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W k f # ..*=== I REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINES SUNDAY SERMON. Subject: "Palaces In India." ky'-, ; Tirr: "Who store ud violence and robbery In tbeir palaces."?Amos ilL, 10. Pin this day. when vast sums ot money are being given for the redemption of In-dia. I hope to increase the interest in that! great country and at the same time draw1 \ tor all classes of our people practical les sans, ana so i present iais uua acruiuu m the round the world series. We step Into the ancient capital of India, the mere pronunciation or its name sending a thrill through the body, mind and soul of all those who have ever read its stories of k V splendor and disaster and prowess?Delhi. V? Before the tirst historian impressed his first Word in clay, or cut his first word on marble, or wrote his first word on papyrus, Delhi stood in India, a contemporary of Babylon and Nineveh. We know that Delhi existed longer before Christ's time than we live after His time. Delhi is built on the ruins of seven cities, which ruins cover forty mllei, with wrecked temples, broken fortresses,.split tombs, tumble down palaces , and the debris of centuries. An archaeologist " could profitably spend his life here talking with the past through its lips of venerable masonry. There are a hundred things here you f ought to see in this city of Delhi, but three . things vou must see. The first thing I want' ed to see was the Cashmere gate, for that . was the point at which the most wonderful deed of daring which the world has ever 89?n was done. That was the turning point of the mutiny of 1857. A lady at Delhi put ??. Into my hand an oil painting of about elght. een inches square, a picture well executed,' ' feuj chiefly valuable for what it repre-j ? seated. It was a soene from the time of mutiny -T two horses at full run, bar, . nessed to a carriage In whioh were four t persons. She said: "Those persons on the Iront side are my father and mother. The young lady on the back seat holding in her arms a baby of a year was my older sister, and the baby was myself. Mv mother, who is down with a | fever In tab next room, painted that, retire ago. The horses are in fall ran because" we are fleeing for oar lives. My mother is driving, for the reason that father, . standing up in the front of his oarriage, had to defend as with his gun, as 70a there see. He fought oar way out aud on for many a mite, shooting down the sepoyB as we went. < We bad somewhat suspected trouble and had become suspicious of our servants. A' prince bad requested a private Interview, with my father, who was editor of the g&$3X)elbi Gazette. The pzlnoe proposed to come veiled, so that no one might reoognize him, but my mother insisted on being , present, and the interview did not take place. A large fish had been sent to oar family and four other families, the present an offering of thanks for the King's recovery V from a recent sickness. But we suspected poison and did not eat the fish. "One day all our servants came up and said U they must go and see what was the matter, j We saw what was intended and knew that if> the servants returned they would murder all: of us. Things grew worse and worse until ,. this scene of flight shown you In the picture took place. You see, the horses were wild with fright. This was not only because of the discharge of guns, bat the horses were J; . -- struck and pounaed by sepoys, and ropes were tied aerow the way, and the savage halloo and the shout of revenge made all the A way of oar flight a horror." The books nave folly recorded the heroIsm displayed at Delhi and approximate ?? wianKnn nt thla fnm U1H UV IIIUMMYM V* rr- ; fly of wagentrelbers whose flight I am mentioning. Bat the Madras Atheneum printed this: "And now t Are not the deeds ot the Wagentreibera, though he wore a round hat and . y.v she a crinoline, as worthy of Imperishable vexse as those of the heroio pair whose nuptials graced the oourt of Onarlemagne? A ' more touching picture than that of the! brave man contending with well nerved arm against the black and threatening late impending over his wife and child we have never seen. Here was no strife for the glory of physical prowess or the spoil ot ahlnlng arms, but a conquest ot the human mind, an assertion of the powers ot lntelleot over the most appalling array of clrcumatancesthat ooula assail a human being. Ken have become gray in front ot sudden and unexpected peril, ana in ancient days so jAuch was courage a matter of heroio and mere instinct that we read in immortal verse of heroes struck with panic and fleeing before the enemy. But the savage sepoys, with their hoarse warory and warming like wasps around the Wagentrlebers, struck no terror into the brave a: man's heart. His heroism was not the mere obullition of despair, bat, like that of his wife, oalm and wise?standing upright that be might use his arms better." A3 an incident wm sometimes more impress one than a generality of statement, I Kaent the flight of this one family from lhl merely to illustrate the desperation of : V the times. The fact was that the sepoys had taken possession of the sitv of Delhi, and they were, with all their artillery, fighting back the European* who were on the outaide and murdering all the Europeans who were inside. The city of Delhi has a , crenulated wall on three sides, a wall Are and a half miles long,and the fourth side ol the city Is defended by the Elver Jumna. In addition to these two defenses of wall and water there were 40,000 sepoys, *11 armed. Twelve hundred British soldiers were to v take that city. Nicholson, the Immortal General, commanded them, and you must visit his grave before you leave Delhi. He fell leading his troops. He commanded ? them even after being mortally wounded. You will read this inscription on his tomb: J"John Nicholson, who led the assault of Delhi, but fell In the hour of victory, mortally wounded, and died 23d September, 1867. aged thirty-five yeara." With what guns and men General Nicholson could muster he had laid siege to this walled city filled with dSvils. What fearful nriric I TwaIva hnnrirAil Drlttah frnnm nn covered by ?ny military works, to take a city surrounded by firm and high masonry, on tbe top of which were 114 guns and defended by 10,000 foaming sepoys. A larger percentage of troops fell here than In any great battle I happen to know or. The Crimean percentage of the fallen was 17.48, bat tbe percentage of Delhi ?as 87.9. Yet that city most be taken, and It can only be taken by saoh courage as had never been recorded In all the annals of bloodshed. Erery charge of tbe British regiments against thi wslls and gates had been beaten baok. The hyenqa of Hindootem and Mohammedanism bowled over the walls, and the English army could do nothing bat bury their own dead. Bat at this gate! stand and watch - an exploit that makes the page of history ~ tremble with agitation. Tbiscity has ten-gates, bat the most famous is the one. before whioh we now stand, j j*. j. v * Odd U uu uiuuiutJia gaic . nino ma words tr'ni. Ink because of the carnage. Write them In letters of light for the illustrious deeds. Write them In letters of black for the bereft and the dead. Will the world erer forget that Cashmere gate? Lieutenants Salkeld and Home and Sergeants Burgess, Oarmlchael and Smith offered to take bags or powder to tbe foot of that gate and act them on fire, blowing open the gate, although they most die In doing It There they go Just after sunrise, each one carrying a sack containing twenty-four pounds of powder, and doing this under the fire of the anemy. Lieutenant Home wan the first to jump Into tbe ditch, which still remains before the gate. As they go, one by one falls under the shot and shell. One of the mortally wounded as be falls bands his sack of powder with a box of Inciter matches to another, telling him to fire the sack, when, with an explosion that shook the earth for twenty miles around, part of the Cashmere gate was blown Into fragments, and the bodies of some of these heroes^ were so scattered they were never garnered ior raueral or grave or monument. Tbe British army rushed In through the broken gate, and although six days of hard fighting were necessary before the city was Jin complete possession the crisis was past. The Cashpere gate open, the capture of Delhi and all it contained of palaoes and mosques and treasures was possible. t; Lord Napier, of Magdala, of whom Mr. enadstone spoke to me so affectionately when I was his guest at Hawarden, England, jbaa lifted a monument near (this Cashmere Rate, with the names of the men who there ieJl inscribed thereon. That English lord, (who had seen courage on many a battlefield, visited this Cashmere gate and felt that th? men who opened it with the loss ol their own 'lives ought to be commemorated, and hence this cenotaph. But, aftei all, the best mozmment Is tne gate itself, with the deep gouges In the brick wall on the left side made by two bombshells, and the wall above torn by ten bombshells, and the wall on the right sldo defaced and scraped and plowed and gullied by all styles of long reaching weaponry. Let the words '* Cashmere Kate." as a synonym for pat rlotism and fearlessness and self sacrifice, go into all history, all art, all literature, all time, all eternity! My friends, that kind of courage sanctified will yet take the whole earth for God. Indeed, the missionaries now at Delhi, tolling amla heathenism and fever and cholera, and far away from home and comfort,.and staying there until they drop into their graves, are just as brave in taking Delhi for Ohrist as wers--^ Nicholson and Home and Carmlohael in taking Delhi for Great Britain. Take this for the first sermonlc lesson. Another thing you must see if you go to Delhi, though you leave many things unseen, is the palaoe of the moguls. It Is an inolosure 1000 yards by 500. You enter through a vaulted hall nearly 400 leet long. Floors of Florentine mosaic and walls once emeralded and sapphlred and oarbuncled and diamonded. I said to the guide, "Show us where onoe stood the peaoook throne." "Here it was," he responded, All the thrones of the earth put together would not equal that for oostllness and brilliance. it naa steps 01 stiver, ana tau seat uuu arms were of solid gold. It cost about $150,000,000. It stood between two peacocks, the feathers and plumes of which were fashioned out of colored stones. Above the throne was a life size parrot cut out of one em* irald. Above all was a canopy resting on twelve columns of gold, the canopy fringed crlth pearls. Seated here, the emperor ju publlo occasions wore a crown oon;alnfng, among other things, the Eohinoor itamond, and the entire blaze of coronet lost $10,350,000. This suDerb and once al- ' liost Bupematuraily beautiful room has imbedded in the white marble wall letters of Mack marble, which were translated to me trom Persian into English as meaning; If on the earth there be an Eden of bliss, That place Is this, is this, is this, is this. But the peacocks that stood beside the i throne bave flown away, taking all the dls- i olay with them, and those white marble doors were reddened with slaughter, and 1 those bathrooms ran with blood, and that 1 Eden of which the Persian couplet on the J walls spake has had its flowers wither and < its fruits decay, and I thought while look- J tag at the brilliant desolation and standing ! amid the vanished glories of that throne- j room that some one had better ohange a < little that Persian oonDlet on the wall and make it read: If there be a place where muoh you miss, That plaoe is this, is this, is this, is this. As I came out of the palace into the street i of Delhi, I thought to myself paradises are < not built out of stone; are not cut In sculpture ; are not painted on walls; are not fasn- ' (oiled out of precious stones; do not spray the eheek with fountains; do not offer thrones | or crowns. Paradises are built ont of natures uplifted and ennobled, and what f architect's compass may not sweep, and I sculptor's chisel may not cut, and painter's , pencil may not sketch, and gardener's skill < may not lay out the grace of God can aohieve. ana if the heart be right all is right, < and if the heart bt wrong all is wrong. Here j endeth the second lesson, * ( But I will not yet allow you to leave Delhi. . The third thing you must see, or never admit ' that you have been in India, is the mosque i called Iumma Musjid. It is the grandest \ mosque I ever saw exoept St. Sophia at Oon- ' itantlnople, but it surpasses that in some respects, for St. Sophia was originally a PhHaiUn nhnmhftnd nhftntrftd into a moaaue. 1 while this of Delhi was originally built lor the Moslems. As I entered 1000 or more Mohammedans were prostrated In worship. There are times when 5000 may be seen here In the same attitude. Each stone ot the floor Is three feet long by one and a bait wide, and each worshiper has one of these slabs tor himself while kneeling. The erection of , this building required 6000 laborers for six years. What a built up Immensity ot white marble and red sandstone I We descended the forty marble steps by which we ascended and took another look at this wonder of the . world. As I thought what a brain the architect . must have had who flrot built that mosque i In his own imagination, and as I thought , what an opttlent ruler that must have been who gave the order for suohvastness and symmetry, I was reminded of that which < perfectly explained all. The architect who planned this was the same man who planned the Taj?namely, Austin de Boraeau?and the king who ordered the mosqne constructed was the king who ordered the Taj?namely, Shah Jehan. As this grand mogul ordered built the most plendld palace lor tne aeaa wnen no built the Taj at Agra, he here ordered bnllt the most splen<?d palace ot worship for the living at Delhi. Bee here what sculpture and architecture can accomplish. They link together the centuries. They successfully defy time. Two hundred and eighty years ago Austin de Bordeau and Shah Jehan quit < this life, but their work lives and bids fair to stand until the continents crack open, and hemispheres go down, and this planet showBis other worlds with its ashes. 1 I rejoice In all theee big bulldings.whether dedicated to Mohammed or Brahma or Buddha or Confucius or Zoroaster, beoause as 3t. Sophia at Constantinople was a Christian shurcn changed into a mosque and will yet be changed back again, so all the mosques uad temples of superstition and sin will yet be turned into churohes. When India and Ceylon and China and Japan are ransomed, as we all believe they will be, their religious structures will all be converted into Christian asylums, and Christian schools, and Christian libraries, and Christian churches. Built at the expense of superstition and sln{ they will yet be dedicated CO me j-iora Aimigniy. nero onueiu iuo third lossc n. As that n'ght we took the rallrod train from the Delhi station and rolled out through the city now living oyer the vaster cities buried under this ancient capital, oities under cttles, and our traveling servant had unrolled our bed, which consisted ot a rug and two blankets and a pillow, and as we were worn out with the sightseeing of the day. and were roughly tossed on that uneven Indian railway, I soon /ell Into a troubled sleep, in which I saw and heard in a confused way the scenes and sounds of the mutiny of 1857, whloh at Delhi we had been recounting, and now the rattle of the train seemed to turn into the rattle of musketry, and now the light at the top ot the car deluded me with the Idea ot a burning city, and then the loud thump of the railroad brake was in dream mistaken for a booming battery, and the voices at the different stations made me think I heard the loud cheer of the British at the taking of the Cashmere gate, and as we rolled over bridges tne battles before Delhi seemed going on, ana as we went mrougn aarit tunnels I seemed to see thetomb of Humayun in which the King of Delhi was hidden, and In imy dreams I saw Lieutenant Benny ot khe artillery throwing shells which were banded to him, their Juses burning, and Campbell and Held and Hope Grant oovered with blood, and Nicholson falling while ral-' lying on the wall his waverinor troona. And I saw dead regiment fallen across dead regU ment, and heard the rataplan of the hoof* of Hodgson's horse, an d the dash of the Bengal artillery, ana the storming by the immortal fourth column, and the rougher the Indian railway became and the darker the night grew the more the soenes that I had been studying at Delhi came on me" like an incubus. But the morning began to look through the window of our jolting railcar, and the sunlight poured in on my pillow, and in my dreams I saw the bright colors of the English flag holBted over Delhi, where the green banner of the Moslem had waved, and the voices of the wounded and dying seemed to be exchanged for the voices that welcomed soldiers home again. And as the morning light gol brighter nnd brighter, and in my dream I mistook the belU at a station for a church bell hanging in a minaret, where a Mohammedan priest had mumbled his call to prayer, I seemed to hear a chant, whether by human or angelic voices in my dream I could not tell, but it who u uuulk auout "penue tuiu jgwu w*?? iw men." And as the speed of the rail train slackened the motion of the car became so easy as we rolled along the track that It seemed to me that all the distress and controversy and jolting and wars of the world" had oeased, and in my dream I thought wa had come to the time when "the ransomed o! the Lord shall return and come to Zlon with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." Halt here at what yon have never seen before, a depopulated city, the city .of Amber, India. The strange fact is that a ruler abandons 1 his palaces at Amber and moved to Jaipur, and all the Inhabitants of the oity followed. Except here and there a house in Amber occupied by a hermit, the city is as silent a population as Pompeii ot Herculaneum, but those cities were emptied by volcanic disaster, while this city of Amber. was vacated because Prince Joy 81ngh was told by a Hindoo priest that no city should be Inhabited more than 1000 years, and so the ruler 170 years ago moved out himself, and all his neonle moved with him. You visit Amber on the back ot an elephant. Permission obtained for yonr visit the day before at Jaipur, an elephant Is in waiting for you about six miles oat to take you up the steeps to Amber. You pas3 through the awfully quiet streets, all the feet that trod them in the days of their actlvim. 'cnno op ?ho.Irm. journey and the ttSfcesof busineafond gayetythat souhded amid these abodes having long ago uttered their lost syllable. You pass by a lake covering 600 aores, where the rajahs used to sail In their pleasure boats, but alligators now have full possession, and you come to the abandoned palace, whloh is an enohantment. No more picturesque place was ever chosen for the residence of a monarch. The fortress above looks down upon this palace, and the palace looks down upon a lake. This monarohlal abode may have had attractions when it was the home of royalty which have vanished, bat antiquity and the silence of many years and opportunity to tread where once you would not have been permitted to tread may be an addition quite equal to the subtraction. But wkat a solemn and stupendous thing Is an abandoned oityl While many ot the peoples of earth have no root for their head, here Is a whole eity of roofs rejeoted. The sand of the desert was sufflolenr excuse ior the dlsaopearanoe of Hellopoils. and the waters of the Mediterranean Sea for the engulfment of Tyre, and tLe lava of Mount Vesuvius for the obliteration of Herculaneum, but for the sake of nothing but a superstitious whim the city of Amber is abandoned forever. Oh, wondrous India I The olty of Amber Is only one of the marvels whioh compel the uplifted band of surprise fromjthe aav you enter India until you leave It. Its flora is so flamboyant, Its fauna bo monstrous and savage, Its ruins so suggestive, its Idolatry so horrible, its degradation so sickening, Its mineralogy so brilliant, Its splendors so uplifting, its architecture so old, so grand, so educational, so multipotent, that India will not be fully comprehended until science has made its last experiment, and exploration has ended Its last [ourney, and the library of the world's literature has closed Its last door, and Christianity has made its last achievement, and the slock of time has struok?its last hour. A Bullet* Proof Car. Invention is now at work to circnmrent the daring train robbers in the (Vest, the latest step in this direction being a ballet proof oar. It is supplied with cages designed ta 39 opened only from the outside, by a itation master, which are provided for ;he safe and the more valuable parcels, md the arrangement is such that if she robbers succeed in entering the jar they will be exposed to the fire' of the messenger from a bullet-proof compartment in eaoh end of the car, she messenger being also able to shoot ilong the sides of the car to protect the engineer or to prevent burglars &nd robbers from making an entry. The car has a double floor and double roof, and at each end is a messenger's compartment, from which he may shoot along the side of the car from outwardly-swinging sections provided with portholes, or through portholes in its end. At opposite sides of the car, adjoining' etch messerger's compartment, are strongly-formed barred compartments or cages, for the reoeption of safes, etc., each cage being reached by a door opening into the body portion of the car, and a passageway is left on one side of each cage from the messenger's room to the central portion of the car. This passageway is designed to be closed at each end by doors carried on the ends of a platform pivoted between the floors, the doors thus being simultaneously opened and closed, and the arr*TH7fimflnfc haincr snch that a robber gaining access to the centre of the car is liable to be shut in there or in the passageway by the messenger, the latter taking refnge in one of the end compartments, where he may fire through the portholes in the door upon the robber thus imprisoned. The passageway is also closad by an intermediate door having a lock on the side next to the messenger's room. The construction is designed to be rery simple and substantial, and yet not very expensive.?Boston Herald. Queer Tides of Holhow. The tides of Hoihow are, according to Consul Parker, of Kiungohow, aa hopeless a puzzle as ever. Though the customs authorities have now four years' records, there is absolutely no rule to be deduced therefrom. Tha tides outside the spit are regular enough, but those inside elude the wit of man to account for, and th? level of the water outside is positively said to be often several feet above that inside. There is a tidal creek near the Consul's house, over which he can rarely walk during the day in summer, but he had walked over it every day but two at 6 p. m. during the past two months?close of last year and beginning of this?a fact which of itself renders the inner tide question inexplicable. Perhaps the best explanation is that of a Chinese naval commander, who says that, owing to the conformation of the spit, it is impossible for tba water to flow into the mouth of the creek when the northeast wind blows and the tide is rising. That would appear to explain why, dnring the day, the winter tides are almost invariably low inside the spit, while during the night, when the wind usually drops, they have an average height. Perhaps also the blowing of the wind from the southwest direction explains why, during the typhoons of the end of September and the beginning of October, Hoihow was completely under water, and the tides were four feet above the highest ordinary mark; but the Consul is not able to say from what direction the wind was actually blowing when the floods took place? it appeared to blow from all quarter*. ?Indian Engineer. Chinese Bone Strippers Strike. A unique acquisition to the annals of labor troubles will be the strike which a Philadelphia undertaker now has on hand. Recently he secured a contract for the removal o( a number o' bodies from an old cemetery. Of the corpses there buried thirteen were Chinamen and, according to an Agreement made at the time of interment, these bodies were to be sent to China if ever exhumed. Lee Toy, mayor of Chinatown, furnished several Chinamen who agreed to dig up the bodleB, strip the bones and boil and bleaoh them for shipment tor $400. Thev began work, but at noon struck for $100 more. Their demand was granted and they returned to work. That night the pink parasol, which in the flowery kingdom is the symbol of social distinction, was again put over the charnel house and they demanded $100 more. The undertaker vows that he will put alien laborers at the job In the morning,while Mayor Toy is making strenuous efforts to raise tho oash, deolarlng that It Is a profanation for any bat a Chinaman to handle Ohlnoee bones. V LEIOffCOMBITTEB QUITS THE INVESTIGATION OF NEW YORK'S POLICE ENDS. The Sensational Closing Session?Superintendent Byrnes On the Stand ?Sends His Resignation to the Blayor?The Sources of His Fortune?Adjournment Sine Die. The Lexow Senatorial Committee has closed its investigation of the Police Department of New York City. Polioe Superliirgfrtigo* Byrnes, tho head of the Depart- j ment, w^stEfcs^hief witness of the last day,< | and, as the cllmai-of his testimony, the fol^i I lowing letter was madfr publio; it came an absolute surprise to tne Senators, to Mr. " Goffand to the audlenofl that packed the ooart room to Us utmost capacity: Polic* BiADQUAE'neas. 1 300 Mulberry street. > New Yobk Cxtt, December 18,18lt I Colonel W. L. Strong : Dear 8ir?I appreciate as iully as Bflymaa can the tremendous respon<uouitv tnat mil come upon tou when you assume the duties " % of Mayor and undertake the reform of tha various departments of the city government. I desire not to be an obstacle or an embatv rasssment to you In anything that you may propose to do with the Police Department. On the contrary, I wish to aid you in any way that I can. I assume that you are now considering what action you ought to take at the outset of your administration and what legislation will be required to make suoh action practical. I therefore now place in you hands my request to be retired from the post of Superintendent, to be used by you or not at any time after the 1st of January, us you see fit. And let me further say that you may be entirely free to command my services, advice and information at any time in regard to the affairs of the Police Department, with which I have been so long connected. Your obedient servant, Thoma.3 Byekks. Superintendent Byrnes in his testimony, admitted that the present condition of the Police Department of New York Olty Is bad, and that it is practically impossible to better it under the existing form of organization. He concluded his testimony by saying that he had been twice on the point of resigning from the position of Superintendent, but , that he would not allow himseli! to be forced . out. He felt no hesitation now in announc ing that he sent his resignation to Mayor ] Strong two weeks ago. 1 The Superintendent .'declared that," even < without the intervention of Dr. Parkhurst | and his society or the Lezow Committee, he j himself would have collected by this time , fully three-fifths of the evidence of police corruption that no\y stands publioly re- ( corded. He declared that his wealth amounts to $350,000, and defied any one to how that he bad come by one dollar of It i dishonestly. Tne bulk of his fortune, he , aid, had been made through investments , managed for him by prominent financiers, , principally Jay Gould, lor whom he had done favors. The testimony of Byrnes was in marked oontrast with that Qf Police Inspector Alexander S. Williams who was on the Btand POLICE IriBPECTOB ALESANDEB II. WILLIAM3. during the two dayB which preo >ded the day of adjournment. Williams was less frank. He simply entered a general denial. Inspector William G. McLaufhlln made a statement, attempting to acooant for his Sossession of property worth r,bout $100,30. He traced some of It tc lucky real estate speculations, and ascribed still more of it to his wife, who is in socie business, whose nature -he declines to rnveal unless advised to do so by counsel. Assistant United States District-Attorney Jobn O. Mott oame before tho committee seeking vindication. A chance was offered to him to deny the statements made by Louis 3. Streep, wno, on the hearsay testimony of . a green goods operator, accused Mr. Mott of official wrongdoing. Mr. Mctt's feelings overpowered him and swept him into an oratorical outbreak. Thereby he lo st his opportunity. J At the conclusion of Superintendent Byrnes's examination the investigation of the Police Department was ended. Senator Lerow introduced n resolution complimenting Clerk Boese, of the Superior Court, and all the attaches and sergeantsat-arms for their services. The Senators had previously presented to Mr. Boese a handsome gold-headed oane. On the motion of Mr. Goff the name of Pnllr>Amnn Do Gann wm added tothci rfwoln tion. De Gonn has been on doty at the door of the committee rooms. Mr. (toff complimented him aa being the first policeman with the courage to come forward to the witness ohalr and toll the whole truth. Senator Lexow said that formal resolutions thanking counsel had not yet been framed by the committee, but that they would be adopted at the proper time. He thanked Mr. Goff and his associates for their servloes, and also referred to the services rendered to the committee by the District-Attorney. Mr. Goff said that he and his associates wished to join In the recognition of the District-Attorney. Senator L.exow announced mat tne majority of the Board requested the Police Commissioners to grant Captain Creeden's appltoation for retirement. Senator O'Connor moved a complimentary resolution to the press, and then made way for Mr. Goff, who took the floor, and In Impressive style addressed the committee, making his formal oloslng address. When Mr. Go fit sat down there were cheers, and Senator Bradley, In the commotion, made a motion to present the witness chair ot. the court room to Dr. Porkhorst as a memento, wnen everybody laughed Senator Bradley joined in, and the motion was overlooked. Then Senator Lexow got up to make the closing address, whioh was short. He thanked Mr. Goff and Mr. Moss. "You have done a service as counsel to this committee," he said, "the like of whioh has never before been done by any counsel to any committee appointed by any State in this Union, or any country in the world. You have done it nobly, and you have the hearty thanks ot this committee, as you have the thanks of the people of this city and this State. What has been done by you has been dona with the full ac COta o[ Luis commiueo. duuuiu tuiy uun .blame you for what you have done, he must also blame this committee, for your work has its entire sympathy and support." He then closed th? session by announcing the adjournment of the committee wltnout day. When the Chairman's gavel fell for the last ttme a big cheer went through the court room. Then an excite!individual, who had been awaiting the opportunity, yelled: "God bless John Qoff and the Lexov? Committee 1" Atlanta Is Growing P.lg. The new City Dlrectorv irives the population of Atlanta, Ga., as 103,644. This count was obtained by a house-to-house canvass. The city's population ten years ago was 56,857. It hns doubled in a docade. The papler-ma'jhe oeiling of the Assembly Chamber at Albany, N. Y., wbioh was ?ut up to replace the craolted stone oeiling 11888 at a cost of $270,000, is gradually crumbling away and Is full of hoiea. TEMPERANCE. WHEBE THEBE's DBIXK T HEBE'S DiKOEB. Write It on the llqnor store, Write it oa the prison door, Write it oa the gin shop fine, Write, aye, write this truthful line, "Where there's drink there's d.inger." Write it on the workhouse gate, Wrlto it on t he school-boy's slate, Wrile it on the copybook, That the young may at it look, * . "Where there's drtnk there's danger.'" Write it on the churchyard mound. Where the drink-slain dead are found, Write it on the gallows high, Write it for all passers-by; driuk there's dingor." Wine li the source of the greatest evils among communities. It eaasea diseases, quaiTels. sedition, idleness. aversion to labor, and family disorders. It is a species of poison thut causes madness. It does not make a man die, but it degrades him lnio a brute. Men may preserve their health an 1 vigor without wine; with wine tE&yjttn the risk of losing their health and ruiningthpijr morals.?Fenelon REFORMING DBUNXABDS. JobnB. Gough used to say that nothing but tLi grace of God can thoroughly rudeem the druakard. Of himself he was wont to assert, "The grace of God has not removed my appetite for drink, but it has given mo the power to overcome that appetite." Nothing which effects the bodily naturo alone can htivo more than .t certain degree of efficiency. A man treatea merely as nu animal is likely to return to his wallowing. The hope of success lies ift treating him us one created in the image of Goa and making the appeal and applying the pressure to bis God-given faculties. < rOISONEBb-QENKBAXi. a mircaeu-year-uiu uoj in new lortt v>uj was Riven a glass of whisky by a woman, and soon after drinking It, tell in a drunken Jtupor and was carried in a lifeless state tc fi hospital, where after vigorous treatment by tho surgeons he recovered so as to be taken home to his parents. Our children are being poisoned by the wholesale. One ?lass of the poison is deadly. John Wesley, In referring to the dealers in alcoholic beverages, said: All who aell tbem in the common way to liny that will buy are poisoners-general, rhey murder His Majesty's subjects by wholesale; neither does their eye pity nor spare. They drive them to hell like sheep, md what Is their gain? Is it not the blood of these men??National Temperance Advocate. BUSINESS VIEW OF JIODEBS DBINKINO. A writer who is discussing the question of drinking and total abstinence from a practical business point of view, ignoring the moral and sentimental side, savs: LLe Insurance oompanies And the moderate drinker a more dangerous risk and his mortality greater, hence refuse to insure him at ordinary rates, or at all. Mercantile agencies find that business conducted by moderate drinkers Is more precarious and followed bv a greater number of failures, hence rutesuoh firms low as to responsibility. Ballroad companies find that accidents and lossoa increase under the care of moderate drinkers; the Income and stability of the ropd axe diminished compared with the same service by total abstainers. Capital everywhere discovers by figures and statistics, which have no other meaning, that under the care anil control of moderate or excessive drinkers tho losses, perils and risks of business are increased.?Popular Health Magazine. TBZAT1C2XT OF DIBEi.SE WITHOUT ALCOLOL. Sir B. W. Richardson. M. D., in the Medical Pioneer, give? a review of medical prac: tice in the wards of the London Temperance Hospital for the last two years, covering &D0 cases. These have been treated without aloohol, and will compare favorably with the treatment in other hospitals. We make the following extract from his review: "Having no prejudice against alcohol as a medicine, and having no desire to breathe a word that leans Improperly oil one side or the other?having no object ir view but to collect facts derived from natural observation, I have questioned myeelf seriously whether there was a single case ending fatally that could have been benefited?shall I say saved?by the administration of alcohol? Unhesitatingly and unconscientious^* I believe there was not. When. I was accustomed to prescribe alcohol I should have prescribed it in every one of the fatal cases ?not. in all probability, with the expectation that they would have recovered under its use as a necessity, but from habit, and from so Ingrained an idea that its employment was such a necessity, that if they had died in large numbers I should still have be lieved that its administration was rigbt. in like manner, and for some reasons, I should have administered alcohol largely in the sixty per cent, of cases that recovered, and in the twenty-four per cent, of cases that were relieved; and if any of these had died I should not for a moment have assumed that alcohol had anything to do with the death, I should also haveboen sure to have believed that in every instance where alcohol was given it had assisted the recovery? a belief which we now see had no actual foundation, since recovery without alcohoj was certainly as good and in many instances bettor. "It has been admitted to me by some who have seen the practice that ttey are astonished at the results, at the same time they think that alcohol, having certain physiological properties, it is an extreme practice to omit it altogether in tho treament of disease as I hava done. 'Why not,'.say they, 'why not it exceptionally and in ns proper place?' My answer may be courienanr^ an follows : This errand experiment is crucial, and must not ba interfered with by fear or empty faith. Now that my eyt>s are open I do not eee the proper place for alcohol. It is trae I do cot object to alcohol as a medlcme, if its value as a medicine can b) precisely defined; but to one who is seeking knowledge as apart from mere faith it holds a peculiar position. If it be admitted as a necessity once, why hot admit it twice, three times, any number of times? An if it be admitted in that way, what else could b? inferred except that we are unable to do without it??a false inability that woul? have destroyed the whole value of th* inquiry and left alcohol triumphant. It wan necessary, therefore, to withhold it altogether, until it was shown that the sioic were injured by the act, a danger that did not transpire."' T*H?ZBANCE NEWfl AND VOTES. Ti *- * 1"/li-lnt fSnt m(iL-Afl thfl XI 19 UUk IUD iWJt. VUW*? lUUk ... drunkard, but the first. When starting forZlon don't stop to take a parting drink, or you may lose your ticket Putting a screen In the saloon door is the devil's confession that he is ashamed of the business. Tbe W. C. T. U. of Little Falls, New York, mates a specialty of cottage prayer meetings. The National Temporance League of Great Britain has Inaugurated a universal pledgesigning crusade. If we would all throw more of our weight against the whisky business our prayers in church would weigh more. ' The vital statistics of Germany show that wine merchants, inn keepers and retail venders of spirits have a high death rate, especially after thirty years of ago,when diseases of the kidneys are very common. A New York doctor says he has examined the men who work In a large brewery and found that it is the custom of those who have free acoess to the beer to drink a keg a day. Alarmed at the ravages of strong drink the Belgian Government has ordered the display in all schoolrooms of a printed placard setting forth the injurious effect ol alcohol. If I could destroy to-morrow the deelrc for strong drink in the people of England what changes should we see ! We should see our taxes reduced by millions sterling. We should see our jails and workhouse: empty. We should see more llvee saved ir twelve months than are consumed in t century of bitter and savage war.?Josept Chamberlain. _ .. ' V . 7. . > - 7 j ' ELECTRIC COOKING. X THE OLD-TIME KITCHEN TO BE REPLACED BY ELECTRICITY. Cooking, Washing, Heating an<3 Lighting Will Be Done by Electric Currents?Devices Already in Use in Some Houses. MOUSEKEEPEKS have nol generally recognized anc fha olonfrin /?nr. -V- rent as jet because they are not well acquainted with this stranger, who enters the house so stealthily and will do everything?with such wonderful efficiency. But electricity's merits as a domestic servant are becoming better known every day, sayt the New York Press. "It won't be long," says a woman who has cooked with it since the apr-iaaratua was first invented, "before Hfercrent will be universally used in ' jPli^ration of food, and then ^HUHM^ecome a real art. The -meHMH|^^yom of delightful, eveai?j^HHKHHfeM^ents, and the fi^UAjioipaled ?" " the ashes and blo^^ coal -liM bee^flBH some%*_ ^" *->** -*5$culty obiections- ontWz:.^. ?iof dancer S fire from the^heatecfu'tiinsfls. Inventors have"ferjw?tly perfected devices, however, which. minimize the chances of fire. All utensils likely to grow very hot in use are incased in slate or marble?non-conductors of heat. These stands are not necessary for tea kettles and coffee pots, whose temperature never rises above 212 deIgl the elecjtbica: grees. They are attached to wirea whioh will pull oat and shut off th< current if the utensil is knocked over. Flat irons are so connected that when the onrrent is turned off the iror cools. Several residences in this oity arc being fitted with electrical cooking and heating apparatus. A prominent hotel is using the onrrent for part oj its cooking. Two of the biggest anc fastest of the ocean greyhounds arc heated by it, and their owners arc contemplating its adoption in theii culinary departments. In one rear dence the cooking, 'heating and light' ing are all done by the swift and tire less current. It is a Brooklyn house the home of J. Foster Peabody, ii Monroe place, in which you can gel the best idea of the kitohen of the future. "Oh, you want to find out aboui the electricity," said the young ladj to whom the Press reporter was re ferred when he had made known hi/ * Dr.* errana. "i? is umi^uuui. w. couree, yon want to see for yourself. The cook is preparing dinner, bu electricity in the kitchen is her one weakness, and I think she will telly or something of it and let you look ai the utensils even at this rather incon venient time." A mingled aroma of roasting turkey boiling onions, turnips and cranberry sauce was perceptible as I followed mj guide toward the kitchen. We enterec a bright room, where, in place of thi range, is a sort of big table, witl shelves behind and beneath, and a one side a square board, upon whiol are levers and thumbscrews. Th< water in the tea kettle was bubbling merrily. There was nothing at al strange in the appearance of these PORTABLE 8TOVE. utensils, except the mysterious greet cord attached to eaoh. A middle age< womaq, in a spotless white apron looked up with a smile when sh< learned that I wanted to see if elec trioity really does cook. "Look into the oven," she said "That will oonvince yon." It isn' necessary to open the electric oven t< see within far. You look through i little glass window. A tiny incan desceni; light illuminated the in terior, and showed a fat turkey and i small thermometer, which told exactl; how much heat was giving him th appetising color. The cook took critical glance herself. "It won't hurt him to have a littl * * ? 1 " oai/l o a oh, I more neat on iop, auo oom, va 0~ turned a screw. "You see, I can hav the heat wherever I want it. Inthebot torn and about the sides of the oven an other uttensils are coils of metal whic offer resistance to the current. Thi | resistance you probably know make heat. It comes so quickly and in sue abundance that this ten pound turke i will cook in an hour and a quarter, a! | though three hours is the rime in a ordinary oven. I put my soup on a ( ter the stock has been prepared, an 1 turn on the current. In four minute 1 it is ready to serve. I can boil it i ^ another way. It is done with th t queer utensil." The cook picked u i an object which looked more like L stocking darner than anything els The wires enter the handle and heat the broad end, which is thrnst into the nncooked sotfp. Almost immediately ) it begins to babble and spatter, as if in protest of this strange thingt and in a minute or two is done. l "My mince pies," continued the cook, "will be baked in ten minutes to a beautiful golden brown and will be exactly the same on the top and . bottom. A whole dinner can be cooked in an hour and a Jialf. The t coffee, tea or chocolate is made at the [ table with electricity, of course. These . JuipvuvtuneiiiB ur? lua&mg uio xozij, *. j fear. I don't get up hours before breakfast now, and come down to the [ kitchen to stare *t a cold and dirty . range, and then get down on my knees i and scrape and rake for half an hour, . and even then be uncertain whechor ; the big tnaL x dreaded to u^^^SlHflflHfe^ray notr>. because nunj steps to and froT^|ffiiBBBaB^^fc^^ wires ran into the konT^Wct^*^BB||H^^ >. Ja*t the rifcHheat as long asfl? iog osedL" ' v ; .. ' '.'V ? 7*s]* L COOKING STOVE. , Things were steaming and sputter) ingj- and the dinner required the whole attention of the cook, so I took i my departure to other parts of the l house. Down into the cellar a long, funnel like structure of wood conduct* s the air from the street into a big pipe A# 4 VIA llATtOa TITVAHA fltA J W tug VI VUO uvuo?| ttuvaw wmw b warm air is distributed through other f pipes. On the inside surface of all I of the pipes are coils of wire, over ) which the current flows, heating the i metal, whioh in turn gives warmth to : the air on its way to the various apart. meats. The apparatus' is, of course, separated from the woodwork by a non-conductor of heat. In some of , the rooms are portable electric heatt ers, which are obviously better adaptt ed to general use than the expansive i system of pipes they supplement in the Peabody House. The principle of t heating is, however, exactly the same r in both. The air of the room enters - the heater from below, passes over the ; hot surface and flows out at the top. f It hod grown dark by the time both the cooking and heating apparatus k 1.-J in vavtaw "THa ilttU UCOU |/aOi]GU AM AWTAWtl* 1 lights, Mary," came a voice down the 1 stairs, and the gloom is dispelled by t little incandescent lamps, which shone * from cozy nooks and gleamed softly everywhere through the house. ' A prominent cooking teacher was asked about cooking by electricity. [ "Yon have come to an enthusiast," she said. "Electricity?is grazed. The 3 heat doesn't go up the chimney; it * doesn't radiate into the kitchen?it stays just where you want it, and you 1 can control it with a turn of the wrist. 3 It is true economy of fuel, and economy is the soul of cookery. There is another point. The I quioker a joint of meat is eooked the less will be the loss in weight and fiavcr. There is economy again. 01 course we cannot overlook the vastly Wfnr <?ookinc which even scientifi cally regulated heat and utensils unsoiled by soot and coal dust will lead toj nor the easier, daintier cooking which the absence of fires and ashes will permit. When elect rioity comes into general use ladies will attend to their cooking personally, instil of ~ leaving this most important element in 2 domestic happiness to incompetent servants, and then there will be cul' inary art in fact as well aa in name. "But," continued the teacher, with a smile, "there is one thing to be feared from the introduction ?of eleot tricity. Bachelors could cook dainty 3 breakfasts in their own rooms with i such delightfal ease that they wouldn't . think of marriage. The young man . would need only two or three utensils a ?indeed, a chafing dish would do it Y all. When he arose in the morning e he could put on his electric stove tt whatever he chose, turn on the current and before the completion of his e toilet breakfast wonld be waiting. e The ladies will naturally think twice e before allowing bachelorhood any such ease and charm as that," d The drawback to the general h adoption of electricity in the house;s hold is the expense of the current. At :S present only families of wealth can afh ford it. With improved machinery y ! and dynamos, electricity is, however, I- | slowly bat inevitably becoming cheapn | er. It cannot be many years before f-' the eleotrical kitchen will be within rl ! the reach of any family of very mod >s | erate means. Already along streets n ' where trolley oars run eleotricity is is ! used for sewing maohines and even for ip | pumping. "With the electrioal utensils a herewith Bhown almost any household e. I may do away with the oil or gaa atovo.. ft