Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 19 December 1891 — Page 10

,TDE NEWS OF_TJIE WEEK1STILL

La 0i is epidemic in Denver. (hip is prevailing all over the country. t'hief Mayes, of tin: Cherokee nation, dead.

Mrs. (irover Cleveland is in a precarious stale of In altli. Secretary Hiainc will address a puhlii meeting in Hoston .Ian. 7.

Lechey is rampant in the prison at Sal Lake. I. tali. An investigation is beinj made.

Six children of cotton pickers left a homo alone, have been burned to deatl near I'ari*. Tex.

Near Crand Junction. Colo., three tnci tried to thaw out a stick of dynamite One wa killed outright and two fatalh hurt.

The House of Representatives of tin SoulIi Carolina Legislature has passed stringent prohibition bill. The Senati will pass it also.

A plow once owned and used by Danie ebter has been presented to the Marshfield (Mass.) Agricultural Society, ltniaj be sent to the World's Fair.

Three train men were killed and several unknown injured in a freight wreck 01 the Mobile & Ohio railroad, near Murphysboro, III., on the 12th,

During November 2:.',25.'! pension claims of all classes were allowed, upon which the lirst pavments aggregated §2,8«3,80S average payment to each pensioner 8124.20. Of the 22.2j."{ claims allowed l."i,(XK) wen uniler the act of .1 une 27, IS'.X).

A great, sensation has been caused at 'range Cit v, Fla., by the murder of foiu ii'I'miiis- Miss A. Ii. llrtice, of New York: Mrs. L. 1). 1 latch and lit tie.son: and young I'rank Puckwood. The bodies were rightfully mutilated. It is believed rnmps committed tjie deed.

Mrs. Mary Reynolds died at Nashville, some years ago. Her weight was 300 pounds. An attempt, was made a few lays since to nuneve the remains when it .vas discovered that they had petrified and 'Veighed nearly SO!) pounds. A dozen men •vere required to load and unload them.

As a result of a confession of a liegn named Henry Subera. of Columbia, S. C.. !o the etTect that he murdered Thornton Nance some months ago, the ten men who :iad been sentenced to hang Oct. 24 last. Jill, ho.-e execution was stayed by an apical to the Supreme Court, will now :e, released. Subera confesses that hu ilone coimnitted tlie deed, and that, he naUe a clean breast, of it because he does Kit want, to see tIn* ten innocent men .stifle for Ins crime.' liile it is iinpossiIle to obtain an offi:ial at kiiowledgment to that, ell'i ct. it is no\\ ii that a commercial convention tinier the reciprocity clause of the McKinley let has been practically concluded be.ween (Jeruiany and the United States, mil that tho President, will soon issue a jroclaiuation announcing the fact. Tho :ouvntioii contemplates the free transportation or Herman sugar into the United Stale.-, and the reduction of duty oil Amurvan cereals ii ported into Germany from to it1. Illlll'.i.,.

Two disastrous and horribly fatal fires occurred at. Louisville. Ky., Wednesday, l'he linns that suffered were the Hoono Paper Co. ]•'. A. Menne it Co.: Welle.. AVnlTork it Co., and others. Four firemen R'ere killed by falling walls at the tlrst ire. At the second forty girls or young adiesemployed in a candy and tire-works actory were hemmed in and forced to Mimp from four-story windows. Of these levj-n were suffocated and four men were ilso buried beneath tho walls. In all 15 ives were lost. The financial loss is .3000,*Xj.

FOREIGN.

l'eace again prevails in Itrazil. Thirty lives were lost in recent gales In iouth Wales.

One of the last acts of tho Brazilian Congress before its dissolution grants a jension of .?(K),(X a year to the late Dom •'eilro, ex-Kmperorof lirazil, with arrear* iges from November ir, 1889. This is to bo mid in monthly installments to his heirs.

China will take no part in the World's r'uir. OHicial information has been revived at, the State Depart,ment. to this dl'ect. It is tho result of a long negotia.ion in which it was hoped that tlm tin pirn might 'ie porsuaded to take renerous part, in the World's Fair. A tinal •onTerence was recently held between Mr :1 itchcock. representing the exposition i'id the Chinese authorities. Ministei )enl\ was present at, the conference, and 1, .Mi-t throi::ch him that the State DepartKent learned, last Saturday, of the linai :oac!iis on of tin- Chinese authorities. Tho (rounds of declination are that tha jnit.ed S'ates has (liscrimina ted igalnst citi/eiis of the. empire by restrict' njr their entrance into this country. ThO jositlo'i of the i'mpcror was clearly (leaned during the conference. He could not eu whv hissubjects were good enoutl'h to joine to the Columbian Imposition, and yet, were n.it. good enough to be admitted 14) the United Stales at other times. At ihe present, lime the Chinese could not. jonie to tlie exposition- without a special let of Congress, and China doits not want •o be. put, in the humiliating attitude ol aeediti-j a special passport. The Chinese Authorities say they will allow Chinese aie-ch.ani.s already in the country to participate ne exposition, but as a country liter will take no part whatever in tho •'air.

Mr. Poller introduced in tlie SenatG Monday by request, a bill providing foi the issuance, bii nnially, of a military register of the United Stales, showing tlie jinnies, addresses, the number of the pension certificates, etc., of all surviving persons who have lie'ii, are now or who may hereafter !.o employed in '.he military service of ihe country. In the event that there is not surplus money enough in lit treasury to carry out the provisions of the acL is made the duty of the Secretary oi the Treusnry to cause a sui\icicncy of tin money of the United States to be prepared and covered iu the treasury for the purpose. The. Secretary is to cause the luonej to l)e expiessed in declaratory and noi promissory terms. It, is to show plainly on its face that it is a full and not part.ir. legal tender. The notes are to be rangec in tiventy-eight....denominations from 1 mill to $5,001).

CRACKING

Irirh Leaders Propose to I-Tavs Peace If They Have to Fight.

Ssnjuinnrj- Kncouiitcr of Pnrnotlltos nnti MeCarthyitcs Sunday, in Which Dnvltt Gets Ills IIcail lilt.

Michael Dnvitt, the famousTrish leader, was seriously wounded during a riot is Wnterford City, Ireland. Sunday.

Mr. Davit,t and Mr. William O'Brien had gone to Waterford to support tho candidature of Mr. Koanc, thenomir.ee of the McCarthyites for the scat in Parliament made vacant by the death of Mr. Richard Power. Mr. Kcane's opponent is Mr. Redmond, a member of the I'arnell wing O] tho Irish party. Mr. Davitt was strongly urged by the McCarthyites to stand fot Waterford, but ho declined to do so, and in consequenco of his refusal Mr. Keane was made the nomineo.

The riot in which Mr. Davitt was injured was one of tho most sanguinary and most vicious of any of the political rtirs that have recently attended tho discussions In Irish towns of the rival loaders.

Ominous rumors of an impending nr.? had been oxciting tlie populace for some little while, and a largo force of GOO policc had been drafted into the town, in thehopo that their presence would sveurt order. Tho Parnullite leaders, Messrs. Redmond, Learyand Dalton.had tnen in Waterford some days. In tho afternoon special trains brought hundreds of the supporters of tliG rival candidates and tliq various contingents, armed with formidable blackthorn shillalahs, who marched tin ottgh the streets to iho music of brass bands. Messrs. Davitt and others, also attended by the music of a baud, proceeded for the quarters of iho National Coni» mercial Club. En route there thcdisordei arose.

A mob composed of members of the Parnellite faction began one of the fiercest condiets that has characterized tho prcvailim hostilities. Tho opposing crowds fough at very close quarters and surged to and fro through the streers, seemingly regard* lass of tho presence of the police. Volleys stones wero hurled through the ^-:r anil the blackthorns moved with a v'cious celerity that sent many of the ioturs to hospitals, the police station and '.b».n homo for prompt surgical attention

In the midst of tho affray Mr. Davitt resolved a nasty cut, on tho forehead, from /.'blch tho blood Howed freely. Mr. Tantor and others were injured.

At lart the police formed a cordon and rliv'ded the opposing mobs and the Davitt crowd reached the club rooms. MrO'Urien made tho speech of the day. JIo bitterly denounced the assault upon Ills !crces, and said tho crowds who had injured Davitt had struck a glorious blow fur the Irish cause. Davitt's answer to thai, blow was that now he was a caiidiate for Waterford.

O'llrien, in his concluding words, acnscd tho police of using their batoma more in favor of tlie attacking mob than otherwise. Tho police, ho asserted, protec ted the Parnolites, while the force oi their blowo wa9 devoted to the McCarthyites.

The main fight occurred for tho posses" slon of tho bridge leading to the town Tli' police woro entirely unable to quel

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conflict. Tho bands of musicians re.wived much ill usage, their brass horns being twisted and drums torn. Constant skirmishes continued until tho Davitt crowd reached its rendezvous, the indiscriminate blows of tho polico prodnciua litUe effect,.

While Mr. O'Brien was making"'his speech Dr. Tanner was dressing Mr. Davitt's wounds, and after ho was bandaged Mr. Davitt appeared at ono of tho windows of the club house and spoke briofly,

Mr. Redmond, upon hearing of the affair, drove to Mr. Davitt's hotel and loft a note expressing his regret for what had occurred,

There woro slight skirmishes as the various deputations were departing to the railway station on tho road home. Altogether t.ho day and the occasion ha3 been disgraced by a cruel, vicious row. and the feeling among the adherents of the respective factions i3 as bitter and as iutous* as ever It was.

MRS. FARSONS EREAKS LOOSE.

Sho Violently Donounreg All Modern Social Institutions.

Mrs. Lucy Parsons invited arrest. a loudly as speech would allow, at a meeting nf t,!ie International Association of Working People, an anarchistic organization, at Chicago, on the. 13th. In an intiaminatorv speech Mrs. Parsons scored the Mayor the police and the capitalistic press, and pointing to an American i!ag immediately above her, she said: "That tlag is bii infanioiis lie. In theory it, sells the foreignei that tyranny is dead and that freedom reigns, but it floats over .10,(too,0(»of tin most abject slaves that tho world evei saw." Sho appealed to the people to dc sway with tho existing order of society, and said tlie time would come when the anarchists would not hesitate to repel any attempt to suppress free speech such us made at Grief's Hall.

CHILIANS ARE MAD.

They Kcyuril Harrison's Mossago us a Brcuch or Usage,

A Santiago dispatch to tho London ri-mes says: "President Harrison's message has had tho efi'cet of a bomb shell here. It, is regarded in oflicial circles as a breach of diplomatic usage. Tho foreign uliico has sent to all Chilian legations for pub ication a circular retlecting o'.llcial and public opinion on tho subject. The OHicial Ua :etia published notes exchanged between tho Chilian government and Mr U.gan U. S. minister. These corroborate the declarations contained in the circular sent to the Chilian legations. It appears that tho foreign ofiice asked Mr. Egan in 1 courteously-worded note on Xov. tu supply t.ho proffered testimony to substan tiate his grave charger, against the Chilian officials. A month's delay in complying with this request prevented President. Harrison from knowing the result of l.hu inquiry into tho Baltimore a'.I'air.a know]. jdgo of which, it is believed, would havo altered his message entirely."

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INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Huntington is alarmed about, bail water# Crawford county roads are in a bad condition.

A now Democratic club has been organized at Michigan City. A tramp, dressed in four suits of clothes, was killed by a Pan-Handle freight train near Richmond.

The Salainonie Gas Company, ot !•, Wayne, struch oil while bor-ag fo^i— near Hartford City,

Rev. Oscar MeCulloeh, tlie?':ls::-:i!ir.is'-n divine, scholar and philanthropist, died at Indianapolis Thursday.

Mary Hobbs. of Keinpton, has been sentenced to tlie reformatory for larceny Recently her brother was murdered by John lJonecutter, who stood trial at Tipton, and was sentenced to ten years' im prisonmont.

Tho Indiana Tile, Urick and Drainage Association held its annual session at Iujianapolis Tuesday and Wednesday. The proceedings were almost solely of interest to the members of the convention alone, being largely devoted to methods of manufacture, etc. The refusal of the railway -•ompanies to grant cheap rates reduced he attendance to about thirty.

An opinion was handed down by the •Supreme Court Tuesday which will bo hailed with acclamations of approval by ill mankind, and perhaps with huzzas of jov by a no small portion of the married female contingent of Indiana. This opinion iceords married women rights which have long been disregarded, and is a step in the Jireetion of equal priviledges and impartial jtistiee to both sexes. Chief Justico Blllttt. rs the author of the opinion and loneoives it in most chaste, chivalrous anuuage. The gist of opinion is that .vomen have the right to recourse fordamiges where the affections of their lawful qiouses have been alienated and stolen by thers of the fair sex. Heretofore busDa nils alone havo boon accorded the prerogative of obtaining recompense for the oss of marital happiness. Tho common aw of England and tlie established un.vritton law of this country has recognized liat the male sex alone has such a rightout now. thanks to Judge Elliott, justico ong drawn out is about to assert itself in ,lie case of jilted wives.

State

The Grange elected the following ofliiiors Wednesday: Master—Aaron Jones, St. Joseph county.

Overseer—Joel Davis, Bartholomew. Librarian—Taylor 1!, Fra/.ier, Clinton Steward—William Schroder. Elkhart. Assistant, Stewart—E. Pauley, Boone. Chaplain—Milton Trusler, Fayette. Treasurer— W. Messimore. Kosciusko. Secretary—J. H.Walker, Decatur. State Repro.scntat.ivo—O. M. Curry,VigoLady Assistant Steward—Miss J. Frank Jlmstead, Steuben.

Executive Committee—First distrct. 1'. Atkinson. Steuben Second, John Tilion. Franklin.

Pomona—Mrs, Laura Adams, Adams. Ceres—Mrs. Isabella Trusler. Penth Mora—Mrs. Laura Robinson. A part of the afternoon was required to :omplete the election of officers. The reports of committees were then called for The cominitt.ec on resolutions made report, indorsing the free delivery of mail in the rural districts, as was recommended by Postmaster General Wauamaker in his report to Congress. This was adopted. In regard to the resolutions demanding Government ownership of railroads, tho committee reported: "Thecommittee is of tlie opinion it would be an unsafe experiment., but we believe that, the abuses which rroep into the railroad systmis in tho issuing of watered stock, and in the rates ihargod for freight in pools with other roads, wipe out the competition which aught, to prevail in carrying the products of tho farm. The Grange favors such laws as will compel the railioads to carry freight at rates consistent with service rendered. Wo further recommend that a law be .enacted by Congress compelling railroads to carry passengers at a rate not to exceed 2 cents a mile for the distance traveled." This caused much discussion, but was adopted. In regard to the resolution on option deals the Grange, adopted the recommendation of the committee that laws tie enacted by Congress to punish and prevent combinations when made for the purpose of either increasing it depressing prices of the products of tin farm. A further resolution was carried through as reported, earnestly requesting the Indiana delegation iu Congress to maintain and keep in force the law, requiring all meats for the export trade, to le inspected where slaughtered, thereby guaranteeing to our meat consumers in foreign countries that nothing but,

healthy animals and meats are. exported consumption. The lirango also for

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adopted tho following resolution: "Vntin committee also consiUere.I the resolution I condemning the action of the last, General I Assembly for enacting a fee and salary law, and'allowinij along period t:f time elapse before it becomes operative as a breach of faith by that body in failing to give present relief to the tax payers olthe State."

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Jacob Cross, a wealthy citizen of Rush county, lias been married six times in fourteen years. He is now 73 voars old, and six feet, ton inches high,

During a great mass meeting of old soldiers, at Mitchell, a resolution was passed, asking Congress to pass a law granting 64 per month to all soldiers who liayo not received pensions.

Warren Speicher. of Speieherville, while calling upon Miss Rose Raines, his betrothed. began playing with a revolver and the weapon was discharged. The bullet penetrated his left lung, barely missing the heart.

A dynamite bomb was exploded in the fan cylinder attached to tlie Pratt minn, blowing it to fragments. The mine is owned by the Coal RlulY Mining Co., ami operations were immediately suspended. It will require several days to repair the damage.

Warden Patten has submitted his annual report to the Governor. The prison is now self-supporting and costs tho State nothing. The daily average of prisoners was .1!I0, an increase of'J.'i over the present year. Four escaped. Since H-'i' there have been 301 escapes. Eight deaths occurred during the year.

William Johnson, contractor and build?r. of Noblosville, took with him to Elwood a number of colored hod carriers to work upon a building. Upon arrival, however, the laborers were unable to secure board and lodgings, and threats were freely made because of their coming that, they sought safety by returning to Noblosville.

Dove, tho oldest, employe in

v.overnment, service, died Friday. He

"vas a clerk in the Treasury Department during President Jackson's administration.

It is understood that, Mr. Wheeler ol Michigan will, after a few days, move to expunge from the record the resolution ol censure, etc., tiassed upon the Hon. W. 1). Rvnum by Speaker Reed. There will likely he soinc opposition to this proceeding from the Republicans.

Speculation is going on as to the committee positions. Holman may get something, but it may be his old place—chairman of tho appropriation committee, ii is believed that Mr Crisp pledged some oi the best places before Mr. Hoiman went to his support on the last, ballot. Shively. who also left Springer and went to Crispwill probably be well rewarded. Mr. By. num and the other five who stayed by Mills to tho very last man, have to bt satisfied with inferior committee positions, though it, it is believed that Bynuni may be needed on the ways and means committee. Rrookshire would like to lie chairman of the committee on agriculture but this will of course go to Hatch.

The reciprocity correspondence, between the United States and Germany, whereby Gorman sugar continues to havo free entry into the United States, is published Germany reduces her tariff on American products as follows: On wheat 30 pet cent,, rye '0, corn UO. butter 15, salted and pickled pork and beef 15, wheat, Hour and corn meal 30, bari malt, and malted barley 10 her cent. Lumber and timber (1) raw or merely rough hewn with an ax or saw, with or without bark, oaken bar-rel-staves unchanged: CJ) marked in the direction of the longitudinal axis, or prepared or cut, otherwise than by rough hewing, barrel stayes not. included under No. 1 ur,peeled osiers and hoops, hubs, felloes and spokes per cent (3) sawed in tho direction of the longitudinal axis, boards sawed eantlo woods and other articles, sawn or hewn, 20 per cent. meat,, slaughtered, fresh and dressed meat, with tho exception of pork, 25 per cent,. pork,slaughtered, fresh and dressed meat, with the exception of bacon, fresh or prepared. 15 per cent. The lirst note is iroui Gen. Foster to Charge d'AIVaires von Miinn. dated August r.'t. ~lt sets forth the passage and successful workings ol the meat, inspection law, which removes all Germany's past, objections to trade with tho United States. Mr. von Mutin replied on the same day that, lie thought, so to, and offers not only to admit pork products, but also other Americ.au agricultural products on the same terms as those of Austro-llungary. Gen. Foster wrote another letter and then the whole business was fixed up.

President Harrison Is about to take a most important step in the commercial dealings of this country with others, and the lirst public announcement of the step is made in this item. It, is nothing short ol a proclamation now being prepared, practically placing an embargo against all countries which have not made reciprocity treaties with the United States under the provisions of the McKinley act. The proc lamation will be issued on the 1st day ol January next, which is less than three weeks off. It will attach retaliatory duties upon sugar, molasses, coffee and tea imported from those countries which hav,, failed to take advantage of the reciprocity clause. This proclamation will be ol more importance in its commercial effect than tho negotiating of a dozen treaties, from the fact that it affects many countries and practically closer our custom-houses against, tho chief articles of export, of several nations. Tlie proclamation will be mainly important, in its effect on the great tea imports of China aud Japan, the enormous hide products the Argentine Republic, and the sugar and coffee products of Uruguay, Paraguay and several minor southern countriesChina and Japan might have, secured a remission of this 10 cents per pound duty on tea, but they have failed to take ail' vantage of the reciprocity clause, and the reclamation will bo specially directed against them. The Argentine Republic is the great exporter of hides to this un try. The average value of importations is seldom short of -51,(X*J,000. OLItor countries which will suffer by the proclamation are flayti and the Hawaiian islands, with their great sugar products, and the Danish. Dutch and French colonies to the smith of this country.

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THE NET IS SPREAD.

Sin is the G-arlanded, Robecl a.nd Tnnketed Daughter ot Hell.

Her Volca a \Tarh1n, lior hcMc a Setting Sun—Iter. l)r. Talma^e'g Sunday

Rev. Dr. Talmago preached at A-nn Arbor, Mich., Sunday. Text, Pro v. i., 17. He said:

The call bird of sin tempts men on from branch to branch until they tiro about to drop into the net. If a num finds out in time that it is the temptation. of the devil, or that evil men are attempting to capture his soul for time and for eternity, the mun steps back. He says- "1 am not to be caught in that way I see what you are about surely in vain i.s the net spread in the sight of any bin).''

There are two classes of temptations—the superficial and the subterraneous—those above ground, those, under ground. If a man could see sin as it is, he would no more embrace it than he would a leper. Sin is a daughter of hell, yet she is garlanded aud robed and trinlcetod. Her voice is a warble. Her cheek is the setting sun. Her forehead is an aurora. She says to men: "Come, walk this path with me it is thyme and prinirosed, and the air is bewitched with the odors of the hanging gardens of heaven the rivers are rivers of wine, and all you have to do is to drink theni up in chalics that sparkle with diamond and amethyst and chrysoprasus. See! It is'all bloom aud roseate cloud and heaven." Oh! my friends, if for one moment the choiring of all these -concerted voices of sin could be hushed, we should see the orchestra of the pit with hot breath blowing through liery flute, and the skeleton arms on drums of thunder and dat-Ktiess beating the chorus: "The end thereof is death." 1 want to point out the insidious temptations that are assailing more especially our young men. The only kind of nature comparatively free from temptation, so far as I i-an judge, is tho cold, hard, stingy, mean temperament. What would Satan do with such a man if he got him? Satan is not anxious *0 get a man who, after a while may disputa with him the realm of everlasting meanness. It is the generous yoi: man, the ardent young man, the social young man, that is iu especial peril.

A young man, empty of head, empty, of heart, empty of life—you want 110 Young Men's Christian Association to keep him safe he is safe. He will not gamble unless it is somebody else's stakes. He will not break the Sabbath unless somebody else pays the horse hire. He will not drink unless someone else treats him. He will hang around the bar hour after hour waiting for some generous young man to come in. The generous young man comes in and accosts him and says: "Well,

will you have a drink with me today'.'" Tho man, as though it were a sudden thing for him, says: "Well, well, if you insist on it I will—I will."

To mean to go to perdition unless somebody else pays his expenses? For such young men we vvill not fight. We would no more contend for them than Tartary and Ethiopia would light as to who should have the great Sahara Desert but for those young men who are buoyant and enthusiastic, those who are determined to do something for time and eternity, we will light,and we now declare everlasting war against all the influences that assail tliem. and we ask all good men. all philanthropists to wheel into line, anckallthe armies of heaven to bear down upon the foe, and we pray Almighty God that with the thunderbolts of His wrath He will strike down and consume all these influences that are attempting to destroy the young men for whom Christ died.

Tlie first class of temptations that assaults a young man is led 011 by the skeptic, lie will not admit that he is an infiel or atheist. Oh, no! He is a "free thinker he is one of vour "liberal" men he is free and easy in religion. Oh, how liberal he is. He i.s so liberal that he will give away his Bible he i.s so liberal that he will give away the throne of justice iie is so liberal that he would be willing to give (Jod out, of the uuiver.se. he is so liberal that he would give up his own soul and the souls of his friends. Now more could you asic in thu way of liberality? The victim of the skeptic has probably just come from the country. Through the intervention of friends he has been placed in a .shop. On Saturday the skeptic says to him, "Weil, what are you going to do to-niorrow?" He says, "lam going to church." "Is it possible?" says 1 he skeptic. "Well, I used to do such tilings. I was brought up, as I suppose you were, in a religious family, and I believed all those tilings, but I got over it."

Thousands of young men tire go:ng :lo\vn under thai pr.oce.ss day by day, and llier.i is only here and there a young man who can endure this artillery of scorn. They are giving up their Hibles. The light of nature! They have the light of nature in China: they have it in Hindustan: they have it in Ceylon. Flowers there, stars there, waters there, winds there but 110 civilization, 110 homes, 110 happiness. Lancets to -ut. and juggernauts to fall under, nid hooks to swing on, but 110 happiness. 1 tell you, my young brothL'f, we have to take a religion of some kind.

We have to choose between four or live. Shall it be the Koran of the Mohammedans, or the Shatter of the Hindoo, or the Zend-Avesta of the Persian, or the Confucian writing of the Chinese, or the Holy Scripturcs?

Take what you will God helping me, I will take the Bible. Light for all darkness rock for all foundation balm for all wounds. A glory that lifts its pillars of fire over the wilderness march. Do not give up vour Bible. If these people "scoff at you as though religion and the Bible were fit only for weak-minded people, just tell them j'ouare not ashamed to be in the company of Burke the ,phael the painter, the sculptor, ant. Mozart the musician* and Blackstonithe lawyer, and Bacon the philosopher, and Harvey the physician, antI John Milton the poet.

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statesman, and Kapha and Thorwaldsen the sculptor, and

Ask them what infidelity has ever done to lift the 140,000.000 of the race out of barbarism. Ask them when infidelity ever instituted a sanitary commission and, before you leave their society once and forever, tell them that thev have insulted the memory of your Christian father.and spit upon the death-bed of your mother, and with swine's snout, rooted up the grave of your sister who died believing in the Lord Je.e.is.

Young man. hold on to your Bible. It is the best book you ever owned. It will tell you how to dress, how to bargain, how to walk, how to act, how to live, how to die. Glorious Bible! whether 011 parchment or paper, in octavo or duodecimo, on the center table of the drawing room or in the counting room of the banker. Glorious Bible! Light to our feet and lamp to our path. Hold on to it!

The second class of insidious temptations that comes upon our young men is led on by the dishonest employer. Every commercial establishment is a school. In nine cases out of ten, tlie principles of the. employer become the principles of the employe. I ask the older merchants to bear me out in these statements. If. when you were just starting in life, in commercial lite, you were told that honesty was not marketable, that though you might sell all tin goods in th-e shop, you must not sell your conscience, that while you were to exercise industry and tact, you were not to sell your conscience if you were taught that gains gotten by sin were, combust,i ble, and at. the moment of ignition would be blown on by the breath o£ (Joel until all the splendid estate would vanish into white ashes scattered in the whirlwind—then th V. instruction has been to you a precaution and a help ever since. There are hundreds of commercial establishments in our great cities which are educating a class of young men who will be the honor of the land, and there are other establishments which are educating young men to be nothing but sharpers. What chance is there for a young man who was taught in an establishment that it is right to lie, if it is smart, and that a French label is all that is necessary to make a thing French, and that you ought always to be honest when it pays, and that it is wrong to steal unless you do it well? Suppose, now, a young man just starting in life enters a place of that kind where there are ten young men. all drilled in the infamous practices' of the establishment. He is ready to be taught. The young man lias 110 theory of commercial ethics. Where is he to. get his theory? He will get the theory from his employers. One day lie pushes his wit a little beyond what the establishment demands of him, and he fleeces a customer until the clerk is 011 the verge of being seized by the law. What is done in the establishment? He is not arraigned. The head of the establishment say to him: "Now, be careful be careful, young man. You might be caught but really that was splendidly done: you will get along in the world, I warrant you." Then that, young man goes up until he becomes head clerk. He litis found there is a premium 011 iniquity.

One morning the employer comes to the establishment. He goes into his counting room and throws up his hands, and shouts: "Why. the safe has been robbed!" What is the matter? Nothing, nothing only the clerk who has been practicing a good while 011 customers is practizing a little 011 the employer. No new principle introduced into that establishment.. It. is a poor '-ule that does not work both ways. You must never steal unless you con do it well. He did it well. am pot talking an abstraction I am talking a t'rrible and a crushing fact.

I stand before young men this morning who are under this pressure. I say come out of it. "Oh,' you say "I can't. I 1 ave a widowed mother to support, and if a man loses a situation now he can't get anotl er one." I say come out of it. GohomA to your mother and say to her, "Mother, I can't stay in that shop and be upright what shall I do? anti if she is worthy of you sho will

and be unrifht is wotsay. "Come out of it. my son—we will just throw oursclvfs on Him who has promised to ta the God of the widow and the fatherless: He will take care of 11s." And I will toll you 110 young man ever permanently suffered by such a course of conduct.

O! Christian workers, my heart is high with hone. The dark horizon i.s blooming into the morning of which prophets spoke, and of which poets have dceamed, and ot which painters have sketched.' T'oe world's b: idal hours advances. Tho n?ou:ii iins will kiss the morning rau'.unt and effulgent, and all the waves of tlie sea will become the crystal keys of a great organ, on wlmih tlie fingers of everlasting joy shall play the grand march of a world redeemed. Instead of the thorn there shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar there sha'l come up the myrtle tree, and tho mountains and the hills shall break forth h.-to singing, and all the trees of the wood shall clap their hands.