DR- TALMAGESSERMON- : | In Good Humor With Our Lot. “Re content with such things as ye Have. Heb, 13: 5, ~ IF I sbou!d usk some one. Where fe Beoxiyn ti-iay? he would say, at Brighton Bouch, or East Hamotoy, ow Shelter Is'and. Where is New Werk, to-dun? At Long Brunch. Where is Phila ‘elphia? Cape May. Where is Bot? At Martha's Vine ward. Whereis Virginia? At the Slphur Spriuse. Where the great maltitude from a'l parts of the land? Ag Saratogn, the modern Bethesda, where the angel of health ie ever stir rimg th: waters. Bat, my friends. the Bargost mu'ti rade are at howe, detaio- ed by business or circumstances Ax wg them all the newspaper men, the Hardest wo: ked and the | ast com. pensated; city railroad emplo ees, and feery masters and the police, and the Beas of thousands of clerks and mer- chants waitiug for their turu of ab- sance, and households with an invalid wu Pwo, De moved, and others Imodred by BPRINGENT CIRCUMSTANCES, sud the great multitude »f well-t)-do who stay at home because they home better than any other place, vefusiog to go away simply because it isthe fashion tv go. When the ex- press wagon, with its mountain of traeks, directed to the Catskills or Niagara, goes through the streets, we stand at our window envious and im- patient, and wonder why we cannot 80 as well a; others. Fools that we axe, a8 thougn one could not be as hap- Py at home as any where else. Oar araadfathers and grondmothers had as gool a time as we have, long be- fora the first spring was bored at Sar- atogs, or the first deer shot in the Ad- irondacks. Tuey made their wedding- tour to the next farmhouse, or liviog im New York, they celebrated the event by an extra walk on the Bat i, the genuine American is not Happy until he is going somewhere, the passion is su great that there sre Christian people, with their fami- Wes, detained in the city, who come met to the house of God, trying to give people tha idea that they are out of Sewn, leaving the door-plate unscours ed for the same reason, aud for two months keeping the front shutters closed while they sit in the back part of the house, the thermometer atnine- ep? My friends, if it is best for us to galetusgo and be happy. 1fitis test. for us to stay at home, let us stay at home aad be Lappy. There is a great deal of GOOD COMMON SENSE i= Pual’s advice to the Hebrews: Be eomtent with such things as ye have, To. be content is to be in good humor with our circumstances, not picking a quarrel with our obscurity, our pover- E§, oF our social position. There are four or five grand reasons why we sould be content with such things as we have. The first reason that I mention as leading to this spirit, advised in the tax, ie the consideration thst the poor- est of ws have all that is indispensable im lite. We make great ado about eer hardships, bat how little we talk of oar blessings. Health of Body, which is given in largest quantity to thse who have been petted and fond- led. aad spoiled by fortune, we take a8 & matter of course. Rather bave 8is loxury, and have it alone, than, - wih at it, look out of 8 palace win- dow apon parks of deer stalking be- tween fountsios and statuary. These people sleep sounder on a straw mat- tress than bt I ever gave & man He who trades that off palaces of the earth is ine cheated. We look back atthe the last Napoleon* but who ven his Versailles, and f with them we had to I 7 E ¥ 4 it Be g ; some one it isn’ tthe gross. I covet, but it 1s the of an artistic and intel. feetual taste. Why, { YOURAVE THE ORIGINAL Crom which these What is a sunset spirit of contentment, that our happiness 4s not nde upon outward circumstances, You see people happy aod miserable smid all circumstances, Ina family wher. the Inst loaf is on the table, and the last stick on the fire, you sometimes find a cheerful confidence in God; while in very fine place, you will see and hear discord sounding her war-+ boop, and hospitality freezing to death in a cheerless parlor. I stopped one day on Broadway, at the head of Wall Street, at the foot of Trinity Church, to see who seemed the happiess people passing. I judged, trom their looks THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE were not those who went down ioto Wall Street, for they had on their brow the anxiety of the dollar they expected to make; nor the people who came out of Wall Street, for they had on their brow the aoxiety of the dol lar they bad lost; nor the people who swept by in splendid equipage, for they met a carriage that was floer than theirs, The happiest person in all tbat crowd, judging from the coun tenance, was the woman who sat at the apple-stand, koitting. I believe real happiness oftener looks out of the window of an hamble home, than through the operaglass of the gilded byx of a theatre, I find Nero growling on a throne. I find Panl singing lo a dungeon. 1 find King Abab going to bed at noon, through melancholy. while near by is Naboth contented in the possession of a vinyard, Hamon, prime minister of Persia, frets himself almost to death, because a poor Jew will not tip his hat: and Ahithopel, one of the greatest lawyers of Bible times, through fear of dying, bangs himself. The wealthiest man, forty years ago, in New York. when congratulated over his large estate, replied, Ab, yon don’t know how much trouble I have in taking care of it! Byron declared, in bis last hours, that he had not seen more than twelve happy days in all his life. I do not believe that he had seen twelve mioutes of thorough sat- isfaction. Napoleon I, said, I turn with disgust from the cowardice and selfishness of man. I hold life a hor- ror: death is repose. What I have suffered the last twenty days is beyond human comprehension, hile, on the other hend, to show HOW ONE MAY BE HAPPY amid the the most fiaadvaningiom circumstances, just after the Monarch had beea wrecked in the English Channel, a steamer was cruise ing aloog in the darkness, when the captain heard a song, & sweet song, coming over the water, and he bore down toward that voice, and found it was a Christian woman on a plank of the wrecked steamer, singiog to the tune of St. Martins: “Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly, While the billows near me roll, While the tempest still is high.” The heart right toward God and man, we are happy. The heart wrong toward God and wan, we are unhap- Py- Another reason why we should come to this spirit incolcated in the text, is the fact that all the difference of earthly condition are transitory, The houses you build, the land you culture, the places in which you bart. er, are soon 10 go ioto other hands. However hard you may have it now, if you are a Christian THE SCENE WILL 8OON END, Pain, trial, persecution, never knock at the door of the grave. A coffla made cat of pine boards is just as gocd a resting-place as one made out of silver-mounted mahogany or rose- wood. Go down among the resting- places of the dead, and you will find that though people there had a great difference of worldly circumstances, pow they are all alike uoconscious, The band that greeted the senator, sod the President, and the King, is still as the band that hardened on the the mechanic's hammer, or the mana- tscturer's wheel. It does not make avy difference now, whether there is 8 plain stone above them, from which the traveller pulls aside the weeds to read the name, or a tall shaft spring- ing.into the heavens as though to tell their virtoes to the skies, IN THAT SILENT LAND there are no titles for great men, and there are no ramblings of chariot. wheels, and there is never heard the foot of the dance. The Egyptian guano which is thrown on the fields in the East for the enrichment of the soil, is the dust raked out from the sepalchres of kings aud lords and mighty men. O the chagrin of those men if they bad ever sxnown that in the afler sges of the world they would bave been called Egyptisn gua- ao Of how much worth wow is - the crown of Cesar! Who bids for it? Who cares any thing about the Am- phitryronie Council or the laws of Ly- ' the Germun seeptre {nto the havd of Joseph, and Philip comes down off the Spanish throne to let Ferdinand go ov, House of Aragon. house of Hapsburg, house of Stuart, house of Bourbon, quarrelling about every- thing else, but agreeing in this: The fashion of this world passeth away, Bat baveall these dignitaries gone? Chan they not be called back? I have b2en to assemblages where 1 have beard the roll called, and mary dis- tinguished men have answered. If I should CALL THE ROLL to-day of some of those mighty ones who have gone, I wonder if they would not answer. [I will call the roll. I will call the roll of the kings first: “Alfred the Great! William the Conquerorj Frederick II! Louis XVI! Noanswer. Iwill call the roll ofthe poets: Robert Southey! Thomas Campbell! John Keets! George Crabbe! Robert Barus! No answer. I will call the roll of artists: Michael Augelo! Paul Veronese! William Tar- ner! Chrlstophar Wren! No answer, Eyes closed. Earsdesf. Lips #lent. Hands palsied, Sceptre, pencil, pen, sword, put down forever. Why should we struggle for such baubles! Another reason why we should cul- ture this spirit of cheerfuldess is the fact that God knows what €s best for his creatures, You know what is Best ror your child. He thinks you are not as liberal with him as you ought to be, He criticises your dis- cipline, but you look gver the whole field, and you, loviog that child, do what in your deliberate judgment is best for him. Now, God is the best of fathers. Sometimes His children think that He is bard on them, and and be is not gs liberal with them as He might be. But children do not know as much as a father. I can tell you why you are not affluent, and WHY YOU HAVE NOT BEEN SUCCESSFUL. It is because you cannot stand the temtation. If your path had been smooth, you would have depended up- on your own surefootedness; but God roughened that path, 00 you have to take hold of His hand. If the weath er had been mld, you would Lave loitered along the water-courses; but at the first howl of the storm yeu quickened your puce heavenward, and wraoned around you the robe of =» Bavioar's righteousness. What have I done! says the wigat- sheaf to the frrmer, what have I done, that you beat me so hard with Your flail?! The farmer makes no answer, but the rake takee off the sraw, aod the mill blows the chafl to the wind, and the golden grain falls down at the foot of the wind-mill. After awhile, the straw looking down from the mow upon the golden grain banked up on either side of the floor understands why the farmer beat the wheat-sheafl with the flail, Who are those before the throoe? The avswer came: These are they who, out of great tribulation, had their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb. Would God that we could understand that our trials are THE VERY BEST THING for us. If we bad an appreciation of that trath, then we should know why it was that John Noyra, the martyr in the very midst of the flame, reach- ed down and picked up one of the faggots that was consuming him, aed Kissed it, sud said, Blessed pe God for the time when I was born for this preferment! Toey who suffer with Him on earth, shall be glorified with Him io heaven. Be content, then, with such things ss you have. * J » * * Seven thousand people, in Christ's time, went into the desert. They were the most IMPROVIDENT PEOPLE I ever heard of They deserved to starve. They might have taken frod enough to last them until back. Nothing did they take. A lad, who had more wit than all of them put together, asked his mother that morning for some loaves of bread and some fishes, They were put into his tobe He went oat into the desert. From this provision the seven thousand were fed, and the more th ate the larger the loaves w, until the provision that the boy ght in the satchel was maltiplied so he could not have carried the fragments home in six satchels, Ob, you say, times have chauged, and the day of miracles has gove. | reply what God did by hy Hedoes now in some other way, and by natural Jaws. I have been young, ssid David, and now am old: yet have 1 never seen the righteous forsaken. nor his seed begging bread. It inhigh time that you people who are fretting shout worldly circumstances, and who are fearing that you are coming to want, understood that the oath of the Bier nal God isinvolved in the fact that you are to baveenoughtoeat and to » * * Ld * Let us ull remember. if we are Christiane, that we are going after awhile, whatever be our ¢' reumstances now, to ha : of Edward B. Rhoads, Who Was Tried for Murder at Sunbury in 1865 and Convicted. — On a Sees ond Trial He was Acquitted, It is learned from the Sunbury Daily that Edward B. Rhoads died in Shamokin Sunday, July 20, quietly passing away to his future bowe in the great uvknown without a eiruggle, yet he came very nearly meeting fie doom through the strong arm of the law in the yard of the Northumber- land county jail twenty-three years ago. For years the people of that county have lost sight of Rhoads, and his name is uoknown to many, or the story of his life, butin 1865 everybody in the coouty was interested in his fate, and his name was on every lip. There was never a case tried in the county courts that was so celebrated and noone that crested such widespread interest a8 the famous Rhosds murder trial, THR CHIME. Lewis Chamberlain lived with Lis wife on a farm situated among the hills of Shamokiu township, three miles south-west of Paxinos. He had married her in August, 1862, and she was his third wife, Bie was a shor, heavy woman with a clab fool and moved slowly and awkwardly, On the 24th of Séptemb:r, 1864, her hus band left hom® in the morning about 7 o'clock te come to Sunbury on business. About 10 o'clock herdaugh- ter, by a previous marriage, who was living with her, left the house to go to a Sunday school picnic, three miles away, and this was the last time she was seen slive. When her daoghter left Mrs. Chamberlain was busy bak. ing bread and the dough was being mixed in the tray. In the afternoon Mr. Chamberlain returned home; when pearing his own house he met Mary Tharp and her son, who he in- | vited to stop. They entered the house and failed to discover any ove. confusion reigoed supreme, the draw: ers and closets were rapsacked, $40 in fold and §90 in baok notes missing. he money was in an old-fashioned hair-trank, the lock of which had been broken off with seversl vicious kicks, the papers in the trunk were in confusion, and on the front of it was the perfect impression of the heel of the man's boot, as if made in wax, Chamberlain sent over to Yeage:'s, bis next door neighbor, and pip Yeager came. From the back of the house a road led to & strip of woods a bundred yards distant. On the edge of this strip was found in the sofl clay the print of Mm. Chamberlain's shoe. aud a few yerde further on was dis covered her dead body; by ber side was a gun belonging to the house. It was evident from thé blackened face that the gun was discharged at short range, the load had entered the face on the right side above the mouth and death followed the shot with the rapidity the echo foliowed the report. RHOADS ARRESTED AND TRIED. The faveral wok piace oo Monday aod Edward B. Ruoads, who had married Lewis Chamberlain's dsugh- ter by a former wife, was among th mourners. While the earth was fall ing on the coffin of the dead woman a consiable arrested Rhoads and 100k him to Shamokin before "Squire Lake charged with the high crime of mur. | der. A warrant was issued to search his bouse snd person, and in bis pock- ets was found forty-five dollars in money, and he refased to make any explanation as to whereit was obtained, His boots were taken from him, to which be offered no objections, and he was brought to Sunbury and lodged in jail, be trial was held in the old court house, commenciog January 3, 1865, before President Judge Jordan, and Associates Shipman sod Tarner. The prisoner was represented by J, W. got | Comly, of Danville, and 8. P. Wolver- ton aud J. B. Packer, of Banbury, District Astomsey Sol. Malick, Geo. W. Zigler, William M. Rockefeller, of Sunbury, and William W, Lawson, of Milton, represcoted the Common- wealth, The court house was packed from the commencement to the final render ing of the verdict, and popular opinion was almost unanimously against the ner. The bench was crowded with ladies and a greater part of the bar was surrendered w their use. Rhoads’ wife sat by his side during the trying ordeal, as did his aged father and mother, CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. The evidence was eatirely cireum- stantial. Edward B. was em- ployed and lived at the Lancaster col lHiery, two miles from Shamokin, At the commencement of the war he had enlisted in the Ninth Illinois Infantry, and served notil Au 21st, 1862. y Injured in a In August, 1563, he Chamberlain, It Dire | sin's, his wife belug with him, He teft there at 9 o'clock on Baturday morning, saying he would take dinoer in Shamokin, He was off red a ride, but he refused. He was next seen by # boy golog in the direction of Lewis Chamberlain's and potion the direction of Shamokin ; at this time he was only one-fourth of a mile away from Chamberiain’s, This was at 10 o'clock and io belf an hoor Absoiem Yeager heard the report of sa gun io the woods in which the body of Mrs. Chamberlain was found. At 1 o'clock Rhoads was seen on the sueets of Shamokin, eight miles distant, THE BOOT HEEL. The 8 rong point in the case was the mark on the trank. heel eorresponded exactly with the heel of Rhonds’ boot, every nail in place, =o the prosecution claimed, and they placed oh emakers on the stand to testify that it was impowsible for two hend-made boots (0 correspond #0 that the nails did not vary the slightest part of an inch. The de- fense proved a strong alibi, the good character of the secased, and placed shoemukeérs 0a the stand to prove that it was possible for boots to be made slike. The three lawyers for the against the opinion of the public, The night before Mr, Comly made bis speech be walked the floor of his room in the hotel all night, Mr. Wolver ton did not average an hour an night of sleep during the five days trial. Mr. Ziegler, of the prosecution, made the finest speech of his long career at the bar, over four hours in length. The jury retired vs the eveningshades were leogihening into night (o bring {in their verdict at the ringing of the | bell. In Mr. Wolverton's office were | gathered the wife, father and mother of the accused and his three counsel | The streets were crowded with people | restlessly pacing backward and for { ward, all demanding the conviction of {the prisoner. At a few minutes of {twelve the court bouse bell sounded {forth its wild votes on the night air. In a minute the building was packed | to the door and amid the hush of the grave the jury announced, and found {the prisoner guilty of murder in the { fire! dagree. : THR NEW TRIAL i Oo the 15th of March, 18085, the | motion for a pew trial was argeed, {and Judge Jordan hed written his | opinion granting it. He tured to {Jedge Shipman and said ke had writ. | ten bis opinion granting a new trial, [Judge Shipman remarked he was op- peed to it. Judge Tarner voted with Jdge Shipman aud for the first time {in Rennsylvania a Presidiog Judge | wk overruled in a decision fm a mur- der case. Rhoads was then called be- {fore the Court and Judge Jordan said: “Yoo, Edward B. Rhoads, be taken hence to the place whence you came, within the jail of the county of Northumberland, aod from thence to the place of exeoation, within the walls {or yard of said jail, and that you be | banged by the peck until you are | dead, and may God have mercy on I your soul.” The case was then taken {to the Sepreme Court sud that body | reversed the decision of the court be (low and sent it back for another trial. THE SECOND TRIAL was commenced Janovary 5th, 1866 {and ended on the 11th. It create’ almost as much exnite- ment as the first and ended in the ae: quittal of the prisoner. During the second trial public opinion was di vided, wig changing in favor of the prisover. The attorneys engaged in the case made their reputations by it, it was so ably conducted, When the jary brought in a verdict of acquittal Rbeads arose and sat tempted to address the Court. He trembled wiih excitement and broke down io less than two minutes. Be- fore leaving the court room all the parties shook bands aod their promises with one another to forget the past were sealed with copious tears, Between the two trials Mr. Cham- berlain on a Sanday afternoon found some of the gold and silver on the threshing floor of his barn, which bad been taken from the trunk. A note was aiso found, stating that Rhoads was pot guilty of the crime, , After the acquittal Rhoads went to Shamokin and for many years was employed as outside boss of one of the collieries. The past two years he bas retired from work. At the time of his death he was sixtydwo years of age. He always stood well in the Whatever else we dy, let us have our lines rightly Isid, to the end that we, ourselves, and all know ’ i Rn ph ris orth’s, ner Trevorton, On Feidey night be staid wv Calem Chamber: The mark of the | prisoner battled long and earnestly | {vile Thin is ths doctrine embrace : the demnid for “a tan for rev ume oll. ! Becond, thay the proteciive theory, that is, the idea that the Government has the right wo interpose its authori- ty to help directly build up noy class of business interests, is ui coostitu. tional in Jaw, aud false in priociple, The sotithesis to these propositions is wot vecesarily free (rade, which, [literally consiraed, is the abolition of leustoms duties snd the raising of the necessary mvueys to sustain the Goy- ernment by direct taxation, The objective point, therefore, is not free trade, but fieer trade, looking 10 the aliimaie overthrow of the doctripe sud the system of restriction, mis called prouction. That doctrive and * i8y8'cw lg the cornerstone of Paternal Government. It is the parest of us- told material corruption and moral | debauchery. 1: enables the rich to | plunder the poor, It projects 56 mom {in bis labor, or Lis wages. #8 Jo the | most transper nt of fravds aud swind- {lere: We have yet to fad & man nd - voesiing it, pure aud simpie, who had Bol somcwhere so iolerest in some business either drawing, or imagining that it drew, a bounty through the tariff. As ling 4s we live, and wher- ever it appenrs, we shall asi! aod | X pose it, i | The twaddle about “ioeidental pro. tection” we brush aside, as the smug- gled conceit of the cowara, who has not the courage 10 eomwmit grand larceny, but would pursue the devices | of the pick pocket poder the impres { sion that there bs somethicg respects. ble about petic lafceny. So much for mere docirines, Now, then, let us come to their sp- | plication. lt is one thivg to presch {the gospel. It is another thing 10 pracuce morality. 1: is one thing 10 | condemn a tenement. It is soother thing to remove it. The restrictive sysiem, rotten as IL is, snd wickedly miscalled protection, is the existing system under which we live, and have lived for a quarter of » century. No S80C man, uo man worthy the name of statesman, would dream, or does dream of plucking the foundsicos of this from wuder it, or of proceeding Ww abate its excemes and to lessen its imposition with any rash preeipita- tion. Ou the contrary, the of the President nnfolds sr emineurly | moderate shewe of reform, whilst the Mills bill embodies s most con- servative méamtire of revision—scarce- ly touching the question of protection | at alt>baot looking solely to the re- {toma of the surplus and the reduc- {ton of war taxes, confesedly, of all | men, Woo high. Ove thing at a time. We may de- fer considering how we shail cross the river until we get to it. The question immediately at issue is the surplus. Its extinction involves reduced taxa- tion. The President proposed "that the reduction should come off the customs duties exe uively. That was his general view, and it was ours. The Mills bill, however, coming down to the busioess of legislation, makes the cut from both the Internal sad the Exieinal jaxes. That is a deta) to which, since it is deemed pecessary we agree, and to which the President agrees. But the Mills bill still leaves 8 general average of forty per cent. on imports, and ie thus, self, highly proteciive. Yet we mccept it. We accept it nol for the sake of the pro- tection, but for the sake of the reduc: tion. There is bere, as gverywhere, a divergence between actual snd theoretical policies. Our objective point, let us repest, is not free trade. The manufacturers may uitimately demand free trade. The mob may ultimately force free trade. Bot cur objective point ir that of a statesmanship st once wise in mettiod avd sound in doetrice, em- bodied io the only tariff authorized by the Constitution, a revenue tariff, a tariff exclusively for public pur- and thinks the demand of the ational Democratic Platform of 1884, reaffirmed at Bt. Louis in 1888, as “correctly interpreted” by the President's Let our Democratic friends cease to quibble about terms and phrases. In the foregoing we bave been specific and positive in order that there ma be no mistaking our position, We mean to provoke vo men by our plaia speaking, nor 10 invite any con- Snoesty with those who, though iffes with us, yet sup 1 Natiooal Democratic tekst, The contest in the party is, at least for the present, over. We are in front of the enemy, fd he is no true Democrat who would split any bairs about past differences, or 82k to turn the result at Ho Louis to the personal scoouot or dis ound of anv faction or individual. We are satisfied. If gentlemen on. the «ther side are satisfied, all is welt, If they are not, however, they most quarrel all by themselves, for they will uo quarrel out of us. on |
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