BEV. DR. TALMAGE. THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY DISCOURSE. Subject: A Worldwide Evileilesidence In Hotels Condemned Wholesome Influ. ences That Surround Life in a Private HomewChildren Get in Bad Company. ’ {Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1899.) Wasmxarox, D, C. (Special).—Home life versus hotel lifg is the thems of Dr. Tal mage's Sermon for [o-day, the disadvan. tages of a life spent at more or less tem- porary stopping places being sharply con- trasted with the blessings that are found in the real home, however humble. The text is Luke x., 34, 85: “And brought him to an inn and took care of him. And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence and gave them to the host and sald unto him, Take care of him; and what- soever thou spendest more, when I ceme again I will repay theo." This is the good Samaritan paying the hotel bill of a man who had been robbed and almost killed by bandits. The good Samaritan bad found the unfortunate on a lonely, rocky road, where to this very day depredations are sometimes committed upon travelers, and bad put the injured man into the saddle, while this merciful and well-to-do man had wulked till they get to the hotel, and the wounded man was ut to bed and cared for. It must have een a very superior hotel in its accommo- dations, for, though in the country, the landlord was pald at the rate of what in our country would ba #4 or #5 a day, a penny being then a day's wages and the two pennies paid in this case about two days’ wages, Moreover, it was one of those kind-hearted landlords who are wrapped up in the happiness of their guests, be cause the good Bamaritan leaves the poor, wounded fellow to his entire eare, promis ing that when he came that way again he ¥ould pay all the bills until the invalid got weil. Hotels and boarding houses are necessi- ties. In very ancient times they were un- known, because the world had compara tively few inhabitants, and those were not much given to travel, and private hospital- ity met all the wants of sojourners, as when Abraham rushed out at Mamre to in- vite the three men to sit down to a dinner of veal, as whon the people were possitive- ly commanded to be given to hospitality, as in many places in the east these ancient customs are practiced to-day. But we have now hotels presided over by good land- lords and boarding houses presided over by excewllent host or hostess {n all neighbor- hoods, villages and cities and it {8 our con. gratulation that those of our land surpass all other lands. They rightly become the permanent residences of many Jeeps, such as those who are without families, such as those who business keeps them migratory, such as those who ought not, for various reasons of health or peculiarty of efrcum- stances, to take upon themselves the cares of housekeeping. But one of the great evils of this day Is found in the fact that a large population of our towns and cities are giving up and have given up their homes and taken apartments, that they may have more free. dom from domestic duties and more time for social life and because they like the whirl of publicity better than the quiet and privacy of a residence they can call their own. The lawful use of these hotels and boarding-houses is for most people while they are in transitu; but as a terminus they are in many cases de- moralization, utter and complete. That is the point at which families innumerable have begun to disintegrate, There never has been a time when so many families, healthy and abundantly able to support and direct homes of their own, have struck tert and taken permanent abode in these gablic establishments, In these public caravansaries, the demon of goselp is apt to get 1ull sway. All the boarders run dally the gantlet of general Irspection—how they look when they come down in the morning and when they get in at night, and what they do for a living, and who they receive as guests in their rooms, and what they wear, and what they do not wear, und how they eat, and what they eat, and how much they eat, and how Jittie they eat. If a man proposes in such a place to be isolated and reticent and alone, they will begin to guess about him: Who is he? Where did he come from? How jong is be going to stay? Has he paid his board? How much does he pay? Perhaps be has committed some erime and does not want to be known, Theres must be some- thing wrong about him or he would speak. The whole house goes into the detedtive business. They must find out about him. They must find out about him right away. If he leave his door unlocked by accident, be will find that his rooms have been in- pected, his trunk explored, his letters folded differently from the way they were folded when he put thém away. ho is be? is the question asked with intenser in- terest, until the subject has become sn monomania. The simple fact ia that he fs ® nobody in particular, but minds his own BR usiness, One of the worst damages that come from the herding of so many people into boarding-bouses and family hotels fs in- flieted upon children. It is only another way of bringing them upon the commons, While you have your own private house ou ean, for the most part, control their rompanionshio and their whereabouts, but py twelve yeurs of age in these public re. pris they will have picked up all the bad hings that ean be furnished by the prart. Int minds of dozens of yoople. They will erhear blasphemies, and see quarrels, bd get precocious in sin, and what the artender does not tell them the porter or jostler or Beliboy will, Besides that the children will go out into is world without the restraining, anchor. ng, steadying and all eontrolling memory of a home, From that none of us who have been blessed ol such memory have es. caped. It grips a man for eighty years, it he lives so long. it pulls him baek from doors into which he otherwise would enter, It smites him with contrition in the ve midst of his dissipations. As the fish, al. ready surrounded by the long wide net, swim out to sea, thinking they can go as far as they please, and with gay toss of silvery scale they defy the sportsman on the beach, and after awhile the fishermen begin to draw in the pet, hard over hand, and hand over hand, and it is an long while before the captured fins bogin to feel the net, and then they dart this way and that, hoping to get out, but find themselves approaching the shore, and are brought up to the very feet of the captors, so the memory of an eariy home sometimes seems to relax and Jot men out farther and farther from God, and farther and farther fom shore, five years, ten yoars, twenty yedrs, thirty years: but some day they find an irresistible mesh drawing them back, and they are com. polled to retreat from their prodigality and wandering: and though they make Susperate effort to eweape the impression, and try to dive deeper down in sin after nwhile are brought elear back and eid upon the Rock of Ages, If it be possivle, O father and mother! ¥ Jot your sous and daughters go out into the world under the semiomnipotent mem- ory of a good, pure home. About your two or three rooms in a boarding house, or a family hotel, you ean cast no such glorions | sanctity, They will think of theses publie | earavansaries as nn early stopping place, malodorous with old victuals, coffees per. nally steaming and ments In everinsc. ing stew or broil, the alr sureharged with earbonie acid, snd corridors, along which f drunken boarders come staggering at 1 eek in the morning, rapping at the tll the affrighted wifes lets them in, 0 pot be guilty of the sacrilege or blas- ? of ealling such a place a home, Bome ia four walls Inclosing one ly with Identity of interest and a from outside io on 80 com. W tering except by permission—bolted and barred and chained against all outside in. quisitiveness. The phrase so often used in the law books and legal ofrcles is might. ily sugeestive—avery mun’s house is his castle, as much so as though it had draw. bridge, porteullis, redoubt, bastion and armed turret, Even the officer of the law may not enter to perve a writ, except the door be voluntarily opened unto him; burs glary, or the invasion of If, a crime so offensive that the law clushes its iron jaws on any oné who attempts it. Unless it be ecessary to stay lor longer or shorter time in family hotel or boarding house d there are thousands of instances n" which it is necessary, as showed you at the Dbeginning-—-unless in this exceptional case, let neither wife nog pugbpnd consent to such permanent residence. a md Resdihniag,, The probability is that the wife will have to divide ber husband’s time with public smoking or reading room or with some coquettish spider in search of unwary flies, hy if you do not entirely lose your hus. band, it will be hecause he is divinely pro- tected from the disasters that have svheimed thousands of husbands, with as good intentions as yours, Neither should the husband, without imperative reason, consent to such a iife unless he is sure bis wile can withstand the temptation of so- cial dissipation which sweeps aeross sugh places with the force of the Atlantie Ocean when driven by a September equinox, Many wives give up their homes for these public residences, so that they may give their entire time to operas, theatres, balls, recepions and levees, and they are in a perpetual whirl, like a whip top spinning round and round asd round very prettily until it loses its i and shoots off in- to a tangent, But the difference is, in one oases it {8 a top, and in the other a soul. Besides this there is an assiduous aceu- mulation of little things around the pri- vate home, which in the aggregate make a great attraction, while the deniten of one of these public residences {s apt to say: “What Is the use? I have no place to keep them if I should take them.” Mementos, bric-a-brao, curiosities, quaint chair or cozy lounge, upholsteries, pictures and a thousand things that acerets in a home are discarded or neglected because thers {a no homestead in which to arrange them, And yet they are the case in which the pearl of domestio happiness is set, You can never become as attached tothe appointments ol a boarding-house or family hotel as to those things that you can eall your own and are associated with the different members of your household or with scenes of thrillin import in your domestic history. Blesses they have been gathering, until every figure in the carpet, and every panel of dow has a chirography of its own, speak- us awhile, What a sacred place it becomes when one can say: “‘In that room such a one was born; in that bed such a one died; last evening prayer; here I sat to greet my son as he came back from sea voyage; that was father's cane; that was mother's rock- ing chair!" congress of reminiscences! The public residence of hotel and board. ity. such a table, No one wants to run such a ism. Unless you have a home of your own you will not be abies to exercise the best rewarded of all the graces. For exercise of this grace what blessing came to the Shunammite {n the restoration of her son to life because she entertained Elisha and to the widow of Zarephath in the perpetual oll well of the miraculous eruse because she fed a hungry prophet, and to Ratab in the preservation of her life at the demoli- spies, and to Laban in the formation of an interesting family relation because of his rescue from the destroyed olty because of bis entertainment of the angels, and to Mary aud Martha and Zaccheus in spiritual and to Publius in the {sland of Melits in the bealing of his father because of the enter. blessiogs from generation to generation becsuse their doors sw the enlargiog, ennobling, divine grace of hospitality! Young married man, as soon as you ean, buy such a piace even if you have to pat on it a mortgage reaching from base to CAP stones, The much abused mortgage, which is ruin to a reckiess man, to one prudent and provident is the beginniag of a com- petency and a fortune for the reason he will not be satisfied until be bas paid it off, readiating and economies until then. Deny vourself ail superfiuities and all luxuries until you can say, “Everything in thif Bouse is mine, thauk God-—every iimber, every brick, every foot of plumbing, every doorsiil.” Do not have vouretiidren born lo a board. ing house, and do not yourself be buried from one, Have a place where your abil dren can shout and sing and romp without being overhauled for the racket. Have a kitchen where you can do something toward the reformation of evil cookery and the lessening of this nation of dyspectios, As Napoleon lost one of his great battles by an attack of indigestion, 30 many men have such a daily wrestie with the food swallowed that they have no strength jaf for the battle of lite, and, though your wife may know bow to play on all musieal instruments and tival & prima donna, she is not well educated unless she can boll an Irish potato and vroil a mutton ehop since the diet sometimes decides the fate of tam- ilies and nations, Have a sitting room with at least one easy chair, even though you have to take turns at sitting in it, and books out of the public library or of your own purchase for the making of your family intelligent, and ahah beats and guessing matches, with an occasional blind man’y buff, which which is of all games my favorite. Rouse up your home with ail styles of innocent mirth and "gather up in your children’s nature a reservoir of exuberance that will pyar down refreshing streams when life gots parched, and the dark days come, and the lights go out, and the laughter is smothered into a sob, First, last and all the time have Christ in your home, Julius Cassar calmed the fears of an aflrighted boatman who was rowing in a stream by saying, “So long ns Cesar is! with you in the same boat, no harm ean happen.” And whatever storm of adversity or bereavement or poverty may strike your home, all is well as long as you have Clirist the King on boned Make your home so farreachiog in its in. fivence that down to the last moment of your ehildren’s life you may hold them with a heavenly charm. Al seventy-six veara of age the Demosthenes of the American Senate lay dying at Washiong- ton—I mean Henry Clay, of Kentucky. His pastor sat at his bedside, ana “the oid man eloquent,” after a Joug and exciting public life, transatiantic and clsatiantic, was back again in the scenes of his boyhood, and he kept saying in his dream over and over again, “My mother, mother, mother!’! May the paren. tal influence we exert bo not only poten tind, but holy, and so the home on enith bn the vestibule of our howe In heaven, In which place may we all mestdather, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, grandfather, genndmother and grandehild, and the entire group of precious ones, ol whom we must ny in the words of trans. porting Charles Weasley: One family we dwell In him, One ehures shove, bhenenth, Though now div Jud by the streams The narrow stream of death; One army of the vig God, To His command we bow; : Part of the vost have erossed the food Aud part are crossing now, | THE KEYSTONE STATE, News Gleaned from Various Parts. Latest —— BULLETS BY CUPID. Allentown Youth's Love for a Neighbor's Wite Led to Tragedy—S8Shot Her and Kilted Himself Woman Tells the Core tween Them~Uther Live News, Sr —— A tragedy of extraordinary interest oc- curred at Allentown, when Charles Konuss, 6 mere Ind of 10 years, shot the woman he loved, Mrs. Ella Diefenderfer, and then snuffed out his own life, The young woman, who is 26 years old, and has a husband and two children, will recover, but the devoted lover expired instantly, having fired a bullet into bls own bealp. At the OQoroner's ip. quest Mrs, DioToadsrior told tnblushingly of the intrigua she had carried on with Knauss for two years, meeting him fre- quently in secret places, Even after her husband had discovered the intimacy, the couple persisted in the stolen sweets that finally Jured them both listo the dark shadow of murder and sulelde. This Is the story of their love acd its ending: — Knauss worked for his father, Alvin Knsues, a painter, The Koausses and Diefenderfers ware near neighbors, and an lotimacy sprung up between young Knauss and Mrs, Diefenderfer. The pair frequently met at the paint shop lu the rear of the Koauss lot, Neighbors told Diefenderfer of the matter, and be remonstrated with bis wife, and also informed Knauss’ father, For a time they were not seen together much. But lately they renewed their fotimaey, and yousg Kuoause, It is stated, threatened to shoot Dletenderfer in order to get him out of the | way. Near miduight, Lewis Dillinger heard | two pistol shots and later was called from i bed by Morgan Foeht, a neighbor, who sald i Mrs, Dietenderier bad been shot. The two went to the D efenderfer home and found { the woman hieeding from a wound in the | left side of her head. To the mes she sald that Koauss had shot her while they were in the back yard of her home. At the Inquest, however, she admitted that the shooting j took place in the paint shop of the elder {| Knauss. The Lullet entered the woman's | bond bebind the loft ear and bad taken a downward course, and thes upward, follow- ing the muscles of the face until the nasal { bone was resched. The top of the bone | was splintered and the bullet lodged poarby. The men then searched for Koauss and { found bim dead in the paint shop. The Coroner was at onos notified. The priseipal | witness was Mee, Diefenderfer. She testi. fled that for two years sabe had been intl | mate with Knauss and frequently met bim {in the paiot shop. After 11 o'clock she went to mest Bim alter a8 eall from bim, i Alter they were at Lhe shop for some time 1 { be asked ber to elope with him, This sbe i refused to do, saying she would not jeave {| her family. Then Le said she must sither { live with bim or else be would kill ber and ! ber husband, She still refused to leaves ber | family, whereupon be shot ber, The room was 20 dark that she eculd Bot see the i pistol, and only when the bullet struek her { vhe realized what Bad bappened, She at one ran to her home and while ronning i hoard the shot fired which killed Koause, { Mrs, Diefonderfor Is 8 rather good-looking woman, She is 8 native of Topton, Mere, Dielenderfor's maiden name was Zwoyer. Hhe Las two children, Shot In Expansion Debate William Lasdenberg, a miner, of Parsons, celebrated bis birthday by giving a feast to i apumber of bis friends, Laudenberg got into a beated argument with Cbaries Yale, one of the guests, Yale sald bo was an ex- pansioniat from the head to the soles of ‘his feet, "Then get out of here,” yelled Lauden- berg. Yale refused to go and the bost went { apetalrs and got his rifle. When he com- | manded Yale to go the second time, The | other guests thought Laudenberg was only | jesting and pald little attention. Soon the sound of a shot rang out, and Yale lay on the grass in the back yard with a bullet ju his thigh, It is not thought that the wounds will result fatally, Laudenberg was arrested and Yale taken to the hospital Gas Kxplosion, William Haue, a puddier at Zug's Mill, Pittsburg, was killed and Jacob Bosle, his i beiper, seriously Injored by a gas explosion | at Zag's Rolling Mill. New gas connections were belog made 160 the puddiing furnaces, | when the gas was unaseountably turned on snd ignited ascidentally, Bosle was blown away many feet, and owes bis life to this fact, Haus fell into the pit of the furnace and a curtain of flame coverad him for half a minute, He was takes out sfter the gas had been turased off, and died from the shook and burns, Killed by Eleetrie Shock. Frank G. Robinson, aged 23 years, one of the proprietors of the Bharpavilie Electrie Light Works, was electrocuted In the power house at Sharon, He was Ushreniog s bolt on one of the generators and was reaching neross the machine when his band came In contaet with a charged wire, He sereamed with pate, staggered bLaskward about ten feot and foil gaapiog on the floor, [a three misutes he was dead, Tbe machine regis- tered a voitags of 1330, Robinson was an export electrician and was unmarried, Aged Woman's Fatal Vall, Mrs, Jane Pancoast, aged 00 years, of West Philadelphia, who fell backward down a fight of stairs, died at the Philadelphia Hos pital, No evidevoe of injury was apparent on the woman's body. Tried to Brain Her Captor, Mrs, Susan Sehugard, of Philadelphia, was lodeed In jail ot Reading by Constable F. J. Bchwyer, balng accused of breaking into a house in which furniture which had been levind on was stored by her husband, Osenr Behugard, When Mee, Schugard was placed under arrest she seized a saver kraut stam per and threatened to brain the ofMeer, Vootpads Hold Up Physician, Theres footpads held up Jail Physiolan Tobn P, Haag, st midaight, on Couri Street, in the shadow of the Cotrts House, Willinms. port. As they were about to relieve the Doe. tor of his money avd valuables they heard tomeone coming, whereupon the footpads took alarm and fled, Jabed for Turentent ng Sulelda, neoin BE. Daniels, of | with making threats to De argon Sus Kivens easing before Justies H Bloomsburg, E WArrAan) was THE TOWER OF LONDON, Locking Up 8 Qusint and Asclent Ceremony. The main guardhouse at the Tower, which has just been pulled down, was hard by the Bloody Tower, It is at this spot, says the London Graphic, that the quaint and ancient ceremony of locking up the tower is nightly per- formed, as It has been for centuries. A few minutes before 11 o'clock the head warder, or yeoman porter, as he is properly styled, clothed in a red cloak, carrying a portentous bunch of keys, and accompanied by another warder carrying a lantern, appears in front of the main guardhouse and roars out, “Escort, keys!" The sergeant turns cut with some of the men, and follows the yeoman to the outer gate, the whole party being challenged by all the sen- tries with “Who goes there?” and the answer is simply “Keys.” The gates being locked the keys are brought back to the main guard, Here the sentry stamps and roars out, “Who goes there?” "Keys," Is the reply. “Whose keys?” “Queen Victoria's keys.™ “Advance, Queen Victoria's keys And all's well, ' “God bless Queen Vietoria!” cries the yeoman porter. “Amen,” responds the main guard, “Present arma!” cries the officer on duty, and amid the rattle of the salite be kisses the hilt of his sword. The yeoman porter marches off with the keys and depesits them in the lieuten- ant's lodgings, and from that time throughout the livelong night you can only circulate within the tower pre- cinets if you know the countersign, — cu ————— - The Wear and Tear. *1 suppose you feel that you have a great deal of fighting on your hands.” remarked the noncombatant Tagal “No,” answered the leader of the Fill. pino retreat, "we don’t notice it on our hands so much; but it's pretty hard on our feet."—Washington Star. ou 2 And is it not due to nervous exhaustion? Things always look so much brighter when we are in good health, How can you bave courage when suffer. ing with headache, nervous prostration and great physical weakness ? Would you not like to be rid of this depression of spirits ? How? By removing the cause. 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