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I "MY. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "Wonders of Disaster and Blessing." (Preached at Kansas City, Mo.) Text: "7 will show wonders in the heavens ancl in the earth."?Joel ii., 30. Dr. Cumming?great and good man? would have told us the exact time of the fulfillment of this prophecy. As I stepped into his study in London on my arrival from Paris just after tho French had surrendered at Sedan, the good doctor said to me: "It is just I as I told you about France; people laughed at I me because I talked about the seven j horns and the vials, but I forsaw all this from j the Book of Daniel and the Book of Revela- j tion." Not taking any such responsibility in ! the interpretation of the passage. I simply ! assert that there is in it suggestions of many | things in our time. Our eyes dilate and our heart quickens its pulsations as we read of events in the Third century, the Sixth century, the Eighth cen- j tury, the Fourteenth century, but there are more far reaching events crowded into the Nineteenth century than into any other, acd the last quarter bids fair to eclipse the preceding three quarters, i-oorl in thu dnilv iipwsn ners of ! I events announced in one paragraph and without any special emphasis?nf events vrhieh a Herodotus, a Josephus, a Xenophon, a Gibbon would have taken whole chapters or whole volumes .to elaborate. Looking out upon our time, we must cry out in the words of the text: "Wonders in the heavens and in the earth." I propose to show you that the time in which we live is wonderful for disaster and wonderful for blessing:, for there must be lights and shades in this picture as in all others. Need I argue this day that our time is wonderful for disaster? bur world has had a rough time since by the hand of God it was bowled out into space. It is an epileptic earth; convulsion after convulsion; frosts pounding it with sledge hainuier of iceberg, and fires melting; it with furnaces seven hundred times heated. It is a wonder to me it has lasted so long. Meteors shooting by on this side and grazing it. and I meteors shooting by on tne otncr siae ana grazing it none of them slowing up for safety. Whole fleets and navies and argosies and flotillas of worlds sweeping all about us. Our earth like a fish>ng smack off the banks of Newfoundland, while the Etruria and Germanic and the Arizona and the City of New York rush by. Besides that, our world has by sin been damaged in its internal machinery, and ever and anon the furnaces have burst, and the walking beams of the mountain have broken, and the islands have shipped a sea, and the great hulk of the world has been jarred with accidents that ever and anon threatened immediate demolition. But it seems to us as if our century j were especially characterized by disaster, volcanic, cyclonic, oceanic, epidemic. I say j volcanic, because an earthquake is only a volcano hushed up. "W hen Stroraboli and Cotopaxi and Vesuvius stop breathing, let the foundations of the earth beware. Seven thousand earthquakes in two centuries recorded in the catalogue of the British association. Trajan, the Emperor, goes to ancient Antioch, and amid I the splendors of bis reception is met by an earthquake that nearly destroys the Emperor's life. Lisbon, fair "and beautiful at one o'clock on the 1st of November, 1755, in six minutes 60,000 have perished, and Voltaire writes of them: "For that region it was the last judgment, nothing wanting but a trumpet F' Europe and America feeling the ^throb; 1500 chimneys in Boston partly or fully destroyed. But the disasters of other centuries havo had their counterpart in our own. In 1812 Caraccas was caught in the grip of the earthquake; in 1S22, in Chili, 100,000 square miles of land by volcanic force upheaved to four and seven feet of permanent elevation; in 1854 Japan felt the geological agony; Naples shaken in 1857; Mexico in 1858; Medosa, tho capital of the Argentine Republic, in 1861; Manilla terrorized in 1863; the Hawaiian islands by such force uplifted and let down in 1S71; Nevada shaken in 1871; Antioch in 187-; California in 1872; San Salvador in 1S73; while in 1SS3 what subterranean excitement! Ischia, an island of the Mediterranean, a beautiful Italian watering-place, vineyard clad, sur I rounded by all natural charm and historical reminiscence; yonder, Capri, the summer resort of the Roman Emperors; yonder, Naples, the paradise of art?this beautiful island suddenly toppled into the trough of the earth. SOOO merry-makers perishing, and some of tnem so far down beneath the reach of human obsequies that it may be said of many a one of them as it was said of Moses: "The Lord buried him." Italy weeping, all Europe weeping, all Christendom weeping where there were hearts to sympathize and Christians to pray. But .while the nations were measuring that magnitude of disaster, measuring it not with golden rod like that with which the angel measured heaven, but with the black rule of death, Java, of the Indian archipelago, the most fertile island of all the earth, is caught in the grip of the earthquake, and mountain after mountain goes down, and city after city, until that island, which produces the healthiest beverage of all the world, has produced the ghastliest accident of the country. One hundred thousand people dying, dying, dead, dead. But look at the disasters cyclonic. At the mouth of the Gauges are three islands?the Hattiah, the Sundeep and the Dakin Shabazpore. In the midnight of October, li>77. on all those three islands tbn cry was: "The waters, the waters!" A cyclone arose and rolled the sea over thot i three islands, and of a population of 340.000, 215,000 were drowned. Only those saved who I had climbed to the top or tue mguesi; irees. Did you ever see a cyclone? Xo? Then I pray God you may never see one. I saw one on the ocean, and it swept us eight hundred miles back from our course, and for thirtysix hours during the cyclone and after it wo expected every moment to go to the bottom. They told us before we retired at 9 o'clock that the barometer had fallen, but at 11 o'clock at night we were awakened with the shock of the waves. All the lights out! Crash! went all the life boats. Waters rushing through the skylights down into the cabin and down on the furnaces until they hissed and smoked in the deluge. Seven hundred people praying, blaspheming, shrieking. Ouv great ship poised a moment on the top of a mountain of phosphorescent fire. and then plunged down, down, down, until it seemed as if she would never again be righted. Ah! you never want to see a cyclone at sea. But I was in Minnesota, where there was one of those cyclones on land that swept the city of Rochester from its foundations, and took dwelling houses, barns, men, women, children, horses, cattle and tossed them into indiscriminate ruin, and lifted a rail train and dashed it down, a mightier hand than that of the engineer on the air brake. Cyclone in Kan sas, cyclone in Missouri, cyclone in Wisconsin, cyclone in Illinois, cyclone in Iowa. Satan, prince of the power of the air, never made such cyclonic disturbances as he has ill our day. And am I not right in saying that one of the characteristics of the time in which we live is disaster cyclonic? But look at the disasters oceanic. Shall I -.oil +?,?. T-fill nf tVi? rlftnil shil)l)illL' '> Ye inon (sters of tho deep, answer when I call your names. Ville de Havre, the Schiller. City of Boston, the Melville, the President, the fimbria. But why should I go on calling the roll when none of them answer, and the roll is as Ion# as the white scroll of the Atlantic surf at Cape Hatteras breakers? If the oceanic cables could report all the scattered life and all the bleached bones that they rub against in tbe depths of the ocean what a message of pathos and tragedy for both beaches! In one storm eighty fishermen perished off tho coast of Newfoundland and whole fleets of thei^ off the coast of England. God help tho poor fellows at sea, and give high seats in heaven to the Grace Darlings and the Ida Lewises and the lifeboat men hovering around Goodwin's Sands and the Sherries. The sea, owning three-fourths of the earth, proposes to capture the other fourth, and is bombarding tho land all around the earth. The moving of our hotels at Brighton Beach backward one hundred yards from where they once stood, a type of what is going on all around the world and 011 every coast. The Dead Sea rolls to-day where ancient cities stood. Pillars of temples that stood on hills geologists now find three-quarters under the water or altogether submerged. The sea, having wrecked so many merchantmen and flotillas, wants to wreck the continents and hence disaster-: oceanic. Look at the disasters epidemic. I speak not of the plague in the Fourth century that ravaged Europe, and in Moscow and the Neapolitan dominions and Marseilles wrought such terror in the Eighteenth century, but I look at the yellow fevers, and the choleras, and the diphtherias and the scarlet fevers, and the typhoids of our own time. Hear the wailing of Memphis, and Shreveport, and New Orleans and Jacksonville of the last few decades. From Hurdwar, India, where every twelfth year three million devotees congregate, the caravans brought the cholera, and that one disease slew eighteen thousand in eighteen days in Bossorah. Twelve thousand in one summer slain by it in India and twenty-five thousand in Egypt. Disasters epidemic. Some of the finest monuments in Greenwood and Laurel Hill and Mount Auburn are to doctors who lost their life battling with Southern epidemic. But now I turn the leaf in my subject, and I plant the white lilies and the palm tree amid the night shade and the myrtle. This age no more characterized by wonders of disaster than by wondars of blessing. Blessing of longevity; the average of human life rapidly increasing. Forty years now worth four hundred years once. "2sow I can travel from Manitoba to New York in three days and three nights. In other times it would have taken three months. In other words, three days and three nights now are worth three months of other days. The average of human life practically greater now than when Noah lived his U50 years and Methusaleli lived his Of.9 tmk Yilpssiiijrs of intelligence: The Saluiou P. Chases and the Abraham Lincolns and the Henry Wilsons of the coming time will not be required to learn to read by pine knot Lights, or seated on shoemaker's bench,* nor will the Fergusons have to study astronomy while wo telling the cattle. Knowledge rolls its tides along every poor man's door, and his children may go down and bathe in them. If the philosophers of the last century were called up to recite in a class with our hoys at the Polytechnic, or our girls at the Packer, those old philosophers would be sent down to the foot of the class because they failed to answer the questions! Free libraries in all the important towns and cities of the land. Historical alcoves and poetical shelves and magazine tables for all that desire to walk through them or sit down at them. Blessings of "quick information: Newspapers falling all around us thick as leaves in a September equinoctial. News three days old, rancid and stale. We see the whole world twice a day?through the newspaper at the breakfast table, and through the newspaper at the tea table, with an "extra" here and there between. Blessing of Gospel proclamation: "Do you not know that nearly all the missionary societies have been born in this century? and nearly all the Bible societies and nearly all the great philanthropic movements? A secretary of one of the denominations said to me the other day in Dakota: "You were wrong when you said our denomination averaged a new church every day of the year: they established nine in one week, so you are far within the truth." A clergyman of our own denomination said: "I have just been out establishing live mission stations." I tell, you Christianity is on the march while infidelity is dwindling into imbecility. While infidelity is thus dwindling and drooninir down into im becility and indecency, the wheel of Christianity is making about a thousand revolutions in a minute. All the copies of Shakespeare and Tennyson and Disraeli and of any ten of the most popular writers of the day,"less in number than the copies of tho Bible going out trom our printing presses. A few years ago, in six weeks, more than two million copies of the New Testament purchased, not given away, but purchased because the world will have it. More Cliristian men in high official position to-day in Great Britain and in the United States than ever before. Stop that falsehood going through the newspapers?I have seen it in twenty?that the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States are all inlidels except one. By personal accpiaintance I know three of them to bp old-fashioned evangelical Christians, sitting at the Holy Sacrament of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I suppose that the majority of them are stanch believers in our Christian religion. And then hear the dying words of Judge Black, a man who had been Attorney General of the United States, and who had been Secretary of the United States, no stronger lawyer of the century than I .Tiirltrji Rlfifk?dvinsr. his asred wife kneel- ! ing by his "side, and" lie littering that sublime and tender prayer: "O Lord God, from whom I derived my existence, in whom I have always trusted, take my spirit to Thyself and let Thv richest blessing come down" upon my Alary." The most popular book to-day is the Bible, and the mightiest institution" is the church, and the greatest name among the nations, and more honored than any other, is the name of Jesus. Wonders of self sacrifice: A clergyman told me in the Northwest that for six years he was a missionary at the extreme J^orth, living 400 miles from a postoflice, and sometimes he slept out of doors in the winter, the thermometer sixty and sixty-five degrees below zero, wrapped in rabbit skins woven together. I said: "Is it possible? You do not mean sixty and sixty-five degrees below zeroV' He said: ''I do, "and I -vas happy." All for Christ. Where is there any other being that will rally such enthusiasm? Mothers sewing their fingers off to educate their boys for the Gospel ministry. For nine years no luxury 011 the table until the course through grammar school and college and theological seminary be completed. Poor widow putting her mite into the Lord's treasury, the face of Emperor or President impressed upon the coin not so consuicuous as the blood with which she earned it. Millions of good men ami women, but more women than men, to whom Christ is j everything. Christ first and Christ last and Christ forever. Why, this age is not so characterized by ' invention and scientific exploration as it I is by Gospel proclamation. You can get no "idea of it unless you can ring all 1 the church bells in one chime, anil ! sound all the organs in one diapason, and ! gather all the congregations of Christen[ uom in one Gloria in Excelsis. j Mighty canin meetings. Might Uceau ; Groves. Mighty Chautauquas. Mighty conI ventions of Christian works. Mighty gen' eral assemblies of the Presbyterian church. Mighty conferences of the Methodist church. Mighty associations of the Baptist church. Mighty conventions of the Episcopal church. I think before long the best investments will not bo in railroad stock or Western Union, but in trumpets and cymbals ami J festal decorations, for "ve are on the eve of victories wiuo and world J uplifting. There may be many years I of hard work yet before the consummation, j but the signs are to me so encouraging that I would not be unbelieving if I saw the wing | of the apocalyptic angel spread for its last ! triumphal flight in this day's sunset; or il' I To-morrow morning me ocean mmra suuum : thrill us with the news that Christ the Lord i had alighted on Mount Olivet or Mount Ca!| vary to proclaim universal dominion. Oh, you dead churches, wake up! Throw j back the shutters of stiff eeclesiasticism and | let the light of the spring morning come ill. | Morning for the land. Morning lor the sea. j Morning of emancipation. Morning of light | and love and peace. Morning of a day in which there shall bo no chains to break, no j sorrows to assuage, no despotism to shatter, | no woes to compassionate. (J Christ, descend! Scarred temple, take the crown! Bruised : hand, take the scepter! Wounded foot, step i the throne! '"Thine is the kingdom." j These things I say because I want you to j be alert. I want you to be watching all these i wonders unrolling from the heavens and the earth. God has classified them, whether calamitous or pleasing. The divino purposes are harnessed in traces that cannot break, and in girths that cannot slip, i and in buckles that cannot loosen, and are driven hv rcius they must answer. 1 | preach no fatalism. A swarthy engineer nr j one of the depots in I>ak<ita said: ''When will ' you get ou the locomotive and take a ride with us?"' '"Well,'' I said, "now, if that J suits you;-"' So I got on one side the loeoI motive, and a Methodist minister, I who was also invited, got on the other side. I and between us were the engineer and the J stoker. The train started. The engineer ha<I j his hand on the agitated pulse of the great I engine. The stoker shoveled in the coal and ! shut the door with a loud clang. A vast plain ! slipped under us and the hills swept by, ; and that great monster ou which we j rode trembled and bounded and snorted and raged as it hurled us on. 1 said to the Methodist minister on the other side the locomotive: "My brother, why should Presbyterians and Methodists quarrel about the decrees and free agency? You see that track, that firm track, that iron track; that is the decree. You see this engineer's arm? That is free agency. How beautifully they work together They are going to take us through. Wo coukl not do without the track, and we could not do without the engineer. So I rejoice day by day. Work for us all to do, and we may turn the crank of the Christian machinery this way - - *<- . , *. "* 9 or that, for we are free agents; but there is the track laid so long ago no one remembers it, laid by the hand of Almighty God in sockets that no terrestrial or satanic pressure can ever affect. And along that track the car of the world's redemption will roll and roll to the Grand Central Depot of the Millennium. I have no anxiety about the track. I am only afraid that for our indolence God will discharge us and get some other stoker and some other engineer. The train is going through with us or without us. 80, my brethren, watch all the events that are going by. If things seem to turn out right, give wings to your joy. If things seem to turn out wrong, throw out the anchor of faith and hold fast. There is a house in London where Peter the Great of Russia lived awhile when he was moving through the land incognito and in workman's dress, that he might learn the wants of the people. A stranger was visiting at that house recently, and saw in a dark attic an old box, and he said to the owner of the house: ''What's in that box?" The owner said, "I don't know; that box was there when I got tho house and it was there when my father got it. We haven't had any curiosity to look at it; I guess there's nothing in it." "Well," said the stranger, "I'll give you two pounds for it." "Well, done." The two pounds are paid, and recently the contents of that box wprfi sold to the Czar of Russia for fifty thou sand dollars. In it the lathins machine of Peter the Great, his private letters and documents of value beyond all momentary consideration. And here are the events that seem very insignificant and unimportant, but they increase treasures of Divine Providence and eternities of me ning which after a while God will demonstrate before the ages as being of stupendous value. As near as I can tell from what I see, there must be a God somewhere about. "When Titans play quoits they pitch mountains; but who owns these gigantic forces you have been reading about the last two months? Whose hand is on the throttle valve of the volcanoes? "Whose foot suddenly planted on the footstool makes the continents quiver? God! God! He looketh upon the mountains and they tremble. He touehetli the hills aud they smoke. God! God! I must be at peaea with Him. Through the Lord Jesus Christ this God is mine and He is yours. I put the earthquake that shook Palestine at the crucifixion against all the down rockings of the centuries. This God on our side, we may challenge all the centuries of time and all the cycles of eternity. Those of us who are in mid-life may well thank God that we have seen so many wondrous things; but there are people here today who will see the Twentieth century. Things obscure to us will be plain to you yet. The Twentieth century will be as far ahead of the Nineteenth as the Nineteenth is ahead of the Eighteenth, aud as you caricature the liabits and customs and ig ^.i? ?. liorance ul me pasi, utuns > m -.m ?cature this age. Some of you may live to see the shimmering veil between the material and the spiritual world lifted. Magnetism, a word witn which we cover up our ignorance, will yet be an explored realm. Electricity, the fiery courser of the sky, that Benjamin Franklin lassoed and Morse and Bell and Edison have tried to control, will become completely manageable, and locomotion will De swiftened, and a world of practical knowledge thrown in upon the race. Whether we depart in this century, or whether we see the open gates of a more wonderful century, we will see theso things. It does not make much difference where we stand, but the higher the standpoint the larger the prospect. We will see them from heaven if we do not see them from earth. I was at Fire Island, Long Island, and I went up in the cupola from which they telegraph to New York the approach of vessels liours before they como into port. There is an opening in the wall, and the operator puts his telescope through that opening and looks out and sees vessels far out at sea. While I was talking with him he went up and looked out. He said: "We are expecting the Arizona to-night." I said: "Is it possible you know all those vessels? Do you know them as you know a man's faces''' He said: "Yes, I never make a mistake; before I see the hulks, I often know them by the masts; I know them all, I have watched them so long." Oh, what a grand thing it is to have ships telegraphed and heralded long before they ?" * * tKof ^Viem/lc ninv pnniA UUiUW CV y\Jl t, IUUV liiwuuo down to the wharf and welcome their long absent loved ones. So to-day we take our stand in the watch tower and we look oft and through tiio glass of inspiration or Providence we look oil' and see a whole fleet of ships coming in. That is the ship of Peace, flag with one star of Bethleliem floating above the top gallants. That is the ship of the church, mark of salt wave high up 011 the smoke stack, showing she has had rough weather, but the Captain of salvation commands her and all is well with her. The ship of heaven, mightiest craffc ever launched, millions of passengers waiting for millions more, prophets and apostles and martyrs in the cabiu, conquerors at the foot of the mast, while from the rigging hands are waving this way as they knew us, and we wave back again, for they are ours; thev went out from our own households. Ours! Hail! Hail! Put off the black and put 011 the white. Stop tolling the funeral bell and ring the wedding anthem. Shut up the hearse and take the chariot. Now, the ship comes around the great headland. Soon she will strike the wharf and we will go aboard her. Tears for ships going out. Laughter for ships coming in. Now she touches the wharf. Throw on the planks. Block not up that gangway with embracing long lost friends, lor you will I""'" r\f vnnninn Ssf-nnrl Vinplr nnfj give way until other millions come 011. Farewell to sin. Farewell to struggle. Farewell to sickness. Farewell to death. All aboard for heaven! Caused by DrinK. In the course of a long article on "Rum in the Arctics," a writer in the Mail and Express says: l'ln the winter of 18S1-S3 the United States steamship Rodgers made her winter quarters in St. Lawrence Bay, a little south of East Cape, in Siberia, and after tbe vessel was burned the officers and men were kindly treated by the natives. Only a few years before that time, however, a small whaler put in there, and while her decks were filled with what appeared to be friendly natives, a sudden attack was made upon the officers and crew, and every ono was murdered and the vessel looted and scuttled. This affair undoubtedly resulted from the liquor left, only a few days previously, on the coast, at East Cape. Some of the natives got drunk, and, wanting more, they succeeded in enticing a number of the most desperato men to join the plot, with the terrible result stated. The sequel occurred the following year, when a vessel put into Cape Prince of Wales, 011 the Alaskan coast. In the crew were a number of Kanakas, or native Honolulu sailors, some of whom were lriends and relativos of the murdered crew. One evening there came on board an unusually large number of natives, who acted so strangely that suspicion was aroused, and the sailors quietly and secretly armed themselves. Their suspicions were confirmed, when later the native men sent all their women ashore. They then demanded "rom," which being refused. they became very insolent and demonstrative. The Kanakas in the crew were burning to avenge the death of their friends and suddenly set upon their visitors and killed every one, Some of tho pursued jumped overboard and were drowned, for the Arctic tribes are not swimmers, and the others were stabbed to death with knives or lances. A few of tiie Esquimaux crawle I as far back under the t' gallant fo'cas1! as they could get, but were dragged out by their unrelenting foe, who threw harpoons into them for that purpose, and completed the work of death on deck. Both of these tragedies originated in liquor and the craving for it that exists in all savages who have tasted .it. Tho men who at other times are the most"kindly in their nature seem to develop the worst passions under its in''uences. A Radical Remedy Required. The total abstinence movement has niado many sober men, and it. is not proposed to abate any effort along that line; but. nevertheless, the fact must lie ret-oguized that the total abstinence movement do?s not cure the Airil W/linn Millet. vised to supplement; the work of tiie church and tho temperance society. A pfij'sician would not follow a mild method of treatment if the disea-e grew more pronounced and virulent all the while. He would try a remedy that was radical and heroic. The total abstinence movement is too mild for the drink evil; it needs radical and heroic treatment.? Pioneer. _ The Poof ChildrenHave wo no pity for the poor, miserable children? Is thare no voico strong enough to plead "like angels, trumpet-tongued, against the deep damnation of their taking oti'?1'?of these caiidten who. in the language of Southey, are not s j much born into the world as damned into tho world, damned, predestined, as it were, to live lives of disease and degradation, because of the drink in the midst of which they are brought up and of which they hare the hereditary taint in their very veins.?Canon Farrar. f J. RELIGIOUS READING. Tho Saviour's Sympathy. "While the storm was fiercely blowing, While the soa was wildly flowing, Angry wind and angry billow Only rocked the Saviour's biilow,? Jesus slept. But when sudden grief was rending Human hearts in sorrow bending; "When He saw the sisters weeping Where the brother's form was sleeping, "Jesus wept." Lost in Sight of Home. A few months ago, during one of the severe storms that visited Colorado, a young man perished in sight of home. In his bewilderment he passed aiul r. passed his own cottage, to lie down and di ? almost in range with tho "light in the window" which his young wife had placed there to guide him home. All alone she watched tho long night through, listening in vain for tho foot-steps Hv t. wnnl/1 m mn no fni* Inner ho!nrfl the morning dawned, the icy touch of death had forever stilled that warm, loving heart. The Fad d ath was made still sadder by the fact that he was lost in sight of home. How m uiy wanderers from the Father's house are lost in sight of j home, in tho full glare of tho Gospel light! | They have the open Bible, overflowing with ; its call< and pr< mises, the faithful warnings j from tho pulpit, the manifestations of God's . providence, all tending to diivct their steps } heavenward,and yet from all these they turn I away, waiting for tho moro convenient senI s -n, and are lost in sight of the many mansions.?Forward. Unman Judgments. Jesus never mentioned any of earth's great men (so-called) with words of praise. 1 here | had been great conquerors before his tima I like Alexander tho threat, but he nev. r al. j luded to them. There had been pbilosoEhers, like Plato and Aristotle and Socrates, ut he never spoke of them. Rich men had I received the notice of their fellow men, but I ho never mentioned them by name. Non-; of those of whom human history speaks most J largely came in for a word of commendation | from him or his apostles in later years. This should bid us pause, and make us stop to think whether our human judgments are not totally faulty. Have wo not put the seal of greatness where it does not belong. In what respect is the world better today for the existence of the rich manlike Croesus, of conguerers like Alexander, of ) hilosophors hko Plato, of authors like Cic to? What really valuable thing should we lo-o had such men never existed? Gather all ho conquerers of tho world together, and say whether they have been as useful to the world as one John Bun van or one John "Wes ley. rut nil your puuosopiuciu uuukb iuge: her, and declare whether they have accomplished as much for humanity as the epistle of Paul to the Gnlntinns. Match Bismarck and Luther, and judge whether poli1 ician or preacher has the best of it in the long run. On the other hand, if you blot j out Abraham, Joseph, Moses, David the I singer, Elijah. Isaiah, John the Baptist, Piiu', from human history, you usher in j blackness of darkness.?A. F. Schaujfler. Practical Life. Daily and hourly we m?et questions that d-mand an immediate answer?questions I that relato to food and raiment, to the hnndi to-hand couflict with earthly necessities. Perplexities arising from these sources are sometimes the occasions of greatest peril to Christian faith. Many a soul ha-; overcome in spiritual combat, only to fall before the enemy assaulting him through outward and visible circumstances. They have forgotten that Christ is their Lord "in material i good as well as in spiritual. They have ; failed to follow him in principles revealed I for pract:cal life, and have re! garded Christ a saviour only in spiritual things. One has forcibly said, 4' 'He that followeth me shall net walk in ! darkness.' That saying has a lower and a i higher fulfilment. In tlie 1? wer, it refers j to practical life and its perplexities. Nobody | who has not tried it would believe how many j difficulties are cleared out of a mail's road by the simple act of trying to follow Christ. ; No doubt thcro will still rc nain obscurities | enough as to what we ought to do to call lor the best exercise of patient wisdon; but an j enormous proportion of them vanish j like mist when the sijn Iroks through j when once we honestly set ourselves to I find out where th'1 pillar, cl Light is guiding. I It is a reluctant will and intrinsic liking-: and I disliking* that obscure th<_* way for us, much j oftcner than real obscurity in the way itself. I It is seldom impossible to discern the divine I will when we only wish to know it that we may doit. And if ever it is impossible for us. surely that impossibility is like the cloud I resting on :he tabernacle?a sign that for j the present His will is th it we should be still, and wait and watch." Thn Anchor of the Soul. j "Walking, on a day one summer, through j the vast navy-yard of Portsmouth, England, j I came upon a" street called Anchor street. ' There, side by side, in long lines, wore laid i multitudes of the hughest anchors. You could j not look nt tho e immense and grappling I flukes, and mighty iron shafts, without a . very real feeling of a restful* mastery over I tides and storms. With her cable fastened 1 to one of those srrc-it anchors, and with that anchor getting grip on tho bottom of the sea, no lee shore could threaten, or devastating breaker harm the gallant ship. Do you remember how in t'ae Epistle to the Hebrews we are told of tho anchor of tho j soul? The anchor of 1110 soul?what steady. | masterful word is this, amid the tossings ana ; the changes and the dashing uncertainties of 1 our lives! And will you notice a peculiarity of this I anchor of the soul? Wo are told it entereth j into that within the >eil. The veil in the old i Temple was tho symbol of separation bej tween God and man. And in this scripture about the anchor of the soul, tho veil stands i for whatever distance, or mystery or sinfulness may divide and hinder us froin God and hido Him from us. The great navigator Sir Francis Drake made a voyage round the world m the ship Golden Hind,?a little vessel of but a hundred and tweuty tons. At last, after an absence of two years and ten months, ho dropped his anchor in Deptford harbor. The gr at Queen Elizabeth refused to summon him to her palaco to make him knight; but went herself to Deptfor ), and. sta* ding with her royal feet 011 the deck of his little but triumphant vessel, laid the sword upon his shoulders, and Vin/ln him stiinil before her henceforth Sir Francis Drake. The great queen knew how, right royally, to reward those who added glory to her crown. And she gave him a crest he might wear proudly ever after?a ship in full sjiil with a cable running up to Heaven, an emblem of the Divine guidance vrhic'i had helped him to do the, till then,unheard-of deed. Sir Francis'crest is a kind of picture of the Scripture word about this as clior of the soul. For this anchor of the soul is not flung into any sea-bottom; does not go down into any shifting worldly pice or thing, but upwaru th s anchor of the soul is cast. The hawser which holds this anchor pas es I up and through the celestial spaces, thr. ugh every veil of any >ort hiding the face of God, I and there, in the place of th* fl lectest Divine Presence, the fluke> of this anchor of the soul seize and hoi 1 to the vety buttresses of God's Throne; and this anchor to God's Throne keeps moored even a poor human RDllI Not like a ship driven of tho storm, nnd flung into tho black jaws of cruel reefs, whiov tho breakers dash and tf r, need any i of us be. For we may have a hope which is as nn anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast., aiid wh eh entereth into that within tho veil.?''The Brook in the II I'll lli'V. Waylantl lh>ijt. Civilization Will Not Always Mean Hum. That the Indians are capable of civilization has been abundantly proved by the G'herokets. There are about :i5,000 of them, of whom half are full blood. Thirty-five per cant, of the national income is spent upon schools, and fiftean per cent, upon asylums. They bavo a written language, and claim that every citizen can read and write. Besides the common schools they have four excellent academies, and each child is allowed a large sum each year for its schooling. Think of a city among us with 25,000 inhabitants thus equipped for education! They lack one mark of civilization, however, they have no saloons, and boast of less drinking among them than among a like number in any other community. By this sad lack some of our statesmen may be discouraged with respect to further attempts to civilize tho redmen.? Christian Standard. TEMPERANCE. Sons of Drunkards. "We come, we come with sad array, And in procession long. To join the army of the lost, Three hundred thousand strong. "Our banners beck'ning on to death, Abroad we hare unrolled; And Famine, Care, and wan Despair Are seen upon their fold. " "Ye heard what music cheers U3 on? The mother's cry that rang So wildly, and the babe that wailed Above the trumpet's clang. "We've taken spoil; and blighted joys And ruined homes are here; We've trampled on the throbbing heart And flouted sorrow's tear. "We come, we come?we've searched the land, The rich and poor are ours, Enlisted from the uhrines of God, From hovels and from towers. "And who or what shall balk the brave That swear to drink an>l die? VV Dai? IKJOU5 LU suuu, Jiluu a muvtcrou wuira Or this, that spans the sky? "Onward 1 though ever oil our march Hang misery's countless train; Onward for hell?from rank to rank Pass we the cup again. "We come?of the world's scourges, who Liko us have overthrown? What: woe had ever earth liko woe To our stern prowess known! "We come, we come to fill our graven, On which shall shine no star. To glut the worm that never dies, Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!" ?National Advocate Snatching at a Straw. In striking contrast to tho obliviousness of liquor men and their sympathizers to the terrible figures that stare them in tho face, showing the monstrosity of the liquor crime, is the ridiculous persistency with which they parade any figures which seem to favor their side. In the Voice of December 13 we exposed the fallacy of certain figures taken from the statistics of the British Medical Association, showing that oven confirmed inebriates were longer lived tban total abstainers. Yet these figures, so twisted as to support this ridiculous conclusion, are still being industriously circulated, notwithstanding the fact that the Committee of the British Medical Association, with the facts before them upon which those figures were based, summarized the result of their investigations in regard; to the effects of the use of alcohol in the following language: "That habitual indulgence in alcoholic liquors beyond the most moderate amount has a distinct tendency to shorten life, the average shortening being roughly propor tioneu l/U LIIW UOgICO KJi. JIIUUI^UVU, "That, of men who have passed the ago of twenty-five, the strictly temperate, on the average, live at least ten years longer than those who become decidedly intemperate."? Voice. An Argument of Beer-Sophists. There is a story of a bragging sportsman who could not see ten yards without his spectacles, but who nevertheless was very fond of vaunting his hunting exploits. "Look over yonder," said he, one day "when be was crossing a market in the company of ssveral city friends; "see that farmer' Well, he would be a dead mau now if it hadn't been for a lucky shot of mine." One of those citizens soon after met the same farmer, and I took occasion to mention the remark of his | bragging frisnd. "Did Mr. So-and-So ever I save your life;" "He must be crazy," said | the blunt granger. "The fact is, he mistook me for a bear one day aud blazed away with | his shot-gun, but by good-luck all his shot struck through my hunting-pouch, and did I not go deep enough to cripple me. That's I what he calls saving my life, I suppose." I With similar modifications we should accept tha often-repeated assertion that the | nations of northern Europe owe their physical vigor to their liberal use of various alcoholic stimulants. The truth is, that those same stimulants have more than once accom- ! plished the actual annihilation of whole j tribes, and broken the mental and physical vigor of countless millions,and the argument of the beer-sophists rests merely upon the | slender fact that under exceptionally favor- I able circumstances the alcohol habit has not j proved absolutely fatal to nations of once j herculean constitution. It is true that the 1 udands of southern Germany still produce ' men who have preserved the appearanca of j vigorous manhood in spite of their excessive use of fermented beverages, but the ancestors of those highlanders were athletes who could handle a forty-pound iron club as their descendants would whirl a black-thorn cud gel, and whos? rude weapons, by sheer dine ] of gigantic strength, prevailed against the I superior discipline, the superior tactics, and tli9 superior numbers of the best armed Roman legionaries. The Saloon a Deadly Curse. No one can doubt that we need the church, the school and the factory, but in the light of j our present civilization no one will sat up a claim for the saloon on its own merits. One | has said the saloon is the heaviest clog in the i progress of our country, Every evil that curses our nation to-day flows to a great extent from the saloon. It is the prolific source I of most of our political corruption. It traf- j Acs in tears, groans, blood, vice, misery and death. It drags in dishonored graves a hun- i drod thousand human being annually. Is it any wondor that Gladstone declares i the saloon to be a greater evil than war, | pestilence and famine combined? Why, in the presence of such desolatiou as this, war is a white-winged an^el of peace, pestilence a j healing fountain and famine a tabie of plenty. The saloon has been compared with the deadly Upas tree, which not only kills those who touch it, but sends out its terrible p oison oven to those who endeavor to shun it. If we consider the saloon from a moral standpoint it is a curse. It is the direct cause of three-fourths of the Sabbath breaking, profanity and gambling. It desolates a j million homes, and transports men beyond the bounds of reason into tho seas of dissipation and ruin. It makes 500 maniacs and oOO.OOO criminals every year, it is tne saloon in which a million men have lost their self-respect, their health, their character, their all. Men with defiled clothing, wrecked hopes, starving children, empty purses, lost manhood, the product and support of tho saloon. But yet this monster cries out for State and National authority to ply its dreadful work, saying: "License me to sow the seeds of shame. License me to make widows and orphans. License me to write disgrace upon the fair forehead of helpless innocence. License me to befog the mind to paralyze the reason, damn the soul. License me to incite the red-handei murderer to his terrible deeds of deadly violence." But the saloon gets all it asks for. It is a financial curse. Nine hundred and forty-five millions of dollars are spent over the till of the rumseller. More money than we spend as a nation for all civil service, army, navy and Congress.? Pioneer. Temperance News and Notes. It is said that 30,Oi 0 people go to bed drunk in Glasgow every Saturday night. I Bands of Mercy are baing formed in connection with the Loyal Temperance Legions of Ohio. A Kentucky W. C. T. U. woman recently said she had six unanswerable arguments in favor of prohibition?her six sons. In one court of London twenty-seven out of twenty-eight cases of attempted suicido within a short time were traced directly^ to drink and the twenty-eighth tvas uououui. Dr. Daniel Dorchester is responsible for the statement that a distillery firm within three miles of the Massachusetts State House lias % contract to furnish :;0'K) gallons of rum daily to the African trade tor the next seven years. Professor Kovalevsky, of the Chair of Mental Disease at the University of KharkofF, Russia has published a book in which he strongly denounces thu giving of alcoholic beverages to children and enlarges on the propriety ot' not administering alcohol as a medicine without first ascertaining whether 1 the patient has an alcoholic diathesis. The W. C. T. U. of Columbus, Miss., recently sent an earnest request to every clergyman in the place to preach a sermon on "The Evils of the Open Saloon." The plea was considered in the ministers' meeting, and the chairman made answer by a note saying that the ministers, after prayerful consideration of tha request, deemed it "inexpedient to comply." Mrs. Mary A. Lathrop, of Michigan, who has been dubbed by her admirers "the Daniel Webster of the feminine world," has a poor opinion of saloon keepers-. In a lecture at , Ktttsburg she said: "Cannibalism is decent compared with the saloon business. I have more respect for a savage who will kill a missionary, cook him and eat him, than for a man who will allow the liquor business because it will lessen bis municipal taxes." NOMINATED FOR OFFICE. Prominent Names Sent by the President to tiie Senate. Nearly All the Leading Diplomatic Appointments Made. Twelfth Day's Nominations. President Harrison has sent the following nominations to the Senate: Postmasters?John Suiningsby, at Bar Harbor, Me.; Augustus J. Hoitt, at Lynn, Mass.; Suydani P. Wheeler, at Hancock, N. Y.; Richard W. Oldfield, at Haverstraw, N. Y.; Lewis R. Williams, at Long Branch, N. J.; Burt C. Drake, at Gainesville, Fla.: Orlando B. Happy, at Mayfleld, Ky., Win. Jenney. at Mount Clemens. Mich. Cassius M. Barnes, of Arkansas, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Guthrie, Indian Territory; John I. Dille, of Indiana, to be Register of the Land Office at Guthrie, Indian Terrifciry. Charles II. Monteith, of Idaho, to be agent for the Indians of the Nez Perces Agency in Idaho. The nominations of John C. New to be Consul-Ger eral to London and Lewis Wolfly to be Governor of Arizona were confirmed by the Senate. The nomination of Murat Halstead a3 Minister to Berlin was reported favorably to the Senate by a unanimous vote of the For eign Relations Committee, and the Senate proceeded to vote upon it. It turned out that five Republican Senators voted against him, together with all the Democrats, aud on that vote he stood rejected. A motion was immediately made by Senator Sherman to reconsider the vote, aud on this motion debate went on until the Senate adjourned. The five Republicans who voted against Mr. Halstead's confirmation were Ingalls, Plumb, Teller, Cullum and FarwelL Thirteenth Day's Nominations. The President sent to the Senate these nominations: Robert Adams, Jr., of Pennsylvania, to be Minister to Brazil. Lansing B. Mizner, of, California, to be Minister to the Central American States. William L. Scruggs, of Georgia, to be Minister to Venezuela. William 0. Bradley, of Kentucky, to be Minister Resident and Consul General to Corea. George B, Ferguson, of Maine, to be Collector of Customs for the District of Belfast, Me. Charles Henry Tilighman Lowndes, of Maryland,to be an Assistant Surgeon in the Navy. George Chandler, of Kansas, to be First Assistant Secretary of the Interior. George L. Shoup, of Idaho,to be Governor of Idaho. Edward J. Curtis, of Idaho, to be Secretary of Idaho. Jacob V. Admire, of Kansas, to be Receiver of Public Moneys at Kingfisher Stage Station, Indian Territory. Jacob C. Roberts, of Nebraska, to be Register of the Land Office at Kingfisher Stage Station, Indian Territory. Scion A. Darnell, of Georgia, to be Attorney of the United States for the Northern District of Georgia. William S. Tifton, of Tennessee, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Tennessee. The Senate has confirmed the following nominations: James O. Churchill, Missouri, to be Surveyor of Customs at the port of St. Louis; Charles E. Monteith, to be ageDt at the Nez Perces Agency, Idaho. Messrs. Teller, Pavne and Evarts, spoke in opposition to the confirmation of Murat Halstead to be Minister to Germany; no decisive action was taken on the motion to reconsider the vote by which the nomination was rejected. Fourteenth Day's Nominations. The President sent the following nominations to the Senate: John T. Abbott, of New Hampshire, to be Minister to the Republic of Colombia. Edwin H. Terrill, of Texas, to be Minister to Belgium. Withdrawn?John W. Berryman, Postmaster at Versailles, Ky. To be delegates to the conference between the United States of America and the Republics of Mexico, Central and South America, Hayti, San Domingo, aud the Empire of Brazil, to be held in Washington in 1S8D? John B. Henderson, of Missouri; Cornelius N. Blis?,of New York; William Pinckney Whyte, of Maryland; Clement Studebaker.of Indiajia; T. Jeflforson Coolidge.of Massachusetts; William Henry Trescott, of South Carolina; Andrew Carnegie, of Pennsylvania; John R. G. Pitkin, of Louisiana; Morris 31, Estee.of California, and J. H. Hanson of Georgia. Postmasters?Edward M. Bliss, Spencer, Mass.; Ira E. Hicks, New Britain, Conu.; Henry Flood, Elmira, N. Y,; Samuel S. Moor#, Elizabeth, N. J.; Cornelius S. Gould, Emporium, Penn.; James Ogden, Latrobe, Penn.; Win. H. Zufall, Myersdale, Penn.; Robert A. Love, Warren, Penn.; Robert S. Barker, Lock Haven, Penn.; David D. P. Alexander, Apollo, Penn.: Thomas Dawson, Roekville, Md.; Chas. H Walker, Frostburg, Md. The Senate has confirmed tha following nominations: ? John Hicks, Minister to Peru; George B. Loritig, Minister to Portugal; Robert T. Lincoln, Minister to Great Britain; Allen Thorndyko Rice, Minister to Russia; Thomas I Ryan, Minister to Mexico: Patrick Egan, Minister to Chili; Robert Adams, Jr., Minister to Brazil; Lanzing B. Mizner, Minister to the Central American States; XV. L. Scrn.tcB. Minister to Venezuela: W. O. Bradjey, Minister Resident and Consut-Ueneral to Corea. W. S. Tiptou, Marshal for the Eastern District of Tennessee; Tyre tilenu, Marshal for the Western District of North Carolina; Marion Erwin, Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia; George Chandler, of Kansas, First Assistant Secretary of the Interior; George B. Ferguson, Collector of Customs at Belfast. Me. Receivers of Public Moneys?Cassius E. Barnes, at Guthrie. Indian Territory; Jacob TT A ? - ? ?* cfnr?a ofahnn Vt AUUlirO, UU lUUgilCUVl gmvivu, Indian Territory. Registers of Public Lands ? Jacob C. Roberts, at Kingfisher's stage station; John I. Dille, at Guthrie, Indian Territory. Postmasters?William R. Demond, Gorbam, N. H.; Andrew D. Cayles, Stacesville, N. C. After about two hours' debate the Senat3 rejected Murat Haistead as Minister to Germany by a vote of '?> to 1'.'. The vote was taken on a motion to lay on the table the motion to reconsider Thursday's vote of rejection. Two Democrats, Blackburn and Call, voted with the Republicans for reconsideration, which was a vote to confirm. Twenty-five Senators, all of them Democrats except Messrs. Quay, Teller, Ingalls, Plumb, Erarts and Dawes, voted for his rejection. Mr. Cnllom was paired for the rejection of Mr. Halstead, and Stanford, Stewart and Jones did not vote. There were i eleven republicans in all who would have voted 60 reject the nomination had their votes bean needed. Fifteenth Day's Nominations. James N. Huston, Chairman of the Republican State Committee of Indiana, to be Treasurer of the L'nited States. Ellis H. Roberts.editor of the I'tica (N. Y.) Morning Herald, to be Assistant Treasurer nf tha United States at Now York city. William K Wiiurtou, .if Massachusetts, to J be Assistant Secretary of State. Captain lieor^e 15 White. United States Navy, to be Chief of the Jhnvau of S ards and Docks in the Departmont of the Xavy,to till a vacancy. L. Bradford Prince, of Snn'.a, Fe, New Mexico, to b; Governor of New .Mexico. Lonis A. Walker, of Helens;, 5Iont., to be Secretary of Montana. James E. Kelley, of Nebraska, to b> Receiver of l'ublic Moneys at Bloomington, Neb. George II. Shields, of Missouri, to be Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, vice Xacii. Montgomery, resigned. Drury J. Biirchett, of Kentucky, to ba Marshal of the United States lor the District of Kentucky. The following confirmations were made by the Senate: Louis Woltl- y, of Arizona. Governor of Arizo:ia; C. T. Ashley, Indian Agent at Clvyentu* and Arapahoe, Indian Territory; W. W. Junkin, Indian Inspector; J. E. Kelly, Receiver of Public Moneys at Bloomington, Neb.; L. A. Walkor, Secretary Df Montana; J. N. Huston, Treasurer of the United States; E. H. Roberts. Assistant Treasurer at New York; E. H. Terrill, Minister to Belgium; J. ix^^bbott. Minister to Colombia; C. A. Schobey/SladKn Agent at B'ort Peck, and a large number of postmasters, . ' * .% / I ? r Sixteenth Day's Nominations. Robert J. Fishtr, of Chicago, 111., to b? Assistant Commissioner of Patents, vice Robert P. Vance, resigned. < Commander JJartlett J. Cromwell to be s Captain, Lieutenant-Commander George R? J Durand to be a Commander, Lieutenaqfe \ Uriel Sebree to bo a Lieutenant-Commander, * ,u* Lieutenant Mose3 L. Wood (junior grade) to fca a Lieutenant, Ensign James H. Glennoa to be a Lieutenant (junior grade), Comman- J der John W. Phillip to be a Captain, Lieu- J| tenant-Commander Fraucis M. Barber to. bo B a Commander, Lieutenant Albert R. Condrh W, to a Lieutenant-Commander, Lieutenant; /; David Daniels, (junior grade), to be a Lieu- J teuant; Ensign Harry S, Knapp to bo a . A Lieutenant, (junior grade); Parsed Assistant I Paymaster Josiali R. Stanton to be a Pay- j| master, Assistant Paymaster Thomas J. Cowie to be a Passed Assistant Paymaster, Second Lieutenant Harry IC White, Marino Corps, to be a First Lieutenant. Tne Senate confirmed the following nominations; George H. Shields, of Missouri, to be Assistant Attorney General; Drury J. Burshett, to ba Marshal of Kentucky; Robert J. Fisher, of Illinois, to be Assistant Commissioner of Patents: Captain George B. White, to bo Chief of the Bureau of Yards and Docks; L, Bradford Prince, to be Governor of New Mexico: William F. Wharton, of Massachu3etts, to bo Assistant Secretary of State; Sion A. Darnell, Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. 513 John B. Henderson, of Missouri; Cornelius . . ,'J+ N. Bliss, of New York; William Pinckney Whyte, of Maryland; Clement Studebaker, of Indiana; T. Jefferson Coolidge, of Massachusetts; William H. Trescott, of Soutli Carolina; Andrew Carnegie,of Pennsylvania; John R. G. Pitkin, of Louisiana; Morris M. Estee, of California, and J. F. Hansom, of Georgia, delegates to the Congress of American Nations to be held in Washington Novemiouh uui, xoov. ^ I The Naval promotions sent in by the Presi- "" j dont were also confirmed. v>??H Near the close of business Vice-President Morton said: "As the present occupant of the chair is about to vacate the chair for tho remainder of the session, he desired to avail himself of this opportunity to oxpress his grateful appreciation of the courtesy and consideration which he has received from every member of this body. He desires also to axpress the hope that he shall find at the next session of the Senate every Senator in his seat in good health, and that he shall then have an opportunity to resume and continue v * the agreeable relations already established." y Mr. Edmunds then offered a resolution that in the absence of the Vice-President Mr. Ingalls be chosen President of the Senate pro tern. The resolution was put by the Secretary and agreed to without division, and then Mr. Ingalls, escorted by Mr. Edmuuds, had the * oath of oflica administered to him by the Secretary and took the chair, expressing at the same time his grateful acknowledgments to the Senate for the renewed expression of its confidence. The Senate then adjourned sine die by a strange coincidence 011 the same date on which it adjourned four years ago, leaving unconfirmed less than a dozen nominations, and among these only two of any importance?that of "William Whiteman to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Mexico, and that of Ed- c, ward Kurshoed, to bo United States Marshal 3f the Eastern District of Louisiana. \r-"' THE LABOR WORLD, Massachusetts silk operators average $11 weakly. Boiler-makers in San Francisco average - ? j $3.50 a day. The miners tt Wellington, British Colnm* h;n nvi? on - '-52?Q THifeoap-stonb industry of Vermont is in a flourishing state. Chili has decided that the heathen Chi nese must not come. The Amalgamated Union of American Carpenters has 404 branches. Steel rails have grown in weight from 53 pounds to the yard to DO and 100. Savannah (Ga.) colored men refuse tC work in gangs with Italian laborers. The New York silk manufacturers have granted a ten per cent advance in wages. Sax Francisco clerks are supporting 8 -:A movement to have stores closed on Sundays; A TEN-THOUSAND spindle cotton mill, t<3 cost ?200,000, is to be put up at Waco, Texas: Over 30,000 men, women and children are employed in the tobacco industry of New York city. The labor movement is spreading through- . ; out Germany. Many strikes are reported in the provinces. ' , Ple.nty of farm hands are to be had in China for $12 a year and women for two cents per day. The Sons of Labor is an opposition order to the Knights of Labor, which has been started in England. /"it t*\ ntr-nyf- +V>of in olf>VAn vfldrfl there has not been so continued a period of dullness as at the present time. The coal miners of Indiana have agreed to join the new organization entitled the National Progressive Union of Miners. The Laborers' Protective Union of Jersey City, N. J., has engaged a physician with a yearly salary to attend sick members. A quarter op a million' plows werfl turned out in Louisville last year for the Southern trade, and their manufacture gave employment to 2000 men. There is said to bo a great demand tot help of all sorts in South Africa, and thousands of artisans and mechanics of all kinds are wanted at good wages. The French Chamber of Deputies recently enacted a law prohibiting the employment of women at any sort of labor between th? hours of 0 P. m. and 5 a. m. The workingman's blacklist law, which passed the Indiana Legislature, provides that such employers as may blacklist any workingman sball be fined $50. According to reports giveu at the \V Oman's Congress in Detroit, 3,003,000 of the women and girls of this country are engaged in work other than domestic.* The coal miners, as a rule, live in rented houses, the monthly rent of which averages from $6 to $8, leaving not more than $9 at best with which to support their families. the total immigration irom nungary ana Bohemia last year amounted to 16,585, most of which found its way to the coal fields, r\-<3 coke ovens and iron mills of Pennsylvania. A bill recently brought into the States General of the Nethsrlands by the Minister of Justice, makes provisions for the prevention of oxcessive labor of youthful persons and women. ? THE MARKETS. ? 14 TORE. Beeves 3 70 @ 5 15 Milch Cows. com. to good.. .25 00 <S>45 00 Calves,common to prime.... 5 00 @7 50 Sheep 3 75 <$ G 25 Lambs 4 00 cjj ti 50 Hogs?Live 5 25 5 40 Dressed > & 5 Flour?City Mill Extra. 4 '0 i<3j 4 75 Patents 5 15 @ 0 49 Wheat?.No. 2 Ked S:\<g S3 Rye?Stat# ?7 @ (31 Barley?Two-rowed State... ($ 74 t orn?Ungraded Mired.... 41 @ <4 Oats?No. I White ? @ 39 Mixed Western 3l> (0 33 Hay?No. SO <S 95 Straw?Long Rye ? <?75 Lard?City .steam ? @ 6.Jj*c Butter?Kisrin Creamery.... 20 <$S 2(5 Dairy, tair to good.. IS (? 22 West. Im. Crean'ery 15 <g 25 Factor v 10 @ 1(> Cheese?strte Factory. 11 @ 11% Skims?Light 9 & 9}$ Western.... 11% Eggs?State and Penn HJ-d2 ll/? BUFFALO. Steers?Western 2 S i J5 Sheer?.Mediumto Cool ... 4 ";0 @"4 75 Lamos?Fair to ?ioo 1 4 50 (m 5 50 t logs UUUUI/J UUiUi i ui ivj KUj ,J i, ? Flour?Family 5 00 <g 5 25 Wheat?No. "J Northern ? <g 1 ()4 <'orn?No. Yellow o7f;@ 3S Oats?No. 2, White 31 Barley?State tiS (2 TO HUSTON". Mour?Spring Wheat pat's.. 0 TO @7 25 Corn?Steamer Yellow. 4> (<fl 46}? Oats?No. ' i White 32 01 40 Kye?State '? > CJ>. TO WATIRTOWX (MASS.) CATTLE MA.R?r. I'eet? Dressed weight. '? <? 6 Sheep?Live weight 4.? G?i Lambs Hogs?Northern tyi'Q ? PHILADELPHIA. J> lour?Peuu. faraily 4 5 ) @ 4 75 Wheat?No. 2, Ked. April.. 9J ,@ 92 Corn?No. 2. Mixed, Aoril.. 41\41V Oats?Ungraded White ? <$ 33^ Petit es?Early: -* 35 <S 48 Butter?Creamery Extra... ?024 Cheew?Fart skims I A 4