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I KEY. DR. TALMAGE. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY XHE NOTED DIVINE. Subjcct: "Bad Company." Ira Test: 4,Walk not thou in the way with W them."?Proverbs l.> 15. 8 Hardly any younp m^ n goes to a place of B dissipation alone. Each one is accompanied. H No man goes to ruin alone. Healwaystakes g some one else with him. "May it please the court." said a convicted criminal when asked if he had anything to say bei.iro sentence of [ death was passed upon him?"may it please the court, Dad company has been my ruin. I f received the blessing of (rood parents and in return promised to avoid all evil associations. Had I kept my promise I should havo been saved this shame and been free from he load of guilt that bangs around me like a vulture; threatening to drag me to justice ! for crimes yet unrevealed. I who once j moved in the first circles of society and have been the guest of distinguished public men S am lost, and all through bad company." P This is but one of the thousand proofs that evil associations blast and destroy. It " is the invariable rule. There is a well man in the wards of a hospital where there are a hundred people sick with ship fever, and he gH win uui un su uvi iu iatkc iuc uucoau 09 a H good man would b? apt to be smitten with B moral distemper If shut up with Iniquitous companions. In olden times prisoners were K4 herued together In the same eel!, but each one learned the viccs of all the culprits, so that Instead of being reformed Dy lncarceration th<* day of liberation turned them out H upon society beasts, not men. Bjfi We may. in our places of business, be com n palled to talk to and mingle with bad men, but be who deliberately chooses to associate 1^" himself with vicious people Is engaged In carrying on a courtship with a Delilah whose shears will clip off all the looks of his strength, and he will be tripped into perdition. Sin is catching, Is Infectious, Is epidemic. I will let you look over the millions - of people now inhabiting the earth, and I challenge you to show me a good man who after one year has made choice and consorted with the wicked. A thousand dollars' reward for one such instance. I care not how I strong your character may toe. Go with the corrupt nnd you will become corrupt. Clan with burglars, and you will become a burglar. Go among the unclean, and you will become unclean. Many a young man has been destroyed by not appreciating this. He wakes up some morning in the great city and knows no one except the persons into whose employ he has entered. As he goes into the store all the clerks mark him, measure him and discuss him. The upright young men of the store wish him well, but perhaps wait for a formal introduction, and even then have some delicacy about inviting him into their associations. Bat the bad young men of the store at tho first opportunity approach and offer tbeir se?vices. They patronize him. , Thev profess to know all about the town. , They will take him anywhere he wishes to go?if he will pay the expenses. For if a good p young man and a bad young man go to some place where they ought not, the good young man has invariably to pay the charges. At tho moment the ticuet is paid for, or the champagne settled for, the bad younif man feels arouud in his pockets and says, "I have forgotten my pocketbook." In forty-eight hours after the young man has entered the store the bad fellows of the establishment slap him on the shoulder familiarly, and, at his stupidity in taking certain allusions, say, "My young friend, you I will have to be broken in, ana tney immediately proceed to break him in. Young man, in the name of God I warn you to beware how you let a bad man talk familiarly with ; you. If such a one slap you on the shoulder familiarly, turn round and give him a with- ; ering look until the wretch crouches In your ; presence. There is no monstrosity of wickedness that can stand unabashed under the glance of purity and honor. God keeps the ! lightnings" of heaven in His own scabbard, and no human arm can wield them, but God Rives to every young.man a lightning that he may use, and that is the lightning of an honest eye. Those who have been close observers of city life will not wonder why I give warning to young men and say, "Beware of evil companions. I warn you to shun the skeptic?the young man who puts his fingers in his vest and laughs at your old fashioned religion, and turns over to some mystery of the Bible, and i eays, "Explain that, my pious friend, explain that." And who says: "Nobody ehall scare me; I am not afraid of tho 1 future. I used to believe in such things, 1 and so did my father and mother, but I have | got over it." Yes, be has got over it, and if you sit in his company a little longer you will get over it too.' Without presenting one argument against the Christian religion, such men will, by their jeers and scoffs and ' caricatures, destroy your respect for that re- 1 ligion which was the strength of your father I|U uis auu lur [>juu\> ui )uui lid mother when she lay a-dying. I Alas, a time will come when this blustering young infidel will have to die, and then pis diamond ring will flash nospendor in the pyes of Death as he stands over the couch waiting for his soul! Those beautiful locks will be uncombed upon the pillow, and tho dying man will say, "I cannot die; I cannot die." Death, standing ready beside tho couch, says: "You most die. You have only half a minute to live. Let me have it right away?jour soul!" "No," says tho young infidel, "hero are my gold riags and these pictures. Tako them all." "No," says Death. "What do I care for pictures. Your soul!" "Stand back!" says the dying infidel. "I will not stand back," say3 Death, "for you have only ten seconds now to live. I want your soul" The dying man says: "Dcn't breathe that cold air into my face. You crowd me too hard. It is getting dark in the room. 0, God?" "Hush," says "HfintK HVaM ooul f Vl TTOQ n A " 4/caiu? i.uu ciuu ^ucio n uo uv uvu* HH "Pray for me," exclaims theexplrlnginfldel. "Too lato to pray," says Death. "But three more seconds to live, and I will count them off?one, two, three!" He has gone! Where? Sf^H Where? Carry bim out and bury him beside HHfiH bis fatter and mother, who died while holdBlEjl inc last the Christian religion. They died singing, but the young infidel only said: HflMI "Don't breathe that cold nir into my face. You crowd mo too hard. It is getting dark in the room." HqB Again, I urge yon to shun tbe comnanionHVH ship of idlers. Thore are men banging BQBB around every store and offlco and shop who have nothing to do, or act as if they had not. BR^HThey are apt to come in when the firm are away and wish to engage you in oonversation while you are engaged in your regular a3B|H employment. Politely suggest to such perH^^^koqs that you have no time to give them HN^Vduring business hours. Nothing would BB^Bpleuse tbcm so well as to have you renounce ^^^^Hyour occupation aud associate with them. ^^^^Hiluch of the time they lounge around the fl^^^Hdoors of engine houses, or after the dining ^^^^Hhour stand upon the steps of a fashionuble H^^Hhotel or an elegant restaurant, wishing to |99^Bgive you the ideu that that is the place where [^^Kbey dine. But they do not dine there. BB^Hrhey are sinking down lower and lower day ^B^^Hbvday. Neither by day nor by night have fl^^l&nythlng to do with idlers. jHHT Before you admit a man into your acjHH^Bauaintancc ask him Dolitely, "What do you ^^BMio for a living?" If he says, "Nothing; lam gentleman," look out for him. He may |^H|^Kiave a very soft hand and very faultless apffiB9vare'> and have a high sounding family M^H^Hhame, but his touch is death. Before you ^HH^Know it you will In bis presence be ashamed your work dress. Business will become you drudgery, and after awhile you will your place, aud afterward your respect Ibility, and last or all your ?oui. idleness \ nest door to villainy. Thieves, Ramblers, urglars, shoplifters and assassins are made om the class who hare nothing to do. Jhen the police go to hunt up and arrest a alprit, they seldom go to look in at the busy iirriage factory or behindthecounter where Iligent clerks are employed, but they go pong the groups of Idlers. Tho piny Is go[gonatthe theatre, when suddenly thero [a scuffle in the top gallery. What is it? policeman h^ come In. and leaning over as tapped on the shoulder of a young man, Lying," "I want you, sir." He has not Krked .iuring tho day, but somehow ks raked together a shilling or two to get [to tho top gallery. He is an idler. The [an on his right hand is an idler, and tho [an on his left hand is on idler. nurinc the oast few yeare thero has been a |?at deal of dullness in business. Younj; en have complained that they have little do. If they have nothing else to do thoy jx read and improve their minds and larts. These tlme9 are not always to conroe. Business is waking up, and the suirior knowledge that in this Interregnum work you may obtain will te worth $50.0 of capital. The large fortunes of the next twenty years are having their founda tions laid now by the young men who ar< giving themselves to self improvement, went into a 9toro in New York and saw flv< men, all Christians, sitting round, sayinj that they had nothing to do. It is an out rage for a Christian m an to have nothing t< do. Let him go out and visit the poor, o distribute tracts, or go and read tho Bible t< the sick, or take out his New Testament an< be making hi9 eternal fortune. Let him g< into the baok office and pray. I Shrink back from Idleness in yourself and in others if you would maintain a right posl tion. Good old Ashbel Green at more thai eighty years of age was found bu9y writing and some young man said to him: "Why d< you keep busy? It is time for you to rest.' He answerodv "I keep busy to keep out o mischief." No man is strong enough to b idle Are yon fond of pictures? If so, I will show you one of the works of an old master Here it is: "I went by the field of the slothful and by the vineyard of the mnn void ol understanding, and* lo! it was all grown ovei with thorns, and nettles had covered the fact thereof, and the stone wall was broken down, Then I saw and considered well. I looked upon it and received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding ol the hands to s'.eep. So shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth and thy want as an armed man." I don't know of another sentence in the Bible mere explosive than that It first kisses softly, like the fuse of a cannon, and at last burets like a flfty-foui pounder. The old proverb was right, "The devil tempts most men, but idlers tempt the devil." A youner man came to a man of ninety years of ago and said to him, "How nave youjmade out to live so long and be so well?" The old man took the youngster to an orchard, and pointing to some large trees full of apples, said, "I planted these trees when I was a boy, and do you wonder that now I am permitted to gather the fruit of them?" We gatnor in old age what we plant in our youth. Sow to the wind, and we reap the whirlwind. Plant in early life the right kind of a Christian character, and you will eat luscious fruit in old age and gather these Harvest apples in eternity. I argo you to avoid the perpetual pleasure seeker. I believe in recreation and amusement. God wo aid not have made us with the capacity to laugh if Ho had not intended us sometimes to Indulge It. God hath hunR in sky and set in wave and printed on grass many a roundelay, but ho who chooses pleasure seeking for his life work does not understand for what God made him. Our amusements are intended to help us in some earnest mission. The thundercloud hath an edge | exquisitely purpled,^but with voice that Jars the earth it deolares, "I go to water the green fields." The wild flowers under the fence are gay, but they say, "We stand here to make room for the wheatflcld and to refresh the husbandmen in their nooning," The'stream sparkles and foam3 and frollos and says: "I go to baptize the moss. I lave the spots on the trout. I slake tho thirst of the bird. I turn the wheel of the mill. I rock in my crystal cradle muckshaw and water lily. And so, while the world plays, it works. Look out for the man who always plavs and never works. xou will do well to avoid those whose regular business It Is to play ball, skate or go a-boatfng. All these sports are grand in their places. I never derived so much advantage from any ministerial association as from a ministerial cluo that went out to play ball every Saturday afternoon in tho outskirts of Philadelphia. These recreations are grand to give us muscle and spirits for our regular toll. I believe in muscular Christianity. A man is often not so near God with a weak stomach as when he has a strong digestion. But shun those who make it their life occupation to sport. Thero are young men whose industry and usefulness have fallen'overboard from the yacht. There are men wh03e business fell through the loe of the skating pond and has never since been heard of. There is a beauty in the gliding of a boat, ia the song of skater In the soaring of a well struck ball, and I never see one fly but I involuntarily 'throw up my hands to catch it. and so far from layIns an injunction upon ball playing or any other innocent sport, I claim them all as belonging of right to those of us who toil in the grand industries of Church and State. n But the life business of pleasure seeking always makes in (he ond a criminal or a sot. George Brummel was smiled upon by all England, and his life was given to pleasure. He danced with the peeresses and swung ?n?Anltk n/I nnnlniiaa m ruuuu ui Lujttu auu ncaiiu u.*xu u^ymuju until, exhausted of purse and worn out ot body, and bankrupt of reputation, and ruined of soul, he begged a biscuit from a grocer and declared that he thought a dog's life was better than a man's. Such men will come into your office, or crowd around your anvil, or seek to decoy you off. They will want you to break out in tho midst of your busy day to take a ride with them. They will tell you of some people you must see, ot some oxcursion that j-ou must take, of some Sabbath day that you ought to dishonor. They will tell you of exquisite wines that you must taste, of costly operas that you must hear, of wonderful dancers that you must see, but before you accept their convoy or their companionship remember tbi?f while at tho end of a useful life you mu* bo able to look back to kindnesses done, to honorable work accomplished, to poverty helped, to a good name] earned, to Christian influence exerted, to ai Saviour's cause advanced?the<;e pleasure seekers ,on their deathbed have nothing bet-! ler to review than a torn playbill, a tloket for the races, an empty tankard, and tbecast^ out rinds of a carousal, and, as in tho delliium of their awful death thev clutch the poblet and press it to their lips, the dregs of tho cup falling upon their tongue will begin to hiss and, uncoil with the adders of an eternal poison. Again, uvoid as you would avoid the death of your body, mind and soul any one who has in him the gambling spirit. Men who want to gamble will And places just suited to their capacity, not only in the underground oyster cellar or at the table back of the curtain oovered with greasy cards, or in the steamboat smoking cabin, whore tho bloated wretch with rings in his ears deals out his pack and winks at tho unsuspecting traveler?providing free drinks all around ?but in gilded parlors and amid gorgeous surroundings. This sin works ruin, flrst, by unhealthful stimulants. Excitement is pleasurable. Under every sky and In overy age men have sought it. Tho Chinaman gets it by smoking his opium, the Persian by chewing hasheesh, the trapper in a buffalo hunt, tho sailor in a squall, tbo inebriate in the bottle and the avaricious at the gaming table. Wo must at times have excitement. A thousand voices in our nature demand it. It is right. It is healthful. It Is inspiring. It is a desire Ood given. But anything that flrst gratifies this appetite and hurls it back in a terrific reaction is deplorable and wicked. Look out for tho agitation that like a rough musician in bringing out the tune plays so hard ho breaks down the instrument. God never made man strong euougn to endure the wear and tear of gambling excitement. No wonder if, after having failed In the game, men have tegun to sweep oQ imaginary gold from the side of the table. The man was sharp enough when he- started at the game, but a maniac at the close. A.t every gaming table sit on one side ecstasy, enthusiasm, romance?the frenzy of loy, on the other side, fierceness, race, tumuit. Thu professional gamester school* himself into apparent quietness. The keepers of gambling rooms are generally fat, rollicking and obese, but thorough and professional gamblers, in nine cases out ofiten, are pale, thin, wheezy, tremulous and exhausted. A young man, having suddenly inherited a large property, sits at the hazard tables and takes up in a dice box the estate won by a father's lifetime sweat and shakes it and tosses it away. Intemperance soon stigmatizes Its victim, kicking him out, a slavering fool, into the ditch, or sending him, with the drunkard's hiccoughs, staggering up the street where hi6 family lives. But gambling does not in that way expose its victims. The gambler mav bo eaten up by tho gambler's passion, yet you only discover by the greed in his eyes, the hardness of his features, the nervous restlessness, the threadbare coat an<3 his embarrassed business. Yet lio is on the road to hell, and no preacher s voice oi startling warning or wife's ontreaty car make him stay for a moment his headiont career. The infernal spell is on him, a glanl is aroused within, and though you bind hin with cables they would part like tnroad, an<! though you fasten him seven times rounc with chaln3 they would 6nap liko rustec wire, and thouzh you piled up In hia pati heaven high Bioles, tracts and sermons, anc on the top should set tne cross or t&e son o God, over them all tho gambler would leap like a roe over the rocks, on hia way to per dition. A Novel faovau. Tyre York, of North Carolina, wants to b elected to Congress, and is canvaaslnff hi district, traveling trom place to place I mounted on a bulL j: ? ? THE HALLS OP CONCRESS. 3 J On May 7, seventy-two privates pensions ' bills were favorably actod on in Committee ? ; of the Whole in Ave and one-half hours, j 8enator Hansbrough reported favorably i the bill providing for the erection of a monj , ument to Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg. I ! The minority report in tho Alabama olecJ , tlon investigation, signed by Democrats, doI nies tho power of tho Senate to go behind 1 the election rotums. ' The Senate Committee on Pensions has ' submitted a report on the bill granting a i pension to Nancy C. Allabach. and recom3 mended tho passago of the bill over tie President's veto. A bill was passed to appropriate $54,000 for tho deportation of the Canadian Cree In ; dians from Montana. There are about 600 I of these Indians. They have beea In Mon; I tana since tho close of the Rlel rebellion. ; i Tho House Committeo on Judiciary or. J dered a favorable roport on the bill to estab; Hsh a site for the erection of a penitentiary, , , to cost not exceeding $150,000, on the millI tary reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. ; . Tho House Committee onPublio Lands has i ; ordered to De reported xavoraDiy a oui to im' 'pose penalties ot from six months to two I years' Imprisonment and $50 to 85000 fine for setting Are to timber on forest reservai ! tions. | In the House Mr. Prince reported from Election Committee No. 2, the contested case of Cheatham (Rep.) against Woodard (Dem.) 1 from the becond Dlstriot of North Carolina, , recommending that the sitting member retain his seat. The report was agreed to. The Vice-President announced the appointment of Senators Gray (Dem.. Del.,) and Sewell (Rep., N. J^) as members of the Board of Visitors to West Point Military Academy and of Senators Blaokburn (Dem., Ky.,) and Hale (Rep., Me.,) as visiters to Annapolis. i A resolution was adopted in the House providing clerks at $100 per month for Members the year round, instead for the session of Congress only; the vote on the resolution was yeas 130 (114 Republicans, fifteen Democrats, one Sllverite). naya 108 (fifty-three Republican, flfty-etght Democrats, one Populist). Senator Teller reported a bill from the Committee on Forest Reservations. It sets forth the true objects for such reservations, viz., to improve and protect the forests, to secure favorable conditions of waterfall; and to insure a continuous supply of timber. It 1 lays down regulations for the management of the reservations. Senator Sherman introduced a bill requlr Ing all Immigrants to the United atacea to exhibit upon landing In this country a certlfl- i cate or health, signed by a medical officer of the Marine Hospital Servioe, and providing that any Immigrant who does not carry such a certificate shall be sent back to the port from whioh he sailed. The Financial Committee o! the Senate reported favorably the House Filled Cheese bill, with some amendments. The amendments made reduce the annual revenue tax on the manufacturers of filled cheese from $400 to 8240, and on wholesale dealers In theartiole from $250 to $200. The report was adopted by a bare majority of 1, the vote standing 5 to i CLEVELAND'&ELIEVES IN ARBITRATION. DIsca6scs International Treaties Ilarlng This tn View With a Committee. President Cleveland gave an Interview to Gardiner Q. Hubbard and J. L. M. Curry, ex-Minister to Spain, who with ox-Senator Edmunds, President Angell, of Michigan University, and Henry Hitchcock, of Missouri, were appointed a committee at the conference to promote international arbitra1 iUn In VT7nnVt4An r\v\ A niHl OO fin/^ Oft IIUU, UCIU iU IT QOUUkQlVU VU M^/4l< MM **?? -?j to present to the President a memorial urging that such steps be tafcen on the part of the United States as would conduce to the accomplishment of the end the conference had in view. - The President said the conference was a gratifying exhibition of a widepubllo sentiment in favor of arbitration. He had read the resolutions adopted by the conference and was much pleased with them. In his messages he had given utterance to his own views and was glad to have them sustained by the conference. What had been saldconcerainc the ties whicli should bind together the'Englfsh-speaking peoples had g're'aflorce, and It was Impossible to overestimate the potency and beneficial influence of concerted effort for peace by these two peoples. He hoDed the friends of arbitration would continue to educate the people along the lines indicated and said they would have his cheerful co-operation. REMARKABLE CITY ORDINANCE. Jsevr Yorkers to Be Arrested lor Spitting In Public. If one spits on the floor of a public building, railway car or ferryboat in New York hnwinffor ho fo Hnhlo tr> ho nrrPfftnrl ATIt\ ?w .W ? imprisoned us for tho violation of other parts of the Sanitary Code. The Board of Health ! passed a resolution disapproving of spitting | in public places several weeks ago. The Board made the resolution & law by adopting it as Section 222 of the Sanitary Code. Tin ! resolution reads: "Sec. 222. Spitting upon the floors of publics buildings and railroad cars and of ferry- [ boats is hereby forbidden, and officers in charge and control of all such buildings, cars and boats shall keep posted In such publlo buildings and in eaon railroad car and in each ferryboat a sufficient number of notices forbidding spitting upon the floors, and janitors of buildings, conductors of cars ana employes upon ferryboats shall call the attention of all violators of this ordinance to such notices." The full Board voted for the resolution. CYCLONE IN THREE STATES. Splits Into Smaller Storma and Strike* In Various Places. The tornado which caused 6uch a terrible loss of life and destruction of property in Texas appears to have moved in a northerly direotion and to have split into several smaller storms which caused heavy losso3 la sections of Kansas, Kentucky and Illinois. At Elva, Ky., wind tore down the house of Anderson Jones and killed the entire family. consisting of Jones, aged sixty; his wlfo, "aged fifty-five; his oldest child, a sou seventeen vears old, and two girls, one ten ' and the other twelve. The entire family were buried in the samo grave. Fivo children lost their lives In 8enaca, Kan.; \ forty persons were hurt, several fatally, in Sabetba. Kan., and one man was killed in Peru, III. In all these placos the destruction ' of property was great. A Cablegram's Sprint, i At the Electrical Exposition in the Grand ; Central Palace, New York City, a message ' that Chauncey SI. Depew sent from one side of the hall over the cable circuit went to Tokyo, Japan, and back In fifty minutes. Idaho Republicans. The Idaho Republican State Convention met at Pocatello and Instructed delegates to . use their undivided efforts to secure a free silver nominee for President, butnottosacriflee Republican principles, and if no straight silver candidate was available, to use their J! best efforts toward the nomination of McKini loy. Senator Fred T. Dubois will lead the , delegation. Two Hundred Killed in Bldo. 1 A dispatch from La.^03, on the west coast i of Africa, says that tho palace of the Emir ' Malekls, at Bida, has been destroyed by uu J explosion, and that 209 persons were killed ' No Cuban Leaf Tobacco. ^ The Spanish Government issued an order E i prohibiting tho export of Cuban leaf tobac1 eo. This action is taken at the request of I Havana cigar factories, which desire to be ' protected from the effects of American com1 petition. Tea days' grace were allowed to 1 Ull existing contracts. All those falling to ' somply, the decree sets forth, will be con? siaered sympathizers with the rebellion, their goods seized and other severe penalties imposed. Heject?d Lorn1! Revenge. g Louis Billow exploded dynamite under the i house of Jacob Hess near Fremont, Ohio, and fatally shot Hess and his son. at w<y a rejected lover of tiesi's daughter. TWO BISHOPS ELECTED. ~ I Chaplain McCabe and Earl Cranston Chosen by the Methodists. i NAMED AFTER MANY BALLOTS. The Election Preceded by Hot Dl3cnggloni t In the General Conference at Cleveland, r Ohio, as to the Postponement of the n Whole Contest?Spirited Words by jj Delegates?New Bishops Introduced. v b Cleveland, Ohio, May 20.?On the flf- b teenth ballot at the Methodic Conference ' yesterday Chaplain C. C. McCabo was elect- jj ed Bishop. Earl Cranston was also elected Bishop after further balloting. Bishop Bowmnn, senior Bishop of the t Methodist Church, presided over the Gen- i eral Conference, probably for the last time.' I It was the sixteenth day of the conference. ^ None of the Important questions to be set- r tied by the conference has yet been discussed 1 on the floor. The questions of time limit 0 lay representation, amusements, temperance, a recognition of Methodist Christian Endeavor s Societies, foreign Episcopal residences, loca- j tion of Episcopal residences in the United j States and many other, equally important , miAaHnno n rn vof f o nnm o nn Rev. Charles L. Stafford, of Iowa, put the conference in a great uproar by moving that the election of bishops be indefinitely postponed. "I am satisfied," he said, "that we do not need these bishops, and the vote of the last few days look3 as though the conference thought so, too. Any ten bishops in good health coula attend to all the work? and we have fourteen besides the two that lave been declared non-effective." Rev. Dr. Buckley said: "Are you sure that the remedy offered is crood for the patient? What is our situation? Three men have already had a majority of the votes ;ast, and one man came within thirty or forty votes of being elected. To postpone this election would make this conference ind our great church ridiculous in the eyes 5f the world. In one of the dioceses of the Protestant Episcopal Church they have taken fifty and sixty ballots and then adjourned for sis months to think it over without an election. And yet the election of a Methodist bit hop carries with it more power than a dozen Porotestant diocesan bishops. The remedy is this: Let the voting , go on until we elect a bishop or until It be- j comes plainly apparent that we cannot elect j anybodv." f Rev. James B. Mace, of Now Jersey, said: ^ "I hope the motion to postpone will prevail. c [t is plainly apparent that we have no Epis- c copal timber in the conference?there is no man who looms up high enough to secure t indorsement." Rev. Mr. Hill said: "The worid is looking . at us this morning. I move as a substitute I for the motion that, commencing with the ^ fourteenth ballot, we commence to drop men ( for whom few are voting until there is an ^ election." - c Cries of "No," "No," amid much oonfusion E were heard, and Bishop Bowman ruled the ( substitute out of order. i Rev. Dr. A. J. Kynett, of Philadelphia: "It is said that the situation is unparalleled. I j, do not think so. Wo are transacting our j business, and it will not matter if this con- ? test goes on for days." r The conference decided amid much con- J fusion and noise not to suspend the rules, B and the motion to postpone the election of f bishops indefinitely was aefeated. f Chaplain McCabe was elected on the 0 w-ieenin uauot, mo seuuuu uiiu la&eu uur* Ins; the morning. There were 504 votes cast; 336 were necessary ta a choice and Chap'ain McCabe received 344. Tremendous applause greeted the announcement. The new bishop was called to the platform, but he declined to make any remarks. Earl Cranston, of Cincinnati, was chosen, the second bishop to bo c'.ected, on the sixteenth ballot. ILLNESS COST HIM A THRONE. Otto Francis Joseph Xoir Heir to the Aastro-Huncarlan Throne. Archduke Charles Louis, heir apparent to the Austrian throne and brother of Emperor Franete Joseph of Austria, died suddenly in Vienna. Dispatches from Buda-Pesth say that the announcement of his death has created a feeling of sorrow throughout Hungary, where the Archduke was very popular, and casts a shade of sadness over the celebration of Hungary's millennium. The principal celebration, which was to take place on June 8, has been postponed, and a period of ' mourning has been officially ordered. 1 ^ ABC3DCEE FRANCIS FEBDINAXD. c (Incurable illness prevents his succeeding to u the throne.) s I Archduke Charles Louis's second son, j Archduke Otto Francis Joseph, is now re- i garded as heir to the Austro-Hungarlan throne; his elder brother, Archduke Francis _ Ferdinand, who became heir to the throne after the suiolde of Archduke Rudolph, the Prince Imperial, in January, 1839, and the abdication of his father, beinjc mourably ill, and, consequently, incapacitated from sue- . ceeding to the throne. Suicide to Escape Arrest. At Stuart, Neb., John Carbefry, accused of complicity in the Fenton cattle stealing * case, killed himself by shooting just as the 8 ouerm amvea to piaca uirn uuuu uu?i. t s Fifteen Years for Hammond and Other 1 Leader*. t A despatch from Pretoria says tbat the Ex- t ecutivo Council of the Transvaal has decided c that Colonel Frank W. Rhodes, brother of f Cecil Rhodes; Lionel Phillips, George Far- i rur and John Hays Hammond, the American; : the leaders of tho Johannesburg Reform * Committee, who was sentenced to death for * high treason against tho Transvaal, but * whose sentences were subsequently commut- J ed, shall undergo fifteen years' imprisonment. T It is generally hoped that this sentence : will be modified. It adds that fifteen years , in the Preioriu Jail for midJle-aged men is ' almost equivalent to death. Cranberry liojjs Destroyed. jj The forest Arc which devastated a large J nmount of Dronertv in and around Sand wich, Mass., only a month ago was at that time considered the worst ever heard of on the Cape, but the Tremont conflagra- ^ tion, which started at Kelly's sawmill p a few days ago, has surpassed it in the ? amount of damage done to property. It was t, driven by a northwest wind at a terriflo rate ^ in the direction of Parker's Mills, and then a toward White Island Pond and Half Way jr Pond, destroying the most valuable cran- $ berry land in the world. It has covered an D area of land more than twenty miles long and from three to six miles in width, and totally destroyed an Immense amount of valuable woodland. ^ SABBATH SCHOOL, NTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR JUNE 7. icsson Text: "Warning to the Disciples," Luke xxll., 24-37? Golden Text: Plill. 11., 5 ?Commentary. 24. "Aud there was also a strife among hem, which of them should be accounted he greatest." It was the last night before lolgotha. It was the night of Getbsemane nd only a few hours before that conflict, le had eaten the passover with them and iad insiituted the Lord's supper. He had cashed their feet and taught them how to tumble themselves. He was about to humile Himself unto death for them, and they rere talking of who should have the highest ilace. How alone He was! How little thev Lnew Him! 25, 26. "He that is greatest among you let lim be as the younger, and he that is chief 3 he that doth serve." Let gentiles wno hink much of earthly power, ana to whom t is for the present given, let them talk of jordship and ruling, but let the redeemed of be Lord, who with Him wait for the kinglom, not think of reigning without Him, but ather let us think of renouncing self and of low we can best make it manifest that we ire His. It is well enough for\the gentiles, vho live only for this world, to give special ittention to what they shall eat and drink ind wear, but those who are heirs of the dngdom are to seek first the kingdom in all ts interests, sure that our Heavenly Father, vho knoweth our need, will see to all these hings for us (Math, vi,, 81-33). 27. *'1 am among you as He that serveth." rhe Son of Man came not to be ministered into, but to minister, and to give fli3 life a ansom for many (Math, xx., 28). He lived ?ot to please Himself nor to seek His own vill or glory (Rom. xv., 8; John vi.,38; viil., >0). He did not stand up for His right.*, as ve say, but ever did well, and oft suffered or it, and always took it patiently, leaving is an example that we should follow His iteps (1 Pet. ii., 20, 21). 28. "Ye are they which have continued vith Me in my temptations." How kind it vas of Him to say so. He must have taken he will for the deed. He has a way of maglifyinp what wh would like to do for Him ind of giving us credit beyond what we night tblnk we deserve. He cannot possibly lay or do wrong or over state a matter, but 3e reads the heart and judges according to nctive and desire. Let us have more kindly udgment for others. 29. "And I appoint unto you a'kingdom, is My Father hath appointed unto Me..' Jear Him in His prayer a little later on that lame evening, "The plory which Tbou gavest He I have given them" (Johnxvii., 22). Hear 3lm in His last message to the church on sarth. "To him that overcometh will I grant o sit with Me on My throne, even as I also >vercame and am set down with My Father ?n His throne" (Rev. iiL. 21). 30. "That ye may eat and drink at My able in My kingdom and sit on thrones udging the twelve tribes of Israel." Com)are Math, xix., 28. We may therefore ex)ect to see the twelve apo3tles (the right one aking Judas's place) in the kingdom ruling >vor the twelve tribes of Israel. 8ome day vo shall see clearly and understand, as we iannotnow, the relationship of the twelve tpostles and the twelve tribes of Israel to VTntrr Towiaolam fHa T.omK'o nrifu r\f lev. xxi. 31. "And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, betold satan hath desired you, that he may sift rou as wheat." The R. V. says that satan sked for him. If Ho had been satan's >roperty, like Judas, He would not have leeded to ask for him. It is a comfort that atan cannot touch a child of God without Irst obtaining permission. . He had to coness that God had made a fence about Job, ,nd He could not lay a finger upon Him unil God permitted Him. 82. "But I have prayed for Thee that thy aith fail not, and when thou art converted or turned again) strengthen thy brethren." 5eter was one of those of whom He said, Ye are clean," and "He that is washed is ilean every whit'' (John xiii., 10); therefore ve have the Lord's own testimony that Simon Jeter was a saved man, and a truly saved nan oan never be au unsavod man (John x., 17, 28), but he may wander and stumble as limon was about to do. Then he must turn igafn to the Lord and be forgiven these vanderings and walk more humbly with >od. How very thankful we should be that TTJ _U tniA. >ur CUgU x-rioai u?ci uioiu LU uiuno luigisession for us. 83. "And he said unto Hiin, Lord, I am eady to tro with thee, both into prison and o death." Poor, self confident Simon! How ittle he knew himself. We are to have no lonfldence in ourselves, butreiy wholly upon he Lord. The only safe place is, "Not I, >ut Christ." "Not I, but the Rrace of God" GaL il., 20; I Cor xv., 10; PhlL iii., 3). Self lonfldence led to the following afar off, and hat to denial of his Lord. Rather let us 'Do justly, love mercy and walk humbly vith our God" (Mic. vi., 8). 34. ''I tell thee. Peter, the cock shall not irow this day before thou shalt thrice deny hou knowest Me." He knew what was in Peter (John ii., 25); knew It from the beginling, yet loved him all the way through. I lave often been glad that Ho has never found >ut anything new about me; that He knew ne thoroughly from the start and loved me yhen I was dead in sin. 35. "When I sent you, without purse or icrip or shoes, lacked ye anything? And hey said, Nothing." That was because He lent them. When we go on His business, lent by Him, He will see to all the supply. 36. "But now, he that hath a parse let him rn or>r1 UlratlricA Ma Qf?rln HT\f\ hft thflt lath no sword let him sell bis garment and )uy one." This at first sight looks difficult, >ut In the light of verae 381 think It Is easy, lad He actually intended each to have a iword He could not have sold that two iwords were enough for eleven men. What, hen, did He mean? When He sent them, He took care of them, and they laoked nothng, but now, although He still sends them, le will not be with them as formerly. Can hey trust Him as formerly? If not, let them ake purse and scrip and sword and take care >f themselves on the principle that God telps those who help themselves. As Peter ilundered with his sword, so will all blunder rho trust themselves rather than Him. 87. "The things concerning Me have an ind," All would now soon be fulfilled, and m tho morrow He would be crucified as o aalefactor. What, then, would these poor heep do? Could they trust their Heavenly father, or would all their hopes bo dashed o the ground when He whom they had folowed nad been crucified? Had they only ielleved all His words, and that'He would ise again, how strong they might have been. -Lesson Helper. ONE CREAT POSTOFFICE. 'Inns to Consolidate All the Offices Id Greater New York. Governor Morton's approval of the Greatir New York law has led the Postofflce Department to consider the advisability of conolidating all the Presidential and other >ostofflces in one great office and to scatter ub-offlces through the great city when the aw goes into effect. This will probably be ho plan adopted, as it hns been followed in he case of other cities with marked sucess. Under rhis plan the Presidential postofIces of New York, Brooklyn, Flushing, Bath Jeach, Castleton, Hempstoad, Jamaica, Long sland City, New Brighton, Port Richmond, iosebank. Stapletou, Tompklnsvilie, Totenville, NVestfleld and West Now Brighton rill bo abolished, and In their places will >e substituted stations, all branches of one rreat New York Postoffice. In addition a ar^e number of fourth-class postolfices will >e abolished and sub-stailons will be substuted in their stead. It has been estimated on the basis of last roar's figures, that the total postal receipts tf Greater New York will amount to about S.SOO.OlO, nearly twice a3 much a* those of 3hlcai:o. New York's share in this amount s ?7,250,000. Money for School Flag-. The New York Legislature ot 1395 passed law requiring the American flag to oo tislayed on all public school buildings. The nard of Education has just closed a con act for poles and flags for the school ouses of New York City. The furnishing nd setting up of the flag poles on the buildigs will cost $3990 and tne flags will cost 946.80, making a total of $4936.30 for the ubilo dlsolav of the Stars and SMtDes. Agalnut Child Labor. The National Christian Citizens' League lemands the abolition of child labor. RELIGIOUS READING?. THE JOYFCLNESS OF BELIKTi.VO. The conception which some people have of religion and the religious life as a joyless, solemn, painfully restrained state, full of cruciiled natural desires and impulses,seems so little borne out, either by Scripture or human life, that one cannot help wondering how it ever came to get such u hold upon the average mind. Apparently it is one of those strange, clinging misconceptions with which the history of the human race abounds; like the idea that recreation is a waste of time, or that book knowledge is incompatible with practical efficiency. How these utterly senseless old notions have clung to modern thought, almost up to the present time,and how hard it is to root out the old prejudices against play except for children,and book-learning except for professors and wool-gathering theorists ! Not one whit more reasonable is the notion that religion is sour and joyless, than the notion that the learned man is necessarily all thumbs and goggles. As a matter of fact, there are no people in the world quite so evenly and perennially, and supremely happy as are Christians. There is a rapture and a peace in having something to believe, that the unregenerate heart knows nothing of. It is like the peace of the sailor who rides at anchor, taking hold upon the foundations of the world, while other ships, scorning the cable, are tossed by the storm whithersoever It win. "These things have I spoken unto you," said Christ, "that my joy might remain in you, and that your ioy might be full." Is it thus that the world s Redeemer strikes the keynote of a faith of sad self-denials and compulsory gloom V The flrst outcome of His teaching, as He looked back upon it, was the joy, the personal happiness, of the believer. How significant f Christ might have said that He had spoken His words of life that the Christian might have wisdom ; that he might have sobriety and seriousness of mind; that he might have a supreme hatred of evil. But no ; the first thought of Christ is the Happiness of his followers?not the mere surface pleasure, but the great, deep-down, blessea joyfulness of knowing, and believing, and living the grandest moral and spiritual principles ever uttered by human tongue. The world knows better, nowadays, than to honestly and seriously believe that Christians are a mirthless, joyless, sombre folk, concerned only with the great, tragic experiences of life, the mystery of death, and the mist-enveloped problems of the future. In all that makes life rich and sweet and lovely: in all that elevates and cnarms ana numamzes ine race ; in every form of Innocent enjoyment; in all sunshine, laughter, music, friendship, enterprise,love ; in the best things, the truest things, the happiest things, the Christian, in accordance with the joy-bringing purpose of his Master, takes, and forever will take, the lead of all the world. Shrink not from Christianity, young man, yountr woman, because you fear it will curtail the legitimate joy of life! For instead of casting so much as a hand'sbreadth of shadow upon your soul, it will so flood life with the very sunshine of God that you will seem to have risen into a new world, a new atmosphere, genuine as light and beautiful as dreams. DEVOTED SOCLS. No one except their dear Lord and only Bridegroom can reckon the devoted souls which in all ages have denied themselves- to human love, that they might the better follow Christ whithersoever he goeth. And" no one can be quite insensible to the tender purity and spiritual delicacy of certain saintly faces that have been touched by the passion of Christ. Nor must it be supposed that this is only a cloistered piety, or that it can only be found within convent walls. Most of us know persons who have come under vow to their own souls, and have taken the solitary road, not that they might attain to special degree of sanctity, but that they might render some life service. So brothers for sisters, so sisters for brothers, so children for parents, have strengthened their hearts and remained unwed. Sometimes their sacrifice?the last that can be offered?has been detected and rewarded by a gratitude that ought to know no limits. .Sometimes it may be unsuspected and receive no return but peevish reproaches. God's guerdon, at least, does not tarry, for His hand has already placed the aureole on tnose moaesi. unconscious neaas. ana nnea with fragrance those lives of uncomplaining, unboasiing love.?Rev.'John Watson. WBE8TLE WITH THE L0BD IK PRATER. Some who have been taught from above to desire greatly the manifestations of God, and who wrestle earnestly, perhaps passionately, in prayer that their Lord would be pleased to draw nigh to them and give them visions of his excellence, would And it to their inexpressible advantage to cease from the pursuit of extraordinary manifestations, and by faith and purity of heart school themselves into the ability to discern a present God. and to abide In blissful intercourse with nim in whom they live and move and have their being. Let them understand that what they need is not the accomplishment of some change out of themselves?the bringing near of something that is afar?but a purging of their mental vision, the removal of a film that yet too much beclouds the eye of their soul.?George Bowen. LIFE OF FAITH. There is no short cut to the life of faitji. which is the all-vital condition of a holy anu victorious life. We must have periods of lonely meditation and fellowship with God. That our souls should have their mountains of fellowship, their valleys of quiet rest be neam me suaacw 01 a great rues, meir nights beneath the star?, when darkness has veiled the material and silenced the stir of human life, and has opened the view of the infinite eternal, is as indispensable as that our bodies should have food. Thus alone can the sense of God's presence become the fixed possession of the soul, enabling it to say repeatedly with the Psalmist. "Thou art near, 0 God!"?Rev. F. B. Meyer "is r.vriEN'CE possess ye tour souls." It is impossible to rush into God's presence, catch up anything we fancy, and run off with it. To attempt this will end in mere delusion and disappointment. Nature will not unveil her rarest beauty to the chance tourist. Pictures which are the result of a life of work do not disclose their secret loveliness to the saunterer down a gallery. No character can be read at a glance. And God's best cannot be ours apart from pntient waiting in His holy presence. The superficial may be put off "with a parable, a pretty story, but it is not given to such to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.?F. 13. Meyer. t)T)r4rCTPTJ?' rjFT.TfUTT. What cheer it brings to the preacher to find that brother lteady and sister Faithful live on his charge! They aro never forward, but always on hand; nevw flattering; but always appreciative?and what a difference! As soon as they hear of his appointment they at once begin to speak well of the new minister. They are bound to like him. They aro on principle prejudiced in hte favor." The one is very apt to meet him at the station as he arrives for the ilrst Sunday, while the other has made as cheerful as she could the new parsonage home. Perhaps they were "on the committee," perhaps they were not They were just kind-hearted any way. The Lord does oftentimes lead a soul apart, sets, it in the solitude of a ^i?-k chamber. or in ioneliness of spirit, or takes away from it earthly companions and friends when he would speak with it or heal it.? Trench. If your life is dark, then walk by faith:and God "is pledged to keep you safe as if you could understand everything.?Horace Bushnell. Missouri's Mighty Stream. Colonel J. V. Browor, Stute Gjo-crapherof Minnesota, has discovered that the source of the Missouri Iliver is 4221 miles fr.cn the Gulf of Mexico. He finds that the largest upper branch of th<* Missouri noes aw u >w through the lower It id llock Lake in Montana. It comes from a h)lo in the mountains, volcanic in its true character, at the summit of the Rockies, west of Henry's Lako, Idaho, and at a point bordering the boundary between that State and Montana. rieia Uumuui <4e:s Spanish Caravel*. Tho Spanish caravels which came over for the World's Fair hare been given to the Field Museum, Chicago, and will hereafter float in the lagoon directly in front of the museum building. J TEMPERANCE. | ??? . ^-r?,w$y ? *3/99 OUE STBUOQLZ. . . .V-. 1-ffl When freedom on her natal day Within her war rocked cradle lay, An iron race around her stood. Baptized her Infant brow in blood; r And, through the storm which round hej 9weDt- _7 iaeir constant ward and ware rung JtepwTheD, where our quiet herds repose, The roar of baleful battle rose, And brethren of a common tongue To mortal strife as tigers sprung. And every gift on freedom's shrine Was man for beast, and blood for wine! , . Our fathers to their graves have gone; Their strife Is past?their triumph won; But sterner trials await the race Which rises in their honored place? , Amoral warfare with the crime And folly of an evil time. So let it be. In God's own might We gird us for the coming fight, And, strong in Him whose cause Is ours, In conflict with unholy powers. We grasp the weapons He has given - ) The light, and truth, and love of heavens -John Oh WhlttierW. C. T. U. \ Object andPledge?The object of thisUnlotf shall be to educate public sentiment up to the standard of total abstinence, train the young, save the' txrebrtate?, and secure the legal prohibition and compl^^nlsh meni of the liquor traffic. Pledge?1"I hereby solemnly promise. ^ helping me, to abstain from all distilled, fert V <jHg mented and malt liquors, including wine, v ' <9 beer and cider, and to employ all proper means to discourage the use of and traffic In ^ the same." Membership?Any woman may become a member by signing; the constitution, pledging herself to do all In her power for the advancement of the temperance cans?, and by the payment of not less than fifty cents per year into the treasury. She will also sign the pledge. Gentlemen may become honorary membors by the payment of the same amount or more, and signing the pledge. Persons may become well-wishers by the payment of any amount into the treasury. Departments?A few of the departments of work of the W. C. T. U. are: "Loyal Temperance Legion," "The Press," "Prison and Almshouse," "Flower Mission," "Parlor Meetings." "Health and Heredity," "Mother's Meetings," "Soldiers, Sailors and Railroad Men," "Work Among Foreigners," "Sabbath Observances," "Unformented Wine," "Tobacco and Narcotics," "Franchise," "Temperance Lessons in Schools," "Purity," "Good Citizenship," etc. These diversified departments, ranging through all the wide distance between; the home and its antipodes?the saloon?; present a broad field for trained workers. Each department grows so rapidly and develops such vast possibilities for good; as to demonstrate that the world has need of j it, often that it had been eagerly waiting for, just such work, without realizing what itS( great need was, nor how it could be met.j There Is still great need for the prayer,; "Send forth laborers into the harvest," for] the three most influential -Nations in the. world consume the most alcoholic liquors:} Germany, Great Britain and the united. States, and as Joseph Cook says: "The liquor traffic cannot be mended, so it must be ended," so says the W. C. T. U. Let no1 brave heart lear the result of this conflict against the power of darkness. Not unti* God lays aside His powers will the enemy of home and human good triumph overuse I <>$ LIQUOB ABITttMETIC?OBJECT LESSOS. 1 "Boy at the head of the class, what are wal paving for liquor as a Nation?" "8900,000,000 annually." "Step to the blackboard, my boy. Firsti take a rule and measure this silver dollar. How thick Is it?" "Nearly an eighth of an inch." ; "Well, sir, how many of them can you put' in an inch?" "Between eight and nine." "Give the benefit of the doubt; call it nine,, How many inches would it require to pilot khese 8900,000,COO in?" "100,000,000 inches." "How manyfeet would that be?" "8.333,333 feet." "How many rods is that?" "505,050 rods." "How many miles is that?" "1578 miles." "Miles of what?" , v. **1578 miles of silver dollars, laid down, packed closely together our National liquor Dill would make, This is only one year's grog bill." Reader, if you need facts about this temperance question, nail that to a post and' read it occasionally. It would take ten men; I with scoop shovels to throw away money as fast as we are wasting it for grog.?Cleveland' Observer. WAGES Ah'D DEISK. The New York Nation, commenting uponthe labor question and drinking habits of many workingmen, says: ^Improvement in the laborer's condition! Is impossible without cutting down his drink Jills. No social arrangements which man, an make can benefit people who get drunk. Mo matter what wages you pay a drinking | man, neither his condition nor that of his, family can be improved thereby. There is, no use in providing extra holidays for menj who use tnem to get drunk. There is no use, in cutting down the day's labor from tea to, eight hours if the two hours gained are! spent in a rum hole. There would be no use i in making arbitration compulsory if one of! the parties wels likely to be kept from obey-i ing the decision by liquor. There would be j no use in handing over all 1 he property In i the world to laboring men if they drink as Ha natt- Thov ttaitIH c<*vnr. /*iealr%ofa tuvj VV MV tf? ITVUtS* WVVU UUWiJ/akW IV and add nothing to the store." SOME STABTI.INO FACTS. \ \Te spend in the United States each year for Support of Clersry 812,000,0001 Home and Foreign Missions $55,000,000* Public Education ?85,000,000 Sugar and Molasses $115,000.000 Boots and Shoes $196'000.000 Cotton Goods $210j000j000 Sawed Lumber S233j000i000 Iron and Steel ..$200,000.000 Meat 8303,0C0,000 Bread $505,000,000 Tobacco 8600,000,000 LIQUOB 8TE0>"G DBISK EVEBY TEAS Destrovs . .100.000 Lives Makes 70,000 Widows " 100,000 Orphans " 600 Maniacs Causes 500 8ulcldes > Leads to 250 Murders \ Consigns to Jail 500,000 Criminals Three-quarters of the inmates of Prisons are there irom strong drink. XEiirEEANCE >'EW8 A>'D NOTES. A new version of the three R's Is "Ram, ruin, and regret." Everyman who c*riaks a little drinks a> great deal too much. Isn't it strange ttiat the man who can drink or let it alone never does, queries! Ram's Horn. France has appointed a commission to inquire into the relation that the liquor traffic bears to the increase of insanity in that country. Eminent physicians, such as Laquean and Lancereaux. cousider that the abuse of alcohol is increasing the amount of phthisis in Paris. When a man is too Door to buv a home. he is generally liberal enough to chip in a. part of his wages to enable saloon keepers 10 build themselves houses. The Scientific Americau declares "that beer drinking in this country produces tha very lowest torms of inebriety, closely allied to criminal insanity. Tee most dangerous class of tramps and rufflansin large cities are beer drinkers." The brewer, the distiller, the saloon keeper want your money. Why should you glva them your money and make them rich, an^ enable them to live in splendid houses, aedk to dress in broadcloth, silk, and fine linen, while you and your family are kept dooc and needy, and suffering for the actual necessaries of life In a vast multitude of. eases?