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deep without WI.\'G. Christ !ON ON THE (ENS. i ?e3y Com pari. Storl^? The i We Make Pteapon?i ? Previous to ^Brooklyn Taber iRev Dr Talmage, [otusber of notices, that certain pic (ookJvn had osed his in thei^adver firculars ^itliont bis i* of letters of cadle to him in this wanted it distinctly be knew nothing of j 'their business methods, for the morning ser thew xxiii, 37, "As a chickens under her would not" was in sight as crest of Mount Olivet, a TOO feet. ^ The splendors of f capital <y? the whole earth landscape. There is Yonder is the king's 'Spread out before his eves pomp, the wealth, the wicked the comiug destruction of t, and ha bursts into tears at st of the obduracy of a P^ Ut he would gladly have saved, Apostrophizes, saying, "0 Jerusa leruaalero, how often would I ? gathered thy children r together, as a hen gathereth her chickens ~ her wings, and ye would not," Fhy did Christ select hen and as a simile? Next to the of the ^mparison I think to help all public teachers in ;H?tter of illustration to get down 'tbair stilts and use comparisons [ail can understand. The plain est bod on earth is the barnyard fowl. Its only adoriirSants are the red comb in ks headdress and the wattles under the throat. It has no grandeur of gsnealqgy. Afl .we know is that its ancestors came from India, some of then* frodht height *of 4,000 feet on the ttdes of the Himalayas. It has no pretension of nest like .the eagle's ^eyrie. Ithas^no luster of plumage the goldfinch. Possessing anato va, aWf the^ last CBing it wants to do is to fly, and on retseaMises foot almost as much as ^Musicians have written out in mus ical scale the song of lark and robin, redbreast and nightiifgale, yet the hen I of iby text hath nothing that? ogfcjd be taken for a song, but only cluck and j cackle Yet Christ i^thetext uttered, j while looking upon doomed Jerusalem, declares that what he had wished for j that , city was like what the hen does for her chickens. Christ was thus j . simple ijf his teachings, and yet how hard it is for^ us, who are Sunday 1 school instructors and editort\ and | preachers and reformers, and who would gain the ears of audiei . to attain that heavenly and div) 1 art of simplicity, I , have to run a course of liter I disorders as children a course of f ical disorders. We come ont ol and college loaded down with mythologies and out of the theological sewdnary weighed down with what (Earned fathers said, and we fly | rags of eagles and flamingoes j albatrosses, and it takes a good j before we can come down to 'similitudes* the candle under! bushel, the salt that has lost its: the net thrown into the sea, the ! ^spSiUe on the eyes of the blind man and the hen and chickens. There? not much poetry about this winged creature of God mentioned in my. text, bat sfee is more practical and more suggestive of and wear She is not a prima donna of the saef Wf ^strut_ of beauty in the aisle of the forest does not cut a circle under the acta like the Boeky mountain^ eagle, but stays at home to look after family affikirs. She d^es not swoop like the coidorof the Cfcrdilleras^jjansport a rabbit from the valley to the top of the crags, but-scratchee for a fivisg. How vigorously with her claws she pc(lis away the ground to bring, up what is hidden beneath! When the ting hour arrives, she and calls her young to par?*ke. SNBER OLD DOSffSlCK's " WISGS. * ^ Faijp in sympathy Vith the unpre vtentioils old Jashioned hen, because, : like^most of us, she haato aeratch for v fa living. She knows at- the start the f lessor wfiich most people of good are slow to- learn ? that the gain of a livelihood implies work, and doao&eon the sar&ce, t? be opttcSed by positive uo*Q3 effort The reason society, and the church, and the world are so lull of failures^ full of Iba&rs, so f^all of dead beats, is ba? Cause people are not wise enough to take the lesson which any hen would ?f K VEj HY-i. W I. TILL] CA il DEXf S.fcC - \ Amen g tk Tl\or eenrVf*, ri'lficeXits r. ,.rl X ymt is "9 *^re,bot r)Ppi 25egp* with ftu anypo^iteaS^id che paroxysm of paihoflrcj* cext, compares himself to a hen. One day in the country we saw sod den consternation in the behavior of old Dominick. Why tfce hen should b&*o disturbed we coul^ not under stand. We lookLd about, to see if a neighbor's dog were invading the faniL We looked op to see if a stormcloud were hovering. We. r. -cog Id see nothing on the ground that could terrorize, and we could see nothing in tfbe air to ruffle the feath ers of the , hen, but tne~ loud, wild, affrighted" clack which brought all hei brood at full run under bar feath ers made ve look again around us and above us, when we saw that high up and far awa^* there was a rapacious bird wheeling round and round. &iid down and down, and not seeing us as we stood in the shadow it came nearer and lower until we saw its beak was curved from base to tip, and it had two flames 6f fire for eyes, and it was a hawk. ^ ['VBut all the chickens were under I old Donjinick's wing, and either the bird of prey caught a glimpse of us, or not able to find the brood huddled under wiijg darted back in the clouds. So Christ calls with great) earnestness to the young. Why, what is the mat ter? It is bright sunlight, and there can be no danger. Health is theirs. A good home is theirs. Plenty of food is theirs. Prospect? of long life is theirs. But Christ continues to call, calls with more emphasis and urges haste and says not a second ought to be lost Ob, do tell us what is the matter! Ah, now I see. There are ^ hawks of temptation in the air; there, are vultures wheeling for their prey; there are beaks of death ready to plunge there; are claws of al lurement ready to cluteh. Now I see the peril. Now I under stand the urgency.* Now I see the only safety. Would that Christ might this day take our sons and daughters into his shelter, "as a hen i gatherefch her chickens under her wing." The fact is that the most of" them will never find the shelter uhJcsb while they are chickens. It is a sim ple matter of inexorable statistics that most of those who do not come to Christ in youth never come at all. What chance is there for the youtig without divine protection? There are the grog shops. There are the gam bling hells. There are the infidelities and "immoralities of spiritualism. There are bad books. _ There are the impurities. There are the business ras calities. A^ so numerous are these assailments thatJt is a wonder that honesty and qirfue are not lost arts. The birds of prey, diurnal and noc turnal, of the natural world are ever on the alert. They are the assassins of the sky. They have varieties of taste. The eagle prefers the flesh of the living animal. The vulture pre fers the carcass. Tie falcon kills with one stroke, * hife other styles ot b'iak give prolongation of torture. An so tjhe temptations of this life are i various. * Some make quick work of d^ath, and others agonize the mind j and body for many years, and some [ like the living blood of great souls, rand triheQ prefer those already gan grened. But for every style of 7outh there is a swooping wing and a sharp ' beak and a ciuel claw, and what the rising generation needs is a wing ' of protection. EARLY SALVATION URGED. Fathers, m others, older brothers, and sisters and Sabbath school teachers, be quick,aaiearnest and prayerful and importunate and get the chickens under wing. May the Sabbath schools of America and Great Britain within the next three months sweep all their scholars into the kingdom. Whom,) they have now under charge is uncer tain. Concerning that scrawny, pu ny child that lay in the cradle many years ago, the father dead, many re marked, "What a. mercy if the Lord would take the child!" and the mother reallv though t^fco-- too- But what a good" thing that God spared that child, for it became worfd renowned in Christian literature and one of I God's most illustrious servants ? John Todd. [' . Benwmber, your children will re main children only a little while. What you do for them as children you must do quickly or never do at j all. "Why have you never 'written a book?" said some one to a talented woman. She replied: "I am writing two and have been engaged on one work 10 years and on the other five ' years ? nay two children. They are mv life wt>rk." When the house of John Wesley's father burned, and they got the eight children out, John Wesley the last before the roof fell in, .the father said: "Let us kneel down [aifif"tfaisk God. The <;hildren are all saved; let the rest of tiie place go." My heafere, if we secure the' present and everlasting welfare of oar children, most other things belonging to us are of but little comparative importance. Alexander the' Great allowed his j soldiers to take their Sumlies with them tqf wr, and he acooantad for the bravery of his &en by the feet that many of them were born In camp and were used to warlike scei es frofa the Ijgnrt. Would God that jiJI the chil dren of our day might be born into the army of the Lord! No need of letting them go a long way on the wrong road before they tarn around and go on the r^ht joad.X The only time to get chickens jncfer wing is while they are ch ickeib. Hannah Whitall MHjdvlhe evan gelist, took her little child at 2 years j of age when iU out of the crib and told her plainly of Christ, and the child believed awl gav* evidence of joyful trust, which grew with her growth into womanhood. Two years are not too young. ,The time will come when by the fiuth of parents children will be born into this world ilbora iirU> the bosom of Christ at ' same tiile i Soon we parents will re to go and Have our children. We figbt their ?-battleff now, and we stand between "them and harm, bo? oar arm will afterjiwhile get weak, and we cannot fight for them, and oar toagae will be palsied, and we cannot 'speak, ipr them. Are. we going to leave them out in the cold world take their chances, or are *ve doing ail we can io get them under the wing of eternal safety? * "^-^SHELTEH FBOM LIFERS TEMPESTS. all need the protecting wing. If you had known when you entered upon manhood and woman hood what was aheaAof you, would you have dared to undertake life? How much you have been through! With most life has been a disappoint ment; they tell me so. They have not attained that which they expected to attain. They have not had the phy sical and mental vigor they expected, or they have met with rebuffs which they did not anticipate. You are not at 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or 80 years* of | age where you thought you would be. I do not know one except myself to whom life has Wn a happy sur prise. I never expected anything, fl-rvl go when anything came in the shape of human favor or comfortable position or widening field of work it was to me a surprise. I was told in the theological semin ary by some of my fellow students that I never would get anybody to hear me preach unless I changed my style, so that when I found that some people did come to hear me it was a happy surprise. But most people, ac cording to their own statement, have found life a disappointment. Indeed we all need shelter from its tempests. About 3 o'clock on a hot August after noon you have heard a rumble that you first took for a wagon crossing a-j bridge but afterward there was a louder \ rumbling, and you said, "Why, that is thunder!" And sure enough the clouds were being convoked for a full diapason. A whole park of artillery went rolling down the heavens, and the blinds of thd windows in the sky were closed. But the sounds above were not more certain than the sounds beneath. , The cattle came to the bars and moaned for them to be let down that they might come home to shelter, and the. fowl, whether dark Brahma or Hamburg or Leghorn or Dominick, began /to call to its young, "Cluck!" Cluck!" "Cluck!" and take them undeithe wagon house or shed, and had them all hid under the soft leath ers by the time that the first plash of i rain struck 4he roof. So there are sudden tempests for our souls, and, ob! how dark it gets, and threatening clouds of bankruptcy or sickness or persecution or bereave ment gather and thicken and blacken, and some run for shelter to a bank, but it is poor shelter, and others run to friendly advisers, and they fail to help, and others fly nowhere pimply because they know not where to go, aud they perish in the blast, but others hear a divine call saying, "Come, for all things are now ready." "The spirit and the J>ride say come." And while the heavens are thundering terror the divine toice/proffers mercy, and the soul comes under the brood ing care of the Almighty "as a hen gathereth her chickens under her ?wing." DANGER OF ICY FORMALITY, The wings! of my text suggest warmth, and that is what most folks want The fact is that this is a cold world whether you take it literally or j figuratively. We have a big fire place called the sun, and it has a very hot^ fire, and * the stokers keep the coal^~~well stirred up, but much of the year we cannot get near enough to! this fireplace to get warmed. The world's extremities are cold all the time. Forget not that it is coldej: at the soutlfjBgle than at the north pole, and that the Arctic is not so destruc tive as the Antarctic. Once in awhile ! the Arctic will let explorers come back, but the Antarctic hardly ever. When at the south pole a ship sails in, the -door of ice is almost sure to shut against its return. Bo life to iftiiny millions of people at( the south and many millions of people at the north is a prolonged Bhiverj but when I say that this is a cold world 1 chiefly mean figuratively. If you want to know what is the mean ing of the ordinary term of 'receiving the "cold shoulder," get out of money and try to borrow. The conversation may have been almost tropical for luxuriance of thought and speech, but suggest your necessities and see the thermometer drop to 50 degrees below zero, and in that which till a moment before had JxreiLA warm room. Take what ist-an unpopular position on some public question anid see your friends fly as chaff befor^a windmill. As far as myself is concerned, I have no word of complaint, but I look off day by day and sae communities freezing out men and women of whom the world is not worthy. ./ Now it takes after one and now after another. It becomes popular to depreciate and defame and execrate and lie about some people. This is the best world I ever got into, but it is the meanest world some people ever got into. The worst thing that ever happened to them was their cradle, and the best thing that will ever happen to them will be their grave. What people want is warwtk | Many years ag> a man was floating * down on the ice of the Merrimac, and great efforts were made to rescue him. 1 ^ iwice he got hold of a plank thrown to him and twice he .slipped away from it, because that end of tiie plank was covered -with ice, and jhe cried out, "For God's sake give me the wooden end of the, plank this time " and this done he was hauled to shore. The trouble is that in dor efforts to aave-the soul there is too ! much coldness ind icy formality, and 1 90 the imperiled one slips off and floats down. Give it the other end of the plank ? warmth of sympathy, warmth of kindly association* warmth |^of general surroundiugs. i The world declines to give it, and in many cases has no power itagivei it, and here is where Christ -comes in, and^as on a cold day, the rain beat ] ing and the atmosphere full of sleet, j the hen clocks her chickens under | her wingSL and the warmth of her own breast puts warmth into the wet feath ers and the chilled leet of ijnr -infant group of the barnyard, so Christ sa^s to those sick and frosted and disgust ed and frozen of the world, Come in out of the March winds of the world's criticism; come' in out of the sleet of the world's assault; come in out of a world that does not understand you and does not want to understand youi 1 will comfort and I will soothe and I will be your warmth, :tas a hen gath^; ereth her chickens under her wing." Oh, the warm heart of God is ready f&r all those to whom the world has given the cold shoulder. SACRIFICE UNTO DEATH. But notice that some one must take the storm for the chickens.- - Ah! the hen takes the storm. I have watched her under the pelting rain. I have, seen her in the pinching frosts almost frozen to death or almost strangled in the waters, and what a fight she makes for the young under wing it a dog or hawk or a man comes too near! And so the brooding Christ takes the storm for us. t\That flood of anguish and tears that did not dash upon his holy soul! - What beak of torture did not pierce his vitals! What barking Cerberus of hell was not let out upon him from the kennels! What he endured, oh, who can tell, To save oar souls from death and hell! \ es, the hen took tl?fc storm for the chickens, and Christ takes the storm for us. .Once the tempest rose so sud denly the hen could not get with her young hack from the new ground to the barn, and there she is under the fence half dead. And now the rain turns to snow, and it is an awful night, and in the morning the white ness about the gills and the beak down in the mud show that the moth er is dead, and the young ones come ?out and cannet understond why the mother does not v scratch for them something to eat, and they walk over her wings and call with their tiny voices, but there is no answering cluck. She took the storm for others and perished. Poor thingi Self sac rificing even unto death! . And does it not make you think of who endured all for us? \ So the wings under which we come for spirit* nal safety are blood spattered wings, are night shattered wings, are tem pest torn wings. In the Isle of Wight I saw the grave of Princess Elizabeth, who died while a prisoner at Caris brook castle, her finger on an open Bible and pointing to the words, ?'Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" Oh, come under the wings! But now the snmmer day is almost passer?, and the shadows of the house and baru and wagon shed have lengthened. The farmer, with scythe or boe otfahoulder, is returning fr^ig the fields. \ The oxen are unyoked; The horses, are crunching the oats at the full bin. The air is bewitched of honeysuckle and wild brier. The milkmaid, paii in hand, is approach ing the barnyard. The fowls, keep ing early hours, are collecting their young, "CluciP V'Cluck!" Cluck!" and soon all the eyes of that feathered nursery are closed. The bachelors of the winged tribe have ascended to their perch, but the hens, in a motherhood divinely ap pointed, take all the risk of a slumber on the ground, and all night long the wings will stay outspread, and the little ones will not utter a soiu^d. Thus at sundown, lovingly, safely, completely, the hen broods her young. So, if we are the Lord 's, the evening of our life will come. The heats of the day will have passed. There will be shadows, and we cannot see as far. The work of life will; be about ended. The hawks of temptation that hovered in the sky will have gone to the woods and folded - their wings. Sweet silences will come down. The air will be redolent with the breath of whole arbors of promisees sweeter than jasmine or evening primrose. The air may be a little chill, but Christ, will call us, and we will know the voice and heed the call, and we will come under wings for the night ? the strong wings, the soft wings, the warm wings ? and without fear and in full sense of safety, and then we will rest from sundown to Bunrise, "as a hen gathereth her chichens under her wing." Dear me, how many souls the Lord hath thus brooded! Mothers, after watching over sick ^cradles and then watching afterward over wayward sons and daughters, at ?last themselves taken care of by 8, igotherly God. Business men, after n lifetime struggling with the uncertain ties of money markets, and the change of tariffs, and the underselling of men who because of their dishonesties can afford to undersell, and years of dis appointment and struggle, at last un der wings where nothing can perturb them any more than a bird of prey which is 10 miles off disturbs a chick at midnight brooded in a barnyard. TRU8TING IN DIVINE SHELTER. My text has its strongest applirei- 1 tion for people who were born .in the country, wherever you may now live, and that is the majority of you. You cannot hear my text without having all the rustic scenes of the old farm house come back to you. Good ol<? days they were. You knew nothing much of the world, for you had not seen the %orld. . By law of association you cannot recall the brooding hell and her chickens without seeing also the barn, and the haymow, and the wagon shed, and the house, and the \room where you played, and> the fireside with tine big backlog before which you sat, and the neighbors, and tha burial, and the wedding, and the deep Snowbanks, and hear the village bell that called you to Worship, and seeing the hontes which, after pulling yon to churchy stood around the eld clapboard ed meeting house, and those who sat at either end of the church pew, and in deed alii the scenes of the first 1 4 years, and you think of what you were then and and of what you are now, and all ihese thoughts {ire aroased by the sight of the old hen coop. Some of you had better g** tw.ek and start again. In thought return to that place and hear the cluck sjhI see the outspread feathers an&come under the wing and make the Lord your portion and shelter and warmth, : i j ? preparing for everything^ that may come, and so avoid bong classed among; thoee described by the closing words of my text, "as a hen gatbereth her chickens under her wing, "and^ ye woiildnot." i Ah, that throws j the responsibly] upon us! "Ye would not" Alfa^fcr the "would nots!" If the . wandering broods Of the farm hejd not their mother's call and risk the hawk and dare the freshet and ex pose themselves to the frost and storm, surely their calamities are not their mother's fault "Ye would not!" God would, but how many would not! When a good man asked a young woman who hid abandoned her home and who was deploring her wretchedness ^ why she did not return, the reply was: "I dare not go home. My father is so provoked he would not receive me home." "Then," said the Christian man, ."I will test this!* And so be wrote to the father, and the reply came back and in a letter marked outside "Immediate,*' and inside saying, "Let her come at Qnce; all is forgiven." So God's invitation for you is marked "Immediate" on the outside, and inside it is written, "He will abundantly pardon." . Oh, ye wanderers from God and happiness and home and heaven, come under the sheltering wing. Under this call I see you turning from your old way to the new ^ay, the living way, the gospel way. vessel j in the Bristol channel was Hearing the rocks called the " Steep Holmes.' Under the tempest the vessel was unmanageable, and the only hope w as that the tide Would change before she struck the ro^ks and went down, and so the captaih stood on the deck watch in hand. Captain and crew aod passengers were pallid with terror. Taking another look at his watch and another look at the sea he shouted: I "Thank God* we are saved,! The tide has turned! One minute more and we would have struck the rocks." Some of you have been a long while drifting in the tempest of sin and trow and have been making the breakers. Thank God, the ti<fe\has turned. Do you not feel the liflof3fcbe billow? The grace ofGod that bringeth salvation has appeared to four soul, $nd in the words frt Boaz to Ruth I commend you to "the Lord God of Israel, under whosewibgi thou hast come to trust." L ' \jy V. : How Southern Tow ns^ May Secure Manu factories. BY W. 8. WITHAM IN "DIXIE." There are many makers of different iinds of goods desiring, from one cause or another, a change oflocation. There are many towns desirous of having such manufactories locate in their midst There is, therefore, com petition among the more enterprising places to secure the plant, while many towns, like their indolent, unprogres sive inhabitants, wait for "something to turn up." To the former I address the following suggestions as to the best plans and methods of succeeding which have not- failed in several in stances when tested: First. The committee sent from your town to the manufacturer must be a man, or men, of integrity, push and good common serifce^ '.When we come to believe in the matt, we are apt to adopt his idej*& This com mittee will avoid the "promoter of brazen greed" and deal directly'wfth those in authority and control of the plant to be located^=deal with prin cipals and not agents, although it may be necessary to get this audience through the agent. Sscond. Waste no time with a manufactory without capital or repu tation, of which there many seeking to unload upon new towns for a "bonus*." Third. Don't display your ignor ance and waste your time and money by talking to the maker of such goods as can find no natural advantages in your town for the economical produc tion of his wares. ' If you are in a timber country, put in your time with makers of furniture, doors, sash, blinds, handles, and other wooden goods. If you are in a cotton producing section seek the manufacturer of cotton goods. If .jou are in an iron section, go to see the maker of all kinds of hard ware, stoves, and other iron merchan dise. Bring to his attention examples I of successful enterprises, in his line, and ii he refers to any failures of the same, show him that the fault was not in the locality, but a lack of brains or capital ? or both. The successful man in locating plants must be thoroughlv posted. j ' j Fourth. After proving to your customer that your town has the ad vantages of low price in raw material, such as he uses in the production of his goods, then enumerate the many advantages of the Southern climate over that of the East and West Here in the South there are more working hours, living is less expensive, less fuel, ^ flannels, blankets and heavy clothing being required than at the | West or the North. Again, th^ la borers other living expenses are less. Good board may be had from S7 to $10 per month. Again, the j bouth is now prospering and will con tinue to grow in wealth aiid people as she is backed by King Cotton, King Iron, King Coal, and Kjng Climate, I with a soil capable of producing every thing people need and expect from the ground. Another great advantage the South has over other sections is its freedom from anarchism, socialism, infidelity,^ communism, free-love and other elements which disturb la bor acd produce strikes, discord, dis content aad revolution. While on the other hand the South furnishes ! the advantages of savings banks, ex-: celleot public schools, churches of all denominations and settled society. To the thoughtful, successful man, these suggestions have great weight I have tried them, and know whereof I Firth. The South is freer from competiti^a thau the We*t and East j and, consequently, prices are better ! and population rapidly increasing. Then, when a man {has a surplus to j invest tfrere is no other part of the country Aring so many safe avenues of mvesrafcct, yielding fronp? to 15 [ per cent Interest on deposits in the j East is |3 per cent, in the South" 6. | Bonds jn the East pay 2i per cent in the South 6. Bank stocks in the East pay 6 to 8 per cent., in the South 10 to 20 per eent^and qMhis differ ence in favor of the South can be traced through all iaound iu vestments. Sixth. Here prevails among many people in the United States an idgf tl at the heat of Southern summer is excessive add unbearable. This opin ion has, though erroneous, hindered many concerns from locating in the South. To dispel this you can show many instances like the following: Lastj sungper the thermometer on the hottest day stood 94 in Atlanta, Ga., and 104 in Hartford, Conn. It can be easily demonstrated that our South ern nights are cooler and the days no warmer than in the East and West. Seventh* After securing from your town council the advantages of low taxes, or freedom from taxation, upon manufactories, and all other favors it will grant, then get the lowest rates of freight the railroads will give to these industries; go before your own people and organize au industrial 'company, With a paid up- capital to be used in encouraging manufactories to locate in your town. This company takes stock, offers sites, builds tenement houses to give cheap rent, advances money at a low rate oflnterest upon mfiiufactured goods, puts up au in dustrial buildh|g which supplies space and power, which is rented at cost. This *ast mentioned brings innumer able little concerns which, after all, do more to build a city than large plants, Such growth is permanent. \ In this industrial building a small manufac tory can get a room with Steam or electric power without laying out his working capital in buildings, engines, coal, etc. Eighth. When you find the right man invite him to your town; pay his expenses and see to it that he is well received by your most prominent citi zens, and guard him against contact with the following classes that afflict all cit ies: The utc^wn fool," the "schemer," the ' 'blower, *t he blab-mouth politician and the man who has failed at every undertaking, yet who is the "kuow^ all" of jfche place. Do not go after your customer until you have some thing substantial to offer; until you have the concessions mentioned, and you become thoroughly posted in all the details of the undertaking. When he visits the South f<?r these business purposes he will find upon the social side of the question, a society that is settled, and free lrom a disagreeable foreign elemqjat. The sentiment of the people is refined, public opinion is conservative, the citizens are hospita ble, and the upright, industrious home seeker has a hearty welcome re gardless of his politics and church connection. OPINIONS EXPRESSED BY DEMO ^ CRATIC CONGRESSMEN. Mr. Cleveland's Selection* Meet Villi Un qualified Approval, Particularly That Of Herbert ? "A Personal Cabinet." Washington, Feb. 23. ? Mr Her bert V popularity in the House left uo room to question how his appointment would he received by Democra'ic Congressmen. The fact id also that he has been go overwhelmed by tele grams aud letters of congratulations from- others thau hie associates in Congress that he finds* it utterly im possible to acknowledge them except through the medium of a press dis patch of thankfc. Mr OlneyV selection was equally as well received^ by the New England Democrats, whu said that it was a fine appointment. Members from the South and West were disappointed, but would not criticise it, simply say ing that the appointee was entirely unknown to them, and might he a good man. In speaking of the entire Cabinet, Mr Blount, one of the oldest members of Progress, said: "Mr Herbert is well qualified for the Navy Depart ment. Mr. Smith will, I think, make an able Secretary of the Interior. Carlisle is the peer of any man in public life. Doubtless the other gentlemen chosen will be successful in their departments. Mr Cleveland is a man of rare wisdom. His announce ment of the Cabinet gives assurance that, his selections are wise." Other comments were as follows: Speaker Crisp: "It is a very good Cabinet, and a satisfactory one, I guess. I am very glad that Herbert was taken forfce navy portfolio." Mr TumeW (Georgia): "It is a i very good Cabinet." Mr Bingham (Penn.): "ft is a j strong Cabinet. I am very much de i lighted with Herbert's appointment. The Cabinet has this peculiarty and this satisfaction: It is the first which has ever been announced betore the | 4th of March. I like that. It is a personal Cabinet, and is chosen for the fidelity of its members. That is i the point about it which is not always j apparent in Cabinets." To these comments ex Speaker | Reed of Maine added this charac- j teric capsheaf: "I think that Clevo j land changed his mind about appoint ing me to a place in the Cabinet be cause of some speech which Mr Hill or some other Democrat made about me. I am disappointed." luivernal Free foiling* Wanted. London, Feb. 27. ? 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