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REY. DR. TALMA (tR
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: "Mothers In Israel."
Text: "The mother of Sisera looked out
at a window."?Judges v.. 28.
Spiked to the ground of Jael's tent lay the
dead commander in chief of the Canaanitish
'nost, General Sisera. not far from the river
Kishon, which was oniy a dry bed of pebbles
rnlion in 1RRQ in Pjllpstinp T8 ftrOSSed it. but
the gullies and ravines whloh ran into it indicated
the possibility of great freshets like
the oneatthetimeof the text. General Sisera
had gone out with 900 iron chariots, but he
was defeated, and, his chariot wheels interlocked
with the wheels of other chariots, ho
could not retreat fast enough, and so he
leaped to the ground an ran till, exhausted,
he went into Jael's tent for safety. She
had just been churning, and when he asked
for water she gave him buttermilk, which in
the east is considered a most refreshing
drink. Very tired, and supposing he was
safe, he went to sleep upon the floor, but
Jael. who had resolved upon his death, took
a tent pin, long and round and sharp, in one
hand and a hammer in her other hand, and,
putting the sharp end of the tent pin to the
forehead of Sisera. with her other hand qhe
lifted the hammer and brought it down on
the head of the pin with a stout stroke,
when Sisera struggled to rise, and she
struck him again, and he struggled to rise,
and the third time she struck him, and the
eommauder in chief of the Canaanitish host
lay dead.
Meanwhile in the distance Sisera's mother
sits amid surroundings of wealth and pomp
and scenes palatial waiting for bis return.
Every mother expects her son to be victorious,
and this mother looked out at the window
expecting to see him drive up in his
chariot followed by wagons loaded with embroideries
and also by regiments of men vanquished
and enslaved. I see her now sitting
at the window, in high expectation. She
watches the farthest turn of the road. She
looks for the flying dust cf the swift hoofs.
The first flash of the bit of the horse's bridle
she will cat3h.
The ladU>s of her court stand round, and
she tells thtjm of what they shall have when
her son comes up?chains of gold and carcanets
of beauty and dresses of such wondrous
fabric and splendor as the Bible only hints
at, but leaves us to imagine. "He ought to
be here by this time," says his mother. "That
battle is surely over. I hope that freshet oi
the river Klshon has rfot impeded him. I
hope those strange appearances we saw last
night in the sky were not ominous, when the
stars seemed to fight in their courses. No I
No! He is so brave in battle I know he ha*
won the day. He will soon be here." But
alas for the disappointed mother! bhe will
not see the glittering headgear of the horses
at full gallop bringing her son home from
victorious battle. As a solitary messenger
arriving in hot haste rides up to the windows
at whioh the mother of Sisera sits, he cries,
'Your armies are defeated, and your son is
dead." Then* is a scene of horror and
?K!/>h TffQ f 11 T*T? O TXTfl_V
OU^UIOU UVIU nuivu nuiuiu
Now you see the full meaning of my short
text, "The mother of Slsera looked oat at a
window." Well, my friends, we are all out in
the battle of life; it is raging now, and the
most of os have a mother watching and
waiting for news of our victory or defeat.
If she ba not sitting at the window of
earth, uhe Is sitting at a window of
heaven, and she is going to hear all about it.
By all the rules of war 8isera ous?ht to
have been triumphant. He had 900 iron
chariots and a host of many thousands
vaster than the armies of Israel. But
God was on the other side, and the
angry freshets of Kisbon, and the bail,
the lightning and the unmanageable
warhorses, and the capsized o harlots
and the stellar panic in the sky discomfited
Sisera. Josepbus in his history
describes the scene in the following words :
'When they were come to a close fight there
came down from heaven a great storm with
a vast quantity of rain and hail, and the wind
blew the rain in the face of the Canaanites
and so darkened their eyes their arrows and
slings were of no advantage to them, nor
wnnlH th? mldiywi of the air Hermit the sol
dlers to make osa of their swords, while this
storm did not so muoh incommode the Israelites
because it came on their backs. They
itlso took such courage upon the apprehension
that God was assisting them that they
fell upon the very midst of their enemies and
slew a great number of them, so that some of
them fell by the Israelites, some fall by their
own horses which were put into disorder,
and not a few were killed by their own chariots."
Hence, my hearers, the bad news brought
to the mother of Sisera looking cut at the
window. And our mother, whether sitting
at a window of earth or a window of heaven,
will hear the news of our victory or defeat?
not according to our talents or educational
equipment or our opportunities, but aeoording
as to whether God is for us or against
us.
. "Where's mother?" is the question most
frequently asked in many households. It is
asked by the husband as well as the child
coming in at nightfall, "Where's mother?" It
Is asked by the little ones whenthey get hurt
and come in crying with the pain, "Where's
mother?" It is asked by those who
have seen some grand sight or heard some
good news or received some beautiful gift,
"Where's mother?" She sometimes feels
wearied by the question, lor they all ask and
keep asking it all the time. She is not only
the first to hear every case of perplexity, but
sne is me juagq m every court ui uumraui;
appeal. That is what puts the premature
wrinkles on so many maternal faces and powders
white so many maternal foreheads. You
see, it is a question that keeps on for ail the
years of childhood. It comes from the nursery,
and from the .evening stand where the
hoys and girls are learning their school lessons,
and from the starling out in the morning,
when the tippet or hat or slate
<sr hook or overshoe is lost, until
at night, all out of breath, the youngsters
come in and shout until you can heai
them from cellar to garret and from front
door to the back fence of the baok yard,
"Where's mother?" Indeed, a child's life is
so full of that question that if he be feiken
away one of the things that the mother most
misses and the silence that most oppresses
her is the absence of that question, whicb
she will aever hear on earth again, except
she hears it in a dream which sometimes restores
the nursery just as it was, and then
the voice comes back so natural, and so
sweet, and so innocent, and so inquiring
thatthe dream breaks at the words, "Where's
mother?"
Tf th-i* nnoctinn Troro nnt to most nf no
this morniug. we would have to say, if we
spoke truthtully, likd Sisera's mother, she is
at the palace window. She has become a
queen unto God forever, and she is pulling
back the rich folds of the king's upholstery
to look down at us. We are not told the particulars
about the residence of 8isera's
mother, but there is in that scene in the book
of Judges so much about embroideries and
needlework and ladies in waiting that we
know her residence must have been princely
and palatial. So we have no minute and particular
description of the palace at whoso
window our glorified mother sits, but there
is so much in the closing chapters of
the good old book about crowns, and
pearls big enough to make a gate out of
one of them, now songs and marriage supper*,
and harps, and white Horses with kings
In the stirrups, and golden candlesticks that
we know the heavenly residence of our
mother Is superb, is unique, is colonnaded,
is domed, is embowered, is fountained, is
glorified beyond the power of pencil or pen
or tongue to present, and in the window of
that palace the mother sits watching for
news trom the battle. What a contrast between
that celestial surrounding and her
once earthly surroundings! What a work to
bring up a family, in the old time way, witn
lit * i?_? %\r\ hir^.i hoJn PY<?ont n?rhaD9
MUt m .ic vi ?x._ x ^
for the washing day or for the swine slaughtering.
commonly called "tlie killing day I"
There was then no reading of elaborate
treatises on the best modes of rearing children,
and then leaving it all to hired help,
with one or two visits a day to the nursery to
see if the principles announced are being carried
out. The most of those old folks did the
sewing, the washing, the mending, the darning,
the patching, the milliner}*, the mantua
making, the housekeeping, and in hurried
harvest time helped spread the hay or tread
down the load in the mow. They were at
ths same time caterers, tailors, doctors,
chn plains and nurses for a whole household
all together down with measles or scarier
fever, or round the house with whooping
coughs and croups and runround fingers
and earaches and all the Infantile
distempers which at some time swoop upon
every large household. Someof those mothers
never ?ot rested in tens worm, insnjnu 01 i
the sett rocking cradles of our day, which, |
wound up, will go hoar after hour for the 5
solace of'the young slumberer, it was weary J
foot on the rocker sometimes half the day or
half the night? rock?rock?rock?rock. In- n
stead of our drug stores filled with all the b
wonders of materia medica and called up a
through a telephone, with them the only s
apothecary short of four miles' ride was the o
crarret. with its bunches of DeDDermint n^d n
pennyroyal and catnip and *mustacd .and <j
camomile flowers, which were expected \
to do everything. Just think of it! Fifty ?<
years of preparing breakfast, dinner t
and supper. The chief music they u
heard was that of spinning wheel and
rocking chair. Fagged out, headachy and
with ankles swollen. Those old fashioned
mothers?if any persons ever fitted appropriately
into a good, easy, comfortable heaven, .
they were the folks, and they got there, and ^
they are rested. They wuar no spectacles, t
for they have their third sight?as they lived \
long enough on earth to get their second c
sight?and they do not have to pant for n
breath after going up the the emerald stairs n
of the Eternal palace, at whose window they a
now sit waiting for news from the battle. e
But if anyone keeps on asking the que9- fi
tions ''Where's motheri1" I answer, "She's h
in your present character." The probability ii
is that your physical features suggest her. a
If there be seven children in a household at L<
least six of them look like their mother, and c
the older you get the more you will look like "
her. But I speak now especially of your w
character and not of your looks. This is n
easily explained. During the first ten years n
nf mnr lifo rnii Trorn jilmnat nil thfl Hmn c,
with her, and your father you saw only a
mornings and nights. There are no years n
in any life so important for impression as the T
first ten. Then and there is the impression ti
made for virtue or vice, for truth or false- js
hood, for bravery or cowardice, for religion j
or skepticism. Suddenly start out from be- ti
hind a door and frighten the child, and you tl
may shatter his nervous system for a life- h
time. During the first ten years you can tell
him enough spook stories to make him a t:
coward till he dies. Act before him as q
though Friday were an unlucky day, and it 3,
were baleful to have thirteen at the table, or n
see the moon over the left shoulder, and fl
he will never recover from the idiotic su- rj
perstitions. You may give that girl before 9i
she is ten years old a fondness for dress n
that will make her a mere "dummy frame,"
or fashion plate, for forty years. Ezekiel f]
xvi.. 44, "As is the mother so is her daugh- d
ter." Before one decade has passed you can u
decide whether that boy will be a Shylock or n
a George Peabody. Boys and girls are gen- g
erally echoes of fathers and mothers. What t)
an in<i>herent thing for a mother out of li
temper to punisli a child for getting tl
mad, or for a father who smokes to shut w
his boy up in a dark closet because he si
has found him with an old stump of a o
cigar in nis moutn, or lor mac motner to u
rebuke ber daughter for staring at ii
herseir too mucb in the looking glass when I
the mother has her own mirrors so ar- tl
ranged as to repeat her form from all sides! o
The great Euglish poet's loose moral char- n
acter was decided before he left the nursery, tl
and Jiis schoolmaster in the schoolroom t<
overheard this conversation: "Byron, your s!
mother is a fool," and he answered, "I
know it." You can hear all through the t<
heroic life of Senator Sam Houston the it
words of his mother when she in the war tl
of 1812 put a musket in his hand and said: d
"There, my son, take this and never a
disgrace it, for remember I had rather all tl
my sons should fill one honorable o
grave than that one ot them should turn his si
back on an enemy. Go and remember, too, n
that while the door of my cottage is open to vf
all brave men it is always shut against cow- h
ards." Agrippina, the mother of Nero, mur- n
dere3s, you ara nor surprised that her son a
was a murderer. Give that child an over- a
dose of catechism, and make him recite ^
verses of the Bible as a punishment, and a
make Sunday a bore, and he will become a n
stout antagonist of Christianity. Impress A
him with the kindness and the geniality and o
the loveliness of religion, and he will be its vt
advocate and exemplar for all time and eter- a
nity. ?
A few days asro righfr.before our express f]
train on the Louisville and Nashville rail- "
road the preceding train had gone down
through a oroken bridge, twelve care falling /
100 feet and then consumed. I saw that only J
one span of the bridgo was down and all the
other spans were standing. Plan a good
bridge of morals for your sons and
daughters, but have the first span of ten ?
years defective, and through that they will e{
crash down, though all the rest keep ffj
standing. 0 man, 0 woman, if you have .&
preserved your integrity and are really *
Christian, you have first of all to thank p
God, and I think next yon have to thank t j.
your mother. The most impressive thing at ^
the inauguration of James A. Garfield as
President of the United States was that after
he had taken the oath of office he turned
round and in the presence of the Supreme
Court and the Senate of the United States
kissed his old mother. If I had time to &1
take statistics out of this audience, and I tl
could ask what proportion of you who jc
are Christians owe your salvation undei
God to maternal fidelity, I think about C1
three-fourths of you would spring to your p
feet. "Ha ! ha!" said the soldiers of the n
regiment to Charlie, one of their comrades, l.
What has made the change in you? You
used to like sin as well as any of us." Pul!- tl
ing from his pocket his mother's letter, in si
which, after telling of some comforts she had 0;
sent him, she concluded, "We are all pr.iying
foryou, Charlie, that you may be a Chris- "
tain," he said. "Boys, that's the sentence.' tl
The trouble with Sisera's mother was that. C1
while sitting at the window of my text
watching for news of her son from the bat- .
tlefleld, she had the two bad qualities of be- it
ing dissolute and being too fond of personal w
adornment. The Bible account says : "Her Q
wise ladies answered her yea. She returned ..
answer to herself: 'Have they not sped?
Have they not divided the prey?to every 0
man a damsel or two, to Sisera a prey of Ci
divers colors, a proy of divers colors of o
needlework, of divers colore of needlework _
on hoth sides?'" She makes no anxious 5
utterance about the wounded in bat- 1
tie, about the bloodshed, about the o
dying, about the dead, about the princi- c
pies involved in the battle going on, a battle
so important that the stars and the freshets
took part, and the clash of swords was an- t.
swered by the thunder of the skies. What a
she thinks most of is the bright colors of the i.wardrobes
to be captured and the needlework.
"To Sisera a prey of divers colors, a 81
prey of divers colors oineedlework, of divers f{
colors of needlework on both sides."
Now neither Sisera's mother nor anx one ^
else can say too much in eulogy 'of ?the ,
needle. It has made more useful conquests ^
than the sword. Pointed at one end and IT
with an eye at the other, whether of bone or ^
ivory, as in earliest time; or of bronze, as in ^
Pliny's time; or of steel, as in modern time; "
whether laboriously fashioned as formerly by h
one hand, or as now, when 100 workmen in s<
a factory are employed to make the different jj
parts of one needle, it is an instrument divinely
ordered for the comfort, for the
life, for the health, for the adornment n
OI me nunum nice. a tie vjrw 01 ma
needle hath seen more domestic -r
comfort and more gladdened poverty
and more Christian service than any other t
eye. The modern sewing machine has in no o
wise abolished the needle, but rather en- ,1
throned it. Thank God for the needlework,
from the time when the Lord Almighty from c
the heavens ordered in regard to the em- p
broidered door of the ancient tabernacle, J
"Thou shalt make a hanging for the door of
the tent of blue and purple and scarlet and ?
fine twined linen wrought with needlework." 1
down to the womanly hands which this t
winter in this tabernacle are presenting j
for benevolent purposes their needlework.
But there was nothing ex- a
eept vanity and worldliness and social splash a
in what Sisera's mother said about the needlework
she expected her son would bring
home from the battle. And I am not sur- J
prised to find that Sisera fought on the t
wrong side when his mother at the window I
of my text in that awful exigency had her a
chief thought on dry goods achievement and ,
social display. God only knows how many ^
homes have made shipwreck on the ward- n
robe. And that mother who sits at the win- f
UOW WHIcniUR lor vaiummiuua uiuuiim ,
millinery and line colore and domestic pageantry
will, after a while, hear as bad news a
from her children out in the battle of life aa t
sisera's mother neard Irom tUo struggle at t
Esdraelon. ^
But if you still press thequfstion, -'Where's
mother?" I will tell you where ste is not,
though once she was there. Some of yon o
started with her likeness iu your face and v
her principles in your soul. But you have r
cast her out. That was an awful thing for
+n hnf nn huvn Hnno it That hard. "
grinding dissipated look yon never got from i
her. If you had seen any one strike her you r
would have struck him down without much *
care whether the blow was just sufficient or
fatal; but, my boy, you have struck her C
down?struck her innocenee from your face j
and struck her principles from your soul. j
[ou struck her down? The tent pin that
ael drove three times Into the skull of Slsera
ras not so cruel as the stab you have made
aore than three times through your mother's
leart. But she is waiting yet, for mothers
,re slow to give up their boys?waiting at
ome window, it may be a window on earth
r at some window in heaven. And others
nay cast you off. Your wife may seek
livorce and have no patience with you.
rour father may disinherit you and say,
'Let him never again darken the door of our
louse." But there are two persons who do
Lot give you up?God and mother.
How many disappointed mothers waiting
,t the window ! Perhaps the panes of the
rindow are not great glass plate, bevel
dged and hovered over by exquisite lamrequin,
but the window is made of small
lanes, I would say about six or eight of
hem, in summer wreathed with trailing
ine and in winter pictured by the Raphaels
if the forest, a real country window. The
nother sits there knitting, or busy with her
leedle on homely repairs, when she looks up
nd sees coming across the bridge of the
aeadow brook a stranger, who dismounts in
ront of the window. He lifts and drops the
eavy knocker of the farmhouse door. "Come
a!" is the response. He gives his name and
ays, "I have come on a sad errand." "There
i nothing the mattar with my son in the
ity, is there?" she asked. "Yes!" he says.
Your son got into an unfortunate encounter
rith a young man in a liquor saloon last
ight and is badly hurt. The fact is he canot
get well. I hate to tell you all. I am
orry to say he is dead." "Dead!" she cries
s she totters back. "Ob, my son! my son!
ly son! Would God I had died for thee!"
hat is the ending of all her cares and anxlees
and good counsels for that boy. That
i her pay for her self sacrifices in his behalf,
hat is the bad new3 from the battle. So the
dings of derelict or Christian sons travel to
le windows of earth or the windows of
eaven at which mothers sit.
"Bat," says some one, "are you not misiken
about my glorified mother hearing of
ly evildoings since she went away?" 8ays
jme one else, "Are you not mistaken about
ly glorified mother Hearing of ray self sacrlce
and moral bravery and struggle to do
ightV" No! Heaven and earth are in con:ant
communication. There are trains runIng
every five minutes?trains of immortals
scending and descending?spirits going
:om earth to heaven to live there. Sprits
escending from heaven to earth to miniter
and help. They hear from us
iany times every day. Do they hear
ood news or bad news from the'battle,
lis Sedan, this Thermopylae, this Austertz,
in which every one of us is fighting on
ie right side or the wrong side. 0 God,
hose I am, and whom I am trying to
arve, as a result of this sermon, roll over
n all mothers a new sense of their responsiilitv.
and upon all children, whether still
i the nursery or out on the tremendous
Isdraelon of middle life or old age, the fact
lat their victories or defeats sound clear
ut, clear up to the windows of sympathetic
laternity. Oh, is not this the minute when
ae oloud of blessing filled with the exhaled
?ars of anxious mothers shall burst in
bowers of mercy on this audience?
There is one thought that it almost too
snder for utterance. I almost fear to start
; lest I have not enough control of my emolon
to conclude it. As when we were chilren
we so often came in from play or from
hirt or from some childish injustice prac[ced
upon us, and as soon as the door was
pened we cried, "Where's mother?" and
lie said, "Here I am,1' and we burled our
reeping faces in her lap, so after awhile,
rhen we get through with the pleasures and
urts of this life, we will, by the pardoning
lercy of Christ, enter the heavenly nome, and
mong the first questions, not the first, but
mong the first, will be the old question that
re used to ask, the question that is being
sked in thousands of places at this very
loment?the question, "Whore's mother?"
.nd it will not take long for ris to find her
r for her to find us, for she will have been
atchlng at the window for our coming,
nd with the other children of our household
f earth wo will again gather round ner, ana
tie will say: "Well, how did you get throagh
le battle of life? I have often heard from
thers about you, but now I want to hear
from your own souls. Tell me all about
, my children!" And then we will tell
er of all our earthly experiences,
le holidays, the marriages, the birth hours,
le burials, the heartbreaks, the losses, the
iins, the victories, the defeats, and she will
ty "Never mind, It is all over now. I see
ich one of you has a crown, which was
Iven you at the gate as you came through,
ow cast it at the feet of the Christ who
ived you and saved me and saved us all.
hank God, we are never to part, and for all
te ages of eternity you will never again
ive to ask, 'Where's mother?"'
The Wealth of the Poor.
While we hear a great deal saia
boat the fortunes of the few, and
ieir millions are regarded as fabums,
it is a wholesome experience to
ill attention to the wealth of the
oor, and the figures which are furished
by the recent census in regard
> farm and home proprietorship in
venty - two States and Territories
lpply something to go upon. It is
jtimated that there are 4,500,000
trms in the United Statee, and that
lere are 8,190,152 families that ocipv
homes which are not farms. In
le distribution of wealth by classes,
i is found that 11,593,887 families are
orth $17,35G, 837,343. Out of a total
f 12,690,152 families of the country
; is found that ninety-one per cent,
wn no more than twenty-nine per
ent. of the wealth, and nine per cent,
f the families own about seventy-one
er cent, of the -wealth. Among tne
,096,205 families in which seventyne
per cent, of the wealth of the
ountry is concentrated there is a still
arther concentration. It consists of
be 4017 millionaires, whose property
verages about $3,000,000. The famies
here mentioned possess about
sven-teuths as much as do 11,593,887
imilies. They possess two-thirds of
hie property of the United States, and
be poorer families are estimated to
ave the other third. By this estilate
seventy-one per cent, of the
ealth of the United States is in the
ands of the owners of farms and
oines worth $5000 and over. This
tatement is approximate, but it is beieved
to be fair.
Mr. George K. Holmes, who furishes
these statistics in an article on
'rr,m ^ 1 A- -? TIT 1 4.U " i'M
rne \joncenirauou ui ?r eumu iu. wc
'olitical Science Quarterly, estimates
hat about twenty-seven per cent, of
ur wealth is in the hands of private
ebtors, and that about thirty per
ent. is in the hands of public and
rivate debtor. This wealth is widely
listributed among persons and corlorations,
and it is mostly subject to
uterest charges. When we look to
he increase of large fortunes in the
uture, this interest and all profit
bove interest are regarded as the chief
,mong the more permanent andimme[iate
causes of the concentration of
realth. This interest fund is reckoned
o be more than $1,000,000,001) yearly,
t is equal to one-twentieth of the
nnual product of wealth and to onelalf
of the annual savings. This immense
sum is paid by the many to the
ew, and it shows how the great forunes
of the country are maintained
nd increased. Mr. Holmes points out
hat the chances for the sudden creaion
and concentration of wealth in
he United Stales are largely passing
way, and that the fortune building,
>n the whole, settles down to an moctmont
nf thp suviners at a moderate
ate of interest. The results of the
ensu6 indicate that the land is passing
nto the ownership of a smaller protortion
of the inhabitants, and the
wealth of the poor or of the middle
lass of property owners is just in prolortion
to their success in ceasing to
>e debtors. ....... I
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SABBATH SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
FEBRUARY 4. .
Lesson Text: "Beginning of the Hebrew
Nation," Gen. xiL, 1-9?
- I T1 4- . ? (!
UUIUCU ICAb. VXCU. A.1*?|
2?Commentary.
1. "Now, the Lord had said unto Abram,
Get thee out of thy country and from thy
kindred, and from thy father's house, unto
a land that I will show thee." We have
come down the stream of time over 400 years
since the first lesson. After the delude God
began tbe race again with Noah and his sons,
but as before, man left to himself proves n
failure. Noah is drunken, Ham brings o
curse upon Canaan, and iniquity consummates
in an organized union against God.
Lest they be scattered and to make them a
name they will build a tower reaching to the
skies. At the close of the nineteenth century
we find ourselves in an age of tower
building and man worship, but as the
Lord confounded and scattered them in the
plain of Shinar. so again when all 8hinar
associations shall have had their consummation
as in Zech. v., 11; Rev. xvli. and
rcviii-, the Lord will humble all the pride
of man, and He alone be exalted 'in that
day(Isa. ii.. 11, 17). After the Babel judgment
it seems from Josh, xxiv., 2, that the
people fell greatly into idolatry, and from
such surroundings in the land of Mesopotnmia.
the God of glory called out Abram
(Acts vii.. 2) to make of him a faithful witness
unto the truth. A study of Gen. xi.
will show that Shem, Arphaxad, Salah, Eber,
Rou and Serug were all living when Abram
and Torah loft Ur of the Chaldees, but
whether every one had become aD
idolator or not is not clearly stated. The
new departure now is that instead of destroying
or scattering them He will take out
and separate one from them who will wall:
with Him as Enoch did. It was a mistake
to take Terah along, for Abram was only
hindered by him until he died at Haran
(xi., 31, 32 ; Acts vil., 3, 4).
2. "And I will make of thee a great Nation.
and I will bless thee and make thy
name great, and thou shall be a blessing."
The people of Shinar wanted to make themselves
a name (xi.. 4), but Jehovah says to
Abram that He will make him a name. Those
who to-day try the Shinar plan will fail as
they did. but those who, like Abram, prefer
to obey God will have a name without seeking
it. Abram was to be blessed in order to bo a
blessing, and Israel is destined yet to be a
blessing to all Nations (Zech. viii., 13). When
we are willing to be a blessing to others and
forgetful of ourselves, then we shall indeed
be blessed. But it must be the Lord's doing
from first to last, and He must have the'
glory.
3. "And I will bless them that bless thee,
and curse him that curseth thee, and in
-?> ' ill? ~1,?
tnee Brian an muimm ui mo nmn. u-j
blessed." Here is a true idea of election as
taught in Scripture?a choosing of one or
more to make them a blessing to others?
whosever will may be elected, for him that
cometh will in no wise be cast out (John vl..
37). Who can possibly find fault with this?
See also how God takes man into union with
Himself. It makes us think of these words,
"He that heareth you heareth Me, and ht
that despiseth you despiseth Me" (Lukex.,
16). We shall find this covenant repeated
four times after this to Abram and once each
to Isaac and Jacob, making seven in all. The
fullness of its meaning is yet to be seen.
L "So Abram departed as the Lord had
spoken unto him, and Lot went with him.
and Abram was seventy and Ave years old
when he departed out of Haran. '' He went
out, not knowing whither he went (Heb. xl.,
8). He only knew that God knew and that
the end of it all would be a city which hath
foundations whose builder and maker is God
(Heb. xl., 10), and with implicit confidence
in God he went on. He believed the gospei,
* " ?*- - 11 Ka Ktacaa/I
ana an wao ububyo iu-uojt mu m
with him (Gal. 111., 8, 9) and made a blessin?
to others.
5. "And Abram took Sarah, his wile, and
Lot, his brother's son, and all their substance
that they had gathered and the souls
thit they had begotten in Haran, and they
went forth to go into the land of Canaan,
and into the land of Canaan they came."
Haran was but a partial obedience. This is
now full of obedience, whioh, it is to be
feared, the Lord gets from very few of us.
Many are content to be hindered by the affections
of those who will go part of the way
but not all the way to the promised land of
whole hearted surrender to God. Yet Jesus
says, "He that loveth father or mother, son
or daughter more than Me, is not worthy of
Me" (Math, x., 87).
6. "And Abraham passed through the
land into the place of Sichem, unto the plain
(or oak) of Moreh. And the Canaanite was
then in the land." To the neighborhood of
Ebal and Gerizim he oame (see Deut. xl, 29,
30) full halfway down through the land, and
he saw the laud filled with people, yet believed
that God would give it to him as He
had said. He walked not by sight, but by
faith, and was lully persuaded that what
God had promised He was able to perform
(Rom. iv., 20, 21). If we think more of the
Canaanites than of God, we will be discouraged,
like the ten spies. The only way is to
see no man save Jesus only (Math, xvii., 8).
7. "And the Lord appeared unto Abram
and said, Unto thy seea will I give this land.
And there builded he an altar unto the Lord,
who appeared unto him." We read of no
appearance at Haran and no new communication,
for Abram there had not done as he
had been told. "To him tha: knoweth to do
good and doeth it not, to him it is sin" (Jas.
iv., 17). Therefore if we are not living up
to the ltgnt we nave and are constfously disobedient
we cannot expect any fresh revelation
of God to our souls, but to every obedient
soul there will be growth in grace and
in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour
T?nij., /TT T>a? iat
O C3U3 V/UXIOL ^ JLA J. ci< nil j jL\jy.
8. ''And he removed from thence to a
mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched
his tent, having Bethel on the west and Bai
on the east, and there he builded an altar
unto the Lord and callod upon the name of
the Lord." He is a pilgrim and a stranger,
just a sojourner (Heb. zL, 9); hence the
tent is sufficient. He lives with God, atod
hence the altar. His whole life, when in
fellowship with God, might be designated
"the tent and altar."
9. "And Abramjourneyed, going on still
toward the south. Because of a famine he
goes into Egypt, but this is evidently a misstep.
for we read of no altar in Egypt, and
not until he gets back to Bethel, where he
again calls on the name of the Lord (zlll., 3,
4). We might with profit take the phrase in
this verse?going on still?and make it a
good daily motto, provided we avoid all going
down to Egypt. Put it with II Sam. v.,
10, "David went on and grew great (margin,
going and growing), and the Lord God of
Hosts was with him," and it will be very
helpful?Lesson Helper.
An u.ra or uriuge Ltiuiaing.
The present seems to be an era of big
bridge building in both this and foreign
countries. The bridge across the Mersey at
Liverpool 'o to consist of tni-ee arched suspension
spaaa of 1150 feet. ISO feet abova
high water, with railway tracks. It is proposed
to bridge the Bosphorous at Constantinople
by a structure8645 feet lonu.
The channel bridge between England and
v~an,.n na ut rirvqpiif nronosed will consist
of seventy-three spans alternately 1300 and
1025 feet in length with a clear headway of
175 feet.
Two bridges have ju?t been completed
across the North Sea and Baltic Canal with
1500 feet spaua carrying railway tracks, roadway
and loot paths.
lu this country the new East River bridge
at New York, as projected, will have a spaa
of 1C70 feet, a total length of 3200 feet, a
clearance of 140 teet, and will carry four
railroad tracks. The North River tiridge
as provided for by a recent bill passed by the
House of Representatives is required to have
u clear waterway of 2000 feet and h. clearance
of 150 feet.
&csi Island Cotton.
Thn miifurn of Sfla island cotton on the
coast of Georgia aai South Carolina Is a
profitable Industry sad it seems to be growlnc*
The Savannah News has collected very full
data as to the present crop and finds it the
largest that has been produced. The News
places the crop at 52,000 bales, against 45,000
in 1802.
A New Secret Labor Organization.
The existence of a new secret National
labor organization was discovered at Lansing,
Mich., through a secret meeting of the
National Committee. The order was secretly
-founded in Chicago, December 27, by representative?
from thirty-seven States, and is
called the Ancient Order of Loyal Americans.
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V
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TEMPERANCE.
"licensed."
Licensed to make the strong m.in weak,
Licensed to lay the strong man low ;
Licensed the wife's fond heart to break,
And make the childrsn's tears to flow.
Licensed to do thv neighbor harm.
Licensed to kindle hate and strife;
Licensed to nerve the robber's arm.
Licensed to whet the murderer's knife.
Licensed thy neighbor's purse to drain,
Ajid rob him of his very best;
Licensed to heat hid feverish brain.
Till madness crown thy work at last.
Licensed, like spider for a fly,
To spread thy nets for men, thy prey;
To mock his struggles, suck him dry,
Then cast the shattered hulk away.
Licensed, where peace and quiet dwell
To bring disease, and want, and woe;
Licensed to make this world a hell:
And flt man for a hell below.
P0I80NED WITHOUT KNOWING IT.
Sir William Gull, the eminent docto
says: '"A very large number of people
society are dying day by day, poisoned 1
alcoholic drinks without knowing it, wit
out being supposed to be poisoned by the:
I hardly know any more powerful source
disease than alcoholic drinks. I do n
think it is known, but I know alcohol to be
most destructive poison. I say, from n
experience, that it is the moat destructh
agent that we are aware of in this country,
BAB-BOOM VS. FAMILY FIBE8IDZ.
From some strange perversity, which
would puzzle a metaphysician to accoui
for, thousands of young men would rnthi
spend their evenings in bar-rooms than i
the society of cultivated young women i
their own age. We can more readily coi
ceive of an Esquimau preferring train-c
and tallow candles to turtle soup and sprii
chickens, than that a young American gei
tleman should forego the society ofhissiste
and their female friends in order to drir
unwholesome liquor in a crowded room an
contribute his quantum of iil-flavored vapi
to the smoke-cloud which befogs such haun
of dissipation. But so it is.
Any citizen who has nerve enough to ris
suffocation by making a visit to a doz<
fashionable saloons on any given night wi
see, if the fumes be not too thick for his vi
ion to penetrate, numbers of young mt
wit'ain his own circle of acquaintance?ea<
one of whom has a cheerful home to go t
and to whom many other pleasant homes a
open?doing their best to stupefy the
brains with alcohol and cigars. Such brigl
youths, perchance, may think it manly 1
congregate in bar-rooms to puff and swill,:
? preference to partaking of the refined, mor
iind intellectual pleasure which results fro
social contact with well educated, pur
minded young women; but we tell them, :
all kindness, that to compare them to "beas
without discourse of reason" would bedoii
them too much honor. Now evenings a
long, cheerful fires are blazing in the fami)
sitting-rooms of thousands of city home
The daughters will be there, sewing, knJ
ting, reading, chatting; but where will 1
the sons? Let truants answer this questic
by filling their heretofore vacant places 1
the family fireside and their mothers' ar
sisters' hearts with thankfulness and joy.
New York Ledger.
NOVEL CUBE FOB DBUXKENKESS.
"Thirteen years ago," said a well-kno*
gentleman of Waycrosa, Ga., "I was wor
$20,000. The money was inherited from i
uncle. I was as poor as a church mousa b
fore the legacy came, and when it did con
It fiimnrl mv h?ad I heron drinkiniz mo
erately at home and took occasional spre
in neighboring towns. It was not long b
fore I was a slave to djink. Every week
was on a spree. For sir years I paid no ?
tention to business, lost everything and w
a confirmed drunkard. One night, aft
having been on a long spree in a town ne
home. I lay down on the sidewalk in fro
of a store and was soon fast asleep. I w
helpless and could not speak. After awhi
I heard some 003*3 talkinz. They said th
would give me a free ride. Shortly afterwn
a hogshead was rolled up to where I wc
The head way knocked out. The boys p
me in the hogshead by lorce. I was help ft
and would not speak. After nailing the hw
back in the hogshead the boys rolled meov
town. I was carried at a fast speed ov
gulleys, bridges and stumps. The joltii
was terrible, and I was braised all over. F
only an hour the rolling was kept up. I
nally I grew sober and called for help. Th
the boys removed the head from the hot
head and left me. I did not know that
could get out and remained in the hogsbe
all night. Next morniixg I saw the sun r
ing and a crowd gathered around me. I w
sore all over and could not bear to move,
was sober and ashamed of myself. I ask
the people to help me out of the hogshec
They did so and I stood before them with
determination that I would never dri
again. I said: 'Gentlemen, I promise y
that I will never get drunk again.' I ha
kept that promise and often think of 1
strange experience in a hogshead."
DBIXK AKD DESTITUTION.
Commenting upon the great distress ai
destitution now prevalent in the mining di
trict of northern Michigan, the Chicago Ti
buna says:
"Last year the saloon-keepers of Iri
Mountain, Mich., paid $80,000 ta the8ta
for licenses and more than $50,000 as re
for their places of "business." This in
"city" the population of which was but 86
at the date of tbe last census ana cann
sinco have much exceeded 10,000. the tot
vote Cftst there a year ago being 1774. 8u
posing the number of adult males to
double the number of voters, eaoh of the
contributed on an average $23 last year
pay saloon rents and licenses alone, besld
what It cost the keepers for liquors, ligbtin
and attendance, and the sums they put by i
net profits after meeting all the expenses
the business.
"That statement explains a large part
the story of dire destitution that comes fro
Iron Mountain, and doubtless similar co
ditions have existed at several other poln
in the now poverty-stricken iron ore district
While the mines were being operated active
the miners earned good wages and spe.
them lavishly on strong drink. Now tbi
and their families are menaced with starv
tion unless the charitable come to their aid
T!U? rrritKVirtM /.hnW
JLUO X L ll/ll UC nuuiu nnuuv?u vuuk*
la this time of sore need, especially from tl
women and children, but thinksitathousai
pities^thatthe liquor-sellers who have fatteni
upon the wages of the men cannot be ma<
to disgorge, and that
"It is a burning shame that the relief mu
come out of the savings of many men ar
women who now would have nothing to gi<
had they been equally rickless in the past i
were the iron miners on tho Upper Feni,
sula."
But the saloon-keepers of Iron Mounta
were doing a "legitimate" business, ai
paid the State of Michigan $30,000 for the
licenses. It is indeed a "burning shami
that the temperate and prudent are no
obliged, for humanity's sake, to take fro
their own savings money for the relief of tl
destitution for which the drink waste is i
largely responsible. But it is part of tl
outcome of the license system, which
prolific of kindred results wherever it o
tains.?National Temperance Advocate,
TESTTEBAN'CE NEWS AND NOTES.
The toper devotes himself to one absorbii
topic, and that is himself.
The moderate drinker is one of the be
helpers the devil has on earth.
Women aro employed at railway switch*
and crossings in Italy becauso they ke<
sober.
Whenever you see a drunken man it oup;
to remind you that every boy in the world
in danger.
The devil has both arms around the mj
who feels conlldent that moderate drink.li
won't hurt him.
If the money spent every3-ear in this cou
j try on drink were given to a person in ;
gold pieces, he might walk round the wor
at the equator and drop three at every ste
and then only just exhaust the supply.
Some of the adulterations found iu be
are cocculus indicus, capclcum. ging?
j quassia, wormwooa, uaittuius rwi, uuum
and coriander seeds, copperas, sulpbui
acid, cream of tartar, alum, carbonate
potash, ground oyster shells, nux vomiu
plcrotum and strychnine.
Says Frances Willard: "I oncc as!:
Thomas A. Edison if he were a total abstai
er, and when he told me that he was I sal
May I inquire whether it was home infl
ence that made you so?' and he replied,
I think it was because I always foil that I hi
better use for my head.' "
1 iV. - - T-r
RELIGIOUS BEADING.
HOW IT BEGAN.
InHlltAll von hnnr hiiH *inH hlichted llvas
begin?the life of the deplorable drunkard,
the life of the degraded wife-beat^r, the life
of the harlot and the felon, the life of which
the so-called home is as the lair of wild
beasts; the life which hides itself in the cell
of the lunatic and in the grave of the suicide.
Many a million of such lives seemed as fair
and bright in promise a3 that of any young
boy here. See thsm young and happy in the
day-school or the Sunday-school, clothed, as
it were, and in their right mind?then
looked on twenty, thirty, forty years.
This blighted, loaflng, disgraced, bleareyed
man; this bent thing of
uselessnea? and scorn who will soon die of
delirium tremens and be huddled into a pauper's
grave, is he that once bright laughing,
promising boy? Yes, he is. Look on this
picture and on that! What has made the
frightful difference? How did it begin? It
began in the boy thinking himself too much
a man to love, honor, and obey his parents
any more. It began in forsaking the guide of
his youth and forgetting the covenant of
(r> his God. It began in bad companionship,
in corrupting goOd manners. It began in
>y broken Sabbath days and turning the back
b" on holy communion, and neglecting the worn*
ship of the church of God. It began ty walking
in the way of the ungodly.standing in the
ot way of sinners, sitting in the seat of the
,a scornful. It begau when he went like a fine
>y young fool, to be "treated'1 or to stand
"treat" in vile drink at the public houses.
It began in the twilight, in the evening, in
the dark night, when the young fool in his
. desperate simplicity, led bySntan, went as
' an ox to the slaughter, as a fool to the cor"
rection of the stocks, till a dart struck
" him through his own liver and,
In the midst of that nasty company
? which ho now hasjoined, of which he now is
."j one he discovers in shame and remediless hor'
ror--afterward too late in the ruins of his life
?he discovers that the dead are there,and her
guests in the depths of hell. Ah, my dear
r? young people, one and all of you, may the
^ grace of God make you more happy and
!~ more timely wise! And that it may do so,
^ "Remember now thy Creator in the days of
thy youth, while the evil days come nor, nor
k the years draw nigh, in which thoushall say,
'I have no pleasure in them.' "?[Archdeacon
jj Farrar.
sm
THE MIDWEEK PRA.TE2-1IEETINQ.
jj1 Dr. John Tincent writes forcibly of tho
prayer-meeting in an article for the Treasury.
jti lie declares that the pray-meetlng may be In
j~ the popular thought too much a time, a placo
" and a thing to which we are summoned by
i the regular ringing of bells, and in which we
i are in peril of monotony and mechanics. We
al may depend too much on the "singing," the
ra -'people," the "interest," and the set "pray.e"
ers," so often liturgical, although unwntten.
'n We may go simply because we ought. We
ts may take credit to ourselves for going?almost
as the knowledge of penance done works
peace within. Oh, when shall the church
'5* bell call us to a higher order of spiritual serif
vice!"
,l" The prayer-meeting is a spiritual opportu)e
nity. It is for spiritual edification and for
spiritual worship. What the prayer-meeting
3 J needs is faith in the realities; Keen, penetrat_
tng, ethical conviction; religious desire with
conscience in it; a sense of sin and a burning
desire to get rid of it; a sight of holiness and
an overwhelming, insatiate longing to posm
sess iL This faitn, this conviction, this deth
sire and longing, mu6t be the fruits,the truths
.n of the Holv ScriDture annrehended, pondered,
e- accepted, appropriated, Then prayer is born
no ? true prayer, fervent prayer.
d- Out of such spiritual service comes conslstes
ent living. The atmosphere of the world is
filled for us with spiritual power. Habits,
I choices, aspirations, trend of soul come unit
der the spell of this Scriptural'life. It may
us not yield perpetual rapture, but it gives perei
petual peace. It touches every hour of every
ar day of every week the long years through.
nt
as
He A DISOUSTED DUO'KAED.
rij One woman determined that her husband
ls should know how he looked when he was
ui drunk. She knew how he looked, well
jgs enough, and needed not that any man should
:l(j tell her. Her children also knew by sad exer
perience, but the man himself had a very imei
perfect idea of the state of his case. So once
Qfi when he came home and fell into a maudlin
or slumbershe sent forthephotographerto come
p|. forthwith; and on his arrival she set him to
sn work. She ordered the photographer to phorg.
tograph her husband as he sat in his chair.
j The photographer did his work and did it
ad well; and when the photograph was fin; shed
IS. and laid beside the husband's plate at hreakag
fast it was a revelation, and the sobered
j gentleman experienced a decidedly new senetj
sation. There was no need or explanation;
t(3. the thing explained itself. There was no
chance for contradiction: the sun tells no lies.
Qb There was no room for argument. There
ou was only one thing to do, and that was to
Vf quit: and it is very fortunate that the man
had courage and sense enough to do
it.?[Selected.
BE PEBFECT.
j"* My faith in perfection is very weak when 1
look at others: it is extinguished altogether
when I look at myself. But when I look at
Jesus I can believe in nothing else. He is
perfect in all His works, and no other aim
than this can ever satisfy Him. The work
* which He has undertaken to do for us would
* "' ?*" '' iL onvirhorfl
?? not Dear Jtiis stamp n owujiL.cn*
"V short of perfection; and for such a vast expenditure
and cost I dare not think ol
anything less than this. Be perfect
P~ Here it is that my faith in holiness an<
JJ? my hope for it begin to live, and I seo Hiu
as I linger in His presence and sit at Hi)
feet When He cometh, what limit shall I se
XT to His grace? What failing shall he tolerate'
*! What sin shall baffle his skill? 80, a3 I starn
. looking up that slippery height, wonderinj
how its submit is to be reached, He comet!
. with gracious words: My child, fear not
That which thou seekest is not in thy climb
~~ ing up: its in My climbing down. Be perfect
?" ?Rev. M. Guy Tearse.
8.
From the Christian, of London, we mak<
5y the following extract which we regard aj
a- most excellent advice for teachers of childrer
in our Bible schools: "Common-sense teache<
ty that the time has gone by for mere seculai
ie educatiun in our Sunday schools, but how
? *r*4f h Jmnnr+inff nflf.
Id muny t'uuicui mcui^rnco ????.?* tui{/>?u<Mn
?d ticulars about the Word of God, .and forgei
ie that the chief work is to introduce the chil
dren to Jesus. Let us preach Jesus Christ as
st Lord; that truth suits the child as well as tht
kI man. Make clear to the child what sin is
i-o that he is lost, and so lost that Christ onlj
[ig could find him; that God intended him to b?
a- his temple, but sin ha? defiled and alienated
him from the life of God; point him to Jesus
in who died that he might live, and do no)
id until, Chrirt is formed in him th<
iir hope 'of glory. This position must b<
5" mastered first. As a rule it is the most irk'
w some, but it is most profitable. Child teach
m ing is a work more for the heart than for the
ie head."
30
Je A hermit in America once told me, when ]
asked him whether he found that way of lif<
had lessened his temptations. "Dost thou not
know, iriend."said he. "that a tree.tha
grows by itself is more exposed to winds an<
storms than another that stands surrounde<
with other trees in the woods?"?[Georgi
Whitfield.
Bt A soul which sincerely longs after Got
never considers whether a thing be small o
is great; it is enough to know that He fo
jp whom it is done is infinitely great; that it ii
His due to have all creation solely devoted ti
ht His glory, which can only be by fulfilling Hi:
is will.?[Fenelon.
in God sees to it that some of the salt of thi
ig earth is always put where the world is mos
corrupt.
A Deadly List.
The Brooklyn trolley cars killed another
p' victim, a little girl of sis years, the other
day. This brings the list of trolley killings
or in that city up to forty-six for twelve months.
r. almost one a week. It is said that the city is
?y greatly worked up over the ghastly showing,
and the people promise to flud some way of
of demonstratfng the popular indignation. Be*
a, jStiJea the forty-six Killed. 12/ nav? reeeivea
Serious injuries, and a great many more
ed liave been slightly hurt.
nd,
rooriy-equippert Immigrants.
0, Or 11,000 immigrants arriving at NewTork
ftd In December 2445 could not read or write,
and 4476 had no trade or profession.
%
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PBOMfflENT PEOPLE.
Quzkn Yiotobxa is growing feeble.
John J. Incjalls, the Kansas orator, is as
even sixty.
The King of Slam has sent his eldest son tot
Oxford College, England.
Ignatitts Donnelly has been elected Pre*
iuoui ui iuo aiiuucovw xtuiuuio a^uauvo,
sena.tob Hdxton, oI Virginia, is now in
bis seventy-second year, bat Is a strong andT
active man.
The Prince ol Wales is said to be growing;
really handsome as he becomes grayer, gray*
and thinner.
SioHoa Giolitti, an Italian Deputy, wants i
to straighten the National finances of that
country by imposing a tax on beards.
Ma yob Johx P. Hopkins, of Chicago, Is the
twenty-ninth to occupy the office. Fourteen/
of the twenty-nine were born in the State ot
New York. (
Edgar A. Pox was the contemporary and
personal associate in early life of Thoma*
Dunn English, now a member of Congrea#
from the State of New Jersey.
William M. Chase, the famous American:
painter, is one of the most expert pistol shots
in the world. Some of his scores are still
preserved in the Paris shooting galleries. i
Johann Stbacss, composer of the "Beantf-'
ful Blue Danube," is a sickly old nuw, bent
with rheumatism and tortured wltn tne gout.)
He lives In Alt Wien, the historic put of , / >
Vienna. (
Dr. Jasow Brows, of Sheboygan, Mich.?
hae translated his valuable work, "Turnips Xil
as a Disease Producer," Into Swedish, fo*
i which he has received a decoration from the
Sing of Sweden and Norway. i
Edwabd Atxinsok, sneaking of the Equity
Union in Boston recently, declared Cornelhw
Yanderbllt to be the most useful man who*
ever lived In New York. He said the work
of the capitalist was work of the hardest kindj
Thebe are numerous instances where sons.
have succceded their fathers in the House of;
Representatives, but only twice, it is said, la
the cases of Thomas F. Bayard and Donald
Cameron, have they sucoeeded their father#
in the Senate.
Alfred Phtchot is the first American Ur
be graduated at a school of forestry and to
take up forestry as a profession. He is th? V
consulting forester on the estate of George
W. Yanderbllt in the North Carolina mourntains,
and has published a pamphlet
The familv of the late Mayor Carter Harrison,
of Chjpago, has placed an order for* jj
Barre (Tt.) granite monument for the dead
mayor. The spire of the monument is forty
feet high, of dark stock, and the only pollw
is on the letters.
Edwabd Dunbab, the author of the hymn,
"There's a Light in the Window for The?,
Brother." died a few days ago In the jail at
Coffeyville, Kan., where he had applied lot
lodging as a tramp. Dunbar was once a
noted evangelist, but his oareerwaa cut short ;
by a term in the Minnesota State Prison for
bigamy. 5.
THE LABOR WOBLD.
Thebe are 311 molders' unions.
Boston reports 90,000 unemployed.
Belgium has 20,000 miners on strike. r
Ptttsbubo has 8000 Knights of Labor.
IT i/iQTvva fliHitan aVirtHuh liniwnlftkM.'
Maxchzstbb, N. ZL, has 14,000 textile
workers.
Sa.it Jose (CaL) employers will dispense
with Chinese.
The Sioillian sulphur deposits employ
18,000 miners.
Ik eighteen States ten hoars is the legal
day for children. ?
The be is a great scarcity of domestio ser- :* ?
rants in New York City.
Loooebs at Marshfleld, Wis., are hampered <r^
by twenty inches of snow.
A cssscs of the unemployed shows 83,009
men out of work in Colorado.
Half the country window glass factorial . fgj
tre getting ready for complete operations.
Secretary op Stats 0sB0B*,0f Kansas,declares
two hours should constitute a day's
work. ' ><?
Mill dividends at Fall River, Mass., (dl|
the last quarter, show good average returns.
Five-cext restaurants are being established
in New York lor the benefit of the suffering
unemployed. 'Six
THonaASD men and women employed:
as clerks in various mercantile eetabilflbments
of Chicago have been discharged. i ' ' ; !i}
Colored men have been imported to Lfnton,
Ind., to take the places of white strife*
Lag miners. They are to receive f L50 a day.
Philadelphia engineers protest against .
members of the craft working, in some cases.
over sixty days a month, while other good
men only manage to secure from eight to fifteen
days' work.
Eioht-hour-dat experiments at Woolwich.
Arsenal have been satisfactory and 18,000
"men employed in British War Department
factories will get as much pay as they formerly
got for working nine hours and a hall, :
The women employed In the American!
watch factory in Waltham, Maes., haref
signed a petition which is to be presented to:
1 the managers of the company asking that no
further cut be made in the wages of the mon^
their fellow employes.
SIX SAILORS DROWNED.
1 They Were Being Rowed to Their
1 Ship in Baltimore Harbor.
I Six men were drowned in the harbor at
? Baltimore, Md., owing to the gale's vtol
lence. The names of the drowned men are!
J Neel Finlayson, William H. Nelson, Robert
i J. Wilson, John Hughes, and an unknown
I sailor of the British steamer Mareca, and
Patar flafrunalrt o. Thr?? m*n
were rescued by the crew of the police boat
Lannon.
With the exception of Safranski, the men
belonged to the British steamer Mareca. At
about *2 o'clock, a. m., the eight sailors employed
the ferryman to row them from the
foot of Broadway over to the vessel. The
wind was blowing fiercely, and the boat wan
swamped before it had gone 500 yards. The
cries of the drowning men was heard on
board the Lannon,and its searchlight revealed
the struggling men in the freezing waters.
One of the Lannon's boats was immediately
launched, but before it teached the spot six ,
of the men had disappeared. In attempting
the rescue of the remaining three men the
boat was swamped, throwing Lieutenant
Napier and his two men into the water.
Grasping the exhausted sailors, Napier
and his men supported them until their lusty
yells brought help. A boat from the Mareca.
manned by six sailors, came none too
soon. The benumbed men were drawn into
tho boat and hastily conveyed to the hospital.
All the drowned seamen belonged to
tngiaau.
; ACCIDENT IN CUBA.
J A Cow on the Track Causes the Death
j of Sixteen Persons.
1 A frightful accident has occurred cn tha
3 Timina-Matanzas Railway at a point eight
miles from Cumanayagua, in the province of
j Matanzas, Cuba. A passenger train was gor
lng at good speed, when it ran into a cow
t that had walked suddenly on the traok.
a One of the cars was thrown two hundred
i yards off the track. The engine was de
railed and several of the cars were piled up
on each other. Help was at once sent to the
scene of the disaster. Sixteen persons wero
, taken out of the wreck dead. Nine others
j were badly wounded. .
ROASTED TO DEATH. i
J
A Mother and Two Daughters Burned
in Their Sleeping Room. , <
Mrs. Fred Houston and her two daughters
met a horrible death at their homo at MiUa,
sixteen miles west ot Barbourville, Ky.'
The husband, Trad Houston, had a general
store at Mills, and lived with his family ia
the second story. A few hours before daybreak,
while all were asleep., fire broke oof,
and when the family awoke the lower part
of the building was in flames.
Mr. Houston and his son escaped with difficulty,
but Mrs. Houston and her tw??
daughters were burned to death.
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