TEE SOOTH WANTS SHIPS BUSINESS MEN FAVOR NATIONAL AID TO MERCHANT MARINE. Tl»e Situation Viewed Through Southern Kye* - Ante ami Po»t-Bellum Senti ment In Favor of the Ke»toratlou ot Our Ship* to the Sen*. The rapid, growth of manufacturing in the South and its beneficial effect upon other industries are arousing in the minds of the people new thoughts and hopes for the future of their great section of the Union. One of the most reliable authorities on Southern prog ress and development is R. H. Ed monds, the well-known Baltimore pub lisher, who keeps in constant personal touch with the up-to-date sentiment of the leading manufacturers, bankers and iutiuenti.il men of the South. It is his repeated declaration, and as a re sult of liis own observations, that the Southern business men are almost a unit in favor of national aid in the re establishment of our ships upon the seas. He Knas the sentiment among men representatives of Southern indus trial an 1 commercial progress quite at variance with that disclosed by their Representatives and Senators in Con gress. The latter seem to represent a theoretical opposition to the utilization of modern methods for the advance ment of industrial prosperity that has kept back Southern development for fully a generation. In the foreign trade of the United States, as conducted between Southern and foreign ports, one of the rarest sights is the American flag floating from the sterns of the ships conduct ing that trade. That the demand has grown in the South for national legisla tion for the upbuilding of our merchant marine seems to Mr. Edmonds to be logical. He sees in the realization of the growing hopes of his people in this respect much of permanent benefit to the section lie represents. He has made an especial study of ante-bellum senti ment on the subject of American mari time development, and was surprised to tind that, as far back as sixty years ago, the sentiment in favor of safe guarding and promoting our merchant marine commanded the thoughtful at tention of the most advanced of South ern statesmen and business men. In an adurcss before the Cotton Spin ners' Association at Charlotte, N. <\, recently, Mr. Edmonds stated that in 1845 John C. Calhoun presided at a convention in Memphis, at which the subject was discussed. In 1851 a re port was made at a Virginia conven tion in favor of facilitating tlie mails throughtheestabliShnient of steamship lines running between Hampton Roads and European ports. Another conven tion in Memphis, held in 1553, favored Government encouragement and pro tection in the establishment of steam ship lines between Southern and Euro pean ports. The Charleston conven tion of 18,"4 urged Congress to encour age the establishment of mail steam ships, even to the extent of granting State bounties in the form of rebates to shippers employing American ves sels. In 1850 Louisiana's Legislature passed an act paying $5 per ton bounty on all ships exceeding 100 tons burden built in the State. A report made to the Legislature of Alabama as far back as IS3B showed that lier citizens con tributed ifI.SOO.OOO a year to get their cotton to Europe, and contained the query, "If this amount must lie paid, why should it not be paid to our own citizens?" No wonder a score of years later Alabama's Legislature passed an act granting a bounty of $4 per ton on all steamers built within that State. At Charleston, in 1811!). Robert Y. Hayne discussed the subject before a commercial convention held in that city, in which he said that Southern and Southwestern States were produc ing nearly three-quarters of the do mestic exports of the Union, although importing not to exceed one-tenth of the foreign merchandise entering the United States, and that foreign com merce was "causing cities of other States to flourish while Southern cities were falling into decay." Lieut. M. P. Maury,famous for his invaluable aids •o mariners upon the oceans, was im pressed with the immense benefits Southern States would derive from the establishment of steamship lines be tween Southern and European ports. For many years he urged the invest ment of Southern capital in sueli lines, showing the great and growing power her rich foreign commerce was giving to New York and deploring the fact that the South was missing Its oppor tunities to share therein. He saw fcr Norfolk, Virginia, possibilities of de velopment which have never been re alized, hut which it seems possible are likely of fulfillment through the grow ing scarcity of European coal and the Inevitable dependence of the world iu the future for the greater part of its coal supplies upon the United States. In our trade with other American re publics Maury saw advantages even greater than those possible through our commercial intercourse with Europe, and he was never done urging upon the people of the South the wisdom of generously encouraging Ann licau mar itime development through the estab lishment cf steamship Hues to the West Indies. Central ami South America. He advocated a ship canal across the American Isthmus and predicted 1 inously bt netlclal results to our trade uud shipping to follow. Away back iu 1858 the Assembly of Virginia Incorporated a S'.O.UMIIMXI steamship line under the name of the Atlantic Steam Kerry Company, but Which failed t<> carry out Its design* beeause of the sectional dltTi fence* be tween the North and South, The scheme Involved the Immediate ten- Struetlon of four ships of the (ileal Eastern class, to regularly run between Southern and Euro|ieau |Hirts. Their great value lis auxiliaries to our mili tary sources were then clearly point •d out, us welt us itielr usefulness as nurseries for American seamen who would be ready to respond to their country's call If needed. No wonder. In these circumstances, Mr. Edmonds in his speech made it very clear that the revival of our for eign-going shipping is not a sectional or partisan question, but is a purely industrial, commercial and auxiliary navy question. He said: "Originating, as the South is already doiug, about $400,000,000 worth of foreign exports a year, shipped almost exclusively in vessels that fly the British, German and other foreign flags, the South may well lie deeply concerned iu the upbuilding of a merchant marine because of the magnitude of its present export trade." This trade he expected would rapidly multiply, and he predicted a cotton crop in the not distant future of 100,- 000,000 bales. It is not surprising to find that both of the great political armies are now vying with each other in their espousal of an American Merchant Mrrine. That the representative men in both parties have formally and finally re jected the suggestion of "free ships"— which means the purchase cf British instead of American built ships for our maritime needs—may be taken as an indication of both the conservatism and progressiveuess which augurs well for early effective and permanent leg islation in behalf of our too long neg lected shipping upon the seas. It is tills unanimity of sentiment that is converging upon a demand for such legislation that will have become so insistent and imperative as to compel such legislation at the next session of Congress. M'KINLEY IN NEW YORK. A Brooklyn Kill tor Expert* Him to Carry State by 300,000 l'luratlty. To start with I think the re-election of McKinley is as certain as any event can be that !s yet in the future. Of course, the wish is father to the thought, a condition present, I take it, in the mind of every earnest Re publican. The very fixedness of that belief is, I am aware, a handicap, if I may put »t so, to the purpose I have in mind, of stating the facts about the Presidential situation in this city and State with judicial impartiality. I have besides my newspaper con nections and as an employer of many men who work for a living in various walks of life from factory to office, some other means of getting at the sentiment of my fellow voters. I have been President of the Union League Club, and of the Oxford Club, one a Republican social and the other a purely social organization, both thor oughly representative of Brooklyn cit izenship in its best estate. lam a mem ber of many other clubs, including the Brooklyn Club, which, while not pro fessedly Democratic, is a home for most of the so-called silk-stocking ele ment of that party. If I say that among all the men with whom I come in contact either in a business or so cial way the feeling in favor of Mc- Kinley is stronger now than it was four years ago, I but report the exact truth as it appears to inc. This county of Kings forms the borough of Brook lyn of the city of New York, and con tains about a million and a quarter of population. It is normally Demo cratic by about 13,000 majority. Mc- Kinley carried it in 18!H! by 32,'-'53 plu rality and the State of New York by 208,325 plurality. The gold Democrat ic vote in Kings County was 3709. If a conservative man like ex-Supreme County Ji'stice Van Wyck, of tills county, is nominated for Vice-Presi dent at Kansas City and the Chicago platform modified so assure the dropping of the I<> to 1 issue, it may make a difference of 10,000 voter, in this county in favor of the Democrat ic Presidential ticket, but not more. In the event of an out-and-out Bryau ite being named for Vice-President on a re-affirmed Chicago platform, New York State will, in my judgment, give McKinley over three hundred thou sand plurality and Kings County's quota will not fall far short of 40,000 votes.—William Berrl, in Brooklyn Daily Standard Union. Cuban I'octal AfTnlr*. Recent developments in the Cuban postoffiee troubles show that the re trenchments made by Fourth Assist ant Postraastcr-t Jeneral Bristow were imperatively demanded by Postmas ter-General Smith some months ago, when he ordered that a system of re form should be immediately com menced in order that the expenses might then be reduced. President Mc- Kinley hail ordered both the Dlrect® - - (ieneral of Posts and the Goveruor- Geiieral of Cuba to obtain the approval of the Postmaster-General upon ail requisitions which showed a deficiency in postal management there. While reports have been made monthly to the Governor-General, not a single re port ever reached Postmaster-General Smith, so iu January last he began to investigate matters <>u his own ac count, finding that the expenditures were far in excess of the receipts. He then ordered retrenchment, but was not obeyed. l.ont* anil Sutler Fnllllr*. Encouragement for lawlessness fre quently comes home for roosting pur poses. The Democratic politicians wfio , have been encouraging rioting in Ida | ho and Si. Louis may realize this fact. Will SOCHI He Mepubltrau. The completion of uuotber line of railroad to the South marks another ; step in the march of prosperity. The South is emerging from the calamity l'og, despite her isiliticlaiis. for t'lwik'* ItencHl. The Supreme Court has decided that a public office is not property. The Hull. W. A. Clark should heed tills lie fore making any further iim-siuieuts i iu Moiituua. —— t THE TIN PLATE INDUSTRY • I M'KINLEY'S MEASURE SAVES SIOO,. 000,000 TO THE UNITED STATES, i I We Are No Longer at the Mercy of the Welsh Trust Which Wns Independent of Oar Uvi and Contributed Noth ing to Our Iteveuue. "Tlie manufacture of tin plate In the United States was created by the Mc- Klnley tariff of IS9O, the particular section relating to tin and tin plate going into effect ou July 1. 1891," sahl General Dick, Secretary of the Repub lican National Committee. "From that date until the end of ! 1800 we have produced in this country 1,404,552 tous of an article for which | there is a great demand here and which , both our late President, Mr. Cleveland, ; and the Democratic prospective Presi- I dent, Mr. Bryan, declared could never be made in the United States. "Under the McKinley tariff of 2.2 '■ cents per pound, our tin plate industry ' thrived. It was per litted to exist un- j der the Wilson bill, with a duty of 1.2 cents per pound, but it would not have j lived tinder the Wilson bill had not ' manufacturers been enabled to run their plates at a lower cost, partly due to the cheapness of wages, and partly j due to the cheapness of raw material, j both conditions of cheapness being pro- ; ducts of tlie Democratic free-trade tariff. "Stimulated again by the Dlngley 1 protective tariff, the tin plate indtts- ! try now gives employment to thou- j sands of workers at v.-ages much high er even than those paid under the 1 McKinley tariff of IS! JO. Consumers, j moreover, are buying their tin plate at much lower prices than before the enactment of the McKinley law. "Immediately preceding the estab lishment of this industry in 1891, we paid to the Welsh manufacturers al most $20,000,000 for their tin plate. Our average imports had been at the rate of $20,000,000 a year. Last year we imported less than $4,000,000 worth, so that there has been saved to this country upward of $100,000,000 at least through the establishment of the tin plate industry. "Objection Is made by our Democrat ic friends to the tin plate industry be cause there has been c i advance In its price in the last two years. But this advance has been less than the aver age advance of iron and steel articles, and it is fully iu harmony with ad vances in the cost of raw materials, and with the advance in the price of tin plate In Wales. "Another objection made by the Democrats to the tin plate industry is that it is now controlled by a trust, but they never made any objection to the control of our market by the British Tin Plate Trust before the es tablishment of our own industry. "The tin plate trade in Wales Is reg ulated by the manufacturers, and every pound of their product Is sold through one selling agent, no matter to what part of the world it may be shipped. There was up getting away from the prices that the Tin Plate Trust wanted to charge. They ex torted from us whatever products they saw lit, and the Democratic party fought tooth and nail when the He publicans attempted to divert the profits of this business into our own channels. "Admitting that tnere is a Tin Plat® Trust, is it still not better that cur requirements should be filled by a trust In this country, rather than by a trust in Wales? The American trust Is subject to American laws. It pays American taxes. The British trust is not subject to our laws, and contrib utes not one cent to our system of taxation or revenue. "Another reason why. It seems to me, an American Tin Plate Trust Is better than a Welsh Tin Plate Trust is because the American institution has built factories here, has created a demand for building material and building machinery. The Welsh Tin Plate Trust buys Its building material and machinery iu England. Still an other, and the most important reason why the American Tin Plate Trust Is more : dvantageous to us than the Welsh Tin Plate Trust Is because the American concern employs thousands and thousands of men here, paying them among the highest rates of wages that are received by any wage earners iu this country. The Welsh Tin Plate Trust, on tiie other hand, employs English labor, paying low wages, which are spent ill Wales, whereas the earnings of our workmen are spent right here at home, creating a demand for the products of our farms and other factories. "Naturally the Democrats do not like anything that even suggests prosperity for their country. Mr. Bryan, their leader. Is for free trade and should he lie nouiluated for and elected to the ottice of President this year, then the American tin plat > manufacturers, and the workers Iu those mills, can rest assured that » >ery effort will be made by the Democratic party to strike a blow at the American tin plate Industry, which will divert an annual business of ill least g'J.Yntm.tiiio Into the pockets of their friends, flic Kngllsh manufacturers and English wage-earners," Croker and Wealth. Mr. Croker grows quite effusive In his discussion of the aggression of weu lib. This Is the same Mr. Croker whose sou receufly f-.i-chnscd a spa*! j bull pup. Mythical. A secret alliance with England ha* la-en nicely arranged Iu the minds of the Democratic orators fur campaign purposes only. He See. His finish. Jerry Kiuipsoii, who has had eonsU!* eruble ex|ierlciifc Iu the urt of netting out from under shaky thiugs. has Just retired frvui Populist journalism. w DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: Practical Charity—The Benevo lence of Dorcas Extolled Her Work Contrasted With Present Day Methods -Woman God's Handinaldeu. [Copyright lsou. I WASHINGTON, D. C.—Dr. Talmage, who iu still traveling in Northern Europe, has forwarded the following report ot a sermon in which he utters nelpful words to all who are engaged in alleviating hu man distresses and shows how such work will be crowned at the last; text, Acts ix, 30, "And all the widows stood by him weeping and showing him the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them." Joppa is a most absorbing city of the Orient. Into her harbor once floated the rafts of Lebanon cedar from which the temples of Jerusalem were builded, Solo mon's oxen drawing the logs through the town. Here Napoleon had 500 prisoners massacred. One of the most magnificent charities of the centuries was started in this seaport by Dorcas, a woman with her needle embroidering her name ineffaceably into the beneficence of the world. I see her sitting in yonder home. In the door way and around about the building and in the room where she sits are the pale faces of the poor. She listens to their pliant, she pities their woe, she makes garments for them, she adjusts the manufactured articles to suit the bent form of this inva lid woman and to the cripple that comes crawling on his hands and knees. She gives a coat to this one; she gives sandals to that one. With the gifts she mingles prayers and tears and Christian encourage ment. Then she goes out to be greeted on the street corners by those whom she has blessed, ami all through the street the cry is heard, "Dorcas is coming!" The sick look up gratefully in her face as she puts her hand on the burning brow, and the lost and the abandoned start up with hope as they hear her gentle voice, as though an angel had addressed them, and as she goes out the lane eyes half put out with sin think they see a halo of light about her brow and a trail of glory in her path way. That night a half paid shipwright climbs the hil! and reaches home and sees his little boy well clad and says, "Where did these clothes come from?" And they tell him, "Dorcas has been here." In an other place a woman is trimming a lamp; Dorcas bought the oil. In another place a family that had not been at table for inanv a week are gathered now, for Dorcas has brought bread. But there is a sudden pause in that wom an's ministry. They say: "Where is Dor cas? Why, vve haven't seen her for many a day. Where is Dorcas?" And one of these poor people goes up and knocks at the door and finds the mystery solved. All through the haunts ot wretchedness the news conies, "Dorcas is sick!" No bulletin Hashing from the palace gate telling the stages of a king's disease is more anxiously waited for than the news from this bene factress. Alas, for Joppa there is wailing, wailing! That voice which has uttered so many cheerful words is hushed; that hand which has made so many garments for the poor is cold and still; the star which had poured light into the midnight of wretch edness is dimmed by the blinding mists that go up from the river of death. In every forsaken place in that town, wher ever there is a sick child and no balm, wherever there is hunger and no bread, wherever there is guilt and no commisera tion, wherever there is a broken heart and no comfort, there are despairing looks and streaming eyes and frantic gesticula tions as they cry, "Dorcas is dead!" They send for the apostle Peter, who happens to be in the suburbs of the place, stopping with a tanner ol the name of Si mon. Peter urges his way through the crowd around the door and stands in the presence of the dead. What demonstra tion of grief all about him! Here stand j some of the poor people, who show the garments which this poor woman had made for them. Their grief cannot be ap peased. The apostle Peter wants to per ! form a miracle. He will not do it amid the ' excited crowd, so he orders that the whole room be cleared. The apostle stands now with the dead. Oh, it is a serious mo i nient. you know, when you are alone with ' u lifeless body! The apostle gets down on his knees and prays, and then he comes to : the lifeless form of this one all ready for j the sepiilcher. and in the strength of Him who is the resurrection he cries: "Tabitha, ! arise!" There is a stir in the fountains of life, the heart flutters, the nerves thrill, | the check flushes, the eye opens, she sits up. j We see in this subject Dorcas, the disci f)le, Dorcas the benefactress, Dorcas the amented, lJorcas the resurrected. If I had not seen that word disciple in I my text. 1 would have known this woman | was a Christian. Such music as that never I cairn from a heart which is not chorded ' and strung by divine grace. Before I show j you the needlework of this woman I want I to show you her regenerated heart, the 1 source of a pure life and of all Christian I charities. I wish that the wives and moth -1 ers and daughters and sisters of all the ; earth would imitate Dorcas in her disciple ship. Before you cross the threshold of 1 tiie hospital, before you enter upon the | temptations and trials of to-morrow, 1 charge you m the name of God and by the turmoil and tumult of the judgment day. O woman, that you attend to the first, last 1 and greatest duty of your life —the seeking j for God and being at peace with Him: ! When the trumpet shall sound there will j be an uproar and a wreck of mountain j and continent, and no human arm can help i you. Amid the rising of the dead and | iunid the boiling of yonder sea and amid ! the live, leaping thunders of the flying heavens calm and placid will be every woman's heart who hath nut her trust in i Christ—calm notwithstanding all the tu j mult, as though the fire in the heavens were onlv the gildings of an autumnal sun l set, us though the awful voices of the sky were but a group of friends bursting | through a gateway lit even time with | laughter anil shouting, "Dorcas the disci ! pie!" Would God that every Mary and I every Martha would this day sit down at I the leet of Jesus! Further, we see Dorcas, the liencfactress. | History has told the story of the crown; epic poet has sung of the sword; the pus i toral poet, with his verses full of the redo- I lcnee ot clover tops and a-rustle with the 1 silk of the corn, has sung the praises of : the plow. I tell you flu- praises of the ' needle. From the tig leaf robe prepared iu the garden of Eden to the last stitch ' taken ou the gurment for the poor the needle has wrought wonders of kindness, generosity ami beliefactiou. It adorned the girdle of the high priest, it fashioned I tiie curtains iu the ancient tabernacle, it 1 cushioned the chariots of King Solomon. | it provided the robes of Queen K'.Uabefh, 1 and in high places and in low places, by I the lire of the pioneer's back log and mi- I der the fla»h of the chandelier every where u has clothed nakedneae, it liu ! preached the gospel, it has overcome boats ' of iHiiury and want with the war crv of ' "Stitch, stilt h, Stitch!" The operatives 10 e found a livelihood by it.and through it the mansions of the eiuplo>er are con , stl 111 ted. i Amid the greatest triumphs in all ages ' and lamia 1 set down the conquests of the needle I admit its crimes; I admit its cruelties. Il liu* had more martyrs than | 111.- file; it has pilin filled the eve, It Ilia pi <reed the »tde; it has struck Weakness 11 to the lungs; it lias sent madness into | the brain; It lias idled the (Hitter's field; j u has pitched whole armies of the sutler j 'Mg into crime ami * rrtchedneu and woe ' It,,t now that I mil talking of Dorcas und • l.er ministries to the poor I slisll .peak ' uul* id the vitalities ol lbs uvevlie. ibis woman was a representative of all thorn who make garments for the destitute, who knit nocks for the barefooted, who prepare bandages for the lacerated, who fix up boxes of clothing for missionaries, who go into the asylums of the suffering and desti tute bearing that gospel which is sight for the blind and hearing for the deaf, and which makes the lame man leap like a hart and brings the dead to life, immortal health bounding in their pulses. What a contrast between the practical benevolence of this woman and a great deal of the charity of this day! This woman did not spend her time idly plan ning how the poor of the city of Jop pa were to be relieved. She took her needle and relieved them. She was not like those persons who sympathize with imaginary sorrows and go out in the street and laugh at the boy who has upset his basket of cold victuals, or like that charity which makes a routing speech on the benevolent platform and goes out to kick the beggar from the step, crying, "Hush your miser able howling!" Sufferers of the world want not so much theory are practice; not so murh tears as dollars; not so much kind wishes as loaves of bread; not so much smiles as shoes; not so much "God bless you," as jackets and frocks. I will put one earnest Christian man, hard-working, against 5000 mere theorists on the subject of charity. There are a great many who have fine ideas about church architecture who never in their lives helped to build a church. There are men who can give you the history of Buddhism and Mohamme danism who never sent a farthing for evangelization. There are women who talk beautifully about the suffering of the world who never had the courage, like Dorcas, to take the needle and assault it. 1 am glad that there is not a page of the world's history which is not a record of female benevolence. God says to all lands and people. "Come, now. and hear the widow's mite rattle down into the pool box." The Princess of Conti sold all her jewels that she might help the famine stricken. Queen Blanche, the wife of Louis VIII. of France, hearing that there were some persons unjustly incarcerated in the prisons, went out amid the rabble and took a stick am! struck the door as a signal that they might all strike it, and down went the prison door, and out came the prisoners. Queen Maud, the wife of Henry 1., went down amid the poor and washed their sores and administered to them cordials. Mrs. Retson, at Matagor da, appeared on the battlefield while thr missiles of death were flying around and cared for the wounded. Is there a man or woman who has ever heard of the civil war in America who has not heard of the women of the sanitary and Christian com missions or the fact that before the smoke had gone up from Gettysburg and South Mountain the women of the north met the women of the south on the battlefield, for getting all their animosities, while they bound up the wounded and closed the eyes of the slain? Dorcas the benefactress. I come now" to speak of Dorcas the la mented. When death struck down that good woman, oh, how much sorrow there was in the town of Joppa! I suppose there were women there with larger fortunes, women perhaps with handsomer faces, hut there was not grief at their departure like this at the death of Dorcas. There were not more turmoil and upturning in the Mediterranean Sea dashing against the whaives at that seaport than there were surgings to and fro of grief because Dorcas was dead. There are a great many who go out of life and are unmisscd. There may be a very large funeral, there may be a great many carriages and a plumed hearse, there may be high sounding eulo giums, the bell may toll at the cemetery gate, there may be a very fine marble shaft reared over the resting place, but the whole thing may be a falsehood and a sham. The church of God has lost nothing; the world has lost nothing. It is only a nuisance abated. It is only a grumbler ceasing to find fault. It is only an idler stopped yawning. It is only a dissipated fashionable parted from his wine cellar, while on the other hand no useful Chris tian leaves this world without being missed. The church of God cries out, like the p. ophet, "Howl, fir tree, for the cedar has fallen!" Widowhood comes and shows the garments which the departed had made. Orphans are lifted up to look into the calm face of the sleeping benefactress. Reclaimed vagrancy comes and kisses the cold brow of her who charmed it away from sin, and all through the streets of Joppa there is mourning—mourning be cause Dorcas is dead. Has th;.t Christian woman who went away fifteen years ago nothing to do with these things? 1 see the flowering out of her noble heart. 1 hear the echo of her footsteps in all the songs over sins for given, m all the prosperity of the church. 1 lie good that seemed to be buried has come up again. Dorcas is resurrected! After awhile all these womanly friends of Christ will put down their needle for ever. After making garments for others some one will make a garment for them; the last robe we ever wear —the robe for the grave. You will have heard the last cry of pain. You will have witnessed the last orphanage. You will have come in worn out from your last round of mercy. 1 do not know where you will sleep nor what your epitaph will be, but there will be a iamp burning at that tomb and an angel of God guarding it, and through all the long ui'jht no rude foot will disturb the dust. Sleep on, sleep on! Soft bed, pleasant shadows, undisturbed repose! Sleep on! Asleep in Jesus! Blessed sleep From which none ever wake to weep! Then one day there will be a sky rend ing and a whirl of wheels and the llash of a pageant, armies marching, chains clank ing, banners waving, thunders booming, and that Christian woman will arise from the dust, and she will be suddenly sur rounded—surrounded by the wanderers of the street whom she reclaimed, surround ed by the wounded souls to whoiu she had administered! Daughter of God. so strangely surround ed, what means this? It means that re ward has eouie; that the victory is won; that the crown is ready; that the banquet is spread. fdiout it through all the crumb ling earth! Sing it through all the Hying heavens! Dorcas is resurrected! In 18.15. when some of the soldiers cainc back from the Crimean war to London, the Queeu of Knglaiid distributed among them beautiful medals, called Crimean medals. Galleries were erected tor the two houses of I'arhament and the royal family to sit in. There was a great audience ti» witness the distribution ot the medals. A colonel who had lost both feet iu the bat tle of Inkermanii was pulled ill on a wheel . hair; others camo in limping on their crutches. Then the Queen of England arose before them in the nume of her Govern ment mid uttered words of commendation to the officers and men and distributed those medals, inscribed with the four great battlefields Alma. Balaki.tva, liikerniaiiu and Sevastopol. As the Queen gave tin -o to the wounded men anil tlie wounded offi cers the bauds of music struck up the na tional air,, and the people, with streaming eyes, joined iu the song: God save our gracious <|iieeu! Long live our noble queen! Cod save the i|Ueeii! And then they shouted "Huzza! Huzza!" Oh, It was a proud day for tho.e relumed warriors! Bui a brighter, better and glad der da> will came when Chrut »hal' gath er those who have toiled in lit* servict good MtJdicl'S of «lr-»u» t hrtst, He shall I i*i' before tlwm, and in the presence of all the glorified of heaven He will say. "\\ -II done, good and faithful servant' ' And iht n He will distribute the medals of ster nal victory, Hot inscribed with Works of righteousness which vve have done, but with those four great b.iltlrlirlds, dear to earth and dear to heaven- lielh'eheui, Naaamli. G«lUs(UI*ll« SUvi C*lv*l>! THE GREAT DESTROYED SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. The Drnukanl', Child, by Charts* W. Harris—A Harrowing Story— Desperate Deed of a Sot's Wire—Pitiful Note She Wrote Before Suicide. You Mk me why so oft, father I he tears roll down my cheek And think it strange that I sho'uld own • A griet 1 dare not speak; But O my sou] is very sad, My brain is almost wild; It breaks my heart, to think that, Am called a drunkard's child. Mv playmates shun me now, father, Or pass me by with scorn, Because my dress is ragged, and My shoes are old and torn; And if I heed them not, "there goes The drunkard's girl," they cry. Oh then, how much I wish that' God \\ ould only let me die. You used to love me once, father, And we had bread to eat; Mamma and 1 were warmly clad, And life seemed very sweet; lou never spoke unkindly then, Or dealt the angry blow; Oh. father, dear, 'tis sad to thinl: The rum has changed you so. Do not be angry now. father, Because I tell you this, But let me feel upon my brow, Once more thy loving*kiss, And promise me those lins 110 more, \\ ith drink shall be defiled. That, from a life of want and woe, Thou't save thy weeping child. U —Lutheran Observer. Wlio is Kespmislhle ? A Rochester corresponde nt sends us the following sail story, the harrowing details of which the papers of that city recently printcd. In Rochester a coal driver, earning $1.50 a day. whose family consisted of his wife and three children, two girls, aged tea and three, and a baby boy of twelve months. Through the winter scarcely a dollar of this man's earnings went to pro vide for the necessities of his lamilv. In spite of the toil of the wife tliere has been neither fuel for the fire nor food for the table, day after day. Meager crusts of bread broken into three fragments have made the suppers for the little ones, while the wife went fasting, because his earnings have gone to swell the profits of the sa loonkeeper. On Tuesday morning. April 3, with neither coal nor bread in the house, the poor woman, worse than a widow, because her husband was not dead, listened to the cries of her children for food, and sent the little ten-year-old girl to the grocer to buy a loaf of bread on credit. The credit was refused; she owed a bill of .SI.8!) there. "No more bread without cash." said the grocer. Driven by the cries of her little ones the woman herself went to the gro cer}', and although the grocer would sell her nothing on credit he gave her out of pity a loaf of black bread. With that alone for food, in the chilled, cheerless rooms of their tumbledown honv/ the chil dren and their mother lived unti'. noon. Driven to desperation, the sorrowing woman, on the frayed tabled Jth. where lay the last morsel of the black bread, penned this note to her huslund: "1 had no money and could buy no bread, and I had nothing left to do but to take my children and go where the ..unger could not pain us. I was refusul credit and could no longer stand the terrible poverty t that I have endured for years. I was weak and it was all too much for me. I hope I will be forgiven for my act, but if my heart could be seen the act would not !>•» ' called a crime. I am sorry, but I cannot I prevent it now. It is too late." Then taking her little ones i the back j room of their miserable home she lilted the cover from the cistern, threw them in and plunged in herself —and they found ! them there, all dead. ! Still, who cares? The saloon must thrive. —Xational Advocate. A Morel Temperance Society. A peculiar society, having as its object the suppression of the liquor traffic, has been organized in Great Bend. The or ganization is composed of the society young women of the town and is called the I). D. M. B. Club. The initials stand for "Don't Drink, My Boy." The girls stand on guard all day long, each a day at a time, taking note of those who patronize the saloons. A complete record is kepi of those with whom they are personally acquainted, but ! the club is especially directed toward sup pressing the evil among the voung men of j the town. Meetings are held once a week to exchange information which they have secured. On first offence—that is, the first dis jovercd offence —a card is sent to the roung man informing him that he has been seen entering a certain saloon at a certain hour on a certain day.and if the Dffence is ret>eated he can consider him lelf ostracized by the good society of Great Bend. The club members are pledged never to tell an outsider the name of the affender, but if the offence is repeated they make his name public in a little pamphlet called the Monthly Bar Record. —Great Bend (Kan.) Correspondence Kan sas City Times. A Tendency Toward Sobriety. The growth of sobrietv among the work-, ing classes is one of the most promising features of the social conditions of to-day, and it has been enforced bv the immense development in the responsibilities of daily life. Sever were intoxicating liouors and paralyzing drugs more in reach of the peo ple. but their excessive use is confined to very few. The man who is known to be addicted to them soon falls into disrepute in and lieing unable to set lire employment ill any important capacity he must in a short time degenerate into the class of incorrigi ble" and cease to have any recognition among decent people. There can be no doubt that the use of powerful and dangerous phvsical forces in the ordinary o|>erations of life will con stantly increase, and the need of sober, reliable and competent men be >me so ur gent that no man of irregular or intemiier ate habits will lie able to secure employ ment of any sort in the years to come, and the time will not l»e distant, either.—Sew Orleans Picayune. Mow Drink l>«luilea. The effect of alcohol is to make a daz r.ling palace of the vilest slum; tin ugh al cohobsed eyes grime, tilth and rags are beautiful. l)rink makes the one-room dweller contented with his lot. We mar despair of breeding discontent while drink holds sway. I'eopTe who Mould reform so ciety must make the dethroning of drink a plank in then platform. The Cmsa<le in lltlef. The Sous itl Temperance, an English society, lots all adult nieiiil* rslnp of 4'.\775, a gam tut l he year of S3W 111 iNUft the cm of New York drank more than barrels of intoxicating stuff, and paid »I*O,UUO,<AM for the privl lege During the last tweulv vears tlie deaths from alcoholism in lire..! Britain have creased pel cent among men and Hi per cent, among women William Amend, the "champion bee* drinker o| N'e* York," died recently in IWllet us Hospital of the worst case of cirrhosis ol the liver ever seen there If you want to boom your city or town Uuiih die iWvtt .. - —-
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