The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, March 30, 1895, Image 1
TRI-WEfKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S, C., MARCH 30, 1895. ESTABLISHED 1849
Let us have coined defined.-Ne
York Advertiser. Let us have coin, 4
fined or undefined.
We must have money.-New Porta;
4 Gazette.
A motion to make the matter unat
. mous will be entertained.
"In some places people are choppli
op snakes for fuel." reumarks the Pit
burg Press. In others they are mixif
them up with their drinks.
Georgia and South Carolina are qua
reling about which raised the large
hog. Why doesn't Congress tack
come question of real interest like thi:
Mammoth coalers built to take c
goes around Cape Horn to Pacific por
are being built, and one is alreat
afloat. Enterprise cannot afford
wait too long for interocean canals.
According to the report of a Chica,
society there are 60,000 people in th:
city who are confirmed victims <
opium. These are evidently the on
who took Chicago's last census, sa:
the New York Press.
A certain merchant is cackling 1
Chicago over his corner of the egg ma
ket. He cleains to-have driven t]
price of the hen product to 35 cents pi
dozen in New York. A sudden tha
may spoil his profits and afford hani
m'issiles against cold-blooded calcul;
tors.
Judge Roger A. Pryor, one of tI
Democratic Judges in New York Cit;
refused to naturalize two men last we(
because they could not speak Englis:
and announced that no foreigner wl
had not learned something of that lai
guage during his five years' residen<
in this country need apply to him f<
naturalization.
In one of its latest decisions the Si
preme Court declares that negligem
as a cause of action against a rai
road company must be proven, an
that the finding of the body of a ma
on the tracks does not create a pri
suniption that he came there by rease
of the company's negligence. Th
ruling will have a far-reaching effe<
upon damage suits brought again:
railroad companies for injuries r<
ceived on their property. The assumj
tion will be made that the tracks we]
amply guarded, and the plaintiff wi
be c6mpelled to prove his .point an
show by evidence that they. were no
It is notorious that the law regardin
protection at railroad eossings is col
stantly and flagrantly violated. Whei
however, the victim to this negligenc
has been killed it becomes almost in
possible to bring witnesses to the fa<
of violation at the particular time.
The worm has turned. The biter h
been bitten. Lt the unusual fact '
duly recorded. A few days ago Farm(
John Sheffield, of Manchester Cro:
Roads, N. Y., received a mysterious ei
cular letter inviting him to go to Ne
York City and buy "green goods." 13
.went. He was taken in tow by a "gree
goods" operator as soon as he reache
the town and was steered into a den
an obscure hotel, where he met tn
e other men who had money to sell
cut rates. These gentlemen showe
him $1,600 In crisp new bank notes, an
assured him that he could have tI
bundle for $200 spot cnsh. Whereup.
Farmer Sheffield, while examining tl
alleged counterfeits, hastily gathered:i
the pile, planked down $200 in pa;
-- ment and pocketed his purchase. TI
three swindlers made a united i'm
upon him, and in just ten seconds I
had pummeled all of his assailants in
insensibility and sauntered out of ti
-place humming, "This is the way
long have sought and mourned becau:
I found it not." 'Farmer Sheffield r
ported the occurrence to the New Yo:
police, and is held to await the appea
ance of some one to lodge a comphli
against him. Let him go-and give hi
medal for being the only manm wi
ever beat a gang of New York sharpe.
at their own game. The Sheffield cu
rency game is a daisy.
In the death of Isaac Pusey Graty ti
State of Indiana and the field of Amue
lean politics lose a most familiar at
interesting figure. During a lifetin
which was filled with activity and us
ful work, he held and discharged ai
ceptably a number of posts from whi<
he often seemed prepared to step in
the coveted office of the Presidene
His public career began with the cit
war, when he assumed command<
one of the Indiana regiments. Afte
the war he became President of ti
Indiana Senate, being elected as a RI
p~ublican. It was not until seren yeal
after quitting the battlefield that I
joined the Democratic party, in wic
he figuired so prominently. Durli
his terms in the Governorship of Ind
ana he acquired the prominence whit
made him a 'Presidential possibility
but for some reason due either to tI
man himself or the destiny -yhich o
der's the affairs of polities .iis caret
never brought him higher than a Sta
position. It was in recognition of ;:oc
and faiithful services that P'residei
Cleveland made him Minister to Me:
ico. but it would sem that the limits
tionls of the mattn 'oiPned himt to a c;
rceer in wthich he could do valuab
work as a State lealder, but could n<
break out into the larger field of n
Nothing will so surely make a fo
of a man as an amateur show. Or
woman, either,
v IrHE EAGLE VANQU!SHED,
And it Was Done by a Brave Little
Pussy Cat.
Charles Wiswell, of Carbonate, Minn.
aas a cat that Is a king of its kind. Be
sides being a good mouser, this remark
able feline Is death to mountain rats,
night hawks and other small game.
But the most remarkable incident in
In the cat's history happened a day or two
s- ago. It was an encounter with a full
W grown bird of freedom, and pussy was
the victor. The cat was sitting on a
pile of quartz patiently awaiting the
r- reappearance of a chipmunk, which but
st a moment before it had chased into a
le hole, when suddenly the sky above the
? cat became darkened, and an omnious
swish as if from a rapidly moving body
r- fell upon pussy's ear. The cat sprang
ts aside and in the place it had occupied
ly but a moment before stood a full-grown
to bald eagle, its plumage ruffed and
thirsting for blood. Pussy had sand
ind accepted the gage of battle.
It was a desperate struggle, and, al.
o though pussy was pretty badly scratch
It ed by the eagle's talons, it finally se
) cured a decided advantage, having
s landed on the eagle's back. For a few
3 moir ents the air was filled with fur and
feathers, and the ground was all torn
up, but pussy held on, and in a short
n time succeeded in biting through the
r- neck of Its antagonist. The struggles
e of the eagle grew weaker and weaker,
r and soon ceased altogether, and pussy,
exhausted by the violent exertions and
sore from wounds Inflicted by the
eagle's talons, rested for a moment,
then, as calm as though sitting on a
rug before the kitchen hearth, went
carefully over the ruffled fur, made Its
e toilet, and, seizing the body of the van-.
V, quished antagonist, drew it with much
k difficulty to the home of its master.
, Maying It at the master's feet, the cat
to
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BUT PUSSY HELD ON.
g purred its satisfaction, and In this way
1- boasted of - the victory. The combat
1, was witnessed by a number of people.
e The eagle measured six feet four inches
from the tip of one wing to that of the
t other.
PERFECT FIRE ALARM SYSTEM.
?atented by E. P. McCaslin, of Tulla
homa, Tenn.
8 1 The illustration represents a fire
alarm whose operation is not dependent
vupon electrical-circuits, but which ope
Srates positivly in case of tire to sound
d the alarm in all parts of the building
n with which the apparatus is connected.
.The Improvement has been patented
iby Eugene P. McCaslin, of Tullahomna,
dTenn. A combustible cord, preferably
.d sil1t, Is run around the ceiling from a
epeg. passing over guide pulleys, a
n weight at the end of the cord1 holding
e it taut. To the weight is also aittached
n a non-combustible cord, whose other
rend is secured to a tripp~ing lever, a pull
e pnwich disconnects two sections of
hauwire one section of which is
econnected to extend through openings
e !nto all the adljacent rooms andl to all
Spalrt~s of the building, having connec
I tion with an alarm at all desirable
c-THE N1:W FIRE ALARM sSTFM.
to oints. If the silk combustible cord is
v. s burned, the weight is dropped and
il the tripping lever operated to cause the
>f separation of the taut wire sections,
.r thus sounding the several alarms. The
ie ther section of the fatut wire is con
e- nected at its other end to a swinging
s w'eight fulerumed on the wall of the
e room. Any suitable spring alarm may
b 5e used with this improvement.
h Comipromise.
,I Customer-I want a dress of some nen
'nira tint.
r- ModisteBut you are a pronounced
r blonde.
Customer-YeCs, but my cook is a brn
a nette.-Detroit Tribunte.
it The Skaters.
C- As swiftly o'er the ice they flew
1 As snowflakes whirl.
1- With no one nigh what could he do'.
le He hugged the girl.
A distant roar,
Proclaimed a thaw, and then. alack
IHe hugged the shore.
i--Washinaton Star.
Only One Brave Man.
"One day in October, 1877, I was
staging it in Northern California." said
Thomas 31. Spencer. "There were six
of us in -he coach. We were talking
about stage robbers. Suddenly there
was a halt, and one of the party said:
'Speak of the devil and he will appear.'
Well, we all got out and stood in a
line and gave up our purses and
watches. The driver had thrown ofil
the mail-bag and the Wells Fargo safe.
There were two robbers, neither of
them masked. They were not polite
like the knights of the road of romance,
but swore continuously. The job was
done in about five minutes, and the
robbers told the driver to go ahtad.
We did so for a half-mile or so, when
one of the passengers, a silent man
whom I had taken for a commercial
man, said to the driver: 'Go slowly
and wait for me at the ford.' He then
produced a Winchester from the bot
tom of the coach and started back over
the road alone.
"Twenty minutes later we heard
some rapid firing. We stopped at the
tord. Nearly an hour passed and then
the man who had gone back appeared
on the trail. He walked slowly, as if
in pain, and a bloody handkerchief was
tied about his head. 'Drive back and
get the box,' he said to the driver.
"'Did you get'em?'asked the driver.
"'Both of 'em,' he replied.
"We drove back. In the middle of
the road where we had been held up
both men lay dead. The Wells-Fargo
detective, calculating that they would
stop to rifle the mail-bag and the strong
box, divide the plunder and then sepa
rate, had quietly walked back. One
of them he dropped with his Win
chester before he was suspected; the
other got in one shot before he fell,
and that had struck the brave man a
glancing blow on the head. Our prop
erty was all restored to us. "-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Some Good Superstitions.
A .curious popular belief among the
Mexicans relates to the so-called gold
snake. Wherever it makes its nest
there is sure to be a ledge containing
the precious metal, and many miners
will locate at once if they chance
upon a serpent of this species. Peo
ple who dig for metals a. full of
superstitions. Mines are always
auntedby demons and hobgoblins,
some of them malicious and others
benevolent. Nickel and Kobold are
the names of two gnomes who infest
underground workings in Germany.
From them are derived the words
unickel" and "cobalt."
M. GERAULT-RICHARD.
He Is Said to Have Been the Imme
diate Case of Perier's Resignation.
The immediate cause in bringina
about the resignation of 1. Casimer
Perier is said to have been M. Gerault
Richard, who until recently was an
>bscure socialist journalist He was
the author of an extremely insulting
M. GERAULT-RIcHAR.D.
rirticle about President Casimer-Perier
hich so annoyed the President, whose
temperament is extremely sensitiv'e,
that a Government prosecution was in
Stittedl against him which resulted in
his being sent to prison for one year.
This only increased his importance
unong the Radicals, who elected him
: represent the Thirteenth Arrondisse
:ent of Paris in Parliament. This fol
owed inunediately upon the election of
. Brisson to the Presidency of the
hamer, an event which M. Casime?
'erier regarded as a personal affront
o himiself. A clamor was at once set
p by the socialists for M1. Gerault
Richard's release, claiming that his
iletention in prison after his election
was a blow on universal suffrage. The
overn men t successfully resisted the
:emand for his release, but among
those who voted for it wvere various
friends of the President, notably M1.
Bourgeois, to whom were given the
eis5 of power after the fall of the
Dupuy Cabinet. M1. Gerault-Richard
is styled the "enfant terrible" of the
'rech crisis.
Rearranlgemenlt Desired.
"Henry," she said, thoughtfully.
"What is it?" responded the worrieu
business man rather shortly.
"I wish you could rearrange youm
business a little bit."
"How?"
"So as to be a hear on the stock ex
change instead of at home."-Judge.
The Rush Hour Past.
Staylate-Well, I must be going.
Ethel Knox-Don't hurry; papa is
just as mad now as he will be If you
hang on another hour.-New Yorb
World.
Uncomplimentary.
She-Why is it American women are
so much more attractive to foreigners
with titles than English women are?
He-Because they have more dollars
ad lnes snensc....ntrolt Free Press.
1REV. DR TA IM.GE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE*3 SUN"
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "New Ground.f
TEXT: "Lest I should build upon anothe;
man's foundation." -Romans xv., 20.
After, with the help of others, I had buili
three churches in the same city, and not
feeling called upon to undertake the super
human toil of building a fourth church.
Providence seemed to point to this place as
the field in which I could enlarge my work.
and I feel a sense of relief amounting to ex
ultation. Whereunto this work will grow 1
cannot prophesy. It is inviting and promis
Ing beyond anythin, I have ever touched.
The churches are the grandest institutions
this world ever saw and their pastors have
no superiors this siAe of heaven, but there is
a work which must be done outside of the
churches. and to that lork I join myself foz
awhile, "Lest I build on another man's
foundation."
The church is a fortress divinely built.
Now, a fortress is for defense and for drill,
and for storing ammunition, but an army
must sometimes be on the march far outside
the fortress. In the campaign of conquering
this world for Christ the time has come for
an advance movement, for a "general en
Fagement," for massing the troops, for an
invasion of the enemies' country. Confident
that the forts are well manned by the ablest
ministry that ever blessed the. church, I pro
pose with others, for awhile, to join the
avalry and move out and on for service in
the open field.
In laying out the plan for his missionar)
tour Paul. with more brain than any of his
contemporaries or predecessors or succes
sors. sought out towns and cities which had
not yet been preached to. He goes to Cor
ith, a city mentioned for splendor and vice
and Jerusalem, where the priesthood ana
Banhedrin were ready to leap with both feet
upon the Christian religion. He feels he has
a spe 3ial work to do, an he means to do it.
What was the result? The grandest life of
usefulness that man ever lived. We modern
Christian workers are not apt to imitate
Paul. We build on other people's founda
tions. If we erect a church, we prefer to
have it filled with families all of whom have
been pious. Do we gather a Sunday-school
class, we want good boys and girls, hair
combed, faces washed, manners attractive.
o a chureh in this city Is apt to be built out
of other churches. Some ministers spend all
their time in fishing in other people's ponds,
and they throw the line into that chureh
pond and jerk out a Methodist and throw
the line into another church pond and bring
out a Presbyterian, or there is a religious
row in some neighboring church, and the
whole school of fish swim off from that pond
and we take them all in with one sweep of
the net. What ib gained? Absolutely noth
Ing for the general cause of Christ. It is only
as in an army when a regiment Is trans
ferred from one alvlsion to another, or from
the Fourteenth Regiment to the Sixty-ninth
Begiment. What strengthens the army is
iev recruits.
The fact is, this is a big world. When in
our schoolboy days we learned the diameter
and circumference of this planet we did not
learn half. It is the latitude and longitude
and diameter and circumference of want and
woe and sin that no- figures can calculate.
This one spiritual continent of wretchedness
reaches across all sone, and if I were called
to give. its geographlcac boundary I would
say it is bounded on the north and south and
east and west by the great heart of God's
sympathy and love. Oh, it is a great world.
Bince 6 o'clook this morning at least 80 000
have been born, and all these multiplied
populations are to be reached of the gospel.
n England or in Eastern American cities
we are being much crowded, and an
re of ground is of great value. but out
West 500 acres is a snlll iarm, and 20,
000 acres is no unusual possession. There is
a vast field herb and everywhere unoc
cupied, plenty of room more, not building
on another man's foundation. We need
as churches to stop bombarding the
old ron clad sinners that have been proof
against thirty years of Christian assault, and
aim for the salvation or those who have
never yet had one warm hearted and point
blank invitation. There are churches whose
buildings might be worth $200,000, who are
not averaging five new converts a year and
doing less good than many a log cabin meet
ing house with tallow candle stuck In wooden
ooket and a minister who has never seen a
college or known the difference between
reek and Choctaw. We need churches to
get nto sympathy with the great outsideI
world, and let them know that none are so
broken hearted or hardly bestead that they
will not be welcomed. "No!" says some fan
idious Christian: "I don't like to be crowd
ed in church. Don't put any one in my
ew." My brother, what will you do In
heaven? When a great multitude that no
man can number assembles, they will put
flity :In your pew. What are the select few
o-day assembled in the Christian churches
compared with the mightier milons outside
of them?
At least 3,000,000 people in this cluster of
iaboard cities, and not more than 200,000 in
the churches. Many of the churches are
ike a hospital that should advertise that its
patients must have nothing worse than tooth
ihe or "run arounds," but no broken heads,
ro crushed ankles. no fractured thighs.
Qive us for treatment moderate sinners, vel
et coated sinners and sinners with a gloss
mi. It isasthoughi a man had a farm of
i00 acres and put all his work on one acre.I
Re may raise never so large ears of corn,
riever so big heads of wheat, he would re
nain poor. The church of God has bestowed
its chief care on one acre and has raised'
;plendd men and women in that small in
'losure but the field is the world. That
eans North and South America. Europe,
Aisla and Africa and all the islands of the
It is as though after a great battle thce6
were left 50,000 wounded and dying on the
5eld and three surgeons gave all 'their time
:o three patients under their charge. The
najorgeneal comes in and says to the doe
;ors. "Come out here and look at the nearlv
50060 dying for lack of surgical attendance.'
N"say the three doctors, standing there
ud'fanning their patients; ' wve have three
tmportant cases here, and we are attending
;hem, and when we are not positively busy
with their wounds it takes all our time to
Keep the flies off." In this awful battle of
in and sorroW, whek'e millions have fallen
n millions, do not let us spend all our time
L taking care of a few people, and when the
sommand comes, "Go into the world."~ say
practically: "No, I cannot go. I have here:
i few choice cases, and lam busy keeping off
he flies." There are multtudes to-day who
iave neirer had any Christian worker look
hem in the eye, and with earnestness in the
Lccentuation say, "Come!" or they would
ong ago have been in the kingdom. My:
riends, religion is either a sham or a tre.:
nendous reelity. If It be asham, let us cease;
o have anything to do with Christian as
,ociation. If It be a reality, then great
opulatons are on their way to the bar of
lod unftted for the ordeal, and what are we
In order to teach the multitude of outsid
srs we must drop all technicalities out of our
religion. When we talk to people about the
iypostatic union and French encyclopedlan
m and erastianism and compintenslanism,
we are as impolitie and little understood as
fa physician should talk to an ordinary pa
lrt about the peiricardium and int'gesqtal
geiis and ecarounne symptoms. ~Many ol
us come out of the theological seminaries so
loaded up that we take the first ten years to
show our people how much we know, and
;he next ten years to get our people to know
is much as we know, and at the end find~
:hat neither of us knows any'-ng as we
yught to know. Here are uiousands of sin
ing, struggling and dying people who ne
o ralise just one thing-that Jesus Christ
ca m them.i atd wlIU saah- ng9W
But iVe go Into a proround and elaborate
definition of what Justification is, and after
all the work there are not outside of the
earned professions 5000 people in the United
-... wao ean tell what justifaation is
I will read you the definition:
"Justification is purely a forensic act, tha.
&st of a judge sitting in the foram, in whieb
the Supreme Ruler and Judge, who is ae
o:untable to none, and who alone knows the
manner in which the ends of His universa
govornment can best be attained, reckoni
that which was done by the substitute, and
not on account of anything done by them,
but purely upon account of this gracui
method of reekoning, gcants them the ful
remission of their sin_"
Now, what is justification? I will tell yo
ffhat justificatien is. When a sinner be.
lieves, God lets him off. One summer im
Connecticut I went to a large factory, and I
aaw over the door written the words, "No ad
mittance." I entered and saw over the next
door, "No admittance." Of courseIentered.
Usot inside and found It a Din factoy. and
they were makTng pins, very serviceable. fific
and useful pins. So the spirit of exclusive
ness has practically written over the outsidi
lo'r of many a church, "No admittance.'
a!nd if the stranger enter he finds practically
written over the second door, "No admit.
:ance," and if he goes in over all the peu
loors seems written "No admittance," while
:he minister stands In the pulpit, hammering
>ut his little niceties of belief, pounding out
;he technicalities of religion, making pins.
[u the most practical common sense way.
ind laying aside the nonessentials and the
2ard definitions of religion, go out on the
aod given mission, telling the people what
;hey need and when and how they can get it.
Comparatively little effort as yet has beer
nade to save that large class of persons it
>ur midst called skeptics, and he who goee
:o work here will not be building upon
mother man's foundation. There is a greal
nultitude of them. They are afraid of ut
md our churches, for the reason we do not
now how to treat them. One of this class
net Christ. and hear with what tendernese
md pathos and beauty and success Christ
lealt with him: "Thou shalt love the Lord
:hy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
toul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy
strength. This is the first commandment,
md the second is like to this-namely, thou
:halt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is
to other commandment greater than. this."
Lnd the scribe said to Him, "Well, Master,
1hou hast said the truth, for there is one
lod, and to love Him with all the heart,
mnd all the understanding, and all the soul,
Lad all the strength. is more than whole
)urnt offerings and sacrifices." And when
fesus saw that he answered discreetly He
aid unto him, "Thou art not far from the
kingdom of God." So a skeptic was saved
n one interview. But few Christian people
rest the skeptic in that way. Instead of tak.
ag hold of him with the gentle hand of love,
re are apt to take him with the iron pincher
'f eeelesiasticism.
You would not be so rough on that man il
rou knew by what process he had lost his
Wth in Christianity. I have known men
ikeptical from the fact that they grew up in
touses where religion was overdone. Sun
lay was the most awful day of the week.
rhey had religion driven into them with a
rip hammer. They were surfeited with
irayer meetings. They were stuffed and
shoked with catechisms. They were often
;old they were the worst boys the parents
wver knew, because they liked to ride down
till better than to read Bunyan's "Pilgrim's
?rogress." Whenever father and motheI
alked of religion, they drew down the oor.
xers of their mouth and rolled up their eyes.
If any one thing wili send a boy or girl te
uinsone than another, that ist. If I
iad such a fathr and mother, I fearI should
kave been an ffideL When I was a boy In
sunday-school, at one time we had a teacher
who, when we were not attentive, struck ut
>ver the head with a New Testament, and
:here is a way of using even the Bible so as
:o make it offensive.
Others were tripped up of skepticism from
seing grievously wronged by some man who
professed to be a Ohristian. They had a
rtner in business who turned out to be a
rsilass scotindrel, though a professed
Christian. Many years ago they lost all faith
:y what happened in an oil company which
was formed amid the petroleum excitement.
rhe company owned no land, or if they did
there was no sign of oil produced, but the
President of the company was a Presbyterian
slder, and the treasurer was an Episcopal
restryman, and one director was a Methods
slass leader, and the other directors promi
ent members of Baptist and Conglegational
shurches. Circulars were gotten out telling
what fabulous prospects opened before this
ompany. Innocent linen and women
who had a little money to Invest, and that
ittle their all, said, "I don't know anything
shout this company, but so many good men
are at the head of it that it must be excellent,
and taking stock in It must be almost s
good as joining the church."
So they bought the stock and perhaps re
eived one dividand so as to lgeep them still.
but after awhile they found that the com
pany had reorganized and had a different
president and different treasurer and differ
et directors. .Other engagements or ill
health had caused the former officers of the
:ompany, with many regrets, to resign.
SAnd all that the subscribers of that stock had
o show for their investment was a beauti
fully ornamented certificate. Sometimes
hat man looking over his old papers comes
aross that certificate, and It Is so suggestive~
hat he vows he wants none of 'the religion
hat the presidents and trustees end direc
ors of that oil company professed. Of
sourse their rejection of r on on such.
grounds was unphilosophical ad unwise. i~
m told that many of the United States army
esert every year, and there are thousande
>f court martis every year. Is that
aything against the United States Gov
einent that swore them in? And
If a soldier of yesus Christ desert. is thai
mything against the Christianity which
e swore to support and defend? How de
ou judge of the currency of a country? By
a counterfeit bill? Oh, you must have pa.
ience with those who .have been swindled by
rligious pretenders. Live In the presence of
>thers afrank, honest, earnest Christian life,
hat they may be attracted to the same Say'
our upon whom your hopes depend.
Remember skepticism always has somL
?ason, good or bad, for existing. Goethe'!
rreligion started when the news came to
Germany of the earthquake at Lisbon, Nov.
, 1775. That 60,000 people should have
erished In that earthquake and in the aftex
ising of the Tagus so stirred his sympathies
hat he threw up his belief In the goodness o0
od.
Others nave gone into skepticism from a
atural persistence in asking the reason why.
they have been fearfully stabbed of the In
errogation point. There are so many thinge
hey cannot get explained. They cannot un
erstand the Trinity or how God can be sov
reign and yet a man a free agent. Neither
an LThey say: "I don't understand why
a good God should have let sin come into the
world. Neither do I. You say: "Why was
hat child started In life with such disadvan
ages, while others have all physical and
ental equipment?" I cannot tell. They go
ut of church on Easter morning and say:
"That _doctrine of the resurrection cgn
founded me." noit Is to me a mystery De
ond unravelment. I understand all the pro
esses by which men get into the dark. I
cnow them all. I have traveled with burning
eet that blistered way The first word whicb
ost children learn to utter is: "Papa," ox
"Mamma." but I think the first word I ever
ttered was: "Why?" I know what it is to
ave a hundred midnights pour their
arkness into one hour. Such men are not
o be scoffed, but helped. Turn your back
pon a drowning man when you have the
ope with which to pull him ashore, and let
hat woman in the third story of a house
erish in the flames when you have a ladder
with which to help her out and help her
own, rather than turn your back scoffingly
en a skeptic whose soul is in more peril that
the bodies of those other endangered ones
pssibly can be. Oh, skepticism is a darl
and. There are men in this house whc
gcnia give a thousand wrelds. ifthrlp
S=5VU JLV&L4%FLW - - - --.- -
their fathers and mothers, and it is our plaof
to help them, and we may help them, nevei
througb their heads, but always througl:
their hearts. These skeptics. when brought
to Jesus, will be mightily effective, far more
so than those who never examined the evi.
donces of Christianity.
Thomas Chalmers was once a skeptio
Robert Hall a skeptic, Robert Newton a skep.
tic, Christmas Evans a skeptic. But when
once with strong hand they took hold of the
ahariot of the gospel they rolled it on with
what momentum! If I address such men
and women to-day, I throw out no scoff. I
implead them by the memory of the good
old days, when at their mother's knee they
said, "Now I lay me down to sleep," and by
those days and nights of scarlet fever in
which she watched you, giving you the
medicine at just the right time and turning
your pillow when it was hot, and with hadds
that many years ago turned to dust soothed
away your pain, and with voice that you will
never hear again, unless you join her in the
better country told you to never mind, for
you would feel better by and by, and by that
dying couch, where she looked so pale and
talked so slowly, catching her breath between
the words, and you felt an awful loneliness
coin'.ng over your soul-by all that I beg you
to come back and take the same religion. It
was good enough for her. It is good enough
for you. Nay, I hays a better plea thaa
that. I plead by all the wounds and tears
and blood and groans and agonies and death
throes of the Son of God, who approaches
you this moment with torn brow, and lacer
sted hand, and whipped back, and saying.
"Come unto Me, all ye who are weary and
heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
Again, there is a field of usefulness but lit.
tle touched occupied by those who are astray
In their habits. All northern Nations, like
those of North America and England and
Bootland-that is, in the colder climates-are
devastated by alcoholism. They take the
fire to keep up the warmth. In southern
countries, like Arabia and Spain, the blood
is so warm ther are not temoted to fiery
Liquids. The great Roman -armies never
drank anything stronger than water tinged
with vinegar, but under our northernelimate
the temptation to heating stimulants is most
mighty, and millions succumb. When a
man's habits go wrong the church drops
him; the social circle drops him; good in
fuence drops him; we all drop him. Of all
the men who get off track, bat few ever get
on again. Near my summer residence there
Is a life saving station on the beach.
There are all the ropes and rockets, the
boats, the michinery for getting people off
shipwrecks. One summerI saw there fifteen
or twenty men who were breakfasting after
having just escaped with their lives and
nothing more. Up and down our coasts are
built these useful structures, and the mari
ners know it, and they feel that if they are
driven into the breakers there will be apt
from shore to come a rescue. The
churches of God ought to be so many life
saving stations, not so much to help those
who are in smooth waters, but those who
have been shipwrecked. Come, let us run
out the lifeboats! And who will man them?
We do not preach enough to such men.
We have not enough faith in their release.
Alas, if when they come to hear us we are la
boriously trying to show the diference be
tween sublapsarianlam and supralapsarian
Ism, while they have a thousand vipes of re
morse and despair coiling around their i&.
mortal spirits!
The church is not chiefly for goodish sort
of men whose proclivities are all right, and
who could get to heaven praying and sing
Ing In their own homes. It is on the beach
to help the drowning. Those bad cases are
the cases that Godlikes to take hold of. He
can Ave a ltg sinner as well as a kmall sin
ner, and when a man calls earnestly to God
for help He will go out to deliver such a one.
If it were necessary, God would come down
from the sky, followed by all the artillery of
heaven and a million angels with drawn
swords. Get 100 sikch redeemed men in each
of your churches, and nothing could stand
before them, for such men are generally
warm-hearted and enthusiastic.
Purthermore, the destitute children of the
streets offer a field of work comparatively
unoccupied. The uncared for children are
in the majority in most of our cities. Their
condition was well illustrated by what a boy
in this city said when he was found under a
art gnawing a bone and some one said to
him, "Where do you live?" and he answered
"on't live nowhere, sir!" Seventy thousand
of the children of New York City can neither
reatd nor write. When they grow up, If un
reformed, they will toutvote your children,
and they will govern your children. The
whisky ring will hatch out ether whisky
rings, and grogshops will kill with their hor
rid stench public sobriety, unless the church
f God rises up with outstretched arms and
infolds this dying population in her bosom.
Public schools cannot do it. Art galleries
annot do it, Blackwell's Island cannot do
It. Almsahouses cannot do It. New York
ombs cannot do it. Sing Sing cannot dolit.
People of God, wake up to your magnificent
mission! You can do It. Get somewhere,
omehow, to work!
The Prussian cavalry mount by puttint
heir right foot into the stirrup, wile the
American cavalry mount by putting their left
foot into t~he stirrup. I don't care how you
nount your war charger if you only get into
his battle for God, and get there soon. right
stirrup, or left stirrup, or no stirrup at all.
he uneccupled fields are all aroqad us, and
why should we build on another man's foun.
lation?
I have heard of what was called the
"tunder legion." It was in 179, a part of
he Romah army to which some Christians
elonged, and their prayers, it was said, were
aswered by shunder and lightning and hail
and tempest, which overthrew an invading
my and saved theEmnpire. And I would to
od that you could be so mighty In prayer
and work that you would become a thunder
ing legion before which the forces of sin
ight berout ed and the gates of hell made
o tremble. All aboard now on the gospel
ship! If you cannot be a captain ora ar
ate, be a stoker or a deckhand, or ready at
ommand to climb the ratlines. Heave away
ow, lads! Shake out the reefs in the fore.
opsail! Come, 0 heavenly wind, and fill
he canvas! Jesus aboard will assure our
afety. Jesus on the sea will beckon us for.
ward. Jesus on the shining shore will wel
ome us into harbor. "And so it eavnc tg
:sa that they all escaped safe to land."
ondon's Feminine Stock Broker.
Amy B. Bell has been for several
ears a srtock broker in London. She
as an office hard by the Stock Ex
hange, and does a large tusiness, es
pcially among women clients. Her
pculiar aptness for the profession
was shown when she was a little girL.
n old gentleman, a visitor at MISS
Bell's home, bappened one day to be
iligently reading the money article
n the Times. He was In no mood to
e interrupted, so he said to the child
when she hung around him: "Run
way, little girl! I am busy with my
essons, and you must go to yours."
"Yes," said little Miss Amy, "but
hat's your lessons is my play!" For
t was the highest recreation of the
nfant phenomenon to study the stock
qotations.
A Historic annon.,
Elight miles north of Greenv'lles,
hio, John Neff found a cannon cap
tured from St. Ols r's sol'.iers by In
:ians during the retreat from Fort
Recovery to Greenville in 1791. A
:errick was used to extricate it from a
hole eleven feet deep. J.t is brass, six
feet long, and sheets ~iix pound balls
saa's Eer B sa 1 Weep 1 &
COVETOUS
. man cannot own
' *4anytjhig.
-EEP yourselt
pure and God
will keep you
3 safe.
Lovi can live.
where all other
good would die.
} NOT o ne
Christian in a
- thousand praises
God enoutgh.
MAN Is most like God when he is
most filled with love.
STAR dust is not soul food. The
bread of life is Christ.
GETING rid of God's man Is not.
getting rid of God's truth.
THE only way to keep clear of sia
is to keep close to Christ.
LOVE never complains that th.
price It has to pay is roo much.
TaE more others are untrue the
more God needs loyalty in us.
A PREACHER with a warm heart
will not long have a cold church.
IT is an awful thing to seek God
ana not do it with the whole heart.
IT never makes the day any
brighter to growl at the cloudy
weather.
You can always be happy if you
are willinr to rejoice with others.
THs devil gets the man who puts
nif starting for Heaven until to-mor
'row.
WHEN you want to walk straight
yourself don't watch somebody else's
feet.
THE man who seeks his reward in
this world never gets a price that
suits him.
You can tell how much people love
the Lord by the kind of company they
keep.
EVERYTHING not fully consecrated
to God is something the devil still
has a claim on.
THE trouble with the man whc
knows nothing is that he Is the last
#o find it out.
No xATrr what the devil saysA
believe what God says, and peace wil
be the result.
GoD says He loves us, and there Is
nothing we can do to please Him
better than to believe it.
HAD Christ died a natural death
there would have been' no necessity
?or hlsrsurrec nn
GIvE some people mountaIn-mov
Ing faith and everybody else's land
,would soon be covered with hills.
THERE is this difference between &
wise man and a fool; A fool's mis
%akes never teach him anything.
PEoPLE have to be living very near
to the throne before they can enjoy
laving their faults pointed out.
IT will help you to be more like
Christ to remember that every man
in earth needs you for a brother.
As LONG as a trashy newspaper ft
made Welcome in a home, God will
not undertake to keep the devil out.
No PEE~ACBE~ can preach as God
,Rants him to preach who wrates his
ser'uons on the head of his flour bar
iT may be that money will over
:omne the world, but it takes religloun
pure and undeflled to overcome the
'evil.
THE wickeder a man is the hardet
he will try to persuade himself that
his conduct Is prompted by a good
active.
THE preaching that has Christ in
.t, always sends somebody away from
hbe church with a determination to
o, better.
THE klnd of preaching a worldlint.
lkes is that which will permit him
eo keep on living in sin and still feel
hbas he is safe.
New Process of Seasoning Lumbea,
Messrs. M:,Bae &Co., of Ottawa, are
developing a new industry in Cana
ian lumber. They have secnred the
control of a German patent for the
treatmont of beech and birch woods.
Mr. Mo~ae, speaking on the .matter,
said: "The great objection hitherto.
held against these woods is the fact
that they are very difficult to season,
and even when they have been sea
soned fully forty per cent. is defective.
-By the new process the sap is sweated
out of the boards by being placed, in
a gree state, in steam chambers for
twelve days, after which it is put into
the drying chamber for two or three
days, according to thickness, and then
by a chemical application the wood is
stined throughout a rich walnut
olor. The process has been tried on
* large scale in Germany for the past
eighteen months, and has proved snch
asuneua that experts acknowledge that
wood so treated is superior to walnut
and the owners there write that they
are quite unable to supply the de
mand. No country in the world has
uch forests of beech and birch as
anada, and the discovery of this pro
ess will no doubt greatly enhance - -
their value. A trial kiln has been
uilt in Ottawa and the first parcel
turned out last week is so satisfactory
that works for the treatment of
twenty-five car loads monthly will be.
reeted there immediately, .and ar
rangements made for the erection of
two other plants, -one in Western
Canada and the other in the Province
f Qttebpo. It is probable that the
ulk of the first season's output will
be shipped to England, where- the
iood is well known and can be read
ily sold on a profitable basis."--To.
ronto Star.
The Maoris of New Zealand own
:ou) 10,000,000 aara