Thinner
_ 1liS EUROPEAN TOUR DRAWING TO
A CLOSE,
HE FINDS TIME TO FILL SOME OF HIS
CANCELLED ENGAGEMENT,
A Sermon Drawn From the Resolution
ot the Prodigal Son—*I Will
Arise and go to my
Father”—Luke
xv-18.
Loxvox, August 21.—During the past
week Dr. Talmage filled a number of
engagements that were made early in
his tour but which were subsequently
eancelled on account ot his attention to
the distribution of the Christian Herald
relief cargo to Russia. Finding it possi-
ble to fill his old engagements, Dr. Tal-
mage has done so as far as possible.
At Sheffieid, Bradford, Derby and Leeds
there were great ovations paid to him in
the streets and immense audiences
heard him preach. His sermon for to-
day and this week fs found in Luke xiv:
25: “1 will arise and go to my father.”
There is nothing like hunger to take
the energy outof a man: A hungry
man can toil neither with pen nor hand
nor feet. There has been many an
army defeated not so much for lack of
smmunition as for Jack of bread. It
was that fact that took the fire out ot
this young man of the text. Storm
and exposure will wear out any man’s
Efe in time, but hunger makes quick
work. The most awful cry ever heard
on earth is the cry for bread.
A traveler tells us that in Asia Minor
there are trees which bear fruit looking
very much like the long bean of our
time. It is called the carab. Once in
awhile the people reduced to destitution
would eat these carabs, but generally
the carabs, the bean spoken of here in
the text, were thrown only to the swine
snd they crunched them with great
avidity. But this young man of my
text could not get even them without
stealing them, So one day amid the
swine troughs he begins to soliloquize.
He says, “These are no clothes ior a
rich man’s son to wear; this is no kind
of business for a Jew to be engaged in—
feeding swine; I'll go home; I'llgohome
¥ will arise and go to my father.”
J know there are a great many people
. who try to throw a fascination, a ro-
mance, a halo about sin, but notwith
standing all that Lord Byron and George
Sand have said in regard to if it is a
mean, low, contemptible business, and
putting food and fodder into the troughs
of a herd of iniquities that root and
wallow in the soul of man is very poor
business for men and women intended
to be sons and daughters of the Lord
Almighty. And when this young man
resolved to go home it was a very wise
thing for him to do, and the only ques-
tion is whether we will follow him.
Satan promises large wages it we will
serve him; but he clothes his victims
with rags, and he pinches them with
hunger, and when they startout to do
better he sets alter them all the blood-
hounds of hell. Satan comes to us to-
day and he promises all luxuries, all
emoluments it we will only serve him.
Liar, down with thee to the pit! “The
wages of sin is death.” = Oh, the young
man of the text was wise when ho
uttered the resolution, “I will arise and
go to my father.”
In the time of Queen Mary of Eng-
land a persecutor came to a Christian
woman who had hidden in her house
for the Lord's sake one of Christ's
servants, and the persecutor said,
“Where is that heretic?’ The Christian
woman said, “You open that trunk and |
you will see the heretic.” The perse.
cutor opened tho trunk, and on the top
of tho linen of the trunk he saw a
Jass. He said, “There is no heretic
a “Ah,” she said, “look in the
glass and you will see the heretic.” As
I take up the mirror of God's Word to-
day | would that instead of seeing the
prodigal of the text we might sce our-
selves—our want, our wandering, our
sin, our Jost condition—so that we
might be as wise as this young man was
and say, “I will arise and go to my
father.”
The resolution of this text was formed
in disgust at his present circumstances.
1f this young man had been by his em-
ployer set to culturing flowers, or train-
ing vines over an arbor, or keeping ac-
eount of the pork market, or overseeing
other laborers, he would not have
thought of going home. If he had had
his pockets full of money, it he had been
able to say: “I have a thousand dollars
now of My own. What's the use of my
going back to my father's house? Do
you think 1 am going back to apologize
to the old man? Why he would put me
on the limits. Ile would not have going
on around the old place such conduct as |
I have been engaged in. I won't go
home; there is no reason why I should
go home. 1 have plenty of money,
plenty of pleasant surroundings, why
should 1 go home?’ AL! it was his pau-
perism; it was his beggary. Ie had to
go home,
Some man comes and says to me:
*Why do you talk about the ruined
state of the human soul? Why don’t
you speak about the progress of the
Nineteenth century and talk of some-
thing more exhilerating?’ Itis for this
reason: A man never wants the Gospel
until he realizes he isin a famine struck
state. Suppose I should come to you in
your home, and you are in geod, robust
healtli, and 1 should begin to talk about
medicines, and about how much better
this medicine is than that, and some |
other medicine than some other medi-
eine, and talle about this physician and
that physician. Afterawhile you would
get tired, and you would say: “I don’t
want to hear about medicines. Why do
ou talk to me of physicians? I never
Toes a doctor.”
Suppose I come into your house and
1 find you severcly sick, and 1 know
the medicines that will cure you, and I
know the physician who is skillful
enough to meet your case. You say:
* Bring on all that medicine, bring on
that physician. I am terribly ick and
1 want help.” If 1 came to yor ind yo
feel ‘you are all right in body, and al
. right in mind, and all right in soul, you
‘have need of nothing; but suppose I
have persuaded you that the leprosy of
sin is upon
mess, Ob, th
en you gay,
Al df
medicament, bring me Jesus Christ.”
But says some one in the audience,
*How do.you prove that we are in a
ruined condition by din?’ Well 1 can
prove it in two ways, and you may have
your choice. © I can prove it either by:
the statements of men or by the state-
ment of God. Which shall it be? You
all say, “Let us have the statement of
God.” Well, he says in one place,
“The heart is deceittul above all things
and desperately wicked.” He saysin
another place, “What is man that he
should be clean, and he which is born of
a woman, that he should be righteous.”
He says in another place, “There isnone
that doeth good; no, not one.” He says
in another place, “As by one man sin ea:
tered into the werld, and death by sin;
and so death passed upon all men, for
that all have sinned.” :
“Well,” you say, “I am willing to ac-
knowledge that, but why should 1 take
the particular rescue that you propose?”
This is the reason, “Excent a man be
born again he cannot see the kingdom
of God.” This is the reason. ‘There
is one name given under heaven among
men whereby they may be saved.’
Then there are a thousand voices here
ready to say, “Well, 1 am ready to ac-
cept this help of the Gospel; I would
like to have this divine cure; how shall
I go to work?’ Let me say that a mere
whim, an undéfined longing amounts to
nothing. You must have a stout, tre-
mendous resolution like this youug man
of the text when he said, "1 will arise
and go to my father.”
' “Oh,” says some man, “how do I know
my father wants me? How do I know, if
1 go back, I would be received?’ “Oh,”
says some man, ‘you don’t know where
I have been; you wouldn't talk that
way tomeif you knew all the inquities
1 have committed.” What is the flutter
among the angels ot God? Itis news;
it is news! Christ has found the lost.
Nor angels can their joy contain,
But kindled with new fire;
The sinner lost is found, they sing,
And strike tie sounding lyre.
When Napoleon talked of going into
Italy they said, “You can’t get there; if
you knew what the Alps were you
wouldn't talk about it or think ot it;
you can't get your ammunition wagons
over the Alps.” Then Napoleon rose in
his stirrups, and waving his hand to-
ward the mountains he said, “There
shall be no Alps.” That wonderful pass
was laid out which has been the won-
derment of all the years since—the |
wonderment of all engineers. And you
tell me there are such mountains of sin
between your soul and God, there is no
mercy. Then I see Christ waving his
hand toward the mountains, and I hear
him say, “I will come over the moun-
tains of thy sin and the hills of thine
iniquity.” There shall be no Pyrenees;
there shall be no Alps.
Again I notice that this resolution of
the young man of the text was founded
in sorrow at his misbehavior. It was
not mere physical plight. It was grief
that he had so maltreated his father. It
is a sad thing after a father has done
everythiug for a child to have that child
be ungrateful.
How sharper than a se
To have a thankless chi
That is Shakespeare. "A foolish son
is the heaviness ot his mother.” That
is the Bible. Well, my friends, have
not some of us been cruel prodigals?
Have we not maltreated our Father?
And such a Father! So loving, so kind.
If he had been a stranger, if he had for-
saken us, if he had flagellated us, if he
had pounded us and turned us out of
doors on the commons, it would not
have been so wonderiul—our treatment
ent’s tooth is
kind. and yet how many of us for our
wanderings have never apologized! We
apologize for wrongs done to our fellows,
but some of us perhaps have committed |
ten thousand times: ten thousand
wrongs against God and never apolo-
i gized.
1 remark still further that this reso-
lution of the text was founded in a feel-
ing of homesickness.
how long this young man, how many
months, how many years, he had been
away from his father’s house, but there
is something about the reading of my
text that makes me think he was home-
sick. Some of you know what that
feeling is. Far away from home some-
times, surrounded by everything bright
and pleasant, plenty of friends, you
have said, “I would give the world to
be home tonight.” Well, this young
man was homesick for his father’s house.
1 have no doubt when he thought of his
father's house he raid, “Now perhaps
jather may not be living.”
We read nothing in this story—this
parable founded on everyday life—we
read nothing about the mother. 1t says
nothing about going home to her I
think she was dead. I think she had
died of a broken heart at his wander:
ings, or perhaps he had gone into dissi-
you, the worst of all sick
“Bring me that
pation irom the fact that he could not
remember a loving -and sympathetic
mother. A man never gets over having
| lost his mother. Nothing said about her
{ here. But he is homesick for his fath-
j er's house. He thought he would just
i like to go and walk around the old place.
| He thought he would just like to go and
i sce if things were as they used to be.
Many a man after having been off a
long while has gone home and knocked
at the door, and a stranger has come.
It is the old hiomestead, but a stranger
comes to the door. He finds out father
is gone, mother is gone and brothers
and sisters all gone. 1 think this young
man of the text said to himself, * Per-
haps father may be dead.” Still he
starts to find out. He is homesick. Are
there any here today homesick for God,
homesick for heaven?
A sailor, after having been long on
the sea returned to his father's house
and his mother tried to persuade him
not to go away again... She said: “Now
you lad better stay at home; don't go
away; wedon't want you togo. You
will have it a great deal better here.”
Bat it made him angry. The night be-
fore he went away again to sea he heard
his mother praying in the next room,
and that made him more angry. He
went far out on the sea and a ctorm
came up, and he was ordered to very
perilous danty, and he ran up the rat-
Jines, and amid the shrouds of the ship
he heard the voice that he had heard
in the next room.
He tried to whistle it off, he tried to
rally his courage; but he could hot si
lénce that voiee he had heard ‘in the
‘next room, and there in the storm and
balm of the Gospel, bring me that divine
| fever.
i this terrible distress; if this fever should
ot him; tut he is a Father so loving; so §
I do not know |
wretch I have been, what a wretch “I
am! Helpme just now, Lord God.”
And I thought in this assemblage today
there may be some who may have the
‘memory of a father’s petition or a
mother's prayer pressing mightily tipon
the soul, and that this ‘hour ‘they may
make the same resolution I find in my
text saying “I will arise.and go to my
father.” Sof
A lad at Liverpool went out to bathe,
went out intethe sea, went out tod far,
got beyond his depth and he floated far
away. A ship bound for Dublin came
along and took him on board. Saunors
are generally very generous fellows, and
one gave him a cap and another gave
him a jacket and another gave him
shoes. A gentlemen passing along on
the beach at Liver poor found the lad’s
clothes and took them home, and the
father was heartbroken, the mother was
heartbroken at the loss of their child.
They had heard nothing from him day
after day, and they ordered the usual
mourning for the sad event.
But the lad took ship from Dublin
and arrived in Liverpool the very day
the garments arrived. He knocked at
the door and the father was overjoyed
and the mother was overjoyed at the
return of their lost son. Oh, my friends,
have vou waded out too deep? Have
you waded down into sin? Have you
waded irom the shore? Will you come
back? When you come back will you
come in the rags ot your sin or will you
come robed in the Saviour’s righteous-
ness? I believe the latter. Go home to
your God today. He is waiting for you
Go home!
But I remark the characteristic of
this resolution was, it was immediately
put into execution.
The context says “he arose and came
to his father.” The trouble in nine hun-
dred and ninety-nine times out of a
thousand is that our resolutions amount
to nothing because we make them for
some distant time. If I resolve to be-
\ come a christian next year, that amounts
to nothing at all. If I resolve to be-
come a Christiom tomorrow, that
amounts to nothing at all. If I resolve
at the service today to become a Chris.
tian, that amounts to nothing at all
If 1 resolve alter I go home today to
yield my heart to God, that amounts to
nothing at all. The only kind of reso-
lution that amounts to anything is the
resolution that is immediately put into
execution.
There is a man who had the typhoid
He said, “Oh, if I could get over
deport, if 1 could be restored to health,
I would all the rest of my life serve
God.” The tever departed. He got
well enongh to walk around the block.
He got well enough to attend to busi-
ness. He is well today—as well as he
ever was, Where is the broken vow?
There isa man who said long ago, “If: I
could live to the year 1892, by that time
I will have my business matters all ar-
ranged, and 1 will have time to attend
to religion, and I will be a good, thor-
ough, consecrated Christian.” The year
1892 has come. January, February,
March, April, May, June, July—fully
halt of the. year gone. Where is your
broken vow?
“Oh,” says some man, “I'll attend to
that when I can get my character fixed
up; when I can get over my evil habits;
am now given to strong drink.” or,
says the man, “I am given to unclean-
ness,” or, says the man, “I am given to
dishonesty. When I get over my pres-
ent habits, then I'll be a thorough Chris-
tian.” My brother, you will get worse
and worse until Christ takes you in
hand. “Not the rightious, sinners
Jesus came to call.”
Oh, but you say, "I agree with you on
all that, but 1 must put it off a little
longer.” Do you know there were many
who caine just as near as you are to the
kingdom of God and never entered it?
I was at East Hampton, Long Island,
and I went into the cemetery to look
“around, and in that cemetery there are
twelve graves side by side—ihe graves
of sailors. This crew, some years ago, in
a ship went into the breakersat Ama-
gansett, about three miles away. My
brother, then preaching at East Hamp-
ton, had been at the burial. These men
of the crew came near being saved.
The people irom Amagansett saw the
vessel, and they shot rockets; and they
sent ropes from the shore, and these
poor fellows got into the boat; and they
pulled mightily for the shore, but ju t
before they got to the shore the rope
snapped and the boat capsized and they
were lost, and their bodies afterward
washed upon the beach.
Oh, what a solemn day it was—1 have
been told ot it by. my brother—when
these twelve men lay at the foot of the
pulpit and heread over them the funeral
service. They came very near shore—
within shouting distance of the shore,
yet did not arrive on soiid land. There
are some men who come almast to the
shore of God's merey, but not quite, not
quite. To be only almost saved is to be
ost.
1 will tell you of two prodigals—the
one that got back and the other that
did not get back. In Richmond there
is a very prosperous and beautiful home
in many respects. A young man wan.
dered off from that home. He wandered
very far into sin. They heard of him
often, but he was always on the wrong
track. He would not go home. At
the door of that beautiful home one
night there was a great outcry. "The
young man of the house ran down and
opened the door to see what was the
matter. It was midnight. The rest of
the family were asleep. There were the
wife and children of this prodigal young
man, The fact was he had come home
and driven them out.
He said: “Outof this house. Away
with these children; I will dash their
brains out. Out into the storm!” The
mother gathered them up and fled.
The next morning the brother, a
young man who had staid at home,
went out to find this prodigal brother
and son, and he ¢ame where he was and
saw the young man wandering up and
down’ in front of the place where he
had been staying, and the young man:
who had kept hisantegrity said to the
older brother; *“Illere, what does this
mean? Whatis: the matter with you?
Why do you act in this way?’ The,
prodigal looked at him and said: Who
am1? Whom do you take me to be?
He said,. ‘You are my brother.” ‘No,
| 1 am not. Iam a brute. Have yon
|"Aro they dead? I drove them ont last
! night in the siorm. 1am abrute, John,
the darkness he said: “0 Lord," what a
seen anything of my wife and. children?
7 v rt
do you think there is any help for me
Do you think I will ever get over this’
lite ot dissipation?’ He said, John,
There is just.one thing that will stop
this.” = The prodigal ran his finger across
his throat and said: “That will stop if,
and I'll stop it before night. Oh, my
brain; I can stand it no longer.” That
rodigal never got home. But I will
tell you of a prodigal that did get home.
In this country two young men start-
ed from their father's house and went
down to Portsmouth. The father could
ot pursue his children; for some rea-
son he could not leave home, and so he
wrote a letter down to Mr, Griffin, say-
ing: “Mr. Griffin, I wish you would go
and sée my two sons. © They have ar-
ried in Portsmouth and they are going
to take ship and are going away from
home. : [ wish you would persuade
them back.” Mr. Griffin went and he
tried to persuade them back. He per-
suaded one to go. He went with very
easy persuasion because he was very.
homesick already. The other young
man said: “I will not go. I have had
enough of home. I'll never go home,”
“Well,” said Mr. Griffin, ‘then if you
won't go home I'll get you a respectable
position on a respectable ship.” No,
you won't,” said re prodigal; “no, you
won't. Iam going asa common sailor
that will plague my father most, and
what will do most to tantalize and
worry him will please me best.”
Years passed on and Mr. Griffin was
seated in his study one day when a mes-
sage came to him saying there was a
young man in irons on a ship at the
dock—a young man condemned to death
—who wished to see this clergyman.
Mr. Griffin went down to the dock and
went on shipboard. The young man said
to him, You don’t know me, do you?’
“No,” he said, “I don’t know you.”
“Why, don’t you remember that young
man you tried to persuade to go home,
and he wouldn't go?’ ‘Oh, yes,’ said
Mr. Griffin; “are you that man?’ “Yes,
1 am that man,” said the other. *I
would like to have you pray forme. 1
have committed murder and I must die;
but I don’t want to go out of this world
until some one prays for me. You are
my father's friend, and I would like to
have you pray for me.”
Mr. Griffin went from judicial author-
ity to judicial authority to get that
young man's pardon. He slept not
night nor day. He went from influen-
ial person to inifuential person until in
some way he got that young man's par-
don. He came down on the dock and
as he arrived on the dock with the par-
don the father came. He had heard
that his son under a disguised name had
been committing ‘crime and was going
to be put to death. So Mr. Griffin and
the father went on ship's deck, and at
the very moment Mr. Griffin offered
the pardon to the young man the old
father threw his arms around the son's
neck and the son said: “Father, I have
done very wrong and 1 am very sorry.
I wish I had never broken your heart..
Tam verysorry.”! “Oh,” said the father,
“don’t mention it. It Hoesn’t make
any difference now. It is all over. I
forgive you, my, son,” and he kissed him
and kissed him and kissed him.
Today 1 offer you the pardon of the
Gospel—full pardon, free pardon. 1 do
not care what your crime has been.
Though you say you have committed a
crime against God, against your own
soul, against your fellow man, against
your family, against the day of judg-
ment, against the cross of Christ—what-
ever your crime has been, here is par-
don, full pardon, and the very moment
you take that pardon, your heavenly
Fa her throws his arms about you and
says: “Myson, I forgive you. It is all
right. You are as much in my favor
now as it you had never sinned.” Oh,
there is joy on earth and joy in heaven!
Who will take the Father's embrace?
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES,
THE City of Mexico will have a special
exhibit at the World's Fair.
GrrMANY will be represented at the Co-
lumbian Exposition as it never has been at
any previous international exposition.
THE Pilot Commission of New York has
degided to'make afl exhibit at the World's
Fair in the Transportation department.
. THE old whaling bark “Progress,” with
its extensive museum of marine curios and
relies of whaling voyages, is now in the
harbor at Chicago, and is being visited by
hundreds of people. : ¥
Wirriam L. DA¥OLLETTE, Superintendent
of the World's Fair agricultural exhibit for
the State of Washington, is arranging for a
complete model farm in miniature for the
‘Washington exhibit.
It is announced that the Postmaster-Gen-
aral of the United States has decided to is-
sue a new series of postage stamps, with de-
signs appropriate to the commemoration of
the discovery of America.
Hip Lune, the wealthiest Chiness mers
chant in Chicago, together with several in
fluential Chinese o: Canton, San. Fraucisco
aud New York, have applied for spaca ab
the World's Fair for a big tea house.
New York will exhibit at the Worlds
Fair sections of all the trees which are in-
digenous to the State, Of these there are
jorty-three species and eighty-ive varieties,
a number which is not excelled, itis claimed,
in any State in the Union.
Proressor FUTNAM and his assistants,
while engaved in collecting material for the
ethnological exhibit at tne World's Fair,
have made a very important archeological
discovery near ¥ort Ancient, Ohio. It is
that of a serpent mound 1900 feet long and
about ten feet thick.
New York will have a large exhibit of
interesting historical relics at the World's
Fair. Awmong them will be Washington
relics, autozraphs ot all the Presidents, au-
tographs of the signers of the declaration of
independence and famous men of the revo-
lutionary war; portraits of famous citizens
ot New York, including those of all the
Governors; model o? Fulton's steamboat,
and many other relics dating back to revo-
lutionary times.
Tag World's Fair buildings will be dedi-
cated or 1ae 21st of October instead of the
ith, Coneress having passed a bill to that
effzct. October 21 is the exact anniversary
ot Columbus's landing, allowance being
made ior the correction in the calendar
made by Pope Gregory. The chan se of the
date oi dedication was made in the interest
of chronological accuracy, ahd also to oblige
New York Ciry, whica will have a Colum-
bian celebration on October 12. 4 :
“MARSHALL'S GOLD NUGGETT' will be ex-
hibited at the World’s Fair by California,
and it is safe to say that thousands will con.
sider it one of the most interesting of the in.
numerable objects which will be displayed
at the great Exposition. This is the 'iden-
tical muzgett waich ' Marshall picked up in
the American River, February 16, 1818,
when selecting a site tor Suster’s mill, and
which constituted the first discovery of gold
in Calirornia. The nugget is about the size:
ofa lima bean, and, on:account, of its ,a8s0+
ciations and tne aimost incalculable wealth
and development whica have Tesuitel from
its finding, is regarded as an almost pricaless
W. H. Wachter, of Pittsburg, Pa.,
the old rocker at home.
has designed a giant
befits a World's Fair. The wheel will be 230 feet high and revolve between t i
steel trussed towers 115 feet from the ground. It will be the highest seat of observati
on the grounds, except the proposed Columbian tower. It will be of double st
There will be 28 cars swinging easily upon short, horizontal pivots in the up
each car, so that no matter in what position the wheel, the passenger will rest
The baskets will be beautifully upholstered and contain opera glasses, a
and other comforts for the benefit of the sightseers. There will be 44 spokes in |
ster wheel, and each one will be handsomely decorated with the coat of arms representin
the 44 states. The entire structure will be decorated in bright, fancy colors and in gold
and silver bronze. There will be compartments en suite a la Americaine, Great in
Germany, France, Austria, China, etc., and the whole surmounted with flags of all na-
tions. The carrying. capacity of the wheel will be 280 people, and the time f
loading and unloading, including several revolutions, will be. 15 minutes, providing {i
about 1,000 persons per hour. In eight hours per day, 8,000 people at 25 cents per capita
can be carried. The plant will eost $24,000, will be entirely of steel and will be run by
electricity. There will be four stations to load and unload at. the same instant. Th
foundations will be 18 feet deep, anchored with sand. There will be a neat arrangemen
to protect passengers in inclement weather, and the entire resis'ance of wind pressu
against tower and wheel will be 2 stress of 84,000 pounds, while the weight of the wheel
net, is 190.000 pounds, and seats and passengers 90,000 ponnds, a total of 280,000 pounds.
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WORLD'S FAIR INVITATIONS.
Elaborately Engrossed Parchmsnis to
Be Sent to European Potentates to
Participate in the Columbian Celebra-
tion. Se
The State Department at Washington, D.
C., is about to send outinvitations, the like
of which were probably never issued before
by the Government! = They are to be most
elaborate affairs and will be engrossed on
the finest and most enduring parchment.
The invitations are to Marie Christine,
Queen Regent of Spain; to the infant King
Alfonzo; to the Duke of Viragua, the lineal
descendant of Columbus; to Emperor Wil-
liam of Germany; t> Queen Victoria and
other high personages of Europe, to take
part in the commemoration of the landing
of Columbus. ' Invitations have already
been sent to these powers to participate in
the World’s Fair, but this is a'special honor
intended for those most closely interested
in the celebration of the discovery of
America: £
The invitation to the Queen Regent of
Spain is couched. inthe most courtly lan
guage . It reads: ‘Great and good friend
The Congress of the United States, recogniz
ing the i'lustrions services of your ancestor
Queen Isabella, of Spain; desire that a
special invitation be extended to. you to take
art in the coming commemoration of the
landing of Columbus.” :
BETTER CROR PROSPECTS.
Tune Outlook so Good That a Marked
Improvement Is Noted in Almost All
Lines of Business.
R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of ‘trade
says: Later advices from the West promise
rather better crops of wheat and corn, and
cotton prospects are a. little better, though
neither yield will approach that of last year,
‘With abundant supplies brought over, the
outlook is so good that business distinctly
improves, and the prospect for fall trade is
ever where considered bright. The great
strikes in New York, Pennsylvania and
Tennessee appear to have scarcely an ap-
preciable effect upon business, and though
interruption of traffic is threatened on
many important railroads, stocks are gener-
ally steady or strong, closing but a small
fraction lower than a week ago.” More gold
has gone abroad, but money is. abundant
and easy, and collections in almost; all quar-
ters are more satisfactory than nsual.
Wheat has been weaker and declined # of
a cent with western receipts ,exceeding
5,200,000 in four Jags, while Atlantic exports
were not 1,500,000 bushels, and sales here
only 16,000,000 bushels. Reports of harvest-
ingin spring wheat regions are more en-
couraging. Corn has advanced a cent on
sales of only 3,000,000 busbels, mainly be-
cause of possible interruption of traffic, for
western reports are definitely more promis-
ing, especially to Kansas and Illinois, Oats
have declined only a quarter, but lardis a
shade stronger. S :
At Baltimore receipts of fruit and vege-
tables are not equal to demands of packers
and manufacturérs of clothing are busy.
Iron mills at Pittsburg will soon resume,
but at present shipments of coke are the
sniallest for some time, and business in
window glass is not active. At Cincinnati
trade is quiet, but DIospects fine, and with-
drawals of whiskey are unusually heavy.
Yair activity is seen at Cleveland; with
healthy trade, and rolled iron products very
active and firm, Maa
General trade at Chicago is better than in
any other ‘yesr and ' collections better. At
Milwankee collections are slow, but trade is
largely in excess of last year.
The business failures occurring through-
out the country during the last seven days
numbers for the United States 172, and for
Oanada 25, a total of 197, as compared with
189 last week and 184 the week previous to
the last, and 218 for the corresponding week
of last year. ;
‘Two Men Killed in a Collision.
At Beverly, Mass., a passenger train . col.
(Jided with a freight train on the Boston and
Maine railroad. Bre een
was killed, Engineer
taken to the hogpital.”
oman ran Herne
ge ones died oe iy
im ~ 1 delphia Record.
The invitations to Emperor William a
other potentates, relate to the matter of
relics of Columbus. The exact form of th
invitation to young Alphonzo has not been
determined upon yet. It would hardly
the proper thing fo:address him as: Gr
and good friend,’? as be is hardly old enoug
for that distinction. The form will be
lected in a few days, : : :
These invitations will be delivered in per-
son, by a messenger, Hon. W. E. Curtis, o
the Bureau of American Republics, wh
will leave September 1 for Spain.
THOSE SOUVENIR HALVES.
The World’s Fair Directors Can Make a
Good Speculation. =
Treasurer Seeberger, of the World’s Fair
Board of Directors, is in receipt of a num-
ber of new offers to pay premiums on the
gouvenir = half dollars. The: largest
lot of these is an offer to pay $7,500, for
the lot, which is worth in currency $2,500.-
000.. This offer, which is the largest yet
received, came from the Horton Company.
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- Uncle Sam at the Fair. :
Supervising Architect Ed Brooks has left
Washington for Chi cago for the purpose of
selecting sites for four government
ings for'the World's Fair. One willbe used.
to exhibit the practical operations of the
signal servicein taking observations, etc.;
another will consist of a tully-edyipped
army hospital:a third will be devoted to the
exhibit from the Indian school at Carlisle,
and the fourth will be a facsimile of the .
naval ohservatory at, Washington fitted #p
with an equatorial telescope and . other
astronomical apparatus. So
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THE MINERS ARE OATH-BOUND
Fearful Obligation Taken by the Ten-
: nessee Organizations.
The Tennessee miners are bound by a
strong oath which reads as follows:
You do each of su sol-muly swear, in the’ pres-
snce of the: Almig ‘these witnes es that
in joining this company you do so voluntarily and
of your own free will and accord. » 3
, Yon do each covenant to obey all orders: commit-
tedrto ‘yot'and to keep profoundly secret all our ob-
jects and aims, not even glving the name of any
one a member of this company to any individual or
any inquisitorial power whatever, SA
You do further solemnly swear to obey your
vices. 3 :
And you further bend and obligate yourself by all |
you hdld sacred on earth, or in the future world,
ot to desert or betray this organization into the
hands of its enemies either by signs, wo! or ac
or in writing, symbols or characters. :
And Jou further’ promise to keep forever secret
this obligatio 1 ' be racked or
nanged to the gibbet, your right arm s 4
than reveal anything detrimental to this labor com-
pany, formed forthe expressed ‘purpose ‘of muta ly
protecting every me) ber from injustice, risking
even our very lives in their defense.
You solemnly promise to rise at the honr of mid-
night and go through rain and cold, if need be, to
succor a member in part and do all man can do for
their relief. Prison bars should not deter, or hinder:
you from being true to the order, of which ‘yo: are
now a member. 5 od EE 3
Pledging ourselves to stick to 1t for one year un-
less sooner discharzed, even then you agree to keep
secret forever the naines of this baud. e
you betray thiscompany you solemnly call heaven
to witness your eternal disgrace. © g
Pledge yout neck for the tuifilment of th's solemn |
and voluntary oath, and may God and heayen re-
cord the same against us alls A
‘his oblization did not seem to satisfy
the conspirators, and they stood around the
fire, every man clasping his neighbor's hand
when this covenant was read the leader
and chanted by the rank and file. Tmpres--
sive and gruesome was the mountain as the
tones of the deep voices repeated the eoven-
ant oath.
In this covenant we this day agree to act jointly
and together, We swear te be true to. each other,
to stand by one another if need be to the death, to
keep what we do a secret from all the world, ‘and i
any one betraysit:be others swear to follow nim
wherever he may flee, seek him wherever hé may
shelter himself and take vengeance upon him by
taking his lire,
If an. of us fail in this oath may we be accursed
ever ufter. ese cd {UR 2?
The Wheat Raport.
The Nurthwestern Miller reports wheat in
rivate elevators in Minneapolis at 924,000
ushels-—59,000 bushels less than last Mon-
day. The total stock at Minneapolis and
Duluth is 7.855,066 bushels, a decrease of
1,303,584, bushels. The Market, Record
estimates thie wheat in country elevators of
Minnesota and the two Dakotas at 745,600
bushels, a shrinkage for the week of 220,100
bushels, The aggregate stock of the North-
west is thus made 8, 66 b s,
1,523,683 bushels less than fast Mo
“Pps is an application “tor. olie
a8 the man sald when hg stuck
porous plaster on his pain.—Phila
build-