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DAY SERMON,
Subject '"Advice to Voters "
r Text: "Alas, alas, that great, city Baby|Ion,
that mightu city, for in one hour is thy
judgment come."'?Revelation xviii , 10.
Modern scientists are doing a nplendid
work in excavting the tomb of a dead- empire
holding in its irms a dead city?mother
and child of the same name, Babylon.
The ancient mound invites the spades and
shovels and crowbars while the unwashed
natives look on with surprise. These scientists
find yellow bricks still inrpwfcsed with
the name Nebuchadnezzar, and they go
down into the sarcophagus of a monarchy
buried more than two thousand year* ago.
May the explorations of Rawlinson and Layard
and Chevalier and Opperto and Loftus
and Cbeeney be eclipsed by the present
archaeological uncovering!
But is it possible this is all that remains
of Babylon?a city once five times larger
than London and twelve times larger than
New York? Walls three hundred aDd seventy-three
feet high and ninety-three feet
thick. Twenty-five burnished gates on
each side, with streets running clear
through to corresponding gates on the other
side. Six hundred and twenty-five squares.
More pomp and wealth and splenlor and
ain than could be found in any five
modern cities combined. A city of palaces
and temples. A city bavin?- within
it a garden on an artificial hill four hundred
feet high, the sides of the mountain
terraced. All this built to keep, the king's
wife, Aruytis from becoming nomesicx tor
the mouutainous region io which she had
spent her girlhood. The waters of the Euphrates
spouted up to irrigate this great
altitude into fruits and flowers and arborescence
unimaginable. A great river running
from north to south clear through the
city, bridges over it, tunnels under it, boats
on ir.
A city of bazaars and market places, unrivaled
for aromatics and unguents, and
high mettled horses with grooms by their
aide, and thyme wood, and African evergreen,
and Egyptian linen, and all styles of
costly textile fabric, and rarest purples extracted
from shellfish on the Mediterranean
ooast, and rarest scarlets taken from brilliant
insects in Spain, and ivories brought
-from successful elephant hosts in India,
and diamonds whose flash was a*repartee to the
sun. Portress within fortress, ernbattlement
rising above embattlement Great
camtal of (he ages. But one
night, while honest citizsns were
asleep, but all the saloons of. saturnalia
were in full blast, and at the Mag's castle
they had filled the tanicards for the tenth
time, and reeling and guffawing and hiccoughing
around the state table were the
rulers of the land. General Cyrus ordered
his besieging army to take shovels and
spades, anil tney diverted the river from its
usual channel luto another direction, so
that the forsaken bed of the river became
the path on which the besieging army entered.
When the morning dawned the conquerors
were inside the outside trenches, Babylon
bad fallen, and hence the sublime
threnody of the text: "Alas, alaa, that great
city of Baby lon, that roightv city, for in one
-!n/i<?nnnnfcrr?mfit" But do Nations
UVU* UVUJ
die? Oh, yes; there Is great mortality among
mooarcbies and republics. They are like individuals
in the fact that they are born; they
have a middle life; they have a decease; they
have a cradle and a grave. Some of them
re.assaariaat&V some destroyed by their
own hand. Let me call the roll of some of
the dead civilizations and some of the dead
cities and let some one answer for them.
Egyptian civilization, stand up. "Deadf
answer the ruins of Kara a k and Luxor, and
from seventy pyramids on the oast side of
the Nile there comes up a great chorus cry tag,
"Deatf, dead I" Assyrian Empire, stand
.up and answer. "Dead!" cry the charred
ruins of N ineveh. Arter six hundred years
of magnificent opportunity, dead. Israelitish
kingdom, stand up. After two hundred
and fifty years of divine interpositions
and of miraculous vicissitude, and of heroic
behavior, and of appalling depravity, dead.
' Phoenicia, stand up and answer. After inventing
the alphabet and giving it to the
world, and sending out her merchant caravans
in one direction to Central Asia, and
aandiDg out her. navigators taue ausduc
Ocean in another direction, dead.
! Pillars of Hercules and roclu on which
the Tyrian fisherman dried their nets all
answer, "Dead Phoenicia." Athens, after
Phidias. after Demosthenes, after Mimadee.
dead. Sparta, after Leonidas, after Euribiade?,
after Sslamis, after Thermopylae
dead. Roman empire, stand up and answer
?empire once bounded by the British Channel
on the north, by the Euphrates on the
east, by the great Sahara desert in Africa
on tho south, by the Atlantic Ooean on the
west; home of three great civilisations,
owning all the then discovered world that
Gibbon in bis "Rise and Fall of (be Roman
Empire" say?,' '-Dead P' and the forsaken
seats of the ruined Coliseum, and the skele*
.ton of tbe aqueducts, and the miasma of the
iCampagna, and the fragments of the marble
baths, and the useless piers of the Bridge
Triumphalls, and the M&mertlne prison,
holding no more apostolic prisoners, and the
silent Forum and Basilica or Constantine, and
(he arch of Titus, and the Pantheon come in
with great chorus, orying, "Dead, dead."
After Horace, after Virgil, after Tacitus,
after Cicero?dead. After Horatiua on the
bridge and Ctnolnnatus, the farmer ollI
Kirch, after Poinpey, after Bolplo, after
Cassiuf; after Ck>nstantlne, after Csesar?
dead. The war eagle of Rome flew so high
ft was blinded by tbe sun and came whirling
down through the heavens, and the owl of
desolation and darkness built its-nest in the
forsaken eyrie. Mexican empire?dead.
French empire dead.
You see, my friends, it is no unusual
thing for a government to perish, and in
the same necrology of dead Nations and in
tbe same graveyard of ezoired governments
will go HW U HI led duki 01 America
unless there be some potent voice to call a
halt, and unless (Sod in His merer interferes,
and through a purified ballot box and,
a widespread public Christian whtiment
the catastrophe be averted. This nation
is about to go to the tiallot box to exercise
tb? ri??ht of suffrage, and I propose
to set before yon the evils that threaten to
destroy the American Government and to
annihilate American institutions, and if
God will help me I will show you before I
get through the mode in which each and
every one may do something to arrest that
appalling calamity. And I shall plow up
the whole field.
The first evil that threatens the annihila
tion of our American institutions is cue lacc
that political bribery, which onoe sras considered
a crim? has by many come to be
oonsiderei a tolerable virtue. There is a
legitimate use of money in elections, in the
printing of political tracts, and in the hiring
of public hall*, and in the obtaining of campaign
oratory, but is there any homunculus
who supposes that this vast amount of money
now bejng raised by the political partiei is
going in a legitimate direction* The vast
majority of it will go to buy votes.
Hundreds and thousands of mea will have
set before them so much money .for a RepubhfeAn
yot*. and so much Amey for a
Democratic vote, and the superior financial
inducement will decide the action. You
want to know which party will carry the
douDtiui Biases aay aicer to-morrow i
will toll you. The party that spends the
most money. This moment, while i speak,
the peddlers carrying gold from Wall street,
gold from Third street, gold from State
street, and gold from the Brewers' association
are in all the political headquarters of
the doubtful States, dealing out the infamous
inducement.
There used to be bribery; but it held it*
bead in shame It was under the utmost
secrecy that many years a?o a railroad
company bought up the Wisconsin legislature
and many other pablic official? 4a
that State. The Governor of the State at
: that time receivdd $59,000 for his signature.
His private secre:ary received $5000.
Thirteen members of the Senate received
$175,000 among them in bonds. 8ixty
members of the other house received from
$5000 to 110,000 each. The Lieutenant-Governor
received $10,000. The clerks of the
house received from $50X) to $10,000 each.
The bank comptroller received $l(\000.
,Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
;were divided among the lobbyists. You saa
;the railroad company was very generous.
:Rut aII that was hidden, and onlv fchrouz'i
the severest scrutiny on the part of a legislative
committed was this iniquity displayed.
:Now political bribery defies you, dares you,
is arrogant* and will probably decide the.
'election next Itiesday.
t VnJess this dj'Jwliam ceases in this ooua
try BarCBoiara statue on 8eJIo3'? Island,
with uplifted torch to light other Nationi
into the harbor, had better be changed anc
the torch dropped as a symbol of uni versa:
incendiarism.
Unless this purchasa and sale of suffrag3
shall cease the American Government will
expire, and you might as well be getting
ready the monument for another dead Na
tion and let my text inscribe upon it thes;
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city, that mighty city, for in one hour ii
thy judgment oomeP" My friend?, if you
have not noticed that political bribery it
one of the ghastly crimes of this day, you
have not kept your eyes open.
Another evil threatening the destruction
of American institutions is the solidifying
of the sections against each other. A solid
north. A solid South. If tbis goes on we
[ shall after a while have a solid East agaiDst
i a solid West; we shall have solid Middle
[ States against solid Northern States: w<
j shall have a solid New York against a
solid Pennsylvania, and a solid Ohio against
a solid Kentucky. It is twenty-seven
rears since the warclou 1, and yet at every
Presidential election the old antagonism is
aroused. When Gar field died and all the
8tates gathered around his casket in sympathy
and in tears, and as hearty telegrams
of confidence came from New Orleans and
Charleston as from Boston and Cnicago, I
o?i/i mvQAip "I think sectionalism is
dead." But, al&s, not The difficulty will
never be ended uatii each State of the Nation
is split up into two or three great political
parties.
This country cannot exist unless it exists
as one body, the National Capital, the
heart, sendin<out through all the arteries of
communication warmth and life to the very
extremities. This Nation cannot exist unless
it exists as one family, and you might
as well have solid brothers against solid
sisters, and a solid bread tray against a
solid cradle, and a solid nursery against a
solid dining room, and you might as well
have solid ear* against solid eyes, and solid
head against solid foot. What is the interest
of Georgia is the interest of Mas<iachuvkat
i* fh? interest of New York is
the interest of South Carolina. Docs the
Ohio River chanty its politics when it gets
below Louisville? It is not possible for these
sectional antagonisms to continue for a
great many years with permanent compound
fracture.
Another evil threatening the destruction
of our American institutions is the low state
of public morals.
What killed Babylon of my test? What
killed Phoenicia? What killed Rome? Their
own depravity, and the fraud, and tbe
drunkenness, and the lechery which have
destroyed other Nations will destroy ours
unless a merciful Go 1 prevent. To show
you the low state of public morals I have
to call your attention to the fact that many
men nominated lor ouicuj in umnoun
States at different times are entirely unBt
for the postioos for whioh they have been
nominated.
They have no more qualification for them
than a wolf has qualification to be professor
of pastoral theologr in a flock of sheep, or a
blind mole has Qualification to lecture a class
of eagles on optica, or than a vulture has
qualification to chaperon a dove. The mere
pronunciation of some of their names makes
a demand for carbolic acid and fumigation I
Yet Christian men will follow right under
the political standards.
I have to tell you what you know already,
that American politics have sunken to such
a low depth that there is nothing beneath.
-What we see in some directions we
see in nearly all directions. The peculation
and the knavery hurled to the surface
by the explosion of banks and business
firms are only specimens of great Co*
? ?? * ftf arlplrolitlKa that
lA/pOAUl OUU UviUiUuvtw v? ? -
boil and roar and surge beneath, bat have
cot regurgitated to the surface. When the
heaven descended Democratic Party enacted
the Tsve?d rascajity it seemed to eclipse
everything, but after awhile the heaven
descended Republican Party outwitted pan*
demonium with the star route infamy.
My friends, we have in this country people
who say the marriage institution nmounts
to nothing. They scoff at it. We have
people walking in polite parlors in our day
who are not good enough to be scavengers
in Sodom I I went over t6 Ban Francisco ten
or fifteen years ago?that beautiful city.
that queen of the facmc. May me messing
of God come down upon her great churches
and her noble men and women I When I got
into the city of San Francisco the Mayor of
the city and the President of the Board of
Health called on me and insisted that I go
and see the Chinese quarter, no doubt 90
that on my return to the Atlantic coast I
might tell what dreadful people the Chinese
are.
Bat on the last night of my stay in Han
Francisco, before thousands of people in
their great opera hoose, I said, "would you
like me to tell you just what I think, plainly
Th?r said. "Y?s. ves.
auu uv/umvij . v r ^?,
yes I* I said, "Do you think you
can stand it oil?" They said, "Yea, yes,
yeaT 'Then," I said, "mv opinion is that
tbe curse of San Francisco is not yonr
Chinese quarter, but your millionaire libertines
P
And two of them sat right before me?
Felix and Drusilia. And so it is in all tbe
cities. I never swear, but when I see a man
go unwhipped of justice, laughing over his
shame and calling his damnable deeds gallantry
and peccadillo, I am tempted to burl
red hot anathema and to conclude that if,
according to some people's theology, there is
no bell, there ought to be!
There is enou :h out and out licentiousness
in American cities to-day to bring down
upon them the wrath of that God who, on
the 24th of August, 79, buried Herculaneuta
and Ponmeii so deeD in as les that the eight
eon hundred and thirteen subsequent years
have not been able to complete exhumation.
There are in some of the American cities today
whole blocks of houses which the authorities
know to be infamous, and yet by
purchr.se they are silenced by hush money,
so that such places are as much under the
defense of government as public libraries
and asylums of mercy.
These ulcers on the body politic bleed and
gangrene away the life of the Nation, and
public authority in many of the cities looks
the other way, x ou coouuv uu aucu
wounds as these with a silken bandage.
You will have to cure them by putting
deep in the lancet of moral surgery, and
burning them out with the caustic of holy
wrath, and with most decisive amputation
cutting off the scabrous and putrefying
abominations. As the Romans wire after
the Celts, and as the Normans were after
the Britons, so there are evils after this
Nation which will' attend its obsequies unless
we first attend theirs.
Superstition tells of a marine reptile, the
eephaloptera, which enfolded an<1 crushed a
ship of war; but it is no superstition when I
tell you that the history of many of the
dead Nation* nroelaims to us tha fart that
our ship of Btate is in danger of boins
crushed by the cephiloptera of National depravity.
Where is the Hercules to slay this
hydra? Is it not time to speak by peD, by
tongue, by ballot box, by the rolling of the
prison door, by hangman's halter, by earnest
prayer, by Sinaitic detonation?
A son oC King Croe-us is said to have been
dumb and to have never uttered a word until
he saw his father being put to death.
Then he broke the shackles of silence and
cried cut, "Kill not my father, Croesus!"
When I see the cheatery and wantonness
and the manifold crime of thia country attempting
to commit patribid<v?yoa, matricide?upon
our institutions, it seems to me
that lips that heretofore have been dumb
ou^ht to break the silence with canorous
tones of fiery protest.
1 wont to nut ail of the matter before
you, so that every honest man and woman
will know juat how matters stand, and
what they ought to do if they vote, and
what they ouzht to do if they pray. This
Nation is not going to perish. Alexander,
when he heard cf the wealth of the indies,
divided Macedonia among his soldiers.
Some one asked him what he had kept for
himself, and he replied, 4,I am keeping
hope!" And that jewel I keep bright and
shining in my soul, whatever else I shall
surrender. Hope thou in God. He will set
back these oceanic tides of moral devastation.
Do you know what is the priza for
which contention is made to-day? It is the
prize of this continent.
Never since, according to John Milton,
when "satan was hurled headlong flaming
from the ethereal skies in hideous ruin anc
combttstion down," have the powers ol
darkness been so determined to win this
continent as they now are. TThat a jewel
it is?a jewel carved in relief, the cameo ol
this planet! On one side of U3 the Atlantic
Ocean, dividing us from thewornout Govommonfo
aP Rurnno On f".h a nthor oiHa t.Y\o
Pacific Ocean, dividing us from the superstitions
of Asia. On the north of us the
Arctic Sea, which is the gymnasium in which
the explorers and navigators develop their
courage. A continent 10,503 miles long,
17,000,000 square miles, and all of it but
about one-seventh capable of rich cultivation.
... V. V
> j One hundred millions of population on
J I this continent of North and douth America?
1 I one hundred millions, and room for man/
' hundred millions more. All flora, and all
fauna, all metals, and all precious woods,
and all grains and all fruits. The Appalachian
range the backbone and the rivers
? the ganglia, carrying life all through and
out to the extremities. Isthmus of Darien
> the narrow waist of a giant continent,
1 all to be under one government, and all free,
1 and all Christian, and the scene of Christ's
1 personal reign on earth if, according to the
1 expectation of many people, He shall at last
1 set up His throne in this world.
Who shall have this hemisphere* ..Christ
or satan? Who shall have the shore of
' her inland seas, the silver of her Nevadas,
the gold of her Colorados. the telescopes of
1 her observatories, the brain of her universities,
the wheat of her prairie?, the rice of her
| savannah^ the two great ocean beaches,
the one reaching from Baffin's Bay to
Terra del Fuego, and the other from
Behring Straits to Cape Horn?and till
the moral and temporal and spiritual
and everlasting interests ot a popuiawuu
1 vast beyond all computation save by Him
with whom a thousand years are as one day*
Who shall have the hemisphere? Tou and I
will decide that, or help to decide it, by conscientious
vote, by earnest prayer, by maintenance
of Christian institutions, by support
' of great philanthropies, by putting body,
mind ana soul on the right side of all moral,
religious and National movements.
Ah, it will not be long before It will not
make any difference to you or to me what
becomes of this continent, so far as earthly
comfort is concerned. All we will want of
it will be seven feet by three, and that will
take in tbe largest, and there will be room
and to spare. That is all of this country
we will need very bOOD, the youngest of us.
But .we have an anxiety about the. welfare
and the happiness of the generations that
are coming on, and it will be a grand thing
if, when the archangel's trumpet sounds^
we find that our sepulcher, like the one
Joseph of Arimathea provided for Christ,
is in the midst of a garden. By that time
this countrv will be all paradise or all dry
? - ? - :a.
tortugas. Eternal Uod, to xnee wa commit
the destiny of this people I
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Germany has a 4000-ton forging press.
A natural gas gusher has been struck
W Boone County, Indiana. 3*
Bees never store honey in the light because
honey so exposed granulate* and is
thus useless to the bees.
Dr. F. Werner records that, in cap-1'
tivity, certain grasshoppers bite off and'
even devour portions of their legs.
A fresh eg% contains the same amount |
of nourishment as one and a half ounces j
of fresh meat and one ounce ot wbeaten I
bread, but in a more digestible form.
Women require one hcur ot sleep more
a day than men. Fewer of the latter
reach the age of fifty than the former,
but afterward the sterner sex bas the
best of it.
The demand for coal in Northern
Mexico for the development of the smelting
and manufacturing industries for
railway extensions has occasioned almost
a coal famine.
Electricity is never visible but in it3
fnrm ttf v\a7ncr Hcrhtninir. Edison think*
?r? ? ?o o
differently as to the first point, aad photography
has proven the second to be an
optical illusion.
Boston is talking of disposing of it*
garbage by chemical treatment instead
of by cremation. The plan proposed
would require the investment of about
$175,000 in a plant.
In experimenting with potatoes, Rauliu
finds that the crop decreases in proportion
as the olay aod limestone in the soil
augments, and increases with the augmenting
proportions of s&nd and humus.
Among the waste,products now finding
application in agriculture are woolen
waste, wood dust and residae from crude
rr" -J ?rt-n.
wool. inese urt) UBL'U auutcojmu^aiivi
proper treatment as fertilizing materials.
A firm of opticians have devised what
they call a "Hat Detective Camera.1" It
is provided with a complete apparatus
weighing only two and one-half ouncej,
whioh can be fitted into a hat, the operation
being conducted through the ventilating
hole.
It is well known that the Pinna mussel
of the Mediterranean secretes an abundant
mass of silklike thrends, or bjssus,
by which it anciors itself to the bottom.
The Rev. H. Seddall refers to the fact
that the Maltese formerly made gloves of
this bvssus, the silk being of fine texture
but heavy.
The black, solid-rlooking shadows cast
by the electric lights that may be seen in
the air when it is not clear suggest that
the "cosmic dust" which is supposed to
occupy tho inter-planetary spaces may be
capable, in certain conditions, of showing
a profile of the earth under the
1!/-rV? h f\t fVlfl oiln
yVT?C"UL HjJU. w
According to Dr. Krue9s, temperature
has decided action on the absorption
pectrum of colored solutions. Dr.
Bremer now finds that the rise and fall
of a few degrees in temperature of tho
light-absorbing liquid may affect the
position and intensity of the absorption
spectra to a measurable extent.
Hteel instead of copper trolley wire31
are employed on a recent extension of i
the street railway system of Ottawa,
Canada, gliding instead of rolling con- j
tacts are used, the idea being that the
harder metal will be better able to stand
i the increased friction. Copper cross
( wires from the feeders will be used in;
stead of steel, as is the custom.
The- Innumerable Insects.
It is believed, according to L. L. Simi
monds, that there are five times a3 many
insects as there are species of all other
living things put together. The oak
alone supports 450 species of insects,and
'200 kinds make their home in the pine.
Forty years ago Humboldt estimated
that the number of species preserved in
collections was between 150,000 and
170,000, but scientific men now say that
1 there must be more than three-quarters
of a million, without taking into account
the parasite creatures. Of the 35,000
> species in Europe, howevor, not more
' than 3500 are noxious or destructive.
There are more than 100,000 kinds of
beetles. Such being an enumeration of the
different forms, what an array of figures
would be required for tabulating a census
of insect individuals?cach a distinct
living thing! Some single specics include
an incredible number of speci|
mens. The locusts on the coast ot the
Mediterranean, for instance, sometimes
cover the ground inches thick for miles,
1 while a few years ago 14,000 bushels of
locusts ?ggs were collected in a single
: season in three Algerian provinces. A
| single house fly lays from 15U to 200
j eggs, which in two weeks become
.11? A I"" on/1 Jnoa^fo rrnnnru 11 if
[ equzuijf lcrilLU UIUO, auvi luavvw j
! "have astonishing powers of multiplica1
tion.?Trenton (N. J.) American.
? The day la coming when the star!
age battery will displace the horse as
a motive power for carriages. The
; storage battery does not eat its own
head off. Let it come.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
LITTLE KIM'NKSSKJj.
I a uu.cen years aj;u i waa uiaiui; w?t?
.ionic picturesque, But rather hard, New
Hampshire bills of a range in which Blue
Job is the most prominent. I walked up
the long hill beside my home and was glad
to find, part way up, a roadside wateringtub,
placed there undfcr the hutnaue New
Hampshire laws. It was under some trees,
I and h wooden pipe brought the coolest and
purest water out from under the roekv hill.
But there was something- more, testing
I tfncMn A ftinn ftMA O + ftlrACl Hl>1VOn Infrt
j U^/SIUV UUH U UjiUU Hi U Obdnvo ui >* vu im?v
' tbe ground, wore two cups, shaped like a
child'w silver mug, and made of the sweetest
and cleanest birch bark. No house was
near. I do not know who made., those cups,
but the stitches showed the handiwork of
some girl who had made these cups for the
comfort of unknown wayfarers like myself.
I hope that girl has a nappy home. Her
thoughtfulness, in this Jittle kindness, makes
me bless ber memory.
Little things can add much to human happiness.
Little things are sometimes heroic.
1 have often wished that our Sunday school
literature could make much of historic
stories like that of Sir Philip Sidney, who,
being mortali.-wounded under the walls of
Zutphen, callkl for water, but who, when
they brought it. told them *> give it untasted
to a wistful private soldier suffering like
himself. "Thy necessity," said the gallant
Christrian eent.'eman and true soldier, "is
yet greater than mine." Our young_.people
should be nurtured upon food like this. One
such incident is worth a hundred ordinary
vojumes.
xne tioutrine ox Dumau rignuj is uiu?;?uci
overdone. One's rights are of far less consequence
than one's righteousness, 'and one's
righteousness is far less honorable than
one's sacrifice. Hate yOa not noticed that
when ministers stand op for their rights
they begin to lose their privileges? If a pastor
cannot trust to-thc generous k'ndness of
a people, it is bi tter for him to go elsewhere.
Most people know, however, that little kindnesses
touch the minister^ Heart. But little
uimlnesses require thougbtfulness. It is a
kind thing for a person who has horsed and
carnages to take a less fortunate neighbor,
who is in delirate health out for a drive. Go
yourself, and don't send your coachman. A
little thought will give happiness and comfort
to somebody, at little or no cost. A few
buds in a sick room are gospel. They are
more than beauty, tbey are tne expression i
of Christian love. , ' '
Tberc is a deep rmnciple ip this matter of
little kindnesses! They are a duty. One may
Bay he is under no obligation, to give some
flower8|to a sick-room, but lie is_ mistaken.
He owes the gift of thoso no'wejs) not to the
sick neighbor or the crippled cnUd, but he
owes it to himself to do it. The girl who
made the birch bark cups owed it to her
own unselfish nature. It was a duty to herself.
When one says that the Lord Jesue
was under no obligation to redeem men by
his suffering, it Is a mistake. The Lord was
nnder obligation to do it. not under oMitta
tfon to the binner, but under obligation to
bis own great, soul. One has no right to
limit himself bv his rights. Love makes duties.
1 may an well parallel the case of Sidney
with another. My friend, Wilder Dwight
?we slept under" the sarin blanket in the
open night liefore Antietim?lay mortally
wounded in' that, battle. The surgeon came
.tohimns he lay suffering. The- Christian
!'man pointed to" other w ounded men lying
near, "Attend to them first: lean bfcarit
>>pt*er Mutn they."?[Rev. Dr. A. H. Quint,
in the Congregationalism
GOD SETS THK TRUTH.
In painting tiuth Qod is like the artist.
The artist claims it is an artist's right that
he locate his own picture. Some time ago
different artists entered into competition, at
me rfquebt CM llie huspiuii uuiciiiiucnk,
pain tins: the portrait of the late Czar. A
day was fixed when all should submit their
work to a committee appointed to decide
what picture should be submitted to public
exhibition. One artist among others brought
his picture to the reception committee.
The committee so disliked
the man's work that thev told
him bis picture could not be admitted to
competition. The artist replied '*1 claim
the right of hanging that picture before I
will submitto.its rejection, for its location
' has been part of my plan." The committee
could not deny this plain right. He put bis
work, which seemed so clumsy and coarse,
-? - >>...IIAJ iliulanKo tinectfitm Wf>fP
^ Bl< i% Oiuuitu uiomiuvv. .....
. allowed to<?ome so near, and no nearer.
When the great day of decision came, that
picture, set according to the artist's mind,
was the picture that won universal
acceptance. In pointing His truth,
God claims the right of setting the
truth, and the setting of tli?? truth is
sometimes everything. In th<> Bible, Hia
own inspired Word, He sets the truth. If
wc would give His truth to the world as He
wants it to be given, we must keep close to
the Book. Hence, I raise the cry in the
Church of God todav: Back from the mandrawn
creed to the bible: back from human
systems of theology to the Bible; back from
? - ? .1
mail's way 01 preeeuiiug uvwiuc iv wu o
way of presenting doctrine. The infallible
Word! The infallible Word 1 Let this be
eutbroued ns the supreme authority in all
matters that pertain to the religious life.
>IE COULDN'T ANSWER.
After an infidel had concluded a lecture in
a village in Enziand he challenged those
present to a discussion. Who should accept
the challenge but an old, bent woman, in
antiquated attire, who went up the lecturer
and said:
"Sir, I have a question to put to you."
"Well, my good woman, what is it?"
"Ten years ago," she said, "I wbs left a
widow with eight children utterly unpro- i
vided for, and toothing to call my own but
this Bible. By its direction and looking to
God for strength, I have been enabled to feed
myself and fanoi y. I am now tottering to
the grave, but I am perfectly happy, because
I look forward to a life of immortality
with Jesus. That's what ray religion ha* done
forme. "What has your"way of thinkine
done for you?" "Well, tny good lndy," re-joined
the lecturer, "I don't want to disturb
your comfort, but?" "Oh, that's not the
Question," said she; "keep to the point, sir.
/hat has your way of thinking done you?"
The infidel endeavored to shirk the matter
again: the meeting gave way to uproarious
api-laune, and the champion had to go away
diseomfltted by an old woman.
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' Wi* do not ordinarily look for any strong
indorsement of religious ideas and methods
in a publication like the Popular Science
Monthly. It is, therefore, the most grat fying
to find a writer in the August number
controverting the notion that manners, culture,
education, music and what not, are
elevators of society. He says: "These are
not (he elevators 01 sucuiy. uuuus
ornnments. The llower cannot elevate
the stalk. Society is elevated just so far as it
lift its face toward Mt. .Sinai and no more.
T"e Ti n Commapdmenta are tforth more as
'{levators* than all the putent contrivances
which the unregonerate mind of man can
couceive." Would that this Opinion were
universally adopted by all the students of
science and sociology. We wight then wit-,
uess a union of their forces with the noble
anuy of Christian men and woman, who
have always maintained precisely this principle,
in their efl'orts to rcclaitu the individual
and to reconstruct society.
IJIKirUSr 01 t'Ur ICIIUH rrcaiii.c -1 umifi;
or fidelity is sail enough, but :i Christian's
distrust of his Saviour ai <1 bis almighty
friend is a sin that nrings its own punishment.
Half of the misery of life conies from
tbis very t<in. There was a world of truth
in the remark of tho simple-hearted nurse
to the mother who was worrying over her
sick child: ''Ma'am, don't worry: you just
trust God; He's tediour. but He'* surf." ?
[Theodore Cuv'er. 1>. 1?.
L ?
The report that a lineman had received
an electric charge of 3,450
volts and kept It several minutes, escaninff
without mure serious injury
than a burn and a bruise, was of much
scientific interest so long as its integrity
was unquestioned. For one
thing it .started a theory that Kemmler
and the other murderers who
thought they were being electrocuted
were really being scared to death.
But the lineman's experience proves
to have been with less than 500 volts,
so his escape loses the character of a
? I?1? t'nnimlor'a (imth cannftt,
| muauic, auu u uvv?v.. w
i be ascribed to any intensity of mental
distress.
SABBATH SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL LF \SOV FOP
\nl7PHf DL'T>
Lesson Text: "The Apostles Tnrninfl
to the Gentiles," Acts Kill., 44-52;
xlv., 1-7?Uolden Text: Acts
xiif., 47?Commentary.
44. "And the next Sabbath day cams almost
toe whole city together to War* the
word of GodThe apostles had, no donot,
spoken to many in private through thp week,
and those who had heard the preceding Sabbath
bad not been quiet about the wondrous
resurrection stdrjrf and the consequent great
redemption so fuiiy and freely proclaimed.
I JLb UCUOUJO bUO UlIA UL 1/UC9 IAJWU, J1UU ail ltU*
mense congregation assembled, not to Lear
the wisdom nor the oratory of the apostles,
but to hear the word of Clod.
45. 8uch manifest working of th* Holy
Spirit could not but provoke the adversary
to envy and blasphemy. Compare Acta v.,
S3; vif., 54. If none of the religious people
ot a community are stirred to talk against
the preaching it Is an evidence either that
they are all wonderfully in sympathy with
Christ, or that the preaching lacks salt (II
Tim. ill., 12; CoL iv., 6).
46 "To the Jew first" was the principle
acted upon in ail apostolic preaching (Rom.
i., 16), then to the Gentiles. Man has the
power of receiving or putting from-him this
great gift of everlasting lite which God has
provided at such infinite cost, bat if say pne
judges himself uo worthy of life: it is equal
to judging himself worthy of death (John
iU.. 36; Rom. it, 4, 5), (
47. Paul's commission was to bear the
name of the Lord doc only before the children
of Israel, bat before the Gentiles (Acts
ix., 15), and he quotes from Iaa. xlix.. 6, concerning
Israel's Messiah, called the Servant
of the Lord. "I will also give thee for a
light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be
My salvation unto the end of the earth."
wlbile the mystery of the church is hoc revealed
in the Old Testament (Epb, iii., 5,
6), the calling of th9 Gentile Nations after
Israel shall have been converted is an oft
repeated fact; and yet Paul seems to gather
from this passage something concerning his
mission to the Gentiles.
48. The Gentiles gave heed to the message,
and by receiving the word of the Lord they
glorified it and were made glad, and as many
as were ordained to eternal life believed." \
Not all are now given to Christ, but all who?a V
are given shall come (John vi, 37), and wnosoever
will may come (Rev. xxii., 17), sorev
that none will be cast out. This is the time c
of salvation for the elect church, after which
shall come the salvation of Israel, and then
of all Nations (Acts xv., 14-17.)
49. "And the Word of the Lor<1 was published
throughout the region." This is thi
orro?lr r\f tha ohnrnK Anrt rtf A7APT inriiviHtiA!
member of it, to proclaim everywhere a full
and tree redemption through the death and
resurrection of Jesus that all may hear, that
so from all the elect church may be gathered
Her song indicates that sue is to be made up
ot believers from all parts of the earth (Rev.
T.t 9.)
50. How little these honorable worn 3D
and chief men thought that by this conlucc
they were declaring themselves against God
and His Christ. Wnen the seventy were
. sent out Jesus said, "He that despissCh you
-despiseth Me, and he that despiaeth Me de- spiseth
Him that seat Me" (Luke x., 16)
But this rough wind would work God's glory
by scattering yet more the precious seed.
(tin wafh nrniin aha 11 nrnl4i? Thftft"
(Ps. Ixxvi., 10),
51. ''But tney shook off the dust of their
feet against them, and came unto Iconium."
Compare chapter xviii., 6, and see their hi'
structions in Mark vi.. Il; Luke i*., 5. It
is our privilege to proclaim the glad tidings,
to make known the love of God, to offer to
all in His name eternal life, eternal redemption;
and while expecting that some will receive
it, qui.-tly leave reeult* to God.
52. "And the disciplee were Oiled with joy
and with the Holy GhostAll that we arj
called upon to bear for the sake of Christ
and His truth should be borne cheerfully,
for He has taught as to be exceeding glad,
and leap for joy, under such circuinstances
(Math. v.. l? 12; Lake vl.. 22, 23j. We are
told that ''For tne joy sat before Him. He
endured the croee" (ileb. xii., 2); and it is
written that the worthiest ot Heb. xi, were '
sustained by the joys before them. fc?ee es- '
penally verses 10, It), 20, 20. Consider also
?om. viii., 18; I JPeC. iv., la, IS.
Chapter xiv., 1. Having pa?ei on to
Iconium, we had them as uinal first among
the Jew*, and w> speaicing taac a great mutilude
of both Jews and Gentiles believed.
The key to this must be found in the last
verse; they were tilled with the Holy tfpirit.
"W hv mav not sucti promisee as the*e be
true of us and iu us in these days?
55. Again the enemy is stirred and it is
manilest that tbe devil is losing some of his
subjects. It should give us great encouragement
when the Word preacaed provokes cae
adversary; while, on the other nand, if the '
waters are not disturbed we have reason to
fear that there is no healing power present.
3. They abode here a long time, the Lord
bier sing His Word and granting tn*m power
to oo signs and 'wonders, according to Mark
xvi., "Ju, and Heb. ii., 4. One has said thac
when we yield ourselves fully to God He
will yield Himself luliy to us, and this
sh uld cause us to inquire very caretuily as
to woether we are yet withholding aught
trom Hun and thus losing the enjoyment of
His lull new.
4. A aiviaed city, some believed and some
I beueved not (chapter zzvilL, 34). Abel be
lieved and Cain believed not meu. * ., *, *
Joan ill., l5Jj. So it Has been and will b?
till the kingdom come and God's will Ls done
on earth as in heaven.
5. Jesus taught His followers to expect
suffering and even death for His sake (Math.
j x.. 28; John xvi., 2). And by His spirit He
j taught them to take pleasure even in these
things, bee chapters v., 41; xx., 34; II Corinthians
xii., 13.
6. Being made aware of the coming storm
thej fled to other cities, not because they
feared death, bat because Jesus had taught
them "Wheu they persecute you iu this city,
? " ? ' A-L __ ftO. All
nee ye into anocner' [sa&zn. x. m). an mnfal
means to preserve life are not inoonadstent
with readiness to lay down our lifei
when Ho calls ns to it. Many times they
sought to take His life, but could not till His
hour came and then He gave it up.
7. "And there they preached,the Gospel."
They also lived the Gospel, for Paul could
say to the Theeealonians, and doubtless to
all others, "Ye are witnesses, And Goi also,
how holily and justly and unblamably we
behaved ourselves among you that believe."
(1 Thess. II.. 10). Like Je?us, they first did
and then taught (Acts i., 1; Mark vi? 30).
If the church would give herself to living
I and preaching the Gospel, instead ot to
I amusing and entertaining the people, how
I the Great Head of the Church would delight
to show Himself strong on her behalf <11
Cbron. xvi., 9) and so hasten her completion.--Lesson
Helper.
One excellent feature of the
World's Fair will be the opportunities
afforded for study. No one can
"do" the great exposition in one day,
nor ilrtwo days. The expenses of a
trip to Chicago, living while there
and daily admission to the grounds
will be beyond the reach of many deserving
persons, particularly women.
T' C* "Paul ?
AITS. X. JO. ivc, ul uv. ahiu, ?
member of the Board of Lady Managers,
has proposed a plan that reflects
as much honor on herself as it
promises profit for the beneficiaries.
"Scholarships" will be sold to wealthy
r\r onHoHa<j and will be by
( p?/XOV/UO VI ovv^wv.w-, ? _
them conferred on women who could
and would use the splendid opportunities
for study, but whose limited
fortunes would compel them to remain
at home. The ''scholarships"
entitle holders to fare to and from
the city, board while here, and tho
freedom of the grounds. Much good
will thus be done those who most
need it and whose added knowledge
will be one of America's most lasting
and valued nrotits from the fair.
It Is good hews which says that
"the cholera is losing lta grip." It's
bad enough wlthout^hojrrip.
""temperance.
THE nTDEPS*n)ENT CITIZEN*.
Here each man a king may be.
Enthroned among his peers, and free
lO worn nuu wiu i cuunu^
And hold his manhood with the best,
Where plots will not disturb his rest.
Nor stain bis laurel crown.
The pa teat of nobility
Nature bestows, without the fee
That comes of golden gains.
'Tis a white charter, plainly writ,
For the wise man, whose mother wit
Outweighs a crown with brains.
He fears no train of dynamite,
No powder plots that oft affright
'Princes and emperors.
His cottage is his palace, there
He reigns a king, his elbow-chair
The throne nu earthshock stirs.
Give honor to the man of worth,
Not to the accident of birth,
They come not from above.
The cradle unadorned may hold
Fall carets of the purest gold?
A human heart of love.
The trtoe man's Iring among his peers,
No rivals rise to wake his fears.
And take away his crown.
His title wears no mold of years,
No stajas of human strife and tears,
They come from Adam down.
Bis crown is honor without stain.
His realm is home, where he may reigng
He's temperate, true and jusc.
He is the king, his wife is queen, *
His sceptre love, his laurel green,
In Heaven he put his trust.
?National Temperance Advocate.
STAKING WRKCKS OF MIX AKD WOMEN.
Will you credit this? There is a place?indeed
there are places?where for five cent* a
man may insert one end of a tube into a bar'
rel of beerani drink through the tube till he
can't -drink any longer. It'k a long pull and
strong pull, its length and strength are only
regulated by the capacity of the drinker, I
and the- price is five oents. The tube is
hmHv inr nil mm era?wrecks of men and !
wrecks of women?what next.
JfR. MOODY ON WINS.
The League JouraaJ,of Glasgow, Stotland,
in a recent issue publishes the following:
"Mr. D. L. Moody, in addressing the noonday
prayer-meeting in the Christian Institute,
Glasgow, on Monday week, referred to
the miracle performed by Christ at Cans'of
Galilee in turning water into wine, flelfeid
&me people had a difficulty about this sqb:
ject in regard to what kind of wine Christ
made. They were somewhat afraid to deal
with the difficulty, but he was qoite car tain
Christ never made alcoholic wine. He never
made aioohol in nature. Ic was only- when
men took the good grain and destroyed it
that alcohol was produced. Mr. Moody said
he was in Jerusalem lately, and he asked a
Jewish rabbi there waat kind of wine they
used at their feasti. The rabbi replied:
"We use the pore juice of the grape, we do
not use leaven in oar bread, and, of coarse,
we would have nothing to do with alcohol
in oar wine.' When tbe pure jaic* of the
grape couki not be got, they poured hot
water on the raisins and drank It. Those
people in this country who have some
>? n?o nf t.hn un farm Anted
wine at the communion need have no difficulty
in this matter,as it is quite dear ChrWt
neVer made or used alcoholic wine."
TBS NATIONAL W. C. T. XT. CONVENTION.
Trinity Methodist Church, in Denver,
Col., was crowded recently with delegates
to the nineteenth annual convention of
the Woman's Christian Temperanoe
Union. The building was haoasomely
decorated with bunting and flags, among
?t?Wi ?? hunnppu hmrlncr armroDriate
mottoes, the most prominent of which was
hung over the sta?e and bore the words:
"No sex Id citizenship." Around the
speaker's desk and back of it were seated the
State Presidents, members of the Executive
Committees and Superintendents, while in
the body of the house were about 800 delegates.
An overflow meetingwas held at the
Unity Church, where Lady Henry Somerset
would speak. A second overflow meeting
assembled at the Central Christian Church,
where speeches were made by Mrs. Mary
H. Hunt and Mrs. S. E. V. Emory. Mtn
Frances S. Willard. the President, called
t&e, convention to order, and after a brief
ptorer by Lady Somerset the regular routioft
convention work began, which included
reading of minutes and reports and the appointment
of committees. Miss Willard read
her annual report. The report reviewei the
work of the onion for the year and spoke of
its Diana for the future.
Miss Willard said in part: "There is no
object that we White Ribboners so much
desire to photograph upon the brain of
every voter as the American saloon. It is
an institution the character of which becomes
each year more clearly defined, and
one that, because of our form of government,
exposes us more than any other people
to political corruption. Because tneee
things are true, the temperance women of
America have gone into notices, and have
taken si' les with the men who first, last arui.aU k
times cast their ballots against candidates
for offices who are pledged to the saloon.
"While I-am heart and sonl.jp,sympathy
with every movement for the"'upHfting of
labor, it remains true that three-fourths of
the whole labor question is summed up in
the following: ' vVtaere are oar carriagesF 1
said vi Anarchist, as some capitalists drove j
by. "Why,' replied a red-nosed follower,
to tell you the troth, a saloon keeper yonder
is riding there in mine.'
"We expect to convene the World's W.
C. T. U. the first week in June at the Columbian
Exposition, and we hope that the
Ifatiohal Association will be held at the
same time. The only new department of
which I give notice this year, is for the
building up of the local auxiliaries. If we
oould put a capable woman at the head of
the departmeut of work for the local W. C.
T. IT., and this could be carried out Into all
our borders, we should find that this con
ooomKlaH fn w I
VOUl/lUU uau UVU awoiuuivv* MM.,
The report of the National Secretary, Mrs.
Caroline B. Bael, shows that the union.is in
a most flourishing condition. The total
number of auxiliary and including "Y's" is
7857, total membership, 142,503; number of
"Y" unions, 736; total membership, 12,863;
number of coffee houses, restaurants, eta,
282; money raised by local unions, $336,244.71;
raised by State unions, $133,79J.4'J;
paid National Union in duss, $12,872.03; for
other purposes, $11,577.32.
In Colorado, North Dakota, Idaho, Illinois,
Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont
and Washington there is school suffrage,
and in Wyoming there is full suffrage.
The report of the Treasurer, Miss Esther
Pugh, shows that the total amount of money
raised by local unions in the la5t year for
temperance work is $368,244.71. There has
been paid into the National Treasury for
State dues,. $15,500.16; for other purposes,.
$11,578.26, and for the temple. $23,500.53.
New Yoric paid dues on a membership of
1C. fVYl Pann*.
'Of,WJ; Illinois UU U1U1C Uliau 1V|W.,
sylrania on more than 15,000, and Ohio on
upward of 10,000 members.
TIKPERAXCI XEWS AND .VOTES.
The pleuro is stamped out, but tbe saloon
remain* Tbe pleuro kills cattle; tbe saloon,
men.
One illegal rumseller of Portland, Me., at
the last, criminal court in that city, wax I
fined $1300, and sentenced to sirteea months I
in jail.
There are in the United Kingdom 2,613,
000 young people who are members of the
Binds of Hope or other juvenile temperance
organ nations.
Over seventeen hundred indictments
against liquor dealers were recently .aturned
by the grand jury of JefTei*""* .1" nty in
Indiana in a single month. ?- 1
A Vienna paper has collected statistics
* -a -l IQ01
showing that 49,453 breweries exissea m
in twenty-one couatries, a decrease of almost
a thousand in one year.
Dr. Guibert, wi-iting to a Havre journal,
states as the result of his expjrience that
habitual inebriates have very little chance
of recovering from an attack of cholera.
An enterprising ven ler has purchase 1 the
privilege of selling popcorn at the World's
Fair for $60,000, and another guarantees the
Fair managers not less than ?1(JO.OOJ for the
privilege of selling peanuts. The price of
the beer and whisky concessions is much
more.
if rain can oe manumccured, wnj
not cold waves? Here is a chance for
a summer industry that would make
its inventors millionaires?nay, trillionaires?in
a week.
THE ffSW8 EPITOMIZED.
Easter* and Middle State*.
Thb examination of candidate* tor ?oramissions
in the medical department of the
United Htates Army, held a few days since
m New York, was not very prolific in re
suiw. Kji zae twenty-two young doctors wno
appeared four succeeded in passing.
congbks8scait Edwakd F. McDonald, of
Hairison, N. J., died from pneumonia a
few days ago. He was born in Ireland on
September 21st, 1844. Hs wa? a candidate
tor re-election.
Ax Pittsburg, Penn., Colonels Hawkins
and titreator were acquitted of the caarge
of aggravated assault preferred by Private
lam?.
Loao Melrose, largest St. Bernard dog
in the world.died a few days ago,at Boston,
Mass., at the Melrose kennels of gastric
colic. He was fired by Ben Lomond out of
Recluse, and won first prize at many bench
shows. He was thirty-five inches high and
weighed 210 pounds. ~
South and Weat. ?
Firs Indian boys, oach between fifteen
and sixteen years old, escaped from the Roman
Catholic school at Peoria, Ilin and >
walked 600 miles to their home.
Joe Mcrphy fatally shot Lawrence Early.
Richard Thomas and C. B. Johnson at Bit- /
mingham, Ala. They had a row orer a
game of cards.
Twelve of the sixty-one labor union*
went on strike in New Orleans, La? in the
big strike. The teamsters, mnddans, car
drivers, pap r-aan?er<j, gas workers- and
coachmen went oat. Several theatre* could
not give performances. All business was
practically paraiyzeo.
mb. ahd mbs. jb bed iaakx, bw*01sn
settlers on a claim threo miles from 0 xarehe.
Indian Territory, hare been found deal inidde
their house. Both had beea shot.
Hiss Parxslia, W bio ht died in Benton
Harbor, Mich., aged 102 yean^ Miss
Wright was born near Fairfax Court
House. Va., and often met Washington,
Jefferson and other noted men of that time. , .J.
Thk Eeqriimau badr born the other day at
the Wort a'3 Fair Grounds, Chicago, has
died from sore throat.
Wachlnjteon. > '
Skoibtabt of Stat* Fostsb received a
cable message from the United States Mini*ter
to Denmark saying that the Danish v?
Government has pardoned D. Ryder, late
United States Consul at Copenhagen, who
was recently tried and convicted on a charge
of embezzlement and sentenced to imprisonment
at hard labor. -v]
Assistant Secretary of Wax Goaht
left Washington this afternoon for bit
home in Minneapolis. As Secretary Elkins
was alao absent from the city, Major General
Sohofleld, who is in oommand of the United
States Army, became also acting Secretary 1
of War. ''I
A. W. Nettletoit, Assistant Secretary of
thaTreasur} has resigned.foreign.
The winter crop in- most Ravian provinces
presents a bad appearance. The
poor peasants, anticipating serious consequences,
have held riotous demonstrative
meetings, though the police have prohibited
such.
The trial of Mr. Merrier, ex-Premier at
Quebec, Canada, charged with stealing
100,000, ended in his acquittal. The vindicated
statesman was carried on the shoalden
of adherent?, followed by cheering * $
thousands, from the court to the house of a
friend, where he made a speech.
The first class battle ship Royal Oak was
auoched at Birkenhead, Eta gland. She oost
13,750,000.
The great English cotton strike was in- . '-U
augurated at London, and fifty-five thousand
persons employed in the cotton Indus
j try are Idle.
Ax infernal machine, placid by AnI
archista in the Carmaux Mining Company's
i building in Paris, exploded, killing four police
officials.
Tme universal suffrage movement has
caused renewed rioting in Brussels, Belgium.
the labob world.
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Tarr rues are first in Prussian industries.
Mixers at Carmaux, Franca, have r*l
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The strike of the printers io Pittsburg has
I lasted oyer one year.
Thb par of an ordinary British constable
is from 17.50 to $9 a week.
i Thb Bakers' Unions of the States of HewYork
and Pennsylvania are forming State
organizations.
A co-operative shoe factory Is about to
be established bv the Knights of Lsbor in
Rochester, K. T.
Wages for miners have been raised two
per cent, by the Schuylkill Coal Exchange^
In Pottsville, Penn.
Over seven thousand applications war*
recently received in Paris, ft-aace, for fiftyfive
vacant positions.
Over 3,750,000 women are working for
wages in France, and hundreds of thousands t
are seeking work without being able to find
it.
TJmoir bricklayers who were employed to
build an addition to thaBatler Univenttjat
Indianapolis, lad., refund to work oa an
old foundation built by non-union man.. Thetrustees
allowed them to tear down the old
wall, and then the work went on.
Thc Order of Train Dispatchers was per- .
manently organised at Mwmphfr Teon.,
with 152 charter members. The coostftation.
and by-laws embrace the protective features
which caused eo much discussion at the con ention
in New Orleans last June.
The following are a faw example* of the
rate of pay of women in London: Hairing
paper bags, eight cents per 1000; passible
earnings |L25 to ta.35 par wees, jduesob*
holee, six cents per doe en; possible earnings,
$2 per week. Shirty four oents; each worker
finding her own cotton can get six dose between
6 a, m. and U p. ra.
ArriR several years of strangle, cotton
spinning of Chineee cotton by Chinese bands
is established in Shanghai, fire hundred
and fifty looms and 3^000 spindles torn oat
weekly 180,000 yard*, thirty-six inches wide,
of a superior quality of imitation' American
drill sheeting. Hal" the looms are of English
make and half oi American.
Konsbeqo, In Norway, seems to be m
little paradise for workmen. Of the 4t0 miners
employed there every one has a house of his
oven, an<l men having worked for ten yearshave
a right to a pension of ten per cent, of
their wages, which increase* every year two
per cent. After thirty years tho pension
would amount to $3.25-per month,. or Muar
cient for a man. to-live upon. Idleness from
lack of work or through, strikes Is unknown
in Konsberg,
MISSENT MAIL.
Decrease in Number ot Letters Received
at the Dead Letter 0fi09?
The report of the Superintendent of the
Dead Letter Office has been made public. It
shows that the annual increase of mail matter
at this office has been arrested, the figures
showing an actual decrease of 48,480
pieces, or nearly one per ceot. lesa than the
number received during the fiscal year of
1891, notwithstanding the fact that t<M
postal business of the country has increased
nearly eight per cent, the past year, while
mi'otoLr/vo r\f tKa nuKHn mnr Ha it
by the increase of over seventaeo per cent,
in unaddressed letters alone. The receipt*
at tha Dead Letter Office for the past six
years show respectively an increase of five
Eer cent., eleven per cent., sixteen per ceat.,
ve per cent, 4^ per cent., and a decrease
of nearly one per cent. The work lias been
done this year without any extra hoars of
labor and an increase of 231,000 letters was
returned to writers in excess of last year's
record.
A rbj?abkaelk meteor passed over Birmingham,
Ala., about 5 o'clock a few afternoons
ago. It passed from northeast to
southwest. It was intjnsaly Dngnc ana seemingly
about three feet wide. The track it
left was serpentina in shape, and remained
bright for folly fire minutes. At the spot
where it disappeared in the eouthweet a
bright line in the shape of the letter L remained
for aereial minute*.