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AT THW TABERNACLE, "WHERL'S MOTHEil ?"WAS REV- DR. TALMAGE'3SUBJ.CT SUNDAY. A Queen Unto G d Fort vor-O:t F .bht4ned Mothers Itcsting In ,i o< E isy, Com. fortable 1eaven at 1 Wati1g atth PIAI ace WIEdclw For their Lytvt O., . BROOK iY N, Jan. 14.-This novel and unique euhjce was presented by Dr. Talmage this 1crenocn to the usual throngs erowdinv the lar,,est Protestant church im America. The coiwreLation led-by organ and cirnet. Pang a gospel hymn to the tune of "1IIom1e. Sweet Home-''1 Text, Jud--cs v, 28, "The mother of SisEAa !ocked out at a wu dow." Spiked to the ground of Javl's tent lay the dead commnDIrder in chief of the canaanitish host, Geeral Siscra, not far from the river Kishon, which wac only a dry bed of pcb los when in 1889, in Palestine, we crose.] It, but the gul lies and ravines Which ran iite) it indi cated the possibility (f frcshets li- t1w o0 at the time of 0-e t: x1. General Sisera had g Ii:e i u, ww 900 iron chariot.1, but he w deh,a'.-1 and, his chiriot hvIeels interlockcd with the wheels of other chari-)te, he con - not retreat fnst, enoulh, :ud so lit leaped to the -rcund ai l 1l fiI( x hausled, he , ,t II to Jicl'l telO In safety. She had iuti hcen ch and whin ho a!-i d f r t r hiu buttettnilk. whi-1 ,n1 sidered a los,t r; fre Verv tired and ";po ' d he went to leep lpln the d1 bi Jael who had rLS*:ved 1ni !i & took a tent p'n, b. d m om ii -, tt sharp, in one imtd und j -,ma f? oth r hand, and pvtm,i I'- sha-o o the teni, pill to li - frethevd (. with her othe h-! slte litd . Ir a mur an( brouhl it donv on i'f , thl o ii i t a"toull, k,a ,n . struggled to rt,,. id *h-- - , n again. and ho lorriith-v third time h l ' n h -. . mander in tel o 0I.%C lay leid. '1eantwhhte in ti1. t1: mot er sits liid - irr. u and pomlp U1 :i e- t j. fcr his return. v ry , her son to be victoriou-, , k lecked CXp<CunL a , : t e f!' it 1 his ebarit, folio d 1 with embr'ir. aI - of men vu qui 1 vc her now Siil!! it Hie expectati<.n. ill rt turn (it ne ti.-ef itg 'dIus. of, t0. 1 t f181h of thc 11", of tl h b I. will catch. The hide. of her i r and eihe tells th:- tI have whe liher i:. gold and carenCiies ii O . :1! I[ of such l Woudrou tb .it the bt'e onlv hit.s i I. J . ioai-mie, 1.11( 1%l::b-'eb time," sa.) his m)1th -'hat !u"Il, Is surely over. I h i ,, I i . :, 1 the river K*ion has t 'i.' di ia. I hope those strail e aIp--t. w saw last ni0gh. In th : werI 'to om: i nous when thO 1 , * .: hi lit, in their course(. N ' ' 1 o 1 ! hi ave in battle I h' ov I t :i v - t .iy He wvill loton bet. he e Bt,t alas or te a 'i tai tm.i he! She wvill not ste th i: a e of t.he hiolse8 it fai Ii ''t sit b home [roim victor:e itary mlessenger ~ h st rid1es up to) the w t w~ t- the mother of' Siserai er.e', --Xu armies aire i dee,et 1n .co dead!"' Tlhere a . 1: Irtrr amd anremshi fromi wh" w' so w v. N{ow you see~ the tu mein ofiii t miy short text, "The lother 'l oera looked cut at a wmdiow." W~ ell, my friends, we are al Iot in th0e battle of life. It is ra'int unw, vn the mo i nst of us have a mnothier watcin amd w alt.ili. for news of our cttary <e drit. If she be not sitt:n at I the~' wiow of carth, she is ie~ ., witow of hea en, and &' is 2. t o 'eat all about, it. to have beeni til'uuI n. 1ie im I 900 iron cfhar:ots atnd at fo of~ i mattny thous ands vaster th:iti the as of I sreal. But God wasi oni the ' onev We, t m lue angry Iieshets at K .shit,:i.d the hail, the Iii.;htniit%, ut, the nm aale war horses, anud the ( i zf d chaiots, a.d the stellar paulieu in thle sky uiiscomin ited Sisera. .Josephu hit hnIis hilitory dle scribes thet .eerm :t tI: e I' ow~.r woerd: "W~hen t.er v.e tip'Ue to a close fight,, tiCire carnw d.id,/h from Leaven at great stormi w.t1'a vast quanittity of rain alnd hailpf't&the wind b!ew the rain in the [PX0~u of the C2anaanniten an so darnk 'd'bed their ce s Itheir arroiwsi andh tal's were (if noi. advnmutage to lthemI, nor wouild th e lonie of th Le ir 'eritL the SOldiers to mna!ke l!h (i !heir sw''r! commxle the~ I srealhila hetis .cL mell on their backs. TLAs tilt Look tuch coura'tge upon ithe apprehention hat God was assisting tlh:m if at Limy h-I uponi the~ very mi:dst of thicr enem:;es and sle w a :greaLatnmbi of '1,bem,i so that somec of Item !all by the Ilsruithtis. 8)>me felf by thter owni ho'rs ('5 which wereC hut intL) distiiii, atal umt. a fe w were kiledi by fi'(Itr owit cholt~s."' }Itlnc, myl~ heaurers, I lie kitd news brought, to the mtother of ;isfa..' iookogt~ out at the winh>w. Arni air miu(-rf.j whether sitting at a wiiitiw tif eart h or a windfow of hiu~eave, w il; he ir ito news of our victory or del it, no; a'. cordinog to outr I alents or <ii duticat ias equiiptmedt ort tour (pport iinti ies, lut aeccordin rg as to whter Goti ( s 0(1i i or afanst uis. "W'ihere's mt her K" m t lie qutet fitn most frequent h a kedf imi nau.y h.msne holds. It is a.k,-ui by 4 f h'tui(l as well ats th( einbi ciliitg in a' nigh, fill. "Where's mtolther?" It fs aste.f ':v i he little ones w in they gZ't hurt afn coime crying withf the pain."W''o re's mnothi er ?" It f6a asked by t hose who haove Been some g rat.d SighIt (ir hteard somne good ntew%s ori reci!' eild tii som be'at i ii gifit, "WhV feri's9 mtot her ' She so me t im i feel s weaieid b y t ho que~stion, for they all iisk it and keep asking it all the t imi'. Site is ret onily the fIrst to hear e'vt ry caste ofi pletx ty, butt she isi the jiud ge in every (ctur of domest fe appeal, ihar is what puts the premnatu re witinks sa til m)atny maternal l aces and potwdersi' white soi meay3 tiaternalhi foreheads.'. Yotu s9ee it is a qute." ion that keep'js on I or all thte year otf cild hotod. I t comnes fronm th nu,rse(ry, anitd frlom theii ('et)ningt standi where the boys and( gitils arie lear ni.g their school lesson, arnt from the start tig out in t het mornotlg, when the tip pet or hat. or slate or boo0k or overshoe Is lost. onit ii at night, all out of' breath, the youngst ers comec ini and shout until you can hear thtemi from cetlar to gatrr(t and from f ront doer to I he back r ence of the back y ard, "W here's nmot her'?" Indteed a child's life is so full of that enesdion thlat it he be taken away one of the things that the mother most misses and the silence that most op presses her is the absence of that ques tion, which she will never hear on earth again except she hears it in a dream which sometimes restore the nursery just as it was, and then the voice comes back so natural, and so sweet, and so inquiring that the dream breaks at the words, "Where's mother?" If that question were put to most of us this morning we would have to say if we spoke trath fully, like Sisera's moth. er, she is at the palace window. She has become a queen unto (&od forever and she is pulling back the rich folds of the king's uphoistery to look down at us. We are riot told the particulars about the residence of isera's mother, but there,is ii that scene in the book of Judges so much about embroideries and needitwork and ladies in waiting that. we know her residence must have been princely and palatial. So we have no minute and particular description of the palace at whose win dow our glorified mother sits, but there is so much in the closing chapters of the good old book about crowns and pearls big enough to make a gate out oi one of them, now songs and marri ag. s'ir)pers, and harps, and white horst,s With kings in the stirrups, and zolden ced;esticks tihat we know the heavenly residence of our mother is sau p-irb, is unique, is colonnadel, is domed, 1s viubowered, is fountained, is glorilled beN oid the power of pencil or pen or iongue to present, and in the window of 1hat. palace the mother sits watch sr news from the battle. W:tit a contrast between that celes a ! isrroutnding and her once earthly .1 l""urOldlings! W!at a work to bring ' a titniy itl the old time way, with im, i le or in hired help, exetipt per l -; s tr ieo washing day or for the lilt slauthtering, commonly etii-l "0he illing day!" I'h're WN, then ito reading of elaborate rt1 I'ses on the best, modes of rearing c.idre' and then leaving it all to hired telp, with one or two visits a day to ot .nrsery to sue if the principles an i.onned are b-ing carried out. The m 4t ol t hose old olks did the sewing, tlhe washing, the mending, darning the pa'chinig, tie milliuery, the mantua in.d;itig, the housk-ep,og and in hur If-d harvemt ttme helpeo spread the 1.: - r I rv:icl down the load in the mow. T!ty were at the s:Ame time caterers ltlors, dovtrs, chaplains and nurses -r a bk hol- It t.:;-hold all together down wi' h tneas!es or sc"rlet fever, or roued Sht hotiss % it who-sping t;oughs and ('"101pS arid runround fingers and .t,raches and all the intfantile distem p- is which at some tim-e swoop upon - %ry l.arte household. Some of i.hose i,jothers never got rested in this world. 11st es.i o t Ie sel-If rocking cradlt-s of "or oay, which, waund up, witl go hour ,il er hour for rho solace of the yourig slumberer, it was weary foot on the r.'eker sometimes half the day or half the night---rock-rock--rock-rock. I --'ead of our drug stores fitloil with all ;I e wonders of wateria medica and e d!ed up through a telephone, with them t he only apothecary short of four ta i:es' ride was the garret., with its bun Cies of pepperment and pennyroyal aLN(d catnip and muslard andcamomile Ib,wers, which were expected to do everything. d ust think of it! Fifty years of preparing breakfast, diln:er and supper. 'rho chief music they heard was that of spinning wheel avd rocking chair. Fagged out; head ahy and with ankles swollen. Those old fashl'oned mothers--if any persons ever tiLLed appropriately into agood, isy, comfortable heaven they were the folks, ard they got there, and they are reste. T'hey wear no spectacles, for hey have their third sight-as they lhved jonig enogh on earth to get their secand sight -arnd they do not have to p'at for breath after going up the emnerald stairs of the Eternal palace, at whose window they now sit waiting for news from the battle. bhit it any or.e keeps on asking the 'T:estion, "Where's mother ?"1I answer, she is in your p)resent character. The probability is that your physical feat ures sug gest hier. - If there be seven children ini a household, at least six of them look like their mother, and the older you get the more you will look like her. But I speak now especially oft your character and not of your looks. This is easily explained. D)uring the lirst ten years of your life you were almost all the time with her, and your father you saw only mornings aind nights. There are no years in any life si import ant for impression as the first 10. 'Then and there Is the impression made for virtue or vice, for truth or filsehood, for bravery or cowardice for rel igi on!orlskepticismn. Suddenly start out from behind a door and frighten the child, and you may shatter his nervous system for a lif et ime. D)uring the first 10 years you can tell him enough Spook stories to make him a coward till he dies. Act bef ore him o.s though Friday wvere an unlucky day, and It were baleful to have 13 at the tab)le, or see the moon over the left shouider,and lhe wilt never recover from the idiotic superstitions. You may give that girl before she is 10 years old a fondness for dress that will muake here a mere "dummy frame", or fashion plate, for 40 years. Ezekfel xvi, -4,, "As is the mother so is hier daught lI lore one decade has passedl you can th ect w cihether that bony shall be a Shv Iekc or a Gieorge Peabody. Boys arnd girl.s are generally echoes ot fathers and rmothiers. What an incoherent thing tor a mother out of temper to punish a chld for gettlng rmad, or a fathier who smtokes5 to shut his boy tip ini a dark closet because he has found him with an old( stump of a cigar in his mouth, or bor that mot her to rebuke her daugh t('r for star ring at herself too much in 'he look inp glass when the mo)ther has her osvin mirrors soi arranged as to re luat her form from all sides. The g,eat Enhain po)et'o loose moral char actti was decided before he left the iuirs'*ry, and his schoolmaster in the schoo'lrooim overheard this -convera tin'Ih r -i. your mother is a tool," arnd he arnsw.v.ret,"I know it." You can hear through all the heroic li fe of xena' th Sam llouston t he wordhs .1 hIs miother wh'-n she in the war of l1i12 put a mnusket in his hand and sa I: 'here, rmy son, take this anid never ditsgrace' It, for rememb.r I had rat her all my sonms shiouldl fill one hon urabile grave t han one of them should t rn his back on ani enemy. Go arnd r'eiiember, too, that while the door of tmy cottage is open to all brave men it it is always shut against cowar(ls." A grippinam, the mot her of Nero, a mur dieress, you are rnot suirprisedi that her soni was a murderer. Give that child sri overdose of catechism, and make him recite verses of the Bible as a pun is'unzent, and make Sunday a bore, and le will hecome a stout antagonist of Christianity. Impress him with the kindness and the geniality and the loveliness of religion, and lie will be its adlvocate arid exemplar for all time andi etiernity. A few days ago right beform our ex press train on thle Louiisville anid Nash ville rairoad the preceding train had gone down through a broken bridge, 12 cars falling a hundred feet and then consumed. I saw that only one span of the bridge was down and all the other spans were standing. Plan a good b)ridlge of morals for your sons and dlaughiters, but have the flart span of 10 vears defective, and through that thej will crash do wo though all the resi keepstanding. O man, 0 woman, i you have preserved your integrity and are really Christian, you have first o all to thank God, and I think next you have to thaak your mother. The most impressive thine at the in, auguration of James A. Garfield 'a President of the United States was thal after he had taken the oath of oflice h turned round, and in the presence of the Supreme Court and the Senate of the United States kissed his old moth, er. If I had time to take statistics out of this audience and I could ask what proportion of you who are Christian owe your salvation under God to ma ternal fidelity, I think about three fourths of you would spring to youl feet. "Ha! la!" said the soldiers of the regiment to Charlie, one of their comra es, "Wt at has made the change in you? You used to like sin as well as any of us." Pulling from his pock et his mother's letter, in which, after telling of some comforts she had sent him, she concluded, "We are all pray ing for you, Charlie, that you may he a Christian," he said, 'Boys that's the sentence." The trouble with Sisera's mother was that while sitting at the window of my text watching for news of her son from the battlefield she had the two bad qualities of being dissolute and being too fond of personal adornment. The Bible account says: "Her wise ladies answered her yea. She returned an swer to berself: "Have they not sped'? Have they not dividea the prey-to every man a damsel or two, to Sisera a prey of divers colors--a prey of divers colors of needlwork, of divi-rs colors of ueedlework on both sides?" She makes no anxious utterance about the wounded in battle, about. the bloodshed, about the dying, about the dead, about the princioles involved In t he battle going on-a battle so inrport ent that the stars and the freshets took part, and the clash of swords was an swer'd by the thunder of the skits. What she think3 most of is the bright colors of the wardrobes to be captured and the needlework. "To Sisera a prey of divers colors-a prey of divers colors of veedlework, of divers colors of nee dIe work on both sides." Now, neither Sisera's mother nor any one ele can say too much in eulogy of the needle. It has made more useful conquests than the sword. Pointri at one end and with an eye at the other, whether of bone or ivory, as in earliest time; or of bronze, as In Pliny's time; or of steel, as in modern time; whether laboriously fashioned as formerly by one hand or as now, when a hundred wo-kmen in a factory are employed to make the different parts of one needle, it is an instrument divinely ordered for the comfort, for the life, for the health, for the adornment of the human race. The eye of the needle hath seen more domesic comfort, and more gladdened poverty, and more Christian service than any other eye. The modern sewing machine has in nowise abolished the needle, but rather enthroned it. Thank God for the nee diework from the time when the Lord Almigi.ty from the heavens ordered in regard to the embroide ed door of the ancient tabernacle, "Thou shalt make a hanging for the door of the tent of blue and purple and scailet and fine twined linen wrought with needle work." down to the womanly hands which this winter in this Tabernacle are presenting for benev -lent purposes their needlework. But there was nothing except vanity and worldliness and social splash in what Sisera's mother said about the needlework she expected her son would bring home from the battle. And I am not surprised to find that Sisera fought on the wrong side, when Isis mother at the window of my text, In that awful exigency, had her chief thought on dry goods achievement Ind social display. God only knows siow many homes have made ship wreck n the wardrobe. And that mother who sits at the window watching for vainglorious triumph 2f millinery and ine colors and domestic pageantry will iter awhile hear as bad news from der children out in the battle of life as Sisera's mother heard from the strug gle at Esdraelon. But if you still press the question, 'Where's mothser ?" I will tell you where she is not, though once she was bhere. Some of you started with her likeness in your face and her prin3i ph's in your soul. But you have cast tier out. That was an awful thing for you to do, but you have done it. 'That thard, grinding, dissipated look you never got from her. If you had seen any one strike her, you would have struck him down without much care whether the blow was just sullicient or fatal; but, my boy, you have struck her dlown-struck her innocence from your face and struck her principles from your soul. You struck her (10wn! The tent pin that Jael drove three times into the skull of Sisera was not so cruel as the stab you have made more than three times through your mother's heart. lBut Abe is waiting yet, for mothers are slow to give up their boys--waiting at Bomne window, it may be a window on earth or at some window in heaven. All others may cast you off. Your wife may seek divorce and have no more patience with you. Your father may disinherit you and say. "Let him never again darken the door of our house." But there are t wo persons who do not give you up-God and mother. How many dIsappointed mothers waiting at the window! Perhaps the panes of the windo w are not great glass plate, bevel edged and hovered over by exquisite lambrequin, but the window is madte of small panes, I would say about sIx or eight of thesm, in summer wreathedi with trailing vine, and in winter plc',ured t)y the Itaphaels of the frost, a real country window. The mot her sits there knit'ing or busy with her needle on homely repairs, when she looks up and sees comning across the bridige of the meadow brook a atranger whot dismounts in front of the window. ile lifts and dro,>s the heavy knocker of the farmhouse door. "fCome in ?" is the response. IIe gives his name atnd says, "I have come on a sad errand " "There is nothing the matter of my sorn in the city, is there?" she asks. "Y's!" lie says. "Your son got into a. unfortunato encounter with a young man in a liquor saloon last night and Is badly hurt. The fact is he cannot get well. I hate to tell you all I am sorry to say he is dead." "Dead!" she cries as she totters back. "Oh, my son?t my son! my son! Would God I had dhied for thee!" 'That is the ending of all her cares and anxieties and good counsels for that boy. That is her pay for her self sacrifices in his behalf. That is the bad news from the battle So the tidings of derelict or Christian' sons travel to the windows of earth or the windows of heaven at which moth. ars alt. "lBut," says some one, "are you not mistaken about my glorilied mother bearing of my evildoings since she went away ?" Says some one else, "Are you not mistaken about mny glor illed mother hearing of my self sacri lIce and moral bravery and struggles to do right?" No! Heaven and earth are in constant communication. There are trains running every five minutes -trains of immortain asnng nd n descending-8pirits going from eartl to heaven to live there. Spirits d( scending from heaven to earth to min later and help. They hear from u many times every day. Do they hen good news or bad news from this bat tie-this Sedan, this Thermopylwa, thi Austerlitz, in which every one of us I fighting on the right side or the wronj side?" Oh, God, whose I am, whom I at trying to serve, as a result of this ser mon. roll over on all months a nev sense of their responsibility, and upoi all children whether still in the nurser or out on the tremendous Esdrealon o midlife or old age, the fact that thet victories or defeats sound clear on clear up to the windows of sympathel maternity. Oh, is not this the minut when the cloud of blessing filled wit the exhaled tears of anxious mother shall burst in showers of mercy oi this audience! There is one thought that is almos too tender for utterance. I almost fea to start It lest I have not enough coo trol of my emotion to conclude it. Ai when we were children we so of tei came in from play, or from a hurt, o from some childish injustice practice( upon us, and as soon as the door wa opened we cried, "Where's roother? and she said, "Here I am," and we bur led our weeping faces in her lap. 8 after awhile when we get'through wit] the pleasures and hurts of this life wi will, by the paidoning mercy of Christ enter' the heavenly home, and amonj the irst querstions not the first bi among the first, will be the old questioi that we used to ask, the question tha is being asked in thousands ot place ut this very moment-the questiori "Where's mother?" And it will not take long for us to ind her or for hei to Und us, for she will have been watch ing at the window for our coming, anc with the other children of our house hold of earth we will again gathei rou'id he , and she will s.iy: "Well how did you get through the b.attle of life I I have often heari from others about you but now I want to hear it from your own souls. Tell me all about it my children." And ihen we will tell her of all out earthly experiences-the holidays, th( marritges, the birth hours, the burials, the heartbreaks, th( losses, the gains, the victor. ies, the defeats-and she will say "Never mind. It is all over now. I set each one of you has a crown, which waE given you at the gate as you cam( through. Now cast it at the feet of thE Christ who saved you and saved mt and saved us all. Thank God we are never to part., and for all the ages o I eternity you will never again have to ask,'Where's mother?'" Cheap eephones Nowi NEW YoiRK, Jan. 16.-After the 30th of this month you will be able to buv a telephone for a few dollars, and for $80 you can purchase a complete system, with all ths necessary implements for both ends of the line. Hitherto ft would have been impossible to pur chase the instruments at any price, as they were controlled by patents own ed by the American Bell Telephone Company. The fundamental Bell telephone pat ent expired on March 7, of last year. The Bell Company, it was found, how ever, still owned the patent on the re ceiver, and no telephone system would be of much use without a receiver. Am ong other concerns which entered into the telephone busluess upon the expiration of the original Bell patent in March was the Shaver Corporation, of ittsburg, Pa. The Bell Company brought suit against the Shaver Corpo ration on the receiver, citing the p at ent of Alexander Graham Bell of Jan. 30, 1877, as the one infringed. An in junction was promptly granted and that put an end to thre opposition tele phone business for the time being. But the patent of January 30, 1877, is now about to expire, and thus both the re ceiver and the transmitter will be free to the public. After the 30th of this month tele phones will be sold like hats or cigars. Instead of paying $240 a year for the rent of an instrument you can buy one outright for less than a tenth of that sum. If you only wish to use it be tween your house and oflice, or bet ween the house and the stable, or from oflice to factory, you can have a line put up for a trifling sum and you will own your system outright and can stop pay. ing the exorbitant prices now charged by the Bell Company. If, however,you wish a telephone for general use and have to depend upon the exchange, you will still be at the mercy of the Bell Company ,at least for some time to come. It is evident from the preperations now being made in this city and elsewhere by manufactur rers of electrical apparatus that a big boom is expected in the sale of tele phones. A large number of Instru ments have been made and these will be put on the market January 31. Many large contracts have been made for the supply of telephones after that date. All these new instruments will be sold outright. None will be rented. They do not differ in appearance from those of the Bell Companv,and, in fact, are smaller. Being new, they are supew rior to most of the instruments cup plied by the Bell Telephone Company, and which have been in use for years. In view of the expiration of this pat ent, the Bell Company, it is said, has about decidled to abandon the private line busine~sosand the indpende'1t ,Qs phone system in the smaller country towns. At present the Beli Compai.y charges $130 a year for a private line In this city. A rich ileld awaits the capitalists who will engage to fight the Bell Comn pany in this city, which is its strong hold. The enormous revenue which it derives from the people of New York may be judged from the fact that it charges $240 a year for a teleph one in a business house, and( that it has 10.000 sub)scriberg. In Brooklyn, Jersey Cit y and adjacent suourbs there are 10,000 additional subscribers. But from the people of .this city alone It is obvious i,hat, $2,000,000 a year is taken for the use of instruments which did not cost $50,000.- -World. In a Tangie . CumiAflo, Jan. 16.-Ge'orae M. Bogue, one of the most prominent business men of Chicago, has been accused of the misappropriation of about $75,000 of the funds of the Presbyterian hospi tal, of which institution he was presi dent. Mr. Bogue admiLs that there is some entanglement with the hospital, but says any discrepancies will be made up immediately. Last suim mer he made an assignment and withdrew from the big real estate firm of ISo gue & Co., and it is said that the misplac ing of the hospital funds was the re sult of his financial embarrassments. Hor ible. ESCA LON, Mex., Jan. 16.-~Advices have been received here from the -Sierra Mojada mining camps situatedl in this distrIct, of a terrible hiolocaust. In the lower part of the town were a number of huts, located very close together, These were set on fIre by a band of un. known incendiaries, and before the oc cupants could escape, eleven men and several women and children were burned to death. Ten others were burned so badly that thay will die. Wealth not well DIvIded. George K. Holmes, special censu a agent on mortgage statistics, approach ! the concentration of wealth inithe car - reut number of tb,e Plitical Sc'ec , Qjarterly. Instead of attemIpting t compute the p,-operty bt,dinus of Ih g rich he strives to ascertain how much o the national wealth the masses of tht i people possess. The census butca took from every family in twenty-tw( r States and Territories answers to tit I questions whether it owned or hired th( F farm or home occupied, and the cxten r of the incumbrance on owned farms at) homes, It any, with the value of thi property. The results are believcd by the Spiicg field Republ!can to be fairly representa tive of the whole c >untry. As3utifiq this to be so, 32 per cei.t of the farn families and 63 per cent of the hom( families In the country are tenants r Among farmowUing families 30 per ecen - carry mortgage debts averaiing * ,131 i on farms whose average value is $3,190 i among home-owning fJnilies 29 per cen r carry incumtbrances averaging *1.139 it homes valued on the average at $3 254 The census will show the nuiut)(ir f) farms to be about 4 500,000, leaviog 8 - 196,152 'anilies occupling hom(s tia are not farms. Mr. Holmes confines hit wealth ( -timates here to protiertie valurd at less than $5.000. Suco farn encumbered constluLe 80 per cent :n numI-er and 52 per cent in value of al i encumbered farnm, an( ouch eicum1brC L homes constitute 82 per cent in tuiibei and 46 per cent in valu of ill encum bertd homes. The census did not Inke .he values oft uninticumbured f.iii id homEs. aud the Percentiges In themb) th case are adopted here us probabiv tic trut,h. Accor-ing to the Estimates tabuhlteld by Mr. Holmes 91 per cent ol the Iami lies of the countrv own no more than about 29 per centot the wealth. And Mr. Holmes beiieves his estiim itt a do not, overstate the case against the poor. rnese conclusi-ms are about, as du,ious as an.. Which have ever been reucned in the study of th: ques'iou. Proceeding to divide the richer 9 per c<:nt. f the tantilies as between the rich and mod,r ately well oil' Mr. Hidl tes takes toi New York Tribuie', list of m:ll'onairca (4 047) -nd Live,3 themu aut averim;, t about $3,000 000-thii) es:injiic bti-s also partly base(. Upon the retu's w, Th>mas G. Sheiarman's ca:ni4 n i c same line. This gives to the 4,047 vcry rich lan nies, or three-l:undrcdths of 1 < r ceol of all ihe familits, about $12 000.000.000 or 20 per cent, of the natioi'c wea,tt and leaves the remainini piopeity <.1 the nation (51 per cent) to 9 per c,-nt of the families, includ ng the compar: Lively few millionaires. The resul seems incredible to Mr. Holmes. Tnat 4,047 famies should possess nCar ly as much wealth-seven-tenths as much a. least-a3 11,593,887 families is, in l:e, rather startling. But it is probable. he contends, that the statement is apl:rox imately corr(ct. Excludint the million aires, the wealth of the 1,002.218 fani lies lying between then and the great mass of peopie holding property val - ued at less $5,000 becomes im iver age of $28,000 a family, Ai-ch ,eesms large for so many, but, which, Mr. Holmes goes on to demons.rate, miut be about the caee. A Rtancorus Ex-Priest, KANSAS Ci'ry, Jan. 10.-The cit y is wild wit,h excitement, tonight, the~re sult of a riot. precipit,ated by anti x-p)r:et who bitterly assailed thec Catholics. An address was delivered by J1. V. Me Namara, said to be tromn lme fle commenced by making a rantcorous it. ta:.k o'.1 the Catholics and the inst ii. Lions they hold so dear. IHe had not proceeded far with his barrangue when he was interrupted Dy groans and lisses from t.he audience. These only seemed to add intensity to the bitterness of hi:3 remarks, and the meeting son b)came a scene of bowling, excited ment, aud broke up in disorder. After the hall had beeni cleared a crowd of men gathered on the street and waited for the speaker to ap pear. When lhe came dowin from tihe hall lie was greeted by vells of derision, and there were cries of "hanig him." His friends collected about him. and an attempt was made to push a way through the crowd. As the angry mob crowded about, McNamara andl his band of sum porters, pistols were drawn andI some one fired a shot, into the air. insii seemed the signal of a genet'al light and aeveral shots were exchanged. One man was shot, but lie wvas tatkeni away by hIs friends. During tile gen-* oral melee McNamara, the caur-e of the riot, managed to escape and is htid!ng somewhere in the city. After the .shoot ing, the police made an assautlt, uponl the struggling mob and many p)ersonIs were arrested. On all of those takcn into custody, pistols were fourd and it is evident that a lIght was aniticipatted b)y both sides anid that they were Irepared to shed blood in case the d;hlieul'y re ached thlat stage. T1he city Is in a statea of wild uproar and( mnore trouble is Iiared before morning. A Ftendisht Urimue. IRMI(iiIA M, Ala, ,Jan. 16.-,John l'. .Johinson, a negro, tmurde'red his entice family at Somerville, Morgan count y Sunday nIght, and tried to cover up his crime by burning '.he house IIis wife and two children, agedl respe'ctiveIy 5 and 3, were the vict,imsa. ,Johi's n tirst, cut their throats and then a'stir ated the- room wIt,h oil anid set lIre to) the house. 0. ly charru-d plortlonsH of' the bodies were found In the. dubit,'s. Jealousy and another woman figut'il fin t he case. ,Johnson is in j oh, a nd i s pre.tty sure to De lynched, as e'xcit 4. ment lamong the nbogroes is intens: They are ga' hering ina large lnnmtrers to avenge the horrible cri me. DENS] "THE WORLD'S GREA TH,iE MAUHIIN T he O ni FOlR TYPECWRII EllS AT' TI1 Mi~ "NO MACHINE COULD BE ANY BETTVEl. iTr l PERFECT." privave statement of on e. of the Judges. ResponsIble 001uni J. W. G-ib GENERAL AmEN lotanCy sud Old Age.. Doclors have Scoffed at the asserti< o of Dr 'Keeley that a barrel full of 1] refnedles would not hurt an infait properly adminfetercd. Several I stances have been reported from difft I ent Ke(leV Institutes where Infan have'been cured of a necessity for mo phine, but the reports have been j meager that we have given them but Montpelier, Vt., however, has had suc passing notice. The Keeley Institu at a striking instance that we shall pri sent, in the near future, a complel description and repart of the case, wit a cut of the child. The Vermor Watchman and State .Journal mentior the matter as follows: A case unprecedented in the medict practiwe of Dr. J. V. Nichols, of tb Keeley institute, and one that has e3 cited tile liveliest interest in all wh are acquaintud with it, is now unde i treatment at the Institute at MontpE tier. About two we(,ks ago Mrs. Nor Woodworth, of Jonesville applied a ihe Inst itute for treat tm-nt for the inor phine habit. - Dr. Nichols was surpris ed to find that she was accompnIanie( by a daughter three years old, and smr pris- does not exprnss it when ite learn -ed mhat the little one was also a con Orme-l vi-tim of the dis-ase will which 1.it mol her was suffering. 11 in vitatioi of Dr. Nichols and with im cor!i-.iit, of I ie mother, a representativ of t.3 WVa'c1man cale..I on Mrs. Wood wortl I liaday. She rmceived the i+ porter daily and wa% perfectly free ri anm.er ary questioii regarding her self o h&i flaxen-haired little girl, whc ill aniswIer i., the q'lestiIn, "What i: your nmije ?" promptly replied, - rh, K"eley B tby." M Wt \oodwort iis Il motlier of nine ch, ildren and has beei a victi im of lh mt,.iphine habit. for foui years. When she was iursing thi child who is with her she was takin fiftPen grains of morphine a day, anm the little one, through its inother'. mil)k, 1 ecame anl iuno-ent victiin of tht liabhit. Wheii she was weaned, at thl age of ten inflnls, it was iiece!sarv t( uive hi r morphine regularly,and whet she caine here for trea, ment she wa, lnkiiig a grain and a half a day. Tht crug hns beei entirely taken from tht oitId and the mot her is on tho sare I rai to a rapid aid complee recovery. l'he bright and winning ways of th( lit ile one have m-ide her agr-at favor ite with in my ladiezi of State st'ret who havo been greatly interested ii her cns , and no- e wit h pleasure the marked chage f;r the better in hei condition. A- the rep:rter took hi leave the little maiden archly invited hiin to call agaiii, and on being told that her name woulid be In the Watch. !ai thits week she it.qlired, "Have you got it all right Y' I n sharp contrast to thi-icase isi hat of a gentleman from (liteaugay, N. Y., seventy-thr.-e year4 of' age, who is now taking the treat muett for the same disease. They arc to be photographed together and then jlicites -ent, to the Golden News and the li&mpr of' Guld. ThelDyuamito Bomb. .MiNITNGT, Minn., Jan. 17.-Early )tsterday morning some person placed a dyntmite cartridge inside the store door of the Exchange Bank at this l?a'e- .The expolitionl blew out the front o- tne bank building bes;des do ing considerable daiwige inside. As the ban k had gone out of business and there were no funds were in the vault and no attempt was made to the safe, robbery was evidently not the motive ] mticaster, P'a., .Jan. li.-A great sen sation was caused here this morning by the discov'ery 01' a dynamate bomb which had been pilact d against a four story building on Grant.-street, adjoin ing thje police station. 'The bomb con t ained half a pound of dyiiamite encased in 10l) ipe! carefully closedl,'wi th nitro alyeerine caps and fuse. 'The 1litter had been ligher.ed, but for some re ison had failed to burn.' lie re is no clue to the (d.vnamiters, whose object in trying to blow up the building is unknown. T he building is unoccupied, but was being pirepared for manufact.uring ptir Salemi, Ohio, JIan. 17.--When John E'.vana, one of the leading coal men of this section, came to his odlice in thie city yesterday morning, lhe found a bomb lying in the ollice. A piece of lead pipe fully two inches In diameter and ten inchesilong, with a charred fuse running through a screwv plug, was loaded wvithi dynamite and blasting powder, E~vans; with other operators, hias been having trouble with the :iners over tf:e qutest ion of wages and Itle only explanationi or the bomb busi nerss ISh:t same miner thought by wrecking his buxlf,ing to intimidate him. F"or . ,v'o, ICtii.\loN 1) . atiitiary lb .-Mliss I Z zie Newhiotse, a highly cultured young la.l of(, t wty-itt wo. comnmitted1( suicidIe at lier honme in Craii peeper, Va., last night iby blowing~ her bi)ins out1 wIth a pis tol. She.lbft a nots exp)laining the cause of tier rash act. She had, she said, been ''ngaged to Mr. A. P'. Ili1l, of t hat. counity, al niephe w of the dis. tinguis'sed Gen,. A. I.. i1111. of Confed eiate laim'. The eln.egemenit, how ever, wai brioken elff at the lady's own rcelst. 1ler lover moral WVest, ac qui red a coimpetency andi m:arried. Thet taet that, she had destroyed her own hIinessii'~ lbrooded upon the mnind of Miss Newhoiiye anid caused iitr to take her lif'e.-Ne ws and Courier. Fe,e,ai an<i org-ann. NOW is thme t ime to bity suinmmer plan $25 cash bibhmie Novemb ter 15th 1893. WVill buy a l'manio at spot cash price $IQ cash, lbalanice Novembter 1lan 18913 Will buy a organ at .spot cash price. See the list to choose I rom. Steinwvay, Mason & 1lam lni, Mathusnek andi Stir ling P'ianos, Mason & I lamlhin anid Stilrlinig Organs. FcIfteen (days test trial anid freight both ways if n',t saIs I :wtory. A large lot of' nearly new and secondt( handih Piano0 amid O )rgans at ha~ir vainis. Good as' inow. Write~ for prices \IOREF. TEST TYPEWRITER." y. Award .MTE FAilt, NOV EMiIElR 8, 1893. T'iE ONLY AWARDI : WAS ALSO ,MADEC TO US SUPPLlES. *y Agents~ Wanted. bes & Co., COLUMBIA, S. C. Double Murder. >n MONrGOMERY, Ala., Jan 17.-A 18 special to the Advertiser from LaFay. if ette, Ala., says: New" has just reached this place of the killitg of Mr. Clay 3- Hudson by Bob Foster, in 13 iat 13, this r. afternoon; also anoatither killing of a ne gro by Foster The particlars are as r- foll:)w8::11ucNon and fostf!r had a law o suit Saturday about the line be. a tween their plantations. Itudson won a the suit. Today Foster rode to Hud h son's field where hie and some negroe.q were working, and called to lludso%. e Hudson started, on nearing Foster h was told to halt. lie then turned to walk away. Fost,r t n shot him in 8 the back of the head, killing him in stantly. Then he turned and rilled a negro and triqd to kill another one, but failed. HIndson waj one of the most prominent men in the county. The sheriff with (logs is in pursuit of the murderer. A TTI PAYS THE FREIGH1 Vhy '.I Fxtreme PIoos for Coods! fer a ue and See What You Can SaMIs $60 ro 3 reaij or tsionvy re. - ap1 r. -ol. n r 4.Will delk 61 -4T. Ni. 1 I 3 STOVE with 21 Ilk, .:.iecs a of -watre, wil be del i ver, ed to youl SdepJot for *~oni $ - pricelo It - -- or t h i . -ecI-v an villia 4t.. l. , a cargjain. .Nu r4n.pi ou thim Blg y-.. -- A <3) 1O A NO ----Tt E Ij wilielve cra okPlnto U hraIe earn ti Tonaer b Durailiy atl - .al Has no !3Euqual. - 6-y oa aus Na l(,j A gets ablity tosaeiony o u cusmrs, and Bf side Iahnr of )1 all .kin ds,w W. H. ibbesJr,, . 00 jI , ICE T. UigsN /ForOAgriLLS. Rica l'laters a rdl Milantation buy a ingle achin t.haveil cean, for d h350.00.ta CornMillrs cn bu tel besth Freh burr ill, n iro frm fullyeguaran-. teed caacit te busel meuait aer nour, for co15.00. aw Milers an bu 110 varal. Machd oing acinry Spcil isoutsrAdeerncsh. - .C.0 - HM Witha vew oLUMtBAdat, we