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THE M1DDLEHUKGH POST.
T. H. IIARTKR, Edit aud Tm'b.
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There aro 313 farmer la the Missouri
Penitentiary, the largest representation.
i .
Ami now Italy has a great National
candal on its hands, larpe enough to
distract Italian attention from Franco
and its Pinama troubles.
The Atlanta Constitution it authority
for tho statement that General Long
atrcet would have gone into Hayes's Cab
inet ha 1 it not been ascertained that he
was a vehement Hlaino man.
YoUing'e Island, where Columbus
first landed when ho discovered America,
his twolvo whtto anil six hundred colored
residents. Tho blacks arovcry poor and
the whites are not much better off. Tho
crops fuilcd last year nnj the people
having little or no coinmuiication. with
the outshlo world find it a hard matter
to live. Tiicy aro in great need of a
schooner to ctmblo them to commuuicato
with ncigiiborin! islands.
Tho case of Corporal Orrin K. Wolfe,
United States Army, is lather peculiar.
Ho failed to pass his examinations nt
Watt 1'oint, and thereupon enlisted as a
privato in tho army. He rose to be cor
poral, passed the examination for second
lieutenant and was about to bo enmruis
siouoJ, when it was discovered that ho
would obtain tho rank six months be
foru his classmates, who weto still at tho
Military Academy. Ilia commission has
been held up.
You cannot tell how a boy will turn
out. Professor Beatty, who for many
years has been at the head of tho D in
villo (Ky.) College, says there were at
one time two boys under him whoso
school lifo he remembers well one, John
C. Drecktt) ridge, a very ordinary scholar,
who did not promise much; tho other a
boy whom ho thought a marvel, nnd
who, ho expected, woutd reach tho
behest position in the laud. Speaking
with Governor Crittenden, of Missouri,
about tho-.o two boys recently, Professor
Beatty said the marvel was now teach
ing in a deaf and dumb asylum, whilo
the other became Senator nnd Vice
president and ouco was a candidate for
tho Presidency. 0.'' ernor Critten
den's clnss of twenty1 -s the pro--;,
tot thin:T"rJ'- "Ifteca of
. .n.:...,u'1'' "-
"balder fi t jtistical Associate,,
published recently in its quarterly bulle
tin some interesting suicide s'tistic
gathered in New England through a
period of thirty years, states tho New
York Time j. From these stitistics it is
seen that tho suicidal tendency is steal
ily increasing iu tho four States of Mass
achusetts, Uliodc Island, Connecticut
and Vermont, mid that tho incrcaso
inco 18(10 hxs been nt lenst ten per cent.
The data presented hIiow that in Massa
chusetts, Vermout and It lode Island
the.e is u very steady and consistent in.
crcoso in tho rate per million, while in
Connecticut tho increase has been stir.
frisingly out of proportion, which, thu
writer says, "is ditlioult to parallel iu
English spcakiug countries" From IS'li)
to 1805, for txiiuplc, tho average num
ber of suicides per million iu C'.muerti
cut was forty -six, while from ltS0 to
lSSS tho average was I'M, which is far
iu excels of that shown by tho statistics
of tho other States mentioned. Tho fig.
ures presented by tho association sho.v
that t lie popular belief that the inaxi
niu'ii tendency toward suicide is found
in the earlier nges is erroneous, uud that,
as a matter of fact, tho maximum ten
dency for males, ut leait, f ills between
seventy mid eighty. This result is found
to be very consistent throughout each
successive year. The sniue uniformity
is not found iu the female lex, in which
tho tendency toward suicide is more
evenly distributed all through life than
in tho mule sex. April appears from
these statistic to be tho unit propitious
month for the suicidal mania. There cai
bo no doubt that tho maximum is
reached in that month, as the statistics
iu all the States produce the aaaiu re
sults us to seasonable laws. The mini,
mum number of suicides in tho New
England States i.i found to have oc
curred in tho month of February. Hang
ing may be said to bo the most popular
method of suicide for males and poison
n. f.KU1. A ,.L... .1
lui ivumtiM. v iaui.g iuiuujll IUU alii
tistics shows thai men prefer poison
next to haugiug, with "cutting the
throat" and "firearms and other weap
ons" next in order. Women use poison
principally next to hanirinir and drown -
They also "leap fro.u heights," a
mon soldoin
1 do. I
"' nop' ike.
OH Hi
J.oltzwortli, wfii
tHijg. It cost
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A SERMON TO MANKIND,
REV. DR. TALMAOE TALKS
To Persons of All Ants In Life's War
frs. Ood Should be a Man's Daeker
During all the Different and Var
ied Stages of Bis Career.
Tstt: uTh tlnytofonr ynrtar tare
tenn and fen." Psalm sc., 101
The seventieth mile ton of life Is here
planted as at the end of the journey. A f ew
(to beyond It; multitudes never reach It. The
oldest person of modern times explret at
low years, a nrex or tne name -or Ntrava
ride lived to HI year. An Englishman of
the name or l nomas 1'arr lived lS'j venrs.
Before the time of Moses peole llve'J 153
years, anu 11 you vo rnr enougn Back tbey
lived .MO years. Well, that was necessary,
because tne story of the world must come
down l.y tradition, and It needed lonr life
wifely to transmit the news of the past. If
the generation had been short lived, tho
story wmno; so often have changed llpe that
it might have got all astrny.
but affcT Moses lirgan to write It down
nnn patenment to 1 1 it irom century to can
tury it was not tirceswry that people live so
lone in order to authenticate the events of
thoat. K incur time people lived only
twenty -five year?, that would not affect his
tory.sinre it is imt in print ani la no longer
lei enm nt upon tradition. Whatever your
ngc, I will to-dny directly address you. and
1 shall fpak to I hone who are in the twen
ties, thu thirties, the forties, the fifties, the
statu r, and to those who are in the seven
ths and beyond.
Fust, then, I accot those of you who
(11 a 111 the twenties. You are full of expec
taliop. Yen are ambitious thst b, If you
iiiiioiint to anything for some kind of sue
csr, comniei c al or fm-hint-al or profux
hionalor liiMi-nry or ngrieultuml or aouial or
iimrnl. If I fiml fonie one in th twenties
without nny mrt of ainhitlon, 1 feel like
saying: "My friend, you have Rot on the
wron planet. XIiIhis not the world for you.
You aro poimt to he in the way. Hnvo you
luncie your choire of rosrhousf You will
nivrr lw nhl" to pay for your r-ndlr. Wno
ik ((oin to settle tm ytur boini? Tiiere is a
miatakt) about the fact tbut you were Lorn
at all."
lint supposing you havfl ambition, let me
ay to mi the twenties Kxpeet ewi ytliim
IIiiuukIi iliviim manipulation, an I then you
will jjet all you want or so'iiettiint; better.
Are you Inol.'inc for wealth? Well, remem
Iht that (Jo.l c nilrols tho money uiark"ty,
the liarve-tn, the Uroulit', the critTpillar,
tho leeiMts, tha suitchine, the torni, the
land, the see, 1111 1 you will Kt wealth, I'er
lia. not that which is stored up iu bink', In
t af deposits, in ITnitei Ktatea securities, in
In mi his anil lands, but your clothing nnd
bnni'd nnd slielt-r, and that is about ull Vou
an npi roprintn Btiyhow. You cot the
Lord u Kreut di-il. 'lo feol and clot In and
slii'lter for a hfetimj rcipiires a bi stun of
meiii.y. nnd if you nothing more than
the nOsolute necersities you get tin enormous
amount of supply.
Kxpect as much ns you will of any kin I of
iicc s; it vou exp.-ct it from the Iord, you
ire safe. Iiieuil on nny other riource an 1
vou mny be bally clinenne-l, but depend on
(iod and all will bo well. It is a goo I thin;;
in the crisis of lifu to have a 111:111 of laro
nun in back you up. It is a .'at tiling to
have a moneyed institution stand behind
you in your undi-rtiikiu. Mut it is a might
ier thinx to have the Uod of heaven and
eiirtb vour coadjutor, and you may have
linn. 1 am so Bind tliHt 1 meet you while
you are In th? twenties. You are biyint; our.
your plnnr. and nil your life in this world
ami tho nxt for .VKi.om.otK) years of your
existence will be a (Tec ted by those plans, it
is about H o'clock in thn morning of your
lift, and you are just starting out. Which
way ara you coiug to sturt? O.i, the twen
ties! "Twenty'' is a (treat worj In the Wble.
Joseuh was sold for 20 piece of silver. Ham
sou judged Israel 'iJ years. . ,Kolomon (rave
Hirnm cxtiv . The t', --roll that
' 1 II l.'l t.'lici" . . ,
ilVi:." .""V !:!' . -.V '
done 1.. me twenties 1 Ilomulus founded
Home when ho was '.-'. Keats Ulilshed life
at - l.sfuvetta whs a world renowned
soldier at '..'!. Ob.Tliu ace implislie I his
chief work by 27. lionnparte was victor
ovi-r Italy at 'Jo. Pitt was prime miuUtei'
of KiiKlnnd nt '.!!. L'nlviu hud complete i
bis immortal "institute" by the time hu
was 'Hi. Urotitis was attorney general nt 'it.
Home of the mightiest things for (io I and
eternity have b.-eu done in the twenties. As
lonx us vou ran put the limin e "i" before thfl
other llguro that helps iiercribe your age I
have hlh hoix-s nloiit you. I.xjk out for
that tlKtiru "'-!.'' Watch it continil'iucj
with as mui'ii cnrnestiioss ns you ever
wutched anything that iiromis slyourrilv.i
tiou or threituiii' I you ileni l"ion. Wuit a
critical time, the twenties'. Wnile they con
tinuoyou decide your oi-eiiimtioii mil thn
principles by which you will b euided. You
make your inot iibidmz trieivlsliips.
: OU
iiiraiine your hunio life. You tlx your
habits. Lord (ioi Almighty, for JestH
Christ's Hike, have mercy ou ull thu liiuu
and women iu tho twenties!
Next I uecost those, in the thirties. You
ire ut 1111 ao wiien you find what a touh
t li in.; it is to get reeuuiz vl and establisael
111 j our occupation or profession. Ten years
ao you thought all that was nicjsssry for
success was to put on your shutter thu siu
of pliysiciun or dentist, or uttorney or broker
or aent.und you would have plenty of busi
ness. How many hours you sat and wuitel
for btisiuesi and waited III vain three per
fona only know Jod, your wife and
yourself. In commercial life you have not
had the promotion and the increase in s ilnry
you anticipated, or the plnco you expected
to iKciipy in tlm tirni has not been vacated.
The proiiut of the farm, with which you
expected to support yourself and tnos? du-IM-udiiiR
ou you, nnd 10 pay the interest on
the morti;iie, has been far lest than you
anticipated, or thepricjs were down, or spe
cial ex onuses for sickness made drafts on
your resources tbat you could not uavo ex
pecteJ.
In some respects the barilest decade of
life is the thirties became the results are
generally so far behind the anticipations. It
is very rare indeed thut a youuj man dojs
as did the young man lust tSun luy nlglit,
when ho cuiuu to mu and said: "1 have bjeu
so tiinrvelously prospare.1 siuce 1 came to
this couutry that I feel, as a matter of
gratitude, that I ought to dedicate myself
to (Jivl.'' Nine-tenths of the poetry of life
has been knocked out of you since you came
Into thu thirties. Men in the different pro
fessions nnd occupations saw that you wero
rising and they inu-t put an estoppel on you
or you might somehow stand in the way.
They think you inu:it. be tupprevsJd.
From 3D to 4 ) it is nn eapecially hard time
for young doctors, youii lawyers, youii'
merchants, youug liu ue-rs, young mechan
ics, young ministers. The struggle of the
thirties is for honust and helpful and re
munerative recognition. lint few old peo
ple know bow to treat young people without
patronizing them 011 the onn bant or snub
bing thorn on the other Ob, the thirties!
Joseph stood botore 1'iiaraoh at:i). David
was 30 years old when be bean to reigo.
The height of Boloinon's temple was 'M cu
bits. Christ entered uuon Hisactive'miuistry
at 3i) years of age. Judas sold umisilt for
80 pieces of silver.
Ob, the thirties t What a word suggostlve
of triumph or disaster! Your decade is the
one that will probably afford the greatest
opportunity for victory, because toere is
the greatest necessity for struggle. Head
the world's history aud know wuat ars the
thirties for good or bad, Alexander the
Great closed his career at 3, Frederick the
Ureat uiado Kurope tremble with bis armies
at ft5.i.Cortes conquered Mexico at ;t).
Uil bt Hhiloh ahd Donelson when 'J4.
.1 . 'IT T iha. l...v
ion at 33. bir Philip Sydney
' " Jlod and against
(dirties, aud your
ad between the
150, - "I y i o; your age by
1 isTf r is tarring ou uuuureu a.
1
pnttinc first a flfure "J" and the time why
yon will cwiseexprmalof It by putting: flrsi
a figure "a'' As it la the (treatest time 0
tha struggle, I adjure you, in Uocfi oarnl
and by God's srace, make It the great
achievement. My prayer is for all those It
the tremendous crises of the thirties. Thi
fact Is that by the way you decide the prerf
ent decade of your history you decide all tV
following deoa lea. I
When I wss In Kasala I was disappoint! I
In not seeing the battled BoroJII
Wb7'. nX th?w ,0"h bsitt'lefal tba
small village? It ra, 70 mile, from Mem.
Hbttlutilepff.tHtnjrt in which 13V
(XXJFreochmevfppi with 109,000 ju
sians. and a),0 dead Frenchmen and -lion
dear Kussians were left on the field? J.
was because the fate of Moscow, the sacra
city of Russia, was decided there deoldsi
7'J mile away. And let me tell jmi, peopt
of the thirties, you are now nt the jro lino
wnence win resound its sueeansesor Its mora
disasters clear on into the seventies if yot
live to the threescore and ten of the text
Next I accost the forties. Yours is the ds
cade of dlicovery. 1 do not mean the dis
covery of the outside, but the discovery o
yourself. Mo man knows himself until h
is 4). He overestimates or underestimata
hiinsolf. Dy that tints be has learned wh
he can do or what he cannot do. He though
he had commercial genius enontrh to beoom-
a millionaire, but now be is satis'led to mak.
a comfortable living. He thougat be hai
rhetnriesl power that would bring bint iuta
tha L'oitel Htits senate, noiv he is eonlon
if he cm suc3aatfully arue a orumon ear
ooiore a p jtit Jury.
tie thought be had meJical skill tlis.
wnuld make him a Mott or a Uroueort
Willard 1'arker or a biins: now he flnla liii
snhere is that of a family physicitn, pn
scribing for tho ordiniry ailments that al-
met our rac?. lie was stiling on In a roi
and oiild not take a reckoning, hut now l
clears up en iuh to allow him f fin i out ha
real latitude an t longitude. He has beat
climbing, but now he has got to the top of
the hbl, and he takes a long breath. He a
In It way through the journey at leant, aul
he is in a position to look backward or for
ward, lis has mora good sense than be eve
had. IU knows human nature, for he hai
buHii cheated often enou jli to res the baS
side of it, and he has met si many grsciotk
and kmdlv and spleudii souli be also know
the good ti le of it. ;
Now conn yours -If. Think God firth?
past and deliberately set your compass for
another voyage. You have chased enoul
thistle lowu. You have blown enough soap
bubbles Yo.t have sn the unsatisfying
nature of all esrthly things. Ojoti a nea
chnpter with Uj 1 and the world. Tais de
cide of tlie forties on ;ht to eclipse all iti
preuec.'ssors in worship, in uisruin-MS an 1 is
h ip,lnes. "Forty' i a grest word in th
Hiule. lio I s ancient people were 4J vaar
in the wilderness. iCIl julged Israel 4(1
years. David nu I Holouun and Jehoash
reined 40 years. W nen Josopa vuited his
brethen, ho was 4 ) years old.
(hi, this mountain ton of the forties! You
have now the character you will probtbly
have for all time and all eternity. Go I, by
His grace, fometimes changes a man after
the lorll-s, but after that a man never
changes himself. Tell me, oh men and
women who are in the forties, your titbits
of thou (ht and life, and 1 will toil you vr.iat
you will forever te. 1 may make a uil-ta!e
once In a thousand times, but not more than
in tint proportion. i
My sermon next accosts the fifties. How
()tier it looks when in writing your age you
make the first of thi two figures a "3."
This is the decade whicU shows who", tne
other decade have been. If a young man
has sown wild oats aud he has livsd to tols
time, be reaps the harvest of it in tbs fifties,
or if by necessity be was eompello I to over
toil in honest directions be iscmllei to settle
up with exacting nature som time during
tne tittles.
Many have it so harj in early life 'that
thay ore octogenarians at ft), tioiatfeas and
rheumatisns and neuralgias anl w 1 170s
an 1 iusouinias have their play f roe, iu the
fit tins. A man's bair begins to w I in, and,
although h inay bava w yrn .. uscles be.
tvw wsksthinHiilf . iaJ.' No. 1 or.
' ' ' 1 ' 1 1). Whn be geti'a oouzh
lills! -it r,J' haoks and clears his
I -gob hileaftorward. Oh, ye who
ore r.i the fifties, think of it I A bait century
of blessing to be thankful for, aula hslf
century subtracted from an existence
whioii in the most mar Lei esses of longevity
hardly ever reaches a whole century.
By this time you ought to be eminent for
piety. You hive been 111 so many battles
you oujbt to be a brave soldier. Vou have
muds so many voyajei you ought to be a
gooi sailor. Ho long proljcted and blasss.l
you ought to have a soul full of itoxology.
In liible times in Cansau every C) years was
by Hod's command a year of jubilee. The
people did not work that year. If property
had by misfortune gone out of 0111's posses
sum 011 the liftieth year it came back to him.
If ho had fojled it away, it was returned
without a farthing to pay.
If a man had been euslaveJ, he wit in that
year emaneip it', A trumpet was souudel
lou 1 an I cleur au l Ion;.-, and it was the
trumpet o( jubilee. They shook hands, tbey
laughed, they congratuln'ed. Wuat a time
It was, that fiftieth year! And if under the
old dispensation it was such a glad time,
under our new and more glorious dispeusi.
tion let nil who have come to the fifties hear
thu trtrupH of jubilee that 1 now b.oiv.
That was the hIIimioii male by Mr. Toplniy,
tbejreut hymuologist, whea 11a wi-otc;
ltlow yc tha trumpet, b ow
Tlie gladly solemn sound:
L'.'t all tin nations know.
To esrll s remotest tiouail,
The yesr of Jubilee is conn.
Hciain y rsuiouicJ siuuais hmo.
Ye whn bsve sold for niu;ht
Vour ti'Titse sIhivs v
Hhsll bsvs It litelc uubouc;llt-;
Th irift nf .Is. m s love. ' ".
To year of JuMlos has corns.
ltetura ) rsusuaisd sinners uom.
My sermon next nccoits the sixties Tho
beginning of that decaio is more startling
than any other. In bis chronological jour
ney the man rides rar.her smooth I v over the
figures "; ' and and "4" and "o," but the
figure "tl" gives him a big jolt. He say:
"It cannot be that 1 am 6 ). hit me ex
amine the old family record. 1 guess they
made a mistake. They got my name down
wrong iu th9 roll nf births." ltut, no; the
older brothers or sitters remember the time
of his advent, and there is some relative a
year older, and another relative a year
younger, and, sure enough, the fact is estab
lished beyond all disputation.
Hixtyl Now your great danger is the
temptation to fold up your faculties and
iput. You will feel a tendency to reminisce.
l( you do not look out you will lie; I n al
most everything with the words, "When 1
was a boy." Hut you ouibt to make the
sixties more in noorabie for (lot and tho
truth than the tiftios, or the forties, or thi
thirties. Ycuoujtit to do more during the
next ten years than you did iu any H0 years
of your life because ut all the experience
you have had. You have committej enough
mistakes In life to make you wise above
your juniors. Now, under the accumulate t
light of your past experimenting, go to work
for (iod as never before.
When a man in the sixties folds up his
energy and feels he has dous enough, it is
the devil of indolence to which he is sur
rendering, and Clod generally takes the man
at bis word and lets bitu die right away.
His brain, that under the tension of hard
work was active, now suddenly shrivels.
Men, whether they retire from lecular or
religious work, generally retire to the grave.
No well man lias aright to retire. The
world was made for work. There remalnetb
a rest for the people of Ood, but it is in a
sphere beyond the reach of telesoopta. The
military charge that decided one of the
greatest battles of the ages tha battle of
Waterloo 'Was not made until S o'clock in
tha evening, but some of you propose to go
into camp at U o'clock in the afternoon.
My subject next accosts those in the
seventies aud beyond. My word to tbetn is
congratulation. You have got nearly if not
quite through. You bava safely crowed
tne sea of life and are) about to anter the
harbor. You have fought at Gettysburg,
and the war is over. Here and there a
sklrmUb with the remaining sluof. your own
.. . - - J
heart an1 the sin of the world, but I guess
yon are about oonew
There may be some srork for von yet on
small or large soale. Bismarck, of Germany,
vigorous In the eighties. The prime minis
ter of England strong at Rl. Haydn com
posing his oratorio, "The Creation," at 70
years of a?e. Isorratea doin? some of his
best work at 74. Plato bny thinklnr for
all stooeedingeentnriesat84. William Blake
at 67 learning Italian, so as to read Danta in
the original. LordCockburn at 87 writing
bis best treatise. John Wester stirring
great audiences at 85. Willi im C Bryant,
without soecteolea, raiding in my bouse
"Thanatopsis" at 83 years of age.
Christian men and women in all de
partments serving Gl after beootnlnir
septuagenarians and octogenarians and
nonagenarians prove that there are possi
bilities of work for the aged, but I think
you who are passed the seventies nre near
being through . How do roe feel about it?
You onght to be jubilant, becauss Ufa is a
tremen ious struggle, an t if you have got
through respectaoly and usaftilly you ougnt
to feel like peop.e toward the close of a sum
mer day sentei on thi roc'ii watching the
sunset at Bar Harbor or Capi May or L!t
out Mountain.
1 am gin I to sav that mo it old Christians
are c.ieerfnl. Daniel Webrter visited John'
Adams a short time before bis death and
found him in very infirm health. Ha aald
to Mr. Adams: "lam glut t se you. I
hope you are getting nlont pretty well?"
The rply wss: "Ah, sir, quite tne cjntrary.
I find I am a por tenant ociuoyitg a housr
much shatter j t by time. It swavi and tr am
bles with every w'inJ, and what is wors,
tir, the laodlor.I, as near ns I cin make out,
does not intend to make any reoairs."
Dr. Boman, after passing into the S3vn
ties, was asked by my frirnl, llev. Dr.
Hpenr, "Dr. Beman, how is your halth
now!" an t he reolKl. "I bave on me an In
curable dlseas." "What is that!" asko 1 my
frlon4, and tie septus jcnariaa replied,
'Old age." Both of the oil men I have
mentions! in ten let th'lr remarks for
facetiousness, an 1 old peoolu have a right t j
be facetious. An ajo 1 woman sent for her
p'lysician and told him of her ailments, ani
the doctor said: "Wast would you have me
do, madam? t cannot make you young
again." Hherepllel: "1 know that, doctor.
Wuat I want you to do Is to help un grjw
old a little IjiigiT."
The youtig have their troubles before
them. The old have their troubles b"hin 1
tuein. You bavo got about all nut of this
earth that there is In it, Ite glad that you,
an aed servant of UoJ, are going to try an
other life an i ami I better surroundings.
8top looking back and look ahead. Oil, ye
in the seventies, an i tho eighties, and tin
nineties, your best days are yet to come:
your grandest associations aro yet to be
formed; your best oyeilght is yet to be
lilnilloi; your best hearing is yet to bj
awakenel; your greatest ooJ i Ttft to be
traveled) our glud lest sjug is yet to be
sun;.
The most of your friends have pone over
the border, and you are going to join then
very soon. They are waiting for you. Tbey
arj watching tho golden snore tt see you
In 11 J. They are watching tho shining gate
to see you come through. . They are stand
litl by the throne to see you mount. What a
glad Dour wuen you drop the staff an I tale,
the scepter; when you quit the stiffened
joints and become an immortal athlete! lint
iinar! hear! a reniara pertinout to all people
whether in the twenties, the thirties, the
forties, the fifties, tho sixties, tin evetitlu,
or beyond. What we nil n:e l is to take the
supernatural Into our lives.
Do not let us depend on brain nn I muscle
and nerve. We want a mighty supply oi
the sunernatural. Wo want wi't'a us a di
vine (ores mightier than the waters anl
the teaipjsts. and when the I.irJ too.: two
steps on beitormed O iltlee, putting one foot
on the winds an I tlm other on the wave?, Hi
Erovei Himself mightier than hurricane and
Mow. We want wit I us a divini force
greater than the fires and wusn tho LirJ
eaoied Nebuchadnezzar's (urnacs until Hand
rach. Mehach '" I Abe'lneio did not even
h1" Jtfe J5'TtfUo,vl U'mself J
11 a want a uitiiio iorce sironzer ionn wua
besst, nnd when thn Lord mads Daniel a lion
tamer He proved Hiuuelf stronger than the
wrath of the juuglo. There are so many
diseases in the world wi want with us a di
vine physician capable of combating ail
ments, and our tar 1 waen ou earth showed
what Ho couid do with catalepsy and paraly.
sis and ophthalmia and dementia. Oh, take
this supernatural into all your lives! How
to get it? Junt as you gee anything you
want oy application. IC ycu want any
thing, you apply for it.
By prayer apply for the supernatural.
Take it into your daily business. Many a
man bns been able to pay only 60 cents on
the dollar, who it be had csllo I in the super
natural c.iuld have paid 100 cvts on the
dollar. Why doll") men out of lis J fail in
busini's- Because thore nre not more thau
two men out of a hundred who take God in
to their worldy alfairs. "Bahind the great,
unknown stanloth Got within the shadows
keeping watch upon His own."
A man got un in a New York prayer meet
ing and said: "liolis my partner. 1 did
business without Him for twenty years and
failed every two or three years. I have
been doing business with Him for twenty
I years und have not failed once." t h, take
the ktiournatui'ul into all your affairs! I bad
such au evidence of the goodness of Got iu
temporal tnings when 1 entered active lifo I
must testify. Called to preach at lovely
Belleville, in New Jersey, I entered upon
my work. But there stood the empty par
sonage, an J not a cjnt had I with which to
furnish it. After preaching three or four
weeks the officers of my church asked me if
1 tiid not want to take two or three weeks'
vacation I said "Ye;," for 1 had preached
about all I knew, but 1 fenrod they roust bo
getting tired of me.
When 1 returned to the village after the
brief vacation, they bauds 1 me the key of
the parsonage and asked me if I did not want
to go and look at it. Not suspecting any
thing bad happenod, I put the key iuto the
parsonage door and opened It, uud there was
the hall completely luroisbei with carpet
and pictures aud hatrack, ant I turned into
the purlor, and they wero furnished, tho
softest sofas I ever sat on, and Into the study
and lound it furnished with book-casas, aud
1 went to the bedrooms, and they were fur
iiinbed, ani into tha pantry, aud that was
furuisliei with every culinary article, and
the spiceboxes were filled, aud a Hour-
barrel stxij there ready to be opened.
and 1 went down into the dining room, and
the table was nt and beautifully furnished,
and into the kitchen, and the stove was full
of fue!, au 1 a match lay ou the top of the
stove, aud all 1 had to 00 in starting house
keeping was to strike the match, God in
spired the whole thiug, and it I ever doubt
His goodues", all up aud down the world, call
me un ingrate. I testify thut 1 bave been
iu many tight places, aud God always got
ms out, and lie will get you out of the
tight places.
but the mott of this audience will never
reach the eighties, or the seventies, or the
sixties, or the fifties, or the forties. He who
passes into the forties has gone tar lieyond
the average of human life. Amid thu un
certainties take Uod through Jesus Christ
as your present ani eternal ssiety. The
longest lite is only a small fragment of the
great eternity. We will ull of us soon be
tuore. ,
Kteralty! hour nesr it rolls:
l nuut ins vsst vs.uu of your souli.
Hewsra suit count lbs swful cost
Wast the bsvs gsinsd whose seals are lost.
Two great Corsicau families, the most
powerful in tbe island, the Gavinis and
the Casabincas, bave Just been recon
ciled after a political hostility of more
than thirty years. During, this entire
period the politics of tbe tslaod centered
about tbe beads of these two bouses.
Italy expsnds every year $96,000,000;
for her soldiers, and leu thau f 4,000,
000 for schools. . ,
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ilEHPERANCE.
t ' bow ncmra arc ud.
Tha way In which peranoe often become
tha unoonacioos victims of alcohol la stated
by tha "Feullle do Hygiene et da Poiioa
Banitalre," of NeafcbateJ, Hwitseriand, as
follows "Tha small dosea frequently re
peated, email glasses of liquor regularly
taken every day, are what mas of an honest
cltiaen a victim of alcoholism without his
baring ever, perhaps, passed through a state
of complete intoxication, and without bia
baring suspeotavt the danger to which he
was exposed.1
ALCorfOL lastJHOttRT.
Mr. Frederick Treves, the well-known
surteon of the London Hospital, In hit
"Manual of O.ierative Surgery," has some
striking remarks on the risks attending
operations on the bodies of drunkards. He
sayst "A scarcely worse subject for an op
eration can be foun i tunn is provided by the
habitual oruukard. The condition contra
indicates any but the moat necesary ani
urgeut procedures, suoli as amputation for
severe crush, herniotomy and the like. The
mortality of these operations among nlco
holies Is, it is needless to say, enormous.
Many individuals who state that they Mo
not urluk,' and who, although perhaps never
drunk, are yet always taxing a little stimu
lus In the form of 'nips? and an Vxjcasional
glass,' are often as bad subjects for surgictl
treatment as are tbe ackuowiadged drunk
ards. Of the secret drinkers," continues Me
'irever, "the surgeon has to ns indeed aware.
In bis account of VJaiaiuitiei of tjurgery,'
(Sir James l'aget mentions the case of a pur
sou who was a drunkard on tne sly, and yes
not so much on tbe sly but that it was well
knowu u bis must intimate friends. His
babtts were not asked aftm', and one of bis
lingers were removed b-cause joint disease
bad spoiled it. He die I in a week or teu
days with spreading cellular inflaiiiintciou,
ueh as was lar Iro.u unlikely to occur in ait
habitual drunkard, F.ven abstinence from
alcohol for a weak or twj before an oper
ation docs not sem to greatly modify the
result." Dwelling ou tho immense import
ance to an operator of cultivating "a sur
gical hand," tne seine writer p ints out tuns
"ashnky hand" may bs develops 1 by ins
ular nioJes of livio, by tbs mojernto uwof
alcohol, and by s uoinj. Journal ot 1 u ju
ris ty.
IXDUSTIUAt, PROOHES RXTARnnO.
The industrial progress of many European
Nations is materially retarded by t le drink
ing habits of wage-earners. In F.nilan t,
Hcotland and Ireland alone l'rofessor Leone
Levi has estimated that the wngo-earnlng
classes are spending; t4.,",iXRi.W)t) a year in
Intoxicating drink. There has recently
been a strong temperance movement in Be.,
gium, wbcre tbo working population can
hardly be regarded as models of sobriety.
As the opponents of tbe movement insisted
tbat the evil had been greatly exaggerated,
n manufacturer made a curious anil practi
cal experiment by way of Jttling the ques
tion so far us bis own employes were con
cerned. He marked 700 flv-f ratio coins
with a punch and distributed them in equal
numbers among his workmen when he iid
tbeui their wages. At tbe earn 1 time Ua re
quested the keepers of tbe saloons adjicsn
to his works to band over to hint all tba
coins so marked that came Into tUeir poisea
sion Two days after more thau thras bun
dred of bis silver pieces were returned to
htm by tbe salooa-keeperi. Hubscquent
calculation sbowet thut in less than two
tiays each workman had spent more than
half bis salary at tue saloon. .Uioizj News
Hevoi-d.
A WAKMSO.
Look 1 'Jee yoir boy as he turns Into
these neat" '.riling places ;he liquor sa
loons on bia way from work. Hee bun as he
turns in agnin at night. See him as he turns
out at midnight; stupiHed.daz d, niadd-ned,
ready for any crime, eager tor vlolenc-.and
perhaps, netire tbe sun rise, bearirg the
ir 01 uuin ou me brow. 1 ou stand with-
C.J pwjjf the gallows, and vouahud
der
trot
ot a
sou bear his last wo lllliuor
nt me here." What matte M cry
oisb, "Jly son! My son! Woild to
could have died for you!" You helped
God
to tring him there. Ycu voted to keep the
places open where he oould bring bis fearful
tluoei Upon himself. You are a consenting
party. You were oca of tbe signers ot bit
death-warrant. Christian patriots, lathers,
mothers, can't you see it? Won't you ses
bow this applies to you. Demurest' s Family
Maisiue.
SJVOCI.D PnOHIBITIOM PROHIBTT?
Tbs riummory, a weekly published at th
New York Htate Reformatory at Elinira,
the work ot tbe inmates, asks In a recent
lsue editorially. Would Prohibition Pro
hibit"' From Its answer we quote the fol
lowing: "Legislate against the sale of liquor. W
kuo, or take it for granted, that law will
not prohibit. No prohibitory law ever did.
It will not even do much good, at least are
pnreiitiy, to begin with. But we withdraw
from civilization the temptation contiuually
piowd beiore them, at every comer ot the
streets of our American cities, of liquor
saloons own for young men, not there in
Uulgiug tnem in a taste alaaly acquired,
but developing this taste within him. How
many of those not aiidictej to driuk do you
suppose would trouble themselves seeking
tor some hidden saloou were public saloons
auoiinueu oy iar a ery lew, ludeed. And
yet we hear it said, Vroulbitiun does not
prohibit.' o: course it does not, if you du
not tfive it time to, if you do uot mako it
kutiluieutiy ueueral to testify its actiou."
TKMPER1XCB KEW4 AD WOTH.
The devil's uusterpieo is a drunkard's
borne.
Don't attempt to drown your sorrow In
drinlf ; you will find that sorrow can swim.
In Victoria one out of every sixty of
tbs population is arrested for drunkenness.
Mr. Moody secured 4 JO subscribers to tbe
pledge in one meeting recently iu Dublin.
Tho number of all kinds of distilleries
opened lust year in the United (States was
Kioto.
Lady Henry Somerset has Just opeued a
lodging bouse tor men at one oX tha Loudon
doc la.
The consumption of beer in Bavaria
reaches the enormous quantity ot DOO quarts
year for each inhabitant.
On Guard, the organ of the Army Temper
anos Association, says that there are lb,0iil
abstainers le the British army in India.
"No member will ha permitted to drink
the white man's grog," is the pertinent regu.
lation of the newly formed Zulu church in
Africa.
AtjLlntorf. Dusseldorf, Germany, is th
oldei i' inebriats asylum iu Kurop.-, founded
In lb 11 for tbe retention aud protection of
reletsj.id prisoner whose intemperance led
to their imprisonment.
A leading chemist, Professor Gilbert
Wbeoler, of Chicago, is authority for tbe
stateiuout that beer has almost no nutritive
qualifies, but more frequently introduces
into tbe systsm disease-prcJuoing elements.
In tbe last fivj years the saloons in Chi.
cago bave iuoreasad eighty- five per cent.,
while tbs population has increased fifty per
cent. Tilers is now in Chicago oae saloon
for every KS people, includiug men, women
aud (children. An thut under high license.
Did you ever hear a saloon-keeper saying
to a would-be customer in tba shape of
pour, wretched sot 1 "No, 1 cannot take
your money. You bava too much liquor
now. Take your money and go buy soma
bread with it lor your starving wife and
cbildren?'
' Out of 317 ministers whose name ware
n U e official year-book of tbe Congregas
tlonsi Union of Kngland and Wales there
are W-X abstainers. Of the B40 students be
ing rawed for tbe ministry, or as misiioo
ariesiu the theological colleges, &j& are total
Abstainers.
STORMS CHECK THADE.
Tbe Weither An Important Fsotoe la
Business the Past Week. What the
Bank 21arlns Show.
It. a. pun x co.'i weekly iieview or
Trade says: Storms have greatly interfered
with business and at the same lime mone
tary uncertainly has been felt. White the
volume of trsde Is still very large, actual
distribution seems to have been scarcely up
to expectations of late, though orders still
Continue sufficient to give the great Indus
tries full employment. The great leaturj
for the past lortuight bxs u the unususl
demands for money from the West and
Houth, which has drawn large sums from
New York, and telegraphic reports show
that while money is tight at only one or
two small points, there is strong demauds at
ether c inters.
The defeat nf the antl-ontion bill was fol
lowed by an improvement in grain, and
while wheat had fallen 2ic.lt has since risen
Sc. sales lor the week being 2.0UO.OOO bushels.
Corn is c and o ts e higher, but pork pro
duct slightly lower. Cotton declined 4o
because lie expected settlement of the Kng
lish sirike did not come. Butter and eggs
bave declined sharply ami copper is weak
er. I.enl is nt H'e, thniiKli speculation has
lifted tin to 3).37e. The dry goods trade is
strong. Cottons ars stronger, sheetings be
ing all sold nheud, Intliu iron business
consumption Is enormous, but production
relatively greoier, and concessions are fre
quent lor pig not of the best grades, while
bnrlsnt tne lowest point ever known.
1'ls .s are demoralised in price, though the
luilis are busy uud structural works are well
employed, in general the industrial pro
duction has never .been surpassed at this
season.
Tho business failures the Inst seven days
number for tne I'niied Stntes i. for t'an
nda i. or 11 total of '2(1, us compared with
H'W last week an I iU the we-k previous.
For the corresponding week of last year Iha
figures were '.'40.
nrsisr.as nmoMKTrn.
The bank clearing total lor the week
ended Mnrsli J, li.l. with com 1 orisons.
as leicgrapiiiu 10 itmut-rr, ere:
New York...
.K.M.Wi.noO 1 12.1
. H)7.!l74..')o I 14.1
. li:t.l'l. t. ft I i:i.l
. M,:mMi 1 0.1)
. '2.:i7i,.-iM I 11.8
. IT.'.iii.JH
. Hi.H.T..Vs) I IJ 5
. lii,ol!72 1 ll.a
,. l.'i.MKI.-.'l.'i
Chicago
Boston
Philadelphia ...
St. Lint's
hau Kranci.eo ..
incitiiiutl
Pitrburg
Piiltiiuore . . . . . .
Cleveland .
ll.libl.4J5 I 30.0
(I iiulicut s iiitreasc. Ddecresse.)
The elenrins of TS cities aggregate
$l.:i;i),")!.tMS, n:i increase of I2.:l per cent.
F.xelit ive of New York tliecleiiringsamotitit
to .'lf.'.ilO,:)0;i, an increase of 12.5 per teu t.
LATER NEWS WAIFS.
WASIIIXUTOS.
President Harrison approved the car con
pier bill on Pridav and tho pen with which
be signed it was presentel to K. A. Mosely,
secretary of tho Interstate commerce com
mission. Mr. W. P. Grinstead, of Bowling Green,
Ky., has provided a ksvcI made from a;i
oak grown upon the farm upon which
Abraham Lincoln was born, to be usod by
Yieo 1'resnieiit Stevenson in bis olHclal
duties.
The President Friday evening afilxed his
signnture to the bill known as the Chandler
Immigration and Contract I-ubor bill.
VVSCiLii'.iVS.- w
The Arkansas State . Benate passed vriith
but one dissenting vote the House bill ahJj
ishlng thexon .i.j'.Vor .!..,
lTOIMHTir.
At ew nt'ean s. alter la roinrts or. nm
jinru imtimiiz. r.o niiiiiu til i uuuurv iiuviue
hitherto tttibeatcu Barrier Champion
Joe Goddard to sleep by a ter
rific swing on the jaw. Smith
was cheered to the echo. The fight was fit
a purse of f lO.bOO and a stdo bet of $2.5-.
The loser's end of tho purse was tl.WJ.
Fully 0,0ixj (icople saw the battle.
MSSKTKPS. All ItlKVTS AND fATA MTtRS
At Marksville, I.a.. In a cyclone Max
Brotiilette and a child were killed and hun
dreds of buildings were destroyed.
Five children, ranging in n?o from 0
months lo 11 years, wero suffocated to death
during the burning of a tenement bouse in
one of the poor quarters of New York City.
The parents had gone to work and left them
locked in. Four of the children belonged
to one family named Bernstein.
roKKIU.N.
Three quarieri of the city of Itaub, Aus
tria, is timler water, the river having over
flown. Three hundred bouses have been
destroyed and 40.0 X) aeros of land inundat
ed, The river is carrying dead bodies of meii
women and children along in large uuiu
hers. sltSCKI.I.ANFOfS.
At Columbus. Ind., the grund jury issued
service on UK) society leaders cf that city,
being (he wives and daughters and heads of
prominent families, for playing progressive
euchre in which prizes were offered. The
profession gamblers, who aro seeking re
vengo for being suppressed, are tho insti
gators. LIVES LOST AT A LAUNCHING.
A Frightful Disaster at Bay City. 30
People Thrown Into Icy Waters: -
Three Drowned and O.hers
Missing.
A frightful disaster occurM at Bsv City,
Mich., on Friday, in connection withula inch
ing at tho shipyard of F. W. V.'heelor A Co
The steam barge Kittie M. ForLt s lay froi
in the ice on the north side of the slip
which the launching wus to take p';1
Hundreds of boys and many men 1! 'h-1.
to the steunicr uud climbed to the Varne
deck.
When oil was ready the lust ha v
cut and the schooner with a rush i t;. Hi:
into the slip and an immense wave f
the ice and the steamer Forbes im . :i
The Forbes rolled until half over :r i
the crowd on shore saw a sight w 1, i -U li''"
ed them. Those who had reuiuii.
upper deck were clinging on for lib' 1 i!"f
could find protections, while less ( just
ones were Hying headlong toward tl..'
tor. Fully 30 were thrown overboar f. sul
in an Instant the black forms rose to &t
urfsee between the two boats ami i"
field of broken ice.
How many are lost has not bwen sts!"
ed, but George Hawkins and Hose H ''uttl
and Fred Peel are missing. Fully a m
were Injured, William Battisliull pntJablf
fatally. iir
Whek you pray loragooa rue imfc
ioa't take your dots tocburcb.
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