REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Suu- day Sermon. Sohject: * The Bread Question.” Text: “¥e have the poor always with you." Matthew xxvi, 11, Who said that? The Christ who never owned anything during His earthly stay. His eradle and His grave were borrowed. Every fig He ate was from some one else's tree, Every drop of water He drank was from some one else's well, To pay His personal tax. which was very small, only 81% oents, He had to perform a miracle and make a fish pay it. All the heights and depths and Jenghts and breadths of poverty Christ meas- ured in His earthly experience, and when He comes to speak of destitution He alwaya speaks sympathetically. and what He said wavs with you.” For 6000 years the bread question has been the active and absorbing question. Witness the people crowding up to Josephis store- house in Egypt. Witness the famine in Sa- maria and Jerusalem, Witness the 7000 hun- gry people for whom Christ multiplied the loaves, Witness the unocounted millions of people now living, who, I believe, have never vet had one full meal of healthfal and nutritious food in all their lives, the 854 great famines in England. Think of the 25,000,000 people under the hoof of hunger vear before last in Rossia. in the eleventh century left those regions depopulated. Plague of insects in England, Plague of rats in Madras Presidency. Plague of mice in Essex. Plague of locusts in China. Plague of grasshoppers in America. frost, by war, by hurricane, by earthquake, in the management of National finances, by baleful causes innumerable. I pro- eeed to give vou three or four reasons why my text is markedly and graphically true in this year 1894. The first reason we have always the po with us is because of the perpetual overhaul- ing of the tariff question, or, as [I shall eall it. the tariffic controversy. There is a need for such a word, and so I take the responsi bility of manufacturing it. There are millions of people who are expecting that the present Congress of the United States will do some- thing one way or the other to ehd this dis cussion, it will never end. I was ve years of age, 1 ber hearing my father and neigh bors in vehement discussion of this very question, It was high tariff or low tariff or no tariff at all, When your great-grand dies at ninety years of . it will pr be from over-exertion in dis tariff. On theday world is destr there will be three men standing office gh tariff another a and the ot free trade each ons red in the from excited argument on this ject. Other questions may get quieted Mormon question, the pansion question, the civil service All questions of annexation peaceful settlement by the ands two weeks’ voyage of their voleanoes under the sea made a continent, or annexarion of the moon, de throning the queen of night, who is said to be dissolute, and bringiog the lunar popula- {fons under the influence of our free institu- dons ; yea, all other questions, National and Ny but remems his hild Ag Ussing the on the posts the steps—one a I tariff mq ow man silver question, , guest may come 10 away and the heat conveyed through pipe il in warming © Re question never. It will not only never be settlad, but it can never be moderately quiet for more than three years ata time, each rity getting into power taking one of the our years to fix it up, and then the next! party will fix it down, Our finances cannot get well because o1 too many dodtors. Its with siok Nations as with sick individuals, Here is a man terribly disordered as to body. A doctor is called in, and he admin- isters a febrifuge, a spoonful every hour, But recovery is postponed, and the anxious friends call in another doctor, and he says “What this patient needs is blood letting ; now roll up your sieeve!” and the lanset flashes, But still recovery is postponed, and a homecpathie doctor is ealled in. and he administers some small pellets and saysc “All the patient wants is rest.” Becovery still postponed, the family say that such small pellets ennnot amount to much anvhow, and an aliopathie doctor is ealled in, and he says, “What this patient wants is calomel and jalap.” Recovery still postponed, a hydropathie doctor is called in, and he says: ‘What this patient wants is hot and cold baths, and he must have them right away. Turn on the faucet and get ready for the shower bathe.” Recovery is still postponed, an electric doctor is called fn, and he brings all the schools to bear apon the poor sufferer, and the patient, after a brave struggis for life, expires. What killed him? Too many doctors. And that is what is killing our National finances. My personal friends, Cleveland and Harrison and Carlisle and McKinley and Sherman, as talented and lovely and splendid men as walk the earth, all good doctors, but their treatment of our languishing finances Is so different that neither treatment hasa full op- portunity, and under the constant changes it is simply wonderful that the Nation still lives. The tariff question will never be set. tled because of the fact—which I have never heard any one recognize, but nevertheless the fact—that high tariff is best for some people and free trade is best for others. This through with uncertainty, and that uncer- for a vast multitude of people. If the eternal gab on this question could have been fash- foned into loaves of bread, there would not be a hungry man or woman or child on all the planet. To the end of time, the words of the text will be kept true by the tarifle you." Another cause of perpetual poverty is the eause alcoholic, The victim does not last long. He soon crouches into the drunkards grave, dren? Hhe takes in washing, when she can get it, or goes out working on small wages, becauss sorrow and privation have left her incapacitated to do a strong woman's work. The children are thin blooded and gaunt and pale and weak, standing around in cold rooms, or pitching pennies on the street cor- ner, and munching a slice of unbuttered bread when they can getit, sworn at by ershy because they. do not get out of the way, kicked onward toward manhood or wom ‘nhood, for which they have no prep- aration, except a depraved appetite and fear! eunstitution, eandidates for alm- hone and penitentiary, Whatever sthor sanse of poverty may fail, the saloon mar bo depended on to furnish an ever in- prone'ng throng of paupers. Oh, yo grog sho,» of Brooklyn and New Yok and of all the oit'es ;: yo mouths of hell, when will ye sone to eraunch and devour? There is no Aangor of the liquor business falling. All other styles of business at times fail, Dry goods stores go under, Hardware stores go under, G0eary stores go under, Harness makers fall, fail, bankers fall, butchers fall, bakers fail, confectioners fail, but the liquor dealers never. It is the only secure business 1 know of. Why the per. manence of the aleoholle trade? Beanuse, in the first place, the men in that business, if tight up for money, only have to put into largs quantities of water more strych- nine and logwood and nux vomiea and vit- riol and other concomitants for adulteration, One quart of the real genuine Jaudamoning elixir will do to mix up with gallons of milder damuoation, ‘Hestdes that, these dealers can depend on an increase of demand on the part of their customers, The more of that stuff they drink, the thirst. Hard ti other for mes, which Be oul) Inoresa'it busine for men §o.there to drawn thle troubles. take There is an inclined plane holism slides its vietime--ciaret, champag®s, port, cognac, whisky, tom and jerry, sour mask, on and down until it is a sort of mize ture of kerosene oil, turpentine, toadstools, swill, essence of the horse blankets and gens ernl nastiness, With its red sword of flame, that liquor power marshals its proces- gion, and they move on in ranks long enough to girdle the earth, and the pro- cession is headed by the nose blotched nerve shattered, rheum eyed, lip bloated, soul scorched inebriates, followed by the women. who, though brought tp in comtort- able homes, now go limping past with aches and pains and pallor and hunger and woe, followed by their children, barefoot, un- combed, freezing, and with a wretchedness of time and eternity seemingly compressed fn their agonized features, “Forward, march I" eries the liquor business to that army without banners. Keep that influence moving on, and yon will have the poor al- ways with you. Report comes from one of the cities, were the majority of the inbabi tannts are out of work and dependent on charity, yet last year they spent more in that eity for rum than they did for clothing and groceries, Another warranty that my text will prove A vast number or people have such small incomes that they cannot lay by in savings bank or dren, and if you blame such people for im- On such a salary as many clerks and employes and not, in twenty vears, lay up twenty cents. jut you know and I know many who have for the future, who live up to every and when they die their chil. go to the poorhouse or on the 3y the time the wife gets the husband buried, she is in debt to the under street, CAL DEVEr pay wine While the man lived he had parties and fairly stunk with and then expired, leaving his family the charities of the world, Do not for to come and conduct the chsequies and read over such a carcass the beautiful litugy, “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord," for, instead of that, I will turn over the of the Bible to 1 Cimothy v., 18. where it gays: “‘If any pro- his own. and especially for those of his own house, be hath denied she faith, and is worse than an infidel.” or I will turn to Jeremiah xxii, 19. w} » it says, “He shall be buried with the 1 lof an ass. drawn and cast forth beyond y gates of Jerusalem,” I cannot imagine any meaner thing than fora man pardor i heave me leaves more unfair or oget his sins id then go to , and live in & mansion, and go riding den o i golden whom i wd at the last , a2 of an » there ought to the outskirts heaven, where th guilty of such providence shoul i awl soup and g stead of sitting down at the King's banquet, It issaid that the church is’ a divine institution, and 1 believe it, Just banks and the life insurance companies divine institutions, As out of evil good somes 80 out of the lootrine of probabilities calculated by Proles- feria sn rhile on thin : as certainly are the savings sften hance, came the calculations of the proba. bilities of human life as used by life insur. and no mightier Christ was born, Bored beyond endurance gladness and triumph, and that I al it, cannot help i for that his wife but say to myself: man to have looked and children after Mav he have one of the Young man! The I o { ir longs and his ear close up to your heart with your vest off, and nd deliverad to sou a in the case of your sud. den departure, make for that lovely girl the difference between a queen and a pauper. I have known men who have had an in. jeave one farto.ae Now, ti to the surviving man's death is a de He did not There are 100.000 people a-hungered through the “But,” say some, ‘‘my premium on a life insarance.” Are yousure If you are sure, then you have a right to depend on the promissin Jeremiah xlix., 11, “Leave thy fatheriess children, 1 will preserve them alive, and lot thy widows trust in Me.” But if you are able to, remem- ber you have no right to ask God to do for your household that which you ean do for them yourself, For the benefit of those young men axcusa Beginning my life's work on the munificent salary of $800 a year and a parsonage, anid when the call was placed in my hands I did not know how in the world I would ever be able to spend that amount of money, and I remember indulg- into worldliness and prodigality by such an articles of food and to get my life insured, and I presented my< self at an office of one of the great compan< jes, and I stood paie and nervous lest the medical examiner might have to declare that I had consumption and heart disease and a half dozen mortal ail but when I got the document, which I have yet in full foree, [ felt a sense of manliness and confidences and quietudes and re-enforcement, which is a good thing for any young man to have, For the lack of that fesling there are thousands of men to- day in Greenwood and Laurel Hill and Mount Auburn who might as well have been alive and well and supporting their families. They got a little sick, and they were so wor- ried about what would become of their house. holds in case of their demise that their agitations overcame the skill of the physi. cians, and they died for fear of dying. I have for many years been such an ardent advoeate of lile Insarance, and my sermon on “The Crime of Not Insuring” has been go long used on both sides of the sea by the chief life insurance gcompanies that some people have sup that I received monetary Sompansstion for what I have said and written. Not a penny. [I will give any man $100 for every penay I have received from any life insurance company, What I have said and written on the Tact has re- suited from the conviction that these insti- tutions arc a benediction to the human race, Put, alas, for the widespread improvideneces ! You are now in your charities helping to support the families of men who had more income than you now have, and you can de- pend on the improvidence of many for the truth of my text in all times and in all pinces, “Ye have the poor always with you. Another fact that Jou may depend upon for perpetual po the incapacity of man E> achieve livelihood. You can 80 ie any community an good peo wi more than usaal mental y i never have been able to support themselves and their households, They area mystery to us, and we sav, “I donot know is the but there is a screw cephalus, They buy when things are high- est and sell when things are lowest, Bome one tells them of city lots out West, where the foundation of the first house has not yet been laid, They say, “What an opportun~ ity |"! and they Je down the hard cash for an ornamented deed for ten lots under water, They hear of a new silver mine opened in Nevada, and they say, “What a chance!” and they take the little money ft out for as beautiful a eate of mining stock as was ever printed, and the onlything they will ever get out of the investment is the aforesaid illuminated lithograph. They are always on the verge of millionatredom and are sometimes worried as to whom they shall baqueath their excess of fortune, They invest in aerial machines or new inventions in perpetual motion, and they succeed in what mathematicians think impossible, the squaring of a circle, for they do everything on the square and win the whole eircle of disappointment, good honest, brilliant failures, They poor, and leave nothing to their families but work and whole portfolios of diagrams of things impossible, I cannot but like them, because they are so cheerfnl with great eXpectations. But their children are a bequest to the bureau of city charities, Gthers administer to the crop of the world’s misfortune by being too unsuspecting. Honest themselves, they believe all others They are fleeced and sealped to do in buying either of them. Others are for misfortune by inopportune sickness, Just as that lawyer was to make the plea that would have put him among strong men of the profession, nea- ralgia stung him. Just as that physi- was to prove his skill in an epi- store for some decisive and introductory bargain, pillow, What an Then the eyclones, Then Then the Then the insectile patebes and wheat. epizootics am g the rR on ig the that Wn droughts that Then the white strikes potato the the hollow h the rains Then and herds, Then everything, and the up half a continent, gr dis under the the hoar frost, Then the the iron strikes, and the strike labor harderthan they strike capital, Then the yellow fever at Brunswick and Jacksonville and Shreveport. hen the cholera at the Narrows, threatening y land at New York, The the Ch earth- quake, Then the Then hurricanes sweeping from Caribbean bes to Newfoundiand., Then the are the great monopolies that vy the earth with their oppressions, Then there are the necessitios wid of the af br horses, dr out burn orange of and nies’ rikes, YY OR teeth oO moch a Johnstown flood, re orn » guLey ton, & a1 ut he pound instead of the nd so In the wake of {llustrations of higve the poor always with you Remember a fact that no one em} a fact, nevertheless, upon which put the weight an «ternity of « that the best way of insu urself and your children and your grandchildren against poverty and all other troubles is by helping others. I am an agent of the oldest insurance company that was ever established, It is nearly 3000 years oid. It bas the ad- vantage of all the other plans of insur anoe~whole lite policy, endowment, joint life nd survivomship podeles, ascending and descending seosles of pre mium and tontine--and it pays up while you live and It pays up after you are dead. Every cent you give in a Chris tian spirit to a POOF Al Of WOMmMAD, every shoe you give to a barefoot, every stick of wood or lamp of coal you give to a fireless hearth, every drop of medicine you give tos plied, # s . ht MTA ME vi shine over unfortunsfe materalty, every mitten you knit for cold Angers, is a pay- ment on the premium of that policy. 1 hand about 500 000,000 policies to all who will go forth and aid the unfortunate, There are snly two or three lines in this policy of lifes insurance Ps, xii., 1. “Blessed is he that sonsidereth the poor ; the Lord will deliver kim in time of trouble. Other Ife insurance companies may fail, but this celestial life insurances company never. The Lord God Almighty is at the head of it. »0d all the angels of heaven are in its board of direction, and i's assets are all worlds, and all the charitable of earth and heaven are the beneficiaries, “But,” says some one, “I do not like a tontine policy 80 weil, and that which you offer is more like & tontine and to be chiefly paid in this life.” “Blessed is ho that considersth the poor ; the Lord will deliver him io time of tron Well, if you prefer the old fashioned policy of life insurance, which is not till after death, you can bs acs sommodated, That will be given you in the day of judgment and will be hanqed you by the right hand, the pleread hand of our Lord Himself, and all you do in the right gpirit for the poor is payment oa the pre- 3 I read you a paragraph of that policy : “Then shall the King say unto them on His right hand, ‘Come, ve blessed of My Father, for I waa 0, Me’ In various colors of ink other life insur- anos policies are written. This one I have just shown you is written in only ons kind cross, poliey, paid for by the pangs of the Son of God, and all we add to it in the way of oar own good deeds will augment the sum of eternal felicities, Yea, the time will come when the banks of largest capital stoek will go down, and the fire insurance companies will all go down, and the life insurance companies will all go down. In the last great earthquake all tha cities will be prostrated, and as a consequence all banks will forever suspend ayment, In the last conflagration the fire neurance sompanies of the earth will fall, for how could they make appralsement of the loss on a universal fire? Then all the inhabitants of the round world will surrender their merial existence, and how could life insurance companies pay for Scpopalated hemispheres? Bat pur celestial life insurance will not be harmed by that continental wreck, or that hemispheric accident, or that planetary catastrophe, Blow it out like a candlo~the noonday sun! down like wornout upholstery —the last sun sot! Toss it from God's finger like a dow- drop from the anther of a water lily—the ocean! Boatter them like thistledown before a sehoolboy's breath the world | They will not disturb the omnipotence, or the com- posure, or the sympathy, or the love of that Christ who it once on earth, and will in in heaven to all thoss who have , aad the cold the hungry, and the houseless, and the lost, “Inasmuch as ye did it to them, ye did to Me™ Squirrels Destroying Birds’ Eggs. The number of song birds that be- friend man, as it is often said, do not frequent human habitations for man’s sake at all. They are only saxious to got near mankind because near man they are free from the destruction by wild squirrels which arelways their Joss inveterate enemies Jn t dhe Wools and destroy large nam rds eggs. But the oat near the abode of man is almost equally a destroyer of Valuable Lessons Taught by the MHecent Disaster In the British Navy, The following are the principal points of the speech in which Lord Armstrong, at the meeting of share. holders of his famous company the other day, expressed his views con- cerning the dangers involved in the construction of gigantic ironclads: The ram of the Camperdown, al- though striking with a restricted momentum, was buried deep into the ide of the Victoria, and it cannot he doubted that while armor is in a great measure effective against pro- jectiles, and netting against torpe- nothing can withstand the ower of the ram. But although in the case of this dreadful accident the ram was inflicted with fncomparably less force than that due full speed of the ship, the to the ramming vessel It appears, therefore, that and stability of the prow and ram of the Camperdown time This that can- should burst, that what applies to the ram of the Camperdown would apply equally to the ram of every the British ser- fmperiling her own flotation. is like having a great gun not be fired for fear it vice, Vessels specially designed for ram- need not be large nor costly, all complications of battle ships. ponal dash, of which there iz no the British navy, would be the chief quality required in direct- §ng their use, and the occasional such a vessel would be of importance in comparison with of a battle ship. 1 am therefo opinion that a considerable of inexpensive ram ships an item in programine While on Per ¢ i } shou i any Tut v Fed any uLure sili this sut vast nus gEainst oir battle made se against the Are red shi for experimen SHeiiSs Wou the unp possi iy hat even where 4 st i applied at the water-line might be low enough down the ship to be flooded by the wash of sea. It was proved that armor of small thickness bursting of these putside of the ship EEL % Te } ©“ 10 Qing shells harmiessly which, of course, has to be used at all, it « be applied in varying over the whole ught pot 1 a $ i ship somebody's Load. The Name America. The name of America for the new- ly discovered continent was first pro posed in the little volume put forth at St. Die, in the Vosges, in the year 1607, by Waldweemuller, better known by the Helized forms of his pame, Hylacomyius. Three or four editions of this treatise were pnb lished at St. Die before 1507, and a few years afterward an edition with- out date was printed at Lyons by Jean de la Place. All these editions are of extreme rarity, and probably that printed at Lyons is the rarest of Museum possesses two copies of it naps were engraved to either of these editions, always been supposed that the earli- est map with the word “America” marked on the new-found world the but it bas was I'vpus Orbis” engraved on wood for the “Enarrationes Johannis Cam- ertis in C. Jylii Solinl Polyistoria,” ptinted in Vienna in 1560 for nes Singrenius. In this world Is represented as a long on which is the inscription: 1497 hae terra © isiand, ““Annod um adjacentibu inventa est per Columbun uensem ex mandato regis ¢ helping the troubles © fort for good this kindly sympathy from Mr. Enoch L. Hans Marshfield, Me, an old “It may do sor Iam others is a noble of. A weil illustrated instance of i= shown in a Jetier Mn. Bed i Agent, He fier Union sol HATE Fora a a stale, 5 than had a bad knee an was lame three YoRrs and very Jaros the time. 1 got BL, Oli ar three times and it made a cure, CRANKISM a8 a pica tion is played out it 80. for assassina. Gultean found Brats oy Onto, Crry ov TOLEDO, Locas Cor sry { - nior partner of the firm of ¥. J. in the CCily Te County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL- LAKS for each aud every case of Caiarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hat's Carannm Fuasxg J Cauxey. of oo, presence, this 6th day of December, A. D § A. WW. ULgasox, 1 b ERAL 1386, on Notary Pubite, —— Send for testimonials, free, ¥F. J. OCnexey & Co. Toledo. O. 1 awyers may be poets ; they write Jots of Y ersus.” Yor Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Stomach Als ere, use Brown's Iron Hitters-the Best fo. It rebulids the Blood and strengthens and debilitated persona A miner may be ever so well off, but he can't heip getting in a hole occasionally. For Tanoar Dimssasns Axo Conons nsa Brow x's Broxcatarn Troones Like all really good things they ave imitated, 7h genvine are sold only in bower, Cupid never shows a wrinkle, For impure or hin Rlood, Weakness, Mala. ria, Neuralgi ndigaution and Billounsness, fake Brown's [ron Bitters-it gives strength, making old persons feel mand ul persona strong: pleasant to id young The golden rule-The power of money. Beecham's Pills are better than mineral wa ters. Beecham's-no others. 2 couts a box, The vouth of the soul is everlasting, “August, Flower” “I am Post Master here and keep a Store. Ihave kept August Flower for sale for some time. I think it is a splendid medicine.”” E. A. Bond, P. M., Pavilion Centre, N. Y. The stomach is the reservoir. If it fails, everything fails. The liver, the kidneys, lungs, the heart, the head, the blood, the nerves America provincia’ Could Throw Stones. The Acarpanians were considered the most skillful slingers of not oniy 1a balls of lead, and in Lhe these areca, hrow stones 4 walities, especially ny of ia tf a 0 2108 al scriptions ar ad devie ‘ul names ol the 1g, wher STrROnS ithiels th has unds at belonged to his infortunate Crown VPrinoe to the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assissium. house and which ree Bi florins. A sum of 150,000 put at condition that they will for twelve florins is keep up an men WOrs. Fasnion requires that ple should with a fork; but Bass says cheese, which for him. —Boge is quite good enough KNOWLEDGE Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly a The many, who live bet- ter than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world's best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embra remedy, Syrup of Figs. X 1ts excellence is due to its presenting fn the form most acceptable and pleas ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax- ative: effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers er permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acts on the Kid- peys, Liver and Bowels without weak- ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Byrup of Figs is for sale by all drug in 50¢ and $1 bottles, but it is man- ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Oo. only, whose name is printed on every , also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not scoept any substitute if of ah he he ih i di id So Baking Powder Biray Leaves. “I understand,” said Mrs. Connolss seur, a8 she swept into her seat at the academy of music, “that Herr Sopolisble is to play to night.” “Aln’t tnat pice?” responded Mra. Parvenue “He's a regular—master. piece on the fiddle, 1 understand.” “Ahem! ves; had you heard that he has a Stradivarius?” “No! is it possible?” “1 beara 80.” “Where did the poor fellow get jit?” “They say he got it a year or two | ago on the continent.” “Well, that's awful. Can't nothing { be done for him? It seems as if the cholera and all them dreadful diseases comes from those dirty foreign places.” Mrs. Connoisseur's face | turne in black and yellow. - EE — - absolutely free IS 4 Docs NO MAN is from A SURGEON'S KNIFE you 8 fecling of horror and dre There is no longer necessity for its » In many diseases formerly ro- garded ps8 incurable without cutting. The Triemph of Conservative Surgery is well illustrated by the fact that RUPTURE or Breach, 18 now radi. * cally cured without tho knifeand without pain, Clumsy, chaf- ing trusses can be thrown away | They never cure b often induce infigrn~ ration, strangulation and death, inn, Fibroid (Uterine) TUMORS oy many others, are pow thout the perils of cut~ ting operations PILE TUMOR other disenses permancotly cured ¢ gives removed w however large, * Fistuls and lower bowel, aro without pain or of thi resort 10 Lhe xKnite, in the Bladder, no matter STONE how large, is crushed, pul- verigod, washed « ind perfect nove wit? STRICTURE