid theatres are allowed by law to us? only the electi ic light. Harrigan, the New York actor-author, has just completed a new three-act comedy. Mrs. W. J. Florence will permanently retire from the stage at the close of the season. A grandnlece of Schubert has been giving a piano recital with moderate success in London. All doubts that Mod jeska will play in connection with Edwin Booth next season seem now to be removed. Marie Van Zandt has made a sensational furor in Madrid in "Lakme," being called in front of the curtain twenty times. Four opera compan es will fight one another for profitable patronage in New York city during the summer months. The London Figaro says that a sister of Mary Anderson will shortly make her debut in the English provinces or the United States. W. Van Dyke, proprietor of fbe Minnie Douglass Opera Company, now traveling in Iowa, has become iie:r to $140,0 J J by his uncle's death. A play entitle 1 "Damm-rung," by the j Queen of Roumania was produced recently, with great success, at the Weimar (Germany) Court Theatre. W. J. Scan lan, the American actor, will ! play in Great Britain and Ireland during the j oomine season. His tour win Degin in uver! pool on April ~2d. At the Academy of Music, in New Yor!: | j city, it is found that about two-thinls ot the | 6UL? opera glasses attached to the backs or' the | I chairs are nightly used. j I TnE actress I.otta lias been on th? stage j j since 1S")V, having first npppatvd on the boards ' I when twelve years old. She i.; reported to ; have the largest fortune of any American ! actress. i A syndicate of AmoriVans has obtained i from the lJaris Municipal Council a comes' 6ion of twenty acres of laud centrally loj cated for the American show during the' Ex' hibition. A1KS. i' anny ultmljlk, u? ouu j,oin;i jujr I called, has just entered upon her eighty first j yoar. It is more than sixty year* since she ! ma-ie her first appearance at Drury Lane, ; Loudon, as Juliet. In Stockholm they have not yet finished honoring Jennie Lincl. A new street hua just been called after her, and a sou ptor has recently finished a statue representing her in the costume of Norma. Ambp.oise Thomas's ballet, founded on Shakespeare's ''Tempest," is in active rehearsal at the Paris Grand Opera, and will be produced the middle of April Rosita Mauri will danc? Aliraudx - S.Z:' CURIOUS FACTS. Edith signifies ''blessed." The weight of the circulating blood twenty-eight pounds. | Du Cange mentioned locks and pad- y'i locks as early as 1381. Marriage licenses are required in In* diana but Dot in Wisconsin. t - ;'3S| A monkey on an estate in Cuba has been taught to play the piano. Locks were early used by the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and the Chinese. The average weight of a skeleton U about fourteen pounds; number of bones, 240. Henry YL, King of England, died in /' prison, by means known only to his jailer. A shingle nail was found in a perfectly fresh egg recently by a farmer near Niles, Mich. The Congressional library at Washing- '? ton contains 396,000 volumes and 130, 000 pamphlets. A man breathes about eighteen pints '<5 of air in a minute, or upward of seven, hogsheads a day. . The word "Chauvinism," meaning 8 blatant thirst for military glory, is ol comparatively recent origin in France. It seems that Telle Starr, the "bandit queen" who was shot the other day out r: on the plains, was about to publish % book. A man in Dakota was strangled to * , death by a chew of tobacco, which worked down his throat during his rjjj sleep. The pelican mentioned in the Bible ii a native of Africa, and its name is da- V; rived from a Hebrew word meaning vomiter. About 2300 B. C. when Emperor Yaa |j gave the order for the observation of thf 4 m meridian stars is tnought to be the be? -v,: ginning of Chinese astronomy. Awat h lo3t by an Ohio farmer two ?? years ago was found in the throat of on^ of his cc ws which had choked to death the other morning. She had fouad it in a straw stack. ! ersons sending posrai caras who $, write upon the address side of them "in haste," or other words unconnected with their delivery, subject them to lettei h postage, and they are held a$ udmailable. % The Forty-second street depot in New ' c.; York is the finest railroad depot in the 3. United States. The Union Depot at Iai dianapolis and the Union Depot on Canal street, in Chicago, probably come next, Jg The recipe for making the original ^ eau du cologne was discovered 200 years ago, and since that time it has '$ been intrusted to only ten persons. The written copy of the recipe is kept in a crystal goblet, under triple locks, in room in which the essential oils are mixed. The microscope is usually supposed te ^ have been invented in 1021 by Cor* nelius Drebbel, a Dutchman, but 1L m Govi has found an old book, published in 1G10, which proves that Galileo must have orierinatud this instrument al well :-i'J as the telescopes. Galileo himself seeing > to hare referred to the microscope ia :i 1614. A nine-year-old son of .Terry Harrier, l|| of Sevastopol, Wis., encountered a beaj in hi3 father's orchard, and, supposing it to ba a dog attempted to scare il ' away. Bruin refused to go, however, and, raising itself on its hind legi, * started toward the child. The little feli low thereupon rea'ized his mistake and ran for the barn, which he reached ia safety. At weddings among Germans in th< southern colonies 150 years ago, th( groomsmen attended in beautifully enu ^ broidered white aprons. Their duW . was to protect the bride from having ^ her slipper stolen from her foot. D anyone succeeded in capturiog it, th< groomsman paid a bottle of wine forth! loss, as the bride's dancing depended upon it. 4 ' t*rno OA?/l AH A. lew Uiiya 01UUC luoic im ouivi vru the boulevard of Paris a small cake foi ? one sou, which bore this inscription -'j "Souvenir of the Election of 168D-* Bouianger: What he will promise?Eal ^ and you will find what he will give.* The cakes sold rapidly, for they ap? peared appetizing, but the first moutn? jS ful told the story. They were tilled with hay. A Life-Like View of Washington. 1 ^ A more than ordinarily intimate and life-liKe view of the first President o( ,3 the republic and his accomplished wife | is presented in & letter written in 18fJ4 bj > J ' a lady who in her youth had known aufl J associated much with them. Following I is the principal portion of the lettgf? which, says tne New Vork Trilu e, vrEf v; written by Jlrs. John M. Bowers to Mrs. Edward Clarke, now both deceased. If forms au interesting and valuable contri* bution to the rood of Washington litera* turc and reminiscence called forth by tht anniversary of his first inauguration: My earliest recollection of General Wash. ington was in thj spring of 1781, when 4 guest of my mother, at Haekettstown, N. J( Although but three years of age at that time, I distinctly remember the grand appearand of that great and good man. The l.rillianc) of his epaulettes, and his peculiarly cocker hat and plume, made an impression on mj infant mind nsver to be effaced. August and dignified as he was, however, he could condescend to amuse children. During aj interval of a few minutes' absence of mj i mother from the parlor, the General placed me on bis knee, and trotting me merrilj I thereon, sang the following ludicrous liqes: 'There was an old, old man, and an old, old i woman, Ttiey lived in a vlnezar bottle tojether, Shelter'd alike from wind and from weather, They lived in a vinegar botole together," repeating the last lint several times for i I chorus. When my mother returned to th< 'J. [ parlor, the General alluded to what ha l oc< currei in her absence, sayinj: "The titth jade wished to know how the old couple e* 'caped from the bottle, and before I haa tim< to reply to her question she had anticipated me by saying: 'I uuess, General, thej knocked off the neck.'" Were any proof wanting to illustrate th? reverence inspired by the dignity and sups' riority of the presence of the General, ] might cite an anecdote of a Jlrs. Graffe?an ignorant woman, a foreigner by birth, as inveterate Tory, who resided near mv moth* e'r. She had b'eeu aceustome.l since the com* mencement of the war to speak of Goorg* Washington as "Genrgo the Rebel," until at length curiosity predominating over preju^ dice, induced her to catch a glimpse of him [ as ho pa>si?d through our hall, when she burst into tears, and exclaimed, involuntarily! "Elealeh! Elealeh:" meaning Godlike: and from that instant became a confirmed Whig. An Arizona Indian Shampoo. The hair of both sexes is worn long, j reaching nearly to the waist, and is cut squarely across. Do the dusky children of the desert profane their ebon locks with brush or comb? JCot to any great extent. They follow a device at onca economical, unique aud effective. They make a thick paste of the adobe soil . and water, and having wound the hair closely around their heads, they smear it from brow to occiput with sticky grav mud and let it dry. When thoroughly dry it is cracked off and the hair emerges thorefrom clean, smooth, and glossy us the proverbial raven's nfing. Compared to this the thampoo ? of civilization ia foolishness.?Chicago Triitune. v'