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REV. DR TALMA.GE. ! ( BUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE ] NOTED DIVINE. 1 ?; " i Subject: "The Prodigal's Return." < aj.xa. ? win uiisu uuu iu luj iuiuer. -Luke xv., 13. There is nothing 'tike hunger to take the energy out of a man. A hungry man can i I toll neither with pen nor hand nor foot. < There has been many an army defeated not ' so much for lack of ammunition as for lack I of bread. It was that fact that took the Are ' out of this young man of the text. Storm i and exposure will wear out any man's life in 1 time, but hunger makes quick work. The [ most awful cry *>ver heard on earth is the ] cry for bread. A traveler tells us that in ! Asia Minor there are trees which bear fruit < looking very much like the long bean of our i time. It is called the carob. Once in awhile ] the people, reduced to destitution, would eat i these carobs, but generally the carobs?the t beans spoken of here in the text?were t thrown only to the swine, and they crunched i them with great avidity. But this young t man of my text could "not even get them 1 without stealing them. So one day, amid 1 the swine troughs, he begins to soliloqu'z9. i He says: "These are no clothes for a rich man's son to wear. This is no kind of busi- i ness for a Jew to be engaged in, feeding ' swine. I'll go home. I'll go home. I will s arise and go to my father." j I know there are a great many people who i try to throw a fascination, a romance, a < halo, about sin: but, notwithstanding all that : Lord Byron and George Sand have said in i regard to it, it is a mean, low, contemptible i business, and putting food and fodder into t the troughs of a herd of iniquities that root f and wallow in the soul of man is a very poor i business for men and women intended to oe c sous and daughters of the Lord Almighty, \ and when this young man resolved to go i home it was a very wise thine for him to do, r iand the only question is whether we will fol- t low him. Satan promises large wages if we i will serve him, but ho clothes his victims c with rags, and he pinchcs them with hunger, t .and when they start out to do better he sets t after them all the bloodhounds of hell. Satan f coaies to us to-dny, and he promises all lux- J uries and emoluments if we will only serve I him. Liar, down with thee to the pit! "The I of sin is death." Oh. the young man c ntrhe toxTH-ns^^^ben he utterrd the res- f Olution, "I will arise aTimSS? t0 m>' father!" s In tho time of Murv, the pere??^i:,r> 3 cutor came to a Christian wr>rr srr """ | * hidden in her house for the Lord's sak?-^?e 11 of Christ's servants, and the persecutor s:im;-T!S ,"Where is that herctic?" The Christian wo- \ man said, "You open that trunk, and you c will see the heretic." The persecutor opened I the trunk, and on the top of the linen of the { trunk he saw a glass. He said. "There i3 no p heretic here." "Ah!" she said. "You look v in the glass, and you will see the heretic." s As I take up the mirror of God's word to- a day I would that instead of seeing the prod- v I igal of the text we might see ourselves?our b want, our wandering, our sin, our lost con- i< dition. so that we might be as wise as this young man was and say. "I will ariso and go to my father." The resolution of this ^ text was formed in a disgust at his present 0 circumstances. If this young man had been v by his employer set to culturing flowers, or c training vines over i.u arbor, or keeping an 0 account of the pork murket, or overseeing ^ ther laborers, he would not have thought of going home?if he had had his pockets full t] of money; if he had been ab'e to say: "I have ' $1000 now of my own. What's the use of my going liaok to my father's house? Do j you think 1'in going buck to apologize to the old mani' Why, he would put me on the limits. He would not have going on around ! the old place such conduct as I have been jj engagea in. I won't go home. There is no ^ reason why I should go home. I have plenty ij of money, plenty of pleasant surroundings. n TThy should 1 go home?" Ah, it was his ^ I pauperism, it was his beggary! He had to I go home. Some man comes and says to me; *! "Why do you talk about the ruined state of j the human soul? Why don't you speak | about the progress of the nineteenth | century and talk of something more exhilarating?" It is for this reason: A man never wants the gospel un- ^ til he realizes he is in a famine struck State. j( 8uppose I should come to you in your home, . anil you are in good, sound, robust health, and I should begin to talk about modicines, j and about how much better this medicine is j than that, and 6ome other medicine than some other medicine, and talk about this physicir.n and that physician. After awhile you would get tired, and you would say: tj "I don't want to hear about medicines. Why do you talk to me of physicians? I never ? have a doctor." But suppose I come into . Jour house, and I find you severely sick and know the medicines that will cure you,and I know the physiciun who is skillful enousrh ? to meet your case. You say: ''Bring on all , that medicine; bring on that physician. I . am terriHy sick, and I want help." If I come to you, and you feel you are all right g in body, and all right in mind, and all right ? In soul. you have need of nothing, but sup- ^ pose I nave persuaded you that the leprosy ? of sin is upon you, the worst of all sickness. than wm ciiv "Rrlncr m? thnt halm of the gospel; bring me that divine mediea- j ment; brine me Jesus Christ." "But," says some one In tho audience, 1" "how do you know that we are in a ruined condition by sin?" Well, 1 can prove it in ,, two ways, and you may have your choice. I can prove it either by the statements of men ' or by the statement of God. Which shall It ^ be? You say, "Let us have the statement of 3 God." Well, He says in one place, "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked." He says in another place, * "What is man that he should be clean, and c he which is born of woman that he should be righteous?" He says in another * place, "There is none that doeth good? ^ no, not one." He says In another place, , "As by one man sin entered into the world, And death by sin, and so death passed upon !1 all men, fcr that all had sinned." "Well," P you say, "I am willing to acknowledge that, : T *nl?A fV>? KlCAHA JUL \J 11J CUV U 1U JL k C4 IV*J IUO puuvumi A. KM\J that you proposeV" This is the reason: "Ex- Z cept a man bo born again he cannot see the kincdom of God." This is the reason: f, "There is one name given under heaven among men whereby they may bo saved." ? Then there are a thousand voices here ready ? to say: "Well. I am ready to accept this r help of the gospel. I would like to have this divine cure. How shall I go to work?" " Let me suy that a mtro whim, an undefined . longiug, amounts to nothing. You must 2 have a stout, a tremendous resolution like i this young man of the text when he said, "I I will arise anl go to my father." "Oh," says ' 6ome man, "how do I know my father wants P me? How do I know if I go baek I would be received?" "Oh," says some man, "you j' don't know where I have been. You don't P know how iar I have wundered. You v wouldn't talk that way to me if you knew T all the iniquities I have committed." What n is that flutter among the angels of God? ? What is that horseman running with quick T dispatch? It is newsl It is news! Christ I has found the lost. c Nor angels can their joy contain, c But kindle with new "fire. ( The sinner lost is found, they sing, t And strike the sounding lyre* s When Napoleon talked of going into Italy, j they said: "You can't get there. If you 1 knew what the Alps were, you wouldn't talk J aoout h or imnk huuui u. xuu cnu i your ammunition wagons over the Alps." c Then Napoleon rose in his stirrups, and. ? waving his hand toward the mountains, he * said: "There shall be no Alps!" That won- ' derful pass was laid out which has been the * wonderment of all the years since?the won- " derment of all enginee s. And you tell me f there are such mountains of sin between J your soul and God there Is no mercy. Then * I see Christ waving His hand toward the ,( mountains. I hear Hi:n say, "I will come * overthe mountains of thy sin nnd the hills ^ of thine iniquity." There shall be no Pyre- 1 nees; then* shall bo no Alps. ' A lad at Liverpool went out to bathe; went * out into the sea, went out too far, got b<- f yond his depth, ami he floated faraway. A * .ship bound for Dublin came alomj and took 1 him on board. Sailors are generally very generous fellows, and one gave birn a cap, and another gave him a jacket, and another ? - gavihiin shoes. A gentleman passing along on the beach at Liverpool found the lad's i: clothes ami took them homp. and the father < was heartbroken, the mother was heart- i broken, at the loss of their child. They had 1 heard nothing from him day after day. and I they ordered the usual mournine for the sad ] event. But the lad took ship from Dublin ] and arrived in Liverpool the very day the ; mournine arrived. He knocked at the door. J The father was overjoyed and the mother i was overjoyed at the return of their lost son. Oh, my friends, have you waded out too ieepV Have you waded down Into sin? Have pou waded from the shore? Will you :ome back? When you come back, will you ome in the rags of "your sin, or will you ;ome robed in the Saviour's righteousness? I believe the latter. Go home to your God to-day. He is waiting for you. Go home! But I remark the characteristic of this resolution was, it was immediately put into execution. The context says. "He arose and -ami) to his father." The trouble in nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand is that our resolutions amount to nothing because we make them for some distant time. If I resolve to become a Christian next year, that amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve at the service this day to oecome a Christian, that amounts to nothing at all. If [ resolve affr I go home to-day to yield my heart to God. that amounts to nothins at all. The only kind of resolution that amounts to mything is the resolution that Is immediately put iuto execution. There is a man who had the typhoid fever, [lesaid: "Oh. if I could get over this terri}le Mistress, if this fever should depart, if I :ould be restored to health. I would all the rest of my life servo God" The fever departed. Ho got well enough to walk around he block. He got well enough to go over :o business. He is well to-day?as well as he iver was. Where is the broken vow.' There is a man who said long aero, ''If I could live :o the year 1896. by that time I will have my business matters all arranged, and I will lave time to attend to religion, and I will be i good, thorough, consecrated Christian." The year 18S6 has come. January, Februirv, March, April?a third of the year gone. Where is your broken vow? "Oh," says some man, "I'll attend to that when I ;et my character fixed up, when I can ret over my evil habits. I am now giv?n to strong drink." Or. savs the man,"! nn given to uncleanlines?." Or. says the nan. "I am given to dishonesty. When I ret over my present habits, then I'll be a horough Christian." My brother, you will ret worse and worse until Christ takes you n hand. "Not the righteous, sinners Jesus tame to call." Oh. but you say, "I agree vith you in all that, but I must put it off a ittle longer." Do you know there were nnnv who came iust as near as vou are to he kingdom of God oDd never entered it? I vas at Easthampton, and I went into the iemetery to look around, and in that cemeery there aro twelve craves side by sidehe graves of sailors. This crew, some years igo, in a ship went into the breakers at Lmagansett, about three miles away. My )rother, then preaching at Easthampton. had ?een at the burial. These men of the crew :ame very near being saved. The people rom Amagansett saw the vessel and they hot rockets and they sent ropps from the hore. and these poor fellows got into the >oat and they pulled mightily for the shore, >ut just before they got to the shore the rope flapped and the boat capsized, and they iwT ios:f,_tirdrbo(>iS2 nftfirward washed upm thobcach. Oh,whautS6r85ln ^ was? have been told cf it b'v mv bfoth^r?-when hese twelve men Jay at the foot5i the puliit, and he read over them the furi^ra' serice. They camo very near shore?-Wj^in houting distance of the shore?yet did^Jot rrive on solid land. There aro some me^^ rho come almost to the shore of God's morcy, T ut not quite, not quite. To be almost saved 5 to be lost. I will tell you of two prodigals?the one hat got back and the other that did not set ack. In Richmond there is a very prosper?? r.?/^ Knnn * i f m 1 Vt/tma in mfinv roanppfa A oung man wandered off from that home. [g wandered very far into sin. They heard f him after, but he was always on the rrong track. He would not go home. At lie door of that beautiful home one night here wus a great outcry. The young man f the house ran down to opon the door to ee what was the matter. It was midnight, 'he rest of the family were asleep. There rere the wife and children of this prodigal oung man. The f<ict was he had come home nrt driven them out He said: "Out of this ouse! Away with these children! I will ash their brains out! Out into the storm!" 'he mother gathered them up and fled. The est morning the brother, the young man rho had staid at home, went out to find this rodigal brother and son, and ho came to rhere he was and saw the young man wanering up and dowa in front of the place rhere he had been staying, and the young lan who had kept his integrity said to the lder brother: "Here, what "does all this jeaa? What is the majter with you? Why o you act in this way?" The prodittal joked at Irm and said: "VVho am I? Who 0 you take me to be?" Ho said, "You are ly brother." "No. I am not. I am a brute, lave you seen anything of my wife and chllren? Are they dead? I drove them out last ight in the storm. I am a brute. John, do ou think t lere is any help for me? Do you hink I will ever tjet over this life of dissipaion?" He said, "JohD, there is one thing bat will stop this." Tho prodigal ran his nger across his throat and paid: "That will top it, and I will stop it before night. Oh, iv brain! I can stand it no longer." That rodigal never got home. But I will tell you f a prodigal that did get home. In Eugmd "two young men started from their i ither's house and went down to Portsmouth -I have been there?a beautiful seaport, ome of you have been there. The father ould not pursue his children?forsome rea3n he could not leavo home?tnd so he rrote a letter down to Mr. Griffin, saying: "Mr. Griffin, I wish you would go and je my two sons. They have arrived 1 Portsmouth, and they are going to tke ship and going away from home, wish you would persuade Jhem back. Mr. Griffin went and tried to persuade liem back. He persuaded one to go. He rent with very easy persuasion, because he ras very homesick already. Tho other oung man said: "I will not go, I have had nough of home. I'll never go home.". Well," said Mr. Griffin, "then if you won't o home, i ll get you a respectable position; i n a respectable ship." "No, you won't," aid the prodigal. "No, you won't. 1 am oing as a private sailor, as a common, ailor; that will plague my father most, and rhat will do most to tantalize and worry im will please mo best." Years passed on, nd Mr. Griffln was seated in his study one ay when a messenger came to him, saying here was a young man in irons on a ship at' tie dock?a young man condemned to death -who wished to see this clergyman. Mr. rriffin went down to the dock and went on hipboard. Th? young man said to him, You don't know me, do you?" "No," be aid, "I don't kDow you." "Why. don'ti ou remember that young man you tried to ersuade to go home and he wouldn't go?" Oh; yes " said Mr. Griffln. "Are you that ian.' "lcs, i am mat man, saia uie omur. 'I would like to have you prav for mo. I ave committed murder, and I must die. lut I don't want to go out of the world unil some one prays for me. You are my ather's friend, anil I would like to have you ray for me." i Mr. Griffln went from judicial authority to adieial authority to get that youui? man's iardon. He slept not night nor day. Ho! rent from influential person to influential, ierson until in some way he got that young, can's pardon. He came down on the dock, ,nd as he arrived on the dock with the; iardon the father came. He had heard that lis son, under a disguised name, had been iommitting crime and was going to be put c death. So Mr. Griffin and thefather went ,n ship's deck, and at the very moment Mr.: irriffin offered the par Ion to the young man he old father threw his arms around the ion's neck, and the son said: "Father, I lave done very wrong, and I am very sorry. ! wish I had never broken your heart. I im very sorry!'' "Oh," said the father, don't mention it. It won't make any differ>nco now. It is all over. I forgive you, my ion." And he kissed him and kissed him ind kissed him. To-day I offer you the par-, Ion of the gospel?ful pardon, free pardon. : do not care what your crime has been, fhough you say you have committed a crime igainst God, against your own soul, against rour fellow man, against your family, igainst the day of judgment, against the :ross of Christ?whatever your crime has >een, here is pardon, full pardon, and the Hfv rv?r?mnr?t rnn tnl-A thttt narilftn VOUT loavonly Father throws His arms round ibout you and says: "My son, I forgive you. It is all right. You arc hs much in .My favor low as if you had never sinned." Oh, there s joy on earth and joy in houvou. Why will ake the Father's embrace? Greater New York's I'oimlntion. Dr. Roger S. Tracy, Register of Vital Statistics, has made tiio following estimate >f the population of the Greater New York, Tom the weekly reports of tho Boards of health of New York and Brooklyn, and from ;he Federal census of the population of Lou? bland City, Newtown, Flushing, Jamaica, Richmond County and the part of Hemj>stead that is annexed: Total population, J,195,059; population of New York, l,916,'j95; Brooklyn and Kings County, 1.105,000; Long Island City, 42,578; Newtown, 24,d57; Flushing, 22,496; Jamaica, 17,765; Richmond County, 57,963; part ol Hempstead, 8000. fl SOODAH EIPEDITIOH The Dervishes Preparing for a Stub born Resistance. ABYSSINIANS DEFEAT ITALIANS Tl?? Advance Cuaril of the British an< Egyptian Invading Force in a Pre carious Position?The Work of For Trardlnc the Troops lielnj; Pushed? Kccruitlnff the Natives. Cairo. Egypt. April 9.?Advices receive* from the Soudan sny that the news of the dc narture of the Aa?lo-Eprvptian expedition ui tho Nile Valley spread rupidly beyond Khar turn find along the road from Suakim t< Berber. The departure of pilgrims for Mecci has been suspended and the payment of i war tax demanded by the Khalifa. Th< dervishes at Fashoda and Darfur have beei recalled to Omdurman, where the Khallft txpects to assemble 50,000 men by September M P' TYV^ or THE NILE REW0N /v tLa SCALE ofMncs vs'n r \ ^ MEDINA /w?bi malta yl ltd Cataract \vft hCCCA Wf-LUC/Vcc^K arf %ataaiA / t\ TCRRQ^k y j J .'Or^ *" V ITALIAN / Wal* f\JS& j^TS^ \iNrnfCNCvV P#> W i 1 * * /jH (y?\ U / ul ts * V..C0 I / V^vsVlnia V V / - o\^ ? A-^/ \ POrtTUGU^e-^*'' f? , \ INTLUCNCC }$* r: \?GVPT AND THE SOUDAN. (Showing^6 territory which the British *' expedition aims to conquer.) The Khalifa, w'.ritln? to the 8heik of As suan, said that he was always ready to sub mit to the authority of the Khedive of Egypt, as the representafi^P of the Sultan, but thai he would "resist to {he death any expeditior coming from Egypt, ?0 long as the British occupy the country." In concluding his letter he said: "I am aw&?a that the British de< sire to have me assassinated, but I have takei precautions that none of"$he European prisoners shall survive my murder." Some idea of the activity Vith which troops and supplies are being senisouthwar 1 can be gathered from the stateiftgnt that the KHALIFA ABDULLAH. f Against whom Great Britain has declared * war.) Messrs. Cook, who havo contracted to do this work, recently conveyed 2500 men, full? armed and equipped, by steamers and barges, from Balliana to Assuan, a distance of 300 miles, between 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon and 6 o'clock the next Monday morning. , The British troops which will take part in the advance on Dongola will, it is expected, number about 5000 men, together with about 15,000 Egyptian trained troops led by British officers. The purely British force will probably consist of the Second Connaught Rangers, the First Gloucestershire, the First North Staffordshire, a detaohment of the Royal Engineers, two or three batteries ol the Royal Artillery, a camel corps of British cavalrymen and the Second Dragoon Suards. A strong volunteer camel corps is beinR formed from among recruits picked up among the tribes of friendly sheikhs, and it will prove a very valuable body for scouting pnrposes. HEAVY ITALIAN LUSSz.5. Further Reports of the Unities With the Dervishes. Massowah, Abyssinia, April 9.?Later advices from the front show that the losses ol the Italiaus in tho lighting which followed the attack made upon the Italian native battalion at Mount Mocran, near Kassala, were much more severe than at llrst reported, It is now stated that the Italians lost ten officers and 300 men. Tho heaviest loss of the Italians was incurred in the reconnoissance ofTucrufmade by Colonel Stefani, during which he captured some of the forts, but was unable entirely to dislodge Ihe dervishes. 11 is presumed that tho numbers given in the despatch mean the number of men killed, m nothing is said about tho wounded. Ocean Tow?je. The Standard Oil Company is about to at tempt towing from Philadelphia to Europe one of the schooner-rigged tank barges, capacity 15.000 barrels, which have been foi some time in service between that port and Maine. The Veuezucla Dispute. The British Foreign Office authorities tlenj the truth of the report that the Yenezneli dispute is on the eve of settlement. The position. they sav. is virtually unchanged, though the negotiations now in progress gruuuany leiia toward a settlement. Prominent People. Th.?y say that the Queea is going to mal? Lord Salisbury a duke. Tno Prince of Wale?, will not ride a bike, but uses a tricyclo a great ileal. Richard Mansfield, the actor, will lecture on the drama at Chautauqua next summer. They say that Dr. Jameson's medical practice in South Africa was worth '515,000 a year. Commissioner Evangeline Booth, of the Salvation Army?it is not Eva?was uaaieJ after Longfellow's heroine. Cecil Rhodes, the South African magnate, dreads women. He says they noddle too much in other people's business. measles in the white house. I ? Esther Cleveland, the President's Dangliter. Attacked l>v the Dlsenae. President Cleveland and Private Secretary Thurber were quarantined at Ihe White House, Washington, and Mra. Cleveland and her children were quarantined at Woodley, ind Mrs. Thurher and her little ones at their ( home, on I street All this, anrt a postponement of a Cabinet meeting In addition, was the result of a discovery In (he White House nursery that 1 little Esther Cleveland, the President s second daughter, who Is two and a half years old, had deve'oned symptoms of measles fibout tbat time. Immediately there was preat excitement throughout the Mansion. Tho President was Informed, and be sent telegrams to all the Cabinet officers in town . that there would he no Cabinet meeting. Miss Bathmann, the teacher of the White House kindergarten, was sent post haste to j Woodley, the President's country place, and hurried preparations were made for taking Esther an<! her sisters there, Shortlv after5 ward the sick child was sent to Woodley in ? a closed carriage; accompanied in that and ! another vehicle by her mother, nurses and , sisters. Private Secretary Thurber has been living 1 in the White House for ten days, since one i of his children developed a ca?e of measles. In the morning voung "Tom" Thurber and the cook at the Thurber house were taken with the disease. Esther Cleveland and the Thurber children are doling well. Little Esther's is said to be a mild ease. It Is likely that on her recovery the family will be joined at Woodley by the President, and will remain there" until tbev leave for Gray Gabler at the beginning of the summer. VICTORIOUS AMERICANS, Trlnmph of Onr Representatives In tlie Olympic Games. On the second day of the Olympic games at Athens, Greece, the Interest In their revival showed no sign of diminution. The first heat of the 110 metres hurdle race was won bv Gouldlng, an Englishman. His time was 18 2-5 seconds. The second heat was won by T. P. Curtis, of the Boston Athletic Association, whose time was 1ft seconds. The long jump was was won by Ellerv H. Clark, of the Boston Athletic Association, who covered 6.05 metres. Robert Garrett, captain of the Princeton team, was second, with six metres to his fereait, and James B. Connolly, of the Suffolk Athletio Club of Bos lon.tnirn, wun o.?* metres. The 400 metres race on the flat was won by Thomas E. Burk?*, of tho Boston Athletic Association. His time was 54 1-5 seconds. H. A Jamison, of Princeton University, was second. Tho next event on the programme was putting the weight. Captain Garrett won, scoring 11.22 metres. The Greek champion, Gouskos, was second, scoring 1L03 metres. Gouskos is the second Greek champion who has met defeat contesting with Garrett The one hand weight lifting contest was won by Elliott, an Englishman, who raised 71 kilos. Two handed weight lifting contest was won by JenseD,a Dane, who lifted lll.'< kilos. Flack, the Australian, won the 1500 metres race on the flat in four minutes an<? thirty-three seconds, i . STUDENT DROWNED. John F. Day Loses His Life and Four Others Narrowly Escape. John F. Day, of Janesville. aj&lflSnt r?* J the State University, Madison, Wis., was drowned in Lake Mendot^ Four companions narrowly escaped th^?ame fate. One t was Andy O'Dea, cojicjrtff the 'Varsity crew, and tho others wer<j- John F. Day, C. C. filcConville, of La gr&sse; L. D. Street, ofDix, on, 111., anfi-'young O'Dea, brother of the L coach, alr^tudents and candidates for places oir-hfoerew. They went out for practice in the fourpnred gigs. The lake was as smooth as glass when they started, but when the boats were half a mile from shore a breeze came up and Jhe high waves swamped the craft. The boat in which were John Dav. Mo Conville and young O'Dea Trent over first. Three times they came to the surface and caught hold of the boat, only to be washed away. The third time John Day failed to rise. The other two clung to the gig until boats, which immediately put out from the University bonthouse, arrived. Half a mile further away were Andy O'Dea and L. B. Street, in the other gig, and they too, went over just after the flrst boat upset. They had been in the water a full hour when rescued. THE CHICAGO RINC CRIPPLED. Citizens Join Forces to Down the Professional Politicians. In the elections in Chicago for town officers and Aldermen, the Republicans carried all of the seven towns by majorities ranging from 1000 to 400i). The campaign for Aldermen was not strictly on party lines, being more of an effort on the part of the reputs^le citizens, regardless of politics, to oust the clique which has controlled the Council. Of the thirty-four Alderman elected only eight are men who were opposed by the Municipal Voters' League. The remaning twenty-six may be said fairly to represent f-hnrpsneetable element. The People's party did not succeed In ' electing a single candidate. Of the suecess, ful contestants, thirteen are Democrats, ' eighteen Republicans, and three ran on an . independent ticket. Blood was shed in the First Ward, and the police wore called on to quell several incipil ent riots at the polling places among the followers of the rival Aldermanic candidates. 1 HUDSON RIVER CHANNEL ALTERED. Changes Wrought by the Big Ice Gorge at i Stockport. Superintendent Horton, of the Citizon Steamboat Line, made a trip down the Hudson River on the steamer Belle Horton. It ' was found that the big ice gorge which had formed in the river at Stockport, N. Y., during the winter had materially altered the channel at that point. A permanent dam seems to have been formed on tho west side of the stream. The big Albany and Troy boats have always used the west channel, but will now be forced to use the east one, which is much narrower. This channel for a mile and a quarter is not wide enough for one of the big boats t to turn in it. It is deep and per1 fectly safe, however. Th-s west channel ?ill ??? ? * ~ Ka /-Irrnd Kafnrfl It- nan hft I Will IICIVU IV I/O vuivkw *k ??M ? ? ? again. Tbo east channel, whicii will be > used by the big boats, will be carefully souuded and provided with signal lights. England Exports liicycles. ; During nine months of 1895, England ex| ported $4,000,000 worth of bicycles. Of this j amount tho United States look only $94,000 worth. ^Traininsr Vonncr Tars. The United Slates training ship Essex sailed from Newport, It. I., forSouth:unpton, England, on ner regular summer cruise. Sho has a larice number of naval apprentices on board. The itinerary includes Havre, ' Lisbon. Funchal and Las Pa1 mas. and tho 1 cruise is expected to end at Gardiner's Bay, L. I., July 26. Precocious Highway Itobbors. Mamie and John Timothy, twelve an 1 ton , years old respectively, were held for trial in Jersey City, N. J., charged with abducting and "robbing babies and pawning tlmir J clothes, the proceeds ot whi .'h th?y spent for candy und cigarettes. Kntnhilln a Seaworthy Ii.nn. Tho United States ram Katiihdin, which was given a builders' speed trial on Long Island Sound ou October 31, before her acceptance by tin; Unit -d States Government, was given a twelve hours' run from New London, Conn., to sea to ascertain whether she had any d? ect or weakness in hull, fitting or equipment, or any defective workmanship or material. She proved herself a i 6eaworthy vessel. , Phyglclano Have the Right-of-way. 1 Chicago has passed a law giving the rightof-way in tho streets to physicians. SABBATH SCHOOL. - V INTERNATIONAL LKSSON FOR APRIL 2G. Lesson Text: *'Tho Rich Man and Lazarng," Luke xvl., 19-31? Golden Text: Luke xvl., 13?Commentary. 19. "There was a certain rich man." There is probably something dispensationr.1, something of Jew and gentile, in this, in the record in this lesson; but inasmuch as the two preceding chapters treat largely of man's treatment of the love of God and man's natural blindness to his eternal welfare contrasted with God's abundant provision and desire for man's welfare, we will so consider it. As thore is nothing in the record to indicate that this is a parable I prefer to take it as a record of facts, of evpnts which actually transpired. This rich man makns us think of the rich fool of xii., 20, the rich idolater of xvlli., 23, and the rich publican of six., 2, and it would be well to comparo these records. The rich man of this lesson may be called "The Rich Skaptic." 20. "And there was a certain beggar." As there is nothing necessarily sinful in being rich, for Abraham and David and other good men were very rich, so there is nothing necessarily pious in being poor, yet the words of our Lord are, "How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God." (chapter xviil., 24). Not many wish or mighty or noble are called (I Cor. L, 26-29), but God hath chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which. He hath promised to them that love Him (Jas. ii., 5). 21. "And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table." Things are often very unevenly divided in this life. Some have more than they can use, while others have not the necessaries of life, and dogs seem more kind than men. It may have seemed a charity to allow the beggar to lie at the gate and receive the crumbs from the table, though the record does not say that he received them, but only that he desired to. If the rich man had only been a true child of Abraham, and as such mlnioforaH frt fhls nnnr nno. what a different future he would have had! 22. "And it came to pass that the beggar died. The rich man also died." It is appointed unto men once to die (Heb. ix., 27), and while In the past Enoch ana Elijah have been excused from keeping this appointment, and at the coming of Christ lor His saints they will all be caught up without dying, yet up to this time the great enemy continues his work upon rich and poor, high and low. without raspoct of persons. Thank God for the ministering angels (Heb. i., 14), who will welcome us if called to leave the body anl bear or guide us to the presence of the Lord. 23. "And in hell (badea) he lift up his eyes, being in torments." To the believer in Christ, whether rich or poor, "To die is gain," "To be with Christ is far better" (Phil, i., 21, 23), but to the unbeliever to die is to be in torment, not that of the lake of flre which comes after the resurrection of the bodies of the wicked at the time of the great white throne judgment (Rev. xx., 11-15). ljut possibly that which is referred to in II Pet. ii., 4. The condition of both believers and unbelievers between death and resurrection, while that of conscious happiness or misery, is evidently an intermediate state while waiting for the body. 24. "I am tormented in this flame." This word translated "flame" is used but a few ~tim?s, arid generally in reference to the eyes vrcur Lor'd-^^-Gbfifltt.as in Rev. i., 14; ii., 18; xlx., 12. May it norSHfW??*t that part *u~ a? Katmartn ofh ATl^ll resurrection consists of the memories oTfrf wasted life, laiA bare by these searching eyes and no possibility of forgiveness? 25. "Son, remember." This confirms the thought of memory doing its awful work in that dread interval. The rich man could remember, and his memories were anything but pleasant. The wasted life, the opportunities forever gone, the vain regrets, the unavoidable doom. We need none of us to have this experience, but the only way is to remember now the loving kindness of the Lord and believing His love to us receive Him as our Saviour. 26. "Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed." The Scriptures nowhere tench the possibility of the salvation of a lost soul after death; but, as in this verse, just the contrary. "Because there is wrath beware lest He take thee away with His stroke, then a great ransom cannot deliver thee" (job xxxvi., 18). "Neither their silver nor tneir gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath" (Zeph. i., 13). 27. "Send him to My Father's house." I do not remember another record in Scriptuie of a prayer to a departed saint, and if those who pray to the dead ana for the dead would remember the teaching of this lesson they might perhaps see the folly and sin of their conduci. If those who pray to Mary would think of Mary's song. "My spirit hath reinicert in God. mv Saviour." they would see that Mary herself needed to be saved like other slnnerp. 28. "Testify unto them lest they also come into this place of torment." If he had never been anxious for his own soul's welfare while he lived on the earth, he was now desirous for the welfare of his brethren, who were still there. There are evidently no skeptics after death. They all believe the hard facts then. 29. "They have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them." Here wo see the cause of this man's lost condition. He, too, had Moses and the prophets while he lived on the earth, but he had evidently despised them. We have no evidence that he had been an openly wicked man. Perhaps he was a very moral man and a good citizen, but he was an unbeliever and indifferent to God and His word, and apart from God there Is no life. 30. "If one went unto them from the dea-i, they will repeat." Just so do many talk even her*. They say: "No one has ever come back to tell us about the hereafter. How do we know?" They do not seem to realize that by such thoughts and words they make God a liar (I John v., 10). He has told us in His word, and the Son of God has come down from heaven to tell us of these unseen realities and to deliver us from going down to the pit. If we despise the written word, we also despise the living \rora, ana 11 we i despise the Son we despise the Fttiher. 31. "If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they bo persuaded, though one rose from the dead." This is conclusive testimony bv one who know*. Our Lord Jesus told these facts, and Ha knows all men and all that is in man (John ii.. 24, 25). All unbelief is simply rebellion against God, and His love, and His Son. The one thing to do is to believe God and accept His 3on. and do it quickly lest it be too late.?Lesson Helper. CRIME IN SWITZERLAND. Agitation in Favor of Restoring the Death Penalty. Tho alarming increase in the number o: murders in Switzerland has given rise to another agitation in favor of the restoration oJ capital punishment throughout the Confederation, and it is not impossible that 4h< question will soon be put to a popular vote In 1874 the Federal Constitution abolishec the death penalty, but the Cantons retaine< individual liberty to restore it, and oa? o the ilrst to take advantage of this option wa: Lucerne, where, tiowever, there has sinot been only two executions, each for a pecu liarly atrocious crime, of which the victim; were women. Years'ago the murderers ii Lucerne used to be beheaded with a swor< in tho market place, but now a guillotine i: used and executions take place within prisoj walls. For a Xntional Flower. The Columbine Association, whose object - u~..? n,.i r,fn,.i,il rwlnntinn nf the 13 10 nrtll^ liuuuv 1.1 - ..j,...... colnmfo;n<! us Hie National flower of the United States, has been started in Boston. Its organization ha? just beau perfected after obtaining an indorsement of the movement from munv representative Americans, including arti.'ts. writers, horticulturists ami botanists iu various parts of the country. In order to accomplish Its purpose the association proposes to circulate as widely n? possible information regarding the unique qualifications of the columbine for Columbia's flower emblom and iu other ways tc arouse the interests of Americaus in this direction. To Explore Labrador. Professor C. E. H to, of Philadelphia, Js preparing to send a scientific expedition into the Interior of Labrador during the coming summer. It will include representatives of Harvard, Colun>bla, the University o Cuicsgo tiiid the Uniwrsiiy of Iowa. _ RELIGIOUS READING. SERMONS IS FATES. A poet has made the whole world gladly conscious tliiit there are "sermons in the stones:" but who shall immortalize tin- infinitely more significant thought that every human face is a living, breathing, eloquent sermon forever preaching itself into the eyes and souls of men, and repeating with evCty glance its lesson of love, of hope, of warning, of despair? For there never yet was a face that did not carry some spiritual message. Its prevailing, dominant expression is always a moral force. The saint whose face shines with the benediction of a loving soul, and the forlorn wretch upon whos4 brow is stamped the misery of crime and hate, are both preachers of silent spiritual lessons. The one face wins, the other warns ; but both proclaim the beauty and the worth of holiness. There are some preaching faces whose text seems to be, "Joy unto the Lord !" How they go about with their silent, shining proclamations of optimism! The very sunshine of life is in them, and flows out to all who will receive it. A sunshiny face in the world is as good and helpful as any cheering book or poem; and the man or woman who possesses it, though they may spend their days in the humblest employment, is doing the same kind of work as a Phillips Brooks or a Frederick Faber. Books are not the only things that are read. Thrre is a poetry and an eloquence of the hum.*.n face, in comparison with which books are often but slow and dull interpreters. Not every one can preach the optimism of life with voice or pen, but who is there who cannot preach it with a loving,cheerful countenancc V Let your face bo a sermon of joy. Some faces are always beaming with a tender charitableness, that wins men where spoken sermons are merest chaff. Give a revivalist or a mission worker one of these sermon faces, full of God's love, and he will lead men to the feet of Christ, though the words of his preaching be but commonplace and uninspired. Those who have read Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' "A Singular Life," will ruwuiuueir iuai sue ^i>us uci vuuu^ picauiier-hero a face of this type; and the very children of the slums crowd to his chapel and cluster lovingly about him, as if he were some beautiful angel-vision. Then there is the face that preaches purity and high ideals. Ah! What a rare, precious face is this in the world! It belongs mostly to the saintlike women, whom one worships as spontaneously, as reverentlj as he lifts his eyes to the stars. What a host of crimes have been slain with shame at the sight of a pure woman's shining face The light of those blameless eyes is like ac arrow, white as a sunheam, piercing to the very soul. Never was there a sermon written that could preach purity like the noble Innocence and trust of a woman's face. II the soul is right within, tho countenance will preach God's tr"*h and God's love as long as life lasts. D j and night, in church, 01 3hop, or street?everywhere, at all times? the helpful, inspiring'sermon will go forth. Always the same truth, always the same spirit shining there! It is the iteration oi the message that tells. The face does not preach one doctrine today, anQther tomorrow. It preaches character; and charactex is established, vitalized righteousness. EASTER MESSAOE. The Easter Message is not merely Christ rising from the dead, but Christ rising as the first fruits of them that sleep. This is the Easter message, as the Apostles bore it from ;ity to city. The love that was victorious in avery follower of Christ. Have you read Mrs. Browning's poem about a little flowei that prayed that it might come out before the other flowers and be in advance of the "sprftig,. .afidjsaid : How all nature will hail me, how the Wf^s. wiu, sing ai my ti<iv>.-iu, how the gun will shine upSB will stoop and kiss my petals! And the prayer was granted, and it came before its time, and the snow looked scornfully on it( and said : Who are you that is like a bit ol the snow? and there wore no birds to sing, and the sunshine was veiled and the rain waicold. and the flower that was born before its time died before its time. Oh, how pathetic is the history of the human race. Abraham coming out of his country and dying, with only just enough soil of Canaan to bury his wife in! Elijah withdrawing himself Into the wilderness in an age of recreancy and living in loneliness and in sorrow. Paul giving himself with unselfish service tc his fellow men, misunderstood by his own shurch, derided, persecuted by the very ones he would serve. Savonarola, Huss, WyclifT, William of Orange?a long line? all seeming to bear the same witness. Whoever comes to the world before his time comes, like a flower born before its time, to die before his time. And so it was with Christ. And if that is all. if the death of Jesus Christ interprets the life of Christ, then the inscription to write over that life is this: Be not righteous overmuch, for why shouldst thou perish before thy time ? But Easter brings a different message. Love is Hufoofu/l niirM^rrnqnetiq floes not die. For death Is not dying; and there is no mac yet that ever followed Christ's course?living a life like His, bearing a witness like His ?who has not risen with Christ. For love is conquering and does conquer.?Lymac Abbott, D. D. TRIBULATION. What efficiency does tribulation give tc character! When the king asked Ole Bull, the virtuoso of the violin, where he caughl the rapturous tones which he brought out ol his instrument, the artist replied, "I caughl them, your majesty, from the mountains oi Norway." He had climbed the mountains and listened to the storm; he had footed the loft) cliffs and heard the vespers of the pines at the time of the sunset breeze; ho had heard the midnight litany of the cascades in the darkness. When interpreting these voices of nature, he thrilled the world's great heart, What gives some men power beyond others tc move and thrill ? It is because they have ascended the mountains and gone down intc the valleys of sorrow, and there caught uj: the tones of tenderness and of subdued strength and confidence, which have made them John Howes, to discourse on the "Redeemer's Tears." Fletchers, to tell out something of "Love's Bottomless Abyss," nnc Whiteflelels. to roll the thunder "of alarrr along the affrighted ranks of folly. It i< sorrow that gives the tongue of the learnec to know how to speak a word to them thai are weary. When I hear of a minister who has never had a days sickness, nor a sorrow, nor a little green grave to which his heart fondly turns, you tell me he is eloquent and gifted and applauded *" -111 *. A# Vl ( i'O me, WltllOUl UK un|>ll.1iu U1 rwuvn , is but as the sounding brass and tinkMnf e.vrabal. Ho can never move my heart He vcan never thrill my spirit, nevei bring me nearer to the bosom of Jesus. TrU? ulation is God's own school, through whicl His only Son had to pass, that being ma<l< perfect through suffering. He might b< made a merciful nijrh Priest. Because pain sulTering, sorrow, give power to move anc thrill the spirit of men. therefore "we glor in tribulations."?George Douglas, D.D. ' If Christ be not risen then is your faitt vain." Not ns withering infidelity write! does lie "lie buried in that far oflf laud.' "Ho is not here, He is risen. Come, see tlx place where the Lord lay." That empt; grave is significant. The Lord of Lif< there annulled death. We are not to regan. the resurrection of Christ as a rcsuseitatioi after the manner of Lazarus. That was / recession, a- coming back into his forme: manner of existence. Christ's resurrectioi was a progression, not a coming back int< the sphere of the Unite and temporal on tin part of the spirit. but tfi>? spirit taking lie body to itself into the .-piritual. eterna realm.?Interior. IV.itestiin. t! * il*?v?v is as yet f.ir l> him Human Catholic tln-ulw^y in it> handling o tin* -r.-at ? !' . " Hilarity. r.'V::rsi bilitv an.l -x|-i.i:i??-:.?liriti.-h Weekly. To Move n Town. The town of Weuatcuee, Wash., is to be moved two mill?.* from its present location to a point on the bank of a river. It is a pretty fair sized town, too. All the biddings will bo moved In the usual way to the new location. Thero is not an adequate supply of water where the town now stands, and in addition the citizens arc incensed at the avarice of the owners of the present town site, who have fixed the price of the property at a very high figure. r~ ~ Pike's Peak Wants Its Hero. ' Governor Mclntyre will ask the Colorado Legislature to take action with a view of taking from Massachusetts the body of Zebulon JI. Pike and burying It on the peak whloh bears his name , ., ' " ' ; If TEMPERANCE.. ? J DAKGEB IK THE GLASS. ^ There's danger in the glass. Bewar#i i lest it enslaves. They who have drained it And, alas! Too often early graves. It sparkles to allure, With ; Us rich, ruby light! There is no i antidote or cure. Only its course to flight. It changes men to brutes; Makes women bow i their heads: Fills homes I with anguish, want, disputes and takes from I children bread. Then /? dash the glass awav, i Andfromtha L serpentfleo; i Drluk pure ' i cold water $S i . day by i day, And w ft 1 k I GOD'S FOOTSTOOL FREE! DEINKIKO ON THE DECLINE. Never In the history of the world has soi much pressure been brought to bear against) Intemperance as now. In this country and; In Aruof Brlfoln thi? tomnflrflnflfl nrffftniza- fl Hons have become very powerful. Evea Emperor William has advocated a move. against intemperance in Germany. Thei French Assembly has instituted temperance legislation, and the agitation has almost reached the rum and tea besotted boors of Bussia. Seeing this, many people take it for granted that intemperance was never so rife in the world as now, says the Saturday Evening Gazette. This notion is quite false, however, for statistics and a perusal of the social, memoirs of a century and more ago abroad, plainly show that, especially In the brutal phases of drinking, there has been almost a transformation. It was a proud boast in the days of Gibbon that an English gentleman could consume a pint of brandy at a single sitting, and in the days of Sheridan tbe man !, who could not dispose of his four pints of port in an evening was hardly regarded as & "man of spirit." At the famous literary gatherings of the last century in London the 1 regular duty of the night porter at the clubs^ : was to go the rounds in the early hours of j the morning aud '-loosen the gentlemen's1 | neckties" for those who wera found snoring j " \ , in the various places in the apartments. Henry Buckle, the historian of English civ[ ilization, draws a frightful picture of the drunkenness of the masses in the last aadi previous century, such occasion* as execu1 tious on the public squares being attended ' by disgusting carnivals of intoxication. Statistics evidence that intemperance has | diminished in England neary forty per cent. as compared with earlier periods. One of the court cronies of the Great Elector of Prussia, as related by Carlyle, chose to be burled publicly in a gin puncheon, as a mark of his devotion to ardent spirit, and the ceremony was not in the least shocking to pub, lie sentiment. An excessive drinker like those of other day3 is now decidedly a marked man in more senses than one, and the amount of toleration accorded him In society is a: a low notch. Whatever suppres- ' ' einn mn.vha.va done to decrease drunkenness. the chief instrumentality has been general refinement and a higher moral sense in the community, silent forces that belle the fore; bodings of the pessimist. i . " TAREST OF ennrE. I Strong drink is not only the devil's way iuto a man, but man's way to the devil.?Dr. Adam Clark, Judges are weary with calling attention to drink as tho principal cause of crime, but I cannot refrain from saying that if they could make England sober, they would shut up L nine-tenths of the prisons.?Lord Chief Jus"tiee-Goieridge, of England. , Of all the?raTi?364?f siajaafi ?J3ery. of pauf perism and wretchedness, intoxicating liquor - stands forth the unapproacbable~"etiie_f.? Noah Davis, Chief Justice of the New Yorfc l Sunreme Court. Two-thirds of the crimes which come before the courts of law of this country are occasioned chiefly by intemperance.?Lord Chief Baron Kelly, of England. Eighty per cent, of the crime of our coun. try is the result of intemperance, and ninety; five per cent, of the depraved youth are the children of drunken and depraved house, hoidi.?General Eaton, United States Commissioner of Education. ''ViS T Pan no terms with a vice that fills our jails, that destroys the comfort of homes ! and the peace of families, and debases and brutalizes the people of these islands.?Lord | Chief Justice Coleridge, of England. 'I I ' SI A TIIEE OF DEATH. There is a tree of death in Java. The natives call it Kali Mujah. Its breath would 1 kill birds and even human beings. One da; when Rev. E. S. XJfford was chasing a bird; of-paradise, he DOticed that it dropped suddenly to the ground under a tree. He examined the tree and began himself to feel 1 srrangely as the odors from its leaves were inhaled by him. His head swam and ring' lng sounds came to his ears as though he ! was being chloroformed. He hastened away 1 from it, but procured a specimen and sent it to America, which, it is said, is the first one transplanted to our soil. "What a striking illustration this is of the . tree of death which has been planted in oar fair America by the distiller! It has leaves 1 for the blighting of the Nations. I see the > yx>ung, the middle-aged, the old, chasing the ; birds of pleasure, and then falling down be? neath the dark shadow of the baleful tree, to . die there, never to rise again. Would that r we might lay the axe at the root of that , tree."?Missionary Review of the World. 8TOBY TOLD BY A TWO-DOLLAB BILL. ^ A two-dollar bill came into the hands of a ' relative of mine, writes a lady in Boston. I which speaks volumes on the horrors of 5 strong drink or the traffic in it. There was ' written in red ink on the back of It the folf lowing: ( 1 "Wife, children and over 840,000 all gone; ! I alone am responsible. All has gone down " my throat. When I was twenty-one I had a ?l?_ t Yi/\f out rt-w.flvn vsars old. . 1WIUUC. i out ? 1 I have killed my beautiful wife, who died of 1 a broken heart; have murdered my children I with neglect. When this bill is gone I do 1 not know how I can get my next meal. I ' shall die a drunken pauper. This is my last 1 money and my history. "If this bill comes into the hands of any 5 man who drinks, let him take warning from ' my life's ruin."?Northern Messenger, 5 , GREAT BRITAIN S DRINK BILL. ' Great Britain's drink bill for 1895?which r amounts to over 9(712,000,000?was much larger than that for 1894. This increase the i London Times ascribes to the fact that in 5 1895 there was a marked trade revival; and 3 when trade revives the drink bill, with other bills, Roes up. This leading London daily 1 does not, however, advert to the disturbing f influences exerted upon trade by the dislocating and often destructive interferences of intemperance, with its sad results of mental and physical wreckage. If when trade t revives the drink bijl goes up. conversely s when the drink bill goes up trade in many ' lines declines. Rum and prosperity do not * iu the long run keep together. > AN IMPORTANT QUESTION. 1 Ono of the greatest evils of our time and 1 lan-l i.< intemperance. A large part of the 1 misery and crime in our comm'Miity cornea r c'irectly from this source. Every day we hear 1 of some poor woman beaten to death by a ' drunken husband, some man made insane by poisonous liquor sold to him by those whom we license. J? or ine saite vi n mw uuum: ' men spend their lives in making and selling these dreadful poisons. Self-protection requires that society shall put an end to the < I evil. How this shall be done is one of the f most difficult as well as one of the mosc im. portant questions of the time.? James 1'reeman Clarke. WEALTIIY WISE BIBBER". , Some idea of what the wealthier classes | drink, when they indulge in intoxicants at all. may be trained from the custom house records, which show that the total of iin ports of champagne into the United States lor the year 1895 was 239.843 cases. But just how many cases of intoxication, of sa l blight of prospects and helpless ruin of hope resulted therefrom is not stated, noi statable. tkmpf.hance news and notes. There never was a cow that gave milkpuucn. i What a world of misery and crime will vanish with tho saloon. It whs Cardinal Manning who said: "Tompo.-ance is gooJ; total abstinence Is better.'* > ,