» | SONCBLA G The Steamer Paris ¢, Brown Wrecked at Hermitage, La. sss— The Ninth Mississippi River Dis. aster in Three Weeks, A dispatch from New Orleans, La., says: The ninth steamboat accident 0a the Missis- sippl or its tributaries in this vicinity in the past three weeks has just occurred in the sinking of the Paris C. Brown, of the New Orleans and Ohio River line,near Hermitage, about 160 miles above New Orleans and four miles from Bayou Sara. x The Brown, while passing Hermitage, was signaled by the Steamer Oliver Beirne to land there. The Brown waited for the Beirne to back out. As the latter did so she attempted to land, but struck a snag or some other obstruction, It went completely through her bull, broke her hoz chains in two, the cabin fell in, an! the vessel cols lapsed and became a complete wreck within two or three minutes The shock of the accident aroussd every one in the boat, and the passengers and crew rushed to the front to see what means of es. cape there was for them. Nothing could be done to save the Brown, and it was evident that she would be at the bottom of the river in a very few minutes. The Captain ordered the crew to cut the lifeboats loose and launch them. Fortunately the accident was seen by a resident of Hermitage, William Glass, who happened to be on the river bank at the time. He sprang into his skiff and rowed to the sinking steamer. which was only a few yards from shore. He took the lady passen- gers, chambermaids and others to the land, returned and carried the other passengers ashore and a number of the crew, The river was filled with hozsheads, lum- ber and other wreckage from the steamer, and therefore dificult of navigation. The crew who were not taken off by Glass's skiff endeavored to reach the land by means of these floating articles, but, although the dis tance was very short, nine of them were carried away into midstream by the strong <urrent of the river and drowned One of the passengers, a man named Mitch ell, from Vicksburg. could not be found, and | is supposed to have been locked in his state- room at the time the steamer went down, | The Brown sank within a fe v¥ minutes of the | accident, only tha top of the pilot house and a portion of the “texas” being visible, is a completa loss, and so is her cargo A cabin passenger named Vicksburg: one of the cabin crew named ‘William Mitchell, from Gallipolis, Ohio Iadies’ cabin man William Marshall, of Cincinnati; barber and porter, names unknown, from Cinminnati James Harrison, second pantryman, from Memphis; William Taylor, night watchman, from Cincinnati; John Bo'an, shiner, from | of Cinecin- | of New | Cincinnati: Suel Grey, fireman nati; Abraham Mitchell, Orleans, were lost, The cabin passengerssaved were: Dr. Gra ham and wife of Pawtucket, RL: Messrs Donly and Shafer, and another cabin passen ger and wife, names unknown, of Boston, and Ben Jolly, of Bavou Paul. A lof the crow, ax- Cept as ahove stated. nre saved, One of the bank, but could mud, fell t assistance fireman, into the river and sank before enderad him The Brown or Cincinnati on Friday evening at ok. Her cargo cons of abut 490 tons. mainly sugar and molasses, and she picked up abont 300 tons on the river on ths way up. She had fifteen passengers aboard ber when she left here She was owned by Cartain A. M_Hallldav, of New Orleans, and Captain Chris F. Young, her clerk, who was in command at the time of the accident. She was valued at 825.000, and insured for 814,000 in the in surance agency of George W. Neare, of Cin cinnaty NEWSY GLEANINGS. Fraxce had but a poor 15858 vintage Frexcun mushrooms are becoming very Scarce TrERE are 1809 students in Harvard Uni versity. left 5 o'c sted : LESTUCKY 0 exe mal KESTUCKY reports an excess of female | sancdth perfor mance, population, > y i West VIRGINIANS want their State called | “Kanawha” YeLLow FEVER is rampant at Portau- | Prince, Hayti i Tree are 500) homeless women and girls in New York city EvERY year will have a nine until the year 2000 LAST year 135% people died of delirium tremens in England. Carmporxia’s silk product this season will | not be over 1000 pounds | BixTy-Five German Generals have been | placed on the retired list. ! KxoxviLie, Tenn. claims to be the largest | railway center in the South. | LaAxD in the centre of New Haven, Conn, is worth $1000 per front foot, Tue greyhound Fullerton has been sold at | auction in England for $4250 MAX electric railroad Is to be built from Dover, N. H , to Berwick, Me Tux total exports of American apples this | season is fully 1,000,000 barrels, i PreuMONIA is said to be on the increase | from year to year in the large cities SovTRERxN pig iron is slowly forcing its way into the Pittsburg Penn.) market Tne overheat d flue, as a destroyer of pub- | fic buildings, did not make its customary i record in the autumn of 195%, | Tue boomers are booming Oklahoma again i and expect to move on the Territory on the first of February. Tre United States furnishes seventy-five per cent. of the lard consumed in Canada, Barrooxs and parachutes have been sent to Suakin for the use of the British troops. Tue Connecticut tobacco crop for 1898, though small, was a remarkably good one, Oven 100,000 dogs are used in smuggling along the frontier between France and Bei glum, A wxuw political organization called the “Commune of 15%" has been formed in Parise Tur American Hoclety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is to be duplicated in England, Fon the first time in years the Caar of Russia sent a friendly Christmas greeting to the Pope. # Tux number of war veterans in Vermont is 0571, and the amount yearly paid to them fs $532,010. Tue drinking saloons in Berlin number one to every 112 inhabitants; in Heidelberg one to eighty seven, Jim Conny, the Texas desperad who has murdered nineteen men has at last. en sent to prison for a long term. Tur German srmy omsists of 3518410 com drilled Men not counting the re serves the Labdsturm. 17 is reported that one hundred of the lead. fog business men of Denver, Col, will at- end the inauguration at Washington dressed cowboys Eng are 2900 members of the Michigan I Thief Foclty, and Rig ro Anti-horse did not have a8 oont's worth on Ganan Drona hes 100 Set aud S70 ne where, it Is by in it now | 3 Ske | Miller, from | accounted for and | cabin boys got to the river | not climb up the slippery | PROMINENT PEOPLE. Axxa DickINGON 1s forty-six: 2 Leo XIIL, the Pope, is seventy-oight SECRETARY BAYARD has a strong beut for farming. ber 19, 1805 View-Prestpest-gLect Montox is a Cone gregationalist Graps AAD TON chin Just celebrated his seventy: Bismarck, Gladstone and Disraeli were all born on Friday. Joux Buaur, the English statesman, is graduslly recovering. How, Cravxoxy M, Depew carries a life insurance of $500,000, : PresioesT-rLeetT HARRISON has takon out a life insurance policy. Kuana-Hsv, the young Emperor of China, has thirty cooks and as many doctors in his household. Mr. Sig, the Corean representative at Washington, plays the banjo with consum-~ mate skill. 2 Avrnoxse Davper, the French novelist is nearly sixty yoars of age, but doos not look it by at least ten years ‘ Tuenre are five Grand Dukes Nicholas, three Grand Dukes Michael and two Grand Dukes Alexis, Sergius, George, Alexander and Constantine, Tur bumorists of Congress are Allen, of Mississippi: Tarsney, of Michigan; William E. Mason, of lilinois, and William G. Laid- law, of New York. Victoria Woopnurr has purchased a house in France for $400,000, in which she hopes to found an institution for the free education of women. Fennixaxp pe Lessers was born Novem. Tug only two members of the Congress | of 1530 now living are H. M., Watterson, father of Henry Watterson, and P. F. | Thomas, of Maryland, IT is said that the Sultan of Turkey aspires | to a literary career,and has ordered the post laureate of the Empire to affix the royal sig- | nature to his poems hereafter, Groroe WiLLiax Cunris, editor of Har per's Weekly, is laid up with a lameness caused by water on the knee. The trouble | was brought about by over-exertion in play- | ing tennis last summer. : OsMAx Diya is a Frenchman, or of French descent formerly a merchant at Sua- | kin. His name was Vinet before he abjured it and his religion to marry one of the late Mahdi's numerous daughters. Tur latest story about Henry M., Stanley | is that he is enamored of a charming Phila- | | delphia widow, and that her coldness is of | such a phenomenal degree that it has driven | him again to the burning lands of Africa | Haps SuLyMax Sana, of Constantinople, | who died the other day, was ninety eight | years of age when he took his last wile, and plived tobe 132. He had sixty sons and nine | daughters and seven wives, and survived {| them all The senior lady among the wives of the Justices of the Supremes Court is Mra. Miller, whose social experiences in Washington ox tend back to 182, She is of English parent age, her father having been a Baptist min- ister in Bristol, George W, Winriaus, the historian of | the African race in America, has recently returned from Europe laden with the fruits of a long search through the libraries of the Old World for matter pertaining to Tous siant i'Ouverture, the San Domingan hero i JaMes A. STEWART, the newly elected ! mayor of Griffin, Ga, Is one of the youngest mayors on record, his twenty-second birth | day having been celebrated in August last. | He is the son of Congressruan J. I). Stewart, who was greatly surprised when he heard of his boy's election, Joux Waxaxaxen, the millionaire mer chant prince of Phi adelphia, has a | seated objection to sitting for a portrait. He | bas repeatedly dec! overtures of his | family and friends who are anxious to secure : & counterfeit presentment, and up to the sent time IL is not known that his features ave been transferred to paper in any regu- i ined | lar manner, MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Mae, ALpaxt is Queen Victoria's favorite singer. Ropenr MaNTELL “Mon is presenting { bars” in Canada Prxey's ©“ Adonis” is nearing its two thou Mux Ines 8 ex kLLL, the famous French con vering from a paralytic stroke Invis sanew version of “Macbeth' at the | London Lyceum was only a partial success, Mur, MODIRSKA refused a week Lo join the a salary of $150) Booth Barrett combina { Non Tux Duchess of Cambridge pays a well known vocalist $4000 a year to sing to her daily AT the Theatre au der Wien, canry ’ 2 te Yoomen of the Guard be sung®in German, Vienna, is announced to FATT charges more every year for her ab. solute farewell warbling. She is now singing i: England for $500 a night, Tie famous tenor Masini is to receive the comfortable sum of £5 00% for a season of Italian opera in Duenos Ayres Mary Axpensox is understood to bave concluded an engagement for another Ameri. can tour under H. E. Abl ey's management Mur BensxuArDT has declined an offer of $4000 from the Sultan of Turkey for a single performance at his palace at Constantinople Josgrn WHeerLOCK has been engaged to jay Macduff to the Macbeth of Charles oghlan and the Lady Macbeth of Mm Langtry. i The oldest musical society in the world, | the Antlitzgeselischalt has just celebrated its SNth anniversary at Hi Uall, in Switeor land, with great eclat AOREEARLE to the wishes of the German Emperor the theatres have resolved to abol ish all Freoch theatrical terms which have crept inte (Le language, i B® Eowanp Foy, who bas recently made such | a hit in New York, is the only comedian of prominerce who Lallles recogaition by his “make-up” on the stage. Bana Jewrrr, who used to be leading lady | at the Union Square Theatre, New York | city, is recovering ber health, and will reap- | pear on the stage next season, Runpgxerais has written a cantata to cele. preservation of the Coar and Czarina in the recent railway accident, It wiil be given in Bt, Petersburg. Ir has been definitely settled that Mrs James GO. Plane, Jr., will go on the stage, robably under the management of Daniel rohman, of the New York Lyceum, Tatis year there will be a celebration of the fiftieth anaiversary of Verdi's debut as a composer, ix first opera “Oberto di San Buonafacio,” was produced at Milan, on November 17, 150, It is reported that Denman Thompson con- og kesping “Ihe Uld Homestead on the boards of ths Academy of Music in New York for thres yours, [ts present prosperity would indicats a long stay. As a steadv tonic for the amity betwean Germany snd Italy, Kaiser William has ordered each mental band to play at lonst once a weak march of the Bersagileri and the Italian Infantry march, Jak hex aoind 3 that will he Lurope is one by Franz von Su been suceensivel duced In (Py It is entitled “Die nach dem Gluck,” literally, “The Hunt Aftor Luck." | again discussed | amend paragraph 535, A at 2 y LA " robibit df x; for sushensioh of hd liver ion of tho dollars; in favor of including census statistics of surviving soldiers of the late war; fu favor of woman suff in the Territories; and a resolution, which was adopted, asking the President to trausmit tc Congress any corres) that may have been had with Great Britain concern fag She seal es in or near Behrings its, especially as to the seizure of any vessel of the United States or other country....The Yon bill, Mr. Allison goin ation of he graph 134, as to chains, nd to amend it vy reducing the rate on chains “less than three-eights of one inch in diameter” from 3 to 2 cents pound, Mr, Vance moved to amend amendment by making the rate thirty cent. ad valorem. Mr Vance's t was rejocted-yeas 19, nays 21—and Mr. Allison's amendment was agreed to without a division. The bill was then taken up at the point where it had been left when he 3 before the Senate (schedule 1, cotton manufactures), the question being on the amendment offered b r. Vest to re- duce the duty on cotton thread, yarn, wi etc., Vval at not exceeding twenty-five cents per pound,” from ten cents per pound to thirty-five per cent. ad valorem. 1511 DAY. ~The Senate continued the con. sideration of the Tariff bill. After a long debate it rejected by a party vote the armend- ment to the Tariff bill proposed Ly Mr. Vest changing the duty on cotton thread, yarn, warps, ete. from ten cents a pound to thirty | five per cont, ad valorem, There were no changes made in the bill, and three and one- in committes of the whole during the five ds and of t THE BRO D " Bubject: * Texr: “Godlin things, haring pron which § iv, 8 A happy New Year to There is a gloomy waiting for the svents of fo come upon us, and there of going out to mest them, 8 fearing nothing. When the B was found on the battle fled § in advance of all his troops an enemy; and the best way is not down and let the events of life triple over us, but to go forth in a Christian \girit termined to conquer. The papers were mado out, and SQ you have just entered into business p ships, and others of you take higher posigion in the commercial establishment wh were engaged, and others have entered up new enterprises, and there were last week | these cities ten thousand business changes. You are expecting prosperity, and I am de termined. so far as 1 have anything to do with it, that you shall pot Le disappointed, and therefore | propose, as God may belp me this morning, to project upon your atten tion a new element of success. You will have in the business firm, frugality, patience, in- dustry, perseverance, economy-—a Very strong business firm, but there needs to be one member added, mightier than them all, and not a silent partner either—the one in- troduced by my text: “Godliness which is profitable unto all things, having the prowm- ise of the Jife that now is as well as of that of | which is to come,” half pages of the measure were disposed of | ley's bill authorizing the presentation of | medals to the survivors of the forlorn hope | storming party of Port Hudson was favor | ably reported, 1% Day.—Mr, regard to foreign interference in Central | America in the construction of ship canals | was reported favorably Mr. Sherman re- ported a resolution calling on the President or information regarding recent occurrences in Hayti,...On motion of Mr. Aldrich, the Senate rules were 50 amendod as to include | Jesus on our way up to a heavenly mansion; | among the persons entitled to the privileges | of the floor the President-elect and the Vice. | President-elect. ... Mr. Hoar introduced a bill | to reorganize and equalize the rask and pay | of! Naval officers The Tariff bill was A motion by Mr. Vance to referring to Hamburg edgings, by reducing the rate from forty five cents per pound and Gfteen per cent. ad va- lorem to forty per cent ad valorem, gave rise to debate, which was continue | at gread length and was participated in by Messrs, MePhorson, Dawes, Coke, Reagan and Mor- | gan, the bill laid aside 17TH DAY Joint resol: gress in reiati Governments with an | osked that it Sherman called up the ne the senss of Cone. erocvanic canal, and fmmediately, discussion the resolution went over till Mon day The Seante resumed cons leration of the Tariff bill at the Nari tus amendments were off were ail rejected H5 the party vote when the paragrap ring to Ia reached the Senate ad ournel © pasasd n schedule but they and “8 Was The House The River and Harbor JJbill Mr. Springer introduced a joint resolution for the admission of the States of Arizoon and Idabo Referred Two important amendments to pension jaws were passsl. One of them provides that the foo of examining goons shall be #2 in each case, whether for an origi pal examnpation or a8 Peexamination the other is dexignad to relieve claimants for increase of pen-ons from a heavy burden of expenss 10 which they are now wub jected Mr. Springer introduced a joint resolution sroposing a Constitutional amendment which extends the Presidential term to six years and makes the President ineligible for re sion. It abolishes the Electoral College and provide for a direct vole of the people 17a Day An attempt was made to amend the rules so that for the remainder of the session the introduction of bills shall not be in order on the first and third Mondayt of each month. After several hours had been spent in Slibustering over this measure, a motion to adjourn was carried, 181% Day. ~The House passed the Nicara- gua Canal bill by a vote of 157 to 34. There was no debate, and all the amendments adopted by the Committes of the Whole were ratified by the House except one. The amend- ment offered Ly Mr. Wilson, of Minnesota, providing that no certificate of stock shall be issued until at least ten per cent. shall be paid for in money was agreed to Mr. Hood Day, sed nT was dis #3 “le | then ealled up the resolution abolishing the call of States for the introduction of bills for reference on “suspension” Mondays. The filibusters resumed their tactics in order to defeat consideration of this measurs and nothing further was accomplished, 1071 Day. Mr. Read calle! up the rescln tion to abolish for the remainder of the smcon the call of States for the introduction of bills ou the first ant third Monday of each month The House Mlibustered over the measure during the entire day's wasion i — SAAT SOUTHERN INDUSTRIES. A Comparison of New Enterprises During the Past Threo Years Led in the South during the last three years | 0" Coot with equal physical health, and makes a most instructive exhibit, 188%, 1887, 9 1884, Iron furnace compan ies. 2% Machine shops and foun- actories, . : Floar mills. ... c.ov sone Cotton mille. ......c00ee Furniture factories. . ... Gas works. ......e Water works. ....cooei00 Carriage and wagon fac- Electric light companies, Mining and quarrying enterprises . ah Woodsworking factories including saw and planing mills, sash and door [actories, stove canna Tee factories... Canning factories Btove foundries... Brick works . Miscellaneous works, rolling mils, pipe work Cotton seed ofl mills... nanan aren Mr. Vance's motion was rejected and | { ise of the life ti I suppose you are all willing to admit that | 8 | Godliness is important in its eternal rela- | hours the Senate was in session... Mr. Haw. | i tions; but perhaps some of you say: “All want is an opportunity fo say a fore I die, and all will bo well” There area groal many people who suppose that if they . . { ean finally get safely out of this world into a Fdmunds's resolution in better world, they will have exbausted the entire advantage of our holy religion. They talk ss though religion were a mere nod of recognition which we are to give to the Lord as though it were an admission ticket, of no use except to give inat the door of heaven, | And there are thousands of people who have great admirstion for a religion of the shroud, and a religion of the coffin, and a religion of the hearse, snd a religion of the cemetery, | who have no appreciation of a religion for the bank, for the farm, for the factory, for the warehouse, for the Jjeweler's shop, for the lroker's office. Now, while 1 would pot throw any siur on a posi mortem religion, 1 want this morning, and on the first Sabbath of the new year, 10 culogize an ante mortem religion. A religion that is of wo use 10 you while you live, will be of no use Lo you when you die “hadliness is profitable unto all things, having the prom. at now is as well as of that which 8 0 come And 1 have always i notioad that when the grace is very low in a : man's beard be talks Alter | { pear to God, and is on the straight | every respiration of a groat deal in prayer meetings about deaths, and about « fins, and about churchyards 1 have noticed that the healthy Christian, the man who is living road to n, and under to live Heaven, is full of babi moth talks about the « pe © sis life standing well that if God belps him right He will help him to die right Now, in the first place, | remark that God liness wl for a man's physical health | do 1 : to say that it will restore a brokes onstitation rhou tiem from the limbs, or neuralgia from temp ee ecurisy from the side but 1 do mean to say that it gives one such habits and puts one in such condit is most favor able for physical health That 1 believe, and that | avow.. Everybody knows that buoyancy of spirit is good physical advan- tage. Gloom, unrest, dejection are al war with every pulsation of the heart, and with the Jungs It lowers the vitality, it s.ackens the circulation, while exhilaration of spirit pours the very balm of heaven through all the currents of life. The scene of insecurity which sometimes hovers Over An unre enerate man, or pounces wpm Bim with the blast of ten thousand trumpets of terror, is mest depleting and most ex hansting, while the fesling that all things are working together for my good mow, and for my everinsting welfare is conducive to phys jral health You will observe that Godliness induces industry, which is the foundation of good bealth. There is no law of hygiene that » iil keep so lazy man well Pleurisy will stab him, erysipelas will burn him, jaundice will discolor him, gout will cripple him, and the intelligent physician will not prescribe ant septic, or febrifuge, or ancdyne, but saws, and hammers, and yardsticks, and crowbars, and pickaxes There is no such thing as good physionl condition without positive work of some kind, although you should sieep on down of swan, or ride in carriage of softest upholstery, or have on your table all the lux- uries thas were poured from the wine vats of Jepohan and Shiraz, Our religion says: “Away to the bank! away to the field! away to the shop! away 10 the factory! do some thing that will enlist all the energies of your body. mind and soul” “Diligent in busi- pes, fervent jo spirif, serving the Lord” while upon the bare back of the idier and drone comes down the sharp lash of the apos tie as bo saves: “If any man will not work, peither sha | be sal” Oh, bow important in this day, when so or drive $f the MOI AN | much is said about anatomy and physiology and therspeutics and some new style of medicine is ever and anon springing upon the world, that you should understand that | the highest school of medicine is the school of Christ. which declares that “Godliness is | profitable unto all things, having the promise A comparison of the new enterprises organ. | of the life that now is as well as that which is to come.” Ho if you start out two men in | them one of them shall get the religion of the | “With long life will Lord Jesus Christ in his heart, and the other shall not get it, the one who becomes a son of the Lord Almighty will live the longer. i satisfy thee, and show | thee My salvation.” | the intellect | that just as soon a8 A Man enters | Christian life his intellect goes into | dwarfing process Again | remark that Godliness is good for | know some have supposed | into the a bee Ho far from that, religion | will give new brilliancy to the Intellect, new | strength to the imagination, new force to | the will, and wider swing to all the intel | lectual faculties hited | Its brightest torch, The religion of the i : | Jesus Christ is the fountain out of which learning has dipped ts clearest draught The Helicon poured forth no sach Inspiring waters as those which flow from under the throne of God clear as erystal. Heligion has iven now energy to Footy, weeping in Dr. ‘onng’s “Night Thoughts,” teaching in Cowper's “Task,” flaming in Charles Wes. Joy's hy mans, and rushing with archangelie or through Mil- ton's Paradise Lost” The religion of Jesus Christ has hung In studio and in gal tion,” Handel's quiem.” Is it possible 1hat a religion which indestructible monuments, and wayer bee | | take anything’ | the | our business enterprises! Christianity is the great | | centra’ fire at which Philsophy has | | sick nigh unto death as a result. ¥ effort, N on t a of Udy over held the bu) cannot go forth Wa and contend succes] armed with uptorn rahunte known men into whose spirit I Sha, Sloane) of Khuridt came, Unt position was entirely changed. 50 with two a in New York. were very antagonistic, They had dens? they could to injure each other. They we in the samo line of business, One of the merchants was converted to God, ¥ been converted, he asked the Lord to tench him bow to bear himsell towed t business antagonist, ( he wad ropressed with the fact that it was his duty\ when a costomer asked for certain kinds of goods which be hal not, but which he knew his opponent had, to recommend him 10 Xo to t store. | suppose that is about the'Wardest thing a man could do: but being thoroughly converted to God, be re- | solve! to do What very thing. and being asked | for a certain nd of goods which he bad not | he said: “Yolhgo to such and such a store, | and you will gfe.” After awhiie, merchant | number two fou these customers coming | so sent, and be found also that merchant | number one had be brought to God, and | he sought the same rgligion. Now they are | good friends and good, neighbors, the grace | of God entirely changing their disposition. “Oh” says sone one, have a roogh, jagged, impetucus nature) religion can't do anything for me.” know that Martin Luther and Robert NgWwion snd Rich- ard Baxter wers impetuous, sll-consuming natures, yet the grace of God turned them into the mightiest usefulness! “A manufac. turer cares but very little for a ol that slowly runs through the meadow, a strong torrent that lesps from rock to rock and rushes with mad energy through the valley and out toward the sea. Along that river you will find fluttering shutties and grinding mill and flashing water wheel And a nature. the swiftest, the most rugged snd the most tremendous, that is the nature God turns into greatest usefulness. Oh, bow many who have been pugnacious, and hard 0 please, and irascible, and more bothered about the mote in thelr neighbor's eye than about the beam like ship timber in their own who have been entirely changed by the grace of God, and have found out that “God linoss is profitable for the life that now is as well as for the OOTY Again | remark that religion is good for a mans worldly b | know the general Ory In winess the joss religion, Not so, Biography of a mys He grew in grace the last six years of his life more than at any time in his life; during those six years he had more business crowd. ing him than at any other time In other words, the more worldly business a man has the more opportunity tg serve God, religion exhijarate or retard worldly busi ness’ is the the practical question for yor Does it hang lke a mortgage the farm! ls it a bad debt on the ledger it a lien against thx estate the door through which customers broadeioths and silks! Now hinder your bas ness if it or if It be a good bu d If you tail if vou use false weights and measures, if you put sand in sugar, and beel- juice in Vinegar, and lard in batter. and sell for one thing that which is anther { then religion will in terfors with that business: bet a lawful business, lawfully i find the eye ife which is wines, the more 1 gion the less business fans, in Merchant hs Christian when ’ ows CU Doss it OIne sotond conducted, Wil Lord Jesus Christ its mighbiest Religion will give an equipoiw of spirit, it will keep you from ebmllit of temper —and you know a graatl many fine husinesses have been blown to atoms by bad temper—it will keep you from worriment about frequent Joss, it will Keep you industrious and prompt it you back from syuaniering and dissipation, it will give you a kindness of spirit which will be easily distinguished from that mers store oourtesy which shakes hands violently with you, ask. ing about the health of your family when there is no anxiety to know whether your child is well or sick! But the anxiety is to know bow many dozen cambric pocket handkerchiefs you will take and pay cash down. It will prepare vou for the practical duties of every-day life. 1 do not mean 0 say that relizion will make us financially rich. but 1 do say that it will giveus, it will assure ue of a comfortable sustenance at the start, a comfortable subsistence «11 the way through, and it will help us to direct the the bank, to manage the traffic, to conduct all our business matters, and to make the most insignificant affair of our life a matter of wast importance glorified by Christian prone iple In New York ofty there was a merchant hard in his dealings with his fellows, who had written over his banking house or his count ing-houss room: “No compromise.” Then when some merchant got in a crisis and went down no fasit of bis, but a eon junction of evil circumstances—and all the other mer chants were willing to compromise they would take seventy-five cents on the dollar, or fifty cents, or twenly cents—coming %o this man last of all, be said: “No compro mise: i'l] take one hundred cents on the dol jar, and 1 can afford to wait” Well, the whee! turned. and after a while that man was in a crisis or business, asd he sent out his agents to compromise, and the agents said to the merchants: “Will you take fifty conts on the dollar® “Na™ “Will you “We'll take one hundred cents on the dollar. No compromise.” And the man who wrote the inscription over his counting house died In destitution Oh we want more of the kindness of Gospel and the spirit of love in fow many young men have found in the religion of Jesus Christ a peactionl help! How many there are in this house today who coukl testify out of their own experience that Godliness is will ken | profitable for the life that now ix There | were i | they went here for help, and there for help, | | and Jutitan for pelp. and got no help until they times in their business career when nelt before the Lord orying for His | deliverance, and the Lord rescued In a bank not far from our great iaetropo- lisa village bank—an officer could not bal- | snce his accounts. He had worked at them | day after day, night after night, ani he was ie know | he not taken one farthing from that | bank, but somehow, for some reason inser % . | have preserved my integrity. but Tegpt Lp glen Fe Rls i. Test the vine of the nf in Cai Christians ao not 1h How can you get nl without this re- lgion) Is your physical health so good you not want this divine tonic! Is your mind #80 clesr, 80 vast, 80 comprehensive that you do not want this divine inspiration? Is your ly business 80 thoroughly established j you have no use for that religion which been the help and deliverance of tens of men in crises of worldly { And if what | have said this morn. in true, then you ses what a fatal blunder it is when a man adjourns to life's expira. y the uses of A man who post potieireligion to sixty years of age gos re. ig es gue too lute, He may got into # king of God by final repentance, but hast can oom him for =» unallevinted and un- ! religion today the traiaing of that child You will want religion to-morrow in dealing with that Western customer. You wanted re liglon yesterday to curb your fesoper, Is your arm strong enough to best your way through the floods! Can you without being encased in the mail of God's eternal help go forth amid the assault of all beil's sharp- shooters! Can you walk aone across these crumbling graves and amid these gaping earthquakes! Can you, waterlogged and mast- shivered, outlive the gale! Oh how many there have been who, postponing the reigion of Jesus Christ, have plunged into mistakes they nevercould correct although they lived eighty years after, and like serpents crushed under eart-wheels, dragging their mauled bodies under the rocks to die; so these men have fallen under the whee! of awful calamity, crushed here, destroyed forever, while a vast multitude of othore have taken the religion of Jesus Christ into every-day life, and first, in practical business affairs, and secondly, on the throne of heavenly triumph, have i. Justrated, while angels looked on and a unk verse approved, the gloriovs truth that “Uodliness is profitable unto all things, hav ing the promise of ihe life which now is as weil as of that which is to come. i A ———————— Jacon Styen is a stalwart farmer of wa Valley, No healthier people than Farmer Styer Pennsylvania, can be found in all They own a and his good wife Prosperous, ht has fallen upon their besn- as sad as it is strange LCA Their f« n have all died ily homestead, ntable ur grown of consumption the have arrived at a good « id age of disease of any kind. 20 11 formed, of health, but and in a short . having died of pul- won, 1 his and yet beautiful girl of Bs We ldenly became ill, was two vear later Sallie and years of age, died in thie stricken. same manner after toing suddenly Now Adam, 17 years of age, vear-old daughter is not and the looking is dead expected to remaining forward to an death of the dreaded dis- The are puzzled, as pone of the Styers’ relations ever died of consumption. two sons are ralne ears CAB doctors — Presosar points about Harrison: He wears a No. 74 hat. He wears a 64 shoe and can wear a 6. He has one bunion on the right foot and no corns, His neck He wears ope n-front shirts, and pays £27 a dozen for He seldom carries a silk handkerchief —usually carries a com He keeps one horse. He is a regular smoker, and smokes smal He does not His whis- He uses bay is 164. measure them. mon linen cigars —a clear Havana smoke to excess, however. kers are getting gray. rum on his hair and does not use cil. He is fond of baseball. His chest measure is 37 and his waist 42. He has a good deal of “stomach.” He weighs about 180 pounds, and appears to be 5 feet 74 inches in height. He does aot fancy jewelry. He usually wears a high-buttoned double-breasted frock coat, and seldom has a suit all off the same piece. He reads for recreation. He is fond of Scott, Eliot, and Thack- eray. He goes to bed at 10 and gets up between 6 and 7. The family cooking is done by an old negro “aunty.” He is a Presbyterian Deacon. sil ——— E. C. Cannteax, of Boston, who died lately, was noted among Dartmouth men not only for his prominence in all educational matters, but for his activ. ity as an alumnus of the college. He had an interesting college carcer. He worked his way through, taking six years to complete his course. He was manager of the boating-club when Dartmouth won second place at Sara toga. He received a scholarship of $250 from the college, and last year paid the money back. He was one of | a committer representing the alumni in | the management of the college, and it was through his efforts that the de- | gree of LL. D, was given to General B. F. Butler. A xxw scheme for harbor defense is soon to be tried Perforated iron sunk in the water, and
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