REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Eminent Washington Divine's Sunday Sermon. — The Many Temptations Which HBeset Young Men-—Evils Resulting From Getting Into Debt-An Irreligious Life Always Destroys Young Men's Morals, Text: “As an the slaughter.” Proverbs vii., 22, ox to There i8 nothing in the voloe or manner of the butcher to indicate to the ox that there is death ahead. The ox thinks he is going on to a rich pasture fleld of clover where all day long he will revel {n the herb- aceous luxuriance, but after awhile the men and the boys close in upon him with him thgough bars and into a doorway, where he is fastened, and with well aimed stroke the ax fells him, and so the antieipation of the redolent pasture fleld Is completely dis- appointed. Bo many a young man has been driven on by temptation to what he thought would be paradisiacal enjoyment, but after awhile influences with darker hue and swarthier arm close In upon him, and he finds that instead of making an excursion into a garden he has been driven ‘as an ox to the slaughter.” Weare apt to blame young men for be. log destroyed when we ought to blame the influences that destroy them. Roclety slaughters a groat many young men by the behest: “You must keep up appearances, Whatever be your salary, you must dross as wall as others, you must give wine and brandy to as many friends, you must smoke as costly clgars, you must give as expensive entertainments and you must live in as fashionable a boarding house, It you haven't the money, borrow, can't borrow, make a false entry tract here and there a bill from a bundle of bank bills. You will only have the deception a ligle while months or in & year or two you it all right. Nobody will be hurt by it, no- body will be the wiser. You voursell will not be damaged.” By that awful process 100,000 men have been slaughtered for time and slaughtered for eternity. Suppose youn borrow. There {8s nothing ! wrong about borrowing money. There is | hardly a man who has not sometimes bor- rowed money. Vast estates have been buflt | on a borrowed dollar | kinds of bogrowed money, nay borrowed for the purpose of starting or keep ng up| legitimate enterprise and expense and money borrowsd to get that which you can do without. The first is right, the other is wrong. If you have money enough of your owa to buy a coat, however plain, and then you borrow money for a dandy’s outfit, you have taken the first revolution of the wheel down grade. Borrow for necessities; that may be well. Borrow for the luxuries; that tips gour prospects over in the wrong di- | rection. ~The Bibf distinctly says the borrower Is | servant of the lender. It isa bad state of things when have to go other street escape meeting some one whomwyou owe. If young men knew what Is the despotism of being In debt, mors of them would keep out of it. What did dabt do for Lord Bacon, with a mind towering above the centuries? It induced him to take bribes and convict himself as a orim- {nal before all ages, Walter Scott, broken ford? Kept him writin gave out in paralysis away from his plotures ter for him {f he had which he had 1 Abbotsford, “Waste not The trouble is, m3 not understand the and that {f vou j ration of pay m, ebts which you inot meet, you steal just so much mone; ITI gointo a grocer's stores and I buy sugars and coffees and meats with capacit pay for them and no intention sg for them, I am more dishonest than go into the store, | and when the gro fa is turned the other way I fill my poek the sles of mergbandly s Ta In ihe ine dase 1 tak ant's time, snd I take the time transfer the the othercase I ta merchant, and I transfer the g lm. In other $0 bad as & man nev i to pay. § Yet in all ir ofties thera are families why glove every May day to get Into prox imity togother grocers and meatshops and apothecaries. They owe everybody within ball a mile of where they now live and next May they nto a distant part of the city, f 3 new lot of victims, Meanwhile you, the honest family inthe new house, are bothered day by day by the knosking at the door of disappointed bakers and butchers and dry goods dealers and pewspaper carriers, and you are asked where your predecessoris. You do not know. It was arranged you should not know. Meanwhile your predecessor haa! gone to some distant part of the ally and the people who have asything to sell have | sent their wagons and ipped thers to so- | leit the “valuabl of the neighbor, and he new neighbor, | with great compiacency and an alr of aflu- | ence, orders the (Inest steaks and the high. | est Priced sugars and the best of the canned | fruits and porbaps all the wi, And | the debts will keep on accumuisting until | be gets his goods on the 30th of next April | In the furniture cart, i No wonder that so many of our mer- | shants fall in business. They are swindled | into bankruptey by these wandering Arabs, | these nomads of ¢ity life. They cheat the grocer out of the green apples which make them sick, the physician who attends them during their distress and the undertaker who fits them out for departure from the | seighborhood where they owe everybody | when they pay the debt of nature, the only debt they ever do pay. Now our young men are coming up in this depraved state of ocommerelal ethics, and I am solieitous about them. I want to warn them against being slaughtered on the sharf edges of debt. You want many things you have not, my young friends, You shall have them {f you have patience and honesty and Indastry. Certain lines of conduct always lead out to certain successes, There is a law which controls sven those things that seem haphazard. I have been told by those who have observed that {8 ls possible to caloulate just how many letters will be sent to the dead letter office every fou through misdirection; that {t {8 posal. ie to caleulats just how many letters will be detained for lack of postage stamps through the forgetfulness of the senders, and that it is possible to tell just how many people will fall in the streets by slipping on an orange peel. In other words, there are no secidents. The most Insignificant event you ever heard of is the link between two stornities the eternity of the past and the eternity of the future. Head the right way, young man, and you will come out at the ht goal. "on ring me a young mah and tell me what his pixysionl health is and what his mental caliber and what his habits, and I will tell you what will be his destiny for this world and his destiny for the w to come, and I will not make five inaccurats prophecies out of the 500. All this makes mo sotioftons In regard to youmg men, sad I want to make them nervous In regard to the econ traction of unpayable debts, » When a ¥ men willy and of sholce, having the comforts of lite, goes into the contraction of unpayable debts he knows not into what he goes, Tha creditors ot after the debtor, the pack of hounds in 3 orys and alas for the reindecr, They lingle his doorbell before he gets up in the morning, jhe) (ge his doorbell after he has gone to at night, They meet film 8s he comes off his front steps, They send Hiyts, toliing hit 10 pay Ube. They sthep 8, telling him to pay up. Sis goods, They want cash or » note at In a few mao m you t hiisel v want not | friends, that people do | ethics of going in debt, urchase goods with no e } 3 ir Kg y In “" arti ham nessenger to os, while in of the time of the mysell, and | 4 is tom ke n wait mel is not ptracts debts he r expect ny ut #8 o new 1 oT iT They | thirty days or a note on demand 3 They onll him a knave. They say ho les, want him disciplined in the church, They want him turned out of the hank. They come at him from this side and from that glde and from before and from behind and from above and from beneath, and he is insulted and gibbeted and sued and dunned and sworn at until he gets the nervous dyspepsia, gets neuralgia, gets liver complaint, gets heart disease, gets cone vulsive disorder, gots consumption. Now he is dead, and you any they will leg him alone.” Oh, no! thoy are watchful to see whether there are | pay unnecessary expenses at the obsequies, to 368 whother there is any useless handle on the casket, to see whether there is any surplus plait on the shroud, to see whether the hearse is costly or chea to whether the flowers sent to the casket have been bought by the family or donated, to see in whose name the deed to | the grave Is made out. Then they ransack {the bereft household, the books, the pictures, the carpets, the chairs, the sofa, the plano, the mattresses, the pillow on which he died. Cursed be debt! anke of your own happiness, for the sake of good morals, for the sake of your im- mortal soul, for God's sake, young man, as fir as possible keep out of {t! But I think more young men slaughtered through irreligion, Take away & young man's religion and you make him the prey of evil. Wo all know that the Bible is the only perfect svstem of morals, young man’s morals, take his Bible away. How will you do that? Well you will eari- | cature his reverence for the Scriptures, | you will take all those Incldents | Bible which can be made mirth of—Jonah's whale, Sampson's foxes, Adam's rib. Then | youf will carteature eccentric Christians or { inconsistent CHlristians, Then you will pass off as your own all those hackneyed as old as Tom | na old as sin. Paine, as old as Voltaire, Now you have captured his in Invitation to the sins of earth and the » # ol young man when you have robbed ud 2s Bible Hava you ever noticed | despleably mean it 1s to take away the leakin than a him how tute? It is meaner than coming to a siek | man and steal his medicine, meaner than | to come to a eripple and steal his erutoh, meaner than to come to a panper and steal his crust, meaner than to coms to a poor man and burn his house down, It {s the worst of all lapcenies to steal the Bible which has been crutch and medicine and | food and eternal home to so many. What | A generous and magnanimous business in- | fidelity has gone into—-this splitting up of | iiteboats and taking away of fire escapes | and extinguishin f ligl uses! out and I say to you doing all ust for fun 2 ith I come | pent ‘What are | “Oh,” they say, J It is such fun to see Chris- | tians try 2o hold on to their Bibles! Many | of them have lost loved ones and have bean told that there a resurrection, and {t {s such fun to tell th there will be no resurrection! Many them have believed | that Christ came to carry the burdens and | to heal the wounds of the world, and it is such fun to tell them oy will have to be their own sav Think of the meanest thing you ever heard of, then go down 1000 eet underneath it, and you will find your olf at the t a stairs 100 miles long; go | the f and you i find a miles long: then go ! the fo iadder and look of { ples ad from here to China, and riers of the mean- ness that wonld rob this world of its only mfort in life, its only peace in death and its only hope for immortality. Slaughter a | young man's faith in God, and there is aot much more left to slaughter Now what has tered? Well, a« father's o in health suo this for? Ie ia am ’ ¥ r $ ; th i wr! a v ’ a i i t bottom « the stairs 1000 i become of the slau of them are in thei rot her's br i waiting to « others are In are in the rather, fies are, for t gone on to retribution. t for a young man who st } health and g i education and sn example set him, and oppor usefulness, who gathered all his | treasures an ! then droot a * house, Ken I in Woy ¥., Or | ! ‘ their } hair souls | : : i Not muaeh arted life | have pros with 0 ’ BR a Christ tunity of 4 * Soa In ed | h ais wholesale slaughter ere is not a on Oat question, sa 8 to put nds for you lounge Men's Christian Ass t you or churches to pro vod for help, take | parson who is The ob weapon in r own defense Care i First, have a room somewhere that you | can call your own. Whether it pe the | back parior of a [fashionable boarding | house or a room in the fourth story of a | cheap lodging I care not. Only have thas | one room your fortress, Let not the dissi. pater or unalean step If they come up the long flight of stairs and | knoek at the doo face to face and kindly yet fuse them admit tance. Have a few family portraits on the m brought them with you from | your country home, Have a Bible on the | stand. If you can afford it and can play on one, have an instrument of music—harp or flute or cornet or melodeon or violin or piano, Every morning befors you leave | that room pray. Every night alter you | coms home in that room pray, Make that your Gibraitar, your Sevastopol, your Mount Zion. Lot no bad book or newspaper come into that room any more than you would allow a cobra to ooll on your table, Take care of yoursell. Nobody sise will take care of you. Your help will not come up two or three or four flights of stairs; your help will come through the roof, down | from heaven, from that God who ia the | 6000 years of the world’s history never be. jiayed a young man who tried to be good and a Christian. Let me say In regard to Jour adverse worldly eircumstanoes in pass- ng, that you are on a level now with those who are finally to sunccead. Mark my words, oung man, and think of it thirty years rom now. You will find that those who thiriy years from now are the millionaires of this country, who are the orators of tne country, who are the poets of the country, who are the strong merchants of the coun- try, who are the great philanthropists of the country--mightiest in charoch and fitate—are this morning on alevel with you, not an inch above, and in straitened cir. cumstances now, VI ml There Is no class of persons that so shir my sympathies a8 young men in grhat cities, ot quite enough salary to live on, and all the temptations that come from that deficit. Invited on all hands to drink, and their exhausted nervous system seem. Ing to demand stimulus. Their religion | caricaturad by the most of the clerks in the store and most of the operatives in the factory. The rapids of temptation and feath rushing against that young man orty miles the hour, and he in a frail boat headed up stream, with nothing. but a! broken oar to work with, Unless Almighty | God help them they will go under, Ah, when I told you to take care of your self you misunderstood ma if you thought I meant you are to depend upon human resolution, which may dissolved in the foam of the wine sup or may be blown out with the first gust of temptation, Here ia the helmet, the sword of the Lord God Almighty. Clothe yourself in that panoply, and you shall not be put to confusion. Sin pr # well neither in this world nor the next ut right thinking and right believing an right acting will take you insafety through this life and in transport through the next, I never shall forget a hye | heard a oung man make some fifteen years ago. It was a very short prayer, but if was a tromendous prayer: “0 Lord, help us! We find It so very easy to do wrong and so hard to do right! Lord, heip us” That £m em u prayer, I warrant you, reached the sar of {| God and reached His heart. And there are { 100 men who have found out 1000 voung men, perhaps, who have found out--that very thing. It is so very easy to do wrong { and so hard to do right I got a letter one day, only one para graph, which I shall read “Having moved around somewhat, I { have run across many young men of intel | Hgepco, urdept strivers after that will-o’ the-wisp—fortune—and of one of these I would speak. He was a young Englishman of twenty-three or twenty-four years, who | came to New York, wheres he had no ae. | qualntances, with barely sufclent to keep | him a couple of weeks, He had been ten- derly reared, perhaps I should say too ten derly, and was not used to earning his { iving and found it extremely dificult to get any position that he was capable of fill ing. After many vain efforts inthisdirection he found himself on a Bunday evening In Brooklyn, near your church, with about $38 { loft of his small’ capital, Providence seamed to lead him to your door, and he detorminad { to go In and hear you. He told me his | going to hear you that night was undoubt- { edly the turning point in his life, for when | he went into your church he felt desper- | ate, but while listening to your discourse | his better nature got the Rdlety. I truly { believe from what this young man told me that your sounding the depths of his heart that hight alone brought Fe back to his {| God whom he was so near leaving.” : { That is the echo of multitudes, I am not preaching an abstraction, but a great reality. OQ friendless young man, O { prodigal young man, O broken hearted {| young man, discouraged young man, | wounded young man, I commend to you Christ this day, the best friend a man ever had. He meets you this morning. De- spise not that emotion rising (n your soul; it Is divinely lifted. Look into the face of { Christ, Lift one prayer to your father's God, to your mother's God, and this morn- pardoning blessing. Now, while I speak, you are at the forks of the road, and this is theoright road, and that is and I see you start on the One Sabbatlf morning at the close of the service I saw a gold watah of the world renowned and deeply lamented violinfst, You remember he died in his island home off the const of Norway. That after day through his last illness, and then he sald to his companion, “Now, | want to wind this watch as long ss [ can, and then when Iam gone I want you keap it wound up until it goes to my friend, br Doremus, In New York, and then he will keep it wound up until his life is done, and then I want the wateh to go to his young son, my especial favorite,” The great musician who other artist had made the v sing, and weep, and laugh tf to yee (han any speak, and and triumph r it ssemed when he drew the bow across the strihgs as if all earth and heaven shiy ered in delighted sympathy--the grest musician, in a room looking off upon the soa, and surroundead ifs favorite instru ments of music, closed his eyes in death While all the world was mourning at his departure sixteen rwided steamers fell into line of faneral procession to earry his body to the mainland, There were 50,000 of his countrymen gathered (ln an amphithes- ter of the hills waiting to hear the sulogium, and was sald when the great orator of the day with sten torian voles began speak the MM 000 peoples on the { into tears, Ob, that a ol of a life that had done so much to make the world happy! But I have to tell you, young map, if you live right and die right, that was a tama sonne compared withthat which will u when from the galleries of heaven the 144.000 shall a wd with Christ {in ery ing, “Welldone, thou good and faithful servant!” And the | jences that on earth you put in motion will from ger eration to generation 8 wound up handed to idren their influenoss woun their children, watch more needed to mark the t self shall be neo jo by n or Ir ro 18h rt Tul Progress 3 me It ionger im HORSES WANTED IN ALASKA. Are Worth From $20 to $840 on the Kilondike, They Cattlemen are buving horses for Ir $5 east of the Cascade M gton and selling them m #29 to $40 for Ki fh The h will thes m when they can be used no rposes th {1} be driven t sobd for ¢ 1 at ten m €3 untains in roadily ike packing pt used to 5 passes, and (or [or pack » Dawson wits per to fre reed harses have been no Thousands of head v £11t082.50 apiece slaughtered and eanned This meat id freely in Japan and Europh, but on ifle coast canned horse is not sales Several oattlemen bavo already eared large ns on the sale of horses for the Klondike The Indian tribes of the coast have also realized handsomely annd for g xi pack vas the arket an bought at f several ar SRiry ranges » yh ies JAPAN IS HARD UP, fremasury Sald te rassed For Heady Money, Be Seriously Embar- The "Japanesa Government is seriously embarrassed financially owing to the rapid pace at which the nation has been golog since the war with China, ‘ivilization has necessitated (noreased expenditures in every direstion, particus larly in bullding rallroads, telegraph lines, new Government bulldings improving harbors and strengthening the army and navy. The treasury was not directly benefited mid by Chins, because {t bas been kept in England to pay for new war ships and armament. Owing to the increased expenditures during the mat year all the Government's reserve ea B are exhausted, 3 There is great need of rain (n Korea, an the Governor has sent priests to the moune tains to petition the gods for showers, is sartaln large importations of grain wi be necessary. a i ——— A WARNING TO THE COLD SEEKERS, Hardahips Sure and Starvation For Many Almost Certain, L. M. Turner, who has spent eleven years in Alaska and the Arctio reglons in the am- ploy of the Government, says id an inter. ey: “It Is about time tooall a halt on this B B rish to the undreds of men are golog as far as th oan, relying on others to help them. Tha help will be meagre anvugh and scores will certatuly endure hardships that death alons will relieve, The transportation companies cannot possibly accommodate the number going by way of 8t. Mishaels, The small river steamers will not afford room for one-third the number going by the route. The provisions will bave to be fur. nished by the transportations companies,’ and two-thirds of the passengers will boaid at 8t. Michaels or along the Yukon, and they will not see Dawson City until next ng. Many of those who go by the way of Dyea will be compelled to winter at the headwaters of the Yukon.” . Now Offelally “Klondike.” It was oflelally deaided py the [Geo- logloal Barvey, Washington, that in the future fhe name of the river on which the gold fields are located should bé spelled with an { Instead of y, as has boen observed heretofore, The spelling has been more frequently Kiondyke than Klondike, but the latter is now the correct wih : rr ——————————r se Crush of OfMes Seckors, It bas been found n to raise the floor of the White House lobby, which has been crushed down a distance by theswarming office seekenh TC ! i { | THE FARM AND GARDEN. ITEMS INTEREST ON TURAL TOPICS, —— OF AGRICUL. Cood Hog Pasture—~!mproved Crain Shock Clearing Fenc, Curners~Preventing After Swarms, Etc, Etc, GOOD HOG PASTURE, Att a large quantity of excellent pasturage for hogs hia broadcast a he Oklanhoma experiment station secured i of Kaflir and sorghum been Owing y mixture Japan or soy The pigs The crop the have been pastur ed beans, evidently prefer the bean outgrowing the ability of consume it, Cows on the plot tot New Englan pigs to sutisfaction IMPROVE] the Fa grain make writer dles of According tO an in Journal nine bun better ‘shock’ than the old-fashioned {ret np Ik in each two of nth, MIT 1h a Cro ti of the dozen four more, on hetween with the 1 well No pains th aking HH Ht [his x practise ks heavi Tho er i they are Kept Very #1 chu iy ooler-honse heave foe ing expe Young always begin to feather as soon as they old, i se sed are two or three days which i= due proces do her kinds, wenkening, bu in to {och Cases in ® in Chicks not and chicks perish {rom rapid There 1s no remedy to prevent this difficulty except to reduce the food and not feed oftener than three times a day, using meat and a little linseed menl and a proportion of bulky food It ix never necessary to force voung chicks before they are weeks as they will lose more weight than they will gain, and there will also be less Liability of loss of chicks the old, CARE OF THE HORRY In cleaning np the stables remember the troughs and mangers Bad feet in the colt often ruin the value of an otherwise valuable horse The value of an old horse depends very largely upon his treatment while young. Growing colte need plenty of exer. cise and good grooming to make a good growth, Half blood horses may do well | enough for work, but they should | never be nsed for breeding. Treat your horses as you would wish | to be treated if you were dumb, and | serving a master. Look out for your horse's should. | era. No horse can do his duty with a | sore shoulder, to say nothing of bis suffering. the dr w For best come up eariy to inter s@ts In the wlieal results make a growih that round will nearly or quite cover the It 1s 1ts own best winter protection when it does this At the South ex. preparation for plowing the ground deeply in spring. before sowing the peas, it cow peas make an 3 } wr cellent wheat iy and well will not require plowing in the fall, aa a better seed-bed can be ured by the use of a lise and harrow Peas, being the same pur- pose as clover in trapping the nitro gen of alr Eo legumes, serve POULTRY NOTES Burying grain usually does away Healthy fowls pick their food quickly and relish it up Build your poultry house so that it can be easily cleaned One male to fifty hens, one breeder Ducks lay in the morning and should not be turned out too early. Feed one ounce of ground green Yonng ducks eat more than chick- Ground clam shells are excellent for layers, but chicks need ground bone. Some pallets will begin to lay much earlier if males do not run with them. 3 i ‘nu built onialn general 1d ve fee right gradually slow lv deal with food, 10 GnsCCns- rs netes End of » Remarkable Romance, bbed her- idly fashion rs of the den Zoo's lion, hus pitiable these many It was the kitten’s way of coax- ing Pan! to sav good night to her, for Panl and kittie were the best of friends. She was the only bit of ous- side life that Paul was ever friendly with Kittie has crept shyly up in front of the bars of the old lion's home every night for weeks, and when she mewed to bima he came forward and put his great shaggy head as close to her as could, and they caressed each | other, . When kittie came last night and robbed coaxingly against the bars and mewed softly, Paul just lay still, his head between his paws, and didn’s notice ber stall. Tiring of coaxing Lim, the faithful kittie stopped and | jocked at the noble, great fellow. A keeper saw her dosomething that instinet never let her do before. She | shyly crept through the big, black | iron bars, and going in, caressed the | great, bowed head in her most loving | way. But there was no response. | Then kitjie slowly went away, and {| Paul slept the sleep that knows ne | waking. ! Scores of people who had known | the old lion for nearly fwahty yeuis | had just been visiting him, and hosts | of tiny children had tossed him kisses just as death was coming on. He died | exactly as Superintendent Stephan a night in self last the great iron Paul, the Cine f whom extreme age } mile AALS of Old famed inna: 5 made ® PW wood ks cone to he asleep, with his head between hi) paws, "—New York Telegram, :
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