'DB. TALMAGES SERMON. SUNDA V, S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "The Path of Safety"—Menaces to Our National Existence—Tlie Dan ger* of Monopoly, NlhllUm and In fidelity Pointed Out. [Copyright. Louis Kiopscb. 1899.1 WASHINGTON, D. C.—ln this discourse Dr. Talmage speaks of some of the perils that threaten our American Institutions and points out the path of safety; text, Isaiah lxil., 4, "Thy land sliull be married." As the greuter Includes the less, so does the circle of future joy around our entire world include the epicycle of our own re j.ublic. Bold, exbllarant, unique, divine imagery of the text. At the close of o week in which for three days our national capital was a pageant, and all that grand review and bannered procession and na tional anthems could do celebrated peace, it may not be inapt to anticipate the time when the Prince of Peace and the Heir of Universal Dominion sbHll take possession of this nation and "tby land shall bo mar ried." In discussing the final destiny of this nation, it makes all the difference in the world whether we are on the way to a funeral or a wedding. The Bible leaves no doubt on this subject. In pulpits and on Flat Forms and in places of public concourse hear so many of the muffled drums of evil prophecy sounded, as though wo were on tbe wny to national interment, and beside Thebes and Babylon and Tyre in the ceme tery of dead nations our republic was tc be entombed, that I wish you to under stand It is not to be obsequies, but nup tials; not mausoleum, but carpeted altar; not cypress, but orange blossoms; not re quiem, but wedding march, for "thy land shall be married." I propose to name some of the suitors who are claiming the hand of this repub lic. This land is so fair, so beautiful, so affluent that it has many suitors, and it ■will depend much upon your advice whether this or that shall be accepted or rejected. In tbe first place, I remark: There is a greedy, all grasping monster who comes in as suitor seeking the hand of this republic, andtbat monster is known by the name of monopoly. Ills scepter Is made out of the iron of the rail track and the wire of telegraphy. He does everything for his own advantage and for the robbery of the people. ThiDgs went on from bad to worse until in the three legislatures of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania for a long time monopoly decided everything. If monop oly favors a law, it passes; if monopoly op poses a law it is rejected. Monopoly stands in tbe railroad depot putting into his Dockets in one year $200,000 In excess of til reasonable charges for services. Mo nopoly holds in his one hand the steam nower of locomotion and in the other the ■lectriclty of swift communication. Mo topoiy has the Republican party in one pocket and the Democratic party In the >ther pocket. Monopoly decides nomina lons and elections—city elections, state lections, national elections. With bribes le secures the votes of legislators, giving iem free passes, giving appointments to ?edy relatives to lucrative position, em oying them as attorneys if they are law ers, carrying their goods 15 per cent, less ( they are merchants, and if he find a case ery stubborn as well as very important ut's down before him the hard cash of ribery. But monopoly Is not so easily caught ow as when during the term of Mr. Bu innanthe Legislative Committee in one our States explored and exposed the .inner in which a certain railway cora any had obtained a donation of public nd. It was found out that thirteen of the inators of that State received $175,030 nong them, sixty members of the lower juse of that State received between £SOOO □d SIO,OOO each, the Governor of that ate received $50,000, his clerk received 5000, the Lieutenant-Governor received 10,000, nil the clerks cf the Legislature eeived SSOOO each, while $50,000 were di ded amoug the lobby agents. That thing l a larger or smaller scale is all the time >ing on in some of the States in the Union, it it is not so blundering as it used to be, id therefore not so easily exposed or ar sted. I tell you that the overshadowing irse of the United States to-day Is mo- Dpoly. He puts his hand upon every ishel of wheat, upon every sack of salt, ion every ton of coal, and every man, jmon and child in the United States feels e touch of that moneyed depotisin. I re ice that in twenty-four States of the lion already anti-monopoly leagues have en established. God speed them in the >rks of liberation. ? have nothing to sav against capital s. A man has a right to all the money can make honestly—l have nothing to - against corporations as such; without I in no great enterprise would be possible, . what I do say is that the same prin des are to be applied to capitalists and corporations that are applied to the orest man and the plainest laborer, jat is wrong for me is wrong for great rporations. If 1 take from you your operty without any adequate compensa n, I am a thief, and If a railway mages the property of the people with t making uny adequate compensation, it is a gigantic theft. What fs wrong on mall scale is wrong on a large scale, jopoly in England has ground hundreds bousands of her bestlpeople Into semi rvation and in Ireland has driven multi linous tenants almost to madness and the United States proposes to take the •ilth of 00,000,000 or 70,000.000 of people 1 put it in ii few silken wallets, lonopoly, brazen faced, iron fingered, ture hearted monopoly offers his hand his republic. He stretches It out over lakes and up the great railroads and rtbe telegraph poles of the continent says, "Here is my heart and hand; be to forever." Let the millions of the pie North, South, East and West forbid banns of that marriage, forbid them at ballot box, forbid them on the plat n, forbid them by great organizations, )id them by ihe overwhelming senti it of an outraged nation, forbid them he protest of the church of God, forbid n by prayer to high heaven. That od shall not have this Abigail. It shall be to all devouring monopoly that this 1 is to be married. lotbor suitor claiming the hand of this iblic is nihilism. a owns nothing but a knife for uni al cutthroatery und a nitroglycerin b for universal explosion. He believes o God, no government, no heaven and 11 except what be can make on earth! ew tbe czar of Russia, keeps many a , practically Imprisoned, killed Abra- Llncoln, would put to death every ; and president on earth, and If he had power would climb up until he could e the God of heaven from His throne :ake It himself, tue universal butcher, ranee It Is called communism; in the ed States It is called anarchism; in la it Is called nihilism, but that last is aost graphic and descriptive term. It is complete and eternal smash up. It d make the holding of property a e, and it would drive a dagger through ■ heart and put a torch to your dwell ind turn over this whole luud into the ession of theft and lust and rapine and ler. i?re does this monßter live? In all the •sand cities of this land. It otters its Ito this fair republic. It proposes to to pieces the ballot box, the legislative the congressional assembly. It would this land and divide it up, or rather le it down: It would give as much to dler as to the worker, to tbe bad as to •ood. Nihilism! This panther, having led across other lands, has set its paw ur soil, and It is only waiting for the In which to spring upon Its prey. It lihillsm that bur ed the rallroa<* prop at Pittsburg during the great riots; it lbllism that slew black people in our Northern cities during tlie war; It was ni hilism that mauled to death the Chinese immigrants years ago; It is nihilism that glares out of the windows of the drunker les upon sober people as they go by. Ahl Its power has never yet been testedl 1 pray God Its power may never be fully tested. It would, if it had the power, leave every church, chapel, cathedral, school house and college in ashes. Another suitor for the hand of this na tion Is Iniidellty. When the midnight ruf flnus despoiled the grave of A. T. Stewart in St. Mark's churchyard, everybody was shocked, but infidelity proposes something worse than that—the robbing of all the graves of Christendom of the hope of a re surrection. It proposes to chisel out from the tomb-stones of your Christian dead the words, "Asleep in Jesus" and substitute tbe words, "Obliteration—annihilation." Iniidellty proposes to take the letter from the world's Father, inviting the nations to virtue and happiness and tear it up Into fragments so small that you canno'. read a word of it. It proposes to take the conso lntlon from the broken hearted and the soothing pillow from the dying. Infidelity proposes to swear in the President of the United States and the supreme court and the Governors of States and the witnesses in the courtroom with their right hand on Palne's "Age of Reason" or Voltaire's "Philosophy of History." It proposes to take away from this country the book that makes the difference between the United States and the kingdom of Dahomey, be tween American civilization and Bornesian cannibalism. If infidelity could destroy the Scriptures, It would In 200 years turn the civilized nations back to semibarbarism, and then from semibarbarlsm into mid night savagery until the morals of a menag erie of tigers, rattlesnakes and chimpan zees would bo better than the morals of the shipwrecked human race. The only impulse in the right direction that this world has ever had has come from the Bible. It was the mother of Roman law and of healthful jurisprudence. That book has been the mother of all re forms and all charities—mother of Eng lish magna charta and American Declara tion of Independence. Benjamin Franklin, holding that Holy Book in his hand, stood before an Infidel club in Paris and read to tbem out of the prophecies of Habakkuk, aud the infidels, not knowing what book it was, declared that it was the best poetry they had ever heard, That book brought George Washington down on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge and led the dy ing Prince Albert to ask some one to sing "Bock of Ages." I tell you that the worst attempted crime of the century is the attempt to destroy this book. Yet infidelity, loathsome, stench ful, leprous, pestiferous, rotten monster stretches out Its hand, ichorous with the second death, to take the hand of this re public. It stretches it out through seduc tive magazines, and through lyceum leo tures and through caricatures of religion. It asks for all that part of tbe continent al ready fully settled, and the two-thirds not yet occupied. It says: "Give me all east of the Mississippi, with the keys of the church and with the Christian printing presses—then give me Wyoming, give me Alaska, give me Montana, give me Colo rado, give me all the States west of the Mississippi, and I will take those places and keep them by right of possession long bo lore the gospel can be fully Intrenched." But there Is another suitor that presents his claim for the hand of this republic. Ho Is mentioned In the verse following my text where It says. "As the bridegroom re joiceth over the bride, so shall thy God re joice over thee." Before Columbus and his 120 men embarked on the Santa Maria, the Pintn, and the Nina, for their wonderful voyage, what was the last thing they <lid? They sat down and took the holy sacrament of the Lord Jesus Christ. After they caught the first glimse of this country and the gun of one ship had announced It to the other vessels that land had been discovered, what was the song tbst went up from all the three decks? "Gloria in excolsis." Aftor Columbus and his 120 men had stepped from the ship's deck to the solid ground, tvhat did they do? They all knelt and con secrated the new world to God. What did the Huguenots do after they landed in the Daroliuas? What did theHollan 1 refugees jo after they had landed in New York? What did the pilgrim fathers do after they landed In Now England? With bended knee ind uplifted face and heaven besieging prayer, they took possession of this conti nent for God. How wus the first American Congress opened? By prayer, in the name of Jesus Christ. From its birth this nation was pledged for holy marriage with Christ. And then see how good God has been to JS! Just open the map of the continent tnd see how it is shaped for immeasurable prosperities. Navigable rivers, more in number and greater than of any other land, rolling down on all sides to the sea, prophe sying large manufactures and easy com merce. Look at the great ranges of moun tains timbered with wealth on the top and •ides, metaled with wealth underneath. 3ne hundred and eighty thousand square miles of coal. One hundred and eighty thousand square miles of iron. The land so contoured that extreme weather hardly aver lasts more than three days—extreme lieat or extreme cold. Cllmnte for the most part bracing and favorable for brawn nnd brain. All fruits, all minerals, til harvests. Scenery displaying an lutumnnl pageantry that no land on earth pretends to rival. No South American earthquake. No Scotch mists. No London Fogs. No Egyptian plagues. No Germanic dlvtslons. The people of the United States are happier than anv people on earth. It Is the testi mony of every man that has traveled abroad. For the poor more sympathy, [or the Industrious more opportunity. Oh, how good God was to our fathers, and liowgood He has been to us and our chil dren. To Him, blessed be His mighty oame—to Htm of cross and triumph, to Him who still remem'uers the prayer of the Huguenots and Holland refugees and the pilgrim fathers, to Him shall this land be married. Oh, you Christian patriots, by your contributions and your prayers hasten on the fulfillment of the text. While some people may stand at the sates of the city, saving, "Stay back!" to foreign populations, I press out as far be yond those gates as I can press out beyond them and beckon to foreign nations, say ing, "Come, come, all ye people who are honest and Industrious and God lovlngl" But say you, "I am so afraid that they will bring'their prejudices for foreign gov ernments nnd plant them here." Absurd. They are sick of the governments that have oppressed them and they want free America! Give them the great gospel of welcome. Throw around them ull Chris tina hospitalities. They will add their in dustry and hard earned wages to this country, and then we will dedicate all to Christ and "thy land shall be married." But where shall the murrlage altar be? Let It be the Rocky Mountains, when, through artificial and mighty irrigation, all their tops shall be covered, as they will bo, with vineyards and orohards and grainfields. Then let the Bostons and the New Yorks and the Charlestons of the Pacific coast come to the marriage altar on one side, and then let the Bostons and the New Yorks and the Charlestons of the Atlantic coast como to the marriage altar on the other side, and there be tween them let this bride of nations kneel, and thee if the organ of the loudest thunders that ever shook the Sierra Nevadas on the one side or moved the foundations of the Alleghaules on the other side should open lull diapason of. wedding inarch that organ of thunders could not drown tbe voice ot him who would take the hand of this brldeof nations, saying, "As a bridegroom rejoiceth over a bride, so thy God rejoiceth over thee." At that marriage banquet the platters shall be of Nevada silver, and the chalices ol California gold and the fruits of northern orchards, and the spices of southern groves, and tbe tapestry of American manu luc'ure, and the congratulations from all the .'ree nations of earth nnd from nil the trlumpbau.' armies of heaven, "AoCso thy laud shall be married." I THE REALM OF FASHION, j " NEW YORK CITY (Special).—Therage for gray has extended to the costumes for the bathing season. The tidy and practical sait here illustrated is of gray cheviot serge, trimmed with na-jf WOMAN'S BATHISO SUIT. blue soutache and wide braid. A belt of the material covered with braid is clasped around the waist. The bloomers and full portion of waist are shaped with a centre back seam and inside leg seams. A square yoke forms the upper portion, to which the full gathered fronts and back are joined. The closing is made in centre front with buttons and button LADIES' PRINCESS VEST FRONT. holes, and bands confine the fulness. To make this batbing suit in the medium size will require seven yards of thirty-six-inch material. A Graceful Princess K fleet. The graceful princess effect is em phasized this season both in the cut and trimming of gowns. The pol onaise, or redingote in the style shown in the large engraving by May Man ton, is worn over a skirt having a nar row front gore that extends in a circu lar flounce, joined to a circular por tion of lining. The front edges of the polonaise are hooked or invisibly tacked to the fronts of the skirt to pre vent their displacement, while giving the admired overskirt effect. As here illustrated, the polonaise of gray broadcloth has the skirt flounce of rich brocaded satin in gray and white. Ruchings of gray liberty satin in a darker shade trim the edges in a double row and at the neck is worn a bowed scarf of fine net with lace ends. The hat is of gray satin straw trimmed with white flowers and gray tulle. The belt clasp is of cut steel. The perfect adjustment (so essen tial to this style of gown) is secured by a centre baok seam, side back and under-arm gores, the cutaway fronts being arranged with single darts that close in centre front. The plastron vest that reaches just below the waist line, is included in the rigtit shoulder seam, sewed to the right lining front and closes over on the left. The inside belt of ribbon that is tacked to each seam at the waist line in the usual way, passes over the front linings and is invisibly closed in centre with handsome steel clasps. To the front edges are joined stylishly curved revers that extend over the shoulders and outline the shallow yoke facing on back. The sleeves are shaped with under and upper portions in a bell flare at the wrists. Near the top a row of ruching is sewed on in scalloped out line, provision being made on the pat tern for its proper placing. The neck is finished with a standing collar, to which curved bare portions are added at the top. Very stylish combinations may be developed by the mode, which also suggests many possibilities for remod elling. The front gore, vest, yoke and ruching may be made from passe gowns of brocade or figured silk, a new polonaise of cloth, poplin, cash mere or other fine wcolen stuff in har monizing tone giving the necessary up-to-date stamp. To make this polonaise in the medium size will require five and three-fourth yards of material forty-four inches wide. To make the skirt will require five yards material thirty-six inches wide or five yards of material forty four inches wide. A Handsome AVaUt. Golden brown poplin that matchen the skirt is used for this handsome waist. Creamery tofcked taffeta made the yoke and collar, the edges of the fancy palstron and epaulettes being finished with quillings of brown mousselinedosoie. The scroll design that decorates the front is carried out in jeweled braid, buttons to match securing the ends of each tab on front. The waist is simply arranged over fitted linings that close in centre-front. The tucked yoke, being applied at the top, closes with the blouse front in visibly in centre. The back is cut away in square outline to disclose the yoke of tucking that is applied over the lining. Its upper edges meet the front at the shoulder seams and are trimmed to correspond. The slight fullness nt the lower edge is drawn well to the centre at the waist line. The .distinctive feature of the waist is the fancy front that is shaped with a low square neck and square tabs on each side. These lie smoothly over the breast in pinafore style, becoming fullness at the waist being arranged in pleats with the blouse front. The over-front is permanently secured on the right, and closes over invisibly on the left. The sle»»- .ave becoming fullness at *'• -aused by tiny pleats laid i upper portions at the side edges. These are disposed over fitted two-seam linings and tacked in centre to hold the fullness in place. The wrists are shaped with a bell-like ..OMAN'S DRESSY WA»T. flare. The shaping and trimming of the epaulettes and wrists correspond to the tabs on front, and around the waist is arranged a belt of crushed ribbon prettily bowed on the left side. To make this waist in the medium size will require two yards of material forty-four inohes wide. 1 1 The housewife keeps, with greatest care, Her dainty glass and linen fair, Her china and her tableware, As sweet as she is able; And Ivory Soap's her greatest aid, Because 'tis pure and cleanly made Of things which none need be afraid To have upon the table. IVORY SOAP IS MADE OF SWEET CLEAN MATERIALS. COPYRIGHT IMS BY THE PROCTER ft GAMBLE CO. CINCINNATI Capturing Sturgeon in the Ural Mountains. To fish while mounted 011 the back jf a horse probably would be beyond ;he capacity of gentle Izaak Walton of ielightful memory, yet that is the way iturgeon is captured in the frozen rivers of the Ural Mountains. Russian Dossacks fish in large bands. They gallop along until they reach the point n the river where the current has its iwiftest flight. There they dismount »nd cut into the ice until they have :leared a small pool of water which extends across the rapid current al nost from one bank of the river to ;he other. A net is then Bunk to the Dottom of the stream and stretched icross it at the open pool so that not t single fish can swim beyond its neshes. Then the borseß are mounted tnd the Cossacks turn back and ride ilong the edge of the river for about our or five miles. Then the bund vheels about and gallops rapidly ilong the ice-covered stream, making i picture that would delight a Schreyer >r a Fromentin. The loud cannonade ;aused by the beating of the horses' loofs on the surface of the ice terri ies the sturgeon and they swim juickly in advance of their pursuers, mmbling finally in swarms into the let that waits their capture.—London Telegraph. "Pickling" Railroad Ties. Tli3 ties on the Santa Fe track arc •pickled" in a solution of ohloride of talts of zinc. There are three or four )ig "pickling" establishments at in •ervals along the road between Albu juerque and Los Angeles. The pro :<!ss makes a pine tie immortal. In :bis dry atmosphere it lasts forever. Cie Santa Fe tracks through the Inserts are sprinkled with oil to keep lown the dust, like the Pennsylvania racks between Philadelphia and At antic City and New York, and it is a great blessing in this rainless coun xy. The oil is renewed once in three rears. It costs S3O a mile and it is vorth many times the money to the )assengers. 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