Decatur Democrat, Volume 36, Number 48, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1893 — Page 2

f ©he Jicmorrni DKCATUR. IND. M. BLACICBtTRN, ... ■ PCTtJßnii A man Is never so on trial as ii the moment of excessive good for tune. If the typewriter trust is to cm brace the typewriter girl it is a joyon season lor the trustee. The Boston Globe says the CharloRiver must be purified. As if then was anything impure in clear old Boston! Wine in hermetically sealed flasks was recently found in Pompeii. As wine Improves with age this lot would do to “treat” the gods with. The French fight about four thousand duels every, but the Coroner has lost all interest in them. The jobs he gets -out of them arc as rare as .comets’ visits. The United States will send a lot -of ships to Haiti. The idea is to ascertain whether or not the little thing really desires to be blown out of the water, or only has a hysterical spell Emin Pasha is not dead, if latest reports are true, and it is beginning ;to be felt that all future rumors of ihis decease v ill need discounting unless he comes to the front and confirms them. Texas prides itself upon having fifty seven counties each of which is larger than the State of Rhode Island. Well, what of that? Are there any of them which can get up a Rhode Island clambake? _________ There are but three kinds of wrongs in our lives: The wrongs a man does to his soul or body, or suffers in either; the wrongs of man against his brother man: the wrongs between man and woman. Dr. Cornelius Herz is under arrest in England. It is surprising that the schemer should have permitted the authorities to trifle with him thus. Possibly he has some' scheme for bunkoing the jailor. Uncle Sam’s regard for the seal ! has assumed the usual form of an annual essay. If the poachers can all read, and all get a copy, and all care whether, Uncle Sam is pleased with them or not, this may have some effect Dr. Gattling has invented a little joker of a gun that is worked by an electric motor and will shoot 2,000 balls each minute. Men like Gattling will gradually make killing in War times very easy, if they keep on. Possibly they may make death so sure and certain that the other fellows may “conclude to keep the peace. Lady Somerset, who has been doing temperance work in benighted America, has returned to England, where she is said to own fourteen public houses in which liquor is sold. As she took Miss Willard with her, there is hope that the American will put in a few effective blows in behalf of temperance in benighted England. Notwithstanding delight in Germany at the predicament of France there is much uneasiness in the former country. Students of political economy are now trying to ascertain whether this is deep-seated and due to the threat of the Kaiser to crush all who oppose him, or merely stomache and attributable to the effort to introduce horse meat as a regular article of diet. “Koresii” Teed isonce more called upon to explain how any one so pure and good could have lured a mother and daughters away from home, leaving the hearthstone and the man of the house desolate. Incidents of this sort are creating such a prejudice against Teed that nobody seems inclined to say a good word for him, yet it must be admitted that he would make interesting material for >an autopsy. Among the forty-niners who gathered around the banqiiet-b:>ard in Chicago the other day was one who was particularly honored as the only surviving member of the first Leg'slatuie of California. Forty years hence it would be interesting to see the spje survivor of the Legislature •of a Thousand Scandals arise and proclaim the fact, and to note whether he would win honors by it or be thrown out. <"> _____ - — The theater-going public was electrified by the story that a tragedienne has arrived here incognita, for the express purpose of avoiding a reception and the wonted interviews. But it has come around to the conclusion that this excess of humility is a uew sort of advertisement. All in the old category were exhausted long ago. Even the “lost diamonds”- take no longer. The actress of the near tuture will try to make herself conspicuous by asserting that she nevei wears diamonds. A very enterprising newspaper on this side of the Atlantic has discovered why the I’rince of Wales was estranged from Mrs. Langtry. On z festive dinner occasion in London, when wine was flowing free, th< Jersey -Lily playfully dropped a picci of ice down the Prince's back, insidi

this shirt collar. He arose with as much dignity as possible and loft the room, never to speak to the beauty ' again. The piece of ice had slowly slid the length of his spinal column, y I chilling his entire nervous system, ' and resulting in a lasting coldness. n I — ...... —.—. —-esse r . I General B. F. Butler once made a campaign speech in a Western town, lie addressed an open-air meeting, ’■ standing on a platform under the 1S shade of a maple tree, .lust as he ' got warmed up a spoon suspended by a string came down from the tree and dangled before the sjieaker's n face. Butler grabbed the string, broke it and thrust the spoon into iiis pocket. “There's one I didn't s get,” he said. “As I was about to s sav,-” etc- The young man who had 1 borrowed a piece of his mother's solid ' silver to be funny with was the only | person present unable to see where - the laugh came in. So the General < did acquire at least one spoon to which ’ his title was hardly clear. The decision of Judge Nelson of the United States Court at Duluth in • the case of Ak Yuk, a Chinaman, may lead the way to the revision, if nothing more, of the Chinese exclusion ’ act. Ak Yuk has resided seven years i in this country, and, having been arrested under the provisions of the act aniarraigned before a United States Court Commissioner, he was about to undergo the prescribed penalty—im-

prisonment for thirty days and a forcible return to his native land. But he was fortunate in having a good lawyer who appealed to the court on the ground that every citizen of the United States was entitled to a trial by jury, and consequently, that the exclusion act was unconstitutional. In this view the lawyer wassustained by Judge Nelson, who ordered Ak Yuk's release, and in so doing ren- | dered a decision, that as we have ! said, may lead the way to the revisi ion of the offending act It is evident that the Chinese baiters are not to reap the results from the act that they hoped to, and to have it declared unconstitutional by a United States Judge must discourage them not a little. The husbands of Hungary are in a very happy state just now, buoyed up ; with visions of ecstasies to come. It I is true they are living in a fool’s par- , adise, and that their unprincipled expectations will never be fulfilled; hut that does not diminish their present satisfaction. The priests in the rural districts of Hungary are reported to be preaching that, if the proposed institution of compulsory civil marriage takes place, men will be able to turn their old wives out of doors and marry young and pretty ones. This mendacious 'announcement has filled the peasant wives with dismay and their husbands with glee. These abandoned men are going about with their eyes very wide open indeed, mentally selecting the young ladies whom th?v will invite to share their lot when this blessed law is passed. Meanwhile they are enjoying the advantage of the most delicate consideration and the most flattering attention from the wives in possession, who trust to makegood their empire over their lords while yet they may. The men are doomed to disappointment, of course; but the illusion is no doubt .very agreeable while it lasts. Lowell'* Ki mine**. There is no good American who may not feel personally grateful to Mr. Stillman for his>disclosure of some of James Russell Lowell’s ifiore private characteristics in a recent Atlantic. In January, 1855, Lowell, in writing to Mr. Stillman, mentioned that he was about to be appointed as Longfellow’s successor at Harvard College.

“1 nave only Jo deliver two courses of lectures in the year; have, all the rest of the time to myself, and the salary will make me independent.” “lie tvas so scornful of money,” adds Mr. Stillman, "when his friends were concerned, that he seemed to be independent of his labor: but we see the satisfaction with which he welcomes the independence of the salaried professor, and lam sure that the greater feeling in his own mind was that he could afford to be more generous.” Except in this letter Mr. Stillman never hea'rd him speak of mopey except to refuse it. "At that moment of my life.” says , | Mr. Stillman, who was then editing a journal to which Lowell was a contributor. “I was perhaps better prepared to be liberal with hitn than he ’ with me. but any compensation be- - yond a drawing or study from nature : was absolutely refused to the last of . our journaiistie’relations. . “When, later in life, fortune left ; j me on the shoals, he insisted on put- ' I ting me, on my feet again, with all the love of a brother and the delicacy of a poet, and always with some excuse of an uncx5 pected good fortune which he wished s to partake with some one.” , “I loved him as David loved Jonat than,” Mr. Stillman declares toward J the close of his paper; and though I continually offended his sense of fitness and decorum,doing things want--1 ing in tact and refinement, he never . took offence, lint treated me as a j younger brother." — Youth’s Companion. - ( Divorce* in Scotland. r ! There hasbeen a large increase in the number of divorces granted in Scotland in late years. Between 1864 and 1874 the average number was 1 thirty-five a year, which increased to '■ llfty-nine between 1874 and 18811. s Last year 127 divorce decrees were a granted there, as against 109 in 189L_ atid eighty-nine in 1890. Os last ’ year's decrees sixty-eight were obtained by husbands and fifty-nine by I e wives. Infidelity was the ground for I e considerably more than half.

HOW THE FAIR GROWS. EVERY DAY ADDS TO ITS SCOPE AND INTEREST. Compared with Thin, All Previous International Exhibitions Will Seem but Puny* Including the Recent One in Paris— Scenes in Jackson Park. The ••White City/* Chicago corrcßpondence: “All Hoads Lead to the World's Fair" is the striking headline iu a Chicago newspaper, and while the statement may appear rather sweeping at first, the careful observer will admit, upon reflection. that it is not such an exaggeration as it may seem, for it is certain that there never was an international exposition in which such widespread interest was manifested. This winter has been a severe one at the grounds of the World's Columbian Exposition, the intense cold has at times seriously impeded the progress of the work. However, everything is being provided with all possible haste, and to those who haven’t visited Jackson Park since the winter of '9l the present scene of bustle and activity will be found to differ strangely from the panorama to be witnessed at, that time. The Fair was younger then. There were then $12,000,009 still to be expended. Contractors smiled and workmen saw before them a long season of rewarded labor. Then the great floors were laid or laying, with here and there a joist standing in the wind. To-day the snowclad domes sit as silent about the island as sat the Indians at council on these prairies a century ago. For six months the contours of the thirteen largo houses have been visible. But only lately has the hamlet of villas for the States come upon the scene. How do they look? Like any residence part of a smart town, saving the awe

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you may feel in hearing that New York is to live here instead of John Doe. If we were to enter this village in the north end of Jackson Park not knowing it to be “the United States,” we would say the art palace in the center must be the Court House, and we would say New York must be the banker of tho town, Massachusetts the leading merchant and California the Chairman of the Board of Trustees. It is very pleasant and proper to stop at everv doorstep and ask who lives there—Wisconsin or Indiana 0 And tho workmen seem as glad to tell us. Now, in what other town would it be dignified to do a thing like that? The houses of the States are of all forms and colors, but none are more than stopping places —meeting places for friends. California, New York and Massachusetts, as has been intimated, have the best sites and make a good appearance. We have not included Illinois in these remarks because the Illinois building must be reckoned as one of the main buildings of the great Fair, and not the least commanding. Six of the halls have domes —the Administration, the Agricultural, the Horticultural, the Government, the Art and the Illinois. The Art Palace is praised highly, because it is an lonic temple, with a dome on it, and it looks uncommonlj- well from the south; but the Fisheries, into whdse tanks the water was recently let, has won everybody’s praise for its originality and fitness. Whether we should liken it to three lii h S O "ft git fff 3 INDUSTRIAL COURT, MIXES AND MIXING BUILDING. Chinese pagodas, with the central one twice as large as the lateral ones, and the three fixed in a curving lino of beauty—whether or not that gives to the reader any near idea of the composite structure of the Fisheries—he must decide when he comes; but certainly a pagoda is not so graceful in Its lines and ornaments as is each of the Fishery pavilions.

Midway Plaisance is a very wide lane, now stockaded, which leads from Washington Park to the Fair grounds. This Midway plaisance is to be filled with all the allurements of this wicked world. Woe to the spiritual young man who shall take his sweetheart on his arm and, starting at Washington Park for the fair, shall attempt to go on past the Dahomey, the Indian, Chinese, Moorsh, Turkish villages, the great street n Cairo, the captive,balloon, the cyclorama of the Alps and the volcano of Hawaii, the Roman house, the Dutch settlement. ..the Japanese bazaar, the menagerie, all the glass blowers, and the dome of St. Peter's Cathedral! Indeed, had he not l etter mount the sliding railway and shoot past this whole mile of costly, incomparable temptation' A source of great wonderment to persons visiting the World's Fair grounds during this_eold_ weather la theelaborate heating apparatus maintain a uniform temperature pf 60 degrees . I in the mammoth Horticultural Building. The transition from cold and snow ai»d I icicles to genial warmth and tropics! ■ plants and exotics never fails to give

rise to a novel sensation on the part of • the visitor. The steam for preserving the lives of the valuable plants iu the i Horticultural Building is lurnlshed by three boilers of 150 horse-power each, which consume twenty tons of coal pet day, and are in charge of six firemen • and three engineers, divided into throe . shifts of eight hours each. The pres- - sure maintained is uniformly fifty pounds to the square inch. There is an elaborate arrangement of engines and fans, by means of which the heat is distributed throughout every portion of the ’ building night and day. • Machinery Hall, the slowest of the t main structures, has lately donned Its > exterior finish and becomes" a vast and ■ striking spectacle. But for the neari ness of the colossal Manufactures t building, Machinery Hall would pass ■ lor a marvel among capacious buildings. ; It has three parallel rows of steel arches, and this, with its towers and . portals, presents perhaps a more comi plex Interior than any other of the . great halls, for they usually have but ’ one room—there Is but one room in the Mines, the Transportation, the Elec1 trlcity, the Manufactures and the Government. The Agricultural has a most agreeable interior, broken with a cross-like upper hall of skylights. We may fancy the joy with which our farmers, shutting away the sights of the north—the music, soda water, swans, gondolas and jinrlkshas of city life—will plunge into the Joys of fat vegetables, heroic grains and sleek beasts that will await all comers south of the Agricultural. Spread over this floor, nearly 80ti -et wealth. The stock pavilions are pTetty and far away. The city will praise them vociferously—at a distance. The farmer will praise the art gallery at the same range. A farmer visited Chicago last week. He was taken past ah of the 128 structures that go to make the Exposition. He was led to the Masonic Temple and

told that 72,000 persons rode in the elesquare, or 640,000 square feet, and southward outside for half a mile will be such an agricultural fair as the world has never before seen, for the world has never before asked the Mississippi Valley to make a presentation of its native I —-— ■ —.. ... , « ? Ku DOME or THE MISSOURI BUILDING. vators October 20, 1892. He was shown where, fifteen stories up the botanist fell out of the elevator. Tho farmer ■ was lifted the full twenty-one stories, until Ossa became like a wart. He 1 then viewed the glory of Chicago—but he said never a word. As he mounted 1 the train to return home he was asked, ' “Did you see anything wonderful In Chicago?” and then he admitted that one thing had startled him, and what, readers, was it? The. size of a pumpkin he had passed in front of a restaurant on Madison street! Certainly we may believe it was a Masonic temple among pumpkins! These agriculturists, “the great plain people of the West,” will all hurry to see Chief Buchanan and Chief Cottrell, of the Live Stock. The space allotted them is ample, and hundreds of thousands of spectators can there pass the day without being even seen north ot the great screen which runs from Machinery Hall east to the Agricultural, screening Venifco from the mud lagoons. It will be the largest fair ot history. Compared with it the I’aris Exposition of lcß9 <ould not be put in midway plaisance. Tho largo building at Philadelphia was as long as our big one, but 1 only half as wide, and out ot our 128 structures two others are to be moas- ’ ured only by the acre, machinery hall alone having 780,000 square feet of . lower floor. From the forestry to the Eskimos is one miie and three-fifths; from the forj estry to the Dahomey village ts two miles and a fifth—these figures by tho

1 nR I il/ nlTi fib I Mr I' 1 ' V / STRAXGB PLANTS FROM AUSTRALIA. map. The Island itself la two-fifths of t mUe long. Suppose yoir have only a day and tarry ten minutes to see this phonograph or this Jacquard loom, you will see comparatively nothing. Linen was flrstmade in Engtand by Flemish weavers in 1388.

DR. TALMAGE'S SERMOX. AN IMPRESSIVE LESSON IN THB ROMAN COLISEUM. Condition otKomt When St. Paul Preached There—Emperor and People Given Over to Lust and Cruelty — Chriatlanlty’e Mighty Work. » The Cruel Heathen. Rev. Dr. Talmage discoursed from the text Romans I, 15, “I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.' Rome! What a city It was when Pau) visited it! What a city It Is now! Rome! The place whore Virgil sang and Horace satirized and Terence laughed and Catiline conspired and Ovid dramatized and Nero fiddled and Vespasian persecuted and Sulla legislated and Cicero thundered and Aurelius and Declusand Caligula and Julian and Hadrian and Constantine and Augustus reigned and Paul the apostle preached the gospel. 1 am not much of a draftsman, but I have In my memorandum book a sketch which I made in the winter of 1889. when I went out to the gate through which Paul entered Rome and walked up the very street he walked up to see somewhat how the city must have looked to him as he came tn on the gospel errand proposed in the text. Palaces on either side of the street through which the little missionary advanced. Piled up wickedness. Enthroned accursedness. Templed cruelties. Altars to sham delties. Glorified delusions. Pillared, arched, domed, turreted abominations. Wickedness of all sorts at a high premium and righteousness 99% per cent off. And now he passes by the foundations of a building which Is to be almost unparalleled for vastness. You can see by the walls, which have begun to rise, that here is to be something enough stupendous to astound the centuries. Aye, it is the Coliseum started. Their Monuments of Shame. Os the theater at Ephesus where Paul fought with wild beasts, the temple of Diana, of the Parthenon, of Pharoah’s palace at Memphis, and of other great buildings the ruins of which 1 have seen it has been niy privilege to address you, but a member of my family asked me recently why I had not spoken to you of the Coliseum at Rome, since its moral and religious lessons are so impressive. Perhaps while in Rome the law of contrast wrought upon mo. I bad visited the Maiuert'ne dungeon where Paul was incarcerated. I had measured the opening at the top of the dungeon through which Paul had been let down, and it was 22 inches by 26. The ceiling at its highest point was 7 feet from the door but at the sides of the room the ceiling waS 5 feet 7 inches. The room at the widest was 15 feet. There was a seat of rock 2% feet high. There was a shelf 4 feet high. The only furniture was a spider’s web suspended from the roof, which I saw by the torchlight I carried. There was the subterraneous passage from the dungeon to the Roman forum, so that the prisoner could be taken directly from prison to trial. The dungeon was built out of volcanic stone from the Albany Mountains. Oh, It was a dismal and terrific place. You never saw coal hole so dark or so forbidding. The place was to me a nervous shock, for I remembered that was the best thing that the world would afford the most illustrious being, except one, that it ever saw, and that from that place Paul went out to die. Froir. that spot I visited the Coliseum—one of the most astounding miracles of architecture that the world ever saw. Indeed I saw it morning, noon and night, for it threw a spell ou me from which I could not break away. Although now a vast ruin, the Coliseum is so well preserved that we can stand in the center and recall all that It once was. It is in shape ellipsoidal, oval, oblong. It is at its greatest length 61'2 feet. After it had furnished seats for 81,000 people it had room for 15.000 more to stand, so that 100.000 people could sit and stand transfixed by its scenes of courage and martyrdom and brutality and horror. Instead of our modern tickets of admission. they entered by Ivory check, and a check dug up near Rome within a few vears was marked, “Section 6, Lowest Tier, Seat No. 18.” You understand that theft)uilding was not constructed for an audience to be addressed by human voice, although I tested it with some friends and could be beard across it, but it was made only for seeing and was circular, and at any point allowed full view of the spectacle. Refinements of Cruelty. The arena in the center in olden times was strewn with pounded stone or sand, so as not to be too slippery with human blood, for if it were too slippery it would spoil the fun. The sand flashed here and there with sparkies of silver and gold, and Nero added cinnabar and Caligula added chrysocolla. The sides of the arena were composed of smooth murbis eleven feet high, so that the wild beasts of the arena could not climb up into the audience. On the top of these sides of smooth marble was a metal railing, having wooden rollers, which easily revolved, so that if a panther should leap high enough to scale the wall and with his paw touch anyone of those rollers it would revolve and drop him back again into the arena. Back of this marble wall surrounding the arena was a love) platform of stone, adorned with statues of gods and godesses and the artistic effigies of monarchs and conquerors. Hero were movable seats for the emperor and the Imperial swine and swinesses with which he surrounded himself. Before the place where the emperor sat the gladiators would walk immediately after entering the arena, crying: “Hail, Cicsar! Those about to die saluto4hoe.” The different ranks of spectators were divided by partitions studded with mosaics of emerald and bery) and ruby and diamond. Great masts of wood arose from all sides of the building, from which festoons of flowers were suspended, crossing the building, or in time of rain awnings of silk were suspended, the Coliseum having no roof. The outside wall was incrusted with marble and had four ranges, and the three lower ranges had eighty columns eaeh and arches after arches, and on each arch an exquisite statue of a god or a hero. Into 180 feet of altitude soared the Coliseum. It glittered and flashed and shone with whole sunrisesand sunsets of dazzlement After the audiehce had assembled aromatic liquids oozed from tubes distilled from pipes and rained gently on the multitudes and filled the air with odors of hyacinth and heliotrope and frankincense and balsam and myrrh and saffron, so that Lucan, the poet, says of it: At ones tan thousand saffron currants flow And rain their odors on the crowd below. Organized Murder and Torture, But where was the sport to come from? Wei). I went into the cellars opening off from the arena, and I saw the places where they kept the hyenas and Hons and panthers and wild boars and beastly violences of all sorts without food or water until made fierce enough for the arena, and I saw the underground roms where the gladiators wore accustomed to wait until the clapping of the people outside demanded that they eome forth armed—to murder or be murdered. All the arrangements were complete, as enough oMhe cellars and galleries still remain to Indicate. What fun they must have had turning Hons without food or .k . - ' . • I

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drink upon an unarmed disciple of Jesus • Christ! At Hho dedication of this Coliseum ; 9,000 wild beasts and 10,000 immortal men were slain, so that the blood of men and boast was not a brook, but a river; not a pool, but a lake. Having been In i that way dedicated, be not surprised r when I tell you that Emperor Probus on one occasion threw Into that arena of the Coliseum 1,000 stags, 1,000 boars, and 1,000 ostriches. What fun It must have been—the sound of trumpets, the roar of wild boasts and the groans of dying men 1 while iu the gallorv the wives and chll--1 dron of those down under the lion's paw 1 wrung their bands and shrieked out in widowhood anfl orphanage, while 11)0.000 [ people clapped their hands, and there ■ was a “Ha! ha!” wide as Rome and deep 1 as perdition! The corpses of that arena were put on 1 a cart or dragged by a hook out through 1 what was called the Gate of Death. ' What an excitement It must have been ’ when two combatants entered the arena, the one with sword and shield and the other with net and spear. Ho dodges the sword and then flings the net over the head of the swordsman and Jerks him to the floor of the arena, and the man who flung the net puts JHs foot on the neck of the fallen swordsman, and spear in hand looks tip to the galleries, as much us to say. “Shall I let him up, or shall I plunge this spear into his body until ho Is dead?” The audience had two signs, either of which they might give. If they waved their flags, it meant spare the fallen contestant. If they turn their thumbs down, It meant slay him. Occasionally audience would wave their flags, and *tho fallen would be let up, but that was too tamo sport for most occasions, and generally the thumbs from the galleries were turned down, and with that sign 'would be heard the accompanying shout of “Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!” Cruelty Aildod to Cruelty. Yet it was far from being a monotone of sport, for there was a change of program in that wondrous Coliseum. Under a strange and powerful machinery, beyond anything of modern invention, the floor of the arena would begin to rock and roll and then give away, and there would appear a lake of bright water, and on its banks trees would spring up rustling with foliage, and tigers appeared among the Jungles, and armed men would come forth, and there would be a tiger hunt. Then on tbe lake in the Coliseum armed ships would float, and there would be a sea light. What fun! What lots of fun! When pestilence came, in order to appease the gods, in this Coliseum a sacritie would bo made, and the people would throng that great amphitheater, shouting. “The Christians to tbe wild beasts!” and there would be a crackling of'huhian bones in the jaws of ieoniue ferocity. But all this was to be stopped. By the outraged sense of public decency? Na There is only one thing that lias ever stopped cruelty and sin, and that is Christianity, and it was Christianity, whether you like its form or not, that stopped this massacre of centuries. Ono day while in the Coliseum a Roman victory was being celebrateo, and 100.000 enraptured spectators were looking down upon two gladiators in the arena stabbing and slicing each other to death, an Asiatic monk of the name of lelemaehns was so overcome by the cruelty that lie leaped from the sallery into the ■ arena ' and ran in between the two sword-men and pushed first one back and then the other back and broke up the contest. Os course the audience was affronted at having their sport stopped, and they hurled stones at the head of Telemachus until ho fell dead in the arena. But when the day was passed, and the passions of the,people bad cooled off, they deplored the martyrdom of the brave and Christian Telemacbus, and as a result of the overdone cruelty the human sacrifices of the Coliseum were forever abolished. The Same Spirit Still Manifested. | What a good thing, say you, that such cruelties have ceased. My friends, the same spirit of ruinous amuseidents and of moral sacrifice is abroad in the world to-day, although it takes other shapes. Last summer in our Southwest there occurred a scene of pugilism on which ail Christendom looked down, for I saw the papers on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean giving whole columns of it. Will some one tell me in what respect that brutality of last summer was superior to the brutality of the Roman Coliseum? In some respects it was worse by so much as tbe 19th century pretends to be more merciful and more decent than the sth century. That pugilism is winning admiration In this countrv is positively proved by the fact that vears ago such collision was reported in a half dozen lines of newspaper, If reported at ail, and now It takes the whole side of a newspaper to tell what transpired between the first blood drawn by one loafer and the . throwing up of the sponge by the other loafer. s and it is not the newspaper’s fault, for the newspapers give only what the jfoonle want, and when newspapers put carrion on your table it is because you prefer carrion. The same spirit of brutality is seen to-day In may an ecclesiastical court when a minister is put on trial. Look at the countenances of the prosecuting ministers, and not in all eases, but In :nany cases, you will find nothing but diabolism inspires them. They let out on one poor minister who cannot defend himself the Hon of ecclesiasticism, and the tiger of bigotry, and the wild tear of jealousy, and if they can get the offending minister flat on his back some one puts his feeton the neck of the overthrown gospelizer and looks up, spear in hand, to see whether the galleries and ecclesiastics would have lilm let up or slain. And,-io! many of the thumbs aro down. Train the Children Kight. One half tbe world is down and the other half Is up, and the half that Is up has its heel on the half that is down. If you, as a boss workman, or as a contractor, or as a bishop, or asii State or National official, or as a potent factor in social life, or in any way are oppressing any one, know that the same devil that possessed tbe Roman Coliseum oppresses you. The Diocletians are noj at all dead. The cellars leading into the arena of life’s struggle are not all emptied of . their tigers. The vivisection by young doctors of dogs and cats and birds most of the time adds nothing to human discovery, but is only a continuation of Vespasian's Coliseum. The cruelties of the world generally begin In nurseries, and in home circles, and in day schools. The child that transfixes a fly with a pin, or the low feeling that sets two dogs Into combat, or that bullies a weak or'crippled playmate, or the indifference that starves a canary bird, needs only to bfl developed in order to make a first-class Nero or a full armed Apffllvon. It would a B <lod sentence to be written on the top line of a child’s book, and a fit Inscription to be embroidered In the armchair of the sitting room, and an appropriate motto for Judge and jury and district attorney and sheriff to look at in the court-house, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall Obtain tnorcyl” ‘ And-, so the ruins of that ColJseum preach to me. Indeed the most impressive things on earth are ruins. The four greatest structures ever built are In ruins. The Parthenon in ruins, the temple of Diana in ruins, the temple ot Jerusalem in ruins, the Coliseum in ruina Indeed tbe earth itself will vet C

- 1 boa pile of ruins, the mountains In ruins, the seas In ruins, tho cities in ruins, tiie hemispheres In ruins. Y»a, further than that, all up and down tho Heavens aro worlds burned up, worlds wrecked, worlds extinct, worlds abandoned. Worlds on worlds In ruins! But I am glad to say it is the same old Heaven, and In all that world there is not one ruin and never will boa ruin. Not one of tho pearly gales will over become unhinged. Not one of tho amethystine towers will ever fall. Not one of the mansions will ever decay. Not one of the chariots will over be unwheeled. Not one of the thronos will ever rock down. Oh, make sure of Heaven, for it is an everlasting lleavon. Through Christ the Lord got ready tor -residence In the eternal palaces. Night Iu the Oullaeum. The last evening boloro leaving Rome for Brindisi and Athens and Egypt and Palestine I went alone to the tkillaeum. There was not a living soul in all the Immense arena. Evon those accustomed to sell curios at tho four entrances of the building had gone away. Tho place was so overwhelming silent I could hear my own heart beat with tho emotions aroused by the place and hour. I paced tbe arena. I walked down int,o tho dens where the hyenas were once kept. 1 ascended to the place where tho Emjieror used to sit. I climbed upon tbe galleries from which the mighty throngs of people had gazed in enchantment. To break the silence I shouted, and' that seemed to awaken the echoes, echo upon ocha And those awakened echoes seemed toaddrcss me, saying: "Men die, but their work Hveson. Gaudeutius.tho achltect who planned this structure; tho 60,000 enslaved Jews brought by Titus from Jerusalem and who toileu on these walls, the gladiators who fought in this arena, the emperors and empresses who had place on yonder platform, tire millions who during centuries sat and rose in these galleries, have passed away, but enough of the Coliseum stands to tell the story of cruelty and pomp and power—soo vears of bloodshed.” Then, as I stood there, there came to me another burst of echoes, which seemed throbbing with the prayers and songs and groans of Christians who bad expired in that aYena, and they seemed to say, "How much it cost to serve God in ages past, and how thankful modern centuries ought to be that the persecution which reddened the sands ot this amphitheater have been abolished.” And then I questioned the echoes, saying, “Where is Emperor Titus, who sat hero?” The answer camo, "Gone to judgment” "Where is Emperor Trajan, who sat here?" "Gone to judgment” “Where 18 Emperor Maximinus, who sat here?” “Gone to judgment” “Where are all the multitudes who clapped and shouted and waved flags to let the vanquished up or to have them slain put thumbs down?” The echoes answered, "Gone to judgment." I inquired, "All?” And thty answered, “AH.” ' And I looked up to the sky above the ruins, audit was full of clouds scurrying swiftly past, and those clouds seemed as though they had faces, and some of tho faces smiled, and some of them frowned, and they seemed to have wings, and some of the wings were moongilt and the others thunder charged, and the voices of those clouds overpowered the echoes beneath. "Behold, ho cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see him.” Tho Last Judgment. And as I stood looking up along tho walls of the Coliseum they rose higher and higher, higher anti higher, untii'tho amphitheater seemed to be filled with all tbe nations of the past, and all tho nations of the present, and all the nations of the fu.ture, those who went down under the paws of wild beasts, and those who sat wavirfc flags to let up the conquered, and those who nold thumbs dowp 4»"T.ommand their assassination, and small and great, and emperor and slave, and pastor and people, and righteous and wicked, the amphitheater seeming to rise to indefinite heights on all sides of me, and in tbe center of that amphitheater, instead or the arena of combatants, a great throne stood, rising higher and higher, higher and higher, and on it sat the Christ for whom the martyrs died and against whom tho Diocletians plotted their persecutions, and waving ono hand toward the plied up splendors to the right of him ho cried. "Come, ye blessed,” and waving the other band toward the piled up glooms on the left of him he cried. "Depart, ye cursed.” And so tho Coliseum of Rome that evening of 1889 seemed enlarged into the amphitheater of the last judgment, and I passed from under tho arch of that mighty structure, mighty even In ruins, praying to Almighty God, through Jesus Christ, for mercy in that day for which all other days were made, and that as I expected mercy from God I might exercise mercy toward others and have more and more of the spirit of "Lot him up” and less and less of the spirt of "Thumbs down!” Wo may not ail bo able to do a sum In higher mathematics, but there is a sum in the first rule of gospel arithmetic which wo all may do. It is a sum in simple addition: "Add to your faith virtue, add to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperence, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity.” The Duty Jr Marriage. The girls of to-day ara not brought up as their mothers and grandmothers were. They insist upon beginning married life in the same style that their parents are ending theirs. They will not think of occupying loss' than a whole house on a fashionable street, and must have servants to do the housework. They will not only refuse to cook their husbands’ meals, but in too many cases do not know how to do so, even if they had the desire. Os course, this is the old, old story, but there is no visible improvement in the domestic education of our girls. Thirty or forty years ago a married man could keep house and "go into society” for what it now costs to provide for bachelor necessities. In a word, marriage is to-day a very expensive luxury, while as a rule young men just starting out in life are no richer nowadays than those of a century ago. Nine out-of ten have their fortunes to make. It is safe to say that not one fashionable young; man in fifty under 25 years of age is in pecuniary condition to seriously contemplate marriage with a young woman of his own sphere in society. It has been suggested that bachelors should go into the country to find wives. If they do they must live in the country forever after, for the most extravagant woman on earth is one that lias been brought up in simplicity, and who, leaving her old associations, comes to town, She has no idea of the value of money, for she hae never had any to speak of. Her youth hae been spent in thoughts of brilliancy of city life, and her ideas are founded on novels treating of fashionable life. She would ruin a millionaire. The reality never comes up to her old ideal, and, in seeking for the latter, she would, if permitted, beggar a Croesus. Now, what is a bachelor to do? He cannot afford to marry a city girl, and if h<? marry a country girl he must live jn the country or be absolutely ruined. —-Albany Times. Wheresoever a cholera morbus case Is gathered there look for watermelons. « .