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REY. Pit. TALMAUK. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE T5Y TIIE NOTED DIVINE. Subjcct: "The Day is at Hand." Text: "The day is at hand."?Romans xiii., 12. Back from the mountains and the seaside. and the spriugs, and the farmhouse, your cheeks bronzed aud your spirits lighted, I hail you home asain with tho words of Gehazi to the Shunammite: "Is it well with thee? Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with the child?" Ou some faces I see the mark of recent grief, but ail along the track of tears I see the story of resurrection and reunion when all tears are done: the deep plowing of the keel, followed by the flash of the phosphorescence. Now that I I have askei you in regard to your welfare, you naturally ask how I am. Very well, thank you. Whether it was the tracing air | of the mountains, or a bath in the surf of Long Island beach, or whether it is the joy of standing in this great croup of warmhearted friends, or whether it is a new appreciation of the goodness of God, I can not **11 T 1 om honrit? toil. X ?uupij tVUVD A UUi uuppj. It was said that John MotTatt, !he great Methodist preacher, occasionally got fast In his sermon, and to extricate himself would cry "Hallelujah!" I am in no such predicament to-day, but I am full of the same rhapsodic ejaculation. Starting out this morning on a new ecclesiastical year, I want to give you the keynote of my next twelvemonths' ministry. I want to set it to the tunes of 'Antioch," "Ariel" and "Coronation." I want to put a new trumpet stop into my sermons. We do wrong if we allow our personal sorrows to interfere with the glorious fact that the Kingdom is coming. We are wicked if we allow apprehension of National disaster to put down our faith in God and the mission of our American people. The God who hath been on the side of this Nation since the 4th of July, 1776, will see to it that this Nation shall not commit suicide on November 3, 1396. By the time the unparalleled harvests of this summer ?et down to the sea-board, we shall be standing in a sunburst of National prosperity that will paralyze the pessimists, who by "their evil Erophesies are blaspheming the God who atn blest this Nation as He hath blest no other. I In all our Christian work you and I want more of the element of gladness. No man bad a right to say that Christ never laughed. Do you suppose that He was clum at the wedding In Cana of Galilee? Do you suppose that Christ was unresponsive when tho children clambered over His knee and shoulder at His own invitation? Do you suppose that the Evapcelist meant nothing when he said of Christ "He rejoiced in spirit?" Do you believe that the Divine Christ who pours all the waters over tho rocks at Vernal Falls. Yosemite, does not believe in the sparkle and gallop and tumultuous joy and rushing raptures of human life? I believe not only that the morning laughs, and that the mountains laugh, and that the seas laugh, and that the cascades lauKh. but that Christ laughed. Moreover, the outlook of the world ought to stir us to gladness \ Astronomers disturbed[manv people by telling them that there was" danger of stellar collision. We were told by these astrono mere that there are worlds coming very near together, and that we shall have plagues and wars and tumults and perhaps the world's destruction. Do not be scared. If you have ever stood at a railroad centre, where ten or twenty or thirty rail tracks cross eaoh other, and seen that by the movement of the switch one or two inches, the train shoots this way and that, without colliding, then you may understand how fifty worlds may come within an inch of disaster, and that inch be as good as a million miles. If a human switch-tender can shoot the trains this way and that without harm, cannot the nana mat ior taousanas 01 yours una ujjuciu the universe, keep our little world out of harm's way? Christian geologists tell us that this world was millions of years in building. Well, now, I do not think God -would take millions of years to build ahou9e which was to last only" six thousand years. There Is nothing In the world or outside tho world, terrestrial or astronomical, to excite dismay. I wish that some stout Gospel breeze might scatter ail the malaria -of human foreooding. The sun rose this morning at about 6 o'clock, and I think that is just about the hour in the world's history. "The day is at band." The first ray of the dawn I see in the gradual substitution of diplomatic skill for human butchery. Within the lasttwentyflve years there have been international dlfIferences which would have brought a shock o? arms In any other day, but which were peacefully adjusted, the pen taking the place of the sword. The Venezuelan controversy in any other age of the world would hare brought shock of arm3, but now is being so quietly adjusted that no one knows just how it is being settled. The Alabama question in any other age of the world would have caused war between the United States and England. How was it settled? By men-of-war off the Narrows, or off the Mersey? No. A few wise men got into a quiet room at Geneva, talked the matter over, and telegiaphed to Washington and London. "All settled." Peace! Peace! i England pays to the doited States the amount awarded?pays really more than she ought to havo paid. But still, all that Alabama broil is settled?settled for forever. Arbitration instead of battle. So the quarrel about the Canadian fisheries in any other age would have caused war between the Unite J States and England. So theS:irnoan controversy in any other age would have brought Germany and the United States into bloody collision. But jill is settled. Arbitration instead of battle. France will never again, I think, through the peccadillo of au Ambassador, bring ou a battle with other lyitions. She sees that Ood, in punishment at Sedan, blotted out the Frenoh Empire, and the only aspirant for that throne who had any right of expectation dies in a war that has not ovonthe dignity of being respectable. What is tho leaf that England would like to tear out of her history? The Zulu war. Down with the sword and up with the treaty. We In this country might better have settled our sectional difficulties by arbitration than by the trial of the sword. Philanthropy said to the North: "Pay down a certain amount of money for tho purchase of the slaves, and let all th03e born after a certain time be born free." Philanthropy said to the South: "You sell your slaves, aud get rid of this great National contest end trouble." The North replied: "I won't pay a cent." Tho South repliod. "I won't ?ell." War! War! A million dead men, and a Na I>tionaI debt which might have ground this Nation to powder. Why did we not 1 t William H. Seward, of Now York, and Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, go out and .spend a few days under the trees on the banks of the Potomac and talk the mattei over and 9ettle it, as seitle it they could, rather than the North pay in cost of wai four billion seven nundred million dollars, .and the South pay four billion seven hundred and fifty million dollars, the destroying Angel leaving the llrst-boru dead In so many bouses al. the way from the Penobscot to thi Alabama. Ye aged men whose sons fell ir the strife, do you not think that would have been better? Oh, yes! We have come to beileve. I think. in this country, that arbitration is better than battle. I may be mistaken, but I hope that the las! war between Christian Nations is ended Barbarians may mix their war paint, nnc [Chinese and Japanese go into wholsasaW massacres, and Afghan and Zulu hurl poisloned arrows, but 1 think Christian Nation; have gradually learned that war is disastej to victor as well as vanquished, and that al most anything bought by blood is bought ai too dear a price. I wi.-h to God this Natioi Enicbt be a model of willingness for arbitra Wmmioa. Ho teed of killiu;; another Indian. N< of sacrificing any more brave Genera Uffi^Kusters. Stop exa*peratins the ra.l men, am ^Hg^Hbere will !>? no more arrows shot out fro:t ami''J>hmeiits. A General of the Uuitor Army in hi^h reputi- throughout thii HHiiii !, ami who, perhaps, had been in mon ^^^Hoviiau war? than any otr.er ofllcer, and wh( ffiBHad been wounded a-'air and again in behal Bj^Kr our Government 1j b.it: le against tlie In ^^^^Bians, toLJ me that all the wars that ha< KSH^Evg^ffAirred oetwren Indians and whit ^^^^Kenhad be.-n provoked by white men, anc EB^Biat there was no exception to the rule HS^Kfhile we are arbitrating with Christian Na - --- V 1 r.ur IiOIlS lec U? 1/iuu.uiuu^ ^ ? elvea in a, manner unprovocative pi con est. Let me put myself in tholr place: I in lerit a large estate, nud the waters nre ricl rith flsb, and the woods are sonsful witl lirds, and my cornfields are silker nm oldon. Hero is ay sister'a grave. Ou you.l'T, under the iirere freo, rr.y father die.1. An invader comes, and proposes to drive mo <>!T r.ad take possession of my property. i crowds me back, ho crowds me on, and i crowds me into a closer corner, until, after , a while, I say: "Stand back, don't crowd j me any more, or 1*11 strike. What right have i you tocorao here and drive me off my prem- ] ises:* I got this farm from my father and he \ cot it from his father. What right have you i to como here and molest me?" You bland- ] Iv say: "Oh, I know more than you do. I i belong to a higher civilization. I cut my l hair shorter than you do. I could put 1 this ground to a great deal better use 1 than you do." And you keep crowding me j back and crowding me on into tne closer j corner and closer corner, until one day I look around upon my suffering family, and < j fired by their hardships I hew you in twain, i I Forthwith a'l the world comes to your fu? j neral to pronounce eulogium. comes to my t execution to anathematize me. You are the i I 1 T ?.1 n..V?U TT,\ 4 I qH : ueiu, x. tiiii mo umpru. i>cuuiu iun vuhqu I States Government and the North American ] Indian. The red man has . stood more i wrongs than I would, or you. We would | have struck sooner, deeper. That which i is right in defence of a Washington home ? is right in defence of a home on top i of the Sierra Nevada. Before this dwindling j red racft dies completely out, I wish that ( this generation might by common justice ( atone for the Inhumanity of its predecessors, j In the day of God's judgment, I would J rather bo a blood-3meared Modoc than a swindling United States officer on an Indian t reservation! One was a barbarian and a ? savage, and never pretended to be anything g but a barbarian and a savage. The other i pretonded to be a representative of a Chris- ] tlan Nation. Notwithstanding all this, the t ceneral disarnst with war and the substitu- | { tioa of diplomatic skill for the glittering edge of keen steel is a sign unmistakable that "the day is at hand." I find another ray of dawn in th? compression of the world's distances. What a slow, snail-like, almost impossible thing would have been the worlds rectification with fourteen hundred millions of population and no facial means of communication; but now, through telegraphy for the eye aud telephonic intimacy for the ear, and through steamboating and railroading, the twentyfive thousand miles of the world's circumference are shriveling up into insignifant brevity? Hong Kong Is nearer New York than a few years ago New Haven was; Bombay, Moscow, Madras, Melbourne, within speaking distance. Purchase a telegraphic chart, and by the blue lines see the tele graphs of the land, and by the red lines the cables under the ocean. You see what opportunity this is goiug to give for the final < mnmmonlt nf f!)iriQMnnifv. A fnrtreSS DiaV be months or years in building, but after it is constructed it may do all its work in twenty minutes. Christianity has been planting its batteries for nineteen centuries, and may go on in the work through other centuries; but when those batteries are thoroughly planted, those fortresses are fully built, they may all do their work in twenty-four hours. Suppose Christ should descend on the Nations?many expect that Christ will come among the Nations personally?suppose that to-morrow morning the Son of God from a hovering cloud should descend upon these cities. Should not thatjfact be known all the world over in twenty-four hours? Supposo He should present His Gospel in a few words, saying: "I am the Son of God; I came to pardon all your sins and to heal all your sorrow; to prove that I am a supernatural being, I have just descended from the clouds. Do you believe Me, and do you believe M<* now?" Why, all the telegraph stations of the earth would be crowded as none of them were ever crowded just after a shipwreok. I tell you all these things to show you.it is not among the impossibilities or even the improbabilities that Christ will conquer the whole earth, and do it Instanter, when the time comes. fnmfnt-onlnjK! 1 n nIr flrtm A thing great is going to happen. I do not ' think that Jupiter is going to run us down, 1 or that the axle of the world is going to t break; but I mean something great for the ' world's blessing and not for the world's damage is going to happen. I think the world has had it hard enough. Enough, the famines and plagues. Enough, the Ablatio choleras. Enongb, the wars. Enough, the 1 shipwrecks. Enough, the conflagrations. I think our world could stand right well a procession of prosperities and triumphs. ] Better be on the lookout. Better have your ( observatories open toward the heavens, and , the lenses or your most powerful telescopes t well polished. Better have all your Leyden i jars ready for some new pulsation of mighty s influence. Better have new fonts of type in J your printing offices to set up some astound- j ing good news. Better have some new ban- ] uer, that has never been carried, ready for sudden processions. Better have the bells , in your church tower well hung, and rope , within reach, that you may ring out the , marriage of the King's Son. Cleanse all , your court houses, for the Judge of all the , earth may appear. Let all your legislative halls bo gilded, for the groat Lawgiver may , ho ahmit to come. Drive off the thrones of < depotlsm all the occupants, for the King of heaven and earth may be about to reign. The darkness of the night Is blooming and \ whitening into the lilies of morning clouds, and the lilies reddening into the roses of , stronger day?fit garlands, whether white j or red, for Him on whose head are many j crowns. ''The day is at hand." j One more ray of the dawn I see in facts ( chronological and mathematical. Come, ( now, do not let us do another stroke of work ( until we have settled one matter. What is ! going to be the final issue of this great contest between sin and righteousness? Whioh is going to prove himself the stronger, God or DiabolusV Is thi3 world going to be all garden or all desert? Now let us have that matter settled. If we believe Isaiah, and Ezoklel, and Hosen.and Micah,and Malachi. and John, and Peter, and Paul, and the Lora Himself, we believe that it is going to be all garden. But let us have it seitlod. Let us know whether we are working on toward a success or toward a dea l failure. If there is a child in your house sick, and you are sure he is going to get well, you sympathize with present pains, uut all tne foreboding 12 gone. wow, i want to snow wnotuer we are coming on toward dismay, darkness* and defeat, or on toward light and blessedness. You and I believe the latter, and if so every year we spend is one year subtracted from the world's woe. and every event that passes, whether bright or dark, brings us one event nearer a happy consummation, and by all that is inexorable in chronology and mathematics, I commend you to good cheer and courage. If there is anything it arithmetic. if you subtract two from five and leave three, then by everv rolling sun we are coming on toward a magnificent terminus. Then every winter passod is one severity less for our poor world. Then every summer gone by brings us nearer unfading arborescence. Put your algebra down on the top of your Bible and rejoice. If it is nearer morning at three o'clock than it is at two, it 1s nearer morning at four o'clock than it is at three, then we are nearer the dawn of the world's deliverance. God's clock seems to go very slowly, bat the pendulum swings and the hands move, and , it will yet strike noon. The sun and the moon stood still once; they will never stand , still again until they stop forever. If you believe arithmetic as well as your Bible, you : must believe we are nearer the dawn. "'The day is at hand." s There is a class of phenomena which i makes me think that the spiritual and > heavenly world may, after a wnile. make a demonstration in this world which will bring all mortal and spiritual things to a cllaux. Now. I am no spiritualist; but t every Intelligent man has noticed that . there are strange and mysterious things I which indicate to him tbnt perhaps the s spiritual world is not so far off a? somo times we conjecture, .in I that after awhil<\ 5 from the spiritual an I heavenly world r there may be a demonstration upon our - world for its betterment. We call it magt notism, or we call it mesmerism, or we cull 1 it electricity, because we waut some term - to cover up our ignorance. I do not know what it is. I n :vor hoard au audible voice I from the other world. I am persuaded of 1 this, however: That the veil between this i world and the next is getting thinner and 1 thinner, and that perhaps after awhile, at 5 the <*all of Go.i?not at the call of the Dava enport Brothers, or Andrew Jackson Davis? ) some of the old Scriptural warriors, some of f the spirits of other days mighiy for God?a - Joshua, or a Caleb, or a Davia, or a Paul? 1 mav como down and help us in the battle e against unrighteousness. Oh, how I would l like to have them here?him of the Red Sea, . him of the valley of Ajalon, him of Mars' - Hill! English history says that Robert Clay ton, of the English cavalry, at the close of - the war bought up all the old cavalry horses lest they should be turned out to drudgery - and hard work, and bought a piece of ground l at Knavesmlre Heath and turned out these ti old war-horses into the thickest and richest -1 atvan/1 *-V? A raaf f\f thalf /IflVC '1G 11 posiuiw IV IUU IWO. V*. ^ ? 11 compensation for .what they had dona in other (lays. One day a thunderstorm cam* up and those war-borso3 mistook the thunder of the skies for the thunder of battle?and they wheeled Into line?no riders on their backH?they wheeled into line renay for the fray. And I doubt me whether, when the last thunder of this battle for God and truth Roes booming through the heavens, the old Scriptural warriors can keep their places on their thrones. Methinks they will spring Into the fight and jxcbanjje crown for helmet, the palm sranch for weapon, and come down out of ;he King's galleries into the arena, crying: "Make room! I must fight in this preat Armageddon." The old war horses mingling in the flsrht. Beloved people, I preaoh this sermon because I want you to toll with the sunlight in pour faces. I want you old men to underitand before you die that all the work you iid for God while yet your ear was alert and four foot fleet is golnsr to be counted up in he final viotories. I want all these younger jeople to understand, that when they toil or God they always win the day, that all Drayers are answered and all Christian work 3 in some way effectual, and that the tide is letting in the right direction, and that all leaven is on our side?saintly, cherubic, irchangellc, omnipotent, ohariot and throne, loxolotfy and procession, principalities and lominion, Fe who had the moon under His eet, and all the armies of heaven on white Brother! brother! all I am afraid of is, not hat Christ will lose the battle, but that you ind I will not get into It qutok enough to do lomethini? worthy of our blood bought imnortallty. O, Christ, how shall I meet The?, Thou of the scarred brow and the scarred jack and the scarred hand* and the scarred oot aod the scarred breast, If I nave no scars >r wounds gotten in Thy servloe? It shall lot be so. I step out to-day la front of the >attle. Come on. ye foes of God, I dare vou o the combat! Come on, with pens dipped n maligancy. Come on with tongues forked ind vlperine. Come on with types soaked _ n scum of the eternal pit I defy you! Come < >n! I bare my brow, I uncover my heart. Strike! I can not ite my Lord until I have >een hurt for Christ. If we do not suffer vith Him on earth, we can not be glorified frith Him in heaven. Take good heart. On! )n! On! See! tho skies have brightened! tee! the hour is about to come. Pick out all he cheeriest of the anthems. Let the orshestra string thoir best instruments. "The light is far spent, the day is at hand." LONC HAIR CAUSED A ROW. citizens of Oakland, California, Objectod to a Paderetvaskian Letter Carrier. Postmaster White, of Oakland, Cal., has >een called upon to decide one. of the most nterestinj? questions ever submitted to him n an official capacity. It is whether or not Leiman P. Baare, aleter carrier, can be compelled to have his hair !Ut. Baare's locks have been the cause of numerals complaints from ladies and gentlemen vho have come in contact with the strange roung man. Being a clever pianist Baare, ome two years ago decided to let his hatr crow with the apparent idea of imitating Mderewski. 80 objectionable was Mr. Banre vith his flowing locks to the people of Oakand that the young man became involved in 1 street flcrht one day with a youth who vhlstled "Johnny Get Your Hair Cut," aa he letter carrier passed by. In orderto sooth the public comment. Postnastar White placed Baare on the night shift, ["his move only made matters worse, for ifter scaring a doctor and several women vho were unable to determine his sex, more somplaints were lodged. Finally the postmaster suzgested that the oug hair be allowed to wave in the breeze while Baare was off duty, but when he apjeared in the uniform of a letter oarrier the -aven locks should bo rolled up In a Knot ana lidden by a tall cap. Baare readily agreed :o this and now appears each day with hi/ jair done up and hidden from view. NOTHING FOR THE ENGLISH COUSIN. %n Allen Prevented from Getting 8300,000 of ti.e Wads-worth Estate. Justice Nash handed down his deolsion at Rochester, N. Y.. intne contest over the estate )f James Wadsworth, in which he deoided ilverselv to the claims of Charles J. Murray, he English grandson 0f the testator. Jame* SVadsworth died in 1845 in Geneseo, Livingiton County, leaving a large estate. A part jf bis estate, amounting to $900,000, was left in trust to his grandson, Martin Brimmer, of Boston, during his lifetime. Martin Brimmer died several months ago md the question arose as to the disposition sf this $90 i,000 held in trust. Martin Brimmer left no children and the following claims svere put in by heirs: One-third to Austin md Herbert Wadswortn, children of William Wadsworth, a son of the testator; one-third to the ohlldren of the late General James S. Wadsworth, including Congressman James W. Wadsworth, and one-third to Charles J. Murray, an English son of a deocased daughter of the testator. The claims of the Englishman were op posed by hta American cousins on the ground that Murray could not Inherit his mother's Interest on account of alienage. The result Is that the $800,000, whloh was to have gone to Murray will be divided as follows: $100,9(>0 to tho children of William Wadsworth; 6100,000 to the ohildren of James S. Wadsworth and $100,000 to the heirs of Martin Brimmer. A PALACE OF HAY. It Will Be a Feature at a Great Inrlastrla Exposition at Toronto, Canada. A palace of hay. Just think of a huge palace made entirely of hay! Such a structure has just been decided upon by the directors of the National Exposition to be held at Toronto, Canada. A mammoth structure will be erected from bales of pressed hay on the exhibition grounds of the big American fair. It will be U3ed to advertise the vast hay-producing country of the West. Large bales of compressed hay will be sent down from the Northwest, and the building will be built of these blocks. When completed the building will be festooned with wheat and other grains in the shenf and in bunches, and the entrance wili be tastefully arranged. Inside the space will be divided J off, so as to display the exhibits from each district Should it escape Its great liability to destruction by fire it will form an unique and picturesque feature of the exposition, and one of uuiisual attraction ana interest to farmers. ' INTERESTING DECISION. Man Can Be a Citizen of the United Stat* and a British Subject Too. The llaster-in-Cbumbers at Toronto, Canada, handed out a decislou in which It was slated that a man can be boih a citizen of the United States and a subject of Great Britain at the same time. The case was that in which the acent of the New York Life Insurance Company in Paris, Franoe, was sued by G. H. Bolton on a promissory note for $7000. The defendant sought to set aside the writ on the grounds that he was a citizen of the United States, and that the service of the writ should have been made on him personally instead of on his solicitors. The plaintiff's solicitor, however, contended that Laogmuir wits both a British subject and an American citizen, he never having abjured his allegiance to the English crown. The Master so decided and Langmuir must appear on the writ of summons, which, according to the decision, wiis properly sorvoJ. The decision established a precedent. A MANGANESE BONANZA. A Chicago Man Made Itlcli in a Most Cn expected Way. Manganese has made E. R. Druinord, o' Chicago, rich. His eood fortune is as unexpected as it is welcome. At Lyndhurst, Va., is a live hundred acre tra -t of land whict has restored Mr. Bniine: s to prosperity. Il came to him many yeai* ago in payment o' a bad debt, and because h-i could not get rid of it he kept it. The most valuable deposll of manganese ever uncovered in the countrj has been found there and $1,009,000 worth ol the metal is in plain sight, A New York syndicate has offered to buy or develop it. and work will begin at once. Manganese is a metal used chiefly as a flux in furnaces, rolling mills and foundries. Last spring Mr. Brainerd, who has been a prominent contractor in Chicago for years, had serious financial reverses and failed. Now fortune has come again in a most unexpected manner. Salvation Army Farms. Salvation Army, of Oakland. Cal., will furnish farms for tho unemployed, TEMPERANCE. . | VHTFRE DHINK'S WORST REStTLTS ARE SEEN*, The notion has sometimes prevailed that all the evils of intemperance are the result of the debasing influence of the saloon, suys Rev. J. M. Clearjj President of the National Union C. T. A. The saloon, no doubt, is much to blame for the widespread extent of excessive drinking, but tho sai i l ?u?n., Kiomo The saloon ex IUUI1 13 uui nuun; IV w.utuw erts marvelous Ingenuity in not only catering to an appetite already well developed, but also in cultivating new and insatiable appetites for intoxicants. The profits of the saloon from ministering to anything like a reasonable or legitimate demand for intoxicants would, indeed, be discouragingly small. Its greedy coffers must be filled by the contributions of tho9e who demand drink to still the cravings of an appetite diseased and destructive, that ha3 silenced conscience and trampled upon reason. Habitual drinking in the home, with the usual bad example, is a sad and prolific cause of the sin of drunkenness. Many an uncontrollable appetite for strong drink has been created in the home into which intoxicants freely and frequently enter. Many heart-broken mother* have only themselves to blame for the dissipation of their wayward sons, because they did not protect them in time by sufficient safeguards against the insidious danger of drink. Some women, alas, are not wholly free from the frightful curse of this most aestrucuve appetite. It Is in the home, or iu the social circle, that this fatal fondness found its first encouragement. The saloon will not entertain any scruples at enriohing Itself from the reckless contributions of unfortunate and degraded women. But tho saloon does cot make women drunkards. With all its foul sins to account for, this, at least, cannot ba laid to its door. The vilest result of drink's terrible work must be traced to the homes invaded by the evil. How important It is. therefore, that the homes of the people should be freed from this poisonous danger. Our good, noble-hearted women must be the refining Influence to cleanse the home and society from the foulness of habitual drinking. Women's power for good or evil is greater than we are able to estimate.?Sacred Heart Review. SOME wniSK3T BESUtiTS. The following Is an extract from a paper read before the Twentieth Century Club of Hartfori by Professor J. J. McCook of Trinity College. "For twelve years the pollca arrests for drunkenness alone averaged in Hartford 62.8 per cent, of the whole number, while drunkenness and Its allied offenses "numbered 80.67 ? ? T>V.lo nmnnrflnn la nBPhlinS MOme j^or ViCUli lUtO pi VJ/wi kiVM r r. what larger than in most places, but it may generally be expected to be at least as high as three-fifths. "Ninety-five to ninety-seven out of every hundred incarcerated ia our jails are selfconfessed drinkers, although they pleasantly add "moderate" to the title, and from 43.6 to 56.1 per cent, of them are there specially for drunkenness, and fully 66 per cent, or twothirds of them, are there for that and its resulting orimes. There were 1393 of them there last year out of a total 2111. "Of the 381 captives in our State prison last year 46.8, or almost half, thought drink had done it. "Take special phases of crime, for example. "Abuse, neglect, or abandonment of children. Those most familiar with the subject in this neighborhood have put the proportion of cases attributable to drink at or beyond two-thirds. From the Pennsylvania Society to Protect Children from Crueitv, with headquarters in Philadelpnia, a former Vice-President, in talking with me, fixed the proportion roughly at four-fifths to ninetenths. But the Secretary gives me definite statistics for 1891-2 showing 309 cases of orink out of a total 864 in 1891 and 853 out - * 1QQO?I ? ffrkm ft nap PAnf. 86.4 per cent, in some previous years the I percentage had been as high as 50." a crying evil. It must bn r panted, we think, a? a fact beyond dispute, says the Insurance Observer of England, that intemperance is one of the most prominent evils from which this country suffers. It is a crying evil, in its individual as well as its collective sense, socially as well as commercially; and, while no doubt the last decade has witnessed consideraDle improvement in this respect among the population at large, and perhaps anion* the middle-classes in particular, still the veriest optimist will hardly deny that much remains to be accomplished. Every influence which tends to help forward the progress of so desirable a reformation Is therefore to be welcomed. The moralist may impress his generation with the heinousness of intemperance as an offense against the happiness of families. The social reformer may show? and he will hardly experience much difficulty in doing so?that this vice, beyond ail other causes, fills our jails and finds occupa tion for the hangman. The economist may prove to demonstration that expenditure od intoxicants is mere waste, tending to bankruptcy and ruin, and that if applied in more rational directions it would lead to comfort if not opulence. These, it must be confessed, are potent if not unanswerable argumen s, which ought to carry conviction to all who are not past praying for. A RECKLESS JOtTBNEY. ? i * J-f.t. U *? An Wtien a young maa uugms iu urmti u is ? though he got on an electric car and went asleep, says Temperance Cause. He crosses one street after another without knowing it. Total abstinence advocates come, like the conductor, every nowand then, and call out the stopping places, but he rides on. He thinks ne can get off when be wants to. There is unother hand on the lever, and the car rolls along in the same direction all the time with a low humming song that helps him to sleep. When he Anally gets his eyes open he is amazed to find that he has ridden much further than he had any wish to go. He has a big bill for extra fare charged up against him, and he has a hard and long walk back, for there are no cars back in a man's life. He has to walk. He will find the journey a good deal more cheerful and be much fe?s likely to stumble if he joins the total abstineuce movement and walks along in good company. LIQUOR RUINING ALASKA INDIANS. "The Government will never have to seek solution for the Indian question in Alaska," says Captain R. D. Bell, of that Territory. "By the time it will be necessary for the In- I diun to make way for the white man, there will be no Indians left to make way. Disease and bad whisky are cleaning them out at a great rate. Tli^y are hard workers and har.l drinkers. Liquor has ruined them physically, so that they are no longer able to stand elemental severity." WHI8KY AND RAOS. An item Is going the rounds of the press to the effect that whisky is now manufactured out of old rags. We see nothing remarkable about this, says the Christian World. Every one knows that nearly all the old rags now in the country are manufactured out 01 whisky, and there is no apparent reason why the process of conversion may not work as well one way as another? from whisky to rags, and from rags to whisky. What a beautiful business it is! SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS. A slaughter of the innocents as fearful n=> Herod's of old goes on year after year among us. Little children, pdisoned with whisky, are carried to th?ir graves, while their poor, deluded, ignorant pareuts wonder why they die after all the care they have taken of them. Pareuts, give those little children I whom vmi lnvt? n nhanne to irrOW UI> into healthy moral men aud women. Stop giving them alcohol for every little headache or stomach-acho. Science says it is poison. If the use of it does uot kill them, it will create in them an appetite which will be the ruin [ of them in later lifo. Give your children a chance and stop dosing them with whisky or gin.?Sacred Heart Review. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. Total abstinence is always safe. Drink is savage and relentless. Suppress It. Tho drink shop Is the nursery of crime. Suppress it. Many a man puts his family in the dark to help the saloon pay its gas bill. Tho Citizens' League, of Chicago, is keeping close watch on saloonkeepers who sell to minors and drunkards. After the Salvation Army's "Life-boat" was started in San Franoisco three whisky saloons in the same block closed. If a drunfcnrd would know his credit, let him ask the saloonkeeper to loan him the dime that he ju.it threw on the bar for a drink. llELMOtfS READING," THEY SHALL HINOER NO MORE. "Thuv .shall hunger no more, neither thirst any morn: neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters; aud God shall wipe awaj | all tears from their eyes." Revelation vii f | 16, 17. What a wonderful place Heaver must be for a little waif who never haa known what it was to have i good square meal! What a happy time for the people who have had such a hare1 struggle in this world that they have scarcely ever known what it was to have enough to satisfy their hunger! How practical thi? will tr? th.iaa nrhn h?vo annnt SO mufib of their time in this worii hungry. Many a ariminal, perhaps, now confined in the peai tentiary can date his first crime to hunger. Many a more unfortunate outcast will" remember the time when the pangs of hungei seemed to be impossible to bear, at which time the life of shame and wretchedness and misery waa entered into in order to avoit' starvation. Parents of little ones will remember the clamoring of the children for bread and the anguish of heart that came because there eras no way of supplying the want. In our homes of plenty we little realize what this may mean; we little understand a large part af the struggle of those who may, for anj reason be reduced to poverty. The promise that we shall hunger no more, neither thirs' any more is indeed good news to everyone and not only physical hunger, but spiritI U A Inf ?-ona a nrl lUflAnmfrtrtf uat xi uiigci | uwuvju v? of every kind will be done away with when we shall be led to those living fountains of water. It will be well, for us, so far' as it lies in our power, to do what we jan to supply food to the hungry, comforf to the afflicted, to pray for the downtrodden, and in every way to try to show bj 3ur lives the principles of the gospel of Tesus Christ. We ought not to forget, also to point the weary struggling ones to th< One who has the power to help them seek tho living water and to provide by-and-bj ao that they shall never hunger. FOND DREAMS. There are some good people who los* hope in this world's disheartenments. Theii souls are graves full of buried things. Down into these dark sepulchres have gone earlj dreams, visions of beauty, sweet thoughts aoble intentions, sacred feelings, brilliant expectations. They bow in sadness ovei their dead, saying: "There is no use ii my going on. Life is empty for me now. There is nothing left worth livinc Tor. Every sweet flower has faded. Christian faith should dispel every suc> feeling. Into the grave of Jesus went om ' 4.Wrt K/xUnot I uveillll^ l Lie SW'-'ClOl, UUJJC3, bUO U\S*i\2i7b loves; the gentlest thoughts, the brightest visions, thu fondest dreams, of a little company of loyal friends. At that grave, as the sun sank lotv, weeping ones stood saying. ' All our hearts' hopes lie buried there, all our joy, all our love." But three days later tbat grave was opened, and these buried hopes, joys, and affeotions were raised up and lived again in blessed gladness. What the friends of Jesus thought they had icst forever they had not lost at all." Their hearts' treasures were only buried that they might spring up in immortal beauty. The dull seeds became glorious Easter lilies. So will it be with all the precious things of Christian faith which 9eem to perish. In Christ nothing that is good or lo\ely can be really lost. The dreams of youth which meant so much to us, and which we seem to have lost?they have served their purpose, and are lost only as blossoms are lost when they fall away to give place to the fruit.?J. B. Miller, D. D. OOD OUB DWELLINO PLACE. He who dwells in God need feel no uneasiness as to the permanence of his habitation; for its knows no decay. He will not be alarmed at me assault 01 enemies, wauiever their number, for the pavilion of the Most High is an impregnable fortress. He will have no occasion to seek comfort or ease elsewhere, for the perfect appointments of this magnificent palace leave nothing to be desired. When locked In the privacy of this delightful home he can throw off all restraint, lay bare his breast, and tell out his secrets. It Is the hallowdd 3pot where he can lavish his love and give full play to every right affection. How glorious a dwelling place is God?rest for the weary, joy for the sorrowing, strength for the weak ! Who find in Him their habitation? "He that dwelleth in love dwelleth In God." "Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the son of God dwelleth In God." "He that keepeth His commandments dwelleth In Him." "Hereby know we that we dwell In Him because He hath given us of His Spirit." Love, faith and obedience?three forms of the one essential thins, thorough loyalty to the Lord?give us clear title to this mansion, in the skies and on the earth, here and hereafter, the same yesterday, today and forever. "Lord. Thou "hast been our dwelling-place in all generations." HAPrINESS AND OBEATSESS. It is of no use for a person who Is not habitually happy to count himself either very good or very great; for his gloom convicts him as lacking in faith and hope and love. And most surely no one amounts to much who does not excel in all three of these things. They are fundamental to high character. Little goodness without muchlove: and he in whom love abounds will certainly be glad, for in making other? happy he cannot fail to be happy himself. t if Vvo email fnr faith IJUUV gvyuiivoc u iwtvu vv , 4V. ??.? puts us in touch with God, who is the sole source of virtue, and a vigorous faith scatters the clouds, making sunshine in the soul. The man whose hope is scanty, who looks on the dark side of things and takes sad views, will, of course, be sad, and must to some degrte be bad, for he disregards the commandment of God who says, "Rejoice." And as to true greatness, Christ settles that, and rules out the unhappy by putting the crown on those who serve. They who are occupied In genuine ministration'to the needs of others have so little lime or disposition to think of self, that it is impossible for them to be unhappy. CHRISTIAN BRIGHTNESS. Think of the blessedness of living, lifted up above all the uncertainties that ra<:k men wnen they think about tomorrow. Try to realize the blessedness of escaping from the disappointments which come from all earthward-turned expectations, when the radiant bubble bursts, and there is nothing left in our hands but a little dirty soap suds, as is the case with so many of our fulillled anticipations of good. Try to realize the blessedness of escaping from that despairing hopelessness that creeps over as life 3bbs away and the years diminish. And remember the buoyant words of the Psalmist, who, because God was his hope, therefore, chough he was "old and gray-headed." sang, "I shall hope continually." The brightest alaze of Christian hope may be on the verge of the darkness of ,the grave.?Alexander Maclaren, D. D. The greatest thing, says some one, a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of his other children. I wouder ivhy It is that we are not all kinder than we ire? How much the world needs it. How jasily it is done. How instantaneously it tcts. How infallibly it is remembered.? Henry Drummond. Rededication and prayer are the indispensable background to any Christian work worth the doine. And without them Chrisdan living fai's of acquiring that depth with>ut which Christian doing is sure to be superficial and ineffective.?H. C. Trumbull. I COLORED RECRUITS WANTED. Orders Issued Curtailing; the Enlistment* for tho Army. The recruiting office of the UnitO'l States regular army in Providence, U. I., which has been doing a rushing business for more than three yoars, will accept only colored luun who wish to re-enlist at present. The order shutting off the enlistmont of white m^n came from Washington a fow days ago. The order announces that "tho army Is approaching its maximum strength, and enlistment will be confined to former soldiers and exceptionally desirable recruits." The recruiting service at Providence has had mauy more applicants for a long time than could taken. SABBATH SCHOOL ' INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR OCTOBER 18. Lesson Text: "Solomon's Wealth and Wisdom," I Kings, lv., 2534?Golden Text: I Sam. il., 30?Commentary. 25. "And Jadah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon." For a little while he seems to hnve relied peacefully over all the territory promised t^ Abraham. Com?>are verse 21 with Gen. xv., 18. It was a alnt foreshftit wlng of Jer. xxlii., 5, 6. when the Lord shall raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper and shall execute judgment and justice In the earth. In His days Jc.dah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely, and this Is His name, whereby He shall becalled "the Lord, our Righteousness." Then there shall be war no more, and Israel shall walk in the name of the Lord their God forever and ever. 26. "And Solomon had 40,100 stalls of hnmfi.q tnr hts chariots and 12.000 horsemen.11 Compare chapters'*., 26-29; xl,. 1-8, with Deut. xvll., 15-17", and in the light of those passages this verse of our lesson will make one tremble for Solomon. "Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help and stay on horses and trust In cnariots because they are many and in horsemen because they are trocg, but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord" (Isa. xxx., 1). Better to say, "Some trust in chariots, and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God" (Ps. xx, 7). Israel was chosen to be separate from and unlike all other Nations, tne great distinguishing feature of their National life being the presence in their midst of the living and true God as their King and Lawgiver, Protector and Deliverer, In whom alone they were to trust. 27. "And those officers provided victual for King Solomon, and for all that came unto King Solomon's table, every man in his month. They lacked nothing." It must have been a great company to provide for and must have required much wisdom and forethought to have sufficient for all. Bat the God of Israel fed millions auperaaturally for forty years, and they lacked nothing. The Lord Jesus feed more than 5000 one afternoon in an emergency, and He had only a few loaves and fishes to do it with, but all were filled and an abundance over. When He sent the disciples, without purse orscript, they testified that they lacked nothing (Luke xxi I., 85). 28. "Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge." This also must have been a great care, bat our God careth for all creatures which He has made. "The eyes of all wait upon Thee,' and Thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest Thine hand end satisflest the desiro of every living thing" (Ps. oslv., 15,16). Even Darius ordered i'rom his royal bounty all that Israel had need of day by day without fail (Ez. vi., 9). How much more will our Goa supply all the need of all His creatures (Phil, iv., 19). 29. "And God gave Solomon wisdom and understandingexoeeding much andlargoness of heart, even as the sand that is on the seashore." This compared with' verse 20, as mentioned in last week's notes. Indicates wisdom sufficient for every difficulty that might arise in all the Nation. God careth for each lndhl lual, and no child of God should hesitate <to say, "He oareth for me," "He thinketh upon me." The wisdom and understanding of tiolomon were the gift of God. He oould take no credit to himself for It, and it was that God, the God of Israel, mlckt be honored, and not Solomon. 30. "And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the ohildren of the east cointry and all the wisdom of Egypt," because It was the wisdom of God and not of men. So was it also with Joseph In Egypt and Daniel in Babylon, for eaoh was filled with the wisdom of God. The apostle Paul Is careful to tellusthat his speech and preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but In demonstration of the Spirit and or power, that their faith should not stand In the wisdom of men. but In the power of God (I Cor. 11.. 4, 6). He also tells us that Christ fa the wisdom of Qod, and the power of God (I Cor. i., 24;. A study of these two chapters Is bracing to the simple minded. 31. "For he was wiser than all men, and his fame was in all Nations round about" For the reason already stated, Solomon's wisdom exoelled all others, and the fame that spread abroad was "the fame of 8olomon concerning the name of the Lord" (chapter x, 1). The most interesting part of this record la the fact that He who gave Solomon suoh wisdom is also made unto us wisdom (I Cor. 1., 30, 81"), not, however, that we might glory In ourselves, but in the Lord, our wisdom, His thoughts and ways are as fur above ours as heaven is above the earth. Therefore it la surely wisdom to let all our thoughts be brought into captivity to Him (lsa. lv., 8, 9; II Cor. x.. 5). 82. "And he spake three thousand provetbs, and his songs were a thousand and five.4' Many of his proverbs we have and will have a study therein next week. Of all his songs we have the one called "The Song of Songs," whloh 1b all concerning Him who 1? altogether lovely. And yet some of the wise people of Chicago decided that It was not flt to form a part of a new Bible which has been especially prepared for the youth of that city. True tbe^ wisdom of men Is foolishness Willi God. Davia saia mat nis rsalms were 9poken by the Spirit of God (II Snm. xxlll., 2). and doubtless Solomon would acknowledge the same, for It li written very plainly that his wisdom was the gift of God. 33. "And he spake of trees, from the cedar true that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that sprlngeth out of the wall. He spake also of beams and of fowl and of creeping things ana of ?Lsb08.'t TLitis he would seem to nave * n a great student, and nest to the law of v cd what could he study with more profit tbau the works of God? All study must, however, be to the glory of God, find that we may the better know Him, for all must bo subject to Him who In all things must have the pre-emlnenoo (Col.!., W. W. "And there came of ail people to hear thn wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth which had heard of hid wisdom." So It wu with "a greater than Solomon," and to It will bo In the oomiug days when Joiusaiem shaU again be the throne of tho Lord and all the Nations shall bo gathered unto It, to tho nnmo of the Lord, to Jeruna!m Mny it be our dally dsllght to sit at Ms feet and h?r His word, thus giving K!m pleasure and bringing tke groittst possible profit to ourMlvo for tlmo and eternity frw. 111., i7; Luke ?).?Lesson Helper. WINS A FORTUNE BY SOBRIETY. George Crocker, of San Francisco, Gets S490.000 tor Fire Tears' Abstinence. Suit has been brought at San Francisco by C. F. Crocker and W. H. Crocker to terminate a trust under the will of the late Charles Crocker by which they were custodians of 490 $1000 bonds on behalf of Oeorgo Crocker. The terms of the trust are that if within the fifteen years immediately succeeding the testator's death George Crocker should for five years abstain from the use of intoxicating liquor the bonds shall be turned over to him. Otherwise at the end of fifteen years they are to go to the other heirs?the children of C. F. Crocker and W. H. Crocker and Mrs. Alexander. Th? nlntnMff'a Avprfrhaf f'pnm Sflntombor 22. 1891,to September 22,189C,George Crookor tins abstained. They desire, therefore, to turn over the money to him and terminate their trust and sue the other heirs to give them an opportunity to establish in court any objection they may have to such a course. Omaha's City Flag. Omaha, Nob., has now a city fla?, following tbo example of Cleveland and Chicago. It is composed of the colors adopted by the local organization of business men, known as tho "Knights of Ak-Sar-Bon." a combination of red, green and yellow. They are brilliant colors, and serve well for decorative purposes on the streets and houso tops. The symbolism is sometimes given as rod for the good cattle which go to their slaughter in the abattoirs of Souih Omaha, tho green for tho alfalfa-grass which is another of Nebraska's leading products, and the yellow for rorn, tho king of all Nebraska's grain. Cuban I'atriot* io Take tho Field. - - ?J ?-lnr? f a haoirt ' Oinez fllHl I'lH'ieu III'I pi^i/unu,, fl/?M operations in Cuba on a lars?o scale eur!y in October. Their armies are better iraietl and larger than ever before. Jy,M Ambition .f Lon}? time he spent in moulding clay To be an image fair as day; 1 At last *wa9 d">ne. He stood there ia reflection's pause And looked. He only saw the flawa? Grace it hod none. For with his labor he had learned So much that his past wore ho spurned Within hie soul. And from the place he had attained He saw, far off, there might be gained A greater goal. ?Wood Levette Wilson, in Lite _____ _ A Kiss at the End of the Race. Over the meadows Twin swift-speeding shadowsOver the meadowi of dew, And now they lean this way (Love whUpers 'tis kiss way) And that way, o'er roses and rue. v ' Speed, speed, v Where the wild winds lead, While the pale stars fade from space. And a shimmer of carls " O'er the morning's pearls, And a kiss at the end of the raoel 'M Over the meadows Twin swift-speeding shadowsOver the meadows afar; , And love meets the light Of the broad sun and bright, Nor weeps lor the death ot a star. ; ^ Speed, speed, Where tne wild winds lead, While the pale stars fade lrota space, A shimmer of curls r O'er the morning's pearls, And a kiss at the end of the race! 1 ?P. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution 1 T-"if* I A Special Pleader. Sweetheart, love of my inmost soul, Why do I turn to thee? Thou of my sky's bright stars the pole, Guiding my bark at sea? ! . Why do I find thee la daylight's gleams, Why does thine Image haunt my dreams? I can not answer In schoolman's phrase? Can steel tell lodestone why it obeys? Just because I love you. Why is an hour at thy feet Dearer than dreams of fame? Why are earth's sweetest things more fiwecl Than ever before you camp? Why Is friendship a gift more bright, Why has even a foe less spite? I can not tell thee the "whys" of these They quite confound the philosophies. Just because I love you. Why do I feel when thou art nitrh That life has doubled joys? Why is the tenderest melody . . Discordant beside thy voice? Why is the field's most fragrant flower Paltry before thy face, thy dower? Of biased jurors I am the chief, ) I can not judge for I hold a brief? > It la because I love you. I : ?L. E. Van Norman." In the Twilight. . '/ ' Over the dusky verge Of tne quiet sea, Slowly 1 watch emerge The silver rim Of tho crescent moon; pale, dim, The soft stare, one by one, With holy glee Steal out and light their Camps; For day is done. The tempests are asleep; Onlv the balm Of some oooI evening wind Ruffles the calm; The listening ear of Night Can oatoh no sound, Save when, in slumber bound, Earth tarns and sighs: Peace rules the deep. V Aye, peace! across the dark Star-paven sky The Night-queen's silver burl*' Goes gliding by; With murmuring faint, the streams Drowse as they flow In their hid ohanneis; Blow Down-dropping dows Slide from the heavens, like gleams Of Love-born dreams. ^ Frail breaths of violet, Of rosea fair, Shy hints of mignonette, Rise through the air < From unseen gardens, thereBeneath my feet Ah mel how at their spell Swift fancies rise! What touching sympathies, What golden memories, And thoughts how sweet! ?Good W<JrdflL Unanswered. Why la It the tenderest feet must tread the < roughest road? Why la It the weakest back must oarry the heaviest load, While the feet that are surest and firmest have the smoothest patns to go/ And the baok that is straightest and strongest has never a burden to know! . , t1 Why is it the brightest eyes are the onfes soon dim with tears? Why is it the lightest heart must acha and ache for years, While the eyes that are hardest and coldest shed never a bitter tear, And the heart that is smallest and mean?* has never an ache to fear? Why is it that those who are saddest have always the gayest laugh? Why is it those who need not have always the ''biggest half," While those who have never a sorrow have seldom a smile to give, And those who want just a little must strive and straggle to live? Why Is it the noblest thoughts are tne oue? that are never expressed? Why Is it the grandest deeds are the ones that are never confessed. While the thoughts that are like all others are the ones we always tell, And the deeds worth little praise are the ones that are published well? Why is it the sweetest smile has for its sister ?a sitrh? Why is it the strongest love is the lovs wat always pass by, While the smile that is cold and indifferent is th* smile for which we prav, And the love we kneel to and worship is only common clay? Why is it the friends we trust are the ones who always betray? Why Is it the lips we wish to kiss are the lips so far awav, While olose by our side, If we knew it, is a friend who loyal would be, And the lips we might have ki&sed are th? lips wo never see? Why is It the tbiag3 we can hava are the thiujs we always refuse? Why Is it none of us live the lives, if we could, we'd choose? The things mat we all can have are tho things we always hate, And life seems never complete, no matter how long we wait. ?Newburyport (Mass.) H erald. , Odd Street Singers. A curious sight is to be met with in fashionable West End London squares, where a green cart, well horsed, and in charge of a servant, perambulates with a piano and two vocalists and an accompanist, all wearing masks. Reports say they are hard-up titled people, which well might be, for the occupiers of the houses seem to know them and treat them weil.