The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, April 22, 1891, Image 4
What “Modus Vlie'idl” Means.
Under the treaty of Utrecht, and oth
ers following it, the French claim that
the right of catching and drying fish on
tho west shore of Newfoundland was
given them, and that it includes tho
right to catch and cau lobsters, as well
as other marine animals. The colonists,
on the other hand, maintain that the
(treaties cover only the cod fishery, that
•being the only one then known. The
French right to land at any time and
anywhere on the west coast during th»
fishing season is established by a Brit
ish proclamation of 1763, which con
tains no limitation as the kinds of fish to
be canght. France is opposed to British
occupation of the west coast, because,
even though there be room for both na
tions, there is no possibility of limiting
such occupation. The colonists ate op-
nosed to srbitration in the matter, know
ing that it must result in recognition of
French territorial rights, even though
(the fishery lights be denied; and the
recognition of the French rights as ex-
•elusive would deprive the colonists of
the west shore industry. British pur
chase of French rights seems, therefore,
•the only remedy. At the opening of the
fishing season of 1890, a modus vivendi,
arranged in March, gave the colonists
equal rights with the French for the
present season; and provided that tho
canning factories built last season should
remain, but that no new ones should bo
built without consent of the British and
French naval commanders. The modus
vivendi was maintained only by the pres
ence of British and French cruisers.
Delegates were sent both to Ottawa and
to London, to impress upon the authori
ties the hardships due to the modus vi
vendi. Two bills aimed at restriction of
French fishing operations were passed by
the local Legislature; but under instruc
tions from Loudon, the Governor with
held his sanction, unless clauses should be
introduced exempting the French
shore from their operation. Protests
have been made against the attitude of
the home Government aud threats of an
nexation to the United States have been
uttered. The modus vivendi has been
prolonged, and the islanders have been
informed that England and France must
come to terms of settlement, irrespective
of colonial opinion.—Detroit Free Frcas.
The Kangaroo Ifreumim,' Extinct. .
Birge Harrison (the American artist,
now in Australia) describes a kangaroo
hunt in Scribner. This curious animal
has been practically exterminated in the
older parts of Australia. The author
says: “In some parts of Victoria they for
merly outnumbered the sheep as two to
one, and old shepherds have told me that
it was not an uncommon thing to seethe
sheep aud kangaroos feeding together
upon the plains; as maay as two or three
thousand kangaroos frequently accom
panying a flock of a thousand sheep.
Thus it will be see that a ‘station’ which,
in 1850, couid barely graze five thou
sand sheep, cau now be made to carry
forty thousand without auy danger of
overstocking.’’
WISE WORDS.
REV. DR. TALMADE
Sea Gulls Migrate lo London.
During tho severe weather flocks of
sea gulls made their way up the Thames
to London. Thrushes, blackbirds, red
wings aud missel-thrushes visited tho
suburban gardens in large numbers aud
eagerly devoured bread thrown for the
sparrows and robins. Thousands of
larks crossed the channel and settled
near Bournemouth Chicago Neva,
A viaduct costing $4,000,01)0 has re
cently been finished at Melbourne, Aus
tralia. The work of constructing it in
volved some eight or nine miles of tun
neling and eleven miles of iron pipes and
syphons. By this additional water source
Melbourne will be able to supply a popu-
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Troubles always look big at a dis
tance.
Before yon can do much good, you
mutt be good.
Many a mau signs his death warrant
with his teeth.
In nothing else can there be such a
jehauge as in man.
Doing a wrong thing with a good mo-
.tive does not make it right.
Find a man who grows little, and you
Hvill find one who works little.
There is somethiog lovable in all peo
ple, if we could but stand whets we could
see it.
The man who can learn from the ex
perience of other people is an apt
scholar.
We are never in earnest about anything
that we cannot occasionally get enthusi
astic over.
It is well enough for charity to begin
at home, but it shouldn’t stop there. It
ought to be a great traveler.
How easy it is to fsel geftetdiis when
you get a chance to tell other people
what they out to do with their money.
A good deal of the trouble in this life
comes because men take too much time
to make money, and too little to enjoy
it.
Living only to gst riches generally
turns out like the boy who got the hornet’s
nest. Just as he thought he had it he
found out that it had him.
It is satd that there are only two hun
dred and sixty three bones in the human
body, but when a man has been hoeing
, potatoes all day long, it is hard for him
to believe it.
The doctors say that plenty of pure air
will do more good than a good deal of
medicine, and yet there are people who
ai e as much afraid of it as they would bo
of the measles.
Among the bravest people in this
world are the women who go to work
aud support and educate a large family
of children, after their good-for-nothing
husbands get discouraged and blow their
brains out.—Indianapolis (hid.) Ilain'i
Horn.
Will the American Elephant Work t
In modern times, we have only to look
to India to be convinced of the great
usefulness of tho elephant. To the ag
riculturist, who uses him before his
wagon or his plow, he is indispensable,
and for the transportation of heavy arti
cles, he has no rival. We see him carry
ing immense tree-trunks out of the In
dian forest, and by his indefatigable in
dustry, in picking up aud carrying off
large stones, aiding the construction of
roads and railways. For labor of this
kind a coolie receives from four to eight
annas, while five and six rupees are paid
for the daily work of an elephant. From
this fact, we conclude that one elephant
performs the work of from twelve to
twenty-two coolies.
From the record of the British expedi
tion against King Theodore of Abyssinia
In 1868, we learn tint forty-four ele
phants were shipped from Bombay for
Use in the campaign. Of this number
five succumbed during the campaign.
The remaining thirty-nine rendered val-
table services, being entrusted with tho
transportation, through a mountainous
iountry, of cannon,ammunition and sup
plies. It was frequently very difficult to
procure proper food for them and as it
was often necessary to traverse great dis
tances to reach tho watering places, the
death of the five animals is ascribed to
these hardships. Although elephants
move slowly through a mountainous
country and soon become foot-sore, they
perform their task with admirable faith
fulness. Without them it would have
been necessary to await the building of
wagon roads.— Ooldthicaitc's Geographic
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There are still tribes of Indians in
Mexico which believe in witchcraft, and
the other week a woman was killed be
cause it was contended that she drove
the sun over into the United States and
filled up the space with rain.
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Text : “All the waters that were in the
river were turned to Wood”—Exodus vii..
20. *
Among all the Egyptian plagues ndne could
have been worse than this. The Nile is the
wealth of Egypt. Its fish the food* its. Waters
the irrigation of gardert AM fields. Its con 2
ditiott decides the prosperity or the doom of
fchssttipire. What happens to the Ntfo hafC
pens to all Egypt And p'oW in tho leifc that
s reAfc Hvet i$ incarilaaiued. It is a red gash
aft empire. In poetic license we speak
of wars which turn the rivers into blood.
But my text is not a poetic license. It was
a fact, a great crimson, appalling condition
described. The Nile rolling deep of blood.
Can you imagine a more awful plague?
The modern plague r. liich u.artist corrdr
spends with that is the plagrie tit crinie id
all oUr citie*. it halts not for bloodshed.
It Smittks from no carnage. It bruises and
cuts and strikes down and destroys. It rex
vels in the blood of body and soul , plague
of crime rampant (of ages, and never colder
or movotflmpant than now.
The annual police reports of these cities as
l examine them are to me more suggestive
than Dante’s Inferno, and all Christian people
as well as reformers need to awaken to a pres
ent and tremendous duty. If you want this
“Plague of Crime” to stop there are several
kinds of persons you to consider, f'irst*-,
the public criminal*. You ought not to W
surprised that these people make up A larg4
portion in many fcommunities. Tilq vasf;
majority of the criminals who take ship from
Europe v*ome into our own port. In 186'), of
the forty-nine thousand people who were in
carcerated in the prisons of the country
thirty-two thousand were of foreign birth.
Many of them were the very desperadoes of
society, oozing into the slums of our city,
waiting for an opportunity to riot and steal
and debauch, joining the large gang of
American thugs and cut-throats.
There are in this cluster of cities—New
York, Jersey City and Brooklyn—foui*
thousand people whoso entire business in
life is to commit suicide. That is as much
their business as jurisprudence or mediciriA
or merchandise is your business: To it they
bring *,11 thbiV energies of body, mind and
SoUl, hftd they look upon the intervals which
they spend in prison as so much unfortunate
loss of time, just as you look upon an attack
of influenza and rheumatism which fastens
you in the house fora few days. It is their
lifetime business to pick pockets and blow
up safes and shoplift and ply the panel game;
and they have as much pride* bt skill in their
business «« yon have in yours when you up
set m Argument of an opposing counsel, or
i'uke a gunshot fracture which other sur
geons have given up, or foresee a turn in the
market as you buy goods just before they go
up twenty per cent. It is their business to
commit crime, and I do not suppose that
once in a year the thought of the immorality
itrikes'them.
\dded to these professional criminals,
American and foreign, there are a large
class of men who are more or less industrious
in crinie. In one year the police in this
cluster of cities arrested ten thousand people
for theft, and ten thousand for assault and
battery, and fifty thousand for intoxication.
Drunkenness is responsible for much of the
theft, since it confuses a man’s ideas of
property, and ho gets bfc hands on things
that do not belong td him. Rum is responsi
ble for mUch of the assault and battery, in-
•ptrint nien to sudden bravery, which they
nhst demonstrate though it be on the fac®
of the next gentleman.
Ten million dollars’ worth of property
(toleninthis cluster of cities in one year!
if on cannot, as good citizens, be independent
if that fact. It will touch your pocket,since
( have to give you the fact that these three
jities pay about eight million dollars’ worth
)f taxes a year to arraign, try and support
the criminal population. You help to pay
.he board of every criminal, from the sneak
ihief that snatches a spool of cottoti Up to
some man who swamps a bank. More than
f hat, it touches your heart in the moral de-
pressiott of the community. You might as
‘veil think to stand in a closely confined
^oom where there are fifty people and yet
not breathe the vitiated air, as to stand in
i community where there is such a great
nultitude of the depraved without some
whatbeing contaminated. What is the fire
;hat burns your store down compared with
she conflagration which consumes your
Morals? What is the theft, of the gold and
diver from your money safe compared with
the theft of your children’s virtue?
We are all ready to arraign criminal*
We shout at the top of our voice* “Stop
thief!” and when the police get on the track
we come out, hatless and in our slippers, aud
assist in the arrest. We come around the
bawling ruffian and hustle him off to justice,
ind when he gets in prison what do we do for
lim? With great gusto w e put on the hand-
:uffs and the hopples; but wbat preparation
re wo making for the day Mien the band-
juffs and the hbpples come off? {Society
seems to s$y to these criminals, “Villain, g6
in there and rot.” when it ought to say,
“You are an offender against tho law, but
we mean to give you an opportunity to re
pent; we mean to help you. Here are Bibles
and tracts and Christian influences. Christ
died for you. Look and live ”
Vast improvements heve been made by
Introducing industries into tho prison; but
we Want something more than hammers
and shoo l&sts to reclaim these people. Aye,
We Want more than sermons on the Sabbath
day. Society must impress these men with
the fact that it does not enjoy their suf
fering, and that it is attempting to reform
and elevate them. The majority ot crimin
als suppose that society has a grudge against
them. and they in turn have a grudge against
society. . , .
They are harder in heart and more infurU
ate when they come out of jail than when
they went in. Many of the people who go
to prison go again and again and again.
Borne years ago, of fifteen hundred prisoners
who during the year had been in Sing Sing*
four hundred had been there before. In n
house of correction in tho country, where
during a certain reach of time there had
been five thousand people, more than three
thousand had been there before, So, in one
case the prison, and in the other tho house of
correction, left them just as bad as they were
before.
The secretary of one of the benevolent
societies of New York says a lad fifteen years
of age had spent three years of his life in
prison, and he said to the lad, “What have
they done for you to make you better?
“Well,” replied the lad, “the first time I
was brought up before the judge he said,
‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself.’ And
then l committed a crime again, and I was
brought up before the same judge, and he
laid, ‘You rascal!* And after a while I
committed some other crime, and I was
brought before the same judge, and he said,
‘You ought to be hanged.'* Thar was all
they bad done for him in the way of reim-ma*
tion and salvation. “Oh,” you say, “ii.owa
T R
fhachiiiation cannot teach them, in tbe i»
(ufferable (teach and sickening surroundings
of such places there is nothing but disease
for the body, idiocy for tbe mind, and death
for the eotu. Stifled air and darkness and
vermin never turned a thisf into an honest
in&ri
We want men like John Howard and Sir
William Blackstone and women like Eliza
beth Fry to do for tbe prisons of tbe United
State* what those people did in other days
for the prisons of England. I thank God
for what Isaac T, Hopper and Dr. Wines
and Mr. Harris and scores Of others have
done id the Way Of prison reform, but we
Want something more radical before will
borne the blessing of him who said, “I was in
prison, find ye cama iujU! me
Again; in your effort to arrest this plague
of crime you need to consider untrustworthy
officials. ‘ Woe unto thee, O land, when thy
king is a child, and thy princes drink in the
morning.” It is a great calamity to a city
when had men get into public authority.
Why was it that in New York there was
such unparalleled crime between 18fki and
1871 f It was because the judges of police in
that c*ty at that time for f he most pan Were
as corrupt as the vagabonds that came beloro
them for trial, Those were tho dayapf higq
carnival for election) frauds, assassination
and forgery We hau all kinds of rings.
There was one man during those years that
got one hundred and twenty-eight thousand
dollars in one year for serving the public.'
It is no compliment to public authority
when we liavein all the cities of the country,
Talking abroa I, men and women notorious
for crimina'lty ttawhipped Of justice. They
are pointed otlt M t oil in the street day by
day There yo l find what Ure called the
‘•fences,”, the men win* Stand betweeil tho
thief and the hodeet ©an; shelteridg the
thief, 3hd a* a great price handing over uys
goods to the owner to whom they belonged,
here yon will lind those who are called the
“skinners," the men who hover around Wall
street, with great sleight of hand in bonds
snd stocks. There you And the funeral
diievcs, the people who go and sit down and
mourn with families and pick their poeketo.
And there you find the ‘‘confidence men,”
who borrow money of you because they
have a dead child in the house and want to
bury it, when tttey never had a house or
• amily i or they w rd 1-c go to England and
et h large property there, art I they want
,'oU to pay their way and they will send the
coney back by the very next niaii.
There Crc tbe '‘barber thieves,” tho
“shoplifters,” tho “pickpockets, famous
ell over the cities. Hundreds of them with
their faces in the Hogues' Gallery, yet do
ing nothing for the last five or ten years
hut defraud society and escjpa justice.
When these people go unarrosted and un
punished it is pulling n high premium
Upon vice and saying to.the to,mg crimin
als of this bodotry, ''Wiih* n safe thillg It
is to be a great criminal!” Let tho law
swoop upon them. I,et it be known in
this country crime will hive no quarter;
that the detectives are alter it; that the
police club is being brandished; that the iron
door of tho prison is being opened; that tho
dy to call on tile case. Too great
I interpret -here are said to be, aa far ai i
can figure it up from the report*, about
three hundred thousand honest poorwboare
dependent upon individual, city and State
charities. If all their voices could come up
“t biict It Would be a groan that would ahake
the foumutions of tho city and bring all
•■arth and neaven to tho rescue. But for the
most part it suffers unexpressed. It site in
silence gnashing its teeth and sucking the
blood of its own arteries waiting for the
judgment day. Oh, I should not wonder if
on that day it would be found out that some
of us bad some things that belonged to them,
Some extra garment which might have made
hem comfortable in cold days; some bread
hru«t into the nkh barrel that might have ap
„™sed their hunger for ft little wUUe; Some
wasted candle or gas jekthat might have kin.,
died up their darkness; some fresco on the
ceiling that would have glveu them a roof,
some jewel which, brought to that orphan
girl in time, might have kept her from being
crowded off the precipices to an unclean life;
some New Testament that would have told
them of Him who “came to seek that which
was lost.”
Oh, this wove of vagrancy and hunger and
iiake'iucas lirnt dashes against our front
doer step' If (he Hoofs Af all the ,
destitution could be lilted so we could 1<
down into them just as God looks, whoso
nerves would be strong enough to stand it?
And yet there they are. The fifty thousand
sewing women in these three cities, some of
them in hunger and cold, working night
after night, until sometimes the blood spurt*
from nostril and lips. ......
How well their grief was voiced by that
despairing womilo who stood by her invalid
husband aud ihralid child, and said to tbe
city missionary “I am down hearted,
Evelytiiitig's aghinst us; arid theti there are
other things." “What other thing*? effid
tho city missionary. “Oh." she r f'P' l< ^' '
sin.” “What do you mean by thatr Well,
she said. “I never hear or see anything good.
It’s work from Monday morning till Satur
day night, and then when Sunday come* I
can’t go out, mi i 1 walk the floor, and It
makes me tremble to think that I have got
to meet God. Ob, sir, it s so hard for u«.
We have to work s->. an I then we have so
much trouble, and then we are getting along
so poorly; and see this w-e little thing grow,
ihg w^atcer And weaker; and then to tninli
Wft ate dot nearer to God, but floav
ihg away from Him. Oh, sir, I do wish J
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spent much of your time in a collar amid
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been covered with rags and filth, and decent
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wharf rats—how much bettor would you
have been? I have no sympathy with that
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visited prisons where, as the air swept
through the wicket, it almost knocked me
down. No sunlight. Young men who had
committed their first crime crowded in
among old offenders, f saw in one prison a
woman, with a child almost blind, who had
been arrested for the crime of poverty, who
was waiting until the slow law could take
her to tho almshouse, wh iv. she rightfully
belonged; hut tho w..-thrust in thorn with
her child amid tho most abandoned wretches
of the town. Many of the offenders in that
prison selpbon the floor, with nothing buta
vermin-covered blanket over them. Those
pe«>ple crowded and wan and wasted and
half suffocate l and infuriated. I said to the
men, “How do you aland it here?” “God
knows,” said 'one man, “we ha ve to stand it.”
Oh‘, they will pay you when they get out.
Where they burned down one house they
will burn three. They will strike deeper the
assassin’s knife. They are this minute plot
ting worse burglaries.
Some of tho city jads are fclm best places I
know of to manufactui » footpads, vaga
bonds and cutthroats. Yale College is not
so well calculated t > make sciiolars, nor Har
vard so well calculated to make scientists,
nor Princeton so well calculated to make
theologians, as many of our jails are oa’cu-
lat“d to make criminal*. All that those men
do not know of crime after they have been
In that dungeon for some time, ttatanio
leniency to criminals is too great severity to
society
Again in your effort to arrest this plagUi
of crime, you need to consider the idle popu
lation. Of course I do not refer to people
who are getting old, or to the sic:; or to those
who cannot get work, but 1 tell you to look
out for those athletic men and women who
will not work. When the French nobleman
was asked why he kept busy whet* he had do
large aproperty, he said. “I keep on eiigrav-
Ihg so I may not ban'’ myself.” I do not
care who the mau is, you cannot afford to lie
idle. It is from the idle classes that the
criminal classes are made up. Character,
like water, gets putrid if it stands stiil too
long. Who can wonder that in this world,
where there is so much to do, and all the
hosts of earth and heaven and hell are
plunging into the conflict aud angels arc fly
ing and God is at work and the universe is
a-quake with the marching and counter
marching, that God lets His iudignation fall
upon a man who chooses idleness.
I have watched these do-nothings who
spend their time stroking their beard aflq
retonchirtg their toilet, and criticising iff
'diistrious people, and pass their days and
nights in barrooms and club houses, loung
ing and smoking and chewing and card
playing. They are not only useless, but
they are dangerous. How hard it is for
them to while away the hours! Alas, for
them! If they no not know how to while
away an hour, wuat will they do when
they have all eternity on their hands?
These men for a while smoke the best cigars
and wear the best clothes and move in the
highest spheres, but I have noticed that
very soon they come down to the prison, the
almshouse, or stop at the gallons.
The police stations of this cluster of cities
furnish annually between two and three hun
dred thousand lodgings. For the most part
these two and three hundred thousand lodg
ings are furnished to able bodied irten aud
*omfen—people as able to work as you and I
are. Wheh they hre received no longer at
One police slat ion because they are “repeat^
eirs” they go to some other station and so
they keep moving around. They get their
food at house doors, stealing what they c an
lav their hands on in the front 1 asement
while the servant is spreading the bread in
the back basement. They will not work.
Time and again, in the country districts,
they have wanted hundreds and thousands
of laborers. These men will not go. They
do not want to work. I have tried them. I
haVe set them to sawing wood in my cellar
to see whether they wanted to work. I of
fered to pay them well for it. I have heard
the saw going for about three minutes, and
then I went down, and lo! the wood, but no
saw! They are the pest of society, and they
stand m the way of the Lord’s poor who
who ought to be helped, and must be helped,
and will bo helped.
While there are thousands of industrious
men who cannot get any work, these men
who do not want any work come in and
make that plea. I am in favor of the res
toration of the old fashioned whipping post
for just this one class of men who will not
work—sleeping at night at. public ex
pense in the station house; during tho day
getting their food at your doorstep. Im
prisonment docs not scare them. They
would like it. Blackwell’s Island or Sing
Sing would be a comfortable home for them.
They would have no objection to tho alms
house, for they like thin soup, if they can
not get mock turtle.
I propcso this for them: On one side of
them put some healthy work; on the other
side put a rawhide, and let them take their
choice. I like for that class of people the
scant bill of faro that Paul wrote out for
the TUessalonlan loafers, “If any work not,
neither should he eat.” By what law of
God or man is it right that y :i and I should
toil day in and day out. until our hands are
blistered and our arms ache and our brain
gets numb, and then he culled upon to sup
port what in the United States are about
two million loafers. They area very danger
ous class. Let the public authorities keep
their eyes on them.
Again, among the uprooting classes I place
the oppressed poor. Poverty to a certain
extent is chastening, but after that, when it
drives a man to th. wall, and he hears his
children cry in vain for bread, it sometimes
makes him desperate. I think that there are
housands of honest men lacerated into vaga-
ondism. There are men crushed under
burdens for which they are not half paid.
While there is no excuse for criminality,
even in oppression, I state it as a simple fact
that mucl? of the scoundrellsm of the com
munity is consequent upon ill-treatment.
' here are many men and women battered
mi bruised and stung until the hour of de
spair has come, and they stand with the
ferocity of a wild beast which, pursued until
it can run no longer, turns round, foaming
and bleeding, to tight the hounds.
There is a vast underground New’ York
knd Brooklyn life that is appalling and
hameful. It wallows mid steams with put re
action. You go down the stairs, which are
/et and decayed with filth, and at the bot
tom you find the poor victims on the floor,
cold, sick, three-fourths dead, slinking into a
still darker corner under the gleam of the
lantern of the police. There has not been a
breath of fresh air in that room for five
years, literally. The broken sewer empties
its contents upon them, and they lie at night
in tho swimming filth. There they are, men.
women, children; black, whites; Mary Mag
dalen without her repentance, and Lazarus
without his God. Those are “the dives” into
which the pickpockets and the thieves go, as
well as a great many who would like a differ
ent. life but cannot get it.
These places are the Boren of the city,
which bleed perpetual corruption. They are
the underlying volcano that threatens us
with a Caraccas earthquake. It rolls and
roars and surges and heaves and rocks and
blasphemes and dies, and there are only two
outlets for it—the police court and the Pot
ter’s field. In other words, they must either
/»to prison or to hell. On, you never saw
.t, you say. You never will see it until on
the day when those staggering wretches
shall come up in the light of the judgment
throne, and while all hearts are being re
vealed, God will ask you what you did to
help them.
There is another layer of poverty and des
titution not so squalid, but almost as help
less You hear the incessant wailing for
bf^id and clothes and fire. Their eyes are
sunken. Their cheek bones stand out. Their
hands are damp with slow consumption.
Their flesh is puffed up with dropsies. Their
•reath is like that of the charnel house.
They hear tho roar of the wheels of fashion
overhead and the gay laughter of men and
maidens and wonder why God gave to others
to much and to them so little. Home of them
*nrust into an infidelity like that of the poor
German girl who, when told in the midst of
her wretchedness that God was good, said :
“No; nc good God. Just look at me. No
good ' *o 1.”
In thi j riuster of cities whose cij of want
Was ready to die
•l** '
shotfld, hbt wonder if they, bftd ft feftod
deal bettoi timeihatiwe W. tbff future; te
make up for the fact that they had <Hdlt R
bad time here. It would be just like Jesui
to say: “Come im and take the highest seats
You suffered virh Me on earth; now w
glorified with Me in heaven.” Oh, thot
*vaepiU« One of Bethany! Oh, thot
Hying One nf the cross* Have mercy,on the
starving, freezing, homeless poof pi tfi^ec
great cities!
I have prcached this sermon for four or
five practical reasons: Because I want you
to know who are the uprooting classes of
society. Because 1 want youto be more
discriminating; in your charities. Because
I want your hearts open with generosity,
and your bands open with charity. Be
cause t waflt you to be made the sworn
friends of all « dv evangelisation, atid all
newsboys' lodging houses, and all children s
aid societies, and Dorcas societies, under the
skillful rfianipuljit on of wives and mothers
and sisters and daughters; let the Spare gar-
inenth of yoUr wardrobes be fitted to the
limbs of thy wan end shivering. I should
not Won tier if that hat tliat yoii give should
come back a jcwele I coronet, or i* that grtr-.
meat that you Imnd out from your wardrobe
should mysteriously be whitened, and some
how wrought into the Saviour’S own robe,
so in the last day Ho would rim His hand
over it and say, “I was naked and ye clothed
Me. ’ That would be putting your garments
to i lorious uses.
But more than that, I have preached the
sermon because I thought in the contrast
you would see how very kindly God had
dealt with you, and I thought that thou
sands of you would go to your comfortable
homes and. sit at your well-filled tables and
at the warm registers, and look at the round
faces of your children, ftnd that then ycRl
would burst into tears at the review of God s;
goodness to you, and that you would go to
your room and lock the door and kneel down
and say:
“O Lord. I have been an ingrate; make
me Thy child. O Lord, there are so many
hungry and unclad and unsheltered to-day, I
thank Thee that all my life Thou bast taken
such good care of me. O, Lord, there are so
many sick and crippled children to-day, I
thank Thee mine are well—some of them on
earth, flomeoi: them in heaven. Thy good
ness, O Lord, breaks me down. Take me
once aud forever. Sprinkled as I was many
years ago at the altar, while my mother held
me, now I consecrate my soul to Thee in a
holier baptism of repenting tears.
‘•por sinners, Lord, Then cam’st to bleed,
And 1‘m a slnndr vile indeed;
Lord. I believe Thy grace In free*
6 inability that qra^to me.”
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They do just what is needed
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Deafness Can’t be Cored
By local applications, as t hey cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cute deafness, and that is by constitu
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flamed condition of tho ft nanus lining of the
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flamed vou have a rumbling sound orffnpeA-
feet hearing, and when it is entirely closen;
deafness is the result, and unless the inflam-
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People who drink hot coflee after eat
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When a man ennnot have what he loves
c must love whnt li« has
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He fests enough whose wife scolds at din
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I had becu tumbled five months
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after gating and a heavy load in the-
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me. Then again I would have the
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could UOt. I was working theu for
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Irwin and Western Ave., Allegheny
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one bottle for two weeks, was en
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The earliest date on which Easter can
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A New York dealer advertises that he
will pay cash for old teeth.
The first sewing machine was patentel
in England in the year 1700.
The population of Texas, according to
the eleventh census, is 2,235,532.
Somebody has computed that if thirty
two million people should clasp hands
they could reach round the earth.
Glucose is produced in th- United
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per day, principally in Western States.
The Emir of Bokhara has sent to the
Czar of Hussia a present of eight milk-
white asses of the purest Central Asian
breed.
Street cleaning experiments in New
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system
Just above Vienna, on the Danube, is
the convent and school of Mclk, which
has just celebrated its one thousandth
anniversary.
High heels, it is said, owe their origin
to Persia, where they were introduced to
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that country.
Previous to the time of Elizabeth the
only article to assist in eating was tbe
jackknife, which also served for sundry
other purposes.
The largest gold com in circulation in
the world is said to be the loot of Anam,
the French colony iu Eastern Asia. It
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The consumption of poultry and eggs
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$560,000,000 worth per annum.
A resident of Tampa, Fla., has a
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deer horns with a clearly defined hound’s
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There has becu a decrease during the
past year in tho numbers of students
attending the German universities,
especially in the departments of phil
osophy aud natural science. It is the first
annual decrease since 1872.
D. I). Martin, of Dublin, Cal., made
quite a raid on the squirrels after a re
cent storm. He prepared five gallons of
poisoned barley and scattered it near tho
squirrel boles ou lorty-six acres of land,
and succeeded iu killing 4821 “by actual
count.”
The verses commencing “You’d scarce
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have been written expressly for a promi
nent New Hampshire stateman who
flourished in the first half of this ceu-
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child at school.
One American manufacturer ships 1000
lumber wagons to South America every
year, and yet the natives come iuto cities
like Buenos Ayres with carts of the same
style and make as were used 1000 years
ago. It takes one yoke of oxen to draw
even an empty cart, but the people don’t
caie to experiment.
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while a cloud is iu sight, especially if the
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