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Ki ... '-jT-' REV. DR. TALMA.GE. BRHBSUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE HHB< NOTED DIVINE. Hw9 Subject: "Th? Cbrlstmaslidc." ^hssh-vv BH|| Text: "Now when 'Jesus was born in iRflfKluham '* Moffhaw H 1 II At midnight from one of the galleries o! I the sky a chant broke. To an ordinary obI server there was no reason for such a celssI tial demonstration. A poor man and wife? L travelers, Josapb and Mary by name?had klodged in an out-house of an unimportant .Tillage. The supreme hour of solemnity had passed, and upon the pallid forehead aud I cheek of Mary.'God had sot the dignity, the I grandeur, the tenderness, the everlasting and " divine significance of motherhood. Bot such scenes had often occurred in Bethlehem, yet never before had a star been un~ fixed or had a baton of light marshaled over tneldUs winged orchestra. If there had been suoh brilliant and mighty recognition at an advent in the house of Pharaoh, or at an advent In the house of Caesar, or the house of t Hapsbnrg, or the house of Stua*t, we would t not so' much have wondered: but a Darn I seems too poor a center for such delicate and f archnngelic circumference. The stage seems [too small for so great an act, the music too [grand tot suoh unappreciative auditors, the fcjndow of the stable too rude to be serenaded fcv other worlds. It is my joy to tell you what was born that night in the village barn, and as I want to f make my discourse cumulative and climacteric I begin in the first place by telling you that that nisrht in the Bethlehem manger wa3 born encouragement for all the poorly Startle TT? T.OA f-tanJo tkn,. Uie nor. |w*? uo aau um? n?v uivuug?4uuj eats. No satin lined cradle, no delicate attentions, but straw and the cattle and the coarse joke and banter of the camel drivers. No wonder the medlfflval painters represent the oxen as kneeling before the infant Jesus, for there were no men there at that time to worship. From the depths of that poverty Be rose until to-day He Is honored in all Christendom and sits on the imperial throne In heaven. What name is mightiest to-day in Christendom? Jesus. Who has more friends on earth than any other being? Jesus. Before whom do the most thousands kneel in 'chapel and church and oathedrat at this hour? Jesus. Prom what depths of poverty to what height of renown! And so let ad those Who are poorly started remember that they cannot be more poorly born or more disadvantageous^ than this Christ. Let them lookup to His example while they have time e?d eternity to imitate it. IJJO you KUOW IUHC iuo vast majuiu v ui mo world'r deliverers had barnlike birthplaces? Luther the emancipator of religion, born among the mines. Snakespeare, the emancipator of literature, born In a humble home at Stratford-on-Avon. Columbus, the discoverer of a world, born In poverty at Genoa. Hogarth, the discoverer of how to make art accumulative and administrative of virtue, born in a humblu home in Westmoreland. Eitto and Prideaux, whose keys unlocked new apartments inthb holy Scriptures which bad never been entered, born in want. Yes, I have to tell you that nine out of ten of the world's deliverers were born in want. I stir your holy ambitions to-day, and I want to tell you, although the whole world may be opposed to you, and inside and outside of your occupations or professions there may be those who would hinder your ascent, on your side and enlisted in your behalf are the sympathetic heart and the almighty arm of one who one Christmas night about 1895 years ago was wrapped in swaddling oiothes and laid in a manger. Oh. What, magnificent encouragement for the poorly started! Again, I have to tell you that in that village bam that night was born good will to men, whether you call it kindness or fore* bearanee or forgiveness or gentalty or affection or love. It was no sport of high heaven to send its favorite to that humiliation. It was sacrifloe for a rebellious world. After the calamity In Paradise not only did the ox begin to gore, and the adder to sting, and the elephant to smite with his tusk, and the Hon to out to bad use tooth and paw, but under the very tree from whioh the forbidden fruit was pluoked were hatched out war and revenge and malioe and envy and jeal Iousy and the whole brood of cookatrices. Brit against that scene I set the Bethlehem manger, which says. J'Bless rather than corse, endure rather than assault/' and that Christmas night puts out vindictiveneas. It sayB, ''Sheathe your sword, dismount your guns, dismantle your batteries, turn the warship Constellation that carries shot and shell into a grainship to take food to famishing Ireland, hook your cavalry horse to the plow, use your deadly gun-powder in blasting rooks and in patriotic celebration, #top your lawsuits, quit writing anonymous letters, extract the sting from your sarcasm, tet your wit coruscate but never barn, drop all the harsh words out of your vooabulnry ?'Good will to men.' " "Ob," you say. "I can't exercise it; I won't exercise it until they apologize; I won't forgive them until they ask me to forgive them." You are no Christian then?I say you are no Christian, or you are a very inconsistent Christian. If you forgive not men? their trespasses, how can you expect your heavenly Father to forgive you? Forgive them if they ask your forgiveness and forgive them any how. Shake hands all around. "Good will to men." O my Lord Jesus, drop that spirit into all I cur nearts tins unrisimas ume. i teu you what the world wants more than anything ?lse?more helping hands, more sympathetic hearts, more kind words that never die, more disposition to give other people a ride, and to carry the heavy end of the load and give other people the light end. and to ascribe good motives instead of bad, and to find our happiness in making others happy. Oat of tbat Bethlehem crib let the bear and 'ttte.lion eat straw like the ox. "Good will to mwi." That principle will yet settle all controversies, and under it the world will keep on improving until there will be only two antagonists in all the earth, and they Will Bide by side take the jubilant sleigh ride niimated by the prophet when he said. . "Holiness shall be on the bells ofthe horses." Again, JL remark that born tbat Christmas night In the village barn was sympathetic anion with other worlds. From that superjaturai grouping of the cloud banks over Bethlehem, and from the special trains that ran down to the scene I find that our world is beautifully and gloriously and magnifi38ntly surrounded. The meteors are with as, for one of them ran to point down to the birthplace. The heavens are with us, because at the thought of our redemption they roll ho3annas out of the midnight sky Oh, yes, I do not know but our world may be better surrounded than we have somelimes imagined, ami when a child is bora, angels bring it, an^ when it dies, angels take it, and when an old man bends under I the weight of years, angels uphold him. and | when a heart breaks, angels soothe it. Angels In the hospital to take care of the ?ick. i Angels in the cemetery to watch our dead. Angels in the church ready to fly heavenward with the news of repentant souls. I Angels above the world. Angels under the -world. Angels all around the world. Bub the dust of human imperfections out of your eyes, and look Into the heavens and see angels of pity, angel3 of mercy, angels o! "pardon, angels of help, augels crowned, Angels charioted. The world defended bv angels, girdled by angels, cohortedby angels ?clouds of angels. Hear David cry out: "The chariots of God are 20,000. Even [thousands of angels." But the mightiest [angel stood not that night in the clouds over [Bethlehem; the mightiest angel that night Bay among the cattle?the angel of tbe new covenant. | As the clean white linen was bein.s [wrapped around the little form of that child pmperor, no: a cherub, not a seraph, not ar bngel, not a world but wept and thrilled and bloated. Oh, yes. our world has plenty ol Bympathizers! Our world is only a silvei rung of a great ladder at the top of which i< pur Father's house. No more stellar sottteril pess for our world, uo other friendless planpts spun out into ftoa<*e to fre?S9. but a worlc In the bosom of divine maternity. A stai harnessed to a manger. * I ?r.oin T rnmnrl- Hifir that nis'ht hnrn ii I hat village barn was th'j offender's hone lome sermonizers may say I ought to fcav irojected this thought at the begiuning o ho sermon. Oh.no! I wanted you to risi oward it. I wanted you to examiD3 the car elians and the jaspers and the crystals be !>re I show you the Kohinoor?the orowt jwel of the ages. Oh. that jewel had a vers liar setting! The cub of bear is born amid grand old pillars of the forest, the whelf Hon takes its first step from the jungle o fituriant leaf aud wild flower, the kid o Bit is born in cavern chandeliered with sta tlte and pillared with stalagmite. Chris Ks born in a bare barn. rYet that nativity was the offender's hops, I ' v ' v>V * ' ' ** Over the door or neaven are written these words: '-None but the sinless may enter here." "Oh, horror." you say, "that shuts ^ us all out!'' No. Christ came to the world | in one door, and He departed thtough another door. He came through the door of I the maneer, and He departed through the door of the sepuleher, and His one business . was so to wash away our sin that after we are dead there will be no more sin about ua Re) than about the eternal God. I know that is ?a< patting it strongly, but that is what I un- bos aerstand by full remission. All erased, all washed away, all scoured out, all gone. That undergirdling and overarching and irradiating and Jmparadising possibility for mn and for me. aDd for the whole raoe, that was given that Christmas night. Do you wonder we bring flowers to-day to celebrate such an event? Do you wonderthat we take organ and youthful voice and queenly soloist to celebrate it? Do you wonder that Raphael and Rubens and Titian and Giotto and Ghirlandajo and all the old Italiau and German painters gave the (C mightiest stroke of their genius to sketch R the Madonna, Marv, and her boy? V Ob! now I see what the manger was. Not * so high the gilded and jeweled and embroidered cradle of the Henrys of England, or the Louis of France, or the Fredericks of Prussia. Now I find out that that Bethlehem crib fed not so much the oxen of the stall as the white hor3as of Apocalyptic vision. Now, I And. the swaddlinj? clothes enlarging andi emblazoning into an imperial robe for a conqueror. Now I find that the star of that Christmas night was only the diamonded. sandal of Him who hath the moon under His' feet. Now I come to understand that the . music of that night was not a completed * song, but only the stringing of the instruments for a great chorus of two worlds, tha bass to be carried by earthly Nations saved, and the soprano by kingdoms of glory won. Ob, heaven, heaven, heaven! I shall meet you there. After all onr imperfections are gone 19hall meet you there. I look out today, through the mists of years, through the' foe that rises from the cold Jordan, thiough the wide open door of solid pearl to that reunion. I expect to see you there hs certainly as I see you here. What a time we shall have in high converse, talking over sins pardoned and sorrows comforted and battles triumphant! Some of your children have already gone, T and though people passing along the street . and seeing white crape on the doorbell may ?S have said, "It is only a child," yet when the br6ken hearted father came to solicit my ? service, he said, "Come around and comfort us. for we loved her so much." E7. What a Christmas morning it will make a whan those with whom you used to keep the J*11 holidays are all around you in heaven! or Silver haired old father young again, and aP[ mother who had so many aches and pains ' and decrepitudes well again. and alfyour anc brothers and sisters and the little ones. a!? How glad they will be to see you! They wa have been waiting. The last time they saw your face it was covered with tears and dis- H?1 tress, and pallid from long watching, and h." one of them I can imagine to-day, with one hand holding fast the shining gate, and i"8 the other hand swung out toward you, say- ^ ? ing: she "Steer this way, father, steer straight for ( me; Here safe in heaven I am waiting for thee." me Oh, those Bethlehem angels, when they syi went baok after the concert that night over the the hills, forgot to shut the door! All the sig secret is out. No more use of trying to hido she from us the glories to come. It is too late cal to shut the gate. It is blooked wide open with hosannns marching this way, and halleluiahs marohlog that way. In the splendor of the anticipation I feel as if I was dying ?not physically, for I never wns more well xh ?but in the transport of the Christmas transfiguration. What almost unmans me is the thought 1 that It is provided for saon sinners as you oni and I have been. If it. had been provided . _ only for those who had always thought right and spoken right and aoted right, vou and I un woula have had no Interest in ft, had no Nel share in It; you and I would have stuok to " the raft midocean, and let the ship sal) by Eu carrying perfect passengers from a perfect att life on earth to'a perfect life in heaven. But I Ac have heard the commander of that ship is the < same great and glorious and sympathetic one sit who hushed the tempest around the boat on pul Galilee, and I have heard that all the pass* < engers on the 9hip are sinners saved by tha grace. And so we hall the ship, and it bears spc down this way, and we come by the side of pul it and ask the Captain two questions, "Who kn< are Thou?" and "whence?" And He says, pu; "I am Captain of Salvation, and I am from an* rnanoar " HK Hrirrltf mftrn- fhd ing of my soul's delight! Chime all the Eu bells. Merry Christmas! Su Merry with the thought of sins forgiven, bei merry with the idea of sorrows comforted, ]i<?j merrywith the raptures to come. Oh, lift that be Christ from the manger and lay Him down shi in all our hearts! We may not bring to Him fro as costly a present as the' magi brought, but th< we bring to His feet and to the manger to- ] day the frankincense of our joy, the prostra- mi tio'n of our worship. Down at His feet all churches, all ages, all earth, all heaven. Down at His feet the four and twenty elders on their faces. Down the "great multitude tt>at no man can number." Down Michael, the archangel! Down all Gr worlds at His feet and worship. "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good , will to men!" tei A CYCLONE OF SWALLOWS. tic wnm n VamaI Wraa konpt hv MttIkIh of the Birds. Vi1 A Russian steamer, hailing from Odessa, has for some time been engaged in the Med- , iterranean trade, principally carrying pas- J,01 sengers between Leghorn and Malaga. On one of the recent trips it encountered aa ad- 301 venture which will never be forgotten by w* either the crew or the passengers. The passage had been a stormy one, but the day of 'a.n the occurrenco was unusually fine. Though l f.a a rather heavy sea whs running mo3t of the passengers were on deck. Suddenly the )1U lookout oalled: "Hurricane cloud leeward." va At once there was great consternation m( aboard and a number of people sought safety W? below. The captain, however, after glancing ??' at the barometer, Rave it as his opinion that , it was no hurricane cloud. The black mass that they saw hovering near the horizon was, he thought, a particularly dense volume of smoke from some steamer. But the < solution of the mystery came much sooner than they had expected. The threatening rii mass grew larger and larger, and soon was seen to bear down in the direction of the vessel with terriflo speed. Everybody, both crew and passengers, became frightened at in the mysterious cloud, which seemed to move at with great rapidity, notwithstanding that a ' L perfect calni prevailed. bo Then came the solution. The vast cloud mi that thoy bad seen was composed of swal- th lows. The forerunners, a small detachment co of soma 10,0('0. swoopel down on tho dock, to tho bewilderment of the people on board. f.n These were soon followed, not by thousands, Bi but by huudreds of thousands. The birds W literally overwhelmed the vessel. The man of at tho wheel lost his bearings, and the wild- Ki * Ki mr\ i UjnUlUVi JUCYClllUU. AUU UUU3 V'UUltU ?l into every available opening, hatchways, da windows and everywhere else. They pot bi i tangled in the ropes and sails, and clustered W about the risginj;. Even the smokestack was so fllle.1 up at pi one time that the Arts were ne.arly extin- he ' guished. The most amazing part of the es whole thins was that the birds did not evince any disposition to leave. ( To heighten the confusion the steamer had : goi out of its course and rau ashore. How[ ever, on account of comg very slow, no M material damage was done, though the pas- ji, senders were badly frightened. When the Sc : crew had recovered from their amusement th r they began to clear the deck and the vessel -m in perioral of these unexpecto.i and not at all welcome quests. L Toe captain ordered the men to use i shovels and whatever else thoy could to I throw the birds overboard. After getting pc r i.iiriy m snape me vessel proceeueu on irs (j; r voyage, having been delayed lor nearly ?? s hours oiv account of this singular ex- " . perience. The captain could not offer any Qg . theory as to where this vast army ol swal- ! I lows earn? from. Ail he said was that tin I r ; birds wore oxhausbid from a long flight <lur- j j ius the storm, oi' i ho. p;wicuj day, and i sought rest on his vessel. ^ > To Make Preserved Pat.it oes. al f Evaporated potatoes is the latest Minne- 7' 5 sota industry' and by next fall two big evap orating establishments will be in operation. j~ Tbo potato crop of the past season was so ' 1 vast that millions of bushels went to waste, ' aud during the past week experiments have - demonstrated that the tubers cau.be treated > and preserved in much the same manner as f apples. One factory will be located at lsl! oi t Horses, Three Dollar# a Piece. W Horsos sold at auction in Ohillicotha, Mo., ^ ' a few day3 ago at 13 a piece. M LORD DUNRAVEN RETURNS. Cornea to Reiterate His Charge* of Foal Sailing Acalust the Defender. jord Dunraven, owner of Valkyrie III., lompaniod by his legal adviser, George juith. of London, and Arthur Glennle, ir Commodore of the Royal Portsmouth Jht Club, arrived at New York City on ird the Teutonic. LORD DUNRAVE5. iOrd Dunraven's visit is for the purpose ^nln? TiThnf- hn pan tr> substantiate the irge o? fraud which he made against the tender after his return to England, and ich set yachtsmen of the two continents the ears. The managing owner of the ikyrie brings with'him several depositions nembers of his crew and will appear bee the special committee of the yacht club jointed to make the investigation. Ir. Asquith will conduct the Earl's case, 1 It is said he is famous as a cross-exiner. He is a brother of Henry Asquith, o.was Home Secretary under Gladstone, "he committee, which consists of J. Pierit Morgan, William C. Whitney, GeorgeL. res, Edward J. Phelps and Captain A. T. han, engaged no counsel, but it was said t Joseph H. Choate was retained by the fender syndicate. It was decided that the iring before the investigating committee >uld be strictly private. Japtain Hank Haff and the crew of the fender. Captain Hyslop, the official asurer, and the membars of the Defender idicate were summoned to appear before i committee. It was also said that tho de ner of the American yacht, "Nat"' H?rre>ff, had been informed that ho would be led upon to testify. r \ PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS. e Text of a Resolution Introduced by Senator Aden. > The project of a pan-Amorican political Ion embracing North, South and Central Lerican Republics was presented in the ited 8tates Senate by Mr. Alien (Pop., t>.) in a resolution, as follows: 'Whereas, Recent events hayo shown that ropean Nations are making an aggressive empt to obtain a greater foothoia on the terloan continent; and 'Whereas.Snch an attempt shows the neces7 of a closer union of the American Replies; 'Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate it the United States of America should as >edily as possible invite all American Reblics to enter into a closer union, to be* own as the Pan-American union, ror tne rpose of promoting the general Industrial i commercial welfare of the members ireof, aud secure said Republics from ropean or other foreign encroachments, ch union should be made of lasting leflt to the people of tho several Repub3 forming it, and a unit of value should established and maintained therein,whioh ill be a full legal tender and circulate ely between tho various Republics and 5 people thereof." Che resolution was referred to tho Comttee on Foreign Relations. . PANAMA CELEBRATES. atitadeof Colombia for Our Defence of tbe Monroe Doctrine. rhe Star and Herald publishes an exlded report of a grand public demonstran which was held at Panama, Colombia, honor of United States Consul-General fquain as the representative of the Amerin Nation. The demonstration was inlded to express the gratitude of Colombia the action of the United States in deice of the Monroe doctrine. More than M) persons were present, and speeches >re made by several leading citizens. Donsul-Genoral Vtfquain made a speech in swer to a complimentary address. He said at the Monroe doctrine was not a declara>ii of war, but a declaration of peace and srice. Its object, he said, was the presertion of the integrity of America; nothing >re, but still nothing les3. The meeting is orderly, but the greatest enthusiasm evniled over the action of the United ites. wbichis in accord with the sentiment all classes. 2MRI3TMAS AT BILTMORE HOUSE. 10 Yale Log Lighted In Mr. Vnaderbilt'a Southern Ch:iteau. The yulo log was kindle 1 for the first time George W. Vauderbilt's Blltmora house Asheville, N. C., famed as the finest private use in the United States, and the appoint* ants of the 3tately homo were enjoyed by e possessor in the happy environment of n?enial kinsfolk. All immediate mombers of the Vauderbilt rally now in this country are guests at Itmoru House. Among them arc Mrs. illiam H. Vanderbilt, mother of the owner -?? ? 1-... u: . iiiltmor::; ;urs. uroun-j^. uin nuui, i_^o. ssaro, Miss Ki?sam, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. mderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. W. Seward Webb, .u(?hter and son; Mr. Cornelius VanderIt and family; Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt, Mr. . D. Sloane and family,* and others. A Christmas tree was ffivon to all tho emoyes on the estate, numbering nearly five inilrod parsons. After the Christmas tree :hibition a bountiful dinner was spread. Killed His Son-ln-Law. Walter Scott, a youn'; business man. and Iss Clara Dawson wire married at Des oines, Iowa, by a Justice of the Peace. ?... ......... ,>r tin* Justice to o homo of the tfirlV father. S. R. Dawson, id was shot dead by th'j ia her. liicrwiHeri Wtvzv* t??r iX.OOP. AH the colco cump:tuie3 of IVunsj'lvanin stod aoticas of au a ivaurj^ i?f from ton to t?en i??r c?nt. for all of labor. Thu !W ral? of will Iji: tlw hii?li?3l' ovor iid iu thi* iM^iou. IJatW'V.'u 15.000 and IS. 3 wor!:ur.s will Iju buu'illtu.l by tlic aavance. Venezuela AhU? (or A*siKt,t:i<:c. Th<- VimuxueJiiu ( jvornmcnt lias ordered at tin* National militia be rucruitoJ from 1 classes of citizens. Tim authorities have iblort to all of tho South anil Central mericau Republics ask i in: thoir assistance ihe case of a war with England and proving that their forces be combined. Twelve Thousand Armenians Kllle:!. Dispatches from Dsyrout say that there is been serious lighting between Turkish oopi and the Druses neat Suediab. The Hcial account is thai t >e Druses lost 12,20C lied. Ou the Turkish side, according tc ie official report, only seventy were killed id flfty woundoJ, / I { TEMPERANCE. I COST OF A QUABT OF BEES* Not long ttgo two trains laden with pllprrims were on their way to the shrine of "La Bonne 8te. Anne" (the Good St. Anne) in the Province of Quebec. While the first was staying at the station of Craig's Pond, the secend dashed into it. The engine driver of the latter, one McLeod, not a total abstainer. only a "moderate" drinker, got a quart of beer at Artbabaska, a station on the way. The price of it Is as follows: 2. Damagt> to engine and cars. Add the cost to the price of that quart of beer. in 2. The railway oompany has already paid Tf $381 in settlement of claims for danfcges. )ni No doubt it will have more to settle. That af makes the price of that quart of beer so an much the greater. Should it end in a law- ee suit, the cost to the loser must be added to th the price of that quart of beer. th 3. Sufferings of tho wounded, in many in- iv stances awful. Add the money value of ex these to the price of that quart of beer?if to you can. wl 4. Cost of attendance on the wounded, it Add that to the price of that quart of beer. pe 5. Several passengers killed. Add the of money value of their lives to the price of ut that quart of beer?if you can. to 6. Funeral expenses. Add these to the sp price of that quart of beer. pc 7. Sorrow for the loss of loved one3 killed. A.dd the money value of that to the price of so that quart of beer?if you can. dc 8. Cost of the inquest. Add that to thei w] price of that quart of beer. ' gji 9. The engineer driver, McLeod, was id '' among the killed. He solemly promised to fu comply with tho rules of toe company. One wi of these forbid persons in its employment ca drinking intoxicating liquors while on duty, qi McLeod broke his promise wben he got that of quart of beer. He has therefore left a blot co on his name. Add the money value of tfiat cli blot to the priae of that quart of beer?if you can. at One way and other, that quart of beer has Wi proved to bo a fearfully costly one.?Ram's ed . Horn. if Wi a sad case. ct T??It W>. at jumuer xuusiuu, ui vui xtunuuu unuui iclates a very sad incident that came under m his observation while in the southern part of m Long Island. A Mrs. S., an old woman well on to eighty years of age, had become such a helpless victim of the liquor habit that some ,e one in the village, after repeated warnings, re actually bvrnod the house dowiiin which sv she lived, in order to get rid of her. On th& 03 day of.tho fire the old woman was lying on ?1 the ground in a state of intoxication. As she rose to her feet ;ind saw the house burning, a* ahe made an effort to save the cats and dogs 01 which hung about the place, after which she disappeared, taking her menagerie along a' with ner. . al It is said this woman is well connected Jt! and that every offort has been put forth to reform her by her own people, and those of the village have done all they could to save her. " What a tomperance lecture this ought to be to those who ara tampering with this ac- ri cursed evil, and who seem unconscious of the st danger that lies before them. D< There hangs over the platform in our lec- ,s ture room a red flag on which is inscribed these words: "Where there's drink there's danger." And this I know is true, dear P1 trrmntr rosirinr Tin voil dt'Rira in this WOrltl C( health, wealth and happiness? If so, Touch not, handle not.?G. C. 8., In Temple GleanIngs. kl Ui HOW THE DOTS MANAGED. ^ An interesting temperance experiment w was made by a Cambridgeshire gentleman. di Bev. H. W. P. Stevens, of Tadlow, near is Royston, England. A toe?'. correspondent in informs us of the successful result. Mr. g Stevens promised the lads employed to till g] farms in his parish a half-penny for every hi penny of the money which they might re- b< celve as extra wages in place of harvest beer et this harvest. All the lads who heard of the ei ofTer went without beer. The highest m boilnty paid was $1.60, on $3.30, making d< $180. The lowest was seventy-five cents on gi $1.50, making $2.25. The average was C1 $1.10. "It was quite a pleasure to seethe faces ol the lads when they came to draw c the bounty money?eyes olear and bright, p not heavy with beer. To this was added tl the satisfaction of becoming in a small way Bi the owner of capital. One lad will have rj enough, with the help of some savings of tl his own. to purchase a watch, which, as it 0 ticks in his pocket, will always be saying to tl bim, 'See what you,can do without beer.' b LI employers or JaDor wouia encourage i schemes of this sorr, the character of the next generation of agricultural laborers tl will be transformed.'?Temperance Cause. tt BOS. ON 8 KECOED. Q According to official figures, in Boston q during the last official year there were 4?- e: 035 arrests, of which 5315 were arrests of fe- is males, 20,551 of foreigners and 14,506 of noa- p residents. Strictly speaking, the number of w foreigners should be larger, but it is the rule is to classify all who may be born here as b Americans. There were 25,076 arrests for ci drunkenness, of which number 127 males and g twenty females ware under ten years of age, b 1156 males and 6fxty-two females between it the age of ten and fifteen, and 7951 males v* and sixly-four females between the age of C fifteen and twenty. v> By thpse figures it will be seen that more vi than 4500 persons arrested in Boston were ii under twenty years of age, which is a most o lamentable and distressing fact, aud brings h home to everybody the necessity of training p children properly. There is no place for a o child like home, and there is no social club in the world like the home-club, cf which the father is tho president and the mother the vice-president or secretary. Tho memory of home Is often the one ten- fj der spot that leads to a reformation. g n THE VALUE OF A SOUL V8. A PUBLIC HOUSE. r A publican and his wife attended a religious ^ meeting, whenv the preacher's text was,' ? "What shall it profit a man if he gain the c whole world and lose his soul?" and were v convinced of sin and their need of a Saviour. The wife made no secret of her desire to be b at peace with God, but the man tried to hide a his strivings of conscience. At night in bed 0 he toesed restlessly about and sighed and groaned, but his wife knew whiit was the j matter. It was the nublic house. "Jim," | said she after awhile* -'how much do yon n reckon you make year by the house?" 0 " ?301)," he replied. "How long is it to run?" t: "Twenty years or so." "Then that means . I1 ?6000, eh?" "How much do you reckon v your soul is worth. Jim? Is it worth ?6000?" v Jim was quiet for a few minutes, then he J1 said, "I shall put up the shutters to-mor- ^ row." and wenf to sleep, and tho next day n took measures to abaudon his trade as a a publican.?National Temperance Advocate. a * li A DEMON WE MUST CONQUER. All experience tells one story. Drunkenness is just what the New Testament de- ^ Clares it to be: sin against God and mau, and ? the sure destruction of the drunkard's own ' soul, as well as the sourcc of unspeakable ' woe to others. To save the Nation from de- ^ generation, to make us a manly people, able . to win in all tho competitions of lifo, 10 sat ? us forward in tho p:tth of intelligence and j| virtue, we must conquer this demon. " TOTAL ABSTINENCE THE ONLY SAFE BULK. jj Abstinence from the use of arJeut spirits is to be most strongly urged upon all, even +h/tcn lrHn hnvii no ?nr>p.inl nfod of i?uim!inir themselves from the temptation of drfnkinp. The quaDtity of those strong drinks which can be taken without injury is so small th?t a they ure uniit for social purposes. It re- t quires so much self-control to keep within t tno strict bounds of moderation, the allure- o m-mt of tho habit is so subtle and strong, ? leadiuK irradualiy to excess, that total rJ?- c stim-nce from thwir use is the only safe sen- ? eral rule, especially in the condition of so- o cial intercourse actually existing among a v largo portion of our people.?Sacrod Heur: r lti'view. I be:::: ir not xutbitivx. I Contrary to the claim tiiai hear is nutritive. the eminent chemist. liarou vou Liobig. 1 who is a recognized authority on tho subject, ( i btated that uif a man were to take daily c eiuht to ten quarts of the best Bavarian beer, a t in tno course .or twelve months ho would t take into his system only the nutritive con- l1 stituents of a five-pound loal of bread." 1 TEMPERANCE NEWS AMD NOTES. I j The saloon brei?.the? a moral pestilence in ^ every neighborhood where it is located. 1 For au annual rental of less than $200, OOO.OUU puid to tbe Internal Revenue tho Xaticu has sold the devil the right to destroy | the health, home and happiness of any citi- 1 zen iu the laud. r t t _ RELIGIOUS READING, Hark'! the praising anpels say, Christ was born on Christmas Da7 In blest Judea far away. Hush! our pleading spirits say, Christ be born in us, we pray, And give our souls their Christmas Day. ?From the German. THE BASAli THOUGHTS OF CHBISfi j Tie Christmas festival did not como first < tho thought of the church. In tbe New < fstament there is no trace of it, and in the I ter growth of observances it seems like an s terthougbt suggested by the gospel story, i id doubly welcome as rounding out the ' remonies of the Christian year. And yet J ere is no festival more widely accepted in 1 e middle and the modern ages as distinct" \ elvthe Christian feast, and none which t presses the essential message of our Lord i the world more fully and widely to those i bo are rot believers. To many, indeed, | is the one delightful occasion which they t irforce associate with the name and work t Christ. Its message is benevolence; its -l teiance, "Peace upon earth! Good will 5 ward men!" and those who feel the mellow irit or the time feel something of the pur- f >se and essential spirit of the King. i The mellowness of spirit which we all as- t ?!?? Si.U ~ 1 ' emit; wu/i uuiisuuns uuio is uuc iu pnn,uu i >ubt, to Its association with childhood, for i bich our modern thinking has a very tender ie. Yet tbis itself is no chance meeting of eas. It is the promise of good foretold and lillled in\the life of a little child of which 3 think at Christmas, and the love and re of little children never found more exlisite expression than in the words and acts Jesus. The modern love of childhood >mes from . him who' was a little lild in a stable at Bethlehem. All the tod la it,* in whatever hearts developed id by whatever gifts or self denial shown, ns suggested by him and will be acknowlIged by him in the time of judgment. And the Advent feast holds the attention of the arid because its keynote is the simplicity of lildhood, that itself means far more than >pears upon the surface, rising to prophetic elodies of strength and service fpr every an and for mankind. First of the great basal thoughts of Chrismity which And expression in the Advent ast is that of God's search for tpan. AIady, though he lies an infant, wrapped in Faddling clothes, in the box where the cen eat, the angels call him Paviour. It is ivent, not aqcident, which we rememsr. He whose birth we celebrate, alone of, 1 mankind, can say assuredly, in speaking ! bis entrance into this world's lifp, "I am ime!" The world bus had religions In >undnnce which expressed man's seeking ter God. The glory of Christianity is that ? whole life depends upon the Son of God ho came, moved by His love for men. < hqouc mis it is. aiter an, notnmg more i an a splendid guess; a great example of f*ht living and high thinking, but luttlfc to 1 :deem lost sinners. When no embassy could ] ach the heavens, the heavens In love ooped to reveal themselves to men. The I ?w astronomy has only emphasized the olation of the earth in space. No thought : man has been so daring as to plan a jpeful route of travel to the nearest' of the anets. We hear much of the seas and mtinenis of Mars, but it would be far more kcly that those who live in Mars should >me to us, than that any skill or aowledge which we possess should enable i to go to them. They may have powers of hich we know nothing, but we know too ell the limitations of our state. And so, hen we think soberly of it the coming of .the ivine to shorn the exnnHnnfto nf th? human , after all, more likefy than that any search>g of the horn an should suffice to find ont od. Christ's freely purposed coming is the lory of Christmastime. Not that we loved 1m, but that be loved us. That he chose to >come &s one of us, to begin life on the irth as a little helpless child, to study and idui e and labor, and to die at last, that he ightrise again and moke our heavenly sellings ready,and come again in that more lorious advent to which the faith of the lurch looks forward. And the second basal .thought of the hristmas time is that of joy in sacrifice, uin and grief are not yet done away, but ley are overcome. Christian joy is joy in )ite of sacrifice?nay, more, because of sacflce. When the apostle had enumerated te trials of the early Christians, he added at o' bis own experience, "Nay. in all these >iogs we are more than conquerors through in! that loved us." The way of tho cross is te way of glory?and there is no other way. Ought not Christ to have suffered these lings. and to enter into his glory? the Mas;r asks of the two with whom he walked in le way. It is on this side that our gifts at bristmas ought somewhere to express the unllty of tbe one greatest gift. Thoughtless xchango in mere fulfillment of a social usage I meaningless. Our offerings gather value in rt-ciee proportion to mo measure 01 ourselves 'bich we put into them, just as Christ's gilt i of measureless importance to the world' ecauso it included tbe unreserved self-dediition of the Son of God. And as it is the reatcst, so it is the widest gift that ever lessed tbe eartb. Prom its possession and s opportunity no child of man is excluded ho will bring the answering gift of self, brist will not weigh bis worth against our orthlessness, but be requires that those to rhom lie gives himself shall hold back nothig of their own. Upon these terms he takes ur lives and changes them into the image of is own, and while he leads us through the atb of trial makes us sharers in his Joy of vercoming. fcJ&KE OURSELVES BETTER. "What makro one portion of time differ rom or better than another ? What is it that Ives value to a day or a year ? Is it not the lan in tbe midst of his days ? Not the suroundings and the circumstances wbioh may appen to be about him. Whether fifty eats of Europe are bttter than a cyole of : at hay depends altogether upon the person rbo is lfv.ng in one place or the other. A ingle day in tbe li)e of St. Paul, though it e parsed even in a dungeon, was far richer nd more enjoyable than a decade in the life f that monster of iniquity,t!ie Emperor Nero. All this carries us along to the point that be only way to make another year better is o make ourselves better. Just in proportion s wo become more devoted to duty, more p*-n to tho truth, braver in asserting it. rutr and more constant in cnr affec.ions, urer and more unselfish in daily living shall ?e he con.erring upon the passing days a j ue and a glory which win makethtm worth ivjugm the experience and woith rememcring hereafter. And the time to begin is off! A year slips away from us before we ,re awate of its flight. How short awhile go it seems that we were making new resoutions for the year 1895! The difference beween the most of us and Jesus Christ is that le never postponed until next year or next reek the thing he ought to do. We re continually deluding ourselves with bo notion that pretty s on we kill begin to carry out our high im ulses; that day atter tomorrow, perhaps, re will attack that bad habit, but 1896 will ie a good year to us only as we strive to aike January first and January second, and .11 thu successive three hundred and sixtybree days, just as good as we can. by beatifying our own characters and by brightenag the lot of those about us. CI.EAR VISION OF CHRHT. It is not easy to have right views of God nd a clear vision of Christ. Even on the inellectnal plane, it does not become easier as ime goes by to say that we believe in the Son r God. On" the contrary, there are abundant lgns that the cyclical movement which hurch history so often suggests is bringing is back aga'n, not only to the primitive life if the church, and we may very likely end rith a last heresav similar to the tirst as egards the person of the Lord himself.? >rof. J. ltendel Harris. Gre:it-Grnn<lcliilrtr.in at His Wc.ldlnjr. James H. Coleman, of Petersburg. Lewis 3ounty. Kentucky, aud Mrs. L.vdia Purnell, if Morehead, ware married a fow days ago it the home ofthe bride. Mr. Coleman will >e eighty-two years old in February, and lis bride was seventy-six years old on the Oth day of October last. Mr. Coleman is a vealthy farmer of L ;wh County, but will -- -i j ?-i- . Tluwnf riiilce Moreiioauniiiiiuuiuiiw.il-. ? ? ilr. Coleman's great-grandchildren were )resout ut the wedding. Secret xry Marion 'a Cntt of Arm'. Secretary of Agriculture Morton at Inst la-had a coat of arms painted on his cariage door. It is a piciuro of a prosperous rue. an l under it ts a little ssroll bearing ho molto 4,Piant Tree3." 1 SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB JANI/ARY 12. ? Lesson Text: "The Boy Jesus." Lake 11., 40-52?Golden Text: Lake 11., 52? Commentary. 40. "And the'child grf>w and waxed strong n spirit, filled with wisdom, and the grace >f God was upon Him." In our recent 3hrlstmas lesson. which must sHIl be qait? 'resh In onr mind0, we had the wondiytu itory of His birth and were. I trust, profited )y the faith ttcd testimony of the shepherds. [Tien followed the visit of the wise men. the )resentation iu the temple, the flight into Sgypt and return to Nazaretb. After whiob re know nothing of Him tillHis baptism at he age of thirty beyond what is recorded In hi* verse and in this lesson. In tbe quiet etlrement of Nazareth He grew both in )hysical and in spiritual stature and lived in he favor of God. He had a body of flesh ind blood, such a? we have (Heb. u.. 14;, jot He had no sin (Heb. vil.. 26; II Cor. v., 51). 41. "Now His Darents went to Jerusalem ivery year at the feast of the pxssover." iVhlle only the males were commanded to at:?nd the feasts fEx. xxiii.. 17) it would seem :hat women also went to the feast of the paaiover (I Sam. 1., 7). When we oometoa paslover story, it is always well to think of the safety of those who are under the blood and :he fellowship of those who obediently feed ipon the Lamb. Salvation depends upon :he blood alone, but fellowship and growth lepend upon our eatine Him continually by tvhose blood we, are redeemed. His own teartmony.is, "He that eateth Me. even he shall live by Me" (John vi., 57). " 42. "And when He was twelve years old. :hey went up to Jerusalem after the custom >f tne feast." We wculd like to know His :hou?hts concerning this, His first visit to he Holy City. We may imagine that as He vas not taken up with seeing the city when Se got there, so He was not overmuch occuDied with sights along the way. Whatever )f Old Testamont story was associated with he places they would pass through we may >e sure He would think and perhaps talk ot hem, for He was well versed in the ScriD;ures 43. "And when they had fulfilled the days, is they returned the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem, and Joseph and His nother knew not of it." Jerusalem is called :he Holv City, and the City of the Great Sing- (Math, iv., 5: v., 35); by its great sin, t is called the city where our Lord was jrucifled (R9v. xi. 8), but it Bhall yet be sailed a City of Truth, and the Throne of the Lord (Zech. viii., 8; Jer. lii., 17). That Lord shall prove to be none other than this same Jesus without whom Joseph and Mary startsd from Jerusalem for Nazareth. Did they think enough of Him? 44. "But they, supposing Hi m to have been In the company, went a day's journey." Sup-. posing add wondering are not the roads to nan<?n atari BdsiiranMf nnri ara nnt to C&USB US many sorrows. Just think what dismay it might work if we should attempt to travel by train or steamer supposing that we knew the time of starting. Let no one in matters eternal rest in anything short of an assurance well founded. 45. "And when they found Him not, they turned back again to. Jerusalem, seeking Him." Any one who has ever had a child stray away for a longer or shorter time can sympathize somewhat with Mary in this experience. Did they oonfess to God their negligence and ask Him to guide them? Did they remember Ps. xzxii., 8; Isa. xxx.. 21, and Ps. L. 16? Perhaps they will tell us about it some day. ifi- "And it came to pass that after three days they found Him in the temple." Not ' seeing the sights ofthe great city, out in tils Father's house at a Bible study. We may safely think of Him as saying to these teaohere. "What is written?" "Howreadeet thou?" To Joseph and Mary one hour's neglect had brought three days' anxiety. To many an hour's neglect has often brought a lifelong sorrow. To neglect the soul's welfare will bring eternal sorrow. See Job xxrri., 18; Heb. 11., 3. * 47. "And all that heard Him were astonished at His understanding and answers." If John the Baptist was filled with the Spirit from his birth, how much more must Jesus have beenso filled! And will not the phrase "Jesos knew from -the beginning (John vi.. 64) reach back to this stage of Hie life as well as to the beginning of His ministry? He would understand the Scriptures better than wlin /iimotlnnorf IT)m and nMnT would doubtless receive some new light tkat day as they heard the Scriptures quoted In all their simplicity and beauty. 48. "Son. why hast Thou thus dealt with us? Behold, Thy father and I have sought Thee sorrowing." This was His mother's greeting after the three days' search. He might have replied, Why did you go without Me; parents look after children, not children after parents. In chapter S of the Song of Solomon the loved one has a sorrowful search because she did not care enough for her Beloved to let Him in promptly wheh He called. 49. "How is it that ye sought Me'/ Wist ye not that I must be about My Father'9 business?" This is His answer. The revised version gives "in My Father's house," or "In the things of My Father." Thus early iu life did He understand and speak of His great mission. , 60. "And they understood not the 3aying which He spake unto tbem." They did not know Him, even His mother did not understand Him, and just before He died He had to say to one of the twelve, "Have I been so long time with you and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip?" (John adv., 9). Unknown and misunderstood as a boy and as a mr.n. how strangely lonely was all His life. Does any boy or girl, young man or young woman, feel in them movings of the Spirit which even father and mother cannot recognize, think of Jesus and wait God's time. Blessed are they that wait for Him (Isa. xxx., 18). 51. "And He went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject unto them." And this covers the next eighteen years. Where are the young men and women of to-day who are thus cheerfully subject? Where are the older ones who are always cheerfully subject to all our Heavenly Father's plans and appointments? Blessed are all such, for they are in the greatest mission on earth?that of submission. 52. "And Jesus increased in wisdom an 1 stature and in favor with God and man." Almost the same words are used nf Samuel (I Sam.' ii., 26), aud wa think of David, of whom it is wriiren that ,;Davld went on and grew great (go?ng and growing, margin), and the Lora God of Hosts was with him. ' (II Sam. v.. 10). The words or jszbk. xij., 7. oft come 10 mind in reference to the daily life, for we read there of an enlarging and u winding about, but it is always --still jpward." and "by the midst" may "still upward" be our motto and "Jesus in th? midst" our inspiration. ? Lesion Hsiper. FOUND HIS MOTHER. She Wu Clad in Kezcar's Hags, bat He Acknawledgeil Her. Morris H. Spillard, one of Cincinnati's best known citizens, has~~a son, L. H. in San Marta, department of Magdalena, Colombia, South America. The young man ha3 been; in business there for several years, and is1 doing v/ell. In a recent letter to his father young Spillard, in a postscript, remarks: *'I shall now recount to you a fact that is stranger than fiction." He then goes on to state that he was in the sitting room of a! hotel in San Marta recently and witnessed the occurrenco he details. Three general) olScers of tho Colombian army, then on a tour o' inspection, were also in the hotel sitting room. Soon a poor woman came into, i he apartment asking for alms. Her condition was most pitiful, and. to add to her sad condition, her. head was bound up, hiding a cancer on the forehead. She approached the three officers and bagged aid. Two nf the officers gave her twenty cents each. The third one handed her $1. Encouraged by tne muuiflcence of the bequest, she respectfully requested the names of her benefactors. 'The one who ^ave her $1 said ' ' "".?" I Vlina T?r?/1ri{niez. Said nis h;i;uh ?? uuu> j.?. ?0 the poor old mendicant: "I had a sou of that name, and if ho is alive he is about your age,*' This stati'meut interested the officer, nud after a k-ngthv conversation in which the Ijeggar woman recounted her history, it was ascertained that General Rodriguez had Riven alms to his own mother. In brief, the uenerai at once took her in charge, provided liberally for her, and she is now the happy and respoiited guest of honor in his own house. This story is literally true, and youug Mr. Spillard by chance was a witness to this strange aui roinaitio meeting of mother and sou. THE HOUSE COMMITTEES. Speaker Reed Samei the Men WHO WOB ,1 Shape Legislation. Speaker Reed announced the committee* of the Boose of Representatives. Ia yieir H of the complications due to the Venezuela affair, special interest was felt ia the comp<w> H 3ition of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. which will have jurisdiction over all fl measures relative to the ooadnct of th? United States in the dispute which may v . be introduced. Robert R. Hitt, of BUnote,. is made Chairman of the committee. - If*.. , Hitthas served as Secretary of the TJoltedL B States Legation and Charge d'Affaire* in Paris, and was Assistant 8eeretEry of :'i::' State during the Garfield Administration./ A.11 of the Democrats on the Forelgtt AS- ' fairs Committee served on it in the last Con-'/ . gress. The members of the committe*iy3fcjg|H?^KS without exception, are strongly in faVor ot^39 ; , upholding the Monroe doctrine as applied to '$SI the Venezuelan boundary question by Presi- Wm ^^9 dent Cleveland. New York gotten chairmanships and Pennsylvania nine. W r I JOSEPH.O. CAJftfOir,. V VJfecJaHB (Chairman Committee on Appropriations^ . , I The make np of the most important com- I mittees, as announced by Speaker Beed, to: I Rules-^The Speaker; D. B. Henderson, ' I Iowa; John Dalzell, Pennsylvania; C. P- g Crisp, Georgia: Banton McMillin. Tennease?. - 1 Ways'and Means?Ndlson Dingey, Jr., I Maine; Sereno E. Payne, New York; John. 1 Dalzell, Pennsylvania; Albert J. Hopkins^ | Illinois; C. H. Grosvenor. ohio: CharleaA. .1 Rossell, Connecticut; J. P. Dolliver, Iowa; 1 George 8teele, Jiiiana; M. N. Johnson, North. J Dakota; Walk Evans, Kentucky*, J. A. 1 Tawney, Minnesota; Charles p. Crisp, Geor- 1 K" l; Benton McMillin, Tennessee; Heniy ft. 1 rner, Georgia- John C. Tarnsney, Mis- J 6&uri; Joseph Wheeler, Alabama; J. J. Mo- 1 Luurin, South Carolina. i I Appropriations?J. G. Cannon, Illinois; I EL H. Bingham, Pennsylvania;W. W. Grout, / 1 Vermont; ?}. A. Northway, Ohio; William A. J Btone, Pennsylvania; W. 0. Arnold, Bhoda i Island; E. J. Hainer, Nebraska; Richard 1 Blue, Kansas; Mahlon Pitnev, New Jersey j James A. Eemmingway, Indiana; John X-': ] McCall, Tennessee-, JoBeph D. Bayers, T?xai> : '. J A- M. Dockery, Missouri; L. L. Livingston-, v - '] Georgia; Samuel Robertson, Louisiana; P. . , C. Layton, Ohio; F. Bartlett, new Poreign Aflalre-B. R. ffitt, Illinois; WF. Draper, Massachusetts: B. Adams, Jr;. Pennsylvania; Lemuel E. Qulgff, New loric* ' Robert Conalns, Iowa; Charles P. Taft, Ohio; t . Wm. A. Smith, Michigan; Joel P. HeatnoUv Minnesota; Richmond Pearson, North Caro- , iy Una; J. R McCreaiy. Kentuckyj Andrew 8KB2K0 E VitHS. I (Chairman Committee on Merchant Marin* 1 and Fisheries.) . J Price, Louisiana; EL St.G. Tucker,. Virginia^ 1 Hugh A. Dinsmore, Arkansas; Hernando D. I Money, Mississippi; F. C. Newlands, Nevada. 1 | (Chairmen of ihe other important com? I mit tees are: Banking and Currency, J.JL I Walker, Massachusetts; Rivers and Harbors^ I W. B. Hooker, New York; Naval Affairs, C. I A. Boutelle, Maine; Coinage, Weights and 1 Measures, Charles W. Stone. Pennsylvania^ I Military Affaire, John A. T. Bull, Iowa^ - , 1 Merchant Marine and Fisheries, S. E. Payney I New York: Post Offices and Post Roods, R. x I T. Loud, California; Elections, No. 1, Charles ." Daniels, New York; Elections, No. 2, H. U". I Johnson, Indiana-, Eleotions, No. 9, I Samuel W. MoCaU, Maasachusettsf ". f Public Buildings and . Grounds, J Seth L. Milliken, Maine; Pacific 'Tn Railroads, H. H. Powers, Vermont; Claims;. 1 Charles L. Brumtn. Pennsylvania; Agrionl- I ture, James Wadsworth, New York; Minos M and Mining, Daniel D. AJtken, Michigan, I Indian Affairs, James S. Sherman, New I York; Enrolled Bills. A. L. Ha-er, Iowa; fl Railways and Canals. Chester A. Ohio- E koring, New York: War Claims, T. M. .... I Mahon, Pennsylvania; Public Lands, 9 J. F. Lacey,' Iowa; Election of Presi- I dent: Nowton M. Curtis. New York; , I Alcoholic Liquor Traffic, Elijah A. Morse, , H Massachusetts; Library, A. C. Kirmer, I Pennsylvania; Printing, George D. Perkins, I Iowa; "District of Colombia, James A. Bab- I cock, Wisconsin; Education, Galushs A. 9 Grow, Pennsylvania; Pensions, Henry CL a Loudenslager, New Jersey. 4 I EXCITING ACCIDENT. Seven Men Have a Narrow E<capo From Cremation. ) Seven men were terribly buruod while at work on top of Schoenberger's blast furnace, at Pittsburg, Penn. The damage to the fur. nace was slight, but the accident wa3 most exciting, all of tho men having had *, narrow escape from cremation. The injured, who were taken to the West Pennsylvania Hospitiai. are Philip Bowman (colored), Frederick Lear, Michael \ Kelly, William Mooney. Joseph Bodman, Anthony M'iNallv and David Scott. ( The furnace had been closed several days. Th? iirps were relichted and the furnace charged. Tho Sevan men were completing repairs at the top of the luruao*' stack, sev.onty-ll vo feet above the around, when without warning the bell lifted and a huge volume of burning sas enshrouded thetop of the structure and the workmen. Workmen >n the ground ran to tho elevator, and when t thev reached thetop a pitiful sight met their Almost every vestige of clothing had been burned Irom the bodies of their iellowworkmen. Bo>vman an i Le.w had inhaled , tnellames, as well as being terribly burned ibout their bodies. All were quickly lowered to tho ground and aid was summoned, r "..r Rnurnmti nil MooUev W3r<? fat.'tlly I>umeil anil Kelly placed in a precarious conditio!:. 1 i he Steamship Xausemnid Sunk. A despatch lro:n Curacao states that the steamship Nause ronJ, Captain LnKsy, from Curacao or Marncalbo. was in ollisrou with the Spauis'n steamship Mexico, near the Island of Aruba. The Nanseraoml sank and is a total 1 os?. Captain Laksy and fourteen > 11arsons wt-ro drowned. Thirty-Ave lives. were saved by the tug Augusta.' * ! . - :: / ' ; ' f v